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rn this Issue ... African America.n Heritage. Month Campus News at a Glance CULTURE & "The Legacy of African American Leadership" ENTERTAINMENT The Student Govern­ Star Trek ment Association needs sena­ Who Started African Calendar of Events of African tors to serve on the Election Insurrection Commission for the upcoming American Heritage Month? American Heritage Month .. student elections. (You might Pages 2 and ~ February 1 even earn some money!) Ca rter G. Woodson . Comedy Showcas~. featuring Leighana Lord If anyone would like ·to Student Union Food Court 7:00 p.m. be a candidate for a student BIRTHDAYS & "The Father of office, submit a petition to the BIOGRAPHIES Black History." February 2 SGA office by 5pm Feb. 26. By Ryan Cooper Guest Speaker Barry Goldwater Bobby Seale, Founding Chairman & National The Student Activities Pages 4 and 5 Woodson was born Dec. 19, 1875 to former Organizer of the Black Panther Party Council is sponsoring these slaves James Henry Woodson and Eliza Woodson. "Constitutional Democratic Civil- Human Rights February events: Because of their large family of eleven, an impover­ for African Americans" ISSUES & IDEAS ished young Carter had to work and could not attend Ellis Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. Comedy Y2K: school. Instead, he learned on his own . After work­ Leighann Lord ing in coal mines until age 19, Carter enrolled in February 3 Student Union Countdown to high school and gradu~ted in less than two years. Lecture and Discussion: Dr. Johnny Washington, Feb. I 7pm Meltdown? After receiving his diploma, Woodson became a Coordinator of African American Studies Program Movies Pages 6 and 7 teacher and later the principal of his high school. "African Destiny" However, Carter Woodson could not control his Public Affairs Building, Room 303 3:30 p.m. How Stella Got extreme thirst for knowledge. He earned a college Her Groove Back...... Feb. 3 EDITORIALS & degree in 1903 and a doctorate degree in history February 3 Movie Wedding Singer...... Feb. 17 COMMENTARY from Harvard in 1912 (The second black at Harvard "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" He Got Game ...... Feb 24 to ever do so). Carrington Auditorium 7:00 p.m . . Anime' Night...... Feb 26 Jay Nixon See Woodson, page 12. See Calendar, page 12. Palace Movie Night in Trouble? VVednesday, Feb. 10 Page 8 Bobby Seale to speak on Rebellious Welfare Recipient­ Turned-Christian Entrepreneur to Take-A-Break campus February 2nd Art Bentley Feb. 10 QUOTES Speak March 9th Art Bentley Feb. 24 Boby Seale, the founder, chair­ By Ryan Crawford & HUMOR man, and national organizer of the Juanita K Hammons ($10 oft) P.residential Black Panther Party, will be speak­ On Tuesday, March 9, Trinity Irish Dance ing in Ellis Hall at 7:30 p.m. His founder and president ' of the Feb. 6 8pm Kneepads? speech, "Constitutional Democratic Coalition of Urban Affairs, \ Page 9 Civil-Human Rights for African Star Parker will speak on the Ladysmith Black Mambazo Americans, will not just be about topic of "Blacks and Feb. 26 8pm civil rights issues Conservatism" at 7:00 p.m. in 'FAITH & Bobby Seale will likely speak at length about Carrington Hall. DEVOTION his version of the Black Panther Party story. Seale Parker, former welfare This week is Spring Rush claims that many novels and movies (like Panther) mom and self-identified . Week for most Sororities Ecumenical Center are not based on the truth. One of his goals is to "master of the welfare system," traveled the country Page 10 expose the popular media as distorting the views of in search of the largest welfare check, until she found the Black Panther Party. Christ, a full-time job and Peter, her husband. The Official Kick-Off for T() those who lived through the 1960s, Bobby -During her aimless drifting, she aborted four the New Catholic Student SPECIAL FEATURE Seale was viewed as a hero by some and a villian by pregnancies. This was her "birth control." Like wel­ Center will be at the Nancy Representatives others. Some give him credit for the civil rights fare, these abortions were paid for by the govern­ McGregor House Feb. 5 at movement success in the 1960s, while others accuse ment. . lOam. Everyone is invited but Announce Agendas him of running the movement into the ground. All In a speech presented to college students last you must call 865-0802 to Page 11 - will agree however that Bobby Seale helped define summer at the Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership RSVP by Feb. 2. the 1960s. See Star Parker, page 5 See At a Glance,_page 9 ---_--r-- .------

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Movie Review Book Review If you are des­ perately search­ Star Trek: Trek" jargon, there was room for some­ ing for "the ulti­ Will by G Gordon Liddy thing different. mate book" that Insurrection Since this plot was rather short, combines slap­ romance had to intervene. Picard and Will By stick humor and reserve, his FBI career, and his imprison­ Riker seek love from both old and new intellectual pro­ ment after Watergate. romances (yet another Star Trek tradi­ By far, the pervasive theme in this Love Federation Style fundity, look no tion.) Riker re~lights a flame with further than G. book is Liddy's determination and will to Counselor Troi while Picard falls in love survive all obstacles thrown in his path. Star Trek: Insurrection is a movie Gordon Liddy's with one of the citizens of the wonderful autobiographical To Liddy, life is a game. "The -game is both regular movie goers and fall~blown utopia. over when God says it is and you die. He trekkies are sure to enjoy. It has enough masterpiece, Will. Just how does the movie end? Well, decides whether you win or lose. You can fighting and outer space to be called a Star This has to be the most engrossing book there had to be a fight scene, containing quit. It's called suicide. If you do, you Trek movie, it also has enough "other of the century. the few special effects of the movie. In Will, Liddy doesn't just describe lose." stufi'to be enjoyable for the non~trekkie . Because of the incredible CGI (computer Here is a man who refuses to quit, a There is some controversy, though. Watergate. In fact, a comparatively large generated imagery) ' technology used in true "tough guy" . He exudes strength and Some critics say Insurrection falls under portion of the book covers other, to him, this movie, small model ships were not virility. You cannot help but respect him. the "odd number curse." The "curse" is more significant details about his life. He neeqed. There I cannot sing praises enough for Will. that odd numbered Star Trek movies are begins by describing his childhood in was only one G. Gordon Liddy is absolutely candid and generally not as exciting as the even ones Hoboken, New Jersey. He admits to being space fight sincere, revealing his strengths and weak­ (the exception to this rule being Star Trek a "weakling" as a young boy, physically scene in the and mentally. Feat and pain, for a time, nesses, successes and failures. After read­ . III). movie. ing this book, I am anxious aboutmeeting It is said that the biggest flaw of Star Trek were all he knew. Perhaps the man. I feel as though I already 'know IX is that it has a story line. The claim is Through courage and perserverance, this movie did him on a personal level. That is just how that most audiences enjoy movies because though, Liddy was able to face and con­ not need much he reveals. He holds back nothing; of the special effects -rather than the story quer his fears and weaknesses. One rather much action .. he flings his story in your face, like it or line. amusing instance occurred when Liddy Maybe there not. It has become tradition for the cap­ was 11 years old. He had been afraid of was a point to the low amount of rlghting Read this book; you will fmd your­ tain of the ship to disobey direct orders. rats since he had encountered a giant in the movie. Perhaps planet of 600 self endlessly fascinated by Liddy, even This had to be implemented in the film as a wharfrat on the Hoboken docks early in inhabitants can show the universe that excited. Once you pick up Will, you will well. It seemed as if Jean Luk Picard was his childhood. peace. can still abide, even with techno­ never want to put it down. And this is taking on the entire Federation. (Sound His next such encounter was with a logical knowledge. coming from the most particular reader! familiar?) smaller rat that had been left on the Maybe Paramount is saving the Plus, don't miss his radio show on WJFK. Instead, a federation admiral, old and kitchen steps of his home. It was already action for Star Trek X. Even if you are not a Conservative or tired, seeks a fountain of youth, searches dead, the cat's afternoon treat. In an Republican, listen. He may say something in all of the wrong places, finds a won­ attempt to erase his fear of rats, Liddy that captures your attention. derful utopia and joins a group of bad STdtIENT roasted the rat over his own homemade guys. Together, they try to ship the seem­ BBQ pit and ate it, thereby conquering his HARBINGER fear. Will is reviewed by Angela Mead, ingly primitive humanoids of this planet Meeting next Monday Feb .8 More such interesting accounts student at Washil?gton University to another planet without the source of (7p.m).WeIls 328 Free Pizza and, soda youth. This is the part where non Star include his relationship with his father, Everyone interested in this paper invited! . his marriage, his experiences in the army The Washington Witness Nov '98

