Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 9-28-1989 The Guardian, September 28, 1989 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (1989). The Guardian, September 28, 1989. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Student films presented Loudy's locker REM arrives in Dayton ~fl Neon Movies shows "films on the lighter side" Red Sox fall with the seasons REM wows audience with 2 hour concert Page 3 Page4 Page 5 ess °tm........ ........................ a g en ~atin culture ·eatured at :onference ~PHILIP E.L. GREENE Strategically, culturally, geographically, 1tin America is important to the United ates, according to Jack Child, professor of )811ish and Latin American Studies at the merican University in Washington. Child, ho grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ill be among the speakers and workshop nductors at the Third Annual Peace Stud­ Conference to be held at the University of yton, October 4 and 5. Child will conduct Lhe workshop, "Latin merican Culture and History Through Art" the conference as well as Laking part in the el discussion along with Christine yder, a former Peace Corps volunteer, amt ichael Layton, director of Latin American udies for DISAM at Wright-Patterson Air rceBase. According to Child, Layton will ·esent the Bush Admini tration' view of wcurrent events have influenced cultural dhumanitarian aspects ofLatin American e. He said that Snyder would probably Jennifer Allen rushes Michigan player in last weeks action Photo by Craig Opperman see "Conference," page 2 he next century brings new hopes for moon and Mars By PAUL HOVERS1EN announced the plan in July on the 20th anni­ years of the Apollo program, it reached 4 number of reasons and could be a cost-saver ©Copyright, 1989, USA TODAY/Apple versary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. percent as well." liege Information Network With NASA's $2 billion request for the "The tough question is how much and in Smith said $90 billion for the moon and WASHINGTON - President Bush's space station Freedom facing $400 million in what areas you invest in to make sure our Mars was a "ballpark" estimate. scheme of a 1unar base and manned cuts and the nation's top priority-the waron children have the right future," said Martin. "The moon has rich payoffs" for scien­ ps to Mars in the 21st century will get its drugs - mired in a budget battle between the "Otherwise, you end up just talcing care of the tists, he said. "There's generations of re­ st airing before Congress on Tuesday when White House and Congress, legislators are present and past." search to be done on the moon. It's the best SA explains its new marching orders. anxious that any moon and Mars proposal NASA's $28 billion space station - set place in the solar system to place observato­ But the space agency's outline for the include the price up front. for completion in the late 1990s - is the key ries." we, while long on vision, is woefully short "It is important for our nation to have an to building a moon base, which in turn would California Institute of Technology sci­ details in the one area Congress is most aggressive space program focused on spe­ allow astronauts to go to Mars. But the ex­ entist Bruce Murray, anotherwho will testify, ;sing terested these days: the bottom line. cific goals ... which challenge the human pected cut in the station funds has forced said the nation needs to "sort out what it is "We're not going to offer a cost esti­ spirit," said Nelson, in a statement announc­ NASA to begin looking at ways to reduce the about going back to the moon, other than OP ate," said Frank Martin, NASA's chief of ing the hearing. "It is necessary for us to scope of the project. That has angered inter­ enthusiasm, that's important. We won the s .ploration. "What we're doing now is mak­ examine how the president's proposal can national partners Japan and the European space race with the Russians. Another us, gsure we understand the scope of what we best be met within the anticipated budget Space Agency, whose support could well be muscle-flexing endeavor won't sell very n do. We're a long way before we settle constraints." crucial to later building the moon base. long." iwn ori a mission concept." Martin estimated NASA would need 2 "It's a colossal enterprise," said Univer­ To reach Mars next century, said Mur­ at Martin, NASA administrator Richard percent to 3 percent ofthe national budget "at sity of Texas astronomer Harlan Smith, who ray, NASA must begin working now