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, In every war there are tWo front~: the actual field 'Of battle and the -<" 60' s wannnabees have been unsuccessful in shapipg the aebate on, '. , home front. Each ,plays 'a part,in insuri~g , a, swift and decisive victory. ',_ campus. ' Whilethe importance of success on tne battle field is obvious, what is not : At SUNY-Binghamton as well as universities across the, counal~ays so,blatant is,the necessity' of victory at home. ' -' . try ~:'a new breed of students have emerged out of the '1980 's.. These are students who-fully unders~d the price of liberty, and who realiz~ thatth~ , " No one had-abetter understandi~g of thisthan'HoChi Minh and the Soviets'duriI].g the Vietnam war. , Durihg thelate 1960' s_and early 1970 ',s, ,, sutest way to insure peace is through strength. Evidenceofthis new breed of students abo~nd on campus. ShQrtly after~ostilities br6ky out in th~ " "the Unit~ States was host to hundreds of'peace raliies, manyo{whicll we~ Gulf, students held two successful pro~Desert Storm rallies. American orchestrated'by Soviet agitators. With the aid oftbemass media, whose fl~gs can be seen h~ging fromw~n90ws, in' 'the domi communities. In . , , 'bias was ,~n too cle'ar, the protests played ~ part in shaping,the mood oithe Bingham Hall- in , Newing , the letters U.S.A. ' are display~ across , ','coqntry as wdlas-the attitu~es ofpoliti~al' leaders. Saddam Hllssein has windows. ' ' ;studied contemporary history, ,and leamedthe lessons of Vietnam. In 'an , interview he granted two 'weeks ago, S~ddam boasted that what he cemld ' " Clearly the left's grip on SUNY-Bingh~ton is begin'tiing to ,', not achieve on the baltlefield~ he,woul<lwin'opl1.S. soil With the'help of " crumble, andit is due in p~ to students taking an'acti~e role in supporting ' the anti-war protests. '' , ', th,eircountry'. Wh~le success is evident, students'mustnot slow down their ,~ SUNY-Binghamto.n is in,famous for its anti~warprotests~during the effOlts. As the~ar against Iraq continues, students must continue their active SUppOlt of our l1'oops and their rriission. There must be more rallies Vietnam era. While those'protests are in the p:asi, SUNY -B is still home , ' in supportof U.S: action andprofessorswho 'l,lse their classroom to preach to rabid anti-American s~nti:ment expres-sect by ,student and faculty alike. their left wing politics must be openly challenged by students.

Since the outbreaklo f hostilities .in the Persian Gulf, the left at General ÂŁ:?9uglas MacArthur once said that there is no substitute , SVNY~B_; has sought to 'sl1ape :the-- agenda on campus. _ From student , , prott~iers to professors suCl:~ as A,li Mazrui rambling on agout -the imperi- ~ for victory. This is true at home as well., The time is now for, st~dents to ,aIist West andthe ~vil Zionists, the left has attempted to utilize the war as' , take a stand and beheard.' for oudroopS, fbrour country, it is time to voice -a rallying point for anti-Amencan activities. TheJen, who were sosoreIy opr support. , lacking an agenda afterthe 1980 's,haveatteinpted to capitalize on anti-war , Ephrai~ Bernstein , sentiment Yet unllke the their counterpartsduringthe Vietnam war,~ these ,.

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"He ij~d poison gas in Iraq, and has killed Another issue in the crisis i~ The anti-war protesters claim 500,000 of his own peOple in the'past Hussein's willingness -to use chemiC' a l the world and'the nation are divided that five years. ' If he bas killed that many'of and blological,warfar~, in~dditioh to his on this issue, but they qre Incorrect~ Thi~ his own citizens, what would he do to the . attempts to gain !,!uclear power.

He has is the first time the' United N~tions has, people of other countries? Hussein is ': shown that he \~/ill not hesitate to use, · ever been so united on subject. Nations · clearly proven to be -a ruthless man and. chemical weapons. , Furthermore, it is from the U,S. and Great Brita,in to the . with the QPportunity~ co~ld be anoth~r ' evident by his con~4lnt bombing of Is., Soviet Union .and China are finn in standing against Saddam Hussein,

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]Jeople are overwhelmingly in support ' In August 1990~ Saddam , . of th~ :President 'and the way-in which , ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -, Hossein , went into Kuwait and ' an": . "he has liandled this situatIon. Th~ nexe~ it wjthout provocation. Since . · Hitl~r. rael thaChe would have no problem world and the nation are not divided. then, his troops have raped, pillaged ~d 'dropping a nuclear bomb in the heart of Th~y are united against Saddam Hussein .

