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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 1 Foreward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Student Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Academics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Performances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

The Warbler (continued from cover) These entries are not always from those who attained their knowledge through experience. Others have observed these events closely and gained knowledge through authority. The entries and the photographic recordings of the campus make up the biography, which begins with the random views of a student. Not a composite, nor anyone in particular, but an opinionated voice the reader may know well. Throughout, this student speaker will share frank observations of a school, its people and its year. That is where we begin: Random Entry 1984. Eastern Illinois University Volume 66 Charleston, Illinois 61920

Foreward Changing worlds Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn. Whap! Beat that alarm clock- Get up- Time to start again. Same old motivational spiel. Just as three times before, I begin my year in August, not in January. But, I finish with this calender for good in ~ay. I finally got my own place. Well, mine and two other guys'. But here there's no dorm food, fake fire drills or roommate sleeping four feet away (not always alone). Real independence. Two of us can cook and all of us take iii Foreward turns cleaning the apartment and split the bills. Still, the best part is my own room. In the residence hall, I never felt lonesome , because I never had time to myself. Now, I'll be the only person keeping me up at night. I'm in control. I'll begin the year celebrating with my friends at my place. Now that we live in something bigger than a cube, our first party is already set for Tuesday. Hell, I can even use my own I.D. for the keg. Do it now because I promised myself that the partying stops when classes start. My fathers voice still rings through my head "make those grades count. You 'll need them in this job market." My father may be right, but I hope not. At times, he used to be somewhat amused with the expectations I held for my situation: I had three years of college under my belt and was full of big hopes for a goodpaying job somewhere in the city . I was going to the top and somehow I knew it. Dad and I were raking the yard at home last Thanksgiving. He told me that these " early-adult" years would be the best time of my life . He'd never been to college. I said everything was still a long way off. A job, marriage, kids, the usual stuff. But he kept on going. The formula for success was easy, he said. To get anywhere, you 've got to know the right people and to be at the right place at the right time . He had a good job, but I could tell he wasn't happy with it. He had even told me so once or twice, and my hunch was that he didn't think he was that great at this omniscient formula he had just suggested. Nice guys never go anywhere, he said.

Fr~d Zwicky They get stepped on, and people use nice guys for anything they're worth. There would be no one in the "real world" to look out for me, and that would mean giving no more free meals to anyone. Money was what it was all about. Get it any way possible. Push a broom if you have to, he said. I kept raking and knew he had to be wrong; nobody goes to school just to learn how to push a broom. That "real world" philosophy irritates me. Not only is it embraced at home but also at school. Instructors are telling me what they think I'll need to know once I move on from this testing ground to a new one. I've still got a lot of questions. If I'm not a member of the real world right now, who am I? College is a real world. You either make the grade or you don't. Every time that I pick up a new schedule and pay another semester's tuition, I have hopes of pulling a perfect 4.0 average. But things seem to come up and I settle for a 2. 5. I'm not that dissappointed with a 2. 5 average, but I'm never able to figure where I lqse the 4.0 studey habits. Maybe it was the beer that made me throw up once outside Marty's, or maybe it was sleeping through a health class because I forgot to set the alarm. I don't know, but education seems like such a great chance. It's responsibility and making the grade - not screwing around all the time - getting to know people. Foreward/ iii

Different directions I have accomplished one thing in my three years: I have gotten to know people. I think I understand what it is that makes a college town. It doesn't mean the town revolves around us. It isn't the string of fast food joints or bars. More important is the atmosphere of the town ; the mixture of everyone. Seldom do towns of 20 ,000 offer a variety of people and attitudes, especially iv I Foreward when over half the population is under 25 . People here represent different ares- the inner city, rural areas and suburbs. Foods, sayings, clothes and even knickknacks reflect that variety. We tend to notice differences rather than likenesses. There are few towns as integrated as Charleston in the area. In the Chicago area, commercials for Lorsban or Sutran are practically nonexistant and few people worry about the rising cost of farm equipment. But only people in the Chicago area get the singing Fordman. Each culture leaves a mark on this town and its people. This process is furthered with the help of the faculty and others in the academic community. All northerners were called Chicagoans, just as everyone south of Kankakee lived in the sticks. The idea of housing developments in Mattoon that matched suburbia was as hard to swallow as Illinois oil wells. Now home seems to be the place that's different.

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vi I Foreward Curing spring fever Compared to my own life last spring, I'm different. Changes were brought on. Some things come to mind when I think about last semester. The first thing I remember was breaking up. I sure that's where the changes came from. Readjusting to being alone , starting to look for a date , staring, I felt like I just arrived on campus agam. The other thing that I'll remember about last spring was being outside. When it was 80 degrees, the best thing in the world was to be outside doing anything as long as it wasn 't constructive. People played frisbee or tossed baseballs •

on the quad. And most afternoons, the campus was littered with sunbathers. I always tried not to notice and I always failed . My mind would slip into neutral and I found the cabin fever therapy I needed. But after the initial thrill of warm weather got old, interesting things were expected to happen, like Celebration. As usual, that weekend brought its yearly display of arts, foods and other things classified as culture. This meant dance demonstrations, choral concerts and the such . I'm not sure I ever understood the light sculpture but it was beautiful. I don't know that anyone understands pop art; we just enjoy what it offers and try to find our own . . . meanmg m lt. Foreward I vii

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Dressing for show I never cared to understand all art or statements - especially statements a lot of us made with our fashions. Both are left open to too many interpretations. How I, my prof or my folks feel about my looks doesn't matter. When I compare myself to when I first got here, I'm over worrying about being hip or dressing to be seen. When I was in grade school, I remember Mom telling me that I should get dressed up nice each day; to give a good impression. It seemed that when I first got here, I took that philosophy and lived it. I would worry about how I looked before I did anything. I didn't think I was preppy but I was very conscious of how my clothes presented me. In many cases, your clothes were you; guys get dressed up to show themselves off to girls, and vice versa. It's a game that's been played for years. But, to me, dress isn't as attractive as it was when I was younger. Now the only time that I'm really concerned about my clothes is when I go out for a concert or play. I just look at the formality or informality of the production and try to mock it. For plays, a nice suit or sports jacket. For Ted's or a concert, I sorta punkout. But for classes, parties and bars, who cares what you look like? I figure, if they are going to judge you, let them judge you on who you are, not what you look like. But all in all, I dress to reflect how I feel, not to look the way I should. No conformity. Not anymore. Foreward I ix

Going for the win In the real world of my father, people were cutthroats during competition. We've always been caught up in competition. When we were young we tried to run faster, throw the ball farther and finish our dinner first. But we are beyond that now. Sports always has a special place in our lives, especially at school. It was our school going up against those other guys. If the games didn't fit in our schedule , we would make them fit. On Saturday, I'd always be there cheering on Kevin Staple and Tyrone Davis as if my college career depended on it. When the Booters were here, I would roar for Agyeman Prempeh and Damien Kelly. I would clear a night of studying early so I could go to Lantz and scream for Rick Samuels and crew. Athletic squads have another competition. x/Foreward Not against other schools, but against each other. The battle is for attention. Foot ball is the reigning champion but soccer is the dark horse, as it continues to pull in fans. The way they rank at this school seems unusual. Soccer and volleyball continue to increase the number of fans while basketball and baseball draw small crowds compared to other schools our size . At times this status with the school became more important than conference ranking. Swimming received a blow with the loss of funds last year, and golf must try to earn its raised rating from university officials as it becomes a complete program. While their own competition will go on again, I'll have my own competition to worry about. Not running or shooting baskets, but competition for grades. It never is a tough fight or an intense struggle, like in a football game. But it is a drawn-out uphill battle. And it's not really against anyone but myself, too. The fight for better gradessuccess - is a battle within. The battle between being lazy and being what is considered successful. Back in dad's world, if the lazy side won out, then I lost. But, in school, what's losing? Getting put on probation? Getting kicked out? Getting a C? And if I learned something from a class was it a loss? It was a victory to learn , but how much we soaked up from a class may not have been represented in our grades. Our grades were bad and, in the short run, we lost. But we learned .

