Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC August 1983 Daily Egyptian 1983 8-2-1983 The aiD ly Egyptian, August 02, 1983 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_August1983 Volume 68, Issue 183 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, August 02, 1983." (Aug 1983). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1983 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in August 1983 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 'Daily 13gyptian Tuesday.AUI!ust 2. 1983-Vol. 68. No. 183 ISSC awards up, but SIli·C studeIlts to get smaller shllre By Ginny Lw early to know exactly how many Stan Writer will be affected. Last year. 4.995 SIU-C students received ISSC Despite a $9 5 million in· monetary awards. he said. crease in the Illinois State The increase in IJ.sC's 1983-84 Scholarship Commission's appropriation - a re.ult of the award pool. SIU·C students will tax increase passeJ by the most likely get a smaller Legislature in July - ~iIl2!\Ow amount oC the total than they It to award between 10.t'fl/) .md dId last year. a University of­ 12.000 more scholarships l~h&i1 ficial said Monday. last year. according to Millie Dan Mann. assistant director Wright. assistant director of the of the Office of Student Work ISSC Office of Informational and Financial nssistance. said Services. that his office expectc; SIV-C's Last year. the ISSC gave out share to be less than i..~~ $3.ii 106.000 award'!. totaling S93 million its students received million. but as of July 31. th(. last year ~cal!S€ (If a change in commission has received 17 the ISSC's e'.igibility formula. percent more applications than "We think it will be less at the same time last year. despite the increase in tuition Wright said. and fees." he said. "The f:.r­ "We have a 17 percent in­ mula has been redEimed to crease already. so that's big." favor those students at private she said. "We're just lucky to schools with the higher tuition get this extra money." cost." Mann said that despite an Mann said that a "sizable increase in the number of ap- number" of sru-c students will be affected by that change, ~~~:r!il~ :1~u!~P~ th':! although he said that it was too year compared to the same time last Yf!8r, it is not yet clear whether more students· are applying for aid this year or wliefher more are just applying gus earlier. Last year at the end of June, the financial aid timee bad 'Bode received 11.291 ACT ap­ plications. which are the Gus says public college general applications students students' ~etting less and mllSt fill out to apply for all private college stucl.ents· getting types of aid. Mann said. This more of a bigger scholarship pie year at that timo::. tht' office had is what Reaganomics is all about. See ISSC. Page 3 Early release of prisoners is '8 surrender' Daley says View master Slaff PluMe It,. ScoU Sha. After 32 yean as SlU's ebieI pWegrapher, SIU. it certainly WG8't he the last eI .. CHI";AGO (AP) ~ Restorinr their sentences shortened by Rip St.lkea Is ca.llhag it ,uita later &his moatlt. _ slluUerbulc.'Ci.g. Ii or more .. SlU's _. the early release program tv varying degrees. JUl:tiCes said AaI ""laUe it may be tile ead of Ills work for "View maste.?, .. bin: &0 Page 10, relieve overcrowded pris.)DS 00 days was the mayimum an would continue the "wholesale inmate's sentence could be slashing" of dangerous con­ reduced under present law. victs' sentences and undermine The house panel is con­ public faith in the justice sidering legislative remedies, Six c()mmended for Ileroism by city system, Cook County State's an.. :mg them restoring the early Attorn~y Richard Daley said release program and less Bv Jeanna Hunter . We don't advoc?te citizens the street at the Carbondale bus r.!1nday. restrictive requirements for Si:\ff Writer going out chasil1g people on the depot. was watching out his window on the morning that "People are frightened." rumnf~r:~ inmates in cells streets. especially if it puts Daley, ~ ... ndishing a stack of them in jeopardy." Hogan said. Don's Jewelry was robbed. He letters from the families of Dalev and Will County State's The astute observations and Nevertheless. thal's f>:::actly said he noticed the men lea\;ng crime victims. told a legislative Attorney Edward Petka on .quick thinking of six people what Baiehen. Mayhugh and the store lock the door. He knew hearing. "We have examples of Sunday proposed an helped Carbondale Police catch Smith said. this was 1I0t a usual part of the people sentenced to prison for 10 Emergency Prison Expansion se',,:-al suspected burglars and A woman's panicked call for store keepe~'s routine. years on a rapt' charge who are Act. which calls for the tern· one suspected rapist this help during ~he early morning V,'hen Kilpatrick went over to out in four and committing porary doubling-up of inmates summer. hours of July ~.