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Volume 9, Number 5 January 1991 Working ·on the Plantation
by Anthony Woodlief tally severed from notions of individ tected groups "uncomfortable." outright dismissal. Television critic With Diversity Day fresh in our ual freedom. The University of Connecticut, for Dorothy Rabinowitz reports that memories, we should take a moment One of the most disturbing aspects example, bans "inappropriately di when Duke political science professor to give our knees a rest from fre.nzied about this trend is its prevalence in the rected laughter," and "conspicuous James Barber tried to start a chapter of jerking and reflect upon some disturb nat.ion's colleges and universities, exclusion of students from conversa the National Association of Scholars ing trends among American liberals. which have traditionally been havens tions." Students at the U-M were for (NAS) last year, fellow professor The words '1iberal" and "progres of free intellectual discourse. A num bidden to hang Confederate flags on Stanley Fish, chairman of the English sive," aside from conjuring images of berofschools, the University of Michi their dorm room doors until their department, circulated a letter to keep Michael Dukakis, carry a deeper con gan included, have enacted speech speech code was struck down last year Barber and any other NAS members notation of open-minded thought and codes over the past five years which, by US. District Court Judge Avern from being on faculty committees speech. Indeed, though modem while ostensibly intended to combat Cohn on First Amendment grounds. concerned with curriculum or tenure American liberals have rejected virtu racism and sexism by prohibiting Perhaps more alarming are the ef- decisions. The NAS, a group of educa ally every original tenet of liberalism tors opposed to the politicization of - free trade, low taxation, and the rule In many ways the emerging liberalism education resulting from the abandon of law, for example-they have gener ment of classic Western texts in the ally remained united in their support is itself characterized by paternalistic name of multiculturaJism, is anathema for freedom of speech, press, associa to those who seem to view education tion and 'ideas. racism. What threatens to emerge is a as a secondary goal to indoctrination. Over the past few years, however, liberal ideology totally severed from no a large portion of the liberall/establish Politically Corred ment/' including university profes tions of individual freedom. This curtailment of free speech sors, politicians, journalists, and activ and association is just one aspect of a ists, has abandoned this last trace of speech intended to cause harm, have forts of professors and administrators larger movement derided by many as liberalism in favor of thought control grown to include speech perceived to to stifle the speech of their colleagues "political correctness." More sympa and paternalistic racism. What threat have suchan intent-in other words, through implicit and direct threats of thetically viewed by some liberals as a ens to emerge is a liberal ideology to- anything that makes members of pro- slowed advancement, demotion, or response to racism, sexism and cul tural imperialism perpetuated by Western thought and political/eco nomic institutions, the trend involves attacking these institutions while Race-8ase'd Aid Threatened restricting the language and actions of
by Jeff Muir bowl games, had difficulty attracting exclusive scholarships." Please See Page 7 The future of ra~clusive schol interested tearns after Arizona voters Following the ruling, the Bush arships was brought into question last rejected a proposal to insti tu te a state administration, fearful of charges of month when Michael Williams, Assis wide paid holiday in the memory of racism, ordered Williams to issue a tant Secretary of Education for Civil the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. statement declaring the ED would en Inside Rights, announced that it was uncon Williams reviewed the legality of force Title VI "in such a way as to pennit stitutional for schools receiving De federally funded schools offering schools receiving federal funds to Gerrymandering partment of Education (ED) funding to race-exdusive scholarships. Accord administer scholarships established in Ann Arbor 6 offer financial aid eannarked for spe ing to Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights and funded entirely by pri vale persons cific racial groups. Act, Williams ruled, recipients of ED or entities where the donor restricts eli The controversy arose after Fiesta funds are not allowed to deny, re gibility to minority students." The state Interview with Bowl promoters promised to donate strict, or provide segregated financial ment also announced that "the Admini Professor Tonsor 8 $100,000 for the establishment of a aid or other program benefits on the stration will not pursue a broad compli minority~nly scholarship fund at basis of race, color, or national origin. ance review with respect to minority each of the two schools willing to have In a letter to the Fiesta Bowl promot scholarships." Thompson's new their football teams participate in the ers, Williams stated that the ED Office Many observers feel this contro- game. The Fiesta Bowl, held in Arizona of Civil Rights "interprets these pro Gonzo Book 10 and one of the nation's premier college visions as generally prohibiting race- PlellSe See Page 13
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THE Serpent's Tooth MICHIGAN
How invigorating it was to see mem over its original speech policy, which books: ''Daddy's Roommate Didn't REVIEW bers of the Revolutionary Workers was ruled unconstitutional. Of course, Die of Homophobia" and, in our League shouted down when they tried this most fitting topic will not be ad Dykes and Tykes series, "Heather's to interrupt an anti-war speaker on dressed. In any case, feel free to attend, Summer in Gomorrah." the evening of the teach-in. With their but leave your Confederate flags and The Campus Mfairs ridiculous "Defend Iraq" posters, "offensive" ideas at home. Journal of the these patriotic young Americans We are all saddened by the recent fir University of Michigan somehow managed to isolate them ing of long-time Detroit Tigers radio selves from even the "anti-every The LSA faculty recently approved a broadcaster Ernie Harwell. Dominos Editor-in-Chief...... John J. Miller thing-the-USA-does" crowd, and the revision in the foreign language re Pizza franchise owners went so far as Executive Editor ...... Adam DeVore rudeness of their tactics deserved the quirement. Students will now have to to pull advertising from Tiger games to Executive Editor ...... BrianJendryka treatment it received. Especially rude, demonstrate fourth-term proficiency protest the dismissal. This obviously Executive Editor ...... Mark Tulkki however, was the teach-in organizers' in a "language other than English," as leaves only one alternative for the Contributing Editor ...... Clifton Gault neglecting to invite Prof. Ray Tanter, opposed to a "foreign" language. This politically correct Tiger fan: a reverse Contributing Editor ...... Jeff Muir (arguably the U-M's leading expert on change, however, will not go far boycott. Not only should Dominos Publisher ...... Carey Brian Meadors the Middle East), to their shindig. enough to dispel the xenophobic at become the pizza of choice for anyone Perhaps his credentials as a former mosphere pervading the campus. We with even an inkling of a social con member of President Reagan's Na feel the word ''language'' itself should science (libertarians included), it Business Manager ...... Mark O. Stem Business Manager ...... Stacey Walker tional Security Council made his in never be used, and that "correctspeak" should be ordered even when you are Production Mgr ...... Ruth Annstrong clusion unlikely. enter the official U-M vocabulary. not hungry.
Assistant Editor ...... Rahul Banta The Latin American Solidarity Only the Daily can twist the resultsbf a Congratulations to the 1991 Gator Assistant Editor ...... Joseph Klein Committee seems to have taken its campus cop poll where 48 percent of Bowl victors! Although Bo has seem Assistant Editor ...... DavidJ. Powell greatest leap yet into the abyss of radi the respondents did not oppose the ingly floundered through yet another Music Editor...... Chris Peters cal silliness. Agenda reports that some administration's recent security move bowl season thanks to the Ernie LASe members "argued that it would to say "almost two out of three are op Harwell controversy, Gary Moeller led be wrong to picket elected officials posed to depulization." his team to a 35-3 trouncing of Ole Miss, Francophile ...... Karen Brinkman who have supported foreign interven a school apparently named after its tions, because that· would foster the inability to complete passes. staff " , ~ '. illusion that elections mean anything." We also got a good chuckle when the Daily's associate opinion page editor Mike Beidler, David Boettger, Jim and resident military strategist Mike "When Madonna grabs her crotch, the Bominski, Joe Coletti, Bflan Cook, Pete Daugavietis, Vincent DeSantis, What a bunch of spineless, stinking, Fischer said, ''I write this piece barely social order is effectively transgressed/' Mark Dundon, Mary Dzon, Athena cowardly administrators we ' have at able to think, let alone capable of writ says Florida State University professor: Foley, Adam Garagiola, Reg Goeke, this school. Even though a speech code ing something coherent." Finally, a Chip Wells, who plans to write a disser John Gnodtke, Monica Hanson, Karl remains in place to insure students Daily staffer has properly prefaced his tation-entitled, IIA Postmodern Reading IIg, Corey Hill; Jon Hoekstra, Nicho- don't say mean and nasty things, they essay. of Madonna Videos," reports the Detroit las Hoffman, KishoreJayabalan, ..have scheduled the first ''D~vis, Mark News. What a brilliant idea. We suppose Heather Johnston, Shannon Lutter ert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic that when a baseball player pauses to moser, Jay McNeill, Crusty Muncher, and Intellectual Freedom," reports the In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther scratch, he is reinforcing the male he Greg Roth, Michael Skinner, Chris University Record. Named after a trio of King's upstanding character and ex gemony. Expect the English Depart Terry, Doug Thiese. John ;Transue, Al professors who lost their jobs during emplary academic achievements, we ment to create a class so students can Tulkki, Anthony Woodlief, Wesley the McCarthy era, we feel the new lec propose the establishment of the MLK examine this worthy new field of study. '1.0." Wynne, Carolyn Zach ture ought to be named after Wesley Scholarship Fund and Studies Pro Wynne, the former U-M grad student gram. SWdents will learn how to have Editor Emeritus who took the administration to court extra-marital affairs and how to write A recently distributed "Handout on Marc Selinger academic papers without doing any Racism and Domination" from UC 299 original research or writing. spouted the following definition of ra cism: "Racism is the generalized and The Michigan Review is an independent, Free final assigning of values to real or non-profit, student-run journal at the As our once-fine nation swiftly imaginary differences to the accuer's University of Michigan. We are not affili ated with any political party. We wel marches forward to the thundering (sic) benefit and at his victim's expense come letters and articles and encourage Kuwait beat of perversion, Newsweek reports in order to justify the former's own comments about the journal and issues on the publication of two books that privileges or aggression." Not only discussed in it. Our address is: ought to hasten moral decline. Filling does this definition permit that "real... the much-needed void of books "for differences" (though with respect to Support Suite One and about the children of gays," what we are not told) might exist, but it 911 North University Alyson Publications has released goes on to brand acknowledging and Ann Arbor, MI 48Hl9-1265 our ''Daddy's Roommate" and "Heather acting upon these possible "real ... dif (313) 662-1909 Has Two Mommies." Not to be out ferences" as racism. But wai t - isn't the Copyright 1991 done, the Michigan Review Press supposed problem with Racism that itis proudly announces the upcoming baseless? If it weren't, as the definition Troops! publication of similar gay-awareness permits, it would be justified. ill '. Ulltlaci - ... .• -..-..,...... ,,,,, ...... lII! ' -. _~.' ~y . ." .... ,.,-"". "" ~~· II.... ".~_ """"",. . .. - " ..... ".",,,,, ~. , ,
The Michigan Review, January 1991, p. 3 Roving Photographer How do you plan to celebrate Diversity Day?
