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Three bids in for bookstore Local Stadium Bookstore not one of final companies to be considered By Brian Hofmann Reporter
Three companies have submitt.ed bids to take over operation of the Marshall Univer.: sity Bookstore, officials said Thursday.
Barnes and Noble, Follett College Stores and Wallace's Bookstores all sent in proposals, said William J. Sbondel, dir.ector of purchasing and materials management. The proposals were opened April 12.
Raymond F. Welty,_director of auxiliary services whose responsibilities include overseeing the university-nm store, said he's pleased by the·number of proposals.
•[The} three proposals create a competitive market that's good for the university and the students," he said.
The bids will be reviewed by members of the Bookstore Proposal Review Committee before company officials give oral presentations April 26, Shondel said.
evaluate proposals in six areas: completeness of proposal, personnel plan, organizational commitment, operations plan, financial commitment and oral presentations.
Shondel said the committee will consider the financial commitment last.
"The committee will evaluate the first four sections of the criteria, and that does not in.:· elude the financial portion because we don't want anyone biasedbythefinancialportion," be said.
The financial commitment, he said, will be considered before oral presentations are given.
Welty said, "We will by that time have had some· time to look at their proposals and have some questions. It [the oral presentations] gives you an opportunity to make all the points crystal clear."
Once awarded, the contract to take over the Memorial Student Center store is set to go in effect July 1, Welty said.
Four companies attended a pre-bid meeting March 24 before submitt.ing bids. Of the four, only Stadium Bookstore, a Huntington-based business, did not send one in.
Barnes and Noble runs six bookstores at West Virginia University, Follett ·College Storesmanagesthe University of Kentucky Bookstore and Wallace's has operations at the University of Texas and Virginia Military Institute.
Soggy students scurry across the rainsoaked bricks between Old Main and Smith Hall Monday morning during a rainstorm. The students in the back. unfortunately.
were not as well-prepared for the inclement weather. The National Weather Service said a 60 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms is forecasted today.
The review committee will
Student Activities officials: Greeks are not elitist groups By J.R. McMIiian Reporter
Among all student organizations at Marshall, Greek groups may do one thing no other groups may - uphold policies of selective membership.
Steve E. Greer, Bridgeport junior, said he was concerned about such policies during a Student Government Association meeting open forum.
"Greek organizations are elitist in nature," Greer said. "Fraternities reserve the right to deny membership to anyone they don't want. The fact that everyone's fees go toward those organizations is wrong.
"Every student organization is entitled to apply for up to $400 from student activities. The Student Activi-
ties Office is funded by student fees," offices and provide programs." Greer said. "However,studentfeesalso "Some people will argue that Greek fund the Greek Affairs Office. It seems organizations do not truly have open tometbatGreekorganizationsreceive membership. Some will say they are funding from student fees twice." elitists," McCormick said. "However,
Greer said he spoke with Heidi A every student does . have the opportuMcCormick, coordinator of student ac- nity to seek membership."· tivities, about Greek Affairs funding. Anessa Hamilton, student program · McCormick said student fees at the advisor for Greek Affairs, said accusa
discretionofthe SGAare divided among tions of"elitist admission policies" are student organizations that apply for- ·"'just stereotypical." grants and meet several criteria. "Gi:eek organizations are like any
"Student organizations may apply other student organization, except there forupto$400ifthatorganizationraises is a selection process," Hamilton said. 25 percent of the money and the grant "Fraternities and sororities are not for is not to be used for travel expenses," everyone. Somepeoplejustdon'tclique. she said. -rheStudentActivities,Greek It was like that before I got here." Affairs, and Legal Aid Offices are all Stephen W. Hensley, associate dean under the same budget heading. The of studtmt.affairs, was present at the funding from fees is used to staff the SGA meeting when Greer made his
comments. "In reality; I thought Greer had a good point. I think it's something that SGA needs to examine carefully," he said.
Greer said fraternities and sororities, not each student, should pay to run Greek Affairs. "The Greek system needs to exist and the .Greek Affairs Office needs to exist, but if an organization can say that you can't join, then that stud-ent's money shouldn't go to fund that group," he said. "Ifit were my problem to solve, I'd tack on extra dues to fraternities and sororities to cover the cost of running the office."
