June 16, 1988 University of Missouri·St. .Louis Issue 606 . ,Woods Hired To Develop Policy Leadership In stitut~ , Lt. Gov. Will Start Here In lanu Center To Work With Communi(r Problems

world of practical politics," by Laura J, Hopper by Laura J. Hopper out of the woodwork, get them ··Iow-income housing problein," reporter ' Barnett said, "We're very excited reporter mobilized and bring in outside McCall said, to get the Blish Center off the ground experts as a further stimulus." Part of this agenda, he said, will A prominent figure in Missouri and, of course, to have Harriet · 'UM-St. Louis will take another Barnett said the center would be be a workshop for non-Arofit pontics Will play an important role Woods here. I think she brings with step toward working with the St. staffed by a variety of faculty developers of low-income housing. in the new Bush Center after she her tremendous experience and will Louis community through the newly experts in the areas of sociology, "We will help them deal with financ- , finishes l1er current as the be a valuable part of the opened James T, Bush, Sr., Center psychOlogy, history, economics and ing, management and development state's lieutenant governor, university." for Law, Social Change, and Conflict pOlitical science, Also , experts from issues." , Resolution. . Harriet Woods will become Lt. Governor Woods turned down outside the university would have Fair housing will be a continuing . Practioner-in-Residence to develop an offer for a position at the Ken­ . The center, dedicated and opened input, she,said . theme in center programs, McCall a new institute for policy leadership nedy School of Government at Har­ by Chancellor Marguerite R. Bar­ "The center will provide oppor­ said, ' . at the Bush Center, UM-St. Louis vard University in Boston to take nett in a ceremony held May 10, is . tunities for civic and political "There are people whose housing Chancellor Marguerite Ross Bar­ the job at UM-St. Louis, Two factors, part of the chancellor's . leaders to come to the university to needs don't run down the real estate nett announced at' the dedication she said, led to her decision. Partnerships for Progress program, discuss public policy in key areas," mainstream that the housing and opening of the center on May 10 . .. Harriet Woods Barnett said. "One factor · was the new, a program that attempts to merge market discriminates against,". he Woods will assume the position leadership of Chancellor Barnett, university and community leaders One of these areas which will be said, after her term as lieutenant gover­ who shares my feefing about the oriented," she said. as they solve area problems, the center's prominent focus in Lt, Governor Woods said the new This spring the center sponsored nor expires in January of next university having a poliCy impact in George J, McCall, professor of upcoming years is housing in the St. a conference on racial discrimina­ year. the community:' she said. institute will serve a separate func­ sociology and public p,olicy Louis area and the associated prob­ tion from the Bush Center itself. . tion in housing and a conference ori­ "The institute will work to tap the The other factor, Lt. Governor administration, serves as the cen­ lems of discrimination in real­ , "The purpose of t.he institute is to discrimination faced by the elderly best minds . at colleges and univer­ Woods said, was UM-St. Louis' ter's acting director, estate and lack of low-income may take place this fall. But McCall sities 'in the region to work with status as the only land-grant univer­ impact public policy through the "We're here to help the com­ housing. creation of a think tan~ and a said the center won't limit itself to . community leaders at all levels," sity in the St. Louis area. munity create .its own agenda and "We'll be working' with a lot of these topics - and may not even Lt, Governor Woods said, "It will "It is the traditional mission oLa See WOODS, page 6 prepare itself for change," McCall actors in the housing field to con­ See CENTER, page 6 link uniyersity 'research and the land-grant university to be action- said. "We want to try to bring peop~ struct an agenda to deal with the Teaching ProfessionAttractive To Students With 'Mission~ Five Million ew AIDS Case By Kevin Kleine Some of the problems are solved freshmen planning to become managing editor by hiring part-time instructors to teachers is rising, A national survey teach the classes. Most of them of 200,000 freshmen by the Univer­ EXpected B.r "The prestige is beginning to teach one or two c1asses and ease sity of California at Los Angeles . return to the teaching profession," the load on the professors, The found that 8.1 percent planned to teach elementary or secondary 1993 says Associate Dean of Edu{!ation School of Education has added only by Jamie Dodson one full-time faCilIty member in the school. In the late 1960's, 25 percent Thomas Schnell. news editor The number of people in educa­ last three years, Schnell says that of college freshmen planned on a the lack of full-time faculty is one of teaching career. That percentage tion classes has risen from 7,220 to Over one million new cases of the major problems of the schooL plummeted to a low point of 4,7 per­ 9,455 over the past three years. The the disease AIDS will occur same thing can be seen as a national Nationwide, the pecentage of cent in 1982, but has been on the rise ever since. worldwide during the next five trend. People are viewing education years, according to Dr. Jonathan not enough instructors and an as a worthwhile profession. "Jobs are more available now for Mann of the World Health increased workload on the pro­ two reasons," Schnell says. "New Organization. As a result of reform in education, fessors take their toll. pOSitions are being created in pu blic Mann addressed the Fourth salaries are on the rise, The New "Our enrollment is so large that schools to decrease student/teacher International Conference on York Times ·reported that the we were trying to open up additional r atios and the need for special ser­ AIDS, held this week in Stock­ •average salary '. for teachers be­ sections and fill the classrooms to vices such as remedial reading; The holm, Sweden, Over 7,000 AIDS tween 1980 and 1986 rose from their physic.al capaCity this sum­ second reason is that many teachers experts from 140 countries pre­ $17 ,300 to $25,O(}() ; a 45 percent mer," Schnell said. are · retiring and leaving sented more than 3,200 research increase. A rise in,. salary is not the vacancies, ., papers at the meeting, only motivation,. though, Schnell A problem education students are "Many papers (presented at said. facing is that educational reform Katharine K. Merseth, director of the conference) convey dis­ groups are pushing for more teacher training at the Harvard couraging results concerning the "The students have a high sense of requirements for teacher certifica­ Graduate School of Education, risks of AIDS ," said Dr. Lars Olof mission," Schnell said. "They're a tion. Schnell says that in the near reported the same kind of trends in Kallings of the Swedish National very bright group and could succeed futUre , 150 credit hours may be . Bacteriological Laboratory. in any field. Some people are born to required of education students to " People are not stupid about Kallings stated that although teach and find that they can malre a receive a bachelor's degree with jobs," said Merseth, " If college much has been learned about the reasonable living at it. " teacher certification. He said that graduates perceive there are jobs, disease, progress on practical The boom in education is not some schools are moving to 5 year then they start selecting that DEEPTHOUGHT:Associate Dean of Education Dr. Thomas Schnell countermeasures has been frus­ wit.hout its problems. Large classes, programs. profes