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by Billy- hor ' · .. On the .. morni,Flg .of No¥elilil,ber .. . commented that the attack 'ori the JS.t ; lOth-, the day after the 50th · "showed once and for all that antianniversary ·of Kr~tallnacht, g1ai'Iy S¢mitism and anti-Zionism .are re(\lly . .students gathered outside the locked . the same. It .goes to show that the 'd@ors ·of the Jewish Student Union. " · . 1:1gly face of ariti~Semitism lies under . Disbelief, -sadness, pain and anger the fac¢ of anti-Zionism, as expressed were vividly Written on their faces. by today's attack and the Uriited · Eariier ~at morning smrieone had . Nations · tesolq.tion . that equated ~ vandalized the office by spray painting . Zionis!ll with racism". In facl, some · vfrulently anti-Semitic and intistudents voiced an opinion that the Zionist slogans a5 well as s·wastikas · attack was meant to occur on the · on the walls of the .office and . the annive~sary~ of . that UN_:resolution, . . chapel where the Holy Scrip turd are November 10th. ·· housed . and where Jewish students _. , - Ma~y students d6bated abo11t th¢ pray. Rabbi Slonim, whose own best way to -react to the attack. Some parents suffered under ': the Nazi with anger in their vbices wanted t~ regime; and wl}ose relatives ·died in -- call th~ Jewish Defense Organization, the . Ho~ocaQst, stood by·. the JSU a New Yor~ based group that responds office and t old the studcnts.·gathercd · · -~ anti-Semiti~ actions using strang· there that this was "Kristallnacht . arm tacticts .. However, cooler heads . 1988 style!". Rabbi Sl~nim , heads prevailed and all agreed that the best CHABAD at Binghamton. . way to combat these acts was tc:> · Officers of the University Law : · expose the horror .ofthis attack to the Enforcement division were contacted · mass public. ·"Using TV screens and seon after the . acts of vandalism were' the pages"of newspapers lo portray the . discov~red by JSU member Jennifer . visual images of the horrible cnme . . Rapoport. After the officers arrived . these acts may .b e prevented .in· th~ · o~ the scene they cordoned· the office . future", one student . commented~ · and call~ in the crime experts from , "This is ·a much better ':"ay~ t0. fight · the New York State Police. · · these people; to show ·to ·au that this Meanwhile the crowd outside·the can happen.in America in 1988 'Vili .office grew · larger as the ·students learned of;what had occured. Darryl con~~ed on p4 ·· Fi'lx, ~e fomier president of the J.SU

