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, In the latterpart of the 1980s, and into f990, there,'h as been a , 'Many Americ~s appear to have difficulty in discussing such tyranny. Itis somehow. believe4 that tq discuss these matters is to provide' resurgence ofpride amongst black Ainericanson the subjectoftheAfric~ 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'U1tpanofour globe"and has long-been n~glected~ the newsme4!a. on.white. ~outh Africarrs. It means very 1itt1~ to a black that'the black or whlt~t It is a ,p $fui irony t4at.blacJc , " . American.students for the fnostpart:igrtoranton the sqbject, aridshouid , murders ~ his c9.~ntry ,' 00 encpurage4 to edu~ate\ilie1JlSelves on ' ~e topic.: Ye.t a p,roblem ijes in ',.' South Africarts on 'w hose behalf AfticaIismarch~ e'n joymtire treedom than ,;'the focus 'o f ~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,e aegal allow theirpeo~le to . "., " vote m elecnons. " . . f , . BlaGkUniversity sttlden~, ~he~ discussing the;lopic 'of Africa, , . appearto shiftthe~ f~us .solely on ·t he Reput)lic OfSbuth Afiica. More -' ',.

Mrica;Watch; rul international human rig~ts 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·t he 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. . ' '

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, 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 .r ecognizing' 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: ' It is a sad commentary that peqple in the West have no problem' forces and ~tary-hardware than ifreceives in aid~ -~o date, b~ack ruled " \' 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. weapons and IlliU.tary are not used to .comestothetopicofblack-on-blackviolence.Itdoeslittleto·ce1ebrate.t he 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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These are only several of the many · countless 'examples in which students , ,. ~ersas'YeUasfreshman , ·,rightfully voiced their steadfast ·<;>ppOsi~ . . Recently in New Jersey, NJPIRG was . tion ~d, appropriJlte ,disgust of foiCed "7 are unknowingly being levied upon by, 'various nlterestgroups who hide behind' ~ento court on the issue of itemiZation fundingfor.groups thatthey (Ion'tbelieve . . The 'S._A , in a referendum, is . the cloak of the controversial activities .. , of theirallQcations and their ad,arilant represent,the majority, but instead are prOposmgto lower the activities fee. The fee. Whether students are aware of the , refusallo publicize their expenditures. made up ofahberal mlnoritywho,blindly ., fee wouldbeloweredtO$54.5OUom the reality that they suppOrt groups whi~h ': , Here in New York, NYPIRG was also . fo~ow a misguided agencta. present$60. Instead of argui,ng whether , thiS is a sUfficient doc~' or if there have ce~ political agendas, of which. . ·sued in court and the4isputehas yet to be There are many other orgarli- · should be an even Steeper decrease than resolved. In ~tion, last semester the . they might not agree with, is not an issue · zations on c8mpUs that tak{f stand$ on , . ~. $5:50, maybe it would be wiser to Students Against Forced Fqnding, an . . and does not seem to matter to the'S.A., political issues which onlyrepresen~ a our elected student government at organization fopned to gather'suppQrtin abolish the activities fee altogether. It is mmority of the student population, yet order to'pmtect,student rights,. charged . .

SuNY-Binghamton: ,here, in the emdication of the activities that NYP}RG 'harassed students 'who , are financially ·supported by the major·fee~ that a possible solution e'xistS. · ' One example of.th~ S.A.'s reluctance, ity. Regardless of an individtial's posiheld a particularmioority belief. to deal with the immedll!.te, yet tiresome, .. S.T.A.F,f. then'reque&ted that the Judition on such issues,as birth cQntrol aDd If the activities fee was to be abanhomosexualactivities;orhis/herreligious doned, then no, one group would be situation is their inability and/or lack of cia! Board suspendNYPIRG's' charter SUNY· and cultuml beliefs, students at supported through the current, indirect desirability 'to confront this iSsue and . on the basis o(those ch~es. Similar Binghamton are· paying for, an,d in a activities fee but by direcrstudentsupport se.riouslyinvestigatewhere ~tudentfunds ·allegations ofharasSffient stemmed from only. Groups that are suppOrted by a . sense' supporting, ' such practices. go when allocated to orgahizations. ' . incidents where students from Tufts _Therefore, it is ~pparent that,NYPIRG is '· · majority" which have a purpose· and University were constantly badgered by .For the past ~o years and counting~ not the onlyorganiZaqon.on campus th'!f: . program that are ' worthy of support, MassPIRH while they ate, attended· NYPIRG, a "public interest group" on lobbie$ 00 one side of the issue while - should have no problem raiS~g inoney classes,· or just walked, so as to gain , campus, has- ~n asked repeatedly to throughmembershipfees andotherkinds ignoring some ~ple opiniQns~ Howproduce some ·sort of budget outlining - stUdent support when PIRG's. budget ever, with the present structure-'Of th~ of fundraisers. With ·this type conwas considembly reduced by the state where student monies are distributed unactivities fee, there is no choice for the . . 'figuration~ those groups that and how tbey arebemgused. To this day, : S·enate., . .students. popular or·have discriminatory views • no one haS been able to produce a budget, . · woUld cease to exist .

