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Its been a strange week, as most
of my weeks typically are. Too many
things have happened for me to
describe just one. That's why I've
written a new feature, designed to
emulate the popular "News of the
1 Weird" package you might have
! seen before. Since that name was
taken already, I'll call my column
"News of the Beard."
As you might have noticed
E on the front of this esteemed pub1
lication, one of the drink machines
in the Russell House apparently
1 was possessed by a demon or small
dragon and decided to erupt into
flames. A few people happened up
on the machine as it burned and
noticed it was spitting Pepsi cans
a la "The Exorcist" gone cola wars.
The conflagration cleared out the
Russell House, which meant we
Gamecock staffers got to hang out
and gawk at the FTVE fire trucks
that came to extinguish the blaze.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong,
but couldnt we have saved the city
and the university a little cash if
someone had just shaken up a couple
of the ejected soft drinks and
doused the flames? Sure, the floor
would have been sticky, but the
entire Columbia Fire Department
could've stayed home and played
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fire pole or whatever else it is firefighters
do when they're not hosing
down errant vending machines.
I went to an Army-Navy store
to buy some gloves this week. Trips
to the Army-Navy store used to be
a ritual with my brothers, my dad
and me. We'd go in the store, dig
through the old clothes and get cool
stuff to play soldier in. There was
never much color selection, and
the Army never actually made different
sizes (I had to cinch my
camoflauge fatigue pants on with
a length of canvas webbing.), but
Army clothes lasted forever. You
could be eaten by a tiger while you
were wearing a pair of fatigue pants,
and he'd spit out the pants in one
piece after he'd digested you.
1 nad gone to tne store in an eifort
to stop the cold weather we've
been having. I figured correctly
that if I bought a pair of gloves, the
weather would turn unseasonably
warm, which it eventually did.
That's a good thing, too, because
the owner of the store packed the
gloves in Eau de Mothball, a slightly
unpleasant aroma that reminds
me of old people and...well.. ArmyNavy
stores. Mothball stank is impossible
to get rid of, too, like those
annoying little yippy dogs or certain
venereal diseases. Once some
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thing you own smells like mothballs,
it will until you or it wears
out. We've already established, of
course, that youH be the first to go
if that mothball-stanked item is
Army surplus.
I noticed while I was in the store
that the owner was talking to someone
about getting rid of some surplus
hand grenades. I quite frankly
wasn't aware the military was just
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had lying around the barracks. I
can see it now:
Pvt. Benjamin: Sir, this thermonuclear
device is gettin' kinda
dusty and rusty. What should we
do with it?
Lt Skippton: Hmmm. We could
sell it to a wayward third-world
country. We could strap it to the
Humvee and be the baddest platoon
on base. Or we could take it
down to Bob's Surplus and see if
he can use it.
Pvt. Benjamin: I'll give him a
call. Should I try to get rid of that
Apache helicopter with the misfiring
cannon while I'm at it?
Lt. Skippton: Sure.
Elections were this week, too.
As usual, I dodged people handing
out stickers. I figure anyone who
has to wait until he gets a sticker
to decide how to vote should probably
take a serious look at this
whole participatory democracy
thing. I usually turn away sticker
bandits with a few guaranteed
lines:
Td take one, but IVe got bubonic
plague."
"I'm voting for Nixon, thanks."
"Look, Mario Cuomo on one of
those 'Jurassic Park' dinosaurs!
Give him a sticker."
"Can I have all of them, please?
I'll send them home to the family...Mom
said she needed some
tape."
"I'm the father of your oppo- .
nent, and I hate your guts, slimeball."
If that doesn't work, I either
puncn inein or nave my puvaie
helicopter airlift me into class.
If you happen to run across any
"News of the Beard," then drop me
a line at The Gamecock, and I'll
try to include it in a future article.
Or maybe Fll stick it up on my wall
at the paper's office. Or maybe 111
just laugh at you ruthlessly and
spit Pepsis across the Russell House.