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foundation of ·this state . ._Y~gpslavia . 1 . ~epu_bJics of Latvia.• Lithu-ania; and the . region around Shanghai~ China's ~ , KarL.Marx ·said th~t capital~sni was · ,. was the artifici~ creation of-diplomats Estonia. The · official formation of . main industrial center. This relative just phase in the evolutionary prpcess Qf . at' Treaty . of. Versailles, w'elding ,: ; popular ,fronts,·in Estonia a,n d Latvia, failure appears to more the result of , utopian com.munism; However, Marx togeth~r a volatHe mixture of eight . who support the goals·of greater internal . lingering government control than the ' . " · was only partially right; ~conomic ·, ethnic · arid lingui~tic groups, three · autonomy; resp~ct for in~ige. n.ous :free trade zone system itself. . In Tibet, ·development is .an evofll:~onary process; .' religions, and two a_Iphabets. _Tripl,e· · languages,. and: _prevention of furt}ler . · ethnic .te~sions flared up in the passed· what he was wtong:about was.the order. digit inflation, estimated toJ)e· ·arolind ethnic Russian 'immigration into .the . year diiy in .large part to the inflU:-oc of Today, throughout.the world;, witli few . Chinese 1mmigrant$. and the continued -217% and .unemployment ·.-hovering . . republics, are _a ' sig~al· of a growing exceptj.on~. coinrn~nism is · being cast - ·. around 15% have helped ·stokc.the fires . - sense of nationalism. " The continuing subjugation of 'Tibet by_ the Beijing I govem~ent. ··. · · · .overboard· the ship:. of state in favor of · of populist riatioii~lism. ,.J • . . conflict bctw~n the Soviet republics of . free marketec.onbmics: This has been., , M.r. ·SJobo(hin Milosevic, the: · Armenia and · Azerbaijan ·over the · Burma has · been the site of huge graphically illuStrated by the trend of the ~ ·cotnmJmist party. boss of S_erl]ia, which · ' anti-government demonstrations · ·autonomous region of Nagornopast decade iri' whidh these nations t~> · . , is the largest Yugoslavian federal resulting in ·the death of hundreds fired. Karabakh h~s no..t abated. . The Uk.rainc ·, forsake s6cii1list ideology: in .favor of " republic, is ,..thy leader .of a ·Serbian ~ . on by government forces ·and foui coup remains tqc greatest pot~ntial threat to capitafist practicality. d'etats; all ofthis being the result of a . campaign ·__· to ' obtain great.er --:-1 . internal security if there is ·a resurgenc~ pro-Western democratic _movement. - The recent Kremlin coup carried . ~ rcprcscntatiC?n in ~he government. Even. · . of ·nationa-lism:~ - The qucstioQ of Burma's revolutionaiies champion (he out by Mr. Gorhachcv is a c~ear .· though Serbians are one-third of the , official recognition for the Ukrainian. example of these new . trends; -· The - . population, they rccieve only one-eighth' : United. State, Great Britain, Japan, and Catholic church 'iemairis the ' .·niai'n demotion of orthodox communists, such · West Germany; not the Soviet Union; of the ·po\Yer. This is due to the federa.J , raliying pofht for nationalist. It seems · as Ligachev and ·chebrikov, and _tlle . sttucture of the government wfi'ich :· . clear · tha,t witho~t new repressive ·China, Cuba, or Vietnam. ·P otentially . ·promotion· of .r eformers, as, Medved'ev. -assures that nd ethnic grqup will _· me<;}sures fr9m · Mosc'o w, the .SoviGt one:of the richest nati.ons in East Asia, .. signi.fy am · important ,shift in Soviqt become predominate~ .. Huge .Serbafn ·. Union will be increasingly wracked with Burma's government has ·made the policy. . ~Jle ri,ew party ideologist, rallies have been. ~t.aged tl).roughout · - · growing nationa listic movements nation poor and is now forced to import Vadim Mcdvedev has already made among. . . .the subjugated minorities. vast quanti~ies of foo~. despite the fact several iconoclastic statements including tha~ c.olonial Burma.exported· foodstuffs tl:ie inevitable intersection .of capitalism l;?efore indeperrdence~ . · · - _ and communism, which seems tq_ imply In Algeria, recent rioting and a rejection of communism's historic war . govemm~nt repression, resulting in the against eapifalism,. and that wm:kers·death of. 300-500 hundred protesters, shall be cared- for by "paternalistic further demonstrates the failure of statist business." In addition to these heretical command economics to provide the. statements, Mr. Gorbachev ha~ basic necessities of life. Massive expressed his desire ,to rcforin Soviet · .. shortages of the essentials, includi_ng agriculture by a' 'process of ' dei: food, a 25% unemployment rate, ana an . collectivization and promotion of · ever decreasing standard of living and a · inciividu'll initiative and _private foreign debt well over $2.1 billion have enterprise. ' . .. . . ' resulted from. the plunge in oil prices These . new rcf,9rms, now b~ing and the nation's dependency on only a ' promulgated by Mr. Gorbachey and his single_ commodity. In the 1970's; when ~ · Kremlin cronies ate partially based upon oil; .prices .hit their apex, the Algerian ihe .Hungarian model of a mixed go.v crnment wasted the profits by - economy. ~ppo~i~on to these r,e.fgrms _ · creatii).g a mas~ive. welfare state and comes strongesHro~. the nomen~l4tura · ·:... ,. further d:isc·o&raged·foreign invesiirrleilt.. , ih¢ bloated party' 'bureaucracy. Mr. , · .'J;'he resuJt.of tlile drop in ·oil prices has Qor-bachcv's policies of Perestroika and . · 1----'-----"--..,......-------~---------'--'-----:--~--.....:.J ~ieated·: a' sense of . fatalism· among Glastnost .have not -yet resulted· in the Yugoslavia, resulting in the fall ofthe Throughm~t the rest of tne East Algeria's ymath· because there appears ·to higher standard of living pt omised and . communist cpa~rty . leadership in bloc, etl'lnicity . and nationalism, old . be little hope for a job or a decent · · one o f th~ two autonomous ,, forces .that· Marx said would bc fur·the· rmor·e,· . th~y - have · caused· ,t·h e ;Yojvodma, . .s.tandard :of livin·g .Over half of "c(.lpitaJist.C\isca~es" of ·inflation,_~ebt, regions within Serhia. The other one, . 