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Emerald
Tuesibn November 14 1 'IH'l
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University students picket to support strikers
Campus groups
aid union efforts
By Janis Joseph
Emerald Reporter
About 75 people, ineluding 15 I ni
versitv students and one adjlllH t proles
soi walked tlve pu kel line in Spring
field early Mondav morning in support
ot the striking Morgan Nicolai emplo\
the strike which began in months
ago was initiated vi lien the i nutpain . .1
door and specialty wood products man
ill.a liner asked tor a tit percent de
1 lease in wages and benefits and ap
proxiinatelv 15 other changes in \ii olai
employee rights
Nicolai reduced the average hourly
wage from Sit lit to S') (III to become
more competitive in the industry, ai
cording to a Morgan Nicolai advertise
rnent
"Were fighting to maintain living
standards anil wages, said I.eKoy Koh
iiison, president ot l.ocal to 15 ol the
Western Council ol Industrial Workers
the local union \ del rease III the
standards ot liv mg and wages w ill aflec t
ev ervoiie ill the com mu nil v
families are starving, and they 1 an t
pev their bills said Heather Wright a
member ot the t Adversity Democrats
one ot the three student groups that sup
port the strikers It's a shame and
there’s no reason for it
lorn to Strike, Page ">
I'huli. In \ndrr Kditiri i
Streaming; at tars th.it drove through pit ket lines Manilas, t tint ernetl I'niversits students .mil itimmunits members
joined striking Morgan Xicolai employees in .1 shins ol solidarity lor the tti-month old strike
Professor examines changes in Hungary
By Stephanie Holland
Emerald Reporter
The director ol the Knglish l)e
port11k-1it at Hungary’s College lor
Kxternal Trade spoke at the Cinver
sit\ Monday night about political
and economit < hanges in Hungary
Isty.ui Hutykay told a grou|i of 1J
in the K.Ml s I ir Room that many of
the Hungarian revolution's goals in
October l‘lr)ti, such as gaining neu
tral status and pulling out ot the
Warsaw I’ait. are now being imple
inented
Hutykay said a new system of
economii management yxas intro
duced in Hungary in ltttiH. which
i ailed for unprofitable companies to
he shut down, except when their
profits could replai e imports
However this ecuuuniic reform
did not coincide yyitli any political
reform Hungary did not make any
steps toward pluralism or denim la
cy Hutykay said In May of 1‘IHH a
neyy , more liberal communist party
took over. \y hit h was one ot Hunga
iy s greatest events, he said
■'We’re in a state of complete de
mocracv now." he said. There is
absolute freedom of the media and
individuals enjoy absolute free
dom. ”
Hutykay said Soviet president
Mikhail (lorbachev lias influenced
many of Hungary's major reforms
Hut. though the Soviet Union lias
reached a democracy where any
one can say anything nothing
has happened." Hutykay said
Hungary has politically and eco
nomically surpassed Romania, he
said. liecause Koiiltiniii’> people are
starving .1111! 11 111 III t Ircednm ul
speoi h while Romania's loaders
lillllil i.<IK'■ palai t's .mil 11\ ■ ill 1 um
lort
’Today I would say that Koni.ini.i
is llu; worst dictatorship in tilt1
world." Butvkav said
Thu economic instability ot Hast
ern European i ountries is attributed
to the Stalinist system, be said
Hungary is economically ahead o!
all the Master European i ountries
Istvan Butykay
Hungary is making < hanges and
striv ing for .1 free market ei iimnm
within tlic next fight to It) vr.trs he
said Peasants who wish to leave
their fanning cooperatives may take
their money and go Many busi
nesses and si hools are being privat
t/ed
Hungary is trying to strengthen
the .11111u<ii■ ul ownership lintvk.i\
said mi ilunnanan < ili/.t'iis do not
Irel the\ are just employees in the
hands ot tin- stain
In addition, the country is in the
proi t'ss ol liiuni Iiiiik a slot k ex
i halin'' As ol ( )i I I everyone is al
low i'd to buv slot ks
These politic .11 and e< onoinic
i haunt's have had a tfrent politii al
impact on all as pm ts ot Ihinnanan
life. and espei .tally education.
Hutv Lav said
"Sin h an interesting lime is vers
rati' III a hnnian being's lift" hi'
said
Si liools an- being privati/.i'd and
ri'ltirni'd to llii' i Inin In s aflei tin'll
stall- ol nationalization that began
in I't'.ll hr said
As ol Srpt I Marxism and l.o
nmism iviti' removed as mandators
stihji'i Is ti'om colleges and universi
tics These teat hings were replai cd
with philosophy anti social sci
fill I'S
A III \i•.11 law maud.limn that all
students, beginning at age Hi sltnlv
tin' Kussi.in lannitani' w.is stopped
Students may now i house the Ian
nuanes they wish to study. Hulvkas
said
lint \ k<i\. who will remain in the
United Stales lor another month,
has spent two months .is an interna
tinnal senior lei hirer speaking at
uni\ersities in 1 7 states
His lee.lure was sponsored hv the
professional educational fraternitv
t’hi Delta kappa the Unllege of Kd
mation and the Russian and hast
Kuropean Studies (ienter
Jewish cultural
events offered
In an effort to heighten awareness of Jewish
culture, the Jewish Student Union is sponsoring
Jewish Cultural Awareness Week through Friday
Jolinn Hookstein. director of the JSU. said the
purpose of the week's activities is to fill a i ulturul
gap by offering events that are otherwise not
available to Jewish and non-|owish students
He said the events of the week follow a par
ticular order that start with the immigrant expert
ent.e m New York and move to contemporary as
poets of Jewish life.
The movie The Chosen will lie shown tonight
at 8:15 in the Walnut Room ol the KMU.
Hookstein said this movie shows the division be
tween the old Jewish culture and the new culture
A workshop on the problems ol lieing Jewish
will be offered at i 31) p in Wednesday in the
KMU This keynote event of Jewish Cultural
Awareness Week will feature a discussion with
I)t Jerry Hiller, a local social worker who works
on problems of ethnii Identity Contact the Jew
ish Student Union in Suite 5 KMU or call
fiHii 4.Kiti lor location
The movie Annie ll.ill will lx* shown on
Thursday at 7:00 p in, in KMU Cedar Rooms A
and B
"This movie shows the ultimate clash in our
culture of the problem of falling in love with
someone who’s not Jewish," Hookstein said.
On Friday, tin* final activity of the week will
he a traditional Shabbal service at the koinonia
Center, The service will feature a vegetarian pot
luck, storytelling and "shmoozing."
"To shmooze is to react, chit-chat, or rap,"
Hookstein said. "This final act of the week is our
solution lo the problem. Wc hope to revive Jew
ish roots and culture through this traditional ser
vice "