Student Survey Rates Gilley Below Average by Chris Stadelman Men Thought Athletics Didn't Receive Enough Staff Writer ------Attention
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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 4-28-1992 The Parthenon, April 28, 1992 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, April 28, 1992" (1992). The Parthenon. 3036. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3036 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]. MARSHALL UNIV E RS I T Y Tuesday Volume92 April 28, 1992 PARTHENON Number 97 Student survey rates Gilley below average By Chris Stadelman men thought athletics didn't receive enough Staff Writer ----------- - attention. On the academic side, 42.6 percent of men Students say ... pparently women care more and 12.9 percent of women said the emphasis about academics at Marshall on academics was about right. Students were • Do you think the university places too much, not enough or about the than men, according to results asked to choose from too much, not enough or right emphasis on-academics? of a survey of students' opin about right on both academic and athletic ions. emphasis. Far more women than men When it comes to more specific athletic is 27.3 % said the university doesn't sues, a large number of students don't care. about right not enough other place enough emphasis on academics, and women Nearly one-third, 32.8 percent, said they didn't also said there is too much emphasis on athlet care what the new football stadium was called. • Do you think the university places too much, not enough or about the ics. While 86 percent of women say academics Of those with an opinion, just 22 percent said right emphasis on athletics? · should receive more attention, only 34 percent of Memorial Stadium was the best choice. men said it should. "Something Else," ranging from Marshall 46.9 % A total of 387 students were surveyed April 7- Stadium to Thunder Stadium, was the choice 13. Students were chosen from classes in all of 45.2 percent. The administration hasn't too much about right not enough colleges to ensure a broad cross-section was decided on a name yet, but several people have • Should the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts be questioned. suggested Memorial Stadium in honor of the combined? Fifty-eight percent of women said sports re players and fans who died in the 1971 plane crash. ceive too much emphasis while only 35 percent 74% of men had that opinion. Fifty-three percent of With regard to President J. Wade Gilley, 13 _.m men and 39 percent of women thought the No Yes No opinion emphasis was about right, while 8 percent of See SURVEY, Page 2 Palumbo calls for Fail to attend first week, fai l the class one r~ling board By Carol Malcolm leaving the registrar's office to presume were opposed. Gubernatorial candidate Mario Reporter - - --------- students attended class all semester. Gould said he objects to that kind of Palumbo said establishing a state Dr. Alan B. Gould, vice president for mandate because "someone isn't doing wide university system is the way to Students who did not attend class the academic affairs said, "I would certainly what they are supposed to do so we end up improve higher education. first week this semester and thought they hope that if something is supposed to passing 'general rules' that everybody is Palumbo, a Democrat. spoke at a would be dropped through the new uni automatically happen, it does. One of the mandated to do something. lf99 percent · press conference Monday at the versity policy may instead get an "F," expectations of this policy was to simplify are doing what they are supposed to do, Memorial Student Center. according to the registrar. things. It would seem that each ptofessor why insult them by putting out some rule Palumbo, the state's attorney gen "I suspect a number of students either ought to assume the responsibility of that everyone will have to do something eral, said his system would increase didn't read the policy or if they did read ascertaining by the end of the first week because of one percent who didn't." efficiency over the current one which the policy, they didn't understand it," whether or not a student has been attend The registrar's office is taking action has separate governing bodies for the Robert Eddins said. "Unfortunately, the ing." depending on whether students can prove state's colleges and universities. same can be said of the faculty, or they at According to Gould and Eddins and they did not attend class despite the class "Under our present state university least didn't understand list. system. what we've done is double their level of participa "If it is determined that bureaucracy," he said. tion. "It's not going to work if the faculty you have not attended Palumbo said his plan would cut "In any case, what we class and have never and costs in a number of areas, reducing have is that not all of the are not in the position to report that you were not with bureaucracy and increasing the effi faculty turped in the drawn for non-attendance ciency of the state's education pro materials or turned them who's there and who's not in the during the first week then grams. in late and they were not we work with the dean of first week. n "The Idea is you operate as one uni accepted because we had your college and the fac versity," he said. "You shift programs a deadline," Eddins said. GOULD ulty member to back-date around based on needs of cafll)Uses. "A lot ofstudents who did a drop slip to get you off •programs ought to be geared to read the policy assumed "I suspect a number of students the class list completely," where there's a market for them: that we meant wh at we Eddins said. Palumbo said the state has to find said and assumed, right either didn't read the policy or if they However, ifthe student money by cutting costs if it hopes to fully so, that the faculty cannot prove wheth er improve higher education. "We can't would participate." did read the policy, they didn't un class was attended or not, According to the policy, th en the result will keep raising tuition,· he said. "We derstand it. n EDDINS have to find adequate state fUndlng: as stated in the spring "probably be an 'F,'" Ed- Palunt>o didn't say whether the state course schedule, "Any dins said. will have to raise taxes. •1hope not. I student who is officially "You didn't attend class don't think our people can stand registered for a class and fails to attend several deans, the problem seems to be a all semester, so there is no way to evalu another tax Increase: th e class during first week of Monday, small one, affecting a few students. ate your performance and you can't get a Palun1x> said money saved by his J an. 13 through Friday, Jan. 17, is subject "It's not going to work if the faculty are withdraw grade because you weren't with overhaul would allow the state to put to being withdrawn by the faculty mem not in the position to report who's there drawn. more money into faculty, who he said ber. and who's not in the first week," Gould "So, initially, the student will pay for are "the most important [people] you "Withdraws during this period by the said: the faculty not turning in the class list. have on a college campus." faculty for non-attendance will result in "I assume that a majority of the faculty That is unfortunate and that is the bad "Good faculty Is more important than refunds in conformance with [the] refund are doing that or we would have a lot more part of the policy," Eddins said. any new building you have,· he said. policy stated in this schedule." problems." For now the policy will remain as it is, "I will do everything possible to make Apparently, a majority ofproblems have When asked about the possibility of Eddins said. sure faculty are properly funded. resulted from faculty not tumingin class requiring professors to take roll and hand The student is left. to straighten out the ~ lists during first week of classes, and in a certain number of class sheets, both misunderstandingin each individual case. 2 THE PARTHENON Tuesday, April 28, 1992 Class offers students chance to dig 1n• By Jack Balley known to be a hunting range for Mar,;haH worked in partnership Editor---------- early nomadic Indian tribes, with Grand VaHeyState Univer Freiden said. sity of Michigan, and each was Have you ever dreamed ofbeing "They were nomadic tribesmen dug in a specific sectioq. like Indiana Jones - traveling and foragers in the early Archiac "Last year Grand Valley found the world in search oflost treas period [approximately 8,000 postholes in their section," Frei ures such as the lost ark of the years ago]," Freiden said. den said. "this is evidence ofsome covenant or the Holy Grail? "They were hunting smaHer kind of structure in one of the WeH, ifyou have, the Marshall mammals like deer, rabbit, elk later periods." University Archaelogical Field and foxes." This year Marshall wiH be the School offers the same thrill of During excavations students only university on site.