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Eastern Illinois University The Keep May 1966 5-11-1966 Daily Eastern News: May 11, 1966 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1966_may Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: May 11, 1966" (1966). May. 2. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1966_may/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1966 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in May by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EASTERN NEWS "Tell The Truth and Don't Be Afraid" EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1966 Governors To Meet Here Tuition Waiver Pion, Capitol Budget Due · For Boord Review The Board of ·Governors will tectural work on the present a hold its monthly meeting Sunday partments. on Eastern's campus. The student wives · committee President Quincy Doudna said helping with the planning of this that he expects to present the project" is . considering a sugges followin·g business to the board : tion that the apartments be built as a two story complex rath!lr 1 . The .capital ,budget for the . ·than on one level as the present next biennium. apartments are constructed, the 2. !'reliminary plans for the president said. addition to Coleman Hall. Fire Drill Ousts Ford Co-eds The tuition waiver prop.gsal 3. A recommendation of an was developed by President architectural firm for the pro lihtographer Scott Redfield caught the fair maidens attired _ in curlers and p.j.s Doudna at the request of the . posed married student apart co-eds off guard at their 11 :45 trooped outside armed with fire-fighting towels Presidents' Council, which is lall ments. *HI Thursday night. Led by new and warm coats for protection against the cool made up of the chief adminis 4. A proposal for tuition waiv trators of the colleges and uni ent Barb Fields, Paris sophomore, night air and local wolves. ers for talented students at· each versities under the jurisdiction of the .schools under the board. of the Board of Governors. The president said -that if the THE PRESIDENT ·said that · he will have the capital budget board accepts the proposal, 280 Booth; ready for the meeting, but spec tuition waivers would be granted ,100 US Grant Okayed; FOr of ulated that it may not be· con to each school; regardless sidere.d at that time due to the· size, for students who have tal board's heavy .schedule.. ents in various extra curricular activities. ruction Expected To Start In. f Qll , He said that he is working on • • > J .. a six year. program '.of capital PRESIDENT DOUDNA anti long.awai ted federal tar.get dates for bids on the pro • ficulty if the need ever arises. needs, but that it has not ye.t ( Continued on page 10) · e construction of ject. He exp ressed. 'hopes that ·Roscoe Schaupp, director of been determined •what parts of 'brary ann ex was ap construction would be started be the library, said that the addi the program will be asked for week. fore bad weather sets in this fall. tion will increase the book stack in the next biennium. Doudna High School Press The grant is the largest ever · capacity from the present 140,000 commented that a final decision 00 grant was ·expect . volume . capacity to 555,400 vol- would not be made until just be blfl, approval had received by Eastern from the Group Forms Here -umes. fore the meeting. in 'Washington, un federal government and the only An eastern and central Illinois when Senator Paul one awarded for construction The addition, measuring ap A student committee work high school press association will .) announced that purposes. It will cover a}lpro.xi . proximately 200 by 150 feet, will ing on the planning of Coleman be formed Saturday on the cam lducation and W el mately one-third of the cost Of . be constructed on the south side Hall will meet with the Board to $2,013,100 pus. nt grant had been the project. of the present library in the area present its plans. One of the Included in the cost is $150,000 that is now occupied by the Booth modifications that the committee A number of area high school for moveable equipment which .