Tel Aviv. (It) interesting to note thathe · 'destroyed the. country' and tortUred in, '\-' , What about the con't:Foversi~ and his vile acts. .,pocent citizens. This typ.e of aggression topic ofoil? The anti-war protesters , would have the nt,lc1ear technology he so d,espen(tely wants if Israel ' had not must not be allowed,to go on. Saddani · con~tantly state that U~S.men3nd womeri All of the evidence indicates 'shoutd not die for afew cen~ at the gaS .' bombed his plants in:1982.1-Wha~wotJld Hussein ciearly intended to proceed Iight that .the use of force against Saddam . .pump. While oil isnot tlae only reason ' the ~ace protesters say then? into Saudi .c\rabia after Kuwait, yet U.S. Hussein.is justified. It is a sad day when why the U.S. is in the (Julf, it isa factor. troops prevented him. the only via~le choice is war; but that is .

This crisi~ is a test for the pOstIf SaddamHussein got what he wanted, the only option In the Persian,Gulf right . Imagine if Hussein was in co~­ he wouldcontrol up to 60% ofthe world's .. Cold War world.- During the Cold War ~' now. there was ·a certain level of stability trol of Iraq, Kuwait, and 'Saudi Arabia! oil supply. Oil is a, necessity for all because of the presence of the two super~ .

What wOuld be next for him? Hitler was Every , A~erican, no matter , industries in any country, not only the power~. ,Now, there can either be great permitted to gp further and fuftherwithout his or her . stand on this war is, what U.S~ By controlling such a large pOrtion great order.

By stopping Saddam chaos or restrain. If something had been done for the troops theFe. Pray for should pray of oil, Hussein could choke the econoHussein now, a message can be sent that . , thesafetyofthese brave men and women, eprlier.lo stop him, maybe some of the mies of several nations,reslaltingin more atrocities of World War llcould.have and pniy that they will be reunited with 'widespread suttering. In ,addition. he .' .the new W,9rld order~will be just thatorder, not chaos. Permitting Hussein to been prevented. their families soon, could use the oj} for blackmailing ptir-· do as he pleases would be a signal that ' . . pOse~, promisi~g it to any nation ' that Besides H~ssein's bla~t ag-

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· defmite period of time to' ~chiev~ success, ' ·suance of 'an ultimatum for the with-sU!ndtoreason ti1atItaq~ s neighbor, Saudi drawal of Iraqi troops from Ku\\:,ait- was this could have ~riloH,s consequences: Arabja, has been so clearly in favor of the s war erupfs in the Ivfidctle thelastresort before military. acti6n must United Nations ultimatum which au- . The Iraqi gov.ernment's use-o!.shemjcal , , '" Eas~,J)eace demonstrators 'In warfare against the Ir~ans during their " be taken. \Before the Allied attack, . thorized the U.S. and her allies to, use , ~, . the U.s. take to the streets , recently ended war and against his own Hussein demonstrated absolutely no force if necessary against the regime of Kurdish people demonstrates the value proclivities toward interest in a peaceful Saddam Hussein. ~idSaudi Afabi~ once' again in attempt ;to reverse the stand to lose tremendous economic gain , Saddam Hussein plaGes.of human life. settlement, of the crisis. In effect, he depIQyn.1{~rit of Atneric3I:l troops to the .This r€ality has been .confU1nerl QY hIS determined that a_diplomatic solution iIll. the short term :;as a result ofiEraq' s " Gulf. ' A~new generation of anti-war conqriest in Kuwait? Quite the conitary: ' and thus peace would not be given a SCUD miSSile attacks ~H e~clusively activists, in particular tfiose on college ' civil,ian t~gets in Israel ill the past couple chance.

