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• COS DEAN SEARCH • HEALTH CARE ·. Dr. Thomas A . Storch was chosen as the new dean of the Medicine College of Science after an eight month search. healthy President· for area picks new Study discusses impact on Tri-State By Annette J. Ditzler COS dean Managing Editor By Annette J. Dltzler Managing Editor Health care makes a significant con tribution to the Tri-State Area, a Mar After an eight month search, an envi shall study indicates. ronmental scientist has been chosen to The report, released Tuesday by Pres be the new dean of the College of Sci identJ. Wade Gilley, shows the health _ence by President J. Wade Gilley. care industry's eco- Dr. Thomas A Storch, an environ nomicimpacton the mental scientist from Western Wash area amounts to ington University in Bellington, Wash., more than $1.1 bil will return to campus Aug. 25. Storch, lion annually while Health-care who is currently the interim dean of the creating more than industries Huxley College ofEnvironmental Stud 27,000 jobs. contribute ies at the university, said he plans to 'The university is work his first full day Aug. 26. keenly interested in more than Gilley said he was pleased the num a thriving economic $1.1 bil berofqualified applicants for the dean's community1 " Gilley position. said. lion and "We were fortunate to have applica The health-care 27,000 tions from an impressive number of Pi-BySarahFarNI study was financed highly qualified individuals interested Adjusting one of his sculptures, Todd Osborne, CUiioden graduate student, by the federal gov jobs to the in the College ofScience dean position: helps set up for a show In the Blrke Art Gallery show. ernment and the Tri-State's Gilley said. . MU Research and Of the applicants, five people were Economic Develop- economy. brought to campus for interviews and. • DAL• NITZSCHKE ment· Center and two were brought back for an extended headed by Marshall interview. Distinguished Professor of Manage Gilley said the search committee rec Fo.rmer Marshall president mentRobertP. Alexander. The research ommended two candidates, Storch and covers Cabell and Wayne counties, Law Dr. Richard J . Anderson, an official rence County in Ohio and Boyd, GTee with the National Science Foundation, resigns from New Hampshire nup and Lawrence counties in Ken very highly. He said he was still tom tucky. between the two after a third phone By Norma Love Net payroll expenditures, local oper interview and another reference check Associated Press Writer "For some time, the ating expenses and other expenses for wasmade. ' board oftrustees and I liospitals, nursing homes, home health "I opted for Dr. Storch because ofhis DURHAM, N.H. - Dale Nitzschke care and physicians' offices are some of background in environmental science - arrivedattheUniversityofNewHamp have not shared t~ the data studied by the researchers. and that .was something the College of shire from Marshall University four same philosophical The research is primarily focused on Science was interested in," Gilley said. years ago eager to steer the largest • perspective on the di the 1991 fiscal year, but some figures 'The other man [Anderson] had much college in the university system in new · from 1992 were used. Researchers also more of a research orientation." directions. rectwn the University encountered problems with private Storch said he looked forward to work- Tuesday, he acknowledged his vision Nitzschke of New Hampshire health-care practitioners leaving some ing closely with Dr. James W. Hooper, was too big and too expensive for New should talt.e." gaps in the research in the private professor of computer science and di- Hampshire and resigned. sector. rector ofthe Center for Environmental, Nitzschke, 56, the school's 17th pres-' ees, on the other hand, has emphasized Analysis of the data revealed that Geotechnical. and Applied Science. ident, said UNH was his last career that in these tight economic times, all hospitals and clinics generated at least "fruvery anxious to bring some ofthe stop. He'll retire with his wife, Linda, to of its institutions must set priorities, 16,454 jobs, nursing homes provided ideas and activities that·1 have been Cincinnati to play golf. limit options, avoid duplications, real- , 1,120 jobs, home health-care providers involved in here at WWU in the past "For some time, the board oftrustees locate resources." created 873 and physicians provided four years: Storch said. and I have not shared the same philo- O'Brien said trustees' conservative 9,041 jobs, according to the report. •1 would be very interested in how sophical perspective on the direction approach "may be seen as being overly "While the economic impact demon thefacultywouldfeelaboutdeveloping the University of New Hampshire cautious and a damper on dreams and strated in the report is enormous, we an environmental program that in- should take;" Nitzschke wrote in his directions," but trustees had no choice. believe the figures are extremely con volves both studies~ the environmen- resignation letter, effective Aug. 30. Both noted state aid represents a ' de servative," Gilley said. tal sciences, as well as the environmen- Though Nitzschke said he wasn't clining portion of the school's budget. "For example, the study does not in tal social sciences," he said. asked to quit, he got signals. Trustees have not picked an interim clude the Marshall University School Storch explained that the environ- "Each board meeting got more diffi- president, O'Brien said. A search for a of Medicine and its health-care deliv~ mental sciences include the natural, cult," he said. replacement could take a year, he said. ery arm, University Physicians and physical sciences, such as environmen- Nitzschke characterized himselfas a Nitzschke came -to UNH from Mar Surgeons, Inc. ta1 geology, chemistry and biology; while builder whose priorities clashed with a shall University in Huntington. He re 'The impact of those units, consid environmental social sciences include board dealing with budget constraints. placed Gordon Haaland, who left to ered basically educational programs, is environmental policy, law and ethics. ThoughNitzschkeandTrusteeChair- become president of a college in Penn to be examined in another study, but He said classes might examine re- · man Donald O'Brien said their philo sylvania. they certainly contribute in a major cent environmental disasters and their sophicaldiff'erences weren't entirely due Nitzschke said his expansionist vi way to the overall health-care picture impacts, and how they might be medi- to budget issues, O'Brien highlighted _sion for universities led him to resign of the Tri-State Area.". ated and avoided in the future. them in his statement to the media. from four other college presidencies A second study has been commis "In the very beginning, I am not as- "Dale strongly believes that the uni- after similarphilosophical conflicts with sioned to expand knowledge about the signed to teaching any classes, but in versity should be free to move in many their boards developed. Tri-State Area's health-care industry, the not too distant future, I hope to be directions as it develops and expands "Philosophically and practically, I am its growth rates and how the area might teaching classes in the College of Sci- its educational, research and service and probably forever will be an expan attract more health-care investments ence: Storch said. roles; O'Brien said. 'Theboard oftrust- sionist, builder, a grower; he said. and jobs, Gilley said.
