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Page 2 -The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 14, 1991
Teach-in
explores
regional,
morality issues
by Chris Afendulis
Daily Staff Reporter
Standing room only crowds
gathered in Rackham Auditorium
Saturday for the two plenary ses-
sions of the University's second
teach-in on the Persian Gulf.
Three speakers focused on moral
aspects, Arab-American perspectives,
and understanding Middle East poli-
tics in their comments against an
impending war in the region.
Rashid Khalidi, a professor of
Middle East history at the University
of Chicago, delivered a high-powered
address at the first session. He
painted a grim picture of the conse-
quences of a war, saying it could
prove to be more disastrous than the
wars in Korea or Vietnam.
He said valuable expertise on
the politics of the region - from
both the academic community and
Middle East specialists in the Execu-
tive branch - has not been sought
out by the Bush administration, and
stressed throughout his address that
this ignorance might underestimate
the ramifications of war.
Khalidi claimed high Iraqi casu-
alties would provoke a strong anti-
American sentiment throughout the
Arab world and weaken pro-Ameri-
can regimes of the region, such as
Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Chaos would also ensue in Iraq
if its armed forces were undermined
or destroyed, he asserted, leading to
certain danger for U.S. troops there.
"We will be creating a political
cauldron," Khalidi said in reference
to the factions that would struggle
for power in post-war Iraq.
Khalidi's biting criticism of
U.S. leadership and the American
media drew applause and occasional
laughter from the crowd.
He attacked the media for look-
ing only at the American side of the
conflict, calling the oversight a
"dangerous myopia."
At the second plenary session in
the evening, University law student
Karima Bennoune gave a more per-
sonal and emotional view of the con-
flict.
"It's a frightening time to be an
Arab-American and it's a frightening
time to be an anti-war activist," she
said at the beginning of her speech.
"When President Bush con-
demns naked aggression ... he really
must assume our memory is short,"
said Bennoune, referring to the U.S.
invasion of Panama.
Bennoune described human
rights abuses by the Saudi govern-
ment, and demanded that "one stan-
dard" be applied to the present situa-
tion and that of the Palestinians in
the Occupied Territories.
Speaking about increased racism
toward Arab-Americans and the pos-
sibility of their internment during a
Middle East War, Bennoune alluded
to the plight of Japanese-Americans
during World War II.
Bennoune ended her address with
a call to action, saying, "If the
bombing starts, I say we should not
have business as usual."
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
from the Archdiocese of Detroit gave
the final speech of the evening, fo-
cusing on the moral aspects of war.
Borrowing a phrase from Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Gumble-
ton, who recently travelled to Iraq to
secure the release of foreigners there,
said he felt the United States was ex-
periencing "spiritual death" because
of its slide toward war.
"Hypocrisy is clearly a sign of
spiritual death," he said, explaining
the Bush Administration's involve-
ment in the Gulf Alliance with such
countries as Turkey and Syria, who
currently occupy parts of Cyprus and
Lebanon, respectively.
Gumbleton also denounced the
"excessive consumption" of the
American way of life as an unworthy
cause for war.
Natural Resources student
Debby L ivingston felt the two
evening speakers were both convinc-
ing and inspiring.
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The public is engulfed in a con-
troversy concerning the role of oil
and the competing desire for political
and economic influence by Saddam
Hussein and George Bush in the
Gulf crisis. Chants of "No Blood for
Oil" have become a rallying cry of
war protests on campus and
nationally.
Although the views concerning
the relationship of oil and U.S. in-
volvement vary widely, many partic-
ipants in the Persian Gulf teach-in
held Saturday agreed that oil is defi-
nitely a factor, if not the main ratio-
nale behind the conflict.
Political Science Prof. Bruce
Borthwick, from Albion College,
firmly believes oil is a primary rea-
son for the U.S. presence in the
Middle East.
