\!Glc nn Report Evaluates Gov. Engler by Adam DeVore Engl er' s 1992 record specifically Michigan's first brush with widespread principle to which more elected officials University of Michigan students are earned the Center's praise in over a dozen school choice, but educational choice re- ought to pay heed: it urges "an enlight- not the only ones who just received their tains important support ened perspective across state government, grades in the mail. The Mackinac Center within the State Depart- one that seeks to eradicate anything that for Public Policy, a non-partisan research ment of Education and suffocates peaceful, productive activity." A and educational organization based in the Michigan Board of careful review of "needless or overly bur- Midland, this Monday released The Engler Education, as well as the densome licenSing requirements," dam- Administration: A Mid-term Review, a criti­ legislature and, increas- aging zoning laws, and related ills is cal yet positive and optimistic evaluation ingly,amongst public consequently in order. of Michigan's current state government. school teachers them- One area the report refrains from Wherea'l Governor John Engler's perfor­ selves. addressing is the likely effect of the mance in 1991 earned him but a "B" from The Mackinac Cen- Clinton administration on Engler's re-, the Center, his second effort deserves an ter also criticized form efforts. Lawrence W. Reed, presi- "A-," the report maintains. Engler's mental health dent of the Mackinac Center and the Unlike President George Bush, care reforms, which have primary author of the report, wished to whom millions of Americans have"come "not been put forth in a withhold definitive judgment until to view ... as a man without a vision, a way that educates the _ Clinton has spent some time in the role of man devoid of deep philosophical roots public or allays legifi-.- president. "It is too early to tell for sure," that could define his mission and keep it mate anxieties." Though said Reed. on a clear and consistent course," Engler laudable, his welfare re- Reed noted, however, that he is con- "is perceived by friend and foe alike as a forms should have been cemed about the way in which environ- forceful leader who knows where he mote significant, the re- mental policy might be pursued. "We wants to take the state - toward less !RQrt suggested. Engler's may see considerable intervention and government, lower taxes, and a revital­ , ~l(i>Warddiminish- non-market approaches." ized private sector," the Mackinac Cen­ iri~ ' ''the coercive power But Clinton's experience as gover- ter reported. Michigan Governor John Engler of the state's labor unions nor of Arkansas may also have sensitized A rare species of political animal, and their political dout" him to the need for states to retain con- Engler has 'i not insulated his thinking respects, including his handling of the have likewise remrunedwanting. siderable autonomy. "On the positive from the hardships that ordinary people budget deficit without increasing taxes, The brief report endson a prospec- side, Bill Clinton was a governor and must endure as they cope with intrusive his redirection of the Commerce Depart­ tive' rather than 'ret'rosp'ective note; how- understands [the effects of] federal im- government," the report declares; he ment away from an industrial paradigm ever. Given recent Republican gains ir positions on states," said Reed. understands, perhaps more clearly than of "endless and dubious subsidy 'pro­ the Michi'gan Hous~ of Representatives" any other state's chief executive, that the grams," and his welfare program reforms the Center wriie~, Engler ought to "take Adam DeVore is a senior in philosophy best government is not the one willing to (which the review termed "one of the advantage of the new legislative oppor­ and Spanish and the editor in chief of do the most for or to its citizens. On that boldest .. . in the nation"). His stalwart tunities to employ innovative, market­ the Review. point the Mackinac Center is emphatic: opposition to increases in gasoline and based prescriptions for public policy. He cigarette taxes, like his (ultimately de­ should take risks, experiment, shake up [N]othing about government could feated) "cut and cap" proposal and his the status quo - because m~y of .; ,r be more" compassionate" than poli­ success in lessening the burden of the Mithlgan's long-standlngand'intractable cies which respect the rights of indi­ Single Business Tax, also won the problems are not amenable to,resolution viduals to enjoy the fruits of their Mackinac Center's praise. through mere tinkering at the edges." ·INSIDE' labor, to come to the aid of others The report also noted that "Engler While continuing to pursue prop­ with their own resources, to build haS put Michigan on the very cutting erty tax artd state pudget reductions, , enterprises, to develop free and edge of the national privatization' move­ Engler should also "move swiftly to . Serpent's Tooth 2 mutually beneficial relationships, to ment" while evincing !'a sensitivity to implement recomin~ 'nd~tions 9f the be a part of their children's educa­ privatizing sensibly and with apptopri- " Michigan Public/Private 'Partnership Letters 3 tion beyond merely paying the bill ate safeguards against abuse." Coll'l1TIission and to remove all existing ... Nothing about government could The report identified relatively few state barriers that inhibit privatization U-M'Computing 4 be more uncompassionate ... than areas of concern with Engler's mid-term by local government," according to the policies which repress the spirit of record. His pledge to "phase out" state report. Deregulation of the trucking in­ Even More Letters 5 inventiveness, dictate the minutiae funding for the arts "saw scant progress" dustry, as well as legal, auto insurance, of interpersonal rel~tions, deprive last year, just as Michigan's attempt to and labor reform also top the Mackinac Forrest Green III 6 workers of their earnings, or substi­ expand intradistrict public school choice Center's agenda for 1993. Educational tute the cold, indifferent hand of the manifested only the haziest and most choice is another area rife with potential Feminist Psych. S State for the nurture of family, ethereal signs of efficacy. Myriad politi­ for improvemen~. church, and community. cal, attitudinal, economic and logistical The report's final major recommen­ Cru~ty's Favorites 10 barriers detracted from the success of dation contains an essential statement of

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The Campus Affairs Journal Back in reality? The National Review states is writing a paper on the Middle East for going to be <;:arter II, really. of the that Gary Sick, of October Surprise fame, the Clinton transition team. No, this isn't Michigan won. The 'Canes lost 1993 is University of Michigan st~ng out as a good year ... until inau­ OUR. I c>t' SluR\( guration day, at least.

