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, In the latterpart of the 1980s, and into f990, there,'has been a ,'Many Americ~s appear to have difficulty in discussing such resurgence of pride amongst black Ainericanson the subjectoftheAfric~ tyranny. Itis somehow. believe4 that tq discuss these matters is to provide' continent. Thlsmood has been reflected 'in the ~versiiy, as 'courses' ' ajustificatio,i1forapartheid,andwilh:>n1yseivetodivertattentiortfrointhe pertaining to' Afr}.9a have gamed in, popularity. . .', ',' noble struggle of South African t>lacks. : ThiS ~ttitude is,pretpsterous, it

On the surface this appears to be a positive trend. Africa is an, · suggeststhatalowermora1standarc:li~i>lacedonblackAfricanleadetit&an UnP9!1'U1tpanof our globe" and has long-been n~glected~ the newsme4!a. on. white. ~outh Africarrs. It means very 1itt1~ to a black African that'the

, " . American.students are for the fnostpart:igrtoranton the sqbject, aridshouid , murders ~ his c9.~ntry are black or whlt~t It is a ,p$fui irony t4at.blacJc ,'00 encpurage4 to edu~ate\ilie1JlSelves on '~e topic.: Ye.t a p,roblem ijes in ',.' South Africarts on 'whose behalf AfticaIismarch~ e'njoymtire treedom than

,;'the focus 'of ~ost Afrlcanpride, ~ weU as th.e a~enda'ofl~y umvocsity . ~cansin bla,ckrul~~ca: qtthe51Afric.ruinations;on1Ys~; Algeria, , , , coUrses dealing ~th the· African-continent. ' , ,:; , " B.ots~ana;.~gypt_~ .Gambi~, Ma~tius, and S,eaegal allow theirpeo~le to -

. "., " vote m elecnons. " . . BlaGkUniversity sttlden~, ~he~ discussing the;lopic 'of Africa, , . r " . . " '. f ,

. appearto shiftthe~ f~us .solely on ·the Reput)lic OfSbuth Afiica. More -' ',. Mrica;Watch; rul international human rig~ts group, h~ reported : ! often than i1~t very little atte.ntiofl 'is prod to the rest of the continent At that in ~e past 19 inpnths 50,000 Somali civilians have been. .slaughtered

, SUNY -Binghamton, and universities across·the country, courses,dea1ii)g , by government troops: In Ethiopia, militaIy dict;ltor colnrade Mengisru , wifh:Afrlca l:tave a. very select.agendi:!. When not disc~ssingSouth Afrlc,a, _ Haile MaIjam has 'murd~red thousands of his own people through man- ' ~ these co~ses tend to foclls on Africa's colonial period,. or the p~ac1ice of . made famines· and forced resettlements of peasants. . ' '

.' ~~cOlonia1isJ;ll';bX ~e imperialist W ~st. . - . Black ruled Africa is littered with eXarI].ples such as these, y~t~~rY , TIle topic of post-coloni~ black rUled Africa is a subject rarel~ . little attention is paid to this ill the.Unitcil State&. In most Afro-American

, discussed by black American,students, and often ignored in African stpdy courses, certainly on this ~ampus, professors will spend time explaining collrses. When bla9kAmcafought for independence and sought freedom ho~ colonialism i~ to blame for Africa's sorry state. These professofcs from white colQnialrule,.itdidnotexpect that black ruled tytinnies would prefer to focus on white-on-black tyranny instead of .recognizing' the slaughter its own people, ' y~t this is -what transp~~ T05iay's Africa, horrors of black -on-black tyranny which claims'the lives of more black '

suffering from starvation and ~ial decrepitude spends more onanned ' Africans daily, than those killed in months in South Africa:

forces and ~tary-hardware than ifreceives in aid~ -~o date, b~ack ruled " ' It is a sad commentary that peqple in the West have no problem' \' Africa spends allnually mote, Plan $12 billion on its military; $5' billion , criticizing tKe plight of blacks in Sou~ Africa, yet remain silent when it

more than it receives in aid. The weapons and IlliU.tary are not used to .comestothetopicofblack-on-blackviolence.Itdoeslittleto·ce1ebrate.the maintain peace, instead they are used to,slaughter black ~ricans,- and to • dismantling of apartheid in South Africa~ if more is not done ,to insure main~ one party dictatorships. . ' freedom to black Africa. '.., '-

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Th.e,:'Squapdering of'StudentMoney ... Campus groups getting/at off of student activity fee

by Andy c~ Szul Jr~ .

o . ' del way~ new $~deilts-, , A ~ the fallsemeste.r gets un-

, ,. ~ersas'YeUasfreshman , "7 are unknowingly being levied upon by, 'various nlterestgroups who hide behind'

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This disparity not onlY limits competi-tion, but ~ves an ,unfair advantage to some opinions.-Alas, the very spirit of democracy is threatened.

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. Recently in New Jersey, NJPIRG was ~en to court on the issue of itemiZation

fuition ,bill. .

These are only several of the many · countless 'examples in which students · ,rightfully voiced their steadfast ·<;>ppOsi~ . tion ~d, appropriJlte ,disgust of foiCed

may innocently be willing to support , certain organizations, corruption does ', ·eXist Whether it be the unethical and ' · illegal cross-funneling of funds between orgariizations a solution does exist

. the cloak of the controversial activities fee. Whether students are aware of the reality that they suppOrt groups whi~h ': have ce~ political agendas, of which. they might not agree with, is not an issue

.. , of theirallQcations and their ad,arilant , refusallo publicize their expenditures.

fundingfor.groups thatthey (Ion'tbelieve . represent, the majority, but instead are made up ofahberal mlnoritywho,blindly fo~ow a misguided agencta.

. The 'S._A, in a referendum, is prOposmgto lower the activities fee. The

., fee wouldbeloweredtO$54.5OUom the , Here in New York, NYPIRG was also . . ·sued in court and the4isputehas yet to be

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present$60. Instead of argui,ng whether , thiS is a sUfficient doc~' or if there · should be an even Steeper decrease than .. ~. $5:50, maybe it would be wiser to . and does not seem to matter to the'S.A.,

our elected student government at SuNY-Binghamton:

One example of.th~ S.A.'s reluctance, to deal with the immedll!.te, yet tiresome, .. situation is their inability and/or lack of desirability 'to confront this iSsue and se.riouslyinvestigate where ~tudentfunds go when allocated to orgahizations. '

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. For the past ~o years and counting~ NYPIRG, a "public interest group" on

, campus, has-~n asked repeatedly to produce some · sort of budget outlining -where student monies are distributed and how tbey arebemgused. To this day, : no one haS been able to produce a budget, or any similar itemrz.ation of fundS". TIle many students who request the NYPIRG budget believe it is an jmportant issue because each student who attends this university ·pays $3 per ,semester ,to , NYPlRG throug~the activities fee. This mandatory fee amounts to approximately. $50,000 annually and is,partially used to pay for the ,services of professional lob- , b~iSts. '

ILan incoming, student who is not familiar with budget allOcations and has nopriorknoWledge·<;>fthe budget process . were to piCk up the_S.A. 1990-91burtget, he/she weuld not find NYPI;RG listed · with other organizations that have· their respective budgets item~ed. It may not concern new sfudents until they find out that it is'meir · moneYthat·they could not '

· fuid accounted for in the. student actiw- . ties budget Severa}. weeks ago, when a student approached a supposedly knowledgeable S.A.,officei'with a copy ~ of this year's budget, no reason w~ , given as to why NYPIRG wasn't line~" itemIzed, but still given nearly $50,000 of studenfinoney. "

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There are several 'bothersome yetle­gitimate questionslhlit keep surfacing .

