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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1982
Page
2
The College of Education Bachelor of Music Education degree was eliminated by the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees on Thursday, but the program will continue in some form.
The SIU Board of Trustees voted to abolish five low demand programs at SIU Carbondale during a meeting on the Edwardsville campus. The cuts affect programs in commercial graphics production economics music education engineering biophysics and theater. The board also created a system internal auditor post to report to the chancellor, with Jack E. Simmons promoted to the role. The move aims to address legal audit requirements while preserving campus autonomy on management issues.
AFSCME charges Gov James Thompson illegally impounds funds by closing Bowen Development Center in Harrisburg and Adler Mental Health Center in Champaign before fiscal year end. A judge gave state 10 days to respond with another hearing set for March 31.
In Belleville, a St. Clair County jury found 24 year old Thaddeus Lee Beasley guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the December death of his 3 month old daughter Rakina Pitts. The verdict came after a one day trial, with the attack allegedly aimed at the child's mother Anita Pitts.
President Reagan announced Britain will purchase the Trident II submarine based nuclear missiles to replace Polaris. The deal cancels earlier Trident I purchases, funds research and development assistance, and requires new submarines for the more capable system.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP countdown continues with no trouble meeting Columbia's March 22 launch date. Operations director George Page says the schedule could absorb about three days of delays and hints at a possible shift to June 27 for the fourth flight. He notes improvements in turnaround and that the 73 hour countdown begins March 18 with 29 hours of holds. The third mission, a thermal test, aims for Edwards AFB March 29, with the first landing scheduled for November at Kennedy Space Center.
In the 18 county Outside circulation Area and Illinois. Not mailed where carrier service available. Office phone numbers Carbondale Herrin Marion. Classified advertising numbers and Postmaster address for Southern Illinoisan Carbondale Illinois.
Mary Licata, 75, of 326 N Lindon, Du Quoin, remained in serious condition at Barnes Hospital St. Louis after second and third degree burns on her right side from a stove fire Monday morning. Her clothes ignited reaching over a gas burner at 10 25 a m. A separate Marion fire damaged the vacant Polonowski residence at 1402 West Chestnut St. but crews saved the house.
Scott Myers, 23, of Percy, listed in fair condition at Pinckneyville Community Hospital after his motorcycle left a road and struck a tree at 11 30 a m Wednesday on Illinois 150, 142 miles east of Illinois. Naomi Krasnesky, 1007 E. Park St., in satisfactory condition at Firmin Desloge Hospital, recovering from bicycle pedestrian crash Wednesday at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She and another SIU C student, Lisa Smith of West Frankfort, were injured near the U S 51 overpass. Smith treated and released at Memorial Hospital, Krasnesky transferred to St Louis.
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