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HE DEPARTMENT OF Public Safety (DPS), the University of Michigan's police force, has been a subject of scrutiny as oflate, most notably in its handling of the Jake Baker case. But one must wonder how many more students have had problems with the DPS, a department that often is criticized for poor investigative procedures and policies that often border on unconstitutional infringements on individual rights . One former student and University employee, David Alan Schroeder, knows all too well the problems that can arise when the DPS is on the case. Schroeder, 21, was employed in various positions throughout hb~ stay at the University, most recently at the University Hospitals and the School of Education, But when Schroeder unwittingly became iuvalved in two questionable .compuC'1, ing actions, his life became an ongo.ing struggle to prove his innocence to the obstinate DPS and administrative officials, who last November banned him from campus under the Michigan Trespass Statute. Schroeder's troubles began in January of 1993, when, while interning at a mmpu~ firm in Minnesota, he discovered th~t three U- M students, acquaintances of Schroeder, had stolen over $100,000 worth of computing equipment from the University. Upon his return home, Schroeder visited his friends, and discovered that they indeed possessed a good deal of stolen equipment. One of them asked Schroeder to lend him an external hard drive accessory in order to test BOme of the stolen property. Schroeder hesitantly agreed. Upon further reflection, Schroeder asked for his equipment back and promptly filed a report with the DPS. He signed the warrants for the thieves' arrest and agreed to serve

as the state's witness in the case. It informed his supervisor that warned Cappuccio not to break into appeared that the matter was settled, Schroeder was a threat to the Univerthe system. But Cappuccio could not and Schroeder had helped the DPS sity and was banned from U-M propbe stopped; he hacked his way into recover over $100,000 worth of equipthe U-M's system without Schroeder's erty. Schroeder was forced to resign. ment. The thieves, however, put one 'The DPS had concluded that the flrst knowledge. of the stolen hard drives on "arrest" in 1993, the Cappuccio inciSchroeder's system. Schroeder dent, and the "stolen" School of Edudid not know of this action, but cation equipment constituted a suffithe DPS soon did. When it iucient reason to ban Schroeder from formed Schroeder that he had the University. The DPS even drove U-M equipment in his possesto Schroeder's permanent address in sion, Schroeder brought his hani Whitmore Lake . Schroeder allowed disk to the DPS and allowed it to the officers to enter his home, partly retrieve the stolen hard drive. because he had nothing to hide, and About 11 m onth s la ter, partly because ofthe officers' intimiSchroeder, who single-handedly dating remarks. 'The DPS officers had helped the DPS I'ecover the stnno search Wa.ITa1lt, but once Schroeder len goods , was pulled over in granted them entry, they searched "n-" ___ -'-"--"" " ","Wi"-' _ _ _ _ _-""'--....., Sterling Heightsior a traffic viothe premises, this tUne confiscating Welcome to Big Dude's Police State. lation. He was dumbfounded some of his own cOmputing equipwhen theofficerinJonnedhim that he On November 17, 1994, Schroeder ment, equipment that Schroeder has was being sought on a DPSwarrant not gotten back. No hearing was held WIU! sumtn~med to a meeting with Jeff for theft. The DPS never informed Ogden, viCe-president of Merit Com~g the incident, and the DPS Schroeder of the wan'UnL 'T he stunned puter Network, and three other School . st:illdemands that Schroeder stay off , ,~e1"'decided to plead llo mutest of Education officials. They infonned: , UnIversity property. to the charge to avoid tb.~ legal fees. Schroeder that cappuccio had ha~ u t Scbroeder'.a main probleT'l is , n ot the fact that he is banned from He was sentenced to a $250 fine and 'his Way into the system and. that the: UniverSity property, mstead, it is the 72 hours of (..'ommunity service; his had reason to believe that Schroeder fact that the DPS, through a series of record was cleared six months later. was conspiring with Cappuccio. One misunderstandings and misguided 'The matter WIU! seemingly behind School of Education official had come conclusions, effectively has blackto this conclusion after breaking into him, and Schroeder received positions balled him in Ann Arbor. His extenat the University Hospitals and at the and reading Schroeder's personal esive experience will not help him get School of Education. His job at the mail account. Schroeder was immediajob; the DPS has labeled him a thief ately dismissed from his position, but School of Education was to set up and ,a liar. This is the same student the worst was yet to come: the DPS several computing systems. In order who worked with the federal authorito do this, Schroeder decided to issue became involved. ties in tracking down hackers and set an ol.ltside account to someone who 'The next day proved to be horrenup an e-mail pager network for the dous for Schroeder. Before his discould help him set up the systems University, furnishing U-M President faster and more efficiently. He remissal, Schroeder took computer James Duderstadt with an e-mail equipment home with him for work ceived permission from a supervisor pager. His appeals to Duderstadt's and two U-M officials to grant the purposes, but the DPS accused him of office have gone unanswered. possessing stolen University property. outside account to Chris Cappuccio, a Neither the DPS nor Duderstadt's 14 year-old computer whiz. Even though Schroeder's colleagues office would comment. Thus, one can Unfortunately, Cappuccio was and supervisors adamantly stated only speculate as to what the U-M's also a computer menace who had made that the equipment was not stolen, side to this matter might be . One the DPS insisted that the equipment a habit of hacking in the past. Althing does seem certain, however: the was signed out incorrectly. Schroeder though Cappuccio was a definite asquestionable actions of the DPS and set in setting up the systems, returned the equipment, and the the closed ears of the administration Schroeder decided to remove him from matter seemed to settle. may signiflcantly have altered the Later, Schroeder WIU! at his job at the computing system at the U-M's career of a bright young student. Mt the University Hospital when the DPS req uest. Schroeder specifically .=...._~

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Rodney Dangerfield will be honored for creative achievement in the Annual American Comedy Awards . Seems that "No respect" bit, Easy Money, and Ladybugs were pretty close to genius after all.

shuttle. In a related story, the Code's 30 mile radius clause will now be expanded to 30,000 miles.

Speaking of creative excellence, Heavyweights another offering from the mental giants at Disney films, is now in theaters. It is a story in which a Gramm-Limbaugh presidential ticket loses in 1996 and goes to fat camp to regain their self-esteem.

ish speaking folk a way to converse with Latinos and Latinaslooking for love. In other news, AI Gore took a sudden "diplomatic" trip to Mexico with an unidentified book in his hand.

The People's Choice winners for best actor and actress were Tom Hanks in FOTTe8t Gump and Jodie Foster in Nell . To keep consistent with the heralding of the backwoods simpletons, favorite politician honors went to President Clinton. NASA has opened itself to the Internet, and it is now possible to send e-mail tn astronauts on the space

Senate Republicans are fuming at Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield for voting against the Balanced Budget Amendment. That ruthless bastard actually voted for what he believed was right, instead of playing partisan politics. Can you believe the nerve of some people?

