Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1988 2-11-1988 Daily Eastern News: February 11, 1988 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 11, 1988" (1988). February. 9. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1988_feb/9 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1988 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ate's budget m_ay injure retention programs James R. Thompson's plan to e education b-udget stagnant for would hurt programs that are to advance the enrollment and n of minorities. rity programs will be hurt too," cqueline 'Atkins, chair of the Joint Committee on Minority t Achievement. ed no specific programs that have the biggest impact on students. such as "loan forgiveness" not talked about specifically, said, but it is a concept that has nsidered in the past by the joint 'ttee, which is made up of s of the IllinoisBoard of Higher tion and the Illinois State Board tion. forgiveness is a program that a student to take out a loan to college and work in a specific When the student graduates and to the field, the loan doesn't be repaid. as an oral presentation giving an · w of what's been happening," · Knauer of the Illinois Board er Education. "Nothing specific ed about." pson said he plans to propose to J $2.7 ROBB NTGOMERY I a photoorapher neral Assembly a billion MO St ff _ t for elementary and secondary tion and a $1.3 billion dollar Fill'er up Gary Rachford, a junior marketing major, inflates a balloon "Students Agaihst Multiple Sclerosis" balloon launch which was tfor higher education. with helium Wednesday afternoon in the University Union. held Wednesday on the South Quad. educators have said the impact Many students were hard at work raising money for the a budget would be several cuts ams unless a tax hike is passed. e meeting dealt with the cuts and the cuts we are going to Professor quits for budget reasons Knauer said. By MATT HORTENSTINE Eastern President Stan Rives has the time comes for actual Staff writer '' warned that Eastern would "lose good endations, a formal report will After nine years of pulling in I doubt if Eastern could people and diminish the quality of , which should be in about one thousands of dollars in federal and put together a package education the institution provides" if months, she said. private grants, chemistry associate an adequate funding increase didn't final draft will be issued to the professor Russell Carlson will leave that could match the pass for fiscal year 1989. Board of Higher Education, the Eastern to continue his nationally University of Georgia. It Indicating his agreement, Carlson te president, and the com­ renowned research at the University of said that it is important forinstructors at large, Atkins said. Georgia. is simply a larger school to carry on research to keep the ex­ proposal also entails an alternate Because of the budget situation at and has more technical citement of learning in their lives, and that will increase taxes, tuition Eastern, Carlson said that it would be instrumentation that is thus not allowing themselves to get "in . However, there will be no in his best interest to continue his a rut." in faculty salaries, which may research at Georgia. needed to do the kind of However, Carlson added that Eastern ina loss in faculty, Knauer said. ''I doubt if Eastern could put together research that I'm involved does provide adequate facilities for out these increases the budget a package that could match the in. undergraduate students to learn the ve to be cut, and the impact of University of Georgia," said Carlson. essential techniques of chemistry. budget cuts will affect the ''It is simply a larger school and has -Russ�ll Carlson Chemistry Chair Robert Jordan had 'onal process "measurably," more technical instrumentation that is Associate professor, no comment on the issue. said. needed to do the kind of research that Carlson is involved in researching I'm involved in." Chemistry carbohydrates and how their cellular The University of Georgia is about immunity systems work in plant life. the size of the University of Illinois at ------'' Carlson received his Ph.D. from the Champaign. more high-technology equipment will University of Colorado and was em­ Carlson said that because of the be available and his salary will be ployeed at Monsanto Corp. until 1979 obvious size differences in the schools, higher. when he came to Eastern. Rives to sample student life News takes a By CRAIG EDWARDS to take place either February 16 or 18. Staff writer The lottery, held to support Big break Friday Coleman Hall might seem like a long Brothers/Big Sisters of Coles County, walk from Old Main on a cold winter took place at midnight Tuesday at Ted's The Daily Eastern News will day and Eastern President Stan Rives WarehOuse, 102 N. 6th St. not be published Friday in ac­ will find out just how long it is when he Rives, who will leave his office in Old cordance with Eastern Illinois trades places for a day with a freshman Main and attend classes for the first University's observance of the pre-business major. ·time since he completed the doctorate birthdays of Abraham Lincoln ntine's Day related stories, Steve Knight, a freshman pre­ program at Northwestern University in and George Washington. proclamations of love and business major from Pekin, won the 1958, said he is looking forward to the Although, regularly published ion listings may make for an ' opportunity to trade place with switch. every Friday, On the mixture of weekend Verge of the President Rives for a day in a lottery "It will give me a chance to see the Weekend is being published in material, but they are all a sponsored by Sigma Nu fraternity and university from the students' Thursday's edition. Thursday's per­ On the Verge of Sigma Kappa sorority. spective," Rives said. ''That's an op­ The News will resume supplement. kena Tim Taylor, president of Sigma Nu publication Monday. See section B (See RIVES, page 7) fraternity, said the switch is scheduled 2A The Dally Easter& !Associated Press Coalition opens drive to in.crease 1 State/NatlonlWorld taxes to fu.nd·public universities Harassment victim to return to job hurt badly by the state's failure personal income tax SPRINGFIELD-A former state Corrections Depart­ to increase funding in proportion provide more education ment spokeswoman who successfully argued that she was to rising costs. That problem was but its members fired for complaining about sexual harassment said exacerbated by last summer's declined to specify the $53 Wednesday she's ready to go back to work for the man she million cut in higher such an increase. accused of harassing her. education support, they said. ''Whether it's one-half Lynda Savage won a major round in a four-year legal "We are now starting to pay 1 percent or 1.5 percent, dispute earlier this week when the state Human Rights the price of a decade and a half of ready to commit to," V Commission ordered the Corrections Department to pay neglect," said Mitch Vogel, ''We should let the her more than $130,000 and reinstate her in her former president of the Universities determine the solution." job. Council of the Illinois Federation Leaders of the coalition, "I don't think it's going to be easy," Savage said. ''It's of Teachers. also includes the Illinois certainly not the ideal to return a victim to the harassing "Education cuts are not only Association and the work place, especially when they don't seem to admit they felt immediately, but long after Federation of State, Co were harassing me. 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