In another embarrassing incident inor any similar itemrz.ation of fundS". TIle volving MassPIRG, Wellesley College At some ~ersities across the nation, many students who request the NYPIRG students lobbied in order to be able to' .. . there have been propositions ~~ incor- . It is time for student groups to become budget believe it is an jmportant issue vote on,the legitimacy of PIRG's taXa- ' porating ali itemized negative check.;off · indepenaent, for the good of the campus •and the students it serves. Groups should because each student who attends this tion ofan additional $4 on the tuition hill. system. Tufts University, has ~niployed such a system ant!.allows students to ' feel that they can survive \he tealities of university ·pays $3 per ,semester ,to , Fortunately. the students struggle was scrutipy and rigors of true democrncy NYPlRG throug~the activities fee. This . not in vain; and they were successful in ' check off activities to which they do not · without ·the crutCh of the activities fee ' mandatory fee amounts to approximately. want to contribute money. both lobbying, as well as voting for the supporting them. $50,000 annually and is,partially used to deletion of MassPIRG' s fee fro~ .their. ,However, although students j -..;-.._---.- ._ pay for the ,services of professional lob- , b~iSts. ' o

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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 acopy ~ 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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, 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.

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. GOP in Shambles '· AFreeKuwait?· / ndependence and Freedom : ther~~~ a difference

Hav~ New ~or:k State RepubliCans iost their way?

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Platfonn,Committee, the plank is essen, tially adopting the pOsition of Repribll-cari National Committee Chainnan .Lee ~e New'- York State Republi- , ,Atwater, providing a "tent" fQr those on can Party has once again furboth sides of the abortion isSue. ,Howthered their already antiquated ,ever, ,Assemblyman ~ataki' s assertion outlook into the 1990's.Th~~whlcfi that this shift from neutrality on the issue ' has been at besttecedingfor the pasttWo . of abortion to blanlq~t.support for aboi~ decades~ appearS to be heading further , tion rights i~ in liIie with Mt.,Atwater's downwatd. This year's statewide can- ' , 'desire-'to ~ow diversity on-the iss~e is didates offer evenl~ optimism in - dubious; at best In fact, npt oJ)1y doos the past few tickets, a dubious achievethe plank abandon _those Republicans ment considering thep'!flY'S fledgling ,who are opposed to abortion on demand recent ;history. ' ~ / the literal language ofth~ provision is of ' s~ch a varil!tY'that it suggests that those First of an, the.party mlistenter wlio supportgovernrnentrestrictions on ' the 20th century and adopt a noniiruitmg abo~on op ~~marid,are roughlyequ~v;' , process jnwhich New York's registered ilant to "big brother" ofwelian,totaliRepublicans select' the candidates for tarian' tyrants. ~ ·statewidenICeS. Thiswouldbeawelcome

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on't get me wrong: I fully Support President Bush's de,. r ploymentofU.S. troops in the Middle East , But I was disturbed by a , headline I saw the other day reffering to Kuwaiti independence. ' ,The story that , followed implied that if 'the sanctions against Iraq's S'ad<hUn Husseul are ef- . . fective, the people of Ku~,ait will ag~ 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.

uu.n rights: to own and-exchange property; to openly express their opinions, as ipdividuals and through a vigoroUs free , 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. , The globe today is dotted with free cour-tries - meahing they're independent -..where the people,artt anything 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.

independence and freedom are What, about .t:Iie words inde,not synonymous.

'The nations of the ' " ' . Many New ,York Republicans' pendence and freedom? The S~viet change'to the cu,rrel!t process, in ~hich a ,Middle East are independent, but their have vociferoUsly attacked this blatantly Union, for example, isa fully inde~neJlt few 'skeletons' of the liberal ROckefeller people enjoy limited'freedom. It is imone-sided pronouncement Both Nassau ,nation.

It was under the czars, and it is ideology determine the party's candiportant for Aniericans not to confuse County and Brooklyn Republican lead- l ' today. ' But the people of the Soviet , , _ ( dates. ,The specific skeletons responthese terins. An independentgavernment ,ers attempted to have the plank rescinded Union aren't nearly free. I, sible for th~ SelectionofPierre Rinfret as - ~eaning it is not dominated by 'some arid return to the neutral stand of th.e past' the Republican gubernatorial candidate' oilier country - in no way gruirantees a , Within the borders ofthe Soviet . two statewide elections. After apparManhatten Republican Party CIuiirman, free people. Only the rUle of law can do Union '~xists several other' countires, ently agn:eing, to eliminate, the provithat ' State Senator Roy Goodman, and the Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, which ,sion, Mr. Barrett reversed agaiJ:t and the state party chaifman, J. Patrick Ban;ett. were once independent but have 'been Feulner is president of The Heri~ plank remains. 'Consequently, Ronald held captive by Moscow since the end of D'Angelo, alocalBrooklyn leader"has , As a direct consequence of the tage,Eoundation, a public policy .

