April 1992 - Binghamton Review

1I1lingijamton Volume V, No.5

A Choice Not all Echo

REMEMBER NOW . .. DON'T pLAy IN THE STREET, AND WATCH OUT FOR THE OZONE HOLES! "

路A Conservative Environmental Agenda -Is Free Speech Free?

-Racial Separatism -The Calendar Quandary -Academic Blackmail ... and much more

Editor-in-Chief. .. .... .. ........ .. ... .Michael Malloy Execu tive Director ...... ........... Adam Bromberg Publishing Editor.. ...... ............. Paul D. Schnier Mmlaging Editor .. .... .. ..... ......... Andy C. Szul lr Copy Editor .. .. ... ....... ......... .......... .J ohn Maggio Treasurcr .............. ......... ........... .... Jeffrc y Weyl

Contri butors

Racial Separatism and the University ."".", .4 Holocaust Revisionism .. .. . " ... " .. " "" ",5

The Man, The Legend ..................... .!'eter Kaplml Layout Coordinator .............. Alcxalldra Aueone Proofreader. ........... ............. .......... A . Ama ya Bemadette Malone Kerry MacNamara Alex Consilvio Joseph Rosenthal Jeff Rubinoff Steven Scltwamenfeld Bemadette Malone David Hollmld Anthony Nappo Chris Vandewinckel Katllleen Rymlowski Scott Kocher

NYPIRG - Public or Political Interest Group?,,,,, ,,. ,,,. ,, .. ,,, ,,,, ,,,,, ,, ,, ,,, ,,,,, 7 Academic Blackmail.. .. ... ... " ... .. , ... " " .. 8 The Pope and the President.."". """."" ." , 10

AlumniBoard Richard Carr Pmrt Scolese Yan RUSilllOvsky Joseph Rosenthal Bill y Schor

The Calendar Quandary" ............ .. ..... ." 15

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

Presidential Problems .... .. ..... .. .. ..... .. , 16

"[ shall do nothing in malice, what I'm dealing with is too important f or malicious intent. "

States Pave the Way to Welfare Reform " ." " .,." " .", .. " ." " 19

Brian Sullivan Katrina Schwing Katltryn Doherty Ma thew Carr Jmnes T . Sheka

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Conservati ve Environmentalism"""" "" 14

Bureaucratization of Free Speech .. .. ... ,23

Departnlents: From the Editor". " .. " " ...... .. ", .... .. " "" .. ,,3 Book Review" "" .. " "" ......... ."" ...... " .... " .. 11 The Right Side"""", .. .. . ,., .. , .. " , .. ", 12

Binghamton's Committees -President DeOuer has done one thing effectively in her govcming of our hallowed halls of learning. She has shown the students, faculty and staff that she is quit apt in putthlg off major ic..1dcrship decisions. (n place of such decisions. she has shown her preference to lead through the fonnations of committees.

The administration claims that the purpose of cOllllni ttees is to aid President DeOuer in making 'educated decisions on tough issues which effect the universi ty cOlIulllluity. The real reason for the need of committees is to give the students, staff, and faculty the impression that our fCc'uiess leader is working and leading. The OPIx>sile is true, the committees are a strong indication of President Denuer's lack of vision and a sign of her administrative incpulcsS. To give you an idea of how ridiculous these committccs are,.! would like to nlune but a few of the following: Last March DeOuer fonned Ole Free Speech conunittee. Tlus was supposedly to explore free specch on our campus , but in political reality it was a response to appease the tUlti- NAS element on our c..'lmpus. The same element that used Brown-shirt tactics to disrupt the NAS lecture on tllC f,tll of the Berlin Wall.

At the end of last year, DeOuer fonned her campus blood drive comJlliUee. This was supposedly to explore possible discriminatory practices surrounding blood drives. She recenoy had omt cOlluniuee stand down and lifted her just ban.

In the begining of this year, DeOuer initiated Ole task forces for institutional identity. The purpose of this committee was to aid our school in accuring a more positive identity. A committee person said llIat the reasons for such a conunittee was to end the confusion which studellls experienced when cntering the bookstore because there are so many different designs and logo's for our school.

Lastly, this past February DeOuer fonned Ole SUNY -B calender commincc. The purpose of this is to explore possible alternatives to the proposed calender. Does she really need a comminee to realize that if school starts the Monday following Easter, Jllany students, staff, and faculty will be traveling back to cmllp" s on Easter SWlday?

Instead of fonning these comminees President DeOuer ought to be leading our University through these tough times.

The fomlation of all of these conmlinees is a strong sign that our president is not a leader, but rather an inept pencil pushing bureaucrat.

Preferential politics over the Constitution -TIlls second c..'lSe involves the federal governments blatant disregard for the constitution. Here, the politics of preferential trcatment with regard to another state arc put above Ole law of tl,e land. This c..se involves the deportation of a man who committed no crime in the U.S. but was held in prison for eight years by our govenmlent, without being charged with a crime or put on trial .

The man is Joe Doherty and the other country was England. Yes, it is true that Doherty was convicted in Belfast for killing a English Captain. Yes, it is true that he escaped prison and Oed first to Canada then next to the Uni ted States where he settled in the Bronx and worked as ml illegal alien. That is where the truth ends. In 1986, the Immigration Naturaliztion Services (INS) passed a anmesty law for illegal aliens, this law allowed illegal aliens to register with the INS and apply for residency and or citizenship. Doherty applied under this progranl to become a U.S. citizen.

The U.S. and England at the time of Doherty's Belfast nushap, did not have a trcaty for the deportation of people involved in political killings. That's whm the killing was, whether YOllr pro-IRA or Anti-IRA, pro-Ulster or anti-Ulster, ProEnglish or Anti-English, it was political .

The INS after reading Doherty's name notified the F.B.1. that Doherty lVas living in the Bronx and applied for citizenship. England still wanted him, the F.B.I. then arrested Doherty and he was locked lip WiOl out ever committing a crime on U.S. soil. After he was arrested he asked the U.S. to grant him politicalllsyillm. The government denied his request and signed a treaty, with England which set up the guidelines for Ole deportation of political prisoners.

The motivation for the treaty is obvious. The U,uted States and Ole U,uted Kingdom are allies and their relationship goes back sincc the founding of the repUblic. For political expediency, tlus trc..ty was ratified and a man was deported expo facto. The whole affair was and is the subversion of the Constitution at the expense of politics. In my opinion, there is no excuse for the subversion of our Americ..'1Jl principles.

Michael Thomas Malloy

Racial Separatisln and the University • •

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century. it has become clear that the American college campLlS has become the site of a greal baltle for the future of the precepts which are al tile hearl of a free and democratic sociely. The

"separatism can serve as a form of group therapy, in which affirmative action beneficiaries persuade themselves that their difficulties are predominantly, if not exclusively, the consequence of rampant bigotry. " university education - particularly the liberal arts cducation- is a corners tone of our civilization. It , prepares the indiv idual for his vi lal participation iu society and the world~ mo reover , the univ ersit y is the traditi onal guardian of the cultural

legacy of mmtki nd in general and of our \Vestcm heritage in p..'lI1icuJar. In li gh t of thi s significance. it is no surprise that the American University has become Ihe ta rge t of a multifacet ed assault : radica l feminism, gay activism, reactionary

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tUld e tlmic groups over Asians. The Berke l ey adminis tra tors concemed, above all, with lIu/IIb'er". 1 111e minority students, particularly " who were black a nd Hispanic, e ntered the school under the orieiDlal.l me rit -oriented program were d<>emedl to be anomalous and too few in nUlmberl to sati sfy the numerical goals that been set. As for Asians, they deemed "overrepresented" due to hi gh level of academic achievement.

