Eastern Illinois University The Keep May 1986 5-2-1986 Daily Eastern News: May 02, 1986 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_may Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: May 02, 1986" (1986). May. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_may/2 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1986 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in May by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. By JULIE LEWIS National Security Council. Activities editor Reagan met with Childress in Honolulu before President Reagan was apparently shown a letter leaving Monday to visit several nations on his way to earlier $his week from Eastern's Sigma Pi fraternity, the Tokyo economic summit this weekend, Mac­ said a Charleston resident who works with the Donald said. National League of Families of American Prisoners She said the members of the fraternity, which St. Letter regarding and Missing in Southeast Asia. Pierre belonged to while at Eastern, originally wrote The letter is in reference to an Eastern graduate the letter to St. Pierre's family to let his relatives and Sigma Pi member, Captain Dean St. Pierre, who know he had not been forgotten. However, since the local MIA finds is listed as missing in action from the Vietnam fraternity did not have the address of the family, they conflict, Jan MacDonald, 303 Seventh St., said sought MacDonald's help. Wednesday. MacDonald, too, could not locate the family. MacDonald works with the League of Families, "The St. ·Pierre's are not listed members of the its way to Reagan which is made up of family members of those listed League of Families," she said. as Missing in Action. So MacDonald took the letter to a POWMIA She said the letter, which was signed by about 100 meeting last weekend at Scott Air Force Base near Sigma Pi members here, was to be hand delivered to Belleville, Ill. At the meeting, she contacted the president by Richard Childress, Director of (See LETTER, page 7A) Political Military Affairs and a member of the · The Daily Friday, May 2, 1986 ... will be mostly sunny and cool, high in the lower or middle 60s. Friday night will be fair and cooler with lows in the Eastern News upper 30s. Saturday will be mostly sunny and warmer with highs around E:astern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 61920 I Vol. 71, No. 155 I Two Sections, 28 Pages 70. ·_i Tuition option passes Students can pay in installments By AMY CARR , participating in central registration did Staffwriter so because they lacked funds to pre­ After months of debate, an option register, political science instructor which allows students to pay spring Dick Goodrick said. tuition and fees in two installments has The two senates polled students been approved by the administration. using fall central registration, asking The installment plan will be why they had to go through central available to those students whose registration. spring semester tuition and fees Goodrick, Smith and Stu1ent Body amount to $330 or more-minus any President Floyd Akins decided they, financial aid-from the original did not want Eastern to develop "an amount· owed, said Michael Taylor, elitist type of education," Smith said. director of registration. The groups recognized the problem Food for thought Students using the plan would be that could arise with underpriveledged required to pay $350 for the first in­ students who wanted to further their Eating pizza out by the pond and getting some sun are from left to right stallment. Included in this amount will education, Smith said, but couldn't Cara Krejci, Diana Scott, Cathy Muhl, and Ruth Roberts. be a non-refundable $20 service for the because they did not have adequate use of the payment plan. funds available to them at the time of The remaining tuition and fees will registration. adet tells military panel be due at or about the fifth week of the ·work on the plan began in October, Spring semester. The payment must be but was delayed due to several barriers. paid within. a two-week period, said The university lacked the proper f 'coercion' from ROTC Verna Armstrong, vice-president for funding necessary to implement this administration and finance. type of plan, Smith said, adding Students who fail to pay the in­ Armstrong later was able to find the stallments on time, will face the necessary funds from various other An Eastern ROTC cadet who is university's standard collection budgets. president of a campus peace group procedure, Taylor said. Armstrong was not available for argued before a military panel The university will hold the students' comment Thursday. Thursday that ROTC advisers transcripts and refuse to release the Another problem the administration "coerced" him into choosing either the their grades until payment is received, faced with the plan was the increase in military or the peace group to avoid a Taylor said. staff that would be required to handle conflict of interest. Western Illinois University uses a the excess work caused by an increase Cadet Spencer Grimshaw, who seeks similar method of collection for their in the number of payments. to severe his ties with ROTC because of tuition installment plan. However, However, Taylor said that he "moral and ethical convictions," Western students' names are also given doesn't believe an increase in the staff could face a maximum of two years to a collection agency. will be necessary. The staff increase, active duty as an enlisted man if proven Students will be notified of the new "depends on how many students take he "willfully evaded" an ROTC plan in fall official notices and·through advantage of the plan." contract he signed two years ago. forms distributed at registration, Taylor said that although he believes The three-and-a-half hour hearing Taylor .said. the plan is a good idea, he does not was attended by a Daily Eastern News The plan was approved after Arm­ forsee a lot of students using it because reporter on the condition that no strong and the faculty and student it will cost them more money. photographs or notes be taken during senates and proved that it could be He said that the plan may help the the proceedings. accomplished and would also be full-time student who is not receiving Last month, Grimshaw wrote a letter beneficial to . students, said Scott any financial aid, but the $20 service of resignation to Lt. Col. Wayne Smith, Faculty Senate member. fee, will probably discourage most Duke, head of Eastern's ROTC A faculty and student senate poll students. program. In the letter he said his ac­ showed that 40 percent of students tivities with Eastern Illinois Students· Concerned About Peace came into News prints last time on Monday direct conflict with ROTC teachings. A tight seal wa!j put over closed Monday's issue of The Daily Eastern "The first issue will be out on June deliberations after the hearing ad­ FRANK PERRY I Staff photographer News will be the last one for the spring 17," Dennis said. journed at about 8: 15 Thursday Spencer Grimshaw, embattled semster. The Summer News is published evening. No members of the panel, ROTC cadet and president of EISCAP, In an effort to give reporters, editors e\'.ery Tuesday and Thursday during headed by Maj. Marian May of takes a break Thursday during a and employees more time to study for the summer session. Eastern's ROTC program, would military hearing at the Applied finals, the News will not be published Kevin McDermott, the current editor comment on what recommendation the Sciences Building. after Monday Finals Week Edition. in chief of The News said, "We are all board may make concerning Grim­ Bill Dennis, the editor of The looking forward to summer to give us vised not to comment. shaw. Summer Eastern News, said readers time to recuperate, and come back During the hearing, the cadet, Grimshaw, who had earlier granted can expect a paper on the first day of again strong next year." (See CADET, page 7A) interviews to the News, was also ad- classes. 1A·. Friday, May 2, 1 986 The Dall i\ssociated Press : ..Reagan calls Marcos 'a free man' BALI (AP)-Secretary of State George Shultz reporters: "You will have to ask Mr. Laurel· State/Nation/World said Thursday the Reagan administration is satisfied. Let me remind you. the presid considers deposed Philippines President Fer­ not on trial here." Cable avoidsporno restrictions dinand Marcos "a free man" entitled to call In his last full day on this tropical is WASHINGTON-The Attorney General's Commission supporters in his homeland and to move from the before heading on to Tokyo and the seven-na on Pornography narrowly defeated a recommendation to United States if he wishes. international economic summit, Reagan seek regulation of movies with sexually explicit themes In blunt-spoken language exposing tension with Laurel, conferred separately with shown on cable television. between the administration and the government donesian President Suharto and spoke to The commission also voted 6-5 against urging prosecution of Marcos successor Corazon Aquino, Shultz foreign ministers of the Association ot Sout on the·basis of obscenity of books that are sexually explicit, also said "we don't have infinite capacity to Asian Nation. Reagan then was joined by as long as they do not contain graphic pictures or focus on provide money" to Manila. Nancy for an elegant evening dinner and cul sexual abuse of children. He said that Philippine Vice President performance hosted by Suharto and his A cable TV group and theAmerican Civil Liberties Union Salvador Laurel, in a meeting with President Tien.