World War n~ Even if these countries dec~ded not to ~upport Mr. Rinfret, ,$td. types of candidateS chosen by this ,:m.research ihstitute in Washingtoll:, regain their au~nomy, their-people will has 'encol]faged "all Republicans who s(rinsically , undemoC~tic "nomfuating D.C. ", be free only,if they are guaranteed cerfeel betrayed to do the same." , process..-n0t only is the party-failing to appeal to all New York v:oters, but is in ' '< , ; . " Nassau, County Comptroller I fact alienating a significant faction of i~ Peter King reacted 'by' stating'that "it's own party members. The N~' ¥ ork bad enough to lose but it's w~rse to Conservative Party 'gubernato~ cansurrender your prirtciples even' before 'didate"Herb London Was on,'the mark ~ the the ftrst shot is flfed~" - ' this, past May when' he stated 'that the curren~ nominating PrOcedure~ "makes: '. The mere selection of a J'-ro, the _Soviet system look like a,perfectly '" , abortion rights Republican gUbernatOrial, ,reasonable proc~." , candidate'does not necesSari1y push away m~re than a -small percentage_of state v' The party cann6tSeriously'ex~epublican voters. However, a procla:" pect to De even the1east bit'c~lfipetitive"' , Free inquiry is being suppressed -in ' ina~on tlia~'·the 'New S'tate Republican -, America's univer:sities, The free exchange of ide,as, the honest debate, the with the incumbent Democrats. in ,New ' Party ~shence1iorth in favor of ·"repro, ~earch for truth are under assault. ' York state until a primary systertl \is,' I ' , ,.

St~dents are subjected to inac!:urat~ .ductiverigbts'," serves to alienate amuch established for the selection ofstateWitle::',· , and distorted political teachings by professors; many former radicals of the -turbulent '60s, who .indoctrinate rather 'than teach.-Ptofessors who push qmdidates. " ' "iarger ,segrDen( party members who ' their ~wn~ extTemist ideas and 'blame America' theories, using textbooks· rirlght have otherwise'supported Rinfret, that are Qolitically skewed. ' ' " despite differences on , t he issue of abor: This year.'s crop ofRepublican On campus violent intolerance is on , -' ·tion. the rise from-student radicalism. Speakers are shouted down and Insulted. candidates exemplifies the necessitY for Students with differing views are i'ntimLdated and their newspapers 'attacked a primary system. With the exception of and closed, Administrations are caving 'in to the excesses of radical .

The Republican party would , incumbent Comptroller Edward Regan, egali~arianism. be ' extremely fortunate to gamer the ACADEMIC LICENSE is a-disturbing , the three Republican challengers, are miniscule 35% of the vote they obtained . book, It reveals the appalling decline of academic freedom in our universities, , " neither- of great ~r~stige n?f,:do/they Written by leading scholars, educators and students, ACADEMLC in the 1986 gubernatorial race. It seems , possess any realistic" promIse" for the -LICENSE arialyzes the problem and states the solutions. What we can do clearthatmanY'con~tvativeReppblicans to change a serious situation before it is too late-before America's future. , in the state are fed up with a party which a,iIlltellectua! competitiveI)ess in the world's . ~ S rnarketplalce of ideas is compromised. Mr. .Rinfret is in jeopaidy of . demonstrates little or no ideoiogical ACADEMIC LICENSE should be' conviction and are ready to vote ' for , delivering theRepublicans an even more ' read by every parent, every American. Sel)d it to who are putting their kids through college, .Conservative Party candidate ' Herb ' humiliating 'showing than in the 1986 ... ,Belter still. help fight this attack on London, who opPoses abortion. election when Governor , Cuomo's ', .

