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MANAGING EDITOR John Greflorv EDITOR Nov. 6 & 7 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Clint Talbott Nov. 6 NEWS AND FEATURE EDITOR Music Recital Community Dave Styler Play Production "ANASTASIA" :Sl'U.tn'S .t;DlfUK Walter Walker Theater 8:00 p.m. WW Theater Chorus Scott Lambuth & Rm. 30 Rehearsal CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER Nov. 7 3:00 p.m. WW Theater Ron Buchholz Football Away PRODUCTION MANAGER & Rm. 30 Bri"" Raker Eastern Washington State 6-llp.m. TYPESETTERS at Cheney Connie Kiesler Lori Kruse PROOFREADER Nov. 14 Nov. 15 Nov. 17 - 20 Bonnie Heyman Football COLUMNISTS Community Music Theater Production Mike Roberts Here Mavs. vs. Choir in (17 - 18) Rehearsal 8:00 p.m. Vicki Wells Fort Lewis Concert (19 · 20) Performance CONTRIBUTING WRITERS College 3:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Walter Walker April Allen Lori Allen 1 :00 p.m. performance Carol Christ Kelly Graves Randy Keller Bob Kretschman Rick Molasky Jake Nikkel M.P. Shanahan PHOTOGRAPHERS Bruce Mann Bonnie Wanner COORS PRESENTS Allen Crook RUSS HODGSON John McCoy
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CRITERION The Criterion is published each Friday of normal school weeks, and it is distributed throughout the college MESA COLLEGE PLAYER and in key public places. It is primarily funded by advertisement, with the OF THE WEEK help of a yearly allocation of student funds. Chosen by the Mesa College Coaching Staff The Criterion is a student operated and managed publication. Its only non-student liaisons are advisory posi- Taste the High tions in the form of a publication advisor and the Mesa College Media Country Board, of which the Criterion, the Literary Magazine and the college Climb Up to Coors radio station (KMSA) are also mem- hers. © 1980 Adolph Coors Company, Golden, Colorado news • KMSA still SU Nives B_y Ji)av.e Styler espite a series of pieces in the Mike Roberts said that "we'd regret hours, and dispute the attitude ID Sentinel, (two editorials espous losing them becau.se they've given a ing opposite views and a .news arlidle), expressed in Bill Hamm's recent lot of their time, and they have a editorial. the s.i~uation at :BJMSA-FM is not .-as following who will ,miss them, too." ''Our feeling is that tire station .is drastic as has b-een implieq, according However, he added, "Turnover is an most educational when it is a real radio to radio personnel and adviser Jim inherent property in college radio." station - when it goe.s out and stays Keener. Recent proposals to the .There was general acceptance of the going out. Therefore, we do ~have Ourriculum Committee and the Fac ,new policies to be jnstituted. As for criteria for people to be on th-e air," ulty Senate have indicated that placing more emphasis on the station said McConnell in response to the KMSA's facilities will be u.sed in the as a media lab, -Public Service Director Sentinel opinion which pictured the future as a learning tool for students in ana Office Manager Annie Cull-en said station as having an exclusive and communications ,programs, but no ''We have to have more manpower to private nature. "Our attitude," added plans cwere put forth v.,iereby the stay on the air.'' They see a necessity Ms. Cu.lien, "is that if people ar-e not station's operations wou.ld be signifi for the station to remain on the air at or prepared to_go on the air, we want to cantly affected. near Jts current level of programming Keener said that the most immed work--with,them. 0 iate alterations jn the running of the station are using the production _slmdio for a_media lab, and ,instituting a .credit program for , students working at the station, if they so choose. "I don't Sexual Harassment anticipate any changes,'' he said. ''I think this is going to be the -e:xtent of academic influen_ce." The major impact on .station pro gramming ·unoer "Keener's newly cdiscussed in open f,CJ>rum acquired post ·will be .more . items of local and community interest:as·part oi its format. Other than this, Keener Trustees unable to decide on definition said he intends to institute a policy requiring sli.udents w:ho wish to wotk at r'f'"' he p_olicy on s-e~ual harrassment definition of sexual advances that are the station to carry a load of six credit !J.. that was adopted Sept. 17 by the unwelcome. "I would hate to see the hours, and for management, seven B_oari:i of Tru.stees of th-e Consortium time when one incidence of sexual would have to be maintained. !He aid ·wa·s discussed in open forum Oct. 29 in harassment would be ignored by the say, however, that at this point, it rs the board room at Mesa College. If.he colleges.'' more of a suggestion than a rigid 1puwose of the forum according to The dialogu.e was noted by the policy. :rrustee John Marvel was that the board, anii other comments on the As for the recent editorial that incorporation of the policy into the subject were solicited. Jo Dorris, vice appeared in the Sentinel by Courtney handbook requires discussion at qpen president of student affairs, added "I ;DeBmin, Keener said,that "Jtis1unfair for:um meetings. woula just like to reinforce my to say that the college has not paid The .major query brought up at the recommendation that the word attention to ~the station (in recent forum dealt with the word "repeated" 'repeated' be removed." years). I CRJTE'.RTON lectures China's metamorphosis By Lori Allen hose now in their 80s have lived organization," around 1920 to 1935. of all resources, bringing an end to T through catastrophic change con "Two crucial aspects" leading to this, individual rights to land. Quotas and tinuously since their birth," said Dr. Spence said, were "yearning for prices were set by the state, and Jonathan Spence, Professor of History re-nationalization'' which became esp certain rewards given. Spence stated at Yale, during his lecture to a crowd ecially important after the recurrence that Mao's " great leap forward" in of 200 at Walter Walker. His talk, of foreign intervention in China after the '50s was "an attempt to transform titled " China's Revolution: Searches World War One, and the heightened human limits on the will,'' and thereby for Order in the 20th Century," was social consciousness of those returning to overcome primitive technology 11nd presented Oct. 29 by the Lectures and from Europe and the U.S., with the other limitations. Forums Committee. influence of the Bolshevik Revolution Towards this end, ''truer egalitar Spence, a specialist on the history of adding to this. ianism' ' was attempted with the China since the 16th Century, has The result of this, Spence said, was "Abandonment of military rank" and received numerous honors in recogni the " reformation of the Kuomintang" a change in the educational structure, tion of his achievements, including a and the "founding of a small Chinese with professors sent to the fields" in past appointment as Chairman of the Communist Party in 1921." In Canton order to mix with industrial and rural Council of East Asian S1..idies at Yale, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung along labor. Furthermore , Spence said, a and the George Burton Adams Chair of with Chou En-lai worked towards their people's militia was established "to History at Yale, which he holds. common goal of unifying China. make the entire country a defensive In his talk, Spence discussed the In 1927 there was a "series of unit;" communes were formed; and influence of the "series of revolution clashes," and by late that same year, the traditional family system aboli ary struggles since 1903 or 1904" that Spence said, "catastrophic" battles, shed. have been an attempt to transform with peasant uprisings of which Mao In 1962, there was a " deep pause," Chinese society. He stated that became the leader. From 1927 to 1936 stated Spence, when ''much seemed although China's policy is constantly there was ''incessant civil was bet unsuccessful'' and there was opposi changing and there have been differ ween the Communists and the Nation tion in the party. By 1966 it continued ent kinds of revolutions in the past 80 alists.'' to the Cultural Revolution, which was years, there are certain basic changes In 1934-35 Mao led his Long March an attempt to "revitalize and restruc that have ocurred. in which he was pursued to northwest ture the world Communist Party from The first stage of these was a change ern China by the Nationalists. How within, even if by youths not in the from China's "two millennium tradi ever, Spence said, war against the party." This included the " transform tion' ' of an imperial monarchial sys Japanese from 1937 to 1945 "forced an ation of the entire structure of educa tem which had begun in B.C. 221 and uneasy alliance between the Com tion,'' the changing of the arts into a ended in 1910, Spence said. This came munists