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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC August 1989 Daily Egyptian 1989 8-20-1989 The aiD ly Egyptian, August 20, 1989 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_August1989 Volume 76, Issue 1 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, August 20, 1989." (Aug 1989). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1989 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in August 1989 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Daily Egyptian Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Monday, August 20,1989, Vol. 76, No. \,20 P;lges Funding runs low for the homeless By Lisa Miller tbe Good Samaritan House has, the Staff Writer money must be stretched to the limit each As the fall semester begins at the month to provide the residents with bare University, students are moving into living necessities, Speck said. residence halls, apartments, houses and There are now 16 adults and four trailers throughout Carbondale. children living in the basement, or the transitional quar1el'S, of the House. These But not everyone is so lucky. The homeless problem is growing in people are allowed to stay for three to four Southern I1Jinois, but the growth of weeks, but exceptions can b~ made if ~ peck. said. funding to aid the homeless has not necessary, matched its pac,., said Elsie Speck, The upper levels of the House provide director of the Good Samaritan House in residenlB with a stable home for 18 months Carbondale. in exchange for 30 percent of his or her While I':-iva.e contributors from the income. community have been very supportive of Speck said students corne to the House the homeless plight, funding from local from time to time. organizations "has been very miniscule," Sea HOt.'El.ESS, Page 5 Speck:;aid. The Good Samaritan House survives on Gus Bode 540,000 a year from the. IlIil"ois Deparunent of Public Aid and $ 16,000 from Housing and Urban Development, Sped said. "We r<!Ceived a five year grant from HUD for $16,000 a year," Speck said. "We're now in the second year. At the end of the five years we'll hopefully get another grant, maybe larger." Helping hand In addition to state and federal funding, local churches, the United Way and Student life adviser Todd Thomas, Landros and Dave Pruener move into recycling provide extra money, Speck said. Gus says students are used to sophomore in racflO and lV, helps Amy Schneidel HaJJ Wednesday afternoon. Despite the various sources of income cramming. , . ~!'. Studenfshappy to see· .. Materiats, center gets grant new condom machines By Theresa Llvlngston extreme temperatures, it is current structural uses are By Stephanie Wood Staff Writer being considered for such limited. The IlUiterial also is StaffWriler high-temperature applications extremely expensive. to University's College of as rocket nozzles, Engineering and T-xhnology disc brakes produce, with American StlidenlS agree that the rn and gas tuIbine engines. companies supplying half of install:llion of condom vending to strengthen toe department's Wrigul said since the the carbon needed in this machines in the Student Center, research capabilities, Wright carbons resist bodily fluids, country. the Recreation Center and the said. "This is the first lime the material can be used for Because the United States residence halls is beneficial to the Department of Defense had 'F~"o research of this level hal: been organ transp~ants and oth.er University cummWlity. Smce the severely res U'ic ted the The machines were installed done at the University," he operations,. material resists corrosion, it could publication of research results, Aug. 1 after a survey conducted said. academic involvmenl in Structural carbons are used eliminate the need for repeat bv the Student Health Program transplants; he said . carbon research prior to this }~avis.."lry Board in 19&8 showed for a variety of technological time has been almost and medical purposes, Wright However, since the carbon tl13t 86 percent of the students nonexistant, Wright said. were i.\ favor of having the said. Since the heat-resistant materials . are highly machines. carbon resists (;ven the most susceptible to oT.idation. Sea MTC, Page 5 "1 think it's great," Dave '. McCann, senior in electrical engineering technology, said. "It's h';"~r}~ an excellent idea because :;tudents really need to be aware of the Hostages threatened with ,death diseases that can be spread now. BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) _ A offshoot of the Iranian-inspired French warships off the Lebanese "Maybe making it (condoms) terrorist group threatened Sunday Hezbollah, made the threat in a coast to back the Christians in available will make them think a ~.