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, - .'. THE MICHIGAN REVIEW Volume 12, Number 13 The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan March 30. 1994 Hash Bash,Once More 'Irresponsibility'
BY ERIK ScHNURSTEIN years, the University has denied U-M formed by U-M that a permit could not Results in NORML's request for a permit. This be issued because of an outstanding OR EACH OF THE PAST 22 decision is made by the Office of Frank debt of $850 for security and clean-up Funding Loss years in April, supporters of the Cianciola, Dean of Student Affairs. . fees from last year's Hash Bash and a Flegalization of marijuana have Repeatedly, U- M NORML has re- depof!it for this year. According to Adam flocked to the Diag for the annual Hash forMTU ~ .~. ·l. '" A' ''lI. . ~'' ~ " ....."' >'.:09 Brook, former president Bash rally. The prime focus of the of and current spokes BY TRAcy RoBINSON demonstrators, most of whom are not man for U-M NORML, University of Michigan students, has this fee is unnecessary AILURE TO COMPLY WITH simply been to assemble and smoke because no clean-up was the conditions of an amendment marijuana, gaining attention through . ne~ed : 'J'he group ya Fto the 1993-94 Michigan Stu their massive numbers. . catedthe Dia;g after one dent Assembly (MSA) budget resulted For the past three years, however, ~~ ltour,moviilg the re in the loss of $11,000 to the Ann Arbor another feature has become the focal ·ri,iairider of the festiVi Tenants' Union (AATU) last week. On point of the event. In 1990, the Univer ties to FUllef ·Park. FUr· Tuesday;.Mareh 22, $11,000 which was sity of Michigan chapter of the Na tbennore, Brooltclaims allocated to the AATU in September tional Organization for the Reform of that a federal court de reverted back into MSA's internal bud Marijuana Laws (U-M NORML) held a , ". .' . .... 'da&d that ~ty fe.es get, releasing the As$embly from ita rally on the Diag during Hash Bash. . spon4e4 ~th lawsuita against the U could not'b.e ~ed to his organiza earlier ~greement to tra.nsfer the money For anyone to hold such ademonstra. . . . M. '!be court system.lUis consistently tion. 'The Vniv~ty'maynow be wiU· to the AATU this academic y~. Any tion on U-M property, the Univtnity ·· .... ruled in favor of lJ-M NORML, citing ing to admit eti'Ol'in the billing of the funding reque'sts ·tnadebyfue AATU must approve a request for the use of constitutional law. will now require a vote in favor by a the Diag. In each of the past three This year, U-M NORML was in- See HASH BASH, page 10 niajority of the Assembly. . . 'The lost funding represents a sig nificant portion of the AATU's annual t, operating budget; '!he AATU is a ten Hun ant advocacY organization which pro Vides counseling for U-M students and BY MOHAN KRISHNAN that attendees come from many parts est ~ ' tbe events. Ann ~r:residents, generally free of of the state, and even other states, as . As CU contains representatives clw'ge. MBA has provided the vast ma HIS FRIDAY, CHRISTIANS wen at from the U-M. from m,any campus Christian groups, jOrity of the organization's funding for around the world will celebrate Under theDiag Pbli~. ~lJ41. Ol!! orth~effarts ~i'9~1i ~ter mum/oftha AATQ's25-year existence, Good Friday, the holiest day of only allows groups to use eI~ty . on . ~\ of~t;y ,among. ~.'They . want prompting MSA representatives over T \ the Christian year. the Diag for one hour, and Ct,J,PlaIu. to . . : th~ a¢;lvities,to ~ ; for alLwho arem~r the last several years to question the Christians United (CU), a group of make the most of it, From noonuIitii ' es tE;x( not . ~tfor :mehiliezjJ of~s~c general f9.ilure of the organization to leaders from numerous Christian fel one p.m., the rally will fea~; ~ltita, f~ll O, .~. $ll.ip . . CO)(, . a ' inember of raise outside funding, lowship groups on campus, will be host speeches about evangelism aI)d.Qhrlst':s ' Pl~~tyChris~F~liowehip (IV), The fund transfer of March 22nd ing events collectively to promote their resurrection, and Top PriOIjty, ,an., a, .. ~~, ~~ ~wldle he.enJoyait. "the only occurred according to guidelines laid religious beliefs. '!his week, Christian· cappella singing group. Befo:reaJ)d aI.,· ·· J:'t)~~~J'm : ill [IV) inStead ofano~er out in an amendment to MSA's Annual ity Awareness Week, is funded by CU ter this time, the rally will present group is' becaqae I met someone in [it] Budget passed by the Assembly on Sep and the various groups it represents, group singing and fellowship. first." By promoting Christianity rather tember21, 1993. The transfer took place and by private donatiou&. CU has been pleased with the sup- than individual fellowship groups, CU because the AATV failed to meet the 'This is the first year in which an port the community has offered them. hopes to attract more participants. reform-oriented requirements of the entire week of activities was planned, Cox mentioned that the U-M, through CU hopes to make the activity, amendment, but the rally on Good Friday bas taken the Office of Ethics and Religion, has ··.unique to the U-M campus, a nation- Any new funding requests by the place for three or four years and will be been very valuable to them. Jt1u1;her- ally reCognized event, dtawing even AA TV would now require a vote by a the week's finale. It will be held on the more, he said that student iriterest has more participants. They want to reach majority of MSA Such a vote would Diag from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CU been encouraging. Among those with out to pf:lople, Cox said, and to show likely fail or be extremely close because predicts that turnout will be between whom he spoke, he said that all the them what Christianity is really about, of the political views of the Michigan 1,500 and 3,000 people. Joe Cox, public Christians were very supportive, and as opposed to the questionable ways in See AA TU FUNDING. Page 10 relations manager of the project, said many Qther students displayed inter- which it is popularly seen. Mt
3 What's 4 From Suite 5 Campus 9 Libertarians or 12 Music Going On? One Leftists Libertines? Reviews
Don 't let the U-M The Code should not be The Left makes another Leam why the Libertarian The Ramones are still harass you into giving amended ; it should be attempt at suppressing Party hurts the cause of performing their own them money. abolished. free speech. freedom. brand of punk music.
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-\ . ~~. A' The Campus Affairs Journal of the SERPENT'S TOOTH University of Michigan o "Bill Clinton must go'
EDlTO~N-CHIEF : Nate Jarrison Disney is planning to open yet another Last week, the custodial staff of PUBLISHER: Aaron Steeinan Howard Stern anr.ounced his candi CAMPUS AFFAIRS EDITOR: Rachel cardone tlleme park in central Florida. Among Chrysler Auditorium sent a letter to dacy for govern":' of New York. His MANAGING EDITOR: Jarres A. Roberts, II its expected attractions are Dinoland the Dean of Engineering in regards to slogan for reinstating the death pen FEATURES EDITOR: Eddie Arner - featuring archeological digs - and the excessive amount of food, drink, alty, "A volt for every vote," shocked ASSOCIA lE PUBLISHER: Eric Larson Beastly Kingdom - featuring Chelsea and paper consistently left on the .floor journalists and electrified his current ASSISTANT EDITORS: Gene Krass, Greg Parker Clinton. after a chemical engineering course. In constituency. COPY EDITOR: Chris Barrett response to the letter, Chemical Engi MUSIC EDITORS: Chris Peters, Drew Peters Recently at Bursley Hall, a Native neering Chair Johannes Schwank spoke Bill Clinton finally released papers con ClRCULA llON DIRECTOR: Paulo Uma American dinner was served. Among at length to ilie class. He told iliem iliat cerning ilie Whitewater Development FUNDRAtSlNG DIRECTOR: Erik Schnurstein CARTOONIST: Terry Lorber the entrees was buffalo meat. Guess ad.mi.iustrators were referring to them scandal. He claimed, to his surprise, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: Dan Krauss the multiculturalists beat the animal as, "ilie bad boys ofNorili Campus" and that he just came upon some docu activists this time. "those unruly chemical engineers." In ments. You !mow, he lied a whole lot addition to ilie speech, Schwank threat better during the campaign. EDITORIAL STAFF: Robb Alley, Dean Bakopolous, Dave The Detroit News reported on Chris ened to send letters home to the par Bogue, Tolly Brevitz, Mille Bums, Kevin Costello, Marie Fox, Frank Grabowski, Stephen Hessler, Chauncey tian Marcillo, winner of the Grand ents of each student. And ifthat doesn't Warner Bros.' new laser-disc of Who Hlchcock, Shea Karrrner, Mohan Krishnan, Brent Lever, Award in the 37th Annual Metropoli work, he'll personally spank each and Framed Roger Rabbit? contains some Nina Misuraca, Crusty Muncher, Nathan MJrphy, Trenl tan Science and Engineering Fair by every one of iliem. frames of Jessica Rabbit wearing no Reynolds, Peter Schweinsberg, Perry ~ listening to cockroaches at night. Give Wlderwear. 'Thanks to high technology, us a break! Anyone can watch C-Span. Roger Clinton finally tied the knot last EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Tracy Robinson viewers can watch one frame at a time EDITOR EMERITUS: Adam DeVore week. Our advice for him: avoid state and get a perfect glimpse. Does Marge LaToya Jackson and Lee Greenwood troopers, .floW'6is, and women ten times Simpson turn these men on too? The Metrgan Review Is an Independent, bi-weektf stu- have plans to release a coWltry-west smarter and sneakier than yoursell'. dent-run journal allhe Universlly ~ ~an . We neither ern album together later this year. Michigan hockey coach, Red Berenson, soIc~ nor ~ rrone1aly donations from the Univelsly ~ Michigan, and have no respect for anyone that does. Jackson's husband said, "She will be Florida legislators will soon vote on a was arrested for public urination and CortrWIons 10 the, Mch/gaf1 RrtItJw are tax-deductllle the new OOUIltry-Westanheart throb." bill to ban topless womEmtimn~<:hes. ~ driving. l:le,y Red, you'rf1 sup" : IJldef SecIIon 501 (c)(3) 01 the . emal Reveu Code. We Not too tough when "Achy-Breaky We only hope that this applies to retire posed to drop your gloves, not your" alIo have no respect Q the flS (Or It1'f OIlIer IIegiImIIe , i I Heart" topped the charta. ment resorts. pants. department a the federal QCHemment). The Review is not aIfiliaIed wtil 8!rf pofiIicaI party 01 UnNersily poltical group, or the electoral proce$S il general ~.. . Unsigned edlor\aJs repJesent the opinion d the e
