Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 2-10-1984 The Parthenon, February 10, 1984 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, February 10, 1984" (1984). The Parthenon. 2093. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2093 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]. -,- .. ... .. .,.- Frlday, Feb. 10, 1984 The Vol. 15, No. 11 Marshall Unlv.,.lty Huntington, WV 25701 • arthenon Marsh all Unlversltyts student newsp aper Brison does not .. - Queen refuses to run Dog not gone By Burgetta Lee Eplin Andy and I started," he said. Staff Writer Working 40 hours a week without pay was another major point against You may have seen both these Ending months of speculation about hie seeking re-election, he said. Queen friendly faces on Marshall'• cam­ his plans for re-election, Student Body and the rest of the SGA executives gave pus the past five years. Martha E. President Michael L. Queen , Clarks­ up their salaries to fulfill campaign Loyd, United Methodist Minister burg junior, announced Wednesday he promises made while running for at the campus Christian will not seek a second term. office, which is Queen's biggest regret. However Michael A. Brison, student Center has been bring­ body vice president, announced his "We've put $5,000 extra dollars into Ing her dog, MIi­ plans to run for the office. the SGA funds, but by spending all the iie, with her to time I have fulfilling my obligations to "I thought seriously about running this office, I could not hold down a part­ work for several again," Queen said "but I have to start time job," Queen said. "It's kind of years. Loyd uy1 preparations for law ~hool entrance hard to make ends meet without a pay­ Millie either exams. If it weren't for my studies, I'd ing job." 1leep1 under her love to stay on." However, Queen added that "it was desk In her office worth all the time I put into it." Queen has to complete two 21-hour or roams around semesters next school year to receive I just hope it wasn't al1 in vain," he campus. MIiiie his bachelor's degree in Criminal Jus­ said. "I just want the student body to tice within the recommended four realize that there is a studen t refused to com­ years. government." ment on her Queen also plans to have an intern­ Studen t government members had favorite place on ship in the Legislature next January. only positive thin gs to sa y a bout campus, although ~•1 really have to begin effectively Queen's administration. she appw'I quite pursuing my career," he said. "A more serious person never contented seated Poor health also influenced hie deci- approached the job," Senate President next to Loyd. sion, Queen said, though to what Christopher L. Swindell said. "He mot­ extent he would not say. ivated me as senate president. He is "Physically, I don 't think I could do like an energy pill." it again next year," Queen said. Sen . Keith M. Woodrum, Dawes However, he said he plane to remain senior, said Queen iJ! "committed to his active in Marshall' s student platform, competent, concerned, and government. , very thorough." 'T d really like to take a cabinet posi­ "He kept in touch with his cabinet, tion and remain the students' represen­ which is important," Woodrum said. tative to the Board of Regents. 111 also Brison said "the next student body work closely with the next student president will have a hard act to body president to help continue what follow." Photo by Kim Metz ' - Group defends drinking age, advocates education Student Body Preeident Michael A. Queen said he Queen said he told approximately 100 people that He aaid he believea hie apeech wu well-received. streued the theme "Education over Legielation" raiaing the drinking age would not accompliah any­ "There were 10 people who apoke for raiaina the when he spoke Thunday at theetate Capitol during a thing and anyone who think.a it would ia mialed. drinking age and only three of ua who apoke qainat public hearing on billa introduced by two gubernator­ "We need to streaa education about alcohol from it," he said. "WVU'a new president and vice preai­ ial candidate. to raise the atate drinking age to 21. junior high on," Queen aaid. "We have to atnu edu­ dent (Patrick ~elly and William BeninCON) came, According to a apokeepenon for the Office ofPub­ cation about reeponaible drinking u prevention of too, and apoke againat it." lic Information, Houae Speaker Clyde See, D-Hardy, alcohol abuse and drunken driving." Queen said he ·plane to continue lobbying againat and Senate President Warren McGraw, D-Wyoming, The reaaon education muat be atreued at the junior raiaing the drinking age. are sponaoring the legialation in their