Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1989-1990 Eastern Progress 4-12-1990 Eastern Progress - 12 Apr 1990 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1989-90 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 12 Apr 1990" (1990). Eastern Progress 1989-1990. Paper 26. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1989-90/26 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1989-1990 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I 1 Sports Accent Arts Weekend weather Have drive-ins Friday — Increasingly Colonels sweep The $100 Weekend cloudy, rain likely 50 to 60 Baseball team increases Great roadtrips for gone the way Saturday — Chance of of the dinosaur? rain, cloudy. Sunday — win streak to 8 student budgets cooling with highs in the Page B-6 B-1 Page B-8 60s. THE EASTERN PROGRESS Vol. 68/No. 27 18 pages April 12,1990 Student publication of Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond. Ky. 40475 © The Eastern Progress, 1990 One-third Legendary Performance • it fail to take rts camp required falls short writing test on promises By Ken Holloway News editor Unpaid debts About one-third of the university's transfer students eligible to take the remain from Dec. 9 Was it a scam from first University Writing Requirement the word go, or ws it failed to register or show up far the academic camp exam. In essence, they failed. And at university just a jood idea gone they cannot graduate until they retake and pass the exam. bad? '* Of those that took the exam, almost By Becca Morrison and Terry Sebastian — Larry Stone, parent of 90 percent passed. ^— student attending All Sports With the com- Many peopfc are asking questions Academic Camp. pletion of the first about Ed Fugate and the corporation University Writ- he founded, the East Central Kentucky ing Requirement All Sports Academic Camp, a one-day The camp, which took place in the exams done at this seminar for student athletes last De- university's Powell Building Dec 9, institution, 236 cember that failed to live up to its was originally billed in ads as "The out of 271 trans- expectations. Largest Student Athlete Camp in Ken- fer students who The disgruntled and disappointed tucky," with over 500 student athletes 13%oitrw27lttu- scheduled to attend. took the exam in takmg ttw include several university students who iMt hava Also scheduled to attend was either October of worked for Fugate at the camp's tem- Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench; February passed Mad. porary location in the Richmond Mall; Sixth District Congressman Larry it several Richmond and Lexington area Breaking it businesses owed money for services Hopkins; Superintendent of Public down further, 112 provided to the camp; and some of the Instruction John Brock; Attorney General Fred Cowan and John Lind- out of 131 stu- parents of the 139 students from East- em Kentucky high schools who at- gren, WTVQ-TV Eyewitness News dents, or 85 per- anchor. cent, who look the tended the camp held on Eastern's test in October campus Dec. 9. But there were many cancellations 36%oftw421nu- because of bad weather, including the passed while 124 dantteigiMa Neva According to Madison County out of 140 stu- Commonwealth Attorney Thomas camp's top drawing card, Johnny tailed to register kx Bench — the man many of the stu- dents, or 89 per- thateit Smith, "The Grand Jury has heard evi- dence against Fugate, and may have dents came to see. Bench couldn't cent, who look it Sourc*: Unfcarafcy attend because his wife thought she in February Vrnang CornrrMttea not made a determination about what to do with him at this point." See SPORT CAMP, Page A7 Dr. Nancy Lee-Riffe, who is a member on the University Writing Requirement Committee and profes- RHA recommends sor in the university English depart- ment, said that some of the essays were well-written while some others hall councils not vote were not as well-written. "The very best papers thai we read were incredibly good and that there is on open house hours not much that needed to be done to improve them," Lee-Riffe Said. "It By Terry Sebastian ■ RHA elects new officers; was wonderful to see that we do have Assistant news editor students who write extremely well, The Residence Hall Association accepts nominations for top and who have impressive things to say has offered a recommendation to the positions. and can do it in 30 to 50 minutes." Council of Student Affairs asking that PageA6 Lee-Riffe, who has been a con- the hall councils not be required to sultant for grading English exams at hours. vote on open house hours. At the end of the four