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THE MICHIGAN REVIEW Volume 12, Number 2

The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan

September 22,1993

U-M Professor Politically Assaulted

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HAT HAPPENS WHEN academic freedom clashes with the "politically correct" (PC ) views of many students and faculty at the University of Michigan?

Should students be forced to take a course taught by a professor whom they believe is racist and sexist? These are just some of the questions that the UM must ask itself in the wake of the latest academic scandal to hit campus - the Goldberg Incident.

David Goldberg, a professor in the U- M's Sociology department, is known as an expert in the field of social statistics, Last fall he taught Sociology 510, a required COUl'8e for all sociology graduate students. Based on some of his inclass comments, he has been accused of racism and sexism, and thus pushed to the forefront of the PC debate.

Just what did Goldberg do to incite this controversy? According to a flyer distributed throughout campus on ' March 31, 1993, by an anonymous group of graduate students" Goldberg harrassed students in Me course because of their "racial or ethnicidentities, gender, or sexual orientation." 'This alleged harassment supposedly ,occurred in the context,,o f several examples u~ by Goldberg'to illustrate points in his lectures.

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PC orthodoxies as the' assertions that women ·earn 59 cents for 'every dollar that men earn, or that blacks score significantly lower than whites on standardized tests due to racial bias , In debunking what he saw as statistical myths, Goldberg adjusted data for variables such as age, education·and income distribution' to shoW that these ao-oilled «tru.ths"'ateMto'infiillibl&/ ahd " that statistics can be int.ePpreted dif- " ferently to reach divergenta>nclusions; ' 'Ibis application ofaeceptedilstattstical techniques was descri~by his secus- · ers 8S aim ply, amaltifeeta,t ion' of

Goldberg's course racist and sexist, QQldberg's racist and sexist views, When the allegations first surfaced, Other complaints focused on , QQldberg's teaching style, which some Sociology Department Chair Howard Schuman informed Professor Goldberg describe as combative, claiming that it and the complaining students that makes learning in his classroom difficult for women and minorities, QQldberg would no longer be teaching 510, and furthermore , that QQldberg Goldberg's accusers also cited probwould not be teaching any other courses lems with his exams. According to an ,'I required by the department, in-depth article on the subject - entitled "The QQldberg Affair" - which Schuman, however, soon changed his appears in the September issue of the mind. According to the Observer, at an Ann Arbor Observer, many students April 14 faculty meeting, faculty members made it clear that they would not were concerned with the difficulty of support Golberg's removal. Schuman the second of two hourly exams. When responded by creating another section questioned by his students as to why of the course while allowing Goldberg the exam was so difficult, Goldberg to continue teaching 510. 'This comproreplied that he intended to determine mise angered everyone involved. The how much each student had learned. students felt that Goldberg should not This drew a flurry of complaints from be teaching the courSe at all, while his some students, who took exception to supporters felt he had been declared the fact that some might be judged as guilty and punished quietly in the abbeing better than others. This sort of sence of solid evidence of wrongdoing, evaluation, said the students, showed a A few weeks after the incident, sf!ll=' ~ bias against women and minorities.

The most ridiculous example of era! sociology faculty members Wrote a Goldberg's alleged violations dealt with a cartoon in his 510 coursepack. 'The cartoon depicts a caveman working on a pair of dice while a cavewoman asks, "What kind of nonsense are you working on now?" Goldberg intended the cartoon to poke fun at statistics, yet his accusers claim that it shows his "deBY JAMES A. ROBERTS, n meaning attitude towards women" by depicting them as irrational compared ITH THE POLITICIZATION to men, who are presumably more raof curricula and the restrictiona! because they can make dice, tion of free speech common'ThrOughout the affair, Goldberg has place on American college campuses maintained his innocence. He says some today, an opposition to political correctstudents 'wanted to find him racist and ness has been growing. Many of those sexist and consistently misconstrued who lead this rebellion will meet on the his statements. He refuses to remove campus of the University of Michigan the material in question from his course, at the end of this month, when the~ claiming it is not insensitive. first-ever Michigan Conservative ConGoldberg also taught another social ference will be held, Sponsored by Ustatistics course, Sociology 210, which M Students for America (SFA) and as,is essentially an undergraduate versisted by the U-M College RepublisioH ()f 510 and uses much of the same cans, the event will take place on Sep, material Surprisingly, none of the same tember 29, 30, and October 1, with a s aCCU8ati:enesurfaced among students prominent speaker featured each .in 210. 'The graduate students in 510 evening. wenNq)Jlarently the only people to find "'Ibis [conference] concerns the de-

letter to the U-M administration defending Goldberg, to which they affixed 59 signatures, Nineteen other people wrote letters on QQldberg's behalf, including philosophy professor Carl Cohen, who in a letter to the University Record expressed his disapproval of the way the department handled the affair, as well as his dissatisfaction with the U-M's increasingly common desire to promote sensitivity and diversity at the expense offree speech.

A disturbing aspect of the case is the lack of a strong response by the administration. Aside from a few carefullyworded, ambiguous replies, the U-M has been silent on the matter. It seems willing to let Goldberg sink, lest it appear to be condoning insensitivity.

Currently, Professor Goldberg is teaching one oftwo sections of 510 (a course that usually attracts fewer than 40 people). Schuman has resigned as head of the department. Richard Lumpert took over on September 3.m.

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fending of heritage," says Christian Cali, chairman ofU-M SFA "History in this country," he articulates, "has [been] altered by people who with an agenda that attempts to destruct traditional America." Many students across the country are now receiving a politicized education - one that leans exclusively to the left. Cali hopes that the conference will educate students that such leftist indoctrination in the classroom is a reality. By highlighting the importance of students' rights in the classroom, the conference, according to Cali, will encourage students "to stand up for what they believe in and to reject a lot of the fads" that plague American education today.

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The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan 'We are the Establishment"

Something to consider in light of this year's loss to Notre Dame: When asked if he had read Under the Tarnished Dome , a book which details supposed wrongdoings in the ND football program , Gary Moeller said, "I have not read it and do not expect to read it prior to the game. I'm not into reading any books ." Maybe he should read "Spotting Your Receivers" to Todd Collins.

One more reason why the government should stay out of health care: In order to get a copy of the U.S. Directory of Facilities Obligated to Provide Uncompensated Services by State and City as of January 1, 1994 (also known as a "directory of free clinics"), you must contact the publisher at the "U.s.

Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resource and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Maintenance Organizations and Resources Development, Office of Health Facilities, Division of Facilities Compliance, Assurances Data and Analysis Branch" in Rockville,

Maryland. In case you're wondering, that's all one place.

Hurray for the ACLU! It seems their Michigan executive director, Howard Simon, pressured the state's public schools to discourage students from attending prayer rallies at flag poles on September 15. "See You at the Pole," sponsored by the American Center for Law and Justice (founded by evangelist Pat Robertson of 700 Club fame), asked interested students to gather, of their own volition, at school flag poles in order to pray. According to ACLU legal director Paul Denenfeld, however, this uncoerced act of free will was "illegal and inappropriate." Of course, if you wanted to urinate all over that flag pole in public, that would be your ACLU-given right.

