1W Volume 71, Number 20
Thunday, March 11, 1993
"Reportln1 Mldweolem Stale Univenlty New• Since 1922''
Spring Break can be fun with low fund$ By Kathr,n Self Reporter Spring SrOlk. What I wonderluUy refreehing and relaxing ph,aae. Ck,ee your eyes and re-
peel lhtse two llny words unlif you SH lhoN trr<:IW'f slopes Of nwyt,e; INII white Nnd and av•· t•I water. Slowly open your ey•. becaUM for most tNI rNI• ity is you cannot afford a major
getaway However. don't fret if you cannot afford an exotic !rip.
much lor young people to ex· plore, see and experience. In the Museum, you can lravel lhrough time back to Iha day ot lhe caveman and dinosaurs and ell'perience !he Roc ks and Fossih extti as well a the Man and His PouaNionS exhibit. If you are more inco the body'. •n· l•t into Iha Hiatory of Medicine exhit»1 or take a slroll lhrough Y0ot Body and leam "everything
from adrenal gtandl; 10 zygotas."
For people who juSI can'I absort> enough history, tha r.us to do and see with a limited History ell'hibit is Miling tor you budget if you koow where to The mos1 fascinating part of look. Rted clONly, for this is the museum IOf many peopla II your chance lo tee !he bell of the Omni Theater whtr• you acthe bul in unknown plllcH lo tually expemtnce !he action MCape tor Spring BfMk through an 80-loot domed the· He.ading to the Malroplex ate, For 1hoN that hlv• never can mean more than amusa• been. If ia an Hperience bemen\ parks and malls. Don't yond words Currently. "Tropical overlook the nol•wel•known for Rainforest· and "Speed" are they n-.y be !he bNt 1how1ng For more inform1Iion Fort Worth on any of these adivitlea. call The MuHum ol Science (817) 732-1631. and Natural Hialory offers so Your next stop could be the Believe it or not, lhtte is much
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Fort Worth Zoo where you can
bond with lhe creatures of the •rth and stid stay at • safe dlltance. Call (817) 871 •7050 if you a,e ready IO go wild. Before you a.ave town,
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t•r the wortd of lhe wacky, w•ird and -waxy• as you visit Ripley's Belilve It Of Not and The Palace of Wax. See lhe amazing oddi· tiM 1h11 have stunned mankind !hen walk through COftidors of wax r•pbcas of l amoua scenes and people. Beware though. sometimes Iha flgtKes seem al• moet too lifelike! You be the judge. Call (214) 263-2391 for rnofe intriguing details. 01IIH and lrvlng VISit the hands-on museum, The Science Palace or tour The Sixth Floor, where you can look inlo the assassination of Presidanl John F. Kennedy. Call 214· 428-5555 for The Sc~nce Pa~ca and 21-4-653· 6668 lor The Sooh Floor. Don't forge! lo &Cop In II ! he Medieval T imes Dinner &
Toumamenl You are not only wined •nd dined, you are gr,.ian •n avening ol enlartamment iike you cou5d never imagine One MSU Nnior caNs this place an all'cil.lng and advemurous: travel through lime and one !hat can definitely not be missed Calf 1 • 800· 229•Q900 Before you ieave, ge1 a feel for Hollywood by v1sihng "The Studios al l as Colinas· and "Southfork Ranch.· home of tho long-running 'Oaltas• show Al The Stud.Os, expenenc.e movie h istory and behind the s:cenes action. And before you leave SouthfOfk, grab a sandwich in MIN Blie·s Del, Cal 1·21-4-869· 0700 lor The Studios and 1 · 800-989-7800 to ~hrow a ranch
in yoorpllns.· The BeachH
Maybe yoot hope fo, spnng break ls to hive an early taste of surrmer sun and sand on the
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Clinton program ·called--~lmtg-shot' for·M8U By Loree M. Arrinftoa Reporter
H looks like • ·1ong-shot• if any MSU SIUdenlt ~ gel first year benefit from PrNidenl Bill
Decl1loru, declaiona.•• MSU aenior Lance & cen penuu travel b roehu.ni, while
d~di.na where be should lfl)ft'ld Sprin, Bru.k.
Psych. dept. needs volunteers By Darla Staie
Re-1,<r The psychology deponme,t needs vofunleers . Students in Experimental Psychology, undergraduate and graduate, need people lo participate in lheir exJ)i'riments, which rang•
from tasae tests to attitudes towards homoNXUlls. Tovofunl..,, a siuderd may leave hi s name and phone number on lhe lilt beside the ydow box in front of the mein .,,-iranc• of O'Donahoe.
