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Game wi Colltfi Press Semes In an effort to involve largely faculty-run cam] nuke organizers are pi American student body. Heeding advice from "creative alternatives ( letting the movement di sending out copies of a camouses nationwide. The game, to be playei assume the roles of U.S. their way through a nuck IT AMOUNTS TO a dr itself. Ground Zero ? the na worldwide attention for April ? has made a num ^4 it l I ai uie ucntsi 01 lis can time have feared the mo attract widespread parti We're calling this s| because it has changed s Ground Zero Week." sai< The most obvious cte become Ground Zero Mc ORGANIZERS HOPE more flexibility in plai chance to move away 1 action. "People are now awai .njw we witiii uu [cauu how easily world eve frontation " Ground Zero has done the game last fall, a "Firebreaks" kits to c community groups. Th Goodbodii The director makes si get individual attentioi She hires graduate educ can relate to children pathetic and good." She said participai counselors who can prov model and bolster sel overweight children be< suffering mockery- anc peers. "Making the childre themselves, regardless o o o I o o o Qui ill make stud mure siuueuu iu wiuti iios mxii <* jus nuclear freeze movement, antireparing to play games with the campus activists to come up with to the same old rhetoric" or risk e of apathy, movement leaders are huge game called "Firebreaks" to d out through April, lets the players and Soviet leaders trying to tiptoe ?ar confrontation. amatir rk?rvartiir<? fnr mAvomorii tional pro-freeze coalition that drew its Ground Zero Week activities last ber of other changes this year, again lpus representatives, who for some vement was stagnating and failing tc cipation from students. wring's events Son of Ground Zero md evolved so much from last year's d group spokesman Ellis Woodward inge is that Ground Zero Week has nth. the expanded time will give student* ining events. It'll also give them 2 'rom speeches and debates and int< *e there is a threat." Woodward said cture people's thinking to show their nts could lead to a nuclear con i its ground work It began promoting nd has already mailed over 300 college campuses, high schools an< e group has even tested the games BS Continued frasn paftt 3 -ire the participants the most imj n from counselors. program, Wa ation students "who "We try to ana are Kino. em- we re intere pressure in its need tolerant petition ? < ide them with a role school surroi f-confidence. Many The progr :ome insecure after school camp I abuse from their II. In 1962, t Association i m feel good about most outs tan of weight loss." is state. Famous Chi BOJAPiG 201 With r i Don't be th C~Zs=* cx Ghicken up bj lents aware, * i 1 which cost $10 and can be played by two campuses. Each player is a high-level ad superpowers, coping with a tense relations. "IN THE OPENING scenes," V\ develops in Nicaragua, and a Soli happens in East Germany " "With Soviet MIGs on the way to ; for both the American and Soviet U defuse the situation, and prepare confrontation from the other side." ? Each week during April. Gnxii* 1 updates on the crisis, advising play > and confrontations. The climax will the superpowers must either resolvi - world up. Woodward said. 1 Previews of the game have been n "WE WERE VERY impressed I I played," said David Justice, dean ^ School for New Learining. which hel i "Students realized very quickly ti . in such a crisis." he said. "There's a x>rtant part of the Goodhodies T ird said. the tell the children, 'We like you, Th sted."' The children feel less Goc an environment with no com- _ Hie that differs from normal ,t J Hidings. chi| am was taken to a regular r_. us in l^exington as Goodbodies he S C. Community Education ecognized Goodbodies II as the T ding innovative program in the and loss cken'n Biscuits LES always Piece Ch SEEDOZ e only one with 1 1 W'r j 7:30 a.m. ygiPoocrCTi iiiww?iMiW>iiii anti-nucli h 7 ' fc? iBWjjlpS j .Zfc any number of people, on j viser to one of the two J blow-up in international 1 roodward saidT "a crisis darity-like union protest ] Nicaragua, the advisers earns must decide how to : for a possible nuclear d Zero will mail groups i ers of new developments I come in late April, when e the conflict or blow the ives 3y the early version we of DePaul University's i ped test "Firebreaks." lat trust is the key factor < i feeling of desperation at 1 he program ws also named national level by the same i t Centers for Disease C< ribodies II a "national mock he five-year-old program i eap" by the director. The Id is $75 for one session, con ) fee for a comparable p ane hospital. he Goodbodies summer car I is more conducive to an "i according to Ward. 1 US1& West C SB Forest 1 (Next t Park at tf MM a jaun H Two N (Just N< j goes tc icken :fn ri [Out BOJAr la C ear group I inies, but a feeling as well th xisis)." "STUDENT TURNOUT on tlx anford Gottlieb, head oi Un Jueiear War in Washington, D.C So this time, DePauTs Justice beyond the point of warning wfc howing people how it would hap The emphasis on action seer is tractors are ordering copic lolitical science and interm Woodward said. "I'm going to use it in two Itanley, a geology instructor at ( WOODWARD SAID that's th in the seasonal fall and spring oeen as high as organizers, who and scientists, wanted. Though students obviously pb euphorir last April's huge r tivists w\_ ^appointed by the "I would hesitate to call tl Kessler of Southwestern Univ spring. Things d 'n't get much bettei "convocatio. on some 400 can LIKEWISE, GUILFORD C Cyrus Johnson has been "looki better ways to sensitize studer will use "Firebreaks" in severa And though Pacific Union Norman Wendth can't find an < English classes, "We do plan to and faculty members." Campus organizers aren't coi rallying tactics, however. L Kuckes said, "We're working w organize lectures, debates and the Russians." runner-up on camp lasts f( organization. through Thurs )ntrol called Good bodies il program." obese childrei s considered enrolled havefee for Mnh or come from n pa red to the 531 ' rogram in a She feels tl image. "Good np costs $150 Clinic,'" she si initial weight "This is son rhe summer to be a part of. LimAiMnAAd Ca ? JUbUl wlUCCl olumbia Drive Providence Hosp.) : Elmwood .son Blvd. otch Rd. orth of Columbia Mall) > ine race Box n /^YTTmii sbun; iGLES at the iup April 2r 19 hopes at you can get beyond (th^ i : > n/hnln was uorv lioM '' ooirl ? Wlivru T?C4U T VB J II Ot4 *U V ited Campuses to Prevent ; said, the movement will go tat would happen, and now is pen ana now 10 prevent 11. ns to be paying off. "Many ? of the game to play in itional relations classes, of my classes," said E.J. Za\ State Polytechnic. e point. Student involvement protests since 1981 has never are largely faculty members ayed a large part, even in the lationwide turnout many acstudent turnout. le students apathetic," Davi(^ ersity in Memphis said las* r at November's anti-nuclear npuses. College sociology professor tig for now and different and its to the nuclear issue" and 1 of his classes. College English instructor jxcuse to use the game in his use it somehow with Students mpletely giving up on the old? (CAN spokeswoman Laura ith all of our 600 campuses to films to inform people about )ur hours per day, Monday day, for three weeks. does not deal chiefly with 1. "The majority of childreiw the tendency to be overweight overweight families," Ward le name presents a positive bodies is better than 'Obesity aiu. lething the children are proud \