Reporters recall Kennedy tragedy after 25 years by Thomas Collins LA Times-Washington Post Service The White House reporters who accompanied John F. Kennedy to Dallas found themselves covering the biggest story of their lives, but in the first chaotic hours after the president had been hit they could report onl y raw, sometimes unverified information to a world hanging on every word . The centra l question-was Kennedy dead or alivc?-remaincd officially unanswered while reporters frantically pleaded with White House aides , nurses, priests and doctors at Parkland Hospital for a report on his condition. Bob Clark of ABC News, who was in the pool car in the motorcade , while it passed under the Texas School Book Depository building just as the shots were fired , recalls Secret Service men at the hospital giving three different answers to the question. One said he was still alive, another said he had died , and the third said he didn 't know. "There was no central place to go for information ," Clark recalled. The police tried to to be helpful , but there was nothing they could do. They didn 't know whether there was just one gunman or whether it was a consp iracy. They couldn 't answer the fusillade of questions that were being fired at them." Therehadbecn unofficial statements that Kennedy was dead , one from a priest who administered the last rites, another from an unattributcd local radio bulletin . Finally, Malcolm Kilduff , the No. 3 man in the White House press office at the time , ended the speculation that had hung in the air for almost an hour by announcing to reporters at the scene that Kennedy was dead. Ironically, the outside worl d knew that something terrible had happened before most of the correspondents on the spot were aware . United Press International' s Mcrriman Smith had sent the first bulletins after commandeering the only telephone in the pool car and grappling with Jack Bell of The Associated Press to keep possession of it. In one bulletin , he said that Kennedy had been shot, "perhaps fatally." (Both Smith and Bell are now dead. Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage. Bell, it is said, never got over the incident.) Two busloads of reporters, however, had continued to the Trade Mart, where Kennedy had been due to speak at a luncheon , and were out of touch with events. "Practically everybody knew what was happening except us, said Douglas Kikcr of NBC News, who was a brand-new White House reporte r for the New York Herald Tribune at the time. It was his first out-oftown presidential trip. Twenty-five years later, sequence and limes arc sometimes blurred , be individual impressions and recollections of those who covered the slory remain as fresh as yesterday. Kikcr recalls Marianne Means of the Hearst papers announcing to the group at the Trade Mart that Kennedy had been shot, and the stampede to get to the hosp ital. Means had gotten the word when she routinely checked in with her New York office. ABC' s Clark remembers rushing from the pool car up to the Kennedy limosinc shortly after it pulled up to the hospital. The presidential party was still inside. "The scene was frozen ," he said , while everyone wailed for stretchers lobe brought. Kennedy was "stretched out in the back scat with his head in Mrs. Kennedy 's lap with his head half way down but not so you could sec a wound. Jackie was silting with her hands on his head , staring and saying nothing. " There were no signs of life in Kennedy. When the shots had been fired and the motorcade sped off , the car carrying the pool photograp hers had dropped out , attracted by the commotion of the crowd lining the route. "That 's why there aren 't any pictures of him at Parkland Hospital," Clark said. Theprincipal emotions thatday were confusion and disbelief. "We could hardly believe that something like that could happen ," said Tom Wicker, a New York Times columnist who was the paper 's White House correspondent at the time. "Nobody living had lived through the McKinley assassination. " In a book , On Press, Wicker wrote: "I know no reporter who was there who has a clear and orderly picture of that surrealistic afternoon; it is still a matter of bits and pieces thrown hastily into something like a whole." Reporters had to rel y on instinct; there was no time to check and doublecheck information. Kiker and Wicker wound up that evening sharing an office at the Dallas airport , writing their stories after Air Force 1 had left with now-President Lyndon B. Johnson , Mrs. Kennedy and the dead president aboard . "I'd write a page of copy and call it in to New York and Tom would take a page and dictate it," Kiker said. Wicker 's account was printed in ex- tra-large type and his byline on it is the largest in the history of the Times' front page. The press had gotten one of its best briefings that day fro m Sid Davis ol Wcstinghouse B roadcasling, who had been a pool reporter who witnessed the swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force 1. "Somebody picked me up and put mc on the trunk of a car used in the motorcade," said Davis, who is now with the Voice of America after serving several years as NBC Washington bureau chief. "I was apprehensive ," he recalled. "I wanted to make sure I gol as much detail as possible. If I got something wrong, I would be marked for the rest of my life." Two days later , similar thoug hts were going through Ike Pappas mind. He found himself in the crowded basement of the Dallas City Hall when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. He had dropped to a crouch when Ruby fired , fearful of getting caught in a crossfire. "I said to myself, if you ever say anything into a mike, say it now. Don 't freeze. This is history," he recalled in an interview. Pappas, formerl y of CBS News, was with WNEW radio in New York at the time. He continued broadcasting, it is his voice you hear on some of the videotapes of the scene, describing the shooting and the struggle with Ruby for the gun. There were between 30 and40 from the White House press corps on the scene,but hundreds more soon arrived from news organizations all over the world. For the next four days, many of those covering the ceremonial aftermath of the death in Dallas stifled their emotions and concentrated on doing a professional job on what they, along with the rest of the country, felt as a personal loss. "I think we were all traumatized ," said UPI's Helen Thomas, who covered the arrival of Air Force 1 at Andrews Air Force Base the night of the assassination. She remembers dictating her story with tears streaming down her face. "But you still had to compartmentalize," she said. "Wc all realized youcouldn 'tg ive way to your sadness." James Dcakin, now retired fro m the St. Louis Post Dispatch , remembers weeping at the sight of Caroline Kennedy lifting a corner of the flag over Kennedy 's casket "to see what was underneath ," as he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda. "A lot of people think we lost our soul in Vietnam ," Deakin said , "but I think a good part of it was lost when Kennedy was killed ." Students release balloons in honor of smokers they adopted to kick the habit during the 'Great American Smoko7Out' last Thursday. Photo by Jim Betttniort Illoomsburg students were exposed to the cultures of foreign students through International Day held on Thursday in the Photo by Jim Bettendorf Ulliorl . Boarding home owner caught after bodies are found in lawn by Pete r 11. King LA Times-Washington I' nst Service SACRAMENTO , Calif. -Rank , overly sweet, unforgettable , the smell rose up from Dorothea Montalvo Pucntc 's garden like fog and lingered in her boarding house like a ghost. She tried to steam it out. She tried to bleach it out. She attacked it with gallons of wate r and sacks of lime , with cans of leinon-sccntcd aerosol and even with (h h emulsion. Pucnic told a friend that dead rats were decaying beneath the old two storey house. She told her boarders that backed-up sewers were to blame. Last week , after seven bodies had been excavated from Pucntc's wellkept gardens , after the throngs had thinned from in front of the pastel blue Victorian , the people who knew Dorothea Montalvo Pucntc wouldoffcr the stench as but one of several clues that had been there all along as signposts on a macabre trail of death . And yet until this month , indications that something was amiss thcreor had been misread or written off as harmless eccentricities , a fac t that speaks to the shecraudacity of Pucntc 's alleged undertakings , to the social anonymity of its luckless victims and , perhaps most of all , to the eni gma presented by the suspect herself , a well-dressed , soft-spoken woman with the demeanor of a grandmother and the rap sheet of a felon. "I didn 't kill anybody, " Pucntc told a television news crew last week after her arrest. She said it sweetl y, evenly, peering straight into the camera . What Homer Myers reflects on now isallthcdigging hcdidin histwoyears at Pucntc 's place. He also wonders how close he came to winding up in a hole himself. "I was just wondering how lucky I am ," the 74-ycar-old pensioner said happily the other night. "Especially if persons did come and go the way they (the police) say they did." Myers, a stocky old man , had moved out of Pucntc 's house about a week before the corpses were discovered. He said that Puentc became furious with him for failing to p ick up Christmas decorations , and he took that as his cue. Nonetheless, Myers had rather enjoyed his stay at the house, even though a lot of spade work had been required in die garden. There had been the hole for an apricot tree, and Myers now recalls wondering at the lime why it needed to be 4 fee t deep. There had been trenches to replace a stopped sewer line , or at least that was how the awful smell had been explained to him. Myers had met Pucntc in a downtown bar: "I walked in , sat beside her and she recommended herself." He paid Pucntc $350 a month for a private downstairs bedroom and two hot meals a day , breakfast and an early dinner. The boarders would cat around a small formica table in the upstairs kitchen. Other than that they were welcome upstairs by invitation only. 1 Except for John McCauley, the handyman who was arrested last week as a potential accomplice and then released. McCauley slept upstairs in a bedroom near the back staircase. Another house rule was that no one but Pucnte was permitted to pick up the morning mail. Also, no liquor was allowed , although Puente herself kept a well-stocked bar. Until the fight over Christmas decorations , Myers said that the only friction between himself and Puente occurred when she would pressure him to sign papers empowering her to cash his Social Security checks. "I just never signed them ," he said. "I just passed it off." Puentc