Volume 100, Issue 42 . Friday, March 29, 1985 Fargo, North Dakota Problem ro.oted in economic _situation · / By Jody Braaten "We, as Americans,· - have to knowledge, and more are able t o It protects the iAterest of the understand how our interference make it on their own, thus threaten-. powerful, humiliates the weak, and has affected them, their in­ ing the economy of the wealthy. defends its own delinquents. "It" dependence and attitudes toward A marked increase in political .refers to the governments that · the United States," he said. assassinations and kidnappings has dominate in Central America. He emphasized that the real roots turned Central American streets in­ Dr. David Feldman, associate pro­ of Central America's problems lie in to a battlefield, Mugge said. fess<>r of political science at MSU, economic and social situations. One Military forces, referred to as the and Joel Mugge, director of the critical factor is the depth of pover­ Contra, are trying to regain control Center for Global Services and ty. over the peasants with ·such brutal Education in Minneapolis, lectured · Because of a price freeze, Central tactics as mass murders, gang rapes, on Central America's crisis situation America's are being forced to live tortures, destruction of property Thursday at MSU. with an increase of nearly 100 per­ and kidnappings. Class exploitation and alienation cent in the prices of necessary items Mugge pointed out that the main are partly responsible for the cur­ while suffering from a decrease in purpose behind U.S. interference in rent state of Central America, wages,'Mugge said. Central America is controlling Feldman emphasized. Land owner­ Statistics show 2 percent of the Nicaragua, which is looked at as a ship serves as the foundation for Central American population con­ p'otential model for Third World na­ power, and this power is unevenly trols 70 percent of the land, 75 per­ tions. distributed on the basis of scarcity. cent of the children are suffering It Nicaragua succeeds in influenc­ and greed, he said. from malnutrition, and 63 percent of ing the rest of the countries, the "The ideology shared by all the people are illiterate, he said. American economy and national groups in - Central America is na­ Another critical factor affecting security may be affected. _tionalism," Feldman said. "They all the current condition · in Central "The United States feels t.hat any 'sown astronaut Jim Buchli · want to be free of foreign control." America, he said, is the awakening country that isn't with us, is against toROT C about the life and Americans fear that if the Com­ of the poor to their poverty. us," Mugge said, "and this isn't of an astronaut. His visit to munists came to power, Central The poor are beginning to view always the case." last Monday consisted of America would join with them, thus themselves as more than simply He stressed strongly t hat the cur­ rous presentations around affecting the ,economy and national peasants and are threatening the rent U.S. policy is not in the interest . (Photo by Jeff Wisnewski) security of the United States, government's control over them. of the people of Central America, Mugge said. The agriculture situation among nor, in the long run, in the interest of Central America's peasants is the United States itself. tragic, Mugge said. Cropless President Reagan's goal is to stop farmers are forced to work for revolutions in Central America, but utzJ inds silver li_ning . wealthy plantation owners in oFder ll<!cording to Mugge, the current to survive. policy will worsen, not improve con­ present farm situation _ The new uprising of the peasants ditions. has helped them gain agricultural By Marsha Benz cent debt ratio, which is lower than phasis on the negative and ig­ most bu.sinesses. One-half of ance of the positive in American farmers have no debts, _Adelman says doctoral degree lture is making tile ·farm but we don't hear· about those my difficult according to Dr. farmers," Butz told the group. programs don't get best people Butz, forme.r secretary of . Farmers need · to remain op­ Test $Cores on the Graduate and above the information the lture. Butz, who.is presently timistic about .their future in order Record ExaminatiQn .have generally students routinely supply," said Dr. Emeritus of Agi:icW:tur~ at: to .fulfi}J their pµ~pose - to feed the declined nationwide since 1982, par- James Sugihara, dean of the e University spoke at the people of this world, he said ticularily among liberal art majors graduate school at SU. Gamma Rho F.l"aternity There are-· 4.6 billion people on likely to becom~ college instructors, Most schools use the GRE as an ers Day