The Student Magazine at Binghamton University

March 1999

Volume 12 Number 6

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You Say You Want

A Revolution Campus Activities' Left-Wing Propaganda

Revealing the Campus Left - SA Endorsements Civil Rights vs. Civility - Stipend City

Bing! - and Much More

BINGHAMTON REVIEW an independent student publication

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Edltan-at-Ltrge Teresa A. Michels

Paul M Torres

MDlIiLo JUhunEe~ck,Syrnes

Michael Ford Andre Freudenbc!g

Russell Wishtart Lany Provost

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Departments 3 Editorial: The aftennath of a cartoon and why Equal Exchange Coffee is

n sewn.

11 Bingl: Find out who's hot and who's not in our most popular deparunent

The RIght Side: TRS makes a rare appearance and looks at the ups and downs of some local things. 12

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Flashback: March 1994 saw the REvIEW Illckle OCC stipends and gun control.

Quibble. & Bits: AI Gore invents the Internet? Mother Teresa changes Bill Clinton? Check it out in Q&B.

Features 4 Ja.on J. Kovacs reveals the campus left and fmds out that they arc hypocrisy

cenlra1.

6 Finally, hack where it belongs-{)ur 1999 SA Election Endorsements.

8 Mike Ford explains that to improve health care and education, we should increase competition in those fields.

9 Nancy Lee Graham looks at the First Amendment and the role of government in our lives.

12 $45,000 in stipends? See for yourself where your money is going.

BINGHAMTON REVIEW is a monthly. independent journal of controversy. news. analysis , and commentary. Students at Binghamton University receive two copie s of the REVIEW free of charge. Additional copies cost $1 each . Letters to the Editor are welcome~ they mus t be accompanied by the author's current address and phone number. All submi ssion s become the property of the RE' VIEW. The REVIEW reserves the right to edit and print any submission . Copy­right @1999 Binghamton Review All Rights Reserved . BINGHAMTON RE­VIEW is publi shed by the Student Association chartered and funded Binghamton Re­view and is distributed on campus under the authority of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. BINGHAMTON REVIEW is a member of the Collegiate Network (at least we're honest about it). Binghamton University is not responsible for the content of the REv!E\V; the REv!E\V is not responsible for the content of Binghamton University. The REvIEW would like to thank the Center for Campus Organizing, NetStep Access SClvices, and the University Conversion Project, but not the Student Assembly. "Force me to bow down and sllldy the 'nature oj oppression' and I will reach Jor my longknife. "

MARCH 1999 BINGHAMTON REVIEw 3

The Aftermath of a Cartoon

The lates t attempt to portray BINGHMfTON REvIEW as a racist in­stitution was mel with laughter by

our staff. Once again, a left-wing organi­zation sought to destroy the REvlEW not by engaging us in an exchange of ideas, but by calling us meist.

1be local chapter of the NAACP didn't like what it found in our last issue: a car­toon attacking the ludicrous idca of ebonies. Instead of calling or writing the REvIEw to ask us to explain why we printed the car­loon, their racism alann went off and press releases were faxed to nearly every media outlet in Broome County. I found out about their displeasure from a reporter with the Press & Sun-Bulletin .

To this day, I have yet to hear from the

NAACP personally. 1ms leads me to be­lieve that not only do they not think our cartoon was racist, but by targeting our advertisers, they were trying to destroy our image in the press and to take away what scant funding we have. The Professional Grievance Industry is concerned more with shutting down conservative publications then with the plight of African-Americans.

We arc disappointed that the NAACP did not join us in condemning the idea of ebonies. Learning proper English has been the win­dow of opportunity in America for generations. Millions of immigrants have come to our shores, with only a shirt on their back and a scant knowledge of English, and have suc­ceeded. For the NAACP to accept anything less for African-Americans is degrading.

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The NAACP should be spending its re­sources on educating young black Ameri­cans, not on bullying a small , conservative student magazine. As one of the oldest civil rights organizations, it has done great things for black Americans by pushing for equal rights, voting rights, and for deseg­regation. It is only tarnishing its image by engaging in petty politics and by refusing to condemn ebonies. The staff of the RE­VIEW would love to sit down with the local chapter and discuss political issues with them that affect the black community. We doubt this will happen, but we wi ll con­tinue to hope and try to bridge the gap that exists between us. Wasn't that the dream?

-Jason J. Kovacs

Qi-D!.Y:-in Bin~ton. can coffee-be ·closer to their RPlitically correct nirvana. __ 11Y Equal Exchange to p!!>IIIOIe its ooffee?

lJover.rial. The catch is-mat Equal Exchange Cof-_ How do we Irnew fur-SUre that it is friend-= "--=- -~ -_ - fcc is a scam. Goffcc sales are down 36iL .lier to the ei'i:viromn.;nt and that the grgw-

.:The-latBst;feel-good socialist idea to hit cups a week. from last.year's average, ac_::_;l"" who~.the_ coffee are getting paid cauq>US-i!' -"f.jtly~ tmded" coffee, known..aS. cording tQ.I!iP.,,-dream. A~Uy, most - DIOIC 1han tbeiI ~w.ll H ou'" COlDlter-

Equal E~cbllJ)ge. C3lI1pl!s' leftists started students are smarter than th'!. far left thinks parts? ~ ~_ pester.ing-th BU-Administration in Sop- they ore. Not only does the coffee IJIst.,., We do know-ll, at ilie Web site_that hosts tembe< 1S97.to replace the Maxwell House worse than Maxwell House, bu~Ws niore Equal Excliang.e is pari of the Institute for coffee.that-i~in the-dining halls with expensive. Students who buy two cups o( OJobal Communications (IOC), a left­EquaLExtihange coffe<;_..ruch not oilly coffee a day could pay on average 550 wing oenteron the web that is hosftovari­C1aimS.to J!!OYi!Ie ~CcnlraLAmerican.c more a year. So much for leftist concern ous far left organizationS. ioel Kovel, )lS!!88Dts Witha:firir wage but takes less of about wotkiilg-dass students whobave'lo a ormer Green ~ candid@: for the US a tOil. on the enWonmenI and even. tasteS - struggle. to _pay for tuition~At the same: Senate, told me thiirhe:is -a· fi!lguent visi7

