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Daily Eastern News: April 11, 1997 Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1997 4-11-1997 Daily Eastern News: April 11, 1997 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 11, 1997" (1997). April. 21. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_apr/21 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1997 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The -- Let's INSIDE Dally r.n play six Softball team hosts sixOVC FRIDAY East~m Illinois University games April 11, 1997 Charleston,-111. 61920 over Vol. 82, No. 134 weekend 16 pages, 2 sections· The Hack Club hosts annual PAGE foot bag f es ti val. · SECTION B 8 Phi Sigs lose charter national office's decision)," said sorority stay in .the building to apter recall Becky Marushak, assistant fill its minimum resident director of Student Life/Greek requirement before the recall was comes Affairs. finalized. Sorority members may stay in She said she expects when a effective June 1 the house next year because it is new sorority is brought to By SCOTT BOEHMER too late in the semester to ask the Eastern, she anticipates there will 111d DENISE RENFRO residents to look (or housing, be interest in using the building I.ta editors said Kathy Miller, assistant for housing. director.of housing. Marushak said she was Members of Phi Sigma Sigma "We would let them stay there surprised by the decision, but it iorority were informed Wed­ the next academic year," Miller was not one that Eastern had to ~sday evening by their national said. make. \)ffice that their chapter charter The members will have to "This is completely an CHET PIOTROWSKVStaff photographer was recalled. remove all crests and signs external decision made by the The recall becomes effective identifying it as being the Phi central office. The university was A student walks by the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union on June 1, 1997. After that date Sigma Sigma house, she said. relatively uninvolved in the Thursday in the snow. Temperatun!s dropped to an unseasof!a/>le all members of the sorority will Currently, the building is whole process," she said. low. Temperatures should rise going into the weekend. become alumnae members. contracted through the national "Of course we ·will be more Members of Phi Sigma Sigma chapter and members of the than willing to help· the women contacted Thursday declined to sorority. and the national organization in comment. Miller said the building will be ~ any way we can," Marushak said. Snow not common The charter of the sorority was set up similarly to a residence Members of the organization tevoked by the national office hall. Any spots in the building can become a recognized student because of low membership that are not filled by Pl)i Sigma organization, but they would not for spring weather numbers. Sigma members will be be able to have the same name or "I know membership has been contracted out to other students. the same constitution. 8y ROB STROUD morning was a record low. 1be a concern of tbeir .or.ganµation s~ said the. socodty already The members alsu can petition Citreditor previous record was set on April for sevei"af years, hut I don' t agreed to have seven women to become a recognized alumnae 19, 1914. know any specific reason (for the who were not members of the chapter of the organization. Eastern students saw The area experienced weather something they hoped they at the opposite end of the would never see again for a weather spectr1lm 67 years ago, long time yesterday afternoon: Pric~ said. He said the House to vote on pre-paid tuition snow. temperature reached a record Dalias Price, a local weather high for April of ·90 degrees on DENISE RENFRO have prepaid tuition programs in operation. By observer, said snow in April is April 11, 1930. Cimpus editor "We have researched other states thoroughly," not common, but also is not out Price said these unusual he said. · of the ordinacy. Price said the weather extremes are just part The bill proposing a plan for prepaid college The program allows a person to pay one rate for area has been known to get of "the seesaw battle between tuition has been introduced in the Illinois House of their child's education at either a state university twe>-tentJts of an inch of snow in springtime and summer." presentatives and will be considered before or a community college. April. However, Price said the area aembers adjourn in May. ~'Rates will be the average tuition and fees for "That's about Wh1J.t we're will not have to worry about Senate bill 878 passed on March 17 with 52 all universities and separately all the community going to get out of this," Price temperatures getting any lower votes for the bill, two against and two obtaining. colleges," he said. said. this April. If the House approves the biJI, it will go to Gov. The reason to take the average, Prince said, is to He said the temperature "The coldest of the_ blast of Ed.gar for signing before it would take effect. Jim keep the program simple and to not have the yesterday was unseasonably Arctic air is letting up now, so If the bill i~ the first class of students to money from the program used for record-keeping. passed'. cold. The average temperature we don't have to give up hope," benefit from the program would be students who The money will be invested what a contracted In for this time of year should be he said. currently high school freshmen. are investment firm deems to be the best place such as '50 degrees, Price said. Price said the weather will be It will take three years after the person stocks and fixed income, he said. Instead, yesterday's average more springlike after this purchases the contract before the student can go to "This is first, to be safe and secondly, to ensure ~mperature was 35 degrees. weekend. He said the area can school to make certain that there is enough money that the investment grows faster than tuition "That gives you an idea of expect temperatures in the 70s in the fund to cover the cost. The first contracts grows,'" he said. the unusualness of the weather," and 80s in the daytime next will be sold in the fall of 1998. The government is giving tax benefits to the he said. week. "We need to have three years worth of money in purchaser in two ways, he said. All the earnings Fortunately, 35 degrees is still ''This will be conductive to order to build up a fund to make sure that the fund and the interest would not be subject to state too warm of a temperature for the spring flowers coming and is always solid and stable," said Don Prince, income tax at all. Secondly, any tax earned on it is the snow to really accumulate, farmers tilling the ground," usistant to the director of the Illinois Student deferred until the money is started to be paid out Price said. Price said. The ground has Assistance Commission. to the beneficiary. It is then taxed at the student's Price said the 20-degree thawed out enough for farmers Prince said the idea for the program is taken temperature Wednesday to plant their seeds, he said. from different people and the 13 other states that See TUmON page 2 Coles County indicts 11 on drug distribution charges Ir ROB STROUD year investigation by the task force, the Coles "We think that he was a major player who imported the drugs, those who received Ciry editor County State's Attorney's Office and local around here," Mcl.earin said Mcl.earin said the drugs, those who bought large quantities police departments. Kelsey allegedly arranged for drugs to be to sell, those who·bought small quantities to An anonymous tip two years ago has led to The investigation began after an delivered to this area. sell and those that bought even smaller the April 3 and 4 indictments of people anonymous tip that said people in Mattoon The indictment charged Kelsey with 16 quantities for personal use. lllegedly connected with one of the largest were receiving large quantities of cocaine and counts of controlled substance trafficking. Indictments have also been filed against: iug organi7Jltions in Coles County history. ~phetamines, Mcl.earin said. Kelsey's bond was set at $50 million. • James M. Smith, Z'l, of 1201 Stinson Ave., Coles County law enforcement officials Not much information was available in the Mcl.earin said this is one of the largest bonds Mattoon, was charged with two counts of mnounced Wednesday that a grand jury has first year of the investigation, but the second that has ever been asked for in Coles County. controlled substance trafficking and two Jetumed 11 new indictments concerning the year yielded information that led to the Mcl.earin said a bond this large was asked counts of unlawful calculated criminal drug Mstribution of cocaine and indictments last week. for because of the large amounts of drugs conspiracy. lachamphetamines. One of those indicted, Lowell E. Kelsey, Kelsey is allegedly responsible for handling. • Jonathan C. Arena, 41, of 2113 Western Master Sgt. Dave McLearin, the head of 43, of 11 Wmdemere in Mattoon and Orange 1be indictments were returned for people at Ave., Mattoon, was charged with one count of 1be East Central Illinois Drug Task Force, said Beach, Ala, is alleged to be the head of the five levels of the organiz.ation, Mcl.earin said.
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