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FROM THE EDITOR 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 5 COMMENTARY 6 FORTNIGHT IN REVIEW 8 NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE 24

AN OLYMPIAN DEMAND GAY TIDINGS COLIN DELANEY JESSICA SCHUPAK Following Atlanta’s Games, the IOC ruled that future Tufts’s leading administrators transcend simple tol- host cities must fund and control their Olympics, a erance and outright coddle Lesbian, Gay, and Bi- ruling that controverts the lessons of history. 10 sexual activists. 15 FOR A BETTER AMERICA Special Section MICAELA DAWSON If he is to win, Bob Dole must stick to solid issues: taxes, character, and the economy. 17 Freshmen Spectacular! THE OBJECTIVE DISADVANTAGE ANANDA GUPTA FAQ & A Protectionism’s lies and deceptions exposed. 19 Orientation YOUR REAL ORIENTATION Takes an Outing COLIN KINGSBURY In his farewell (for now) piece, Mr. Kingsbury takes ✎ Some Frequently-Asked-Questions & Answers a humorous look at our alma mater. 21 ✎ Tufts groups students by ethnicity and sends them away for a special introduction to the University. TALKING TRASH KEITH LEVENBERG ✎ The Orientation Schedule, SOURCE-style To save money, this article was printed on 100% new, Pages 11 - 14 bleached, white newsprint. 22

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 3 THE PRIMARY SOURCE THE JOURNAL OF CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT FROM THE EDITOR AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Jessica Schupak HE PRIMARY SOURCE recently re- cationally bankrupt Experimental Editor-in-Chief T ceived a letter that began, College. And it continually alters the “Though I’m a little more pro-Tufts curriculum to disparage the great men CAMPUS ISSUES than you are....” The misconception and events that have shaped our civi- Keith Levenberg / Editor that THE SOURCE is anti-Tufts is not lization. unique to this Class of ‘91 alumnus. Our crusade seeks to restore free Our critical reporting of university exchange of thought, honor, disci- NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES dereliction is often misinterpreted as pline, faith, and the importance of the Micaela Dawson / Editor an animus for Walnut Hill, when Western canon. Although the truth actually, it is quite the opposite. We can, at times, be painful, our pledge ARTS AND GRAPHICS view Tufts as having tremendous po- of veritas sine dolo dictates that we Robert Prendiville / Editor tential to provide an excellent educa- expose administrative abuse in hopes tion. But with Ballou Hall’s rampant that our determination will lead to a politicization of the classroom, the better Tufts. PRODUCTION University’s performance falls far Some professors argue that Tufts Jeff Bettencourt / Manager short of its exorbitant tuition’s im- still teaches the classics, but shame- plicit promises. fully, they often present them from BUSINESS Our campus coverage is driven inane and irrelevant perspectives. Colin Kingsbury / Manager by concern for the future of Tufts and Moreover, because Tufts maintains its students. We would like to see no core curriculum, students all too CONTRIBUTORS individuals leave the Hill not just frequently reach commencement with a diploma, but also an educa- without the foundations of scholar- Ananda Gupta / Edward Havell tionally rich experience to carry into ship. For instance, English majors Naveen Malwal / Julie Rockett their post-graduate years. To our dis- can obtain their B.A. without reading Lee Shenker / Nathan Holtey may, Tufts, once a prominent educa- Shakespeare and instead taking Chris Zappala tor, has succumbed to political pan- classes such as Non-Western Women dering and diminished standards. Writers. Granted, departments that Colin Delaney / Editor Emeritus THE PRIMARY SOURCE’s duty is to rely on absolute truths— such as math- exert journalistic influence and help ematics— avoid much of the foolish- redirect Tufts towards its founders’ ness, but a well-rounded education FOUNDERS ideal of academic excellence. Our requires much more than just math. Brian Kelly / Dan Marcus fight for scholastic integrity and Our aims with respect to the Uni- against political correctness consti- versity should not fall on any particu- tutes part of our effort to improve lar side of any ideological line. Re- Tufts. The administration, despite gardless of political affiliation, THE THE PRIMARY SOURCE IS A NON-PROFIT, STUDENT PUBLICATION OF T UFTS U NIVERSITY. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED preaching “tolerance,” stifles debate, PRIMARY SOURCE welcomes all to join IN ARTICLES, FEATURES, PHOTOS, CARTOONS, OR ADVERTISE- as when many of the current adminis- its struggle for academic integrity. MENTS ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR OR SPONSOR(S) AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF trators tried to impose speech codes Although lowering standards might THE EDITORS OR THE STAFF. OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN EDITORI- in 1989. It diminishes the value of raise one’s GPA, the college experi- ALS ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE RESPONSIBLE EDITOR. honor, for example, by not accom- THE PRIMARY SOURCE WELCOMES ALL LETTERS. WE ence should be about genuine learn- RESERVE THE RIGHT TO EDIT OR TO DENY PUBLICATION TO ANY modating those students serving their ing. Otherwise, one’s cumulative av- LETTER BASED ON ITS LENGTH AND/OR CONTENT. EACH AU- country in the ROTC. Two years ago, THOR IS REQUIRED TO INCLUDE HIS NAME AND PHONE NUMBER. erage comes at quite a high price— ANY LETTER TO AN INDIVIDUAL STAFF MEMBER CONCERNING it tried to deny the significance of much of which is paid in ignorance. WORK PUBLISHED IN THE PRIMARY SOURCE MAY BE PUB- faith with an attempted assassination Good luck to the Class of 2000. LISHED ON THE LETTERS PAGE. LETTERS OF 400 WORDS OR FEWER HAVE A GREATER CHANCE OF BEING PUBLISHED. of the Religion Department despite Please help us set Tufts on the right PLEASE DIRECT ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: maintaining the fashionable but edu- course. —JS [email protected] or THE PRIMARY SOURCE, MAYER CAMPUS CENTER, TUFTS UNIVERSITY, MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02155. ©1996. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

4 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I am writing in response to the commentary titled “Knable’s Fable,” which appeared in the May 2, 1996, edition of THE PRIMARY SOURCE. This article made the following claims that I would like to address: 1) “Knable tried to override Student Activities Director Bill Stackman and excuse Jesse Jackson from the silly regulation” (the Programs with Special Security Needs Policy— formerly known as the Controversial Speakers Policy) and 2) “In 1993, the Dean canceled a Lecture Series forum on gays in the military because panelist Terry Jefferies, a policy analyst for Pat Buchanan, was expected to argue against the morality of homosexuality.” The decision to hold the Jesse Jackson lecture to the Programs with Special Needs Policy was made by the Office of Student Activities and the Office of Public Safety. In view of the fact that Jesse Jackson is such a highly visible public figure— it is natural that his lecture would require “special security needs.” It was decided to use seven Tufts police officers for this event— the same number that was used when George Bush spoke on our campus the previous year. Contrary to your claim, Dean Knable fully supported the decision to define the Jesse Jackson lecture as being a “Program with Special Security Needs.” Upon entering a contract to bring speakers and performers to campus, the University has a legal and ethical obligation to ensure that the event will occur in a safe environment— free of injuries to both the artist and the audience. The purpose of the Programs with Special Security Needs Policy is to minimize risks and liabilities and to maximize issues of safety and security. This policy cannot and would not prevent a speaker from performing at Tufts. Finally, Dean Knable did not cancel the Lecture Series program on gays in the military. The Office of Student Activities and the Department of Public Safety decided three years ago that this event was one that also had “special security needs” and that it fell under the former “Controversial Speakers Policy.” At that time, the policy prevented such events from occurring during the last two weeks of the semester. This event was canceled by the University. The forum did not take place because it had originally been planned for the week before finals and unfortunately was never rescheduled.

Sincerely, Bill Stackman, Director Office of Student Activities

Editor’s Response: Although THE P RIMARY S OURCE does not usually respond to letters to the editor, Mr. Stackman has made some factual errors that require clarification: 1) We never disputed that Dean Knable consented to providing ample security for the Jackson address. Our claim was that she opposed classifying the lecture under the recently renamed “Controversial Speakers Policy,” which would have imposed other restrictions on the event. Two of Mr. Stackman’s own employees in the Student Activities Office provided us with this information, which was confirmed by Lieutenant Lonero of TUPD, the officer in charge of “special security needs.” THE PRIMARY SOURCE stands by its story. 2) While Tufts canceled the gays-in-the-military forum, “the University” does not act on its own; the order came from Dean Knable’s office. Calendar Coordinator David Backman has confirmed that in 1993, the Office of the Dean of Students was primarily responsible for classifying events as “controversial.” Further, because the forum was so designated, Lecture Series could not have rescheduled it: the policy barred such events during the last two weeks of a semester; the next semester would not begin for another four months. Moreover, the invited speakers, including a US Congressman, upon being rudely uninvited, would have been unlikely to accept another offer. A then-Lecture Series official informed THE PRIMARY SOURCE that Knable canceled the event because of her personal opposition to Mr. Jefferies, a claim that Knable, in three years, has yet to deny.

