Volume CXIV, Number 6, March 7, 1996

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Vol. CXIV, No. 6 LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884 March 7, 1996 Features Gattnar Prepares to Defend NCAA Division I Title The Way it Was fencers to compete at nationals the national champion .... There BY C HARLEY SHAW (which will be held at Yale Uni were no freebies." If Only They Had CDs ... COMPILED BY BRIAN DRIER versity between March 28-31), In anticipation of the national George Frisque enjoys new Columbus, Oh.-Defending has not been officially championships, Gattnar feels AM-FM-stereo set now in the NCAA Division I national fencing announced, head coach Steve Lauranchean Has Early music room of the union. The set, Roots champion and five-time Slova Amich is positive that the a gift of the class of 1913, may be kian national fenci ng champion defending national champion will The Lawrentian Motto: "Let used by reservation, and records Michael Gattnar won the Mid us crush truth to earth, and not be reselected. may be checked out at the grill. west Regional Championships at "There's no question about it, let it rise till we leave town." February 7, 1964 Ohio State University on March [he's] going. If [he] doesn't go, I WANTED A POSITION - As 2. For Gattnar, a sophomore from floorwalker. I am the best Things Never would protest and win the Some Bratislava, Slovakia, the victory protest instantaneously" said dressed man in college and have Change is the next step toward advanc a suit for every day in the week. The freshmen class and the Amich. ing to the national fencing cham "Before I left I talked to the Brad Conrad, Theta House. pionships. May 15, 1916 head of the committee and he continued to page 8 Though the final pool of said that there's no chance that [he's] is not going." Among the nine other Lawrence fencers that competed Dole Scores Big In "Junior Tuesday" Primaries at Ohio State, Gattnar fenced 21 come-from-behind win in Flori percent and Buchanan had 21 times in the epee division, finish BY GLENN KESSLER da next Tuesday, vowing to end percent. Colorado gave Dole 46 ing the day with a 18-3 record. WASHINGTON P OST NEWS SERVICE his campaign if he didn't win percent, Forbes 21 percent and Prior to the regional meet, Gat there. He received little more Buchanan 20 percent. tnar had accumulated a 398 Senate Majority Leader Bob than one in 10 votes in his Tuesday night's results record for the season. Dole Tuesday neighboring state of Georgia, a appea red to bring Dole's total Two of Gattnar's losses at broke away dismai performance that does delegate count to at least 270, Ohio State came early during the from a dwin not auger well for the Sunshine compared with 70 for Forbes first two rounds. Then, after dling Repub state. and 53 for Buchanan. A candi going undefeated in the third and lican presi "This is a campaign that is date needs 996 delegates to fourth round, Gattnar moved dential field no longer complacent and is clinch the nomination. into the finals in strong standing. with com back on track," said Rep. Rick Dole will soon reach the $37 However during the finals, manding vic Lazio, R-N.Y., who is running million limit on spending in a Gattnar amassed three penalty tories in eight points giving one of his oppo primaries from as a Dole delegate. primary season , a problem not All told, Dole appeared faced by Buchanan, who runs a nents a decisive advantage and the deep South to New England. ultimate victory of the bout. The sweeping n ature of ready to claim at least 116 of low-budget campaign, and the 208 GOP convention dele Forbes, who spurned federal In his final bouts, though, Dole's victory leaves little doubt . Gattnar went on to blank the· that the Kansas Republican will gates that were awarded in pri matching funds and thus is not maries in Georgia, Vermont, bound by the spending ceiling. competition. Mike Gattnar face President Clin ton in Since Gattnar won the November in a battle between Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, But the narrowing field benefits that he must recognize the Massachusetts, Rhode Island Dole. national championships last year two well-known fi gures who at the University of Notre Dame, strength of the competition inspire only tepid enthusiasm and Colorado. Republicans in Indeed, exit polls showed despite his own dominant Minnesota and Washington that some of Dole's supporters he has had additional pressure to in either major party. Yet t he live up to his success. stature. working-class and trade issues state held caucuses Tuesday to · were motivated by a fear of the "All the fencers at nationals begin determining 51 more del controversial Buchanan. According to Amich, competi raised by commentator Patrick tors have been eager to take their are going to be really good," said Buchanan in the nomination egates, but the results will not Buchanan eked out his New Gattnar. "and that's why I hope be known for at least several Hampshire victory when many shot at defeating the national fight may open the door to a champion: "Every fencer was to stay focused and .step up in third-party challenge. days. candidates split the anti every bout which I haven't been In Georgia, with more than Buchanan vote. But in a two- hoping to beat Mike, and from Two of Dole's main competi the very first touch of each bout doing to the opponents that I per tors for the votes of moderate they were looking at that as a ceive as being not as good." Republicans - Sen. Richard victory, because last year Mike Among the notable competi Lugar of Indiana and former tion, a Wayne State University Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexan was simply a good fencer. This der - appeared ready to drop year, from the very start he was continued to page 8 out of the race. And Dole Tues day night all but buried Buchanan's presidential hopes Ska Bands to Descend on Campus by narrowly winning the biggest prize of the day: Geor feature "fast, soul-infused, party gia, with 42 delegates. COMPILED BY ARIE FARNAM ska". Skapone recently released That outcome apparently "Fear Of A Ska Planet", their leaves wealthy publisher Steve Forbes as Dole's remaining Top Ska Bands Arriving first full-length CD. credible rival, if only because of Next Term his access to ready cash. Forbes did not target many of Tues Thanks to Arts Umbrella, the Lawrence Received day's states and instead is stak ing his campaign on a victory four top ska bands in the US, $9,600 for GRUIC Thursday in New York's prima plus the five-year ska champions ry, which awards 93 delegates. of the Chicago area are coming to A grant of $9,600 from the But it is unclear whether Lawrence for a first time ever, Wisconsin Humanities Council Forbes, with all his millions, "once in a lifetime" joint concert has been awarded to Lawrence can counter the formidable on Saturday March 30 at 7 University's Program in political muscle that New p.m. at the Buchanan Biomedical Ethics to fur York's Republicans have put at Kiewit Recreation Center. ther project GRUIC Dole's disposal. The Pietasters, Let's Go "We found a leader to brin~ (Guidelines for the the Republican Party together, Bowling, The Scoffiaws, The Responsible Utilization of Dole told supporters Tuesday Toasters and Skapone will Intensive Care), which night in Washington. "Pretty shake up Lawrence with aims to revise intensive care soon we're going to unite to half the precincts reporting, person race, exit polls