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The UWEstablished 19btMi Posvolumte 42 , Number 14 December 11, 1937 NEWS December11^997 ine UWM Post Solemn Responsibility Gar­ some members from the liberal side. violation of Section 4 of the Ethics members having run out ol their But she had little success seeking Code, with a maximum penalty of a debts and having sought to evade bage to get Senators Robb, Skibicki, formal reprimand, federal taxes - apparently some­ Vigniette one from Sunday's SA Risler, Kalish, Bernard, Pankratz thing the SA is prepared to reward. legislatathon: the vital business of Seen & and Emerson hauled up on charges Stacking II the day includes one item placed on of violating the Ethics Code's Sec­ Vigniette two: SA President Jes­ Rosek Impeachment II the agenda at the behest of infa­ tion 3.8, whose author says, "is sica Angus pronounced herself The Post was invited once again to mous senatorette Rachel completely inapplicable to the cir­ "nearly in tears" Sunday when early note the impeachment of Matt Rosek "McCarthy" Morris, whose bill of cumstance." When her scheme in the meeting a of new Heard from his position in the College impeachment against several col­ was torpedoed, Morris herself left in members were added to the Senate Republicans. Again, the embattled leagues was signed in "Solemn Compiled by the Post staff a huff, flinging her meeting materials while a candidate she favored was Rosek was granted a reprieve. Responsibility." She was not alone into the trash. Her departure ulti­ passed over. Sources requesting anonymity say in being outraged that the previous mately contributed to a loss of quo­ Rosek turned on the waterworks meeting had been cut short by the rum. Her early departure, like that of The Leader gin a new paper. The principle rea­ and earned the pity of his peers, politically-motivated departure of those she sought to prosecute, is a Vigniette three: After spending 40 son the funds were made available proving that Republicans are not minutes debating the merits of a to the new Leader newspaper and heartless after all and that despite a $225 allocation, the Senate passed not the Post, according to Presi­ fascistic reputation, Rosek is actu­ &&&&&&&&&S&&&&&&& virtually without $12,000 for dent Angus, was that the Leader ally a sensitive nineties man who's former members of the Post to be- was a new paper, by virtue of its not afraid to show his feelings.

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the meeting, but thinned as the Women's Recource Center, Norris By Gary Grass evening progressed. The session Health Care Center, Wisconsin of the Post staff lasted over eight and a half hours, Student Public Interest Research Last Sunday's SUFAC budget the longest meeting this year. It Group, United States Student As­ The Student Association Sen­ broke up with items still remaining sociation, Student Organization Athletics $50.20 ate approved a multimillion-dollar on the agenda when several sena­ Advising and Resources, Univer­ budget proposal to the Board of tors departed, leaving the assem­ sity Legal Clinic and Off Campus UPARK $1.50 Regents during a marathon meet­ bly short of the minimum atten­ Housing Referral Service. ing Sunday night. dance required for it to conduct Each of these services or groups UPASS $31.00 Exact figures were not available business. is funded by a single line of the atpresstime, but the total allocated SUFAC budget, which establishes Women's Transit $0.75 in the budget was slightly above SUFAC an amount that will be assessed $100 per student per semester, each semester for each student The issues that consumed the SOAR $3.60 which would be in the range of four greatest portion of the Senate's (either uniformly or adjusted for million dollars. courseload) to pay for that group or attention on Sunday were the ones Student Orgs $6.90 The budget did not change from dealing with money. Two types of service. The Senate debated each that proposed last week by the Seg­ line independently. legislation were involved, pertain­ Legal Clinic $1.60 regated University Fee Allocation ing to what are commonly called University administrators re­ Committee, and closely resembles sponsible for each SUFAC-funded "SAC and "SUFAC monies. WISPIRG $1.00 the current operating budget, with Allocations of money to student department were present to an­ line items for such services as the swer questions concerning their organizations from an account USSA $0.50 Child Care Center, student orga­ jointly controlled by the SA Presi­ respective budgets. nizations and Women's Resource dent, Senate and Senate Appro­ In the end however, every line of Housing Center $0.50 Center level-funded or changing priations Committee, are from what the budget was exactly equal to the by less than a few nickels per stu­ are known as "SAC funds." These amount originally requested by its Child Care Center $8.00 dent-semester. monies are set aside in accordance respective department. These fig­ The completed budget must be with Article X of the SA Constitu­ ures were all unanimously adopted Women's Center $2.45 approved by SA President Jessica tion for distribution to student or­ by the Segregated University Fees Angus before it can be transmitted ganizations to carry out their activi­ Allocation Committee lastweek and Total from all figures would be $108.00. However, this to the regents. At press time, An­ ties. SAC fund allocations to stu­ all remained unchanged after sum is not meaningful because the base figures are not gus expressed indecision whether dent groups are approved at most Sunday's meeting. comparable. Some apply on a direct per capita basis while to veto the proposal. Senate meetings. For the Legal Clinic $1.60 per others vary with individual courseload. Athletics oper­ About half of this year's remain­ On Sunday, however, the Senate student was proposed. There was ates on a three-year advance system so the figure given is ing general student organization also considered what is called the significant debate over an unsuc­ for the 2000-2001 year. Other figues apply to the 1998- budget was also allocated at the "SUFAC budget," a seven-figure cessful move to reduce this to $1.50. 1999 year. meeting, according to SA Senator annual allotment that sets the Funding of WISPIRG generated Aleks Skibicki, though Senator amount of student-controlled fees substantial debate before being Paul McNally cautioned that the each student will be assessed for SEE SENATE ON PAGE lb figure of one half was dependent the following year. The SUFAC on certain budgetary assumptions. budget includes a budget line from Several other pieces of legisla­ which the SAC fund and the SA's tion were also considered, as well own operating budget is drawn, as as new officer appointments and a well as separate fees for depart­ variety of other measures. ments and independent organiza­ A gallery of at leastfifty observers tions, specifically Athletics, UPASS, were present at the beginning of UPARK, Women's Transit Service,

