Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Fall 10-31-1990 The Parthenon, October 31, 1990 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, October 31, 1990" (1990). The Parthenon. 2850. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/2850 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]. Vol. 91, No. 31 . Huntington, W.Va. Thur~rloy, Oct. 31 , 1990 Seniors need extra day to register, Eddins says Registrar to change scheduling process By Cristy E. Swanson propriate registering times. fall registration, but will be given an extra Eddina said other than the problems Reporter •1 screwed up, not the students," Eddins day for advanced spring registration. experienced by seniol"9, registration seems wd. -We forgot in setting up time periods By making this change, Eddins snid sen­ to be proceeding "very well." Registrar Robert Eddins said he owes the that more seniors register during the spring iors will not likely experience the problems "'The kids I saw yesterday were very well S<'nior class an apology nfur the first day of than in the fall. Therefore, we only set up oflong lines in the future. prepared," Eddins snid. "I didn't hove to ndvnnced registration. one day to register.• "Y e9terdny we experienced very long send e single student oway." Eddins srud seniors experienced •unnec• Eddins said in the future, seniors will lines,"Eddin08eid. •t felt very bad about it, essnry long lines• because he set up inap- continue to have a single day for advanced oo I'm making e change." Sea REGISTRA R, Page 5 Residents make Music department Halloween fun sponsors concert for local children to aid scholarships By Megan Lockhart 'Nightmare on Hal Greer' the first Reporter production of its kind at Marshall Laidley Jlnll residents had few problems finding volun­ lffrs to make Halloween more eajoyable for oome local By Michelle Polakovs children who usually do not have the opportunity to Reporter celebrate it. John R. Goodwin, president of Laidley Hall Resident Marshall'• music department is sponsoring "Nightmnre Association and Moundsville oophomore, said children on Hal Greer," at 10 p.m. Wednesday in Smith Recital from the City Mission will be gujded through the hall• of Holl. the residence hall by residents clad in costumes. Hallow­ Approximately 15 faculty members, primarily of the een night, the children will be taken to about 30 rooms to mu•ic deportment, will perform. -We11 be playing ins tru­ trick-0r-treat for candy provided by Laidley's Resident ments we ,hn't normally ploy," Dr. Elizabeth R. Smith, llnll Association. nssistnnt professor of music, said. Goodwin scheduled a meeting for Tuesday efurnoon to Vocol pieces, on undertaker commercial and an Elvis rercuit residents to participate, but by Tuesday morning impcroonator also arc among the entertainment. he already had half of the residents needed. Proceeds from the show will go toward the Music "People hnve been coming up to me and saying they Scholarship fund. want to do this because it's such a great idea," Goodwin Genernl admission is $2 or 50 cents for those in costume. snid. Dr. Smith will be performing a duet with Merrie L. "I suggested that Laidley Hall should get the le88 Daisy Randolph, as.slstant traffic clerk, Is one of uveral WPBY employeH to ahow their Hallow­ Sea HAL GREER, Page 5 See HALLOWEEN, Page 5 HO aplrlt. Laidley Hall's ghost goes 'bump in the night' By Maureen Mack and aimed for her throat. She sliced her of windows in locked rooms opening and tale to tell. Reporter jugular and blood spurted everywhere u cloaing. "I have a feeling there's e dend body her life quickly drained away. "Electrical appliances up there go crazy over my r oom." e:he so.id. •And one of On e gloomy, overcoat winter night, And, according to current Laidley resi­ oometimea," he said. "VCR'• tum on end these days, 111 feel blood dripping down, many decades ago, Lnidley residence dents, "Ruthie" hu never lef\ the attic. off, TV channels change bythemselves, and and a body will fall down on me. The door hall headmistress "Ruthie" stnrted First floor resident adviser Matt Lyons fans run ell of e sudden." will lock, and there will be ghost• oil over feeling peculiar. An utge to go to the snya he 6rst heard the tale of "Ruthie" Lyons aaid he aloo thought he heard my room and I won't be able to get out!" attic overcame her. when he moved into Laidley three year• oomeone whispering his name once in the Jon Edwards, Frurview Park, Ohio, ago. middle of the night. sophomore, lives on the 6rst floor of See related atorlea, Page 8 •1 don't know ifthe iu.icidal headmiatTesa Other residents say weird things aome­ Leidley. He complain• of loud noiaes in atory ia true," Lyona, Parkersburg aenior, time9 happen in Laidley. the middle of the night. As she stumbled up the stairs, en said. "But strange things happen on the Mariam Buha r, Burke, Va., freshman, • Around 2:30 in the morning," he snid. hysterical laughter gripped her; ahriek­ oouth wing of the third floor all the time.