:Highlights
Let Mme begin with an open con-
fession. I didn't mlake it to Terry's
office this week to find out what
the Social Commission had 
in store.
Nonetheless this is all legit.
Friday
Moments of Madness has 
re-
portedly outdone itself 
this time.
Come see at 5:00 o'clock.
Midtown Jazz Mobile will grace
the pub at 9:00 o'clock.
Saturday
Jack ain't happening tonight.
Sunday
The season has begun. 
Don the
bermudas and a Bud and come out
for baseball. Hot dogs, apple pie,
and Chevrolets are optional. Stauf-
for field at 1:00 o'clock.
Monday
Underclassmen - R.A. 
applica-
tions are due!!
Seniors - this is your night.
Gosh - won't that be weird? All
of us crammed into one room?
Sorry for the digression - it's just
that that's really amazing. Schlitz
Belle at 7:30 o'clock.
Tuesday
For some weird reason they are
showing "Grapes of Wrath" in the
pub at 8:00 o'clock and at 9:00
o'clock in FJ-B is the scheduled
"The Boys From Brazil" for 50c.
If you're really clever you can see
the freebie on Tuesday and then
see the other on Wednesday. It
wouldn't be so clever to flunk out
this term from going to every
movie though. Priorities can be so
difficult.
Well Mark - it's running a bit
short so I'm gonna bull around a
little bit. Y'all don't have to read
this part ... it's just so the front
page doesn't look lopsided.
Gosh - a chance to say it all ...
Well I could start by explaining
that even though I did get suck-
ered into recruiting for the South-
western Fund I do believe in it. I
mean, you know?
I've gone soft on the Greek sys-
tem and Loyd Templeton still
throws some of the best parties
around. Southwestern at New York
still rivals any course on campus
and Dean Duff is a good guy.
Southwestern has changed but
haven't we all? Lady Ray is alive
in San Antonio (with Stuart Seal)
and Gordon is my little brother.
Ste ve Anderson's "I Wonder"
speeches went down with Dean
Warren. I'm dating myself. Do you
remember Deck Reeks? Can you
believe he was an SAE? Tyler
Magruder and Lane Oliver got
married in Japan on December
20th.
Don't, worry - I graduate this
year and you won't have to put up
with this stuff for much longer.
Notice
To those who were being nice
because of elections - it's too late.
You're suspect for such behavior
now. Go back to your side of the re-
fectory.
THE 
..iBRARY
South . emohis
Mernp L -. 3114
Sou'wester
Southwestern At Memphis
VOL. 68, NO. 17 March 5, 1982
Ex-PATCO leader
Relations between management and labor will be the topic of Robert
Poli's Seidman lecture Wednesday night at 8:00 in Hardie Auditorium.
Poll, former president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Org-
anization, will also conduct an informal question and answer session
Thursday at 9:30 in 200 Clough.
set to visi
Robert Poll, former president of
the Professional Air Traffic Con-
trollers Organization, will kick off
his nation-wide speaking tour at
Southwestern. One of three guest
lecturers in the 1982 M. L. Seid-
man Memorial Town Hall Lecture
Series, Poli will speak at 8 p.m.,
Wednesday, March 10, in Hardie
Auditorium on campus. His talk
will be free to the public.
Poli, who resigned as PATCO
president on Dec. 31, 1981, after
leading the union's long and un-
successful 1981 strike, will address
the issue of "Management and La-
bor: Must They be Adversaries?"
He follows Ralph Eifert, a Fire-
stone Tire and Rubber Company
executive, who spoke on the same
subject Feb. 2. UAW president
Douglas Fraser will conclude the
lecture series on April 20.
t campus
The series, now in its 16th year,
is taking a close, three-part look
at the evolving relations between
workers and their employers, the
new managerial approaches 
in the
workplace and the new mood at
the bargaining table. Lagging pro-
ductivity, high unemployment and
the intrusion of strong foreign com-
petitors are forcing labor and 
cor-
porate leaders in the U.S. to re-
think the policies that have guided
them through the 1900s, according
to Mel Grinspan, professor of busi-
ness at Southwestern and director
of the lecture'series.
Poli was elected executive vice
president of PATCO in 1972. In
January, 1980, PATCO president
John Leyden resigned, and Poli
was named to serve out his unex-
pired term. Poll was elected to a
(Continued on Page 3)
Protests 
over El Salvador 
policy escalating
By David Gaede
(CPS) - Campus opposition to
U.S. involvement in El Salvador
has grown noticeably more vocal in
recent weeks in response to Presi-
dent Reagan's requests to increase
aid to the Central American coun-
try's government. Moreover, oppo-
sition movement organizers predict
their movement will gain momen-
tum this spring with a series of
planned protests and demonstra-
tions around the country.
In just the last month:
" Twenty University of Massa-
chusetts students were arrested
when they occupied the office of
Congressman Silvio Conte in an ef-
fort to pressure Conte into voting
against the Reagan request for an
additional $55 million in aid to El
Salvador.
* Nearly 3,000 students at the
University of C olorad o rallied
against increased aid to the Duarte
regime.
" More than 300 students demon-
strated in Los Angeles the same
day that 4,000 rallied in New York
against U.S. policy toward El Sal-
vador.
* Some 200 protestors - many
from the University of North Car-
olina-Greensboro - braved sub-
zero weather to picket nearby Fort
Bragg, where several hundred Sal-
vadoran soldiers reportedly are
training.
Perhaps even m ore significant
than those and other recent campus
protests in reaction to the flurry
of administration pronouncements
is that student rallies and teach-
ins, after peaking in a 100,000-mem-
ber march on Washington last May,
re-surfaced and continued through-
out the fall and winter without
much official provocation.
"Students are now playing a
leading role in the movement,"
says BIrian Becker of the People's
Anti-War Mobilization Committee
(PAM) headquarters in Washing-
ton, D.C. "We have several 
na-
tional Mobilizations taking place 
in
the next few months in which stu-
dents will play a prominent role."
"I think students can see the
link between U.S. policy abroad,
s uc h as in El Salvador, and cuts
in financial aid, the return of the
draft, and other domestic policies,"
theorizes Mark Warschaeur, spokes-
man for the Committee on Solidar-
ity with the People of El Salvador
(CISPES).
"Students across the country 
will
continue to mobilize until U.S. in-
tervention in El Salvador is
stopped," Warschaeur confidently
predicts, adding that CISPES has
active committees on over 100 cam-
puses nationwide.
Movement leaders are, like other
leaders of other campus move-
ments, prone to comparing their
efforts to the anti-Vietnam war
campaign.
"I was around when Vietnam
started, and I personally believe
the analogy is very close," Becker
says. "First it's aid, then a few
advisers, leading up to tremendous
amounts of aid, and then full-scale
military intervention,"
In many ways, Becker says, the
El Salvador protests are actually
ahead of the opposition to Vietnam
years ago. "Thousands. of coffins
had come back 'before the real
(Vietnam) demonstration started."
But "this doesn't yet have the
same flavor as the late sixties and
early seventies when we were
burning down ROTC buildings."
Nonetheless, campus rallies will
be a strategic part of the protest
movement this spring.
"We have a lot of regional dem-
onstrations coming up, culminating
with a national march on Washing-
ton, D.C. on 'March 27," says
CISPES's Warschaeur. "Student
participation will play a critical
role," he contends. "We're en-
couraging action on campus for
those who can't come to Washing-
ton."''
PAM is planning a national day
of student protest on April 29, con-
sisting of "activities at a variety
of campuses protesting f o r e i g n
policy." Becker says that over 100
organizations will participate in
the protest, which is part of a larg-
er National Week of Resistance
from April 24 to May 2. That event
will also wrap up with a march on
Washington, which Becker predicts
will draw protestors in the "tens
of thousands."
But u nlik e last year, protests
against U.S. involvement 
in El
Salvador may go virtually unop-
posed this spring. The Collegiate
Association for the Research of
Principles (CARP), a campus arm
of the Unification Church instru-
mental in staging counter-demon-
strations against last spring's pro-
test efforts, says it has dropped
its efforts in support of U.S. policy
towards El Salvador to concentrate
on the Polish crisis.
"We continue to take the posi-
tion that the U.S. should continue
aid to El Salvador," explains Dan
Fefferman, director of CARP's na-
tional headquarters. "But this year
our main focus is on the Poland is-
sue. We don't have any national
demonstrations planned regarding
El Salvador."
Newsbriefs
ROTC programs create 
battle
A proposal to expand South-
western's involvement in ROTC
is expected to come before the
Curriculum Committee in the
coming weeks. The SGA 
As-
sembly next Tuesday will be de-
voted to determining student
opinion on this proposal.
