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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 28 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 3-30-1994 Lanthorn, vol. 28, no. 25, March 30, 1994 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol28 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 28, no. 25, March 30, 1994" (1994). Volume 28. 25. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol28/25 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 28 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ! i i l p i Zim merman speaks on situation in ex-Yugoslavia (irand \allcv State l rmersitv March 30, 1994 by D m M oore Staff Writer new Former United States ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmerman concluded a two-day celebration that commemorated the 20-year relationship between Grand Valley State University by Greg Reed and the University of Sarajevo with a speech entitled “The Staff Writer situation in Bosnia” at Cook-DeWitt Cenyer on Tuesday, March Film Professor Girbe Eefsting's 16mm II class is doing . 22 something most film classes don’t have the opportunity to do. Zimmerman resigned from the State Department, protesting As opposed to shooting their comedy film, Life Yucks in 16mm, the U.S.'s policy on Bosnia. the class will use “Super 16mm," allowing the film to be Forest Armstrong, dean of arts and humanities at GVSU, blown up to 35mm, the size of professional films seen in the provided a brief introduction. We are in what Richard Rhodes theater. called a post-modem era, in which the president faces a dilemma, GVSU becomes only the third university to make a film said Armstrong. in 35mm, joining the University of Southern California and “Foreign policy matters require broad scale cooperation, the American Film Institute. secured abroad from nations whose interests differ from.our own, “It gives the film a more professional look,” said class and at home from the divided Congress and public,” Armstrong member Leonard Jones. said. “George Bush succeeded in this Post-Modem task with the The two previous films produced by Eefsting's classes, Gulf War, but he was unable to do so in Yugoslavia, nor has Bill. To Overlook Beauty, a film dealing with teen suicide, and Clinton been able to do so. Clinton who you will recall was elected Seizu re,* suspense thriller, were shot and shown in regular at the one brief period in our lifetime when foreign policy was not 16mm. high on our nation's agenda.” Like the previous two films. L ife Yucks will premiere at Zimmerman began on the complex situation in the Balkans Studio 28. Eefsting said his class is up against a tight deadline with a few memories of Sarajevo. He spoke of the street cars in to reach the tentative premiere dates of May 24-26. ‘65 that had ‘D.C. Transit’ painted on the side. Washington had Unlike the two previous films. L ife Yucks is a comedy sold the street cars to Sarajevo years earlier. There was also a made up of a compilation of skits written by the students in market where people came from all ethnic groups wearing all kinds the class. of different clothes and costumes. Not only are the skits written by the class members, but He also remembered one particular hotel room, for it was the the entire movie production (lighting, sound, directing, acting, same room that Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife had slept producing, and the other hundreds of things that go into in the day before he was assassinated in 1914. making a film) is also being done by the class. “Sleeping in that room reminded me of the permanence of the Jones felt that this experience was beneficial. Not only violence of human life,” said Zimmerman. did he write his skit, B arney X, but he also had the opportunity to direct it, along with other responsibilities on other skits. I Tw o film students se t u p the cam era fo r the Photo by Erik Holliday “You work lights on one shoot. You do sound on another next shot in the film "LifeYucks." shoot You'll be the boom operator on another shoot...so we all get experience with these jobs that make up our whole ti field," Jones said. In shooting a 35mm film, the budget for L ife Yucks has t . # , It's really funny. It's more than doubled those of To Overlook Beauty and Seizure. That's where the discounts from three Chicago businesses hilarious, actually help out The class will be getting what Jones called “student discounts” from Astro Films, which will process the film; ------------Leonard Jones Zenith Studios, which will produce the soundtrack; and SMS Productions, where the students rented their cameras. Director o f ”Barney X " As both Eefsting and Jones noted, the class is also Please see F IL M p . 3 $ ’ - I r i ■. t i. i GVSU's version of Big Ben: the Carillon tower cast, all in Europe. “The bells are being cast by the Royal Eijsbouts Foundry in W arren Zim m erm an speaks to a fu ll house a t the Photo by Erik Holbdiy . by Shane P.Sxalal Cook-DeWitt Center. Staff Writer : Asten, the Netherlands. The bells will be of such high quality that carillonneurs from around the world will want to play them.” “In all, I remember Sarajevo as a city where you went to relax GVSU may not have Big Ben, but its students will have "There are only 150 carillons in the entire U.S.,” said and to have fun. The city prided itself on exhibiting the best something quite similar this fall. V anS teeland. GVSU's carillon willbeoneofonly three in Michigan elements of the different cultures which made it up and which By this November, bells will toll on GVSU’s campus. on college campuses. Michigan State University and University of made it a crossroads and a symbol,” he said. Big ones. Forty-eight of them, in fact. Michigan have the other two. Sarajevo, according to Zimmerman, has shared the tragedy of Ronald VanSteeland, vice-president of finance and The carillon tower will stand 100 feet tall and 16 feet wide. It two other cities in which the people are known for their warmth, adm inistration, will be an impressive character and style: Berlin and Beirut. Berlin has made a announced to the landmark on the resurrection, while Beirut continues to face problems today. It is Student Senate campus, rising 25-30 not known which way Sarajevo will go. Thursday, March 17, feet above any other The current situation with Sarajevo began in December of that a carillon clock building on the 1991 when the European community made what Zimmerman tower will be the Allendale campus, called a “disastrous decision." It recognized the independence of newest addition to according to Croatia and Slovenia and offered to recognize Macedonia and GVSU’s campus. VanSteeland. Bosnia. A donor has been The tower will be Bosnian President Alija Itzabegovic had two choices. He found to finance the located at the could go for recognition or remain in the Serbia-dominated project. “The name of crossroads between Yugoslavia; in both scenarios, violence was a real factor. the donor should be the Kirkhof Center and “I'm not sure that the attack would not have come anyway, announced in the next the Life Sciences because I believe the Serbian leader Milosevic and the Bosnian- two months," said Complex. Serb leader Karadzic had a game plan which allowed for Serbian VanSteeland. The bells will ring takeover of most of Bosnia including Sarajevo, whatever was A carillon is a set to mark the passing of decided. Thai's my conviction. Ican’tprove it,” said Zimmerman. of 48 bells hung in a each quarter hour, and Zimmerman said there are two aspects of the militaiy situation lower and sounded by concerts—such as the which indicate that this is not a civil war, but a war of aggression: a carillonneur, the one planned for this 1) there were irregular forces from Serbia particularly at the person who plays the Christmas— will also beginning of the war that poured across the Serbian-Bosnian bells. be performed. border, and 2) remnants of the Yugoslavian army reconstituted as "The largest bell Sixteenof the hells a Bosnian-Serb military force in Bosnia, which gave it a military will weigh 2,834 can also be played power far in excess of anything the Croats and the Muslims could pounds and stand electronically with produce. about five feet tall." pre-recorded music. The question of what the West could and should do was raised. said VanSteeland. The proposed carillon clock tower that will be located betw een Illustration curiesv of GVSL1 Said VanSteeland, Zimmerman felt that the Serbian aggressions required military This bell is D-sharp the Kirkhof Center and the Life Sciences Complex. "This will be a small action. below middle C, and the remaining 47 bells become progressively jewel on our campus. It will add an ambiance which is often found In the Bush administration there were two factors which smaller. only on campuses which are over a hundred years old and covered worked against using any force: 1) The Vietnam factor—fear that There are only three places in the world where the bells can be with ivy. Please see BOSNIA, p.

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