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o QUIETLY FLOWS THE DEAN

A Modest Proposal: Cava Brew Miller and some buffalo wings. Turn a soft. buzz relaxing her mind as she off the oppressed folksinger and the chats casually about Rousseau, with OFFEE: THE ROOT OF ALL worldbeat, and listen to the tunes of an eager student who is on his third evil. Well, at least indirectly it Seger, Springsteen and Zevon, the microbrew. It is a soft. scene, an enis. After careful obserlations, chanting scene, a student is actually I have concluded that most students learning, the stress melts away, and emotional problems, stress, boredom, both TA and student alike smile and order another. What happens next is depression, and fatigue, are the result of Ann Arbor's booming coffee left. to the gods. In another corner of the coffee shop industry. The caffeine consumers and herbal tea sippers are ramshop dwells a suffering poet, who sits pant on this campus, and this widewriting sap-laden poetry about colspread plague, which I call the Coffee lectivism and flowers. He cannot get House Syndrome, is taking its toll on published. Why? Because the timid the student population. People are atmosphere and hippie remnants of meaner, grimmer, and more dethe coffeehouse crowd are engraved pressed; and not coincidentally, they in his mind. Take away his mocha and usually have a reusable hot beverage hand him a Guiness, and watch him mug tied to their backpacks. Theretackle the real issues, watch him fore, I submit a modest proposal, one tackle love and pain and death and that I believe will greatly improve the blood. Feel the emotion pour on to the old blue collar songs, the songs that emotional environment of the U-M pages, as if he has cut a vein and is make you want to sing, the songs of campus, and perhaps the entire Ann spilling forth on the paper. See his the American landscape I Wisk the Arbor area. I propose that all area poetry sell, striking the chorda of those cappucino from the young socialist coffee shops become Beer Shops. and hand him the ale of the prolewho read it. See)1!m throw a chair. You sro.ff at me, rm certain. But See him rip the pay phone from the .. tariat! why? Consider the coffee shop scene wall. See him pass out on the floor. It's beer that will save us fiiends! as it stands now. It is a festival of Yes, the coffee houBe seene would be It's beer, the drink of the free man. drudgery. There is stress and depresdifferent, but the stonesI The artl The drink of the man who is at ease sion lingering in the air like smoke Near the window sits a group of with his world, who needs no caffeine from a Turkish cigarette, and it is graduate students discussing Sarte. because, in coffee shope, when one 'lb.ey sip e~ and .8 uck impQrted hears the soft jazz playing and smells smokes like straws, laughing gently the scent of coffee beans, one turns and meekly, nodding their heads to into an intellectually melancholy p0one another. They sit cross-legged, etic mess. Life seems to be filled with they keep their scarves on, they wonunsolvable enigmas, the air seems to der if they exist. They are boring and be weighed down with the heft of phony and repulsive. But let them grayness and dampness. And considhave a few Canadians, some Labatts ering that coffee shops are the place or some Molsons and watch them where most Ann Arborites, univerthrow Sarte on the floor. Watch them sity folk, and students hang out, it feel the passion of Lowry and Faulkner seems to me only logical that coffee and Dostoyevsky. Watch them let their shops realize their importance in intellectual facades slip, and watch maintaining the emotional and intelthem scream and weep and laugh lectual well-being of the community. over life, not theories. Watch them They must be different than bars, embrace after the first round, kiss clubs, and parties; but they must after the second, sing after the third, change and they must aerie beer. Let engage in fisticuffs after the fourth. us consider the com~eshop and its Oh the spirit of it all! effects on various members of the Yes indeed, beer shops could reuniversity community; then let us ally improve the atmosphere around reflect upon how these effects would here. The townies at Shaman Drum, change if Cava Java became Cava in their Birkenstocks and khakis, Brew ski. could stop the sham of being intellecIn one corner sits an overworked tual literati; they could stop eating TA sipping a double cap, holding ofwine and cheese at their stuffy little fice houn no one will come to. She is readings and they could begin to live. alone, bored, stressed; strung out on Give them a watery domestic and a caffeine and coffee beans that burn cheeseburger. Take the bored sororholes in her stomach. Her hands shake ity girls who crowd coffee shops worand her eyes squint as she reads rying about how big their thighs are • Diderot. It's a sad, wrenching sight. or what dress they'll wear to the forNow picture her office hOW'S in a beer mal and buy them pitchers of Bud Ice. shop: She sits sipping a Killian's Red, Allow them to laugh a little, relax a bit, show them life exists outside of Dean BaJcopoulo6 is features editor of New York. 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to keep him running, but runs on the sheer fullness and happiness of his existence. He does not hide in corners of the cafe, amid a sea oftable-forones, but instead he pulls up a chair and they embrace and they sing. The thinking spots of the rest of the world have long been beer-aervers, and thus the artistic, intellectual and cultural climate of our country lags behind. Marx wrote in British and German pubs, Dostoyevsky grabbed an ale in St. Petersburg taverns, Diderot must have sucked down a few drafts in a cafe in Paris, Roethke must have swilled a Lowenbrau in a corner bar. The great minds of the rest of the world flowed as freely as the taps; but alas, we Americans, we intellectuals, sequester ourselves in the hushed gloom of quaint coffeeshops. Thus, we sit alone with our novels and notebooks, depressed, stifled, nerlous and tense, taking in steamy sweet liquid, disillusioned with a society that favors coffee-swilling solitude and pensivity over ale swigging camaraderie and conversation. We need to open our minds and think; open our mouths and drink! Ml.

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HE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY (DPS) IS PERHAPS President James Duderstadt's most deadly injection of totalitarianism into the campus of the University of Michigan. The administration's political agenda aside, it created the DPS to help reduce crime on the U-M environs with decreased reaction time and direct accountability to the administration. But instead of creating a smaU.lightly armed, pseudo-private security force with campus jurisdiction, the University has crossed the line of empowerment and created a fully armed, mobile, fully-deputized police department with state-wide jurisdiction. Such a scenario places the civil liberties of students in jeopardy, as several recent incidents indicate. It is only logical to employ a security furce to protect one's private possessions; perhaps the U-M iajustified on this oount. Evidently, the U-M did not think the Ann Arbor Police Department was living up to the task of preserving law and order in the University oommunity. Furthermore, it makes sense that the U-M is striving to eliminate persistent campus problems like sexual assault, burglary, physical assault, and battery. Instead of protecting law and order, the DPS, under Duderstadt's regime, closely reeembies the bumbling Keystone Cops. The oonsequences are certainly not humorous, for these oops excel at violating civilliherties. It is necessary to indicate, howewr, that it is not 80 much the individual actions ofDPS officers themselves that are aubject to scrutiny. After aU. DPS officers do what they are told to do. As the DPS is largely a mechanism of administrative oontrol, the real issue ooncems the administration and its misuse ofDPS. '!he administration has shown time and time agll.in that it cannot act; responsibly, nor can it respect the rights of studenbJ at the University. It is fOr this reason alone that has resulted in an overpowering DPS. Recent cases only reinforce this assertion. Jake Baker was removed froDi: campus by the DPS because be was a "threat" to the U-M. The DPS paid a visit to David Schroeder in his hometown of Whitmore Lake (allowed by the beloved Code), which is nearly 15 miles away and an entirely eeparate community from :Ann"A1.'bor;.'lhe . ofticera oemS_ted 1OJD.'t:U cOlD.puterequipment seen as a "threat" to the University. Who decided .? Not a oourt oflaw; the U-M administration does . not recognize due process. It was simply the decision of a half-baked kangaroo court of University offidals, with President Duderstadt presiding, in accordance to Regents' Bylaw 2.01, as judge, jury and jailer. Regents' Bylaw 2.01 is yet another justification to dissolve the DPS. The idea of an armed police force parading around its jurisdiction in full..-eize autos, responsible to Duderetadt, resembles the scenario in 1984. But this is reality at the University. Regents' Bylaw 2.01 grants Duderstadt the power to uphold "health, diligehce and order" in the University oommunity. As if "health, diligenoe and onter" is not ambiguous and easily warped enough, 2.01 empowers Duderstadt the right to use the DPS to attain this goal. It is true: Regents' Bylaw 2.01 was cited in the Baker case as justification of Bakers removal from campus by the DPS. Basically, what this all amounts to is a police state, ultimately controlled by Duderstadt. Regents' Bylaw 2.01 justifies his actions, and the DPS is the means to his end. After all, one does not argue at the wrong end of a gun. Statistical evidence may point out that crimes have decreased under DPS role. But it should- not follow logically that the DPSis the sole reason, nor the only possible mechanism, for lower crime. A private security force, working in close relation to the Ann Arbor Police Department, might have a simiJar effect on crime. Perhaps the administration could pursue a better relationship with the city police department. Or maybe the U-M should simply increase other safety features on campus, such as additional lighting and more emergency phones. In any event, the DPS is not solely responsible ,for any lower crime rate; if anything, a cost-benefit analysis of the DPS might point to other solutions, simHar to those listed above. The DPS. along with the current U-M administration, the Code and Regents' Bylaw 2.01, offer the U-M the potential to become the next Kent State. 'The key is potential. While the DPS may never, ever again violate a civil liberty, and while the administration may never, ever again act in bad judgment, the • fact of the matter is that humans are not perfect and totalitarian dictatorships rarely act in benevolence. With the power of the administration, as enacted through the DPS, the error might not simply be an incorrect parking violation. It might involve ten students on their way to the emergency room after a "peaceful" protest the administration "thought" got out of hand. It might be a student blinded after a wrongful tear gas dispersion. To avoid such occurrences, the U-M should end the powerful role that the DPS plays on campus. Ml.

o COMMENTARY Abolish NEA's Statist Art

ROM ITS INCEPTION IN 1965, THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the Arts (NEA) has given money to artists and writers so that these people may perpetuate their respective ~. Oscar Hijueloa, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Mambo Kirw6 Play &"1/6 of~. and Rita Dove, the US poet laUreate, are among thosewhohave1benefi.ted frOm the NEA's individual grants, grants that will account for $167 .4 million in the 1995 fiscal year. Regardless of such beneficiaries like Hijuel08 and Dove, the NEA must go. The NEA clearly undermines the principles of the free market. If any merchant or tradesman has trouble selling his product, the federal government does not intervene and support the entrepreneur. Similarly, the government has no business supporting artists and writers; artists and writers must find work. that allows them to earn livings. Thus, the best artists; those who win private grants and who sell their works, will, as the principles of a free market dictate, continue to produce art. Similarly, the lesser-talented artists will fall into obscurity and be forced to find a new trade. '!he idea of governmental intervention in the arts seems contradictory to the very nature of art. For centuries, art has celebrated the individual and the concept of freedom. Governmental funding of the arts indirectly gives government control of what art will be successful, or at least what art society will notice. 'Ihis allows the government to play favorites, choosing which artists it will assist and which artists will struggle. In short, this is a direct form of censorship. Imagine what oppressed poets and artists, like those within the old Iron Curtain, would have thought of accepting governmental funding for the arts. Even those on the American left, the political base that fostered some intensely beautiful protest art and literature, should raise an eyebrow at the government's role in the arts. Art and literature always have been powerful tools against corrupt governments; they make strange bedfellows to say the least. Yet, it is imperative that art and literature remain integral parts of the American landscape. If the NEA can act as a private organization, or if other organizations can assist artists, this would be an ideal solution. It is abundantly clear, however, that the government has meddled in the arts for the last 30 years, creating a largely politically-motivated and bureaucratic org8!li.zation that supports artists, many with questionable talent. In the interest of freedom and artistic integrity, the government should allow the American arts to exist as they did for the 200 years before the NEA's creation: independently and naturally. . Finally, it is acknowledged that the marketplace for serious art and literature is slim, and surviving solely as an artist is nearly impossible. But this is not because the government is not helping. Frankly, it is because much of American society is culturally bankrupt. The hard road the serious artist faces is a direct result of the American public's growing fascination with trite, cliched and meaningless entertainment. '!hat is a problem no amount of government funding will fix. Ml. -Dean Bakopoulos

