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Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1988 9-30-1988 Daily Eastern News: September 30, 1988 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 30, 1988" (1988). September. 20. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_sep/20 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1988 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]. Parking Volleyball Students can still purchase EasternLfght hosts parking permits. Coors/CoorsT Classic oumament Volleyball Saturday. Friday Page5 and Friday, September 30, 1988 ,, Eastern lllinQiSllL 61920 University. Charleston, E Vol. 74, No. 29 Two sections, aily r 20 pages eferendum on ballot in November PODWOJSKI whether or not to add the referen the marching band and the train Sports Board received about a fact that you pd le (students) are ATHY dum Lo the ballot. Senate must ing rooms, Athletic Director R.C. increase from student constantly being pasked for tuition also decide if the feeswo uld be Johnson said. Sac 10,000tivity fees . The board needed increases," Johnson said. referendum increasing the increased by a flatrate increase or Intcrcollcgialc at hletics additional funding for increased "We arc also concerned we nt activity fees to support the by indexing, which would received a flat rate increase of student payroll. need to take care of all the rcollcgiatc Athletic Board increase the fees yearly according each semester through a referenS7 However, Johnson said the sports." be on the ballot for this to the rate of inflation. dum in 1984 with the stipulation Intercollegi ate Athletic Board is Eastcrn's athletic department ember's student government Fees for intercollegiate athletics that they would not request anoth completely separate from the ra i sect S20 I .064 at a reccpl10- tions. go to athletic operations and er increase for another four years. Recreational Sports Board. n/dinner on Sept. 8 Lo kickoff a c Student Senate must decide scholarships, the Pink Panthers, In the Recreational "We're very cognizant of the 1987, 7 "' Continued on page huttle puts America ack on flight track APE CANAV ERAL, Fla. (AP)-Space that was destroyed aboard Challenger. ttle Discovery carried the American In Washington, President Reagan praised back into space Th ursday after a 2- J.he launch, saying the shuttle was "headed absence, its five astronauts riding3 a into orbit and America is back in space." thfoot tail of fl ame from rockets meticu He saluted the bravery of the crew and ly redesigned after the Challenger dis- added, "We ask God to bless this important voyage." veryone certainly stood tall today," Launch, at 11 a.m. EDT, came only :37 Kennedy Space Center director Forrest after NASA waived weather guidelines to · McCartney as Discovery settled into allow for flight through some lighter-than it, 1 84 miles above earth. Mission usual Florida winds. The 98-rninute trol said the ship was "performing simply heightened the tension as delay · NASA · ally." unveiled a spaceship that underwent more ·x hours after liftoff the crew accom than 400 modifications since the hed the main mission of its flight, Challenger flight. e of a satellite that will giveNASA Just how well the Discovery's booster ly constant communication with future rockets performed in their new design le missions. awaited detail analysis. But J.R. t was the first launch since the Thompson, who directed the work from lenger explosion with its toll of seven Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabamathe on a cold winter day schocked the said, "From everything I see, everything · andstopped the manned space pro looks great." nin its tracks. Hauck's veteran flight crew consisted of e sure appreciate your all getting us up Air Force Col. Richard Covey, Marine orbitthe way we should be," Discovery's Col. David C. Hilmers; John M. Lounge;Ll. mander, Navy Capt. Frederick Hauck, and George D. "Pinky" Nelson. Landing Mission Control, "We're looking for was ·scheduled for Monday at Edwards Air d to the next four days _ we have a lot Force Base in California. and we're going to have a lot of fun The astronauts had said all along they ·ngdo it." were treating the mission as a "shakedown Liftoff was the first and most important flight," in the words of Covey - and they lcstone. but more was at stake than sim quickly ran into first flight problems. A . getting in space. The two year ground water evaporator that provides cooling to the shuttle fleet set back the nation's the ship during the climb to space and ellofite delivery capability, and release of returnto Earth was partly clogged with ice. communications satellite was the main And a device that provides electrical power er of business in orbit, several hours to move an orbital steering engine was not r launch. working. The