did not come as a stranger last Thursday when she entered a Sacramento courtroom to be accused formally of murdering Alvaro Montoya , also known as Bert. Her past encounters with the law were well-documented: a 1948 conviction for forgery, a 1960 conviction for residing in a brothel. In 1978shewas convicted forcrimes described in a subsequent parole report: "For approximately three years, the defendant , while operating a Board and Care facility in Sacramento, secured U.S. Treasury checks from her residents and cashed them." She was placed on probation for five years and ordered to receive pyschiatric treatment. A psychiatrist diagnosed her as a chronic schizophrenic , "a very disturbed woman ." The records show that in 1979 she was accused by doctors of poisoning a roommate. Puente complied with her parole officer 's suggestion and moved out. In 1982 she was convicted of a series of robberies in which she doped her elderly victims. "Each of the four victims were vulnerable, particularly vulnerable," the judge said as he sentenced Puente to five years in state prison. "Three of the victims were respectfully 74, 82 and 83 years of age." She served three years.Paroled, she was instructed not to work with or "handle government checks of any kind issued to others." The paper trail jumps forward to Nov. 4 and a missing-persons report to police by a social worker. A client named Alvaro Montoya, described as a mentally disabled man whom Puente boarded and acted as payee for his Social Security checks, had not been seen for three months. Efforts to contact him produced only alibis: Bert was sick; he was headed for Utah; he was in Mexico. A few days later, thepatrolmen made inquiries among the boarders . One confided that he was under instructions from Puente to lie about Bert's whereabouts. A secret discussion ensued at a prearranged corner, and later was recorded in the officer s handwritten report. It concluded:"Sharp also advised that suspspect has had some large holes dug in the back yard over the past three months because of 'sewer problems.' The holes have been filled in since and concrete poured over some of them , according to Sharp. I contacted (a detective) in homicide and advised him of the information. He was familiar with the suspect and has had similar reports about her in the past." The digging began Nov. 11. After three hours the first remains had been found. Puente could be seen peering down into the hole herself. About an hour before the second corpse was discovered, Puen te told officers that she wanted to visit a cousin who worked at a hotel a block away. A police detective escorted her and the handyman , McCauley, past the curious throng to the corner. Four hours later, it was clear that Puente had decided not to come back at all. When McCauley returned alone, police rushed to the hotel and searched unsuccessfully for theirprime suspect. Four day s and five bodies after she fled , Puente would be arrested in Los Angeles. She was caught after a 59year-old man she met at a bar remembered her face from television reports. Puente was flown back on a corporate jet chartered by a Sacramento television station. As a police detective sat at her side, she denied killing anyone but admitted that ,"!cashed the checks, yes." It was proving difficult to determine how long the bodies had been in the ground and what had killed them. So far, none of the corpses has been identified; these were not the sort of people to be missed. A coroner's investigator said that normally investigators receive 600 calls on a single unidentified murder victim within 24 hours. By Friday, in the case of the seven bodies found on F Street, there had been six. Index See Husky Notes to know what is happening aroundcampus. Page 3 Image reviewed. Page 4 j I fl fl 9 fl fl Bloomsburg Wrestling fl wins Invitational . fl Page 8 I Commentary Page 2 fl Features Page 4 I Comics Page 6 i Sports Page 7 1 Student cites flaws in administrative policy To the Univer sity community: I ask you to re-read the words of Dr. Ausprich as expressed in his open lettei inTVze Voice, Thursday,November 17, in light of the accompanying photograph (see pg. 3). This poster , many other signs printed and distributed throughout campus , and the rally i tself came to be only through the use of university services and facilities , i.e.. Pa. Right-to-Life . This took place less than two weeks before the genera '; election , and two days after the administration ruled that the BU Young Democrat s, an official on-campus organization , could not avail itself of similar services to communicate campaign information to its own club members . Why? We 're told that "public funds" cannot be used to advocate the politica agenda or candidates of any party. Dr. Ausprich , is the administration of our university so naive as to think that a Right-to-Life PAC, holding a rally just before the elec tion and featuring a "special message from George Bush ," has no political agenda does not advocate the election of a candidate of a particular political party? We think not. (We hope not!) Rather , it seems clear that the university 's sign-making service , duplicating service , and mail-room services may or may not be used depending upon the political views and whims of the director of the particular service. All we re asking for is a degree of consistency and uniformity in the policy regarding a student organization ' s, access to university services. Any student organization — political, religious, cultural , academic, and yes , even a social fraternity or sorority — has an agenda of ideas, and maybe even ideals, at the core of its existence as a student group. As we see it , the administration must decide on one of three clear options governing the use of university services by such student groups: (i) insure equal access for ALL student organizations , regardless of agenda , (ii) comp letel y deny access to sign-printing, duplicating, and mail- Tenure concerns examined To the Editor: The recent article on the two current tenure denial challenges { The Voice , Monday. November 14) was much needed and long overdue. Though there is no doubt that students are keenl y interested in seeing a poor instructor removed from his or her position , we must also be interested in seeing that quality instructors are retained here at Bloomsburg. I was extremely surprised to hear that Dr. Brian Johnson , president of APSCUF. said that he doesn 't see reasons to make drastic changes in the tenure procedures. While it may be a good system overall , it still allows some of his colleagues , like Dr. Carole Reifsteck. to be victimized. In cases like hers , in my op inion , the system fails miserably. Hers is a case in which all criteria for performance review and evaluation were easily met and well known , yet she is now out of a job. Because the music d e p a r t m e n t chairperson recommended tenure denial , she can not appeal. This is despite the fact that the university-wide tenure committe e recommended tenure for her. When Stephen C. Wallace , music Department Chairman , stated in his tenure report to President Ausprich that "Though it is a fact that my (previous) evaluations of Carole ' s work would seem to be assessed as 'positive endorsements'. . . ", clearly, a red flag should have gone up. This is where the system failed. Despite Dr. Reifsteck' s positive evaluations by both peers and students for four years, despite unsubstantiated , last minute out-of-the-blue allegations by Wallace , despite the fact that Wallace and members of the music department tenure committee were all males , two of which had not even earned their doctorates , despite cries of sexual discrimination and foul play from students , professors and retire d professors outside of the department , no investi gation ever took place and Dr. Reifsteck' s side of the story was never heard. I personall y talked to President Ausprich about this matter, and he told me that he had to let the system work. But in the Obutelewicz tenure case, both the department tenin c committee and the department chairper son recommended tenure and President Ausprich , who has the final decision , denied tenure , against departmental wishes. I ask you , what is the system that is being allowed to work? It seems to me that fli pping a coin may work just as well. I think that it is time for a change and I think that the students should be involved in tenure decisions so that another quality professor is not railroaded out of a job. I' m sure that this is wishful thinking, judg ing from the recent response to student concerns from the administration , but what affects the faculty affects the students and we should all be working toward making Bloomsburg University the best it can be. Mike Hoover room services to ALL student organizations , or (iii) single out student political organizations as having no place and no function on this campus. Ban all student political groups from BU. Dr. Ausprich' s conflicting claim s that "wc e n c o u r a g e s t u d e n t involvement in the political process " but that posters and duplication of materials "advocating the election of a particular candidate are prohibited" leave us in a ludicrous Catch-22. A student political group that can ' t say anything political? You 're effectivel y choosing the third option listed above , Dr. Ausprich. To clari fy a couple of other points . . . no one is under the delusion that campaign information produced bv . and clearly identified as the advocacy of, the BU Young Democratssomehow constitutes endorsement of this position by the University. So, wherc 's the legal problem? Furthermore , our use of campus services in the past has always involved payment for materials out of club funds , not "public funds. " As students , the members of the Young Democra ts have onl y a single chance during their undergraduate years to become involv ed in a presidential campaign. That opportunity now past , we are resentfu l to an administrati on that has obstructed our ability to carry out our * function. This resentment extends now to the manner in which the administration has chosen to respond to what we clearly feel has been a violation of our ri g hts as a student organization: no personal response to club members, no call for a meeting to resolve the issue, only an open letter in The Voice that can only be viewed as a belated attempt at "damage-control. " Our simple appeal now is to insure that the Young Democrats , Young Republicans , Young Whalcvcrs of 1992 will find an environment and an administration here at BU mat , if not encourages involvement in the political process , at'lcasl tolerates it. Sadly, desp ite the words of Dr . Ausprich , such an environment is not the reality of 1988. Faith Warner President , BU Young Democrats OKW r POtfr TELLNt .I ^^pFS ^NEVER R^bET & FAC£«SHMtt]A v ^f ^^&zr rr'f £ s^-^mim^kv^mJX -PLO RECQC-^lZlNk ISR&EL GET INVOLVED: Today, at 5:30 p.m. in Multi-A, CGA Senate will vote on raising the Community Activities fee to $55 for fall semester, 1989. Student opinions are welcome. Some perspective on where we are now and where we have come f r om by Melissa S. Menapace Features Editor A n n i v e r s a r i e s are times to remember , to look back. Looking back gives us perspec tive on where we are now and where we have come from. Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I was thinking about what that event meant for our parents ' generation , and what Kennedy has come to stand for , when someone pointed out to me that this week also marks a year since the infamous Bloomsburg "riot" (it 's not really worth di gnif y ing with the term anniversary;. The two occasions have nothing to do with each other. One commemorates a man who gave much and the other is a reminder of an act of extreme self-centeredness and selfishness. I' m not even comfortable putting the near sacred and the profane in the same paragraph. But the timing of the two anniversaries could be cause for fruitful reflection. Kennedy is widely credited with sparking an active , idealistic generation of young people. Even though they have been hi ghly romanticized , some of them are a fine example to us. They had an awareness of the world and their place in it that many of us lack. Even if we do know what is going on in the world we often do not apply that knowledge to our lives or we just block it out. Apathy runs wild while Rome burns. Those that really strike me are the ones who really owned their decisions and their actions. Their actions had a purpose. They were aware of the consequences and accepted them. So many people saw the challenges and problems around them and accepted the responsibility to try to do something about them , even if it was difficult. Or a least they had an awareness of how various situations affected their lives and thought about how to react. I think of young women who braved everything from insinuations about their sexuality to open threats about going into majors and professions not traditionall y open to women , thereby getting feet into doors that we are nowopening even wider. I think of the hundreds of college students from mostl y white , affluent Eastern schools who went to the deep South in the "Freedom Summer " during the late 60s to work for civil richts. This was not a summer at the shore. Some of them died. They left situations as comfortable as for in some cases, more comfortable than) ours , because they believed it was something worth working for. Some of the same people were involved in riots , real riots. Riots complete with dogs , gas. guns , and blood. Watch television footage of Birming ham , or Watts , or the chaos after students took over buildings at Columbia University. Read Meridian , Alice Walker 's fictionalized account of that time and , I suspec t, herself. In the book , a group of townspeople pull a young girl away from the protection of the main character during a demonstration that turns in to a riot , and force the girl to drink ammonia. Compared to that , what happened in Bloomsburg last year is a temper- Young people afraid of taking risks I was too young to vote for Jack Kennedy. He was my generation 's older generation. But when I think of him on this anniversary, Nov . 22, 1 still think of youth. His , mine , America 's. I spent the Kennedy years in college and I can attest to the fact that not every young person during that lime asked what he or she could do for his or her country . But it is true that Kennedy called us and we heard that call.He made us understand that he and the country has expectations and even ne-eds for our public service. As young people , we were wanted . And that was no smal l thins. Now I am older than Jack Kenned y was when he was killed. The younger generation to-day, we are told , is not much interested in service , except the kind you find in the modern marketplace : self-service. I spent an afternoon this month at UCLA with Alexander Astin , who runs the annual college freshman surveys. The major trend culled fro m his computer , he says with much regret , has been a "very strong materialistic tendency among students. They are more preoccupied with money, power , status and less concerned with serving society." His data fits the stereotype of youth on a fas t track to materialism , a generation that only gets worked up about aerobics. It is in sync with a cartoon from last commencement season that showed two college students crossing a campus. One is saying to the other, "This is incredible, do you know that I, too, want as much as I can get as fast as I can get it. " But if there is a difference in the degree of engagement in public life and public issues among today 's young — and I think there is — it 's not that some spiritual flaw , some epidemic of narcissism , some warped sense of values has infested this generation. Nor has idealism and the urge to create a better community atrophied. If the young are preoccupied with "money, power , status ," it may be because they haven 't been offered any better set of goals. By us. It may be because nobody in the current older generation , no leader President, hero , has really called them to serve. Not the way Kennedy did. This has been the decade of feelgood patriotism. All we had to do for our country was to get goosebumps v/hen we heard the "Star Spangled Banner " playing. The best and the brightest have been told by inference that the private sector is where the action is. The young in turn listen to any call to public service with a more sophisticated , even cynical , ear than we had. At least before we had experienced the death of the first Kennedy, then King, then the second Kennedy, then Vietnam and Watergate . They have , among other things , much less certainty about the good of doing good, especially on a large scale. Wipe out a disease and you may face the problems of overpopulation. Clear a jungle and you may endanger a species or a culture . i n e young, Domrj araea witn ambiguities, seem to prefer a sure thing. Those who want to help are more likely to choose the soup kitchen and the shelter , places where there is little moral risk of going wrong. At the same time these in-between years have been marked by greater attention to private life. We judge each other, we judge ourselves — and even this fallen President — by how we behave at home as well as in the community . We have become wary of people who dedicate themselves to public service while neglecting their private circle. Americans have upped the ante on what makes a good person and a good life. We are now supposed to save the world and be home for supper. As personal lives have become much more complex and challenging , they too siphon some of the energ y from public service. But I believe the impulse to belong to something larger is very' much alive among the young. Indeed , they seem melanchol y at the absence of a public life . I have heard many search for something more engaging than a good job or a VCR. What is missing, if the word were not so open to ridicule , may be idealism. I wish I knew what Jack Kennedy would have made of all this , how he would have crafted his call in the '80s, because he would have called and he was a fine craftsman. But it 's left to those of us who were his younger generation , his sometimes disillusioned human legacy, to fi gure out a way to pass on that vision to a very different generation , at a very different moment in our country ' history. tantrum in a nursery. How dare we compare it to what happened in the 60s (as I heard some shortsi ghted children of the 80s do last year at this time) or mak e light of mindless destruction by wearing t-shirts proclaiming "Party at Bloomsburg , it 's a riot. " I' m sure such sentiments were not what President Kennedy had in mind when he said ,"The torch has been passed to a new generation. " We can learn from the idealism and energy of a quarter century ago and from the stupidity of last year. We have such energy, such latent power and often latent potential. Can ' t it be better directed? Is the "right " to parly in loud , obnoxious , and often illegal hordes , the most pressing injustice we can come up with? What a sad commentary that incident was. I wish we would take all the energy and rage that was wasted by a drunken mob last year and turn it to something productive. It's not that we aren't doing many, many productive things , but they tend to get lost in the shuffle of things like the riot. It goes back to responsibility. Take the word apart and look at what it means. Responsibility: the ability to respond. We certainly have that ability. We are intelli gent , well educated , basically well off , and we are young. That was part of the charm and tragedy of the man wc commemorate on Tuesday . He was struck down at such a young age. But in his relatively short life he pinpointed many areas that still need work: poverty and racism, for example. And we can certainly find causes enough on our own campus. If we can tru l y learn from two very different anniversaries, maybe we can make the torc h being passed to our generation shine more brightly into the new millennium. ¦W)it Voitt Kehr Union Building Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815 Editor-in-Chief Dawn D'Aries Managing Editor Glenn Schwab News Editors John Risdon Features Editors Bridget Sullivan , Melissa S. Menapace Sports Editors Kell y Cuthbcrt , Sean Ryan , Lincoln Weiss Photography Editors Jim Bettendorf , Jennifer Moon Production /Circulation Manager Alexander Schillcmans Advertising Director Susan Sugra Advertising .'.•'zj .riag';r Amy Crimian Av-Kta m A'lY-;r ;.r.; r, v .' /Onager;; Jim Pilla , Lisa Mack , David Marra , Jodi Donalelli Atliua Salek Bu -.ir. -- .-. .' .'jsr^gir A.v.i.-.a-r;!. .-j !j •.::,-:;-.