sion, .. looks over his notes while dicussing the problems created by grow­ tratingly slow. ing enrolement figures. Among the prcblems cited were the inability to develop an effective vaccine against the dis­ Diversion ease, the toxic nature of drugs D.r Funds Saves Library Serials For One More Year used for treatment and the con­ by John Kilgore issues a year, costs the library than other subscribers, even taking tinued rise in tbe number of AIDS associate news editor $1,500 per year, . postage charges into acc ount. For cases worldwide, fHE RISING COSTS OF JOURNALS Other journals cost the Univer- example, the journal World In the , AZT is the The serials department of the sity as much as $4,000 to $6,000 Econonmy co sts $42 in England but only drug widely used in AIDS UM-St. Louis library has received a per year. $100 in the United States treatment. AZT does not cure the 12-month reprieve from drastic cuts 1988 1987 1986 1985 According to Rapp, the largest "What makes it hardest for us is disease, but can prolong the lives in subscriptions thanks to a last­ increases in prices have been in the of some AIDS patients, that we have a small number of jour­ minute diversion of money from the European Economic Review $575 $455 $258 $ 211 sciences - where publishers are AIDS is a disease of the nals for our size institution to begin general campus fund authQrized by aware it is most important for li­ immune system which results with, and any cut in them hits us the chancellor. Journal of Criminal Justice 209 157 145 135 braries to keep their collections u p­ from infection by the Human very hard," Rapp said. "We have no "If they had not helpe

CLASSICS'CRISIS Education Secretary William CAN YOU DIG IT Bennett is in a controversy tN'SIDE Sturlents in UMSL Field again, Should our definition School Learn the Rudiments More News ..... pg2 of "The Classics" be of Archeology. changed? Also: comentaries Features ... ; . pgs3·4 . . by Richard Nixon, Warren Features page. Editorial1s ...... pg 5 Burger and Edward Kennedy. Editorials page 5

I. page 2 , CURRENT PoliticalGroup Needs More Support For Activities · by Paul Thompson ., tlOnwlththepayhlkeI?ay navebe.en . . • how much funding each campaign editor transferred to dissatisfactIOn with will reCrocodile Dundee II" the sequel run-amuck canine, the "liquored up, Dundee." . ing a break-in at the officer's club on to " Crocodile Dundee" which cost $6 pissed off' mailman, and the little You know wh at I mean, that movie the Presidio army base in San million to make and earned $375 wife (Madolyn Smith) whose secret that is out all summer, and some­ Francisco. million worldwide. "Crocodile Dun­ ,stories about squirrels sound a lot times even longer, that everybody An ex-soldier is assigned to the dee II" cost approximately 2 1/2 like your own life. loves. It usually doesn't win any case in cooperation with Lt. Colonel times that much and is well on its Oscars, but it always makes lots of Alan Caldwell, whom he never .got money. along with, and ends up falling for way to an estimated quarter of a In a new release, as of last week, The purpose of this particular the Colonel's flirtatious daughter. biilion dollars total take. Sean Connery is seen in his first role . feature is not to tell you what that On top of that, we have people like There is no denying the sheer since his Academy Award portrayal movie is, but to give you some ideas Mark Harmon, academy award win­ delight 'in the eroe's non-violent in "The Untouchables," as Provost as to what is good and what is not. ner Sean Connery and Meg Ryan apro.ach to kicking rears-in the hos­ Marshal Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell in I will tell you one thing: I don't playing the main characters. tile environment on New York in "The Presidio," a murder/mystery think that movie has been released There were a lot of problems the original. set in San Francisco on the famous yet. however. The mystery doesn't have Army post. At the beginning of the summer, much mystery to it, the romance has That imperturbability is intact in The script mixes mystery with we were looking toward the release no build, and the clash between the the sequel as old Mick bids farewell rpush, suspense with sobs as it tries to Manhattan's jungle with its pun­ of "Willow," the joint project of two main characters has the inten­ to dovetail a domestic plot of hard­ George Lucas and Ron Howard. sity of a toaster oven set on light kers, suicidal maniacs, gung ho nose military father (Connery) When it did finally come out in brown. Japanese tourists and returns to clashing with wayward, headstrong "BelongaMick" , to his late May , it was given the big Blah by There are some good moments daughter (Meg Ryan) who has trou­ -many reviewers, who were looking however, like when Connery beats Walkabout Crfi!ek Cafe, his ble getting "close" to men and she aborigine tracker friends, bush for something that was incredibly up a disrespectful biker using noth· seduces; in this case, handsome inventive and original, like "Star ing more than his thumb. As far as philosoopher buddy Wally (John Mark Harmon as Jay Austin, who Me ill on) and a simpler lifestyle, one Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost acting goes, everyone had their has been assigned by the S.F.P.D. to Ark. " moments here and there, although step· ahead of bloodthirsty· Colum­ assist his old C.O . in investigating bian druglords who are way ont of With that expectation embedded some, like Connery, had more than the murder of an M.P. at the Pre­ others. their element and decidedly out­ sidio's Officers' Club. in their heads, most critics only saw classed by their Outback opponent There's no effort required to what "Willow" wasn't. They failed to whose ''weapons''inclnde a water enjoy the opening car chase down notice that it was beautifully shot, However, Ryan seemed lost in the buffalo trap, bat droppings, a fake some of the city's steepest hills; nor acted and directed, that the story role of the oversexed, free-spirited crocodile suit, a bra and some well­ the breathtaking, impressive foot was entertaining and original, and daughter of the L.T.C. I think that aimed rocks. Definitely an all-ages chase by Harmon in San Francisco's that it was incredibly funny. character is 'outside of ' her nonviolent action film that is Chinatown; nor the steamy Corvette So what if it isn't the movie that limitations. unapologetically appealing. trunk tussle between Ryan and Har­ "Star Wars" or "Raiders ... " was. By "Funny Farm" is a film that made Number two at the boxoffice 'is mon. I give it 2 1/ 2 stars. itself and for itself, it is a very good no promises that it didn't keep. Peo­ "Big" a delightful "switch" movie · film ~d we!1 worth seeing. ple were expecting a cut-up film starring Torn Hanks. Hanks is per­ Another film that had the masses about a couple that move to upstate fectas a 12-year-old who turns into a A new release this weekend is waiting in eager expectation is the New York. 35-year-old. Much of the movie's "Bull Durham"a Holly Golightly sequel to the mega-hit, "Crocodile What they get is a film about a success is due to Hanks' expert body meets "The Natural" screwball of a Dundee," titled, inventively as hell, couple that move to the "country" language .. movie, perfect fo( the softball and, "Crocodile Dundee II." and become enemies with virtually beer crowd this summer. everyone (and everything) they Magically transformed by a car.