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OPINION
Monday, January 25, 1988
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The Michigan Daily
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UCAR wrong to attack'racists
CIA: stay away
THE CIA HAS DECIDED to post-
pone its attempt last Friday to re-
cruit from among the graduate stu-
dents at the Institute for Public Pol-
icy Studies (IPPS). This cancella-
tion is a victory for students who
care about human rights and
democracy, and who are outraged
by the CIA's undermining these.
,The Latin American Solidarity
Committee had organized protesters
to bring cameras in order to photo-
graph Mr. Hulnick and potential re-
cruits. The purpose of this action
was to emphasize the CIA's -aver-
sion to publicity. In addition, the
pi.ctures were to be sent to the
United Nations Permanent Com-
nission on Human Rights. Ac-
cording to the organizers of the
protest, such pictures would be
useful in identifying operatives and
executives of the CIA in any future
war crimes investigations that may
be undertaken by the U.N.
The official reason for the cancel-
lation was that the CIA representa-
tive had "other commitments," but
readers may draw their own
conclusions.
Some have argued that the CIA is
a legitimate government agency that
gathers intelligence and as such
should be allowed to recruit o n
campus. This argument, however,
ignores the fact that the agency
spends billions of dollars each year
on covert operations, most of which
involve violations of international
law or atrocities. Students certainly
have the right to interview with
whomever they want, but the CIA
does not have the right to recruit
here. It is not protected by the First
Amendment, since this law guaran-
tees the rights of the people to free-
dom of speech, not the government.
In fairness to the students of
IPPS, it should be noted that they
did not invite the CIA, nor is there
agy evidence that any of these stu-
dents have expressed an interest in
orking for this or any other ter-
rprist organization. According to
IPPS director Edie Goldenberg, no
students had signed up to meet with
the CIA representative.
There is no doubt, however, that
this visit by CIA employee Art
Hulnick was designedfor recruit-
ment. The January 18 issue of THE
TIPPS, which is IPPS internal
newsletter, states that "Students in-
terested in meeting with Hulnick to
By I. Matthew Miller
Monday's Martin Luther King Day
celebration was marred by what I thought
was an unfair treatment of those students
who wanted to attend their classes.
Those students and members of . the
United Coalition Against Racism (UCAR)
who organized the protests took it upon
themselves to tell those who wanted to go
to class that they should not. Instead, they
should join in lectures and programs that
would be going on throughout the day.
Fine. Students have the right to protest
and to tell others of their feelings, just
like I'm doing now.
But while protesting, those students'
must remember that others have just as
much right to go to their classes as they
have to block the doors and preach their
ideals.
Monday morning, I decided I would at-
tend my one class in Angell Hall.
As I approached the Fishbowl from the
Diag, I saw a group of sign-carrying peo-
ple barricading the front door asking stu-
I. Matthew Miller is an Opinion page
staff member.
converse about working in intelli-
gence should contact Yolanda. An
informal meeting could be sched-
uled between 10:30-11:30 a.m."
Hulnick was also scheduled to
speak at an IPPS "Brown Bag"
lunch at 12 noon, in room 473
Lorch, on "Secret Intelligence in a
Democratic Society."
The CIA has a long and grisly
record of support for right-wing
dictatorships and death squads. Last
week's New York Times report
about the CIA's involvement with
death squads in Honduras is only
the latest line on the agency's grue-
some resume. They have organized
and directed the Contras, who are
infamous for their use of terror
against civilians.
The CIA's role in Nicaragua is
much more than simply a conduit
for "legal" and illegal aid. The have
chosen the Contras' director at least
once, and in 1984 they mined
Nicaragua's harbors and then
handed the Contras a press release,
typed in Spanish, claiming respon-
sibility for the action. Their advice'
to the Contras includes the agency's
own "Psychological Operations in
Guerrilla Warfare," a manual that
advocates selective assassination of
civilians. This CIA document even
calls for occasional killings of con-
tra supporters, in order to create
martyrs.
Anyone who knows the history of
the CIA, from their overthrow of
the democratically elected govern-
ment of Guatemala in 1954, to their
mass killings in the Phoenix pro-
gram in Vietnam, to the overthrow
of Allende's government in 1973 -
to name just a few of their most
documented crimes - would not be
surprised at the CIA's current sup-
port for torture and murder in Cen-
tral America.