D' Souza quotes William professor of Afro-American Studies Berkeley, who tenned the system a lge braic formula with cas ualties' .

The resulting numbers game followed, often implemented throUI!b i s uch program s as Opportunity Program (EOP), has replicaled a t schools throughout nation. The results speak for themselves.

Minority students admitted under programs havc a high dropout rate poor academ ic performance, cmDp'lrec1 1 with those lninori ly students who on their own merits. And Asians found themselves held to a aC<1denUc standmd than all other groups. [n hi s landmark study, D'Souza has furtller analyzed tile social consequences of such programs mId the divisions and re se ntm ent which ha ve inevitably re sulted on camp uses. D'

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multiculturalism, etc., have all come to roost all the American uni versity campus. After all, the proponents of these and other militant causes have shrewdly calcul ated that the path to power mu s t invo l ve the transformation of the university traditionall y a bastion of free tllought and open exchange of ideas- into an ideological boot camp. h is, above al l, an assault from within : s tudent activists, radica l faculty , and comp li an t administrations often work in tandem in the (urtherance of diverse agendas on campuses across the co untry. radicalism on ' has .

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itterally, grown lip in the pastlhree decade s. Leflisl faculty and administrators are often lhe radical students of earlier generations, now conunittcd to the institutionalization on campus of ballkmpt agendas. "nle tUllversity environment is sccn by tile Left as ~le p'lmdigm for a New Society; it is the vision of a li beral, democratic and free society turned upon its head. Thus, through impatience with traditional shuldards of merit and achievement UjXln which our society is based, was born Ihe n ow common ph e n omenon (universal among the best schools) of race-based preferential treatment programs in the college admissions process . The original. egalitarian, conception of affi nllati ve aClion as an aid to the qualified needy was deemed insuffi cielll by the would-be social engineers who were the archi tects of the trend. [n his landmark stud y, Illiberal Edu cation, Di nes h D'Souza describes the devclopment of the affinnative action program at the University of Califomia al Berkeley as a case in point. \Vhat began there as a prog ra m of re c ruitin g acade mi cally qualified mino rity sludents soon becmne, by tllC middle of the las t decade, a racial quota sys tem which favored blacks and Hispanics over whiles and all racial

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mERE 1I\E~ Ulo,E ME 1<0 WHO/< 111<'( l""lo,r SOMEONE O\.be: 'i>lOULO PA~ fOR IT.'

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They didn't publish tlle ad because

Israel controls the media!"

whether the Holocaust happened. Of course it happened. .

There are mowltains of evidence.

People who were' in the camps told what happened to them and what happened to their families. The occupying American, British, and Rus-

If they do publish the ad, tlle neoNazis will claim. "Our views arc FALSE - The Case For Open De- mainstream views - see, they were , the ad was a full-page editorial published in ule college paper at Duke claiming that Ule Holcaust never hap- and Northwestern!" TI,e revisionists pened and that Nazi Germany never still circldate copies of the ad tagged sian annies fowtd cabinets and cabihad a policy of extennination of the nets full of Gennan military docuThe ad was submitted by an mCIUs about administering the camps. iorlgar1i u ltio,n called "The Committee The Nazis tllemselves testified as to for Ule Open Debate of the Holocaust" their actions, at t11C Nurcmburg triIf open which has as its stated purpose UlC deals. debate is what the bunking of myths Ulat slander tl,e GerIf you say the same lie over and people. It's a colluninee of one; a over again, people will get tired of revisionists named Bradley Snlitl, in Visalia, arguing with you. Eventually some claim they want, Califonua who has ties to the Institute people will start to believe you. If Historical Review - a group of you sling enough mud, some of it then give In"o-r-Iall Holocaust revisionists. will stick. it to them.

The revisionists are neo-Nazis who Open debate is the last thing the masquerade as serious historians. They revisionists want. When confronted pretend tlmt the Holocaust never hapwith the reruns of historical evidence, tlle revisionists will claim, "But what pened and that Nazi Germany never good are books, books, books, when had a systematic policy to extenninate the Jews. witlllbe line, "From the Daily Nortll- the books are full of lies,lies,lies?"

YOli can't reason with the revi The papers at Harvard, Brown, Yale westenl, April 4, 199 1", letting tlle ad UC Berkeley refused to publish the masquerade as editorial content when sionists, because uley're not going to Some other papers printed it, in- it was in trutll a paid ad slUTOlmdcd by believe anyuuIlg Ulat conflicts with IclLldir'g those at Duke 'Uld Nortll\yest- rebuttals. And if you e"ll tl,em on it, their central axiom - that the Holocaust never happened. They don't Rutgers refused the ad but ran its uley just ignore you. text on the editorial page WiUl an article WIla!' s rc.'llly going on here is an- say, "Well,let's look at all the eviother usc of the same tacti c Hitler dence and see whetller it supports the irebutti'''g it.

This is a no-win situation for the uscd - the Big lie. The Big lie is story of the Holocaust", they say, If they don't publish tllC ad, the that there is anything to reexamine ''Since the Holocaust never happened, IDeu-,' â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘a revisionists will say. "See? about the Holocaust; the Big lie is all lhis evidence must be fake so all that there is any real debate over we have to dois show how it's faked. " You can as k them, "Eyewitness

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accounts?" No. the revisionists say. the eyewitnesses were jus t trying to gain sympathy for the Jews so that the UN would mandate the founding of Israel. "The Nuremburg triels?"

The US Govenunent, pushed by the Jewish lobby in Washington, faked the Nuremburg trials so that there would be 1Il0re sympathy for Israel.

"The German military documentation?" Faked. "The Diary of Anne Frank ?" Faked. "By who?" The Intemational ZiOlUS t Conspiracy; the Mossad; Ule KGB.

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1971, Ralph Nader fonned the New York Public Interest Research Group, NYPIRG. Two decades the group fonned chapters at 19 campuses, including our own SUNY -Binghamton . During those NYPIRG was taken to court by students who found the PIRG I ne~ative funding system unfair and \uncoIlstitutiionai. As a result of hard on the part of many students across SUNY system, it was recenOy ruled Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. of Appeals (Second Circuit, IM,mhlltlaJO) that NYPIRG is prohibited spending any money that it raises student activity fees for off campus purpnses. In addition, the lobby group may not assume that the entire student a part of its membership. s annual budget of $2.7 lmi.lli()ll, which for a sta te lobby is Iconsidelred enonnous, includes the I ~~u,clw that SUNY -B students are Ifolrcelrully charged at a rate of $3 per Isnldent each semester. The money is used to pay the salaries of 60 full staffers which include scientists, l1a1Nv"rs. researchers, and organizers I WIOO 'lU help in promoting an ideological lag,enclilfor various liberal causes.

For example, in 1979 PIRG worked with several groups that arc considered "far-left" to promote their nationally organized "No-Nuke Teach-In Canopaign." T hese groups included the Democratic Socialist Organi zi ng Committee, Socialist Workers Party, and the Institute for Policy Studies (a known pro-Marxist think tank), to name a few . Three years later, on June 12, PIRG organizations joined in a massive nuclear freeze rall y that included the U.S. Peace Council (the FBI identified them as an affiliated Soviet front group), C i vil Disobed ience Canopaign, Mobilization for Survival, the U.S. Commwlist Party, and the All-People's Congress.

