Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 1986 3-14-1986 Daily Eastern News: March 14, 1986 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 14, 1986" (1986). March. 10. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_mar/10 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1986 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. a flklay, March 14, 1986 ... wll be partty Sll\flyand cooler, with highs in the upper- 40s or lower 50s Friday night wil be part1y doudy. and stern News with lows in the mid 30s. colder � lllnoisUniverBity I Ctwteaton. m. 61920Vd. I 71, No. 125 /Three, Sections 28.Pages ten dance licyvoted wnbyCAA Council on Academic Affairs voted usly against a proposed attendance policy ouldhave given intructors the option to drop who have missed 25 percent of classes by ugh there was no discussion at Thursday's , the attendance. policy met strong opposition members at the Feb. 20 meeting, where a Senate resolution opposing the proposal was er policy said to address a student at- problem will be discussed at next week's ting. CAA member Dan Hockman has CHRISTINE BREWER I Staffphotographer to change the number of days students have New$Scan 51 raw from class to 20 class days. Students have 60 calendar days to withdraw from Lesa Black, a senior speech communications also a senior speech communications major:, were major, interviews Richard Erikson Thursday for asking students for their opinions on Ch�rleston was no discussion on Hockman's proposal Eastern's nightly newscast which airs at 6 p.m. Mayor Murray Choate's first year in office. ay 's meeting, but a second Student Senate Black and Debbie Zouvas (behind the camera), -this one opposing the withdraw! d a letter from a student who also opposes were presented to the council. dent Senate resolutiqn said the proposal Eastern releases AIDS state�ent, uce the number of days students have to and receive-a grade of W by 35 days. tion also said the proposal would force places no restriction on victims tors to give grades of WP and WF without a grade basis or unfairly on the By JEAN WRIGHT Dr. Jerry Heath, Health Service director, said ne or two small quizzes or homework Campus editor there is no specific Eastern policy that deals with " Eastern administrators have released the AIDS communicable diseases. However, he added that any from John Allston, a graduating senior, statement after the President's Council approved it at communicable disease must be reported to the state · 'lar concerns. its March 5 meeting. but information on individual cases is not released. said "many students may not realize that The council is made up of Eastern President "Students are concerned about it (AIDS), and they serious trouble until after they have Stanley Rives; Verna Armstrong, vice president for should be," Heath said. "I've done three tests for ·r test scores from the midterm exams. administration and finance; Edgar Schick, vice AIDS antibodies and they were all negative." a chance to have taken a test or two president for academic affairs; Glenn Williams, vice Although Heath said students are concerned, he decide if to drop or not." president for student affairs; and· Daniel Thorn­ said it is a preventable disease if intravenous drugs business, the CAA approved revisions in burgh, director of university relations. are not used and if "safe sex" is practiced. n standards of the College of Business. The statement reads: "The Health Service will The AIDS statement was originally sent for review · , dean of the College of Business, said treat AIDS in the normative fashion of a com­ to the Board of Governors in January. :ire mostly in language and would not municable disease on a case-by-case basis. The systems office reviewed the statement for legal er for transfer students to be admitted "Because of the low level of communicability of problems and advised Eastern how to handle a ge. the disease as per the best current medical advice, the policy. g, it's ma1.ing it easier," Ivarie said. university places no automatic restrictions on AIDS "There wouldn't be any adopting of a policy for !icy is es!>entially the same as the old victims, either as students or employees, other than the BOG," Jack Bleicher, BOG vice chancellor for point avt rages for students seeking as individual case conditions may dictate. legal and student affairs, said. He add�d that all but to the College of Business will be "The university will make a concerted effort to two of the BOG schools have drafted a statement. 