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By Annette J. Ditzler distinguish them as police cars. The logo on the cars was a collective Royal Oldsmobile in Charleston for Managing Editor Donald L. Salyers, public safety di effort by the department, Salyers said. $17,100. rector, said the cars have inside emer-· He said they took suggested design Salyers said the Jeep was suggested Would be wrongdoers may not see gency lights. ideas to a local sign shop, Tom Hazlett by the state travel office as ideal for bad the new Marshall University Police De 'This way we wouldn't be drilling Signs, Inc. weather. partment vehicles until it is too late. holes in the top [of the car], which The cars were purchased with uni The two vehicles will be rotated The two vehicles, a 1994 Ford Tau would reduce the resale value," Salyers versity funds through a state contract. among the officers and the department rus and a 1994 Jeep Cherokee, are said According to Director of Purchasing will continue to use bicycle, golf cart white and emblazoned with a green He also pointed out the lack of the Bill Shondel, the Ford was purchased and foot patrols, Salyers said. a 1d yellow logo on the sides. But, they light bar allows the cruisers to be less at Bert Wolfe Ford in Charleston for "We do not operate the vehicles con d . not have the light bar on top to conspicuous. $13,586 and the Jeep was purchased at tinuously,• he said. Administration goes through a little shuffling By Annette J. Ditzler changed from vice president for admin charge of the physical plant, facilities campaign, alumni affairs, university Managing Editor istration to senior vice president for planning, auxiliary services, campus development and the university foun operations. Dr. Alan B. Gould is now technology and public safety. dation, as he was under the former Marshall University has issued a new senior vice president for academic af The athletic director and the dean of organization. administrative organizational chart, fairs and provost. Dr. Edward G. Boe students report to him, as well as Gil Gilley said the idea behind moving but according to President J . Wade hm Jr.'s new title is senior vice presi ley. the computer center to academic af Gilley, there are only a few significant dent for institutional advancement. Gould oversees enrollment manage fairs was a need for closer coordination changes. Gilley said the other vice presidents' ment, all ofMarshall's colleges, schools between the library, distance learning The two most important changes, he titles would stay the same. and libraries, academic planning, aca and computers. said, is that the computer center will be "Senior vice presidents have major demic services and non-traditional stu No salary changes are associated with moved to academic affairs and three pperating responsibilities, as opposed dents. When the computer center moves the title changes, he said. However, in vice presidents will now have the title to some ofthe vice president positions," over to academic affairs he will oversee the fall, there will be salary increases of senior vice president. Gilley said. it as well. . for some faculty members, administra Dr. Edward K. Grose's title has According to the chart, Grose is in Boehm is iri charge of the capital tive and library staff.
