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Volume 9, Number 1 September 1990 ACT UP Misbehaves by Jeff Muir On the morning of Saturday, the AIDS crisis would not be possible and all other victims of anti- gay stings treatment to people with AIDS/HN August 4, a handbill caught my eye as without the institutional racism and be dropped," a stop to "police harass infection," and the development of a I made my way across the Diag. It was homophobia in which the crisis is ment against youth, lesbians and gay 'Center for Excellence' for AIDS re bright canary yellow, and on the top of rooted. We stand committed to the men, and people of color," the aboli search at U-M." it were the words" ACf UP!". fight against racism and anti-lesbian/ tion of "'sodomy,' 'gross indecency' For a group that incessantly harps I immediately became interested, gay bigotry in all forms." and all other anti-lesbian/ gay laws." about AIDS not being a gay disease, because ever since I first heard of the The handbill then listed several But that was not all. The group also the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ACT-UP ('demands," although it did "demanded" the distribution of free certainly advocates many "gay" is (ACT-UP), I have found their actions sues. Yet, more demands .followed, startling. The New York chapter inter many of which had little or nothing to rupted a mass conducted by Cardinal ACT UP! do with AIDS. O'Connor, chaining themselves to The final demands were for the pews, shouting obscenities, and A WAVE OF POLICE I : 'RESTS OF GAY MEN IS SWEEPING MICHIGAN. abolition of the "anti-youth 'age of throwing condoms at churchgoers and consent law,'" public funding of church officials. During the recent In In Holland. Michigan. police BIT8St8d 5 gay men L n a pnvat. residence for sodomy law vioIaIionI. I.aIt month in Clarkston. "community centers for and for lesbi ternational AIDS Conference in San 6 ilJlI\81 were cI1arged v«th 'disolderty conduct" aftt! • 'I8ing SOlicited by poliCe CItCOyI in a highwly rest stop. In Adrian. ans and gay men under worker / com poIict 'atraslld 16 gay men at the~ homes or places of WOt:. , for 'indecency oetwttn malts' aft8r VIdeotaping a local Francisco, ACT-UP shouted down munity control," "free abortion and cruising spot for three months. Othw busts have been report8l.. i These arrests fit into a pattern of regular police Health and Human Services Secretary harTassmtnl of young people. lesbials and gay men and people of color.' This wave of polic. 8IIaCks must stop: birth control on demand to all without Louis Sullivan, again throwing con requiring parental consent or notifica doms and paper wads. tion," the implementation of "wide It struck me as odd that a group Stop Police Haras~~ment of spread, non-moralistic safer sex edu seeking government and public cation throughout the Ann Arbor / money for its various "demands" Ypsilanti area and at every grade level would blatantly offend so many Lesbians and Gay . Men! in the schools" which "must include people who might otherwise be sym the distribution of free condoms and pathetic to its cause. It also struck me as When straight peoo!e. seeKing a little privacy to mal
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Crayola has eliminated the color marriage." Finally, some research objecting to her views on affirmative REVIEW maize from its higflly-acdaimed 64- useful to college students. action, bilingual education, and for color crayon pack, making it impos mer position in the Reagan admini sible for U-M students to color their stration, the president of the university The Cam pus Affairs school's maize and blue logo on note Scholars at the State University of New revoked her invitation, citing the im books and folders. A spOkesman at York at Albany have determined that portance of "cultural pluralism." Mrs. Journal of the Binney & Smith, the manufacturer of male college freshmen have nearly 8 Chavez is a Hispanic woman. University of Michigan Crayolas, insensitively suggested sexual fantasies per day, as opposed to goldenrod as a replacement. Boycott, 4.5 for the females, reports Fortune. As anyone? suming this sample can be extended to The Latin American Solidarity Editor-in-Chief include all undergraduates, the U-M's Committee (LASC) is one of several John J. Miller 20,374 male and 16,100 female students groups that plans on protesting every The U-M's Correlates of War Project, concei ve a total of 235,442 sexual fanta week the U.S. military presence in Publisher always on the cutting edge of research, sies per day. In a related study, experts Saudi Arabia, reports the Ann Arbor Carey Brian Meadors recently unsheathed this startling tid have detemlined the average Ameri Metro Times. What they say about stu bit of data, according to a News and In can has one breast and one testicle. dents' lack of geography skills must be Executive Editors formation Services press release: true. Adam DeVore "Even the most war-prone nations ... Brian Jendryka will not fight without sufficient weap According to the Dartmouth Review, a onry." Oh, so is that why Kuwait student at Dartmouth College "can Here at the Review, we've always read Assistant Editors didn't invade Iraq? Please, use more of write a paper on the joys of sodomy, so with glee the MIM Notes, "The Official Rahul Banta, Gifton Gault, Bob our tuition dollars to find out. long as one accurately footnotes the Newsletter of the Maoist International Juneja, Joseph Klein, Mark Tulkki sources." Movement." The August edition, however, surpassed all of our expecta French Correspondent Speaking of war and U-M press re tions, as it included a letter from "Lo Karen Brinkman leases, here's the lead of a News and Ann Arbor' s ACT-UP chapter recently tus Blossom," stating "Marriage is a Information Services story on the Per demanded, among other things, that system of slavery," reviews of movies Production Manager sian Gulf crisis: "Even the pets got free the U-M make available free condoms released in 1979 and 1988, and an ad for Ruth Armstrong health care in oil-rich Kuwait. The and "explicit" instructions concern a book entitled "Introduction to defend Iraqi invasion may change all that, ac ing their use. This, in order to combat ing Joseph Stalin." On the Stupid Com Personnel Manager cording to a U-M Mideast specialist." AIDS. Yet couldn't the promotion of munist Rhetoric scale, MIM Notes earns Vince Wilk free condoms without emphasizing an 8, which is significantly higher than the risk of certain behavior inadver Agenda's 6. Editor Emeritus While working on his recently pub tently encourage the spread of the dis Marc Selinger lished book, Dating, Mating, and Mar ease? riage, U-M sociology Prof. Martin K. Best quote of the summer: ''You're the Staff Whyte discovered "The length of the ones who are the terrorists! You all suck Mike Beidler, Thomas Binkow, dating experience, the number of dat Linda Chavez was scheduled to de on Willie Horton's sexual organ while David Boettger, Michael ing partners, the length of the relation liver the University of North being sodomized by Oliver North!" Bonanno, Jim Borninski, Brian ship with the eventual first husband Colorado's commencement address Said by an anonymous individual as Cook, Peter Daugavietis, Vincent and the degree of sexual intimacy wiU1 last May, according to the Washington part of an "intellectuals" conversation DeSantis, Athena Foley, Brian that husband (have no) significimt in Post's Jonathan Yardley. When a with a member of CDLA at the Ann Gambs, Peter Harbage, Jeff dependent influence on the fate of the group of Hispanic students protested, Arbor Art Fair. Hartgen, Nicholas Hoffman, Michelle Janoschka, Jeff Muir, fo~ ?RorlT ME.01CP\L Cf:\Re: "fREE" Me.o\C~\. CPo.'i<,E. Latha Palaniappan, Josh Shack The Daily, which has celebrated its man, Chris Terry, John Transue, "99th year of editorial freedom" for Chau-YeWu each of the last two years, has once again demonstrated its mathmatical The Michigan Review is an independent, ineptitude. In the first five summer is non-profit, student-run journal at the University of Michigan. We are not affili sues, the paper continued its 99th year ated with any political party. We wel motif. In issues #6-10, however, the come letters and articles and encourage nameplate bragged about the Daily's comments about the journal and issues "98th year of editorial freedom." The discussed in it. Our address is: situation was amended, even if it did take an entire month. At the same time, the Review presently celebrates its 9th Suite One year of editorial freedom. Assuming the 911 North University Daily were to continue its regression, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1265 and the Review were to consistently (313) 662-1909 progress, we figure both papers will meet in the year 2035, and could hold a joint celebration of "54 years of editorial Copyright 1990 freedom." Everyone is invited. -----...... ~ --.. ~~__ ...... d:~ .~~~~~"' ... ~~~ ...... ___ ,.'"" .... ~ . _____ ....
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From Suite One: Editorials Keep Stu "lowe the University how much?" In these days of rising tuition, there is when the Reuiew exposed the gross mismanagement and lack of accountability ~rc:ily a student who has not dumbfoundedly stuttered that question when con; that characterized both MSA-sponsored trips. fronted with the the upcoming term's cost. Many students, however, find solace Similarly, while the notion of opening lines of communication is appealing, in the rationalization that, "at least my money is going toward a good cause, such MSA president Jennifer Van Valey' s way of phrasing it in a recent letter to the Daily as hiring more tenured professors, getting better teach'ing assistants, or even U seems a bit ambitious.,"They will be working to help set up permanent lines of M renovations." And let's notforget politically motivated vacations for members communication with people in the region," she wrote, "so that we may have access of the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC). to information as it becomes available." It is arrogant to assume that they will be This summer, while most students had their minds fixed on recreation or heralds of truth andexpose facts that have hitherto eluded veteran journalists and summer jobs, the new Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) administration was eminent scholars. Are a few pen-pals, whose information may be of questionable busy forwarding its political agenda. In July, MSA approved a $1,000 allocation credibility, really worth $l,OOO? . to help the U":'M's chapter of PSC send two students, one of whom does not even However, the very question, "How can MSA best spend $1,000 on Middle attend the U-M, to the West Bank and theGaza Strip as part of a national PSC dele Eastern education," ignores two essential concems:first, whether, while con gation. According to the proponents of this expenditure, there are several reasons fronted with a huge deficit, MSA should worry about the infinitesimally small for contributing money from MSA's budget, which comes directly from student amount of new knowledge such a delegation may uncover when there is already tuition, to PSC's cause. By sending U-M representatives to meet with students an abundimce of information on the topic, and second, whether MSA should send from BirZeit University, we will obtain valuable information, establish lines of stuqeot money off campus at all. As to the first, the cautious and fiscally respon communication, and strengthen our ties wi th our sister school in the Middle-East. sible Aaron Williams, last year's MSA president, did not think that another MSA WhiIe all this Soundswell and good, a moment of sober reflection dispels such undedexcursion was possible. In September, 1989, he told the Review, "It is illusions.!t isdubious to cliiim, for instance, that two politically prejudiced, non unlikely~hese trips will be funded next year because MSA does not have the expert studentobservers, who will spend but a short while abroad observing an budget surplus itthooght it had last year." iI)complete and unbalanced picture of a situation, will be reliable sources. It would be even more specious to maintain that suddenly, guided by a new-found As for the second question, even if Van Valey were correct inher assertion that, love of truth, individuals who have joined a politically motivated group will sud "we, as students of privilege, have a responsibility to speak out," such a respon denly waxobjective upon arriving in Israel. sibility need not entail sending student money off camp\ls and out of the country. Instead, they will rather predictably search for contacts and sources that are And even if it isa "human rights issue," as Van Valey called it, MSA is not charged sympathetic to their political predisposition. Moreover, after sending delegations with being a watchdog for the United Nations or taking over when Amnesty Inter of similar persuasions to the Middle East and El Salvador last year, it seems that national falls short. We have too many problems on our own campus, and MSA MSA is clamoring for diversity in everything but the political bent of the delega has too many problems in its own office, for the student government to be tions. it funds. Additionally, MSA has not learned from last year's experience, subsidizing foreign junkets. Speech Code: Still a Bad Idea Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the greatest victory free interim policy was an improvementas most forms of speech finally gained the speech advocates on American campuses have experienced in recent memory. administration's stamp of approval. U.S. District Judge Avem Cohn ruled the University of Michigan's Policy on Still, any policy labeled "interim" cannot last forever, and the administration DiSCriminatory Harassment a violation of students' First Amendment rights. The is supposedly very near the completion of what it undoubtedly hopes will be a U-M administration, however, is "very close" to introducing a new policy, permanent policy. But before any new policy becomes campus law, the admini according to General Counsel Elsa Cole. In light of this, and the tremendous stration ought to reflect upon its woefully inept past in dealing with free speech, importance of cqntroYersy,a reviewofthe U-M's free speech abuses is in order. and the dubious nature of speech codes themselves. The speech'Cod~affairarose out of a concern that womeJ'l and minority One need not harp on questions of why free speech is good in an academic students fa~sucha hostile atmosphere .at the U-M that learning became setting. In the case of speech codes, however, One must weigh consider how impossible. ~:clauns ~ notW;hQlIy iDegitiJ:nate, either. In. 1987, a ~ampus restrictions work. While discrimination isblindj speech COdes,seefn to have eyes radio stamm ~rOOt:>~til~rra~tjtlkes. To tf$.day.one ~ears ofracist .or sexist only for the l'hist~ricanyoppressed."Thatis, practically anybody Can. achieve flyers: StUd~~nded'~~Ci~Jlisttation~nd to these~ents.. .' victim status .under aspeecb code except whiteFChristiat\,heter0~l males , .