In the same issue, an article dealing with We are the Establishment the "Year of the Woman" noted that Su­ II Arrogant Maggot" Adam DeVore san Faludi's Backlash and Gloria Steinem's Rev?lution from Within "rode the bestseller Publisher Karen S. Brinkman list." Nice metaphor, guys. Executive Editors Andrew Bockelman In a related story, this one from USA Joe Coletti Today, AI Gore's Earth in 'the Balance was Tony Ghecea reported to have sold 250,000 copies, mak­ ing it the best-selling hardcover book on Cpntributing Editors Beth Martin the environment in history. Rush Jay D. McNeill . / / //;}7/ 7 /{/1; Tracy Robinson Limbaugh's book, by comparison, has Stacey L Walker sold a mere 8 million copies. Is it AI or his 0\-\, A~p i't1:1(£ subject that's lame? You be the judge. Music Editor Chris Peters Literary Editor Adam Garagiola Well, the recession ended almost two I Graphics Editor Will Ryan years ago, and Bill Clinton is still plan- . . ning to help us recover from it. In a Asslstant Editors Ryan Boeskool .1 Brian Schefke related story, he was pondering sendip.g- ·~ troops to Somalia. " Copy Editor Shannon Pfent Speaking of Somalia, when asked by the ' MTS Meister DougThiese Wall Street Journal if the U.S. military Systems Analyst Mitch Rohde should disarm the Somali warlords (as Business Assistants Peter Daugavietis United Nations Secretary General ChetZarko Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggests), the SliOOter responded, '1 was disappointed to see that a question of that much mo­ Staff ment had apparently not been fully dis­ Eddie Arner, Eric Berg, Michele Brogley, Erica De San tis, James E, Elek, Joe Epstein, Frank PE:B~~, t UloN-r t \OlD w) A~9 t F cussed between ourselves and the United Grabowski, Nate Jamison, Ken Johnston, Eric Nations before the mission had been Lepard, Mary the Cat, Bud Muncher, Crusty BEL\81E l"i ~~D~ \"T \J.JeRE~"r ~ \W:6£ undertaken. And I'm not criticizing our Muncher, Dave Perczak, Drew Peters, Renee 1ti'E' J~~Up.,l2..'< Sth PES\L..'-( \LtC6. f\T l1tF government ... but that is a very signifi­ Rudnicki, TS Taylor, Perry Thompson, Corey VJAL.L- ~WE€'T ~d)~AL \ IIV t E:(,J , (tJe t,0?lJ t..:.e:> Tobin, Martin Vloet, Michelle Wietek, Matt cant question." Of course he's not criti­ Wilk, Tony Woodlief. ~ ~t4\\.cWa ~ cizing our government. He'd have to be ~~E.~, \A AVrz ~t\l?N ffi)P>H Wrn\ \T, ToO, . on foreign soil to do that. Editors Emeriti Brian Jendryka John J. Miller Last year on ABC's Prime Time Live, Magic Johnson reveaIed that he had once had The Michigan Review is an independent, stu­ ) dent-run journal at the University of Michi­ sex with six women simultaneously. Only gan. We neither solicit nor accept any dona­ 19,994 to go, Earvin. tions from the University of Michigan. Contri­ butions to the Michigan Review are tax~educt­ We've just received word that our Moral­ ible under Section SOl(c)(3) of the Internal Rev­ enue Code. The Review is not affiliated with Relativist-elect has decided to usurp the any political party. powers of the papacy. Clinton appar­ ently wants to change the Ten Command­ Unsigned editorials represent the opinion of ments to the Ten Thoughtful Recommen­ the editorial board. Signed articles represent dations. the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of the Review. We welcome letters and articles and encourage comments about the journal and issues discussed in it Submissions for the SUITE ONE Serpent's Tooth, from 911 NORTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE staff or non-staff, are ANN ARBOR, MI 48109-1265

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To the Editor: students and researchers. Things change, To the Editor: have had their ranks decimated. It is I am an avid reader of the Review for and people must learn to adapt. In any I apologize for my anonymity but I sheer savageryl the past 3+ years, and I have found the case,' when one does research I would trust you'll understand why. Morale is at an all-time low among Review's articles sometimes thought­ think one would have ready all articles You hit the nail on the head with the rank and file workers - the ones who provoking, sometimes humorous and and books needed before any research is "Academics Sacrificed for Diversity" actually make the libraries function. sometimes utterly ridiculous. The two done. Most research labs probably have (December 2, 1992). Starting with former Diversity, whatever form, is the big-buck articles concerning the U-M library's their own stacks of pertinent literature~. Director Richard Dougherty, Deputy buzzword for the library. They even expenditure on diversity materials most and I would also say that the number of Director Carla Stoffle, and continuing recruited and hired a "Diversity" certainly fit in the last category. these perilous late night runs is minimal. with Dean Donald Riggs, we have been librarian and very little has beenheard of I am writing purely as a patron of the . In short your two main arguments-:­ . subjected to every managerial fad and him since. There is even a "Diversity'; U-M library system and have no loss of scientific materials due to gain of whlm imaginable. Tremendous amounts committee who spends their work time affiliation to the U-M libraries. It seems diversity materials and danger . to of money .have been wasted on these reviewing movies. They even show hill­ to me that the assumptions and researchers during nightlyJorays contain ideas. The Library is only interested in length films during the workday and . allegations leveled in these articles go false assumptions. TheU-M'libraryigains bottom-line statistics and not how this expect us to leave our work to see them ..·· way overboard. One of the arguments a very wen";'rounded colledion froin impacts on their workers. Fat chance! posited is thatjoumals are being canceled having ALL kinds of books and j04ffial~ In the meanwhile, the administration YOu've hita nerve with hundreds of indisaiminately for the sake of diversity and if you think $44,000 IS a lot to spend has growntop~heary with amaZing us.,- all colors, ages, ethnic groups, sexUal .. . spending. However, the Review gives no on diversityjournals,imagiMthe funds salaties for each. A huge bureaucracy is orientation, and bcith genders. Did I leC!ve indication thatthis is the case. I think it is spent on socialist and communist .now entrenched and has maoyin this anything out? I have made copies of your therefore probable that the library cuts literature, or for that matterjournals and group doinglittkof substapce for their arti<;le and wiUmake sure it is distributed. journals that are rarely, if ever, used. I books commenting on conservative . heftY salaries.Peopl~ w:hOhave worked Keep up the gOOt1ike til . wholeheartedly believe the library comment on it in this letter, except to canceled subscriptions to journals and mention that if a white stuclEmt really 'until i t'sl. has removed books based on how many wanted to ask a question of th~ PIC: times patrons checked them out. The ones counselors, I am surethey could do so with least circulation will make way for and most likely get a good answer.. . too late. different materials in hope of greater readership. I believe this assumption is Alex Sirota valid especially in light of the fact that the Computer science and Russian senior . SUBSCRIBE Review offers no evidence to the contrary. " Diverse journals and books would PS - You many attack my arguments , to the Michigan Review, probably be of more value in the day and all you want. As stated in A<,iam DeVore's the campus affairs journal of age than certain obscure and outdated fascinating article about Cohen's lecture the University of Michigan. scientific materials. on the abortion debate, for every With respect to the argument of argument 'one can think of a counter­ having to go out at night to do some argument, so I am sure you will not research in a remote library, I have to say disappoint me in finding every one of my Enclosed is my TAX-DEDUCTIBLE dona­ "1'00 bad. Just be careful when you do arguments flawed. Or will you? tion of $25 or more for 27 weekly