. FirSt, whydoesn,'tNYPIRG, who claims to work for "public interest;', . hav~ an accessible and WU'estricted budget that. , can be produced for its.membership, the entire studeEt bodfi Second, how can . NYPIRG~C1aim. to work forpublic interest if no one group has a monopoly over pqblic OpiniOR? Fiilally, and most sig- , nificantly, why are students subjected to a type of forced taxation where each is paying for a hiddelipolitical agenda that one I!light morally object to or oppose? _.

, This type of blatant extortion of money " 1$ just one example of how the student · population is wrongfully ,deceived· and

fooled into a fals~ · sense of fairness and -democracy. The forced fuiuIlng 'of one group over another leads toa serious contradiction of what oUr democratic society ac~epts as just and established.

resolved. In ~tion, last semester the . Students Against Forced Fqnding, an . organization fopned to gather'suppQrtin order to'pmtect, student rights,. charged . . that NYP}RG 'harassed students 'who held a particularmioority belief. S.T.A.F,f. then'reque&ted that the Judi­cia! Board suspendNYPIRG's' charter

. on the basis o(those ch~es. Similar ·allegations ofharasSffient stemmed from incidents where students from Tufts University were constantly badgered by MassPIRH while they ate, attended· classes,· or just walked, so as to gain stUdent support when PIRG's. budget was considembly reduced by the state S·enate. ,

· zations on c8mpUs that tak{f stand$ on , political issues which onlyrepresen~ a mmority of the student population, yet

, are financially ·supported by the major­ity. Regardless of an individtial's posi­tion on such issues, as birth cQntrol aDd homosexualactivities;orhis/herreligious

· and cultuml beliefs, students at SUNY­Binghamton are· paying for, an,d in a sense' supporting, ' such practices.

_ Therefore, it is ~pparent that,NYPIRG is '· not the onlyorganiZaqon.on campus th'!f: lobbie$ 00 one side of the issue while ignoring some ~ple opiniQns~ How­ever, with the present structure -'Of th~ activities fee, there is no choice for the .

. . students. In another embarrassing incident in-

volving MassPIRG, Wellesley College At some ~ersities across the nation, students lobbied in order to be able to' .. . there have been propositions ~~ incor­vote on, the legitimacy of PIRG's taXa- ' porating ali itemized negative check.;off tion ofan additional $4 on the tuition hill. system. Tufts University, has ~niployed

such a system ant!. allows students to ' Fortunately. the students struggle was . not in vain; and they were successful in ' check off activities to which they do not both lobbying, as well as voting for the want to contribute money. deletion of MassPIRG' s fee fro~ . their- . ,However, although students

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abolish the activities fee altogether. It is ,here, in the emdication of the activities · fee~ that a possible solution e'xistS. · '

If the activities fee was to be aban­doned, then no, one group would be supported through the current, indirect activities fee but by direcrstudentsupport only. Groups that are suppOrted by a .

· majority" which have a purpose· and . program that are ' worthy of support, - should have no problem raiS~g inoney throughmembershipfees andotherkinds of fundraisers. With · this type of con­

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. It is time for student groups to become · indepenaent, for the good of the campus • and the students it serves. Groups should feel that they can survive \he tealities of scrutipy and rigors of true democrncy · without ·the crutCh of the activities fee ' supporting them.

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.. GOP in Shambles Hav~ New ~or:k State RepubliCans iost their way?

by RichardCarr Platfonn, Committee, the plank is essen-

'·AFreeKuwait?· / ndependence and Freedom : ther~~~ a difference

, by Edwin Feulner , ' uu.n rights: to own and-exchange prop­erty; to openly express their opinions, as ipdividuals and through a vigoroUs free T ~e New'-York State Republi- ,

can Party has once again fur­thered their already antiquated

outlook into the 1990's.Th~~whlcfi has been at besttecedingfor the pasttWo . decades~ appearS to be heading further downwatd. This year's statewide can- ' didates offer evenl~ optimism than in the past few tickets, a dubious achieve­ment considering thep'!flY'S fledgling

, tially adopting the pOsition of Repribll-­cari National Committee Chainnan. Lee ,Atwater, providing a "tent" fQr those on both sides of the abortion isSue. ,How­, ever, ,Assemblyman ~ataki' s assertion

'D on't get me wrong: I fully Support President Bush's de,.

r ploymentofU.S. troops in the , press; to worship 'how, where, and whe~

they ~e;to. travel from one city' to another without ' havig to ask some

, bureaucrat's permisSion; to ~migrate if they ~e; to associate with whomever they plC'lSe; to.aJair trial tiIlder law.

Middle East , But I was disturbed by a that this shift from neutrality on the issue ' of abortion to blanlq~t.support for aboi~

, tion rights i~ in liIie with Mt.,Atwater's

, headline I saw the other day reffering to Kuwaiti independence. ' ,The story that

, 'desire-'to ~ow diversity on-the iss~e is - dubious; at best In fact, npt oJ)1y doos the plank abandon _those Republicans ,who are opposed to abortion on demand recent ;history. ' ~

First of an, the.party mlistenter the 20th century and adopt a noniiruitmg process jnwhich New York's registered Republicans select' the candidates for ·statewidenICeS. Thiswouldbeawelcome

/ the literal language ofth~ provision is of ' s~ch a varil!tY'that it suggests that those wlio supportgovernrnentrestrictions on ' abo~on op ~~marid,are roughlyequ~v;' , ilant to "big brother" ofwelian,totali-

'c. tarian' tyrants. ~

T~isyear's crop ,?! ~epub(ic(Jn-candidatesexemplifies ihe I

, nece~sity lor' a primary ,system.

change'to the cu,rrel!t process, in ~hich a few 'skeletons' of the liberal ROckefeller ideology determine the party's candi­dates. , The specific skeletons respon­sible for th~ SelectionofPierre Rinfret as the Republican gubernatorial candidate' Manhatten Republican Party CIuiirman, -State Senator Roy Goodman, and the state party chaifman, J. Patrick Ban;ett.

, As a direct consequence of the types of candidateS chosen by this , :m­s(rinsically , undemoC~tic "nomfuating process..-n0t only is the party-failing to appeal to all New York v:oters, but is in ' fact alienating a significant faction of i~ own party members. The N~' ¥ ork Conservative Party 'gubernato~ can­'didate"Herb London Was on,'the mark J

this, past May when' he stated 'that the curren~ nominating PrOcedure~ "makes:

, the _Soviet system look like a,perfectly '" ,reasonable proc~."

v' The party cann6tSeriously'ex­pect to De even the1east bit'c~lfipetitive "' with the incumbent Democrats. in ,New ' York state until a primary systertl \is,' established for the selection ofstateWitle::',· qmdidates. " '

: This year.'s crop of Republican candidates exemplifies the necessitY for a primary system. With the exception of

, incumbent Comptroller Edward Regan, , the three Republican challengers, are , " neither- of great ~r~stige n?f,:do/they

possess any realistic" promIse" for the future. I

Mr . . Rinfret is in jeopaidy of delivering theRepublicans an even more ' humiliating 'showing than in the 1986 election when Governor , Cuomo's ', popularity had reached its ape; During ! the state convention at which Mr. Rinfret . was nominated this past spring, the party

. added ' a controversial plank to the Re-'_ publican platf0911; all four of: this year's

Republican candidates ate pro-abOrtion rights 'advocates. The New York state Republican platfloiin proclairils that , ' "state government must not become a,'

, 'big brother' regulating people inthefr - -'personal affairs and lives and the New ' York State Republican Party aff~s its historical commitment to the right of privacy and reproductive rights." , _,

, According to Westcheste; County Assemblyman' George Pataki, , Chairman of the-New York Republican

"'. Many New ,York Republicans' have vociferoUsly attacked this blatantly one-sided pronouncement Both Nassau County and Brooklyn Republican lead- '

