Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 27 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 4-21-1993 Lanthorn, vol. 27, no. 28, April 21, 1993 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol27 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 27, no. 28, April 21, 1993" (1993). Volume 27. 28. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol27/28 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 27 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Where does our money go, anyway? Student Senate allocates m funds to organizations B y Janet Meana it was tabled until die follow­ Lanthom, it is not possible to * v) i \ o o t e f ^ Staff Writer ing week. The Lanthom's produce die kind of paper we original budget request of want to produce without it." The Student Senate ap­ $23,000 had been reduced to LaFond hasbeen invited to the HAMBURGERS proved all but one of the 1993- $20,000 by the Allocations next Student Senate meeting to 94 student organization's Committee. A few senators explain the Lanthom's request. budgets last Thursday thathad felt it should have been re­ The money that is allocated by been recommended by the OPEN SOON duced even further. the Student Senate comes from MCDONALDS Student Senate Allocations According to Gary LaFond, the student life fee that is col­ Committee. the business manager for the lected from every full-time un­ The Senate could not reach Lanthom, the $20,000 will be dergraduate student each se­ an agreement on the used for off-campus printing. mester. The $20 student life fee Lanthom's budget, therefore "It is the livelihood of the Please see MONEY, p. 3 Ressler traces history of serial killers By Beth Grienke Entertainment Editor 'Tm having a friend over for dinner." In the movie Silence of the Lambs, this simple phrase took on a grisly significance when the fictious G r^l^Skooteri H^lo McDohald'sQassic. psychopath Hannibal Lechter r.'I^April 2$ (Anthony Hopkins) said it, «* the building that housed Skooiera.' , referring to the cannibal meaning The new McDonald's will have a drive-thru and a walk-up of actually eating a friend. .window,, bt&'fld dirihglrobitt; ;E)^pf^ttring tffebusiest times, Robert Ressler, the founder and speakers will not be used in the drive-thru. Instead, McDonald's director of the FBI's elite Violent to Randy Price, Criminal Apprehension Program, I owner, who feels that rv’k^':jwilt be' ritore personable lectured on die phenomenon of withou t thespeakers*. "real-life monsters" on April 15 in I Price, who also owns tl B>nvilleMcDonaId's, stated drat Kirkhof Center. He is responsible | they decided to have the t t rant as a test for d rive-forus only | for coining the term "serial killer" because of the nature of | ritiing, but if there are problems, to describe this type of criminal. png room. j Ressler took excerpts from his “ I t p.m. during the new book Whoever Fights Pifthereisalarge Monsters: Sexual Homiride and demand, theyi ater during the week. I Serial Killers and showed slides as ■ The menu vl alf to two thirds of the normal he traced the history of serial killers UtlowerthanotherMcDanald's| and why they are becoming more Hi | drive-thru only/ resulting in prevalent in society. hamburgers, small fries, and Throughout the talk, Ressler l menu excludes foods thatare mixed humor with the frightening u ltto eati lias salads and hotcakes.— d facts of the existence of these muiu bt nuuu buotman murderers, helping to keep a very jeffectof Robert Ressler, founder and director of the FBI's violent criminal serious subject from becoming too ^ABendalj rreiustprayingthatmestuda^ts apprehension program, shared stories and a slide presentation about overwhelming. ^andfoatfoeyneed serial killers roith Grand Valley students. Please see SERIAL, p. 3 Non-traditional students voice different needs •• :<v -X •• ••' By Janet Meana vice-president of the an education." Staff Writer Community Affairs The survey showed that non- School of Ed requirements raised Committee. traditional students are not By Chris Olsen great numbers, but individuals Non-traditional students, age Currently, Grand Valley has interested in a social life on Staff Writer who have demonstrated that 25or older, have concemsabout 961 full-time and 1/488 part- campus. Most work full time and they have the academic ability child care, financial aid and the time non-traditional students. doret have the time to become Students planning to apply for to teach," Allen Ten Eyck, various fees that are added to "Non-traditional students involved in campus activities. the Grand Valley's School of Director of the School of their tuition, according to the attend Grand Valley State Over 70 percent