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11Llinguamton February 1992

A Choice Not all Echo

Volume V, No. 4

nus GRADUATION MARM5

THE END OF FOUR YEARS OF WARD WORK ~ EACHOFVOU.

FOJR VEAQS OF SWEAT,

FOUR '#EARS OF DILIGENT TOIl...

FOJR '/EARS OF . UNPARA' I E' ED SAl:RlFICE OF WHICH 'IOU CAN NOW SEPROUD.

The SUNY Budget dilemma! Blood on SUNY's hands Death of the Soviet Union P.C. Manifesto ULED and guns ... and much more!

Editor-in-Chief.. .............. Michael Thomas Malloy Executive Director................. Adam Bromberg Publishing Editor..................... Paul D. Schnier Managing Editor...................... Andy C. Szul Jr Copy Editor..................................John Maggio Treasurer...................................... Jeffrey Weyl

Why ULED needs Guns .......................... 8

Contributors The Man, The Legend...................... Peter Kaplan Layout Coordinator.............. Alexandra Aucone Secretary..................... Gerhardt J. Feichtinger Proofreader .................................. .A. Araaya Alex Consilvio Kerry MacNamara Jeff Rubinoff Joseph Rosenthal Steven Schwamenfeld David Holland T. Kotch W. Gloffke Chris Vandewinckel Scott Kocher

Alu111niBoard Brian Sullivan Katrina Schwing Kathryn Doherty Mathew Carr )ames T. Sheka

he Fall of the Soviet Empire................ 7

Richard Carr Paul Scolese Yan Rusanovsky Joseph Rosenthal Billy Schor

Advisor.................................. Dr. Herb London Honorary Advisor...................... Ronald Reagan

When classes are suspended so students can be lobbyists ............ 9 March For Life .................................. l 0 Lawyers aking Us to the Cleaners ....................... 14 Indexed Tuition: Will this End SUNY Budget woes ....... 12

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Manifesto ............................. 15

HI shall do nothing in malice, what

Dr. King's Legacy Betrayed................. 16

I'm .dealing with is too important for malicious intent. "

Dream, What Dream? ........................ 23

Binghamton Review is an independent journal of news, commentary, and analysis published monthly. Binghamton students receive the Review free of charge. Letters to the editor are encouraged and should be sent to: Binghamton Review SUNY Binghamton P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton. New York 13902-6000. All submissions to the Review become the property of the Review. The Review reserves the right to edit and print any submissions. All opinions expressed are those of the author's and do not neces that of the Review.

From the Editor...................................... 3 Letters to the Editor ............................... 4 The Right Side .............................. 12

Reject the Johnstontution: Throughout the past academic year many have argued for refonning SUNY -S's student association. People argued that the S.A. needs refonn because its present constitution is outdated and vague. Some under the leadership of professional student Angus Johnston, are using the guise of refonn to introduce there own constitution hereafter referred to as the Johnstontution. This proposal is the cumulative effort in Mr. Johnston's four-plus years as a professional undergraduate. Instead of refonn his plan follows a warped political agenda which includes the following. Changing the Executive board of the student association. This would be done by creating two new positions, each with a stipend of $2000.00 a year.

First, it would change the Minority affairs

coordinator to a full executive board position called the Vice-President for Multicultural affairs. This position would not be a popularly elected office because it would be chosen by representatives of the various cultural unions. Slack cultural unions would receive several votes while other cultural unions like the Asian or Jewish only get one vote respectively. And cultural groups that represent the Irish and other European groups do not get a vote at all. The reader should remember that this constitution was proposed as a document for democratic reform. The second position would be called the VicePresident for universal programming. In actuality this position is simply the activities coordinator. Do not forget this constitution was proposed to end the vagueness in the S.A.! Next, the Mr. Johnston's proposal contains a clause that keeps SASU in the constitution. This is contrary to a 1990-91 S.A. judicial board recrimination not to include SASU in the constitution. A clause stating a position on SASU makes you wonder in whose interest is Mr. Johnston working? Lastly the document prepared by Mr. Johnston is an assault on democracy for this campus. The reason for this is that it would give fifty percent of the representation in the assembly to O.C.C. When the time comes for the S.A. to vote on this proposed constitution it should follow the example it set for itself last time it was proposed and vote it down.

M'IC hae1 Thomas M a 11 oy

Letters to the editor are encouraged and should be sent to:

3Jilingbamton )~t1>ittu SUNY Binghamton P.O. Box 6000 Binghamton, New York 13902-6000.

The Administration Responds: To the Edi tor:

incident inuncdiatcly. 111e campus As a fonner newspaper reporter, judicial process was activated in the

I am disturbed timt tiIC Binghamton matter of tile sludent reporled to have Review would print, apparently been dismptive during the lccture. A without checking for accuracy, as review of allegations regarding

many obvious misstatements of facl faculty behavior was requested of as appeared in Adam Bromberg's the Professional Standards rccent piece on President DeAcur. COUlmittee of the Faculty Senate. The most obvious example of Mr. On March 28, a strong statement by Bromberg's inaccurate reporting was ti10 President in support of tlJC right the extended scction-complete with of frcc speech appeared in INSIDE (circulation 6,000) , followed by a callout quote- on the alleged student takeover of the president 's second statement on Apri l II with orrice, AN EVENT THAT NEVER the appointment of a Commission on TOOK PLACE. A quick fact-check Free Speech. As one who has spent her entire could have ascertained that students did stage a sit-in for approximately professional career in the news and half a day on November 2, 1990 but infom18tion field, I HlU passionate in in the orrice of the Dean of Harpur my belief in a free press. I recognize College, several buildiugs away from that Mr. Bromberg has a perfcct right to express any opinions that he the orrice of the President Mr. Bromberg. as the person who wishes. What [ do object to ill tilis says that he was puncbed at the time piece is the writer' s almost reckless of the March 14 incident, is justified disregard for the facts.

in having more than a passing interest in what happened during and after the NAS lecture. Public Safety reports, however, that when

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Bromberg filed a complaint, he asked timt no further action be initiated. Only much later, after Public Safety officers, reading in the local newspaper that he wanted an investigation to take place, contacted bim about it, did he sign a new complaint.