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'" From Suite One: Editorial " il;A' Only 259 to G'O... The slip of paper in your hand has the number 306 stamped on it in red ink: The You chuckle to yourself, or perhaps cry, at how that golden rule goes largely sign hanging from the ceiling changes from 46 to 47 as a voice overhead says unenforced, and think that strict enforcement cannot reasonably be expected, can it? "Macintosh 47. Macintosh 47." Your homework is due tomorrow morning and like What's really annoying, however, is knowing that as you wait, hundreds upon hundreds of other University of Michigan students, you've corne to Angell Hall in hundereds of University-owned computers sit idle in professors' and sundry bureau­ search of a computer. Your eyes survey the lobby as you contemplate whether to take crats' offices. Is that not wrong? When there are people in need, shouldn't the a seat on the crowded floor here or out in the more spacious, but uncarpeted hallway University function like the government, taking from the "haves" to provide for the while you endure the next two or three hours until your number is called. Perhaps "have nots"? you'll just go horne and take a short nap. What can be done to make this injustice real to administrators and give them a These, or similarly disheartening realizations, have struck many U-M students at reason to care sincerely about wait lists? Repossess all or most of the University's one time or another, often at an uncomfortably late hour, unsettlingly close to the end computers - from the old-5tyle Macintosh SEs that most resident advisors use in their of the tenn. Surely most are familiar with the solution - it arises each term, strains dorm rooms to the flashier and costlier one that decorates President Duderstadt's students' patience, and wreaks havoc on their nervous systems. Cotnputing center office. Claims about ownership are, of course, spurious. The fact is that there are idle waiting lists, anathema to all breathing stu<,lents, assert their reign of terror, becoming resources to which students, as members of the U-M community, are simply entitled. increasingly long as the tenn progresses and illustrating perfectly the need for some It would, after all, be absurd to computerize the waiting lists, so that if a computer substantive and intuitively practical solutions to the deficiencies of U-M computing were shut down for more than a few minutes, or if its countdown screen saver expired, clusters. . the next person's number would be announced automatically. Automatic, mecha­ What is perhaps more frustrating than knowing that there are over 250 people nized enforcement of time limits must surely be impossible. Such a solution is too between you and the next available computer, however, is the realization that many complex - and what's more, some students might find it inconvenient or frustrating! computers sit assigned but unattended. From the windows overlooking the bay of The repossession of the University's other computers would immediately allevi­ computers, you can see them: Vacant computers with blank screens, no users, and no ate a good portion of the wait, and what's more, the folks who run this University out-of-order signs. Could it be that your fellow students took their station authoriza­ would be forced to submit to the same sort of incomprehensible waitlists that students tion cards, left their computers unattended, and went horne to eat dinner and nap? invariably encounter. Impossible! Public resources are never abused by anyone, and certainly not that Such a solution may initially sound harsh. Would it strangle the computer­ flagrantly. dependent U-M bureaucracy? Probably, but so what? There are "have nots" in As you stare enviously at the unattended computers, you remember the signs on desperate need. the walls that warn computer users not to leave their stations for more than 15 minutes.

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The proposed Code appears to establish procedures which attempt to imitate [the] American legal system with some legal trappings and vocabulary retained but with the meaningful protections evis­ cerated.

The Washtenaw ACLU will be interested in talking to any student who is required to go through this process or who is disciplined after this process is applied to him or her. We will take seriously any request for representation from such a stu~ent who wishes to sue to negate the results of any hearing under the Code, to seek reimbursement for damages done to an academic career, and to seek reim­ bursement of expenses incurred."