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THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 5 Commentary Seizing the opportunity, entrepreneurs approached the state Deconstructing Quotas with a proposal to open the additional four lanes using private funds and pay for the construction with tolls— surrendered only Twenty years after ordering the desegregation of Boston by those commuters who freely choose to utilize the new lanes. public schools, US District Judge W. Arthur Garrity struck a blow During rush hour, when cars jam onto the freeway, 91Express against racial quotas by ruling in favor of Hyde Park eighth-grader hikes fees to maintain truly free-flowing traffic. And it works, all Julia McLaughlin. The A-minus student challenged the Boston without nasty toll booths, as electronic cards mounted on wind- Latin School last year when it denied her admission, despite shields allow overhead scanners to deduct money from users’ having scored as well or better on the competitive entrance exam accounts. than 103 black and Hispanic students whom BLS accepted. Julia As 91Express drivers sail home past others who rely on the was not alone— seventy-eight other white students who earned government to provide a clear, functioning infrastructure, Massa- competitive scores failed to gain a spot in the city’s oldest public chusetts drivers should take note. Years after the Bay State’s school. development authority promised to lift tolls enacted to pay origi- The system’s current plan sets aside nearly two-fifths of the nal construction bonds, the Mass Turnpike remains a bureaucracy- seats at the Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and John laden, debt-ridden, traffic-choked thoroughfare. But voters now D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science for black and have a chance to reclaim what they bought and paid for by Hispanic students. Judge Garrity’s sound ruling was not without supporting a grass-roots initiative to force the Pike authority to lift quotacratic baggage, though. In his decision he offered a series of the tolls and renounce its control of I-90, which will hopefully end poor suggestions for reform, all of which neglect the one criterion up in private hands. Private companies alone have the incentive to on which admissions should be based— individual merit. He build better mousetraps and offer them at lower prices, even when expressed concern that “Abandonment of the 35 percent set the mousetrap resides in a domain once controlled by state aside... without adopting other remedial measures would, within bureaucracies. the next six years or sooner, convert [Boston Latin] into an overwhelm- Selective Programming ingly white and Asian-American school with a Black and Hispanic Anyone who expected enrollment of about 15 percent.” to watch Jack Kemp’s By placing emphasis on the speech at the Republican enrollment percentages of minori- National Convention was ties, sympathizers of race-based sorely disappointed by admissions standards actually short- NBC. Rather than cover the change the students. Their affirma- vice-presidential nominee’s tive-action agenda, however well- important address, the pea- intentioned, frequently fails to re- cock network treated its au- ward the scholastic achievement of dience to a “Seinfeld” re- whites and Asians, while discount- run. None of the three net- ing the ability of minorities to com- works even bothered to pete in an academic setting. Justice broadcast the rousing ora- Garrity deserves recognition for his tion of J.C. Watts, a conser- sensible ruling; but sadly, he and other quotaphiles continue to vative black congressman. Not one network showed President offer so-called remedies which subordinate the virtue of merit to Bush’s speech in its entirety. Although Watts, Bush, and other shallow multiculturalism. prominent Republicans appeared during the networks’ hour of prime-time coverage, viewers had to tolerate the unyielding The Road Less Traveled commentary of Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, and their floor report- ers. The most egregious act of network arrogance occurred when For years a ten-mile stretch of the Riverside Freeway (SR91) Ted Koppel decided that Nightline would end its San Diego between Anaheim and Yorba Linda represented the greatest coverage after only two evenings because the GOP “scripted” its misnomer in Southern California. During rush hours the 91 convention. became a parking lot. But over the course of the last two years, a It should come as no surprise, then, that the networks’ private corporation struck a deal with the state and launched one convention broadcasts received poor television ratings. Viewers of the most overdue highway-improvement projects. Developers are increasingly relying upon the non-partisan C-SPAN for politi- found a diamond in the rough median strip, a ribbon of sandy, cal coverage. A considerable section of the public now prefers C- rocky land left untouched for years. California once planned to SPAN’s uninterrupted telecasts to the filtered and biased accounts pave that land with public funds and open another two lanes in of NBC, CBS, and ABC. Unlike the elitist networks, C-SPAN each direction, but more urgent projects such as rebuilding quake- believes that Americans can formulate their own opinions about damaged freeways in Los Angeles and Oakland stalled all con- politics. They can also formulate their own opinions about the crete development designs. networks.

6 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96

Politicized Science: Two Tufts Profs on Election ‘96 scandals that bring down administrations. Disregarding relevant information and then offering authoritative prognoses: that sort of Are Tufts professors crack experts in their fields? Consider scandal brings down the credibility of a department. the campaign ‘96 predictions of Political Science gurus Jeff Berry and Jim Glaser, issued in an August 1 press release. Most of the The GOP’s Big-Tent Circus projections are unoriginal: the GOP will try to disparage Clinton’s character; Democrats will attempt to discredit Dole by linking him During his reintroduction to the American people at San to Newt Gingrich. OK, so the professors listen to James Carville Diego’s Republican convention, Bob Dole declared that his party on the “Imus in the Morning” program. “is broad and inclusive.” Those sentiments complemented nicely But as Professor Glaser admits, “political science is really Colin Powell’s highly publicized address in which he urged better for analyzing events than predicting them.” If these schol- listeners to cherish the “diversity that has made [America] strong.” ars’ prophecies are hackneyed, however, their inquiry is unin- Throughout the four-day political extravaganza, GOP leadership formed. Berry, for example, states that “we’ve had steady, mod- maintained that its “big tent” would accommodate policy dis- erate growth and low inflation, and that’s considered optimum agreements among its members. But the language that dominated performance for an economy.” Yet during the Clinton years, the convention amounted to nothing more than 1990s-style liberal economic growth has hovered around two percent annually— well jargon. Stressing tolerance, the General championed the fabri- below America’s 3.3% postwar average, let alone the 4.5% cated right to an abortion. Inclusivity becomes undesirable when usually enjoyed during economic recovery. For the average Ameri- it betrays traditional Republican principles of limited govern- can family, such sluggish growth translates to $2,500 less in the ment, free enterprise, individualism, and moral rectitude. bank. Strange that scientists would overlook Moreover, while the new-look GOP such pertinent data, or that policy mavens now embraces tolerance, it practices only would consider such dismal performance the left’s insincere and self-absorbed va- optimal. riety. Even the so-called big tent has To explain why Americans do space limitations— especially when not share their rosy assessment of conservatives seek entry. Newt the economy, the cognoscenti Gingrich may have orchestrated postulate public stupidity. the 1994 Republican Revolution, “Americans aren’t feeling the pros- but his ‘belligerent’ views guar- perity of the overall economy,” Berry anteed the House Speaker a explains, “so Clinton has to say, in downsized role at the San Diego effect, ‘I feel your pain, but actually, spectacular. House Majority Leader you should be feeling pretty good.’” Dick Armey, Gingrich’s ideological Or, as Glaser puts it, “The economy is ally, suffered the same fate. By vow- doing well, but in people’s minds it’s not ing to protect such popular entitlement healthy because so much economic news programs as Medicare and Social Se- surrounds the issue.” Americans fearing for curity, candidate Dole ignored the staple their jobs or their families’ well being, take conservative notion of personal respon- heart: two Tufts poli-sci professors say your concerns are invalid. sibility. And nary a prominent Republican will admit to having As outlandish as the professors’ notion of a rising tide that lifts read his party’s platform, a document chock-full of right-minded no boats is their appraisal of the Dole tax plan. “If you’re going to positions. cut fifteen percent of our revenue from income taxes,” asks Berry, But Republicans should recognize that they won control of “what are the budget cuts you’re going to use to offset that loss of Congress and the national political agenda by promoting the income?” Berry seemingly clings to the conventional un-wisdom Contract with America’s conservative policies. In fact, the public regarding the 1980s— tax cuts spurred rampant deficits— but he enthusiastically supported the GOP-led legislature until last winter’s should know better. The Reagan tax cuts prompted vast economic budget negotiations, when Bill Clinton’s demagoguery and Con- expansion, resulting in increased tax revenues— the deficit gressional leadership’s lack of political sophistication misrepre- climbed only because spending outpaced income. Moreover, as of sented the Republicans as ‘mean-spirited.’ The overwhelming 1997 the President will have a line-item veto, which would allow majority of the former Senator’s primary season opponents ran Dole, if elected, to compensate for any budget shortfalls with a their campaigns on right-wing platforms. The Dole campaign stroke of the pen. languished for months because its candidate lacked conservative The politicos conclude with the claim that President Clinton’s credentials; the GOP’s ideological makeup was not responsible ethical snafus will be of little concern to most Americans. “I don’t for Clinton’s twenty-point lead in public-opinion polls. Not think the American people are going to throw him out of office,” coincidentally, the Republican nominee’s impressive rise in the says Berry, just “because he invested with some shady charac- polls occurred shortly after he announced a Reaganesque tax- ters.” Perhaps not, were the President’s transgressions limited to cutting plan. Unfortunately, Haley Barbour and company have the poor selection of associates. Searching FBI files, hiding accepted the false equation of conservatism with extremism. The information from Congress, peddling influence: these are the party of Lincoln is little better than the party of Clinton.

