Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 12-5-1996 The Parthenon, December 5, 1996 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, December 5, 1996" (1996). The Parthenon. 3476. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3476 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 DEC. s·, 1996 l'Jtarsh.a' Po Local Habitat for Humanity chapters dedicate a house. Pages 6-7. Bookstore construction set for mid spring by MARGARET F. KAYES out planned they will begin to look for a contractor," reporter Campbell said. "The outside layouts are 'llOW completed. There Marshall University Bookstore has plans to make will be window exposure on the 5th Avenue side, shopping for textbooks, school supplies and other which will allow light insjde the structure. People l items easier for students. learned the system they can more will also be able to see in the bookstore from the C The bookstore is looking to be in expanded quar­ outside," Campbell said. ters by January 1998. Construction should begin in easily find the books they need Campbell said the changes will make it easier for . late March or early April of 1997, said Mike students to shop. There will be more staff available Campbell, bookstore manager. without any assistance." to assist the students. "The separation of the book­ "We have plans to build new structure and move store is not very functional. Space is very impor· in there. Then they will restructure the upstairs - Mike Campbell tant. There is not enough room downstairs for all and then move the remaining items to one floor," manager, the merchandise because the textbooks take up so · Campbell said. Marshall University Bookstore much room," Campbell said. Grant-WTW, Architects-Planners and Interior "The open stacks for textbooks will remain the · Designer, in association with Dean and Dean same in the new structure. Students know they can Architects, have designed the addition to Memorial Dean also made the plans for the structure we are come in and review the books to see if they want to Student Center, Campbell said. in now," Campbell said. buy them. I think once students have learned the "They have planned the building of many other • Campbell said a contractor has not been selected. system they can more easily find the books they college or university campus bookstores. They were "I assume it will go out for bid. I have not seen any need without any assistance," Campbell said. · chosen to do this project for this reason. Dean and specifics come down. Once they have the exact lay- see SPRING, page 4 Network to be retired over semester break A change in the Manager of university's com- Computer Oper· puter system ations and Sys- Muscle ­ may be the last terns, Phillip S. thing on stu- Smith, said the dent's minds be: univers ity regu- man fore finals, but la rly removes Kevin Sowers, students who and restores com- Hedgesville use the system puters like MU- junior and may not want to VMS6. Southern ignore it. "MUVMS6 was_ Conference S t a rt i n g ; established in record discus next semes- JJJ:::::::i:1. the 1991-1992 holder, does a ter, the com- - - - - - - - - school year and push press, lift­ puter network,------------since that time, ing 275 MUVMS6, will be -we have switched · pounds, in the eliminated from the computer to Hobbit which is much more Wellness system forever. powerful," Smith said. Center. The renovation will cause "By. eliminating MUVMS6 Michael Ellison files stored in the network to be we are removing an old obso- erased. lete computer." Morrow Library quality affected by rising costs and budget cuts by RICH STEELE reporter ,,_. ·r- 1H 1 · \cl ••J e have seen our holdings go Conducting academic re­ search at the James E. Mor­ row Library can be one of the downhill for the last several years." more frustrating experiences for students. - Leah J. Fidler, Students routinely run into director of university libraries difficulty finding the materi­ als they need to complete their assignments, and many rely on off-campus facilities said. the cost of books and periodi­ for their research. She contributes the decline cals," Fidler said. Leah J. Fidler, director of to the rising cost of materials The increasing costs have university libraries, said the and a library operating bud­ resulted in more funds being problem boils down to a lack of get that hasn't changed in shifted away from book pur­ money. "We have seen our four years. "During the past chases. holdings go downhill for the few years, we've seen an last several years," Fidler increase ·of 10 to 20 percent in see LIBRARY, page 4 this 2 Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996 :S ~,- Page edited by Bill Lucas Native bees rescue crops AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Native nation, especially· since in my own bees, leaf-cutting bees- and squash American bees have stepped in to do garden, which is in a woods setting, I bees. the pollination work of the nation's had to pollinate the squash by hand," Field sampling in Arizona and dwindling supply of honeybees. said James Cane,' an Auburn bee Maine in late summer and fall . And they appear to be saving-crops expert. ' found a similar result: in some areas, say Auburn University In August, when Cane and Auburn Where native bees per­ researchers and bee experts in graduat(;l students T'ai Roulston and sist in sufficient Arizona and Maine. Blair Sampson walked the rows of an numbers in the nat­ Honeybees took a beating last Alabama pumpkin patch, they found ural vegetation next to crop spring from mites, pesticides and bad native bumblebees foraging for nectar lands, they can do enough weather, accelerating a five-year and pollen in the flowers of the pump- pollination to set fruit, even decline in their population. Scientists kins. when honeybees are absent. feared that would mean a shortage The bumblebees averaged nine bee"l Bee experts estimate that this year of pumpkins-, applies, cran­ per hundred flowers and accounted 75 percent to 90 percent of the berries, almonds and other fruits and for half the bee visitors, Cane said. feral honeybees in the U.S. have dis­ nuts. There also were honeybees, sweat appeared in recent years. But bumblebees and other ____________________________ native varieties are picking up the slack. 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