Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1989 2-23-1989 Daily Eastern News: February 23, 1989 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 23, 1989" (1989). February. 16. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1989_feb/16 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1989 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in February by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sp ing Fashio Gui e A profile of spring fashions available from area merchants. Section B to weigh b_u_,d -..-e_tl>roposals fy during h�arings on the bill in late March Douglas, Stevenson residence hall com­ or early April. "We'll just have to Wait and plex. ttempt t6 secure federal funds see what everybody says about it," Keane Other requests Rives will submit Illinois University, Governors State said. include: University, We stern Illinois University and "All I really want is to get some reac­ • $25,970 for computer services data Eastern, will meet via satellite with Terry tion from the Board of Higher Education A state represenative from Chicago will processing hardware. Bruce, D-Olney, and other Illinois con­ and other systems to see what our tuition • suggestions for increasing both state $159,429 for data processing soft­ federal funding of education during gressmen during a 10:30 a.m. teleconfer­ policy should be," he added. ware/hardware components to upgrade the ence Thursday. Keane will take part in the sday's Board of Governors meeting in Last year Keane unsuccessfully intro­ local area network. ersity Park. teleconference and lead a discussion after­ duced a bill which would have aligned • $56,950 for telecommunications com­ wards. tuition increases with the increase in the ep. James Keane, D-Chicago, said ponents for the local area network. In addition, Keane said he plans to intro­ Higher Education Price • his Chicago office Wednesday that he Index, the $94,350 to replace theater lighting duce a "tuition freeze bill" during this ses­ statewide cost of goods and services for equipment in the University Theatre in the s the BOG is successful in its attempt sion of the Illinois General Assembly. public universities. ure more federal funding. "I will try Doudna Fine Arts Center. Keane said Wednesday that the bill itself • er some suggestions for the BOG to In other business during Thursday's reg­ $25,770 to replace the ·heat plant isn't as important as the hearings and dis­ ular BOG meeting, which is scheduled for imize the assistance it receives from refractory and burner tile at the heat plant. cussions it will provoke. "The bill is only a ate University, • Cderal government," Keane said. 8:30 a.m. at Governors St $31,874 to replace water pumps in vehicle," Keane added. Eastern PresidentStan Rives will submit an he BOG, the governing board for Taylor, Lawson, Thomas and Andrews res­ He has inviteq represenatives from the expenditure request for $52,309 to upgrade idence halls. ago State University, Northeastern system at the Lincoln, Illinois Board of Higher Education to testi- the fire alarm Bush vows America ' will ' stay a power ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - growing importance in interna­ President Bush. heading to bsia tio_nal affairs," he said. his first overseas trip as chief Saying that his visit would also executin ive, voiced American include talks of "important policy determination Wednesday "to decisions" with foreign leaders stay a Pacific power" and from the Middle East and other strengthen "key relationships areas, Bush declared: "But we with our friends and partners" in don't ever want to neglect our the region. friends." Calling Alaska "the American "And, yes, things in the Pacific gateway to Asia," Bush spoke seem to be going reasonably well. briefly to a gfoup of U.S. service­ But we are a Pacific power and men and their families during a this visit will demonstrate that we refueling stop at Elemendorf Air intend to stay a Pacific power. " Force Base, a traditional depar­ Bush spoke before several ture point for presidential trips to thousand airmen in blue, Army the Far East. infantrymen in camouflage uni­ Bush said the aim of his five­ forms and schoolchildren in day, 18,095-mile trip is to parkas in the huge hangar at the "sfrengthen key relationships airbase. He recalled that one of with our friends and partners in his predecessors, President the Pacific region." William Henry Harrison, spoke at "Alaskans understand that his inaugaration for three and a America is as much a Pacific half hours, caught pneumonia and nation as it is an Atlantic one, and was dead within a month, Bush that Pacific region is of great and added: "I will be brief. " Cross v lunteers Kristen Chambers, left and Debbie Becker, right