1987_05 The Daily Collegian May 1987

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Boost awaited
DearEdil
am writing inxegards to the campus
radio station, KFSR. As I recall. The Dairy
Collegian printed an article about a month
ago saying the radio station had been
given permission by the Federal Com¬
munications Commission to boost their
power substantially. This increase in
power would greatly help the station reach
a more varied population.
With the only progressive format in
Fresno, KFSR would not have to fight for
lisiencrship. If somebody wants to listen
to a progressive station. KFSR would be
their only choice.  '-
•While on a recent trip to San Diego, I
found that the most popular station in the
area, 9IX, was solely a progressive
station. The popularity 91X has is sure to
give them numerous advertising accounts.
I am aware KFSR is a non-profit station;
however, with this power boost, KFSR
could surely draw more supporters. This, in
_l%Ea could give the amateur DJ"s a little
^~ more experience.
KFSR is also an excellent place to
showcase local musical groups. These
groups would rarely, if ever, receive any
air time on the more popular local
stations. But since KFSR is not worried
about making money, they take chances
and play the type df music which isn't all
Top 40 material When KFSR plays these
local bands such as Let's Go Bowling and
Society Blue, they enhance their image
along with these up-and-coming groups.
I really enjoy having a radio station
that plays-she type of music KFSR plays.
Not only does it give an escape from the
repetitive formats of almost every radio
station in town, but it is also refreshing
to listen to « few songs with some
meaning. If the station has been given the
OK by the FCC to boost power, why don't
they do it? Every day I drive, home from
school. I dread the moment when the static
coming over the speakers is more
prominent than The Cure. Please hurry and
elevate this power!!
Sincerely,
JoelS. Damir
Respect asked
Dear Editor.
Being involved in politics since in
high school I have met and have enjoyed
cordial relationships with a number of
people with political and religious
philosophies different than mine. These
"relationships" require a maturity and a
sense of etiquette on the part of both
parties. They require the ability of one to
respect the integrity and sincerity of one's
political opponent.
On Saturday, May 2, Junko Kunitake,
president of the campus Latin American
Support Committee, came on behalf of the
Chris. Petersen city council campaign
"committee to my residence. I was not
home at the time. Junko spoke to my
mother, asking her for whom she was
going to vote. My mother answered that
she was intending to vote for Chris
Petersen's opponent, Rom Garabedian, be¬
cause I. (her son) had asked her to. Junko
and my mother engaged in a discussion,
during which Junko said that I was trying
to "brainwash" my mother, that I ques¬
tioned the sincerity ' of my avowal of
Christianity since I took different posi¬
tions on Latin American issues than she.
Junko said all of these things to my
mother, impugning my character, while I
was not even there to defend my¬
self!
Needless to say, I am deeply hurt.
Before this incident, I thought that, if not
a friendship, Junko and I at least enjoyed a
cordiality which should befit the social
relationships of a young lady and gentle¬
man. But when she would go to my mother
and knowingly and willingly denigrate me
in front of my mother that, in effect, was
less than sincere in the advice I give my
mother. Well, that is something I cannot
excuse because of "politics." Even though
this may not mean much to her, I wish to
publicly censure and disassociate myself
from Junko Kunitake. I believe she has
shown the ugly side of politics which puts
political ideology above honor and good
personal relationships.
/ Most sincerely,
J. Paul Lujan
LoBaugh correct
Dear Editor. •   -
This letter is in response to those
criticizing Dawn LoBaugh for blocking
"Some Band" from performing a contro¬
versial anti-gay and anti-(pro)choice song.
John Relph. Ed Melikian and Jeff
Btotnov have attacked Dawn LoBaugh for
cancelling the mentioned song. She was
quite correct to do so. Here is why.
Understand that John Relph began his
letter by setting himself above the rest of
the student body asking, "What about
those who choose to hold a different mor¬
ality than that of the IMMORAL NORM?"
Relph begins his complaints with a clear
and laughable bigotry — the kind of thing
be would have Collegian readers believe
he is acting against.