Dusty Books By Summer Woodford The Day I Became an Autodidact And All the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell me Thereafter -By Kendall Hailey s The Day I Became an Autodidact, ment in self-education, to the age oftwen­ written in 1998 and currently molder­ ty. It is a flowing and swift read in that, can be sparked in ing on the shelves of the SMSU once you begin, it is a near-impossible were gods and not a part of him .. .1 think the smallest and library, is hugely deserving of being task to disengage yourself from the pages. r prefer being responsible for my chaos." expected rescued, and admired anew. It most After losing her heart to Great ways. For assuredly will have the same kind of Warning: Reading this Expectations, she muses, "It's one thing to Kendall Hailey, impact on the reader as that summer be able to create character, but Dickens the great adven­ reading list had on the author, kindling book might cause life­ and God know how to create humans. " ture began with a within one the sparks of a new adven­ altering side effects As the book unfolds, with beautiful mandatory sum­ ture ~ warmth and insight, it becomes obvious mer reading list As soon ,as Kendall Hailey made The author bt;gins her journey with that it is not formal education that the sent to her from the daring decision to embark upon the myriad companions-books-which she author is renouncing but life that she is high school. sometimes perilous life of an autodi­ reads with a vehemence, commenting whole-heartedly embracing-by living it Stirred with 'indignation at her sum­ dact, she immediately began to record upon them with a striking wit and star­ whole-heartedly. Writing stories and mer being so impertinently encroached the daily events, observations, and tling originality of expression. Upon delv­ plays, absorbing wisdom from old upon, she knew from that. moment on experiences she encountered in her ing into Greek classical literature and movies, and finding a kindred spirit in what -she wanted to be-an autodidact­ new way of life. This boo~ consists of observing that the Greeks have a god which is, according to the authqr~ "a swell per journal entries from the age of fif­ assigned to nearly every emotion, includ­ See Autodidact, page 3 word for one who is self-taught. ,j teen, when she first began her experi- ing love, terror, and deceit, she .writes, "It Volume I Issue I SUtiENT February 2, .1999 HARBINGER . Culture & Entertainment Page 3 ·

Raamses which never worlds within you." Exploring her ' The plot of the film focuses on their Autodidact From page 2 dreams and passions through painting, relationship. Therefore, if you planned on writing, acting, and photography- Kendall learning a great deal of true, doctrinal every new author-she is successfully tak­ Hailey leads the reader on an enthrallin:g By Ron Bradley information on the life of Moses from this ing education into her own hands, and journeyof self-discovery, as she discovers movie, you will find yourself greatly mis­ into her own heart as well. that there is no end to the loves that one's informed and perhaps dismayed. You may Her book is also filled with humorous heart can hold, and that these great loves PRINCELY ART; LOWLY STORY be able to explain the differences to older and moving accounts of coping with the can be attained anywhere. children, but I wouldn't use the movie to many and varied idiosyncrasies of her She writes, "Every day the world gets The lights dimmed, anticIpation teach the younger ones. family (her mother and father, wider. Every day I see something else I loomed and, after the traditional fifteen On the other hand, if you are looking Elizabeth and Oliver Hailey, are both want to learn and something alse I want to minutes of previews and advertisements, for the most marvelous, artistic, anima­ famous writers), falling in and out oflove do. Sitting in my own little room, I have the spectacle began. I watched as the tion film spectacle to-date, you will walk many times with the same person, endur­ watched my horizons broaden so much." opening scene revealed a beautifully ani­ away from this film pleased. My recom­ ing the sadness and complexities oflife. It The Day I Became An Autodidact mated sky filled with life-like orange, mendation: if you do plan on seeing this is a book very easy to feel startlingly akin will fire the imagination and fill the mind three-dimensional clouds. As the clouds picture, see it in a movie theater, on the to a book that will provoke a deep sense with wonders over all the possibilies of break, the viewer is taken down into B.C. BIGGEST screen playing the film. it will of familiarity and the feeling that you life and learning. It should, in fact, really Era Egypt, overlooking the Israelite lose most of its luster on video. could have written it yourself. come with this note attached: "Warning: slaves as they chant out their sorrows in All-in-all, not a bad movie. Just The Day I Became an Autodidact is Reading this book might cause life-alter­ song while mashing mud into brick,with­ remember, if you want the real Moses essentially an exploration of what it ing side effects." out the aid of straw to hold the brick story, you will have to follow the instruc­ means to learn, and where one can find together. tions in the movie's opening disclaimer education. It heartily contests the notion Get your copy of the This scene sets the tone for the rest of and read the Book of Exodus. Have a that education exists solely within the the movie, a movie in which the artistic good time at the movies and remember: books reviewed in The spectacle greatly overwhelms the story, four walls of a classroom, and that it only brotherly relationship that exists nowhere SAVE SOME POPCORN FOR ME!! resides wherever desks and a chalkboard Student Harbinger! can be found. It imparts to one the inspir­ but in this script. Those who are familiar Just call 837-3828 with the Biblical story of Moses, found in ing realization that everyone can be an the Torah's Book of Exodus, will realize autodidact, in school or not, because the means for learning rests in one's heart and the differences early in the movie. Moses *If you're interested in having is found by the Pharoh's wife in the mind, and the greatest tool of education is your band review~d, contact movie. In the Bible, the Pharoah's daugh­ life itself. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "Be a Ryan Crawford at: ter finds Moses. This creates a brotherly (417)869-3579 or relationship between Moses and Columbus to whole new continents and [email protected].