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MTV has drifted
Last week, I was watching a television show
on one of the cable channels dealing with the topic
of MTV. They had a group of 40 or so teen-agers
who expressed their thoughts and feelings about
MTV. The teen-agers in this show's audience expressed
many of my personal sentiments about
MTV. This prompted me to write about this subject.
Throughout the second half of the 1980s, I
watched MTV daily. Back then, MTV played Top
40 videos about 80 percent of the time. Other programming
included shows such as "Remote Control"
and the series that did profiles on popular
recording artists. There was also the very effective
"Rock Against Drugs" public service spots
that featured superstars such as Ron Jovi and
Phil Collins warning America's youth against the
dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. Those were
the good old days.
I have seldom watched MTV since coming to
USC in 1991.1 have very good reasons for my attitude
change about MTV. With the dawn of the
1990s came this new MTV. Out with videos, in
with more specialized programming. Out with
mainstream videos, in with rap and unpopular
modern rock videos (e.g., Hole, Dinosaur Jr). Out
with "Rock Against Drugs," in with "Sex in the
'90s." Out with moderate views, in with radical
leftist views.
I think there were two turning points at which
my view of MTV changed. The first occurred in
early March 1989. MTV decided to air the controversial
Madonna video "Like a Prayer." In this
video, Madonna appears to be committing acts of
Germany nee
Writing Wednesday's article about Yaron Svora/s
report "In Hitler's Shadow" was probably the
most difficult journalistic challenge I had to face up
to present day.
A German journalist writing about an Israeli
journalist who investigated the German Neo-Nazi
movement? Can this article be objective and adequate?
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had to cover a public demonstration of several hundred
people following the rape of a friend of mine.
I wrote the article for the local newspaper, concentrating
on what I saw, what I heard. But in the
same moment I was involved myself, angry and upset
about what had happened to this friend.
Something similar happened to me with the article
about Mr. Svora/s lecture. I wrote it in my best
conscience and belief and as objectively as I could.
Svoray lectured about his investigations in the
German Neo-Nazi movement. One could compare
some contradictions between his speech and the text
in the book he wrote, or ask whether the thrillerlike
writing of his book and the lack of investigations
in the origins of Neo-Nazism is appropriate to
the importance of the topic ? but these are technicailties.
me results 01 ms investigations are snocmng ana
alarming. Criticism of this kind is absolutely necessary
in order to make the legal and political system
in Germany work faster, and as a person who
has been born in this country, it is a shame to see
these crimes happening.
And it is also legitimate that Svoray tries to provoke
with extreme statements in order to create
some kind of reaction, as the German government
did not address die Neo-Nazi problem decisive enough.
On the other hand, the conclusions he draws from
his experiences are understandable, but they are
wrong and dangerous because the solutions are too
easy.
What the Nazis planped in the so-called End
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blasphemy against the Christian religion. Pepsi
pulled corporate sponsorship of Madonna because
of this video, fearing a backlash from Christian
America. MTV didn't see Christians as important.
MTV had begun its hostile attack against religion,
morals and the American people.
The second and final turning point for me was
the controversial promotional ads created by MTV
in which a black female told the audience (us) that
we had better look out because they would soon
be the majority in America. She then said, "And
how would that make you feel?"
This ad was supposed to be anti-racism, but
instead it featured the worst case of hateful racism
I have ever encountered. On that October morning
in 1991,1 officially declared myself anti-MTV.
I never thought I would be siding with my parents
and my church on this one, but they were
right in the first place.
Since that October, I have on occasion ventured
into the MTV waters momentarily, only to
be offended and angered in most cases. The problem
is it doesn't ever play any videos (at least any
I've ever heard oO- It seems every time I turn on
MTV, I see one of four things: "The Real World,"
President Clinton talking about his underwear
and drug-use incident, "Sex in the ^Os" or a video
by "Poop Doggy Dogg."
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loesung was also an easy solution ? that is why any
easy solution is suspect to me.
