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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"Let's get the
government off the back
of the small
businessman." "The bureaucrats in
Washington..."
All of these phrases are becoming too
familiar during this campaign season.
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
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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
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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.
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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
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very much an exception to the casual
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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
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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
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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.
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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!