Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 1990 10-26-1990 Daily Eastern News: October 26, 1990 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 26, 1990" (1990). October. 19. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_oct/19 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1990 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ·············~··~. ..-_-:::~:~ anman revokes Panther Lounge license MIKE CHAMBERS • Roe's feeling I After eight hours of testimony Panthers' pinch. d a week of deliberation, Char­ Page2 s ton Mayor Wayne Lanman • Steidinger sounds led the owner of the Panther ounge was guilty of 65 of 68 future warning. leged violations of the city's Page2 uor ordinance and revoked his uor license. Muller said he was surprised Lanman, who is also Char­ this type of commission process ston · s liquor control commis­ hasn't been found unconsti tution­ ·oner. found Dave Isbell guilty al. violating the city's liquor ordi­ "This commission form is a ce and took the recommenda­ foolish measure that was imple­ on of the city to impose the . mented during World War IL It's ost severe penalty. never been changed, and it Lanman's decision, if upheld should," he said. roughout the appeals process. "It's an issue he can take up ould forbid Isbell from serving with the state liquor commission­ "quor in Charleston permanently. er," Charleston City Attorney Isbell's attorney, S. John Brian Bower said in response to uller, said he will appeal the Muller's claims. "That is the pro­ eci sion to the Illinois Liquor cedure dictated by the legislature. ontrol Commission. And I agree with the procedure." Prior to the hearing, Muller Isbell 's troubles began Aug. 31 led a motion that would dis­ with a 12:30 p.m. raid of Panth­ alify Lanman from the hearing ers. 1421 Fourth St.. by Char­ d allow Muller to take the case leston police. Inside, police fore a circuit court judge. found 67 people under the age of "It's insanity," Muller said. 19, which is the legal age to enter he (liquor) commissioner acts a bar in Charleston. Police also judge, jury and executioner in found a 20-year-old woman con- CARL WALK/Staff photographer e case." The Panther Lounge, 1421 Fourth St., will be closed as ofSaturday because its owner, Dave Isbell, had his • Continued on Page 2 liquor license revoked by Charleston Mayor Wayne Lanman. stablishment has recent history of suSpensions CANDICE HOFFMAN Charleston bars, was fined $125 after being found guilty of a The charges were made after an Eastern student and a TIM SHELLBERG city and ordinance prohibiting the sale of alcohol to minors. Charleston resident admitted to consuming alcohol in the The fines were handed down as a result of a mid-January two bars prior to getting into a car accident in late January of police raid in which 35 students were arrested. that year. The car accident injured both minors. Mayor Wayne Lanman's revocation of Panther Lounge • In February 1989, Panthers served a three-day suspen­ • In April, Panthers, along with nine other Charleston bars, ner Dave Isbell's liquor license may be the final offense sion as a result of a 1986 accusation for selling liquor on a was suspended for one week for violating the city ordinance aced by the tavern, but it hasn't been the first penalty Sunday. According to S. John Muller, attorney for Panthers, prohibiting the serving of alcohol to minors. posed over the years by the city of Charleston. the employees were not selling liquor, but were having a The suspensions were handed down as a result of a The Daily Eastern News files indicate: Super Bowl celebration party. Charleston Police-conducted "sting" operation, in which a • In November 1984, Panthers was suspended by the city • In August of that year, Panthers owner Dave Isbell, plainclothed police officer and a 19-year-old police infor­ r two weeks after violating a parking code violation, which along with Thirsty's Tavern owner Jim Sears, had their mant entered the bars, and the informant was served alcohol. lls for a parking space for every two seats in the building. liquor licenses suspended for two weeks on charges of serv­ In addition, 12 bartenders were fined $250 for serving the • In February 1986, Panthers, along with six other ing alcohol to.two minors. informant. ec .Center on target for fall completion TIME TO completion date. ball gymnasium will be added. equipment will be placed in the FALL BACK In fact, Eastern Physical Plant "We made it a high priority to get circuit weight room and multi­ director Vic Robeson said the the maximum amount of space," purpose rooms in the building. Despite bouts of inclement center should develop some sem­ Gruber said. Those decisions will be made ath er, collapsed cranes and blance of an actual building, or at The additional gym was tenta­ beginning in January, when en summer pickets, the new least the skeleton of one, within tively penciled into the center's Robeson said open bids would be udent Recreation Center is for the next two months. original plans, but Gruber taken for the equipment. most part on target with its The center was approved explained the extra gym was con­ "We want to determine what ojected fall 1991 completion through a student referendum last tingent upon the availability of will please the people the most," te. November that stipulated students funding. Robeson said. "We don't want to Champaign architect Bob would not begin paying for the Keeping the building as simple end up with a whole bunch of uber, who designed the rec facility until it opened. as possible and eliminating a equipment and no place to go nter, visited Eastern Thursday Brett Gerber, Eastern's Board "planter" area helped make up the with it." update members of the Rec­ of Governors representative, said approximately $400,000 neces­ The members of the Rec­ ational Sports Board and the a determination will be made in sary to include the gymnasium, reational Sports Board also will ently reconvened Recreation February as to whether the 1991 Gruber said. play a hand in determining the nter Planning committee on the fall semester students will have to And even though nothing con­ uses, policies and procedures of ter" s progress. pay an estimated $54 student fee crete has been determined. the building, which will offer six ruber said he believes con­ increase to begin funding the cen­ Robeson noted preliminary plans basketball courts, eight volleyball Turn back your clock uction for the $6 million, ter. That decision will be based on to fill the facility have begun. courts and 14 badminton courts. 0-square foot facility has the center's progress at that time. Robeson and Dean Carol Pyles of At least one member of that and catch an extra n slightly behind schedule Gruber coupled the center's the College of Health, Physical board had voiced concern that the hour of sleep ause of inclement weather, progress report with the news that Education and Recreation, met Recreational Sports Board was SUnday morning. gh not enough to affect the the equivalent of a sixth basket- last week to discuss what kinds of •Continued 011 Page 2 lA Friday, October 26, 1990 The Dally Eastern News Steidinger vows future intensive investigations By TIM SHELLBERG the (offending) liquor license establish­ conducted "a short time" after Lanman not intending to single the bar out as an Staff writer ment, be (the offense) underage entrance, met with Charleston bar owners in late example - Panthers owner Dave Isbell illegal consumption or whatever." August. thinks otherwise. Charleston Police Chief Herb Steidinger Although Steidinger said Charleston bar "Mayor Lanman conducted a meeting on "How many (bar) raids have been con­ said Thursday that future violations of city owners need not learn a lesson from the the morning of Aug. 29 with Charleston ducted in the city in the last year?" Isbell liquor ordinances will be handled with the Panthers revocation, he feels the message bar owners, and one of the things that (he) asked, adding he felt he had been singled­ same intensity as the Panthers investiga­ "should be very clear to liquor license advised the bar owners was to watch out o u t by the city. "That's kind of self· tion. holders in this town that when the liquor for underage patrons," Steidinger said. explanatory." "If the police have any information that commissioner voices a caution or concern "On the early morning hours of (Aug. Steidinger, however, could not predict (the bar owners) are allowing anyone under to them, he means what he says." 30), Eastern police officers notified us of the impression the Panthers revocation will 19 into your establishments. we 're going to Steidinger said he approves of Mayor two separate incidents. in which 18-year­ have"tfn the future actions of the other bar investigate," Steidinger said. "As far as the Wayne Lanman's revocation decision. olds admitted they were allowed entrance owners and Eastern students. Charleston Police Department is con­ Lanman also serves as Charleston's Liquor into Panther Lounge." "As far as the future impact (of the revo­ cerned. we are going to use whatever oper­ Commissioner. Although Steidinger said the raid was cation). that remains to be seen." Steidinger ations are necessary to combat violations of Steidinger added the Panthers raid was conducted based on those two incidents - said.