•. .' .'j nager ;. Kris DaCosta , Carol Yam-aski Sale' , Managers Bob Woolslager, Vince Vcrnisiro Copy Editor David l-Viris Contributing Ed i tor Karen Reiss , Lynne lunsi Advi-or John Mai It leu-Harris Voice Editorial Policy Unless stated otherwise , the editorials in The Voice are (lie opinions anil concerns of the Editor-in-Chief , and do not necessarily reflect Hut opinions of all members of The Voice staff , or the student population of Itloomstmrg University. The Voice invites all readers to express their opinions on the editorial page through letters to the editor and guest columns. All submissions must be si gned and include a phone number and address for verification , although names on letters will be withheld upon request. Submissions should be sent to The Voice office, Kehr Union Ituilding, Iiloomsburg University, or dropped off at the office in the games room. The Voice reserves the ri ght to edit , condense or reject all submissions. Office space available in Kehr Union The Kehr Union Governing Board is now accepting letters of application from student organizations for the use of office space in the Kehr Union . Presently there is one small office 'spacc (CAS office) available on the second floor. Any studcntorgani/alion interested in the space should submit their letter of application to the Student Activities Office no later than 4 p.m. Friday, December 2. The Utilization Committee of the Kehr Union Governing Board will review all applications during the week of November 7th and a final recommendation will be made at the November monthly meeting of the entire Governing Board . Business society receives awards Mac Attack. From the experimental class "Media ". Today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Haas Gallery, see this fine art fro m the Macintosh Computer. Everyone is welcome. Thanksg iving Break will begin Wednesday, November 23, al2p.m., instead of 2:50 p.m.. I Resident Ad visor app lications for Spring Semester 1989 arc now available at any resident hall desk. Pick up yours today. The deadline is Wednesday, November 23. There are three to four key positions open for Spring '89 and possibly summer, loo. Can train before Christmas break. Pleasant , dynamic individual wanted by the KehrUnion Information Center. Must be qualified for Federa l Work Study. Complete your application at the Information Desk or contact Betty Pursel at 389-3900. Don 't miss this opportunity . The Community Government Association is implementing a scholarship recognizing student leaders on campus. The scholarship will be awarded to a student or students who have a minimum grade point average of 2.5, a minimum of 32 credits and demonstrated leadership in extracurricular activities. Students interested in applying for a Spring 1989 award should pick up an application at the Community AcStudent secretaries needed in Stutivities Office. dent Development Office. Deadline for submitting applicaMust qualif y for Federal Work tions is December 2, 1988. Study. To appl y contact Mary Lou Micle, Husky Notes Women 's weight training class is now being offered in Centennial Nautilus Room. Classes arc offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 p-.m. to 9 p.m. All classes are instructed by Kath y Student Development Office, Kehr Mejasich. The bench press competition will Union. be held November 30th. Sign up in Intramural Office on There will be an Upward Bound that date by 3 p.m.. T-shirts will be Alumni meeting today at 7 p.m. in awarded. the Green Room. Everyone is invited to attend. ALL STUDENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS: The Off Campus The Bloomsburg University LitOrganization is sponsoring their annual Toys for Tots drive. There arc erary Journal is accepting submismonetary prizes for the top raising sions of original poetry, essays, and group or individual. For more ini' or- short stories until December l.Send mation contact Donald Young at389- submissions to Box 16, Kehr Union. 4328. The Commuters 'Association and the Residence Hall Association will sponsor an Annual Craft Fair '88 on Friday, December 2 in the Kehr Union fro m 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.. A variety of crafts will be offered for sale, including jewelry, needlework, and baked goods. PBL members — please pick up a box of candy bars to sell in the Office — Sutliff 115. There will be a general meeting for all DJs and staff of WBUQ today at 9:30 p.m. in McCormick 2229. The art department is sponsoring Picture of the poster, printed by the Universit y, which III! Young Democrats say IMAGE is performing today in Haas Auditorium at 8 p.m.. Bring a friend , admission is free. Send your favorite senior a special message in the Obiter yearbook. Say goodbye to your graduating class or to your pledge class. Everyone is eli gible to be a patron. Greek organizations , businesses, and friends tire all welcome. We will accept pen and ink drawings , business cards, photographs , and ads made on the Macintosh. Services are available if needed for photographs and computer ads. Anyone who is interested in placing an advertisement in the Obiter as a patron , please call the Obiter at 389-4454 or call Kim Clark at 3860174. indicates political partiality on the part of administration i'h„t„ by j *nmiMoon by Myro n Beckcnstetn L.A. Times-Washington Post Service OTTAWA - A volatile Canadian public goes to the polls to elect a new parliament Monday altera wild sevenweek election campaign that centered on Canada 's relations with the United States. With almost a year left to go in his five-year term , Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called for the election Oct. 1, after the Canadian Senate refused to go along with the free-trade pact negotiated between Canada and the United States. Normally the unclecled Senate approves whatever the House of Commons docs, but recently the Liberal-dominated upper chamber has displayed a mind of its own on several matters . After Mulroney won Commons approval for the pact, not a difficult feat considering his party controls 211 of the 282 seats, Liberal leader John Turner asked the Senate to delay passage of the measure, which has a year's end signing deadline. The Senate obliged. Mulroney, whose party had climbed from thirdplaceamongCanada 's three major parties to first within a year, according to the polls , called an election to get a new mandate for his government and free trade. But it was a move not without peril. Not in 35 years has a Canadian government won back-lo-back majority victories. Right after the election call , Gallup found the Tories with 43 percent backing and the Liberals with 33 percent. A month later, though , it was ihe Liberals who had 43 and the Tories 31. (The third party , the New Democrats , had 22 percent support both times.) What made the difference , according to observers, was the Canadian venue of election debates '88. For three hours Oct. 24 the three candidates debated in French for this bilingual nation. The next night , they held another three-hour debate in English. Unlike the American debates, the Canadian candidates were not encum- bered wilh rules barring real confrontation. And confrontation is what they got. Ai the end of ihe debate , the topic suddenly returne d lo free trade and Turner and Mulroney got into a shouting match over who was the more patriotic. According to the polls , Turner won , thereb y turning die whole campaign around and putting free trade so firmly on the tabic that other issues arc rarely mentioned anymore. Toronto media consultant , Patricia Adams says it was not a question of Turner 's performance being all that good , but that the public had not expected him to be good at all , remembering that il was-his performance in the debates at the last election that was credited wilh bring ing his inherited rei gn as prime minister to a hall after 10 weeks. "Better against bloody awful isn t that much ," she said , but she added that it was enough for the media to declare him die winner , for ihe public to latch onto this judgment , and for Turner 's standing in the polls to rise dramatically. While some other observers agree with this interpretation , not all agree. Mike Bozinoff , of ihe Gallup organization , ihinks thai Turner deserves credit for changing his own fortunes. "He came across as sincere. . . ," Bozinoff said , "almost as if he had found religion. " "He seemed natural , unrehearsed ," he added , and also said the Liberal leader hit a chord of "latent Canadian nationalism " that people didn 't realize was there . The dcbaic marked ihe real siart of the campai gn , he said. Before il people had been turned off by months-long speculation on whether and when an clcclion would be called. But when the debate focused their interest , Turner was there wilh his winning perform ance. Further adding to the Liberal skyrocketing in the polls after the debate, Bozinoff said , was that the Conservatives did not respond to the Liberal assault lor days. New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent also opposes free trade. Though he did well in the debate, according to University of Alberta political scientist Ian Urquhart , the media ignored him in its accounts and thesocial democratic New Democratic Parly 's standings remain stagnant. Adams said that Broadbent came on too strong, "like a pit bull." Adams added , while he frequently is rated as the most liked leader, this does not translate into votes for the party . "People arc afraid of the party , they like die man ," Adams said. The heart of the campaign has remained free trade , with Mulroney supporting the pact he worked out with the United Slates and the other two leaders denouncing it. The pact , which won U.S. approval witii no perceptible public debate, did eliminate the few remaining trade barriers between the world' s biggest trading partners. "The trade deal is a must for Canada' s future ,"Mulroney repeatedly has told the voters. "It's a visionary instrument of job creation and new wealth and it is clearly something that is on the right side bf'hfs tory."' r ; " Canada has a choice of remaining a small market of 25 million or becoming a large market of 270 million "where we can match strength with strength and skill with skill ,"he said. Furthermore , Mulroney has said, throwing out the agreement would set the precedent for future accords. He visualized Turner going to the White House and saying "By the way, I've just torn up the free-trade agreement. But how would you like to negotiate an acid rain treaty?" Said Turner: "I think that Canada would be ill-advised to becomea regular partner in Fortress America. It has always been in Canada 's interest to seek a widening trading perspective globally (instead of bilaterally). "We're saying to our American HlMjULMBlt' W »¦ imTm%JTL ««¦ A friends , 'We want to trade with you, but we want to do it without . . . yielding our sovereignty and our way of doing things,' "he said. Not loath to mince words, the political leaders accuse each other of not knowing about what the free-trade pact will mean or do to Canada. In addition to jobs and the economy, there are fears it will hurt Canada's more advanced social programs and its cultural identity . Observers agree that it is hard for voters to figure out what is true and what isn 't in the barrage of charges, denials and advertisements flooding the country. Some, like Adams, think the Conservatives missed their chance by not explaining what was in the 1,100-page pact long ago. Meanwhile, polls show support for the pact eroding. Where all early polls showed the public pretty evenly divided , Bozinoff said, a survey early this month found the agreement favored by only 26 percent and disapproved by 50 percent. A majority was opposed to it in every region of the country, he said. Amid all this, the United States is trying to hunker down and stay out of tne'fight , with officials declining 'even to say what they think the pact really does say. "U.S. officials refuse comment on the free-trade agreement because we don 't want to be perceived as interfering with the election ," said one, refusing to comment. "It's a domestic affair." Even the word that President Reagan was going to mention the pact in a long-planned speech on world trade last Thursday was enough to cause anti-pact forces to predict he would be meddling in Canadian affairs. When the 30-minute speech did contain a fleeting positive referencee existence of the pact, the forces were quick to cry foul. "Deliberate" intervention , said Turner , a "lame duck trying to rescue a dead duck. " ¦¦ ¦Til v S ^l l l i a V i { te iBlfclitiiAit ^a ifflS ^^ Wainwrighl's Travel , Established in 1969 Flies Over 2000 Students Every March to Thei r Favorite Sun Destination, Stay in the Best Hotels, Party and Enjoy the Beaches In Order to Secure These Rates, Deposit A of $25.00 Per Person is Required, Vacations Include: Round trip flights departing from Phila., transfers, hotel accom, based on four to a room, (Triple/double rates are available on request.) 