More serious is the misinfonnation that President DeAeur reacted to the March 14 incident only aflCr editorials concerning it had appeared in the national press. In fact, as soon as reports of the lccture and letters from the faculty came to her attention, she instructed her vice presidents to fully investigate the incident. Records show that faculty and student leaders were contacted and asked for their assistance. Public Safety investigated the

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Sincerely, Margery Heffron Director, Office of

Universi ty Relations _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

First, youlIlelltioll that my depictioll of Pres. DeFleur cavillg ill after a sludelll takeover never took place. Tha I evelll did lake place. I was mistakell ill sayillg they look over the Presidelll's office alld not the Ihe office of Ihe Deall. I regrel Ihal error. My key pOilll Ihal she caved ill 10 these students. however. is still true, and is Olle which you yourself did 1101 evell challellge. Your respollse to the sectioll of my article about my assault after the lecture was the most careless alld appallillg parI ofyour leller. YOll Slflrl by sayillg Ihal ! am the "persall who says that he was

10 imply Ihal I am Iyillg n"'mfti>p I focI Ihal I gOI hit. Michael Boyd. a member oJyour OW" adminisIratioll. was righlthere. and c,alll verify Ihe trUlhfullless of my swry. I do lake great exceptiOlllO implicatioll Ihat I fnl>rir路nf,路d slory. Nexl. you illdicale Ihatl Public Safety Ihat I did 1101 watl/ Jurther aclion take". This;s simply true. I /lever said that I wallted furlher aclio1l. I 01lly told Officer GO'nlIJ1yl Ihall did 1101wa1lt 10 make a big d",,/,wfl oflhe i1lcide1l1 01 the time. Iloid him investigate whatever he could alld cotllaclme if he fou1ld atlylhi1lg, Ihe1l would decide what to do. There Iwo witnesses with me when! spoke Gormly who call confirm all this. You also make all issue faCllhal I did 1I0t sig1l a complaifll much later. The reasoll! did 1I0t sign complaillt right away is because 1 never asked 10 sign anything until later. Your filial assertioll Preside1lt DeFleur hatldled Ihe malh of Ihe March 14 lecture well quile absurd. It seems Ihal the IIllJ'iof.la/l press would tlOI agree with your mefll. You also say Ihal DeFieur lacted faculty a1ld sludem leaders away. She may have cOI'lIa,cte,djclcull)ll alld students who were nol at the but she never cOlltacted allY olle of NAS professors who were 01 the lecUm' .1 How catl DeFleur juslify talki1lg faculty who were 1101 Ihere aboul illcidellt. while never callillg Hofferbert? How COJI she justify 10 swdelJtleatiers while never lalking lIJe?

Ms. Heifr01l,I appreciale you recognize my right to express opi1li01l. it was very 1Ioble ofyou. Presidelll DeFleur ca1l form a Co.lllttllis- I sioll 011 Free Press 10 investigate it. elld your leller by criticizing my "n/",,",.,I reckless disregard oflhe facts." you make allY such criticism. maybe should check your OW1I facls.

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up. MrulY have decided that this is a racist policy and believe that the Red Cross should not be allowed on campus because of elus. Is this policy Teally racist? It seems clear that lhe policy is not racis t because it does not specifically prevent one racial group from giving blood. If a person is whi Ie and comes from say South Africa, that person would not be allowed to donate blood eidler. T lus exrunple by itself should dispel the notion dlat the policy is racist. The policy only prevents people from a particular part of the world from giving blood, that docs llot sound racist to me. How can we say that we should allow people who could possibl y give infectious blood should be allowed to donate. We do not allow people who have ever had Hepatitis to donate blood, is this discriminatory? It is niee to see dUll people are coneeroed that they crul not belp their fellow citizens by donating blood, it is truly heart wanl1ing. But if tIley arc so coneeroed about helping odlers they would not want to give blood if there is the slightest chance that it could

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The fact of the matter is the community is suffering because DeFleur is caving in to the wishes of radical students. shortfall was that tlle Red Cross is collecting no blood from the SUNY campus. Fortunately, in the Lime sincc IJatmalry 21 Ihe people of the Southern conutlUiuty have responded very well and dIe situation looks okay. No tllaJlks to Pres. DeReur and campus radicals. In late 1990. protesters denounced dlC Red Cross colleeti on policy as racist, demanded thai the Red Cross nol be allowed on crunpus. Soon afterwards, Pres . Lois De Fleur caved in to llu s group of studen ts (w hat a Isnrprise!) and crulccled blood drives on cruopus. She did so despite dIe faci at the time American soldiers were senllo dIe Pe.-siml Gulf atld blood soon be needed. The protesters the Red Cross policy racist because did not allow Haitiaus or people from I sub-~;abaraJl Afri c.1to donale blood. In tenns of Haitians, the reClson a ban I c" .. ..;u was due to a very high ins tance the AIDS virus among Haitians. 1,j('Cal"Se of this th e Food and Drug nistration (FDA) dccided 10 not them 10 gi ve blood 10 be safc. policy was soon reversed. In tenus sub-Saharan Afriemls dlere is a strand dIe AIDS virus known as HlY-2 is specific to that region. The l·llY -2 vims which is endenlic 10 people sub-Saharan Africa can not be the current lest Ll13t the Red Binghamton Review

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HlV -2 can not be delected with the presenl lest the Red Cross does 0 0 1 allow people who arc from subSallarrul Africa to donale blood until a better test is used. The ban on blood drives has been one of Ule most ridiculous policies of Pres. DeAeur's administration (11131 is a preny tough accomplishmenl) and illllllSt be ended now! TIle fact of the IlHlltcr is the community is suffering because DeAeur is caving in to the wishes of radical students. Shortly after the blood drives were bCUUlCd it was clear that the majority of sludelllS on dlis cmnpus supporled the continuation of blood drives. Some surveys done in various communities showed dI al around 80% of students supporled blood drives, d, al is a preny substantial number. DeReur em) say that she docs not want to nUl Ihe school by opinion polls,jusl by which interesl group yells the loudest. Reasonable people may disagree on whether the policy of d,e Red Cross is right or wrong. But. reasonable people can notlct people suffer becanse they arc nol 10 happy about a given poli cy. That is a disgrace! DeFieur atld peoplc who w,mlto keep blood drives ofT crunpus should be ashamed of themselves for th e danger the y have put thi s cOll1l11lUlily in. If DeFleur was so conccmed about this situation she wmdd allow blood drives while at the same time encourage people to lobby Ihe FDA 10 come oul widl a bener screening tes t. I have a small proposition for DeFieur and others who want the Rcd Cross kepi off cmupus. If dley fee l so strongly Ihat Ihe Red Cross policy is racisl then maybe dley should take a vow never to accept blood from d,e Red Cross if dley need iL If they feel d,al strongl y about il dUs is the only logical slep to take. If they do nol lake this slep, dlen d,ey arc Oldy hypocriles who like 10 lalk ala i to and tIlci r