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Those losers woo can't afford their own health am don't deserve it. Robert Novak
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BY TRAcy RoBINSON alumni is a much more effective and guistics 410: Language and Discrimi· during summer orientation. Many of painless way than asking for it from nation: Language as Social Statement; the seminars and exercises held during I. I'M CALLING ON poor, indebted students; any gift I could English 317, Section 7-Going to Mi- orientation do little more than try to "H behalf ami; make of the Senior Pledge give would be small by comparison. and Women's Studies 343: Gender white middle-class (often Chris· Program. How are you do -The Statement of Student Consciousness and Social Change. In tian) heterosexuals feel guilty for being ingtodayr Rights and Responsibilities (a.k.a. addition to the questionable value of who they are, by exposing them to "al Some of you have received this call, The Code). Since 19~n, the University many of these courses, one objection ternative lifestyles" that they need to and many probably reacted similarly to haR been working on creating a code of heard against the creation of this re- not only admit exist, but that they need the way I did: ''rm not interested in nVJ1-academic conduct under the guise quirement is that it causes more sched· to enthusiastically accept or be branded giving any money right now, thanks." of necessity as well as student support uling headaches for undergraduates. as "racist, sexist, and homophobic." For those who are not juniors or for one. The argument that a code is The ROE requirement forces students Until the University reevaluates this seniors (they begin working on the jun required by law is inexact; only rules to waste valuable time and credits tak· program, I don't want them to fund it iors a year early), the aforementioned governing sexual assault and alcohol ing courses that probably would not with my donation. tactic is used by the University ofMichi and drug abuse are requirements for exist ifthere was no such requirement. In addition to the above reasons, I gan Senior Pledge Program., a large federal education aid. The argument Considering that the University reo could easily add the poor quality and scale harassment campaign designed which stated that students wanted a quires no courses in American history, low emphasis placed on undergraduate to extract as much money as possible code 80 they could more easily under· great books, mathematics, or the his- teaching at the U-M to my list. I could out of graduating students in the name stand and predict what punishments tory of Western civilization, the ROE also add all of the names of the profes of "Maize and Blue Pride" and "Michi· they would receive for violations is pa· requirement is ridiculous. Students can sors I have had who are historical revi· gan Spirit" tently false; students from many differ· graduate from the University having sionists or cultural relativists, who don't The program solicits donations from ent segments of the university joined taken op!y two weak courses in writing believe in objective reality, or who are seniors and their parents through let together two years ago to oppose the and nocoUl'86S in computers - skills soclaiists. In fact, for all of the lectures ters, postcards, and phone calls. For code and then to change it when it that are imperative in the modem work· I have had to sit through by those those who do not have the suggested became a fait a;ccompa." . place - yet they may have taken En· professors, I think the University shOuld amount for donation - $100, $50, or a So far this year, three amendment gliah 319: Us. Writers on the Left from pay me, so I can go out and reverse their symbolic gift of $19.94 - the repeated hearings have been held, qut no dlanges the 19308 to the 196Os. attempts at liberal brainwashing. contacts by representatives of the pro have been .suggested to the Regents In addition to the diversity require- Maybe I should tell that to the next gram can be embarrassing. For those because not enough student jurors ment, I am opposed to the way the U- person who calls to ask me for money. I students like me who do not want to showed up. Instead of acknowledging M indoctrinates incoming freshmen wonder how they would respond.m. give money to the University for ideo that the amendment process ma,y be Ii ____ ------logical reasons, the repeatedrequeata . fta1lred, the adririnistiation bas merely Do you ' -,. are an annoyance. proposed another hearing for the Fall. I . I The other day I was thinking of The process to amend the Code is I think U-M I justifications to tell the next Pledge faulty and needs to be changed. The I d I Program representative who calls to best way for this to occur is for all I stu ents -I beg for money. I had no difl,i.culty com seniors and alumni to refuse to make I h ld b I ing up with the following list: donations to the University until the IS "OU e I -My family and I have already Code is sufficiently modified, or prefer· I forced to I "given" the University over $80,000. ably abolished. By taking away one of I • . I Aa an out-of-tltate stutlent,, I already ' the University's main sources of in· I gIve money I pay an outlandish amount for my tu- come, maybe the administration will • I ition, in addition to other expenses such take notice of students' opinions on this : to thiS I as books and housing. The fact that issue that greatly affects them. !leck, if . . .. ,..... • ? representatives ofU-M call me and ask I didn't receive one billion dollars that I W()man · I for more money after my parents have I had been counting on to pay my bills, I Pattrice Maurer, AATU Director and Notorious leftist gone into poverty over the last four I would want to know why, and I would I years is ludicrous. With all the debt my modify my behavior somewhat Maybe I Neither Do We family has incurred during my time the University would do the same. I here, I can't even afford to donate five In the same vein, the Diag Policy, I For a t:ax:Ieductible ~nt:rlbution .of $20 ~r ~ore, youll re:eive a o~e-year bucks. It would be more effective to ask enacted in 1991, places some restric· I subscnption to the Mlch'8.an R~vzew, which mcludes ~3 ~1.we7kly Issues for money after I have had a job for a tions on free speech on campus by cre- and the 1994 Summer Onentation Issue. Your subscnption will keep you few years and once again have some ating excessive procedural rules and I posted on the state'ofleftist activists at Michigan, the continuing erosion of disposable income. regulations for holding events and pro- I traditional academic standards, and the politicization of the classroom. -The University doesn't need tests on the Diag. Although not as re- I .. . my money. With its recent M Cam pressive nor extensive as the Code, I I Please send my subscnption to. paign, which raised over one billion - would like to see this abolished before I I yes, one BILLION - dollars from write a check to the U-M. I Name: ______alumni and corporate donations in less -The Race or Ethnicity Re- I than 2 years, the University doesn't quirement. All students new to the I Address. ______need my symbolic gift of$19.94. Ifthey University since the 1991-92 academic I . had no problem raising one billion, then' year must meet a "Diversity Require- I . . why not two or three more? Asking for ment," which entails taking a course I City: State: ZIP: ------money from financially established focusing on another culture, race, or I misunderstood group. Some of the . t d' I Please make check or money order payable to: Tracy Robinson is a senior in political cl asses that fit the reqUll"6men unng BCunce and editol'-at-large of the Re th Wi te te f 1994 . Soci 1. I THE MICHIGAN REVIEW view. 0;_~;: . ~e X::e~':Bn . ;::']y; ~. ._ ~ __ ~ U'l.~..!1~~i~ ~e!:e~~e~~ ~.:r~~M2. !!l~-!.:~_ ~.J
'" "'''''''W " ' _. ~ _ . . _ ""''' ,~ ... ______, __ •• ~._ ,, __ , ~~,~_ "'~" . ' w· ...... "._ ~, ..~.,,, •• ,,~ . _ ,,, ..._~''''' ..., •• , ~ .,. , ...._,,_'''''' ...... __,. _.~_ _ _ .....". _ _ ""'...... "w..,~"'''... _,, <{... \_~J " ~'). The Code Must Go ~ STATEMENT OF STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (the Code), an interim non-academic code of oonduct, is not yet a University T policy. Nonetheless, students seem to think they have no say in changing I ~ ' it, as demonstrated by the third. failure of the judiciary panel to reach a quorum. For this reason, along with the basic tenets of the interim policy, the Code must be abolished. Packaged under the mask of doing what the administration deems best for the academic community, the Code can be used to stifle freedom and pursue the ulterior motives of the governing administration. The Code claims to "protect the freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution. .. Do studenta need this protection? That is the government bureaa'acy's job. Cal'eful examination of the Code implies other motives behind its existence. In Section IV B, the Code explains that a student can be tried for a criminal action not only by local, state, or federal laws, but also by'the University judici.alsystem, regardleaa of where the crime occurs. While the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution states, "nor shall any person be BUbject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb," the Code - maintaining that it upholds the ConsUtution -allows a student to be tried twice for the same crime. J'1:.f?,<.y ,o~1~ The U.S. Constitution, the law of the land, does its job relatively well; the ~~ University should not have to create a second set of rules to govern the stuqent ------.----- body. In fact, the Code maintains many of the same laws that are oommon to the United States; it only reapplies them to the student body. Ifa student oommits a ' o COMMENTARY crime, U.S. laws abould punish the student accordingly. When the administration creates ita own set ofrules, it implies that the Constitutipn does not wolk. How can the adminiatrationjustifiably take the place of the COnstitution? This UniveRrity Bill Clinton: should rely on the eatablishedjustice system to enforce laws. Thus, the Code is unnecessary; it merely establishes a needless UniversitY bureaucracy. American Disgrace By establishing the Code, the University assum.es the role of parents. But part of going away to college involves leaminghow .1:<> su:rvive in tb.ereahvodd.. .This URlNGTHE.1992 PRESU1ENltAL ELEC'llON, SERIOUS QtJEST.[ONS happens as students become more independent. '!he administration seems to ' . were raised about Bill OlintOn'scltaracter. From.