What's so wrong about giving free condoms to 12 year-{)lds? That's what school administrators in Falmouth, Mass. , have begun doing in their local junior high. Says Susan Krutz, head of

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It's always nice to see public funds for scientific research put to good use. According to the Detroit News, "A 40pound mushroom that was going to be dried and stored at Purdue University as an educational specimen was instead sauteed in butter and eaten by three scientists." Must have packed an awesome buzz.

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the state's Planned Parenthood League, "This is not a religious issue. This is about health." It's also about contributing to the delinquency of a minor, since any 12 year-{)ld who engages in sex would be committing statutory rape.

Attorney Larry Crain argues that the district's action "inevitably entangles the school and the child with an issue which is at its core both religious and ethical." Where's the ACLU? Church + State + Condoms::: Bad.

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Live, From Ann Arbor: Crossfire! not the way it turned out. People now be some kind of compromise between subject at hand. You say that Joe wealth creation and the other things Schmoe on the line in Detroit has no work eight hours a day, five days a that are important in life. say in how long he works, huh? Well, let week because, over time, the free marIBERAL: THANK YOU FOR joining us, and welcome to Me: I "agree. But it seems as if your me tell you that Joe Schmoe is where he ket has determined that no other CTWsfire. Tonight we'll be de"compromise" has resulted in five days is for a reason. He didn't work as hard. amount of time is more effecient or desirable. Face it, Liberal: people enjoy of work (wealth creation) per week verHe's not as smart. He didn't take adciding once and for all, what part of the creating and using wealth and they're week is best: weekends or weekdays. sus only two days of leisure (family vantage of the opportunities in life that happier doing that than anything else. time, partying time) per week 'Thus we were presented to him, however small.

Me: I know you're having a hard time, Otherwise, they wouldn't choose to have placed more value on creating Liberal: So you admit that those capiLibernl, deciding which to choose. After spend so much time on it. all, it's against your nature to state wealth than on anything talists do control the Liberal: Oooof. You have backed me else we undertake. work week that one thing is better than another. into an intellectual corner from which I Liberal: Hold on. Most Me: No, not at all. I'm Liberal: Let's avoid the personal atcannot escape. I'll admit it: You're right. people only work eight just tired of you ripping tacks and stick to the issue, shall we?

I'm wrong. People desire work more hours per work day, or on the achievers in sociI'll just come right out and say that I than leisure. Let me bow down to you ety and thought I'd rethink the weekend is better by far. We i one thin! of the total hours and kiss your feet. Or, while we're on in a day. A standard fortyspond to it for once. Capiwork our tails off from Monday to Frithe subject of M*A*S*H*, let me stand hour work week comtalists, however brilliant day and the weekend represents a reup on the mess hall table, pull down my mands less than 25% of they may be, do not "conlief from all of that hassle. I like to have pants, and sing, "Your the Tops" at the the total hours in a week trol" the labor force. 'The fun, unlike most of you stodgy consertop of my lungs.

In other words, it would workers in this country, vatives, and summer is a season offun.

Me: We don't have a mess hall. Otherappear that my "comprohowever untalented they Me: To no one's surprise, you have wise, I'd consider it Well, folks, thanks mise" has resulted in may be, have just as taken this issue and only scratched the for joining us tonight for another grippeople placing more of an The Right wins another one. much power as the-exsurl'ace with your juvenile thought proping edition of Crossfire. emphasis on leisure than work ecutives to detennine when and where cess. Let me try something out on you.

Liberal: You're awesome.

Me: Wrong. By the end of the day, most they work. If those workers, on averYou agree with me when I say that, as Me: I know. are tired and ready to go home; age, were really oriented to working people humans, we have control over how we Liberal: Stop talking. I want to get the their productivity wanes in the late only three days a week instead offive, spend our days, right? For instance, last word on this show. hours. People need to sleep. This factor there wouldn't be many managers. whtr-" instead of working five days a week and Me:No. m distorts your ridiculous "total-hourscould do anything about it. But' that's taking the other two off as we do now , per-week" theory. The values humans ,;~;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ we could work two days a week and place on wealth creation and leisure take five off. Or we could strike a pragYou are cordWUy invited to attend must not be calculated on total hours matic Ross Perotesque compromise and spent, but on how often our days have work 3.5 days a week Or we could even work included in them compared. to the take Robert Fulghum's idea to an exnumber of days that have only leisure treme and devote the entire day of in them. That tally is five to two.

Tuesday to sitting around, consuming milk and cookies, and taking naps. If Liberal: Okay, I agree with you on that point, Jay, but you have proved nothing we wanted to. about human nature. The workers don't Uberal: So what's your point? We don't determine the amount of time they do any of those things. We work five spend on work and the amount of time days a week and take the other two off. they spend on leisure. The capitialists We stumble out ofbed on Monday morndo! '!be capitalists are the ones in coning, read the wonderful works of Bob trol of all the money and resources in Talbert, and loyally trudge off to work this country. 'They're the ones with all or school. No one really likes the proof the power. Joe Schmoe on the line in cess, but we do it anyway.

Detroit has no say in the matter.

Me: 'That's precisely my point "We do it Me: Wah, wah. Do you see this (rubanyway." Why? Some would say that bing my index finger and thumb tothese activities are necessary to earn Dr. Roger Scruton, a Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, is gether in a circular motion)? It is the money, put food on the table, provide world's smallest violin and it's playing a world-renowned authority on conservative principles and humane for our children, and prepare for retirejust for you. ment 'That's true, but I say it's deeper education. Dr. Scruton's books include Art and Imagination (1974), Liberal: Nice way to steal that line than that. I say we love the process of The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), A Short History of Modem from M*A*S*H*. working, but don't realize it. I say we Philosophy (1981), The Politics of Culture (1981), Kant (1982), Me: M*A*S*H* ticks me off. Everyone love Monday through Friday, but don't Sexual Desire (1986), The Philosopher on Dover Beach (1991), and in the 4077th was against the war exrealize it.

Xanthippic Dialogues (1993), in addition to other works of fiction and cept for Hot Lips and Frank. Give me a Liberal: 'That's precisely my point! break Just another example of the left,....

There you are, a typical conservative, philosophy. He founded and edited The Salisbury Review, and is a wing Hollywood elites exerting their not willing to have any fun. Look, Jay, founding member and trustee of the Jan I Ius Educational Foundation influence. We needed to stop those there are more important things in life and the Jagiellonian Trust, which helped to maintain the underground commies in Korea. besides work.. Non-material things like universities in Eastern Europe under the communist regimes.

Liberal: M*A*S*H* was a great show. spending time with your family and The characters were against the war friends have a value, too. There must Presented by because it is the worst of all human impulses.

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OR MANY, our 27-23 loss to Notre Dame has become but a distant memory.

Not for us. It weighs heavily in our minds.

Our team obviously did not play their best game. Not by a long shot.

Gary Moeller had a penchant for punting late in the fourth quarter, and rwming draw plays on every down. Todd Collins telegraphed his passes so often that Lou Holtz could have picked him off. The special teams tackled about as well as Cecil Fielder steals bases. But we've heard all this before, haven't we?

One year we lost beca~ Rocket Ismail returned two kickoffs for touchdowns.

Then we lost because Elvis Groac threw an interception on the 12-yard line and ND came back. to win on a deflected pass. It took Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard's incredible catch to secure us one unbelievable victory here in Ann Arbor.

Then we tied because Elvis threw an interception while driving for the win. In; SUDl, Michigan beating Notre Dame compares to the Democrats winning the White House from the Republicans: it's practically a miracle, and no one expects it to happen again anytime soon.

