ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ©Copyright, StateF Terree. Arizona Friday, January 19,1996 An Independent Morning Daily Super Bowl leads to vendor, scalper crackdown ~ By Kelly W eNOel State P ress Ticket scalpers and unlicensed vendors operating in the vicinity of Sun Devil Stadium during the Super Bowl may have some unwelcome customers — Tempe police officers. The Tempe City Council announced Thursday that city ordinances restricting sales and vending, such as ticket sales,' will be-actively enforced during the festivities sur­ rounding the game. A state law that prohibits ticket scalpers from transacting business within 200 feet of an entrance or adjacent driveway to an event will also be enforced. “We will actively be enforcing the laws with regard to selling in the roadway or selling alongside of the roadway,” said Lt. Steve Graehling of the Tempe Police Department. “1 have a group of officers that, that will be part of their responsibility.” Graehling also said it was a possibility there would be plainclothes police aiding in the crackdown. 1 - c ------ l i : ___ Tempe City code prohibits ____ use of public rights-of-way for soliciting, merchandising, vending Or selling of any nature, except where allowed by other city ordinances. The law also prohibits sidewalk vending, peddling, selling or displaying from a pushcart any item of tangible personal property on any public sidewalk or right of way. But Tempe has licensed vendors who have paid a $400 special permit fee. Graehling said Tempe Police would start identifying illegal vendors this weekend, and start the enforcement next Week. , Although hot dog vendor Mike Campione already has a deal inked to provide food for the fraternities during the event and will not have to worry about special permits, he still doesn’t like the crackdown on vendors. “I don’t agree with it, but you can’t fight city hall,” he said-“Never could.” Pitching for Phil Turn to Vendors, page 2. Mike Campione already has a deal cooked up to supply the fra­ ternities w ith his product during the Super Bowl, but many other vendors won’t get to relish in the profits. Tempe police plan to actively crack down on unlicensed vendors and ticket scalpers operating in the Vicinity of the Super Bowl. S y m in g to n s cu ts k illin g u n iv ersities, lo b b y ist says $612.5 million for fiscal 1997 over the By Ray Stern $609.3 million appropriated for fiscal 1996. State P ress The Legislature’s recommended increase Anticipating an ugly battle for dollars of $11.6 million for fiscal 1997 is less than during the upcoming legislative session, the director of a student lobbying group said 2 percent over 1996 appropriations. Rep. Mike Gardner, R-Dist. 27 and viceThursday that recent state budget cuts are chairman o f the Public Institutions and killing the universities. “ They’re riot giving enough money to Universities Committee, said he is trying to account for inflation,” said Paul Allvin, gather support for an even bigger increase. Gardner said the extra funds are needed executive director of the Arizona Students Association. “There’s a real anti-education not just to get by, but to keep the schools competitive. environment down there.” “It doesn’t come cheap,” he said. “We Allvin said controversy over Gov. Fife Symington’s university budget recommen­ can’t just sell sunshine forever. We actually dations has overshadowed low increases have to give professors something to put in their pockets.” planned by the Legislature. A llv in echoed ASU Provost M ilton “The universities have to convince both (the legislature and the governor) to raise G lick’s statem ent that if funds are not found, students will soon be looking at funding,” he said. Under Sym ington’s plan, university . either fewer services or increased tuition. “There’s just no Way around it,” Allvin said. monies Coming from thé state’s general : Turn to Budget, page 2 .' fund would increase only .5 percent to Safety E sco rt Service often taken for a ride by students Wendy Gramm, wife of Republican presidential candidate Phil Gramm, speaks in support of the Texas senator in the MU Thursday. Gramm spoke at a local junior high school in addition to visiting ASU. Sen. Gramm will face off against the rest of the GOP presidential contenders in next month's state primary, one of the first to be held in the nation. IN S ID E S T A T E Weather Outlook Partly cloudy. High 65°, low 45°. P R E S S By T imothy T ai i State Press Kevin Kolb is not a taxi driver. But the Safety Escort Service director said between 5 and 6 percent of the SES service calls each night are people looking for a chauffeur. “Many people Want us to be a taxi ser­ vice, but we can’t provide it,” he said. Safeway, IGA, Staples and local book­ stores are popular requests for the escort service — destinations for which latenight shoppers Will have to find alternate transportation. “Both the student body and the escorts have become lazy and want to drive carts all the time,” he said. “When we have this many people that all Want carts, it will slow bur service down.” Kolb said policies heed to be established World/Nation Ten foreigners died in a suspected arson fire in Luebeck, Germany. to