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She accuses the members of ASMSU of to U-M students, for the U-M is a paid . been no active movement within MSA HOSE THAT FOLLOW playing political games with MCC, remember ofMCC. As Craig Greenberg, to reevaluate the funding of MCC , campus politics know that the fusing to send its delegates to the orgaPresident ofMSA, states, "MCCis sup- . Greenberg suggests that Michigan stunization, As a result of this action, posed to represent the students of the dents "should contemplate whether Michigan Collegiate Coalition (MCC) is the subject of much debate not ASMSU has denied the students of state of Michigan"; yet not every public that's the best place for their lobbying only in the chambers of the Michigan MSU the proper repschool is a member, and money to go and whether or not there's resentation within the number of schools has a 1>etter way to do it in the rutw-e," Student Assembly (MSA), but in other student governments throu.ghout the MCC, This has undecreased with the loss of stating that a new joint lobbying effort state. The controversy surrounding leashed student proMSU. Greenberg cites bet",een the U-M and MSU is a "very MCC reached'critical mass recently at test on the campus that ~e 'b~stblQCk of viable; potential option."

Michigan State Univet'j!ity, when the ofMSU, as students students With the .same · The disputfl among MCQ,.ASMSU, Assembly of Students at Michigan State support the cantininterest,s ~'. 'Michigan ~dits student constittlenta is sure f;<l .

Univeraity (ASMSU) opted to termiued funding of the , State. 'and Mi~hig~n;" . . ~continue throughout the winter term. nate fundUig ofthe State Capitoll&by· lobbying organiza- . .,.given that bo~'are l8ige, . . 'As Greenbe.r g indicates, this contro~ ing organization. Althtmgh this decition. Thus, Roberts " lesearch-ori~n,~ p~lic versy invQ):vesa multitude of colleges sion was made on a dift'ere:ntrolleae states, a conflicthas • universities. "FQr. tha~ anti univ~tie8, notj~tthe U~Mt for campus, it holds tremendous eonsearisen between , • ',':. ~ ,.block, not~,,~ in M9C it,calls j.nto question t,he v~ id~ .of quences for the Univeraity of Miehigan ASMsn aBel stu;. .' .• [~] a problem," heeontin- '. ,funding MCCin the.firstplace. f\s the andi~ stud.... . ". «,' '.' dents at Michigan ,; USA PresidentCrcl Gfeenbef . ue~, for s~cha ~cenario ~pco~g MSA. election approaCllEis, ,maps tile most unportant ques- State. "'. .. ' "': .' ." 9 . 9;" ' qUlte pos~bly will "take lSsu,e lB. SUi'e to be<Xlme.a porot ofeonnon. J~u"ding ~CC deals with the ' ..AltA9ugli it m~y ~':Qth.(lJ.'W,ise, ~WR.Y ,froI1l ~C(J;8 ;~.~~r ,~~ c:redibik ~l;\~o;n.i~,Jut4ebate and debate at the o~zation9 .~ _ .! ....;: ,' ,tleee~(I1i¢n-~n;;'V~.tJ.t&at'cd,tu"", rt.~QHlntr ' tty In Lansmg. " Aithoutili. thel'fl .has l U-Nt. -- an organizationdcsi the state leglsla tore on behul1 of coll students - penorm its job in an effective or even adequate manner? This is Markley residents found $12.00 going the main concern of Brad Thaler, Presihouse dues might not appear to be all

BY GREG PARKER AND dent of ASMSU, in regard to MCC, toward their house co\lll.cils, with $8.00 that bad; those who pay the dues deterJAMES A. ROBERTS, II remaining in the individual halls. The Citing that MSU already has access to mine the amount they pay by a majortheir own lobbying semce8, 'Iha1er~­ o YOU EVER WONDER ity vote., Yetth~ d~ .ofchoiCe in this 1992-93 president of Lloyd House Co\lll.eluded that funding ofMCC is not bencilTom Rumido indicates that $6.00 voting varies across campus: sOme stU". what life under the New Daal eficial to MSU students: pj:ven the fact went towards Lloyd's minority co\lll.cil, was like? Through its system of dents in Mosher Jordan for instance that MSU, due to the large size of its $5.00 went towards individual halls, had to pay at.least $20.00 whereas mandatory hOuse dues; the University student body, pays more to MCC than and the remaining $9.00 went to the Housing Department is ensuring that some studeJits in Alice Lloyd and lloyd house council in that school year. any other member, MSU, he states, is one will receive such an experience. As Bursley hadthe option of of paying as simply "not getting its money's worth," In West Quad, house dues average stated in Section 9 of the University low as $5.0Q. In the tradition of governI t is for this reason, backed with wide$25.00 to $30,00. According to Jackie Housing Division's Residence Hall ment coe~on,failure to pay these dues spread student support, that ASMSU Lease, "you must pay house dues as . results in a hold credit - a limitation of Mims-Hickmon, Coordinator for Residence Education at West Quad, apdid not push for a referendum to renew access to various University resources, determined by a majority of those vat· proximately 85% of these dues stay MSU's membership in MCC, thereby Each dorm has independent poliing in one's hall or house during the within individual halls, while the rest letting it expire. Due to the aforemenfirst term of the lea se ." Regardless of cies determining tlle use ofits dues, so goes to the West QuadlBetsy Barbour/ tioned reasons, there has been no etTort house due allocation for each is differ one's willingness to participate in resiHelen Newberry 'B,ouse Council. Such within ASMSU to renew this contract. dence hall government, you must pay ent. For instance, Mary Markley and inconsistency in dollar allocations and Keliye Roberta, Chair of MCC, preAliCe Lloyd dormitories each have these dues if you live in a residence amounts among the various residence sents a slightly different story. Instead $20.00 house dues , but spending aphall, Like many New Deal programs, halls is not conducive to student parof there being a problem between MCC propriations for each differ. Reneka however, the house dues system seems ticipation; what one's money is spent and MSU as Thaler indicated, Roberts Edwards, president of both the Markley to confiscate money hastily under the states that the conflict exists between guise of collective benefit.

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The Ontario Grievance Settlement Board ruled that workers may receive sick pay due to hangovel'$,'Ihe Board next week is expected to allow 'feeling stuffed' as a qualifier for sick pay,

On Feotuary3, a Russian cosmonaut will be aboard a NASA Space shuttle as it launches from Cape Canavenil. When asked what his responsibilities on the shuttle will be, a senior controller said, "Basically, to observe the crew, drink vodka, and watch for space ruble, or debris." \ ;

In Santa Rosa last week, residents were told to keep their bathroom doors closed and their toilet seats shut because a six-foot python had escaped down its owner's toilet. We don't want to know what the snake was doing in the bathroom with its owner, '

Tom Petty says, "Even lQsez:sgetlucky once in a w;hile," Except for thEl :Buffalo Bills that is. " . , •..

During the cold snap Uj: :dhlcago, a ninety-oJ1,eyear old woman Ijeeded the police and firemen to he~l> ~ )ler from the floor.:ApparentlY';~whl;.~ ~le.~g the floor, !ilie became frozen and was stuck by-het feet. fua~~ated story, Robert Reich needed the Secret Semce to free him after a meeting with Hila.ry Rodhani Clinton.

