Page 4 -The Michigan Daily- Monday, December 9, 1991 e f~dlian ailu VV N 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 747-2814 Edited and Managed by Students at the University of Michigan ANDREW K. GOTTESMAN Editor in Chief STEPHEN HENDERSON Opinion Editor 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. . ::".........r.J...}......... ,.....,... r.......:. ............... ... 4...... ... ..r.. . .. .........r rr..":."... : . ..."..........v.... ::. .."".r ."."....... . . . . . . . .... J""":"... . " " .,'"'"%:"N? ....}:?."::...:.:............"":r........ .v J......... ...... . . . . ....". ".:...."....." ....... ~ ..*. ...,.....* .}...r.... .~".....""" :?"""""?"":r fXk:":%": :.:::.:::: .: ":r......Rr .......... "":"..:: . .: ::":":::" r::.:.*:: ::.. . .."... ."."J" a v::.v::: r.r................... 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Howard, who has already garnered the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player-of-the-Year hon- ors, will be only the second Heisman winner in Michigan's storied football history. Howard has done everything for which the award calls, and many predict that this may be the most lopsided vote in Heisman history. From his four-touchdown performance in the Wolverines' first game of the season to his 93-yard punt return in the last, Howard has entertained the Michigan fans throughout the nation all season long. His mere presence on the field is electrifying. 1oward made every play in which he was involved an adventure. When he drops back to receive a punt, the crowd is wired with anticipation before he even touches the ball. Just lining up across from Howard strikes fear into the heart of any defensive back. No one will soon forget his diving touchdown catch on fourth down against Notre Dame. His statistics speak for themselves. His 19 re- ceiving touchdowns in a single season is a Big Ten record, and he is the only receiver in history to lead the conference in scoring. For years to come, his name will be etched in the Wolverine record books. However, Howard's excellence has not been confined to the football stadium. Amid all the media attention he has received off the field, he has handled himself with dignity and class. With the national sports community as his audience, Howard has represented the University in fine fashion. Instead of being the object of bitter jealousy, he has earned the respect of his fellow athletes, both his teammates' and his opponents'. Even defeated opponents have acknowledged Howard's grace on the field, paying tribute to the class and grace he shows on the field. As students at Michigan, we should be grateful for the opportunity to witness this fine athlete perform this season. 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On the contrary, Engler's newest lackluster pro- gram is a step backwards in the progress made in the past that renewed cooperation between the state government and private citizens. Both the government and the citizens came together to ensure that Michigan's public university system would continue to be one of the finest in the country and that the ability to afford such an education would not disappear. The new program merely replicates existing programs in which Michigan residents may al- ready invest without involving the state govern- ment. Citizens and the state are no longer engaging in an equitable relationship with mutual commit- ment. Instead, for the citizen, the state becomes just another investment and the state no longer takes an active role in investing, as well. In fact, the new program may not even be a Hate speech more conservative type of investment program, but is instead a way in which the state can compen- sate for tuition increases in the original program. If this is the case, then Engler has shown again that he does not wish to build substantive bridges with the citizens of Michigan. Instead he eliminates sub- stantive programs which lead to stronger bonds of cooperation between individuals and the state gov- ernment and replace them with inadequate surro- gates. Of all of Engler's budget cuts, the public uni- versity system was, for the most part, spared from the carnage that other areas of state programs experienced, supposedly indicating Engler's com- mitment to the state's public colleges and univer- sities. However, while Engler may not be engaged in short term cuts within the state education budget, his elimination of the MET indicates a lack of understanding for the long-term financial commit- ment between citizens and government that the MET provided. Gov. Engler should think again and refund the MET program. MET was unique in its ability to encourage and support familiesin their quest for higher education. America's future requires inno- vative programs like this to increase the output of qualified workers and competitors. Now is the wrong time to turn our backs on students. Jumping the