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Responsibility vs. Plato My freshmen year, I remember dealing with older friends of mine who thought they were so significant. They were above all the ''typical'' business majors. They would bad mouth the rich and the folks who didn't read Plato. But graduation from here caused them to see things in a realistic light: my friends donned business suits and headed for their interviews. I guess they realized that it was time to bone up to responsibility. They were going to have to pay bills in the future. Philosophy Suzann~ Cummings helped, it makes up a lot of people's lives, but it couldn't help pay my friends' bills. It was not like I was always responsible myself, I had times when I would throw philosophy out the window and get in mud fight in the South Quad. But now that I start again, I think I'm beyond that. But I'll see. Like I said, the year begins and I'm filled with the same thoughts that usually fill the beginning of any year. And I'm sure this year will fill me with new thoughts. Time to reset the clock, take a deep breath and dive into it. D Foreward I xv

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News Entry 01: Death and war seemed to cover the paper. Every day it was there . At first it was scary but I finally got bored. Everyone got bored. Soldiers died, and we never seemed to learn why they were being shot and we finally stopped caring. All we saw was a war that happened in the paper or on television. Lebanon was more important than everything. Even the constant flow of booze stories. What's worse is when you think how we ignored the death and the tension- bars and books became more important agam. Grades and a social life seemed to be what it was all about. Yet those two elements of school seemed to be the cause for that catch-all phrase - APATHY. That word doesn't say anything but it's overused. Maybe it's overused because not saying anything was usually the easiest thing to do. I did it. However, the most motivating thing I've seen at this school was the Lebanon vigil. It was a reaction, a pure form of patriotism. We had an opinion and decided to let someone in on it. But as far as reactions go, that was it. What about the attack on Grenada and all the other little fights going on that seemed so far away? Is there really a Communist threat lurking behind every bush? It seems that there was a greater reaction to an 89 percent B or a really bad curve than to a cold war with our atomtc partner. Sensational stories certainly kept our attention. Dan Crane and Studds were the subjects of the scandal with Congressional pages. How about that weather? The corn dried up because of the summer drought and the orange juice was frozen right on the trees in winter. It was crazy. But a pennies more for oranges seemed light compared to the weightiness of planning our lives. We have careers to worry about. We wonder what we're going to do to make our lives more exciting, while people in the Mideast and Central America are worrying about how to make their lives more peaceful. Contents Dan Crane ..... . ......... . .... 4 EPA and Toxic Waste . .... .. ..... 6 Marines in Lebanon . . . . . . . . . ... 8 City Council ........... . ..... . 10 The Cold War . . . ..... . .. . . .. .. 12 The U.S. Economy .... . ....... . 13 Reform in Chicago . . . . . . . . . . ... 14 Weather .... . ...... .. . . .. . . . . 15

Dan Crane's troubles Censured for affair with 17 -year-old page Many people refused to believe it. Others thought it was a setup. Some immediately began to throw verbal stones. The news reached most of us in the Charleston area via Friday 's newspapers and television. Representative Dan Crane of the 19th congressional district, on July 14, was named one of two representatives to be reprimanded for having sexual relations with house pages. The House Ethics Committee, named Crane and fellow Congressman Gerry Studds, O-M ass., as the only House members to have delved into the tap of impressionable high school aged employees. The culmination of a six month investigation was the July 20 censure of the two representatives. Unfortunately that prior Friday, Crane's 6th annual newsletter, asking for his constituents impressions of issues facing congress, had reached most of the district households. In the corresponding press release, sent to area media, Crane assured us that he would consider and "answer each letter individually." The misery continued for Crane ; his private difficulties led many to respond to the "most important problem facing congress'' question on his questionaire with answers like " morality of politicians." The number of these blackly humorous letters Crane answered personally may never be known , especially if his press secretary, Bill Mencarow, can help It. With Crane leaving himself open to all the criticism his many enemies could stab him with, he must not have known public humiliation was pending. Because of the three year time frame since the affair, it must have grown bleary in his mind. But the issue of misuse of congressional pages seemed to have grown vague in all of our minds. The investigation was prompted just six months before the finger was pointed at Crane, when page Leroy Williams went public with allegations of wide spread drug use , along with sexual relations between congressmen and high school age boys and girls. Things finally sounded clear. With Crane and Studds named , the House Ethics Committee's investigation reached a practical end : the naming of additional This page: U.S. Representative Dan Crane, R -Danvtfle, addresses Charleston residents at one of his town meetings in August. He began the sen.es of meetings with his constituents after his censure by the House Ethics Committee. Opposite page: Accompanied by his wzfe judy and 3-year-old daughter Heidi, Crane apologizes in front of his distnct office in Danvtfle on july 16 for having sexual relations with a female house page. 4/News representatives accused of having sexual relations has apparently stopped, although the committee plans to continue its inquiry into drug use . Page supervisor, James Howarth was the only person named in connection with buying cocaine who works with within the House. His extra-congressional duties with drugs possibly would not have appeared, except he allegedly bought in the cloakroom. He is the only one named that plans an appeal. After six months of investigation the committee found the culprits of issolated drug and sex scandal incidences. The acts occurred 10 years before for Studds and three years prior for Crane. With the investigation mostly completed, everything appeared domestic again on Capitol Hill. The other representatives could rest easier. Crane and Studds, one Republican and one Democrat. Crane's district happens to have close proximity to the House Minority leader, Robert Michels in Peoria . Studds' district happens to be on the Cape, within yelling distance of House Majority leader, Thomas P. O'Neils district in Mass. Crane, one of the most conservative congressmen , if not the most, has never been as influential as other conservative stalwarts. With four years in the house , Crane has managed to work up to such posts as the post office and armed services committees, although he did have the backing of the Moral Majority and a 100 percent rating from the Americans for Constitutional Action , an ultra conservative House watchdog group . He had a habit of accomodating only the Right . Studds, on the other side of ideology , had .similar problems with sway. Even though he was beginning his 11th year in the house, his politics were almost more Left than fellow Massachusan, Sen . Ted Kennedy . It had already been suggested during his last election campaign that he had homosexual tendencies, but he still won easily. His committee posts include only Foreign Affairs and Merchant Marine and Fisheries. So , they take the rap , and all is over. The public forgets. Government goes on. -Jack PalmerO

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Greenup fears A & F mess Times Beach caught in EPA shuffle A long-running, popular television commercial depicts an American Indian in full dress, weeping at the sight of a tumultuous, litter-strewn highway. The spot obviously seems to stress the importance of an environment free of 20th century waste. It is a nice ad campaign, if nothing else, but it's doing very little in stopping man's rape of Mother Nature. If the real Crazy Horse was around today, he'd notice a tragic irony. Bows and arrows didn't get those with the Manifest Destiny philosophy off the land. Today, toxic waste does. A March 1983 survey in NEWSWEEK stated that next to an all-out nuclear war, poisonous waste is this country's biggest threat. What once was the community of Times Beach, Mo. now stands empty as a chemical-infested martyr to an important environmental issue. America now fears for its own backyard. In 1971, a Times Beach waste-hauler was spraying an oil mixture on horse arenas, parking lots, streets and farms in the Times Beach area. He received the oil mixture from a now-defunct hexachlorophene plant. The black path the waste hauler left could be traced by the numerous physical ailments of area residents, hundreds of dead birds, balding or dying housepets and 62 dead horses (the horses died over a 3 1 12 year span following the original spraying). The supposed service he was providing put the town on the map 12 years later (even if it did mean removing the name from the highway exit sign so no one would drive in to sightsee the chemical devastation that transpired). The cavalry from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was on its way- a few years too late. Not until December of 1982 did actual testing of Times Beach take place. The results of the EPA study showed that for more than a decade, residents in the town had been walking and driving on dioxin-coated roads 100 times worse than the point considered safe. This prompted the U.S. EPA in late February 1983 to make use of a political piggy bank known as Superfund in assisting the townsfolk to rip up their roots. A lot of hoopla was directed by the Reagan administration to the pathetic situation. The government was going to buy out the residents of Times Beach. The $36.7 million bailout plan was no doubt intended on improving the corrupt image of the president's EPA chief, Anne Burford, and the Agency itself. In fact, Burford flew into Times Beach to personally greet the residents with her good news. Thus, she showed the Great White Father in Washington was and still is looking out for his own scalp. Burford and deposed Superfund administrator Rita Lavelle, were accused of political favoritism in the manipulation of Superfund money for November 1982 elections. Allegedly, money was appropriated to states with tight governor races in the hope Republican candidates could prevail on an actions-speak-louder-than-words environmental plarform. Talk such as this was a liability to the president. Top ad6/News ministration staffers concerned with a possible Reagan reelection in 1984 knew it too. So, saying that she was resigning of her own free will, the woman who was going to give the EPA a ''fresh start'' when appointed in 1981, stepped down from her post in March 1983, only weeks after her Times Beach fanfare. William Ruckelshaus, one of EPA's founding fathers under President Nixon, was appointed in May to restore a clean image to the Agency. But in Greenup, Ill., 20 miles south of Charleston, Ruckelshaus did very little for residents, weary for a cleanup of this state's worst toxic waste site. When neighbors of the A & F Materials, Inc. waste/- reclamation site look out their living room windows, they are greeted by the looming sight of 12 rusting tanks still filled with the same toxic, odor-emitting chemicals that have pervaded their lives for the last six years. The headaches and sore throats for those living next to the site aren't occurring as often since June of 1980 when the last dumpload of waste went through A & F's gates. The birds have begun coming back, too. Those same birds started to leave though in 1977. Then A & F Materials first started to receive industrial waste-oils and sludges from corporations all across the Midwest. The aim of the plant was to convert the waste into fire-retardant chemicals and a usable, low grade of petroleum. This, according to A & F owner and operator Kenneth Ault, was going to be his ticket to Easy Street. However, Max Niccum, who has lived by. the location for 14 years with his wife, Linda, swears that he never saw one truckload of "recycled" material leave A & F's gates and travel on the noxious, muck-covered road that bordered the plant. Instead, he thinks Ault was shipping in any waste that he could find, practically dumping it in the front yards of those living across from the site, and making a mint off of it. Ault, though, says he's broke . In April, he said that he owed $28,000 in legal fees, and that he'd been in court for 244 days in the past three years, keeping him from holding down a regular, full-time job. Nevertheless, Ault along with several corporate kingpins are named in a federal civil suit filed by the U.S. EPA, seeking some wallet-emptying restitutions for cleanup costs. Besides A & F and Ault, the federal suit names, among others, the Charleston AM-Bruning division of AM International Inc., McDonnell-Douglas Corp., Northern Petrochemical Co., CAM-OR Inc., Petrolite Corp., and A & F's biggest account, the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA). The suit states that ALCOA arranged about 5. 2 million gallons of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-tainted oil and sludge to be transported to the Greenup facility; and for this, A & F was reportedly paid a total of $650,000. Slowly but surely, things were getting out of hand for A & F. Max and Linda Niccum as well as Gene and Beverly Byrnes

