In This Issue Condoms On Campus? , Spirited Performance Campus Reminder Calendar page 2 With AIDS being hailed as the The . i UM-St. Louis Countdown to Spring Editorials page 3 biggest threat to colege Cheerleaders give it their best Break: Only eight more students, many campuses shot injecting enthusiasm in­ days!!! have installed condom Features page 5 to the basketball games. Take machines on campus. UM­ a look at what it takes to be a St. Louis lags behind the cheerleader Sports page 7 others in this area. How far See Sports, page 7 should the University go? Classifieds J page 8 See page 3 . .' , " Ii ( Issue 659 lI.niversity of Missouri-St. Louis Februa ry 22, 1990 Dioxin• Removal Still In Doubt by Kiril David Dickinson months". Besides;' he said, "they won't let us -not dioxin." NAACf To Probe news editor But things are not so certain, says bring . anything in that's not already Some of the oth~r chemicals stored Hickerson. "Her guess is as good as there:' in the building include flammable li­ Although Chancellor Marguerite anyone's, but I don't want to be overly· In any case, removal of dioxin from quids, toxic waste, mercury, pesticides, Mizzou .Law School Barnett surprised the campus communi­ optimistic:' . the tamp us is far from a sure thing, said herbicides, biological wastes, radioactive "illiterate" because their dialect differs ty last week with her announcement waste,' and asbestos, CPS A s~ries of student protests of "We're still working on it ... as to when Hickerson. allegedly sexist or racist classes erupted from c1assicdialects from Spain and that dioxin on campus will be removed it will move is not certain:' Until or if the dioxin is removed, Mexico. soon, the details of removal are' still at six different campuses in late January . Apparently, the plan for removal in- however, there is no need for students Hickerson mentioned that the Univer­ and early February. In Missouri, the National Asociation unclear, says the man in charge of dioxin volves transporting the dioxin drums to to worry about a large vent pumping in- for the Advancement of Colored People sity has been actively looking for a way Apparently without knowing what col­ storage. \ another country where, according to to the open air from the roof of the (NAACP) said in early February it would to get the dioxin off campus since 1987, legians on other campuses were doing, According to Jim Hickerson, head of Hickerson, "they aren't so concerned Dangerous Chemicals Storage Building, joiri a probe into students' allegations artl.und the time the Current began run­ students at Yale and Marquette univer­ the UM-St. Louis Environmental Health about !'heir environment:' said Hickerson two weeks ago. ning a series of articles about the diox­ sities, as well as the universities of that Missouri's law school discriminates and Safety' Department, "The final tiickerson, however, declined reveal- "When transferring chemicals, some in drums. Maryland, California at Davis, against black people. The allegations details [on removing the dioxin] aren't the dioxin would be vapor is given off;' he said, "[but] it' stated that black students had to a in~whichcountry Washington and Missouri at Columbia collected in one spot yet." moved to, saying only that, "[t]he ob- would be extremely difficult for anyone At that time it was reported that at remedial course before entering law leveled charges of racism at various He said, "There are a number of ways jective is that it will not be destroyed in to smell anything coming from the least two workers claimed being expos- ' school that white students didn't have teachers and academic departments . in which the whole thing could be foul­ the U.S:' building:' . ed to dioxin. A hazardous waste techni­ to. e,d up:' The proposed incinerator fordispos~.' Hickerson asked students to cian reported seeing a "pinhole leak" Students were first angered by a late Chancellor Barnett mentioned in an ing of the dioxin-laced dirt that turned remember that dioxin is only one of in' a drum containing dioxin. At . Cal-Davis, for example, January UB law school newsletter that interview published in last week's Cur· Times Beach mto a ghost town will many hazardous chemicals stored in the . According to the technician "the Chicanol1atino students marched to attempted to lampoon visiting instruc­ rent that dioxin-holding drums that have evidently be of no help in dealing with building. 