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Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. / Vol. 66, No. 96 / Two Sections, 20 Pages Dorm fees may rise· in-the fall· . by Brenda Davidson Eastern students who choose to live _ in the residence halls next fall may have to pay an additional $83.25 per semester, Housing Director Lou Hencken said. Hencken said, at a meeting of the Residence Hall Association Wednesday night, that the increase. js needed because of inflation. · Unanimously approved by th<: housing board, the proposed increase :will now be sent to Eastern Vice · President for Student Affairs Glenn Williams and Eastern President Daniel E. Marvin for their action. The increase, if approved by Williams and Marvin, will be submitted to the Board of Governors at its meeting in April, H!!ncken said. The BOG must approve the increase before it goes into effect. The proposed figure means students lanning a /i�etime would pay $885.75 next fall compared Students got a chance to discuss career opportunities was sponsored by the Placement Center and several to the $802.50. residents paid during the ith representatives from various companies at Career business fraternities. (News photo by Jana Mason) 1980 fall semester. y Thursday in the Union Old Ballroom. The conference The increase includes $67. 75 to cover inflation, $6 · for cable television and s. ��·;�J�rauxiliary en terpriseexpense .cuts needed...-. Reagan- Housing fees for spring semester, the ending· which are usually less than fall, will be P. Associated Press percent reduction, across-the-board, in personal income tax the same next yea·r; This will take into President Reagan, declaring that the nation is suffering rates for each of the next three years." He did not say when account $30 to accommodate expenses om its "worst economic mess smce the Great the tax cut would first take effect under his plan. for the extra week added to spring pression,'' said Thursday night that the government must As expected, Reagan said he also will submit to Congress sem ster to meet state requirements on ake dramatic cuts in taxes and spendiJJ,g because the a proposal for accelerated appreciation allowances to give a e how a sem ster ould be, onomic judgment day is at hand. tax break to businesses that invest in next plants and long e sh He held government policies responsible for the situation equipment. Hencken said. d said his remedy would begin with three years of 10 "Japanese steelworkers out produce their American The three main reasons for the osed se in e hall fees rcent cuts in income tax rates and spending reductions "in counterparts by about 25 percent," .Reagan said. "This isn't prop increa residenc are to meet a 1 6. 4 percent rise in the 'rtually every department" of the government. beca9s� they are better workers. I'll match th_e American cost of utilities, a 13 percent increase in "Over the years, we have let negative economic forces run working man or woman against anyone in the world. But we . t of control,'' Reagan said in his first nationally have to give them the modern tools and equipment that the cost of food and a 10 percent oadcast report to the· nation. "We have stalled the workers in other industrial nations have.'' increase in residence hall employee he . dgment day. We no longer have that luxury. We are out of "It is time to recognize that we have come to a t urning salaries, explained Eastern is not the only university to e. poii\t," Reagan said. "We are threatened with an economic He said: ''A few days ago, I was presented with a report I calamity of tremendous proportions and the old business as experience housing increases for next asked for-a comprehensive audit, if you will, of our usual treatment can't save us." semester; Hencken said. Other schools in Illinois have made nomic condition. You won't like it, but we have to face· "It is time to recognize that we have come to a turning truth and then go to work to turn thing around." point," Reagan said. "We are threatened with an economic increases ranging from $176 to a "And inake no mistake about it," he. added, "We can calamity of tremendous proportions and the old business as possible $296 to be paid at the n them around.'' usual treatment can't save us." University of Illinois, he said. Reagan's address was so studded with statistics, but short Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, the presideni sought Aside from Western Illinois details. He said those will come when he unveils a. to portray the statistics that peppered his speech in graphics, University, Eastern is the only other "stative program to Congress on Feb. •18. personal terms. school in the state to keep below the for hall room a "It will propose budget cuts in virtually every department "There are seven million Americans caught up in the $2,000 line residence nd government," the pre�ident said. Moreover, Reagan said personal indignity and human tragedy of unemployment," board fees, he added. Cabinet will search out "waste, extravagance and costly the president said. "If they stood in a line -'-·allowing three In adqition to the housing increase, inistrative overhead" to produce additional reductions. feet for each person - the line would reach from the coast the RHA voted to have the first · "At the same time we are doing this; we must go forward of Maine to California." housing installment due June 20 a tax relief ·package," he said. "I shall ask for a 10 instead of the usual July 1 deadli!le. ommittee approves new pass-fail rules course receive that gr�de in their department personel committee, the department personnel committee. Senate Academic records. appeal would then go to the school's The next person a student can now airs committee approved a Robb said if the pass-fail proposal is dean and then to a final all-university appeal to is Stanely ·Rives, vice osal Thursday night which would approved by Eastern President Dani.el committee. president for academic affairs. ' nd the pass-fail_ option from five E. Marvin, more students would be This committee would then make the The committ ee also decided not to days to 13 class days. encouraged to work harder to earn the final decision on the grade appeal propose a "vote of confidence" A e proposal will now go to the under the option. rather than the i.nstructor, Robb said. concerning the proposed $20 Textbook nt Senate for approval. In other business the committee Students currently begin the appeals Library fee increase. e committee also proposed that if discussed the grade appeals process. process by meeting with the instructor. - The committee also decided to look dent receives an A in a pass-fail The committee hopes to propose a Normally, 80 to 90 percent of the grade into the new honor system, which has se, the A will then be recorded on revised grade appeals process which problems are solved there, Robb said. not yet gone in to effect, at a later date. student's record. would be more beneficial to the If the problem is not sol-ved there, a The new honor system is expected to ss Robb, committee chairman, students, Robb said. student must appeal to the department eliminate half of the people on the the committee feels that because The committee is proposing that chairman. If the student is still not honor system, John Guite, committee nts who receive an Fin a pass-fail after a student appeals to the satisfied, the appeal then goes to a member, said. Friday's A report in the newspaper Ettelat · on It's now �ougher to decide Wednesday trial said the prosecutor indicated on, Senate control-Justice , 49-year-old mother of three had been tricked by Revolutionary Guards who made up a story a SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Illinois Supreme an armed band of students who wanted to free Court's chief justice, whose court must settle a (AP) News shorts American hostages. snarled fight over control of the state Senate, said According to the newspaper's fragmen Thursday the court's job is even tougher now that professor found guilty report, the prosecutor said Mrs. Dwyer agreed both Democrats and Republicans claim to be in NIU help and tried to obtain guns and radio equipm control. in beating of female student to aid the plan to free the hostages. The Senate's 30 Democrats and 29 Republicans Mrs. Dwyer was arrested May 5 after she went each have elected their own president. Each claims DE KALB, Ill.-A finance professor at Northern to Iran to write articles about the Iranian revolutio to be running the Senate, each says the other is Illinois University was sentenced four years in The Swiss Embassy, which represents U.S.