' . Senator Byrd may obtain money for Marshall By Annette J. Ditzler million for a new medical facil complex will contain offices for Managing Editor ity on Hal, Greer Boulevard. 90 faculty physicians and 90 The building, at a cost "6f $31 residents. Gilley said this will 111\111l•l il Senator RobertC. Byrd has million, will be located behind be where medical faculty will .j::!; :1~~~Ri§l~r :• :~,·§.·§~;~~fi;~aj~~:1~vJ~Rmill!!l put $22.8 million for Marshall and connected to Cabell-Hun see patients. -:Managing·l!:ditor ·_. , . , ,, . t;rack." __, ._.. , . _.-· · ·. .-: -· · ._·· .::.>··:::,, and the Huntington area into tington Hospital. "Right now, medical students . _ .· .. -, , · : _ _ Donors mp~t.be -.1~ ;years ·· recent appropriation see patients in nine bills. locations," he said. The university "All these will be would receive $5 mil brought together." lion from the federal Medical students budget for its new li will complete their brary, $9.9 million second two years of would go to the Hun school and do their tington· VA Medical graduate work Center for a new re there, he said. They search wing, $3 mil will also still attend lion would provide a lectures and have health-care center at classes. Cabell-Huntington Gilley said an ap Hospital, $900,000 plication to start over three years buildinghas been at · would go to Mar- a state agency, the shall's autismcenter, The medical complex, to be situated behind Health Cost Con and the Byrd Insti- cabell Huntington Hospital, will contain an office tainment Review tutefor Flexible Man- bulldlng (foreground), an auditorium and a Authority, since uf~cturing_ w_ould re- classroom bulldlng. March. If the agen- ce1ve $4 milhon. cy finishes its re Some of the funding Byrd Gilley said all the medical view soon, Gilley.said he would . has obtained for the universi school faculty are practicing like to break ground for the ty in the past includes $7.5 physicians and the medical building in October.
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THE PARTHENON 3 THURSDAY. JULY 28. 1994 Israelis targeted in explosions Another attempt in derailing Middle East peace Injures 19 while damaging two buildings U.S. troops may go into LONDON (AP) - A car bomb say. said the British police could exploded early Wednesday out The north London building have taken more steps after Rwanda for relief effort side a building housing Jewish holds offices ofIsraeli and Jew that attack to protect Jews in groups, the second blast in 12 ish organizations including the Britain. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration is hours aimed at Israeli targets JointlsraelAppeal, which rais "Our people gave their eval and blamed on Muslim radi es funds for charities in Israel uation to the British authori considering sending U.S. troops into Rwanda as part of its cals bent on derailing Middle and Britain. ties that there was a danger relief efforts for the war-devastated country, but no final East peace. "A car went up in a huge now to the Jewish institutions decision has been made, the White House said today. The bombs caused minor in explosion," said one witness, and, here you are - there was Meanwhile, President Clinton has asked Defense Secre juries to 19 people and a blast in the middle of tary William Perry to fly to Africa this weekend to inspect seriously damaged both the night," Nevo said. U.S. military operations in the region. buildings. Raviv also said "the Perry is expected to visit .U.S. units working at the No group claimed re "Their. (Muslim fundamentalists) aim Israeli government will current hub in Entebbe, Uganda, and then fly on to the sponsibility for either is to destroy the peace process." not be deflected" from refugee site in Goma, Zaire, Pentagon officials said. bombing, but Moshe pursuing peace by ter At the White House, spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers con Raviv, Israel's ambassa Moshe Raviv rorism. firmed that a team headed by a U.S. general "will look at dor in London, blamed Israel's ambassador In London The London bomb the Kigali airport with an eye toward deciding whether it the attacks on extremist ings came after Israel can be used effectively as a staging area" for bringing relief , Muslim fundamental- and Jordan formally supplies into Rwanda. ists. "Their .aim is to destroy Paul Clifford. •1 was. nearly ended more than·four decades the peace process," he told the shaken..off my feet.". . . ofhostility and pledged to nor British Broadcasting Corp. to Five people were treated for malize relations. Russian mayor to take day. shock and minor cuts from fly Prime Minister Yitzhak Some Israeli officials and lo ing glass. Rabin of Israel, speaking in cal Jewish leaders accused Brit Alan Fox, executive chair Washington after the embassy ambulance back home ish police of a lax response to man of the Appeal, said no one bombing but before Wednes the threat after Tuesdaysblast was in the three-story build day's attack, predicted a wave PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP)-ThemayoroftheRussian in front ofthe Israeli Embassy. ing, but all the windows were of attacks by •radical Islamic city of Kaliningrad will return home early next month with "It's really a true blunder of blown out. About 85 people terrorists" waging.all out war." more than a typical West Virginia souvenir. St. Joseph's the locals here," Brig. Gen. work there in the day. A Jewish community center Hospital is giving him an ambulance. Azriel N evo, the Israeli mili Tuesday afternoon, a car in Argentina was bombed on The vehicle rlo longer meets state regulations, but can be tary attache in London, told bomb heavily damaged the July 18, killing