With MILO and a Modem, Get Everything but Love by Nell Stratton • the Exact Method for Testing Reporter "We Think It Might Seroe Stu Has Not Been Decided, Deel Said
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February 't5,1994 MARSHALL UNIVERS' ITY Tuesday Mostly sunny High in the mid 50s _ Making music • PHONE REGISTRATION With MILO and a modem, get everything but love By Nell Stratton • The exact method for testing Reporter "We think it might seroe stu has not been decided, Deel said. dents best to leave the line open "We don't yet know whi~h is Students frustrated by long 24 hours a day." the best method for debugging lines at the bursar's office, reg Dr. WIiiiam Deel the system," he said. "We're istration, or housing will soon MILO Project Coordinator · thinking about setting up the be assisted by a new friend: system in the basement of Old MILO. Main during registration this Marshall Interactive Liaison "To my knowledge, Marshall semester and selecting stu On-line, otherwise known as will be the first school in West dents randomly to test the pro MILO, will change the way stu- Virginia to have this program," cess. Another method would be dents do business at Marshall, · he said. to use the students from one of according to Dr. William Deel, MILO might also be up all the colleges, or allowing all the director of campus technology night. students in one class to regis and coordinator of the MILO "We think it might serve stu- ter by phone. That's still to be project. dents best to leave the line open decided." "MILO will do a lot more 24 hours a day, if that proves Although Deel considers · d fi feasible," Deel said. than juSt regiSter stu ents or Deel said students who hit a MILO a promising program, classes," Deel said. Registrar Robert Eddins offers "Itwillalsoallowstudentsto snag will be able to get help. reassurance for "phone-a-pho get their grades, pay tuition "If at any point in the pro bic" students. and fees, apply for financial cess a student wants to talk to •or course, we will always aid, and register for housing. a real person, they will be able have offices available for those Adding and dropping classes to do that with just the touch of students that like to do busi will just be a very small per- a button," Deel said. "We will ness the old-fashioned way," centage of what the program have operators available dur- Eddins said. "That will never does. ing working hours." change." • LEGISLATURE Senators d_ispute information bill Lucht says campuses need disclosure By Penny K. Copen information, unless the infor touch with what happens in Reporter mation falls into one of eight America." exempted categories. Lucht said legislators may Original sponsors of state A combination of the Free need to make an amendment legislation last year, designed dom of Information Act and to provide for public access to to open reporting of campus Senate Bill 409 makes it legal information when it is request Phaloti,~Oullllle crime information, said the for campus police to withhold ed. Legislature may need to make Gary Weimer, Coudersport, Pa. sophomore, chose the the names, according to a rep Senator Bob Holliday, D changes to provide more pub entry way of the Blrke Art Gallery for vlolln practice. resentative·from the Attorney Fayette, another sponsor of lic information. General's Office. Senate Bill 409, said he has Last March, the Legislature Senator Sondra Lucht, D mixed feelings. passed Senate Bill 409 which Berkeley, one of the original . requires campus police to make sponsors of Senate Bill 409, •1 believe that you shouldn't crime reports, but not the said the purpose ofthe bill was do anything that is going to names of victims, public. misinterpreted. · hurt the victim any further, Marshall University's Fac •it was designed to open up and for that reason I believe ·wty Senate approved a docu campus crime. information to sources should be protected," ment that keeps campus po the same status ofevery other Holliday said. lice from releasing the names crime committed," Lucht said. •1 believe, however, that re ofsexual assault victims to the •college campuses tend to sponsibility should belong to public or the press. think of themselves as inde the press and not the adminis The Freedom oflnformation pendent of the world around tration." Act guarantees access to all them, and I think that college He disagrees with Marshall's government documents and