Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 10-7-1974 The Guardian, October 7, 1974 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 (1974). The Guardian, October 7, 1974. : 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]. ·octobe r 7, 1974 Vol 11, Issue 9 Wrig ht State llniversitg Gilligan admits to reservations on drug bill by MT Willis the legislative mills of both e xpanded Ohio I nstr uctional houses. Governor John J Gilligan Grant pr ogram if r eturned t o Among other provisions, HB admitted last Thursday that he office in the November election. 1090 would make drug abuse Gilligan also promised--again, if has reservations about House bill felonies subject to conspiracy 1090, which would have dras­ re-elected--to support full fund­ law; would require maximum tically revised Ohio's drug abuse ing for t he Wright State Medical prison sentences without the School. In addition to t he $6 laws, but he wouldn't say he possibility of probation, parole, · million already allocated for would veto the bill if it reached or shock therapy for convicted construction, this would involve ,his desk next year. drug pushers; and would label as an additional $2 million for pusher any person arrested with construction and $1.8 million for fixed quantities of various drugs, operating expenses during th_e whether or not an overt act of next biennium. sale was made. The Governor explained that When asked for his opinion of medical schools in Ohio must be the Ohio Board of Regents' developed to improve the budget proposal for the next distribution of doctors within the biennium, Gilligan said t hat he state. He praised med school would commit himself to only 60 dean John Beljan and WSU percent. He plans to have more P resid ent Robert Kegerreis ·specific recommendations ready because "such a program is well by mid-December. on its way to becoming reality" The chances of a future r educ­ at WSU. tion in tuition at state universi­ Other health care proposals the ties are slim, the Governor Governor made include pre-natal stated in response to another care for every mother in Ohio, question. He voiced support of full immunization for children, the Board of Regents' proposal and adult health care clinics to for a freeze on tuition and fees, provide screening and referral and he promised to propose an services. A blast of trumpets begins dedication byBobZeid avante-gar de concepts and emerge from the tired 'playpen.' The pomp and festivities of the O'Doherty said the Creative Creative Arts Center dedication Arts Center demonstrated two began with the blast· of some · main points of reestablishing art Wright State trumpeteers and with the public decentralization Bleak future confronts WWSU fizzled with the last of the of art, and reestablishment of champagne (domestic, of course). ties between the artist and the . by Diana Brown anot her 10 watt station, 88.3 FM, funds to WWSU for the secure­ The dedication ceremonies comment. He said the idea of de­ is currently available. If these ment of 88.3, and after the attracted some 300 persons to . centralizing art from New York WWSU, the five year old rumors are true, WWSU would exchange with Northridge, for the chilly, open-air gathering. was basically sound. "There's Wright State radio station, has like t h e a d ministration t o the expansion of 88.1? The guest list included numerous good art all over and not just in been "defunked," said Joe Flana­ con~ i d er purchasing the fre­ Flanagan said t he station would administrators and some visiting New York, Chicago, or Los gan, WWSU president . quency. need about $15,000 to go to 50 dignitaries. (President Kegerreis Angeles. .I've seen good art in In the past t hree years, WWSU Though it does not have the watts. reis and Robert Oelman, Board of places where you couldn't get a put over $20,000 into records and conversion potential of 88.1, they The administ ration has denied Trustees chairer, were unable to good hamburger." a variety of ster eo and recording may be able to negotiate an past requests for that amount of attend.) Mike Hall, the creator of the equipment in preparation for exchange with Northridge since money. Brian O'Doherty, an art critic sculpture, El Tiburon (the obtaining a radio frequency. Nort hridge wanted only 10 watts Flanagan said WWSU had a and advisor to the National Shark), stressed its simplistic Which has been requested to work with, said Flanagan. chance to get the equipment Endowment for the Arts, spoke representation and the complica­ several times over the past three Wright State would then be from Antioch college's station, jestingly of the .ostracism artists tions of how it interacts with the Years. Much to their misfortune, able to expand t he 88.1 to WYSO, .for $25,000, but the uni­ have suffered from society, afternoon sun, the buildings the chances of getting a greater wat tage, funds allowing. versity turned that down as well. possibly because their avante­ around it, and how it will with frequency in the near future are But F lanagan said a problem Flanagan said their chances of guarde style . provided .too snow drifts. The 'environmental ­ slight. st ill remains: would the admin­ getting equipment t hat cheap futuristic or alienated. He said it piece', as Hall put it,' statistically The reason for t his, said F lana­ istration be willing to allocate the now are bad. was time for artists to abandon [continued on page 2] gan, is that the Wright State ad­ ministration "wouldn't come up with the money needed" to secure the frequency while it was Center experiences problems with thefts available. The frequency WWSU had been by Jim Pritchard Two paintings, two $95 lamps, tion, Dixon decided to allow it to was though to have been done by considering wa ~ 88.1 FM, a 10 and t wo rugs wort h $490 are a remain, as was, till after spring someone who knew where to find Watt station with t he potential, There "needs to be some t hink­ few of the things which have dis­ quarter. The total cost, which the money because it was the When converted, of 50,000 watts. ing done about priority of securi­ appeared from the Upper Hearth either directly or indirectly was only thing disturbed in the'entire Ju~t recently, this frequency was ty" s.aid Elizabeth Dixon, · Direc­ Lounge over the last two years. absorbed by the students, for the office. claimed by Northridge high tor of the University Center. Her Other articles of value which are repair of the restroom three The biggest theft has been al­ school. statement was in response to missing list as: 112 dozen linen times was $1200. bums. Somewhere between the When asked if there was a questions about recent thefts and sets, $61; coffee table, $200; WWSU, the university radio local post offic.e, _the university c~ance of WWSU gaining posses­ vandalism and the lack of campus lamp, $95; and even a speaker, station, 'ha also been ripped-off mailroom, and the station, al­ sion of 88.1, Flanagan said, "the security in the University Center worth $130 from the organ in the over the last 5 years with a total bums, are being stolen, said J oe ~nly way we could possibly get it area. cafeteria. loss set at over $3000. Flanagan, President General ack would be by court action, Over the last t wo years, the The biggest. pain that the Over the summer the station Manager of WWSU. Flanagan Which would be both costly and Center has lost over $2600 from students have sustained was the was broken. into at least three said that he had asked the mail­ ~rnbarr as sing to the university. theft and malicious destruction. destruction of the Rathskellars' times in which $100-$120 in cash rooqi to keep the mail there and nee a frequency is gone it's Thefts have ranged from the mens restroom. Three times last was taken. $42 was taken from the station would send someone gone. There is nothing you can do small ceiling speakers in the year the restroom was comp~ete­ the pop machine in two separate from th~ staff to pick it up and ~et it back but sue." Center to $60 worth of stamps ly destroyed by some persons un­ thefts w bile the other $60-$80 help eliminate t he thefts from· - , • , , • was sto~ en from an office des~. It "[continued on page 2] ". here have been rumof·S t pat from ,a, \11.fl~~\n.,e r , , 1 1 1 ~ ~ known. After the second destruc-· 2 Guardian October 7, 1974 A blast of trumpets museum. Medusa was another exhibit {Continued from page 1] the Princeton Art Inside the Arts center, other frequently commented about. .its incorporates eight tons of steel art projects adorned the walls deep woven texture of hair-like with 44 tons of cement to hold it and floor, mostly of a stuffed or tenacles gave a reasonable in place. "I don't know," said one woven texture.