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The Best Taste Is Bad Taste UMBC Graduate Gets #1 Score in US On The Retriever VOL. XXV, NO. 19 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY MARCH 13, 1990 Waters: The UMBC graduate best taste is gets #1 score in bad taste U.S. on CPA test partners are well-respected people by Mona Shah by Carolee Davis editorial staff there and they've taken their time editorial staff to come up and congratulate me," Hippies dressed in cast-off army gear, lime green "I never feel confident about he says. polyester bell-bottoms, and psychedelic prints exams." Dr. Arlene Bearman, director of filled the seats in Lecture Hall II, forcing late- That's what UMBC graduate the administrative and managerial comers to sit in the aisles. The pungent aroma Donald Blair had to say about the sciences program, says that "it's an of controlled substances permeated the air, as CPA exam that he took in amazing achievement" for someone students with long hair and scraggly beards waited November for the first time. With to pass the exam on their first try, in eager anticipation to hear their hero, the a 15 percent average passing rate, much less get the best score in the outrageous John Waters speak. The evening's he had a right to be nervous. country. She thinks that Maryland performance appeared on the evening news. The But Blair more than passed. He may never have had a student win year was 1974. A sizeable number of UMBC got the highest score in the country, the top award before. "This is as faculty, staff, and students had protested the out of 75,000 others who took it big of an honor as any athletic showing of his films by filing an injunction against with him, winning him first prize award," she says. "The Prince of Puke." in the Sells Award, which goes to Female Trouble was about to be released. the top 120 scorers. Blair will (See CPA, page 4) Waters had Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, receive the gold medal from the and Pink Flamingos to his "credit." In 1974, American Institute of Certified Maryland was distinguished as the only state to Public Accountants in a ceremony .have a censor board. One Mary Avara presided next October. over this board which had the absolute authority Blair got 90 percent or better to declare a film illegal. "I didn't learn about any correct on each of the four parts of this filth when I was growing up and I had of the exam, made up of accounting 11 brothers and sisters. When one of my sisters theory, practice (which has two asked where babies come from my mother beat sections), business law, and audit- her unmercifully," Avara had explained to the ing. When he walked out after Baltimore Sun. taking the test, Blair says he felt as At the time, Waters was -still regarded as a though he hadn't even passed the Baltimore phenomenon with a local following. auditing portion. "Now, he is still in a very real sense a Baltimore KPMG Peat Marwick, an phenomenon, but with an international reputation accounting firm in Baltimore, hired and following, and I might add a devoted one," Blair in June as an assistant accoun- said Ken Baldwin, associate professor of English tant, and he began work there in in a introductory speech last Thursday. (Baldwin early November. Although the once owned a bar which Waters frequented in Fells position is not a prominent one, Point). Blair says that people know who photo by Ara Zeitz he is now because of the publicity (See WATERS, page 2) Baltimore's "Prince of Puke" John Waters poses with a young fan after speaking here. surrounding his success. "The Donald Blair Inside Marital rape on rise, warns speaker Abortion-rights bill Lebanon is in "Jeopardy." rape, the feminist hopes to end the increasing number of rape charges To eradicate this situation, Laura advances in General Editorials, page 6 by Laura Hamons staff writer mistreatment of women. are brought against husbands each X advocated lobbying for legislative Assembly. She brought her ideas to UMBC year. changes, but she admitted that the In Annapolis, page 2. Laura X dropped her last name last Wednesday, but left the 25-30 This is because "wives are prop- process is painfully slow. "We to protest the idea of a woman being students who attended with an erty, they are goods to be used as [feminist activists] have already Art, fashion, and Jamie Lee Curtis trades a man's property. appetite for more in-depth informa- a man sees fit," she said while made great changes in giving entertainment are ait just places, from screaming But the name change is only one tion on the controversial topics. explaining the idea that women are women a voice in 42 states, but there slightly off-beat in the teen to seasoned police of her challenges against the objec- Addressing marital rape, Laura not seen as "real