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ILUNOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DEC13 1991 I L L I N U I VV 1 L - Y A N U N I V E -R S I I Y Greenpeace risks everything to save "Be in the way." The organiza- with organic green dye, mak- By Darlene Ostrowski tion, which Childs described as ing their normally white fur Editor "a bunch of free spirits," takes worthless. "Sometimes you have to this statement quite literally, The Royal Canadian take risks," Greenpeace mem- often standing directly in a Mounted Police arrested those ber Christopher Childs said as whaling harpoon's line of fire who sprayed the dye, under a he flashed a slide onto the or handcuffing themselves to law ironically named the Cana-screen in the Main Lounge. The harpoon guns. dian Seal Protection Act. "If slide showed a parachutist To prevent hunters from you figure this one out, give us standing on top of an 11,000-foot clubbing baby harp seals on the a call," Childs said. smokestack, about to jump in head for their fur, Greenpeace protest against acid rain. members often lie down right "If the risks for you look like on top of the seals, sheltering this," he paused and pointed to the animals' bodies with their the slide, "God bless you." own. He then showed a slide of a Childs, who has been a single swimmer attempting in "Greenpeacer" for over four vain to hold back an enormous years, told of two men who Navy warship. placed themselves between a "We don't mind looking single seal and a ship carrying ridiculous as long as we make seal hunters. our point," said Childs, who ad- The huge ship came closer dressed environmental issues and closer, but "these two peo-ranging from air pollution to ple didn't even turn around to endangered species in a speech see how close the ship was," and slide presentation last Childs said. "That really shook Tuesday. up the hunters," he said. G R E E N Greenpeace's working phil- Often, Greenpeace mem-osophy, according to Childs, is bers will spray the harp seals By Julie Belinski Staff Writer Illinois Wesleyan has been getting a lot of nationwide press lately, and not just from U.S. News and World Report. The "Illinois Wesleyan Uni-versity Select 100," a list com-piled by the bookstore advisory committee, was issued in a press release by The Associa-ted Press earlier this fall. Several the cour in Octol Ken l dent of and cha advisor receive( questing letter ca librariai wanted t The 1( the planet Because of the level of emo-tional commitment and risk in-volved, Greenpeace members burn out easily, and the turn-over rate is high. "One thing that's hard to do is to remember you've accom-plished something," Childs said. See GREENPEACE page 3 [PEACE gains nationwide press newspapers around from hundreds of suggestions scheduled to be sent to all stu-ntry printed the release submitted by Wesleyan facul- dents and faculty during short ber and November. ty, staff and students last term. "People across the coun- Browning, vice presi- spring, try are looking at it, so we'd business and finance The bookstore advisory com- seriously like to write it." irman of the bookstore mittee will update the list this All 100 books can be bought in ry committee, has spring and will be requesting the Wesleyan bookstore. d several letters re- feedback and further recom- Serving on the committee a copy of the list. One mendations from the Wesleyan with Browning are Registrar Jim Barbour, bookstore mana-ine from a high school community. ger Ron Campbell, professors n in Pennsylvania who "I hope people will help us," Forrest Frank and Jim Plath, the list for her students. Browning said of the update and students Stefanie Litz, 00 books were chosen survey, which is tentatively Julie Belinski and Todd Stocke. Erich W. Zander/The Argus Deborah Finfgeld (far right), president of the Theta Pi chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau Professional Nurses Honor Society, proudly displays the Media Award her chapter received for excellence in "Layout and Design." The twice-yearly publication is designed by Susan Sombeck (far left) and co-edited by Nancy Zander (middle left) and Alice Swift (middle right). Alliance combats homophobia By Beth Sammon Staff Writer The national ratio of homo-sexuals to heterosexuals in the United States is one to ten. Ap-ply that to the Illinois Wesleyan campus: about 170 to 200 stu-dents, faculty and administra-tion members are gay. "We're in all levels of socie-ty," Wesleyan student and homosexual Chuck Lambert said in a recent interview. "Just because I'm vocal does not mean I'm the only one." Homophobia and gay-bash-ing are growing issues at Wes-leyan. Some students take a stand against it, though pre-judices continue to be wide-spread. Lack of understanding and intolerance are the biggest problems gays face. "It's not well understood in society," said John Cain, presi-dent of the Gay and Lesbian Al-liance of Illinois State Univer-sity. "It's different. People have the tendency to be hostile to things that are different." Lambert agrees and be-lieves that ignorance and mis-conceptions about attitudes of gays are common. When peo-ple are insecure about them-selves, they have a hard time with others. This is especially true of sexual issues. "Most of the time when peo-ple have a problem with you, it's their problem," he said. "It's them not dealing with you." According to Lambert, the Wesleyan administration has played a role in promoting homophobia. He believes it is not strong enough in fighting prejudices. By remaining in-different on this and other is-sues, intolerant attitudes are allowed to continue. "Usually the administration does not want to take a stand," he said. "They don't like to acknowledge that we have sex, let alone gay sex." But there are several things that the administration and in-dividual students themselves can do. On Dec. 2, about 20 stu-dents gathered in Gulick Hall's front lounge for a question and answer discussion. Lambert and Cain along with Chantel Robeson, a Wesleyan alumna, led the forum, which lasted two hours. The atmosphere was open and relaxed. Questions ranged from homosexuality, religion and "coming out of the closet" to violence and harassment. "The questions were very in-telligent," Lambert said. "It shows that there are people See PHOBIA page 7 'Select 100'
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Title | 1991-12-13 |
Publication title | The Argus |