by Brian Cook
Lori ' Warren, LSA Freshman: I · Tony Ghecea, LSA Sophomore: Noth Craig Despres, LSA Junior: Diversity Seth Schultz, LSA Sophomore: Martin plan to go to the Unity March on Mon ing special. Every day should be bi..: Day is a well thought idea, but one Luther King Jr. and his ideas will al day at12 noon and attend any other versity Day, with equality, not actions great leader such as M.L.K. should not ways have an impact on America. meetings they might have. that favor a certain race. I'll enjoy my get any more special treatment than, However, to choose only one great diversity dinner, too, I guess. say, a George Washington. I will American among the many out there probably not attend any of the sched and devote a day to his works does not uled events, but use the day to catch up motivate me. I plan to just take it easy on homework. on Monday.
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YES! I WOULD UI -$15 -$25 -$50 -$100 -$500 -other .----' Name: Address: IIYes, I'll Subscribe!" L ______-Suite One, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1265- _ . ~ , . - ' . ' • ••• , . , . - •• •••• j , ...... _ " ...~ ...... _~..... _ _ . -.~ The ¥i¢UganReVieWiJCUlU.ary 1991, p. 4 From Suite One: Editorials' " The ,Latest'ill ' Anti~AtrlericanSentim~t " : ' . ,,',' ;" " . , ):,;rj:~.,I, ~;; ~t~ '" .....• :'{;':i'j0~i;L. . ./: . ,< ", :' " ' , :,~;"i~l' . X : ", . The University of Michigan's stu~ reactiOnti> e~ ii\: the Persian GUlf ' ; '; ~'~&rCritiqueof#rican foreign policy. Other speakers preaiftlbl}/ harped , has been receiving a considerableamoun~ ofmediaatten~~iJ\;re,cent weeks, ~ . .. • nthe , triumvi~~~~tJ\.merican s~:rapsm, . because there e~sts ' a d,spropor already the participants are learning to masquerade for ,the~a.The ,student: , . iionaten~ofli\inOrities i.n o\U'all-voiuirteer an'nedservkes;i!e)!:i$m, because anti-war movement during the Vietnam era playedanen.onoously important we ai'edef~g tegimeswhich dQ not maintain Western kieals .ofgender role in' molding domestic opinion; the country'S .p~t interest ·in 'student equality (~uddenty Wes~rn culture is not purely evil, after all); and homophobia, opinion seems only natural. ~y students, however, and thetr\Selvestrapped in because, well; homophobia must somehow be involved (or' sO says that voiCe of an unfortunate mind~: they feel some moral obliga~onto inherit the anti- . reason, the Revolutionary Workers League). ' . . ' United States diatribes of their ideologicalance!)t~rs. ;, < " ,",' . ' .,' , , ' , .. " The actiris~s have not, nor do th~ ~tend, to~anUne~~substantive issues ' The modern day activists are encouraged ~legitin.UZeUbyageneration of - unless we cOunfthe tendentious,teach-in . They insteadOOgi~ with a paranoid ' professors and media members who werecoIld~tio~ by t~l~ to ,view aU ., premise -:- theUrijted States govenune,l\t, even when qefending sma~ countries . United States foreign intervention, and even ArileriCiifi lj()(jetyi as highly'sus~; , from ruthless tyrants/is wrong. To steal ~phr~ from: WiUiamKBuc~eyi Jr" the ' ,c'~ The so-called "movement" retains many charac:t~rlstiC$ symptoJ1\aticofa larger· , anti-war protestors would·have argued against the use of force at Bunker Hill. phenomena occurring on the nation's eampuses: namely, ~e a~ce o,fgenuine . Arguaply, many()f those who have come o""t against Uni,ted States policy are, debate. The activists are so convinced of theinfaIlibility of theirjdeas $atthey victiins of what can be called the perpetual protestor mentality. One can find.these found it unnecessary to invite Professor Raymond Tanter to the recent teach-in. people at virtually every anti~stablishment protest, regardless of its sponsor; last Tanter is perhaps the U-M's leading expert on the Middle East and a former. , semester they futilely whined about the U-M's deputizationefforts. Indeed,many member ,of President Reagan's National Security Council. . of these people view their activity as an integral part of their sodallives. Instead, student leaders hope to attract thinkers who will merely confirm ' Kn~jerk protestors will probably not disappear from campuses anytime their views. Last semester, for example, Michael Moore, the director Of the ' soon. One can only hope for allto realize the shallownessofthe activj.sts, both in controversial film Roger and Me, was invited to the Law School to discuss events ,thought (perhaps best symbolized by the latest postmodernArc d' Activiste on the in the Persian Gult Many people, however, find Moore barely qualified to discuss diag) and support (as revealed by the Michigan Student Assembly's leaders' em- Flint, Michigan; that anyone could find his opinions concerning the Persian Gulf barrassing failure to pass an anti-war resolution). At press time, the United States' credible orauthorita,tive is perplexing. , . ' . .' military success appeared unprecedented. Thank goodness student radicals head Similarly, prominent speakers at this month's teach-in, such as Detroit only student governments. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, felt compelled to include ananti~free market tirade U-M ·Should Honor MLK's Ideas, Not P.C. OnJanuary 21, the University of Michigan once again celebrated Dr.·Martin many programs, is really cultural relativism. Proponents of Diversity say that Luther King Jr.' s birthday with its annual Diversity Day. The festivities included education at the U-M must include the "perspective" of traditionally "oppressed" speakers, panel discussions, perfo~,andpe~haPs triost noticeably, no ' groupS, otherwise only the white male "perspective" is passed on; perpetuating classes. Questions about Diversity Day are warranted'on two,frontS : First, the U- "institutional" racism, sexism, etc. From this wehavetokenf~rtist, homosexual, M should defend its decision to celebrate Dr. King'S life and. achievements while and ethnic materials either replacing Qr ~ccompariying the traditional classics of so ~y , o~er great ~riguls go unrecognized.. Secooo,theU-M must explain ' ShakesPeare, lQcke;and other Dead White Males. . ." •" ., why the politically cOrrect philosophy of "Diversityl3eiof¢ Tru~" which directly , King was an assinW~tionist who.firmly believed and taught the'concept of the contradicts many of King's teachings, is so sacred. " .'. ' " Higher Law. Whend~SouthSegregationistsargued thatage.-<>id oosm and Following King's assassination, many of hisfollow~s talked of ~blishing discrimination were established'1egal"-practices andrti.eretyapartiOftheir way an official holiday in his memory. Others cautioned~t bef()~establishing such " ()fli~ King responded that a Higher Law existed which necessitated'civu(iiSObe-' '. a holiday, the country needed the benefit of historical ~~~ · from which . . di~n(e ' ;There.fore,Kirig was Willing .10 break Southern segregationist laws and go ' King and his acromplishmentscould be proper1yandobjectiyeIya~. These .' . to;a~t , f~rtheIiigherLaw superseded all others. Kins believe<:! the,H ,i~ : 4w to peo~~;:~~~~;~~eba::;~4~~ri~~a:~~ho~ex~~<,\ , :: ~th~2#t~e::~~!~d~ga~:~ . a~it~~iQ., j~,;(': r~~'0!: 4;~~:~':~<~·'· marital affairs ar~well d~ented; ~eRev, ; Ralp~: AbemathYr , ~ d"isciple :~ < '.;:';::;: :~oth'¢i pop:ulC1ftnyth of"Diversit¥ £Oricetn.sthe"e~ ,I~' ~fE~r'~fijs~' > ' )i' , King's whO was With him when he was assassinated~ dairned,Jll hls'Autobiogra.; ". ot; , ed~cationtil'u~~~ ,from a purely Europeah ' :persp¢ctive~ ~'By'~ i'iR~tJ:dirigt~e ' , phy that King slept with two women, neither of whomwtlre l)am~ Coretta ScOtt, worl The Michigan Review, January 1991,p. 5 Satire AfSeginner's Guide to Right Wing P.C. by Adam DeVore, Adam Garaglola, diately went through his moming afterthought, he picked up a bOx of the 'official beer' of the Jesse Helms and Michael Skinner faxes, the most interesting of which chocolates for his wife. Driving home, Campaign. He chose Miller - at least It was a brisk Monday moming in were the factory reports from his Third he passed a shopping mall, and it for starters - since Jesse was his favor January, and our Budding Young Fas World affiliates. Every time these re struck him that his secretary would ite poli tician, someone he considered a cist had just stepped out of the shower. ports arrived he rejoiced in the ever look great in a fur. So, he went in and· cogent voice for freedom and decency. He went to the vanity and lathered his increasing profit margins bolstered by bought her a fine full-length coat made They both knew that all good Ameri face with Gillette shaving cream, confi a vast pool of cheap, exploitable labor. of baby harp seal hide. cans drink Miller, but bad Americans dent in the knowledge that it had been At noon he began his lunch break. Half an hour later he arrived home. drink espresso and look at Maple ruthlessly squirted into the eyes of As was traditional, he had three marti His wife was waititlg to find out what thorpe photographs. hundreds of cute, fuzzy rabbits, all in nis for lunch. Seeing that there was a he wanted for dinner: as usual, it was Reclining in his easy chair, he con the name of consumer safety. tuna special, he decided to order it - difficult for him to choose between veal templatedall that he had done that day "I just don't understand those but only after checking with the and Argentine beef, for he could never and remembered one last thing he had damn boycotters," he muttered waiter to ensure that it was not dol decide whether he preferred to sup wanted to do. Before retiring for the through the foam. phin-safe. port the torture of veal calves or the night, he wrote a generous check to the Ten minutes later, he dressed for When he had finished his lunch, rape of South American rain forests. Michigan Review, a neo-fascist rag run work, priding himself on his new he headed to his first afternoon ap It had been a tough day, so he by students at the University of Michi genuine leather shoes. Better on his pointment: the Domino's Pizza ac opted for the tender, milk-fed veal. As gan that had recently been called the feet than on some dumb cow, he count. Already he was thinking of the veal cooked, he snacked on a bowl "shittiest paper on campus" by Michi thought. what he would tell the Domino's folks, of California table grapes and watched gan