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Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1985 2-22-1985 Daily Eastern News: February 22, 1985 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 22, 1985" (1985). February. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_feb/14 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1985 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Daily . -Friday, February 22, 1985 . will be rainy with the possibility of a thunderstorm in the tate afternoon. Friday night will be foggy with a chance of rain and lows in the 40s. It will be cloudy Saturday with a 60 percent astern News chance of showers and highs in the low50s. •-•Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 61920 I Vol. 70, No. 109 I Two Sections, 24 Pages ••••••••••••••••••• BOG O·Ks hike of 5 percent in fall tuition by Lori Edwards DailyEastern News correspondent CHICAGO-As expected, the Board of Gover nors Thursday approved a 5 percent tuition increase for all institutions in the BOG system. On y one member, R obert uiz, voted against the _tuition increase which will affect Eastern, Western Illinois University, Northeastern Illinois Universitv Governors State University and Chicago University. Stai� BOG member Dominick Bufalino said the tuition See how Eastern fared on page 9 increase is "not desirable, but necessary." "This is a choice for the future," Bufalino said. "It will keep the doors of our institutions open and give new generations a system that is functioning well. We must go forward and therefore beyond." Eastern President Stanley Rives said the tuition in crease, to go into effect fall 1985, will yield $450 000 ' ashman_ Mary Baumgartner (left) and nesday's war.mer weather to play catch in the in additional revenue forEaster n. Full-time, on-campus students will p y $27 more omore Lori Bernhard take advantage of Wed- South Quad. (News photo by Lisa H�ffert) per semester as a result of the increase. Tuitiona levels will be $1,020 for lower division undergraduates, · $1,068 for upper division and $1,152 for graduate , students. G schools deal with asbestos; Based on a BOG cost study, R ives said a reduction in education funding combined with no tuition in crease "would do harm to the quality of academic programs myoblem Zurawski not confined to.buildiEasternngs. at my university." her Board of Governors '' In Chicago State's case, the sur Rives and BOG Executive Director Tom Layzell vey, which cost $3,500 to com agreed that small tuition increases each year are bet- Is,· besides Eastern, have ; We will feel better · action on what has become plete, did not recommend ter than "massive" increases after several years. wing problem for the system: when it is gone. removal of the asbestos. The However Ruiz said, "Making a bitter pill smaller · g carcinogenic asbestos in university has decided to do it does not make it easier to swallow. I oppose a tuition anyway. increase." us buildings. -Richard Katscheke icago State University, Nor Although Ayers said he was not But Layzell said the tuition increase is needed and tern University have both Northeastern official sure what the remodeling would added that action should be taken "now." leted professional asbestos cost, he said "a great deal of "We need to give our students as much advance ys, and Wes tern Illinois money is going to be spent to rid notice as possible. Delaying the decision won't help ersity has requested $67 ,000 ------ the areas of the asbestos. matters. It will only make it more difficult for '' students to plan whether a similar survey. "The people who work in the th, ey will attend a BOG in- 'chard Katscheke, Nor Katscheke said Northwestern will buildings would only be in stitution," he sai�. tern's director of university request_ "about $3 million" in danger, accqrding to the report, if Aaron Shepley, Eastern's student BOG represen ions, �aid a professional con- their FY '87 budget for the construction was done in -the areas tative, read the BOG a proposal from Eastern's 'ng firm surveyed Nor . renovatic:in of the areas containing or the ceilings were distrubed in student government which supported a 5 percent in tern's 13 buildings and asbestos. some away allowing the asbstos to crease, but nothing greater. d asbestos in several places. "We will feel better when it is fall freely," he added. "The students of our school will never willingly ac thoµgh the exact results of air gone," he added. "Just because Leslie Malpass, Western Illinois cept a tuition increase. J-Iowever, being the rational pies were not available, Kat their is a potential health hazard University president, asked the beings that we are, if we have to have one, 5 percent e said a Chicago firm found