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If they feel so strongly that the Red Cross policy is racist then maybe they should take a vow never to accept blood from the Red Cross if they need it. hurt somebody. 1 canjUSl imagine a sudden outbreak of the my -2 virus in the U.S., ACT-UP would be screaming in the streets about how dIe U.S. govermnent bas allowed dus virus to enter the country. According to the Red Cross, they have been waiting since last year for a new m y -2 lesL bUI it has not come yet. The offi cials al d,e Red Cross

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a difference a year makes. Last year there existed a nation called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, .Gone! We will now hear news independent countries like [jtiJUania, Latvia, and Estonia. There exist a new grouping for the other epublics-the ambiguous IComnlonwe,lIth of Independent States. you familiar with places like Moldova, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia? If not, you will be soon. The symbols of Soviet Communism, the red and yellow nag, and the sickle hannner, can now be discarded into ash bin of history. These symbols will join the outdated Fascist swastika, red white and black nag of the Reich. It is now clear to the world that the 'great' Soviet bear was no match the American Eagle. Yet, it was a somber victory for the U.S. We did not ' bury' the Soviets like Nikita Khrushchev once predicted they would do to us. In fac~ we never fought them head-to-head路during the forty-six years after World War II (1945-1991). period of Cold War conflict was marked only by a series of proxy wars: Korean War, The Vietnam, Angola, iAI-ghanistan, Nicaragua, etc. Then there were the moments of direct confrontation: TIle Berlin Blockade, the Wall, and the unforgettable Cuban Missile Crisis. No, we did not bury the Soviet Union with our military might; we buried them beneath a mountain of

The U.S. managed to spend tile Soviet Union out of existence. Despite using less than 10% of our Gross National Product (GNP) in military defense we remained the nwnber one military and economic power during most of the Cold War years. In contrast, tile Soviet Union devoted a reported 15-20% of to uy and keep pace in military Ispen{linll路 Later, when all the facts are I.alth,:re,l we may find that the Soviets to 25% of their GNP on defense.

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make intercontinental missiles and nuclear submarines could not produce enough agriculture machinery, nor adequately feed their own people. This new collection called the Commonwealth of Independent States is tough to figure oul. These

The symbols of Soviet Communism, the red and yellow flag, and the sickle and hammer, can now be discarded into the ash bin of history_

slates are independent in that they can each detennine their own foreign policy and field - tbeir own army. However, they wiU be boWld togetiler in the sense titat there will be free travel and some fonn of economic cooperation between tile participating sl.:1.tes. The m~tior problem appears to be tile lack of a strong Oike the United States), or even a weak (like Canada), central govemment. Each state is supposed to have equal say in this conuuonwealth. but Boris Yellsin and the Russian State have the potential to dominate. TIle line on Yeltsin is still out; he is a wildcard. Ycltsin's ability to hold his liquor is making bigger headlines than his ability to distribute tile inconting aid from the U.S. and Gcrmany. He saved the chance for democracy to take hold by climbing on tanks back in August, but he has also taken some undemocratic liberties since gaining power. Yellsin talks the big game, but must be observed with caution wltil we know for sure t11at he is a true believer in dcmocracy. Naturally, the new independent states, and the Commonwealth itself, arc not without For

lesson in free-markets when price controls were lifted and prices sky-rocketed. The conversion from comtuWlism to democracy, and from central-planning to free-markets had the unfortunate tinting of occuning at the beginning of winter, which will not let the people off easy. There is also a major problem with Ule dislribution of incoming aid. The United States and Germany have scut tons of fnod to help with tile initial shock of transforming their political and economic systems. However, a fairly large amount of this aid has ended up on the Black Markel. Some Russians have even been making a profilon the foreign donations. In a way, this is a very creative start to the Russian free-market economy. A1tilOUgh it is cre.,live, and people are making money ~ it is being done illegally, and other Russians are being hurt since they are not receiving the benefits of the aid. The fnod must be distributed to those who need it, or it may lead to increased animosity toward the IlCW government. Besides, if the governments cannot prove that tiley are indeed in control, it will only show tile outside world that it would be a bad idea to invest any money there, and may cut down on the amount of future, foreign investment. The stmggle for control the Soviet Union's military is an issue which ule world watches with great interest. What willimppen to instirutions such as the Red Army? The Nuclear Missile Forces? TIle Black Sea Heet? Other problems include: a lack of medical supplies, underproduction of energy resources (Aeronot, the national airline, is practically out of gas), and the conversion of tile Ruble to hard currency. The Soviet Union-born of communism in 1917, died of democracy in 1991. Goodbye old friend, we will not miss you at all. You came in witil a bang in 1917 wltile we were fighting World War I, but YOlllcft with a utiserable whimper while the world watched in awe. TIle 'great' Soviet experiment with conumUlism is over. You were both a valuable ally and a Rest in

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lbert Tillman. This nanle probably means nothing to almost all of the students here at SUNY -Binghan1ton. Albert was a student here back in the 1970s. Unfortunately. he's not I.Ul alumnus, nor a dropout, and he didn't leave

SUNY -Binghamton to attend another university. Albert Tillman was shot and killed at SUNY -Binghamton in our own University Union. A small plaque now hangs OIl the Union wall to honor the place of his untimely death. Albert's parents probably tilOught that their child wonld be safe and secure in our cam pus cormu uui l y while he received his education; tiley were proved quite wrong. Such a belief of safety is somewlmt wlStable. That's not to say SUNY -Binghamton has an unusually high crime ralC, (actually, crime is not an enormolls problem on our camPIlS) but students must realize that it docs occur just like in any functioning society. In order to be better protected, it seems only logical tillt our University L.1IV Enforcement Department (U LED) should have whatever means arc