­ Susan Sarandon plays Annie I think that critics had more to be meet, including the surrounding nival arcade wizard, Josh Baskin Savoy, a highly unorthodox groupie disappointed with in this case than environment and each other. (Hanks) is abruptly thrust into the to a goofy bush league team called they did with "Willow." I'm sure the adult world when he's hired by the Durham Bulls. Her season m.o. big trick with this one was to come McMillan Toy, becomes vice preSi­ in the past has been to pick out a up with a story line that could match For instance, all Chase seems to dent of product development, and talented but struggfng player, bes­ the freshness of the original. be able to catch in the pond out back attracts the not unwelcome atten- . tow ·her favors, and watch him Off the top of my head, I can think is snakes; the mailman barely gets tions of young woman executive blossom as a man or as a pinch . of three or four of them that would below 60 mph as he throws the mail Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth hitter. have worked' !:>etter than the one onto the law n; the do-nothing sheriff they chose. Perkins). Her choice this season is Ebby doesn't have a driver's liscence and Director Penny Marshall doesn't Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) a rides around in a taxi; and, to top it skip a silly beat with his situation. gangling stringbean of a boy with a In this one, Dundee and his off, the great American novel that and the Anne Spielberg (Steven's million dollar southpaw arm, 5 cent girlfriend, played by Chase is trying to write is not com­ sister)/Gary Ross script really brain and 98-mile-an·hour heat that and , get mixed up ing out as well as he originally sparkles. more often than not either hits the . . in a battle between the ·police and planned, to punt lightly. Fourth on the charts is Chevy mascot or gets taken downtown. some Cuban drug smugglers when The end result is an extremely ~hase's new film "Funny Farm," But this summer Annie's got com- Kozlowski's ex-husband sends her funny film that leaves you feeling dirededby George Roy Hill (·"The . petition: Crash Davis (Kevin some incriminating film of the like you got what you paid for when Sting")_ . Costner), a twelve-year veteran of smugglers, then gets killed in you bouglit your ticket at the box When New York sportswriter the minors picked up to settle Colombia. office. ' Andy Farmer (Chase) goes on sab­ down LaLoosh. The chase goes back to Australia, !f you haven't seen anything yo u batical to the rustic town of Redbud First time director Ron Shelton. where Dundee takes on the like so far, keep trying, there are· in upper New York State to write the draws on five years as second base.' smugglers on his own turf. It's no some some new movies coming out Great. Amercian Novel, be begins . man for the Baltimore Orioles to real cBallenge for him, and that look like they have Fomise: . write an original script that pokes a the "life of quiet desperation" basicall~ no fun to watch: He always "Red Heat," "The Great Outdoors" Walden Pond resident Thoreau lot of fun at some of baseball's more knows tLe right thing to do, and it and " Arthur 2," to name a few . sacred cows; a ball player's obses­ And remember, the mere fact that warned: about. PARAMOUNT;S RINGERS: (top) Linda Kozlowski and Paul HO€lan usually "'orks' kind of like a How complicated can it be to sion with superstitions, for one. Rambo ilrn. ' Eileen and I sometimes disagree Costner and Robbins do their own star in the sequel to the 1 B86 hit, "Crocodile · Dundee," called move your possessions several hun- . "Crocodile Dundee II ." (bottom) Sean Connery and Mark Harmon star I wi l 3ay that this movie is verv show s that our opinions are no thing dred miles; install a phone, plant a impressive ball playing as well as funny. Hardly a minute goes by i~ more than opinions. You may like a shut out team comedy that has an as army career man and San Francisco cop in the new Paramount garden, enter a fishing contest, get release, "The Presidio." . which OU're not rolling out of yo ur movie that one or both of us ·didn·t, ponce protection, buy an intelligent impressive "heat" of its own. . seat, b lit they tried to make it into an and vice versa .

I! # page <1 CURRENT The Current Editors' Recommended Reading List If you plan to catch up on your The Old Man and The Sea 'reading this summer, but can't quite by Ernest Hemingway decide what to read, then you're reading the right feature. I know that I said summer reading We on the editorial staff have should be light, but this is just a good ( each come up }Vith five books that book. It's short and easy to read - ,,;- .... I -we recommend for one reason or perfect for summer . .another. They are as follows. · 'You won't find a better story of -Kevin Kleine human courage and determination managing editor anywhere (you could always rent a Rocky or Rambo flick). It's also one '-. I prefer my summer reading to be, hell of a fish story for all of you so'tnewhat less socially significant fishermen out there. ,than Hemingway or Steinbeck. So if Paul Thompson you laugh at my choices, remember editor 'that when you buy that ticket to see 'Rambo III this weekend. The great "We are now talking of summer. authors are still my favorites, but evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, I'm going for sheer entertainment in the time that I lived there so suc­ value here - kind of like most cessfully disguised to myself as a movies today. child." So opens James Agee's brilliant Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas masterpiece, A Death In The by Hunter S. Thompson Family. This novel, perhaps one of the finest written by an American in If you like drug-oriented, totally the 20th century, microscopically bizarre humor, this book is for you. details the moments in a young There are some rather interesting ' boy's lif~ .in a mid-size Southern political and social commentaries on life in the early '70s interwoven in . city. One glimpses the sublime in the craziness. There's never a dull moment in Agee's prose, while being taken on a journey of emotions' that are to me the book. The film "Where the Buf­ unmatched by any other novelist I falo Roam" was a weak attempt to do on film what Fear and Loathing in have yet read. A sad book, but one so rich in humanity - indeed, a kind of Las Vegas does in print. Every rule of journalism and writing in general spirituality - that a reader will not soon forget the sale novel by this gif­ is broken to bring the reader into the . ... tedmer writer. reading. Adefinite "yes" for sum- L-______~ ______-J same demented perspective as the author. The subtitle says it all: "A Always indebted to the late, great Savage Journey into the Heart of the collection of 18 essays that are to be getting good reviews these By the time you finish reading all Understanding AIDS C.S. Lewis for the rudiments of my American Dream." movingly written as weJl as days for not wearing Bob Mackie these books, summer will be over by the U.S. Department of Health conversion to Christianity, I must profound. outfits," he writes in Hatchet Piece and it will be time for another list of and Human Services, 1988. recommend any of his books. Leav­ Finally, turning to the politicaV (101 Things I Hate.) If there is a books, this time from your pro· To Live and Die in L.A. ing aside his excellent apologetics by Gerald Petievitch social arena, I would recommend to more cynical man alive anywhere, fessors. Included on their lists will By order.of U.S. Surgeon General and focusing on one of his works of those who are truly interested in maybe he should be given a camera be titles like: "Exercises from Hell: C. Everett Koop, this soon to be fiction, the best he has to offer, I This book is full of action and it's equality and social justice a fas· and a modest production budget to Advanced Camp for College famous pamphfet is being sent to think, is That Hideous Strength, the cinating discussion of civil rights work with, too. Students," and "Middlemarch," by every household in the United sometimes difficult to tell the good crowning glory of his celebrated guys from the bad guys. The movie laws by the economist Thomas I George Eliot. Have a nice States.' It is . a