The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1981-1990 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-19-1985 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1985-04-19 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1981-1990 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1985-04-19" (1985). The Voice: 1981-1990. 102. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1981-1990/102 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1981-1990 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. p i? r Arson Stt;; VOIQ Investigation Inside THE WOOSTER see pg. 10 VOLUME CI WOOSTER, OHIO, FRIDAY, April 19, 1985 NUMBER 17 S.A. Rallies Spark At Sit In snring'S On some primed campuses 'ab- students "won't leave until the Nhuii nrerftoted this an solutely nothing happened' during trustees guarantee in writing that nual campus anti-aparthe- id protests Protest Day they'll divest ail South Africa-tie- d would draw recora nam Den oi stu- New York, NY (CPS-"I- 'm stockholdings." dent supporters. looking out over about 250 The occupation was still going on "It's hard to say this year is twice students who have chained the doors four days later. as big. but it's close, and it's much shut and are blockading Hamilton Nessen, who has been directing better coordinated ana organizes.. Hall, and we're all prepared to be ar- campus protest against South Nessen added. rested if that's what it takes," African apartheid for the last Jesse Jackson, for example, drew reported Josh Nessen, national stu- several years, thinks this spring's 7,200 students to an anti-aparthe- id dent coordinator of the American activities were "definitely the big- speech at Harvard. Many attended Committee on Africa (ACA), by gest in terms of participation and an all night vigil outside the ad- phone from inside the besieged militancy." ministration building there. building. Others, however, report it wasn't University of Wisconsin-Madiso- n ;:( Cloistered on the steps of Columbia the same oh their campuses. students marched on a nearby University's administration Participation in this year's na- Krugerrand (gold coins marketed " building--in 1968 it was the site of a tional South Africa Day of Action by the South African government) V, bloody student occuptaion pro- was the same, or lower, than last dealer. Penn- testing the Vietnam War-t- he year's levels, they say. Over 800 University of students beat drums and chanted: In past years, Nessen has tried to sylvania students protested their What do we want? Divestment. increase student interest in apar- school's investments in firms that do When do we want it? Now. When we theid by tying rallies and workshops business in South Africa, while an gonna leave? Never. to activities of the anti-nucle- ar estimated 300 students marched at One day into the occuption, which power movement. Yale and an equal numer staged began as part of the annual April 4th But with rising violence in South rallies at Dartmouth and the "Day of Action" oncampusesnation-wide- , Africa and a tremendous increase in Univesity of Iowa, the ACA reports. Jager To Conduct Nessen promised the 200 or so publicity in the United States. Continued on Page II The Wooster Scot Concert Band ing the only three-tim- e winner of the will be presenting their final per- American Bandmaster's Associa- Author Pisor Visits Wooster formance of the year on April 28th, tion's Ostwald Award. by DAN ROZMIAREK beginning at 2:30 p.m. The concet The choice for the guest conductor Robert Pisor, a 1961 graduate of ed the reality of war and shared American soldiers and learned some will be held at McGaw Chapel and was made by Dimer because, "he The college of wooster and now a some of his stories and impressions. of the American mentality and said, wil feature guest conductor Robert hadn't been here before...The Scot TV correspondent and analyst in On his third day in Vietnam, Pisor "The people fighting this war were Jager. band has been having a guest con- Detroit, spent Monday and Tuesday went out on a mission with a tank not the hero-typ- e fighter." Pisor has 'This concert has a lot of varie- ductor for about ten years...I started of this week at The College talking unit. They were driving along a rais- become critical of the way the war ty," said Nancy Ditmer, the direc- with Jager because I knew him from with students in classes, delivering ed road through rice paddies until was fought. He calls it "arrogance they to clump of power" and said, believed tor. "I'm pleased with the way it's Iowa andl liked his music." convocation, , and signing .copies of came a of trees about "W. coming...It was tough coming back his book in the bookstore. 1500 yards to the side of the road. the bombs could do it alL" Pisor after tour, but I think the band will The concert, featuring the I spent a lot of time these two days The tanks turned and charged right said that the United States made the meet the challenge." bagpipers and Scottish dancers as talking with and listening to Mr, through the rice paddies toward the same mistakes the French made, Robert Jager, the guest con- well as a trumpet trio and Jager, Pisor. He came to speak to my Viet tree. "down to the nickel." Pisor even ductor, is the director of music and will be held at 2:30 instead of the nam War history class, I listened to As they passed the farmer whose said, "I don't believe the Com- theory and composition at Tennesee evening, as in the past. "I hope that him for an hour in the bookstore, and fields were being torn up, Pisor look- mander in Chief has learned the Technological University in will increase attendance. I'm hop- even had an exclusive interview ed back and saw a look of hatred in lessons of Vietnam." Cookesville. Jager has conducted ing that more parents will be able to Monday afternoon on the golf the farmer's eyes. Pisor looked throughout the United States, come," Ditmer commented. course. Robert Pisor is a very in back, said. "I learned fifty lessons Pisor has taken an interest and Canada, Japan and Europe. He has "The concert has a lot of varie- teresting person and shared some of about the war that day. It was a concern for Vietnam veterans and won a number of honors and ty. ..there's something for his experiences with me. complete revelation as to how we said that "a dishonorable war has awards for his music, including be-- everybody," Ditmer claimed. Mr. Pisor talked a little bit about were fighting the war." Pisor been placed on the shoulders of his experiences at the College of recalled that he was "drastically honorable men." Pisor was pleased wooster. Pisor was a History major changed." to see the public taking a greater in- at the College and wrote his senior Pisor revealed many lessons that terest in Vietnam and what it means Festival Features I.S. on how major writers during the he learned from the Vietnam War. for future American policy. He said 1920's influenced the ideas in socie- "In Veitnam, the people were it is important to learn what is going ty. Helen Osgod was his advisor and neutral or on their side. We were the on. Pisor said that "Vietnam vets Visiting Writers he remembers not being a very good bad guys." In reference to the will not let their sons go to war lust I.S. student. He said that he did all pacification program, "we made like that." entire sections of which are devot scenes in Vietnam looked a lot Robert is in by JONATHAN BARCLAY and family. the research but waited until the last that Pisor the orocces of ed to her home minute to start writing. like those scenes of Germans writing a fiction novel about Viet- Fiction writer Bill Van Wert and Waterman also read irom a par- poems on Robert Pisor was a member of rousting Jews in Poland." Pisor nam which will be out in a year or poet Cary Waterman were this tially completed series of Seventh Section during his four spent most of his time with two. year's featured writers at the 1985 the real-lif- e, uid west cnaracier, years College. played This unusual wom- at the He in Wooster Literary Festival, April u Calamity Jane. tramural football with his sec i nand and 12. an lived as. a man for periods of her experiencing the remembers having a very good 7 As nart of the Festival. Water life, successfully team. Pisor was very proud of man read about 20 new and pub male part of her world. Through to separate Seventh Section and said, "We had lished poems, and van wen reaa a poetry and research on campus." repent Arm and Ham legend. Waterman is the best damn section stnrv. "The truth from went to I Pillsbury Dough seeking to reconstruct Calamity After Pisor graduated, he i mer Meets the work for NBC and went to Columbia Boy," in a weu-attena- ea reaamg Jane's psyche and revive this wom- evening.