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This was a question and answer competition where three members in each state attempt to answer as many correct questions on facts of PBL and on parliamentary procedure.Pennsylvania 's team , which consisted of Frank Johns and Greg Fulmer from BU and Jeff Pcdowitz from Penn Slate, won this competition. Canadian campaign centers on trade W^^^^rT^T ri'TT V Is Sponsoring a Greek Athena Pageant Tues. Nov,22 in Carver Hall at 9p.m. Come see B.U.' s * finest Greek Goddesses and their escorts. Tickets available from any ASA sister for $1 and $2 at the door. by Joni Sindlinger f o r The Voice Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) recently received two awards at a conference held in Pittsburg h. Thirty-onePhi Beia Lambda members from Bloomsburg University attended the National Fall Leadership Conference November 11 to November 13. PBL members fro m colleges and universities in the eastern region , including the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, attended the conference. At the conference, PBL members attended workshops. Workshops available were: Chapter Management, Size Up Your Career Options , Assertivc- 784-4337 Come experience the optimum in relaxation , sound and tanning in the privacy of your own cabana ?Individual AM-FM cassette stereo *Tan for any special event *Makes you feel more confident and look so much better with a healthy tan ! *Give something uni que to someone special... a Gift Certificate from Tahitian Tan Spa! CORNER OF EAST & I Featuring the [ MAIN-HUSKY HOUSING WOLFF SYSTEM BUILDING ^^^^j ^life^H imHHi pm^m f I ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ B^^^^M KK im^iraBN' shakes! p^Oalllii ^UXiS^^^i^H^S: ^HI^I^BBfl8Sii3MM^iiMBaSflMBi^EMwflBi^^8H! Signing Entertainment IMAGE breaks sound barrier by Bridget Sulliva n Features Editor I speni Sunday aftern oon scene songs. Seeing songs? Yes. That is what IMAGE specializes in. Using si gn language from the deaf culture and music from the hearing. IMAGE communicates v- iih people in both worlds. Keeping with tradition. I M A G E opened its periorntance m Mitrani Han.: ; , comp. ' -cd b y Jane Rhodes for and alvut her deaf >on. said -Dehhie Marco: ;;, pre s ident of I M A G E , •••.ho introduced use >h« w. . The audience really did hear the IMAGE member/ h. :nds as the song was p e r f o r m e d v - ith a >peciai blackli g ht. and fiaorescent hands were the onl y things \ isible on stage. The beauty of the song was enhanced by lite 12 pairs of g lov. ing purple hands ih.ii said. "Lend a hand and I can show you how :o sing v% orJs. in the air. Yoa can share my v. cr!d of " silence: God ¦:.-:.e us a dream to share. " IL ;- :.:: perfectl y describes [MAGE , and I M A G E describe d the song perfect '.;- : ' the audience , but > ou h.o e t. ¦ see it to fee! it< beamy. Th- 'uch iheir h.utds and songs. I M A G E mem '-vrs told and sh.owed the audience many st.;ries. Each song told a story and e.idi skit that went along combined for an entertaining , exciting and touching performance , sponsored b> the departments of communication disorder- and special education. Dre-sed in costumes representing each month o!' the y car. the members of I M A G E promised to be "girls for all seasons. " as the;.' acted out and si gned the song from the Grease movie soundtrack. The costumes were very creative and colorful lor all the songs, and the sun for .August , the leaves for September and Baby New Year for January give an idea of how hard llie members must have worked on them for this number. Next , IMAGE members Debbie Marconi , Katie McKeown , Amy Spraguc and Michelle Garrity Saw Ilim Standing There. "Him " was a nerdy bookworm with hom-rimmed spectacles and appropriatel y clashing, misfitting attire , w h o m the girls fought over. Delbert A. Roll stole the girls ' hearts , onl y to run scared — no , terrified—away , leaving the Cupid victims with no one to dance with. Elegance is also a quality IMAGE po ssessed yesterday afternoon. As b u m s on the street of New York City, Amy Recce. A m y Sprague , Cathy Banks. Debby Crespo , and Katie McKeown told and sinned ihesiorvof t '.eyar..- -.e. lrom llcv.o Doily, and how they ' ve got it. too. Walking on Sunshine had a guy promised to two women. Del Roll once again took the stage , as a womanizer. Wilh ihe word '' sunshine " on his back , when he ran into Bonnie Schneck and Michelle Garrity at ihe same lime , they really were "walkin g on sunshine. " Little children love to write letters to Santa Claus. So do A m y Sprague , Amy Cebrosk y. Debbie Marconi and Bonnie Schneck. As little kids , they were adorablv cute as thev exchanecd packages, reading and signing their letters to Santa with the song Top oj :•':.' i'.'o. ..:. Bonnie Chesney was Sania. who answered ihe kids ' letters. wanting to "wrap up a wish for you ail. " Bore d housewives v. ho don ' t know v.ha: to do with themselves should talk to Amy Kerbener. Amy Sprague. Bonnie Schneck . Michelle Garrity. Cath y Banks and Katie McKeown. 7'co .'• .':..- •': 7'>.v on My Hands, the song by the musical group Styx , gave tiiem time to learn how lo play the guitar w i i h brooms , and make cleaning fun. Denise Powers did an excellent job ci signing and acting out Ring Them BeLs. telling the story about Shirley Divor , the woman who "travelled the world to fall in love with the guy next door " lo some nosy fellow IMAGE members. "Dedicated to our friends , parents and everyone who helped wilh the show ." IMAGE signed the song, Friends by Michael W. Smiih lo conclude ihe first half of the show. No fancy costumes for this number. Honesty and naturalness worked best as the 12 women in IMAGE came out one by one , leaving in groups of four , si g n i n g a b o u t how f r i e n d s h i p overcomes all distances. As they all came out on stage for the final verse, one by one , there - was no doubt in anyone ' s mind that they indeed knew ihe meanim ' of ihe word "friend. " The energy of IMAGE never faltered , not even after intermission. Driving three "cars ," that were very impressive looking, IMAGE did a "car medley. " Sailors were in a Little Deuce Coupe , ihe "Pink Ladies " cruised in a Pink Cadillac , and ritzy ladies were driving a Mercedes, Boy. Roll , this lime a yupp ie slud , got a ride in ihe Mercedes , w h i l e ihe Bloomsburg University mascot , the Husky "got out of iheir dreams , and into their cars. " Thank God I ' m a Country Boy, by John Denver , featured Debby Crespo, Debbie Marconi , Amy Herbencr , Amy Recce and Denise Powers as farmers in overalls and straw hats, comp lete with bales of hay in the background and fiddles , too. Then , Amy Cebrosky and Bonnie Chesney were two live toys in a toy store . Bonnie was a wind- up toy and Amy was a cowgirl doll , and they argued over which one of them was iheir inventor ' s (Deb Marconi) favorite in Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun. Neither of the two actually "won , " but they certainly did compete well. Clowns joined in on the fun when Debbie Marconi , Cathy Banks , Amy Recce, Denise Powers and Bonnie Schneck acted out and signed Send in the Clowns. Their outrageous costumes were fun to look at and so were they. The audience learned how to fight ghosts and sign "ghostbusters"at the IMAGE concert when Bonnie Chesney, Amy Reece, Amy Cebrosky and Bonnie Schneck had trouble gelling rid of the one on Haas stage. Ghosts roaming the audience helped with the sienine, too. Good Things Happen in the Dark , by The Muppets, helped Denise Powers , Debbie Marconi , A my Herbencr and Debby Crespo as little kids afraid of the dark get to sleep. Once they wereasleep, the fluorescent hands came out once again. This time , hats and canes accompanied the different-colore d hands , as Amy Cebrosky, Bonnie Chesney, Bonnie Schneck and Amy Herbencr told the audience , Don ' t Worry, Be Happy, from the movie Cocktail. Michelle Garrity shined when , even though she didn ' t want anyone to tell her moiher what she was doing for a living, she signed Don ' t Tell Mam a from Cabaret in a slink y black evening dress , working at a ni ghtclub . Singin in the Rain had Cath y Banks , Katie McKeown , Debby Crespo , Amy Cebrosky, Bonnie Chesney and Denise Powers toting bri ghtly colored umbrellas. They did some pretty exciting things wilh the umbrellas , except keep themselves dry as they danced in ihe street. Then came the finale. After two hours of fun and laughs , IMAGE wasn ' t tired , and neither was the audience. Locomotion , bv Kvlic Minoguc , had all IMAGE members on stage or gallavanlin g in ihe aisles wiili ihe audience , gelling everyone lo do this "brand new dance. " Just like the music , IMAGE never slowed down. The energy, enthusiasm and dedication of these individuals , along with iheir advisor Joanne Jackowski , was very obvious in ill is performance. The messages they conveyed were not lost on the mixed audience of hearing and hearing impaired. And iheir energy was definitel y not wasted. For those who didn ' t get a chance yesterday, you too can see songs toni ;:hi at S p.m. in Mitran i Hall. mmtmw&msff m rmmMmmemmmm I jj^^^ Turkey ^ Day! I mMMMmmmMMMm I Have a safe, relaxing I I weekend!! J I M A G E m e m b e r Denise Powers siyns the song 'Ring Them Hells ' for fellow IMAGE m e m b e r s in M i t r a n i Hull yesterday afternoon. IMAGE , IiU' s sign-song group, will at perform a'^ ain tonight 8 p.m. in Mitrani Hall , Haas auditorium. p