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Show Wednesday, October 3 loon J 6 THE SIGNPOST CITIZENS (continued from page 5) Heinz Mannsfeldt, a58-year-old East Gorman police officer, also findsevents dizzying. "It's happening so quickly' he said in front of the old Berlin Town Hall. "It's difficult to say now whether my life will be better than before, although I can certainly buy more things. I hope the economic reforms come about quickly here, and we'll just have to wait and see what happens then." Asked if hestill felt likean East Cerman, Mannsfeldt replied: "I feel like a German." Nearby, signs of economic unity literally hang on storefronts. An old auto repair garage sports a new Volkswagen-Audi dealership logo. Clothing boutiques have opened along the famous Unter den Linden street leading to the Brandenburg Gate. But Helmut Perl, a 19-year-old sipping co ffeeata mobile snackbar near the East Berlin Art Academy, doesn't see fancier shops as an important reward of reunification. 'The point isn't just to buy more," said the teen, wearing a leather jacket and jeans. "There's much more to it than that. "Now I can go West whenever I want to. I can go there to study, maybe even to America. That's the important thing." Soon after the Berlin Wall fell last Nov. 9, hundreds of thousands of East Germans used their newfound liberty to travel west. In Frankfurt, Germany's business capita, they jammed the broad square in front of the Opera House to gaze at capitalism's wonders: streets filled with Mercedes and BMW cars, packed restaurants, skyscrapers built by banks and insurance companies, and construction cranes erecting more buildings in nearly every direction. Dieter Schneider, 46, said the visitors were like monks and nuns suddenly turned out of a convent and forced to make a life on their own. East Germany's communist government was severe, but it also promised that the people would subsist, come what may. "The East Germans will have to find out that one's living doesn't just fall from heaven," said Schneider, a taxi driver who cited his life as a example of cashing in on capitalism. "I own my own cab. I work 14 hours a day, and therefore I have more money than a lot of others," Schneider said in his Mercedes 1 80E. "And that's the way it should be." Capitalism also shows its uglier face in Frankfurt. The main train station attracts a nightly knot of homeless people. Sullen young men and women arrogantly block a staircase, sitting with beer cans in hand. Drugs are dealt and taken more or less openly. Another blot is created by Germany's skinhead movement, neo-Nazis who oppose unification and occasionally try to intimidate people. This is especially troubling to German Jews, who see a kernel of danger in unification. Ernst Loewy, 70, lives in a northwest Frankfurt apartment crammed from floor to ceiling with books. He believes the steamroller of unification traveled much too fast. "I don't see the urgency," said the author and retired chief researcher for West German television. "Hurrying won't help. The main problem is not at all German unification it is European unification. The question of urgency to unify Germany should be solved on a Europe-wide basis." He fears that too much is being 03 P You and your guest are cordially invited to enjoy one complimentary Cone or Cup of Yogurt when you purchase a second cone or cup of equal or greater value! With coupon) BUY ONE GET ONE FREE i WEBER STATE STUDENTS, FACULTY & STAFF: FREE AT THE DEE EVENTS CENTER FREE SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE (TO POINTS AROUND CAMPUS SCHEDULE s t ... .. Bus leaves the Dee Events Center every 10 minutes -5 from 7:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and every 20 minutes , i T from 2:00 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. - Bus leaves Dee Events Center every 20 minutes . ---- i during finals week, from 7:00 a.m. to 1 :20 p.m. V o. Campus bus stops at: ;. , 2 Swensen Gym . 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Loewy wonders whether East Germans have "the same sense of personal responsibility for the horrors of World War II as their Western kinsmen. "There, the younger generation has not gone through a kind of historical remembering," he said "Here in West Germany, anti-Semitism is not socially accepted " By James V. Higgins, The Detroit News Copyright 1990, USA TODAY Apple College Information Network COPPER (continued from page 5) doing everything possible to see that it gets done. It just depends on the weather," Folsom said. The project began last April when the Dee Events Center began developing several leaks in the roof, Folsom said. "If we used the material we used before, it wouldn't last long," he said. Copper was chosen after the example of the University of Utah, which roofed one of its buildings with metaL The cost of completing the copper roof will be approximately $1 million, 60 percent of which was funded by the state. The remaining 40 percent was paid by WSC. 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