Student Assembly President Jen "Honey, breakfast is ready," his ''Yes, I just had a Domino's for lunch, his wife set the table •. nifer Van Valey. Turning out the lights, servile, obedient wife said. __ and, boy, was it good!" He earnestly After dinner, he was relaxing in he sighed: coming from her, that could He went into the kitchen and sat wanted to renew that. account, since front of his new stereo television, only be taken as a compliment. down to enjoy his breakfast, especially Domino's not only funded P!o-life watching the golf tournament he had the aromatic Folgefs coffee - a groups around the country but had told his wife to tape for him, when he DeVore, Garagiola and Skinner were morningtime delight in any real man's also allegedly contributed to the CIA. decided he would like a beer. last seen being dragged into a dark book. He drained his mu~ happy to After an afternoon of firm hand "Honey, bring me a beer." alley by large, burly men dressed in know that his money was contributing shakes and easy smiles, our friend the 'What kind, would you like, dear? Domino's Pizza uniforms. Informa to the systemati~ repression ofnarco fascist headed home to his devoted We have Miller and Coors." tion 'concerning their whereabouts terrorist' piit)(o eolnmies in El Salva wife. On the way out of the buildin~ He weighed his options carefully: would be appreciated. dor. he stopped by the lobby gift shop to he could either support Coors' union "I'll see you this evenin~ dear, grab a pack of Victory cigarettes; as an busting in the Rockies or drink Miller, when I feel like coming home," he muttered as he walked out the door and got into his brand new Saturn - a fine car with a reasonable sticker price, Letter to the Editor being builtin a non-union factory, and all. His only complaint was that it did not take the more cost-effective leaded Jeff Muir, bastion search for this story. deeply cynical, but .also fundamen gas. More likely, Muir's description of tally self-serving and manipulative. He roared Qutof the driveway and of hatred and the homeless grows out of simple big There is such a multitude of insidi down the street, avoiding the express • otry. His characterization is a tired old ous insults couched in Muir's article- way so he could tour the slums on the Ignorance cliche discredited long ago; his contin his obnoxious trivialization of the way to work. He nearly ran over a ued useofit isa sign of intolerance and mentally ill as people with "invisible homeless bum while trying to talk on small-mindedness. Taken in context, friends," his unawareness of the diffi his car phone, put a Ted Nugent tape Given the current awareness of it appears Muir was attempting a little culties a homeless person has finding into the stereo, and steer with his homelessness in Anlerica, it's amazing joke-a rather juvenile attempt to work, his obvious bitterness toward knees. that Jeff Muir chooses to characterize lighten his article with an stereotypic anyone who helpS the homeless-that Arriving at work, he drove into the those affected by it as some homeless image he finds amusing, but which I am unable to believe his opposition to company's parking garage, admiring guy, with an invisible friend and who instead exposes his lack of awareness rent control is founded in his econorilic the architecture. He found it much d~n' t know the meaning of the word and compassion. philosophy. more aesthetically pleasing than the "work" ('Rent Control Freaks', De Muir also knows his arguments Muir is probably correct in his boarded-up low-income housing that cember 1990). It's hard to decide will be easier to sell if he has convinced fundamental thesis-that rent control used to stand there. He headed up to wheth,er this comment is motivated his audience he is really referring to a is neither wanted in Ann Arbor nor his office and found his secretary . more by ignorance or by hatred. group of insane men looking for an effective at easing homelessness. Hi!! standing by the vertical file, working . The ignorance is obvious: it's no easy way out of responsibility. Muir's article gives adequate evidence to diligently even though it was not yet secret even to conservatives that article would be rather less attractive support this position. It's regrettable, nine o'clock. Mindful of modern homelessness is no longer (if it ever to its readers had he written ''These then, that he felt compelled to resort to society's attitudes about the role of was) solely the fate of the mentally ill groups seem to think that if rent is these petty insults. Muir should learn women, he paused to give his secre and the shiftless. Women, children, the controlled that some middle-aged that his tYPe of hatred does far more to tary a quick pinch on the ass. She handicapped, even whole working widow, with three children and two discredit than to strengthen his argu turned around, pleasantly surprised, families now make up a substantial full-time jobs, will all of a sudden be ments. and smiled knowingly. and growing percentage of those with able to afford $350 instead of $500 for Picking up his mail from her desk, out homes. I w.01,l1d b~ ,~urpr;.sed. if rent." Thus Muir's distortion of the Andrew R. Rosenzweig he proceeded into his office. He imrne- Muir missed this fact during his re- fa~tS - of -homelessneSs"is -no't . only' ...•. - . - • - , . .. - • TS"A- Serzio; !" " ·-~ '''''' ·· ''s ~"""".JMtoI-,,,,,,,,,, _... >.... ,_,.".. ~~~. _ ...,: o,!i.. ·""'I:. ·~~~h· :$1.. ~ ...... !""ti~ .....~· ~• •. " ..., >••• , ••••,, ~ . < • • ,."'''t ~. ~, '~"~~-''' '' '''' ''' '''''' ~''''''' -'.,," ' ' ------_.------_._------ . The MiChigan Review, January 1991, p. 6 .~ '-;,' City A History of Ann Arbor Redistricting by Jeff Muir mainly Hispanic areas are connected ments. In 1970, it stated that this rule get no support from the council's other "When you don't like the outcome together by a stretch of beach which is must be applied to all local elections, members, since these council persons of a boundary redrawing process, you several miles long but no wider than a including school board elections. A would have little or no constituents call it gerrymandering, when you do city-block. map of Ann Arbor's five wards (each of from that particular interest group in like the outcome, it's redistricting." Districts are re-drawn every 10 which elects two council members) their district." says Democrat Nelson Meade, a third- years, following the national census, reveals that each spreads out, in pie- ''Therefore,'' he explained, "when ward city councilman. . as mandated in the. United States graph fashion, from the campus area, all groups are divided equally into Ann Arbor currently consists of Constitution. There are districts for effectively dividing the most populous each ward, they are assured of repre- five wards, which emanate outward state, local, and national purposes, student sections. The seasonal student sentation by each council member." from the center of the city. This plan and the legislative body responsible population accounts for approxi- Looking at city maps which show splits the heavily concentrated student for the area in question does the re mately one-third of the city's tota~ . the ward boundaries that existed fol- sections of town into all five wards, drawing. For this reason, there was population. . lowing the 1960, 1970 and 1980 cen- potentially weakening their political added significance in the recent mid- In fact, before the 1973 elections, suses, one can see that each ward is power. There was a time in Ann Arbor the second ward con- now much more uniform in shape, and when students virtually controlled an tained a highly con- boundary lines are less jagged; The entire city ward. Some believe that ger centrated and very majority of the second ward's popula- rymandering has reduced University politically active stu- tion had been concentrated in the of Michigan students' influence on the dent section. Because downtown and campus areas. After city level. of this, the Human the 1973 redistricting, however, ' the The tel'll1 "gerrymandering" Rights Party (HRP) second ward was expanded to include comes from Elbridge Gerry, one of the had two members more outlying areas. This has lead Founding Fathers of the United States, elected to city council some to suggest that the wards were a signer of the Declaration of Inde in 1973, one of whom gerrymandered to create a politically pendence, a delegate to the Constitu was a U-M student, impotent student population. If one tional Convention, vice president, the other a recent' looks to the wards before 1973, and congressman, and governor of Massa graduate. The HRP \~.'ghs the student political power of chusetts. The word itself emerged in exerted a formidable the time, and then compares this to the 1812, in reference to a district plan influence over the af- wards after 1973 and the decline of approved by the Massachusetts state fairs of the city, even student political influence, it would legislature, controlled by Gerry's with only two mem- appear to be a competent assessment. party. One congressional district, bers on the council. If one digs a little deeper, however, which looked conspicuously like a Because the Republi- and considers the Supreme Court rul- salamander, was drawn to favor cans and Democrats ings and Meade's explanation of the Gerry's party. According to legend, were so evenly current demographic positi<:ln of Ann upon seeing a map of the district, a Courtesy of the New York Public Library matched on the 11- Arbor's districts, the gerrymandering colleague replied, 'Why, that's not a term elections, as whicl\ever party member council, the HRP became a theory is a little harder to buy. salamander, that's a ~rrymander!" gained control of the individual state swing-vote for such controversial is- "Students can haveasmuchpoliti- The tactic employed by Gerry's legislatures would be in the position to sues as the $5 pot law and rent control cal power in this town as they decide to party involved splintering the control the outcome of the re-district ballot proposals, both of which they in- - they are generally not very active in opposition's electorate by dividing ing process. troduced. local,mainstream political:issues,orat them into