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Kentucky Kernel

K to adjust salary, hiring for women, minorities

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

Members of committees on the
status of women and minorities
were told yesterday to expect
changes in UK’s hiring and salary
procedures.

The changes, announced by UK
President Charles Wethington, are
aimed at correcting some of the ra-
cial and sex-related inadequacies
that the reports found in standard
UKprocedures.

Wethington said UK has started
using a worker's past experience
and background to help determine
starting salaries. Also, he said, there
will be an upgrading of the salary
scales.

The two reports. released last
year, showed UK policies discrimi-
nated against women and minori-
ties. And they found that minorities
and women have limited opportuni-
ties for advancement at the Univer-
sity.

However,

changes announced

yesterday have some of them hop-
ing that the committees' work
didn't fall on deaf ears.

Assistant Dean of Students Anna
Bolling, a member of the minorities
committee, said change won't hap-
pen tomorrow. but she is encour-
aged by Wethington’s announce-
merits.

She said they show “that it‘s not
business as usual."

Wethington told members of the
committees about the changes yes-
terday at a three-hour luncheon in

Teaching versus research:
the tenure debate goes on

This is the first part of a two-day se-
ries.

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Senior Staff Writer

When history professor Dan
Rowland came to UK in the 19705,
he said he was “in despair” over the
heavy emphasis the University
placed on research over teaching.

“Educating students not only was
a low priority, but it was no priori-
ty," Rowland said.

But almost two decades later, as
the debate over research versus
teaching in tenure decisions heats
up on college campuses across the
country, UK is striving to encour-
age better teaching — and reward
good instructors with tenure and fi-
nancial support

“I think there’s been a tremen-
dous change at UK in the last few
years in favor of teaching,” Row-
land said.

But that doesn‘t mean the Univer-
sity will stray far from its primary
role as a research university, mak-
ing research a main qualification for
promotions. UK officials said.

“My sense is the primary empha-
sis continues to be on research,"

 

[UK and Tenure I

said Carolyn Bratt, a law professor
and chair of the Faculty Senate
Council. But, she said, faculty and
administrators are engaged in a
“vigorous dialogue about how to
give more credence to teaching per-
formance in the process” of tenure
evaluation.

“Teaching and research are going
to be involved in everyone’s evalua-
tion” for tenure, said Louis Swift.
dean of undergraduate studies.

However, “1 think we do have to
broaden our concept,” he said. To
strike a better balance between the
two attributes, the University must
move “to pay greater attention to
the quality of teaching," he said.

The debate over how to determine
a professor’s qualifications for ten-
ure —— which shifted to a heavy em-
phasis on research in the latter part
of this century —— is a never-ending
saga, rife with controversy. The pro-
cess came under fire at UK last year
when theatre professor Patrick Ka-
gan-Moore was denied tenure.

Bratt said that while “you would
not see any increased emphasis on

teaching" in recent tenure decisions
at UK, there at least is "more talk
about making teaching a require-
ment of promotion."

Chancellor for the Lexington

Campus Robert Hemenway, who
came to UK in 1989, has played a
significant role in refocusing atten-
tion on professors' performance in
the classroom, some faculty said.

“There‘s no question but that in
the lasr couple of years that there's
been a much greater emphasis on
teaching," said Marcus McEllis-
trem, a physics professor and chair-
man-elect of the Faculty Senate
Council.

“1 think Hemenway's strength-
ened it a lot,” Rowland said.

The tenure debate has been in-
tensely renewed in recent years
across the country, with some as-
serting that it needs to move out of
the research vs. teaching — or the
“perish or publish” rut and develop
an expanded, more flexible perspec-
Live.

In a special report last year spon-
sored by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching,
the organimtion‘s president, Ernest

See TENURE. Page 7

State agriculture on the upswing

By BRADFORD WILLS
Staff Writer

Although Kentucky‘s dairy indus-
try is facing record-low milk prices.
good years are in the forecast for
other state agricultural industries —
tobacco, beef cattle and grains —
according to agricultural economists
at UK.

Dr. William Snell, an agricultural
economist who specializes in tobac-
co at UK, said Kentucky tobacco
farmers eninved cash receipts of
$769 million last year — the high-
est since 1984.

Snell said this accounts for 45
percent of Kentucky‘s total crop re-
ceipts and 20-25 percent of all agri-

cultural receipts for 1990.

