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Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 1991 3-1-1991 Daily Eastern News: March 01, 1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 01, 1991" (1991). March. 1. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_mar/1 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 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]. Dealing with something everyone faces. Page 7A Iraq accepts conditions of peace plan Kuwaitis, Americans joyous Professors predict peace DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) announced a cease-fire in the Gulf - From the Euphrates to the Persian War, Iraq gave in to the coalition's will bolster Bush's popularity Gulf, U.S. and allied troops held ·conditions for suspending military By LAURA DURNELL theirfire along a smoldering battle action after making several previ Features editor • A local group plans front Thursday, weary, muddy but ous peace offers that the allies con victorious in a lightning war that sidered unacceptable. services Friday for war It looks like George Bush might freed Kuwait and humbled Iraq. As a cease-fire dawned on the dead. Page 3A • Kuwait says Iraq still have made his niche in history. Statesmen began what President . 43rd day of the conflict, American holding some civilians, At least, that's what one political • Guns sales on the rise Bush called "the difficult task" of paratrooper David Hochins had a POWs. Page 6A science professor speculates. even as the war winds securing the peace, and ordinary warm vision of peace: "My girl An economics instructor, howev down. Page SA soldiers began a new countdown - friend, good friends and good • Allied and U.S. troop er, believes the president's populari forthe trip home. times." In Kuwait, meanwhile, they pullout will likely take ty will fall now that the Persian "He looks to become extremely And at the United Nations, U.N. began a sorrowful task, an account some time. Page 6A Gulf War has ended and domestic popular and should be for what he Secretary-General Javier Perez de ing of atrocity. problems come back into American accomplished in a short period of Cuellar sai he hoped Iraq's promise The return of Kuwaiti detainees Thursday it might resume the forefront. time and with the number of low to the United Nations that it would was one demand set out by offensive against the Iraqi military Abdul Laieef, a professor of casualties," Lateef said. "It looks honor all 12 Security Council reso President Bush in declaring the if Baghdad does not meet all the political science, said Thursday he like he will be (popular) for some lutions dealing with the Persian cease-fire for midnight EST conditions, which also include the believes with no doubt that time." Gulf crisiswould be "the beginning We dnesday - 8 a.m. Thursday in "immediate" release of U.S. and President Bush's popularity will However, Mark Weisbrot, eco- of the end of this terrible tragedy." the gulf. allied prisoners of war. Iraq said it rise as a result of his cease-.frre dec Ho urs after President Bush The United States warned would return the prisoners. laration We dnesday. •Continued on page 2A Rives denies Faculty Senate a voice on core curriculum By STUART TA RT Eastern's administration. Staff writer During a regular meeting of CAA Thursday, Rives reiterated his position that Eastern President Stan Rives told the the proper place for consideration of the new Council on Academic Affairs Thursday that general education program is in the CAA. He he would not pass the proposed general edu said he "will not allow external determination cation program on to Ea stern's Faculty of our curriculum," nor will he place the pro Senate for review. gram before the Faculty Senate. Rives said the decision on how and whether "I will not allow politicization of the cur to revise the components of the core he riculum review process," he told the council. returnedto CAA Feb. 20 rests with that body. In a Feb. 20 letter to Faculty Senate And the council decided to draft a letter to Chair David Carpenter, Rives pointed out the Faculty Senate disagreeing with their that the CAA "is a standing committee of charges that problems with the current gener the faculty, not a subcommittee of the al education proposal are the result of a lack of communication beiween the council and " Continued on page 2A State Hum·an Rights department gets third complaint on university By CAM SIMPSON human rights department against Eastern, Senior reporter said Vic Battles, a spokesman for the depart ment. The husband of an Eastern faculty member In addition to Laribee and his wife, who has filed an unperfected charge against Janet Francis-Laribee, a third person also the