different districts - no mat Beginning in the 19605, the Su "Because of recent Supreme Court least not in the numbers that they ter what proportion of an area's popu preme Court began to take an active rulings, and the 'One man-one vote' could be," said Meade, noting that the lation they composed, the district's role in dismantling the practice and doctrine, during the 1973 redistricting students of the late 1960s ari The Michigan Review, January 1991, p. 7 Plantation Continued From Page 1 ternative programs that would have are usually qui te attentive to achieving analysiS. Liberals have increasingly empowered minorities. "proper percentages" (some might say rigid notions of political correctness their defenders, including those who, For example, a large proportion of quotas) to have been delighted to and minority roles, arid they have while not necessarily adoring Western liberals familiar with housing vouch appoint minorities to such prestigious applied them with equal fervor in their culture, prefer free speech. to thought ers, which empower the poor to buy positions. The apparent message, analysis of foreign affairs. Ouring the control. housing of their choice rather than live however, i6 that minorities who depart mid-eighties, when apartheid and One manifestation of this speech in federally owned buildings, have op from the politically correct doctrine divestment were all the rage, liberals control is "PCSpeak," which includes posed the idea. Yet the result is that will be met with extreme disapproval. refused to recognize cultural and po euphemisms such as "physically chal public housing tenants, many of The likes of Biden and Ted Kennedy litical differences between South Afri lenged," "differently abled," and whom are minorities, are treated as use smear tactics. Their 19th century can blacks, claiming instead that Nel "people of color," and is characterized incapable of making their own deci- counterparts used the bullwhip. son Mandela and Bishop Desmond by tenacious gender neutrality. Per Tutu, whose socialist ideologies they haps less harmful, but certainly more adored, represented all blacks in the entertaining, are papers like, "Strate The racism and intolerance of the left is country. They overlooked the South gies for Feminist Team Teaching of most convincingly evidenced in persis- . African Zulu Inkatha, led by Man Hispanic Women Writers," given at a gosutho Buthelezi, who opposed sanc recent annual meeting of the Modern tent attacks on minorities who, as the tions and divestment. Language Association, and U-M Like conservative blacks in the classes such as Biology and Human editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, U.S., Inkatha did not fit the liberal Affairs and University Course 299: stereotype of African black national Race, Ethnicity, and Racism. Jlstray from the liberal plantation." ists as Marxist radicals, and hence Elsewhere, all freshman English were ignored or downplayed. An in composition students at the University sions. Liberals have also opposed In Los Angeles, conservative His teresting question is the extent to of Texas at Austin are required to read voucher programs for schools, which panic Sarah Flores saw her electionto which, insofar as this liberal view af selections from a single anthology would enable parents to choose where the Los Angeles County Board of fected policy toward South Africa, its entitled, Racism and Sexism: An Inte their children would attend school. Supervisors overturned by a federal exponents are responsible for the vio grated Study. Students at Haverford Studies indicate that such policies judge at the behest of the American lence between African National Con College are required to fulfill a ''Social would save money while improving Civil Liberties Union and other gress supporters and Inkatha, who felt Justice Requirement," satisfied by public housing and education, par groups, which claimed that no His they were being increasingly left out of classes such as ''Psychological Issues ticularly for minorities, who suffer dis panic could be elected in Flores' dis negotiations over how to dismantle of Lesbians and Gay Males," reports proportionately from shoddy housing trict .the way it is presently drawn. apartheid. the Wall Street Journal. The same article and terrible inner~ty schools. Yet They did not relax their claims when described theformationofa "diversity they are opposed, because they give Flores won, because their real com Emerging Liberalism: committee" at the University of Penn power to people rather than planners. plaint is that no liberal can be elected in A Vacant Ideology sylvania. When a member of the In many instances, Democratic the district. Instead, they persuaded With the abandonment of the last committee referred to "regard for the strategists seem to view minorities as the judge to adopt a gerrymandered vestiges of classical liberalism, mod individual" in a letter to another tools rather than constituents. A com district of their creation, which elimi ern American liberalism seems to have member, she had the letter returned, mon districting stategy among Demo nated Flores' base of support and cre little remaining merit. If liberals con with corrections, by a university offi crats is to parcel minority voters to ated three safe Democratic seats. This tinue to attack free speech in favor of cial. The official had circled the word various Democratic districts needing a districting was adopted rather than thought control, and if they continue to "individual," warning that many con boost, thus weakening the chances of any of the six Justice Department advance the racism of paternalism and sider the term to be racist. minority candidates by breaking up plans, each of which created a district patronage, then they promise to their bases of support. According to with a greater Hispanic population emerge a pathetic lot. Racism on the Left Gifford Collins of the National Asso than that proposed. The emerging liberal's ideology, The liberals' concern with racism ciation for the Advancement of Col While attacking Health and Hu totally devoid of reason in its quest for is indeed the most interesting aspect of ored People, his organization is plan man Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, social justice, has an appeal for the self the politically correct mentality, be ning to challenge such redistricting who is black, for his opposition to na righteous and the anal retentive. The cause in many ways the emerging lib plans under the Voting Rights Act. tional health care, white congressman former see it as legitimization of their eralism is itself characterized by pater The racism and intolerance of the Pete Stark called Sullivan a disgrace to desire to squelch the views of their nalistic racism. left is most convindtlgly evidenced in his race. In other words, the only good opponents rather than engage in ra In the 19605, liberals took up the persistent attacks on minorities who, black is a liberal black. Sullivan's re tional discourse. The latter see it as cause of civil rights in opposition to as editors of The Wall Street Journal put sponse? "I don't live on Pete Stark's justification of their desire to plan and staunch conservative Dernocratsin the it, "stray from the liberal plantation." plantation." direct the lives of others, not just mi South, winning an initial triumph in The Senate Judiciary Committee, The logic in these instances seems norities who stray from the liberal 1964 with the election of Lyndon headed by Democrat Joe Biden, sub to be that minorities who don't fit into path, but everyone who, unlike the Johnson. Over time, however, pro jected federal court nominees William the white liberal mold aren't really enlightened liberal, cannot take care of grams initially designed to compen Lucas and Garence Thomas, both minorities. No Hispanic can be elected themselves. sate minorities for past discrimination black conservatives, to unprecedented from Flores' district despite her vic Liberals who have not yet em were transformed into a paternalis levels of scrutiny during their confir tory, because she is not liberal like barked on the path toward thought ticsupport for failed "central control" mation hearings. good Hispanics, and therefore does control would do well to remind their policies - despite the existence of al- One would expect liberals, who not count Lucas and Thomas do not fellows of what they used to stand for. deserve the respect reserved for other The old liberals were silly enough. But federal court nominees, because they the emerging liberals are dangerous. Inventory Clearout Sale on the Michigan are conservative blacks and there must be something wrong with them. Anthony Woodlief is a graduate stu Review's mts conference MREV:Forum. The closing of the liberal mind has dent in Political Sdence and a staff Come tIlT/y. Come often. Shbp with uslUld S41W. Mention Detl7Il Bilker lind get 25% off toastml influenced more than domestic policy writer for the Review. "~"" __'~_"''''''W'~'''~~~'''' The Michigan Review, January 1991, p. 8 Interview f Astronomers Teaching Astrology? OnJanuuy 11, Mark Tulkki and John Furthermore, I do not believe that judgement in that respect? REVIEW: It would appearthatchoos J. Miller of the Review interviewed people should be compelled t@ take For example, I am not prepared to ing authors on the basis of their mes Stephen J. Tonsor, a professor of his courses. There are certain kinds of say that one has to study Western Euro sages is a major component of the tory at the University of Michigan, courses, for example in technique, for pean history. I teach Western Euro upolitical correctness" phenomena where he has taught since 1954, and eign language skills, mathematics, pean history. I may think it is desire operating on many campuses. Could an associate editor of Modern Age. rhetoric, and the natural sciences, able for one to study this, but I am not you comment on this? What are these He lectures on European intellectual which certainly can be required. going to say that you cannot be an people trying to accomplish? history and historiography, and is the However, beyond these, elections educated man unless you do. To do so author of studies on education, equal within broad