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THE BG NEWS Vol.70 Issue 11 Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, September 10,1987 Robinson: Eliminate prejudice by Julie Wallace "The remedy for prejudice lies in education and copy editor the conversion of attitudes through persuasion and intergroup contact," he said. "We need to stand up and say that being a racist is not 'cool' but the sign "I am confident the University community as a of an ignorant individual—and the sign of a person Racial Justice committee whole can ioin together to fight the ugly issue of who will not be at BGSU for long." racism," Undergraduate Student Government Robinson said USG will be working with Presi- President, Dave Robinson, said to the People for dent Olscamp and Ralph Wolfe, Faculty Senate Racial Justice Committee. chair, to establish a plan for dealing with incidents outlines goals for the year In his speech yesterday, Robinson said the Uni- of racism on campus. versity needs to confront the discrimination issue, A member of the committee suggested that USG by Amy Burkett to be too negative and wanted together within the different but must also work to influence those who are pre- work with resident assistants and hall directors in staff reporter to find a more positive state- sectors of the institution in or- judiced. dealing with racial incidents which occur in the re- ment. Thus we decided on der to help eliminate racism." "Eliminating discrimination will not eliminate sidence halls, and Robinson responded that USG People for Racial Justice," The key point of the meeting racism because discrimination does not always would work on plans for future programs dealing In its "WAR" against ra- Conrad Pritscher, one of the was discussion of University follow prejudice," he said. "It is the quiet preju- with racism in the residence halls. cism. People for Racial Jus- founders of the organization, President Paul Olscamp's re- diced non-discriminators that we must influence to In response to Robinson's statement that he does tice, an organization still in the said. ply to a nine-point proposal de- rid BGSU of racism." not believe the University to be institutionally ra- developmental stages, is try- The goals of the organization signed by the committee and Robinson explained four methods of dealing with cist, Krrol Lamm, member of the committee and ing to get its point across to the were outlined in a meeting sent to nun. prejudice: education, therapy, intergroup contact adviser for the Progressive Student Organization, University administration. held yesterday in the State and persuasive communication. said the effort USG is making is good, but it is not "As the organization was be- Room of the Union. Olscamp approved of some The most useful of these methods in the Uni- enough. ing formed last spring, one of Miguel Ornelas, a repre- of their proposals, disapproved versity setting, Robinson said, are educating the "If the focus of the student government operates their first name considerations sentative with an affirmative of others and said some were people about racism and using communication to on the premise that there is only individual ra- was WAR, Whites Against Ra- action group said "all racial already in force. make them realize exactly what is going on and cism, their efforts are doomed to fail," Lamm cism. Members believed this organizations need to come D See Racism, page 3. how it can be stopped. said. Students abuse Tanker raiding 911 direct line persists by Cathy Hoehn MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - staff reporter "It (911) is no toy." Iraq resumed air raids on Iran- -Janet Tracey, ian cities yesterday and Iran Students have not been taking Promised swift retaliation as the the installation of the 911 emer- dispatch supervisor ersian Gulf war heated up gency telephone service on prior to U.N. Chief Javier Perez campus seriously, according to de Cuellar's peace mission to the a University police representa- region. She hopes to educate students Iran claimed it shot down tive. and pranksters eventually on Dispatch supervisor Janet three Iraqi jet fighters, and Tracy said the largest percen- the seriousness of the service. Baghdad announced attacks on tage of calls received so far have "It's no toy," she said. shipping off Iran in combat that been from people who "just call If the police discover nu- ended a brief lull in the and hang up." merous false alarms coming 3Ms-vear-old "tanker war." The service, which went into from one room, Tracy believes The resumption of attacks effect August 22, allows callers they may take action. surprised diplomats in the gulf, to dial 911 from anywhere on who had predicted Iraq would campus and be put in direct con- refrain from raids while Perez "If we get 10 calls within de Cuellar. secretary-general of tact with a police dispatcher. months...something should be the United Nations,' visited the Between Sept. 2 and Sept. 9, done about it," she said. combatant nations in an effort to dispatchers received 14 calls, The average number of calls end the 7-year-old war. The U.N. two of which were actual emer- per day is between three and official is due to leave New York gencies. One was the report of a tour. Some calls they receive for Tehran today. resident of Founders having an are from people needing police Iran's Islamic Republic News epileptic seizure. The other was assistance, but who are not in an Agency said Iraqi warplanes hit a report of a bike theft on the actual emergency. In such an six cities, and that the attack on east side of Rogers. instance, the dispatcher refers Bakhtaran in northwestern Iran The other 12 callers simply them to the correct department. hungup. killed at least five people and Tracy said that if a caller Tracy said overall, the num- wounded 25. hangs up, the dispatcher can ber of responses has been few. Baghdad's official news call that number back imme- "With as many students as we agency announced Tuesday diately to see if there was an ac- have on campus, we really don't night that its iet fighters hit two tual emergency. get that many (calls)," she said. "large naval targets," meaning tankers, off Iran^ Kharg Island oil terminal. They were the first announced attacks since Satur- day. IRNA reported two Iraqi jets Local leaders shot down yesterday, one over the central Iranian city of Arak and the other over Doroud, in Lorestan province, which bor- on task force ders Iraq. The agency, moni- tored in Cyprus, said Iraqi jets also bombed the city of Dezful in the adjacent Khuzestan prov- Olscamp named to committee ince. Iran earlier yesterday BG News'Mark Thalman claimed its naval forces shot by Linda Hoy be improved to strengthen econ- Foliage For Sale down an attacking Iraqi jet wire editor omic development in the area, Tuesday night in the southern said Dennis Hellmann, execu- Katy Allgeier, sophomore English major, examines one of the smaller offerings at the CIAO plant sale. part of the gulf, but Iraq denied tive director of the Committee of Allgeier was shopping for plants because her pet bird ate all of her old ones. The sale, being held at the the report. University President Paul One Hundred. Union Oval, will continue through Friday. Olscamp, along with other area "When you have a good educa- C See Iraq, page 5. presidents of colleges and tech- tional network, it does nothing nical schools, has been named to but enhance your potential for a task force studying all levels of economic development," Hell- education in mann said. Northwest Ohio. Most area educational institu- Aquino's Cabinet resigns As part of tions are represented in the the Committee 13-member task force, including MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Mrs. Aquino curtly declined to comment The resignations followed growing calls of One Hun- the University of Toledo, Owens Corazon Aquino's entire Cabinet resigned on possible personnel changes. for a government reorganization after the dred, formed Technical College, Toledo Pub- today to allow her to reorganize a govern- Palace sources, speaking on condition of Aug. 28 coup attempt, the most serious chal- last year by lic Schools, Davis-Besse College ment widely assailed since last month's anonymity, said she went straight from the lenge to the 18-month Aquino administra- several area and schools of the Toledo Catho- bloody coup attempt. meeting to a studio to record an announce- tion. The government has since been widely businessmen lic Diocese, he said. Presidential spokesman Teodoro Benigno ment. criticized Tor lack of leadership. to boost econ- _ m The task force has met once said 28 officials, including the 25 Cabinet "The Cabinet felt it was appropriate for Arroyo's ouster had been demanded by omlc de- °'"" P since it was formed Aug. 10. members and three others from the Presi- everyone to tender their resignation so that business and military groups and members velopment in Northwest Ohio, Donald Solomon, task force dential Commission on Good Government, the president can have a totally free hand if of Congress who have urged the government the education task force will be chairman, said he hopes to submitted their resignations during a she feels a need for a revamp," said Finance to toughen its stand against Communist looking for ways education can D See Olscamp, page 4.