Hensley said the university is-OOtter off regulating[Greek organizations] and promoting them in a positive manner."
-Oreek organizations bring a lot of positive influence to Marshall," he said.
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Loud praying gets women expelled
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. by loudly chanting the rosary. recognizance. The women were to
appear in court Tuesday to explain why they violated the
(AP) - Two women banned The women were banned from two churches for from the ,Holy Cross Church praying too loudly wor- near thlir home in shiped quietly at Easter . Youngwood, and the nearby court order. ·
services at a third church. Blessed Sacrament Cathedral The two prayed Saturday in Gr~nsburg.
night and Sunday morning Sheriff's deputies arrested at the Visitation Roman the p~riday when they tried Catholic Church in Moun~ enfer Blessed Sacrament. A Pleasant, about 20 miles judge released · them on southeast of Pittsburgh. their own _. !.'There were no problems.
--- .- They were very gracious," said the Rev. Gregory Premoshls, church pastor.
A judge barred Joan Sudwoj, 43, and Cynthia Balconi, 60, from two churches after complaints they repeatedly disrupted Masses, hymns, confes~ . sions and children's classes
Streisand considers buying Malibu home
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -Barbra Streisand could be making two more encores -one as an actress and the other as a homeowner in this elite coastal enclave.
Streisand has paid $2 million for a modest three-bedroom house on an acre of bluff with a panoramic view, the Los _ Angeles Times reported Sunday.
Streisand, 53, also is considering a sequel to her 1973 film with Robed Redford, "The Way We Were," the Times said.
Streisand conquered stage fright last year to give her first concert tour in 30 years. She also has two other homes in Los Angeles, but no foothold in Malibu since she donated her 20-acre estate - said to be worth $15 million - to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in 1993. ·
Lucci won't get shot at movie role
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) -Susan Lucci can look at the . bright side: At least she won't have to worry about not getting .an Oscar.
The soap opera star says she pleaded with Steven
• Spielberg to let her play · Francesca in ''The Bridges of Madison County," but Meryl Streep won the role.
"I wrote a letter, and I sent off a picture to Steven Spielberg," Lucci, 45, says in TV Guide's April 22 issue. "I didn't hear any response."
Lucci says she got over her disappointment and is looking forward to her induction in the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in June. For 25 years now, she's played Erica Kane on ABCTV's "All My Children."
She also collected her 15th Daytime Emmy nomination this year - and doesn't appreciate those who poke fun at her for never winning.
"I don't know how it got twisted around and made into some sort of a joke," Lucci says. "Because it's an honor, not a joke."
Critic Blackwell ent~rtalns Jurors~
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
They can't pop out for any
retail therapy, so fashion came
to them. Notorious critic Mr. Blackwell
entertained the sequestered O.J. Simpso·n jury - telling jokes, talking about his life -
and dispensing hugs. "It was the most sensitive,
emotional experience I think I
ever had," said.Richard Blackwell, known for his annual worst-dressed list.
Blackwell said the jurors -sequestered now for months - seem lonely.
''They have lost their identity and their emotions because they've been so confined,'' he
said, adding that he hugged some of them during the visit.
Earlier Saturday, a play
called "A Gentleman of Quality'' was performed for
them and on Friday they were
visited by "Tonight Show" host ~ay Leno and his band.
Police mistakenly destroy evidence
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Snoop Doggy Dogg won't beat
a murder rap.just because the -· police accidentally destroyed.
some evidence in the case, the
prosecutor says. ''The only physical evidence
that is significant are the gunshot wounds to the victim,"
said Deputy District Attorney · Ed Nison, who blames a police
computer operator for allowing
the destruction of a bullet, a shell casing and bloody
clothing . The rapper, whose real
name is CaM~ Broadus, pleaded Innocent In the August 1993 drive-by shooting· of
Philip Woldemariam.