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By Babette Grunow Black. "This mine has the poten­ Wisconsin Rivers. has never been accom­ of the Post staff tial for a good deal of acid produc­ Besides the potential plished. tion." threats to the water qual­ The Senate version "The story of the fight against He went on to explain the pro­ ity of the Wolf and Wis­ of the Mining Morato­ the Crandon mine is a story of cess by which the ore is ground up consin Rivers, the pro­ rium Bill, SB3 passed people taking charge of their lives, posed Crandon mine the Senate last Novem­ deciding what kind of state they would "set a precedent ber, despite heavy lob­ and their children will live in," fl've been in the in allowing interbasin bying by mining inter­ transfer of water from ests such as Exxon. began State Representative Spen­ legislature for cer Black, author of the Sulfide Lake Michigan west­ "I've been in the legis­ Mining Moratorium Bill, as he thirteen years ward," explained lature for thirteen spoke Tuesday night to a gather­ and never seen Black. "We, as a state years," said Black, "and ing of students and community an effort to de­ government have always never seen an effort to activists in the Fireside Lounge. feat legislation fought against moving defeat legislation that water out of Lake Michi­ spent more money." "Here in Wisconsin, we have thatspentmore long prided ourselves on our stew­ gan." Up to one million Despite the intense ardship of the environment. We money. gallons a day would be industry pressure, the were the first state to have legisla­ pumped out ofthe lake Senate voted to pass the tion protecting our drinking wa­ for use in the mining bill 29 to 3. The Assem­ ter. We are the state of John Muir process and then car­ bly is due to consider and Gaylord Nelson, people who ried across the state in a the bill, AB7 in Janu­ really cared about the environ­ Spencer Black pipeline to be dumped ary. Representative ment," he continued. "I believe into the Wisconsin River Black expects both the the people of Wisconsin still care just south of corporate interests and that has been shown in the Rheinlander. and the grassroots or­ fight against the proposed sulfide intoafine powder, mixed with water The potentially nega­ ganizations to lobby mine in northern Wisconsin. Over and sodium cyanide to create a tive effects on the state's hard on the issue. 100 conservation, community, and slurry of 95 percent waste water and tourism industry was One such grassroots church groups have joined in the chemicals and only 5 percent us­ also mentioned. Tour­ organization is the Min­ fight. Over 100 communities have able material. That five percent ism is the dairy state's ing Impact Coalition of would be carted off for further pro­ largest industry, ahead passed resolutions opposing the State Representative Spencer Black. Wisconsin. One of their mine. The public realizes that our cessing in Canada while the waste of farming. "The state members, Kira real treasure is our clean water and would be dumped here in a pro­ depends on a high qual­ Henschel, also spoke that it is our obligation to protect posed tailings mound the size of ity of outdoor recreational activi­ pects," explained Black. at the meeting stressing a need for it." 250 football fields and as high as a ties. The environment is essential Representative Black authored "everyone to consider the impact "This new type of Sulfide Ore ten story building. This mound to the economic life of the state. the Mining Moratorium Bill which of the metals they use everyday." mining represents a new danger to could be a source of cadmium, ar­ Such a mine that produces envi­ stipulates that before a sulfide min­ Another local organizer, Bill our state because of the way that it senic and other acid drainage into ronmental damage could be devas­ ing company would be allowed to Gump ofthe Student Environmen­ is mined," warned Representative the watersheds of the Wolf and tating to the state's business pros- operate in Wisconsin, it would have tal Action Coalition at UWM called to be demonstrated that another the Mining Moratorium Bill "the mine had been safely operated for mostimportantenvironmental bill ten years and then reclaimed with­ in decades." He said his group has r, out environmental damage for ten made the fight against the mine a years in another location. So far this top priority.

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By Jim Hanke artists, unless you're getting a lot of your thoughts on that? would challenge people and maybe Jim: How didyou become part of Staff wrtiter mainstream media support, you : Animal Rights was a very offend the School House Rock! compilation can't go out and tour. You can't do self-indulgent, personal record people a and why did you choose to cover artist Moby (a.k.a. Rich­ anything. So I think I'm extremely and at the risk of sounding immod­ little bit. "Verb: That's An Action Word"? ard Hall) has made his presence fortunate being able to do that. est, I think it's one ofthe best records Jim: Be­ Moby: There was awoman named felt for several years, mainly on Jim: Have you always wanted to that's been made in a long time, sides your Jackie Ferry who had a crush on me Elektra Records. After the success release an of music you've but it's a very difficult and demand­ music, and she was the woman who was of Every thingls Wrong, his huge major- scored for television and film? ing record. When I put it out, I you've also putting it together so... I think she label electronic masterpiece, he Moby: Last spring I got asked to didn't know what I was thinking. I been known liked the music I made as well, but decided to delve more into D.I.Y do thejames Bond theme by MGM/ didn't expect people to pay atten­ for your essays, which you include eventually that's how it happened. punk on 1996's Animal Rights, a United Artists, and I realized that tion to it, in a weird way. I guess, in your CD covers. I think they're I chose "Verb" because Jackie gave record that was dismissed by critics I've done all this different music because Everything Is Wrong, with a brilliant even if they don't change me all the tapes of all the School and fans for different films and we thought couple of dance hits on it, but I people's minds. House Rock! things and "Verb" was mostly be­ why not collect it on one record and almost intentionally wanted to Moby: You know, it's funny, I'd the one that appealed to me the cause they put it out. make a sayjust as many people come up to most. Jim: How do you go about writing record expected ,,X A „ v me and say that they've been influ­ Jim: Which bands were you into another dance songs like "" that enced by the essays as come up when you were around 18, and if huge help­ to more punk songs like "Heavy to me and say they like the you get a chance to listen to any ing of elec­ ," to more graceful orches­ music I make. And I can't now, which ones are you into at age tronic treats, trated instrumentals such as "Now tell you how many people 32? only to find that guitars and gritty I Let It Go"? Do you go about each have come up to me and Moby: Well, nowadays my musi­ vocals prevailed. Yet both style in a different way? said that because of an cal tastes are very broad and strange. featured Renaissance-style Moby: A lot of it depends on the essay I've written they've I like everything from Pantera to instrumentals and graceful harmo­ instrument I'm playing. The gui­ become a vegetarian, and Creedence Clearwater Revival to nies, such as "When It's Cold, I'd tar stuff obviously starts with guitar. that's amazing to me. It's disco to Hanson. I'm kind of a Like To Die" and "Alone." Animal If it's dance stuff it usually starts nice to see that it's pos­ musical slut, to be honest. I like Rights also gave mainstream radio a with a drum machine or synths, and sible to have a more 'grass everything. When I was 18, I was , the