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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Summer 7-26-1990 The Parthenon, July 26, 1990 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, July 26, 1990" (1990). The Parthenon. 2815. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2815 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]. Mars ha I I •University Thursday July 26, 1990 Mosny sunny, PARTHENON highs 85 to 90 Judges rules on lawyer's request in student's trial By Vaughn Rhudy Senior Correspondent:------- AJackson County circuit court judge has instructed both sides not to discuss the outcome oflast week's hearing to consider a motion to suppress statements by a for­ mer Marshall student accused of murder­ ing her newborn son. Defense attorney Dan Taylor sought to What a scream! suppress the statements made to police by Amy Pyatt of Ravenswood after her arrest Thousand• crowd Into Huntington's last fall. Riverfront Park arH to take part In the Pyatt was arrested last November in activities, from concerts and jet ski Huntington while she was a sophomore at Marshall. Her trial is scheduled to begin races to fireworks and carnival rides as Aug. 7. , part of Summeriest. Last week Taylor said he could not pe The more daring and strong-stom­ specific about Pyatt's statements to police. ached carnival goers took their turns However, published reports indicate that riding the Scrambler. Pyatt told police she p.ve birth in her Phal01 by Eat/ Strohmayer and John Baldwin grandmother's apartment building while her father and grandmother wat:.ched tele­ vision, and then allegedly threw the baby out of the bathroom window. The baby was found wrapped in plastic the next morning, according to the reports. The state medical examiner said the baby died of exposure. Earlier last week, Judge Charles Mc­ Carty denied Taylor's motion to postpone Pyatt's trial. Taylor had requested the postponement because a Parkersburg psychologist, Dr. " Mariah Travis, who had evaluated the de­ 'A:ll<)~~!8,G,.,.,,,,. , ---~- ",,,.. - fendant, will be out ofthe country when the , ' case goes to trial next month. / McCarty considered the defense motion . but rejected it after looking at the court's ' calendar, Taylor saia. ' ~iii The attorney said rules allow the defense to submit depositions from witnesses who ~:...,. cannot be in court. "We were trying to get more time to have her (Travis) appear in court and give her opinion in person to the jury," he said last week prjor to Friday's suppression hear- SN TRIAL, Page 6 •THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT• Gould steps in to serve as acting president EDITOR'S NOTE: Thia 19 the NCOnd of a Dr. Dale F. Nitzschke baa helped Gould in ing the academic budgetfor the institution, said. ,. three-part Nf'lea on Mlnhall'a tnn•ltlon hia preparation. The current president has Gould said. The budget has to be turned in He also said one ofhis goals is to continue during the departure of Prnldent Dale F. been involved in many different projects byOct. l. work on a reeource allocation model that is Nltnchke. since his time· on campus, according to "How on earth could you give eomeone looking at spreading internal funds across Gould. (from outside the university) that kind of the campus, By BIN France responsibility?" he said. "It takes a little "We've got to see that thing get off the Staff Wrlter·-- -------- SN related .aory, Page 7 practice to get constructing that budget ground and that whatever we're doing is down." fair and equitable ~d doesn't savage any­ When Dr. Alan B. Gould tak• aver next -nteprofileoftheinstitutionhaschanged Gould said he considers full funding for body," he said. month u Marshall'• acting president, he dramatically during his administration,• salaries, current expen1es and equipment The new salary initiative for faculty that hopes to ccntinue working on the initia­ Gould said. "I know we have a lot of things prioriti~ that should be addressed. "We was begun in Februaryhas tobeaddresaed, tivea ~are,m.tadyon the dra~~- . we have to get done.