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Benefit yields $1,100 for·fund Fund-raiser for scholarship to continue · over next years By Sharon E. Gladwell Reporter
The Department of Sociol-ogy and Anthropology collected $1,100 Thursday at a benefit celebration, said Dr. Kenneth P. Ambrose, professor and chairman of sociology and anthropology.
The department is conducting a fund-raiser over the next few years to set up a memoriaJ/scholarship for students in honor of Dr. Stephen Winn, former professor of sociology who died March in French Guiana. while on sabbatical, he said.
Ambrose said tlie fundraiser is going well and hopefully half of the money will be received this year. He said several people have. agreed to contribute substan-
. tial amounts. Details of the scholarship
have not been worked out, but the scholarship will be awarded to students both at
• the graduate and under- -graduate level, he said.
Before a scholarship can be awarded, the University Foundation requires that $10,000 be raised, Ambrose said. The interest earned from the $10,000 can be used to toward the first scholar- .
''Dr. Winn was mainly concerned urith the sociologi,cal theory and socialstratifu:ation, so the award will probably be gi,ven to students
. who do outstanding work in those areas."
Dr. Kenneth P. Ambrose, chairman of sociology,
anthropology
:ship" "Dr, Winn was mainly
concerned with the sociological theory and social stratification, so the award will probably be-given to students who do outstanding work in · those areas," he said. ·
Other efforts are being made to raise money, said Gary A Jarrett, assistant professor of sociology. Alums will be targeted through a mailing. Also alums who worked closely with Winn will be contacted and a summer fund-raiser is being planned.
The account is an open one. Contributions to the Steve Winn memoriaJ/scholarship can be mailed to Marshall Foundation.
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THE PARTHENON 3 TUESDAY,APRIL 18, 1996 ,.
Char1eston residents cast ,vote
Dole denies· favors for flights Office says it's 'ludicrous' to think rides influenced decisions
CHARLESTON (AP) - Voters in Charleston went to the polls Monday to replace ousted Mayor Kent Strange Hall with a busines~an or a longtime Kanawha County politician.
WASIIlNGTON (AP)-Sen. Bob Dole's office says he did nothing improper in accepting 187 flights since 1993 aboard jets owned by companies with a stake in legislation before Congress, Newsweek reported.
The most frequent sponsor of Dole's private flights was Archer Daniels Midland Co., an agribusiness owned by Dole ally Dwayne Andreas, Newsweek said in its April 24 edition, on newsstands today.
The magazine said Dole has sponsored tax breaks to back the company's development of ethanol.
"It is ludicrous to suggest that Senator Dole's position on any of these issues has been influenced by campaign contributions or entirely legal and fully disclosed rides on corporate planes," D_ole spokesman Nelson Warfield told µie magazine.
ADM ferried Dole on 29
flights, Newsweek said. Dole's political committee
complied with campaign finance law by reimbursing the companytheequivalentoffirstclass airfare.
U.S. Tobacco Inc., which has contributed $40,000 to Dole
. campaigns since 1987, flew Dole aboard its planes 26 times, according to the magazine.
Dole has worked to hold down taxes on smokeless tobacco, Newsweek reported.
Dole, a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president, also flew three times aboard jets owned by Alµeri-can Financial Corp. ,
The company is linked to Chiquita Banana, a company that benefited from Dole's urging the administration to attack the European banana quotas.
But the magazine suggested Dole, of Kansas, seeks such flights more than others.
County Clerk Alma King estimated 55 percent of the 30,300 eligible voters would cast ballots to replace Hall with Republican Ted Armbrecht or Democrat G. Kemp Melton.
City Clerk Jim Stucky said more than 700 absentee ballots issued for the election will .cause delays in counting the vote.
·British ferry sinks, seve11teen injured ·
"Poll . workers can't count the absentees until after the polls close," he said.
The race has been fought out on television, in debates, in the newspapers and on talk.radio.
Armbrecht, 62, in his third term ascouncilmanat-large, defeated Hall in a hard-fought primary in Febmarythatfocusedon city finances.
A Yale graduate, the retiTed chairman of the Stone & Thomas department store chain has touted his business experience and knowledge of the city as assets in the current campaign.
