1866 court ruling
finds breath of life
On Tuesday the Supreme Court look a major step in ad
dressing racial discrimination and unanimously ruled to ex
pand civil rights protections for Arabs, jews, Hispanics and
other ethnic groups.
The Court recognized an 18HB federal statute binning
racial discrimination, which states "'all pimple in the United
States shall have the same rights as white people to make
contracts, including employment contracts, and to inherit,
purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal
property."
This all should sound like a foregone conclusion, but
what makes this ruling significant is that Asians. Jews,
Arabs and Mexican-Americans — ethnic groups that often
have fallen under the somewhat ubiquitous heading of
“Caucasian" — now have a solid legal remedy when vic
timized by racial discrimination.
Although all ethnic groups generally are protected by
other laws, in some incidences discrimination victims will
have an easier time bringing their cases to court. Every
ethnic group, from Armenian to Norwegian, could recover
damages if they could prove they’ve been discriminated
against on the basis of their nationality.
Hispanic-Americans and Arabs especially will benefit
from the recent ruling. These two groups often bring claims
to court on grounds they’ve been discriminated against, but
they often are classified as Caucasian, and until the Court
handed down Tuesday's decision, they had a hard time
bringing their racial suits to trial.
The recent ruling will complement the Civil Rights Act
of 1 Pt>4, which bans employment, housing and other forms
of discrimination on grounds of race, religion, national
origin or sex. The inclusion of ethnic white Americans
under the umbrella of discrimination protection speaks well
for America, and should help in alleviating the specter of
discrimination in our society.
For sake of convenience
keep Friday beer gardens
The fact beer gardens frequently falls on Wednesdays
rather than Fridays has not escaped our notice. Frankly, we
don't approve of switching the date.
l.inda Dievendorf. program assistant at the student ac
tivities resource office, explained that conference rooms ad
jacent to the Fountain Court Cafe often are needed on
Fridays, hence Inter gardens ant moved to the middle of the
week. Beer gardens also move to Wednesday every time
high school students ant scheduled to make Friday visits to
the campus. The former reason for re-scheduling Inter
gardens seems, well, reasonable; the latter excuse does not.
Wednesday night is an extremely inconvenient time to
drink beer. Moreover, the gist of the latter argument implies
Inter-drinking college students have a had influence on high
schoolers. That's fine, but those under 21-years-old are not
allowed in the beer gardens anyway, so that argument is
moot.
We’re confident high schoolers already know we col
lege students occasionally drink beer, so the FIMll and the
cultural forum should set; fit to keep Inter gardens on Fridays
when "youngsters" visit the campus.
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Letters
Like Hitler
1 am coming to the end of
several years' classwork at the
University Having been a
regular and usually avid con
sumer of the Emerald during
this time. I suppose I have only
myself to blame for
masochistically following the
ravings of the now-old New
Right.
I think the last straw was Dan
Camlet's stupid equation of the
jailing of 4-J teachers with
Charles Manson (ODE. May 14).
Hut Goulet's is only the recent
of a long line.
tail’s name the names: Jon
Wollander. Michael Cross, Lori
t'arkman. and Goulet. These
characters have accused, damn
ed, exulted, but mostly irritated
us with their agenda of what
they want society to be.
They want gays expunged.
They want biology to begin
with (kinesis and science to end
with Aristotle. They want to
stamp out the commies
wherever they raise their
godless heads.
They want their version of
humanity to breed and spread
over the world like a cancer.
They want to outlaw every
kindness legislated since FDR
and subject us to the whims and
mercies of Corporate Amerika
(and I use the term as originally
coined by Abbie Hoffman, and
not that televised pablum of a
few months back).
In short. Wollander. Cross,
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1’arkman. Goulet and Co. want
to take the rich and variegated
strains of America and the
world and turn them into a
gooey, homogenous gray mass,
bleating “hallelujah" all the
way to the boring, gray pastures
to which the Righteous leadeth
us.
Despite talk of God's love,
these people hate. They hate so
much they would love to see
people they consider sinners
languish forever in the pits of
Hell. They are prejudiced, as in
dicated by their behavior
toward other groups they set* as
threatening: they are bigoted.
Remember Rod Serling's
statement about Hitler: ‘He's
alive.. .where there's hate,
where there's prejudice, where
there's bigotry. He's alive
because through these things,
we keep him alive. ..” If com
parisons need be made. I see
one here which is closer to reali
ty than Goulet's.
Michael E. Peterson
Graduate
International studies program
Not worth it
The only threat I personally
perceive from AIDS is that it's
going to cost me, as a taxpayer,
to research for a cure and take
care of those with the AIDS
virus |who probably couldn't be
helped even if a vaccine were
developed)
Those who can't be satisfied
with one loving, caring, faithful
monogamous (eternal) relation
ship have reason to worry,
though.
Sure. AIDS doesn't
discriminate: have sex with a
carrier and it doesn't care if you
are male, female or homosexual
— it will take hold.
In Africa. AIDS is at epidemic
levels — and it's striking about
an equal number of men and
women. According to
Newsweek. "Africans with
AIDS had had an average of 32
sex partners," (Nov. 24. 1986).
I would hope that AIDS
would cause people to avoid
promiscuity like the plague (no
pun intended). I would love to
see AIDS go away for lack of
new victims, and the only way
that's going to happen is if we
return to the principles of
faithfulness which many in the
last couple of generations have
tried to ignore.
With AIDS, one can be as pro
miscuous as they want — but it
may mean a very shortened
lifespan It's not worth it.
)ulie Beam
Springfield
Awesome
I have but one thing to say:
Mr. Dan Goulet is so f— ing
awesome!
Erin O'Shea
Pre-journalism
Dignity
I would like to thank the co
directors and the volunteer staff
of the Gay and laisbian Alliance
for making Gay and lesbian
Pride Week happen this year.
Their dedication and hard
work, amid little thanks and
often outright harassment, is
appreciated. As do many. I ap
plaud the celebration of diversi
ty in the struggle for human
rights and dignity for all.
Judy C. Finch
Senior. Sociology
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