'don't sec tile need for ULED officers to be amled. Why? Aceidents can happen and people, including students, cOldd be injured. For some odd reason, students believe that ofJicers will be drawing their gUllS at every occasion ranging from attempted rape to a flrc drill. Stndents must understand that public safety officers are trained for four months to specifically dc.lI with criminal activity on a college campus. Inves tigator Timothy R. Fauglutan, iu his own personal opinion, explained that ULED officers should carry guns "in

enviromnent. ULED officers arc to handle college sitllalions~ a unique quality hardly found in 100.11 forces. Mos t peo ple on our crumpus l don't even show coneem for our officers who mllst enter dangerous si路tmltions i without weapon protection. car stops can easily prove fatal to officers , just imagine if you unarmed and had to approach a

order to provide the community

with a higher level of service," A common argnment launched against providing ULED officers with guns concems the amount of crime on OUf campus. Do we

have a high crime rate? How

many violent crimes occur? These que s tion s fundmnentally absurd. Does SUNY -Binghamton have to accomplish a sufficient number of which sped passed our campus entrnIllcc i crimes before ULED is armed? Arc check point'? tCIl crimes enough; or do we need GlUts appear on our campus on a fifty? The questions which need basis as Brinks, a sccmity service, to be addressed are what kind of cash carriers from Marriott as well security service docs our campus from our bank machines. This SClrvll"'. 1 require? and what will having glUtS involving the possession of guns, For some odd achieve? approved by our past Universi reason, students GUllS will assist our public safety President G ifford Gark. It seem, officers a great deal . First of all, pathetic that OUf university rC<luilres l believe that officers will be able to respond money to be protected with ri路i,",,,m,, I officers will be much quicker to a crime scene. As while students arc not afforded tile it now stands, if a weapon is protection. The decision to ann drawing their guns involved in a crime on campus , officers presently rests with our present at every occasion outside authorities respond first University President Lois DcAeur. ranging from since they are arnled. Hence, this also seems ridiculous that while public cmcial delay time of waiting for safety office rs are not pcnnittcd to attempted rape the Vest.lI Police, or whomever, to guns, students arc. Students can toa arrive will be eliminated. ULED guns onlo our campus, but they must officers will be able to intervene stored in the Public Safety fire drill. quicker and stop a hazardous and Ex pectations p.6) When StU.dCllts I situation from erupting. Public remove their weapons from the SaI路ety officer, can also respond they arc supposed to remove them from necessary at their disposal to protect Jllore appropriately than outside campus, and if you tiunk timt actually students, including gUlls. police officers simply bec.1use they happens , try to explain Most SUNY students probably are familiar with our campu s Tillmans路 1

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When Classes Are Suspended So Students Can Be Lobbyists o matter how extreme the issue. Chancellor Fernandez has imaginings my resourceful somewhat crudely recruited students mind may conjure, they as lobbyis ts in his quest for the cannot possibly compare to the announcements emanating from the While students don't New York City Board of Education possess the foggiest For one week in December, idea about the ChanceHor Joseph Fernandez suspended history classes so that machinery of this students Illay campaign against democratic republic, New York State budget cuts. According to the clllUlcellor, the they are being asked to budget reduction plan solve New York's proposes to eliminate $94.6 ntiUion budget crisis or, at in state aid to schools after $430

million was already cut from tlus

least, be pawns in the process.

year's budget. As he sees it , these cuts "will have a devastating and long-l asting effect on the operations of the New York City public schools." Since ail students arc affected, Mr. i Fcm."d"z believes ail students should involved in the lobbying against budget reductions through lessons empbasize the ways in wh.ich icitiz"ns can "influence the ultim ate loultccme of events." One "lesson" plan asks students to Idl' telnnine the effect of budget cuts on lat ter-sciliool programs, textbooks , class security guards , school repairs , irc",ding illld math testing. ctc. ~lbe title thi s lesson suggests tha t " ail areas of life are threatened." Moreover, istlJdentsare asked to rank the relativc eness of various lo bbying itecluuques, including leller writing, before city and s tate Ilegislators and participation in school Students are then Obliged to irespcmd to the question: " How should resoolld to budget cuts affecting our The force-fed answer is to against reductions. Frank Sobrino, Board of Education Ispokc:sn:lan, called tile lesson plan, "a civics lesson ... there 's no Im.andal:cd point of view - nobody' s anybody what to think." Really? Quite obvious ly s u s p e nding IcclDventionru history classes in favor of board-imposed lessons suggest in . itself the importance conferred on ti,e 8i1l8"01ll101I Review

rcstoration of state funds. TIlis may be a valid quest, but it is hm'cUy a valid method for the achievement of his goal. \Vith high -sc hool studcnt s incapable of telling you what ccntury Colwnbus traveled to ~, e New World or in what decade of the 19th century ~le Civil War was fought, it is Il o~ling shon of outmgcous ~lat history classes arc suspended so that students can confront the schools' budget crisis . If students were indeed capable of lobbying for the restoration of state assis tance, one of their numbers should be randoml y selected to replace Chancellor Femandez. The selection lhe reverse priorities in the city school system confollnds

the average taxpayer. While there is insufficient money for basic repair of classrooms, there is money for condoms. While s tudents don't possess the foggiest idea about the machinery of thi s democratic repUblic, tlleY are being asked to solve New York's budget crisis or, at least, be pawns in the process. You can be sure Chancellor FemaJldez will ask students to testify agai nst the cuts when hearings take place. Perhaps Femandez should explain how the roughly $8,000 per student in the city system is being spent. It is quite remarkable that expenditures per pupil in New York are eqluvaIent to the most elite pri vale schools in the country. Needless to say, the achievement levels are not at all equivalent. The latest episode with the budget is merely the latest example of misguided priorities. Schools are as ked to tackle every political and social problem tile larger society Calmot address, even as the schools have demonstrated an inability to teach ti,e lessons of history or civics. Suspending classes is a fiasco that should be exposed.and excoriated by every sensible resident of New York and the nation.

Herb

London

Herb London Is Dean of NYU's GuUatln Dlvlslon, and an advisor to the Blnghamton Review.

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n January 22, 1992, members of the Pro-Life movement once agalll gathered in \Vashington D.C. to prolesl the 1973 Supreme Courl decision allowing for legalized abortion. Roe v. Wade faces a possible dlreal dus year, as d,e Supreme Court, now more conservative than in 1973. may choose to hear a case which could allow for a reversal of the original decision. If Roe v. Wade is ovcrtumed, states would then be gi yen the power to regulate aoortion.