He has criticized Melton, who has served as assessor and sheriff, as being a career politician.
ST. HELIER, Channel Islands (AP) - Three hundred passengers rushed into: life- . boats after a damaged twinhulled hydrofoil began taking on water Monday between Jersey and other Channel Islands. Seventeen people· were re-ported injured. ' . .
All but the captain and crew were evacuated to rescue boats after the French craft suffered damage to one of its hulls in four-foot seas 40 miles west of the Normandy coast and 200 mi;les northwest of Paris. The St.: Malo ferry, listing in moderate seas, was bej.ng towed to port by a French tug.
The source of the damage, which occurred about 10 a.m. a mile off Corbier Point, Jersey, was not known but one witness
· said the boat struck a rock after steering too close to shore.
The ferry, carryingday-trippers to the sister islands of Sark and Guernsey, operates daily between the Channel Islands and the French port of St .. Malo. Jersey, _an English
island, is 200 miles south of the British coast.
"Some of the passengers were· on life rafts and were taken on by other boats and some were lifted off .by helicopters onto boats," said Harry Profitt, who watched the rescue effort from shore.
"All the passenger shipping that was in the area ~e to its assistance. You could see maybe I abou~ 15 boats out there." ·
Cherbourg authorities said 307 people had been aboard the vessel, · most of them French, German and British tourists making a day trip to the island west of France's Cotentin Peninsula.
Today is a national holiday in Britain. .
Jersey police said 17 passengers were injured; six with broken limbs.
"All people are basically accounted for," said Steve Huxley, senior watch officer at Falmouth Coast Guard station, southern England.
from wire reports .
Nations debate nuclear arms UNITED NATIONS (AP)-A generation after striking
thebargainknownastheNuclearNon-ProliferationTreaty, the world's nations are back at the table debating how to control man's deadliest weapons into the 21st century.
At a month-long conference opening Monday, delegates from 176 countries will decide whether to extend the treaty indefinitely and unconditionally, as favored by the United States and other nuclear powers, or for a limited period and with strings attached.
Prosecutors go after evidence LOS ANGELES (AP) - Trouble, trouble, tro~ble. Pros
ecutors in the O.J. Simpson trial hope to dig themselves out of it this week. The judge wants to get to the bottom of it.
Police criminalist Dennis Fung, after a grueling week under barbed defense questioning, returns to the witness stand today for considerably more friendly treatment by the prosecution.
So far, prosecution testimony has been aimed at showing motive aµd opportunity. Now the state must link Simpson
· to the forensic evidence - the bloody glove, a knit cap, blood spots and shoe prints. So far, all remain unconnected to anyone.
Armbrecht has hinted that higher property taxes in the city are at least partially the blame of Melton. Jury cho_sen today for Swick trial Few states help welfare payees
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Melton, 65, unopposed in the Democratic primary, is a graduate of WestVirginia University.
The former three-term sheriff, who has served as assessor since 1991, denied any responsibility for higher taxes forced on the city by state legislators.
Both of the city's daily newspapers have endorsed Armbrecht.
KEYSER (AP)-Jury selection began today in the retrial of a Grant County man accused of killing a Keyser convenience store clerk while a fugitive from a Charleston work-release center.
Craig Swick, 23, of Petersburg is charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 23, 1993, shooting death of 7-Eleven clerk Karen Jeffrey, 33, of Keyser. .
A Mineral County jury last year was unable to reach aver-
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Swick and his cousin, Billy · Joe Hottle, escaped from separate jails in August 1993.
The pair was captured several weeks later after a shootout with police at a Petersburg car dealership.
. Police charged the men with · killing Jeffrey and a Grant County couple in the fall of• 1993 .
WASHINGTON (AP) - Only a handful of states are moving the required number of unemployed welfare parents - mainly fathers - into jobs or training, according tel federal statistics.
The lack of compliance raises questions about whether ~publicans ·would be able to make good on promises to ~ush millions of welfare recipients from dependency to payrolls, in part, by turning the programs over to the states.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, only 10 states met existing federal work participation requirements last year for-two-parent families who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
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our view
Greek policy unfair to some students A The issue: Greeks are the only organization on campus that are funded with student fees, but have selective membership.
