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CAA opposes � new entrance requirements By StaffMIKE writer BURKE The Council on Academic Affairs Thursday unanimously opposed possible new statewide college admission requirements being considered by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. The CAA combined a previously submitted resolution with a revised one, and the resulting compromise resolution passed by an 11-0 margin at Thursday's meeting. LISA HOFFERT I Staff photographer The new college admission requirements that the On your mark••• council is opposed to is expected to be passed by the Children from the Community Day Care at the O'Brien Fiel� track Thursday afternoon. IBHE at its Nov. 5 meeting. _ Wesley Foundation prepare for a jog on the - The CAA resolution, which is basically a letter opposing the new admission requirements, will be sent to IBHE board members and board staff, as well talian,premier resigns, as the Board of Governors. attacks U.S.· The first resolution, which was written by council RO'.VlE (AP)-Premier Bettino member Bob Barger, was not acted on by the .CAA at Craxi resigned Thursday, his Achille Lauro hijacking had pros, cons its last meeting because some of the members didn't coalition shattered by the way he like how parts. of it were worded. A revised · WASHINGTON (AP)-After. basking in the triumph qf the capture the ship hijacking crisis, resolution, written by council members Alan \ handled of the hijackers of the Achille Lauro, the Reagan administration now he went down swinging at the Aulabaµgh and Dan Hockman, was then submitted. and must deal with the unfavorable consequences, underscored by the fall of After council members debated on whether to United States for its "polemical an Italian government long supportive of American interests. simply state their opposition to the admission · tone" in the affair. Particularly disturbing to some is that a terrorist incident could have requirements, as i_n the revised resolution, or rather In statement to Parliament the to the resignation of the government of Premier Bettino Craxi of a led to discuss in depth the reasons why they oppose Socialist premier accused Italy, an important NATO ally. Washington of making statements . them, as Barger did in his writing, a compromise was all have to· shew terrorists can't achieve anyt ing by I. believe derive from an "We been trying h reached. which what they do," said Helmut Sonnenfeld!, former senior Nixon ad� evaluation of the facts a The new IBHE college admission requirements, if incomplete ministration official who is now a guest scholar at the Brookings In­ circumstances in which the passed, will go into effect in 1990 for Eastern and nd stitution here. "The terrorists didn't intend to overthrow the Italian Italian government acted." other universities and junior colleges in the state. government, but it is unfortunate that a terrorist incident can have The fate of Italy's 44th postwar :rn If the IBHE does pass the measure, high school effect of this magnitude." students would be required to have four years of sovernment, which in another Sonnenfeldt said the Craxi government "has been on the whole month would have been the a ver' English, three years each of math, social studies and good and 'effective government from an American standpoint ' ngest-lived, was sealed Wed­ laboratory science, and two years of foreign language nesday by the resignations of year-old American passenger, was Saratoga intercepted an Egyp:ian in order to be admitted into Illinois public colleges. Defense Minister Fiovanne­ ·killed \\'hile Palestinian pirates airliner carrying the pirates and The CAA favors the admission requirements it has Spadolini and two other Cabinet controlled the ship. Abbas and forced it to land at a set up for Eastern over these possible IBHE embers from his Republican The foreign policy conflict NATO air base in Sicily early requirements for a variety of reasons. Party. brought down the center-left Friday, Oct. 11. Several reasons brought out at the meeting is that They quit over the decision to coalition, which included five Craxi submitted his resignation the new· requireme.nts would· discriminate against elease Mohammed Abbas, a PLO parties, after 26 months in office� to President Francesco Cossiga high school students who attend smaller schools, as fficial the United States accuses Four Palestinians hijacked the after the speech to Parliament and well as minorities, and it would also make ·it im­ f directing the hijacking last ship Oct. 7 off Port Said, Egypt, was asked to stay on in a careteker possible for students to fulfill the requirements if week of the cruise liner Achille and surrendered Oct. 9. U.S. capacity. they didn't decide to go to college early in their high school careers. aura.. Leon Klinghoffer, a 69- Navy jets from the aircraft carrier ink Panther returns to games with a change of color majoring in speech-communications. Pieler was present at last week's Homecoming game. Where is the Pink Panther? "I've never had so much fun. It was great to look new Panther, decked out in black, appeared at up at the crowd and know that they weren't looking A st Saturday's home football game against Illinois at me, yet they were looking at me," Pieler said. tate after missing the first two home contests. She said the best part was the little kids' excitement The outfit used last year was borrowed and never of being able to sit on her lap. turned, Eastern Athletic Business Manager Nancy Dolan became a Panther mascot through Pieler's rarit said. enthusiasm. She is a ·third-year student fr<)m The new costume, Grant said, is well made out of Decatur, Ill., and is a junior high education major. pensive-looking material. It was purchased with Scheduled to make her first appearance at this Saturday's game against Southwest Missouri, Dolan oney fromthe Kansas football fund, she said. " Grant said anyone knowing the whereabouts of the said, have lots of surprises ready." "l costume should contact her. The athletic Harper became interested in being the Panther Id epartment would like to use both costumes at some when she saw it performingwhile she was a freshman fthe games, she said. in the band. She is a junior from Assumption, Ill., The Panther is not all costume, however. Not one, majoring in personnel marketing management. t two, but three Eastern students animate the When Pieler told Harper how to become a mascot, ascot. she said she jumped at the chance. Laurie Pieler, Amy Dolan and Mary Beth Harper Harper said her mother gave her a good recom­ !MICHAEL SITARZ I Photoeditor ake the Panther come to life at each home football mendation when she told her she was ''weird enough me. to be the Panther." Eastern's newest mascot, the black Panther, Pieler was a substitute fast year and is the main ''All you have to do is ad lib and just be weird,'' cavorts with Illinois State's Redbird mascot at last ascot this year with Dolan and Harper serving as Harper said. week's Homecoming game. The black mascot ternates. _ All three mascots said they are ready .for an·ex­ replaces the traditional pink mascot, which was Pieler is a sophomore from Homewood, Ill., citing year of cheering the team on and having fun in borrowed last year and never returned. the process. 1 -Friday, October 18, 1985 The Dally Eutem Ne �ssoclated Press State/Nadon/World StrikersHIGHLAND PARK, Mich want. (AP)-Chrys lerwalkout ' union. ended Corp., losing an estimated $15 million a day Chrysler spokesmen said the auto mak State revenue expected to ·arop from a strike by 80,000 U.S. and Canadian would have no official comment on either strike. workers could settle the walkout quickly if it Chrysler recovered spectacularly from i SPRINGFIELD-Illinois may never regain the 363,000 would "loosen up a bit," a union negotiator said financial problems in the early 1980s. But th manufacturing jobs lost in the recession and is likely to see Thursday. No. 3 automaker has said it may "bleed t less tax revenue than expected this year, the General But one determined striker said the company death" in a protracted strike because of the aut Assembly's economic forecasting arm reported Thursday. would face a "long, cold winter" unless com­ industry's boom and bust nature. Gov. James R. Thompson said the new revenue estimate pany Chairman Lee lacocca helps end the Dean, 47, who works at Chrysler's Detroi strengthens his argument for an 8-cent state cigarette tax walkout. engine plant, said he believed lacocca w increase to finance education, but legislative leaders The autoworkers, who gave up an estimated $1 bargaining in bad faith because the recover remained unconvinced: billion in concessions to help the carmaker company can afford a union demand of contra The state economic and Fiscal Commission, a bipartisan survive a brush with bankruptcy, "feel parity with workers at General Motors Corp.