1991-12-13

              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.
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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'