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HATE TO ADMIT IT, BUT I love talk shows. Not Donahue or Oprah. I mean the real talk shows. The trashy ones. I mean Jenny Jones, Rikki Lake, Geraldo and Jerry Springer. I mean Montel Williams. I mean the talk shows with "Grandma's Sleeping with My Son" and "Beastiality: A Rural Regularity" as themes. I mean sleaze. I need sleaze. I watch talk shows regularly. rm addicted. I am fascinated with the fact that people who want to appear on these shows actually exist. Talk show guests must be masochists why else would they open themselves to such levels of self-degradation? My personal favorites are the guests that are so obviously wrong, yet continue to defend themselves. A oortain Montel Wi1liarn.a Show comes to mind. The topic had to do with "My Ex Won't Return My Stuff." The guests consisted of grown men and women that, for some reason or another, were so attached to their exloved one's possessions that they simply would not give them back. One girl had her ex-boyfriend's varsity letter jacket with a graduation date of "1988" on it. One guy had his exgirlfriend's coin collection. Of course, Montel wanted to be fair, 80 he brought out on stage all the parties involved. The dialogue went something like this: Girl who wanted coins bac": "Why don't you just give me my coins back.." Guy with coins: "Wp.y should I?" Girl who wanted coW bad: "Bemuse they're mine. They were mine before we dated, and they're mine now." Guy with. coins: "So." Girl who wanted coins bac": "So they're mine. So is the VCR; I also want my clothes back." Guy with. cow, etc.: "No." Girl who wants coins, etc., hac": "What do you want with my clothes, anyway? What, do you wear them? (audience in uproar) Guy with. coins, etc.: "Ub, rm not giving the stuff back.. " Montel proceeded to prove that the coins were not worth more than five dollars. But the guy wasn't interested in the monetary value of the coins. He just had to hang on to some piece ofhis ex-girlfriend. After some careful mediation by Montel, the guy finally agreed to give his exgirlfriend's stuffback.. '!he above passage isn't especially

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sleazy or trashy. It is very, very stufrom his admirer. '!be man didn't pid, however. Rarely have I seen such take too kindly to this either, and he exhibitions of adolescent behavior by shot and killed his admirer. adults. What disturbs me even more I don't think that the show is is the fad that this couple had to go on responsible for the murder; both men national 'IV, on the Montel Williams volunteered to be on the show. And Show, to solve its problem. 'That's scary. So what we have, in a nutshell, is syndicated talk shows replacing the court of law in some aspects of American culture. Did I mention that all of the aforementioned talk show hosts are professional psychologists? Perhaps the great;.. est example of this amateur practicing occurred on the ;IJ~!l!lh.w) 1n!'''lI 11 1~m !::: , ..~~ 2SL!::; " ""'.~~. C~ Jenny Jones Show a few weeks . ~ :::II ~ • iii' , ~ ago. It was th e "MT y. een t~..Y'~":: ~ "itiiiiI!!!!!( Daughter Dresses Like a - Next on Gersldo: "Sadist Bestial Relationshi " Whore" or "My Teen DaughPs ter Dresses Like a Punk Rocker" show. e~n if the man was misled into thinkBasically, in either case, the reconing that his admirer was female, there ciliation would be to convince the still is no justification for blaming the daughter that, ,yes, she does dress murder on the Jenny Jones Show. like a whoreipunker, and a makEr- ~ In any event, one issue stands over is in order. Some of the girls out: these talk shows are in every way actually agreed to the makeovers. stupid. Period. After the makeover, each guest The people that appear on them was escorted back on stage, amid a montage ofbefore and after shots. All of them - every single one - hated their new looks. But what was Jenny Jones saying? "Oh, isn't that better?" or maybe, "There, now you look normal." '!he moral of the story, for the teens, was that it was not OK to express yourself via fashion, and that one should subscribe to the standard paradigms of societal fashion. Oh yeah, another moral was that "boys will want to take you out now" because you look good from the outside. What, did I hear someone mention superficiality? The latter moral is just the ane rd want my daughter to learn. After all, we all know that how a person looks on the outside is what matters, not what they are like on the inside. Speaking of Jenny Jones, it would be safe to say that the talk show medium reached an ironic climax this week. Well, these talk shows are always looking for sensationalism and a "good" story. They got it earlier last week when a talk show guest appearance was directly related to a murder. Evidently, a man was asked to be on the Jenny Jones Show with the theme of, "I've Got a Secret Crush On ... " Well, the person that had a "crush" on the man happened to be a good friend from the past. To the man's surprise, however, his admirer was male. Evidently, the man didn't take too kindly to this, and later, he received. some kind .o f sexual advance

are stupid. Most of the audience members are probably stupid. Many people that watch the shows are stupid. The themes are stupid, and many have no relation to society whatsoever. Hell, I'm stupid for watching these pisspoor examples of television media. The only people that aren't stupid are the producers of these shows. They know exactly what they are doing. They give the people what they want: sleaze. Instant sleaZe, every day, and now every night. The Jenny Jones Show is now repeated late night. Great, that's all we need: a nation of late night TV watchers whose last thoughts before they go to sleep consist of "Pre-teens Sleeping Around" and "'!hat's Not My Baby - It's Joe's Across the Street." Sleaze talk shows are representative of the state of American culture today. We want issues that can be solved with the time frame of the one hour talk show. We want trashy issues like sex and drugs and infidelity and O.J. and crime. We want to sit back in our lazy boys and Cheer for the good. guys. We want sleaze. We want sleaze NOW! Ml.

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Legal Troubles Plague the U-M BY

GENE KRASS

HE UNIVERSI'IY OF MICH· igan recently has been in· volved in more than its share of controversies. From the Code and Diag Policy to affirmative action and the Michigan Mandate, from Hash Bash to alleged politicization ofMLK Day, from questionable employee fir· ings to pointless student expulsions, . the University is a key player in a myriad of debate-provoking issues. And how do many issues, much. to the ire of certain politicians, reach settle· ment in this day and age? 'That's right: the lawsuit - something to which the U-M is no stranger. The most recently updated report from the U-M Office of the General Counsel briefly describes 80 legal cases in which the University is in· volved. Moreover, in about 70 of these cases, either the University itself, a department head, or some other ad· ministrator of the University is listed as the defendant Thirty of these cases Gene K.rau iB ajunWr in Engluh and an (U$istant editor of the Review.

show that the plaintiff is seeking over obtain the money to litigate these do sound like the frivolous malprac· $10,000, one over $25,000, one over lawsuits? tice lawsuits that have some shout· $50,000, one over $350,000, one for $1 It is reasonable to state that the ing, "Let's kill all of the lawyers!" million, and one for $2 million. And University easily could have avoided There remains the potential, though, this does not tell the'whole story. The many of these lawsuits. First and that a court may refuse to hear a case numerous confrontations throughout foremost is Hash Bash, In 1992, due to unsubstantiated claims - as the past four or five years between the was the case with· Melanie Welch's Washtenaw County Circuit Court U-M and the National original civil suit. Othenvise, the backOrganization for the log that exists in todays courts would or so Reform of Marijuana be significantly higher. The bottom Laws (NORML) over line is that the University is involved Hash Bash are listed in too many lawsuits. under one case, And if AB for whether other institutions $2 that is not enough, are involved in as many lawsuits as some of these cases the U-M, the answer is probably not, listed in the "updated" at least for those institutions that do report date back to not receive monetary aid from the 1991 or 1992, government Private corporations, for insi:.anre, have to be very careful about Seems like a lot of time-consuming lawgenerating lawsuits. They are depensuits, doesn't it? One dent upon, and therefore liable to, now might ask how the their stockholders and customers. University is handling them. How i Judge Donald Shelton ruled that the They are not funded with taxpayer many lawyers does it take to handle University must allow NORML to use dollars, and therefore any losses in· 80 cases? How many of these cases amplification on the Diag. Next, in curred through lawsuits are losses to could the U~M ,have avoided? D~8 1993, the Michigan Court of Appeals the company. Once or twice, maybe, any other comparably-sized institU· ruled that NORML may host Hash but would you buy, say, medicine from tion involve i~elf in as many legal . Bash withoutprepaymentforany "se· a company' involved in 80 lawsuits hassles as the U-M? And, most imcurity" it did not request. Later, in stemming from drug poisoning? The portantly, where does the University 1994, Shelton ruled tlu;tt the U-M .,.",University, on the other hand,should could not deny NORML a.otmdper.: ' be liable to the intelligent students it mit based on a dispute over clean-up educates, yet it still obtains the reo costs from the previous year. The probsources to deal with all of its unneoes· lem this year is unclear, but the Uni· sary problems. versity is still after NORML. When This brings us to the source of the will the U-M get it? Isn't there any money that covers the University's limit at all as to how many times the legal fees, which is quite likely stu· University can take one matter to dents' tuition. If a company loses a major case, chances are that it will court? This is certainly one ongoing case that the University could have wait some time before expanding; construction here, though, seems to be avoided. One pair of cases - the recent increasing and increasing. If legal Jake Baker and Melanie Welch MS· costs accumulate, a company will probcoes - make for an interesting sceably hold back on raises; at the U-M, nario. Welch is worlring on a soon-tothough, anytime the faculty and ad· be-filed lawsuit against the Univerministration want a raise, all they sity. Not only did the University subhave to do is vote one for themselves. ject her to double jeopardy by trying TIlls leaves students, their parents, her case under the Statement of Stu· alumni, and undeserved federal fund· dent Rights and Responsibilities (also ing (read: tax dollars) stuck with much known as the Code), it actually ig· of the bill. Notice what's been hap· nored certain provisions in the Code, pening to tuition every year. Granted, In response to the content of his e$50,000 or so per case might seem like nothing to a $2 billion-a-year indusmail, the U-M, as most people probably know, suspended Jake Baker try. These cases add up, though, espewithout granting him a hearing uncially when factoring in losses other der the Code. So Welch will sue the than legal fees. University because she was tried un· There is definitely a: problem when der the Code, and Baker has every the University faculty can raise turight to sue because he was not! Even ition at will every time it wants to though there is no indication that wield its power. The administration Baker will file a lawsuit, these two should be liable to the regents and the cases are examples of how the Uni· taxpayers that sustain it and avoid versity leaves itself open to excessive lawsuits when possible. "You know and unnecessary litigation. how to make Congress do a good job? Put 'em on commission!" quipped coTo be sure, the University is the party being sued in almost all of these median Jackie Mason. Perhaps this cases; some of the ones in the report, would be a good idea to implement at especially_thE:lpersonal injury ones, the University of Michigan. Ml.