at least 95 peo used in the Russian city on the Baltic Sea, said hospital Israeli Army Radio. embassy in central London, ple. Authorities in Panama on spokeswoman Tami Perdue. She did not know how much After the first blast, Scot injuring 14 people. By early Tuesday said a bomb caused the ambulance is worth. land Yard imposed a parking Wednesday, all but one - a the July 19 crash ofa commut The hospital plans to paint the ambulance and make ban in front ofsome main build man with a broken arm - had er plane which killed all 21 other minor repairs before giving it to Mayor Igor Chered ings used by London's Jewish been released after treatment people, including 12 Jews. community. But the action did for cuts, smoke inhalation and An anti-Israeli group in Leb nichenko on Thursday, she said. not apply to Balfour House, hit shock. anon indirectly claimed respon The mayor and his wife, Tatyana, are visiting West by a bomb before dawn Wedne- The Israeli military attache sibility for both bombings. Virginia through Aug. 5 to participate in sister city Vien na's bicentennial celebration. Roman Catholic hospitals in West Virginia are also collecting children's shoes and clothing for Kaliningrad. Refugees denied clean drink Purified water ready, but no proper transportation Harrison Ford to play GOMA, Zaire (AP) - Rwan to some ofthe 1.2 million Rwan asked for at least three tanker dan refugees who have been dan refugees Tuesday, with trucks. Eventually two showed Indiana Jones again drinking from a cholera-infest more U.S. purification equip up. The first had a bunch of LOS ANGELES (AP) - Six years after vowing the third ed lake weren't able to get thou ment to start pumping today. holes in it that we had to plug Indiana Jones movie would be his last, Harrison Ford has sands ofgallons ofclean water But"thousands of gallons of up. The other we had to turn agreed to play the thrill-seeking archaeologist again. from American soldiers today water sterilized by American around because it had a layer "We're wrestling with a script right now. Hopefully we'll because the United Nations soldiers to combat deadly chol of gasoline inside." get ittogether soon," Ford said on "EntertainmentTonight" sent just two leaky, beat-up era, diarrhea and dehydration The American engineers can in an interview to be broadcast Thursday. trucks to transport it. couldn't reach the Rwandans. store only 33,000 gallons and He said he loves working with Steven Spielberg and With cholera and other dis "We were hoping to .dump depend on U.N.-supplied vehi -George Lucas and "the character's very fun to play, the eases killing atleast 1,800 peo this 26,000 gallons of water cles to carry away the purified movies are great entertainment, so I have no resistance." ple a day in the squalid refugee here, but as you can see it'sjust water. For those who have lost track: First came "Raiders of the camps around Goma, U.S. sitting here. It's frustrating," Theinability to transport the Lost Ark," then "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," troops working on gettingclean said Maj. Eric Hanson, spokes water was yet another exam then "Indiana Jones· and the Last Crusade." water flowing were also asked man for the U.S. Army water ple ofthe colossal obstaclesfac After ~Last Crusade" came out in 1989, Ford said he was to help with another urgent purification unit. ing relief officials. Even if the through as IndianaJones and donated his trademark hat to task: burying the dead. "We're supposed to produce supplies are in hand, there is the Smithsonian Institution. The first trickle ofsafe water water and the U.N.'.s supposed no guarantee they will reach from Lake Kivu began flowing · to ship it,• Hanson said. "We those most in need.
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exercise caution IE Jc 'YEveryone on campus needs to ci1 at be more careful and cautious with Cl! their belongings. af w Although incidents ofcrime on campus are less in tl1 the summer, students should not let their guard w down. w Fewer people on campus also means fewer people SJ looking after students, faculty and staff and their tt belongings. A recent crime report revealed that a bl st~dent's bookbag with her uncashed refund check pl ic was stolen after she left it in an unlocked office while she went swimming. P• Last semester, a photo editor for The Parthenon d1 had a wallet stolen from her unlocked office. She w was upset, understandably, that someone would do t} d: something like that. . , tE Crime is a major concern across the country, despite current studies and statistics that say crime a is down. People worry, but they seem to want h someone else to do something about it. · cc Americans expect more police patrols, more pris a T ons and harsher sentences for criminals, while paying fewer taxes. They don't expect to be required Twenty-something_wonders about 30 to take the civic responsibilty oflooking after them What's it like to be 30? for productivity, accomplishing all selves, as w.ell as their neighbors. Not 30 feet .tall, not 30 pounds, you w-ant to accomplish, and your Nearly everyone has heard the .advic~o not go but 30 years old. I suppose there CARRIE EDGELL 30s are for settling down. I have walking alone at night, lock your car, do not leave are quite a few people I could ask, EDITOR heard that youth is over at 29, (I've valuables accessible to thieves-but how many fol just so I could get the feel of turn also heard that youth is done with ing 30 before actually had to face Jong before 29).. . low it, and follow it consistently? I it. yes, she cried and made a list of Well, if it is just another day, • Many people have joined Neighborhood .Watch Why, for