Dave McKinney were getting fed up with the rotten-egg stench inside their houses, and black tint that Linda said she wiped from the inside of their windows weekly. Mter numerous complaints by the two couples as well as others who were down wind of the plant, the EPA conducted a study in March 1980. PCBs were everywhere. Concentrations of the carcinogen were found in two of the site's 12 storage tanks and in two of the four waste lagoons. Levels ranged from 80 parts per billion (ppb) to 49,000 ppb. Had the lagoons stayed within their banks, A & F could possibly still be in business. The problem was that there were spills. Between November of 1978 and May 1981 the EPA noted This page: Under lock and key, A & F Matenals is closed off from the world. Only the Cumberland County sheriff and EPA authon"ties have access to the site. Despite this, neighbors worry about the chance of youngsters straying inszde and falling in a deep, water-filled pit dug by the EPA. eight discharges from these lagoons into a ditch which ran parallel with a set of north-south railroad tracks, adjacent to the plant. This ditch emptied into the Embarras River, which flows into the Wabash River. The spills into the ditch contained PCBs, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, waste-oils and phenol, the EPA said, and were potent enough to threaten life in the area. All this time, Beverly Byrnes, who lives with her husband next to the Niccums, was more than aware of the potential danger all of the carcinogens represented. "What worries me more than anything else is these PCBs," Mrs. Byrnes said. "I've already had cancer twice , and I'm not appreciating the crap down here that they think is cancercausing.'' At a September meeting, EPA officials met with about 35 of Greenup's 1,600 population to discuss cleanup plans. What impatient residents learned, though, was that more studies were planned for late fall and that the liquid and sludge would be removed from the tanks by no earlier than November. The contaminated soil and building will remain until at least the summer of 1984. The cost of cleanup could total about $4 million. ''Why hasn't something been done about the person who's done this. He's taken in several thousand dollars a day there , so why shouldn't he have to pay that back?" Niccum asked at the September meeting, his granddaughter bouncing on his knee . Hesitant officials said that they were doing their best. Ironically both Ault and Niccum share a pessimism toward the A & F experience. The fact that they disagree on who 's to blame for the poisoning of the area is what keeps them at odds. But both Niccum and Ault think they have been mistreated. Ault called his role in the A & F ordeal a ''very bitter experience.'' He said his miseries stem from big mistakes on the parts of a prejudiced judge (Cumberland County Judge James Watson, who withdrew from the case after eight months), vindictive neighbors out to get his land, and the EPA who "jumped on the bandwagon.'' All of them were blowing his involvement in the matter out of proportion, he said. ''If we had wanted to do what a lot of people made it sound like we did, we could've gone off someplace, bought 40 acres, made the biggest pits in the world, and dumped in them, then gone off and left them. We could've made .. . $10 million," Ault said. "Instead, we operated where everyone could see us." Niccum, like other Americans, simply worries about whether he can live in his own backyard, and what it will be like for his granddaughter in twenty years. The American Indian weeps. -Dave McKinneyO News/7

Post bombed in Lebanon Charleston family and friends fear for Marine sniper's life A wave of sadness, fear and anguish swept across the United States when the Oct. 23 terrorist bombing of a U.S. Marine command post stole the lives of 239 U.S. Marines. The wave reached Charleston where the family and friends of a 23-year-old reconnaissance sniper spent an October week waiting and wondering whether Tim Butler was one of the Marines who lost their lives to an Islamic Revolutionary Movement member. This terrorist crashed a pickup truck packed with explosives into a building filled with sleeping Marines at the Beirut airport in war-torn Lebanon. When the members of the Butler family learned of the terrorist attack, they could only attempt to piece together bits of information to discern whether Tim was dead or alive . And the amount of information they had to work from wasn't exactly abundant. Butler, a Charleston native who started serving with the Marines in November 1982, had been moved several times without being able to alert his family of the new posts. It was during that year of his service that Butler met Eastern senior Deb Johnston. Johnston said Butler's sister Angelia, a junior, ''fixed us up in August. I know it sounds bogus- a Marine on leave and all- but its the real thing. During the week of worry, Johnston described Butler, saying, "He's strong-willed and determined; he's loving, caring and sensitive. " She added "God what I'd give to have him on leave now." Butler's mother, Karen, said of her son, "He's a normal boy who wants to defend his country. And he's always wanted to prove he is the best- that's why he's a Marine . sm"He comments in his letters that he's proud to be there, but sometimes he's scared when he's on patrols. He says Lebanon isn't a nice place to be and he's counting the days until he's out of there- not home- just out of there," she added. Johnston used stronger phrases to explain Butler's feelings about his situation in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation. " He called Lebanon 'living hell.' "He said Lebanon is a mess and that it's a lot worse than the media is letting on," she continued. She covered her face with her hands as she said, "He wrote me a letter about one of his buddies being shot and he when he was writing it, he still had blood on his hands. "He's written that he doesn't want the other Marine who've died to die in vain, '' she said. Because the last word the Butlers received from Tim prior to the bombing indicated that he was in the mountains outside Beirut, the family clung to the belief that he had not been moved down into the airport. On Oct. 25, two days after the attack, Buder said, "Deb and I are trying to piece together where he was on the 23rd. He was probably in the mountains when the letter was sent in the neighborhood of the 20th or 21st.'' The Marine's mother had no way of being certain of her son's location because , as she said, "he was confused about dates" when he wrote. Butler's father Jim, said, ''The longer it got- the longer we 8/News Brian Ormiston continued waiting- it seemed like we had to do something." Butler took action to discover his son's status the Thursday following the terrorist bombing. But the calls he placed to Marine Headquarters in Washington D.C. were continously answered by a recorded message informing him that all the lines were busy. ''I finally did get through, but the Marine recruiter in Washington couldn't tell us anything. I sent a telegraph to Tim to tell him to let us know he 's all right," Butler continued. "I told him to call or cable collect. I also sent a telegraph to the White House asking about Tim. I gave Mr. (President Ronald) Reagan Tim's name rank and serial number and asked him to do anything he could to find information about Tim. Although the Butlers faced a brick wall in their attempts to learn Tim's status, they refused to be pessimistic. Fighting back tears, Johnston said, ''I'm sure he's all right. I don't have any real reason to believe he isn't." Finally, five days following the attack, Johnston received a letter indicating that Tim's status was positive. The first step toward clearing the murky picture concerning the reconnaissance sniper's location came in the form of a letter dated Oct. 23 which arrived Oct. 28 . Johnston said, smiling, "If he had been anywhere near the airport he would have heard something- he must have been off in a foxhole somewhere. ''I'm just real relieved and I feel a lot better; I was so excited

when I got the letter. I ran and got the letter and I ran back to to call his mom," she continued. Karen Butler said, "I feel good about the letter. Maybe tomorrow another letter will come and we'll know for sure." Affirmation that Butler was not among the men killed during the suicide bomber attack came Nov. 1. Johnston received a letter postmarked the 26th that indicated Butler had, at one time, slept in the building where the Marines were killed. However, he was stationed at another location at the time of the bombing. The second letter dated after the bombing Johnston received indicated that "he was in the mountains when the bomber hit and that he didn't know anything about what happened to the other Marines.'' She said Butler wrote, ''I'm upset about what happened. I knew a lot of them. But there's nothing I can do to bring them back." In that same correspondence, Johnston learned that Butler was hoping to be out of Lebanon by Christmas. Unfortunately, Butler wasn't home for Christmas. He spent the holidays in Lebanon. His extended stay was prompted by the killing of eight other Marines by Druze militiamen on Dec. 4, at the Beirut airport base . This meant more retaliation by the U.S. and a longer stay for the troops. On Dec. 13 two U.S. Navy F-16 jets were shot down over This page: On Oct. 26, more than 5 00 Eastern students gathered in the Lzbrary Quad to attend a candle light vigzl in honor of the 239 U.S. Marines kzlled in the bombing of a military post at Beirut airport in Lebanon. The emotional event was organized by student Kevin Smith. Lebanon, and the fleet of ships off the coast retaliated by shelling the Syrian-held mountains with mortar. The U.S. peacekeeping force that was stationed in Lebanon for more than a year before this action would continue its stay. Though Tim Butler spent his holidays in Lebanon, both he and his family were confident he would return home soon. More than a month after the horror of wondering whether her son was dead or alive, Karen Butler said; "He'll be out of there the first of January as best he knows now. "Some days he sounds real good; some days sounds real tired," she continued. "Sleep's a thing sometimes doesn't even know. This boy's been through an awful lot. He needs to get out of there. They all need to get out of there ." Jim Butler, who served in the U.S. Army's airborne forces between 1955 and 1958, also said he wishes that his son and other the Marines in Lebanon didn't have to make sacrifices. "I served mostly during peacetime, but in August '58, a full alert was sent and we were told we were going to have to go into Lebanon," the elder Butler said. "The drop zones were marked, but eventually the alert was canceled. I don't know why. I told Tim when he went that I only regret we didn't solve this problem 25 years ago so he wouldn't be going through what he is now." -Maureen FoertschD News/9