simplified layduul's Space Trilogy, which begins with of the same title has silme interest­ Sowell, Civil Rights: Rhetoric Or 4. True Stories summer. guide to the disease Acquired Out Of The Silent Planet, and con­ I ing twists added, but the book makes Reality? If you don't turn 'from this by David Byrne. Immune Deficiency Syndrome, bet· tinues in Perelandra. better sense of the whole book wanting to put quotation marks Jamie Dodson terknown as AIDS. I read the trilogy when I was 14, situation. around tile words "civil rights" The screenplay of the movie writ· news editor The pamphlet is an obvious exam­ perhaps too young to grasp the Treasury agents Vukovitch and every time you see them in print, I'd ten by The Man in the Big Suit. Now ple of design by compromise, with Chance will do anything to stop a deeper meanings of the prose. Just be surprised. available in paperback in book­ It's going to be a hot, dry summer the claw marks of scientists, recently, I returned to the last book counterfeiter from slipping away stores everywhere. This Talking in St. Louis. So, whether you're out­ theologians, government publiC'. of the set, which can be read by John Kilgore side working on a third·degree sun· one more time. The book shows how associate news editor Head offers a unique look at his .relations experts and superinten­ frustrating police work can be and itself, and was gripped by the creative process, telling the story burn or inside snuggling up to the air dents of morality all clearly visible. powerful message contained in this what happens when the line between behind True Stories. He writes: "I conditioner, why not tune up your It is amazing that they came up with fantasy story, which Lewis des­ Ask somebody who loves books to criminals and the law is crossed. deal with stuff that's too dumb for reading skills? anything at all. cribes as a "fairy tale for adults." make a list of some of their favorites Su bmltted for your approval, here and they're likely to come up with people to have bothered to formu­ But they did. And it's import,mt. The Abolition Of Man: How late opinions on." This is one guy are a few suggestions: So dig it out ofthe trashcan and r~~d . Dune Education Develops Man's Sense Of . several lists. One list might be of books they've never really read but who knows how to b.ave fun. it. Learn about AIDS as if YOUf;< li~ by Frank Herbert Morality, another work by Lewis, is Steal This Urine Test depended upon it. must reading for all who care about might want to take along with them by Abbie Hoffman and Jonathan to the proverbial "desert island." 3. The Razors Edge. Because it does. This is a somewhat lengthy book, the future of the human race, by W. Somerset Maugham Silvers but if you like science fiction, perhaps for education majors most (Books like fie Bible and Proust's Remembrances of Things Past.) Chri~QpherA.Duggan espionage and fantasy stories, read of all. A critique of what today Actually, Bill Murray dldn't write This is the latest book by political Another list might inclu{Je books features editor- ~l>1 this book. The best of all three are passes for "values," the book devas­ this book, but he actecJ in a moyie activist and 1960's radical Abbie ~ incorporated in the story. If the tatesrelativity with a powerfu llogic that were important to them per­ Hoffman, who criticizes the sonally, like a book they read when based on it, so we'll count it anyway. . movie left you with a feeling that that the author mastered so well in Written by W. Somerset Maugham, irrational hysteria of the current The Complete Short Stories of they were 14, the first book written something was miSSing, you're his classical training. it is the story of a sincere young man anti-drug movement. Hoffman pro­ Ernest Hemingway. . right. The book puts together all the One of the-'books whicb I have fre­ for adults that they ever "fell in love poses a sane alternative which The Finca Vigia Edition with," (To Kill a Mockingbird.) Still "trying to find himself." A "cult puzzle pieces. qu.e"htly tilr~ed to for solace and classic," this book isn't as funny as emphasizes tolerance, treatment The hook has some Biblical enlightenment over the p'ast few another list might include books ·and personal responsibility. This collection includes every they admire, for one reason or some of the other books on this list, elements to it and refers to twen­ years is a slim volume by the Ger­ but it's included, along with any­ As always, Hoffman's writing is short story that Hemingway ever tieth century history to put the man poet Rainer Marie Rilke: Let­ another, as works of art. (The Great provocative and highly readable.· published, including some that were Gatsby and Anna Karenina.) But this thing else Maugham has written, society of eight thousand years in ters To A Young Poet. never before published. list isn't going to include any of because he has such a light touch the future into perspective. Written to a student whom he with the telling of a story. There are various indicators that never met around t~!!. turn of the those books. This will be a different What Color is Your Parachute? show Hemingway'S belief that his kind of list. ·The Great Shark Hunt century, this collection of letters by Richard Nelson Boles, 1988 work was going downhill over time. by Hunter S. Thompson speaks eloquently to the seeking This list will be a list of books I edition This collection shows that nothing is soul, the lover's heart, and the artist find especially suitctble for sum­ 2. The History of Wbite People in further from the truth. This is a collection of shorter .. in everyone. mertime reading. Thatis, books that America This is the definitive resource/ stories by Thompson that appeared . Passages on love, relationships might n1ake yo'u especially glad, for by Martin Mull self-help guide for everyone who Bluebeard in magazines such as Rolling Stone. , '. .an{gphtutiecannot fail to touch a a few moments at least, to be alive­ wants a job or has a job and wants a by Kurt Vonne' ut If you don 't have time to read a . rt1ad~r ; . Thls is. a book to which one without being quite sure why. That Tells you everything you ever want· better one. whole novel, this is just what you w'tslies to turn again and again. is, books that are more fun than ed to know but were afraid to ask. First published in 1970, it has This is Vonnegut's telling of the need if you have a couple of free':, .,' . Another book which can spark the serious. That is, books that both Mull has also written a sequel, "A become a contemporary classic, life-story of Armenian painter Rabo hours. If you dislike Richard Nixon,.. creative spirit is a volume of essays taste great and are less filling ..That Paler Shade of White," which prom· now updated annually. Karabekian. This touching and read this book! The book is full of by Dorothy L. Sayer.s entitled, The is , books I recommend for Lite ises to be just as funny. It begins: "If Bolles explains why the employ­ funny tale shows how a man's life 'highly biased commentaries on the Whimsical Christian. Better known reading. Joyce Harrison was any whiter, she ment process works so poorly. His can be turned around by Simple United States government, society, for her Lord Peter Wimsey detec· · wouldn't have a navel." Enougb theses is that the job· hunter or coincidence, like the mysterious :drugs, the police, and much more tive stories and her translation of The Top 5 Books Written By Peo· said? career-changer would think of appearance of a widow named Circe . bizarre humor. Dante, Sayers has compiled a pie Who Have Appeared On Late employment seeking as a job ' in Berman on your private beach. Night With David Letterman: 1. Slaves of New York itself, requiring careful planning, Vonnegut's humor is biting an~ by Tama Januwitz effort and persistence. Written in sometimes irreverent, but it's 5. Crackpot, The