In addition to their radical affiliations, in Action for a Change, a PIRG manual, it states, "Thus Ole legal and political actions of a PIRG are most suilable directed either to the slates or to the federal government itself, since in these governments power resides." Also, in North Carolina, a PIRG official Slated that "PIRG is the most politically active organization on campus," whi le a NJPIRG described NJPIRG as an

organization that "actively pursues its interests in social and politi cal

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issues." In addition to these few instances, there is much more documented evidence of PIRGs lobbying for political causes that the majority of the students who arc forced to fund them do not agree with.

Judge Kaufman's ruling is far from totally banning PIRGs from campuses. The suit against NYPIRG and the SUNY Board of Trustees was originally filed in 198 1 by a group of students at SUNY -Albany.

At that time they claimed that their rights, guaranteed by the First and FotU1eenth Amendments, were being infringed upon. While the district court did n6t rule in favor of the students, it did however note, "I tllink you C'lll sort of assume that from Ole state of this record without any dispute that (NYPIRG) does have a prograno for affecting political and social action. It is unquestionably so."

In Judge Kaufman's ruling he slated that ..... In short. appellant's right to be free from compelled speech suffers when NYPIRG uses student funds to raise issues on campus, organize the commwlity, and lobby the legislature in pursuit or 'economic an social justice.' ukewise their right to associate or not with whom they

please is compronlised by NYPIRG' s automatic membership policy."

With tllis ruling Judge Kaufman set strict linlilations to NYPIRG's abusive power of misrepresenting student's view s on politically controversial topics. This small victory for students' rights is seen by many as inspirational to students at campuses nationwide where similar injustices go unchallenged. Even though Judge Kaufman's ruling cripples the entire PIRG system, the fight is not even close to being over.

Without a doubt, it has only just

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hot issue in the debate over diversity and political correctness has been the issue of accreditation of LUuvcrsities.

Many individuals have heen appalled by the actions of the accreditation bodies, especially the Middle States Association, which have begun to apply standards of race and politics to the evaluation of colleges. Luckily a group of academics have decided to fight back.

Earlier tllis year, a group of about a dozen oollege presidents have mel to discuss the creation of cUI altemative accreditation body. ll1ese presidents object to the present system

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orgrulization. 'nus is quite untrue. If enongh minority faculty and did you look at the NAS's membership have enough of a commitment across the country, it includes many multiculturalism and diversity in prominent liberal professors. and cwriculwn. According to a Wall even here this chapter's president is a Marxist.

The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools has created the most controversy in reccnt years.

Middle States operates in New York, N ew Jersey, Penns yl vania , Maryland, Delaware , the Di strict of Colwnbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Middle States caused the Secretary of of accreditation and believe it is lime Education to revoke its own for a change. This group of ac.1<lenlics accreditation because of its use has been led by Jolm Agresto, the of academic terrorislU. An president of Sl. Johns College of S'Ulta accreditation body has great Fe. New Mexico and Boston power over a school, wilhout University Provost John Westiug. accreditation a school gets no federal TIle rest went to the meeting with the money and students can gel no understanding that their names will financial aid. be oonfidential (a truly fitting exmuple The most famous "'1se has of todays academic atmosphere). 11le heen tl,at of Bamch College. Bamcb National Association of Scholars is one of dlC best schools in the CUNY (NAS) has been involved in the system. Middle States , which is implementation of tllis new group, supposed to judge schools on tentatively called the National academic standards , resources , Academy for the Advancement of library facilities mId so on had decided the Liberal Arts. NAS has been to usc its own po litical standard s. labeled by many, especially on tltis Middle States rejected reaccreditation campus as a conservative faculty to Baruch because it did not have

Journal editorial, «[Middle States] now decided it was really in tlle i>ru;in.,"s of dictating social agendas, hiring promoting practices. and ensuring confonnity to so,'ial-jlls~ice l criteria as set forth by the disciples 'multiculturalism' and ·diversity· ...

Middle States made clear that it had no problems whatsoever with Baruch's academic standards, which they called, «exc~llent" . They instead judged Bamch by their own political

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academic progranls they jeopardized the statns of the school and all of students (especially those financial aid) becanse it did not politically correct standards. AIthotlgh l Baruch eventually made oornpr·oIl1,ises l and got their reaccreditation, reputation has been According to Joe Segall, the pr<>si,lentl of Bamch oollege at the time, "Beca,ns" i the matter was widely covered in press, fundraising efforts have

impeded, the value of the Baruch degree has been called into question, and residual ffilxiety exists among students, parents and prospective applicants."

In 1987 Middle States jeopardized the a=editation of an,)the:ri

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IS::~~~:;'t:i,~n,~suburban Philadelphia.

I' board is composed of ordained Presbyterian elders . Church law forbids women to be ordained, Ith"ref'ore there can be 110 women on the governing board. The religious law the school obviously did not impress Middle States, and they told . either put women onilie lose their accrccti (alian. Dne Iw"ndlers who should decide how the should be composed: alumni . the board, the Church or Ntiddle States. course, like typical Ii bemIs, Middle States believes UlUt govenunent knows better than everyone else.

The Middle States laccrediultio1n team was here on c.:'l11lpUS couple of years ago, too. As one ex.pect, when the accrcdi tors department chairmen recci vcd

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faculty and diversity prograDlS. attention was payed to showing our diversity than showing off our lacad"miie excellence. Maybe if the "nistrations of Baruc h and IWes tmi,ns ter were as gutless as ours would not have had any problems.

The intimidation tactics of States obviously got the latteDtioDof many people besides ulOse the school they were terrorizing .

across th e nation were qui Ie encouraged by these activities. At the same time peoplc who believed academic excellence and fairness were struck with disbelief. Many people compared these activities to McCarthyisIll of Ule 50's . A Wall Street Jotlmal cditorial however says, "Senator McCarthy could not come to a lUuversity or college and threaten a cutofT of federa! f uods if ule school failed to toe an ideological line or hire and promote faculty in obedience to certain political dick1tes . Middle States, in Ule 90's was able to do just th.at."

Middle States actions eventually came to the a ttention of 1.mnar Aie:<andcr, Ule U.S. Secretary of Education. Tn 1991, Mr. Alexander held up recognition of Ntiddle States as a federally approved accrediting agency, saying, ''[it] bas raised serious

are motivated and not particularly educational in tbeir approach," For all those who believe tlmt luuversities mId uleir students should not be put in jeopardy because Uley do 110ttoe a certain politically correct line. For those who believe that a university should be judged by its academic excellence and facilities this new accrediting group is a source of optimism. Perhaps it is one more sign of the rejection of academic radicalism and terrori sm that has

Maybe next time the accreditors come around, SUNY -Binghamton can show off its academic programs instead of showing off minority professors and diversity courses.

qucstions as to its overall reliability .. " Since thi s Middle States has retrc.1ted

from its most outrageous policies for plagued our campuses. Maybe next time the accreditors come arowld SUNY Binghamton can show off its academic programs instead of showing off minority professors and arc moving in the direction of diversity courses. the time being.

BU Provost John Westing of the new accrediting group said, "[ think the Midd le, Southern and \\'estern regi onal accrediting bodies

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On April 28 the Binghamton Review is proudly sponsoring an open discussion with former New York State

gubernatorial candidate, NYU dean, and Chairman of the National Association of Scholars

Herb London All Welcome -location to be announced Binghamton Review

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hal do Ibe currenl Pope.