sign up a donor in Stevenson's lobby ood drive, which begins Monday. · en ate· cancel est JULIETTE MURAWSKI The housing fest is organized for sists of co-chairs Bob Valencic students' benefit and their partici­ and Thomson and committee pation is necessary. members Dan Riordan and Chris Student Senate's housing fe st In addition, the senate failed to DiCianni. Thomson said been cancelled because senate schedule a room in time to hold they figured most students have not schedule a room in the housing fest. Senate Speaker made already made living ance and the lack of student Jane Clark said the event is usual­ arrangements for next semester ·cipation. ly held in the Grand Ballroom of by the time senate holds the fest. The housing fe st, which the the Martin Luther King Jr. Thomson said senate members ate traditionally holds during University Union. did not object to the cancellation spring semester, has been can­ Thomson said the housing of the fe st because last year's for two main reasons, said committee members also decided housing fest was attended by very er Thomson, the senate hous­ the housing fe st would better few non-senate members. committee co-chair. serve the students' needs if the However, Thomson said he e lack of non-senate student fe st was scheduled for the fall hopes all students take advantage 'cipation in the housing fest is semester. of this helpful service in the fall obvious reason, Thomson said. The housing committee con- of 1989. 2A Thursday, anuary 23.1 989 The Eastern News Dally State court strikes down law SPRINGFIELD (AP)-A state we have identified,'" Justice John and therefore is invalid." law requiring revocation of a sex Stamos wr te for the majority. Justice Ben Miller dissented, offender's driver 's license was The rulingo came in a case in writing that the law served a struck down Wednesday by the which Daniel Lmdner pleaded emmental interest. gov· Illinois Supreme Court, but jus­ guilty to one count of cnminal "Mobility plays a large tices upheld another statute bar­ sexual assault and two counts of both in the commission of offens­role ring the use of court supervision aggravated criminal sexual abuse. es and in offenders' escape in certain drunken-driving cases. The victims were his stepdaugh­ detection and apprehension."from In a Will County case, justices ters. wrote. be said the penalty of license revoca­ After sentencing, the trial court "It seems clear that tion for sex offenders bears no judge did not require Lindner to Legislature considered thatth relationship to the public interest surrender his license, ruling that license revocation ... reduce Vrdolyak making primary run would of safe and legal operation and the statute was unconstitutional the mobility of offenders... " CHICAGO-Feisty former alderman and recent Republican convert ownership of motor vehicles. because it denied Lindner due The Jaw has since been Ed Vrdolyak will accept a draft and announce Wednesday he is a write­ "B ecause a vehicle was not proces� of law. changed to give the secretary of in candidate in next week's GOP mayoral primary, The Associated involved in any way in the com­ Stamm. wrote the provis10n ··1s state discretion in suspending or Press has learned. mission of the offenses for which an unreasonable arid arbitrary revoking driving privileges of Vrdolyak was scheduled to make the announcement at an evening defendant was convicted, the exercise of the state's police offenders, but the court aid sex rally sponsored by the Committee to Draft Ed Vrdolyak, said revocation of his license bears no power in violation of the constitu­ changes did not affect its s the spokesman Terry Durkin. relationship ... to the public interest tional guarantee of due process this case ruling in "The committee will lay out the details, how he's going to make the . run, then Ed will show up and accept the draft," said a top Vrdolyak aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The prospect of the 51-year-old Vrdolyak's jumping into the Court upholds man's death sentence Tuesday primary, which had been rumored since the one-week filing SPRINGFIELD (AP)-The Jimerson, 36, was convicted of statements by Ms. Gray. who period for the race elapsed last December without his bid, sent ques­ state Supreme Co urt on three years ago in the killings of was the girlfriend of one of h tions rippling t�ough both parties. Wednesday upheld a Chicago Lariy Lionberg, a 29-year-old gas suspects. Another witness tthee man's conviction and death sen­ station attendant, and his fiancee, other suspects at the scenesaw but tence in a 1978 double murder. Carol Schmal, 23, in the Chicago couldn't identify Jimer5on JudgE? may drop mummy case rejecting arguments that his suburb of East Chicago Heights.