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4 "IBofl Serving US( Stephanie Sonnenfe Chris Dixon, Vi EdHaiii Angie Campbell, Martha Hotop, Achi Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, Sara Sve | o'p i i Lecture on sei for USC studei Sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer is scheduled to give Students sh a lecture at 7:30 Dr. Ruth's p.m. tonight in learn abo\ the Russell because sh House Ballroom. Students need to make every attempt to attend Westheimer's lecture because sex is a topic we often take too lightly, and a serious discussion on human sexuality can be both interesting and informative. While many college students wouldn't admit it, we don't know everything there is to know about sex. We can all stand to learn a few things here and there. What makes Westheimer interesting is the openness with which she discusses sex. She is Second Presid rehashes old t Well, when PfPPPfFJPfT we saw the news ___ rmr i _ j_ ?\_ on i v rooay, me/ ?aid there was Both the c going to be a avoide< presidential issues and < debate tonight. s# me ok Well, it obviously was not in San Diego. In the second of the two debates, Clinton and Dole decided once again they were not going to debate the issues. There wasn't going to be any great rhetoric or arguments. They got up on the stage and answered the questions with the same answers we saw last time, and have been seeing all this last year. They pointed out the same facts and made the same quotes about legislation. Bob Dole made the same joke he did last time about a lawyer having called him after he fell off that podium in Chico, Calif., saying, "I think we have a case, Bob." Come Bob, it was funny the first time. Not only did these candidates fail to cover any new ground on their own, they couldn't answer the questions from the people who were trvintr tr> Thp "fnum Vinll" format of this debate promised there would be more diversity in the questions that were offered, hopefully making the debate a bit more interesting. And there was a lot of diversity when it came to the questions. But often times, Clinton and Dole would practically ignore the point the person was trying to "(Safeock S Stephanie Angie i Sonnenfeld Campbell Editor in Chief Lisa Chris Dixon Noworatzky Viewpoints Editor ? ,, .. ** Jl ii * Sara Svedberg Martha Hotop Copy Desk Adam Snyder Robert WaJton News Editors Photo Editor Jennifer Stanley Brian Rish Features Editor Graphics Editor Achim Hunt Jason Jeffers Sports Editor n . , ? ? i- . . 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As students, we shouldn't attend Westheimer's lecture because she's a celebrity, we should attend her lecture because we want to learn more about sex and human sexuality. It's about time we have an informative lecture on sex. If you're not mature enough to have an intelligent discussion about sex, then you're certainly not mature enough to have sex. In our society, we take human sexuality very lightly. We should all take sex more seriously. After all, sex can kill you. ential Debate ssues, ideas PfWJPPPfPJ bring out. They just kept going back to the same andidates oldissues they d new had been zovered the hammering i topics. home for the past year. It's pretty sad when a person gets up to ask you a question, one that seems pretty easy, and you blatantly skirt around the issue. The point of debates is for the people to see where the candidates fundamental differences are hammered out. Where the people get to see great arguments by two of its supposedly greatest citizens. Ibnight we got to see the same old stuff". This debate was a bit more interesting than the last one, which was kind of dry. But this time it was iust tallrinp hpads nn nn flip stage, spouting out their platforms. People said the conventions for each party were dry and rehearsed They were, but it was kind of expected because the parties wanted to appear unified to the people. But at least during the debate, there was the opportunity for us to see the candidates clash, for their ideas and personality's to go head to head. There was a little bit of that, and some parts that were relevant But for the most part, it was the same old campaign speeches we have been hearing from Bob and Bill for the past year, and that's not a debate. ?, s: 777-7726 ;rtising: 777-1184 : 777-6482 Kei|h Boudreaux MmHOnnnn Circulation Manager Chris Carroll Rob Gioielli Director of Student Media Asst. Viewpoints Laura Day Dipka Bhambhani Creative Director Jessica Nash J.T. Wagenheim Asst. 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It seems sensible that the government should be as small and efficient as possible, so that we Americans can keep more of our hard-earned money away from the tax man. Nevertheless, the occupation of elected officials is government, and the shrinking of government is a complicated assignment. Certainly there are agencies and programs that beg to be put out of their miserable existence. The National Helium Reserve, a throwback to the age of military blimps, was phased out just last year. There are other anecdotal examples, an official here or there who lives in a government house and gets paid $80,000 to check the integrity of the Canadian Generation X i i Vernon C. Davenport Few words cany more opprobrium than "Nazi," and rightly so. The deeds of Hitler and his accomplices were so vile that they beggar the imagination. Perhaps the only thing more horrible than what the Nazi's did was the complacency of the German people. While those evil men were grabbing the reigns of power, and raping the European continent, most Germans were content to look the other way, For those ordinary Germans, the record of history is damning. Good men and women, pillars of their community, failed to do anything while genocide was committed around them. The burden of their failure to oppose evil is something they must bear. However, there was a small percentage of people in Germany and occupied Europe who did not sit idly while murderous deeds were the rule of the day. They were the "rescuers," the Oscar Schindler types who, sometimes at great peril to themselves, saved the Jews from certain death. It is their example from which we can, and should, learn. Dr. Nechama Tec, of the University of Connecticut, Stanford, has researched the actions of rescuers. The portrait of the altruistic which she has painted is PINTS I I /VUKi I Q?kH-)C\ " I ? ?? * ^ (, ' i>M? WtPNI^HT LAiT TO 1*MATE <#?? EATIM' IAU STJfiK flW wKTCHtu V i~ $LAQG&SuW should have to save mone; families in South Carolin Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, U.S ouldn't be b border once a year. You know the stories. Spending that made sense at one time and has never been eliminated despite its modem absurdity. The