Eastern Illinois University The Keep February 1991 2-15-1991 Daily Eastern News: February 15, 1991 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_feb Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: February 15, 1991" (1991). February. 10. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1991_feb/10 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1991 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]. Surprise Phone registration requires $100 down By LORI HIGGINS will be able to tell if a student has Campus editor not met with an adviser. "There's an indicator on each Students who plan to take cours­ student's record that says whether es during the summer or fall they have been advised," Taylor semesters must pay an advance fee said. If the student has met with an of $25 or $100, respectively, to be adviser. the adviser \.\411 indicate used for the touch-tone phone reg­ that on the student's record. istration system the university is Taylor added this rule does not implementing beginning in March. apply to graduate students, who do However, these fees are not in not have to be advised. addition to tuition and other fees Once those three pre-registering that students must pay, said requirements have been met, Taylor Michael Taylor, the director of reg­ said all students have to do is find a istration. "It's part of their next fall touch-tone phone and register or next summer fees," he said. according to a schedule based on Although students cannot regis­ their year at Eastern. ter until March, they may pay the Students will begin actually reg­ fee in the cashier's office at Old istering for their classes in March. Main beginning Monday. The schedule listing the classes, s fo th th e and th alon with their meeting times and Pa~k~ and Barb Ge11t1y (left to right), members of Epsi on Sigma A pha service sorority sell touch-tone system, Taylor said nei­ places, will be distributed as a sup­ ntme s Day Thursday afternoon in Coleman Hall. ther is optional. "Everyone has to plement to The Dailv Eastern use it as far as registration is con­ News. Taylor said th~ summer cerned. There's only one way of semester schedule will come out air war presses onward registering now." about Feb. 25, and the fall semester schedule will come out about shelter. Taylor said students will be Saudi Arabia (AP) March4. Baghdad officials say the build­ allowed to pay their $25 deposit for on with the air Students will be required to reg­ ing was a civilian air raid shelter; the summer semester up until the t focused on sup- ister for their classes according to the U.S. military says it was a mili­ first day of classes; however, the p concentrations their grade level, with seniors going tary command and control center. deadline to pay the $I 00 fall that a U.S. raid first. Taylor said the schedule will The Iraqi Information Ministry semester fee is August 9. in Baghdad killed be included with the schedule bul­ said at least 400 civilians were In addition to paying the advance ·'ans. letins when they are distributed. killed in the raid Wednesday, and fees, students also must fulfill two said they are con­ "When they do pick up their civil defense officials estimated the other requirements to register for avoid killing civil­ schedule, they should hang on to it. toll at more than 500. Official classes. Taylor said if the student is campaign, including They' II need this bulletin all Baghdad radio said today that 64 simply continuing to attend mbing targets in through the term." • U.N. in closed ses­ bodies had been pulled out from the Eastern, he or she must have a clear Taylor said this new phone sys­ rubble, but it apparently referred record with the university and also sion. Page 2A tem will be much easier for both only to those already identified. must have met with his or her students and faculty, noting schools The supervisor of the building adviser. In Baghdad, thousands of angry that have used the system have said that by sundown Wednesday, "It is a university policy that all a combat mission, Iraqis marched to a cemetery to only good things to say about it. 235 bodies had been recovered and undergraduates must meet with an command said. It bury fellow civilians killed "The schools that do it really like hundreds more were believed bur­ adviser," Taylor said. As part of the .S. warplane lost in Wednesday in the U.S. bombing of r~gistration system, the university a structure where they had taken ied beneath piles of concrete. "' Continued on page 2A s express concern new core curriculum "I have been concerned because we (the university) appear to be in such a rush to By EVETTE PEARSON .: get the new revised curriculum into place," Activities editor that Eastern's Faculty Senate he added. "If (the Faculty Senate wanting to examine the finished product) means ~- not the only ones who are · Midway ipto Black::mstQi:y ~nt}!, an :: with the final approval and that we don't make it by fall, then so be it." J!J'ffft::; · offteial witttaCbjcago"genealogjtaUnsti"" .,,,,, ion of the university's new By March l, Robert Kindrick, the vice tute: promi~ take stu<\ents t>at1.!'Q:the tion core curriculum. president for academic affairs, is expected to of that :,"' le, dean of the College of to make a recommendation to Eastern beginning - f:tteir ancestry~ ~. the vice pr.eSident and Sciences, said a mass President Stan Rives, who will make the · Tony BUIJ"Oughs.. of , amhui msiiuct-0r with Chicag:Q's. Afro­ his department's chairs have final decision on the program. Rives said . American ~istorkaJ .and Genealogical oncern on the implementation he did not know how long the process ; Association. offer a workshop. on ore curriculum package. would take. will tracing students' history at 7 p.m. has come up to me and said The Faculty Senate has been fighting to ensure that Rives will not approve the Monday in the Rathskellar Balcony of the the new core this year," Laible Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. nes that have come to me have CAA's recommendations without the sen­ Anyone may participate in the work­ Id wait a year or two." ate's consideration of the core first. In a shdp, during which Burroughs. who has core curriculum was approved letter from Chair David Carpenter sent to traced his own ancestry back 200 years y the Council on Academic Rives, Carpenter said the senate "believes that (Rives) has made it clear to circum­ through six different lines, will guide stu­ more than a year of consider­ dents through a process that could show proposed for the program. The vent the senate's constitution." from where their families originated. ps the former cafeteria-style of Rives, on the other hand, said he wel­ "The response to the first week of ation courses in favor of fewer comes the views of the senate, but he activities for Black History Month has ified courses. •Continued on page 2A • Continued on page 2A 2A Friday, February 15, 1991 The Dally Eastern Security Council to enter closed session UNITED NATIONS (AP) - in a debate," Pickering said. "We Lincolnwoo Security Council diplomats gath­ • Support group set expect a serious give and take." It ered today for their first closed will be the first time the Security formal session in 15 years and for families. Page SA Council has met to discuss the prepared to discuss the Persian war that it authorized to drive Iraq Pinetree Gulf War despite protests that the will not be shown on U.N. closed­ from Kuwait. The last time the meeting should be public and circuit television and criticism of council held a closed session was Apartments televised. the allied campaign will, instead, in 1975 for a discussion of the Some Arab and other speakers be made by diplomats outside the Western Sahara conflict. were expected to criticize the dev­ chamber. The United States and Britain astating allied air war against "We think it's time to have a led the effort to bar the press and - Studio 1,2 &3 Bedroo Iraq, including the U.S. attack meeting and hear the views of public from today's session, argu­ - Completely Furnished Wednesday that Iraq claims killed others," said U.S. Ambassador ing that a clamorous debate and hundreds of civilians in a bomb Thomas R. Pickering as he public criticism of the war could - 1O Minute Walk to C shelter. The allies say the struc­ entered the council chamber for undermine the U.S.-led coalition ture was a command and control consultations before the session. and help the Iraqi leader, Saddam - 24 Hour Maintenanc bunker for the Iraqi army. "We want an interchange of Hussein. Closing the meeting means it views and not merely set speeches - Central Air Condition· FROM PAGE ONE Where the savi Lineage is Phone registration really stack u •From page JA they hang up." Call School Parents Council. tf> From page JA Taylor added the departments The lecture is open to anyone it. They have nothing but favorable also will benefit. "It will allow us to and will outline the types of sup­ things to say about it and I'm antic­ give the department better informa­ 345-600 port groups set up by parents in ipating it to be a good system." tion sooner.