Page 4-The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 2, 1993 a.1E £kiigzu a1ailg 420 Maynard Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan JOsH DUBOW Editor in Chief ERIN LIZA EINHORN OpinionEditor Unsigned editorials represent the majority opinion of the Daily editorial board. All other cartoons, signed articles and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. D9.Y1JLAM f N r2 I, WEEKEND PLANS Police, stUdents should exercise restraint T'S FiNALLY HERE-the day we've all been around and Duke beat Michig waiting for - March Madness and Hash game, the AAPD stepped out of Bash, together at last. Students will awake to released tear gas at the entire ma the smell of pot rising from in an overre the Diag and mosey through students wh the crisp spring air to en- at an officer counter the quintessential Hopefulli University experience. And be different when the "high" of the day watchthegai finally wears off, students TVinCrisler will run to the nearest tele- party safely visionto watchtheFabFive Mall - bet demolishtheinvidiousKen- emLanguag tucky Wildcats. the Michiga Everything will be per- dition, Sou fect. The University will store owne gain national exposure and Brater, the students will relish the thrill dent Assem of attending the country's other organ greatest sports university. been worki But then the celebration vent anot will begin, and the Ann Ar- Among othe bor Police Department Universityb (AAPD) will surely be alcohol dur watching. half of the g Unfortunately, history suggests that when But some discouraging sign students congregate for the annual victory cel- AAPD is offering the same rh ebration and police loom nearby, an ugly clash previous years when asked about will ensue. plans. The officers must leam tha But the clash can be avoided. Police were a few disorderly students do r unprepared to prevent damage to South Univer- indict the entire student body. sity storefronts during student celebrations in against the masses is not necessa 1989 when the Michigan cagers won the na- measures are taken before the g tional championship. Last year, however, when students to celebrate responsibly Michigan made it to the Final Four, the AAPD So when the game is over, anr did an excellent job of preventing a riot - for atrafficlightseemslike afunidea the semifinals. But when Monday night rolled responsibility is a two-way street an in the final line. The force ss of celebrants action to a few o threw a bottle r. y, this year will . Students can meonbigscreen rArenaandlater on the Ingalls tween the Mod- es Building and nLeague. In ad- ith University rs, Mayor Liz Michigan Stu- bNy, AAPD and nizations have ng hard to pre- her disaster. er things, South arswillnotserve ing the second ame. is remain. The etoric it has in it their weekend at the actions of not necessarily Taking action ry if preventive game. We urge as well. d hanging from ,remember that t. Subway discriminatory practices uncovered , the local fast food chain. Angered, I would another wanted to know what 567 divided by Flint Wainess usually counter by attacking our low mini- by 23 equalled. How could there possibly In my world, the ladder of social mobil- mum-wagerateand lackofaffordablehous- be an order of 69 $89 sandwiches? ity stretches endlessly. The thick walls of ing. I would say that working at "Little The application gets worse. There is a myglassbubbleshieldme fromtheexternal Caesars," one would never be able to save writing section, asking "which do you con- realities of the street. A bad day consists of up enough for living arrangements. sider tobe the most important qualifications getting a bad grade, being rejected by that But I never truly understood the magni- of a Subway employee?" This is followed "special" girl-of-the-week, or maybe mis- tudeof the discrimination againstthehome- by a reference section. placing my favorite Ralph Lauren tie. less until last week. A woman approached Clearly, this is blatant discrimination In her world, the "American Dream" is me on State Street and identified herself as against the homeless. To work at Subway,* simply that, adream. Nophysical or mental homeless and hungry. I gave her some the only real qualifications should be a walls protect her from the piercing cold of money and asked her how she was doing mouth.to smile with and hands to cut bread winter. And the beauty and grandeur of life (an ironic question as she wandered aim- with. If Subway honestly cared about the is found in the discarded food coming from lessly through achilling mixture of rain and quality of its service, it would require they the local fast food chain. snow while I headed toward shelter, some- wear gloves while handling your food. But Twenty yearsago,Iwouldn'thave cared thing I've always taken for granted). that's a whole other story. and she probably wouldn't have existed; Her answer surprised me. Shepulled out Besides students, most people register- maybe in a remote section of a New York an application for employment at the "Sub- ing for jobs would probably be the home- City alley, but not in my backyard. But way" in the MUG. When I asked her why less. Subwayhasinstituteda 1990'sformof today, Iam her and she is me. she hadn't turned it in (it appeared to be Jim Crow laws and it must be stopped.I9 Although you would never know it, our filled out, references and all), she explained know there is institutional classism that lives are inextricably intertwined. A bad that she was only proficient in about 6th throws the poor into unequally funded break here, an interview turned sour there, grade math. schools and keeps them there through a and I could easily find myself alone, with- And this estimation of her math skills myriad of obstacles - lack of health ahd outshelter, without food. Youdon'tbelieve was definitely correct. On the math test (no child care to name a few. But I never real- it? Just ask former corporate executive calculators allowed) that appeared on the ized the blatant attempts our local employ- DavidNeuman (profiledin theUniversity's back of the Subway application, her calcu- ers make to keep the homeless down. own Sociology 100); one day arising star in lations somehow yielded an answer of 64 Currently, over 20 percent of the home- the burgeoning computer industry, the next from 45-49. "Subway" math test, you ask? less population in the United States has a day without a job or a home. Stop and think about this for a moment. job. Considering the societal barriers, this is The funny thing about today's society is Subway asks its perspective employees to a miracle in itself. You may not be able to that although it's soeasy to plunge down the complete a relatively difficult math test. stop the institution, but you sure as hell can ladder ofmobility, itis almost impossible to Firstoff, and mostimportantly,no math has stop Subway- boycott Subway discrimi- ascend to the top. The Reagan-Bush era has been needed