11.,11CifUcum'; freedom by joining ACCURACY lN popularity had reached its ape; During ! , - _ M.Lf\.ILJet"LLrI., For only $30 you will receive 12 Based on these developments, , of AlA's <;ampus Report and a FREE the state convention at which Mr. Rinfret . paperback copy of ACADEMIC LICENSE. it is clear that some members of the New was nominated this past spring, the party Place your order today, 'y orkRepublican hierarchy, particularly . . added 'a controversial plank to the ReSenator Goodman, would like to revert '_ publican platf0911; all four of:this year's ' 2003 ' back to the days when the Rockefeller To: ACCURACy IN ACADEMIA Republican candidates ate pro-abOrtion 1275 KStreet , N,W,. Washington. D,C, 20005 .7 ' ~irtg 'd0minated the party. To achieve (202) 789-4076 rights 'advocates. The New York state this goal,. they are attempting to grasp ~' 1IJ!!!=::;iiiiiii-~Y~ESLPlease me: : Republican platfloiin proclairils that , ' .their dictatorial controrover the selection to AlA's Campus Reporr at $30 ea ' " ' " " "" ,,. , , . . ' " ' , ,, $:--,,--"state government must not become a,' and FREE copy of ACADEMIC LICENSE of Republican candictates. If the New , _ _ copies (hardcover) of ACADEMICLlCENSE, at SI9,95'ea ", ,,. $ . - - , 'big brother' regulating people inthefr - York State Republican Party does not _' _copies (paperback) of ACADEMIC LICENSE at $9,9,5 ea " " " " "" " " " S,~,-' --'---'--'personal affairs and lives and the New ' For US, only postpaid, Other countries extra, ,allow the state paIty mein1;>ers to choose :-" York State Republican Party aff~s its o My check enclose~: Name;_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______ _ _ __ the nominees, not only will they conti~ue historical commitment to the right of , Address, _ _ _ _ _ _-,-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- ' -_ __ to lose the vast majority of statewide privacy and reproductive rights." , _, elections, but they will also' witness the , City,State,Zip _ _ _ _ _,--_ _ _ - - - - - - - - exodus of vast nuInb,ers of voters from , According to Westcheste; County Assemblyman ' George Pataki, , , 'the fledgling party.

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S~dent · Association (USSA) claimed , tha! this , amendm~nt is an' attempt to ,-Part.of the requirementtQ gain : "marupulate low income ,studentS" ~d backf federal aid ,is for the 'student to , , ~t thete is an increasing problem with undergo drug rehabilitation. Whatreason' financial aid,beinglinked to issues that could the 0SSAhav~foiopposingrehab "have'no/ eIation to-education". ' programs provided by the goverliment?

This is more of a seMce, ~ the drug This argumen't contains some abuser than sending' them to school with serious flaws. The first is' the idea that , no questions asked. drug abus~ has nothing to-do with' education. Cannot everyone agree that a The provision of fed~ral fistudent,involved in drug abu,Sewill have ' , nancialaidandhighereducation, whether his/her studies impaired? The basis of ' We like it or not, is nof a requirement of arguing against this amendmen,tcertainly our governinent. It is not owed to us. should not be that the habits of drug Yes, scholarships should be need-based. ' abusers be cOn<}bned by giving them Yet financial insecurity alone does not federal 'tax money on the assumption warrant arightto_higher education. Also that the drugs will not affect their stu?ies. , included should be a swdent'swilling-" " The second fallacy 9f this arness to learn, motivation , and social , ' gument is the view that linking [mancial character. A drug ,conviction seriously , aid to drug oonvietions causes discrimialters that picture. ( , '-. nationagamstthepoor. ~yonewhohas ' / a pOlice record will have difficulty' get., American society has fin{illy ting loans,o r Jobs - middle class in-- reached the stage where there is no longer 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 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 SOClfrom the poor _ they don't know' any : ety.~e ~oblems' we face in ~erica better anyway, right? are not thelault of the Columbl3ll drug, ~1s.They are justsmartbusinessmeil.

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8$to.forceagqvemmenttoactinaccor- '~. 1986 arr-strikes of Libya 'by the u.s. bands ofhoodlums., The truth, sadly so, nation~ appear to ~ caught in a ,.~.

Western dance with the terrox:ist' s persona}: views' " brought terrorist actiVity.iri that 'countrY' ~ is thai" their methodsaf(~ a hi~hly suc:' 'catch 2~'. Oefendingtbemselvesagainst . cessful method of achieving ,(goal. or beliefs: SubmisSion is unacceptable. . 'alIhost to a complete standstili. Yest:erterrorists has become ·an' increasingly Giving jnjust.oJ.lce sets a precedent. : day it was Iran and Syri,a, then Libya, and' difficult problem, and the terrorists have A fm:n stand must be taken . , today it is Iraq-why wait to see who.it ,.It is time that fr~om-Ioving learned how to-use it to their advantage. , againstviolentattacks.