problem, though, is that the National Helium Reserve was not that expensive in terms of the government of the United States. The tax man will not be bringing you a refund due to its closing. I have in mind today another agency. It is also insignificant in the federal budget, but not insignificant in the political realm. The Office of National Drug Control Policy. During the Clinton Administration, this office, also know as the drug czar's office, was cut 83 percent, 227 footdragging bureaucrats were eliminated, and $200 million was cut from druginterdiction Drocrrams. Hooray! Get the government off our backs! Right? Maybe not. The Public Health Service reported last month that drug use has more than doubled among 12 to 17 year-olds. Who is to blame? Bob Dole says that President Clinton is to blame. Our children deserve better, he says. Clinton should not have shrunk government, not there at least. Somewhere else. afraid to go a? not necessarily what we would expect. Quite frankly, the typical rescuer was not normal. They were people whose personality and thought patterns placed them far beyond the pale. While they constituted a veiy heterogeneous group, they shared a few important characteristics. The most important trait which they shared was their individuality. Rescuers did not fit into their social environments. They were nerds. They realized this, and others did not. None of them cared. Not fitting into society made it much easier for them to do the right thing, when it was necessary. Rescuers were also very independent. They told Dr. Tec that they did what they knew to be right, no matter what everyone else was doing. Most rescuers also had histories of altruistic behavior, and their actions were done spontaneously. They tended to be very modest about their actions, and they believed in the universality of values. However, the most telling of their shared characteristics was their estrangement from society and its evil values. It is important to realize that while we appreciate the heroism and goodness of the rescuers, they were scorned by their societies. The government, the media and plenty of "upstanding citizens" were content to hold their tongues while their friends and neighbors were dragged from their homes into oblivion. 1 > ? I MAP A PH-OBLTAT^ * ? ESP**- roe ANP :e.o\uw sAufgoav 6- scoogy ooo... y' >RT 6R0tfftf y in Washington the same w a have to save money." i. Speaker of the House lamed on Cli So has President Clinton deliberately e by reducing the funding of the drug c; Senator Dole mean to endanger the li against the creation of the drug czar'i we blame? Let's not blame anybody. L TV advertisements that are meant to 1 The Public Health Service says that i Hollywood shares the blame for glamorizing drug use. What can be done about that? Should Hollywood be regulated by BIG government? This report of increased teen drug use, which has become a major issue of < the presidential race raises all of the questions and complications involved ' with shrinking government. < It is difficult to determine even the 1 fundamental facts. A Senate report, prepared by staffers for the majority, ] says that 227 DEA agents were cut between 1992 and 1995. However, the DEA's own staffing summary for 1997 shows 244 more agents than 1993. Drug interdiction funds were cut by $200 million between 1993 and 1994 at the DEA, but the number of U. S. Customs border patrol agents was 1 increased by 43 percent for the I rainst norm Hr ^iAJUL JLUI/ AiV/1 AAAj V^-V. The odd fellow who followed his own very much an exception to the casual that they were a much more common e who are independent in thought amor Many people were much better able , to succor to the Jews, yet it was only those on the hinges who did so. The "good Germans," even though they may not have hated the Jews and wanted to see , them die, put the practical concern of saving their own skins before the moral imperative of helping their imperiled Jewish brothers. The rescuers did not choose that option, although there was much pressure for them to do so. They did what was i right. Many would like to think that they would make the rescuers' choice if they found themselves in such a situation. I u i.~ ueg IU uinei. If America fell under the sway of evil men, most would be content to go with the flow. Of college students, this is no doubt especially certain. I have had the displeasure of encountering multitudes of undergraduates who will not, and perhaps cannot, think for themselves. Whatever is fashionable at the moment is what they think. Worse yet, what they hear from their professors is what they think. The forces of political correctness long ago stilled any sort ot real dissent in the Thursday, October 17,1996 | ( / * A % ? so "5t\ 0 ay 6 inton, Dole ndangered the lives of our children n Ear's office? I don't believe so. Did ves of our children when he voted s office? I don't think so. Who can fit's quit making negative political frighten people. southwestern border. So has President Clinton a deliberately endangered the lives of our children by reducing the funding of the drug czar's office? I don't believe so. Did Senator Dole mean to endanger the lives of our children when he voted against the creation of the drug czar's office? I don't think so. Who can we blame? Lef s not blame anybody. Let's quit making negative political TV advertisements that are meant to frighten people. If the so-called war on drugs is a priority of the American people, then lefs express that. Perhaps then the war on drugs will be added to the long list of off-limits areas in the quest to shrink the government. ) what's right !r heart and did what was right was acceptance of evil. Still, I suspect lement in their societies than those ig the Generation X crowd. academy. When different opinions appear, they are ignored. It might be said that modern America is too tolerant of difference to go the way of Germany. In fact, Germany between ' the wars was an extraordinarily open society, one bordering on chaos. Germans cheered Hitler as their savior from anarchy. The "anything goes" mentality was easily transformed into goose-stepping conformity through skilled manipulation. The odd fellow who followed his own heart and did what was right was very much an exception to the casual , acceptance of evil. Still, I suspect that they were a much more common element in their societies than those who are independent in thought among the Generation X crowd. I would be far more optimistic about modern America if I thought many of its people possessed the character and strength of the rescuers. In point of fact, I am not optimistic at all. God help us all if a modem Goebbels takes control of MTV. Jackboots will be what "everyone who's anyone" is wearing!