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on Just outside of Mitchell Hall is an unassuming trio of memorials that came about Id in the most unusual of ways. The three memorials - a page* chestnut tree, a plaque and a headstone, are tributes to Vietnam veterans and University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee students killed in the Vietnam War. IBBl The tree was planted in 1971 by a group of Vietnam veterans, at a time when the Loc war in Vietnam was creating controversy on college cam puses across the country. Stn "Initially, when the tree was planted, we didn't tell MS people what it was for, for fear that it would be vandal Post Photo by Vernessa Richardson ized," said Tim Straats, a Former Vietnam Veterans, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students and administration offi member of the campus- cials rededicated the Mitchell Hall Chesnut Tree May 19 with a plaque and headstone. In 1971 stu dents from Vietnam Veterans Against The War planted the tree in protest. based Wisconsin Veterans' Union at the time. In 1975 the Wisconsin tion was put on, and the group third floor of the Union where On May 19, a full 30 Veterans' Union decided to cre was set. we had our office, and it sat there years after being planted, the ate an on-campus Vietnam At the dedication ceremony for years," Straats said about the Sports tree was rededicated with memorial. Members pooled in November 1975, however, the headstone. "We tripped over it, the blessing of the universi their limited funds, and eventual group was told the memorial was we put stuff on top of it." ty. A plaque was also reded ly were able to buy a headstone not allowed. Up against the uni Years passed, the members of F 3ntr icated, along with a head that had been made for someone versity, the veterans gave up on the Wisconsin Veterans' Union stone that has a long history else. The original name was their plans. reach at UWM. buffed off, the veterans' inscrip "We hauled it back up to the see VIETNAM page 2 tourr Rev. Leon Sullivan remembered By LIZ GREENAWALT page 10 Features Editor with, and dealt blows to social "Lion of Zion," due to his worldwide, his relationship inequality. extraordinary work with the with Milwaukee was intimate. The world, as well as On April 24, 2001, the Rev. Zion Baptist Church in "The reach of this truly Milwaukee is attempting to Sullivan succumbed to Philadelphia, was one of the extraordinary man was nothing cope with the passing of the leukemia at the Scottsdale forefathers in social justice and short of amazing. He touched all corners of the world, includ Featu ing here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with the Sullivan-Spaights Professorship shared by the Schools of Education and Social Welfare," said She University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Chancellor, Nancy Zimpher. The Sullivan-Spaights Professorship, the only named professorship honoring an African-American in the UW System, was established by the Opportunities Industrialization Features 4 center (OIC)-Greater Arts & Entertainment 6 Milwaukee and UWM. In 1993, Rev. Sullivan was Sports 10 given an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Welfare from Editorial 12 UWM. The OIC was Sullivan's Perspectives 13 Photo courtesy of UWM Office of Commications and Media Relations Rev. Sullivan at a tribute held at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the late-1970s. brainchild. Founded in 1964, it is one of the world's largest Classifieds 15 Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, an Healthcare Osborn Hospital. welfare around the world. non-profit training organiza- Although his reach was Crossword Puzzle 15 instrumental man who dealt Rev. Sullivan, known as the see SULLIVAN page 3
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went their separate ways, and have been nicer about it," the headstone was forgotten. Straats said. "We were just In October 1994 the head thrilled. We couldn't believe stone resurfaced when cam after 19 years the stone was pus police found it in an there." office in the Union. Officers As for the university's contacted former members of support of the rededication, the veterans' group to tell Straats is pleased. News & Editorial them of the discovery, and the "We'vebecome Editor-in-Chief outgoing Bryan G. Pfeifer headstone found new life. respectable," he said. Editor-in-Chief incoming A month later, the head Casey Young stone was erected on campus News Editor as a memorial to Vietnam vet Posf Photo by Vernessa Richardson Kelly Pawlak erans. Student leaders and other community members observe the Arts & Entertainment Editor "The university couldn't dedication/memorial ceremony. Lisa Ridgely Features Editor Liz Greenawalt Sports Editor Open Photo Editor Vernessa Richardson Copy Editors Emily Fantetti Jillian Vignoe Production Editor Tim Zwettler Technical Support/Web Saad Akbar Khan Kevin Flanagan Delivery Eric Anderson John Price
Business & Advertising Business Manager Eric Jelinski Advertising Manager Krista Gilson Advertising Representative Cate Caspari Advertising Designer Open Classifieds Manager Niki Robinson Post Photo by Vernessa Richardson Board of Directors A former student and member of Vietnam Veterans Against The War, participates in the dedication/memorial ceremony. Cate Caspari Liz Greenawalt Eric Jelinski Bryan G. Pfeifer Vernessa Richardson Students fight drug law By KELLY PAWLAK One copy free, additional copies $75 each. News Editor sessing or selling drugs after has already fulfilled the restitu color. According to the The UWM Post, Inc. is a registered student Leadership Conference on organization at the University of Wisconsin- you submit your FAFSA, you tion or penalty meted out by a Milwaukee and an independent nonstock As many as 60,000 college must notify the financial aid court, withholding federal aid Civil Rights, African- corpoation. 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You will lose your eligi ment." cent of drug convictions, but Published Wednesdays during the fall and this year because of a three- bility and must pay back all aid Other points include the only 13 percent of illegal drug spring semesters, and at the beginning of each summer session, except for holidays year-old law barring people you received after your convic possibility of students not fully users. and exam periods. with drug convictions from tion," the form states. understanding what informa Student organizations are FROM THE UNIVERSITY: The UWM Post receiving federal student aid, According to a May 3 New tion they are required to dis becoming more involved in the is written and published by the students according to David Borden, York Times article, "students close and not realizing the con issue. As of May 24,69 student of UWM. They are solely responsible for executive director of the Drug convicted on drug charges sequences of lying on the form. government bodies, including its editorial policy and content. UWM is Reform Coordination Network. the United Council of not liable for debts incurred by the become ineligible for federal The letter also addresses the publisher. The UWM Post is not an official Passed in 1998, the Higher financial aid and loans for one issue of reinstating eligibility University of Wisconsin publication of UWM. Education Act's Drug Provision year after a possession convic for financial aid after complet Students, have signed a resolu took effect July 1, 2000 and tion, or for two years after a ing a drug rehabilitation pro tion for the repeal of the Drug resulted in 9,000 students being conviction of selling drugs, gram, but states that is not Provision. 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Most of these pro for financial aid officers hosted MAILING ADDRESS year are higher because of a attend college." grams are oversubscribed by by students at Hampshire Union Box 88 change to the Free Application The American Council on individuals with more serious College in Massachusetts last UWM PO Box 413- or habitual drug dependencies. month, attendees were given Milwaukee, Wl 53201 for Federal Student Aid. Last Education alleges that this law year, many applicants left the is flawed and unfair in a recent Rehabilitation programs over the chance to sign a petition Phone: (414) 229-4578 question dealing with illegal letter sent to Asa Hutchinson, whelmingly are focused on cre asking Congress to repeal the drug convictions blank and head of the Drug Enforcement ating positive environments law. Fax: (414) 229-4579 received financial aid. This Administration. The letter, also and seldom feature unan "A number of financial aid year's application states: "Do signed by 13 other organiza nounced drug tests, which are administrators signed the docu not leave question 35 (the ques tions representing colleges, stu required by this statute." ment," said Borden. "We were tion about drug convictions) dent groups, financial aid Finally, the letter states that very encouraged to see just Member of: blank." administrators and admissions the law is biased against low- how much support there is and The application also officers, includes seven specific and middle-income students that the financial aid people are 3 includes instructions should the issues the council says are who need financial aid to attend really on the side of the stu VY i rc is* student receive a drug convic problems. school. dents." El tion after filling out the form. One of the allegations made Other groups allege that the "If you are convicted of pos- in the letter is that "if a student law is biased against people of The UWM Post NEWS June 6. 2001 Scrap with After 21-day occupation Elite Harvard yields to a purpose worker/student solidarity
