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Monitor Newsletter June 19, 1989 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU Monitor University Publications 6-19-1989 Monitor Newsletter June 19, 1989 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/monitor Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "Monitor Newsletter June 19, 1989" (1989). Monitor. 973. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/monitor/973 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Monitor by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Vol. XII., No. 46 Bowling Green State University June 19, 1989 Chang says change is inevitable Democracy message should go out to rural China Despite the fact that students in China have convince the rural populations ... against the government again, they will be received international attention from their But taking their message to the people will arrested. Education there is going to suffer demands for a democratic government, Dr. be difficult. After hundreds of thousands of because new ideas in the social science areas Stephen Chang, geography, doesn't think the students and sympathizers swarmed to Beijing and humanities will be stifled." world is going to see any radical changes soon in the past month to demand greater Chang does not believe the Chinese in the communist country. democratization and an end to nepotism and government will bow easily to international Chang was born in Shanghai, raised in Hong corruption, Premier Li Peng and President pressure againSt its actions. "Holding power is Kong and earned his doctorate at UCLA. He Yang Shangkun imposed maritial law. When more important to the government." he said. has devoted much of his career to researching the demonstrators refused to back down from In the past, other nations have treated China the connections between China, Hong Kong their stance, thousands were killed when fired with a "kid-glove,'' Chang said. and many and Taiwan. up00 by troops. Many students have been people had a naive and romantic view of the "Before there can be change in China, you arrested and their families have been country. "Human rights abuses occur in China, have to get the broad-base support of the rural threatened. Much of what is left of their but the U.S. and western countries tend to areas,'' Chang said. "The students and urban movement has been forced underground. condemn these violations only in the eastern areas make up only 20 percent of China's "With all the arrests and violence, calm is European countries and the Soviet Union population while the rural areas make up the going to be restored Quite Quickly to the rather than China. rest The students need to take their message campuses," Chang said. "People are scared. If of democracy outside of the cities and they return to campus and begin speaking Continued on back BG's program with Xi'an will continue Since 1983 when the University began a faculty exchange program with the Xi'an Foreign Language University, Bowling Green and China have shared a warm, friendly relationship. But whether that relationship can continue depends if the program's participants can be guaranteed a safe living environment. according to Dr. Lester Barber. coordinator of the exchange and chair of the English department. Barber said he has watched with great sympathy and mixed emotions the occurrences in Beifing, which is approximately 800 miles from the city of Xi'an. Barber, and his wife Susan, HPER. spent the 1986-87 academic year teaching at the China university and made many friends and contacts. "I have such contradictory feelings about what is going in that he on country," said. Examining some of the high quality color prints produced by a Cycolor slideprinter at the "I have throught a great deal about whether Instructional Media Center are (from left) Richard Wright. viCe president for technology at Mead we should continue the exchange program Imaging; Michael Bintner of Noritsu America Corp.. and Jerry HartweD. IMC. The equipment was a with Xi'an. and decided it would be gift to the University from Noritsu. counterproductive for us to put an end to the relationship," Barber said. "But I wish we could offer some form of strong symbolic gesture to show our disgust and dismay over what has Noritsu gift to University can change occured in China" Currently three former graduate students are in Xi'an on the exchange program and taught color slides into quick, quality prints there during the past academic year. They are Teresa Marchwinski, Brian Russo and Nancy The Instructional Media Center is now The team of Mead scientiSts which invented Smithwick. al of English. Barber said offering campus customers quick, high Quality the near photographic quality paper which Smithwick has tickets to leave from Beijing July color prints from Slides thanks to a gift to the made possible inexpensive. high quality color 14, and Marchwinski and Russo are working University from Noritsu America Corp. copying was led by Dr. Richard Wright. vice with the foreign affairs office to schedule their Noritsu introduced the Cycolor slideprinter president for technology at Mead Imaging. returns. last year and Bowling Green is the first Wright, this past semester. was a Senior Although Barber said the University advised university in the country to have one. Felow at the McMaster Institute on campus. In the three to retlnl as soon as possible to the according Michael Bintner. district supervisor addition, several of Mead's scientists received U.S.• he said they faxed a letter from China last of Noritsu's Midwest Regional Office. training at the University's Center for week saying they were in a stable Situation. The 59,800 QPS-101 Cycolor Slideprinter Photochemical Sciences. -Xi'an is quiet and safe for us now," Barber was donated to the University because of quoted the letter. Bowling Green's close ties with Mead Imaging. The Cycolor slideprinter is located in 206 He said U.S. reports indicated that some a division of Mead Corp. near Dayton, said Dr. Education Buiding and can produce fuD color 8 violence had occurred on the Xi'an campus in Douglas Neckers, chemistry. who first 1 /2 x 11-inch reproductionS from 35 millimeter the wake of aD the demonstrations. However, suggested that Noritsu consider providing the slides. The prints can be used for archival the three Bowling Green staff did not report University with a color print machine. purposes, handouts. color proofing and in seeing any violence. and in his contacts with "The Noritsu slideprinter represents the first presentations. Cost of each print is S 1 and can the university Barber has not been able to commercial application of Mead's be made while the customer waits. according breakthrough color-imaging technology caDed to Jerry HartweB, coordinator of IMC's Continued on back Cycolor," Neckerssaid. production lab. Give recognition where it is due Barber__ tr_o_m_th_e_tr_o_nt ___ _ Nominations currently are being taken for the University. confinn such activity. first annual Classified Staff Outstanding Service Nominations and references should be sent by Four students from the Xi'an university are Award. campus mai to: Outstanding Service Award, currently at Bowling Green. Several other Xi'an The first recipient of the award wil be P.O. Box 91by5 p.m. June 30. students who were part of the exchange announced at the Classified Staff Convocation in For more infonnation or to request a program have continued their studies here. September and Ml receive a $400 cash award nomination form. contact Sexton at 372-7005. Barber said the students have told him they and plaque. Pam Atchison at 372-7698 or Carol Kreienkamp have been able to caD home. but all of their Anyone, including facutty and administrative at 372-2452. family members have only sketchy details staff. can nominate a classified employee for the about what has happened in Beijing. award. The nominee can be any current classified staff member. either permanent Three faculty. Dr. Thomas Wymer and his full-time or permanent part-time. who has been Equipment wanted wife Penny, both of English. and Dr. David on the University payroll for 1 2 continuous Roller. history. have been selected to teach at months. Someone who is nominated but retires Computer Services is in need of an original the Xi'an Foreign Langauage University for the after June 30 is eligible. box and the packing materials for an Apple upcoming academic year. Award criteria includes job performance, such LaserWriter or Apple LaserWriter Plus. Any "They have aD told me they still wish and as dependability/attendance. cooperation, department having one that could be borrowed expect to go ... Barber said. ··But I think we willingness to serve. innOvation. initiative. by Computer Services for a couple weeks need to wait and see if things settle down attitude and ability to give "above and beyond"; should contact Tom Gross or Mike Bear at before we can advise them that they can go and the employee's relationship with the 372-2104. there safely ... Even if the exchange program continues. will China's campuses ever return to normal? Power to be out in campus buildings Barber thinks not. "In Beifing and Shanghai it's going to be very A series of electrical power outages will Monday (June 26). On Sunday (June 25). it will difficult to go back to business as usual continue to be occur on campus as part of the be off in the Commons from 5-8 p.m.; and on because so many of the students witnessed PCB (polychJorinated biphenyl) removal project. Monday. June 26 in Harshman from 1 O the conflict first hand ..
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