Kentucky, which is second in to-
tal tobacco production and first in
burley tobacco, sends most of its to-
bacco to the western European and
Asian markets. It seemed that the
tobacco industry was in real trouble
in the later 19803. Snell said, but
there was a resurgence in the indus-
try due to the opening of foreign
markets.

Snell explained that the tobacco
industry is still heavily dependent
on the domestic market but that that
dependency is decreasing because
cigarette exports have almost tripled
since 1987. “They have gone from
64 billion (in 1987) to 164 billion
cigarettes exported last year," he

Tension marks new senate

By KYLE FOSTER
Senior Staff Writer

Controversy between Student
Government Association President-
elect Scott Crosbie and the 1991-92
SGA Senate ruled the first official
senate meeting last night.

After the new senators were
sworn in, a list of Crosbie‘s SGA
Executive Branch appointments was
presented to the senate for approval.
The appointments were selected
from a “grade sheet" completed by
a committee of members from stu-
dent organizations, said Keith
Sparks, SGA vice president-elect.

Crosbie said at the beginning of
the meeting that he expected the list
to be “rubber stamped" by the sen-
ate. but was happy to see discus-
sion. About 1 1/2 hours later, how-
ever, Crosbie sent a different
message to the senate.

“I didn’t put this out for discus-
sion or hassle. I could have constitu-
tionally appointed these without
senate approval. 1 just wanted to in-
form you that these are taking
place." Crosbie said.

The appointment of Anna Howell
as executive director of student af-

fairs raised several questions. Arts
and Sciences Senator Jay lngle said
the SGA constitution calls for the
appointment of two executive
branch directors to be executive di-
rector of academic affairs and stu-
dent services.

Crosbie said he had combined the :
positions of academic affairs and

student services into student affairs.

“Since the beginning of this election
I‘ve had Anna in mind for this posi- ,

tion.

She was my campaign manager
and 1 work well with her. 1 have
not discussed (her appointment)
with anyone by Keith and Andy
(Griffin)," he said.

Following a rejected motion by
Senator at Large Allen Putman to ta-
ble the nomination until fall, the sen-
ate by-passed the issue of constitu-
tionality and approved Howell‘s
appointment by 25-yes. 2-no, 4 ab~
stained.

The senate also held a lengthy dis-
cussion on the appointment of Steve
Olshewsky as finacial consultant to
to the SGA president. Olshewsky
had been approved earlier as non-

See SGA. Page 8

 

said.

“It‘s true it's (the domestic mar-
ket) declining about 23 percent a
year, but really the salvation of the
industry in recent years has been the
export market," Snell said.

He said this is due to high trade
barriers being dismantled in Asian
markets, specifically Japan, that had
prevented American cigarettes from
entering these markets.

Snell predicted that the intema-
tional demand will remain very high
in the next ten years. “Contrary to
what a lot of people believe or un-
derstand about the tobacco industry
when it comes down to it we can‘t

See TOBACCO, Page 6

Architects Daniel Lebes-
kind and Peter Eisen- '
mann will speak at the

Architecture Awards
Banquet tonight at Me-
morial Hall. The recep-
tion will be at 7 and the
speakers forum at 8. It
is free and open to the

public.

 

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to U of L,
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the Hilary .1. Boone Faculty Club.
The luncheon was closed to the me-
dia. but Wethington answered ques-
tions after the meeting.

“I was very pleased," said Caro-
lyn Bratt, chair of the University
Senate committee on the status of
women. “1 think it was a very
strong and substantial first effort

At the meeting, Wethington re-
sponded to recommendations made
in the reports. He said he highlight-
ed three areas: What has already

been done, what will be done in the
next biennial budget and his com-
mitment to the reports in the future.

“We will propose certain initia-
tives that will deal with the profes-
sional development of our employ-
ees. especially our hourly and
management employees." Wething-
ton said.

“There has been a concern that
hourly employees, when they're
employed, all came in on the same
step on the scale," he said. “We
have changed that to allow for expe-

rience and background to be consid-
ered.

Factoring experience and back-
ground into starting pay will not ap-
ply retroactively to employees who
have been at UK for several years.

“We just impacted those who
have been employed in the last few
months or this last year," Wething-
ton said. “We of course could not
go back to day one and try” to im-
pact them.