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,ers attempted to have the plank rescinded > arid return to the neutral stand of th.e past' . two statewide elections. After appar­

ently agn:eing, to eliminate, the provi­,sion, Mr. Barrett reversed agaiJ:t and the plank remains. 'Consequently, Ronald D'Angelo, alocalBrooklyn leader"has dec~ded not to ~upport Mr. Rinfret, ,$td. has 'encol]faged "all Republicans who feel betrayed to do the same." ,

, ; . " Nassau, County Comptroller Peter King reacted 'by' stating 'that "it's bad enough to lose but it's w~rse to surrender your prirtciples even' before the the ftrst shot is flfed~" - ' ~

'. The mere selection of a J'-ro-, abortion rights Republican gUbernatOrial , , candidate'does not necesSari1y push away m~re than a -small percentage_of state ~epublican voters. However, a procla:" ina~on tlia~'· the 'New S'tate Republican -, Party ~shence1iorth in favor of ·"repro-

.ductiverigbts'," serves to alienate amuch "iarger ,segrDen( or party members who ' rirlght have otherwise'supported Rinfret, despite differences on ,the issue of abor-·tion. -'

The Republican party would be ' extremely fortunate to gamer the miniscule 35% of the vote they obtained . in the 1986 gubernatorial race. It seems , clearthatmanY'con~tvativeReppblicans

, in the state are fed up with a party which . demonstrates little or no ideoiogical conviction and are ready to vote ' for , .Conservative Party candidate ' Herb ' London, who opPoses abortion.

Based on these developments, , it is clear that some members of the New y orkRepublican hierarchy, particularly . Senator Goodman, would like to revert back to the days when the Rockefeller

' ~irtg 'd0minated the party. To achieve this goal,. they are attempting to grasp ~' . their dictatorial controrover the selection of Republican candictates. If the New York State Republican Party does not ,allow the state paIty mein1;>ers to choose the nominees, not only will they conti~ue to lose the vast majority of statewide elections, but they will also' witness the exodus of vast nuInb,ers of voters from

, 'the fledgling party.

, followed implied that if 'the sanctions against Iraq's S'ad<hUn Husseul are ef- .

. fective, the people of Ku~,ait will ag~ , The globe today is dotted with

free cour-tries - meahing they're inde­pendent -.. where the people, artt anything

be free. , ., , .

In truth, there was little freedom in Kuwmt, as we understand the tenn even before the Iraqis rolled in. Onl; Isreal in the in ' the Middle East guaran:, ~s the freedoms, we tiike for granted, and even t1!~re :they are under seige, as a resul~ of !be, Palestine, Liberation Orga­nization-insightednotingthatllasrocked the West Bank and Gaza for well over a year.

but free. , - "

Compared to 111ost , African nations, fo~ example, the racist apartheid state of South Africa is a bastion of freed~m. _As South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and others have noted:

. The_ nations of Africa fr~ themselves from EQI'Opean col6nialism only ~to en- . sla~etheirpeopleinhomegrown t)plnny.

What, about .t:Iie words inde­pendence and freedom? The S~viet Union, for example, isa fully inde~neJlt ,nation. It was under the czars, and it is

independence and freedom are ,not synonymous. 'The nations of the ' ,Middle East are independent, but their people enjoy limited'freedom. It is im­portant for Aniericans not to confuse these terins. An independentgavernment - ~eaning it is not dominated by 'some oilier country - in no way gruirantees a free people. Only the rUle of law can do

today. ' But the people of the Soviet , Union aren't nearly free. I,

, Within the borders of the Soviet Union ' ~xists several other' countires, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, which were once independent but have ' been held captive by Moscow since the end of World War n~ Even if these countries regain their au~nomy, their-people will be free only, if they are guaranteed cer-

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, Free inquiry is being suppressed -in ' America's univer:sities, The free exchange of ide,as, the honest debate, the

, ~earch for truth are under assault. ' I ' , ,. St~dents are subjected to inac!:urat~

, and distorted political teachings by professors; many former radicals of the -turbulent '60s, who .indoctrinate rather 'than teach.-Ptofessors who push their ~wn~extTemist ideas and 'blame America' theories, using textbooks· that are Qolitically skewed. ' ' "

, On campus violent intolerance is on the rise from-student radicalism. Speakers are shouted down and Insulted. Students with differing views are i'ntimLdated and their newspapers 'attacked and closed, Administrations are caving 'in to the excesses of radical . egali~arianism.

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'I, ,n ,the continuing war on drugs'jn theUnited States, legislato~have at!einpted to create more effective

I wayso~ curbing drug use among young' AmericanS. One of the proposals is 'to attach an amendment on tOfederalfman­Cial aid laws curtailing aid to students ' convictedt in drug 'related crimes. ~To l1}any this seems to be a legitimate prO. posal. Linking,fmancial aid to a'~rson' s crjrninal record m(ght be' an' effective way to p:tCssure students out of diug use and provide greater federal funds to students who are more serious about educatIon. '

, ,However, not everyone sees thisproposru' as fair. In a recent issue of OFf! a member of the United' Statelg- --'" S~dent · Association (USSA) claimed

, tha! this , amendm~nt is an' attempt to : "marupulate low income ,studentS" ~d

, , ~t thete is an increasing problem with financial aid,beinglinked to issues that "have'no/ eIation to-education". '

This argumen't contains some serious flaws. The first is' the idea that drug abus~ has nothing to-do with' edu­cation. Cannot everyone agree that a student,involved in drug abu,Sewill have ' his/her studies impaired? The basis of ' arguing against this amendmen,tcertainly should not be that the habits of drug abusers be cOn<}bned by giving them federal 'tax money on the assumption that the drugs will not affect their stu?ies. ,

, _don't need tp be told "Say DO ~ drugs!" It's a given. ~tever th~ income l(}vel, ' 'people convicted of drug related ctiriles " ,. should be sanctione4.

, ' ,The key word in that sentence is convi~ted. The USSA seems to imply that before allocating financial aid the

, federal government is planning on drqg ,testingeach,applicant. Butnotite, thisi s '

, not what ,the law states. A student must ' , be convicted of a crime in order to lose'

financial aid.' Even then the proposal is ' :modified to 'say that a student will' not lose financial aid forever. in fact a conviction' of ' drug possession ' would only carry a one year suspension of fi-

,nancial aid. Longer: suspension of aid , wo~d depend on ,the seriousness of ~a criIrie~ Whatisunfairaboutthat? Should -the/federal govemnient be required to subsidize the education of conviCted ' ;, criminals past high school?

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,-Part.of the requirementtQ gain backf federal aid , is for the 'student to undergo drug rehabilitation. Whatreason' could the 0SSAhav~foiopposingrehab programs provided by the goverliment? This is more of a seMce, ~ the drug abuser than sending' them to school with

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The provision of fed~ral fi-, nancialaidandhighereducation, whether We like it or not, is nof a requirement of our governinent. It is not owed to us. Yes, scholarships should be need-based. ' Yet financial insecurity alone does not warrant arightto_higher education. Also included should be a swdent'swilling-"

" The second fallacy 9f this ar- ness to learn, motivation , and social , ' gument is the view that linking [mancial character. A drug , conviction seriously ,

aid to drug oonvietions causes discrimi- alters that picture. ( , '-. nationagamstthepoor. ~yonewhohas ' / a pOlice record will have difficulty' get- ., American society has fin{illy ting loans,or Jobs - middle class in-- reached the stage where there is no longer c1~ded. , Th~ opponents of this law feed ,a debate" about: whether there are any

" into the ; ~tereotype, that poor wople" me~ts' to drug u~. The devastating shouldn't have to live up to the standardS ' e~:cts m:e. ~ ioO ~pvious to ignore. of society. Dnig ,ahuse3nddrugcrirrr~i~ , F~y,.thoug;~, the ~ove~e~t is fc:

, , more accep1;able and , understaqdable ',~ . , cusmg on the true ~blem mSlde SOCl-

from the poor _ they don't know' any : ety.~e ~oblems' we face in ~erica better anyway, right? are not thelault of the Columbl3ll drug,

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, fr a student is truly interested in , higher education 3,td-his/her fulfillment, " drugs won't be an issue. Students~ho

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by Joshua Ben-Dov'"

, I . n 1979, the current generation of . .,, ' students became famillilI: with a

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. ye;:rrs ago that the diplomats of the . ,American embaSsym Tehrim were taken

hostage-by the Ayatollah Khomeini' s revolutionaries. For 444 ' days, · 52 -Americans were ,held hostage, and ' Ameri.ca.did .nothirlg .. ·Years later, 241 U.S.maiiIi~s: anti 56 French military personnel were killed, ang still nothing ' was' done.

contmuet9 sponsor terrorism then a~ ~tance must be taken in demanding their expulsion from the JJnitedNations. This

.. Jllltion is obviously ready. U.S. citizens are: clearly; ooderstandiIig the serious- . ness of these terrorists actions and for this reason President 'George Bush haS the sUPP9rt of the nation in the U.S. ' blockade of Iraq.· ' . , .'