ADetroit News headline last week read, "Bobbitt decision in jury's hands," Actually, the deciSion changed handS qUite a few times.

Oliver North, leftover from the lranContra Affair, has said that definitely will run the U.s. Senate ibis year. He is still uncertain abou~ his campaign platform and onlY' answers, "Hmm. I don't ~," Rest ass~d that it will contain paper shredders on every street corner.

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A pr~ activist, who runs a shoe sj;ore in New York, has placed a new tWist on the gun-for-toys idea, He is handing out 200 free rounds of ammu.nition to all customers who bring in an old pair of tennis shoes. Makes sense.

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In a press release, the Clinton administration boasted ofits "Climate Change Action Plan that...addresses one of the most threatening environmental problems today: global warming." We thought it was the depletion of our valuable natural resoUrce: the Big Mac. Ted Kelllledyon sexual harassment:

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Shaw Brown Junior, LSA "An onion. When you cut down into it, it makes you cry. "

Oliver Larson Freshman, History "Bread, because it stales fast."

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thought about this question for the past would cut waste and make athletes appreciate the resources that they have, two years and have been unable to as well as benefit the most student come up with any answers, other than athletes with a limited amount of tradition.

Obviously, teams are not funded money.

Most student athletes at Michigan according to how successful their seaare not on scholarship, but instead are sons are, and they are not flll1ded ac, cording to how many spectators attend their games.

Instead of the present arbitrary prac- ;-.: ,\~t. ,;wijf' tice, the athletic department should divide its -9\,.:-;-..9~ ~ "" _ ~<~-' ) . budget among all teams using objective meth"~ ods. If the university is . going to fund any non, revenue generating , ~iF:'". sports at all, to be fair, ' " all sports should be funded in proportion to the number of particl. i .. pants. '!his m~ fh'at the teams with the most "If ~university gave our money,therunaybe we members would get the couId.d some brak.. most money; this would ensure that the highest number of stuparticipants in club sports such as socd~.nts wo~d benefit from the athletic cer. rugby, waterpolo, or cycling. Why

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FTEN, WHEN PEOPLE HEAR that I am on the crew team, they ask me if I am crazy - we get up at 5:30 in the morning to sit in a boat in the freezing cold, run the stadium stairs, train intensely all year round, and travel to competitions almost every weekend in the spring, seriously cutting into time for classwork.

One thing most people don't realize when they hear me talking about rowing is how much it costs me to participate. Crew is a club sport, and unlike varsity sports such as football, basketball and track, it is not funded or overseen by the Athletic Department. Instead, the Michigan Rowing team is run by student officen who do everything including paying the bills, organizing equipment and making travel arrangements, and raising money to cover the team's expenses.

While the university does oversee crew through the Recreational Sports Department, and funds about 2 percent of the team's annual budget, the rest ofthe,DlOD8Y for equipment, ~ . salaries, imd travelling Dlust be raised by team members. Since crew is the largest club sport on campus, this requires a great deal of organization and work.

Name any kind of fund-raiser you can think of, and I have probably participated in it eelling t-ehirta and raffie tickets, cleaning Yost and Crisler Arenas after hockey and basketball games, counting ballots after MSA elections, getting people to pledge money for a row-a-thon, and even raking leaves and cleaning out the garages of Ann Arbor residents willing to donate money.

On top of all the time spent raising money, team members also have to pay dues three times a year and fund their trip to Florida during Winter Break (which is spent training, not slll1bathing). I will probably spend over $1000 this year to row at the University of Michigan and represent this school at competitions across the Midwest and

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unfair. The university funds many different,sports that involve fewer people than crew, and, with the exception of football and maybe baskethall, all of these sports lose money every year, What is the justification for funding some sports and not others? I have '1'-.~ R-J.. ·

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Of course, the issue of genderequity complicates the matter of funding even further, forcing Big Ten schools to increase funding to women's sports over the next few years.

This change, however, will only benefit a few women's club sports by turning them into fully-funded, uni· versity-run programs. '!he changes do not h.elp all women.'s . club sports, and even hurl 8Ome.men's.programs - like gymnastics- wbichWWlose its var-

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and any scholarships that teams give out wo~d no longer be fun~ed by the Athletic Department, but IDstead by their own internal budgets.

One argument against this change might be that the quality and competitiveness of certain teams would suffer: Without the ability to award a large number of scholarships to athletes, opponents might say, how could good players be recruited to come to Michigan?

I am arguing that a team should only support the number of scholarships it can afford. If a team's scholarship needs cannot be met with the money the athletic department gives to a sport under the new system, then the team needs to reevaluate its priorities, or come up with new sources of funding.

'Ibis change would necessitate some bard choices being made by many of the non-money making varsity sports on campus in order to cut their budgets.

Many teams could save money, for example, by driving to competitions in the Midwest instead of flying. Some teams would have to reduce the numberof-...l..-larsbi th· d ybe a;uu ps ey grve, an ma even reduce the size of their coaching

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ASr WEEK, MlClllGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CRAIG Greenberg and Vice President Brian Kight both decided to turn down Vice President of Student Affairs Maureen Hartford's offer of a $2,500 tuition waiver per term for holding officer positions in U-M's student government.

Greenberg and Kight originally accepted the offer, but, after taking a closer look at the dissent that rose around them, delayed the decision to put the question of student leader compensation up for a vote in March's MSA elections. 'These actions raise serious questions about the future ofU-M extracuni.cular activities. Foremost, the offer has not been rescinded by Hartford, so, even if the offer does not pass this year, it will still exist for consideration in the future. Taking this money is a huge mistake, due to the conflicts of interest that will surely arise.

'The Compiled Code, MSA's governing rules reads: "No member ofMSA shall have any financial relationship with an executive officer at the U-M. Financial relationships shall include, but are not limited to, partnerships, loans, and gifts."

To say that a tuition waiver is neither a gift; nor implied in the "not limited to" line is analogous to arguing that there is a difference between a financial relationship with the administration and with an officer; it is a relationship with an office.

Ifone still is not swayed, consider this: if these waivers are not considered gifts according to a strict interpretation ofMSA's code, they violate the spirit ofMSA Students depend on their government to stand apart from the U-M in order to support the best interests of students. Selling out is not ih tH'e 'best interest of the student body. IfMSA truly wants its officers to be paid, it should. rely upon money raised by MBA itself without raising the annual fee charged to students on their tuition bills.

Hartford proposes that in the future, monESY to c»mpenaat&8tudentleadeN" should be extended to organizations other than MSA, and this money will likely come from a fund separate from the Vniversity, possibly set up by alumni funds strictly for the purpose of providing scholiu-ships. Is this really necessary? For now, the stipend is in the form of a waiver. If the waiver is not'baI!e<i on merit or financial need, upon what is it based ?D08S \t'not matter. who the president and Vice president ofMSA are and how mueh work they do? 'The present officers may work extensively, but next yeats officers may not. If this motion passes, future officers will be awarded the waivers even if they do not workfor,it. IUs often the case that people who hold lesser-ranked offices are the workhol'$es of a group. Shouldn't they receive money also?

