Logan College Board Raises Tuition and Raises Fees
John A Logan College trustees vote a 25 percent tuition hike from $12 to $15 per hour starting fall 1982 and a $5 per registration fee plus increased public service course fees from $15 to $20. The board also reshapes administration with Hancock as vice president for administration and Hill as vice president for instructional services. Enrollment costs shift as staff receive $2,000 pay raises and a 10 percent base raise for operational staff. Other actions include admitting student member voting privileges, nursing program admission changes, site survey hire for a new building, and a joint adult education agreement with Murphysboro district.
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Dave DeWitte
John A. Logan
John A. Logan College Board of Trustees
Board Financial Committee
Ray Hancock
Hancock
Jack Hill
Greg Starrick
Harold O’neil
Hill
Board of Trustees
Neson-Denny
R.A. Nack & Associates
Murphysboro Community Unit
John J. Profiler
Marion considers narrow redevelopment after Charles City visit
Marion leaders weighed Charles City Iowa recovery ideas after a tornado, but cautioned the plan may not fit Marion. They noted a narrow path left less room for wholesale redevelopment and discussed targeted street and sidewalk improvements and seeking federal or state funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
Charles City
Iowa
Robert Butler
Glenn Clarida
Clarida
Jim Davis
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Harold Chase
Butler
Dale Lovelace
Sparta awards contracts for safety work totaling 567307
Sparta Unit School District approved bids totaling 567307 for state mandated life safety work. Werner Brothers Construction won 233805 for roof replacement at the high school and Sparta Lincoln School, contingent on equipment price verifications. Albers Construction Co. won 333500 for life safety work at the high school Lincoln School and the vocational center, with major roof work to be completed before August 23. The district had earlier approved an 850000 bond issue to cover related costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Stevens
Sparta Unit
Werner Brothers Construction
Festus
Sparta Lincoln School
Albers Construction Co
Breese and
St. Louis
Lincoln School
Carbondale High grads reveal class leaders and numbers
Amy Sanders and Lee Sanders, ages 18, helped each other with mortarboard hats before Carbondale High School’s graduation. Darryl Brooks grins with victory gesture as he receives his diploma. The class totals 245 with Stephen Ashworth named valedictorian and Jean Elizabeth Commermuth salutatorian.
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Amy Sanders
S. Red Lane
Lee Sanders
Murdale rejects Carbondale water offer on lines dispute
Murdale Water District board rejects a 400000 offer from Carbondale to take over in city water lines citing potential bond issues. Directors authorize continued private talks with Carbondale special counsel to keep doors open. If no agreement, Carbondale may parallel Murdale lines at a 500000 cost affecting 515 residents.
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Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Murdale Water District Board of Directors
Carbondale
Herbert McMeen
William Ridgeway
McMeen
John Womick
Murdale
Washington, D.C
Mardale
Water District
Hans Fischer
West Side
Murphysboro council rejects insurance bid on year delay
Murphysboro aldermen approve paying bills including a 3874 premium, reversing a bid for a new insurance package. The vote exposes division as Alderman Fenwick cites last year’s pledge to bid and Alderman McCann argues for bidding. Insurance committee chair Scuras defends no change due to three year policy with favorable rates.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro
Robert Fenwick
Lauderdale and Decker Insurance Agency
Fenwick
Pat) McCann
Insurance Committee
James Scuras
Insurance
McCann
Scuras
Illinois Municipal League
Leonard Pullis
Icy
Pullis
Don Morgan
Bill Daum
David McDowell
Gube Strong
William Ryan
Leonard Williams
Nny
Sydney Appleton
Nev
John Gardner critical perspectives edited by Morace and Van Spanckeren
A SIU Press volume surveys John Gardner’s fiction and its moral implications. Essays cover embedded structures, collage technique, borrowing from other works, and relations to works for adults and children. Gardner’s afterword expresses hope the essays honor his fiction.
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John Gardner
Robert A. Morace
Kathryn van Spanckeren
SIU Press
Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University Press
Critical Perspectives
Matthew J. Bruccoli
Harry T. Moore
Gardner
New York
University of Iowa
Siu-Carbondale
New Book
Morace
Rock
Freddy
Vasas
Michael Roberts
Greg Morris
Batavia
Snlight
Mesopotamia
A. Leo Oppenheim
Chicago Tribune Book World
Grendel
Jason
Medeia
Joseph Baber
Illinois
SIUC
Northeast Modern Language Association
Logan College classes Murphysboro OKs program for dropouts
Murphysboro Unit School District 186 board approved a plan allowing high school dropouts to enroll in Logan College adult education courses to earn a regular diploma. The program, funded by pupils, may award diplomas through Murphysboro or Carterville High Schools. Additional actions included a basic adult education program prospect, summer band sessions, renewed student insurance, and awards for a conservation teacher and a top math student. Also approved low bids for band chairs, desks, and cafeteria and folding furniture.
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Tony Stevens
The
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro Unit
Unit 186
John A. Logan Community College
Logan College
Murphysboro
Carterville High School
Ernie Bozarth
Bozarth
Don Stricklin
Stricklin
Buddy Rogers
Page Insurance Co
Mount Vernon
Ada Heller
Lincoln
Illinois
Jackson County
Gifted Area Center
Benton
Southern
Wenger Corporation
Owatonna
Minn
Beckley-Cardy Co
Chicago
Latta School Supply
Cedar Falls
Iowa
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Sparta
Glorioski
John McCutchen
Carroll Fry
Council
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