Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC October 1983 Daily Egyptian 1983 10-25-1983 The aiD ly Egyptian, October 25, 1983 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_October1983 Volume 69, Issue 47 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, October 25, 1983." (Oct 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 October 1983 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Committee aproves bike rules By Bruce Kirkham 'Daily 13gyptian Staff Writer The University's Traffic and Parking Committee Monday Tuesday, October 25, 1983, Vol. 69, No. 47 80uthem lllinois University approved a set of regulations intended to increase bicycle safety measures on campus. The new rules include a regulation that prohibits bicyclist..q from riding under any Marine's role part of the Faner Hall breezeway. The regulation includes bicycle riders who are passing through Faner Hall on east-west ridewalks. questioned by The rule requires cyciists to walk bicycles under the breezeway. Ricycle parking racks will remain in their current locations under the SIU students breezeway, according to Clarence Doughl;'rty, vice By John Schrag "We want people to be aware president for campus services Staff Writer that Americans are over there and chainoar. of the committee. dying for no rE:330n, " said Rick Anoth~r regulation Thomas Jurgens stood with a Kanzler, a junior in history. designates the area between the group of friends in front of the "And we want them to know south end of Faner Hall and the Student Center Monday af­ that we don't want another north end of the Student Center ternoon and held up sign that Vietnam. as of( limits to bicycle riding at read "180 V .S. Marines killed; I Chuck Hicklin, also a junior in all times. Cyclists can, hope it's worth it. Protect them history. agreed with Kanzler however, walk their bicycles or pull them out." that American military in­ through the area. "Won't you join us?" he volvement in the Middle East The committee also approved called to a young woman who could escalate as it did in In­ a regulation stating that stared at the group before she dochina during the 19608. bicyclists are require(l to yield turned her head and walked "The government may not to pedestrians at all times. away. "It could have been your have learned anything from Dougherty said that signs brothu over there," he called Vietnam," he said, "but the marked "bicyclists must yield" after her. "It could have been American people did." will be placed at several your boyfriend who was killed." locations on campus. The signs Jurgens ~aid he and his ba~kn!~er~:i~~~~gr:n1 :;lIt:= will replace the current "yield" friends are trying to get peoplE' Studt:nt Center Tuesday. He signs on the pedestrian over- to question the role of the U.S. troops stationed in Lebanon ~~~r tht)a~~l1 ~~~b~i~e :~ See nUl,ES, Page 3 after the attack which killed at memory of the dead American least 186 U.S. Marines and servicemen, as requested by the sailors in Beirut Sunday. SIU-C Veterans Association. gus "A few of us got together and One member of the Veterans decidecl that we had to do club, Robert Toussaint, joined 'Bode something," he said. "There the call for a withdrawal of ar:: LOO many apatn(;!tic people troops. around here wandc!ring around "I think they should be pulled in their own little world. All out," said Toussaint. who spent we're trying to do is to get four years in the Marines. "We people to realize that it was had no business being there in Americans who died over there. the first place. We're not the We want them to ask 'Why?''' keepers of the world. H's not our Gus says the walk-your-bike A1thlillgh the group said it war." Mr. Pumpkin head rule WOD't be quite as effective primarily working to increase "'ollssaint, a junior in as a stick in tho) spokes, but awareness, most of the young :'_"'l'keting, said that the Mike Witt. freshmail, undeclared major, gets into the Halloween pedestrians can take comfort in men said they think the spirit Monday with his newly carved jack 0' lantern outside Abbott baving the law on their side in remaining trOOJ:3 in Lebanon Hall on Tbompson Point. the dodge 'em game. should be brought home. See ROLE, Fage 3 Search for casualties goes on BEIRUT (AP) - One by one, personal visit to Beir..:! Monday An anonymous telephone Robert Jordan told reporters: clawed through the debris and the bodies of 4.merican Marines stopping by both sites. caiit:r had claimed respon­ "There's nobody alive m there bodies continued to be pulled were pulled from their shat­ Both Iran and Syria rejected sibility for the attacks in the now. No, it would be a miracle." from the ruins. Besides the tered Beirut command post V.S. suggestions that those name of the "Islamic Earlier Monday, when the mounting toll "f dead, about 75 Monday, pushing the toll to at countri~ were behind bom­ Revolutionary Movement," a death toll stood at 161, officers wounded were evacuated to least 186 killed in the bloo:liest bings. Syria's govf;rnment previously unknown group. estimated 50 Marines and V.S. V .S. military hospitals in attack ~ .. ainst the V.S. military news!l8per des.'