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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 3-28-1996 The Parthenon, March 28, 1996 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, March 28, 1996" (1996). The Parthenon. 3398. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3398 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]. THURSDAY pag.. dlled by Clvlllty A. ~ March 28, 1998 Marshall University ' Higher education eclectic art hot topic at lorum .,. by CARRIE HOFFMAN ing and need. We need to train reporter them and get them a job," McBride said. They've said they want to be Other candidates said fund governor. ing was the key to improving Wednesday morning they the relationship between the said why. government and higher educa The Huntington Regional tion. Chamber of Commerce spon "More available dollars are sored a gubernatorial forum needed for the pursuit ofhigher · ~atw_ing six candidates. education," Democratic can · The''eandidates spoke of is-. didate Joe Manchin said. sues ranging from welfare to Democratic hopefuls Jim worker's compensation. Lees and Charlotte Pritt and The candidates responded to Republican candidate David a question asked by Martha C. McKinley said the government Woodward, executive director needs to take a more respon of the center for academic ex sible approach to higher edu cellence. cation. Woodward asked the candi Pritt said "The government dates about economic develop spent $738 million for one pulp ment between the government mill while 5,000 students in and higher education. West Virginia were refused Woodward said she was gen scholarships." erally encouraged by the She said taxpayer money candidate's responses, buttheir needs to be managed better answers tended not to be spe through setting priorities. cific. Woodward said former Re i "All ofthe~idates under publican governor, Cecil ' I stood the nee eater com Underwood, gave the most spe I mitment to higlie education," cific answer. Woodward said: "We need block grants, (and .J1 Jon McBride, Republican to) combine education and job candidate and former member training," Underwood said. of the University of West Vir Woodward said she was ginia Board of Trustees, said pleased to see the candidates . jim ..nc1s he feels West Virginia "missed concerned with higher edu-cat Chad Sandford, Huntington sophomore, works on an art the boat" when it comes to ion. project on the 8th floor of Smith Hall. His model is made J higher education. The West Virginia Primary of fabric, a planter, wood, and other Items piled together. "There is a mismatch oftrain- is May 14. Billyball hits th~ road Signed-away votes can be reinstated by ALYSON WALLS tion contains a clause stating that sign reporter ers are giving up their right to vote in the primary, petitioners are supposed There is new hope for students who to verbally inform people of the fact. forfeited their right to vote in the pri Hensley said this type of solicitation mary el~tion by signing a petition last is common in all states, especially when week to get the Libertarian party placed the Libertarians have a gubernatorial on the election ballot. candidate, because it is part of the "People who believe they were mis process for getting candidates on the led by petitioners can write a letter to ballot. "It takes one percent of the total voter registration in the county they number ofvotes cast in the last election are registered to vote in or the Secre to get the candidate's name on the bal tary ofState's office, stating they signed lot," he said. "In West Virginia, that unknowingly," Mike Hensley, Secre would be 6,576 signatures." tary of State's office special election The number of students and staff assistant, said. who signed the petition is unknown, He also said signers must include but Hensley said his office received their name, address and the way their about fiv_e calls yesterday. name appeared on the petition in the Thyllis Sellards, who works in the letter, so it can be removed properly. library cataloging department, said she State law dictates that whenever was going to write a letter to regain her bratthall First it was football coach Jim Donnan leaving Marshall In December for someone signs a petition for a third vote anµ thinks others should too. party, the person automatically casts a "Those people were very pushy and Georgia, and now, official confirmation came Wednesday that basketball vote for that party in the election. coach Billy Donovan is heading south to Florida. rude," she said. "I only signed to get the Hensley said even though the peti- party on the ballot, and I was misled." . I • • • • • • , • • , , • I • I p11ga edked by WIiiiam B. Lucas I h 8 pa P'I h 8 n On 2 thursday, march !8, 1998 thi '. Philip Morris defends Mexican rebels meet Stone LA REALIDAD, Mexico (AP) - Oliver Stone has always had the reputation as a rebel, and now he tampering with butts has the ski mask to match. Stone donned the mask, which is the symbol of CHESTER, Va. (AP) - engineering chief Dick · running a "nicotine exµ-act the Chiapas revolt, for a jungfe meeting Tuesday Deep in the heart of tobacco Merrill. factory'' where employees· with'similarly masked rebel leader Subcomandante country, the world's largest Cigarettes once were made repeaiedly measured nicotine Marcos in this isolated Tojolob'al Indian vill_age. cigarette maker meshes · entirely of rich tobacco ·· as-the tobacco brewed. ''We are honored that you are here looking at the stems and other plant debris leaves, and the stems, dust The Food and Drug Admin stars, instead of with them in Hollywood," Marcos into paperlike sheets, soaks and other debris were sent to istration had not seen such told Stone. them in steaming nicotine landfills. testing in a visit to the Park and turns them into smoke Philip Morris and other 500 factory, so they inves1;i- · able tobacco. tobacco companies learned to gated again. And former How the Park tum that debris into a Philip Morris research· 500 factory cheap filler called recon director William Farone told squeezes the most stituted tobacco that the agency last week:' · · cigarettes from . today is used in almost "By controlling the ingredi Windsor 'Place !Apartments tobacco debris is at every cigarette. Basi . ents that go into making the center of new cally, they mesh tobacco -reconstituted. tobacco, the allegations, in debris into paperlike industry controls the chemi federal affidavits sheets, much as paper · cal and physical properties ... unveiled last week, mills create newsprint. including its nicotine con: · e that Philip Morris The process washes tent." · _ · controls every drop natural nicotine out of . ·"There's nothing magic of nicotine along tobacco fibers-. The issue here," Merrill insisted, · _ 140K 'Yfiird !Avenue ·. _. · · '. ·. the way. is how Philip Morris puts co.m,paring the process _to . Philip Morris, the nicotine back. drying fruit. "What's left here 2 blocks from campus. Contemporary ne~ . bedroom maker of best Philip Morris told js fiber and flavor, and the, · ultimate apts. with furnished kitchen (dishw~~h~undry. selling Marlboro . Congress it doesn't flavors have been concen room, security gates, sun deck, off-street parking. 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