Monday, October 22, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
Indiana U. fraternity
house blaze kills one
—
United Press International
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A
smoky fire swept through a frater
nity house at Indiana University
early Sunday, killing one student
and injuring at least 30 others. Some
suffered fractures leaping from win
dows to escape.
The cause of the fire at the Zeta
etaTau house, and the origin of its
extremely dense smoke were not im-
icdiately known. An investigation is
under way.
“It was all black, sooty smoke,”
said Steven Ross, 19, Okemoss,
Mich., who crawled low with a towel
on his face to get out of the building.
1 Firefighters were called at 4:25
|m. by freshmen from the nearby
Sigma Chi house who were driving
last heading for a pre-dawn snack,
he students also roused the ZBT
members and called police.
| David Hamilton, Bloomington
deputy fire chief, said flames were
leaping 15 feet to 20 feet from sec
ond-story windows as firefighters ar
rived, but they extinguished the
aze within 10 minutes with streams
from three pumper trucks.
Hamilton said the fire apparently
gan in the rear of the first floor of
ie two-and-a-half story brick house
and spread quickly up the stairs to
the second floor.
j Israel Edelman, 19, of Richmond,
died of smoke inhalation, authorities
said.
Edelman became a member of the
fraternity last year but had trans
ferred to lU-East at Richmond. He
was planning to return to the Bloo
mington campus in the spring, his
mother said.
Three students were admitted to
Bloomington Hospital in fair condi
tion with second-degree burns.
Bloomington Hospital Vice Presi
dent L. Gene Perry identified them
as Kevin Homier, 19, Schaumburg,
III.; Brian Rothman, 18, Highland
Park, Ill.; and John Schwartz, 21,
Cincinnati.
Three other students were re
leased after treatment for fractures
they suffered when they jumped
from second-floor windows to es
cape the flames. They were identi
fied as Marcus Soloman, 19, High
land Park, Ill.; Gary Morris, 20,
Northbrook, Ill. and Kathleen
Schindler, 17, whose hometown was
not immediately available.
Emergency room head nurse Sue
Kooistra said at least 30 people were
treated, mostly for smoke inhalation.
Ross said there had been a small
party the night before, but all but a
few students had gone to bed. He
said that, ironically, his last act be
fore bed was to play a record by
Talking Heads, entitled “Burning
Down the House.”
Job security main issue
in Mack Truck Inc. strike
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■ ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The
United Auto Workers union went on
pike Sunday against Mack Truck
Inc., idling 9,200 workers in Penn-
iylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.
■The strike began at 12:01 a.m.
Sunday, when the union’s three-year
;contract expired, a UAW spokeswo-
pan said. The UAW said job secu
rity is the main issue.
■Contract talks in King of Prussia,
Pa , 18 miles northwest of Philadel-
jphia, broke off before the strike
deadline and Mack negotiators re
turned to Allentown Sunday.
I No talks were scheduled in the
UAW walkout — the first against
Mack Truck in 20 years. It closed
plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland
and New Jersey.
Neither side was willing to say
how long the strike would last.
The union targeted job security as
its key goal in contract talks, UAW
Vice President Bill Casstevens said.
He also charged the company was
not serious about the union’s con
cerns.
Gasstevens said the union was “re
ady to return to the bargaining ta
ble” if Mack indicated “a willingness
to bargain seriously.”
The company said that, given the
company’s past performance, its of
fer of an “economic package that
would have provided an average of
over $9,000 per employee over the
three-year term of the proposed
agreement” was fair.
SG student input forum formed
By LAUREN FLOURNOY
Reporter
Student Government is start
ing an Issues and Grievances
Committee to provide the stu
dents with a chance to voice their
opinions.
Members of Student Govern
ment will be present for the first
meeting of the Issues and Griev
ance Committee tonight at 7 p.m.
in 230 of the Memorial Student
Center. In the future, the com
mittee will meet the third Mon
day of each month.
“An open forum is a good way
to get new ideas from the stu
dents,” Wayne Roberts, vice pres
ident for student services said. “A
middle man is no longer needed
because the students are given
the chance to speak for themsel
ves.”
A misconception exists among
the students that Student Gov
ernment is not taking care of cer
tain issues, Roberts said.
“We want the students to be
able to see that we are trying to
find solutions to the issues they
find important,” he said. “We
hope to make the students feel
better about Student Govern
ment.”
This open forum also will help
bridge the communication prob
lem between the student body
and Student Government, Rob
erts said. Students need to make
the Student Government aware
of issues they feel strongly about,
he said.