Granted $50,000 per case might seem like nothing to a billion-a-year industry. These cases add up, though, especially when factoring in losses other than legal fees

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Judge Strikes Stpnford Speech Code was once called "a cross between a welfare queen and a bathroom attendant." Unfortunately, the University of Michigan has also had a history of racial insensitivity. A U-M student once reported walking into a classroom and seeing written on the blackboard: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste - especially on a nigger." And many are familiar with the infamous "joker" who called a campus radio station a few years ago with the question: "Who are the most famous black women in history?" He responded distastefully with, "Aunt Jemima and MotherF-- ." Although it is admirable that

BY RoDEEN RAImAR

SANTA CLARA COUNTY court judge recently ruled Stanford University's speech code unconstitutional, a decision that brings with it a plethora of political and legal ramifications. As reported in the San FTTZ.TU:i8co Chronicle, Superior Court Judge Peter Stone, on March. 1, ordered an injunction against Stanford's enforcement of the code. The judge was upholding a 1992 California law that gives students at private universities the same free speech rights that they enjoy while not on campus. Stanford's speech code, designed inresponae to a 1988 incident in which two white students disfigured a poster wi th racial caricatures while attending a black theme house, banned insults based on gender or race . The code also banned hate-associated symbols like the swastika if they are used contemptuously. 'Ibis case is particularly interesting because it brings up a variety of controversial social and legal issues. The most prominent issue is whether universities have the right to make a speech code and to enforce it or whether such a code violates students' constitutional right to free expression. Many universities hold the opinion that they have the right to enact such a code because, as institutions of higher education, they are committed to providing equal opportunity and protection froIll discrimination for their students. Acrording to Stanford's code, for example, each student has the right to equal access to an education, free from discrimination on the basis of sex, race or ethnicity. Harassment on the basis of any of these discriminatory criteria contributes to an environment that reduces access to education for those subjected to it, and is therefore cOnsidered to be a violation of school policy. Schools such as Stanford have reason to believe that such codes are necessary. Examples of racially inappropriate comments on campus are manifest, as William H . Shaw writes in Social and Personal Ethics. In fact, the University of MassachusettsAmherst, University of Wisconsin, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Wellesley College, Duke University, and UCLA have all been plagued with racist incidents. At Dartmouth college, a black professor

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Stanford University has attempted to limit harassment in an effort to improve its educational environment, it is questionable as to whether it can do so by limiting free speech. The point at which speech transcends the limitations of the First Amendment has become an issue of considerable debate: by what standards should we judge speech as offensive, and who shall establish such standards? There are no clear cut solutions to such questions, but one thing remains clear: limiting freedom of expression does violate the First Amendment that provides every individual with the right to express himself Stanford attempted to define the point at which

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protected free speech ends and prohibited discriminatory harassment begins: it tried to develop a standard. It failed like the institutions before it, including the University of Michigan, which actually had prereded Stanford in developing a speech code, which was also overturned by a federal court. What the Stanford case and similar cases involving free speech will mean for constitutional law in the future remains to be seen. In the meantime, perhaps universities should focus more on attempting to reward social responsibility than punish infidelity. After all, freedom, like any privileged commodity, works only when people use it responsiblY !'I H

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N MARCH 6, AARON Steelman of the Review had the opportunity to interoiew Dr. Walter E. Willi.arrnJ. Willi.am.8, the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economic& at George Mason University, is a nationaUy syndicated columnist and the author of The State Against Blacks, among other works. MR: Classicaillberall hive long favored open Immigration pollet.., but lOme libertarians haw recently argued that, In the age of the welfare state, open immigration simply is not I aomd policy. What is your view? WILLIAMS: I agree. I think immigration has always been good for our country. It has always been a good idea because we have always been short on labor resources. However, when previous immigrants were coming, there was not a welfare state and that guaranteed that either they worked or they starved. Given the welfare state, people can possibly come here and not work and not have the discipline of starvation. So, one has to treat immigration a little more gingerly now because of the welfare state. I would much rather have open borders and no welfare state and invite anybody here who wants to work. MR: You have written I great dell about the Issue ~ . . .100 In your recent syncIcated coturma. What is yow opinion ~ the various secessionist movements throughout the United States, such as the people of Staten Isjand voting to secede from New York City .-ld 1he reaidents of Ward 3 wanting to break aw.y from Washingfpn D.C.?

WILLIAMS: First of all, separation for people who see th.i.ngB differently reduoos conflict It is like marriage. If you have a law that says that people cannot get divorced once they are married, then both people treat each other worse than they otherwise might. And I also think that people have the right to form a group and leave a particular region. I think that the secessionist movements around the country show that people are sick and tired of the federal government disobeying or traahing the Constitution of the United States. I believe it was Madison who said in the Federalist Paper&, when he was trying to explain the Constitution, "TIle powers of the federal govenunent are few and well-defined, and those of the states are many." And, actually, it is turned upside down nowadays . The powers of the federal government are many and those of the states are few. I think. the secessionist movements and the Tenth Amendment move-

ments in many states are showing that AmeriC81lB are sick of the federal government running roughshod over their liberties. MR: Many committed free traders opposed NAFTAas well as the most recent round in the GAIT discussions on the grounds that th8$8 treaties did not represent real free trade; that they were so loaded with environmental provisions and bureaucratic bylaws that their failure was preferable to their passage. What Is your opinion?

WlLUAMS: I share that point of view in many respects. If you look at NAFTA and GA'IT you see thousands of pages; you don't need thousands of pages to tell me that I can be free to trade with a citizen in another country. 'Ibis is much more than free trade; it includes favors an9. political shenanigans. But, I think the question one has to ask is, ."Are these treaties better than the status quo?" We are not going to find utopia and purism here on earth. So, one has to ask whether or not it is better than the status quo. That is a difficult question for me to answer. I think that NAFTA, not GA'IT, is marginally better than the status quo - only marginally, however. And one would not have to argue with me very long to convince me that it is marginally worse. GA'IT is a different case. I don't believe it should have been passed . MR: Which of the following evils do you think is preferable: a flat income tax of say 17 percent, such as the one proposed by Dick Armey, or a complete abandonment of the income tax in favor of a national sales tax?

WILLIAMS: I think that clearly the preferable one, in terms of..our liberties, would be a national sales tax as a substitute for all other federal taxes - just eliminate the IRS and all other taxes. I think the IRS and the CUITent tax code is a real threat to our liberties and is becoming increasingly so. Now, we have to face the political reality and given the political reality, I would go along with Dick Anney's flat tax, perhaps as a road towards something that is even preferable to the flat tax. We all have to recognize that we did not get into the current state of affairs overnight and we will not get out overnight. MR: Are you bothered by the fact that you are quite often referred to, particular1y among the media, as a "black conservative" or a

"black libertarian," instead of just simply as a "libertarian?" WILLIAMS: Yes. It is one of the unfortunate things about the news me-

date in Jersey City got a very high percentage of the black vote. I think that blacks are finally learning the lesson that the NAACP and Benjamin Hooks mouthed but never followed that we have permanent goals but we don't have permanent friends .

