Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 24 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 3-21-1990 Lanthorn, vol. 24, no. 25, March 21, 1990 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol24 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 24, no. 25, March 21, 1990" (1990). Volume 24. 25. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol24/25 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 24 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inside Opinion--------- p - Classified Ads fr£ Campus Life— Features------- Students get a taste of life in the big apple Skaters beat Bulldogs in their Sports----------- over break. See pp. 8 & 9. own backyard. Seep. 13. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,1990 GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 24 ISSUE 25 Iraqi ambassador holds news conference at Grand Valley By Sandra L. Planisek economic growth. Iraq is a guilty after confess­ News Writer wealthy oil-exporting country. ing to the charges It has a well educated popu­ and executed under The Iraqi ambassador to the lous based on mandatory educa­ Iraqi law, according United States visited Grand Val­ tion for all children and free edu­ to the ambassador. ley last Friday to speak about cation from primary grades Commenting on political and economic relations through studies at any of 12 uni­ the news coverage between the Middle East and the versities. And it has “clean mod­ of the case he. United Slates. em leaders” who believe in sci­ added, “I am sur­ Mohamed Sadiq A1 Mashat, ence and technology. prised that Margaret on the day after the Iraqi execu­ When questioned about the Thatcher is ap­ tion of British journalist Farzad execution of the British journal­ palled,” noting that Bazoft, stressed the moderniza­ ist, the ambassador noted that the British recently tion of Iraq and the potential for the journalist was not British but -executed-------three- real development if peace can be rather an Iranian holding British people. maintained in the Middle East papers. “This is a double In a news conference he em­ He also noted that Iraq had standard and hypoc­ phasized the importance of nothing personal against the risy. We will never Americans hearing the “real journalist, who had been allowed be intimidated,” he facts, not biased opinions” about to enter Iraq on six previous un­ added. Iraq, like Iraq. These facts include the eventful trips, and that Iraq had any other country, imminent installation of a new never arrested a journalist be­ will do everything constitution which will guaran­ fore. But the arrest was justified within its law to • t tee freedom of expression and since the journalist was found in maintain its internal PHOTO BY EMILY STANKEY freedom of the press. a restricted area H50 miles from security. The facts, he added, also point his news assignment. conference about the execution o f a British journalist in Iran that happened the day to a country on the verge of real The journalist was tried, found before he arrived at Grand Valley. — ___ •--------------------------------------- Scholar compiles boxes of research Thomas Helferich By Sandra L. Planisek Rapids today, might reveal a city that News writer New s Writer did not offer resistance to Nazi occu­ pants. Early last fall, the Physical Plant Department planted 190 Marshall Seedless Ash that will Forty thousand linear feet of boxes Activities that currently appear to act as a boundary to the West end of the Allendale Campus. The trees will also be an of Nazi documents are the research be atrocities were often reported in a aesthetic addition to the environment, a good source of oxygen, and the roots of the trees will material of Raul Hilberg an interna­ short sentence buried amid other act as an excellent tionally known scholar on the Nazi routine government matters. This form of University holocaust. off-handed treatment makes their soil preservation. Speaking in a campus lecture on discovery today more difficult and Randy Drewry, Monday, Hilberg said, “The holo­ more poignant. Supervisor of caust has vanished.” The camps and Building interest in these docu­ Grounds and Motor- ghettos of Nazi Germany have been ments, Hilberg stressed that docu­ pool, explained the razed or turned into museums and ments owned by the United States reason for the plant­ parks, only the documents remain. alone could not possible be read by ing of the trees. "It Using city fire department reports one man in his life. In the past two -was—cheaper—than- as an example, Hilberg explained putting up a fence, how routine documents can reveal of Nazi documents to international and they are a fast­ significant information. A fire report growing golden-yel­ that would be typical of a Grand See BOXES, p. 6 low tree,” said Drewry. “Each tree cost $25.1)0 - $26.00 a piece. They were planted when they were dor­ mant in the Fall; they’ve not been on the ground during the growing season; sur­ vived the winter pretty well so far.” future of the area is not definite, but at this point in time the trees will act as a “ visual as well as a University 'border that"will act' as a street tree line." Raul Hilberg compiled forty thousand boxes o f research on the Nazi holocaust. Hilberg spoke to Grand Valley students Mondaynight. >n!M ^ u y -m u toa-. • . i i.jati vom u m V . Page 2 The Lanthom March 21,1990 FLU senators buy parking West Point cadets passes with student fees CPS — Student government officials at Florida International tour Grand Valley University are in hot water with students because they spent $318 By Michelle VanDeCreek the academy. Gary felt Grand in student fees to buy precious Staff Writer Valley was “a lot different than on-campus parking privileges for West Point and has a nice beau­ themselves. Last week, Grand Valley had a tiful, small town locale." Martin Student Government Associa­ couple of special visitors from thought we also had a “good tion (SGA) President Manny West Point Military Academy. friendly atmosphere." Lamazares, Vice President Tom Martin Turfky and Gary All West Point cadets must Jelke and Comptroller Jose Starzmann were home on spring maintain order in their daily Delgado each used $106 from break and decided to tour the regimen and have daily inspec­ the escrow account- - which is campus on Thursday. Martin’s tions of their rooms. The rules used to fund student activities- - mother works in graduate admis­ are much stricter there than at rHUl U aV'WENDY HILL to buy the parking spaces'after sions here at Grand Valley. Grand Valley. Freshmen are Martin Turfky and Gary Starzmann, West Point Military Academy the-parking lot theyjused to park Both men are juniors or “cows” only allowed to go home one cadets, visited campus last Thursday with Michelle VanDeCreek. their cars was closed. as they are called at West Point. weekend a semester. The cadets Not even faculty can get the They liked the campus and re­ live by an honor code and can be All cadets graduate with taking time out of their vacation “class A” decals, which grant the ferred to it as “a lot bigger than expelled for misconduct. There bachelor of science degrees be­be- to visit Grand Valley, choice parking spaces to admin­ West Point,” which has approxi­ is complete honesty and any in­ cause of the many math and sci­sci- Opinions expressed are of istrators. mately 4,000 cadets. They were fraction is judged by their peers. ence classes they must take. Gary StSrzmann, Martin Turfky Most students agree with surprised that freshmen could Although the rules are strict, Both cadets were polite, infor­infor- or Michelle VanDeCreek, and Jelke, saying the student govern­ have cars on campus because Martin and Gary said they both mative, and easy to talk to. They not necessarily those of the West ment shouldn’t get special treat­ only seniors are allowed cars at enjoy their lives there. , were also very cooperative in Point Military Academy. ment - i . ™ Postal increase would post GV $50,000 anually By Sandra L. Planisek Grand Valley hand sorts all fice’s priority attention. When Newt Writer outgoing first-class mail. Pre­ the post office is busy, bulk mail sorted mail costs 21.5 cents per will wait to be processed, first- The proposed 20 percent first- piece to mail. Business-reply en­ class mail always gets the high­ class postal increase would cost velopes cost the full first-class est priority. Grand Valley’s bulk Grand Valley approximately rate. Roughly 70 percent of the mail consists of alumni letters, $50,000 more per year according number of pieces Grand Valley catalogs, some mailing from to Robert L. Whitacre, plant op­ mails are first-class and the re­ admissions and campus miblica- erations manager.— maining 30 percent are the tions such as Horizons. Grand Valley spent $257,000 cheaper bulk mail. Because of The post office is discussing in the past year on first-class their relatively high cost first- an increase in first-class rates. A postage, estimates Whitacre. class accounts for 88 percent of year ago other rates were in­ That can be sub-divided into pre­ GVSU’s mailing expenses and creased and new categories of sented mailings costing about bulk only 12 percent. mail were created to promote the $244,300 and business-reply en­ Bulk mail is cheaper because use of nine-digit ZIP codes and velopes costing $12,500.