~ .ofwomatlizing '. regard an education at the U- M as a $10,000 to $20,000 per year day camp, in D to draft. dodging, there seemed to be an endless number of skele' which their rules apply to all students, living on or off campus. Safety wiWo Arkansas governor's closet. One of these was the Whitewater affair, but little University Housing is not a reason; Housing has a separate code of conduct: %e attention was paid to it at the time. Unfortunately for the President, this has not University has no real reason for the Code beyond what is required by federal law. remained so. Whitewater has rocked the administration to its oore. Recently, the administration declared all University judicial records closed to Much ha~ been said about the ooverage of Whitewater. '!he general consensus the public. Thls intolerable move leads us to question the real motives of the among leftists, a growing minority of the press corps, apd the administration, is administration. There is little reason that the University should want to hide that it has been blown far out of proportion. While one can question the coverage judicial records. It might not be the University's intention, but with an internal of Whitewater (why it wasn't covered effectively during the election, when much judicial system and the right to withhold trial documents, it would be easy to frame of the information was already known), to say that the charges have been blown an individuhl or group of individuals. Since the administration's arbitrary values out of proportion is utterly ridiculous. of oommwrlty define the jurisdiction for the Code, this is not such a far.... fetched Whitewater, coupled with all of the other allegations leveled against Clinton, idea. It would be easy to place someone on trial for harming the acade~c should ruse serious questions about his fitness to be president. Indeed, if Clinton oommunity - as detennined by the arbitrary standards of the University. It,would were tobe'Criminally charged and oonvicted of all the current allegations, he could be a severe violation of the First Amendment and acadenuc freedom in gen:eral, if be sentenced to 178 years in prison and more than $2.5 million in fines. This is a an individual reeeived a suspension due to an ideology. But because all judicial story which under any circumstances and by any measure ofjournalistic integrity reoonis are now closed to the public, it would be hard to oppose the judicial system's should be covered and critically analyzed. decision. Another problem with the Code is that it CIllTently allows for only one Bill Clinton, his ideological misgivings aside, has proven to be a disgrace to the appeal by the accused. United States and the office of the presidency. With little experience in foreign '!he Code is obviously detrimental to the student body; so it would be logical affairs, he was already at a serious disadvantage when he took office, Now, from to change it. But the administration makes the process difficult: a 26 person his incredible mishandling of affairs in Bosnia (threatening to use air strikes and quorum out of 50 randomly selected students who are not required to attend the ground forces and then never doing so) as well as his buffoonery in Somalia, he has Code amendment hearings, only a training seminar. '!his weak system promotes lessened his already weak position. 'The last thing he needed was to make himself apathy. Apathy aside, it should hold that any number oftha 50 random students appear even weaker to foreign leaders from some domestic scandal; yet scandals be present to have amendment hearings. If only three students show up, then seem to follow Slick Willie wherever he goes. obviously those three care enough to change the Code and should have the right Concomitantly, Clinton has made the task of governing domestically - which to do so. '!he administration should not. make the process to amend the Code so he was already having a hard time with due to dissension among members of his arduous and dependent on so few . own party - impossible for himself While this is a positive thing for all who oppose 'The University of Michigan's Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities the creeping hand of the state, it is not a positive precedent to set. 'The office of the must be abolished. 'The University does not have the best intentions of the students executive must command respect. Clinton simply does not oommand respect and in mind. The administration is paid to govern the academic community here in never will be able to do so with Whitewater lurking in the shadows, Ann Arbor and make a student's education worthwhile, not slap codes of conduct . This leads us to ask, "What does the future hold for Clinton?" At this point it and superfluous policies on their freedom. Non-academic matters are handled is hard to tell what he is going to do; although judging from past performance one well enough by the state and federal judiciary processes, Students must have more can oonclude that he will cling to the office until his death; no one loves the state responsibility and freedom. '!he administration has no right to act in loco parentis, and holding an elected office more than Comrade Clinton; As for what he should and thousands of parents would agree, ifthey knew what was really going on, We do, there seems to be no alternative at this point: Bill Clinton should resign as shall say it again. '!he Code must be abolished. Ml President of the United States. He has disgraced himself, the office of the president, and the United States, Ml ,~.""'"'"-.,_." ..., .. ""=,,<>' ~."_"" ''''. .. ;. _ ___;.;,;;;;;:;. ~''''''''''.:.:,~~'t ~~ kiAk4 , ;; $4 ~ ,I 44 At March SO, 1994 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 5 o OPINION Should Doctors Deal in Death? BY STEPHEN HEssLER assaulted by a fanatical "Religious these are people whose quality of life legalize every social ill simply because Right" that seeks to impose an un has eroded to a point where they no we think the problem too difficult to HE ISSUE OF DOCTOR wanted faith upon us. 'Th.e fact remains, longer want to live. However, does this handle. a.ssi.sOOd suicide is one ofthe most we are a religious society. Our country include mentally retarded individuals Finally, the proponents of doctor Tcontroversial in our country to was founded on Judeo-Christian ide who are in constant pain due to termi assisted suicide speak of the right to die day. At the forefront of this complex ala. Most Americans believe in the pres nal illness? What about the leukemia with dignity. Why is it that we must debate over the legality of a physician's ence of some type of god. What is irra stricken middle aged mother of young equate dignity with a person's physical role in suicide stands Dr. Jack tional would be to not base our laws, children, or the teenage boy with mul condition? Does the individual in a Kevorkian and his attorney Geoffrey which in reality are merely extensions tiple sclerosis? Can we honestly make a wheelchair not have any dignity? What Fieger. Both former students at the of our morality, on the collective faith of checklist of qualifications as to who is about the person who has a facial defor University of Michigan, Kevorkian and the majority of our population. best deserving of a doctor to facilitate mity, or stutters? Dignity has never Fieger recently spoke on campus to Suicide is a socially unacceptable their suicidal desires? been about someone's appearance, and explain the goals of their movement practice. '!be taking ofone's life is looked Another flawed argument is that never should be. Dignity is determined and to gather petition signatures for upon with disgrace. 'Th.ink seriously for people are going to commit suicide any by a person's strength of character, by their proposed constitutional amend a moment Is this really a bad thing? Do way, and the government has no right the family they raised, and by the way ment. This legislation seeks to prohibit we actually want to codify any legisla to regulate what individuals can or they touched other people's lives, not the state of Michigan from passing any tion that would contribute to the legiti cannot do to their bodies. Is this the by the disease that afflicts them. law that would prevent an individual macy ofkilling oneself? The Kevorkian argument we should take towards During his speech, Kevorkian asked with the intention of ending their life amendment may intend to aid only drugs? Crime? Should we just give up? the crowd what value is placed upon a from consulting a doctor. mentally competent, terminally ill pa We need to lose this mentality of a ton of coal today. Certainly less than Fieger, who earned a B.A in the tients, but any step in this direction defeated people. We have laws to en that of fifty years ago, he said, his ater from the U-M, was at his hyper cannot be taken without contempla sure that people act within accepted obvious point being that the impor bolic best. He lambasted a myriad of tion of a precedent being set. norm~ of conduct that are in the best tance we place upon things can change. forrea that he believed BOught to oppose Look closely at Kevorkian's criteria interests of the nation as a whole. Of Human life cannot become one ofthese his efforts. From Governor Engler to for physician assistanse. 