rely less on the electric carts — which only have limited range —- and increase use of bikes and walking. Former base manager Risha Vohra said it is common to find people who do not need escorts requesting them anyway, “I’m concerned about safety, but the ser­ vice is abused,” he said. “People use us to get from one place to another.” However, Vohra said there is really nothing the SES can do to curb the problem without discriminating against those Who need the service. “We waste a lot of time escorting people that don’t need it, but we can’t discrimi­ nate,” he. said. Base Manager Emily Smith agreed people sometimes use the SES merely to get from point to point when safety is not their concern. T urn to SES, page 2. Where To Find It The ASU men's basketball team battled No. 13 UCLA Thursday night at the University Activity Center! 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A ll requests are subject to editing fo r c o n te n t, sp a ce a n d c la rity . Incom plete o r iilegible entries w ill be discarded. Deadline for requests is noon the day before publication and entries w ill n o t be a cce p te d m ore than three working days before publica­ tion. O ily one entry p e r organiza­ tion p er day is permitted. • 4X: N a tiv e A m erican A rc h ite c tu re and D esign Students — G eneral meeting. All majors and new faces welcome. All Conference Room; 4 p.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous Daily campus meeting. Newman Carder, Aquinas HaR in the basement; noon to 1:15 p.m. :■ • A rizo n a H o rizo n P ro je c t — Weekly meeting. MU Yuma Room 211; 2:45 p.m. • Eckankar — Discussion: "What is a Spiritual Exercise?" MU Graham Room 216; noon. Scalpers can be arrested if they attempt to sell a ticket for more than the face value, and if it can be proven the scalper bought the tick et with the intent to resell it. Graehling said all three criteria must be met before an officer can make an arrest. Violation of the law is punishable by a $2,500 fine and six months in prison. Although a city attorney said the ordi­ nances haven’t been actively enforced, the high profile nature o f the Super Bowl necessitates active enforcement. “Especially with the bigger games, like the Super Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, the vol­ ume of cash that is involved is a very high number, and that tends to lead to all kinds of vice concerns,” attorney Jill Kennedy said. “When you are dealing with each transaction in the $1,000 to $2,000 range, you get th eft by both purchaser and seller,and also counterfeit tickets.” K ennedy said p u b lic safety was a major concern in actively enforcing the ordinances. “Our main concern isn’t people selling on the street, but, congestion,” she said. “With the crowds and street closures, we are not wanting to add any more congestion because people are stopping on the street to buy something.” “There’s a question of equity here,” he said. “Why not give it to ROTC or someone else?” The ASA is backing a three-bill program that includes: • A state-based work study program that gives need and merit-based career-related internships. • A tuition prepayment plan for middleincome families. In this self-supporting pro­ gram, families would make monthly pay­ ments into a fund that is then invested, taxfree and made available years later when it is time to start college. • F inding funds fo r the A rizona Students Program Investing Resources in Education. ASPIRE gives at-risk high school students scholarship money if they swear off drugs, alcohol and cigarettes and maintain a B average. All three m easures failed in the Legislature last year, but Allvin said the tuition prepayment bill has a good chance at passing this year. “This is the best way we can think of to keep kids going to school,” he said. On the issue of authorizing ASU to sell another $245 million in bonds for construc­ tion projects, Allvin said the ASA is not taking an official position. “I would hope that the Legislature and universities use that bond authority very cautiously,” he said, adding that the bonds would have to be repaid in the form of tuition increases at a later date. from party to party also call on the SES. “We have had some drunk individuals that have harassed escorts in the past,” Kolb said. “The escorts volunteer not to be harassed.” Harassing a volunteer will result in a walk­ ing escort rather than a cart ride, he warned. Abuse of the SES also abounds when it rains. “When it rains, we get major abuse,” Kolb said. “Fifty percent of the calls are people who don’t want to walk in the rain.” Vohra, a senior finance major, said when some callers to the SES are informed that carts are unavailable, the caller no longer needs the escort, “They are too dependent on carts,” he said. “When we don’t have the carts, they don’t need us anymore.” Budget___ Continued from page 1. The ASA would also like to defeat at least two bills this session. One is a proposal that makes students pay out-of-state tuition if they earn more than 32 credits above the minimum required for their degree. A llvin said once you take out the acceptable explanations for having a large number of credits like changing majors or transferring