hoto by Jenna Moo Q UES T Director Smith tells of adv entures in Ethiop ia by Lynne Ernst Contributing Edito r It is six in the morning and as th sounds of howling monkeys am growling lions echo throug hout tlu mountains, tranquility envelopes the explorers traveling ihe Omo River below . "It is after having that experience ", said Roy Smith , explore r , write r, natural scieniisi and current director of Quest at BU , "that you know that this is the place you want to be. " Last Thursday at 8 p.m., Smith presented a slide lecture titled "Valley Where Man Was Born " before a full house in Kuster auditorium. Smith' s lecture, sponsored by the anthropology and biology clubs , dealt with his journey along the Omo River in Southwest Ethiopia , one of the most inaccessible and least visited reg ions of Africa. Smith , originall y from England , left his native country in 1959attheaiie of 19 and "escaped to colonial Africa. " It was on Christmas Day of that year that Smith drove his land rover to the area of Lake Turkana and looked toward a muddy river and hazed mountains. He dreamed of one dayreaching those mountains. The dream became a reality in 1986 when Smith , a graduate student at Yale, organized an expedition to travel to the Omo River with other. graduate students. The journey was sponsored by National Geographic and Yale University. During the lecture , Smith noted that three weeks before the journey was to begin , 525,000 was still needed to finance the tri p. Smith then decided to call the travel editor at The New York Times. As a result , a story about Smith 's plans to travel the Omo River was printed , and three adventuresome individuals soon paid S8,000 each to join the expedition. The group spent two and one-half months on ihe Omo River and covered 600 miles. "Once you ' re on ihe river. " said Smith , "you can 't turn back. There are no roads and no radio contact. " The group had many obstacles to overcome w h i l e traveling the river , which included avoiding large rapids ind thwarting off crocodile and hi ppo attacks. .hat the explorers w ere held in a hut ind pui on disp lay for all of the chiefs .o come and look at. The iribes were especiall y inter:sted in the amount of material goods lossessed by ihe explorers , such as :ameras. containers and sung lasses. During the descent of ihe Omo , explorers came in contact with the 3odi. a tribe of approximatel y 5,000 icop le occupy ing an area of 25 miles. desire to hel p the Dimi , they had an even stronger desire to conclude there journey after ihree months spentalong the river. So while the Dimi tribe was having a meeting concerning whether or not the explorers should be made to stay Dimi soil , Smith and the others snuck out ihe back of the hut and ran swiftly towards the river. Fortunately, one crew member who had run in the After showing slides of crocodiles encountered along the river , Smith qui pped , "Crocodiles did very well during the Peace Corps days when unsuspecting fellows went into the area. " Aside fro m fending off crocodiles , the explorers also encountered daily hi ppo attacks. Hippos , although herbivores , wei gh close to 5,000 pounds , possess 18-inch incisors , and , said Smith , "They are very territorial , especiall y the large males. " So how does one deal with hippo attacks? "First ," answered Smith , "you gel real scared , but then you get an adrenalin rush ... and then , you knock the living day li ghts out of it wilh rocks. " Two weeks ago , while giving a lecture before the National Geographic Society, Smith remarked that he had never heard of anyone having survived a hippo attack. After his lecture , however , a d i s f i g u r e d w o m a n hobbled toward s Smith with the use of a cane. Just months earlier , she had , in fact, been attacked by a hippo. Smith remarked that 17 diffe rent iribes were contacted during the journey . The iribe s ' rcaciions to white explorers entering their lands , Smith noicd , "The women scream and run , the young boys run , and the men sweat and tremble. B ut after the iniiial shock passed , the. people were very intrigued. In some instances , the iribes were so interested wilh their cuests The Bodi are essentially a nomadic pastoralist group who rely heavil y on the milk of ihe cow in their diet. The milk , explained Smith , is mixed with blood and urine. The blood gives additional nourishment and the urine is thought to keep the milk from spoiling. "I iried it , " said Smith , reassuring the disquiete d audience , " and it 's actuall y not that bad. " Smith noted that although the Bodi have a good gene pool , 25% have sickle cell anemia. However , Smith noted , "While our diseases are selfinflicted , iheir diseases are circumstantial. " Four hundred miles down ihe river , the explorers came in contact with the Dimi. Currently, ihe Dimi are being murdered by ihe Bodi tribe, not because the Bodi want to kill the Dimi , but instead , because they need the resources the Dimi possess. The Dimi are currently losing because , while they are fighting with spears made of iron ore obtained from the mountains, the Bodi are fighting wiih rifles obtained through trade. As a result of the conflict between the Bodi and the Dimi , Smith and his crew were held captive in a hut by ihe Dimi. It was thoug ht by the Dimi that if ihe exp lorers remained on iheir soil , ihe Bodi would no longer fi ght with them. Althoueh the explorers had a strong opposite direction was able to find the group three days later,just before they were about to depart. At ihe end of the journey, where the river drifts into Lake Turkana , Smith was once again able to stand where he had stood in 1959 and realize that he had accomplished his dream . He had travelled to the Omo River Valley. Upon returning to the mainland of Ethiopia, the explorers informed the Marxist government about the plight of the Dimi. However, the government said that they were unable to do anything because of the remote location of the Dimi. During his lecture, Smith spoke about the problems confronting the people of Ethiopia. In Addis Ababa , the capital of Ethiop ia, the population is doubling every 20 years. Because of the overpopulation , lots of erosion is occuring in Ethiop ia and , "This," said Smith , "is very hard on an agrarian society." On future journ eys, Smith will be taking Bloomsburg University students with him. This summer, a group will be going to Alaska. In 1990, Smith will head a student bicycle tour across China. A man who was being punished by ihe Ethiopian government and was forced to act as a guide along the journey once asked Smith , "Roy, why is it you do this?" 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This is an embarrassing irony for a team in a habit of leaving cities , to have the tables turned like this. But check it out. The Raiders can 't draw fan s, in the scats or in front of ihe televisions. Sunday, there were 40,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum enjoy ing as peaceful and tranquil an afternoon as you 'll sec at a National Football League game. Your in-laws will make more noise in your living room on Thanksgiving Day. On several occasions, ihcroarof the Coliseum crowd was drowned out by the din of aphids munching petals in the Exposition Park rose garden. If the Raiders could have harnessed the electricity generated by ihe fans, Coach MikeShanahanmi ghthave been able to blow-dry his hair after the game. Instead he merely pulled it out. The intensity of the crowd picked up near the end of the game, a 12-6 loss lo the Atlanta Falcons. There was some very sincere booing, and the cretins who traditionally hang over the Coliseum tunnel and drool down on the players as they run off the field of valor were quite vocal and unsympathetic to the local lads. But make no mistake: Somewhere along the line, the Raiders have lost the hearts and minds and wallets of the City of Angels. Even the Clippers are generating more excitement these days, with their palace revolt against the tyrannical Gene Shue. It 's a shame. The Raiders are tied for first place in their division , yet the fans seem to demand more. Like maybe a touchdown every month or so. The Raiders have tried to copy the Dodgers ' formula , winning public sympathy wilh a light-hitting offense, but it hasn 't worked. The team has lost its grasp on the city. "We just couldn 't get the fire," said Raider defensive end Greg Townsend. "It 's like the fire was out today. We're supposed to beat a team like Atlanta. Wc knew in the second quarter both teams (division co-leaders Denverand Seattle) lost. If thai didn 't fire us up, I don 't know what could." Townsend painted a poetic word picture of an ugly ballgame. Those (Atlanta) guys are just big slugs .wcjustwallowed with 'cm. We shoulda played our game. We let 'em push us around , we shoulda been shuckin ' 'em , getting lo the ballcarrier." Normall y, an NFL defensive squad that gives up 12 points is in line for a bonus and a party. But when your offense has gone on vacation , only a shutout will do. If any group earned the right Sunday to refer to itself as wallowing slugs, it was the Raiders' offense. Early in the second quarter the Raiders had a sccond-and- 1 at the Falcon 30. The next two plays were runs by Marcus Allen and Bo Jackson. Each play gained zero yards. That is astounding. Bo explained that the sluggish Raider offense about as eloquently as anybody. "I ain 't got nothing to say," Jackson said as he cut around this reporter and out the locker-room door, breaking to daylight. Despite gaining just 25 yards in § carries, Bo did get out of his uniform after the game without pulling a groin muscle, as he did the previous week. So, all the Raider news this dreary Sunday wasn 't bad. But despite the sunshine, it was a strange and depressing day for the silver and black. The few fans who did show up at the Coliseum waited and waited , almost reverently, as if anticipating some kind of harmonic convergence. The Raiders continue to battle for a playoff berth , but nobody is sure why they bother. The team that once threatened to take the city away from the Rams, to win the affection and loyalty of the struggling masses, has lost its city . Maybe it 's the planned departure of the Raiders to Irwindale or Algiers that has cooled the local fans. Maybe the recent glorious successes of the Lakers, Dodgers and Trojan s have made il harder lo impress Mr. and Ms. Los Angeles Fan. It 's a tough city . Mediocre and dull don 't cut it , even if mediocrity and dullness put you at the top of your division. All hope is not lost. Maybe the Raiders will all learn their playbook and suddenl y start lining up in the correct formation most of the lime, which they didn 't do Sunday. Maybe they 'll catch fi re, or at least register a pulse. But if they do, will they ever find the city