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Science VS. Metaphysics Writing at t~e U-M

To the Editor: determine what entity cannot possibly To the Editor: to the T As during the T As' first year of I read with interest the summation of be a candidate for human personhood. I must say that I found Ms. Shannon teaching. The article goes on to say that Prof. Carl Cohen's talk on abortion (MR No entity with the genes of a chimp, for Pfent courteous and straightforward "they do not have much contact with Dec. 2, 1992) last Nov. 16. While I think he example [which has 98% of the same when she interviewed me a few weeks students." The mentors do, in fact, have did a valuable service by decrying genetic code as a human being] would be ago for her article on the status of. the a great deal of contact with their own bumper-sticker thinking on this subject, such a candidate.) First-year composition program at the students, since they are teaching classes I wish I had ben there to add my 2¢ to his To demonstrate, I suggest Prof. University (" Are Undergrads Learning while they mentor. Mentors also have a critique of the "human person" argument Cohen and other interested parties re­ to Write," November 18, 1992). While I lot of contact with the T As they mentor advanced by "conservatives" (to borrow read Mortimer Adler's liThe Difference share her concern about undergraduate during mandatory weekly T A meetings. his term). of Man, and the Difference it Makeslf in writing at the University, her They are also available informally to Part of the reason "conservatives" its entirety. From it I will distill a series of straightforward maner truly makes her a discuss other matters as they arise. advance the "human person" argument questions no "liberallf abortion advocate credit to your publication. One particular Further, I do consider them eminently on genetic grounds is to counter "liberal" has thought to ask, yet is critical in statement in her article, however, seemed qualified in their capacity as mentors. I claims that the fetus is part of the woman's determining just "whatlf a fetus "is" (a to me somewhat ambiguous as it believe I was quite emphatically positive body ("It's my body ... " etc.); that is, metaphysical question if I ever heard appeared in the Review. I would like to about my mentor experience in my clearly the fetus is not part of the "person" one), since we all agree there is some sort clarify. conversation with Ms. Pfent, though I of the woman (totally different DNA), so of difference between the fetus and the I am referring to the remark on page dare say my enthusiasm was not "liberals" cannot use that as a basis for adult which is its mother: 10, column 3, in which I am mentioned as unequivocally manifest in the article. abortion. saying that part of the guidance a new I mention this simply in the interests If the fetus is not part of the "person" 1) What are the Modes of Difference, i.e., English Composition teaching assistant of fairness. Though this may seem a minor of the woman, as demonstrated by the "ways" one thing can "differ" from received in 1990-91 consisted of meetings point, I would not want kudos deserved science, then "what it is" must be another? with his/her assigned mentor. Mentors, to go unnoticed, especially since this thoroughly understood before any 2) Which of these Modes is applicable to as the article correctly says, are lecturers mentor program was such a key legitimate settlement of the abortion the fetus? or professors - to my knowledge only component of my English T A training. debate can be made. Yet it is precisely 3) Why? lecturers or professors - with experience "" thie; question "liberals" have failed to 4) What are the implications of this Mode I teaching composition who are assign~d -'""'Rob Sulewski address, even though it is obviously of Difference applied to the fetus as pertinent to the serious matter of abortion. opposed to another, i.e., what difference To his credit, Prof. Cohen does try to does this Difference make? i~ Rudolph the Whit-e--l-ai-Ie-d?-. tackle just this matter, but in a less-than­ convincing manner. To begin with, he Until the "liberal" abortion advocate To the Editor: forget last year's book review disputing makes a typical equivocation between answers these questions in an intelligible I was perusing an otherwise typically Darwinian evolution, or all the gripping science and metaphysics by his assertion manner, I personally will give the fetus mediocre music review by Crusty environmental opinions given to us by that "being a human" is a "scientific the benefit of the doubt by considering Muncher in your final issue of Fall Term those natural resources experts at the category," while "personhood" is a "it" a human person in pontentia. 1992 when I came across the byline, which Review? All of this points to the simple "moral category." (Defining "human" (,,'Potentiality' is not another name for detailed Mr. Muncher's success in observation that the editors of the Reivew involves more 'than science, just as 'non-being,'" as myoid philosophy shooting Rudolph the Red,..Nosed should stick to covering topics they are "personhood" is more than merely a professor put it. "You can't squeeze blood Reindeer during the November firearm familiar with (don't worry - you'll moral category.) from a turnip, or water from a rock. A deer season. I felt myself compelled to stumble on one eventually). And the rest This is an assumption that is often blind man and a sighted man both cannot respond. of us, who found Christmas trees laden contested and yet to be proved. Science is see in a dark room, but the sighted man It would be obvious to anyone who with gifts from a well-guided Santa's certainly a necessary means to defining sees potentially, and that potentiality is has ever picked up a book of natural sleigh, can rest easy for another year. human nature, but not a sufficient means. something very real.") history or watched one of those cool It is, crudely put, a mixed question to be That is my "choice" in this matter. wildlife documentaries on PBS that the Chris Bzdok answered by an integrated approach of The abortion advocate, of course, is free Review's claim is zoogeographically LSA Senior and 1984 State Champion science and philosophy. (By Prof. Cohen's to make another. But he (or 'she') is not impossible. Whereas the white-tailed "Name that Organism!" own words, 1/ •• , what characteristics are free to choose the consequences of his deer, Odocoileus virginianus (such as Michigan Junior High Science Olympiad essential to the presence of a human choice. That is why we live in an order, Bambi, who the Review,~so claimed Mr. person is a deep philosophical question not a chaos. Muncher to have bagged), ranges in whose answer cannot take the form of an Michigan and the northerrl United States Join the empirical report.1f Now this is surely Adam Condic and thus is legal and possible to hunt, absurd. Science, for instance, can at least University of Michigan Alumnus Rudolph is a reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, Michigan Review the arctic, Eurasian counterpart to the North American caribou, and thus would Suite One be found nowhere near Michigan, Writing Editing 911 North University Avenue especially during white-tail "season. Mr. Muncher's boastful lie is Graphic Arts Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1265 sypmtomatic of the Review editorial staff's Photography consistent lack of even grade school­ Business Letters to the Editor should be typewritten or legibly handwritten and level aptitudes in the life sciences. Who, include a phone number where the author may be reached. Letters may for example, could forget Jeff Muir (BGS, also be submitted on disk (in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh) or '92) and his classic 1990 critique of the Sundays • 7pm. electronically Via MTS (send to MThe Michigan Review"). lack of scientific rigor in his "Biology for Michigan League, 3rd Floor non-scientists" class? Or who could 6 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW January 6, 1993

Letter to the Editor An Open Letter to "The Establishment" Forrest Green III Responds to the Review's Challenge