'transcended by ·· communism, have Algeiia's population' is under 25 year-s and unemployment. Recently, while Kosovo, has been the scene of intense ca.used tensions among tl).e "so~iarist . · . old., The soCialist model, ·adopted .by Mr. d -6-rbachev ~as in ibc Siberian city ·ethnic rivafry between S:e rbians and fraternity of . Qations:" Hungary and Algeria, Syria, and Libya have all failed of1Krasnoyarsk, hc.rcceived an earful of . Albanians: tn two other .neighboring . Romania . reached . the· brink of war . to raise .t he standard of the common "''nts ·and cn·t1·c1·sx:n. concem1··ng the . . because of Romanian dict1ltor Nicolae Compl ...... ·--republics, Montenegro and M~cc· d onta; .: ~cirkei, while allowing the party elite · lack o. f pro··g·r.e ss I·n· "res·.'tructu''_ri·ng" I·n · · · h . ' Ceausescu:s policy of "systen:tiz~tion.''· support fior Mr.. Milosev1c camprugn.. as and. state bureaucracies to · become . ·- been strong. Both o f . th esc repu bl'1cs two Spl.te o·f 'the have' mimy' sacrifices -of .the · ·r (:read: forced assimilation· of nearly · h · wealthy and powerful. Re(o_rm in · population. In , addition to growing alSo suffer from ethnic strife with·. million ethri.k _Hunganans mto t e , Algeria is imperative; yet it seems skepticim about Perestroika, there also ./ Romania'~ , __ niaj_9rity). In ·,unlik~I y. . · appears to be an increasing sense cf~< · ·. · · · · , ·· Despite these tremendous changes, (~p.athy ·for :Mr. Gorbachcv's -reforms.: ... ·. · there still ·remains fervent marxists ·who : : · ·... appe~rs ,_ This maybe one of the key reasons for ' · beiicve·'in 'a "socialis~ worker's utopia." The · list of such nations is ·easy to .I the recent 'Kr_emlin ~ coup. · Mr. ' b~ 0~ - -. compile because it is the 'same on~ as . Gorbachev appears .to reaching the stage . , ~ ,:· ~ t:f· . ---. ·:, of ¢ isking air -f6r ·.suc·ccss: Slow .. "' . . . .. >. . ·.·'• . .. • _, · jP,o.~e .wJ:lo hoped to ~mb~rass th_e Sou~ . . · Koreans .by not show mg. up to th.y . -Sooul summer Olympic. . They include., ·a glimpse into the future of his , · Cuba,: Nicaragua; North K;orea, · · t \m a ·mtxe ·. d economy,. · · · . 1..":_t_·a,·.' Slovakian ·nati_on.alists ;; Alb'ania, ap.d Ethiopia. . These five states · ~ · expenmen · 0. nee Albanians. Mr· Slobodan's · qucs~ io . <:;zcchoslo.vn~ trumpeted as the .SUGCessfijl panidigm of become the new Tito of Yugoslavia was ' ·. hav_e ~p~gu~iJto question the . Ciecr ' "are: amgng the most repressive .... mixing socialist cQntrol with capitalisf_ .. ~: dealt a ~set back by his inability ~''to ·domination the· state. Here too, lhe· . brutal regimes in the world~ ~ H ungary · · · noyv su f" Cath_olic chkch .J:la.s. served as a rallying·· ·· free\!J.om, ··It is really an acadeiriic qu~stion ,1ers ·rr<?m· replace the party l~ders in Montenegro. · m·I·c prob· l · e m.s These · poffit ~. or n~_tionalfs · 'ts ' .,_ The _ Czech . whether or· not communism, as Marx ·' severe · · · econo · · · · - -~.Meanwhile, _ the nor~hcrn and : m0s.t ·' · · > difficulties. jnclude 18% · inflation~ . Westernized· t~p:ublieiOf Slovenia arid government remains very repressivG arid • and Engels conceived it, is.in a termal ~' growing·: ranks of unemployed arid a · Croatia·~ ·· there: is ': increasing- fear and · has~openly _defied Mr. 9orbachcv ·with .. -condition. _Mr. Gorbachev may in the , :- . massive forCigrt debt. -The experiment resentment fo2used on· Mr. Miloscvic their rejection ·of. Glastnost and .. end realize that freedom land one party . ;~ the New Econo~~c/~cchanism because of h~s perceived $'eat to.'turn . Perestroika . A recent demonstration in rule cannot coexist. ·Then he will be_ "'_app~ars to h~v_e ended m failure. q11ce Yugoslavia into a ·~gre~ter Serbia.·: Prague:was. ended by police action~ In· faced with the reaJ . challenge of t:eforming the-Soviet .Union; whether Qr , . ~-; agam, t~c fml~f'~f.:~~~~::·:~.- ~Qf~s '· ;;,~;.: S?-fhe:qecJsibn:; ·~- ill .h~vCo:·; t~ .b_f1 .maEJe· '.. Bqlgaria, th~ government is carrying out \ ~~e axi.o~ . th~¥l" S!!=~~s ·:. ~~at: .¥,ar~~~t ~ so:on ab.out .thc futUre of YugQs\avfa.. _'.~~~:';; ' not he should ·d ismantle its totalitarian . p"oliGY s.if.rill.a r•tO that of Romainia. :: economics and ~centmst totahtar•ams-m ·:·'· ·· · ·. , -~ ~ ., :t\., ·:: . ; . ··: ·.~ ,. ·.,,.:: The,..orlcfmilllion .ethnic Turks have been · ·' system: a~d :replace iWith democracy. ,.J camiot SUCCCSSfaily ~~bc9Cisi" Whft eft~c~·~·. ~-·I ·:; ;<·:;~ ~(-. ~·· . . ~:. :. ,.•.. ..-::__ .the'target,ot:lttfi'· aggress'ivc.campaigri.Qf · Thc' likeiY'rbspon~e LP this 'query is that ·; markets and the entrepreneurial spirit. , ' , . cultural assimilation. Even·in refutiv~ly ... ·Red Army .~s'w'illbjish any_group or ' 'Without a full embrace of capitalism_ ·" prosperous East Germany; there :i~- a . sta,te \yh~c-~"- ,·~xper,icn~_es too , mu~h · . an4 a total ·re}ection of statist ~entralized · · . Within ·' the Soviet Uniop itself :: rising tide of German nationalism ~nd a ·_ glq..stnost , ~'n9 per;{~trol}ca .. .. H;owever, . economics, the socialist faJJures around.: nationalism and ethnic strife appear to desire to reunite with the west. · ·. · _th<;} - longe~ l\fli..,J3o:rbachev _waits, .the · the world will continue toplummciinto . be· op the tise, th~nks in large -part, to, · In much of the -rest of the .sociaiist · · harder.it wiUbc to restore the: old order. - . the abyss of economic stagnation a_m;l ~.Mi. Gorb.ac.he:v~-s policy o((;lc;zstnost. . - i world, there are similar problems. The ; . Burma can ·no 'lortget.foliow its path to· ·suffering. . · • .· · · From:· the Baltic Sea to the ·Caucasian ". ·People's R9pui:Hic of China has h~cn : . sochilism, J:I'e ither can, _Algeria: Once again, Mr. Gorbachev niay .-~· Mountain~-. nationalism is erupting: all _· experimenting with mixed-cconorri·j cs ·: . Yugoslavra· -appears• to be sliding into want tQ )ook west, · this. ·time .to . . .over the Soviet empfre. ,~The ~altic . since the late seventies, first under the '· ~haos'. imd 'who reallY. knows ho.w much .. Yugoslavia, which is· similar JO die · . republics have' bcch the scene of large . · leadership of Dcng Xiaoping and ~ow·· . longer the Ukrainians . will remain ... Soviet Unl on in miniature. · Massive demonstration', .commemorating · the · under Zh~o . .Ziyang. , Som~ of China's S.il~nt.: ·.. A's th~. ol<t ~:Page · _ g oes, , "you~ demonstrations, ethnic tension, and: 19~9 .Hitlei~Stalin ._pact, which ·allowed -·market based economic zones have not . can't put tlie ' 'toothpaste .back in its ' '-. __:economic dislocation haye rocked the Stalin to annexed the three independent · · . rperformed tip to e~£_C~tion,/ including· ... tube.'; ·

