1990_11 The Daily Collegian November 1990

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The folly Collegian
Friday, Nov. 16, 1990
LETTERS
Continued from page 2
Women's Alliance.
We would like to extend a special
congratulations to the Fill plr.o St udcnLs
Association in the receipt of the Club
Awareness Day award of $50 for the
best enthusiasm, best-decorated booth
and the occupancy of the booth for the
entire two days.        W
Donald Harjo Daves. President
Associated Students Inc.
More from YAF
Editor.
The article on the new campus chap¬
ter of the YoungAmericans for Freedom
[Collegian. Nov. 12] was on the whole
well-written. However, as faculty ad¬
viser for the group, and as one who was
quoted in the article. I feel a few further
comments are in order.
In the article, the reporter neglected
to mention the organization's chief
concern, which ls the promotion and
defense of Individual freedom, dignity
and responsibility. Second. YAFbelleves
It is preferable first to seek solutions to
problems in the area of the free market
where there Is less coercion and more
freedom of choice.
For example, the urban poor should
perhaps be encouraged to purchase
public housing units at a token price
rather than [have the government) per¬
petually pay rent for them. They would
then own the units and have more of a
stake in maintaining them and improv¬
ing their, neighborhoods. Likewise,
public schools might be Improved If
they had to compete for students whose
parents had vouchers enabling them to
make a free choice as to which schools
they thought best met their children's
needs.
Young Americans for Freedom also
holds in very high regard the principle
of equal rights for all — homosexuals,
heterosexuals. Whites. Blacks, browns,
men, women. Christians, Jews. Mos¬
lems, agnostics and atheists. In 1965
the United Nations General Assembly
overwhelmingly approved UN Resolu¬
tion 2106 defining racial discrimina¬
tion as "any distinction, exclusion, or
preference based on race, color, de¬
scent, or national or ethnic origin" and
called on Its member states. Including
the United States, to condemn and work
for the extirpation of such discrimina¬
tory and racist policies.
Young Americans for Freedom fully
supports, that United Nations resolu¬
tion. There are, however, many on this
campus who do not. Instead they Insist
on racially discriminatory programs in
theadmtsslon of new students, in some
student scholarships and in the ap¬
pointment of new faculty.
I was quoted in the article as saying
that I protested the recent MEChA
protest of an assault on a Chicano
student. No I didn't. Nothing about the
MEChA protest was mentioned by me in
my interview with the reporter. I do not
know enough about that specific pro¬
test to have formed an opinion about it
It was. so far as I know, a peaceful and
legitimate protest and I have nothing
against that
What I did say was that the only
thing approximating organized 'skin¬
head* activity that I have heard on this
campus occurred late in the spring of
1989. when elected representatives of
the student government were held
against their will in a room by thugs
threatening them with physical violence
because they didn't like the way they
voted.
People have spent years in prison for
less. But these thugs were 'liberals*
and they got oIT with a lecture or two. a
knowing wink and a slap on the wrist
At least one of these people ls still trying
to "advise* the current student govern¬
ment Young Americans for Freedom
firmly opposes and condemns this, and
all other forms of "skinhead behavior."
" Recently, when the President's Task
Force on Racism. Sexism and Homo¬
phobia issued Its preliminary report,
stating that they found few verifiable
instances of racism or sexism on cam¬
pus and that the whole matter had
perhaps been blown out of proportion.
there followed an almost Immediate
outcry claiming a large and sudden
rash of racist and sexist Incidents.
Not only was the timing of all these
"incidents" suspicious, the gratuitous
attempts of some to blame the Young
Americans for Freedom, of all people,
for them adds insult to Injury. And this
at the hands of the now more or less
official "Victims' Lobby" which in fact
receives more than even-handed finan¬
cial support from the university and
from student fees.
Finally, the reporter who wrote that
story seems to find it odd that women,
minorities and gay students are wel¬
come as members of Young Americans
for Freedom. So often liberals and the
media are astonished when women or
minorities express Ideas at variance
with their own. Systematically liberals
have sought to impose their own view¬
point on the country through the media
and on students through certain re¬
quired courses and "politically correct"
faculty appointments.
Young Americans for Freedom, on
the other hand, prefers a free and re¬
sponsible exchange of more diverse
points of view and wishes to join with all
those on campus who support the same
Ideals. Vj        \^ ^
David N. Jones
Professor of History
Editor's note - The reporter who
wrote the story. Debbie Richards, and
the Collegian stand by all quotes In the
story.
Recycling reminder
Editor.
Now that the Ecology Society has
been good enough to place recycling
bins around our campus, why don't you
print "Please recycle this paper" next to
the volume and issue number of your
paper? This might remind us ton-cycle.
It may be the most Important thing you
have ever printed./ j
Matthew L. King
Ecology plea    1
Editor.
I would like to thank Kevin Cronin
and Kim Nelson for their Insightful let¬
ter on the environment [Collegian. Nov.
15). We. the Ecology Society, have been
working very hard to educate students'
at CSUF on environmental conserva¬
tion and protection.
We are a falrh/small group of stu¬
dents, yet we have already begun a
recycling program on campus — the
blue, white and green bins you see —
and we have already hosted two suc¬
cessful Environmental Awareness
Weeks. We are always searching for
new ideas from students, too.
Unfortunately, humans tend not to
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think In the long term. Immediate grati¬
fication and convenience, I.e. forest
clear cut ting, harmful pesticides, ocean
dumping, not recycling and the slaugh¬
ter of wildlife for fun or profit, take
precedence over thoughtful planning
«na foresight People tend to underestl-
mate the environmental crisis, too.'
They think that eventually the earth
will accomodate Itself to these drastic
changes (i.e. pollution, overpopulation,
the hole In the ozone layer, toxic waste,
landfills and disintegration of wildlife).
Sure it can. The quesUon Is. how long
will human beings survive in a world
like this?
To me. everyone needs to educate
themselves and take part in the envi¬
ronmental movement because each and
every living being in this world ls di¬
rectly affected by It It Is a movement
that has nothing to do with race, sex.
religion or political party affiliation. It
concerns each one of us equally.
If you are concerned about the alr
you breathe, the water you drink the ■
food you eat and the kind of world your
chtldren will live In. Join the other con¬
cerned students of the Ecology Society.
We meet every Monday at 4:30 p.m. in
Social Science Building. Room 210.
KrisU Hutchison. President
CSUF Ecology Society'
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