TheU.N.mayoo will be ·tom~rrow? cQuntries-, such as the United states and A nap-on under attack "Clearly has the a place.to begin~ but their focuses are Israel, unite to form stronger bonds .and Offensive measures must be , right to self-d~fei1se. Israel is-condemned more orr condemnation than solution. rid the 'world 9f the evils of terrorism. taken to insUre the safety'Vld peace of the for her actions, but time -and time again The free wo~l~ must unite to form anti., Small groups of citiZens dissatisfied with common tourist, citiZen, ,jmd student. she has proven herselfjustified. 'In 1976, terrorist task forc~s that will tighten;up ,. their c~untry's gov~mment will alw~ys How many"more deaths must be witthe raid at Entebbe, Israel took it uPon. securities world-wide. Terrorist groups exist, but state-sponsored terronst groups . ness¢<! before ~e Westrealizes the (ailure will not be sofast to claim responsibility . herself to set a violent hijackjngright. To must be stopped~ Iran, Libya, S,yria, _ ·of mstant pacification? The 1981 Israeli this very day that mission,..Operation the next time: Soon enough, with a few , Iraq, and South Yemen support terror., bombings of the Iraq,i nuclGaf plants his Thunderbolt, 'is':stjll talked about Thjlt solid responses and some strongly enism. These countries provide weapons, ' sa~ed the U.S troops from faci~g th~ countei~attack \vas ·the very 'first of its forced sanctions-against stale-s\mnsored' ., . supplies, and a home base to .tens, of kind. possibility.ofanuc1earthr~ in the Saudi terrorism, the terrorists themselves will i' .~ terroqsi:organizations. _ live in fear, and there will ~no 'next desert. There are Americans stationed in Is~el' s .defense force is the time.' ~ ' Saudi Arabia ohlya few miles from · Something must be done to world's mostcombatexperienced to date. enemy camps. ~h Pay,they must face strip these terrorists. If these counJries.

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BR: What ,was y~uir·reason for-writ~ ' Whenever 'a ~qmaIi group cpnies toing a recent letter the editor of the . ' getlier, ufilessyou begin to develop some, ~cw York TiJnes?, _", '., ,<' types.of eXP,eCtations and gener3I stan, , , . :oar~ ~fbeha~ior that apply; 'you're gOLD: There$as a veryillinf9rmed1ype6f ' :ing to -have a difficult tUne. '..You can't, attack.Qn ·this campus and as the,chief ·:haveabsolule'·freed9oi'orelse,you get ' anarchy. " , ,',' ~.. ' " ", . t!xeCutivebffi~er,:I regaro it as·o~eof my , I' BR: 'You have, ill the'p~,stateithat. pPmary obligarl<i>ris ItO respondl.Plus, I " ~ ~ ,. '~ BR: What·are youI' feelings on instiyou,have plans to further ~iversify the -feC~very slfOngly:abo1,lt it to speak out if , tuting a ~ore curriculum Ol Western . ". campus. 'How do youpl~ to do this? somebody does ~tJMany p~ents :dur­ cult~ure? '" ing PareBts"Weekerid:said truu they were LD: Well, this has been a goal Qn this so relieved that son;uro.ne spoke out be: , LD: I am very much, Wfavor of general campus and 'most other university cam. cause ·t.hey . w,ere very "~Pset. .] . felt ~ it' , ·education,. not·a,core -curriculum, but ,puses, p~culadyin publi~ higher'edu.,. ." to go 'oPlecord to ·,say" look, some basic requn-ements.thathavesome impol1allt cation. and it m~s~working with ad·we'reaIine'univefsity.

Iresel)ted what I 'choiceattached·iothem. The~earea'very , missions and 'with: recruitment both 'of regardedaSani1l.infonriedand'somewh~ few universities where you have a core students, faculty and the staff to bring on us. ,~ currlcwUm where ,everyone takes ' the - . . attack . . different kiD.ds of people into publi~ , . unwairant:ed higher education who have not beenBR:lthasbecomefashionableonsome , sarnetlringandfdon'tthlnkthat'sapprorC3nipl,IS~~~to adQPfg;g' rules On stu- ~ priate .here. r thiak that we need to have when I talk about under. represented 'ffiore structure to it, but there still woUld' groups I mean groups wh<? have not had ' dent 'gJ;'Otips aQ.d student publications : 'eco,nomicanll s~~ power. ' . , to prevent,tltelitfromprinting mate- , be som~ choICe. .\ . , 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 . DR: The.re is a,portion of the univer, . ( , '. tD: Thosem (19t co~nninqus. I mean, position for 'admPiistrations to take" 'sity community that ish. favor of.a gay , there are a variety of mechanisms to " to'impOse gag rules on 'publications? and lesbian studies· prQgr~m~ What 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. ·a ut that isn't the reason that we 're;doihg it in

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Participants. They have a bad experience, , -, ' / . ", here beCause we have been in existence ,it's not prodJIctive for the whQle uru- ' , DR: Cert,a,' iqly, slander, arid thteatim-.,. " partisan 'view,~ given'b;l class~ rather. ~ . " . . in fo]' f9rty, 'flftY. years, • 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't am 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 . ,tmngsofthat-naturehavebeeb1deemed ,edge is b~ically relative., it's not 'abso- ' and th~e in jail. How .do, you feel BR: When you speak 'a bout the ad- ' " . t~ d '. '. ,..' d ' . t· , b tth .. . . ha In' d ,an' .' cer , ', ' 'Ie,S,' ~.elativ, a ou '. ' e mlSUltel'preting m w' ' t 'you • . -. wh a t kind~' ... m~lOns, 01' goa.., · o you .r~elS . '. a~ " .'I .. " s.e~sItlVe . ii' am tule , e, to tim.e, place,''aad" his:.: ' . • 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.'

