Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 1992 3-13-1992 Daily Eastern News: March 13, 1992 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1992_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 13, 1992" (1992). March. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1992_mar/9 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1992 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. cademic affairs VP _:.: a ,�, a lection to be del yed sJ'"MrKE CffAM8eAs live in he-said. president may not be in place until ,_:{: ; ;;;: "Onein mobilefivepeople society. in� America' January. He said interviews on Staff.Writer move each year and with an anti­ campus cannot be held until the fall nm out quated :registratiOJ! system opposition from the Illino1s·,v-0rers may af it pit e semester begins. excuses for makes a lot of people stay away theposition of .avoiding. the community, BOG spokeswoman Pam Meyer the General Assembly adopts:pollsif a polls." sident for academic affairs from the saidthe decisfon to delay filling the bill proposing a Motor Voter Besides the Motor Voter plan be filled permanently until vice president position was a deci­ Registration plan which could Quinn also proposes stricter lob­ 1993. sion made by all the board mem­ greatly simplify registering forthe bying regulations, voluntary pub­ e President for Business bers, Layzell and Rives. _primaries, says the state's treasur­ lic contributions to the governor's Charles Colbert, chair of the "We go back to January on this race through a check-off on state sidential advisory search er. matter ... since January, the chan­ The Motor Voter Registration income taxes _and eliminating the ittee, said the committee cellor, the board and President c-0ncept involves automatically open primary system in the state. d a letter to Board of Rives have been in agreement that registering eligible voters when Under the present system, to ors Chancellor Thomas the new president of Eastern they renew their drivers licenses vote in the primaries in Illinois a thecampus commu­ stating Illinois University should appoint through the Secretary of State's registered voter bas to publicly the search for the decided his vice president for academic Drivers Facilities. The legislation declare a party when they go to should continue and ident affairs," Meyer said. is proposed State Treasurer the polls-, but Quinn said that's "an should be filled as by ition "To be clear, there is no differ­ Patrick Quinn as part of a l 0- invasion of privacy." as possible. ence of opinion on this matter point plan he sayswill guarantee "I don't thing it's anybody's ey didn't agree with us, between the board, the chancellor " "voter empowerment" in the business who you vote for. The y, Colbert said. Thomas Layzell and the president," Rives said. Illinois election process. privacy of thevoter should be pro­ the December announce­ Rives said he recommended to "We need to give the voters tected," he said. President Stan Rives will Senate Tuesday that almost all bod­ Layzell that the new president be · 31, pack their power; and the whole Though politicians aren't likely as president July the ies represented on the advisory involved in the selection of the per­ idea here is to empowerthe voters to give up the open primary sys­ committee members were committee wanted the search to manent vice president for academic again," Quinn saidThursday from tem on their own anytime soon, to whether the search continue. affairs. decide Chicago in a interview. Quinn said this system has been continue, be slowed down Chair David .Carpenter, who also "I believe that there must be a "We're lookingphone .at tbe (current) adapted in many states by ini.tia­ will chair the presidential search good working relationship between registration figures and it's the ti v e of the voters. And if his advisory committee, told the the vice president for academic lowestmark since the 1920s. One Faculty Senate Tuesday that a new • Co ntinued on page 2 patifcipatiO - i's barrier""to t:batwe Buzzard faculty.understand elf' focus of Essence speaker Celebr�tion parking change By StaffTAMALA writer GANT By us park somewhere else." StaffTERESA writer JOHNSON The Immanuel Lutheran Church, "Being the Best that you can located across from the parking lot ' be" was the focus of Susan L. Faculty and staff in the Buzzard on the west side of Buzzard, has Taylor's speech, which took place Building seem to be receptive to approved its lot for use by people in the Grand Ballroom of the sacrific:ing their parking spaces for who are losing their parking spaces Martin Luther King Jr. University April's Celebration '92: A Festival to Celebration, said Dan Crews, Union Thursday night. of the Arts. director of publicity. Taylor - editor and chief of "I'm delighted to have Celebra­ The police department will sym­ Essence magazine and the key­ tion return and I'd be willing to pathize with the parking problems note speaker for Women 's History take any inconvenience to make its that weekend unless people delib­ Month - talked about the impor­ lively contribution to the universi­ erately park illegally, he added. tance of quiet time, loving your­ ty," said Robert Saltmarsh, profes­ Ron Osborne, campus police self,not giving up, as well as some sor of educational psychology and sergeant, said the assigned area of her personal experiences and guidance. "I have had parking frus­ wouldn 't be ticketed unless drive-· mistakes that she felt striving trations and this will probably be ways are blocked. young professionals might learn an unsolvable dilemma." "It (spaces available at the andbenefit. The faculty and staff parking Immanuel Lutheran Church) will' Approximately 75 students spaces on south Seventh Streetand help a lot," said Wanda Daugherty, attended Taylor's speech, which the west side of the Buzzard a secretary who works in Buzzard. began by giving a brief history of Building will be closed from April "I understand them and certainly the contributions of what many 23-27 to accommodate the festival. sympathize with them (people who "women of color" have done and "I believe it's my contribution to park in the lots)," said Crews, who what they have encountered dur­ the Celebration of the Arts," said added he also will be affected by ing their accomplishments. George Schlinsog, associate dean the parking alterations. "We as a society have some dif­ ficult work to get done," Taylor of the College of Education. "(Parking availability) is a prob­ '92 said, "and in order for it to get Celebration will be held lem now," said Howard Price, 24-26, done, we must think critically and from April and activities assistant professor in the journal­ work smartly. will be held in the Martin Luther ism department. "If you get here "If we were to think critically King Jr. University Union, the early enough, then it isn't a prob­ and work smartly," Taylor contin­ Dounda Fine Arts Building, the lem." ued, "the United States - the rich­ Tarble Arts Center and south Francis Summers, director of est country in the world - would Seventh Street in the area between student teaching, said nothing has not have 30 million homeless peo­ Hayes Av enue and Garfield changed in the parking situation ple. We would not have to face the Av enue. and the reduction of available park­ problem of hospitals closing in the Melinda Lewis, a secretary in ing during the festival will not inner city." the College of Education, said she change the situation. hopes to get to campus early "There is not enough parking for KAYESHA MOBLEY//Staff photographer She said that in order for society to start thinking critically and enough to find a parking space. people anyway," said Candice L. Tay./01; editor in chief a/ Essence magazine, speaks to a crowd working smarter, the focus should "We've known about it," said Miller, secretary in elementary and evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. not be on politicians but on our­ Schlinsog. "I imagine the universi­ junior high education. rsity Union . The lecture was part of Wo men's History and nessMonth. selves. ty will make exceptions for letting 2A Friday, March Ne 13, 1992 The Dally Eastern Faculty recital set for Sunday THE ORlllllAL By sides of the sax - jazz and classical - will be represent­ StaffSTEVE writer LYSAKER ed. Fagaly said the performance will include "very dif­ A variety of classical and jazz saxophone music will ferent" 20th century classical pieces by French com­ be presented this Sunday at a faculty recital set to begin posers and such jazz pieces as "Will You Still Be at 7:30 p.m. in the Dvorak Concert Hall. Mine" and "PolkaDots and Moon Beams." Professor Sam Fagaly, who is currently in his first Fagaly added he will be joined on the stage by year as an instructor at Eastern, will play classical and David Hobbs, also serving his first year as an Eastern saxophone pieces. Fagaly noted he will play both instructor,who will accompany on the piano for the clas­ jazzthe alto andtenor saxophonesduring the recital. sical works. Jim Pryor, whom Fagaly said is "one of our "The saxophone is a viable instrument and can be best students," will give piano accompaniment to the used for a wide variety of music," Fagaly said. "Both jazz pieces. The recital is free and open to the public.