Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1978 4-21-1978 Daily Eastern News: April 21, 1978 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 21, 1978" (1978). April. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_apr/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 1978 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sophomore · Peter Samuel as Psychiatrist Martin Dysart, and senior Earl Halbe as his patient, Alan Strang, I discuss a therapy session in the left photo, while the giant silhouette of a horse's head looms below, sym­ bolizing the boy's disturbed mind. Both are depic"ted in the Theatre Department's production of "Equus" to be performed this weekend. (News photos by Craig Stockel) Eastern flews Friday, April 21, 1978/Charleston, HI. Vol. 63 No. 136/2 Sections/ 20 Pages alls-;,.., to be i. closed uring pre-sessionwill come Vicki Pape in. house around Residence halls will not be open "We should pro�ably of current Johnson said. �ay's first game ing presession because 350," that He added that normally the office /s only to lose a :sing requests and figures 400 residents. �t Indiana State 'icate summer enrollment may be handles around that Taylor Hall would e diamondmen slightly from last year. He also said hall open for summer eheader against Randy Johnson, associate director of be the residence .sing, said Thursday that despite session. Taber, dean of student aca­ • • close figures on Sam 1; .. comparatively 28 that ' er pre-registration between this demic services, said Thursday . pre-registered for and last, housing requests for the 1,767 students have 1ave been your session as compared to · by 100 from last the summer · find out how, can .er are down 00 last year. 12, or check the "right around" 1,8 1 the 1le bottom of "We don't have enough requests to "Enrollment on the undergr:aduate pre-registration is presession, " Johnson said. level for summer with last year," Taber said. s id that the figure comes from about parallel incy apt. $125/mo. He a ' just returned" Taber explained that there are still 345-634 7 after 6 results of a survey the Housing Office concerning students who will register during the 28 ' :er housing. upcoming registration days for sum­ arleston. $150 per h " ht now there are 300 people mer and presession. deposit lease Rig & wanting enrollment for the sum­ City Clerk's Office. ·ng to summer school "The total :ing," Johnson said. mer last year was 2,881 and my hope-is ' 24 He added, though, that the Housing that we sustain at least at last year's ummer 2 bedroom \' that more requests level," Taber said. Near campus $180. anticipates ' 22 \ or two bedroom bedroom furnished � y. were putpassions · For example, during one rehearsal, Women onl of steady preparation by ofshadows, the cast and technical crew soon. three months through Loriquus' Milter a travel Department. to the . test of remaining true to the Halbe completed his spiritual-sexual 1e giant silhouette ·of a horse's Eastern's Theatre Arts and while providing a new in- climax with the horse Equus, a scene looms against the back of a bare The show is a powerful play, of the which holds one of the keys to the wall, and against the passionate psychologically violent study terpretation. of Alan the show was cast., with boy'.s imbalance. of a disturbed boy. sexual and religious obsession In February, id who·blinds and senior Earl The scene is written so that the shadow is of Equus, the god­ Strang, a 17-year-old boy junior ·Gary Shrader his treatment by as Strang and senior John rhythm of its lines brings the scenes of Alan Strang, and the symbol six horses, and Halbe envies Peter and audience to a tense peak, but drama "Equus," to be per- psychiatrist Martin Dysart, who Hightower and sophomore / the by one es positionsa will be and and loves the boy for his passions. Samuel as Dvsart. Halbe rehearsed surrounded r 1ed at Eastern this weekend regularly plays Because it has been offered in the Early rehearsals for "Equus" were sleeping cast member and two other and the Theatre Arts Playroom, groups of chattering actors. eath, who normally "Equus" makes its appearance here past year at Champaign, Chicago held in Gab­ remnants and under Although these kinds of distractions tnd Maureen Fitz­ almost three years in New York Sullivan, Director E. Glendon amid of old sets members glare both the work appear to be common at early during the season. London, i_ll film and after almos� bard sairl recently, he and the the baleful of : lights rehearsal, Gabbard said he thinks it bles team of Kathy and Gabbard. � Although the show almost brutally may be good for the actor's con­ 'roth will compete compels the audience to watch, the centration to act