better. tb8n~lUtouse"_. ==:.... time that these,students anoJobbyiJ!g 0-'11': ,- to( tl! 10<;. .~__ -SinccJDOSLstudeots are too busy study- ernor Pataki to cut tuition, they are hoist-- What does.Jhis mean?.£qual Exchange

ing, sJeepmg, or gettiJlg drunk (you know, ing more fees on their peen. ~_ is not as innoc§t as-it ~. It is pari of a dOing.iioiiiiiil things College students do, · In the fan~world that the campus-feft national left-wfug,_d8re Ic.ay._conspinlcy, instea<lof ~ reYOlutio~,_the Con-=-inhabi~ it's-okay to pay'.more for co.tree. and.ilhasa.sociillist8genda::wJiat'sneX1.~ tracf Dirl4!8-Committee .finally vote4'.Iab( Jor anything else .for that matter) lr-tlle""fairly traded onmges7...Ihe students that IBSt ~to switj;b. the_coJfuc sora in product 1l!0000teS "SpciijLjustice" OLany~promotethis~!!!'tffiforoing1)wir!!l!en­

tIie dinin&::JiJilliJo Eq~.Exc~g~. other lefbwi!lg.Jiul. Oov.emor p~~.litcnilly.dOwnthe~ts.~tbcirJlCl= small, v!ii3!.¢'Docity trliiPl'!'d aroundCatlk: should b,C[oDllied.:tuthle.ssly and cal)ed""''Sludenls sbou!d .mo.w not !iust what's in pus to llie -aoous residential communities evil, but lIie promoters ofEgual Exchangr their coffee, burWbat poliiiCal statllDlent and intimidated stucte;,ts jnto ~ Iheir are just dOing~their pari to help tbird;world: they're making by 'drinking -i!, Now, slu­representatives o n the c;;;,tract Dilling peasants. _ - - dentS don'rbaW a egoice. No -Wonder cof-Committee-to make the switch. 1'or these Still. troubling questions remain abo1lr fee sales are down. left-wmg S!iiililnt promoters ofllquaJ"x- E qual ExChJijjge Coffee. }low-did these _ change, -fue-vote brought them one step dents hear about it? Are they- geItmg 1''!!II --JJK

4 BINGHAMTON REVIEW MARCH 1999

Revealing the BUts Multicultural Advisor Spreads Left Wmg Propaganda

T:e university communitY should be

a place where all ideas are tolerated and respected and where informa­

tion is exchanged freely. A marketplace of ideas should exist, and students and fac­ulty should explore di1ferent philosophies on a level playing field. Unforbmately, our campus is heavily slanted toward the left, and conservative students and faculty are paying the price.

Conserwtives involved in student gov­ernment have long faced openly hostile au­diences, ready to condemn them for their "insensitive" or "backward" ideas. A Vice President for Multicultural Affairs sprouts forth left-wing propaganda at SA meetings, and starting next year an Intercultural Awareness Committee Representative will sit, tmelected, on the FinancialCotmcil. For the longest time, conservatives have faced . a system stacked against them. Even the very notion of student government is a left­ist invention.

Few conservative students thought that the heavily liberal administration would ac­tually get involved in campus politics. 0c­casionally President DeFleur would issue· an edict from her faulty tower, but that would be the extent of her involvement However, in the wake of the SA President's coercion of the Student Assembly and its defunding ofBINOHAMTON REvIEw, a mys­terious pamphlet has appeared with roots in the Office of Campus Activities.

On March 9, the Student Assembly passed a motion sponsored by the SA Presi­dent defunding the REvIEw by 5720, leav­ing it with only 5480 for the entire 51999-2000 academic year (not even enough money to pay for one issue). Included in the Assembly debate were questions over where the REvIEw gets its money from, and what outside organizations it is associated

with, even though these questions have al­ready been answered by the President's Or­gan~tion Review Board and by the SA Budget Committee. Left-wing students, ap­parently still upset that a conservative pub­lication existed on our campus, went for extra help.

The next day, March 10, Associate Di­rector of Campus Activities for Student Multicultural Programming (an old adage says that the longer someone's title is, the less power one really has) Linda Morales Husch gave Women's Center President Amy Blundell several copies of a five page pam­phlet. The pamphlet is basically a how-to manual for hapless campus leftists on shut­ting down conservative student· publica­tions. Essays in this pamphlet include "Tips on Challenging Outside Funding," "An Introduction to Propaganda Analysis," and "Tips on Responding to the Right Wmg."

It is probably from pathetic pamphlets such as this that left-wing students get their scant knowledge of conservatism. Instead of engaging in an honest debate with right­wing students, campus leftists use ideas from shady essays written by corporate, limousine liberals. An example would be the recom­mendation in the cmrent pamphlet being passed arolUld that students petition their student government to pass a bylaw prohib­iting groups from receiving outside funding or from having an outside bank account. Our SA passed a bylaw similar to this in the early 1990s for one reason only: to shut down BIN3HAMTON REvIEw.

It gets worse. The organization that puts out this pamphlet has the ominous sound­ing name of "University Conversion Project." A name such as UCP can have only meaning: by shutting out conservative thought, these organizations and those who sponsor them aim at converting our nation's

colleges into left-wing indoctrination camps. Probably the addition of the VPMA on the SA Executive Board, a Diversity Requirement for Hmpur College students, and banning right-wing publications are high on their to-do list.

The most disgusting aspect of the Review's discovery of this pamphlet is that it was prepared arid passed out by an Asso­ciate Director of Campus Activities. Linda Morales Husch's position, which was only created a few years ago, is to advise cul­tural unions on programming. The President's Roundtable of cultural union bosses is her pet project. Apparently, Mo­rales feels part of her job entails distribut­ing left-wing propaganda to left-wing stu­dents so that they can shut down right-wing magazines (incidently, the right-wing magazine in question, BINGHl\MTON RE­VIEW, has been consistently vocal about its displeasure with the office of the VPMA, and has advocated for the refonn of the cul­tural unions). Could this be a coincidence?

In addition, this propaganda was passed out from Morales' taxpayer-funded office. Not only is this morally bankrupt, but it could possibly be illegal. Using a taxpayer funded office to interfere with campus poli­tics in an effort to bolster left-wing students in order to shut down a conservative publi­cation is the pinnacle of sleaziness and cor­ruption. Two years ago, the Women's Stud­ies Program director was condemned for using her office to intimidate REvIEw ad­vertisers into withdrawing their support. This situation is no different.