By KELLY PAWLAK New York Times, Harvard to the growing mobilization to News Editor power for use at UWM also By LESLIE FEINBERG agreed to reexamine its health protest in Washington, D.C, on made its way to the SWAP insurance co-payment for hun Sept. 29, Childs concluded, Consider this—you happen shop, where it was purchased WW wire service — After dreds of its lowest-paid workers. "Let's tell Bush in the White 21 days of occupying Harvard to have a jet engine lying by a private industry. Solidarity forever! House that we are coming for President Neil L. Rudenstine's around your apartment that you Director of Environmental Who made up the student you." office, students emerged on May Speakers were cheered when really don't have much use for Health, Safety and Risk protesters inside the building? 8 to the roar of drumbeats, On day 17, occupier Jane they expressed solidarity with anymore. You'd like to get rid Management, John Krezoski cheers, whistles and applause of Martin leaned out a Mass Hall Black Northeastern students of it, but you're pretty sure the said the program originated in more than 1,000 workers, stu window to tell Workers World, who are involved in their own garbage men don't do curbside Madison. dents, faculty and community "It's a cool group of people. The occupation because administra pick-up of big, heavy airplane "UW-Madison got started supporters. gender dynamic is really good. tors threatened to take away The protest is a militant parts. Looks like you're stuck on this, and we're just follow People come from different their campus building. chapter in an already three-year ing suit," said Krezoski. backgrounds, different class Several days before the with the engine. long campaign by students to Not a likely scenario for The objective behind the backgrounds, ethnic back Harvard occupation ended, win a living wage—$10.25 an grounds, a lot of sexual diversi Workers World asked Aaron most of us, but it is something program, however, focuses hour plus benefits—for ty." Bentley about the power of the that happens at universities. more environmental protection Harvard's most impoverished Enter the University of than economic gain. Computer employees. Wisconsin-System SWAP equipment and electronic The bold student occupation Shop. An acronym for "scrap devices often contain trace at Harvard—the General Motors of academia—captured the with a purpose," the program amounts of hazardous sub attention of the university, the allows state universities to dis stances, such as lead, that need city and the country. It recalled pose of unneeded computer to be removed for proper dis the militant sit-down strikes of equipment, electronic compo posal. the 1930s. And the Tent City set nents, industrial tools and the "Rather than throw it away, up by supporters outside Mass occasional jet engine. you really need to go through it Hall brought back memories of Goods that are in working and make sure you're not going the encampments of the unem ployed in the same struggle era. condition are resold to other to release any hazardous mate The 21-day Harvard student rials," Krezoski said. "The state agencies. Unusable items protest—believed to be the are sold to a smelting vendor. EPA rules and the DNR rules longest building occupation in A jet engine given up by the are stricter for corporations and the university's history—wrest UWM Department of organizations than they are for ed concessions from the bosses Photo courtesy of www.hcs.harvard.edu One of many signs protesters used to convey their message to Engineering a few years back homeowners. At home you can of this corporate empire. Harvard officials. went to the SWAP shop, was throw away a computer and University officials finally sold to a vendor who reworked they'll take it to the landfill." agreed to establish a committee of three union workers, four stu it and then was sold back to Since last July the program Al Cho, co-chair of the living wage campaign as he dents, 10 faculty and two senior leaned out the window of Mass UW-Madison for training pur has resulted in the removal of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, administrators to re-examine Transgender and Supporters Hall. poses. A welding machine that approximately 44,000 pounds university wage policies. Alliance, said the occupiers He said, "I think this really is was in perfect working condi of material. A statement from the Living included "A good mix of Asians an emerging movement with a tion but required too much Wage Campaign, issued as the and South Asians and a lot of real capability to transform pub protesters left the building, them queer." lic consciousness about eco SULLIVAN from page 1 noted that: "Before the sit-in About half the Harvard nomic justice and racial justice tions, and in 1969 the OIC really stayed the course," said began, the university had fully occupiers were Jewish students. and some real bonds between began offering international Battle upon hearing of Rev. rejected living wages and had And Latino and Black students students and workers and labor training. The purpose of the Sullivan's death. stated that it regarded the issue took part in the overall protest. unions in general in a way that program is to train people "The Rev. Sullivan - of poverty wages on campus as At the May 8 rally to wel- will be a force to be reckoned equally, regardless of sex, sexu remained active, actually living closed." with." al identity, gender, or age. what amounted to multiple The widespread solidarity There are approximately 75 lives. He moved from the movement ignited by the boda facilities in Africa and local, to the nationaland then cious takeover bears out the America. international arena. He could truth of what Bentley stated. "The Rev. Sullivan spent a relate to common folk as well Ashwini Sukthankar, a sec lifetime uniting people to as kings, presidents, and cap ond-year law student, was inside accomplish what at first tains of industry," said Battle. the occupation for the first seemed impossible: reducing Another achievement of week. She told Workers World social injustices in America, Rev. Sullivan included his elec that when the students first burst ending apartheid in South tion to the board of directors at into the administration building Africa, crossing racial barriers General Motors Corp. He was for the takeover they brought in U.S. corporate boardrooms, the first African American to be just a little food with them, training millions of people elected to the board of any assuming police would quickly worldwide to help themselves major corporation. eject them. and many more," said Zimpher. He also founded But when the occupation In 1977, Sullivan formed International Foundation for Photo courtesy ofwww.hcs.harvard.edu continued, she was impressed Additional protesters gather outside Mass Hall to express their the "Sullivan Principles," a set Education and Self Help, a with how quickly the faculty disapproval of Harvard's wage policy. of standards to encourage non-profit organization seeking organized themselves to support equality and diversity, in the to train skilled workers, new it. "Three hundred faculty mem workplace as well as society. farmers and people in literacy. Harvard also agreed that come the student protesters, sup bers signed letters supporting These principles helped end The Rev. Sullivan is the until the committee reaches its porters pumped the air with the sit-in within 48 hours." apartheid in South Africa, and author of several books, includ conclusions, the university will clenched fists as Ed Childs— One sign of the wide net this were applied globally at the 5th ing "America is Theirs," "Build stop outsourcing custodial and chief shop steward of Local 26 struggle cast could be gauged by annual African American Brother, Build," "Alternative to dining work to outside subcon HERE—told them, "We are a a poster hanging on the building, Summit. Despair," and "Moving tractors. family here. We have redefined next to Mass Hall: "String theo Professor Stanley F. Battle, Mountains, The Principles and The university heads also family—Black, Latino, Asian, rists for a living wage!" assistant chancellor of student Purposes of Leon H. Sullivan." agreed to early renegotiations of white, students, workers, facul Support signs were plastered the contract covering some 650 and multicultural affairs at The Rev. Sullivan was born ty, immigrants, women and men, on all the nearby buildings and in Charleston West Virginia on unionized custodial workers. A gay, straight and trans. There are UWM, is the current holder of hanging from trees in Harvard the Sullivan-Spaights Oct. 16, 1922. He is survived resulting agreement could mean 87 languages in my union. a wage increase for these very Yard. The groups in support of Professorship. by his wife, Grace Banks; chil "You have awakened a poorly paid workers retroactive "In terms of his loss, there dren, Hope, Howard, and Julie, sleeping giant. And it goes the living wage campaign for to May 1. are no other African American and seven grandchildren. beyond this campus." Referring see HARVARD page 15 leaders from his era that have And according to the May 9 June 6, 2001 FEATURES www, uwmpost.com UWM reaches El Chico es rico new students
By LIZ GREENAWALT Features Editor business, communication, and information resources. The University of UWM Chancellor, Nancy Wisconsin-Milwaukee has Zimpher said, "UWM and the long been recognized as UW colleges exemplify educa Wisconsin's premier urban tional partnership to the citi university. Recently the uni zens across this great state. We versity has offered the option eagerly await the Wisconsin of a higher education to even legislature to join us as part more people around the state. ners by supporting the expan With the May 8, 2001 sign sion and growth of the UWM ing of the "UWM College College Connection. Connection," students attend "UWM has always been ing the so-called "freshman- the number one transfer desti sophomore campuses" will be nation for UW System stu able to earn a bachelor's dents," Zimpher continued. degree from UWM without "We are very proud that in leaving these smaller schools. three short years, more than Ruth Williams, assistant 180 students at five UW vice-chancellor for academic System colleges' campuses affairs said, "For students this have enrolled to earn their is terrific, especially for those B.A. in organizational admin living in the communities of istration, and that by later this UW colleges. Through this summer there will be 10 proud program we are able to expand alumni of this innovative pro accessibility to those who have gram." Post Photo by Vernessa Richardson familial obligations and work Currently, the College that does not enable them to Connection offers a bachelor By NICK DESTEFANIS receive a UWM degree on of arts degree with emphasis Staff Writer ting many breaks on tuition. other patrons followed suit and campus." on administration. This has If you like delicacies such as shared enthusiasm as they pro Williams added, "It is also been in place at UW- I don't know about the rest of red snapper or beef tongue, this is ceeded to decorate his face with very good for students in Sheboygan and UW- you folks, but if you're like me, the place. They have a cozy stickers until he finally woke up. metro Milwaukee because Washington County since the after a long night at the bars you atmosphere with traditional At this point the sleeping gen many programs are offered fall of 1998. can get pretty hungry. Might I Mexican music playing on the tleman received a standing ova online. This will expand In fall 2001, UWM will suggest a place of interest to jukebox. They also serve break tion from everyone present. It accessibility, and reduce stu also offer a bachelor of science increase your palette and satisfy fast all day long for you huevo was a glorious occasion, unique dents' time on campus." in information resources and a your hunger? lovers. to our esteemed east side after bar The College Connection bachelor of arts with a major in With the weather getting I must admit that I have more time. Surprisingly, there is never will offer a university educa communication. warmer and time spent outside than adequate experience dining any cover charge for this type of tion through the Internet, UWM currently offers the longer, it's only natural to build a at El Chico's, and I have noticed entertainment. videos, and classroom instruc BAOA at UW-Washington healthy appetite. So take a that everyone there always seems Regardless of time or place, I tion. Students receiving their County, Waukesha, southerly spin and stop by El quite comfortable. With pictures urge you to stop by El Chico's on baccalaureate through the Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Chico Zuma for fine Mexican of the Virgin Mary gracing the North Avenue for a great dining UWM College Connection Rock County campuses. In the dining in the heart of our own walls, how could you not? experience. Go with your friends will also be offered use of the fall of 2001, depending upon eastside at 1814 North Avenue. In fact, I recall seeing one pr take a date. You never know campus's library, computer funding, involved campuses The portions are generous patron so comfortable that he what kind of time you may labs, academic support, and will include UW-Baraboo, and the prices are college appro decided to take a nap in his meal. have... the opportunity to combine Marinette, and Richland priate ($7.49 for a ribeye steak & Another customer then decided UWM majors with minors in Center. enchilada!) After all, we're get to play a prank on the man. The