This page: Former Charleston Finance Commissioner jim Wickham ponders the rheton·c at a Charleston City Counctf meeting. Wickham opted to leave the counczJ in july after a long pen'od of heated controversy over his appointment. Opposite page, Left: Commissioner john Beusch, left, looks on as Mayor Clancy Pfeiffer tells a filled city room that there were a number of other incidents outside of former City Planner Larry Stoever's dissension of 10/News Wickham's appointment for Stoever's dismissal. Right: Stoever sits, downtrodden, at the Tuesday, March 15, 1983 council meeting when he was dismissed by a unanimous counctf vote. Stoever told a Daily Eastern News reporter after the meeting that he believed the action resulted because of his outspoken cn'ticism of the Wickham appointment.

'As Charleston Turns' One chapter in an ever-continuing soap opera Attending a meeting of the Charleston City Council is like tuning in to a fine daytime drama. The lead character in "As Charleston Turns" (title courtesy of Commissioner Wayne Lanman), is Mayor Clancy Pfeiffer. Clancy, who formerly played Charleston's finance commissioner, became mayor when past lead, Mayor Bob Hickman , left the serial in March to find fame and fortune on a bigger show, Secretary of State Jim Edgar's Springfield office. With Bob leaving the network, the cast of five integral roles was not complete. The man the other characters agreed on, by majority rule, to play the part of finance commissioner was Jim Wickham. Jim was a good actor, well suited for the part. Everything seemed to be going okay until a co-star, Larry Stoever, decided he didn't want Jim in the serial anymore. Larry, who was city planner, said Jim should not be on the council because he is on another competing show as director of engineering and planning with Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. Larry discovered a state statute that prohibits public utility executives from taking elected positions and being on two shows at once. But the others on the show liked Jim. They didn't want Larry to say things that would hurt the newest cast member and the series itself. So the main characters kicked Larry off the show. Larry got mad and is suing the show and his acting rivals for $1.5 million. Larry says the lead characters wouldn't let him tell the viewing public the truth. Larry asked the courts to settle the matter, but the judge decided not to even hear Larry's case. There was calm on the set- for awhile. After the judge refused to hear the arguments, Jim got frustrated because of the controversy that Larry continued to stir up after he left. Jim quit the show in July because he didn't want the fans to be mad at the other main characters. The serial once again found itself in need of someone to play finance commissioner. The cast once again held auditions, and John Winnett was chosed the newest member. Clancy and Wayne wanted John W. to join the show because the fans seemed to like him. But Commissioners Olga Dvrham and John Beusch were unsure of his capabilities in the part of finance commissioner, a challenging role. To appease Olga andJohn B., Clancy asked Wayne to play finance commissioner. Wayne didn't want to be moved from his role in the street department, so he suggested that John B. might do a good job as finance commissioner. John B. conceded to letting John W. join the show on the grounds that John W. be written in as public property commissioner while John B. changed roles to finance commissioner. Keeping all this complex action moving and lucid is director of "As Charleston Turns," City Attorney Tony Sunderman. The after the fact writer and chronicler is City Clerk Patsy Loew. Protecting the city and its viewers from worldly evils are Police Chief Maurice Johnson and Fire Chief Melvin Taylor. Other members of the supporting cast are too numerous and varied to name. The plot of this continuing drama is rarely dull. While some episodes may be slightly less than exciting, the soap opera as a whole continues to bring excitement to its viewers. -Sharon BrayD News/11

America acts Reagan, Andropov drive Acme Company trucks • • • !n 1982, I told my mom to wake me early on Saturday mornmgs. I had been having fond memories of early-morning cartoon watching during the glorious days of early '60s Cold War, and something had been nagging at the back of my mind. Gearing up for a segment of the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour," things began to click in my head . Halfway through a Chuck Jones-directed Warner Brothers classic, I put it together. The Road Runner was the characterization of our little third world/ right-wing dictatorship friends throughout the worlds. The nemeses, or the evil coyote, were the Marxist rebels. But who was the mysterious Acme Company, always offering parcels of sophisticated weaponery, seemingly free of charge? Mter my third cup of Sanka it came to me- the Soviets. President Reagan must have figured it out, too, and he had to do something. The world was in a state in which the Russians could walk all over us, like Hungarian revolution of 1956 being put down without a whimper. Reagan began to act. In March of 1983, in an address to protestant evangelicals, Reagan called the Soviets "an evil empire ." Going into April, Reagan offered an "interim solution" to the medium-range missile problem in Europe. The Soviets didn't like the U.S. entering the market and competing with the Acme Company. Of course, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko rejected the proposal. At the end of April and beginning of May, Soviet President Yuri Andropov realized that Reagan had figured out the Acme Company's role in world politics, called for a ban of outer-space weapons and offered to cut the number of SS-20's aimed at Western Europe. Reagan was keenly aware of the craftiness of Andropov and balked at the idea, going full speed ahead with plans to arm this area of the world. And there were other areas in the world that needed the aid of the United States. El Salvador was surrounded by danger. Nicaragua had fallen to the aid of Cuba. Guatemala, to the North, was also having all kinds of trouble. There was trouble all around El Salvador. Aid was sent in the form of weapons and advisers. One adviser was even killed. Some said it was another Vietnam. Lebanon was also in trouble, with the Israelis getting all their ideologies confused and trying to fight everyone at once. It was hard to figure out who was in trouble in this case, so Reagan sent many Marines to give him time to figure it out. This decision would come back to almost haunt him. As the summer closed, things seemed reasonably quiet in the This page: Our President, Ronald Reagan, ends his tour of the U.S.S. New jersey in 1982. The New Jersey was stationed off the shore of Beirut, Lebanon for the better part of 1983. Opposite page: Though the percentages said the economy was getting better, times were tough for many individuals such as 59-year-old Donald Griffith. In early September, Griffith walked from the west end of Mattoon through Charleston in search of work. 12/News world . Then die Soviets attacked. On Septemoer 1, the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 , killing 269 passengers. This was the final blow for Reagan, and perhaps the lowest ebb of Cold War since the term was coined. The Soviets tried, but could not rationalize the attack. Now Reagan could openly denounce the Soviets as the basis of many civil wars and revolutions without fear of criticism from anybody. And the Soviets reacted as they were expected to. Even though Andropov seemed to be as enigmatic as the country that he lead- not having been seen since a meeting with U.S. Senators in August- a harsh statement attacking the U.S. actions in various parts of the world was issued bearing his name on Sept. 28. And then the -final blow was struck on Oct. 21. A fanatical terrorist was chosen from the ranks of a whole bunch of fanatics. His disposition must have been the worst, driving a big truck full of explosives into the American compound. In the aftermath, 241 Marines were killed. Nothing since the Iranian hostages or the Vietnam War shook the people of the U.S. like _ this. This was a different kind of ball game. Cold War wasn't all throwing your weight around without any repercussions. To make things worse , mass demonstration accompanied the deployment of missiles in Western Europe. Reagan needed someone else to help and fast, so he looked to · the south, right on our back step. On October 25, with a fast slight of hand reminiscent of the press blocks on the Vietnam War, the United States invaded Grenada. Soon, the press was spending all of their front page inches on the treachery of the government limiting their coverage of the invasion, and quoting the First Amendment. People weren' t so upset about the Lebanon situation and began to feel good about the victory in Grenada. Of course the Soviets reacted as they had to, suspending weapons negotiations and walking out on peace talks. Now with the '84 election up and coming, Reagan was humming a different tune . It seemed that he was interested in peace. Maybe his concern was genuine, or maybe he was genuinely concerned about his constitiuents. -Jack PalmerO Michael Evans/White: House

