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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1985 4-29-1985 Daily Eastern News: April 29, 1985 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 29, 1985" (1985). April. 21. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_apr/21 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1985 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. · The Daily Monday,Aprll29, 1985 . ..will be mostly sunny and warm with highs in the mid to upper 70s with east winds about 1 O mph. Increasing Eastern cloudiness Monday night with a 20 N'ews percent chance for showers and lows in the mid to upper 50s. •••••Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 61920 I Vol. 70, No. 150 I Two Sections, 20 Pages ••••••••••••••Ill•••• Rives urges U.S. r�ps to oppose aid slashe-s by Jim Allen Education Act," he added. Daily Eastern Ne ws Correspondent The prepared statements of each URBANA-Three U.S. Represen- member on four panels varied in their tatives listened Saturday as university focuses, from the testimony of an administrators and others urged them Illinois farm wife concerned with her to oppose President Reagan's children's odds without financial aid to proposed cuts in student aid. the statements of the U of I Chancellor The chairman and two members of concerning funds to maintain com the House Subcommittee ·on Post- puter systems. ·secondary Education heard four-and- Delores Geiger, a "proud yet hum a-half hours of testimony from three ble" farm wife from Madison County, Eastern administrators and 1 5 others. boasted - of putting four children All those testifying appealed for the through college with two others curren reauthorization of the Higher .tly enrolled at U of I. All, she said, had Education Act focusing on one or the assistance of some combination of several of the ·facets of the public Pell Grants, National Direct Student higher education system. Loans or Illinois State Scholarships. Chairing the field hearing, which "Now you ask, 'How did we finance was conducted at the University of all these 23 years of education?'" Illinois Illini Union, was Rep. William Geiger told the subcommittee mem Ford, D-Mich., with Reps. Terry bers. "Impossible, I say, with the small Bruce, D-Ill. and Charles A. Hayes, D- margin of profit today's farmer can Ill. at his side. muster-absolutely impossible without At issue was Title IV of the HEA, financial aid." which encompasses the student loan . She added that, while each child was and grant pr9grams facing slashes in helped in varying amounts by NDSL's, the 1986 budget proposed by .President . all but one graduate has paid off the Reagan. loan in full, with one making the final Eastern President Stanley Rives, ad-· few payments. dressing the congressmen at the "As I look proudly at our family's hearing, said, "Stated as clearly as I accomplishments, I can't help but can, my position is that, if this nation wonder just where they'd be today if can afford no other form"of financial all this financial assistance were not support of higher . education than available when they needed it so adequate financial aid directly to · direly," she said. students ...then let the chips fall where Calling the educational system an they may." "infrastructure" of the economy, Stating that 65.5 percent of Easte·rn Rives said, "No society can students receive some form of financial pre v a i 1- e co n o mi ca11 y or aid, Rives said, "It is very clear that, politically-unless it is willing to make - even with our relatively low costs, a significant commitment to the many of our students would not be . education of its young people." able to obtain their college educations While a good education is important without financial assistance. to the individual, he added, the "The facts and conclusions. educational system is essential to One more time .require that Eastern take the position ·national political and economic A saxophone player for the Chicago-based blues band Big Twist and the that provision of adequate student viability. Mellow Fellows plays for the crowds at Celebration '85 Friday afternoon. See Another Eastern representative at related photos on pages 6 and 7. (News photo by Brian Ormiston) financial aid.be the highest priority in - reauthorization of the Higher (S ee RIVES, page 11) Number four Admissions candidate stresses personal approach by Mary Holland elude j>honing potential students who Eastern recently held a minority Hard work and a "personalized ap express interest in attending Eastern. - visitation day aimed at boosting proach" are the qualities Dale Wolf "I think you are the ideal school to minority enrollment. The program said he would bring as Eastern's next implement the more personalized ap drew 27 students from 13 Chicago area admissions director. pr�ch,'' he said. "You are the most high schools. Wolf, the fourth candidate to in logi'cal school to put something like Wolf said he could not comment on teview for the post vacated by John that in." the , program without more in Beacon in January, is currently Wolf said phone calls could be made formation, adding that budget con assistant director for admissions at by current students under the super straints often make the difference in Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington. vision of the admissions staff, and ad determining which recruitment "Anyone who has dealt with me can ded that this approach could be techniques are used. tell you l'm a very hard worker," he especially useful in recruiting minority "If you 'would turn over the school's said. "Anyone who pays my check gets students. budget to me, I know it would be a lot me 26 hours a day.'' "I don't know if I'm a big booster of (See ADMISSIONS, page 5) Although Wolf is currently the sending students to high schools assistant director at Illinois Wesleyan, because it takes them away from their he said he does not expect difficulties classes,'' he said. "I think there are Inside in making the transition to the director other ways then sending them to post. schools.'' CelebrationCelebration '85, a tribute to the "I am not a director. I personally DaleWolf Wolf said keeping in close contact arts, fea red music. crafts, food don't think that's a problem," Wolf non-director in the state,'; he sclid. · with , offieials fro Chicago area tu tn and .an airband contest. This said. "But maybe all the people I met Keeping in touch with high school schools is another way to boost was with today will think it is." officials who work with college-bound minority enrollment. the eleventh year for Eastern's springtime bash on the Ubrary Wolf said he will use the connections students is part of the "personalized "Since you're a bit distant from the Quad. he has throughout the state in con approach" Wolf said he would bring city, you can't always bring a van out vincing students to attend Eastern. as admissions director. to bring ten students. It's not cost ef aHpqea8and7 "I'm probably as well known as any Other recruitment techniques in- fective," he said. Monday, April 29, t 985 DAiiy ·The EuternNewi �tatedPress · · 1 Moslem fighters rout Christians, State/Nation/World ______....... _...... _militiamen rep·ortat least 20 dead Bitblirgvfs .it may be changed BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-Spearheaded by Moslem militias pushed east from the coast. lK>NN, West Germany-Bavarian Gov. Franz Josef Syrian-supplied arnior, waves of Moslem The outriumbered Christians reeled u'nder the Strauss proposed Sunday that President Reagan lay a militiamen and their Druse allies routed combined offensive, relinquishing Majdelyoun wreath at a soldier's monument in Munich instead of Christians from coastal strongpoints in south and Salhiye on the Jezzine road after artillery making his controversial visit to a German military cemetery Lebanon on Sunday. and rocket battles. · at Bitburg. _ Christian refugees fled by the thousands to a The Druse-members of a secret sect whose. And Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel, son of World mountain redoubt. creed is basically Islamic-also swept through War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, said he would un At least 25 people were reported killed 30 the Kharroub region between Damour and Sidon derstand if West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and wounded in incomplete police casualty counts� extending the Durse homeland in the Chouf Reagan canceled next week's Bitburg visit. from the southern fighting. mountains to the Mediterranean for the first "I don't think this- would be a loss of face· for Kohl," In Beirut, Moslem Shiite Amal militiamen time. Rommel was quoted as saying. backed by Druse said they killed at least 20 In Beirut, Christian Lebanese Forces were Christian fighters in artillery, grenade and driven out of positions along the Green Line by Cancercompensation proposed machine-gun attacks on the streets of the capital. leftist Moslem fighters, as Lebanon's 10-year-old Moslem and Druse warriors drove against the SPRINGF ELD-Illinois taverns for years have· been civil war exploded anew. i Christians in a two-pronge attack in the south. liable for injuries caused by people who drink their booze. Witnesses said bodies were piled on a sidewalk The Druse, moving behind Syrian-supplied T- And now, a lawmaker wants to extend that "dram-shop" as Christians were pushed back 200 yards from tanks, Jive, six miles nor- concept to tobacco companies and hold them responsible 54 captured the port of the Green line, which divides the capital's mostly th of the southern provincial capital of Sidon, when smokers get cancer.