Eastern Illinois University The Keep December 1987 12-4-1987 Daily Eastern News: December 04, 1987 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_dec Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: December 04, 1987" (1987). December. 4. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1987_dec/4 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1987 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in December by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fund loses By JEFF BRITT bucksAdministration editor The fund from which Illinois teacher's pensions and retirement benefits are drawn lost $300 million because of the erratic nature of the stock market in October, an official said during the Board of Governers meeting Thursday at Northeastern Illinois University. The loss affe<;ts 52,000 people statewide, said BOG spokesperson Pam Meyer. She said funds had been invested in the stock market, "and now those funds are gone." The figures were made available by BOG member Robert Ruiz, who is also on the State Universities Retirement MIKE STEINER I Staff photographer - System. Cupp (Shelly Cox), a waitress in "Pump Boys and job at the Gas Station/Dinette because there is a ratio of two guys The meeting was also at­ ' sings "The Best Man," tn which she explains t�e for every girl. The U.B. sponsored play was presented at 8 p.m. tended by Eastern President t make up her ideal man. Prudie says she enjoys her Thursday in the Union Grand Ballroom. Stanley Rives; Robert Kin­ drick, vice president for academic affairs; Verna Arm­ strong, vice president for administration and finance; ped' for UB's D1nette Show and BOG Representative Mike 'pum of the show," said Daab), a former frat member, "Pump Boys," which cost part audience member Elizabeth said Troy Franzen, also from Eastern $5,000 started in July Riordan. other business, approval Boer8ma. Champaign. touring all over the country, In The raffle; won by an Alpha Franzen said ''L.M. is coming Sham said, adding "So many to rename the Applied Sciences Delta Phi fraternity member back to go to our formal, he's people are interested in the Building after Walter A. from the University of Illinois, really close to everyone," at the show. It's beenreal successful." Kiehm, former dean of choee a ''picture of a Penthouse house. The audience, consisting of Eastern's industrial arts and blond" after his seat number The cast from the smash hit 425, really seemed to enjoy the technology department, was was picked as winner. musical, was performing their show, Performing Arts given. raffle group of 10 men came last show of his tour, agent Coordinator Janelle Limper "I naturally fee� good about A to Eastern to see actor L.M. (Jake Debra Sharn said. said. it," said Kiehm, who worked at Eastern 32 years. ''I was the head ·of the in­ Hall residents respond to accidents dustrial arts department for a good many years," he said. son "I under the influence of alcohol. fifth floor Lawson Hall woman, who is presently oc­ was instrumental in setting up . Sophomore Stacey Wain­ residents. cupying Zastro's room, is still the school of industrial are gradually man, a pre-business major, is in At last reports,Wainman has feeling the loss of a close technology." normal for some a Springfield hospital to been transfered from friend. The school of iridustrial on Lawson's ,fifth reportedly in stable condition, Champaign's Burnham "I wasn't even going to come technology is now part of· the two women who after she suffered internal Hospital in Champaign to a back to school (after Zastro's College of Applied Sciences. the floor were both head injuries following a fall. hospital in Springfield, her death)," said freshman Christy "He's very active in the involved in serious from a fire-escape balcony Nov. hometown. Barber, a nursing major, was "I Charleston Rotary Club and 20 at Page One Tavern, 410 S. But with things looking up so shook up about it." the Wesley United Methodist still felt, with Sixth St. in Charleston. pain for the. fifth-floor residents "But I know Kristy wouldn't Church," said University of one student and Wainman and Zastro were who knew . Wainman, one have wanted me do that to Relations Director Daniel- injury to another, is (quit school)," Barber added. Thornburgh. many of the with Zastro had moved to . A trust l\lehm and his wife, thefifth floor. Lawson's ninth floor to live Lucille, donated to the EIU have been acting with friends prior the ac­ to Foundation in October brought , but people were cident and, as a result, told the Foundation to its the 80 It's still scary," said • Barber of her vacated room. percent mark in its 10th Valerie Mathe$, a Barber · moved in shortly decade campaign. resident at Lawson thereafter. Since