... while American economy goes along for the ride The U.S. economy, the largest and most resilient in the world, has certainly received a great amount of publicity during 1983. Because of the election to be, even more attention, publicity, impossible election promises and, unfortunately, grand overblown claims were expected. There was no doubt that the last half of 1983 was nothing short of a classic economic recovery. But problems remain which some claim could seriously endanger continued improvement. The Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production was up almost 15 percent from 1982. Sales and profits were both up significantly, with GM, Ford and Chrysler all showing, amazingly enough, profits. At this point in time it was too early to tell what the future holds, but certain persistent problems could impede or possibly reverse the recovery. Even the recovery itself leaves some disatisfied. According to the Congressional Budget Office, one half of the 1983 tax cut went to those earning $40,000 or more a year, while social programs declined significantly. The trickle-down theory seemed to be alive and well in Washington. While sales of Mercedes and Chane! No. 5 may have been up, for the 34 million Americans living below the poverty level, this was no consolation. But why was poverty, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, the highest it has been in 17 years? The problems of poverty and its sideeffects continued to plague the overall economic well-being and it appeared that they were to remain. But why all the worry? Things for the average person seemed to be better. The federal government's $200 billion deficit is why. To start, the recovery was lopsided, with growth for both exports and the capital-goods sector (captal intensive industries, such as steel, construction equipment and heavy manyfacturing) slow or non-existent. While the deficit was certainly not the only factor responsible for these problems, it most likely played a leading role. By borrowing that much money, the federal government may have bidded away capital that both businesses and consumers wanted. This, in conjunction with the tight money policy of the Federal Reserve Board, tended to raise interest rates and the price of borrowing money. Since it was the capital intensive industries that were suffering the most, it was these industries that could possibly never recover. These same interest rates increased demand for U.S. dollars held by foreigners. As a result, the U.S. currency raised to new peaks raised the U.S. currency to new peaks on the foreign exchange markets. This meant that American goods (exports) became more expensive to foreign countries, while their goods (imports) became cheaper here. This resulted in a continually growing trade deficit ($60 billion as of Dec. 1983) that will probably reach record highs in 1984. So, as usual, everything depends on those all too familiar "ifs". But, barring a total catastrophe, and the hundreds of other problems that are part of our world, 1984 may be not such a bad year for the u.s-. For what its worth, TIME magazine's board of economists predicted the 4th quarter of 1984 with 7. 7 percent unemployment, 4.9 percent inflation and 7. 7 percent unemployment. If, if, if, ... Or, you can believe Treasury Secretary Donald Regan who said, "I wish economists would sit back and relax. (This will be) one of the greatest recoveries in history." And on December 24, 1928, President Calvin Coolidge urged us to "anticipate the future with optimism." Ten months later the U.S . economy collapsed. -Karim ElDibD News/13

Dissent weakens Chicago's new mayor as Vrdolyak 29leads in power struggle Battle lines emerged on the eve of the inauguration. Both sides wanted "reform," but for different causes. The day before he became mayor, Harold Washington and his closest allies in the new city council announced they would oust Edward Vrdolyak from his post as chairman of the powerful committee on buildings and zoning. Washington, who wanted the reform of offices and duties- but started in the wrong officehad no place in his administration for traitors. After all, Vrdolyak had switched sides and supported Republican candidate Bernard Epton in the mayoral general election . Vrdolyak, ready for a battle and the reform game as well, aimed directly at his betrayer, Ald. Wilson Frost, finance committee chairman and Washington's right hand man in the city council. Vrdolyak knew he could win any battle in the city council chambers, all in the name of reform of course . (He claimed to have 28 supporters as compared to Washington's 21.) His reform would be realized. Washington tried to stop this reform by trying to make sure there was no meeting at all, but Vrydolyak brought his parlimentarian lawyers along and made sure there was. May 2. The Vrdolyak coup was ripped by Washington at the council meeting. The mayor and his 21 walked out after a voice vote to adjourn the council meeting. The Vrdolyak 29 parceled out committee chairmanships. tees and rules. Washington and Vrdolyak consolidated their lawsuits. May 16. The push for a compromise to regain order continued until when Circuit Court Judge James C. Murray upheld the Vrdolyak 29 system of city council committees, but said Washington could deny funding for these committees. Washington appealed to the Illinois Appellate Court and Murray placed stay on the new system, pending appeal. May 17. Ald. Edward Burke, Vrdolyak's finance committee chairman, wanted Frost out of his office. Frost would not move until the court case was settled. Negotiations broke down over Frost's role in the new council. May 19 negotiations resumed and talks bogged down as Washington objected to Burke as finance committee chairman. June 1, 4. Talks stalled again over Burke issue. Negotiations went nowhere. June 10. Illinois Appellate Court upheld the lower court decision. Washington said he'd appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court if he had to. The Circuit Court stay expired the following Wednesday and the Appellate Court refused Washington's request for a continuation of the stay. After an appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, though, the stay was extended one week. "Mr. Vrdolyak and some of his supporters don't understand Chicago Mayor Harold Washington June 22. The Supreme Court lifted its stay and refused to rule on the dispute . The Appellate Court decision stood. Washington could have pursued an appeal in Federal that there will not be business as usual, that there will be reforms," Washington said. May 6. Washington vetoed the second city council meeting but lost the fight to curb a meeting set for the next day. The Vrdolyak group then filed a suit asking the Circuit Court to stop Washington from "hindering and obstructing them" in their lawful duties. In return action , Washington filed suit asking Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wosnik to prevent implementation of the results of the disputed meetings. May 7. Chaos reigned at city hall as Washington supporters tried, unsuccessfully, to stop a vote on Vrdolyak's rules. Washington 's allies made their own plans on May 10. He and his troops wanted Frost restored as finance committee chairman. May 11. More chaos ruled. Washington vetoed resolutions which established the Vrdolyak group 's setup of council commit14/News Supreme Court on grounds of race discrimination, but decided not to. June 28. The drone of routine city business was heard in the council chambers instead of shouting matches heard during the recent past. A backlog of 200 council proposals were churned out and refered to committees. After almost two months of court battles, Vrdolyak was the victor. A modified edition of his council rules and committee assignments, or his " reforms" survived the war of words. His real reform though, was the weakening of the mayor. Washington's resolutions are now more likely to be voted down , if Vrdolyak wishes to do so. Chicago mayors of the past, such as the late Richard Daley, had only a handful of dissenters in their councils. But dissension may govern the Chicago City Council for the next four years. - Len Krasnowski 0

Ice age or greenhouse the UJeather hits hard Shows on public television every so often say that the atmosphere is so clogged up with pollution that the earth will suffer a greenhouse effect. That is, we'll fry up because of a dense cloud cover that allows the land to heat up but not cool off. On those very same stations, a month later, there are shows with scientists explaining how the earth is going to go through another ice age. Ok folks, which is it? In this Land of Lincoln it seemed that the helpless children of mother nature went through the ice age and greenhouse effect in the matter of a few winters and summers. In the winter of '83 cars were washed in January, sunbathing took place in February and there were a lot of shows explaining the greenhouse effect and how it ruined Venus. The greenhouse effect carried through to the summer. There were weeks and weeks of dry soil, brown grass and no rain, but that was all that suburbanites saw. For our bretheren in the rural areas of the Midwest, where the weather easily changes one's income, this summer was a killer. Crops were drying up. It was an unwelcome kick to the already downtrodden American farmer. Chances are, those greenhouse effect shows were being taken seriously. Bur, the winter of 1983-84 was quite a turnaround. Programmers were searching for the ice age cometh shows. Record lows were all over the country - Chicago had a lower low than Anchorage, Alaska on Christmas Eve . And this cold weather reached its way down to the Sunshine State, winter escape for many M idwesteners. But while the many back in Lincolnland shivered and laughed at their friends and relation visiting Florida, they all had to feel for the Florida citrus farmer. Their crops were dying on the trees because of the freezing weather. Though , some farmeers were able to pick a large batch and sell it as frozen juice So, though we never really felt it up in the north - partly because of a bumper crop of citrus imported from Brazil- many farmers in Florida went broke. Some lost more than than their life savings because of the weather, though . Hundreds lost their lives because of the heat and cold. Many shoved that off like any other news of the day because , plain and simple, it didn't effect them. .. Brian Ormiston Whether our ecology does get screwed up enough that it does effect everyone is yet to be seen. In the meantime, those programs about the environment continued on those public television stations. On those programs, paranoid, but concerned people expressed their worry. But our world turned as it always turned and the weather continued its changes and our ability to adjust to it was tested. And its ability to frighten us grew more in a few months than most collegiate Illinoisans could remember. Oh, by the way , what's it like out today? -Matthew Krasnowski D This page: This is the median betweeen the ice age and the greenhouse effect, constant sleet/snow which nussles up to the branches of confused trees on campus. News/ 15