The "March for Life," held arumally, serves to unite individuals from various backgrounds in the struggle 10 prolecl the lives of the unborn. Even the administration of SUNY -Binghamlon could nOI have plaJUlcd a more multicultural event, as the march attracted people from numerous religions. ethnic groups, races , political persuasions . age groups, ctc. Grollp representation included o rgani zations such as the "Knights of Columbus," "The Ancienl Order of Hibernians," and "Feminists for life," 10 name ouly a few. As NellieJ. Gray, Presidenl of the March for Life addressed Ihe crowd, she stressed the commitment common 10 all who had gathered. She then declared the purpose of Ihe march by revealing tIus years theme - "Ensure the RighI 10 life al Ihe Federal Level." The spe.,ll(ers al dle raJJ y constiluled as di verse a group as the crowd tIlat gathered. Blessings were given by religious leaders from bolll Ihe Christian and Jewish communities, and even representatives from the Pro-Life movement in Poland traveled 10 D.C. 10 speak 10 the crowd. In addition, several polili cal representatives addressed the audience, giving advice and lending supporl. The phone call made by Presidenl George Bush was mosl encouraging. as Ihe Presidenl s lressed his

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commitmenl 10 the Pro-Life movement by assuring the audience lhat he would continue to veto any "Anti-Life" legislation brought before him. He added his personal disgusl al Ihe large numbers of abortions thaI are performed in the Uniled Slales. Though President Bush's positive message reached the audience with little problem , an unsuccessful attempt was waged by supporters of Roe v. Wade 10 disrupl dle phone call with chanting and drums. Other political leaders included Sen. Jesse Helmes(R-C-NC), Rep. Chrislopher H. Smith(R- l'IJ), and Rep. Roberl K. Doman(R-C-CA). Sen. Helmes, who received a "life Award" this year for oUlslanding service in the Pro-Ufe movement, ciled Ihe decaying morals of American society as responsible for dle "abortion mentality." Rep. Smith, a powerful speaker. stressed the imporlance of political action, and proclaimed. 'Jhis must be our Year!" Rep. Dornan, certainly the mOSI dyuamic speaker presenl, blasled adler Irish Catholic represenlatives, such as Sen. Moyuihan(D-NY), Sell. Kerry (D-Ma) and Sen. Kennedy (DL-Ma), for betraying the values common to their heritage. He also addressed his opposition 10 fetal experimentation, and the use of felal tissue for medic.1.l treatments.

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Edwin Feulner

ere's a depressing thought: with 5 percent of the world 's population , the Uni ted States has 70 percent of the

wo rld's lawyers. That's one lawyer for every 300 Ilonllal people - more thrul. twice the munbcr in Britain, ::U1d

25 times that in Japan. The results are predictable. The nation is awash in laws that are barely understandable and frivolous couf( cases that benefit no o ne but the lawyers. Last year, somc 18 lllillion lawsuits were filed in U.S . courts.

It's clear that the once-honorable law profession has degenerated into a miasma of greed and parasitic self-interest.

The annual cost: more tlJaI1 $80 billion - including $22 billion in aHomey's fees alone. (For th e record, UlC average aHomey makes S168,000 a year.) Our legal system is no longer designed to serve the conunon man , but to provide more jobs and more money for lawyers. That's why laws now are written so that no one but attomey's can lUlderstand thcm. It's no coincidence Ulat 224 of dI e 565 members of Congress - including 60 of 100 Senators - are lawyers. Even if we're luck)! enough to keep out of the grasp of the legal lepers, we all pay for dus mess in higher prices and hi gher taxes. Companies and state and local governments spcnd millions hiring teams of legal advisors and paying huge insurance premilUlls as proJection against lawsuits. Law.. . . . . . court cases are

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becoming more ridiculous evcI)' day: • Limit ptmitive damages so they After injuring himself badly in a not exceed the actual damages suffered. botched suicide attempt, one man This would eliminate sill y m,uu"IIllWOD I sued New York City for fail ing to doUar lawsuits for things like "emotional have adequa te safeguards. And in distress." Cincinnati, Umpire Gary Darling recent1y filed a $S million suit against • Discourage frivolous lawsuits Red s manager Lou Pin ella for maki ng the losers ill a suit pay accusing him of bias (what baseball winners' legal fees . manager has 110 / accused an umpire of bei ng blind and stupid?) • LiIuit "discovery," dIe pretrial search There arc other cos ts as well : drrough the opposing side's records that According to one report, fear of results in most of the costs in civil cases lawsui ts has prompted 47 percent of and which can tie up cases for months, U.S . manufacturers to withdraw or years. products from the market. Some Not surprisingly, the nation's lawyers companies have been dri ven sec reform as a threat to their livelihood. completel y out of business by packs Since lawyers take home 30 to 40 cents of ravenous lawyers. on every dollar awarded in civil cases, It's clear that the once-honorable attempts at refonn cut into their PIl.JII"" 1 law profession bas degenerated into This sort of self-serving, mcmev- I a miasma of greed and parasitic self- grubbing behavior has to be stoPJ1C,d, 1 interest. 111e question is what to do a nd Vice President Quayle's about it. recommendations are a good place to Vice President Dan Q uayle has begin. The nation simpl y carmot afford answers. As Chairman of the ule legal profession's brand ofJ""'"'_1 Pres i dent's Co uncil on anymore. Competitiveness, Quayle - a lawyer himself - has developed a SO-point NOTE : program to resol ve the nation' s Feulner is president of The He,rita~,. 1 litiga ti on cris is. Among hi s F oundation, a Washin~:ton-l,asedl public policy research institute. recommendations:

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Governor Mario Cuomo offers you his words. Now consider his actions: Gov(!rnor Cuomo claims that New York's deficit is the result of a miserly federal government. His own budget office, however, estimates that this year New York will receive 13 percent more in federal grants than it received last year. Since 19'i53,federal aid to New York has increased by 111 percent. Governor Cuomo and the state legislature appr~ved over $1 billion in tax and fee increases in each of the past three years, including $500 million in personal income tax increases this year. Governor Cuomo just approved a 7.1 percent increase inspending, despite the state's $6 billion do,lar deficit. Governor Cuomo item vetoed almost $1 'billion in spending earlier this year but then agreed to restore spending for pork barrel and other items that brought the total increase in spending to $3.5 billion. Governor Cuomo approved spending increases of 103 percent since he took office in 19'i53, almost three times the rate of inflation over this period. Governor Cuomo's budget office admitted - less than a month after the state budget was adopted - that New York already faces a $1.8 billion deficit next year. Governor Cuomo and the state legislature approved one-shot fiscal gimmicks that prompted the state comptroller to file a lawsuit and contributed to a drop last year in New York's credit rating, now the third lowest in the nation. Governor Cuomo and the state legislature have run New York's economy into the ground. Since 1983, over 280,000 people have fled New York on a net basis.