He wanted a group called "Some Band"
to perform at Air Guitar last Saturday
night The song's lyrics are a slap in the
face to gays and pro-choice advocates. The
important distinction between this year's
(rejected) song and. last year's (accepted)
song is that last year's was FOR some¬
thing (God) and not AGAINST someone
(CSUF gays).
All three cry. "CENSORSHIP." This is
not censorship. It is responsible select¬
ivity on the part of Dawn LoBaugh and
committee. A conscientious minister would
not allow a splashy dance number to
become part of his religious services.
While he may not be opposed to such
dances, he recognizes that they are not
appropriate in a church service. Likewise,
Dawn cannot allow a sermon put to music
to spoil a flashy production — particularly
when the group's members set. out to
insult. It tends to scrape the nerves when,
in the middle of a party, one tells another
that he is going to Hell.
John Relph claims that Christians are
"pushed out" when they try to speak their
minds on campus. We all know that the
Free Speech Area is encamped - daily by
Christian ministers who shout, insult and
call for us to change our lifestyles. We
tolerate this all year long. If a people
want to hear more, they can join the
IntcTvarsity Christian Fellowship in a
private anti-gay sing-along if that makes
them feel better. Or they can pick up some
Strypcr tickets.  '•
Religion on our campus says more than
its share. Dorm dances at this university
have been re-named because Housing de¬
cided that the themes were "un-Christian."
John asks in the midst of all this
Christian recruiting. "Just who is pushing
their morality on whom?" Gee whiz, John.
I guess I'd have to tally up all the times a
preacher held up his Bible and said
something bad about gays, and compare
that number with all the times a gay man
held up a copy of The Advocate arid told
BLOOM COUNTY
by Berke Breathed
straights to rum away from their hetero¬
sexual ways.
You were all wrong for even proposing
such a song and Dawn was luckily sharp
enough and brave enough to stop you.
Your campaign against the gay minority
will, in years to come, be recalled with the
same disgust and disbelief that past anti-
minority persecutions are met with today.
You believe in your hearts that gays are
wrong, but you cannot prove it. You feel
deeply that gays are inferior, but you
cannot substantiate this. These are the
same ways of thinking that keep die KKK
and the Nazis alive. It is the kind of
thinking that begins young. Training to
believe such illogical and ugly garbage
necessarily begins young. A person needs
to insulate himself from those different
from him, actively punishing those they
despise to keep hatreV. alive. These are
some of the bad functions that IVCF and
other groups serve on CSUFs campus.
Finally, Jeff Brotnov said something
that really disturbed me. He said that gays
are, as John has already said in error,
pushing their lifestyles off on us. We've
already talked about that Jeff, however,
pushed it further, and says that gays are
pushing off THEIR disease onto us. AIDS,
Jeff, is not a gay disease. Worldwide, a
vast number of heterosexuals have the
deadly virus, and in Africa, the most
afflicted area, it is quite positively a
hetcroscxually-transmitted disease, by and_
large.
The old farts in Washington D.C. who
feel the same unjustified hatred for gays
are responsible for the current disaster we
are now facing — an AIDS epidemic by
limiting much-needed research funding.
When scores of young gay men stricken
by the disease were dying in our big
cities, we all sat passively as we watched
fellow humans rot.
And we laughed. The faggots had sprung
a leak in their end of the boat and nobody
cared. Nobody realized it was the same
boat we all sail in. If you can't see the
folly of letting your fellow humans down,
if you cannot see the danger of dis¬
regarding the pains of others different
from you, then you hate the compassion
of a death-camp guard. You are no better
• than the rest of us. You never have been.
)Vhen Jeff Brotnov and John Relph and
Ed Melikian stop viewing non-Christians
and gays as animals to be rc-trained or
souls to be saved, and begin to recognize
them as people with human integrity, then
the "REVIVAL" John Relph speaks of will
have finally taken place. There is no other
revival at hand. There is no one to lead us
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It
takes place every day.
—Albert Camus
The Fall
Sincerely.
Bill Pierce
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