Power Outage Halts Activity on Campus UWM Award Draws Praise, Criticism Marquette Gmeipom/Ers Panthers Exhibit Features Variety
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THE ?05T VILL PUBLISH ITS NEXT ISSUE M&RCH ai. ENJOY 5?RING BREAK! NEWS ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS Take a ride For all you The UWM women's with the Post broke and rowdy basketball team give and the University college students. Judge's UW-Green Bay a run Police Department is the place to be for their money on a typical night. (Page 2) on the East Side. (Page 6} in seniors' final game. (Page 10) The UWM Post March 7, 1994 Established 1956 Volume 38, Number 42 Power outage halts activity on campus Sports: By Jerry C. Smith neering who was stranded with se of Music" and church hymns while went out of service. Consequently, Marquette nior engineering major Michael sitting in the Palm Gardens cafete half the campus was without Apparently, the University of Wiedemeier for 1 1/2 hours. "The ria. power." Wisconsin-Milwaukee didn't pay lights went out, and 15 minutes "I'm happy," said Calabresa, a According to Kohel, the GMeipoM/ers its power bill. later, there was an announcement sophomore majoring in psychol entire campus was restored by According to UWM police Sgt. that there was a power outage. ogy. "I got off work because of it." 11 p.m. The Union had elec Thomas Williamson, the supervis "We talked about what we According to Loren Kohel, the tricity at 9:20 p.m. Sandburg Panthers ing officer on duty Saturday night, would do if we really had to get out. UWM Physical Plant Services su Hall had its power restored at nearly three-quarters of the UWM We also talked about cars and girls, pervisor on duty Saturday night, 10 p.m. By Rob Peterson campus fell under darkness at ap you know, your normal engineer approximately half of the UWM The outage did not affect proximately 6:02 Saturday night, ing talk." campus was affected by malfunc the Klotsche Center, where the Wait 'til last year. causing what he called "minor in Amy Shallue, the tower man tions in a Wisconsin Electric feeder UWM Women's Basketball All season, University of Wis conveniences." ager on duty at the time of the line. team played its final home game consin-Milwaukee men's basket "The fire department had to be outage said there were a total of six "We have two main feeders against UW-Green Bay. ball coach Steve Antrim was re called to both the west wing of the people trapped in the elevators at coming into campus from Wiscon Wisconsin Electric would minded, whether it was by his library and Sandburg Hall because Sandburg. Williamson said only sin Electric," Kohel said. "One not comment on the outage. team's play on the court or by the there were people stuck in the el one student was caught in the press, of the players — Marc evators," Williamson said. "They library's elevator. Mitchell, Craig Greene and Ray got them out with no incidents." While the power outage was Perine ~ he did not have. The Post was able to talk to two stressful for those trapped in the It would have been nice to have of the stranded students after they elevators, others merely had to find the firepower of those guys to were rescued by the fire depart things to do to pass the time. play Marquette University Satur ment between the second and third Ron Torrance, Keri Ann day. floors of Sandburg's South Tower. Calabresa and Kari Loomis did so But it was Marquette, led by "We were going down and all by singing the "Star Spangled Ban seniors Jim Mcllvaine and Damon the sudden we stopped," said ner," "The Little Mermaid," Key, who had too much firepower Steve Ver.Haagh, a senior in engi "Aladdin," "Grease," "The Sound for the Panthers, as the Warriors defeatedUWM, 73-51, at the Bra dley Center Saturday. UWM finished with a 10-17 UWM award draws record, the Panthers' first losing season since 1989-90 when the Panthers went 10-18. praise, criticism Marquette, who is the top seed for the Great Midwest Conference By Brian Huber tournament, finishes the regular season with a 22-7 mark. Despite the loss, Antrim was While thousands of students in campuses across the state are preparing themselves for "the real world" where they'll drive BMWs, live in pleased with his team's effort. mansions and make large sums of money, the pictures they paint for "I was really proud of the way themselves all too often are not representative of reality. we played," Antrim said. "In the In reality, management cutbacks, increasing costs of living, unemploy first half we tried to stay in the ment indices and various other economic factors combine to create nothing game, and we did that. We tried to short of an