The Banner, Vol. 32 - April 29, 1988

              The
BANNER
Final '88
Edition
Volume XXXII
California Baptist College
April 29, 1988
Jackson, a candidate to consider
by Mike 0
(CPS)~ Sueyuna Dorosey isn't
just working on a presidential campaign. She's on a mission.
Her candidate, Jesse Jackson, isn't
just a candidate, either, He is a
"milestone," said the University of
Colorado senior. "This is history."
So it is for an impressive cross
section of students, who ascribe to
Jackson all sorts of historical and
even "healing" attributes infrequently
discussed in mainsteam American
politics.
Briefs
Aloha Oy!
BSU Spring Banquet Tonight!!
Get your tickets while they
last. The Spring Luau begins
this evning at 6:30 PM in
Harden Square. Tickets are
available in the BSU office for
$6.00 per person. Food is
Shish Kabobs, rice, fruit and
dessert. Aloha! Hope to see
you there!
Olympians present
Loma Linda University's gymnastic team the Olympians will
perform Friends Around ihe-
World, Saturday, May 7 at 8:30
p.m. in the La Sierra Campus
Alummi Pavilion, 4700 Pierce
Street, Riverside. Tickets will
be available at the dorr for $4
for adults, $1.50 for students
with ID, and $1 for children under 12.
For information call 714-785-
2084
University    concerts
The Loma Linda University
Symphonic Band and the University Singers will perform
Saturday, May 14, at 8:30 p.m.
in the LLU La Sierra Alumni
Pavilion, 4700 Pierce Street,
Riverside.
The band is directed by William Chunestudy, Assistant
Professor of Music, and will
play light favorites.
"It's AWESOME," shouts Univer-
sitey of Pennsylvania supporter Tra-
ci Miller in a phone interview.
"AND I'M PART OF IT!"
While other Democratic candidates- particularly fallen frontrunner
Gary Hart and now, at a lower decibel level Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis-have attracted essential cores of student support, Jackson
seems to have evoked a passion on
campuses unseen among liberals
since the 1968 campaigns of Robert
Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.
Like McCarthy, whose followers
agreed to "Clean for Gene" by
cutting their hair to be more effective politically among older voters,
Jackson's campaign has prompted
students to exchange their jeans for
suits.
One supporter calls it getting
"Unmessy for Jesse."
Some campaign officials claim
"thousands" of students are now
working on the campaign.
"This," explained recent University of Massachusetts grad Caroline
Murray, who now works on Jackson's national staff, "may be the
only chance I get to work for a candidate I believe in."
"Jackson is saying a lot of things
that students can relate to," said
Rachel Cohen, the editor of the University of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal.
"All the other candidates seem to
be wishy-washy," added Wisconsin
freshman Mary Cook. "He's talking about things that matter. He got
right down to the nitty gritty."
Cook, for one, became a supporter
after hearing Jackson speak. "He
really sold me. I'm going to work
for the guy."
Much of Jackson's campus support, however, seems to come not
from newcomers like Cook, but
"veterans" long active in liberal
causes like the South Africa divestiture movment, efforts to ban Central
Intelligence Agency recruiting on
campuses and oppsition to the Reagan administrations's Central American policies.
"Jackson's been there," said Mur-
ry. "He's been working on these issues all his life."
"What Jesse is doing is giving all
the campus 'antis'- the anti-Reagan
crow, the anti-CIA crowd, the anti-
involvement in Central America
crowd- something to be for," said
Stuart Levitan, who represented student district on the Dane County
(Wisconsin) board for 3 terms.
The Jackson volunteers, however,
maintain the candidate's campus support has broadened beyond college
leftists.
"Students are aware of the bad
economy of unemployment," Colorado grad student Larry Johnson asserted. "These students are concerned
about jobs and about their future.
These peopjejire working, on degrees
they want to use in the economy.
They're not activists."
And although Johnson admits it's
often easier to get students excited
about contra aid than financial aid,
Jackson's student aid promise-he,
like Dukakis and apparent Republican nominee George Bush, had
adopted the American Council on
Education's call to decrease students'
dependence on loans by funding
more grants-has attracted support.
"When (students) graduate with
loans," said Johnson, "they realize
thev won't be able to buy the big
ticket items, like a house, that's part
of the American Dream."
Students, Cohen added, also are
engaged by Jackson's preachings to
return to old-fashioned values that
even conservatives like North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms embrace.
"He's not just talking about the
budget or the economy," said Cohen.
"He's talking about drugs and the
family and things that really matter
to students."
But something more than students'
agreeing with issues-Jackson's positions on them are not all that different from his opponents'-seems to be
fueling the students' passion.
For instance, many campus supporters credit Jackson for helping
black students' leadership on issues
like campus racism, Miller reported,
and black students are more willing
to step forward to lead,
"It's a wonderful thing," she said.
see Jackson, page 4
Currently in his fourth year here at Cal Baptist, Dr. Russell R. Tuck,
seated at his conference table in his newly redecorated office, reflects over the
accomplishments of the past year and considers the tasks set before him for
the coming year. Among his major accomplishments this year have been
the establishment of the 30 Year Plan, the initiation of several major fund-
raising campaigns (all of which, to date, have reached or exceeded their
goals), the reinstatement of the Communication Arts Major, and the inception of a Men's Junior Varstiy Lancer Basketball Team. A man "inclined
towards action as opposed to inaction," Tuck's short term goals for the coming year are headed by the launching of an English as a Second Language Institute on campus. 	
Cal Baptist is a big change for
young Roman liberal arts major
Coming from Rome to California
Baptist College this semester has
been quite a change for new student
Rosie Lyman.
"I really like it," says the 21 year-
old freshman, refering to the college,
although she adds that Rome and
Riverside are very different.
schools. She is majoring in liberal
arts with an emphasis in Spanish
and plans to do all four years here.
This summer she will return to
Rome and act in an Italian Christian
movie. Already, she has appeared in
several films and a Christian television series. Rosie came to know the
One of the greatest differences she Lord two years ago through reading
finds is that Riverside is much more the script of a movie she appeared
spread out than the Italian city.  in.
"Rome is crowded," she said, adding
that many people are out even in
late-evening hours. "Here, when it's
dark, everything kind of stops."
She first heard of the college
through her pastor at Rome Baptist
One aspect of the college that she
likes is the Christian environment.
"The fact that most of the students
are Christians makes it easier to
grow," she commented.
Furthermore, she has found the fa-
Church, Ken Lawson, who knows culty to be very helpful in addition
James Staples, chancellor of the to her studies. "The teachers really
school. Rosie was very close to her care about your personal life," she
pastor who encouraged her to go to stated. "They're always ready to talk
Cal Baptist. to you."
"I wanted a see a new country," Without a car, Rosie has not seen
said Rosie of her reason for coming much of Southern California.  She
to Cal Baptist.   In addition, she does, however, have a list of places
plans to work as a missionary in she wants to see. "I want to go to
Spain, and needs to take both Span- Hollywood . . . that's my first con-
ish and religion courses, which are cern."
not offered together  in  Italian by Daniel P. Pryfogle