Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1988 4-22-1988 Daily Eastern News: April 22, 1988 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 22, 1988" (1988). April. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_apr/15 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1988 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]. Series defended by CAA By CRAIG EDWARDS Administration editor The Council on Academic Affairs passed a resolution Thursday requesting the Board of Governors to reconsider its · decision which del).ied WEIU­ TV the right to show The Untouchables. CAA member· Jeffrey Lynch proposed the resolution which was drafted from a . similar resolution passed by the Faculty Senate on Tuesday. The resolution states that the board members "offered no valid reason for voting against the request . to purchase and show The Untouchables on WEIU-TV." Eastern President Stan Rives included the $23,650 television film license agreement for The Untouchables in his April purchase requests. Although funding for the program would have come from a community service grant, the BOG must approve all university ex­ ha Gamma Delta sorority makes their own tie-die t-shirts formal dance. OfmditurP.R of $10,000 or more. in the Craft Depot for their upcoming "Grateful Garn" in- . dicial A'ffair s investigating rugby incident Smilgius has refused to comment the behavioral factions," Kohanzo said. (Charleston) police came forth as further on the situation. "We can possibly get involvLd; a witnesses," Kohanzo said. 's Judicial Affairs Office is Keith Kohanzo, Eastern judicial complaint doesn't have to (be filed) for Kohanzo explained the Judicial ting an alleged incident in affairs hearing officer, said, 'We are us to get involved," Kohanzo said. ''It is Affairs Office has the responsibility Eastern female student said looking into the situation, and we are not require<.. for the victim to be the and right to look into any event that subjected to verbal and interested.We will follow up c;,1it. accuser. She might be invited to be a involves a student in a violation of sexual harrassment at a party ' 'We will do some investigating, I witness or a written statement might conduct codes. by the university's rugby suppose . (The investigation) is be emissible." However, a Judicial Affairs Office a game last Saturday. confidential, even though the incident Kohanzo compared the current in­ investigation of the alleged incident at Amy Smilgius said in a letter is a public matter," Kohanzo said. cident to a case last semester which the Rugby Club party, would seem out torprinted Wednesday in The The incident is being investigated by resulted in the suspension of Eastern of characterfor Eastern's judicial body. tern News that she was the Judicial Affairs Office even though student Terry Zeman. The Judicial Regarding off-campus incidents, during the club's "Alouette" it occured at a private residence and the Board suspended Zeman for one year Kohanzo said, 'We only get involved in partyat 406 Jackson Ave. Rugby Club is recognized, but not after it determined he had violated serious matters such as dealing with a further stated in the letter sponsored, by the university. After state, federal ot municipal laws, which student dealing drugs. If the student is ' g the ritual, a randornly­ completing its investigation, the can result in suspension according to dealing in the community, they are girl is "forced on a guy's Judicial Affairs Office will recommend Eastern's Student Conduct Code. probably dealing drugs on campus. , verbally harrassed with whether the Judicial Board should take However, the suspension occured "We draw a line if there is a serious arities, beer is thrown at her furtheraction . before Zeman pleaded guilty to a mob nature, as in the case of Terry Zeman," · grabbed in personal areas "Eastern's rugby club is not a action charge in a Coles County Court. he added. "We chose to deal with that. that no guy has the right to university-sponsored activity, but it ''In the Zeman case there were no "The question now is if the the in­ " doesn't mean we can't get involved in students who complained, and the (See JUDICIAL, page 5A) ing student elections bring out meager 770 voters The executive races are held in the spring elections. Riordan said, after the election Wednesday, his Students came out in large numbers (2,423) last fall party was "strategically" assembled. By recruiting Wednesday's Student Government to vote down the proposed recreation center electable senators with name recognition he said these drew only a meager 770 voters, the voter referendum, and voted on 17 open senate