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•" . a ·so ute stanwu 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' LD: ', 0bviouslY,,·all of these things 'are;' h I ' ? '" " .. " ' . o~·the charac~ t e c assroom ~ ~. " g'ood luck as our new 'uuiversitv . recruit peOple within, , ~d . every ufiiver~ . , deven~g ~il the context ' " , J ·· sityddes this:araDge. Weyyaritpepp~e19, I ' , ' . " . d' L "D ' , .

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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 IS regime. As this goes on, the majority of Angolans ensage in an extmordinarily different lifestyle. Due to the mismanby John Maggio This idea was quickly ~hed as the aged monetary policy followed by the Soviet Union and Cuba begaq to take hQughmostattention concem, MPLA, the AngoIaD currency ,Kwanza, prominent steps to secure.a communists fig Africa has been focused on is basically worthless.

In order to surstronghold in Luanda. Arms and troops , South Africa, a major struggle vive, Angolans are forced to participate from these communist nations soon enmay soon be successful in anothercounin illegal trading, candonga, ~ the black tered the area in support of the :MPLA, try in that conrlMnt Angola, located on market.

It is there thai residents are able creating a civil war which has continued -the South West side of Africa, has beeD '~ to this day. to obtain the nece8$3ry commodities for a country engaged in a civil war for the subsistence rather_than in supermarkets past 15 years ana democracy ~ms very UNITA, headed by Jonas where the shelves are barren. Beer, possible. Through these years of civil Savimbi, has struggled for democracy in oddly enough, is used-by Angolans in strife, the Angolan economy has suffered this war-tom country despite the little this underground economy as it is used dramatically and definite changes must monetary and arms support coming from to barter 'for vital items such as watef. be made as soon as possible. the United States. Last December alone This beer-bartering system is the theSovietUniousentapproximately $1.5 economy of Angola where the possesMost of ihe commotion ocbillion in weapOnry along with about sion of beer is a matter of life and death. curred after military officers overthrew 1,000 Soviet military advisors to help the - the existing Portuguese government in Despite its weak economy, MPLA, while the U.S'. supplies UNITA 1974 and indepe!!dence was soon after Angola is richly endowed with a variety with the measly sum of $50 million andeclared. The two major resistance of natutal resoUrces, but the MPLA has nually. Miraculously, UNlTAremainsa movements, the Popillar Movement for either deStroyed what existed or benpowerful force challenging the commuthe Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and efited from wliatever they can. The nist govemment for multiparty ~lections. the- National Union for the Total Indeagricultural ind~try which once flourpendenceof ~g~la (UNITA), had their Due to all of the. warfare which- ished l)as been greatly diIriinished. Cofchance of establi&~ing a de~ocratic has taken place in Angola, the country's fee output t:eached a mere 18,000 tons govemmen,t see.med likely with the economy has suffered greatly. Ofeourse last year as opposed to 200,000 tons \ signingo~theA1vor Agree.mentin 1975. the majority of citizens have been nega-

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It will hopefully be remeinlx1red , and, of course, very own politic' a l party. . ·the will'of the majority. Anewconsti-'.

In the black· townships, the tha~Mr:,Mandelao~n1y announGedbis Amongpoorerblac\ci,andtho~livingin tution must be' drawn up that aUows " African National Congre~ (ANC) sets / support for Fidel Castro and Colonel tribaI'homelands, people belong to Poevery,person the right to vote. It must < up boycotts ofw~te owned stores. The Mummar Quaddafi in· their revolution.: Utical parties almost solely according to also.include the' rights stare<lin our Bill of ' plack women want to shop their because ary struggleS. He has called f0r llie , tribal affIliation.

And each member of Rights, and perhaps most impOrt:antly, a the products are better and cheaper than of the majorindustr!-es of " the tribe will protect his own people and gUarantee that private' property will .nQ,t nationalization the products in black ow'ned shops.

South Africa and the redistribution of , only liis own people., Thus, ifamember be taken away without ~ue process of However, if caught by theANC's thugs, wealth.

The' ANC has alS0 been classiof the ZUlu tribe is killed by aXQosa, th~ , . ,taw.'

Without this guarantee, a"backlaSh ' ,. kids,between the'ages of 15 and 18, the 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 consequences 'can be severe. Besides ' ' Defense DeI>~ent Obviously, the Xhosa, who 'will, in 'tum, 'revenge that assured.