Sports Entry 02: Whenever people talk about college sports, it's always football and basketball. I'm not much better. There seemed so much to talk about with the football team this year. I wasn't very optimistic going in. We lost a good coach and our quarterback. He graduated and plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. Despite this the team continued winning and things seemed normal after a couple weeks. I fell into my routine. Go over at 11:30 to the tailgates. Go to the stadium at 1:00 and leave in the third or fourth quarter. Then we'd talk about the game as we beat the crowd to Marty's and nabbed a booth. Then the tailgate hassles started; at least there was still peppermint schnaapps for the game. I started to believe we had a chance to do something and then the team struck. Everyone started pointed fingers and the only thing that came of it was that I lost interest in the team. They made it to the playoffs but lost in the first round while everyone was home for fall break. The one team that kept my interest the whole season was soccer. It was frustrating to see them silenced so quickly in the playoffs again. I used to watch soccer and field hockey after class in the fall and softball in the spring. I never planned it but just walked over when I saw them playing. I miss not having the field hockey team anymore. I know golf replaced it but who wants to go to Mattoon to watch golf? About the only other sports news of interest was the Cardinals football team holding summer practice here. I wasn't here for it but it's something to talk about back home. My only other bragging rights for sports stemmed from intramurals. In football we didn't do much this year but last year we got to semifinals. I'll get one of those T-shirts yet. Really this whole year seemed like just one big build up to a big let down. The teams did their best but it just wasn't enough at times, not enough to help carry them through the playoffs. Contents Baseball ............ . ....... . 18 Softball. .. . . .... . ...... . . .... 20 Men's Tr2ck ..... . .. ......... . 22 Women's Tr2ck .............. . . 23 Field Hockey ............. . .... 24 Golf .... . . .. . .... .......... . 2~ Volleyball ..... . .. . .. . .. ...... 26 Men's Cross Country ............ 28 Women's Cross Country ......... 29 Football . . . .. . . . . .......... . . 30 Men's Tennis ..... . ... .. . ...... 32 Women's Tennis ..... . . . ....... 33 Men's Basketball .......... . .... 34 Women's Basketball ... . ... . .. . . 36 Wrestling . . .... ..... . ........ 38 Swimming .... . .............. 40 Soccer ....... .. .. . ... .. .. .. . . 42 Scoreboard ... . . . ..... . .. .. ... 44 Club Spons . . . . .. .. .... .. . ... . 46 lntr2muC2ls .. . .. . . . ....... . ... 48 Olympics ........ . .. . . .. . . . . . ~2 Recruiting . .......... .. . .. . . . . ~4

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Chosen few Standouts playing in leagues Senior Kevin Gordon was a pitcher for the Panther baseball team last season. The team finished with a 29-12 record. Gordon, who was out with an injury for most of the season, finished with a 2-4 record and an earned run average of 7. 62. Gordon is one of three Panther players from last year's squad that are currently playing minor league baseball. We had a lot of talent with eight seniors on the team and we knew we were capable of going all the way. That's what we wanted to do. We got off to a great start by beating Indiana University and sweeping Arkansas State, but then we started losing games because of the weather. That really hurt us. It was really hard to get up for a game when you didn't know if you were going to play or not. We had 23 games rained out, so we lost most of our season. Another thing that really hurt us were the injuries. Kevin (Seitzer) was bothered by a pulled hamstring, Steve (Hall) had a bad leg and I only got to pitch 22 innings or so because of the pinched nerve in my leg. I got to the point where my injuty really depressed me. I would pitch two or three innings and then have to leave the game because my injury bothered me . I was really down because I ended up getting out of shape. That's why it was a big surprise for me when I got drafted. (Gordon was drafted in the 23rd round of the free agent draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates). I didn't know I was drafted by the Pirates until I carne back to Charleston and found the draft letter in my mailbox. It was great, but the Kansas City Royals also were looking at me, so I had a decision to make. I decided to go with the Pirates because they didn't have as strong of a pitching staff as the Royals did. It would be easier for me to move up in the Pirates organization, so I signed. I spent my first few days with the Pirates in Florida playing for one of their farm club teams. Then they moved me up to Class A baseball in Watertown, N.Y. in the N.Y.-Penn. league. I liked it there a lot. They have good trainers who took care of my injury and I pitched all summer without any pain. I was a relief pitcher, which really helped me build my confidence back up. They would bring me in during tough situations and it was nice to know that they trusted me. Playing for a professional team was much different from playing college ball. They don't pay you in college. Being paid to play ball puts a lot of pressure on you. If you play a bad game in college you sit on the bench. If you play a bad game in professional ball you could easily get your pink slip and be sent packmg. I wasn't the only one on the team who got drafted. Kevin (Seitzer) also got drafted (Seitzer was taken in the 11th round by the Kansas City Royals) . Bill Morton wasn't drafted, but he was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies and is playing for one of their farm clubs. We should have had five or six people drafted this year. Jeff (Yocum), Troy (Harper) and Brian Oones) all should have been drafted, because they all have the talent to play professional baseball. But our season did not end as well as it should of and it hurt them. -Interview by Kathy LeahyO Opposite page, Top: Panther catcher Jeff Yocum gives a teammate the high five after rounding the bases at a Panther Baseball game. Bottom: First baseman Bob Schlechte attempts to catch an opponent from Rose-Hulman leaning off the base. This page: Kevin Seitzer, who was drafted in the 11th round by the Kansas City Royals this year, slides in safe. Sports/19

Bats sizzle throughout season Nancy Kassebaum played shortstop for Eastern 's softball team last spring and helped guide them to a 20- 10 record in their first season as a NCAA Division I affiliate. Kassebaum, a 1983 graduate, was the Panther's leading hitter with a .402 average. We lost five staners from last year's team, so going into the season I didn't think we would do very well. We had young people at key positions and I thought their lack of experience would be a problem. I don't mean to say they weren 't good players. They all have a lot of talent and exceeded my expectations. We had the talent, and the potential to be a very good team. But so many things worked against usthe weather, for example. A lot of our games were canceled because of rain and some days we were playing in 35 degree weather. That hurt us a lot and we were frustrated, just as any team would be . We would play a couple of games but then go more than a week without playing. I think the low point for us this season was our performance at the conference tournament . We definitely had the talent to win it and I honestly think we were the best team there. But our hitting left a lot to be desired (.124 team batting average for the tournament). We weren't aggressive on the bases and played lousy defense. The reason we played so poorly at the conference tournament was because we were extremely nervous. Kathy (Richards), Kelly (Waldrup) and I, the only three seniors on the team, were very uptight because we knew that any one of those tournament games could be the last game of our college careers. That put a lot of pressure on us. The younger players on the team had just as much pressure on them, but it was a differenc kind. For the younger players it was their first post-season tournament and I think they were scared. They didn't want to disappoint the team. I'm sure that was very hard on them. It was sad we had to end our season that way. The season was disappointing overall, but we did manage to accomplish a few things. Illinois State is one of our biggest rivals. They are a bigger school than we are and we have been very intimidated by them in the past. But for the first time in a long time, we beat them. That really boosted our morale 20/Sports and gave us a feeling of confidence. The best thing about it though, is we beat them on their home field . A goal of ours this season was to work on batting. Coach Deanna D' Abbraccio stressed that in practice and it paid off. We finished fifth in the nation in batting (.282 average) and I'm really proud of that. Concentrating on hitting paid off for me personally as well. I wanted to hit over .400 this season and I did it. I ended up finishing tenth in the nation, which came as a great surprise. This season Coach D' Abbraccio decided to go with a more conservative game plan, making the season very frustrating for some of the older players on the team. Coach D' Abbraccio spent a lot of time stressing the fundamentals. I can see why she did, since we had several younger players on the team. But it was hard for the older players because last season we did it all. We were able to win 45 games because we were aggressive at the plate, we stole bases, and we were tough on defense. Basically what we did was take more chances. After doing what we did the year before, it was hard to regress and play a conservative game. I don't like to bunt but we did that a lot. Mary (Tiegs) and I love to steal bases, but we couldn't do that because we didn't have the green light from Coach D' Abbraccio . This was my senior year and, like every player in their last season, I was really hoping to go all the way in softball. We finished third in the nation last year and I was hoping we would be able to top that this season . But that was just a fantasy . -Interview by Kathy LeahyD Photos by Brian Ormiston

Opposite page: Senior shortstop Nancy Kassebaum appears to stolen second base during a doubleheader against Western Illinois. However, Kassebaum was later called out because of an interference call on the batter junior second baseman Sharon Cizek. This page, Top: Juniorn third baseman Kathy Trnka slides into second base during the Panther's doubleheader sweep of Southern Illinois-Edwardsvzlle. Bottom: junior outfielder Mary Tiegs slides into third base during a home game on the new women's softball field. Dedicated on Apnl 26, 1983, the field was not named as the athletics department was still deciding on an appropnate person to name it after. Sports/21

Good, bad breaks Tracksters run uneven season Tim Warneke, a four-year letterwinner, was a distance runner for Eastern's track team last season. Warneke, a 1983 graduate, was one of the Panther's top runners last season. There is one nice thing about track. People don't expect anything. If you do a good job, people notice. If not, you don't have to worry about it. In track you have to prove yourself worthy and that is the way it should be. Anyway, it ends up being that way, whether it should be or not. Track is an individual sport, unlike football or basketball, so it is difficult for anyone to determine how well any season really goes. But, last spring in particular, I thought we had a good team. We placed second in the conference, which was a definite highlight for the team. In the past we were weak in field events but this season we were stronger in that area. However, individually, the season was very disappointing for a lot of my teammates. Gunior) Claude Magee, who was ranked 16th in the world in the 100- meter run, was unable to finish the season because of an injury. That really hurt us. Claude participated in relays and the long jump and his absence left us with holes in several events. (Sophomore) Roxy Wood , who had a good chance of winning the vaulting event at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet, was injured while he was warming up. However, Uunior) Cornell Wilson did a good job this season in the hurdles, placing in several meets and winning in several others. I was pleased with the way the season went for me personally because I was consistent. I ran some good races, most were average, but I never ran a really bad race. I was real happy that I scored 24 points at the conference (Association of Mid-Continent Universities) meet and that I won the steeplechase with the fourth best time in Eastern's history. But nothing sticks out in my mind that would make or break my season. Since I've been out of school I've done some better running. For some reason, by the time you get out of school you finally know what it takes to run fast. I now wish I had four years of eligibility left. But everyone that graduates says that. -Interview by Kathy LeahyD 22/Sports This page: Craig DeWall holds a slim lead in the 400 meter hurdles at the Eastern Relays held in the spring of 1983. DeWall finished fourth in the event.