and Nationalists" of the "new Chinese art form ," and the about as a result of various pressures, United Front Period," Although "the banishment of foreign influence and including civil war. Although there Chinese hoped opposition could be the "old Chinese feudal past." With was an attempt by Dowager Empress overcome and the united national this revolution, Spence said, they Tzu Hsi's government to graft a government restored,'' the ''Com hoped to create "something purely parliamentary system onto the old one, munists and Nationalists were soon Chinese." it " ended up destroying it," Spence fighting for territory.'' Both wanted Spence identified the " last phase" said. Manchuria, and a civil war was fought which " probably started around 1972" By 1911 or 1912 the Manchu from 1945 to 1949, resulting in Chiang as a "revolution of technological (non-Chinese) imperial system fell, Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan. norms" and "an attempt to think and the government moved into what According to Spence, the Com through the whole structure of society, Spence referred to as its "second munist Party attempted a "radical related to industry, production ... now phase," which lasted from 1910 re-organization of society" from 1947 going through technological revolu through 1920. At this time there was to 1957, before China's unification in tion." This includes " raising prod attempt to establish a "true republic," 1949. At this time, he said, "all heavy uction by reintroducing private incen but it rapidly disintegrated and industry was nationalized;" "almost tives including individual payment for collapsed due to the assasination of all foreigners were expelled and service to the state;" " re-allowing ''talented political figure,'' such as the foreign investments taken over;" land overseas education'' and rewarding prime minister-elect, Sun Yat-sen's was redistributed; the military struc "academic powers which equals future lack of " capacity to build up a power ture was "overhauled and stream state power;" " mandatory population base" and the president's "disastrous lined" ; and the Communist Party and control" including one child per miscalculation" of attempting to unite industrial structures were both ''mod family; and the " deveopment of the nation by trying to have himself ernized and restructured." In foreign internal raw materials on an unparal installed as emperor. policy, anti-U.S. stance was adopted, led scale,'' including coal, uranium After this, China moved into a and a peace treaty signed with the and offshore oil. This involves "rein ' 'bleak period of warlordism' ' lasting Soviets. terpreting socialism," and finding a from around 1918 into the 1930s when from 1957 to 1972 Mao " went beyond" " scrapegoat not closely associated it was "fragmented among rivals." the earlier revolution in not attempting with the current regime and Deng," According to Spence the Chinese a "radical re-organization of society," but " not exactly Mao." Spence says " impressive will to survive" carried but a "radical transformation of that Gang of Four is the ' 'most valid the nation through this time until human nature." Included in this possible scapegoat, as it had been socialism and nationalism were " rein process was the collectivization, not among the most powerful decision troduced as patent forces for modes of redistribution, of land and the pooling makers in the party.'' 0 CRITERION 5 news briefs Sullivan' s piesentation included un Written comments, Jiddre.ssed to the· overview of the detriments of oil shale Women's Caucus, may be 'left at the, A~u·mni speak at development. She called the socio Crite office OI given directly to Nancy· logical impact of runaway population Meye:rs or Nissa Sheperd. D club diin.n,er growth and shale development "deva stating.'' She cited skyrocketing land Saunders speaks he Mesa College Alumni Dinner values.. bankruptcy of farmers and T Club listened to two freshman ranchers, and the elderly ibeing forced on physical abuse state legislators describe life in the from their homes by high rental costs Colorado legislature. The dinneI was as some of the problems that must be :ne out of every two wom~n. held the evening of Oct. 30 in the dealt with. O· t!'.KJper,ience physical abuse in the student center. Sullivan also told the audience that WSA .today," said Julie Saunders,. Republican Vicki Armstrong, who being in the legislature was a bene Founder of the Abused and Batte,edl represents ti.he district which includes ficial ex.perience. ''The people l've Humans Organization, headquartered! Grand Junction, and Democ:rat Kath met a:re tremendous." she said. in Craig, Colo. Crimes, ,file ,ape, are: leen Sullivan, whose constituency However., she did mention one of her the most unreported. Am includes "Aspen., Vail, and oil shale," main disappointments in the legis estimated nine out of 10 ca'Ses go1 are both graduates of Mesa College. lature. She said, "We tend to react a unreported it is estimated by Mrs .. Each was elected to the Colorado heck of a lot more than ·we act." Saunders from eittrapolated statistics,. House last November, and Sullivan Overall, though, she said that she was and said she "I think that's really· was the only Democrat to beat a "very happy to say tihat I'm a ,state scary.'' Republican incumbent in the election. JegislatoI. . '·' D Mesa College Womens Caucus meet Armstrong told tbe audience that a ing on the topic of ibattere.d women. knowledge of how to work with people She discussed some of ~he problem is essential in government. She said Caucus se·eks input :situations that 1ead to an abusive that she has met an overwhelming society, rreasons why the abused numbe:r of people since her election. on mew poljcy womeD stay in ~he situation anii the · 'In both par!iies/' she said, ''you find dynamics oi the ,elationshi,p. a Jot of very good people." he Women·'s Caucus is currently Fiom 1913 .to 1976, a wtrstem slope She also said that it is a great T reviewing the student grievance boom town, Craig, experienced .a 350 advantage to be a .Republican. She procedure to determine whether it is percent increase in domestic: said that in a Republican-controlled appiopriate for handling sexual har violence, she noted. The rapid legislature, it is e'8Sier for a ~epubli assment charges on campus. incease in popu1ation led to housing ·can to get a bill heard, and there is Do you feel the student grievance shortages and lack of adequate social generally a better response to Repub procedure is adequate? Student opin outlets. Also the geographical factor of lican-introduced bills. ion and comment is wanted. long cold winters were ·all 11ea-sons for the large increase in violence, she contended. Mrs. Saunders ·stated there were many reason why a woman stays in aD abus'ive situation. They :range from GP* having children and lack of education Rated to help support themselves, to being afraid to leave, or believing all men are abusers, Mrs, Sa.undeis outlined thre-e st.ages of violence. 'flhe first stage is the escalating tension between the couple, whic.b can last from a few weeks to a few years. The .second stage is the acute battering stage, genera11y less than 24 hours. The third stage is the seductive phase of violence ·which can la-st one day to ,seve11al weeks. In this phase, the man is extremely nice to the woman- affectionate and generous - and is usually genuinely sorry for what he has perpe:t:rated.. Emotional, p sydhologica!l, financial, and -physical fan.tors tie the woman there. In Colorado there arre nine shelters to hous.e batteied women, but none of them are on the western slope. Saunders as.serted that if nothing else was available, community education is important on all levels so that ptrop1le Mesa Mall will understand the JPSychological Grand Junction dynamics tbat ''put us there and ~eep * G.reat Pizza 242-0507 ms there" in regards to 'cuiltwal attitudes that perpetuate the status t> 1976 Happy Joe's, Inc. "Trauemar1< Reg',stered Happy Joe's P12za A Ice Cream, Inc quo-i.e. physical aggressiveness is touted and men are dominant. O 6 CRITERION news analysis Coors monopolizes campus? Coors says make it yours··but do we have a choice? By Dave Styler everal ·weeks ago, a curious thing game (Coke and Pepsi), whicl1 led to justified in maintaining its aominion Shappened which pointed out one some hard feelings. lt later became a with the team, claiming that since the Jae.et of the state of affairs at Mesa. general rule that coaches would not team this year was 'the ''hoHest thing The ,incident pertained to a beer lend their conse.nt to participate ln going,'' Miller, which Jiad not been advertisement wh1chMdl1ar Beer (local _cases where th_ere would be similar involved neai:ly to the extent that agent _High Country .Distributors) requests. "I cion't want my coaches Coo.rs ,had been, -was basically an wanted to