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Year | 1991 |
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Full Text | ILUNOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DEC13 1991 I L L I N U I VV 1 L - Y A N U N I V E -R S I I Y Greenpeace risks everything to save "Be in the way." The organiza- with organic green dye, mak- By Darlene Ostrowski tion, which Childs described as ing their normally white fur Editor "a bunch of free spirits," takes worthless. "Sometimes you have to this statement quite literally, The Royal Canadian take risks," Greenpeace mem- often standing directly in a Mounted Police arrested those ber Christopher Childs said as whaling harpoon's line of fire who sprayed the dye, under a he flashed a slide onto the or handcuffing themselves to law ironically named the Cana-screen in the Main Lounge. The harpoon guns. dian Seal Protection Act. "If slide showed a parachutist To prevent hunters from you figure this one out, give us standing on top of an 11,000-foot clubbing baby harp seals on the a call," Childs said. smokestack, about to jump in head for their fur, Greenpeace protest against acid rain. members often lie down right "If the risks for you look like on top of the seals, sheltering this," he paused and pointed to the animals' bodies with their the slide, "God bless you." own. He then showed a slide of a Childs, who has been a single swimmer attempting in "Greenpeacer" for over four vain to hold back an enormous years, told of two men who Navy warship. placed themselves between a "We don't mind looking single seal and a ship carrying ridiculous as long as we make seal hunters. our point," said Childs, who ad- The huge ship came closer dressed environmental issues and closer, but "these two peo-ranging from air pollution to ple didn't even turn around to endangered species in a speech see how close the ship was," and slide presentation last Childs said. "That really shook Tuesday. up the hunters," he said. G R E E N Greenpeace's working phil- Often, Greenpeace mem-osophy, according to Childs, is bers will spray the harp seals By Julie Belinski Staff Writer Illinois Wesleyan has been getting a lot of nationwide press lately, and not just from U.S. News and World Report. The "Illinois Wesleyan Uni-versity Select 100," a list com-piled by the bookstore advisory committee, was issued in a press release by The Associa-ted Press earlier this fall. Several the cour in Octol Ken l dent of and cha advisor receive( questing letter ca librariai wanted t The 1( the planet Because of the level of emo-tional commitment and risk in-volved, Greenpeace members burn out easily, and the turn-over rate is high. "One thing that's hard to do is to remember you've accom-plished something," Childs said. See GREENPEACE page 3 [PEACE gains nationwide press newspapers around from hundreds of suggestions scheduled to be sent to all stu-ntry printed the release submitted by Wesleyan facul- dents and faculty during short ber and November. ty, staff and students last term. "People across the coun- Browning, vice presi- spring, try are looking at it, so we'd business and finance The bookstore advisory com- seriously like to write it." irman of the bookstore mittee will update the list this All 100 books can be bought in ry committee, has spring and will be requesting the Wesleyan bookstore. d several letters re- feedback and further recom- Serving on the committee a copy of the list. One mendations from the Wesleyan with Browning are Registrar Jim Barbour, bookstore mana-ine from a high school community. ger Ron Campbell, professors n in Pennsylvania who "I hope people will help us," Forrest Frank and Jim Plath, the list for her students. Browning said of the update and students Stefanie Litz, 00 books were chosen survey, which is tentatively Julie Belinski and Todd Stocke. Erich W. Zander/The Argus Deborah Finfgeld (far right), president of the Theta Pi chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau Professional Nurses Honor Society, proudly displays the Media Award her chapter received for excellence in "Layout and Design." The twice-yearly publication is designed by Susan Sombeck (far left) and co-edited by Nancy Zander (middle left) and Alice Swift (middle right). Alliance combats homophobia By Beth Sammon Staff Writer The national ratio of homo-sexuals to heterosexuals in the United States is one to ten. Ap-ply that to the Illinois Wesleyan campus: about 170 to 200 stu-dents, faculty and administra-tion members are gay. "We're in all levels of socie-ty," Wesleyan student and homosexual Chuck Lambert said in a recent interview. "Just because I'm vocal does not mean I'm the only one." Homophobia and gay-bash-ing are growing issues at Wes-leyan. Some students take a stand against it, though pre-judices continue to be wide-spread. Lack of understanding and intolerance are the biggest problems gays face. "It's not well understood in society," said John Cain, presi-dent of the Gay and Lesbian Al-liance of Illinois State Univer-sity. "It's different. People have the tendency to be hostile to things that are different." Lambert agrees and be-lieves that ignorance and mis-conceptions about attitudes of gays are common. When peo-ple are insecure about them-selves, they have a hard time with others. This is especially true of sexual issues. "Most of the time when peo-ple have a problem with you, it's their problem," he said. "It's them not dealing with you." According to Lambert, the Wesleyan administration has played a role in promoting homophobia. He believes it is not strong enough in fighting prejudices. By remaining in-different on this and other is-sues, intolerant attitudes are allowed to continue. "Usually the administration does not want to take a stand," he said. "They don't like to acknowledge that we have sex, let alone gay sex." But there are several things that the administration and in-dividual students themselves can do. On Dec. 2, about 20 stu-dents gathered in Gulick Hall's front lounge for a question and answer discussion. Lambert and Cain along with Chantel Robeson, a Wesleyan alumna, led the forum, which lasted two hours. The atmosphere was open and relaxed. Questions ranged from homosexuality, religion and "coming out of the closet" to violence and harassment. "The questions were very in-telligent," Lambert said. "It shows that there are people See PHOBIA page 7 'Select 100' |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |