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Eastern Illinois University The Keep January 1981 1-30-1981 Daily Eastern News: January 30, 1981 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_jan Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: January 30, 1981" (1981). January. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_jan/14 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1981 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in January by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Dally Friday, January 30, 1981 will be cloudy with highs in the upper 20s. Friday night will be cloudy with �ows in the low teens. ·Saturday there will be a chance of snow with highs in the low 30s. Eastern Illinois University I Charleston Ill./ Vol. 88 No. 91 I Two Sectlona/ 20 Pages Eastern, News, -- '- xtbook fees may increase by $20' next fall· gy Schneider Sandefer said the textbook rental tern students could pay an system would better ensure students in "onal $20 per semester next.year in Renting texts cheaper- Tabe� obtaining all of their textbooks as ok rental fees after the increase by Peggy Schneider used. opposed to students buying their proposed recently for the Dean of Student Academic Serv_ice A ·total of 20 students from each· books. book Library's fiscal year 1982 Sam .Taber revealed Thursday the class level, freshman to graduate "In a r.ental system the student has et. results of a cost-benefit study that students, were chosen and an estimate paid the fees and I am obliged to see approved, the increase could take showed Eastern students cur.rently save as to the qook cost each student would everybody has every book for the as early as fall semester 1981, between $70 to $93 by renting their need was made. semester. With a sales system� the of Student Academic Service books as opposed to buying them. Although the study revealed a bookstore would not take the time or el Taber said Thursday. The study was c_onducted by the savings of renting textbooks as trouble to find a book for just one e increase was .proposed to cover textbook library in December. opposed to buying them between $70 person," Sandefer said. Textbook Library's rising In conducting the study. course to $93, Taber said the cost benefit Although the textbook rental fee has ting and purchasing costs, Taber schedules and the probable textbooks would be somewhat reduced by the not increased recently, the textbook for those courses for 100 students were resell value of the textbooks. library purchases have still had to keep a special meeting to discuss the --------------------------.......--- up with rising enrollments and .the book Library's budget Thursday, will have to determine our success," purchase. increasing number' of new courses, he r said the budget proposal will Taber said. Taber said he hoped the fee increase said. before the Board of Governors The reduction of even $1 of the $20 would prevent future moratoriums of The present $22 per semester fee has • 2 after Eastern administrators increase would result in the loss of department textbook purchases like the not kept up with those changes and the tudied it. thousands of dollars to the library's one imposed this spring. library has had to· cover those costs, e are making a determined effort_ income, Taber said. - Taber added that the purpose of Taber said.. ke the system efficient and have If the proposed amount is reduced, proposing the $20 increase was not to Eastern's enrollment increased from aterial students and faculty need. Taber said it would force a reduction in "defend the textbook service." about 9, 700 in the fall 1979 to around consumers (faculty and students) the amount of books the library could Textbook LibrarY, Director Richard 9,900 this past fall, Taber said. New courses have been added to the curriculum at a more i:apid rate than · have been dropped in order to "maintain a vigorous and interesting curriculum which meets the changing· needs" of students, he said. · Spring figures· shoW increase frQm last year by Lola Burnham Despite a drop in enrollment of 576 students from Fall 1980, enrollment for spring semester is higher than it· was · in Spring 1980. A total of 9,413 students enrolled ' this spring compared to 9,166 last spring. Vice President of Student Affairs Glenn Williams said the final total "was absolutely on mar k," in comparison to other fall to spring totals. , Of the total, undergraduate students comprise 89.9 percent with 8,460. Graduate students number 953 this spring. Following the trend of previou� semesters, freshmen continµed to make up the largest .class. This spring the freshman class accounts for 24.9 ee Eastern students (left right) Todd Garb to er, Lois booklet �fter several attempts to change the flat tire. ·percent of the total students enrolled well and Laura Smith resorted to the instruction (News photo by Wendall Gamble) which equals 2,340 students. Senior students made up the second largest. group· with 2, 151 or 22.9 ommittee shockedbf fee request percent, while juniors, with 2,009 Crist made up the third largest class. thy cost of actually buying the books," student academic services and Richard · The sophomore class experienced a · cause the Student Senafe Robb said. Sandefer, textbook library director to emic Affairs committee members slight drop in enrollment, down from Committee members were suprised further investigate the situ�tion · and 2,028 last fall to 1,960 this spring. surprised and shocked at the news at . the amount of the proposed decide on a course of action. Graduate students, who last fall t a proposed $20 textbook library textbook library fee increase, and had In other bu·siness, the committee accounted for 816 students at Eastern, increase, the committee decided various opinions on the proposal . discussed a possible change in the pass continued to increase in· nu mbers to ay to further investigate the "They're asking for a 91 percent fail option of grades. 953 students this spring. e. increase, which is more than just With results of research done on Eastern accepted 124 · first-time ommittee chairman Russ Robb keeping up with inflation,'• Committee other state universities, the committee · students this spring with 8,643 students ded the Textbook. Library member John Guite said. decided it will propose a pass-fail . returning from last fall. In addition, ittee meeting Thursday, where Senator .Tim . Bousky said the system that would allow a student three 319 transfer students enrolled while proposed increase was first administration seems to be testing the weeks to sign up for the option. 327 formerstudents returned. need, and brought the matter up students. Currently at Eastern a student has Women continued as the majority Academic Affairs committee for "They're saying if you want the only five days to choose the option.· on campus with 5 ,277. The total sion. textbook library that bad , we'll see Also, the .committee will propose number of men enrolled this spring is It was a real shock to hear that the how much you'll pay for it," he said. that if a student receives an A in a pass 4,186, down from last fall's male -increase would be from $22 to the The committee decided to set up a fail course, the student's records wiff enrollment of 4,428. sed $42 a semester. It seems meeting with Samuel Taber, dean of show an A. only about $30 away from the National celebration gives Friday's Gas hike presents squeeze for the American farmer 'Thanks' for freed hostages KANSAS CITY, Mo.-American farmers, beset News shorts 20 percent interest rates and roller-coaster grain WASHING -''l wonder,'' said Thomas (AP) by TDN prices sparked by the Soviet grain embargo, are Sch efer, "how I could have gone through that a about to take another blow-in the gas tank. experience without my God." Ex-hostage Lewis relaxes A U.S. Department of Agriculture economist · the pulpit of the enormous National FJi'.fl after homecoming predicted Thursday that regular gasoline would be Cathedral, the former hostage set the tone for at home selling for $1.50 to $1. 70 a gallon by the end of Thursday's national day of Thanksgiving by saying HOMER, Ill.-"This is finally the place I've been 198 1-a hike of 25 to 40 percent over current prices. that during his days of captivity, "God was no trying to get back to for the last days," said 444 444 '"The effect on net farm income is anybody's further than a prayer away." . Marine Sgt. aul Lewis, relaxing in his parents' P guess" said Tom Lutton of the USDA energy Many'were the days, he recalled that "I got on east-central Illinois home. "Washington was research group at its National Economics Division my knees and said, 'God, I need your help.' " fantastic, but this is the end". in Washington. Nearly a dozen former hostages and members- of Lewis, a U.S. embassy guard in Tehran, returned "All I know is that some guys are going Co be put their families were among an overflow crowd of to Ulinois Wednesday night, but his -homecoming in a terrible squeeze. There could be a lot of farmers more than 2,000 who gathered under the soaring was low key, in keeping with the family wishes. going out of business this year b�cause they don't arches of the cathedral to commemorate the day The former hostage told the Champaign-Urbana have the money up front." designated by President �eagan for giving thanks.