run in the Criterion using a playing on.e company off against undeserving recent arrival. " Playe_r of the Week" format. ln another." He also emphasized a -JerffersQn flatly stated that at no accordance wJth this, the Grit_er,ion feeling of loyalty the team !felt to time did Cherp or Parker contaat him sent a photographer to Coach Cortese Coors, since he had been involved. to put off the ,Miller proposal. Yet, to sna.P a picture. Cortese refused. !He "Wo{ild-you turn your back on the guy though there was .no e-W:dence to said the advei:hlsement was too cSimi:lar that's been helping you for the past indicate that anyone at the college is in to one that Coors was going to run. five years?'' However, Jefferson Coors' pocket, it is clear that Coors is In fact that week, Coor:s ,ran an stated that "I can't bllock the (Miller:) given preferential treatment over any- advertisement in which Vicki ad; if they wanted to pick the player of on-e else, when it eomes to the.football Armstrong was congratulated. a'he the week without Cortese, I can't team. This favoritism has the effect of week before, Oct. 2, their adve,rtise !Prevent that." ma~ing cettlllin programs of the cdllege ment 1eatured · a picture of the Simons, meanwhile, had gotten in behdlden to the wishes of Coors, with ·Mavericks, which was, if one stretched touch with P,resident Tomlinson to the tacit, and sometimes active -su_p- it, simllar. 1Rowever, if one prefer,red complain. He said that the president port of the administration. Miller not to stretch it, it would aJlpear that told him that the school "wouldn't subsequen~ly .ran an intra-murals ad, CoQrs probably has been granted tolerate interrference'' in reference to but ,has ,since withdrawn Jts advertis- exclusive rights to the cmop-e:ra:faon of Coors' blocking any advertising effort ing in prote.st. Although it had been the football team for aavertisin_g. by Miller. 1n a later interview with the generally regarded by high e.dminis- Guy Cherp 's distributorship has in C11iterion, rromlinson mentioned that tration sources as a "Criterion issue," fact contributed .much to the J.inancial exclusive ri_ghts to a football team is tJie magazine had not even been picture of ,the school over the last 12 not a cqllege policy. He also said, notified of the decision until Corte.se years. As Oliff Parker, -sales repre however, that "as far as I know, that's refused to cooperate. Thus, the,,policy sentative noted, over ·a seven year been the direction the department of the ath!letics department had even period, Coors h-as given thousands of used to go (n_ot to create tensions)." short-uircuited the college's free- dollars in scholarship monies. ;Jn Cliff Parker said that Coors is enterprise system. 0 addition, they .have been responsible for raising ,Jlome no,ooo 'from their Golden headquarters to help fund the ~~WEPDYJ~~ student center expansion. Guy Cherp's wife sits on a college'cammun ity board. Septemberfest wa.s ~a Co-ors function. And Coors is by far-one of the WENDY'S HAMBURGERS most steadfast advertisei:s in the Criterion. ARE FRl:SH NOi' FROZEN. Miller beer distributor John Simons ...... -.r-?' complained that lte was "not allowed to compete in the marketplace," and called the statement that the adver tisements were .similar "ridiculous." His sales re_presentative on campus, !Mark Culbertson, hadin fact obtained Cortese 's permission to l!lse the player of the week format alon_g with the player's cooperation, and then, the day it was supposed to have run, a AIN'T NO REASON Jetter was received by Simons rfrom Cortese telling Jtim that he wasn't going alon_K with it. This wasn't Cortese's idea. Jt -can be attributed to a Jact about the school's -... policy as far as treating its Qld friends ... . right. One of the proponents of this reciprocal relation.ship is At:hJetic ,IDirec'tor ,and College Center .Director Jay Jefferson. Jefferson said that this policy of 'one IMESA MALL& sport, ane sponsor' 'came about after a l'~mllOLD r&aNION:ED particular experience in the past in 2010 NOR1Hi AVE. w_hich ,-cnmmercie] interests competed G ra nd Junction RAIIIIIIIIIBBz'. during the duration of one football CRIT.ERWN 7 Delayed Appreciation Syndrome e call shell shock delayed stress "My attitude was that I wouldn't cane when he got back because he W syndrome today," said Kent take any crap," said Main. He spoke needed to have something in his Main, a Vietnam veteran at Mesa. of one incident in which he was hands. He and a group of other veterans applying for a job as a teacher in the "You always hear how bad it was. commented on how Vietnam era vets Midwest. Everything went fine until But what do you talk about now? are labeled by the media as having he was asked questions about his Veterans always talk about the war. If numerous problems. The point arose divorce which he felt had nothing to do you went to Vietnam you had to grow when that very type of publicity came with his qualifications for the job. up. It built confidence," said Capps. across the video screen in the snack Main informed them that he wasn't He felt bad about leaving the people bar pit in the form of a Veterans interested. behind in Vietnam and actually wanted Administration commercial. The com ''If it wasn't life or death, then it to return. "I spent a month on leave in mercial told of delayed stress syn really didn't matter," added Dean the mountains in Aspen and on the drome and how vets could get help at Kershaw, who commanded a combat Mesa. I just marched it out." their local V.A. offices. engineer platoon in Vietnam. He went Capps told of problems and how he For the most part, however, the on to talk about coming back to the feels fortunate to have had a very seven vets interviewed had few com States. supportive father who served in plaints about the V .A. The biggest "I felt naked when they took my Korea. problem they noted was getting stu weapons away. I still don't step on pop ''I spent six months in the field. The dent loans or grants for college which cans (booby traps). If something's out biggest thing I wanted to see was a isn't attributed to their status as of its element, don't play with it," he flush toilet. When we got out of the veterans and has nothing to do with said. · plane going back to the States we all the V.A. "Before I left, the sound of a baby had to run over and use the flush The readjustment to civilian life crying made me want to say, 'shut that toilets." from military life seems to have been kid up.' But my daughter was born Capps was fascinated with the more of a problem. while I was there (Vietnam). When I people when he got back. He couldn't "I was terrified to go to school. came back that sound was the most believe they were smiling and not beautiful thing to hear,'' said Ker worrying. "I missed three flights in When I joined the military they shaw. molded me," said Mike Hollingsworth Seattle just because I was watching the who served in the Army's armored people," he said. cavalry in Europe. Some similar views were shared by When Capps first came back he A couple of veterans agreed on the Jerrel Capps, a cook with infantry in went to Arizona and got his first taste .remendous experience of Vietnam combant resupply camps, and recon of the attitude on Vietnam. "All I had giving them confidence and a new naissance. Capps also felt insecure to do was mention I was in the service. outlook on life in the States. without his gun and said he carried a I was shunned. They said things under their breath. Most people didn't want Veterans (l tor clockwise) Jerrel Capps, Mike Hollingsworth, to talk about it. The first thing they ask Kent Main, Kevin Atshley and Dean Kershaw. you is 'Did you kill somebody?' Then they ask 'How did it feel?' It didn't feel. The hardest part wasn't fighting. The hardest part was facing the people after," said Capps. He went on to tell about the veterans at Mesa in those days just after the war. ''The vets were strong on campus when I came to Mesa (1972). Some of the hardest times were having to think about all the times .... We were all watching a film in Houston Hall. A police siren sounded ... it was the same sound as the siren to warn of incoming in Vietnam,"said Capps. He and some other vets in the classroom immediat ely hit the ground and crawled out the door on their bellies. This was just learned reaction for survival according to Capps. Once out in the hall the rest realized what happened and calmly walked back into the room. "No one said anything. No one wanted to. They treated you like you were different,'' said Capps. D 8 CRITERION national college newt; ROTC alters schemes WASHINGTON D.C. (CPS)-The Res Congress has also mandated im · a'ware" of the aid benefits, says Lt. erve Offic 'Training Corps (ROTC) pressive increases for the National LaVerne I';. Weber, chief of the and other armed services branches, Guard. The new aid packages are National Guard Bureau. which began their campus renaissance expected to . become avaiQable this The new emphasis on money mat; by appealing to student dreams of month. ters aims to help push campu:s adventure and mountain climbing, are Under the Army National Guard's enlistment rates over what already ha1s changing their advertising to reflect a tihre'e college loan repayment plans, a been a significant rebirth rate sinc1e major new fact of college life: a student can borrow nearly $16,000 1974. shortage of tuition and money.