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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 4-23-1987 The Parthenon, April 23, 1987 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, April 23, 1987" (1987). The Parthenon. 2459. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2459 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--------------------- ApnI 23, 1987 The Part enon Vol. 88., No. 97 Marshall University's student newspaper Huntington, W.Va. Protest planned against war on education members to wear yellow ribbons on By Pat Sanders their right shoulders during the rally Reporter Higher education is being held hostage by the current ·climate of and also during commencement "as a political confrontation between the'' legislative and executive branches symbol that higher education is being Faculty, staff and students from held hostage by the current climate of across the state will rally Sunday on of government. political confrontation between the the Cap1toI- steps to protest the treat legislative and executive branches of ment of higher education in West Virgi AG statement. government," according to an ACF nia, according to Marshall's Board of --------', statement. Regents' Advisory Council of Faculty ________ _"Yellow ribbons symbolize a hostage representative. faculty senate of West Virginia State duled to reconvene Sunday 6 p.m., but situation," Hensley said. "The Gover Dr. Frances S. Hensley, associate -College to protest budget cutbacks this is considering postponing its first ses nor and Legislature_are in a fight and professor of history, said the'rally is to year and proposed cutbacks for next sion. She said this won't effect the rally. we are hostages caught in the middle." . attract attention to higher education's year by Gov. Arch A. Moore and the "If the Legislature meets; then we Because the rally is being organized difficulties. "People have been very Legislature. can make our concerns known," she on short notice its success will depend upset about how higher education has She said Moore and legislators were said. "Ifit does not meet, then we have on individual efforts of the partici been treated," she said. "This will be invited to the rally. "We want the Gov all the more reason to rally." pants, Hensley said. an opportunity for people to express ernor and the Legislature to listen to A Legislative Information spokes "There's no way to coordinate the their frustrations." faculty, staff and student representa man told The Parthenon Wedesdaythe entire rally," she said. "For-instance, Hensley said the rally, set for 2:30 tives' concerns about the budget cut · Legislature is scheduled to reconvene we just don't have the time to make all p.m. on the Washington Street side of backs for this year and next year." as planned. the yellow ribbons. The people will just the Capitol, was organized by the Hensley said the Legislature is sche- The ACF recommended faculty h ave to do it themselves." Center tor Regional Progress qan it progress with no money? ti By Teresa L. Plumley Reporter ~I ~ Three years ago the Center for Regional Progress was established at Marshall and was billed as a pos sible key factor in the revitalization ofsouthern West Virginia. Now, the big question is whether the center will continue to exist all. The center was established here with the goal of conducting studies and providing consultant help to communities and industries. But because of state budget problems, a senator and Marshall's chief financial officer are wondering whether the center will continue to receive state fund ing, and what will happen if it does not. • SPEARS, Page 4 Some fear Marshall may not be able to provide funds for the center in the coming fiscal year. After Staff photo by Ben Petrey · the Board of Regents allots Marshall its 1987-88 Pollcel?l?I budget, President Dale F. Nitzschke will decide what Sgt. Trotter of Scotland Yard (played by Scott Tignor, center) Is watched carefully by guest of portion of this money, if any, will be earmarked for Monkswell Manor Guest House. Murder Is the game; The MouNtrap the name. The Agatha the center. Christle play, The MouNtrap, la being presented nightly 8 p.m. through Saturday In Old Main Sunday, the Legislature re-convenes to work on the auditorium. state budget. After the Legislature's budget is approved by Gov. Arch A. Moore, it is submitted to the BOR, which determines the funding ofeach edu- cational institution. · Sen. B. Ned Jones, D-Cabell, failed in his attempt to get a $150,000 appropriation for the center included in the budget. Even if Marshall gives the center no funding, Bus ter Neel, vice president for financial affairs, said it would not be completely in the cold. Neel said the center still would have "soft money" - money raised by contracts, grants