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SNOW SPORTS a high of 39º The Out in INSIDE Daily the cold Eastern Former basketball Eastern Illinois University on the FRIDAY player Charleston, Ill. 61920 December 8,1995 not offered Vol. 81, No. 75 scholarship of the weekEND 16 pages, 2 sections renewal Yards dress up in plastic for News PAGE 12 holiday season SECTION B “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid” Faculty may get .5 percent raise By BETSY COLE Governors ratify an agreement Administration editor providing a mid-year .5 percent salary increase for eligible The first progress from on- bargaining unit members. campus labor negotiations may be Thursday all UPI members seen in a .5 percent retroactive received ballots and vote totals increase to the 4.3 percent raise should be completed by next faculty received for the 1995- Friday, Gosselin said. At 1 p.m. 1996 school year. Tuesday in the Mattoon/- “Our salaries are known to be Charleston Room of the Martin lower than other faculty across Luther King Jr. University Union, the state – every little bit helps,” a ratification meeting for the UPI said Laurent Gosselin, University chapter will be held to allow Professionals of Illinois chapter people to ask questions about the president. settlement. Contract negotiations between “We negotiated in June a salary the UPI and Eastern’s component to the contract which administration could pay off if includes a 4.3 percent overall UPI members and the Board of See FACULTY page 2 Presidents’ critique Blowing in the winds CHET PIOTROWSKI/Photo editor Bernard Borah, an assistant professor in the music department, is the featured guest as the soloist during not presented by BOG the Thursday evening Bassoon Concerto in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. By BETSY COLE presidents just before finishing its Administration editor term. Police to sell spring semester “What would it matter,” she The final Board of Governors said. meeting Thursday was “unevent- Despite the seemingly clim- ful” according to university actic nature a final meeting would parking permits next week officials attending, mostly be- have, some said it was rather By TOM SPILLAN least 100 to 150 spots in the The deadline for mail-in permit cause year-end critiques of BOG routine. Staff writer O’Brien Stadium parking lot are applications is January 5. Permits university presidents were not “It was an uneventful meeting,” also available, he said. are available on campus at the given. said Jason Anselment, student The University Police Depar- “I have never seen the stadium campus police department. The agenda consisted of the body vice president for public tment Monday will begin selling lots full except during a special Osborne said students need not usual approval of the minutes and affairs and Eastern’s student parking permits for spring event,” Osborne said. worry if they miss the mail-in reports from the university representative to the BOG. semester 1996. Osborne said there are about deadline, because after Monday, presidents and chancellors, “People said goodbye to one Sgt. Ron Osborne said add- 5,000 student permits sold permits are available throughout among other things, said BOG another and a number of itional parking spots for spring are altogether and about 1,600 staff the semester. Chairwoman Wilma Sutten. resolutions recognized retiring located at the east end of Greek permits, with the bulk of permits Osborne said most of the spring Usually at this time of year, the board members and the Court. being sold in the fall semester. permits are sold to freshmen who BOG will critique presidents of distinguished service of some of “We have never sold all our For juniors, seniors, staff and decide to bring their cars on the universities it represents, but the trustees.” permits,” Osborne said. students over 21, parking permits campus, to students who buy that was not on the agenda. President David Jorns agreed Osborne said 166 spaces are cost $17.50 per semester, and for permits per semester instead of Sutten said it wouldn’t make the meeting was “uneventful.” now available because of the new freshmen and sophomores, annually and to transfer students sense for the BOG to evaluate the See CRITIQUE Page 2 lots opened in Greek Court. At permits run $75 per semester. who bring cars with them. Residents complain light display is poorly placed Holiday By BRIAN LESTER is for Charleston’s residents to enjoy,” the hill. I mean, it’s a huge park and the Staff writer Pearson said. “Basically it’s a community display should just be moved to the other stories service, and I don’t see what the people are side of the road.” Residents driving down Division Street complaining about since there probably Straith also questioned what good the may notice a light display of a boy sledding won’t be snow in the area until after the dis- display is doing for the community. wanted down a hill in Kiwanis Park, but they won’t play is taken down anyway.” “I can’t see what kind of service this is see any live children sledding down the hill Ruth Straith said the hill should have not doing for the community beyond the fact Student organizations involved during the holiday season. been decorated. that people can drive through the park and in holiday activities or charity The park’s holiday light display, which “I don’t disagree with the display,” Straith enjoy the displays,” Straith said. “It’s not events can share information or began on Nov.17 and will run until New said. “I just don’t agree taking over the like people are seeing the kind of town experiences with the campus by Year’s Day, is set up throughout the whole children’s sledding hill was a positive Charleston is, or the display is not attracting submitting brief articles to The park, including a hill on which local children decision.” people here to increase business.” Daily Eastern News. usually sled down when it snows – drawing She was also disappointed to hear that Straith said the display would be looked The deadline for the articles is 1 criticism from some Charleston residents. Pearson said people shouldn’t complain at differently if it was put up during an p.m. Sunday. Bob Pearson, a member of the light about this problem, and does not like the athletic season. The holiday feature stories display committee, said he has heard fact that Pearson said it probably will not “Just think if a display was set up on the should be no longer than one complaints about part of the display being snow until after the display has been taken baseball or soccer field during the season for double-spaced typed page. They on the hill, but does not understand why down. the same amount of time this Christmas will be printed in the order they people are complaining since it is going to “We have had snow in Charleston as early display is going to be up,” Straith said. are received until no more space is be taken down by the first week of January. as Thanksgiving because I’ve shoveled it,” “People would probably look at it available. “I have heard some complaints about the Straith said. “There is not a lot of things for differently and not think of it as a service The articles will appear in display, but I don’t think people should be kids to do in this city and I’m saddened by because a sport is competitive and sledding Monday’s finals edition of The complaining about the display because this the fact that part of the display was put on is just something to do for fun.” News. 2 Friday, December 8, 1995 The Daily Eastern News Riotous Serbs protest NATO peace accord SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) Grbavica was in many ways a microcosm – They rocked in the mud and slush to of the country-wide dilemma that the thunderous Yugoslav pop tunes and NATO troops will face as they try to match Illinois lawmaker heads to Bosnia stomped defiantly on a U.S. flag. They an accord written on paper in Dayton, hung from windows of shell-pocked high- Ohio, with the fierce reality of ethnic battle WASHINGTON (AP) – One Illinois Illinois-based Army Reserve units were rises and cheered allusions to the Alamo. lines drawn in blood. lawmaker prepared to lead a congression- training and awaiting further instructions Five thousand Serbs in a Sarajevo neigh- As the potent Western force trickles into al trip to Bosnia, while four House col- after being ordered by the Pentagon to borhood on Thursday protested the NATO the country, the warring parties in several leagues on Thursday urged President begin preparing for possible duty in the accord that would turn their district over to places are making an 11th-hour curtain call Clinton not go ahead with the deployment Bosnian operation. their enemies across the Miljacka River. of scattered ethnic mayhem. of U.S. troops in the Balkans. The administration plans to send But nobody knows if they’ll really fight, or U.N.