Obsessions of "user friendly" style, this book can impossible not to laugh at this one. John Waters. Janowitz is the girl who kissed and should be read and re-read by by John Waters Letterman on the mouth. She's the anyone who works or wants to Cannery Row/Sweet Tbursday Cyndi Lauper of the literary world. work. John Steinbeck Want A Cracker? John Waters is the director of This book of short stories is sad, such "fine" films as "Pink funny and touching, telling the story These novels have the same them how to talk, not the other Flamingos" and "Polyester."He 'of trying to "make it" in the New characters and tell a continuous way around. has been called, by William York art world, among other things. Tao Te Ching story, so I'm counting them as one Burroughs, "the pope of trash." In Most unforgettable is the story I recently visited the house by Lao Tzu .. Translated by D.C. book. They are about the inhabitants this, his second book of essays, called "You and the Boss," a fantasy DON'T where I was introduced to the bird. Lau. of a small town in the .area of Mbn­ I said what all people say to birds Waters pontificates on and bitches about life with Bruce. Springsteen terey, California. about things near (and too near) and which may make you smile PANIC when they first meet them, regard­ A compilation of Eastern wisdom Steinbeck's mastery of setting less of whether or not they can dear tohim.EXample: "Cher seems forever .. attributed to the ancient Chinese and dialect bring the community to talk: "hello." philosopher Lao Tzu, this is one of life. Reading about the daily going's The bird said nothing. the great classics of Oriental on in this small California town My sister then began talking to literature. . .' could get laughter from a stone. by Christopher A. Duggan the bird, using a voice similar to ReasearchesThe Stars Extremely difficult to translate features editor. that which you commonly hear into English, the verses are quite According to Urn-St: · Louis Infrared Astronomical Satellite Silverlock coming from birds. obscure and often appear dis­ by Here it is, summer, and I am Next, my brother-in,law astronomer Bruce Wilking, "Star (IRAS) and from a new technique organized. This is definitely not stuck with the task of coming up entered the room. Light, Star Bright" just doesn't tell called millimeter-wave light reading. This litile-known Dook, written with a column at a time when most "Hello," he said in a high- the whole story. In fact, inost of the interf~rometry. But for the thoughtful reader, students have shut off their brains stars in our galaxy are so dim that over 30 years ago, is about the pitched, .screechy voice. Then he . Wilking has found that it is pass. every page is f':lll of stunning adventures of a man who, after a for the summer. started laughing like a bird. they cannot be seen by the unaided ible to make infrared studies of ' insights on life as old as time ' yet . sbipwreck, finds himself in a land I've had a little time to think human eye. These .stars, 1abelled absolutely timeless. . about this, 'so a variety of alter- My nieces and nephew came in "low mass" by astronomers, include clusters of these young stars, whic·h called the Commonwealth, where he are called young ' stellar objects natives have presented them- one at a time as they got back from stars with the sun's mass or lower . . runs into characters from literature selves to me. It· is one that r school. Each of them went through The formation of these low. mass (YSOs), by studying the dust heated \ ranging from Shakespeare to the thought upjust a couple of days ago the same routine. stars has been difficult ·. for by YSOs in the nearest star-forming The World Almanac and Book of Bible to "Alice in Wonderland." that I decided to settle on. They'd start talking to the bird, 'astronomers to study, however, not ,clouds. By using information gained Facts Even if you don't read it for the I've always thought it was an all. in the manner mentioned only because of their low energies . fromgt"Oli'nd-based optical infrared Pharos Books , 1988 edition story, which is good-;!t's fun to try to enormous accomplish-ment to be above. Soon there were five people but also because they are veiled by observations and space·born teles­ catch the abundant literary able to teach a bird how to talk. My in the room gathered around this opaque qust in tile molecular clouds copes, he has found that it is poss­ Since 1868, this annual collection _ allusions. mother once had a·bird a long time · . bird, hanteringwith it in that head- ' in which they are born. Because of ible to infer ' the amount and ,of facts and figures has been that could " ... talk a blue streak." ache-inciting voice, without these difficulties, ~ astronomers distribution of luminous dU!i,t tha,t .required reading for all serious To Kill a Mockingbird Once, when I was a very young receiving an answer. IjIust use high resolution7'high's'en­ surrounds the star as well as the' . trivia fans and information ' by Harper Lee child, a bird, belonging to friends I could only look on in amaze­ sitivity infrared 'equjpment to study evolutionary state and brightness of ,addicts. of my parents, told me to go. to ment. Looking at that scen4, I 'had their birth.. Infrared telescopes 'the YSO. . - Here isthe place to go if you want This classic is a best-seller from a hell. to wonder what the bird t ~ought measure the' invisible heat radia­ Then, by looking at clusters· of . to see what the flag of Burkina Faso time when best-sellers. weren't My sister recently purchaseO a about the whole thing, or if 'it'even tion from these young stars. these YSOs, scientists should be looks like, to learn who succeeded usually trendy and trashy. parrot. She and · her husband remotely understood what" they At the ' 172nd · meeting of the able to discern the star formation King James· I to the British throne, It's a tale about class and social decided that they were going to were trying to do. American Astronomical Society history of an entire region. At the -or to find out. how many hospitals issues as seen through the eyes of a teach the beast to talk. Judging Soon, however, my qu ~ stions held June 5-9 in Kansas .City-, Wilko meeting, Wilking discussed inves­ there are ~n ' Linooln, Nebraska. The young girl. from their behavior around the were answered. The bird gav, ; me a ing' discussed new techniques to tigatioris of this type in the Taurus· mind boggles! . For her, it is a time when she thing, I would have to conclude sidelong look and winked, sr~ liling observe the early evolution of low Auriga and Rho Ophiuchi molecular ' Note: some information may' not learns to see the honor that her that it is the bird that is teaching as it did. mass stars. He gave particular clouds, which lie 500 light years be up to date, especially sports w.idowed father possesses, and that attention to recent results froin the • from our sun. . records. . justice is not always served. I June 16, 1988- . CURRENT page 5 Great"Books, Or What? Good News At Library'

