1981_02 The Daily Collegian February 1981

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Reagan a possible threat to First Amendment
Back in the bad old days of the
Palmer Raids in the 1920s, the offices
of dissident newspapers were trashed
and foreign-born activists, some of them
Journalists, were deported.
In the McCarthy era, a co-editor
of the left-leaning National Guardian
was deported and listener-sponsored
radio station KPFA was Investigated
(and cleared) for alleged communist
influence.
Only a decade ago, Richard Nixon
and Sp/ro Agnew crusaded against
liberals in the mas* media and dissidents In the underground media, using
the FBI to infiltrate news staffs, tap
phones and open mail-all blatant
violation* of First Amendment freedom
of the pre**.
Could a witchhunt of uppity Journalists
happen again? The new Reagan administration, busy slashing social program* and whipping up jingoistic
fervor, ha* yet to turn its attention
to the media.
But conservative activist* inspired
by last November's elections have
trained their sights on alternative
media organ Irations, the better to
eventually muff le critical voices.
On Nov. 5, one day after the election,
Howard Phillips, head of the influential Conservative Caucus, called for a
cut-off of federal money for National
Public Radio and the five-station Pacific* network.
Paclflca, which operates stations In
Berkeley, Los Angeles, New York,
Houston and Washington, D.C., gets
23  percent  of  its  funding  from  the
feds.    The    non-commercial    stations Yet,   this   is  the  kind   of   thinking
are   frequently   critical   of   establish- that characterizes every wave of political
ment politics repression.   Dissent   is   equated   with
Even  before  the  election,   article* treason, and treason, of course, is a
in two conservative Journal*, AIM Re- crime.   Thus,   dissent   itself  becomes
ports and Spotlight, tingled out Pacifka a criminal act.
for critical attention, with AIM Reports What do the announced targets of
claiming   that   Pacific*   station*   are the radical Right think about all this?
"notoriou* for the broadcasting of filth. \ Publicly, theirstance is one of cautious
Writing    in    the    February/March
ijjue of Mother tones, co-editor Adam
Hochschild allowed that "although we
cannot claim to be blithely cheerful,
do feel ready for a good fight. Like
and extreme leftist propaganda.
Another conservative publication,
entitled Persuasion at Work, expressed
dismay over the success of Mother
tones, a muckraking monthly with a
circulation of 250,000 and a left-liberal       	
slant, In an issue devoted entirely to    the   doughty       ....
attacking that magazine. after, it' * what we do best.'
Finally, a conservative group called       The Paciflca  stations are _
the National Committee to Restore a similar note. David Salniker, general
internal Security has called for a re- manager of KPFA, told the weekly
turn of Congressional committees to In These Times, 'Wedon't plan to hide
stalk dissidents, McCarthy-style. from what we consider to be McCarthy-
Among their proposed target* are style attack*.'Added Salniker, "We've
Mother Jones and Pacific New* Service weathered the years of McCarthy and
(PNS), whose dispatches run in many *"
alternative and college papers.
Like many other long-lived alternative media outlets, PNS ha* been
watched before by the powers that
be. A confidential FBI memo, dated
Dec. 12, 1971, and secured by this
writer under the Freedom of Information Act, described PNS as 'an
ideal outlet for.. pro-Chinese communijt
Another internal memo, dated Sept.
11,  1970, noted that PNS frequently ,„... »„„.„„, „«vu,„
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Hopefully so. The number of journalists willing to question the status
quo is already small. One reason for
that is the ever-increasing monopolization of ownership in the mass media
by powerful corporations of the type
courted by the Reagan admlnistration-
which, in a neat feat of political logic,
claims to be for 'free enterprise. *
Kangaroo courts for dissenting journalists could further reduce diversity,
putting some barely-solvent independent media out of existence and having
a chilling effect on others.
Ronald Reagan has not, so far,
endorsed the threatened prosecution
of the alternative media, but the conservative campaign is clearly being mounted in hopes of snaring hi* support.
That Reagan recently removed the
White House portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the historic champion of the
First Amendment, and replaced K.with
one of Calvin Coolidge, the stone-
faced exemplar of know nothlngism,
does not bode well for a free press.
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Professors debate:
tfe&snrs debate:
Do pesticide disadvantages outweigh advantages?