parameters ought to pre would leave out people who are TONS OR: Those people who. are ity, and conservatism. vail. I do not want students in my extraordinarily gifted, people who "politically correct" simply wish to courses who do not wish to be there, come out of other traditions, such as indoctrinate students. They do not who.d.onotWlshto _amtt ' 5_11 .... :.y~;~..,···;·· .; . .,. ,,: .1 want open discussion of the issues. REVIEW: John Stuart Mill forcefully partlopate. . F.... l _." ·.c , ., cO They want only certain issues dis argued against the state assumming ::I cussed and they want to indoctrinate the role of Educator, noting that gov REVIEW: Would Q in terms of a particular ideological po ernment could safely provide only you support a ~ sition. value--free "training." How would stronger core cur ~ I was interested the other day Mill today view the status of the riculum than S. reading a review of a book in the Times American educational system? what we pres ~ literary supplement. The reviewer ently have at the said Marxism is passe everywhere in TONS OR: I think Mill would be ap U-M? the world except in the elite American palled by the American educational universities. This is quite true. The system in w~ch the education of par TONSOR: I think academic left wishes to achieve ticular values takes the place of equip that a good case through the university what they can ping the student intellectually. Educa can be made for a not achieve at the polls. They have tional and intellectual skills are being core curriculum. been repudiated at the polls. Their substituted by the value schemes of a On the other hand, ideas have been repudiated, but by board of education or a particular I have to say quite George, they are going to choke these teacher. These people may have reli frankly thatifl had ideas down the throats of university gious, sexual, social, and economic a spectrum of op-: students. Of course that is their stock values which are in direct conflict with tions with the in trade, instead of intellectuality: ide the values of the parents of the child. Great Books pro ology. They feel no necessity to present both gram of 5t. John's sides of an issue. Indeed, you often College, which REVIEW: Would you still encourage have the indoctrination of chilaren includes a pre students to choose teaching as a ca rather than education. This appears in scribed syllabus of reer, in spite of PC and the apparent ~lementary schools, is more pro Great Books, at intellectual intimidation which often nounced in high school, and it is in one end, and a to occurs on our campuses? creasingly the case in the university tally free election that a program of indoctrination is program at the TONSOR: Yes, of course. My own son substituted for a genuine educational other end, my in is a professor. experience. clination would be to lean in the direc REVIEW: How do you assess the job REVIEW: What do you think of the tion of free elec prospects for conservative profes University of Michigan's new man tion. I do not think that any core cur Lin Yutang, a Confuscian. I simply sors? datory Ndiversity" class? You have riculum or Great Books program can cannot make that argument. commented that you would not con possibly exhaust the kind of educa When people talk about revising TONSOR: Right now at ~ elite l1ni sider teaching one of these courses. tional opportunities which ought to be the canon, I am sympathetic up to a versities, they are rather slim. Still, I Why not? available. point. . However, I must be certain suppose one must have confidence in One may say of the core curricu what is substituted in the revision is one's destiny and in one's.abilities and TONS OR: It was suggested by a lum thatitmakesit necessary the study not a third rate feminist poet of the 19th go right ahead. I think that in the long Michigan State Legislator that I offer a of natural science, mathematics, and century for a first rate male poet. One run, political correctness, as other kind of alternative class in diversity in philosophy. I suppose I would be must not revise on the basis of the manjas, will pass by. Of course there which the "other side.~ so to speak, willing to say "yes" to this kind of core content or the message. If we choose are also lots of opportunities to teach. would be presented. I told him that if you have an adequate series of op people simply on the basis of message, One could teach in high school, or in that was an impossibility and that I did tions within the requirements, butI am then maybe we ought not to teach great private schools, or in small universi not believe in such courses. You either not willing to say that one ought neces Marxist classics. Perhaps we ought not ties. I think there will always be space have a course in the history of the sarily to indoctrinate students in the even read them. Perhaps we ought to in the system - a niche somewhere. United States or you have a class in Western tradition - whatever that bum their books. On the other hand, Milton Friedman would argue diversity - which mayor may not be may be. Whatis the Western tradition? maybe we ought to teach nothing but that the very fact that there is this historical in character. For me to teach What is Western and what is not West Marxist classics. If the message is the dominant intellectual tradition on the such a class would be rather like an ern? Is Romania Western? Is Poland key, it seems to me you introduce all left, means if you ~t to compete you astronomer teaching a course in astrol Western? Do we read Romanian and kinds of problems. do not build you shop five miles from ogy. Polish poets? How do we make a your competitors. If you want to ,....,~~v_·~~~>""."'I.l4,' ...""""""""">'''_ The Michigan ReviewJ January 1991, p. 9 compete you go where the action is. professors talking to 15 people apiece TONSOR: The question really is isolationist argument - that we can Thatis the name of the game in compe ina class. Is that an advantage? This is whether they are constitutional. I can get along with the oil we have. Yes, we tition. People often tell me they do not bizarre. That is a misallocation of re see many reasons for a good deal of can. But Germany, Japan, France, and think they can compete at a major sources. scholarship help for disadvantaged other advanced industrialized coun university. I have to tell them they students. Whether or not public tries cannot afford to pay $30 a barrel really are not very sporting. If you REVIEW: In your book, Tradition and money ought to be spent in that capac for oil. Neither can the third world want to shoot ducks, you go where the Reform in American Education, you ity is an important question. Note, I nations. ducks are. defended large public universities would say "disadvantaged." I am not against the conservative preference very keen on race-based scholarships. REVIEW: Of course, the isolationists REVIEW: How has U-M changed would ask you what Germany and during your professorship here? Has Japan are doing to aid our cause? higher education improved or de The academic left wishes to achieve clined in quality? through the university was they cannot TONSOR: That seems to me another question. They are not doing nearly TONSOR: Of course, broadly speak achieve at the polls. They have been enough. Still, we must take care of one ing, you cannot say that higher educa thing at a time. tion has declined. My own estimate of repudiated at the polls. There is some point of question, of the university, at the present time, is which isolationist groups are so fond, that in the humanities it is a far less that if we are going to enforce justice in distinguished university than it was 30 for small private colleges. What was It is possible for a student to be black the world, why don't we start with years ago. In the professions and in the the b"asis for this belief and do you and be a millionaire, well able to afford Israel? Israel is a problem. I think sciences, it is markedly better. The belie~e it is still valid? a college education, and simply by Israel's behavior with respect to the English Department is not as distin accident of race receive a scholarship. legitimate aspiriations of the Palestin guished as it once was. lhe kind of TONSOR: Yes. I attended a small pri Whether or not a race-based scholar ian people ha~ been barbarous. It has education one gets in the humanities is vate college. I have an honorary degree ship is constitutional, whether or not it been reprehensible. Israel will have to not as good as it once was. For ex from one and I have the opportunity to is even in the American tradition of be called to account, and have some ample, take the general abandonment visit many small colleges. I know them equal opportunity is an important legitimate settlement of the problem of by foreign language departments in well. Some of them are excellent, but I question. I believe you can make a case a Palestinian state in lands occupied by simply teaching foreign languages. still think that the possibilities for a for scholarship assistance on the basis Israel. But this is another question. No one wants to teach foreign lan really superb education are greater, all of being disadvantaged. It is much We must get the issue of Israel guages, just as no one wants to teach things considered, at larger public more difficult to make that case on the decoupled from the question of Iraq's rhetoric. The English Department universi ties. basis of race. Where do'you end? Who invasion of Kuwait. Indeed, it is a does not want to teach rhetoric (that is, I wrote an article some years ago do you include? Who is worthy and terrible situation. I do not want to see teach people to read and write). They for Modern Age entitled, "Two Cheers who is unworthy? Because you are Saddam Hussein use an atom bomb on want to teach courses which are some for the Behemoth University." I made white does not necessarily mean that Israel any more than I want to see him how related to their research interests. the same kind of argument that most of you are not equally disadvantaged. I use one on us. Unfortunately, it is quite We have debated this in faculty meet the private schools are trying to do think perhaps we have not really possible that ten yea~ from now Sad ings