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At ·seven that evening over four · hun.dr¢d students gathered _in th(' UlliOn to commetriorate Kristallnacht pt1938 and·· the aqti-semitic attack:of. that ~ morning; ¥.any wore<yellow' aimbands wid!' the word ;'remember'" . inscribed within the Star· of David. · This.. ine,s~ager.. · seemed . ~'vei:y / . appr~pii~t~ iq'lig_h,( qf.~hat:.~appe~_ed ·. today'\ :DaTJ.Y.l Fox ~xplai11ed. . :· "- ,.. . .For aqout an ho,~ sev.,e~al ~tudf!pts, _ . ~ administratioh:0fficials arid .members .. - · of' the 'clergy ~ddies~ed th.e drowd~ _: Univeciity PresidCnt Clifford D. Clark ·'expressed ~ his - hon:or and . utter ~isS(lpointment as ~he shared with the.. audi~nce ~.is experience whcn.he as (ln,_ . American'. GI .patticipa,ted - in 'the liberation · of D'achau a · Genrian · concentration camp.·Ali the speakers . ·called for unity among students in.ihe lighf of.the attack, and vowed to fight . any .discrimination of any kind,wit~ lOve and education. , After the. Vigil many students

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:On Nb.vember 11th, t~e ·d~y p[ter the JSU break {n, Billy S~r spoke to _the _ still distraught president of the]SU, J ames Oppenheim._ The following is the _interview t/u# w~ conducted. .