{larking lot. has suggested is the addition of publications advisers and editors will allow the stacks in the li a study area that students would of yearbooks and newspapers < STRUC will in- brary addition, which are to be THE TURE be able to use between classes. will meet to form the associatio11. lu e three floors plus an inter ' open, .to be .closed with little dif- . e d Such a facility has been lacking Sessions on editing of annuals . mediate stack floor. The upper in Coleman. and papers will be held. Critiques two floors will include open shelf of the high school publications By 6 Votes reading rooms. Seating capacity DOUDNA SAiD that he will will also be given . in the overall project will be in recommend Livergood; Caldwell B. F. Engleman, editor of the creased by approximately 800 and Associates to design the mar Decatur Herald and Review, will seats, Schaupp said. ried student apartments. This is address the group on "Journalism Reapportionment ·Try Fails·· The federal grant was author the same firm that did the archi- as a· Career." ized by the Higher Education Senate reapportion THE MEASURE needed a Facilities. Act of 1963. Applica up for a vote in the three-fourths majority �31 votes) tion for the grant was made last day for the third of the senate in order to put it October. 'Object d' Art' the beginning of before the students in an all Plans drawn by the architect t fall and was defeat. school election. The amendment ural-engineering firm of Gilbert was defeated by·a margin of third time. A. Johnson, Kile, Seehausen and seven votes : 24 for, six agains.t, Associates, Inc., of Rockford, two abstentions and nine ab- were approved last fall by the sences. · Board of Governors. After the amendment was de .Further planning since that feated the senate voted to es time .has been delayed pending tablish a committee to start work approval of the government on another reapportionment plan. funds, President Doudna said. Several senators who had served on such a ·committee in the past expressed opposition becaus� 5 ,O'Clock Studies they claimed, all alternatives· l'lad been investigated. Co-eds' '·Chaos' Forrester then recommended that the senate appoint some "Chaos and Cockroaches" is non-partisan group to devise a the title of today's Five O'Clock IJlctures for the 1967 reapportionment plan that would. Theatre performance in the Fine will be taken this week be binding on the senate. This Arts Theatre. m. to 7 p.m. today measure was defeated. The play involves three college Jfiday in the basement co-eds and their frantic prepar Hall, according to Jan SOME CONCERN was ex ation for a forgotten date. The a.naging editor. pressed in the senate over Presi · play was written and directed Jaave been sent appoint dent ·Quincy Doudna's comment -by Jerri Straka, senior from lhe said. If any one can that he would take steps to have ·Granite City. E. Glendon Gabbard, chairman of the Theatre Arts Depart· his appointment or the senate reapportioned if it was The cast includes Kathy Oros, t one, he should come not able to devise a plan of its .Granite City ·junior; Janice 'ment, attempts to explain the aesthetic: values of an art piece to a own. Townsley, Granite City fresh young enthusiast at the outdoor art display during Fine Arts The president, however, said man; and Alana Demuth, Mt. Week. The youngster, it seems, had .the-.mistctke� �a the "objed (Continued on page 8) Pulaski junior. d'art" was an egg beater. (photo by Scott Redfield) � ·'' , . 1 ·: - •. s • · - , -·; 'iTI t.-['1 '�t..- t .. 1!l,.l..l i�ms111v• .,,.. .. .,,111 - I"!--!· H:ttNOIS Page Two Eastern News -EDITORIAL COMMENT- I . ciency at Eastern. In the case of reapportio� Defeat By Inches.�. ment no one has ever been able to predict who would be for or against a particular plan at any given time. Baseball has been described as a "game The solution to 'reapportionment lies. not of inches." This description can also be ap in devising a better plan, but in breaking. the plied to the reapportionment game that the hard shell of conservatism in the senate. The Student Senate has been playing. first step would be to change the amending After literally years of trying, a reappor requirement from three-fourths to two-tfWds.. tionment plan came within inches of passing second step wo ld be for the'"senate the Senate last week, only to be defeated not The � to realize the fact that no matter how hard by the votes that were cast against it, but by they look, they will not be able to find a "per votes that were never cast .at all. fect" reapportionment. They must be broad that a plan had been put IT APPEARED minded enough to accept something less than forth which would satisfy all factions in the perfect, for the good of student government senate. Dormitories were to be allowed rep at Eastern. resentation according to population. Everyone seemed agreed that this would be a healthy development, visualizing hotly contested cam paigns between Greeks and independents liv Pass Wa.iver Plan • • • ing in the dorms for the senate seats.