Jolm Paul II. and fanner Presidenl Ronald Reagan have in common? Well. besides surviving assassination attempts in 1981, it now appears that both mcn had a common desire 10 accelerale Ihe downfall of

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COI1Ullunism in Poland ruld the rest of Easlenl Europe. One musl remember lhallhis was nOllbe era of Gorb.1chev and Ibe freedom enjoyed by Ihese slales loday was a diS1an1 hope; ralber. it was a time of authoritarian rule mId oppression.

The Iwo men spoke for Ibe firsl lime in December of 1981.

immediately after martial law was declared in Poland. Reagan called Ibe Pope. and shortly Ibereafler senl Ambassador Vcroon Wahers 10 Rome

to discuss what course of action should be laken. The strongeS! and mosl basic goal agreed apon belween Ihe Pope and Ibe Presidenl was tllal the Solidarity movemenl in Poland would not be allowed 10 die; il had 10 be supporled froIll Ihe oUlside.

Money, communication equipment. compulers. copiers. and adler supplies were all given to the now underground. Solidarity movement which al Ihis time was complelely

underground. Even more important !han !he malerial supplies which were smuggled inlo Poland. was Ihe knowledge given 10 d,e people dJaI

govenunenl and Ibe Holy See was nol working alone. The AFL-CIO contribuled ilS organizational power as well as inside connections. The CIA accomplished much of ilS covert activities with the support of the U.S. labor orgmtization. As for actually trrulSporting tl,e supplies inlo Polruld the assi stance of Sweden and Denmark was needed. Ships from !hese Iwo countries carried disglrised conlainelS 10 dle shipyards of Gdansk where they were unloaded onto private trucks and cars for nationwide di stribution.

Overall tlle allianee seemed slighdy strrulge: politicians and prieslS. CIA and Solidruily. a,Presidenl and a Pope.

Everyone was doing their part to bring the commwllst rule to an end.

Perhaps tlle mosl unsung of all Ibe heroes of thi s operation were the Polish pries Is. The pries Is relayed the messages retween tile two sides.

They broughl infonnation regarding Ibe Solidarily movemenl and Ibe status of the governmen t to the SolidarilY office in Brussels.

Belgium. and 10 dIe Vatican.

Inside Poland. SolidarilY was IUldergrOlUld bUI active. !hanks 10 !he supportive nelwork. Periodicals. books. prunphlels. ruld poslers were prinled on U.S. equipmenl and distribuled dlrDughoul Poland. From the bold (interrupting govenunent

This alliance between the House and Ibe Vatican may nol have cause communism 10 fal l in Poland.

However. whallhis entire operation accomplish was 10 keep up Ibe and spirils of Ibose caughl behind Curtain. When Ibe Solidarity m01Iem,ent! was banned in 1981 Ibe Polish pe',plel could have fallen inlo deep del'paor. 1 Yel. by mid-1982 Reagan and Paul n had me~ and !he wheels of Sl]PIJOO were in motion. Campaigns by Polish Communist goverrunent to oUllbe Solidarily movement failed.

1987. the U.S . had lifted san.cti,)Osl against Poland. and Ibe Pope relurned 10 lour his homeland. In Solidarity and tile goverrunenl agJc...j I 10 open pariiamelllary elections. and .

1990 Leeh Walesa became pre:,idenl. l So. in only nine years Ibe Sol.idatrit~1 1 movemenl had gone from outlaw. mling parly in Poland.

Two men-one cause. The Pre.idenl.1 driven by his strong anti-,;oEnmlunisll feelings. The Pope. by his desire 10 his Calbolic homeland freed from godless communislS. They did nol dle wall of conununism down. bUI did make cach blow againsl itlhal stronger.

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of the Iron Curtain who cared about Iheir struggle.

The "CatllOlic coal ilion" which developed informall y during Ihe

Reagan Administration consisted of !he lale CIA Direcoor William Casey.

National Securily Adviser Richard Allen Oaler William Oark). Secretary of Slale Alexander Haig. Ambassador Vernon Walters, and Vatic~111 Ambassador William Wilson. All were Catholics, and ail believed in Ihe higher moral baule. nol jusl the struggle between democracy and communism. To these men it was a cmsade.

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concept into Carter's attack on solidarity in. the black community. Chapter 11,

Racial solidarity and the black intellectual, is a discussion of unity.

Reflections ofan ~ffinnative Action Baby

By Stephen L. Carter, Basic Books, 1991.

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n interesting situation in the United States has arisen with the first generation of "affmnative action babies" coming of age. There is an ever-growing class of black professionals who have proven themselves in corporate U.S. However, this class has been given preference in academia and the job market, and their success, no matter how deserved, is often seen as a whole along with their benefits they have received based on their skin color.

Fn Reflections ofan AffinnaJive Action Baby, Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter writes about this problem and other negative aspects associated with affinnative action. Carter rust tells his story of being a black professional who has received preferences in a country where assumptions are made about any black who is successful. He writes, "I got into law school because I am black."

He then describes conflicts in the black conununity on affirmative action, and the problem of being a black dissenter.

Carter also believes that the topic of affmnative action is highly conttoversial and should always be argued and reevaluated. He then gives the example of a black airline executive who states: '~e whites think I've made it because I'm black. Some blacks think I've made it because I'm an Uncle Tom. The fact is, I've made it because I'm good." Most people would say that he is good, which leads Carter into discussing the "best black syndrome".

The chapter titled 'The Best Black" is based on the concept of Arch Puddington that, " No matter how creative, efficient, driven, or ingenious may be, it is assumed that a black

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owes his position in at least some measure to the wide array of benefits society distributes on the basis of race." Carter then lets the reader know that he is bown as the first tenured black at Yale, rather than as an expert in a field of law which has nothing to do with race. "My hope, then as now, was that if I earned a place in the academic world, it would be for the seriousness of my research and the thoughtful contributions I hoped to make to legal knowledgenot for the color of my skin." Even if blacks do not benefit directly from affirmative action, there is still the assumption that they have risen to where they are due to the aid of preferences. Even if others do not make this assumption, Carter says that as long as blacks perceive this, then there are feelings of inferiority.

The term "Shibboleth" is of great importance in Reflections of an Affinnative Action Baby. These days, the term is defined as something beyond criticism. Carter uses shibboleth in its biblical sense as "a metaphor for a test that determines who is a genuine member of a group."

In the biblical sense, those who couldn't pronounce the word correctly were killed because they couldn't show that they belonged to the group. Carter says that affmnative action is a shibboleth for many black Americans. A black person who dissents on affirmative action, is unable to say "shibboleth" and is called a traitor. Clarence Thomas can be shown as a good example of this. Thomas does not think in ''the black way" and has stirred controversy in the community. Carter sees ''the black way" as extremely dangerous, for the reason that it denies that blacks can think and become independent. He says that ''we as a people should have learned a lesson about the importance of pennitting, encouraging, even cherishing, critical thinking. "

Unity is all blacks fighting crime, drugs, and racism. He sees solidarity as something which forces the individual to conform to beliefs with no exceptions for different opinions.