Someone to write a health section Someone to write an "environmental" section someone to report on student organizations
Someone to report on happenings in UWM's various schools Calender of events
A student (preferrably an English student) to write a Serial SlOry (appr. 1000 wds. each issue) The UWM Post FEATURES June 6, 2001 Shabazz reflects on year in spotlight
UW-Madison - The Daily student center, down to Chicago ... everyone feels comfortable, but I Cardinal — When news broke that They organized a trip to go down to am talking about an environment UW-Madison officials digitally Chicago and visit a number of dif that does not have institutional pol inserted the face of a black student ferent Chicago high schools. I was icy and privileged culture that into the cover image for the 2001- down at Whitney Young High excludes and undermines the ability '02 Undergraduate Admissions School and attempted to recruit for of students to define themselves-, to Application, senior Diallo the university in the midst of every- . communicate on an equal level. Shabazz's iife was completely thing else that was going on here. And no, as I said before, there upended. Shabazz sat down with And, of course encouraged, the have been a number of students The Daily Cardinal to discuss how admissions department helped pay who have been saying this, people his life changed and to offer his for some of the trip [and] ASM [have been] saying these things for hopes for UW-Madison. helped pay for some of the trip. And a long time. Simply because some The Daily Cardinal: What is at the high school I had a few stu one broadens the spectrum of the the status of conversations between dents recognize me. One girl said audience of which you are able to your lawyers and the university? that she still had the picture from a reach doesn't mean that you stop Diallo Shabazz: There was an newspaper clipping on their refrig speaking, [it] doesn't mean that you article published earlier this week erator because they couldn't believe turn your message off. It means that in the Cardinal, and as of right now that it happened. you speak louder, but you make there have been no new develop And the main reason they had it sure that you're really careful about ments. on there was because she'd picked what you say because you realize DC: More than seven months up an application to apply to UW- that it has a much wider influence ago, you became a national figure. Madison, and after the event hap than it previously did. What was the most difficult part pened, a lot of students said there DC: How would you describe about that? was no way they would ever go to campus climate this year? DS: Well, I wouldn't necessari UW-Madison. Not only because DS: I think campus climate is ly characterize myself as a national they thought that it was foul that it the same that it's been-based on figure. More so because the face happened, but also because they conversations that I've had with that was put on the front page of a realized it could have been them. students who were here prior to me lot of newspapers didn't have a per And they said in no way, shape or coming [and] freshmen, who just sonality to go along with it, so I form did they ever want to put came this year, and they are really really don't think that that charac themselves in an environment seeing jio change. I think every terizes me as a national figure. where something like that could one's hypersensitive to the situation On a local level, I think that happen to them. Especially when it that exists every single day, where what it did was put me into a posi seemed to them that nothing had you have a number of different stu tion where I became kind of rede been done to remedy the situation dents of color who love the educa fined. Prior to the incident, I Photo courtesy of Scott Anderson/The Daily Cardinal so that it wouldn't happen again. tion that they receive, but hate the Diallo Shabazz worked along with a number of I had a number of different stu environment in which they have to other students on .this campus who dents, had a couple of white stu receive it. They hate being margin are still here: Tshaka Barrows; Carl the time because we had already of something that's important. Also, dents, approach me and asking me alized; they despise being ridiculed Camacho, who just was elected talked to Director of Admissions I think that if someone would have why in the hell would I be recruit and are fed up with having to take vice chair of ASM-I'm very proud Rob Seltzer, and I said that perhaps been fired, then it's almost like you ing for Madison-why didn't I on the responsibility of addressing about that-and a number of other you would still want to run the arti could say that the UW-Madison is a leave? I had a number of different various elements on campus who students: [including] Jennifer Epps, cle in the future-maybe a few days ship at sea, and that someone who students of color asking me, why don't really see an importance in who was an ASM representative. from now, a few weeks from now- made a mistake about to flip the would I encourage them to go to their welfare. And I've also done some poetry but what we wanted to do was to try ship, and they threw the person Madison after what happened to DC: What will it take for cam with Richard Davis. We performed to discuss with them certain things overboard and now everything is me? And basically, I told them this: pus climate to improve to the point on the Monona Terrace for the that could take place beforehand, okay and now we're sailing fine. I said that the decision made in where diversity concerns are no Juneteenth day celebration. So I certain solutions that might present That's not the case-the problem was Madison was an institutional deci longer an issue? had a much more varied personali themselves and we may use that as embedded within the bowels of the sion. DS: Well, that's an issue that's ty. I would go out and do a lot of an option later. ship. And until those problems are And that decision to put a outside of the sphere of Madison's different things. And when an event By running the article first, and rooted out, exposed, analyzed and fraudulent picture of my face on an influence. What you're [asking is] like this happens, what it does is having to deal with the issue later, ... solutions [are created] for them admissions booklet stems from a 'what will it take to create equality kind of redefines you and kind of anyone knows that an institution, to address them, then we'll always mentality that is prevalent through in our country?' And that is an reshapes your identity into some like the University of Wisconsin- have problems. out all major institutions in answer that if anyone gave a one or thing you haven't chosen for your Madison, will turn on its PR - DC: You've been pushing the America. And it's something that two sentence answer, they would be self. And being forcefully redefined machine, start addressing the news, university to try and enact change needs to be addressed. I said that by lying. It requires a multi-dimen is, I think, one of the worst things start cranking out all kinds of inter for many years. Did this incident not coming to Madison doesn't sional analysis and perspective. that you can do to someone, to take views, statements, things like that. help or hinder those efforts? mean that you evade that mentality. And I would really, really be inter their identity away and replace it And while all these things are being DS: I would say that any time I said by attending a historically ested in writing on that or directing with something else. done, what's being overlooked is you have a way to bring attention to black college or university doesn't someone else who would write on Throughout the entire incident the institutional harm that has been an issue that has been swept under mean that you necessarily evade it. that. But I'm not going to give a what I tried to do was to work along done, as far as representation for the rug, then it's a good thing. I said if you could make it in simple word answer here because with a number of other students on students of color on this campus However, you have to make sure to Madison, you could make it any I'd be lying. Basically, it's going to campus, who are still working on [and] personal harm that has also keep in mind who is at risk when where. take white people giving up a lot of these issues to this day, and make been done. And to this date, there you bring the issue forward. There But I'm not encouraging you to the privileges that they took for sure that a lot of these things were has been a lot of talk about what are a lot of different students on this put yourself into an environment granted. addressed-that it wasn't something should be done, but there really campus who sacrifice a lot of time that will harm you, but I am trying DC: Is there anything else that was swept under the rug. It's haven't been any solutions imple and energy into trying to improve to let you know that that mentality you'd like to say or add that you very important that this situation is mented. the campus climate. And those are is not a Madison-specific mentality. think this interview hasn't addressed so that it doesn't happen DC: Many people began calling decisions that they make for them DC: While you were in the addressed? in the future to another student. And for university officials to step down selves. However, when someone national spotlight, the comments DS: The problems that students try to make sure that we look at it or be fired. Neither of those things does make a decision where stu that you made were scrutinized on this campus are dealing with- from an institutional standpoint, happened. Were you surprised? dents' welfare, mental health and across the board. Do you wish you from a social standpoint, from a and not really turn it into a personal DS: No, I didn't call for anyone personal identity is affected against would have held silent, just refused cultural standpoint, from an eco issue. to step down or be fired myself, for their will, then it becomes very to comment and dealt with this on nomic standpoint, from a political The personal elements ... I've a number of different reasons. First problematic. your own? Or are you glad you got standpoint-are some of the same had to deal with them on my own. of all, when we talk about the issue You could also say that the to say what you had to say? problems that our parents dealt Initially it seems like something of diversity with students and mul entire issue is a bad thing because, DS: I didn't say anything that a with, that our parents' parents dealt that maybe some people said, 'Oh, ticultural education on this campus, despite the fact that the university number of students of color haven't with and that our children will well, you know maybe