The surprising thing is that the
agency and IPPS thought they
could slip in this recruitment visit,
disguised as a brown bag lunch, in
light of the history of protest against
the CIA on this campus. For almost
two years the CIA decided to forego
recruitment rather than face their
most hated and feared enemy: pub-
licity. Publicity inevitably brings to
light their sordid past, and causes
people to re-evaluate the common
notion that the CIA is just an intelli-
gence agency.
dents to forsake their classes and join in
the protests. When I got to the door I no-
ticed a student attempting to break through
the human barricade by forcibly trying to
open the door. I then heard something that
redly disturbed me. As the man was try-
ing to fulfill his right as a student of this
university to enter a University building, a
woman called him a racist. In addition,
many students, myself included, were
chastised by a man amplified by a mega-
phone who said, "Racists enter through
the side door! Not through the front door!
Racists don't cross our line!" Even a stu-
dent walking with the aid of crutches was
denied passage through the front door and
made to go the extra distance to the side
door. This was wrong.
Branding a person a racist is a serious
charge which we did not deserve. How did
these people know if we were racists and
what gave them the right to judge us be-
cause we wanted to go to class?
Dr. King did not preach name-calling.
The civil rights movement was an attempt
to bring minorities equality and to end the
stereotypes caused by two hundred years of
second-class standing. He wanted to end
rules like segregation in schools, busing,
and in public places. He wanted fairness.
Monday, some of his supporters did
exactly the opposite of what Dr. King
taught: they accosted others and infringed
on their natural rights of choice. I felt as
though I might have been a Black man in
Mississippi punished for trying to sit in
the front of a bus two decades ago. This
was not the way the protesters should have
acted.
They should be, and were, allowed to
protest, but, as Professor R. Ward Bissell,
my Art History lecturer said after he al-
lowed UCAR members to speak before his
class, "I did not cancel class because I did
not want to make up the minds of 325
people." Accordingly,tthe protesters
should not have tried to. make up the
minds of the students who wanted to go to
class. Professor Bissell went on to say
that it was each students' decision whether
or not they wanted to remain in class. Not
one moved.
The leaders of the protest were right in
honoring Dr. King, but by calling
students names and trying to impose their
ideas on them, their protest lost
effectiveness, and might turn away those
sympathetic to their cause, admittedly a
good one.
Outrage over sexual orientation
To the Daily:
As reported in the January 18 issue of
the Daily, the proposal to add "sexual
orientation" to the regental by-laws on
non-discrimination was voted down by a
vote of 7-0. We of the lesbian and gay
community have fought hard for the by-
law for years and are outraged by its defeat.
And, as though this backstab of the gay
community did not send a strong enough
message of support for the continued
harassment of lesbians and gay men at U-
M, Regent D.eane Baker then went on to
propose an investigation of homosexual
activity in men's bathrooms at the
University.
Although the proposal was withdrawn
after Regent Waters amended it to include
an investigation of racism and sexism on
campus, it is clear in any case that Regent
Baker's primary intention was to whip up
homophobia on campus. Perhaps Regent
Baker hopes that he can create a witch-
hunt hysteria which will obscure the
extreme anti-lesbian/gay bigotry exhibited
by himself and the rest of the University
administration.
Perhaps Regent Baker has something in
mind like the anti-gay purges which
occurred at U-M iii the late 50s and early
60s. One purge, which occurred in
December of 1959, was a massive
program of entrapment conducted by the
Ann Arbor police in cooperation with the
University (Ann Arbor News 12/22/59)
and the FBI (Ann Arbor News 5/9/60).
Plain clothes male police officers solicited
men in University rest rooms. The Daily
(1/9/60) reported that 34 men were
arrested, including U-M students, faculty
and staff, as well as members of the
community at large. Judge James R.
Breaky refused jury trials to most of the
defendants saying it would be "a waste of
time." Defendants were urged to plead
guilty and received sentences of 30 days, a
$250 fine and 5 years probation, and were
warned that if they refused to plea bargain
and were found guilty they would face six
months in Jackson Prison! (Mattachine
Review 5/5/60) Furthermore, the students
involved were then suspended by the
University and advised to seek a private
psychiatric cure, and told they would be
eligible for re-admission to U-M "when
they are again considered good social
risks." (Daily 5/10/60) Needless to say,
the lives of many people were destroyed
by the intolerance of U-M and society as a
whole. One defendant took his own life.