A tremendous debate is underway in the august halls of academia today. Economist George Gilder has written recently that in the emerging world The questions, "inevitably ones of political as well as educational timbre, economy, the old standards of measuring economic strength are becoming revolve around the idea, once accepted with little controversy, that Western obsolete. He maintains that in high tech economies, what matters now and civilization is based on ideas developed over the centuries by our best will matter more in the future is not so much territorial, military, and indus­ minds. trial might, but something far less tangible; information. The debate, which is more likely to .heat up in the coming years than to Gilder argues that information, ideas and technological know-how are the cool dow~, was brought to the height of public awareness when Stanfotd key elements to huilding a future of freedom and prosperity in the inter- Univer,sity voted to change its Western Culture Program because the core national marketplace. . reading list for the year-long freshman course "did not reflect the con­ If Gilder is correct - and his arguments are persuaSive indeed - then tributions of women and minority members," according to the New York ,recent news that the Thomas Jefferson Library here at UM-St. Louis has Times. The new course offered at Stanford will be called Cultures, Ideas and beengranted a one-year reprieve from a 30 percent cutin its periodical sub­ Values. It wiU be similar to the old course, but will require only eight, scriptions is good news. Fresh, up-to-date information in the rapidly­ instead of 15 "classic texts," the books of the great minds th.at have influen­ changing fields of science and technology is the life blood of academic ced the admirable, though flawed, development of Western civilization. research. And the advancement of ideas and information is what campus The most significant change, hailed by supporters and attacked by research is all about. . opponents, will be that the new course will study at.least one non-European UM -St. Louis Chancellor Marguerite Barnett has stated repeatly that her culture as well as pay " attentio,n to issues of race, gender and class." And ' goal here is to create a "world class university." While that may be hyper­ there's the rub. .' \ . bole, the chancellor has demonstrated her commitment to building a When the issues of issue of gender, race and class are raised, any obser­ stronger institution by directly intervening to prevent the cut in serial sub- ver can be sure that ideology is coming into the foreground, and reason is ' sriptions that would have occurred had she not stepped in. . being pushed onto the sidelines. Secretary of Education William Bennett Pressure from faculty no doubt played a key role in Barnett's decision to c~lled the decision at Stanford i' primarily a po.Jiti'cal, not an educational tranSfer $140 ,000 from another budgetary fund to prevent the loss of critical decision." Bennett's assessment is correct. publications used by researchers. But being responsive to the needs of the Changing curriculum to capitulate to the demands of political interests campus and the blandishments of its faculty are 'signs of a good groups i~ a deuegration of education. And the problem is, that, despite the university leader, intentions of the "reformers," the changes they seek are often transient. . Yet this victory is but one small step toward advancing the university Does it really matter if the great books of Western civilization happen to from a poorly ranked and little known institution to one of respectability have been wiltfen by white males, to use the reformers angry refrain? They and national prestige. _ . . are great beca!lse they are enduring and contain universal values. They Next year, the library will face the same dilemma. And simply avoiding transmit and animate the experience of Western civilization. They are future cuts in periodicals does nothing more than maintain the status quo. If gre~t because they speak to the human condition, the human experience. this university is truly to move forward, then expansion rather than merely They transcend gender, race, class. retention of periodicals is a vital' need. Bennett, who visited Stanford after the change was already mape, spoke The Columbia campus, with a student population .about twice the size of out against .changing courses to reflect trendy political education. He UM-St. Louis, has -about 17,000 titles in its serials department. This campus stands behind the classics of Western civilization precisely because of their has about 3,000. Equity, it seems, is not a priority for the Board of Curators d~enity, . and the state government. . In his Stanford speech, Bennett said: "The point for contemporary higher education is this: The classics of Western philosophy and literature amount Yet, if the Ii brary staff can stave off cuts in periodicals or any other areas, to a great debate on the perennial questions. To deprive students of this (TRE.At LI-rERA-rvRE is \JH£RE. then something has been accomplished. The cause of the fiscal crisis in the debate is to condemn them to improvise their ways of living in ignorance of yO\) F' 1\)1) 11"! library is one that is not likely to end soon: rising prices of journals and their real options and the best arguments for each." . other publications, So the battle ahead will be to find innovative ways to Certainly, many women and minority writers can be considered good, good idea. To one who has faith, it is an uncalled for absurdity, a meaning·. support the library and prevent losses in the critical mainstay of even great. But there is the question, that must be answered: Do they less distraction to the real pursuits of life, a destruction of sacred texts. academic research. influence the Western experience in the same way as, say, Aristotle does? Is What difference does our perception of God's gender make? None. If information is the key to economic progress in the future , as Gilder has Marx or Hegel, Rousseau or Homer, to be excluded to squeeze in some Similarly, if one believes in the highest motives of Western civilization, stated, and if this university is going to playa role in developing a happy marginal influence or some influence that is not Western at all, 'simply to one williearn to read for the truths in texts, not worrying over the fact that future for coming generations, then the flow of information to this campus satisfy those who claim that such writers don't "speak' to their needs, their ancient Greece had slaves,'or that the list of books on Western civilization cannot be halted. unique personhood? doesn't include enough women, or whomever. Books are made great by the A major expansion of the library building itself is now underway. More Consider the essential silliness of demanding that the history of intellec­ ideas they contain, not by the authors themselves. . space will be available for study areas, and books now in storage will be tual development in the West be transformed to meet the demands of a few . Our civilization is worth preserving. The intellectual heritage which has returned to the shelves. Let's hope the periodicals department in the Ii brary disgruntled reformers. For example, in the name of gender sensitivity, the shaped our society must not be lost through neglect simply becaus e refor­ will be allowed to expand as well. Bible is being rewritten by many denominations to exclude masculine mers doubt " political correctness" of the best reading and the best educa· In the meantime, however, the efforts of the library staff and the chan­ references to God. To one who has a political agenda to meet, this may be a tion available. cellor to prevent the cuts this year are to be commended. Creating Volunteer Student Corps Could Help To Fight Illiteracy