students need to be more in policy and believes it infringP.s • WEATHER . on the public's rights. Hot flash: Weather's been cold By Leesa R. Mullins and cold temperatures are grees Jan. 19. Records were Reporter "even more impacting." also set with-9 and -11 degrees Cavalier said there is no sci Jan. 16 and Jan. 18. The mild winters of recent entific research to validate glo Along with record low tem years have often been attribut bal warming as the cause of peratures, January also re ed to global warming, but with mild winters. cieved 21.6 inches of snow. the recent cold weather, the "'Some people misunderstand Janet A Salazar, meteorolo theory of global warming may the theory ofglobal warming," gist for the National Weather be questioned. Cavalier said. "'It is a warming Service at Tri-State Airport, See related story, page 2 ofthe earth's atmosphere tliat supports Cavalier1s statement increases the earth's tempera that this winter of severe cold Tony Cavalier, WSAZ News ture one degree every 20yeara. and snow is not unusual. Channel 3 meteorologist, said The procesa happens over cen The history ofJanuary's av · this winter's weather is typi turies, not decades.• erage temperatures and snow- cal. Because the past five win Last month set records, with ters have been JDild, the snow a low for January of .:21 de- Pktue an WNlher, page 2 ----·- ----·-···- ----- THE PARTHENON 2 TUESDAY, FEB. 15, 1994 Cold critters create their 0"111 co1n.fort By Leesa R. llulllns Wild animals, such as deer •Although moving will de their cubbies, or holes, dur Reporter and squirrels, are adapted to plete their fat supply, the wind ing the fall and stay in those survive the harsh weather, will deplete it also," Dotson cubbies while the weather Do you wonder-perhaps Dotson said. said •Deer will bed down in is bad. even worry - about the •only when snow and cold brush or timber and only move Wild turkeys, Dotson said, squirrels, deer and other for temperatures extend into when it is necessary." will sit on a tree branch for est critters when the snow March does it begin to affect Dotson also said it - two weeks at a time is deep and the mercury the animals,• Dotson said. is easier for deer to and not move un drops to zero? "The layer of fat that they find food in deep ~ til the weather Forest animals deal with have stored for the winter be snow because \ IJ; · clears up, living winter better than humans, gins depleting in March." they are able to /~ \ off of their according to one wildlife bi According to Dotson, the reach tree stored fat. ologist. fawns born late usually don't branches. ~ Art By Don The forest critters are survive the winter. They have According ~~ Pendleton probably quite snug in their no fat stored to protect them to Dotson, beds, said Thomas L Dot from the harsh conditions. squirrels son, wildlife biologistfor the When snow falls, deer usu and rab West Virginia Division of ally move only to get out of the bits store Natural Resources. wind. food high, 33 degrees low ways the possibility that every the snow and frigid tempera IIWEATHER • 1991: 2.8 inches, 44 degrees winter could be as harsh as tures. high, 27.7 degrees low this one. Cavalier said he expects From Page 1 • 1992: 2.3 inches, 44.6 de The flow of the air currents more snow and cold tempera fall shows: grees high, 26.5 degrees low and the jet stream determine tures for the rest of February. • 1980: 9.2 inches, 40. 7 de • 1993: .5 inch, 47.8 degrees grees high, 28.5 degrees low high, 30.8 degrees low • 1985: 19.5 inches,-32.5 de Salazar said, •This cold win grees high, 19.2 degrees low ter weather is balancing out the hot summer weather that • 1994: 21.6 inches, 34.7 de ✓ Health Club grees high,19.5 degrees low · we had• ~cet~ • 30-year average: 40. 7 de Salazar and Cavalier said ✓ Dishwasher forecasting weather in West grees high, 23.2 degrees low 1655 6th Ave.~ ✓ Security Design A mild trend began in 1989: Virginia is not easy because of ~ 529-3902 ✓ Furnished • 1989: .3 inch, 50.5 degrees the hills, rivers, and terrain in high, 30.8 degrees low general. .Mon. - Fri. ✓ 2 BR- 2 Baths Cavalier said there is al- 10:IO am- 5 pm • 1990: .8 inch, 51.1 degrees ✓ Res. Manager - 1111 Ill Ill Ill • 1a1.- 1m=-- I I ~~pPa.eABFP~----9 8A . ~ ( v.· ··. .. 1 ff I ' I . I • . I I ' -.o' ~......,{"'\·, - P us .~I • I I I I • The National Weather Srevice said it will be mostly sunny through Friday with the highs near 50.