Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1983 9-30-1983 Daily Eastern News: September 30, 1983 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 30, 1983" (1983). September. 21. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_sep/21 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1983 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]. Friday,September 30, 1983 The will be sunny and warm with highs in the middle 80s. Friday night.will be fair with lows in the middle to upper 50s. Saturday will be partly sunny ast News and warm with highs in the lower to middle 80s. iFive candidates left in presidential search by Sheila Billerbeck With the Wednesday's elimina­ tion of three of the eight candidates vying for Eastern's top ad­ ministrative position, the next step in the search process will be to nar- row the field of candidates to three. 11111111illllllflilii Lynch, campus advisory �!::=� Jeffrey ____ search committee chairman, said the campus committee decided Wednes­ factors of each for the board search day on "the five most viable can­ committee's review, he said. didates eligible for the position." Candidate profiles will be typed The remaining candidates include this weekend and delivered Monday Walter Jones, vice chancellor for to Donald Walters, Board of Gover­ academic affairs at the University of nors executive director and board Maryland-Baltimore County; search committee adviser. Thomas Porter, executive officer In addition, Lynch said campus for academic affairs at Connecticut feedback on each candidate was an State University; Stanley Rives, pro­ important part in the advisory com­ vost and vice president for academic mittee's candidate selection. affairs at Eastern; Donald "Cooperation from the campus Schwartz, chancellor at the Univer­ was unbelievable," he said. "I sity of Colorado-Colorado Springs; received hundreds of evaluation and Paul Weller, vice president for forms that gave the search commit­ academic affairs at California State tee valuable campus insight on the University-Pomona. candidates." The selection of candidates was Glenn Good , student represen­ made after campus committee tative on the campus comi:nittee, members reviewed the candidates' said student opinion was reflected in files and discussed their strengths the candidate selection. and weaknesses, Lynch said. The final three candidates will be The- campus committee will meet invited to meet with the BOG Oct. Friday afternoon to edit candidate 15 at the O'Hare Hilton in Chicago, resumes, determining important Froelich said. Turnover rate for Senate largest problem-Good by Nancy Yamin Although Good said he believes In his State of the Senate address disagreement "can be healthy'', he Wednesday, Senate Speaker Glenn added that he discourages disagree­ Good said that although the senate ment only to argue or delay action. has accomplished positive things, Good said all of these problems "everything is not picture perfect can be corrected if senators make a this semester.'' committment to serve the students. Good expressed his concerns "I wanted to bring the problems about senate, complimented recent out into the open and confront accomplishments and set goals for them," he added. this semester. Senator Mike Anderson said, "I Many problems face senate . this agree that some people are not really semester that must be corrected, he doing their jobs. I hope this kick in said. "The number one problem th·e heine will help." facing student government right Senator Ron W esel said he agrees ailgaters co now is the high turnover rate." with Good concerning committees officials He encouraged senators to and added that he hopes the speech belly Armstrong dedicate themselves again and show will give senators more direction. me Eastern officials are concefdtlt as much enthusiasm as they did . Good also congratulated the Stu­ Panther football fans are tailgatiua:• when they ran for office. dent Legislative Committee for con­ parking lot rather than cheering tM�allDli•*•• In addition, Good said student ducting a Lobby Day and cir­ in the football stadium. senators' committment to senate culating petitions to show support .C. Johnson, Eastern's athletic � committees is lacking. of a state tax increase last year. said, "The concern is the number of Committee meetings are not Good also set goals for student ents that remain outside the stadium social gatherings, he said, adding government this semester. g the course of a game. We woukt'<(Wllillldlli l that a more effective committee The goals include establishing in­ r see the students inside the stadium system must be maintained. ternships for students throughout r than outside, as was the case at bl il..,ill!