~ resw~,~~~ver,:w. The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 5 Opinion ROTC Restriction of Gays Justified by Mike Beidler Over the past year, Reserve Officer under civil rights statutes, as do other and women entering the armed serv 1997, indicating there is little need to Training Corps (ROTC) units have groups. Therefore, the Dep~rtment of ices personally accept homosexuals as tap what manpower resources the been constantly under fire for a policy Defense is under no legal obligation to normal people, change within the small homosexual community pro that restricts homosexuals from re induct homosexuals into military Department of Defense will not come. vides. Granted, the new Iraqi threat ceiving officer training. Mistakenly, service or provide officer training for To add to what amounts to a third might change these reduction figures, many student groups and university them. and fourth classification of an already but in any case, to fill a quota of homo administrations across the country sexual recruits would be inexpedient think that ROTC units can simply re ina military policy based upon expedi scind this policy of discrimination. The soldiers' concern focused on the ency. The issue is much more complex, worry that close association with homo What a great disservice certain however. Individual units, such as the elements, particularly those \vithin one at the University of Michigan, sexuals would aggravate tensions, ulti universities, would be doing to our cannot take the blame for a national nation were they to banish campus policy, which is, incidentally, based mately affecting the performance of the ROTC units just to satisfy the unneces upon sound reasoning. sary demands 6f a riUnority. The ROTC is under the jurisdiction of unit. source for most of the military's offi the Department of Defense, and there cers would vanish, creating a leader fore must keep faith with the This restrictive policy is based pri mixed-gender military would do ship vacuum in a force that cannot Department's longstanding policy of marily on the belief that the presence nothing but create tension and endan afford to lose its competitive edge in barring homosexuals from military of a known homosexual would ad ger the maintenance of order and disci world politics. This would also de service. The recruitment, education, versely affect the service's primary re pline. With problems such as these prive thousands of students from pur and training of officer candidates is sponsibilities within its own ranks: rampaging through the military sys suing an education, as many would exclusive to the federal government. It maintaining discipline, order, and tem, military readiness and effective not be able to .\lttend college without does not fall under the authority of the morale; creating an environment of ness would most certainly be at risk. A ROTC scholarships. U-M Board of Regents, administra mutual trust; promoting the necessity 1986Charter Task Force Final Report of This is ultimately not a question tion, or the state and local govern of rank and command; facilitating the the Canadian National Defense De about whether the military, with its ments. assignment of service members who partment reached' the conclusion that unique leadership environment, has Because of this, attempting to en must frequently work and live under gay-integration into the military the moral obligation to induct homo force state law or university policy on close conditions; and preventing would not stand the test, regardless of sexuals into the ranks of ROTC, but ROTC units would serve only to bring breaches of national security. the ability of an individual homosex rather to what extent a small portion of the federal government directly into The prevailing societal climate does ual to restrain his or her sexual desires. the population will seek to undermine the conflict. These more local policies, not treat homosexuals as equals. Tra The soldiers' concern focused on the one of the institutions which has therefore, become null and void: the ditional Judeo-Christian culture con worry that close association with vitally defended the freedom of federal government could lawfully tinues to be.a strong moral force in homosexuals would aggravate ten Americans for over 200 years. impose its policies on conflicting state America, and it is this culture that sions, ultimately affecting the per and university laws. perceives homosexuality as abnormal. formance of the unit. In a combat situ Mike Beidler is a junior in political A comparison can be drawn be Plainly put, a majority of Americans, ation, this would be potentially life science and a staff writer for the Re tween this military policy and Ann especially those in military institu threatening. view. He is a member of the U-M Arbor's recently repealed $5 pot law. tions, do not consider a homosexual Additionally, recent months have NROTC program. His views are not Although the State of Michigan en lifestyle legitimate for themselves or seen the Cold War end. The federal necessarily those of ROTC or the forced stricter laws against the use or others. For however long this remains government is cutting back the num Department of Defense. possession of marijuana, the defunct true, the issue of individual rights will berof active duty personnel by 22% by Ann Arbor law reduced the harsh fine be sacrificed in order to maintain stabi and jail term to a simple ticketed of lization in the military ranks. As re fense. As long as the state was not tired Army Brigadier General John D. involved in the case, Ann Arbor's law Lawlor stated in a recent Chicago Trib could effectively supersede state law. une editorial, "the role of the military is Letter to the Editor But if a state officer in Ann Arbor was to defend society, not change it." the arresting party, the city's laws The leadership effectiveness of its Denying Animal Rights utilitarian objectivity. would have no legal force. So it goes troops is a primary concern of the mili With the demise of "homo faber" with ROTC at the U-M. tary. A senior military officer testified Retards Ethical Growth economics and the recrudescence of Many argue that the policy is un that "known homosexuals in positions What a soul uplifting experience it man's spiritual radix the time has come constitutional and ignores the civil of leadership do not command the was to read Maria Comninou's plea to establish rights for all creatures. rights of homosexuals. This argument, respect of their subordinates, creating and justification for animal rights This sacrificial grace will further however, has already been presented an irreparable breakdown in the sys (April, 1990) and her well substanti man's own spiritual evolution, be in the courts and has been found to tem of rank and command." ated account of the age-{)ld and ever cause righteousness is the freely cho have no merit. Earlier this year, the How can a unit of soldiers, in which increasing human speciesism unctu sen uplifting of the weaker and de U.s. Supreme Court reviewed the an atmosphere of "homophobia" ex ously ordained by organized Western fenseless by the more privileged and controversial policy and found it to lie ists, respect and {ollow the orders of a religion and the ensuing legalism that stronger, the moraressence of all spiri within the confines of the known homosexual? They cannot. is conveniently purloined and reinte tual activitv. Constitution. At this point in our Again, the prevailing attitude of the grated by the laboratory cage behav nation's social development, homo American people is against homosexu iorist community, that researches un lVolfgang L. Hauer sexuals have no special protection ality. Until a vast majOrity of themerl der the pctradi"ghl of anthropocentric Ann Arbor ",_ ,,~~~4~~~~\"'~~~i'4""?4..w '·.~"'WI' ''''' ''J''V '''''' ' ' '''' '' \'~ "''-' ""¥,)"'." ;,,.,,,'...... ,,"'~.,' · "'l>"'_.'w""',;,.~. ""!.'·, h .", ' ,J. ,n ". The Michigan Rev~ew/Septembe~.19901 p. ,6 Opinion In Defens'e l Offrl'~t~~; ~~tI$ rp()lite Force by Br"n,Jendryka . , ,'. , '; l "Lemme tell ya ... oo! Whel1 guns n.ot"politically c.orrect" is quickly tions. N.ot .only must the U-M annually dangerous tasks and leave the ticket are outlawed, only outlaws will be branded racist, sexist, hDmDph.obic, IJr pay ,thecity<,>f Ann Arbor $500,000 f.or writing. and traffic accidents t.o the killing people ... 'cause guns don't kill just plain .oppressive. Perhaps it its fDrce .of tw.o, but it must also main non-deputized security officers. people ... people kill guns. From out sh.ould n.ot CDme as a surprise that tain its .own supplementary staff .of se An.other aspect of the policy that laws." - NRA nut, Bloom County, vari.ous campus gr.oups .oppose the re curity personnel wh.o have essentially scares some students is that the newly 'roans for our Times, p.lO. gents' latest pr.oposal simply .out of the same auth.ority as sh.opping mall armed officers will be controlled by It seems that this c.onfused Bloom habit: they are as helpless as Pavlov's security .officers. The resulting di and answerable solely to the regents. d.ogs. Neverrni~d that the c~mpus lemma is predictable. Deputized cam What the students d.o n.ot take into ac police f.orce will make the campus a pus police w.ould carry sidearms and c.ount is that l.ocal police are answer safer place, with faste~ resporlse times ' have the power.of arrest - security able tD the city c.ouncil, which has an and increased' beatcovetage. Never .officers d.o not - yet they are fre- equal, if ~ot greater, opportunity to mind that it will be muchJe$s expeo-; .·, quently :asked t.o perf.orm in equally abuse its power. Just imagine what sive than subcontracting with thedty. dangerous situati.ons. . w.ould happen if a shanty appeared .on .of Ann Arbor; 'The pr.oblell} ' is thi'\t All911 .emergency calls.on campus the City Hall lawn of Homet.own, USA. many students never even hear all .of are routed thr.ough campus security's It w.ould n.ot survive long enD ugh to the arguments in fav.or .of a r~ental switchb.oard; · n.ot the . p.olice kill the grass. Comparatively, the re policy, and .of those WpodD, many . depattm¢nt's. If thec~llturnsoutto be gents are a bunch .of push.overs. Yet hold. such a str.ong presumpti.on particularly seri.ous, campus security people are infinitely more afraid of a against the regents that their evalu .officers WhD have already responded campus police force then they are of ati.on bec.omes biased. t.o the call must then n.otify the tw.o Ann their own city's police force. If we l.o.ok bey.ond the fact that this Arbor police officers on patrol and Also, the asserti.on that the police is a regents' decisi.on, there remains hope they are not busy. f.orce is answerable .only t.o the regents CDunty IDgiC, which has been all tDD str.ong .oppositi.on tD a campus police An incident in East Quad last year and the city council is fundamentally prevalent .on the University .of Michi fDr an.other reason, which, n.ot surpris dem.onstrated the ineffectiveness .of inc.orrect. While these groups may dic gan campus recently, has resurfaced in ingly, alSD has t.o d.o with the regents. the present system. During a CDncert at tate certain operational guidelines, in response tD a pr.oposal tD arm a num Some students are afraid that the re the Halfway Inn, a punk rock singer, dividual officers are always answer ber .of campus security .officers. And gents will use the police f.orce tD lost control of himself and began hit able to a higher authDrity - the judi again, the arguments are based nDt .on squelch student protests, and thus, ac- ting himself and kicking spectators. cial system. If police .officers infringe the merits .of the issues inv.olved, but upDn citizens' or students' rights, they rather .on the emDti.onally charged can be taken t.o court. knee-jerk reactiDns .of paran.oid stu Perhaps it should not come as a If nDne of the preceding argu dent activists. Opponents.of the newly surprise that various campus groups ments seem compelling, consider the created campus police f.orce will n.ot problem from .one final point of view: .only be armed, but also answerable tD oppose the regents' latest proposal that .of the security officer. Is an officer the regents, and this is a deadly c.ombi m.ore likely to fulfill his respDnsibility nati.on. simply out of habit: they are as helpless of pr.otecting students if he has the It has n.ow bec.ome standard prac power to arrest those he apprehends, tice fDr many U-M students t.o criticize as Pavlov's dogs. or if he must keep the subject subdued every acti.on taken by the regents, re fDr 10 or 15 minutes while the Ann gardless .of any possible good inten cording to .one of its .opponents "sys Eventually, several security officers Arbor police officers arrive? tiDns. Anything supported by the re tematically deny students their First arrived - but they merely st.ood by, gents is .opposed by the students be Amendment rights." This line .of rea afraid tD do anything because they Brian Jendryka is a junior in English cause, well, the regents support it. By soning is brought t.o us by the same were inadequately equipped and and economics and an executive edi the way that MSA c.onstantly criticizes MSA president WhD has expressed a unable t.o.arrest the singer,even if they tor for the Review. the regents, .one w.ould think that willingness tD design a c.ode in which cDuld subdue him. The security .offi Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) c.onstituti.onal rights would be subor cers did nDthing wr.ong; they just was the body.of c.ompetent pr.ofessi.on dinated in order tD suppress ".offen lacked the equipment and the auth.or als elected by the State .of Michigan tD sive" speech. ity tD d.o what the situati.on demanded. care fDr U-M and the B.oard.of Regents A campus police force w.ould not The proposed campus police fDrce was the grDup.of giddy, power-hun squelch student protests. Rather, ,it would increase the number .of arrest gry 20 year~lds. Anything the regents w.ould prevent such pr.otests fr.om ing.officerson campus while maintain d.o, sh.ort .of transferring the turning int.o violent c.onfr.ontati.ons. ing unarmed security .officers to patrol University's entire General Fund int.o This would be rather difficult t.o d.o the campus. Actual deputized officers the MSA expenditure acc.ount, is .op with our current ' armed security w.ould not be walking ar.ound/gun in posed by MSA. "f.orce" .of two Ann Arbor police .offi hand, looking for tr.ouble. Rather, they Any decisi.on by the regents that is cers. These .officers must n.ot .only c.over w.ould be an.other .opti.on f.or the U-M i the U-M campus, but also other parts Safety Department in extreme cases. Signed opinion essays ' .of Ann Arbor. This pair of crime-fight- Instead .of having t.o radi.o the Ann represent the views of the ers hardly .constitutes effective cam- Arbor .police, wh.o w.oUTd h.opefully author, and not necessarily pussecurityf.orac.ommunity.of40,OOO not be busy writing a speeding ticket those of the Review edito- .o~ even a slow day, let al.one when Dr dealing with a traffic accident, the . . • thmgs get out of hand. , :, $af~typep~rtmeQt co~ld i~i~te.l v I' Vtsnatf~\j:' " "' I.