An incn!ase in the world market price of campuses, has quickly emerged. How· of weeks. Thus it would be an effortless ever there ate overwhelming indications . crude oil dearly benefits all large oil A disturbing s~mihirity of .. proposition~ for anyone to argu~ that if producing ,natiems, including Saudi which stigg~st that the motivationonhe today's peace, movement to its predeArabia. ... · Salidam Hussein had be'enplaced in tbe , rnajonty qf today~s peace demonstrators is the apparent hypocrisy dem· cessor , situation of dwindling supplies, du~ to is fundamentally the s~e as' those of onstrated by a vast mmority of its pro.Why did the SaudIs . favor economic sanctions, he woultl have two dec~des ago. . all of the demonstrators 'testors.

Nearly sooner starVed the Iraqi civilian popula~ economic sanctil!)ns initi.a11yand why db ,will likely say they want the, U.S. to Many anti-:~af activist~ ~iew they suppon mili,tNY_action now? Saudi tion, before even considering a retreat ·withdraw from the Middle East because the War in the' Gulf as'a consequence of Arabia, unlj,ke the peace marchers, soine from Kuwait. in addiriQ9, waiting for , Western nation's, partiCulai'ly. the United . -of who"! are welI:'il}ten~oned, have ' ~ctionstosl1cceedwouldhaveaccorded - they want tei save not only lives of Af!lericans but all people who might be haq more ,time to reach a capacity to States: obsession with oil and prices ,at ' cqnsjdered the lcmg teim. repercussions Injured or die due to the conflict. · How'thegasjmmp.Apopuhirsloganonmany of allowing ' a Middle East tyrannical " developnuclearweapons. _ever, one must question whymo~t of college campuses this year is th,ris "no " n~gime to' ~ngulf ane~ghborlng nation " these anti -war marchers do not likewise blood for oil." In other words, a war witll . without provocation. Clearly, ifpracti. OtheJ:anti-warprotestors,such express outrage against tbe 1990 Noble Iraq is not worth sacrificing the lives of cable, the continmi[)ce of economic .' · ·as ,those who re€ently protested outside Peace Prize Winner, Mikhail Gorbachev, Am¢ricans anda:ll people siInply' in or.: :- sanctions would have.bee,n the optimal t~e White House, oppose any military after the tanks of the Red Army were solution to ,the crisis. Unfortunate1y, " conflict In-general term~. ,This is evi': der to'-sa\:'e a few cents of gas in the U.S. '. . ) most indicalions 'p0int to th,e futility of. . denceU1)ylheirperbapswell-intentioned, rolled into Lithuania and Latvia during The flaw with this reasoning is continlling ~this rOllte. What megative . but hope)esslyidealistk chant"give.peace . the past couple weeks, killing scores of consequences would there have been-iri (,:. ,achance~" which emanates from the anti, its simple IQindedfoclls. Clearly the vast innocent civilians. Are the lives of , , .' quantity of Middle East crude oil is one waiting any longer to see if economic ' .' Vietnam war acti~ists. Unfortllna-tely. · Lithuanian and Latvian civilians k~ss of many explanations why the Unite~ ' sanctions \vere successful? P9.tentially;- '. ' due to the obstinacy ofSaddam Hussein, :valuable than other people?

States and its allies are now at war with a great many. ' ;-: . ' .~ . the opportunity for peace has passed. . Why is a mi~tary response by Iraq-: Unfortunately, the Bush . ..

Qespite attempts by the. U.S. and it§ - Administration'-stailuret6artic;ulateand ' ,How long should the U.S. ana .. Allied"forces to achieve peace through . its Allies ha~~ waited'to detertnine that ' the United Nations, war' could not be ' explicate the preCise r.easoning behind .- Continued on ,page 10 · the initial deployment ofU .S. troops has ' the san<;tions wereultimately'a failur~? a~erted. ' 'The 'vast majority of tbe U.N . . added fuel to this argument. Ho\yever, if.

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Gorbachev anq ·his KGB soldiers have not only violently Squelched a cry for independence in the Baltic republics, but have also ,reverted to the repressive methods characteristic of a communist dictatorship.

In the Baltic states ofLitl)uania and Latvia, there was a'massive crackdown by SovIet troops using tanks and live ammunition to suppress the inde, pendentgove~ments. AlI~edia,televi­ sion and newspaper, were shut down and ' replaced by pro-Moscow m!litia.. In Vilinlus, the Lithuanian capital, 14 people were killed; and in Latvia, 5 people were killed during an aSsault on the republic's Interior Ministry in ' the capital, Riga. ' In,both incidents the number of civilia!1 c~u3Ities reache~ as high as ~veral hundred.

dent Ukraine;and applied pte,ssure the communistS to adopt a declaratiOn of sovereignty.