gun To the Daily: The Ann Arbor Committee to Defend Abortion and Reproduc- tive Rights (AACDARR), a women's rights organization, endorsed a picket of the documen- tary "Blood In The Face" which was shown by the Ann Arbor Film Co-op on Nov. 9, 1991. Members of AADCARR were incorrectly led to believe that "Blood In The Face" was a film promoting fascism. The growth of fascism poses a real danger to Blacks, Jews, Latinos, lesbians, gay men, leftists, union militants and women. Fascists oppose abortion rights and women's liberation. They promote the nuclear family as a tool for controlling women and youth and reinforcing racist, sexist and anti-gay ideology. Nazi/Klan members are among the ranks of Operation Rescue, the hit squads of the so-called "Right to Life" movement. On the California public television show "Race and Reason," Nazi/Klan leader Tom Metzger promoted clinic bombings and the execution of doctors who preform abortions. Fascism appeals to disenfran- chised layers of the white middle class and chronically unemployed looking for someone to blame for the current economic and social crisis. Without an anti-fascist movement - ultimately a mass, working-class anti-fascist movement - elements within the right-wing movements will increasingly turn toward fascism. AACDARR supports the struggle against fascism and attempts to build joint actions with anti- fascist, anti-racist, lesbian/gay and labor organizations. On Nov. 5, 1991, Revolution- ary Workers League (RWL) members of the Radical Youth Student Coalition (RYSC) solicited AACDARR's support for a picket they were planning outside "Blood In the Face." "Blood In the Face" was de- scribed to AACDARR as a film promoting fascism because it documents Nazi/Klan activity "neutrally," without any anti- fascist message. Assuming this to be true, AACDARR endorsed the demonstration. AACDARR now realizes that "Blood In the Face" is, in fact, a documentary intended to discredit fascism. While the film makers may have been misguided in their assumption that fascism can be discredited through self-exposure, we understand the intention and overall effect of the documentary as being anti-fascist. Therefore AACDARR has reversed its endorsement of the picket and would like to extend a formal apology to the Ann Arbor Film Co-op for letting AACDARR's name be associated with the picket. Because of the importance of the issues raised in the film, AACDARR urges the Ann Arbor Film Co-op to accompany future showings of "Blood In the Face" with discussions of fascism and anti-fascist organizing Kathryn Deupree Chair, AACDARR IFC actions just To the Daily: In Matt Adler's editorial ("IFC overstepping authority," 11/26/91), he states, "there is nothing illegal about a fraternity serving alcohol at parties." Might I remind him that it is, indeed,. illegal to serve alcohol to anyone under 21 under Michigan state law. Adler also complains that the IFC and Pan-Hel are making an unfair policy for those fraternities which can afford their own insurance. These "selfish, spiteful individuals" seem to comprise a majority, if they are able to push through a "no-serve" policy, which would seem to be very unpopular. Is "majority rule" an unfair policy for you people in those frats with money? Also, I disagree with the statement , "...if the fraternity has invested the resources necessary to underwrite its liability, it has fulfilled all of the moral obliga- tions which serving alcohol entail." Just because you aren't liable in court doesn't make you morally right, no matter how much money you have or how good your insurance policy is. To the Daily: "Racism" is an epithet that ought to be used with care. In your editorial ("Two-faced," 11i/ 26/91) you write that President Bush, "an otherwise cunning politician, stumbled and allowed his administration's true racist tendencies to be exposed." And what was it that you call racist? A statement from the President's Counsel had been circulated "saying that executive agencies should cancel all affirmative action programs within the executive branch." The circulated statement referred, in fact, not to affirmative action programs, but to racial preferences. Not all affirmative action, you will surely under- stand, gives flat preference on the basis of race. And such preference is condemned, as unwise as well as unjust, by many of all races. If the rejection of racial preference is a mark of racism, some of the most distinguishing black scholars, who find prefer- ence patronizing, stigmatizing,. and demeaning, are racists too. Ought you not be more careful in statement, and more thoughtful in argument. I won't question Adler's ideals V which think that serving alcohol is justifiable; I cannot disagree with the ideas of social drinking. But Michigan state law still applies, and your insurance policy doesn't make a fraternity "right." Matt Birchmeier Engineering sophomore 'Racism' misused 01 