• Ii ves on the third floor oouth. She had ing, she gtasped a long butcher knif~ Lyon• said the most common reports are never heard of the ghoat, but had II acary See GHOST, Page 5 2 The Parthenon Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1990 Beyond MU From Auociatod Prass and Co/Iago lnlortn8tion Norwo,k rcporrs Stud~nt soldiers are being all they can be By Le sle y Ann Mitchen return. mc,nth - m011t 1upplementing full-time military when Collage Information Network Biermonn, who could be sent to the Persian Gulf, said it regular troops ere shipped to the Middle En.st. would take her on utm year to eorn her degree, but oil of College students - who constitute e smoll pnrt of the All.er only a few dny1 of dMSe9 this fall ot Western her costs this semester were re fonded. She mid she should notion'• military reserves - could be sent t,i different Wisconsin Technical College in LR Cr011se, Wi1., freshmon be homo In less than six months. militnry base• in the United Stntes or to the Persion Gulf Lourie Biermnnn, 19, pocked her bogs, withdrew from "If I'm gone for six months I CM plnn on starting agoin during Operation Desert Shield. school nnd prepared for nctive duty in the Army in the next August," she said. "But I got e I 00 percent refund. To these students, who often nre gi ven only n few dnys nn­ Persinn Gulf. There ere otudento here who got the same den\." tice before they ore deployed, there is o lot ot stake. Biennenn, from Independence, Wis., is one ofhundreda Sylvia llaurane, coordinator ofMilitary Affairs at Wayne Mnny will miss o semester or yeor of closses, lose their of students in the U.S. Army National Guard or reserves State University, said some students ere given only 72 part-time campus jobs end many will hove to postpone whose units are being called up for aervice. hours notice before they mu1t report to t.-aining camps - greduotion. Even though there is no national policy, most four-yeor but in most cases, school coots ore rerunded. "They have no control over being cnlled to active duty," colleges t1nd universitie1 will refund tuition and housing Each university's policy is different, said BennettSporks llnurane m id. "They're just gi ven orders. Employers hnve costs to reserve students who nre called to active duty and of the Reserves Officers' Association. to keep jobs for people thnt are colled to duty, so we do the m011t make it easy for them to re-register when they U.S. officials plan to activnte thousands ofreservists this same for student.a.• McGinnis sentencing postponed High school hostages freed Baker says U.S. may attack The sentencing olconvicted murderer Lyle B. McGinn.i1 An 8-hour h08tage stsndofT at Charlestown (Ind.) H igh Secretary of State James Baker worned lroq Monday Jr. was p011tponed Tuesday after a conference among School ended withoutir\jury Monday when the 17-year-<ild that ifitcontinues to occupy Kuwait, the U.S. may attack prosecuwrs and µcGinnis' lawyers, a court official said. gunman, a senior suspended twice for pronks, surren­ "Snddnm Hussein must realize there is a limit to the "Everything wu reset for Friday," said Jean Cut.le, a dered. Police said Eli Dean, armed with a htlndgun, took intemaUonaJ community's potience," Baker said in a talk secretary to Cabell County CircuitJudge Alfred Ferguson. an English teacher and 20 student.a hoetage. to theWorld Affairs Council in Los Angeles. McGinnis wasconvict.edin August of strangling his wife Kathy last November. Potty crasher to stand trial Six killed In Persian Gulf Teachers get public support Denise Wells stands trial Thursday in Houaton for using Six American sailor• were killed Tuesdoy ond four 0th­ a men's restroom a.nd could be fined $200. era ir\jured as a pipe ruptured in the boiler room of the Weal Virgininns still stand strongly behind public school Attending a George Streit concert, Wells gave up getting USS lwo J ima. tenchers, supporting higher taxe• for higher salories and into the women'• restroom after three tries because the Cmdr. Mark NeuhArt, s pokesman for the Naval Forces opposing cutbocks in schoolhouse staffing, a«ording to line wn.s too long.