~ ~,enutiJ .J :"*P ' .'"" .0" {'PIl'p-,;p'" '-, ~orc "' t( h( e • ~:. _Ilal board. ~ . _. .__ , ,•• • ;; ~ .:r!'!ru~e.. ~~ urICt!~!~~~~~- ',. " . l!)1.f . Ii "f.Jf .' " t i 'j \ ~ .~ f fl4' 11 t · .f ',' . 5l i, c ._ _ ,....,. ~ ..~_ ..re "~:: ~ :1! ·-!'= """~'~ :-·:!.'--£~' ~~~;~·~~~~~ ·~:"-. ' _ ' ~ 1 .. . , . .. 1 ' " ~~' The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 7 Opinion Are Students Really Conservative? by Chartes R. Kesler Tc>day's undergraduates are too vanguard, however, so don't be sur litical teaching would be laughed out despite its deep and not-so-secret young to remember Barry Goldwater, prised if this issue appears soon, in one of most of today' s philosophy or politi repugnance to many students. President Richard Nixon (they might form or another, in national politics. cal science classes, not because it has Although undergraduates tilted know the new Nixon), the Black Pan Against the radicalism of college been proven wrong, but ~ause it rightward in the 19805, one ought to be thers, the Vietnam War, Watergate, or faculty, abetted by the liberalism of a would be thought meaningless to try to cautious in supposing that the trend even President Jimmy Carter. And yet plurality of their fellow students, con prove it right or wrong. Or take an will continue, because traditional a majority of them and a majority of servatives rebel. The modes of this elementary mo~al issue such as homo- conservatism' S{)wn principles remain voters under 30 years-old supported obscure to students. To some degree George Bush in 1988, even as their this is an effect of their youth: the heri predecessors had helped lift Ronald What distinguishes student conserva tage of conservative thought as well as Reagan to the presidency in 1980 and tives, however, is that every day of the. history of conservative politics is 1984. Absent the historical experiences unknown to them. Friedrich Hayek, that propelled older voters into the their lives they confront an educa Leo Strauss, or James Burnham do not conservative ranks, what is it nowa appear on maIW reading lists. That days that accounts for conservatism tional establishment whose liberalism isn't the students' fault, of course; among undergraduates? it's their educators who need educat The campus is part ofthe nation, of is supercilious and simon.... pure. ing! course, and the same forces that shape the national political opinions affect rebellion are interesting. On one hand, sexuality. To regard it as a vice is now Charles It Kesler is an associate pro the academy. Althoughthe inspiring its predominanf tone is libertarian. thought nofonly impOlite, but boorish fessor of government and Director of developments in EastemEuropeand The academic orthodoxy is· at once and downright, well, "homophobic" (a the Henry Salvatori Center at Clare the apparent decline in the Soviet stifling and prOVOking; the conserva word that makes no sense either in mont McKenna College in Califor threat have taken some of the anti tive students seek, therefore, to be free Greek or English). So the apparent nia. This column was distributed by communist edge off conservatives of the party line, to think and live for acceptance and even celebration of the Collegiate "Network. both in and out of college, the crum themselves. And so they assert, for homosexuality goes unchallenged bling of Marxism-Leninism rema~f.,s 't example, their right to rise or fall on cause for joy and pride. At the same the basis of merit and not racial or time;young pepple are buoyed by the ethnic claSSification; to despise the immense opportunities opened up by countless mind-numbing rituals of the great economic expansion of the "consciousness-raising"; and, not in Attention 19805. Along with the vast majority of cidentally, to make some money and a American voters, they rightly feel place for themselves in society. They grateful to the conservative policies resent the imposition of any opinions President Duderstadt: that have. fostered lower taxes and or dogmas, and are certainly more sustained economic growth. permissive of abortion, to take a salient We are a group of concerned students on this campus. What distinguishes student con issue, than are conservatives in gen We are more powerful than you know The following servatives, however, is that every day eral. of their lives they confront an educa On the other hand, conservative is a list of five "demands" that we insist be met tional establishment whose liberalism undergraduates have at least an ink before we begin the systematic destruction of the is supercilious and Simon-pure. The ling that they can't make it completely public at large, not to mention the on their own. Theyknow they need an Diag Beautification Project: businessmen who serve as college education, a ""ay of seeking and par trustees, have no idea how liberal are ticipating in the larger truths that in 1. That Deane Baker never, ever resign. the faculty of the country's elite liberal form them as human beings and citi arts schools and major research uni zens. Hence the calls for Western civi 2. That August 6th be declared "Deane Baker versities. Faculty opinions are simply lization and Great Books courses echo Day," and dasses be cancelled so that students, off the scale of American politics. Not ing all the way from Dartmouth to faculty, and staff can attend Deane Baker sensi only is it normal to find 70, 80, 90 Stanford~ ·Th.ere is smnething oddly percent of a college's faculty voting in affecting about these requests by tivity~workshops. lockstep for liberal Democrats, but. the bright. students,· eager t~leam some 3. That Deane Baker Lounges be built in all Uni astonishing· fact is that these faculty thing tha~.atlast they can respect. members are· also much more liberal The difficulty is that they don't versity dorms· to' promote Deane Baker discus than Michael Dukakis or Walter Mon know h()wto argue for a more intellec sion. dale. tual, richercUnirulum~ On campus, one proof of thjs is how eagerly intellectUcll discourse is oftens<> im 4" That the Undergraduate Library (1;JgLi) be faculties across the country have voted poverishedthat non-libertarian moral heretofore known as the Deane Baker Library to suppress free speech on campus aM~liti~lC()nserVati~seems mute (PreTl¥). . . whenever it offenas their seIlS1bilities. -atleastpUb'lidy. that God is seldom Even Jesse Jackson would have to mentioned rr.. COl1rse$ or conversation 5. That ACT~UPAnl\ Arbor apologize for their swallow hard before endorsing such (and then usually wi~asmirk) cannot me~h, and spiteful comments directed at Deane measures, but to many faculty mem have escaped anyone whO has spent bers and administrative officials the time in the academy over the past 40 . Baker. protectiol\ofl'free sm<;h codes" is no years.,Ot c0I1sider the Dec1afcition of Paid for by the Deane Baker Support Group. j J ~ j ,~ .i: big deal. ACademic iiUralism is the 'Ihaepenaenc~) wl10M IrMtal"dtfdi~ , t I ). '! ~ ~j , "' I I __~"'''''''' ''''_~'~''''W'',,",\''MaM'''''"'!''';'~~;'''''l''''''''~~W.l't\''''l>~\>.<;~OWMt~n<~~,*\\9r-<; -- -.... ------.,--- -- _._,--'_..- --,---_.------,-----.---.------_ .... -----'------_._._-----._._------_.-----.------.. '------.- . ,.' •• The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 8 Satire .,.. A Beginner's' Lexicon' ~For The U-M by Rahul J. Banta, Adam J. DeVore, mood one day, take a stroll into this such thing as .reverse .racism," they seems to have concluded, with student and John J. Miller numinously cheerful cafe on State mean that minorities are incapable of activists as the losers. These right Street. There you will encounter being racist, not that any prejudice wingdeathsquads, answerable only to To all new students, welcome to the hordes of existentialists wearing based on race is~ regardless of the vic the villainous Deane Baker, plan to University of Michigan (henceforth black, bemoaning the frailty of the tim, equally ignorant. reenact the Kent State massacre every known as U-M). Life in Ann Arbor will human condition and the meaning The Stacks: Lodged deep within day at noon on the Diag. surely be different from where you lessness of existence in general, all the Graduate Library, this puzzling came from, be it a high school or an while nibbling esoteric. pastries and labyrinth makes even Umber to Eco Rahul Banta is a senior in history and other college. One of the things ybu are . sipping coffee, or staring vacantly into cringe, and holdS nearly every book political science and an assistant edi probably worrying about mostis how space. you will ever need, probably located tor for the Review. He thinks he's to acclimate yourself as quickly as The Presidential Mansion: This . on one of the following floors: 2, 2A,2B, cool. Adam DeVore is a sophomore possible and lose the look of a new large white home located on South 2112, 2 Ea~t, 2 South, or 1+1 . in philosophy and Spanish and an ex~ student. The key to successfully taking University (sometimes lovingly called 'Marxist Professors: This jovial ecutive editor for the Review. Trout this profoundly important step . tQ~ the "Dude Ran<:h") i~ that of our af- . bunch of comrades is very well read. don't like him.JohnJ. Miller is this ward complete self-actualization is 'fable president, James Duderstadt. Unfortunately, they have not been month's Review Mascot. learning to decipher certain seemingly During the Winter, he offershbt exposed to anything more recent than obscure phrases around which most chocolate to students on their way to Das Kapital, and therefore have discourse at the U.:..M revolves. The '. class, and on the weekends Jlealways absolutely no knowledge of what Review is therefore proud to offer you has a room and a clean Set of sheets newspapers have been reporting for the following unalphabetizedlexicon, available to students unable to make it more than a year: the death of commu necessary for survival in Ann Arbor home from the bar. nism. and the University community. The Cube: This large black metal Campus Cops: The ongoing debate The shanties: These· structures, structure, located near the Student as to whether the U-M should depu which can be viewed on the Diag, are Activities Building, apparently has no tize a police force (armed and ready) the remnants of a University project to other purpose than to momentarily provide affordable housing in a cen amuse first time visitox:s to theUniver tral,readily accessible location. Unfor sity. In fact, however, it is also used to tunately, due to years of neglect and torture students with vertigo. On the poor .' construction, the vandalized eve of the Michigan-Michigan State shells seen today are the only remnants game, this mysterious object seems to of the once glorious structures ... Occa spontaneously generate a large, green sionally, when one of U-;:M's five-year "s" on each side. This transformation plans runs a surplus, the adn:llnistra has popularly been ascribed toa primi tion decorates them with stimulating tive Mid-Western subculture, but the yet non-inflammatory posters preach true significance is unknown. ing common-sense political modera Shaky Jake: Yet anotherlocal celeb- tion. rity, Jake can oftenbe spotted on North Preacher Mike: A local celebrity, State Street selling postcards and play Mike can often be seen standing on a ing his finely tuned guitar. Next time bench in the Diag. lecturing students you see him, feel .free to introduce SPECIAL BOOK RUSH HOURS about their moral shortcomings while yourself and ask him about any contro Saturday Sept. 1-9:30 am to 5:00 pm combating the many hecklers that in versial topic, from farm subsidies to Sunday Sept. 2-10:00 am to 5:30 pm evitably coagulate around him. AI· theMSA budget. Labor Day, Monday Sept. 3 -1 0:00 am to 5:30 pm though reports . are sketchy, anony The suffix "-ism": This friendly Tues.-Thurs. Sept. 4-6-8:30 am to 8:30 pm mous sources inform us that his con little critter can g~t you lots of attention Friday Sept. 7 -8:30 am to 6:00 pm verts must undergo a baptism in the should you begin to feel homesick or Saturday Sept. 8-9:30 am to 6:00 pm lake on North Campus the morning lonely. All you have to do is select Sunday Sept. 9 -11:00 to 4:00 pm after the first snowfall in December. some arbitrary element of your per Mon.&Tues. Sept. 10 & 11-8:30 am to 8:00 pm MSA: This organization is a CIA sona, add the magical suffix, and claim Wed.