that time the Foun­ A tearful Barber motioned to dation has received another the photographs of Zastro with donation. ''We are just under friends that still hung on the 88 percent," said Thornburgh, room walls. who is also executive officer of "It was weird to see some of the Foundation. her things she had left behind The money from the trust when she moved," Barber will go to fund scholarships in added. industrial technology and The sorrow of her friend's home economics, Thornburgh · (See LAWSON, page 6a) said. 2A Friday, December4, 1987 The Dall Eastern . Press !Associated Reagan disc�sses possibility of ·s__ I _ t_ate_1N at1 o_n1W. _o_r_1d�· .. _ ___ _ I superpower agreement in 1 988· Mayor Sawyer used patronage WASHING TON (AP)-Presid­ ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC. conservative Republi CHICAGO-Mayor Eugene Sawyer on Thursday ent Reagan said Thursday there Gorbachev, fa an NBC in­ eluding most GOP candi reaffirmed his vow to fight political cronvism, but is a reasonably good chance the terview earlier this week that president. acknowledged he had used his influence to help relatives superpowers can agree in was broadcast in the United "Some of the people get city jobs under the old patronage system. Moscow next year to eliminate 50 States and the Soviet Union, also objecting the most and "Patronage doesn't exist in city goverment anymore. percent of their strategic nuclear offered an optimistic assessment refusing even to accede Patronage is dead," said Sawyer. weapons, the most dangerous for a strategic arms accord next idea of ever getting But he acknowledged under questioning by reporters arms on earth. year. derstanding; whether He made the evaluation of "There are real prospects ahead realize it or not, those that he had help�d several family members· obtain city jobs we believe that it is basically down in their earlier in 16-year career as an alderman. prospects for such a far-reaching of us... · "Yes, I did. I'll be honest. I gave them letters. That was agreement in a television .in­ possible to do a lot of work with thoughts have accepted under the old patronage system. It gave them an ad­ terview four days before Soviet this present administration so... is ineyitable," Reagan said. vantage that maybe they shouldn't have had," Sawyer told leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives we could make headway on this Despite the prospects o reporters at heavily attended news conference, his first fora summit and the s�gning of a major· directon in the area of cuts in the superpowers' since becoming mayor. treaty, to ban intermediate-range arms control," Gorbachev said. arsenals, Reagan said he s · At least 16 of Sawyer's political political allies and nuclear missiles, known as INF. Reagan said oppostion to the the Soviet Union as " relatives-including his brother, sister, and Reagan was interviewed by the INF treaty centered among empire." daughter-work or have recently worked at city gover­ anchormen from four networks- mentjobs. " Korean air raises concerns Thompsoo will take stress test crash SPRINGFIELD-Gov. James Thompson, shaken by the over sabotage Seoul Olympics recent death of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, said at Thursday he plans to take a stress test this month, try to· SEOUL, South Korea Chun Doo-Hwan told a special 1945, technically are still lose some weight and cut back on his work schedule. (AP)-The suspected bombing of cabinet meeting on the lost since a peace treaty was "I think the mayor's death ought to be a warning to all of a South Korean· airlirrer has plane. signed at the end of the us, not just in public life or in politics, that we ought to stirred fears that communist Officials · in Seoul say the war in 1953 in which take as good care of health as we can," Thompson· said. North Korea may attempt to disappearance of the KAL were killed and wounded. Washington's death from a heart attack on Nov. 25 sabQtage the 1988 Seoul Boeing 707 on Nov. 29 Korea has aid it is dete stunned Chicago. Olympics. somewhere near Burma had all ''liberate " the south. His successor, Mayor Eugene Sawyer, said Thursday he South Korean leaders have the hallmarks of a North Korean For years, South Korean plans to have a physical examination "very soon" and will · charged their archrival was attack. have used the threat of try to quit smoking. , behind the disappearance of the They believe a bomb hidden on Korean invasion or terro' And all 50 members of Chicago's City Council were Korean Air plane and threatened the. plane tore it apart in midair justification for some o offered free stress tests Thursday by a suburban clinic, to.end all talks with the north on with the loss of all 115 people on more unpopular policies.