· over four year, and then have the loan ROTC and National Guard units now forgiven aft.er six years of "satisfac In that year,~ lo~ of 63_,000 student:s inv,ite students to enlist in return for tory'' service in the Guard or any of were in ROTC programs nationwide!. scholarships or low-interest tuition the reserves, By 1980-81, the ROTC population ha(d loans that will be forgiven if students , For example, a student who borrows leapt to 106,000. remain in the armed forces a certain $10_,000 over four years can have Owens says the military has "no feel period of time. The military wiill start $9,000 oi the loan forgiven after six yet" for the success of the new; an even more ambitious ad campaign years oi service. financial appeal to students. based on student monetary concerns Even after one year of service, Others argue enrollmerits will com this month. students can start paying off the loan tinue to grow regardless of appeals. Rowens, who handles advertising at the rate of 15 percent of the balance Israel Tribble of the Pentagon's Traim for the National Guard Bureau, says of $500 per year, whichever sum is ing and Education Directorate attrirn the new appeal includes radio sports in higher. .. , ,. utes much of ROTC's growth to thte college towns and print ads which will Both National Direct Student Loans passing of the anti-militarism that a1,>pear in over 400 college papers. · and Guaranteed Student Loans qualify grew from the campus anti-war move- The military began stressing mone for repayment under the new military ment. ' tary student inducements in August, plans. "Many of these kids don't remenn at the same time President Reagan Any student who qualifies for repay ber Vietnam," observes Lt. Coil. signed into law a series of cuts in ment can also get into the Educational James P. Hunt, head of the Arnuy federal student aid programs. Assistance Program., which c,an loan ROTC program. Owens believes that, given bhe the student up to $1,000 per year. Tennessee's Crask sees ROTC".s timing of the switch in ad appeals, To drive the point home, the "Army success as an adjunct to the •• recemt financial aid officers around the coun National Guard is going all out to conservative tone of the country''s try are "looking favorably" at the new insure that every college student is political system." [] scholarship and loan programs. .. Dana Robertson of American Uni versity's financial aid office doesn't think the majority of students will bite. Student abortions ''Loan repayments average any where from $30 to $100 per month, PRINCETON, NJ (CPS)--Student fees administration felt this would set a bmd I and, if you take into consideration at Princeton University will no longer precedent for the overall comprehem-1 what you pay on normal monthly bills, be used to fund abortions, according to sive student fee. They felt if we madle this is not a great amount;'·' Robertson a new compromise adopted by the this kind of refund, someone else coulld says. school's Trustee Committee on Health object to paying a fee for conta,ct "There's not enough incentive for and Athletics. sports, a Christian Scientist coulld students to enlist," she concludes.' Under the university's existing sys object to the entire health care fee, amd ' Yet Lt. Col. Garnett E. Crask of the tem, one dollar out of each Princeton so on.'' University of Tennessee ROTC notes student's mandatory health care fee is that ''most'' of the students joining at r diverted to finance student abor "Conversely, our health call'e his campus ''want to take advantage oi tions--a policy that has aroused leng endownment was provided by indiwi the financial benefits of the program." thy controversy among administrators, dual and family donors years ago, wilth, "I'd rather see these incentives (to students and faculty members. The no restrictions as to its usage .. '' enlist) than a mandatory draft,'' says new plan takes money from the The ample fund, which amount to Kathy Downey, president of the school's permanent health service "at least 20 times the Sl per studemt' National Student Educational Fund in endownment, thus avoiding involun abortion fee," Pyle says, will go to W-ashington, D.C .. But Downey tary student funding of abortions. improving the birth control program at · believes the increased college money '' A lot of students have objected to the health center as well as to offered by the military was in part providing even $1 for abortions," says reimbursing students for aborti<0n taken from the college aid money cut Director of Health Services Louis A. expenses. I, from the U.S. Department of Educa Pyle. Jr., who stresses his staff only Princeton's Pyle asserts his univer tion budget. refers students to private physicians sity is ready to withstand all pressunes Military aid programs are in fact and clinics. The cost of an abortion is created by its abortion decisiom. , some of the few college aid programs fully covered by the university's Though the school remains ready to that were expanded this year. Con insurance program. talk about funding mechanisms, it gress is allowing the Army, Navy and ''The initial sugg·estion was simply ''will in no way back off fro,m j Air Force ROTC programs to give out to rebate the $1 upon a student's comprehensive care, including pre:g 26,000 scholarships this year, up from request," Pyle relates. "But the nancies. '' ID 19,000 Jast year. 9 CRITERION The orig• 1n• of mankind {CPS!- A debate now ragi.ng in the Steen-Mcintyre, a specialist in "She used .an experimental techni pages of an obscure academic journal something called ,tephrochronology, que filled with variables," Irwin has pitted geologists against archeolo attributes the delay to her contention WiUiems complains. "Volcanic ash gists, and, to the tune of some that her findings set most of the differs within every volcano as much mannered academic name calling, may accumulated wisdom of archeofogy as 400 pe·rcent. To measure a site's eventually threaten to upset most on its ear. "When new age, you need an independent study of commonly-held assumptions about data indicate a quantum change in a the ra,te of hydration, and that's not human evolution. science, you always get t his kind of been done at Hueyatlaco." At issue is just how old homo reac,tion. If true, these findings me·an Archeologist Vance Hayne of the sapiens is. Anthropologists generally something basic has been wrong in University of Arizona agrees that believe the species arrived in the their thinking insofar as the evolution Steen-Mcintyre's measuring techni western hemisphere no longer than of man is concerned.'' que is less than reliable. He rejects her 20,000 years ago. In 1973, Steen-Mcintyre and two basic findings--"unless you want to But Dr. Virginia Steen-Mcintyre, a other geologists undertook an intricate throw everything that is archeologi geologist, says .she found evidence study of the site, measuring its age by cally known about the New World out indicating homo sapiens may have me.asuring the age of the site's the window. Ther,e have been so many been around as long as 250,000 y.ears volcanic ash. Steen-Mcintyre, who other sites that have proven the ago. admits she has no background in opposite of what she claims." She found the evidence by sifting archeology, claims her group's scienti Steen-Mcintyre retort·s that 'a lot of through volcanic ash at the Hueyatlaco fic findings offer reasonably conclusive reputations would be on the line,'' if archeological site near Mexico City. evidence of a civilization far oLder than her data were accepted, adding And though Steen-Mcintyre, along anyone had previously deemed feas Haynes "has found identical dates" as with geologists from Washington State ible--perhaps extending back a quarter she has ,on certain sites, "but he won't University and the U.S. Geological of a million years. publish the fact. Things have gotton so Survey, has been bringing the evi ''It took six years for our basic data strained, neither side can even talk to dence and analyses back home to on this even to get published," she each other. There's just no communi Colorado State University for eight laments. "After a while, you start cation.'' yea rs, academic resistance only getting paranoid. ALL I've been "It's nice science fiction," says allowed publication of her conclusions saying is it's about time we started Irwin-Williams of Mclrttyre's data. D in September, 1981. re-examining a lot of our evidence." Perry pursues pickpocket esa College now boasts its own ''I bit the man and I think I must M modern hero in the spirit of Robin have hit a vein because there was Hood and John Wayne. blood running all ov,er the place. Political Science majors know him as Unfortunately, the people behind us, Mort Perry. I was anxious to meet him anxious to get out of the bus, forced for the interview contained in this the door open and we all rolled out article !because of my thirst for justice onto the pavement. The man then got and the American Way. There I was up and ran off with my waHet." standing in his doorway. A "Rolling Later at the police station ... Stone'' magazine lay on his desk ''The cops thought my story was surrounded by books of more great. They gave me some Listerine to intellectual worth. wash the taste out of my mouth. 