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 7 Fortnight in Review SM Comedy is allied to Justice. Judith Kaye, New York’s top Court of Appeals judge, cannot —Aristophanes understand why a lower court rejected her for jury duty. “I would [have been] attentive,” she protests, “I would [have been] fair.” Tufts Community Union President Andi Friedman has deco- And she wonders why they wouldn’t take her. rated the Senate offices: on her door she has posted a “Clinton- Gore ‘96” bumpersticker and some gun-control propaganda, on Before Craig Livingstone achieved Filegate fame, Clinton the communal bulletin board she’s tacked up another Bubba crony George Stephanopoulos said that big boy “does a terrific advertisement, and on her forehead, she’s tattooed the word job... anything that has to do with security or logistics— Craig’s “sucker.” going to take care of it... And he knows how to cut through the bureaucracy and get things done.” After the scandal broke, Last spring, the TCU government held a referendum on Stephanopoulos told The Washington Post, “I don’t know him that whether “culture reps”— members of the Senate elected not by the well. He was a guy that was around... What can I tell you? I just student body at large, but by members of special-interest groups— can’t think of a specific thing he handled.” That’s probably could have full voting rights. Although the initiative passed, because the things he handled are at the bottom of a paper shredder incompetent TCU ballot-crafters neglected to add the TLGBC to in the White House basement. its roster of affirmative-action delegates. So the TCU will hold the vote again this fall, in conjunction with the freshman Senate School bus drivers are hard to come by in St. Louis. They are elections. We can’t understand the need for a TLGBC Senator; so scarce, in fact, that even when the city offered a cash bonus, it you’d think that a community that boasts “one in ten” as its still had no takers. Next tactic: free booze. membership would have no problem electing a candidate in open elections. Trying to boost state tourism, the town of St. Albans, Vermont, sent out thousands of enticing brochures... from its DC Mayor Marion Barry wants to improve the condition of maximum-security prison. This, in keeping with Vermont’s new his city’s schools. According to hizzonah, there are not enough motto, “The Sodomy State.” guns, drugs, or hookers. A headline from the He also wants some crack. August 25 Boston Globe reads: “Clinton sets Enraged about winning tracking of sex offend- WPYX’s “Ugly Bride Contest,” ers.” He will start by Annette Esposito-Hilder is su- wearing a cow bell at all ing the Albany radio station for times. unfair and cruel treatment. She plans to use the proceeds to fi- Senator Kennedy nance a malpractice suit against has resisted such identi- her plastic surgeon. fication, but says he’ll be happy to keep using NBC has apologized to his cattle prod. China for Bob Costas’s mention of its human-rights record during the Olympics. Says NBC Sports Speaking of the Bay State’s slurring senator, the DNC vice president Ed Markey, “We didn’t intend to hurt their feel- awarded Teddy one of the Convention’s most desirable time slots ings.” We’re sure Deng said the same after Tiananmen. for his address— 8 PM Thursday, just before Bill Clinton’s acceptance speech. That platform better be strong. To help boost attendance on the first day of school, local sports and media celebrities will make random appearances at Chevron gas stations in Oswego, Oregon, now give away one Hartford’s public schools. Michael Jackson is sure to be there, he free mamogram with every oil change. The offer has done little to always is. improve sales, but job applications have gone through the roof.

Shame on Michigan State Senator Henry Stallings. The crafty Animal-rights activists, don’t fear. The furry creature that has politician allegedly stole campaign funds to pay the rent on his attached itself to Associate Dean of Students Bruce Reitman’s pad. Great Michigan minds must think alike, another spent $1.4 face is not an exploited critter, but a would-be moustache. It seems million of tuition money to refurbish the Universty’s presidential that Bruce has as much trouble growing hair on his face as he does mansion. on his head.

8 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Attention freshmen: if it’s not too late, take any and all To reduce welfare fraud, Kentucky is replacing food stamps necessary precautions to skip the infamous Orientation “diver- with an electronic credit-card system. Recipients: apply now for sity” panel. Here’s a list of the top ten lessons you’ll miss by not your limited edition “Crazy Horse” Mastercard or Visa. attending: The sleeper film hit of Fall 1996 is Mission Impossible II: 10. “No” Means No, “NO!” Means Homophobe Research in Tisch Library. 9. Volleyball, Math 012, Streetfighter II, and other Asian-Ameri- can Cultural Experiences 8. I Ain’t Yo Ho: Empowerment Through Sexual Promiscuity School officials in Ellicott City, Maryland, recalled 43,000 7. How to Court the Man of Your Dreams When He Doesn’t Know calendars after determining that a photo showing white students in He’s Gay Yet the foreground and black students in the background was racist. 6. Fight Racism, Except for Affirmative Action Tufts has avoided such controversy by excluding whites from its 5. God, Parents, and Other Morons: A Colloquium viewbook entirely. 4. The Flat Tax and Other Satanic Rituals 3. You CAN Use Them Thrice: How to Save the Environment and Cass Lake, Minnesota, high-school students found out the Conserve Condoms at the Same Time word “squaw” is traceable to an Iroquois word for vagina, so the 2. Mumia Abu Jamal, a Man for Our Times state is renaming 19 places that contain the dirty mot. One 1. Growing Up Female, Black, Gay, Handicapped, Radioactive, submission, “Politically Correct Creek,” almost passed muster Bald, Fat, and Ugly: You Are Not Alone until it was discovered that “Creek” is traceable to an Arapaho expression for “yello-yello stream of relief.” Keep your eye out for a ton of explosives stolen from ACME Limestone in Forest Spring, West Virginia. An eyewitness said In a survey ranking fashion consciousness, high-school one of the thieves fled the scene in a cloud of dust and kept saying, students won, handily beating those in college. Curiously, an “Meep-meep.” intelligence survey yielded the same results.

Presenting the sixth annual PRIMARY SOURCE Innocuously Offensive Statements

Expression Whom it Offends Category of Offense

Hit me with your best shot alcoholics lushaphobia It’s the economy, stupid stupid economists Keynesianism Out of sight, out of mind the blind, the mentally ill deanism Here today, gone tomorrow nomads hobophobia Talk is cheap phone-sex addicts 976ism A man for all seasons pneumoniacs climatism Home for the holidays Santa’s reindeer Rudolphobia Left in the dust socialists academic othering Time flies ants speciesism There’s always tomorrow the terminally ill Kevorkianism Good for the goose is good for the gander the gander waterfowl feminism Voodoo economics Haitian financiers Aristidiocy Feeding frenzy bulimics anti-chewandspewism Make yourself at home the homeless Tufts-alum bashing Crack of dawn Marion Barry capital-punishmentism Doing it the hard way the impotent flaccidism Jam session Polaner All Fruit jellyphobia No kidding pedophiles pedophobia Sleeping like a baby infant insomniacs pamper oppression Nice guys finish last Bob Dole Republicanism Lean and mean the fat and jolly Farleyphobia Father knows best Heather’s two mommies bimaternalism Dress for success nudist losers classist materialism Clean sweep B & G competentism Man of the hour minutemen toryism No time like the present nostalgics contempo-arrogance

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 9 An Olympian Demand Colin Delaney

id Pericles, the great Athenian states- 1996, in the end the Games left Atlantans money, the IOC had only Los Angeles and Dman, pay for his Olympics? Almost holding a bag with very little debt: indi- Tehran to choose between. Of course, the assuredly. And that is exactly why they viduals and corporations voluntarily paid reason everything came down to one city lasted for at least 1168 years, by the reason- the multi-billion dollar price tag, planning and one plan can be found in the preceding ing of Juan Antonio Samaranch and the rest to reap titanic profits from the world’s Olympiads. When Montréal was awarded of the International Olympic Committee. single largest leisure event to date. the XXI Olympic Games, the host city But that was 2500 years ago, when democ- Even so, the IOC was racy was a fledgling experiment and the not happy. Ambush market- contests at Olympia included just a handful ers, companies without the Self-righteous indignation aside, of events lasting no more than a single day. expensive official-sponsor Nevertheless, while the world has changed rights, sprouted huge dis- the IOC owes itself blame for the a great deal since the time of Pericles and plays just beyond the exclu- “over-commercialized” Games. even the founding of the modern Olympics sive confines of Centennial in 1893, the events’ guardians still cling to Olympic Park and other ven- antiquated ideas about their meaning and ues. Moreover, IOC members expressed relied entirely on taxpayer dollars to fi- funding. displeasure with the behavior of aggressive nance the event. By 1976, the town had a The Centennial Games in Atlanta roadside vendors, most of whom battled complete make-over, with an extensive showcased 10,700 athletes from 197 na- one another like Greeks and Trojans in underground city, an expanded Metro, and tions and welcomed spectators to more their attempts to sell products. In short, the huge new stadiums. But when the athletes than 9,000,000 seats at scores of events— scene did not meet with the IOC’s image of went home, Montréal found itself near all records for the 23 modern and at least the dignified international competition en- bankruptcy with public debt totaling $1.5 392 ancient Olympiads. Of course, the size visioned by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the billion. And twenty years later, the city of this year’s spectacle did not mark the Frenchman who re-ignited the Olympic looks exactly as it should: a poured-con- only change; the Atlanta Committee for the flame in 1893 when he launched the IOC. crete heap built and residing in the 1970s, Olympic Games did a few other things Self-righteous indignation aside, the home to a citizenry still bearing $400 mil- differently, too. Save certain security ar- IOC owes itself blame for the “over-com- lion in Olympic liabilities. rangements and a few infrastructure up- mercialized” Games. Desperate to set the As today’s athletes and spectators grades, the Games’ bankroll came entirely movement back on track after the Munich fondly recall, Los Angeles was an unquali- from private sources. In fact, fied success and set the stage organizer Billy Payne used his for a string of triumphant fundraising acumen to reel in Olympiads. Indeed, competi- dozens of corporate sponsor- tion to host the 2004 Summer ships which initially cost $40 Games remains fierce, as million. But when sales fell eleven cities have offered short of expectations, Payne themselves to the world. But held a firesale to generate the in the afterglow of Atlanta, the necessary money, hocking IOC has decided to use its ab- Atlanta’s torch logo and the solute authority to effectively IOC’s treasured rings for as little pour billions of tourist dollars as $2 million. (Things might on the chosen city in a manner even have gone a bit far when detrimental to the movement. “Jeopardy!” bought the right to It now promises to exercise call itself “The Official Game veto power over sponsor ar- Show...”.) rangements in order to prevent When the City of Atlanta a repeat of the free-wheeling Montréal’s bankrupt Games paled in comparison to the fantastically realized it would have to raise hucksterism at play in Atlanta. successful, privately funded Los Angeles Olympics, above. millions to finance municipal Additionally, host cities will services for a town whose population would massacre and subsequent fiascoes at have to guarantee funding with public balloon by about 60%, “vendor rights,” a Montréal and Moscow, the Committee al- monies. In the future, city governments license to sell products from stalls on pub- lowed Los Angeles financier Peter will be the preeminent power, thereby lic property, became a hot and expensive Ueberroth to seek extensive private fund- commodity. Even though the future looked ing for 1984. Indeed, they had little choice; Please see “Olympics,” uncertain during the down years before when other applicants withdrew for lack of continued on page 20.

10 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 SPECIALA SECTION Frosh FAQ & A FAQ: What do you think of the Medford/Somerville area? A: Best argument we can find for Second Amendment rights.