Regardless, why should students be paid for work done on a voluntary basis?

'Thousands of stud.ents join clubs and participate in activities without being paid, and their contributions are very important to U-M. In the past, they never joined for money; rather, they had a desire to ,be involved. Students join clubs out of interest, not for salaries. If MSA wantS to remain in the best interestg of the students, it needs to attract leaders who are interested in government, not in a $5,000 tuition waiver. One cannot rely upon the University to pamper students who desire to be involved. If a student is truly dedicated to his education, he will learn to balance everything, as part of learning.

One argument nresented for the waiver was the familiar claim that other schools do it. This argument does not even deserve refutation.

To put the issue of student leader compensation up for a vote before the student body is wise, but Greenberg and Kight should have realized the questions their actions coul(j precipitate. They Mould have recognized the need for both a written agreement from the Vice President for Student Affairs' office, guaranteeing the terms of the waivers, and general student body approval of the action. 'They should have seen the possibility for controversy over the issue, and should not be "offended," as Greenberg wrote in the Daily, that people have questioned their ethics. 'The situation was a fia800. The past cannot be changed, however, 80 focus should be placed upon the upcoming vote, since Hartford's offer is still valid. . 'I1le whole issue of money waivers provided by the university for student government officers or anyone is a bad idea. It is clearly a conflict of interest, ethics, and the spirit ofMSA In order for student government to work effectively, there must be a motive to work hard and fight for issues relevant to students. If a prominent officer is being paid by the administration, this drive may no longer exist. IfMSA truly hastb.e best interest of students in mind, it should work hard to remain separate in every way from the administration, and if it wishes to pay its officers, it should find other means. m

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Not much has changed since then. The majority of the editorial board is still from Michigan, and they refer to it as pop. There is one dissenter, however, who is sick ofbeing ostrocized for saying dawg (dog) and arange (orange) and cawl (call) and SODA like a true New Yorker.

The majority of the Review's editorial board has decided that it will henceforth be Review policy to refer to carbonated drinks as "pop" rather than "soda." We make this decision with the full realization that it is as much a reflection ofus as ifwe were to mandate a policy of inclusive language and even carry it out to our sports pages. This will demonstrate that the Review is not afraid of taking sides in the great debate of our time, and far more significantly, of our university. At the University of Michigan, a world-class institution at which students congregate from East and west (and a few other places), the "pop-soda debate" often dates as far back as Summer Freshman Orientation. We understand that the mere mention of this debate brings out the most bitter East-West tensions, and we seek to settle the conflict once and for all While it is true that the editorial board is dominated by midwesterners,

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Both "soda" and "pop" are etymologically derived from the twoworded name "soda-pop," which was in frequent use in ancient times earlier this century. Somewhere along the line, "soda" went east and "pop" went west. However, if one examines the original name, it is easy to see that "pop" is the root word, while "soda" is used as an adjective, referring to the carbonation as it does in soda water What kind of pop? - Soda pop!

Therefore, it really has been "pop" all along, but for lack of any similar kinds of "pop," we have come to realize that the "soda" adjective is unnecessary.

One would not find similar rationale for, using "soda," as there are other kinds of soda, most notably baking soda. Thus, one would need an adjective to distinguish Dr. Pepper from Arm and Hammer. And using something like "pop soda" would be absolutely ridiculous and defeat the entire pmpose of the debate. m.

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"GOOD GUYS WEAR Black" has always been the motto of the Los Angeles Raiders, but I found it fitting for another group in Los Angeles - the Los Angeles Police Department (LAP.D.).

Two days before Christmas, I rode along with the LAP.D. Central division dill-ing the 3:00 p.m. to midnight shift.

When one speaks of the LAP.D:, what inunediately comes to mind is the Rodney King incident or the 1992 riots; the enormous task these men and women face each day does not. When most of us go to work, we usually ell..]>Cct a typical routine. When police officers go to work, they can expect anything ranging from traffic accidents to homicides.

Central division, an enonnoUB complex encompassing a whole city block, is built like a fortress with reinforced walls and bulletproof glass. I was ~tro­ duced to Sergeant Marco Munoz, the officer with whom I would be riding: Sgt. Munoz, a six year veteran of the department, had a cool yet disciplined demeanor with a mark,ed p'rofessio~lal- .. ism one could only acquire from this type of job. He grew up in the barrio of the Newton district in East L.A, went to high school in the San Fernando Valley, and graduated from UCLA Roll call took place at 3:00 p.m. I followed Sgt. Munoz into a small room decorated with a dented car door displaying the slogan, "To Protect and Serve." Most of the offioors were wearing bulletproof vests. The watch commander, Lt. Taylor, updated the officers present with the latest news: a wanted bank robber had left his LD. at the bank he robbed, an officer had successfully wrapped up a case involving the sexual molestation of si.x children, and the force would be undennanned on Christmas. Summons were passed out for officers to appear in court. He wrapped up by saying, "(let's) put as many idiots as we can in jail."

My first priority was to get acquainted with the organizational and administrative structure of the department. The L.A.P.D. is approximately 7600 strong. It consists of 4 bureaus (Central, Valley, West, and SOuth) and 18 divisions. Central division also houses the elite Metro division, which is the special operatioIU! unit of the department. It COIU!ists of the newly fonned gang units called CRASH (Community Reso~s Against Street Hood·

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lums) and the famous SWAT (SPecial pavement. Marco pulled up and said, Weapons and Tactics) team, that former "Can't find it, can you!" One of the men police chief Daryl Gates created. replied, "You took it, man. Yoti. took my Marco told me that the most dancoke!" We rontinued through the streets gerous division is the 77th, located in while Marro identified prostitutes (most South-Central LA, followed by Ramwere transvestites) and th~ single men part and Newton , which border Cendriving aimlessly in the area looking tral on each side. To contrast how danfor the light one. gerous these divisions are, a typical Shortly after 7:00 pm., Marco dedivision in West LA, covering an area cided to mom tor some of the incoming of about 40 square nilles, generally sees calls. There was a domestic violence approximately seven homicides a year. call in Rampart, which is outside of his Newton division, covering a mere 10 jurisdiction. We went anyway because square miles saw over 140 homicides it bordered Central ne<;lr Burlington St. last year.

We arrived at a run-down ap9.rtment Marco and I set OffUl the patrol car. complex and found a calm Mexican As a sergeant, he is not required to man crouched outside one ofilie doors~ respond to every call. His job is to suHe had beate~ his girifriendin :a ,fit of pervise the other patrol units. He drove rage on the &~et .a nd was ;n()Wi l~ed me through Central's jurisdiction, out of ap~ent. 'lh~ cO~p'Je ~polte which includes downtown, Chinatown, no English. but M~. and an()t;hw ofthe newly renovated Convention Cen- . fieer presen~ $pOk~ '!he wo~ ter, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (where . . was hysterical, and the .other officer the Academy Awards are held), Union first calmed her, then anested the man.