'I hope the pickpocket doesn't have to He aoked me to sit down, and then have a tetanus shot,' I told them. he began his saga of how he almost "When I got to my .80-year-old stopped a pickpocket in the Big Apple. sister's house (where Perry was stay His story is as follows: ing) she completely endorsed my "I was on Broadway Bus 104 on my action. One time she hit a mugger with way to Times Square to see " Raiders the handle of a pocketbook he was of the Lost Ark." When ithe bus got to trying to take from her." He finished. the .stop, a young man got up in front Silence-I was amazed. "What ra of me at the stairwell jof the bus just him get up. As I did so I noticed the story!" I thought as I congratulated inside the door). While in New York I transfer of my wallet from my pocket him. had been on guard against muggers to hi.s hand. I grabbed the hand with "I'm hoping to get a part with instead of pickpockets so I ha,d my the waUet and threatened, 'If you Charles Bronson in a movie,'' Profes wallet in my shirt pocket. don't give me my w.allet, I'm gonna sor Perry said jokingly. ''This guy used the familiar trick all bite!' I then yelled at the bus driver to As I w.as leaving his office, he said, pickpockets use. He fell in ,the stair hold the doo.r shut (so th·a,t the criminal "I have no regrets 'about biting this well on purpose so that I would help could not escape). man. " D 10 CRITERION sports VolJ eybal!I :s~astDn comes to ,a close The Dodger"s win he Volleyball season came to -an By ..!Joe i.lle11dm"11 T end ,la11t weekend with the ladies on the road. The M-avericks traveled T he World Series ended laet week be no c!ifferent ..s L.A. scored 4 Jl'unB south to play Ft. _Lewis College on ll with the Dodgers beating New off of Frazier anti three man aff _Friday, and Adams State College on York 9-2 at Yankee Stadium to win the relievers "Reushel .and Davis. Saturday. series 4 games to 2. But th.is -was not the.fall of tire lham Things W;lre not good on Friday, as In doing so the Dodgers became Bombers. The Ye11kees lost 'lite series the Raiders defeated the Mavericks in only the second team in history to win in 1.A. .wifh poor bne running and three straight games. The scores read the series after losing the first two stranded f'UDDSJ'S dt.e to untimely 6-15, 2-15, and 11-15. games, joining the Yankees who hitting. The Viltlkeas set a 'Series Saturday would bring better luck for accomplished the feat in 1978. record with 51> 111amaers 1sft on lane thelady Mav's. It wasJiailoween, and The experienced Dodgers, whose eclipsing the old mark set by th.a K.C. the lady Mavericks put a ,scare in roster has changed very little from Royals in 1980. lRoflkie sensation, Adams State, defe-ating them three out those of the 1977 and 19'78 Wor'ld Fernando Velenzuala, who Bet .JI of five games. rf,he 11cores were 9-15, Series teams included manager Tom league reCOl'd -with eight 1Jhlliolm mul 15-8, 6-15, 15°9, and 15-6. Lasorda, capitalized on :numerous led the league in ~rikeouts " 12 CRITERION entertainment Seger's Nine Tonight By Jake Nikkel energy and are easily digestible, if not epitome of the Seger/Bullet rock and expendable here. Side One closes with roll. The band plays here with tight, no "Hollywood Nights," which is per nonsense precision. It's a shame they formed to technically perfect here it is can't play their whole show with the virtually indistinguishable from the same musical integrity and credibility. studio cut. "Fire Lake" should have been left on Side Two opener, "Old Time Rock the shelf. "Betty Lou's Gettin Out and Roll,'' begins with a contagious Tonight" is another pleasant rocker, pumping back beat that instantly gets not exceptional but certainly not the foot tapping. This song almost offensive. As for "We've Got seems made for the live show. Tonight,'' Blah Blah Blah...... "Mainstreet" and "Against the Side Four starts with Seger's sad Wind" are good ballads, but it but hopeful hymn for the lost teen remains a fact that Seger and Bullet ager, "Night Moves." A stirring song have trouble injecting any noticeable that essentially put Seger on the feeling into live versions of their musical map, "Night Moves" is well slower material. "The Fire Down done here; the only problem is that Below'' to date remains one of the Seger and the band seem painfully finest rock and roll numbers Seger has bored with playing it. Minimal energy. written. He has managed to keep the "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" once song from going stale, as his perform again lends itself to the hard-driving ance here shows. precision of the Silver Bullet Band's The third side crawls up with a live capabilities. Finally, "Let it Rock" half-hearted, weak version of "Her is another decent (ho hum) party Strut" that apparently cannot be rocker. Echoes of Chuck Berry here. salvaged even by the fine guitar work If you're hard up for music to put on of Silver Bullet axeman Drew Abbot. that Halloween background tape, On the other hand, "Feel Like a you'll find some decent stuff here; if ob Seger has been a notable Number," another of Seger's strong what you want is a good live Seger B recording artist for only seven upbeat rockers, is definitely one of the record, go buy a copy of "Live years now, but in reality he carries on album's bright spots. This is the Bullet." 0 a tradition of rock and rollers that dates back to the early sixties and conjures up visions of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. From Seger's choice of material and self-penned tunes, right down to the black vest, Film takes a tight pants and pointed "Beatie boots,'' he is a living, sweating example of the Motown rocker. And to novel approach go along with all of this, he at times manages some creativity. At times. "Nine Tonight" is a live album, arl Reisz' "the French Lieuten sive love for Anna/Sarah. which in the accepted definition of the K ant's Woman" is one of those Both Streep and Irons are outstand genre is generally a live performance movies that catches and retains the ing in their roles, but Streep's port of a band's previously recorded studio viewer's interest visually and psycho rayal of Sarah, "The Scarlet Woman of cuts. Some performers, Bruce Spring logically. The film, based on John Lyme," is especially excellent. steen for instance, are motivated to Fowles' novel, involves the alternation The movie is more than a present interject obscure, off-the-wall material of two counterbalancing plots. The ation of two love stories. It is also an into their shows. Seger would be an first concerns the novel's story itself, intriguing exploration of the solutions excellent vehicle for some of this, but and the second, the leading actress reached by women dealing with simi thus far, "Nine Tonight" inclusive, he and actor who are in a modern day lar conflicts in different times. Sarah's has apparently not been motivated in filming of the story. are those of personal identity and this direction. The similarity of the characters' freedom within a repressive, Victorian Side One begins with one of the loves and lifestyles are interwoven environment while Anna's involve how record's bright spots, the title cut and throughout the film, each lending best to use the freedom in relation solid party rocker "Nine Tonight." insight into the other. There is a great ships she has. The song features some extremely deal of likeness between the indepen The directing throughout the movie tasteful piano compliments of Silver dent 20th century American, Anna is insightful, bringing out the subtle Bullet Band Keyboardist Craig Frost. (Meryl Streep) and the unconventional ties of characters and plots, while the Seger's rendition of Eugene Williams' Sarah of Victorian England. Mike lovely sea and green woods and fields "Tryin' To Live My Life Without (Jeremy Irons) of contemporary times of Dorset provide a vivid background You," and his own "You'll Accom is also similar to his character of for the stories, and