Daily Eastern News: September 22, 1989 Eastern Illinois University
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1989 9-22-1989 Daily Eastern News: September 22, 1989 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 22, 1989" (1989). September. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_sep/15 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1989 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The football Panthers return to the home field to take on Indiana State. From MurmurR.E.M. to Green, the band Page 12A rocks on. Section B irchild seeks governor's office ouche's man Bonjour face Hartigan CAA approves foreign emocratic bid language requirement By PHILLIP LAIRD eign language requirement indi ere were no marching Staff writer cated that except for the College to welcome Mark Fair of Fine Arts, no dean or chair of a to Charleston Thursday The Council on Academic deQartment &IJ\lQOrted the i::eo.1.1.�i:e he announced ·nis candida Affairs voted Thursday to require ment. "We do not have the sup r governor on the Dem students to take a foreign lan port of the faculty on the foreign . ticket. guage course as a general educa language requirement as it's pro Lyndon LaRouche fol tion requirement for graduation. posed," Shank said. from Rockford didn't The CAA adopted the proposal The debate about foreign lan to mind or expect that, after three weeks of heated debate guage requirements results from h, saying "maybe next from faculty, staff, students and findings in the Study of committee members. The issue Undergraduate Education report child, who said he an was called to vote by council that was directed toward improv ed his bid for governor member Larry Bates and it was ing general education at Eastern. six weeks ago, won the approved 8-4. The council also The report claimed that 50.2 per tion forlieutenant gover considered recommendations and cent of the faculty approved the the Democratic ticket in suggestions mailed· by interested foreign language requirement, yet Illinois primary. faculty. testimony before the council indi hild carried only about 9 The requirement will be part of cates that claim is not entirely of the vote in that elec- a new general education curricu accurate. ning without a guberna lum the CAA is currentiy design The report also claims this candidate after Adlai ing. The curriculum must be same level of student support, but n stepped down to run approved by Vice President for Shank read a survey indicating ate party ticket. - Academic Affairs Robert Kind only 16 percent of students while that 9 percent rick, and he will then make a rec small, Fairchild said at a ommendation to Eastern Pres nference at the Coles ident Stan Rives, said Terry Courthouse it gives him Weidner, CAA chair. be hopeful for his bid The discussions and communi race, especially con- I KEN TREVARTHAN/Photo editor 1 cations considered by CAA indi he ran without a run- Mark Fairchild, a Lyndon LaRouche follower and gubernatorial can cate the existence of broad, gen What have heard didate, speaks Th ursday about drug problems at a press conference eral disapproval to the proposal for governor. and expeI rienced hild said if elected, he to announce his candidacy at the Coles County Courthouse. for a foreign language require e out fighting against Fairchild also called for "The collapse of the financial ment. Several faculty members from Fortune 500 , and said ,he applauds strong economic reforms, saying system is ongoing," Fairchild spoke before CAA concerning the companies is that George Bush's stance many aspects of the economy issue. are in a state of collapse. James Quivey, English depart foreign language is + continued on page 2 ment chair, spoke in favor of the nice but not neces requirement only in terms that sary. "needs of the general education of students should outweigh the spe ·r Share comes under fire cific department or professional Ted Ivarie law," Vogel added. college concerns." Quivey said Dean, Lumpkin In a 1988 newsletter to mem the absolute requirement for for non-union faculty members bers of the bargaining unit, Vogel eign language might be better left College of Business said "The principle that non to individual department heads. tionMADSEN legitimacy benefits of asFair union membersShare. The members should pay their fair Ted Ivarie, dean of the most recent bargaining result is share of obtaining and maintain Lumpkin College of Business, an overall 9.94 percent salary ing the benefits of UPI's repre cautioned CAA to weigh the costs nationwide see a necessity for a faculty members who increase negotiated between the sentational activities has been and benefits of general education foreign language requirement. bers of Eastem's fac UPI and