unending battle for millions of blue-collar workers around the get a little run in the second half, country. and we did that." This scenario closely resembles one being played out here in Milwau That they did. For 25 minutes, kee; the ongoing dispute between Briggs & Stratton Corp. and the AFL- UWM kept the 16,255 people in CIO Local 7232. The fires of discord were fanned Friday when Fred Stratton, attendance, mainly Marquette Chairman and CEO of Briggs & Stratton received the Robert W. Baird faithful, on the edge of their seats. Award for Management Excellence at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency, Using a 2-2-1 zone defense to 333 W. Kilbourn Ave., before a crowd of 450 people and a small group of counter Marquette's size advan protesters in front of the building. tage inside, UWM forced The award, given annually to a Wisconsin corporation demonstrating Marquette to the outside. superior financial achievement and community involvement, is given by FINALE CONTINUED ON 11 • Robert W. Baird,Inc, in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Executive MBA Alumni Association. Arts and Entertainment: "We've had nothing but positive response from the business commu nity (in giving Stratton the award)," said Bill Kraus, assistant dean for the UWM School of Business Administration. Exhibit features variety of styles However, several people are against the award, since Briggs has made it no secret that it intends to move several jobs out of the area. By Miriam Clarke has about six shows a year. According to Stan Yasaitis, president of AFSCME Local 82 at UWM, The invaluable resource that the gallery provides "the fact is they are giving a prestigious award to a man who's destroyed Art galleries are plentiful in Milwaukee. But one of to students is as a place of real art for real folk. The thousands of jobs and threatens to move more. We're embarrassed that particular interest to students is the Katie Gingrass gallery is not a museum, the works found in the UWM is sponsoring this award." Gallery, 241N. Broadway Ave., which is currently the Gingrass gallery are intended to hang over sofas, Yasaitis said even though Briggs posted record profits for the fourth home of the Gallery Artist Show and will be present fireplaces and tables. Unlike viewing works in a mu quarter last year, the company is exporting hundreds of jobs out of the state ing the exhibit until March 15. seum, seeing art in a gallery, price tag and all, brings and to Mexico. The Gallery Artist Show features nine artists from the art to a more comfortable level for most people "Basically, Briggs & Stratton found itself in a competitively bad Wisconsin and one from Illinois. All of the paintings compared to the stuffiness often associated with art situation in the early '80s," said Kraus. "They were faced with two choices: are either still lifes or landscapes. However, all of the museums. they could do the things necessary to remain in business, or they could go artists created their subjects in their own style, from Many of the art classes at the University of Wis out of business like Allis-Chalmers did. realism to abstraction, and their own medium, from consin-Milwaukee require visits to a gallery. The "The actions taken are clearly in the best interests of the company's watercolorto oil. Gingrass gallery would be a good place to start. In survival and supplying jobs for many people." The roots of the dispute The Gallery, in existence for 13 years, is tucked addition to a helpful staff, the gallery has a cozy, warm run deep, back to 1982, when a strike ended with workers losing a lot of peacefully downtown, south of the interstate and feel to it. The space is organized with an eye towards „ benefits just to keep their jobs. According to the Local 7232 Reporter, the near MI AD. Staff member Elaine Hoth describes the openness and light. In contrast to the sometimes, works they show as contemporary art and fine crafts. AWARD CONTINUED ON 4 • They also feature a variety of jewelry. In all the gallery GALLERY CONTINUED ON 8 • Dodge dealerships and Pettit Center combine cars and skating Are you sickof militarism and violence in the United States? Well if you flood victims are, there's an organization on campus that feels the same way. What does ice skating and a new Dodge Neon have in common? An additional $20.9 million in If you said nothing, you were wrong. Jobs With Peace at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is holding aid has been made available to a general assembly meeting at 5 p.m. March 9 in Lapham Hall, room 253. The Pettit National Ice Center is sponsoring Dodge Neon Night, 4- 32,000 college students whose 6 p.m.