1977 - 04 (Apr)

              [IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH) What Goes up must come down, Peggy Donifur; 19 students Face charges, Peggy Donifur] [IMAGE (TABLE) City Polling Places] WESTERN COURIER Western's Recognized Student Newspaper Bitter Carrot Publications, Inc. Vol. 76 No. 50 Monday April 4, 1977 Closing Down Tanner South by Steve Rubin The south halt' of Tanner Hall will no longer be used as a residence hall for W1U students as of the end of the 1976-77 school year. The west wing of Seal Hall will also be closed for purposes of student dwellings. Both Tanner North and Seal East will remain open next year as all male residence halls. Administration offices will occupy the rest of Seal while Tanner's vacant facilities will be renovated for use as a conference guest accomodation's [accommodations] center. Residential Facilities Director Dale Meador gave the official announcement on behalf of Student Residential Programs last Wednesday night in the Tanner Hall Special Dining Room. Meador justified the reduction in housing facilities in the two dorms by referring to the act as "" a decision that primarily has an economic base."" Several factors were cited as foundations for the changes, one being the need for greater facilities for guests of the university. The only current facility available now besides rooms at the Union is Grote Hall, which can only accomodate [accommodate] approximately 90 guests. Due to increasing costs of maintaining and operating Grote, and in view of the limited income generated by visitors. Meador stated, ""we can no longer justify continuing operation,"" of the hall. Instead of using Grote Hall for visitors, the south wing of Tanner Hall will be used. It is made more convenient by the presence of "" 0 "" lot. an advantage that Grote lacks. Tanner Hall could very well accomodate [accommodate] conferences, conventions and SRP projects. and a new revenue of $40,000 could be gained by utilizing the guest facilities. Meador stated that these returns will hold down room and board costs by $6 per student throughout the entire campus. Another reason for the student housing cutbacks in the two halls was that Western did not meet its projected occupancy levels for the forthcoming school year. As a result of this, the alterations will help achieve greater economic efficiency. SRP estimates a cost savings of $250,000 from the renovation of Tanner Hall. These savings benefit all on-campus students by way of them being no increase in room and board rates for the '977-78 academic year. Without this budget reduction, students would have been charged an additional $40 over this year's housing fees. Of the quarter million dollar expense reduction. $100,000 will be produced front the closing of the Tanner cafeteria. Residents of Tanner will be given ""all university"" eating privileges, thus allowing them to cat at any campus cafeteiia [cafeteria] Students living in Seal Hall have always Continued on page 14 WIU Hosts Liberian Ambassador by John Kusznieruk Western Illinois University played host to the Liberian ambassador aim two cabinent-level officials last week during the ninth annual conference of the Liberian Studies Association. Liberian Ambassador to the United States Francis Dennis, Isa Karnga. director of the National Force for the Eradication of Corruption and C. Leona Chesson. assistant minister of the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined scholars from Liberia. England. German,, Canada and the United States for the conference, held from Thursday to Saturday in the University Union. A major focus of the conference was ""The Role of Women"", and appropriately. Chesson and Karnga are women who have achieved high level positions in the Liberian Government. A number of scholars presented papers on subjects related to the role of women in Liberia, and the group's plenary session featured speeches by the three Liberian officials and a group discussion by the assembled members. The ambassador's speech was devoted mainly to the scholars' efforts in researching Liberian topics, which he said, ""fully justified the time you have devoted to it."" Dennis appealed to scholars to forward their finished papers to Liberia, so that they could be ""made available to posterity."" Many of the association members present at the plenary session called for more educational opportunities for women and more studies into women's fields, which they said have been neglected. The concept of discrimination as a factor in keeping women in a subordinate role was attacked. ""I don't think we have 'discrimination' in Liberia as such."" said Isa Karnga in her remarks. Criticising [criticizing] overemphasis on ""the role of women"". Karnga said that women have always played important roles in Liberian history. The main thing lacking, she asserted, is educational opportunities for women to be able to play such roles in larger numbers. In response to a question from an Continued on page 14 GOES UP MUST COME DOWN-ROTC Week provided a time for Western's army men to prove their skills. Rapelling [Rappelling] was a popular demonstration off the back side of the stadium at Hanson Field, (photo by Peggy Donifur 19 STUDENTS FACE CHARGES�Dan Nagan reviews students who were served a summons for refusing to pay their utility bills. The students are protesting what they believe to be unfair landlord policies. (photo by Peggy Donifur]