&Thurs. Sept. 12 & 13-8:30 am to 7:00 pm front more commonly known as the that a conspiring power structure sys Friday Sept. 14-8:30 am to 5:30 pm Malicious Students Association. It tematicallyoppresses you on a regular Saturday Sept. 15-9:30 am to 5:00 pm works closely with various political basis for sOme nebulous motive. Many -Now Open Sundays 11:00 am to 3:00 pm - student organizations to fund violent have become popular in recent years, destabilization efforts against peace so we suggest you invent some crea loving, democratic governments. ItS tive "-ism"s and maybe even a "_ flag bears an emblem of a mechanical phobia" or two, perhaps based on beer 56YEARS 0 ... ' 'D C3C engineer doling out oil to squeaky preference Oagerphobia) or posture wheels with one hand and money to (slouchism). obnoxious campus orgaruzations with UCAR: This student group's Main Store: 549 E. University UA_:~IIIS Electronics: 1110 S. UniverSity the other. Recently the emblem was acronym is derived from its battle cry, Phone: 313·662·3201 modified so that he . hands out bad "You Conservatives Are Racist!" The Store Hours: M·F 8:30· 5:30 checks, instead. group's reaS()ning is nearly as good as Sat 9:30·5:00 Espresso Royale Cafe: Should you its spelling - to wit, when UCAR MORE TH AN A BOOKSTORE Now Open Sundays 11 ·3 dare to find yourself in a pleasant members proclaim that, "there is no The Michigan R~view, September 1990, p. 9 l' Opinion The Rise of the Tenured Radical by Roger Kimball It is no secret that the academic be educated. After four years they will way we relate to one another as men universities bid against each other in study of the humanities in this country find that they are ignorant of the tradi and women. little-publicized contests. is in a state of crisis. Proponents of tion and that their college education It is precisely for this reason that Nor is the influence of these pro deconstruction, feminist studies, and was largely a form of ideological in the traditional notion of the humanities fessors confined to the present mo other politically motivated challenges doctrination. and the established literary canon have ment. At many prestigious institu to the traditional tenets of humanistic The issues raised by the poli ticiza- been so violently attacked by politi- tions, they are precisely the people study have by now become the domi helping to shape the future by making nant voice in the humanities depart faculty appointments, overseeing pro ments of many of our best colleges and What we see is a thoroughgoing animus motions, and devising the educational· universities. to Western thought and culture.' program in the humanities-efforts at There are, of course, differences self-propagation that virtually assure and even struggles among these vari their continued dominance for another ous groups. But seen from the perspec tion of the humanities have applica caIly correct-thinkIng academics. As generation. tive of the tradition they are seeking to tion far beyond the ivy-colored walls the cultural guardians of the ideals and The truth is that when the children subvert- the tradition of high culture of the academy. The denunciations of values that Western democratic society of the 1960s received their professor embodied in the classics of Western art the "hegemony" of Western culture · has struggled to establishand perpetu ships and deanships, they did not and thought - they exhibit a remark and liberal institutions that are ate, the humanities also form a vast abandon the dream of radical cultural able unity of purpose. Their object is sounded so insistently within our col- . impediment to the radical vision of transformation; they set out to imple nothing less than the destruction of leges and univeisitie~ these days are · their new academic enemies. ment it. Now, instead of attempting to values, methods, and goals of tradi not idle chatter. They represent a con- . The overheated rhetoric and pose destroy our educational institutions tional humanistic study. certed effort to attack the very founda .. of beleaguered defiance that one regu physically, they are subverting them Princeton University's Elaine tions of the society that guarantees the larly encounters in the academy may from within. Showalter, for example, has called for independence of cultural and artistic suggest that those railing against, say, Over the last two decades, what a "eomplete revolution" in the teach life - including the independence of "European dominance" or "white, we have witnessed in American higher ing ofliterafure in order to enfranchise our institutions of higher education, male, WASP hegemony" are isolated education is nothing less than the rise "gender as a fundamental category of Indeed, behind the transforma figures on the margins of academic of a new academic establishment, the literary analysiS." The University of tions contemplated by the proponents . power. Unfortunately, the opposite is establishment of tenured radicals. Pennsylvania's Houston Baker touts of femini~m,deconstruction, and the the case. Far from being a besieged the Black Power movement of ' the rest is a blueprint for a radical social minority, such professors represent Roger Kimball is managing editor of 1960s as a desirable alternative to the transformation that would revolution the new establishment of tenured radi The New Criterion. This column was "White Western" culture he sees en ize every aspect of social ~nd politiCal cals. Often they are among the most distributed by the Collegiate Net shrined in the established literary life, from .the independent place we highly paid professors -,- the profes- work. canon. And Duke University's Fredric grant high culture within society to the . sors for . whose services our leading Jameson propounds a Marxist vision of criticism that promises to "liberate ... us from the empirical object. ~ ' Whatwe see throughout the work of these and many other academics is a thoroughgoing animus to the tradi tional values of Western thought and culture. The institutionalization of the radicaL ethos in the academy has re sulted not only in an increasing.politi cization of the humanities, but also in anincreasing ignorance of the human istic legacy. Instead of reading the . great Works of the past, students watch movies and peruse second- and third rate . works dear to their ideological cohort; instead of , reading widely among primary texts, they absorb abstruse . commentaries, resorting to primary texts only to furnish illustra tions for their pet, critical "theory." Since many professors have been the beneficiaries of the kind of tradi tional education. they have rejected and are denying their students, it is the students themselves who are the real losers in this fiasco. Presumably, they enrolled in a liberal arts curriculum in "You, sir, have been found guilty of racist, sexist, and homophobic speech. the fi.TSt place because they wished to CQme with me for your quick, fair trial and prompt enrollment in a sensitivity workshop!" ~ f~ Ii,~, ·,. ... ~ ~ ~· ~t" i ," '~.,' j~ !o ~~". " fl ~ 4ilAi;M <" · !\ " f, « . , ~" ~~·i , \ ,- jf' l!t ~ ; ,~ , ~ t , t~~fI~~' ,< ~ • L '-.l . j_! The Michigan ~eview, September 1990, p. 10 Interview Dean Banks Plans Curriculum Changes On August 1, Jim Bominski of the in doing that. If you look at the num historical, and economic factors that courses in the evening. When my tour Review interviewed the new College ber of small, high-tech businesses in influence our society. of duty was up I went to Penn State of Engineering dean, Peter Banks. the Ann Arbor area you see that it's I would like to see a program that University and I worked on my Ph.D. Banks, formerly a professor of electri rising rapidly. It went from less than relaxes even more and perhaps en degree, and did research dealing with cal engineering at Stanford Univer 100 a few years ago now to more than courages people who then want to the earth's upper atmosphere. I got my sity, has worked with NASA. His 200 in this immediate area. It's not an become truly proficient in engineering Ph.D. in physics there in 1965. latest project, a satellite tether, is exponential curve, but it's rising much to take a master's degree program and scheduled to be launched with the more than linearly. I think that there is in their undergraduate career 'be REVIEW: How do you feel about a space shuttle in January, 1992. Banks equipped with . large university, like the U-M, with, assumed his role as dean on July 1. courses that relate very big classes and an emphasis on to a broader spec research as opposed to a school that is trum of knowl smaller and has smaller classes, such REVIEW: At Rose Bowl time, will edge that I would as Stanford? your sympathies remain with the Pac expect from a col Ten, or will you support the Big Ten? lege graduate. BANKS: I'm not sure if Stanford's There are schools classes are a lot smaller. There's an BANKS: On this past January 1, I ob who train for economy of scale there and so some of served the Rose Bowl game and my purely technical the basic engineering classes there are youngest son, my wife and I attended. specialty excel on the order of 100 or 150 students. I My youngest son rooted for U.S.c. lence. My feeling don't see, frankly, much difference because he felt he had to support the about people that between the training that an under Pac Ten, my wife was decked out in train that way is graduate student receives at Stanford maize and blue, and I was sitting right that it is very easy and what it would be hereat Michigan, on the neutral fence. It turned out that for them to be I think they're both high quali ty places. the Provost and the President had come dull and The reputation is certainly different at invited us. In fact, I am a football fan, stale in a short the graduate level, largely for histori and I certainly will root for Michigan period of time. cal reasons and because Stanford - I have sat through too many football Unless you emphasizes graduate training and games that are sort of inconclusive krl.OW the basics going one on one with its graduate with the team I've been supporting in well, you lose students. However, the numbers of the past. contact with students per faculty at Stanford even yourfield, which in the graduate division are typically REVIEW: As you take the helm of the changes rapidly. like four to five graduate students per College of Engineering, what do you We'd like to faculty member. Looking through the see as your objectives? avoid that - it departments here it's my impression doesn't serve that's pretty much the same sort of BANKS: This College of Engineering society, it doesn't ratio. So I think that appearances are is a unique place compared with its a role of the university in its training of serve the individual, it doesn't serve deceiving. prime competitors which are M.I.T., its students and encouragement of the the university to train people like that. The College of Engineering is like a Stanford, Cal. Tech., lllinois and in faculty to make an environment that's The tools of knowledge-seeking are small university in its own right. We some areas Carnegie Mellon. Relative conducive to small start-up compa becoming very important. have some 300 faculty, 6000 students, to the other universities, especially the nies. 2000 of whom are graduate students, private universities, we have a tre With respect to the students - this REVIEW: What degrees have you 4000 undergraduate. So I think the fact mendous a~vantage in the youthful is an interesting problem tha tI' ve been received and where did you receive that Michigan has an additional 29 ,000 ness and the vigor of the faculty, and mulling over. I personally would like them? other students.somewhere in the back so it's my hope that within the next five to see a broadening of the academic ground .at the main campus really years Michigan will in fact surpass curriculum for engineers. I'm not sure BANKS: I started at Stanford in 1955 doesn't impact the quality of pro sorne ofour competitors, and that we how to do this because the real will to and I began a typical undergraduate grams. In fact, in terms of the attention will be recognized as being one of the do this comes from the faculty, but I'm electrical engineering (E.E.) program. that U-M students get we are compa best places in the country for young hoping to encourage them. to remove After several years I discovered they rable to other top schools. There is no engineers to corne and be trained. That some of the overspecialized courses had at that time a pr9gram leading place that I'm aware of where students will be valuable to the state of Michi that exist in the college of engineering directly to a five year master's degree, - especially freshmen and sopho gan. and to open those up to more electives and so I switched over into that. I then more students - see really small I'm hoping that some of the young that would permit engineers to ex had a three year tour of duty - I had classes. It just doesn't exist anywhere. engineers trained here will spend plore more of the humanities and s0- been NROTC - and went to the Office more of their careers in Michigan cial sciences and pre-professional of Naval Research in Washington REVIEW: At the end of last year, it rather than diffusing to Massachusetts courses. The goal in doing that is a which was a very exciting place at that seemed that fewer T.A. positions or California. I think that the infusion swi tch in emphasis from training engi time. I decided that in terms of my own were going to be available due to a of bright young students from across neers just to be engineers to a new background I needed morefundamen lack of funding. Is this true, and if so, the country will also benefit the local vision where we're training individu tal knowledge than I had gotten out of how will it impact undergraduate economy by encouragjngyoung start als to be leaders in their profession. I the E.E. program at Stanford. I went to students? up companies. I see that trend devel feel you can't do that byover-speciali the University of Maryland for a oping already. I think the previous zation, but you do it by broadening graduate program in physics, and I BANKS: Each department controls its two deans have done ~ wonderful job and giving an appreciatioflof cultural, spent three years going to various T.A. population. From the top we ~~~~~:-~~~~~&.t:!~::, ·~~"~.