FAQ: What’s it like to have a woman edit THE SOURCE? FAQ: Where is Pound Dining Hall? A: Come on, Dean Knable doesn’t A: No one knows for sure, censor us that much. but smart money says follow the drooling sycophants.

FAQ: Where are the best bars around here? FAQ: Is Hall Snacks a good A: In the gates surrounding the campus. place to meet people? FAQ: What can you tell me about PS 51? A: If you like freeloaders and A: The professor is about as interesting as a lava lamp, dorks, sure. the curriculum as illuminating.

FAQ: Will I get the classes I want? FAQ: Who is Bruce Reitman? A: If you transfer to Harvard next year, A: Bruce Reitman is the Associate absolutely. Dean of Students, bridegroom of Dean Bobbie Knable. Bruce’s two greatest accomplishments are: Instituting a FAQ: What is The Observer? speech code in 1989 and growing a A: The Observer, Tufts’s “newspaper of record,” was gnarly mustache over the summer. founded and last read in 1895.

FAQ: Where can I buy a fake ID? A: Call x3400 and ask for Johnny D. FAQ: What’s the TCU? FAQ: Is the Experimental A: Officially, the Tufts Community Union, our student government. College worthwhile? Unofficially, a repository for social climbers and bureaucrats, who in A: Klingon fluency for a mere addition to controlling the purse strings of this publication, are an $32,000— outstanding bunch of folks, and real snappy dressers. you can’t beat that.

FAQ: What are the good frats, and which should I avoid? FAQ: I live in Tilton, A: Stay away from Tau Chi Upsilon, Tau Upsilon Pi Delta, Beta & is that a good dorm? Gamma, and Tau Upsilon Delta Sigma. But be sure to join TAU PI SIGMA. A: No.

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 11 SPECIALA SECTION Diversity is Our St In the spirit of multiculturalism, Tufts offe programs for different ethnic groups— w Here are some of the highlights from the v

Native-American Italian Society Location: Cherokee Reservation, North End Accommodations: The Leaning Teepee of Pisa Featured Speaker: Chief Sitting Stallion Buttafucco Most Popular Event: Crusin’ the prairie in our IROCs Meals: Spaghetti with buffalo meatballs Field Trip: Dropping snitches in cement shoes off the canoe Workshop: Running Numbers Through Your Casino Best Moment: Vinny Spitting-Sparrow’s new gold chain matches his headdress... perfectly Worst Moment: Jimmy Two-Times gets the tomahawk chop, tomahawk chop Slogan: Ey-Yo, How!

Asian-WASP Collective Location: Hong Kong Accommodations: plain white pagodas Featured Speaker: Mao Tse Wentworth, III Irish-Hawaiian Club Most Popular Event: Cricket-Ping-Pong Jamboree Location: The Big Island Meals: General Tso’s Yorkshire Pudding Accommodations: Ocean Field Trip: Techno Night at the Harvard Club Featured Speaker: King W Workshop: How to Spend Inherited Wealth While Working 18 Hours a Day Most Popular Event: Pot Best Moment: “God Save the Queen” Karaoke Contest Meals: Corned beef and p Worst Moment: Skip Chen gets a throwing star caught in his ascot Field Trip: Hunting for L Slogan: Jolly Good Show, Old Man! Your lucky numbers are: 58, 23, 18, 4, 11, 36 Workshop: The Hammere Best Moment: Mosi McM Worst Moment: Bobby W but accidentally Slogan: 50 + 4 = 1

12 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 SPECIALA SECTION trength fers separate orientation we’re not kidding. Jewish Eskimos Location: Wappamaggpauu, Florida various retreats: Accommodations: Air-conditioned Cartier igloos Featured Speaker: Chilly-Willy Finklestein Most Popular Event: Killing baby seals, then wearing them Meals: Walrus knishes Field Trip: Sled-dog schlep to Saks Workshop: Fighting the “JEP” Stereotype Funniest Moment: Reuben falls through the ice-fishing hole while doing the Hora Worst Moment: Shira and Rachel show up at the blubber BBQ wearing the same snowshoes Slogan: Next year in Juneau! French-Greek Alliance Location: Gay Paris Accommodations: La maison du fraternité Featured Speaker: François Popodopolous Most Popular Event: Olympic moped racing Meals: Baklava croissanwiches Field Trip: Ouzo-tasting session Workshop: Getting over Your Napoleonic Oedipal Complex Best Moment: Robert, Mireille, and George toss plates off the Eiffel Tower : Ireland Worst Moment: Weekly shower nside barstools Slogan: Let them eat gyros Walla Walla O’Grady tato Luau Mexican-Russian Club pineapple Location: A warm-water port Leprechauns and chasing grass skirts Accommodations: adobe dascha ed Hula: Keeping Your Balance Featured Speaker: Boris Fernandez Mahon, the good lad, gets his first lei Most Popular Event: Bolshoi does the Macarena Wakiki reaches for his shamrock, Meals: Borscht chimichangas y grabs taboo Field Trip: The shrine of Santa Lenina Workshop: Learning the Furry Hat Dance Best Moment: Miguel Chernekov breaks open the kulak piñata Worst Moment: Yuri Gonzalez chokes on the worm in his Stoli Slogan: ¡We will bury you, aye carumba!

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Sunday, August 25 Friday, August 30 Sunday, September 1 Noon: Euros invade ... Come see why 11:00 am: “Let’s Talk About Sex” with 7:00 pm: Torn Ticket 11, named after the EU is a lousy idea. Tufts Sex Talk. Note: Any reference to the total number of tickets they’ve 7:00 pm: Sprockets Fest. Attention sex, anywhere on campus, at any time, to sold, presents Is There Life After High Avalon: incoming. anyone is now considered date rape. School? To save you two miserable 3:30 pm: “Seven Strategies for Studying hours, the answer is: No, at least not at Wednesday, August 28 in College.” To save you time, we’ve Tufts. 8:00 am: American freshmen herded decided to present the list here. 9:30: Tonight’s film is Muriel’s Wed- and prodded into dorm rooms while 1. Only cheat from smart kids. ding. Still, better than The Wedding amused Euros watch. 2. Use library card catalogue for padding Banquet. 9:30: Coffee for commuters in Coolidge bibliographies. Room. 3. Print papers in Courier- 12 point. Monday, September 2 9:35: Stop the exploitation of Juan 4. Major in English. 2:00-5:00 pm: Tilton Crafts and Field Valdez! Send commuters home. 5. Read the back cover of your text books. Day- Tilton’s not cool and neither is 10:00: Tour of the new, completed 6. Begin all of your papers with “This the field behind it. Tisch Library- free meal plan to any paper is about ...” or “I feel ....” 3:30-5:00: Ice Cream and Live Music student who finds the book. 7. Don’t study, and just tell your parents sponsored by Tufts’ chaplains. They’re noon: Lunch on the Lawn: Call it that grades aren’t a true measure of how always up for a free meal. Woodstock III. much you’ve learned. 1:45 pm: Matriculation, it won’t cause 5:00: Food fair for new students: the free Tuesday, September 3 blindness or hairy palms. Frisbees taste better than the food they 8:00 am: Classes begin. Don’t forget 3:00: Visit Health Services, where serve in them. to sign up for some Ex-College leaches and blood letting live. 11:15: Film Series presents The Blues courses. 5:00: Meet with peer advising group. Brothers. Class of 2000, you’re lucky- 7:00 pm: Better start studying for Your advisors have no clue, and the rest last year’s freshmen were treated to The Perspectives. of your group is a bunch of geeks you Wedding Banquet. will never see again after Orientation. 11:15: Midnight Cafe competing with Friday, September 6 8:30: “Learning the Ropes” ... not nearly Film Series. Although the Orientation 3:30 pm: “Meet the Press.” Not with as exciting as it sounds. Calendar advertises food and fun at this Tim Russert; rather with the witty and event, the open-mike moronathon is spon- charming Bill Stackman. Come talk to Thursday, August 29 sored by the Oxfam Cafe. Hence, no food, representatives of the campus media: 7:15 am: Breakfast in the dining halls. no fun. The Tufts Daily – show them you’re an We recommend eating before you go. egomaniacal social-climber and maybe noon: Seal clubbing on the Quad, spon- Saturday, August 31 one day you can have your own Fea- sored by THE SOURCE. 10:30 am: “Why No Means No: Respect- tures column. The Observer- because 7:00 & 8:00 pm: “Many Stories, One ing Choices.” Date rape seminar followed literacy isn’t everything. WMFO- Community:” Many communists, Much by other tautological talks including “Why freeform, man, freeform. TUTV- try Idiocy. Yes, Means Yes” and “Why Maybe Means out for the Tufts soap opera, “Too 10:00: Club Night. Watch Tufts’ own Maybe.” much time on our hands.” The Zamboni Traveling Treasure Trunk and Cheap 9:00 pm: Monte Carlo Night: Hanging - Tufts’ humor-less paper. THE PRI- Sox. Guys: it’s not nearly as racy as it out with people you don’t like because MARY SOURCE- meet the elite, if the sounds. you have no friends yet. University hasn’t muffled us by then.

