| Summary: | AGE TWO CAMPUS Speech tourny to be held at Concordia College "Talk of the Tundra," the second annual collegiate speech tournament hosted by Con-cordia will be held today and Saturday. Col-lege speech teams from five states are ex-pected to attend. Schedules and information will be available in the lobby of the Olin building during the tournament. The public is welcome to observe the various speech-activities. Brown Hall to host "Fuchsia Week" The Fuchsia (Brown) Hall staif extends an invitation to attend a "Fuchsia Week" educa-tional programwhich begins Monday Jan. 23 through Thursday, Jan. 26. Topics to be discussed will be led by competant, specially trained speakers including Peggy Skunes, Peer Health Educators and many more. All programs will be held in Brown Lounge next to Unit One. Art exhibit opens on the 23rd Beach Blast starts today "Ancient Earth and Atomic Babies," an art exhibit featuring the works of Kathryn McCleery, a UND — Grand Forks, ceramics instructor, will be on display from Jan. 23 to Feb. 24, in the Cyrus M. Running Gallery. The exhibition includes raku vessels, sculptures and wall pieces. A reception for the artist will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in the gallery. McCleery will speak about her work and her studies of native ceramics in Morocco at 7 p.m. Monday in Room 124 of the Olin Building. Winter Carnival starts today with the Mid- Winter Beach Bash. There will be a Super Bowl party at the Cobber Club. Tuesday, there will be a western dance with Salt Creek. Next Friday finishes out the week with the group Regency performing in the Centrum at 9 p.m. There will be: a Limbo contest, beachball, volleyball tournament in sand pit, dance with The Convertibles, drawing at 1 a.m. for a free tripto Alcapulco during Spring Break week. Winner allowed one guest of their choice. Raf-fle tickets for the Alcapulco trip will be on sale in Knutson Center during lunch starting Jan. 6. Tickets are $2 each. Merit scholarships available Talk to senators Army ROTC scholarships pay tuition, book allowance and cash stipends. Basic Qualifica-tions are : age 23 or younger, GPA of 2.5 or higher (3.0 for humanities and social sciences majors). Contact Sheilah Maguire, Knutson Center Gold Room, Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. or call 237-7580 for more information. Concordia students are encouraged to speak with their class senators if they have any concerns they would like to see addressed. This Sunday's meeting will cover the topic of stipends. Senate meetings are held at 6 p.m. in Old Main. All interested students are en-couraged to attend. COMMUNITY ELCA sponsors study trips The ELCA Division for Global Mission is sponsoring several travel study seminars in 1989. Locations include the Middle East, China, Japan, East Africa, Bolivia, and Cen-tral America. "Hong Kong Travel and Service" is for present or former college students ages 19-25. Write or call Stacy Kitahata or Robert Worley, 8765 West Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631, (800)NET ELCA ext, 2651 for more information. Clay County to get award The Clay County Commission received a na-tional award for its participation in a program to harvest diseased and dead American elm trees. The award was the first given by the American Tree Farm System said Tom Mum, Red River forester with the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments, and David P. Johnson, assistant forester in the Detroit Lakes regional office of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. A large tree farm sign was presented to Commissioner Diane Meyer, who spearhead-ed both the county's and Metro COG's parts in the tree management program. KCCM to cover inauration KCCM 91.1 FM, Minnesota Public Radio will carry the George Bush Inauguration at 10:30 a.m. Today Travel seminars offer experience The ELCA Division for Global Mission is sponsoring several travel study seminars in 1989. Locations include the Middle East, China, Japan, East Africa, Bolivia and Cen-tral America. "Hong Kong Travel and Ser-vice" is for present or former college students ages 19-25. [Stacy Kitahata or Robert Worley, 8765 West Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60631 (800)NET ECLA ext. 2651] PEOPLE David Grlng David Gring academic dean, accepted an invitation to serve on the review panel of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. He will represent the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education on the 22-member panel which reviews appeals from colleges that have been refused accreditation for their teacher education programs by NCATE. Gerald Heuer The latest issue of the Journal of Discrete Mathematics, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), contains a 41-page article "Siiverman games on disjoint discrete sets" by Gerald Heuer (mathematics) and W. Dow Reider. SIAM is an international professional society of applied mathematicians, with headquarters in Philadelphia. - NATION/WORLD Homeless rate continues to Shooting sparks riot in Florida Minimum wage increased The minimum wage in the state of Min-nesota increased to $3.85 per hour Jan. 1, 1989. The student variable wage will be ad-justed accordingly. Students will notice the change on their Feb. 16 payroll checks. increase Urban homelessness and hunger increas-ed significantly in 1988, particularly among families with children, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said in disclosing a survey of 27 major cities. Minneapolis and St. Paul were included in the survey. According to the survey, one of every four homeless people in the sampled cities was a child. Requests for emergency shelter increas-ed an average 13 percent and requests for emergency food were up an average of 19 percent. Rubber bullets cause deaths A new type of rubber bullet caused the deaths of four Arab youths within five days. The bullets, shaped like a marble and sur-rounded with a thin rubber coating are believ-ed to be less lethal than other bullets. However, Dr. Rustom Namari, director of a hospital in east Jerusalem, says that the new bullets are "heavier and harder" than other rubber bullets. "They are killing people . . . the bullet penetrates more; it breaks bones more." The rubber bullets were intended to be us-ed by the army for riot control. Reagan grants pardons before leaving office President Reagan has approved 10 pardons in the last week, but has not decided whether to grant such relief to newspaper heiress Patty Hearst Shaw and industrialist Armand Ham-mer, an administration source said. The source said that there were no well known names among those who had already been granted pardons, but refused to iden-tify the recipients. Prague demonstaration prompts police People were arrested in Prague for buying flowers in Henceslas Square to honor a Czechoslovakian who burned himself alive to protest the Soviet invasion that occured in* 1968. Hundreds of police used water cannons to dissolve the honorable demonstration. This was the second attack on the square by riot police in two days. Several prominent human rights activists were also arrested. Five people including a police officer were shot Tuesday as looting and vandalism spread through the night in Overtown, Florida, a suburb of Miami. The rioting was sparked by the fatal shooting of a black motorcyclist be- s ing chased for a moving violation by a white policeman. Schools were closed, a professional basket-ball game was cancelled and police blocked off a large area of the predominantly black neighborhoods in order to contain the riot. After nightfall, authorities asked citizens of Overtown to remain indoors and they began a sweep of the 130-bIock area in force. The FBI announced that it would open an investigation into Monday night's shooting to determine whether any civil rights violations occured. Former Prime Minister abducted The former Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynonts, from Brussels, Belgium, was reported missing on Sunday. An anonymous caller communicated with a radio station aild stated that the former leader had been kidnap-ped by a leftist group called the Revolutionary Socialist Brigade. Traces of the Prime Minister were found in his garage at 6 p.m.; however, he was apparently abducted before he entered his home. Officials said they found a hearing aid, a shoe and a pipe, all belonging to Vanden Boeynants. Vanden Boeynant, a Christian Democrat, had a political background of much controversy. Bangladesh train wreck kills 110 people A train wreck between a train carrying peo-ple to a religious festival and a mailtrain oc- ' cured in Bangladesh on Sunday. One hundred and ten people or more were killed at the scene of the accident, and at least 1,000 peo-ple were injured, with 100 of those injured in critical condition. This wreck is the worst in Bangladesh history. The cause of the accident is not certain, but a new electronic system may have resulted in a wrong signal or unfamiliarity with the new system. Investigators are probing to find out why the accident occured >
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