Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives 2-8-1995 The Parthenon, February 8, 1995 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, February 8, 1995" (1995). The Parthenon. 3352. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3352 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]. Feb. a, 1995 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY Cloudy, 50 percent chance of snow High upper 20s Page edited by L8q1 A.. S• lbe, 696-6696 • EMPLOYaE CONCERNS Bookstore may be private •by fall By Brian Hofmann people to say how they would run things.. What we ment private, or making the whole operation private. Reporter want them to do is say, 'Ifwe ran your boobtore, this ,Denman said Gilley chose to make the whole is how we would do it.'" operation private. This upset some bookstore The Marshall University Bookstore may be in Denman said the committee is moving slowly to get employees, who said they don't want to see a private private hands as soon as the fall semester, Dr. the necessary items in the contract while attempting company come in. William Denman, the chairman of the committee to get private ownership as soon as possible. Shannon Harshbarger, supervisor ofthe bookstore, looking into bookstore operations said Monday. Controller Ted W. Massey, another committee said he would have preferred the committee follow Denman, chairman of the Department of member, said the group wants to make sure employ­ what the NACS group recommended, which was Communication Studies, said the committee wants ees can stay with the store. making changes in the current management. private management by the middle of August, but "A major concern for the committee was the em­ "They're bookstore people. They made what I said it may not be a realistic goal. ployees," he said. "I don't blame them [for being thought were the proper things to be made," The hope is beginning with the fall term the concerned]. It's a change, and when you're talking Harshbarger said. bookstore is run by a private company." about your job, it's pretty substantial." Denman said he understands employee concerns, Denman, a founding member of the committee Committee members took a year-long look at the and that they may either remain as university em­ formed by President J. Wade Gilley in December bookstore,includinghavingagroupfromtheNational ployees and retain their state benefits or may work 1993 and chairman since spring 1994, said the group Association of College Stores examine its operations. directly for the private company. · may be slightly behind schedule reaching its fall ' The committee submitted a five-page report to Gilley "They don't want to give up state benefits," he said. goal. in December 1994 which recommended changes in "Their concerns have been what's going to happen to "We're looking for bidders," he said. "You're asking the bookstore's management, making the manage- them, and I think that's real understandable." • STUDENT OPINIONS Gambling faces stacked deck The hub of thought Reviews mixed on current, future states of casinos By Sean McDowell disapproves of the concept of Reporter gambling in Huntington. The "In places where we have Rev. Robert Bondurant, cam­ One had better bet-Marshall riverboat gambling, it hasn't pus Presbyterian minister, sees students have their opinions proven to be an economic no jackpot in the idea. about gambling in Huntington. benefit to the area," "What does gambling offer Huntington Mayor Jean our community?" Bondurant Dean recently gave her thumbs Erin Salmons, said. "Mostly, I can see low­ up to riverboat gambling but Huntington sophomore income jobs. I don't know much Marshall students give a mixed about gambling, but I don't review toward the floating ca­ suppose many people are going sinos. to have long-term jobs that William E. Smith, Lewisburg seen the financial payoff in make them feel particularly sophomore, said new casinos riverboat casinos in other com­ good about themselves." could only enhance West munities. Salmons agreed with Virginia's commerce. "In places where we have Bondurant. She cited her r.eli~ "I think it's good because it riverboat gambling, it hasn't gious faith as her reason for brings more jobs into the state," proven to be an economic be~­ betting against the potential Smith said. "It brings more efit to the area," Salmons said. gambling parlors. money and more income." Many of the students inter­ "I'm morally against it," GailA. Henry, Milton senior, viewed said they would prob­ Salmons said. "I believe Jesus was undecided on the isstle. ablyvisit the casinos, and some was against it in the Bible. I "Some aspects of it will be expressed an interest in plac- · don't condemn people who good because it will bring jobs ingwagers. gamble, but I believe it's wrong to the state," Henry said. "They Jenny Adkins, Huntington_ for me." don't know when to stop or how freshman, gave a reminder of Adkins had different reli­ to control it (gambling)." another area gambling estab­ gious convictions. "I'm Catho­ Jim McOennoll/The Pa~henon Most of the students inter­ lishment. lic," Adkins said. "I don't see Amy Lynch, Moundsville freshman, studies one of the viewed said they had a prob­ "Yeah, I'd go check it out," anything wrong with it." works on display at the ElghthJuried Student Show In the lem with having gambling so Adkins said. "I go to greyhound Bondurant also said that the Blrke Art Gallery. Student art will be displayed unltl Feb. close to home. races and this is about the same faith in riverboat gambling to 23. Admission to the gallery Is free. Erin M. Salmons, Hunting­ thing." . rescue a revenue is a "blind­ ton sophomore, said she hasn't One campus religious leader man's bluff." • HENDERSON CENTIIR 'Messy students' bench weight room hours person to be in there." I posted a sign that said if students Thomas Lovins, director of By J.R. McMIiian recreational sports, said students in Reporter Bayless said he went next door.to ask couldn't keep the place clean, the weight Scott L. Webster, Salem, Mass., room would be closed." the weight room after hours may have been responsible. Michael S. Bayless, Huntington graduate student and strength condi­ He said that when he opened the tioning coach for the men's basketball room last Wednesday morning, it was a "Anywhere from one tol00 students senior, said he went to the Henderson have access to that room after it is Center weight room last Wednesday team. mess. "It was ridiculous; there were "I was told that the guy working out weights everywhere." closed," he said. for a workout, butfound only anexercise Dr. C. Robert Barnett, chairman of in futility. was a trainer and he could be in there. Webster said it may have been I got the impression that it was just tqe students in from 4-7 p.m. last Tuesday the Division of Health, Physical "When I got there, there was a sign Education and Recreation .said the on the door that said that the weight students who were being punished," who left the room that way. Bayless said. "He.said he had to clean "I didn't see it," he said. "T-he room weight room policy needed to be re­ room was closed on Feb. 1 because evaluated. students hadn't been cleaning up after up the room and that's why it was was fine at 4 p.m. I wasn't in there at 7 closed. He was pretty obnoxious about p.m. when it closed," Webster said. "There are serious security problems themselves," Bayless said. "The door in this building," Barnett said. "We are was closed, but someone was working it," Bayless said. "I was furious. "There is a work-study student in Webster said, "I spent two hours the there, but it's not his job to baby sit or an urban campus. We probably have40 out, so I went to ask someone why it entrance doors." was closed and why it was okayfor that Saturday before cleaning up the room. clean up after these guys," he said. THE PARTHENON 2 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8,199.5 This & That Fungus tea cures what ails NEW YORK (AP) - It could be a cure­ The federal Food and Drug all or proof of P.T. Barnum's claim that Administration is studying the a sucker is born every minute. Either Kombucha. It has received no reports way, a gelatinous blob called the of "significant adverse reactions" to Kombucha mushroom has become the tea, said Samuel Page, director the health fad of the moment. of the FDA's Division of Natural · According to believers, drinking tea in Products. whichthe fungus has stewed, can cure There is no way of knowing how everything from cataracts to gray hair. It many people are drinking sounds too good to be true - and scientists Kombucha tea. But after a flurry of say it probably is. publicity, its popularity seems to be, "Whenever in my 40 years experience, you see well, mushrooming. something flash across the country this fast According to the Handbook of Indigenous without any scientific evidence, let the buyer beware," Fermented Foods, edited by Cornell University microbi­ said Norman Farnsworth, a professor of pharmacognosy ologist Keith Steinkraus, the Kombucha's other names · - the study of drugs derived from plants and animals - include Japanese or Indonesian tea fungus, teeschwamm, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.