The committee is especially
interested in learning the out-
come of this assembly before
embarking on a total evalua-
tion of our ROTC program. Pres-
ently credit is offered only for
the Air Force program. The
Army has requested the oppor-
tunity also to occupy a spot in
our catalogue.
The courses are actually
taught at Memphis State, which
raises the perennial question
about giving credit for courses
over which we have little con-
trol. The programs do make
possible scholarships for our stu-
dents.
The core of the discussion will
try to examine the principle of
offering such programs, and
persons of all opinions are
strongly advised to attend.
This assembly is expected to
have important and extensive
repercussions. It will be held
at 6:30 o'clock in East Lounge
on Tuesday.
Discovery
Be creative and get involved-
Discovery: Southwestern in Per-
spective is the chance that. stu-
dents and faculty need to show
that they care about the school,
the community and the future.
As Discovery draws near, you,
the students, can begin to take
an active role in its development
and final realization. Volunteers
are needed to work for the var-
ious program committees, which
are designing the schedule of
activities.
Peter Rooney and Jody Levis
are in charge of the seminars,
forums and other similar activ-
ties. Chip Parrott is in charge
of entertainment-type activities.
If you feel that you can contrib-
ute, and the Discovery staff is
sure you can, talk to one of
these people.
Also, don't forget about the
contest to design the logo for
the Discovery week T-shirts. A
cash prize will be awarded to
the winner. Entries are to be
submitted either to Rush Waller
or Maura Brady by March 14.
Elections
Next Friday, March 12, the
major elections of the year will
be held. The positions were an-
nounced in last week's paper,
with the following changes: 1) A
SGA town student representative
will also be elected, and 2) The
class offices for the Honor Coun-
cil and SRC will be held a week
later, so that a person running
for an officer position has a
chance at a class representative
position if he/she loses the of-
ficer election.
Petitions for these class offices
are due by noon Wednesday,
March 17, (which is Term III
registration day, too). The elec-
tion for these will be held on
Friday, March 19. A reminder:
All petitions (other than those
noted above) are due by noon
on Wednesday, March 10, in 200
Ellett. That is also the place
where the forms may be picked
up.
Invitations
Seniors can order graduation
invitations on March 8 and 9 in
the Student Center. Invitations
are 90c each and must be paid
for when they are ordered. This
is the only opportunity to order
them, so be. sure to stop by.
I
-
Box 724 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Editor ............................................. Mark Hurley
Associate Editor. .................................... Tracy Vezina
News Editor ................ ...................... Sherard Edington
Sports Editor. ......... ............................... Ed Archer
Photography Editor ........................................ Jim Sanders
Fortnight Editor. ................................... Debbie Walker
Highlights Editor. . ............................ Sarah Dabney Gillespie
Circulation Manager .................................. Mary Horne
Reporters .................. Jennie Inglis. Kevin Ferner, Margot Emery,
Donna Schardt, David James, Connie Thompson,
Mary Home. Peggy Wood. Bert Barnes
Photographers ................ Jeff Wright. Sherard Edington, Mike Nance
Cartoonist ................................ .......... Brian Maffitt
'ontriutors ... ............ Rush Waller. Pat McLean. Alison Egger.
Thomas Faist. Dorothea Sinner. Boyd
Chitwood, Harry Flowers. Steve Farrar
Fear at the faucet
A film about water pollution sounded like a real "snoozer" to me.
However, the frightening story told in the acclaimed documentary,
In Our Water, opened my eyes to the dangers of toxic waste dumping.
The film, which was shown here last weekend, details the horrors faced
by some New Jersey residents who were assured their murky, malodor-
ous water was safe to drink. This same water soon began to turn 
vege-
tables black, dissolve noodles, eat through clothing, and cause children
to break out in strange rashes.
All of this was enough to transform Frank Kaler, a likeable, 
down-to-
earth house painter, into a hard-nosed political activist. In Our Water
follows his determined effort to stop the dumping of toxic waste near his
home and ensure a source of safe, clean water for his family.
This excellent film was brought to Southwestern by the Cypress
Health and Safety Committee, a community action group concerned about
the toxic waste pollution in Memphis.
After the movie, Brother N. T. Greene, a member of the Cypress
group, presented some compelling evidence (compiled largely 
from U.S.
Geological Survey Data) that tears into some myths about the Memphis
Sands aquifer. It appears the city's natural water supply, protected by
several hundred feet of sand, earth and clay, is not as pollution-proof as
once believed.
Someday we too could be eating black vegetables and watching our
clothes dissolve in the wash. The Hollywood Dump is only one of several
major toxic wastelands in Memphis. Studies have shown the Bellevue
Site and Jackson Pit to be potentially even more dangerous.
How do local officials respond to this threat? Well, the supervisor of
water distribution engineering at M.L.G.W., commenting on the discov-
ery of traces of deadly chemicals appearing in test wells.near the Holly-
wood Dump, said, "Until we actually find traces of the chemicals in 
our
drinking water, we're not going to get too concerned."
Great. If doctors used that type of reasoning, they would be telling
patients not to worry about those tumors in their lungs until they (the
patients) actually died of cancer.
Other public agencies may be equally slow to act. One regulatory
group includes representatives of Velsicol Chemical Co., 
accused of
dumping deadly poisons in the residential community next 
to Shannon Ele-
mentary School.
Of course, there are many responsible industry leaders and govern-
ment officials who are genuinely concerned about the dangers 
of toxic
waste dumping. However, until they develop a 
better track record of
monitoring disposal of these poinsonous materials, I'll feel 
better know-
ing that Brother Greene and Frank Kaler are out there 
raising hell.
-Mark N. Hurley
Last week The Sou'wester inad-
vertantly presented a letter from
John Ward in a way which made
it appear as if it might have been
a message from the SRC. However,
John intended to present only his
personal opinions in the letter. We
apologize to John, the SRC, and
the community for our 
sloppy
handling of his letter.
To The Editor:
The faculty, staff, and students of
Southwestern should be proud of
the outstanding job done by Car-
olynn Camp, Lynn Myrick, Paul
Poole, and Max Aldrich 
in repre-
senting the college in the 1982 Em-
ory Intercollegiate Business Games.
These four students devoted 
many
hours to preparing for this compe-
tition, and while they 
did not win,
they certainly deserve our sincere
thanks. It is the privilege of work-
ing with such fine young men and
women at Southwestern that makes
my job worthwhile.
Thank you,
Doug Southard
Cuts cost of government 
in long run
(CPS) - The government stands
to lose as much as $150 billion in
tax revenues over the next 20 years
if it accepts President Ronald Rea-
gan's proposed federal student aid
budget cuts for the 1983 fiscal year,
according to a statistical study by
College Press Service.
President Reagan has asked Con-
gress to cut $1.9 billion from the
federal student aid programs. The
cuts would affect an estimated 5,
000,000 students nationwide. They
may force as many as 892,000 un-
dergraduate, graduate, and high
school senior students to drop
their college plans altogether, ac-
cording to American Council on
Education, National Center for Ed-
ucation Statistics and College Press
Service estimates.
Using Bureau of Labor Statistics
estimates of the annual increases
in earning power between men and
women with high school, under-
graduate, and graduate degrees,
CPS calculated that, according to
1981 tax tables, those 892,000 "lost"
students would pay some $156 bil-
lion less in taxes over the next 20
years because they lack their de-
grees.
The exact numbers are highly
problematic. They are based on
maximum amounts of federal taxes
people of different income levels
would pay over the next 20 years of
their working lives. The projections
are based on a taxpayer filing a
single return, claiming one exemp-
tion, and were computed with as-
sistance from H&R Block consult-
ants.
In figuring probable salary in-
creases, CPS used government pro-
jections that high school grads
typically earn about five percent
more in salary per year, college
grads earn seven percent' more
each year, and advanced-degree
holders earn eight percent more.
CPS' cost-benefit study used U.S.
Census Bureau estimates of aver-
age earnings of male high school
grads ($17,100), female high school
grads ($10,036), male college grads
($24,473), female college grads
($13,303), male graduate degree
holders ($29,609), and female hold-
ers of graduate degrees ($16,926).
The average earnings are for the
18 and over age group, and disre-
gard race, work experience, and
other variables.
The American Council on Educa-
tion estimates some 325,000 gradu-
ate students and some 1.5 million
undergraduate students will drop
out before fall, 1983 if the Reagan
cuts are approved.
College Press Service calculated
that about 30 percent - 67,000 stu-
dents - of the 271,000 1983 high
school seniors who would ordi-
narily get federal aid would have
to drop plans to go on to college in
fall, 1983.