showed, the sounds of early rock, regulations and treatment achieve one purpose - that is Dole had 39 percent, Buchanan voters Tuesday picked Dole jazz, swing, calypso, mento implementation. GRUIC, to defeat President Clinton." had 33 percent, Alexander had over Buchanan 60 percent to 37 and R&B and big band which began with a confer Buchanan had hoped to 13 percent and Forbes had 12 percent. sounds. Ska, the grandfa ence in Appleton in October rejuvenate his campaign in the percent. Ken Khachigian, a Republi ther of reggae, is "the origi 1994, will analyze relevant conservative Southern state. can political consultant, said nal music of Jamaica," says a But exit polls indicated that The New England states issues from three perspectives: Dole cut sharply into the people were solidly behind Dole. He next week's "Super Tuesday" promotion for the concert. "adult intensive care, neonatal who had formed the core of was picking up 48 percent of the primaries in Texas, Florida and The Toasters, America's old intensive care, and referral to Buchanan's support - the very vote in Massachusetts, with fi ve other states are "pretty est Ska band, founded and man intensive care from a long-term conservative, abortion oppo Buchanan next at 25 percent. much Custer's last stand. The age Moon Records. The New facility," says a Lawrence press nents and anxious workers. In Connecticut, Dole had 54 odds look increasingly insur York Times hailed The Scoffiaws' release. percent and Forbes had 20 per mountable for Pat Buchanan." Lugar, who had staked his sixties style music the "holy tri Members of five working hopes on a strong finish in Ver cent. In Vermont, it was 41 per Buchanan insisted that, no umvirate" of ska. Let's Go Bowl mont, prepared to drop out of cent for Dole, with Buchanan, matter what, he would attend groups in nine Wisconsin dis ing, California's top ska band, tricts will seek public opinions in the race Wednesday after it was Forbes and Lugar all in the the GOP convention in August put out one of Moon's best-sell clear he lost badly there. teens. In Maine, Dole had 46 to press his agenda on restrict ers, "Music to Bowl By". As an a series of forums aimed to inves Alexander was also under percent, Buchanan had 25 per ing immigration, ending free tigate medical values and ethics. heavy pressure Tuesday night cent and Forbes had 15 percent. trade deals and outlawing abor album name like "Oolooloo" to quit. He had hoped for a In Maryland, Dole had 54 tion. might suggest, The Pietasters continued to page 2 2 THE LAWRENTIAN NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996 Field Clears as Alexander, Lugar Drop Out Dole may be able to provide reluctantly concluding that Dole LOSE 20 POUNDS BY GLENN KESSLER knockout blows to Forbes and did not really support a flat tax. WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE Buchanan if he wins a decisive At Dole's invitation, Kemp IN TWO WEEKS victory Thursday. But their chaired a commission that recom Senate Majority Leader Bob refusal to go quietly indicates the mended a flat tax, and Forbes Famous U.S. Women 's Alpine Ski Team Diet Dole Wednesday uneasiness with which their has made scrapping the current earned the respective wings of the party - tax system in favor of single rate During the non-snow off season the U.S. Women's Alpin e Ski Team endorsement the apostles of pro-growth, sup the centerpiece of his campaign. members used the 'Ski Team· diet to lose 20 pounds in two weeks. That's of two fallen ply-side economics and the pop In a campaign swing through right - 20 poun.ds in 14 days! The basis of the diet is chemical food rivals in the ulists opposed to free trade - New York Monday and Tuesday, Republican action and was devised by a famous Colorado physician especially for view the 72-year-old legislative Dole made contradictory com the U.S. Ski Team . Normal energy is maintained (very important!) while nomination leader. ments on the flat tax. battle and Buchanan, who is on the bal reducing . You keep 'full' - no starvation - because th e die t is designed Forbes, in fact, garnered an that way. It's a diet that is easy to follow whether you work. travel or stay began turning unexpected endorsement from lot in 23 of New York's 31 con his attention to gressional districts, conceded at home. former New York Rep. Jack This is, honestly, a fantastically successful die t. If it weren't. the U.S. a general election Kemp, a supply-side hero, even that Dole's nomination "seems campaign against Presic).ent Clin inevitable." But he refused to Women's Alpine Ski Team wouldn't be permitted to use it ! Right? So. though the multimillionaire fin give yourself the same break the U.S Ski Team gets. Lose weight the ton. ished a distant second or third in tone down his rhetoric and point But his two competitors in edly declined to say whether he scientific, proven way. Even if you've tried all the other diets , you owe it to Thursday's New York presiden Dole's sweep of all eight pri would support Dole in the fall. yourself to try the U.S. Women's Alpine Ski Team Diet. That is. if you tial primary, publisher Steve maries Tuesday. The mere sug really do want to lose'20 pounds in two weeks. Order tod ay1 Tear this out gestion that Forbes had canceled Buchanan said the Kansas Forbes and commentator Patrick Republican was "bereft of ideas" as a reminder. Buchanan, refused to rally campaign events and scheduled a and "clueless" about the econom news conference led to specula Send only $8.95 ($9.60 in Calif.)-add .50 cents RUSH service to: around the presumptive nominee ic anxiety of middle-class Ameri American Institute, 721 E. Main Street, · Dept. 254, Santa Maria, CA and vowed to wage their cam tion that he, too, was quitting the cans. "I will fight until hell paigns all the way to the Repub race. freezes over and then fight on the 93454-4507. Don't order unless you expect to lose 20 pounds in two lican National Convention in Kemp, who once represented weeksl Because that's what the Ski Team Diet will do. ©1995. August. suburban Buffalo, N.Y., said he decided on the endorsement after continued to page 3 .., Don't Forget About That Loan ... continued from page 1 that WLFM has a firm niche in School Girls Sparkle into the life of Lawrence." 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GERMOND party needs. and - political community. He that have normal business rela WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - The tions with Cuba, many lawmak The difference, the exit polls became the unchallenged early indicated, is that more and more leader when such potentially House resoundingly passed legis ers brushed those complaints WASHINGTON - The first lation intended to increase eco aside. voters found something lacking strong rivals as former Housing law of politics is never say never, in his challengers. Television Secretary Jack Kemp, former nomic pressure on Cuba's Com "It's perfectly fine for us to but it is almost impossible to con munist government Wednesday, say to the world, 'We are going to commentator Patrick J. Vice President Dan Quayle, for jure up the circumstances under Buchanan's negatives rose mer Defense Secretary Dick sending the bill to President defend Americans, we're going to which Bob Dole could be denied Clinton and a promised signa defend Americans' property sharply as voters saw television Cheney and, most importantly, the Republican presidential nom pictures of angry protesters Powell