seats. senators could have caused some of the lack of op­ not the lowest ever. Last spring's elections saw nearly 2,000 students position. votes were cast in the fall of 1985 elec- vote. In the spring of 1986 2,043 students casts votes. He said he started the party before Christmas Camren attributed the low turnout to the lack of break. Body President-elect Mike Riordan competition. ''The pressll_re wasn't on the parties to The number of ballots cast for the senate districts votes to 79 for write-in candidate John make sure people got out and voted." were: spring Riordan got 1,112 votes in the The lack of competition did surprise Camren, "I •Residence Hall-472 ernor's representative race. heard rumors of some people that were planning to •At-Large-7 64 the fall elections have small turnouts, and run, but they just never followed through." •Of£.Campus-4 72 "ons have large turnouts," Student Body Camren defeated Dan Beeman of the Student Party ·"It's hard to say," Camren said about the possibility Deb Camren. "This year was turned and Roger Thomson of. the Voice Party last Spring for· of students losing interest in Student Government, ''I the student presidency. would hate to think there is a downward trend." d about Eastein's ROJC program in The Verge ZA Friday, April 22, 1988 Associated Press ed with State/Nation/World Thirty-one hostages reunit family and friends after hijacking Bankrobbers kill five in Los Mochis ALGIERS (AP)-Thirty-one that Kuwait free 1 7 imprisoned ahead of the. hostages at holding �ore than.40 LOS MOCHIS, Mexico-GuniJ!e!l hostages freed after 15. days terrorists, which Kuwait Wednesday. peopld19stage in:a tried leave the building today, bank to .. aboard a hijacked Kuwaiti jumbo rejected. But there were reports.. KUNA, citing; uni firecfb,ack and wounded one gunman; The but p()lfoe � jet flew to \yaitjng,. families in that Kuwait agreed to. commute Algeri!lp· 8ources;· Said , Croas'said p00ple have . killed and at five . · le�st-15· Kuwait today> Officials in Beirut. the·death sentences: of � of promised �n . mediatqrs thehij · .wouride<l in the 24-hour standoff. denied reportS that the hijackers theprisoners. safe passage to travelt.o Be' "We want to leave now," one of the seven gunman said in found haven in Beirut. Before the hostagesleft aboard Tehran. a telephone call to MexiCo's major morning TV news The 24 passengers and seven a Kuwait Airways Boeing 767, Western diplomats in program, on the private Televisa network. crew members from the Kuwait Kuwaiti official Ahmad Fahd speaking on condition · "We want a helicopter .... They don't want to meet their Airways Boeing 7 4 7 that was said all were found f�t to travel anonymity, said. they agreement," he said, clearly agitated after the shooting. seized April 5 left Algiers airport after medical examinations at the hijackers went to Beirut. "I'm not going to respect anyone anymore.... They started at 3:20 p.m. (12:20 p.m. EDT). the military hospital in Algiers. CBS, without naming to shoot." They were freed Wednesday. Fahd was sent here to oversee the said today that the hijacken Anchonnan Guillermo Ochoa appealed to the gunman to KUNA, Kuwait's official news cns1s. arrived in Beirut. But stay calm. agency, said an official and The nine hijackers, who had airport officials, also s Within minutes, Sinaloa state Gov. Francisco Labastida public reception was planned for killed two Kuwaiti hostages, privately, told The Ochoa was on the line and offered to let the gunmen meet tonight. Most of the former were believed to have left Algeria Press that the hijackers with a committee of Red Cross officials, journalist&, a hostagesare Kuwaiti. after slipping out of the plane arrived. Roman Catholic priest and state police who would The hijackers had demanded guarantee safety and due process of law. The Red Cross volunteered to escort gunmen from the bank, but it was not known whether the offer would be "Normal relationship" with U.S., accepted. Hundreds of police surrounded the Banamex bank in this city of 120,000 on the Gulf of California about 500 miles Soviets unlikely says Reagan south of Tuscon, Ariz. WASHINGTON (AP)-Presid­ iiuclear missiles, signed at the The president said the Gore decides to suspend campaign ent Reagan, five weeks before last U.S.-Soviet summit, before Union can build trust only meeting with Mikhail Gor­ he and the Soviet Communist it stops interfering in WASHINGTON-Sen. Albert Gore Jr. said Thursday he bachev, said today that the Party general secretary meet nations and improves it.s would suspend his campaign for the 1988 Democratic United States and the Soviet May 29 in Moscow. of human rights.