and I have spoken out against the poorly what major universities do thought this question through. dam will possess nuclear weapons and abandonment by the English Depart well. This is the problem in the through some fanatic be capable of ment of the teaching of rhetorical Weisbuch Report. They want us to do REVIEW: The Gulf crisis has created delievering them to the U.S. skills. The English Department claims what small colleges can do well. We considerable dissention among con everyone should teach rhetoric: the would do it badly. Let us recognize servatives. Do you approve of U.S. REVIEW: What do you see as the History Department and the Political that the resources of a major public policy in the Gulf? larger significance of the revolution Science Department. But heaven for university are really very, very valu in Eastern Europe from an intellec bid, not the English Department. . able things. TONSOR: Yes, I do, and I approve of tual or historical perspective and why Some years ago a former Albert it for a wide variety of reasons. First of has there been such reluctance among REVIEW: The Weisbuch report has Schweizer Professor at Columbia, all, I am not bothered by the notion that intellectuals to accept the death of recently caused some controversy. came to campus to give a lecture. He oil is playing a very important role. Oil Communism? What do you think of the recent pro mentioned that there were only four is the key to the economic prosperity of posals to improve LS&A, such as the places in the United States that when not only the advanced industrialized TONSOR: My colleagues on the left Atheneum? he came on campus he felt a kind of countries, but also of the third world. are Utopians. They believe that Marx electric intellectual charge, a feeling To have Saddam Hussein at the spigot, ism, in some form or another, is going TONS OR: Hhought that was junk and that things were being argued and turning on the oil supply and turning it to usher in the Millenium. They sim I said so .. discussed. Among these places were off at will, seems to be inviting interna ply cannot believe that they are wrong. Evety small college in Amercia Harvard, Chicago, and the U-M. He tional catastrophe. It is like the attempt to prove over and wants to become a University of Michi did not say Smith College, or Kenyon, Then there is the whole problem of over again that Alger Hiss was not gan and all the major elite universities or one of the good private colleges. He Saddam's role in the Islamic world. Do really guilty, no matter what the evi want to become small colleges. This is talked about major universities. Of we want to see an Islamic dictatorship, dence to the contrary. We have to retry a recurrent phenomena in American course it is also important to keep in centered in Baghdad, that reaches every case. The Professors who were higher education. mind there is such a thing as a critical from Pakistan to North Africa? I do not dismissed from U-M as members of We do certain things very well intellectual mass. think this in our interests, nor in the the Communist Party, in part because indeed. We should not abandon what interests of chjlization. It would be a they lied or refused to square with we do well for something that we are REVIEW: The U.S. Department of disaster. their colleagues, are another example. not going to do nearly as well. It is Education recently considered elimi I cannot see any reason why we They cannot do wrong and must now better to have a distinguished profes nating publically funded race-based should have any qualms about putting be rehabilitated. sor, who is a great lecturer, talking to scholarships for college students. Is an end to Saddam Hussein. You know, 200 people, than to have 25 third"'-l'ate this a step forward or backward? the argumentis made - essentially an Please See Page 12 The Michigan Review, January 1991, p. 10 Arts: Book Review ~. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Greatest Hits . Songs of the Doomed 1960s, that Thompson reaches the for excerpts from Thompson's rarely ploys his flair for apocalyptic language Dr. Hunter S. ThOmpson frenzied peak of craziness that re mentioned novel, Curse of Limo. Th to create an ominous yet perversely Summit Books sulted in the first true works of ompson, however, is not very vocal re humorous diatribe. against the au Hardcover, $21.95 "Gonzo" journalism - works such as garding the subject of Lonoor about his thorities whom he believes have un 315 pages ''The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and ''belief' that he is the incarnation of the fairly persecuted him: ''These stupid Depraved," Thompson's unique story ancient Hawaiian deity. "A letter to brutes [the District Attorney and his by Adam Garaglola of the well-known horse race, and Ralph Steadman," provides some staff] tried to destroy my life. They are Almost two decades ago, Hunter ''The Great Shark Hunt," his highly understanding of Thompson' s warped guilty. They should all be hung from S. Thompson set out to find the Ameri original "coverage" of a deep sea fish understanding of the Lono legend. He their heels from iron telephone poles can Dream. His twisted search re ing tournament. writes: "It is not an easy thing for me to on the road to Woody Creek!" sulted in the first full-length work of The "Seventies" section contains accept the fact that I was born 1,700 Throughout the book, the best "Gonzo Journalism," Fear and Loathing only a brief tribute to Fear and Loathing years ago in an ocean-going canoe pieces are those dealing directly with in lAs Vegas. Since then, the Amencan somewhere off the Kona coast in Thompson's many strange experi Dream, or rather, the death of the I)R, HlJNTER S. Hawaii ... and lived my first life as King ences and adventures. The first-hand Dream, has been Thompson's per Lono, ruler of all the islands." accounts best serve to demonstrate the sonal and literary obsession. TtlOMPSON While a significant portion of the hypocrisy, greed, and vindictiveness Songs of the Doomed, the third vol pieces. from the last decade are politi that Thompson sees in every facet of ume of the "Gonzo Papers," is a retro OF THE cally oriented and of a cynically serious modem society; symptoms of the spective selection of Thompson's SONGS bent, there are still occasions when death of the American Dream. Hisown work, spanning nearly four decades. It D()()j;tED Thompson is at his unrestrained best: excesses, both real and literary, sym begins with an account ofhis first work \\liT;; 0\ lHE DE\I!! in "Fear and Loathing in Sacramento" bolize his twisted revisionary in terpre in journalism in the late 19505, and in i )1TH! \\HR1C\\ DRB\I he writes of his chance encounter and tation of the American ideal, a mutant cludes an excerpt from one of his early instant engagement to Jilly, "a danger Horatio Alger on extremely danger attempts at fiction. Entitled Prince Jelly ous dingbat with a very pure dedica ous drugs: "a Man on the Move, and fish, this unfinished novel concerns tion to the Love and Adventure ethic." just sick enough to be totally confi itself with the life of a young and ambi-. The more recent "Let the Trials dent." tious journalist and his struggle to Begin," (presented at the beginning of The retrospective pieces, written break out of the small-town paper the work as an Author's Note) is an last year specifically for this book, do scene. At the time, Thompson was account of the drinking and drug binge not convey this same sense of intensity working to make a name for himself in Thompson began on the morning be and immediacy. Stylistically, Th journalism, and the main character's in lAs Vegas, Thompson's most famous fore he was to appear in court on drug ompson is at his best when he im frustrations reflect Thompson's own work, which he describes as "the best charges last year. merses himself in his story, running feelings at the time. piece of 'pure writing' I've ever done." The concluding section of the amuck in his investigations as he did in In the selection of his works from There are two brief excerpts from the book, ''Welcome to the Nineties, Wel ''The Great Shark Hunt," or finding the 1960s, one can detect the first seecis book and also a short explanation of come to Jail," is a collection of articles, himself reacting to unpredictable cir of what was to become the "Gonzo" how the now ubiquitous phrase, "Fear documents, and letters describing the cumstances stemming from his style of journalism: a freewheeling and Loathing" came into being. savage and unnatural saga of unusual behavior, as in ''The Silk combination of fact, speculation, and Most of the stories selected from Thompson's arrest by the Aspen Police Road," which opens with an intoxi insightful, if often virulent commen- this era examine other facets of and file subsequent attempt to bring cated Thompson stumbling off a plane tary.Inaseriesofrecollectionswritten Thompson's writing style, as he as- him to trial. in Key West, only to find that he and especially for this book, Thompson sumed the roles of war correspondent his equally inebriated traveling corn relates his thoughts and experiences as and political strategist. panion must chase down and savagely a member of the counter-allture. The The pieces from the 19805 also punish a pair of would-be luggage topics he addresses run the gamut demonstrate the author's wide rang- thieves. As Thompson would say, it is from the assassination of JFK to his ing interests. He plunges into investi- a savage and unnatural story, one that time with the Hell's Angels. These gative reporting in full Gonzo form, fits the times we live in. pieces are a mosaic of the experiences mixing fact and analysis with hyper- The ''Last American Dope-fiend" that shaped. the budding mind of bolic speculation in a way that is both and self-proclaim~ "lazy drunken America's "outlaw" journalist. thought provoking and entertaining. hillbilly" has demonstrated that, de Included in the 19605 chapter is a Examples of work in this vein include spite the rigors of his turbulent life previously unpublished excerpt from "Bad Craziness in Palm Beach," style, he is still remains sharp and un another unfinished novel, entitled The Thompson's investigation of the Pulit- compromising. While this