MR: What do you think of the possible Republican candidates fOl president? Do you think that any of them are firmly .committed to the Ideas of liberty? WILLIAMS: No, I don't think that any of them are. But, once again, we are not in Heaven and we have to choose among the alternatives. I think that Phil Gramm shares the basic values of libertarianism clearly more so than does Bob Dole or Lamar Alexander and some of the other candidates. I think that maybe Alan Keyes would be a good candidate, but he has no chance ofwinning the nomination. dia that people identify me that way. MR: Why do think that free market ideas are Sometimes I question it, like if I am not taken more seriously at universities on a television show and they put across the country? down "black conservative economist" I will just ask why didn't you put ,. , WILLIAMS: The elite throughout down "white liberal" or "black liberal" history have always been hostile to for the other people on the show. I the ideas of liberty and the elite are think that one of the problems with hostile toward the free market. The people in general is that if you call reason why is that implied by the free somebody a "libertarian," that tennimarket is voluntary exchange, and nates the argument, they don't know elitists and totalitarians and tyrants what else to say, they are kind of do not trust that people, acting volunconfused and won't look at the issues. tarily, will do what they think they Incidentally, I tell people that I am a ought to do. 'These people, who are on radical - in the tradition of Jefferson. college campuses and are polluting the minds of students, believe that they have superior knowledge than MR: Why do you believe that blacks vote the masses and that they have been Democratic in such high percentages when ordained to forcibly impose that wisthere is no real evidence to suggest that dom on the masses. And keep in mind black Americans are, on the whole, particuthat the government is pro-â&#x201A;Źlite and larly left of center? the market is pro-common man; that is, the market directs its energies WILLIAMS: I don't have a full antowards satisfying the common man swer to that and I don't have any simply because the common man is satisfactory answer. One of the anmore numerous and there is far more swers that does come to my mind, money to be made by focusing on the however, is that blacks have a misincommon man. What I have in mind is formed loyalty to the Democratic Party television. If you look at television, to the extent that during the civil you find Oprah and Geraldo and all rights struggle, Republicans, and conthat kind of stuff Those shows are servatives more generally, were not directed. towards the common man seen as friends, and the Democrats because that's the market. When the were seen as mends. I think that the elite want to hear Pavarotti. sing and coalitions that were made during the see horses jump over gates and watch '50s and '60s that were beneficial to games like cricket, they rip off the blacks are harmful to blacks today. common man through public broadAnd I see that the voting pattern casting in order to get what they want among blacks is changing. Republito see. So what I am saying is that the cans got a higher percentage of the government is a tool of the elite. The black vote in this previous election market tends to serve the common than they had for years. Voinovich in man and the government tends to Ohio got 40 percent of the black vote serve the elite. m and the Republican mayoral candi-

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o INTERVIEW: RONALD PRINCE

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Defending a Conjroversial Measure O N MARCH 8, MIKE WANG of the Review i.nteruiewed R0nald Prince, a co-<luthor of Proposition 187, a California ballot proposal that limits the amount of public assistance to illegal immigrants. An accountant in Orange County, Prince founded tlu! Save Our State (SOS) organization. He rÂŤelJ.tly addressed the 8th Annual Jaclt L. Walker Conference of Political Affairs. MR: What was the inspiration of yOU' SOS campaign and Proposition 1871

PRINCE: 'There were a variety of small reasons that prompted me to start the campaign 808. But there are two main reasons. First, California has the worst case of illegal immigration in the nation. Second, neither the state or the federal government would do anything about it. '!he problem of illegal immigration in California has reached an unbelievable level that it is creating different economic, social, and political problems in the state. California has one of the most generous public health care programs; a considerable amount of it is going to the illegal aliens. In taxation, it is needless to say that illegal aliens are not paying their taxes. '!heir children go to school, enjoying the privilege at the expense of taxpayers' money. From an economic viewpoint; California is going bankrupt; we have around $5 billion deficit every year and it is increasing. illegal aliens are also creating various social problems such as violence and crime. I was told that one fourth of the pri~n population in California federal prisons are illegal a1iens. Nearly one sixth of the prison population in California state prisons are also illegal aliens. illegal aliens are also a political problem because the state and federal governments are not committed enough to put a block to the in- flowing of the illegal population from Mexico and South America. We, the 808, present the part of California population, that is resenting this inaction by the government, and decide that the people of the state should put a stop to this problem.

MR: It aeemt that much of Gov.nor Pete Wilson', action with reepect to 1he proposition hal been blocked by the courts In California. Has the propoeffion worked the way you had hoped?

PRINCE: It hasn't worked out the way I wanted to but I was expecting the court battle following the election if the proposition was passed. Governor Pete Wilson has been elected, I

think, mainly because he took this proposition as a major part of his campaign. I was expecting the court battles because as our opposition, namely the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union], told us that they will sue the very next day after the proposition is passed and they did. Now that the court battle has begun, yes, the actions by Wilson have been stopped by the state rourt judges. We are expecting that after a period of time, our case will eventually end in the Supreme Court, and I think that it is impossible to tell whether it will be passed in the 8upreme Court. One reason is that the court has terminated propositions similar to this one before, but we are hoping that the rourt will see that the economic and social rondition in California is very bad, and this proposition is necessary to..t.he future of the state of California. Now there are other aspects of thi~ problem that usually legal citizens like us are not aware about unless you have been a victim of illegal immigration. Often illegal aliena either have.no valid identifications or phoney identifications. It is very hard for government officials to check whether people are legal citizens. I'll give you a very common and simple example in California: automobile accidents. If you are a l~ citizen, and got hit by or got into an accident with an illegal alien, the police will come and check if both of you are physically okay, maybe give you a ticket, write down your automobile insurance, and then leave. Now the illegal alien will never appear again. He is not going to pay the ticket because he has a phoney driver'slicense and he has phoney automobile insurance . He will never go to the rourt because nobody can identify him. On the other hand, if a legal citizen was in the accident with you, he will get punished. I think what we've got is a double standard. Illegal aliens will get away from these cases. But you are the victim in this case; you are not going to get compensated because there is no one to pay for you or your insurance company.

because he does not like to put a rommitment into this situation, therefore he takes a position so that he would not look so bad when the proposition is passed. I think that the president has lost California because of the position he has taken. As to education, I think this is another area in which the illegal aliens are benefiting from the taxpayers' money. The edu-

We proposed this because we want to take out the "lure" that the state has for illegal aliens.

MR: Education is probably the most controversial issue in this propOSition. President Clinton has spoken against the pro~ sition because of it Why do you think that prohibiting illegal children to go to school was necessary?

PRINCE: I think that is just an excuse that the president has taken

country. If you are an illegal citizen, you can go to a public health agency and get free treatment without showing your identification. The proposition includes three areas which people will be required to present their legal status, and if they cannot, they cannot apply for any kind of benefit from the government. We proposed this because we want to take the "lure" that the state has for illegal aliens.

MR: In the proposition, several sections indicate that all goverMlentaI entities have the responsibility of reporting to the proper authorities concerning suspected illegal aliena. Is this necessary?

PRINCE: The proposition says that all government entities have the aucation system of California currently, I think., only requires identification of leg8,l status like a birth certificate fro~ legal citizens. If you are an illegal immigrant, the school does not require you to show anything if you just claim that you are not an illegal immigrant From that, the school has taken on the unnecessary task of teaching someone who is illegally here and is benefiting from the labor of other people, legal citizens of the United States. I think that 1Dis reap.y . has nothing to do with how the kids will do on the streets if they cannot go to school. We are encouraging the illegal immigrants to leave the country voluntarily; that I think is very reasonable because they are not supposed to be here in the first place. Many people think that it is <TUel that by this section of Proposition 187, we are throwing children on the street by prohibiting them to go to school, but they do not think that the illegal immigrants are taking advantage of them. 'The more illegal immigrants in California who don't pay taxes, the more likely a resident of California will be hurt because his children will not get the same level of education if there are not any illegal immigrants. Many people do not realize that they themselves are the victims of illegal immigration.

MR: Health care is connected with education. ~ we all know, governmental enforcement of iIIegaI\mmlgratJon barriers has not been very successful. II illegal Immigrants do not voluntarily leave, will other social problems, such as poverty and violence, arise?

PRINCE: Again, it is the same problem. '!he very reason that California has so manner illegal aliens is beca use we have the best and the most generous health care system in the

thority to report suspected illegal aliens. Also, government officials ~ required to check. the legal status of people in two occasions. The first is when anyone ia applying for any kind of benefit from the governm.ent such . as welfare, medical, or schOol education. The second is wheli anyone is arrested or discovered o~fcommitting any kind of crime. ManY people are convinced that this would make the state of California a police state. .

MR: Many minority groupe hIVe deClated this proposition to be racially discriminating. Do you think that this is a problem for the proposition?

PRINCE: I don't think the proposition is a racist measure, and we are trying to get rid of the problem of illegal immigration no matter if they are Mexican, Asian, or European. I think there are a lot of emotions which are generated by the opposition. We are facing a serious, factual, realistic problem in California, but emotions for the illegal aliens are not going to solve the problem. I think that is also why they lost the campaign against the proposition even though they have spent a tremendous amount ofmoney. They have overkilled the media and people are tired of it in California . They want to, like us, solve this economic and social problem. MIl: What are the fiscal effects of the pr~ sition?