_.J� Certain "cliques", which have the county, continuing work on m's first home game as well as put J-.-lll bee� formed on the senate this philanthropy projects for the com­ " 4ullili9 s. -···----lrj semester, may influence votes and munity and working toward the im­ op� hnson said he does · not "destroy the unity" of senate, he plementation of a plan to hire a full­ · ting but stressed the need for -�"-- added. time lobbyist in Springfield. Friday, September 1983 Dall z 30, The EastemNe Marines1to remain in Leb non WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate voted Senate Majority Leadera Howard H. Baker · Thursday to permit President Reagan to keep R-Tenn., said the administration has no pla 1,600 Marines in Lebanon for up to 18 months, expand the mission of the Marines in Beirut, turning aside warnings that the United States that adopting any of the amendments w may Q.e headed for an undeclared w-'r like the unravel the compromise worked out with the one in Vietnam. ministration. The vote was 54-46, with two Democrats join­ Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., whose ame ing 52 Republicans in approving the authoriza­ ment to restrict the Marines to Beirut tion sought by the GOP administration. defeated 56-42, said its rejection "would ca Illinois jobless rates decrease The measure was passed by the House on many of us to wonder what th� mission re CHICAGO (AP)-The unedtploymenttrate fell in almost Wednesday, but must be returned there so that is." every major Illinois city in August, reflecting general im­ relatively minor differences between the two ver­ Baker, urging approval of the 18-month ext provement in the economy, the Illinois Bureau of Employ­ sions can be resolved. sion, said he had "grave doubts" about ment Security reported Thursday. The Senate turned down amendments to wisdom of sending the Marines to Lebanon, Joliet continued to have the highest rate among major Il­ shorten the time period to six months and to im­ added, "They are committed, they are un linois cities, with 18.2 percent of the area's labor force out of pose the timetable of 60 to 90 days spelled out in fire, and it would be a tragic mistake if the C work, the bureau said. That was down from 22.8 percent in the War Powers Act and to restrict the Marines gress were to withdraw them." July. to the Beirut area. The unemployment rate for Kankakee increased in August-the only major Illinois city where that occurred-to 16.3 percent, up from 15.9 percent the previous month. Beirut airport reopened to traff i The lowest rate, 6.5 percent, was recorded in the BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-Beirut airport issued the formal order for the airport to reo Champaign-Urbana-Rantoul area. reopened Thursday for the first time in a month, for the first time since Aug. 28. The edict c Chicago's unemployment rate dropped to 11.6 percent in an indication war-torn Lebanon may be return­ after a four-member cease-fire supervision c August, down from 11. 7 percent in July. ing to normal. But just before the first jetliner mittee agreed on arra�gements to ensure Decatur's unemployment rate dropped to 13.7 percent landed, two U.S. soldiers were seized by Shiite safety of the terminal and the roads leading to from the July rate of 14.9 percent. militiamen and held for two hours. Before the airport opened, Shiite Mos The airport, where 1,600 U.S. Marine gunmen detained two U.S. Army technicians Block announces new grain plan peacekeepers are based, reopened after Druse about two hours after they made a wrong tur MARION, Iowa (AP)-Agriculture Secretary John Block fighters dropped their threat to shell the terminal a jeep off a main road in southern Beirut announced Thursday that feed-grain farmers wiH have to idle and reached agreement with Lebanon's army, wandered into an area controlled by the A at least 10 percent of the land they normally plant to remain Christian militiamen and Shiite fighters to militia. eligible next year for federal price supports. guarantee security on all access roads to the ter­ Marine spokesman Maj . Robert Jordan Block, attending the Farm Progress Show in the heart of minal. the two soldiers-an officer and an enlisted the Cornbelt, acknowledged that some farm-state con­ The first airliner, a Middle East Airlines flight attached to the Marine contingent-were rel gressmen and others will assail the requirement in light of the from Jidda, Saudi Arabia, circled the downtown ed unharmed with their weapons and vehicle reduced supplies of feed grains like corn following this year's districts four times before landing at 10:45 EDT. returned to the Marine compound at the airpo 7 drought. Minister of Public Works Pierre Khoury Getting No TONIGHT! Answers.