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Nova Southeastern University NSUWorks The urC rent NSU Digital Collections 11-2-1992 The Knight Volume III: Issue 6 Nova Southeastern University Follow this and additional works at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper NSUWorks Citation Nova Southeastern University, "The Knight Volume III: Issue 6" (1992). The Current. 106. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_newspaper/106 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the NSU Digital Collections at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Current by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • 1 Serving the Nova University COInInunity IVolume iii, Issue 61 INovember 2, 1992 1 ....•I How do YOU feel about it? *****Look out next issue for the Joel Natt. i Jennifer Hooper. i announcement of "It's a joke. I feel that the "I'll vote by absence of the winner of The election is being run like a ballot. I'm voting for KnighI's fiction three-ring circus. Bush." contest! "I see Perot's involve ment as something positive. Even if he doesn't win, it will . keep the other two parties on their toes." Should We Improve Our Page 2 Gerard Rose. i Sexual Sensitivity? "I'm a citizen of England, so I'm Baby Theresa: How Does the Law not eligible to vote in the United States. "However, if I were to vote, I would Define a Human Being? 4 give my ballot to Perot. Check out our NEW CLUB PAGE! 5 "He gives the people who don't Tracy Froebel. i like either the Republican or the Demo- "I'm supporting Bush in Sadism and Bondage in Pop Culture: cratic party an alternative for once." this election." The Influential Story of0 8 (-V-<>P"I""E::R..S !. Usefulcapsule MOVIE REVIEWS 11 I Undecided? Check out our focus .~ ... " on write-in candidates: PAGE 6 ~, .. Page 2 The Knight November 2, 1992 Pachyderm·s and Policies Under the foot of the GOP Elephant Vicki Short tics that the politicians manipulate to demonstrate their own points. By the time this issue of The Knight But our trouble is not as abstract as is published and distributed, there will a set of statistics; it's as tangible as the be fewer than two days for this editorial dollar bills s.lipping from your hands. October 7, 1992 to have any importance at all. You don't need to be an economist After 7:00 PM on Tuesday, No to realize that the ratio of goods to the I To the Editor: vember 3, 1992, all this piece will be average American is steadily decreas good for is cutting out letters and words ing. And you don't have to be a genius Why is it that The Knight has no edito and pasting them together to make a to figure out that as this ratio drops, rial policy on sexist stupidity? Scott ransom note. poverty, violence, crime and all sorts of Cohen's article, "Art, TV, and Capital How do I begin an editorial that hatred increase twice as fast. ism," is a misogynist muddle disgUised could be one of the most important While it's bad enough that the av- as a slick pop-art commentary. things that I have ever written? I be erage American gets stuck in a life of It is one thing to critique tasteless lieve I should have started this piece working a third or more of his or her commercials; it is quite another to de months ago to ensure that it came out day, doing a job that is both alienating scribe them in a way that characterizes as eloquently and persuasively as hu and meaningless. They now face the women and their bodies as objects to penned by other men. It is so easy for manly possible. possibility of losing the only security be sophomorically desired ("the Swed- a man to ignore or to let slide the But procrastination is one of my that they have been able to cling to. ish Bikini Team...were in Playboy- removed and smug positions of other many character flaws. with ~~~i~~~c:s:~:rt~~~d:~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : :.:.: '.: .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. ~ \ So I'm just going to say what's on my mind, and hope that it hits home for with a family to feed, a mortgage and ::::: It IS SO easy for a man to Ignore or : I ~: ~: some of you, and for the others, I hope car payment, and general survival ex- I : to let slide the removed and smug : I it hits you in the head. penseWhs?t bo tth th d f I ~~~~~ positions of other men. ~ Our country is in serious troUble. I a a u e ousan s 0 co - :- : -: : know that all of you have been bom lege students who have just graduated :~: :~:=-::::: :~=-=-:::::: ~-=:::::: =-=-=-=--=-:::::::::::-=--=--=-::.:.:.:.: . barded with this claim and all the statis- and are among the unemployed, or are oww...owww") or dismissed as disgust men. Cohen's smarmy attitudes should ...c. " forced to take jobs ing .