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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 10-14-1983 The Utah Statesman, October 14, 1983 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, October 14, 1983" (1983). The Utah Statesman. 1468. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/1468 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, October 14, 1983 UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, Utah 16 Pages --------1 lnaidt: lnaide: The '83-'84 academic year may only be To call it a weekend of headaches would be Inside: four weeks long for Nigerian students at an extreme understatement , as Spectrum Inside: USU. The Nigerian government, you see, Productions prepares for its biggest week- Inside: owes some money ............... Page 3 end in USU history. ... Page ll Blanche and friends tell of women of West By KRISTI GLJSSMEYER staff writer If you want to know the history of western women in the 1800s, don't ask Deborah Blanche - she won't tell you. But her friends will. Her friends know the West because, one century ago, they lived the \.Yest. and dramatist Blanche brought six of them to life for a USU Convocations audience in the Kent Concert Hall Thursday. First, Blanche dusted the diary ol su lragene and newspaper editor Abigail Scott Dunaway. With a lace cap as prop, Blanche became the energet-ic, vote·seeking uunaway, who, at tlU, still spoke out tor women s nghts. "We're not looking 10 take anything away from our men partners.'' said Dunaway. She was just looking to free the mother sex from servitude without salary. "Remember, women can tear down, if they aren't allowed to build up." The sherrifl rode her into town only to find a crowd cheering its welcome to "Darin' Lady Bandit, Arizona's Own Wild Western not stand trial under any law that her sex had no The audience also me1 Josepha, a Mexican voice in making. cantina dancer, who found bigotry in the was her1elf and As an actress, Blanche created her wes1 and was hung by drunken miners; William Kathy (or Kathy Williams), a black then 10me, as she characters, the stage. with its dressing described heroes screen, stool and 1wo chairs, became woman who posed as a man lO get into the of the female a parlor, a s1agecoach trail, a camp, army: Eliza Gilbert, alias Lola, an eccentric gender during the actress who kepi a pel grizzly bear in her 1800.. yard; and finally, Pecos Valley pioneer Bar• Thf" metamorphosis was even more bara "Maam" Jones, mother of 10, who true· ro·life when Pearl posed for her pulled real tears from the audience when adoring "Arizonan audience" and a writing in her journal about the death of her newspaper pho1ographer in che front son, who was killed at war. row clicked his camera. ''Women of1he V'{cs1,'' a one·woman "Oh, he wants 10 take show, was researched, wriuen and performed another," said Pearl. by Blanche alone. The women she portrayed came right from the history pages. So, she posed again Who is her favorite character? She said she and the photographer doesn't like to pick favori1es - "I'm afraid took another. the others would get mad." Pe.lie 2 The Utah Statesman Friday, October 14, 1983 Stit~sman --------- U~PSHt-MO William Clark named interior secretary 81STYEAR NUMBER 9 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan list of contenders for the interior post, and vir Otcl\t l•r••I••• · , , , , . , , ..... , •dltor Mkh.acl ~W ..... .. eat. •dltor au, l.&H ,.,, .... ... a .. a1lt1I editor Erkh Gro••• · , .... .. ph.oto •dltor on Thursday named William P. Clark, his na tually no one had mentioned Clark as being on Pa,ol& Stl\.Uaflk:h. ••••• aHoc . editor &nae:• Ad&aa • •••• , , , , , ad• . "'"'' · tional securi1y adviser and "a God-fearing it. .,oh• loocart , ...... apona adltor Vllcra. Robbl•• · ...• .. prod ..... ,, . Westerner," to succeed James Watt as According to deputy press secre tary Lar ry Jar W&aalcy .....• lacv.lty ad•l•er secretary of the interior . Speakes, Reagan didn't even tell his inner cir Clark , a longtime Reagan confidante , cle of advisers he was considering Clark until LETTER PO LICY· The editor or less will receive first con already is one of the most powerful men in the just hours before revealing the decision publi c reserves the nght to ed11 or to s1dera11on. Letters must be administration. ln moving from the national ly. Speakes said Clark hadn't asked for the job; refuse lo prmt any lener Leners ,;1gned by the author , and must 11 1ha1 are typewritt en. 1n good mclude the s1uden1 number and security post that put Henry A. Kissinger and "It was the president's idea. t a,;1e. and limned to 600 words phone numbe r Zbigniew Brzenski on the global stage, Clark Clark, 52, said he was "pleased and honored would appear to be taking a step down in all that the president has expressed his confidence but tide. in me by this nomination, and look forward to But "He is a God-fearing Westerner, a continuing my service to him and this ad i111111111111111111111111111111tt11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 fourth generation rancher, a person I trust and ministration." I think he will be a great secretary of the in But the environmental community, including terior ," Reagan said. the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth The president made the stunning announce and The Sierra C lub , criticized the appoint ment at the end of a talk to women leaders of ment and expressed bewilderment that Reagan Christian religious organ izations. White House would choose someone with no apparent officials ear lier had talked of a "rea lly long" background in conservation issues . ~=-'- if;z~:~~ckedI~- • we stack the ingredients • s Not just a couple of pepperonies s Faulty nozzle may prevent shuttle launch i we smothe r the pizza. i WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of experts The protective lining on one of Challenger's analyzed records at a Utah rocket plant Thurs two bell-shaped solid rocket nozzles was made i •We stack up against the compet- day to learn why a faulty rocket nozzle nearly from Batch 1042. Engineers exam inin g the ition. spelled troub le in August for the space shuttle nozzle after its recovery from the Atlantic Challenger and its crew. NASA held on to Ocean discovered that the three-inch coating • we stack our subs with only fading hopes the mystery can be resolved so the had burned down to two-tenths of an inch. fresh ingredients. next shuttle can be launched Oct. 28. Normally only about half the linin g erodes Some officials said the problem almost cer away under the seari ng exhaust temperatures tainly will delay the next liftoff one to four of 5,700 degrees Fahrenheit. comp,t,10·, '"""'"' months. A decision on whether to delay may Astronaut Daniel Brand enstein, who piloted w, ":"" not be made for several days. the flight, told CBS News Wednesday that the The rocket specia lists, from severa l aerospace nozzle would have burned through if the pizza, ··a,ve the King companies, were poring over documentation to rockets had fired for another 2. 7 seconds. He ;: determine whether Batch 1042 of Fiberite, a · said the burnthrough would have been king aA1ny carbon phenolic material, contained bad ingre "catastrophic" and speUed "curtains" for the i clients. They worked with conflicting data. five astronauts . § 753-2400 1095 No Maini Israel's finance minister resigns post I Check with guarantee card only! i TEL AVIV, Isreal (AP) - Finance Minister Aridor said it was clear his plan would fail Yoram Aridor Thursday proposed linking the the Cabinet "and I saw no possibility of con ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHtUIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHtllllllllllH~ Israeli economy to the U.S. dollar, but resign tributing any more ... I have concluded that I ed from the government hours later in the face must resign from the Cabinet," Aridor said. of stiff opposition. His resignation spelled the end of the revolu· Aridor ' s short-lived economic proposal was tionary "do llarizat ion" plan less than 12 hours EENTER STREET announced in the midst of a severe economic after it was first reponed to the public. crisis and set off a political storm. Opposition In a 45-minute interview with Israe l radio, RE5T-Al1R-ANT politicians as well as some of Aridor's Cabinet broadcast live to the nation, Aridor had colleagues claimed that it spelled the end of declared, "I want to chang e the rules of the Israeli independence . economic game.'' Aridor came out of an emergency Cabinet Aridor used the term "do lJarizat ion" and meeting two hours later and announced his said it would be the third stage of an overall resignation to reporters. program. The Secret is out The Best Deli Sandwich is in T ownz~ Homecoming Special ~ .,,..:::s:! Fri & Sat FREE Drink with Sandwich ~ ~ ~ - • ..• .. ·· Sunday ONLY All Sandwiches $2.00 Where Everything is Home Made Cold Pop-Coldest Beer In town UNIQUE HOME COOKED DINING HISTORIC ARTISTIC ATMOSPHERE Checks cashed without hassles HIGHEST QUALITY OF FINE DINING full line of groceries HL·...,1..·rn 1ti1111.... tc1r TUE THURS JJJO . ◄ M TO 900PM. 5o r llllH i: FRI SAT 1/JOA.M. TOIOOOPM 752-1900 SUNDAY JOOOA.M. TO 100PM. Sbauy's llarkct FANT,iSTIC SUNDAY BRUNCHES 129 Nonh 1st East CLOSED MONDAY 416 Bo. 500 E. The Utah Statesman Friday, October 14, 1983 Palle 3 University doors may close to Nigerians Nearly 70 Nigerian students and Nigeria stopped making who have come to the United scholarship payments to their States to attend school will not students in other countries.