alt-rock anthem cover of the more gentle, quiet stuff usu­ roots' influence on things. into , Minor Threat, Bad Mission of Burma's "That's When ally begins with piano. But I Jim: Has anybody Brains and a I Reach For My Revolver," a tune find it very easy to switch given you flack about lot of early that deals with the restraint when back and forth be­ your beliefs or es­ hip-hop the truth isn't bearable. Moby tween a punk rock says? stuff like seems to today's only artist who can song and a classical Moby: Grandmas­ mix punk, dance and classical on thing. If you look at Yeah, there ter Flash. [I one album. my CD player are a lot of had] pretty He's known for including essays [points to it] you'll | jaded, bitter, eclectic in most of his linear notes in which see Pantera right | British jour- tastes back then as well. next to dub. he explains his thoughts on sub­ :• nalists who Jim: What was it like growing up Jim: With the jects such as smoking, pollution, can't believe in Connecticut like for a kid who release of Animal the mistreatment of animals and that anybody was into the early '80s punk move­ Rights, a lot of the far-right-wing Christian Coali­ takes any­ ment? tion, all of which he despises. people thought thing seri­ Moby: It was nice. I grew up in it was Moby Mostrecently, Moby has released ously any­ Darien, which is a very conservative I ditching the , a collection of music more. I've and culturally homogeneous town. and dance he has created for various films and done inter­ We were only 45 minutes away from scene, when in television programs, including views with Manhattan, so we had access to the actuality, I 's TwinPeaks, ^eatstzr- some who. are cosmopolitan "big apple." But, of thought the ring Robert DeNiro and the horror very dismiss­ a school of about 1,000 people, songs on it flick Scream. Plus, under the alias ive of animal there were only about 10 or 12 punk were more Voodoo Child, he's released an­ rights and rock kids. So we banded together like "All I other new disc, The End of Every­ vegetarian­ and we were at war with the rest of Need Is To thing. During his recent Milwau­ ism in gen­ the school. It's great to have such a Be Loved" kee stop, I chatted with Moby while eral, and simple, black-and-white dichotomy a n d watching Oliver Stone's The Doors they don't to my upbringing. "Hymn,": on his tour bus. believe that Jim: What's the oddest thing as op­ Jim: Do you think the new album anyone actu­ that you've done, or had done to posed to a and the tour is creating more buzz ally reads my you, while totally and popularity for you and your essays, but so on stage? new music? many people Moby: thing. Moby: Well, I'm amazed that I have said O.K., there What can go out and play a show and that that they've are two are a thousand people will come out read the es­ things that and see me. It's remarkable to have says I've writ­ pop into people leave their homes, get in ten, and that mind: For their cars and drive somewhere to they've been one, when I was on tour with the just see little old me. I think that's influenced Red Hot Chili Peppers, every night amazing, because I don' t ge t a lot of by them; and when I was playing, Flea would take commercial radio play and don't I find that off his clothes and come dance on get a lot of MTV play, it's amazing very hearten­ m MOBY ON psurn that I can even have a career. Most ing.

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Moby/Not a dick UWM Bookswap HUM PAGl 9 heard one song and it reminded Sponsored by WISPIRG and the Student Association stage with me. And when the Chili me as ifjames Taylorwere a woman Peppers were playing, I'd take off in 1997.1 mean, I like folk music, What is Bookswap? It is an alterative to standing in long lines only to receive a small percentage of what you paid for to sell your new and my clothes and dance with Flea. but I don't think I'm going to be­ come James Taylor 10 years from used books. It's a student run alternative to the Bookstore to benefit UWM students. It's a proven successful way to There was a time in Italy, we were get more money back for your old books and to save money when buying your new books. playing this showfor 15,000 people. now... I make a lot of electronic It was completely chaotic and the music, I make a lot of punk stuff, but How does it work? show ended with Flea and I danc­ I also make a lot of quiet, gentle, This semester you bring alt the books you want to sell to the bookswap. You decide on the prices you want for the books. (The prices that work the best are the prices that are higher than what you get back if you were to sell the ing naked on stage while people instrumental music using books to the Bookstore, but lower than what the Bookstore will charge for the used book price.) threw beer Next semester, you come to the bookswap to buy the books you need (at the lower prices that the students set). If bottles at us. real pianos your books were sold, we give you a check. If your books were not sold, you can leave them with us to try again next The strang­ and real semester, or we'll give them back to you and you can always sell them to the Bookstore. est thing strings. But, Why should students care? that's hap­ who knows? It's hard for Students will receive a greater return than they would otherwise be offered through the Bookstore. Students can buy pened to next semester's books for less than the cost of used books in the Bookstore. Potentially hundreds of dollars can be me on me to foresee made and/or saved through the bookswap. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ stage... what will be happening. Though not confirmed here at UWM, most bookstores only give students 40% of what they paid for a hard cover book, there was one time I was playing in Jim: You've said thatyou've found and only 25% of what they paid for a paperback. So for example, if you bought a new (or used) book at the Bookstore for $100, they would give $40 for it (or only $25 if it was a paperback). The worst part is that bookstores turn around Lawrence, , and I was stand­ a new love for the dance music and charge form 85-90% more than the original new price. So in the example, that same book that you got $40 for would ing at the front of the stage and a again. Why did you decide to leave be sold at the beginning of next semester for $85 if it was new originally (if you originally bought it used for $100, then woman grabbed my hips, pulled it, make Animal Rights, and now go it would be sold at least $100, possibly even more if the new price of that book went up). me forward and bit my penis back to it? The bookswap cut out the middle. If you decide to sell the book in the example for $65 at the bookswap, then you would receive $25 more for it and the buyer would save $20. It is a WIN-WIN situation for the buyer and the seller. Moby: Well, I started playing through myjeans... really, really hard The books that work the best are books that are for large intra classes and books that the professor is using again. through. Itwas completely surpris­ music 23 years ago and in that time, ing. I've done , I've done When is the bookswap happening? Jim: That kind of thing CAN be punk rock, I've been a hip-hop DJ You can drop off any books you want to be sold all this week, December 15th through December 19th. Anytime between for a while, but I got involved in the 10 a.m. and p.m. You can shop for used books you want to buy during the first two weeks of next semester. surprising. When did you become You can pick up your money or unsold books the third and fourth weeks of Spring Semester. a vegetarian? dance scene around 1986. In the Moby: I became a vegetarian early'90s I had Where is the location of the bookswap? 