Banquet· in f argo on earth. In 35 ye~.rs, it · is expected according to a new s.tudy by the Na- admissipns test. The exam focuses day. there will· be 7.5 billion.. - tional Institute of Education. on certain thought patterns - such e media and the farmers Butz said farmers' No. 1 challenge "The doctoral degree programs as deductive reasoning and· using selves mention only bad is to "not · let the world go are not attracting the best and the symbolic systems-that are more -failures, foreclosures and in­ hungry- to win the war between ~rightest anymore," said Clifford common in some disciplines than ness," Butz said. · the stork and the plow." Adelman, the report's author, in an others. re are good reasons to be op­ "We need to be prepared to speak article by College Press Service. Subject areas with the biggest ic. Most farmers have a 21 per- to the world with a piece of bread. It Adelman said the decline in- declipes, in addition to political is the only language some people dicates undergraduates in science and history, are sociology, understand, but embargos and cut­ disciplines such as h·istory and Eqglish literature and French. backs are awkward ways to speak," political science are more likely to Another reason for the decline in he said, s)_dp graduate school and go directly~ political science majors is the 'cial from A1rican Butz told the audience of 270 peo­ into the job market or professional .brightest students are not continu- ple the responsibility of a university programs such as law. ing with graduate school. ·ty organization·to is to shape and mold its students, to "Students perceive academic life "If we're not putting the quality help them take advantage of God's as not as attractive as other lives," students into the pipeline of tonight at SU three greatest gifts to man: "The he said. - academia now, we're going to face a l-A special African Night has, gift of human life, the human mind Although GRE scores have declin- dismal situation in the 1990s," he scheduled tonight by the and the time to use our life and mind ed as a whole since 1962, the decline said. Students- Union in the are our greatest challenges, varies widely among_ disciplines, The report indicates test scores mof the Union. especially the second gift (our Adelman said. · ' declined precipitously· from 1962 to night wiU begin with minds)," he said. Political science majors' scores 1970, only to resume falling at a hments at 6:30 p.m. and an America can double food produc­ have dropped sharply, while more moderate clip around 1976. Dinner and Style Show at tion by, using the second gift. They mathematics, economics, chemistry Changes in test questions and P,rn. The featured speaker of_ need to be educated and motiyated, and engineering majors .have held . scoring methods may help explain ogram will be Oumarou G. he said. They need incentive to move steady or risen slightly. the declines, Adelman said. Ufou, executive secretary of -'ahead and make more discoveries. But administrators at the two But changes in demographic ~anization of African Unity at "In past years we were told to go local universities say they have not · variables such as age, race or :ed Nations. Youssoufou will west. This is no longer geographical­ noticed much of a change in the test gender- which are cited frequently • ut "Economics ~ Famine in ly possible. We need to cross the scores. to explain the decline of test scores modern frontier. We need to in­ Both SU and MSU require in high school students-don't in­ ,togram will also include the vestigate, discover and train o_ur students to take the GRE for admis- fluence GRE test scores, Adelman .__Want to Live," and Ethio- . minds to win the fight with Mother sion ·into certain programs. said. "'IICers. Nature." · .. We al~ays used GRE aeores over · / ~ Central Americ~n.ref ug.ee speaks on wish for pe~c~ By Paulette Rowan Of those applying for political "Their only crime was to wish for asylum in the United States, 99 per­ peace," Alberto Giron said Sunday cent have been denied. As of 1983, during a presentation on the Sanc­ 30 thousand have been deported. tuary Movement at the Unitarian One in 50 of those deported have a Fellowship in Fargo. He was referr­ "good chance of being killed," Hiller ing to the thousands of murdered said. and missing Central Americans. There are more than 200 sanc­ Giron, a refugee from Central tuaries and over a thousand suppor- America now guarded by the . ting churches in the United States. Walker Methodist Church, along Hiller suggested that it would be with Otto Hiller and Steve Sand­ nice to see a sanctuary in the Fargo­ berg, both representatives from the · Moorhead are.a.