The Parthenon, April 23, 1996

Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 4-23-1996 The Parthenon, April 23, 1996 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, April 23, 1996" (1996). The Parthenon. 3411. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3411 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Parthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. TUESDAY page -ad by Deborah Blair April 23, 1996 Marshall University CD a your passport to the world could be on page 12 He could go all the way Gilley·provides forecast for MU in 21st century by CAREY HARDIN ward for the Medical School," goal," Gilley said. A second reporter . -he said. phase of the fund raising has Bids for the new library are begun with Drinko and other Marshall President J. Wade to be opened in June, with contributors soliciting dona Gilley looked ahead to the cen ground breaking in· July or tions from additional sources, tury in his end of the year re August· Gilley said he would he said. marks during the spring gen like to see the library com Gilley also said Marshall's eral faculty meeting Thursday pleted within two years. move to the Mid,American Con in the Joan C. Edwards Play The university has matched ference will benefit more tlian house. three to one John Deaver athletics. "We will have an as On the agenda for the next Drinko's contribution of $1.1 sociation with a group of uni five years is the completion ofa million for the structure. Suc versities largely centered in medical school complex being cess in raising the money has .Ohio," he said. "It will bring built beside Cabell Hunting prompted Drinko to contribute our recognition up and we will ton Hospital. The $30 million an additional $1 million to the begin competing with them for structure will contain the library fund, he said. students." I Health Science Library and a "This doesn't mean that it's The university is working l health clinic, Gilley said. over. We're still about $1.5 "This is a major move for- . million short of our $7 million see 21ST, page 4 t f. l Bookstore to undergo Michael Ellison Doug Chapman, freshman running back from Cheater, Va., stole the shQw In Saturday's Green and White game. Chapman rushed for 182 yards and two touchdowns. changes this summer by STEPHANIE DEITZ project, and there have been partment on the lower level of Hensley set reporter a few changes. thestudentcenter. "We had to Welty said that automatic put a corridor down there and If summer school is in doors will be used instead of fire doors," Welty said. "Fire to start as. cluded in your plans this the "no-door, mall-type" origi escapes are going to have their year, then get ready for a nally proposed. "So essen own exit." assistant VP scenery change at the book tially they are going to be The next phase, according store. open all the time," he said. to Welty, is to go to the design by STEPHANIE DEITZ Construction is planned To meet fire regulations, the development phase. "That's to begin this summer even reporter doors are equipped with a where they actually design ev though there will be stu magnet system that will au ery aspect ofthis, for example, Dr. Frances S. Hensley, the dents on campus. This will tomatically close the doors one sheet of schematic draw new assistant vice president be the best time to do this when a fire alarm is pulled. ing will tum into 30 sheets. A for academic affairs, is de because there won't be as There will also be sprin couple of them will be dedi scribed as many students or cars, ac klerson eachsideofthe doors. cated strictly to electrical ha.ving cording to Ray Welty, di "The architects spent a good drawings. Another one will be ·"outstan rector ofauxiliary services. bit of time with the fiJe mar._ steelwork, which is actually ·ding ad Detailed plans have shal," he said. the skeleton of the building. come back from the archi ministra Another change w~ made tive abili tects working on this to the existing textbook de- , _see WELTY, page 4 ties" and a "strong w o r k ethic," • In ac- Japanese courses offered in fall ceptifig the position on an interim basis, Hensley will continue to teach history by YUMIKO ITO JPN 101 and 203 are offered in fall semesters courses, but will leave her reporter and JPN 102 and 2Q4 in spring semesters, she position as associate dean of said. r the College of Liberal Arts. Although·J apanese is not listed as an offering Because Japanese language classes are not .Her interim appointment in the fall schedule of courses, two classes will offered during summer sessions, students need ends June 30, 1997. be taught, according to an instructor·ofmodern at least two years to complete the four courses. Dr. Sarah Denman, vice languages. Several students said they have enjoyed their president for academic af Kanako Kikuchi, Huntington graduate stu experience in studying Japanese. · fairs, said she "is delighted . ·dents who has taughtJapanese language classes Mark Leivly, Huntington senior said, "I like Dr. Hensley agreed to accept the past two years, will graduate in May, but learning Japanese because I like history of the position." she said another teacher will be hirecl in her Asian countries and collecting swords, but the In her new position, Dr. place. bad ~hing is that you have to sometimes wait Hensley said, "I will be work Marshall's first offering of Japanese was in one semester to take a class." ing with the vice president fall 1993. Chris Adkins, Huntington junior, said stu for academic affairs on things "What we are teaching to students here is dents do more in class than just sit and listen. such as curriculum program called 'survival language,' which is basic and "We do a skits; it is really fun." useful conversations such as how to ask for J see VP, page4 direc:tiona,,. Kikuchi said. see PALL. page 4 ... I page ed~ed by Stanford E. Angion the parthenon 2 t u e s d a y, a p r i I 2 3, 1 9 9 6 thi Browsing space in a blimp on the lnter_.et BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - OK, you're handful of AA batteries. hooked up to the Internet and you've . Its designers say they hope one day it could be checked out those "web cam" sites where used as a "space browser" accessible over the mini cameras send your computer a Internet. little static view of the Brooklyn "Think of it as a tool for traveling to remote Bridge or Phoenix traffic jams. spaces and conveying the sensation that How'd you like to fly? Use your you're actually there," said Eric .. computer to steer one of those Paulos. cameras around corners, up stairs, The 27-year-old graduate out windows, through the exhibits student is designing the browser with of a museum thousands of miles . Professor John· canny in the university's away? · computer 'science department. It's time for "Blimp cam." The camera balloon's pilot can fly it up The idea is being tested in a cluttered stairw§lls and into elevators, and even talk computer science lab at the University of with people it passes along the way. California at Berkeley. "It's much more interactive than just A bright blue balloon hovers over desks and· drifts looking at images," Paulos told the Contra Costa down hallways, carrying a little camera, a microphone and a tiny Times. "If you actually have a camera you can move transmitter to broadcast back live video images and sound. around, that completes the mental image for The remotely controlled craft is powered by three tiny propellers and a people." '- • • .. Celebrities in the news • • Bailey accuses Shapiro of vendetta MORE ITALIAlt NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, free after 44 days in jail, said Monday that the country's bias againstO.J. Simpson kept him in jail longer than he expected. Bailey also said Simpson co-counsel Robert Shapiro was out to get him with testimony that helped i~prison him for con- COURSES THAN tempt. · "It's a vendetta," Bailey told the New York Daily News in a telephone interview Sunday from his. Florida home. Shapiro "got very careless in some ofthe things he said in his testimony." Bailey called Shapiro's testimony "an absolute fabrication." Shapiro has said he told the truth in court and was sorry his MOST UNIVERSITIES. former friend ended up in prison. Columnist hears wedding bells at ·SO .......... ".: '·• ...... SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Less than a month after he turned 80 and won the Pulitzer Prize, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Cae.n has tied the knot. In a ceremony performed by Mayor Willie Brown, Caen and his girlfriend, Ann Moller, were married Saturday night in a small wedding at the bride's Pacific Heights home. Caen and Brown, who is friends with the couple, hummed "Here Comes the Bride" as Moller was escorted by her son to the front of her living room fireplace. It was the fourth marriage for Caen, who had insisted in columns that he was a "three-time loser" and would never marry again.

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