Clinton's ptop<>Md coUeg•for• service program. Information from Ms White House office in· dicalea that, provided Congress passe, th• measure, about 1,000 students. nahOnwide, woukf benefit during fiscal year 1994, whk:h begins Oct 1 1h11 y..,-. Judy Sinmorw. MSU dirao-
tor of financial aid, ui:1 ttwl if !he prog11m passed Congress lhis session, it woukl probabty be next year belOfe students could
llk• ectvaruge of • · Pre1idenl Bil Clr'llon chose Iha 32nd •nniverury of the
Peace Corps to introduce his Nalional Service Program Monday, March 1, lo I cro'Nd of several !housand students 11 Rutgers Un iversll y In Pisclllaway. New Jersey. Thal same evening, he reached an even larger audience by appear• ing on MTV lo discuss his plan 10 make a college educaHon available 10 everyone in the country White House officials expect Iha detail& of the President's National Service inllialflle lo be ironed out and presented to Congress wiU1in • month. Representalflle 8d Sarpeulis, D· Texas, slrongly supports the National Servk:e initiative and said lha1 ii would be receN'ed
very favorably in Congress. He siudents who agree lo work al• said lhal Iha cost wil be the main tar graduation as a INcher, poissue in !he p.-09r11m. but said lice officer, medical 1&ehnician, lhe money would be well spent. in sen.Or citizen prog,ams or m considering the baneli11 ex- some Olhar commun~y service pected from Iha investment of For each year of servk:e, two funds in young people. years of payments on Iha loan Th• prOfected C0$1 of the will be forgfllen progt11m, $7,4 billion, will be dis· Sarpaulis satd enlhusi.ast1btned CtYar e four y61r period. cally Iha! each convnunity wlll with e ~ hatf of the amount • hen.lit significantly from this $3.4 billion. requested fOf I ha program. He said ii IS a win-win louf1h yeM of 1he progtem • fllC81 siluatlon where !he student wi11 year 1997. The inillaltve wil be get a college education, needy phased·in OYer a four year pa• people win berietit lrom Ihe serriod, with p rojeclions. !hat vicN received, and laxpayers 100,000 students will benefit wil reap !he benefr1s of a protheLaSCyNI. Under lhe proposed Students, Nallonal Servic• initiatN'e, co,. lege loans would be lorg,ven !Of
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Bosnian student remembers life before war fK• the r•llzation the! today his fr~nd• of his age are lighting Faruk SaHagic thinks abotA •nd dying tll a war he can only home oflen Al 18, h• has watch on "CNN," Sdagic said "When I firsl heerd war had watched his home. Sarajevo. Bosnla•Henego'olina. !um from a broken out, I wanced to go bade. normal. quIel c ommunity lo a I felt lhlll wha1evar happens lo war-torn habital •· an trom hit my friends, shoukf happen to ma. I tried to go beck. I called the lelevision screen. Sallagic leh his home in tirporlS, but Iha only thing they Sarajevo, on Aug. 14, 1991 , 10 could do was fly me to Beio,.&t, uplore II totally new and whic h 15 1n Serbia. My name d1fferenl world lhrough an would show that I am not exchal'lge student program: he Serbian. I OU-- as IOOf'I . . 1got never dreamed ! hat his out of Be&grade. ii I were ~ lo do 1h11, oomebody WCXJld Jul ml homelown would fall to pieces "I ltked lhe tdee of exchange jual beceuse of my neme." he uid. sh.dents You ere there for I ·1 talked to my mom In April year, meet a whole bunch of people and for !he resl of your when rNlly b.:t war brok• out,· Salagic 11id. "I !<>kl her I wanted ,,a you will have lnends in 40 or SO different countries That to come home. She lold me to st■y hit'• wt,«a I was sal e. Sy sounded hke e lun 1du." than, my cousin, who WH 22 Sallag,cseid and my best f ri•nd, had ba•n 'There was no 1ndicaho n Iha! !Wen slight dis.order would kiUed' By Kathryn Self
Reporter
happen In neighbonng Croatia, there was a litlle br1 of fighting, but it was moslly classified as ganos and nothing was realty otganized. • he said The night before Sallagic
leh SaraIevo, he spent hme with his friends uyIng. whal ha considered, temporaty good· bye1. Now, however. ha mUl1
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s.bglc's stayrng in America it his parents. He knows !hat right row ha is lheif hope. ·Sotoetlme people hive a bun c h of pro blems ind averyth1rig Is dark. ll's ,ke going 1hrough a tunnel and you only see one liflle light. For my p,irents. that light is me ... If I want t.ck home Ind wal klled.
my parenls wouldn't have going on, th• more end more any1hing to liv• for. That's why I lhat I suspect that I am glltling slay her•. That's my brain further eway. There is a gap spulong, but my heert lells me befween what I remeni>er as mf to go ti.ck; htl said. counlry end what i1 ~ now. I Saltlgic thinka aboul what could not kill anybody because hi• lif• used to be like and of lhalr name I Wint lo be a remembert • t01ally differenl doclOf; I am Suppoled lo keep S.,ajovo lNn the lrnogeo sl-oown people alive,• he said on th• MW&. "I went lo school Sa1tagic does not SH a from 8 a m oolil 2 p.m then I solution to the problem, in his would go wi1h my friends. We coootry right now. He feelt that would walk through the S1reets the United Nations should not and go to • shop and eat be in his ooootry if !hey wil not cookiH and hang ou1 We give a luH commitment "Back would atay ther• unlll we got home, ev•rybody is laughing at !Ired of Heh o ther, Iha we them (lhe U.N ) I am sony lo say wwd ..y good-by• I would QO thal. They drive into a crty !hat ~ . IN m, parents, ea! , then has been shelled !or monlhs .. Sludy.' hlsald Thay are Iusl being there They Sattagic's lam1ly is Muslim are on Serbian terrr1ory Serbs and still living in Sarajevo. He play wi1h lhem; they lake them has r8Ceivltd two let1M1, one in wherever l hey want l o lake October 1992 and the olher in I hem,• he said. December 1992, through the · 11 They are going to help, Red Cross. However, ha does lhey need lo help wr1h all !he not know wher• his family ,, power lhey can If you are not cumtnlly slaying, He suspects going lo help, pull out and lel hes hoUM is bedty damaged and lhe people d1e.' he said his family is sfaylllg In a sheHer Saltagic does see one somewhere. He ii afraid 10 lry poss1ble so1ullon l o his and contacl them. ho-Never, for country's problem •ir a wh<He any COfreapondence might tall bunch ol people are killed, then intorhe twKilofaSerbianwho
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