ERCURY Glenvme State College January 30, N991 Volume 62 Number 15 Parker to Speak at Glenville State College
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THE GLENVILLE ERCURY Glenvme State College january 30, n991 Volume 62 Number 15 Parker To Speak At Glenville State College On Wednesday, February 6, the GSC Student Congress will sponsor a campus-wide convocation SC Alumni Own in the Fine Art~ Building auditorium at 10: 10 a.m. Dr. William C. Parker will speak on the topic of "Diversity ormer Arbuckle and Excellence in Higher Education." Dr. Parker, retired Vice esidence Chancellor for Minority Affairs at the University of Kentucky and presently president of the Human Tracy Samples anyone group. Mr. Ralph W. Resource Institute In Lexington, is Some might thmk it is Curry, of Hagerstown, Maryland, author of numerous publications that the alumni of Glenville a member of that class, paid the on human behavior, motivation, late bought a house of their own, last SR,OOO on the center in behavlorallcaming pauems, human after four and one-half years November, 1990. As a result of development counseling, have finally done It. this, Curry is being honored on managcnal psychology, assessment, The new GSC Alumna Alumni Day, April 27, by having a cultural pluralism, leadership and , fomlerly the Arbuckle borne, room in the center dedicated in his aflirmative action III education and the dream of the late alumni honor. the corporate environment. The Alumni and friends His popularity as a human ofGSC together have donated over development expen srx:aks for iL~lf, iation, in cooperation with $100,000. GSC Alumni Director, having provided consullant services Alumni Foundation borrowed Thelma Samples said, "It i~: 10 over 800 colleges and universities, from Kanawha Union Bank wonderful thai so many graduate~ public school systems and eight and friends of GSC contributed so state school systems and industries much to this project. Most of our and corporations. He is listed in graduates are not wealthy people, Who's Who in Black America. but they gave wh::Ilthey could and He is a native of lUinois 1'~:~UI.;IiIII{)1I made a request to the I thank them for that." and received his undergraduate and first to determine their Although the Alumni master degrccs from Illinois Slate m the project. The GSC Center is paid for, contributions University. His Ph.D is in came up with S 12,000, are still needed. The Center is like Psychology from Columbia Pacific November 19R5 and March any other home. There are repairs University. He hJS done post to make the down payment. and upkeep to be done. gmduate study at Rutgers, PrincclOn, management consuJlanl, Parker has professional organa/.ation . Association deCided the goal Contributions can be made payable Case-Western Reserve and the been granted ouL\tanding service The faculty is encouraged be met, \0 they started to pay to the GSC Alumni Foundation University of Ghana m Accra. With and achievement awards from over to bring their Wednesday 10 a.m. the house. and sent to the orfice of Alumni 42 years experience as a teacher, 200 collegC'. and univcrsitJes, public classes to the convocation. The Class of 1937 came Arralrs, GSC, Glenville WV. college professor, admmistnltor and school systems, and CIVIC and With the largesl amount of Troubled Waters Persist in Gulf Crisis What's Inside: by Arson Workman No U.S. officlallssureof BccaU'iC Saudi Arabia and Saddam Hussein has Hussem's motivation for creating other countries around the regIOn unleashed the world's largest oil the sltck. Ac<.:Ording to military depend on the Gulr for their water pg. 2 Dean's List spill mto the Persian Gulf, dumpmg analyst.. there I no stralegK. military uppl y, there i a serious danger to pg.4 Student Standout more 011 than was rclea~ed as a value. The White House la hed the desahni7.ation faclhu used result of the Exxon Valdez aCCident out at Husscm calling the act "Eco by the SaudiS. However, one pg.5 Sports that occurred two year, ago off the TerrOrism ." dcsalinl7.auon plant won;er Slated coa\t of Ala,ka. The 'pIli is 35 U S. planes have hit the that the water that I used by the pg.lO GSC Smoking Policy mile, long and 10 mile~ Wide. The pumping faCility and the 011 has plant comes from the lower levels -'()UfCe of the 011 i, a pipeline facility slowed. However. the mihtary i. of the 0CClI1 and not from the swf: U',cd to pump crude IntO 011 wnkers unsure If thl ' will lOp the now of which i the hck' domicil orr the lOa,t uf KuwaiL 011 Into the Gulf. Page 2 - The Glenville Mercury - January 30, 1991 Environment Threatened by War Associated Press report\ a toxic cloud nearly 1,000 miles high may Fall Semester 1990 Extensive Ecological be the outcome of this kmd of attack. ScientisL~ are extremely alarmed by this prospect. Some Dean's List