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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 10-5-1984 The Parthenon, October 5, 1984 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, October 5, 1984" (1984). The Parthenon. 2156. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2156 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]. ---------- --------- The ..: . arthenon Friday, OCt. 5, 1984 Vol. 86. No. 15 Marshall Universltyts student newspaper Athletic ·committee to seek fee increase By Karl Brack provide eight women's sport& by 1988. Reporter Marshall now support& four women's sports: volleyball, basketball, tennis A proposal to seek $5 increase in stu• and outdoor track. dent activity fees was approved by the Snyder said preliminary plans call Athletic Committee Wedneeday at the for the eetablishment of a women's request of Athletic Director Lynn sport during each of the next .four Snyder. years, beginning with croes country The increase, which would generate next year and followed by indoor track, an additional $70,000 for the Athletic golf and another sport as yet Department budpt, must be approved undetermined. by the Student Activities Fee Commit• tee and the univenity preeident, then forwarded to the Board ofRegent& to be enacted. Students now pay $36 a Snyder said he hopee to have the semester (for athletics), increase approved for the fall 1985 aemeater. which is considerably less "I feel that thia is a very reasonable than most schools in this request," Snyder said. "Student& now region. pay $36 a semester (for athletics), which is considerably less than most schools in this region." · Dr. Lynn Snyder Snyder said that on a list of ten schools including Ohio University, Morehead State University, James Aside from projected cost&, Snyder Madison University and Southern said that the department needs the Conference schools, Marshall ranked money to help compensate for a loes of eighth in the amount each student paid revenue from televised football games toward athletics. and to bolster the department's reserve "We reduced our budget conaidera• fund. bly the year before llUJt during the The fund now stands at about budget crunch," Snyder said, "but $60,000, but Snyder said he hopee to without .thia fee increase we would increase it to $250,000 in the next four probably be tenth on that list." years. Snyder listed several reasons for the It is likely that the Athletic Depart• request, the foremost being "normal ment will not be the only group on cam· inflation factors." pus requesting an increase. Activities Tuning up Slaff photo by Katie LIiiy "Salary increases are great, but we fees recipient& may ask for more money J have to find the money somewhere," he every two years, and seven other Kathy Kirk and Wayne John10n rehearM tor their roln aa Guinevere said. "The price of everything is going groups are .scheduled for l'tH!valuation up." and Arthur In Camelot, a production of MU Thfftet. Perfoimancea this year. The department also will eventually The Athletic Department's last Oct. 17-19 are free to full-time atudenta. need to fund four additional sport& due increase was in 1982, when an addi· to an NCAA mandate that Marshall tional $4.50 was auessed each student. Mad·dox to serve as interim development director By Burgette Eplln continue fund-raising effort& in the development A director ofdevelopment will not be chosen until a Special Correspondent office as well as work with the Marshall University national search is conducted to find a vice president Foundation. for institutional advancement. Dr. Robert F. Maddox, associate provost and dean Maddox said he "hasn't had time to think one way of the Graduate School, has been named interim Michael F. Thomaa, vice president for financial or the other" about the search for a permanent direc director of development, filling a vacancy left by Dr. affairs and treasurer of the Foundation, will handle tor of development. Bernard Queen in September when he asked to be the proceesing offinancial transactions in the devel• reassigned to a teaching position. opment office. No salary increase has been discussed for the new position, Maddox said, because "I'm not sure any Maddox also will be receiving the To relieve Maddox ofsome ofhis reeponaibilitiea in money is available. I ' new title associate vice president for the Graduate School while he is filling the director "I really didn't take that into consideration when I academic affairs, the new adminis ship, Dr. Kenneth P. Ambrose, chairman of the took the position," he said. "I'll really enjoy doing it. tration's equivalent to auociate pro department ofsociology and anthropology, will serve It's very important to the university." vost, when President Dale F. as interim auistant dean of the Graduate School. Nitzachke's reorganization plan