_~R: What w,ent throughsour miiid when you dicoveroo what was_done to the walls _ 4 . • . ,:. ,. · . . ~ ;,{O: J :*~·-ver}t\shci6ke<t~~W~t somepn~ 'is capabl~ of committing such ~ 'actip this · day..i\f.ld~ age: ·,'l .don't think ~e people who did this ean ever understand what it is like for a Jewish person to see a swastika. It takes a very hateful person -to do · ~mething like this. · ,. · -· _, .

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-~ BR: Wh~t were your feeli.J!g~·art:er y9u .8aw th~. vandalismJ .

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BR: Were people around you supportive? JO: Yes~ I would like to thank all the sttJdents and especially the Black -Student . . Union, whose office wa~ at our dispoSal. ·I would like to personally thank Joseph Cerdcrrc:), he was very helpful. · · . ·. .:, , .

BR:·Have there been other acts of anti-Semitism on this campus? JO: Yes, incidents.of anti-S,emiti_sm: are·. not restricted tQ the JSU office. Two ·weeks ago my dorm room· WaS· defaced-and swastikas were drawn on the walls. . \ .

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Polis.h Jew of Ernst Vom Rath, third ·secretary 'o f the Germav Emb~sy · in ,·Paris." _) On ,the n,ight .of Nov. 9, 1938~ an . orgy of looting, beatings and arson --. It is clear:toda:y that -Kristallnact was . convul.sed throughout Germany "and., an orchestrated caq1paig~ which aimed Austria, as Jewish-owned shops, 9ou~es - at the demoralization of Europe's Jewry and synagogues were destroyed~ This and .all other- opposition to the Nazis . . infamous date has been comnienlOratoo . As one ·_h.istotian notes, "A poli~e state as Kristallnacht, or The Night of.:Broken ;. i .does not like spontaneity". The Na~is - Glass, ever since-, named after the debris reacted · :O.slensibl-y _ after Herschel · from shattered pane glass windows ili~t .- Orynszp~n.~);q\y: living in Paris littered the streets .of Germany.. · · assassinated '·a low-lcveJ German . The event has come to be·known as · · Amb~s~ador .upon_learning the brutal the epitome of bling hatred and violence. det(,lils of his· parents~ degortation to. · But, . more importantly, it serves as a . Poland. Propaganda Minister 9oebbels monument of the world:s chilling · used his a~tack as a pretext for what he indifference to bigotry.. called a "spontaneous .outburst ~ of -~ Even -in·l938, the world -knew o_f· · German wrath"; which in reality ~as . _ Nazi barbarity~ The New York Times ' carried ovt by-his S.A~ henchmen. . , ran a front-:-page headline: "A wave.:of , . , Kristallnacht· has been called' the · .destruction, looting and incendiarism , - · turning poii1t 'ofHit~er's reign, whcr~ he · unparalleled in Germany·~; since ·tne· ·· realized thar. he ·could do virtually · Thirty Years War and :in El:lrOpeanything, regardless of the protests §.f . generally since the _,..,, B olshevJk pro-appeasement goverQmcnts sucli as · .· . Revolution, ·swept over greater Gel11lany Great Britain. Until then,. few tQok -- today as National SoCialist C:otiorts·took Hitler's foreboding threats to European vengeance on Jew.ish shops, offices and . Jewry seriously.. And when it was synagogues .for the. mu'rdct by a ;YOU~P - ,. evident .that he.meant what h~ · said, th'e.