See PAY. Page 7

 

 

 

“TORRID GARDEN”

Junior Marcy Werner was pan of an outdoor art exhibit titled "Torrid Garden" set up in the court»
yard outside the Classroom Building yesterday. The exhibit was part of the Outdoor Arts Festival

 

MCHAEL CLEVENGER/Kemel Sta“

 

 

Hopkins could lose ground

By KlP BOWMAR
Senior Staff Writer

The Kentucky gubernatorial pri-
mary is still a month away. but Re-
publican front-runner Larry Hop-
kins is in danger of losing even
more ground to his challenger Larry
Forgy.

If Hopkins is not careful. he may
suffer the same fate former U.S.
Senator Walter “Dee" Huddleston
did in 1984. Huddleston had a huge
lead, ignored his challenger Mitch
McConnell and just ran on his
record. Huddleston campaigned not
to lose. instead of to win. He lost.

There are many parallels between
now and then. Hopkins is refusing
to discuss the issues. is dismissing
Forgy’s candidacy and is trying to
run his campaign from Washington.
When Hopkins discussed the abor-
tion issue, he quickly flip-flopped.

Now that Hopkins sees his lead

 

ANALYSIS

 

slipping he has become increasingly
negative and started taking pot shots
at Forgy. Hopkins has never been in
a close election and he may be get-
ting nervous.

The polls show Forgy is gaining.
Back in March polls showed Hop-
kins with about 36 percent to about
12 percent for Forgy. In a new poll
by The (Louisville) Courier-
Joumal. Hopkins still had about 36
percent. but Forgy‘s support had
grown to 22 percent.

Despite all his mistakes, Hopkins
should still win because of better or-
ganization, more funding and voter
resentment toward Forgy for drop~
ping out of the race in 1987. Many
Republicans felt Forgy could have
beaten Wallace Wilkinson in a gen-
eral election.

to Forgy in coming month

The Democratic primary is l‘tlil‘
ing down to a horse race. The most
talked-about candidate has mam-
things working for and against her.
In Martha Wilkinson‘s favor, she
has deep pockets, a slick advertising
campaign and is Wallace Wilkin-
son's wife. Things working against
her include being Wallace Wilkin-
son‘s wife and the candidacy of Dr.
Floyd Poore.

The last factor has been largely
ignored, but it shouldn‘t be.

Poore worked on Wilkinson‘s
campaign in 1987 and was one of
his chief political allies. Poore ap-
peals to the same rural voters that
Martha Wilkinson is courting.

The Courier-Journal poll showed
Lt. Gov. Brcrcton Jones with a big.
if not insurmountable. lead over
Wilkinson in 31 percent to 12 per-
ccnt. Lexington Mayor Scotty Bacs-

See GOVERNOR, Page 8

 

 2 - Kentucky Kernel, Thursday. April 25, 1991

Televised executions will onlyfeed U.S. appetite for violence

 

By Paul J. Weingartner

 

In a previous Kernel article. “Ex-
ecution of Ted Bundy revealed the
culture of violence." (Ian. 27.
I989), referring to the United States
I suggested that. “Our's is certainly
a culture of violence. and the mono-
lithic killing machine that has been
created in our penal system both
represents and perpetuates this cul-
ture."

Much of this culture. I believe, is
influenced by the entenainment and
news media. Therefore. a recent sto-
ry about a PBS television station in
San Francisco which has sued the
California Prison System and the
warden of San Quentin Federal Pen-
itentiary for access to the death
chamber in order to film an upcom-
ing execution for a documentary has
encouraged me to ask some addi-
tional questions conceming the cul-
ture of violence.

In court. the PBS station has
claimed that it should be accorded
the same rights of access that the
print media has to executions. The

American Civil Liberties Union
claims that since state executions
take place in the name of “the peo-
ple." the people should have a right
to view the proceedings.

Those opposed to teleVising exe-
cutions suggest that access to this
inner sanctum of state punishment
is not a right of thew people but. in
the case of the print media. a privi-
lege. and that there is not a justified
public “need to know.“

They argue that there are several
other types of proceedings. especial-
ly in the judicial and penal systems,
which the media are denied access
to, including grand jury proceed-
ings. jury deliberations, etc.

Aside from the constitutional is-
sue that is being argued in this case
— equal access of all media to news
events —— the most interesting as-
pect of this debate. in my opinion. is
that those who oppose capital pun-
ishment are in favor of televising
state executions while those who
are in favor of the death penalty are
opposed to televising it.

Regardless of their stated belief in
the purpose of deterrence. those

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who favor the use of the death pen-
alty are opposed to executions being
televised even though this might in-
crease their deterrence effect.