it's a good that not only applies to students, but seems to be dedicated, at least on been saying on this campus since probably be dealing with for a long thing that you're more popular, blah also applies to faculty, staff, admin- paper, to increasing diversity and desegregation. And that is that you time. And that is addressing unjusti blah blah.' But, it becomes very istrators-and the administrators improving the education at this uni have predominantly white institu fied privilege and an entire culture problematic when your popularity have already admitted to this. So it versity, everyone is still confronted tions which systematically exclude that marginalizes various aspects of stems from a forced identity almost becomes kind of like a train with the reality that this incident students of color from the educa its own population. We're dealing change, which doesn't allow you to ing issue because the mentality that will probably affect recruitment of tional process and do not take into with people in power who will represent yourself as who you real made that decision is prevalent out students at this university for years account that the type of environ agree with you on paper, but posi ly are. side of the people in those offices, to come for students of color and ment that pre-exists at the universi tion themselves as the very barriers against the solutions on which you DC: Do you feel the university outside of University of Wisconsin- white students. ty is detrimental to the mental are both supposed to be working properly handled the situation at the Madison. In December, I had the privi health of a lot of students of color. on. And although people often get time? I guess you could say it's a lege of accompanying a student Also, keeping in mind that I'm not burnt out and lose hope, we have to DS: When I came to you in the national issue and received a lot of organization on campus, la talking about a perfect environment remember that not only are we fall and talked to you about why I national attention-that's why a lot Colectiva de la Aztlan, a student of in which everyone gets along, in which everyone's friends, in which didn't want you to run the article at of people will read about it, because color group out of the multicultural see SHABAZZ page 14 June 6, 2001 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT www.uwmpost.com Riverwest festival celebrates 25 years
By LISA RIDGELY Arts & Entertainment Editor Locust Street Festival of Music and Art Most of us young 'uns who live in the area have at least heard about, if not participated in, the Annual Riverwest Beer Run or Walk, which has a 1.8 mile route that requires Sunday, June 10 pit stops at four neighborhood bars. Beer? And running?! 11:30 a.m. -8 p.m. How cool! But the run only starts off a full day of events at the Located on Locust between Locust Street Festival of Music and Art. Entertainment Humboldt and Holton Sts. includes live music and a number of artists, street per formers and vendors. FREE According to Jim Linneman of Linneman's Riverwest Inn, locals have enjoyed the Locust Street Festival for 25 www. locust-street com years. It began as a community celebration when, in 1976, the city's plans to widen Locust Street between Humboldt and Holton fell through, he said. The street construction Photo courtesy of Jim Linneman would have forced the demolition of buildings and busi nesses on those blocks of Locust; this threat had united much of the Riverwest neighborhood in objection. VENUE ENTERTAINMENT Since then, said Linneman, it's become the city's best festival. 1) The Tracks The Love Monkeys, BJuehand, "There's just a creative energy that you don't see at a The Danny Krjli" Band lot of other [festivals]...it's a very colorful festival," he said, comparing the atmosphere created by Riverwest's 2) Linneman's The Thousandaires; unique, eclectic culture and mix of people - students, artists, musicians - to that of New York's Greenwich Little Jimmy & the Blackbirds, The Mosfeys, Village. The Lackfoves, Sixty Watt Sarah, Amy Rohan, The more than 40 artists and 15 bands featured at the * 8pm After Fest -Recycled Future festival are almost exclusively local, with many coming from the Riverwest community. Look for the Love Tony's Tygers, Mark Pannier & the B.B.'s, Monkeys, Little Jimmy and the Blackbirds, and the Bobby Way Thousandaires, some notable local bands. Other highlights: Woodland Pattern Books, 720 E. 4) The Riverwest Commons Planeta De Crystal, Old Mil, Kokapellt, Del Mar Locust, has set up a photo montage commemorating the past 25 years of Locust Street Festival. This block is the "Cosmic Pattern" block, where you can receive tarot card 5) Nita's Two Johnny Z & the Uptown Savages, 707, Mupflap or palm readings and check out the latest in holistic health. Down the road at Bremen Street will be the Milwaukee 6) Lakefront Brewery Stage Dr. Chow's Love Medicine, Recycled Future, Public Theater's drumming circle, a climbing wall, and Psycho Bunnies organic produce. Vendors and community organizations will set up at "Cosmic Patterns" Book Sale booths to sell goods and hand out information. There'll also be loads of options to keep kids busy in the Children's Carnival Rides, Face Painting, Children's Art Amusement Area, including games, arts and crafts, and carnival rides. Kids Basketball Tournament Alderman Mike D'Amato and an estimated 800 run ners will kick off the festival Sunday at 11:30 a.m., start ing at the corner of Booth & Locust. Entry forms for advanced registration ($14) can be printed off the Festival's web site (see sidebar); day-of registration also offered ($15).
& Entertai eeded The UWM Post ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT June 6, 2001 Fernandez explodes on the scene with self-titled debut album
Wade Fernandez (Wiciwen this on." From here "Nokomaeh" depth of its beauty and dedica Apis-Mahwaew) has accom segues into "Nenah Kemanon tion to the next generation(s). plished a rare feat with his self- Nokomaeh," a Native chant best Fernandez's anger comes out titled debut album. In the midst played at loud volume. on the songs "Until Then," and of a corporate consumer culture Continuing in this direction, "Guns," tributes to Menominee unprecedented in world history, Fernandez gives us one of the Nation member O'Peqtaw- Fernandez, a registered member most eclectic instrumentals in Metamoh/lngrid Washinawatok of the Menominee Nation, creat recent memory, "A guitar chants El Issa, who was killed while on ed an album of rock solid sub for the people." Here Fernandez a human rights mission to stance. showcases his musical talent Colombia in 1999. Fernandez has performed playing flamenco and electric "A Menominee far from throughout the United States, guitar flawlessly while chanting home, Colombian blood and oil Canada, and Europe, including a amidst a steady drum beat. Not war zone. For Maecetowok one performance at Woodstock '94 to be missed. more fight, before, O'Peqtaw and a portion of the Honor The Speaking of musical talent, Metanoh took to flight. Ingrid Earth Tour 2000. He has per Fernandez delivers a tour-de gave up this life, in the fight for formed with many recording force in "Cages," a song dedicat human rights. But will we plant artists including: Jackson ed to freedom fighters like the seeds she's sown, I don't Browne, Mitch Walking Elk, Leonard Peltier, Nelson know," sings Fernandez on Douglas Spotted Eagle, Annie Mandela, Mumia Abu-Jamal and "Until Then." For more informa tion contact the Flying Eagle Women Fund, 708 Broadway 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10003; (212)982-5358. itage, "Until Then" is also "dedi formal honors his people by cated to the preservation of the music school train opening up the Wolf River and all natural ing at the album with an intro- resources, traditional cultures University of d u c t i o n i n around the world, and all those Wisconsin- Menominee lan who struggle to protect them," Milwaukee, and guage. This history writes Fernandez on the jacket life experience, flows throughout the cover. For more information go Fernandez pours album.Most to www.menominee.com/nomin- forth his anger, ing/home.html. Photo by Dick Bancroft poignant is a mov Photo by Michael Waupoose O'Peqtaw-Metamoh/lngrid Washinawatok El Issa sadness, beauty, ing spoken-word To close out the album, Fernandez with his son Wade Jr. 1957-1999. and hope on tribute, Fernandez tears it up with the numerous topics. (Wahpi-Mahwaesaeh) and his wife Paula blues and jazz based songs, "J.J. "Nokomaeh,"for Kamewan-Nukiw. Humphrey, The Indigo Girls, Musically, Fernandez proves Fernandez' late at 4 a.m," "Coming Back Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal, and he can more than hold his own. grandmother. In the oral tradi all those locked down for who Home," and "The go to bed Fernandez's guitar playing is All music and lyrics were written tion, Fernandez asks questions and what they represent. A beau already jam." On these instru featured on two Mitch Walking by Fernandez. Session musi regarding the underdevelopment tiful harmony led by Fernandez's mentals, Fernandez showcases Elk CDs; "Ain't No Simple cians, friends and family con of Native nations, genocide, vocals and liberating lyrics, numerous musical influences Thing" and "Peace And tributed to the album. Travis racism, addiction, and diabetes, make this song a rare gem. It he's gathered from the reserva Dignity." He is also featured on a Fernandez, Fernandez' brother, which afflicts Native people at makes one wonder how many tion and elsewhere. If one listens special Indian Summer compila and Michael Waupoose took the epidemic proportions. Ending on songs like this exist in the hearts closely one can hear a little bit of tion CD. breathtaking photos that grace a message of hope, Fernandez of those on the reservations, and everything. Shaking the dust off Drawing from his the jacket cover. says, "Wake up, We are alive, We in the barrios, ghettos and trailer the electric, Fernandez takes a Menominee and Mexican her- From the start Fernandez are surviving, and we must pass parks. backseat to no one here. This "Waiting for You," the track man can jam! following "Cages," is drawn Creating one of the best from Fernandez' experience debuts in recent memory, working with young children and Fernandez gives us perhaps that teenagers on the Menominee one intangible but all-too-real reservation. He makes his contri- feeling: hope. From the music to bution by telling us, "So go the messages to his solidarity, they're waiting for you. And no, Fernandez' infectious spirit will they're not killers they're your keep you going on whatever road kids. They just need us to you've chosen. awake." It's a rare feat when an artist PHAT captures liberation and freedom Following this is Fernandez's personal contribution to his new in their work. Fernandez has born son. done this and more. Fernandez and his wife Paula Listen and drink deeply. Kamewan-Nukiw, bore a son PHUNCTION they affectionately call Baby To purchase a copy of "Wade Wade a few months before the Fernandez (Wiciwen Apis- release of the album. Their son is Mahwaew), " log on the focus of a tender acoustic www.nativevoices.net/wfernan- lullaby, "Baby Wade (Wahpi- dez or call (414) 444-3970. Mahwaesaeh)," that makes it dif Lakefront Festival of Arts ficult to keep dry eyes with the —Bryan G. Pfeifer Saturday, June 16, 4:00 p.m.
