Eastern Illinois University The Keep November 1990 11-5-1990 Daily Eastern News: November 05, 1990 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_nov Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: November 05, 1990" (1990). November. 3. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_nov/3 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1990 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in November by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Saycheese ! Ourreviewer says ---- The ParentsWeek end concert the new production was picture-perfect. is worth the effort. Page 7 Page3 ............... q ready r a 'war' We're 75 er Kuwait The News celebrates a new outburst of belliger­ , Iraq said Sunday it was ready ght a "dangerous war" rather with a party for campus ever give up Kuwait. One By JEFF MADSEN an off icial warned that divi­ News editor • The News s over the hostage issue are celeb ra tes gering the anti-Iraq alliance. The Daily Eastern News turns its75th year is not going to negotiate on 75 years old Monday and the in publication ait." Iraq's information minis­ News staff is inviting the entire tif Jassim, told a news con­ campus to the newsroom to help with a special ce in Baghdad. He insisted us celebrate. history. annexation of Kuwait. which Eastern President Stan Rives Section B erran three months ago, would will even be on hand for a cake­ cutting ceremony at 12:30 p.m. "Because of their dedication, We are going to defend our in our newsroom, located in the The News has developed from a province on any condition, North Gym of the Buzzard monthly to a daily newspaper." if we have to fight a danger­ Building. We don't want to get carried war," he said , referring to In add ition, there will be away, but we're pretty pr oud, wait. tours offered during an Open too. Iraq also said it was recalling an House from 9 a.m. to 3 p. m, to That' s why we want you to cified number of retired army give all of you a first hand help us celebrate. We 've got rs to active duty. glimpse of how The News, one cake, punch, balloons, and blue cretary of State James Baker of the nation's smallest daily and grey streamers - all that isited U.S. troops in the Saudi college newspapers, operates - jazz. And it won't cost you a rt earlier Sunday and said it from the minute a reporter gets dime. s hard to say whether they a story up to the time the news- . We even have old copies of d be called into combat. The papers first roll off the press. The News from the past 75 sidents of Egypt and France SHANNON THOMAS/Staff photographer What is now The Daily years for you to look at. After ressed hopes that economic The Platters lead singer Paul Robi belts out a tune at the Parents Eastern News first began in all, we've been the Normal ure rather than military might Weekend concert Saturday night in Lantz Gym. 19.J 5 as the Normal School Schoo l News, the Te acher's force Iraq out of Kuwait. News. That's when Eastern was College News, the Eastern eanwhile, four American ex­ known as Eastern Illinois State State News, the Eastern News es were on their way home a Parents Weekend concert Normal School, only 577 stu­ and now, the The Daily Eastern af ter being freed, and fifteen dents were enrolled here, a sub­ News. peans arrived in Jordan after scription cost of $ l and each And our newsroom has been g released by the Iraqis. They a surprise for one father issue was only four pages long. in Old Main, the University among thousands of foreign­ By JEFF MADSEN • More concert and Today, you get The News free, Union, the basement of Pem­ were trapped in Iraq and and CATHY PODWOJSKI Parents Weekend cov­ and each issue averages 12 berton Hall and the Student wait when Saddam Hussein's Staff editors pages. And in a typical publica­ Services Building. erage. Pages 2 and 7 took over Aug. 2. tion year, The News prints more Now, of course, we're head­ The first POWs of the Persian Dennis Hasty never would memorable. than 1.5 million newspapers. quartered in the North Buzzard crisis - three French soldiers - have suspected he'd be dancing in The Marvelettes, best known But you can read all about Gym. a homecoming of their own in b front of 4,500 people when he fortheir late 1950s hit "Please Mr. that in Section B of this news­ We 've formally invited a out is on Sunday, but it wasn't came to campus this weekend to ·Postman," were on stage fighting paper, which is our Diamond 150 people and with this story, tly