Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1989 10-20-1989 Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1989 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 20, 1989" (1989). October. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_oct/15 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1989 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. East meets west . More than 2,000 costumes pack Friday will be cloudy and The Panthers will take on the on this 'little shop of cold, with highs. in the . leathernecks of Western Illinois Puttl·ng horrors'. uppef,' 30s arufrain or in a Saturday afternoon game . snow flurries· likely. Page 12A funny face Section B astern purchasing Regency Apartments apartments, " Rives said. "The owners came housing options to married students and said the university will try to install to us to see if we would be interested in visiting faculty, as well as to undergraduate telephones and cable television so residents buying it. We think from a long term point and graduate students requesting individual won't.have to deal with them when moving By January, Eastern may be the new of view it will be in our best interest. " housing, " Hencken said. in and out. wner of Regency Apartments. Regency is presently owned by Lambert For undergraduate students, "we will try The complex contains 11 buildings with Th e purchase of the apartment complex and Associates from Florida and is located to go with juniors and seniors first, very a total of 146 furnishedapartment units de­ as approved by the Board of Governorsat west of Carman and Ninth Street halls on similar to what we do with Stevenson, " signed to accommodate 570 students. ursday's meeting on Eastern's campus. Ninth Street. Hencken said. There are also 460 parking places. Eastern President Stan Rives requested Rives said since the university owns the Rives and Hencken said both residence The purchase of the complex also at the BOG approve the Regency land west, north and east of the complex, it halls and married student housing have includes the furnishings of the units. The chase for$3.9 million. Beforethe actual would be beneficial in the long run to buy long waiting lists, which may be alleviated project consists of purchase of the complex chase of the complex is finalized, the the apartments. when Regency becomes part of the and necessary renovation and alteration of inois Board of Higher Education will Rives said both the university and the residence hall operation. apartments and furn ishings. ve to appr.ove the purchase at its owners of the apartment complex were able Hencken said the university will al so The purchase will be financed by the ember meeting. to come up with a reasonable price. allow students who are student teaching for sale of revenue bonds the university was The BOG is the governing board for The purchase gives "a whole new just one semester to live at Regency, and able to get at a low rate. The underwriting icago State University, Governors State dimension of housing" to Eastern, said Lou they will be able to get a one semester firm of Drexel, Burnham and Lambertha ve iversity, Northeastern Illinois Univer­ Hencken, director of .housing. "The lease instead of a one yearlease . been authorized by the BOG to act as the ity, We stern Illinois University and acquisition will allow us to expand the type Hencken said he has been talking with manager and underwriter for the issuance stem. of housing offeredto students. residents at Regency to see what they like of the bonds. did not seek to purchase the "The apartment complex will provide and don't like about the apartments. He • Continued page 2A Man with knife demands money By CHARLA BRAUTIGAM Campus editor A'n Eastern woman was approached by a man demanding money and displaying a Jcnife ab out p.m. Wednesday, as 9:30 I she walked northbound between - I Booth Li brary and the Life Science building. • The woman, wh o was not harmed in the incident, told police she was grabbed from behind and was told if she cooperated, she would not be �.·/ harmed, University Police Sgt. '•'_;.:/ Ron Mi ller said. I. The woman was then led to the Police artist's composite area around the Life Science and the Physical Science Vivarium, which is a dark area on building; at the northwest AP LASERPHOTO campus. entrance to the O'Brien Fi eld orkers continue the cleanup operation on 1-880 in Oakland. The freeway was heavily damaged in The suspect is described as a parking Jot; and Ta rble Arts uesday's earthquake. black inan in hi s early twenties, Center and the Life Science 5'09" to 5'11 " tall, medium build, Vi varium. with short black hair and brown The phone lines allow people eyes. The man was wearing a in trouble to contact University uake delays professor black leather jacket, red T- shirt, Police by the push of a button. faded blue jeans and tennis shoes. The University Police After the woman told the man Department did contact she did not have any money, he Charleston police to see if reports Groups to �provide The sister- aid in. pulled out a knife and ran, Miller of a man fitting the description of An Ea stern professor, who SAN FRANCISCO (AP) mayor Of a city ·. said. Wednesday's suspect had been ent to San Francisco to Private groups and officials from disaster, Charleston's Joseph P. The woman said the man may filed. xperience the excitement of a Tokyo to London to Charleston, Riley Jr., sent a plane load of .• have been scared off by people's Charleston police had foundno orld Series game, got a big S.C offered help to the ruptured drinking water, a symbolic retum v·oices coming from the sidewalk one meeting the description, rise when he experienced the San Francisco Bay area, but some of the support his city got after between the library and the Life Miller said. ven bigger excitement of said relief for the earthquake Hugo. · Science building, Miller said. Miller added University Police uesday's earthquake. could drain coffers already "1 know we still have and will .. The woman did not see anyone does not believe We dnesday's Tim Mason, assistant professor strained by prevfous disasters. have great needs,here and charity walking in the area after the man incident is related to the assault of economics, was standing on a Los Angeles, long San Fran­ certainly begins at home," Riley fled, however. another Eastern womari on Oct. irway with his brother, Rick, in cisco's West Coast comiJetitor but said. "However. it would be The woman contacted Univer­ near Lawson Hall. andlestick Park, home of the equally at the mercy of the San wrong for this community not to 17 sity Police after driving home, So far, police have no leads in Francisco Giants, when the Andreas Fault, quickly shipped reach in (our pockets) and to those who hurt Miller said, adding the woman the Oct: 1 case except for a hquake, which registered 6.9 doctors, sonic equipment and fire contribute a:re 7 did not use the emergency phone description of the offender. The the Richter Scale, shook San investigators to the Bay Area. and suffering rightflow.;' cisco. located 100 yards away from the suspect is described as a white, "Tim hadn't sat down yet. His "When it happened, there was the stands thought it was_great. Vivarium. "older than college-aged man." "She said she was aware of the at was in the upper deck. He dead silence in the stadium. Then They pretty much took it in "It's hard to communicate back phones, " Miller said, "but didn't "d he didn't feel much, but he everyone just acted like it was a stride, " Gail said, adding that Tim and forth, " Miller said referring oked up and saw the rafters 'Go Giants!' cheer, " she said, said the crowd generally had no think of using the phone." to the di stance between ving," said Gail Mason, Tim's describing what Tim had told her idea of the damage throughout the The four emergency phone University Police and the victim, use and assistant professor of by phone. city. lines, installed in August, are who has returned to her located between McAfee Gym ch communication at Eastern. "Tim was saying that people in �Continued page "Continued on page 2A 2A 2A Edwards & Bullwinkel UNIV. •From page Rives said the university should - acquire the property in January, but "we will honor presen t IT'S AN ALCOHOL-FREE BASH! Yes, it's true: You leases until they run out." can have a great time without being totally smashed, In other action, the BOG toasted, or obliviated beyond recognition. approved the naming of the new On Friday, as a part of Alcohol Awareness Week, there art studio building on Ninth will be a "Pre-Game Happy Hour" in the Afro-American Street. The building will be named Cultural Center at 1525 Seventh St. The happy hour, which after singer/actor Burl Ives who is open to all interested persons, is co-sponsored by attended Eastern in the 1920s. BACCUS (Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the The building will be called the Health of University Students), in conjunction with Black Burl Ives Art Studio Hall.