Once the constitution is adopted having the ,grocyries ,taken from them, " group with , the most common interests deatil'. ," b th ' ' ,' . be ted that ' y e country, It can expec some-women,have,·been fQrced to drink and that we should be supporting. . ,-' ' there must be' a co8Iitlon of some parties the bleach' or drain cleaner that they ~T he two largest, tribes are the to establish the government, since no one bought Unfortunately, the government . Perhaps, it is necessary to Zulu tribe , o f 6 million people, and the party' or ethnic group fOnDS a maJority. > C3lJ do I}othing, because no one is willing , , clarify w,hat remnants of Apartheid still , Xhosa tribe of 4, million people. , They , The best' hoPe for South Mrlca 'is a . to testify against these hooligans. remain. Economica.lIy, Apartheid ,is support the ~ta movement and .the' coalition between groups- ' that share " virtually dead~ The last 'remnant, the , The main enforcers of ANC "'ANCrespectively. Atthemoment,they ,similarmoralvaluesconcemingmarriage .

Group AreaS Act will expire this spring. poli~y' are the black youths who have are diligently killing-each other in the. '" and the family and that believe strongiy I,t will thenbe legal for blacks to live in . been indoctrinated by the ANC and are 'mcapitalism and the ability_of an indi-Natal region, where approxirriately 700 white only districts, whi¥h many of them allowed to run raplpant ,on the town., people have been~killed ~d~OOO have vidual to succeed.. It Wilftake time to They control the townships through fear , can afford to do. Politically ,:everyone is been wounded. establish a·constitutipn that protects'the allowed to vote in local elections, :and and intimidation. Anyone who opposes individual arid -ensures equality. '; But , , " ' : 4 South Africa's biggest problem state elections. Local bOards decide on ~ theIn will be kll\edas an example to onlYiftherearesuchg~deliD.esand they \ is that there is so much hatred of blacks , education, and other matters ~onn311y others. Thep- favorite way of killing is are honored by everyone, Will the cooo(or whites, and whites for blacks, aIld leftto local officials. Whites, Coloreds, nec~cirtg. This is easy cheap and easy try remain united. . . and Asians, can vote in national elections. blacks for blacks that the sountry could because it consistS ofputting a tire around easily becoi1}e anorher Lebanon, where the victims neck, dousing. them with '. Blacks are n,Qt ·perniitted to vote in the is electioris, but as we'll see, the issue I , gasoline, and 'b~lngthem. This is

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" ample the phrase "dutch treat" is unacby Michael Thomas Malloy can'"is a targetfor·hateandinsgnsipvity · ceptable. Their defmiiio~, "to share the ' by many people at SUNY-It This "fu~ere"s the party? lfit is ~ .cost, as in a date," ;mplies that Dutch ' y at most coUe~es around ' . tofenmce" toward conservatives can ~ , '. blind-date party, it's not thecountry ,Suny-Bmghamtpn seen in the.policy ofaIlowing each S.A~:. people are' cheap. What else is a: "bad . ' '.', oCcUrring on the SUNY· . ' '" mchided, conservativestudents . chartered dub to display posters or dittbs : : word?" c'Ugh:~ oico~e~ TIl~ MultiBinghariltol:t campus. 'Residential life are considered to 00 'one' or all of the throughout campus~ In theOry, this is to . .cultural Management Program claims ' . (coordinators, assistant coordi~tors, ' that ,"ugh" is "a, guttural word liSed to , following: a) out of. touch with 'their ' infonn people who may be interested to . residential direciors~etc:..) has deemed mimic J.}ffieqcan 1~d4ui spee€Q~~' . and ' peers, b) racists, or .c) .close, I;llirid~ . . participate in an up commg actiyity~ An .

-'<- '· the tenn "blind-date'" to be discriInina~ ,they deem ~ tenn "highlyoffe~ive~" · ihsens~tiv.e. fierids. Whichever the case~ _ example'o fclub advertising is-the GPU' s '.. tory. ~~ ~esw.i1l s!ill be .~ '.Tfi~ list goes on tq include such cpm~on­ acconling to the·Libeml establishment-cif, rep~gnant littering of put canipus' o~ ,- . perm,iited. however the titI¢ 'will be . wQrds as burly, cleat, sweetie~ gyp. f!ied most uni~~rsities, conservatives,are iQ "Commg out.day.'! No matte~ how·of- " '~nicer"3nd,mQre'inolusiveso'~tnoone . chicken'~and senior 'citizens. , ' the ~l1linorltY·, ..

