Districts Work to Alleviate Substitute Shortage As School Year Nears
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 1999 8-2-1999 Daily Eastern News: August 02, 1999 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 02, 1999" (1999). August. 8. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1999_aug/8 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1999 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 80° Monday 62° August 2, 1999 Inside Sports Fair rn High Eastern Illinois UniY8rsily attendance Charteston, II. 61920 expectations The heat has kept the ~.84, No.163 football team has high Spages The attendance at the county fairs ~ for the upcoming to a minimum. season. Story on Page 3 ''Tell the truth and don't be afraid." Story on Page 8 Housing opens to students Aug. 19 By Tony Scott • a backpack Staff writer • a phone with answering machine Officials at the Office of • school supplies, such as pens, University Housing and Dining pencils, paper, enyelopes, etc Services want to make-the move-in • hygiene products, such as sham process a little less frightening. poo, soap, toothbrush and tooth This year new students can start paste to move in on Thursday, August 19, And... at 9 a.m. Michael Stokes of the "If you're bringing a lot of Office of University Housing and expensive electronic stuff, I always Dining Services reminds parents recommend a surge protector," and students that no one can check explained Kelly Miller, assistant before 9 a.m. on that day. director of the housing office. ''One of the things that invari Appliances and electronic items ably always happens is we get peo that students are allowed to bring ple who come the night before and into the residence halls include want to check in early in the morn TWs, VCR's. stereos, curling irons, ing before we open," Stokes cau hair dryers, computers and small tioned. "We prepare people by say refrigerators that are less than five ing we check in at nine o'clock." cubic feet. This is most likely the students' Students can also rent an item first time living away from home, called the Microfridge, a combina and they aren't sure what to expect. tion between a microwave and Officials at the housing office are refrigerator. here to help. ' Although the above mentioned First and foremost, new students items are considered essentials, the need to know what to ~ring. amount of non-essential stuff varies Accor~g to the bousing office, from student to student, Miller said. essentials include the following "Some students show up with a items: couple boxes, some show up in a • bed linens, including a pillow U-Haul," she commented. and blanket or quilt For those who show up with more • afan stuff than they bargained for, • an alann clock Stokes explained that Panther Pals • towels will be there to help. • clothes hangers "What (the Panther Pals) will do • a can opener • an iron See HOUSING Page 2 Kelsay Shaw I Staff photographer Gas prices reach Lunch break Coffee Express employee Mindy Johnson cleans a table in the Martin Luther King University Union. Coffee Express is an lunch option with no fast food restaurant on campus. · 18-month high LOS ANGELES (AP) - by the Organization of the Americans are paying more for Petroleum Exporting Countries and Districts work to alleviate substitute gasoline thanks to improving other big oil producers in February. economies in Asia and OPEC's To the surprise C1I many analysts, apparent determination to stick to OPEC countries have stuck to their shortage as school year nears its plan to cut crude oil production. quotas and a worldwide glut of out ways to increase retention and tricts across the United States report Motorists in California and crude oil that pushed prices down to raising the traditionally low pay of the problem is severe - each week other West Coast states have been historic lows during 1998 and early CHAMPAIGN, DI. (AP) - a job that can be stressful and they have classes for which they hardest hit because of refinery 1999 is disappearing. Some mornings during the last demanding. can find no substitute, according to • explosions that have also cut into · At the same time, demand for school year, superintendent Alan ••Most of the schools pay less Geoffrey G. Smith, executive direc- supplies. both crude oil and refined gasoline Estes had to make up to 40 calls than $10 an hour for what is a diffi tor of the institute. • Nationally, the average price of is increasing, especially in Asia before he found a substitute for a cult job," said Jed Deets, regional In those cases, other teachers gasoline at the pump has risen more where countries are emerging from sick teacher. superintendent of schools in St. usually give _up their preparation than Scents to $1.267 cents a gal the economic crisis that began two ''Everybody else was booked up. Oair County. time, a teaching assistant monitors lon since early July, according to years ago. 