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69 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING CAMPUS COVERAGE f\ PAGE 10 . PAGE8 TRACK'S DAVE DURINS SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ENTER; VERTIGOGO THE STORY ABOUT .MP3 ICE CREAM STOP OPENS ON ARLINGTON STREET PAGE 6 PAGE 2 Volume 81, No.-37 Youngstown State University • Youngstown, Ohio Thursday, April 1,1999 The increase was met with negativity by State Sen. Hagan, who £5 said in The Vindicator, the Board of Trustees never says no. goals for the year, which the Board person should be treated just as SABRINA SCHROEDER approves initially and during the fairly in their last year as any other. Assistant News Editor _ review they look at what he has It is important to treat fairly until YSU's Board of Trustees voted accomplished. the very end." unanimously March 12 for a One aspect looked at was the Hagan also made remarks about $10,000-a-ycar pay increase for Capital Campaign, which raised the Trustees not being able to say President Dr. Leslie Cochran, $26 million. no. which makes his salary $ 185,000. "Even though the [Campaign] "When was the last time they Board members made the in• goal had been reached some time said no to a salary increase [for 53- crease retroactive from March 1 before, the effort was kept up to Cochran]? They never say no. after completing an annual review raise more money," Beeghly said. When was the last time they said of Cochran. Another aspect of the decision no to a tuition increase? They al• Board .Chairman Bruce was campus planning and chang• ways say yes. I think we have to Bccghly said, "The Board felt that ing the physical layout of campus. reverse this sometime and just say the president's performance had "It is an ongoing thing that has no," he said in The Vindicator. been very good and was deserv• lasted over several years," Beeghly Cochran announced his retire• C ing of an increase." said. ment in June 2000 on Jan. 28. He 3 Beeghly also said the Board has State Sen. Robert F. Hagan sees began his career as president in direct authority over the president no justification for the increase and 1992 after serving as provost at and sets the president's compen• said in the March 15 issue of The Southeast Missouri State Univer• sation while the president reviews Vindicator, "I think it is insensi• sity. He is the fifth president to CHAD E. other positions. tive, and I think the board was in• have served the university. HOLDEN The last change was made ef• sensitive in that move, especially Beeghly noted that YSU's fective exactly one year before on since he is going [to retire]." presidential salary is the second SPRING FEVER: Christine Cyphert, freshman, middle March 1, 1998. Beeghly said, "Although some lowest out of nine Ohio universi• childhood education, takes Tierney Wellington, freshman, Several factors were involved suggest that because it is his last ties. Only Cleveland State ranks telecommunications, for a ride over the Kilcawley mounds in making the decision for the in• year there is no need to give an below, and all others are above $200,000. Wednesday while enjoying the warm weather. crease. Cochran makes a list of increase, [the Trustees] feel that a STD cases are rising due to unsafe sex Q2S team has students9 m Studies conducted at the University of California at San Francisco have shown an increase in unsafe sex between 1994 and 1997. best interests at heart The university may have to hire more JAMIE DREXLER CAimoM CAUTION Contributing Writer IWlOKCItO AIDS Statistics wiortcifo advisers to help students with the transition. iti . MX „ Krista Blake, a former YSU stu• EILEEN CATANZARO Tips about Q2S dent, was infected with HIV when J|| One person out of every 250 people is infected with HIV. Contributing Writer she was 16 because she had unpro• Faculty and staff are trying to While some students emphati• tected sex with her boyfriend. She 4ft ' One-half of all new HIV infections occur in people under make the quarters to cally state they need to be out of was tested and diagnosed HIV- age25 semesters transition as school before the transition from positive shortly after her high M ' seamless as possible and ^ Ohio ranks 5th in the number of quarters to semesters begins in fall school graduation. Nine days af• students can help by jjjk reported AIDS cases and Mahoning County ranks 8th 2000, those students who will be ter her 22nd birthday, she died of following a few simple tips. $ out of 88 counties. caught in the transition will have complications from AIDS in 1994. plenty of help to get them through • Become familiar with the "If you've ever had unprotected W There were 10,129 reported cases of full-blown AIDS in unscathed. sex with anyone, you should get Adviser's Handbook, which §v Ohio and 181 cases in Mahoning County. ' Dr. Nancy White, psychology is the guide to be used by all tested," said Harmicar-Duffy. and head of the Q2S transition advisers for the next two Student Health Clinic nurse su• W Statistically, 46 YSU students are team, is on the Advisement Work years. pervisor Sue Fcrrier said YSU docs lp HIV-positive. Group along with a representative not offer HIV testing. from each college. • Complete any sequence She said, "We try not to dupli• SOURCES: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CCWTROL AND PR£VE?