make the movie pany Me," project little or no live Charles, particularly so in his obses- almost worth seeing by themselves. O CRITERION 13 KMSA 's notes The news from KMSA By Billy Sly o air a well-known, but seldom of these options are somewhat less departments. If they spring for a T revealed fact; only four people in attractive than becoming the most Cessna, it's in able to spy on traffic. the continental United States listen to dynamic sensation in the nation, even KMSA has chosen a different road radio stations because of their excel these trivial, greed-filled stations co for its news broadcasts, choosing to air lent news coverage. And these people operate. However, this forced cooper news of an alternative nature rather are newscasters. ation often results in news broadcasts than simply rehash the stories which which are less informative than 'com are already being done to death by the For the rest of the people on Planet pulsory, less incisive than conserva other channels of mass communica E., a radio station is basically a device tive, and less impassioned than hum tion. Yet this is still a solution which designed for entertainment. Individ bly non-offensive. will not sit well with many listeners, uals tune into a station in order to hear Radio station executives realize that who feel that such a tack is a cop-out, a a good song, not to hear the recitation news broadcasts do not make money. surrender to the stations with superior of events surrounding a good bus The medium itselt even makes it news-gathering apparati and to the crash. Thomas Edison's First Law of difficult to sell news programming on newspapers whose survival depends Radio states that it is impossible to tap the personality of the announcer. upon getting the story fastest. And your toe to a news story. Whereas this was possible before the these people would be right. Of course, I'm over.. implifying. days of visual communication, the Whereas alternative news is valid, it " All-news" stations could not exist in advent of television has left consumers is more designed for entertainment the marketplace without a substantial with the option of seeing their stars than are the straight newscast concen number of the listening audience rather than just listening to them. trated on by more traditional radio and having a genuine obsession concern Walter Cronkite would not have television stations. Information is di ing up to date information on the world become the gentle gram-pa-pa of mil vulged, but of a nature which allows in general. But, in the main, the for a lighter presentation. It is the type lions had his hound dog-eyes and average listener tunes in to a radio adorable jowls not been clearly visible of news which can run a day late and station to escape the wicked winds of to his fans. On the radio, Uncle Walter still carry the same impact that it reality, not to revel in them. would have been just another gruff set would have if it had been aired on of vocal chords, spilling statistics to time. However, regulations put into play the multitudes. College stations, in the past, have.. by the Federal Communications Com been bastions for liberal viewpoints mission, the most beloved of govern So where does that leave the radio and incisive news coverage, and, mental agencies, state that even the station which feels an honest'compul doubtless, KMSA would have a similar most trivial, greed-filled radio station sion to inform its audience? Not reputation if it had the personnel to must devote a certain number of hours anywhere, unfortunately. And that's draw frorr. that other, larger institu weekly to public service programming, why syndicated news, which confines tions do. But the limitations placed on including the news. And even the most itself to superficial glances at deeply our staff by the low number of trivial, greed-filled radio stations must complex issues and answers, is where individuals becoming interested in comply with the whims of the FCC, or it's at in today's radio market. Few working at the station primarily else they will find themselves either radio stations, even in large venues, because of their interests in news yanked off the air or replaced by feel it is necessary to expend either casting, leave the station in a situation religious fundamentalists. Since both energy or dollars in their news where alternative news must be re lied upon almost entirely, or stories must be gleaned from other sources of local and regional media, aired a day late and a dollar short. JRrl Nonetheless, KMSA listeners seem to like alternative news, and well they might, for it is less earthshaking in the global sense and more likely to getlftlt~~ entertain than endless repetitions of events concerning the downfalls of BUY ONE African nations or the explosions of Middle Eastern oil wells. And when SOFT SHELL TACO the new communication program which is currently being instituted at and get 2nd one free Mesa College hits its stride, the news may become a more important feature of the station, for that is when students Offer good with coupon at will begin to be specifically cultivated 1122 N.12th for membership in the respected EXPIRES Nov. 12, 1981 fraternity of KMSA broadcasters. And, in the meantime, remember One special per coupon that no news is good news. NEXT WEEK: Dread Locks, the new Jamaican security device. 0 14 CRITERION editorial process. In this way, our society perpetrates the hierarchy of the war Recruit me not lords, who have exaggerated senses of machismo and racist and sexist By Clint Talbott tendencies. Veteran's Day exists do honor those his issue of the Criterion being the and tried their best to convince those who sacrificed untold amounts ir the T so-called " Veteran' s Day issue" of us who were male and of preferable pursuit of their pledge to an and this week being the first subse ethnic background for their purposes incorporeal uncle. Far be it for me to quent to the Congressional approval of to join their purportedly wonderful criticize those who went into the the A WACs sale as well as the time institution. military under coercion, duress, or period embodying the explosiveness Part of the military's new public simply the lack of proper understand that it does all combine to make the relations push employs extremely ing of the meaning of life. Those men observance of Veteran's Day for what misleading advertisements. Such were deprived in more ways than one. is should mean imperative. slogans as "It's not just a job, it's an Veteran's Day does not exist to exalt This nation is of course plotting a adventure," "A great way of life," the concept of war. Those who believe course towards what the adminis and "The few, the proud ... " serve so belong in the pentagon. It is tration terms a safe measure of only to romanticize the military, and common knowledge that five-sided l defense. This entails the spending of not to inform those who might join it of objects are evil, anyway. great amounts of money to that end. what it stands for. Veteran's Day should exist as a Efforts to increase the size and It is for those reasons among others monument to those who sacrificed all magnitude of the military can be found that the real issues surrounding the for an unforgiving, vengeful, and in many areas of American life. The military have been muddled. It is not incoherent government, but also as a student center at Mesa College is a openly advertised that one learns to monument against the institution of prime example. Earlier this month a kill people in the military, but the war. If that idea were to be followed, number of those clones in their military exalts those who learn how to perhaps future generations would not uniforms of green material and simp kill people well. That fact is at least have to mourn the loss of a love to the listic thought sat tirelessly in our midst subliminal during the recruitment slimy claws of warlorn government. 