13 years ago, and I became a very high ATTHE SA INFORMATION BOOTH LOCATED IN THE UNION CONCOURSE ON THE GROUND straight vegan about 10 years ago. hopes for the FLOOR (NEXT TO THE DAC BOOTH AND THE SECURITY DESK) Jim: Is a lot of the vegan stuff scene. I thought of it hard to find? Just a little note:The Bookstore has been very supportive. They will be giving us a list of the books that professors being sort of a Moby: Being a vegan is pre tty will be using fornext semester. The bookswap has been very successful at the other campuses across the country. v Kitopian mi­ At UW^MadisOn, just this last semester the bookswap has swapped over 20,000 books saving students hundreds 4k easy anywhere ifypu have the will crocosm. People were celebrating of thousands of dollars on course books. to do it, enough money to buy the and hugging each other, and the food and the ability to search for BOTTOM LINE IS THAT YOU CAN GET MORE MONEY BACK music was celebratory. Then health food stores. In"TSIew York, FOR BOOKS AND BUY BOOKS FOR LESS AT THE BOOKSWAP!!! around 1994, I'd go out to dance there's tons of vegan restaurants, events, and it would basically be 15- tons of year-old kids passed out on Special health food K sitting in a corner, and I found stores and that to be really depressing... I didn' t it's pretty want to have anything to do with simple. that. So I took a step away from it, Jim: Do and in doing so, I found that there you see your­ was a lot of self doing that I love and I think the dance the same things musically at 40, or scene has gotten a lot healthier. is Moby going to take a sudden There's a lot of new blood and swing into James Taylor territory? people aren't as focused on hard Moby: Well, it's funny that you drugs as they were a fewyears ago. I mention that, because when I was think people are just going out, in England I made friends with celebrating and having a good time. Jewel. You know, the singer? And I I think that's wonderful. don't know her music, I think I University PACKER Headquarters!

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anything in, for example, France. ing experiences and be well- about great musical figures and diva Maria Callas' demand for (His frustration with the French placed collectors of stories and stu­ works that Solti encountered. He Puccini are all memorable. orchestras is grimly amusing). dents of human nature if they are to was a remarkably deft writer. In a Likewise, his comments on mu­ Memoirs His life, of course, wouldn't write good autobiographies. Solti paragraph he can draw a wonder­ sic are interesting, written in plain Sir Georg Solti need to be interesting. Artists of­ is all of these. ful picture of an artist or a scene. enough English that anybody with A. A. Knopf ten have dull lives? their work is the His life, that of a Hungarian Jew He also avoids the twin pitfalls that hearing knowledge of a piece will By Scott Greer excitement for many of them. Solti who fled Nazi-backed governments any great person writing faces- understand them, and yet worth an himself expresses amazement at and worked his way up through the sounding absurdly modest or dis­ artist's time. Sometimes he dis­ In the celestial lottery that deter­ the bourgeois comfort of Richard rubble (literally) of postwar Euro­ playing offensive egotism. He ad­ cusses a piece that the reader hasn't mines the manner and timing of Strauss' neat desk at which he wrote pean music, is pretty interesting. mits his enormous talent, but also heard; he made this reader want to our deaths, one of the prizes must such emotional pieces of music as He doesn't rub the reader with the points out the hard work, mistakes go out and buy the discs with those be to die a few hours after finishing Salome. Artists have dull lives in a severity of the challenges and trau­ and teaching that made his career. pieces straightaway. Most music the proofs of your autobiography. different way; the existence of mas that he faced; instead, at points And indeed, in his career those writers can't do that. The late Sir Georg Solti had that Glenn Gould or Cezanne is an throughout this book one recoils at teachers and co-workers not only This is a book to curl up with on luck, and the autobiography which endless round of neuroses that are suddenly realizing, for example, produced the many performances the day after Christmas. Short, amus­ he finished in the last hours of his little more interesting than the that between Nazis and Soviets, his and recordings (listed in a remark­ ing, philosophic and filled with life is a wonderful final gift from ones you could discuss with the native Hungary was inaccessible to able appendix) that are so well- insight, it begs for a reader to put the man to the American public. nutcase in the corner at a coffee him for decades. loved and remembered, but also on a favorite disc of beautiful music Solti was a world-renowned con­ shop. Rather than dwelling on such some great stories. Pavoratti's pasta and read it in one afternoon. It will ductor who spent most of his career Solti's life risks the former more challenges, the book provides a maker, Furtwangler's weirdness, do wonders for your faith in human as the director ofthe Chicago Sym­ than the latter. In his book and in feast of anecdotes and observations Adorno's interrupted lecture or nature. phony Orchestra. He built a fine the many adoring testimonies elic­ orchestra into one ofthe "big five" ited at his death he comes off as a American orchestras and put Chi­ warm, philosophical, and well-ad­ cago and the Midwest on the global justed individual. Such people,

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By Krista Kinnius her hands, and suggests that they waitfor the Staff writer Marcello how Mimi is sick. Mimi is revealed moonlight to aid their search. He is over­ when she coughs and begins to sing her whelmed by her beauty and sings to her "O farewell, "Donde lieta usci." Mimi and The Florentine Opera once again soave fanciulla." Rodolfo then decide to remain together, brought a great show to the Milwaukee audi­ In Act II, the happy couple goes to the but only through the spring. ence with Puccini's production of "La cafe, where we meet the two other main The best act was definitely Act IV. It goes Boheme." The opera was performed Nov. characters: Marcello (played by Frank 21, 22, 23, and 25 in Uihlein Hall at the back to the apartment. Musetta Hernandez) and Musetta (played by Robin runs into the apartment and tells Rodolfo Performing Arts Center. Follman). Marcello is Rodolfo's best friend. The production starts in Paris in 1830 that Mimi is coming to see him and is so sick Like Rodolfo, the young artist is also a strong that she can barely make it up the stairs. He where Rodolfo, a young impoverished artist, character. lives in a run-down apartment. helps her into bed, where she starts violently He is in love with Musetta, who is the most The set in Act I expresses how poor coughing. fashionable woman in town, which also makes Rodolfo really is. The curtains are ripped Mimi requests a muff to warm her hands, her the most wanted woman in town. She and the tiles are falling in. Here we meet and Musetta gives away her earrings to get sings a wonderful