The benefits arise from shared history and a belief that blacks have overcome oppression. The bad side to solidarity is that individual free thought is eliminated. He writes "We [blacks] should make our shared love for our people the center of our belief. and use that shared center as a model for the possibility of a solidarity that does not seek to impose

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" ... My hope, then as now, was that if I earned a place in the academic world, it would be for the seriousness of my research and the thoughtful contributions I ,hoped to make to legal knowledge-no't for the color of my skin. "

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to be black."

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blacks could survive without preferences. but does not seek to eliminate aid totally. He believes that many middle-class blacks are the ones benefited by affirmative action, and would have had the opportunity anyway. ReflectiOns of an Affirmative Action Baby is an informative and challenging book, and Mr. Carter does not force his opinion upon the reader. Rather he wishes that ''perhaps, for a golden moment, we can pause in our quarreling and actually talk to one another, instead of continuing an endless, self-defeating argument over who is the authentic keeper of the flame." It matters little how one got the opportunity to excel, rather one's accomplishments should be judged on his or her own merits.1

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SA Out of Touch

Recently, Brigette Grant, of the Student Association's Diversity Education Committe was quoted in Pipe Dream as, saying "Most of the SA isfor diversity, bill most of the campus is against it, ... the idea to edecuate, by creating in/ormation pamphlets and lableing to explain to the campus what it wO/dd really be." Here we have typical liberal arrogance. They automatically assume that if the public disagrees with them, then its the public that is wrong.

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After one year of intense study, the task force on institutional identity, which was given the task of determining what single unifying name could be used for our University, has offered a list of suggestions. Apparently someone in the Administration has developed an identity crisis because the University is reffered to as Binghamton, SUNYBinghamton, SUNY -B, and Binghamton University. According to Margery Heffron, Director of University Relations, we can scratch the word SUNY from any potential name; apparently the people she spoke with can't read and would mistake it for !iUlIIly.

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Recently Esquire magazine rated Binghamton University in the top-ten "Dead-head schools." Maybe the administration should consider renaming our school "Dead Head U."

"Suppose you were all idiot alld suppose you were a member oj COllgress. But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain

Political Persuasions defined: oLiberal - Someone who wants other people to pay the bills for his flights of fancy about how society works. oSocialist - A liberal without a conscience. oRadical- A socialist who wears sloppy shirts and discovered the environmental movement. oConservative - A liberal mugged by reality who pays the bills for his flights of fancy.

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and capitalists, historic antagonists~ now work together to their mutual benefit? The answer which is reflected in the Bush administrations new environmental plan is a resounding yes.

Even Karl Marx recognized the massive productive potential of capitalism. In the Communist路 Manifesto he wrote "It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts~ and Gothic cathedrals."

What the Bush plan will do is direct the productive potential of the free marke~ long seen as the enemy of the earth, to the very purpose of We need only saving it. More than just election look so far as year hype this new approach differs the communist from more utopian plans in that it 'utopia' of East Europe to see addresses the realities of the world we are ~iving in. an area devoid of The plan has several parts, 'capitalist greed' that is now the fmt of which may go into effect teetering on the as soon as six months from now. It edge of complete will allow companies to earn environmental pollution credits by purchasing old cars and then junking them to get col/apse. them off the road. The value of each credit is based on the amount of pollution that would have been not unfounded~ we must keep in mind produced by each car before it died. that capitalism did not invent greed The company can then deduct this nor can capitalism solely accept the from the amount of pollution it is blame for the current environmental crisis. We need only look so far as the communist 'utopia ~ of East Europe to see an area devoid of 'capitalist greed ~ that is now teetering on the edge of complete environmental collapse.

There are two reasons why capitalism and more specifically the United States bear the brunt of the blame for the state of the environment Fus~ our throwaway society is by far the most energy conswning and waste producing. Second, the seemingly inevitable byproducts of capitalism such as advertising and flashy packaging make a very visible target.

The question is~ can environmentalists

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r too long environmentalists and capitalists have viewed each other as antagonists in some sort of high stakes game.

Environmentalists blame capitalist greed and narrowmindedness for all the environmental ills of the world while the environmental groups are accused of stifling路 the economy by imposing restrictions on industry in I:esponse to environmental crisis that may not even exist.

While the environmentalists claim that capitalist materialism has led to environmental destruction is

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required to cut under the clean air act.

This allows companies to install pollution control equipment over several years instead of all at once yet at the same time the overall reduction . pollution is the same.

The second part of the plan which is already operating in a pilot program in California allows companies the option of selling their pollution credits to other companies. For example~ companies that exceed their mandated emissions cuts could sell the excess 'pollution credit~ to a company that did not meet the mandated cuts. This again allows companies that can't afford expensive pollution control equipment to stay in business yet the overall mandated pollution cuts are met.

This plan for 'green economics' is more than just a compromise between environmentalists and capitalists. It offers a viable alternative to other more aggressive plans that would strangle the economy by forcing small companies that can't afford pollution control equipment out of business. The good part is that although the means are different the end result of pollution reduction is the same.

Capitalism, which has long been seen as the enemy of the earth may now turn into a tool to help save it

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administration According to U,e Febmary iss ue of a new calendar for the the "Beyond Beginnings" newsletter aa(jenric year. These modifications. published by the Campus Activities would become elTecti ve the Fall and Orientation Office. 59.1% of the semester of 1993. include some very class of 1995 reported their religious appealing adjusunents. &sentially. both affiliation as uChristirul." In other the winter and sllnuner vacations would words. well over half of the student be extended approximately two weeks body will be driving back to campus length. and the spring break would be on Easter Sunday afternoon in the I",JStIJOr.ed to the third week of March. year of 1994 . On Good Friday . the implemented, these alterations would most s01emn day in the Christian warmly welcomed by most of the year , students win be attending Binghamton staff and student classes. Many will be in a lecture hall Our current academic semester, at 3:00 p.m .• the hour at which Ouist' s the longest of all the SUNY schools. death is commemorated, while they le"ceeds most private universities'. And anticipate t.he long ride home that of us who have recently returned everung. the near-desolate beaches of Thi s proposal for a calendar In 'WI"n" or the deserted streets of our tran s formation i s blatantl y IhClm('town can certainly confinn Ulat discriminatory against ,md insensitive spring break is a full two weeks to Christians, who are, ironically, the of most of our friends'. majority religious group on C.1tllpUS. De Fleur 's · There is no suggestion of retracting It"lIlSf'onnation plans make good sense. either of U,e Jewish high holy days .

Wrong. What the article in Pipe Rosh Hashanall and Yom Kippur.

I n'Dnm fail s to mention are e xacUy Gra nt e d. SUN Y-Bing ha mt o n. days are sacrificed in order to subsidized by taxpayers' dollars. is a lin.pl"m,ent the proposed changes. state institution and therefore is not , the most important holiday in obligated to make provisions for Christian tradition. is unjustly religious holy days.

'-'.,-- . - ~ since Good Frida y and the The logical solution to Ulis injustice IMlonday after Easter will no longer be is to recogni ze all or none of the holy In ••••• " ,.,, in the refonned university days of Ulis c,uupus' major religions.

-As a C hristian. I have no

holy days relinquished to compensate for my loss, I simply expect equal treatment when such drastic alterations in the calendar are proposed.

The admini stration , in its neverending attempt to nlininlize the value of Western culture (in this case. its predonlinant faith . Christianity.) has no qualms a bout employing tactics wllich would instantly be labeled as raciSl or religiously biased if e""cted

Bernadette Malone

The logical solution to this injustice is to recognize al/ or none of the holy days of this campus' major religions.

from the opposite perspective. For example. in order to conserve vacation days, tlti s "state" institution has chosen to preempt Presidents ' Day . Labor Day. and Veterans ' Day - three American holidays celibrating our hi s tory and achievements.

