OPINION • 4 Bulk rate change will TUESDAY drive away students. April 11, 1995 ENTEQTAINMENT • 7 Extreme's latest leaves listeners wondering. Volume 74 No. 52 6POQT6 *9 YSU sweeps doubieheader at Cleveland State. youngstown estate xiniv^r.siLy indents to pay MARLY KOSINSKI assistant news editor AND ANDREA VAGAS editor in chief Over the last few months, YSU has faced many financial difficul• ties, including tuition increases and budget cuts. According to a report presented at yesterday's Student Government meeting, a decision was made by YSU officials to reduce the bulk rate of full-time student hours in an effort to increase the University's revenue. This decision to reduce the bulk rate means that instead of full- time students each paying $768 per quarter for 12-16 hours, they will now have to pay an additional $81 per credit for every hour over 15. This reduction is the first in a series to be implemented over the AMY WINGER r next seven years. The report stated that the YSU administration even• tually would like students to pay for every additional hour over 12. According to Nizar Diab, Student Government's financial appro• Off-campus exodus priations chair, the reduction of the bulk rate will affect approximately 3,000 full-time students. He said, 'This decision could cause students to drop to part-time status or even drop out of college completely be• Although student enrollment has cause it is too expensive." been decreasing steadily, traffic Diab added, "I am totally opposed to it. It will bring student en• rollment down and hurt students who are trying to graduate early. I problems persist. YSU commuter know the administration needs the money, but they need to find other students inch their way to freedom in ways than to take it from the students." Student government discussed the issue at their April 10 meeting. bumper-to-bumper traffic from the Representative Scott Clark said that student government is looking into Lincoln Parking Deck at noon alternative solutions for raising revenue. Although nothing can be done for the 1995-96 academic year, Clark said that it is possible to find Monday. Noon usually provides the other revenue increasing alternative in subsequent years to avoid fur• worst traffic of the day. ther reduction of the full-time bulk rate. See BULK RATE page 12 MATTHEW DEUTSCH The congressman's visit was precipi• "He will be talking about what initia• news editor tated by a phone call by Scott to the tives the federal government is funding congressman's office inquiring about the and which ones are up for discussion and Congressman Jim Traficant will visit possibility of Traficant talking to her stu• change," said Akpom. the YSU campus on Thursday to speak to dents. When his visit was scheduled and Akpom also hopes to draw upon two classes in the department of health sci• confirmed, Akpom took the opportunity to Traficant's experiences as a Mahoning ences. include her students in the event. County Sheriff and coordinator of a drug Traficant will address Marion Scott's In Scott's class, Traficant will address treatment facility in the Valley. consumer health class from 11 a.m. to the issue of health care. "We want him to tell us what he 12:15 p.m. in Room 3084 of Cushwa Hall "He'll be talking about health care in thinks are really the best strategies for followed by a talk to Dr. Kathleen Akpom's America," said Scott, "where we've been and controlling these problems," said drug use and abuse class from 1:30 to 3 where we're going. I've also asked him to Akpom. "It [the lecture] will be twofold. p.m. in Room 205 of Beeghly Center. talk about health care in the state of Ohio." It will be an update on what is happen• Attendance at Traficant's lectures is re• With Akpom's students, the congress• ing nationally and Traficant's own views stricted to class members only. It is not a man will touch upon the topic of drugs and about the local situation." University-wide event. drug regulation in America. Congressman Jim Traficant ather at YSU to pursue quest for future Quest "95 is a culmination cessful for its first three years, arship work, or art-form presen• sic; Dr. deBlois; Dr. Vernon JOYCE DORBISH and a celebration of the scholar• only to fall into disrepute for the tation. These new awards are of• Haynes, psychology; Dr. Nancy copy editor ship and research activities, which past three years, according to fered from six colleges on cam• Mosca, nursing; Dr. James many of YSU's faculty and vari• deBlois. "Only last year did we pus, which will result in 12 win• Rogers* counseling; Dr. Ray Opening ceremonies for Quest ous levels of students work