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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC May 1989 Daily Egyptian 1989 5-1-1989 The aiD ly Egyptian, May 01, 1989 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_May1989 Volume 75, Issue 146 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, May 01, 1989." (May 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 May 1989 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Daily Egyptian Southern Illinois University at Carbond&le Monday May I, 1989, Vc.i. 75, No. 146,10 Pages No aloohol, arrests make regatta 'neat' By Nora Berjley St~f1Writer 166 various and Jacki6 Lay '3tl·den' Writer A dry regatta is a better shapes, sizes regatta, according to Richard Arc!ler, originator (If the Great enter races Cal dlJoard Boat Regatta. No arrests were made at this By Jackie Lay year's Great Cardboard Boat l St'.Jdent Writer Regatta and Archer said it was A "Chevy S-10 Pick-up," a the best one he's seen ill the "Batmobile" and an "Island" last five ':e.3 rs. were just a few of the boats Rober~ Harris, dh ~t"l o~ ~} setting sail in the Gl"'..at SIU-C Security Police, said Cardboard Boat Regatta mat "We dinr.'t make any arrests drew "robs and ahh3" from at all. It was the r.eatest the crowd. thing. " A ft!w people Wt're This year 166 boats varied in stopped with heel', but were F.. size, shape and color. just made to get rid of it, he Richard Archer, originator said. of the regat~ll &00 an assistant In past, ,dcohol usage has L~~,-__~~~~~~~~~ r.rofessor of dt'Sign, ~id: caused many problems, Ar Slall Photo by Peter Campos 'This year there were more cher, an assistant professor of Contestants in a class I match at the Great Schoof came out the big winners, taking first unique boab. than usual" de;ign, said. card!>uard boat Regatta Saturday, prepare to place In ctass I and the high school match and Entrants included SIU-C "The high schoclers were launch their vessels. Students from Marion ....i!..'h placing second In ute ctass mmatch. students who designed boats complaining that some SIU-C as part of a final project in students were offering them Attaldance at this year's attending. Archer's design class, students beer" Archer said "There regatta was ~.bout 15,000 Scott Abbott, jWlior in from area high schools and we~ fights and usuaily by the comp&red to last year's 20,000 product design, said he Soutl.ern Illinois residents. time we got to the middle of the to 25,000, Archer said. disagrees with the ban and his Coutestants were required to race, pec.ple wouldn't go intv Some of the p::;rticiparJ.'1 and boat the "Party Barge," propel their boats around a the water 'vith their boats bystanders felt that the complete with a bar, conveyed 200-yard triangular-shaped because they are too in !/e('rease in the amount of tilatfeefulg. course. The boats are divided toxicated. " people compared to last year Drinking should be allowed into three classes. Archer said I'e lik(:;S the could be partly due to the because it can be controlled, Class I boats are propelled regatta better separated from separation of the regc!tta from Abbott said. "There are people by canoe paddles, oars or Springfest. "They are two Springfest Although fIJI' some, available to provide safety kayak paddles. totally diUe_"'ent events." he the alcorzOl ban may have Gus says c"eers to the said. affected their reasuns for See ARRESTS, Page 5 Nada-Regatta. Sa, WIN'ERS, Page 5 Bio\ogist hopes for return of falcon to Sh-ciwnee By Richard Nunez Spane1 would not gIVe the species; the least tern and the ~tory animals and }>uman . Staff Writer Out in the woods: exact location nl the nesting peregrine falcon. The falcoo mterventiun., such as t.uaung When American bald eagles First in a series of four articies site, because be hopes the can reach llpeeds of 70 mph aIid fIShing. nesteti for the first time in about ditferent aspects of eagles will return and be wants when diving for {)rey, making But the major problem in the to prevent f.Jrther' human it the fastest bird 10 the world. Sha~l Spanel said, is free Southern Illinois last year, it Stawnee NalbnaJ Forest. was a cause for celebration molestation. ''The habitats exist for the nmnmgaogB. and also extreme caution. The bald ~ is one of three peregrine falco.l and the k:ast Spanel said a contest was The eagles nested on private courage the eagles to sue Animals in the Shawnee tern,tJ Spanel said, "but, bela recenUy in the southern land near Ll-te