many, many years, have things she had wanted to do, and a why do so many women want to programs, but what ofthose people who do not? Do women dreaded turning 30? I list of the things she had done. stay29forever? Ifitisjustanother they still expect their neighbors to look after them? wasn't afraid to turn 10. I didn't Nevermind that at 30 she had no day, why is it the first year of How busy does a person have to be to warrant not give it a second thought until I had income from employment, received dreading birthday after birthday? investigating the sound of screaming coming from my 11th birthday, then realized I no child support from her ex-bus- As a graduate student of jour · was in the double digits. · band, but was raising her chil- nalism, I have been trained to seek their neighbor's home? It didn't concern me when I dren, spending quality time with out the whole story. So far, I have We do cheer those in our community who care turned 20. I wa.s registered to vote them, maintaining a household, bits and pieces, but nobody's testi enough about themselves and their neighbors to already-and had been seen on the majoring in nursing full time, and mony supports anybody else's. take crime prevention seriously, and especially club scene for about a· year. The doing marvellously at juggling it Usually when I have sought out a those who step in to help an elderly person recover worst part about being 20 was that all. story orinformation, people on both Alone in the apan~ent, on her sides ofthe issue admit a few com a purse or wallet from a thief. We applaud those the Legislature decided, after I had been allowed to drink beer for a birthday, she punished herselffor monalities. Yes, there was an ar who do something to stop or prevent a rape or a year, that l was no longer old not accomplishing all her goals by gument; yes, there was a court murder. enough to be responsible for my 30. She was truly upset, and I felt case;yes, we are charging extra for It is a mp.tter ofthinking of ourselves and others, own drinking decisions. for her. But I was accomplishing servicesthatwereprovidedforfree it is a matter of citizenship. There were a few bumpy years all my goals, and had explored some last year. · along the way. I had heard glory comers of Europe that I had not But turning 30 is an issue that stories about 21, the freedom, the originally planned, and I wasn't has defied investigation. One side responsibility, graduation, adult even near 30 at the time. ijo I admits a conflict. The other side hood, ... a full time job. But even at really didn't understand. . said there was no conflict. Still a 21, I heard the moans and groans My next experience with tum- third witness said there was a con of older friends turning 30. ing 30 left me somewhat confused. flict, but not worthy of mention. I I heard that 23 was really bad. A My sister was approaching 30, and suppose when expert testimony friend told me it was worse than 18 I watched carefully as the day ap: fails to be reliable, a reporter can Parthenon or 19 for college students because proached, because I had seen what only rely on first-hand experience. thetriplingofthedecadescot?,lddo 111 have to ride this storm out Volume 106 Number 105 you don't know ifyou're your par • ents' grown child or an indepen to a·woman. Concerned sibling that just like my friends before me. But dent adult. And, if inescapable · I was, as the day loomed closer, I for all you 20-somethings who The Parthenon, Marshall University's newspaper,· is mental anguish over the balance gently approached my sister and want a preview of what it is like to published by students Tuesday through Friday during of youth and adulthood didn't get calmly asked her if she was.. "OK" tum 30, come talk to me in about the fall and spring semesters. with turning 30. To my surprise two years. I'll be happy to provide Responsibility for news and editorial content lies you at 23, then you would not es solely with the editor. cape it at 24, I was told. Fortu she said she couldn't wait. Her 20s a first-hand account. were horrendous, she said, and nately for me, I suppose, 21 was '\:ffflt. /f. .: ::)f!\:;:;i)\:!i:::!::::;:_)\/ : :.:·.=:•:-•-•,• Carrie Edgell---.....--.----Edltor not the height ofmy youth, nor did she w11.s ready to get on with her Annette J. Ditzler- Managing Editor 23 or 24 create mental anguish in life. . :-· .. . .. William R. McKenna Sports Editor my personal development. But 30, Although no otherclose relatives Sarah Farrell -Photo Editor for some reason concerns me. have turned 30 within the past 10 Marilyn McClure Adviser Perhaps it is because I once had years, quite a few friends have. Doug Jones Advertising Manager a bad experience with turning 30 From each, I have listened to their when I was 21. One friend sent her observations about the event. Thursday, July 28, 1994 three, very intelligent and very I have heard thatit isjust anoth active, children to the baby sitter er day. I have heard that it is 311 Smith Hall for her birthday. But instead of another chance to do what you Huntington, W.Va. 25755 pampering. herself or celebrating wanted to do during your 20s, but (304) 696-6696 at an expensive restaurant with didn't have the maturity to han :}(ftftff(:\j{}fff=:=::::=:::;::?::==tttt};(;;{;:}/:\t'.~'.'.)/Jtt} friends and family, she cried. Oh dle. I have heard that your 20s are ·°1(-
