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2 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW November 4, 1992 THE Serpent's Tooth MICHIGAN REVIEW ...., In response to last week's front page The Campus Affairs Joumal Things to Consider in the Wake of Yesterday's Election article on a dubious charge of sexual of the Published by the Michigan Republican Party harassment made by a Political Science University of Michigan 111 teaching assistant, two student Clinton on a middle class tax cut per gallon by the year 2000, 45 miles per groups have apparently formed: Group .,J.!' "I want to make it very clear that this gallon by 2020" (Drexel University Really Opposed to Whiners with We are the Establishment middle class tax cut, in my view, is Speech,4/22/92). Unrestrained Power (GROW-UP), and central to any attempt we're going to Sexually Harrass Unqualified Teaching Editor-in-Chief Adam DeVore "I think we should be very flexible about make to have a short-term economic assistants Until Punished (SHUT-UP). Publisher Karen S. Brinkman strategy and a long-term fairness strat imposing standards on the overall fleet We'd ask you to join one of the groups, egy, which is part of getting this coun as opposed to different sized vehicles. but we wouldn't want you to incur the Executive Editors Andrew Bockelman try going again" (ABC News, Primary ... I don't think it's fair to impose a wrath of the Political Science Depart Joe Coletti Debate, 1/19/92). burden on an American fleet that has ment. You are forewarned! Tony Ghecea bigger cars in it than foreign competi ''But to say that this middle class tax cut tors do" (Speech to Detroit Economic Sign spotted in West Quad arch last Contributing Editors Beth Martin Jay D. McNeill . .. is the center of anybody' s economi~ Club,8/21/92). Thursday: "<- Women's Stud. 240." Tracy Robinson package is wrong" (ABC News, Demo What we want to know is where is Stacey L. Walker cratic Debate, 3/5/92). Ointon on the presidency: Women's Stud. #239? Probably being '1 told you when I announced for Gov objectified in a corner somewhere. Music Editor Chris Peters Clinton on term limits: ernor ... I'm gonna serve four years. I Literary Editor Adam Garagiola "I think it's a decision that people ought made that decision .when I decided to Rigoberta Menchu, the Marxist, femi to make ... I wouldn't rule out term run .... That's the job I want - that's the nist, lesbian from Guatemala whose au Assistant Editors Ryan Boeskool limits" (NBC, "Meet the Press," 1/5/ job I'll do for the next four years" tobiography is attacked by Dinesh Brian Schefke 92). (KHOS/KHOG-TV Gubernatorial De D'Souza in Illiberal Education as the bate, 10/15/90). epitome of communist garbage masquer Copy Editor Shannon Pfent ''I'm against term limits because I think MTS Meister Doug Thiese ading in the drag of "multicultural litera Systems Analyst Mitch Rohde that it takes choices away from voters" "Today I proudly announce my candi ture" at Standford University recently (Boston Globe, 7/27/92). dacy for President of the United States" won the Nobel Prize for Peace. Rumour Business Assistants Peter Daugavietis (Announcement Speech, 10/3/91). has it that Madonna is the front-runner ChetZarko Ointon on higher fuel efficiency stan for next year's Nobel Prize in Literature dards: Who is the real Bill Clinton? for her classic work, Sex. "We'll accelerate our progress toward "He is whatever you want him to be at Staff Eddie Arner, Eric Berg, Michele Brogley, Jerry fuel-efficient cars and seek to raise the the moment" (Paul Greenberg, Arkan Pope John Paul II proclaimed last Satur Czarnecki, Erica DeSantis, James E. Elek, Joe average goal for automakers to 40 miles sas Democrat-Gazette, 7/15/92). day that the Catholic Church was wrong Epstein, Frank Grabowski, Nate Jamison, Ken in forcing Galileo Galilei to retract his Johnston, Eric Lepard, Mary the Cat, Bud theoretical assertion that - contrary to Muncher, Crusty Muncher, Kreg Nichols, Dave Perczak, Drew Peters, Dan Reback, what was then church dogma - the Sun, Renee Rudnicki, Will Ryan, TS Taylor, Perry and not the Earth, is at the center of our Thompson, Corey Tobin, Martin Vloet, Mich f1) Mf~ ~ solar system. Of course, it took nearly elle Wietek, Matt Wilk, Tony Woodlief. I four centuries of denial and 13 years of close study by Vatican experts for the Editors Emeriti Brian Jendryka church to reach its decision. At this rate, John J. Miller it should apologize for the Crusades by The Michigan R~ is an independent, stu the early 21st century and the Inquisition dent-run journai ilfthe University of Michi just after 2350 A.D. gan. We neither solicit nor accept any dona .... tions from the University of Michigan. Contri butions to the Michigan Review are tax-deduct Face it: Calling for more "infrastructure" ible under Section SOl(c)(3) of the Internal Rev is masked socialism. enue Code. The