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Colored Ink G The BG News VOLUME 74, ISSUE 1 BOWLING GREEN, OHIO MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1991 The Many Faces of BGSU Inside Campus ■ ■ Local ■ Spoils The Big 9: Know Your Campus: 1 Hit The Bars: 1 A Look At Sports: A profile of the Take advantage of the Take a look at the Catch a glimpse of University decision University's various local bar scene and fall sports preview at makers, the Board services. many changes. BGSU. of Trustees. WYWI 1 flunswi 1 Opinion PACE TWO The BG News MONDAY, AUCUST 26, 1991 The BG News AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE FOUNDED IN 1920. JILL NOVAK EDITOR PUBLISHED DAILY DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR AND J.C. KOIII STRAND MICHELLE BANKS WEDNESDAYS DURING THE SUMMER SESSION. MANAGING EDITOR CITY EDITOR 214 WEST HALL JEREMY STONE WEIER LYNN CACEL BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR ASSISTANT MANACING EDITOR BOWLING GREEN. OHIO 43403-0276 MATT SCHRODER MATTHEW A. DANEMAN COPYRIGHT 1991. The BG News SPORTS EDITOR EDITORIAL EDITOR Get facts about alcohol Your parents have left, your stereo So a few tips from upper classmen is plugged in and your posters are who have been on the short end of the 21 up. Now what? Have a beer. rule. If you do, you won't be alone. In a Prevention Center survey in the spring ■When you go with a buddy buying of 1990, nine out of 10 University stu- beer, don't help carry it out of the store. dents said they had consumed at least Ohio liquor control agents — "the one beer in Bowling Green. Feds" — make arrests for this all the And, let's face it, many of you will time. drink a heck of a lot more than that. ■When you walk off campus to a Integration a political failure After all, your parents ARE gone. friend's, bring a giant plastic cup with intervention of "benevolent" fed- Consequently throughout the But there are things you should know you. Often parties run out of cups be- eral judiciary, which could be 1980s, the actual influence of about the alcohol you drink, and the fore they run out beer. Bringing your counted on to defend civil rights African Americans as a group ALONG THE COLOR LINE and civil liberties. declined within the mainstream Prevention Center for Alcohol and own cup is a good show of consideration of both parties. Drug Abuse in the Student Services and manners. DR. MANNING MARABLE Internationally, integrationists Building is a good place to do it. ■When you walk off campus, hold sympathized with the anti- But the major problem with in- The center is not a federally-funded your cup upside down. This lets the oc- apartheid struggle, but they tegration was the widespread be- failed to grasp the fundamental lief that the elevation of more haven for the last vestiges of the tem- casional police officer know you don't linkage between the battle blacks or other minorities into perance movement. Rather, it is a re- have an open container. When George Bush nominated against racism abroad and their positions of power, that African source center for facts about alcohol ■If a police cruiser pulls around the black conservative Clarence own situation within the United Americans as a group would in- and every recreational drug. corner and you do have an open con- Thomas to replace liberal jurist States. crease their clout. This perspec- Peer counselors and an entire library tainer, don't throw it down. This is Thurgood Marshall on the Su- tive claims that it was preferable offer the facts about alcohol and most preme Court, most African- Integrationists placed great to have a black, latino or woman rude, even environmentally incorrect american leaders vigorously op- faith in the power of the political conservative, rather than a recreational drugs without trying to and police will probably get you for liP posed the nomination. Most system. After the passage of the white, affluent male with the decide what is right or wrong for you. ^ tering. members of the Congressional Voting Rights Act of 1965, inte- same political views. This sort of The Prevention Center's message m Black Caucus quickly recognized grationists believed that all "symbolic politics" in effect that alcohol and drugs may create ■Be a good neighbor. Avoid littering that Thomas was an uncompro- members of society now had an permits the white corporate and Sroblems in your life even if you don't mising opponent of affirmative equal access to the process of political establishment to select and walking on other people's lawns, action and civil rights. However, democratic decision making. The its own "minority leaders" such ave a classic drug or alcohol problem. and NEVER urinate outdoors, no mat- at the moment of decision, the central flaw of this political as Linda Chavez, Thomas Sowell, Losing study time to a hangover, be- ter how bad you have to go. Besides the NAACP flinched. Its refusal to reasoning was the fact that Shelby Steele and Thomas, who ing short on cash and spilling beer on obvious reasons, police cite someone take an immediate stand against democracy is only really possible have virtually no constituencies Sour carpet are three avoidable situa- for public urination almost every week. a longtime Reaganite illustrated when all participants have among people of color and who ons caused by alcohol consumption — How would you like to read your name the limitations of its ideology and roughly equal resources as they vigorously reject affirmative ac- situations in which you may want to in The BG News for tinkling on a brick strategy for black advancement. enter the electoral field of compe- tion and civil rights. check your priorities, just to be sure tition. Since the vast majority of Afri- wall? For a half a century, the can-American, community-based everything is in order. Of course, these NAACP's basic orientation has Both major political parties leaders have little to no access to aren't the only problems drinking beer Of course, we are not condoning or been for racial "integration." In- had a vested interest in "manag- the media, little dialogue really will create for you. You could get ar- endorsing underage drinking in any tegrationism has usually meant ing" if not eliminating the elec- exists between working class and rested. fashion. But we do recognize the fact the elimination of all structural toral participation of blacks, the inner city black communities and As we all know, you are old enough to barriers which prohibited blacks unemployed, low-income workers representatives of the white elite. that a good many of you will choose from full participation within the and others. In national politics, Of course, no dialogue is really help choose our president (not to men- that path. And for those of you that do, mainstream of American life. the Republicans had become by being sought by the later; the ob- tion buy textbooks, eat cafeteria food you should be aware of the possible Culturally, the goal was the a- the 1980s an upper-to-middle ject is to "manage" the unpre- and take Professor Elizabeth Ailgeier's consequences to your actions. chievement of a "color-blind so- class white united front, for all dictable and volatile urban mass- Human Sexuality class). But Uncle Obviously, this isn't everything you ciety," which, in the words of practical purposes. Two thirds of es of blacks, latinos and the Sam doesn't believe you are mature Martin Luther King, Jr., would all whites and three fourths of all unemployed, by elevating small ought to know, but it's a start. Kind of mean that blacks "will not be upper class whites voted for Rea- numbers of nonwhites into posi- enough to hold a beer. like college. judged by the color of their skin, gan in 1984. The Republicans saw tions of authority. but Dy the content of their charac- few advantages by encouraging ter." For the integrationists, the electoral participation of con- The African-American com- there was an implicit faith in stituencies which were highly in- munity has reached an impasse democracy, American-style. The clined to vote Democratic. But in its pursuit of political freedom, Grab the BG brass ring system could be made to work, the Democrats also had problems due to the flaws In its leaders' phi- they believed, if only people of with black and low-income voters losophy. A new approach to poli- color and others victimized by for several reasons. tics and empowerment must be discrimination and poverty were initiated, challenging the system our folks are gone, your tapes and most of your opportunity. "Why make it brought to the table as full part- Increased black electoral clout more effectively. The policies stereo are unpacked, and your rougher on yourself than you have to?" ners. This could be realized by would be translated into organi- which succeeded in ending legal posters are up: what next? they'll say.