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Joseph Rosenthal

Indexed Tuition: Will This An angry gray cloud is looming over the SUNY system: it is the deep fiscal crisis. The suggested solutions have been (1) a tuition increase for all students or (2) a new differential tuition rate, supported by our own President DeReur, which if passed, would mean that students at the four University centers pay a higher tuition rate than students at SUNY colleges. I believe that both solutions are unsatisfactory, and would like to propose my own solution. My solution is a simple one; an indexed tuition rate. A student's tuition bill would be based on what one can afford, with a preset maximum of $4000. For the majority the student body, those of middle class means, I would propose only a slight tuition increase of about $200, well short of the $800 increase currently being proposed. But, my fellow students take a look around you,look at some of the fancy sports cars, the stereos, the jewelry of some of your fellow students. Certainly there are many who can afford more, much more, than our current tuition rate. Certainly there will not be a flight to New York's private schools by the upper and upper middle class if their tuition rate is raised to $4000. While many private schools charge almost $20,000 for tuition. Nor can out-of-state public schools give New York's rich a better deal. And what tuition rate would I propose for New York's poorest? Zero. That's right, absolutely nothing. Now, you may say, don't they already pay nothing through New York's TAP program? The answer in most cases is yes. But the problem with TAP is that first a student must apply to SUNY, and then hope for the beneficiance of TAP, before knowing whether he or 's he can afford to attend college. I want high school students that are stricken by poverty to know that they have hope, to know, before applying, that SUNY is affordable for them. But the question remains : would tuition indexing solve SUNY's budget crisis? I believe it could go a long way toward that goal. I think with a dramatic increase in tuition for the richest third, a very modest tuition increase for the middle third, and a dramatic decrease in tuition for the poorest third, the State could raise more revenue from tuition than it could from the other two proposals. But, more importantly, my proposal is more equitable. An $800 increase is a burden on many middle and lower class students, but the rich will hardly notice. President DeReur's solution of differential tuition among campuses is equally unwise. I would hate to see talented students of modest means being forced to go to a University College rather than SUNY -Binghamton, because they cannot afford to come here. There is no place in SUNY for economic elitism. I know that some of my conservative friends will attack this proposal as just another liberal. soak-the-rich tax program. To a certain extent, they are right. My proposal does amount to a tax on the rich, but I believe that education of New.y ork's citizens is so crucial to this state that we must elevate the discussion above mere right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal. Education is not merely a commodity, but a need, and, yes, a right. For many among us, including myself, SUNY has been our only hope for upward mobility. And if upward mobility is not a conservative idea, then I'm in the wrong movement. I

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End SUNY Budget Woes?

Paul D. Schnier

With the continuing budget problems of New York State, SUNY is likely to suffer more cuts, as well as an increase in tuition. Recently, many proposals have been suggested to reform the current tuition system, incl uding an idea analogous to a progressive tax. Under this proposed idea, there woul d be different tuiti on rates depending on the income of a student's famil y. Students at the poverty level would pay nothing, while students from wealthy families would pay greater amounts, up to a set limit. Although this idea sounds appealing, it merely tries to exploit class envy, and if instituted, would be a complete fa ilure. It sounds not onl y fair, but also logical to say that students should have to pay what they can afford for their education. But the problem is just what is an individual's fair share? Who will determine what a "fair share" is? Obviously Will this be based on income? Wi ll this be based on the this is absurd, number of kids in coll ege? The upper cl ass is only about 5% of the country. If SUNY is representa ti ve of the why don't we just popul ation in general we would expect about 5% of re-define SUNY as the students, under this plan, to pay a very hi gh tuition rate. The fac t is with such a sma ll percentage paying the Socialist Universities maxi mum tuition, SUNY would also have to increase the of New York. rate of the middl e class, in order to subsidi ze those who pay nothing. Hence, the middle-class will end up carrying the burden as they always do. Furthermore, what about students who pay [or their own educati on, but have weal thy or middle-class parents? These students will be unable to get an education since they can' t afford a substanti al tuition increase. Such independence would be al most impossible to veri fy leaving the student shortchanged. A similar dilemna will be how to deal with a fami ly that has a number of children in college at once? Do we c harge them accord ing to their yearl y income or do we charge different tuitions according to how many children are in coll ege. The result of the latter will just be more bureacracy. The school will have to create committees to determine what families will owe according to income, famil y size and other factors that they will make up later. In a sense, SUNY already is based on a progressive system. Students from New York State have their tuitions subsidi zed by Sta te taxes. Since families with greater incomes pay mo re in state taxes, they already do, in fact, pay more to the SUNY system whether or not they attend a SUNY institution. In the end these famili es will be paying twice for an education. But what the advocates of this "progressive " pl an overlook is the fact that ma ny students who are wealthy wi ll stop attendi ng a SUNY school. SUNY is very competiti ve because it offers a good ed ucation at a reasonable rate to all , if the wealthy were forced to pay more, they would sim ply choose another institution in many cases. Many mi ght a rgue that the wealthy will still attend SUNY schools since the cost that the wealthy will have to pay will be capped off well below the cost of many pri vate institutions.

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truth in a university setting where diversity and rnulticulhrralism should reign supreme.

spectre is haunling our Binghamton campus, Lhe

8- The creation of separate dining facilities for each student union should be a lOp priority in the nrone of preserving each ethnic groups' cultural heritage. Despite the fact tbat there are now more student unions and support groups on this campus tl13D there are nationalities on tllis planet. purity of cultural heritage should take precedence over integration of the campus community.