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te'mble hard~hips. The knowledge that these t~rrorists arenotin control of nuClear . weaponry is probably oile of the few things that brings the troops some degree of comfort . . '

Israel has no choice b1l:t to actin offense; She is SO tiny that she must act to surVive;but the U.S., aJarge country is

\ also hurt · by terrorism. ,One of the· No nation sh@uld have to qtii~ _ - reasons that terrorism is so successful is

-etly :'Swallow as much as the United because the U.S. fears to retaliate. The StatesalrCadyhas. InJu1y,1989,~a:photo timehascometo~eth~coWtingthe of a han~g Col. William Higgm~ 'was forums of the world will not yield any

. circulated by terrorists-what haQpened ' . result. 'FerrorlStsbaskinthefooIlshness in response? Nothing. The U.S .. has,a of those who try to deal with them. The great deal of power in the world.and yet· world_~ teached-a point were negoti,.

~. Year after year, -the news i~ she is pushed around constantly. , If the ating With· terrorists has become a stan-cluttered with reports of terrorist bomb- U.S. would tum to ISI1lel to learn how to dard. Countries cannot even work out ings and '!.ttacks. These murders must -harness-her power and.l:lse it in retaliation treaties regarding fishirig . rights, and concernAnierica'Wh~ninnocenthurilan .' .to terrorist':'-activity, it woul~ yield"only hostagenegoti(;ltion hasbecomethe norm: lives ate lost. TerroriSm is the., act of positive results. Ronald Reagan proved direct violence on innocentcjviliahsso ." to America. that re,taliation is key. The 8$to.forceagqvemmenttoactinaccor- '~. 1986 arr-strikes of Libya 'by the u.s. dance with the terrox:ist' s persona}: views' " brought terrorist actiVity. iri that 'countrY' ~ or beliefs: SubmisSion is unacceptable. . 'alIhost to a complete standstili. Yest:er­Giving jnjust. oJ.lce sets a precedent. : day it was Iran and Syri,a, then Libya, and'

, . It is time that fr~om-Ioving cQuntries-, such as the United states and Israel, unite to form stronger bonds .and rid the ' world 9f the evils of terrorism. Small groups of citiZens dissatisfied with their c~untry's gov~mment will alw~ys exist, but state-sponsored terronst groups must be stopped~ Iran, Libya, S,yria,

, today it is Iraq-why wait to see who.it will be ·tom~rrow?

Offensive measures must be taken to insUre the safety'Vld peace of the common tourist, citiZen, ,jmd student. How many" more deaths must be wit-

Terrorist activities have ·be,. c-ome progressively more serious. Western nation~ appear to ~ caught in a ,.~. 'catch 2~'. Oefendingtbemselvesagainst . terrorists has become ·an' increasingly difficult problem, and the terrorists have learned how to-use it to their advantage. A nap-on under attack "Clearly has the

, right to self-d~fei1se. Israel is-condemned for her actions, but time -and time again she has proven herself justified. 'In 1976, the raid at Entebbe, Israel took it uPon. herself to set a violent hijackjngright. To this very day that mission, .. Operation Thunderbolt, 'is':stjll talked about Thjlt countei~attack \vas ·the very 'first of its kind. -

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swered. Israel has mastered thiS', and she , has even taken it a step further. Being in the position that she is, sJIe mrist r~main a few steps ~ead .of her terrorists. America must wbrk closely with Israel to-learn how to insure tpat these types of '-' violent crimes will never happen, and if " they do, there should be ' dire conse-', querices to pay. This is 'esPecially im­portai1t now tlllit war with Iraq may be _ just over the horizon.

, Every (sane) persqn wants , peace:. ~o OI~e w~ts to see his/her so~$ and daughters die-not for war, not for

. any cause. Terr6rism, against contrary . belief, is a war. This war is not fought iIi theconventionfd way" Attacks are made on ' .unexpected people in unexpected Pla~s. No distinction is made between . civilian-, and com1">atant, citizen or for,­eigner. The world is placed at the mercy of ruuToW-~~ded, politically demented :. bands of hoodlums., The truth, sadly so, is thai" their methodsaf(~ a hi~hly suc:' cessful method of achieving ,(goal.

A fm:n stand must be taken . , againstviolentattacks. TheU.N.mayoo a place.to begin~ but their focuses are more orr condemnation than solution. The free wo~l~ must unite to form anti., terrorist task forc~s that will tighten ;up , . securities world-wide. Terrorist groups will not be sofast to claim responsibility . the next time: Soon enough, with a few solid responses and some strongly en­forced sanctions-against stale-s\mnsored' ., . terrorism, the terrorists themselves will i'

, Iraq, and South Yemen support terror., ism. These countries provide weapons, ' supplies, and a home base to .tens, of

.~ terroqsi:organizations.

. ness¢<! before ~e Westrealizes the (ailure _ ·of mstant pacification? The 1981 Israeli

bombings of the Iraq,i nuclGaf plants his sa~ed the U.S troops from faci~g th~ possibility.of anuc1earthr~ in the Saudi desert. There are Americans stationed in

Is~el' s . defense force is the world's mostcombatexperienced to date. She tries never to let an attack go llnan.-

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. .. ' '" tiorts you can't answer in the abstract - ' On Octo~r, 1990, Ep~aim -Bernstein, Michael Forrest, and Robert . M. Projansk}r discussed vanous aspectS . of student lifeartd academics with urn., versity President LOis DeHeur~ . The following are excerpts from ' this 'inter- . view. :

BR: What ,was y~uir · reason for-writ~ ' Whenever 'a ~qmaIi group cpnies to­ing a recent letter to the editor of the . ' getlier, ufilessyou begin to develop some, ~cw York TiJnes?, _ ", '., ,<' < - • . types. of eXP,eCtations and gener3I stan-

BR: 'You have, ill the'p~,stateithat. you ,have plans to further ~iversify the

. " . campus. 'How do youpl~ to do this?

LD: Well, this has been a goal Qn this campus and 'most other university cam-

, puses, p~culadyin publi~ higher'edu.,. ." cation. and it m~s~working with ad­missions and 'with: recruitment both 'of students, faculty and the staff to bring

. different kiD.ds of people into publi~ , .