0 Equal time On sexual harassment here has been a lot of talk about But in a survey of Federal employ By Vicki Wells T sexual harassment recently, both ees, 42 percent of 694,000 women and statutes handle the issue of sexual nationally and locally. Last year, under 15 percent of 1,168,000 men reported harassment, while Board attorney Title VII, the Equal Employment experiences of sexual harassment. Judy Walker said she was just glad to Opportunity Commission defined sex And in an L.A.County-based study, see the policy adopted. ual harassment as ''unwelcome sexual reported in the Daily Sentinel, 53 These incidents lead me to wonder advances, requests for sexual favors percent of 827 women interviewed about the sexual conduct of the men and other verbal or physical conduct of alleged sexual harassment "at work, who object the most. Obviously, some sexual nature" which constitute a mostly by married men." In addition, men have nothing to worry about. But condition of employment or promotion, ' ' 12 percent of the women polled said others may be guilty of those • 'un or serve as a basis for other employ they were 'expected' to perform sex wanted'' advances. ment decisions, or create "an intim acts in order to get a job, keep a job or According to the " Redhook" article, idating, hostile, or offensive working to win a promotion," and one-third ''The harassment that is most perva environment.'' The EEOC guidelines "had experienced some kind of nega sive is subtler, more difficult to define. also require affirmative action by tive job consequence ... because of This is the visual (leering and ogling) employers to prevent and eliminate sexual harassment.'' and verbal (sexual joking and innuen sexual harassment. So if men feel sexual harassment do) behavior that mav be embarrass In compliance, the Consortium Col has been exaggerated, perhaps it is ing and obnoxious ... .'' While women lege Trustees adopted a sexual harass because men are not affected by it the generally feel uncomfortable around ment policy for Mesa College employ way that women are. Or perhaps some such behavior, men often consider it ees, students and faculty. The defini men prefer to ignore it as suggested by •'normal, '' and even appreciative of tion of harassment, which will appear the " Harvard Business Review" arti women. in next year's Student Handbook, is a cle titled "Sexual Harrassment. .. Some Not only do men and women need to shortened version of the EEOC defini See It. .. Some Won't.'' be educated about what behaviors tion. When the Women's Caucus was constitute sexual harassment but One of the biggest problems with asked to review a sexual harassment women must express disapproval of the sexual harassment issue seems to policy last spring, some of Mesa's unwanted attention to avoid misunder be the different ways that men and male faculty objected vigorously and standings. women view it. expressed fears of indisciminate stu Unfortunately, women who do com A recent survey conducted by the dent charges, while most women plain about sexual harassment are Harvard Business Review and Red welcomed a formal policy. often chided, teased, and labeled hook found that ''two-thirds of the Similarly at last week's open Board "poor sports" and " troublemakers. " male executives-compared to fewer hearing, Trustee Philip Winslow And although men generally feel than one-third of the women execu emphatically voiced his concern over that women can handle sexual advan tives-say that sexual harassment has indiscriminate use of the policy and ces through tact, women are less been 'greatly exaggerated.' " demanded to know whether other certain. 0 CRITERION 15 letters The carnival was to begin at 9:00 The feeling I got from talking to a.m. with booths to be set up by the other students, faculty, and SBA clubs and organizations on the campus members was that most of the blame all arranged by SBA. At 8 a.m. arrived for the 1981 Homecoming fiasco had to Who cares? the first club to set up. At 8:45 a.m. be placed on the shoulders of the SBA. SBA President Jim Eby was dragged One member even resigned after Dear Editor, out of bed. At 9:30 a.m. a very Homecoming because of lack of apologetic Eby sent the Tri Sigma communication, organization, and I have a problem. This my first year Sorority, the only club to show up, even lack of interest within the SBA. in college and l fail to understand the home telling them to return at 11 :00 The main theme of this letter lack of excitement at Mesa football a.m. for a pep rally in the volleyball revolves around Homecoming but the games. The team is 6-1 and nobody pit. At 11:00-nothing. No pep rally, undercurrent implies the uncaring cares. no spectators, no cheerleaders, and no attitude of the majority of the students At the Adams State game, the only SBA. The cheerleaders didn't even here at Mesa. From comments made time that more than a dozen people know there was to even be a pep rally by students and from observing the said anything at the same time was until 10:30 Saturday morning, one half condition of the dormitory area early in when the cheerleaders threw the hour before it was to begin. the morning, I gather that Mesa has footballs into the stands. Next on the agenda is the game. It turned into a drinking club and that At all other times, it sounds like began at 1:30 p.m., no 1:00, but most most students couldn't care less about nap-time at Sunny Meadows Retire came at 1 :30 as that was the time the education they are receiving as ment Home. I realize that Mesa does printed in the Criterion and posted on long as they're having one hell of a not play an exciting brand of football, the bulletin board outside of Wubben good time getting it. The bottom line, hut they are putting together a great Hall. Needless to say, most missed the in my opinion, is the apathetic attitude year and they deserve a little more beginning of the game. of the entire student body. Only 250 of support. Half-time was ludricrous to say the the 4,000 students at Mesa voted in least. Three male attendant were the SBA elections last semester. Darrin Crow football players and weren't able to be My suggestion for a better and more presented and were replaced at the enjoyable Homecoming would be a last minute by three students wearing more competent SBA who would be jeans and sunglasses to escort the able to organize, advertise, and lead Homecoming mess female attendants. Vicki Armstrong the clubs and organizations to a closer was pr.esented with the Alumni of the and more interesting and productive Dear Editor, Year Award, a great honor indeed. working relationship and who would No one really knew what was going on take seriously the jobs to which they Homecoming: The celebration of as you couldn't hear the speaker using were so confidently elected. Then returning to school; the festive occa the PA system. Unfortunately this was maybe next year's Homecoming would sion where activities are plentiful, quite embarrassing for both Mrs. better this year's turkey by one friendships close, and where all Armstrong and the college. Thank hundred percent. revolves around a parade, a football fully, the Rock Jazz Band, sounded game, and a formal dance reigned over fabulous and the audience was very Sincerely, by popular yet elected royalty. It's a appreciative. The band was asked on Barbara Timpte time for having fun, getting rowdy, Oct. 7 if they would please perform and enjoying the moments. during the halftime. In most schools that is. This year at I, myself, had no idea that Royalty Mesa College, however, it bordered on nominations and elections were taking Our new hate mail the ridiculous, with no parade, no place as I, like many other students, activities except at the game, and no rarely get down to the student center. l Editor; school spirit. I and many others were understand there were boxes for the appalled at the students' attitude and nominations and elections if you ln response to the two previous the complete disorganization of the noticed them. The positions of King letters about registration at Mesa, I Student Body Association. and Queen ended up being filled by would like to say that despite Ms. As you may but probably don't SBA members as were four of the Deleff' s protestations, the horrible know, there was to be carnival eight positions left. This situation conditions that exist here are not the Saturday morning on the lawn really made me wonder. best that can be done. between Aspen and Juniper halls to As I wanted the total picture of what I have attended universities regis replace the parade. Why no parade? I occurred, I interviewed both faculty tering thousands more students than wa~ given the answer that the SBA and SBA members. My interview with Mesa, with half the effort and time. couldn't find one band to play in the Eby was benign. He blamed the farce Perhaps the "open door" policy parade. Band director Paul Schneider of 'Homecoming on the fact that described by Ms. Deleff is part of the was given the reason that there Septemberfest was only two weeks problem? weren't enough floats made by beforehand which didn't allow much As to the assertion that any student campus clubs and organizations to time to prepare for the big event. In can pre-register and pay by mail, I find warrant a parade. Mr. Schneider had my opinion, SBA scheduled Septem this odd, as I pre-registered and had to three bands, Orchard Mesa Jr. High, berfest for that weekend whereas stand in line to do so, and to pay, and Palisade, and Plateau Valley, plus his Homecoming is arranged around a to get my I.D., even though it had own Dixieland Combo lined up to play home football game and therefore had been made up months before. for Homecoming. He was put on the to be set up long before the date of Mr. Djokic is not the crabby old man spot when he had to cancel their Septemberfest was even considered. that your editor implied. He is a invitations to come and help Mesa There is no reason why both activities member of an age group comprising a celebrate. Also, the SBA gives no could not have been worked on large percentage of the students, and support, personal or financial, to the simultaneously or Septemberfest faculty at Mesa, and one with a valid band. scheduled a week earlier. · complaint. 