"I think it's rather obvious that
the U.S. is choosing to fight in the
Persian Gulf and not somewhere else
is because of the existence of oil,"
Borthwick said.
His lecture, "The Politics of Oil
in the Persian Gulf," focused on oil
as the primary influence which de-
termines the characteristics of Middle
Eastern countries, including in some
cases their absolute monarchies, a
conservative form of Islam, and the
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or a military.
The contrast between Middle
Eastern and U.S. interests will even-
tually cause a rift, Borthwick said.
"The question is: what are Ameri-
cans going to do when they discover
all we have in common is this par-
ticular resource - oil?" he said.
Borthwick argued that the price of
oil has been kept artificially low in
the United States and that America is
now searching to keep oil available.
"The bargain that'll be struck is
that they'll give us reasonable oil
prices," he said. "That's the basis of
what this war is all about."
Oil is a factor, said Janice Terry,
a history professor at Eastern Michi-
gan University, but she maintained
competing political desires between
Bush and Saddam are the critical
forces behind the crisis.
In her lecture, "Historical Per-
spectives on the Gulf Crisis," Terry
focused on historical grievances be-
tween Iraq, Kuwait, and the U.S.
She asserted Iraq was justified
historically in the invasion of
Kuwait because of grievances be-
tween the two countries, such as
Kuwait's undercutting the price of
petroleum and its use of the disputed
oil field which straddles the Iraq-
Kuwait border.
Terry said the American public is
growing impatient as a result of the
lack of media coverage on the histor-
ical grievances. The public is now*
placing pressure on Bush to "take ac-
tion now or die politically."
Terry added that the U.S. will
remain in the Gulf to ensure power
over oil resources in the Middle
East.
."The determination of the United
States to dominate the oil reserves of
the area and to make sure there is no
emergence of one strong Arab na-
tion" will be used to justify U.S.
involvement, Terry said. "It is my
opinion that whatever happens, the
U.S. will continue to maintain that
presence."
Most students remained uncertain
how strong an influence oil and po-
litical desires have on the crisis.
LSA first-year student Steve
Christensen agreed that political in-
fluence is the important role in the
crisis. "I know that oil is a big part-
of it, but I'm learning that the power.
has more to do with it," he said.-
"Oil is money, money is power."..
RC Senior Lysa Stein also said
both factors are reasons for U.S. in-
volvement. "I think it's a combina-
tion, but it's hard to tell because the
propaganda is so biased," she said. "I
do believe that the U.S. tends to be
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complicated," she said. "Why can't'
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Silk's initial reaction to the im-
plant was cautious. "I'll wait for a
few years, see what happens. But it'
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she added.
"It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but
almost all universities have come to
recognize that's in their best aca-
demic and intellectual interests to
hire from a national pool of PhDs
rather than limiting themselves to
their graduates," said Cross. "At
other universities, some departments
have deteriorated because they only
hired their own graduates."
Gurin said, "You can't have a
top flight university and have most
of the people that you hire coming
from the same school." The depart-
ment hired some of its own gradu-
ates to teach the growing number of
students attending the University
during the 60s and 70s, she added.
Gurin said people hired in that
time period are now full professors
and occupy most of the psychology
positions allocated by LSA, and that
it is more difficult to hire new pro-
fessors now because of the shrinking
number of college students and Uni-
versity budget cuts.
"When they start retiring within
the next 10 to 15 years, we may0
have to change our policy, but I
don't see it in the cards in the next
three to five years," Gurin said.
Westen said he plans to leave the
University when his contract ends
this June or in the summer of 1992,
Tenure offers from other universities
will determine when he will leave
the University, he said, adding that
he wants to work "near the caliber of0
Michigan, but preferably with good
weather."
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Assembly's Budget Priorities
Committee is now accepting
applications.
Pick one up at the Michigan
Union-Third Floor, Office 3909
Application Deadline:
January 17, 5 p.m.
Questions?
763-3241
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