For money-saving advance tickets, visit www.mam.org/lfoa or call (414)224-3854 8 June 6, 2001 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT www, uwmpost.com Artful Dodger tests U.S. waters
ARTFUL DODGER house, drum'n'bass, and reggae management and publicity virtu Re-Rewind currently known as U.K. Garage ally ensure pop success, Artful (London-Sire) or 2-Step. They were nominated Dodger may struggle. for Best Brit Dance Act and Best But it's not "pop" - it's If you live around here, British Newcomers at this year's dance, it's garage. Their popular chances are you haven't heard Brit Awards. Now they've come ity started in the underground, too much London 2-Step bangin' to the States to release a debut and that's likely where their U.S. from the house parties on mix album, "Re-Rewind," possibilities lie. They lay down named after their hit U.K. sin some absolutely phat beats on gle. this album; no matter what kind Walking up fame's staircase of music you like, this stuff alongside Artful Dodger is should get you bouncing. Some Craig David (he was recently serious booty-shaking should introduced on BET), a young ensue upon hearing "Re- vocalist often featured in their Rewind," "It Ain't Enough," and songs, who has done some "Woman Trouble" (which, by musical crossbreeding of his the way, can be heard in the own. As the new posterboy of movie Bridget Jones Diary - but Earn $10,000 over summer the U.K. Garage culture, he's not on the soundtrack!). Maryland Row. But had you created a huge pop following Rumor has it their full-length $25-50,000 or more by Christmas! been paying attention to the U.K. cranking out solo hits. Artful debut, "It's All About the Using your computer. music scene this year, you'd Dodger also likes to feature Stragglers," will be released here know the chart-topping success Robbie Craig, Public Demand this August. If you dig kick-ass of production and DJing duo Records' in-house artist. basslines, sensual vocals, and Work with TV personality from "Grace Under Fire" Artful Dodger. So can these British lads revolutionary rhythms, have a Artful Dodger's creators, infiltrate the American scene? In listen to the group that helped Southampton-based Pete a mainstream environment in launch a new and exciting musi We're looking for leaders Devereax and Mark Hill, have which appearing near-naked in cal genre. created quite a phenomenon in music videos, bleaching hair in —Lisa Ridgely the U.K. with their infective huge blonde chunks, and rolling 1-866-733-0312 fusion of garage, R&B, acid with the trends via successful
Da Country Boy Clique Powder (Eye Too Eye Records)
Coo-Coo Cal Forget the Benjamins. It's all about the marketing ba-by. My Projects After a thorough listen to the Country Boy Clique's CD "Powder", starring (Tommyboy/lnfinite45) Baby Drew & Derrick Note—one thing becomes quite obvious. Baby Drew (a former UWM student) is the one being marketed here. And not without www.tommyboy.com good reason. After selling well over 2,000 copies of both an EP (1998's "Hand That Jay-Z is quite lyrical. Top notch. Some consider him the best. But have you ever Rocks The Cradle") and a maxi-single (1999's "Goldfangaz"), Eye Too Eye noticed that there isn't anything real special about his voice? It's just kind of average executives were confident that the buzz generated from Baby Drew's afore sounding. Then there's Ja-Rule. Now that's an emcee! He has the kind of vocal style mentioned projects would carry over to their first long player. And while the and delivery that grabs everyone's attention. But wait...is he an upper echelon lyri label's prediction of commercial success for "Powder" proved accurate cist? Most would say not. (earning mention in the Dec 2000 issue of The Source), the blending of both So I suppose if you had an artist with the skill of Jay-Z or Eminem...and the deliv Drew and Derrick's skills remains the untold story. ery of Ja-Rule or Mystikal...you'd have the perfect rapper, huh? Kind of like Featuring Baby Drew as the primary vocalist and leaving the support "Robocop." vocals to Derrick Note is like having Allen Iverson come off the bench for Well allow me to introduce the new prototype of emcee with both superior rhyme Michael Jordan. The competition can FORGET that match-up. These structure and unforgettable vocal tone. He's from right here in lil' ole Milwaukee and "country boys" have deliveries that contrast each other almost completely. goes by the name of Coo-Coo. Baby Drew owns a direct, humorous style that almost seems like a charac ter out of a 1970s flick. On the other hand, Derrick Note's urgent, implicit Coo-Coo Cal is a veteran of the Milwaukee rap scene who recently "graduated" messages are not for the untrained ear. from local status thanks to some hard work and dedication. A deal inked between his What then, makes these apparent differences in style work together? independent label Infinite 45 and Tommyboy Records has afforded Cal that ever Both artists are accomplished lyricists who project their voices as if they elusive opportunity for small-town artists to be heard from coast to coast. stand a foot taller than their 5-foot-6-inch frames. The decision to push "My Projects" as the first release from his upcoming LP is The standout tracks on "Powder" are "Get Real," "Ain't It Good," and "Wa paying major dividends for both Infinite and Tommyboy. The local radio stations have I'm Talkin.'" "Get Real" is a no-nonsense cut which sets the tone for the been spinning it like chrome Daytons and Milwaukee's dance floors fill for Cal's entire album. Produced by J-Billa, it features post-mortem vocals of the late "Projects" as quickly as they do for Missy Elliot's "Get Yo Freak On." Fueled by hyp Country Boy legend Eric "Buck 0 Five" Hutchins. "Ain't It Good" displays a notic guitar strumming and old school, James Brown-ish horn hits, the song immedi nasty guitar riff and a guest appearance by national recording artist B-Legit. ately grabs the listener's ear and refuses to loosen its grip. Legit is the first cousin of multi-platinum vocabulist E-40. "Wa I'm Talkin'" And while in-house producer Hank "The Man" definitely lays down a tight track, plays over an ominous piano loop and bouncy sub-bass produced by Baby it's Coo-Coo's streetwise lyrics that steal the show: "Dogg my projects got taste/ Drew himself. Although the rent ain't nuttin but two-fifty/ We sporting five thousand dollar drapes!" The overall sound quality, graphic layout (a revision of ICE T's 1988 album "Power"), and songwriting skills showcased on the "Powder" project Such lines may eventually put Cal in the category of social scientist as well as blos should rank it as one of the top releases to ever hit Milwaukee's streets. soming rap star. You can visit Da Country Boy Clique at www.eyetooeye.com I ran into Cal's Infinite 45 labelmate Mr. Do It To Death at a recent local show case. I tried to show him that "Projects" was listed in the May issue of The Source -Track Lacer magazine as one of the top new singles in rotation. "You ain't gotta tell me baby," Do-It grinned. "I'm on top of it already." Track Lacer is a local recording artist and UWM alumni. He can be con Hopefully... that's where the world will find Coo-Coo Cal's first single...on top of it. tacted at [email protected] The UWM Post ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT June 6, 2001 Surprise party GREAT SUBS