"Some people just don't clique.'-' In the words of Anessa Hamiliton, student
program adviser for Greek affairs, Greek organizations are not for everyone.
But, all students pay into student fees, which fund the Greek Affairs Office.
Is this fair? No. Although all students have the
opportunity to try to join a fratemitiy or sorority, not everyone will_Qe_ granted membership.
Or, some students may not want to join a fraternity or a sorority, therefore they should not have to contribute financially to the organizations.
On the surface, fraternities and sororities seem to have an elitist attitude, but Heidi McCormick and Hamilton both claim the organizations are not that way.
But what if you don't "clique" or don't fit the p'resciption of a "sorority girl" or a "fraternity guy"?
Too bad-your student fees still pay for them.
Fraternities and sororities are not negative organizations, but the policy regarding their funding should be changed. If Greeks want to continue to practice selective • membership, then only the members should have to pay for the organizations.
Students who want to be in a sorority or a fraternity should be expected to pay for them.
Greeks are unique because they can hand pick their members, therefore they should not fall under the same category as other organizations on campus.
Non-Greek students should not be expected to pay for something that will not benefit them.
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Today's 'stupid' movies just don't cut it I, like fellow columnist J.R.
McMillan, sometimes find myself over-hearing something that gets my column writing wheels turning. OK, so maybe it is eavesdropping but hey it's not intentional. Anyway, I was walking down the hall the other day when I heard this group of people raving about that new movie -you know the one about the dumb guy. "Well which one?" you may ask. That's just the point there are too many. All of a sudden this country has gotten "Dumb Guy Fever." Dumb and Dumber, -Billy Madison, and Tommy Boy have hit the box offices with success. Why? Because
· people just love dumb guys. I don't get it. How many different ways can you have a dumb guy walk int.o something 'and it still be funny.
Someone heard me lamenting about my feelings on the whole dumb guy phenomenon and stated, "Well what abQ,ut Forrest Gump? That's a dumb guy movie." I thought fd have t.o get oxygen t.o get myself up off the floor. Forrest Gump has a character that may be by some standards dumb, but the writing is intelligent and the movie is about how he lives through the "Boomer" generation, not how he has t.o re~ to grad school to get the famiJ,y business. And hey, Forrest won
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COLUMNIST academy awards inciuding best actor for Tom Hanks. If Chris Farley wins an oscar for his role in Tommy Boy I will personally eat a copy of this column.
I wonder if this current rash of dumb . guys movies reflects on us the movie viewing public. The motion picture industry seems to feel that our tastes in movies have slinked to the level that we can't handle intelligent comedy. Maybe it's just too hard to write the good stuff anymore. Whatever happened to the days when a movie's humor was more then just a guy who was stupid. Movies like Caddyshack and Stripes aren't around anymore.
Now there are those of you who are probably saying "Hey I liked Tommy Boy." That's fine if you did, but there are some people who are loving this new dumb guy rage who have never seen any of the older comedies that require a thought process and have intelligent writing. I challenge you to this: Go rent one of the classics. The best suggestion I could give you is M* A *S*H. Yes it was a movie before it was a TV show and it was a lot funnier.
We must gove~n ourselves To the editor: with news ~f women as victims."
· The journalistic habit of regarding In her letter published in The Par- the value of a virgin as "being beauti
thenon April 12, Dr. Susan Jackson ful, chaste and dead." Of reporting quotes Dr. Deni Elliot as saying that, about women in such a way as not to "the job of the journalist is to tell citi- "lessen their anonymity.• She wrote, zens what we need to know about self- "Even before we learn to read we have governance." become indoctrinated into a victim
That is too narrow a view of the job mentality," and said that rape must be of journalism. The function of journal- made "a speakable crime, not a matter ism is to paint a picture of the world, ofshame."Shewrote, "There can be no how it works and how it changes. Per- private solutions to the problem of haps an art professor believes that in rape ... For to accept a special burden of such a picture the names of Dole, self-protection is to reinforce the conGramm. Clinton, Gingrich and Gore cept that women must live and move loom larger than the names of Arendt, about in fear and can never expect to Eliot, Curie, Graham and O'Keeffe, achieve the personal freedom, inde-but I am not so sure. · pendence and self-assurance of men."
