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Monday, February 26, 1996
The Daily Eastern News
Another arrest at Trailmobile
Locked-out worker was second incident last week
By KATIE VANA
City editor
A locked-out Trailmobile
worker was arrested by Coles
County Sheriff’s Deputies Friday
at the Trailmobile plant for
allegedly throwing objects on the
roadway designed to puncture car
tires.
Richard Grafton, 27, of Casey,
was arrested at 4:03 p.m. and
charged with possession of a
jackrock and placement of it
upon the roadway, according to a
police report. Grafton is a United
Paper Workers International
Union Local 7591 member.
A jackrock is made out of nails
designed to puncture a tire from
“
Hostilities are definitely building up. The company and
union need to work together to solve their problems.”
— Roger Robinette
Union community services
any angle.
“Hostilities are definitely
building up,” said Roger
Robinette, chairman of community services for the union. “The
company and union need to work
together to solve their problems.”
Earlier in the week,
Trailmobile worker Bernard
Riggins was arrested on charges
of aggravated assault of a police
officer, assault and disorderly
conduct.
Riggins sprayed union members and state troopers
Wednesday with a Super Soaker
squirt gum while entering the
plant.
Replacement workers began
their second week at Trailmobile
today.
About 1,200 union members
have been locked out since Jan.
21. They are negotiating with
Trailmobile for a new economic
package and overtime benefits.
Eastern blood donors beat Southern
LIZA STRONG/Staff photographer
Mystical powers
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Parents Club offering
student scholarships
By SCOTT BOEHMER
Campus editor
Eastern's Parents Club is now
offering scholarship applications
for students who demonstrate
financial need.
Thalia Wetzel, recording secretary of the parents club, said there
are 20 $850 scholarships available, although "not too many"
applications have gone out so far.
The scholarships are based
upon the financial need of the
applicant, the effort the student
has made to help out his or her
financial need, the student's academic performance and the student's contributions to Eastern
and the local community, Wetzel
said.
Applications for the scholarship are available in the Financial
Aid Office and Office of Student
Life.
Along with the applications,
students have to turn in a letter
stating why they need the schol-
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arship and a letter of recommendation.
Deadline for submission is
March 29.
Money to pay for the scholarships is generated through an
annual telethon the club holds.
"We have a telethon every fall
in September and the Parents
Club Board of Directors comes
down and calls the membership,"
Wetzel said. "The telethon is really to build up our foundation so
we will always be able to give
scholarships."
About three-fourths of the
money goes directly into scholarships, with the rest being placed
in a fund for possible future
scholarships.
"Since tuition is always raising, we'd like to give a full tuition
scholarship at some point in the
future," Wetzel said. "Each year
we try to either increase the
amount of money given and
maybe the amount of students it's
given to."
By SCOTT BOEHMER
Campus editor
A total of seven pints of blood made up Eastern’s
margin of victory in last week’s competitive blood
drive against Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale.
Dave Cline, donor services consultant for the
American Red Cross, said Eastern collected a total of
1,128 pints compared to SIU’s total of 1,121 pints
from a drive held the previous week.
“In a competition like this there’s really no losers,”
Cline said. “The hospitals will benefit (from the
blood).”
The key to winning the blood drive was a high
turnout of students on Friday, Cline said. He said 181
pints were collected Friday, surpassing a goal of 100
pints for that day.
“I thought we were going to blow them out of the
water, but had it not been for the great turnout on
Friday we wouldn’t have won it,” Cline said.
Cline said students made up the majority of donors
on Friday, and attributed the high turnout to Friday
being convenient for students.
“I think it was more convenient for people who
were busier earlier in the week with classes and so
forth,” Cline said.
In addition to beating SIU, Eastern also surpassed
its overall goal of collecting 1,100 pints of blood,
Cline said, although he was hoping to collect as much
as 1,350 pints.
In the 1995 blood drive, Eastern collected 1,210
pints but lost to SIU.
Cline said drives such as this one are important
because high school and college students’ blood
donations make up 20 percent of the blood used in
transfusions, Cline said.
“(The blood has) already been sent to St. Louis and
the whole units of blood are (going to be) broken into
main components of red blood cells, platelets and
plasma,” Cline said.
The blood will be used in 116 hospitals in a 80
county region, and some may already be being used,
Cline said.
Constitution focus of Faculty Senate
By BETSY COLE
Administration editor
The Faculty Senate will most likely devote its
entire meeting Tuesday to constitutional revisions.
“We’ll probably spend all our time on substantive revisions of Articles XI, XII and XIII,” said
Senate Chairman John Simpson.
The senate will meet at 2 p.m. in the BOG Room
of Booth Library.
The senate moved to accept Article XI at last
week’s meeting and then tabled it so it could be
included in the senate minutes for faculty review.
Article XI deals with amending the constitution.
A proposed substantive change to Article XI would
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require 25 percent of the faculty, rather than the
current 10 percent, to request constitutional
changes.
Proposed substantive changes to Article XII deal
with adopting bylaws.
A proposed substantive change to Article XIII
would increase the number of petitioners for referenda and empower the senate to withhold the referenda from the entire faculty unless two-thirds of
the senate approves of the author’s purpose.
There may be a brief report dealing with last
week’s annual Faculty Forum at the meeting, but
most of the time will focus on “constitution, constitution, constitution,” said Senate Vice Chairman
Gary Foster.
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