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_Editorial Senate's CIA stance deserving of praise It’s one of those controversies that never scums to go away. Sign- and placard-bearing students protesting against CIA brutality, discrimination and terrorism. It’s a scene that has been reported on campuses around the country for the past 25 years In recent months, arguments against CIA recruiting .it the University have become more strident. Earlier this school year, two students were arrested for block ing the entrance to the room where CIA officials were holding interviews Although the CIA hasn't been on campus since No vember, the furor has refused to die away. Develop ments literally happen from day to day. and with the CIA planning another recruiting session on campus in March, opponents are stoking themselves for another battle. Student opposition to the CIA has a large following on campus, although there are differences on CIA re cruitment Some favor allowing the organization to re cruit if it cleaned up its hiring process, denounced sex ual discrimination and complied with the University's equal opportunity statues Some just want the CIA to be banned from campus, period. bast week, the Student Senate added to the contro versy by passing a proposal that recruitment agencies (read CIA) would have to comply with the University’s hiring policy. If any group continued to discriminate while hiring, they would not he allowed to recruit on campus. The senate's action deserves nothing but praise. Although it was framed with the CIA in mind, it is a fair law. It makes the University's policy very simple and up-front: if you don't obey, you don't come on campus. Simple. In the past, the CIA has claimed exemption from any sort of hiring laws. Although it is a government agency, albeit a notorious one, it should not get any special treatment. If the CIA recruiters refuse to sign the non-discrimination statement, they should not be allowed to come on campus. That means they can’t hold interviews. That means they can't advertise for re cruits. That means they can’t even step on campus. That's fair In March, the issue will resolve itself, one way or the other The Senate’s proposal really amounts to a ban of the organization. When faced with a non-dis crimination statement in the past, at schools like Princeton and the NYU law school, the CIA has re fused to sign. The CIA was then banned from recruit ing on those campuses Because it's highly unlikely the CIA will throw off years of past policy for the sake of recruiting at the University, the March visit will probably be the last one. Anti if that’s what they want, fine ■*-r> C<Ur~Al rr-MUma ,-V** 0»* I 0 2.0 ? 5’ CO1 .'">'J' ]r~ THE RE&GAN j DIARIES i Hospital's new tenants lack 'character' There's trouble again in liit“ West I’m versitv neighborhood. where Sacred Heart (leneral Hospital's list u! crimes real or imagined i ontimies to gum I lie trouble this tune Sacred Heart has finalized leases with the stores th.it will oi - cu11\ the retail space ill the hospital's new parking garage I’hese stores include a hair ( lit salon, a (lower store and a i opy shop Those new tenants anger three business es that sit just about ai loss the street from the garage \o! surprisingly, the three align businesses .ire a ham ut salon a flower store and a copy shop West I'niversity neighbor hood residents are also upset w ith the con tinuing shopping mall ization ol their crowded and oik e quaint borough. 1 lie businesses are upset because they tear Sai red Heart deliberately brought in the competition to drive them out so the hospi tal i ouIt! buy their land to further a nefari ous si heme to turn West I'diversity into one big parking lot That kind ot paranoia is unjustified Sa iled Heart certainly has a need to expand, but they ve done so on land they already owned, as is their right Currently, the hos pital has demonstrated no interest in furthei development The threatened stores are also well established and seem likeh tn outlast <m\ competition, For example. Kugenes Mower Home lias been around since 1M2J. and The dopy Shop has held its own against monolithic kinko's. To build its garage. Sacred Heart drove out colorful eateries, such as l’oppis and I,emu's Nosh Bar. and uniipie businesses sin li as clothing resale stores or organic gro t eries We're not saying the hospital did this deliberately; many ol the businesses i losed on their own a( < ord. Yet the neighborhood s character is undeniably different now, and disappointingly. Sacred Heart did nothing to encourage former businesses to return, or to seek other businesses offering servii es that don't already exist in the area. Sacred Heart is not an entirely inhuman