PRINCE: It should be very good ifit was allowed to work to the best possible extent. I cannot quote the actual figure, but by getting rid of the illegal aliens who are taking benefits in our system, we should have a big surplus despite the effort of the government entities that will be working to prohibit them from benefiting. m

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Uphold Supteme Court Review BY BENJAMIN KEPPLE

T IS A HISTORICAL FACT that one of the reasons why the colonists came to the New World, and later to the United States, was to escape persecution due to their religious and political thought. Nowadays, while most immigrants come here for economic reasons, the United States still remains a country where one is free to do what one wishes. In society today, Americans are equal under God and the law, regardless of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation., or other characteristics. The Constitution protects the rights of all people, so that they shall be free to worship in the way they choose, criticize the government, and hold beliefs different from those that constitute the norm. A few years ago, voters in Colorado approved Amendment 2, a very controversial initiative that would deny civil rights protection to homosexuals for such purposes as hiring, health care, and discrimination due to sexual orientation alone. A federal judge rerently declared this initiative

to be unconstitutional, nullifying the amendment. Many who supported this amendment point to the meddling of a federal judge, insisting that he overturned "the will of the people." But in effect, the judge did what was right: he struck down a law that potentially could harm an individual or a group of individuals. For allowing such a law to pass could set a disturbing precedent for other laws that possibly could restrict the rights of other individuals, other than just homosexuals. In theory, this could pave the way for other laws that fail to protect the rights of other minorities - or even worse, laws that restrict the rights of minorities. Can you imagine a vote by the citizens of cities and states across the land that resulted in the denial of equal rights to any group, whether that would be whites, blacks, men, women, straight, or homosexual? 'This would cert:am1y be unconstitutional, and that is why it is appropriate for federal judges to scrutinize laws and verify that they are consistent with the United States Constitution.

Another example concerning the judiciary's role in protecting rights involves prayer in public schools. Foroing children to pray violates the rights of those who do not believe in a god and do not wish to pray to one, as the is provided for under the First Amendment's case for religious freedom. To not protect the rights and the freedoms of a minority, and any minority in this society, would turn. our sense of democracy upside down, from a true republican democracy into a dictatorship by vote, and ultimately a society that is dysfunctional and stratified. The Founding Fathers saw this potential, and created restraints on majoritarian rule to alleviate it. Withjudges ensuring that people have the right to do as they please without laws preventing them from doing so, this country is safe from the governmental persecutions of the Protestant Revolution or the Spanish Inquisition. Admittedly, many federal judges have made what seem to be decisions that are somewhat lacking in judgment, but the fact remains that tl\~ ". â&#x20AC;˘

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Strike Down Supreme Court Power BY MOHAN KRISHNAN

HE AMERICAN JUDICIAL system exists for fairly simple reasons. America needs some way of enforcing criminal law and settling civil: disputes. The higher courts, especially the Supreme Court, have abandoned their original purposes, however, and now act to redefine laws and reinterpret the Constitution. In many historical cases, the Supreme Court actedjustifiably, reminding the people of the United States what the Constitution states; in others, the Supreme Court used small portions of this document to dramatically change laws in the manner that it saw fit. In the most obvious example of this, the Supreme Court gave the thum.b&-up fur legalized abortion with Roe v . Wade. 'Th.ere are two significant points that come forth from this. First, the Supreme Court clearly tried to legislate social change, as the Constitution does not address the issue of abortion. Armed with little evidence that a majority of the citizens of this country support legalized abortion, the Court nonetheless was capable of forcing legalized abortion on the citizenry.

'The second problem is that the Court made it unlawful to enact any legislation short of an amendment to the Constitution that makes abortion illegal. In other words, a body ofjustices, who are not elected in a democratic manner, have changed the laws significantly, and there is essentially nothing that anyone can do to remedy this. The lack of democracy is one of the biggest problems concerning the Supreme Court. The president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoints justices to the Court, and he often does 80 for strictly political purposes. This is fine, but justices often remain in office for life, meaning that politicians of decades past determine the composition and legal views of the Supreme Court of 1995. The Supreme Court does not just endanger democracy; it threatens the delicate balance between states' rights and national control. Under the current system, different states, which have had and continue to have significantly different views, remain limited in the flexibility of their laws. Every bill passed that is opposed by a loud minority finds its way to the courts, presumably on the basis that the people of the state are incapable of determining their own future.

Furthermore, though the justices do not affiliate themselves with parties, they are the worst kind of career politicians. Once appointed to the Court, they are free to define virtue and vice without any responsibility or accountability to the people of this country. It is virtually impossible to remove justices from office, and the majority of the populace probably cannot name half of them. Undoubtedly, there are good points to this system, forit promotes stability. If justices were chosen every four years along with a new president, the Supreme Court would mandate controversial and chaotic changes to the law, and would become a simple partisan tool. These changes, quite possibly, could be more extreme than those initiated by today's Court. Aside from the desire to protect inalienable rights, the people that founded the United States came here because they wanted the chance to choose right and wrong for themselves, and to have the privilege of participating in democracy. The Court should not exist to be mothers and fathers for the citizens of this country. Ifa majority believe in partisan politics (and the number of people in the Republican and Democratic parties do), then why not let partisan politics run the

United States? 'Th.e citizenry has the power to choose between right and wrong itself, 80 why should the United States government adopt this responsibility? Another danger of the Court is that its decisions, though valid and enforceable, for all purposes, have a way of hiding themselves from the knowledge of the citizenry. They are not publicized like the O.J. Simpson trial, so after a case is heard, no one really remembers what it was about or what the decision was, much less how it will impact the populace. The argument that the Supreme Court protects citizens from oppressive laws is a dangerous one, because it can just as easily uphold the oppressive laws. The Supreme Court can make something that is logica11,Y unconstitutional perfectly legal, as it did inDred Scott v. Sanford. The justices, before they forced the desegregation of schools, actually voted that black men are not entitled to freedom, because they are merely property. The Supreme Court could easily make nearly anything it wants illegal. The point is not whether it would do this, but that. it can. Americans should question the existence of the Supreme Court's power, on the grounds that it is blasphemous to democracy. m

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o PROFILES IN LIBERTY: MILTON FRIEDMAN

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IKE A CLOSE GRANDPA, Milton Friedman sits casually as he answers questions about his new introduction to F.A Hayek's classic, The Road to Serfdom. While most economists could base their careers on such an honorary duty, Friedman adds it to the list of extraordinary achievements that highlight his life. While many cite his winning of the Nobel Prize for economics as his greatest acmmpliahment, it may very well be that his best-aelling book, Free to Choose, will have the most lasting impact, for it has changed the views of socialists everywhere. Milton Friedman is a champion of freedom and a hero of humanity, and his life's work is a source of inspiration for anyone interested in bettering human existenre. In a world filled with complicated economics and incomprehensible philosophies, Professor Friedman is shockingly straightforward. He often has to remind his disillusioned colleagues of long-lost principles like supply and demand, the profit motive and freedom. Like the economics professor you always wished you had, Friedman never disappoints. An author of many books, Dr. Friedman writes for all types of audiences. His popular books include Free to Choose, Capitalism and Freedom, Bright Promises Dimnal Performance, and There i8 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. These books are generally quick reads, leaving the reader with months worth 'pf afterthought. Friedman is a very concise writer, often stating in a paragraph what others would fit in a chapter. His academic works include Price Theory, A Monetary Hi8tory of the United StateIJ (with Anna Schwartz), I nf14.tion: CaU8e8 and Consequences, and The Optimum Quantity of Money and Other :&8ays. Nonnallyone would be hard pressed to find an outstanding theoretical economist capable of teaching the general public, but Friedman has 81.lCreed.ed in doing this. His years spent writing columns for Newsweek, combined with his bestselling book and his exposure as a presidential advisor, have made Milton Friedman a household name. Friedman's political views stem from his understanding of both economics and philosophy, and one best may classify them as representative of classical liberalism.. A true freedom

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very first chapter in his book Capitalism and Freedom is called, "'The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom," and the second is called, "'The Role of Government in a Free Society." If one were to seriously consider both of these topics simultaneously and with full knowledge of their historical implications, one

sensed the political tide turning, and I am sure that this last election only served to enhance this belief 'Ib prove how far we have gone, and how far we have to go, Milton lists the Socialist Party platform of 1928 in appendix A ofhis book, Free ro Choose. Right after each of the 14 points of the platform, Friedman shows how almost every point has actually been enacted into US federal law since 1928. 'This rertainly is a shocking conclusion to an awesome book. If you find these thoughts interesting, Friedman has many more in store. He is a man who has devoted his life to understanding the American Dream and the principles on which this country was founded. He is worthy of much praise, but for now we should be thankful that he is still with us, because he is a member of a rare breed. Milton Friedman is currently a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University, as well as a Paul Snowdeit Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. Mt

long been synonymous with sweatshops and child labor conditions that were eliminated only by soclallegislation. Dr. Friedman: Sweatshops and child labor were conditions that resulted more from poverty than from laissez faire economics. Wretched working conditions still exist in nations with all sorts of enlightened might very well come to the same social legislation but where poverty is cJnclusions as those of Milton still extreme. We in the United States Friedman. no longer suffer t!l~t kind of poverty While classical liberal thought is because the free enterprise system has . considered radical these days, allowed us to becom~ wealthy. Friedman never loses hope that his Everybody does take the stand that views will onre again be en vogue. He laissez faire is heartless. But when do has stated repeatedly that he has you suppose we had the highest level of private charitable activity in this country? In the nineteenth century . .. that .. .,.,'.. :., ~~. ::. ;i:~:.. was also the era in which the ordinary For Years man, the low-income man, achieved People have lookea to their . the greatest improvement in his standard of living and his status. Parish Priest I must say that I find it slightly for .... revolting that people sneer at a system that's made it possible for them to sneer +Spiritual Leaaership at it. If we'd had the minimum wage laws and all the other trappings of the +Compassionate Presence welfare state ... half the readers of Play+Sacramental Ministry boy would either not exist at all or be citizens of Poland, Hungary, or some other country.