According to those numbers, the
U.S. Treasury would collect an
average of $7.8 billion a year less
from those students over the first
20 years of their working lives.
Those students, moreover, repre-
sent just the first class that would
be kept from or dropped from col-
lege.
The CPS study found that, for
every aid dollar Washington gives
a student who completes his or her
degree plan, it can expect to get
back rough ly $4,300 in tax reve-
nues over 20 years.
The administration, which last
year announced it would perform
cost-benefit analyses of environ-
mental and social programs to de-
termine if it should continue fund-
ing them, did no such study of the
fiscal impact of student 
aid cuts,
according to Barry White, 
who
oversees the student 
aid budget
for the Office of Management and
Budget.
The decision to cut federal stu-
dent aid was "really a 
policy de-
cision that the federal government
at this stage cannot afford 
to spend
the amount of money that it has in
the past on student air," White
says.
In making the cuts, "We don't
know how many people it 
will keep
out of school."
Even if a cost-benefit s t u d y
showed the government was actual-
ly defeating its own supply-side
plan for increasing tax revenues,
White was "not sure that that is
a good reason" for spending fed-
eral money on the aid.
"The crucial point is not the
numbers (of the CPS study), but
the fact that the government 
ig-
nores the numbers," says Chris-
topher Jencks, a sociology profes-
sor at Northwestern who authored
the much-acclaimed Who Gets
Ahead?, a study of the influence
of higher education on earning 
lev-
els.
The government generally uses
such cost-benefit studies 
to justify
military spending, Jencks observes,
"and then they put out a lot of
fluff. But when you press them,
they say something like, 'It'll im-
(Continued on page 3)
Pat McLean
/ Kitty Litter
It's very early, and it's raining.
I should be snuggled warmly be-
tween my husband and the three
felines who share our bed. But
shortly before 5:00 the 
elder cat
curled upon my chest and began
purring into my nose. A certain
sign that he was ready to begin the
day with my company. Who can re-
fuse a cousin of the sun god?
When asked to write this (which
was yesterday) I had planned to
contribute something lofty and no-
ble. Alas, today I'm feeling neither
lofty nor noble. Gas rates have in-
creased 12%, the prime insterest
rate is up aga in, and tomorrow
I'll be grading 50 essays. Stroking
the cat, I decided to deliver a brief
feline history instead.
I'm partial to cats, which says
more about me than it does about
cats. Some authorities claim cats
were domesticated around 6,000
years ago; ohers claim that they
never have been.
Ancient Egypt diefied cats. The
earliest portrait of the cat god-
dess Bastet is dated, around 3,000
B.C. It is hypothesized that the
cat's rodent control at the Phar-
aoh's graneries earned him last-
ing gratitude. Godly attributes in-
cluded linkages with the moon
(eyes that wax and wane and car-
ry light into the dark) and fertility
(as any who have an unneutered
pet know).
In the mid-19th century an entire
cat cemetery was unearthed near
Beni-Hassan, Egypt. So honored
were these felines that their re-
mains had been given ceremonial
burial. But the British had no such
reverence. The 20 tons of kitty
mummies were shipped to Liver-
pool and there auctioned as ferti-
lizer.
"Catting around," may have
origins in the Egyptian celebration
honoring Bastet at the temple site
of Bubastis. During April and May
devotees made the pilgrimage 
to
Bubastis by boat, stopping at each
village along the way. The female
celebrants aboard ship shouted off-
color jokes to the stay-at-homes and
made lewd remarks leading up to
the finale of flinging their clothing
above their heads. This signaled
that the village should begin its
own celebration of loud mu s i 
c,
frenzied dancing, and orgies. All
designed to invoke the grace of
Bastet and insure nature's bounty.
The rise of Christendom put an
end to such goings-on. The Pagan
Associations of Cats fed the beliefs
of the Satanic character of 
cats
and cat owners. The 13th and 14th
centuries became the time of the
autos-da-fe, the bonfires of unholy
cats. This was also the time of the
expansion of the Asiatic black rat
into Europe, bringing with it the
fleas carrying the bubonic plague.
The folly of the cat inquisition be-
came obvious.
Cat status today holds a middle
ground. Gaud y commercialism
aside, I'm convinced that they've
never forgotten the days of Bastet
and Bubastis.
Please excuse me. I'd continue,
but my furball is acting up. Just
remember, "Anything cat-shaped is
inscrutable" (Keith Gunderson).
~
Page 2
The Sou'wester
March 5, 1982
MMM~gUL
March 5, 1982 The Sou'wester Page 3
Language, culture
prove difficult
By Thomas Faist
and Dorothea Sinner
"Definitely, I had a cultural
shock, when I came here - and
the main problem was the lan-
guage," summarizes Kum Sung
about his first experiences at
Southwestern three years ago. Like
the other five Malaysian students
it was difficult in.the beginning for
him to adjust so abruptly to an-
other cultural sphere.
"The differences become obvious
in the daily life, especially in the
interpersonal relationships," s a i d
Whay Chong.
"In Malaysia people behave more
reserved towards foreigners, are
more closed up. Not until they trust
them will the Malaysians become
open. Here, people act more spon-
taneou'sly in living with each oth-
er," he explained.
Family life, too, differs widely
between Malaysia and the United
States. In general, there still exists
in Malaysia strong ties between the
single members of the family and
Leonard Pronka, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, gave a presentation of Japanese 
Kabuki theatre on the relatives. In these extended
campus Monday. photos 
by Jeff Wright families the material goods are
Foreign exchange provides pleasant change
by Alison Egger
One aspect of the American col-
lege experience is the possibility
of living and studying for a term
or year at -a foreign university.
Last year fourteen Southwestern
students lived and studied for a
term or a year in Europe. Inter-
views with several of these stu-
dents revealed that their college
experience was broadened and en-
hanced by their Junior Year
Abroad.
All these programs varied in re-
gard to the degree in which the
American student actually partic-
ipated in regular foreign classes
at the foreign university. In non-
English-speaking - countries, some
programs offered special classes
taught in English by professors
hired for the program - Loyola
University's study, abroad in Rome
is an example.
Other students became an inte-
gral part of the foreign university
they attended - in effect, they
were like any other student at the
university at which they studied.
The option of taking classes in a
foreign language at a non-English-
speaking university is a not her
choice available to students.
Philip Howie, who attended the
Eberhard-Karls-Universitat in Tu-
bingen, West Germany, described
how the academic system was ar-
ranged for him as a foreign stu-
dent. Philip said he prepared for
the regular university classes at
Tubingen by spending the month
of September at the Goethe Insti-
tute located in Prien-am-Chiemsee,
West Germany. He describes the
Goethe Institute as an effective,
month-long program of intensive
language study that is geared to
teach German to the foreigner on
his level.
In order to take regular classes
at the German University for cred-
it, the foreigner has to pass an
exam of language proficiency. Af-
ter spending the month of Septem-
ber at the Institute, Philip partici-
pated in a week-long program in
Obervock, Germany, arranged "by
the foreign student office in Tu-
bingen to help the student prepare
for the university entrance exam
of language proficiency.
Philip said he took courses both
at the University for Foreign Stu-
dents and at the regular university,
where he audited some "prosemi-
nar" classes. He described this
type of class as typical of the up-
per level German classes that con-
trast to those c o u r s e s usually
taught at an American university-
each student presents an oral pa-
per and thus is expected to teach
a class.
Philip said the biggest difference
he found between the German and
American University systems was
the emphasis placed on the inde-
pendent quest for knowledge, as
compared to the competitive, grade-
oriented American system.
Marilyn Kaylor, who spent her
junior year in Marburg, Germany,
feels that the German system re-
quired more self-discipline because
the student was expected to learn
information on his own, without
the pressure of frequent tests.
"You weren't necessarily trying
to work for an academic goal,"
she said, "but for yourself."
As the student gains a new per-
spective on the country and cul-
ture by living abroad for a few
months or a year, his own under-
standing of America is also deep-
ened. Philip commented that as
a result of his year in Tubingen
he feels "more like a citizen of
the human race than an Ameri-
can."
Janet Roberson, who spent first
term in England last year with
Furman's program, said she had
become "very aware that Amer-
ica is not the only place in the
world; there are people with bona
fide fears and doubts because
America does affect their lives."'
A term or year abroad also gives
the student the opportunity to trav-
el and come into contact with many
types of cultures. In one year, Mary
Barrett was able to travel to fif-
teen countries, located on three
continents.
As a result of her extensive trav-
els, Mary says she has a better
understanding of the international
situation, between countries.
"I understand now how important
the U.S. is with NATO, and why
Russia devised the Warsaw Pact
as a buffer between themselves and
the West," she explained.