• qave to continue stressing our relative OneolthelargNtresponaibilitieaiabuild-.' funding and our,ahare.of. the funds," he SN ~DENT, Page I Workingd•~~th~~pnai•~ '. , 2 The Parthenon lhursday, July 26, 1990 Students express. woeful regret, aggravation Memories, friends, associations lost along with Varsity, too All week I have felt went to our first fraternity party toward the restroom. Any I won't repeat. He began · hollow. Construction on together. We eventually turned attempt I would have made off' cleaning up the mesa. He the new football stadium up at the -V-and got 80 drunk the bar stool would have then threw the drenched has begun and all trac(! that rm not sure bow we got resulted in tragedy. I looked rag on the head of my of a place known as "The back to the dorm. down at the bar and belched. A fraternity brother, Mike Varsity" is now a Friendships and heartbreaks very minor relief. If I could only Kappral. I doubt either memory. are not my deepest memory of rest here for perhaps 20 min­ Herb or Mike will ever Everything I associ­ The Varsity. My best memory utes, I decided, I would be fine. forget me. ated with my first year of comes from one of the worst While I was contemplating my I am no longer irrespon­ college was centered Double Dribble; it too WIUI drunks I have ever bad. rm misery, a girl I barely knew sible about alcohol. I around that memorable empty. So we trekked back to surprised that I can even placed her arms on my shoul­ continue to drink on bar, and now it is gone. the "V" and bought beer with remember it. ders and shook my agoniir;ed occasion, but no more It was a place where I our fake ID.'a. The night started with me and frame. "You're not looking so than twice a week and I made a lot of mistakes, Thia W1U1 about the time that a six pack of Budweiser trying to good," she said. I was about to keep myself to a three­ but I did a lot of growing Leon Ginsberg was dropped become intimate friends. It look worse. drink limit. up there, too. from consideration for appaint• later proceeded to a party . I The sudden jolt started a It is hard to watch the The first time I entered ment to the Supreme Court didn't think that I could walk volcanic reaction that originated construction. The Varsity the doors of the -V- W1U1 becauae aome ofhia old college but somehow I managed to find in the lower portions ofmy is gone and so is my my aecond night on buddies snitched on him for my way to ':fhe Varsity, where a aching stomach, proceeded freshman year, one in campus. The only other being a former drug user. Todd friend of mine bought me four through my esophagus, and which I did a lot of foolish freshman I knew who and I joked that ifeither one of tallboys. I drank every drop. erupted lib Mt. Etna on things and made plenty of was 19 (the required age us ever finked on the other for I gue• I must have started to Pompeii day. In other words, it mistakes. But I survived. to enter most Huntington under-age drinking we would look green at this point. My was all aver the bar. Maybe the greatest edu­ bars) was my next door have to forget any aspirations friend placed me on a bar stool The atmosphere immediately cational benefit I have, neighbor in the donn, we had of being appointed to and ordered for me. Somehow, began to l'N8mble that cA a received in col/ege came • Todd Arlan. We entered public office. be thought that this would settle Japaneae monster movie. People from thoee mistakes. the Vanity at approxi­ That night W1U1 the start ofone my stomach. I tired to sip the fled the bar screaming, with Jo.ma Slaclc, a Cron mately 9 p.m. and found of my first close college friend­ beer but a low namble began their bands OV81". their beads. Larta junior mo.jori"6 in the place deserted. We ships. inside me. Herb Stanley, owner of the bar, journaliam, uaataffwri~r aoon departed for the The next night Todd and I Cautiously I turned my head made a profound statement that . for TM Parthenon. Green lemon fouls up even the best of plans When will this madness end?!? was going up a hill, I thought nothing of business. It all began in April, when I it and downshifted. The following Thursday, my oil light brought my car to school for the first However, when I went below 30 mph, I came on. I knew J bad plenty of oil, time. Honestly, it worked fine until knew something was amiss and pulled because I had just checked it, and it then, and my family had owned it for over. I got out of my car to find black was not leaking. more than two years. Of course, we smoke rolling out of the back. It turned out to be a defective never drove it that much. I lifted the engine cover to see what sending unit (something that I think After a few trips between Hunting­ was wrong.

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