or other sources. What would be missing if the university excluded the center from its budget would be "hard money" (state appropriations). Depending soley on soft money is dangerous, Neel said. "Generally, there's a pretty good commitment, but only for a specific time period - usually a year." Problems arise when the businesses supplying the soft money decide not to continue, Neel s~id. I Thursday, April 13, 1917 The Parthenon Beyond MU From The Associated Press State Nation World Court rules Georgia's death penalty not racist WASHINGTON- Writing for the Blackmun and John Paul Stevens court's majority, Justice Lewis F. dissented. Powell said Wednesday the statisti Apparent disparites in sentencing'' are an inevitable partofourcriminal "Narrowing the class of death cal study of Georgia's death penalty justice system. eligible defendants is not too high a system "at most indicates a discre price to pay for a death penalty pancy that appears to correlate Justice Lewis F. Powell system that does not discriminate with race." ,, on the basis of race," Brennan _________ ________ _ Powell added: "Apparent dispari wrote for the four dissenters. ties in sentencing are an inevitable Nationwide, about 95 percent of part of our criminal justice system. from 1973 to 1978 and found that require that a state eliminate any death row inmates killed· whites ... Where the discretion that is those who.killed whites were 11 demonstrable disparity that corre even though blacks are more often fundamental to our criminal process ti>nes more likely to receive the lates with a potentially irrelevant the victims of murder in this is involved, we decline to assume death penalty than were those who factor in order to operate a criminal country. that what is unexplained is killed blacks. justice system that includes capital invidious." Looking at the smaller number of punishment," Powell said. Capital punishment opponents The ruling upheld the death sent cases in which the greatest jury He said it is state legislatures, not previously acknowledged that ence given to Warren McCleskey for discretion was exercised in sentenc the courts, which must evaluate McCleskey's case may represent the the 1978 murder of an Atlanta ing, Baldus found that killers of such statistical studies and deter last broi-d-based assault on the policeman. whites were four times more likely mine "the appropiate punishment death penalty. Since 1984, the high McCleskey's hopes to avoid death to receive death sentences. for particular crimes." court has rejected two other broad in the state's electric chair had been "The Baldus study does not dem Chief Justice William H. Rehn appeals. pinned on a study by a University onstrate a constitutionally signifi quist and Justices Byron R. White, It ruled that death sentences may of Iowa law professor, David cant risk of racial bias affecting the Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin be meted out even if state courts do Baldus, Georgia capital-sentencing process," Scalia joined Powell's opinion. not try to determine whether others In his study, Baldus examined Powell wrote Wedpesday. Justices William J. Brennan, convicted of similar crimes were every Georgia murder conviction "The Constitution does not Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. treated_more leniently. Nitro Council gives approval LaRouche accused of taking Poland accuses U.S. diplomat to annex greyhound dog track millions from 'bankrupt' firms of stealing secret military info NITRO - Nitro's City WASHINGTON - WARSAW, Poland - Council unanimously Federal prosecutors are Poland accused a U.S. approved on first reading accusing political extrem diploml\,t Tuesday of spy• the annexation of the Tri ist Lyndon LaRouche of ing and said he left the State Greyhound Park siphoning millions of dol country after being between Nitro and Cross lars for his personal use detained by police during Lanes. from three corporations a clandestine meeting The council voted 9-0 Tuesday night to bring which the government is with a Polish contact. the track and a thin stretch ·of land into city trying to force into invo Jerzy Urban, the official spokesman for the jurisdiction. The second reading of the petition is luntary bankruptcy. Communist government, said Albert Mueller, a scheduled May 5. If approved then, the proposal The Justice Department, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, will be forwarded to the Kanawha County in documents released Tuesday, also says the had gathered military intelligence and informa Commission. fringe presidential candidate's complex web of tion on activities by the banned Solidarity trade Kanawha County Commissioner Duke Bloom organizations is on the verge of financial ruin movement. has been critical of the proposed annexation.