Studying in a non-English-speak-
ing country can also be frustrating
at times, yet an overall enriching
experience. As one slowly learns
another language, it adds a new
dimension to oneself.
Phili said he felt his study
abroad experience was enhanced
by his having to learn German.
"Because in learning another
language you are expressing your-
self differently, you push yourself
. . you exert your own existence
in a different form of expression,"
he explained. "You can say some
things in German that you can't
say in English. I miss my German
self, the German way of life. It
still lies within myself."
Mary Rodgers said that as a re-
sult of learning Spanish, she has
learned expressions, even ideas,
that don't exist in English. She likes
this new aspect of herself.
Perhaps one of the biggest chal-
lenges about studying overseas 
is
learning how to face the challenges
of life abroad on one's own. Tookie
Smith, who was a student at the
University of St. Andrews in Scot-
land last year, felt that because one
is alone and has to cope by him-
self, one becomes more self-confi-
dent and self-sufficient.
"Because you have to handle
problems by yourself, you have to
rely on yourself to achieve your
own happiness," she said.
Because students who study
abroad must handle new challenges
and question attitudes that differ
from their own, most return to
the United States with greater in-
dependence and insight. One ques-
tions, analyzes things that, as Mary
said, "I didn't even know were im-
portant."
To quote the motto of the New-
comb/Tulane JYA program, an ob-
servation by Al Bush: "No man
can really understand his own coun-
try until he looks at it from the
outside, nor understand another
country until he somehow gets in-
side it."
Poli (cont.) .........
(Continued from Page 1)
three-year term as president of
PATCO in April, 1980. Earlier in
his career Poll was an air traffic
controller at the Cleveland Center.
He was a founding member of the
local there.
In addition to his evening lecture,
Poll will appear before students
and the public at an informal ques-
tion and answer session at 9:30
a.m., Thursday, March 11, in Room
200 of Clough Hall.
The M. L. Seidman Memorial
Town Hall Lecture Series was be-
gun in 1966 by P. K. Seidman,
formerly senior consultant of an
international, accounting firm and
presently a Memphis tax attorney.
The lecture series is dedicated to
the memory of his late brother,
M. L. Seidman, a widely known ac-
countant and syndicated columnist.
Cuts to decrease revenue 
..........
(Continued from Page 2)
press the Russians.' "
Howard Bowen, a professor of
education economics at Clarement
College Graduate School and author
of Investment in Learning - The
Individual and Social Valu e in
Higher Education, agrees that the
government's return on investment
in colleges in general "is better
that the rate of return on (private)
investment capital."
"When interest rates are mod-
est," Boweh says, "the usual rate
of return on capital is on the order
of six, seven or eight percent an-
nually. In education, the rate of
return is on the order of 11-12 per-
cent."
Bowen's estimate takes into ac-
count all monies spent on higher
education - from teacher salaries
to maintenance - and the amount
of wealth a college graduate con-
tributes to the gross national prod-
uct.
College Press Service figured the
nate of return on federal student
aid alone by comparing the cost of
the aid to the government to the
different amounts of tax es paid
back to the government by aided
degree and non-degree holders.
CPS found an average rate of re-
turn of 215 percent over 20 years.
While unable to confirm that es-
timate, Jencks contends "the re-
turn to us is that Mr. Jones is go-
ing to have higher earnings, and
later pay higher taxes." In his
book, Jencks estimated male col-
lege grads earned an average of
49 percent more than male high
school grads of equal experience.
"When you calculate how much
the payoff is, you have to calculate
how different these kids are going
to be after college," he advises.
"They gain access to higher-paying
jobs. But the question is: would
those jobs be there if there weren't
a lot of students going to college?"
Jencks maintains the "payoff" of
aiding a 'student through college
will remain high despite a smaller
gap between the earning powers of
hig ih school and college-educated
workers.
Arthur Kammerman of the Coun-
cil for Financial Aid to Education
cautions the cuts wouldn't be all
bad "They are all good programs,
but the resources of this country
are finite."
"If all the president's cuts are
accepted, the government in 1983
will still be spending over $5 bil-
lion. It's not as if we said we've
abandoned financial aid," he says.
s h a r e d commonly. Whay Chong
adds, "The strive for financial se-
curity and the predominant mate-
rialism were totally new forme as
goals and norms. That's what I
don't like here."
On the other hand, most 
Malay-
sian students enjoy the independ-
ence from their families. The de-
gree of freedom in the academic
field is also greater than in Ma-
laysia. At Southwestern the choice
in the subject matter is much great-
er. Furthermore, the opportunities
for resarch in the academic fields
are better. What makes Southwest-
ern especially different from Malay-
sian universities, however, is the
"relationship between faculty and
students and the way students work
together. Yes, the relationship be-
tween the students is free and out-
going," said Sawtta (Catherine).
"People are generally more friend-
The relatiyely small community
of Southwestern with its neverthe-
less wide range of academic op-
portunities provides in the view
of foreign students a unique school
atmosphere.
Most of the German students,
too, see the small classes and the
personal relationship between pro-
fessors and students as an ad-
vantage. This experience is par-
ticularly striking for German. ex-
change students who are used to
the more anonymous and at first
sight more impersonal academic
apparatus of the big German state
universities.
-The smallness of Southwestern,
however, also imposes restrictions.
The life of most students, especial-
ly of those without cars, is restrict-
ed to the campus, social activities
included. To overcome this ghetto
situation requires a lot of personal
effort. For sometimes the "golden
case," called Southwestern, leads
one to forget that this environment
reflects only a small cross section
of American society: a homogenous
body of middle and upper-middle
c l a ss college students and faculty
in a predominantly conservative
Southern environment.
What struck some German stu-
dents most in this situation, both at
Southwestern and in Memphis, 
was
the relationship between Blac ks
and whites. The daily segregation
of black and white students at 
this
college, not to speak of the 
small
number of black students at South-
western, show convincingly that
segregation still remains a domi-
nant factor in the majority 
of the
population.
This aspect of American society
constitutes only one of a multitude
of experiences which can give for-
eign students an incentive to
check the validity of long held
views about the United States and,
if necessary, to change them.
March 5, 1982
The Sou'wester
Delegates duplicate 
U.N. actions
photo by Jim Sanders
Holsti discusses US 
policy
Speaking in the East Lounge 
last Tuesday, Dr. Ole Holsti, 
professor
of International Studies at Duke University 
and presently on sabbatical
at the University of Calfiornia at 
Davis, discussed Reagan's foreign pol-
icy, emphasizing the president's perceptions 
of the current world situ-
ation.
According to Dr. Holsti, Reagan 
has a one-dimensional view of the
world and the role of the U.S. 
in it. Reagan believes that 
the present
international system is still bipolar 
and sees the Soviet Union as the
cause behind all the conflicts in 
the world.
"Reagan thinks that all government departments 
are inefficient, yet
he considers the Department 
of Defense infallible," said 
Dr. Holsti. "He
thinks that the U.S. must not only 
have deterrent capabilities, but must
also have the capability to win a war and 
Reagan is, therefore, willing
to spend as much on arms as the 
defense people want. He doesn't 
seem
co realize that the Department 
of Defense is also inefficient.
"The present situation can be 
described in the following analogy,"
he continued. "The Soviet Union 
is a grossly overweight 300-pound 
bowler
and the U.S. is a decathlon athlete. The Soviets 
have forced us to play
their game, and we have permitted them to do 
so. They are a military
superpower, but we can beat 
them in other areas. Reagan 
should not
take a strictly military view, 
but should work through 
the other arenas
we have at our disposal."
By Debbie Walker
Several Southwestern students
found themselves looking at world
affairs from a Chinese viewpoint
when they represented the People's
Republic of China in the Midwest
Model United Nations held in 
St.
Louis. Model UN is set up to dup-
licate the actual procedures of the
United Nations.
By the end of the year, South-
western students will have attend-
ed four Model United Nations in
Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, and
the National Model United Nations
in New York.
Grant Johnston, Chief Delegate
of Southwestern's Model UN Pro-
gram explained how the South-
western delegation came to repre-
sent China, "Schools apply to the
Secretariat of each Model UN 
who
then assigns them a country. An
equal number of countries from the
Socialist, Western, Asian, and Af-
rican Blocks, plus the Latin Amer-
ican countries and the Arab Na-
tions are represented at each Mod-
el UN. However, the Big Five (the
United States, USSR, China, the
United Kingdom, and France) 
are
always represented."
Eleven delegates; Grant Johns-
ton, Kelley Ray, Mary Barrett, Scot
Owen, Katherine Owen, Laur r a
Frase, Valerie W. Taylor, Martha
Saavedra, Bill Dodson, Bryan Darr,
and Randy Knoll; each of whom is
on a committee, attended the Mid-
west Model United Nations in St.