In spite ofall this, Michigan consistently produces some of the best recruiting classes in the nation. Players are impressed by our tradition, the prospect of playing before over 100,000 people every Saturday, and the excellent education available here. Football players, in sum, come to Michigan for one reason: themselves. Todd Collins and Tyrone Wheatley didn't come here to play football for you, Gary Moeller, or a Michigan alum. They here came to play for their own selfish interests, and we find that perfectly acceptable. We always support rugged individualism. and competition.

But football is a team sport, and good teams have eleven players on each side of the ball worldng as one unit, not eleven individuals. '!be team concept has been ingrained in the core of Michigan football, from the squads of Fielding H. Yost on down to today. In fact, a couple of weeks back, Channel 2's "Ten Years Ago This Week," showed footage ofBo Schembechler giving a rousing speech to his players about the concept of team play. It was inspiring to watch. "No man," Bo sternly told his captive audience, "is more important than the team. The team, the team, the team."

This is where the fans come in. It is their primary responsibility to assist the coaching staff in transforming egotistical, self-<:entered high school stars into team-4lriented cogs in the Michigan wheel. '!be transformation is made easier not only when fans are jacked up and assist in making life a living hell for the opposition, but when the players, via fan support, come to believe that "playing for the team" is something more than just a cliche.

And this·is where our fans have repeatedly failed our team.

Not at Notre Dame. Back in South Bend, pep rallies for the team draw thousands of people . Dinky Notre Dame Stadium produces so much noise that opposing teams have to use hand signals to communicate. The alumni cheer so much they lose their voices. Every student, from the geekiest math whiz to the coolest communications major, goes to the game, rain or shine.

The post-game scene in Michigan Stadium a few weeks ago was even more telling about the Notre Dame spirit. After the obligatory hand-shaking between the two teams, all of the Irish players ran over to their student section in the south end zone, put their helmets up in the air, and saluted the crowd for their support.

The ND fans cheered them in mutual recognition At the other end of the stadium, in the northwest corner, the marching band was busy playing "Notre Dame Our Mother," as the small section of fans locked arms, swayed, and sang the words.

Every one of them knew every one of the words . The concept of "team" to these players and these fans was not just a cliche. It was what they believed.

Watching these festivities, of course, were the maize and blue faithful, with dumbfounded looks on their faces, asking themselves the eternal question: "How? How could we lose to them again?" In their rush to condeIiln the team and the coach, they had forgotten their own role.

Our alumni sat on their hands. The Irish receivers could easily hear their quarterback. bark signals in the red zone. Some students didn't even bother to buy a game ticket, and if they did, some left early. None of the Michigan students knew the words to their alma mater, "The Yellow and Blue." The only interaction between our fans and our players was receiver Walter Smith's repeated efforts to rile up the crowd by jumping up and down and waving his arms - to no avail, of course.

What a waste. We have the greatest band, fight song, stadium, and uniforms of any college football program in the country (yes, our fight song is better than Notre Dame's)" yet we reacted like a flock ofsloths·on a hot summen's day. .

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o FROM OUR READERS College Republicans, College Conservatives To the Editor: Recently a satirical article that appeared in the Michigan Review referred to the University of Michigan College Republicans in an unfavorable light. As the President of the College Republicans, I would like to speak to the concerns expressed by the author of that article, who by the way has never even attended a CR meeting or read our newsletter.

The College Republicans are fighters, pure and simple. We look around the campus with fear and disapproval at the liberalism which infects the thought in Ann Arbor. We have dedicated ourselves to awakening the campus to the values and truths that have made America great, and to exposing the liberal agenda that lies behind such causes as the gay rights movement and the pro-abortion movement. We are an aggressive group who is not content to merely wear our.

Republican label on our jerseys.

In the article of dispute, the College Republicans were referred to as "kneejerk" supporters of the Republican party. This assessment could not be further from the truth. In actuality, most of our members consider themselves independents who feel their views are currently well served by the Republicans. After all, a political party should only serve as a translation of one's views onto the world of government, and if a part;y changes it's ideology, it's reason for being has

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changed. The College Republicans <.,Femember that the greatest conservative leader of our times , President Ronald Wilson Reagan, was a Democrat until that party no longer represented his views. Reagan did not change, the Democrats and the Republicans changed.

The College Republicans have a host of programs designed to spread the conservative message throughout our campus. Expect us to maintain a high profile this yelJr as we fight for the three things worth dying for - God, .

Country, and Family. Expect us. tobe vocal about moral absolutes and lower taxes. Expect us to be heard abo\lt the greatness of America.· We would encourage those interested in promoting traditional Republican principles to participate in the College Republicans this year.

Despite our expected unpop:ularity. around.Ann ArbQr, we will proceed with vigor .t oward&our goal of I)l.aking cons.ervatism an.acceptable option at . the University of Mkhigan. Wfj hope to see all who believe they can help at one of our weekly meetings or to hear from them at p.o.. Box 4561, Ann Arbor,MI 48106.

Lastly, we thank the Michigan Review for the opportunity to set the record straight about the CRs, and we encourage continued support of this paper, clearly the most respectable source of information in Ann Arbor.

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started the new school year on the wrong foot '!he foot in question is the one Review Executive Editor Jay D. McNeill placed in your collective mouths with his article, "Visualizing Collective Stupidity." For a newspaper which claims to "represent a readership of thoughtful students," and which seems to pride itself on being able to criticize other points of view as being irrational or illogical, this article is amazingy unreasonable.

McNeill picks out a bumper sticker which says "Visualize World Peace" as representing the "essence of liberalism" and goes on to criticize liberalism on that basis . Now I have often wondedred what this person was trying to express. Because of the time I first started noticing them, I figured this was merely Ill) expression of some New Age wishful thinking - that if enough people merely imagined a world at peace/it would really happen.

This mysticism is rather different from liberalism. Indeed, I have no doubt that there are as many liberals who are embarrassed by New Age mysticism as there are conservatives who are embarrassed by certain so-called "Christian fundamentalists." And, although some may think that prayer is all that is necessary to bring about heaven on earth, most conservatives realize the need for action of some sort to bring about their desired ends. In the same way, although some liberals may think that all they have to do is visualize intensely, moat liberals realize the need for actions. as the bumper sticker "Pray for Peace" really that different from "Visualize World Peace"?)

There is, however, another way to interpret these bumper stickers. This interpretation is, perhaps, spmewhat less likely, but certainly makes more sense. They could be asking people to visualize world peace in the same way that divers visualize the perfect dive before performing. The visualization process can focus on what has to be done in order to acheive the desired end. In this way, visualizing can actually be fl useful prelude to action, and a useful reminder why one acts. (I have no doubt a similar thing can be said about "Pray for Peace" since "God helps those who help themselves. ) Without regard for the fact that anyone who thinks peace will come about merely by visualization is a represen-

David Aman is a graduate student in the U-M department ofphilo8ophy.

tative of a fringe view, and without regard for the fact that there is a more charitable interpretation of these bumper stickers, McNeill tags a piece of New Age mysticism as the "essence of liberalism." Those of us in philosophy call this creating a straw man: attributing absurd views to an opponent and then attacking him or her on the basis of the views he or she does not hold. By his use of this reprehensible tactic McNeill reveals his inability or unwillingness to confront liberalism ' itself - otherwise he would have no need to create a straw man.