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LD: There$as a veryillinf9rmed 1ype6f ' attack.Qn ·this campus and as the,chief t!xeCutivebffi~er,:I regaro it as·o~eof my pPmary obligarl<i>ris ItO respondl.Plus, I

-feC~very slfOngly:abo1,lt it to speak out if somebody does ~tJMany p~ents :dur­ing PareBts"Weekerid:said truu they were so relieved that son;uro.ne spoke out be:

. cause ·t.hey . w,ere very "~Pset. .] . felt ~ it' , impol1allt to go ' oPlecord to ·,say" look, ·we'reaIine'univefsity. Iresel)ted what I regardedaSani1l.infonriedand'somewh~ unwairant:ed attack on us. - . . '~ : .

higher education who have not been- BR:lthasbecomefashionableonsome when I talk about under. represented rC3nipl,IS~~ ~to adQPfg;g' rules On stu-groups I mean groups wh<? have not had ' dent 'gJ;'Otips aQ.d student publications

'eco,nomicanll s~~ power. ' . , to prevent,tltelitfromprinting mate- ,

, BR: What are 'your -feetings about ., ' .. .. ial that som,e i:\dminis~ationsdeem . aff"U"mative action and quotas? ' , asinse'nsitive ' (0 some groups on

, . ( , '. ..' c~unpus~ Do 'you feel'thatt~ is a(~rr tD: Thosem (19t co~nninqus. I mean, position for 'admPiistrations to take" there are a variety of mechanisms to " to'impOse gag rules on 'publications? achieve a diverseeducatioti~ Affrrmative

, action was developed 20 some y~ ago to do it. There are dther ways to do it. In fact, the best way to ,do it is to work through' yoar normal processes .. The

, federal government sets goals. 'Because ' ,we r.eceive federiU funds, we set gorus

. and we ~eed to report them, The f¢:derat, government requires us to do that. ·aut that isn't the reason that we 're;doihg it in mY'liew: twe'redoiagit1 OOCaasepub1i~ hig,heredu~ation throughout the histOry ,

, ',of this nation has 'provided a veru,cle for ; , all ~inds of under represented groups,

particularly in the social and econemic · milieu to really mov~ up- wheth~r you go back to 'early immigtant history or ' you talk aoout'the GI's. .

:'· BR; .ShetbySt~el, a ~en'Jt~own black :' .' pr9fe~r~~d '~uthor, has sugge~ted

that afT'Iinuiti.veacD.on, w.hose,oi"~girial~ ..

. :oar~ ~fbeha~ior that apply; 'you're gO-:ing to -have a difficult tUne. ' .. You can't, ·:haveabsolule'·freed9oi'orelse, you get ' anarchy. " , ,',' ~ .. ' " ", .

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, LD: I am very much, W favor of general ·education,. not· a, core -curriculum, but some basic requn-ements.thathavesome 'choiceattached·iothem. The~earea'very , few universities where you have a core

,~ currlcwUm where , everyone takes ' the , sarnetlringandfdon'tthlnkthat'sappro­~ priate .here. r thiak that we need to have

'ffiore structure to it, but there still woUld' :be som~ choICe. . \ .

. DR: The.re is a, portion of the univer­'sity community that ish. favor of.a gay , and lesbian studies· prQgr~m~ What

Obvio~ly, 'it depends on the approach truit is takeri:'I mean whether ilis done pleasarilJY ~r viciously. .

BR: The new housing being built is going to cost nine million donats. How d,o youphin to offSefthisoostand what. ' is' thepurpose .. bebind building these" dorms? ',.

LD:· Well, this'was underway long be­fore I arrived. We're at the tai1end of

.', this-' There waS a whole senes of studies " done abounen or twelve years ago. It <includedrenrollment arid space needS and 'they presented this material to' the .

"state boards and,cllerithey authorized· it

BR: So you d~Ii't k~owwhether there will be,anincrease in ,enrollment? J

LD: Well~:no. We worle on enrollment projections 'and then. we work to corre­late wIth housing and other space needs and we IOQkatthe whole spacesitOation. We intend to be somewhat stable b~t with some~~rease. SO~i we'r~right on target in tenns of our future enrollment. '

DR: So ~e sHould have no,problem . offse~tlng the cost of the ~ousing?,

LD:' It's not a direct llitk here~ There is a process where it is funded and the mtes for the room and board are set in another process and negotiation and they have to· be competitive. The people who devel­oped the initial pIattsJelt thai weneedoo­it offers a style of living that is different

. than some' of the others. In my view, we 'neeclto offer a variety of ho~sing op­tions, and that's what students seemed to be wanting in tile past few years arid we

. . look a,: that in teI1'l1S of our total 'space issue; ,

BR: Greek lite is re~tively new on this campus. Do you have anY.particular

, ~terest in increasing or decreas~g , . the influence of Greek life on Campus. ' . I(So, howd~ youp'lan ~o do so?

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. students to fUrther , theiredu-catiop," " ',., LD:, r~,just l¢arning enough abourthe ~ .~ : . , h~been chapged to~silnply' piace mi~ ': ' LD:,Well, there ~ very clear coUFt ~d 81'e y~w. f~elings on that? Do you See' ' ~pus,lthink thatihediffer~ntkirids.of · :. I

' nority ~ students 'af' univers!ties, 're- other-kinds of standards that universities" 'the neceSsitY for it? ',. . :,', ~ Ii~g· iiamingements o~ organizations , ~. gardless ' of their ability,inorae~ to. ' ' sbouldabideby.rmean~there~sace$in . , . ".,.. ..,' .' if. ',:", neeq·ctp .t);e appr.opriate to the student'

have,· a dermite nUJ.llber of minority '" .:point- there's a new p~ that ~J~il , LD:: I . haven 't though~ ,a1>.O~~jt.· lk;riOW. .: ... ···· bOdyJ~n{t:hi$tory and-'traditio~ that yoo . .. students represented. In your opinion, · ' . upheld by the courts in tem1s~of,ifther0 ' that th~te ~e a nu~beF'Of ~eldS thatth~¥ have ~d: this· is , a \JIlique university has afT'Irmative action gotten to thiS , is intended hanh.J feel that particulaFly , have studied, the ISSUes that relate to.It. ' compafed to, . where I was before, the point of "soc~l engineering'~ 4)1- is it ,: .. ,;' a university campQS is a place' wJ1erct we~ Thus far, ithas boo,n'largelyincorporated . University of Missouri. IICnow thatsoine still achieving its 'original gQal? '/' , n~toallowtotheyxtentthatwecan!he ' withfu mor~ traditi<?n~' diScipliries, J d ' students 'have an interest in that and I .

/ opportum·ty~orTc\P-flpletodntheir<>"tI.\tihav, etoseeaprot;V\., ,.Sal. ',' " ha' ven~t .. "';"l1:yhadamee·tin· gWl"·ththem LD: WelI,it;seountetpro<;luctlvefoliev- ' ' 1'; i'~, : "'-' , - u\,F , - _ F"' .. ~

eryoneif' webnn" g' peopte' to'1-."ap· n-of ties;tohaYethe4"speech,but.th~r:ecomes , B .. ·R{,Somestudents.fee, lth. atthere :is. a", , yet.lIfuow they are relatively small here ' our' :m·ve'rsl·ty'· commum·ty 'w' lJClio arale" ",Lot ; a pointwhere)'ou"re respons1ble for the, '.Ube, ra, I bias, ,on the part of many pro- eorpparedtoothercaInp~whichmust bi Uto be ' ··thia me~ , to be;~ ' health. and welfare of eyeryone, so there fessols'in the classroom. How do you ' reflect something about the ,history and

, a e .. WI , so , ge '. -are S6rriesuindards. '. " "'~. ,'.,. tradition and the students that we have Participants. They have a bad experience, _ . feeJ about tJte fact .th,at many tinies a '

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ver~ity commu~ity, ' and you _;~on't mg, ~peeGh'is fOl'bidden. Bu~ on cer- t"'~n both sides of an i,ssile being ac-~chieve goals of trying' to provide op- 'tam campuseS, adicles critic,izingaf- ,.cepte41 .~' BR; You were verbally attacked. for . pottunity ~or everybody.'! . ' \ . fIrritative actio'D, ga;y marriages, and Ii~:"it depends 01\ where you ~it. Knowl- .' some of your writings on homose~als .