!ribed it instead At Beirut International Navy men remained buried Europe. since Vietnam. as a blow by Lebanese Airport, near the dust-l;,hrouded under the crumbled concrete. New stories emerged of the In Wa!>hington. as a political nationalists against "oc­ rubble of the Marine post, During tile day, cranes lifted horror of the first minutes after furor built over the Marines' cupation forces." command spokesman Maj. heavy slabs, rescue workers the explosion. mission, Pi'esidt!nt Reagan One surviving Marine, Robert declared that they will stay Calhoun, 21, of San Antonio, because "we have vital in­ Texas, said he was on the roof of terests in Lebanon." the four-story iluiiw~e; ... nen it Across America, meanwhile, Veterans club to Dlourn dead collapsed, knocking him un­ conscious. military messengers fanned out By Bru~e Kirkham Student Center. Tu<.'sday, Wednesday ard to bring word to scores of When he awoke, he told Staff Writer JaIlS said the action by the Thursday to give out arm reporters, "I got up and my families of their loved ones' Veterans Association is in no bands and provide in­ deaths in the Sunday morning friend Joe was willi me and he The SIU-C Veterans way intended as a political formation on further actions was trapped. I unburied him. bombing, carried out by an statement, but only to show by the association. unidentified suicide terrorist Association is asking the SIU­ We got up ... and we heard about C student body, faculty and sympathy "for our brothers Jans said the Veterans a thousand people, it seemed who detonated a bomb-rigged Association would probably truck. the community to wear blac!: who have died while serving like, screaming 'Help me! ,..00 arm bands or ribbons as a our country overseas in send sympathy cards to help me!'" show of sympathy for V.S. Lebanon." families of men from Illinois In the U.S. capital Monday, Marine families servicemen who lost their "We are doing this with the killed in the attack. House Speaker Thomas P. lives in the bombing of realization that this can O'Neill said Congress is "going await news. Marine headquarters in happen at any time to our The Undergraduate to have a complete review of Beirut Sunday. mel:! serving the United Student Orgp.nization en­ why we're there and whether it Page6 The Veterans Association Srotes. Our sympathy goes dorsed the week of mourning. is worthwhile to keep our boys has declared this week a out to the loved ones back "In the wake of such an there for diplomatic reasons." here in America while they event, I believe that more But Reagan. at a White House At least 23 French week of mourning for the news con.ference, ;;aid of the paratroopers also were killed in dead and wounded, according wait to find out how their than ever we must show sympathy and support for the Marines' role "The mission a similar, almost simultaneous to Kevin C. JaIlS, president of Marine is doing," he said. remains and .t remains un- attack at their con:mand post, the association. Jans made The Veterans Association families who have lost loved one mile from the Marine base. the riclquest at a Monday will set up a table in the north ones," said Stephanie French President Francois press conference at the end of the Student Center Jackson, USO vice president. See MARINES, I'age 3 "itterrand unexpectedly paid a Condition'o,f'wou'nded guards ----Wews Roundup" .' .. 'Minute of silence' struck down NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday str1)ck 'sa.tisfactory', spokeslDon says down a state law requiring a daily minute of silence in public; schools, ruling the measure was unconstitutional because it By Jl'nnifer Phillips connection between the two Powles and Ditterline were in forced students and teacher!' into a "posture of prayer." Staff Wriler stabbings, Leech said, although satisfa~tory condition Monday, The law was the only one of its kind in the country which had the possibility has not been according to Leech.