The surfacing of a left-wing rag out of the Office of Campus Activities is sad and disheartening. Conservatives have found out once again that their ideas arc not valued, and that they are not playing on a level play­ing field with their left-wing opponents.

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Campus Left

MCh hoopla has been raised this

semester over the REvIEw's "scan­alous" and "shady" financial

dealings. Proving that the campus left is head over heels obsessed with BINGHAMTON

REvIEW, Asian Outlook reran in the latest issue an article titled "Revealing the Cam­pus Right" (i.e., the REvIEW and both of its staff members).

Of course, no author was listed, because the person who wrote it was either a) not a student, b) part of a vast left-wing con­spiracy that is in fact far more powerful than any right-wing conspiracy that the left dreams up, or c) a coward.

Far more important is the content of this seriously flawed article. To start, there are so many factual mistakes that we don't have the space to go over them here.

The article 'gives the reader enormous backgrOlUld into who ftmds collegiate con-

by Jason J. Kovacs

seIVative magazines and newspapers, and makes connections between.legitimate, even moderate conservative foundations and far­right groups that either don't exist or are such a stretch that they don't mean anything.

Wait-the University Conversion Project pamphlet that Linda Morales Rusch passed out does the same thing. It tried to connect the College Republican National Commit­tee with the Aryan Nation. Is it possible that this anonymous writer for Asian Out­look is being told what to write by some national left-wing organization?

It certainly is possible, and it is all the more ironic that these same students ac­cuse BINGHAMTON REvIEW of selling out by associating with the Collegiate Network, a nationwide organization of conservative student magazines. These same students are up to their ears in connections with vari­ous national left-wing groups.

Take Fair Use, our campus' left-wing magazine. They are associated, whether they admit it or not, with the Center for Campus Organizing, the left-wing equivalent of the Collegiate Network. It should be clear that we are not against any such affiliation. It sim­ply strikes us as hypocritical when these same students accuse the REvIEW of associating with national organizations, which somehow means we are unfit for SA funding.

The maruiatoty activity fee is paid by all students. BINGHAMTON REvIEW deserves its fair share of this pie because conseMltive students have a right to be heard. Left-wing students who fight against funding for the REVIEW are hypocritical at best, and at worst are serving their left-wing think tanks masters. To use their train of thought, do students have a right to know where they are getting their ideas and agendas? You bet they do.

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The REvIEw's 1999 I

SA Election Endorsements If

"In the flaring parks, in the taverns, in the hushed academies, your murmur will applaud the wisdom of a thousand quacks. For theirs is the Kingdom. "-Kenneth Fearing

President Jordan Fox

T:e race for SA President this year is

between a candidate who generally cares about the student body, and

other candidates who either lack the nec­essmy qualifications or who are simply p0-

litical hacks in the hunt for a nice resume filler. Jordan Fox stands head and shoul­ders above the crowded field. He is our choice for SA President.

One of the main duties of an SA Presi­dent is working with the BU Administra­tion and the outside community and effec­tively representing the views of more than 9,000 undergraduates. Fox already has tre­mendous experience in this department, from his days as the Marriott representa­tive to his current position as BU Council Rep.

The Editors

Lee deserves a shout-out for his admirable a skill required by an Executive Vice Presi­stands for limited government and for his dent. vocal distrust of the SA. Lee said it best We don't agree with much of what when he remark~ "I don't like student Chantrice Payne has to say, but she is a sen­government. '? However, we question his sible young lady who would fulfill the EVP dedication to his job, which is why he failed duties adequately. Her opposition to SA and to receive our endorsement. acc stipends is admirable for a

We have no doubt that Fox will be a non- multiculturalist. However, her lack of ex­partisan president who will listen to all stu- perience in running large meetings gives dents, not just those with the loudest voice. the nod to the Newing Chief. Fox avoids the harsh rhetoric that has di- Weissberger knows what the common vided our campus. Students can count on student wants out of student government him to be their chief advocate and the lead- because he is one. His tenure in the EVP ing refonner in next year's SA. We wish office will exemplify responsibility, order, Fox the best ofluck next year as President. and service. Like Dave Siegel four years

Executive Vice President

Adam Weissberger

ago, we look forward to the headlines ex­ulting that the Newing President has been elected EVP.

Hinman College Council President Josh Newing College President Adam Kittenplan is certainly qualified, and would Weissberger is our choice for EVP. bring a wealth of experience to the office Students can count on him to run

Financial Vice President

GinnyPil as a former SA Rep, Hall President, and the often chaotic Student Assembly meet­now community President. However, his ings. His will be a steady hand on the rud­atrlliations with some of the more scandal- der during what will most likely be a tur­ous political figures on campus cause us bulent year. some concern. His recent appointment as As NeC Boss, Weissberger already has an assistant to the current SA President is experience running a meeting that like the sketchy at best. His open campaigning for . Student Assembly has the tendency to get the SA constitution proposed last fall also out of hand. In addition, his service as an leads.us to wonder ifhe cares more for the assistant to current EVP Seth Eichenholtz plight of a vocal minority than for a tair has Wldoubtedly helped to familiarize him­and representative student government. self with the office and has made him a

Hillside Village Council President O-Sun learned scholar of parliamentary procedure,

T:e REvIEw opts for the incumbent

in this year's race for FVP. (She's also the only candidate running, so that

kind of limits our choices.) Ginny Pit's brand of fiscal COD8e1V8tism has turned the sinking SA ship around. Her no-nonsense demeanor is exactly what an FVP should have as she deals with the accounts of nearly 170 SA chartered groups. Pil doesn't play favorites in a student government full of corruption and scams.

MARCH 1999

Our Stuttent Association has been rocked this year by scandal. The SA President's attempt to shut down freedom of the press was thwarted only by the brave students on the Organization Review Board and by Ginny Pil's stand against financial investi­gations that are based on personal vendet­tas rather than hard evidence. We need an FVP that won't cave in to the more divi­sive elements on campus. Ginny Pil has proven she can do the job. We wish her the best of luck next year as FVP.

Academic Vice President

Shaun Weissman

TI race to succeed the hapless Andy Bast, who delegated away his entire office this semester, looks like a

tough one to call at first. Both candidates appear to be extremely qualified, with Shaun Weissman's role as Dickinson AVP and Eric Landau's duties as an assistant to AVP Ben Greenzweig.