4- 'Ve can not hesitate to tum this s pectre of po litical University into a two year school. incorrectness . .MC.'lStlfCS must be laken ,"Vhile this will admiucdly cause some once before this conservative scourge administrative problems it willmore rational tllinking sprc.1ds like a "'Ulcer importantly eliminate the ob vious all aspecls of our university. All sexual overtone of the fresilllHm ye.'\f ICDlcmLies of this rightist conspimcy must and the blatantly agcisl scllior year. at once in a holy alliance to slllash the last vestiges of tlus logical tllinkillg 5 - The Binghamton Colonials that has been rearing its ugly hCild on basketball team, besides changing ils our campus. imperialistic JJame that demeans third 9· In tl,ese dining halls the removal In response to this conscrvati ve world COlUltries , must bring an end to of all food tllal is exploitative of the I submit the following its fl agrant hei ght discriminatory animal. vegetable and rrtineral world Im"Dlres lo of political correchless policies. By encouraging persons of should be commenced immediately. of len proposal s to be smaller stature to join the team we We am no longer ignore the fact tlml lirr'pl',men'ted at once in the name of can take the leading edge in the we are not alone on this planet and In.".<ervin. a111hat is good and vinuous struggle to achieve diversil Y at all tlle best way to get tllls point across is costs. TIle only ones who will objcct to begin serving only lofu for every our beloved """'pUS. to this proposal are those that have mcal in the dining halls. 1· We must act irruncdiately to stamp been brainwashed by capitalism into all manifestations of politically believing tl13t competition is bcaltllY. 10· Finally the SA should be lill(:on..,ct specch. including tlle bamling encouraged to remain on the 6- The Binghamton chicken. the politically correcl conrse it has set piJUlllcie of rational tlloughl. TI,e Binghamlon Review . Thi s musl be mas cot of our politically incorrect itself to by upholding the ban Oll laccornp;lislled at once to insure that OUf basketball team, must be abmldoned. campus blood drives. The SA is Iffl,e<iomof speech is not slowly eroded Besides being a symbol of support proving to all those whose lives the imposition of their for cruel and inhumane factory depend on a fresh blood supply that IC<l>llSl,rvlati"e morals. fanning. tl,is mascot unfairly IXlnrnys human life is not nearly as valuable flightless fowl as simpl y being pawns as tl,e "inues of political correctness. 2· An affmnative action progrrun tlmt for OUf amusement. "ntis is specieism These ten sleps are only the our campus to mirror the cllmic at its ugliest. begimung of our long struggle 10 Ico,mllOsiticm of our society should be 7 -A 0 academ ic di ve rsi ty force what we know is right on the with all speed. Such Ifooli"h holdovers from antiquity such requirement should be imposed with heathens who think the most merit based admissions must be all haste. For too long we have been important goals of the University subjected to the teachings of the should be to encourage the learning 1ab'an,jor,ed at once. Westem World regardl ess of the fact of trutll. FonWlately we know beller 3- The inuncdiatc indoctrination of tl,at we are an integral pan of it. 11le but we must act decisively and we faculty and staff to Marxisl tllinking teachings of dead white men must be must acl immedialely. Liberals of of utmost importance. Since the tllfOwnto tlle dustbin of history. 11,ere the campus unite! IU"'UII',«Y demise of the Soviel Union it 1a~)pears lhal Ameri",Ul Uni versities are The Binghamton Review encourages everyone to IY'Hc,,,,y beconung tbe last bastions of obviously s uperi o r polilical donate blood at the Red Cross. 1plluloSOf)hy. We musl act Witll all speed Blood is in great demand. and your help is needed. COnsOlid.1tC tllC power base of "",upus Red Cross - 26 Court Street, Binghamton. IM:arJGS"n before the reacti onary forces our University into a training 724-1802 for living in a bourgeoi s Hours: MOil., Tue. Wed., & Fri. - 9:00 - 4:00 Ica]pitalist society.

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has lost its way. . shouting Dr. King praise, it bcLrays his ideals. Witb few excepti

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these leaders have to recognize or do not ronically, as the Mmt.in Luther measuring today's black American accept that lhe major impediments King holiday past, there was an leaders. King WH S the best known black progress have been rcmovcd~ increased sense of racial and is the most universally honored King and the leaders of the recent . confrontation mId crisis in the air. black American leader. He is had defeated officially Minor incidents involving usually. acclaimed by most of today's black racism and state-sponsored segregation. blacks and wltites are blown out of all leaders - even by those with whom he Because they are unable to find proportion. Many of ulese incidents, stands in stark contrast, which defined large and meaningful includes many who arc currently outside the black cOUllllunity

In, general, the present-day black leadership establishment - locally and nationally - has lost its way. While shouting Dr. King's praise, it betrays his ideals.

projected, often boisterously, in Ule because Utcy are reluctalltto aMck problem s indigenous to it, " . media. King's goals were clear and just. leaders have developed a DOll ,<""M""I He always held the moral hi gh complex - wandering in sc..'U'Ch of racial ground. As was the practice in the windmills to tilt with. In any situation

old civil-rights movement - a practice still followed by sOllle of us todayltis operational method was first to investigate, then, after clearly identifying an injustice, to negociate. If that failed, only ulen would he

proceed to apply moral suasion through direct nOll-violent action, but even those that arc morc criminal in never through intimidation. nature than racial, 3rc projected as Even after all intense nOll-violent civil rights causes celebres by confrontation with overtly racist foes, unprincipled sensation seeking King sought reconciliation. King's leaders. Tltis type of " leadership" is in stark contrast to that of the civil-rights movements of the past - those stnlggles of the early centuries and

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statement: Que should be judged by Ule content of one's character not by that involves people of different the color of one's skin. they seize on minor issues, im:lel1anq the more recent great onc This principle mles out all types of incidents, criminally tinged awercau()[lSl commencing in the 1950s and racists. It allows for no di stinction ,md even accidents to creatc a crisis shepherded by Dr. Martin Luther between different kinds of racism, blowing things out of proportion. King Jr. neither for whites of for blacks . It The major remaining impediments The civil-rights movement of tbe make s concepts such as Ule progress of black people today '50s, '60s, and '70s was one of the compensatory racism (and of course the evils indigenous to the ,, l greatest social revolution s in the reverse racism) suspect, no maller community. TIus is the Ilew Cl\'li-lngilts ltistory of mankind. It achieved goals how plausible the intentions may be. batUeground: the war against drugs at a pace that was unimaginable at its Dr. King did not coddle crintinals, crime, the fight against lack of discipline, inception . America was transfonned nor was he an apologist for ulem. He Ule struggle against dependency - social, from a segregated society into an did not confuse sympathy for psychological and economic. integrated society. criminals with criminals' culpability The recent spate of aUeged racist Not all ideals were achieved, but for their own wrongful acts. incidents - triggered by an attack on as a nation we took great strides. Not Racism was not automatically small black children on Allerton Avenue all types of racism were eradicated, assumed by ltim to be the cause of in 111e Brollx - are primruily crinuual in but the most dangerous and every unfortunate confrontation nature, and would be beller handled as debilitating fonns were. No longer involving blacks and whites, nor was such. was it fashionable - or acceptable -to raci sm ascribed by him to every Roy Innis is the be an avowed racist; nor did the law misfortune Utat befell black people national chainnan of the sanction racism. because that misfortune occurred in Congress of Racial Equality King' s leadership method and general proximity to whites.