to our students and faculty, we board for $67 ,000 to conduct the · is what we'd accept." . largest amount of asbestos in want to have the problem taken survey. But Shepley also said, "Our student government is yed-on ceiling paint in cam care of as soon as possible.'' BOG Executive Difector currently under fire for not adequately reflecting the buildings built in 1 960. Although Katshceke said Nor Thomas Layzell said the asbestos students' opinion." hey found asbestos made up thwestern officials are concerned findings are "fairly serious In recommending the increase to the board, rcent of the compounds in with the harm asbestos could problems" but added that no im Layzell said two student-based issues-access and danger has been iden quality-need tO be balanced. ceiling paint in the orginal cause, he noted no plans have mediate · ings," he added, noting that been made to provide medical tified at any BOG schools. He said the 5 percent increase reflects a fair and er amounts of asbestos were examinations for people who Air samples taken about eight equitable tuition level, adding that other systems are d _in pipe-joint compounds come into contact with the cancer months ago at. Eastern by a (See TUITION, page 9) , science building equipment. causing substance. Taylorville firm revealed .3 of a a related action stemming The same Chicago firm which 5.0 micrometer of asbestos fibers the survey's findings, Nor conducted Northeastern's survey per cubic centimeter of air in the Inside tern University has filed' a surveyed Chicago State Univer Union's Grand Ballroom, .1 in I million claim in the nation sity's buildings and came up with the Physcial Plant and .01 in the Mayoral battle bankruptcy case - of the similar conclusions. Con Life Science Building. Two mayoral candidates, Clancy Pfeiffer and -Manville Coorperation, a sequently, the university is seeking Marion "Jake" Zane, acting Jack Turner, tell what they plan to change and im supplier of the materials removal of the asbestos. vice president for administration prove if elected mayor of Charleston. taining asbestos. George Ayers, Chicago State and finance, has said Eastern's seepage& We realize we are on the long University president, said surveys asbestos levels are ''well within of people who are waiting to revealed asbestos in sprayed-on the safe levels established by the Western wins -70-69 've money from the banruptcy ceiling paint in several campus Environmental Protection Agen- The Leathernecks took sole possession of . We really don't expect we buildings. second P�';� in the Association of Mid-�,.�·· get the money we are asking Ayers, who was at the BOG _ g _ verysoon ," he added. - meeting all day, was unable to 8 � rtt.J.o�Q ��o use the survy suggested provide specific levels of asbestos -.." t:7t�pnu oval of the asbestos materials, contamination in Chicago State's - 1 . Friday, Fe bruary22, 1985 Associated Press Reagan holds news conference, State/Nation/World defends farming, budget policies AIDS Clotting agent may carry WASHINGTON (AP)-President Reagan was agricultural programs have not worked CHICAGO-Hemophiliacs who develop AIDS or AIDS expected to face questions Thursday about the wants to return the "farm economy into the like abnormalities in their immune systems apparently are plight of the nation's farmers, some in marketplace. " stricken by an agent-probably a virus-carried by-a clot flammatory remarks by his budget director and He said he plans to retain his controv ting substance, new· research indicates. recently announced plans to slash domestic spen budget director, David Stockman, who an The findings apparently eliminate a theory that immune ding at the first news conference of his second embattled farmers by questioning their ri abnormalities that develop into AIDS are caused by the clot term. government bailouts. "I can understand a� ting substance itself, rather than by a agent conveyed by the In that time, Reagan was inaugurated for a blowing his cool," Reagan said of Stock substance, said Dr. Bruce Evatt, one of the researchers who second term and proposed a fiscal 1986 budget Asked if he wanted Stockman to stay on the published their findings in Friday's -Journal of the American calling for sweeping cuts in federat spending for Reagan said yes. on. Medical Associati nearly everything but defense and elimination of At the first news conference of his second Evatt said in a telephone interview that the JAMA study some well-entrenched programs, including the in office, Reagan also said his goal in Ni indicates whatever causes AIDS, or Acquired Immune Small Business Administration and the national is to remove the Sandinista government "i De(iciency Syndrome, is carried by the clotting substance, .