oppose the Education must study a little Education. results of a survey conducted University because of our student life fe e because they are harder and practice up on their The fact that other by the Student Senate. strong academic reputation, too busy to attend the events interviewing techniques if departments have a higher The Community Affairs good programs and the funded by the fee. wanted to be accepted. grade point requirements and Community sent out 2,000 convenient location of the "Mostnon-traditional students The minimum requirement more overall competition was surveys to non-traditional Allendale and Grand Rapids are family oriented and most gradepcrintaverage will be raised cited as a reason for the students at foe beginning of die campuses," said Peter Taaros, programs on campus are focused frxmi 25 to2.8, while the interview increased qualifications. 1993winter semester to mid out a member of the Student toward only the traditional for acceptance into the school of Ten Eyck said that Grand their concerns and suggestions. Senate's Community Affairs student," Taaros said. education will be weighted on a Valley is looking for that special About 40 percent of the surveys Committee. They suggested that the student point basis. The interview in the person to become an educator were returned. "Generally these students life fee be lowered or eliminated for past was not formally scored out of the Grand Valley "We felt for die longest time already have families and them or made optional upon the person's knowledge program. Around 100 that the non-traditional They abo suggested moreevening they're already settled down and performance during the applicants for the school would students haven't really been daseesykxiger hours for the Ebeihard in this area," Wood said. interview. be accepted each semester. heard," said Headier Wood, Center computer labs, more dasses "Basically they're here to get "Weare not looking to graduate Pitas* see NEEDS, p. 3 ace he anthorn pril P 2 T L A 21,1993 difficult Unlike California farm workers who work in the same Junior wins location year round, the Florida Just say no... to grapes farm workers migrate to where By Janet Meana have been contaminated foryears. Ricardo Meana, a former law the work is. The farm workers are trip to Africa Staff Writer Chavez told of "cancer dusters' professor at Grand Valley, who also intimidated by foe ranchers Stephanie Mack, a junior in in foe grape growing valleys of not to report incidents concerning now lives in Ruskin, Fla. and finance, was awarded a The pesticides used on table California, north of Los Angeles: pesticides. works with farm workers there, national grand prize trip for grapes causes cancer, •McFarland, a community* hasn't bought California grapes Meana said he also had a lot of two to Senegal, Africa. miscamages,dermatitis,sterility with a population of about6,000, in years. individual cases involving The topic of the essay dealt and birth defects in agricultural has a 800 percent higher cancer He likens foe defense of foe pesticides when he practiced law workers and may also be rate than foe national average in agriculture community of m Grand Rapids. 'In Michigan, with the most significant dangerous for foe consumer as children between the ages of 4 California to the tobacco industry. the farm worker's housing is contribution of African- well, said Cesar Chavez in a and 12. "It'sfoesamedamnthing/'Meana frequently close to the field." The Americans in foe past 20 years. speech at Louis Armstrong •Earlimart, about 15 miles said. "They get some of their own wind )would carry airborne Mack focused on rap music's Theatre Friday morning. north, has a cancer rate 1200 lured whores who get up there pesticides into their homes. - -■> influence on our society, saying Chavez, 66, president of foe percent higher than foe national and say 'we haven't established a "It's only logical, if you keep that it is a medium with which United Farm Workers of average. positive link yet'" . poisoning;somebody,over the the voices of today's youth can America, isadvocatingaboycott "These cancer dusters are very Meana is foe chairman of foe short term that it's going to have express their ideas. of table grapes to send a message technical andnow,ofcourse, very board of foe Ruskin Migrant and some effect on their morbidity," Mack won first place at the tothefarmownersthatpesticides controversial, but foe victims are Community Health Carter. He Meana said. university and state level for are dangerous. very human, very innocent and recalls an incident about two and Chavez was brought to Grand the "Heritage and Pride" essay "The boycott is to encourage very small," Chavez said.