Released Damage Expected even go so far as to estimate global warming may be advanced by a~ The following studenl~ Roger Keene, Jr. much as 30 years from such a toxic When nations go to war city. The destruction of these made the Academic Dean's Listfor Suzanne Kenna, Carrie cloud. there are many devastating results. facilities, scientists warn, may cuase the fall semester of the 1990-91 Kerns, Jeffrey Kincaid, P-dtriCia Attacks on oil tankers wi II Kill A serious consequence of the war deadly ammonia clouds to rise and school year: 1cnnifer Allen, Jill (4.0), Rita Kyle (4.0), Chri.'ily result in further ecological damage. now being waged in the Middle cover the area. These deadly toxic Allen, Michele Allen, Christopher Lackey, Barbara Landis, Cry!IIIJ Thousands of tankers find thClf way East may be the damage to the clouds may cause serious threats to Allowau, Elizabeth Anderson, John Law, Monica Lay, Mart Lilly, S.. in and out of the gulf region. environment. Whether it be the the area in the fonn of water poUution Anderson, Tammy Arnold (4.0), Lilly(4.0), Michael bittle, TalYd. Environmentalists fear an ecological Vietnam War when millions of acres as well as eausing serious health Robin Austin,and Kenneth Bailey. Logan. disaster 100 times worse than the of rainforest were destroyed or the threats to people located in the Lisa Baker (4.0), Gail Hazel Long, Ton,. recent Iran/lraq conflict when Exxon Valdez in Alaska may occur. region. The destrull '1Il of Iraq's Balcourt, KrislI Barnard, Thomas Looney (4.0), Lisa Lough (4.~, Precautions are bemg tremendous amounts of oil were nuclear facilities might also have a Barnes, Diana Barnett (4.0), Steven Ronda Love, Melissa Lowe, Robia taken to protect the region from spilled into the Persian Gulf, war is devastating ecological impact on Barr (4.0), Peggy Benton,Joy Bird, Lowther, MIchael LudIc, Lucindl possible ecological catastrophe that harmful to the environment. the world. Some scientists even go Paul Biser (4.0), ToOl BIshop, Lynch, Rohm Mace, Tma Marua, may result from the war. Oil booms The Gulf War represents so far as to warn of another Charlotte Blair, Robert Blake (4.0), Erica Mason, Edward Matalik, have been set up in the region and some unique and serious threats to Chernobyl type of contamination Michael Boggs, William Boone, Tammy Matteson, Kathryn Male, with radioactive maUCr being canied fire fighting equipment has been the environment. Scientists warn Cynthia Brake (4.0). Marion McClung (4.0). around the globe by air currents installed to fight possible ecological the confrontation in the Gulf may Larry Bright, Teresa LeIgh McGinnis, Brial produce serious air and water and causing widespread catastophies. Only when the connict Bntton (4 .0), Carla Brooks, Debbie MIller, Mary MIller (4.0), Mlc~ contamination. is resolved will the facts be known pollution aro~nd the globe. Brown, Dilma Brown, KevlO Brown, Miller,Candy Minigh (4.0), Lindl Saddam Hussein has about what kind of ecological When the Allied forces Lynn Browning, Amanda MiOlgh, Annette Mmner, Bryol threatened to destroy oil refineries damage has been done. No matter launched their attack on Baghdad Bumgarner, Bohhy Burns, John Montgomery, Dana Morr, Patriaa and storage areas in and around the outcome of the war, one of the one of their primary targets was the Buser, Patrick Cahill, Sandra Morrison, Janet Morton (4.0), FamJI Kuwait. John Pomfret of the big losers will be the environment. pertochemical plants around the Camliletll, DebblC Caplinger, Moss, Matthew Mowrey, Lua.. William Carroll (4.0), PatriCIa Moyers, Loretta Mullens, Stephci War Poll Shows Opposing Views Caufield, Debra Ceslovnik (4.0). Mullinax (4.0). Donald Chapman, Jame Walter Mullms (4.0~ by Angie Kemper is wrong, and one woman answered for Freedom. also demonstrated. Clark, Dec Clemens, Gene Collins Charles Myers, Ann Nash (4.0~ The Persian Gulf War with a flat 00. She feels that America Their president, Stuart Grimes, (4.0), Charlestta Comer, Jo Coombs, Sharon Neal, Vicky Neal (4.0). sparked opposing views on college ought to use its own resources and explained, "We did this to show Rachel Cornell, Susan Cosper (4.0), Patncia Nicholas (4.0), Marti. campuses across America, and with shouldn't import oil anyway. that the Athens Peace Coalition Claudia Covill, Carolyn Cox (4.0), Norman, Denise Oldham, Emily a knack that students seem to have, On a more national basis, doesn't speak for our campus." Monica Cox (4.0), Mary Cmes, Onglro, Sue Pelfrey (4.0), KellJ those opinions are being expressed. students have been demonstrating Although thcre have been JulieCrowl, Tommy Cunnmgham, Perkms, Karen Peters, Jennifer At Glenville State, a both for and against the war. Staff many anti-war demonstrations, ABC Douglas Currey (4.0), BonOie Phares, Kathryn Phares, Pa.