Aside from Thanksgiving. the only secular holiday S U NY Binghamton celebrates is Martin Luther King. Jr. Day. In my humble opinion. George Wasllington. Abrall31n Lincoln. and the countless number of service people who died for our nation are equally worthy of a day off as civil rights ' activist Dr. King. Obviously the aclmillistration disagrees.

In response to several complaints from Sludents at SUNY -B. President De Fleur has delegated yet another committee . this one to study the proposed amendments to our academic calendar. The outcome of tllis investigation remains to be seen, but as a member of the silent majority.

I fcel I must take a stand against the trend of reverse discrimination and I beseech you to do the same.

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ot only does 1992 bring the athletic are na's ultimate competiti on -

the Olympics - it also brings the political aren a's ultim ate competition ~ at least for America anyway. On one side of the political speclnUn, the right side, you have Ole once unbeatable but now vulnerable incumbent president, who camp,,1igns like a conservative but ac ts differently. Recei ving thirty percent of the vote, yo u have a feisty, unorthod ox, syndicated columnist who is trying to recapture the Reagan

inspired conservative movement that many feel has been squandered away by the Bush administration. He is quickly finding that it is diffi cult to

go from someone who criti cizes politics to someone who participates in it.

On the oOler side of Ole political spectnun, one of the front nlnncrs is a sixties wannabee with one thing in his a favor. a conservati ve tax plan.

... [Bush's] economic policies mimic more closely the economic policies of Jimmy Carter

The oOler poll leader is a govem or from the solid south and simply agrees with the present democratic party platform, health care and all. His credibility lies mosoy in the fact that he is not a north eastern liberal and that if anyone, he ClUl be 010 man to draw the southern conserva ti ve

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WiOl all olese ""Uldidates to choose from it is important to know who's who This article will focus on just one cruldidate, George Bush, and will show that his economic policies arc far from his predecessor's. At the same time, proving that it isn't Republican policy which caused the incessant recession and put an end to 92 months of economic expansion.

George Bush - A man of fearless foreign policy with a domestic agenda that has been accused of as being abysmal. Call it what you will , but in a comparison with the policies of his predecessor Ronald Reagan, in the areas of federal regtdation, tax policy, and Ole deficit, I can tell you it is not conserva ti ve.

In fac t, I would go so far as to say that his economic policies mimic more closely the economic policies of Jimm y Carter.

Simpl y look a t the federal regldatory policies of George Bush.

Upon taking office, Bush went right to work. The staff of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) whi ch oversees the regul atory o pe ra ti on s of the federal government, was replaced by a bmnd new s~"lfT. According to a report by the Center for the SnJdy of Ameri",Ul Business at \Vashington University in St. Louis, the federal regulatory staff for fisc.lI '92 is expected to uot onl y tie but SUlJ"'1SS U,e all time lugh set by Jimm y Carter in 1980. More th an 122,000 people are to be assigned to watch over us. If that is not discerning enough, bere are some more results of the study.

There has been a 25% increase in the staff of the Securities and ExchlUlge COlrunission (S EC) over the past two years. Despite a decrease in the employment of the industry that the SEC oversees. T here has been an 18% increase in the staff of the Commodit y Futures T rading

Commission. Regulatory personnel at the Federal Highway Admirtistration is up 170% since 1985. Finally, Busb once said that he wanted to be the envirolUucntal president, and at here he is trying to keep his word.

Enviromnental Protection Agency has grown incredibly~ it now consumes amazing 38% of the entire rellut.tory I budget. That figure is up from 15% the much smaller budget of 1'l70.

How about taxes? One of the fundamental aspects of ReaglUl 's tax policies was the supply side method, or the belief that taxes would increase the tax base, an expanding economy, and actually increase revenues collected by taxes.

Bush has always been skeptical of this policy, and he even referred to it as "voodoo economics." During the eight years Olat Bush was vice president, be remained loyal to President Reagan and his policies and remained quiet. Then he campaigned across the country in 1988 WiOl a strong "no new taxes" pledge. Many conservati ves incluclinl~ I myself pulled the lever for George in November '88 confident that would adaruantly refuse any bid for tax increase. Two years later, a' mongstl strong press ure from co.ng:ressicma1 1 Democrats to reduce and eliminate defi cit, Ole true George Bush .111.11"'" 1 through. The levy broke and with it did 010 supply side meolod and GeDrg,el Bush's Pronuse. The budget agr'eetnellt l of October 199 0 was contrived congressional Democrats, signed George Bush, and designed to impose major tax increase.

The OMB 's 1991 mid-session review sbows that this tax increase left much to be desired . Instead of the hoped for serge in tax revenues, tax receipts actually fell dramatically. In fact, at time of the OMB's review, 81 % of the revenues that were expected to never materialized. This is in contrast with the predictions of the suppl y siders. During the 92 lIlllIlllIII expansion that Reagan presided over,

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federal tax receipts grew by 36.8% between fiscal 1983 and fi scal 1989.

Also, purcbases by slate and local governments grew by 30.2% during this time. In1986, state and local governments across the U.S. reported a collective net 62.8 billion dollar lax revenue surplus. Also according to lile OMB's 1991 ntid-session review, omy $32 billion of the expecled $165 billion in taxes was realized. And if thaI estimale is adjusted to account for the slower growth rates in the Blue Chip economic indicators, the total package will cnd up yielding only $6 billion a year.

Based on the OMB's own estimales, il seems that President Bush abandoned not omy his promise bnt a seemingly successful econontic policy. All this ror slighUy over six billion dollars a year, which is only about one billion more than would have been collecled had the Ill,' increase never been signed.

Finally, the deficit. Just as "diversity" is the buzz word of the campus in the nineties, "deficit" was the buzz word of economics in the eighties. "Reagan's deficit" was the lopic of the decade.

Even though Ulis connlry has been mnning on a deficit since FOR, lile

but troubled times ahead because of "Reagan's deficit." Let us examine the numbers.

Reagan's deficit hit an l~1 lime high in 1986 al $221.2 billion. When adding the previously mentioned

$62.8 billion slale and local surpluses, lilat deficit becomes $158.4 billion or 3.7% of lile Gross National Product.

158 billion dollars may sccmlike a 101 or money 10 you and I bUI tile more significanlllumber to observe is lile 3.7 %. That same year nine other

Reagan's deficits were "voodoo" or

he was blindly seeking a kinder and genller relationship with those liberal members or Congress that legislated the 1990 tax increase. In the two

years from 1989 to 1991 , the federal deficit ahn""l doubled to $318 billion.

Inlate 1991 because or the Gulf War and the S&L bailout, the dericit reached $348 billion despite IImt, 1I1e trends of an increasing deficit

continue. In racl, by late 1992 the deficil is predicled 10 reach 5400 billion. The 1991 dericil was a slaggering 6.4% or a declining GNP. 011 lOp of all that, slate lUld local budgets shifted rrom a 546 billion surplus in 1989 10 lUI estimaled $44 billion deficit in 1991. At litis pace I' m afraid thaI llle U.S. will join the ranks or I~y in tile deficit department in approximately 8 years.

George Bush, despite a s trong military record, is plagued by a

industrialized countries reported significanl deficits: Canada 5.5%, Britain 2.6%, Netherlands 5.6%, haly 11 .2%, France 2.9%, Spain 5.7%, Austria 2.8%, an finally Japan 3.7%.