university with the Illinois Department of has filed a charge against Eastern with Human Rights has filed a charge of his own, the department. However, Th e Daily a spokesman in the department said Eastern News could not learn the name THOM RAKESTRAW/Photo editor Thursday. of the third person Thursday. Battles said Stephen F. Laribee, an accounting instruc he legally could only confirm or deny Imminent impact tor in the Lumpkin College of Business, has Freshman Tom Fox hammers a line drive during a pick-up game of baseball near the also filed an "unperfected charge" with the 4' Continued on page 2A campus pond Thursday afternoon. ByEastern JEFF MADSEN asksmissioned byBOG the BOO to investi to make nepotismChancellor," Rives said. probe "It is not Thursday. public Editor in chief gate charges of nepotism in the my authority." The Dunn report questions October hiring of Scott Walker. The Stanczak Report also inves Eastern administration's handling Eastern President Stan Rives Walker is the son of Vice President ... this is a report that tigated 25 questionable hirings of a harassment dispute between Thursday petitioned to the Board of for Business Affairs Verna under Armstrong's jurisdiction that Janet Francis-Laribee, a computer Governors that the Stanczak Armstrong and was hired to a should be released ... were raised by Eastern 's Faculty and operations management Report, a probe of allegations of $32,700 assistant director for plan Stan Rives Senate last faH. The Faculty Senate instructor and Efraim Turban, a unethical hiring practices and nepo ning and institutional research post Eastern President has been adamant about Rives distinguished professor in the tism under a university vice presi and would have been a direct sub making the report public. Lumpkin College of Business. It dent, be released to the public. ordinate to his mother. Early this "While the president is at it, he was filed by William Dunn, a Rives made the request in a month, Rives transferred the office may also request that he share the Bloomington attorney who works response to a campus-wide demand of planning and budgeting away included in the Stanczak Report. Dunn report with the entire com for the same firm as Stanczak. to see the "confidential," 70-page fromArmstrong and to his jurisdic "I've tried to make it clear to the munity and tell us much that cost The two investigations are related report filed by Bloomington attor tion. Rives said he made the trans Board of Governors this is a report the university," Faculty Senate ney David Stanczak, who was com- fer in response to recommendations that should be released by the Chair David Carpenter said �Continued on page 2A 2A Friday, March 1, 1991 The Dally Eastern News · Charleston woman killed Crowd attacks cultural misconceptions By SYLVIA BRATCHER National Pan-Hellenic, other repre concerns and feelings. Some stu in automobile accident Staff writer sentatives of the greek systems and dents cited the greek system as By CANDICE HOFFMAN Chevrolet, was killed after fail thefaculty. adding to the segregation among Staff writer ing to stop at a stop sign at 1500 More than 80 students assem The discussion focused on pro the student body. Still others main East County Road. Swango's bled in Coleman Hall auditorium moting cultural adhesiveness and tained the segregation caused by A Charleston woman was automobile apparently collided Thursday evening to attempt to dis clearing up some of the misunder greek fraternities and sororities was killed and another injured Thurs with another car of Lorie A. solve some of the misconceptions standings the different groups on just another misconception, and not day evening on a county road Haga, 26, driving westbound on about students of different races campus may have about each a real deterrent to establishing cul- north of the city, the Illinois State 1500 North County Road in a andcultures that exist on campus. other. tural diversity. Police said. _ 1987 GMC truck. The forum was sponsored by "If everybody can understand "College is supposed to be the Betty J. Swango, 65, was pro Haga was taken to the Sarah National Pan-Hellenic Council another person's culture then they time when you establish yourself nounced dead at the scene one Bush Lincoln Health Center, (NPHC), Interfraternity Council will be able to better relate to that as an individual," Qualls said. mile west of Illinois Route 130 where she was listed in fair con (IFC), the Pan-Hellenic Council person," said NPHC representative "You must establish your own ide on 1500 North County Road at dition Thursday night, said nurs and Learning by Education to Tracie Ward said. als from college life, instead of 5:36 p.m., said Coles County ing supervisor Letha Showalter.