That being ·the' C3Serl ' fensivethe.GP.UflyersmaytiavebeentO . , ' will.feeneff out: . ". ~ ." ~.' , . ,: 'tOOk' out mytnisted Webstet~sand diC;l a .. ' ~me, ~ple, thef8ct is that they had"a ..' ... :' ~'. ' Alas, residential life,' is hot right to Post those flyers. In €ontrast, the: ,'~ " How'is it discrinl1n~rY? , It- alOD(~. .The tyninny of "the minority is litt1~' soul s~hing~ , - . . . . . 'Minority' .. accOr~i ,to. Wel;ster~s . Bmg~tOn ~evieW has .bee~ Po~tfug hasn't been dec~ed biased agains(the . ," .indoo,trinating the majority not only on ~ :,,' bllnd,i:atheragamSthomosexWiIS. That's ' , ~ :Oictiol)a,Ty.iS"defmed,asc~a&rP1;1pdiffer,:, ; Iflyersaboutorgariiz3tion~meetingsand : ' ..: ' :' ....,. " ,_ ourc~pus,butaturtiyersiaesacros~the 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: Another example of the iDtoleran'ce. · differential tteaimellt 'resultirig in dissuffered by the conservatives on'campus . crimination." ·In other words a person ' .who is in the minority is a-person who is . is that the main soUrce of news directed . towards them, namely the -Binghamton ',,' dissimilar from ~e majQrity. In our soCiety 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 ofacollegeeducation to hear allviews,andjlldgeeachviewonitsown . sive ways of the majority. In addition,. right, for all lh~ y~ li~I'O$e~uals me~ts? In an article 'written by James B. nation . .Why wasn;t there a forum or .a . this counuyrecognizes a minority group have been neglecting the feelings ~f hoand gives such a group the statuS similar Miegs in .the October 5, 1989 Rolling vote on this issue, which obviously afmosexuals by having·blind..date parties~ to that of an endangered species. Laws Stone, Bill Grace, a.' member of the . feets only students? (Dr, does residenYou see (no pun intended). ,rOOmmates' Dartmouth Review, states, "It's'ahealthy . ti,allife have "blind~date" parties?) It - are then created to help the minority and ~atch each oth~r with a date' for the protect it from the malevolent tenants of thiDg to go out ,there aI'ld test your ideas, ap~s that residential life ~as the.ir\~wn evenirig. What if one of the roommates to stake yourself publicly to ' a -oUr society. This is_ajust aIiqworthwhile defmlte agenda and studentmputls sunis a homosexual? According to residenthing for civilized people to do. SUNY- ' position....Being, an educated person "' ply not warlted. Just as dictators force tiai life, he may feel .uncomfQriabl~ tellmeans' focusing on a search for truth." . rules upon their people, residential life is , Binghamton is a microCosm of this so:. ing his roommate that he.prefers to be . ciety. ~ and as such must follow these, ,. forcing students' to use vocabulary is': - matched with a person of the same sex, 'noble' pursuits. .

Why, is inhen that some people sued by the campus. What happened to or he may SiiJiply leel ,awkward' attendtry to prohibit students from reading and freedQm of speech? .

SUNY -B has failed to'aid a particular ~", fiJI: a: party with somoone of the same sex . participating mille Review? The people · . . Ignorance is truly bliss; 'sim(or opposjte. sex for ¢at matter). So, ' . minority group on can'lpus. 1)1is group whothrowtheReviewoutareonlyprov- . has had its leacIefS. trashed in tlIe school's residential life has "solved" the problem ply changing the nafne: ofan·eventapparing ihe importance and significance of, papers an4 Classrooms, its belief system by renaming the event Now, homo'entlyerases the problem. By selecting the Review, namely being a foruin for CONdemned bY ,various student-:run orsexualS will feel more comfOrt{lble. HoW . everyday terms and labeling~ them as ~onservative t;h0Ught at S~':Bing­ "gariizations. This open hostility l,1as . hamton. offensive, the point is being missed. absurd!

Residential Life should' search 'for opstigmatized th~peoplein this group. The cOne group that will agree with The Conservative-American must be tiooal educating devices, rather than . sad fact is that because this minority this ridicUlous, act,is the MUlticultural group is.not protected by,an indifferent noticed. He/She must start speaking out forcing new phrases on the students.

Mariagement Pf6gtam at the University .

UFliveisit}r, the people who compose the anddeCIarethat, "Conservatism isgreat!?'.

Will this change bring homosexuals ~'out of Missouri School of JbtnnaIism. They . of .the closet" 304 into the'party ~ne? . group ~ili develop a low self-esteem."

Or"Yes,l'mLibertariananddamnproud ' recentl}"put together the B~dhWord Dic- .

Beeause this institution dQesnotprovide of itl". The Liberal intellectuals who .

People's Prejudices must be changed tionary, statirig words or phrases mat are ' -role-models for this gr,oup th~ maleswill sCream for sensitivity must now give the . about the actual issues, not ·.the words unsuitable fortoday's'society.

For ex:' turn to crime aiid the wom-en will pose a' Conservative-American the respecUmd. , . ·'theY ,use to .refer to those issues. ~ 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 conseragainst 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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