McNeill says he will take the "liberal" (actually New Age mystic) up on his or her challenge. He will visualize world peace and prove it is impossible.

He does not do this by some theory about the inevitability of violence in human affairs . Instead he turns to a dictionary for a definition of "peace".

Webster's, says McNeill, defines "peace" as "freedom from disagreement or quarrels ." McNeill is almost certainly correct when he says that it is impossible that everyone in the world come to agreement on everything. Even if it were possible, no liberal would want such a world as they tend to believe that pluralism and diversity are significant sources of value.

McNeill has used a debater's tactic here : He called on an authority (Webster's) to define the term (peace) in such a way that what his opponent was arguing for seems absurd. This tactic is often effective in debate because it makes the opponent seem to be backing off when they attempt to explain what they really meant. On the other hand, defining terms in a way other than they were intended is a very bad tactic when one's intent is not to win a debate, but to establish the truth.

Like the creation of a straw man, such definitions put words into the mouths of one's opponents and permits one to avoid confronting their position. '!he majority of the remainder of the article is McNeill attacking his straw liberal. Now) after going to such le.n gths to misconstrue the liberal position that it is easy to refute, it is surprising that McNeill needs to call in yet amother dogma to attack it.

McNeill declares the dogma ofpsychological hedonism: "every action taken by a human is the result of an innate desire to improve one's lot in life." [See below for a comment on the one point where McNeill attempts to defend this dogma.] McNeill then, also dogmatically (without support), declares that we must struggle against eacll other to determine where our true

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self-interest lies, and thus (1) conflict is the inevitable result. (2) World peace is impossible if there is more than one Person on the planet. So (3) what the "liberal" wants is for us 'to vif!Ualize the annihilation of almost 5 billion people."

It is curious that McNeill does not consider any ways other than struggle in which we might come to learn what is in our true best i,nterest. (He also failed to explain how struggle will help us to learn our self-interest.) We might, perhaps, go to psychoanalysts, hold conciousness raising sessions, or any of a number of other cooperative ways of determining what is really good for us.

More interesting than McNeill's attack on his straw liberal is the way he uses directly his dogma of psychological hedonism to attack a different version of liberalism.

According to McNeill, liberalism and socialism both depend on people acting altruistically in a very strong sense.

According to him, liberalism demands that people act in the interests of others, and do so not because it in some way advances their own interest. This is, of course, a straightforward v:!ol~,'t tion of his dogma, and thus libeialism must be a flawed position.

Unfortunately for McNeill, there are I no liberal positions which demand such ! stringent altruism. Indeed, the promi- I nent liberal theorist, John Rawls, recognized that people acted in their own . private interest. He proposed that a liberal state should set up which harnessed this greed and made it work for the benefit of the less well off. In a Rawlsian liberal state, the greedy individual inevitably helps others by helping himself One could hardly say that he demands such a strict altruism when he specifically set his theory up to make use of the fact that people act in their own private interest.

For that matter, communism can be interpreted as working within this system. In the communist ideal, everyone willlulve solidarity, which can be translated into McNeill's framework as a situation where the good of the whole is inextricably linked to the individual's good. When the state suffers, or any member in it suffers, the good communists feel that suffering as their own. '!hey thus act in their own best interest by dedicating their lives to promoting the lot of all within the state. The good socialist (and many liberals today) may, if McNeill's dogma is correct, help themselves by helping others -but they still help others whatever their reasons.

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After the revolution, the state is still necessary and must be run by the working class since they are the only ones who have yet acheived solidarity. After a proper period, the story goes, solidarity will develop and the state will "wither away." Thus it is rather odd that McNeill thinks that even a communist requires that people act altruistically in such a stringent sense when their theory can easily accomodate the dogma of psychological hedonism.

McNeill attempts to argue that there is something paradoxical in believing psychological hedonism false. That is, he attempts to argue that psychological hedonism must be true because there is something paradoxical in believing that people act altruistically. This belief, McNeill charges, is held because it is in the liberal's own best interest. This, McNeill charges, is an inconsistency.

In this argument, McNeill has done what we philosophers call "begging the question." He has proved the truth of psychological hedonism by showing that its falsehood requires what he thinks is an absurdity. He did so by appeal to the dogma in question. He was only able to derive what he thought is a contradiction by assuming that his dogma was true, otherwise he would have no ground for saying that the liberal believes he acts altruistically because such a belief is in his own self interest.

There is no inconsistency: A liberal could sometimes act altruistically, but believe that he acts altruistically because it is in his own self interest to do so. Just because some acts or beliefs are held for self-serving reasons does not mean that all of them are. To say that there is an inconsistency here is to generalize from the fact that at least one belief is held self-interestedly to the statement that all acts are selfinterested.

McNeill's essay is a remrkable piece of work. He manages to fit in examples ofa straw man, of the attribution, of the inappropriate definitions, of begging the question, and of fallacies of hasty generalization and still leave room for a quarter page advertisement Ifl were teaching a.class in logic, I would be glad to have such an excellent bad example; ifl were his editor, I would be embarrassed.

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September 22, 1993

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When Schools Push Sports, Everyone Loses more about sports than smarts goes puts academics first. What Peoples' reathletics, not academics, come first. beyond the annoyance of getting stuck action and subsequent admission to Now before you football fans tune ERE IT THE OTHER WAY out and turn elsewhere, stop and listen in a Thursday afternoon traffic jam. It Michigan says about U-M, however, is has to do with our school's sports pronot nearly so kind. armmd, people would call it a for a minute. I enjoy football, for that It says that we will accept the playfarce. gram itself, as well as the air that matter sports in general, as much as ers who fall below the academic stanImagine cancelling the University of anyone else. For years I've bemoaned surrounds it. dards of other schools. And don't kid Michigan's next football game because the fact that our football team has had I couldn't help but chuckle the other to face Notre Dame without having day ata story about the U-M football yourself into thinking we do it for huof exams. Imagine telling 106,000 fans manitarian reasons. Like other schools, that they must skip work to attend the , played a practice game beforehand. Deteam's starting safety, Shonte Peoples. we want good players; we game, which the school has moved from spite the fact that we still really don't care if they're Saturday to Thursday afternoon. lost our game against the i: Crazy, you say? Not so. Because that's good students or not.

Irish, I liked, and still like, It also says that we've exactly what this school would have to the effort the U-M made to do if it turned the tables, and gave ready our team. given athletes a false imacademics what they rightly deserve: pression of what it takes to What I don't like is the priority over athletics. way they did it. If reschedget into college - in U-M or Notre Dame's case , a It sounds unrealistic, of course. And uling the team's first game to a large extent it is. We don't have good college. That a player meant inconveniencing exams on Saturdays. And even if we like Peoples should hold a 35,000 students, forcing did, the U-M sports department would "vendetta" against a coach their parents to miss a day hold sway in any scheduling conflict. for making him measure of work, and locking up Ann I~::-~-:' Arbor's streets for two days .

When U-M's administration juggled up to an academic stannew student move-in to soften the trafin the middle of a workdard. - a low one at that Class? Well sure, I have class. My 'pa says rve got good breeding, too. fic crunch created by our first home week, the administration sh{)ws just how low the football game, it proved what most of us should have ~swered the team's reHe apparently held a grudge against value of education has sunk., especially know, but few will admit: At U-M, scheduling request with a regretful but Notre Dame which he planned to use as in the eyes of athletes. rigid "no." That it didn't speaks volmotivation when he played their team.