Milton Friedman is a champion of freedom and a hero of humanity, and his life'S work is a source of inspiration for anyone interested in bettering human existence.

Unlike many economists who defend free markets solely based on efficiency, Dr. Friedman understands the moral implications of a society based on voluntary exchange, as opposed to economies that are planned by a rentral government He explains how free markets are able to organize themselves with no cen~ direction, and how any distuI'banre to them not only diminishes their overall efficiency, but requires some use of governmental force. As a philosopher, he details the necessity for limiting the powers of the government, because he understands that the history of mankind is one of tyranny and totalitarianism. As a political scientist, he recognizes that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," so he fights for the separation of the

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Steinbeck in his search for literary infamous pirate. Parini leads the further elevated Steinbe<k to the forefront of American consciousness . success, independence, and financial reader through the development of Parini discusses the belief, which some HE LIFE OF JOHN stability. Olive Hamilton Stein~ck, this book, letting us discover this deliAmericans held at the time and conSteinbeck was not a simple his arguably overbearing mother, and cate process and the way in which tinue to hold today, that these novels one; yet it is one that mirrors John Ernst Steinbeck, his emotionSteinbeck approached his writing. sought to support radical causes borthose of many other great American ally detached father, can almost be Although Cup of Gold does not comdering on Communism. This is an felt haunting Steinbeck throughout pare with Steinbeck's greatest works, writers. Steinbeck was, above all, a his later life. K. I assertion which Steinbeck man who surrounded himself with would always adamantly disgood friends and sought out tremenBorn in 1902 in Salimiss . "I wanted to simply be dous experience in everyday life. John nas, California, Steinbeck merely a recording consciousstudied sporadically at Steinbeck A BiotIroph], by Jay Parini ness, judging nothing, simply meticulously explores the complex life Stanford without ever putting down the thing," he of this talented man, reinforcing his earning a degree. said. Steinbeck had always strengths while revealing his weakThroughout this book, dreamed of becoming a nesses, all the while maintaining a Parini wonderfully intertwines writer, and these years at quiet sense of dignity. the narrative exposition of Stanford were important John Steinbeck: A Biogr4Phy Steinbeck's life with brief literbecause of many imporJay Plrinl ary analyses of all his work. tant friendships which Henry Holt 'Ibis maniage works quite well. developed, many of which 536 pegII; $30.00 'The descriptions of Steinbeck's would endure until his 19M; Hardcover encounters with two ofhis condeath. temporaries, Ernest Steinbeck's first The strength of this biography Hemingway and William novel, Cup of Gold: A Life lies in its fine attention to the critical Faulkner are incredibly amusofSir Henry Morgan, Bucperiods of Steinbeck'slife: those which ing. And through three maraffected his writing and all of his caneer, with".occasional Jay Parinl: Author ~ John Stelnbeclc: A 8Jogrpshy riages, one can begin to find Reference to History ... , was future endeavors. Parini's chilling Parini shows how this novel estabexplanation for the cynical and often published in 19-29. This curious volportrayal of Steinbeck's family life lished Steinbeck's career and led him bitterly negative way in which ume, as indicated by its subtitle, reserves as a constant reminder of the along the road to sucooss. As Steinheck , . .$teinbeckpte.eenkKl women. One also tells the quasi-historical legend of the difficulties which confronted " hi:lU.~elf""o"Q14n• • "l;know'tJlat"CUP " gets a real sense of the deep frienda/Gold is a bad book, but on its shoulships, such as that with Ed "Doc" ders I shall climb to a good book." 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The difficulty with which popular success, he began to doubt Steinbeck had handling success is his ability. Steinbeck grew restless. Keith Buckman Mike Bruno believably presented, despite the fact He sought to move on toward new Bronwen Ferguson Chris Melus that his greatest critical literary sucthings. Of his editor, Steinbeck says, Chris Johnson cess was yet to come. "I know he simply wants me to write As Parini notes, for better or for The Gropes of Wroth over and over." John Schetz worse, Steinbeck began his career That is exactly what Steinbeck did Marci Hecht Mike Walker during the darkest days of the Great not want to do. Depression. Conditions, especially in Interestingly, Steinbeck was only For more information about the Maize and Blue party, the agrarian based society of the Salifinally awarded the Nobel Prize for including our platform and general MSA information, nas Valley, were extremely undesirliterature in 1962 after publication of check us out on the World Wide Web at: able . Wealthy landowners and mihis moral fable The Winter of Our http://www.engin.umich.eduJ-marIqbIM&B grant workers who hoped to tend the Discontent. Parini reveals the diffifields were at constant odds with one culties which this award presented another. Two of his novels, In DubiSteinbeck when the response from ous Battle and The Gropes of Wroth, the literary community was anything were firmly based in this reality and but positive. In their eyes, the selecI i iI tion of a writer whose greatest literary achievement arguably had been written nearly twenty years earlier was simply not justified. 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third part in his "'Three Colors" trilogy. Kieslowski, a Polish director who is just now gaining popularity in America, stands no chance of winning and should be oveIjoyed at just receiving a nomination. Despite the lack of competition in some of this year's categories, the Best Picture race promises to be hot. Don't get me wrong, Forrest Gump will not necessarily run away with the Oscar. Pulp Fiction will provide some stiff competition. Let's not forget that it won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes and Best Picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It will all boil down to who in the Academy is willing to take a risk. The h.ard-edged, "artsy" types will go with Pulp, while the soft traditionalists will go with Gump. But in my opinion, . they are both overlooking the most satisfying film of all time, The Shaw8hank Redemption. So while all the stars are out in their $1,000 gowns and stretch limousines, schmoozing amongst the elite and determining the fate of their next big deal, fll be at home disappointed yet again. God I love Hollywood! Ml

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NCE, DURING A DISCUSsion ofilie music called jazz, I overheard a great jazz pianist say, ., have been studying Charlie Parkers musk for almost 40 years and I can confi- ChIrIIe Parker dently say I only CIwIe PMrer understand about MemotIItI, Vol. 2 50 peromt ofwhat Savoy Jazz he is doing." On '--_ _ _ _---1 Charlie Par1t.er Memorial, Volume 2, "Bird" proves himself to be as enigmatic and enterUPning as ever. This album is a collection of alternate and original takes recorded between 1945 and 1948, a period fuat I believe is one of his best, What can I say about Charlie Parkers playing? It is inspired. It is be-bop. It bums. Wheilier soloing over the laid back blues of "Parkers Mood," ilie unrelenting bop of "Constellation," or the near-comic chord changes of Miles Davis's "Milestones," Parker is in command ofhis hom and the music. Joining Parker on his trek through the jazz C08IIlO8 is a young Miles Davis on tnunpet, who seems almost immature and out-o.f:-p1ace as he whips out bop lines almost making one forget that this man led the "cool" revolution only a few years later. His solo on

"Marmaduke" is stellar. The various rhyfum sections, including drummer Max Roach, pianists John Lewis and Bud Powell, who simply burns on "Donna Lee," and several different bass players, definitely know fuat ilie only good rhyfum section is a swinging rhythm section. They never let you down. Even someone as rhythmically impaired as myself can't help snapping his fingers. Only on two and four though ... rm not that impaired. 'This disc, from the pseudo-eam.ba of "Barbados" to Parker's rhythmchanges shredding on "Thriving on a Riff," is both bewildering and entertaining. One even gets a chance to hear Parker whistle and yell something unintelligible when he stops the group half-way through a tune because he is unsatisfied with the

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how manages to amaze and confuse me at every tum. Scofield is in rare funn on So Near, So Far. His comping, wiili his extensive use of close intervals and parallel sevenths, never left me wishing for a piano player in ilie slightest, and his solo on ilie mystifying "Flwnenco Sketches" is, dare I say, transcendent. The rhythmic explorations ofFoster and Holland refuse to let up, even for a moment. '!hese men groove. They are finnly locked in with one anoilier and compliment Henderson and Scofield's playing. Interaction is the key word here and these men know it. Al Fosters drum solo on "Sidecar' is monstrous. Holland also plays an exceptionalsolo on ilie up-tempo swing of "Swing Spring," proving that the bass solo isn't just an extra chance to go to the bathroom mid-song. All in all, this album both pays homage to the memory and music of Miles Davis and proves that, somewhere out there, iliere is still great jazz being played and there are still alternatives to the cheesy, fusion <np that a certain Detroit radio station likes to call ':jazz." Ml