'th grades from all ·colleges the st · • disseminate information concerning AIDS so that the ''The plan was not to approve, but to advise and to attended. college community may avail itself of background on help them (BOG schools) come up with a policy," failed junior college courses are not AIDS prevention and on symptoms and treatment of Bleicher said. th eir GPA if transfer students have the disease. Information concerning AIDS. may be "They really didn't ask to approve the policy," successfully completed that course at obtained through· both residence hall orientation Rives said of the BOG. "The board just wanted to :ITENDANCE, page lOA) programs and from the Health Service on campus." (See EASTERN, page lOA) ecture ends in argume.nt, differer1ces of opinion history of the Soviet Union. He also control and the fate of S,)I, Horak tactic of the revolution.'' touched on the issue of Strategic said a trustful negotfr.ting stance After Lenin came to power in 1918, the United Defense Initiative, the $26 billion "should not be extended to the Soviet he visualized the future relationship Soviet Union "cannot research, testing and deployment Union and history is most convincing between the Soviet Union and the nor resolved when taken program designed to create a shield of that." capitalistic countries as fundamentally of history," an Eastern against a Soviet nuclear missile attack. "Marxist-I. .!ninism," Horak said, antagonistic, Horak said. r said Thursday night. Following the lecture, a dispute "has shifted ·ram earlier regionalism" Horak said research of SDI is similar an audience of about broke out between two .students over to "universa 'ism." to the "Manhattan Project." He said luding six with their the right to use the microphone to Followinr the peasant uprising in the the "Manhattan Project ... produced represent casualties of present personal views that differed Soviet Un ion in 1917, the atomic bomh which shortened the -in Coleman Lecture from Horak's. "Leninisr 1-Marxism emerged not as war (World War II) and saved many Horak outlined the Concerning negotiation on arms a doctrir.e, but rather as a theory and (See SDI, page lOA) I election coverage St. Patrick's Day candidates in Tuesday's primary, see pages 5-8. Find out why the Irish wear green on March 1 7, see Verge. 2A . Friday, March t 4, t 986 Msociated-Press Bill could overhaul ·income taxes WASHINGTON (AP)-Senate Finance any more complicated than the present State/Nation/World Committee Chairman Bob Pac\(wood on code." Thursday introduced-with President Reagan's "The president is on board. He supports Effingham sergeant suspended support-a bill that would produce the most­ bill. I am delighted," Packwood said. sweeping changes in the federal tax system in committee will start work on the legislation EFFINGHAM-A local police sergeant arrest on drug · more than 30 years, reducing individual income week; Packwood said he hopes the bill charges has been suspended from the department for taxes by an average 8.4 percent. completed by May 1 and refusing to cooperate in a federal counterfeiting in­ ready for Reag sign by Aug. 15. vestigation, authorities said Thursday. The legislation would raise consumer taxes on Most changes would The Effingham Police and Fire Commission suspended alcohol, tobacco and gaso::ne and shift to take effect next Jan. The bill includes the R Sgt. Randall Whitley without pay on Wednesday pending a corporations a tax burden of between $110 provisions that has said are essential to any "tax reform. hearing April 4, said Glenn A. Braderi, the commission's billion and $185 billion over the next five years. would cut tax rates significantly for attorney. How the excise tax increases would affect the indivi and corporati The action came less than a week after the suspension of total tax picture of individuals and businesses is a ons, raise the standard dedu boost the personal exemption Police Chief Ronald Rentfrow, who also refused to matter of speculation. to $2,000 Packwood, unveiling the new plan at a news almost all taxpayers, restrict cooperate in the probe, Braden said. investment conference, said it would make the tax system saving incentives. It also would retain the College faces 'tarnished' image more fair, ensure that rich individuals and free status of most employees fringe benefits profitable companies pay a share of tax, and _ The bill-like the one proposed by Reag PROVIDENCE; R.1.-Reports of a prostitution ring increase incentives for investment in job-creating the 'version passed by the House last allegedly involving Brown University students could un­ activities. As for simplification, the Oregon · her-would free more than 6 million low-in fairly tarnish the Iv.y League school's image, administrators Republican could promise only that "it is not people from the income tax altogether.