THEPRIMARY SOURCE The Journal of Conservative Thought at Tufts University XI1 VERITAS SINE DOLO I Volume Number 12 A~ril6.1994L Get 'Iiufts' Voice of Reason for Just $25! rr- Subscribe C3et finest (not mention most I to THE-BY Somm! &e to I account af @airs at Tufts and elsewhere Wvered to your doorstep. For jus I you can receive a Ml academic yeai's subscriaprian { 14 issues) via ftrst class deliwry. I 1 t] YES, I'll support Tufts' Journal of Conservative Thought. Enclosed is the $25 I subscription far the next fourteen issues. I fee i I 0 Enclosed is a tax-deductible contribution of $ I I 1 1 1 I Mdce checks psyabfe !Wmm 1 Name to: Tw PRIWRW I I Address Md TEJE P-RY ta: SOURCE $1 I city,state,zF ~ Mayer Campus Center I Tuffs Unlverdty 1 I Medford, 02155 I .................................MA -.I 2 THEPRIMARY SOURCE, APRIL 6,1994 THEPRIMARY SOURCE THE JOURNAL OF COMERVATNETHOUGHT AT Turn UNNERSITY Chris Weinkopf CONTENTS Editor-in-Chief -~ CAMPUSISSUES Departments Steve Seltzer Editor Steve Lester From the Editor.......... 4 Assistant Editor Letters to the Editor.......... 5 Commentary......... .6 NATIONALAND INTERNATIONALISSUES Fortnight in Review.. ........8 David Mollow Notable and Quotable. 24 Editor ......... Colin Delaney AssistantR.P. Editor AND 10 ARTS GRAPHICS Doron Stember Throw Away the Key Anna Papadopoulou Criminals in Jail-- a Novel Idea Editor Special Section Whitewater Runs Deep 11 Chris Zappala The Ins and Outs of Arkansas Assistant Editor Colin R.P. Delaney Inbreeding in Arkansas 15 Impure a Rose. Law Firm PRODUCTION as .. Jonathan J. Oriole Chris Zappala What Care Crisis? 17 Manager Keep the System,Health Ditch the President Edward Havell Assistant Manager Edward Havell Criminal Politics 18 Dodging Issues, Dodging Bullets BUSINESS David Mollow Smoke and Mirrors 19 Benn Lieberman Government is Carcinogenic Manager Steve Seltzer State of the Art Technology Chips Clipping Freedom 21 CONTRIBUTORS Matt Fountain, Jayne Wellman, Doron Stember, John Rickauer, Nick Griffith, Thad Green, Eric Enge1,Greg Gilman, Lena Mindlina, Chad Brooker PRIMARYSOURCE IS A NON-PRORT, STUDENT PUBLICATION Turn UNIVERSITY.THE OPINIONS THE OF FOUNDERS EXPRESSED IN ARTICLES, PHOTOS, CARTOONS, OR ADVERTISEMENTS ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR OR SPONSORS AND NOT NECESSARILY REFLEXT VIEWS OFTHE EDITORS OR PLEASE Brian Kelly, Dan Marcus DO THE THE STAFF. DIRECTALL CORRESPONDENCEM: 'I'm PRIMARYSOURCE, MAYER CAMPUS CENTER, Turns UNIVERSITY, MEDFORD,MASSACHUSEITS. 02155, (617) 627-3942. 01994. 1 THEPRIMARY SOURCE, APRJL 6, 1994 3 Dear Editor, I am writing in response to Miss Papadopoulou’s article entitled “Demobilizing the Woman Warrior” in your March 9th issue. In this article, Miss Papadopoulou states that women should not be allowed into the combat units of the military, and perhaps the military itself. To restrict andor remove military women from the services would beunfair to the thousands already proudly serving in the U.S. military, and weaken our county’s defense. As the author admits, there are women who can meet the demanding physical and mental standards of the military, so that is not the issue here. Nor is their ability to fight in question, as they have proven in many countries, and even ours. So, the author contradicts herself. Either women are capable soldiers, which she admits, or they detract from the military’s ability to fight. Both cannot be true. Indeed, what Miss Papadopoulou bases her arguments on are the problems of sexual harassment, pregnancy, and the “macho camaraderie that holds the military together.” “Male bonding” is not the key to the military. Working in groups is. Groups bond through common experience. I am just as bonded to the women I train with as the men, and vice versa. We all care and look out for one another because we are a team, and our lives could depend on it. On the issue of pregnancy, a higher percentage of male soldiers are unfit for duty as the result of sports injuries and other mishaps than women who are out due to pregnancy. As for sexual harassment, any U.S.soldier who harasses another can be dealt with by the military justice system. As for the treatment and possible rape of female POWs, male and female POWs both have been sexually assaulted by their captors, and been treated in thoroughly inhuman ways. It is another ugly fact of war. If any woman can both meet the demanding physical and mental demands of the military and combat and accepts the risk of inhuman treatment as a POW, she should be allowed to serve, exactly as her male counterpart. Without women, the U.S. would be denying itself a corps of trained, motivated, and hard working soldiers; and women would be denied one of their many choices in the modern world. Keith E. Patton LA ‘95 Midshipman, USNR President, Tufts Tri-Service Organization The evidence is everywhere. 