There is, or should be, more to columes about what matters at U-M. "I wanted to go to Notre Dame," he said. lege athletics than playing a sport. Only Tony Ghecea is a senior in English and The indictment that the U-M cares I "But somp,thing happened after my jun~alfthe phrase, "college athletics," has editor--at-large of the Review. ior year [in high school], and the.y 1 """anything to do with sports. The other stopped recruiting me." half refers to going to school. Yet we What "happened" was that Peoples I reward our athletes for not making the scored a 17.25 on the American College classroom grade. We give them full Test (ACT). According to the National I scholarships to one of the best public College Athletic Association's (NCAA) schools in the country, not because Proposition 48, high school athletes they're academically gifted, but because must score at least an 18 on the test to they know how to play.

Think you missed the Gradua te Record Exam deadline ) Think agai n. Wi th be eligible to playas freshmen in colPicture a student who graduated at the new on·demand GRE~ you could be taking the test tomorrow. And see lege. (By comparison, the median ACT the top of his high school class and .your score the Instant you finish . Score reports are mailed 10 to 15 days score for U-M freshman students is a received a full academic scholarship to latcr. in plenty of rime for most schools' dead lines. Call now for instam 27). As a result, Peoples held a "perU-M. Now imagine him, by virtue of registration. @ Educational Testing Service sonal vendetta" against Notre Dame his academic achievement, receiving a football coach Lou Holtz, who, accordspot on the U-M football team. His • Sylvan Technology Centers® ing to Peoples, "said he wouldn't requalifications?

Well, he's held a footPart 0{ tit. Sy/7XlNLro,.j"l Cn.ltr Nmoor' cruit any more Prop 48s." ball before, and thrown it around a few The article - part of a collection of times, but he's not absolutely sure what interesting side-notes meant to hype to do with it. the upcoming game - neglected to comSound ludicrous? Well it is. Giving a ment on Peoples' complaint. Instead it spot on a nationally-ranked football went on to discuss the controversy surteam to someone who barely knows rounding a new book on Notre Dame, how to play football would make us the called Under the Tarnished Dome, laughingstock of college sports - and which accuses coach Holtz of commitrightly so. Yet that is exactly what we ting numerous rules violations. do in academics when we give full scholl paused to consider what I had read. arships to athletes whose academic ereMuch as I disliked Notre Dame, and dentials alone would never get them much as I thought there might be some into U-M. truth to the book's allegations, I had to Four years of decent high school studadmit, the school has always run a good ies should earn you a college education. football program. Peoples is an excelFour years of respectable high school lent player; for Holtz to turn him down sports should earn you a spot on a must have been difficult. But Holtz was college team. Neither one alone should true to his word: If Peoples couldn't entitle you to anything more. Yet at make the cut academically, he wouldn't Michigan, indeed at most schools, four make the cut on the field. And he didn't. years ofhigh school sports, absent reaWhat that decision says about NOtre sonable high school studies, will earn ~e football is ~t, de~ite its other See GET REAl, page 9 possible shortcoDllllg8, It apparently

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N ITS JUNE MISSION, THE space shuttle Endeavour penormed a University of Michigan experiment. Its purpose was to learn more about what happens when liquids boil in a zero-gravity environment.

According to Herman Merte, professor of mechanical engineering at the U-M, the objective was to Wlderstand the basic mechanisms that control what is known as the nucleate pool boiling process, an everyday process that can be observed by boiling water on a stove.

Merte points out that scientists do not completely Wlderstand the process, because gravity influences bubble formation and growth in boiling liquids.

The experiment consisted of recording images and data from two quarts of Rr-113 (a type of Freon) as it boils using cameras and temperature sensors.

The 175 pOWld self-contained apparatus was tucked inside a garbage can-eized canister in the payload of the shuttle. The astronauts activated it as they slept so that vibrations from their movement inside the shuttle would not distort the boiling process.

"NASA is interested in results from this experiment, because boiling liquids generate bubbles which are very efficient at transferring large amoWlts of heat," Merte explained. "Finding new ways to dissipate heat from the space shuttle or future manned space platforms will be vital to the success of long-term missions."

There are other potential benefits that are closer to home. These include more effective air conditioning and refrigeration systems, as well as improvements in power plants that could reduce the cost of generating electricity.

proaches to higher education that characterize the University of Michigan today. We are enthusiastic about the approach and excited about the future possibilities:" In order to be located near the federal employees who are expected to enroll in the program, it will be headquartered at the University of Maryland's College Park campus.

The two areas of concentration available are statistical science and social science.

The statistical science area will foJason Asatta cus on sample design, estimation in complex samples, variance estimation statistical measurement error models, and statistical adjustments for missing data. While the social science area will focus on questionnaire design, models of data collection, survey management,

non-sampling error reduction, and cognitive psychological approaches Ul survey management.

Groves and two U-M staff members will relocate to College Park. The teaching method of the course will be unique through the use of a two-way audio-video connection between Ann Arbor and College Park. 'Ibis will allow ISR staff to teach in the joint program, as well as allow students in Ann Arbor Ul enroll and receive instruction from courses conducted in College Park.

"This compressed video equipment uses high speed telephone lines to offer full conversational functions between the two sites," explained Groves. With this system, the insturctor can actually be in two places at once. Added Groves, "The instructor will teach students in Ann Arbor and College Park simultaneously, allowing us Ul share resources and offer more advanced courses on both campuses as a result. The instructor can see and hear students at the remote site throughout the class, field questions from the remote site, and have class discussion between the two sites."

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Maryland will award the degree.

"Federal agencies spend billions of dollars on surveys that are vital to setting and administering government policy," explains Robert M. Groves, associate director of the new joint program and a research scientist at the UM Iustitute for Social Research. "Yet, many of the professionals conducting

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OW LONG WILL YOU BE in the office?" I asked my Physics TA "Not very long," he answered hurriedly. "What time can you come over?" ''I'll be there right away," I responded, forgetting to think before I spoke. It takes at least twenty minutes

Mecca of activity, Central Campus. For you see, only a few souls have heard of this place; even fewer actually call it "home." Some might have chanced to visit it, as one of the options during freshman orientation is a bus tour which hastily covers this mysterious span of land. Of those who have heard of it, hardly anyone remembers, or even learned, the names of any of its buildings or residence halls (in reality, make that hall - the supposed third-largest

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a Bus dorm in the world, Bursley Hall, the only true residence hall in the area known as North Campus).

This "other" campus that people visit as rarely as possible actually contains most, ifnot all, of the University of Michigan's Engineering, Art, and Music courses, as well as some famed secret military research which I would rather not discuss (for fear of being killed by a couple of thugs in dark glasses and trenchcoats).

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of students enrolled at the University of Michigan hovering around 35,000, those in the School ofEngineeringnumber, oh, about fourteen or fifteen. Sometimes, though, I get the impression that I am the only non-engineer on North campus, given the apparent lack of fellow undecided LSA students at Bursley.

In fact, I often fmd myself being asked such friendly and welcoming questions as, "What are you doing here?", when I tell people I'm not in the Engineering School. Sometimes I envision a secret engineering society doing its, uh, engineering stuff, bent on the violent elimination of those who aren't required to complete the Math 115116-215-216 sequence. They knew what they got themselves into, I thought as I prayed to the ancient Greek god of transportation at the sacred bus stop, waiting for the chariot to arrive.