A closer look at the candidates shows that there is a clear distinction. As chief academic officer ofa residential community, Weissman knows the bials and tribulations of the A VP office because he has experienced them fust­hand. Weissman has run College Bowl. Weissman has successfully delegated some, but not all, of his duties to competent hall AVPs in his community. He has proven he can handle the responsibilities of his office and is ready to move up the SA ladder.

The opportunities Landau has received, such as serving as an assistant to the AVP and his seat on Harpur College Council, are based more on political appointments than on actual skill. He certainly could ful­fill the duties of the office, but student lead­ers should be rewarded not for who the know, but for working up the student gov­ernment ladder. Weissman clearly has Landau beat in this category.

Even more disturbing is Landau's pan­dering to the campus left. His concern for left-wing causes leads us to wonder who he would be listening to ifhe becomes A VP. We need an AVP who is willing to hear the ideas and concerns of the entire student body, not just a vocal minority. Weissman

has shown that he is willing to hear all sides of the story, even those that this magazine finds repulsive. His ability to engage in bi­partisanship helps to earn him our endorse­ment.

Putting the dirty field of politics aside, what excites us most about Weissman's can­didacy is his scope of new ideas. His oppo­nent only rehashes failed ideas of the past, such as S.C.A.T.E., and offers us College Bowl and Graduate School Fair, which while successful, and have all been done before. Weissman promises to give us Grad Fair and College Bowl in addition to a bold new proposal.

Weissman's University Academic Coun­cil would be the only council on campus where students, faculty, and administrators from all five colleges could serve on. It would be a breath of fresh air where ideas and in­formation could be exchanged, and it could also serve as a tool for unifYing our campus. The University Academic COlDlcil could be a true inclusive institution.

Shaun Weissman's commitment to BU students is only swpassed by his exciting new ideas and his concern for responsible representation. As A VP, Weissman won't lollygag and take students for a ride. He'll earn his SA stipend--every penny of it. We proudly endorse Shaun Weissman for A VP.

Vice President for Multicultural Affairs

No Endorsement

illke the last two years, there is no clear cut choice for VPMA. Sadly, students are missing the stump

speeches of Russ Wishtart, who gave stu­dents last year a true alternative to multiculturalism on the SA Executive Board. Instead, we'll give a brief descrip­tion of each candidate and let you decide.

Fareed Michelin, pipe dream's pick for VPMA, is bad news. The last Student As­sembly meeting of the fall semester was wit­ness to an expletive-filled tirade by Michelin, who admonished the Assembly for not be­ing "progressive" enough. This type of be­havior is completely uncalled for and should earn him an automatic disqualfication from

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any office. We wouldn't endorse a candidate who cursed out the Assembly for not cut­ting the Activity Fee enough, and Michelin's outburst is no different. It has no place in campus politics.

Michelin is so extreme that his presence in the VPMA office could possibly serve to delegitimize the position. While we don't agree with Dennis Feliciano, he doesn't curse at the Student Assembly every week (he only yields tt) students who do). While we won't say that if we can't have a Schalit, Wishtart, or Benardello in the office, we want a radical extremist such as Michelin, his candidacy should raise eyebrows among the honest multicultura1ists on campus. Is this what the VPMA office is becoming? A student-supported office where the students who pay for the VPMA's stipend are sub­ject to a barrage of racial rhetoric? A stu­dent concerned about the VPMA raCe told the REvIEw; "I don't want the VPMA start­ing an anti-ULED campaign once a minor­ity gets a parking ticket." Neither do we. Strike Michelin from the list.

May Nazareno's platform sounds nice and fuzzy, but she still doesn't have what it takes in our eyes to be a decent VPMA. Nazareno says that the VPMA office should stay away from political activities and move toward cultural activities. Sounds good to us. However, her tenure as a member of the Judicial Board troubles us greatly. The J-Board's recent decision to let the ICA control its own membership effectively closes it to outside groups who may dis­agree with its warped agenda. Nazareno's role in this disaster and her pipe dream perspective following it seal her fate. An open ICA should be the fust step in refonn­ing the VPMA office. Thus, a gaping hole exists in her platform.

Steven Choi's platform seems like Wishtart Lite, and his admonishment of stu­dents who cry racism where it doesn't exist is exactly what we want to hear from a VPMA candidate. Choi would stress the cultural rather than politiCal aspects of the office. The only reason he fails to receive our endorsement is that we are not confi­dent enough in his ability to hold a leader­ship position in the SA. We hope Choi proves us wrong. While he doesn't receive our official endorsement, he seems like the best student to serve in this divisive office.

8 BINGHAMTON REvIew MARCH 1999

Itls the Regulations, Stupid! The Smart Way to Reform Health Care and Education

Eow you already save every edition of BINGHAMTON REvIEw, but I'd like to

ifically request that you preseIVe this article and set your computer's appoint­ment software to give you. a reminder to dig it up ten years from now. Then reread it and see how it compares to C'quality of life" issues of health care and education in 2009. I'm certain you will find that if these industries are progressively deregulated over time, then the consumer market will be enhanced (i.e. lower cost, higher qual­ity, better service). If, on the other hand, Big Brother tightens his grip on these sec­tors of the economy, then the public will get squeezed to the point of being wrung dry.

We'll begin with the examination of the health care market, if for no other reason than the fact that I started out in a hrnlpi­tal. When it comes to health care, how much is good enough? Most people I talk to don't feel comfortable with the concept of shopping for servjce with regard to health care issues. My experience as a pur­chasing agent has taught me that everything has a value, monetaJy or otherwise, and the best and most resourceful and informed buyers will obtain their target price in a competitive environment The ideal mar­ket has lots of buyers and sellers; i.e., com­petition for supply and demand. I calmot fathom how reasonable peOple can conclude that health care should be exempt from the basic principles of economics. (I've justi­fied this in my own mind by concluding that there are tmreasonable persons.)

Before further analyzing health care, al­low me to present some obvious examples of the effects of competition and regulation. F~ let us asswne a frontier town of the

by Michael D. Ford

Old West, where a strong-armed blacksmith plies his trade. As time goes on he makes a decent living at his trade until one day when someone opens a second blacksmith shop. Guess what happens? If you said price goes down, service improves, delivery is faster, and quality goes· up then you pass with an "A" and needn't read further (liberals may read on). If you said they join together and form a union go back to reading your sig­nature series edition of the life's work of Karl Marx. If you said they join together to become the first gay couple in the Old West then my guess is you're still upset about not being able to march in this year's St Patrick's Day Parade. If you said the pro­prietor of the town's sole savings and loan company bought them both out and this was how US Steel got started then you must not only be an avid reader of the REvIEw but be a capitalist as well. Seriously, it should be obvious that the conswner benefits when there is competition for his or her dollars.