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BR: Some say-that something good, may come of this incident, is-that possible? ·., : :, JO:· I really thintc that nothing good will come of it. We should never ~Y t() ~-·· rationalize the in~ident by saying that something positive will result. :

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Jc'>: I lJon~t know wh;lt they were doing. I was v_ery frantic but ULED told us to look through the office. They told us to go through the desks, !}le file cabinets and . the -book racks. We found the .spray can that was propab!y used. My fingerprints. are all over·the offic~ and the spray paint can. · · ·

BR: Some people have said that ULED took an ·unusually long tiine to allow the news cameras inside the qffice. Critics of ULED allege ~ cover up. What do you think? . _ · _ JO: I really don't know -b ut they ict us in just after .,the story was over on tLe . net~orks, at ~bout a quarter after six~ ·

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Cmmnunist?'·" and:,each time [there is sach.(an eyerit] i~ the pennaneilt committee 'tl:iat meets PrOfessor Donnelly: ·. He's an old-tirilcr. everyone is predi<;ting that this is going when the Sovietis no(in session, .so it · · He's one of the oldest -6nes in the - to be the final - and ~the conClusive is · theoretically a poWeFful position:' Politburo .and a hard-core. Stalini;t-type. confrontatioo between the Gorbachev · - However, it hasJ>een in the past mostly' Gorbachev h,a s attempted' on several l faction and _me-opposition~ The calling r 'a ceremoniaL position.· _If Gorbachev. occaSions to get ·him -out· but he has .not of tl}_e [recent ·central ~omnlittee] was' . ' now assumes this position; with yet succeeded. This means· ·the faction wiU. two .days notice, which ·is _very dissent, ·what does he intend to do with that we lo~sely enti~le in the press as unusual. It was supposed to be in late it? If he intends to actually transfer "conservatives" still have considerable Oc!ober so they had to'- summon _ some real power to the .government clout.· __ ·_ · _- . everybody and-flew them in, Ollle from · institiltlonn, then maybe thisis a meaRs B R :· .. Hqw· str:ong is Gorbachev's Swe~en:, one fron.t the United -States, . fpr him 'to -increase his power. That's ·support? . one_< from India. - However Ligachev, hot clear yet · . -· . Professor Dnnnelly:The last figures l ' who is ijsually , considered to be the ( B R: What wer~ '·sonie · of the other _leading·oppop.ent of Gorbachev; was on. saw by a real Kremiinologis.t is that_ moves? · _ vacation and was not summoned.·. Professor - Don~elly: Cherbrikoy, who ~ Gorbachev had -o30% of the ·central B R: What about- the -retireme,n t of Committee, the real power center in the was head of the K.G.·B., was put_into present· -time -in the Soviet Union-. President:G.t:omyko? /. another positimi where he, has to·reform When the Politburo . })as a conflict, a Professor Donnelly: 9 -romyk_o had been: th~ legal system. As somebody puts it, split, then they have -to carry it down to in the limelight for, many years, and ·the fox was 'let loose in · the chicken this committee for a resolution, so this was · ~~ -old henchman of Stalin and . house. However, we shouldn't forgetmeans that 70% are either neutral, .. protege oCMolotov. He had, at one , that the ~the army and the K.G.B. 'are . . waiting : to see v- what happens, or tim~,,- some - power, al t!Io.u,gh. l . _ probably the J:!10St liberal institutions iR - personally · always. _thought .his . power · · the Soviet Union, if you want to call it .- _opponents. BR: If Gorbachev plans to change the __, w~s rather li~ited. He ·had n_o par-t y fhat . . They -are in . ffi·ari-y respects , ·organ-ization behind-him, ·he-.w-a s }ust a enlightened institutions, probably- more ., party structure, what wilr'he face? Professor Donnelly: Most authorities on gov.ernment offiCial. [He was] a man so than the party establishment. · My prominent in carrying ~ol!lt . foreiga_ ·: the ·Soviet Uriic>n think that: the party own· opinion is that the :K:.G:B'. is now policy, or establishing it, _or at least ' play~ng a prominent role: :· Aridropov establishment is -really going· to· resist conducting it So, I never thought that · was_ head- of K.G.B for many years; any significant reduction in paity power. he had very mu~h power. He may have . Gorbachev was Andropov's protege and But apparently, that's wha~ Gorbachev is rumor~d to b¢ doing to open up the b"eetf"a ·symborto' some ·o f ' the monL . . he ·was associated with·ithe K.G.B .. party and -to make it subject to more coilservati·v e elements in .the 'parti:.- He·· Chebrikov has headed the' k;G.B. as-an democratic processes._ And if he's i~ · now about eighty years old~ and· it's adherent ofGorbachev, and the new mart moving into the position as Chai.nnan - tiine to retire. . I don't think ·-his who is the assistant to Chcbrikov was of t)l~ Presidium-€>£ the SQprem-e Sdviet; · retiremen(means anything· significant.' put in [his ·p iacel as a. prdte$sional. So, to e~tabljsh ~rJittle more-real political BR: Will Oorbaehev take advantage ofI don't think that the K.G.B. is beirig authority -in" that body, maybe . he is Gromyko's retirement? . · ·. dowriplayed. 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demands included ·t he revision of .t he · by Ezra Shapiro · student code of conduct~ renaming the In the November 7th issue of the · occupied building ."The New Africa Binghamton Times -. John Guardia:no · House", . setting a goal of a 50% wrote a pers~tive on campus diversity increase iJl minority enrollment, an "Americans with colored skin . . .- , the minority type most commonly recruited 1 increase in miQOrity cours~ offerings, and the availability of _"ethnic" ·fo.ods, by universities like Bmghamton ... in the dining halls. dispiopo~omitely poor and illiterate." Linki~g . affirmative actiori· -.to In addition, · on November 9th $Orne person, or.·people desecrated the 1e:wish · . whether someone actually is a racist · ~is e~tremely misleading. Webster's Third Student Uniort ·spray_ painting anti- · ,Dictionary defines raeism International the on Swastikas ·and slogans Semitic you ·than in the · United ·S t:ates of walls. This evei}t occurred on the fiftieth · · · as "The assumption. that psychocultutal · . · Arrlerica. ' · anniversary' o(Kristalnacht, the · night· . traits rujd capacities are . determined ~by . · · ·The Pipe· t>:r~am qHote- p'oses : a marked the ·: begin ping of · the . ,., biologiCal race and tl;lat :.races differ that a question as to the effecti'leness decisively from one another which is _ ·. . . ·· Holocaust. mass raily of thousands of students ~sually coupled by ·a b-elief iii ·.