The BG News April 30, 1982

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-30-1982 The BG News April 30, 1982 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 30, 1982" (1982). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3992. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3992 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Tfie weather Mostly sunny today. High near 70. Low to- night in the low to mid good 40s. 20 percent chance morning BG News of precipitation. Friday Bowling Green State University April 30, 1982 Students rally against education budget cuts by Jean Dlmeo the budget cuts or sign up for the Ohio senior staff reporter Student Association rally in Columbus on May 6. "Save our schools!" Dolan said permission for the rally "Books not bombs!" was granted by Dr. Donald Ragusa, "Stop the cut backs - fight back!" dean of students. Campus Safety and Chants of concerned students rang Security also was contacted. out at the march and rally at the Cindy Cooper, a sophomore film University yesterday protesting bud- studies major who joined the march, get cuts to education. said she is here on a scholarship and The march and rally, sponsored by does not have the money to go to the Social Justice Committee and the college if her aid gets cut. Undergraduate Student Government, "I believe in the demonstration and began at Peregrine Pond at about 3:30 what they are trying to do," she said. p.m. The march traveled across campus, Dale Mauch, a sophomore elemen- reaching Williams Hall at 4:10 pjn. tary education major, called the cuts About 50 people marched and about to education ridiculous. "I couldn't 200 attended the rally. get a loan this year and it wasn't Mark Dolan, USG national, state because I didn't have the grades," he and community affairs coordinator, said, adding he hopes he can make it said he was pleased with the turnout. though school next year. Dolan and Kent Morse, an SJC "They (students) helped stop the member, organized the march and Vietnam War through demonstrations rally along with several other mem- so it should be easier to do so with bers of SCJ and USG. budget cuts," he said. MORSE WAS contacted by The All "PEOPLE THINK students who Peoples Congress, a national grass- protest are weird," Mauch said. roots organization in Washington, USG, SJC and Latino Student Union D.C., about the protest, held nation- representatives spoke at the rally and ally at universities yesterday. the floor - or lawn - was open up to Morse said afterward he hoped the anyone wishing to voice an opinion. rally would build a student group to Bruce Johnson, USG president, said support USG and help them act on the he wants students to take their mes- situation. sage to Columbus at the OSA rally. "The foundation is there but it just "We are sick and tired of paying needs to grow," he said, adding that if more and getting less," he said. there was an organized group, stu- Johnson said Ohio stands to lose $64 dents could mobilize at a national million for education in 1983 from the demonstration. federal government, with a 30 percent reduction made in the Pell and Sup- Morse said a meeting will be held plementary Educational Opportunity May S in 208 Hanna Hall to organize grants. students for letter-writing campaigns "Awards to Bowling Green students protesting budget cuts and to make will be cut from 7,230 to 3,904 next them aware of the effects of the cuts. year," he said. Dolan said its purpose was to in- form students about budget cuts and "They (the cuts) will result in fewer how they are affecting them. students being able to get their life- long goal of education. Why must the "WE JUST hope students will take federal government spend $1.5 trillion BG News photo/Ron Hagler action," he said, adding they should to destroy our future?" Johnson Students marched yattarday In protest of state and fadaral budgat cuts. Tha protaat started at Peregrine Pond and ended In a rally on tha steps ol Williams Hall. register to vote, pick up pamphlets on 8Sked- see RALLY page 4 Soviets play 'catch-up' in arms race, build new missiIes Columbus rally stresses freeze on nuclear arms proliferation Editor's note: This is the last in a threaten to destroy all the major unless kept at extremely low temper- could not be destroyed in a first-strike race, Marion Anderson, director of of your pocket to go to the Pentagon three-part series on a two-day rally in European cities, they couldn't survive atures, she explained. effort by the U.S. Employment Research Associates could have instead heen spent on your Columbus pushing for a freeze on a first strike attack. In reality, they In water and air, the Soviets face "WE'RE THINKING IN pre-nu- and a keynote speaker at the rally, child's education, or to save some- nuclear proliferation by the United have more reason to stop the arms sizeable disadvantages, Forsberg clear terms - the capability of de- said. one's job. Believe me, the Pentagon's States and the Soviet Union. race than the United States does said. Their strategic submarines are stroying the enemy forces and "We don't have to wait for a war," shower of gold theory is a bunch of now." vulnerable to the sophisticated anti- winning a war," she said. "This is not Anderson said. "Two million people junk." by Linda Perez A keynote speaker at the two-day submarine capabilities of the U.S., a numbers game. We're moving to- are out of work because of the $187 The ideology that high military senior staff reporter rally in Columbus, sponsored by the Britain and Japan, she said. ward a qualitatively different era. million military budget in Congress. expenditures generate jobs is a myth Reverse the Arms Race Conference of "All three have sonar rays that can For the first 20 years, we have been Believe me, plenty ofthem are starv- that started during the depression, COLUMBUS - While some Ameri- Ohio, Forsberg is credited with writ- see from which direction the subma- the ones with not only more weapons ing right now." she said. Instead of $80 billion spent cans may question whether the Soviet ing the first nuclear freeze proposal in rines are coming, and can send nu- but with more accurate weapons. We for weapons during 1932-39, produc- Union can be trusted to abide by a 1979, which has served as a model for clear torpedoes and depth charges to could threaten a preemptive strike. FOR EVERY $1 BILLION sent to tion could have been spent for the nuclear weapons freeze, not enough several states. destroy them," Forsberg said."The "Yet no matter what one side does the Pentagon from taxpayers' money, building of hospitals and roads, and attention is paid to whether the United USSR does not have this sonar and first, the other side has the capability $187 million is denied to government- the Depression would have ended, States poses a threat to Soviet secu- SOVIET TECHNOLOGY, in gen- ... are not designed to go after subs of launching hundreds of nuclear war- funded social service organizations, Anderson said. rity, Randall Forsberg, president for eral, is underdeveloped compared to but ships." heads to obliterate the side who went $163 million is not spent in the produc- "For 30 years we've been seeing the the Institute of Defense and Disarma- the state of U.S. technology, she said, first." tion of durable goods and $188 million sustained deterioration of our techno- ment Studies, said. citing the liquid-fueled ICBM technol- But since the early 1970s, the Sovi- It has been estimated that more does not go into state and local gov- logical capacities," she said."At last "The fact is that for 20 years, the ogy of the Soviets as obsolete com- ets have been trying to play nuclear than 100 million persons would die in a ernments, she said. we're beginning to see the evil fruit of Soviet Union has had 500 missiles pared to the U.S. solid-fuel MX catch-up with the Ui>. and have devel- nuclear war between the U.S. and the "Military manufacturing buys a lot the arms race as America itself is pointed at the U.S. - old, not used." missiles. Liquid fuel, unlike solid fuel, oped a large force of underground Soviets. Yet people are dying in our of machinery instead of people." An- being turned by its leaders into a Forsberg said. "While they could cannot be stored for long periods land-based missiles - missiles that country already because of the armed derson said^Theinoneyyoutakeout second-rate industrial power." INSIDE Economy straps couple Less than a year later, the plant buying a house. We have a baby on the shut down, leaving Kretzschmar and way. I have to have a job in four Next week: the about 30 others jobless. weeks. I'd like to think I will, but economy's Im- Kretzschmar, who was fifth in se- nothing's opening up right now," he pact on stu- niority at the plant, had left an inse- said.

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