~.. ~rt to kill two American hostages if Slatelll(:nt authenticated by a new their conflict against Syrian little bit about it," he said. Staff PhDtD by Ann Schluter the French use military force to black-and-white close-up backed Moslem groups. The machines can be found in back Lebanese Christians against photograph of U.S. hostage The French aircraft carrier Condom machine located In the men's and women's restrooms Syrian-backed Moslem forces in Ed'''ard A. Tracy. Foeh and the frigate Cassard left on the second, third and fourth the women's washroom on the country's civil war. The group charged that the the southern French port of the first floor In the Student The Revolutionary Justice Un'ted States was implicitly See MActlNES, Page 5 Center. Organization, believed to be an su:,porting the deployment of Sea GROUP, Page 5 '~;M:~~i;;1 Speech Communication to offer new course By TIm Crosby than destructive, treatment of Minor, who now serves as and ooIer in human life. n StaffWriler human conflict," MiDOI said "It retired director emeritus of the Minor used the analogy of the foundati(\n, said research A new course offered by the transforms confrontation and living organism to demonstrate Department of Speech argumentation into friendly sponsoTl'A by the foundation has this correlation. shown the notion of creativity to Communication will teach linderstanding even though "In the body, cells have be quite different popular ;pecific, novel functions they students how to tap an inner conflict may still exist. " than the WllCept of "mere innovation." resource they might not know Minor, who founded the perforru as well as organized they possess. Foundation for Philosophy of "This popular notion was functions in conjunction with Creativity Inc. in 1952, said the disproven by the hippies in the tissues, organs and so forth. This William S. Minor. professor course will demonstrate the 1960s," Minor said. "They were is the basis of health in an of philosophy of creativity, will innate creativity found in every all doing novel behavior with no organism." teach Introouction to Philosophy person. organization and they became Minor said he warns student~ of CrC<lLi':ity this semester. The "Crea!ivity is rooted in more and more chaOl;':." who take the course not to neglc..:t course is 0i~!1 to all students and biology," Minor, 88, said. "It is "We've found that creativity is their other courses. may be us ....d to satisfy a number the source of health and also the systematic organization "They get so interested on,e we of cleelive options. creativity. The course will ~trive of human behavior," Minor gel started that (ncglc.cI;Il!! ulher "The course centers on the new to make students aware of this added. "We will study the lL'dH\o!o~y for the creative, rather resource and how to release iL" creative correlation of Ilovelty See COURSE. Page 5 ~'. ~ '89 Close-Out •. RESTAURANT· ~ • • _.. ,."CUI$IIU1UUSUfOIID ' SALE ALL YOU CAN EAT' on ZENITH TV's & world/nation LUNCH BuFFET $3.95* KENWOOD STEREOS Irh ':Idl"" l';~ht m,lIn di~hl''''J 111nt' .1PPl'tl/l.'r:-., ~.)l<ld hH, .1IKi fn.. :~h :nllt TODAYS.lUNCH SPECIAL - KAO PAE RENT 4 wounded in Lebanon Color TV $25/1110, 'security zone' bombing DINNER SPECL~1.__ .~5;i~ AI- TELEVISION Inl.-Iudc~ ~lJUp, appdil... 'r, and lTl.Jin Ji:-.h (across from 710) BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) _ At least four people were wounded PAO- THAI $2.45,' Sunday when Moslem guerrillas affilialcd with the pro-Iranian 715 S. ILLINOIS Hczbollah organization attacked military targets inside Israel's 'Bring in thb CllUPOll for free soft drink. self-{jcclared "security zone" in southern Lebanon. The An Nour radio 457-7009 station, mouthpiece of the Hezbollah organiZJItion. said two explosions ~ 1206 S. Wall 457-45101 killed or wounded 15 "enemy troops." Pope: Marxist societies failing OVIEDO, Spain (UPI) _ Pope Juhn Paul II said Sunday that Marxist T-BIRDS societies are failing bcczuse of an erroneous atheistic concept of won:, but at the same time was critical of growing materialism in capitalist natic--. On th~ second day of his Spanish trip. the 43rd he has made outside Italy, John Paul also issued a fresh call for a halt to the U-Gotla Love Cheap Beer "indiscriminate bombardment" in Lebanon. 120z Thousands boycott Israeli jobs Miller Genuine EREZ CHECKPOINT. Israel-occupied Gaza Strip (UPI) _ Draft Bottles Thousands of Palestinians heeded a call by the uprising's underground SOc leadership Sunday to boycott their jobs in Israel to protest new military-imposed enlrance restrictions. Palestinian sources estimated only about 800 Gaza residents left the strip for work. and another 4.000 were believed to have stayed at their Israeli woricpJaces since last week to avoid ltOuble with activists enforcing the two-week boycott. 90z Hungary: United States is No.1 Drafts 50( LONDON (UPI) _ Hungarians rated the United States as their favorite country and the Soviet Union as their least favorite in an unprecedented Gallup survey tlf the Er..t Bloc nation, a British Guess What's newspaper said Sunday.