Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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J ohn Guyon, vice president for aca- demic affairs and research, set aside a reserve of $350,000 from 13 different areas of university studies; ranging from $9000 for General Academic Pro- grams to $53,000 by the College of Liberal Arts. In early February the administra- tion moved to hold diplomas from seniors with outstanding billseand add a 1.5 percent monthly service charge on unpaid balances. Beginning with the SalukisT first home football game on September 18, 1982 spectators were discouraged from bringing alcoholic beverages into Mc- Andrew Stadium. Enforcement of a long standing ban on booze inside the stadium Twill be tightened, university officials said. The reason for the enforcement was 'listed as the 11potential for several in- cidents in the past? Despite efforts by SIU Police, brown bottles, pints, coolers, kegs and as- sorted variations of alcoholic contain- ers found their way into McAndrew. The season ended without incident. Despite unfavorable student reac- tion, SIU-C,S School of Agriculture sold all but six of its 29 horses in late October. The lot was sold for $8,598.15, for an average price of nearly $478. The sale was an attempt to off-set the $72,000 reduction of the School of Agriculturets budget. The program cost was estimated by the college to be as much as $40,000 per year. It began at 3:16 p.m. on May 29, 1982. It lasted only thirty minutes but southern Illinois worst tornado in re cent memory ripped through Marion, causing property damage estimated at $85 million, killing 10, injuring nearly 150 and leaving 450 persons homeless. Shawnee Village Apartments were the hardest hit; seven died there. One of those injured was Methodist minis- ter, Carl Hearns. He left Marion Me- , A .e . 91 WIIECAOHOLIC GES rrlarge Co 58. 01' 0001 tdlums morial Hospital six months after a water heater nearly crushed him to death in his home. Two of Marionts shopping centers were among those hardest hit by the May storm. Even though state and 1 federal agencies poured millions into renovation and reconstruction, busi- ness officials predicted that more than $3 million was lost in sales in the Town and Country Shopping Center and Westmore Plaza. ALLOWED Q? k115- Year in Review

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This Year : The Obelisk II reviews the events that affected SIU-C and Carbondale this year. Talk of cutbacks, callbacks, layoffs, a convention center and a building in Marion called Bracy were SIU-Cls top stories of 1982 and 1983. In February of 1983 Governor J ames Thompson, in his State of the State address, proposed $2 billion in tax increases for the upcoming year. SIU Chancellor Kenneth Shaw felt that Thompson was justified in his call for more taxes and said that improvement of the states economic condition would better the universities position in edu- cation, research and related fields. A month later, on March 2, Thomp- son threw Illinois universities a curve when he introduced an austerity budget to the General Assembly call- ing for $107 million reduction in higher educations 1984 budget. Shaw responded to the budget cuts, estimated between $13 million and $15 million by SIU-C fiscal planners, by saying that the university may have to lay off faculty and staff and impose across-the-board salary cuts or raise tuition by as much as $800 a year. On March 10, 1983 action that would have shortened the SIU-C employee work week from 40 hours to 37V2 hours was tabled by the Board of Trustees. First proposed in November of 1981, the move was tabled without further action. On the same day, SIU-C officials announced that tuition rates would go up approximately ten percent for the summer term. Although fall tuition hikes were undetermined, April bul- letins suggested that the administra- tion was looking at a possible 60 per- cent increase. Such a move would set full-time in-state rates at $1308 per semester. . Despite all the talk of budget reduc- tions the University planned to spend $175,000 during the next fiscal year for general improvement in and around the campus community. In mid-March the University asked. the Illinois Capital Development Board Year in Review to examine purchase options on three area buildings for potential book storage sites that might relieve over- crowding at Morris Library. One of three places under considera- tion for the $1.6 million CDB appro- priation was the Bracy building, a 60,000 square foot warehouse near Marion. Other possible storage sites were the Wal-Mart Discount Cities store on West Main in Carbondale and the Baptist Student Center near campus. As the year progressed Bracy be- came a heated student issue and what President Albert Somit called a ttmoral obligationt, for the school. The CDB tat press timel had made no decisions on the purchase. On April 21, 1983 the university appointed Committee on Academic Priorities recommended that eight de- gree programs in seven areas he cut and 24 degree programs in 17 other areas would be reduced. The committee recommended that two degree programs in both computer science and physics be the only four of nearly 200 University programs to be enhanced. Programs recommended for cuts included Religious studies, Latin American studies, Law En- forcement, Foreign Languages and Literature. 19

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Governor J ames Thompson and U.S. Supreme Court J ustice Harry A. Blackmun were the guests of honor at the September 18, 1982 dedication of the Hiram H. Lesar Law School. Blackmun, a native of southern Illinois, was the keynote speaker at the morning ceremony dedicating the $7.6 million building. On her 25th birthday, Sharon Hutcherson won a run-off election for the Student, Trustee position on the Board of Trustees. The second-year photo by Brian Howe Year in Review law student beat five opponents with 1,010 votes in the February 22, 1983 election. The position was vacated in J anuary by Stan Irvin, who resigned to work in the J ackson County State's Attorneyls office. Early in the spring semester the campus and community learned of the perils of Harold McFarlin, SIU-C his- tory professor on leave because of con- gestive heart failure. McFarlin had become more than the victim of heart problems, he be- came a victim of the hard economic times. The 14-year professor of Rus- sian history was waiting for the $80,000 required by the Stanford Uni- versity Medical Center for a heart transplant. A transplant which would decide if McFarlin lived beyond the year that doctors had given him. As the semester progressed a com- mittee was formed, based in the his- tory department, and groups like the Inter-Greek Council organized car- washes and benefits for McFarlin; raising thousands. Among those ef- forts was that of pop group REO Speedwagon who played a charity basketball game against staff mem- bers of WCIL-FM. They raised more than $2000. By the semestefs close, the Harold McFarlin Fund had grown beyond the $40,000 level and was matched by additional funds from a grant from the National Institute of Health. And on May 11, he boarded a plane for California where he would get his new heart. As state and federal monies became harder to come by for SIU-Cls Broad- a casting Servicels ttFestival 83,1 fund- raising effort for WSIU-TV in Carbon- dale and WUSI-TV in Olney produced record-setting results. Totals for the 18-day ttFestival 183 included $112,650 raised through- phone-in pledges by 4,325 people throughout the station,s viewing area. The station, which offers students 1 hands-on experience in broadcasting, also received $18,500 in pre-Festival membership renewals. El 21