Faculty Reaches Tentative Agreement C by CAM SIMPSON Varying Levels - to Fa Ulty Members, According a Statement Cent Equity Increase, Ozier Said
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1990 9-28-1990 Daily Eastern News: September 28, 1990 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 28, 1990" (1990). September. 19. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_sep/19 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1990 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]. Faculty reaches tentative agreement c By CAM SIMPSON varying levels - to fa ulty members, according a statement cent equity increase, Ozier said. The two other increments Senior reporter issued by the BOG. The BOG is the representative and gov forfac ulty in between are 1 percent and 1.25 percent. erning bodyfor Eastern and four otherstate schools. "The primary inequity that we are trying to address right After months of negotiation, Eastern's faculty union and The equity variations would be based on the amount of now is (salary) compression," Ozier said. "And this is a the Board of Governors have reached a tentative agree time a faculty member has been at Eastern, according to small step in the right direction." ment on a pay package that includes a 2 percent salary Ozier and the BOG statement. All other increment levels - including those awarded for hike for teachers. The varying increments are aimed at alleviating "salary faculty excellence, promotions and the gaining of degrees The tentative deal was announced Thursday and faculty compression," a phenomenon that occurs when newly - will remain at the same levels that were contained in last members are expected to vote on the pay package next week. hired faculty are payed at levels comparable or above year's pay clause. "It's a decent contract at a time when we were approved those who have been teaching for several years. Salary The pay clause of Eastern's faculty contract expired on so few dollars (by the state)," said Jayne Ozier, an Eastern compression has been cited by administrators and faculty Aug. 31. They have been teaching under the terms of the home economics professor who was head of the University alike as one of the most serious and frustrating problems old agreement for almost a month. Professionals of Illinois negotiating team. with Eastern's current pay structure. The remainder of the contract will stay in effect until When asked if she was "happy" with the agreement, Ozier Those who have been at Eastern the longest would next year. said, "happy is the wrong word. I would say that I'm satis receive a maximum equity increment of 1.5 percent. mean The state appropriated 1.9 percent for faculty pay increases fied." ing the largest total raise under the tentative agreement in the BOGthis year. In past years, finalaverage pay increas The contract will give faculty a 2 percent boost across the would equal a 3.5 percent boost. es have been negotiated to more than 4 percent above the board. It will also give additional "equity increments'" - at The newest faculty members would receive a .75 per- state appropriated levels. Charleston remembers soldiers Big Thursday leaves blood More than 200 goal in reach attend Iraq vigil By CATHY BEHRENDT By MIKE CHAMBERS Staff writer Staff writer The Red Cross collected 424 pints of While tanks line both sides of the Saudi blood Thursday, enjoying its best day of Arabian border and a massing of troops the drive and leaving the organization with create the greatest military buildup since just 197 pints to collect Friday to meet its Vietnam, halfway around the world a week-long goal. group of concerned citizens armed only Although We dnesday 's donations totaled with candles prayed for an alternative to only 278 pints, Thursday's collections bol stered the four-day tally to 1,353 pints. ·West decries threats to "People were lined up at the door before we were even open," said blood drive com diplomats. Page 3A mittee co-chair Kelli Walters. "And after yes terday we didn't expect such a big response." force in the Middle East. "We were more productive today than we About 200 area residents came together even thought possible," another committee Thursday for the candlelight vigil on the member said, "With a good showing on steps of the Coles County Courthouse, Friday, we will at the very least meet our singing hymns and praying for a diplo goal." matic end to a volatile situation. Donors who give blood between 9 a.m. And as the singing rose softly from the and 2 p.m. Friday in the Grand Ballroom of crowd, one by one many of those attend the Martin Luther King Jr. University ing voiced their concerns for their loved Union will get a free cholesterol screening. ones in the Middle East. According to Blood Cross representative "For Allan Smith," someone said over Dave Cline, free cholesterol screenings for the music. the first 200 donors to request the procedure "For Brett Meyer." will give the blood drive an added impetus. "For Bradley Betty." The list went on. "The "free" aspect is kind of neat," Cline And so did the singing, even as said. "In Michigan we had to charge $5 for Roseanne Sanders, one of the vigil's orga the test." nizers, led the group halfway around the "Cholesterol is made up of fatty deposits courthouse. which build up in the walls of arteries," The group made it clear they were not noted Red Cross worker Philip Flake. there to protest acts of aggression or war, "Eventually build-up can cause poor circu though, but simply to do something on a lation, heart attacks and strokes." local level. "It's very important for college kids who "We 're all afraid this thing could end in may not eat all the foods they should to be bloodshed, and we feel so helpless," said concerned about cholesterol levels," Cline Sanders, one of the vigil's organizers. added, "so that or years from now, a But that didn't stop them from doing 30 40 heart attack doesn't reveal the problem." what was within their power, like praying Donors will be given a reading on their with the Rev. Susan Thomas and Dr. cholesterol level while waiting to donate Raymond Calabrese. blood. A reading of less than 200 is good Thomas, minister for the First Pres while a reading of is borderline byterian Church of Charleston, told the 200-239 and one more than is a danger sign. group that in years of recorded his THOM RAKESTRAW/Photo editor 240 "3,500 Among those holding vigil Thursday evening at the Coles County Courthouse is 3-year The test uses the same blood sample used tory only years have) been without (285 old Amos Dillan, whose fa ther provided music fo r the ceremony. to determine donortype and iron count. war. Eight-thousand treaties have been Although free testing may draw donors broken in this time." "It really touches you when you have not rhetoric. on Friday, Thursday's donors needed no Mary Reardon has a grandson, Bradley someone in your own family over there. It "I've had enough of war in my life. I'm such incentives. Betty; serving in the Navy in the Middle really hits home," she said. a disabled veteran from World War II," he "Although one of my friends convinced East. There were those on hand who knew said. "That's what this thing is for. It's not me to donate today, he wouldn't have been Betty has been stationed overseas for war on a personal level - like Sanders' for politics, it's not for any one church. able to do it if I didn't want to," said junior approximately four weeks. husband, Donald - who relied on faith and • Continued on page 2A Tony Menesis. = Federal budget differences begin-to narrow WA SHINGTON (AP) - White small tax on the energy content of tax would raise the cost of a 500- over the tax has been the key House and congressional neg all fuels and 10 percent taxes on kilowatt-hour monthly electric bill barrier to a budget deal. otiators narrowed differences luxury items ranging from fancy for a small home by about 4 cents. Capital gains - the profits from Thursday over their budget cars to electronic equipment, said If successful before Monday, the the sale of assets such as corporate problems with reported agree one official who asked not to be bargainers would allow the stock or houses - are now taxed ments on energy and luxury taxes identified. government to sidestep $85 billion like ordinary income. and cuts in benefit programs. But The federal gasoline tax is now in spending cuts that the law But Democrats seemed un key disputes remained to block a 9 cents per gallon. States add would otherwise require. The certain about whether in return. deal that would avoid bone-deep additional taxes on top of that. slashes would result in furloughs they would demand higher income cuts in federal programs on The energy .tax would be three for many of the 2. 1 million federal tax rates on the wealthy or a limit Monday. quarters of a cent per million BTU, civilian workers, including FBI on the tax deductions the well-to The two sides, racing the a measure of energy. It takes about agents and air traffic controllers. do could take, said officials who calendar, swapped offers into the eight or nine gallons of gasoline to Republicans were willing to asked not to be identified.