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Eastern Illinois University The Keep November 1987 11-5-1987 Daily Eastern News: November 05, 1987 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_nov Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: November 05, 1987" (1987). November. 4. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_nov/4 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1987 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in November by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. · - The Daily Thursday, November 5. 1987 ' ...will be partly sunny and coJder with the high in the upper 40s. Thursday night will be fair and cold with the low in the upper 30s. Univer tern Illinsternois sity I Charleston, Ill. 61920 I Vol. 73, News No. 52 I Two Sections, 20 Pages center model at poll may violate elections decide. I get involved when it Student Senate Speaker elections. that would be a "direct concerns policy. this doesn't Denise Wasetis said that the. Elections Committee Chair violation" of election rules. on raised about concern policy," Williams said. drawings and models would Lori Lockman said that the Wasetis conceded that she election rules The drawings and models in serve as an informing tool to issue is too "controversial" and could understand why there concerning having a question are of the student the students, "The student that alternate locations should would be a question, but she drawings present at recreation center to be voted on need to see what "they are be explored. also said, "As far as I am · g places when by the students Nov. li. The voting on," Wasetis said. Wasetis and Lockman agreed concerned, it would be ..a vote has yet to be building will be funded by an "I hope we can have them that the issue is strictly a misfortune for the students if Vice-President for increase of student fees by $75 (drawings and models) there. matter of interpretation, and they are not allowed to view Affairs Glenn per semester. Having them there says to the that the decision would be left the drawings and models." said. The drawings and models are , student,, 'This is the Rec up to the election judges. "The students are intelligent said that it is a to be set up this weekend and Center. - Do you want it?" During Wednesday night's people and they can make an matter," and he will the problem is that questions Wasetis said. Student Senate meeting, Board intelligent decision," Williams dent Senate decide were raised whether or not this Student Body President Deb of Governors Representative said. He also said that he would would constitute campaigning Camren has also voiced her Mike Riordan said that the like the matter cleared up as if they are left up during the support for leaving the drawings were not meant to be soon as possible, "We don't elections. drawings during the . campaign tools. If they were want_ to break any rules." !!--��---. Wording of rec center· refBy JEFF MADSEN erenduni approvedmonies generated from the tuition Staff writer increase would go towards hiring part The Student Senate approved a time instructors to teach the overflow resolution Wednesday evening for the in classes that resulted from faculty wording of the Lantz recreational wage freezes. _ facility addition referendum that The second priority, he said, was the students will vote on at the polls on purchase of desperately needed in Nov. 11. structional equipment (i.e., m'icrosp The referendum will ask students copes and overhead projectors) for 'whether or not they support a $75 per classroom instruction. semester activity fee increl!se to The third priority for the tuition finance the newly proposed recreation monies will be the purchase of general center. office commodities (i.e., pencils and Vice President for Student Affairs paper clips). Glenn Williams, who spoke to the Elections committee .chair Lori senate Wednesday, said if the students Lockman told senate members there did not support the activity fee hike, are 30 candidates vying for the 16 the only other way to finance the senate seats that will be up for election project was through a student levy. on Nov. 10. Of the 30 candidates, Williams went on to say that if the Lockman said 14 were vying for at students supported th,e project, Eastern large senate seats, seven were cam President Stanley Rives and the Board paigning for residence hall seats, and of Governors, Eastern's governing nine candidates for off-campus senate body, would also most likely support positions. Lockman also said there were the project. three individual political parties in "If the students say 'yes,' both volved in the fall election. ' President Rives and the Board of The senate also approved three Governors are likely to side with the revisions to the student conduct code students. However, Williams also submitted by Student Senator Bill warned that if the student body Helmbacher. disapproved of the project, the issue The first change, would require that would be scrapped entirely. at least three of the members sitting in In other business, BOG repr.esenative on a hearing quorum be students and Michael Riordan explained to the that at least one be a faculty member. senate how the $96 tuition increase the The second revision would allow , up, and away BOG approved on Oct. 22 would be judicial hearings to be open to anyone Senior finance major Gary Lenz and Jennifer Andrews, a freshman music distributed. unless specifically stated by the judicial blow bubbles outside Doudna Fine ArtsCenter Wednesday. · r, Riordan said the first priority for the board. ad students diff�r over resolution to purchase books he said. political science student. "So we have pensive, and graduate students don't "I whole-heartedly agree with the dated materials." have much money to spend on books. graduate students supported a idea of buying books," Butler said. He She said professors don't use all the He said buying books while in college tion by the Faculty Senate that said he has to buy the books anyway books they keep in their libraries. "I'm · is a good idea "because life is a long require graduate students to buy because he needs them for future not saying the books aren't good from a term investment." textbooks on the basis that reference. "I have no problem with historical perspective, but it's hard on Faculty Senator Andrew McNitt al libraries are needed, while buying books." us." proposed the resolution. Senators said contend students should have But other students disagreed saying "I think it's a splendid idea," said Phil it would help build ·libraries for the ice. some of the books become outdated Alalibo, a political science graduate students. Butler, a graduate political quickly. student. "For the people who want to "He (McNitt) is trying to force student, said he thinks it is ''To me, if we are graduate students have a career in the teaching field, It is libraries on people," said Roger for graduate students to have to and we are expected to go to law school absolutely necessary to have books Wooten, a senior political science books. "I never considered this a or Ph.D. work, by the time we get out, from your graduate classes as a point of major, who hopes to go to graduate "versity, because it had this those books are going to be :our years reference." (See GRADS, page 5A) university book rental system," old," said Jana Raymond, a gr��uate But he added the books are ex- e: ining and Entertainment Guide has La Carte, more 2A Thursd�y. November 5, 1 987 The Dall Eastern Ne Associated Press FBI busts Miami-based drug ring State/Nation/World r thought l�rgest in the _nation Reagan: Pact won't damage duty to be WASHINGTON-President Reagan vowed Wednesday MIAMI (AP)-Federal agents Cartel, the Colombia-based drug Miami FBI office. will not that a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union have smashed the nation's smuggling organizati on During that period, the · undercut the U.S. commitment to the secutity of Europe, .largest, most sophisticated drug responsible for 80 percent of U.S. hauled 20,000 pounds of coc · 300,000 troops abroad • saying the stationing of American transport ring, which used cocaine imports, to haul cocaine in 19 shipments, in addition and "our steadfast nuclear guarantee underscore this spotter planes, infrared beacons from Colombia to the United four relatively small mariju - pledge." · and decoy plane pas�ngers States, investigators said. shipments, officials said. Reagan also said it was "totally unacceptable" for the . called "cover girls" to avoid "This was, the largest tran- Loads of cocaine flown out Soviet Union to try to link reductions in globe-girdling detection, authorities said sportation network used by the Colombia were . dropped strategic nuclear weapons to restrictions on his "Star Wars'' Wednesday. Medellin Cartel between 1982 Bahamian waters for la missile defense plan. The Miami-based ring was and 1986," said Bill Perry, acting pickup by boats. contracted by the Medellin special agent i charge of the Iranians stage anti-U.S� march · � NICOSIA, Cyprus-Iran said millions marched in its cities Wednesday, chanting "Death to America!" on the eighth U.S. Army defector leaves ·Russia anniversary of the day a mob stormed the U.S. Embassy and FRANKFURT, West Germany Union but did not know if he be charged with desertion. 'seized hostages, who spent 444 days in captivity. (AP)-A U.S. Army private who would be going to the United "I have a piece of paper f Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the parliament, declared defected the Soviet Union States .