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Ui Divorce hurts students ...see Friday Magazine THE BG NEWS Vol.71 Issue 61 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, December 9,1988 Earthquake U.S. AID razes cities, aircraft struck kills citizens RABAT, MOROCCO (AP) - Two DC-7s of the relief agency MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet au- pledged to sent construction U.S. AID came under missile at- thorities rushed military sur- workers, and Britain dispatched tack Thursday near the Moroc- geons and tons of medical sup- London firefighters to join the co-Mauritania border, and one plies Thursday into Armenia, rescue effort. was shot down, according to the rocked by an earthquake that Soviet TV showed a clock on a spokesman for the U.S. Emba- officials said virtually destroyed building in the city of Lentoa- ssy in Rabat. several cities and killed tens of kan, on the Turkish border near The attack occurred near a thousands of people. the epicenter of the earthquake, border area where nationalist Armenian Journalists said a stopped at 11:41 — the instant rebels have waged a guerrilla Politburo commission led by disaster struck. war against the Moroccan Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov The earthquake destroyed government to establish an in- received preliminary estimates two-thirds of Leninakan, Ar- dependent Western Sahara. that up to 50,000 people died in menia's second-largest city with The area where the plane went the Wednesday earthquake, apopulationof 250,000people, a down is 650 miles southwest of which measured 6.9 on the Rich- TV correspondent said. Rabat, the Moroccan capital. ter scale. Soviet officials report- The planes left Dakar, Sene- ed thousands of people were Spitak, a town of 16,000 about gal, earlier Thursday and were killed but provided no death toll. 45 miles away, "was practically bound for the Moroccan city of President Mikhail S. Gorba- erased from the face of the Agadir when they came under chev cut short his trip to the Earth," the correspondent said. fire from ground-to-air missiles, United States and flew home to Tass said half the buildings in the embassy spokesman said. lead a worldwide emergency Kirovakan, a city of 150,000, had Moroccan government offi- rescue effort in the southern re- crumbled. cials said the two planes were public, which has a population of A special meeting of repre- fired upon while they were fly- 3.3 million. sentatives of all 15 Soviet repu- ing at 10,000 feet to 11,000 feet to "Urgent measures are being blics was called in Yerevan, the an international navigation cor- taken to help all those affected Armenian capital, on Friday to ridor over Bir Moghrein, Mauri- by this terrible tragedy, and I discuss disaster relief. tania. have to be there in this effort," BG News/John Grieshop The embassy spokesman said said Gorbachev, who planned to Soviet authorities dispatched the second airplane arrived to fly to Yerevan after arriving in doctors, engineers, food and Holiday Mail Sidi Ifni, about 240 miles south of Moscow. He canceled planned medical supplies to the area, Rhonda Davis, sophomore education major from Columbus, sorts through the Incoming holiday mail at Agadir. trips to Cuba and Britain. and helicopters ferried the in- the University's post office. Davis, who works at the post office four days a week, estimates that in the past The planes were being used by President Reagan offered jured northward to hospitals in week the amount of mall received at the post office has risen 20 percent due to the holiday. the U.S. Agency for Internation- emergency humanitarian aid, neighboring Soviet Georgia, the al Development to fight the lo- Cuban President Fidel Castro Tass news agency reported. cust plague in North Africa. Sex harassment persists Amnesty backs category of harassment stated in the Student Aldridge told Karen that, at the Universi- by Judy Immel Code. ty, a person has to go through formal chan- prisoner letters special assignment reporter This definition includes conduct which in- nels to have something done about the prob- terferes with employment or academic per- lem. She suggested Karen file a written jailed for his membership in an Karen talked quickly about some of the In- formance, or which creates an "intimidat- complaint with the Affirmative Action Of- by Linda Hoy anti-apartheid group ana a Tur- cidents which happened in her sociology ing, hostile or offensive working or educa- fice. city editor kish holy man serving time for class early this semester, as if she wanted to tional environment" On Sept. 13, Karen filed her complaint and advocating his Islamic faith, ac- get the telling over. The definition of sexual harassment is dropped the class, which she needed to com- Local chapters of Amnesty In- cording toKuhlman. "At one point, the professor was talking ambiguous, according to Lane Aldridge, as- plete her minor. ternational will sponsor a write- To urge a prisoner's release, about a concept, and he said something sistant director of the Women Studies pro- On Nov. 4, she received a copy of the re- a-thon today to honor of the 40th letters will be mailed to the about the women in the class getting gram. port conducted by Miguel Omelas, director anniversary of the United Na- president or the minister of Jus- ■knocked up'if they didn't think they were "Sometimes people think about sexual of affirmative action, the office which in- tion's Universal Declaration of ace of the country where he is skin-bounded. abuse as constituting sexual harassment vestigated her allegations. Human Rights. imprisoned, she said. "Another time he was discussing roles and rather than more subtle things like language Omelas concluded Karen had a right to be Members of both the campus gave a detailed description of a woman lying and attitude, which are much more preva- offended, based on what she and other and city chapters will be parti- "We don't always know what on a table with her legs spread apart, anda lent on campus," Aldridge said. women in the classes had told him. He fur- cipating, urging students to good our letters do," Kuhlman gynecologist coming in and saying some- Karen said at first she did not see her ther said the language problem needs to be write letters to 12 countries hold- said. "It is one of the frustrating thinglike 'oh, look at that.'"she said. professor's behavior as constituting sexual corrected by the professor and/or the de- ing "prisoners of conscience." things about this." Karen, a senior who asked her real name partment However, some prisoners who not be used, said she had two classes taught "I would come home after class with a bad In a letter responding to Karen's com- According to Mary Kuhlman, have been subsequently freed by the same professor, and similar remarks feeling, but I couldn't peg it. I was telling my plaint, the professor involved said he felt his president of the city chapter, a have testified that treatment degrading women occurred all the time. roommate about it one time and she said, remarks had been taken out of context and prisoner of conscience is improved after their captors 'You know, this is sexual harassment.' And I the complaint was not justified. someone jailed for attempting to received letters, she said. Karen was discussing her experience with wondered why I hadn't seen it as that before, In his report, Omelas also said there has speak on his beliefs. Gygli said Amnesty Interna- sexual harassment. even though I've learned about it in other been a history of students a>mplaining about tional also strives to eliminate Although many people might not at first classes," she said. the professor's language but no other formal "It is just amazing what peo- torture and starvation of see incidents such as these as constituting After a confrontation with the professor, □ See Harassment, page 4. !Je are arrested and imprisoned prisoners in captivity. sexual harassment, they fall under the third Karen went to Aldridge in tears. or," Kuhlman said. The Universal Declaration of "We want to make torture as Human Rights states that each obsolete as slavery is and we person should be given basic don't think that is a 'pie in the human rights, such as the rights sky'idea," GygL said. to religious freedom, liberty and Kuhlman said in addition to Newsboys help needy kids free assembly, Kuhlman said. better physical treatment, even before my time," Wuest function the association spon- them out," he said. prisoners can receive personal by Kathy Fox said. "You would have some- sors. Also, if a family's home is Karen Gygli. graduate student consolation from the letters. staff reporter thing (newsworthy) that hap- "Last year we started a dental burned, the chanty provides in theatre and president of the "Prisoners get a tremendous For almost 60 years, members pened to the afternoon and peo- program. If a child has prob- temporary emergency funds, campus chapter of Amnesty In- S [ritual uplift from knowing of the Old Newsboys Goodfellow ple would be on the streets yell- lems with his teeth and the par- Wuest said.