Twenty years ago, Susan Let us govern ourselves accordingly. Brownmiller raged against the journalistic practice of"reportingthe news of -~en - the doers - and spicing it
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There is intelligent writing but if you feel you really have to have a dumb guy for comedy there is one. If a war movie isn't your thing then go get any Monty Python movie. I'd recommend Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a start. Now there are a few dumb characters but intelligent writing, the very thing that today's comedies seem to be lacking.
And I ask you to consider this. Do you really think that.these characters are ~l? Would.you really want to be friends with a dumb guy? Or would you be one of the first in line t.o make fun of him. Maybe that's it, maybe we need to feel superior to another, and these movies give people the chance to "Bully" someone who can take it and not answer back. So why do you really like these movies? Do you need to feel that hey I'm pretty smart after all, or is this comedy all you can handle? I hope you aren't ashamed of your answer.
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Bands to perform at Ritter Park By Kent M. Bamhart Reporter
With a sound described as "rural soul," Blessid Union of Souls is making a name for itself as their first single "I Believe" moves rapidly up the charts.
Today, Blessid Union of Souls and Rasta Rafiki will perform at the Ritter Park Amphitheater as part of Marshall's Springfest activities. Heidi A. McCormick, stu- · dent activities coordinator, said the gates open at 4:30 and the concert begins at 5 p.m.
McCormick said the show is free to students, who must get their tickets by 3 p.m. at the Student Activities office in the Memorial Student Center (2W38) by showing their student ID.
She said students will need their ID and their ticket to be admitted to the concert:
Only 1500 people are allowed in the park, she said, and 1000 tickets had been set aside for Marshall students.
Eliot Sloan, lead singer of Blessid Union of Souls, said
those attending the show should expect "a lot of energy. We all love playing live."
He said the four members of the band, himself, guitarist Jeff Pence, percussionist Eddie Hedges, and keyboardist/associate producer C.P. Roth, have all had experience performing live.
Roth was once a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band and Hedges has toured with musicians like Bell Biv Devoe and Johnny Gill;
Blessid Union of Souls has been compared by some to Boyz Il Men. Roth said, comingfrom his rock and roll background, "It's incredibly flattering" the [R&B] fans have accepted its sound.
The band is based in Cincinnati. Sloan said he hopes Blessid Union's success brings more attention to other bands in the area.
"There's no · one particular Cincinnati sound," ·he said, "[but] there's a lot of good talent."
Roth said the group's songs on its debut , album "Home," released March 21, distin-
guishes Blessid Union from other bands.
"I can brag," he said, "because I had nothing to do with the songwriting process." Sloan said, "Icanhonestlysayifsomeone else wrote the songs, I would still like them."
Sloan said he is looking for~ ward to performing at Ritter Park. He has performed previously in Huntington with his 80s' R&B band, the Movies, at
Blessid Union of Souls
Robby's and Harris Riverfront Park.
The video for "I Believe" has increasing airplay on VH-1 and has been accepted by MTV.
Sloan said he thinks it will start playing within the next few weeks. Danno at' WKEE AM-FM Radio said "I Believe" is No. 3 nationally on Billboard's chart.
Roth said there are a few planned singles, "Let Me Be
the One" and "All Along," but wasn't sure of the order of their release.
As of Monday morning, McCormick said 300tickets for the concert had been distributed.
If there are tickets left, students will be able to pick them up at the gate.
A Huntington Transit Authority trolley has been rented to run continually from 4 p.m. until around 9 p.m., when the concert is expected to end, between Ritter Park and cam·pus.
McCormick said the campus pick-up site will be at Elm Street and College Avenue, "by the guest parking lot behind the student center and across from Corbly [Hall]."
McCormick said, "Students are invited to bring a picnic supper. If you are over 21, you C&J!. have alcohol."
Ritter Park has a no-glass policy so anything i;;tudents take should be in some other type of container.