decided not to compete for ture. rights and going to oppose the ination after his sweep of eight The 336 to 86 vote occurred Castro dictatorship,' " House accusing him of racism and anti the nomination. primaries. Semitism. Magazine publisher little more than 24 hours after Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., After a year of marching up Then Dole found his position the Senate approved the measure said. Steve Forbes Jost steam when reinforced by the failures of those the hill and down again, the Sen voters began to weigh his Jack of who were seen originally as his by a similarly lopsided margin, "We will not go merrily along ate majority leader finally has while they provide a lifeline to conventional credentials for the most serious challengers. Sen. boosted by Cuba's downing of two fulfilled the expectations of party White House. U.S. civilian aircraft Feb. 24. this Communist just off our leaders who considered his nomi Phil Gramm of Texas, who essen coast, who is, in fact, a mortal And the little support former tially set the agenda for the The bill, backed by Senate nation inevitable, then began to Gov. Lamar Alexander of Ten Foreign Relations Committee enemy of the United States of worry as he stumbled through whole of 1995, encountered buyer America," Rep. Gerald B.H. nessee had managed to demon resistance that doomed his cam Chairman Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the early stages of the campaign. strate in finishing third in Iowa and Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., Solomon, R-N.Y., said. But Dole seized the front-run paign even before New Hamp But Rep. Tom Campbell, R and New Hampshire evaporated shire. Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana seeks to drive foreign investors ner's role again without present as he failed to make a persuasive from Cuba by subjecting them to Calif., complained that the provi ing a new and compelling mes found the high esteem in which sions weakened efforts to push case for his own candidacy. he is held in Washington counted lawsuits in U.S. federal courts sage for his candidacy. On the The turnabout was remark and denying them U.S. entry Castro from power by dividing contrary, he is still campaigning for nothing in a primary cam ably quick. Only a week ago, paign. And Alexander, after visas if they use property confis continued to page 8 on his resume and the argument after Dole's losses to Buchanan cated by Fidel Castro's govern- showing a ripple of strength in in New Hampshire and Forbes in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Arizona, highly placed Republi discovered his message that he Buchanan Vows to Stay in Race, Press Conservative Agenda cans here were speculating pri was the only candidate who could vately about the number of dele expected to do well Tuesday in So Buchanan marches on, beat President Clinton in Novem gates to the convention who ber simply wasn't marketable. BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS the New England states but that searching for victories and dele would arrive at San Diego with WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE he was somewhat disappointed But Dole continued to appear gates that will enable him to out being legally bound and vulnerable - first to the about his second-place finish in have a bigger voice and greater about the lack of an enforcement Acknowledging that the Georgia. unprecedented personal spend influence at the Republican con mechanism in Republican con ing of Forbes and second to the Republican presidential nomina "Clearly, we wanted to do vention in San Diego in August. vention rules if delegates chose to much better there," he said. zeal evoked by Buchanan among tion is out of reach, Patrick Buchanan was a prime-time support a candidate who had not Buchanan Wednesday said he is "That would have been our big come through the primaries. the most culturally conservative staying in the race to ensure that break." speaker at the Houston conven There was talk among insid and economically endangered the party's conservative voice is Without that break, tion four years ago, and some ers about whether the party Republicans. heard at its convention in Buchanan said, the focus of the Republicans blamed his harsh could tum to Colin Powell after Throughout the first two August. campaign shifts from winning rhetoric in part for the victory of all or, alternatively, whether months of the year, moreover, "We are about changing the nomination to holding Dole's President Clinton. Dole might need to assure his Dole appeared to be a halting, America, changing the Republi feet to the fire on a conservative The conservative commenta nomination by designating the uncertain candidate unable to can Party, moving the center of agenda that includes an anti tor said he plans to campaign former chairman of the J oint offer a coherent picture of where abortion plank and more strin Chiefs of Staff in advance as his he would take the country as gravity of America to ideas I vigorously in the South - partic president. When he finally think are best for the country," gent trade regulations in the ularly in Florida and Texas, choice for vice president. Buchanan told a rally of support Republican platform. But even with those eight agreed to join a debate in New "The cause is more important which hold primaries Tuesday - Hampshire, his own tracking ers here. "Bob Dole's campaign is and define Dole as "the tax col states in his delegate pouch, Dole an empty vessel. We can fill that than the man," Buchanan told seems to face risks that would be polls showed he lost 9 percent in enthusiastic supporters in Tam lector for the welfare state." viewed as far-fetched in any oth his favorability ratings in a sin vessel with our ideas. We are Buchanan said his Southern going to go to the convention and pa. "Mr. Dole refuses to take a er year. One is the possibility he gle night - an experience that fight for the ideas we believe in." pledge to keep the party pro-life. strategy is what kept him from might be upset in the New York prompted him to refuse to appear Buchanan said it would take He's indicated he might pick a campaigning in New York for primary Thursday by Forbes. in an Arizona debate. pro-choice running mate. I don't Thursday's, primary, where 93 Another is that Buchanan's pro But tenacity is an often "a breakthrough" for him to get undervalued asset in politics, the nomination after Dole's know what Bob Dole thinks he delegates are up for grabs. tectionist message on trade can get by courting the left-wing "We feel we're stronger, quite might resonate in the so-called and Dole kept on keeping on eight-state primary sweep Tues portion of the Republican Party." while the support for both Forbes day. He said that he had not frankly, in places like Texas and Rust Belt primaries March 19, particularly in Michigan and and Buchanan seemed to reach Tennessee," he said. "We felt we their ceilings. That perseverance, should have gone all-out in Geor Ohio. And the third is that Dole would be so unengaging as a coupled with the across-the-spec Alexander, Lugar Drop Out gia. It would have been a mis front-runner again that he might trum support he enjoyed from take to win a couple of delegates lose the winner-take-all Califor Republican leaders appalled by continued from page 2 In Washington, Lugar also in New York when we could win nia primary March 26. the two outsiders, finally