Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 7-22-1992 The Guardian, July 22, 1992 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1992). The Guardian, July 22, 1992. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Guardian ISSUE NO. 2. VOL. 28 WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1992 O RECYCLED PAP!!* Oops, watch that turn Students to pay more in the fall By THOMAS J. LUCENTE News Editor Wright State University, for the third time in the last four quarters, has raised tuition. Full-time, undergraduate stu- dents will begin paying $979 per quarter this fall. On July 13, the state Con- trolling Board voted to allow universities to raise their tu- ition as much as 9 percent. The previous cap was 7 percent. Am The cap increase came af- ter Gov. George Voinovich, a graduate of Ohio University and The Ohio State Univer- sity. cut $170.2 million from the budget for higher educa- Paige E. Mulhollan The Falrbom fire department had trouble maneuvering their truck earlier this month, tion. damaging the quad and a trash can. Voinovich, who ran for election as the "education gover- education could be facing an- nor," has now cut the higher educa- other 5 percent in cuts at the end tion budget three times since tak- of the calendar year if no im- INSIDE ing office in January 1991. provement occurs in the W.S.U. archives "Our Board of Trustees gave economy. Rowdy Raider sells the president the authority to raise According to WSU Presi- out. to store previous tuition if the cap was raised," said dentPaigeE. Mulhollan thecuts [Page 3] Harry Battson, director of public to the budget will cause Wright relations for Wright State. State to begin the fiscal year— Heights records Wright State was the only one which started July 1 — with a This summer is a of the 13 state universities to op- defcitof approx imately $2 m il- real Lollapalooza. By Dawn E. Leger was time to send the old records to pose raising the cap. lion. [Page 8] Staff Writer the archives. "We preferred that they did not After last summers budget "1 knew eventually that we were raise the cap," said Mulhollan. cuts, Wright Stale had a budget WSU's Jeff Ashton Officials in Hubcr Heights, going to have to give them up to the He explains, however, that it is deficit of $3.5 million. happy to be drafted. formerly WayneTwp., are handing archives — they go where they the policy of the Board of Trustees That resulted in the elimina- township records over to Wright need to," Kittle said. "You just to have Wright State remain around tion of 100 positions and 40 [Page 12] State archivists this week. hate to part with that stuff." She seventh in the state where tuition is layoffs. Sixty positions were va- Two boxes full of documents added that she has been aware for concerned. cant because of a hiring freeze Wright State — dating from 1860 to 1930 — ten years that the city retained the In March, the school raised tu- installed in anticipation of the pitcher's gold medal include police records, bail bonds, documents. ition the full 7 percent — from cuts. hopes tarnished. agreements, road repair statements Huber Heights' new Police S898 to S961. Mulhollan believes, how- [Page 12] and receipts, elections for justice Chief Mike D'Amico, who recently The S315.7 million in budget ever, that no layoffs or further of the peace (all 169 votes), and saw the public papers, commented, cuts announced by Voinovich are tuition hikes will be necessary. ledger books from county meetings. "Having been here six months, I part of an attempt to alleviate a He said that most of the deficit Adm inistrative offices in Huber didn't know there were records projected $520 million dollar defi- could be absorbed through freez- Opinion • 4 Heights, which incorporated in dating that far back." D' Amico was cit. ing the purchase of new equip- Spotlight • 7 1981, moved into its new city hall impressed especially by the gilt- Action on the remaining part of ment and hiring. Sports • 11 building near the new police edged ledger books that are neatly the projected deficit is being de- Mulhollan said that he ex- Classifieds • 14 headquarters on Taylorsv; .eRoad covered with inked script. ferred in hopes that the economy pects the university to begin fall Comici • 15 July 14. Because of the relocation, WSU is the Ohio Historical will improve over the next few quarter with more faculty than Norita Kittle, the city's former Society's regional depository of months. last year, despite the budget assistant manager, decided that it local government record';. According to Mulhollan. higher troubles. I 2 The Guardian Wednesday. July 22,1992 News Professor becomes ambassador from Mauritania When Dr. M. Fall Ainina took a industries and agricultural equip- Ainina's move from academic vocal or more involved." leave of absence from Wright State ment I would like to start a new to diplomatic circles siarted in July After receiving a degree from University, it was not to do re- economic relationship between our 1991 when he became an advisor the business school of the Univer- search or to pursue advanced stud- two countries and attract more to President Maouya Taya of sity of Tunisia, Ainina went to ies. American business. Mauritania. He arrived at the em- Ball State University for an MB A. Ainina, an associate professor 1 hope Ohio businesses will be bassy in Washington in March and According to Daniel Kaufman, of finance, was named ambassador interested in doing business in on April 2, presented his letters of Ph.D., chair of the Department of to the United States from Mauritania." credence to PresidentGeorge Bush. Finance, Insurance and Real Es- Mauritania. Ainina also wants to increase Ainina, whose official title is tate in Wright State's College of Mauritania, which has a popu- tourism in Mauritania, which has Ambassador Extraordinary and Business and Administration, lation of 2 million, is on the north- the longest beach in Africa. In ad- Plenipotentiary of Mauritania to Ainina then went to Arizona State west coast of Africa, bordered by dition, he plans to establish student the United States, has a long ac- University to teach French. But Morocco, Senegal and Mali. It re- and cultural exchange programs quaintance with Taya and several he continued to be interested in cently changed from a military and hopes a student exchange with of the ministers of his native coun- business, and enrolled in a Ph.D. government to a multi-party de- Wright State will be possible. try. "I went to school with some of program there. mocracy. In addition to his official role, them, and we share the same views Ainina came to Wright State The first presidential election, Ainina says he thinks of himself as on politics," he says. in 1986 and has been a popular Ainina says, took place last Janu- M. Fall Ainina an ambassador from Wright State. While Ainina hadn't planned a professor, according to Kaufman ary, and press freedom was insti- "I consider myself a part of the political career, he doesn't seem tuted in July. conditions in Mauritania by attract- Wright State family," he says. surprised at the turn his life has "I always imagined myself As ambassador to the United ing business investments. "We have "When President Bush asked me taken. "In a poor country, every- teaching, and this is very differ- States, Ainina's goals are to im- some oil companies looking for what I had done before, I told him body is intopoliticsbccause they're ent," Ainina says of the ambassa- prove relations between the two oil," he says, "but we need more I was on the faculty of Wright State not happy with what has been dorship. He hopes to return to countriesand to improveeconomic business, especially fishing, light University." done," he says. "Some are more Wright State in the future. Archaeology student named WSU Presidential Scholar Carrie Matthews of Hubcr graduate school in England and training program in the fall. Heights always has done well. "I pursue a career in archaeology. Matthews doesn't take all the just kept pushing myself because Matthews realizes her career credit for her success and high I saw how rewarding it was to choice is unusual and not under- "You learn from the past. I goals. achieve," Matthews said. stood by many people. Her family motivates her with She will have a chance to con- "The public is becoming more find connections between the past encouragement and support, tinue proving herself as the 1992- and more aware of the field of though she insists she works hard 93 Wright State University Presi- archaeology, but it is an imperfect and the present really interesting." mostly for herself. dential Scholar, the most presti- awareness," she said. "Many people "If other people see that I do gious honor given to continuing do not really understand or know — Carrie Matthews well, it's good, but I do it for my- undergraduates. exactly what archaeology is all self," she said. Matthews is the first African- about or why anyone would con- The WSU BolingaCultural Arts American student to receive the sider making a career in archaeol- Center also awarded Matthews a award at Wright Stale.