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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 9-5-1996 The Parthenon, September 5, 1996 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, September 5, 1996" (1996). The Parthenon. 3428. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3428 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 Sept. 5, 1996 Marshall University I ('1 Fall descends on campus, and so do the students. Check out the photos on pages 16 and 17 I Since you've been gone .,• 1, • Northcott Hall ~ J, • I 1 comes down ~ j • Herd gets new athletic director -·• ;R~moval of , .. asbestos eyed from staff reports First Northcott Hall came tumbling down, and today construction work begins on a new library and informa tion center on the campus' west end. Contractors from Dick Enterprises will begin fencing off and setting up their staging area today in the park ing lot beside Memorial Student Center in preparation for ground • breaking ceremonies Sept. 28 for the $21 million building. Northcott H:h}.Jormerly the second :I oldest structu~e ~mpus, was torn down June 3. It opened in 1915 along ! l side Old Main, and for 35 years was : j the science haU for Marshall College. t J The demolition of Northcott was the l I most dramatic change to campus dur r I ing the summer. Here's an overview of • I some of the others, stories of which t l can be found inside today's edition of Rick Haye Demolition crews tear into Northcott Hall June 3. The building was leveled to make way for a new library. I · the Parthenon: ' I • Trradbn, a Nitro-based engineer asbestos was exposed in Memorial of Wyoming June 19. After departing, new senior associate AD has yet to be I ing firm, has been hired to help rid Student Center following heavy sum= Moon recruited former senior associ named. university buildings of asbestos. mer rains. _ate athletic director, Sterling Brown, • A new soccer field on the east side Trradon's role will be one of proposal • The Athletic Department has a and head volleyball coach, Susan of Marshall Stadium is now home for design and cost analysis, as well as new leader. Lance West was named Steadman, to join him at Wyoming. t he Thundering Herd. A special evaluation of the university's needs. the new AD after Lee Moon resigned Former assistant coach Bob Evans Bermuda grass-cold weather hybrid This announcement came after to take a similar job at the University now leads the volleyball team, and a h as been planted there. Constr.,.ction crews begin \ setting up at library site by JENNIFER HALE $21,065,000 contract Aug. 28 staging area for their office staff writer to Dick Enterprises, the low- trailers, their storage, materi est-bidding contractor, said als and so forth," Grose said. The new library and infor Dr. K Edward Grose, senior The library is set to be com- mation center starts to . vice president for operations. pleted in fall 1998, Grose become reality today. Official groundbreaking _ said. Officials with Dick Enter will not be until Sept. 28, The contract was awarded prises of Pittsburgh will begin when it will be broadcast dur- on the final day for the bid's fencing off and setting up ing halftime of the validity, although Grose first trailers on the.. Memorial Thundering Herd's football estimated the decision would Student Center parking lot to game with Western Kentucky be made within two weeks of serve as the contractor's stag University. Actual work, how- the public bid opening June ing area during construction ever, is set to begin · today, 26. of the $21 million building, Grose said. It will mark the "Dick Enterprises has been which will replace the James first activity on the site since very cooperative and were E. Morrow Library. Northcott Hall was demol- just as interested in us get The University of West ished ·in June to make way ting the contract [awarded) as Virginia System Board of for the library. Trustees awarded the "That basically will be their see LIBRARY, page 9 Page edited by Brian Hofmann ... • • T I L ~ - ] . ,. this 2 Thursday, Sept. 5, 1996 ! /'atllBDI Page edited by Bill Lucas Americans lose the fat ntertainment news BOSTON (AP) - Affluent including poor blacks, who poor people don't stuff them I• Americans are eating more are eating less whole milk, selves with snack foods more like poor people. And that's red meat and bacon than ever than other people do. And actually a good thing. before. However, the shift has higher obesity rates among McCartney's wife recovers A major new review of U.S. affected them less than it has low-income people can be eating habits shows a whole well-off whites or, for that blamed on declines in physi LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney says his wife Linda sale shift away from high-fat matter, affluent blacks. cal activity rather than diet, has made a full recovery after undergoing surgery for foods over the past 30 he said. breast cancer in December. years. While this is hardly a The work was based The ex-Beatle and his 53-year-old wife had stayed surprise, the report shows on a review of U.S. silent on the subject since she had a lump removed from that the change has meant Department of Agriculture her breast. a healthier diet for every surveys of 32,000 one. Americans between 1965 Jackson's brother testifies Contrary to what many and 1991. People's diets would assume, the study were rated on a scale from LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jermaine Jackson testified found that in 1965, poor zero to 16. The lower the that he pressed brother Michael to appear on the 1994 blacks ate far better than number, the better the food. "Jackson Family Honors" to appease NBC and the show's well-off whites. Their diets "Low-income blacks have A healthy diet was considered producers. included mor e grains and always had a much better to be a score of four or less. Smith-Hemion Productions is suing the Jackson family, beans and less fat. diet, so the changes have been Health experts recommend claiming they lost millions in putting on the TV special. While differing tastes prob less," said Dr. Auna Marie that people eat plenty of ably played a role, one reason Siega-Riz, one of the grains and beans, and here Former moder needs money was economic: Unlike the researchers. the news is not entirely good. wealthy, the poor then simply The study, directed by Dr. The study ~l!l)d that while LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former "Price is Right" model could not afford to fill up on Barry M. Popkin of the affluent w!lites have •Holly Hallstrom wants her insurance company to pay her luxury foods like red meat University of North Carolina, increased their ~ intake of legal bills. and butter. was published in last these foods from four to five Host Bob Barker sued Hallstrom for libel in December, The researchers saw a 5 Thursday's issue of the New servings a day, consumption claiming she issued "totally false" press releases saying percent drop in fat consump England J ournal of Medicine. has actually fallen among she was fired in 1995 because she was fat. tion since the 1960s. Popkin said contrary to poor blacks - from six a day Everyone's diet h as changed, what some people believe, to five. 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