in fast food chains since the natory hiring practices now. leftus with an underclass, heldpermanently invention of the cash register. But even if down by an elitist and classist institution, there were no cash registers, the math on WainessisamemberftheDaily'sopinion I have repeatedly heard the argument this test would be ridiculous. One question staff that anyone can Beta lob.,even if it's only at asked for the oroduct of 89 and 69. while SAY 'YES' TO POT Legitimate reasons exist to legalize maijuana CH YEAR AT this time marijuana weighs heavily on the minds of University stu- dents. Hash bashers of all shapes and sizes invade campus the first week of April, singing the praises of the hemp plant. Some of the 'truths' they spout off about marijuana are cor- rect, but they are also slanted. Marijuana should be legal, but not for the reasons the National OrganizationfortheReform ofMarijuanaLaws their product much in the same way tobacco farmers do. This product would be made avail- able to the public under the strict control ofa body similar to the alcohol control board and would be accompanied by a hefty federal tax. Economically, this would lift the burden of trying to eradicate the 'evil' of marijuana while bringing in sizeable income fromthe sin tax. This money could be earmarked for drug education and health care. In ad- dition, use of the drug in the workplace would be heavily re- stricted. Professional associations would have to define strict ethical standards for their members. If our government is willing to allow the consumption oy alco- hol, then why is it so hesitant to let people smoke pot? By label- ing pot an illicit drug - in the same cat- egory with crack co- caine rather than FILE PHOTO Crown Royal - the government has at- tached an unnecessary stigma to marijuana use. Alcohol and marijuana are similar, yet the gov- ernment accepts one "high" and not another. Although we support the previous reasoning for marijuana legalization, the people who orga- nize Hash Bash present a more elliptical argu- ment. They would have us believe that legalizing pot will practically save the world. Members of NORML argue that marijuana - or, more specifically, hemp - ought to'be legalized for a variety of reasons. They include hemn' s userfon nar er.nnte and enerev ut verv Daily ediltorial staff slammed To the Daily: After reading many of your editorials and having to suffer through the various internal contradictions and factual errors, we have come to the inevitable conclusion that the Daily editorial staff is nothing but a bunch of blithering idiots. Josie Smith LSA Junior Roberto O'Brien LSA Sophomore Love people unconditionally To the Daily: In response to your article, "Sexuality and the Supreme Being" (3/5/93), I would like to point out that while you raised many valid questions and presented many experi- ences and viewpoints from both sides, you failed to point out a few very important scriptures. Those points: Revelations 22: 18-19, which qualifies the Bible in its entirety, Philipians 2:12 which states 'work out your own salvation...' and John 3:34, Jesus' new command- ment to"love one another as I have loved you" tun- conditionally. These passages show that Christians should accept the whole Bible, let every Christian work out his own salvation with God (using the Public breast-feeding must have its limits To the Daily: I am really tired of opening up the paper and finding out how angry some of its readers are about the issue of public breast- feeding. Even more so, I am tired of seeing Kinsley Foster bashed for her beliefs. I would like to help set the record straight about what she might have seen. I do not have class with Kinsley, but I do have a friend in the class who witnessed the incident. After hearing the story, I too was somewhat shocked by the events. I will not go into the story behind the incident, but I feel it necessary to say that this breast-feeding incident was very abnormal given some of the facts. The most convincing factor is the age of the child. This boy not only could run around the room, a feat normally achieved after the age of nine months, but he could talk intelligibly, a feat not achieved until around the age of two years. Now, is it appropriate for a child like this to be breast feeding in the first place when the normal age that mothers stop breast-feeding is around the sixth month of the child's life? To some it might not matter, but to most it would seem a little bit abnormal. There are certain things in life that are shocking because people would consider them to be abnormal. One example of this is large, explicit displays of affection in public. Another is people who do not dress the same way as others, or people who have bright green hair. Who are we to say whether or not these things are right or wrong? Yet, we must admit that these things are not the norm. Let's all admit something people: we can not help staring at some things. This is the case with public breast- feeding. For the majority, it is not something seen in everyday life, nor is it a comfortable subject for us to talk about or deal with. This is why it is abnormal. I am not saying that I totally agree with all of the things that Ms. Foster has said. I can understand that the bathroom is not exactly the ideal area for feeding a child. However, I do not think that the classroom is any better. I think that we all deserve some respect. For women to be interrupting classes to breast-feed is a lack of respect for fellow students. Granted, it is an interrp- tion for the woman to leave, class to feed the child. Every single time a person enters class late or leaves class early is a distraction. This distrac- tion only lasts a few seconds though - only the amount of time it takes to get to the , door. On the other hand, the act of feeding takes consider- ably more time than walking to the nearest door. Would an empty hallway be such a bad place to feed a child? There have to be other alternatives to a dirty bathroom. At the very least, mothers should have the decency to carry a large blanket to cover both herself and the child while breast-feeding. Is that so much to ask for? I think not. Gordon Northrup LSA Freshman 4 S (NORML) would have us believe. Marijuana is a variety of the hemp plant containing the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive drug that when ingested impedes the function of neurotransmitters in the brain. It is this reaction that causes the feeling of being "high." People use marijuana to get high, much like people use alcohol to get drunk. While the effects and duration of the two drugs are similar, THC is recognized by physicians as being less addictive. Yet pot has been illegal in .he . Tn t Cttmc cir.Pj;thti31 1 OWk Queer Action news article inaccurate To the Daily: I am sure that I can a queer social group, and having enjoyed its benefits, i.. I - - job. Do Ret your act together. ,VV" YY V Donna Bryan 1