Nitzschke has put a "great deal of emphasis on becomes effective Nov. 1. Although the director ofdevelopment report& to the fund-.raising, and I agree with that totally," he said. vice president of inetitutional advancement in Maddox, a native of St. Albans, was named asso In a press release iuued by C.T. Nitzschke's plan, Maddox said he will report directly ciate provost and dean of the Graduate School in the Mitchell, director of university rela· to the president until the vice presidential poeition is spring of 1983 after serving as history department tions, Nitzschke said Maddox will Maddox filled. chairman for three years. The Phi Mu sorority Homecoming does not MU's soccer team is Inside officially begin until next house may become a going on the road this wee week, but several activities Ronald McDonald House kend looking for two impor• are planned for tonight and for the families of critically ill children undergoing tant Southern Conference today_ this weekend. 4 5 wins. 7 treatment at local hoepitals. 2--------------------------------- FrtdaJ, Oct. I, 18M THE PARTHENON From The· Associated Press · w. Va. St. Mary's reported Empty tlll furloughs ·Car bomb explodes abusing children federal employees near Israeli embassy CHARLESTON - A 16-year-old emotionally WASHINGTON - Hundreda of thouaande of . NICOSCIA, CYPRUS • A bomb-laden' car . disturbed girl was subjected to 12 shock treat federal workera headed home early Thunday exploded'Thunday in the parking lot of a ments in one month after being placed by the afternoon, told to leave by the White Houae building houaing the l1raeli Emb881y police state in a private hospital, according to a after Congress failed to p888 legislation to and witneaea reported. Juvenile Justice Committee report. replenish the government's empty till. An Israeli Foeign Ministry 1pokeeman, Dan The report, released this week, says disturbed An estimated 500,000 non-euential workers Ashbel, said in Jerusalem that no one in the younpten have been placed at St. Mary's were affected even as Congreu hurried through embauy was wounded. Hospital in Huntington, which has no juvenile· lesislation to make the gQvernment, which ran Ashbel also said there appearred to be no treatment program. out of money earlier this week, 1olvent again. damage to the embauy itself, but a witnese in The five-lawyer committee, an arm of the President Reagan blamed Democrats in the Nicoacia, who refused to be identified, said there state Supreme Court, iuued a ecathing, 30-page House for the shutdown. wa1 damage to the building. report on the state's treatment of emotionally A two-day emergency authorization p888ed The witnes said he saw several people slightly disturbed younpten. It focused on the shock the House unanimously late in the morning but injured, possibly from flying gla88, on the street treatment case and that of a 13-year-old McDo had to await a 2 p.m. EIYI' meeting of the outside the building. well County boy, who also was confined at St. Senate for final approval. 1 The exploaion damaged several cars in the Mary e. Absent that, the White Houae Office of parking lot, nearby building• and 1hops on the The report described the girl, identified as Management and Budget went ahead with its fashionable Makarios avenue in downtown B.K., as a girl with a history of suicide attempts shutdown plane. Workers were told at 10 a.m. to Nicoecia. "and an incestuous relationship with her father "aecure their deab and otherwide prepare for Witnesses said thick black smoke was billow that began when she was 3 yean old." shutdown" within three hours. ing from the building as fire engines stood by. The committee said both youths were con As the 1 p.m. cloaing time approacl)ed, a Attempts to reach the emb888y by telephone fined in an adult psychiatric unit at the steady stream of Agriculture Department were not succeuful, and police said they did not hospital. employees headed to the city's subway, which have details. A ·police officer said a search was Although a court order for the boy's, identi began rush-hour service early to handle the being conducted for more bombs. fied as L.S., involuntary commitment had been expected influx. dismissed midway in his stay, hospital officials said they were unaware of the dismissal, Guerrillas battle In Peru according to the committee. It said locking him Bank rescue losses modest in a room was "the major component of his AYACUCHO, PERU· Maoist Shining Path treatment" at St. Mary's. WASHINGTON - Government losses from guerillas battled soldiers in one province of its $4.5 billion rescue of Continental Illinois southeastern Peru and attacked a village in National Bank will be "comparatively modest," another, and 29 people were killed, police said Custody denied to felons the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.