So whell put in a global perspective, Reagan's highesl deficil came in 6111 amongst industrialized nations.

Considering the fact thaI IIlis deficit declined 10 all eventual $107 billion or an extraordinarily low 2% or IIle GNP in 1989, one would think 1I1al consistent Carter-like regulation U.S. fiscal policies were right on policy. George Bush won in 1988 by overcOining the wimp raclor. In 1992 target.

Congressional Democrals Uloughl lUld hoperully inlhe rour years afler differenUy, lmd George Bush agreed. Uml he will do what he is elecled 10 do Either he aClually did believe that and overcome the Carter factor.

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States Pave the Way to Welfare Reforl1l

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t's official : The federal government has lost the "War On Poverty, "

It wasn ' t for lack o f trying.

Indeed, the United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the effort. Last year alone, total welfare spending exceeded $180 billion.

Despite this , the poverty rate actually had been falling.

So what happened ? Instead of helping people get back on their feet, the modern welfare system has created a culture of poverty by penalizing both marriage and work.

To the man struggling to support a family on low wages, the welfare system says: "Abandon your kids and the government will take care of them." And to the pregnant young woman, the system say s: "Don ' t work, don't marry, and don't worry."

And the message has not gone unheard: In the mid-1950's, nearly one-third of poor households were headed by adults who worked full time throughout the year - people who were trying to live lip to their family ohligations. Today, such obligations are considered archaic.

The result only half as many (about 16 percent) of poor fa milies are headed by an adult working full time.

Similarly, in 1959, only about 28 percent of poor families were headed by womco. Last year, almost twice as many - a staggering 52 perccot - were headed by women, many of whom arc unmarried or

abandoned by their husbands.

There are no simple formulas for solving the problem . But it's clear that Washington' s expensive

solutions are going nowhere fast.

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arc required to work, or at least make a good-faith effort to fwd work. The idea is not to punish welfare recipients , but to get them on the road to self_sufficiency.

Another reform - proposed by Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wi sconsin - would make welfare programs explicitly pro-family by increasing payments to welfare mothers who marry. By contras~ the current welfare system penalizes married couples by cutting welfare payments.

Meanwhile, California Gov. Pete Wilson has proposed a welfare refonn package that would reduce by 15 percent payments to people who stay on the dole for more than 6 months. The objective here is to retrun welfare to its original purpose: short-term assistance to people tempo rarily down on their luck.

Under the current sys tem, some fa milies stay on the dole for generations - making it increasingly difficult to break tlle cycle of poverty.

The Federal Food and Drug

Administration insists that all new drugs be sare and effective. Maybe

its time to apply tlle same test to welfare programs. Any program worth public support should first be shown to be "safe," meaning it doesn't hann

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people by deslroying incentives lD 'VorK. or weakening the family. It should .

Instead of helping people get back on their feet, the modern welfare system has created a culture of poverty by penalizing both marriage and work.

be shown to be "effective," meaning that the program actually helps families get off the dole.

If government would use the FDA mle in ",elfare reform, we might finally see some real advances in the war on

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If }'Ou t hink the tests in college are tough. wait until your first job interview. Last year, America's businesses lost

$60 billion to drugs.

means you Yo'O n't be considered

So this year, most of the Fortune 500 will be administering drug tests. Failing the test

for employment.

A fter all, if you're into drugs,

how smart can you be.

WE'RE PUTTING DRUGS OUT OF BUSINESS. Partners/lip lor a Dmg- Free America

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Racial Separatism -Continued from page 4 perceives. correctly. that "separatism

of official no tice. At work here is a

What if it happens here? What if

can serve as a fonn of group titerapy, in

fundamentally racist principle that

the revisionists ask a Binghamton

which affinnative action beneficiaries patronizes minorities, i.e., that they

campus 1l<1per to print tileir ad, daring tile Editors to print it? I'd say, print it - theu debunk it. The records of the Nuremburg trials are available and they include letters from Ger-

themselve s that their are generally "educationally IdJlhc,ull,es are predominantly. if not disadvantaged" and unable to

iexclusiv,e\v,!he consequence of rampant It is to D'Souza's credit !hat velltures to discuss !he sort of racial lconfe.nnity iliat such separatists attempt

compete on a level playing field.

Minority

s tude nt s

who

have

succeeded on merit alone are not man officers to one another talking acknowledged as a significant about gassing tlle Je'Ys at !he camps. impose OIl fellow minority students phenomenon; their achievements are "The Diary of Anne Frank" is authey are perceived as being too cheapened by tile presence in selective tilCntic, and it 's in the library. If open Ic(m~:enial to the presumably raci st schools of other minority students debale is what the revisionists claim who lack their qualifications. titey wan~ tilell give it to !hem, Their In hi s conclusion to Illiberal lies don't stand even the feeblest Edu cation, D'Souza makes an examination. impassioned plea for refonn:

[D]emocracy is not based 011 the premise of equal endowments, but of equal' rights. It does not

guarantee success, but it does aspire to eqwu opportunity. This

opportunity is extended not to groups as such, but to individuals,

because democracy respects the I"",;v.',,,;I'v enviromnen~ i,e., titey mingle wi!h fellow students of all races, English properly, etc. Last year and Vance Moss. black twin Ih.n'>'"'< who attend Penn State. were to a campaign of threats, Ih'U'allSrnlenl and vandalism by campus activists who were infuriated that

twins had joined a predominantly fratemity .

The liberal architects of Ihe quola bave nolhing to say about !he

ImlDe.n'ty

applicants

who

gain

laolmil1rutce to selective schools on tileir merits. For the modern-day Kiplings of Ihe admissions !hese applicants arc not worthy

Butwbat if they don't stop when we debate !hem? What if tlley don't scurry away like the slimy things under a rock do when the sunlight hilS !hem? Anyone who's tangled with the revisionists knows that they never give up. Their moUo could be, "Debunk all you want - we'll make more." The answer is: the truth is out

moral integrity of the human

there, and just bcc.:'lliSe the revision-

persOll. whose rights may not be

ists don't believe you doesn't mean

casually

that you're wrong. The revisionists don't matter~ they never listen anyway.

If you look at tile evidence and you

s ubordinated

to

collective interests. Democracy requires representation, but in no scnse docs it mandate proportional representation based on race. Consequentiy it is

entirely co ns istent with democracy 10 treal students equally, as individuals .... [Test

scores and grade poillt averages] provide a common index for all who seek 10 improve themselves, regardless of race [or] sex .... High standards do not discriminate against anyone exce. those who fail to meet tileIll',

Revisionism -Continued from page 5

end up disagreeing with them, they will say tile evidence was faked rutd that you're being mind-controlled.

That's just a cheap shot and it's all the revisioni sts really have in their arsen,,1 - but tiley'll say it again and

again.

Simply put, they don't fight fair, ruld in an intellectual debate, fighting fair is the only way the lmth Crul

come out.

You can't reason with a broken record - but you don °t have to listen to it over and over again. usten to it once; titen check tile evidence; check the facts - and don't believe the

revisionists' hogwash.

The tCUtil is the truth. Confusing about claiming that every single bit shove it in their faces. A Revisionist tltis evidence is faked. They claim is someone who can st.-1nd lip to his people about the Holocaust is the single eyewitness testimony is a neck in mud and deny the existence first step the neo-Nazis are taking on the long road to erasing the evi ; they claim every document is a of botil elirt ruld water.