solo, "Quando mem vo Rodolfo (played by Philip Webb) and Mimi the muff and some medicine. Mimi and soletta per la via" (as through the streets I (played by Elizabeth Hynes), the main char­ Rodolfo declare their love to one another wander onward merrily). acters in the production. Rodolfo is strong, and remember all of the good times to­ In Act III the audience is introduced to young and full of ideas. Rodolfo meets Mimi gether, singing "Sono andati." the snow-covered gates of Paris. Mimi comes when she knocks at his door and then he Before they can give Mimi her medicine, rushing in, looking for her lover, Rodolfo. proceeds to fall for her. she has another coughing fit and dies. Marcello comes out of the tavern and sees Mimi, who is supposed to be 22, looks Rodolfo throws himself on Mimi's body with the weakened Mimi. She tells her how anguished cries. about 40 in this production. She is frail and Rodolfo is jealous, and how he left in the vulnerable in this act. She loses her key, This sad love story draws the audience early morning and did not come home. into it. The sets, costumes and music pull which Rodolfo finds but then slips into his Rodolfo then comes out of the tavern, think­ pocket. He persuades her to stay, warming everything together to create this great pro­ ing that Mimi is not there and then tells duction of Puccini's "La Boheme." Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

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rROM PAGE 3 regardless of his personal feelings When the general student orga­ Skibicki to increase the student toward the group, the students had committee members to replace approved 21-7-4. Opposition nization budget line came up for organization budget by $1.10 over spoken in a referendum which senators leaving at the end of the stemmed from conservative sena­ debate, Justice William Lang ofthe the proposed amount failed on a WISPIRG won 408-220. semester. Among those was Sena­ tors such as Matt Rosek, who ar­ University Student Court was rec­ roll call vote. Similar arguments were made tor Jim Harings, who was honored gued, "No one has the right to give ognized to address the subject, One SUFAC line that received for and against the United States with a unanimously-passed bill, the my money away to a group that is in since the Court's funding is drawn extended debate was that for the Student Association, with Slinker 'Jim Harings Appreciation Act." essence political." from that line. Lang expressed UPASS. Senator Rosek moved to labeling USSA a "racist organiza­ Other actions taken at the meeting Senator Chris Slinker likewise concern that the funding would be decrease the line from $31.00 to tion" and Rosek declaring, "we're arementionedelsewhereinthispaper. No argued, "I don't like anyone taking inadequate. $16.50, arguing thatauserfee could throwing our money down the minutes were available atpresstime. my money and spending it on is­ He metsharp rebuttal from Sena­ be applied to passes to make up the drain and I don't understand it. It sues I don't agree with." tor McNally, who asked if itwere not difference. Several times sickens me that we're throwing our A representative from WISPIRG true that with increased student the Director of Parking and damned money away." denied the organization was "po­ enrollment, the total generated Transit at UWM,Ji m Marsho Vice President Liliana Amparo litical," though a portion of its from the allocation would actually was recognized to answer defended USSA and said that ref­ funds do go to support lobbying be increasing by a projected 10 questions about the UPASS erendum membership corre­ Square • efforts. Senators defending percent, and whether a recent con­ and the possible effets of sponded to UW-Milwaukee's lead­ WISPIRG noted that this was like­ stitutional change had not doubled the Rosek proposal. He W0M PAGl 13 ership role in the organization. wise true of many organizations, the Court's budget, among other stated that it would "mean She cited USSA's function of including the SA itself. Courts considerations. starting over from scratch" the trip to Europe seems like a lobbying for educational access in asked to examine PIRG groups in A dilemma for the Court in this and that retaining any form gratuitous Oscar-nomination snag. Washington. USSA also helps or­ other states have found them to be was that because of how its of UPASS at all could no.t be It's based on the novel by Henry ganize grassroots campaigns, con­ predominandy educational rather budget is calculated, raising its to­ guaranteed on such a bud­ James, but so is The Wings oftheDove, ducts training sessions and distrib­ than political. tal budget $94 would require levy­ get. and that's actually quite good. This utes informational bulletins and is, at best, a time-passer. WISPIRG was also defended ing an additional $2000+ from stu­ In the end, opposition to resources to affiliates nationwide. It looks great, but then most from the conservative side, with dents. the Rosek plan was virtually The budget line passed easily. period films do, and it's slightly Senator John Young noting that A motion by Senator Aleks unanimous. more interesting than the usual Helena Bonham Carter genre (with Other Topics or without Carter, it's still a Helena Among the other items to Bonham Carter film), but it's not reach the floor at Sunday's interesting enough to really gain /*** UTWMI IPaDs£ meeting were the appoint­ any appeal beyond those who will ment of four new senators, go to see this sort of thing anyway. fourteen representatives to -PaulFreitag shared governance commit­ tees, and new chairs and

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Edited and Commentary By Wisconsin Author um Stanley I. Kutler l. 16 ITORIAL December 11. 1997 The UWM Po& SA lbs don't ask, don't tell One of the more disreputable displays in the SA Senate on Sunday 'FBSS UP, RENO! came from the liberal side, which had an opportunity to take a stand against bigotry and took a stand instead for silence. ISN'T THE REAL This was a small scene in the midst of a big one. Before addressing the multimillion-dollar SUFAC budget, the Senate had the chance to vote up REASON YOU or down on an allocation of a few hundred dollars. This was for the budget ofthe Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. ROTC was banished from WON'T APPOINT, UWM to Marquette some years ago, forreasons having to do with Wisconsin law and UW System policy prohibiting the type of discrimination against A SPEOAL 4 gays and lesbians from which the military in this country has been unable PROSECUTOR 1 to extract itself. Now comes the AFROTC at UWM, a student group here that requires BECAUSE yOU members to be cadets at MU. They ask for some money for the implied worthy(?) goal of recruiting here. They claim simultaneously to be non­ discriminatory and to adhere to national military standards that are ARE BENDING Inherently discriminatory. If you were gung ho for ROTC, you could perhaps interpret SA's official anti-discrinination policy loosely, forgive the ROTC its past mistakes and I'PRESSUREMOM take its questionable word that it was now gay-loving and fair. But if you didn'tfeel so warm about them, you would not be obliged to grantstudent ™E WHITE HOUSE? money in any case. And if you had told the GLBC to rely on your no vote, it would seem a clear betrayal to abstain. HUH?HUH?HM?f On ROTC 14 senators abstained from voting. Individual senators may be able to justify their votes, but