The Anchor, Volume 103.22: April 10, 1991
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Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1991 The Anchor: 1990-1999 4-10-1991 The Anchor, Volume 103.22: April 10, 1991 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1991 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 103.22: April 10, 1991" (1991). The Anchor: 1991. Paper 10. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1991/10 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 103, Issue 22, April 10, 1991. Copyright © 1991 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1990-1999 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1991 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News Sports Index Speakers offer Lacrosse looks Editorial p. 6 similar solutions for revenge Opinion p. 7 for Palestinians against Albion Arts p. s -Page 2 --Page 10 Hope Co,|e e /a rw\t ^ 1 Bulk Rate U.S. Postage PAID Permit *392 A 1 he anchor Holland Ml April 10,1991 Upholding the principles of a free press Volume 103, Number 22 Hourly hike will • 4 Handicapped Awareness Week was n celebrated April 1-5 on campus, benefit some, and a variety of events were offered. Here, Karl Wilt ('93) and r': Gilda VanSkiver( 91) participate in not all, students the wheelchair simulation so that they can better understand what it is like to be confined to a by Sharon Roebuck But, "It wouldn't make much of a wheelchair. Other simulations features editor difference because money is taken offered during the week Included ^April 1, 1991 marks the first out for taxes anyway," Nienhuis hearing impairment, loss of sight day for the increase of the added and learning disability. Last minimum wage rate. Instead of the Can the situation be remedied? Thursday featured a soundless $3.80 per hour that students Like any real world situation, Hope talent show In which members of received upon starting an has a limited budget. "We can't the sign language club as well as on campus job , the beginning increase the budget because we others performed a show that was geared toward those with hearing rate is now $4.25. haven't been given the money," impairment and loss. "It makes me feel good that said director of Human Resources, Photo by Rich Blair we're getting a decent student Bruce Himebaugh. wage," said Jane Holman of the • Himebaugh explained that the Physical Education department in Student Employment budget is a the Dow Center. mixture of Hope dollars and federal 'We can't Increase the budget because we haven't been given the money.' WTHS raises nearly $1,300 -Bruce Hlmbaugh by Scott A. Kaukonen "We should come out into the tickets to the Jane's Addiction Students Christina Rutgers ('93) subsidies that the school applies for news editor clear when it all balances out (at concert at Wings* Stadium in and Jennifer Kapusinski ('92) agree each year to pay for campus work the end of the year)," said Short Kalamazoo, May 10. According to because, as Kapusinski said, the 1 study hours. The budget amounts In an effort to raise money to "We're saving money in other areas Brandt, a 50 year-old housewife, increase will only benefit them to $ 1,200,00, $200,00 comes from meet its budget, WTHS-FM (89.9), and we won't be on the air this "who loves WTHS." won the since they weren't being paid above the government and the $1 million the Hope College radio station, summer." pledge battle and the tickets with a the minimum old rate anyway. from Hope. held a radiothon this past week. pledge of $106, securing the win But there may be some Beginning at 4 p.m. Monday, The station managed to raise by $1. students who are disgruntled and DJs went on the air, asking for "If that (subsidy) didn't come $1282.46, surpassing the feel that there is a disadvantage to pledges and awarded premiums to The radiothon also included a in there would be less money for expectations of station general the increase. The disadvantage is listeners based on the amount of live broadcast from Phelps cafeteria student employment ," he said. manager Martha Brandt and similar to that of any job in the money they pledged. All premiums and a dance Friday night Students on campus work-study can business manager Heidi Short. "real working world" where an were donated to the station. receive up to $500.00 per semester "We were trying to raise increase in the minimum wage may "We had a really good response which is paid by the government money from listeners we don't A pledge of $5 or more could mean new employees earning the from the community. They were according to their needs. normally get money from," said equivalent of what their experienced earn a CD or cassette single, saying they're really going to hate Brandt. "It works well at other counterparts earn. EP, or even full-length album. A not having us on the air during the Any money made over their stations, and it's a good way to Students who were being paid $30 pledge was worth a lawn- summer," said Short. awarded amount is paid by learn who our listeners are." above the previous $3.80 wage will raking by WTHS staff. Fifty Hope. Human Resources According to its Student now be paid the exact amount of dollars earned the donor a guest DJ According to Brandt, about 75 allocates the money from the Congress-appropriated budget, $4.25 without any further raises, at spot with their favorite WTHS DJ. percent of the pledges came from Student Employment budget to WTHS must raise $5000 through least not the first year. The station also gave away pizzas, community members, while about each department and monitors the underwriting and fund-raising to Jodi Nienhuis ('93) and Jason movie tickets and dinners 25 percent came from Hope expenditures each year. help fund itself. According to Everts ('93), both agree that the including one with Brandt and students. Short noted that the Short, WTHS is roughly halfway above situation is not a fair one. station advisor Reed Brown. donations from the community * •.* See Wage.'P. 3 to its requirement. P i v- The highest pledge won two were generally lai^er. * M Page 2 the anchor April 10, 1991 News Mid-East peace mediator presents Muste Lecture by Jill Sandor Thousands of others remain modicum of national pride and communism in Europe, Padnos said the urgency of the need to end staff writer scattered throughout the Middle security.*' that the dominant element in the occupation of the territories. Daniel Padnos, a peace mediator East and the world as a result of the Padnos said that the peace peace movement today is the group, "When the Intafada began, ii in the Middle East, spoke last week Palestinian Diaspora. Although movement contains many "Peace Now". became clear to every part of (he for Hope's annual Musto lecture. Palestinians in Israel are Communists, liberals and people This is an organization of Zionist peace movement that occupation AJ. Muste was a Hope student well-educated, they maintain a low with a Marxist or socialist Jews that works to end Israeli and peace cannot go together. Ii is and anchor editor who became a economic status and are subject to background. "This, the left, is occupation in the territories the Palestinian people themselves peace activist. The Muste^ discriminatory practices. a very important part of the peace Padnos said it is the largest and who said so." Memorial Committee was formed The "peace movement" refers to movement," he said. most influential group in the Israeli Another extremely important to present an annual lecture in his several organizations of Jews and .. peace movement. "It, Peace Now, development, Padnos said, was the honor. Palestinians that work toward is the only movement that can PLO recognition of Israel's right to Padnos. a native of Holland various common goals related to amass move than 10,000 people in exist. This act united Peace Now Michigan, emigrated to Israel am resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. a single demonstration," he said. with the leftist elements and helped graduated from Haifa University. establish the PLO as the legit imate He currently woilcs with the Israeli 'When the Intaffada began, representative of the Palestinian peace movement towards a solution it became clear to every people. 'This, the left, Is a very to the Arab-Israeli dispute. part of the peace However, Padnos said thai the Important part of the Padnos became involved in the movement that occupation PLO was weakened by "embracing" peace movement.' peace movement when he first came and peace cannot go Saddam Hussein in the war, calling together.' -Padnos to Israel in 1976. Raised in the this act "tragic". He said that -Daniel Padnos Reformed Jewish tradition and Western governments were partly to committed to ideals of social • blame for weakening the "positive justice, Padnos was struck by the "The ultimate goal of the peace He also mentioned the women's elements" of the PLO. inferior economic standing of the movement is a peaceful solution of movement as an important element "I believe it was the lack.of Palestinians in Israel. So he joined the Arab-Israeli dispute through an Daniel Padnos in the peace process. Padnos talked response of the Israeli government an association of Jews and Arabs to end to occupation in the territories Photo by Rich Blair about several important de- and the U.S.