paid endorsed Dole. "After a remark Florida." But a far more logical case dividends in South Carolina and ice," he said Wednesday at a ral able day of voting in 10 states Buchanan did not sound like could be made that Dole will again in those eight primaries ly in Florida. yesterday, the apparent nominee much of a fighter Wednesday have accumulated the necessary Tuesday. Buchanan and Forbes have . is a man for whom I have great 996 delegates by sometime in Dole may not have achieved never held elective office. The morning. At an impromptu news admiration, Sen. Bob Dole of conference and at the Miami ral April, perhaps in the April 23 what horseplayers call "a mortal two major candidates with exten Kansas," Lugar said on Capitol Pennsylvania primary. lock" on the Republican nomina sive elective experience - former ly, he said the Junior Tuesday Hill. "I look forward to his presi primary defeats shifted his cam From the outset Dole profited tion but he is clearly an odds-on Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexan from the miscalculations and favorite. der and Indiana Sen. Richard dency." paign from one seeking the nom Lugar - quickly read the tea Lugar was the only candidate ination to "a campaign of ideas." leaves Tuesday night and to eschew negative campaign But by midaftemoon - after Giving Presidential Candidates Free Time on TV pledged their support for Dole advertising completely. But he never caught on with voters, the announcements that former minimal public affairs program when they withdrew Wednesday. Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexan "For the last year I have been despite the respect he commands BY WALTER CRONKITE ming, and its offer of free air time in Washington. der and Sen. Richard Lugar of AND PAUL TAYLOR is relatively cheap grace, given going across this country, Indiana had dropped out of the describing my vision of America's As Alexander and Lugar WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE the low ratings for most of its future and asking, 'Is Sen. Dole dropped out, Dole was in Austin, race and endorsed Dole - shows. the man that Republicans want Texas, collecting the endorse Buchanan was once again sound He may not be everyone's But all those truths are also a carrying our banner against Bill ment of the son of a man who ing like a candidate who had a favorite media baron, but give bit beside the point. Politics isn't Clinton and leading us into the once beat him for the GOP presi chance, albeit a slim one. "It's Rupert Murdoch his due. Last going very well on television new century?' " Alexander said in dential nomination - Gov. now a two-man race," he said. week he came up with an idea these days - not on Fox, but also Nashville, Tenn. "Most of the vot George Bush. "We feel very good "We're going to fight until hell that - if improved upon - just not on NBC, CBS or ABC. Cam ers answered yes. I am here to today. I would say after yester freezes over," he told the Tampa might lift American political paigns unfold on all commercial congratulate Sen. Dole and campaigns out of their televised television as a bread-and-circus day our mission as Republicans rally. "Then we're going to fight blur of 30-second attack ads and extend him my full support." is to unify and close ranks and on the ice." swamp. Alexander, easily the most Murdoch announced a plan to eight-second sound bites. Citi face the real political target - Buchanan said that his mis zens feel cheated. They grow cyn packaged candidate in the race, Bill Clinton," Dole said with give free air time this fall to the sion is to go to the Republican presidential candidates, a prac ical. had run a campaign distin Bush at his side. convention, but that he has not Television journalists may be guished by gimmicks like wear Texas, Florida and five other tice that the foreign-born head of ing a red plaid shirt, walking ruled out the idea of forming a Fox television network knows is a part of the problem. No one states will hold primaries Tues third party or joining Ross Perot. the norm in nearly all of the denies they have a vital role to across New Hampshire and coin day, with 362 delegates up for ing the phrase, "ABC: Alexander He said his campaign is attract world's mature democracies play as skeptical observers, inde grabs. Dole held better than a 2- ing Perot voters to the Republi except the United States. pendent analysts and vigilant Beats Clinton." But the outsider to-1 lead over his nearest com watchdogs of the men and mantle he hoped to claim was can Party. Unfortunately, the initial petitor in a new Texas poll reaction from the three more women who seek public office. grabbed by Forbes and Buchanan's supporters said But in recent years they've let Buchanan, and he had not built released Wednesday. Among established and public-spirited likely Republican primary voters, they expect him to be a force to the fine line between journalistic an adequate organization to take contend with whether he gets the networks was to treat Murdoch Dole was supported by 45 per like the skunk at the tea party. skepticism and cynicism break advantage of strong third-place nomination or not. down. The biggest growth indus finishes in Iowa and New Hamp cent, Buchanan by 20 percent, Bright clothespins on their Alexander 10 percent and Forbes "He'll be a spokesman for noses, anonymous sources at try in televised politics during shire. school prayer, abortion and other the 1990s - aside from Steve Buchanan's rise also persuad 9 percent. ABC, NBC and CBS told the New Dole told reporters he looked issues," said Gabriel Daugrid, York Times - off the record - Forbes's ads - has been the pun ed many Republicans to rally dit class. Increasingly, they offer around Dole, Alexander said. forward to the three-way battle 44, a Miami postal worker who that they already make a far supports Buchanan. "He1l make more substantial commitment their wisdom larded with blatant "People saw in him (Dole) a reli in New York Thursday, where 93 cynicism. able way to express their opposi delegates are at stake. "This will sure these are listed on the plat than Fox does te covering the campaigns. Happily, there's a way that tion to Buchanan," he said. "The be a good test, and I hope that (iO form. He's not afraid to say the other networks might fewer votes Pat gets, the better they do poorly, they'll decide that things that other people think, They're right. Fox doesn't for our party." it's time to close ranks," he said. but are afraid to say in public.• seriously cover news. It does continued to page 8 THE LAWRENTIAN FEATURES THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996 5 Speak Out What Are Your Plans for Spring Break? Major Ska Show Coming· to Lawrence

