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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 18 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 11-23-1983 Lanthorn, vol. 18, no. 14, November 23, 1983 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol18 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 18, no. 14, November 23, 1983" (1983). Volume 18. 14. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol18/14 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 18 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. key time means inside break time Arts & Entertainment P.7 See page 3 Sports p.6 Get your car moving for winter Student Living p. 3 — grand valley state college's Student run newspaper the lanthorn 4 Graduate dislikes Reagan's role in Guatemala HENRY E. HARDY Staff Writer The Reagan Administration has been supporting corrupt and brutal dictatorships in Central America, according to Grand Valley Alumnus Mamie Graiiano. Graiiano taught fifth grade at the American School of Guatema^ in 1980 and 1981. Guatemala is in the midst of a violent civil war Graiiano says. She remembers one government attack on a house allegedly owned by members of the resistance forces. ~We were having our usual school day.’ she said, and at about 11:30 a.m. somebody ran into the room and yelled to evacuate. We assumed that it was just an earthquake practice. We ran out either door, and were getting ready to get our children down on the ground. All of a sudden, we started hearing shoot ing and bombs going off." Over 1000 elementary, high school, and university students took refuge in the middle of the school compound, Graiiano Big concert said. "We eventually got centrally located in an outdoor area in the middle of the school." she said. Everybody is down on the coming soon ground. Kids are crying. It was that type of a panic situation. It was 45 minutes before we knew what was happening. Eddie Money and support band S A G A will rip apart the Field see Guatemala page 2 House's stillness on December 3. Pictured above it Michael Sadler of S A G A , and to the left is Eddie Money. Grenada survey Students agree with invasion MICHAEL MONTONATI dass discovered last week when students surveyed, felt that the Guest Writer they surveyed 41 students in a press has a right to cover combat public opinion poll that was part operations when American Although 76 percent of of a class project. troops are involved, and students Grand Valley students feel that The primary objective of the firmly believe the press should President Reagan was justified in opinion poll was to find out how have the opportunity and free sending in Arm y Rangers and students feel about President uO*m to report true and accurate marines to take over Grenada, Reagan's decision to invade the information to the American they strongly disapprove of the island of Grenada and the sub public. Students respond to decision to impose a news black sequent censoring of informa Seventy percent of the stu out on the press and the public. tion to the press and American dents surveyed, strongly op That's what students of pro public. posed news black outs by the "The Day After" fessor Ted Borland's Mass Media More than 50 percent of the government. RALPH HEIBUTZKI what its most urgent message News Editor was. increase in area criminal sexual "No matter how yotesque A B C -T V ’s movie about a real the stuff in the movie was. if conduct spurs rape seminar nuclear war's effects, "Th e Day end when it (a nuclear war) MARY ROGALSKI hof Center. Robert Dykstra. whose depart A fte r," seems to have elicited a ever happened in reelity. there's Assistant News Editor Orr, a nationally known ment is co sponsoring the event strong reaction from Grand ^ uyaw for reality to compare to speaker who has worked in with the Grand Valley Police Valley students. it," junior Jeffrey Martin said. Such simole guidelines as the area of crime prevention Department. "We hope the In a series of Lenthom on Martin said he disagreed walking confidently, turning since 1977, will share her seminar will make people more the-street interviews, each stu 'whole-heartedly'' with comer down your telephone bell, end expertise in preventing sexual aware of rape prevention." dent was asked if "The Day vstive accusations of political carrying $10 in "mugger money" assault with concerned students, According to Dykstra. the After" was politically biased bias, "because if (the movie) could possibly prevent rape, area residents, and over 100 law seminar was prompted by reac towards the nuclear freeze move was based on official govern according to Detroit Police Offi enforcement officers. tions to recently reported ment reports of whet would be ment (es co nservatives like Phyl cer Gayle S. O n . who will be "Unfortunately. criminal sexual wisaults in Ottawa County. lis Shlefly have suggested), if it likely to happen." featured in a Rape Prevention sexual conduct is on the in "What culminated this was an would chengs people's minds on Seminar from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. crease (in Ottawa coun ty)," ase Holocaust page the dsue of arms oontrol. and 6 Thursday. {Dae. .1,. in the Kirk said. Ottawa County Sheriff awlkfpafM«»« wdnmdoy. novombor 23, 1983 2the lanthorn off-cam pus Guatemala no place to live — from page 1 people live in abject and degrading poverty. Graz Climactic vote to be cast Our lines were cut to the school. We had, I think, iano said that at least 50 percent of the chikfr-en INTERNATIONAL - Riot police were seen around the Bonn soma kind of radio contact with the American born die before the age of five from malnutrition government district Tuesday as the West German Parliament Embassy. "That was tha only kind of outside con and disease. convened for a dimactic vote on whether the country will pro tact we had," she said. Guatemala is a "very oppressive state," accord ceed with deployment of the new U.S. nuclear missiles. It was two or three hours before the faculty ing to Graziano. She explained that people who Clusters uf anti-missile demonstrators were seen outside the ware able to find out whad had been happening. participate in peaceful demonstrations or other steel barriers, set up by th6 police, and water-jets were fired at "The military had come in end attacked a forms of protest against government policies usual those activists directly outside the Parliament's building. house," Graziano said. "It would be kind of a nice ly "disappear." The Soviet Union has threatened to abandon tha current ranch style house here. It was right across the Graziano said that those who have been warned Geneva talks if any of the Pershing missiles arrive in West Ger street from the school, about three houses down. by the government death squads never know when many. From the new bases, flight time for the missiles to the It was allegedly a hospital and bomb factory for thev will be teken. Communist nation would be a matter of minutes. ORPA (tha organization of people in Arms). All Graziano says that she is unable to explain why egedly, what had happened is that some sort of the Reagan Administration has described the torture (had produced) an informer in the organi Flynt to face doubled fine human rights situation in Guatemala as "improv zation. In the next two weeks, there were many, N A T IO N A L — A federal judge says he will resort to other means ing." many houses hit in very good neighborhoods." to penalize publisher Larry Flynt if the man can t afford his " A t times, I look at Reagan, and I think that he fines for refusing to name the source of an audio tape important can't be as ignorant as he looks, that he does to the John OeLorean cocaine-trafficking case. and he has some reason" for supporting the Guat The U.S. District judge doubled Flynt's fine to $20,000 but emala regime. Graziano said. " A t other times, I said he did not have to start paying it until later in the week. feel that he really believes what he says, and if that The tape, which has not been authenicated, reveals a govern isn't it. then I can't figure it out. It is hard to think ment informant threatening OeLorean if the automaker backed that someone could be so malicious, in the posi out of what prosecutors say was a $24 million cocaine distribu tion of power that he is in, to purposely be out tion deal intended to save his ailing car business. right lying to us," she said. Unless the United States ends its support for Ruppe bows out of race the Guatemala regime, Graziano believes, there is no alternative for the oppressed people of Guate STATE - Loret Ruppe, wife of Republican Senatorial hopeful mala other than armed resistance to the govern Phillip Ruppe, announced Tuesday that she has decided not to ment. seek the seat currently held by Senator Carl Levin, D-Detroit. "When I went there, I was a pacifist." Graziano Ruppe's announcement leaves only one candidate, former said. "I believe that there had to be a peaceful so U.S.