While waiting for the bus I recalled being awakened the night before by the usual screaming from the Baits Houses, buildings situated next to Bursley Hall which contain primarily upperclass..men. A popular pastime of the Baits residents seems to be sticking their heads out of their windows at around 1 AM, taking a deep breath, and scream路 ing as loud as the forces of nature allow until they run out of air. 'This is always followed up by an equally noisome and eloquent, "SHUT UP OR I'LL KILL YOU!!" from tired Bursley residents.

UnfoItunatley, five or ten minutes later, the sequence continues: "AAAAA!!", "SHUT UP OR YOU'RE DEAD!!" And so on.

I decided that the people living in one of the most desolate parts of campus need such a pastime, as I fmally spotted an approaching bus. This bus, of course, turn.ed out to be out of service, as the large yellow sign on the front so proudly declared. The driver didn't notice the vulgar gestures I made in his direction, but so what ifhe did?

What could he do? It's not as if a driver of a bus could actually pull the bus to a halt at a designated stop, pick up some passengers in a hurry, and drive them to where they need to go. How dare I expect such a thing from the transportation system which is supported by a hefty part of my $21,000 out-of-state tuition? How absurd!

"Anyone have to go to Northwood Five?" asked the driver of the bus that finally stopped to pick me up.

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Get Real Continued from page 6 you a college education as well.

That degrades the achievements of studentB who work bard to getinto schools like U-M. Schools send scouts all over the country to seek. out gifted athletes; gifted students, for the most part, must contact schools themselves. In the end, the vast majority of students must struggle to secure the right to pay for wlult we give athlete&forfree: a college education which the students have earned, but which the athletes may well have not.

None of this is to suggest that all athletes fall short of academic par. Many U-M athletic standouts, from future doctor Chris Hutchinson to future lawyer Rob Pelinka. have shown themselves capable ofbeingjust as bright in class as in the game. Even Rumeal Robinson, a former Prop 48, eventually earned his degree from U-M. Nor is it to suggest that students with less-than-spark1ing records should be denied the chance to improve. Just as teams give spots to remotely promising walk-ons, schools should give borderline student-athletes with potential the benefit of the doubt.

But let's getreal,folks. Not every walkon deserves to play for Michigan. And not every student-athlete deserves a Michi-

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gan education, let alone a scholarship to get it for free.

The "hardship" argument - that athletics give underprivileged kids a shot at an education which they would otherwise lack - proves unconvincing. What high school doesn't give athletes in terms of an education, sports cannot provide. Athletes who neglect high school studies for sporta deprive themselves of the preparation they need for college and a future careeroutsideofsports. Whattennis great Arthur Ashe wrote to the parents ofblack students speaks equally well to the parents of all high-school athletes: "While we are 60 percent of the National Basketball Association, we are less than 4 percent of doctors and lawyers. While we are about 35 percentofmajorleaguebaseball, weare less than 2 percent of engineers."

These stats would be fine if everyone who neglected high school studies for sports could make it to the professional leagues.

But they can't. According to Leonard Haynes of the U. S. Department ofEducation, only one in every ten thousand high school athletes ever gets to the pros.

Asking kids to put their hopes in sports as a vehicle for getting into college is a crime; it leads them to neglect their stud-

iesinfavoroffindingafutureinarthrough sports which often doesn't exist. When reality hits - when they can't handle college, can't get a degree, and can't get in to the pros - they are left with nothing but trophies and memories. It's no wonder professional athletes star in commercials warning kids to "Stay in Schoo!."

And where is the U-M in all this?

Doing exactly what nearly every college in America is doing today encouraging high school athletes to neglect theireducation, and demeaning college academics and students in the process.

It is every school's job to put academics first. The U-M has chosen to do otherwise. Instead of reforming athletics and restoring academics to the prominent post they deserve, the U-M, in sports great Howard CoseIl's assessment, has "abdicat[edJ" its role as the athletic department's "overseer," leaving the s}>Qrtsprogram to its own devices. We pay unprepared athletes to go to school, and don't care if they graduate or not, 80 long as they win the game. This has to stop.

Putting sports ahead of smarts is just plain stupid. Auniversity is first a school, and only second a team. What schools like U-M must do is get that concept

Conference Continued from page 1 The Michigan Conservative Conference will host students not only from UM, rut also from Hillsdale College, Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University. Michigan State University, and Northwood University. Michigan Congressional representatives haw.al$O been invited, as well as public p«.ili.cy fIgures from Accuracy in AcadEXmia On Wednesday, September 29, the conference will feature Samuel T. Francis, a nationally-syndicated columnist, who has been recognized twice by the American Society of Newspaper Editors for his outstanding writing and! commentary.

Having once served The Washington Times as Deputy Editorial Page Editor, he is now a Contributing; Editor to Chronicles as well as a Featured Columnist in Conservative Chronicle. In addition. Francis has workedfor.tb.e Heritage Foundation, one of America's leading public policy institutes. The columnist is a bold and articulate defender of American culture and heritage. During his speech at U - M, he plans to discuss the negative effects ofpolitical correctness on academia. Samuel Francis' appearance is part of the Stranahan American interests Lecture Series, established by the United State~ Ind~tri.al 09uncil Educational Foundation.

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Ron Robinson. national president of the Young America's Foundation, issched· uled to speak at the conference on September 30. Founded to educate young people on the American government and political system, Young America's Foundation has become one of the premiere public policy organizations for young adults in the country. The foundation hosts an annual conference in Washington, D.C., organizes an extensive speakers tour, and distributes educational resources to its members. Young America's Foundation has played an important role in the upcoming Michigan Conservative Conference by providing much of the necessary funding. Robinson will address studen ts' rights offree speech on campus.

On October 1 the conference will feature a debate between William Dannemyer and Stephen P. Dresch. A Korean War veteran and former practicing attorney, Dannemyer is a former Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives. During his fourteen years in the House, he was a strong advocate of fIscal responsibility and traditional American values. He served on the Budget Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Energy and Commerce pommittee, and was the ranking minoritymember of the Health and Environ-

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Luckily for me, no one answered in the affirmative, and the bus continued on its merry way to Central Twenty minutes and several detours later, thejourney was only halfcomplete, as the bus I boarded circumvented the whole of North Campus rather than just the immediate vicinity of Bursley Hall. My physics labs were due about fifteen minutes before, but thankfully my benevolent TA said I could drop them offanytime before the physics TA office closed. I cursedthebusdriverundermybreath, as well as the Ann Arbor traffic lights. which were seemingly stuck on red Of course, my complaints did not improve the situation, and the bus continued along at its usual speed.

Land hoI The bus finallyanived at the C. C. Little stop. Being the polite gentleman that I am, I actually let people exit in front of me, for I was in no mood to push, piledrive, or airplane--spin my way my way off like straight Mt .""~' ~'evel)lOne else. As I disembarke4" 1 noticed a friend walking toward me stop. He probably,still thinks I'm an impolite jerk for not waving back. but I was in a hurry. My legs quickly carried me to the Denison Building.

"Oh. sure. you'll be here right away.