*TION AND LYNN HARMICAR-DUFFY, classes as soon as possible. AIDS EDUCATOR, YOUNGSTOWN Cm* HEALTH DISTRICT AIDS DIVISION. "Our goal is to see students cate services that are already avail• make it through the transition with Otherwise do not begin the able in the community because the vent sexual transmission of HIV with HIV infections to live longer, sequence. no disruption to their studies. No clinic is so small." infection. The correct and consis• more normal lives. Protease inhibi• student shall be adversely affected Students can call the Mahoning tent use of latex condoms has been tors are a new class of drugs that • Repeat any courses to by the change to semesters," said County Chemical Dependency shown to be highly effective in are taken in combination with pre• erase a D or F from White. Program or the Mahoning County preventing the transmission of HIV viously approved drugs such as permanent records before White has put together the the conversion, Health Department's Sexually and other STDs." AZT to decrease the level of HIV Adviser's Handbook, which is the Transmitted Disease Clinic for particles circulating in the blood. Studies conducted by research• guide to be used by all advisers for • Know ultimate goals and free, anonymous HIV testing. Free condoms are available at ers at the University of California the next two years. what needs to be taken in According to the Centers for at San Francisco have shown an thtt T Tnivftrcilv PttiingftHnf fVnliM- order to achieve those goals. Disease Control and Prevention, increase in unsafe sex between STDs Q2S "Total abstinence from sexual ac• 1994 and 1997 primarily because tivity is the only sure way to pre- new treatments are helping people Continued on page 3 Continued on page 11 SOURCE: Q2S COMMITTEE 2 The Jambar Thursday, April 1,1999 WYSU-FM celebrates 30th anniversary • Events commemorating.the anniversary include "Mad About The Arts" and the upcoming visit of NPR Correspondent Nina To.tenberg. EMILY D. CRONK News Editor The employees at WYSU-FM . The one thing that hasn't changed' can have their cake and eat it too. is the high quality of programs and The radio station will be celebrat• music that are continuously being ing its 30th anniversary this year. Although the official date of the broadcast.?? anniversary is Oct. 23, special " Gary Sexton events have already begun to take CHADE. HOLDEN, THE JAMBAR • Associate Director of WYSU-FM shape around campus. SPRING BREAK: Andrea Barber, freshman, undecided, "We had about 400 guests at• buys an ice cream cone from Monique CHnkscale, tend 'Mad About the Arts,' which WYSU-FM. "Our primary pur• for a bus trip this summer'but we manager of the Ice Cream Stop on Arlington Street. was held at the McDonough Mu• pose is to be a fine arts radio sta- • haven't worked out all the details seum," said Catherine Cala, devel• tion. But we also are proud of two just yet," said Cala. "But we will Ice Cream Stop combines opment associate for fundraising of our radio shows, the 'Commen• be having a music concert this and events. "But our biggest part tary Cafe*, which deals with po• October and then another concert community and cool treats of the celebration will be the ar• litical issues in our Valley and 'Fo• titled, 'Folk Festival' that will be rival of Nina Totenberg, National cus,' an interview session hosted held Nov. 5." • The owner wants to give back to the Public Radio correspondent, who by Dr. Dale Harrison." WYSU-FM signed on the air community. will speak as part of the Skeggs WYSU-FM has increased the for the first time 10 a.m., Oct. 23, right behind the Fifth Avenue Taco QUANTIA D. WATSON Lecture Series" May 5. number of listeners to 40,000 a 1969 as a charter member of NPR. Bell, the business was converted Totenberg's arrival at YSU will week. The station was on the air for 12 Staff Writer ' from a house — the same house also be in accordance with YSU's "Not only have we gone up in hours a day and could be found at After canvassing the area to see Clinkscale lived in until seven Press Day, a day for high school the number of listeners per week 88.5 MHZ.