14 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Gay Tidings Jessica Schupak

n the eyes of Tufts University, all men tivity instruction before the school year insinuation, once again, is that anyone who Iare not equal. The eyes are the adminis- begins. Director of the LGB Center, finds the panelist’s chosen lifestyle offen- trators, and they see transgender/bi/homo- Charlene Waldron, keynotes the session. sive is morally equivalent to a white su- sexuality as deserving of perks. Their zeal She distributes pink sheets with descrip- premacist. Gay-bashing, like any other sort to forge the Hill’s demographics comes at tions of situations the glorified hall moni- of assault, is prohibited by law; preventing the cost of educational quality and indi- tors “might” encounter. Predicament #4 violence does not require forcing students vidual conscience. features Chris, a Tufts co-ed ostracized by to suspend their morality. Tufts’s love affair with homosexuality her floormates because, hit full force two years ago with the Report once, “she was a he.” Im- of the Task Force on Lesbian, Gay, and plicit in the scenario is the Once Tufts freshmen begin Bisexual Issues. Ostensibly, the Task suggestion that anyone who Orientation, the indoctrination Force’s goal was to ensure that Tufts’s has moral qualms about gen- resources are accessible to all students, der-shifting, be they religious starts, climaxing with the including gays. Probably because univer- or personal, is a bigot, while diversity panel. sity resources are already accessible to all such behavior is normal and students, the Task Force proceeded to carry common. Based on this train- its shady mission a bit further. ing, RAs would advance the University’s Just in case the diversity panel is not The Task Force supported the creation unconventional moral agenda. Ultimately, enough, the Experimental College sends to of a special-interest residence house for the LGB icon recommends that RAs should the all-freshmen Explorations and Perspec- gay students. Although married hetero- refer ‘confused’ students over to the Cen- tives classes representatives of the Tufts sexual couples cannot obtain university ter— an outfit that endorses “coming out” Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community, housing, the tolerant liberal administration as the only virtuous, long-term response to who describe their coming-out process. saw fit not only to stamp a seal of approval homosexual inclinations. After recounting their personal sexual evo- on gay conduct, but encourage it. (Like- lution, they tell the group what a great wise, Tufts extends employee health ben- Starting with a Bang resource the TLGBC is and recommend efits to faculty and staff homosexual ‘part- Once Tufts freshmen begin Orienta- that even straight students attend its meet- ners,’ but not to those of the opposite sex.) tion, the indoctrination starts, climaxing ings. ‘Not just the bring a straight friend If the University is going to offer special with the diversity panel. At this required meetings,’ the TLGBCer attending my Ex- housing accommodations based purely on meeting, a handful of students said to rep- ploration emphasized. what a group of students does in bed, The TLGBC has its own uni- it is only a matter of time before an versity-funded resource center lo- orgy house and others like it are cated in Carmichael Hall, staffed scattered around campus. So far, gay with a full-time LGB administra- activists have not secured their own tor. According to the Center’s bro- university-owned abode, though time chure, it provides a “sunny gay/ is on their side. lesbian/bisexual positive place to But that’s not to say that gays hang out, study, browse the current don’t enjoy special treatment in hous- news on the bulletin, or chat.” The ing. If a straight student is uncom- description implies that gays need fortable with his roommate’s homo- separate “hangouts” from straight sexuality, this is not sufficient Tuftonians, which the University grounds for him to move. A common must supply. The Tufts Course defense of this policy is that just Bulletin states that the Center also because someone is gay, does not provides, “[i]ndividual and group mean he is interested in everyone of the resent Tufts’s “diversity” occupy the dais, support about coming out...”— the un- same sex. While that may be true, a straight each taking turns sharing his respective equivocal right course in the man is not necessarily interested in every oppression. There is always at least one gay administration’s opinion— “...and aca- woman, but the University would never- student on the panel who explains his sexual demic concerns related to sexual orienta- theless not force a woman to live with a progression and finally, how the Tufts com- tion...”— as if one’s sexuality directly af- man. munity accommodates his homosexuality. fects his academic aptitude. Sexuality-based preferences in hous- Because the gay student joins a chain of ing extend to the Resident Assistants’ train- racial and ethnic minorities citing real-life Continued on the next page. ing program. RAs must undergo gay sensi- examples of bigotry or intolerance, the

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 15 diversity,” as the Task Force Report put it. cally, many of the faculty members trying Continued from the previous page. One such class, EXP 20F, Identity/Politics: to strip students of Department of Defense Contextualizing Bisexuality, pays subsidization probably rely on federal sup- According to an Equal Education Op- “[p]articular attention... to developing a port for their projects. Surely, they would portunity Committee annual report, former cross-cultural perspective on attitudes to- not appreciate the University exerting in- Director of the Center Heather Wishik ad- wards bisexuality,” according to its Ex- fluence to get their government allowances vocates, “a workshop for new faculty... on College course listing. The lectures focus invalidated, whatever the reason. issues involving sexual orientation.” Tufts on “issues involved in the development of While Tufts community members are now offers such sensitivity training to all bisexual identity, and the development of entitled to an opinion on the issue, they the growing bisexual politi- should not push the University to adopt cal movement in historical political positions. When parents pay tu- context.” As if tacitly con- ition they trust it is for schooling, not When parents pay tuition they trust it ceding EXP 20F’s illegiti- support for various political endeavors. is for schooling, not support for macy, the description notes Additionally, any directed political activ- various political endeavors. that “this course will appear ism on the part of the administration threat- on all official university ens the University’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt documents as Identity/Poli- status. tics.” Unlike Ex-College of- Tufts almost had a rational, ideologi- faculty so that they can deal with gay ferings of previous years (which usually cally well represented discourse on gays- students’ “needs.” This goes beyond re- counted only towards elective credit) and in-the-military in 1993. In typical fashion, garding students equally and actually rec- perhaps most egregiously, Identity/Poli- however, Dean Bobbie Knable invoked the ommends treating gay students differently tics earns a credit towards the American Controversial Speaker’s Policy and can- from their straight classmates. The sexual Studies major and the Women’s Studies celed the event at the eleventh hour. Dean preference of a student should not affect interdisciplinary minor. Knable’s feathers were ruffled, according the way a professor answers questions, Surprisingly, the usually sound His- to a Lecture Series member, because Terry writes and grades examinations, or con- tory Department currently offers the His- Jefferies, a Pat Buchanan policy analyst structs a syllabus. torical Construction of Sexuality which, in invited to participate, would have argued The administration outreach to gays addition to a history degree, can be applied against the morality of homosexuality. (and on their behalf) is not exclusive to to a Women’s Studies minor. Professor students. The 1994 Report suggests that the Solomon has selected “topics in the history Queer Theory University implement affirmative action of lesbians and gay men in Western culture, It is neither the University’s responsi- for gay professors. Although a professor’s and the changing relationship of hetero- bility nor its duty to encourage the Hill to bedroom habits also have no place in the sexuality to homosexuality....” While it is explore “alternative lifestyles.” Moreover, classroom, Tufts administrators seemingly refreshing to see the University focusing such politicization of Tuftonian bedrooms think they are an important attribute to on Western culture, there are more valid has actually generated a balkanization of teaching. The University’s current affir- aspects that deserve study. the LGB community as they are now mative-action policy, which, according to “othered”— not by the students, but by the a representative in the Office of Equal GI Gay University. Such is an ironic consequence Opportunity applies to admissions and fac- Tufts’s gay-rights activism is not con- of the Task Force, which aimed to promote ulty hiring, includes preferential treatment tained to campus politics. The University student equality. Although the triangle on the basis of sexual preference. The Task militantly opposed Bill Clinton’s continu- crowd contends that homosexuality is not Force even suggested advertising in “gay ation of the US Armed Forces policy bar- about what happens behind closed doors, media” as a recruiting technique. Assur- ring gay soldiers in its branches. President but how people love, this makes university edly the diversity the University seeks is John DiBiaggio wrote a letter, on univer- involvement no more relevant. Questions not intellectual, but superficial. sity letterhead, to President Clinton advo- of “love” are inherently personal and moral, The Task Force even proposed the cating that the military end its ban. The Tufts need not politicize them and dictate formation of a gay and lesbian studies King of the Hill should reserve his political opinions. department, as if studying Virginia posturing to his personal stationery. Knable, DiBiaggio, and assorted pro- Woolfe’s sexuality is somehow on par with Even though the administration kicked fessors abuse their power to communicate studying her literature. Interestingly, this the Reserved Officer Training Corps off a political agenda, in this case furthering proposal came just semesters before many campus during the Vietnam war, Tufts the gay-rights cause. Championing unor- of the same radicals from the Task Force sought to further cripple it. Angry about the thodox sexualities is not part of the Ballou plead for the eradication of the Religion military’s practice, a pack of faculty and contingent’s job description which is to Department. students attempted to convince Tufts to facilitate education. Neither is imposing its Although Tufts has yet to erect an stop accepting ROTC scholarships. If suc- morality on students who can make their LGB department, former Dean Elizabeth cessful, this self-righteous group would judgments individually. Ammons and Dean Marilyn Glater spon- have denied future students the right to sored a report to help students find courses serve their country, and jeopardized their Miss Schupak is a junior majoring in History. reflecting “experiences of human sexual ability to afford a Tufts education. Ironi-