'Th.e individual course the government can stipulate objects. Although this is a tough, pain the National Rifle Association, Fieger must have a terminal disease, be in that you cannot inject heroin into your fulissue, do not be misled by the sound spared no person or organization even constant pain, and be, certified by 6 arm. Why? Because a nation of drug bites and press conferences of Fieger remotely right-wing. He invoked im psychiatrist to be in fun possession of addicts adversely affects us all. We and Kevorkian. '!be value with which ages of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the their intellectual faculties. Accordingly, cannot hide behind these excuses and we regard life is far too important. Mt Civil Right's movement, and even the struggle for democracy in pos~m munist Russia as even~ closely resem bling his tight for justice. Eve rl···E8b ri.ler>;'L:eftlists"'~fg~;'S;i):"W~i.;;~~::(i/':\"'ir\V\ Kevorkian, who has assisted in over twenty suicides, was a bit calmer in his arguments. He stated that because this is not a religious issue (attributed to Trotskyist League had all but two rep the "fact" that religion is inherently BY GENE KRAss 'Th.is turned out to be nothing more irrational), neither his amendment nor than a study group that discusses cur resentatives while NWROC had one - any other law should be based on reli ELCOME TO ANOTHER rent events from a Marxist viewpoint. the other two probably random leftists gious doctrine. Contihuing this line of installment in the Michigan About ten people, few of whom are U hoping to violently let out some steam reasoning, Kevorkian Istated we cannot Review's attempt to wipe left M students, discussed the history of at the expense of the First Amendment W 'Th.e lady with the short moustache consider life sacred, because sanctity is ist extremism from the face ofilie Earth the former Yugoslavia and how it led to a theological concept, apparently nulli (or at least, this campus). Last month, the current situation in Bosnia. Aside representing NWROC started the meet fying its credibility. I exposed MIM for what it really is. A from the word "imperialism" being ut ing by commending earlier Despite Fieger's bluster and few weeks later, Aaron Steelman and tered with unusual frequency, and the counterprotests that resulted in vio Kevorkian's generalizations, the two Eric Larson did a number on SPARK. Bosnian crisis being blamed on capital lence (Hooray!). '!be plans themselves are actually minor characters in a much This time, the focus is less on any indi ism, nothing special 0CClllTed. included nothing but making a few larger drama. The debate over assisted vidual group that has more letters in its What caught my attention was the phone calls to lesser-known groups, suicide is both complex and emotional. acronym than members. Instead, the announcement that the neo-Nazisl telling them what time to show up to '!be significance is that we are faced "no free speech for fascists" movement KKK were scheduled to march through prevent free speech. Parker and I re with yet another effort to place defining will be this issue's dartboard. Ann Arbor. Inevitably, the Trotskyists, mained silent, except when he pointed limits on the importance of human life. NWROC, and several other leftist out to me how frequently the word Roe v. Wade established the legal con Part One: The Trotskyist League groups were going to plan a violent "shit" was being used, especially in the cept of when life begins, and now we are From what I've heard, the counterprotest and smash their oppo context of beating it out of someone. I being asked to determine when it can Trotskyist League broke off from nents to freedom. I decided to continue left at the end of the ten minute meet end. Instead of Kevorkian's debate on SPARK Keeping in mind that SPARK my journey. ing, promising the little Lenins that semantics, we need to examine how consists of only three members, I there will be no "beatings-out-of~hit" dangerously close we are to devaluing couldn't resist a trip to the Crowfoot Part Two: The Planning Meeting at the rally. They were left dumb human existence even further than we Room ofilie Union to see what merited This time, I did not go alone. Greg founded (dumb, anyway). already have. the advertisement in the Calendar box Parker, my fearless Review colleague, Certain liberal factions would have of the Daily. accompanied me to East Quad (what a Part Three: The Rally I met Parker and one ofhis friends us believe that our freedoms are being surprise!). I expected at least twenty Gene Kros8 is a sophomore in English people to be there with hammers and at the main entrance to the Union. From here the fascist-smashers Stephen Hes81er is a sophomore in p0- and p8yChorogy and an a.ssistant editor sickles in hand. Parker and myself included, the litical lICienee and a (ftatT writer for the of the Review. He wiu never dye his lcng See LEFTISTS, page 10 Review. hair green but really wants a lipring. total attendance was seven. '!be --,--, ,-'" ,-, -~-,---- ''''»'''''~»''~~'",""""""'-.,<""~_~",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,",,,,~~..... __~,~,,; ... ,,,''-w...,,,,-~= ""MX,""'''- N MARCH 24, GREG PARKER MR: Many people •• not fImIlllr with the down ofhumanmorals when the teach vantage ofus. Who is going to move into of the Review interviewed Jon main prlnclpIea of the Ubtrtariln Plrtyi In ings of Christ - and·1 assume this is those positions as often as possible? If OCoon, LiberlarUm candidate for your words, whit •• thole principles? probably coming from Christians - you were a greedy, corrupt person to U.s. Senate. Coon, 34yet:tnold, ruida follow more closely with Libertarian day, where would you go? The free in Hendereon, MI, where. ~ ~ «Jle pro. COO N: Increased personal liberty philosophy than they do with the phi- enterprise system is the best one we've prietor ofHendertion Land and Timber. along with responsibility. 10sophy represented by conservatism got, the best ever devised, and, by the Coon is al¥J Vice-Chair oftlu Libertar as its practiced today or liberals. The way, we have laws against fraud, and ian Party of Michigan. MR: Many think that the Ubertarlan party - New Testament and the teachings of we should. They ought to apply to Con being an Independent party - has little influ Christ follow consistently with Liber gress, too. MR: How does your campaign differ from ence on the outcome of an election. Is this tarian political philosophy. We have other Senate candldat.. such 18 Spencer necessarily true? many Christians in this party who re MR: What is your opinion of the current state Abraham, Roma Romney, 01' Lana Pollack? alize that Christ never taught you to of the U.S. Senate? COON: Of course not. Ross Perot cer use the government to beat up on your COON: Those candidates are running tainly had an impact; I don't think he neighbors to force them to behave, never COON: Basically the same opinion of with the two political parties in this had an effect because he drew evenly did he teach that. Even in the Old most of the people in this state. Fed up. country that have had control of the from both parties, but nonetheless he Testament, the Ten Commandments country for over one hundred years. I'm had an impact His success is an indica are written to you individually; it doesn't MR: What do you think of the involvement of running with the party that represents tion of the frustration that exists today say "thou shalt not allow thy neighbor the Libertarian party on college campuses? the political alternative. Not only a in this state and across the country. to steal"; it says "thou shalt not steal." political alternative, but the number And we're going to see more of that. Those laws are between an individual COON: We have a pretty active cam one political alternative in the country. We're going to see more three-way and God; they're not political, they never pus organizing program! I'd like to see We've got 23 years of experience; we races, and we're going to see some four : will be and Christ never taught that. it stepped up more. There is no one in knew that the country was not going way-races; people are frustrated and this country affected more by what we well back. in 1971 when we fonned this they're looking for solutions; they're MR: A basic Ubertarian principle is that hu do today in government than the gen party, and events to date have proven looking for political alternatives. bu~ mans have the responsibility and the Intell! eration that is going to be graduating us correct, I believe. We have a track pact - we;re running this race to win. gen~ to govern themselves. Can people re from college and who is in college now. record; we have over 100 elected or That's a fair impact, isn't it? ally be trusted to do this? Do they really have Those will be the most affected by the appointed Libertarians around the the ability to govern themselves and use the utterly suicidal economic policies this country, We're different because we MR: What YIOUId be the first issue you would free market as 11 tool for freedoms? xmtiollhas pursued. We need to restore represent a real alternative; people are pursue If you were eIeCted1: this colUltryto its fOrmer .freedom, losing faith in those two parties, as they COON: We're talking about greed and propserity, and greatness. We can do it, rightly should. COON: Balance the budget witho-qt corruption and the lust for power. Most but we can't do it unless people are When[the constituents] elect the raising taxes. . . people know that there is a tendency aware. Young people who haven't ar next Senatm- next November, they want out there for people to be greedy and to rived at set opinions yet, who are much to know they're electing someone who MR: How do you propose to do this? take advantage ofothers , so ifthia is so, more open minded - they are the ones cares about this country deeply, who's why would you want to create a system we have to reach. They're also the ones going to do what he says he's going to do COON: We have had three Republican like the bureaucratic nightmare we with the most to gain or lose. and has principles. And they're not administrations in the past twenty have today for them to inhabit? Where confident ~t they can get that from years, we have had two Democratic would you rather they worked, down at MR: If one wanted to find out more informa the Republicans or Democrats any administrations in the past 20 years; at the 7-11, where you can take your tion on the Ubertarian party, what could one where. any time in the last 20 years we could business elsewhere, or at the Environ do? Is there a certain book? have balanced the budget by a presi mental Protection Authority where MR; Why did you choee to 1\11 for Senate 18 dent veto and the votes of 34 senators they're going to use their position and COON: The best book would be Liber • UberIIriIn? Many woWd say 1hIl you have • and it hasn't happened once. There is authority to crush you and you're not tarianism in One Les8on; go from there. better chance of getting elected under the no fiscally conservative party in Wash going to be able to touch them? Where There are many of them. Anything by DernocfatIc 01' Republcan pardee. ington. You don't need a program, you would you rather have them, managing Ayn Rand is also good. just need the guts to just say no, as McDonalds or inspecting meat for this COON: I voted Democratic when I was someone once said. The only thing you whole state? Would you rather have MR: Is there anything you would like to add? young, I voted Republican after I had need to do to balance the budget is to them at your local bank - where you established myself in business and hold what you're spending to what can take your business elsewhere, or at COON: Just a general comment people learned a little bit more about econom you're taking in; you can do it without the IRS? You're not going to get rid of are getting increasingly frustrated