1989_11 The Daily Collegian November 1989

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Opini
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Satire on Johnston ASI application
WARNING - WHAT FOLLOWS IS A
-SATIRP"
/SATIRE: use of ridicuie. irony,
sarcasm, etc.. in speech or writing for
the ostensible purpose of exposing
and discouraging vice or folly.
DearSir. ■
I am responding to a letter.
"Clarification by committee
applicant," which appeared in your
Monday edition above the signature
of a Mr. Ken Johnston.
Who do you think you are and
where do you think you are, Mr.
Johnston? In the land of guaranteed
free speech? Any more letters from
/ou suggesting that ability should be
msidered for any position at this
[ university and I will see to it that the
Haak Committee on Racism has your
name along with those others who
have been writing about the position
of parliamentarian.
There    is    a    long    history    of
yoi
ytor
committees appointed to protect
people like me from persons like you:
the Inquisition, the Star Chamber.
Cotton Mather and his groupies,
kangaroo • courts lynch moba.
McCarthy and his committee, etc. We
should be proud that one day Fresno
State will be recognized for its
contribution to political and judicial
history alongside those comrjjiuees
mentioned above. You'll get yours!!!
And finally, for those who ihink
the above is an attack on Mr.
Johnston, let me repeat myself and
assure you that, like a similar piece
written by Mr. Nash in response to a
letter by me published in the Daily
Disappointment some time ago, this
letter Is in the form of English known
as SATIRE. Some on this campus are
forgetting that ability is present In all
races and both sexes, and by doing so
are exposing not their racism but
their ignorance.
Ivan Rowe
Closets lie behind closed doors
DearEdltor,
I would like to ■ address Paul
Kunkel's letter of Oct 26. Mr. Kunkel,
you expressed your opinion that what
people do in their own home Is their
right but it should stay behind closed
doors. I would only like to say that I
wish it were that simple.
There are . few people who
completely separate (heir private
from their public'lives. Everyone at
work has a picture of their significant
other on their desk, except me. There
are also pictures of their children,
shining examples of what they do
behind closed doors. You may say that
I, too. am free to display my photos,'
but according to your letter I am not,
for must "we advertise and flaunt
evtnything."
Because of attitudes like yours, I
will continue to let people think I'm
single, though IVe been In a loving,
monogamous relationship for eight
years. During the holidays Til endure
looks of pity from well-meaning co¬
workers who think I have no family,
though in actuality my relationship
is more stable than some of theirs. If
It ts only a matter of what goes -on
behind closed doors, why are
friendships, families and Jobs lost.
when pt56ple find out?
TO the members of GLBSA I extend
my utmost respect and admiration.
To you and others before you, Lowe a
debt of .gratitude for the advances
weVe made. I also offer my sincere
apologies for not having the courage
to Join the fight yet I know that, more
than anyone, you understand why.
Namewitheld
Equal treatment for biblical laws
Dear Editor.
This letter is written in response to
Geoffrey L. Bixler's letter in which he
states, "As a Christian you must see
homosexuality for the deviant
behavior it is." Well, Geoffrey, I can
only assume that you're basing this
on Leviticus 18:22, "No man is to have
sexual relations with another man-
God hates that"
Since you seem to have such faith
In biblical law I'm sure you have no
Walt Kelley's TOG©
problem with. "Whoever curses his
father or his mother is to be put to
death" (Ex. 20:15). "Suppose a man is
caught raping a girl who is not
engaged. He is to pay the girl's father
the bride price of fifty pieces of silver,
and she is to become his wife" (Dt
22:28-29), or. If a girl Is found not to
be a virgin on her wedding night "the
men of the city are to stone her to
See LETTERS, page 3
By Doyle & Sterneckey
"    19
Just say no to
drug war hype
Deborah A. Lorenzen
"Users are losers and losers are
users so don't use drugs, don't use
drugs."
Oh wow, ok, what was I
thinking using drugs! Sheesh!
What could have ever made me use
drugs?
"Justsagno."
Golly. I could havejust said 'no'
instead of shooting up like that.
"Be cool stay in school"
Maybe if I had stayed in school I
wouldn't have ended up in the
comer ofcthis stylishly furnished     g
crack hdusc.
I'm a lose*rfdidn't have the
'strength tosay no. And 1 quit
sctrooLAt this point. there mui>'.
be no redemption for m*j.
But I do have a chance. I do.
, While I sit here in lite corner of
this crack house, ever*,' time!
think abrhiL smoking another
joint, or firing up another chunk
of rock cocaine. the faceof Naney ■
Reagan floats before me saying
"don't use drugs," and I resist.
I only read at the third grade
level so the third-rate ad
campaign currently being used
works forme.
Soon I'll be in the middle class.
Come on.
Why is it that the current
campaign against controlled
substances, the'"war on drugs''is '
aimed at making fifth graders in
Clovis feel good that they are
living right?
The media tells us dally, albeit
incorrectly, that the only people
who use drugs are minorities,
specifically black people.
It's 18-year-old black high
school drop-outs that sell all the
drugs in America.
It's little 8-year-old black kids
on bikes who warn the pushers
about cops in the area.
And it's young unwed black
welfare mothers who use crack.
No one else.
Period.
Well, if this is the case, why
isn't the ad campaign focused on
inner-city black kids?
. Maybe it has something to do
with the fact that the "warriors on
drugs" realize white folks do it
too.
And we can't have that leaking
to society.
So we try to curb the tide befon.
anyone finds out.
We use stupid inane prime-timr
commercials to make people
think that we're actually doing
something, bust a couple ofloader
trucks in Nevada and send the
rest, of the money to the Coiura:
Why can't Lhe current
administration separate itself
from the tactics ofthe Reagan
administration andacrtualiy tak?—
a stand. Do something, preferably
the right thing.
Put the focus ofthe "war" on a
corner in inner-city Chicago, or
the Bronx or somewhere in LA.
Get the cartoons and the culsie
campaign strategies away from
the Cosby show where ad rates
run so high and build a drug rehab
center in Cbmpton.
Or in Ojange County for that
matter.'    .
Take a look at your own set of
personal stereotypes.
Realize that not all gold bavin'
Fila wearin' fly mutha's with
beepers are drug dealers.
Realize it's a style, j ust like
power ties.
And stop h urnxning with
McGruff.
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