may not be Rum Diary. Narrated in the first person zer scandal, and "The Silk Road," a the good Doctor's final pronounce and autobiographical in nature, it is somewhat hard-to-believe account of In keeping with his unique style, ment on the death of the American based on Thompson's time in Puerto hisinvolvementinthe"Cubanrefugee Thompson assumes his journalistic Dream, his latest prognosis will keep Rico, where he worked as a sports invasion." alter ego, ''Raoul Duke," ("Sports Edi his readers thinking - and laughing reporter and wrote tourism brochures. Also included are a number of tor" for Rolling Stone), and covers the -'-for quite a while. Another highlight from this pe- Thompson's San Francisco Examiner unfolding story of his own trial. In riod is "First Visit With Mescalito," columns. Given that Generation of cluded in this report is one of the best Thompson's highly'detailed first per- Swine, the previous volume of the pieces in the book, a "press release" Adam Garagiolais a Residential Col son/direct experience narrative of one Gonzo Papers, was made up almost from the Owl Farm, Thompson's home lege sophomore in creative writing ofhisearlyexperimentswiththehallu- entirely of Examiner columns, he de- and personal fortress. Written soon af and comparative literature and a staff cinogen mescaline. votes an inordinate. of space to them. ter the dismissal of all the charges writer for the Reuiew. It is. dqring this time, in the .late Perhaps it couldhave,been better ,used . brought against him,. Thompson em- +;, . ~~""" , "1f~"'1~'" \,'tG:>-' l'!'_f'll'" ,+ ~.Ji.Ii.".~ ,~6.It.ol,j"',,~ j'~~ ":J, • , .... ~ •• ~. •• J .' .,) ~ t .Ani " 1 I I 1 t) \ \,l,t I I !jt1l~iIltt~-<,~'J,',j:<>"'4"'"''W.;''~'_W''''''''''_"''' ' ''''."''''''''''"lff''''''~'''~".,:",~"<"""",~_,'¢""",~_#_"",~·,'<""Y"·"W,,,,,,,,,,~, -t' The Michigan Review, January 1991, po 11 Arts: Book Review George Will Mellows with Age Suddenly: The American Idea numerous disheartening portraits of journey through a drug-plagued pub nately, national recognition seems to At Home and Abroad American politics and society. lic housing project. In the landscape of have had an impact on his writings. George Will Will notes, perhaps superflu violence and desolation, Will finds Flush from the acclamations of his col The Free Press ously, that America has sunk to a dis stark evidence of both the failure of leagues, he appears almost reluctant to Hardcover, $19.95 turbing level of "tawdry ferocity in traditional liberal social policies and attack individuals who once provided 417 pgs. the conservatives' apparent abandon easy fodder for his rhetoricc,tl skill (i.e., ment of the underclass. Mario Cuomo); or perhaps Will is oQ> by Mark R. Tulkkl S. Fot the denizens of this neighbor simply mellowing with age. Since first arriving on the national 0. hood, the future appears disturbingly scene, . George Will has cultivated· a bleak. As Will notes, while conserva reputation for political commentary & tives have refuted the "redistribution with a distinctly "contemporary" con ist simplicities" of those who thought ~...... Mark R. Tulkki is a senior in econom servative bent. Disdaining botheco they knew how to help the underclass, ~ ics and political science and an execu nomic self-interest and laissez-fain~ ~. too many believe that "this refutation tive editor of the Review. individualism, he has eloquently ar ~ exhausts their responsibilities." As gued for a' return to the "rigors of conservatives hide behind traditional governance and the grandeur of poli notions of equality of opportunity and tics." In his latest effort, Suddenly, Will liberals futilely attempt further wel continues this tradition in a collection fare transfers, the intergenerational of delightfully entertaining and pr «< The Michigan Review, January '1991, p. 12 Arts: Book Re·view Decadence in the Ivory Tower, The Hollow Men can-American and women's studies, The section ends with a bleak pic analysis. Unfortunately, Sykes relies to Charles Sykes and courses created in response to the ture of today's college student: some heavily on quotes from C. S. Lewis, Regnery Gateway calls for "Diversity" on college cam one with no understanding of Western Irving Howe, and Jacques Barzun for Hardcover, $19.95 puses. Sykes feels these courses can culture, unprepared for the future, yet commentary. They provide the book 356 pgs. have no meaning for students who do fully indoctrinated in Marxist femi with its few moments of true insight. not understand their own Western nism and Black Panther terrorism. The final part of the book, 'What it by Michael Skinner culture and are meant to indoctrinate The second section of the book fo Means," concludes that the quality of In his book The Hollow Men, Char uninitiated minds, a process contrary cuses exdusively on Dartmouth; ex the liberal arts education in America is les J. Sykes documents the politiciza .'". -- ...-... amin\ng the erosion of its liberal arts in a sickly state. His prescription .for curriculum throughout the century. America's universities: quoting tion of the university, specifically o Dartmouth, over the past century. ~ While the first part of the book contains Barzun, Sykes tells the reader that $. Although his book is long on facts and j:l,. some educ~tionalinsight, the second America's universities are simply anecdotes, it is conspicuously devoid otil part is interesting oruyas a historical going through a phase, and if we wait of any intriguing new analysis. ~ record. long enough, the problems of the uni The book is divided into three i... The tale starts with Ernest versity will go away. parts. The first section, entitled "At "- Hopkins, Dartmouth's president in The Hollow Men is not a bad book, ~ tack on .the West," deals with the na <:l 1916. Contrasted with his successors, it is just not new. For someone not fa 1;;' tional trend toward a politicized and S Hopkins had a deepcommitrnent to a miliar with American academia, Sykes meaningless eurriculum in colleges liberal education arid academic free book would be very interesting and and universities. He observes that the dom. The successesofHopkins at Dart stimulating. He presents the basics of radical&of the 1960s have now taken mouth were, Sykes shows, quickly the corruption of the uni versity, and he conqolof higher education and are erased over the next decades. does this in an entertaining case study. tryijlgtoeliminate Western (i.e. white Sykes traces the' decline from the But for most in the U-M commu malekulture from the universities-a end of World War II, when both spe nity, Sykes book merely emphasizes revelation that, in its obviousness, fails cialization and diversity began to reign the obvious. For those who are already to startle. on campus. The rest.of the second sec concerned that they are not receiving a Sykes also examines a now com to the goal of a liberal education that tion enumerates various injustices on proper classical liberal education read mon educational theme - the move stresses theseatch for truth through campus: violations of the First Amend ing this book will teach ypu little and toward specialization. Instead of pro moral analysis,flot politically correct ment, ~ politicized faculty, an impo only depress you more than you al viding a classical liberal arts back propaganda. tent administration, haphazard ex ready are. ground, universities have become ob In addition, Sykes strongly em pansion of the curriculum emphasiz-. sessed with specialization and re phasizes the corruption of the concept ing victim studies, intimidation and search. According to Sykes and many of Diversity. He points out that diver violence in the name of diversity, and Michael Skinner is a freshman in others, this produces graduates with sity is originally a Western ideal, as the destruction of academic freedom. LSA and a staff writer for the Review. out the cultural knowledge or analyti neither the Africans nor the Orientals This book is documented wonder cal skills necessary to adapt to the fu had any doctrine of pluralism. West fully; Sykes uses quotations liberally ture. ern culture, however, is now under and presents a history remarkable for He proceeds to document the rise attack by students and administrators its comprehensiveness. The Hollow of victim studies: programs in Afri- in the name of Diversity. Men, however, lacks truly innovative Tonsor Continued from page 9 REVIEW: You have commented that The skills required are different. I TONSOR: I wish I knew. I see a political office is not the highest myself think that the observer is privi number of strains of conservatism. Left intellectuals are never wrong. achievement of an intellectual. This leged. He is paid by his fellow man to One of the things I do find distressing They believe themselves right no mat seems to contrast starkly with the look closely at things and describe is the lack of intellectual drive among ter what the evidence is. They cannot aspirations of many of your col what he sees and what it means. He is conservatives. They are becoming in accept either the verdict of history nor leagues. What then is the role of the not called upon to make the city water creasingly preoccupied with prag the verdict of the people. They are intellectual in our society? works function, nor to run the dog matic politics. We need people who simply antidemocratic in character. pound, nor to perform other political think about where conservatism is They say that the people do not really TONSOR: An intellectual is essen tasks. The observer tells you what the going, people who think in the long know. Rather they, the left liberals tially an observer. He observes the alternative possibilities for ethical and run, people who are not interested who purport to have some special world. He observes the past and has a political action are and what he thinks essentially, primarily, in winning the knowledge. It is a kind of Gnostic theoretical scheme through which he will be the costs of the alternative next election, but who think hard insidership. ''We know what is best interprets human experience. This is forms of action. This is the function of about social issues, cultural issues, and we will triumph." History may true of natural scientists, social scien an intellectual. and issues of values. ,These are the re decree otherwise, the people may say tists, and people in the humanities. ally important things. Winning the otherwise, yet they refuse to accept The role of the observer is quite differ REVIEW: Finally, where do you see next election is the concern of politi this. ent from the role of the actor in society. conservatism heading in the 1990s? cians. 