organization. After all, it's a hospital, not a toxii -waste producing arms manufacturer And when it considered possible tenants loi its garage retail space, it was deliberate!1, carelul to not bring a shop competing with its tenants in its old garage. In the future we hope the hospital shows that kind of regard and consideration for the West t'niversits neighborhood as a whole, and not just those stores under the hospital 's aegis. Letters Lighten up I tun! it vrr\ interesting th.it mi mam 1111*11 ti*«*l thi‘\ .m> 11ii.iI lilt'd Id |udgr lnm .i woman should tir.it llri bod\ I hr anti abortion barrage In Kevin At It*II ;f )l)I I rb ' rxeillplItin.s thr lontmuing m.ilr dominated sin irt\ ih.it sum i\ rs tml.u \\ r nrril to realize that Worn rn an* ver\ i apalilf ot making dn isions as well as mm And Mini should have a 1 it I It* more xensitw it\ than to (all pro i him r advoi airs "anti lilt' rad K als How does thr label pro oppression real tionarv strike vou? Abortion is an issue that needs to lie driidrd between the i ouple and not the masses II we begin to limit thr aluliH for a woman to live her life w it limit the burden ot a < told w here w ill we stop in limiting human rights ' I util someone proves to me in a rational man ner that life begins at i oni-rp lion I for I ibortion should be a lawful option tor women as long .is the i hlld is dependent upon the mother tor ph\ sit .il suri iv.il In the most lei flit I I.il pel s Index ((frrgo/u.m I eh 11 (i‘l pi-li cut ot the Kepuhlii .ill i oil gressw oiueii said tIlf \ line pro i him e rIlf Kepuhlii .ill parti is generally thought to he pro I lie In i hou e hut this again shows the dominance 111 men .mil then beliefs We net'll to listen to the side .ibortiim .it lei ts the most women So i ome on guys, lighten up Abortion is .1 heart wrenching enough issue without .1 hunch ol supet tnor.il men st reaming that thev know best I.et worn ell make the lift ision Kevin Miller I’olitit al st lent e Sexually active Would vou want vour junior high 01 high si I100I daughter to he sexually .utile:1 lor most people the answer would be mi Will not' I’robablv so she wouldn't gel pregnant by some guy that will disavow am know ledge of the affair Hilt wait Ill' s a s4n.1t guv who II iifVfr itu ansthing like lliat .uni besides there s a! w us s abortion So w In 1 an t she just 140 on living a sexually at tivr 1 arelree lifestvle mu Ii as tlii' one In lam- Ron as pnr I raved In Hulls Hunter in tlie TV tnos if Aloe i s U ai/f ' Sure it would bf ideal il all women pursued an education, started a 1 a reel and bei ante economically and emotionalK stable before bas ing to support a 1 liild; espei mils in tile inner 1 its Hut doesn't sin Ii a dream mean we'd ssanl soi iets to be like that' ()i is sexual ai In its a (illsseal and emotional neces sits in relationship7 Isn't love something that comes from the mind and the heart or is it a feeling that originates below the s\ .list I am suiting this because 1 (eel that I have been led along used then thrown asvas (iary lloh K.ugene At the beginning of lanuaiv. 1 intervlewed tor a job at the new Albertsons on llilvard Street At the interview | was prom ised "as many hours as I i ould handle and ottered toll time employment during the sum met However, alter three weeks of employment. 1 have found my self laid ott hei ause the compa n\ purposefully hired one third too many employees to cover themselves tor their "grand opening " knowing that they would i ut them when business died down ()t course, no one mentioned this at the inter view I he result is that many hard working and competent people, many ot whom gave up steady jobs, were ku ked out through no fault of their own. These people, many of whom have a family to support, were given just a couple of hours notice and no severance pay Albertsons will counter these charges by saying there is a 30 day probationary period But what a to day probationary pe riod means to rational minds is that it \ihi si reu lip. you re out ll is not .1 correr I exi um' for hiring, then laving off large amounts ol people Why didn t the\ advertise the positions as temporary7 Law students Is there am re i nurse against an employer for this kind ol dei fitful prai tu t"’ Please tell me about it Martin Ryder Architecture Juxtaposition Wonderful job on the cover of the Feb. Ft Emerald' The headline reads: "Students ex press mixed emotions to Man dela s release ” The picture next to it shows art student Les lie Ware laughing her head off. Nice juxtaposition there This one really deserves to he sent to the Columbia Journal (the place that puts out such wonderful books as “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim.”) lames Drew Computer Science