Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1985 9-13-1985 Daily Eastern News: September 13, 1985 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 13, 1985" (1985). September. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_sep/9 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1985 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. all enrollmentup, report shows JULIE CAMBRIA-BRECHBILL "There was much speculation last fall," Sam "It's difficult to know which ones (recruitm�nt nlatration editor Taber, dean of academic services, said. "Initially, tactics) produce," he said. Eastern' s 1985 fall enrollment increased slightly last year, freshmen applications were lagging, but as Eastern President Stanley Rives said he was m last fall's official enrollment, despite ad­ we moved into spring, they passed the previous pleased that the enrollment increased this fall. istrators' expectations of a decrease. year." "Eastern remains attractive to students and their Official figures released from the academic ser­ The National Center for Educational Statistics parents," he said. "Students like Eastern because we es office show 9,926 students enrolled for classes predicted an average enrollment decrease of about 1 continue to offer quality education at a reasonable Eastern this fall compared to 9,908 enrolled in fall percent in both public and private universities and cost, and we hope to keep it that way.'' 84, an 18 student increase. colleges across the nation. According to the figures from the academic ser­ Last year Eastern administrators were predicting Taber said he expected the enrollment to increase vices office, total freshman enrollment, which in­ t future enrollment would decline at a steady rate but he did not expect it "to be that high." cludes all students with under 30 semester hours, use of the decrease in the number of high school He added that the slight increase in Eastern's decreased by 60 students over last year's 2,875 figure. duates in Illinois. enrollment can not be pinpointed on one particular Senior enrollment dropped to 2,056 students, 13 The administration established an enrollment aspect of Eastern's recruitment. less than last year. get of 9,800students for fall .1985. "We try to visit as many high schools as we can," However, sophomore, junior and graduate According to a report from the Western Interstate Taber said. "We did some telephoning on a limited enrollments all increased with · the number of mm ission for Higher Education, the population basis to answer questions. We called 800 to 1,000 sophomores jumping from 2,026 in fall 1984 to 2,07 1 18-year-olds in Illinois will drop 31 percent bet­ (prospective) students and talked to them and their this fall. n 1981 and 1992. parents." Graduate students increased by 30 over last year's However, Eastern's fall 1985 incoming freshman But Taber added that the university does not know 818 figure, and the junior class showed an increase of ollment increased by 22 students over last' year's if the calling had any result on the enrollment in- 16to 2,136. 03 new freshmen. i PubliC school · students may see fund hike· ·By SHEILA BILLERBECK Staff writer The Illinois State Scholarship Commission is considering a plan which would reduce mo netary awards granted to private school students to make money available for public school students for the spring semester. ISSC spokesman Bob Clement said half of the private school studenis who receive the maximum ISSC award of $2,850 could face reductions of $200 from their spring semester awards. The plan, proposed to the ISSC by its board of • comm1ss10ners, is expected to generate ap­ proximately $3 million fo r the estimated 25-30,000 ' applications that are awaiting processing, Clement said. "We don't have the exact figures, but students at public institutions will be the main ones benefiting JIM DAVIS I S aff photographer Construction workers pour concrete Thursday located by Student Services. t from this," Clement said. a foundation at the coal conversion plant The ISSC board is expected to decide on the plan for at its next meeting Sept. 23, he added. ISSC Executive Director Larry Matejka said the oal plant completion date named; commission selected private. school student award ·recipients because they are the only.ones who receive the maximum award. Approximately . 90 percent of private school rmstrong says work 'going great_' students eligible .for ISSC grants receive the said. "If we start it, we will have to be done." maximum award because the cost of attending a pus editor to find some way· to pay workers He said piping connecting all private institution is greater than a public university, Eastern's $8.5 million coal from about April (for training and the buildings, brick building Matejka said. The commission has proposed that the ISSC nversion project's tentative preliminary work) to June 30, · facings and Environmental mpletion date has been pushed when the new fiscal year starts." Protection Agency-required identify all private school. ISSC award recipients for by about fourmonths . Armstrong said no ways of features still need to be finished review, Matejka said. The students will be ranked, Verna Armstrong, vice allocating funds for workmen based· on need, and reductions will be made to the before coal can be used to · power ident for administration and have been discussed yet. the university. (See PUBLIC, page 8) ce, said "because of the way The conversion project, which Armstrong said, "We are about rk is going," the completion began Nov. 1984, will power the 70 percent done. There is still a te has been moved up from university on coal ·instead of the long way to go but most of the the ov . l, 1986 to July l, 1986. steam which is currently used. visible changes have been com­ "The work is going great," she To date, Physcial Plant pleted." 'd. "There have been no major Director Everett Alms said several When the conversion is· oblems. Everything is working things have been completed in the finished, Armstrong said the e clockwork." conversion including the in­ parking lot that was installed on However, she added that in stallation of three 40,000-gallon top of the back-up fuel tanks will der to get the project started in back-up fuel tanks on university­ be returned to the. university for uly 1986, funds to pay workmen owned land across from the parking. · have to be allocated. Physical Plant and baghouse ''The lot will give us a needed 40 "The problem with having the system. to 50 parking spaces," she said. �ect done earleir than we Although Alms said much of The lot is currently being used to ned is that there is no funding the visible work has been com­ store conversion equipment. r workers this year,'' Armstrong pleted, "there still is a lot of work Friday, September 1 3, 1 985 2 The Dally Eastern News �ssociated Press Governor signs new DUI.law State/Nation/World CHICAGO (AP)-Drunken driving suspects driver's license may be suspended only by a judge will face a virtually automatic driver's license at a hearing that often comes several months South Africa eyes law reform suspension beginning next year if they fail or after an arrest: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The white govern­ refuse an alcohol test, under legislation signed Lavi enforcement officials complained the ment today took its second step in two days toward revoking Thursday by Governor Thompson. motorists often were involved iri other drunken­ aspects of apartheid by suggesting an end to the "base law" The quick-suspension rule was included in one driving incidents between the first arrest and the that bars blacks · from white areas and controls their of three drunken-driving bills approved by hearing, and that too many were placed under movements throughout the country. Thompson, who called the measures "a strong court supervision but still allowed to drive. o Secretary Piet Koornhof, chairman of the presidential pannl that step f rward toward taking drunk and drugged of State Jim Edgar, who headed a made the suggestions, said Parliament probably would not drivers from the highways of Illinois.'' task force that recommended the measure, said debate the issue until it reconvenes . "Few crimes have more chance of striking he expects it to result in license suspensions for after Jan. l, 1986. "Of coures this is a major step to remove apartheid. But innocent people than drunken or drugged 80 percent to 90 percent of first-time drunken­ . more important, it is building toward a new South Africa," driving," he said . driving offenders. he told reporters in a briefingin Cape Town. The. new law, effective Jan. l, provides a "We have too many cases where a person is In Soweto, the black township near Johannesburg, a three-month suspension for failing an alcohol arrested for drunken driving, but before they white teacher and 10 black high school students were test and a six-month suspension for refusing to come to trial they kill someone,'' Edgar said. wounded when police fired shotguns at a crowd of stone­ take it. � "We hope this will change that." throwing blacks, police said. Police have the authority to take the driver's Edgar said he expects court challenges to some It was not clear now the Musi High School teacher, who license of any suspected drunken driver who fails aspects of the new law, but said he is confident it suffered chest wounds, got into the line of fire,but witnesses or refuses a test.