-the ·of e~idence Is there cases both. In that "seem to ' indicate" that the inherent superiority of a _particular 'race the instance~ for theTinies· In · bigotry. American .Dream is a lie..:But as their and i~s right to' the domination of . to say that Americans seemed article . . ~ c~ntribution to the -cause, the only -wit)j '"colored s}.cin" at Binghamt~n are _ ·others." The .. New Racism'i is basfcany . "acco~plish;lllent" ·is a _change in the _ an -attack · on the Reagan Adminis"illiterat~." .That i~ a racist. ins.ult to .· ) name of their campus newsp~per- not tration's position on aff~ative actio~,. · in ,color has everyone for student, every . ;:- what I'd cal~ a profound··response -to' position outlined in the Republican The . whe~her its Closer 'to pink, .tan, or them, for et the "inhumanity"·of Arrierica. -Y Convention this . summ.er -National v. human the of part all are We brown. all the horror of the "inhuman policy · will resist-efforts-to replace "We states, any .say to preposterous is Itrace. of this . country". ~ - our university' equal rights with discriminatory quota minority is "illiterat~" on this campus sports teams continue to carry the .systems and preferential treatment." It . regardless of whoinyver they are. Also, - wretched ·brand- Colonials. · It is continues, "Quotas are the most ~-something is there that Times'infers th~ - s~ang~ that this mass rally 4id not. \\frong about being "poor." ·If that were "' · insidious form; of reverse discrimination ·. Jeast impact a change upon the against the innocent. "the Republicans the case then. maybe Abraham Lincoln · athletic department, which 'flaunts state that they are for equal rights, but · ~nd lawyer, a become have never .should much more (>penly this title (People against · quotas, and preferential - later PFesident.- · When the Jewish 'ev(!n cheer for them) ; . Surely believe when · They - treatment Student tinion was attacked: the intent minorities have ,opportunities . in was obvious. It was to sadden and education, and careers, they_have an enrage ·the Jewish students . on :this equal chance, and raCism is 'thus . Many achieved. was aim This· campus. ":I f. t h defeated. However, once quotas are students who hadn't seen such visual ~Jty evidence of'racism before, could.now . · used, more qualified people are denied the same opportunity. 'Quetas are seen · · see it for themselves. m<;>n:e.y." as ·a form of reverse discrimination. Ra~ism exists on col~ege 'carnpuses, .I . .. . l.'mfessor Short also suggests that · around the country, and in practically affirmative action promotes much of the · every neighborhood in the country. rachH problems on college campuses. How are normal students to respond to "thousands" of students can do more under a government that would not His point is that non-minority students blatant raCism ~nd insensitivity? Is - for their oppressive society than this! · allow such a luxt.iry as . ".free press". racism just appearing now, or has its ' feel ·that they are at a disadvantage when ; . ugly face always been with us? In an Finally, this. country exists today So in this respect, the name changers applying to prestigious universities and because. colonies were established can be excusedfor their naivete. graduate · schools. This leads to ill August's article· . writJen ~ in here. The colonists that li\le.d· here But at a certain point, .the:irony· of f~e~iags by so.me non-minority students. "Commentary"' writer Thomas Short . . established a goverfimcrit and secured · the "-pipe dream" mentality can be · challenges ·the belief that racisrri is on All this ill feeling is being interpreted the rise.. He instead asserts that racism ' . rights for the new America that still ·• conslJered.nofhing les~ · tfi~n ignorant.· as racism .. Students aren't the only.ones has been redefined in academhi. He exist today. They"'e ven . established If there is no Amer-ican Dream, then I involved in changing racial affairs on . is that Racism" "New a is there declares . would . venture . ·to .guess that a · · · your right to. have your official ' ......... . campuses. Administrators in many to "opposition' premise-that the on based "pipe a represent newspaper cam:pu~ ' · supreme a be would umvers1ty system instances have installed quotas for the race based preferential treatment is racist _ dream·~ and for you .to demonstrate for ~- . waste of valuable money. · Uriless · a . hiring of minorities to faculty in itself." .In -other words he means that that cause. I think it may he time for majority ·of peopLe on this .cain pus--. Outstanding exarn·p les oppositioi:t to .· affirmative action ·. , · positions. a new "mass meeting" on the SUNY . ' expect to go, to school for four years include the state college system of .·programs, and campus '.'indifference" on Bingham toll; :. caJ,n·p us- c:this time to , only . to graduate and retire themselves Ohio, Wellsley College; and Duke. -· recognize the ridiculous irony of our . to . a . meager_ (though ,mor.e . - While "New Racism" is . being · race ha~ been interpreted to be racist. campus publication's title, and do ·knowledgeable) existence, than I by the administrators and accepted Left the Short, Professor to According something td change it. And while expect that the American Dream is · seems that the advocates of it students, of meaning the redefined effect in has we are at it, ·maybe it's abot;It time we still very much al~ve. ' this new definition, are racist in --racism to achieve their own aims. At . little · a people Amer,ican tlie give ., By even saying thaLtlte ·Ainerican · themselv~s. Governor Thomas Kean of / / the . Univershy ·of Massachusetts at credit for maintaining this democracy Dream is a "pipe 'dream", these New Jersey said as t]le Keynote speaker non-minority and minority, Amherst, · and creating a country where the young Journalists are -pr.o ving at-the ~epuljlicari National Convention . students '-alike took over ' the Afro-. ' lives. ·Dream. American themselves · wrong. This -group of _this sumnief, "Republicans ·will make it . American S~udies building after · an students-is gi~ven money to say what . cleai: -we will search out oigoi:ry and alleged beating of two blacks by five · ,· racism -we will drag-it into the sunshine whites. The students occupi~d the • . . . < '-.... ' ·• of understanding and make it wither and building . for five days untiL the die .." Racism will not go away if - ·Administration gave in to their 1 ignored. The only way it will end is · demands. ~The defnands- were very _ when we move from ignorance to points five had they because unusual . .. , .. ·. . . - . r ' :-" .. -' . . ... L . . . ·. . •. ~derstanding. th~t did not qeal with the incident. The