Ohk. River - ce.;;sfully nest, but evenmally National Faest thatappe:lr on historically. It's been so long l'E'gion of Pope County, where hundreds of dogs were allowed about 70 feet from the Shawnee the eagles abandOlt'.!d their the federsll list of endangered since they've been there. I National Forest, Mike Spanel, nest. Spanel said. species, Spanel said. The other don't think they would come to nm freely througb the forest wildlife biologist for the "We believe it was caused by ~ ~ gray bat and the back.. .. wooas. U.s. Forest Service, sail!. human disturbance," SpaI16l The contests are held by SplInel said the reasons and a Forest Service officials said. "There is a lot of boating Spanel also said the Shawnee species, such as the peregrine hunters farmers as arranged an agreement 'Nith and fishing going on in the has potential babitats for two falcon, will not return include the landowner to t...-y to en- area." other federally endangered poaching, threats by See SHAWNEE, Page 5 Studsrlts in China continue pro-democracy riots BEIJING (uP!) -- Mere Thursday, the 70th an there will certainly be big provincial capitals_ students after the Iartest than 2,000 students marched at niversary of the 1919 May 4th activity on May 4," saP .. :.: Marches in Beijing last week protest last Thursday, me. for a Beijing college SUh~" and mO'lement, a nationalistic lear-oId Beijing lj.- IVtftl ty were the biggest anti several hours Saturday with new wall posters appearecl on student-led movement that Junior, Xi Cbengxin. government demolll>tratioDS student representa tives. other campuses to denounce "5 demanded greater democracy T!le actions indicated per since the founding of com But manr students came a sham the government's first for China. sistent ferment at the capital's munist China in 1949 as hun away critiCIZing the meeting talks with students ente• ..ng "The iJatUt: is still ahead," universities, from which dreds 01. thousands of wc:-kers as fruiUess, saying the 0( tht:ir third week of pro said one '1f the wall posters, a lltudents have led protests for joined students on the streets ficials bad not substantively democracy protests. traditional me.lDS of public greater political freedom sinre to protest against political addressed their concerns and The new posters on Beijing expression in China. April 17 that have spread to repression. spent much of the time ad camp!lSet< warned the students "Regardless of develop half a dozen cities and Two senior government vising the students to end a would demonstrate again on ments in the next few days, triggered rioting in two officials, in a concession to the week-old boy(.'Ott of claS'les. Thisl\tormng. U.S. military beginning to fight war on drugs WASHINGTON (SHNS) - coming across the border from proposed ~et for fiscal titudes rather than hard Inter/ieW~f()r:aA$ ...... ~he U.S. military, after years Mexico and ships docking in 1990, which begins Oct 1. results right now, but the of just saying DO, is siowly Housloo. doesn't include any money for military finally seems excited direciorto Start .. tepping l'll i$ invdvement in The National Guard in the war OIl drugs, an omission about it," said a top ···--I'~Q~.7 tilt' W!lr on drugs. California bas piloted Customs . that probably will be corrected congressional aide who has Sophistir-<iteli radar plallt'S agents looiting foc smuggling by Congress. been pusring the Pentagon have trecked smugJrI.ers boats 300 clandel>tine air Laws banning the military into the war on drugs. StilUki Jnvitational coming into the United States, slrips. from acting like police officers "For years the Pentagl1fl and Nabonal Guard F-ltiS The l'.ews is not all gt:OO, have created sltecial said they ctJUld not cha"e d. brings big success recently ha"e chased aM however, and one of the problems. For example, the Piper Cub with an F·16. Now ~Sport$16 . helped capture planes military's most recent forays Pentagon Wlys dogs trainerl to they have done it three times SllSpected of carrying dru~_ . -,---..•- .. _. -.... 1 into the drug war ended with sniff Obt drugs can be loaned to tI'is year," the staffer saic. Since April, National Guard U.S. Customs causing a pollet" agencies, but not their I:t one case, F-l6s chased a Ch.:mceofr'Jiri,IOYM~ J volunteers in Texas have been diplomatic tiff with Ca!l8da. Dillitary handlers. small plane until it .::'ashed searching. tractor trailers And the ~·i,~t.gO.o·s "It still is a question of at- into the. ocean near F!orilia.