By Warren E. Burger ranks 49th in literacy among the 159 countries of the fessors in semester-long courses comparable to those in . If colleges and universities across the country respond l and world "clinical legal education" at many law schools, although by accepting the Literacy Corps as part of their Edward M. Kennedy So far, we have not addressed this problem very effec­ the focus of the Literacy Co rps would be very different. educational process , stUdents will have the opportunity tively. The federal g.(lMfnme s ends billions of dollars As part of the course, coll~ge students would be given to participate by maqy thousands and America may at An'idea has been presented to Congress that is worth every year on educau qn, but on y; a pittance is targeted on instruc tion on how to' tutor in reading. In addition to last begin to deal in more effective and affordable ways trying in the battle against illiteracy: to create a Literacy illiter acy. In fact, t otal sp ~~ d { ng on illiteracy in the teacbing in loc'a elementary and high s chools, Literacy with the shameful and festering problem of illiteracy in Corps that will enable college students to volunteer for a United States reaches only about four percent of those Corps partiCipants could also tutor in Head Start centers, our midst. few hours a week as assistant teachers for students in who need help. institutions for the disabled, adult continuing education One final point - the Literacy Corps is not a new idea. It nearby public schools or other institutions in return for The National Advisory Council on Adult Education programs, jails, or other facilities where supervised is based on a model conceived in 1969 by an unusually college credit. . estimates that we would need to spend five billion dollars classroom-type settings are available. creative private citizen, Norman Manasa of Washington, According to one estimate, 23 million citizens over the - 50 times more than is allocated today - to have a In a typical10-week semester, each college student in D.C., who has been knocking on many doors for the better age of 18 cannot read the poison warning on a can of pes­ significant impact on the problem through costly the program would provide 60 hours of tutoring. If a thou­ part of a decade seeking support for the concept. ticide or a package of cigarettes, the headline of a daily traditional programs. simd colleges participated, 100,000 or more students Manasa now heads the Washington Education Project, newspaper, or a letter from' their child's teacher. New spending of that magnitude is out of the question might join the Literacy Corps, and a very large amount of which is seeking broader corporate financing for the idea An additional 35 million are semi-literate, r eading so because of the federal deficit. The challenge is to per­ tutoring could be generated over the next two years. if Congressional action is too slow. In 1984, Manasa wrote poorly that they barely function at a survival level. That suade America to do more without spending more. That is In addition to tackling the problem of illiteracy, a a very readable paperback elaborating on the program makes 58 million adults, roughly a third of the nation's a tall order, but it is not impossible - which is where a Literacy Corps has .another benefit - harnessing the called "The Washington Education Project,Inc., - or How population over 18, whom our system of education failed Literacy Corps would come in. idealism, and volunteerism, and the commitment of You Can Get A Tutor For Your Kid, Just Like Rich · in their adolescent years and who are functionally Pilot projects at the University of Miami and St. John's young Americans. So far, initiatives in this area have People," , . illiterate today. . University in New York City, relying so far on corporate been stymied by the high price of conventional proposals It may not be on the best-seller lists today, but it deser­ The result is a massive problem of illiteracy that costs donations, have made a start that provides a pattern. The such as a National Service Corps or· R.O.T.C.-type ves to be on the shelves of every college bookstore in the the nation heavily in welfare and unemployment, indus­ results of these modest efforts are so compelling that the scholarships or loan-forgiveness programs for students country - and perhaps it will be. The Literacy Corps is an trial accidents and lost productivity, and dead-ena lives time has come for a national effort. willing to commit themselves to a period of post­ idea whose time is overdue. of crime and drugs. Legislation pending in Congress seeks $27 million over graduate public service. Illiteracy is also a threat to our constitutional system: the next two years to launch Literacy Corps projects at We believe a Literacy Corps has all the potential for how can a functional illiterate really understand that sys­ approximately 1,000 colleges and univers.ities across the today that President Kennedy's Corps had in the 1960's. (Warren E, Burger was Chief .Justice of the tem or defend it effectively? Even if some of these figures country.' The .bill will provide start-up grants of about Young Americans in this generation are as ready, willing United States from 1969 to 1986; he is presently ate overstated, at best the picture is bleak. $25,000 per college to cover the initial administrative and eager to respond to the challenge of public service as Chairman of the Commission on the Unite'd A recent study complained that America has slipped costs of campus programs. their parents were a generation ago, when President Ken­ States Constitution, Edward M. Kennedy is the behiudJapan in the quality of education, but the truth is, Participating college stUdents would sign up for elec­ nedy urged them to "Ask not what your country can do for senior Democratic Senator from we have slipped behind 47 other countries too. America tives offered by their colleges and taught by their pro- you - ask what you can do for your country" Massachusetts.) Alllerican Youths Need'Restored Vision Of Nation And Its Ideals By Richard Nixon with the twin fears of another Vietnam and of nuclear war, To restore that faith we must look to our roots. Two cen­ man to his ultimate. The next generation of America's their knee-jerk response to a crisis is to turn it over to the turies ago our newly-born nation caught the imagination best-educated young people is the indispensable element United Nations - which, in effect, means to do nothing. of the world, not because of its wealth or power, for it was in this effort. Chances are good that Mikhail Gorbachev will still be If we go down that road, when Gorbachev's new, poor and weak, but because of its ideas. We need to res­ (Former President Nixon's seventh book., in power in the Soviet Union when today's college stronger Soviet Union stands astride the next century, the tore faith in our ideals, in our destiny, and in "1999: Victory Without War," was published in students .reach their fortieth birthdays. If his economic old America will be no matcb for it. Instead, we must ourselves. April by Simon and Schuster. This article was reforms succeed as Deng Xiao-peng's have in China, his antiCipate the challenge of Gorbachev's new thinking by War produces unity in a common purpose and stretches provided by The Collegiate Network,) . influence could be profound enough to influence the building a new America - an America newly confident of . course of history into the twenty-second century. its military and economic power and also of its To most college students, if domestic politics are a spiritual appeal. fairly remote phenomenon,foreignaffairs are an almost ------~------­ Letter: 'Exist'Is Just Another Word hopeless abstraction. Usually our campuses have paid many of these people could actually cial and phony. we are, the les s real ' attention only when there was something to be against. To the editor: "America will fall hopelessly point to South Africa on a m ap mu ch we appear and, subsequ ently,: Awareness has been equated with opposition, as in Viet- behind the Soviet Union if the crea- less become. nam and South Africa. Otherwise, students are content to I was standing in the hallway of undestand that country's As to the question, "Does man . focus on their studies and their other preparations for the tivepower of our yo.,.th is' consumed the Clark building the other day probl ems. where I was surprised to hear a But I am not trying to write about exist?" I will now give the answer: working world. in self-pursuit." South Africa or any other racial or Yes , man exi sts. No, man doesn't In the years between now and the next century, -~-~---:--::-;:---:'~-~~~~~~~~'::'r debate about the