a hero's welcome. French visit his son Todd, for Parents over which one of them would Jubilee edition. we're inviting the rest of you - ials have said the soldiers, who Weekend. marry "Bill," their mutual "I'm especially proud of how that's about I 0,000 people if re captured last week, might This Parents Weekend was the boyfriend in the hit "D on't Mess hard our students have worked everyone actually shows up. e strayed into Iraqi territory, third for the Peoria-native Hasty With Bill." Amid the rucuss, lead over the years at The News," So come on down and check that they probably face punish- family. And after Saturday's singer Loni Clarkwalked into the said John David Reed, chair of us out. show, it certainly will be the most the journalism department and After all, this only happens •Continued on page 2 Continued on page _. 2 former adviser to The News. once every 75 years. andidates fly across state as election day nears to western and southern Illinois to got state deposits. and gentleman, we should not promote the Democratic ticket. Election In the race for comptroller, have a political gadfly in charge of Five of the six Republicans Simon answered the frequent Republican Susan Suter said $22 billion of your money." eking statewide office barn­ complaint of Republicans who say Democratic state Sen. Dawn Clark Martin, an underdog in her bid to ed Illinois Sunday for some the Democratic slate is top-heavy Netsch loves taxes and has no defeat Simon, complimented fe l­ -fa shioned partisan sniping, hit­ with Cook County politicians, management experience. low Republican Aldo DeAngelis, a g Democrats as politicians of including Hartigan. "D o you want someone in the state senator who is trailing mil­ past and even blaming their "What the people of Illinois "Roland Burris isn't a prosecu­ comptroller's office who's going lionaire attorney Richard Phelan in vals forrain. want is effective government; they tor but he'9 plays one0 on televisio n," to scrimp and save or do you want the race for Cook County Board "Yesterday the Republican party really don't care where we live," Ryan, who is DuPage County someone who's going to expand president. as in charge of the weather. said Simon, who lives near state's attorney, said of his oppo­ and expend?" said Suter, a former "We 're both running against ay it's the Democrats' turn," Carbondale. nent, who is state comptroller. state public aid director. incredibly well-financed oppo­ ep. Lynn Martin said at During the Republican tour, the Lt. Gov. George Ryan, the Republican treasurer candidate nents," Martin said. "Both of us hica go 's cold and wet Meigs candidates lined up to take their Republican nominee forsecretary Greg Baise, the former state trans­ are running against naked ambi­ 1eld, where she began her day of best shots. of state, continued his attack on portation secretary who faces tion, whether that ambition be in a ampaigning against Sen. Paul Jim Ryan, the nominee for attor­ Democrat Jerry Cosentino by call­ Democratic populist Pat Quinn, bow tie or in a $700 suit." Befort: imon. ney general, said Democrat Roland ing him "Indiana Jerry." mentioned an endorsement from landing in Moline, Dixon predict­ The GOP wasn't the only party Burris is suddenly telling people Cosentino, who is state treasurer, the Chicago Tr ibune. ed Simon would beat Martin by ving to contend with rainy skies. that he'll be a crime fighter, moved his trucking company "The Tribune said that my 700,000 votes and Hartigan would Neil Hartigan, along with although earlier he described the across the Illinois line and also opponent would be dangerous if he win over Republican Secretary of · n and Sen. Alan Dixon, flew job as mostly administrative post. obtained loans from a bank that was in office," Baise said. "Ladies State Jim Edgar by 100, 000 votes. 2A Monday, November 5, 1990 The Dally Eastern New FROM PAGE ONE Concert attendance Concert a surprise estimate is 4,500 Last year, the UB brought cou .,.From page 1 "My co-workers had arranged "That was really a great crowd By JEFF MADSEN that and I had no clue," said and I hope they have us back," News editor try-western smger Crystal Gayle crowd to look for "Bill" and came Brinker, now 33, after the two­ said Billy Woodruffof the Drifters Eastern for Parents Weekend. back onto stage with the unsus­ hour show. "When I heard them as the group boarded a van for Although the Umversity Board show, which sold 3,481 ticke pecting Hasty in tow.