On February 6, 1992, Forrest Green III all of that. In Textbook For Victims of White racism as lithe most ugly and hypocriti­ and/or "anti-color" in the physical wrote in his Michigan Daily - Weekend Supremacy, Neely Fuller, Jr" defines a cal form of racism there is," This writer make-up or appearance of persons. etc. column, "The Michigan Review, my "cycle of racism" as "racism that is prac- . then masterfully posits black people in 3. Racism "for the sake of" rac­ own pick for what is truly the most regres­ ticed in such manner that its existence the place of white people, as the benefi­ ism. sive, white supremacist publication in Ann and/ or its seriousness can only be ciaries of systemic racism as practiced by Arbor, uXJUld weakly depict me as an extrem­ 'proven' by those ....------...... --, Off the top, I can ist." The Review responded with both a who are practicing count four of you who challenge on its oum pages and a letter to the it, and those who Expect continued racial attacks made upon, and in the last year wrote Daily. are the victims of the racial exhibits made of, black people who speak to suggest that racism The former read, in part, "Since nobody practice." On that is caused by peop Ie on our staff can recall endorsing white su­ note, let's see how simply and fearlessly against white supremacy. other than white premacy, we would like Mr. Green to refresh neatly my assertion These "exhibitions" might follow the lines of ... people: Adam our memories." The latter challenged Mr. fits this definition as DeVore, Doug Thiese, Green to "prove that your allegations are a victim's proof - President-elect Bill Clinton against activist Brian Schefke and accurate." It continued, "The Review will and how your reac­ Tony Ghecea. Now, let print, unedited, an essay written by you, of tion in these very Sister Souljah in the summer of 1992. us pretend that each up to 1,000 words, which seeks to demon­ pages goes so much and every victim of strate that your vile twaddle is even approxi­ further to prove the white supremacy who mately true . ... fYJoudid not bother to sub­ same thing. the U.s. government. None of the state- responds to this system with "the hate stantiate your claims when you made them." In the February 12, 1992, issue of the ments about racism on the flyer are true. that hate produces" is a racist. Even if this The following unedited essay is Mr. Review, a malicious barrage of insults This writer has chosen to ignore the were true - and it'isn't - the combined Green's 1,719-word response, which was and false statements were directed at me, truth that the dominant soci~material power of all of these "racists" put to- submitted approximately 300 days after the in response to my February 6, 1992, col­ system throughout the known universe gether still equals zero in comparison to challenge was first issued. Does Mr. Green umn, "Notes From Underground." The is dominated by white people, and 4sed-"'~'~the power collectively possessed by white succeed in his endeavor? Only you, the reader, violence culminated in a challenge to me, to subjugate all non-white people - in- supremacists. And so, with a bit of togi- can be the judge of that. next to a hideous Iroquois Indian "coon eluding Asian Americans - at all times, cal deduction, your arguments about "re- As an aside, those interested in the face" that, to many people, seemed a and in all places. Having made these verse racism" become as comical as hear- Iroquois mask issue to which Mr. Green demonstration of vicious racism. Adam deceitful statements to pretend that white ing the Big, Bad Wolf beg Little Red refers should note that it has been discussed DeVore skillfully referred to the mask as people are the victims of "black su- Riding Hood for mercy after eating her on the MTS conference MREV:Forum and coming from a "false face society," im­ premacy/' this writer then proceeds to goddamned grandmother. And just as was the subject of a letter in the Review. The plying that because the mask was not promote the elimination of the compen- ridiculous. graphic used in the original challenge printed speCifically Afrikan, this was not a racist satory practice of affirmative action. This In short order, the Review has been in the Review was identified as a mask of the act. But in truth, the intended effect of the writer apparently believes that "equal used to attack the Afrocentric academic Iroquois False.Face Society in the book from mask, regardless of its origin, was racist rights" means no compensation for the movement, the U-M Black Student which it was taken. violence. It was correctly understood as unjust status quo in this country, which Union, and UeAR, all of the counter- We at the Review cordially thank Mr. such by your readers, because obviously, is none other than white supremacy. This racist systems, In attempting to "justify" Green for his thoughtful, eloquent reply, and many different "false faces" have been flyer itself is a racist act. these racist attacks, you've senselessly encourage other readers to express their di­ displayed in the Review, at many different On this note, here are three compen- tried to erase the very real effects of rac- vers opinions on the matter. - Ed. times - all of them to­ satory":functional defi- ism on people of color, while trying to wards the same end of nitions of "white su- invent a "black racist" who doesn't exist. by Forrest Green III promoting white su- Adam DeVore, premacy" (from Text- Your journal has been used to "expand" Let's start with the assertion I made premacy. tl book For Victims of White the effects of racism - by convincing against your journal: To the extent that a There have been you apparen Y Supremacy): angry black people that they are some­ racist has anything to do with it, the many other insulting at- believe that by how the racists - and "refine" the status Michigan Review is used to deliberately tempts at expanding 1. The direct or quo of racism, by trying to make non­ promote white supremacy, moreso than and refining racism the sheer force of indirect subjugation of white people" comfortable" with the sys­ any other Ann Arbor publication I've made on this campus in your petty in- all "non-whit.e" tem of racism. Both acts are themselves read so far. I realize that this essay comes the past year. Most no- people by white methods of promoting white supremacy long after your challenge to me. How­ tably, a confusing flyer suIts, you could people, for the basic (racism). ever, the principle underlying my origi­ telling white people to k I purpose of IIpleasing" nal statement, truth in the face of false­ "tell someone aboutrac- ma e me ose and/or serving any or My biggest problem with the "re­ hood, is far more important to me than ism" has caught my eye. faith in my mis- allllwhite" persons, at verse racism" assertion is that I tend to entertaining the public. This was an ef­ The anonymous writer • all times, in all places, place more importance on actions, and fective beginning for counter-racist dis­ of this flyer refers to the Slon. Arrogant in all areas of activity, systems, th~ thought and speech. And course. Frantz Fanon said, "Mastery of compensatory practice maggot you're including economics, I'm tired of hearing people talk about language affords remarkable power." So of affirmative action as ' education, entertain- how good they are when it comes to rac­ maybe some justice can come from the "racism specifically de- pathetic. ment, labor, law, poli- ism, so I'm making two suggestions here: communication that my power has af- . signed to discriminate tics, religion, sex, and If Afrikan people would stop pacifying forded. against white people war. ourselves and act - united under our I'd rather not waste precious time and Oriental people:' He or she proceeds 2. The only functional racism, in blackness to solve our collective prob­ trying to debate useless terms and argu­ to define efforts made by U~M faculty existence, among the people of the lems as a people - we would move ments, "Who's the real oppressor?" and and administration to compensate for known tmiverse, that is based on "color" forward towards the goal of ending white

