Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives 3-24-1995 The Parthenon, March 24, 1995 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, March 24, 1995" (1995). The Parthenon. 3484. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/3484 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]. MARSHALL UNIVERSITY Bookstore officials on campus today By Brian Hofmann - ginia University; and Follett College Reporter "We sent out the request to all those companies. It's up to Stores, which runs the University of them to show an interest at this point." Kentucky Bookstore. Officials from as many as seven book­ Other companies are Business Man­ store companies will be at Memorial Raymond F. Welty agement Concepts, College Bookstores Student Center this morning for a pre­ director of auxlllary services of America, Nebraska Book Company bid meeting as part of the university's and Wallaces Bookstores, Welty said. effort to get contract management for Following today's pre-bid meeting, the store, the director of auxiliary ser- "We won't know [how many] until ask questions about the bookstore, and companies will be asked to submit pro­ vices said. · they arrive," he said. "We sent out the will include a tour of the store. posals by April 12 and return to cam­ Raymond F. Welty said seven com­ request to all those companies. It's up "It's pretty much open discussion if pus for oral presentations April 26. panies have been contacted to take over to them to show an interest at this the vendors have any questions," he The hope is to have new manage­ management of the university-run point." said. "We11 also follow it up with a ment in place by July 1 to be ready for store, following a year-long study into Welty and William J. Shondel, direc­ formal written reply.• the fall semester, Welty said. its operations by a committee appointed tor of purchasing and materials man­ The seven companies contacted in­ Shondel said, "'We want the contract by PresidentJ. Wade Gilley. agement, will host the meeting which clude Stadium Bookstore, a Hunting­ to start July 1, and the schedule gives Any company interested must at­ starts at 10 a.m. in the student center ton-blll!8(1 business at 1949 5th Av­ us enough time to go through the [state] tend today's pre-bid meeting, Welty alumni lounge. Shondel said the meet­ enue; Barnes and Noble, a company attorney general's office and the uni­ said. ing will allow company officials time to which runs six bookstores at West Vir- versity system board of trustees." Classified SCORES competition Under cover today and Saturday staff raises introduce them to the various on the way disciplines ofhigher education as well as the campus." By Robby Mossman Scores of high school stu­ The students attend various Reporter dents will cover Marshall's academic events and compete campus this afternoon to at­ for trophies and medals, Brooks A pay raise is on its way to tend an academic festival. said. classified staff members at About 3,000 students repre­ "There are 118 different con­ Marshall, according to Classi­ senting 72 schools from Ken­ tests, seminars, or workshops fied Staff Council President tucky, North Carolina, Ohio being presented in every disci­ Jonathan Brown. and West Virginia are ex­ pline on campus other than the "Higher Education Bill 547 , pected to attend the 17th an­ School of Management," I think, was the one of the best nual Search Committee On Brooks said. higher ed_ucation bills that has Recognizing Excellent Stu­ There are 420 medals and 15 come out of Charleston in a dents(SCORES) academic fes­ trophies that will be presented long time," he said. "We do tival today and Saturday at to winners during an awards know that there is money for a Marshall. ceremony Saturday, she said. pay raise, but we don't know "We invite students to cam­ •1 think it's important to rec­ how that money will be allo­ pus and recognize their aca­ ognize the students for their cated." demic skills and achievements academic ability at the same He said about $1,500 will go during their high school level and same magnitude that to every classified staff em­ years," SCORES Coordinator Sherry R. Brooks said. "We plea..... SCORES, page e ployee. "However, wejustdon'tknow how it's going to be allocated," he said. -We don't know if we will get $1,500 across the board, but it's more likely that it will be allotted to the salary sched­ ule and another portion will be Some responses to yesterday's across the board." phone poll about a possible Mlt's up to the [University reduction In the number of . System] Board ofTrustees and studentaeatsathomebaautl:lal the Board ofDirectors to either games. make a decision on the matter or pass it to the chancellor and Mlf they're [Athletic Department] going to make him decide how the cut the number of seats down, we should money will be allocated." have the activity fees cut." J,R, McMillan/The Parthenon The Board of Trustees and Robert E. Maynard J. Adam Crawford, Huntington senior, uses the cover of the Board ofDirectors will meet Man sophomore a book for shade earlier this week. Crawford was reading April 6 and 7 at Marshall the book on a Memorial Student Center plaza bench. more responses, page 4 "Hopefully we will find out then what their plans are," Brown said. THE PARTHENON 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1995 This & That Latest comeback making waves BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)- George Foreman 85th birthday, lasted only as long as the did it. Michael Jordan's doing It. Add now add morning rush hour, that was enough to elicit the name Joseph W. Charles to the list of hundreds of friendly honks and waves and a comeback kings. proclamation from Mayor Shirley Dean. On Wednesday, The Waving Man came out "He has brought a lot of joy to people," of retirement, pulling on his yeUow "waving Dean said. gloves" and taking up his old post on a busy His efforts began in 1962 with a casual comer to once again signal cheery greetings wave to a neighbor. At first, he said, he got to passing motorists. stares and his wife wanted to know "If I was "Legends can return," said Waving Man fan crazy." He said Parla Fearn, one of many who stopped by But gradually his waves and benediction of he toyed with the Idea of Charles' front yard to commend his efforts to "You keep smiling" caught on. staying on thejob. But he has also found perk up the morning commute. One admirer Three years after decllnlng health forced an unexpected pleasure In retirement - brought him flowers and a card. him to retire, Charles braved a bitter rain to sleeping in. Though the comback, marking Charles' make his comeback Wednesday. "Now I hate to get up," he said. call Jerry O'Connell "the fat kid." American Gir1" ispartofthefour­ May. from Patrick F. Boyriven. She Speed .flaw for O'Connell doesn't mind being day U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, Nelson said he had pulled over cited irreconcilable differences. 'outlaw' McGraw remembered for his role as one which started Wednesday. She's and nodded off after a long night The couple has a 16-year-old of the four boys in the 1986 film, emceeing a showcase of new of poker with friends. daughter. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - "Stand by Me." He just doesn't stand-up comics. · Police found less than an Hartley has appeared in com­ Tim McGraw has been charged want to be remembered for his But she'll spend her free time ounce of marijuana in the car. mercials for coffee and Polaroid with speeding and reckless driv­ roll. at the stores, not the slopes. "If those guys had given me cameras and appeared in the ing after a one-car accident in­ "Sometimes I'll get people who "I'll be hitting a different kind an option that I could have lived sitcom "Goodnight, Beantown" jured him and a passenger. come and stop me on the street of slalom," she said. "It's going with, I might have just paid the with Bill.Bixby during the 1980s. The Tennessee Highway Pa­ or in the subway, 'Excuse me, to be a race to debt," she said. fine and went on, but they didn't," trol said the country singer's car weren't you the fat kid in "Stand The festival will trace comedy's Nelson said. ABC president rounded a curve too fast Satur­ by Me?"'. a taller, thinner evolu.tion, from Buster (Keaton) Instead, Nelson said, authori­ day and skidded off a road in a O'Connell says. "I'll go, 'No, no, to Beavis (and Butthead). There ties wanted to give him six to leave in June rural area south of Nashville. I was the husky kid."' also will be performances by months probation, a fine and take The car flipped and Donald O'Connell now stars in Fox Garry Shandling, Tracey Ullman his driver's license away. .LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Murphy was thrown from the Television's new sclence.:fiction and Albert Brooks. · "All this for something I felt man who helped •bring such vehicle.