continued from page 4 from the 2Tone days. I think that's still going on in the US maybe a little less so in the mod today). As far as The Toasters I'm" going home and then I am going Buck: Well, basically, we'll ern American manifestation, but are concerned, just getting up on play anywhere. stage is an affirma You want us to tion of racial unity, to Minneapolis to visit my sister. come, so we'll since we have half come. I don't the guys are black think that ska and half the guys Christa Perkins '98 music should be are white. So we limited to the big basically stand markets, I think behind that idea. " it's important It's a political that you take it stance, especially everywhere . when you go to That's been the places like the I'm" going to London just for the philosophy with South. week with my Aunt. She probably The Toasters has plans; I don't know what we're and Moon at Jen: Great. I least - to go out think that's all. going todo. and play any Thanks for your Eric Moore '99 where, and to try time. to introduce as many people as Buck: OK, see possible to the you in March. " music. Scofflaws Jen: OK, one SKAPPLETON " last thing: could certainly with the 2Tone bands '96 is on March 30, at 7 pm in the I'm going to my home in Greenwich, CT and will stay with a friend. I am you explain the whole idea of the (note: there have been three Rec Center. Tickets are only $2 for going to visit New York City and I unity that's behind ska? movements in ska - the first wave Lawrence students and are avail in 1950's Jamaica, the 2Tone able only at the door. For more am also going to go camping in the Buck: That's a theme that's movement in Britain in the early- information, call Jen Doyle at Catskill mountains. central to ska music, at least 80's, and now the third wave *7163. Graham Kenny '96 " To Travel Beyond the Urals: The Kurgan Exchange Program Lawrence Students attend which I will receive credit from BY ARIE FARNAM special classes in Kurgan, usu the Anthropology Department I'm" going to visit my girlfriend's fam I huddled against the sticky ally conversation, literature, back at Lawrence. I inter ily for a weekend in Milwaukee, then steel wall and watched the phonetics and more. These viewed and observed and final classes were combined in my tracks winding back west ly wrote a forty page report I am going to visit my family in case, because I was the only Detroit. towards Moscow. It was early "Russian Attitudes toward Peo September and I was on my student. Two former Lawrence Steve Rodgers '97 ple with Disabilities". I had way to Kurgan, a small city in students spend the entire year in Kurgan teaching English. more friends than I could han southwestern Siberia to study This year Laura Deweese and dle most of the time because Russian language and culture, Jason Christensen greeted me " instead of taking Statistics, most of the people I met had in Kurgan and together we Introductory Geology or Ger never seen a "real live Ameri weathered culture shock, Russ man 11 at Lawrence. The Slav can" before. ian food (both the great and the I'm" going to be in London to study Deweese, Christensen and I ic Department facilitates the more eccentric) and learned the Kurgan Exchange Program language and routines of Russ assisted Natalia Nikolajevna, every year and usually several for third term. ian life. who is currently visiting Lawrence students get exiled to The summer is hot and Lawrence University, in adult Siberia. This time I went alone. humid with huge, merciless English classes · every Monday Anne LaFrancis '98 I flew into Frankfurt, Ger mosquitoes at night. But the evening. Deweese, ' a former many and took a train from sunny days are beautiful in the Lawrence Conservatory stu Prague, Czech Republic vast forests surrounding Kur " through the Ukraine to dent, joined a folk choir. Our gan. By October it is as cold as schedules became almost as Moscow. From there I caught December in Appleton and the " the next train to Kurgan, a five rumor of winter brings flurries hectic as they were at Right now Emma and I are going to day trip in all. The first time I of snow. As one might expect, Lawrence, but not quite. Kansas City to get some sunlight. tried this I got deported from life in Kurgan is rustic and in I left Kurgan on December I'm gonna pig out on roast beef every the Ukraine for not having the some ways physically demand 17, 1995 with aspirations that day, and we're going to visit Emma's correct transit visa. The ing. Clothes are usually I, too, will someday return as a son. embassy swore I could get it on Cliffe Joel, Professor of Chemistry washed by hand, dish soap is teacher of English. It was a the border but instead I got almost unheard of, and as soon sent to Bratislava. After get subdued parting, with several as the snow settles in, the friends trying to conceal the ting a visa and traversing the choices in produce become very fear that the enormous dis " Ukraine I traveled with a Ger limited. man tourist, a Russian couple Deweese commented, "We tance might break us up forev and a Slovak smuggler to are living in history. I am see er. Christensen accompanied I'm" going home to work at the movie Moscow. ing things the way my father me as far as Moscow and I tra From there my traveling described his childhood, except versed the adventurous route companions were two rather I'm working on a PC and Inga through the Ukraine one last theater in Darien, WI. shady Kazak businessmen. has a video camera." The less time. The Asian trains with That's how I ended up looking technological life provided time their assortment of shady char Pete Edwards '99 out the back door of the caboose for Christensen to explore liter acters seemed much more tan at the tracks we left over the ature and for me to write in Urals. We were discussing depth for the first time in three gible and explainable after my " environmental protection with years (not to mention getting experience and now our side of my scarce Russian vocabulary, nine or ten hours of sleep at the world appears strange, a challenge. As I crossed the night). unreal with a sound just " divide into Asia the world I'm going to South Carolina with the In November I moved to a beyond hearing always banging appeared to blur and loose all second family with six children. around outside. previously guaranteed bound Most Russian households boast The exchange group track team. aries. no more than one or two chil presently visiting Lawrence When I reached Kurgan I dren. I enjoyed the lively fami Quinn Mullikin '99 stayed with the Umovistova ly environment with lots of that Christensen and Deweese family for the first two months. good food, conversation and have weathered the Siberian Their daughter, Inga, is also a games. winter well and have continued " student at the Kurgan Peda In late November snow hit to enjoy their lives in Kurgan. gogical Institute, which in real force and the ground Deweese wrote in a letter that Lawrence students attend in and river froze for the winter, she travelled to Moscow and I'm" going to South Carolina with the Kurgan. Our institute merged which lasts until late April. By Saint Petersberg in January. I with the Kurgan Machine November I could converse fair wish them the best of luck and Building Institute this year to ly regularly in Russian and I track team. form Kurgan State University, was thinking in. the language I hope many Lawrentians will so the next Lawrence students (albeit grammatically incor take this outstanding opportu Heidi Zeisset '96 to brave the Siberian winter rectly). I got to know many of nity to experience history and a will still be attending a "uni good friends through an ethno welcoming culture on the other " versity". graphic research project for side of the world. THE LAWRENTIAN EDITORIALS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996 7 Free Speech on the Internet Is a Privilege, Not an "Unalienable Right"

