Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1997 9-19-1997 Daily Eastern News: September 19, 1997 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 19, 1997" (1997). September. 12. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1997_sep/12 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1997 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]. PARTLY SUNNY Hitting a high of 88º The INSIDE Daily the road Panther football team Eastern travels to Normal in search of Eastern Illinois University FRIDAY their first Charleston, Ill. 61920 September 19, 1997 Vol. 83, No. 20 road win Get ready for plenty of 16 pages, 2 sections laughs from comedy troupe PAGE Freudian Slip. News 8A SECTION B “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid” Unclear request Weidner says faculty need for technology input not specific By DEANA POOLE Administration editor While faculty members demand adequate input into the future of computer technology at Eastern, administrators say the faculty has not clarified how it wants to contribute to the planning process. Terry Weidner, vice president for academic affairs, said he agrees with some of the faculty’s complaints about the Instructional Technology Support Plan. The Faculty Senate Tuesday compiled four main concerns about the plan based on responses from faculty and senate members, including a lack of faculty input and SHERYL SUE SIDWELL/Photo editor oversight of technology planning, having Eastern’s President David Jorns explains the university’s planning process Thursday afternoon in Lumpkin Hall during the debut only one technical support person available of the Fall Administrative Forum. for each college, the small amount of funding each college receives, and the need for a campuswide committee or a Jorns sets funding penalties for late reports coordination of the university’s technology. “I agree with some of the concerns in that By DEANA POOLE the departments with eight peer department divided by the number of we need more of those instructional support Administration editor institutions. The universities must all be credit hours available to be earned. people and we need more funding for each public and only four of the eight can be Eastern’s results are then compared to college,” Weidner said. Departments and vice-presidential located in Illinois, Jorns said. the other eight universities. However, Weidner said he does not areas will be restricted from new The penalty for late reports, which are “My suspicion is, because we are understand in what area of technology the planning money as a penalty for late due Nov. 3, is the loss of 0.5 percent of underfunded, our programs are going to faculty wants more input. quantitative reports, said Eastern’s new planning monies from the look efficient,” Jorns said. “I have talked to a number of faculty to try President David Jorns during the Fall designated vice-presidential area, Jorns Gary Foster, professor of sociology to figure out, ‘Input on what?’ And that’s the Administrative Forum Thursday. said. and anthropology, said the faculty can question we’ve been asking for a while,” he Quantitative reports, which are a He said quantitative reports are based not control the length of time other requirement of benchmarking, compare on how much money is budgeted for the See REPORT page 2A See INPUT page 2A Carbondale bar-entry age changes for fourth time City council approves lowering to 19 By TAMMIE LEIGH BROWN In May 1994, Charleston raised it’s bar City editor entry age from 19 to 21. The recent lowering of the bar age in Carbondale has many people The city of Carbondale, which holds the asking about Charleston. reputation of Illinois’ “party school town,” “Not in my lifetime,” said Mayor Dan recently lowered its bar entry age from 21 to Cougill. 19. He said the change has raised Eastern’s For the last four years, Carbondale’s bar- academic standards, and likes the reputation entry age has slowly gone up from 18 to 21. Eastern has today. On July 1, 1995, the city changed it from “I think it’s great that we don’t have a party 19 to 20, then on July 1, 1996 it went up to school image,” Cougill said. 21. It was only at the 21-year-old entry age He asked which is more important for an for one year. employer to say to an Eastern student when “At that point (when they wanted to move looking at his resume, “Oh, Eastern, a party it up to 21) the council approved to move the school?, or oh, Eastern, a good academic bar entry age up one year at a time until it school?” reached 21,” said Carbondale’s City Manager Cougill said he is pleased that he was a IKUYA KURATA/Staff photographer Jeff Doherty. part of Charleston’s administration when the “We had an election and two of the council vote was passed to raise entry age. And said Going the distance (members) elected favored the 19-year-old area parents, and parents of Eastern students Workers Mike Hoene (left) and Mark Will, of Grunloh Construction Inc. in Effingham, bar entry age,” said Doherty. “That made a have had nothing but good things to say about measure a new throwing spot Thursday morning for the track-and-field event shot put majority of three people on the council that the change. outside O’Brien Stadium. wanted it lowered.” See SIU page 2A 2A Friday, September 19, 1997 The Daily Eastern News RHA allocates $150 to NRHH Amendment approved Members wave bylaws to allow contribution with revised meaning By NICOLE MEINHEIT The current RHA constitution this semester because the constitu- Staff writer allows $150 to be donated to cam- tion only allows for a total of $150 pus organizations, but no single to be donated in one semester. The Council on Academic Affairs approved an amendment The Residence Hall donation can exceed $50. Also at the meeting, the new Thursday to the minutes from its previous meeting. Association approved $150 to be Under the proposed revisions to budget for the 1997-98 year was The course proposal amendment re-worded section three, given to the National Residence the constitution, the RHA can presented for approval at the next numeral 10 of the minutes and substituted the word “contextual” Hall Honorary to attend a confer- only pay one-third of the cost for RHA meeting. for “further.” ence at Northern Illinois RHA conferences. RHA members raised concerns The amended section now reads, “That the CAA Integrated University. A proposal was made to give that not enough money was set Core Course Review Subcommittee be obligated to consult with The Oct. 3 to 5 Glacurh the NRHH $70, but RHA mem- aside for conferences like the the General Education Assessment to gather contextual data rela- Conference is the first of its kind. bers decided they should give Glacurh Conference. tive to the assessment data supplied by the unit proposing addi- NRHH members will meet mem- more support to their sister organi- The RHA will hold a meeting at tions to the core.” bers of other chapters and bring zation. 6 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Taylor Hall The CAA also tabled a course proposal on a revision to the back ideas to share with the RHA. The rest of the money for the lobby to revise the constitution GEAC guidelines until their next meeting. A special motion was made to trip will be raised by members of rather than making revisions over The CAA discussed a new course proposal for an honors wave the RHA’s bylaws to allow NRHH. a series of meetings as originally course. the donation. The donation will be the last for planned. The course, PHY 1290-C - Principles of Astronomy, will be further discussed at the next meeting. – staff report REPORT from page one schools take while compiling tives of the university for 1998. Specialists, data. In the plan, the university which under the Instructional from page one “We have no control over wants to request a student Technology Support Plan will be INPUT those departments responding to assessment fee of $10 per stu- hired by each college. The PC98 said. us,” Foster said. dent per semester for the pur- plan allocates $50,000 total for He said he is trying to sched- I’m not sure that I Jorns said researching for chase of valid, reliable instru- funding of the specialists and ule a meeting with faculty mem- understand exactly quantitative reports began in the ments, surveys and services. any additional costs must be bers to determine in what area what they are asking for.” summer and that it was “a sim- This increase in fees is aimed funded by the colleges. they want input. “ ple telephone survey.” to provide sufficient support to “Academic Affairs will have a Weidner said the proposed “If it is impossible to get data implement planned assessment lot of new money,” Jorns said. plan may be modified based – Dave Henard, we will make accommodations,” activities. “That money will be reallocated upon faculty responses. associate vice president he said. The total cost is $210,000 and to the deans.” “There may be some addi- of Information Technology Jorns said Eastern began will be paid strictly from student Jorns said the deans then can tions,” Weidner said. “We will Services using benchmarking during the fees. allocate the money as they wish. try to address the issue of facul- summer.