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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
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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
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Association i
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of weight loss." is state.
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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
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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
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"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.
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? 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
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