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By Angela Henderson participation in extra-curricu Founded in 1986, the pro Staff Writer lar and community activities gram was named for Charles and exhibit the desire to accept E. Yeager, a retired United An academic program creat new challenges. StatesAir Force Brigadier Gen ed to bring stature to the uni A special committee of facul eral and the first pilot to break versity is continuing to fly high. ty and administrators evalu the sound barrier. The Society of Yeager Schol ates the applications of those "They were looking for some ars, which recently named the who qualify. Semi-finalists are one who would represent the 19 students who will make up interviewed and finalists are leadership qualities of the pro the class of 1998, is now gram,"Wood in its eighth year. ward said. "It's done everything The motto of I ever dreamed of," said "I love this university and I love the the society is Joe Hunnicutt, the So Yeager program." . "only the ciety of Yeager Schol best" and ars' founder. Hunnicutt Yeager was came up with the idea Joe Hunnicutt, the Society.of "perfect for after going to several Yeager Scholan founder. that," she universities and seeing s a i d . their programs. fhosen. Then the committee "[Yeager] has been really sup "I started thinking, how do makes a final decision on who portive." we give a lot of pride to our the Yeager Scholars will be Hunnicutt said the main university? How do we get re from those finalists. idea of the program was "to :::::::::::::::::;::: spect?" Hunnicutt said. He Most Yeager Scholars are instill pride in the alumni and thought of the program like a from West Virginia, according bring stature to the university basketball team. "I kept cou to Woodward. Twenty-two stu to make it better for everyone pling it with athletics," Hunn-· dents were offered the oppor that graduates from Marshall. icutt said. tunity this year, but only 19 I think we've done that." "The whole thing is to sup accepted, Woodward said. •Academics raise the level of port and encourage smart stu There are a total of53 students everything around them-the dents in academics in the same in the program, she said. professors and other students," way at~letes were," said Mar The program provides a tu Hunnicutt said. · tha C. Woodward, executive ition waiver, half the cost of Several things have eminat- t ·,_•_H&SRent-All,529·1"21if:. ·.. ,ipiled' ahd ·. provided by the J director of the John Hall Cen room and board, use of a com ed from the society, Hunnicutt ter for Academic Excellence. puter in their dorm room for said,includingtheJohnR Hall To become a Yeager scholar, four years, and a $3500 allow Center for Academic Excel L,&1111• 11c~!~,!!l'1 a student must have a superior ance for foreign travel, Wood lence, which makes him very high school record, a minimum ward said. proud. composite on the ACT of 28, or The scholars must maintain "I love this university and I a minimum ofl200 on the SAT. a 3.5 GPA to stay in the pro love the Yeager program," he MUPD Blotter The student must also show gram, Woodward said. said. By Annette J. Dltzler elude: Digging in Managing Editor 0 A construction worker re ported three rolls ofplastic bags Summer means fewer crimes used to dispose ofasbestos were on campus because there are stolen June 5 from the base fewer people on campus, ac ment ofthe Memorial Student cording to Captain Jim Terry, Center. The employee said the assistant director of public bags were gone .lVhen he re safety. turned to the basement at 6 A 23-year-old non-student p.m. Hefiled thereportJune6. was found passed out on a Terry said there were no sus bench in front of the James pects. Morrow Library by an officer 0 A student reported a stolen on routine patrol at 2:51 a.m., bookbag between 3:30 and 4:30 July 19. p.m. June 12. She said she left Troy Douglas Johnson was it in the pool office while she arrested for public intoxication, went swimming. The door to and as is procedure, taken to the office was unlocked and the county jail. Jail personnel when she returned, the bag took him to the Substance was gone. Terry said there are Abuse Center, Terry said, no suspects. where he was fed and allowed The brown leather bag con to sleep. tained the student's uncashed Counselors at the center de refund check, sunglasses, keys Phalo bJ S.llh FIINIJ termine if those brought in are and an English textbook. Sophomore Becky Smith of Kenova (left), works with Fleld Assistant Jacltle Redler to measure alcoholics or simply have had 0 .A construction worker in the depth of the hole they have dug at the archaeloglcal site In Saint Albans. The entire too much to drink. An alcoholic the Shockey Room of the Me Archaeologlcal Fleld Training class meets at the site every weekday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. cannot be charged with the morial Student Center report crime of public intoxication, ed June 12 at 7:40 p.m. that Tel'.J"Y said. the ceiling or roof was smol If convicted, Johnson faces dering. 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1 . ·' ' . . ' ...... ' ...... - . . . • • • , , • , • , , r , • • , I , , • • • • . .•• , ••..••• ~ ·. ,. .•••• ·, . ' •• : \. '.. ·.. ~. •,. ;_ \_ ...... ·.• ·.