In my opinion. they fear that the
most likely effect of people witness-
ing executions might be a decrease
in public support for capital punish-
ment They understand that the hor-
rible physical effects of execution
—— violent choking and vomiting in
the gas chamber. scaring flesh and
smoke in the electric chair or the
tearing of flesh and recoil of the
body in front of a firing squad —
would graphically reveal to the pub-
lic the inhumane aspects of execu-
tion methods and the brazen cruelty
of a state that professes to act on the
public's behalf. Needless to say, the
Pentagon professed a similar reason
for censorship of the press during
the U.S.-Iraq war.

Those who are in favor of televis—
ing executions but who are not in fa-
vor of capital punishment claim that
the state does not allow executions
to be televised and, in essence, pub-
lic. because it realizes that support
for the policy can most easily be
maintained by keeping the public ig-
norant of the death penalty‘s cruel
effects as well as the discriminatory

 

Most viewers will watch the executions simply
cut of initial curiosity without their opinions
changing drastically. But many will watch be-
cause they enjoy seeing and feeling proud of the
activities of a violent and destructive state.

manner in which it is implemented.

They believe that an overwhelm-
ing amount of death penalty sup-
porters would change their minds if
they were permitted to see the re-
sults of their support.

Although I support the ACLU's
and the PBS station‘s claim that the
visual media should have equal ac-
cess to executions, I am less confi-
dent that public support for the
death penalty would actually de-
crease once or if executions are tel-
evised. For this reason. I believe
that the ACLU should reconsider its
instrumental understanding of pub
lic opinion on capital punishment.

The example of media coverage
during the U.S.-Iraq war enlightens
this position. A recent survey indi-
cated that those who relied most on
the visual media‘s coverage of the
war actually~ knew less about the
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are not considered mainstream.

Additionally. it seems apparent
that support for the war increased
even after the televising of the hor-
rible effects of US. bombing: the
desuuction of a civilian bomb shel-
ter filled with women and children.
for example.

In my opinion. public support for
the war generally increased even af-
ter atrocities were televised because
the current mainstream news media
was not prepared nor encouraged to
offer critical analysis of the root
causes of the war, including the na-
tional pathology of the culture of vi-
olence which predisposes us to seek
out and implement violent and de-
structive solutions to problems.

In a similar way. 1 Suspect that
the televising of executions will
take on the same “happy news"
characteristics as did media cover—
age of the war. We are likely to see

experts give detailed explanations
of electric chairs and gas chambers
and former prison wardens and exe-
cutioners Speculate on how many
jolts of electricity or how many
whiffs of gas it will take to finish
off the most recent victim.

All this will occur against a back~
drop of supposedly “real news” re-
porting. with only occasionally a
token nay-sayer included to provide
a critical analysis of the policy or
possible alternatives.

Therefore. in our current news
culture —— itself influenced by the

culture of violence —— I believe that “

public support for capital punish- 7
ment will change very little if exe-
cutions are televised.

I suspect that most viewers will
watch the executions simply out of
initial Curiosity without their opin-
ions changing drastically. But many
will watch because. like the war,
they enjoy seeing and feeling proud
of the activities of a violent and de-
structive state. And once again. we
as a society will be complicit in un—
critically providing fodder for the
culture of violence.

Paul J Weingarmer is a graduate
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Dinesh D’Souza exposes political assault on America’s universities

 

Illlberal Education:
The Politics of Race and
Sex on Campus
by Dinesh D'Souza
(The Free Press/Macmillan

319pp. $19.95)
—

By N. ALAN CORNETT
Senior Staff Critic

You know when The New Repub-
lic and National Review give a book
a very positive review there is
something special about that book.
You know when Morton Halperin
from the American Civil Liberties
Union and Robert Bork praise a
book, that book is a very special
one.

All the above has happened con-
cerning llliberal Education by Di-
nesh D'Sou7a. And this is a special
bmk.

D'Souza is a research fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute, a
conservative think-tank, and served
as a policy analyst in the Reagan
administration. He was editor in
chief of the Dartmouth Review in
college and worked at Policy Re-
view, the primary publication of the
Heritage Foundation.

He knows his stuff and has labo-
riously researched this book. It's
solid all the way through and
should dominate the debate on
higher education for some time.

Much like Allan Bloom's The
Closing of the American Mind , ll-
liheral Education challenges the
status quo and the lack of true
thought in our institutions of higher
learning. Unlike Bloom’s often
opaque book, llliberal Education is
highly readable and very practical.