("some wench pops in and dis-' have been challenged before they ever • ";:::'../ '_.~~':;"'9'''' that pay so little cusses the virtues of Monostat"). made it into the October 1 issue. i..~~.\'~.~_~r~ ,,~. ~:::'j" You, as an editor who is also male . .'~"o. =;.. -.:. ,~ that they barely p," .:.""" , -'~......--. ~. exceed the stu- and white, must attend all the more Yours, ~:'~~~'r'-;'~h~·:·'~~;'-'~.::-'I dent loan pay- carefully to the orientation of your J"i! .. ~1~~ ~:t';':'-",,11 ? ,~~: . I~...,~ ',~. '~', ':.'~,' 'f'\~/-- ment expected by newspaper's articles, particularly those Douglas Flemons, Ph.D. the bank each LI-------------------__------__- month? tually ignite into massive violence and My heartfelt belief is that the Re Despera tion terror, such as the situation of the Los publicans are responsible for the situa and insecurity Angeles riots. Our country is in trouble, tion of our country. The problem with tum into resent because if we don't see some changes the goods-to-people ratio is not that our . ment and hatred. soon, Los Angeles itself will become a Situations of stepping stone for events of unimagin See DONKEY on repression even- able proportion and. devastation. page 6 Knight Staff Letter and Editorial Policy The Knight is a bimonthly publication. Editor in Chief, Kevin Hawkins The opinions reflected in The Letters must be typed and All. University members are encour Associate Editor, Vicki Short Knigh t do not speak for the Nova signed. The Knight reserves the aged to submit articles, editorials, per Asslstn Associate Editor, Tracy Froebel University administration, staff or right to edit any published corre sonals, or story ideas. Copy Editor, Julie Holland faculty. spondence. Copy Editor, Carolyn Pope Persons who wish to withhold The Knight office is located on the Every individual speaks for him their names from the public should second floor of the Edwin and Esther layout Editor, Jason Domasky or herself.' The Knight is not include this statement in the let Rosenthal Student Center, Room 208. Assistant Layout Editor, Kimber Sharp responsible for the opinions of per ter. The Knight Hotline is 452-1553. sons associated with this publica The editors will review this re Advertising Manager, Stephanie Castonguay tion. quest and determine if printing the Contributing Writers Advertising Staff, zareefa Khan author's name will infringe on their Shari Cohen The Knight editorial staff re right to privacy while respecting Stephen Goldstein Senior Advisor, Christine Jackson serves the right to edit or to ex their right to be heard. Paul Joseph clude any stories, advertisements, If the name should not be with Larry Kerr Contributing Writers or bulletins due to space con held, the Knigh t reserves the right David Kreitner David Pasternak straints. to print the letter. November 2, 1992 The Knight . Page 3 Considering Candidates try from the dark Margaret Thatcher in '92! ·To Perot or ness of world crisis and economic de I not to Perot: spair to God-given Stephen L. Goldstein words long). bliss. Third, Mrs. Thatcher is a woman. That is the question? Granted, the I am going to vote for Margaret Considering the mess we are in with qualifications for Thatcher for president on a write-in. I all-male leadership, it may well be time David Pasternak President are don't want any of the three lackluster to overlook gender and simply con vague, but the Presi candidates we now have, and I'm tired sider putting someone qualified into Man is conceived in sin and born in dent must know how of voting for the lessor of any number of office. corruption and he passeth from the to play the game. Ross Perot. evils. Fourth, at a time when we are told stink of the didie to the stench of the Ross Perot does But I also don't want to take lying that the global economy and foreign shroud. There is always something. not. He is not now and has not been an doyvn what is dished out to me. That is investment should govern our perspec -Robert Penn Warren elected official. simply not the American way. In this tive on things, what better way to inter His type of politics derives from year of political free-fall, it is time to nationalize our outlook than to elect a Unfortunately our politicians are corporate boardroom concessions, ~:: c~:~~id~:;i~~: :t~:~: ~~~~:: ~~::~;~: ~~: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ crooks, weasels, and other blasphe- mergers, acquisitions, and hostile take ! ::: ::: :1 mous things that need not be spoken overs. Granted he knows economics. ~ of. What goes on in those smoke-filled, But neither he, nor Bo knows politics. I. with all-'!'ale le.adershiP, it may weill)T ego-bloated back rooms of the political On a world pulpit, Perot cannot :~:~:~! machine is left to the imagination of stand.