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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Spring 4-22-1987 The Parthenon, April 22, 1987 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, April 22, 1987" (1987). The Parthenon. 2458. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2458 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]. --Wednesday---..------------------- Apru 22, 1987 The Part enon Vol. 88., No. 96 Marshall University's student newspaper Huntington, W.Va. I - Flooding moves Springfest concert to Ritter ties coordinator of the Greater Hun expect a crowd of at least 2,000. Ritter make things easier because we've By Marla Curia and. Greg Stone tington Park Board. will hold an official 1,500, according to already been at Ritter before." Reporters Jonathan Green, concert coordina a spokesperson for the park board. Green said he entertained visions of tor for Campus Entertainment Unlim !Jeer will be sold at Ritter for one dol a wild party at Harris. Recent flooding at Harris Riverfront ited, said " I think the whole idea of lar a can and no carry-ins will be per "I had a vision of a bunch of party / . Park has moved the Rockin' Reggae them ill8isting on us moving, then mitted. The same policies will apply at hearty blond babes in bikinis lying Concert of Springfest weekJ>ack to Rit offering the park (Ritter) is nuts. I Ritter as were planned for Harris, said beside the river rocking to the Long ter Park. would have never gone with this festi Julie B. Caldwell, chairwoman of the · "The amphitheater at Harris· is Ryders," he said. "Now it's back to Rit val idea if I had known this." Springfest committee. ter, where most people wanted it in the flooded and it will be almost impossible Green said he wanted Harris offi. Caldwell played a central role in first place." to think it will be bailed out for the dais to let the four-band festival take moving the concert to Harris after Rit Although· he said he was disap-· concert Friday," Joseph Marshman, place on the grassy flat area by the ter officials gaye the show a no-go. But pointed the concert won't be in the director of Student Activities, said. flood wall. Sly Fox drew an estimated she said she is not really upset with the bigger confines of Harris, Green ilaid The arrangements have been made 6,000 to Harris last summer using the switch back. he thinks this will be the biggest and Ritter Park has agreed to once flat area for crowd space. "It might have been an act of fate Springfest ever. again host the traditional Springfest Green said he told the Long Ryders, because this is what students origi "If people miss this concert, they're concert, said Johnette Nelson, a ctivi- the headline band from Los Angeles, to nally ·wanted," Caldwell said. " It will foolish," he said. · Senate budget may cut med school funds 20 percent Marsha ll's School of Medicine will "very negative implications" on the the budget recently approved by the said. suffer a 20 percent budget cut if the school's staffing because most of the Legislature but vetoed by Gov. Arch A. Passage of the Senate's budget bill is state Senate's proposed 1987-88 budget school's state-appropriated money is Moore, Jr. bill is passed. contigent on the outcome of a House of used for personnel. However, he said he However, the House of Delegates · Delegates court test of the legality of , President Da le F. Nitzschke said if doesn't know what areas would be cut. voted to override the budget veto. Moore's April 6 reduction of revenue this budget is passed it could be " truly The $1.46 billion budget proposed by The House's $1.56 billio n budget estimates to $1.46 billion. •. catastrophic" for the medical sch ool. the Senate would cut the school's cur plan retains the $6,431,387 a ppropria Legislative leaders have said if the In addition, Nitzschke said the siza . rent budget of $6,417,924 to $5,160,653 tion for the School of Medicine. court upholds the governor's right to ble cut fr9m the school's approxi for fiscal year 1987-88. This figure also "We do not anticipate tha t (the reduce budget estimates, the Legisla mately $6 million budget would have is $1 ,270,734 less tha n the$6,431,387 in Senate) budget will prevail," Nitzschke ture will pass the Senate budget plan. In wake of Chernobyl disaster, 'respect technology' Matz warns of five stories and threatened the adja By Vina Hutchinson cent number three reactor as hundreds Staff Editor of firefighters and pla nt workers fought the blaze. April 26, 1986 in the news: Teen sui The heaviest