from a community college, only about 100 students would be affected by the bill. .. “That would be like killing a fly with a cannon,” he added. The other bill Allvin would like to see shot down gives National Guardsmen first pick at empty classroom seats during registration. SES______ _ Continued from page 1. “People will use us when they are not really concerned about their safety,” she said, citing three or four friends going to the same place as an example. However, Smith said she understands why people use the SES as a taxi service. “People like to use the path of least resis­ tance,” she said- “It’s human nature.” Party-goers seeking an easy way to trek Move Up To The Commons O n Apache! FINALLY! ASU HAS A n a n i i o p i z i a d e lic io u s • f a s t • lo w L iv e in a L u x u r y A p a rtm e n t! S h a r e d B e d ro o m s A s L o w A s $ 2 9 0 P e r M o n th ! S ig n U p T o d ay . 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DRINK • CALL FOR DELIVERY • 350-9122 QCMMCNS H U E Apache Tempe, AZ e v e ry d a y LARGE BARRO'S SPECIAL 4 LARGE CHEESE PIZZAS 'i CORNER OF LEMON AND TERRACE • ASU $1Delivery Charge M cK e llip s 2 Blocks from ASU 303-7000 DELIVERY AREA B roadw ay _______World /N ation_______ Page F rid ày /Jan u ary 19,1996 STATE P r e s s 3 Aide raises suspicions over billing records Crew members of the space shuttle Challenger walk from their quarters to the launchpad on Jan. 28, 1986. The Challenger exploded seconds after launch, killin g all seven crewmembers aboard, including, from front: pilot Mike Smith, school teacher Christa McAuliffe, mission specialist Ellison Onizuka and payload specialist Gregory Jarvis. This month marks the 10-year anniversary of thè disaster. BOSTON (AP) — Knowledge may be getting cheaper. After increasing at more than double the rate °f inflation for a decade, tuition at some universities and colleges is coming down. Massachusetts public colleges cut tuition 5 percent to 10 percent on W ednesday, one day after North Country Community College, part of the State University of New York, lowbred part-time tuition 12 percent. Last week, North Carolina Wesleyan College said it w ould cut tuition 23 percent. And in Novem ber, Muskingum College in Ohio decided to reduce the cost of an education 29 percent The schools say they have dropped their prices in response to public anger over escalating costs, and to attract more students. Muskingum already is seeing what it described as a significant increase in applications. WASHINGTON (AP) — The aide who discovered Hillary Rodham Clinton’s longsought law firm billing records testified Thursday the documents suddenly appeared on a table in the White House two years after investigators first subpoenaed them. C arolyn H uber told the Senate Whitewater Committee that she went to the book room in the White House residential quarters every two or three days and that she unexpectedly found the records there early last August. She said they were folded but in plain ■view on a pile of books on the comer of a table in the center of the room, where they hadn’t been just days before when she Was last in the room. “They appeared there,” Huber testified. “I thought it had been left there for me to take down to put in the file. You know, to file in the filing that 1 do.” She said she did not unfold and look at the records until January, when they were finally turned over to investigators.She said she is certain the records had not been on the table before she discovered them in August. “I don’t think I would have missed them,” she said. Senate Whitewater Committee chairman Alfonse D ’Amato, who has previously rejected calls to bring Mrs. Clinton before the committee, said the new revelations may prompt him to submit written ques­ tions to the first lady. The new details about how Huber dis­ covered the records in a room frequented “Education is becoming regarded more and more as a com­ modity,” said the college’s president, Samuel W. Speck Jr. “Colleges and universities have been increasing tuition and fees faster than inflation and family income, and each time you do that you’re pricing more people out of the market.” For years, colleges have blamed tuition increases on the cost of giving scholarships to students who cannot afford an education. But whenever tuition went up, more students found themselves in need, and the additional revenue would go toward financial aid. î Colleges were like dogs chasing their tails. “Like many parents in America, we just had to ask, ‘When is this going to stop?’” said Linda Stallone, vice president for development at North Carolina Wesleyan. Tuition has climbed at double the rate of inflation for 10 years — including last fall, whçn prices rose an average of by President and Mrs. Clinton added new intrigue to the controversial documents. White House lawyer Jane Sherburne said she is checking to see whether the Clintons were in the White House at the time Huber found the documents but insist­ ed there was no attempt to hide them. “If we had found these documents two years ago we would have turned them over, no question,” she said. The records describe Mrs. Clinton’s legal work in the mid-1980s for a failed Arkansas savings and loan owned by the first family’s Whitewater business partner. At the time Huber found them, criminal prosecutors and government regulators had subpoenas dating back two years for the records. The White House had claimed they could not be found and that the originals had disappeared from Mrs. Clinton’s law firm. Even after Huber found the records, they weft not turned over for another five months because she put them in a box and forgot about them until she reopened the box this month. When asked whether she believed some­ one had left the records deliberately, Huber answ ered, “Som eone d id .” But when pressed whether she believed the president or Mrs. Clinton had left them, she added: “I just did not know who left them there.’’ Huber testified the book room was main­ ly for the Clintons and their guests, but was accessible to herself and some other White House aides. The room is next door to Mrs. Clinton’s office in the residence. 6 percent. Tuition and fees -— not including room and board — now average $2,860 at four-year public universi­ ties and $12,432 at four-year private colleges and universi­ ties, according to the College Board, Other schools are now planning their tuition for the fall; the question for administrators like Speck and Stallone is whether those colleges and universities-will follow suit in lowering the cost of an education. Among those that have already started cutting prices is Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. Citing increased competition, it lowered tuition for in-state students 38 per­ cent Thursday. United States International University in San Diego cut undergraduate tuition 13 percent this year’. Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, reduced its price by 8 percent and guaranteed the bill would not increase from one year to the next for students now enrolled. Fire kills 10 in Germany LUEBECK, Germany (AP) — A suspicious fire raced through a home for immigrants Thursday, killing at least 10 people including a woman who desperately leaped from an upper story while holding a child. Police G a in ed three men suspected of setting the fire. The child was severely injured, one of 35 people hurt in the fire which, if deliberate, would be Germany’s deadliest anti-foreigner attack since World War II. Three men were being investigated on suspicion of murder and arson, but authorities had not confirmed the cause of the fire, Luebeck prosecutor Michael Boeckenhauer said the fire started simultaneously in several places, indicating arson. But police later said they were still probing and had not ruled out “a technical defect” as the cause. The four-story building, which was reduced to a smoking shell, had housed asy lu m -seek ers from A ngola, Z aire, Lebanon, Syria and Poland. Four children were among those killed, and hours after the blaze was extinguished firefighters were searching the rubble for more victims. The fire horrified Germans who have been d istressed by the an ti-fo reig n er attacks erupted after unification in 1990. , , The number o f attacks has dropped since a peak in 1993, however. German authorities have arrested hundreds of neoNazis, banned several groups and infiltrated the movement. Germany, also changed its asylum law, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of foreigners admitted. Survivors of the blaze were in shock, Wearing just a thin coat and slippers against the bitter cold, Joao Bunga of Angola stood in front of the scorched shell of the house where he and his family lived while waiting for Germany to rule on their asylum request Some Mends tried to lead him into a warm bus, but he pulled away, refusing to leave the smoking min where his wife had perished. Bunga, who has been in Germany six years waiting for asylum, said he was awakened by his children crying “Fire! Fire!” They managed to get out but his wife did not. Residents of the area expressed shock at the attack, describing their relationship with the immigrants as good. Their children went to school and played soccer together, “ W hen they d id n ’t com e to school today, we c rie d ,” said 10-year-old Michelle, a classmate of the children in the house. “The brother of our friend is dead, We must do something to help them.” Firefighters try to extinguish s home set afire In the northern German town of Luebeck. The house, a residence for foreigners seeking asylum, was gutted and 10 people died in the blaze. German officials said the fire started in several placea simultaneously and they suspect arson. At least two suspects were arrested on suspicion of murder and arson. Opinion ¡¡HT page 4 Friday, Ja n u a ry 1 9 ,1 9 9 6 STATE PRESS S ta te P ress Boos & O ravos BRAVO •— To the outpouring of student and staff response to a recent call for a student demonstration. ASU has gained, fairly or not, a reputation for widespread apathy. So far, it appears that the inarch against the governor’s proposed budget cut is gaining in momentum. Seems even the Associated Students of ASU are going to help get Wednesday’s inarch organized. To all the students, faculty and staff planning to attend — bravo. With the budget bill facing a senate subcommittee hearing soon, it is vital that ASU