the Board of Governors, upheld by the Supreme Court and al needs with the need of a stu The issue in the report is what ' but forced to pay a Eastem's governing body. has been enacted into state law." dent to have access to a broad its authors saw as a need for of their salaries for However, in addition to bar Non-union members pay about area of free electives. "What I cross-cultural studies so students costs under the Fair gaining, monies from Fair Share 84 percent of what regular union have heard and experienced from can be better able to deal with , fear their money participants help finance other members pay in monthly dues, or Fortune 500 companies is that people and businesses from other more than just union expenses, including: payroll more than $300 annually. Union foreign language is nice but not cultures. The faculty, staff and -andit is. taxes, employee benefits, travel dues are 1 percent of a faculty necessary," Ivarie said. students do support a program for Fair Share program, expenses and telephone fees. member's academic year salary "To offera complete profession general education that would stitutional by the In FY 1988, UPI spent in addition to $ 193 in affiliation al curriculum, the professional pro stress cross-cultural studies. , non-union mem $178,491 in Fair Share monies fees. Opponents of the foreign lan gram chairpersons must be able to University Profess for affiliation expenses, $92,425 About 40 percent of the decide if foreign language is neces guage requirement argued that . is, Eastem's facul for salaries, $7 ,659 for payroll monies from non-union members sary to that particular discipline," teaching foreign language will ay a percentage of taxes, $ 10,146 for employee ben go to support the American said Va ughn Jaenike. Jaenike, dean not necessarily teach students salaries to finance efits, $32,561 in travel expenses Federation of Teachers and the cross-cultural issues. y of theCollege of Fine Arts,said the · ·ng costs. and $10,586 in telephone fees. Illinois Federation of Teachers, professional disciplines must meet In other business, CAA mem ulty members have "If they are benefits for all of UPI's national and state affiliates. certainrequirements for profession bers approved the appointment of inst the Fair Share the people in the bargaining unit, "Some of the money does go to al and educational accreditationand Larry Bates to the Committee on heard a beling it as "forced then everyone in the bargaining the American Federation of the freedom to control the educa Academic Computing, ,, Senate unit goes (pays) for that cost," Teachers, but they (non-union tional requirements within any report from the Student the student appoint the fact that almost said UPI President Mitch Vogel. members) are being forced to given discipline must remain with confirming and tabled 's faculty does not "There are some faculty mem contribute to the upkeep of their that chairperson. ments to the council general University Profess bers who consider themselves contract," Vogel said. Kathlene Shank, a CAA mem discussion of a mandatory in critical and linois, they are still experts on the issue, but they "That's what concerns me the ber, reminded the council that the education course the bargaining unit haven't kept up with the issue communications and testimony analytical thinking. the same bargaining and they haven't kept up with the heard by the council on the for- • continued on page 2 2A The Daily Friday, September 22, 1989 Eastern Edwards & Bullwinkel Fairchild Fairchild's economic policies, adhere to LaRouche's, he I which overlap into his foreign is running on the said .. "How•from fastpage will it happen is Dem policy. ticket becau se his beli the question." Standing insiae the courthouse aligned with the Instead of suggesting tax hikes De among a small ring of reporters, constituents, even if UNIV. or cutting back programs, though, Fairchild also focused heavily on leaders of that party. ANOTHER WEDDING?! Yes, it's true! UNIV. caught wind that Fairchild said the economic LaRouche, who he said is a "I think I do repres another wedding, involving an Eastern faculty member and an situation could be corrected by political prisoner. principles the De administrator will be taking place in the near future. Debby providing adequate prices to the LaRouche was· imprisoned Jan. represented in the 1960s; Flack, physical education department instructor, and Dale Wolf, farmers for agricultural products 27, 1989 after he was found guilty after the reforms of '72, Eastern's director of admissions will become an "official" couple .and strengthening what Fairchild of conspiracy charges, although was taken over by ra on Nov. 25. called the infrastructure. By his case is being appealed.