16 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 For a Better America Micaela Dawson

or President Clinton, political postur- rity to follow through on campaign prom- Dole’s back-up quarterback, the partner- F ing has become a favorite pastime. ises, a commitment to reducing the size and ship spells victory. Scoring points with the media, the Holly- scope of government, and a strategy to Bob Dole has optimistically an- wood elite, and radical special interests is relieve Americans of a cumbersome tax nounced, “Our history shows that the great- the game plan for his goal of self- est force for economic growth, for aggrandizement. From his unpopular Dole’s chances for victory rest on lifting the poor from poverty, for position as the most abortion-friendly opening opportunities for productive, President in American history to his his willingness to complete the fulfilling lives for all, is the force of aborted effort to socialize health care, Reagan Revolution boldly and a free people— free to go where God the Democrat’s record reflects the and their dreams guide them.” An length to which he will go to appease unapologetically. economic plan which centers on “kill- party leftists. ing the taxasaurus monster” and tam- The same candidate who ran an entire burden. His selection of supply-side spokes- ing wild entitlement expenditures can only campaign on the conservative-sounding man Jack Kemp as his running-mate fur- improve the living standards of Americans. middle-class tax cut and five-year plan to ther reinforced his pledge. Continuing this Aimed at raising the nation’s economic balance the budget, has pulled a complete success requires that he employs the com- growth rate to 3.5%, the Dole program about-face as president. During his four- munication skills of his politically savvy showcases its fifteen percent across-the- year term, Clinton managed to veto two wife to further enhance his image. The board tax cut which would return tax rates balanced budgets, propose one of the larg- optimism conveyed by this powerful team to Reagan levels. est pork-barrel spending programs in Ameri- lifts Dole’s approval ratings considerably, Thanks to Clintonomics, the average can history, pass the nation’s biggest tax and adds momentum as election season middle class family must now hand over hike, and submit a budget that forecasts shifts into high gear. 38.2% of its income to the IRS— more hundreds of billions in deficits. As Repub- The Republican must not only enthusi- taken in taxes than spent for food, shelter, lican challenger Bob Dole reminds us, the astically promote his tax reduction propos- and clothing combined. Bob Dole would true “extremist” in this race is the current als, but also offer a more detailed package lessen this burden by 56% on a family of occupant of the White House. four earning $35,000. This reduc- But for the former majority tion allows the family to accumu- leader to win this election, he will late more savings and encourages need to do more than simply criti- investment, which rejuvenates the cize the incumbent. To succeed, he economy. must present a credible game plan As the one pro-family candi- of his own. Dole’s chances for date in this race, Dole offers a $500 victory rest on his willingness to per child tax credit for middle- seize the precious opportunity to income households, allowing each complete the Reagan Revolution family more control over its own boldly and unapologetically. pocketbook. Candidate Dole has Armed with a GOP-controlled Con- led the fight for more parental gress and its gracious gift, the Line choice in education, offering “op- Item Veto, the presidential hopeful portunity scholarships,” or vouch- should be well prepared to deliver ers, to parents who send their chil- on his promises to balance the bud- dren to private school. get by the year 2002, overhaul the The Clinton middle-class entire tax code, provide new edu- “vise-grip” of rising deficits and cational opportunities for tax increases has severely retarded America’s youth, abolish exces- Reagan and Dole worked on a revolution which the Kansan must the economy. In fact, the US sive federal regulation, and reform now unapologetically relaunch in order to win. economy grew 50% faster in 1992, an out-of-control legal system. of spending cuts. Dole should give Kemp when tax-and-spend liberals described the free reign in his effort to convince the economy as the worst in five decades. The A Strong Offense public that a rising tide does indeed lift all current 2.3% growth rate is the slowest of Bob Dole’s convention speech was a boats. No one can make a better case for the any economic expansion since the last compelling start to his election bid. He fifteen percent tax reduction than the Buf- successfully presented himself as the only falo Bills’ own “number fifteen.” If the Continued on the next page. candidate who possesses the moral integ- fiery dynamo can settle into position as

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 17 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 Election ‘96 government gridlock. Chances are that Dole legal system— a reform which America Continued from the previous page. will enjoy an ideologically cooperative has craved. Limitations on punitive dam- congress. ages in product liability cases and protec- century. As a result, real wages have Dole and Kemp have pledged to over- tion of non-profit and charitable organiza- stagnated and real median household in- haul the Internal Revenue Service, and the tions from injurious lawsuits are among his come has dropped, while interest rates and punitive attitude with which it operates. intentions. He has also outlined a plan to the national debt have risen sharply. Mean- Dole hopes to achieve this transformation cap contingency fees for trial lawyers, who while, home-mortgage costs have increased by ending IRS lifestyle audits in circum- now collect sixty cents of every dollar by thousands of dollars. stances where there is no clear evidence of awarded by juries. The Dole plan gallantly dares to This was a bold move for Dole, combat this slump and stimulate eco- because next to unions, the legal nomic productivity. The Republican community provides the most contender’s 50% cut in the top rate of The current White House has made grass-roots support for Clinton. It the capital gains tax is designed to a mockery of the presidency; the should encourage the American foster investment. He has also en- people, though, that Dole’s spe- dorsed estate-tax relief and vowed to time is ripe for change. cial interest is the American people, protect family businesses and farms not lobbyists. from the punitive inheritance tax. This enterprise-friendly program contrasts criminal activity, eliminating IRS filing It’s Dole’s Call starkly with the existing enormous retroac- for 40 million low- and middle-income In truth, this election is Dole’s to lose. tive tax hike on small businesses which taxpayers, and privatizing many IRS func- Bill Clinton’s own party is dissolving right prompted the National Federation of Inde- tions. The Dole-Kemp ticket is attractive to before his eyes. Twenty-seven Democratic pendent Business to term the Clinton presi- American voters because it treats the IRS members of the 104th congress have re- dency “the most anti-small business ad- as a necessary evil rather than as a tool for signed or announced they will not run for ministration in history.” redistributing wealth. The GOP nominees re-election and at least two hundred elected While the Democrat claims to have are the only candidates presently offering Democratic officials have joined the GOP raised taxes on only the “rich,” IRS data real relief from stifling fiscal decay. since Clinton took office. The current indicate that 87% of individual tax returns Dole will also score many points with White House has made a mockery of the showing incomes of $200,000 or more were his military stance. In the Senate he intro- presidency; the time is ripe for change. filed by small businesses. Neither his $280 duced the Defend America Act, command- The challenge before Dole is convinc- billion tax increase nor the $23 billion gas ing the Pentagon to build a strategic de- ing the electorate that he is a virtuous man tax has delivered on his promised “middle- fense against ballistic missiles by 2003. with an honorable vision and the will to class tax cut.” Conversely, after a “Bottom’s Up Review,” execute it. Assuming Dole can success- Dole’s decision to run his cam- fully expose Clinton’s unscru- paign on a Reaganesque platform of pulous nature, he should have lower taxes and economic growth is a little trouble persuading the tremendous strategic accomplish- electorate that he is the only ment. Like Reagan, Jack Kemp has candidate who can rekindle a converted him to a principled supply- sense of trust, respect, and opti- sider, and he has proven his commit- mism. ment to his mission. His sincerity and In the few remaining practical economics will appeal to a months leading up to the elec- broad spectrum of voters. The key tion, the former Senator should differences between the Dole and take every opportunity to elabo- Clinton approaches will enhance this rate on his message that effect, providing the Kansan does not America’s best days lie ahead. relent in a misguided attempt to gar- He must become as impassioned ner coveted swing votes. by his ideals as the 104th Con- The GOP nominee’s dedication gress was by its ten-point Con- to fiscal responsibility is further illustrated Clinton short-changed the military some tract with America. It is imperative to by his support for both the line item veto $40 million. As a result, the US is no longer package his program in an equally simple, and the supermajority. With one, he will be prepared to engage in two simultaneous common-sense manner and avoid compil- able to guarantee deficit reduction by cut- wars. As Commander-in-Chief, Bob Dole ing a mere laundry list of proposals. If Dole ting pork-barrel spending projects from would reverse this dangerous threat to na- campaigns on the differences between his budgets; with the other, he will require a tional security as well as overturn Clinton’s own Reaganesque agenda and the abysmal 60% vote of Congress before raising in- reckless practice of putting US troops un- Clinton record, he can’t lose. come-tax rates. For the majority of the der UN command. Reagan Administration, the President was And he has set out on an equally ambi- Miss Dawson is a junior majoring in unable to pass balanced budgets because of tious mission to streamline the country’s Classics and Philosophy.

18 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 The Objective Disadvantage Ananda Gupta

at Buchanan’s presidential aspirations treaties only limit trade, since truly unre- That claim, however, makes no more P may have come and gone, but the strained trade requires no agreements. sense than holding that Burger King is issues that fueled his renegade “conserva- Moreover, allowing governments to dic- entitled to monetary compensation for tism” still haunt the American political tate terms of commerce invites tremendous McDonalds’s success. Moreover, if con- scene. Particularly, economic protection- abuse. Although some governments use sumer choice harms unpatronized firms, ism continues to enjoy a surge in public trade pacts to further humanitarian goals, why should the successful ones be pun- approval. It owes its success to two of the as the US does with China, Libertarians ished? Ought not the consumer who made most powerful lobbying interests in the the irrational choice be punished country, organized labor and lazy cor- Protectionism punishes consumers instead? porations, who have formed an ironic Of course, protectionism does but perverse alliance to protect their by depriving them of choice, punish consumers by depriving own interests from risks implicit in a inflating prices, and providing them of choice, inflating prices, competitive marketplace. Bad economic domestic producers with incentives and providing domestic produc- theory gave birth to protectionism, but ers with incentives to remain inef- the philosophy goes beyond poor schol- to remain inefficient. ficient. But the tariff or quota’s arship to invite some chilling conclusions commit themselves to the consumer’s con- primary victim is the domestic economy. about the role of government. science. They trust individuals, rather than Protectionist rhetoric often emphasizes the Despite the landmark GATT and the state, to boycott Pepsi if they disap- need to “save American jobs.” To a certain NAFTA agreements, both of which a Demo- prove of Burma’s military dictatorship. degree, protectionism accomplishes that crat-controlled Congress ratified, conser- The great fallacy of protectionism, the goal, but it does so at the expense of other vatives generally have a stronger commit- ‘buy American’ credo, seems logical at American jobs. ment to free trade than left wingers. Never- first glance. According to protectionists, The euphemistically named “sugar theless, Republicans stumble. Their plat- Americans prosper when consumers pur- supports” that the US maintains to keep form recognizes that “[foreign] exports chase goods and services from American foreign sugar expensive serve as an ex- fuel the American economy” even while it firms, and foreign ample. The inflated sugar prices help do- decries the trade deficit. Hypocritically, citizens mestic sugar growers but hurt domestic the platform calls to reduce transactions prosper industries that use sugar to create other that it admits help the economy, and if the goods. Certainly, more sugar farmers have calls for closing a gap that defines jobs than would have without subsidies, American profits. but fewer candy manufacturers or bakers This contradiction is rivaled stay in business. Similarly, if Japanese cars only by the introduction’s com- receive heavy tariffs, farmers who trade mitment to “free and fair trade” grain to Japan in exchange for cars will and the declaration that “in any suffer from diminished purchasing power. fair competition, American The auto workers win, but the farmers lose. workers will win.” Of course, in In truth, protectionists do not priori- truly free trade, American work- tize domestic jobs over foreign jobs. In- ers will “win” only in fields where stead, they hold that some domestic jobs they out-perform their competitors. deserve greater consideration than others, US companies should manufacture same that the state must sacrifice some domestic whatever they can profitably while the pur- industries to appease others. Further, which public relies upon foreign imports for chases are industry has the strongest lobby inevitably products that cannot be competitively pro- made from determines which jobs will be sacrificed. duced within the borders. The idea that foreign firms. Indeed, one might view the Protectionist rhetoric frequently invokes trade is a zero-sum game, that if an Ameri- purchase of a Toyota as harmful to a Ford imagery of “trade wars” because it repre- can worker “wins” a foreign worker “loses,” employee, since income that might have sents a stirring, urgent call to action. That is antithetical to the ideals of free, mutually gone to him goes to his Japanese counter- the phrase is an oxymoron clearly does not beneficial commerce. part. Thus, the protectionist argues, the disturb Buchanan’s ideological allies. By In contrast, the Libertarian Party plat- state ought to discourage the purchase of definition, a trade must be a mutually ben- form advocates adopting completely free Japanese cars by artificially raising prices eficial exchange between two parties. trade, abolishing existing trade agreements, with tariffs or quotas. This amounts to and withdrawing from the World Trade redistributing income from the Japanese Please see “Protectionism,” Organization. In the Libertarian view, trade workers to Americans. continued on the next page.