people." Instead, are still 10 states where women can Baltimore Underground. veteran. tification of women. By lecturing at X asserted that "when a woman gets she added, they seen as goods given be victimized by their husbands." Page 11 A&E, page 15 campuses across the country on the married, she agrees to voluntary from one man (the father) to issues of marital and acquaintance sex, not sex on demand." Yet an another man (the husband). (See RAPE, page 3) Students disagree on the severity of campus bigotry is no discrimination at UMBC. discrimination: Minority groups on WUMD, students dressed at by Michael Gatty have become so powerful, they feel, Halloween as Rastafarians with staff writer They argue that intolerant senti- ments are a thing of the past. Exploring the progress against bigotry that the minorities have more rights their faces painted black in an Is discrimination waning, or does "I never have heard or seen any than the majority. "After all, we attempt to be funny, and others." it continue to flourish? Depending blatant act of discrimination at this Part One: A question of perception don't have a white student union," Graffiti, Adams says, such as on whom you ask, you get a school," says one student who asked one campus member bluntly states. "KKK," "White power," and different answer. This series will not to be identified. "This is 1990. Minority organizations are "This stall is contaminated with "Where's the white student union?" examine that question. Part I will I think the acts may exist, but they strong in their insistence that many AIDS," one bathroom wall in "Where's the white student union?" have been reported in the residence discuss UMBC's situation from the are rare. We have traveled past UMBC students are intolerant. University Center proclaims. "Yes, there has been some work halls. students' perspectives. Part II will that." They point out that club posters These students cite police reports, done to deal with the problem of But profanity on a bathroom stall address the faculty's perception of Others disagree. Says Andrea advertising events for their minority filed when a student perceives he discrimination, so I can't say door or graffiti painted in residence intolerance; the last installment will Adams, a senior interviewed at group have been ripped down has been insulted because of being nothing has been done," says Vickie halls is not the limit of discrimina- examine how other schools have random in the University Center, minutes after hanging. They speak a member of a minority group. Adams, president of the Black tion at UMBC. Adams contends confronted these issues. "We definitely have a problem, and of profane graffiti etched onto Other students counter these claims Student Union. "But it hasn't been that racism and intolerance also enough. Incidents continue to from what I've seen, it's getting bathroom walls, or written on the by the minorities, saying discrim- (See BIGOTRY, page 3) Some students believe that there worse." doors of minority students' rooms. ination does exist, but it is reverse occur: graffiti, racist broadcasting Dr. Weaver has innovative plan for fostering harmony by Ari Fishkind . I found myself totally out of staff writer control, pounding at her door at three o'clock in the morning, mak- The tall, bearded professor ing a total ass of myself." scanned the expectant faces with a Dr. Gary Weaver, his hair grey rather sheepish look in his eyes and and thinning, has matured consid- grinned ruefully. erably since his youthful outburst. "When I was 15 years old, I fell Lecturing about the dynamics of madly in love with a young lady conflict and dialogue to a small in high school," he recalled. "She audience last Tuesday evening, he was the kind of young lady who, explained that this very type of when she got angry with me, didn't communication breakdown often scream, yell, and shout — she would prolongs racial, ethnic, and cultural simply cut off communication. She tensions. wouldn't talk to me in the hallway, Weaver, a professor of Intercul- or answer notes, or answer the tural Communications at American phone. University, predicted that the coun- "And, of course," he continued, "like any 15-year old madly in love. (See WEAVER, page 5) Foreign affairs consultant shares insight on Mid-East by Mary Ann Richmond there will always be a struggle editorial staff between superpowers because of the geography of the region, with the Political and foreign policy con- Middle East between Europe, Asia, sultant John F. Rothmann contrib- and Africa. uted his insight into the political Rothmann said that what he feels upheaval in the Middle East last are "profound changes" have week, at a lecture sponsored by occurred in the superpower battle various campus groups.
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