When we examine cases where no com­petition exists, we get a different story. Take the Department of Motor Vehicles for ex­ample. Be honest-you could taste your lunch when you hear the acronym DMV. Nobody in New York State can shop at dif­ferent vendors for a motor vehicle license, title or registration. This situation leaves no incentive whatsoever to provide low cost, efficient, high quality seMce. I am not picking on the DMV, but their inepti­tude is a natural consequence of the sys­tem that is in place, namely a monopoly (maybe NYSEG rings a bell).

Con1rast this to the telecommunications market, which has been deregulated to a degree (although Uncle Sam still has an ominous presence). After Ma Bell broke up,

the Baby Bells engaged in turf wars with the Sprints, MCls and Frontiers of the world. Long distance rates have fallen (over 88% in the last thirty years) as the compe­tition has heat up and at the same time ser­vices and quality have improved. Call wait­ing, caller ID, voice messaging, call for­warding and three-way or conference call­ing have become more popular over the same time period as more advanced appli­cations such as cordless phones, cell phones and beepers .. Looking back to the time of the AT&T breakup, those rotary phones may have just as well been Styrofoam cups connected with fishing line when compared to today's technology. ,

The Internet is the most obvious example of the wonders of telecommunications and competition, but beware: regulation is com­ing. Washington bureaucrats can't resist the idea of taxing something that generates so much revenue (they're drooling right now thinking about it). No doubt they'll sell the idea of taxing Internet business transactions by combining it with a "save the children from Internet pom/save the consumer from Internet fraud!' theme that introduces an endless stream of regulation. The only rea­son that Congress has resisted the tempta­tion to tax the Internet thus far is because they know all too well that taxes hurt busi­ness growth. They're waiting till httemet business growth peaks, or at least flattens a little, then they will hop on it like Bill Clinton on a White House intern/office aidelMiss America/nursing home manager (take your pick).

The general idea that the DMV and the telecommunications industry prove is that competition is good and regulation is bad. This principle also applies to other fields,

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such as health care and education. Some say that regulations protect consumers, but the filet is they protect suppliers and pro­vide them with insulation from competi­tion. Liberals often rant that if hospitals operated without government regulation, patients would suffer as a result. This is nonsense. A deregulated health care indus­try would provide a higher quality of ser­vice at a lower price. After all, how many people would go to a hospital that cut costs in such a way as to lead to unnecessary deaths? There's no doubt that the consum­ers are going to take their business to the cleanest, best practicing and technologi­cally advanced facilities when their life is in the balance. Regulations mandate mini­mum levels of quality in products and ser­vices and impose restrictions on pricing that prevent providers from being able to offer maximum quality. I've heard many horror stories from close friends who work in health care who tell me that the govern­ment ties their hands and limits their abil­ity to provide service in the most efficient manner.

rll finish the discussion on health care

by ex-posing the myth of insurance; it in­creases costs, not reduces them. The insur­ance industry ranks among the highest in terms of profit margins, simply because they take in much more than they payout (par­ticularly in terms of Net Present Worth and Cash Flow Analysis). The overwhelming majority of consumers will pay more in ~ miwns over their lifetime than they ever re­ceive in benefits. Unfortunately, most of us fail to recognize that our employer's contri­bution to health insurance isn't a "freebie". You worked for it, and it's part of your non­wage compensation and in fact it would be appropriate to consider that you paid your employer part of your paycheck for it.

This leads into the cost of public educa­tion (don't you dare say it's free). The Press & Sun-Bulletin has been providing fInan­cial statements of various local school dis­tricts that show the total budget, number of students and cost per student (read: tu­ition). Often these figures are near or above the rates charged by private schools such as Seton Catholic or Elmira Notre Dame. In addition, these Catholic schools are su­perior in the following areas: lower inci-

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dence of teen pregnancy; less discipliruuy problems, less drug use; higher graduation rates; higher scores on standardized exams, etc. The reason for these gaping dispari­ties is that the private schools must com­pete to swvive, whereas public schools are guaranteed a customer base. Fwther note that the protectors of the status quo who oppose privatization are teacher's unions, since it is teachers who would be at risk in a competitive format What's insulting is when public school teachers proclaim that ~'they just care about the children." This is a lie; everyone cares most about saving their own bacon, and if anyone tells you other­wise it's because they're trying to get in your pocket under the guise of "good in­tentions". I'll take the incentive system and cutthroat nee market competition any day over those so-called "do-gooders" who manipulate the public by using our youth, sick or elderly as human shields to protect their own interests against progress in health care and education. I don7t know where I'll be in 2009 when you read this again, but I'm sure you'll be saying 'wow, he was right."

Civi( Righcs VS. Civifrcy

T:e First Amendment of the United States Constitution, designed as an avenue for the exchange of ideas and

viewpoints, has become an area of contro­versy and contention. Whether the topic is abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, gun control, welfare programs, affumative ac­tion, pornography or abusive language, at some point in our lives we are going to of­fend others when we vocalize our feelings and defend our personal values. Should there be limits placed on our speech? Did the Supreme Court act irresponsibly when it expanded the First Amendment to include free expression?

The framers of the United States Con­stitution believed in an element of respect for differing views. The Ninth Amendment

by Nancy Lee Graham

states: "The enumeration in the Constitu­tion of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Perhaps it is time to examine our motives in the exercise of free speech; do our words correlate to the power of persua­sion (saying the right thing in the right way at the right time) or are they designed to invite contention? Basically, I favor con­servative views. However, I recognize that there are times when a liberal view is both acceptable and preferable. Responding to the challenge in the statement that ~Those who stand for nothing will fall for any­thing", I hereby otTer my views on the fol­lowing subjects:

- cases of rape, incest, life of the mother and severely defonned fetus. It is my belief that this balances compassion and common sense with ethics.