“The Issues and Grievances
Committee forum is open to any
subject,” Roberts said. “The
meetings are going to be very cas
ual. The students can voice their
opinions and ask questions. The
meetings will last as long as the
students have something that
they would like to talk about.”
Ugly contest worries prof
Students avoid issues
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INDIANA, Pa. — Fifteen years
ago, college students were demon
strating against war, imperialism
and discrimination. Today, the so-
called ugliest college man holds sway
on the Indiana University of Penn
sylvania campus.
Are student concerns really so dif
ferent in so few years?
Harvey Holtz, chairman of lUP’s
sociology and anthropology depart
ment, sees only isolated student
events aimed at social and political
change. A vacuous conservatism on
campuses makes him think students
are “really ripe for fascism.”
“There’s been a tremendous
change,” said Holtz, noting there is
little scientific data on the nature of
current and ‘60s students. “I find
students to be more conservative, yet
it’s not a thoughtful conservatism. It
is based on empty allegiance.
“I guess I see a new emptiness.
They do not support the current
(Reagan) administration. They’re
looking for excitement and don’t
know what to be excited about. They
have little interest in politics.”
He said that might explain the
“tremendous interest in ugliness,”
spurred by an author’s light-hearted
assertion that I UP has the ugliest
college males.
lUP’s Bruce Morgan and Katie
Neidhold of the University of
Alaska-Fairbanks, chosen ulgiest col
lege man and woman, had a date at
I UP Friday.
‘•‘Students come here to find their
identity,” said Holtz. “Now they have
“I guess I see a new empti
ness. They're looking for
excitement and don’t
know what to be excited
about.” — Harvey Holtz,
chairman of lUP’s socio
logy and anthropology de
partment.
a way to identify themselves nation
ally. They see this as a very positive
thing. It is exciting and puts them on
the map.”
Jeff Boyer, a junior from Donora,
is president of the 40-member I UP
lobby to Prevent Nuclear War, which
he called the campus’ only “activist”
group. The The French major called
the students “quite conservative” and
the ugly phenomenon ridiculous.
“There are more important things
to be doing,” said Boyer. “I’d like to
see us on the map for something like
the smartest students.”
Boyer said unlike in the ‘60s, stu
dents “aren’t confronted with some
thing.”
“Their brothers and fathers aren’t
off somewhere being killed or kill
ing,” he said. “People know what nu
clear war can do. But when con
fronted with the word extinction,
they might ponder it. But it scares
them.
“So they build a wall around
themselves and pretend nothing is
wrong. It’s not just plain apathy so
much as people just don’t want to be
bothered. They think, ‘We made it
this far, so why worry?”’
Boyer said street protests might
return if U.S. troops were sent to
Central America, but'contended the
fast-paced arms race could well lead
to nuclear war “if we don’t do some
thing to stop if.”
John Popchak of Johnstown, a ju
nior finahce major and I UP student
government vice president, said stu
dents are reluctant to speak up.
“A motivation is how much money
you can make and how successul you
can be in life,” he said. “I think the
social concern is still there, but not as
vocal as it was back in the ‘60s.
“You have to really push to get
people to stand for something where
they were ready to jump up before.
And this isn’t just students. T he
whole country is more agreeable to
government and less interested in
what is going on.”
Popchak, who called the ugly phe
nomenon fun, said students “like
their secure lives and are worried
about their grades.”
“They’re just out for themselves,”
he said. “It’s really too bad. But
we’re in the ‘me generation.’”
But Holtz said some IUP students
last year characterized current col
lege students as the “safe genera
tion,” who have “tremendous fear
and want to play everything safe.”
Research
park ground
is broken
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COLLEGE STATION — Texas
A&M officials Saturday broke
ground at a 318-acre high-technol
ogy research facility designed to
combine university research with in
dustry.
The $5.4 million initial phase of
the project will install boulevards,
bridges, utilities and lighting at the
site.
The research park will be on the
western edge of the A&M campus.
The construction will cause several
A&M facilities currently in the area
to be relocated to make room for the
research park.
The park will be patterned after
the University of Utah Research
Park.
The park’s first tenant, the Na
tional Science Foundation-spon
sored Ocean Drilling Program, is ex
pected to begin construction soon on
its $5 million headquarters facility.
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Sunday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A black Riley Super Sport
10-speed bicycle was stolen f rom
outside Schuhmacher Hall.
• A leather wallet was stolen
from a student’s room in Dorm 6.
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