Carl Cohen Professor of Philosophy Minnesota court should strike down hate-speech ban Write the Daily Write the- Daily Write the Daily 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Ml 48109 Freedom of speech, it seems, is never safe from attack. From the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1804, to McCarthyism, to Bush's proposed anti- flag burning ammendment, civil libertarians must constantly fend off attacks from those who cannot tolerate views they find too offensive. Currently, freedom of expression is being challenged by an intellectual movement which claims that, "racist speech is not free speech."This has manifested itself particularly on college cam- puses in the form of speech codes. But this newest form of censorship threatens to expand beyond the ivory tower, into the real world, where civil liberties "have historically been even more precarious. The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case, which will decide the legality of a Minnesota law banning certain types of symbolic hate speech, such as cross burning. The decision will make or break the current movement to limit bigoted speech. Therefore, it is crucial that the Supreme Court strike down Minnesota's hate speech law. The case in question involves a young man who was prosecuted under the hate speech law for placing a burning cross on the lawn of a Black family. It is the very nature of this case that obfus- cates the issue. Of course, nobody has the right to put a burning cross on somebody else's property, just like nobody has the right to bum another person's flag. This is an issue of property rights, not speech. But the law in question would ban any cross burning, or similar forms of symbolic racist speech. Since the concept of "hate speech" is so subjective, any attempts to legislate it out of existence will by neccesity be vague, and head down the proverbial slippery slope of censorship. Symbolic speech such as cross burning or flag burning is one of the trickier elements of consti- tutional law. The government can regulate the action part of symbolic speech aslong as such laws are not intended to censor expression. Cross burnings, therefore, can be regulated by laws re- stricting buming flammable materials, which would include, say, burning leaves. The Supreme Court has previously determined that burning the American flag is a protected form of political expression. Burning the cross, no matter how disgusting the message sent by this action may be, is also political expression. The govern- ment cannot be allowed to decide that some forms of speech are too offensive to be acceptable. Racist speech is free speech. }.:v J::"'"' :":" '":":"::":": r :'Jr}:":"'":":":" '}::::::.^.}:::":"::"'"}'r:.g"1:":":........r.r...f::::":': Y.":::r"r;;,"::"::S"~'%tir :.-:.v:::.". "::{ti"'ri; '.v.".v.".":.".".".".".v.- 1":: ".. ...... ....... ..... . ..............,.. n...... a J.................................. r.. r. a....a....... ..LY1.Y: Y." ". Y: r f."JN.r'. r rYJ. 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When what a woman's lingerie says carries more weight than her words, I think we're all in trouble. It's time you told us your secret. Just what are you selling here, Victoria?" She answered me with a question. "Why would a woman pay 30 bucks here for a bra she could get at Penny's for 12.50? secret revealed 0 Taking out a pack of Virginia Slims, she continued, "You and I both know that the women who shop in my store don't live the luxurious life they see in my catalogue. They live the 59 cent life, the pink-collar-ghetto life, the poor child-support enforce- ment life, the shrinking reproduc- tive freedom life of real women. Now, why would a group that makes up more than half the population put up with that kind of second class status? That's what my store is all about. I help women to believe that all those inequities are really about a privilege called 'femininity.' The woman who shops here," she said, "pays me the big bucks so she can go off to her miserable little job with something lacy under her buttoned up blouse, and because she thinks it's the only right she's got. I stay in business because she thinks she can buy it at my store." "But what does that have to do with the Kennedy case?"I asked. Her voice dropped almost to a whisper. "That's the secret. Denigration and privilege aren't opposites. They're the inseperable sides of the same coin of feminin- ity. Maybe you'd like to think mistresses are valued over office staff, but either way, as his secretary or his playmate, legally, you're a piece of property. If he uses you for what he decides you're there for, you haven't got any recourse. And if you've bought into it, if you think that job is a career so you don't tell, if you were i...ann thal~t nivelh-tin ihrn lhflrtflhIC Nuts and Bolts . M RMN. liuhielml I. -r.-W I11 "[I uauult by Judd Winick HAPY WO YIVA[] Youco. II I I I .1