Euthanasia: Former Surgeon General Everett Koop correctly predicted that be> cause of legalized abortion the day would come when euthanasia would be tolerated. It is now legal in Oregon. While it is un­derstandable that those who are suffering intense physical pain may welcome eutha­nasia as a panacea for their plight, it is also true that a casual disregard for human life may well be a casual factor in the increase of crime at all levels.

Abortion: I support conditional abortion Death Penalty: In his book The Tempting

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oj America, Judge Robert Bork pointed out that it is legally justifiable under the provi­sions outlined in the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment declares that no person shaU be "be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." The reference to life would have been excluded if the framers did not believe that the government had a right to deprive life with due process of law.

Gun Control: The recent suspension of a 6 year old boy in the Elmira, New York school system identifies the ridiculous ri­gidity in which laws are being enforced as an effort to combat crime. The boy found parts of a broken pellet gun on his way to school and took it to school to show to his teacher. The boy was suspended be­cause the school district's discipline code requires immediate suspension for bring­ing any type of ftreann onto school prop­erty_ While no sane person would support bringing frreanns into the school, it is also important to consider the words of a sher­iiI who opposes gun control who uttered " to blame guns for crime is like blaming spoons for obesity." The District of Co­lwnbia has the strictest gun control laws in the nation and the highest crime ralc. I believe that gun control is not only an unjustified attack on the Second Amend-

ment but a contrived catalyst for destroy­ing the entire Constitution.

Welfare Programs: I believe that in times of need, we have a moral obligation to help our fellow man. Ethieally, this help should come from family, friends and church. Gov~ emment welfare programs have proven to be a failure through the dependency and degeneracy they produce. I also believe that those who refuse to willingly offer help to those in need, thereby lending justification for government assistance, will someday answer to a higher power.

Amrmallve Action: This in itself is dis­crimination since it offers preferential treat~ ment to an identifiable group of people. This is not only unfair to those who attain their goals through individual merit but Wlfair to those individuals whose entrance is guaranteed into an area where demands may exceed capacity. George Will, a syn­dicated columnist, says it well: "Rights in­here in individuals, not groups."

Pornography: Victor Cline, a clinical psy­chologist, identifies 4 stagcs incidental to those who view pornography: ( I) Addic­tion; (2) Escalation (a desire for more ex­plicit material); (3) Desensitization and (4) Implementation. What is pornography? It

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is a slavemaster of its addictive powers. [t

is a usurper of the reproductive process because it promotes for pleasure and fman~ cial gain that which is divinely designed for procreation. It is a child abuser because it suggests that children are acceptable channels for sexual activity. It is a glutton because it feeds on the lonely and unloved. It is a hYJX)Crite because it assumes an air of respectability amid the peas and corn on the grocery shelves. It is a liar because it suggests that a sexual smorgasbord is healthy, ignoring the fact that such a diet ean produce AIDS, syphilis and herpes. It is an illegal alien because it weaves its dirty threads into the fabric of respectable busi­nesses; banks eagerly accept the pornographer's profits. It is a parasite be­cause without an accompanying token mes~ sage of redeeming social value, it cannot legaUy survive.

Abusive Langunge: Former penal law sec­tion 240.25 (2) was repealed under the new harassment statute as a result of the New York State Court of Appeals ruling in People v. Deitz (1989). This change elimi­nated the use of abusivc or obscene lan­guage fTom the defmition of the crime of harassment. Does it surprise anyone that Sol Wachtler was the chief judge of the Court of Appeals at that time? Mr. Wachtler was arrested in November of 1992 for mak­ing threatening calls to his fonner girl­friend. I believe that the Ninth Amendment guarantees certain restraints on speech when that speech infringes on the legiti­mate civil rights of others.

W:at is the role of government in

our lives? I believe it is confined to the protection of life and prop­

erty and to provide a climate where free enterprise and equal opportunity can exist. May I suggest that the problems that we see today may not be the natural conse­quence of a diversified society but rather a deliberate design by a government bureau­cracy whose lust for power encouraged them to "create a crisis and then provide a solution"? Those who value freedom in its purest form will actively embrace the prin­ciples outlined in the U. S. Constitution and submit to a higher standard of morality. Our survival as a nation depends on it.

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Phat Vu: He's Coming For You

I'm telling ya, it's gonna be hott" prom­ised sometime SA Presidential candi­date and Hillside Village Council Boss

O-Sun Lee. He was referring to the shindig of the decade according to HVC records -the 1999 Hillside Semi-Fonna!. Strung to­gether by a few RAs and some shady coun­cil members, the Semi-Formal exceeded all expectations- and it had the Ramada Inn, the finest hotel on its block of Front St., rocking all night

Lee told Bing! that the planning for the dance was ~~all me," but as soon as he said it, he was slapped by several exquisite la­dies, who word bad it did nearly all the work for the gala. Noteworthy among the semi­formal lasses was Hillside Fi­nancial Vice Presi-dent Teresa Michels, who ac­cording to rumors fronted nearly 52,000 on her own credit card. Sounds like she should get credit for her credit for great credit, or something like that Michels told Bing! that she is inter­ested in running for Hillside President next year - that is, if she doesn't win the horse race for the top job in the Womyn's Center. "I'm not holding my breath," countered Michels.

Making an appearance that only SA in­siders can dream about, SA Executive Vice President Seth Elchenboltz, and his brother Eric, who holds so many jobs we can't even list them here, made an entrance at the semi-formal in grand style. The Eichenholtzs, who arrived at the Ramada in their 1997 Saturn, ostensibly paid for with SA funds, were the life of the party. Among the elite sitting at the their table where heavy drink mixed with politics were SA Rep Brian Greene, BINGHAMTON RE­VIEW ICA Rep Daniel Schallt, and

BINGHAMTON REvIEw Editor-in-Chief Ja­SOD J. Kovacs. Schalit was seen challeng­ing Lee to a drinking contest, but fell well short. "I better stick to writing nasty ar­ticles that pipe dream can criticize in their editorial," Schalit remarked.

"Let me tell you about [SA President] Ben Greenzweig," Kovacs muttered in­coherently before he fell into a drunken stupor. The skinny on Greenzweig is that he quit his job at Applebee's to concen-

trate full time on shutting down BINGHAMTON REvIEw. "I just don't want them to publish again, ever," he told Bing! He was seen walking down Front Street later that night with the 5720 that the Student Assembly took away from the REviEW. "Hey, I only get $3500 from the SA, so I need something to pay my bills." Greenzweig insisted, however, that his administration is fair and impartial~ and he strongly believes in freedom of the press for all magazines that endorse him and his minions. "I don't see why the RE­VIEW hates me so much," he said. "It's not like I had a hand-picked committee investigate them for no reason."

