Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 22 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 12-9-1987 Lanthorn, vol. 22, no. 15, December 9, 1987 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol22 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 22, no. 15, December 9, 1987" (1987). Volume 22. 15. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol22/15 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 22 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inside: Campus Life p.5 Classified Ads p.16 News Capsule p.2 Opinion p j sports ___ P ill______________ Vol.22IssueNo.15 December 9,1987 Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI News Room Advertising Manager (6r6) 895-3120 (616) 895-3608 THE LA HORN MaWMMM •■Anorw WBtfffaew inW.ii-i — t - h w iti in SHisscs*! wnsaas&isaku II !■! .... ................................. —MB rmunniMn i iiii .minim The Downtown Center: A New View mind also. Throughout the building there downtown Grand Rapids. By Mark Garbe with John lied will be student lounges, a bookstore and According to Dean Britt, the opening of News/Photo Editors there is an information desk. Authorities the center will create many new student also say that there is adequate, well-lit jobs. However, students have already been Grand Valley State's new Downtown parking. working on the completion of the center. Center will be ready (or classes following Outside the building is a walkway the "Some students have already been involved Spring break leads right up to the river and a footbridge in space planning and fltxir layout," said The state-of-the-art complex will be used that connects the center with the rest of Dean Britt. mainly for graduate and engineering classes. According to Dean Britt, Dean of Continuing [education, the facility vs as designed with these two functions in mind "It's designed for the kinds of instruction that engineering involves." he said * W hen completed in March, the budding will have ?? multi purpose classrooms, a liber optk cable that will umneO' it with the Mlend.de . ampiis and . miipi.ler IWois throughout the buildms’ that uib>w a compuLU lc be vet uj' almost a it v where m flo p ) / s 'he J',rsI photo ever the building w iilmut dropping a i able limn taken from llw u p oj the Downtown the s oiling’ I he center will also boast a ( enter, nine\tottes hi^h burlier this high te, h , oiileren, i room e.pupped with wet'k John I rt el, ithirt^ with two ie Ic\ on t et eru i ng via a large screen student senate mernJ>e r s, w as unions; projestion television and personal the lost students to see the inside of s (impute! s the / >ow niown ( enter In addition to i Los space. GVSl s radio ■ 1 r i s o ; ) I he Downtown ( enter an I I V stations will be moved liom then A N i ' . c ) I he Downtown ( enter will ;’re cut location on the Allendale campus hail a intoLsiore a'ul an tutor mutton and telis ated ill ttie I X >w ntow n ( enter I he U ■ in the mum iohhs. seen lure ne .v ^ on lei has lu II v ei|u ipped studios on the • .'i,7 muter < , oLstrin Urn ground level and of Ik e space on the eighth tloor b >r the stations The old railroad bridge was converted to a loot bridge tluit now c orincets the All Photus,,John Kreel. i he center was designed will) students in Downtown (Truer with c low Mown (l rand Rut ’ids Page 2 The Lanthom December 9,1987 News Capsule International Iran fired a Silkworm missile Monday A Washtenaw County judge may be WASHINGTON-Michigan marchers A Calvin College man and a woman but hit a decoy barge the Kuwaitis had receiving a letter from the Women joined a 200,000 strong demonstration were stabbed at 742 Lake Dr. SE, about placed to help protect installations from 6:30 p.m. Sunday. John Pierik, 21, Lawyers Association for a "kidding" Sunday for the right of Jews to emigrate attacks. remark about the county's only female from the Soviet Union. An estimated was listed in critical condition at Iraq admitted Sunday that one of its jurist sitting on his lap. Circut Judge 1,300 Michigan protesters expressed the Blodgett Memorial Medical Center and warplanes bombed a Saudi Arabian Joan Rudenga, 24, is in fair condition at William F. AgerJr. was swearing-in 23 fear Gorbachev is all words and no island in the northern Persian Gulf on Butterworth Hospital. new attomeys-more than half of them action. Friday by mistake. A neighbor who consented to a search women-when he joked about the Michigan's was one of the largest Monday's missile firing followed was arrested by police after they found a limited seating allowed for the jurists state groups outside the East Coast. unusually devastating Iranian gunboat knife and bloody pants and shirt in his behind the judge's bench. Vice President Bush remarked, "What attacks Sunday on two neutral-flag house. Ager told the audience he regretted a difference between this demonstration tankers in the Persian Gulf. The attacks Pierick and Rudenga were baking that more judges didn't attend because if and the one so brutally broken up in killed a Danish sailor aboard one ship, cookies when the assailant let himself they had, Wood would have had to sit Moscow in the last few hours." and ignited the highly volatile naphtha into the house. A motive is currently on his lap. cargo on the other. not known. Witnesses are being asked "There w aj a shocked silence," said to call Silent Observer at 774-2345. one attorney. „ the Lanthorn once again. However, times newspaper is so personally rewarding; I can have changed and I am rather surprised at be heard, so to speak, through the media of the apathy and selfishness that dominates print. I can see beneath the surface of an the up and coming generations. issue by way of my investigative skills; I There are a few brave souls but not am able to form perspectives and opinions; many anymore. Very few seem to care I can try to right a wrong; 1 can tell you a about the relevant and crucial issues on this story, and the best part of it is that some of campus or that exist in America in general. you read it, and whether you agree or Many young people today are lazy. The disagree, like or dislike it, I had my say. prevading thought appears to be, "How can That makes me feel ceal good! During the early 1970's, I was a they voiced their opinions constantly, they j get what I want, and what does the world So, make a liar out of me, show me reporter and the Assistant Editor of the would not be stifled. owe me?" The atmosphere is conservative, where your generation stands; let's see what Lanthorn. It was a very exciting and active Two years ago, I returned to GVSU to conformative and selfish, you have to say. Bet you can't top my time to in the field of journalism. People obtain teacher certification and just one What I have just stated is the reason generation in any way or form! were involved, they had causes--they cared; month ago became ihvolved in writing for vvhy writing for the Lanthorn or any " Senate Profile " The Student Senate wants to get to know you, by you getting to know us. So, each week The Student we will introduce a Student ’enate Wishes all Senator via a " Senator Profile ".This week's profile is on w students D a v e G roh. Good Luck on Class Standing: Senior Final Exams! Major: Chemistry Hometown: Rockford, Ml Study Hard! Hobbies: Downhill skiing, Moto-cross, and Mountain Bike Competition. Organization Membership (Besides Senate). Chemistry Club, Alexander Fleming Society. Semesters on Senate: Two CAMPUSIMPROVEMENTS Committee Membership: Appoitments Committee, and News Paper Advisory Board. The Senate Community Affairs Committee is working to improve the Grand Valley Campus. Reasons for joining Senate: " I felt that l could The possibility of having an automatic teller effectivly represent a segment of the GVSU student installed on campus is being looked into. In order for body not previously recognized by the Senate. the machine to be installed it must be proven that there will be enough use. Old Kent Bank has Plans after graduation: Research and provided surveys to help determine the need. Tables Development ( Chemistry ). were set up in the Kirkhof Center and the Commons Favorite Quote: " E=mc2 " and December 7-9. All surveys will be turned in by n it r = m a . December 10. The results of this survey will be Please feel free to contact Dave Groh, or published in the next week's Senate News. any Student Senator with any concerns you Other improvements on Campus are the proposed 7 emergency phones and lighting for dark walkways. might have! TTT r r n r f f " Z Z ' 1 w. A Opinion Pag«3 The Lanthom December 9,1987 Department we do in fact have Letters to unconfidential peer evaluations. I believe we are honest, and the system appears to the Editor: be functioning just fine.