The Guardian, March 1, 1988

Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 3-1-1988 The Guardian, March 1, 1988 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1988). The Guardian, March 1, 1988. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -"~ ~ -~ "' "' _,_,~-~, TUESDAY MARCH 1, 1988 NUMBER 77, VOLUME XXIV ~~ WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY DAYTON, OHIO 45435 service reps. &5 daysc~ students demand dy part time WOil 40 wpm. Sendielr rosecution of attackers ~o: DNI - Lisa ~~&Ludlows11, {CPS)-About 125 black students at the members with "retribution" if they didn't 454 r 02 ersity of Massachusetts at Amherst halt an annual contest in which white r------.a.·over a campus building February 12 students used blackface makeup and lip· demand police prosecute five white synched to black singing groups' songs. ts who allegedly attacked two black "We've asked you in the past to stop ts at a dorm party. doing these kinds of things," Massey said r-----•111'"'.I conflicts, and more insistent at a special meeting called to discuss the issue, "now we're telling you to do it. If ty students to stop them, have not, there will be retribution." scores of campuses during the last Such threats, which seem to be a new school years. element of the escalation or racial ten seem to have escalated again since sions, also surfaced last fall at Columbia, start of the current term. which has been rocked by racial tensions Black students at Providence College in in recent years. e Island, for example, complained in "If you engage in racist activities," January that affirmative action officer warned Tanaquil Jones of the Concerned . Joseph Lennon didn't respond well Black Students of Columbia, "you're go they told him a black student had ing to have to deal with the justice o~ the school after being raped, and that streets.'' ·e male students had verbally harassed The responses have been immediate. At black women students. Cal-Irvine, Kappa Sigma voted to cancel Lamon resigned February 5, maintain the contest. Providence President Rev. UCB the complaints "had no serious foun John F. Cunningham promised to hire ., and that he found the school's more minority faculty members. University American Society's charges that he's of Wisconsin-Madison administrators, "profoundly offensive." responding to a fall, 1987, fight between a At the university of California-Irvine the Joe Jackson goes up for two points during Saturday's gone against UMBC. day, black student Shawn Massey See "UMA," page 2 tcned white Kappa Sigma fraternity See story on page 5. Photo by Matt Copeland obson bill gives victiins inore tiine to file claiins and would increase the maximum amount Gilyard 'aid that '\:ont1 ibutory mi,con rc..:civing the award is usually about 190 a person could receive from $25,000 to dud," or, contributing 10 one·, own crime davs, Gilyard said. $50,000. Recompense for funeral e-.;penscs or mi,fortunc in order to recei\c money, i., grounds for refusal, but, "Si-.;t y-lhc pcr fhe crime victim' reparation bill is still :ums of violenl .:•iml"S w•ll have more would also increa.,e, from $1,200 to cent of all claims resiilt in awards." pending in the senate judiciary committee lo lite claims ror a.,,i,tance in paying $2,500. The time f"O!ll filing ror a'sistancc to and has not Yt'l rel·eived a hearing. ll'al hill,, rec..:iving recompc11'e for I expense.,, and reco' e•1•1g mi\\<.'d Petrolium engineers head the list of available jobs, salary hecks with a bill 'pomored by Stale lor Dm 1d L Hob\on ( R-Sprin:,;.ficld). Seniors may look forward to more job offers despite n's bill (308) will aho ini.:rease l he nt of award victim' of ,·iolenl crimes recent crash, says College Placement Service pu•·p.,,e of the crime victims rcpara BETHLEHEM, PA (CPS)--Students of The CPC, Northwestern University and In fact, many types of majors say star bill i'. ac..:ord111g to .IO\l'ph Gilyard, the Class of 1988 generally are getting Michigan State University all publish ting salary offers are rising. or of the l 'rimc Victi1m Pro~ram in more job offers and higher starting salaries forecasts of how many companies will visit nthu,, "tn bell er 'crvc innoc~nt 'ic· than last year's grads, the College Place campuses to recruit each year. Accounting grads, for instance, are get or ,·rime in Ohio. Our goal '' to help ment Council (CPC) reported February 12. In their forecasts, released in December, ting average starting offers of $23,376, a sof ,·rime. That'' what it', all In its preliminary assessment of how stu both 7 .5 percent increase over the average July, dent job hunting has progressed since Northwestern and Michigan State predicted I 987 offer, the CPC reported. 