Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 10-15-1987 The Parthenon, October 15, 1987 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, October 15, 1987" (1987). The Parthenon. 2494. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2494 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]. _________________ ,_ __.. I --- -- ____ _ - ------ ----- - -T~rsday------------------ 0ctober 15, 1987 The Part enon Vol. 89, No. 21 Marshall University's student newspaper Huntington, W.Va. Homecoming pizza stuffin' By VIRGINIA K. CROWE Reporter Three pizzas, three determined men and a pile of napkins were all • I that was needed to begin the pizza­ eating contest noon Wednesday. 1 Students gathered on the Memor­ . , ial Student Center Plaza to watch the third event of the Toilet Bowl ·• Classic. ;~ Contestants were allowed to use their hands which Mark Kantlehner, Louisville, Ky., freshman, immediate­ ly put to shoving a slice into his mouth. Before long, half of Kan­ tlehner's pizza had disappeared. The victory may have been an . easy thing for Kantlehner who didn't ~ credit his eating prowess to any­ thing except "I just like to eat." Kantlehner's win pushed the Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Zeta team into first place in the race for the Toilet Bowl Championship. Today's events: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Mimes, jugglers, jazz band and dance troupe. 1l a.m. to 1 p.m. - Victorian photos in Memorial Student Center. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Bub and Scott will perform on MSC plaza. Noon - Pie eating contest on ., MSC plaza. 6 p.m. - Parade 8 p.m. - Bonfire on Intramural Photo by MARK CZEWSKI Field. Charlie LIiiy, Point Pleasant junior, Is picture perfect as 10 p.m. - Lip sync at The , I she smiles with prlae while getting her characature done for free as part of Homecoming activities. Varsity. Suspensi.on has·worker grieving over grievance J By STEPHEN .MCKEOWN are not tryiug to get rid ofCharles Sexton, nor are we perform," Michaud said. Reporter harassing him. Anything written up on an employee Pam Ray, international union organizer for Amer­ is not without merit. Write-ups are placed in an ican Federation of State, County and Municipal employee's personal file to solidify a case for termi­ Employees, said many more grievances would be A Marshall electrician has been given a five-day nation or for rewarding an employee." filed by employees, but the process "is so tedious that suspension for filing a grievance during working Sexton said a number of university employees people don't want to go through it." hours Oct. 2 on behalf of another employee. have been given warnings or suspended for "ridicu­ Ray said grievance procedures have been set up by Charles Sexton, who has a grievance of his own lous reasons." the Board of Regents and are supposed to be stand­ pending before the university on asbestos in the work He said an employee, John Spradling, a grounds ard throughout the state. Ray said Marshall is the I place, said his suspension is justone ofmany attempts foreman in plant operations, for whom he filed the only higher education institution in the state that ~ I to harass him for his outspokenness on the campus grievance was denied time off to be at a hospital doesn't adhere to these guidelines. I regarding asbestos, equipment and safety problems, while his son was undergoing an operation. Michaud "Marshall interprets grievance procedures the way I and employee abuse. said Spradling's grievance is now settled, and the they want them to be," Ray said. "However, the more finding was that the university did·not deny time off the university abuses employees, the smarter the l "This suspension is in reprisal for last week's to the employee. employees get, and eventually the university will asbestos article (published in The Parthenon) and Another employee was given a 15-day suspension understand that they can't operate the way they my helping other employees with their grievances," for allegedly cutting the grass in the wrong direction have been." Sexton said. "By putting pressure on and attempting on some tennis courts, Sexton said. Sexton said, "I'm the one - an experiment, you ,., to get rid ofme, they're trying to scare employees into Michaud said the grievance is under appeal and might say. If the university can get me out or put me . never speaking out or helping fellow employees." that the suspension was based on performance prob­ down, everybody will quit speaking out and back · Paul J. Michaud, director of personnel, said, "We lems. "We have no room for employees who do not down." ii !