With a journalist friend of mine, I interviewed a
group of Neo-Nazis in my university town two years
ago. But we did not report only their aggressive and
self-complacent statements. We also asked a psychology
professor why this kind of hate still exists
and how to encounter it. We asked trade-unionists
about what they do against Nazis at the workplace.
Questions Svoray did not ask.
Talking to Svoray after the lecture, he called for
a war against Nazis like the war against drugs.
With all respect: There was enough war because
of Germany in this century!
The majority of my generation in Germany, bom
in the 70s, is against violence, against racism, against
war.
Since the end of World War II, for the first time
in the history of this country, a democratic system
has evolved?it was compelled upon Germany from
outside after the Third Reich had been destroyed,
but this does not mean that the majority does not
support it now.
The Germany of 1995 is neither the Weimar Republic
nor will it become a Fourth Reich, but it is a
constitutional democracy struggling hard and failing
still all too often.
If Svoray calls for increased efforts to fight against
Nazism, these measures have to be in accordance
with the law, otherwise a country becomes a police
state.
Svora/s solutions would just combat the symptoms
of a complex problem, not its origin, which is
based in prejudice, social injustice, identity crisis
and the criminal obsession with power of members
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The problem with MTV is that it has become
a bastion of far-left liberalism (and no other points
of view are considered). In the "Real World," you
have one normal country guy from Kentucky along
with a bunch of individuals who share radical left
wing views. That's not the "real world" that I live
in, what about you?
The worst show on MTV, though, is "Sex in
the '90s." In this show, MTV portrays chastity,
sexual morality and marriage as wrong and obsolete
in today's culture. Now, while I concede
that attitudes toward sex and sexual morality/responsibility
have definitely been in decline during
the past three decades, I do not write off America's
vouth as hopeless. Still, one-third of us are
remaining sexually pure until marriage (and plenty
more do not share MTVs views on sex). And to
portray sexual morality as wrong and shameful
is inexcusable on the part of MTV. Furthermore,
it certainly doesn't allow for the other point of
view. MTV just conveniently ignores that it exists.
Nowadays, I listen to WNOK instead of watching
MTV. WNOK just plays the hits I want to hear
without any political or social views being aired.
When I want to watch videos, I turn on VH-1,
which airs current Top 40 videos. Politics and social
issues should be left to the editorial pages,
news networks and programs and other politically
oriented media. Music stations, whether TV
or radio, should just play the hits and nothing
else. I hope MTVs ratings continue to fall (eventually
to a zero share).
war' behind
of the society.
A new immigration law is necessary for Germany,
allowing the easier integration of immigrants and
refugees into the society, while also a National Holocaust
Memorial has to be realized soon ? it is overdue.
Similar to the tendency in the United States,
Germany also does not need more influence of the
government but more courage and uprightness of
the people.
The members of the White Rose resistance group
wrote: "Freedom of speech, freedom of conviction,
protection of the individual citizen against the arbitrariness
of a tyranny, these are the fundaments
of the new Europe." They died for their conviction
in 1943.
I know a lot of people who stand up for these
ideals in Germany and all over Europe today ?
peacefully and democratically!
They are not enough, but they exist, too.
Simon Wiesenthal wrote in the introduction of
"In Hitler's Shadow": "The future will be determined
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or extreme nationalists or white supremacists ?
but how many anti-Nazis, people of goodwill, there
will be to confront them."
But like Svoray said, "There is no greater fun for
an Israeli than to beat up a Neo-Nazi in Germany"
? doesn't he know the results of a spiral of violence?
And I understand the anger and hate ?yes, hate
? of his generation, that the Holocaust is so near
to them. But I know young Jewish people who have
a different attitude.
But like Svoray, they have to be vigilant and critical
of Germany, helping to find the best peaceful
measures against Nazism.
I hope Svoray will continue his important work
but also that he will overcome his understandable
feelings of anger, meeting anti-Nazi Germans sometime
in the future with the word that seems to me
the qxost important in Hebrew: "Shalom." ?.?