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---•• - ""I; • - .., -- -""'"".... - or - - --~~~-~~ -~~- J February 2, 1999 STtttIENT Volume I Issue I HARBINGER Page 4 Birthdays and Biographies The Deep Impact arry Goldwater Ist- Original G-Man J. Edgar Hoover (1895) "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is 2nd- The grandfather of modem no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pur­ US conservatism, Barry suit · of justice· is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater's 1964 Goldwater (1909) Nomination Acceptance Speech. 4th- Former CIA chief William Colby (1920). It was 1964, in the midst of a hard fought - if not competi­ 7th- 13th US President Millard tive - Presidential campaign. Bill Moyers was refIning the art of Fillmore (1800) TV-based political character assassination by suggesting that 8th- Rock star David Bowie (1947) Goldwater would cavalierly allow the nuking of a cute little girl "The King" Elvis Presley (1935) picking flowers in a fIeld. 9th- 37th US President Richard It was long before Moyers would host a PBS series where Nixon (1934) theologians would squabble over the interpretation of the 10th- Former boxing heavyweight Biblical book of Genesis, when political warriors Goldwater and champ George Foreman (1949) vice-presidential candidate Humbert Humphrey accidentally Rocker Rod Stewart (1945) met at an airport." The two partisans talked pleasantly for a few 12th- Politically conservative com- minutes. As they went their ways, Goldwater called back to mentator and "Renaissance Humphrey, "Well, keep punching, Hubert." [I] Man" Rush Limbaugh (1951) The exchange was a remnant of an era when politicians 14th- Actor Jason Bateman (1969) fought the hard fIght, held beliefs without constant reference to Humanitarian Albert Schweitzer daily polls, and retained their humanity. Part of that era died 15th- American civil rights leader Dr. with Barry Goldwater. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929) 16th- Former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista (1901) 17th- Boxing greats Muhammad Ali (1942) and Joe Frazier By Barry Goldwater Based on a book report by Wince CHAPTER THREE- The federal govern­ (1944) . • 18th- Actor Kevin Costner (1955) Borden turned in October 13, 1964 ment is a name for the United States gov­ 19th- Country singer Dolly Parton Mr. Schoell's 5th Grade Class ernment. Our Constitution says each state (1946) should be in charge of making some of 21st- Golfer Jack Nicklaus (1940) The Conscience of a Conservative was their own laws so the federal government 22nd- Actress Linda Blair (1959) written in 1960 by Barry Goldwater. doesn't get too powerful or try to make all 23rd- Actor Humphrey Bogart (1899) Barry Goldwater is a Republican Senator the states be the same. Mississippi probly 24th- Singer Neil Diamond (1941) from Arizona who is trying to -get elected doesn't want to be like New York and I'm 25th- Actor John Belushi (1949) so he can be President of the United sure New York doesn't want to be like 26th- "The Great One" Wayne Gretski States. Mississippi. (1961) Actor Paul Newman (1925) This is the hardest book I've ever read. I CHAPTER FOUR- Civil rights are not 27th- Classical Composer Wolfgang had to get help from my father and my guaranteed by God. Something is a civil Mozart (1756) mother, but I read the whole book myself. right only if we make a law that says so 29th- 25th US President William . I picked this book to read because I think and the law doesn't ignore the McKinley (1843) government is an important thing for read. After I thought about it enough, all Constitution. The job of the Supreme TV talk show queen Oprah . every citizen of the United States to know Court is to make sure laws passed by the Winfrey (1954) something about. The President of the the ideas in the book make sense to me. federal government don't go against the 30th- 32nd US President Franklin United States is the most powerful man in Constitution. The Supreme Court isn't Roosevelt (1882) the world next to Jesus Christ so we CHAPTER ONE- Most Democrats are suppose to ignore the Constitution just 31st- US House Democrat Leader should know who we are electing to be Liberals. Most Republicans are because they think something should be Richard Gephardt (1941) President. Conservatives. Liberals believe everyone different. Baseball great Jackie Robinson is the same and everything should be fair. (1919) My parents are voting for Barry Conservatives believe it's good for every­ CHAPTER FIVE- The U.S. Constitution Goldwater so I want him too. But you said body to be different. says the federal government should stay we should think for ourselves so I decid­ out of the business of farmers but our What is a ed to read something about Barry CHAPTER TWO- The men who started government ·has made laws . to control Harbinger Goldwater. this country wrote the United States food prices. The Supreme Court should Constitution. The Constitution is the stop these laws. We give farmers welfare. Mr. Goldwater said he wrote the book rules made up to make sure we don't The welfare is called subsidies so the Har-b nj r- One because he wanted to write about how farmers don't have to feel guilty for get­ that announces or give too much power to our own govern­ Liberalism has failed in our country. ment like the King of England. The U.S. ting it. foreshadows what Liberalism is thiIikiiig that we should give is ·coming: precur­ government has gotten too big. want it things to people ·if they don't want to smaller. Liberals think it should be even See Book Report, page 5 sor or herald make enough money to get them them­ bigger. selves. The book took me along time to Volume 1 Issue 1 STtttIENT February 2, 1999 HARBINGER Birthdays and Biographies Page 5

The 1964 GOP Convention marke but abhorred the violence he believed the This story comes from George F. Will, From page 4 oldwater the wresting of party control from act would do to the Constitution. The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory EisenhowerlRockefeller Republicans. He did not particularly care for Notions, Simon and Schuster; New York, If a life is measured by its impact on Goldwater and the Republicans were homosexuality, but supported allowing June 9,1998 others, Goldwater's created the deepest then promptly humiliated in the gays in the military. His Libertarian tem­ impact of anything from Arizona since the November elections. As a consequence, in perament did not support government meteor that created Barringer Meteor the 1960s, the Democrats had almost ineddling. He only wanted soldiers to Crater. In the 1950s, the Republican Party complete control of the executive and shoot straight. STAR PARKER was an "echo" of the Roosevelt New Deal Congress. The results of this control Goldwater did not want war, but saw From page 1 Federalism. Eastern establishment, would ultimately induced a backlash that the policy of Communist containment as a Eisenhower Republicans had accommo­ ushered modem Conservatism into the prescription for slow ultimate surrender. dated themselves to increasing govern­ political mainstream. He wanted the US to press for victory, not Summit, Parker spoke of her disapproval ment intervention in the economy, but It took nearly two decades for accommodation. The fall of the Soviet of the developing "safety net" culture· in only wished to moderate it. Goldwater led Goldwater's admonition, "A government Union was a vindication of sorts. this country, where people are encouraged the counter-revolution. that is big enough to give you what you Goldwater was a Republican partisan, but to make wrong decisions." Goldwater wedded an unrelenting want is big enough to take it all away," to loved his country even more . anti-communism with a Liberatarianism .resonate with the American public. It was Goldwater who went to Nixon Parker, a onetime welfare recipient that even rattled his allies. In his 1960 Goldwater's 1964 defeat laid the ground­ and informed him that Congressional and and unmarried mother of one daughter, book The Conscience of a Conservative , work for Reagan's victories and demon­ Senate Republicans were both unwilling was once informed by a social worker that Goldwater outlined an approach to gov­ strated the long-term saliency of political and unable to stop impeachment and con­ her life would be better if she did not get ernment that is still persuasive today. He ideas in a mature democracy. viction. Nixon resigned the next day. married or possess a bank account. argued for preventing compulsory union Despite Goldwater's openness and Goldwater was born in Arizona when Because of her personal experience, dues for use in politics, a flat income tax, frankness, and perhaps because of it, he it was still a territory. He died two years Parker . travels araound the country, and state primacy in/education. In foreign was misunderstood. Goldwater ended before the millenium. The deep impact of explaining to other welfare moms that policy, Goldwater nurtured an abiding racial discrimination in his family's his life will insignificant measure per­ -they are more likely to get out of depen­ distrust of multinational arrangements, department stores, but opposed the 1964 vade the ethos of freedom into the next dency if they get married and start saving especially the United Nations. Civil Right Act. He hated discrimination, century. and investing. Aside from being a successful entre­ preneur and the founder and president of ers because they don't make themselves Americans fool themselves. They think the Coalition of Urban.Affairs , Ms. Parker go by the laws they make up. Even. though because we have peac.e here we can talk. also started the N.F.TA. Christian "' Book Report From page 5 oUI: government isn't suppose to tax Russia into having peace in Russia but Magazine. Ms. Parker is heralded as one everybody else to give money to people Russia's government doesn't want peace. of the nation's top new leaders represent­ CHAPTER SIX-The federal government they think don't have enough our govern­ Russia wants war. You can tell by looking ing black Americans. As a prolific writer, has checks and balai:J.ces. The labor unions they think don't have enough our govern­ at how they keep taking over countries. vivacious public speaker, and aggressive don't. They have gotten too big and their ment does it anyway. This is called radio host and television personality, Ms. doing things they aren't suppose to do. Welfare but its real name should be If we pretend the Russian government are Parker stays abreast of local, statewide, They force workers to pay them money Socialism. We will turn out like Russia if nice guys and treat them like their nice and national concerns. She studies the even if they don't want to, but their just we don't watch it. then we 're going to be fooled really bad. inlpact of political, social, and economic suppose to do things to help workers. We need to remember that it doesn't make issues on the Christian and black seg­ CHAPTER NlNE- sense to pat a mad dog. You just have to ments of the population. CHAPTER SEVEN­ "And ifI should later be This was the hardest shoot it or it will bite you and make you The average family in attacked for neglecting my con­ chapter for me to die. You can't make it go away by pre­ Next month: Interview with Star Parker America has to use stituents" interest,' I shall reply understand. I think it tending that it's a cute little puppy. about her rebellious past, her Christian one third of its money that I was infolJIled their main says our federal gov­ conversion, and present day achieve­ to pay taxes. Some interest is liberty and that in that ernment is sneaky For some reason, our country sends ments. rich people have to cause I am doing the best I can." about how it breaks money every year to the Communist give almost all of - Barry Goldwater the laws of the countries even though they are our ene­ During African American their money to gov~ Constitution. The Constitution says the mies. This make no sense. It helps them ernment. Our government punishes peo­ Heritage Month, be sure to federal government has no business mess­ have enough money to make more ple for working hard. Poor people don't visit the Multicultural Resource ing around with education. Their suppose weapons to fight us with. Barry pay taxes but they get what taxpayers to leave education up to the different Goldwater says some of the people who Center located in Wells #302- have to pay for. Besides the federal states, but they don't. make laws think these Communist coun­ 306. The Center contains'-a government spends money on lots of tries will change to being free if we give things its isn't suppose to spend money wide assortment of crafts, CHAPTER TEN- Russia is also called the them money. Why would they change if on. Examples: welfare, education, farm­ books, arts, videos, novels, Soviet Union. The people who live there we're giving them money for being the ing, free housing for poor people, and fix­ magazines, art, and more! are probly nice like us but their govern­ way they already are? ing up cities after they've been ruined by 836-4108 ment .-wants Communism to be every­ people who don't care about their neigh­ MulticulturalResourceCenter@ where and will do anything they have to The Conscience of a Conservative was a borhoods. mail.smsu.edu do to take over the whole world even hard book but a good book. I want my though their own people don't want them .friends to try and read it. I hope Barry CHAPTER EIGHT- Socialism is like . to do it. . Goldwater gets enough votes to become "I have little interest in stream­ Communism. Lots of people believe that President of the United States. Reading ling governme nt or in making it Socialism will work better here than in more efficient, for I me an to That's what will happen to our govern­ his book made me want to vote for him reduce its size. I d o not under­ Russia. They are wrong. Socialism is ment if we don't stop Socialism. The even mo~e . Maybe he should send a copy take to promo te welfare, for I Socialism. It tries to make everything the United States wants peace but some to everyone who can vote. prop ose t o ext e nd freedom . " same for everybody. Except for the lead- -The Conscience o f a Con serva t i v e T