Trio of strong runners help overcome team's shortages Entering every meet shorthanded really cannot do too much to help a team. But Eastern's women's track team, powered by a trio of strong runners, was able to overcome that disadvantage . Eastern head coach John Craft said that although the Panthers had no participants in the discus, shotput, javelin and heptathlon events, it proved not to be much of a setback for his squad. "We usually were able to overcome being shorthanded because we were strong in other areas,'' he said. "Overall, we had a successful season." Juniors Gail Stephens and Margaret Smith, along with senior Gina Sperry, shattered several existing Eastern records last spring as the trio helped guide the Panthers to a respectable season. Smith, a middle distance runner, led the recordbreakers by setting new school records in the BOOmeter, 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter events. Stephens joined Smith in the record books with an additional three records. The former All-American long sprinter established new marks in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. In addition, Stephens anchored Eastern's recordbreaking 800-meter medley relay team along with Sonya Brown, Renee Johnson and Charmane Carrethers. The unit reached new heights at the Drake Relays, notching a second-place finish with a record-setting time of 1 : 41 : 57 . Team captain Gina Sperry also contributed to the record books, clocking a 16:05 in the two-mile run. "Gina was our most consistent runner," Eastern head coach John Craft said. " She was looked up to as a team leader." However, despite the top individual performances, the lady Panthers could muster no better than a sixth-place finish at the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference meet. "It was a lot closer than what it appears," Craft said. The numbers seemed to support him. Only 33 points separated the top six teams in the meet. Illinois State University came out on top with 98 points while Eastern tallied with 65. -Jeff LongO This page: Members of Eastern 's women 's track team listen to a pep talk before beginning practice sprints. Although the team was shorthanded in several events their strength in other areas helped pull them through the season. Sports/23

Women's golf moves in Field hockey program cut judy Waterbury was the goalie for the 1982 field hockey team. Waterbury, a senior, earned the starting position her junior year and was almost guaranteed to start this season. However, over the summer Athletic Director R. C. johnson announced that the university would terminate the field hockey program effective in the fall of 1983 . In addition, johnson said Eastern would implement a women's golf program beginning in the fall of 1984. I expected it to happen sooner or later, but I was very surprised when the university decided to cancel field hockey. I didn't think it v.ould happen until after I had graduated. I was suprised the university did not notify me of their decision. I found out through my teammates. We were all very shocked with the decision. It's a shame to see the program go , but now that I think about it I can see several reasons why they did it. Field hockey is a very difficult sport to understand. It has a lot of rules which are hard to pick up and also very awkward. They revised the rules a couple of years ago to try to make it easier to understand and also to make it easier for the spectator to watch. But it didn't seem to help Eastern's program. We had too much competition from other women's sports like basketball, tennis and softball. Field hockey involves a lot of techniques, unlike those of any other sport, which I think makes it hard for people to like . Hockey can't be compared to anything else. Recruiting has always been a problem because field hockey is not popular in the Midwest. Very few high schools in Illinois still have an active field hockey program. Eastern didn't have the money to recruit players from the East where hockey is more popular. That really hurt the program. However, I think the main reason field hockey was canceled was because our coach, Beth Reichel, resigned. We all knew the day she decided to quit coaching field hockey at Eastern, the program would be out the door. As long as she remained at Eastern the program would stay alive. She was, in a way, the last hope for the program. Reichel did not leave word when she left and it was a surprise to find out she had left. (She now teaches and coaches at Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Va.). I can't really say I'm disappointed they canceled the program. I love to play, but field hockey is not something I grew up with. I didn ' t start playing until I got to college (Waterbury played at Harper College for three seasons before transferring to Eastern) but I have to admit that soccer is my real love . 24/Sports Although the cancellation has not really affected me, many of the girls on the team still want to play field hockey and have had to find other places to play. Gail Niebur and Barb Stelk transferred to Western Illinois and play field hockey there. Nancy (Fanta) and Ann (Bohannon) are playing for the Illinois Central Hockey Club. I have given it up because I would rather play soccer anyway. In fact, I was very surprised that the university implemented a golf program because soccer is a growing sport and I thought if field hockey was ever canceled soccer would take its place. We've had a soccer club for five years now (Waterbury is president of the club) so I assumed they would make it an intercollegiate team. It's easier to recruit for soccer and also cheaper to fund. I thought it was the obvious choice but I was wrong. Field hockey is a growing sport everywhere but the Midwest. Doors were just beginning to open for what is now an Olympic sport. It's a shame it was canceled, but whether we want to admit it or not, field hockey is dead and gone at Eastern. We have to face it. -Interview by Kathy Leah yO This page: Senior goalie Liz Wiechern and full back Diane johnson test each other's sktlls in a drill dun'ng a fall practice. The Field Hockey program was canceled in the summerof1983.

Golfers Anglin: optimistic of future A successful fall season has Eastern men 's golf coach Kevin _Anglin optimistic about the upcoming spring campa1gn . "We will have a strong team again this year," Anglin said. "I believe we are capable of beating every team in our conference and now we must prove it. ' ' The Panthers' registered their best outing this fall at Prestwick Country Club, tying Ball State Univesity for first out of an 18-team field . Eastern also placed well at Kentucky Wesleyan , earning a second-place tie in an eight-team field . At Indiana State Univesity-Evansville , the Panthers finished fifth out of 11 teams. Anglin 's squad shot in the low 300s in all of its six fall outings. "In the past, if we shot 320 or better that was good, but I believe we are one man short of breaking 300," Anglin said. Transfer student Brent Richardson will lead the Panthers into their spring season after placing fifth on the All-State Team at the Illinois Intercollegiate tournament this fall . "I was really pleased with Richardson's play this fall ," Anglin said. "In the tournaments that we really needed him, he came through." Also returning for the Panthers are sophomore Brent Herrin and freshman Ron Huffman. ''Herrin and Huffman spent a great deal of time this past summer working on their game and I believe it really paid off," Anglin noted . In addition , Anglin said he is optimistic about this team's chances of winning the Association of MidContinent Universities tournament. Eastern opened its spring season April 7th and 8th when the Panthers traveled to the Indianapolis Intercollegiate tournament. -Marc McMullen D This page: The golf team finished its spring and fall seasons impressively and had hopes to do even better in the upcoming spn·ng. Here, a golfer tees off during a practice on a cold spn·ng day at Mattoon Country Club. Sports/25

Earning a spot in GAC tournament matches spikers pre-season goals Being marred by injuries can make it difficult for a team to salvage a respectable season. But despite being hampered by injuries thoughout most of its season, Eastern's volleyball team was able to put together its finest NCAA Division I campaign. "We had nagging injuries all season long, which hurt us," first-year head coach Betty Ralston said. ''The injuries really lowered our morale and hurt our attitude sometimes.'' "But I can't be disappointed with the way the girls played,'' she continued. ''Despite everything, they didn't give up and we ended up having a great season.'' The Panthers finished their season with a 26-11 overall record and a 6-4 Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference slate and accomplished the one goal they had set for themselves at the beginning of the season. "We had only one goal set. We wanted to make it to the post-season tournament- to be one of the top four teams in the conference," Ralston said. "We did it." However, the Panthers finished out the season with a disappointing three-game loss to top-seeded Southwest Missouri State University in the first round of the tournament. "We were the underdogs going into the tournament," Ralston said. "It would have been nice to upset someone in the tournament, but it just didn't happen. And since we did get to the tournament, I can't be disappointed." However, senior Bonnie Fisk, in her final season at Eastern, said she was disappointed that the Panthers were not able realize their dream of a conference championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA national tournament. "I was disappointed that we didn't win the conference. I thought we had a real good shot at winning it. "Conference was really important to us," she continued. "It wasn't pressure. We just knew we had to win if we were to advance to nationals. It was frustrating that we were not able to win. 26/Sports "We went into the conference tournament confident," Fisk added. "I don't know if we were overconfident or what, but things just did not work out for us." Although the Panthers fell short in their bid to capture their first conference crown, they placed two players on the all-conference team. Fisk was a firstteam selection, while teammate, senior Stacy Cook, nabbed second-team honors. -Kathy LeahyO This page: junior Bonnie Fisk jumps to return a volley during the Panther's four-game loss to University of Wisconsin-Madison at the EIU Triangular in September. Opposite page: Senior Kathy Briggs challenges a Bradley University opponent in a threegame victory at Lantz, Oct. 30. Beth Lander