in the context of other issues where this has happened, one suspects wimpishness more than prudence at work. "Poison pill" disgraces senators | r» ^Vr* || The Student Association Senate did not completely lose penditures and collateral benefits of sport at UWM. This is Auction the its mind on Sunday, but it has seen better days. also the fastest growing budget line, and its actual value is by A modest proposal: You've probably heard the tale about the fellow who Arguably the most important thing the Student Associa­ all accounts a tricky one to quantify. The arguses of fiscal got into Arlington National Cemetery on the basis of a supposed injury in the tion does each year is develop the SUFAC budget Arguably. responsibility were asleep on Sunday and the line passed merchant marine, but that tale now seems false, and there was a huge political Its elections, recruiting, education drives and lobbying without any inquiry. Was the amount appropriate? Who blow-up, so now he's getting removed, even though he probably does have campaigns are all important but the SUFAC budget lies at knows? Probably none of the people who voted did. Even aright to be therejustbecause he's an ambassador, having given all this money the intersection of two critical functions. First completing those who hadjustjoined the Senate that evening asked no to Clinton, and... the SUFAC budget is a responsibility and a duty. Fail to questions. Hold up. That's it right there. The way you get to be an ambassador in this perform that duty, and the SA discredits itself grossly. Sec­ Probably the worst display was put on by Matt Rosek, who ond, the right to complete the budget is an important form country is usually because you're a real dirty bastard and they put you into a proposed chopping the allocation for the UPASS program of student power. It is here that the SA can with a single vote in half, and instituting a user fee to make up the difference. countryjust to punish the people there, or because you bribed the president opt to purchase an extra million dollars worth of services for Firstproblem with the proposal: the UPASS was instituted somehow and it's time for you to getyourpayoffby being given a title and sent the student body, eliminate an entire program, create or by referendum at a much higher price. The Senate does not somwhere nice. destroystudentjobs, or change the rate ofthe segregatedfees havemelegaloptionofcuttmgtheallocationbelowrhatlevel. Why not give the people who've had to suffer under the dirty bastards a students are charged alongside tuition. Second problem: the scheme cannot work under funda­ break, and also raise some money for the national treasury? Instead of paying The process for evaluating the SUFAC budget is an mental laws ofeconomics . The userfee would be guaranteed the man, pay the office. Put ambassadorships up for auction. Can't be any extended one, which in theory requires regular attendance to reduce the pick-up rate for UPASSes, creating a budgetary worse than what we got now. at unexciting meetings, poring over rows of numbers, and shortfall and necessitating either service cuts or fee increases asking smart questions to figure out what spending is really thatwould further diminish use. At the meeting, Parkingand necessary and beneficial and what is not TransitDirectorJimMarsho tried to explain thatthe proposal Haiti: What we should do It's hard to know exactly what had gone on behind the would essentially end the current UPASS and that it would scenes, butfrom the looksoflastSunday's meeting, the range not necessarily even be possible to negotiate any system The pull out of UN peacekeeping forces from Haiti that began with the of preparation and knowledge ranged from Senator Paul utilizing the specified terms. In that event the fee would end of the UN mandate on November 30th is scheduled to wrap up a week McNally at the zenith to Matt Rosek at the nadir, with a simply be assessed, and refunded the next year. or so before Christmas. In the three years since US forces re-installed substantial segment of the Senate either so ignorant or so What is really disgusting is not that Rosek's plan would fail, President Aristide to his elected position, international forces have man­ malignant that they voted repeatedly to introduce ludicrous butthatitcame to the meeting completely undeveloped and aged to maintain a modicum oforder , curbing the mostflagrant human rights elements into the budget that would effectively kill it unresearched despite previous explanations of why it was abuses, and reorganizing the security forces. They have managed to create Kill it? Yes. Because unlike the state or national legisla­ unsound and offers from former UPASS negotiators to help a veneer of stability that glosses over some of the deeper problems that ture, who have no mommies or daddies to make their explain the dynamics of the system. Despite months of opportunity, itwas evidentthatRosekneverconsulted either continue to plague Haiti. Many of these problems have their roots in an budgets up for them should they decline, the SA had a portion ofitsindependencestolenfromitin the 1970s. Ifth e the Transit office or MCTS to begin to develop a workable earlier US occupation of the island from 1915 to 1934 and the role the US SA produces a bad budget the Chancellor simply offers the system. So the Senate wasted its time debating his poison pill. Army played in training the security forces and in determining the rules of regents a good one, and they take it Your budget never gets Senators on the right also spoke out against funding for the political game. The subsequent US support for the Duvalier dictator­ tested out Itjus t vanishes forever. USSA and WXSPHtG, nonpartisan student groups, albeit ships did nothing to promote democracy but instead ingrained a system of What type of poison pill could kill the SA budget5 Well with reputations for liberalism, in which the campus partici­ corruption, economic inequality and a disregard for human rights. Is there suppose the SA signed a binding contract for $40,000 in pates. Again, as pointed out by more levelheaded conserva­ any wonderwhysome question the currentrole ofthe 500 US troops who will services and then did not budget to v able to pay that bill. tives like Senators McNally andjohn Young, these fees were remain in Haiti, ostensibly as engineers, medical personnel and as assistants Or suppose it developed a cock .iiamie scheme to sell a underpinned by referendum and-or contract and could not to the UN Police Mission charged with training and "professionalizing" the service at an unmarketable price. Or suppose it violated a be simply dropped. Haitian National Police by creating elite units? binding referendum of the student body. The antics of senators who wouldhave poisoned the entire Haiti indeed needs assistance in working its way out of its long term crisis. These kinds of proposals shouldn't ever come up at a SUFAC budget sacrificing the good of the entire student The US could best be of assistance by ending its protect . ^r death Senate meeting. If the Senate has done its homework, it body over their personal distaste for what the majority of should be thin1" a much more sophisticated level. students had requested, was aviolation of their most earnest squad leaders and deporting them back to Haiti for trial, declassifying CIA These kinds ol /uuu^garten questions should be entirely responsibility as servants of the whole student body. It