giant Tracking and Data Relay Neither problem was critical. ellite is a $100-million twin of the craft AP LASERPHOTO 398 Discovery liftsoff Thursday morning from pad of the Kennedy space Center. OG to ratify three year contract with faculty Friday CRAIG EDWARDS University, Northeastern lllinois ca mpus are opposed to the new fair share faculty to pay their fair share, they have to inistration editor University, Governors State University, provision which will require non-union prove at least half of the entire bargaining We sternIll inois University and Eastern. faculty to pay a percentage of union dues to unit belongs to the union by the end of The Board of Governors executive com Jayne Ozier, president of UPI Local cover the collective bargaining costs. November. ttee will hold a special teleconference 4100, Eastern's faculty union, said Larry Janes, an educational administra Pam Meyer, BOG spokesperson, said day to ratify a three year contract with Wednesday that she is pleased with the tion professor, held a meeting earlier this there is currently no method to determine ulty and the five universities it governs. overall contract. month for faculty opposed to fair share. "I how many members UPI has. She did say The tentative agreement. which calls for In addition to the percent salary don't think the government has a right to that at Eastern, only 45 percent of the 547 mtial percent salary increase, was increase which is retrocactive5.7 to September make us pay umon dues," Janes said. "I'm faculty and academic professionals have 5. 7 tied by the University Professionals of I, some faculty will receive promotions opposed to forcedunio nism," he added . union dues deducted from their paychecks. nois Thursday night. Project Leap, an with an attached percent salary hike. Ozier, maintaining the fair share provi "But there could be others who pay their ependent election agency in Chicago, Oz ier also said.33 qua lified faculty will sion, does not force anyone to join the dues directly to the union," Meyer said. irmed the majority vote. receive a percent increase in union. "We just want them (non-union Ozier declined to reveal the exact mem 3-1 3.92 If approved by the BOG Friday, the set Febrauary for market adjustments, degree members) to pay their fair share," Ozier bership figures for UPI Local 4100. but ent will affect 2,0 14 faculty and aca completions and excellence awards. said. said about 50 percent of Eastem's faculty ic professionals at Chicago State But some faculty members on Eastern's But before UPI can require non-union belong to the union. 2A Friday, September 30, 1988 Changes likely to occur in USSR MO SCOW (AP)- The legisla bus1Dess. The Cenlral Comm1ttc1? ha ture and the Communist Party's Tass reported Foreign Minister been expected to meet by the policy-mak1Dg body will shake up Eduard A. Shevardnadze landed of October, but one Sov1c1 sour the Kremlin hierarchy ID extraod in Moscow Thursday afternoon said plans for 1mplcmcn11n mary meetings this week, a high after cutting short a U.N. visit. Grobachev's rcfor poht1cal level source said Thursday. DefenseMin 1stcr Dmitri T. Yozov were proceeding "faster tha n w The policy-setting Central ended a visit to India a day ahead expected." Commtllee meets Fnday and the of schedule. The wource. a member of Supreme Soviet on Saturday. The The 1,500-mc mbcr Supreme Central Committee �taff �aid meetings brought officals rush1Dg Sov iel, the riation's parliament, committee will approve cha ng back to Moscow and sparked usually convenes twice a year in the party and the structure speculatton that Soviet leader after meetings of the 300-member government outlined at a Ferraro's son freed Mikhail S. Gorbachev and his Central Committee. It last met conference in June. p MONTPELIER, Vt.-John Zaccaro Jr, got up early Wednesday, opponents would face over his May 24-26, The reforms arc intended packed up thefa mily Oldsmobile with his father's help, and drove away ambitious economic and social Soviet media reported Sunday enhance the status of the party from Vermont and a cocainede aling conviction that led to three months reforms. that a regular session of the the leading force in Soviet under house arrest. Soviet sources said there was Supreme Soviet would beginOct. ely. Theson of former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine "no crisis" in the leadership, but 27, and lhe announcement The source called il Ferrarowas freeda month early for good behavior from his four-month the abrupt change ID plans of sev Thursday of a special sitting at that personnel changes would"logic term of house arrest, a sentence that created an uproar because Zaccaro eral top Kremlin figures clearly such short notice was highly low any change in the organifi spentit in a $1,500-a-month apartment in Burlington.