'Ibey were either busy or already "It's difficult to walk into a the class, a principal fills in or class ~e California-based Lundberg As a result, the price of key committed to teaching someplace classroom today and maintain dis es are combined. Survey. In February, the average grades of crude oil worldwide hm else," said Estes, superintendent at cipline and at the same time teach a With the institute estimating that price dipped below $1. nearly doubled since the OPEC cuts Woodlawn Community High lesson plan. You have to love kids up to a year of a student's educa Prices could continue upward went into effect, said Fadel Gbeit, School near Mount Vernon. ''It's and feel like the seivice you're pro tional life could be taught by a sub during August as more Americans an analyst with Fahnestock & Co. 'Very frustrating:' viding is valuable," he said. stitute, it's important to have a qual take to the road for vacations and "OPEC's death has been greatly The substitute shortage is some The Substitute Teaching ified, competent pool to drawn on, weekend outings. exaggerated in the last three or four thing school districts around the Institute at Utah State University is Smith said. "You're right in the middle of years," Gheit said. state - and the country - have in the middle of a study funded by "In no way, shape or form do the driving season and the economy In California, an explosion been experiencing for a few years the U.S. Department of Education you expect it to be a play day when is strong. People are driving forced Mobil Corp. to cut produc now. to detennine just how bad the prob a substitute is teaching," said Jim around, taking vacations. There is tion at its Torrance refinery School officials expect it to be lem is - and to suggest ways Rossborg, superillfeDdent of more upward ~." said Alvin Wednes'Clay. The company's Just as bad this school year, so school districts can attract and Belleville School District 118. Silber, an analyst with Herzog Riclunond plant was damaged in a many have spent the summer retain more substitutes. Heine Geduld. July 10 blast and hm not resumed ~ting new substitutes, figuring Forty-two percent of school dis- See ltm1l1UIE Paga 2 Production cuts were announced full production. 2 Monday. A~usl ., 1999 The Delly l.Mtem ,..... Elilem More heat deaths in Chicago, 133 dead nationwide CHICAGO (AP) -1\venty-six more people "You could save their life:• he said. In 199S, North Carolina soared into triple digits Saturday News have died from the heat in Chicago, pushing more than 700 elderly Chicagoans died in for a record-setting eighth time this year. The Illinois' heat-related death toll to 49 and the extreme heat. Daley warned that more deaths 104-degrce i;eadina at Raleigh-Durham Thi Diiiy Ellllm Ntwl ii publilhld dlily, Monday nation's casualties far beyond 100, even as may be discovered in the next few days, International Airport broke the 1983 mark of through Fridlv, In Charfllton, HI., during lal1 Ind Saturday brought a glimpse of cool to parts of the Parts of the East continued to sizzle, with seven days over 100 degrees in a year. It also lflllng llll1lllM and twice WMldy during 1111 eum· mer llnn llCIPI durlng ICllOOI VICllton• or Dllllln• country. Philadelphia peaking at 99 degrees on Saturday, broke the high temperature for the day, last set in ~ tiOlll, by llll lludlntl of Eutem An additional 20 deaths in Chicago may be making it the ninth straight day above 90 degrees, 19S3 at 102. !;ijl llffnoll Unlveralty. Sublcl1pllon price: and soaring temperatures- in New England. Greenville-Spartanburg International AiipOCt 138 per Mmlllt(, 118 for IUrnmtr heat-related and were under investigation, Mayor only. .. all )"II'. Thi Diiiy Eulem Ntwl ii I 1111111- Richard Daley said, announcing the latest deaths In New York, where temperatures had climbed in South Carolina hit a record high of 104; blr of Thi Auoclltld P.-, which II antllled to from the heat wave that scorched much of the above 90 for the last eight days, the thennomctcr Parkersburg, W.Va., was at 102; and Columbus, .clllllvl "" ol Ill lrUcill lippMMg In tllil PIPfl. "only" degrees So Ohio and Columbus, Ind., both reached 100. Thi ldlortlll on Page 4 rep!tltnt 1111 nation and produced New Yorit City's hottest July hit 88 in Central Parle.