-\i"W~~'\:;i*'~··'''''''-%<;~~'IW<'''''}'w~·"I''''''''loJ)''.,,,,, ,,,, '' ''''' ' > '' ' _., The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 11 Banks don't attempt to dictate how many REVIEW: There. has been some- con going to go about that? by legislating it. You can't change it T.A.'s are present in the department. cern about personal attention to engi much by handing out graduate fellow That's a decision by each of the facul neering students, particularly at the BANKS: I don't think I used the word ships. The real problem is motivation ties of those departments. We try to freshman level. Do you have any "recruiting" solely. What I would like and preparation. This may be a symp- . guide them because we don't like to plans for rectifying that situation, to do is create an educational system tom of things that are happening far see large classes being put on the backs maybe along the lines of Stanford's that is sensitive to the needs of minori back in the whole concept of theeduca of T.A.'s. What I suspect is with the advisor system, where every student ties and improves the services it pro tional process. By and large I think that current funding profile that we've has a personal engineering advisor? vides to the students in the program. native-born Americans aren't nearly been given by the main administra Certainly, enhancing the numbers of as convinced of the value of a Ph.D. tion, we'll have slightly fewer T.A.'s. graduate education for their lives as The departments, however, are find are the foreign students. For the for ing other ways to find cost-savings to There are schools that train for purely eign students, it's the key to an impor put money back into the T.A. pool. technical specialty excellence. My feel tant future. I think that many Ameri This is a tight year - there's no can students see this as a lot of hard doubt about it. I'm sure you've read ing about people who train that way is work, and there are alternative profes about the President's worries about sions they can pursue which ha ve even whether the state is doing its fair share that it is very easy for them to become better financial return. I think this is in making a financial contribution· to also a question of su pply and demand. the U-M. It's also a fact that inflation in dull and stale in a short period of time. As U.S. industry in the last five or ten higher educational institutions isa few years is beginning to realize this true, points above the ordinary cost price BANKS: You're talking with one of opportunities for women and minori there have been more programs to take index. As a result of that, we're seeing those, actually. I don't know what the ties is very important. If you look a tthe advantage of the foreign-born Ph.D.' s, a decline in real purchasing power this tensions are here, but let me talk about statistics, they are the ones who are to bring them into their programs, to year in money that we receive. It'snice the benefits of a good advising system. - missing out on the higher educational acculturate them to U.s. customs and to get plotted for six percent more In my case I had seven people who process, and somehow the barriers to expectations and make use of their money, but if your prices have gone up thought they were going to be engi entrance have to be changed. We need skills. This may be part of the melting eight percent and if these are out of neers. I met them at the beginning of to provide the resources to help them pot theory of American society. your control, then you've suffered a the year and formed personal relation to overcome difficulties they encoun What is a danger to this country is if real decline and you have to pull the ships with them. I thought that was ter in the university system. And I those people are here simply to gain belt in. very beneficial. If you look at the think we have an obligation to help the education, to absorb the educa . There isn't a lot of flexibility in number of freshmen we have and the them through job placement and ac tional resources, and then go back to budgets in universities because it's number of facultY, I suspect it would tivities like that. their own countries. There are benefits mostly people you're buying, and be possible to implement a program to that in terms of improving technolo their salaries are fixed one way or the like that to humanize the college to the REVIEW: Statistics show that in the gies and life-styles in those countries, other by historical precedent and they incoming freshmen. U.S., more engineering Ph.D.'s are but it comes at a price to this country. have expectations for their purchasing At Stanford you stay with a particu being granted to foreign national Now, this is a thought experiment power at least being constant in their lar group for a period of time, normally students than U.S. citizens. Do you · - if you reduce the number of foreign careers - hopefully rising as you get two years: By the time students be think there is any way to improve this students through restriction visas, I older. So what happens in a year like come juniors there's relatively little situation? don't see any fprces that would then this is that people receive minimal sal need forthat sort of persona! interac ary raises which are substantially be tion. I have suggested it to various Foreign students ... are working harder low the cost of living. The cost of people here and the other associate equipment has gone up and so we deans that we look into this and there and spending more time on their stopped buying equipment - we will be a task force looking at that stopped replacing laboratory equip possibility. But it takes a year or two to careers than their U.S. counterparts. ment - and we go into some sort of get something like that organized and fiscal hibernation until more funds it does come from a tradition of caring. BANKS: It's a symptom rather than make graduate study more attractive become available to keep up. The long Research universities can be very the disease itself. Strange terms to use, to native-born Americans, and hence term prognosis that I see is that if the told, calloUs places. There's a ten but I know from personal experience we would see a lessening of the num university is unable to convince the dency to emphasize the research at the that the foreign s.tudents by and large ber of these highly te<;:hnically trained state of the value of the educational far end.It's like a sausage factory - are better prepared when they enter people. That would just be a net loss to enterprise you will inevitably see con people pay more attention to what's graduate school through theiruniver the system. A better way for U.s. in traction taking place in the college. coming out of the sausage factory than sities, and that includes those who dustry to apP,roach the'problem is to This will be not directed at any particu what's going into the sausage factory. have gone tQ Americanuniversjties bring these people into their programs lar segment like T.A.'s, but there will And in fact; quality's determined by and foreign .universities. ' They . are and to make attractive life-time ca be a decrease in the number of faculty, how much attention you pay to the working harder and spending more reers in this country . This problem also a decrease in the equipment pur whole process. Across the country, time on their careers than their U.s. raises a lot of patriotic feeling - there chases, there will be a decrease in however, there is a renewed, vigorous counterparts: is emotion behind it. But I think you T.A.'s. Everything will pretty much interest in undergraduate education. I In addition there's another selec have to strip that emotion away and contract in proportion to the under absolutely share i~ that. There will tion process that exacerbates the situ look for the fundamental causes, and funding that comes from the central probably be important changes made ation, which is that the U.S. students· somehow attack those rather than put administration. in undergraduate educational pro don't value the Ph.D. degree as highly band-aids on a particular result. grams we have here. as it is valued by the foreign students. I know you're concerned about .. , As a consequence there is an attrition T.A.'s in particular because those re REVIEW: You've told a number of of U.s. students away from the pro late to an aspect of the quality of teach publications that you'd like to focus grams. You have to interpret this re ing, but I don't expect that there's on recruiting minorities. Do you have sult. Is that good or is that bad? In a going to be a dramatic shortage. any · specific plans on how you're sense,H's a reality. You can't change it , .. ~ .~ . ->.IIt~) "'l'\ 'T't.~M:_L: n~' ~&...... L~ 1nno· 1", ',' ., "~ .' '' ' ..' - ...... - .- ...•• ·· ~ · tn: " lUHgan-~Vlewr~~'"~J:.~·7>iI' r · p.""'~ · . · - "'.. ~ .... '" .... ~. -- ...... ,.. ... "...... ,. ,,, .. _... -'...... _. Campus Affairs Observations of a Shanty-Watcher by Joseph Klein Incoming students at the Univer- portive of the terrorist Palestine Lib- American flag painted on the side was ''They must have used crowbars or sity of Michigan are barraged with a eration Organization. too tempting for campus vandals to something," said a student involved in range of activities that boggle the The Coalition for Democracy in ignore, and the shanty was demolished the construction of at least two campus mind. And, no matter how strange the Latin America (CDLA) built a tiny no less than four times during the week shanties. "That shanty was really activity, there is someone who wants church to protest the oppression of it existed. tough." to try it. religion in Nicaragua when it was Shanty building is no exception. under Sandanista rule. While it is Somewhere in the freshman class there debatable whether or not anyone's is a kid who has dreamt of building opinion was changed by the shanties, shanties ever since orientation. As an . a lot of people gained respect for the amateur shanty-watcher, I thought I CDLA's carpentry skills. !.~ could offer my observations. TAGAR, . a pro-Israel student The shanties are an integral part of group, demonstrated their craftsman- . campus, no less noteworthy than the ship with a model school bus designed Undergraduate Library or Dooley'S. to remind ·the campus of a terror,ist The embattled wooden warriors have atta~ on. .Israeli schoolchildten. The · stood vigilant at the front lines ofPSC .responded by writing on its campus debate for years, both as a sh~tythenamesofPalestinianskil1ed : medium of debate and a subject of during the occupation of the West ' debate themselves. Even the anti- Bank and by calling the TAGAR shanty camp gave in and built a shanty members racist. last April. My vote for most amusing shanty The first of the shanties was built to would go to one that allegedly sup- spur divestment of U-M funds in- ported the Irish Republican Army, al- vested in South Africa and to show though such slogans as "Go Green" solidarity with the African National and "Skate for the I.R.A." seemed to Congress. Sure eno~gh, the U-M di- suggest that even if the shanty had vested in just a few short years. The originally been built by actual sons and shanty, however, remained in place- daughters of Ireland, the skate punks this time to protest racism or apartheid claimed it soon after its construction. or whatever United Coalition Against Other great shanty moments in- The short lived "God Bless America Shanty" was loved by all. Racism was most fed up with at that clude4briefappearances by a conser- Shanty destruction has certainly The shanty controversy last year moment. vative "anti:"'shanty" shanty and a . not been confined to right-wing shan took a new twist when Regent Thomas It did not take much time for other shantv-stvle structure called the "free- ties, however. Apparently, some Roach called the shanties eyesores and _c .... ••'• • , .... ,, " ¥ . .. " • .) L '- .J .• :, ·l, ~~~"%~~~.... ~~~~~~--.",------ c- C - ,------~~-#"_ 'The Michigan ReView,'5eptemberl990,'p. 13- ACT-UP Continued From Page 1 ~, list was carelessly slapped together, as AAPD for kissing in a car at a public "KISSING" flyer, that he had heard a mouche, though, would have none of some of the requested services are al park. The flyer announced the time rumor that over the weekend two teen it. ready in existence. In a letter to the and place of the very rally for which I age gay males had been arrested in He took back the bullhorn and re- Michigan Daily, Patricia Bach, a mem was headed, and urged people's atten Ann Arborfor kissing in a parked car . claimed his position on top of the elec ber of the Lesbian and Gay Rights dance. It did not make any references at a public park, and summarily de trical box when the next speaker had Organizing Committee (LaGROc), to ACf-UP and did not appear to be nounced the AAPD as a racist, homo finished. "Direct your attention to chastised ACT-UP fornot doing "their the prod uct of any particular organiza phobic, oppressive institution. wards the gentlemen standing over homework before acting up and mak tion. This assertion seemed to be noth-· there with the salmon colored hand ing demands of the University's ad When I arrived at City Hall, I· ing more than rhetoric coming from an bills," he said. The crowd responded ministration." She stated that U-M has found reporters· from C:hannel 2 of agitator. I spoke with Lieutenant obligingly. He then told them that I had a "non-moralistic, non-heter Detroit, the Ann Arbor News and the Miller of the AAPD before the rally, represented a group called "People for osexist," safer sex program which dis Daily present. I gave each of them my and he told me that no such arrests a Traditional Society, which translates tributes free condoms and instructions handbill, and explained my purpose to occurred in Ann Arbor. into racists for the oppression of gays on how to use them. them. Only the News ran a story of the In any event, the rally was pro and discrimination!" Second, many of the demands had rally and my presence there. The Daily ceeding as I had expected, and I was The qowd booed vociferously nothing to do with AIDS. What link printed a picture of one of the"Adrian becoming extremely bored, when and moved towards me. Carmouche could possibly exist between AIDS 16" with a caption, but no story, and Somebody, holding one of my distinc then told them to let me know what and abortion or an age of consent law Channel 2 did not report the rally. tive salmon.-coloredhand-biUs and they thought of both me and my flyer. regarding minors? The protest drew about 75 partici- looking quite angry, saw me standing I was now being approached by a good Third, several of these demands portion of the crowd. Some people were aimed at institutions that had not Students fvr a' Traditional Lifestule -crumpled up my flyers and threw them at me. I was treated to a barrage participated in -' anti-gay behavior. An Open Letter of statements such as "Bigot go home!" ACT -UP was protesting sting s,." •• ,. lor 41 Tr"'U~/II4I1 Lil•• "l. recoloi". each penoo', rilhl 10 choose and acl upoo his or ber own CODceptl of sexual o~Wioo. We do 001 promote lesbian/SlY diac:rimioatioo. We and ''Booo!'', as well as many other operations which occurred in Clark are .ppalled. bowever. by Act-Up', tactics of violatinC II.lllu:.L civil riPta. We funher oppose ston, Adrian, and Holland, but they govemmCllt and/or public sub.idizatioo of pro-g.y/leshianpropag.Dda, We allowiah to gutter expletives (which I won't repeat lotellectually cb*lleage Act-Up', lacredible usertloas and "Demands". and to briag • bener focus were planning to hold a protest at Ann to the scatter·shot issues and topics whicb Act-Up raises. here). Arbor's Police Station, as if the Ann I responded by stating the proper Arbor Police Department .(AAPD) Why should the citizens of the State of Michigan and Washtenaw county. as well as the name of my "group" (a ruse, of students of the University of Michigan pay for free AIDS treatment. fru condoms. fret were guilty by association. In addi abortions on demand. publicly funded gay/lesbian/youth "community centers" (i.e .