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By Laurie Duffy & this year, linebacker Devaughn actual college costs. Blake Whitney Darling died in practice, and his As good as the proposal The Post (Ohio U.) family received the standard sounds, Hirsch said he is not $10,000 from the NCAA for the sure it is possible. (U-WIRE) ATHENS, Ohio athlete's death. "I don't see how it could be — During an era in which col "That's not right," said done," Hirsch said. First in Wisconsin to earn the lege coaches have six-figure Devard Darling, Devaughn's "(Universities) rely so heavily profession's highest honor. salaries and seven-figure twin brother and Florida State on football and basketball to endorsement contracts, it has teammate, in an April 30 article support the other programs just Aurora Health Care nurses have been honored with become clear that college sports published on ESPN.com. to stay afloat, so I don't see how the coveted Magnet Award from the American Nurses is a billion-dollar industry, and "We're out there making mil there could be enough money to Association. 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We would like to congratulate the 2001 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduates. After four or many years, lots of bad food, lack of sleep, high priced course books, mediocre and wonderful classes and professors and more your dream of obtaining a degree has finally come true. As the perspectives on the opposite page eloquently state, this is simultaneously a time of excitement and terror. Obtaining comfortable employment and a decent standard of living are usually at the top of the list for graduating students. And in the back of the minds of thousands: student debt. As students we sympathize with the plight of graduating students, especially those with children, as we are students (and parents) ourselves. But we would like to raise a few questions/issues to ponder as the perspectives aforementioned do. The majority of students attending this and many public universities, come from working class backgrounds. Recent graduates are either the first to obtain a degree in their family or are only the second or third generation to do so. Countless sacrifices from the generation (s) before us enabled most of us to be traveling our current path. From mom, dad, and extended family members toiling hours away in kitchens, bath rooms, foundries, and other exploitative occupations, to our predecessors liberating our universities to make way for our current situation, we can't afford to forget our history. As Malcolm X once said, "History is best qualified to reward our research." Over the past decade or so, universities and their partners have stolen technolo gies created by students (and other workers) creating myths like the so-called "new At Issue: Our Environment economy" and dot-com millionaires. When this collapsed the myth was exposed: That regardless of which way you look at it, those in the new technology and serv ice based industries are still selling their labor power to receive a wage. Of course Take a trip on the lower Wisconsin River different phenomena are apparent relative to previous historical periods, but by and large this is the naked truth. By Representative Spencer Black (D-Madison) So, students as you go out into the world, don't be fooled. We propose that regardless of the occupation you choose, the vast majority of you will always be sell If you are planning a trip for a summer weekend, 92.3 miles does not seem very ing your labor power for a wage. Until this situation changes, the exploitation will be far. By traveling in a car, you can cover that distance in less than two hours. If you are constant and more severe with each passing day. in a canoe, however, 92.3 miles will probably take three or four days of paddling. But So, you're probably asking by now either: "What the hell does this have to do if those four days are spent on the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway, they are likely to with me?" Or: "What the hell are you talking about?" Or perhaps: "Have they gone be enjoyable. mad over there inhaling all that ink during the last year?" This summer, thousands of people will enjoy the beauty of the lower Wisconsin One of the best recent examples of what this has to do with you is the 21-day River. And, thanks to a state law passed in 1989, the natural and scenic values of the Harvard sit-in that took place in April/May (see page four.) Students of all back river will be there for future generations to enjoy as well. grounds and cultures worked over a period of three years with the administration to The lower Wisconsin Riverway will protect 80,000 acres of land along 92,5 miles enact a living wage of $10.25 per hour for the custodial staff at Harvard. Many of the of river between Prairie du Sac and the Mississippi River. In this area the Wisconsin staff are making as little as $6.50 an hour with no benefits in an area where $10 an River is a wide and majestic waterway with tranquil backwaters to explore, feisty bass hour is considered near poverty wages for a single wage earner with one child. to tempt the angler and morning mists which hover above the currents. Towering The students did something that blew everyone's minds, especially Harvard wooded bluffs stand high above waters that wind through rolling farmland, past rem administrators. They linked students of color, white students, nants of native prairies and between ever changing sandbars. Bald eagles soar above lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered students and non-traditional students with unions the river, and many other endangered and threatened species live on the banks and on campus, the community, and likeminded people nationwide. All of these individ along the shores. uals have at least one thing in common: they sell their labor power to survive. The The riverway is a beautiful and accessible spot to swim, picnic, canoe, camp, fish students who sat in realized that the only way to win their campaign was to link the or hunt. If you prefer to keep dry, there are trails along the shores for hiking, biking working class across all lines. They succeeded in having Harvard administrators and horseback riding. Once winter snow is falling, many of the trails are used by cross coming back to the table to negotiate when before the sit-in they arrogantly told stu country skiers. The Wisconsin River upstream of Prairie du Sac is called "the hardest dents and supporters to go to hell. What this showed was the power of labor and working river in the world" with 16 dams to generate electricity. The lower Wisconsin workers and how the Harvard administrators and their allies in big business, other River, however, is the longest stretch of a free flowing major river left in the Midwest. university heads, and the White House fear us when we unite. The river has retained much of its natural beauty despite being within a four hour drive This is why they need divisions. This is why they need to indoctrinate students of 17 million people. Before the riverway was protected, development pressure threat with the need to become dot-com millionaires. This is why they tell white working ened to destroy the natural beauty and natural resources along the river. class students that the barrio, ghetto, and reservation have nothing to do with them. Although parts of the river's banks have been owned by the state for more than 70 This is why they criminalize our class, especially people of color. This is why we are years, it was not until 1989 that the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway was established. told it's a crime when someone steals a pencil from the bookstore while a corpora Protection of the river is a key goal of Wisconsin's Stewardship Fund. The fund is the tion making off with millions from the university is simply in a "strategic partner largest land conservation effort in state history, and is designed to protect the best of ship." Wisconsin's outdoor heritage. So, as you venture forth on your current path or are embarking on a new one fel Whether you are floating along in the current, camping on a sandbar, or casting for low student, please ask yourself who and what you are and where you belong. a fish, the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway is a wonderful resource for state residents Is it all about money, property and prestige? Or is there more to life? and visitors. Thanks to the Stewardship Fund and the 1989 law, that resource will still Hopefully the answer derived will point you in the direction of humanity and not be here for our children-and their children-to enjoy. myriad deaths for the sake of profits.
"Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, Vietnam and Memorial Day for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren," wrote Zinn in June 1976. Many students of today, thanks to the corporate consumer culture and media In his article, published in the Boston Globe, "Whom will we honor Memorial Day?," monopoly we live under, know little of the true causes, effects and historical under Zinn called on us to resist and expose the sheer madness of war. pinnings of Vietnam, WW I and II and all the wars fought by the U.S. empire. To take "...Meanwhile, there is such a shortage of housing that millions live in dilapidated in the local TV News and Pentagon war movies like "Pearl Harbor," one would glean sections of our cities and millions more are forced to pay high rents or high interest rates that war is good, just and must exist for "freedom." on their mortgages. There's $90 billion for the BI bomber, but people don't have money All of the wars fought by the U.S. empire were (and are) fought for colonial to pay hospital bills." Indeed. expansion, minerals, resources, and geopolitical position. Working class men by the So as we ponder Vietnam and Memorial Day let us not forget that war is still being hundreds of thousands have died for a country that couldn'f care less about them. This waged in Colombia, Yugoslavia, Puerto Rico, Cuba and dozens of other countries. And is most evident when we see how the U.S. treats our Vietnam Vets. And millions of right here at home. black, brown, and red people across the globe have been victims of mass slaughter To end war we have a lot of work ahead of us. This should be our goal instead of perpetuated by the U.S. As many of our true heroes assert, working people of the engaging in a misguided flag-waving patriotism. globe have more in common among themselves than the bankers and bosses who send As Zinn said: them to war like cows to the slaughter. "Let us not set out, this Memorial Day, on the same old drunken ride to death." The Vietnam Memorial dedication ceremony May 19 outside Mitchell Hall allowed us to learn from our history (see page 1.) We honor those Vietnam Vets who, The UWM Post invites readers to submit perspective pieces and Letters to the Editor. To be eligible for publi in whatever fashion, resisted the U.S. government. They are our real heroes. Not the cation, letters and opinion pieces must include, for purposes of verification, the author's name, address and phone number and/or e-mail address. Names will be withheld if a compelling reason is given. We reserve the war criminals disguised as generals and presidents that are paraded on TV during right to reject submissions that are offensive in any way. This includes, but is not limited to, racist, sexist, and Memorial Day. anti-lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered remarks directed at or to any individual, group or culture. Submissions must be typed and double-spaced. The preferred length for letters is 250 words or less. We need to hear from voices like Historian and former WWII bombardier Howard Opinions/perspective pieces should be no longer than 750 words. Deadline for submissions is Wednesdays at Zinn. 5 p.m. The Post reserves the right to edit or reject submissions. The UWM Post PERSPECTIVE June 6, 2001 13 Mumia Abu-Jamal, At commencement, students, and the future journalism has a By MUMIA ABU-JAMAL speech into their ceremony. This I can't imagine it. My guess is transcript thus represents a final that you can't either. And that is The fol effort to give Mumia a legitimate why we must vehemently oppose lowing is a voice at this event. We urge you the death penalty and why we hazy future transcript of all to continue the struggle to must fight to preserve the voice the introduc give voice to those whose silence of Mumia Abu-Jamal. If we can By NORMAN SOLOMON cation. tion and text we cannot afford. We ask you to not imagine spending our last I've heard complaints of Mumia consider the following words days on death row, how can we Today, departing from an from people like Dave Abu-Jamal's from the "voice of the voiceless, " understand the impact of the act institution steeped in moderni Berkman, a retired professor baccalaureate words which, though confined to we commit each time we sen ty, you say farewell to a fine of mass communication at the speech at the page, refuse to be silenced. tence someone to death? When journalism school. Honored to University of Wisconsin in Occidental College in Los We encourage anyone who we act upon prisoners, we act address this graduating class, I upon ourselves. When we support Milwaukee, where he was Angeles May 20, 2001. The would like to formally support will speak with uncommon introduction is divided into two this effort to directly contact—by state-sponsored killing, we chair of the department for a candor about the wisdom of parts, the first of which is Toby phone or email— the college become murderers. Consider for few years. He argues that your training and the opportu Oshiro's and the second is Bre President, Ted Mitchell. He can a second how, if at all, you justi when students take courses in Fahs'. Mr. Abu-Jamal's speech be reached at (323) 259-2691 or fy the death penalty. nities that lie ahead. public relations, they're learn follows. tm itchel@oxy. edu. Now take out all the "buts," You have studied how to ing to become "professional If you were fortunate enough If you would like any more "howevers," and "ifs" and you'll write news articles and con liars." He calls PR "the to be at baccalaureate, you had information, please contact Toby find that either you're for killing trive news releases; how to dig antithesis of what journalism the rare opportunity to hear the or Bre (oshiro@oxy edu, people or you're against killing for truth and how to obscure is supposed to be." powerful voice of America's most fahs@oxy. edu). people. it; how to produce journalistic Berkman taught mass compelling prison journalist. —Occidental Students for Life is determined by beliefs sensations as well as public communication for 21 years, Consider this a record of that Democracy and how one acts upon those relations; in short, how to and now he doesn't want to beliefs. Belief must be acted upon event. College politics and unspin and spin. Like many give up the ghost. He laments bureaucracy, however, made it Toby Oshiro— to have any value. When we fail others around the country, this that many college journalism impossible for many of you to Introduction Part 1 to do so, we fail to honor even school of journalism imparts departments now feature pub hear Mumia speak at commence our own lives. When we build vital skills of reporting and lic relations as the dominant ment. If you missed the opportu Imagine living on death row. prisons instead of schools, gated distorting. program of study — and he nity to hear Mumia's words, con Imagine knowing when and communities instead of neighbor Last year, the national sider this a second chance. where and how you are going to hoods, we sentence ourselves to alleges that "to house PR with This speech is being distrib die, and who is going to kill you. an existence behind bars and journalism magazine The journalism is to give public uted to honor the wishes of hun Imagine never being able to lives lived in fear. When we mur Quill noted what is now relations an imprimatur of dreds of students who asked to touch your children or your der those on death row, we extin occurring on hundreds of col respect and propriety that hear Mumia speak at commence grandchildren. Imagine spending guish our own spirits. lege campuses: "Future news belies its inherently corrupt ment. It also recognizes the reali 23 hours a day in a 6-by-10-foot Once we open our ears to paper reporters and broadcast and corrupting nature." I say, ty imposed by a school adminis cell. Imagine that your only hope those we imprison, once we journalists regularly share make that guy an offer he tration that would not allow a of escaping this fate is the system acknowledge the voices we have classes and crowded curricula can't refuse! Ha ha. three minute and 47 second that condemned you to death. see ABU-JAMAL page 14 with aspiring public relations Unfortunately, he won't managers and advertising pipe down about the public copywriters." What an idyllic, relations biz. pastoral, almost biblical scene "On the occasions where this evokes, with lion and truth and the client's interests Leonard Peltier's lamb bedding down together. coincide, then you go with the Allow me to extend the truth," Berkman grouses. "But metaphor. It is neither cost- because you are paid to make statement on FBI abuses effective nor necessary to be the client or the client's cause at each other's throats. We all look good, truth can never win By LEONARD PELTIER prosecution. These innocent men real justice or democracy when rely on the creative use of when it conflicts with the served thirty years in prison and an agency as powerful as the FBI words and images. Why per client's interests." And he Greetings were only released after previ can, decade after decade, break petuate past rifts between goes on: "The purpose of jour brothers, sis ously hidden FBI documentation the laws it vows to uphold with journalists and PR profession nalism is to ferret out the ters, friends was uncovered. no repercussions. The cases cov als? Why polarize when we truth. The purpose of PR is to and supporters: What is worse is, it all could ered in the media lately are only can synthesize? For a fresh protect your client." I am writ have been prevented. FBI agent the tip of the iceberg. generation of media pros, a But consider the glorious ing this state There are many, many more Robert Fitzpatrick says he report new modus vivendi awaits. ment in the ed the misconduct early on, and well documented incidences of career of David Brinkley. midst of controversy surrounding was ignored. How much time FBI abuses. It is up to the public Some object to the effica After decades at NBC and the FBI's withholding of 3000 will the agents responsible serve to hold the FBI accountable. cy of such pragmatism. We ABC News, he moved on to documents pertaining to the case in prison? What will be done to Clearly, no system of checks and hear claims that public rela voice lofty TV spots touting of Timothy McVeigh and the prevent this type of official crim balances is in place and the tions and journalism are the humanitarian goals of Oklahoma City bombing. This inal behavior from reoccurring? media rarely reports FBI miscon incompatible. These are dif agribusiness giant Archer incident is only one of many rev If history is any clue, not too duct unless politicians and judges ferent functions, the naysayers Daniels Midland. You got a elations of grave FBI misconduct much at all unless we take a firm condemn it first, in. which case it moan. In recent years, they problem with that? in recent weeks, all of which stand against these types of FBI is usually too little too late. Don't have steadily lost academic As students, perhaps you expose very serious violations of let these latest disclosures deteri abuses. ground. Yet resistance has not feel a twinge of sympathy for the Constitution and severe abuse orate into "flash in the pan" news Meanwhile, media coverage disappeared. Professor Berkman when he of power by the FBI. of Thomas Blanton's conviction stories. An effort must be forged At the University of asks rhetorically, "How do I In Boston, what started with sus for the racist murder of four to stop FBI abuses, and to gain Maryland, in 1998, the college teach a kid in Reporting 101 to picions that FBI Agent, John young girls, which occurred recognition that these are contin Connolly was involved in money some 38 years ago, is wide uations of an all too common pat of journalism went so far as to go after the truth and teach a laundering and racketeering led spread. Since 1965 the FBI knew tern. boot out the public relations kid in PR 101 how to lie?" to the exposure of much more. As exactly who the murderers were, The FBI unfairly targeted program. But some big guns It's best to consider it turned out, almost the entire and they hid the information. Wen Ho Lee, withheld evidence in the PR industry counterat Berkman a spoilsport when he Boston office was involved in a They protected KKK members about Waco, and botched its han tacked and raised hell with top contends: "Journalism and heavy scheme, which protected who murdered children. What dling of the Ruby Ridge incident. officials at the university. public relations don't belong notorious gangsters, who were will happen to these former In 1998 the Los Angeles FBI According to the publication under the same academic roof. allowed to murder with impunity agents? How will the FBI be held crime lab was exposed for it's PR News, the embattled pro It's like teaching astronomy in exchange for information. That accountable for their complicit routine tampering of evidence, gram got lots of backing from and astrology in the same office even put two innocent especially in high profile cases. role in such heinous activities? "corporate communicators at department." men, men they knew were inno These violations are most seri In 1997 Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt deep-pocketed companies." cent and who they very purpose ous. There can be no due process, was released after 27 long years Hey, the wall has fallen. Surviving handsomely, the PR fully framed, in prison in order to there can be no such thing as an of unjust imprisonment - yet The free market is our secular program found a new home at keep their informants free from open government, there can be no faith. To those who resist the see PELTIER page 14 the department of communi see SOLOMON page 14 14 June 6, 2001 NEWS www.uwmpost.com