was documentation related to US involvement, returning Haitian government off the I ion. embarassing even for some of the administrators in the documents seized in the 1994 invasion and ending any ongoing attempts by That's not what we saw Sunday. audience to watch, who have been accustomed to a more CIA assets toward destabilization. On an economic level, aid that was prom­ Here's a relatively benign example. The largest single mature and professional treatment of the SUFAC process. ised for reconstruction should be forthcoming. Furthermore, US corpora­ budget item was for Athletics. Athletic Director Bud Haidet All the senators engaging in these tactics could possibly tions could be encouraged by the Clinton Administration's taskforce on and his assistant for budgetary matters sat for several hours achieve wouldhave beenablowtostadentrightsandprestige sweatshops to pay a living wage and respect worker's rights while investing waiting to address the Senate and respond to any tough as they sabotaged the students' proposal to the regents. in Haiti as a way to curb the nation's 70% unemployment. By themselves these questions about the projected costs, revenues, reserve ex­ Their actions were simply a disgrace. measures will not cure all of Haiti's ills, but the above proposal would be a start December 11, 1997 The UWM Post 17 EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE Media Duplicity, the KKK, and "Amerikan Cops"

By Bryan G.Pfeifer and had K-9 units, batons, happen due to W-2 and other Meet the king of cowboys afraid America's Black Holocaust pepper spray, mace, shields draconian public policies He rides a pale pony Museum in Milwaukee and Advance media coverage and other kinds of "crowd that have been instituted in He fights the bad boys I am the masculine Amerikan a former victim of the KKK, of the Ku Klux Klan rally in control" toys furnished by Wisconsin and elsewhere. Brings them to their knees man-IkiRthereforelam in giving the Klan a "single- Beloit last Saturday had KKK the state. The media said So our taxpayer money is He patrols the highwaysfrom the finger salute." members besieging the city. going to this sort of "crowd air Farewellto the gangsters But let's also not forget One of the Milwaukee Jour­ &JL2 People are arrested control" instead of into pro­ Hekeepsthecountrysafefromlong We don't need them any more the covert racism, nal Sentinel's advance sto­ • for their beliefs, grams that help our children hair We've got the police force homophobia and fear of dif­ ries was headlined, "With W what they look like, and others who need it. They 'retheoneswhobreakthelawferenc e that allows the me­ m what they say, 200 officers ready, Beloit People need to know this I am the masculine Amerikan He's got a gun and he's a hater dia to marginalize and W where they come braces for Klan." In the story and stand up and say they man-JkiUthereforelam Oh he shoots first-he shoots later trivialize, which in turn al­ • from and where j won't tolerate it, because police sources are cited as m they live... lows police to beat, torture saying the KKK rally would "crowd control" is just the I don't like the black man I am the masculine Amerikan and kill, corporations to ex­ draw hundreds of Klan beginning. For he does not know his place man-IkiRthereforelam ploit and the government to members from around the There's a song by a folk Take the back of my hand make and institute country. There were no singer named Phil Ochs who Or Til markyou with my mace The people who came out draconian public policy. more than 15 Klan members. is no longer with us, but is I'm as brave as any man can be to protest the Klan on Satur­ The Ku Klux Klan in their And no more than that in the huge police presence still singing "louder than I find my courage in chemistry day should be com­ white robes are today easier support of them. was there to keep the crowd the guns." He sums up the mended for protesting the (and safer) to defeat, but The reasons for the "under control" but they majority of the police prac­ I am the masculine Amerikan overt racist and violent doc­ let's not forget to be on the sparse Klan presence are still seemed intent on inciting tices here in Amerika. It man-IkiRthereforelam trines the Klan spews. Let us look-out for the Klan amidst being debated and ques­ the crowd. Phil Wilayto, a could be extended to other never forget the atrocities us operating in the form of a tions are starting to surface freelance progressive writer areas of Amerikan "mani­ I don't like the students now that the Klan has perpe­ blue uniform, three-piece on why the media and po­ who covered the event fest destiny." Let us not for­ They don't havenorespect trated. And let us continue suit, legislator or an admin­ lice inflated Klan numbers. noted, "One protestor, a get the police are only pro­ They don't like to worknow to fight the hatred and vio­ istrator. Here the focus will be on the young Latino from Milwau­ tecting the vested interests I think I'll wring their necks lence that the Klan and like- Readers wishing to support police presence and why the kee, was apparently arrested of the capitalist elite on an They call me pig although I'm minded people spew out. those arrested protesting the KKK media continually ignores simply because he was hold­ international level. underpaid We can all join James rally can contact Afob is a Right police actions in protests ing a portable sound system. It goes like this: nishowthosefaggotsthatTmnot Cameron, curator of Campaign at 414-374-1034. such as the KKK rally and After an officer yelled, 'Get how this affects all of us. We the guy with the bullhorn,' hear terms like "tactical en­ the youth was grabbed by a forcement units," "law en­ number of cops and thrown LETTERS forcement," "crowd con­ to the ground while one of­ ficer stood over the bullhorn they have been fractured and used as pawns by the CIA, the trol," "battalion of police M|ji:on Iraq and beat it repeatedly with officers," "a cadre of offic­ Losl|t|he recent round of saber-rattling between the United Iraqi government and the Turkish government. Currentl)0fm his riot baton." These types ers," "contained," "cor­ States aridlraq is the fact that over five hundred thousand Iraqi Turkish military has invaded Iraqi territory in pursuit pfone of actions by the police are doned off," "controlled" children tiallidied of starvation and disease because of the faction of Kurdish rebels, the PKK. Turkish milita^projec- routinely carried out in pro­ and many other words ofthe embargo agairllfUraq. This has been reported by reputable tions are that the area can be swept clear of rebetjrifluence by tests and in daily life. People "state" that are never de­ human rights organisations, as well as by independent observ­ Christmas. The U.S. has not protested this flagrant violation are arrested for their beliefs, fined. Have we been so pack­ ers like Ramsey C[aril: However, it has largely been ignored by of international law by its ally, Turkey..,This incursion into what they look like, what they aged that we no longer ques­ the U.S. media. More people have died in Iraq because of the Kurdish/Iraqi territory has been noted0 a potential sticking say, where they come from tion the words that are being sanctions than were killed:ffy;|he Persian Gulf War due to the point to Turkey's full admission to Jhe European Union. and where they live, yet the fed to us in the way of infor­ allied bombing raids. In a sense ihe war