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EDITORIAL Resignations mark year of little change As tho 1993-94 academic year sails across the halfway mark, it presents a nice time for reflection, a time to look hack and see what un-accomplishments have been made here at the t ’niversity. The first that comes to mind is the Incidental Fee Committee, which oversees more than $4 million in stu dent fees. Its track record is easily summed up — resig nation, resignation, resignation and resignation. Three members resigned in September, and last month. Pre ston Cannon, removed himself because of a lack of time available for him to adequately fulfill his role on the IFC. All of the members had reasons (excuses) as to why they wore stopping down. Many of them having to do with frustration from a lack of change. The ASUO has had a few shake-ups as well, includ ing the resignation of its vice president. Diana Collins Puente stopped down out of frustration, ending her political bout near the end of January. Her reason was a lack of change and a feeling of racial tension at tho Uni versity Certainly the two new internships in Washing ton. DC. that Collins Puente was to start this month had little to do with her decision The 1 mivursity Assembly Committee on Multic ultur iil (.lurric nlum lias an empty seat ns of last Thursday, a seat recently vacated when the ASUO presented its col orful resignation. Unfortunately, the lack of input from the vacated seat won't be a great loss as Collins Puente failed to show up for many of the meetings while she was vice president, one ACMC member said. The ASUO pulled out because of a lack of change and a feeling of "suffocation" as the ACMC was "hijacking" the ASUO's original intentions. The most recent resignation is Eden Ajrian-Omari. ASUO multicultural Advocate. He cites lack of change and frustration as one of his reasons for resigning. We can't count him officially, as his official resignation doesn’t come until Feb. 25. That’s six official resignations and one unofficial res ignation in the last half of the academic year Most of the reasons stem from lack of change. Cohesion must become a key in the University's political world, a world that every student is directly or indirectly involved in. The positions above have been occupier! for less than a year. To cite lack of change for grounds of resignation is simply selling out. Change is slow, especially when such issues attempt ing to bo tackled have been so deeply rooted in admin istrative proceedings for so long. Cohesively forming a tradition of change that is handed down term after term would greatly strengthen the system as a whole. Most positions filled on this campus require a year's term, a more sliver in the big picture of University history. Hut a year of hard work passed on to a successor in a cohe sive way could, in turn, provide for great change. When the wheel of a supertanker is turned, the ship is slow to follow. 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'vW If Detroit cars uorked One rue wfu fiMi/aut VCKl'D Mt£D A __L I i.OflW'i'ST TO SftL 7H£M QJz J LETTERS Myths I am getting progressively more frustrated with the myths about homosexuality being spread by individuals who are misinformed lake this from someone who knows Myth There is a gav and Ins bian agenda Km t There is no sm h thing (.a\ men. lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people are diverse in opinion, individual goals, political affiliation, reli gion. race, etc We are no more of a homogenous mesh than the heterosexual people of the world, and we don’t all agree Myth Gays and lesbians want spot nil rights Fat t There are no demands for extra benefits, minority stn lus or other liberties any other citizen does not already enjoy 1 venture to say all of us want to be respei tod as fellow human beings with the freedom to do, believe and feel what we want we want to as long as no others are harmed As it is, we cannot enjoy that freedom without being persecuted. Myth: Gays and lesbians flaunt their sexuality to provoke straight people Fact: To unlearn prejudice, you must he aware of it Some lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people have made it their job to increase awareness We are no more flaunting in the expression of our sexual orientation than Clin ton in his expression of his political affiliation or Jesse Helms in his expression of his religious beliefs Myth Guvs and lesbians dis criminate against heterosexuals fact To discriminate against a large group of people with any effect takes power Gays and les Inans as a group don't have that power It is a hard struggle to gain accepting and supportive space in a six iety that seems pit ted against us If someone feels they must protect this frequent ly threatened space and makes assumptions about you as a het erosexual, prove them wrong instead of perpetuating more myths. It i.ouid he a learning experience Liese Alsen Psychology Leash or leave it I have a problem on the cam pus that docs not have any great impact on the rest of the student body, hut for me and a sele« t group of creatures, it's very important 1 have a medical assist dog who at companies me every where 1 go Margot is highly trained and extremely well man nered When she is with me she is always on a leash Unfortu nately . not all the dogs on cam pus tire under similar circum stances Three times in the last six weeks. 1 have had dogs t.harge up to Margot and trv to light with her The owners did not have the dogs on a leash and usually were several yards behind or ahead of their dog They didn't realize what their dog was doing until they heard me yelling at their dog and try ing to pull it off Margot Fortu nately. neither Margot, myself, or any other dog has been hurt. Yet I don't particularly relish trying to pull off some strange dog and possibly getting bitten in the process by it or my dog. who is only trying to protect me and herself 1 have Margot with me for medical reasons, not as a pet, and 1 do not have the time to stop and wait for every free run ning dog to come up to us. I'm a student and I'm here to go to si hool Margot is hero to help me do that With the exception ot the other two service dogs on campus, no other dog has any reason to he at the University. 1’lease, leave your dug at home, or ut least keep it on a leash Chandra Foote Political Science Divisive labels As a mem tier of the Universi ty community, 1 am sorry that fellow students experience racism and sexism on this cam [ms I am even more sorry, how ever. when complaints like those of Mr. Glaros and Mr. Sugiynma are made public {ODE. Fell. 10). It is too had that these gentlemen make the assumption that the Commenta tor and the slide library are rat ist organizations on the basis of a proposed move and a stan dard abbreviation Kui ism and sexism happen because people go out ol their way to treat other people differ ently on the hasts of their skill ( olor. their c ountry of origin, or their gender. If the Commenta tor had avoided asking the four student unions to move for fear of offending them, that would indeed have been a racist act. If the slide library were to re-Ia!>el all slides of Japanese art with the legend JFN, thus differenti ating between Japanese and all other abbreviations, would that not also constitute a racist act/ Where do we draw the line between acceptance and special consideration? I suggest that Mr Glaros and Mr Sugiyamn, and others on this campus, be a little more cautious when handing out labels of racism or sexism. These are the labels which divide people, more than skin color or gender ever could Let us assume the best of our fellow students, until we are given c lear reasons to think the worst S. Swanbom Art History Oops "What's up. . Klagen?" "Hay. is Greg your name? I thought it was Craig " Wall, let me tall you. it is all fun and laughs until you gat your picture in that mys tical corner of campus insight titled "Streetwise." and your name gets utterly slaughtered. Susanna, after the over so pop ular chuckle we had about the spelling. "Is it like Ronald Rea gan?" to which I replied, "No, it is spelled C-R-A-l-G R-A-G-A N.” how did that get manipulat ed into Greg Klagan? Whoa, have another espresso, eh? Craig Ragan Sociology
