EDITORIAL
Election ’92: Lions,
tigers and bears!
With proposals under way like the official "loot's
Keep California on Our Side" metal cable link up pro
ject, and the introduction of relevant campaign topics
like the "Bombard and Eliminate White Bread" effort,
sand-box tactics are at their l>est.
OK. so there is no attempt to keep California, and
white bread is here to stay, but don’t let the lies bother
you — they fit right in with the '92 presidential race.
Voters have recently had the pleasure of experienc
ing an often inaccurate, exaggerated, half-true cam
paign. whether they know it or not.
Some examples: When Iowa Sen Tom Harkin was
still in the race, he ran an ad stating he was the "only
one with the guts to stand up for your family" by vot
ing against the president's authority to negotiate a free
trade agreement with Mexico. Must have been rough,
going it alone like that. Luckily Harkin didn't really
have to find out .tK other senators and 192 House rep
resentatives joined the man in his quest for the ulti
mate “no" vote.
Then there's Pat Buchanan, who promised to "use
the line-item veto to stop wasteful government spend
ing." Great idea Pat. though there's one small problem
- a presidential line item veto doesn't exist.
But don't worry; our boy Bush got him back with
an ol' half truth to the left Bush c laimed that Buchan
an's "America First" trade policy "threatens 1M.OOO
jobs in Georgia."
Though the figure does aicount for the total num
ber of Georgia’s trade-related jobs, the ad alludes to the
possibility of Buchanan killing them all off Buchanan
has stated, however, that his get tough stance would
shield those jobs while creating more via increasing ex
ports.
So, do truth in advertising laws ring a bell? What
about laws requiring the media to re[>ort the truth7
Though rules like these are admittedly bent and often
broken, the ideal remains a good goal to shoot for.
Truth.
Nic e sound to it. huh? An ideal our politicians
should be held accountable for (hspei iallv considering
it w.ls such a scare commodity in the 1‘lHOs.) This tol
erance of fantasia in our presidential race is ridiculous.
These candidates obviously feel they can get away
with fooling "their" public, and sadly, they are As
suming the politii al leaders of this country are hell
bent on the highest standards of morality, or at least
decent enough not to intentionally deceive (lie to) the
public, voters tend to swallow every slice of apple pie
they are fed.
Considering this campaign serves as an indicator of
this country’s political future, it’s in our l>est interest to
iH'gin demanding accountability from these individuals
— now
LETTERS POLICY
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LETTERS
Sorry
Fditor Jason Moore ami
(I I I writer (larv Murrell ol the
Student Insurgent have not
deigned to apologize to those
Jewish students who took ol
funse at their artu les A paper
that is supposed to stand
against racism did not. does
not and prulrablv will not apol
oglze to the Jewish students
w ho feel the finger ol disc rirnt
nation coming from their pa
per
Instead, the editor in chief
and the writer of the articles
that mans believe lire hateful at
least, and rac ist .it most, per
sunnily attack the director of
the Jewish Student I'nion on
the Insurgent* pages I lies i all
him "McCarthyite" and a
"demagogue "
That's what they do Hut
what they don't do Is apologize
for a possible misunderstand
ing, for hurting someone's feel
ings
Whv?
Human history has seen
thousands of years of Jewish
persecution and slaughter com
mitted by propagandized and
Insensitive non Jews that cul
minated with the Holocaust
only a few decades ago And
now here at the t diversity,
non Jews like lason Moore and
(,ary Murrell at the Student In
surgent. have freer! lalrelling the
c ,impels rabbi and the Jewish
Student lfnion direr tor 'Me
( arthvite" and calling the local
Jew ish c ommunity organization
deadly w ill use- any means
to get y ciu
It is so sad to see the seeds of
hate in our university's back
yard
Brian Jones
International studies
llliterature
Regarding the bookstore's de
c ision to keep Penthouse on the
shelves While I applaud Tuner
thy Lavden [ODE. l-'eb (i) for
"being personally opposed to
violence!," I have! to question
the1 value of such an abstrac t at
titude m the- apparent absence
of any will to penetrate the his
torical and psychological ori
gins of violence against women
(ironically, in view of his stated
majors).
I'll.' uncritic ..I iilislra. tru ss of
la-vdon's support of the prim i
[lies of free spetx li is troubling
Woold he consider it virtuous
support for freedom of spec, h
if the bookstore were to offer
the X.itumnl iliufuirrr. hut not
the Vow York I'imrs to sto. k
textbooks on "creation sc i
en< e. hut not evolution'
How is it appropriate. then,
lor the bookstore to offer us the
blatant misrepresentation of
human sexuality found in the
letters section of I’cnthousv
without at the same time pro
viding access to quality erotica
which might dispel some of the
ignorance endemic to our eul
lure on which /’ent/roose and
similar illiterature depends for
its readership7
Marek Lees
Men Against Rape
No Peters
This is anything but the
l ine I’rint." Don Peters (ODE,
March 11) The suggestion to
solve the University's financial
woes though ( ommerciali/ation
(humorous though they almost
are), are abusive to the m (mess
of the issue
Hy trivializing the issue, your
argument represents and ere
dorses a belief that informed
judgment is unnecessary fur
thermore. with the ominous
prospect of the privatization of
schools looming on the ei o
nomI. horizon at both the state
and federal level, the jokesf?)
you field concerning commer
. lal answers are disturbing
Public education is possibly
the only forum left in which
the possibility of personal de
velopment is not directly gov
erned and dictated by the dol
lar Obviously, the inequalities
in funding of different s. h.xil
districts temper this argument,
but it is my contention that the
school system, in general at
least, oporules on an ideal of
creating equality in education
Leaving education to lie gov
erned by the marketplace is
putting it Into a realm where
social inequalities already
abound especially for wom
en and minorities Privatizing
education, in my view, can
onjv load to the unequal distri
bution of educ ation akin to that
of wealth In the marketplace
Please, Peters, replace the
useless, sophomoric wit of the
l ine Print" column with calls
to informed judgment about
this issue Admitting that brevi
t\ does Injustice to this issue,
there are mv Tr>0 words
Shalen Parker
Student
Disrespect
As fee-paying students, we
attended the IK'./lvMtJ meeting
Ilti and FMIJ representatives
got together to discuss the per
centage cuts on costs of the
fcIMlJ. A group of students pre
sented a proposal to merely dis
cuss the cost of the existing
FMU management structure
The suggestion was to open a
dialogue between the students.
IIC. FMU Hoard, OPFU, and
the (. IT Federation discussing
hMt' budget (flanges rather
than simply cutting student
employment and (ill- posi
tions
A debai le ensued Commit
tee members began to argue
idxnit procedural matters Anita
Stacey, an il l member, left the
meeting in disgust, refusing to
listen to the students proposal
As students, we were greatly
offended that she re I used to lis
ten to our concerns Near the
end of the discussion, an FMU
olfii ial questioned the presence
of the students The official re
ferred to tile students as "the
people" as one of the propo
nents of the pro|>o.sul Consider
mg that the majority of students
present were students ol color,
many of us resented the "your
people" reference
I'he student officials pro
)ec ted an attitude ol dlsrespec t
and disregard for the students
This disrespect is greatly re
sented considering that they
were disc ussing the students'
future without student involve
ment Although the OPFU. (TIT’
Federation, FMU management,
and the students agreed to open
dialogue, we still felt the con
duct of the FMU Board and the
IPC was unacceptable. The
FMU is for students, and stu
dent concerns need to be the
priority.
Enrique Rodriguez
Felicia Lam-Rodrlguez
Edward Beanes
Jorge Golcochea
Students