Station, and City ijaIr:' He then gave M~ explained that in.thepast,offic· me the grand of the Los Angeles ers ~~ ~~.~. AO~esfic ~yjQ~~nqe: ~ Police Academy, which is buried in the could make the determiriation orisight hills behind Dodger Stadium. whether to arrest the suspect because many times the girlfriend or wife would Marco drove just south of down.tOWlil to the Flower St. district. There I saw, to u se a s tatement made by a student in one of Clinton's National Service town meetings, "Third World conditions in [my) own backyard." It looked like Beirut. People were sleeping in tents and cardboard boxes on the sidewalk and bonfires were burning in the streets. The presence of our car was of no surprise to anyone. People were standing in groups on the sidewalk and once we started to pull up alongside, Are you frustrated with: someone would whistle and people with guilty looks on their faces would quickly The Daily turn and hurry away. We stopped to Campus Leftists chat with a few friendly people congregating arotmd a bonfire who seemed Political Correctness incredibly good-natured. One man sarReactionary Conservatives castically said, "Hey! Where are our presents?' Marco replied, "We only have Then vent your frustration them for the children this year." After driving away, Marco turned to me and by writing for the said, "Most of these people smoke coMichigan Review. caine. It goes for about two dollars ,a rock."

Driving down a side street, we ran Come to one of our into a group of three suspicious looking eekly staff meetings on the young men. They immediately tossed something and approached us. Marco third floor of the Michigan · got out of the car and questioned them.

League, 7 p.m. on Sundays They denied any wrongdoing, so after scanning the ground for any evidence, to learn about becoming he told them to 'beat feet.' We drove part of the establishment around the block and Marco predicted or call Nate at 662-1909. that they would be back between the buildings looking for the drugs they had thrown. We turned the corner and . they were hunched over, scanning the

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We went back to the station, and Marco overheard a report on the radio of a vehicle that had been stolen. The car was refusing to pull over. He grabbed his gear and yelled for me to follow as he ran tpward the door. We jumped in the 'c ar and took off Ahelicopter was call~d from the San Fernando Valley and was over the vehi~e within min· Utes. ;~y the time we jo~~ .'the pursuit, helicopter pilot w~ Calling the shots. ., MIU:C9 made it p~ction that the car was headed for the HoUenbeck housprojects in the Honenbeck division, wh).ch is miles away. We were now sMedp,ls at around 80 :miles. per hour.

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o INTERVIEW: DlNESH D'SOUZA

In Pursuit ofa Liberal Education N JANUARY 18, 1994, THE

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LSA Student Government spon90red a debate at Racltham Auditorium entitled "Multiculturalism and the University.路 The event featured Ron Walters, profeS8or ofpolitical science at Howard University, and Dinesh D'Souza, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, conservative scholar, founder of the Dartmouth Review, and an outspoken critic of the multicultural movement. On Janzwry 25, D'Souza spoke with James A. Rob路 erts, II, of the Review.

MR: What type of curricula, in your opinion, should constitute a liberal arts education?

IYSOUZA: Well, I think a liberal education should open students to knowledge about the world in which they live.

Now, one should develop the critical tools to be a self-governing member of a democratic society as well as to be an effective worker in the modern workplace. In addition to that, one should have some sense of the past and of other societies so one can stand in some critical relationship to your own culture: I think ifHberaI edUC'dtion even began do those th ings, it would be giving students a good preparation for life.

lum that is being presented to students at colleges today?

D'SOUZA: Well, colleges are doing, I would say, a mediocre job of transmitting basic akills and basic information to students. think. that colleges do better on the vocational side of the job than they do in transmitting historical, cultural, or critical thinking skills to young people. Very often, colleges today simply substitute a contemporary set of prejudices for the prejudices of 50 years ago. And young people today are no less critical about their orthodoxies as their ancestors were about those orthodoxies or the orthodoxies of that day. So I don't think there has been all that much of an improvement over time.

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MR: How can students be sure that they are receiving a liberal arts education rather than biased, more poIlticellndoctrina1ion?

IYSOUZA: Well, one test of whether you're receiving a good education is to read good books and to see ifthose good books speak to you, if you Wlderstand them, and if you can make an intelligent asse88ment of them. So, for example, I find that most people,even graduates of fine colleges, can't do this.

They have a certain "cocktail party"

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MR: Do you believe that multiculturalism can be a part of a traditional liberal arts curriculum at a university?

MR: Do you s8jt this failure to educate students only as the fault of the university, or 'do you believe the students should carry some of the blame as well?

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MR: Do you believe that is the type 'of curricu-

that is a taste that needs to be developed, cultivated, refined, and universities are not doing a good job in that

familiarity with Milton, they know he wrote Paradise Lost, they know that Max Weber's name should be pronounced with.a "V" rather than with a "W," they can kind offind the amoeba in the microscope with some effort. But, basically if you put Book X of the Federalist in front of them , or if you gave , em a segment of Dante's Inferno, and you asked them to really tell you what this means and what is at stake here and what are some alterna tive points of view to the arguments that Dante presents, they are bewildered. So that I have to conclude that universities are not doing as good a job as they should.

Now ifuniversities are not doing a good job with their own traditions, which is the Western tradition, it is a little ridiculous and pointless to start talking about Confucius, about the Aztecs, about ancient cultures of which most of our professors know very little.

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D'SOUZA: Well, I think that one should begin in one's own culture and then open doors and windows to other cultures. If you have some familiarity with the basic ingredients of your own civilization, then to look at other cultures is very helpful because you realize that other people sometimes operate on different assumptions, and you begin to critically question your own assumptions. For example, it is true that the modern idea of equality - of treating men and women equally, feminism is a uniquely Western idea which brings guffaws from people all over the world.

Most cultures at most times in history have treated women very differently than men. So one of the effects of multiculturalism is to, number one, apply critical tools to other cultures ,......

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the s tu d e n ts carry a measure of blame in the sense that an u ndemandi ng curd cuI um brings out the worst in students.

But I also think young people today are no less interested and curious as young people in the past and I do pla ce most of the r e楼 sponsibility on ~: educators and adi~ ministrators for failing to a waken those impulse s and lead them down the path of education. I think Allan Bloom was right that we have a basic Bloom calls it a virtually erotic impulse that draws us - to Author and scholar Dinesh D'Souza some degree even a sexual impulse and say, "Are they missing the point?", that impels us toward knowledge. In but also critical tools to our own culture other words, it's no accident that we to say, "Have we become neurotic about use the term "know" in the biblical equality in ways that other cultures sense to refer both to sexuality and to wisely reject?" So multiculturalism cuts knowledge, and Bloom's point is that in many different directions. Very of-

ten, people who are the most enthusiastic about multiculturalism don't realize it poses a fundamental challenge to Western ideas such as secularism, separation of church and state, equality between men and women, and so on.

They believe in a safe multiculturalism that involves Taco Bell and that involves reading philosophers whom they safely assume are diverse but have nothing to say, nor challenges to issue to their way of life.

MR: Do you think this movement stems from a serious study of world cultures or do you see it more as a soci~litica' movement?