, , ' Amember ,of the 'ukrainian " parliament and also a Rukh fo~hder, Serhik Holovatii, emphasized that, "Out goal is,to push the Communist Party of the' Soviet Union,()utofUkraine." Even though several Rukh s~pi)Orters, whs>m ' the communist regime found to.o outspoken, have been arrested on trumped-up charges" membership in the movement aoes n()t seem to be diriUnishing.

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glimmer of hoPe that ~ybe ~hat was smawasreaIlYtrue. Yetw~~nttiepeople : begah to raily, and hold 'rebellion's 'for independence, Soviet troops marched in and crushed the opposition violently, and in'the process destroyed all hope& for change. The Hungarian plea for Wesh ' em assistance was ignored by thy United Nations and the ' U.S., which demonstrated'that the Eisenhower,administration: 'which had previouslY vowed to help, ",liberate" the countries, could not stiuid by the promise when it was most needed., The Hungarian crisis also' resulted in proving to the world, once ,again, the, Soviet Union's continued emptuisi~ of the imperialistic ideology.

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In the newspaper published by the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, a recent editorial on the Baltic situation read, 'They have ignored or looked with outright hostility at the legitimatedeman(1sforind~peI?Qence ~ mid democracy by' 'the ~nians ' an(J. other nations under Russian' oppression." , ' '

In Estonia troops have been arriving, :and in Molqavia unusual troop maileu vers have been reported.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, where Soviet troops killed 20 people in Tbilsi two years,ago,- moretroops are expected ' again., Understandably, recenftroop ' " activIty has not li~lped ease tension's with Moscow. '

"They" refers to the West and their lack of response in dealmg with the . imperiali~Ac Soviet, crackdown

II) Russia, Gorbachev' s adversary, Boris Yeltsin, who won the presidency by all overwhelming majority in Mayc-1990, haS openly ex-" pressed bis intentions to organize a separate RU$sian army. HoVlever, his army would have to stand its ground agai~st the professional Rttd Army. Yeltsin;who is a viable threat . to the COmrrlt,lnist party, because of ' his popUlarity with the country's ' people, has also publicly joined the ~3Itics in an appeal to the United Nations to ,convene a ~peciaI ' Gon; ", .,~ ," ference dn the crisis. 'This has led, ' ' many to b:elieve that 'the Ru's~ian , president will be a key figure in , whatever transpires within-the Soviet empire.

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With a population of fifty ~two million, a , ,enty-thFee'yems ago, in the_capital K~iv. , country the size of France, Gotbachev's ,However"the Soviet Union has ye~ ~o \ wors(nightmare is the republic's seces- . recognize the republic as independent, sion: In an article by Mary Mycio, of fearing ,that other republics (follow American Daily, it is predicted that not , suit. ' Unfortunately, the crackdown only will the Ukrainian secession ''pose in the Baltic' s,tates is nothing new; it is the greatest challenge to the center," but 'only a painful reminder of ma.I1Y such that the USSR without Ukraine's "exepisodes spanning Soviet'history. Durport of some 95% of its' production," ing .1932 and 1933' in ,Ukraine, Josef , would become a "third-rate backwat~f."

Stalin,who was then dictator, imposed a forced famine that resulted in the m1.Jfder ' The republic's pro-indepen-' of seven million men, women and childence movement, Rukh,' which has dren, ~hile further mIllions were de- :' , 300,000 mem bers and some,four million " '(OOrted to the Siberian Gulags,orexecuted active s!lPporters, has been succes.sful in on the basis of false allegations; , ' gaining' control of the gov~rnments iQ;,'

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In 1985, when Gorbachevcame ' to pow~~: with pi9mis~s of reform and ,'~ openness; d{"glasnost:" he captured the :creative imaginations of many in the Western world and attempted to use 'that to subdue ;hisown people into a false senSe of security;: However, the people of his' country knew what', was reall,y going on, and_did not fall for the Soviet propaganda. They complained of how difficult ~d' harsh life was, even with perestroika. Yet the /world ignored the cries frorri w'ithin the Iron Curtain,and instead joined with Gorbachev .in down- ' playing the rebellions, saying that with reform there is an initial Period of dIfficulty, but things will get better as time pass,es.

