Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon Student Publications Spring 4-14-1993 The Parthenon, April 14, 1993 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, April 14, 1993" (1993). The Parthenon. 3142. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3142 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications 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]. April 14, 1993 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY Rain likely high in low 70's New COB dean: Accreditation first By Andrea Colllna "We've got to package the product we Dr. J . Wade Gilley said Kent is the Reporter have in such a way that the excellence unanimous choice of the search com­ "We've got to package the we have is given the credit it richly mittee. product we have In such a A Baylor University professor has deserves," he said. "He has outstanding credentials as a way that the excellence we been appointed as the new COB dean. It usually takes about two years to teacher, administrator and entrepre­ have Is given the credit it On June 1,Dr. Calvin A Kent will re­ complete the accreditation process. neur," Gilley said. richly deserves." place Dr. Robert B. Hayes, interim dean Kent is the founder of Baylor Kent said he-plans a "growing part­ Dr. Calvin A. Kent of the College of Business since last University's Center for Private Enter­ nership with the legislature, city gov- · July. Hayes replaced Dr. Robert P. Al­ prise and its chairman from 1978 to emment, and the community." New COB dean exander, who resigned. 1990. He taught courses at Baylor's He said he views education as an eco­ Kent said the top priority on his Hankamer School of Business and nomic enterprise. With southern West Virginia's econ­ agenda is to continue accreditation School of Law. Since 1990, Kent has served as the omy based largely on energy produc­ efforts. Kent said he considers students to be administrator of the Energy Informa­ tion, I believe Dr. Kent's expertise in He said he has been through the ac­ his first responsibility "as both custom­ tion Administration, to which he was the energy field will be a significant creditation process at two other schools. ers and products." appointed by President George Bush. asset," Gilley said. Plaza barbecue Science building nears completion, goal set for May a, Andrea Colllna Reporter A construction crew is working to finish renovating the Science Building by May 1, said Mike M. Meadows, director of Facili­ ties and Planning Management. Workers are completing Phase II of the project, Meadows said. This includes landscapin_g the east and front sides ofthe building. It also includes planting grass and shrubbery and constructing sidewalks and seating. He said the project should be finished by May, depending on weather conditions. Dr. Ralph Taylor, associate dean of the College ofScience, said the front entrances to the building will be open following the landscaping completion. wrhe front en­ trances have been blocked for four or five years," he said. Workers will alter some entryways because some of the building's internal ...',. structure renovation resulted in some en­ byways being unnecessary or in the wrong place, Taylor said. "One ramp now leads to nothing," he said. Meadows said the inside of the Science Building is "substantially completed." He said the third floor has already been in­ spected. The fourth floor should be com­ pleted by April 20 and the fifth between May 1 and 15. , Taylor said the construction company PhalobyWlbb~ has managed the process very efficiently. He said "as soon as a room is completed, a cart Runyon, a Marriott employee, grins food on the plaza. Please see SCIENCE, Page 2 I ' . Phone-a-thon exceeds expectations By Kara Marcum ,give money, but didn't quote a specific support and be part of it.• Reporter amount, said Welty, phone-a-thon co­ During the two months ofthe phone­ ordinator. a-thon, students called alumni asking People thought Susan Welty was Money raised by the phone-a-thon for donations. Alumni and Marshall going overboard when she announced goes to the annual fund, which is used faculty filled in for the students during she wanted a 40 percent increase over for student scholarships, faculty devel­ spring break to aid in the nine-week last years phone-a-thon goal. opment, instructional equipment, spe­ fundraising campaign. College of Sci­ But students and alumni working cial project&'programs and library ac­ ence faculty also worked, calling four the phone-a-thon surpassed even the quisitions. evenings asking specifically for dona­ new goal. "I feel really good about the phone-a­ tions to the COS. Phone-a-thon workers raised thon,n Welty said. Additional help came fr.om the com­ $143,675, beating