} Election spending limit to have lit.tie effect the 1988 state elections, according to a Secretary of State Ken Bechler. By PAT SANDERS poltical science professor. Dr. Troy Stewart said most voters Staff Correspondent Meanwhile, most candidates inter­ are do not care about the amount of viewed by The Parthenon said they money candidates spend in primary will not sign the Code of Fair Cam­ and general elections. A voluntary limit on campaign paign Practices issued last month by According to a release from Hechler's expenditures should have little effect of the State Election Commission and -----See SPENDING, Page 4 I Thundly, Oct. 15, 1987 The Psthcnon Beyond MU From The Associated Prus State Nation World Town unveils statue of 'retired' Yeager HAMLIN - Chuck Yeager might and shattered the speed of sound - the Army Air Corps in September The town of Hamilin Wednesday be retired. but folks in his hometown 700 miles an hour -for the first 1941, he also left behind an image of unveiled a statue of Yeager dressed sure don't recall him as being the time. being a man who would try - and in the flight suit he wore on his his­ retiring type. Yeager now lives in the Sierra fly - nearly anything, often buz­ toric journey. The $70,000 statue The former U.S. Air Force brigad­ foothills of California, but he zing the town in his aircraft. stands on the front lawn of Hamlin ier general returned to Hamlin Wed­ announced his arrival to the home­ "He's been known to make the High School, Yeager's alma mater. nesday for a celebration of the 40th town folks the way he normally used steeple shake," said Jerry'Mullins, "It's kind of exciting," said long­ anniversary of what some consider to grab their attention - by swoop­ pointing to the whitewashed tower time resident Olive Burns of the the beginning of the Space Age. ing down through the hills around topping Trinity Methodist Church, celebration honoring Yeager. It was on Oct. 14, 1947, that this Lincoln County hamlet in a where Yeager and his wife, Glennis, "But I can remember him waking Yeager, then a little-known test supersonic jet. used to spend their Sunday my baby up" with his airborne she­ pilot, climbed into his X-1 aircraft When Yeager left Hamlin to join mornings. nanigans, she said. Mingo arson ·sentence meted; Persian Gulf tanker escorting 38-year family separations to end Kermit man gets probation, fine won't be free In House proposal as Taiwan lifts China travel ban HUNTINGTON - A WASHINGTON - The . TAIPEI, Taiwan - Kermit man accused of set­ House Merchant Marine The government ting a fire that destroyed a and Fisheries Committee \ announced Wednesday mobile home in Mingo Wednesday voted to \., that Taiwan citizens will County was sentenced to impose heavy fees on oil be allowed to visit relatives three years of probation tankers protected by U.S. in Communist China, end­ and fined $500 by a federa1 military escorts in the Per­ ing a ban on travel that judge, a court clerk said sian Gulf. has separated families for Wednesday. The measure, a money-saving move to meet a 38 years. Harold Horn, who was $94 million savings requirement imposed on the The Central Standing Committee of the ruling charged with one count of conspiracy to commit panel by the House Budget Committee, was Nationalist Party made the decision at a meeting malicious destruction of property, was sentenced approved 32-7. presided over by the president and party leader, Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II The "Navigation Enhancement User Fee Act of Chiang Ching-kuo, the party's Cultural Affairs in federal court in Huntington. Department said in a news release. Horn was one of four defendants sentenced 1987" would raise an estimated $95 million annu­ Tuesday in connection with an ongoing probe into ally by charging fees per voyage through the war­ The new policy will allow Taiwan citizens, with corruption in Mingo County. All four pleaded torn gulf. Vessels would be charged either the exception of military personnel and civil ser­ guilty last month to various charges, including $250,000 per voyage or the actual cost of the servi­ vants, to visit people related to them "by blood or conspiracy to commit mail fraud and destruction ces, whichever is higher. marriage" on the Chinese mainland, the party of property charges in Mingo County. Proponents, led by the committee chairman, said. • Horn's sentence stems from the setting of a fire Rep. Walter B. Jones, D-N.C., and by Rep. Robert "Taiwan compatriots are warmly welcome to that destroyed a mobile home in 1986 on Mudlick W.