with ics. I became a Libertarian when I raising taxes, that's the only require greed - it's there and it's going to stay politics as usual in this country. It has learned that there was no fiscally con ment to balance the budget. Why there forever - we're going to deal with been evident for several years. They're servative party represented in Wash haven't we done it? What's my plan for it, the market deals with it very effec seeking political alternatives. The Lib ington, and there hasn't been for 20 getting it done? Maybe 111 get up there tively. You can only get so much advan ertarian party is the proven alterna years. There's also no party ofthe work and embarrass some Republicans into tage over your competition before your tive. We have elected officials, a proven ing people represented in Washington. acting like Republicans, if that's pos customers go somewhere else, but when track. record, and we're ready. Inciden No such parties would ever saddle the sible. you work for the IRS there is not much tally, rm the only candidate in this race people of this country with $20,000 a of an escape, is there? Where would you right now who we know is going to be piece, and that's what the national debt MR: Some challenge that Ubertarlanism as a rather have a greedy, corrupt person there in November. Right now I have a represents today. philosophy Is a breakdown of human morals; where you can take your business else better chance than the rest of them; What we need. in this country is less Is this 8O? where, or working for some govern they have to do well in the primary. ltR government, lower taxes, less regula ment agency? You see, we set up many Ii Hey Pattrice, do you like your ,I tion, more freedom. To sum it up, we COON: Of course not. 'Ibis country of these agencies to protect ourselves picture being plastered on need government to be out of our lives was founded on the basis of freedom of from people who take advantage of us, page 81 If not, write and out of our pocketbooks. religion. Where do they get the idea but in doing so we've created. the per the Review. that a Uberta:rian philosophy is a break- fect environment for them to take ad- March SO, 1994 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 7 o INTERVIEW: SPENCER ABRAHAM Leaning Towards.f: ·Conservatism N MARCH25,SHEAKAMMER of health insurance without resorting whole faring In the upcoming election? Harvard influenced decisions that were ofthe Review intero~ Spen to a big federal bureaucracy and. a uni made by appellate courts at the federal Ocer Abraham, Republican can versal health care system~ fve put for ABRAHAM: I think we have a great as well as the state level. When I real ~ for U.S. Senate. Abraham served ward a plan that would use the free opportunity. Historically, the party out ized that my tuition dollars were help cu Chairman of the Michigan Republi market to solve the problems in health of the White House has gained ground ing to shape the direction of the law and can Party for eight yet1J'8 and lo.ter served care today and I think it can work. in off-year elections, and that should move it away from the direction that I M Chairman of the National Republi There are a lot of other issues, too. be the case in 1994. In addition, I think thought was appropriate, I felt there can Congressional Committee. We've put out a position paper on crime. the direction that America is now needed to be some balance. I went to Abraham hcu high hopes for the upcom For all the talk about solving the crime headed under a Democratic president the Dean of the Law School with some ing 199-1 senate election. problem, the bottom line that has to be and a Democratic Congress will be re friends who shared my opinion, and we addressed immediately is that some jected by voters this November. It's asked for some Harvard dollars to start MR: How has the campaign been going? thing like seven percent of the criminal been twelve years since the public saw a conservative law review. We were element commit about 70 percent of what would happen if the Democrats . · turned down. We became very commit ABRAHAM: It's going well. We've violent crime. Unless we take action to controlled both the Capitol and the ted at that point to starting a journal passed the three quarter of a million apprehend, convict, and incarcer whether we had Harvard funds or not. mark in terms of fundraising, which ate that seven percent, we're all at We began a small corporation and had was a big accomplishment for us and a great risk. The cost of having those a one-room office totaling about 120 good indication of the strength we've violent repeat offenders in society square feet. We found about fifteen got as a campaign. We've also had a lot day in and day out is huge to us both students who wanted to be editors of of success with organization and re as victims, in the case of people who this joUrnal and I was able to raise cruiting volunteers. We've passed the are victimized by crime, and also as enough venture capital to get the first seven thousand mark and are well on a society. I think it undermines our volume published in 1978. We had a our way to a goal we set often thousand school systems, it lUlde:rmi.Iies our very emall sub8cribenhip of law librar by the summer. So in both the organi communities, it costs us a fortune in ies aroW'l.d the COlBltry in that first year zational and fundraising contexts, it's insurance costs and personal dam · bec8usewe were an unknown publica going well. ages that are inflicted. We have to tion. But slowly as people learned about address that first. 'Ihetop priority · the journal, more subscribed and it has MR: What was it that convinced you to run fof is taking violent repeat offenders continued to grow. Today it is the Sena1e? out of society. second'-nlost widely read law review in . the country. Vtbatmakes us especially ABRAHAM: I've always .b.ad a strong MIt: What do you thln~ . ar~ some of the proud is that the amount of s.tudent philosophical interest in public pOlicy . . major differences betw8en you lind the , interest has mushroomed smee'webe and have looked for different ways to other Republican primary candidates? gaIl, and today there are typically over I pursue and sUPpOrt the things I cared a hlUldred law students who work on about; and for the most part, I did that ABRAHAM: I know there are some our journal each year. by helping people get elected. Here in issues we've disagreed on, but I don't Michigan, that was a good thing to do think youll see a lot ofphilosophical MR: Large universities have historically been overwhelmingly liberal institutions. However, because we elected a lot of people like differences on the Republican side. Senatorial Candidate Spencer Abraham John Engler who have accomplished I think what the major measuring they seem to be becoming more and more great things for what, I consider to be stick should be is who can not only go to White House, and the feedback I get as tolerant of conservatism. 00 you see ttis vend the right political philosophy. In Wash Washington and vote the right way but I travel around Michigan is that they continuing? ington I don't think that we've had who can go to Washington and win the don't like it very much. They don't like quite as many people as in Michigan fights. I think I'm the only Republican to seethe. highest tax hike in history ABRAHAM: Well, academia, Holly who have carried forward with their candidate with a proven track record passed:' They aren~t , aIWous to see a wood, and the media tend to be the ideas and fought the fights strongly on the national level of fighting and verydntrusive federal health care sys main outposts of people with very lib enough and compellingly enough to win. winning the battles, whether it was at tem imposed on them and have the eral philosophies. But as some of those I kept seeing defeats in Washington on Harvard Law School taking on the aca quality and access to health care lim liberal leaders have pushed things so issues I cared about; and my wife and I demic establishment and starting the ited. So I think that we'll have a lot of far to the left, I think it has created a decided that part of the problem was first conservative law review, or in the issues working our way that will make certain moderation in response. I saw it that advocates for our philosophy were national legal community where I a difference, also. I think that at both at Harvard Law School. After I was either not strong enough or strategi helped co-found the Federalist Society the congressional and the ,U.s. Senate there, the whole critical legal studies cally not doing things the right way and which has become the principle voice of level we'll make gains inNovember. movement developed. These were pro that there maybe was a role for some conservative legal thinking in America, fessors who were pursuing even more body like me to play in the elected side or here in Michigan as chairman of the MR: In law school you founded the Harvard lett-wing views than the ones that had of this business. Michigan Republican Party, where I Journal of Law and Public Policy, which was traditionally prevailed at Harvard. And helped lead the fight to restore conser one of the first conservative univefsity news the further left they tried to move the MR: What issues do you believe will domi vative Republican government to Michi papers in the country. What were some of your faculty, the more moderates and con nate this campaign? gan. I've been on the front lines win motivations behind this? servatives on the faculty they produced, ning those fights, and I think that in because people who had always thought ABRAHAM: I think health care will be the Senate it is going to take that kind ABRAHAM: I got to Harvard Law of themselves as liberals realized that a very important topic in the months of experience and success record if we're School in 1975, and quickly discovered they were really in fact more on the ahead. I've come out against the going to prevail in the fights ahead. that every publication that Harvard conservative end of the spectrum. I see President's program in favor of a free subsidized, using our tuition dollars in the same thing happening with the PC market set of solutions to our health MR: As former chairman of the National Re part, was a very leftr-wing publication thing. It's making people realize that care problems. I think we address publican Congressional Committee, you have offering very liberal views on legal they're not as liberal as they thought can: Mt - the issue of access to health insurance a lot of expertise on congressional elections. policy. I