weeks, she the Educational Testing Service in Instead of voting every fall semes- Princeton, NJ., said that she was not said, if the hall councils have not voted ter, the hours set by the university for on their hours, RHA will suspend the surprised about the results of the ex- open house, noon to midnight, would ams after gaining some experience in residents' open house privileges. apply to each hall. Green said the recommendation reading exams at the National level. "We are in no way trying to take "I would hope that in future years would make the university hours the away the power of the hall council," standard open house hours, and it as the students realize more and more said Kay Green, president of RHA. how serious they need to be about would abolish the four-week deadline Progress photo by JEFF COATNEY "We just feel that the punishment does which could lead to punishment. improving their writing skills then not fit the crime." maybe we won't see some of essays Former Beetle Paul McCartney played the bass and sang several Beatles' classics as ha Green said the reason behind the Green said every fall semester the recommendation was due to some hall that scored low," Lee-Riffe said. gava Ma rescheduled performance to a sold-out crowd at Rupp Arena Monday night. hall councils have the first four weeks See WRITING, Page A9 to vote on their desired open house See OPEN HOUSE, Page A10 Spanish form Police confiscate hoard of stolen goods in room INFORME INDIVIDUAL DEL Three students arrested, public safety after "an informant called and ad- counts of criminal mischief. CENSO DE 1990 vised" them about stolen material in a student's Walker said. The informant gave us informa- leaves some charged in connection room in Palmer Hall. tion that lead first to Mr. Miracle and his arrest and 1. l—tfiiiillmiil i.l»li»lli The informant apparently overheard the stu- then after that, it developed." referring to two other wondering, with March 30 thefts dent bragging to several others about being the one arrests stemming from the informant's tip. who broke in to 1S vehicles March 30, according to Walker said he could not give out information By Terry Sebastian the police report Quepasa? Sa.J&MMd *■*—<Wbl—■■<—lUHMpunil concerning how public safety proceeded to find the Assistant news editor Public safety officials then searched the room, other stolen items, but that after talking with Mir- By Susan Gayle Reed = A case folder the size of an unabridged diction- where several items were discovered that matched acle they made the other arrests. Staff writer t5S»— ary sits on a desk in the Brewer Building, full of descriptions of items reported stolen March 30, According to the police report Marshell E. (2) Dt>_vnm pages listing numerous stolen items found by public according to the report Pence, 21, Commonwealth Hall, was arrested by Informe Individual Del Censo UN LUGM MWTUM DC Del990. safety officers after they searched two university The resident, Quinlan Miracle Jr., 23, from Todd Hart public safety, and charged with 12 This message left several stu- ts) au-—-—-. \ £«-.-—* rooms and a car Friday. Miracle, Ky., was arrested by Sgt Dan Ferguson, counts of felony theft auto, 14 counts of misde- dents puzzled last week as the 1990 ■mooia* wnw \ ->*H According to Wynn Walker, assistant director public safety, and was charged with 12 counts of census forms were distributed to of public safety, a search warrant was obtained by felony theft 14countsof misdemeanor theft and 18 See THEFTS, Page A10 students in the residence halls throughout the university. Several non-Spanish-speaking College savings program suffers setback students received their census forms ■ a ■ By Ken Holloway develop a long-term savings program written completely in Spanish in sev- inSIQQ News editor to help send their children to school. eral of the halls. With the problems of politics and Street said that the college savings Keene Hall reported about SO A-,--, R1 the cut in funding, the Kentucky plan already had established a payroll cases of census forms written in Maa**HiaM - Mw,4«M9**» T*T™ " ' ■ °l Education Savings Plan Trust may deductions program plan in which over Spanish on one side and English on 88 B4&5 30 companies would deduct a mini- ■ *te^» .-*—» — . T^™ rewg«achancetogttoff the ground. the other. About 15 cases of mixed- Arts/Entertainment B 2&3 Due to the legislature's decision mum of $25 from the employees' up forms were reported in Telford paychecks and send the money to the Classifieds A 5 to cat state funding for the program. The only thing about the endow- and four or five cases in Palmer.