Page 4 -The Michigan Daily- Thursday, November 7, 1991 5b £rMd14jau aiIy 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Edited and Managed by Students at the University of Michigan ANDREW K. GOTTESMAN Editor in Chief STEPHEN HENDERSON Opinion Editor L -ro VDFr:A7- &I SH A,4, TAL/N'grbqft 7 '19 1 - k '1 r At / Al - Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. ~rs! ' ..J{fd'".^,W?,. d"{{fr{.v ."r-0o}C"}7. 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Maureen Anderson h New Student Services VP must 0n Friday, the University announced that Maureen Anderson, Vice Provost for Student Affairs at Washington State University, is its choice for the new vice president for Student Services position. Anderson would replace Mary Ann Swain, who holds the position on an interim basis. Ander- son was unanimously approved by the University selection committee and a group of 13 student leaders. During her many years in positions of lead- ership, Vice Provost Anderson has complied a strong list of credentials and a commitment to the service ofstudents. She directed counseling services and student services at the University of Maine, University of Arkansas, Case Western University, and Washington State University. Anderson has stated that a key component of her tenure will be making the office of Student Services more accessible to students. These are lofty goals in a University where many adminis- trators have little sympathy or understanding for student concerns. Anderson admits that most ad- ministrators, including President James Duderstadt, consider the University a business, of which the students are only a fraction. According to Ander- son, "Part of what everyone needs to understand is services provided to students are not a luxury, they are a necessity." Rather than accepting the com- listen to student concerns monplace and traditional, new approaches to meeting the concerns must be tried. A variety of issues facing the administration are in need of student input. The new policy barring non-students from the Michigan Union, the Angell hall incident where a University police officer drew his gun in public, the South Quad macing incident, annual tuition increases are all issues that could be better addressed with student input. It was Mary Ann Swain's failure to solicit student views on these issues that constituted her biggest weakness. When the University moved to deputize their campus police force, One of Swain's only attempts to address student views consisted of a pointless series of student forums, all held after the decision to deputize had been made. This is a tragedy, considering that it is students who are most affected by University policy. When Maureen Anderson comes to Ann Arbor, she must consider student input on these issues. She must listen to student voices at every stage of the decision making process of University policies. If students are consulted early on, perhaps the gulf that has developed between students and admin- istrators will narrow. 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It is the poor Black majority that will bear the burden of this new tax, which was imposed by the white government without consulting the leading Black political or- ganizations. The four million Black workers who are staying away from work are sending a strong statement to the South African government. They are proving that the economic restructuring of South Africa can not be done without the consent of the Black majority. Despite the white laborers who have been brought in to fill the jobs vacated by the strike, the streets of many cities throughout South Africa strength remain deserted. The strike has proven most effective in the ANC strongholds of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth and has severely effected power stations and public transportation systems. Under the orga- nization of the ANC, Black South Africans can pressure the white government into realizing that they can no longer maintain their disproportionate amount of power. It is estimated that it will cost the South African government $800 million. The Black majority is going to use its economic power to secure a strong voice in creating a future for South Africa. Although the President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk would have the world believe that his country is shedding itself of the last re- mains of Apartheid, this is clearly not the case. Desegregated beaches and hotels are a token ges- ture toward a true state of equality. It is time for South Africa to join the wave of reform sweeping through the nations of the world. It has come time to make the changes that are really going to make the greatest difference in South Africa. PC perceptions To the Daily: Julian Go has written a thoughtful article on how the right wing in the U.S. establishment has attempted to stifle debate on issues of diversity and equality. I can agree with his article, as far as it goes. But there is another aspect to the issue of "political correct- ness," the debate within the progressive movement about strategy and tactics. For instance, progressives are in general agreement that racial stereotyping exacerbates racial discrimination. The question is what to do about it. A few would advocate punitive action against those who publicly express racial stereotypes. This is not a threat to our civil liberties and particularly our First Amendment freedoms. What, then, can we do t solve the problem? Most progressives agree the answer is education, a slow but safe, fair and sure process. Even here, however, there is room for debate about tactics. How do we carry out education, especially among people who don't care to be educated? My argument against those who say they are "PC and proud" is that their tactics are perceived by most Americans as nagging and moralizing, therefore off- putting and counterproductive. Some of them have even fallen into the habit of avoiding substan- tive arguments by labeling their opponents with derogatory names of their own. Julian Go has good advice. Let's all strive to keep debate free, open and focused on the issues. Jackie Coolidge Rackam graduate student Do something! To the Daily: I am responding to Mr. Kugh's unscientific letter to the Daily (11/ 5/91) in which he proclaims to bring "evidence" that Nazi atrocities were not committed. There are six "facts" in his letter that I must contend with: 1) "many of us realize the power of the Jewish element across our country"-this is diehard tradi- tional anti-Semitic propaganda, in keeping with such works as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Within the first paragraph already we see where Mr. Kugh finds his information. 2) He claims ovens were built by German POWs for Allied "propaganda purposes." Dachau was a concentration camp built in 1933, and before the Allies shut it down in 1945, it claimed at least 40,000 lives. Dr. Heinrich Gruber, the Protestant Dean of Berlin, a prisoner there, stated that "From Dachau, inmates were regularly dispatched to be gassed." There was no need for Allied forces to create propaganda. If Dachau was so harmless perhaps Mr. Kugh could explain why the SS had an (unfulfilled) plan to bomb it from the air? 3) Mr. Kugh claims the German pow's were sent into Russia to be killed. On the surface, this seems ridiculous; Allied forces working in concert with the Russians for diabolical purposes. However, there is a deeper evil in Mr. K ugh's statement: that it was the German Nazis, not the Jews, who were rounded up, made into slaves, and systematically destroyed.. 