for the government to exploit the "economic rights", "social factors seem unrelated, a com owned by a few haughty individ BY BENJAMIN J. BAYER issue for the purposes of net cen rights", "civil rights", and mon thread binds them togeth uals known as "the govern sorship. Rather, they have sown "human rights", they have made er: the right to private property ment", who haven't even the Lawrentians "surfing the the seeds of their own destruc it easier to chip away at what is, (note the repeated use of "my"). courtesy to charge us on the net" within 48 hours of February tion in a far more potent man in reality, an organic whole - a One cannot speak of free speech basis of user fees, in order to 1st, 1996 were likely to have dis ner: moral appeasement. set of consistent individual rights, or any rights, for that make efficient what isn't even covered a curiosity at their ter Internet protesters have rights derived from a common matter, as being separate from theirs to begin with. For this minals: web pages draped in spared little time in rushing to source, the right to life. property rights. reason, all so-called "public black. No, this was not due to the protective cover of their The moral appeasement of Herein lies the suicide of the property" including the Internet, some mishap at Computer Ser beloved 1st Amendment. Sever cybernauts lies in their inability cybernauts: they have divorced should have been privatized a vices. Instead, these sable slide al pending court cases notwith to recognize this right to their freedom from property, and in long time ago, eliminating this shows, seen on everything from standing, such legal superfluity own existence, and its only pos doing so, have ruptured any case possible justification for tyranni the index "Yahoo!" to individual is in vain. The _spirit_ of the Bill sible physical application: the which they might have had for cal trampling on our sacred free home pages, were forms of of Rights has long been decimat right to property. their own protection. One cannot doms. protest - protest against the ed and downtrodden by the pre For this reason, my website denounce censorship, without There is no possible argu so-called "Communications dominant political trend of our protest would have been pref hypocrisy, when one has caijed ment based on protecting our Decency Act". If I had a home century - collectivism. In a aced by the following statement: for business regulations. One children, purifying our "moral page, I would have joined the society where the "common "Anyone whining about their cannot lament the loss of First fabric", or "sending the right multitudes of cybernauts in good" always wins out over indi free speech rights ought to Amendment rights to free message" which could ever justi their protest - save only in a vidualism, the highly abstract examine the nature of their pre speech, without inconsistency, fy the acts of coercion now being slightly different manner. concept of "individual rights" cious ideal." What are free when one has already repudiat carefully planned by allegedly While my page would be can have little leeway in a cul speech rights? Why did the ed the other relevant portions of noble crusaders somewhere in ture devoted to the "pragmatic". founding fathers choose to the Bill of Rights. One cannot the hidden recesses of the FCC black, I would have begun my The fact that _free speech_ protest by blaming many of the include them in the Bill of ask to be given free reign over building in Gettysburg. There is rights are the last to go is mere the Internet, with impunity, nothing, in a social context, at cybernauts themselves. ly a testament to the strategic Rights? A right to free speech Let me emphasize: this is not genius of the collectivists: by means the right to express any when one has already accepted, least, which could ever justify because I think that they have dividing up individual rights opinion by any legitimate means as legitimate, the notion of"pub the violation of the right to life. tolerated the smutty websites, into arbitrary categories such as possible. In this context, "legiti lic property". In this case, the way of life of a thus leaving ample opportunity macy" is determined by several By failing to rectify the legit distinct group of individuals is factors. Where is the person in imacy of private property rights, threatened. However, there is no question speaking? Is it on _my_ the cybernauts have allowed the reason to believe that their front lawn? If so, I want him om statists to go about their daily death shall be mourned any With what is she speaking? Is it business of claiming ownership more that those of the other Dole Set to Win with my megaphone? If so, I over everything under the sun, countless individuals whose last want it back! How is this fine, in the name of "the public trust". great outcries for justice were ever, it also reflects a change in his BY JONATHAN JUDGE upstanding individual express Items including everything from muffied by the hideous muzzle of image among Republican voters. ing him or herself? Well, if it the airwaves to the city streets the "public welfare". If only they Having Many of those who voted for Dole happens to be by means of have been gradually monopo would have spoken sooner, and swept the this past Tuesday night didn't support him initially; they screaming "Fire!" in my crowded lized under the guise of "protect with less hypocrisy, such a trav "Junior Tues theater (in absence of a fire, of ing public property". "Public esty could have been averted. day" primaries switched because Dole finally found a concise message. course), then send that miscre property" is a contradiction in But since they didn't, they of Georgia, ant to the slammer! While these terms. The streets, etc., are got what they asked for. Vermont, Con Inroads made among the reli necticut, Mary gious sector of the Republican Par land, Maine, ty were key to Dole's victory. Massachu Although Buchanan still won a LUCC Can't Help But Bungling, Again setts, Rhode majority of Christian, conserva Island, Colorado, Minnesota and tive votes, Dole was a close second, pating." BY HAZEL SPEARS voice or hear the issues), and Washington, Bob Dole, for the first proving that moderates can tap Recall that LUCC had earlier frustration (justice is not sought time, looks ready to lock up the into the immense political power voted to reconsider the Griffith Republican nonunation for Presi Dear Editor, or achieved). Furthermore, little of the Christian Coalition. Accord case, apparently recognizing capacity for leadership is devel dent. ing to CNN, Dole also was the their prior responsibility to hear In some ways, this reflects the close second choice of those who For concerned community evidence before rendering a deci oped among the members of such conventional wisdom of the pun favored a constitutional amend members who have been follow sion. An about-face occurred, an organization. dits, who had predicted that, in ment to ban abortion, something ing the events unfolding between however, when rescue in the form If LUCC is to be more than a the end, Dole's name recognition Dole does not support. the Multicultural Affairs Com clique for backscratchers, it will and substantial campaign funds of a motion was put forth by none Amazingly, Dole was still able mittee and the other than Vice President for have to take itself, and proce would put him over the top. How- to receive the support of large Lawrence Univer sity Community Business Affairs Bill Hodgkiss dure, more seriously. It may have numbers of moderates. His and Dean of Students Motts to rewrite its handbook. It may strongest support was among Council (LUCC), ·Thomas. The motion moved to Taking The Sex Out of