Thanks for wasting my time, ment Subcommittee. you undergrad loser," the look on my Stephen Dresch has held a RepubliTA's face seemed to be saying as I can seat in the Michigan House.-ofRepreentered the room. 1 felt guilty, probsentatives. Having earned his Ph.D. in ably having kept him from some of economics from Yale University, Dresch that secret military research in which has worked for the National Bureau of graduate students sometimes indulge.

Economic Studies, the International inOh well, as long as the labs were stitute for Applied Systems Analysis, and turned in. Next, however. 1 had to the Institute for Demographic and Ecoface the journey back. nomic Studies. He has also served as a The whole excursion lasted about professor of economics and business at seventy minutes, which was longer Michigan Technological University. than it would have taken me to crawl where he also served as the dean of the to my TA's office.

School of Business and Engineering AdHow did 1 wind up living on North ministration. Stephen Dresch currently Campus and having to face this torworks as a free-lance political commenture?

Let's just say it had something tator. The subject of the debate between to do with the fact that my housing Dresch and Dannemyerwill be America's application was mailed to me after religious heritage. most applicants had already signed By hosting the conference, organiztheir leases.

Why in the world did I ers hope to add to the movement against return to live on North Campus as a classroom indoctrination on college camsophomore?

Don't ask.

What sticks puses. "I am optimistic that we will take out most in my mind relating to my a step forward in our quest to reestablish North Campus experience is a brisk freedom of speech and a traditional libconversation I once had: era! arts education," said Cali regarding "Where do you live?" I asked her. conference goals.

"South Quad. How about you?"

Students interested in learning more "Bursley. on North Campus." about the Michigan Conservative Con"Oh," she replied. "I'm sorry." ference should call 665-8864 for I could not have made that reply details. Ml. up if I "~~~Ml. '

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September 22, 1993

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Big Government, Big Money, Big Lies "8

BY AARoN STEELMAN

INCE 1985, SENATORS, unlike house members, have

been required to disclose pub-. licly the annual costs of their mailings.

There are nominal cost limits, based on state population but once again, the loopholes are wider than ' Senator Howell Heflin (D-Ala.)." Humor may

Officla' Ues - How Washingon Misleads Us James T. Bennett and Thomas J. Dilorenzo Groom Books Hardcover, 320 pages $19.95 not be one of James T. Bennett's and Thomas J. DiLorenzo's stronger points, but their book, Official Lies, is better than their jokes.

With AI Gore's new project, reinventing government, there has been much talk latilly about the inefficient bureaucracy that is the Unitild States federal government. The fact that the state has been spiraling in this direction for the better part of this century seems to have been ignored by Mr. (iQre. Yet; by observing the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy today, one is led to the undeniable conclusion that Washington has creaUld a systilm that builds upon itself at a seemingly exponential rate.

This outrageous growth in government, or more specifically the actions taken by bureaucrats to fuel this expansion, is the focus of Official Lies.

From farm subsidies to drug policy, Bennett and DiLorenzo spare no bloated agency from attack.

Of interest to all who value liberty is the obscene way in which the federal government has grown in response to the supposed "poverty crisis" America faces. Poverty, like most other supi

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we may have," he once said. "Each of us posed crises, has been falsely manufacproaching us as we foolishly utilize the tured so that the public will think that has to decide what the right balance is technology that reason and rational government action is not only a good thought has brought us. At the root of between being effective and being honidea but indeed a necessary solution. est." the radical environmental movement Bennett and DiLorenzo prove this to be is not only an anti-technology bias With the recent change in the proppatilntly false. which would have people living in a erty tax, a ho.t topic of discussion in the One of the more popular notions hunting and gathering system again, statil of Michigan is government fundspouUld by modern liberals is that govbut a deep rooUld hatred for man and ing of education and school choice. ernment spending on social programs his ability to think.

Bennett and DiLorenzo take a look at was completely gutted during the heartAn example of this mentality is the the socialized sysUlm of American publess Reagan years. 'This is absurd. statilment by David M. Graber of the lic education as it currently exists and Reagan did little to curb the growth of National Park Service, as recorded by see, as many of us do, a failed system. government, with welfare spending inTo solve the problem, theyadvocatil the Bennett and DiLorenzo: "Human hapcreasing in real dollars from $156.6 piness, and certainly human fecundity, system of tax vouchers first proposed billion in 1980 to $184.2 in 1988. In are not as important as a wild and

by Milton Friedman in the early 1960s. fact, Bennett and DiLorenzo point out They have examined the National healthy planet. I know social scientists that "[b]y 1988, government at all levwho remind me that people are part of Education Association (NEA) and the els spent enough on poverty programs nature, but it isn't true," Graber said. politicians who are slavishly devoted to alone (excluding Social , . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , the organization, and they have discovSecurity) to give $5,790 ered blatant hypocrisy: "Ironically, to every man, woman and many of the groups that scream 'Choice!' child below the poverty when the issue is the right of women to threshold. That adds up receive abortion counseling or an aborto $23,160 for every famtion are knee-jerk foes of measures ily of four - or nearly I I that would allow that same woman the twice the poverty threshfreedom to choose which schools her old of income." Yet durchildren will attend," they writil. "At ing the same period of the July 1991 convention of the NEA, 1980 to 1988 the Census "the union endorsed one resolution supporting government funding of aborBureau claims the numtion and another resolution instructing ber of "poor" people was members to 'work for the defeat' of reduced only from 33.3 tuition tax credits or school-voucher million to 31.9 million. plans," they point out. "The NEA, it These seemingly conseems, supports 'choice' not as a matter tradictory numbers ocof principle but as a simple expedient; curred, according to the the minute 'choice' threatens the public authors, because governThe Federal Tax Code, Sir. school monopoly, out the window it ment bureaucrats needed goes." to justify their existence Something as important as educaby creating the appearance of a larger "We have become a plague upon ourtion should not be politicized. Unfortunumber of "poor" people. 'Ibis was done selves and upon the Earth," he continnatilly, the issue of education has been by changing the definition of poverty, ued. "Unti.lsuch time as Homo sapiens used by variousle.ftist groups and polithus effectively creating more "poor" should decide to join nature, some ofus ticians in order to gain political levercan only hope for the right virus to rome people and furthering the careers of age. While we have witnessed the colalong." Official Lies questions whether lifetime politicians, who claim to be lapse of the Soviet Empire, we are still looking out for the interests of the less this is the type of drivel Americans are trying to copy the socialists' sysUlm of fortunatil. paying a public employee to espouse. education. Unless we initate some comAnother costly example of a manuThe autho~ believe it shouldn't be, yet petition into the educational market factured crisis covered in Official Lies it has becOme accepUld in the face of a we will continue to get the same' sad is the scare of apocalyptic environmenpurportedly impending disastilr. tal problems that are supposedly apresults, with the poor taking the hardWhen one hears about a new envii ronmental regulation that would possi- . est hit. Politicians who would rather keep their job than help millions of bly cost millions of dollars in profits, and thousands ofjobs, it would be wise, children should be treatild in the same way as someone who does their job to.question the source that the governpoorly in the pri~til sector - they ment has decided to listiln to when contemplating the bill's costs and benshould be tennirtated.

Those who realize that government efits. Oftentimes suggestions for such is not the solution to people's problems legislation comes from a voice similar have been largely ineffective in curbing to that of S1'ilven Schneider of the Nastatil growth, and would be well served tiona! Center for Atmospheric Research. to find out more about the tools Wash"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statilments, ington uses to promulgatil its expansion. While at times a bit cursory and and make little mention of the doubts unfortunatilly flippant, Official Lies Aaron Steelman is a sophomore in ecowould be a valuable source in finding nomics and Publisher of the Review. such information.