': . '.' .I " .• '_ " • _ ,tmngsofthat-naturehavebeeb1deemed ,edge is b~ically relative., it's not 'abso- ' and th~e in jail. How .do, you feel BR: When you speak 'about the ad- ' " . t~ d '. '. , .. ' d ' . t· , b tth .. .. ha

. • . -. h t kind~' In' d r~elS a~ .'I .. s.e~sItlVe ,an .' cer am tule, ', ' 'Ie,S' ~.elativ, e, to tim. e, place,' 'aad his:.: ' a ou e mlSUltel'preting m w t you .. m~lOns, w a 01' goa.., · o you . . '. " " . ' ii' , , " '. ' . • ' ' ' sei.. '. edl~o~s.h~veb~ep .. s~pen~e~.or .. orc~d , tory, €lep¢riding~n your frameworks,. .' ' wrote fIl :Your scx:~ologytext. .

" to SIt m on senslbvlfy tram!Dg to sen- , ' ,vaiues and ideology and so knowledge.' LD: I felt ' that, particUlarly in that in-> , LD: I haven;t ~ke«(this ' question spe- , .. , sitize t~«;m:t? ~~~ .ideals ofthe groups , juSi'changes sO much ;thlt you can t i set ' stance,in t3I.khtg with them, that they Ila'd

.Cifi.lC~y of our adm' issions peo' "'ple, b'ut they were·crlticIZmg Do you feel that ·· b I " "' ...... ds ,,' '." , ,,'. . • " . a · so ute stanwu 1

• ..,. taken the. passage out ofc onte-xt Th, "ey wePtow what kinds of students who are ' 'someone could :aca~emicallycriticize..· . ", tikely to ~J!lCceea. The prediction ofhu;. , such thingsashomose~ualityorarrIr~ , DR: SO y.ou think thatthere isa place ~dn:'t ,~.~ it within the ~n~xt of~e man behavior is 'notaS easy as predicting~ _ . mative, ac.,tiOli" without · being · homo- in the ~!assrop.J. for ~fstudent to ques- ' , ~hole',chap~r: I taIk~ ~lth them about the growtlLof plants, 'but we do :,hav~ phobic o"be~ng racist?' tion 'a .professor on his pOlit,ical view~, . "It-and they dlsagr~ '. variablesyoucanlooka~Sow"ebasically, ' '. , " .. ontheyieWs that he is i>rop~g~t~g''in:'' DR: ,Th~nkyou for Y..Qur,-time aQ.d'

c LD: ', 0bviouslY,,·all of these things 'are;' hI ' ? '" " .. " ' recruit peOple within, ~d every ufiiver~ , . t e c assroom ~ ~. " , g'ood luck as our new 'uuiversitv . , . . deven~g ~il the context o~ ·the charac~ '" J

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Angola's Civil War UNITA IS str1!'ggle for. democracy continues

by John Maggio ~

T hQughmostattention concem-fig Africa has been focused on

, South Africa, a major struggle may soon be successful in anothercoun­try in that conrlMnt Angola, located on -the South West side of Africa, has beeD '~ a country engaged in a civil war for the past 15 years ana democracy ~ms very possible. Through these years of civil strife, the Angolan economy has suffered dramatically and definite changes must be made as soon as possible. -

Most of ihe commotion oc­curred after military officers overthrew

- the existing Portuguese government in 1974 and indepe!!dence was soon after declared. The two major resistance movements, the Popillar Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the- National Union for the Total Inde­pendenceof ~g~la (UNIT A), had their chance of establi&~ing a de~ocratic govemmen,t see.med likely with the

\ signingo~theA1vor Agree.mentin 1975.

This idea was quickly ~hed as the Soviet Union and Cuba begaq to take prominent steps to secure.a communists stronghold in Luanda. Arms and troops from these communist nations soon en­tered the area in support of the :MPLA, creating a civil war which has continued to this day. C ,

UNITA, headed by Jonas Savimbi, has struggled for democracy in this war-tom country despite the little monetary and arms support coming from the United States. Last December alone theSovietUniousentapproximately $1.5 billion in weapOnry along with about 1,000 Soviet military advisors to help the MPLA, while the U.S'. supplies UNITA with the measly sum of $50 million an­nually. Miraculously, UNlTAremainsa powerful force challenging the commu­nist govemment for multiparty ~lections.

Due to all of the. warfare which­has taken place in Angola, the country's economy has suffered greatly. Ofeourse the majority of citizens have been nega-

tively affected wfiile the wealthy Marx­ist elite' is able to live pleasantly. By controlling the oil industry, the wealthy elite are able to sh~ in . veil-stocked stores, live in beautiful areas, and con­tinue to back the communist MPLA regime. As this goes on, the majority of Angolans ensage in an extmordinarily different lifestyle. Due to the misman­aged monetary policy followed by the

, MPLA, the AngoIaD currency ,Kwanza, is basically worthless. In order to sur­vive, Angolans are forced to participate in illegal trading, candonga, ~ the black market. It is there thai residents are able to obtain the nece8$3ry commodities for subsistence rather_than in supermarkets where the shelves are barren. Beer, oddly enough, is used-by Angolans in this underground economy as it is used to barter 'for vital items such as watef. This beer-bartering system is the economy of Angola where the posses­sion of beer is a matter of life and death.

Despite its weak economy, Angola is richly endowed with a variety of natutal resoUrces, but the MPLA has either deStroyed what existed or ben­efited from wliatever they can. The agricultural ind~try which once flour­ished l)as been greatly diIriinished. Cof­fee output t:eached a mere 18,000 tons last year as opposed to 200,000 tons

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produced in 1975. Similarly,otberpro­ductive resource markets such as fish­ing, farming, exporting diainonds, etc ... have all plummeted. Oil though contin­ues to be produced in vast amounts, but the elite rather than the majoritY are allowed to take advantage of this re­source. Once the 'bread basket' of Af­rica, Angola has taken a s~ turn for theworst -

The UNIT A forces are con­tinuing their struggle and recently they have been making substantial gains. By using hit-and-run guerilla tactics, UNiT A is malciBg life more and more difficuit for the MPLA regime. Mavinga, a key base for UNIT A, which was taken over earlier this year, has been forcibly placed back under the control of UNIT A. Luanda, Angola's capital, has become almost surrounded by UNIT A forces and popular support seems to be grow­ing as an increase in pro-Savimbi graffiti is apparent Now is no time to cease aid to Angola and the UNIT A struggle. In­£reased support will force the MPLA to the bargaining table with UNIT A. Only through negotiations can a cease-fIre be achieved and a multi-party system with free elections be created. United States support/must continue to help turn this economically devastated country into a flourishing democracy. '

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South Africa> more complex than it appears. Socially, there is no central government, and no education is still segregated in public ' restraint OR' the use of violence. If , schools, but this remains a bitter area of elections were held today, in which ev-debate. The country is seriously short of eryonecould vote,,itwouldbeimpossible quaiifierl teachers, and it doesn't appear '. to ensure that people would not be in- , that the problem will be solvedin,thenear ' timidated into voting for one of the more

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, future. South Africa carl not afford to" radical parties. If one of these parties, , bring the education of every person up to like the Pan Arricanist Congress (PAC),

by Larry WisS~flk " particulatly cruel~origthe Xhosa tribe, . " the major tribe in support of the mc,

~ the lev~l it-is ~tJor the ~hites. And the. _ were to gain power, apartheid would whites,understaJ:1dably, don't want the simply be reversed, and South· Afric~ quality of their education decreased. - wopld sink to the ' level of the other RaCial hatred is still npnpant on both 'the . neighboring countries like Zimbab\ye right and the-left Aith~MaristBfi?thers" aI)d Mozambique. ' a Jesuit school inJohannesburg. Bfuck " childr. ,en's parents .ha. ve bee, n kill,-ed,for .' Ther~ is an old joke in Sou~

'S outh~caisa~e~~wi~ . ~a~sethex~osas.believethat,aper~on , an erugma. TheIr pOlitIcal cli- - who IS cremated will not J:lave an after-

_ mate· is completely different life.

