University of Central Oklahoma
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THURSDAY April 9, 1992
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Generals lead lecture High court cancels kiddie porn call The Supreme Court has overruled the conviction of Keith Jacobson, 61, of Newman Grove, Neb. Police found Jacobson's name on a San Diego, Calif., pornography bookstore's mailing list in 1984. He had ordered two nudist magazines from the store that were legal to purchase. For nearly two years, postal inspectors repeatedly solicited Jacobson through the mail to buy illegal pornography. Investigators said he voluntarily responded to mailed questionnaires asking him about his interests in sexually explicit material. He was convicted of receiving in 1987 a copy of a magazine called "Boys Who Love Boys." It was described in a catalog as showing "11year-old and 14-year-old boys get it on in every way possible." Jacobson was sentenced to two years probation and 250 hours of community service. He lost h is job as a school bus driver the morning after he was charged, and he said he was "humiliated and depressed" for months.
Fab Five's fans fight after failure ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Police fired tear gas to break up a crowd of University of Michigan basketball fans who hurled rocks, bottles and a bowling pin early today after their team lost the NCAA championship. FOUT people, including three officers, suffered minor injuries. Three people were arrested, one for streaking, the others for hitting police horses, authorities said. Fans, some vomiting from the tear gas and others weeping and coughing, said police retaliated with no warning and little provocation. The violence broke out shortly after midnight as police on horseback tried to get the 5,000 to 6,000 people lining South University Street — the main campus thoroughfare — to disperse. When that failed, the officers, wearing riot gear, lined up and pushed the crowd back.
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University students asked to question federal budget and deficits, nuclear weapons and American military forces and procedures By Allen Norbury Staff Writer Where we are going is up to you, it's your time. The decade of the '90s is your decade, you're the future of the nation, said Lt. Gen. David R. Palmer. The defense budget, nuclear threat and the armed forces were topics of discussion at the April 7 colloquium "U.S. Defense Policy for the 1990's: End of the Cold War and the U.S. Response," at the University of Central Oklahoma. The colloquium was presented by the university's Department of Political Science and the Bureau of Government Services. Speakers included Gen. John W. Vessey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense, and Lt. Gen. Dave R. Palmer, both retired from the U.S. Army.
Palmer said America is in a crisis based on the elements of danger and opportunity that exist from the demise of communism and an end to the Cold War. "The Cold War kept peace between the two superpowers, however, there were 150 other wars since the Cold War began though," Palmer said. "But now, peace is everywhere, so it's a time of danger," he added. The Soviet dominance in eastern Europe disappeared in a twinkling of an eye in historical standards, Palmer said. "There is now a security vacuum, no one is dominant, and there are fragile democracies. Also, Germany is unified now and becoming an influence in Europe," he added. Those things lead us to a fork in the road, and we have to take a new road, Palmer said. There will also be a profound change in the defense department, he said. "We don't need the old doctrine, but what new doctrine
Vessey's last point was the maintenance of a military that can be moved to places as needed, a small naval, army and air force which is highly mobile, and a large civil militia like the national guard and reserve forces. "The problem is what size should the military be, and the amount spent on the defense budget," Vessey said.
People have said that all our domestic problems can be solved by cutting the defense budget to 0 percent of the gross national product. But we need to deal with both sets of problems. Gen. John Vessey Former Chairman U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Palmer, the former superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, spoke first about the events that led up to the 1990's and the end of the Cold War.
future defense policy. "We need to recognize there is still a tremendous amount of nuclear weapons out there," he said. There is a threat in that there are many countries trying to build nuclear weapons, Iraq is an example, Vessey said. "Their advancement in nuclear weapons technology should scare us," he added. One point of Vessey's defense policy was to maintain our nuclear deterrence posture and reduce nuclear threat abroad. Another was to maintain U.S. alliances and join together with them in peace, and at the same time save money in the defense budget.
The Bush plan will take us to 3.9 percent of the gross national product by 1995, he added. Citizens should debate the issue and have some say in it, Vessey said. "People have said that all our domestic problems can be solved by cutting the defense budget to 0 percent of the gross national product. But we need to deal with both sets of problems. There is only one world and we have to live in it, so we have to deal with international affairs," he said. and what new strategic planning does there need to be?" he asked. Vessey addressed the issue of the current nuclear threat and gave three points of the
"If the U.S. doesn't lead, who will? If we don't, there will be a vacuum. There are countries who could fill the role, but none we would be content with," Palmer said. V
Students join campaigns for presidential candidates By Traci McKnight Student Writer "Jerry Brown for President" and "Vote for Bill Clinton" are the cries being heard from two groups of politically active students at the University of Central Oklahoma. UCO students Tory Troutman and Justin Suymour are heading up the local Oklahoma City Brown campaign and UCO Stu-
dent Government Association President Peter Regan has taken charge of the Clinton campaign on campus. Regan became involved in running the Clinton campaign through the local Clinton headquarters. "The party headquarters mainly wanted a liaison with young Democrats to set up things here, get young people and help generate support," said Regan. "The Bill Clinton campaign headquarters would get everything set up and then I would just find out when all the dates were
and try to attract people and go out and put up signs and posters," he said. Suymour and Troutman's involvement happened mainly because no one else was leading a campaign for Brown in Oklahoma City. "The way that I got involved with the campaign was through my friend Tory Troutman who's always been a big Jerry Brown fan. He told me that there wasn't really a local campaign organized, so I asked
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