• course), and told them that if they tion, the flyer implied that the U-M "propaganda centers"). and grossly out of proportion AIDS research on campus? Why would actually read my handbill, they was plagued by institutional radsm does Act· Up demand that such centers not be under any form of legitimate public. would get an idea of my positions. I supervision? because it does not spend the exact was shouted down. dollar amount ACf-UP would like to w'lly doe~ A!;t-Up attempt to blur the real issues (personal choices which have As I stood there, watching my lit see spent on AIDS or homosexual-re resulted in the spread andcoiltraction 'or AiD~) ':¥ir!l diversions into mass societal erature being destroyed, enduring accusations of racial discrimination. excursions into the abortion issue. and 5c::cr::lized surely have been labeled lated projects. attacks on the status quo? Why does Act-Up attempt to place the blame for. the what would I decided to rebut the specific as spread of AIDS upon the Reagan administration? The Reagan administration did "verbal assault" had our positions sertions and demands of ACT-UP's more to prevent AIDS-. through advocacy of traditional sexuality, drug-free lifestyles, been reversed, and being prevented handbill with a handbill of my own, and personal morality. than any other public entity. from voicing my opinions in a public Why does Act·Up think that the citizens of the United States, the oyerwhelmlng and distribute it at the rally. I planned majQrity of whom live a traditional. Judeo-Christian, heterosexual lifestyle. should pay forum, the hypoCrisy of the whole to seek out the leader of the Ann Arbor (via taxes) for more research into a disease which can only be transmitted through charade really sunk in. Carmouche chapter, give him or her my flyer, and voluntary behaviors and chosen irresponsibility? Act-Up members need to realize singled me out and accused me of that the sjuificant majority of Americans support anti-sodomy laws. laws which ask the group to respond to my criti protect public places (rest stops) from being turned into gay bath houses. and the "harassing" the crowd when in fact I cisms in a future handbill orinan essay vigorous enforcemeh( of these laws. was only doing what other individuals in some periodical. I also wanted to were doing: passing out handbills. Why does Act-Up blame society for a situation which is avoidable through personal give my position statement to any choices? While not a "gay· disease. we all understand that the initial spread of the ACf-UPapparently uses different members of the media in attendance so AIDS virus was facilitated by mass irresponsibility on the part of the homosexual standards to determine what consti that they could report the existence of community. Why does Act-Up attempt to link responsibility for the spread of AIDS to tutes harassment of white, heterosex a dissenting voice. people and organizations who have played no pan in it? Each member of Act-Up ual males. would do well to concentrate on personal health issues and helping to teach the young I compiled information on a hand people of this nation that whatever sexual orientation one chooses. a' few simple Atthis point, Lieutenant Mil!er ap bill, presenting it as a rebuttal from a precautions can prevent the ~pread of AIDS. proached me and said that he thought student organization called "Students Shlm" for. T,1UIitiMoId LifutfJI. -. to ~ the IIIOjority'l _ when ill.-inYOlviftg py/loablla "ripIa" and/or I would be wise to leave as soon as for a Traditional Lifestyle". I had it anesa-1Dfringe upo!I our ftealom to ~ ""'""'- and be .,..,., in 1OdoIy. ShlMa" for • T,Mitiofutl UfatrI. .... possible. I felt inclined to agree with to add • "'*'" to the _ inYOlvinS -' orientali"" and ill impKt on IepIation, taxeI, public aaNIy. IDIIiia ...... ,. and dviI printed up on nice salmon colored fiShta- him, as multitudes of leather clad, Vil paper (yellow and pumpkin were One of the "Students for a Traditional Lifestyle" flyers that was distributed. lage People-looking individuals were unavailable), and on the evening of curling their lips at me and generally Monday, August 6, I dropped my wife pants. Some came with signs, and on the outskirts of the crowd. appearing as if they would enjoy util- off at work and headed to the protest, several were handing out handbills of This person pointed meout to Car- izing the various gadgets which they posting my handbill next to those of their own. The first speaker, a gentle-- mouche, who then made his way over carried (whips, spiked leather gloves, ACT-UP on kiosks along the way. man named Paul Carmouche, the tome.HeaskedmeifIwasresponsible etc.) to inflict pain on my body. I As I headed through the Diag I same person who led a previous rally for the salmon-colored handbill, and I walked to the front of the police station could not help but notice that on the on the Diag which "demanded" U-M told him that yes, I was. Carmouche and watched the rally for a few more sidewalk, taped to lamp posts, and Regent Deane Baker's resignation, became visibly upset. He told me that minutes before leaving. plastered on every kiosk in sight were stood on top of an eletttrical box and he thought I was "harassing" people So what of it? In solidarity with it's pink handbills. The headline on these began to address the crowd; and that I should leave. I told him that brother or sister organiutions in New read "KISSING ISN'T A CRIME, BUT Carmouche denounced the police I was not harassing people, and that I York and San Francis-eo, ACT-UP Ann THE AAPD THINKS IT IS", and stated departments respo-.sible for the al:' only sought to distribute my material, Arbor demonstrated that it really isn't that over tIle weekend two gay mate leged "sting" operations. tFfe'sai'd}li)' as ~vera1'dther -people/from Severar~'~' '. '- { ".j 1,' r. ll:'(',:; \. c, •. ,.', '" teenagers had been arrested by the apparently in reference to the pink other organizations were doing. Car- Please See Page 15 __ .... "._~ I - .,-""",-" ..~ ~"" ...~",,,,,,-,- " ------ The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 14 Opinion Boycott Marijuana by Tom Blnkow I have some doubt as to the logic of includes bombings, terrorism, and a cial1y when dealing with a black mar consumers having a moral responsi boycotting any product. Is this really virtual war on the people and legiti ket item. When I go into Meijer's and bilityin the marketplace, thenitis hard the most effective way of punishing mate government of Columbia. buy a can of government-approved to escape the fact that buying mari~ and deterring abuse of the public by , Although marijuana is not as lucra Campbell's soup, I have very little idea juana (or any illegal drug, for that producers? I do not oppose the prac tive as cocaine, it is still a big business: exactly where the can has been or matter) is an irresponsible use of tice in general, however, because even tens of billions of dollars of marijuana where my mon~y is going, except into money. Not because it is unhealthy. if it is not optimal, it still has some of are sold worldwide every year.Mari a Meijer's cash register for the time Not because it is illegal. Not because the desired effects on the people tar juana comes primarily from Mexico, being. your parents told you. geted. whiCh produ,ces about 80% of the One common point of contention in If you ignore all that, aI.'d hold every Controversy involving mari marijuana producers and sellers to the Marijuana traffickers', networks" while juana is that we would not have these same standards as every other busi " . ." "-' " problems if marijuana were simply ness in the world, they obviously fail. less pervasive, are jusJ a~ . v;~olel1:t as legalized. Therefore, the problems are What if the Coca-Cola Company de 'the responsibility of t,he government, cided to start killing people who did cocaine' traffiCKing networks. " . npt the consumer. This.is a good point, not like New Coke? What is it. about but it is irrelevant in this case. Because marijuana producers and sellers that Enforcing or expressing moral world's,outp,ut, ~ut also from ot~er , ' of the current state of the, drug trade, we give them so much leeway? How views through the marketplace Latit;\ Arriericim regions and even consumers have the power ,to aid or many people they have killed? Hun operates on the premise that consum homegrowersin the state of Michigan. obstruct the commission of many seri- dreds? Thousands? ers have not only an economic but a A~you read this, a portion of the ous crimes by buying or nothuying A single murder ,makes the choice moral responsibility when choosing money being, spent on marijuana by marijuana. The responsibility of the clear for me: boycott marijuana. where to spend their money. For those University of Michigan students will consumer to use this power in it consci- whoacceptthis premise,lhavea prod- , eventuaUybein the hands of people at entious fashion remains. ' Tom Binkow is a senior in English uct to add to the list of things to boy every stage of the distribution process. So, if one accepts the, n1'O"";= and a staff writer for the Review. cott: marijuana. Some of this money will be used to ' The money people spend on mari finance violent crimes - torture, juana is transferred, through the mar bombings, murder - in locales from ketplace, ,to persons and causes that Bolivia to Detroit. This same money is are even more despicable than racists also the motivation for most of these and apartheid in South Africa. Money crimes, a fact equally important. from the f>urchase of marijuana gt!6- Of course; noTeveryone involved in toward murder, torture, and the cycle marijuana trafficking is a morally of poverty and rule of criminals in awful persan, nor does all of the places such as Latin America and even money spent on the drug get into these our own cities . organizations. Some just goes to small . Health risks are not a factor in this growers who have no connection with proposal; it is debatable whether the the huge networks. public has any right to allow its,staTi Thepointof proposing this boycott, dard of a worthwhile health risk to in however, is not to vilify everyope in fringe upon the free choice of the indi volved with the drug. The point is to vidual consumer (though those who show that some of the money spent on attack the tobacco companies for pro marijuanacioes indeed , finance and ~ viding a health risk to the public ought motivate destructive and indefensible to consider this argument, too). crimes. If the premise of moral respon Rathert this boycott is called ,on less sibility inth~ , marketplace is accepted, assailable grounds. then marijuana would seem to be an Marijuana traffickers operate in item worthy of a boycott. organizations similar to cocaine distri Therearewmeobviousarguments , • butionnetworks, according to the that can t,e made against this proposal,' Dn1g Enfors:ement AgenCytsSpecial i~chiding: : uWhat abo~t ~ople who ' Agenf Johnny O. Granados. lie also needrnaiijuana for health reasOns?" Order your college ring'NOW. affirmed that marijuana ', trilUicl The Michigap Rey~,ew,,~p!emger 1~90,p. ,15 Campus Affairs Racial SegregatitJhi Dirides Greeks by Vincent DeSantis U ni versi ties across the country are minorities only to relieve the racial students at this university. Because of Most black sororities and.fraternjties experiencing racism that is prevalent tension or to prevent themselves ,from this, according to one member 'of do not have the economic means or the not only in the general student body being called racist. Kappa Alpha. Psi, ''The blacks on membership to afford houses where but also in the Greek System. At the According to Barbara'Robinson of campus naturally feel more comfort they car\. hold rush. They must rent University of Michigan the Greek sys Minority Student Services, many able associating with the black Greeks rooms at the Union, but that would be tem is segregated to the extent that blacks Who join predominantly white and becoming members because many very expensi ve if they were to take part black and white Greek systems are houses are shunned' by other blacks of the members went to the same high in formal fall rush along with the completely separate entities. Al because they are perceived as "slap school. In this respett ,it is the Panhellenic groups. though the relationship between the ping the black community in the face." University's fault that the Greek sys- In both systems houses are two Greek systems is not antagonistic, committed to philanthropic activities. it remains a microcosm of the separa The fac~ that many predominantly JOint philanthropic activities have had tion of blacks and whites in society as a mixed success. P.A.S.5. (Pepper and whole. white houses have a small sampling':of Salt Shaker), an organization which There are fundamental differences seeks to promote racial understanding between black and white fraternitIes. people ()fcolor has led to accusations hf bet,ween black and white Greeks, held To a certain degree the separation is to kenislll . . a car wash last spring that raised about defined by cultural variations. Each a thousand dollars for a local charity. system operates by different goals, There are societa1ptessures that dic tem is segregated. The University Many individuals in the Greek sys objectives, mottos and traditions. tate that blacks owe it to themselves to must recruit black students from other tems feel that such joint philanthropic White fraternities were founded pri- . identify with their culture. If joining a schools." events are a step in the right-direction, marily at southern universities to pro white house prevents this self discov One cannot overlook such~ envi but others feel that the events are only mote the virtues of scholastics, honor, ery, the person is held in contempt. As ronmental factors. If an individual staged to satiate the racial conscience courage, and truth. Black fraternities one black member in it predominantly grew up in a predominantly black or of those who participate. were formed at the tum of the century white house said, "It is sometimes dif white area, he is more likely to identify Greg Keegstra, organizer of last to counter the exclusionary policies the ficult being a member of a white house and to feel comfortable with members spring's car wash, feels that people white majority fostered, to help the because you catch a lot of flak from the of his own race. Indeed, such volun may have gotten the wrong idea about community through service, and pro black community." tary self-segregation is painfully obvi the activity. ''We weren't trying to mote achievement in all endeavors. Robinson believes that it is wrong ous even in the first week of school. make a huge social statement. We were One of the prominent reasons for for member.s of the black greek system One only has to walk around a dormi just trying to do something with the separation is that, until relatively to scorn a black who joins a white tory cafeteria to see the self-exclusion houses we don't