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supremacy. If people who have bought ric." Also, expect writers asking black "white" as a description of themselves, intellectuals to "drop" black ideology PRESIDENT would take responsibility for themselves that is "stubborn," "divisive," "racist," 't· '. as people, and not "whites" - that means "anti-American," "anti-Semitic," "anti­ ,. ~ '. stop trying to reinvent yourselves as etc." "white" and "innocent" through igno­ V/GORJ tpfGOONA rance and deceit - we would move for­ c. Increased attacks by white po­ &! [X) rr.... litical organizations and media upon ward towards the goal of eriding white WOUlmi ~ supremacy. non-white people in academia, non­ NEW ~ ! Probably the best part of the entire white political organizations, etc., as be­ iDEAS •I controversy between your paper and me ing "the new racists," "thought police," was hearing the truth pop out of so many "extremists," "destroyers of free speech," mouths, without bidding. The "refine­ "destroyers of American traditions," "de­ ment stage" of white supremacy depends stroyers of etc." upon how painlessly that cycle of racism can continue without the truth coming 4. Expect eventual progression of out, without snags, like my revelation. terms, leading to more confrontatiens Based upon my observations of the Re­ between non-white people and white view, Afrikan people, white supremacy supremacists. Expect eventual abandon­ and the U-M, here are some more things ment by victims of confusing, useless I~b~ to watch for as the cycle continues to terms, such as "reverse racism," IIblack "lRo 061. Et)" \~E~ · AGE.R break down: racist," IIprejudice," etc. Expect more «1~o\Yol.W" ie.W-AGER ~ ~w,o~G A~il-GON l.~W It;, ?p..'O'S~D! victims speaking and acting effectively ~TI,W \S ?A~'OE.P~ 1. Expect continued lengthy, against white supremacy. philosophical assertions by writers ar­ guing the "counter-productiveness" of On this note I'd like to thank as mapy thinking in terms of blackness, asking friends and inspirators as I can remem­ black people and other people of color ber for pushing me along to this point in to think "more logically," or "color­ history: Randall Kirk Gibbs, Turahn .. blind," i.e., "colorless," i.e., "white." Dorsey, Lester Spence, Kofi Boone, E'.M .W., Scott Sterling, Devlin Ponte, 2. Expect continued racial attacks Neely Fuller, Jr., Chuck D., Harry Allen made upon, and racial exhibits made of, and Elaine Green. Black men and woman, black people who speak simply and your strength is appreciated. The struggle fearlessly against white supremacy. continues. As for you writers of the Re­ These "exhibitions" might follow the vieuJ, I will admit that your recalcitration lines of verbal attacks made by MSA gave me juice at times when there was no representative J. William Lowry upon reason to continue. Adam DeVore, you Network for Equal Economic Develop­ apparently believe that by the sheer force' ment advisor Safiya Khalid on March of your petty insults, you could make me 24,1992, and President-elect Bill ainton lose faith in my mission. Arrogant mag­ ~~ ~ against activist Sister Souljah in the got, you're pathetic. It's people like you summer of 1992. who make it all come down so much ~ more quickly. 3. Expect continued attempts by As I said last year, the Review was, at white political organizations, newspa­ the time, the most striking example I -( pers, power groups, etc., to confuse, could find of the deliberate promotion of misguide, dislocate and deceive people white supremacy in Ann Arbor. The few ~r~ e.~~\<.~ of color speaking and/or acting to unite times I've glanced at a copy of the Review Iii::> 'OPR~D\l\\c;,.~ as victims. These wi}l include: this year, it seemed as if little has changed WJ.l~T lCO IT? since then. You should use the truth that a. The "pointing out" by white has been revealed about your journal to writers, politicians and media of "divi­ create justice, but at any rate, I leave you sions" between black intellectuals, activ­ with' the following words on justice ver­ ists and scholars concerning the" estab­ sus racism: lished" "black line," in order to confuse White supremacy breeds opposition and separate black people. to white supremacy. Non-justice breeds opposition to b. The "pointing out" by writers of non-justice. "contradictions" and I or"dividedness" Incorrectness breeds opposition to in black diversity of thought, in order to incorrectness. confuse attempts to unite under black­ This is the Law of Compensation, ness among black intellectuals, activists, which can be used to explain each and students, workers, etc. Expect more writ­ every act of progress throughout the ers trying to divide black intellectuals known universe, including the comple­ between H conservative" II American" ide­ tion and submission of this essay. ology, and "backwards" "black rheto-