Review is not affiliated with any political party. We really, REALLY hope you voted for Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the Natural Law party. Tanscendental the editorial board. Signed articles represent meditation, after all, is the only hope we the opinions of the author and not necessarily have left for saving the world. those of the Review. We welcome letters and articles and encourage comments about the Something to ponder over the next four journal and issues discussed in it. years: According to the Detroit News, 98 SUITE ONE percent of American childen can cor 911 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE rectly identify Miss Piggy and Kermit the ANN ARBOR, MI48109-1265 Frog. Compared to the pathetic rate at which most Americas can name their TEL (313)662-1909 own elected officials, the Muppets mus FPC< (313)936-2505 ter some pretty hefty name recognition. IAMESE CL'NT~ Be on the lookout for the Kermit/Fozzie Copyright 1992 (OoC)~S c.~~O\C.."O.$) the Bear ticket in 1996. _m_ ·~ »_ ~ __~ _ <w ""~< ~-~-~ ",..,.,"""""'''---~-___'''''''"'''-,'- __,,_,, ___ ''''w,_~_,-'"'' -»_~,~,_,_, '~'- ' ~'--X'''''-~-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''-''''''''''_~''''_''''''''~''''1-'~' November 4, 1992 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 3 Letter to the Editor Reader Dlsagrees.wlthColumbus Essay Dear Editor, justify their enslavement: TheTruno did would still be alive at this point); then your dem9O'acy, and New-- World Order." Re: Nate Jamison's essay of October not welcome Columbus as a savior, but head to be stricken o(f from your body. and .' In our Old World, t.e Taino People 7, 1992; "Reclaiming Columbus' 500 Year' rather because .they were a hOspitable your body shall be divided into four quarters, lived lives of peace and prosperity, Legacy." , " and civilized People (as were most to be disposed of at the King's pleasure; and treating each other with a civility may GQ<i bave mercy upon your soul. My initial thoughts after reading this Natives). practically URknown in post-medieval essay are that your readership would In discussing slavery, it is important Enough said. Europe. Look how Columbus repaid have been better served had it been to remember that it existed in many forms The larger issue here is not one of them, how Cortes repaid the Aztecs, published under the heading of either a and to; varying degrees worldWide. , evaluating Christoph~r Columbus by Pizarro the Incas, the English the book review, or an entirely new section Chattel slavery of a race-specific form ' modem standards; he is long,dead and Powhatans and Wampanoag, and on and titled Michigan Review's Cemdensed Books, was a European invention; perhaps . therefore surely past caring. The primary on and on. What indeed is civilization if for in reality the "essay" is just that, a brought about by the growth of . reason toleam history is toleam jrom ,it, not civility, ~something that the Native regurgitation of Robert Royal's Columbus mercantili~m that Mr. Jamison mentions . noLenshrjne orj~stifr}t.,The cycles Of People of North America possessed in em ,Trial; 1492 vs.1992. Mature scholarship with such,pride. To ~e that Columbus' , . violence present foTcenturif?S inEUropean .' abundance? Perhaps rather than continue requires the citation of more than one arrival ultimately resulte:d in the end of socie~iesspilled over not only North to define a culture by its material source; in the course I teach on Native slavery in North America is as ridiculous ' , America; .but reached their-mOst recen,t attainments; the time has come where North American music, students must as saying the waves of Germanic: hib~s highpoint with the HolocausLCurrently . the superiority of Tamo society over that include a minimum of four texts in their that destroyed Roman civilization~ere , ' at the lowereb\)call~ '~.e~cdeansmg/' ofthe Spanish carl be recognized. After bibliography for a paper the same length responsible for ending Rornan pra~ces , the q.~le continu~;a.,ld .'~~\ ,continueas \ all, which' ispre£erable: a tradition· of as Jamison's essay. LuCkily, as the author of slavery. Usingthaf Jogle, Attila the.. long as E~ropeans and'their AmeriCan' . peace or of war? .' of a letter rather than an essay f I have a bit Hun IS should bethlmked(or blamed) fOr cousiJ)sfeel it accept~ble to state that more freedom. our current state of affairS. lhelrcivilizatioris wereandar~ "above" Tara Brawner Discussions of Columbus' merits as It is eaSy to give;exarnples of Native thOSe of the' rest oillie ~orId: this ujnight . Ph. D Candidate a human being often serve to cloud the Ame"rican behaviors as another method makes-right" attitude,i~that 'pf a blillying Music History/Musicology larger moral issues brought about by his of justifying the European invasion of child,and·charaderizes weStern culture arrival in the Caribbean in 1492.