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 19 “Olympics,” continued audience, they were nearly destroyed by 393 because they stood for something that from page 10. World Wars, the Depression, a racist des- he did not. And though the municipal gov- pot, terrorism, and municipal bankruptcy. ernment of Montréal did not destroy the controlling private entities such as ACOG. Only when entrepreneurs such as Ueberroth Games, it surely came close. That is, the governments of Nagano, and Payne took control did the Games Unless he intends the Olympics to Sydney, and Salt Lake City must be given reach their full potential. become a trying affair which no city can unchecked power to make the same mis- Now IOC President Samaranch intends support— most observers predict the new takes Montreal did. to hand control back to the government. He regulations will preclude US cities from Like a bunch of little Caesars, IOC and his companions at Committee head- bidding in the future— Samaranch must members have decided to exercise their quarters in Geneva should recognize a few not allow the modern Games to be an event authority in ways that run against all les- important, salient points. Greece, like turn- controlled by the waste, cronyism, sons offered by history. In ancient times, of-the-century France, held certain ideals committeeism, and tyranny of government when the preeminence of Athens and Greece in high regard: altruism and the glory of control. Voluntary funding and free enter- gave way to Rome, the Olympics under- amateur sport chief among them. But a prise put the modern Olympics on sure went a significant change. The Greek superior power (Rome then, the United footing in Los Angeles, and ACOG’s pri- agones (contests) nearly disappeared when States today) taught the founders of the vate support generated the biggest Games Rome took over, until the emperor Augustus Olympics that with a few adjustments, in history, enjoyed by more people than saw their potential and transformed them their creation could become a fantastic any before. Free enterprise can never de- into Roman ludi (games): the Olympics event which citizens the known-world over stroy something which billions adore; only once held for the praise and glory of ath- would strive to join— as either competitors government regulation can do that. letes became events meant to entertain or spectators. More importantly, granting a spectators. This century witnessed a nearly single entity absolute control over the be- Mr. Delaney is a senior majoring in History, parallel fundamental change. In the early loved event can and did lead to its destruc- Classics, and Political Science and plans to years, the Olympics struggled for accep- tion. It was, after all, the emperor write his thesis about the Olympics. tance until, shortly after gaining a devoted Theodosius who banned the Games in AD

“Protectionism,” continued kruggerands and the like, we would have spread into all sectors of the domestic from the previous page. the best export industry going— because economy. Bastiat satirically proclaims that money really would grow on trees. Clearly, “there is not a single Frenchman who would If both parties did not benefit, they would trade deficits benefit the host country, and not profit by such a law,” challenging the not consent to the transaction. However, in surpluses constitute a loss. protectionist reader to respond. a war, one side extracts the spoils of victory Quite plainly, protectionism serves Protectionism’s many treacherous fal- by force from its opponent. In a war, one certain segments of the domestic economy lacies do not scare its proponents. Rather side always loses. at the expense of others. But some protec- than regarding it as a panacea for the hap- More protectionist doublespeak col- tionists maintain that artificial demand cre- less American worker, thoughtful consum- ors the term “trade deficit,” which implies ated by trade barriers can stimulate de- ers should see it uncolored by phony patri- that the US is somehow “behind” relative mand for the entire economy, and the net otic rhetoric. By rejecting Pat Buchanan, to another country. The US has a large result might be beneficial. Republican voters exhibited a clear under- trade deficit relative to Japan; that is, the The 19th-century economist Frederic standing of the fundamental capitalist prin- value of Japanese goods traded for dollars Bastiat addresses this question in his biting ciples to which the American economy exceeds the value of American goods traded satire, “A Petition.” Bastiat plays the role owes its success. Sadly, in their newfound for yen. The price Americans pay for for- of “Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alco- zeal to triumph “inclusion,” Republican eign goods is the value of the goods they hol, and Generally of Everything Con- party leaders have allowed economic send abroad; any “trade deficit” is thereby nected with Lighting.” The petition? Pro- Buchananites to help shape the future of evened out with cash payments. tection from “a foreign rival who works American conservatism. Therefore, a trade deficit with Japan under conditions for the production of light Protectionism allows special interests means that Japanese acquire paper deco- so far superior to our own that he is flood- to use the state’s power to impress their rated with presidents’ faces while Ameri- ing the domestic market with it, at an narrow agenda on the entire populace. No cans acquire Nintendos. If such an ex- incredibly low price.” trade policy could possibly be more contra- change constituted an American “loss,” The cynical reader will have already dictory to the liberal free-market ideal or domestic customers would not consent to guessed that the “foreign rival” is the sun. antithetical to the blessings of economic it. This way, all Japan can do with the extra Bastiat proceeds along typical protection- freedom. If partisan “inclusion” invites dollars is either buy American products or ist lines, citing the explosive effect on nationalist and socialist demagoguery, capi- paper the walls with greenbacks— either domestic industry that barriers against the talists will discover alternatives to the Re- way Americans win. In fact, if the trade sun would create. The whaling, timber, publican party through which to express deficit were taken to ludicrous extremes, cattle, coal-mining, and glass-making in- their political convictions. and the only transaction we made with the dustries would all profit enormously, as world involved trading portraits of Ben- demand for artificial light would remain Mr. Gupta is a junior majoring in jamin Franklin for computers, Bentleys, high, wealth from their exercises would Economics and Philosophy.

20 THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 Your Real Orientation Colin Kingsbury

elcome to Tufts, now fork over the and no-parking zones. Confused? So is which is typical of the left. Truth be known, Wcash. In case you have yet to dis- everyone else. Freshmen, however, cannot Tufts— for all its errors— has given me cover the unpleasant truth, rest assured that have cars (try finding a good reason for that much, including great friendships, some Charles Tufts’s light-on-a-hill comes with one); so you get to trade worries about good classes, and two very full years. As a hefty price tag— above and beyond the parking, gas, repairs, and insurance for the you read this, I am in Beijing, continuing a already astronomical Bursar’s bill. Forget course of study I began fresh- about six-dollar sandwiches in The Com- man year, and I have two won- mons, just look at the per-meal price of Truth be known, Tufts— for all its derful professors and the Uni- your dining plan. And if it seems reason- errors— has given me much, versity— flawed though it may able now, think about how many of those be— to thank for that. Some- twenty meals you actually eat. Lost ID? including great friendships, some where, beneath the Gotta pay. Need a transcript? Two bucks. good classes, and two very full years. apparatchiks, noisome deans, Locked out? Toss the cops a sawbuck. martinet RAs, parking tickets, Going abroad junior year? Write a check ‘T’. The Red Line is only fifteen minutes and academic pretenders, the luminous for a hundred dollars. Don’t be shocked by foot from most of campus, which isn’t dream lives on. Though deans and profes- when B&G installs coin-op toilets in the bad. Except in winter, when the mess of sors often claim that Tufts belongs to them dorms. snow and ice can double the time and triple as much as it does the students, they’re Sure enough, other colleges are not the discomfort of that stroll. Safety Shuttle simply wrong. This is your university, and exactly cheap these days, and Tufts could to the rescue? Don’t bet on it. Inclement it is up to you to clear away the grime so the be pardoned if the plunder stopped at our weather might slow pedestrians, but when light may shine. Have a good four years. wallets. But the most important rule to the going gets tough, the shuttle goes in the learn about your new alma mater holds that garage. The one time an inefficient univer- Mr. Kingsbury, currently residing in Beijing, everything you do here will involve the sity service might be useful, it gets arbi- is a junior majoring in Economics. three F’s. The first F, of course, is “Fees.” trarily shut off. Welcome to the Hill! The second stands for “Forms,” which One a more serious note, as Tufts you’ve surely seen enough of by now. But opens new doors for you— and you never fear; you haven’t even scratched the kick open a few of your own— listen surface of conformity yet; understanding to your advisors with a critical ear. begins during finals when you slog through Plenty of people will tell you how slush from one end of campus to another exciting and enjoyable college-level collecting the necessary signatures to learning can be. They’re wrong. Getting change classes, advisors, majors, or what- an education wasn’t easy in kindergarten, ever. If you have any constructive plans, grade school, or high school, and nothing bet next year’s tuition that Tufts has a form. magical happened during the summer to Thankfully, the first two F’s answer change that. Having Ph.D.-toting Nytol the most commonly asked questions here: pitch snake-oil classes which do nothing first, “Do I have to pay a fee?” and second, but warm students’ feelings at the ex- Fees “Is there a form to fill out?”. The answer is pense of over sixty dollars a session does almost universally yes. The third F, how- not a quality (or even easy) education ever, has no almosts, because it stands for make. If you don’t feel good about Forms “Frustration,” and no matter what you wish yourself, see a shrink, but save mom to do, it promises frustration. and dad’s money for real classes. Want a cigarette? Go outside: you They’re not always fun or interesting & can’t smoke in the dorms and there’s no and are often boring and difficult at form or fee to change that. Don’t turn up the the same time. Still, when you finish stereo, or the RA will write you up. And a solid class you will have some- Frus- though few Tufts elites are exactly conser- thing of value beyond these thin vative about criminal punishment, you only edifices. get two strikes with Res Life. So if you Over the course of the next four tration want to party, either do it silently or get out years, you will see many aspects of of Tilton. Tufts criticized in the pages of THE Like the rest of the Boston area, the PRIMARY SOURCE. The narrow-minded campus has marked and unmarked parking mistake these criticisms for hatred,

