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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Summer 6-25-1987 The Parthenon, June 25, 1987 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, June 25, 1987" (1987). The Parthenon. 2465. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2465 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]. --Thursday----------------------- June 25, 1987 The Parthenon Vol. 88., No . 103 Marshall University's student newspaper Huntington, W.Va. Don't look now, , another million sliced for '87-'88 By Jennifer Green Staff Writer Marshall is bleeding green, but it's not from Herd pride. Green also happens to be the color of money draining through another round of budget cuts made to a facility intended to build and serve a student body. An already underfunded Marshall University is losing $1.1 million as its share of the 4.5 percent budget cut imposed on the Board of Regents by the West Virginia Legislature for fiscal year 1987-88, which begins Wednesday. The Legislature, responding to Governor Arch A Moore Jr.'s revised and lowered revenue estimates, passed a budget during extended session slashing state spending by 19 percent. Slattphoto by Earl Strohmeyer The BOR passed on an across-the-board 4.5 percent The Lion In Winter cu-t to state colleges and universities. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Susan Holbrook) and Princess Alais (Kathy Elkins) discuss matters Executive Vice President Buster Neel said Mar of royal importance in this Marshall University Summer Theater production scheduled for shall was allocated $22,753,000 ofstate-a p propriated money for fiscal 1987-88, an amount he said fell short performance tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m.Tickets are $4 for general admission and free to of what he considers a minimum needs budget. If not students with a valid ID. for a budget-making rule preventing state schools from requesting an additional 20 percent more than their previous year's budgets, Neel said Marshall would have wanted about $8 million more in state Hospital plan has 2 hurdles to go, dollars from the BOR. Neel said he had hoped the BOR would differen tiate the budget cuts based on a criterion such as the percentages of state funds for students. includes $3 million to med school "Marshall receives less state funds per student cal diagnostic clinic at a site selected by President than a number ofotherschools. We feel the cut a little By Lee Smith Dale F. Nitzschke with approval from the Marshall deeper because we have to take the same percentage Staff Writer University Advisory Board. of money out of our overall program as some better Nitzschke said if the proposal is passed by Hun funded colleges and universities," Neel said. Approval of the Cabell Huntington Hospital res tington City Council and the Cabell County Commis According to a recent survey, Marshall students tructuring proposal Monday could mean $3 million sion, he will begin looking for a site for the clinic. He have less state funds spent on them individually for Marshall University School of Medicine to build a said he doesn't anticipate any problems with finding than students at five other state-supported schools. diagnostic clinic. a site and getting it approved by the advisory board. This most recent gash in Marshall's budget comes ' The document states that Cabell Huntington will Under the new proposal, the $3 million will now go soon after an emergency cut in the last quarter of the give the school t he money within 30 days of the directly to the university in the form of a grant, 1986-87 budget. transfer of ownership. The money is to be used for instead of through city and county governments. -----------See BUDGET, Page 5 construction, fu rnishings and equipment for a medi- -----------See HOSPITAL, Page 8 Project to be finished Sept. '88 Marshall Commons set to line 3rd Avenue Avenue, between 17th and 19th streets. June 1: The BOR considers a prop downtown Huntington. Craig announ By Jack Houvouras Mims, Graves, & Turner of Lexington, osal .that would allow the Marshall ces that state Sen. Ned Jones, D Staff Writer Ky. is the developer for the $17.5 mil Univer sity Fou ndation Inc. to sub Cabell, is con cerned a bout t he affect lion project. The project will be offi lease the land for the Commons to pri the project may have on his property Look ahead to September 1988! cially approved by t he Board of vate developers. The developers will holdings-91 apartm ents near cam That is the tentative date set for the Regents on July 7. A June 15 meeting contribute 25 percent of the profits pus. Accor ding to a report in The completion of the Ma rshall Commons, saw the board lend their support to the from the building to the university and Herald-Dispatch , Cr aig says that a five-story complex housing fast-food proposal following two weeks of delib retain the rest. Jones is questioning the feasibility of restaurants, university-related offices eration. There were, however, several June 2: BOR member Thomas Craig, the project and is wondering " what's and apartments. The Commons will be obstacles hurdled in a mildly contro a Huntington attorney, expresses con inside the deal." However, Jones states located on the north s ide of Third versial issue ... cern about the impact of the project on ______ See COMMONS, Page 8 Inside today Commons editorial Fall tuition news AIDS research at MU I About Ned and Norm .. 6 Some save big, most dig 8 Med school lands grant ----,----------------~----- I Thursday, June 15, 1917 The P.-thcnon OP-inion Editorials Commentaries Letters If the shoe fits ••• he recent chain ofevents leading to the We're back and we're ready! T approval by the Board of Regents of the Marshall Commons project raises con cern over the consistency of local business man Norman Glaser. Pick us up every Thursday! On June 4, Mr. Glaser publicly challenged the integrity of state Sen. Ned Jones, D This is my first column. Cabell, at a forum called by the West Virginia It's not the first draft. I'm not that good. It's Citizens Action Group at the Cabell County difficult to write an introductory column that Courthouse. Glaser cited what h e called rivets the reader's eyes to the page. Frankly, "Jones' opposition" to the Commons project, anyone who has read The Parthenon before saying Jones was only concerned about his has probably made up his or her mind of Chuck financial interests-91 apartment units near what to expect from the campus newspaper campus. Glaser had previously been quoted and probably has a pretty good idea of what Rice as saying, "It's interesting that Sen. Jones to expect from a first issue. was promoting a stadium that would put us The summer Parthenon, for many reasons, out of business. But now that a project comes is different from Parthenon issues published Smith Hall 311 and fill out the appropriate along that would affect him directly, he during the school year. Limited time, staff form. doesn't want it." and news events on campus change the com The summer Parthenon will be in news Some might say that Glaser had a good plexion of the paper entirely. stands in academic buildings, Memorial Stu point. However, he failed to remember that During the summer, timeliness cannot be dent Center and Twin Towers each Thursday since the project was first mentioned, Jones the only "news peg" on which we can hang morning. It is our goal to provide students a never publicly said he opposed it. our stories. A weekly newspaper must pres link with the university and community In fact, on June 15, Jones sent a letter to ent what many consider " old" news items affairs. Gov. Arch A. Moore and the Board ofRegents with new insight. We must come up with Working on The Parthenon during the supporting the Commons project despite the what is known as the second day angle of a summer is a chance for journa lism students distinct posibility that it could hurt his story. This is a much more challenging style to hone their communication skills without apartment-rental business. Jones stepped of writing that requires research and a work the deadline pressures of a daily newspaper. aside and supported the Commons. ing knowledge of the story that is being Because there are no reporting and copy It would appear that the ball is now in Nor covered. Our reporters have to think about editing classes offered during the s ummer, man Glaser's court. After publicly blasting what they are writing and go after their sto the staff is small. The atmosphere is less Jones for only being concerned about his own ries with journalistic gusto. This brings me to structured a nd staffers come and go sporadi financial interests, Glaser has left himself another difference between the summer Par cally, writing news, features and editorial wide open. If Jones is willing to ma ke way for thenon and the fall/ spring edition: gathering materia l concerning the even ts on a nd progress in our community, so must his crit information. around campus. ics! This logic is consistent with Glaser's rea Vacations, odd class times and sporadic I look forward to the opportunity to be edi soning.