D‘Soura uses actual events on
campuses to illustrate and buttress
his arguments. D‘Souza doesn’t
have to search out obscure universi-
ties, either. He focuses, in individu-
al chapters, on Berkeley, Stanford,
Howard, Michigan, Duke and Har-
vard. He visited each campus and
interviewed students, faculty and
administrators in an exhaustive re—
search process.

D‘Soura begins his expose of
preferential admissions policies
(read: quotas) at Berkeley. In 1987
Yat—pang Au was denied admission
to Berkeley. Despite being valedic-
torian at his California high school
with a perfect 40 grade point aver-
age and scoring 1350 on the Scho-
lastic Aptitude Test, Yet-pang
thought he had been rejected be-
cause of Berkeley's high admis-
sions standards.

BOOK
REVIEW

"Then Yat-pang discovered that
ten other students from Gunderson
High were accepted to Berkeley,
and none of them had Yat-pang's
roster of achievements," D'Souza
writes. What had happened?

“Against their inclinations, the
Au family began to suspect discrim-
ination. As immigrants from Hong
Kong, Yat-pang's mother, Mandy,
said. ‘We've felt discrimination be
fore, but I really hate to see it af-
fecting education. Education is spe-
cial. Every child should have an
equal chance.’ " Not at Berkeley it
seems.

Berkeley was attempting a prefe-
rential admissions policy based on
race in order to have a “diverse”
student body. Asian-Americans
seemed to be getting in the way,
though. They were doing too well,
so, as had already been done to
whites, a cap was placed on the
number of Asian-Americans that
could be admitted.

Yat-pang’s score was good
enough for admission but not for an
Asian-American.

“Quotas which were intended as
instruments of inclusion now
seemed to function as instruments
of exclusion,” D’Souza writes.

He continues: “In short, the data
suggests that Berkeley may have set
up different ethnic tracks for admis-
sion, in which students only com-
pete against their peers of the same
skin color. ‘We basically have a
three—track system now,‘ comments
fortner dean Wildavsky. His charge
seemed to be confirmed in early
1989 when an applicant to the
Berkeley Law School received noti-
fication that he could not be offered
admission. ‘However,’ the admis-
sions office wrote, ‘We can tell you
that you are at the bottom half of
the waiting list.’ In the
blank was typed the word ‘Asian.’ "

But, D’Souza maintains. this kind
of admissions policy does not help
the minorities it was intended to.

Using internal data from Berke~
ley, D’Souza shows that of the mi-
nority students admitted to the
school in 1982 on affirmative ac-
tion policy. few had graduated
within five years.

By 1987 “only 18 percent of
blacks admitted on affirmative ac—
tion had graduated from Berkeley;
blacks admitted in the regular pro-
gram graduated at a 42 percent rate.
Similarly, only 22 percent of affir-
mative action Hispanics finished in

five years, compared with 55 per-
cent for other Hispanics."

He concludes that “it seems that
American universities are quite
willing to sacrifice the future happi-
ness of many young blacks and His-
panics to achieve diversity, propor-
tional representation, and what they
consider multicultural progress."

Universities are willing to take
students who are clearly unqualified
for admissions so administrators
can appear to have progressive and
egalitarian policies. Students then
are thrown to the wolves of compe—
tition, which they are unprepared
for, breaking their self-confidence
and making them feel like failures.

The sad irony is that these stu-
dents might have been able to suc-
ceed in less competitive environ-
ments.

And, in a warning to university
Chancellors and presidents every-
where, we learn the fate of Berke-
ley’s chancellor. He pushed the di-
versity program to the nth degree
and was eventually “caught in the
political, philosophical, and ethnic
cross fire" and forced to resign.

“A Berkeley professor said, ‘
(Chancellor) Heyman figured that
this diversity thing was the wave of
the future, and “A Berkeley profes-
sor said, ‘(Chancellor) Heyman
figured that this diversity thing was
the wave of the future, and he want-
ed to be out front, doing more than
anyone else. He couldn’t see that
other values were at stake, too.’ The
professor smiled wryly. ‘Heyman
himself ended up as an individual
sacrifice on the alter of diversity.‘ “

He wanted to be out front, doing
more than anyone else. He couldn’t
see that other values were at stake.
too.‘ The professor smiled wryly.
‘Heyman himselfended up as an in-
dividual sacrifice on the alter of di-
versity.‘ "

After dealing with Berkeley,
D’Souza turns his attention to the
multicultural curriculum at Stan-
ford. Students had rallicd to change
the “white male"-based curriculum
to one that represented a more di-
verse group. “Hey, hey, ho. ho,
Western culture’s got to go,” the
students chanted. The curriculum
was changed, and D'Soura targets a
work entitled I. Rigoberta Menchu.