'pinhole' leak was about three in~hes in highlight what they say is discrimination tor and Baltimore Circuit Judge Ken­ resided in the UM-St. Louis Dangerous dioxin on this campus: "If you smell something coming from · diameter and dripped into a main drain against them in the Spanish depart­ neth Johnson's grammar and pronun­ Chemicals Storage Building since 1981 "I've been told that the incinerator the building;' · reassured Hickerson, in the storage facility" for about two ment. Teachers, they say, label them as ciation. Johnson is black. would be removed "within the next few will take a number of years to build. "chances are it is some other chemical- weeks. Small Talk SGA President Hlts . The Big Issues by Kiril David Dickinson past..we're more consistent this year. s ~ mester, there was still a backlog. Is '---~--::-----="""",=:-=--:"'--::-1 news editor N, far as the administrative [aspects]. that still the case? we!ve found out that these things take SMALL: There was a huge backlog left At a time when leadership in this years to take care of. Parking's going to by the previous administration, I'd say country seems to be getting blander and. ta.ke five to ten years, these things take five to eight hundred parking tickets. colder, Terence Small, our own Presi­ a long time to get done. But we're work­ And then you 've got your parking pro­ dent of the Student Government ing on ... better advisement, more blems nast semester] and the campus Association (SGA) is, if anything, getting equitable financial aid distribution ... police went ticket-happy, giving out madder. CURRENT: Do you think the Board of more tickets when there were less park­ Following is an interview in which Curators neglects UM-St. Louis when it ing spaces. But we're all caught up now, Small speaks his mind about the ad­ comes to funding? I think things are going pretty smoothly. ministration, SGA, the Current, the SMALL: Yes, I think [the Board] has CURRENT: What's number one on campus and himself, on topics ranging traditionally neglected UM-St. Louis your agenda now? from funding to racism. when it comes to that. They are so SMALL: The SABe is allocating for all CURRENT: What was your agenda Columbia-oriented-I'd call it bias-that the student organizations, and we're try­ when you began your ternl? UM-St. Louis gets pushed aside. The ing to find a way to allocate the same SMALL: Expanding the Student Board is having conflicts because UM­ amount of money to about twenty more da. But I'm 'catching heat.. Budget Committee was one of the st. Louis wants to be a big campus now, organizations [than we had last year], Also, I think the fact that I am an things I wanted to do, to increase stu­ shift the focus away from Columbia. You with the same amount of money. So African-American has something to do dent involvement in SGA, to attack ad­ can't knock St. Louis because we're the we're trying to find a fair process to see with it. People are not used to seeing ministrative issues such as parking, biggest city in the state. So what are you everyone gets a decent budget to work African-Americans in leadership posi­ financial aid, registration, parking cita­ going to do? It's something they have to with. tions. tions, advisement-things like that. Also deal with , and they haven't dealt with CURRENT: Does student apathy con­ I try to talk with students, let them to organize student government so it it well as of yet. cern you? know what's going on, but it's hard to would be more respectable. CURRENT: What is it going to take for SMALL: Yes. contact 12,800 people by word of CURRENT: And to what extent do you them to give St. Louis the credit it CURRENT: And what are you doing to mouth. Sometimes they don't want to believe you have fulfilled your agenda? deserves? encourage student involvement? listen. SMALL: N, far as the Student Activities SMALL: Something seriOllS will have to SMALL: I've tried to bling out issues And then, people tend to look to the Budget Committee (SABC), we cxlland­ happen as far as parking,as far as on­ that should have been followed-that media as a kind of channel. I've done ed SABe from ten to fifteen members, campus funding. UM-St. Louis will have th ere is a gross misallocation of funding, my job ... to give the opportunity for a broader to undermine the Board and go get ineffi cient use of money in administra­ CURRENT: What areas of the school range of student participation. We've in­ private funding, like the Chancellor's tion, lack of enthusiasm on the part of have problems that need to be brought creased attendance [to Student been doing. It would be easier to get the faculty to educate the students, to light? Assembly meetings] five times, from money through the Board, but we've got things lik~ tJlat that I've said, but peo­ SMALL: Registration, Arts and nine to an· average of 45 to 50 per to go somewhere, especially when we've ple just keep trying to find bad things Sciences, advisement.