moderate voters who opposed the the committee is have to devise a Code of Ethics to pleased to report drop the reconsideration, and let guide its operation. A. refocusing Homosexuality abortion amendment. As a true the initial decision (Griffith's moderate candidate, Dole was that efforts to removal) stand. LUCC, long on justice, purpose, method, and continued from page 6 able to rely on the so-called Anti railroad the goals might breathe new life and committee into bemoaning faculty and adminis Buchanan voters, whose numbers trative involvement and control character into the organization. about women, but lots about the have continued to swell as Dole "putting this in its decisions, abruptly In fact, the Committee on distinguishes between "the main issue to rest" in men who wish to control them." the interest of reversed both itself and its Multicultural Affairs is hopeful Look also at how black men stream and the extreme" in his accountability as an autonomous speeches. "getting that such steps will be taken in were created into sexual preda organization in one fell stroke by the future. After meeting with Social issues are the burr in w i t unanimously passing the motion. tors. Remember that it was the the side of any moderate candi things" key individuals in the new white slave owners that took sex To be clear: LUCC had a right date. Moderates tend to draw have to make the decision they made, administration, the Committee ual advantage of the black their strength from economic vot t em - will at last be allowed to present porarily and the Dean of Students has the women in America's history; yet, ers, and Dole is no exception. This right to suggest summary its side of the Yellow Peril inci these white heterosexual men past Tuesday, Dole handily won ceased. ·, Tuesday, Feb. 20th it was motions as well. Our argument is dent to LUCC in Spring Term. As projected a racial system of sexu that segment of Republicans (one that this way of operating is both third) who believe economic issues "unanimously" decided to let this is all that was asked from al power which has manifested unethical and shortsighted. Both the beginning, the Committee is itself in social taboos of interra, are more important the moral stand the decision to remove issues. He was the top choice of Suzanne Griffith as chair of the depend upon the integrity - and completely prepared to abide by cial dating and marriage and committee. In other words, in the sometimes charisma - of a those who considered the economy leader, not the "justice" of the an informed decision, whether it racism. In the eyes of this power their top concern, as well as those midst of an investigation into the results in Ms. Griffith's reinstate system, racism was justified whole affair, the process was process. Initially, the president of voters who listed the deficit as a LUCC decided to censure a com ment or not. It is the process, and because black men were danger top priority. halted, and the decision to cen not the outcome, with which we With the decisions of Senator sure a student was unanimously mittee chair, severely limit dis ous and violent due to their sex cussion of that censure before a are most concerned. ual prowess. Lugar and Lamar Alexander to upheld. Once again, it was all• withdraw from the race as of done without a voting body ever vote was called, and then, when We regret it has taken all this So, what is boils down to is re-examination was requested time and effort simply to identify the inability of heterosexual Wednesday, Dole's candidacy hearing the evidence. Instead, should receive a much needed and granted, refused to remove a fair and orderly procedure for males to deal with their own sex individuals took it upon them boost, as there will now be only selves to make decisions that herself from the voting process, the resolution of this issue, but uality. This is why sexuality has despite the fact that she was her two individuals fighting for the affected groups of people, without believe it is worth the effort to to be projected upon some other moderate vote, instead of four. ever obtaining any organized self the accuser. The Committee minority - because most men on Multicultural Affairs, duly build trust and new avenues for Dole's name recognition should group input. cooperation in the community. can't talk about their penises enable· him to beat Forbes down Manipulation, disregard for chagrined at the lack of impar without embarrassment or sexu the stretch and, with all the mod procedure and justice, paternal tiality displayed, requested a We are heartened that the new change of venue. Instead, the al bravado and machismo. In the erate vote, and much of the con ism - all these elements have LUCC administration shares servative vote behind Dole, characterized this case, threaten Dean of Students, feeling this these sentiments. We further case of gays and lesbians, we are issue had gone on too long, felt a denied equal rights because soci Buchanan will wither away. ing to leave the community with hope the Dean of Students Office Can Bob Dole win the Presi abysmal models for future deci decision had to be made. So he will come to trust, and perhaps ety needs to feel "protected" from made one, never having heard dency? Certainly. At this point, sion-making, a continuing lack of respect students sufficiently, to our supposed sexual prowess. polls say no. Then again, those confidence that student activities the evidence either, and submit Granted, having sex with a polls don't present an accurate pic ted a motion to drop the investi allow them to resolve their prob are understood or valued by the lems by facing them, and to not same-sex partner is an intrinsic ture - Dole has been criticized administration or LUCC, and a gation, which LUCC eagerly part of the gay "lifestyle", but every day by his primary oppo distinct sense of foul play. Pur approved. pass them to a "higher authority" then again non-gay people fuck nents, whereas Clinton has large portedly in the interest of "heal This classic hierarchical mod to be "decided". Healing occurs ly enjoyed a free ride through the ing," and "getting on with things" el, typically followed in sports when a dysfunction is corrected, each other too. As gays and les and military decision-making, bians, we have realized that sex process. If Dole maintains his procedure was violated, a student not merely because a bandage is youthful look, hardened message ensures- that individual power is but one small part of our rela was punished, and justice went applied. and picks a solid vice-presidential unserved. Yet LUCC went.merri rules, not the process. This tionship; whereas, non-gays need candidate, America may, for the results in inconsistency (good ly on its way, seemingly oblivious Respectfully submitted, to find something else to pre first time in decades, have Repub to these facts, all while lament decisions being rendered by good occupy their time with when it licans in control of both Congress ing "that students aren't partici- leaders, bad ones by bad leaders), Committee on Multicultural comes to us. and the White House. dissension (no one is allowed to Affairs 8 THE LAWRENTIAN SPORTS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1996 Murdoch's TV Proposal A Novel Idea Indoor Track Season Ends in Broken Records set personal records the first day a personal best in the 55m Hur BY ZETA STRICKLAND AND of competition. Captain Nora dles. He returned even stronger