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day that tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and three friends entered the studio to record Joe Henderson So Near, So Far, a So Neat, So F" tribute to ilie legend- Verve ary trumpeter. Re- '--_ _ _---' corded in October 1992, this album is prooffuat the music of Miles Dewey Davis lives on. 1bia album is, however, more than just another tribute album. It is personal. Each member of the group, which includes Joe Henderson, ilie e'Ye!'-ewkward John Scofield on guitar, bassist Dave Holland, and Miles's long-ti:me fiiend Al Foster on drums, has at one time or another shared ilie stage with the man with the raspy voice. According to the liner notes, Hendereonjoined Davia for four weekends in 1967. In August of 1968, Holland joined Miles's band and remained

this one man... "). Nevertheless, I wn going to say it. Roots. Joe Henderson is a musician who has his roots finnly established in great blues playing, but he is not afraid to challenge or expand his roots. Case in point: the bluesy "Pfrancing." Henderson plays some blues phrases that are so wrenching they could reduce Jesse Helms to a pathetic, blubbering mass, but doesn't hesitate to follow them up with a Coltrane-esque flurry of angular, wholly disrespectful runs that would outrage any first-semester music theory instructor. At least he doesn't play any parallel octaves. Speaking of things parallel, or perpendicular for that matter, I will move on to the fuzzed-out guitar trickery of John Scofield. There exists, in the land of music, certain guitarists (Pat Metheny or Bill Frisell, for exwnple) who, due to ilieir exceptional fluidity and mystical, unknown forces, can play any idea they want in the course of improvisation and pull it off like a worked-out metal solo. Then there is John Scofield. He is the only man who is a certified "gimp" on his instrument but, despite this, ~)lle;:'"

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until 1971. John Scofield's tenure on guitar lasted from 1982 until 1985 and included four albums. Drummer AI Foster was probably the closest to Miles of ilie four. He joined Miles in 1971 and stayed with him until the early 'SOs. But enough background. The music is what counts here. An interesting aspect of this album is ilie performers choice ofrepertoire. Though not all obscure, most ofiliese tunes were recorded once by Miles and then never heard from again. As Scofield puts it, "I don't think I had played any of these tunes before, except for 'Pfrancing.' which is something everybody plays." This unfamiJiarity with ilie tunes allows ilie players to stretch out and really explore without getting bogged down in cliche licks they may play over one that is more famiJiar. Henderson's playing is absolutely" astounding on this album. I usually try to avoid 891ploying the word "roots" when it CClmes to music because I usually hear it when a rock star is talking about really bad album he has just made (e.g., "Man, ljust,like, really tried to get back to my roots on

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N AN AGE OF MTV, WHERE new artists need a shocking, trendy image and a certain amount of undirected angst, Dillon O'Brian will most likely not be a future"buzz clip." But there is certainly an audience for O'Brian's passionate, heartfelt and Dillon O'Brian lyrical mu.sic, and. ScM. From My the audience LItSt ConIes$Ion should be de- RCA lighted with L...-_ _ _ _ _- l O'Brian's latest work, Scenes from My Last Confession. 'The album is rich with solid guitar work, clean and. competent like O'Brian's sincere vocals. O'Brian's appeal will be mostly to those who enjoy intelligent and literate lyrics. O'Brian's songs, despite his young age, probe weighty issues of love, spirituality and family with keen obsenrations. His lyrics, though sometimes trite, often are poignantly moving like in "The Analytical Mind," a moving and all too true account of the Dean BaJwpoulos juat got a new haircut. !fs short.

intellect's futile attempt to comprethat Dillon O'Brian is more than cahend the universe. Other insightfully pable of writing about complex wry observations are directed at the themes, with simple melodies and a great deal of compassion. His influCatholic Church, a prominent aspect of O'Brian's Irish-American heritage. ences seem to range from many differSongs like ~. ent artists, nota"Catholic Boys," blypeoplelike Van a bitter examiMorrison, Paul nation of orgaSimon (especially nized religion on "Two Friends"), and "Something and Dan Almost Sacred," Fogelberg. a moving acThese qualicount of wonder ties showed and faith, add through last weighty wisdom Thursday, March to the album. 9, when Dillon 0' B ri a n' s O'Brian opened Irish heritage for Tr a cy not only influChapman at the ences him theDillon O'Brian In philosophical mode Blind Pig in Ann matically, but musically as well. The Arbor. Doing a drumle88 acoustic set, . tunes "My Father's Son" and "Down O'Brian was able to convey the pasto Earth," with their Celtic strains, sion and honesty of the works on prompted RoUing Stone's Paul Evans Scenes from My Last Confession. His to say that O'Bri~'s work is "rich. sweet sounding acoustic guitar and with the sin-steeped Irish imagery agreeable voice made for an enjoyable that colors Van Morrison's songs and peIformance as the capacity crowd at Joyce's fiction." While this praise may Blind Pig filed in to hear this new, and be a little too lofty, there is no doubt hopefully successful, artist. Ml.

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Nugent, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. DifferSo while the Talking Heads and Devo ing in talent and technique. these were whining about post-modernism, In the day we sweat it out in the streets proletariat rockers present a sort Seger, Springsteen and friends were of a runaway American dream "pop-culturfied" blues. Maybe more tackling the real, prevalent issues of At night we ride through 11Ul1I8ions of aptly named "white" blues, this bluesociety - the working class. glory in suicide macq.ines... But perhaps what blue collar rockcollar rock represents the grit, grime We gotta get out while we're young and glory in Americana. Its artists ers do best poetically centers around 'Cause tramps like us, baby we were picture the American dream of "little the awkward years ofpre-adulthood. born to run pink houses for you and me (John Springsteen spoke of a girl "With her - "Born to Run, '" Broce Springsteen Mellencamp)" and the killer graces/And seAmerican reality of "Dear cret places/That no HERE'S SOMETHING Sir letters keep coming in boy can fill" and Seger about Springsteen's "Born to the mail, I work my back practiced night moves Run" that conjures visions of till it's racked with pain .. with a girl in the (Bob Seger)." But blue col- .. "backseat of [his] '60 gas-guzzling hot rods hurtling down the streets of suburbia: It speaks of lar rockers never let one Chevy." Drag racing, the one of the few freedoms the young another working class forget that, "Dammit, I'm man, I said I'm a man maturity rite, is all but working class realizes - the freedom of the automobile and the open road. (Seger)." ignored in today's "arBut Springsteen dares to implore furNo matter how bad it '. . . .,'" ,( tistic" poetry. But ther: the auto plays a role metaphorigets, be it unemployment . " Springsteen encapsucally and literally. It is not only the or the loss of a girl, Seger t&~, lates the raw power, freedom of the working class but also and the like never let one ' ~ speed and determinaa symbol for the working class's opforget his soul. The conNeil Y . M 81 a-coli tion of drag racing cept of soul is implicit in oung. r u ar with precision equal pression, as they "sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American blue collar rock. It represents the only to that of a certain famous Grecian dream." part of a man that remains his own Urn. "'They scream your name at night Springsteen shares the company neither the IRS. the foreman, nor in the street/Your graduation gown of scores of similar proletariat. or lies in rags at their feet/And in the distance can rob a man ofhis soul. It working class, rockers. A few that is his identity. lonely cool before dawnlYou hear their immediately come to mind include Proletariat rockers, unlike their engines roaring on .. .It's a town full of the likes of Bob Seger. Jackson pop counterparts, never let soul eslosers/And I'm pulling out of here to win." Browne, John Mellencamp. the cape from their music. Seger states, . While the idea of soul is the esAllman Brothers, Neil YOllI!gLT~_ "today's mu.sic ain't got the same soul." BY GREG PARKER

sence of blue collar rock, the concept of mobility is the central theme. While the reality of mobility in American society is somewhat bleak, it is the focus of the young and old characters in most proletariat rocker songs . Springsteen's character wants to pull out of a town full oflosers to win. But like in real-life, these characters never seem to leave their "town full oflosers," and counterintuitively, they exhibit a great sense of regionalism . Seger speaks of "Southern Michigan summer times" and Springsteen frequently tells of his old days in Jersey. Proletariat rockers are largely absent and greatly missed in today'a music culture. Instead of good ole drag racin' and "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang (Ted Nugent)" we groan and writhe in "deep" lyrical psychobabble via Eddie Vedder or Michael Stipe. No one mentions factories or cars or Americana - unless they mock it So while the proletariat rock never engaged in blatant, blind nationalism, there was at least some sense of sentimental ties to America. It's pretty sad that the closest thing to working class rock -we have now is Stone Temple Pilots' "Interstate Love Song" - well, it talks about the open road. anyway. Oh, where have you gone, my blue collar rockers? m '~ ,

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