Eastern Illinois University The Keep November 1978 11-21-1978 Daily Eastern News: November 21, 1978 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_nov Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: November 21, 1978" (1978). November. 15. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1978_nov/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 November by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ln!iide J . .. Page 3: i exceptional lfuesday will be cloudy Text fee hike favored "They have mid cold with a high in on I teams · Page 7: the mid to upper 30s. It Eastern News Food service worker will be cloudy Tuesday efrom1-10 a fired ai!tit with rain likely and Jte playoffs; Tuesday, Noy. 21, 1978/Charleston, 111/Vol. 65, No. 59/12 Pages" Page 12: 1low in the mid 30s. lmes in a row Panthers to Cal-Davis lmgstown at rill because iam that has me," Mudra Guyana troops move after 383 cultists ·die GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - attorney� �harles Garry, spent in the Troops swept through a steaming camp and the rainy jungle nearby late . jungle Monday in search of American Saturday and Sunday. ts religious zealots who fled their remote Lane, a prominent champion of con­ compound and left behind a scene of troversial cases and a legal counsel to horror and death- the bodies of at least the sect, said he and Garry were 383 fellow cultists, some shot, most barred from a mass meeting· at the apparently poisoned · by their own camp, Jonestown, �ut that they heard hands in a mass suicide. residents discussing communal suicide Among the bodies foundat the camp over a loudspeaker. Lan.e said one were those of the sect's fanatical spoke of ''the beauty of death as part ale founder. the Rev. Jim Jones, his wife of our struggle." The . cultists reportedly had long and "one of their children, said Police· Chief C. Augustus. cohsidered mass suicide if they felt Soldiers counted 163 women, 138 their sect threatened. Jones and the men and 82 children among the· dead. sect had been under investigation in They all were -believed to be Ameri­ California before he founded the cans. Guyana camp last year. · Many reportedly had lined up to Lane said the meeting began at take doses of poison from a tub. about 5 p.m. Only 40 minutes'earlier, a The mass deaths apparently occured half-dozen sect members ambushed about an hour or more after members Ryan's group at a nearby. airstrip, of the California sect, People's Tem­ where they were trying to fly out som_e ple, ambushed a visiting investigative disenchanted sect members. group led by Congressman Leo J. · Lane, being guarded with Garry in a Ryan, killing Ryan and four others. building· some c;listance from the Augustus said there was no evi­ meeting, said he had heard medical were preparing dence of gunshot wounds on the personnel poison in bodies of Jones, his wife or child. "It a large vat . 'somewhere in the appears that they qrank some poison," camp. he said. But he said that from their vantage · Still unaccounted for were between point they also saw a dozen men take 500· and 900 of Jones' followers, who ••many" automatic rifles from a shed. fled into the jungle around the . agri­ One of their two guards told them, cultural commune, 150 miles north­ "We are all going to die now," Lane west of this South American capital. said. The killings and mass suicide, trig­ "They were smiling. They looked gered by Ryan's inspection visit, genuinely happy.'• he said. apparently were the final cry of a He and Garry persuaded the guards ticipation violence-hardened and paranoid group · to release them, Lane said, by telling that saw the world closing in. them he would "write the story" of in the Union Monday to buy American lawyer Mark Lane, who Jonestown for the outside world. ltudents formed a long line and waited for hours � :ts for the upcoming Charlie Daniels concert. The Daniels Band will be escaped from the jungle camp just Before letting them go. the two guards m1ing at Eastern on December 6 in the Lantz Building. (News photo by before the mass deaths, told reporters hugged both lawyers. '1g Stockel) . of terrifying hours he and another 'urk's pass in the came on a fourth tudents paying indirectly for BOG meetings by Craig StockeQi laura Fraembs and the BOG office in Springfield, he eons for the meetings are held at what's going on,'' Hesler said. Eastern students indirectly pay for - said. hotels off campus and catered;'' and For example, entertainment