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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 10-28-1986 The Parthenon, October 28, 1986 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, October 28, 1986" (1986). The Parthenon. 2390. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2390 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]. --Tuesday-------------------------- october 28, 1986 The art cnon Vol. 88, No. 29 Marshall University's student newspaper Huntington, _W.Va. Classifications not uniform; BOR bl.amed . I ing and staff reclassifications. The to WVU," said Paul Michaud, Mar' for it," he said. "They had guts, motiva By Burgetta Eplin second lifted the hiring freeze but left shall's director of personnel. "Its rec, tion. We didn't" Editor the reclassifications on ice. lasses and hires go straight into thd Neel said he also wishes someone at .I Moore lifted portions of Executive system and are automaticallt Marshall had known .to ask for an -1 When the state changed staff classi Order No. 1 in September, but a review approved." exemption in 1979. fication systems in 1979 to unify titles process remained in effect. The process Michaud, who has been on campus "I support WVU's exemption 100 per and paygrades within state agencies, requires all hiring and reclassification for about a year, said he discovered cent," he said, "but Marshall should West Virginia University requested to applications to go through the gover many Marshall officials did not know have the same privilege. So should all be exempted. · nor's office - a procedure not required about WVU's exemption. of higher education for that matter. The Board of Regents granted the before the orders and one that costs "We were given a new sys tern and we "We are treated as a state agency," exemption, according to Del. Pat Hart Marshall employees, time, and morale, presumed everyone else was working he said. "A university is simply not a I man, D-Cabell and member of the 1979 according to Buster Neel, vice presi with it," he said. "I don't begrudge state agency - regardless of what ' I Legislature. dent of financial affairs. WVU its exemption, and WVU tells me some people may want it to be." Since then, Gov. Arch A. Moore has WVU, however, is exempt from both 'We cannot believe Marshall has to go· Michaud said WVU used its size as issued two executive orders affecting orders. through this' - they realize our size. the reason for requesting exemption. the system. The first froze all state hir- "Executive Order No. 1 never applied "I begrudge Marshall for not asking ______.See EXEMPT, Page 8 Full funding for BOR budget called unlikely Raw Roth By Abbey Dunlap MTV king's image Reporter The Board of Regents won't be get matches· reality, ting all it is asking fur in its 1987-88 proposed operating budget, the BOR's but with less polish student representative said Friday. The representative, Jeff Handy, said he looks for the Legislature to fund lit EDITOR'S NOTE: The following con tle more than $200 million of the tains some observations of the wlfter. requested $273,184,000. But Handy, also chairman of the By Melissa K. Huff BOR's Student Advisory Council, Staff Editor which met Friday on campus, said heis "satisfied" with the No. 2 priority sta An air of expectation emanated tus BOR members awarded to finan from the small crowd gathered at cial aid/ student recruitment and Casz's Tavern off the Green on an retention. otherwise quiet Sunday night. Handy said he originally wanted They'd all heard the rumors. financial aid/ student recruitment and Many stood by the door, peeping out retention separated with financial aid, from time to time while others, which would benefit students already remaining skeptical, paid little in the educational system, given attention to who passed by. higher priority. However, Handy said the reason for • See related editorial, Page 3 grouping both financial aid and stu dent recruitment and retention into The rumors were confirmed, how one category was "merely political" ever, when the wild man ofrock and :>tat! pno10 by Ben Pwl,.; because BOR members thought group roll, looking every bit the partying David Lee Roth at C.sz's Tavern off the Green In Huntington after ing the two together would have a MTV king, walked into the tavern Sunday's concert. greater impact on legislators. just before 1:15 a.m. after perform Handy also said he is not pleased ing a sell-outconrertatthe Hunting beer, smoked a cigarette and smiled time.' with the $500,000 requested increase ton Civic Center. The crowd ofabout with the famous, dare-devil style Band members also balked at for the Eminent Scholars Program, 50 cleared a path for David Lee that has been a big part of his suc interviews, although drummer Greg · which is designed to match money Roth, who extended a clammy hand cess. The only difi!rence between Bissonette, who seemed more down raised by institutions to help create to various fans and said, "Hey, how the David Lee who stood in a bar in to-earth, went to bat for this repor endowed faculty positions. you doin'?" while making a beeline Huntington, W.V a., and the TV ver ter, asking permission to bt The program is not fair because it for the bar. sion was his size: he looked thinner interviewed. Childs said talking After greeting bartenders, he and considerably less polished. with one band member would mean I does not provide an equal opportunity I for smaller institutions, said Handy, a wandered back and came to a rest But his image as a party man talking with them all, and that I · student at Blu~tield State College. ing place by the door. Fans of both. showed clearly in every gesture - wasn't po•ible. , j He said it takes approximately $1 sexes swarmed around him. Some from the way he dragged on his Meanwhile, fans were not allowed ! mill ion to create such a position. Thus, one said, "Let the man have some cigarette to his nonchalant,"lead even to ask Roth for an au to graph. I probably only the state's largest insti space;" a girl, squeezing her way me-along" air. Bartender Burke While some might interpret this as I tutions, Marshall and West Virginia through to his left, said she •~ust Hunt said Roth's presence was sim arrogance, fans Becky Gaughan j University, have the ability to match want(ed) to see his ass." ilar to "having Mad Max in your and Jim Gustafson said they could j the available funds. Saying "that's enough," security bar." · understand he wanted privacy. "I'd Despite his doubts concerning full guards pushed back someofthe peo Other band members had follow be the same way," said 33-year-old funding of the budget proposal, Handy ple in front. Meanwhile, Roth stood ers, too, although not nearly as Gustafson, an aspiring musician. said the creation of a select commitfile on display, wearing a five o'clock many as Roth. They signed auto He and Gaughan had traveled shadow and an apple-cap tilted side graphs, but Roth did not. He would about four hours from near to address higher educationfunding by I State Senate President Dan Tonko ways, looking every bit as gruff as not grant interviews, either. His Marietta, Ohio to see the concert, I vich, D-Marshall, is a good sign. the high-pitched music he screams. publicist, Paul Childs, said an inter which he defined as ."just -j "l'his may be the most opportune Security guards hoisted over a six view would not be appropriate outstanding." j year in a while to get something pack ofBudweiser and he swigged a because this was Roth's "social ______SN ROTH, Page 4 through the Legislature," he said. l ------------------- -- - ~- ------------------------------~----~ -------~ ------------------- I Tucsdlly, Oct. ti, 1916 The Parthenon From The Assodatcd Press ·Nation World Support for ballot amendments reversed CHARLESTON - Del. Arnold favors the right to bear arms - Ryan voted to place $700 million in amendment. bond proposals before the voters on I would prefer to go pay-as-you-go without issuing the (road) bonds. I "I have some reservation about Nov. 4, but the Summers County want to give it a lot of thought."'' I'm rather conservative. putting the state further into debt Democrat now says he supports with the economic conditions what neither the road bond amendment Del. Jack Traylor, R-cabcll they are," Hawse said. nor the school building amendment. ,, Hawse also believes that poor ________ - They are two of six amendments _______ _economic conditions tied with an on the ballot this fall and the two rather conservative." increase), if they wanted to. If these uproar over the statewide property big-money items. The others are the Traylor said he has not ruled out projects are priorities, we should tax reappraisal activation will Freeport Amendment, sheriffs suc voting for the two amendments, but pay as you go," Ryan said. make it tough for the $200 million cession, the right to bear arms, and says he is going to study the issues Ryan said he voted to place the school amendments. single-district election of school more before deciding. issues on the ballot 11because the "I'd be very surprised if (either board members.

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