usually do anything recently, blacks and other minorities house. She instead stresses individual by blacks and whites. with." Keegstra hopes that next year were not allowed in white fraternities. ity. She said, "If a black person be According to Mary Beth Seiler of more houses from both greek systems Now, many predominantly white comes a brother of a whi te house and is the Panhellenic Association, the rela will participate. houses have member that are minori happy with his decision that's fine, tionship between the Black Greek Desegregation is not high on ei ties. But according to Michael however, he should never be denied Association and Panhellenic is not ther Greek system's agenda. The sys McDaniel, a member of Kappa Alpha the possibility of becoming a brother in antagonistic, but she does concede that tem has been defined and there have Psi, "The racism in the past has a lot to any white house." the separation is unusual. Most uni been no audible calls to change that do with how blacks and whites per But cultural variations and exclu versities have only one Greek govern system. Perhaps in the future members ceive the Greek system now." sionary policies are not the only cause ing body and one fall rush. Seiler feels of both greek systems can come to a The fact that many predominantly of segregation in the Greek system. that if Panhellenic were to specifically sincere understanding for the benefit white houses have a small sampling of Self-exclusion is also a factor. Many target women during rush, it would of all. people of color has led to accusations members ofthe black Greek system have an adverse affect on the black Vincent DeSantis is a senior in eco of tokenism. Two years ago Rollie come from two Detroit high schools, sororities, making their rush smaller. nomics and a staff writer for the Re Hudson, a Michigan Daily staff writer, Cass Tech and Renaissance, the alma Robinson believes that another view. wrote that white houses initiate token maters ()f nearly 70 per cent of the black factor for the separation is economic. ACT-UP Continued From Page 13 In retrospect it seems as though I tices of biblical proportions. . the group planned to do these things. I accomplished two of my goals. First, I Second, I proved to myself, and even invited the group to respond on interested in a dialogue over the very successfully represented a dissenting hopefully to some others who have not the pages of the Review. I was told that issues which they themselves raise. voice for traditional values at the rally. yetformed an opinion, that ACT-UP is no one person could speak for ACT They further demonstrated that they Groups like ACT-UP need to be chal- not the organjzed, universally open- UP, but I was free to address my ques aren't interested in working out solu- lenged and criticized. When they make minded and liberal group it purports tions to the group as a whole at one of tions. ACT-UP Ann Arbor, appar- statements about Ann Arbor and the to be. Rather, it reacts with hostility their open meetings (held weekly at ently, is only interested in operating U-M being bastions of homophobic, toward anyone who questions any of the Michigan Union). Based upon my within a system which allows it to sexually repressed, bigoted, power- its credenda. experiences of Monday, August 6 at espouse, uninterrupted and unchal- hungry white males, it hurts all of us. My third goal, getting ACT-UP to Ann Arbor City Hall, I think I'll pass on lenged,itsparticularviews. (Aslmade The Ann Arbor News and the Daily are engage in a rational dialogue and to the invitation. my way through the Diag the next only too happy t~ssist in fostering hck IIp its demands withexplana- morning, every one of my flyers had these unfair characterizations by pre- tions, has not been metas of this writ- Jeff Muir is a sophomore in political been taken down, and by' some odd senting groups like ACT'::'UP as re- ing. I had a very cordial conversation science .and a staff writer for the Re- coincidence, a new AQ'-UP flyer was sponsible citizens seeking to enlighten with a member of ACT-UP several .view. rq'sted dose by). • ,'_~,t ' • the uninf ~~, sS¢$~avout in' s- _j·'daysj~fl¢t:-:'fhetall~Val)lq·t·as1-¢dhi'mif ':f,' t. ,,~, (,", i [ ~"",' " t .i, \ ' .. i !, l ~J{';i\:1i.t q1~:·t'1fiDt~'J J'" JU~'I':-o<) :r/fT''i,jJ)I,1 .• rr~h·!tf,t',; 'J)' '1h ':,·. ..,jl~~ ('~.l :11L,.b:J:I?~~j €.1 iUt:! ~;\! "'-'~----,,:;;,:;,,;;;,,:;,-=,=-,,:"'::':-;:=;;;;;;;;;;..:..:::.::...~..:~~=.:;.;::.;;==,::,=,,::,:.:_-:_~.;_-J" ,~, ~'r:~~;.: ' . ~, :~,::::.-==:;::':":~:~"':::~:~=:::::::~:'~;;; ij>" •• ,.~~\, ~,- - :~".--~-~ , •• - • , .:"':: ~'.... < ,;,.. , ,, -~;~--.-- , - , . ,, ~.,,.--.,,. -"", ..... " ',.:. ':. " .', , The Michigan Review, Sept~mber 1990, p. 16 Arts: Book Review ACold)War Hero's Swan Song In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Reagan's foreign policy regarding the ized. Nixon seems to wander from one deep regret for what he perceives to be Defeat,·altd Renewal SovietUruon as well as the "Nuclear category to the next with no sense of his "final legacy" to the Republican Richard Nixon Freezeniks" should read In the Arena. direction. When he writes at length party - Watergate. Simon and Schuster Nixon's ideas on foreign policy and i · . • But Watergate was not Nixon's Hardcover, $22.95 the Cold War and Eastern Europe are final legacy to either the Republican 384 pp. quite enlightening. party or the conservative movement. The book also gives the reader an His books on the Cold War and foreign by Jeff Muir interesting perspective of Bush's policy, five of which were written in Towards the end of In the Arena, China policy (Bush was appointed by the 1980s, pointed out to the general Richard Nixon advises elderly mem Nixon to be the first U.s. Envoy to public (before it became fashionable) bers of Congress to be like former base mainland China). Nixon offers solid, the inherent failures of Marxism and ball star Ted Williams, "who retired tangible; and reasonable ideas and the inherent superiority of the "Peace when he was still good but past his explanations regarding our relations through Strength" doctrine. prime and who hit a home run his last with China that dwarf the popular Which leads to what is undoubt time at bat." Whether he planned itthis press' shallow and misleading "Tian edly the central theme of In the Arena: way or not, one cannot help but to anmen Square" rhetoric, which both Defeat and Renewal. Nixon is emo think of both Nixon and his new book exploits and trivializes the entire is tional, but never bi tter, when discuss in these terms. sue. ing his many defeats, and confident, as Part of In the Arena is certainly a He mentions that "many have, well as uplifting, when discussing his memoir. Part of it is a sort of 'how-to' wrongly concluded that a night of many renewals and triumphs. book of politics. But mostly, it is a brutal repression in Tiananmen Even while Nixon is "wandering" typically excellent Nixon treatise on , Square wiped away a decade of of through discussions about such seem the current state of domestic, national progressive reforms in ChiI1a.'~ He. inglyirrelevant topics as exercise or his security, international, and geopoliti draws a contrast between the press' about his kids, his wife, or his favorite fifth grade grammar teacher, he al cal affairs. Although a rather strange selective focus regarding this "one forms of exercise, his words become ways seems to bring the focus back to book, when considered in its totality night of brutality" and its perpetual bogged down in boring banalities that either defeat or renewal. He then and in relation to his other works,In the "fawning" over Gorbachev, despite would probably only appeal to the weaves together these two broad ideas Arena is certainly home run material. the paltry nature of his reforms as National Enquirt;r or People magazine with the more domestic outcomes that When writing about foreign pol- compared to those of Deng Xiaoping. crowd: "I quit golf ten years ago. It was effected his later political life. In this a hard decision, because I enjoyed the way, Nixon succeeds in bringing a game. It combines physical exercise, broad sense of organization to a book Given all that has been writen and said stimulating competition, and warm which covers very expansive territory. about Richard Nixon over the years, companionship." Given all that has been written and When writing about such domes said about Richard Nixon over the getting his views and positions on a tic topics, Nixon seems uncharacteris years, getting his views and positions tic, and even silly. At one point he on a cornucopia of topics makes for cornucopia of topics makes for interest waxes philosophical about illness and interesting and often hilarious health"A healthy vegetable is still a reading. In the Arena also offers frank ing and often hilarious reading. vegetable." discussion about some of the most His treatment of the Watergate crucial issues that the U.s. has faced, icy, the state of. conservatism, the As Nixon so eloquently stated in 1999: issue is both interesting and informa both historically and currently. With philosophical foundations of the Victory Without War, "What Gor tive. Unfortunately, when many today's ever changing geopolitical Constitution, and politics in general, bachev so far only dreams, Deng people think of Nixon, they link his situation, the book is highly recom -'...",;"," Nixon is fantastic. Again, Nixon does." name, almost exclusively, to what was mended to anyone with an interest in proves he is one of the world's bright The book's organization is rather effecti vely a third ra te burglary carried these areas. est and most articulate thinkers on strange, as the three categories that are out by an underling's underling. He Jeff Muir is a sophomore in political these subjects. prevalent throughout the work (do succinctly admits that he handled science and a staff writer for the Re A good portion of In the Arena mestic politics, geopolitics, and mem Watergate wrong from beginning to view. concerns the Vietnam War, which oir) are not clearly defined or organ- end. At one point, he expresses his Nixon handles with both precision and authority. He points out to the Jane Fondas of the world that although the fighting was brutal, and although the administration of the war was less Sick of Free Verse? Read 'the Formalist than perfect, the fact remains that after the U.s. withdrawal, nearly 3 million Ask a student to read a contempo etry written in traditional, metrical discover a new- found delight in the people in the region were slaughtered rary poem and interpret it. He will forms, dedicates itself to fighting these nearly lost art of verse. by the communist governments which probably cringe and look for a place disturbing trends. Edited by thedistin Single issues are available for $6.50, subsequently came to power. to hide. This, however, is not surpris guished William Baer, the first issue and a one-year (two issue) subscrip But foreign policy has always been ing considering modern poetry's included contributioos from Puli tzer tion costs $12. Write The Forma list at Nixon's stock- in-trade, and the sec obsession with free verse and obscu Prizewinners, the two most recent U.s. 525 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansvi ll e, tionsin this book that deal with current rity. Poet Laureates, and even a seventh IN 47714 for more in formation regard foreign policy are, not surprisingly, The Fo nnalist, a journal of new po- grader. All who read The Fannalist will ing subscripti ons and submissions. the best. Those who opposed President .-'" _.·r, The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 17 Arts: Book Review ~ P.J. O'Rourke: J:h~ :New,,~QCClrthy? The New Enemies List which appeared in the October and and the Ann Arbor Communist Les castigates people who classify certain Complied by P. J. O'Rourke November issues of the Spectator. The bianFood Co-op (wh~tever the hell minorities as "Native American." He The American Spectator result became "a lovely file on the that is). One bold reader from Des comments, "What am If a potted plant? Paperback, $4.95 ideologically sinister, a fine, big ma Plaines, lllinois does not want to take I was born and reared in Texas." 66 pgs. tricula of scum." any chances: he suggests the entire City A gentleman from Los Angeles The New Enemies List isa revised of Ann Arbor be eliminated. yearns to expunge the Detroit Pistons, by John J. Miller compilation of the articles and lists Random entries include David Fans of the Motor City Madmen, After carefully monitoring Ameri printed in the Spectator, and includes Duke, Louis Farrakhan, and educators however, are encouraged to pity this can cultural trends with the precision many contributors who eagerly black who use the term "Eurocetltric." The poor soul, as he submitted his list of a government-funded researcher list hundreds of groups and individu most interesting submissions, how sometime after the Pistons swept his studying anal-retentive behavior, als. Although some of those men ever, demonstrate an observant eye hometown Lakers in the 1989 NBA conservative humorist P. J. O'Rourke tioned are not as descrving as others, and a sharp wit. Championship, but well before the decided the 1990s are going to be a lot this small, paperback booklet is, for One reader from New York scolds Lakers dropped four of five games to like the 1950s. Of course, one of the the most part, a very thorough attack Nationnl Geographic, claiming "Every the Phoenix Suns in last spring's West most endearing features of that by upon those who would undermine the 2-3 months (the magazine shows) usa ern Conference Semi-Finals. gone era was the communist witch glories of Western Civiliza tion. 