I, Rigoberta Menchu is the story
of a young Guatemalan woman
named Rigobena Menchu. She re-
lated the story to French feminist
writer Elisabeth Burgos-Debray —
not in Guatemala as you might ex-
pect from an oppressed Guatema-
lan, but at a conference in Paris.
Amazingly, Rigoberta has a Marx-
ist vocabulary that sounds different

from what one might imagine from
a Guatemalan peasant.

Actually, it is somewhat unbe-
lievable how closely the writings of
oppressed representatives of the
Third World closely resemble the
“progressive" and Marxist writings
of the West. D’Souza notes that the
“premier ideologist of oppression,
Karl Marx, was not exactly Guate-
malan. Here is one overrepresented
white male in the Stanford curricu-
lum."

He then quotes several shocking-
1y racist statements made by Marx
and Engels. Marx “termed a Creole
man who married his niece a ‘goril-
la offspring.‘ "

Engels remarked that Marx‘s
son-in-law “who had a small
amount of Negro blood" and was
running for office in a district that
contained a zoo, “Being in his qual-
ity a nigger a degree nearer to the
rest of the animal kingdom than the
rest of us, he is undoubtedly the
most appropriate representative of
the district." D‘Souza found that
none of the Stanford activists with
whom he spoke were familiar with
that side of Marx and Engels.

D’Souza bluntly exposes the mul-
ticultural curriculum and writes,
“Their cuticular diet now consists
of little more than crude Western
political slogans masquerading as
the vanguard of Third World
thought."

D’Souza then focuses in on the
protest at Howard in 1989, which
demanded that then-Republican Na-
tional Committee Chairman Lee At-
water resign from the school’s
board of trustees.

The irony of the protest was that
it was not any sort of risk for the
students who participated because
faculty and press supported the stu-
dents.

Even comedian Bill Cosby
praised the students. Of course the
demand list kept growmg and grow-
ing and eventually the majority of
their demands were met.

In the area that has gotten the
most publicity. free speech.
D’Souza chooses Michigan as his
case study. The regulauon of free
speech has largely been in reaction
to racial incidents on campuses.

College administrators blame
these taCtal incidents. of course.
blamed on Ronald Reagan and his
policies. The reasoning holds that
racism lies below the surface and
that when “societal curbs" are re-
laxed the racism Wlll exhibit itself.
This would lead one to believe that
the South would show the most ra-
cism, since its forced integration cx-
perienced the most resistance.

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and freedom of thought at the nation’s schools.

But, D‘Souza points out: “The
majority of such incidents have tak~
en place in the Northeast, not exact-
ly Reagan country. The state with
the largest number of incidents is
Massachusets. Out of one hun-
dred racial incidents classified by
region, only seven occurred in the
South."

And D‘Souza asks. “Is it possible
that the policies of the University of
Michigan, although calculated to
promote racial tolerance and harmo-
ny, are actually generating and
strengthening hostility?"

Michigan instituted a policy that
banned “any behavior, verbal or
physical, that stigmatizes or victi-
mizes an individual on the basis of
race, ethnicity, religion, sexual or-
ientation, creed. national origin, an-
cestry, age, marital status, handicap,
or Vietnam-era veteran status."

The free speech requirements
were struck down by a court as an
abridgement of free speech. The
school then tried to devise a code
that would be acceptable to the
courts. Instead of trying to maxi-
mize the free exchange of ideas.
Michigan wants to restrict speech
as much as possible.

Morton Halperin of the ACLU
noted that “there is a double stan-
dard. There is a trend at universities
to discipline students who write or
speak out in ways deemed insensi-
tive to minorities. But there are not
cases where universities discipline
students for views or opinions on
the left, or for raCtst comments
against non—minorities.“

But the reason activists have had
such success in pushing preferential
treatment and free speech restric-
tions is because of “silent backing
from the faculty. They (the fa-
culty) worked behind the scenes
and through the system to give the
students what they wanted," said
Reginald Wilson, who supports the
restrictions.

D'Souza finds that the activists
may run into some problems in the
future. After constantly accusing
people of intolerance, there may be
a backlash. “it is not hard tc predict
that when you accuse whites and
males of habitual bigotry they are
not eager to join the chorus "

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gardless of need. hire at least one
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or face penalties.

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