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About Issues 8r.. Ideas Being a real citizen means more The Student Viewpoint Y2K problem' than birth or naturalization in one's ? checks, under- or over-estimation of inter­ est on credit acco~ts . This is only a few An-alternative view on Y2k country. It means bein~ informed and I /5 I t lirue . educated. To help students stay abreast by Rebecca Hansen of the things that might be affected! from a major software engi­ The -first working day of 1999 was of current issues and be real citizens of neer this country, The Student Harbinger will Everyone has heard about Y2K by calculated to be the most important date now. All computers that use only two dig" for getting a bead on how computers feature an issue each month that faces I am not certain that Y2K is trivial. I its to record the year, instead of four, are would handle Y2K problems. MSNBC our nation and/or community and col- just have the impression that a lot of what going to shut down when January 1, 2000 advised that buyers keep an eye on their ..lege. I read on this issue is hype. Here are some hits. bills, particularly the ones generated by Each issue will have an objective general reasons for my lack of concern: article written by an SMSU student. Also Or are they? Predictions 'range from Christmas buying, which began to accrue total anialation of human civilization as interest in January 1999. A late invoice.or featured will be two ?ther articles, each * There are many other bugs in software we know it to only minor malfunctions on an error on your bank statement will tell of opposing viewpoints. It is our goal that are much worse. Thus we have apri­ the clocks of VCR's. Many large compa­ you that this is a company to keep your that you, the reader, will become better ori information about Y2K. If som~thing nies are trying to -prepare for the worst, eye on in the coming months. informed and will be able to form an terrible were to happen on 01101100, then but the enormity of the task, and the fact The U.S.government starts its Fiscal educated opinion on various issues and there is a very strong chance that it would that not everyone is going to be ready Year 2000 on Oct. 1. For all intents and ideas. have already happened. Example: If there anyway, makes preparation nearly impos­ purposes, this is the real beginning of *were* dangerous weapons systems on sible. 2000 for government benefits and pro­ the planet relying on software correct­ Are these companies wasting their grams. Possible Effects of ness, we should be dead already time and money trying to be prepared for Because government is a large con­ Y2K. Is the concern valid? No .one really sumer of products and services, it is a crit­ * Many important systems are redun- Year 2000 Bug knows exactly what will happen. ical date for suppliers and companies that Manufacturing and Processing On a bulletin posted on MSNBC, depend on payments from government. -Manufacturing plants Mitch Ratcliffe warned of dates other April 4, 1999, and September 9, 1999 ~Water and sewage systems than January 1, 2000 to watch for. By the applications are also highly susceptible to Gary North: Th -Power stations time the calendar flips to 200Q, computer date-related errors around the beginning -Power grid systems . experts will already know how . ugly of 2000. the Earth Stan -Oil refineries related things may become. Many institutions The Global Positioning System, the storage facilities and companies are starting their 2000 fis­ network of satellites that allows planes, trains and other infrastructures to identify -.Bottling plants cal year this year. We've got a problem. It may be the -Automated factories According to the Gartner Group, only the precise location of 'a receiver on or biggest problem that the modem world -Simulators eight percent of all date-related errors will above the earth's surface, reaches. the end has ever faced. I think it is. At 12 mid­ -Test equipment for control hit on Jan.l, 2000. After 2001 , the prot>­ of its built-in calendar at midnight, night on January 1, 2000 (a Saturday Greenwich Mean Time, on Aug. 22. The system dev~lopment, lems will sporadically continue to strike. morning), most of the world's mainframe maintenance and testing Two key dates have already passed with­ system will rollover and start at the begin­ computers will either shut down or begin out major-incident: the start of fiscal years ning of the calendar again, operating for spewing out bad data. Construction Industry for 46 states on July 1, 1998 and for the approximately 20 years. Most of the world's desktop comput­ ~Surveying and locational federal government on October 1, 1998. Richard Lacayo of Time Magazine ers will also start spewing out bad data. equipment believes that -the Y2K problem is just On each date, government computers Tens of millions -- possibly hundreds of -Construction plant began to look forward into fiscal year what religious zealots have wanted. Since millions -- of pre-programmed computer 2000 to perform projections and calculate the end of the cold waf and threat of Transport chips will begin to shut down the systems benefits. nuclear armaggeddon, there has been -Aeroplanes they automatically control. This will cre­ But 'those were warm-ups for the nothing for doomsdayers to warn against. -Trains ate a nightmare for every area of life, in main event, and obserVers will study sev­ Lacayo says the Y2K problem has filled -Buses every region of the industrialized world. eral critical dates to gauge how computer this void very conveniently. -Marine craft Think of what happens if the follow­ systems respond to the errors. When the Will the world fall apart in 11 -Automobiles ing areas go down and stay down for clock strikes 12:01 on Jan. 1, 2000, two months, or will the year 2000 come quiet­ - Fuel services months or even years: banks, railroads, critical formatting problems will con­ ly? Only time will tell. -Air Traffic Control Systems public utilities, telephone lines, military verge with many computer applications -Signalling systems communications, and financial markets. looking ahead into 2000. -Radar systems What about Social Security and The chances that an unrepaired pro­ -Traf fic lights Medicare? If Social Security and gram could trigger a problem are high. Medicare go down, it will affect millions ~ Ticketing systems / machines The result: iniscalculation of expiration of people. Yet both programs are at risk. See Effect of Y2K, page 7 dates, time-sensitive inventories, errors in Volume 1 Issue 1 STtttlENT February 2, 199'9 HARBINGER Issues & Ideas Page 7