Loui s, Missouri. Before the dele-
gates go to Model UN, research has
to be done on the country assigned.
E a c h delegate, representing a
country, belongs to a committee
that submits resolutions which de-
pict their country's stance on
agenda topics. Four committees -
the Legal, Economic and Finan-
cial, So ci a 1, Humanitarian, and
Cultural, and the Political and Se-
curity Committees - plus the Eco-
nomic and Social (ECOSOC) Coun-
cil and the Security Council were
at the Midwest Model United Na-
tions.
Mary Barrett, a member of the
Lega 1 Committee, stated, "The
Legal Committee had two agenda
Exciting summer 
jobs- available
by Mary Home
With the advent of spring, many
students are beginning to 
look for
summer jobs. Perhaps you're 
avoid-
ing thinking about employment 
at
all because the prospect of a 
job
at your local Wendy's or 
at a
discount store just doesn't 
excite
you. Don't despair, there 
are al-
ternatives if you know 
where to
look.
A good place to start is the 
Coun-
seling Center. They have 
a file
drawer containing information 
on
jobs in camps, national parks 
and
amusement parks, as well 
as sev-
eral books on finding summer 
em-
ployment.
If you enjoy working 
with chil-
dren, an ideal job would be 
at a
camp. Skills such as arts 
and
crafts, hiking, horseback 
riding,
tennis, and watersports are 
help-
ful when applying as a camp 
work-
er, as well as friendliness 
and a
desire to work within a community.
The American Camping Associa-
tion is an agency used 
by many
camp directors to find employees.
One sends an application 
to the
agency, which they keep 
on file
and refer to camps seeking 
em-
ployees. Some camps have already
done on-campus interviews, 
Camp
Bluestone and Camp Greystone, 
for
example, and the Counseling 
Cen-
ter has applications for 
several
other camps.
Work in some of the most 
beau-
tiful surroundings in the 
country
can be found at National 
Parks.
Two thousand people ages 
18 and
older are hired to work 
at lodges
and at campgrounds as waiters,
sales clerks, maintenance workers
and kitchen helpers. Employees 
us-
ually work a 40-hour week 
at mini-
mum wage and live with fellow
workers in dormitories. Days 
off
can be used for camping 
in the
park or exploring the surrounding
countryside.
Yellowstone National Park is for
nature buffs who enjoy 
hiking,
backpacking, photography and 
wild-
life. The YMCA of the Rockies 
Con-
ference and Family Center 
located
in the Rocky Mountain National
Park hires students for positions
similar to those listed above 
and as
program leaders for . the 
adults,
youths and children staying 
at the
center.
Other parks include 
Blue Ridge
in North Carolina and 
Virginia,
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, 
Big
Bend in Texas and Glacier 
in Mon-
tana.
Disneyland in California and 
Dis-
neyworld in Florida, Opryland 
in
Nashville and Mud Island 
here in
Memphis are amusement 
parks
where one might seek 
summer em-
ployment. Disneyland/Disneyworld
selects 20 talented instrumentalists
to form an All-American Marching
Band, which performs 
throughout
the summer. Opryland hires 
350-
plus singers, dancers, musicians
and technicians and 
offers good
professional experience and 
train-
ing as a performer.
A representative from 
Mud Is-
land, which is located on an 
island
in the Mississippi River, will 
be at
Southwestern all day Wednesday,
March 10, interviewing students 
for
jobs as crewmen, craft demonstrat-
ors, hosts and hostesses, and sales
people.
Unique jobs as "Mothers' Help-
ers" are available to approximate-
ly 350 students. A "Mother's Help-
er" works in a reputable family,
helping care for the children and
household duties while earning $800-
$900 for the summer. Full room and
board are provided, and air trans-
portation to the job is normally
paid for. Most of these jobs are
in New York and the New England
area.
Four helpful books that can be
checked out from the Counseling
Center are the Summer Employ-
ment Directory of the U.S., the
Directory of Summer Opportunities,
Overseas Summer Jobs, and the
Directory of Summer Jobs in Brit-
ain. The first book lists more than
50,000 summer jobs in resorts, ho-
tels, camps, amusement parks, 
bus-
inesses and government offices. It
also tells how and when to 
apply,
an explanation of the job, the rate
of pay and the job environment.
For exciting work adventures
abroad, consult Overseas Summer
Jobs, which list. a wide variety
of jobs available in several 
coun-
tries. The jobs are similar to those
listed above.
So you see, a summer job doesn't
have to be a depressing thought.
A little work now in finding a job
will pay off when summer comes
and you don't have to face an or-
dinary summer, but rather a new
and broadening summer working
experience.
topics, 'The Non-Use of Force in
International Relations' and 'Inter-
national Terrorism.' "
The ECOSOC C o u n cil, whose
members are from various coun-
tries, is a permanent committee
which has delegates appointed on a
rotating basis. The Security Coun-
cil is also a permanent part of
Model UN, which ha's five members
and 10 others representing nations
that are appointed on a rotating
basis.
Johnston, outlining the agenda of
the Model UN, stated, "When the
delegates arrive they are handed a
packet of the tot'dl number of reso-
lutions used at the assembly."
The head delegate hands each
committee their'set of resolutions,
and in turn, each delegate attend's
committee meetings designed to de-
bate the resolutions contained in
the packet. The committee in ques-
tion then reports the resolutions
which it has passed to the General
Assembly where they are further
debated," he said.
"Each Model UN generally pass-
es three to four resolutions in the
General Assembly which is good
considering it takes a year for the
real United Nations to pass about
200 resolutions," concluded John-
ston.
One of the resolutions the Gen-
eral Assembly passed was sup-
ported by the Southwestern dele-
gation, 'representing the People's
Republic of China (PRC). The sub-
ject of the resolution submitted by
the Legal Committee was "Enhanc-
ing the Effectiveness of the Prin-
ciple of Non-Use of Force in In-
ternational Relations," which de-
nounced the Kampuchean affair.
From the PRC's viewpoint repre-
sented at Model UN by the South-
w e s t e r n delegation, Democratic
Kampuchea "has been occupied by
Vietnamese soldiers" who have
used "illegal biological and chem-
ical agents against the Kam-
puchean people." The resolution
was passed with clauses calling for
Vietnamese withdrawal and 
a
peace-keeping force (MMUNGA/
23/c.2/II/6).
"Our delegation, along with key
supporters like the U.S. and Aus-
tralia, railroaded- the resolution
through in the early morning hours.
Our delegation did a very good job
on this resolution and the PRC's
representation as a whole," Johns-
ton stated.
The next Model United Nations
will be held in New York 
April 6
through April 10. The Southwestern
delegation will represent 
Libya.
Hardie rocks and Rolls
by Jennie Inglis
Wafting from the casement win-
dows of Hardie Auditorium last
Friday night were the sounds of
reggae music and smooth rock and
roll. Waging Peace, a benefit con-
cert featuring the Nashville-based
Afrikan Dreamland and Memphis'
own Moroccon Roll, transformed
the reserved, academic halls of Pal-
mer into a laid-back music and
dance-atorium.
A faculty member of the Com-
mittee for Political Awareness, Jim
Olcese, explained the Committee's
aims in sponsoring the event were
to make "good music available
for students to enjoy," and "to
raise money to fund the Waging
Peace Symposium scheduled for
April."
Those who attended the concert
know that musically it was a great
success. Afrikan Dreamland is a
politically-minded group who will
play at the United Nations' special
session on nuclear disarmament in
June.
"The goal of the band is not to
make a living with their music,
but to relay a message of peace,"
stated Olcese.
David Shouse, Moroccon Roll's
keyboardist and song writer, said
the group enjoys playing at South-
western. "We like the open-minded-
ness of the people, who seem to
go for anything that's tight.
New Kinney c
not just clown
Alice Marie Clark will join Brian
Sanders as Kinney Student Coordi-
nator next year, Kinney Director
Beth Simpson announced today.
Brian, a junior from Athens,
Georgia, has shared the job this
year with Dawn Huff. Alice has
participated in the program as a
Kinney Clown, bringing enthusiasm
and cheer to that group, according
to Simpson.
"Kinney has helped me learn to
relate to people in need," Alice
said. "As a clown, I saw how much
reaching out to others means to
people. The Kinney Program gives
you that opportunity."
Alice, a sophomore from Chatta-
nooga, Tennessee, is a French-Bus-
iness Administration major. She
has been active in SGA affairs, hav-
ing served as a dormitory represen-
tative and on the SGA budget com-
mittee. A talented singer, she is
a member of First Generation and
the Southwestern Singers. She has
"Although we don't try to get in-
volved too heavily in politics, 
we
were glad to see some money 
was
raised for the group," he said.
