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Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1978 10-12-1978 Daily Eastern News: October 12, 1978 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 12, 1978" (1978). October. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_oct/9 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1978 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inside Page3: sday will be partly Dersch proposal and warmer with a criticized e of showers and Page3: storms, with a high Concert tickets available middle or 1:1pper 70s. Eastern News Page 12: Thursday, Oct. 12, 1978 /Charleston, Ill. I Volume 64/ No. 31 I 12 Pages Dodgers win 4-3 BOG to revise policy for stu·dent tuition by Ed Mazzocco Sullivan said if tuition was increased The Board of Governors decided at state universities by a considerable recently that its policy of assessing amount, she said financial aid funds students one-third of their in would not be raised accordingly. structional costs needs to be revised. Tom Holden, student body In a memorandum released Sept. 22, president, said the BOG is merely BOG Executive Director Donald recommending a new approach to Walters said future tuition increases tuition increases. should be for inflation, not to attain Holden added that tuition costs will the one-third level. inevitably go up because of inflation, Walters explained that since the but that since the present one-third current amount students pay of their fixed formula is being abandoned, instructional costs is 25 percent, it tuition will not be raised to reach the would be too costly to raise that to 33 one-third level. percent. Floyd Merritt, president of the Instead, Walters said, the BOG will American Federation of Teachers, said , be making yearly tuition increases to an increase in tuition would mean a compensate for inflation. raise in instructors' salaries. The one-third level was adopted as a Merritt said although teachers' goal by the BOG in 1971 in accordance salaries would be affected by an in· with a Board of Higher Education crease, there is no distinct tie between recommendation. The BHE proposal the two. The BOG could raise teacher's said students should pay one-third of salaries without raising tuition, Merritt tuition while the state paid two-thirds. said. In a study of tuition made in April, President Daniel E. Marvin said the Walters found present tuition levels are purpose of the Sept. 22 memorandum closer to one-fourth ·of the cost of was to allow the BOG to state that the instruction and will continue to slide. fixed formula of students paying one Walters decided a closer look at third the cost of tuition and the state tuition levels should be made, although paying the remainder, should be an increase would not be definite. changed. Julie Sullivan, BOG student Walter's proposal was accepted last representative, said the BOG is not spring, and all state university demanding an increase, but is mainly presidents are in favor of the change, Noland and grounds crew occupied themselves recently pulling up, concerned with the problem of in Marvin said. around the McAfee Gym drive. (News photo by Mark Winkler) flation causing higher fees. stern 's general status reviewed by Marvin Kozlowski One way to retain students would be m President Daniel E. Marvin to have "an organized and systematic ednesday he has an optimistic universally wide effort, " he said. the future of the university To accomplish th is , a reorganization on last year. of the institution itself is necessary, he e've had a good year and with said. · g going well we'll have a A need for a centralized personnel ture," he said. office exists, Marvin said. aking in the first of three He said the officewill be operational gs with faculty and staff, Mar and will allow faculty and Civil Service d as reasons for his optimism, personnel to get information concer d enrollment and a better ning their and other departments. · trative organization to handle The office will also be a center for ease which has caused Eastern information which can be directly ive more money for budget related to Springfield government he · g than other state schools .. said. in said Eastern's 1973 enroll Marvin also said he would be able to was 8,026 while this year the appoint a vice president for adminis ent is 9,583, an increase of tration and finances by next Tuesday. students. Marvin was also optimistic about the e faculty and institution itself relationship between the American ne an incredible job accommo Federation of Teachers and the Board these extra students when the of Governors and Eastern as a separ has not increased proportion ate entity. ' Marvin said. "We've come along in a pretty good added, "H_ad we had a declind fashion, having negotiated two con 1973 the vitality of this institu tracts all without much sacrifice of the would have decreased signifi- collegiate on this campus," Marvin " said. years from now, Eastern' s He used collegiate to mean the ent should increase slightly or professionalism of the institution. the same as now, he said. But he said Eastern still has a long , he said, three or four years President Daniel E. Marvin addressed faculty and staff on university status way to go . Wednesday. (News photo by Craig Stockel) now the enrollment will decrease. Marvin cited more proposals to help 'We need . the faculty's help in of students. dents graduating from Eastern be Eastern's future to be even better. · taining the stability now," he "I'm not saying faculty should lower lessened." Marvin mentioned a proposal to He said because enrollments the competency in their programs in Retention of students would help to combine the currently Council on University Planning with the Council P decline, the emphasis must order to retain students." He added, increase Eastern's stability in the ange from recruitment to retention ''Nor should the competency of stu- future. on University Budget. � .. •astern' fle . ws Thursday, Oct. 12, 2 . 1978 Greyhound Rx· Newsslloi'ts The cure for college blahs. It's a feeling that slowly descends upon you. The exams, the pop tests, tr.,- required reading, the hours at the library, the thesis they wori'tgo away. Troy(JP) cited as evasive But you can. 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Sources said results of the scientific tests aimed at determining the age and origin of the cloth would not be made public for at least six months. oo·uble agent plot works NEWARK, N.J: (AP)-The government decided that benefits outweighed risks when it chose to sacrifice confidential anti-submarine warfare material in order to try to apprehend alleged Soviet spies through a double agent, a U.S. Navy officer said. Capt. Daniel Wolkensdorfer testified Tuesday at the trial of Valdik Aleksandrovich Enger, 39, and Rudolf Chernyayev, 43, who face life in prison if convicted of espionage conspiracy charges. The pair and a third Soviet, Vladimir Petrovich Zinyakin, were arrested May · 20 in Woodbridge moments after they allegedly received classified material from Navy Lt. Cmdr. Arthur Lindberg, the double agent. RT A Payton ads blasted I CHICAGO (AP)-A state legislator has blasted the Regional Transportation Authority for paying Chicago Dears running back Walter Payton $20,000 for advertising. Rep. Cal Skinner Jr., R-Crystal Lake, said in a statement Tuesday "the equivalent of almost 700,000 gallons worth of RT A gas tax is going to pay for personal appearances which will do more to promote the Chicago Bears than it will RTA ." Payton is promoting the "universal transfer" of the RTA, which allows MONDAY, OCT.