·0' a I Meltdown? ing, Y2K looms over the horizon

II is overrated Possible Effects of Y2K cont. dant. * Software l,lpgrades are common. I wonder what else will happen as a Buildings and premises -Telephone switches Much of the software that is in use today result of this thing. Will people over­ -Electrical supply -Satellites will have a newer version before reacting to Y2K cause any problems? -Backup lighting and genera -Data switching equipment 01101100. Other than that, all of this hype is a good tors thing for a lot of people: -Fire control systems Office systems and mobile equipment * The worst bugs are sneaky and unpre­ -Heating and ventilating -Telephone systems dictable. By defmition Y2K bugs are nei­ * The pundits have something to talk systems -Faxes ther. * Y2K is a well known problem, about -Lifts, elevators, escala -Copier with a lot of people making a lot of money * The engineers like myself have more tors -Time recording systems fixing bugs and verifying the correctness work -Security systems -Mobile tel.ephones of software. * Somebody will invent something won­ -Security cameras -Still and video cameras derful as a result ofY2K research. -Safes and vaults * Y2K is a well known problem, with a lot * Public awareness Of the dangers of -Door locks Banking, finance and commercial of people learning that they shouldn't rely relying on technology is increasing. -Automated teller systems on software to be correct. Domestic services -Credit c ard systems Yes, I know, I will probably have some If more people will move to sparse­ -Catering -Point of sale systems terrible problem because of my own ly populated areas and exercised self -Cleaning including reliance on software correctness. It's too reliance, the world will be a better place. scanner/ cash systems good a joke, God will have to play it on More smoothly populated too. Communications me. -Andrew -Telephone exchange Medical diagnostics, monitoring and -Cable systems life support -Heart defibrillators - Pac'emaker moni tors -Patient. information sys Months before Everything is tied together by com- Anyone who says that y2k is not a terns ae Year January 1, 2000, the . puters. If the computers go down or can big problem needs to understand just how ( world's stock mar- ' no longer be trusted, everything falls many systems are at risk. I have many -Patient monitoring systems -Pharmaceutical control and kets will have apart. And it matters not a whit to the critics who believe that my scenario is too ds Still dispensing systems, crashed. Who is computers whether we accept this fact or apocalyptic. You must decide for your­ e.g. infusion pumps going to leave his money in a bank if he not. self. I am also unaware of any y2k pro­ thinks his bank's computer is not reliable? They do what they've been pro­ grammer who says, "Even if program­ - X--ray equipment A worldwide run on the banks will grammed to 90. They've been pro­ "mers don't get this fixed, there will not be create havoc in the investment markets. grammed to recognize 2000 as 1900. big problems." The debate is Testing, monitoring and diagnostic People who have placed their retirement (Uncorrected PC architecture DOS and over two questions: (1) "Can the pro­ systems -Energy metering hopes in stocks and mutual funds will see Windows-based desktop computers will grammers get this fixed in time?" and (2) -Environmental monitoring their dreams vanish. How reliable will revert back either to 1980 or 1984. They "How big will our problems be if they equipment stocks and mutual funds be if the banking can be corrected briefly, but as soon as a don't?" My answers: "no" and "cata­ system has closed down? How will you PC is turned off, the correction dies. It strophic." You'll have to decide for your­ even get paid? How will your employ­ will reboot to 1980 or 1984. Meanwhile, self, either now or later. er get paid? How will governments get PC programs must be redesigned.) One last warning: the governments' paid? Our first response when we hear this strategy, all over the world, is: (1) talk this By the way, no government tax: col­ news is denial. Most people will stay in problem to death, (2) form committees, lection agency above the county level is denial, including the business managers and (3) send out PR sheets that they will Next Issues & Ideas: Year 2000-compliant today. People will whose companies are totally vulnerable to make it -- without evidence. ' know in 2000 that the government cannot a computer failure. This is why the 'prob­ But this problem cannot be talked to Bobby Seale trace them. Will they continue to pay,' lem will not be fixed. death or solved by committees. It cannot Good, Bad, or ? especially if the huge government welfare Everyone in authority will deny that be avoided. There is an absolutely fixed Send your fact-backed opinions on this programs for the elderly have'shut down? time has run out to get this fixed, right up deadline. Bureaucrats are not used to But if governments do not get paid, until December 31 , 1999. They are paid to absolutely fixed deadlines. Neither are issue to studentharbinger.com what happens to government debt mar­ deny this. computer programmers. Only the best articles in each category kets? How high will interest rates rise in I'm saying that it's over. Right now. It will be printed. 1999 if investors think that governments cannot be fixed. Whatever it does, the I'm not a programmer. My Ph.D. is in his­ will default in 2000? What will high rates Millennium Bug will bite us. How hard? tory. I take tile historian's view: things are Gary North is the main spokesperson for Y2K disaster and author of "Blind Man's Bluff in do to the world's economy? There the debate begins. interconnected in ways we can barely understand. the Year 2000." -Tl

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February 2,1999 STdtJENT Volume 1 Issue 1 HARBINGER Page 8 Editorials & Commentary