(Ann Arbor News 4/15/60) Crackdowns
such as these became routine at U-M,
occurring again on a large scale in 62 and'
64. (Midwest Gay Academic Journal 1977)
We of the lesbian and gay community
respond with the strongest outrage against
Regent Deane Baker's bigoted
provocations. Gay people do not have the
options available to straight people. Many
of us are leading secretive double lives to
avoid both real and imagined hate and
moral censure that will be leveled against
us if we come out, not to mention the
physical violence and harassment by
authorities we often suffer.
If the regents were really interested in
doing something about sexual activity in
University bathrooms, they would pass
the by-law for non-discrimination based on
sexual orientation and take other steps to
combat the homophobic anti-lesbian/gay
atmosphere at U-M. When gay people feel
safe to come out into the light at U-M we
will stop resorting to meeting in
anonymous places.
Mr. Baker, it is because of bigots like
you, whipping up hate and hysteria to
justify your own backwardsmoralism,
that many of us feel we have no viable
option but to meet furtively in University
bathrooms.
We urge all University students, faculty
and staff to call for the recall of Regent
Deane Baker, the firing of LSA Dean Peter
Steiner, and other racists and bigots who
make the decisions on how this university
is run. We must stand together to defeat
the reactionary tendencies which these men
represent.
The administration has shown time and
time again that its interests do not lie with
the mass of students, workers and faculty
at the University, especially those who are
lesbian/gay, women or of the Black,
Latino, Arab, Asian-American, Native
American and other minority
communities. Ultimately, this university
will be run for the people only when it is
run by the people. We need
democratically elected bodies of workers,
students and faculty, with emphasis on
input from organizations of oppressed
groups, to have a real voice in how the
University is run. Then we can build a
university where we can learn, work and
teach one another, not for the sake of the
status quo, but for a society that will put
an end to our oppression.
-Paul Carmouche
Joseph L. Miessner
Andrea Densham
Paul Lefrak
Linda Kurtz
Craig G6mez
Julie Abbate
Mark Weinstein
James E. LaForest
Kay Marx
Kimberly Baker
Klair Ryder
Dean Le Blanc
Carol Wayman
January 19
LETTERS
Daily missed
'U'
winter orientation
Freeze exorbitant tuition
DEATH AND TAXES. Two things one
can always depend upon. University
df Michigan students can depend on
another fact every year: tuition in-
creases.
State legislators feel the 11 percent
ipcrease this year, like the many oth-
qs preceding it, is more than the state
m.n appropriate.
The burden in this situation is not
entirely on the state. Considering that
tie University has a large private en-
dowment, already exorbitantly high
tpition, and a successful alumni sup-
port network, it should not have to
turn to the students to make up the
difference in budget cuts.
Last year alone the in-state tuition
making part of the difference of low
state allocation, the attention given to
undergraduate education decreases
because much of the money that
comes from those students is allo-
cated to the graduate schools. Stu-
dent-instructor ratios are obviously
poor for undergraduate classes (most
of which are taught with teaching as-
sistants rather than professors).
For its part the state needs to allo-
cate more money to public institu-
tions, as it serves only to better the
population of the state. But the Uni-
versity, under the lead of the regents
must take care to cater to all of the
students. A student among this group
might help make the decisions from a
student's point of view. According to
To the Daily:
Imagine my chagrin when
the only place I could find
mention of a recent campus
event was that slinky, under-
handed University Record! I am
referring to a January 11
Record article covering the di-
versity workshop presented to
Winter Orientees.
As a faithful reader of the
Daily Opinion page, I knew
that the Record was nothing
more than a "tabloid" which
should be read with great care.
Any Daily reader can imagine
the my distress when I could
find no mention of this event
in our editorially-free student
paper. How could I separate
fact from fiction without the
Daily's knee-jerk anti-adminis-
tration rhetoric to guide me?
Why didn't the watchful
bloodshot eye of the Daily
News Staff report on this
attended the program, which
included a lecture, a video tape,
a performance by Talk To Us,
and extensive personal inter-
action. If we relied on the
Daily's biased emphasis, no
one would know.
The workshop received high
praise from the participants. It
was effective--a yardstick of
perfor-mance that seems to be
overlooked these days.
CONGRATULA-TIONS to the
Office of Orientation for pro-
ducing a very human solution
to the problem of raising new
student consciousness. W e
students should let partisanship
stand in the way of recognizing
the merits of any campus ac-
tion. Why weren't we told by
our student paper?
The workshop, although it
accomplished well its purpose,
was not overly controversial.
No one was kicked in the
dards). Give us ALL the news
(however distasteful it is to
you) and maybe the score will
change; but as it stands now, I
have it:
IPPS
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-John C. Erickson
January 20
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