D'SOUZA: Well, I think that multiculturalism is controversial in America because ofitsanti-Americanism. If American professors suddenly developed a massive interest in studying ancient China or the cultures of Mohinjudaro and ancient India, this would Ie uncontroversial. In fact, this is part of the traditional canon. You can get a masters degree or a Ph.D. in any other civilization and learn its language and immerse yourselfin itside::ts and cuJt.\U'c andreligion;iTllisis 00l;w1u1 multiculhrralism, in its political manifes t ation, is a bout at alL In fact, multiculturalism, to some degree, is a code word for e~o--centrism because very often what people want to study is not other cultures, but their own culture, and one of the demands of minority students is not "Let me study others," but "Let me study myself." So multiculturalism, in this vain, applies a kind of double--standard: White students are supposed 路to study other cultures; minority students are supposed to study themselv e s.

So multiculturalism for whites; ethnocentrism for everyone else.

MR: Does a curriculum based upon more traditional Western culture ignore the history of minorities, as some of the multiculturalists claim?

D'SOUZA: Well, the West has been a multi-racial society from the outset, for better or worse. It has been a more diverse society than most. And so many of its books and ideas are about the engagement across racial and national and even gender boundaries. And so, for example, if one looks at the canon, at Shakespeare's plays, which is about as Western as you can get, you realize that a number of the plays are about the confused and confusing and ambiguous roles between men and women.

A number of the plays are about how to deal with the outsider - Othello, a

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classic example. A number of plays deal with many of the questions that we worry about today: questions of feminiam, ethno-centrism, assimilation, and so on. By contrast, uyou read the Analects of Confucius, vel)' interesting works in their own right, but they appear not to be dealing with the questions tha t are on the minda of the young people who are the most animated multiculturalists.

MR: Has the push for multiculturalism on campus affected race relations at all?

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MR: What can a student do if he is f.in9 • . politically correct, Intolerant professor?" .~., D'SOUZA: Wage guerrilla warfare against him. Be an imaginative subversive. To quote Malrolm X, "By any means

dards are in some way connected to broader debates about equant;y, about liberty, about politics, eventually about the Soviet Union, about freedom, and about America. So, in a sense, I generalized from.very specific debates in my own department to broader issues that I never thought about before. "

They be lieve in a safe tnuiticulturalism that invo lves Taco Be 11 an d rea d'lng p h 1'I osop h ers zv h om they safely assume are diverse but have nothing to say nor challenges to issue to their way of life.

D'SOUZA: Well, it has; , it's hard to say precisely how. I think that not multiculturalism, but the solidification of group identity, has made easy communication across racial lines more difficult It has ereated a kind of racial chauvinism among whites and among blacks and among other groups. Everybody feels that the most important thing about them, or one of the most important things about them, is their racial identity, their pigmentation. And we are a long way from a society in which race doesn't matter which seemed tD be one of the renb'cll goals of the civil rights movement.

necessary." Use whatever effective tactics come to hand to expose the professor as a buffoon. Now, you have to be prudent about it; you don't want to jeopardize your grade. You might have to wait until the class is over to publish your article in the campus newspaper. You might pose difficult questions in class.

Sometimes you need a §ense of humorin order to weather the storm. So there's no set formula but by and large I think that it's part of the crusade for freedom to attempt to O\'ertmn some of these stuffY . orth()doxi~.s. . '. , . ':"':';';'.'

MR: Many proponents and defenders of multiculturalism, or political correctness for that matter, state that it promotes "tolerance" or "sensitivity." Do you believe this?

MR: What role have the Collegiate Network' newspapers ,such as the Dartmouth Review and Michigan Review, played in the battle for academic freedom on campus?

D'SOUZA: Well, they've been in a sense, D'SOUZA: Well, it's intended to proto quote William F. Buckley, "They've mote tolenmce of a certain kind, tolerstood toward the tide yelling 'Stop!'." I ance certainly toward approved minori. don't think they have succeeded in dities and approved Third-World culverting the tide, but that's because many tures, but not tolerarlce toward, for of the papers are small, they're outexample, evangelical Christians. You numbered, they are ill-funded, and so don't see a lot of tolerance, despite the their function is to be a gadfly and to pretentions of cultural relativism - all keep, in a sense, annoying the right cultures are equal; we should be tolerpeople and reminding students that ant. I don't see very much tolerance of there are other ways to think and there pre-apartheid South Africa or the anteare other ways to look at the world. And bellum South. So it's the application of I think they serve that modest function Herbert Marcuse's famol.ls principle, - at least they're doing something. which is "no free speech for fascists."

The idea is tolerance of everybody MR: How and why did you get involved in except the intolerant and, of rourse, the conservative scholarship and activism on camproblem with that principle is that even pus? if you apply it consistently, one fmds that the ranks of the intolerant must D'SOUZA: Well, I think it was a rominclude such people as Plato and bination of ignorance and hate. No, fm Aristotle. Liberal tolerance doesn't exjoking! That's why some people think tend vel)' far ifit only extends to tolerconservatives get involved in politics. ance of liberals. Tolerance, by definiNo, I think I was an English major at tion, implies tolerance toward views Dartmouth and I became interested in that one is antagonistic toward, and politics in so far as it affected literaliberal tolerance has vel)' little of a ture: And I was only drawn into politics claim to being genuine if it is only a per se later. So I began to realize that form of self-tolerance. All ideologies the debates about literature, about tolerate themselves. knowledge, about truth, and about stan-

MR: And finally, what book would you suggest that all college students read? .

D'SOUZA: Illiberal Education. No , I'm joking. I would say there's been a lot of discussion of the "great books" and there's no fixed canon of ten or twenty books that everybody absolutely must read. I think Allan Bloom was right when he said that rather than read just the twenty or the fifty of the hundred great books, it's much better to develop a powerful, personal, intellectual, and even emotional cOIUlection with one two or three great books. So I would graze I\Ild sample some of the great philosophers and .. ~ters ..1 wQmd look at . Plato's Republic, I would look at Rousseau's Discourse in Inequality, I

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wo~d look at Dante's Divine Comedy, and I would try to establish which writer, in a sense, speaks powerfully to me. Where do I find a resonance in my own experience? I think developing that kind of fanatical interest is a way to draw you into the rorpus of great literature . because then you realize that Rousseau is not arguing in a vacuum; he's talking about ideas that other people talked about. It draws you to read about the other works as well. 80-, in a sense, it's sort oflike pulling very . strongly at one plant in order to realize that all the trees in the forest have their roots connected to each other.

MR: Are you currently working on a new book?

D'SOUzA: I'm currently working on a book that is heading in very controversial directions. It is a look at the contemporary face of ra~m in America.

But it also involves a reappraisal of the history ofracism in this rountry and it's an effort to imagine what a . society would look like in which race did not

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o BOOK REVIEW

Gee, Rush, You Told Us Already BY

GENE KRAss

o DESCRIBE THE QUALITY of radio personality Rush Limbaugh's second literary effort, See, I Told You So, a musical analogy is necessary. After struggling for a few years playing the local club scene, a hypothetical band finally gets a recording contract from a major label.