• ·._ .. ·.. :.:.:.:. : ..!' ...... - ...... - ...... - ...... Basketball team chokes in game ST. PETERSBURG, Ruaaia - when a team led by Scotty Another internationalcompe- Thurman, Shawn Respert and tition, another failure for the Michael Finley lost to Italy in UnitedStatesbuketballteam. the semifinals and were The latest defeat cameWednes- Jmockedoutofgold-medalcon day at the Goodwill Games tentions. TH E PART H EN ON 7 TH URS DAY, JU LY 2 8, 1 9 9 4 Graduation rate last in conference Student athletes' 43 p·ercent not a major concern to Athletic Director Lee Moon By Wllllam R McKenna ing in are moving toward a Sports Editor degree. Some will graduate and 1993 Southern Conference . some of them won't. You just When was the last time Mar have to work hard and encour shall finished last in the South age them and motivate them ern Conference? Student-Athlete Graduation Rates and support them with your Ithasbeen awhile, until now. academic support systems or Ofthe lOteamsin the South student athletic programs to ern Conference, Marshall was 100 help them graduate." Although Marshall has been on the bottom in the number of 90 88 student athletes who graduat consistent, Moon would like to 80 ed. 80 see a 50 percent or better rate Accordingtothe 1994NCAA every year and believes in the Division I Graduation-Rates 70 future this will happen. Summary, Marshall graduat Meeting these goals are new ed 43 percent of all student 60 requirements the NCAA is en athletes, 14 percent below the ... forcing. Within the next two national average. 0 50 years the NCAA will add two But this does not worry Ath new requirements. letic Director Lee Moon. g 40 The most important is the "I am not concerned," Moon ftl Satisfactory Progress Rule ... 30 which starts this fall, accord said. "I don't think you can look C ing to Moon. at our athletic numbers, our m 20 graduation rate and compare u The Satisfactory Progress them to each school because ..m 10 Rule states that every athlete we are not comparing apples to A. will fulfill 25 percent of their apples." 0 graduation requirements after What Moon is saying is the their first year in school. At the schools in the Southern Con Southern Conference Schools end ofthe second they will have ference differ academically. In The rates are based on Individuals who graduate wtthln six years of their enrollment. The to have 50 percent completed, a study conducted of all south national average for student athletes Is 57 percent. Information was taken from the 1994 NCAA and 75 percent before they be ern colleges, Marshall ranked Division I Graduatlon-R_ates Summary. gin their senior year. 18th of 14 7 in academic repu "'You can't take a bunch of tation. rates. year and that was 12 percent dent body's." junk," Moon said. "'You have to Based on this, Moon says it Even though Marshall posts higher than the student body. The fluctuation in the grad mak~ satisfactory progress is impossible to compare our a 43 percent rate, it is higher The student body graduation- uation rates depends on the which means you have to take rates with the other schools. than the number courses which credit toward -rhe schools that are in our overall stu of ath your degree." league, not all of them are dent body ' "/ am not.concerned. I don't think you can look at.our letes In 1995, entrance require ranked as high as we are: he average of brought ments are raising the number said. 39 percent, athletic numbers, our graduation rate and compare them in in a of points needed on the SAT. "Our academics probably are and this to each school because we are not comparing apples to particu Before, there was a big range a better. Iftheirs are worse than pleases apples.•• lar year student could have to be able to ours, and their graduation Moon. as well attend school as an athlete, now rates are better, we are not "'The big Lee Moon · as the the range has been shortened. comparing apples to apples." thing I look Athletic Director number Before the change, the range Another reason comparing at, and who re was 200 to 900 points, now it is the rates could be misleading we're con- ceive 600 to 900. is some of the schools are mili cerned at their di- "It is going to eliminate the tary academies. As a graduate Marshall, is our graduation rates have been the same, but plomas. marginal student." Moon said. of VMI, Moon says military rate is higher for athletes tlian the athletes' fluctuate. Up u.n "Last year we were 51 per "I think the rules are good schools are more structured the overall student body," he til three years ago, our gradu cent."he said. "'Youjuthaveto rules and are encouraging leading to higher graduation said. "We were 51 percent last - ation rates were below the stu- hope the athletes you're bring- graduation." Reds lose in 12th CINCINNATI (AP)-JeffBag with a triple. . well hit his 34th homer and Andujar Cedeno added a two singled home the go-ahead run run double and Tony Eusebio in the 12th inning Wednesday, had a pinch three-run homer, leading Houston to a 7-1 victo his fifth, off Tim Fortugno. ry over Cincinnati that forged Brian Williams(6-5)pitched COMIC WORLD a first-place tie in the NL Cen one inning and Todd Jones got . . -~ .J>..1,...~--- tral. the last three outs. 522-3923 1502111/aDA.VENVE • IIVNTIHGTOH. WV 111£ BOVSEON nlECOaHO Bagwell's 12th-inning single In the third, Cedeno muffed off Scott Service (0-2) - his Reggie Sanders' grounder for WIJe 1896
Comic Collecting comes of age Not just for kids anymore! By Angela Henderson Entertainment Reporter
Michael Newell picked up his first comic when he was 5 happened," Miller said. years old The problem is that when a person comes back for that More than 20 years and 1,800 comics later, he's still issue, it may have gone up in value. For example, a 1980 hooked-and he's not alone. "Green Lantern" comic in mint condition, which originally Comic book collecting continues to be a popular hobby, sold for 40 cents, is now worth $22. "Amazing Spidennan" with only the heroes chaI)ging. Superman, Batman and #1 is now worth $11,000. Spiderman have been joined by the X-Men, Sandman and This illustrates the point that comics can not only be good Spawn. Characters have come and gone, but the popularity entertainment, but also a good investment But potential of the comic lives on. collectors beware. Not every comic is valuable. "Just be So what's the attraction? cause something's 9ld, doesn't mean it's going to be of "I