Conspicuous by his absence was Eyal Elslg, the undergraduates' choice for BU Council. Eisig supposedly came down with a bad case of Eisigitis, but due to the ex-

pert care he was given, he is recovering nicely. Eisig will undoubtedly continue to breathe fire into the Student Assembly hea­thens and give trifling explanations regard­ing what the Collegiate Network is.

As the Binghamton weather warms up from -20 and cracks zero for the first time in March, that can only mean one thing: spring break. Campus celebrities Bing! talked to were all over the map during their week off. Gunpowder Plot Chairman Justin Somma attended a

SigEp conference in Cancun. BINGHAMTON REVIEW

Editor Emeritus Paco lOrres visited fonner

SA Academic Vice President Jeff Golant in Miami Beach. Torres re­

portedly paid for the trip with the

same money he's us­ing to pay for his tu­

ition: a grant from Rich­ard Mellon Scaife.

Probably the most nefarious character in our campus community is Binghamton Review, Inc. CEO Phst Vu. Vu was last seen emerging from the Office of the SA Executive Vice President last week w~th bags full of unmarked bills. He apparently sold stock options in BR, Inc. to PORB members Adam Weiss berger and Ross Wolfson. Wolfson told Bing! that BINGHAMTON REviEW is the "shadiest organization on campus" and if elected FVP, he would work "to keep it that way." Phat Vu had only this to say: "We don't discuss our internal opera­tions with representatives of the stu­dent government." Just as he left, a piece of paper was found in Vu's hand­writing saying the following: "I love BINGHAMTON REVIEW so much, I am glad there are two of them." Warm words for these cold times.

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The Upside and Downside of ...

Being UnlvenUy President Upside - you make a six figure salary Downside - you live in Binghamton

Being Greek Upside - you get to experience the joys and mysteries of brotherhood/sisterhood Downside - you're automatically associ­ated with the Alpha Betas from "Revenge of the Nerds."

Being an Employee at The Lost Dog Care Upside - free coffee Downside - free entertainment from one of Binghamton's stellar local bands like "Alvin and the Inbreds", a chipmUnk cover band that plays as loud as possible for three hows straight.

Being Moe Loogbam Upside - lots of drugs Downside - you don't exist

Being a Fa;r Use Staff Member Upside - beats thinking Downside - they enforce their Tcvas and dreadlocks dress code

Lobbying ror SUNY Upside - you're probably rich enough to payoff all the tax increases that you cause Downside - we're not.

Using Drug. Upside - a pretty good high Downside - you have to explain to your parents why you have a sudden interest in collecting plastic baggies.

Being a ULED Orneer Upside - free drugs, alcohol , and confis­cated weapons Downside - you can't carry a gun on cam­pus without everyone in LASU thinking you're Dirty Harry on depressants.

Being a REVIEW staffer Upside - no speeding tickets from ULED Downside - pipe dream Top Ten lists make your gir1fiiend wonder if she's with the right guy

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Stipend City M 5t students do not realize the cnonnous amount of SA funds that go to line

students' pockets. There's no question that many students who are stipended. ither for work in the SA or for campus media, do a lot of work and spend

countless hours in their offices. However, many positions that exist, such as in OCC, are filled by corrupt students who only look out for the interests of other stipenders. For example, how many times has OFF! come out this semester? Did you know that there is an ace Darkroom or Bike Shop? What about the ace Library? Nearly $45,000 goes toward paying students who pcrfonn tasks that most students don't even know exist. Question the students that live off the SA. Find out what they actually do. You'll be surprised.

Binghamton Television General Manager - $600 Treasurer - $400 Director of Engineering - $400 Programming Director - $300 Production Director - $250 Training Director - $250 Marketing Director - $300 Total: $2,500

Escape Manager (5) - $1600 Total: $8,000

WHRW General Manager - $1 000 Program Director - $500 Business Manager - $500 Technical Director - $500 Total: $2,500

Art Co-op Manager - $500 Assistant Manager - $350 Treasurer - $500 70tal: $1,350

OCCMeeting Facilitator - $1 ,000 Treasurer- $1,000 Darkroom Manager - $) ,000

Librarian - $1 ,000 Non-Credit Course - $1 ,000 Graphics Coordinator - $1,000 OFF! Editor - $1,000 Van Manager - $ 1,000 Entertainment Coordinator -$1,000 Bike Shop Coordinator - $) ,000 Craft Center Coordinator -$1,000 Total: $11,000

SA Stipends President - $2,500 Executive Vice President - $2,500 Financial Vice President - $2,500 Academic Vice President - $2,500 VP for University Programming­$2,500 VP for Multicultural Affairs­$2,500 Assistant to President - $600 Assistant to EVP - $600 Assistant to FVP - $900 Assistant to AVP - $700 Assistant to VPUP -$600 Assistant to VPMA - $600 ICA Chair - $300 Total: $19,300

Grand Total: $44,650

Marxism is A Resurgent Doctrine in the Former Soviet Empire and Apparently on

American Campuses Too. This year is the 150th Anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto. The occasion was

marked by a rave review in the New York Times by Steven Marcus, former Dean of Columbia College and presently Professor of Humanities at the college. In his Times review, Professor Marcus hailed a tract that calls for civi l war against the democracies of the Wes~ and that has instigated the death of I ()() million people in the 20th Century, calling it "a prophetic array of visionary judgments on the modem world." According to Professor Marcus "A century and a half afterward, it remains a classic expression of the society it anatomized and whose doom it prematurely announced[!!!]."

FREE wIth order

I n the contemporary ivory tower, Professor Marcus has plenty of company. The introduction to the Manifesto's I 50th anniversary edition was written by Eric

lIobsbawII1, a member of Ule Brilish Communist Party for fifty years, a recidivisl Marxist and a professor of history at the New School for Social Research. Indeed, there are probably more Marxists and kitsch Marxists ("critical theorists," "post-mod­ernists" and "patriarchy" feminists) on the faculties of American universities than in the former Soviet satellites combined. Today's college student is more likely to be familiar with socialist ideologues and intellectual fakirs like Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Frederic Jameson, and Catharine MacKinnon than with the historically vindi­caled writings of Ludwig Von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Thomas Sowell, Whittaker Chambers, or Isaiah Berlin.