• a-_ about the on***.** admRtsd that    ffl>WM'.#JL*A   lUS* Ws\^J* E^ar*
ByJoanHletpa*
about the problem, and admitted that
even  at  universities  students  aren't
■We  have a history of overuse being taught enough about the dangers
and misuse of pesticides in this court- of pesticides.
try,' said Dr. Donald Dahlsten, ento-       Dahlsten blamed the petrochemical
mology professor from the University Industry *— "—"— -—«**■*—■ ** *
of California at Berkeley. chemicals	
Dr. Dahlsten and Dr. J. Cordon Ed- as a biological or trcuteajw. »->—...
ward* of San Jose State University were       It costs more than S20 million to
featured In a pesticides debate in the develop new chemicals,  a figure 17
CU yesterday. times more than It was in 1950, accord-
Dahlsten sees a great need for change **»»**»-»a»»-»»»aw«-«a»e--«r«»»je»»e»»awe»eBet»
in the country'* application of pesticide*,
while Edwards admits we need chemicals, but does not condone the use of a
'political integrated pesticides management "(IPM) system.
Dahlsten cited two reasons for the
use of "political IPM.* This Is a term is good, it will tei Itself. But with toe
Echterds said he wasn't sure was valid, political IPM *y*tem, which Edwards
and one that Dahlsten said he had never claims It Interfering now, Ten afraid
"--~3 what we  have   Is  err»lre-buildmg,'
he said.       ^«k*^a^Bea^Bt\ssss*M
pesticide advisers work fc
But Edwards conceded, 'It's hard to
■ any  industry where people are
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TtmZ: ZZiZZ L.    pesticide control advisers. KwJv
In this procedure, Edwards reported
that grower* using the advisers are
able to deduct up to 525,000 from their
income tax. Another objection is that
the growers are allowed to use some
pesticides that other growers might not
be allowed to use.
'But who suffers from this?* said
Edwards. "The public doe*
^Everyone loses except the
'$30 billion of crops
is imported by the U.S.'
Dahlsten cited two reasons tor me —
overuse and misuse <* PwUcldes. One, lngtr^l.ten.                                         "^Everyone loses except the peop
was  the  Increased  profits  a  grower -There i* time for a change/ he*on-   -llrv0lve<j ln ^ ponyc IPM $y££
mightattain by using Pesticides.   The eluded                                                          Edwards said he feels if a pestick
second    was    the    misunderstanding Edwards spofc
—   -h-mlMl. of IPM.
second    was    the    misunaer*uuiui>iB       —.._ , nainly on the aspects
that, the public has about. chemicals of IPM.
and the attitude that chemicals can be a IPM is defined by Edwards as  a
cure-all for crops. system that Implements genetics and
Dahlsten  alto admitted  there was crop rotation   and takes into account
some benefit to using pesticides.   One bacteria and viruses,
benefit Is enhanced cosmetic appear- The purpose, said Edwards, I* 'to
ance, whkh, he claims, was 'not en- get all the food produced we can.
tirely necessary.*  A second advantage 'Approximately 530 billion of crop* is
is the flexibility that pesticides provide imported by the U.S.   We want to cut
in a growing season. down on that. Real IPM is something we
But Dahlsten said he feels the di»- -should itrivefor.'
advantage* of pesticide* 'considerably Edwards' main ob|ection was to the
outweigh' the advantages.
By using pesticides, Dahlsten said,
the croos develop a resistance to the
chemicals. This, he said, was a bigger
factor facing the farmers than the
problem of pesticides alone.   Dahlsten
rvotved in trie political irrvi iyn-m.      now
Edwards said he feels if a pesticide    said.
Both of the speakers agreed that the
governmental regulations regard^
pesticide* were good, but thatthty
needed to be more »trlctly enforced.
•I would Just hate to see a forest
being wiped out entirety because
someone el*e wa* afraid to put a pesticide on at the right time,' Edward*
'Part of the problem is with
society and its fear of insects
said be want* to avoid the 'pesticide
treadmill.'
He also pointed out the problem of
resurgence   In   using   raticides   on
P'*'Mltes were never a P^««nw»tiJ
synthetic organic chemical* evolved,
There are also sufficient studies,
according to Dahlsten, which prove
neoole can acquire diseases from resl-
oteteft on^od from the pestidde*.
Dahlsten sard that In dealing with
pesticides, 'part of the problem is wttn
society and Its fear of insects.'
He also said people are  Ignorant
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