love the story," said Newell, a Calhoun County graduate value," said Miller. student "You can relate to the characters." Horst said there are two things that make a comic valuable: John Horst. owner of Purple Earth Comics, 1115 Fourth popularity and print run. A major plot development or the Ave., began collecting after he read his friends' comics. first appearance of a character are things that can make a "Collecting is not for everybody," Horst said "You have to comic popular. A limited number of issues printed will make already have creative inclination and an imagination." a comic more valuable as well. '"They're cheaper than a movie, and after you see a movie, But Miller is not as enthusiastic about selling a comic to it's gone," said Kathleen Miller, owner of Comic World, someone who's only in it for the money. "l'd rather sell it to 1204 Fourth Ave. "You can go backandreadacomic again1" somebody to read," she said. Visiti11g from 0,,11111 Taa, 11i11e-yea, old fa11 boy .The biggest amount ofTri-State comic buyers are between Miller said the press hype surrounding certain story lines Mat1nick Cook pm1u• tM """'Y ulection, at P11,,,le the ages of 10 and 40, but mostly male, according to Miller hurts the comic world more than it helps. A recent example Earllt Comics 4th Aiimu looki11g for the pnfed °" and Horst "It is an extremely male-dominated hobby, but of that is the death ofSupennan. "People were lined up to buy comic to buy. that one issue, but they didn't come back for the rest of them. -Photo by S.,w.la Farnll there are women who enjoy it too," Horst said. Both Miller and Horst agree the X-Men comics are the They didn't care about the story line," she said. biggest·sellers overall. College students like the X-Me.n and Horst also frowns on those who only buy the comics for also the more mature titles, such as those in the DC Vertigo their value and don't read them. "I tell the people they can line, Miller said. These comics deal more with the super read the book without damaging it ifthey 're careful," he said. natural and fanwy, Horst said. One Vertigo hero is the Newell's friend, Wes Gladwell, actually began collecting Sandman, the lord of dreams. for the sole purpose of making money. Women rea~rs prefer the more mature titles as well, Gladwell, also a graduate student, worked at a place where HOT SELLERS according to Miller, but Horst said women like the X-Men he could buy the books cheap, and then he resold them for a profit He was trying to get enough money to buy his wife a ''X-Men" and its various spin-offs (Marvel) a., well. "They like the romances," he said. "The characters in comics are well-rounded and human," gift "Then one day, I opened one up and started reading iL" The X-Men are a group of mutants with unique Newell said ''Comics reflect the complexity of the world" That was two yeaJS ago, and he ~•t stopped reading yet So what keeps Gladwell and others going? powers, who fight to keep peace in a troubled Of. the two main comic book companies, Marvel is the biggest seller, and its characters include the X-Men, One only needs to spend a few minutes with a serious world where mutantsare feared and distrusted. Spiderman and the Punisher. DC Comics is next, and fca collector to widerstand the attraction. A serious collector knows not only all of the story lines.but also the artists, and There are several titles featuring current and former turcsheroessuchasSupmnan,Batmanand WonderWoman. Of the newer companies, Image, made up of former can recogniu their work ins1antly. Miller calls these people X-Men, including "Uncanny X-Men," "X-Factor," Marvel and DC artists, is the most popular. Its heroes include "walking encyclopedia.,. "When I opened the store, that's what surprised me-the "Wolverine," ''Excalibur," and the upcoming Spawn, WildC.A.T.s and The Maxx. Other companies in walking encyclopedias that knew every detail of every story clude Valiant and Dark Horse. . .. "Generation X." "Image ha., the best art, but the characters are not a., well 1me. And for those serious collectors, there arc comic conven ''Spawn" (Image) defined," Newell said. Miller said a big complaint with Image is that the issues don't always come out on time. tions that occur periodically throughout the United States. At Killed while on the job a., a CI~ agent, Spawn is Still, many people don't get into reading comics, became a recent convention in Ashland, Ky., one collector had to leave the building to get more money from the ATM machine brought back to fight crime, caught between god it can be difficult to catch OJ)' oo a suxy line. "People come in all of the time looking through the back issues for the first ~ the street to buy more back mues. and the devil. Spawn ha., special powers, but each appearance of some character, or the issue where so-and-so "It can be addicting," Newell said. "Itonly starts with one." time he uses them, he dies a little more, pleas_ing
the devil who wants him in his world. Hvn4mls cf i.c.t wws w mated annic mtrdumlli# -.it,. ,-,,ctiw ll'uy,, at ''Sandman" (DC Vertigo for mature readers) ne cf snerwi alfflic ""1p mailers ill the "Sandman" is_a stylish comic with lush art iloamlolm H1111tington - ·· featuring the Gothic Lord of Dreams a., he deals with the supernatural. ''Batman" and its various spin-offs (DC Comics) Still the "Dalt. Knight," Batman ha., been through some changes lalely. After having his back broken, Bruce Wayne gave up being Batman, but returned after his chosen successor, Azrael, killed someone. There are several other Batman titles including "Detective Comics," "Legends of the Dark Knight," and "Shadow of the Bal"
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