4) "the letter was lost"-so Mr. Kugh can bring in no concrete evidence at all. Perhaps he should read Primo Levi, an Italian survivor of the Holocaust, whose recollections are so vivid, so detailed and particular, that one cannot dare to debase them as fictitious, or the work of a failed memory. However, there is one point that I am in agreement with Mr. Kugh: the Daily needs to "Carry on with your search for truth". Yes, the Daily has, so far, printed the many letters sent to it con- cerning the now infamous ad, but when will it actually do some- thing. How about a featured article on the Holocaust, scientifi- cally and methodically re- searched, instead of waiting until this blows over? Ari Shofet LSA senior Daily has a choice To the Daily: As an alumna of the Univer- sity of Michigan, I am outraged that the Michigan Daily would choose to publish an adveristement proclaiming a blatant historical lie. The Holocaust is not a matter of opinion. It is an indisputable historical fact. Would the Daily have printed a full page ad claiming that slavery is a figment of the Black man' s imagination? I doubt it revisionist propoganda is not what our forefathers were trying to protect with the First Amendment. Only a fundamental respect for the truth istinguishes journalism from propoganda. The Michigan Daily has a choice. 0I Linda Goudsmith Universty alum The Daily encourages reader responses. Letters should be 150 words or less and include the author's name, year in school and phone number. They should be sent to: 420 Maynard,;Ann Arbor, 48109. Or they can be sent via MTS to. The Michigan Daily Letters to the Editor. The Daily does not alter the content of letters, but reserves the right to edit for style and space considerations. Jimmy Carter Former President's activities should set example for others at, other than party membership, separates Jimmy Carter from the four other living presidents of the United States? In his post-presi- dency, Carter has demonstrated a continued dedi- cation to domestic issues, in sharp contrast to Presidents Reagan and Bush. he is presently at- tempting to use Atlanta, Ga., as a test site where programs to aid the poor can be implemented. Those programs which show merit could then be applied to the more troubled cities in the nation like New York, Detroit and Washington. To carry out this task, Carter is drawing upon the city's enthusiasm preceding the 1996 Olympic Games to be held in Atlanta, and funding from the Carter Presidential Center, a private organization he founded in 1986 to aid international concerns. But the best thing is that Carter is not initiating this program for political or material benefit. Be- ing a former President nearing 70 years old, it is highly unlikely he has plans to run for another political office. Besides, his life seems quite full as the Chairman of the Carter Center, which gives" lectures and holds programs on international issues such as democracy in Central America, hunger and disease-control initiatives inThird World countries, and human rights. Carter's domestic concerns are consistent with the efforts he made during his presidency. He made Nuts and Bolts calls for a national health insurance plan. He pro- posed welfare reform, as well as controls on hospi- tal costs. Carter's. most impressive achievement for domestic policy, clearly, was the enactment of an energy plan which focused on weaning the United States from a veracious oil appetite, stimulated primarily from the OPEC shakeup of 1973. The plan involved great amounts of research into alternative fuels such as solar, nuclear, wind, and geothermal power. Unfortunately, President Reagan, before Carter's energy program could be effectively implemented, slashed the plan into oblivion soon after wiping his feet on the White House doormat and walking into the Oval Office. In contrast, President Reagan seems to be living a very leisurely and isolated retirement. After a presidency which cut the energy programs, Medicare and Medicaid, and diverted most federal monies into a gross embellishment of military hardware, Reagan has given a $2 million speech, written a book and opened a $53 million library. President Bush is now starting to look back to his own nation, just in time for the '92 election. Bush should take a lesson from Jimmy Carter, a president and post-president of domestic issues, and get this country together for the principle, not the politics. :RS.. . . r. Y1o"Y"r .. . . ri" r. f:R... Y,.S.S..: J S4 . d.?' .v.nv.v : :'rs~:..,w: ..:C v':{wh .iY. ..r.. .. .V. 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Smith's opinion is not suitable for the public forum, in, other words-its not an idea but a lie- and therefore should not af- forded the constitutional protection of free speech. Such an attitude is dangerous and may be as dangerous as Bradley Smith himself. The Smith ad speaks to the worst in man, hatred and wish to silence Smith have done so out of a sense of moral outrage. They have only the best of inten- tions at heart. For that very reason the danger they pose is subtle. It is clouded by a sea of good intentions. There are people, like Smith, with opinions so grounded in hatred that we are tempted to pronounce such ideas too offensive for the "marketplace of ideas" as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes termed it. But this is dangerous. To suppress the opinions of Smith is not in our best interest as a community. On the contrary, it is counterproductive and a dangerous first step down the road to the very fascism that allowed Adolf Hitler to commit one of the worst atrocities of world history. You may think this an over- statement. I don't argue that people will be hanging Swastikas up any- time soon but it is a precedent that betrays the free expression of ideas. That is, in itself, a move away from freedom and a step toward fascism. The way to deal with such the competition of the market." The deception of such opinions and the evils they represent will become clear under the scrutiny of the public eye. There is no need to subvert our principles and abandon the moral high ground. Allowing the opinion to enter thepublic forum does not mean endorsement, it only means treating it like any other opinion and allowing it to be en- dorsed or rejected on rational grounds in full public view. Should we become so afraid of a malefactor like Bradley R. Smith that we are willing to undermine, even to the smallest degree, our principles in order to feel secure against such offensive lies? I think not. The only security will result from a completely free exchange of ideas. The Holocaust was an aberra- tion and should never be forgotten. But let us notalso forget the political conditions that make such abuses of power possible namely suppressing thoughts or people deemed too of- fensive. 0 EEUUHI4'ARE you t TL~uy G04NC7 To EX 'HAT GRAD? , D ..iii.4 0 1. 3 by Judd Winick SAR~CASM WOO.n..pHAVE SEEN SOFIC4Er'... i i