on SUIt ag~inst Get Involved HARBINGER By Grant Purvis ~ Missouri Attorney Gerneral Jay Nixon By Peter Kinder January 1999 Why be involved in Volume 1 Issue 1 politics? This thought On Aug. 5, this writer filed a lawsuit As my case has gone forward, I have provoking question actu­ in Jefferson City against Attorney General been amazed at the interest Missourians 'ally has a very simple answer. By partici­ Jay Nixon and Tom Strong of Springfield, show in it wherever I go. Make no mis­ Editor pating in politics and assisting candidates, the lead attorney' he hired to pursue take: the average Missouri taxpayer Ryan-Cooper one is actually . expressing his opinions Missouri's state in the tobacco understands what is afoot, is outraged at litigation. We allege that that the looming ripoff and knows that if my and beliefs. Whether one is eligible to Copy Editor vote or not, one can still be actively contract is illegal. Our request­ position' prevails, a larger Hancock involved in the governmental process. ed remedy: That the contract Amendment tax refund will arrive in the S~erVVoodford But how is this possible? Individuals be. voided, and that a perma- . mailbox. can make their views known to the gov­ nent injunction be granted This is from the Jan. 4-11 issue of the Contributors ernment by assisting political candidates stopping further work under its Nixon Weekly Standard ("Dirty Deals in Smoke­ ,..,. Ryan Crawford Christina that they think best reflect their opinions terms. On Dec. 30, Cole County Free Rooms"): and views. If these candidates end up win­ Circuit Judge Tom BroWn entered an Pet e r man ning, then it is possible ' that they will order against my position, ruling that the "There s something offensive to com­ John VVatson Rebecca Hansen express the views of their activists while contract Nixon entered was valid and mon sense in legal arrangments that use Evan Marshall Grant Purvis could proceed. the power of the state to in office. So, as one can see, politics is Ron Bradley S~er VVoodford actually very simple to understand and Round One to the Other This is the Second generate private fees participate in. Side. From that decision, we InJ'ury Fund on that could reach I am only in Junior High School and now know esentially, noth- $100,000 per hour - The Student Harbinger is no~ an offi­ have already been involved in several ral­ ing more than which side steriods even catapaulting a cial publicatipn of Southwest Missouri lies, conventions, and campaigns for sev­ will be the appellant (me) handful of ambulance State Univerisity, nor is Southw~st eral years. I know that some people like and which will be the respondent (Nixon chasers onto the Forbes 400 list of the Missouri State University responsible in me are too young to vote but never too and Strong) as we head down High Street richest men in America. Such arrang­ any way for the content of The Student young to make a difference! for a decision by the Missouri Supreme ments offend legal tradition as well ... Harbinger. The Student Harbinger is not Court. "There are obvious possibilities for responsible in any way for the content of A few years ago Missourians read of collusion, bad law and conflict ofinterest. the University. a scandal in the attorney general's office In the case of tobacco, given that the fee The Student Harbinger is published letter .From the Editor arising out of something called the caps will stretch the tobacco companies' by and for the students of Southwest Second-Injury Fund. Let's be clear: Thi~ payments over decades. The same power­ Missouri State University. Single copies Ryan Cooper is the Second-Injury Fund on steroids, fut tort lawyers who took on the tobacco of The Student Harbinger are free. Please Nixon and his favored few lawyers are industry row have a long-term vested address all correspondence to: I have been dismayed at the news engaged in a brazen looting spree without interest in keeping it highly profitable. " coverage of Senate trial. All the major parallel, until this year, in all the storied The Student Harbinger news networks, except Fox News annals of American jurisprudence. Theirs Soon enough We will know whether a 1132 E Madison is a contract that will enrich a few person­ lawsuit filed and funded by one state sen­ Channel, have vindicated the man on trial, Springfield, MO 65807 President Bill Clinton. I thought the al-injury lawyers by tens of millions of ator can vindicate the interests of millions media is supposed to report the news and dollars for a few months' work. of taxpayers and stop the worst ripoff in [email protected] not their own feelings. Moreover, the dirty little secret, known 178 years of Missouri statehood. Then I remembered that Dan Blather, to Qther distinguished practitioners of the Letters to the Editor Policy Tom Brokov, etc. are all bleeding-heart law across Missouri, is this: There is next ·to no real work involved. What is Editor's Note: This article by columnist liberals. To liberals, feelings are more Letters to the Editor, offers of money, important than the truth. Since they involved is a copkie-cutter, cut-and-paste Peter Kinder was originally published in love letters, and other correspondence believe that truth is relative, the only thing . bunch of busywork to apply the spade­ - the Southeast Missourian, January 3, should be addressed to the Editor at the left to bank on is feelings. It doesn't mat­ work of a few trial lawers from other 1999. adove address. ter what Bill Clinton ever did or will con­ states, who themselves stand to become Peter Kinder is assistant to the president Letters should be typewritten, no more tinue to do because he cares more about billionaires. of Rust Communications and a state sen­ than 300 words in length, and signed. The you than your own mother. Tragically, among the lawyers who ator from Cape Girardeau. Editor reserves the right to edit for clarity, I was highly amused by Christine have bellied up to this fattest-ever trough length, and potential libel. An address and Rueda-Lynn's column. It seems that she is one who until this summer was respect- telephone number must be included for has been reading too many fairy tales. If ed judge on the very Supreme Court that verification. Coherent letters . will even perjury is not a criminal offense, than why will ultimately decide this case. This receive respect at no extra charge. have a 'court ~ystem? Iflying under oath is glibly articulate former judge, who long similar to telling your children about enjoyed a reputation as a principled man, - Santa Claus, why would any ' defendent has lately busied himself issumg threat Vote "Yes" April 6 want to tell the truth? after not-so-veiled threat against this But Ryan, he's not going to get con­ writer for having had the temerity to file - victed anyway, .so they should just end the the lawsuit that could bring down the cur­ Right to C'arry trial. Folks, remember the O. J. Simpson tain on the whole, pious charade. I'm being told to expect various forms .of See Editor, page 12 retaliation in yet-to-be imagined forms. Concealed Weapons Paid for by Missouirans Against Crime, Brenda Potterfield Treasurer Volume 1 Issue 1 STtttIENT February 2, 1999 HARBINGER Humor & Qoutes Page 9

Muddle America / Bob Gorrell At a Glance From page 1 01998 Creators Syndicate, I "No question that an admi,~sion of making muddleamerica.c:om false statements to government officails The Art and Design Department is spon­ and interfering with the FBI is an soring Endy Poskovic Feb.3-5 M~, impeachable offense." OR IT'SA When Bill Clinton, August 8, 1974 Don't miss A Taste of Korea in New SlEELCAGE . Wrestlers The Virginia Advocate Sept 1998 PAy· PER:-VlEW Become Dining Hall Feb. 4 DEA'lM ' IM1CH! ... . Governor "There is nothing left to say. There's no Sports Feb 6 point putting this country through an Men's Swimming vs. Rolla, impeachment since (Nixon) isn't making Hammons Pool at 1:00 p.m. any pretense of innocence now.. .This Women's Swimming vs. Arkansas, ~ country has suffered so long." Hammons Pool at} :00 p.m. Women's Basketball vs. Evansville, Evil Conservatives Bill Clinton, August 8, 1974 Presidential Kneepads? The Virginia Advocate Sept 1998 Hammons at 2:05 p.m. "I would be . happy to give him "The mood of the Republican congres­ Men's Basketball vs. Evansville, (Clinton) a blow job just to thank sional leadership is so ideologicall Hammons at 7:05 p.m. obtuse as to dooIl?even this modest ftrst him for keeping abortion legal. I step down the path of responsibility. they think American women should be would rather kill people than raise lining up with their presidential'" taxes." - Former Los Angeles TImes kneepads on to' show their gratit­ reporter Robert Scheer in an April 22 Chance to win a free large pizza! tude for keeping the theocracy off column .on the.Kennedy Hatch health for children bill. Rules: our backs." Reprint with permission from Media Research 1. . Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. No penalty for - TIme Contributor and former reporter Center guesing. Nina Burleigh recalling what she told the 2. Submit completed survey at this address: Washington Post's Howard Kurz about The Student Harbinger her feelings toward Bill Clinton, as Call 1-800-TallMen 1132 E Madison recounted by Burleigh in the July 20 New "This means Kevin Garnett is not going Springfield, MO 65807 York Observer to play on our city league team. I don't [email protected] . Reprint with permission from Media 3. Next Monday, February "8 one name will be drawn at random to win a Research Center know where we're going to fmd another seven-footer." - Dan Ohme, who plays free large pizza! basketball at the same health club as the Minnesota TImberwolves star. The Student Harbinger Survey Mount Clintonmore? Impeachment Poll "His sturdy jaw precedes him. He smiles I Agree from sea to shinging sea. Is this President '-Should the Senate trial of Bill Clinton follow Constitutional proce­ "I think it is plain that the President a candidate for Mt. Rushmore or should resign and spare the country the dures? what? ..In fact, when it comes to influenc­ agony of impeachment and removal pro­ -Should the US Senate call witnesses? ing the public, a single medley of expres­ ceedings." sions from Clinton may be worth much -Should the impeachment trial be cancelled because of President - Bill Clinton, August 8, 1974, about more, to much of America, than every Clinton's approval rating? President Nixon's admission he lied ugly accusation Paula Jones can muster." -Should the President be censured? about his role in Watergate -- Los Angeles TImes television writer The Virginia Advocate Sept 1998 -Is perjury the same as lying? howard Rosenberg reviewing Clinton's -Is perjury and obstruction of justice a "high crime or misde- Inagural address, Jan. 22 1997 Reprint with permission from Media Research meanor?" Center -Do you think Bill Clinton should be removed from office? -If Clinton could run for a third term, would you vote for him