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Mike Gerber Running with the right attitude Successful long distance running takes not only top physical conditioning but a tough mental attitude . The winners are the runners who combine both of these qualities. Eastern's men 's cross country team found combining the two qualities was a difficult task this fall . Senior team co-captains, Nick Whiteside and Bob Beine, said the absence of this combination was the reason the squad finished disappointingly in the Notre Dame Invitational , Illinois Intercollegiates and Association of Mid-Continent Universities Championship. "We proved at the beginning of the season, at SEMO (Southeast Missouri), that you can still win when you're not physically rested because you are mentally prepared,'' Beine said. Whiteside said, "We really started to let down at Notre Dame. In one event Uohn) Gassmann gave up and just jogged it in. Before that everyone looked to Gassmann. After that we re-evaluated our attitudes. We could have done better. We needed to run tough.'' ''After Notre Dame we had a gripe session in the Varsity Lounge. Everyone on the team had a chance to talk and say what they liked and didn't like. It gave us a chance to get everything out in the open,'' Whiteside continued . Beine said, "When it came time for Intercollegiates we were asking what is going wrong.'' This year's cross country team was able to place more runners higher than last year's team, but Beine said they suffered a major disappointment at the Association of Mid-Continent Universities meet mainly because they looked past their opponents. ''At conference we underestimated our competition. Not having (Tim) Warneke and (Perry) Edinger could have hurt us but we had a lot more depth this year," Beine said. "We thought we had a good chance of winning the conference but we ended up fourth. Everyone ran really well so we can't be disapThis page: Members of pointed about that," Beine added . the cross country squad run across campus on Aug. 31 in preparation for the Panther Open, which opened their season on Sept. 3. "Our conference is very competitive and so was the meet. Everyone did a super job but coming home with fourth place was disappointing,'' Whiteside noted. ''You need to be tough mentally to run and you have to have a good attitude," Whiteside said. Beine noted, ''The best runners are the ones who are mentally tough. The runners who aren't, are the ones who give up in end. Attitude makes the difference between the good and mediocre.'' "You need to be mentally high," Beine continued. ''Two runners can have the same fitness level but the one who isn't mentally tired is the one who is going to do well.'' Whiteside added, "It is hard not to get physically and mentally drained. There are so many weeks of training. You get mentally drained and start to lose sight of your long range goals.'' 28/Sports The cross country team was also plagued with injuries throughout the season. ''The injuries are just part of the training, with working out 80 percent of the time while on the road, your body breaks down," Whiteside said. "It's hard work but you've got to do it. It was blister city all over the place this season," he added. "Injuries won't crush the team. You can come back and not lose a whole lot. You've just got to mentally be there," Whiteside said. "Cross country is an attitude sport. Your attitude can make up for the physical difference." - Crystal SchrofD

Pour-letter-words' Harriers plagued with injuries For Eastern's women's cross country coach John Craft, injuries quickly became a four-letter word for him and his squad during the 1983 season . The lady harriers, who were a young and inexperienced team to begin with, received a setback early on that they never were able to rebound from when they lost the services of team captain Margaret Smith. Smith, who at her junior year was the Panthers' top runner, suffered a broken bone in her foot and was forced to red-shirt for the season. "It was tough losing someone the caliber of Margaret," Craft said . "It really created a big hole in the lineup ." But the troubles didn't stop with Smith 's injury. Senior Carrie Mortell along with freshman standout Theresa Paul were on and off the casualty list throughout the season due to foot and ankle injuries. Consequently, sophomore Anne Ogle was thrust into the role of team leader and Craft, in order to avoid any further injuries to his squad, switched practice sites from a rough terrain to a smooth surface. " We stopped running on the rugby fields because of all the holes," Craft said. "We began running the trails and roads a lot more ." The strategy was successful as the Panthers were injury-free from that point on . However, with two of the three top runners already sidelined, Craft had to Fred Zwicky work with a young and inexperienced lineup. The Panthers got off to a rocky start, finishing last in the six-team Illinois State Invitational. Ogle was Eastern's top finisher with a time of 18:58 for a respectable 18th place finish . Ogle also helped Eastern to a lOth place finish in the 21-team Mid-American Championships in Kenosha, Wis., clocking in at 18:49 to finish 43rd out of 172 runners. And with the team's lOth place finish , Craft saw signs of improvement for his young squad. " We learned a little something every time we went out and competed," he said . "Our young runners gained a lot of valuable experience and maturity." However, the Panthers could manage only an eighth-place showing in the smaller Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference meet, with Ogle notching a 26th place finish at 18:3 3. But despite this season's dismal record, Craft said he is optimistic about the future of his squad . "Although it could have been better I'm not the least bit discouraged with our finish this season ," he said . "We're a young team and we will have most of our girls coming back next year. " Craft would like nothing better than having his squad remain healthy. -Jeff LongO This page: Eastern's lady harriers make long distance running part of the dazfy workout to prepare for their ji"rst meet of the season which officially opened Sept. 10 against Western Illinois University. Two of the team 's top three runners were sidetlned during the season. Sports/29

Gridders face highs, lows Brian Ormismn It was a rollercoaster season for Eastern's football team this year as the Panthers realized several high-points and some disappointment. "We were up some games and down others," Eastern senior running back Kevin Staple said. "We overcame a new system and a new coach, but I think we should have gone further.'' Eastern sophomore quarterback John Rafferty added, ''It was pretty disappointing to know we were just seven points away from being undefeated in the regular season. '' The two regular season losses Rafferty referred to were against Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 17-14, and Indiana State University, 17-13- both losses came at crucial times during the Panthers' season. Eastern opened the season with a 38-7 win over Illinois State University and the Panthers appeared to have the momentum for their second-straight undefeated regular season. However, the Panther ran into Southern Illinois the second week of the season and were brought to their knees with a disappointing 17-14 loss. Following the loss, Eastern bounced back to post six-straight victories over Grand Valley State (35-21), Northeast Missouri (42-0), Youngstown State University (21-20), Akron University (10-7), the University of Northern Iowa (13-0), and Western Illinois University (20-0) . Once again it appeared the Panthers were rolling toward the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1-AA playoffs, but on the ninth week of the season Eastern suffered its second major setback. Staple noted, "After the Western game we thought we would go undefeated for the rest of the year. We knew Indiana State was tough, but we thought we could beat them." Eastern hosted Indiana State University and would have secured a playoff bid with a victory, but the Sycamores surprised the Panthers 17-13. Eastern's second loss of the season put the Panthers's playoff hopes in jeapordy with one game remaining their regular season schedule. "The second loss really hurt us," Staple said . "We started pointing fingers and lost the closeness we had at the start of the season." "We regrouped, but we never got the closeness 30 / Sports back," Staple added. In the final two regular season contests, Eastern downed Mid-Continent Conference foe Southwest Missouri State University (12 -3) and Western Kentucky University (34-14) to post a 9-2 regular season slate . Eastern 's win over Southwest Missouri gave the Panthers an unblemished 3-0 conference slate and the MCC crown. In addition, Eastern's 9-2 record earned them a 1-AA playoff spot. However, Eastern opening-round game of the postseason tournament was a rematch against Indiana State in Terre Haute . The Panthers were eliminated by the Sycamores 16- 13 in double overtime to shatter their dreams of claiming a national championship. First-year head coach AI Molde termed it "the toughest loss of the season. " Rafferty said, ''The last defeat to Indiana State left a sour taste in everyones' mouths. It really hurt losing to them twice. '' Despite the playoff loss Molde said he thought the Panther football team realized "outstanding success" this season. Molde said, "We realized all of our goals with the exception of a I-AA championship. We won the conference championship and made it to the playoffs.'' " It is an honor just to be one of the 12 teams selected to play in the post-season playoffs,'' Molde added. Eastern two-time Kodak All-American Robert Williams summed up the thoughts of most the Panthers. Williams said, "We probably didn't have the type of good year we expected, but 9-3 isn't that bad. I'm just glad I was able to represent my team. "We lost some close games that we should have won. In all three losses we dominated the entire game and then lost on little mistakes at the end ." (see related story on page 292) -Kirby FlowersD This page: After avoiding one lineman, halfback Kevin Staple tries to break free of a second defenseman. Opposite page, top: Panthr quarterback, john Rafferty sets a pass over the raised hands of his opponents. Bottom: Three of Eastern's defensemen put the crunch on an opponent.

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