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Show t Inside: I M M t ' Parsons Secure Playoff Westminster Players Perform the "Glass Position page 6 Menagerie" page 7 1st Annual World Series Baseball Contest page 6 i Volume XXXIV Issue V Westminster College of Salt Lake City Tuesday, October 15, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Says We're "Killing God" real money building arms for the government. The corporations cant afford to lose their profits and save your lives, she said. Caldicott said politicians are perpetuating the problem. The government spreads its defense contracts across the country so that elected officials wont vote to reduce spending on weapons because it would mean a loss of jobs and of revenue in their districts. She gave the example of the B-- 2, which is built from parts manufactured in 30 different states. Caldicott said the U.S. government is now planning to put a shuttle loaded with by Jennifer Thompson Forum staff writer activNoted ecological and ist Dr. Helen Caldicott warned of the seriously deteriorating condition of our planet in a speech given in Gore Auditorium Oct. 2 at noon. Bom in Australia, Caldicott is a former professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is the author of three books and her film, If You Love This Planet won an Academy Award. Caldicott called for nuclear weapons to be eliminated now. She said there is no arms race anymore, the U.S. has won. The U.S. has 35,000 nuclear weapons while the Soviets have 25,000, she said, enough nuclear weaponry to kill everyone on earth 40 times. . Regarding defense spending, Caldicott said the U.S. government is an addict and the people are She said that during the Reagan administration the national debt ballooned and billions of dollars were spent on weapons that can never be used. She also slammed the Bush administration for initiating a war and taking thousands of lives because Americans cant get out of their cars. Caldicott said our planet and our lives are subject to the dangers of nuclear weapons because of money. Huge corporations like General Electric and AT&T make their anti-nucle- ar Salmon & All , 40 pounds of plutonium into space. Plutonium is raw material for bombs which remains deadly for a half million years. If just one pound of this deadly substance was released into our atmosphere, it would be enough to give everyone on Earth lung cancer. What if this shuttle exploded like the school teacher? she asked. Take your country back, said Caldicott. Fifty-si- x cents of every U.S. tax dollar goes to defense while the U.S. remains the only Western country without free health care. She said as a physician sheisappalled to know that the majority of Americans cant afford to undergo major surgery or meet the expenses incurred by long-term illness. Caldicott also spoke about the depletion of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect. She said Americans dependency on cars began a long time ago. General Motors, Firestone Tires, Mack Truck and Mobile Oil got together and ripped up the it tracks of our systems, paved America, and put everyone into transportation thats filling our world with carbon dioxide. Shesaidifourtransportationhabitsdont change, the earth will heat up and oceans will rise and flood large portions of it while the rest of life will die from poisoning. She said people who are brilliant enough to design weapons ought to be put to work on it designing a viable, mass-trans- energy-efficie- nt mass-trans- system. Rain forests are being chopped down at the rate of one football field per second. These forests are the main supplier of oxygen to the earth and also help combat the effects of the large amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, said Caldicott. If youre chopping forests, youre killing God she said. There are 30 million species living on Earth and 80 percent of them live in the rain forest. Species are being killed forprofitorasaresultof mans reckless use of the earth for his own pur- poses. Caldicott charged humans with responsibility for what she sees as the inevitable destruction of all life on the planet unless drastic changes are made. She said overpopulation is another serious problem facing the world. I seriously suggest that we have one baby per family, she said. In 1800 the world population was one billion and there are now 5.4 billion people. She said advances in medicine and science have al . lowed more people to live, so the answer to overpopulation is creating fewer people. I thought we could put birth control and aphrodisiacs in everyones water, she said, then everyone would live happy lives until in a hundred years or so all the people would be dead and the earth and the animals could survive. Birth control is as necessary as food, said Caldicott Women need to be educated and birth control should be available to everyone. Caldicott said the U.S. needs to be the leader in taking steps to save the planet Not only is this country a big part of the problem, but it is also the role model of millions of Chinese and Soviets who all wantrefrigerators, plastics and blue jeans, she said. Caldicott said the U.S. needs a tion. Get rid of Wayne Owens and Orinn Hatch forstarters,shcsaid. Youngpcoplc have to take responsibility for the change. She said to look at the Soviet Union as an example of how a revolution can take place without violence. I suggest that Independents run for every office for the next two years, said Caldicott. She finished her speech by saying Don t conform! If youre mad, be mad. Caldicott received a standing ovation from the audience of about 100. Her speech was the first Brown Bag Seminar of the year, sponsored by various environmentorganizations and by ally-concerned Campus Life. That Jazz Buffet Nets $$ For Westminster by Matt HThurm Kellogg Forum staff writer Barberi and Mike Runge of KALL radio were on hand to auction off items ranging from a one-yesupply of Puppy Chow to a pair of Lacroix Espace Nidarimidc skis, valued at over $800. The wives of the Utah Jazz by assisted in the grand-priz- e drawings. The biggest was one grand prize years tuition at Westminster. Other prizes were a full length fur coat from Z.C.M.I. and a round trip for two to Las Vegas by Morris Air Service. Sonja Chesley, director of annual giving, said this years fund raiser was a bit more casual and relaxed than others. It was a chance for people to have a lot of fun and help support the college, she said. Bob Richard, assistant director of annual giving, said he was not only excited about working with the wives of the Jazz, but happy to see a years free tuition given away. It has been a lot of hard work, but fun, he said. ar In its fifth year, the SalmonAll That Jazz fund raiser entertained a large group of Westminster College benefactors Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Shaw Center and Payne Gymnasium. The fund raiser, sponsored by J.C. Penney Company and KALL radio, is one of Westminsters biggest money makers aside from donations. Over $30,000 was raised for the Westminster College operating fund. After a brief social hour in the Shaw Center, a dinner and dance was held with music provided by, appropriately, the Phoenix Jazz and Swing Band. A buffet dinner of salmon and Duck sauce, steamed rice and Rotini Pasta was served by Chef Bruce Vander-werf- f, Pri-mave- The SalmonAII That Jazz fundraiser, sponsored by JC Penney Company and KALL radio, once again proved to be one of the largest fundraisers for the college, aside from dona-tjons Heather Bush a ra chef. In both the live and silent auctions, Tom locally-renown- ed |