In regard to attendance and mon-
etary success, Committee members
said they were generally pleased
with attendance. "I was 
initially
pessimistic as to how many people
would show up, but I was pleasant-
ly surprised with the turnout," 
re-
marked s e n i or Paul Williford.
About 200 people paid $2 apiece 
to
attend the musical event.
"The concert didn't get as much
participation as we would 
have
liked, but it was a start," 
Paul
elaborated. Other sources will 
have
to be tapped by the Committte 
in
order to stage the upcoming dis-
armament symposium.
"Ground-Zero Week" will include
films, a free concert, debates, a
forum, rallies, workshops, and a
worship service. Speakers and 
work-
shop leaders will be brought in
from the Pentagon, the S.A.N.E.
office, and Harvard, as 
well as
from the Memphis community.
The benefit concert was the first
open event sponsored by the Com-
mittee for Political Awareness be-
yond its weekly meetings. The costs
and efforts of Waging Peace, as in
waging war, are not low. The Com-
mittee would welcome more stu-
dent and faculty participation in
its meetings, as well as in its plan-
ning for the April symposium.
:oordinators
ing around
also been active in the Fellowship
of Christian Students and the Ev-
ergreen Fellowship.
Brian, a resident advisor for
Stewart Hall, is the newly elected
IFC President. He is also a student
representative to the Southwestern
Board of Trustees, a member of
the Fellowship of Christian Stu-
dents, the Sigma Nu Fraternity,
and the men's track team.
In addition to his duties as a co-
ordinator of the program this year,
Brian has served Kinney as a vol-
unteer at LeBonheur Children's
Hospital.
Initiated several years ago by a
grant from the Danforth Founda-
tion, Kinney is a program of vol-
unteer community service which
includes work with social agencies,
hospital visitation, literacy educa-
tion, teaching crippled children,
and supervision of crafts and rec-
reation at community centers.
Page 4
mufilifi
- 'Jupiter Effect' hoax
haunting astronomers
Jane Huey rings a cowbell to indicate another pledge to the Southwestern Fund. Studeits work the
alumni phonathon this week and next at Federal Express.
Sixties saving liberal arts across
By Enoch Needham
(CPS) - One of the most signifi-
cant reasons battered college lib-
eral arts departments are holding
onto students in the eighties is the
sixties, according to a number of
History and American Studies pro-
fessors around the country.
;Classes that focus on the events
of the 1960s and try to explain their
meaning to a new generation are
becoming increasingly p o p u 1 a r,
they say.
The cou rses have names like
"Youth in the 1960s," "Popular
Culture in the 1960s," and "Amer-
ica and Vietnam," and are offered
everywhere from the universities
of Oklahoma and Kanslas to Yale
to Stanford. They are, moreover,
in much demand. In a time when
most social science courses are suf-
fering dramatic enrollment de-
clines, 140 students recently signed
up for Penn State's 1960s history
class.
Similarly, Stanford and Wiscon-
sin, among others, recently spon-
sored "Sixties Weeks" during
which political celebrities like Jer-
ry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg ap-
peared on panels to discuss the con-
troversial era.
In what amounts to a "down
time" for the social sciences, such
panels and courses are the only
Sones currently enjoying steady in-
creases in enrollment, says Robert
" K. Murray, a historian at Penn
SState.
"We don't have any hard data to
prove it, but there is no question
that classes in popular culture or
contemporary topics about the six-
ties have increased in enrollment
across the country," says Robert
Gladowski of the American Studies
Association.
"Students now are showing a
great deal of interest in that time,
which seems so incredibly long ago
to them," adds Dr. Mary Young,
Svice president of the American
Historical Association. Students
"are very curious to understand
} what happened."
The people who teach the courses
- many of them former activists
themselves - attribute their stu-
dents' interest to a nostalgia for
the era and even an .anger that its
persistent influence may retard
the development of a peculiar cul-
ture of their own.
One teacher in her mid-thirties,
r for example, reports a fed-up stu-
dent telling her, "You guys had
all the easy issues. It's harder on
us."
"Current students don't really
understand why there was so much
Sturmoil then," Penn State's Mur-
ray observes. "They're not very
sympathetic to their older broth-
ers and sisters who still 'haven't
f o u n d themselves.' The students
now are deadly serious. There's
very little frivolity, and they're mo-
tivated to get ahead as fast as
possible."
Jack Nachbar, a professor of pop-
ular culture at Bowling Green State
University, adds, "The sixties idea
of sitting around all day and get-
ting high just makes no sense to
these kids. The confidence in mid-
dle class affluence as a given just
no longer exists."
'Because the 1960s and 1980s are
so different politically and eco-
nomically, teachers have found a
cynicism among current students
about what their predecessors of
the sixties did and what they left
behind.
"What we have produced," says
Warren Susman, a historian at Rut-
gers University, "is a new genera-
tion that is bright, interested in the
past, but with an absolute belief
"that nothing they do can make a
difference."
At the same time, Susman adds,
"Students sense that (sixties stu-
dents) had a culture of their own.
At least the young had their own
experience. Students today have
a bewilderment that the legends
could really be like what they've
heard. They don't have that sense
of mystery, that sense of adventure
that the sixties students had."
The professors have an especial-
ly difficult time teaching about the
Vietnam war.
But H. Bruce Franklin, himself
an anti-war activist once fired from
Stanford for participating in cam-
pus protests, disagrees.
Franklin, who now teaches
"America and Vietnam" at Rut-
gers' Newark campus, says,
"'Many students see the sixties as
something that was their antece-
dent, and there's a great deal of
curiosity about that time. The more
they hear about it, the more they
see its relevance to their own
lives."
At the University of Rochester,
history Prof. Jules Benjamin finds,
"The students come in pretty open-
minded. In a strange way they
want to be convinced if the war
was good or bad. I.get a few hawks
and doves, but most don't have
strong convictions."
He characterizes his students as
"more cynical, but they're angry
with their own cynicism. They have
a wistfulness that they missed
something creative and romantic.
They might turn it down, but
they're longing for a cause."
At Stanford, Prof. Clayborne Car-
son's "students have a feeling that
the earlier generation might have
had a greater political influence
than they do now, but they blew
it."
But current students "didn't see
(Students for a Democratic So-
ciety) or (the Student Non-violent
Coordninng Committee' at their,;
Says Susm an, "This group (of a. .. g.. . ... ..om m ee a .t e r
students) just doesn't 
seem inter- prime. What 
they remember is
ested in foreign affairs. Even iso- the residue like 
the SLA (Symbio-
lationism is too strong a word. 
nese Liberation Army). It's hard
Their attitude is the Vietnam 
war for students to see 
these groups as
was stopped, but so what? 
They're something that had 
the capacity to
very, very dubious 
about every- 
win their political 
goals."
thing, and they've given up that But Carson notes, "There are
sense of heroism that students used probably as many students around
to have." now who have the same ideas as
Run across Mississippi
to benefit Orpheum 
theatre
The Friends of the Orpheum will side Drive to Beale Street, with
sponsor a run from West Memphis, the finish line in front of the Or-
Arkansas, over the Hernando De- pheum Theatre. Runners from all
Soto Bridge to the Orpheum The- over the Mid-South are expected
atre on Sunday, March 21, 1982, be- to enter this first run across the
ginning at 2:00 p.m. The Orpheum- Mississippi River in Memphis. In-
Bridge Run will be the first of sev- formation about the run or advance
eral events sponsored by The registration can be obtained by
Friends in their "Peoples Cam- writing to: Run Committee, FOTO,
paign" to raise $50,000 for the res- P.O. Box 3159, Memphis, TN 38103.
toration of the Orpheum marquee, 
The run was organized with the
the upright Orpheum sign, and the help of the Memphis Runners 
and
dressing rooms. The Friends' cam- Track Club, the Red Cross, 
Mem-
paign is part of a one million dollar phis, R.E.A.C.T, 
the West Memphis
fund-raising drive to complete the C.B. Club, the Mid-South 
Life Sup-
restoration of the Orpheum. port Group, Memphis and West
The run, which is approximately Memphis Police 
and Fire Depart-
five miles long, will begin at the ments, Tennessee and Arkansas
Mound City exit in West Memphis, Highway 
Departments, and officials
continue over the Hernando DeSoto of both states.
Bridge, then proceed down River-
(CPS) - All the planets of our
solar system are moving toward
the same side of the sun. They'll all
be aligned by March 10, 1982.