for the 'ximately one-third of the $600 to Wheri Eastern hosts the meeting, the cost ranges from a low of $700 fo a visitors, such as tickets to a play, is al- it costs to host Board of the cost "may vary from time to time high of $1,000. sometimes provided and adds to the mors meetings like the one held but is usually ·somewhere between Otis 0. Lawrence," acting coordina- total cost, he said. Y at Northeastern Illinois $600 and $900," Hesler said. tor of the BOG office at Q-overnors . "The president, meeting with other ersity. "This does not include people time State, said Wednesday,_ "We simply administrators, decides what will be That may be too much,. �everal offered," Hesler added. · (cost incurred when faculty and admin- request a room on campus and arrange- 1pus leaders said recently. istrators take time off to attend the to serve coffee." Hesler said, "You have �o remem­ (en Hesler, director of university meeting), but is mostly involved with a University employees sometimes ber that the governance of an.institu­ 'ons, saidrecently money to host a - reception and dinner served the first entertain the visit.ors at personal tion costs money, and relatively meeting on campus can range up night and a coffee break and luncheon _ expense, but the only cost to·the school speaking, the amount spent is not very made a big dif· ICJOO. the next day,'' '1e added. is "coff«�e at four dollars per gallon,'' much.. 1e," asistant co� Since almost one-third of the budget In comparison, John Maguire, assis- he said. "Of course, tQere is an added lid. "UMSL ,wu s'from student fees, students are tant director of news services at Martha Fletcher, Walter's adminis- responsibility as a host, but it is the us and from that effect paying part of the cost of Western, said Tuesday the total cost trative aide, said recently the last cost of doing business and is not :ln't do anythinll" ing the meeting. unusual," he said. forthe year's September meeting held· . meeting held at the BOG office The BOG, a governing· unit for at Western was $574.22. included only a dinner at a cost. of However, Financial Vice President the home field em, Western Illinois, Northeast- He said the cost covered the same $6.50 per person. Tom- Dersch said he had ''mixed ·crowd helped out a Illinois, Governors State and events· Hesler mentioned but was Chicago State officials could not be emotions" about a "fo�idable sum .. 01cago state universities, usually "somewhat inflated beeause we had a reached for comment on the oost for such as $900 being spent to have the () national competl every month except December library dedication with guests on hosting the meetings there. meeting on campus. - "Eyeryone is verf lugust, Donald Walters, execu- campus the s�me day.'' . While the amount of money spent to Dersch pointed out that Eastern's k we . deserve it. officer of the BOG, said recently. Jean Kelchauser, assistant to the host a meeting may vary between budget is composed of approximately �al team spirit, not The site of the two-day meeting is president at Northeastern, said Tues- schools, it also varies from meeting to one-third student fees and two-thirds ishment, and this is 1ted between the five universities day ."most of our dinners and lunch- meeting at Eastern "delJ_endin� on (See STUDENTS pa!!� 5) � can have." Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1978 " •astern lfews (JP) Newssltorts Bernie Frey dent govem1 THE WHOLE COUNTRYIS WAITING TO SEE Monday sai JACQVELINEBISSET. ring a propose AS YOU'VE NEVERSEEN HER BEFORE! Library fees, Pontiac guards relieved to further ex11 "JACQUELINE BISSET report on Jibr� :'(1"\Tl.\1..., . \..\Pl-Fourteen guards at the Pontiac Correctional Center 111. 11IIS TANTALIZING BEAU· dent for Stud ·.\ .. duties Monday when they refused to take prisoners from their TY, USUALLY MIRED IN �, ..1-=t•!ie\ ·t•J l,f . lams concludes BAD FU.MS, IS HERE GIVEN :;:>� !'.·, :�r..:h :ind exer�ise. A CHANCE TO EVOLVE IN ry needs an i .···.i:-'... ·s dirt:.:wr of th state Department of Corrections. said the R,,wt:. � A COMPLEX, INTRIGUING ter for its ope : :-.�!> \\ ;;.•:-;:- ,,r,it'red h' but were told to return for duty Tuesday. He said FASHION TO CREATE A i-· kaw. e report also WOMAN VERY MUCH THE .-. :.' \\•'�I ;J re S:.Jrje.:t tl' disciplinary action. PRODUCT OF �E CON­ must be bui ':\.:" ;:- !>.l:� eight guards refused h> take inmates into the prison yard for FUSED TIMES." 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