THE PRIMARY SOURCE, AUGUST 28, 1996 21 Talking Trash Keith Levenberg

n a modern society that considers ex- willing to host landfills for urban use, no more informed: one writer scolded Tierney Itremism and fanaticism socially unac- city should be expected to dispose of its for suggesting rural landfills dispose of ceptable at best, people rarely pursue causes garbage elsewhere. urban trash by quizzically stating, “Once with religious fervor. Ironically, one as- Perhaps most importantly, Tierney at- again, it seems the solution to America’s pect of everyday life in which radicals and tacked the proposition that buried garbage problems lies in the poor’s shouldering zealots remain very much in the main- harms the environment, noting that mod- more of the burden”— as if poor communi- stream is the practice of waste disposal. In ern landfills run primarily by private cor- ties do not benefit from landfills or choose the ‘90s, recycling is America’s national porations are superior to toxic municipal to build them. Another letter read, “I’m so religion, ostracizing heathens and heretics dumps. Developers line new in a manner that does the Spanish Inquisi- landfills with specially engi- The idea that a city has a garbage crisis tion justice. Throwing white paper in a neered clay and plastics to garbage can is sinful, and to similarly dis- contain leaks and cover the simply because it must export its waste pose of aluminum cans and glass bottles area daily with a layer of to rural dumps is like arguing that it has constitutes heresy and blasphemy, an un- soil. Moreover, recycling forgivable crime perpetrated only by the wastes America’s most valu- a food crisis because it cannot grow all scum of the earth and a handful of morally able natural resource: labor. of its own produce. challenged Republicans. The value of an individual’s On June 30, 1996, The New York Times forced labor expended to sort his own gar- glad you finally got the word out about how Magazine published the unthinkable: a bage amounts to $792.00 per ton. And delighted we little people in the boondocks cover story by columnist John Tierney goods produced from post-consumer mate- are to have all your New York trash buried attacking the Faith, arguing that recycling rials (as mandated by new ‘green’ laws) under our cheap, uncivilized land. I’m sure does not benefit the environment and is require more energy and labor to manufac- our future generations of three-eyed mu- wholly unfeasible. Tierney successfully ture than products generated from either tants will be thrilled as well.” exposed the hypocrisy and misinformation new resources or voluntary recycling. Rural-community residents who dis- behind the recyclists’ agenda, undermin- The response to Tierney’s article was like their proximity to landfills have a ing each of the bedrock myths upon which predictable: immediately, environmen- simple solution: they can move. Munici- the unholy religion depends. talists and liberals mobilized to palities democratically approve landfill He disproved Newsweek’s deceitful repair their damaged cause. The construction, and many townships eagerly Chicken Little claim that “dumps will cover Sierra Club and Greenpeace be- dispose of imported trash. Tierney cites the country coast to coast and the trucks gan a public-relations blitz to Charles City County, VA, which contains a will stop in everybody’s backyard” by study- “combat the danger- dump filled mostly with Manhattan gar- ing the true amount of landfill space the US ous effects” of bage. Annually, the County raises as much needs. According to Tierney’s calculations, the Times revenue from the landfill as it does from garbage collected by a non-recycling property taxes. The money has enabled it to America would occupy just one thirty- revitalize cash-strapped schools and sharply five square mile, hundred-yard-deep reduce taxes, attracting new businesses. landfill by the year 3000— certainly Realizing such economic benefits while an expendable space in a country the cursing their catalyst smacks of hypocrisy. United States’s size. Ironically, this Moreover, the suggestion that disposing of landfill would devour only five percent glass bottles and white paper instead of of the space covered by the national array piece. Meanwhile, edi- recycling them creates “three-eyed mu- of solar panels environmental organiza- tors received over one tants” lacks rational, intelligent thought. tions advocate. thousand letters in re- Of course, such ill-informed attacks Another dogma propagated by zealous sponse to the article, are typical fare from radical environmen- recyclists holds that every city, regardless more than any article talists who can no longer defend their causes. of density, should dispose of its own gar- ever published in its Tierney’s study presented a much needed bage internally. Tierney debunks this no- magazine. Two-thirds of the letters vehe- breath of fresh air in a society overflowing tion as nothing more than anti-urban bias; mently opposed Tierney’s thesis. with poisonous lies and liberal garbage. the idea that a city has a garbage crisis One angry letter chided the Times for Unfortunately, such trash cannot easily be simply because it must export its waste to publishing a “trickle-down-ecology hypoth- recycled into useful goods. rural dumps is like arguing that it has a food esis [that] makes [Tierney] sound like a crisis because it cannot grow all of its own spinmeister for the GOP.” Other appalled Mr. Levenberg is a sophomore produce. As long as rural communities are leftists were slightly more coherent but no majoring in Political Science.

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NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE A Bill Clinton promise has the life span of a Big People will not look forward to posterity who You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the Mac on Air Force One. never look backward to their ancestors. strong. You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling —Susan Molinari —Edmund Burke down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men America, it’s time to wake up to President Clinton Mark how my fame rings from zone to zone: permanently by doing for them what they could and and his high-taxing, free-spending, promise- A thousand critics shouting “He’s unknown!” should do for themselves. breaking, Social Security-taxing, health-care- —Ambrose Bierce —Abraham Lincoln socializing, drug-coddling, power-grabbing, business-busting, lawsuit-loving, UN-following, Writers are a little below clowns and a little above It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; FBI-abusing, IRS-increasing, $200-haircutting, trained seals. let them make their experiments on journalists and gas-taxing, over-regulating, bureaucracy- —John Steinbeck politicians. trusting, class-baiting, privacy-violating, values- —Henrik Ibsen crushing, Medicare-forsaking, property-rights- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that taking, job-destroying friends.... And that’s just in he really is very good, in spite of all the people who From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. the White House! say he is very good. —Andrew Jackson —Kay Bailey Hutchison —Robert Graves Sociology: The study of people who do not need to As we gather this week, our Republican hearts The right to search for truth implies also a duty. be studied by people who do. and minds are in hospitable San Diego— and our —Albert Einstein —E. S. Turner FBI files are in the White House. —Gerald Ford Ironically and tragically... the nation that socialists Satire lies about literary men while they live, and and relativists reviled for so long may now provide eulogy lies about them when they die. A government that seizes control of the economy their last great hope for the world. —Voltaire for the good of the people ends up seizing the —Rush Limbaugh people for the good of the economy. Envy so often motivates the Left in its quest for —Bob Dole The global environmental crisis [has] led many redistribution. The economy is not a zero-sum of us to wonder if survival— much less enlightened, game, and the wealth of Bill Gates or Michael I hope [history] will record that I appealed to your joyous, and hopeful living— is possible. We retreat Jordan does not take anything away from me. best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence into the seductive tools and technologies of Indeed, the wealth of others enhances my life. rather than your doubts. My dream is that you industrial civilization, but that only creates new Without the generosity of the rich, directly or travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding problems as we become increasingly isolated through the foundations they have established, your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your from one another and disconnected from our many of us who prefer life on a university faculty way.... May all of you as Americans never forget roots.... This crisis will be resolved only if or at a think tank would have had quite different and your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine individuals take some responsibility for it. By less satisfying careers. guidance, and never lose your natural, God- educating ourselves and others, by doing our part —Robert H. Bork given optimism. to minimize our use and waste of resources, by —Ronald Reagan becoming more active politically and demanding The worst thing about some men is that when they change. are not drunk they are sober. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a —Al Gore, Earth in the Balance —William Butler Yeats beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. It is necessary to develop and propagate an Besides the earth, man’s principal resource is man —John Barrymore ideology that opposes technology and industrial himself. society.... Nature makes a perfect counter-ideal to —Pope John Paul II After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I technology for several reasons. The radical have no monument than why I have one. environmentalists ALREADY hold an ideology This is a free country. Within very broad limits, —Cato the Elder that exalts nature and opposes technology.... To people may live as they wish. And yet, we believe that relieve the pressure on nature it is not necessary some ways of living are better than others. Better ‘Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I to create a special kind of social system, it is only because they bring more meaning to our lives, to never had the courtesy to thank her for it. necessary to get rid of industrial society.... In the lives of others, and to our fragile fallible human —W. C. Fields order to get our message before the public with condition. Marriage and parenthood should be some chance of making a lasting impression, held up because between husband and wife and in Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or we’ve had to kill people. fatherhood and motherhood come blessings that apathy? I don’t know and don’t care. —The Unabomber, Industrial Society cannot be won in any other way. —William Safire and Its Future —William J. Bennett