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See, I Told You So Rush Limbaugh Simon &Schuster Hardcover, 1993, 353 pages

$24.00 The band's slightly wrlque style, fumiliar only in their hometown, contributes to the multi-platinum success ofth~ir first album. '!heir contract is renewed, but the fan support fades.

Similarly, Rush Limbaugh, "the

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most dangerous man in America," has spent most of his career doing local radio. His superior wit, coupled with the relative lack ofnatio~l.conserva­ tive talk-show hosts, allowed for his immensely popular daytime show to break many records in the radio industry. Deciding to capture another me· dium as well, Limbaugh wrote a book in 1991 that summed up his beliefs and acted as a quasi-conservative bible.

The Way Things Ought To Be sold mil· lions of copies, much to the dismay of the multitudes of liberal critics.

It now seems as if Limbaugh might be trying to milk his writing career for all it's worth. Unlike the one-hit-wonder bands, Limbaugh will not likely fade away any time soon, due to his omnipresent radio and television shows.

See, I Told You So, however, resembles that desperate Winger or Slaughterlike second effort to stay on top.

A poor WIjter by his own admission, Limbaugh nevertheless worked hard on The Way Things Ought To Be. That effort, while certainly not a literary masterpiece, was entertainingly written; readirlg itwaslike.~w;

his radio show. SITYS, for the most ply say the same thing over and over. part, lacked this friendly tone, and in'The book is essentially broken into two stead drags on monotonously. parta. 'The main point in the first halfis Limbaugh apparently ran out of that government handouts and affirissues to cover. Ought, for example, mative action are detrimental to had chapters on homelessness, AIDS achievement and success in America. funding, Mikhail Gorbachev, the The second half primarily concentrates economy, etc. You name it, he covered on attacking liberals, especially the it. Despite being written only two years Clinton regime, as being style over sublater, SITYS contains chapters that stance and being lllconcerned about it. deal with many of the same topics, Interspersed here and there are atalthough not as well as Ought. tacks on feminism, environmentalism, This leads to another problem: chap· and AI Gore (Algore), but the truth of ter organization. In Ought, the chapter the matter is that Rush Limbaugh's entitled, "AIDS-Good Money and Bad" opinions have not changed over two dealt specifically with Limbaugh's failed years, so these attacks were simply attempt to support the Pediatric AIDS rehashing Ought with new examples.

Foundation, and the hostility toward Overall, SITYS dealt with economany conservatives who wish to get inice in far greater depth than its predevolved in any way with the cause. "'The cessor. Limbaugh attacked taxes and Socialist Utopians" debunked the sothe rising national deficit and concialist myth that some 1960s holdovers stantly backed up his points with numstill cling to. Other chapters, such as bers, which is an asset to the more "Multiculturalism," and "Religion and educated reader. For a more iJHlepth America: 'They Do Go Together" specifilook at the economic hazards of liberalcally dealt with just those issues. ism, I would recommend See, I Told When reading SITYS, it is someYou So. For a better look at issues in times easy to forget which chapter you . general, The Way Thing~ OUf/ht !o Be 4..."". ~UilI$,""'4,*"U-~~ ..:-: ;.. ' . '"is ·by.far..,L.~:··"J1-"""';~vMl,.".,;':";"'"'' ." ,/,., are xeaA ~" ~' " ,'"~~#;,,~",, , ' '~' ",:q. :, ,C'" ,,'~~, :"""~~I1~~";;;'~'\",r, ","\'J.,;j'~lt:.',:, <~~~~.:,?~<:¥i';);7';;~t~.,;~~#:0Y~1!t*itI9~ .. ",,,

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WENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, A

Bosto:\l University student inspired.by the ideas of Ayn Rand started a small publication: Reason.

'The first ten years of publication were somewhat ofa struggle, with circulation surging from only 1,000 to 12,000.

The hard-core libertarian base which composed Reason's foundation of read·

Free Minds &Free Markets Edited by Robert Poole and Virginia Postrel Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Hardcover, 1993, 3n pages

$24.95 ers had been effectively tapped; it was time for the magazine to grow beyond this base. The publication needed to become more of an outreach periodical to attract a national audience and inAaron Steelman is a sophomore in economics and publisher of the Review.

crease its influence. demic career, in which he was effecWhat resulted was the founding of tively cast out of the economics profesthe Reason Foundation in 1978, and sion and subsequently ventured into with this .arose an expanded financial such areas as political philosophy and base as well as a changed format to a psychology. Hayek then discussed his general interest magazine of ideas inthoughts on the future and the possicorporating a libertarian editorial slant. bilities for freedom in which he preThis change proved highly beneficial, sciently noted the chances for change as Reason has grown over the last fifo in Great Britain, which was to see the teen years into a nationally recognized ouster of the Labour Party just two and intellectually respectable publica- . years later. tion.

Another excellent piece is Drug History has seen many changes over Prohibiton by the author of Our Right the last twenty-five years, and with it to Drugs, Thomas Szasz. In this piece many an article has passed through the Szasz, who has long been one of the pages of Reason. To pay tribute to this most outspoken advocates oflegalizajourney, Free Minds & F~e Markets, a tion, takes on not only the absolutist compilation of the best ofReason, was prohibitionists, but also the pragmapublished last year. Edited by Robert tists in favor oflegalization, who claim Poole and Virginia Postrel, Reason's that the reason for ending prohibition current publisher and editor respecis not that it fundamentally violates tively, this tome includes pieces by such personal freedom, but rather that it notables as Milton Friedman, Charles would be an effective way to lessen Murray, George Gilder, and Thomas crime. While Szasz concedes and apSzasz. plauds the fact that legalization would Among the best of these pieces is a have an overall policy benefit to the 1977 interview of Nobel Laureate FA United States, he asserts that this Hayek, in which Hayek discussed his would be just a byproduct of an effort to long running adversarial relationship promote the individual's right to choose with John Maynard Keynes. Hayek also his own consumption and possible deentertained questions about his acastruction; he argues that the real rea-

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son for legalization is fundamentally based on freedom, not utilitarianism.

Szasz valiantly asserts: "I believe that we have a right to eat, drink, or inject a substance - any substance not because we are sick and want it to cure us, nor because a government supported medical authority claims that it will be good for us, but simply because we want to take it; because, that is, the government - as our servant rather than master - hasn't the right to meddle in our private dietary and drug affairs."

These two pieces are just a brief sampling of the over forty articles included in Free Minds & Free Markets.

Some others of note are a 1975 interview with Ronald Reagan, entitled The Green Road to Serfdom, in which Virginia Postrel points out the anti-capitalistic and destructive nature of the environmental movement, as well as a pre-confirmation interview with Clarence Thomas.

Free Minds & Free Markets represents some of the best of free market thought. All those who wish to learn more about the ideas oflibeIty would be well served to take a look at it. Mt

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o MOVIE REVIEW Sex, LSD, and C6mmunhl Living BY

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CHA.RLEs MONTGOMERY BURNS

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IT ABOUT RELIGION?" A

friend asked me when I had told her that I had recently seen In the Name of the Father, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson.

"In a way," I responded. "If you call statism a religion."