~uddle America I Bob Go~ll Political Knowledge -Name your State Representative . ~a.L.! -How many years comprise a term of office for a US Senator? .-~ . .F.al9Qt.M.! -Name three US Supreme Court Justices -Who were the authors of the Federalist Papers? ~ -Who is mayor of Springfield? -According to the US Constitution, what are the three unalienable rights of man? -What is the name of Missouri's Legislative Branch? -How many times has the US Constitution been amended? ::.:l

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Page 10 Faith & Devotion The Ecumenical Center

The present able these facilities; the three groups Past Ecumenical Center shared the cost of utilities and mainte­ Present Future with its mmlstry in nance. higher education in Springfield Missouri, in the meantime the UCCF still had The current facility is available for Because of all the exciting programs . dates back to 1961. Early in that year rep­ property at 727 S. Florence. It was even­ groups from the campus and community. and ministry opportunities that are hap~ resentatives from the Christian (Disciples tually sold, the equity being used to pro­ The following services are offered to stu­ pening at the Ecumenical Center, we are of Christ), United Church of Christ, and vide our initial capital for the new dents, faculty and staff of SMSU-- exploring the possibility of expanding the Presbyterian Churches met to discuss the Ecumenical Center. Shortly thereafter, the facility from 8370 sq ft to 14,467 sq ft. estabHshing of a United Campus Episcopal Church en.tered into the Christian involvement Bible Study This would include a large multi-pur­ Christian Fellowship. Ecumenical Program. The four years in Faith development Counseling­ pose room, restrooms. ~ith shower facili­ In the summer of 1960, young people the "temporary" quarters -was a time of Community Service Current Issues ties, expanded kitchen with state of the art and officials from the above denomina­ transition. Variety of worship styles equipment, more offices, and study spaye tions met at Stephens College, Columbia, During the period the barriers began Acceptance in a group who appreciates for students. This expanded facility would Missouri to establish the UCCF as the to fall ... one by one. Joint planning, non­ you for who you are allow the Ecumencial Center to reach out official campus ministry agency for those competitive programming, and a common to larger groups in the community and denominations an the national and local treasury for everything except one minis­ We are seven different religous bod­ campus. level. ters' salary. ies, each maintaining its traditions and When the Springfield UCCF began The Ecumenical Board was incorpo­ her~tage, cooperating together in a Would you like your religious organi­ its ministry in September 1961, it became rated in 1968. Two representatives from Christian ministry in higher education. In zation posted in the next issue? If so, one of the first in the nation. The Rev. each supporting group composed the a campus ministry, one truly witnesses the please contact Christina Peterman at James P. Robinson was called to become Board of eight. love and grace of Jesus Christ. We believe 837-3931. Please include your organi­ the first UCCP College pastor for this Plans were made immediately for a that this is one step toward fulfilling the zation's name, location, and meeting area. He was employed part time . . He also permanent facility. Five lots of property prayer of Christ "that they may be one as time. served as the Ozark Presbyterian Church were acquired from the Bishop of the we are one." pastor part time. Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese. We believe that Christians of all per­ Example The part time ministry continued for Construction on the now facility began in suasions are called to witness and serve in "Common Ground" five years ... three years at 639 S. bollison the Fall of 1969 and was completed the name of Jesus Christ. Everyone is Ecumenical Center and two years at 727 S. Florence. Courses August 15, 1970, costing about $200,000. always welcome! Every Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. in religious instruction were first offered by the UCCF in 1954. The summer of 1966 marked another What do students say about the Ecumenical Center? -'"' major milestone in the Springfield Ecumenical Ministry. The Nemman Club "The Ecumenical Center is a ''It offers a place to learn, to (Roman Catholic), Wesley Founiiation "The Ecumenical Center is a Christian setting on campus where (Methodist), and the UCCF came togeth­ place you can go as a stranger or grow, and to be faithful doers. er under "one roof' in the nature of two people can' study, meet new peo­ visitor, and leave as a member of With the support you receive, you houses. The Roman Catholics made avail ple and strengthen their Christian­ a loving, caring, suppOI:tive fami­ can reach your highest goal." faith." ly." Volume 1 Issue 1 STdtlENT February 2, 1999 HARBINGER Special Featu're Page 11 Representatives Announce -thei'r Agendas

Editor's note: This is part one Blunt Begins Second Term Schilling Announces abuse is Missouris No.1 drug prob­ of a two part special feature. with 21st Century Agenda Legislative Priorities for lem. It cost the state billions of dollars . annually in lost lives, crimes, health Next month will feature the Congressman 1999 General Assembly care, lower productivity and many senators: State Senator other social problems. Roseanne Bentley and U.S. ," Roy Blunt began his sec­ Senators John Ashcroft and Kit Other legislation I am sponsoring ond term in Some of my leg­ Bond. includes raising the mitiimum salary Congress on islative priorities this session for teachers in the state from $18,000 Wed-nesday, a year to $21 ,000; getting more peo­ ·New State January 6, include the fol­ lowing: ple to take driver's education; and Representative 1999. Voters in abolishing capital punishment. the fIfteen county district reward­ Mark Wright 1. I plan to introduce a bill that Announces First ed Blunt with a record 72.6% vic­ would bring mental health insurance Legislative Agenda tory to return him to work for coverage closer to parity with physi­ Key Issue: How·to . them in the 106th Congress. This cal health coverage. It would require As the newly is the highest percentage ever Missouri insurers to offer to sell a bet- Spend Surpluses elected State received by a contested candidate ..ter minimum benefit package for Republicans: Representati ve for Congress in Southwest mental health and substance abuse treatment than is presently required. GENERAL ASSEMBLY- The sur­ from the 13 7th Missouri's Seventh District. plus revenue generated by the tobac­ Legislative dis­ Blunt's top legislative priori­ Employers or individuals would not have to purchase -the coverage, but co settlement and gaming revenues is trict, I am proud ties for the 106th Congress . I think it would be an affordable subject to the Hancock limitation and to represent a include: opportunity for more Missourians to should be given back to the taxpayers portion of the have coverage that could improve J SMS campus. I look forward to *Improving retirement security their health, productivity and happi­ U.S. CONGRESS- The surplus rev­ addressing concerns that effect you with a prierity on guaranteeing the ness. enue, expected for several years, as a student and as a tax payer. Social Security system and small . should be used to payoff the national business pensions; 2. I am sponsoring a bill that tough­ ~ebt, cut taxes across the board, and 'save so.cial security from collapse. My campaign platform consisted ens the intoxication level for drunk We have a moral obligation to pay *Maintaining our commitments to driving. Currently, the intoxication of lower taxes, especially property off our debt and not make our pros­ taxes for our working families and Medicare, Veterans and military level for convictino of drunk driving J perity pay it. Tax cuts will generate senior citizens, increasing eco­ retirees; is 10 percent blood alcohol concentra­ tion. My bill would lower that to .08 the economy, increase wealth~ and nomic opportunities. These ifems Providing tax relief, that includes percent. generate more tax revenue. will take precedence in my fIrst elimination of the 'marriage penal­ Studies show that most people term as your representative. ty' in the tax code; demonstrate poor judgement . and Democrats: reaction time at that level behind the GENERAL ASSEMBLY- The sur­ The le~islative as a whole will *Restoring to families, teac.hers wheel. I believe this policy would plus monies received by the state tackle some pressing problems and school boards the decisions on help reduce drunk driving accidents, from the tobacco settlement and the which include what to do with the how to best use federal education deaths and injuries, and also make gaming profits are not regu~ar state proceeds from the tobacco settle­ dollars; Enhan~ing defense readi­ Missouri eligible for federal dollars . revenue and not subject to the ment, what taxes to cut to help ness with an emphasis on missile targeted for states with .08 laws. Hancock Amendment lid. When - keep the budget under the Hancock defense; and Reforming immigra­ Sixteen states already have such laws. gaming was approved a few years ago, the idae was that the taxes gen­ Amendment, and how to fIx the tion. 3. For the sixth year, I will introduce erated from gambling would be Highway trust fund fIasco. a bill to raise the alcohol beverage tax spent on education. We need to keep Blunt s~id, "These are achiev­ by the equivalent of one cent per drin . our commitments. If you have any suggestions or able goals the American people at the retail level. This measure, opinions on these issues or any that want enacted. I will work with which also requires a statewide vote U.S. CONGRESS- The surplus rev­ might effect you personally as a leaders in both parties to move of the people, would raise an estimat­ enue should only be used to save student, I would appreciate your these projects to completion." ed $20 million annually, earmarked social security. The coming collapse call to my office at 573-751-6562, Recently, Roy Blunt was for alcohol abuse prevention, educa­ of social security is more important or email me at mwright@ser­ named the new House Chief tion and treatment progr:ams. at this time than the national debt. vices.state.mo.us. Deputy Whip, vacated by new . CBntinued greater emphasis on ' Tax cuts only benefit the rich. Speaker Dennis Hastert this area js important because alcohol February 2, 1999 STtltJENT Volume I Issue I HARBINGER