By Kathryn Doherty year the Pipe Dream prints (I assume with pride).~e explanation of the title of out campus ·publi~atioii~ I often wonder, ·aft~r ·r eading it, if . ·anyone else shares my disappointment· . · in . t~e assumption made for· the.~ . ·students of Bingh~mton · that the American dream is dead. · · As th~ ~Pipe Dream put it: "At a : · mass meeting ·last year, attended by several thousand members of this community, it' ·wa~ .decide4-· lh~t . a ·. · name such as the Colonial News ··w as too .easily identified with the inhuman · policy of this. country towards other · , peoples of the world ...The decision at that ll!eeting indicated to us a -feeling · that the American Dream is a lie.~." ~ (September. 15,1970) - · : I find it truly iro.I;IiC that a newspaper jn this country_. wm,Jld . . · adopt such a philosophy and title~ In .their ·denounciatj.on of America:, they: change the name of a publication (of their own free will of course), never ~ realizing that the ability to do this ~t all is fairly ·unique in this · world. ·Perhaps this is just a typical reaction of a group of students wl;10 take their rights for granted. · Most -o( us are spoiled enough to ~a~e ·.never ·lived ~ch

they ·want and represent th,emselves. however they y.rant. Qnce again, it is . pure ignorance that _lets the spoiled ~merican . skip these · .i mportant ' details. ~ Rather, we · should be thankful t~a(the · apility. to ·publish ·. . our thougll!s. and opinions is not only _· allow~~ but is..our inalienable right. " . And believe it or not, nowhere in this . . _.. · .world is this righr more protected·for ··

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