'original crim..: victims rcparat i•.lll September, 1987, the CPC found the stock Among the other majors and average lion allow..:d only one Yl'ar at'tl·r a the crash would narrow students' job pro market crash of October 19 has had vir starting salary offers reported were to file for a.,.,i,tance rrnm the ,talc. spects somewhat as corporations, worried tually no effect on corporate recruiting of mechanical engineers ($29, I 00), allied c didn't fccl one year was enough that a recession would follow, said they new grads, even those with masters of health graduates ($24,048),nursing students lhc trauma sometime·., involved. Wc were cutting their hiring by five percent. business administration degrees. ($24,444), banking and finance grads ht mor,· time would be necdcd," Petroleum engineering majors are doing The CPC last week said preliminary rd said. ($22,056), human resources majors the best, getting average starting salary of feedback from placement offices on 153 ($19,284), hotel and restaurant students bson•., mea<,ure would allow v1cti1m fers of $33,432, said CPC spokeswoman campuses indicates companies have not ($9,032), advertising majors ($18,567) and ;(., lent crimes up to two years, instead Dawn Gulick. scaled down ther hiring after all. journalism grads ($18,624). • after the crime to file for a claim, ~-··.,.,•a••to<• ....... More students needed in engineering according to NSF (CPS)--More students told a joint meeting of the population. If they're not attracting women and science and engineering torates awarded in the need to major in engineer American Physical Society tempted into the field, there minorities to science and decline, more and more United States each yeai ing, the National Science will be a shortage of scien and American Association engneering," Bloch said. foreign students earn Although many stay 1 Foundation (NSF) warned of Physics Teachers. tists in the nation, The NSF is the chief source technical degrees. Foreign this country and contri last month. to American scientific Bloch said a greater regardless of how well of federal funding for students earn one-fifth of gess and the economy, If they don't, the US will percentage of students need funded scientific projects nonmedical and nonmilitary the science doctorates, one- could change quickly. Jose its competitive edge in to be lured into science are. research. third of the mathematics "It is bad policy to~ science and engineering, because there are simply ''Fewer young people in Ironically, as the numbers doctorates and more than pend on a resource we NSF Director Erich Bloch fewer young people in the creases the importance of of Americans who enter half of the engineering doc not control," Bloch s« UI ignores• own policy, refuses to publish magazine• ting at the school, pu (CPS)--The University of sity's Printing Services respective of content," in said committee member and ministration blatantly ig apologize for the incidel Iowa will not publish an violated school policy for terim president Richard Iowa law professor Robert nored and actually refused and compensate the L edition of a national lesbian bidding discrimination Remington does not agree Clifton. to listen to the findings of magazine because it con against homosexuals by that the university the committee: a university- Alliance for costs in tains photographs of nude refusing to print Common discriminated against the "The committee has ex by the decision not to women, although such a LiveslLesbian Lives, a na Lesbian Alliance, and plans pressed concern about the mandated committee publish the. magazine. tional lesbian culture to uphold the printing ban central administration's established to protect Lesbian Alliance has s ban may violate Iowa's until a further investigation willingness to be their own human rights," said Tracy UI for revenues lost by human rights policy forbid magazine published by the judge in its own case," he Moore, a magazine staff ban. ding discrimination against UI Lesbian Alliance. is completed. said. member. gays. But despite the commit- Remington's decision to "After having had our The Human Rights Com Iowa's Human Rights tee's recommendation to ignore the committee's case looked at and voted on mittee asked UI to adopt a Committee says the univer print the magazine "ir finding is unprecedented, by the committee, the ad new policy governing prin error, until the litigatiot resolved. Less than two percent of today's stud_ents pass '62 Miss.

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