with the ~y and several leading space scientists will a steady state" to develop the technology for will testify before Congress. "The U.S. in Soviet Union on long-duration spaceflight · ~ stify bef~re a House subcommittee headed stays on the moon and visits to Mars. NASA's principle could do it alone and build a moon and sending robots to the planet while ex­ v ' Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., whose district $13 .2 billion budget request for next year is base, but why reinvent the wheel? Interna­ panding its projects with other space-faring eludes the Kennedy Space Center. Bush less than 1 percent ofthe federal total. In peak tional collaboration is very desirable for a nations. ,. ~ Tt\q~day, September. 28, 1989 XHE DAILY GUARDIAN Conference continued from page 1 this point and deserve our has not been to the gades International in Cen­ topic of "The Organization tion fee for faculty andu present a critical perspective attention. Dayton area for some time. tral America and; Electoral of American States: an In- interested parties, but Q on those views and that he Child has worked with "It'sa nice opportunity to Trends in Latin America," strument for Dialogue" fol- will be no registration f~ w. would probably be some­ the International Peace get back to that part of the by Haydee Seiger, Interna­ lowed by an audience par- undergraduate students, where in the middle. Academy ( associated with country," he said. tional Language Consult­ ticipation session at 8:45 and cording to the Peace St "I guess you could po­ the U.N.) and recently re- Child will join scholars ants, U .N. Consultant in a reception at 9. Conference brochure. · litely say that the discussion ceived a grant from the and authorities from around Brazil. Thursday registration brochure advises indivi By GI will represent a broad range United States Institute of the country when he attends Registration will begin at begins at 8:30 a.m. with the with questions to c f/EE of opinions," Child said. Peace to research the verifi­ the conference, including 6:30 p.m. at the Boll Theatre panel discussion at 9 and _Matthew Melko, De~ Child said that Latin cation processes of the Cen- Secretary General of the ~"'\?!"~~~~~'W'-t!f" America has a great deal of tral American Peace agree- Organization of American importance to the U.S., not ment. This will include States,JoAoClementeBaena only because of the drug looking at the elections in Soares who will be the key­ problem which stems, in a Nicaragua and the with- note speaker. Other work­ large part from that region, drawal of the Contras. shops will include "Libera­ but also because ofits strate­ Also an authority on Ant­ tion Theology: Responding gic importance, because arctica, Child said that the to Cultural Crisis," by Nor­ each of our cultures have southern polar region is man Thomas, United Theo­ been enriched and influ­ closely related to Latin logical Society; "Cultural enced by the other and be­ American study. Crisis: Survival of Indige­ cause "it's our closest neigh­ "Most of Latin America nous Cultures," by Neil bor in the Western Hemi­ and South America sees that Snarr, Wilmington College; sphere." one-quarter of Antarctica is "The Latin American Parn­ in South America," Child ily in Crisis: The View from The recent spread of said. He said that many Literature," by Janis Krugh, democracy in Latin Amer- Americans see Antarctica as U.D.; "Educational Devel­ ica, Child said, is very im­ a part ofLatin America, even opments in Latin America," port.ant to the U.S. because though in the Northern by Louis Laux, Wittenberg "it affects our democracy. Hemisphere, it is seen as a University; "Crisis in re- Democracies tend to support separate continent. source Management," by one another." He also Louis Laux, Wittenberg K pointed out that many of the Child formerly lectured University; "Economic Vio­ in the Kennedy Union of workshops beginning at ment of Sociology, :tudent emerging democracies to the at DIS AM at Wright-Patter­ lence in Latin America" by U.D. on October 4. Soares 10:30. Millett Hall, or at s73:1ewly south are "very fragile" at son several years ago, but Hazel Tulecke, Peace Bri­ will speak at 8: 15 on the There is a $7.50 registra­ or 873-2942. Wright National Guard called in to help stop -the drug war~::1 ' '.WSU, By RICHARD WHIT­ Guard from sending its mili­ by acting as police to make paid active duty salaries - scopes, cameras and night crossings and sent on l1msly, Q MIRE tary police out in civilian arrests.