In the event ofrain, the concert will be held in the Don Morris Room in the MSC.
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David L. Wickham, Sisterville graduate· student stepped down from his Student Government Association sentorial position on March 6th, but has been reappointed to his post.
Butcher, former SGA president. "If he didn't like something, he spoke up. He was interested in serving his fellow students." .
Associates of SGA said Wickham was one of the StudentGovernmentAssociation's most respected senators.
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Amanda McClung, Lewisburg senior, serves as head of the SGA's Judiciary Committee. She said Wickham presented an application for the position, one of four available graduate school seats.
"He went through the interview process and was appointed to the job," she said. "We discussed the amount of time that Dave had to give, whether or not he'd duck out again. We were worried about whether he could handle it or not."
She said the SGA valued his political savvy. "He'sanexceptional senator," she said. "It's good to have him back."
Students win cash in contest By Sharon E. Gladwell Reporter
Twenty-six students are $100 to $500 richer than they were last week. ·
Awards totaling about $8,200 were presented Mon~ day to student winners of the Twenty-third Annual William J. Maier Writing Competition.
The awards, established to recognize, reward and encourage excellence in writing by students, were presented by Edward H. Maier, president of the Sarah and Pauline Maier Foundation Inc., Charleston.
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RuralNet improving medical study Access has put MU No.1 in rural health By John Robinson Reporter
Put another shrimp on the barbie, mate. And while your at it, let's . talk about rural health.
Jan Fox, chair of the department of academic computing, said on-line discussions with groups as far away·as Australia are common via RuralN et, the School of Medicine's pathway to the information superhighway.
RuralNet is a computer and communications system that was created six years ago to give medical students a com• munications platform during nine-month rotations in rural health sites, Fox said . But since its invention, RuralNet has grown into a World Wide Web server, she said.
"It is a combination of internet, global access, and electronic mail," she said. "It is set up in support of anyone, whether they are rural or just
physically at a remote connection, with all the resources we have at the medical school."
Michael McCarthy, coordinator for rural health education, explained the World Wide Web. "It is a multi-media internet access," he said. "It is amannerofconnectingto servers and machines on the internet and viewing graphic images, listening to sound files, and seeing video clips."
Using RuralNet with its improvements, medical students can study the specifics of a vast number of health cases, McCarthy said. "You _can see the entire picture of a case, the picture of a mouth if that is the area tha t you are working on," he said. "Since health care is such a visual field, there's really great potential for this kind of multi-media richness."
Fox gave other examples. "When your talking about the
croup, you can bring up the child with a cough so that you can hear it," she said. "When
your talking about electronic patient records, you can pullup a full ultrasound picture and listen to the radiologist's report from a sound clip."
Fox said RuralNet has allowed Marshall to become the world's central repository for rural health, complete with maps where all the rural locations are, books of everyone involved in the program, and on-line newsletters about rural health.
RuralNet is meant to be used by students, medical practitioners and the normal public, Fox said.
"So if you had cancer, you would get on our service and look up all the documents to discuss your cancer," Fox said. "Perhaps you would look up chemotherapy drug side effects, or what's going to happen if you get a bone marrow transplant."
Despite its progression, RuralNetstillhasroom to grow. "We are still very much in the development phase," Fox said.
Advisers leaving posts By Kelley J. Schoonover Reporter
Student program advisers for Greek affairs and student activities are resigning effective at the end of the semester.
Anessa Hamilton of Greek affairs said she is leaving to be with her husband who is in the navy and being relocated to Oakland. Heidi A. McCormick of student activities has been accepted to graduate school at Bowling Green State. She said she wants to get a master's degree in college student personnel.
Stephen W. Hensley, associate dean of student affairs, supervises both the student activities and Greek affairs program advisers. Hensley said he has known for some time that Hamilton would not be returningnex,tyear, buthehas only known of McCormick's resignation for a couple of weeks. He said that he thinks the stress of the job may have been a factor in McCormick's decision to resign. Dr. Dee Cockrille, dean of student affairs, said that when she hired McCormick, she knew of
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Hensley said as of right now he bas no one. in mind to fill either position. He said Student Affairs may restructure the positions or even combine them under one program adviser. ·
The possibility ofrestructuring depends on the money the ; department has and on what needs to be done in each posi- . tion [the responsibilities of the program advisers] Hensley said. He said he and Dean · Cockrille have not yet had a chance to discuss the subject.
