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EDITORIAL Ground support needed for action More air strike's worked well protecting Sarajevo, but air strikes are not enough Tuesday, President Clinton proposed increased air strikes on Serbian forces unless they agreed to withdraw their guns from from Gorazde and other Muslim enclaves. Much like the protection Unitod Nation forces provid ed. air strikes ended the seize on Sarajevo. But without adequate ground forces to intervene, the Serbs just redi rected their forces elsewhere throughout Bosnia. If the United States plans to intervene, its actions will have to be complimented by more than air power Right now our feet are wet. but the water will have to pass over our knees if success will Ire reached in stopping the mass slaughter throughout Bosnia. “If we continue to have simply pinprick attacks... I don’t think it is going to really work. We have to be will ing to escalate. Otherwise the escalation is all on the side of the Bosnian Serbs." Sen. Sam Nunn. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said. There has not been a war won, in history, by air pow er alone. The threat of air strikes on Sarajevo worked well, hut only because there were other places in Bosnia for tin1 Serbs to go. When other areas that deem the Serbs interest are threatened by intervention, then force will have to be used. Certainly the weaponry and technology exists to remove Bosnia and its occupants from the map completely, but that obviously won't happen. Occupying the land that has been token over through air strikes is an essential move that must bo made by U.N. forces, and the support of U S. forces if deemed appropriate. Escalation, however, certainly increases the poten tial for U.S. loss Not only warplanes, but lives as well. None of the missions, even the air strikes, go without risk 1 i.S. direct intervention should come as a last resort, hot something needs to lie done before more lives are lost and more destruction is done by Serb forces. Essential ly the war in Bosnia has reached its last resort In Gorazde, Tuesday, Sorb forces were closing in on the city shelling the l l.N. “safe zone” for Muslim refugees. The sniper fire was reported to be the worst in 22 months of fighting. Serbs opened fire on the U.N. and Red Cross buildings and blew the roof off the hospital. There ore 65.000 people just in Gorazde that will become victims of the Serbs unless military intervention is stepped up. Clinton has pledged air strikes and other super pow ers have echoed his call. The Serbs mean business and force is the only wa\ to communit ate. NATO made two large air strikes in an attempt to slow the fighting in Gorazde and point the Serbs back in the direction of peace talks. But, the strikes were too modest and made little impression on the Serbs. The Serbs must be removed from nut only Gorazde but Srebrenica. Tuzla, Xepa and Bihac as wall. 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The Cifkdoesivil. repeat not, foresee the breakup of the Soviet Unw>n , £, TOLD wf SWOtlO M« M<0 'M ftofMS LETTERS Misconceptions We would like to respond to the F mem Id's April 11 editorial ( oik enung the Women's ( outer's proposed budget increase In the isiilun.il it was suggested that one way t° reduce the budget would (m- to grant the employees ( redit through the ESCAPE Field Stud ies Program, rather than award stipend money As members of the ESCAPE staff, we would like to clear up several in i scon < ep tions presented by this statement We are a student-run organi sation committed to helping stu dents Itmrn through volunteensm and service-learning Learning needs to is- the motivational fac tor for involvement, not the desire to tie awarded compensa tion for work, despite its nature Lite t redit earned through our program is done so by students who have set and reflected on learning goals pertaining to their plat ement We do not want our \ ision of providing University students with the opportunity to learn w hile volunteering to get lost ill the method of how that experience is rewarded. With these ideas in mind, we would like to stress that our program is not simply a replacement for stipends, hut rather a credible way in which students can explore learning, personal and career goals Jennifer Swinehart ESCAPE Director Koren Jarvis ESCAPE Human Services Division Head Bad plan The University is facing a tough decision over the next few months, with regard to family housing. The resolution of this problem will affect l(MHI students a year, so it is not one to lie tak en lightly. The decision to be made is whether to tear down 244 units of low-cost housing and rebuild with units that would rent for $425 or higher, or instead turn over those same units to a coniniunity-run student cooper ative. keeping the rents at $244 or lower. The consequences of demoli tion are signifu ant in their long range efftst on low-income fam ilies al the University. Amazon as il exists now is on avenue for access to education. The Uni versity. however, feels that addi tional housing is needed to fill the needs of some of its students. The residents of Amazon do not want to stand in the way of oth er students' finding adequate housing However, we are not willing to have Amazon torn down to make way for that hous ing, nor are we willing to con tinue sulwidizing more expensive housing built by the University. The University has other lands available for student housing. They own approximately 12 hhx ks of single-family housing oil the east side of campus It would he entirely possible to build units there without dis rupting the east campus resi dents The city also lias land set aside for such a projei t If addi tional housing is needed, there are better ways of providing it than hy tearing down function ing low-cost housing. I'he plan doesn't make sense Eileen Taylor Family Housing resident No handicap Project Saferide was estab lished Ins ause an overwhelming number of women did not feel safe on campus at night. Because of this safety concern, women were denying them selves access to University facil ities that they had just as much right to as male students In a sense, women were handi capped out of fear Saferide attempts to eliminate this "handicap" by providing an escort to these campus activities and facilities. hi our society, men do not live in the same climate of fear that women deal with on a continu ous and daily basis. Generally, women aru fearful of men. not other women. Men cannot ride or drive in Saferide's vehicles because this would give men easier access to information such as phone numbers and addresses of women. This would defeat the main purpose of Saforidn, which is to create a safer environment for women Before Pro jet t Saferide was established, the Office of Public Safety was receiving up to 100 calls per night from women requesting escorts and only a handful of calls from men per year. Still, if such a large num l>er of men truly do not feel safe at night on campus, and this is a universal and legitimate con cern, instead of continually engaging in the never-ending debate over whether or not Pro ject Saferide It.is the right to dis criminate for the safety of women, why not create an all male Saferide? I'm sure the peo ple at Saferide would eagerU provide information about how to start your own service Shaley Howard Former staff member Saferide Thanks Jesus In 1 contracted HIV. the \ irus that causes AIDS In 1992 I found out that I was HIV positive That was the hardest time in my life (,od used HIV to bring me to Jesus. In 1992 I (ante down with late stage HIV I lost ten pounds in two days. I could not eat and I felt weak After about fourdavs of this, I realized that it was God's will for me to die Before bed that night I de< ided I would call my moin the next day to tell her that I had to get out of college liecause I was going to die. Then I knelt down beside my bed to pray 1 told Cod that I did not want to die. I told him that I wanted to have a wife and children. Thu next morning I woke up and felt good. 1 went to the din ing hall und had rnv first meal in days. I have been gaining weight ever since. In February of 1994,1 went to get tested for HIV, for the second time. When I got the results back, 1 could not couvince the guy who gave me the results that 1 had at one time tested HIV pos itive. I no longer have I fIV in my sys tem. I can have a wife and chil dren. Thank you Jesus. D. Gomez Undeclared