Page 12 The Final Word February 11 March 9 Calendar From page 1 Guest Speaker Guest Speaker Woodson From page 1 Faith Ringgold Star Parker February 4 A Writer, Painter, Performance Artist, "Blacks and Conservatism" Breakfast With Champions Guest Speaker and Mixed Media Scuiptor Carrington Auditorium 7:00 p.m. Through his education, Carter Don Brown, Senior Vice Pr_esident of "More Than Thirty Years Making Art" became convinced that African American Operations & Technology for Coors Carrington Auditorium 7:30 p.m. history was being neglected and misrepre­ Brewing Company Admission: $2.00 sented. He formed organizations such as . "Leadership Requirements for an Letter from the the Association for the Study of Negro Effective Organization in the New February 22 Life and History and the Journal of Negro Millennium" Game Night:"Black Family Feud" From Page 8 History to present black history and cul­ University Plaza Holiday Inn Editor Blair-Shannon Grand Lounge 7:00 p.m. ture in a proper light. John Q. Room 333 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. However, Woodson felt that some­ Admission: $15.00 February 23 criminal trial? According to the polls thing was missing. That something was a Panel Discussion taken in 1995, a majority of Americans week set aside each year to recognize February 4 "Where Is African American Leadership thought OJ would receive an acquittal. African" American culture, heritage, and Panel Discussion Today?" How come Judge Lance Ito did not achievement. "Personal and Professional Pathways to ~ Public Affairs Building, 4th Floor 7 p.m. obey the will of the people and dismiss .ID. 1921, he established the Negro Success" the case? Marsha Clark even admits that History Week, The Negro History Week Glass Hall, Room 101 7:00 p.m. February 24 ~ their chances of conviction were slim. was to be celebrated every year on the Movie The case was continued anyway, not second week of February. The second February 5-28 "He Got Game" because of poll numbers and popularity, week of February was chosen because African American Heritage Display Carrington Auditorium 7:00 p.m. but because it was the right way and the that was the week of Abraham Lincoln's Meyer Library Constitutional way of holding a trial. and Frederick Douglas's birthdays. Later (Call 836-8383 for hours) February 25 This impeachment trial in the US the Negro History Week was expanded to Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Senate is more about the rule of law than include the entire month of February. February 5 Fashion Show removing Bill Clinton from office. If the Carter G Wooqson continued his Concert "Big, Bold, and Beautiful" Senate subjects itself to the whim of the exhausting research on the culture African Lorraine Johnson-Coleman Kentwood Hall Crystal Room, 700 St. people, then our Constitution will become Americans. His demanding need for and the Legacy Duo Louis Street 7:00 p.m. a worthless piece of paper. Where in the information weakened him physically. He "An Evening with Just Plain Folks" Admission: $7.00 Constitution is it written that a US died in 1950 and was not able to complete With poetry, storytelling, and tpe blues President cannot be impeached if he has his tmal work, an encyclopedia of black Kentwood Hall Crystal Room, February 26 high approval ratings? Where in the achievement. 700 St. Louis Street 7:30 p.m. Concert Constitution does it mention censuring We should strive to have the same A capella Choir, Ladysmith Black other branches of power? Does the enthusiasm that Carter Woodson felt. February 6 Mambaza. Featuring tight harmonies, Constitution really mean that a Senate How many of us really know at>out differ­ Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,. Inc. Presents rhythmic tongue clicks, and high-energy trial would be complete even if witnesses ent cultures, let alone our own? Unlike Jabberwock Scholarship Pageant movement aren't called_and testimony isn't present­ Carter, we don't have to spend countless "Sisters, Stepping into the New Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, ed? hours doing research. Heritage months Millennium" 525 John Q. Hammons Pkwy 8:00 p.m. The only answer I have to these ques­ make it possible to understand different University Plaza Convention Center Admission: $14, $18, and $22 tions is that Bill Clinton and the liberals in cultures in a leisurely manner. Take 333 John Q. Hammons Pkwy 8:00 p.m. Congress and in the media must have a advantage of these opportunities and Admission: $6.00 (includes after party), February 27 new revised version of the Constitution. attend some ofthe events this February. S.emi-Formal Attire Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., On a lighter note, the NBA is finally

~ Neophyte Stepshow & Party ready to play ball. It seems that the February 7 How students feel about "The Legacy of Excellence" Chicago Bulls new management is taking Black History Showcase Boys and Girls Club, 1300 N . Boonville the old adage "It is better to give than to the importance of African "Freedom, Faith, and Feeling Good: 10:00 p.m.- 3:00 a.m. receive" to heart. Scottie Pippen is traded A Celebration of Black Heritage" American Heritag~ Month: Admission: $5.00 to the Rockets, Luc Longley is sent to the A showcase featuring poetry, drama, lit­ Suns, and Steve Kerr moves t9 San­ erature, music, and dance African American Heritage Month February 28 Antonio to play for the Spurs. Dennis Carrington Auditorium 7:00 p.m. helps you become more diverse Gospel Extravaganza featuring the Rodman might play for the Heat or SMSU Gospel Choir Magic. In return, the Bulls receive Mark and knowledgale about other eth­ - February 8 Ellis Recital Hall 3:00 p.m. Bryant, Martin Muursepp, Bubba Wells, nicities. You learn to appreciate Documentary and Discussion: and Roy Rodgers? Ozarks Labor Historical Society and the the accomlpishments of African March 3 The good news (since I'm a Jazz fan) SMSU Ozarks Labor Union Archives Americans.- · Tremayne Bess Guest Artist IS that the Utah Jazz will be keeping all of "By the River I Stand" Adora Dupree, their players except "Big Dog" Carr, who SMSU Alumni Center-Hospitality Room The Storytelling Messenger . will be playing for the Rockets. The teams Even in 1999, there is a great deal 300 S. Jefferson 6:30 p.m. ...--. "Now My Story Is Your Story" to watch this year are the Rockets, Jazz, of African American history that Ellis Recital Hall 7:00 p.m. Lakers, Knicks, Pacers, and Heat. I pre­ February io is unrecognized. Blacks have dict the NBA Championship match up Workshop made many contributions to our March 4 will feature the Utah Jazz and the Indiana "African American Relationships­ culture that we tend to overlook. Piano Recital featuring Karen Walwyn Pacers, with Utah winning after five Brothers and Sisters In Search of "Repertoire for Piano by African games Ramon Blakley Common Ground" American Composers" Public Affairs Building, Room 305 7p.m. Ellis Recital Hall 7:30 p.m.