also recognized the degree to and the problems with the growing cost How do you see the Republican party as a which publications that came from - 8 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW March 30, 1994 o EsSAY Trying to Make ,Cents of Financial Aid BY RACHEL CARDONE class applicants often didn't qualify for forms and immediately sees that he ation of a parent's assets. Other factors aid even though they needed it. possesses a considerable amount of include the number of children in col- HE UNIVERSITY OF The problem with the Higher Edu money. By using a formula that sub- lege and a parent's age; the older the Michigan, the most expensive cation Amendment lies in one of the tracts estimated living expenses, they parents are, the more money a student T public school in the nation, pr0- fundamental problems with Congress. determine how much John can afford to will receive. '!be total amount expected vides the least amount of financial aid Although the bill passed into law with spend towards tuition. According to to be paid by the parents is divided by among public universities across the positive measures (like increasing the Elaine Nowak, ABsistant Director of the amount of children currently at- country. Additionally, tuition increases amount of the average loan to students), the Office of Financial Aid, students tending college. at an average rate of 11.4 percent per a separate act to fund this altruism had are exempt from this part of the for- Despite the changes in the system, year, making a U-M degree a severe to be passed by the House Appropria mula if they earn less than $2000- the cost of attending college forces many financial burden. Tuition, board, and tions Committee. It failed, and as a $2500. But John, because he earned students to borrow money from a bank. modest living expenses for the '93-'94 result, the law and reality are entirely more than t\lat amount, will be ex- The Subsidized Stafford Loan, in- year were $11,900 for upper-level in two different things. pected to pay 50 percent ofhis available eluded in a standard aid package, is staters, and $22,900 for upper-level In an effort to collect as much out incOme (which is not determined by capped at $2600 dollars per year and out-of-staters. In four years, it will side money as possible, students often him). , renewable for four years. The govern- cost $13,566 and $26,106. respectively. apply for merit or need-based scholar One of the basic problems with cal- ment pays the interest while a student These figures are terrifying. ships from private or hometown orga culating tl,1ese figures lies in the fact attends school full time (12-18 credits). In 1992, Congress passed the nizations. While winning one of these that the fiscal year ends in June, taxes Many students need more money than Higher Education Amendment, which awards should ameliorate the financial are due in April, and tuition bills are this loan provides, so they turn to the changed the way financial aid is pro burden of an education, it does not, paid in September, October, January, next best option, the PLUS loan. vided. The law guarantees anyone who because any amount of money won is and February. By not coinciding with The PLUS loan carries an interest applies for aid either a grant, loan, or deducted from the university's aid pack- . the academic year, earnings from last of 6.64 percent, making it the lowest on work-study award. This was an at age. year and summer that were applied to the market Also, any amount up to the tempt to make the system more fair, In addition to applying for scholar this year's tuition check will be taxed full cost of tuition may be borrowed, a because under the old system, middle ships, stud~anticipating college Dills this year. AB a result, Financial Aid good thing, for in the past, it was pos- often holdparl-time jobs during ltigh makes a blatantmisjudgement, because sible that students would deal with Rachel Cardoneu a (re8hman in LSA school to help. defray the soaring tu those earnings were already spent. AB several different agencies just for their and campru affairs editor of the Re ition rates. Law-abiding employers a result, it is in John's best interest to tuition. The conditions of the loan, like view. deduct social security, or FICA taXes get a job that pays cash, off the books. ",the Stafford Loan, are that it must be (currently at '1;65 ~nt);which ,ap 'lbisaBme ~pt appliee u astu:'·'fullypaid off ten yean a&r a student pear on the tax forms that are evalu dent possesses assets of any kind graduates and the student must retain ated by Financial Aid. (stocks, bonds, savings accounts, and full-time status. e Deliver AB a hypothetical eXaffiple, Jolw.. the like); those also appear on income Because both the Stafford and an out-of-state student, earned $5,.50 tax forms. Financial Aid determines PLUS loans are only renewable for four The • an hour while he was a senior inlUgh that students can pay 35 percent of years, a student who borrows must school. He worked"fift.een hours every their assets towards tuition. On the only take that amount of time to gradu- Backroom~ week throughout the year, and in eight other hand, only 5.6 percent of parent's ate. With the trend offive-year degree » • • • • • • I"":"r""J months, he earned $2438.08. Over the assessments are calculated to be spent plans. the best interests of the students 3 FOOT PARTY SUB summer he earned an additional $2000, on education. AB a result, by placing are not met. Also, students who plan to After subtractfug expenses, he h~d assets in a parent's name, a student double major may be pressed for time, ,..,1 I~ \ 1 .., ;·71 about $3500. Being fiscally responsible, will receive a better package. and may not be able to receive the best \ uur dwi,,' of IIl1' follo\\ ill~ 'u[,,: II.Ili,IIl, he deposited his money into a sa'(ings There are several factors involved education available within the depart- \ l'~d.t['ll', hit \..n , h.Hll ur lun.1 account at Mainstreet Bank. in detetmining parents' expected con- ments of their concentrations. I PI "-...... ~ i\ \' \h 2 htlu r... 10 pn·p.nt.·) S12. 95 While this behavior is conducive tribution.. Unlike the old system, eq- All of the literature recommends towards boosting the economy, it isn't uity in a home or farm and Individual that students borrow as little as pos- " I "f"'j I '< I, ,I. ,',,:\ I. ' I'''' , I ;(1" I for receiving aid. The Office QfFinah Retirement Assessments (IRA) ac- sible, for the payments from previous cial Aid looks at John's income tax counts are not factors towards the evalu- years carry over each year, and by the ------Party Pizza fourth year, loan payments are quite large. Yet with an average tuition hike ~4) I?EE~§ ()N TAl) (26" x 13") of 11.4 percent, loans are inevitable. Ashley's bas BOught out great beers from around the Because the financial aid system was reformed only last year with 1500 24 Slices· 3 Toppings world to bring you the best selection possible. A1J the amendments, many kinks still exist ':\~ U~'\' ~\'i: :'.\ 'li. ~ .~,;;" .... t ~1'1"1 explosion in microbre.. continues we will seek out that hinder maximum benefits being • • • • • • • • • • • the best of the best to add to our iilieady outstanding distributed to the maximum amount of Party Salad list at Ashley's. people. Yet without cooperation from Congress, a murky future exists for the 11(lll"l' 514.25 338 S. State Look for 4 new arrivals comimg in MarchI -- thousands of students struggling to pay l ;rl'l'k l·hl'!. \nllp.hll) or Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (313) • 996· 9191 their bills. And. we all know the history Sp,n.h'h 522.95 of Congress reforming itself. Conse ' ..... '·1· ",!l " 1.4- §£()T£1i SIN£LE ~AL T§ quently, individual schools must try I", "\' ,I I '''1',< I. ,'"I'. I 1'11<" i ~I" harder to keep tuition at a reasonable ------The Backroom Ashley's has greatly expanded our line of fine Single level for all students, not through price Malt Scotch Whiskies including The Macallan 18 year discrimination and financial aid pack 2 605 Church, A old Come ezperience the taste of fine Scotch Whisky ages, but through cuts in administra and try lOme samples! tion and sincere attempts to keep su 741-8296 perfluous budget expenditures at a minimum. Ml ««'''''~~~,_>'''<''\'''',~J,'='wr=~ *~~_"m< ... ;; (Q eli.lilil_1!\! ;;w:;;;;;w~~_"""'0lIIII"' __ March 30, 1994 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 9 o EsSAY Libertarians··'or Libertines? BY AARON STEELMAN they want whenever they want, Mt potheads and rednecks didn't join the oua goal and can only be attained because they value freedom. While the Libertarian Party because they identi through rational discourse as "ivory RECENTLY RECEIVED IN THE Libertarian Party does have some genu fied with the integrated philosophy that tower, Libertarian Debating Society, mail an invitation to attend the ine libertarians as membe1'8, the vast the party supposedly offered, but rather old-time1'8." By doing so they have es I Libertarian Party of Michigan's majority can be lumped into three cat did so as an act of opportunism. sentially cut themselves off from a long annual convention. Though I am not a egories: sixties leftovers (many of whom "Libertaria," too, is an act of opportun history of thought, a history that in member of the Libertarian Party, I was like the LP's stand against conscrip ism. The people planning it argue that cludes such figures as Thomas not surprised that I received such an tion), potheads (who, of course, think they are doing so because it is a true act Jefferson, Herbert Spencer, Jolm Locke, invitation, for it looked more like a that drugs should be le and Milton Friedman and replaced solicitation; check off the events you gal), and rednecks (who Most people join the Libertarian them with Cheech and Chong. want to attend and send in the appro don't want the government The Libertarian Party has dis priate entrance fees. This missive to take their guns away). Party because they waHt to do what graced it.self and in so doing dragged all should have just dispensed with the These people are pri they want whenever they wa1lt, not those who call themselves libertmi ans formalities and read: 'We Need Money." malily single issue voters, because they value freedom. through the mud. The best solution. The Libertarians were not so blunt to who couldn't care less now that it has completely discredited do this, however. Yet, when I looked at about how the issue that • liS I itSelf, is CU disband before it makes the the materials accompanying the solici concerns them fits into the larger con of freedom and display of liberty; the case for liberty even hro'der to sell. tation, blunt was one of the first words text of fighting for liberty on all fronts. state can't tell them what to do. 