~ brought Smith. investigate. he found the vic· crimes days aUer their release. In about 2,500 eells and con­ Police Chief Ed Hogan said Balet>en and May~!Jgh outside tims tied up in the store. They "To restore early release struction of modular housing. that the police department had where they saw a man with a had already tripped the alarm "I do not beli~""e it is a long­ womar pfnned to th~ ground would amount to a surrender." more cluzen involvement in ~vhich notified police. but he concluded. term solution." :;did Daley, who investigations during the past across the street. Smith shouted Kilpatrick was able to supply Daley was the third 'N'itness to reiterated a call for building three weeks than in the last 10 at the man. who fled In foot. descriptions that led to the testify before the !JIint.is House new prisons. "But it is a better years. He saJd the poliee were The ';hree- chased the suspect arrest of three suspects and Judiciary Comp.littee cnaired alternative than early release." grateful for the assIStance and and c;,ugh! him as he was trying recoverY of much of the stolen by state Rep. Aaron JaIfe. 0- pleased and honored by the to esc:ape on a bicycle and held propertY. Hogar. said Skokie, which convened to Culen and Mahoney. however. contributions. him for police. The suspE"d is Horner and Daugherty. cit) under .li·,TeSt for attempted rape consider proposals for an said early release was Russell Kilpa~rick. Tyler code enforcement officia ~s. a~.gravated emergency solution to the preferable to putting two in­ Smith, Dan Baii'lten, Brett and assault. were drivirlt~ by the Rf;X Loan state's overcrowded pMsocaS. mates in a cell built for one. Daugherty and Norman Horner Qm:ervation is eClsier and not Company wh,"n Horner pointed The threat of overcrowrling. were honored with citizens as dangerous as rarticipation. out how strangt: ;t was that two became a reality last month Mahoney pointed out that commendations at a press and that's what police men were wearing stoelting wb(>n the Illinois Supreme Court . conference Friday. Dan recommend. Hogan said people caps in mid-summer. struck down the early I ~)t·ase p.~~ ~:_~~~::rlrc~e~ Mayhugh was not present at the should be alert to anything out About that time. Horner S'".Jld. progr;!m, under whiCh inmates another crime) ata greater rate press conference but he was of the ordinary and should the Men pulled the stOCk..Ifl!i!. were credited with than tht-.:Je who ser ve their also awarded a citizen com­ observe at a safe distance. "meritorious (fOOd time" and sentenc-o:!S." mendation. Kilpatrick. who was across See HEROES. Page 2 Reports have Percy for ahead News Roundun--- Communists arrested in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The government rounded up in battle for cantpaign funding members o.f three banned leftist political parties Monday and temporarily lifted a nationwide curfew so people could buy WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen accounted for $4,000 while 56 porations and unions may not ftod after a week of ethnic warfare in which more than 200 Cliiii':~ H. Percy, R-Ill., ha" contributors of $1,000 or more contribute directly to can- people were lulled. jumped to an overwhelming who listed addresses in the (iidates but may do so through Douglas Liyanage, secretary of the Ministry of State, rund-ra~.ing lead over GOP affluent North Shore suburbs of PACs, often operated by their reported orders for ttv.! arrest of "a number" of members of chaUen~:er Tom Corcoran, Lake Forest, Winnetk~ and lobbyists. which collect funds amr.;:;:Ilg $757,064 in six Kenilworth or on Chicago's from employees and union t"e Communist Part·;, which has one seat in the 168-member months. the candidatt::;' reports Lake Shore Drive furnished a members. Parliament, and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramus and Nova :;iMIIt<\ Monday. total of $80.000. The American Medical Sana Samaj parties, which have nOf!e Corcoran. a 44-year-old Corcoran's largest con- Associatim gave Corcoran Cabinet ministers have also said there is evidence "foreign congressman who on June 13 tributor was Washington SI,200. Percy opposed a ban on elements" masterminded the alleged plot.