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Baseball begins homestand; softball on the road
The Herd baseball team plays Morehead State t.oday 7 p.m. at Sf Cloud Commons. Wednesday it hosts Ohio University 3 p.m. followed by Eastern Kentucky 7 p.m. Thursday. The softball team travels to Morehead State for a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
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Team still in hunt for district play Br Wllllam R. McKenna Sports Editor
Marshall's golf team will attempt to get back into the swing of things this weekend as it travels to Columbus, Ohio for the Kepler Invitational.
Last year the Herd finished 14th out of 16 teams, but looks
The Herd goes up against seven of the top 1 O teams in Columbus as it fights for the final district spot
"It is kind of hard to figure out how it will be juggled. I know how we stand but I am not sure how the other schools stand in head-to-head competitions."
to improve on those standings. "We better do a lot better
than that or our chances will be right out the window," head coach Joe Feaganes said.
Feaganes was commenting
on the team being invited to the District championships. The top six teams are invited and Marshall is currently
· ranked seventh, tied with Michigan. .
Ranked ahead of the Herd are Ohio State, Kent State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
All' of these schools will compete against Marshall this weekend except for Minnesota
seventh overall with a team score of 893.
"Our first round hurt us," he said. "The tournament in Indiana we beat some teams we needed to beat."
Marshall defeated Wisconsin but fell to Minnesota, Michigan and Iowa. How this will effect
Joe Feaganes golf coach
the rankings Feaganes is not team. Even though the play sure. has been a bit inconsistent,
"It is kind of hard to figure · overall Feaganes is pleased out how it will be juggled," he with his players. . said. "I know how we stand but "I feel we have a solid line-up and Michigan. .
"I tis right therein front ofus and we know what to do, it is just a matter of going out and doing it," he said
This past weekend Marshall began The Legends of Indiana Interc9llegiate Golf Tournament starting off slowly as it posted its worst score of the three-round match on opening day.
I am not sure how the other from top to bottom," lie said. schools stand in head-to-head "You need consistent pla7yom , competitions." everybody, you can't go up an
Feaganes believes his team down like a yo-yo." will probably stay in seventh place, but definitely no lower than eighth.
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After the first round Marshall shot a 303, placing in 10th, 12 shots off the early leader Eastern Michigan University.
Although_ the Herd performed better the following day; the deficit was to much to overcome.
Missouri went on to take tb.e title with a score of 875 followed by Minnesota and Michl-· gan at 880. Marshall placea
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Leading the team was Danville, Pa., senior Sean Duffy. Duffy, the only player to place in the top 20, finished in a two-way tie for 13th place in the individual sco~s with a 220.
Josh Brewer, 214, from Indiana finished first.•
·JohnDuty,Hurricanesophomore and Mifflintown, Pa. ,junior Jonathan Clark finished with scores of 222 and 225 respectively.
So far on the season Marshall has had several different players step up and lead the
Baseball ends losing streak An eight-run first inning was
all the Herd needed Sunday as it defeated the Wildcats of Davidson 10-7 to ·end a ninegame losing streak.
Marshall, who also ended a five-game conference losing streak, Jqmped out early scoring all 10 runs in the first four innings.
Chad Hathaway, 1-3, picked up the win going eight innings allowing seven runs on nine hits. Tim Fanning came in to pitch the ninth to seal the victory.
Davidson's starter Jonathan
Coulombre was knocked out of the first without recording a single out. Marshall scored six runs on three hits before Brian Cole came in for relief. Cole pitched the rest of the game for the Wildcats,
Allen Osborne and David Greene led the Herd with three hits apiece. Keith Mastro had a team high three RBIs. Saturday Marshall dropped
both ends of a doubleheader to the Wildcats 4-2 and 10-9 in 10 innings.
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