Mass Media (Newspaper) - December 3, 1985, Boston, Massachusetts The basis being the opinion of people the very first object should be to keep that and mere it lef to trie to deride whether we should have a government without a newspaper or a nems paper without a government I hesitate to choose the Thomas Jefferson 16 1787 THE MASS MEDIA VOLUME 20 ISSUE 16 University of Cambodian Students speak out by Barbara Clancy On Friday November 22 over 200 peo ple attended a screening of The Killing Fields and a panel discussion by Cambo dian and Vietnamese students The film and discussion was organized by the English as a Second Language Depart ment and funded by the Access Program and Student Activities all of whom were amazed at the turnout According to ESL Director Vivian Zamel similar programs may take place in the spring The combination of visual and verbal experiences proved to be a powerful com bination holding the audience for over four hours and sparking a lively question and answer session after the discussion The questions focused on the current situation in Cambodia where the com munist Khmer Rouge and other factions have battled Vietnamese invaders for over ten years Because of the cost of the war in human and economic terms and its duration it is sometimes referred to as Vietnams The Killing Fields is based on the ex of Dith Pran Dith a Cambodian and former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg were separated when the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh the capital city of Cambodia now Kam While Schanberg managed to Participants and spectators relax with traditional Vietnamese food after a panel discussion on the movie The Killing Fields escape from both the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese to Thailand Iris was reunited with and now works as a photographer for the New York Times Diths part in the film was played by Dr Haing S Ngor who like Dith escaped to Thailand after losing almost all his family and his fiancee during the worst of the Cambodian genocide get Diths family out of the country Dith Although he had never acted before himself was trapped in the Khmer Rouges nightmare world of prisons and forced labor camps Against incredible odds he was able to besides pretending to be a cab driver so the Khmer Rouge wouldnt execute him for being a member of the ruling he won an Oscar for his performance Almost 250 people attempted to see the film packing the Wheatley Hall video screening room standing on chairs and in the doorways and even out on the patio in the rain A second screening was held Monday for dozens of people who could not be admitted Meng Ung a Cambodian student thought the film did a good job of show ing what happened in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge took power and the Viet invaded Families were separated he said people were placed in training camps in remote regions and the government imposed unrealistic quotas Center ransacked by Barbara Clancy The Lesbian and Gay Center was ran sacked sometime during the night of November 25 or the morning of November 26 The center reported nothing stolen broken or defaced although the room had been left in bad shape The incident is under investigation by the Campus Police The mess was discovered by Kat Hyatt a member of chapter when she opened the Lesbian and Gay Center at approx on Monday She found furniture piled in the middle of the floor posters pulled off the walls and bulletin boards magazine racks and bookcases overturned a stereo tipped over and the centers nine foot satin banner torn off the wall Hyatt generally opens the door to the in the morning because her key to the office also opens the door to the Lesbian and Gay Center next door Although not a member of the center Hyatt knows many of the people involved with it and before calling the campus police she called Victor Ponte a center chairperson Ponte said he didnt know how the van dals broke into the center but was sure that the door was locked I know theres a security guard who checks the doors after he said Hyatt said the door was locked and that the last group of people had left the center at approximately 4pm Monday afternoon Pasteup and design staff at the Mass Media were in the area until approximate ly 10pm on Monday night according to Mass Media staff member Margot Fit She said they passed the center a number of times during the evening and didnt notice anything wrong The win dow to the center is papered over so the interior of the office cant be seen from The Lesbian and Gay Center was ransacked last Monday November 26 by an unknown person s in possesion of a master key to the RSO offices the hall Both Hyatt and Chris Clifford director of Student Activities believed that the vandals got into the center with one of the four master keys which Hyatt said have been stolen over the years Clifford doesnt have a master key because one was taken from the Student Activities Of fice and the other broke off in a door lock The Lesbian and Gay Center was the target of some offensive graffiti last year but this is the first instance of a breakin The person responsible for the graffiti was caught and left the University David Hood a center chairperson said there had been no instances of harass ment before this and that he believed the breakin was most likely the work of some MLK documentary to be filmed by Margot FitzGerald The Harbor Campus of has been selected by organizers of the January 20th Project as the site where they will videotape student activities in celebration of the first national Martin Luther King Day UMB was attractive to the organizers because of the nontraditional student population and the fact that it is exclusively a commuter school Jeffery Withem executive pro ducer of the January 20th Project said at a recent meeting of UMB and national project organizers Were filming at Berkeley and Columbia and were glad to film on a nontraditional commuter cam pus we want to be as broad as One of the projects main purposes is a visionary one Greg Moore project tor envisions the project as a tool to help campuses in the future to organize ap ways to celebrate Martin Luther Kings birthday Moore and Withem are both former student activists and both became involved with the project out of a desire to see more being done about Kings ideas The issues that King con important both agree are still important and should be addressed in connection with Martin Luther King Day Of the many issues which King address ed during his lifetime the January 20th Project is focusing on five apartheid rights economic justice and portrayal of student activism will center around these issues Each of the five cam puses selected will concentrate on one of the five issues UMB will focus attention on the issue of local and world hunger Despite the projects name the ac at UMB that will be videotaped have actually been tentatively scheduled for the midafternoon of Wednesday February 5 The event being taped will be held in the Large Science Auditorium and will be a symposium featuring speeches by elementary junior high and high school students as well as addresses by student leaders elected local and national officials and experts Vice Chancellor Charles Desmond pro mised the support for the project In principle the University would be interested in helping in any way that it Desmond asseverated ad ding that the Large Science Auditorium would be put at the disposal of project organizers for the symposium unless something big was already happening that day The Vice Chancellor was unwill ing however to suspend one period of classes in order to encourage student at tendance This may be a bias of mine but I think that it is the responsibility of the faculty to bring Desmond added that he believes that only about onethird of all students are in class at any to page 2 CD Globe Scholarship Bloom County Basketball 3 10 Dont forget to by Friday Dec 6
