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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-8-1982 The BG News January 8, 1982 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News January 8, 1982" (1982). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3937. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3937 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. The B G News Friday Bowling Green State University January 8, 1982 Lack of respect Poland: Regime accuses GSS President Solidarity lists problems of confrontation Poland's military rulers said sol- diers were working in factories, by Marie Cisterino sors forget that graduate students mines and farms and "protecting" News staff reporter have come back to the University transport yesterday, and accused the seeking higher education, he Solidarity union of planning to con- added. front the Communist regime with The concerns and needs of Uni- Because graduate students are spikes, gasoline bombs and barri- versity graduate students are expected to teach courses in a cades. many, says Graduate Student Sen- Erofessional manner, they should The report of soldiers on the job ate President, Jon Rice, who is e treated as equals, not inferiors, indicated large-scale worker boy- frustrated in realizing that most of especially when it comes to pay- cotts. Underground Solidarity letters their grievances are given little or checks, he said. have urged passive resistance, but no priority by some of the depart- "Some students teach five 300- Warsaw television said a Solidarity ments and colleges. level courses plus have their own document called for confrontation. "Graduate students have a very class loads and make only about It said the document proposed using difficult situation set up for them at sl,800 a year," he said. "special spikes" against government the University academically, so- venicles, blocking troop movement cially and economically," he said. ANOTHER PROBLEM facing with barricades, using gasoline "I don't think the University does graduate students comes at tax bombs, seizing weapons ana obtain- enough to acclimate the graduate time. Graduate students receive no ing aims from the United States, student to this environment." benefits such as help with dental France and Britain. Rice believes the major problem and doctor bills, but are still re- facing graduate students is the quired to pay taxes on their earn- THE DOCUMENT, prepared before lack of respect and acceptance ings each year. the imposition of martial law in De- from both the departments they Rice said the University has cho- cember, also called for disruption of work for and from the undergrad- sen not to recognize them as em- radio and TV programs, establish- uate community. Sloyees so they don't have to pay ment of Solidarity channels of com- lem benefits. Instead, the Univer- munication including short-wave "IT SEEMS THAT the words sity considers the money the grad- radio operators, and using church 'graduate student' have become uate student earns as a stipend services for "propaganda purposes," synonymous with being stupid. In scholarship award. Rice questions the official broadcast said. many departments they don't give why the student should have to pay Solidarity was accused of subver- credit for experience. A graduate taxes on the scholarship. The IRS sive contacts with the CIA and other has no answers, he said. Western intelligence agencies in an student tries to express learned article yesterday in the army daily material but is shut off or not taken There are also smaller concerns, Zolnierz Wolnosci, Associated Press seriously. It's a tough situation," such as the lack of graduate stu- correspondent Thomas Netter re- he said. dent housing facilities. ported in a dispatch subject to "Many departments don't tap all censorship. resources and utilize their (grad- "MOST OF THE STUDENTS are Normal communications with Po- uate students) experience. Instead, married and have families," he land have not been restored, tele- a graduate student teaches basic said."They come to Bowling Green phone service within the country is level courses, does book work and and are put into an apartment still restricted and journalists are not cleans out cabinets." complex that is not well con- allowed to travel, making it difficult Rice stresses that some depart- structed, not a family environment or impossible to confirm reports ments fail to understand that the and not suited for the student him- reaching the West. News organiza- real reason why a graduate student self." tions have been monitoring official goes back to school is to further his Solutions to the problem are not news media and piecing together ac- education and not to make money. easy, he says, but some alterna- counts from travelers, diplomats and "We realize we're here for an tives to typical apartment life are education and the teaching helps in the making. others. us. Even though it is a small "Graduate housing is a tough THE CZECHOSLOVAK news amount of money, we're still get- problem to get into. With Univer- agency CTK reported that 25,000 So- ting an education. sity enrollment going down, viet, Hungarian and Czechoslovak they're not going to start to build troops would conduct joint military "IN SOME DEPARTMENTS more dormitories and apart- maneuvers Jan. 25-30 in western they become so overzealous as us ments," he said. Czechoslovakia, near East Germany. being cheap labor that they over- One solution Rice is working on The site of the war games is not far burden us, so that the contracts involves the University Housing from the Polish border, but there was and teaching classes become our office. He has suggested to them no immediate indication of a connec- primary concern and school work that if space becomes available in tion with the turmoil and martial law becomes our secondary concern." the dorms, it should be opened to in Poland. Many times it is difficult for a graduate students. He has also Poland's Communist Party Central graduate student to juggle teach- requested the Housing office to call Committee said anti-corruption laws ing time and attend rus or her the Senate office if there are any stall photo by Dale Omori would be enforced to keep high offi- classes, Rice said. Often, profes- openings in the dorms. cials from abusing their posts for Jon Rice personal gain. U.S. Steel begins takeover of Marathon Oil stock ver," said Alvin Silber, energy ana- company said. shares for $125 apiece as part of a two- But despite their success there was Mobil would be required to wait an lyst at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. Bankers Trust Co., the official pay- NEW YORK (AP) - After seven step transaction valued at about $6.2 no rush to celebrate at either Mar- additional 20 days from the time it ing agent in the deal, put dozens of billion. Silber doubted Mobil would carry weeks of legal tug-of-war with Mobil athon or U.S. Steel headquarters, supplied the information. through with its threat to buy more people to work preparing about 17,000 Corp., the smaller U.S. Steel Corp. "THE DEED'S been done," said Berhaps because both companies be- Mobil, the nation's second-biggest checks totaling $3.7 billion for the 51 bought a controlling interest in Mar- Andrew Staursky, a spokesman for eve they have not heard the last U.S. Steel shares. company, behind Exxon Corp., has In Findlay, Ohio, where Marathon Krcent of Marathon's stock. The athon Oil Co. yesterday as the first the steel company. from Mobil. not disclosed its motive in seeking nk will return the shares that are step toward creating the nation's 12th . U.S. Steel's purchase of 51 percent UNLESS the Federal Trade Com- U.S. Steel stock. But few analysts is headquartered, some workers won- of Marathon's stock, plus its plans to dered out loud whether the long strug- not paid for in cash. largest industrial concern. mission stepped in, Mobil would be believe it is considering an eventual gle to keep Marathon intact really Tne long and costly fight over the buy the rest for U.S. Steel notes, free to start buying up to 25 percent of takeover campaign for the steel com- Findlay, Ohio-based oil company cli- marks the second largest takeover in VS. Steel's stock, or 21.8 million Eany, mainly because of the likeli- was over. maxed Wednesday with Mobil's elev- American corporate history. The shares, today under terms of an appli- ood that Mobil would encounter the "I think there is less tension, but largest was Du Pont Co.'s $7.8 billion there are still a lot of questions people enth hour plea to Chief Justice cation Mobil filed with the govern- same antitrust roadblock that sty- in town have about the future,' said Warren Burger for a temporary halt purchase of Conoco Inc. last summer, ment last Dec. 9. mied its bid for Marathon, the 17th another fight in which Mobil came up one woman at Wilson's restaurant to U.S. Steers bid. Just hours before The FTC was still studying Mobil's largest oil concern. across the street from Marathon's the steel company's deadline to start a loser. application yesterday and had not Instead, some analysts think Mobil Inside '■ eadquarters building.