Caldabaugh addresses ethics issue
President announced By Meghan Lovinski
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Though the results of the 1991 student government elec tions have been tabulated and excitement has died down, it will always be remembered as a competitive and controversial campaign.
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Dirk Winkler and John Martin were elected president and vice president of Student Govern ment on Wednesday, March 27. Winker and Martin defeated Ken Caldabaugh and Tracey Krall by a 506-94 count. “This is the best feeling in the world. It feels like a big weight has been taken off my shoul ders,” Winkler remarked about winning the election. “I feel good. I feel very good,” Martin added. This year’s election was somewhat marred by an inci dent involving Caldabaugh and Krall. The candidates’ ethics were questioned when some students-two of them student senate members-revealed that the Caldabaugh and Krall were distributing pre-composed let
At a debate held on the eve of the elections, Caldabaugh was quoted as saying, “Ghostwriting, it happens all the time; it is not illegal, unethical, and there is nothing wrong with it.” Later, when asked about the effect the incident might have had on the outcome of the elec tion, Caldabaugh stated that he was “sure it cost me some votes,” but it “didn’t make a sub stantial enough difference” to sway the voter population in any significant way. Caldabaugh also noted that he thought Winkler and Martin “ran an excellent campaign,” and conducted themselves as “perfect gentlemen” throughout the entire campaign. Winkler and Martin labeled the incident “unfortunate,” but they believe, like Caldabaugh, that it did not have an overriding effect on the outcome of the election. “The thing I was nervous about was having people not vote. I felt if the people got out
to vote, we would be success ful,” Winkler said. “I was pretty confident in our abilities from the beginning. It was just a mat ter of getting people out to vote,” Martin added. The pair agreed that they were somewhat surprised about their large margin of vic tory. “I was confident we’d win, but not by the margin that we did,” Martin said. As president and vice presi dent, Winkler and Martin will begin planning for next year right away. Winkler said they will get together with newly elected programming director Jeff Pappa to set up a general outline for the coming year and to establish a background to fol low up on their campaign goals. Winkler also stated that a great deal of their efforts will be focused on student involve ment, and the key to their 1991 92 term in office will be “excita bility.” “We’d like to thank everybody that voted, our families-just everybody,” Winkler said. “We couldn’t have done it without them.”
Program needed By Matt Smith New minimum placement standards may require incoming freshmen to take non-credit developmental courses in math and English. The State College System Board has established certain numerical standards for incoming freshmen to be placed in credit courses. Students receiving an ACT score below 18 in mathematics or below 17 in English will have to participate in a skills development program. The board established simi lar minimum requirements for the SAT and ASSET tests as well. “West Liberty is the only public institution in West Virginia that does not offer remedial programs,” said Director of Ad missions, Paul Milam. According to Milam, the college must have these programs in effect prior to this fall. Had the re quirements been in effect in the fall of 1990, 47 percent of the freshman class would have been instructed to take a developmental mathematics course, and 24 percent would have had to take a developmental English course. “Having to have this program in place is going to be dif ficult,” speculated Milam who said the entire non-credit sys tem will have to be in place before pre-registration in July. “I don’t know how we can handle it without more people,” said Professor Charles N. Baker, chairperson of the depart ment of mathematics. Baker questioned how the already busy five-person staff will process as many as 300 additional students each year. Milam described the new system as a “natural evolution” of WLSC’s already upgraded entrance requirements. Last fall WLSC enacted new standards of admission which require all incoming freshmen to have four units of English and 2 units of mathematics in high school and a G.P.A. of 2.0 or an ACT composite of 17. The goals of the new standards are to ensure that students have the necessary skills for college and to increase retention and graduation rates.
AAollohan speaks on diversification
Beginning in the fall of 1992, the mathematics minimum will rise to a score of 19, and the board expects to establish a minimum standard for reading as well. In addition. Baker expects certain exit criteria to be established for these de velopmental courses before a student can take courses for credit.
March 27, in conjuction with the Student Government Lecture Series.
wed in a “historical context,” be cause of its background as a “resource colony.”
CEO to speak on Middle East
Mollohan stressed that West Virginia needs to increase its service industries and reduce its dependency on its natural re sources. By doing this Mollohan said an integrated economy which benefits from both hi-tech and resource extraction indus tries will result.
Mollohan spoke of when the timber industries depleted the forest of West Virginia and the effect it had on the state.
By Leslie Hudson U.S. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.Va., presented a lecture on the economic development of West Virginia on Wednesday,
He mentioned many of the new industries being integrated into West Virginia which are bringing jobs and revenues back into the state. An aeros pace training and education service has been inplemented at Fairmont State College. At Clarksburg, a facility that deals with aerospace issues has brought many job opportunites into that area. Also, the Mid-At lanta Air Service has attracted the interest of such big-name aircraft manufacturers as Grummond and Rockwell-Collins. In the Wheeling area, the NASA Technology Transfer Center at Wheeling College has been asked by Martin-Marrieta, based in Colorado, to partici pate in the Classroom of the Fu ture project. Mollohan said the state’s economic future must be vie
Mollohan believes the state should not depend as much on its natural resources so that “we always maintain a natural re source base that is God-given.” “At the turn of the century West Virginia was harvested” and her resources “depleted” to sdpply manufacturers and in dustries outside the state, Mol lohan said. Because of this, he said West Virginia incurred resource losses without benefiting from in-state use and processing of those resources. Mollohan said his position on the powerful Appropriations Committiee and his work with the Congressional at procure ment team are aimed at achiev ing economic diversity. Mollohan said his main con cerns are for the first congres sional district of West Virginia and he will try to bring industries into the area that will improve the economic outlook.
The School of Liberal Arts at West Liberty State College, in conjunction with the Hughes Lecture Series and in coopera tion with Bethany College, will present John Duke Anthony, president and chief executive officer of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations on Mon day, April 8, at 8 p.m. in College Hall on the campus. Anthony, who also serves as president of the Society for Gulf Arab Studies and as a consul tant on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf States to the de partments of Defense, State and Treasury, is an adjunct pro fessor of Middle East Studies at the Defense Intelligence Col lege, where he teaches a course titled “The Strategic Is sues of Middle Eastern Pet roleum.” Additionally, Anthony serves as an adjunct professor in Mid dle East studies at the Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management. At DISAM and the U.S. Air Force’s Special Op erations School, he regularly lectures on “The Arabian Penin sula and the Gulf States in Re gional and World Affairs.” Anthony is a past president
of Middle East Education Trust Inc. and a former Associate Pro fessor of Middle East Studies at the John Hopkins School of Ad vanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. The author of numerous arti cles and publications, Anthony has traveled frequently and ex tensively in every country in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. He also is the only American to have been invited to attend, as an observer, each of the annual Heads of State Summits of the Gulf Corporation Council since that organization was founded in 1981. The QCC is a regional organization grouping Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. A frequent commentator for the Voice of America, Anthony has been interviewed on all the major U.S. radio and television networks in conjunction with American interests and involve ment in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf affairs. Anthony also will speak at Bethany College at 7 p.m. The title of Anthony’s lecture is “Post-War Middle East Policy: What Are America’s Interests?”