existence of man. I America will fall hopelessly behind the Soviet Union if If we have only 20 years before a reinvigorated SOVIet .was surprised because it isn't political issue. I would like to ex ist. You see, it's all a matter of the creative power of our young people is consumed in '"the Union turns its sights to' renewed expansion, we have no everyday that I hear people between address the philosophical issue semantics to me. raised by the two yo ung men whom I The verb " exist" is just another : purely selfish pursuit of financial gain and social status .. time to lose. We must think and act boldly. We must res­ tha ages of 18 and 25 talk about any­ If the United States is to.survive in the twenty-first cen- tore the credibility of the U.S . strategIC .deterrent and thing that doesn't in clude cars, rock overheard the other day. word in vented by man whi-ch means . . I believe that we make ourselves nothing with respect to space or to ' . tury and fulfill its destiny as what Lincoln called. the last, also bolster our conventional.forces in key theat'ers. We groups , and partying. real: that the more real we are in the the universe. Yes, a thing can exist best hope of the earth, it will only.be because the genera- should help those who are fIghtmg to prevent a com- E very time I sit in the cafeteria I things we do, like, for instance, our relative to man, but as far as that : tion now in college rose to the challenge. munist victory, as In Afghamstan .and Nlcarag.ua. am forced to hear loud conver­ interact ions among ourselves, and philosophic issue is concerned, ,it If Gorbachev's "new thinking" is successful, it will be At the same time, we must reaffirm our ~IdI~g values sations between students that are so simply has no'meaning. because he managed to refocus the energies of the Soviet at home by finding neW ways to enable all our CItIzens to superficial that. if you didn't laugh the real love oi-l ack of it that we give Union from expansion of its empire abroad to reform of . share fully in America's success. We must solve the prob­ at them, you'd end ' up being sad­ others, the more real Vj e become. Mark lh~nton . its economy at home. He knows that the problems he . lems of the urban underclass, the homeless and the poor, dened by a look into the fu ture. And vice versa. the more sup edi- '. . faces will require at least a generation to solve. He needs We must redify the inequalItIes from which blacks and What is particularly amusing is a generation of peace - or, to putit more precisely," a other minorities suffer. that many times these are the same generation w.ithout war. . " . . This agenda fot America's polit~ca1leaders in the next people who suddenly become LEITERS P OLICY While he pursues his goal we could do two thmgs. We 20 years cannot be fulfLlled Without the support of bandwagoners rallying in protest of eould sigh with relief and turn to our own narroW i~t~rests America's lliadership class.-.in-training - those who are such things as the 'oppression of Th e Current we lcomes alileti ers ' be withheld upon requ est. LeltE' rs and pleasures, taking advantage of the reductlOn Intnter- now getting the best educatIOns and who Will undertake blacks in South Africa. to th l'- editor . Th e writer' s st udent permitling use of th e author', name national tensions by reducing our role on the world stage. ca-reers in the upper echelons of business, the medIa Ple ase don't get me wrong, I have nu m !> er and ph one number m ust be will receiv e fi rst prf'ferrllL'e This is the counsel of tbe new negativists, who can be and government. - . nothing against protesting black in t: lt1d ed . No n·students must also Resp.on sibll ily lur le tters t" Ih t, found nOt only in our great universities but also in t.pe Since Vietnam the leadership class has undermtned oppression, but I certainly am glad sign _heir leHers but onl \' need to ed itor be longs to the indiV idUal news media, big business', and politics. . tbe United States in foreign policy by questlOmng Its that we don't have any of tbat here; add heir ph one numb e ~ . Lelte rs writer. The Current m"i ntai ns (h e The platform of the pew negativists is the new motives and its principles. Its obseSSIve skeptiCIsm IS our country is so free of prejudice Sh Oll d not be more than tw o typ ed r ig ht to r efu se pUbli cal ion of le tters ' isolationism. Unlike the old isolationists of the 1950s, the one reason the new negativists argue that we have lost and bl ack poverty that we are now page 1 in length. . Judged to be in poo r taste . Letter5 new isolationists oppose, not only- American invol vement both the will to lead and the faith in ourselves that would able to set other nations straight. No unSigned letters wi \I be may be ed it ed to fit space . abroad but also defense .programs at home. Obsessed enable us to lead. Also, I can't help wondering how publ ished. The author's name will co ns id.cl"

WOODS from page I I leadership development center," and the medlaY l'wfissouri legislature. In 1982 she she said. "She will sink her teeth into sOljle was the Democratic nomillee for t.he The major policy area Woods regional, community and state United States Senate. hopes to tackle through her position problems," McCall said. 'is the pj:.oblem of homelessness. She ,Lt. Governor Woods said, Lt. Governor Woorls hopes. toe has already initiated work in this "Homelessness is just the most vis­ Bush Center, besilies serving as a ' area by issuing a "challenge to the ible evidence of a lot of structural leadership traiIting.force., can aid in· community" to solve the problem problems within the community. I resolving conflict lllDong political constructively.. will be working with key community groups. . "She challenged this community decision makers to creat.e more low~ "Both politiciaJIs and interest to put housing on the agenda," said income housing." groups tend to defend their George J. McCall, the center's act- positions in public," she said. "If ing director. . Lt. Governor Woods has served in you have a center where people can' McCall said Lt. Governor Woods her current position since January confnmt each' other constructively should prove an asset to the center of 1985. She has been active in in a non-threatening environment j "because of her expertise and back­ politics since 1967, and has served such as a univerSity, they could ground dealing with public officials two terms as a state senator in the perhaps resolve. their differences."

CENTER from page 1 limt itself to the United States. lng skills here," he said. help the 'Census Bureau learn to "Next year I anticipate going to count the homeless population and evaluating mental health services the best place in the world to see While McCall said this plan is still conflict take place and be resolved tentative, he has definite plans for for the homeless, he said. - Soutb Africa," he said. the center. Besides its other Ultimately, McCall hopes the functions of helping the community center can serve as a meeting place construct policies. and' training for opposing views. McCall expects to do research and through workshops and seminars, teaching in South Africa in the win­ "We want to try and bring people the center is already heavily ter of 1989. He hopes a return visit together in a way that will help the involved in its third function - commuhlty deal constructively with by South African experts could take . research. place the following summer. change," !;Ie said. "A uhlversity is a kilJ.d of neutral meeting place with "The plan is next summerto bring "Most of the research right now is respectability for people that don't in some of the people from Soutb -on the homeless," McCall said. normally meet under friendly Africa to bring some of their teach- This research includes trying to climates."

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