'This is Unfortunately, they have chosen that popped into my mind. They should and would be shunned by completely disingenuous; they are plan not to do so and opened themselves up . One of the flie1'8 enclosed was an any legitimate political party but in ning "Libertaria" because they are es to an act of greater buffoonery, a guber advertisement for an event to be held at stead are welcomed with open arms by sentiapy libertines, not libertarians. natorial run in New York by radio disc the convention. It read: "'The Libertar the Libertariarl. Party establishment. They want to indulge in some debauch- . jockey Howard Stern. 'This, permitting ian Party ofWashtenaw County In One wonders why this is. After all, a ery and have a good time, not display to a left-liberal to run for office as a Lib· vites You to Spend A NIGHT IN minor party searching for legitimacy the world what freEldom entails. ertarian, is painful to watch for any LIBERTARIA for AN EVENING OF surely wouldn't want' to discredit them " Indeed, they say so, albeit in a veiled body who respects freedom yet com DECADENCE," flanked by a picture of selves.in this way. Howe.ver, when you way, to keep the appearance of respect pletely appropriate in light of a scantily clad woman and the words look at it, these people'are very similar ··ability. On the back of the "Libertaria" "Libertaria." The Libertarian Party "18 And Over Welcome," emboldened to the Party leadel'8h.ip who are plan flier they mock those libertarians who couldn't sell out any more or in any at. the bottom. I began to wonder ifthis ning such things as "Libertaria." The actually believe that liberty is a virtu- greater style. m was an ad for Deja Vu, until I remem bered with whom I "at dealing ~ '1ll.e Libertarian Party. while it has pur TIME TO STO REII' ported to be a party ofprinciple since in, Do Review M'eetings inception, had finally come full circle in YOUR WINTER announcing what it was: a collection of freaks who speak of liberty and per really begin with the sonal responsibility, yet devalue such CLOTHES virtues through their very actions. Dont't ship your clothes home Last year, I read a critique of the Pledge of Allegiance, this springl We'll store your Libertarian Party by philosopher Peter coats, jackets, ... everything Schwartz. He said, "The Libertarian interprets liberty to mean the license to a prayer to Barry FREE do whatever he feels like doing. Since with cleaning he dismisses reason and philosophy, he We'l! keep it all until the fall - has no way to even define force. To him, Goldwater, and the chant insured safely all summer long the pseudo-definition of 'force' is that which intereferes with somebody's de 70% discount if you deliver! sires; to him any obstacle in the path of "Greed, Money, people's whims is undesirable. People ought to be 'free' to act on any random RESIDENCE HALL STUDENTS impulse they feel. That is Libertarian Freedom ' ~' ? INQUIRE AT YOUR FRONT DESK! ism. That is not liberty." At the time I thought this interpre FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL tation was a bit short-sighted and Find out for yourself, come to a staff harsh. After all, the Libertarian Party was fighting for people's freedom and meeting and join the Review, its never too late. CARDINAL GAR1vlL\lT CARE CE i\'TE RS recognized the responsibilities that went along with these freedoms, right? 3052 Carpenter at Packard Yet after watching the actions of the Ypsilanti. MI 48197 Libertarian Party and Libertarians Sundays, 7 PM with a big "L" over the last couple of years, I have rome to a different conclu Third Floor of sion. Most people join the Libertarian ~ Party because they want to do what Aaron Steelman is a sophomore in eco the League nomics and publisher of-the Review . 971-0442 ,'1nffIWI!RI!JiI "~~~""~"" ''' ''' ~'' '''~'''~ '''''''' •••••,.''''''',"" • •,~",,,,,,,_.,,,,.,,,,,.,,-,, ...... '-">""" ..... ~ .. , . '''~ ." . " ••, .'''''''''''''•• w •• ~. =. ~.. """_.,,_~, ...... ~ ., ....,"""" __... )\o., ~~~~~""""*'* j=; 8Ir;iPl'.D:ljI · ';"' IP ~~v ' 10 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW March 30, 1994 AATU Funding ' !'t .,,' CUITent weaknesses and measures to ure of the AATU to comply with the mitigate these weaknesses," and amendment's conditions proves the ·"An agreement that AATU will veracity of claims made by opponents of qualitatively track students' use of the organization. AATU, including separate counts of "It further illustrates how little students' use of walk-in services, tele they're following their relations with phone services, and brochures distrib MSA and the importance ofthe money," uted." Stern said. The amendment stemmed from Craig Greenberg, outgoing MSA controversy early in the school year President agrees with Stern's assess over MSA's proposed annual budget, as ment. "'This incident continues to show recommended by the organization's the Tenants' Union's irresponsibility Il.. ~~~~i' ~ executive officers and the chair of the and lack of professionalism," he said, ~.~. · ~l~~J.b.e~~S~~ ~I~~.; Budget Priorities Committee, who origi According to Stern, the amendment ft!T~~;: · .. · ~'~':<~":lJSfQh~~~:~; . • : ~~~~x"' ~ -t. nally proposed $2,320 for the AATU for and the statistics it required the AATU the 1993-94 academic year. 'The aver to compile for MSA were designed to age allocation to the AATU has been spur an "ongoing process of internal approximately $25,000 each of the last review of the AATU., It's frustrating. several years. 'They can't even follow a simple proce A significant portion of Assembly dure." representatives opposed line-item As of TueSday, March 29, none of funding consideration for the AATU in MSNs executive olli""" had infurmed r=" ' ',.' J! , ' '.'1 ~,', ~ '·.~mt1 •• , ~ '~: ..~ 1~iti.~~ ·~ ~>~···· ...... ~~~.~ the Fall based on allegations of mis : the AATU of the money transfer, ac- 'r., ,h.u8~f<· .. ~·~ - · ~~~m1i,.. a~ management, duplication of services, cording to Stern. He believes that the . ~< ~_~~ improper use of MSA-provided fund fact that the organization failed to fol ing for politi~-activism instead of as low through by providing MSA with the sistance for tenants, and use ofM~A required information proves that the funding to aid ~n-university students. AATU should not receive the money. According to Jacob Stern, Chair of "It's $11,000 - you just don't forget the Budget Prioritie~ Committee arid about it," he said.Mt Vice'Preld.d6n~lect·t>fMSA, ·thefidl ,;. c In e.ssentillls, unity; Knox Presbyterian Church Leftists free speech for fascistsl" Cliche! "Build Meeting at Tappan Middle School Continued frtim pageS :" . Ii workers' movement to smash fas 2551 E. Stadium Blvd. cism!" "Biaek pOwer to smash fascism!" MTA Route 14 planned to mareh to the Ann. Arbor City "Gay and lesbian pride!" Huh? What Hall to wait for the Nazis. I stood on does any of this have to do with stamp In non--essentials, fibmy; tfptoes to find at least . one ing out fascism? This was single-issue counterprotester without green hair or activism at its worst. Sunday Worship at 9:30 a.m. a shaved head, noticing how "normal" Well, as some of you may have read my eighteen-inch ponytail sudderuy in the Daily, the NazislKKK never Chrisitian education lor all ages, induding looked. 'The counterprotesters were aU showed up. Parker and his friend left at 45 a college dass, at 11 :00 a.m. searched (who Can blame the pollee?); a quarter to one, already minutes and finally the march commenced. after the scheduled arrival. Left alone Parker, his friend, and I kept our to fend for myself, I asked a gentleman Nursery provl9ed distance as the crowd, dressed entirely with four liprings (yes, liprings) the in black made its way to City Hall, latest news about the Nazis. He didn't In all tftings, cfulril!l. chanting ever so intellectually, "Hey know, so I decided to cross the street to hey! Hc>-ho! Fascist scum has got to ask the lovely, buxom young NWROCite Senior Pastor: Bartlett l. Hess, PhD go!" I was surprised to see how indiffer (not the one with the moustache) with ent pedestrians seemed. This might the megaphone if she knew anything. Assistant Pastor: Mid'lael D. Frison not have been one oftbe milliOlH!trong She had received no news from the marches on Washington (only a hun scout teams, It seems that every van Transportation for college students dred or so rommies were there) but free and truck that looked like the type the prOvided. CaJI973·KNOX. speech was nevertheless about to be Nazis show up in every year was put denied. under surveilLmce. Can you say KGB, '!he three of us waited on the oppo boys and girls? At 2:00 I finally decided Usten to 001' service on WWCM 990 AM at noon on Sundays. site side of Huron St. as more and more I had better things to do and left. leftists coagulated in front of City Hall Of course, the leftists claimed the For roore information, call 'There was about half an hour left until victory, thinking their numbers scared 11\ the Nazis were supposed to show up, so the Nazis away. I take a different ap 973-KNOX (973-5669) ~ I took the time to contemplate the proach: the Nazis won since they man beauty of the signs some of the fascist aged to waste a lot of people's time. Oh ~Knox~_ smashers were carrying. "Death to the well, till next year when, and if, the Presbyterian CtMch .racist, sexist sys1;e,mI" Which one? "No forces of evil and evil clash again. )It · ··,.~··'>~".~" "r ~...... ,~ . ,· ",",,,,,,,,,,,,;,,·,,< _,,,,,,,,,,,,~,_;;~~,,,",'~-,~/i'(~ fl hX m ,U;;;l!