'People's Republic' country withsmil- The New Enemies List is great fun. hUnts inspired by Sen. Joseph Mc Surprisingly, the most vilified ing peasants and citizens." . Most well-balanced individuals who Carthy .of Wisconsin. If our young enemy is "neither the Hymietown A resident of New Jersey reviles come from good homes will agree with decade even hopes to mimic the 19505, Rhymer nor In-:the-Drink Eddie," but lawyers: "Theantichristwill havea law the vast majority of selections, al it will need an updated version of the Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio). degree, of this I am certain." though nearly everyone will protest Red Scare. Not to be outdone, however, An honorable citizen of Connecti some of the nominations. (One heretic So O'Rourke penned an article for Metzenba~m's friends north of the cut scorns "Rock groups that take up even dared to name Bo Schembechler.) the July, 1989 American Spectator call border are well represented. Among left-wing politics under the mistaken Perhaps the best part of the book is ing for a New McCarthyism. "There the entries from Michigan are Gov. idea that they have something to con the last section, entitled "Your Own are more fuzzy-minded one-world James Blanchard, Lt. Gov. Martha tribute to society besides a driving Personal List of Enemies," which in ers, pasty-faced peace creeps, and Griffiths, both sen~tors, 4 representa backbeat and three chord progres cludes three pages of lined paper bleeding-heart bed-wetters in Amer tives, and Detroit Mayor Coleman sions." Might I add to the list music ready for listing. A final note encour ica now than there ever were in 1954," Young. critics who actually listen to Bono, ages further submissions and prom he proclaimed. And, as he enthusiasti Elements of the University of Sting, Michael Stipe, and the other ises an "Enemies List Update," in the cally noted, "the fun part of McCarthy Michigan are frequently cited as ob PUI:veyors of Pretension? future. After all, we've got to be thor ism is, as it always was, making out the jects of derision, such as pea-brained A married couple from Indiana ough. enemies list." U-M alum Tom Hayden, former U-M chastises" Anyone who refers to 'the With this in mind, he launched professor Ali Mazrui, the (so-called) movement' and is not talking about John J. Miller is a junior in English into his own enemies list and urged his United Coalition Against Racism, the bodily functions." and ·editor-in-chief of the Review. readers to submit additional entries, editorial staff of the Michigan Daily, An obvious scholar of semantics P.J.'s Bad Manners Modern Manners reputation as a conservative. inely funny sections. For example, drug addicts," and "Incest ... is per P.J. O'Rourke A little research, however, will re O'Rourke includes several pages of fectly acceptable, however, as longas it Atlantic Monthly Press veal a telling passage from O'Rourke's information regarding "Regurgitation is done to enliven an btherwise bland Paperback, $6.95 first book, Republican Party Reptile: Courtesy" ("Every authority on eti~ secret diary, set of memoirs, or 280pp. "Manners are the fonnal and ceremo quette discusses how to put thingsillto unauthorized biography." Y~tfor the nial manifestations '. of a Society's your mouth, but very few disCIl5S.M\v amount of humor this book Qtfers,one . , by Jolln ~.~ter underlying values/' So,Modern Man to get them out in a hurry:") is better off sticking with O'Rbutk~'s }'AnEtiquetteBook for Rude ners must be read as a satire of His ideas on dating are outra two c.ollectians of essays,RepflbIiean Pepple,'l,te4ds the subtitle, although America's declining tnQral values. The geously funny: "Half the fun pf.tl1j:)d. Party Reptile .and Holidays in 1::liJl. ~ ·''TheEtiqUe:ttes of Rude People," PJ O'Rourke isa writeriortonser mi~htpea,morefitting title for P.J. "Incest ... is perfectly acceptable, hoW~ vatives who·for years have'hi -'" The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 18 '>'"\--.- """i",'T ~ ,- _. w ", '.tt .~" Arts: Record Reviews ,D~v;iQ,Jlo~~l $010·, Rocket c ,- .. ~f I~ " David J. which he headlines. Songs From Another Season is a good win the fitness fight/Read this, read Songs From Another Season And this album belongs almost , piece of music. this," he sings. The song concludes to RCA/Beggar's Banquet completely, to J.Heplays guitar on The opening tune, "I'll Be Your the lines, "Oscar de la Renta knows nearly every song, often several gui' Chauffeur," sets the tone for the best what makes a woman beautiful." by John J. Miller tars over several tracks. Unfortu parts of the album: mellow, acoustic, The album's most ambitious piece, David J. has chosen an odd time to nately, his vocals are probably the slightly tongue-in-cheek, and with an musically and lyrically, has an intrigu release a solo album. As the bass player effort's weakest element. Soft and underlying sense of confidence. Quiet ing title: "The National Anthem of of Love and Rockets, J. experienced his and simple, J. easily strums away as he Nowhere." Apparently about a search first real commercial successlast sum sings about celestial driving. for self and meaning - "You've ... mer with that band's number three hit The second song, "Fingers in the prayed to a vague god above/Slipped single, "So Alive." But instead of Grease," recalls the traditional acoustic your fingers from the tyrant's glove/ quickly recording a follow-up album Love and Rockets album-closer. J., Now you're looking for the words" - which would almostcertainly receive nowever,inserts,such a sense ofirrev the song becomes mired in its con a substantial amount of airplay, the erence, climaxing in an outburst of fused arrangement. Tempo changes band appears to be on a temporary' kazoos, that he makes the song very blend together poorly, making the hiatus; much his own. As with many. of his song disjointed and unmemorable. Still, his move is not terribly sur . lyrics, here and elsewhere, they are like When David J. sticks ~o his acoustic prising. In many ways, J. stands in the nursery,rhymes, but always hinting at guitar and generally cohesive themes, shadow of Daniel Ash, the guitarist something larger, The repetition of he writes and records some very ap and sometimes vocalist of LOve and . i "Peelin'your, way/Inch by· inch/ pealing music. On Songs From Another Rockets. In concert, J., wearing dark monotone, they.workwellwhen bal Sometimes you feel velvetl Sometimes Season, J. demonstrates he has some-· sunglasses, plays his bass almost with anced against, Ash!s' more varied, the pinch," . certainly speaks of more thing worthwhile to offer, especially if out movement, allowing Ash to grab voice. Listening to this album, Love than tactile perception~ hecan figure out how to make it last for the spotlight. And before he joined and Rockets fanswiU occasionally . On ''New Womanis anAtflfude/" J. more than half an hour. Love and Rockets, J. played with hear afamiliar sound and await Ash's satirizes how the women's fashion ~:;;-' Bauhaus, behind not only Ash, but also entrance. Even on his solo album, J. industry dictates how women~hould John J. Miller is a junior in English Peter Murphy. It's really no small continues to live a bit in the shadow of look, love, and live. "Ifyou haven't met and editor-in-chief of the Review. wonder he has recorded an album on his bandmates. But this is nitpicking. mister right/Read this/If you want to Add:ictedto Jane's Jane's Addiction "Stop," starts the album. Featuring a Yet,like a runner who kept too swift the middle of "Had a Dad" on· Ritual de 10 Habitual neo-Zep~lin riff and Farrell's trade-' a pace, the band seems to grow tired as Nothing's Shocking, Farrell shouts Warner Bros. Records mark vocals, which soundtemarkably its creative fury dies half-way through "God is dead, he's not there at all." like the whining screams of a spoiled side two. ''Then She Did" and "Classic While the song certainly transmits a by John J. Miller child, this one will join the ranks of Girl" are not musical catastrophes, but sense of desperation, it never calls for The first time I heard Jane's Addic other Jane's classics, such as "Moun when juxtaposed with the other mate such a bold phrase. On this album, tion, I got a headache. I still can't de tainSong," and the groups's fantastic rial on Ritual de 10 Habitual, they sound Farrell makes similarly groundless cide what caused it: a bad day at work statements, as when he alternately or the group's loud metallic onslaught jane's Addiction injects a much screams and mumbles something combined with Perry Farrell's screech about "Erotic Jesus" and "All the ing vocals. The band certainly needed dose of wake-up medicine Marys." If one can look past these sounded a lot different than other shortcomings, however, and appreci heavy metal outfits, even the good into the genre. This just might be the ate Farrell's vocals, then the lyrics ones like Soundgarden. After weeks of present no problem. listening, I finally decided that their best hard rock band of the 1990s. In an era when Beethoven's Fifth 1988 release, Nothing's Shocking, is one Symphony sounds closer to heavy of the best buys on the market. cover of· the Rolling Stones' "Sympa- ·like funeral dirges. "Of Course" is a metal music than do the sappy ballads And although Nothing's Shocking thy for the Devil." failed experiment in exotic Arab of West Coast glam-rock acts, Jane's was a mostly strong effort, it did con- Two other highlights include the sounds. Addiction injects a dose of much tain an occasional dud which marred rockers "Ain't No Right," a song the Lyrically, Jane's Addiction has needed wake-up medicine into the the whole creation. Ritual de 10 Habitual Los Angeles-based band has been never been terribly impressive. The genre. On Nothing's Shocking, the has a similar problem, except instead playing live for quite some time, and funtion of words is to give Farrell an group proved itself formidable, on of tripwires along the path, it simply "Three Days," which clocks in at just excuse to sing; his voice is treated like Ritual de 10 Habitual, it demonstrates reaches a dead-end midway through under eleven minutes long. The for- a musical instrument. It augments the sustaining power. This just might be the second side. Six of the album's nine mer is fast and furious, an ode to anar- sound of the band,,)wt does not come the best hard rock band of the 1990s. songs, however, make for the best 30 chy. The latter combines many tempo out and make a seperate statement. continuous minutes of music the band changes with a relentless rhythm, Farrell does have a knack for turning John J. Miller is a junior in English has recorded. making the song's length an element an interesting phrase, but all too often and editor-in-chief of the Review. Ironically enoug1\ asong.entitled .. _ working to its advantage., . '. ,.", jUs meaningless ... , For. example, in ...... , . . , 1 't ,j II' ~\ , .., ",I. fj. " ~ .. ~ 0 ?) -, ,I" , . . ..1'1 ..... " .~, , •.\ .l,·~ . I .f .. >~,> ~. ~ ~," " \ "'J *1 n"t'. :r~ "A r.,,;'~ •• _( I '~,h ... 0 }:!$,~ \~~ i"Y ",:, ... , • i~" ~ t"Jj. , ! ." ,# i , \ L ,1 )) \~ ... " r!~\;' 'V£'·"'"'' ~ ....r It ,,,,J .. ,I <'" ~t~· 1',' ! 1",,'.\ .." .• ,,1 "fJ."~1l ,(,.. ,'." l.4 The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 19 Arts: Record Reviews Prince's Bridge is Falling' Down Prince ranged vocals. The myriad of talents coconut. Prince needs to reunite the Revolu Graffiti Bridge theRevolution brought together was Songs that stray off the beaten path tion. He has taken it upon himself, for Warner Bros. Records the perfect vehicle for' Prince's high are psychological forays probably whatever reason, to play all of the in energy, soulful style. But in 1986, after meaningful only to Prince. Others are struments on this album, sing most of by Vince Wllk a little-publicized bout with cocaine trite. "Elephants and Flowers" is the the vocals, and even produce and ar "That will be $11.64, please./1 addiction, Prince decided to dump the story of, well, elephants and flowers. If range the entire piece. Even with "WHATI/1 I yelled in disgust at the Revolution. When asked why, Prince you have ever owned a garden and Prince's immense talents, he cannot Hannony House cashier. Quickly, remarked with characteristic tact, have visited the zoo at least once, then effectively accomplish these tasks however, I regained my composure "Sometimes it snows it). April." you won't discover any startling new alone. When one person composes and my frugality faded. After all, this Now, unfortunatelyJor Prince and information contained here. everything, often a lack oJ diverse was Prince that I was doubting, and his record label, sometimes it snows in Even the interjection of the Tlmeas styles and patterns that only a band everyone believes that his productions August and September. At press time, a backup band in several pie~does can create becomes glaringly appar are musical masterpieces, right? sales of Graffiti Bridge had been little to rekindle Prince'sold'~gic. ent. Wrong. Graffiti Bridge is yet another unusually slow, though the release of The titles of the songs performed by Graffiti Bridge will probably only example of Prince's fall into the murky "Thieves in the Temple," a song pres this collaboration offer an :if)~~pth become an obscure collector's item. depths of mediocrity. Most of the ently receiving \-vide radio and video description of the music. "R~tea5(dt/' Lacking in aHarea' s, even the interjec songs on this new album lack the en exposure, might soon amend the situ "We Can Funk," ilLove Machine," and tion of the Time does not enhance its ergy and spirit of Prince's earlier ation. Considering the content of the "Shake," are probably whatyO#w~nild originality. If you previousl y prayed at works, like 1999 and especially Purple rest of the album, however, slow sales imagine them to be about: submisSive the alter of Prince, then you should Rain. He has yet to prove that his deci should come as no surprise. women, weak enemies, and plenty of purchase this album, if only for its rela sion in 1986 to dump the Revolution, The entire albums lacks creativity. unmitigated sex and violence.' , tively few interesting moments. If you his backup band, was indeed for the While listening to the tracks, I often Only one song on the album is feel otherwise, save your money and best. wondered how many times a person reminiscent of Prince's past glory. reduce your sorrow for a fallen deity. The feature that made Prince's could sing about the joys of one night "Thieves in the Temple" has it all: an albums with the Revolution critical stands and the pleasures of orgasm. To addictive melody, a catchy riff, and Vince Wilk is a junior in psychology 1If' and commercial successes was the have produced such unending desire honest lyrics. Unfortunately, thisS()ng and personnel manager for the Re jazzy mix of rhythm and blues riffs, for physical conquest, Prince's pitui is the one glimmer of hope on another view. electronic beats, and meticulously ar- tary gland must be nearly the size of a wise dismal effort. SAV OOKS SAV MONEY ... Up to 25% off Bookstore Prices. YOU set the pricel Don't Sell to Bookstores Come to West Quad Sept. 6-8 to sell & 9-11 to buy Hours of operation are 11-5 each day ------. . - USAC supports Book Exchange Sponsored by MSA & RHA ~1"!"'.JU~~::::::::::~:""=:-~-::-~':i~~~~ ~~.;.::.:....:.:. .. _~_ _ _ _~ ____ ~ __ .- _"._:..::.. __ ._,..:;;. . ...;.;..:...... ,...:.; ,._:.:.:. ..~ _ .:.:. b ...... :..'_.: .. ' l __ The Michigan Review, September 1990, p. 20 The Michigan Review • Needs New Staffers For All Positions! ;.;. 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