they 've lost? What can Al Davis do? Have an LAPD sketch artist draw a composite of 1 million missing fans? Long after Sunday 's game, Davis slipped into theback seat of his silverand-black stretch limo. It cruised slowly away from the Coliseum , out into the night, in search of a lost city. It's out there somewhere, Al. they were offered and the fact that many seem to be close to the end of their careers and do not fear suspensions. Stewart says he joined the tour because he "always wanted to go to South Africa."He spent 17 days there, running in meets in Pretoria, nearCape Town and in Johannesburg and participating in three clinics. He said blacks and whites participated in the meets and clinics, and, after one meet, he was mobbed by black children who kept him for hours before he could board the bus for the hotel. But critics of the tour say athletes chose to participate for another reason. Generous sums of money were made available to them. The going rate for the two-week trip was $30,000, according to estimates. But Jim Spivey, the bronze medalist in the 1,500 meters at the 1987 world championships, told Sports Illustrated he was offered $200,000 to compete. He declined. Stewart refused to say how much money he made. "It's not important,"hesaid. "I think some people went for the m oney, but I wanted to see what South Africa was about." Critics of the tour say the athletes were naive and claim that by participating in meets with wide publicity, they helped give legitimacy to the white government. Clinics alone would have been fine, said someathletes who didn 't go. But competition, they say, is something else again. "They 're wrong," Stewart said. "That's unfair and two-faced. Every one remembers when Jimmy Carter said we were boycotting the Moscow Olympics and the athletes involved said that was wrong because politics and sports don 't mix. So I go to South Africa and say that politics and sports don't mix , that I'm there to help the people, and those same athletes now get angry with me. I went there to show them that blacks can be role models, that they should try to get out of South Africaand come to the United States and get better at what they do." Stewart, who comes from what he called a middle-class, suburban backg round, said he was "scared" when he arrived in South Africa. That might have been the scariest thing I've ever done," he said. "It's also probably the boldest thing I've ever done." An opponent of apartheid , Stewart said he spoke out against the polic y in an interview with a white newspaper reporter from Cape Town, and was pleasantly surprised to see himsel f quoted accurately in the paper the next day . Hurdler to be banned for life by Christine Brennan L.A. Times-Washington Post Service Hurdler Milan Stcwart of the United States on Friday will be banned for life from officially sanctioned national and international track and field competition. Stewart knows most people think what he did was wrong. But he says he doesn 't care. "I know why I did it, and I feel good about it," he said. A black man , Stewart defied the anti-apartheid policy of U.S. and international track and field governing bodies to compete in three meets in South Africa last month. He says he simply was try ing to help black athletes in a nation that oppresses blacks. Track official s and others say, by his actions, he was doing just the oppoA three-member panel from site. The Athletics Congress, meeting in a Chicago hotel Friday, is expected to suspend Stewart and a dozen other U.S. athletes six black, six white for taking part in the South African competition. Stewart said he expects to get kicked out of track forever and will be surprised if he isn 't. But he also says he would do it again, and in fac t wants to go back to South Africa to give sports clinics and establish a trust fund for black athletes next year, something that would not be restricted by his likely suspension. "I felt like I was running for those people,"Stewart, 28, saidby telephone from his parents ' home in West Covina, Calif. "I'd like to believe I gave black peop le insp iration. I hope they were thinking, 'This is a brother running." Stewart, who narrowly missed making the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic team in the 110-mcterhurdles , was part of a group that included former javelin world-record holder Tom Petranoff , a 1988 Olymp ian ; javelin throwerCarol Cady, another '88 Olymp ian; John Powell, the '76 and '84 Olympic bronze medalist in the discus; '84 Olymp ian Ruth Wysocki; and '76 Olymp ian James Robinson. Many athletes were contacted this summer by tour organizer Dick Tomlinson, a U.S. track coach. Those who went chose to go for a variety of reasons, chief among them the money Bl^THE BbpK Klooinsbiirg wrestling was victorious at the annual Kloomsburg Invitational this past weekend. Cable TV to bid for Olympics by Jay Sharbutt L.A. Times-Washington Post Service There is debate about whether the price will rise. The Fox television network may join ABC, CBS and NBC in the competition. But the biggest question as bidding ncars on U.S. television ri ghts to the 1992 Summer Ol ympics is what role cable will play. With memories of NBC' s financiall y disappointing 1988 Summer Ol ympics show still fresh , Olympic officials for the first time arc actively pushing for cable lo get a piece of the action for the Barcelona Games. Their hope is to keep the overall rights fee up by encouraging the winning network to defray its costs via cable sales. NBC paid $300 million to televise the Games in Seoul , South Korea , but dre w lower ratings than it had antici pated and wound up making a small profit onl y because of the extra revenues generated by the TV stations it owns. The International Olymp ic Committee is still auctioning off only one package, however. As with pastOlympics , all U.S. television ri ghts broadcast, cable, pay cable will go lo one network , with that network then allowed to sell part of the package to other outlets though none has chosen to do so before. In preparing draft contracts that were sent to the networks for inspection and comment , a variety of options for parceling the rights were considered, and network concerns on such matters as the quality of cable-produced events were addressed , said Richard Pound , vice president of the International Olympics Committee and chairman ofits television negotiations committee. "Wc listened for a while, and final ly said , 'OK , we'll throw in ever ything (in the rights package) but it 's got to be understood that we're expecting to sec some cable,' "he said in a telephone interview from Montreal. Despite NBC' s recent experience, top Olympic officials think that the winning 1992 bidder will offer, as one put it , a "significantly higher figure" than $300 million. Bids probably will be accepted on or about Dec. 1, Pound said, with the winner to be announced soon thereafter. Reasons cited for this optimism include the fact that the Games from Spain , unlike NBC' s late SeptemberOctober sportsfest , will be back in the summer running fro m July 25 to Aug. 6, 1992. As official Olympics theory goes, this will be good for ratings. Families will be together , not returning from vacation to schools and jobs, and viewers will not be distracted by late-season baseball races and new fall TV programming. B ul there arc those who scoff at such Olymp ian optimism , among them retired NBC board chairman Julian Goodman. "Wouldn 't you say that if you were in their place?" he asked. "They can 't say, 'It was terrible and we' 11probably get less this time. ' They 've got to talk it up. ..." (Goodman lakes a dour view of the whole process of Olympic bidding. He has proposed that America's broadcasting and cable industries form wilh federal approval a non-profit corporation to make a single bid for Olympics rights , then divide them. His suggestion hasn 't been adopted.) With the bidding about to begin, the presidents of the sports divisions at CBS,NBC and ABC are playing things close to the vest, lest a slip of the lip sink their respective strategies. ABC's Dennis Swanson, whose network paid the all-time record of S309 million for this year's Winter Olympics, declined to be interviewed. So did NBC' s Arthur Watson. A - Bench Press competition will be held November 30th. Sign up in the Intramural office on the 30th by 3 pm. T-shirts awarded. - Congratulations to Racquetball Champions, Wendy Rauscher and Alan Currie. - Congratulations to Men 's Flag Football Champ ions - FCA. - Women's Volleyball playoffs will begin Nov. 28. • • » a • ^— ""-""^^ --^ * • **> . ^ j S*^f~^ • * Blue Mountain Arts Christmas cards X-rays Welcome to the beginning of the end of your pain! 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CBS has no cable operations, nor does it plan any, it says. But its rivals are active: ABC owns 80 percent of all-sports ESPN , while NBC in February will launch a business-and-sports cable service, CNBC. - Toning Exerci ses- Women 's wei ght training class is now being offered in Centennial Nautilus room. Classes are offered Mondays and Wednesday s from 7:30- 9:00 pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-9 pm. All classes are insttucted by Kathy Mejaskh. •a • TV. Intramural Ne ws :• Russell 's Restaurant :• ThanksgivingCards Checkout our turkeys ! We have : * Pennsylvania Women '89 Calendar spokesman for Watson said that NBC would be "a serious bidder," althoug h "we wouldn 't take it at a ridiculous amount of money just for the sake of having it." CBS' Neal Pilson , whose company last May paid $243 million for rights to its second-ever Olympics show, the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, was readily accessible for a brief phone interview. But he declined to say if he thought the winning price for the Summer Games in 1992 would be higher than for those of 1988. Nor would he comment on what impact the ratings that NBC got for the Seoul Games may have on the bidding for Barcelona. The idea of sharing the Olympic costs has become increasingly appealing to the major networks as their audience shares continue declining because of sharp inroads of independent stations and the growth of cable > a a a • • a M o n d a y t hru S a t u r d a y M o r n i n g, A f t e r n o o n , & E v e n i n g s A p p o i n t m e n t s Phone 7 8 4 - 0 9 6 0 All major insurances accepted-we fill out the forms! zi_ff """*"**"*" chiropractic center = bloomsburg H i u u n i . i l x i r i i - D . m v L 10 H i g n w . i y , Iji uu i i i s u u r g , l> „ From the Wrestlers open Cheap season with win at Seats BU Invitational Miracle in the Meadowlands Part II Sean Rya n Sports Editor Well it was no doubt that the Philadelphia Eagles went to church before today 's game. The Eagles rallied from behind lo beat the New York Giants and