" from oW; -own. We IUive been blessed­with apathy and nioderation. South Atrica h3S not had that grace. Here it is

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,unheard of for people to be killed for ' t,heir political beljefs: TlJer.e, a' black man' Who suPPorts the go~ernment.cim disappear as an example for the re~t of the cemmunitY,. .

In the black· townships, the African National Congre~ (ANC) sets up boycotts ofw~te owned stores. The plack women want to shop their because the products are better and cheaper than the products in black ow'ned shops. However, if caught by theANC's thugs, kids, between the'ages of 15 and 18, the consequences 'can be severe. Besides having the ,grocyries , taken from them, some-women,have,·been fQrced to drink the bleach' or drain cleaner that they bought Unfortunately, the government

> C3lJ do I}othing, because no one is willing to testify against these hooligans. -

The main enforcers of ANC poli~y' are the black youths who have been indoctrinated by the ANC and are allowed to run raplpant ,on the town., They control the townships through fear and intimidation. Anyone who opposes

~ theIn will be kll\edas an example to others. Thep- favorite way of killing is nec~cirtg. This is easy cheap and easy because it consistS of putting a tire around the victims neck, dousing. them with '. gasoline, and 'b~lngthem. This is

The ANC" of whom Nelson ' Afri tha th ' n1 1 S th Pu, ttmg their children in, an integrated ca , t eo y way to so ve ou "

Mandela is Vice-President in charge of , Afri' bl . ' ~1~' th 51 ' school. Th. esc,' hool has received. seve.tal . ca s pro ems IS tci) m~e It est suc;kerlngtheWest,isverycloselylin)ced ' ' Y' .I.!,.;' tl h J, "

> bomb ,threats. , Fortunately, none have s.tate. et, m'a sense,-,ulci IS exac y w at to the South African Communist Party , . n~ to ~ done. , Assuming that ev- ' (SAcJ;»; 27 of the.35'members of the gone offbefore,being defu~. " ., eryone.hasanaturalrighttoparticipatein ANC'g executiv'e: council are also ' , Now to co~pllc~'te matters, their societytlirough voting, there must _

, membersoftheSACP. JoeSlovo,leader there are 10 distinct tribes in South M- be~mewayofassuringthattherightsof ·r the: SACP, is also a 'member of ti}e rica, each with its own langpage, customs, thetl\inority are not infringed upon J>y, " ANe .. It will hopefully be remeinlx1red , and, of course, very own politic'al party. . ·the will' of the majority. Anewconsti-'. tha~Mr:,Mandelao~n1y announGedbis Amongpoorerblac\ci,andtho~livingin tution must be ' drawn up that aUows "

/ support for Fidel Castro and Colonel tribaI'homelands, people belong to Po- every,person the right to vote. It must <

Mummar Quaddafi in· their revolution.: Utical parties almost solely according to also.include the'rights stare<lin our Bill of ' ary struggleS. He has called f0r llie , tribal affIliation. And each member of Rights, and perhaps most impOrt:antly, a nationalization of the majorindustr!-es of " the tribe will protect his own people and gUarantee that private' property will .nQ,t South Africa and the redistribution of , only liis own people., Thus, ifamember be taken away without ~ue process of wealth. The' ANC has alS0 been classi- - of the ZUlu tribe is killed by aXQosa, th~ , . ,taw. ' Without this guarantee, a"backlaSh ' ,. fieda,s·a terrorist org~tion 1>ythe U.S. Zulus will revenge his d~th by killing a from the' conservatives in the. coim~ 'is

'Defense DeI>~ent Obviously, the Xhosa, who 'will, in 'tum, 'revenge that ' assured. Once the constitution is adopted " group with , the most common interests d til ," b th ' ' ,' . be ,!. ted th ea '. ' y e country, It can expec at

and that we should be supporting. . ,-' ' there must be' a co8Iitlon of some parties ~-The two largest, tribes are the to establish the government, since no one j'

. Perhaps, it is necessary to , , clarify w,hat remnants of Apartheid still ,

remain. Economica.lIy, Apartheid , is virtually dead~ The last 'remnant, the , Group AreaS Act will expire this spring. I,t will thenbe legal for blacks to live in . white only districts, whi¥h many of them

, can afford to do. Politically ,:everyone is allowed to vote in local elections, :and state elections. Local bOards decide on education, and other matters ~onn311y leftto local officials. Whites, Coloreds,

. and Asians, can vote in national elections. Blacks are n,Qt ·perniitted to vote in the electioris, but as we'll see, the issue is

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Zulu tribe ,of 6 million people, and the party' or ethnic group fOnDS a maJority. Xhosa tribe of 4, million people. , They , The best ' hoPe for South Mrlca 'is a . support the ~ta movement and . the' coalition between groups- ' that share " "'ANCrespectively. Atthemoment,they I ,similarmoralvaluesconcemingmarriage . are diligently killing-each other in the. '" and the family and that believe strongiy

-Natal region, where approxirriately 700 'm capitalism and the ability_ of an indi-people have been~killed ~d~OOO have c , vidual to succeed .. It Wilftake time to

been wounded. establish a· constitutipn that protects'the , , " ':4 South Africa's biggest problem

is that there is so much hatred of blacks , (or whites, and whites for blacks, aIld blacks for blacks that the sountry could easily becoi1}e anorher Lebanon, where

individual arid -ensures equality. '; But onlYiftherearesuchg~deliD.esand they \ are honored by everyone, Will the cooo­try remain united. .

. . ~ Doyoub8ve the right stidf? , , " Get your career off to a Hying start. Become a mer.' There are no on .. campus drills. plus, you . yourself ~ongst the be~t and start-off making

. Marine aviator. If you're a college freshman, , receive $100 a mOl).th during the school year. from $17,000 to $23,000 a iJ; , , sophomore or junior, you could q~alifrfor our Seniors can qualify fOl; the gtaduate Officer , year. See if youfueasure up. - , _ .

undergraduate Officer Comlltissionirtg Pro-" , . C0lllllli.ssi6mng Program and attend training CheeR out the Marine Corps gram and be guaranteed flight Sch~Qlafter gt;ad- after giacllJation. ,. ,.;Officer CommiSSioning ~ -, ' .

. uation. '~ training 'is conducted duting thesum- . This-is ~ excellent op,portuniwto prove Programs. ~ '.'

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. "Sensitive" Speecb Residential. Life dictates appropriate language

by FaulD.Schnier

W· ~ere"s the party? lfit is ~ , '. blind-date party, it's not . ' '.', oCcUrring on the SUNY·

Binghariltol:t campus. 'Residential life . (coordinators, assistant coordi~tors, '

. residential direciors~etc: .. ) has deemed -'<- '· the tenn "blind-date'" to be discriInina~

tory. The .. ~~ ~esw.i1l s!ill be .~ ,- . perm,iited. however the titI¢ 'will be .