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\; Book Review - 11 ,,' Disrupting the Sciences with Social Theory Dlaruptlve Voices: The Possibilities there is "a vibrant strain of feminist psy­ pretense of objectivity which has dis­ Fine's book unfortunately drifts from of Femln/at RfNIeMCh chology ... the transformative impact of torted or ignored important questions one topic to another rather freely, often at Michelle Fine feminism has been sorely lacking." about (for example) the social construc­ the expense of confUSing or conflating University of Michigan Press Gordon and Fine feel that feminism tion of gender roles while parading in the distinct subjects. The essay "Silencing Softcover has not penetrated the mainstream of guise of neutrality. As a result, they con­ and Nuturing Voice in an Improbable 267pga. psychology; mainstream psychology, the tend, "the social relationships and con­ Context: Urban Adolescents in Public authors believe, leaves fundamental texts in which women weave their lives School" discusses the alleged opposition by Brian Schetke questions of power and gender unan­ are excluded as if irrelevant .. ." Thus, to dialogue on topics such as racism and Disruptive Voices is the latest title in swered and insufficiently explored. "In Fine and Gordon believe, traditional psy- power inequities at a public high school the UniverSity of Michigan Press' "Criti­ our attempts to bring feminism to psy­ in . cal Perspectives on Women and Gender" chology," they write, "we have ... re­ [O]ne must commend Gordon and Relatively little of series. This particular volume explores fused questions of power asymmetry and this essay focuses on issues in feminist scholarship and a femi­ defaulted to the benign studies of gender Fine for ... admitting that the na­ women; it instead nist philosophy of research. differences." ture of their enterprise is ... to addresses these much Compiled by Michelle Fine, an ass0- Whatever academic criticisms one broader issues which ciate professor of psychology in educa­ might lodge against feminist science, one impose a social activist paradigm she alleges are taboo tion at the University of Pennsylvania, must commend Gordon and Fine for in public school sys­ the book is actually a collection of essays openly and forthrightly admitting that on science. Even if one believes tems - social ills un­ on social research written or co-written the nature of their enterprise is to bring that the element of bias per se is doubtedly of interest by Fine. feminism to psychology, or put more to maJ.lY but of dubi­ In the first essay, "Feminist Trans­ explici tly, to impose a social activist para­ not new, its flagrancy is remark­ ous relevance to im­ formations of/ despite Psychology," Fine digm on science. Even if one believes that able. proving the New and her co-author, Susan Merle Gordon, the element of bias per se is not new, its York City public explore the effects that feminist scholar­ flagranl=Y is remarkable. schools. Though ship has had on the field of psychology . The authors maintain that psychol­ chology is not politically neutral after all; many of the students involved in Fine's Fine and Gordoo cooduded that although ogy has historically maintained a fal"., the politics of oppression and "h~ge--"-'study were f~male, the essay delves more mony" are perpetuated through a false deeply into issues of race and class rather sense of objectivity. Fine and Gordon than gender, topics which Fine ties to- therefore propose a "political feminist gether in her call that "we recognize the psychology." Through "novel ways of extent to which these institutions learning" and by exciting "feminist imagi- [schools] nonetheless participate in the nations toward interruptive questions of very reproduction of race, class, and gen-

epistemology, methodology, methods, der inequities." ,ff and p'olitics," Fine and Gordon wish to Fine in this study seems to use little begin a project of psychology with social feminist construction and instead places change as its goal. the study into a wider political context- 9:30 This general outlook is frequently a revealing tactic which leaves the re<1der 10 " espoused ~y feminist authors, including more curious about potentially ulterior 5:00 .. Sandra H4rding (Whose Science? Whose motives for (or secondary objectives of) MONDAY ; TUESDAY ;WEDNESDAY THURSDAY • I ' • Knowledge?'} and any number of so-<:alled this work than the subject matter of the post-modem theorists in any number of essay itself. 11 :00 1,-30 1:30 1:30 0 , : 30 1:30 . 9:30 fields, from anthropology to literary criti- In "Beyond Pedestals: Revisiting the 10 10 to 10 10 to to 0 0 0 0 0 cism. Much of this criticism and theoriz- Lives of Women with Disablities," Fine 6:0 9:0 9:0 9:0 1:30 6:30 6:0 ing appears self-defeating, however, for and co-author Adrienne Asch explore an SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY ,WEDNESDAY THURSDAY • I ' in the name of fairness or breaking down issue not often found in feminist litera- 12:00 1',:30 9:00 9:00 9:00 . 9:00 9:30 histOrically constructed obstacles, it im- ture. Here, Fme and Asch find that women to 10 10 TO 10 TO 10 poses its own ideological and theoretical with disablities suffer the oppressive- 4:00 1:00 1,,00 6:00 6:00 6:00 5:00 presuppositions. In its haste to liberate, n~ of sexism compounded by the prob- much au courant theory only confines in lems of disablity. The adversity experi- new ways. enced by the handicapped, according to One may wonder, moreover, Fine and Asch, result more from society's · whether Fine's feminist research can ac- ideas about disability rather than the con-

o tualIy illuminate any new or scientifi- ditions themselves. They write, "It is the cally reliable knowledge. By so sharply attitudes and institutions of the defining not only the context but also the nondisabled ... that tum characteristics goals of her research a prio~ Fine's project into handic~ps." Here, as elsewhere, there Main Bookstore: 549 East University seems to amount to a politically trendy is a grain of truth in what Fine has to say; ArUEngineering Store and study of a self-fulfilling prophecy. She all evaluative judgements about prob- Electronics Showroom: will "discover" exactly what she has set lems, disabilities, and other matters - 17 South University out to find. Is Fine pioneering a new and about how to respond to them - Phone: 313-662-3201 psychology, or is she committing - in must be made relative to some standards, Monday-Friday 9:00-6:00 Saturday 9:30-5:00 the name of social change - the same whether those be standards of what is URE THAN A BOOKSTORE Sunday Noon to 4 :00 mistakes which she accuses her contem- good, right, or simply normal. But Fine's poraries of committing? sometimes accusatory tone and oversim-