Strange gravitational p u ls and
pushes will result, some believe,
and the Earth will suffer tidal
waves and earthquakes. It might
even be destroyed.
Those 'most worried about the
so-called "Jupiter Effect" have
turned not to survivalists or clergy-
men, but to the secretaries at col-
lege and university astronomy de-
partments across the nation.
The secretaries r e p or t their
phones have been ringing off the
wall as people call to find out how
the upcoming astronolical phenom-
enon will affect them:
"I guess about the most unusual
call I've gotten was from a woman
who was planning a vaction in Flor-
ida this spring, "relates Bernice
Stevenson, astronomy department
secretary at Yale University. "She
said that she didn't want to waste
money on a vacation if there was
going to be earthquakes and clouds
s nation
their peers in the sixties, but they
keep those attitudes under wraps."
"What happened," agrees Queens
College Prof. Morris Dickstein, au-
thor of the higHly-acclaimed Gates
of Eden, a cultural history of the
1960s, "is that people from that
period have gone into teaching, and
they're building on their own expe-
riences. Some teachers are ap-
palled that it's all so remote to
their students.
"They're like veterans reminisc-
ing and hoping it will all come
back."
Dickstein, who just finished a
European tour, says the same con-
tinuing, pervasive influence of -
and ambivalence toward - the
1960s is evident among students
in England, Italy and France.
of ash floating through the air."
Stevenson says that the astron-
omy department has received a
number of calls from people who
want to know if the end of the:
world is truly at hand.
"We're getting three or four calls
a day, it seems," says Patty Swan-
son, astronomy department secre-
tary at the University of Alabama.
"We had a scattering of calls all
through the fall. But they've really
picked up in the last month."
Likewise, the University of Wis-
consin receives several calls a day,
and astronomy Prof. Ed Church-
well expects that "the closer it
gets to March 10 the more calls
we'll get."
The University of Washington
was so besieged by phone 
calls in-
quiring about the so-called "grand
alignment" that its astronomy de-
partment installed an answering
machine with a pre-recorded 
ex-
planation of the heavenly event.
"Nobody here has the time 
to
keep reiterating the same thing
over and over," says UW astron-
omy department secretary Char-
lotte Arthur. "We had to go with
the recording because it was just
getting out of hand."
All the concern over the plane-
tary phenomenon stems from a 1974
book called The Jupiter 
Effect, in
which two British scientists 
pre-
dicted that the alignment 
of the
planets in early March will cause
severe earthquakes, volcanic 
ac-
tivity, and massive tidal waves.
Although the "Jupiter Effect"
theory has since been retracted 
by
the authors, John Gribbin and
Stephen Plagemann, and 
generally
scoffed at by the scientific 
commu-
nity, many readers take 
it to
heart.
"We tell them that the world 
will
not come to an end because 
of
that," explains the University 
of
Wisconsin's Churchwell. 
"The plan-
ets actually won't even 
be aligned.
They'll primarily be 
in a 90-de-
gree quadrant of the sky, 
kind of
(Continued on Page 6)
March events calendar
7-Apr. 2 Art Exhibit, paintings by Peter Bowman, 
Clough-Hanson
Gallery, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays. Opening 
reception
Sunday, March 7, 3-5 p.m. Free.
9 Student Voice Recital, Dorothy Sanders, 
Hardie Audi-
torium, 8 p.m. Free.
10 1982 M. L. Seidman Memorial Town Hall Lecturer Rob-
ert Poli, past president of PATCO. Topic: "Management
and Labor: Must They Be Adversaries?" Hardie 
Audi-
torium, 8 p.m. Free.
11 Question/Answer Session with M. L. Seidman 
Memorial
Town Hall Lecturer Robert Poll, Room 200 Clough Hall,
9:30 a.m. Free.
12 All-Sing, Snowden School Auditorium, 9 p.m., $1.50 ad-
mission.
14 Southwestern Chamber Orchestra Concert, Hardie 
Audi-
torium, 8 p.m. Free.
15 International Studies Guest Speaker, Prof. Alex 
Riosan-
ovsky, University of Pennsylvania; Topic: "Problems
in Soviet Foreign Policy," 10:20 a.m., East Lounge of
Briggs Student Center. Free.
16 Student Voice Recital - Tricia Berckes, Hardie Audi-
torium, 8 p.m. Free.
16 Lecture - "Death, Grief and Bereavement," Room
200 Clough Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free.
18 Lecture - Japanese Culture and Religion, Dr. John
Copper, 200 Clough Hall, 7:00 p.m. Free.
18-21 Theatre - "Brecht on Brecht," directed by Julia Ewing.
& Readings and enactments from the best 
of Brecht's
25-28 works, McCoy Theatre, 8 p.m. nightly, 3 p.m. Sunday
matinees. $5 adult, $2.50 students.
21 Faculty Piano Recital, Andrea Grossman, Hardie Audi-
torium, 3 p.m. Free.
23 Student Organ Recital - Bill Ridley, Evergreen Pres-
byterian Church, 8 p.m. Free.
22-26 Black Awareness Week, Speakers and Entertainment.
Details to be announced.
24 Lecture - Prof. James N. Rosenau, University of South,
ern California. Topic: "The Scientific Approach to .U.S.
Foreign Policy," East Lounge of Briggs Student Center,
10:20 a.m. Free.
26 & 29 Lecture - Prof. Hans Monsoon, Georgetown University.
Topic: "Politics of the Weimar Republic" - "Hitler's
Reich," East Lounge of Briggs Student Center, 10:20
a.m. Free.
30 Senior Piano Recital, Redmond (Buddy) Eason, Hardie
Auditorium, 8 p.m. Free.
March 5, 1982 The Sou'wester Page 5
i
March 5, 1982
Baseball 
springs 
hope eternal
Baseball springs hope eternal
Last weekend, Phil Jones, 
Steve Farrar, Susan McNutt, 
and Mar-
garet Cahill, accompanied 
by Coach Lesly Ann 
Wade and a local
American Fencing School student 
from England, attended a fencing
tournament at the University 
of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Events included foil, epee, 
and sabre. It was the 
first such event at
which Southwestern has 
been represented since 
the dissolution of the
Women's Fencing Club.
Another tournament is 
planned for Fayetteville 
the weekend of
March 12. Those interested 
in the formation of a Southwestern 
Fenc-
ing Club and membership 
in the U.S.F.A., the competitive 
fencing
organization, should 
contact Steve Farrar 
or Phil Jones.
photo by Steve 
Farrar
Lynxcats 
end season 
with
high hopes]
by Ed Archer
The 1981-82 Southwestern 
Bas-
ketball season ended on a disap-
pointing note last 
weekend with
two road losses; to Illinois 
College
(84-71) and Principia 
(79-78 in over-
time), but Lynx head 
coach Herb
Hilgeman feels that 
the season, on
the whole, was a 
successful one.
The team finished 
with a 13-9
record, Hilgeman's fourth winning
season. "We did a 
lot better than
anyone anticipated," the 
sixth-year
coach notes. "We lost 
seven of
our first eight from 
the 1980-81
team (which finished 
second in the
NCAA III South Region), 
but I
knew that with experienced 
play-
ers like Tim O'Keefe, Chip 
Parrott,
Jeff Phillips, and 
Rusty McDonald
coming back, we could 
be in con-
tention for the CAC 
title if we
could mold our freshmen 
soon
enough."
In contention the Lynx 
were. With
two weeks left in 
the season, the
squad had a chance 
to go to the
NCAA play-offs for 
the third con-
secutive year. But losses 
on the
road, which hurt SAM 
all year,
dashed those hopes. "Being 
young
and inexperienced hurt 
us,!" says
Hilgeman. "We have 
to learn to
play on the road. But 
I think that
all our players 
benefited from 
the
experience they gained 
this year."
Southwestern was ranked 
17th in
the nation at one point 
during the
season, their fourth 
national rank-
ing in as many years. 
Leading the
team in scoring all year 
was fresh-
man sensation Scott 
Patterson, who
closed out the season 
with a 20.5
average. Patterson, 
a 6-4 forward
from Memphis, was 
the Lynx' top
point-maker in 13 
games, in addi-
tion to placing second 
in team re-
Jupiter
(Continued from Page 
5)
bunched together, 
but not line d
up in a straight row 
like some peo-
ple think."
"People call more 
out of curi-
osity than anything else," 
says Arlo
Landolt, observatory 
director at
Louisiana State and 
secretary of
the American Astronomical 
soci-
ety. "We tell them it's 
happened
many times in the Earth's 
history,
and will probably 
happen many
more. If anyone wants 
to see the
event, it'll be visible 
in the morn-
ing sky. And then 
there won't be
much to see."