&~""",·,~__ __",, __ ,. March 30, 1994 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 11 o BOOK REVIEWS ~ tj/4" Prohibition Must End BY AARON STEELMAN unacceptable abridgement of personal on the inner cities of America, he recog be permissive to socially disreputable freedom, Friedman comes off as much nizes the need to declare the right to psychoactive drugs, especially when ITH THE SURGEON more the utilitarian in these essays. In use drugs, or any other hannful sub they are used by young and hairy per General Joycelyn Elders stat· Chapter Five, Crime, Friedman pro stance, as a basic civil liberty and speaks sons; so they generally favor decrimi Wing that alternatives to the poses that legalization, among other ofit throughout the book, as does Tho nalizing marijuana and treating rather war on drugs should be pursued, much social benefits, would cause a dramatic mas Szasz. than punishing those engaged in the attention has been given to this debate. reduction in crime - particularly vio Szasz, a psychiatrist by profession, trade of LSD. They are not at all per While Elders' suggestion smacks of op lent crime. argues for legalization on grounds that missive, however, toward non portunism due to her son's recent ar He states, 'The hann to us from the few have tried in the past. He states psychoactive drugs that are allegedly rest on drug charges, there have been addiction of others arises primarily from that drugs are property and resultingly unsafe or worthless, and thus favor the fact that drugs are illegal. It has should be treated as any other property banning saccharin and Laetrile." A per On Liberty and Drugs been estimated that from one third to in a free society. Indeed he explains, fect example of this are the health Na one half of all violent and property "Drugs are a species of property, and zis in the federal government who wish Milton Friedman and crime in the United States is commit· hence the right to drugs is a form of to shape the behavior of the citizenry Thomas Szasz ted either by drug addicts engaged in property right. Accordingly, I maintain through increased taxes on tobacco and The Drug Policy Foundation crime to finance their habit, or by con that we have a right to grow, buy, and alcohol, thus displaying their belief that flicts among competing groups of drug ingest drugs as much as we have a right the state can shape the behavior of its 171 pages, 1993 pushers, or in the course of the impor to grow, buy and ingest food; and that citizens in a positive way. tation and the distribution of illegal drug prohibitions, epitomized by laws, All that is left to show for the eighty two long-standing advocates of a free drugs. Legalize drugs, and street crime const\tute deprivations of our funda years of drug prohibition in this coun market approach to drugs, Milton would drop dramatically and immedi mental right to own and use property." try is an even more expansive state and Friedman and Thomas Szasz, who have ately. Moreover, addicts and pushers Szasz also makes painfully true thousands oflost lives. Fi.na1ly, after all remained true to their cause. are not the only on~ corrupted. Im remarks about the hypocrisy bf drug the evidence, people are beginning to The Drug Policy Foundation, a mense sums are at' stake. It is inevi waniors. While it has often been as realize that a new approach to drugs Washington-based organization that table that some relatively low-paid serted that ihemajor opposition to le must be tried. If the debate ever be advances the idea oflegalization within police and other government officials, galization has been on the Right, due to comes truly sane and it is concluded a policy framework, has published a and some high paid ones as well, will a lack of social tolerance among conser· that a free market approach to drugs collection of 17 essays by Friedman and succumb to the. tel:n.ptatio~ to pi~ ~p Szasz. The book is divided. into two easy money." sections, the first devoted to the wolk of . While Friedman should be com- vatlves are not the only ones in opposi thank. No people over the last quarter Friedman and the latter to Szasz. mended for speaking the truth about tion to personal freedom. of a century have done more work to While both attack prohibition as an the ill. effects that prohibition has reaped He remarks that, "liberals tend to wards this cause. m Rogue Warrior Returns BY EDDIE ARNER Navy installations. Marcinko did his that plunges him. into a secret war for and in poor shape, and the mission job too well and in the process embar America's national security. " profile does not allow enough time for N HIS BESTSELLING rassed numerous high-ranking Navy Marcinko begins to investigate and training or money for new equipment. autobiography, Rogue Warrior, Ri officers. Dedication to his job and the concludes that a number of traitorous In response to this situation, I chard Marcinko chronicles his men he commanded eventually cost him AmEWicanS are funneling nuclear rech Marcinko falls back on his experience amazing 30-year Navy career, most of his job and a year in a federal peniten nology to North Korea through Japan. and his contacts from his career. He it as a SEAL. Marcinko rose from an tiary after conviction on one vague and He is subsequently recruited by former steals sop¥Sticated communications enlisted man through the officer ranks incredible charge of fraud. Secretary of Defense Grant Griffith, a gear from an installation, gets intelli and became one of the premier experts During that year, Marcinko and behind-the-ecenes PQwer in the Pen gence from one friend, and weapons on special warfare. He saw combat ac- John Weisman wrote Rogue Warrior, a tagon and on Capitol Hill. Griffith and equipment from two others. nonfiction work, which reached #1 on thinks that Marcinko is the only man Marcinko and his SEALs infiltrate Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell the New York Times bestseller list. who can stop the smuggling operation Washington's Navy Yard offices, the Rogue Warrior II continue~ ~o's and convinces the NavY to involun top secret nuclear weapons depot at Richard Marcinko and tale as "fiction" as he appa.rent1yreached tarily recall him. to active duty. Seal Beach, California - where they John Weisman an agreement with the federal govern Marcinko is given the choice of re discover that several nuclear weapons PocketBooks, 1994 ment not to write nonfiction works. turning to command Red.Cell and at are missing - and a heavily guarded However, this book's nonstandard dis tempt to stop the smuggling or face a North Korean harbor. After creating $22.00, 352 pages claimer about fictitious content forces closed door court martial and spend the mass chaos and more than a few casu the reader to attempt to distinguish rest of his life in Leavenworth prison. alties, Red Cell discovers who is re tion in Vietnam, served as a military which parts are fact and which fiction. Being a SEAL, Marcinko loves to at sponsible for the smuggling and where attache in Cambodia, an intelligence Rogue Warrior II begins with tempt the impossible and takes the job. the weapons were actually headed. officer in the Pentagon, and conducted Marcinko acting as a security consult He is reporting directly to the deputy Red CeU moves fast and possesses covert operations all over the world. He ant by playing teITOriSt at Tokyo's chief of naval operations for plans, great characters, as well as a very be created and commanded SEAL Team Narita airport. He easily infiltrates the policy, and operations, Pinky Prescott lievable plot. Marcinko is an excellent Six, the Navy's version of Delta Force. compound and on the final penetration III, Marcinko's nemesis at SEAL Team author and a great literary character; In 1984, he was ordered by the Chief of he disrupts four North Koreans' at Six. Needless to say, this relationship how many works of fiction are written Naval Operations to create Red Cell, a tempt to steal some cargo. Marcinko's was strained from the start and simply in the first person? Rogue Warrior was small, elite team of SEAL3, whose pur instincts take over; he charges, wins a gets worse. Further, Red Cell's morale a great book, ~ut the sequelleaY~ it in pose w.aeto infiltrate the most secure short firefight, and "makes a discovery is tenible, their equipment is out-dated the dust for sheer readability. m, , , '. " , \ -, '. ~ ',,""·.·.""'''.,.''''''',''''''''.w,..... ''''''~.~'''''''"'... ·n'''''''' .. ''''«'''.,,~''''""-~''''''''~''''''r.''''''/.''_~''' .. F.'''''." ~ ~ SN _;::w:;....,..,..'t.~ i:<~t"~~ r .. ,:t"!'{.J., {'ill I', j,, ' 12 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW March 30, 1994 o MUSIC The Song RaInones The Same BY TRENT A. REYNOLDiJ in a barrage of two-minute anthems acrimoniously after that album. That album. . that left the audience eliliausted but should have been the end of the band, There are no songs by Dee Dee on HE LEGEND IS WELL exhilarated. As soon as one song was but actually things have been better the band's current album, Acid Eaters, known. In 1974, in Queens, four over, someone would yell "1_2- but there is nothing strange about that; T guys formed a band with the 3-4" and launch into the next. h., ..,. _u .•._ ...u .~ .~ ..>. , there aren't any songs by the other intention of playing some of their favor Between-song patter was nearly Ramones either. Acid Eaters is a collec ite songs. Finding the songs too diffi non-existent. Whenever lead tion of covers of some of the band's cult for their very limited skills, they singer Joey Ramone did talk be favorite Sixties songs - the Ramones started writing two and three chord tween songs, it was either to displaying their roots. BOngs that were simple enough for them thank the audience, or it was a "We tried to do songs that we to play. Calling themselves the one or two sentence statement of thought were representative of the Ramones, they began releasing albums his political beliefs: "Fuck rac times," says Marky. "We didn't neces and touring, always in their uniform - ism and God bless the United sarily like some of the bands but we like black leather jackets and long dark States of America!" before "I the songs." All of the songs are done in hair. They kick-started the punk-rock Wanna Live," apparently be high-powered Ramones style. The movement and ended up influencing cause the song is about freedom; songs range from well-known songs damn near every bit of good music re and "I support the right to die!" like "Somebody to Love" and "Have You leased in the late Seventies and a re before "Pet Sematary," appar Ever Seen the Rain" to obscurities like spectable percentage of the good music ently because they put people in "The Shape of Things to Come" from made since then. cemeteries when they die. the cult movie Wild in the Streets. Some Now it's 1994, and the Ramones Throughout, the band was obvi of the songs covered sound as if they are still around. Yet they have caught a ously having as great a time as were originally written for the Ramones lot offlack from critics who don't think the audience. Lead singer Joey to play, such as the Troggs' "I Can't they have a right to be around. Critics seemed genmne1y touched by the When Retro returned, so did the Ramones Control Myself" Others, such as "Have know the formula for punk bands: they incredible ' enthusiasm of the You Ever Seen the Rain," sound noth- are supposed to release a couple of crowd, and drwllmer Marky and new since then. For one thing, Dee Dee is ing like the Ramones in their original great albums .lUUithen