their goal of$140,000 •it shows there are a lot ofpeople out munity college's office procedures class. and bringingin 19 percent more for the there who believe in Marshall and are Denecia Dameron, assistant professor university than last year. ready to support it. I think it's a credit at the Community and Technical Col- ~ore money will come later from the to Marshall that the university is doing nearly 2;000 people, who said they will a good job, because people want to PleaN 888 PHONE, Page 2 • Page 2 The Parthenon WEDNESDAY, April 14, 1993 Crime, disasters chink • SCIENCE- • PHONE Parthenon Florida's seeming shine From Page 1 From Page 1 Volume 97 • _Number 42 By Christopher Sullivan Orthe destruction and death crew of cleaning people come ·1ege, said she worked one night Th• Parthenon, Marshall Associated Press Writer that filled TV screens after with alumni and saw it as a Unlyeralty'a dally newspa­ and clean everything up." per, la published by stu­ Hurricane Andrew struck last The Science Building's reno­ good experience for her class. MIAMI (AP) - Up near August, leaving a hot, slow dents Tuesday through Fri­ vation has been going on for 13 "I thought [students] could day during the fall and Orlando is a Magic Kingdom. cleanup job that drags on still. years, according to Meadows. gain some valuable experience Down in Key West shimmers On Florida's shiny surface, spring ..meatera. In 1986, the building's annex callingandhelpMarshall while Responsibility for news the balmy otherworld ofMar­ these and other incidents - doing so. They raised money. from a racially tinged police was completed. Phase II of the and editorial content lies. garitaville. In between lies project has been going on since and gained valuable tele­ solely with the editor., Miami, "where summer spends brutality case here to highway March 15, 1992. The job was marketing experience as well." the winter," neon capital of a snipers near Jacksonville to The class worked an hour Editor ever-present drug crime-may originally contracted for ap­ playground called the Gold proximately $6.2 million. and a half calling daytime Greg Collard Coast. be only nasty scratches. numbers. Managing Editor The sloganeers and image But they have allowed the "We usually can't call those Misl'JRalte makers never let up after chris­ world a peek through this much Parasite found in numbers thatspecifyth1ey must News Editor tening this sandy peninsula polished looking-glass, and Brad McElhinny be called during the day be­ Assistant News lidltor "America's sunporch" in the made Floridians look, too. Milwaukee water ca use the students have There is no rush to abandon Tracy Gwinn 19th century. classes," Welty said. "Having Sports Editor It worked because the nick­ a land many residents saw as alarms weakened the class do it really helped." Ana M. Menendez names had something behind the Great Escape-from snow, Welty said students hired to LlfestylH Editor them. from communist Cuba, from MILWAUKEE (AP)-Most work the phone-a-thon cam­ Lisa A. Earl They still do. the ordinariness ofplaces lack­ people can tough out the nasti­ paign gained experience in Photo Editor Consider this highrise view ing the pace and style of "Mi­ est effects of a parasite that addition to pay checks. Stu­ Webb Thomp,on at 11 a.m. one recent weekday: ami Vice." has sickened thousands, but dents were given four hours of Adviser In the distance, traffic surges Florida's population still Debra Belluomini Milwaukee's water crisis is a telemarketing training. They Production Supervisor toward the gleaming Miami grows by a net 600 a day, and also gained public relations skyline while, in the fore­ jumbo jets at Miami Interna­ life-and-death matterfor AIDS MiclaMl Frul victims, cancer patients and experience and a job reference. Advertising Manager ground, a speedboat towing a tional still disgorge some ofthe Mickey Vestal, on-sight coor­ the elderly. Doug]one, tan skier scratches a white 42 million tourists Florida dinator of the phone-a-thon, Student Ad Manager wake across a lagoon. Every expects this year. • "My first thoughts were that said he could see the growth in Meli11a Dicur,on . wavelet winks in the sun. Still, recent events have I was going back into the hos­ many of the students by the Marjom Robert, "This is the ideal place to do made many reconsider their pital. I'm an easy target for a Advertising state's image. end of the campaign. nothing without having a bad · lot of stuff now," Gilbert "[The students] even got to 696-2273 or 696-JJ46 conscience," says Anouk Lin­ "Florida, South Florida es­ Complal~ der, a German tourist sunning pecially, has always attempted Adams, who has AIDS, said the point that they were so 696-6696 herself on Miami Beach.