But unlike the government-loving Philadelphia, Dave, or The Pelican Brief, Hollywood has actwilly managed to produce a political fIlm where the "religion" of government power is portrayed in a negative light Will miracles never cease?

In the Name of the Father is the true story of Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), a young Irishman who leaves the wartom city of~lfilst for wndon in 1974.

In response to a tem>rist bombing a few weeks after Conlon's anival, the British legislature passes the Prevention of Terrorism Act which authorizes. the police to, arrest and detain a telTOrist suspect for seven days and seven nights without a formal charge. React- . ing on hints from one ofhis politicallymotivated housemates, Conlon and his mend Paul are the new law's first路victims.

After enduring seven days of physical and mental torture - Day-Lewis gives the performance of his life as the state descends on him - both men confess to a crime they did not commit and are subsequently sentenced to 30 years injail. Conlon's father (hence the name of the film) is arrested for allegedly conspiring with his I son in the attack, and is sentenced to twelve years.

The rest of the film, in brief, tells the story of the two men's struggle for freedom while rotting in jail, and a courageous, beautiful lawyer (Thompson) who assists them.

Although the story line sounds like a typical feel-good Hollywood product meant to demonstrate the endwance of man and the corrupting power of the state, it is more than that. It is about the conversion of a man's soultowaros the ideal ofliberty.

Particularly. Conlon is not portrayed as some sort of puritan. freedom-fighting hero from the outset; in fact, in the early moments of the film, some ofhis ideological stands make it difficult to sympathize with him when he eventually has his encounter with the state.

For example, the first time the audience sees Conlon, he is busy stealing valuable metal roofing from a building

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in Belfast. He does this in spite of an offer from his father to work as a stock clerk in the family 'store. Conlon, it is clear, would rather loot than produce.

While in London, he continues his passion for ignoring private property rights when he swipes 700 pounds sterling from an upper-dass prostitute who earned her keep by producing a service and selling it to the marketplace. To

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Conlon's choice of living quarters is less than ideal as well. His initial residence in London is a hippie commWle where the sole rule is: "No property, no law, just love." It is a place of which only Susan Sarandon could be proud.

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HILE ANN ARBOR IS NOT a city ofmonumentalproportions, the presence of the University of Michigan allows for a display of artistic grandeur which far exceeds the nonnal capacity of most small midwestern towns. 'The highlights of campus architecture will be discussed in a subsequent series of articles.

In order to understand most of the buildings on campus, one must flrst understand the relationship between style and function in architecture. To do this, it is necessary to go back to the Renaissance, from which came the first discoveries of the classical world with the uneartbmg ofvarlous ruins. At the same time the concept of humanism, essentia1lya glorification ofthe human form and all that the human body and mind could cnate, became wideapread.

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it was not hard to establish a link between the classical world and elitist ideals. The most obvious one would be the academic scene.

This identification of the classical world with academia can be seen in many places. A prime example is the University of Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson. The whoie campus is built in the neo-classical style which is intended to reflect the intellectual nature of the setting. The example that we are concerned with is our very own Angell Hall, and some other buildings on campus which are built in the same tradition, such as the ~ Museum, the William Clements lib~, and, to a certain extent, the G~d, the Union, the League, and the taw Quad. These last three bujJdings are .Gothic Revival . pieces and carry a tPmi1ar implicatidD. of aca~emic leaniing and elitism.

Albeit Kahn. .the architect of the Law Quad'aDd Angell Han., Was a, great proponent of the classical style. An example ofhis' work which demons1:.rates

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built in the Gothic style, led to a perceived link between the Gothic and certain academic subjects linked with Oxford, primarily law and philosophy.

As a result, many colleges built in the early 1800s modeled some or all of their campus after the Oxford style. The layout for the Law Quad is taken directly from the Oxford campus, with its central quadrangle and series of donns, chapel, and classroom buildings.

We can see that there are links between certain styles of architecture and Truth, or, in our case, civilization.

Other styles of architecture have perceived links to other philosophical precepts. The roots of Westem civilization can be tmced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. Since our modern systerns ofjustice and philosophy find their origins in the Greeks, it is reasonable to associate their architecture with our institutions that disseminate this knowledge.

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Marco closely mondtored the I asked ifhe agreed with Bill Clinton helicopters radio transmission and that 100,000 more officers would help then quickly turned to cut off the vecure the ailments of the inner cities. He hicle. We stopped in the middle of a stated that L.AP.D. had enough people, street with another street perpendicuif many of them could be freed from lar to us. Within seconds, the car cru:ne office work and put out on the streets screeching.around the comer at high where they are needed. He believed speed. right at us. At the last minute, it that restructuring the manpower for skidded, turned and .fled away directly each district would prove beneficial. He in front of us. We were now right said he thought that Clinton's plan behind it. Marco knew a short cut and would be like giving an aspirin to somesuddenly broke away from the chase. one with a stroke.

We circled the block and turned up an Before I left, I asked him how the alley just in time to see the chase on community responded to the work he foot. We came to a stop and Marco does. He replied that it is a pity that jumped out of the car to assist in one of more people don't appreciate the work the tackles and following lUTeSts. that the police do. "People criticize law Qn.a, back at the station, I took the enforcement, yet when they are in opportunity to ask Marco some gentrouble, they do not hesitate to pick up eral questions before he buried himthe phone and call 911." self in paperwork. I asked him what I feel that I now know more of what he felt the biggest problem of the inner that job entails. I thank. Sgt. Munoz for city was. He replied that he felt it was the eye-opening opportunity and will the "lack of social ~." He ex- never forget the experience. Good guys .•• 1·p1ainedthat wh~he kid, if don't always wear white.

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The classical style is a natural choice, not only for the centerpiece of the campus, but for Kahn as well. It is the peIfect symbol of the college atroosphere. The great pillars of Angell Hall stand as strong and straight as the immutability and power of the truth which it dispersed. So, too, does the fa~de of the Art Museum inspire confidence that what is inside is the essence of our culture.

In a similar respect, the Law Quad is representative of civilization. The Law Quad stems from the necrGothic tradition idealized by Pugin. In addition, there existed from 1833 to 1845 something called the Oxford movement, which originated, not surprisingly. at Oxford. It, along with the Cambridge Camden Society, set forth archit.ecturaJ. arguments for the restructuring of the Anglican church. They attempted to

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The specific house council appropriations are also questionable. Councils fund a myriad of events, ranging from semi-formal dances to intramural sports to televisions for hall lounges.

Although such funding may seem helpful, individuals do not necessarily reap these "benefits." Some, for instance, may not wish or may not be able to attend these events; in effect, their money subsidizes others. Despite the opportunity for residents to influence their house councils by means of representation, there is no guarantee that a council will even spend the revenue it absorbs, let alone fulfill any request.

Any excess money; as Edwards points out, is not refunded to current residents; it is simply saved to subsidize the fun and games of future residents.

With any collective decision, a centralized body - regardless ofits decision-making process or the influences that S1llTOund it - asserts its own will.

Quite often, this is detrimental to the will of the individual, for the interests of the collective body may run contrary to that of the individ~. In any collective decision, the individual loses, as the centralized body decides for him.

