Vol. 2 Issue 6 April 2006 Monthly HILLARY-HATING HIPPIES HOLD HOT-BLOODED PROTEST ON CAMPUS Pages 2-3 FACE-OFF: MYSPACE VS. FACEBOOK Page 15 More Previews! Page 10 south park is funnier, edgier, and more popular than ever and it all comes from two guys who aren’t afraid to say “george bush f***ing rules!” page 11 This Issue Protesters Pressure Clinton By Jorge Sierra Carmen Trotter, a member of a that what it’s called?” one lady That “you don’t belong Catholic group from New York asked as we viewed rows of here” suspicion popped up again “You don’t belong here!” City. Was she possibly smoothly flag-draped coffins and students as a woman beating a drum heckled an older woman at the setting him up for Big Brother? lying down from the window. asked me why I was interview- Equity Pay for Women event at The authorities and Secret Ser- “It’s interesting.” Anita Halasz, ing “those Hofstra students.” the Staller Center. vice were alert and quite ready a Social Justice Alliance mem- Indeed, counterprotesters Matt This charming dose of ven- to move in, but did not do so. To ber handing out fliers, explained Veres (an Enduring Freedom om was directed, not at Hillary everyone’s credit, the disruption that the organization sought Alliance member) and Connor Clinton, who was moderating was minimal. to show students that Hillary Harrigan had explained that a panel, but at the young male “I thought he was going to Clinton does support the War in members of the EFA were there student who interrupted her, have a heart attack,” I overheard Iraq, and had invited local peace to show that there are conserva- Is the idea of building a wall on our asking how she could speak on a woman say as we were exiting. groups to send volunteers to the tive students on campus. “So southern border really that crazy? a social justice issue when she “I thought he was going to pull event. “We are asking her to their voice means more than was responsible for supporting out a gun.” support the immediate removal ours?” the woman who helped Page 7 the troops’ continued presence “I don’t know what they ex- of troops.” But for the most me interview the SJA member in Iraq, and had done nothing pect Hillary to do,” said another. part, the protest appeared to be fussed. Things got crowded, to stop U.S. acts of torture at “They’re mad at Hillary more of a pro-peace event than and heated very quickly as Jim Guantanamo Bay. He was one because she voted for the Patriot about Clinton. With mostly Lynch, part of the North Coun- of about 30 demonstrators who Act, but so did everybody else.” older demonstrators holding try Peace Group and the Suffolk had stood up one at a County Peace Network, time minutes before and began grilling the stu- turned their backs on dents, who explained Senator Clinton, reveal- themselves and re- ing “Troops Out Now” sponded in kind. They emblazened on their argued over the rhetoric t-shirts. This was the of “Bush is a fascist” and “Act Out” portion of the “Islamofascism.” They Act Out: Die-In protest, traded stories about be- Spotlight on Republican Girls. organized by the Social headings of homosexu- Page 16 Justice Alliance and lo- als in Afghanistan and cal community peace dragging deaths of ho- groups. The indoor mosexuals in America protest was predictable. (yes, conservatives and WTF?! Picture Clinton has been heckled old men are avid readers Extraterrestrial spacecraft lands on a lot at recent events, so of gay websites). Some- until the protesters stood one flabberghasted Mr. campus. up I was craning my neck Lynch by explaining he Page 18 around the room like an was enlisting in the CIA, idiot. Now everyone the drum woman silenced else looked around at the other by pointing to Who Ya Gonna Call? the demonstrators, offi- a woman whose cousin The consertative message behind cers, and Secret Service is a student and in Iraq. agents in the room. Eventually an organizer the movie, Ghost Busters. “Why don’t you go breaks it up: “We need Page 13 to the White House?” more bodies.” another woman asked Despite the passion when the man called out on both sides, even an- Should the Student Activity Fee be again. ger on Mr. Lynch’s part, “How about respecting our The “Act Out” didn’t exact- signs, reading names, walking there was a spark of something mandatory? rights?” ly seem much like what the AIDS around, and banging drums, it that one does not often find in Page 13 (All I did was boo like a group ACT UP used to do, and it was even a little festive. Per- opposing partisans these days. barbarian. These genteel wom- backfired badly with the mostly haps fewer women would have It became an engagement, a test Ted Kennedy’s Drink of the en put me to shame.) older female audience, but it did been perflexed earlier had they battle. The outrage and pride Most people kept their seem well organized. It had to seen this event first, as several of simmered into something else. Month: Red-Headed Intern. cool, and the protester turned be. By conspicously identifying them stopped to ask questions, Respect? A couple’s bantering? Page 19 around again. After the second themselves before disrupting the although student spectators ap- Resignation? time, Hillary seemed to be en- event, the demonstrators may peared perplexed and amused. Eventually the crowd Lacrosse team’s conference win gaging the protestor but was in have saved themselves, and the The oddest sight was several thinned and I took in the rows actuality addresssing a student audience, from serious physical students wearing black garbage of flat and slumped bodies, 70 brings high hopes. questioner: “Would you mind danger. bags, acting as corpses, except in all. Page 20 identifying yourself?” The Outside the Staller Center, they were standing around chat- Brian Holt contributed to protestor identified himself as the Die-In was in full swing. “Is ting. this article. For the last 200 years, this country has stood for truth, justice, natural rights, individual liberty, freedom, and independence. Become a part of the tradition. Contribute to The Patriot. 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Hillary Gets More Than She Bargained For... By Chris Dolley failed to pass. the Association of American Uni- opportunities for profitable employ- self,” but it was not clear whom she If the bill were successful, it versities schools, with 36 percent of ment.” was asking. According to Patriot Senator Hillary Clinton’s mo- would allow the Department of La- Stony Brook’s tenure faculty being The website reads that in 2005, writer Jorge Sierra, the protester torcade pulled into Stony Brook bor to set wage “standards” based women. She also mentioned, how- “The median weekly earnings of said his name was Carmen Trotter, on March 23 to speak on a panel on the department’s interpretation of ever, that she gets many emails from women who were full-time wage a member of a Catholic group from about equal pay for women in the each job’s “comparable worth.” women on campus who believe they and salary workers were $585, or New York City. Trotter then turned workplace. The event was held at Essentially, it would replace have been victims of discrimination. 81 percent of men’s $722.” This is 5 his back again. the Staller Center. Other panelists America’s supply and demand sys- Some women, however, don’t cents higher then the figure the panel Meanwhile, a protest was oc- for “Equity Pay for Women” in- tem, in which business owners and believe the gender wage gap is prob- was using. curring outside of the building. It cluded Carol Frohunger, founder of laborers negotiate pay, and instead lem. Shortly after Clinton started was a “Die-in,” where students pre- Negotiating Women; Stony Brook the government would take over and According to a study by June speaking, about 20 protestors in tend they are dead U.S. soldiers and President Shirley Strum Kenny; and set wages. O’Neil, former director of the Con- the crowd stood up and turned Iraqi civilians. Sharon Levin, founder and executive Critics of the bill point to the gressional Budget Office under the their backs to the panel. The words, The organizer of the event, director of Women’s Prerogative. stagnation of Eastern European Clinton Administration, when con- “Troops Out Now” was on the back Chad Kautzer of the Social Justice Senator Clinton served primar- economies after the government trolled for experience, education, of their shirts. One protester inter- Alliance, said, “This is a demonstra- ily as a moderator.