-David Horowitz, President, Center for the Study of Popular Culture

As antidotes to the reactionary nostalgias of the academic left, the Center for the Study of . Popular Culture is offering to University of North Carolina faculty and

students at special discou'nt prices the following articles and books:

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31ashback March 1994

Five Years Ago in BINGI-IAMTON REvIEw

ill would you like on-campus em­

ployment that pays $150 a month? , not shoveling spaghetti bake in

the Dickinson dining hall or cleaning up cheeze..whiz fights in Broome-trust me, tho~ jobs don't pay nearly so well. Why not be an OCC "facilitator" or a dark-room manager? Be an editor for OFF!, that award winning . publication serving all students who reside off campus. (Tee>~heel)

What?! You mean to say that you see the BINGHAMTON REvIEw come out more often than OFFn How can this be? You've never used the acc bike shop or dark-room? You didn't know they existed? rm incredulous I

Considering that your money stipends over thirteen students who supposedly pro­vide essential services like these to over 4000 off-campus boys and girls, you may want to read on.

Off Campus College (acC) is the orga­nization that was designed to represent and unite Binghamton students who choose to move out of campus housing. According to the February 15th issue of pipe dream, 71 out of the 4000 off-campus students turned out to vote in a Student Assembly referen­dum on raising the activity fee. (Smells like teen apathy.)

Blend this with a healthy dose of non­accountability on the part of our acc rep­resentatives, and we have the outrage of the month: acc reps voted midsemester to raise their monthly stipends from. $150 to $175. When they presented Financial Vice President Brian Paul with vouchers reflect­ing their sef-granted raises, he directed them to a review board that would investi­gate the legitimacy of their demands.

Editorial ( occ Stipends)

Excerpt by Bernadette Malone

Shooting the Second

Excerpt by Mark Schmidt

TI of this: His Excellency, the Hon. Mario Cuomo, described gun owners as "hunters who drink beer, don't vote,

and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." Substitute "htmters" for just about any other identifiable group inNew York. Imagine the indignation with which Mr. Cuomo would denounce such a statement. Honest, taxpaying, decent Americans who happen to own guns fuce an onslaught from the Americanleft, convinced that it can obsolve America of its firearm toting iniquities.

The average person who owns a gun le­gally is in this way punished for illegal acts by the owners of illegal guns. This is what justice has become in many respects for law abiding Americans, victims of out of touch legislators who think gun control laws will make guns go away. George Will notes that:.

UMuch gun control advocacy is directed against nonnal citizens who are depicted as at best benighted and at worst barbaric. Gun owners are routinely cb8racterized as uneducated, intolerant, possibly paranoid rednecks---people in need of'consciousness raising' from the liberal agenda."

The NRA bas attempted some conscious­ness raising of its own, popularizing the slogan "when guns are outlawed, onlyout­laws will have guns." One rarely encoun­ters so obvious a tautology. Most of the il­legal guns used in this country are used to commit further crimes, such as armed rob­bery or drive-by shootings. Police, who according to the Departinent of Justice re­sponded to only 28% of violent crimes within five minutes in 1991, aren't avail­able to protect the average citizen.

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Int.met AI

Last week was not a good one for AI Gore. Not only did he fall f'wther behind George W. Bush in various polls, but he made an extraordinary comment in response to Wolf Blitzer on CNN that will come back to haunt him. Blitzer asked Gore why Democrats should support him and not Bill Bradley.

Quoth AI: 'Til be offering my vision when the campaign begins, and it'll be compre­hensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people t(}­ward it. I feel tbat it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the Ameri­can people. I've traveled to every part of the country in the last six years . During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Anything you say, A 1. The best rejoinder came from House majority leader Dick Armey: "If the vice president created the internet, then I created the interstate Highway system." We look forward to Bradley's riposte. The Weekly Standard, March 22, 1999.

That I, a Miracle

Mother Teresa needs two miracles to cer­tify her sainthood. When she discussed abortion with President Clinton. she man­aged to emharrass him . Next? National

Review, March 22, 1999.

That Could Be Dangerous

New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman dismissed Carl Williams. the su­perintendent of the state police, for the high crime of indiscreet candor. Williams told a reporter. during a three-hour interview, that Jamaicans dominate the heroin traffic , white bikers dominate the methamphet­amine traffic, and Russians and Eastern Europeans run organized crime (generali­zations Utat the reporters themselves had no doubt made dozens of times). New Jer­sey state police had been. embroiled in a controversy over racial profiling, the prac­tice of stopping black motorists for spot checks more often than white ones because black crime rates are so high. In his inter­view Williams denied that slate cops prac­tice racial profiling and said further that "it is not right". But Gov. Whitman's pD­

litical stamina, exhausted by her previous defense of the pol ice , gave out, so she bounced him. What then should the cops do? Close their mouths? Close their eyes as well? One offense. in the present racial climate, that white authority fi gures can he stopped for is practicing sociology without a license. National Review, March 22 , 1999.

Bit. This

We liked it better when President Clinton hit his own lip. National ReView, March 22, 1999.

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Sound. Uk< tho BV Campu. un

Last October at Miami University of Ohio, racist and anti-homosexual flyers were posted at the Wliversity's Center for Black Culture and Learning. The messages sparked two days of demonstrations protest­ing the "lack of diversity" on campus. Seven students were arrested for disorderly con­duct, leading to the sale of "Miami 7" T­shirts and a meeting between university president James Garland and Nathaniel Snow, head of the Black Student Action Association. Then police tested the flyers for fingerprints and concluded that they had been put up by Snow and one of the arrested protestors. So, does this count as a self-hate crime? National Review. March 22, 1999.

DoIng Mal., a Favor

Feminist professor Mary Daly has been ex­cluding male srudenl< fimn her Roston Col­

lege classroom for 25 years. But now the col­lege. under pressure from a student lawsuit, says that sbe is in violation of federal anti­discrimination law::; (ritle TX) and mu<;t d~ sisto Since a Wliversity classroom is centrally concerned with knowledge, which bas no gender, Daly is clearly in violation of aca­demic principle. The current controversey, she says «is not about discrimination" but about making sure that "white male power reigns." In fact, she is doing a favor for white males, who will not waste their time and tu­ition. National Review, March 22, 1999.

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