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, So today, in 1991"many ye¥S later, it is ,apparent that the current gulf crisis is again drawing attention away from the Soviet crackdown on the B~tic republics .. Proof of this can be found in the media, who eith~r ' bury newS about the Baltics in the last few pages of the paper, or leav~ it to the last minute of the TV news, because all two hours of the news reports were dedicated to the Persian Gulf crisis. , Last !Ronth, even the White House admitted that other than statements made by President Bush regarding the Baltic situation, the West was too trenched in their own affairs, specifically citing the gulf as their primary focus. However, when asked by 'a reporter, point blank, about the crisis, Bush , said that in aphoneconversation with the Soviet leader,it was apparent that Gorbachev did not choose to speak about the , B(;lltk states at great length.

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0fl39guage manipu!atlon in the abortion , ieferr.e,d toby the media as':p~0-ch6ice", , debate.

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, admit it except to say they definitely -not PRO-l.:lbortion. The pro-CHOICE rhetoric conveniently relieves their minds of this important issue which must '15e examined by everyone who holds a~pro­ choice position. This'problem is typified' , , by what I'lfcall'the Mario Cuomo tnoqef; '" The pqint is that there/are many whic , h generally runs as follows: "Well ' people in the, abortion debate that try , hard to manipuhite the personally I'm against abortion but I ' language ', media.

III ihis country , ' where bumanlife can't impose my morality on others, and , , neither can the' state.'" Here lies the ' is so highly regarded, and as we watch ' th~ casualties of waf rise, the num~r of , weakness in that position. All law is ,. about mo~ality. When the state makes abortions in the United States seems all 'laws' about domestic violence 'or child " the more staggering. Six million aborabuse do those same! people complain ' tions are per-formedevery year. T~e , , ~east the Am~ri9an people could do 'is' thatwbiletheyarepersonallyopposedto , treatthesubjec. in a stmightforward , violence,they can:t impOse their own , manner. , We talk about,reproductive morality on others? Surely ~hey don't. rightsseproductivefreedom.choice,and Of course the state hastherightto make rriot1t1 judgements.' That's,',\Ihy we have , right to privacy but often 'avoid the very , criminal .iaws ~dn murder, robbeiy: arid . : heart pfthe,, ~attet;"whether or not the'" ,child', prot~ctiori: The , Mario , Cu,omo .,~nbot:R .f:ef,tis~~,~he!ig~f t9: ~~f~~ >, pQsit.i?nis,simply ,a c~p:ou,t., ' , ' ',,

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"An Arab counlry does ,not have the right ' to' occupy ano.tlier Arab CO ,!-l1try. , God fo.rbid, if' l'!lq fjhould , deviate fro.m the right path, we , would want the Arabs to. send their armies to put things right. " If Iraq sho.uld become intoxicated by its power and . " mo.ved to. ·overwhelm another Arab state, ' the Arabs wo.uld be right to. deploy their 'a rmie,s to.che-ck it. " - Saddam Hussein, November 1988, in 4 speech , to Arab lawyers. .,.

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by Edwin 'Feulner, States Association's acrediting authority -' icture -this:, an iron-fisted aeawhIle it rev~ws its diversity agenda. , _ demic goon squad ready to rough Education officials rightly fear that the 1 up students or professors who . . , obsession with diversity, will translate don't subscribe to its brand of political intg quotas in admission and faculty hirort~odoxy. " ,,,' ~g, ,violating ,a 1988 law prohibiting No if s nottbe Nati6n~ Social- " discrimination in public or private uni-¡.', ist Party of Nazi 'Genminy. It's the versities that receive federal money.

