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60 Minutes' Report Vindicates Coors
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by John R. Guardiano, Jr. Dana Barooshian, a leading . member of the Democratic Investigative report by Mike · r f A · · d Wallace which vindicates Coors of Socia ISts o menca praise any recent wrongdoing. Nevett for his ban on the sale of . Explained Wallace, "While Coors in the campus pub charging that Coors is the practicioner of Coors was accused several years racist and sexist employment back of discrimination, a charge pol:cies which discriminate against that was settled out of court, the Woa1en, Blacks, homosexuals, and EEOC (the Equal Employment other minorities. Opportunity Commission) now Ba:·ooshian also alleges that considers Coors one of the leading Coors harrasses its employees with Affirmative Action employers in polygraph witch hunts and Colorado." "uncm1stitutional ·searches of In the past five years alone employee lockers, purses, and Coors has been honored as cars." He cited a signed affidavit employer of the year by such civil by form'!r Coors employee A. rights groups as the Urban League, David Sickler as proof that such the NAACP, and Operation Push. allegations were true. R eview Staffers point out that Members of The Binghamton 17.5 percent of Coors employees Review strongly disputed are minority members, Black, Bamoshian's charges, insisting Hispanic, Indian, etc ... while 22 such allegations to be a complete percent are women. Wallace found fabrication of the truth. They many. minoriti~s ser~ing in referred to a 1982 Sixty Minute's superv1sory and other leadmg roles.
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from engaging in any type of lobbying activity. "The Herjtage Foundation is a body of nationally and internationally renowned scholars SA President Jon Nevett has who conduct research on the banned the sale of Coors in the pressing issues of our day. The campus pub. Nevett cited Coors' Foundation publishes reports support of the Heritage Foundation reflecting the research of these scholars. However, Heritage as justification for his ban. reports carry a disclaimer saying Said Nevett, "Coors is a leading financial supporter of the Heritage that the views expressed in reports Foundation, a con servative issued by the Foundation do not lobbying organization that lobbies necessarily reflect the views of the for student financial aid cuts. And Heritage Foundation. So contrary if their proposals were enacted mto to what some [Nevett ] may think, law the results would be Heritage supports no specific devastating. Friends of ours would program or policy," explained be unable to return to Binghamton." Feulner. Review Editorial Board member However, Nevett's ban on the sale of Coors in the campus pub Billy Schor insisted that in the has stirred controversy at the interests of academic freedom must be given complete usually tranquil Binf!hamton "scholars 1 ibeny to is~t'e reports 'h·it .d1 :'+ Cw.l_ti-U~ Sophomore Ying Lew their own findings, whether we articulated the view of many agree ·or disagree with such students in saying, "Even if what findings. Since Heritage doesn't John Nevett is insisting were true, lobby and only contributes that still does not give him the right thoughtful, new ideas to the public to decide what beer I can or cannot policy arena, the only conclusion I drink in the campus Pub. College can draw from Nevett's boycott is· students should be given the choice that he is attempting to censor of Coors. We're all mature enough thoughtful, new ideas merely to decide for ourselves what beer because he disagree with such And that's wrong. we should or should not drink." ideas. Attempts, to censor ideas at Editors of The Binghamton variance with ones own, especially Review insist Neveu is creating a on a college campus, are just false issue to pacify the extreme left wingers who, they claim, dominate wrong." Continue<t On Page 8 many campus governing bodies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·~~ • Rare Are 1 hose Happy -: such as the Student Association. Said one Review staffer, "I : Times When You May : think it's pretty clear that Nevett Think What You Will, feels he has to play to the loony liberals who run the Binghamton : And Say What You Think : student circus. If he doesn't satisfy t Tacitus1Historv 1., 1. : th d' 1 th 'll d h h d'd era 1ca s ey ow at t ey 1 to DeCaprio. Using Pipe Dream, ~·········-~----····~ Looking Left, and the SA meetings, they'll slander him and try to make him leave office in disgrace." Editors of the Review were iNSIDE... particularly distressed that Nevett acted unilaterally rather than waiting judge SA......... p3 to get the approval of the Student 0Students inions on Pipe Dream.. p3 Association. 'Cork Bashing.............. pi "Personally, we like Jon," said Homophobia............... p5 iC Yan Rusanovsky. "But in OCC wastes $$$.......... p5 \ unilaterally banning the sale of A Social room question .. ¢ Coors at the campus pub he acted Prison of the week........ ¢ irresponsibly." · Ralphy's Club............. p7 ic Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.; Memoirs of a Madman .... p7 ~ President of the Heritage Communist Condoms ..... p7 Foundation said Nevett is mistaken as to the nature and role of the Heritage Foundation. Feulner cited section 50l(c) of the Internal Revenue Code which prohibits public policy research institutes _.
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