" ample the phrase "dutch treat" is unac­ceptable. Their defmiiio~, "to share the ' . cost, as in a date," ;mplies that Dutch ' . people are' cheap. What else is a: "bad : word?" c'Ugh:~oico~e~ TIl~ Multi-

. cultural Management Program claims ' that ,"ugh" is "a, guttural word liSed to mimic J.}ffieqcan 1~d4ui spee€Q~~' . and '

, they deem ~ tenn "highlyoffe~ive~" '.Tfi~ list goes on tq include such cpm~on­wQrds as burly, cleat, sweetie~ gyp. f!ied '~nicer"3nd,mQre'inolusiveso'~tnoone

will.feeneff out: . ". ~ ." ~.' , . , :

. chicken'~and senior 'citizens. , ' ~ I, _ ~. ,~

..' ... :' ~'. ' Alas, residential life ,' is hot \ ,'~ " How'is it discrinl1n~rY? , It- alOD(~. . The tyninny of "the minority is

hasn't been dec~ed biased agains(the . ," .indoo,trinating the majority not only on ~ :,,' bllnd,i:atheragamSthomosexWiIS. That's ' , ~

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the' ty~anny of the ·.rni-nority. ,is irtdoctririnting t/zJ' majority niJi 'oniy on our camp~~' but at

AJ;l1iversities 'across the nation. ,. . .' - -.... .

right, for all lh~ y~ li~I'O$e~uals have been neglecting the feelings ~f ho­mosexuals by having·blind .. date parties~ You see (no pun intended). ,rOOmmates' ~atch each oth~r with a date' for the evenirig. What if one of the roommates is a homosexual? According to residen­tiai life, he may feel .uncomfQriabl~ tell­ing his roommate that he. prefers to be .

-matched with a person of the same sex, or he may SiiJiply leel ,awkward' attend-

J ~", fiJI: a: party with somoone of the same sex . (or opposjte. sex for ¢at matter). So, ' residential life has "solved" the problem by renaming the event Now, homo­sexualS will feel more comfOrt{lble. HoW absurd!

cOne group that will agree with this ridicUlous, act, is the MUlticultural Mariagement Pf6gtam at the University . of Missouri School of JbtnnaIism. They . recentl}"put together the B~dhWord Dic- . tionary, statirig words or phrases mat are ' unsuitable fortoday's'society. For ex:'

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nation . . Why wasn;t there a forum or .a . vote on this issue, which obviously af­feets only students? (Dr, does residen-

. ti,allife have "blind~date" parties?) It ap~s that residential life ~as the.ir\~wn defmlte agenda and studentmputls sun-

"' ply not warlted. Just as dictators force rules upon their people, residential life is forcing students ' to use vocabulary is': sued by the campus. What happened to freedQm of speech? .

. Ignorance is truly bliss; ' sim­ply changing the nafne: of an·eventappar­'entlyerases the problem. By selecting . everyday terms and labeling~them as offensive, the point is being missed. Residential Life should' search ' for op­tiooal educating devices, rather than . forcing new phrases on the students. Will this change bring homosexuals ~'out of .the closet" 304 into the'party ~ne? . People's Prejudices must be changed about the actual issues, not ·.the words

·'theY ,use to .refer to those issues. ~

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the McLaug~J.ifl Group. (clockwise from left)Jack , Germond, Eleanor Clift, John McLaugnl,in, Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke, and Pat Buchanan .

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A - ' THE'McLAUGHLIN GROUP .< e Ch~ck you, l";'al ii,ting f~' ,tation and time.

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Right on Target! Con$erva~ves .~ The true campus minority

by Michael Thomas Malloy can'"is a targetfor·hateandinsgnsipvity · by many people at SUNY -It This "fu­-'I. oda. y at most coUe~es around ' . tofenmce" toward conservatives can ~

thecountry ,Suny-Bmghamtpn seen in the. policy ofaIlowing each S.A~:-. ' '" mchided, conservative students . chartered dub to display posters or dittbs :

are considered to 00 'one' or all of the throughout campus~ In theOry, this is to . , following: a) out of. touch with 'their ' infonn people who may be interested to

peers, b) racists, or . c) . close, I;llirid~ . . participate in an up commg actiyity~ An . · ihsens~tiv.e. fierids. Whichever the case~ _ example'of club advertising is-the GPU' s acconling to the·Libeml establishment-cif, rep~gnant littering of put canipus' o~ most uni~~rsities, conservatives,are iQ "Commg out. day.'! No matte~ how· of- " the ~l1linorltY·, .. That being ·the' C3Serl ' fensivethe.GP.UflyersmaytiavebeentO . , ' 'tOOk' out mytnisted Webstet~sand diC;l a . . ' ~me,~ple, thef8ct is that they had"a litt1~' soul s~hing~ ,-.... right to Post those flyers. In €ontrast, the:

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. 'Minority' .. accOr~i ,to. Wel;ster~s .. Bmg~tOn ~evieW has .bee~ Po~tfug I :Oictiol)a,Ty.iS"defmed,asc~a&rP1;1pdiffer,:, ; Iflyersaboutorgariiz3tion~meetingsand : ' ..-

iDg .. from the .predominant 'section of a regtJlar m~tings sip.~ the ' sChool year .' , . ~., ,,' . iarger group in one or more chaia¢teris- ' "-. began. Sadly, peOple deface theSe flyers '_ ,:.' .

"'- tics, an<l as' a iesuit often subjected to \ or te.ar them down: · differential tteaimellt 'resultirig in dis- Another example of the iDtoleran'ce. crimination." ·In other words a person ' suffered by the conservatives on'campus . . who is in the minority is a-person who is . is that the main soUrce of news directed . dissimilar from ~e majQrity. In our so- towards them, namely the -Binghamton ',,' Ciety these people are thought to deserve · Review, seems to be syste~ticallytossed . sPecial treatnient. In theory, this is done -in the garbage, bundles at a time. Isn't it ' to help the minority cpmbat the repres,. · . the purpose of acollegeeducation to hear sive ways of the majority. In addition, . allviews,andjlldgeeachviewonitsown . this counuyrecognizes a minority group me~ts? In an article 'written by James B. and gives such a group the statuS similar Miegs in .the October 5, 1989 Rolling to that of an endangered species. Laws Stone, Bill Grace, a.' member of the .

-are then created to help the minority and Dartmouth Review, states, "It's'ahealthy protect it from the malevolent tenants of thiDg to go out ,there aI'ld test your ideas,

-oUr society. This is_ajust aIiqworthwhile to stake yourself publicly to ' a thing for civilized people to do. SUNY - ' position .... Being, an educated person

, Binghamton is a microCosm of this so:. means' focusing on a search for truth." . ciety. ~ and as such must follow these, 'noble' pursuits. .

SUNY -B has failed to'aid a particular

, . Why, is inhen that some people

try to prohibit students from reading and participating mille Review? The people · . whothrowtheReviewoutareonlyprov- . ing ihe importance and significance of, the Review, namely being a foruin for ~onservative t;h0Ught at S~':Bing­hamton.

. minority group on can'lpus. 1)1is group has had its leacIefS. trashed in tlIe school's papers an4 Classrooms, its belief system CONdemned bY ,various student-:run or­"gariizations. This open hostility l,1as . stigmatized th~peoplein this group. The sad fact is that because this minority The Conservative-American must be group is. not protected by,an indifferent noticed. He/She must start speaking out UFliveisit}r, the people who compose the anddeCIarethat, "Conservatism is great!?' . group ~ili develop a low self-esteem." Or"Yes,l'mLibertariananddamnproud ' Beeause this institution dQesnotprovide of itl". The Liberal intellectuals who . -role-models for this gr,oup th~ maleswill sCream for sensitivity must now give the . turn to crime aiid the wom-en will pose a' Conservative-American the respecUmd. burden to-an already strairied social ser- _ human dignity that is' afforded to them . Vice department. - imder the constitution. COllservatlve-

. Americans ~e ' a part of this .and every . 'It is the intention-ot this coluinniSflO ,college CW1)pus. Itis t!ffie ~t t1)ey stand

· : ,be an advoc~ for this repressed' group. ' , up for the ideology they hold. Only' , Theminonty group that is discriminated <; through active involverpentcan conser-against more than any other on TIllS" vative students survive what-William F. , campus . i~ the -.stUdentconservative BiIckley calis, "the Liberallaundromat-' community. The "Conservative-Ameri-. tbatis the American university."

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