Middle States Association: of Cbneges~ , , ,; U f ' h' I ' , and Uhiversities, the -~ig~ aniza:tio',n 'W1'th ", ..::~ ';, n ortunately, t e Mldd e I,' StatesAssociatioh has itS hefichmen. The the power to grant or deny accreditation N(ftional Task Force for Minority to institutions in Delaware, New York, Achievement in Higher Education ,is ' New jersey, Pennsylvania; ,Maryland, calling for public universities to ensure and theDistriCt of Columbia. that minority.grouops not onlyenroi, bu(;~ . ,Theassociationistryingt5>raise gradu~te' 'irr ' r.~esproportional to their the baiiner"of"cultural diversity" on , ~ population>ili'e~ich state. VipcentSarich, " campuses, a euphemism for racial quo-: a professdr a~lhe' Uni~ersity of Chlifortas, gay rights, male-b~hing, and other " nia. at Berkeley, rightly asks', "How do mailifestation ,of ' 'correct tlilnkjng" .,' " -you m~~~ graduation rates ~~ceptby Heritics are ~l but burned at the stake. 'cheating?:' ,How i~d~~ , PrOfessors,or students who question the ' In a,si.milar di~~ay ofselectiYe ' agenda'are either rushect into "sensItivity discrimination, the Nationai AssoCiation awareness" seminars, harrassed'into si'of Independent'Colleges and Universi:lence,or run~off" campus. / ties; represents 815 mostly overpriced --' institutions; ,blasted as ,",out,rageous" an , The movement is finding ferEducation Department announcement i tile groupd.. At New York University that "race' exc1usiYe" scholarships are School of Law, students refused to dediscrIminatory and -illegal} The,educabate a moot-court case involving a hypothetical divorced lesbian mother,.trying , tion establishmeI).t's' outcry caused t~e ~ ush 'administration, to pressure the to win custody of her child""";::' because Edu~ation Department to ree-ant. arg':ling against het would be harmful to gays. At the Uqiversityof ,Michigan, , ,What is outrageous is that this , \ noteddemographerReynoldsFarleywas , (>lew form 9fintelleetualimperialismhaS ' harangued after reading a passage from ' es,tab:li$h~'.Bomany ,beachheads on our the autobiography of black activist Mal~ " -, natiori's campuses. ' , colm X, in which the author calls himself - The'Zealouspursuitofso-called a pim!? and a thief. Farley dropped his diversity -often leading to quotas and 'course. ' m~dated, politically correct speech ~ ' Thiscrusade~ like so many other cannot peacefully coexist witgh the quest 'holy wars, is being waged through forced for ,exceUen~e in our universities. con~erSions. The Middle States AssoIn what is becoming aJ) acaciati9nis, trying to use its accrediting arm ' demiC inquisition, educators will have tq to musde universitlesinto obectience. choose sides: Let's hope enough of them ' And theincentive for.a campus ,choose freedom. to swallow the new orthodoxy of'''politi/" .... cal corr~~ess" is strong: A cQ~ege tfi~t , loses itS accre~tation also fof{dts 'fed) ': , Note: Feulner is p~sident of The ~ eral aid and academic legitimacy. '. .. :. . tage' FQundation, a Washington based ' pUblic policyr~arch institute. ' ~", /' _ , All of this is:makin,g the U.S. ,',

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by.Lany Wissink ecently, I have seen posters , warning-, "Dori 't Say, 'AIDS , can't happen to me.'" I've ' seen such rhetoric before, but this time my mind didn't ignore it. ,- I thought, 'Can AIDS happen to me?'

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throu~h no fault- of the v1cti~: and ~e more proof that life simply iSIft fair. ' Some' victims of AIDS have acquired the virus through no faultof their own. Before blood was screened, -, many people were infected 'by blood transfusions. Rape is another way that , the disease can be spread. Obviously, ' nothing could ~ done by'the vidimto stop it. The thiid and most tI1lgic way _that AIDS ,~an be spread, without ~y ,acpon on the pari of the victim, is through , birth. A mother can give AIDS to her ·ph,ild either before or during birtli, and . eyen after bIrth thiOligh her breast milk. , ' The more common ' ways of ,'aequiriog AIDS 'ar.ewell known: sexual ,intercourse or sharing ()f needle~ be- ' iween an infected person and. ail uninfeeted person. ':.Ji. is also -generallY ac- ' , knowledged that AIDS is much. more'·widespreadamonghomQsexuru men and IV ' ruug' users tban among non drug using heterosexuals. Acc;ording to the ' 1991 World Almanac, the number of ' new cases among homosexuals in 1989· ' ,was 19,652. The number of new cases , ·among drug 'users 'was 7,970 and the number of new· case~ among heteto- ' sexuals was only 1,56t Clearly, it is morepredomimmtamonghomosexmils,

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The , chan~esof that happening are the same as the'probability that I could win , the lottery. I have about the same chance of acquiring AibS from a rape as well. ' _ 'i~ ut, I contendJh;lt these two ways are the only possiQilities I have of ever becom',ing infected with the HIV virus.