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From Haward to Stanford, THEPRIMARY SOURCE, APRIL 6, 1994 5 Commentary “He’s a raving lunatic, a madman.” defense attorney Will- France On Fire iam Boggs declared in defense of his client’s behavior. Accord- ing to Boggs, Montana’s 1979 law prohibiting defense by reason For the past several weeks, French Prime Minister Edouard of insanity violates the constitutional rights to due process of the Balladur has been trying to reduce the minimum wage employers law and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. To under- are required to pay young workers. High minimum wage laws stand what Boggs means is no easy matter. Holding people introduced by the previously empowered Socialist government responsible for their actions is hardly “cruel,” although one must discouraged employers from hiring the least qualified workers in admit that doing so has become rather unusual. And as long as the the market. Consequently, France currently struggles under the appropriate procedures are observed, no one can say a defendant’s yoke of an unemployment rate of twelve percent among the right to due process of law has been violated. general population, and 25% among youngsters. Mental illness is still acceptable in Montana for determining Seeking to combat the problem, the recently elected Conser- competency for trial and location of imprisonment. Insanity vative government proposed the aforementioned cuts in the cannot be used, however, in defense of the criminal actions minimum wage law. Many students greeted the idea of reform themselves. This rule is a refreshing change in an era in which with hostility. For days, students rioted in more than twelve cities Lorena Bobbit mutilated her husband at no price to herself, across France, including Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, and Toulouse. would-be assassin John Hinckley won acquittal in spiteof having Finally, the protests- shot a United States grew so violent and de- president, and a legion structive that Balladur of criminals are escap- found himself com- ing responsibility for pelled to revoke the pro- their crimes. posal. In response to Following Balladur’s retreat from Montana’s lead, Idaho the minimum wage re- and Utah have abol- ductions, the students ished the insanity de- staged victory marches fense. While these three throughout the country states are the only ones on April 1. In Paris, The to have done so, the Boston Globe reports, Supreme Court’s deci- “rioters stoned police, sion may encourage burned cars, beat jour- other states to follow nalists, and smashed their footsteps. In do- windows... fifteen cars ing so, these states were set on fire and more Rlotlng Cronoh Studonto would deter further than 200 were damaged transgressions of the while rioters shattered the windows of 60 shops and about a law by sending to potential criminals the message that they will dozen were pillaged,” and “up to 300 rioters went into a frenzy be held accountable for their actions. when the March reached its destination, beating photographers and smashing windows.” Jobs for Jobs In the City of Light, socialism has wrought a chimera. The artificial inflation of wages has created a situation in which any Vice President AI Gore and a host of Clinton administration attempt to restore the market encounters the most violent and cabinet secretaries gathered in Washington last week for a irrational hysteria. Unfortunately, this means that the French “community-development” conference. It is unlikely that this may continue to face severe unemployment for years to come. forum created any jobs, shrank the country’s ever-growing welfare roles. or increased American prosperity. It did, however, Maverick Montana prove that bureaucrats are more concerned with their own well- being than that of the country. On March 28, the United States Supreme Court upheld a According to The Boston Globe, attendees at the seminar Montana law barring defendants from pleading insanity to re- discussed how “their departments are working together to pro- ceive acquittal in criminal trials. Joe Junior Cowan had appealed vide jobs.” They failed, however, to recognize that for a govern- a decision proclaiming him guilty of the attempted homicide of ment bureaucracy to “provide” a job, it must eliminate several Maggie Doherty, a US Forest Service worker.