on begin to revive Quest," she added, ners, two from each college. Sev• Shaffer, accounting and "95, a celebration of scholarly ac• during the year. Their presenta• "It's a wonderful thing for the enty presentations are offered this finance;and Dr. Mansour tivity on YSU's campus, will com• tions and displays are being of• spirit of our community." year, with 25 being student hope• Zenouzi, school of technology. mence on Wednesday, April 12 in fered for all to attend on Wednes- Added to this year's Quest fuls for the Dean's Quest Award. All presentations and displays Kilcawley's Ohio Room as Dr. C. day,April 12, and Thursday, April awards, for the first time, is the YSU faculty will display their are free and open to both campus Susan deBlois, education; James 13. AH events will take place in Dean's Quest Award. This award works in the Ohio Room on Thurs• and community. Handbooks that Scanlon, YSU Provost and James Kilcawley Center's conference offers $100 dollars to the gradu• day, April 13. list all dates, events and times will M. O'Neil, Ph.D., Universtiy of rooms. ate and undergraduate students, This year's inception com• be available in Kilcawley Center. Connecticut, deliver respective Quest has been an annual who submit an outstanding re• mittee for Quest "95 includes Dr. opening remarks. event since 1988. It proved suc• search paper, student paper, schol• Laura Buch, Dana School of Mu• ™ in ii 2 THE JAMBAR TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1995 CLARA VALTAS police officers, three sergeants, is needed. tion, he became uncooperative, ment. The subject who received assistant news editor three lieutenants and two dispatch• Because YSUPD has a mu• and he refused to give his name. the money was never seen again ers who work at YSUPD in full tual aid agreement with YPD, The man was previously ar• by the victim. Editor's note: This story is a re• time positions. YSUPD has jurisdiction on city rested for being on campus ille• Adovasio questioned the vic• sult of Assistant News Editor To help fill out YSUPD, streets surrounding the University. gally and since he failed to appear tim and asked him to fill out a Clara Valtas's trip with a YSU around 90 Youngstown Police YSUPD jurisdiction extends as far for a court hearing, he had an ac• deposition, which is a statement police officer on his beat. Department (YPD) officers fill in north as Saranac Street, as far east tive capias, which is similar to an giving the victim's side of what part-time as needed. These offic• as Andrews and Logan Avenues, outstanding warrant but is issued happened. As the victim was fill• "We've been ers are used for parking detail, as far west as Belmont Avenue and by a judge against him. ing out the forms, Adovasio went into an adjoining room to make called guards sporting events, traffic officers as far south as Wood Street. Because the active capias was some phone calls. Adovasio said YSUPD officers have the power and we've (during large events), as* rovers issued through YPD, the arresting that it is important to verify the been called (people who check on Lyden to arrest on city streets within officers took the man.to YPD to victim's story. By talking to security," House, Wick House, Weller House these boundaries. spend the evening in jail. people who saw the victim and the said Sergeant and Kilcawley House) and a vari• On any given day, a YSUPD While this was transpiring, a unknown subject together, Mark Adovasio, YSU Police De• ety of other positions. "Our main officer has to deal with a multi• person who claimed he was Adovasio double checked the in• partment. "We are police officers, focus is on the campus. That is tude of different situations. Take, scammed out of $50 came into the formation that the victim gave. and it is our job to keep the cam• why so many units are used to for example, a recent night when police department. Adovasio said the reason po• pus and the area surrounding the work these different areas," said Sergeant Adovasio was on duty. lice ask victims of a crime to fill out University safe." Adovasio. Petty scam depositions when they first come to Adovasio, as well as John J. According to Adovasio, TVespassing suspect The man claimed that he was the station is because the incident is Gocala, YSUPD chief, and Gocala has worked hard trying to A man is arrested for asking sitting outside Cushwa Hall and still fresh in their memory. Filling George Hammar III, Crime Pre• establish better communication for money on campus property. was approached by an unknown out thedeposition immediately pro• vention officer, expressed the con• between YSUPD and YPD.