11- . _1(9' ~ . u* ' "'JtI ~,*,,~~M~'>II~'·l '-'W-.~~~~.,.~")It"'~%~X-;l~~' ~~<:<,,~ :*: I. The-,MichiganReview,January 1991, p. 13 Ra.ce-8ased Aid .• . . . . .Continued From Page: 1 .' . ~ut~!,· any restrictiv~ ~~whatso- .. racHxclusive aid was .. : d~neby :a ~ J)on'tyou ~ve any compas~'?~r . .... :, ... , . ,:i/,·';· ")i~~ : ::~esssolici:t~ " for>~specific .. group of alumni, WQr~g ; Wit)lthe '." ....It!:Jl~~tesbearthebu r .- " , • ' ~ • , *, • .~ .",. ", ,'" '''.''''''-'''.,:'''_' '' ' The Michigan Review, Jan~ary 19.91,p. 14 Arts: Book Review U-M's Baxter Writes of Great Forces A Relative Stranger incomprehensible forces that at once Peaks. Both Baxter and Lynch possess fect love - can be tiresome. It reflects Charles Baxter evoke the mystery and variety of tra gifts for revealing the extraordinary in the kind of domesticated hippedom W.W. Norton and COmpany ditionallife. the ordinary - and for maintaining a that comprise the most undesirable Hardcover, $17.95 This time, Baxter takes his curious feverish tension between the two. elements of the "thirtysomething" 233 pgs. breed of "shock" and "commonality" Furthermore, both infuse a high generation. to new heights. Once again, his stories degree of restraint and moderation "Silent Movie," on the other hand, by David J. Powell are set in'southeastern Michigan - the into their strange tales. In fact, most of is one the most disturbing stories in the perfect mefaphor for middle class civi- the time, the characters follow a com collection. It is one of the few stories Charles Baxter is treading familiar prehensible, if not mundane, path. Yet where the spirit of compromise, or any ground again, but this time with a once the safety net tears, when, as one other moderating principle, is totally heightened quirkiness that makes his \ \\\I.d l\\· .) 11 '( 1118 ·[' 1~ critic noted, the forces of the "disor absent. This Molly Yard-inspired tale latest collection of short stories; A Rela E.: derly" and "iIlogical" intrude upon is, essentially, the story of a woman tive Stranger, his most profoundly til "ordinary lives," the mystery in every who leaves her husband because of an unsettling work yet. ~ day events is stripped of its conven OQ unspoken, yet deep-seated, hostility Hailing from Minneapolis, Baxter ...en tional understanding, open to re-- Music Decibels and Distortion at Hill Auditorium by Crusty Muncher This Friday evening Hill Audito Soundgarden~likegrunge-rap "Final Solution," Tracy Chapman's People," and . ''Funny Vibe" are fre- rium will play host to the most pene "Struggle For Jive." Expect a set of "Talkin' Bout A Revolution," and the o quently performed along with the hits trating guitar-heavy groove-rock stimulating tunes and a stage show to Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go." "Open Letter to a Landlord" and the ever to be pumped through its sound match from this new Dutch act. Also A speedy version of Chuck Berry's top 20 anthem "Cult of Personality." system. Urban Dance Squad and Uv expect to hear more from them "Johnny B. Goode" was on the original Lead singer Cory Glover belts out an ing Colour will stack their amps and throughout the decade. song list for the evening but, for some impressive gospelesque vocal iinprov and crank up the distortion in support reason, was not included. The song has introduction to "Landlord" that is of their latest releases, Mental Floss For been a common encore number on the bound to impress. And guaranteed The Globe and Time's Up respectively. tour. with the purchase of a ticket is a splen U.D.S.'smusicincorporatesapsy At the Latin Quarter performance did evening of fiery guitar virtuosity chedelic, blues-based fuzz guitar as the song list drew most heavily from from Vernon Reid who will dazzle all sault a la Jimi Hendrix and a rhythm the Time's Up album. The band per with each and every solo passage, es and rhyme barrage in the style of formed scorching versions of the pecially in his introduction to "Infor Shocklee's Public Enemy. The band's singles "Pride" and "Elvis is Dead" in mation Overload." DJ, DNA, serves up a slew of samples addition to an intense rendition of Acoustics have been a problem for and scratches that weave in and out of "Love Rears It's Ugly Head" which, if the band on tour so it will be interest Michel Schoot'srhythm patterns. Bas released as a single, could poSSibly pull ing to see how well Hill Auditorium sist Silly Sil and guitarist Tres Manos the album back into the high ranks of can handle the powerhouse rhythm provide the funky harmony that New York's Uving Colour is also the Billboard charts. section of bassist Muzz Skillings and Rudeboyrhymesoverwitha hardcore passing through the area on their Fans should expect to hear many drummer William Calhoun. style all his own. Time's Up tour for the second time. favorites from the Vivid album, the The Holland-based band per The band made a stop at Detroit's band's debut release which sold nearly Crusty Muncher is a staff writer for formed at St. Andrew's Hall over the Latin Quarter in November with a two million copies world-wide and the Review and digs hot women and summer in support of their then re song listthatincluded 14 of their finest peaked at number six on American cold beer. cently released debut. The set in iams. as well as covers of Pere Ubu's charts. "Middle Man," "Desperate cluded the entire Mental Floss For The Globe recQrd ~~ well ~an instrumental ' version of thti!CIlWJ\ classic "Sunshine of )'our : ,;Love." Rudeboy's unremittingly hyper persona had him • scaling ,.the ,speaker system and con~ tinually SWim diving into the crowd. Versipl\Sof , "M~ on the Comer" and the isample-rheavy MTVhit "Deeper Shade of Soul" were twice as intense as the r.ecord versions, as were "Prayer For My Demo" and the Redistricting Continued From Page 6 minds to creatively redistrict. Meade said that Ann Arbor's re districting process would not be com plete for at least two or three years. To insure that students do not get used as political fodder, he advises that they do more than simply vote for their favorite candidates in the upcoming city elections, which occur in April. He suggests that students contact their council members to let them know that they want the redistricting done fairly. Jeff Muir is a junior in general studies and a contributing editor for the Re view. Verrion, Muzz, Corey, and William, shown here wearing spiffy shirts, hope to see you this Friday evening. -"".""'.r"""'"'.'''''''''''''''''''''~----'''''''''''''""''"<.~ ' '''''-'"''''~'''-""-~ ... ~,,,=,,--.,,,,.,,~ ,, . "",,,,,,'8"""''''.'''''''''''' ,. ~' ~ ...... ,. The Michigan Review, January 1991, p. 16 Music Society Jamming with the Indigos by Ch,ns Pet~rs Ever since tile Athens, GeOrgia ords, a label created by Indigo Girl and "Atlas At Rest" typify the aggres Heaven" at the end of our set with scene churned out bands like R.E.M., Amy Ray, and is her company's first sive and unorthodox styles of Seay and them," said McGuire, referring to her Pylon, and the B-52's, the college town release. Ray produced and performed McGuire, who has a degree in music buddies Amy and Emily. "They're has been coined as the champion city on the album as well. and cites traditional jazz and contem going to play with us on some stuff and of southern rock n' roll. With the rise of "Amy's idea was to put all of the porary classical music as influences on we're going to play with them. It's fun the Black Crowes, the Indigo Girls, money into the record itself as op her style. On many songs she and Seay when we get to play in their element Drivin' n' Cryin', and the Ellen James posed to the marketing and publicity," dish out distorted frolicking tones over and they play in ours. It is more inter Society it seems thatthe city of Atlanta said McGuire from her Atlanta home, Lilje's basslines. Songs like "1 Am" and esting." has taken over. and it was this 'music first' philosophy ''Who You Might Be" feature pOJr The 40 minute Ellen James Society "Atlanta's music scene is very that attracted the band to Ray's label. style basslines behind furious guitar perfo~ance will include many songs eclectic and large," says Chris Reluctantly We is an impressive work and strong vocal melodies. from the debut release and possibly McGuire of the Ellen James Society. compilation of songs that take the lis McGuire and Seay share the lead vocal some surprises. Says McGuire, "Every Her band will perform with the Indigo tener on an unconventional journey of responsibilities. now and then we will do an old Ra ,Girls at Hill Auditorium on Wednes- musical twists and turns. The band The most impressive tune on the mones tune or a long improv to keep day, January 31. "On any given night combines the aggressive and distorted album is the eight-minute improvisa things intense." Expect an intense set there's 20 places where you can go see guitars of Cooper Seay and McGuire tional jam "God in Heaven" which was indeed from these Atlanta rockers. a band. In Athens there are only three." with primitive and equally aggressive recorded live in the studio and features The Ellen James Society have bro percussion from Scott Bland, a former Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Sali ken out of the thriving Atlanta scene jazz drummer. Bryan Lilje's pounding ers. The song is a punkish southern and into the national spotlight with basswork tightly holds the foundation rock number in the vein of Soul Asy Chris Peters is a freshman in LSA and their debut effort Reluctantly We. The of each tune. lum or Drivin' n' Cryin'. music editor for the Review. album was recorded on Daemon Rec- Tracks like "Tiger (By The Tail)" "We'll probably do "God in f COMPARE. GOT A SPARE PENe..! L, DLI DE. ? 1,~ I . . it.: \ ~j STUDENT A STUDENT B UNIVERsm TOWERS RESIDENT OFF·CAMPUS HOUSING RESIDENT ~1. 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