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Red CroSS-Continued from Page 5 are Dot sure when it wiII come, it may not be until this summer. The administration has said that uley will not allow blood dri ves on crullP"S lllltil this new (est is approved. How idiotic! The fact is people in the community need blood and the crunpus has been a great source of blood . 11 usually accollllts for 1500 pints of blood a year, or lO% of their annual collection. Can you imagine them suddenly taking a lO% drop ill Uleif blood supply. This has put Ule lives of many people ill this

community in danger while Pres. DeAeur and the administration just sat back and did nothing. Luckily, the community has responded great this week and the blood supply is pretty safe right now. But, officials at the Red Cross indicate that

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they were planning to have a blood Continued from Page 13 drive on campus in April and since Uley won't be allowed to, they will be The problem is that if a system such looking at the same situation again. When there is a huge shortage again in April, will DeAeur just sit by and watch while Ule community suffers. I hope that the HIY -2 test is approved soon so I1mt people who want to donate blood can do so and Ulen the issue will be behind us. Bu~

with the way federal regulations arc who knows how long it will take. And filtil that time President OeAeur must reverse tlle blood ban and allow the students to give blood Ollce again. Maybe for a change DeAeur can do UIC right thing and show that she a leader.

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as this were ever enacted, year after year as problems with the budget get worse the cure-all would become to simply raise the cap. Furthermore the cap is simply a temporary level lllltil the bureaucracy decides to soak the rich and middle class. Where will this end? As long as the wealthy have to pay more for ruition, what abont other necessary costs of higher education? As any studellt knows bobks cost a small fortune each semester, and many have a hard time coming up with the money to buy them. Well obviously we should give free books to the poor, UlC lniddle class should have to pay slighUy more tl13n list price, and the wealthy should have to pay double or even triple the list price. Obviously this is absurd, why don ' t wejust re-define SUNY as the Socialist Universities of New York. The saddest part about this entire

argument is that the SUNY system is automatically equating a budget problem with a tuition increase. We should be discussing what administrative offices could be trinnned and what vice-presidents we really don't need. As many outside observers have noted the SUNY system is "top heavy." The SUNY system consists of all too many pencil pushing bureancrats who do nothing for the edueation of students. Instead of creating a tuition plan which will expand the present bureaucracy in geometric proportions we should cut the fat out of the SUNY budget and divert the resources to education.

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n the not to distant past. Martin Luther King. Jr. crafted the bold phrase "1 have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.·· These words. along with many others. were the inspiration and the rallying cry of the civil rights movement-a movement that changed the face of America. What Happened? For these awe inspiring words are hardly what the civil rights movement of today seems interested in. Demands like affirmative action. quotas. and blood bans are hardly what Martin Luther King. Jr·s "dream·' was about. Todays "leaders·' seem preoccupied with some sort of bizarre group consciousness whereby you must blindly accept entire groups and/or races of people and judge not on the individual but rather on the group into which they faIl. I however. practice that dastardly conservative method of judging people individually. That· s right 1practice what is anathema to all the pointy headed. liberal. social engineering, pseudoscholars on this and just about every other American campus; I decide who I want to be friends with, want have relationships with, like, and/or love on the basis of who the individual is NOT what ethnic. racial, or sexual group they fall into-I believe in Martin Luther King. Jr's dream. If and when 1 do chose to befriend someone. the reasons will be because we have common interests and compatible personalities NOT because we have a common-or different-race. sex or ethnic group. In fact its a running joke in my house that I will befriend anyone as long as they are a computer nerd like me. The method the campus thought police tell us we should use- we must use-for handling inter-racial relations is to chant the mantra "We love blacks, we love all blacks." (Please don't tell them I don· t use this method or Jim Tarzia and John Choe will kick in my door in the middle of the night beat me

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with an organic squash until I say "I love Big Brothe"-Er. Make that"Multiculturalism.") This method is. as are most liberal remedies. inherently racist It asswnes. as leftist dogma always insists. some sort of group consciousness. Which is itself

... the cry of racism has come to mean "/ strongly disagree with you on that point, "

ironic-because from one side of their mouth the racial racketeers say all people are exactly equal and their is no difference between the races. but in the next breath. from the other side of their mouth. they will say all the ills of the world should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the white male. Recently. while having a conversation about race and racism with another student he said "You don· t know what racism is like... you don·t know what it is like to be walking on the campus at night and see girls clutch their pocketbooks as you walk by just because you are black." At this point I thought "Wait! As I walk by girls often clutch their

purse. racism towards me?·' How did this student know that the motive was racism and not a fear of crime-which comes in all shapes, colors and sizes? Racism has become a crutch onto which any displeasure or dislike can be thrown. On one occasion while working in the computer lab. a student came to me with a floppy disk from which fIles could not be read I tried in vain to reclaim the students papers from this digital void that once was a floppy disk. but none could be found When I explained to the student that I could not fmd any files and that all the work was apparently lost. the student in a fit of anger proclaimed that I was racist and If he were white I would get his flIes back. I will make the magnanimous assumption that it was the displeasure of losing his files that led him to make such an outrageous and slanderous claim and that he. in fact, did not actually mean it. But the plain fact is he was using racism as a crutch; it was a convenient place to hang his angry hat. Racism does exist in all its ugly forms and it should not be tolerated When it is encountered, the victim has every right to be angry and to seek justice. But being angry does not prove racism exists. We have reached the point in this country and on this campus where the cry of racism has come to mean "I strongly disagree with you on that point,'· and those who cry racism all to often are just crying wolf. Crying wolf serves nobody's interests. especially those of the truly oppressed. All it can do is move us farther from Dr. King's dream.

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