It's not debate if one side refuses to dellce of the Nc'l7i war crimes, so that forgery; they claim every photograph is ei!her faked or misinterpreted . "Gas listen . It' s not debate if olle side somedaL tiley might be able to do it Iclllunbers? Hah. They died of typhoid." refuses to acknowledge reality. De- aga1l1 . â&#x20AC;˘ bating a lunatic isn' t debate. You the revisionists . is really paranoia. They simply Crul'l reason with a broken record. to believe the truth when you You can't convince a paranoid.

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"I'M FROM THE PUBLIC INTEREST MOVEMENT, AND I'M HERE TO HELP YOU!" T he .headlines s peak for the m se lves:

Cu urts stop iJlegul uliells ' dcp,,/'t;rtioll . ..

Ne w sh opping center blocked . . .

J udge takes over schoul sys tem .. .

Court for ces conll1lll11ity /0 build luw-incu m e h uu sing . ..

Def e n se Depurtm en t project~ t.1rgeted b y co urt ...

M urderer 's dea th senten ce halted b y . . .

En virunm entalists de fen d }'d /olVston e fi r" . ..

A nti~drug law Jil ces court clltIJlellge . . .

Cup kiJler m ucks lig ht sentell ce . . .

J udge orders b using to b egi T1 • •• Wha t some people call public inte rest law !

We call it politica l acti vis m . Unfo rtu nately, w he n yo u com e d own to it, it's the p u blic' s in te rest that su ffers the m ost! It ' s e nou gh to g ive "pu blic inte res t" a bad name .

It's the han d iwork o f lawyers for America's liberal m oveme nt. Yo u see, whe n it co m es to how well-o rga n ized , rad ical acti vis ts u se o ur cour ts as . ideo logica l playgrounds, the good gu ys do n ' t always w in. For every libe ral politica l cause tha t exists, there is a h eav ily fund ed lega l institutio n th at seeks to achie ve in o ur ju dicial syste m w ha t it coul d n ' t possibly w in at the ballo t box. Som e times yo u won de r w hose side the y a re o n .

We' re the Washington Legal Fo undation (WLF), a public inte res t law a nd policy

ce nte r d edica ted to protectin g the in d ividoa l rig ht s and eco no m ic libe rties of ho nest, ma instrea m Ame rica ns .

WLF's ove rriding goa l is to co ntinu e serving as a n effe ctive cou nte n veight to the h u ndreds of specia l inte rest lega l g roups w ho excel at prom o tin g the ir anti-bus iness, a nti-natio ll n\ d e fe nse, pro-cr i mina l cru sades in th e cou r ts.

The re is no reaso n w h y th e ju d icial process sh o uld be drive n by the ir age nda.

We believe th at the courts are fo r all Americans, not jus t fo r those o n th e fr in ge of society.

At WLF, we believe th at Ame rica's futu re and the rights of hardwo rking taxpaye rs are wo rth fig h ting fo r!

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he Commission on Free Speech and Academic Freedom has come up with tllirteen proposed recommendations. This commission was created last year, by President DeReur. in lieu of any decisive action about tllC March 14th lecture by Professor Hofferbcrt on conditions in Berlin. lecture became the f DeliS of naattention when a group of mi sstudents di srupted the lecture wielding canes and sticks because they believed it to be a KKK meeting.

The recommendations tIle cOI1lmishas proposed would be laughablc it were not apparent that vcry few us will come forward to rulInC)lJJlICC that the Emperor is exposing Ifillm;cII . The firs t recommendation ''There should be no additional restricting freedom of expression campus <md no actions that conflict First Amendment right s. which IulIolu(je:JCa,jCIlrUC f reooom." W C neCIded ye..'1f long commi ssion to detenllinc the First Amendment is acceptable s hould be upheld at SUNYIBing:haml:0I1I? The very statement of that thcy could, if Uley so Id,~ir,ed, have said IINo we won't uphold First Amendment on campus. It TIle is the statement was pointless and IrodUIlda'll;' tlley could not have changed First Amendment if they wanted to. they had to say something; if you ' re up taxp.lyer dollars for a ycm on commission you may as well make it like you're doing sometlling and , many students will attest, prolixity at times, be a substitute fo r sub-

go on to recite twelve more recomIm"n(latiIOI1IS tl,at will do jus t that , restrict the First Amendment. The act of creating such a bureaucratic collection of policies ~Uld procedures in fornlalizacademic freedom can only sen'e to Ire;s trict and cOIillict Witll free speech .

Anyone wondering about the methneoo 0111 y

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look to this commission's rcconunell- month's salary because they never dations. "Illey, in bureaucratic lingo, got a notice from the bani.::. Then, in recommend the creation of at least tl,e same brcatll, tllCY say they don't two mo re commi ss ions. Of course, think that the public has a ri g ht to bureaucrats don't come righ t out iU1d know . Let me ge t tltis straight, the say every conuni ssion should spawn politicians elected to Congress cretwo more-they hide it in phrases ate a bank in a public building, s~1ffoo like "a planning group should be cre- by public employees, for the benefit ated ... " and " ... the University should re examine its policies Over two hundred years ago for.. .. " Well it all stinks of red tape in less then fifty words our to mc. (Sorry, I didn't mean to forefathers gave us, in simple offend those with alternate light language, freedom of speech, spectnul1 abilities or those with freedom of the press, freedom differing olfactory abilities.) Aside from creating more commissions of religion, the right to peacetllCY walltto set up formal procefully assemble, and to petition dures fo r an informal method of the government; but today our filing grievances. Am I thc only pseudo-cerebral commission onc who sees the irony? in over four times as many Over two hundred years ago in less then fifty words our forefawords could not even reiterate thers gave us, in simple hmgu..1ge, the first one correctly. freedom of s peech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. the right to peacefully assemble, and to of public scrv ants (themselves) then petition thc government; butloday thi s bank in di spersing public payour pseudo-cerebral commission in checks allow s tl,e privilegoo few to over four times as many words could write checks far greater than their not even reiterate the first one cor- incomes amounting to huge interest rectly. But I supposc that 's tl,e differ- free loans and violations of camence betwccn tile modem bure..1ucrat paignlaws, tl,en tllCY say we who pay the bill don't have a right to know. and Dead White European Males.

Aren't these the same people who â&#x20AC;˘ Bureaucracy on a grotesqe scale slled..1 president to revealltis private can be found in Washington DC diary ? What do you expcct from a where the I-Iollse of Representatives group of politiciruls, mostly lawyers, is cllrrentIy mired in tIle check cash- who create laws for the rest of the ing SCM(bl. The Democratic lcader- cOllntry but exclude them selves. s hi p of the House and their usual L,WS like C ivil Rights Act, Amerimedia lap dogs have been chanting cans Witll Disabilities Act, heck even that it's a bipartisan problem. Well, local fire codes all exclude Congress. how you can call a handful of Repub- But tIley get re-elected every time in licans joining tIle ovenvhehlling ma- rates as high as nintey-eight percent jority of Democrats who wro te bad and we, the public, get the short end checks from the house bank, which is of the stick again.

The tmly scary part is that these staffcd Witll Democratic politic.lI appointees, bipartisan is beyond me. arc the people we rely on to hruldlc We now have representatives say- our national interests and balance the ing tIley did not know their accotulls national budget! Does anyone wonwe have ..1 were overdrawn by mo re then a der

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