For next 
year
bounds with a 7.3 average.
Following close 
behind Patterson
in scoring was co-captain 
Tim
O'Keefe, who averaged 
18.6 points
a game. His best 
performance
came against Centre 
College, when
he poured in 33 points. 
The tal-
ented junior also 
led the Lynx in
steals with 56 and 
was second in
assists with 80.
The team's other co-captain, 
Chip
Parrott, led the squad 
in rebound-
ing with 9.0 board 
a game. A con-
sistent performer, 
Parrott also
earned District A c 
ad e m i c All-
American honors from 
the College
Sports Information 
Directors of
America organization.
Also performing well for 
the Lynx
all year was sophomore 
point guard
Jeff Phillips, who 
led the team in
assists with 107. A native 
of Mem-
phis, Phillips did an 
excellent job
directing the SAM 
offense. Other
standouts include freshmen 
Rozell
Henderson (9.9 points and 
6.8 re-
bounds a game) and Billy 
Ryan
and junior Kurt Hentz. 
Sophomore
Rusty McDonald, although 
seeing
limited action, also did well, 
espe-
cially when taking over for injured
Jeff Phillips.
Despite the loss of 
Paul Allen
due to graduation, SAM should 
be
strong again next season. 
The
players have all gained valuable
experience this year and should
form the nucleus 
of another CAC
contending squad. Joining 
them
should be another bumper 
crop of
freshmen recruited by 
Hilgeman.
"Without a doubt we are 
looking
forward to next season," 
says
Hilgeman.
By Ed Archer
The 1982 Southwestern 
baseball
team is young, but Lynxcat 
head
coach Gordon Ellingsworth 
is confi-
dent that obstacle can be overcome.
"The only real shortcoming we
have is inexperience," the second-
year coach notes, "but we can
make up for that with .hard 
work
and a good team attitude." Ellings-
worth, whose 1981 squad 
finished
with an 18-19 slate, will be assisted
this year by David Pitts, 
who will
serve as the Lynx pitching 
coach.
INFIELD: The Lynx infield
should be strong up the middle 
with
returning starters Eric 
Hooper at
short and Nathan Phillips 
at sec-
ond. Hooper, a starting defensive
back for the Southwestern 
football
team, is a talented sophomore 
with
exceptional range. He 
was in on 131
outs last season, and his 
strong
arm enables him to throw runners
out from deep in the hole.
Phillips, also a sophomore, 
came
on strong the last half 
of the 1981
season to earn a starting 
spot at
second. The Nashville, 
Tennessee,
native combines with Hooper to
form an excellent double 
play com-
bination.
The corners of the Lynx 
infield
will be handled by newcomers.
Sophomore Peter Rooney, 
who saw
limited action last year, 
will share
first base duties 
with freshman
Jimmy Glover. Glover 
will prob-
ably get the early season 
assign-
ments to allow Rooney 
to play out-
field.
Vying for the third base 
spot will
be freshman Jimmy 
Kiser and
junior Todd 
Sharp. Sharp, 
who is
New survey
(CPS) - New college students
are getting even more 
material-
istic in their life goals 
and con-
servative in their politics, 
accord-
ing to the annual UCLA-American
Council on Education 
survey of
freshmen.
The study, which 
in covering
more than 200,000 students 
is one
of the largest of its kind, 
is just
the latest in a series of 
contradic-
tory surveys of student 
political at-
titudes.
Even the UCLA survey found 
that
fewer college freshmen 
than last
year ranked "being well-off 
finan-
cially" as a very important 
goal.
But 67 percent of the 
204,000 fresh-
men who responded said 
they en-
rolled at college "to make 
more
money," compared to 
63.4 percent
of last year's freshmen.
For the first time since the 
sur-
veys began in 1967, more 
freshmen
(19.6 percent) call themselves 
"con-
servative" than call themselves
"liberal" (10.2 percent).
But as in previous years, 
the
overwhelming majority 
(59.6 per-
cent) calls itself "middle 
of the
road."
A spring, 1981 Rutgers 
study of
205 campuses concluded 
that "stu-
dents are as politically 
active today
as ever."
And an October, 
1981 survey of
college editors by Collegiate 
Head-
lines, a trade letter 
for the student
press, found that 
at least the per-
ception among the 
journalists who
cover campuses is 
that student
playing his first season for the
Lynx, may also see action in the
outfield while Kiser will be in the
pitching rotation. Freshman Mike
McGibbony, who underwent knee
surgery in March, could see consid-
erable action at third if he can re-
gain his leg strength before the
season ends.
OUTFIELD: Three-year veteran
Rush Waller will be the Lynx cen-
terfielder. A starter for the past
two seasons in right field, Wailer
has moved to center to give the
outfield needed experience. A jun-
ior who had a .922 fielding average
last season, Waller has a strong
arm and excellent speed.
Joining Waller in the outfield will
be Rooney in left field and junior
newcomer David Hopper in right.
Also slated for possible action are
Todd Sharp and catcher Charles
Peloquin, who was a starter in
right field as a freshman before
moving to catcher midway through
the season.
PITCHING: Junior Oscar Ramos
heads the Lynx pitching staff. 
Ra-
mos led the Lynx last year with 
a
2.15 ERA and 80 strike outs. An 
in-
telligent pitcher with a variety 
of
pitches to go along with his blazing
fastball, Ramos will be called 
upon
for the crucial games.
Joining Ramos in the starting 
ro-
tation will be junior Ted 
Kaiser and
freshman Jimmy Kiser. Ted 
is a
hard-throwing returnee who saw
limited action last season. Jimmy,
a back-up quarterback on 
the Lynx
football team,, has a deceptive
curve. Freshman Jimmy Glover
shows greed
apathy has lessened.
But other recent studies at Stan-
ford and the universities of Massa-
chusetts and Florida tend to sup-
port the UCLA study's portrait of
ever-more materialistic, conserva-
tive freshmen.
T h e University of California-
Berkeley, however, found in a sur-
vey of the students who graduated
from there in the sixties that .their
students retain an affinity for left-
ist politics, according to Pacific
News Service.
and Mark Nichols will see spot
starting assignments in addition to
their relief duties. Senior Ed Arch-
er will also serve in relief.
CATCHING: Junior Charles Pelo-
quin returns to start at catcher for
his third year. The sure-fielding
Peloquin has an accurate arm with
a quick release. His experience be-
hind the plate will be very bene-
ficial to the young pitching staff.
Also seeing time behind the plate
will be sophomore Eddie Guth, who
is playing his first season with the
Lynx baseball team.
HITTING: The Lynxcat offense
should be extremely strong. Hoop-
er and Phillips should get on base
consistently. Hooper hit .273 last
season 'with a .508 on-base percent-
age, while Phillips finished the
year at .224 with only 12 strike
outs. Rush Waller will supply much
of the power. The outfielder, who
hits from the left side of the plate,
hit .319 last season with three home
runs. Peloquin, a switch hitter,
will also be counted upon to supply
power. A m ong the newcomers,
Rooney, Guth, Kiser, and Glover
should provide hits.
CAPSUL OUTLOOK: With a 4-
game schedule, the key to a suc-
cessful season is how well the
pitching staff can perform. "Our
pitchers will need to come through
for us," says Ellingsworth. "Hav-
ing Coach Pitts working exclusively
with the pitchers helps a lot. The
arms are there. Instead of being a
potential weakspot, pitching could
end up being our strength." Offen-
sively, the Lynx should be a strong
team. "We'll be a strong hitting
team," notes the head coach, "with
both a high average and power."
GIRL FRIDAY SERVICES
Resumes and term papers
cash only, pick-up
and delivery
BETTY NICHOLS.
382-1 132
BROADWALK
2559 Broad 
ST.
$3 All 
You Can 
Drink
Open till 6:00 a.m. 
Fri. and Sat. Nights
Catering Exclusively 
to
Southwestern Students
STUDENT CREDIT
Ever wish that while traveling, vacationing, or maybe just for
emergencies, you could have a national credit card? .
Well, now - YOU CAN - obtain a Master Card 
or Visa while
still in school, no co-signer required.
We have established a division to exclusively handle the credit
needs of college students. .. freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and
seniors . .. so you can enjoy the convenience of credit NOW, and
have your credit established for your professional life after
graduation.
on a 3 x 5 card, print your name and complete address. (Enclose
$2.00 for postage and handling.) Send to:
Creative Credit International Collegiate Credit Division
Suite 303-Penn Lincoln Bldg.
789 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
$15/$30 REBATE
On your
College Ring
Rebate offered
/ Wed., March 10 Only
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
See the Jostens' Display 
at
Student Center
The Sou'wester
Page 6