16 CRITER/Oli Letters It seems to me to be much wiser on ~he students, and for the students'' of expressed apathy concerning students your part to investigate the concerns of Mesa College. In addition, it should and student organizations. your readers than to remark that you not he biased or prejudiced to any Many long (over one pagel articles do not care to read about the opinions particular subject or group of people. have been devoted to such topics such of the public, and make remarks like In REALITY, the Criterion, es as race horsing and male strippers, of "He was doing all right until he pecially its editor (who assumes which the value to an educational started bitching about us." Congrat responsibility for the final product), institution is limited at best. Yet, only ulations, you can use profanity in has faHed to uphold the above respon one page cumulative has been devoted print. Can you represent the student sibilities and has even denied the basic to articles about student organizations body with attitudes like these, or situdent rights it should protect. This is as of October 23, despite th.e repeated merely print a "greek sheet?" clearly evident in the la,ck of coverage efforts by students to have news Why isn't the "Crite" asking Mrs. the Criterion has provided on the most worthy events printed. Sneed or Dr. Tomlinson about their important issue at Mesa College - stu John, the way you are running the views or replies on this issue, as dents. Crite is very unethical; especially opposed to writing about male strip Students are the lifeblood of any when you said, ''to get an article pers and rock concerts, games, and 3.2 educational institution; if you have printed for sure, buy a classified ad." beer exclusively? If you would notice your doubt, just ask any person That is called bribery! The Crite is that your readership was not entirely associated with budget cuts due to lack partially funded by student funds and composed of 18 to 20 year old people, of student enrollment. yet the student organizations have perhaps your public·ation would not be Given this basic premise, the focus great difficulty getting their articles referred to as the "Crap," and the of the campus should be on students printed, and when they want them "Cretin." and student related activities. This printed. The following organizations There are other relevant topics that should include not only recreational feel that your policy must change: concern us all, as opposed to those a:nd entertainment events but also Sincerely, subjects that concern people young academic and educational activities. Pres. John Malone and members of enough to drink 3.2 beer and listen to After all, the world does not live on Phi Beta Lambda the Rolling Stones at volume 10 .. .I beer keggers alone. It must search. for Pres. Shawna Galligan and members would like to see you ,encourage those its "bread," also. of Tri Sigma of us older students that come out of The main concern of this editorial Pres. Jim McHodgkins and members the closet, rather than putting us down deals with the Crite's attitude and l.ack of TKE Fraternity in print. of respect to student organizations. Pres. Pam Pavlisick and members of What about the invasion of privacy Not only have several articles submit the TKE 's Little Sisters manifest when members of the LDS ted to the Crite (on time and in proper Pres. Kathy Minton and members of church actively recruit in the student format) n-ever been printed, but you, the Student Nurses Association center, not to mention the bible as editor of th.e magazine, have Chairman Terri Schafer and members salesmen and all those awful pamph specifically stated and outwardly of the Drama Club lets and posters promoting one version of the Christian ethic all over campus? This, like registration, is a more valid topic, as it applies to all students, rather than Homecoming. !Jle concept of (l limited~ If your editorial stance is truly one of not caring what the members of the WQS student body have to say, perhaps you wintidble nuclear wor are not suited to edit a publication representing Mesa College. \ c~udusiuel:9 disprov~t) Robbin Norris ~wbelJu• Our aft-time best .~ / hate fetter Dear Editor Do the words "all men creat·ed \ equal" and a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" sound remotely familiar? If your memory or schooling fails you, they are the words spoken by one of America's most honored individuals, Abraham Lincoln, subsequent to the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. You must remember now-it w,as that war which was fought because basic human rights were being denied. I What does Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have in relation to the Criterion? In THEORY, they should be closely related as the Criterion is, in all aspects, a "paper of the students, by CRITERION 17 letters opmwn that our problems will mys tically vanish if j·gnared long enough. 'T1he Crite'·s Jtrs~ This is completely co.ntrery to both the _purpose of institutions of higher learning and to reason itself. ;letter of approval Editoi:. The au th.or asks us to ' 'look toward E ditor, the 'beneficial aspects of our school Jfere I am again. inste.ad ol repeatedly addressing om I realize that you won't think this ] was appalled upon reading a letter wrongs '' and goes on to define these comment is " muoh needed. " J t cer in lest week's Criterion h.eaded, ' IRep beneficial a11pects ·B"s sports and par tainly is not " esote.ric." But in the remanding the Grite's Managers." ties, saying "This is what I'm inter ho_pe of getting a J etter in the Crite as Recogniz:ing the fact that we are ested in. " " socially relevant input," would you e xperiencing serious problems related !Is this what we have to be proud of _please hav~ B_rjan Baker's Zooman to our new status as a lour year our sch.ool about? I ,think not! Let us cartoon climb out of th e level of junior institution, J should 'think that the instead be grateful that th.e editors will high gutter-talk 1 a uthor of .the letter would not only be devote '"'four full pages" to the aI!ts at overjoyed at the presentation of Me.sa College; let us investigate the Dell'R. Foutz, Geology campus problems in the Ct'ite but also current academi·c and intellectual relieved by the occasional levity (he climate at Mesa, be proud of its strong Crite has been ahle to show ,us. points and change its weak ones. The author ,makes two sreasonable 1n our case, the Crite 11inn is .our bes't ·s.tatements in ,his first parag.rap.h with -available tool. If changes in the which 1 agree completely. They are: structure of Mesa College 11,re to be (1) The C11iterion is a strong motivat wrought, the:n by all means let us ·u~e ing forc·e within our scho-ol. this tool to its fullest capacity! (2 ) Apathy is presently strong and Unfortunately many people, among steps must be taken to change ,this them some of our instructor s , fact. endorsed this sad testimonial. Hope This should be manifestly ob\dous to fully, for the sake of the entire even the casual observer. academic community at Mesa, their I do not, however, agree with his sense-s of purpose -and priority con snlution. It is my opinion that, in light cerning academic and intellectual of the fact that the CJ1ite is widely rean pursuits asre not as misplaced as on.e among students, it is th.e idealiplace to would think Jn reading the author 's present campus problems to them. editorial. The author;se_ffms to have formed the '.M ark M inteer H.tL DAVIS MAKES MORE DECISIONS IN ONE HOUR THAN MOST RECENT COLLEGE GR.ADS MAKE ALL DAY. 'I! 'm a cavalry .plamc,n leader. If you'd. like-to step·out·of cnl im:harge-uf 43 men,"·says Ha l. 'Tm lege and into a job with responsibil ity, rt'Sf'(msible.for their education. their ·do what Hal Davis·did. Step into traming, their wdl-bt:iug. So you can Army RillC now. bet I"m making rapid-fire·deci.,i.ons And begin your future as an all day. Decisionsthat have an impact officer. on pe.ople:S lives." Army ROTC is a great way a, prepare for being an Army·llfficer. A.T M ESA ROTC helps_ you·develop discipline SEE 'M.AlO:R UEAN KERSHAW of mmd and·.$ptrit As well as your ROOM 32 7 ahilrty to make decisions under MARY RAIT HALL pressure. TElJE PHONE Z48-r776 Taking A rmy ROTC p~ys.off mother ways. Uke financial assi~tance - upto $1,000 a year fr> ryDur last two years of ROTC Yi.,u cuuld also win an ROTCscholar~hip. as Ha! did. 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