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September 22, 1993

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Versus, Breeders': Cranes, Impatients

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EW YORK BASED VERSUS Casio-land, are raw and gripping. combines indie-rock guitar with pop melodies on the debut Remora release, Let's Electrify!

On the more disappointing side of Electrify! consists of six songs that music, The Muffs play Ramones-like range from the disonant distortion of pop-core on the debut track "Lucky the opening track, "Silver Vein," to the ! Guy". While the music sounds promisultra-pop, sing-along vocals of "Sea ing with drivGirl" ing riffs and Although the EP is continually floating vocals, Muffs The Muffs memorable, due to the jangly chords it starts to and laid-back melodies of Richard become Warner Borthers Baluyut, the ,..--_ _ _ _ _ _-, repititive after highlight of the a while.

Lefs Electrify! album is bassGuitarist/vocalist/songwriter Kim ist Fontaine Versus Shattuck's churchy melodies just get Toups' vocals Remora Records old after awhile, and her need to let out on the dy- , ' - - - - - - - - - ' a she--bitch screech everytime she can't namio-masterpiece, 'That Girl's Gone." hit a note gets even older.

Versus has a knack for simplistic, I would write more about the Muffs, understated verse that gives way to the but after the first few songs bored me, climactic chorus with a slight taste for I skipped up to the 12th track, an Angry lyrical cheese epitomized by 'That Girl's Samoans cover, to find out that that Gone." pretty much sucked too.

"My boyfriends got a girlfriend now, I hope she gets hit by a car."

Some silly lyrics aside, Versus is a '1'hp f'ranes continue the pleasanltly eerie, schizo-child vocals of band that is definitely worth searching Alison Shaw and begin to expand upon for, so look for their debut in Schoolkids the music on their second RCA release, Records or other independent record stores.

Forever.

On the title track and a few other songs, there is Well, now that we know that fonner acoustic guitar Forever instead of the Pixies: vocal!guiUu' hero Frank Black Cranes usual, induswants to make aIUlpying and fruity trial-like gui- RCA music reminiscent of Big Audio Dynatar qf the mite, t4e'pixies f~ of~~I~qrldJllllst look t,o, The Cranes'first RCA release, Wings of Joy. ":Far Away" shows the appealing Breed~:r,s. for La$t SpJ~sh I . and s¥nple one-note-at-a-time piano quality, m.~sic, The B,r~,rs.. and . L list 4AD1ileldra· . behQ1~l~ flightly, inarticulate melody.

Splasp, delivFpNvj:Jr, although slightly differers, ent from Wings of Joy, is frequently The first single, "Cannonball," is more grating than its predecessors. the most grinding an,d vocally pleasing Songs like "Cloudless" feature patternsong 91). the album, but guitariatl vocalles,s ramblings over the usual Cranes ist Kim Deal also deUvers o:t;t "I:t;tvisible melodramatic riffs.

Man" a gliding, Q~a~~lik~ j~ yomr, ,. ~though Wings of Joy was enjoyplete,with violins. " . { I . ' r . able,FQrever shows that the Cranes GuitaristJvocW.stKelley Deal hal;!, may ~ve the Primus syndrome: a neat her '~4qt a~ vocals ?:t;lith~!~le~~aJ}~:Y .,nove~r:))~t ,fairly valueless. All in all, repetJ.tiv~ "1 Jus~ W~~ ~FAlo~, i Fore t;er1 j~xaJright. wh4e bassistJv<>e.tW.st .~PI3E!~e Wiggs ~E1 Cranes will play at Industry on swaps instruments with,~er Jii:l;l J Thurscl.ay"September 23rd for $3.

Macpherson on the noisy almost-instrumental "Rot" With 89X nimrod Kelley Brown The Breeders continue to write dipraising banal crap group The Vudu verse songs that are raw and gripping, Hippies as "the big thing" floating while Frank Black waters down into around in the toilet bowl oflocal music, something is definitely wrong. For so~e reason certain local media feel obliSylas Koe, ajunior in history, is studyi718abroad qt the London Sch~l. qf gated to f!Upport local m~c, even when 99% of the bands in the local scene Economics this tenn. He is, a·loser.

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What sets The Impatients apart from other bands is vocalist/guitarist Doug Way's skill for melody over the very poppy music.

"Winter" shows The Impatients' ability to write catchy tunes, complete with harmonies and girl-orientened lyrics, while "In Logic" and "You Didn't Love Me Anyway" continue the singalong choruses.

"Fake ill," recorded during WCBN's "Studio Live," is the only tune that is simply too poppy, and shows that, while The Impatients have the vocals, they lack in the 'Jam" category. Of course, they didn't have the cash to blow on recording the album, but the First drums need to The 1mpatients loosen up, the guitars need to Jewelweed get louder, and the riffs need some dynamics.

At their recent record release show at the Blind Pig, The Impatients did "let loose" a little bit, and the show never dulled, but all in all the tunes on First could use a little more power.

Pop bands are hard to come by in a scene of white-boy funk bands and

The Impatients over-€motional hard-core bands. On a national level, for example, Material Issue's second album sucked as bad as The Pursuit of Happiness' recent album.

The Impatients have mastered the vocals of pop music on some of the tunes on First, setting them apart from most of the bands in the local section. Now t!1ey have to master the music. Mt

Madder Rose Young's noisy Crazy Horse, you'd get something close to Madder Rose. Or if, Sonic Youth penned a few tunes with WO AND A HALF YEARS Gram Parson. Lorsan's melodies are ago, Billy Cote found hlmselfin rooted in classic country/folk, while the one more New York band lost in arrangements are pleasantly poppy and the shuffle. He had written a bunch of often driven by perfectly articulate tunes that he felt deserved to be heard, drones offeedback.

The Crazy but could't get a break. Then one night Horse influence shines on Bring It Down at a party, the songwriter and huge Lou in numbers like the Reed fan met a ballad "While Away" woman named and "Lay Down Low" Mary Lorsan. which are in the "All of the other Ramones-like, ur- .. bands I'd been in ban punk/pop vein, had male singers, . while "WaitiD.g for and since my songs Engines" and the alwere melodic, I bum-closing instruthought I'd try a mental "Pocket woman singer," exFulla Medicine" conMadder Rose plains Cote. "A jure up thoughts of woman's voice is earlyCowboy Junkies. such a different instrument then a The group's new Swim EP features man's." Cote invited Lorsan over to two songs from the year's earlier alhear his stuff, and that night they bum, the title track, and a cover of worked through the songs "Swim," Jonathan Richman's "I Wanna Sleep in "Lights Go Down," and "Baby Gets Your Arms," and focuses more on dy- • High," tunes that appear on Madder namics and atmosphere, where as the Rose releases. Earlier this year, the LP seemed more focused on melody band released their debut full-length craftsmanship. on the Seed label entitled "Bring it Madder Rose performs with The Down", and are currently on the road Juliana Hatfield Three at St. Andrew's supporting Swim, a new six song EP. Hall on Saturday the 25th. TI~ts ~ If the som.p.olent Cowboy "unkie~ voonly $7.50. Mt ~list Margo Timmins fronted Niel

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