continued from page 3 evening of "Seinfeld" or "Monday DAVID HARRINGTON Night Football." Borrow a few O'Shea ran to a personal record in the 200m Hurdles to set a new improve on Murdoch's proposal minutes of their time for politics in the 1500m as did Freshman school record. Olsen fought her - and in the process transform Mt. Vernon, IA - The Brent Tamamoto in the 3000m. way to a new personal best in the - but offer them substance, not Lawrence indoor track season tel'evision into an ally rather snippets. Another season best was turned 55m Hurdles, securing a sixth than enemy of nourishing politi ended with a climax at the con in by the women's 200m relay place finish. The "roadblock" would lend a ference meet last weekend at team of Leah Anderson, Lisa cal campaigns. certain weight to the occasion. It Head track Coach David Why not have all four net Cornell College. The meet was Abler, Sara Olsen, and Zeta Brown was pleased with the four would be the networks' way of highlighted for Lawrence with Strickland. Anderson later works offer a few minutes a night telling their viewers: This is the major school records that were of free air time to the candidates four new indoor track records secured a personal best in the presidency. Happens once every and a first place finish. open 200m. Meanwhile, team broken during the meet. "I'm in the final month of the fall cam four years. It's important. Pay proud that our athletes went out paign, in the heart of prime time, Scott Sprtel opened the meet mate Lisa Abler secured her per attention. for Lawrence on Friday by sur sonal best in the open 400m. and competed as well as they and if possible in a "roadblock" The networks could rotate the did. We have had a great indoor format (shown simultaneously on passing the old Lawrence school Saturday was no different for segments nightly among the two record in the 3000m and placing Lawrence, as individuals contin season and hopefully we will con all commercial networks, plus major party candidates and any tinue our progress through the PBS and participating cable-sta second overall. Similarly, Heidi ued to place with personal s.-ious independents. So for the Zeisset fought her way to a new records. Scott Sprtel overcame outdoor season." tions)? last month of the campaign, In return, why not insist that school record in the indoor the strong field in the 5000m to The teams determination and you'd have Clinton on a Monday 3000m and placing fourth overall win first place. Sprtel was the perseverance was illustrated in the candidates use this time for night at 8:55, the GOP nominee first Lawrence man to win an talking-head presentations? No in the race. Jubilee Johnson dis several notable places. Senior on a Tuesday night at the same played her power as she moved indoor conference championship Nora O'Shea sprinted her way to journalists. No surrogates. No time, Clinton again (or an inde since 1988. opponents. No tricky images. No from the finals into fifth place in a sixth place finish and a person pendent) on a Wednesday, etc. the Shot Put. Johnson recently Other strong performances al record in the 600m. Senior unseen narrators. Just the candi came from Lawrence in the Hur date, making his or her best case Ideally, these five-minute joined the track team after a long Heidi Zeisset fo llowed her record presentations would play out as a basketball season. dles. Junior Joel Northey began 3000m performance with a fifth to the biggest audience America Saturday by hurdling his way to assembles every night. serialized debate, with thrust Several Lawrence athletes place finish in the 1000m. Fresh This format would trigger a and parry, charge and rebuttal - man Yayoi Kambara leapt to a number of healthy changes in all the elements of drama that sixth place finish as well as a campaign discourse. journalists are always looking to Hoskins Named Academic AU .. American personal record in the high jump. The talking-head require superimpose onto politics. Other personal bests were ment would force candidates to They could become the place achieved by a team of Lawrence take direct responsibility for where the campaign "happens" in its culminating month. They - middle distance runners. Fresh what they say. Attack the other man Jenny Kornowski fought fellow if they wish - but they'll and not the photo ops, sound bites, attack ads or polls - could her way to a personal record in have to do the dirty work them the 800m. Captain Matt Kehrein selves. drive both the campaign strategy and journalistic coverage. Who and Sophomore Vicky Hutchin The duration of the free time son both secured personal bests segments should be fixed at any knows, they may even become what ordinary Americans talk in the grueling 600m competi where from two to fiv e minutes. tion. Five would probably be ideal, but about at office water coolers or if too rich for the networks, t wo grocery check-out lines. Matt Kehrein, in conjunction would do. A lot can be said in This won't be easy for the net with Tom Clark, Dan Price, and that time - it's a quantum leap works. It will cost them ad rev Eric Benedict were the members from 30 seconds. Eric Sevareid enue. It will be inconvenient for of the 4x400m which recorded its and John Chancellor were given them to break into programming. best time in three years. Fresh two minutes when . the network They may want to rejigger man Sprjnter Edmund Assibi news broadcasts still offered some elements of this proposal to also recorded his best time at commentary. They made coher ease their burden. But they know Lawrence in the 55m sprint. ent and persuasive arguments. as well as anyone: This is a rela The most significant The placement in prime time tively small "fix" that could improvement came from Fresh would give the candidates access change the language of politics. man Chris Jones in both the to tens of millions of Americans It would allow the candidates to 3000m and the 5000m. Jones set who have stopped watching the put their best foot forward, not a personal record by dropping evening news, reading newspa their worst. It would enable the nearly twenty seconds in the pers and bothering to vote. campaign to be waged with civil 3000m and an astounding one They're settling in for a pleasant ity and dignity. minute and forty five seconds in the 5000m. "I'm very pleased with how the team is doing this THE Crossword season and it's been a lot of fun ." Likewise, distance Freshman Brent Tamamoto dropped over a ACROSS minute in the 5000m to run his 1 Journey personal best. 5 Felt pain 10 Advantage Reflecting back on the sea 14 Too6t the bus son, Senior Captain Nora O'Shea 15 Gleam comments, "I'm very pleased 1e Line of junction with the level of performance the 17 Atop 18 Sample team has reached and I'm look 19 Serene ing forward to outdoor season." 20 Instructor 22 In theory 24 MaledNr 25 Invitation lettws Cuba May Face 28 He sllrH amorously Sanctions 29 Resident of: 1utf. continued from page 3 31 GhOltly 35 MakH happy U.S. allies. He was one of only 37 RaiSH 38E-·smate five Republicans, including Rep. 39 Century plant Constance A. Morella (Md.), to 41 Portable bed vote against the measure. 42 Pencil end Chicago Weekend on $15, YMCA Style The measure writes U.S. 45 Deride 41 Eur. flndl - continued from page 1 Art Institute Tour free sanctions against Cuba into law, 41 Alphabet C1995 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 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