against Iraq has media many times largely ig­ c mation? Have we become so continued. * Banner crude but has a point nore these police practices. dependent on a few sources There is incessant talk in the U ia about punishing I just wanted to react brieJ$fl;Zak Masur's letter from last week'? We allow the people that of news that we never ques­ Saddam Hussein for his actions. How^Bulo Americans feel Post. Masur equatesJ^i^banner hung in the Union last weeK "control" our taxes to tion where those sources de­ if our country was bombed for something President Clinton did depicting an IsraelfaSpal flag transmuting into the 1935 Nazi spend thousands of dollars rive from and who owns or didn't do0 I'm sure many Iraqi's don'- app-ove:of Saddam national flag withMtiers "big lie" and the infamous "blood libel" as on this type of thing. The them? Do we know that all Hussein's actions, just as many Americans don-t approve of well as a ny^ttoiwhat he says are popular conspiracy theorie •» crowd on Saturday was "major" or "mainstream" President Clinton's actions. Why should innocent people die in occupied-Palestine. largely non-violent and news or the majority of our as a result? I agj^lfifirje banner is offensive and inaccurate, but I do not find peaceful, including mostly beloved "free press" is U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is the same nitic br.facist, because I see it clearly commenting on the students and young people. owned by corporations like imperialist policy followed by the British and French-that is, 3 of Israel andthe doctrine of Zionism rather than upon Jews The mainstream press : Disney, General Electric and keep all Arab states in a weakened condition so the large 6iN •'or the Israeli peopled. played it up like there were Warner Brothers? The sally companies can better exploit the oil.reserves of the region. The State of Israel and-jts^ national doctrine can and should be going to be national in Beloit is an example of That is why weapons and aid went to both sides during the Iran- criticized, and whpe the cdftperison with the Nazis is ceru. Klansmen attending the how these monopolies con­ Iraq war and why the CIA has aided the Kurds at various times exaggerated, it is notwholly unreasonable. The Nazis permittee rally and hundreds of other trol die way we receive events and then witndrawn a|d wheri'it appeared the Kurds might be the Zionist flag to fly iri Germany \ part because of ideological Klan members and support­ that shape and "control" our successful in .heir quest for a homeland. Keep everyone affinity. Both groups agreedthatanti-semitism was an unavoidable ers. There were no more lives. fighting and weak! =/'" consequence of Jews being outside their natural homeland. Israel than 30, yet thousands of dol­ I attended the protest is host to institutes that expound the.racial supVe/nacy of Jews, anS- lars were spent to "control" This policy may benefit a tiny clique of oil executives and rich rally and what I saw was over the state has been expansionist and militarisiNts treatment of not the Klan, who spewed investors, butjsenefits neither the common people of the Arab 300 armed police and snip­ Palestinians falls short of genocide but .many parallels can be racist violence and hatred, countries p# the average American citizen. That is to say ers from at least five differ­ drawn to the earlier days of the Reich. To say this is'ho more a but the largely non-violent nothing.:©? the abominable immorality of starving innocent Iraqi ent Wisconsin counties in slander on Jewish people than pointing out the crimes of Hitler is crowd who was protesting children for the sake of the profits of the oil companies! "full battle regalia" in at­ anti-German. The politics of the country must be criticize^ tp the Klan. It was a training Sincerely, tendance. They were Americans because our taxes prop up this regime taMhe tun| of exercise for future "distur­ Gary Sudborough brought in on charter buses $3 billion a year; hence we are party to its wrongs. bances" that are going to Editor's note: It should be noted in regards to the Kurds that Ze'ev Campbell 18 The UWM Post December 11, 1997 We can end sweat shop abuses industry­ By Babette Grunow earned as low as 6 cents an hour. Worldwide that the pair of Nike's they are about to buy wide hu­ Editorial Editor 250 million children are forced to work in was sewn by a woman in Vietnam earning 20 man rights this manner. cents an hour. What's more it would take that standards. This holiday season as you josde your way This year a coalition of organizations led woman sewing Nike's sneakers thirty-three Formed through the crowds looking for just the right by the National Labor Committee is promot­ years to earn what the head of Nike, Phillip primarily gift at the right price, take a moment to think ing a consumer awareness campaign called Knight earns in one hour-$ 18,000. (Knight from corpo­ of how that gift was made and by whom. Many a "Holiday Season of Conscience." The goal earns that amount every hour, 24 hours a day, rations in of the clothes on sale, the toys our children is to try to end child labor and sweatshop 365 days a year.) the indus­ play with, the sports equipment we use is abuses by appealing over the heads of the The CEO of Nike is not the only corporate try with produced under sweatshop conditions, for corporations to the consumers directly. And head to be paid a disproportionate amount some labor extremely low wages. Chances are that the it's working. More and more consumers are in comparison to his employees. In 1996, and other toy, such aS a baseball that you might give to starting to pay attention to the issue of who Disney CEO Michael Eisner paid himself grassroots your younger brother this Christmas was pro­ makes the goods that they buy and how much $189.7 million or $102,000 an hour. To earn organiza­ duced by another child his age in Haiti or they are paid. the equivalent amount, a Haitian woman tions' in­ somewhere in Asia. That child may have These consumers are appalled to learn would have to work 156 years sewing Disney garments for 25 cents an hour. put, the Task Force Many consumers say they would rather pay is due to a bit more for clothes if they could be sure Dear Store Manager: make its final report to the President by the that they were not made by sweatshop labor. I like shopping here. I am also very concerned that what I purchase was not made by children or end of the year. That is why consumer pres­ Each year, the American public spends $184 sure needs to be applied at this critical mo­ in a sweatshop. Please tell me what your company is doing to guarantee that human rights are billion on apparel purchases, sixty percent ment, to hold the corporations accountable not being violated. of which are imports. If consumers demand for human rights. • In what countries do you source production? an end to sweatshop labor, companies will We as individual consumers can make a • Are human rights respected? have to listen. It is in their economic best difference. We can ask the managers of the • What are working conditions and wages? interest. stores we shop at to carry only non-sweatshop • Is this a living wage? Some companies are listening. Over the made products. It's easy and can be done in • Will you open these fadories to independent human rights monitors? pastfewyears successful grassroots campaigns a very non-confrontational manner. 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