respective high and high school level• ia that most people do not "I have arranged with the committee chairmen to houaee. Both have announced that they are candi­ have the opportunity to go to college and aocial drink­ be notified in advance of any further meetinp con­ date. for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. ins is prevalent in our aociety, Queen said. cerning this legialation," he aaid. Retirement bill comes under scrutiny in House Valentine preview By CharlH McCormick mine the coat. Staff Writer Acting Preaident Sam E. Clagg said the bill may be wel­ comed by many people, but he feela that its pauage would A bill was introduced Thursday into the House of Dele­ cauae further strife in a retirement ayatem that baa been gate. that would allow state employees with 30 years of operating in the red for aeveral years. service to retire with full benefits regardleea of age. Delegate Leary alao atated she is sponaoring two other The bill also would allow employees to use their accrued bills that would protect atate employees. sick leave toward retirement. The bill ie being sponaored by Shelby Leary, D-Monongalia and Thomas Knight, D­ Kanawha. The fi111t would make overtime voluntary. This would / make it impouible for employen to force employeea to work A similar bill ie being sponaored by the committee on over eight hours in a given day. It also would make it man­ education, for public school teachers, according to Leary. datory for the atate to pay its laborer• time and a half after She said that all state employees should be covered by the eight hou111 in one day inatead of the present practice of time retirement plan but that the other bill couldn't be amended and a half after forty hours in a given week. Anyone that forcing her and Knight to draft a separate plan. ' would work on a holiday would have to be paid time and a The bill has been sent to the finance committee to deter- half instead of being given another day off. 2 ---------------------------------- Friday, Feb. 10, 1984 THE PARTHENON Beyon,dMU From The Associated Press ' Logan follows suit Stable cash flow Beirut shelled, in funding dispute key to recovery planes retaliate CHARLESTON- The state Board of Educa­ WASHINGTON- The Reagan administra­ BEIRUT, Lebanon- Christian east Beirut tion, already grappling with the effects of the tion warned Thursday that the recent slowdown came under heavy shellfire Thursday, and 1982 Lincoln County schools,.decision, has been in the growth olthe money supply posed a risk warplanes struck back with air raids on slapped with another lawsuit challenging state to the economic recovery over the next few artillery positions in Syrian-controlled territory, financing of public education. months. Lebanese radio stations reported. A U.S. spokes­ The Logan County Board of Education's suit Beryl Sprinkel, undersecretary of the Treas­ man denied the planes were American. against the state board and state Superintend­ ury for monetary affairs, urged the Federal The spokesman, Marine Maj. Dennis Brooks, ent Roy Truby charges that county schools Reserve Board to maintain a "smobther, more also retracted an earlier statement that U.S. aren't receiving the state funds they deserve. stable and predictable path of money growth." warships were bombarding targets east of The argument is similar to that advanced in In testimony to the Senate Banking Commit­ Beirut. the Lincoln County schools case, which resulted tee, Sprinkel gave his approval to the money Broadcast stations of both the government in a May 1982 ruling by Circuit Judge Arthur goals that the nation's central bank announced and the right-wihg Christian Phalan_ge Party Recht that West Virginia's system of funding on Monday. He said they are "appropriate and said warplanes attacked long-range artillery public education was unconstitutional. Recht consistent with a continued decline in batteries and rocket-launcher positions in the said the system allowed major inequities in inflation." mountains 20 miles northeast of Beirut. educational opportunity between rich and poor But he went on to say that the slowdown The Phalangist radio said U.S. Navy planes counties and ordered the state to draw up a since last summer in the growth of the basic were involved, but Brooks said "there have been plan for correcting the problems. money measure of cash and checking account no air raids" by American aircraft. The Logan County suit, filed Wednesday...in deposits was troublesome. Christian sectors of the capital had come Kanawha County Circuit Court, objects to the "This slowdown in money growth subjects the under massive shellfire at nightfall.