Aswithmostpeople,itissimple 'enough for me to avoid using intI:ave- , nous dnigs or engaging in homosexual ,intercourse. Yet some may wonder about the safety of heterosexual intercourse, too. Years ago, back in the days before , color television, when the world was still ' In black and white, they had aseverely distorted perception of monil virtue.

J>eople considere~ chastity, the absti,., nence from sex·, as morally virtuous.

And the 'abstinence ' from sex before, ' , ~amage,as anabsol~te necessity.

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emanating,from within the ~altic states. , crimes which violated the ABC law. - Russia, he wfites 'that the book's argu" '" , Th~ABClaw,~ectlngNewYorkState ' ment for outside economic help from the "'Ouf message rrtust' be dear," ,rime is a ' pressin~ ,problem ',sinceJanuary 1990,involvesposse~sion ' West to strengthen Gorbachev' s regime writes the Tri-State Gazette, in an article , , throughout Our natIon_tOday. _ of alcohol ,with the intent to consume, is ~'misguided.", -Finder believes this abOut the U.S. and its support of Mos, ' Millions of American citizens ' which is largely responsible'for a higher because by ' economically supporting' cow.

"We encourage reform, and will are bot~' mentally 'andphysicauy trau- , " crime rate in the 89/90 soi:tool year.

Gorbachev, nothing-is-'done to help the reward it with cooperation; we deplore ' -matizedevery'year by this plagu~. - Col­ independenCe-seeking republics, but inrepression \ SUNY -Binghamton does proand will shun those who lege'students are not immune. Recently, ' stead only weaken their'position, and in vide students with a substaAtial amQunt " prac!i~e it." in an effort to further protect studenJs, , , effect decrease the people's chance for " ofprotection. Campus security consists the United Stites Senate passed a bill freedom. rQuite appropriately, Finder In condemning !raq for t~e an'Of 16 patro16ffiCers, 4lieutenaots, and 3 which now Jequires all colleges and concludes by saying that, "The transfornexation of Peaceful Kuwait, so 'should investigators as well as a director ,and universities to release information con-, mation to a ~emqcratic system ultimately the,United Nations 'copdemn the Sov~et ", Of public safety, all of ~ assistant director ceming the frequency and typeoftrime isn't something that can be purchased lJnion for its annexaiion'ofthe peaceft,Il found on their campuSes. HoWf~l!y, the , whom_possess police authority: All of. with dollars or with marks." , Baltie republics., In successfully orga, these officers attend a special SUNY effects of such a biB wIll pu~ pressure .on nizing a coalition of allied forces against - :; police acade~yJor 13 weeks where t~ey­ , , , Last December, when Foreign universiti~s to \ha~e tighter security sys: the,tyrarmy of SaddamHussein, so must are trained to work in a un.iverS'i'ty atMi~ister Eduard Shevardna<he resigned, terns or possibly face a deCrease in.-enthe U.S. lead once again, declaring that , he emotionally 'proclaimed that he was ' mosphere. Three shif~allow for 24 ~our roilment when fewer students apply t>ethe world will not condone such acts of leaving amid fe~s ofan upcoming Balsecurity on our campus. Ottierprotective' cause ofa university's crime rate: ,For" " barb~c takeovers of peaceful nations. tic crackdown and ,that his old, fFiend , measures in,-clude the identification bOoth tunately 'at SUNY -Binghamton~the at the front entrance which operates, f rom is heading towards a dicta- : , Gorbachev ~esident l~ush's New World ' crime rate is relatively low: but what ,12 A;M. to 5 A.M. This booth restricts, torship.