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plified attempts at redefinition strain league Pat Macpherson and four teenage Fine' ssubjects related. This makes for differs from what her colleagues would common sense. girls about "being young women in the more interesting reading, but at the same find or have found - other than matters Fine and Asch add that disabled 1990' s," Fine and Macpherson use these time 'IS of little value from a research of political interpretation? women not only face economic hard­ conversations.to explore feminism as it standpoint: Four adolescent women, Disruptive Vai ces is essentially the ship, but are "exempted" from normal relates to younger women and how it while proViding a more intimate conver­ unification of many feminist ideas on the interpersonal relationships. In this re­ differs from their ideas on feminism. sation, are a small sample from which to future of feminism. It attempts to show spect, Fine and Asch argue, disabled Fine and Macpherson note that the draw conclusions about feminism and where feminism in the academy is going women are "doubly oppressed." Unlike young women expressed their feminism younger women. and thus serves as a harbinger of what many of her contemporary colleagues, through resistance to male domination. Fine heavily cites others' research­ may come in the areas of psychology and Fine is seldom directly critical of men Though this may not be much different and in some cases her own - but it is not sociology. Whether feminist input will qua men; it is in "Beyond Pedastals," from their own views, Fine and until the final essay, "Passion, Politics, invigorate and renew academic discourse however, that her critical tone reaches its Macpherson nonetheless felt that testi­ and Power: Feminist Research or simply splinter academic disciplines apex. And so she argues that this oppres­ mony of young women and their capaci­ Possibilites," that Fine gives a stronger remains to be seen. Fine's fixation on the sion is rooted in society's, and especially ties to resist have often been ignored by view of what she feel s that feminist re­ trite metaphors of race, class and gender, men's, concepts of attractiveness. Because older feminists. search should be. (Curiously, Camille however, ultimately obfuscates her pre­ disabled women do not fit, into "male According to the authors, there were Paglia's voice never disrupts Fine's bibli­ dictions; her prominent criticisms of notions of attractivness" and do not dis­ "cultural" differences as well. The two ography.) This essay is basically a flesh­ vaguely defined social arrangements play the physical grace and ease that men black adolescents were "connected" to ing out of the psychology piece. Fine overshadow the few concrete critiques desire, disabled women are more likely other women in a sort of "extension of speaks of "activism" and how it is central she offers. to be rejected, self." A sense of community pervaded to feminist scholarship. In such research, Fine and Asch further argue that dis­ their womanhood, while in the white. she states, "the author is explicit about Brian Schefke is a junior in chemistry abled women "elicit anxieties about their and Asian adolescents, "being female" the space in which she stands politically and cellular and molecular biology and [non disabled people's] helplessless and was more individualized and private, and theoretically." Furthermore, femi­ an assistant editor of the Review. needs" especially with respect to men. less connected to their mothers and fe­ nist research should "display critical This also causes men to reject the idea of male friends. analyses of current social arrange­ Become a book reviewer a disabled mate because they "fear both "Over Dinner" reflects one of the ments .. ," their ow n and another's dependency and greatest strengths of Fine's book. Much Such candor is admirable, but again for the Review. intimae)." Here again her oversimplifi­ of the book is anecdotal in nature, with raises the question, What would a re­ Staff meetings Sunday, 7p.m., " ca hm ~ - (lnp" which seem to evinc" excerpts from interviews and stories that searcher like Fine find that intrinsically Michigan League. 3rd Floor only a limited understanding of repro­ ductive psychology, anthropology and perhaps natural selection - frequently discredit her analysis; yet such reasoning II'Offers To Warm You is the inescapable result of imposing gra­ UprrCardlnaU I Garment Care Centers I tuitously political theory upon a social 1 . . I science, In her rush to describe gender I Authorized U of M Drycleaner relations in terms of constructed and con­ ditioned prejudice, Fine neglects to con­ I sider alternate and arguably more plau­ I We offer sible explanations Jor the phenomena • convenient dry cleanlng under examination.' In "Beyond Pedestals" and other dis­ : pick-up and delivery cussions, it is plain that Fine's favorite ,; . , ,at a{l residence hall way to categorize people is by race; she I ". front oJfices typically privileges racial or power-sta­ tus premised categorization to kinds of •I -Shirts disability. Her phraseology favors terms -Sweaters 'IEIHl". PIZZA - ~3.'J3 L\IH;I·: PIZZ.\ - ~X.l)3 I like 'disabled women of color' to 'women -Skirts with hearing impairments: I I A ~edium deep dish or ro~nd pizza II A,Iarge:deep dish or ,round pizza , I' I -Dresses Although Fine provides an interest­ I With cheese and one toppmg only II with cheese and ?ne topping only I ing look at women not normally -Slacks acknowleged within the feminist move­ •I -Suits ment, she and Asch, like many feminists, : $5.95 (pl","x). :: $8. 95 PI"'iax). : 5 :Jnqutre' our services at tend to place men in a monolithic bloc. Val id only at PackardlHill II (2m. ~' . Valid only at PackardlHillI ~1;>out Fine differentiates between nondisabled and Broadway locations. . . and Broadway locations. .,your front desk or call us for It@m ~ ~ Not val id with other offers. I I . .. rtf. Not valid ':Vith other o.ffers· 1 and disabled women, women of differ­ . tIi:::. One coupo n per p,zza. ; . ~, One coupon per pIZZa. , • the Resiqence Hall Student ent races, women with different view­ I So1Jce 1948 ruza Umited delivery area. II ~ 1948rr&lCl Umited delivery area. I ,I Prices ... ,...... _~Io> Expires May 1,1993. · ..J L .. . :. ·1IIJIIo-_ ... · Expires May 1, 1993• . .J. points within and across such groups, L and so forth; but men are simply "men" ------~ ----- Central Campus--546 PackardIHill in Fine's picture and seem to manifest • comparatively little diversity of thought I• and condition. Fortunately, she seldom 769-5555 I explicitly gives in to the temptation posed I by such grouJrbased thinking. --~'nn I Since 1948 , J ~ North Campu,··927 MaUknlAn' "Over Dinner: Feminism and Ado­ I lescent Female Bodies" relates a series of conversations between Fine and her col- Lik. pUll WI5 nwnt to beN 995 -9101 L• ______971-0442 .J

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