advance their record lo 7-5 which also puts them as co-Icadcrs in firs t place in the NFC East. Let 's fi rst turn back the clocks and look at the strange correlation of today 's game and almost the identical one played at the Meadowlands nearl y ten years ago. They called il the "Miracle at the Meadowlands. " The (6-5) Eagles came into the Meadowlands on Novembe r 19, 1978 loplay the New York Giants , hop ing they would walk away with a victory and keep them in the hunt for a Wid Card spot. Late in the fourth quarte r with the Eagles down 17-13 , Giants quarterbac k Joe Pisarcik downed the ball twice to run out the clock. On third down instead of "eating " I he ball .Pisarcik decides to hand the ball off to running back Larry Csonka. On a bad handot 'i", the ball fumbled and #48 Merman Edwards recovered the ball and ran it in for a touchdown to beat ihe Giants 19-17 in one of the most bizarre games ol (he season. Now almost ten years later on a rainy 20th of November 1988, the Eagles march into the New Jersey Meadowlands with a 6-5 record hoping to win the game and keep their playoff hopes alive. The game had a host of strange plays, which included all three of the Eagles touchdowns. The first ol" the Eagles touchdowns was scored on a questionable quarterback sneak by Randall Cunningham. Randall Cunning ham tried a QB sneak the play before and it looked like he crossed the goal line , but it was ruled no good , Now on the third down he tries the QB sneak again and it looked like hcdidn 'icross the plane , but out of a guilty conscious perhaps the referees ruled il a TD. The second touchdown came on a reception from Keith Jackson that was fumbled in the end zone and picked up by wide receiver Ron Johnson to tic the game at 17-17 late in the fourth quarter. The most bizarre of the thre e touchdowns came in overtime when Luis Zcndcjas attempted a 26yard field goal that was blocked and picked up by 4196 Cl yde Simmons , which he ran in for the gamewinning touchdown. Immediatel y after the touchdown , Head Coach ol" the Giants Bill Parcel! pleaded with the referees saying that you can not run in a blocked field goal for a touchdown. But the touchdown was ruled legal because the field goal was attempted on third down and Clyde Simmons recovered the ball in the backfield. The Eag les went on to win the game 23-17 in Overtime in no doubt the most bizarre wins of the 1988 Eagles. This tips ihe Eagles record to 7-5, putting them in first place wilh the Giants and the Phconix Cardinals. The Eagles host the Phconix Cardinals at Veterans Stadium next Sunday. The Phconix Cardinals arc without starling quarterbasck Neil Loniiix , which should be a bi g plus for the Philadelphi a Eagles. The Eagles look to beat the Cardinals and keep iheir first place ranking. Let 's go Eagles ! by Mary Ellen Spisak Staff Writer Bloomsburg grapplcrs opened their season in the best way possible. Saturday saw Bloomsburg win the top title in our own tournament. The 12tli annual BU Invitational included teams such as Bucknell , Drcxcl , Duke , Franklin and Marshall , Hofslra , Millersville and the University of Pennsy lvania. A total of 20 Bloomsburg grapplcrs competed Saturday. They arc: at 118 Tim Casey and Steve Kasza , al 126 John Supsic and Tom Rocdcr , at 134 Dave Kennedy and Chri s Jones, at 142 Fred Kline , Dave White and Tony Reed , at 150 Darrin Simons and Marly King, at 158 Dave Morgan , at 167 Rich Cory and Roger Dunn , at 177 Chris McKcon and Len Cory, at 190 Malt Moore and Matt Krcidcr and at heavywei ght Frank Towcy and Tom Sacoman. Action at 126 lbs. scaled Supsic number one and proved his sealing by beating Fag lioni of Bucknell University by a score of 5-3. This season , Supsic moves up a wei ght class after compiling a 24-12 record at 118. Ready for a new season wilh top competitors , he will try to better a thir d place finish in the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) and Pennsylvania Conference (PC) Championshi ps. At 134 lbs. Dave Kennedy was seated number one. Using pins lo beat Jay Miller of Millersville University and Folwcll Dunbar of Duke University, it was apparent he would "pin to win!" In the final bout between Kennedy and Rich Dabbs of the University of Pennsylvania , Kenned y pulled a cradle lo squeeze out yet another "quick six " to win 134 in 2:20. Meanwhile at 134, Chris Jones had lo forfeit due to a hand injury. Kennedy, an NCAA qualifier . The lHoiimsbiir H Wrestling team still maintain their Divison 1, 14th ranking in the nation. along with Supic al 118, placed first in the PC and third in die EWL last season with a record of 28-8-2. Wilh an overall record of 49-15-3 , he is a lelterw inner . Dave Morgan , at 158, took his number one scaling all the way to the finals , as he beat Ward of Drcxcl University with a fall in the second period in 3:25. Morgan has compiled a 92-24-2 record and finished ihird in the NCAA Division I Championships , was EWL champion and placed second in the PC last season al 150. This returning All-America will lead Bloom this season al 158 lbs. At 118 lbs., transfe r Sieve Kasza , scaling numbe r two, met up wilh teammate Tim Casey, scaled number five. Both wrestled very well in the finals but Casey won by default in ihe second period , as Kasza placed second. These two newcomers will be vy ing for the season spot at 118. Casey, of Wilkcs-Barrc is a two time Pennsylvania hi gh school stale champion who has accumulated more than 100 wins. Kasza of Belvidcrc , New Jersey is a transfe r fro m Delhi Junior College in New York , where during his last season was 38-0 and won the 118 lbs. junior college national champ ionshi p. Scaled second at 150 lbs. senior Marly King is ready for a successfu l season after using his "red shirt " option. A three time letter winner , he proves his aggressiveness and agility as he racked up points by beating his opponent by a marg in of nine or more. In the finals , King and his opponent Schopp of Millersville University, came lo a 1-1 lie al the end of the third period. As they went into overtime, this boutsaw another 1-1 tie, therefore making it a referee's decision. Based on criteria of die malch , the referee's decision was for King. At Heavywei ght , junior Tom Sacoman beat Todd Crostic fo Drexel University in the finals 5-3. At 142, Tony Reed , seated number three , beat his opponent Jeff Scolton of Bucknell University 8-5. Reed was an NCAA qualifier and finished third in ihe EWL and PC last season. He has accumulated a46-l 8-1 two year mark . At 167 lbs. Roger Dunn , seated number six , wrestled well and continued to do so in the consolation as he place fourih after loosing to Jay Weiss of Franklin and Marshall 1-0. Dave Morgan and Tony Reed shared outstanding wresders of the day award . Reed used a scries of lake downs to beat his opponent Scotton , who was seated number one. Morgan used a pin in the second period to win at 158. All of our Husky grapplcrs arc to be commended on a great start to a lough season ahead. Wc place eight wrestlers in the finals, won the team title and shared outstanding wrestler, Reed and Morgan. Bloomsburg is ranked 14th pre-season and will meet up wilh some top competitors, such as Iowa State, Edinboro , West Virginia, Penn State, Pittsburgh and Army. Coach Sanders commented, "We wrestled very well, I was pleased with the intensity, especially the conditioning of the kids. Tony Reed wrestled very well, beating two nationally ranked kids in the semifinals and finals." Marty King put in a lot of time this summer practicing and proves to be a top competitor in his weight class. On a negative note, Kazsa at 118 has torn intercostals of muscles in the ribs and will be out approximately three to four weeks. And Chris Homes tore a ligament in his thumb and may need an operation. "This hurts our flexibility in the lower weights," said Sanders. "Overall, I was very pleased with the performance of all our teams. This will be a very competitive team." Scott Brown entered the Asics Open Tournament at East Stroudsburg University and won first place at 177 lbs. by beating opponent Shaun Merely of Liberty University 6-1. Brown was unattached , but made an excellent showing for Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg's next home match is on Friday, November 25th against Iowa State. This match starts at 7:30 p.m. and there is NO advance sale of tickets. Men 's basketball Scoreboard captures St. Vincent BU HaskcMball captured ihe St. Vincent Tournament this weekend with with two victories. Women's basketball wins tournament The Bloomsburg University Women 's basketball team opened up their season with a pair of victories this past weekend at the Immaculata tournament. The Huskies defeated host Immaculata 79-52 on Friday and beat Pennsylvania Stale Athletic conference rival Millersville in the champ ionshi p game 61-49 on Saturday. Bloomsburg played without the services of slar Theresa Lorenzi in the championship game but that did not seem to bother the Huskies. Nine players contributed scoring in the victory against Millersville and three scored in double figures. Scoring in double figures for the Huskies were freshman Michelle Simons as she scored ten points. Elaine Wolf led Bloomsburg scorers with 17 points and Barb Hall also was in double figures with 11 points. Bloomsburg will play their next two gam es at home. The Huskies play their home opener toni ght against Lcmoync at 7 pm. Bloomsburg also plays at home on Nov . 30 against Va. Tech , thai game also begins at 7 pm. The Bloomsburg University Men s basketball team won their first two games of the season by winning the St. Vincent Tournament. The Huskies defeated PittJohnstown 68-65 to advance to the finals and defeated Walsh College 8076 to capture ihe crown. Against Pittsburgh-Johns town , Bloomsburg had scoring by nine players and three reached double figures. Dave Carpente r scored len points , Bill Connelly scored 12 points and Craig Phillips scored ten points in the winning effort. In the victory against Walsh , ten Huskies scored. Leading the scoring was Connelly as he exploded for 30 points. Mike Simpkins was the other Bloomsburg player in double figures wilh 14 points. The Huskies do not play until the last day of the month as they face a rematch at Pitt-J ohnstown on November 30. Bloomsburg does not have their home opener until December 5 against IUP. Wrestling BU Invitational Bloomsburg Drexel Millersville Bucknell Duke F and M Penn State Hofstra 108 71.5 62 47.5 43.5 40.75 26.5 9 Men's Basketball St. Vincent Tourney Championship Game Bloomsburg Walsh 80 76 First Round Bloomsburg Pitt-Johnstown 68 65 Women's Immaculata Tourney Championship Game Bloomsburg Millersville 61 49 First Round Bloomsburg Immaculata Karen Delullo returns for her third season with thcWomcn 's Basketball team. Photo by Jim Loh 79 52 |