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sought to silence, life suddenly marginalize certain messages, assembled in one place, the gath another FBI frame-up. In 1990 but out of alarm. When will becomes infinitely more compli and at times, kill those we most ering would exceed the popula Judi Bari's car was bombed, these kinds of abuses be cated. When good and bad can fear. tion of states like Idaho, Maine, and again, the FBI hid evidence stopped? When will we over proving the bomb had been come our fear of the FBI and no longer be defined by steel The case of Mumia has New Mexico, Hawaii, and planted. Instead of finding the say, never again. Not one more bars and plexiglass partitions, shown that, as subjects of a now Nebraska. perpetrators, they criminally innocent person in prison, not we will be forced at long last to conservative state, we value ide Let's look at it this way, there charged the Earth First! activist, one more political prisoner, not stare into the looking glass and ological silence more than we are more people in U.S. prisons who was left crippled for life. one more unnecessary death? If account for what we have done. value life itself. We would rather than the entire population of Of course, on the Pine the FBI thought that Martin James Baldwin once wrote, kill than imagine a world in Kuwait. America is home to Ridge Indian Reservation the Luther King was a threat to the "American way of life" then we "People pay for what they do, which a death row inmate would roughly 5 percent of the world's FBI allowed, and further sup ported, the murderous GOON must ask, what way of life do and still more, for what they be allowed the chance to mirror population. It is also the place squads. Year after year I sit they defend, and do the have allowed themselves to our own failures, both as indi where about 25 percent of all the through meaningless parole American people want the FBI become. And they pay for it sim viduals, and as a nation. world's prisoners are encaged. I hearings where I am told that I to act on their behalf? ply: by the lives they lead." The question of who is call it the "prison house of must take responsibility for a In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, From the depths of the hell that allowed to speak, and who will nations." Hidden in this world crime I did not commit. All the Leonard Peltier we have created, Mumia speaks choose to listen, has become a are moments of brutality, of while, the faces of my brothers in a language so clear and true haunting inquiry, even at loneliness, of alienation, and and sisters who were killed dur Leonard Peltier, 56, a mem ing that era, loom in my head, ber of the Anishinabe and that even death is delayed: No Occidental, where we claim to pervasive stupidity. This world is as I suppress my bitterness over Lakota Nations, has been in one can imprison your spirit value all voices. In a world so the true face of American such blatant discrimination and prison for 25 years for a crime against your will. You must give profoundly erred, and terribly democracy. Hidden torture injustice. One day I know, this he didn 't commit. An artist and it up, for them to take it, and it expensive, we must be suspi chambers designed to demolish too will be recognized and author of "Prison Writings: My matters not on which side of the cious of silence, if not downright the mind and unhinge the spirit. exposed as a result of the efforts Life Is My Sun Dance" (St. bars you stand. From death row, outraged at it. This outrage must Way back in 1927, U.S. labor of the people. Officials will Martin's Press, NY, 1999), likely act surprised and out Peltier is currently incarcerated Mumia Abu- Jamal reveals to us become action. We must under leader and socialist presidential raged, even though we have at Leavenworth Federal prison the extent of our own imprison stand that, for some, the struggle candidate, Eugene Debs, pub been telling them all along in Kansas. For more informa ment. against silence is the struggle for lished "Walls and Bars," a book about what we have experi tion see www.freepeltier.org; a life at all. As Nelson Mandela collected of his essays from enced and witnessed. call (785) 842-5774; or e-mail: Bre Fans- once said, "The struggle is my prison. What he had to say Friends, I am not writing [email protected]. Introduction Part 2 life." almost 75 years ago is applicable this statement out of bitterness, We are honored to share with today to the burgeoning prison Education is a tool of teach you the words of Mumia Abu- industry that's all around us. He SOLOMON from page 13 ing us what we respect. The Jamal. said prisons were a place of bru opportunities presented to us tality, perversion, and class convergence, I say, "Get over ing discreetly to scope out the four years at Oxy, a chance to Mumia Abu-Jamal's speech oppression. Debs lamented the it!" limits. See what you can get travel, a new relationship, an cruel incarceration of youth. He In the current media envi away with. evolving transition into adult I thank you all for this invita called prisons "instruments of ronment, only the intemperate Congratulations to each and hood offer us, at the end of the tion for me to address your the will of politicians." Seventy- fail to realize when missions every graduate. Go out there and search for truth. But please, day, a chance to make decisions Baccalaureate ceremony at three years ago, Eugene Debs can be synergistic rather than antagonistic. Look at it this don't carry the lantern too high. about what we respect, what Occidental College in L.A. I'm asked, "what else can the prison way: In journalism, the job is to Norman Solomon's latest wisdom we will glean from the particularly pleased that hun be considered but a breeder of be as truthful as possible. In book is "The Habits of Highly books we read, what problems dreds of you have organized for vice, immorality, and disease, public relations, the job is to be Deceptive Media." His syndi we will take responsibility for, this to happen, weeks before and condemned as an incubator as misleading as necessary. cated column focuses on media what we will believe or disbe anybody contacted me. I've for crime." Surely, we can find plenty of and politics. Solomon's lieve, and the cost of these heard of your petitions and of How little things have common ground. In any case, columns can be accessed at beliefs for ourselves, and for your efforts to lobby on my changed in all that time. Prisons build your career by proceed- www.fair.org. others. Leading a life is an behalf. I was so impressed by are places of unfreedom and the expensive act. your efforts that I immediately aura of terror that dwells in such SHABAZZ from page 5 Though today's graduation agreed to share a few moments places reaches into national con ceremonies call for a celebratory with you, on this, your very spe sciousness and eventually into looking for short-term solutions, trators haven't taken a more proac atmosphere, we must continue to cial graduation day. everyday life. There are certain but also long-term solutions. A lot tive approach in addressing this of the kinds of victories that we current situation. Although its ask important questions, ques Congratulations. neighborhoods in America that need, we won't see probably dur something that I personally deal tions which require spiritual, For many of you this is a may be likened to minimum- ing our time here. with, like other students on this philosophical, and personal time of elation and a time of ter security prisons for the poor, We have to remember that campus, I am more worried about my younger sister and my younger investment. What will we stand ror. Elation at the end of long where they live under the state's we're building on top of a founda tion of freedom, of liberty, that has brother and younger brother and for? And, what won't we stand hard study, terror at the ever present and unblinking been there before we came and sisters from our community who for? At what cost do we achieve unknown, the world of work, of gaze, where truly one's poverty will be here after we leave. And we may be coming to Madison and personal happiness? To whom paychecks, jobs, and yes, unem is their crime. each have to make sure that we try who may have to undergo the same to place our brick, our strong type of alienation, exploitation- are we indebted? To whom do ployment. With the collapse of These words have been brick, in a position that will allow based on what happened last we answer? Admittedly, these the dot-com economy, the fear of designed to give you some others to rise above the bullshit semester, and marginalization. I are difficult, destabilizing ques unemployment is pervasive. But insight into a world that you do that is passed down to students on think that if a number of people tions. Asking them requires us to I don't want to talk about that. not know, and hopefully that you this campus. I think it's very dis who are in positions of power heartening that a lot of campus ele looked at the situation from a fall into the trapdoor of our I'm certain that some of you will never know. I thank you for ments only address student con standpoint of would they still truths, to suffer with those truths, have read my first book, Live your invitation. cerns from afar and that they try to make these same decisions of how and to emerge with any number from Death Row, but how many Ona move, disassociate themselves away from they're addressing this situation if of "symptoms": anger, outrage, students of color whom they make their own child was involved, then of you know that much of what Long Live John Africa, decisions about on a daily basis. we would probably have a very fear, sadness, disillusionment, happens in U.S. prisons was This is Mumia Abu-Jamal Personally, I am very disap different outcome. terror, and, perhaps, 'a certain never written there. I speak to pointed that a number of adminis kind of principled elation, a you all from another world, one Award winning author and knowledge of satisfaction in the that most of you know nothing journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, questions themselves. I do of. You won't learn about it by M.A., has been on believe, certainly, that a life can looking at Oz on TV, and very Pennsylvania's death row for 19 not be measured by the number little that's written is a true years. For more information see of battles we avoid. reflection of the horrors that lie www. mumia. o r g a n d Silence carries a cultural cur on the other side of the looking www.mumia2000.org or call rency equal to that of war, of glass. (212) 633-6646 nationally. In religion, of love. Silence is at the Imagine this: There are near Wisconsin call the Milwaukee- heart of our nation's political and ly 2,000,000 men, women, and based A Job is A Right social agendas. This happens lit kids in U.S. prisons and jails. 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