among it all. lone doublesentry._ Friday SunnyFriday will be sunny by the afternoon with a high rehearsals in the Playroom were held "Sometimes an actor will just say in the upper 40s to lower 50s. It will be fair and cold over the chattering of other cast 'Shut up, I can't concentate,' but netter· with a low 30 to Saturday will be. Friday night, 33. m�mbers. who perhaps had seen it ·so ., usually · we right on with it," senior at Rich East gp � jncr.easingly ,cloudy and warmer, with a high in th�· one ' even the ost .Pow tful' letter of intent ? tti��. � � · (Se�·1EQWs', d a upper 50s ta lower 60s. _ , , f scenes ate ignored. ' ' \ . : . - . .. pag� 5) . tennis team last � �--'-'--��---. foyce David said. 2 Friday, April 21 • 1 9 7 8 . ______ ·.-.:-:..:....___..,. PEOPLESh. - i.> � �v ��.b U.S.-USSR talks resume � ��� MOSCOW (AP)-Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet leaders opened arms talks in the Kremlin Thursday on a conciliatory note but with an American warning of "complex and difficult problems" ahead. T-SIHR1S Neither Vance nor his Soviet counterpart, Foreign Minister Andf"ei A. v Gromyko, expect to achieve a dramatic breakthrough in the stalled U.S.-Soviet SALT negotiations for a new strategic arms limitation treaty. But the at­ mosphere was more hopeful than when Vance last visited the Soviet capital in ''THE March 1977 and came away emptyhanded. "So far We can express the hope that these talks will lead to positive results," Gromyko said after the three-hour first round of talks, described as MAGICKINGDOM businesslike. "We have hope for hope." DESIGN Canal plan an·gers Senate - FIRST ''5 " LETTERS WASHINGTON (AP)- The Senate might have killed the Panama Canal OF NAMEONBACK treaties if it had known in 'advance that Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos had for the waterway, an informal survey of senators contingency plans sabotaging , indicated Thursday. Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., who labored harcj for ''FREE'' said, he "might have voted differently" had Torrijos approval of the two pacts, "YOUR JOLLY HABERDASHER" declared his intentions prior to Tuesday's vote on the second agreement. Shortly after the Senate approved the second treaty by a one-vote margin Tuesday night, Torrijos declared in a nationally televised interview that he was prepared to "liberate" the canal by force if the pacts had been killed. appointment nixed JudicialSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)-Proposals to appoint instead of elect Illinois Supreme Court and Circuit Court judges were scrapped Thursday by the Illinois House. Bu t House members left intact a proposal for gubernatorial ap­ i 407 LINCOLN AVENUE pointment of appellate court judges. CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS 11920 PHONE 217 345.5944 That was the net result after House members spent more than four hours Thursday tinkering with a proposed constitutional amendment to have judges appointed by the governor instead of elected by citizens. The reselution, if it gains approval of both houses of the General Assembly by May 7, would ask voters on the November ballot to approve or reject a proposed change in the state's constitution. The 230 lobbyists called illegal· SPRINGFIELD (AP)-More than 230 corporations, unions and other organizations have failed to comply with a law requiring them to register with the state as lobbyists, Common Caose alleged Thursday. Eas_tern flews In letters sent to Attorney General William J. Scott and the Sangamon County state's attorney, the citizens' group urged "speedy action" to require registration of the organizations. is now taking applications "Almost 90 percent of the interests seeking to influence legislation are ap­ f parently violating the Lobbyist Registration Act," said Lee E. Norrg_ard, executive director of Common Cause's Illinois Chapter. advertising positions for Bakalis: Elect state board CHICAGO (AP)-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael J. Bakalis called Thursday for the election of state school board members and said summer and fall. Chicago's voluntary desegregation plan should b� given a chance to work before girls it isturned down by the state. Bakalis, himself former state school superintendent, also urged that high S First school students be required to take literacy tests to qualify for diplomas. ee Marty Members of the state board, he said at a news conference, have not been ffoBeCh responsive to the people or the most pressing needs of the state. The board, appointed by the governor, has been more concerned with what he called at the peripheral iss�es such as desegregation instead of pupils' reading and math � abilities, he said.