Bothhavebecomeaharshreality" , order cannot come about if the Soviet protective measures exist on -our cam-: , access onto 'camp~s t90nly those indi- ' this year hi the most dratn~tic escalation ' pus? ' , , Uni~n' s b~utaI ' aggression towards the of events. ,Shevaidnadze ~laimed that by" ' smaller states iS, allowed to coniim~e viduals with alegitimate reason. Also ~t ,Last semester was a. tepifying "lo.sjng sight Q( refo.rin and 'fIring 'the ' , unattested, withouranyconci~te response 12 A.M.,all~ther entrances to the cam;. experience for students who atterided a , pus are lqcked. All residence hruls alsO original arcbiteFts of perestroika,' Gorfrom the rest of the ~orld. , Bush'has Said college in Flori(la. " S'tudent$ ' were have therr main entrances loc~ed at 12 bac'hev has aligned himself wit!I the dark that any fomi of aggression, if appe~d frightened by the information that a seA.M. Another safety precaution availand evil forces of the KGB, its military andunchailenged, will-lead to' ¥1 even rial killer was on the loose who had and' an entrenched communist bureau- ' greater cataclysmic ,conclusion, .The· able is the escort service provided by a1r~ady ,taken five lives, ' and,<grea~Jy ·cracy. students 7' days a weeK, 10 P.M. uRtil 2 world learned its lesson with Hitler, and disturbed many in Gainesv~Uet Florida.

A.M., and byULEDofficers at all other , must not make the same mistake with , Even wjth similar military , As the university quickly improvedsetimes. An added safety precaution this Gorbachev.

During the 1990s, the tough <::fa€kdowns in ,the past; this opportunity curity, some students ,and faculty went year is manctatory phones in every resi, stance against Soviet bullying, which to get the Soviets "red-handed" cannot home for the -semesteL Others 'began dence hall room. This e'specially pliOtects Ronald Reagan maintained throughout ' p~rchasing guns,'and miscellaneous de~ those who live in CIW ' and 'Hinman ' , be ,Hllowed to' go unaddressed.At this , his eight year presidency, cannot be time, with various proposals for food vices for protection, such as burglar where people now have phones in therr abandoned, but' instead backed with acandtechniCalaid packages being planned, alarms and mace. This incident reminded individual rooms to contact public safety tions and not only words. ' the U.S. ha~i tAe chance to cancel alIaid,' many ofTheodore Bundy who murdered, ' in case:of an emergency. and demand ' th,at Gorbachev seek a AU .S. meeting w,ith the B3Itic two students at the University,of Talla- ' Comparativ~ly, SVNY-Bing' peaceful and diplomatic means to re, leaders is th~ fIrst step to beginning what hassee it11978, and even more recently, himton is probably one of the safest solvetAeBaltic'cri'sis without any further may be a very fruitful relationship,for all the April 1986 murder of jeanne Ann college catnf>,llses in the nation. "We unnecessary deaths. As a cotintiy of the , parties invol'ved. ' CleryatLehigh University. Eventhough ' don'twait~oraproblemtoarise, we'take free and brave, rhe -U.S. has a moral , some sohools boast abOut having tight sectirity measl,lfes requiring identification ,_ action when pOtential problems exist," , oDligation not to llilow history torepeat~ mmost areas, security is only good if explains Investigator Faughnap .of pub~ itself by 'ig~Qring , the cries for freedom lic safety. Th~~gh the investigator feels' ".::---;;,;;,......,,;-....:......-----'""-..;,...---,-.,....-------.----.,....--,-.-ol..:----:..---....-:--.....;,...--:-.....;,... , those who are involved are properly thatthereis some room forimprovemeIit, trained. Ironically, a student at Columhe believes that public safety is "doing 'bia University was raped by a security well." One mustkeep in mind that crime, guard-who was, hir~d despite his prior does exist, and no matter how w~llpublic crimimll record. safety does its job students sh,olild also Unlike Gainesville, ~inghatn­ take precautions. ' All studen~ should ton has been fortunat~ eno~gh not to remember to locktheirdoors when rooms ,have such a horrible inc,identtake place; 'are ~natterided and make sure thal rysibut crime unfortunately does exist on Ouf ,j dence ,hall entrances are not propped tampus: Over tbe past ,three' school open late at night. Stude,nts should also , years, the 1989790 year had the highest 'k~ep their eyes open, question unfamiltotal of complaillts, ' 1292, and arrests ' iar individuals who ,roam the corridors, (omitting vehicie and traffic violations), ' and report 'crimes 'as soon as possible~' 104. Two spec~c crimes with the highest ' We may not be able to ~liminate crime . , arrest numbers wer.e forgery and ,posthroughout our nation, but-we cari defi-', ' session of a forgery instrument, and nit~ly attempt to do so ~n our campus. ,

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