The philosophical underpinnings of house dues correlate to such a collectivist ideal 'Ibrough house dues, residence hall councils use the money of residents to further their own agendas.

As the individual resident holds no direct influence over such matters, his will becomes irrelevant. As residence hall councils often do not directly benefit the individuals who fund them, perhaps the Housing Department should re-evaluate the current house dues policy. m.

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of man's superior reasoning ability.

But the main reason to fInd Conlo an endearing character is his total ideo logical conversion once he tangles wi the State. By the end of the fllm, h truly does earn his stripes as a free dom--lighter. In order to allow people savor the ending as much as I did, I . not describe it in any detail except say that it is among the most powe in recent memory. With Sinea O'Connor's uplifting "(You Made Me '!he 'Jhief ofYour Heart" playing in background, Emma 'Th.ompson give an emotion-filled, liberty-loving that will send chills down your spine It's hard not to get emotional. Mt ",

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NN ARBOR'S INDIE ROCK junkies now have another reason to dig deep into their collections to muster up whatever they own by the prolific Rocket From The Crypt.

The band will perform at the Michigan Union Ballroom on Wednesday, February 9. Collectors will also want to bring a little change to the show so they can pick up the latest seven inches from opening acts Rodan and 68 Comeback.

The reason that ppnk fans and vinyl collectors will have to dig deep into their collections is that Circa: Now, the band's latest record, was released back in November of 1992. (Though Rocket's former label, Cargo Records, has recently released a collection of old seven inches and unreleased tidbits entitled All Systems Go.) For some strange reason the San Di~sed bunch have decided to peel their asses off their couches in seven ty-pl u&-degrees-after-sundown Cru.sty Muncher doesn't get out very

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weather to slip and slide their way stuff. It's hard not to be influenced by it aa"OSS the Midwest for a month of shows.

Jerry Lee Lewis - I love his mll-aic. I It will be the Rocket's last tour in supthink it's timeless." port of Circa: Now, and a video for the Saxophonist Apollo 9 is a pro~i­ tune "Ditch Digger" will be released to nent factor 'i n giving the band an edge coincide with the event, over punk's staple, and it is his work that makes "Sturdy Wrist" and "DolMusic lovers who believe that nothing came before Fugazi might not conlar" the gems that they are, But do not cur, but Circa: Now is not only a great misunderstand. I'm the first to admit punk rock record, it is a great r---~/'--T",........ "'i......TI1".''-"TIT,...,.,F"Tj-r:1.~ , I rock n' roll record. Singer/guitarist/songwriter Speedo writes songs with a solid foundation in the rock n' roll of dinosaurs like Jerry Lee Lewis or Dion, but his songs never sound anachronistic. Songs like "Hippy Dippy Do" and "Short Lip Fuser" remind me as much of those old tunes my parents love (Danny & The Jun~~'"~tthe"Hop,"Iitt1e Richard's I f ' \,\ \'~;~:"'jbi~'!$ ~·I!fa R:iP l~ Up ) a~ they do ~f any- Aocket From'the Cty'pHs N;O., Atom, APdlf9:'9, thin~ ill the ~schord catalog. ' . Speedo; iridJ~8teY, X~ : ' ~ I really like ,the hard-ass , ,> ~ n-" " " I , ' , ~ '50s rock n' roll thing/,-says Sp~o. thaU usuall~cion't dig Sa¥~ph<Qie-;in , "There's something that's really apmy rock n' roll, but we're not tAlking sax pealing about those old songs. There's a cheese Huey Lewis or that Clarence lot of cool things happening in music , , guy. N:o gratuitous lead runs here. just light now,' but 116tliing'like that old " simple ~es that prQVide a perfect ta-

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tious riffs, At;the ,e nd of the tour, Speedo will g~ar UP ,to promote the latest from his other band, Drive LikeJeh~ ' Expect their album to hit stores in April or May. ' How does Jehu differ from Rocket From the Crypt?

"I'll be really blatant and say that Rocketis about having a good time with old friends and making music," he explains, "~'m more or less the ringleader and much more in control of that band, I gettQ s~e out a certain vision that I have,~ ~to not Sound arrogant, Speedo adds, '~It's definitely not a vision that I feel is; ~ tbatjmportanttQ anyone else but ,!ffi"~lf. " Drive Like "Je4u, on the other~, is much more of acooperativ~situation. ,I am one fOUl'thof the band, 1UlQ. it's much more democratic." , ~'s work. with Drive Like Jehu will.p ,him busy for awhile; so, after ~ stop in Ann Arbor,donat,expect to hear from Rocket From the Crypt for quite some time.

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Poppy, Noisy, :and Gratuitous

BY ScHUYLER COLFAX

IOLET WINE DOES THEIR best to produce accessible pop with their quirky debut eponymous release. Recorded at vocalist/guitarist Gary Thomas' own Mystery Machine Studios here in Ann Arbor, Violet Wine h as made a well Violet Wine produced al- Violet Wine bum, Moodswing,Records Violet L ________________- J Wine puts a pot.entially dangerous emphasis on l)'lics , cramming each line with lyrics that many will find goofy and rambling.

On "Drinking A Rose" Thomas sings, "There I was in the park by the ripping of thorns on a ruby red giant just like the lips on your sister not a wine from the list - er) what's that in my head?"

A diverse collection of pop, Violet Wine feature 'SOa keyboard riffing on a few tunes and mellow acoustic guitar work. Although this keeps the album interesting, many songs are too dippy.

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a uppity fun song that may not seem so fun after you plop down $12.99 for this eight-song CD at Tower Records.

Catchy, well-produced songs like "Vacation" as well as the high-quality packaging, however, make Violet Wine a solid debut local release, Violet Wine opens for The Lollipop Guild on Tuesday, February 15th at the Blind Pig,

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AKING THEIR NAlv1E FROM Pee Wee's Playhouse , , Monsterland's first full length release, Destroy What You Laue , seems to be another me- Destroy What You Love diocre col- Monsterland lege noise- Seed Records rock al- L..---=-_ _ _ _ _ _ _-I bum at first listen, though after a few spins, the brilliant production courtesy of producer Ted Nicely (Fugazi., Jawbox, Shudder to Think) and Thom Monahan's easy-to-remember vocals make Destroy a nice collection of noisy guitar pop.

The fourth track, "Nobody Loves You/' would have anyone screeching along with the repetative chorus, but

the highlight of this album was preViously released as a seven inch on Threshold/TPOS Records in 1990. .

Every song lu!.s'its " ._ ' memorable phrase or " ". ' ' chunky riff, \lut ',fit!).' "' ,/ out "Nobody ~oves ,: r~l; " You," Monsterland 's ._ \ fate may have been ,~~ 'j- .. , ]1.1 \ Wazoo's bargain bin,

agreeable noise and a pleasant, though articulate melody. .

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What makes The Buried Life more listenable than Shot Forth Self Living is that vocalist Beth Thompson finally hits upo~ some solid meJodies.

"Babydoll" is the quintessential M~­ cine, complete with ~ dance-groove,'

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