casualties - 26 - were cide was on the rise in Japan, after a among this group and more than 200 12-year-old girl jumped from a subur others were hospitalized. ban high-rise to become the 33rd victim to pattern her suicide · after that of Yukiko Okada, a popular singer. A few days earlier, the United Nations con dtimned the United States air strike against Libya. .In the Soviet Union, unknown to the world, more deadly news bega n to happen. The accident forced the evacuation At 1:23 a.m. an explosion and fire of 135,000 people from the northern ripped open the number four reactor a t Ukraine and southern Byelorussia. the Chernobyl nuclear power station. But the evacutions did not begin until The fire subsequently reached a height ______See CAMPUS,~ age 6 Risky business? Staff photo b y Todd Sh,w,esy Sprtngfest activities continued Tuesday with a Lip-sync contest. Bub Smith, Vienna freshman, does Tom Cruise doing Bob Seger. '--------------------------..----_,-..... Wcdnadlly, April n, 1987 The Parthenon Beyond MU From The Associated Press State Nation World Governor squelch~s condom rap song SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. sequences," a takeoff on a game James R. Thompson has squelched show with contestants asked about a song called Condom Rag that We're talking about a disease without a cure. We can educate by AIDS, and an.other that envisions was to have been part of a state utting up posters and using bus'' advertising, but we also have to have "disease-free bars," where patrons sponsored campaign to combat the P must wear gloves and be tested for spread of AIDS. other ways of delivering the message. AIDS. The jingle, which describes con• Schott said the ~ampaign stresses doms and their proper use in rap· Haith Department Spokesman Dean Schott that AIDS is a preventable disease music style, was perfpr~ed here . that can be·controlled by sexual Monday under the auspices of the Illinois Public Health Department ---------------' '--------------- abstinence,ships, avoidtnce monogamous of intravenous relation and was to have been perform~d about children passing by? Is that come in various colors and textures, drug abuse and the practice of "safe again Wednesday in Chicago. the kind of song you want to listen the song goes on to say: sex" through the use of condoms. The governor described the lyrics to with your child? People will "And remember boys, don't be no He said the song lyrics and the as outrageous. "Everyone will think think we have taken leave of our duAce sketches, written by a group called we are lunatics," he said. senses," he said. "Only use that condom once. Local Talent, were reviewed by State health officials had con Phyllis Schlafly, (ounder of the "See, it's easy and fun and it ain't department officials and revisions ceded the song might offend some conservative Eagle Forum, said the a drag made before they were performed. people, but said the jingle was just song offended her. "Groovin ' and doin' the condom AIDS, or acquired immune defi one part of a new $450,000 AIDS "I think it is vulgar and the state rag." ciency syndrome, destroys the · awareness campaign. has no business promoting this Schott said the department has to body's ability to figlit disease, leav "The use of condoms reduces the song," Schlafly, of Alton, said Mon get its message about AIDS to a ing victims vulnerable to life risk of AIDS. To deny that informa· day after being read the song's diverse population and the song threatening infections and certain tion to the public is to deny them, lyrics. was one way to achieve that goal. diseases. The virus 'can be transmit information on a way to protect The Condom .Rag was included in "We're talking about a disease ted through sexual intercours~. themselves," said Health Depart comedy sketches called "Street without a cure," he said. "We can breastfeeding and blood-to-blood ment spokesman Dean Schott. Talk" that were written and per• educate by putting up posters and contact. Thompson said he is not against formed by an improvisational group using bus advertising, but we also Groups at highest" risk for getting targeting the message to certain from Chicago. have to h ave other ways of deliver· the disease are homosexuals and groups. "But is that what we s hould After telling listeners that "one ing the message." The skits intravenous drug abusers and their fQist on the general public? What size fits all." and that condoms include one cal~ed "Truth with Con· sexual partners.

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