makes its voice heard. BOO — To the unending budget stalem ate in Washington. It is both sickening and unbelievable to think that House Speaker Gingrich may keep this country with­ out a budget until November for the sole purpose of influencing the elections. Voters will remember this; Newt, But we doubt that you or your followers will come out die heroes in this fight. Get this country a budget. Now. BRAVO — To US W est's plan to help thw art unwanted telemarketeering calls. Thanks to a state mandate, US West will allow customers to designate their listings with a black dot. This dot, available for a quarter a month, will inform telemarketers that the resident does not wish to be on the receiving end of their annoying sales pitches. Unfortunately, the designation has no force of law behind it. Telemarketers are bound only by “honor” to heed the request. Everyone who has had dinner, sleep or a shower interrupted by a sales .call will appreciate this new offer — but we wish that it was more than just an honor code. We doubt it will be very effective. BOO — To the Russian army’s violent offensive against a Chechen-held village in southern Russia. Russia obviously has a right to maintain control within its borders. But leveling entire villages with rocket and artillery fire is going too far. We also have to believe that negotiations are a bet­ ter method when hostages are involved. Killing them along with their captors doesn’t make much sense, even if you want to stand up to terrorism. The eyes of the world are still focused on bloody Chechnya — and the world does not like what it is seeing. Communism might be dead, but the spirit of Stalin is apparently alive and well. BRAVO — To the recent firings of Suns coach Paul Westphal and Cardinals coach Buddy Ryan. We have nothing but cheers for Ryan’s departure. His grating, fascistic, heartless coaching style might have been tolerable if the Cardinals were playing in Sun Devil Stadium next Sunday. But with a 4-12 record, there was no reason to put up with it. W estphal’s firing, by contrast, was no happy event. Westphal was a likeable coach, and under his tutelage, the team excelled for three years. But with the Sims’ recent plunge, there was no other choice. The Suns needed someone to shake them up and reorganize them. Westphal, with his laidback style, was not the man to pull them out of their tailspin. Good luck, Paul. Buddy, don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. s STATE PRESS TAFF the u p s id e o f a f l a x t ä x . Rapid-fire world inspires inefficient decisions Lead negotiators in Congress reported on Wednesday, Jan. 10, that the chances they will not reach a budget agreement soon are LAKSHMAN better than ever. Speaker Newt • Colum nist G ingrich, Sen. Bob Dole and President Clinton all noted their differences and the difficulty they had in reaching a solution. How did the American public react? Well, the Dow Jones index lost about 100 points. It was the highest loss in points sinceUec. 18 when the Dow lost about 100 points. Analysts and'experts say that the investors on the market were getting scared of all of the uncertainty. Motorola also announced on Wednesday that its earn­ ings increase was not as high as it expected — certainly not as high as experts anticipated. The market immediately reacted with about a $3 price differential. The Arizona Republic reported that analysts were not sure if it was a drop in price or an increase in price because there is some confusion about last Friday’s closing price. The reason why Motorola did not have earnings as high as expected is because they sold more cellular phones and communication equipment than microchips. What is common in the above two news items? The commonality I see in the two is the impatience and lack of good judgment on the part of investors, in particu­ lar, and the American public in general. We, as Americans, suffer from impatience. We have what I call an “instant cul­ ture.” We need to react immediately to things happening around us, regardless of whether or not a reaction is needed. Take the example of the Phoenix Suns. The team is losing a high percentage of games because of the ill health of key players such as Kevin Johnson, Danny Manning and Charles Barkley. The team hasn’t had more than eight or nine healthy players in the last month or so. But people want something to be done to turn the team around. There were calls for the fir­ ing of the coach. More recently, in the past week, there have been rumors of Barkley being on the trade block. Is this reaction on die part of the public really called for? In this age of marketing and customer service, public per­ ception and reaction is valued so much that the team own­ ers and marketers of products are more than willing to lis­ ten to anything the people have to say. In fact, everyone is focusing so much attention on customer perception and ser­ m vice quality that they have failed to place their confidence in the quality of the product. People's perceptions are so skewed that they fail to see the lasting quality of a player like Barkley, a team like the Suns, a company like Motorola or even the U.S. government. It seems to me that people are trigger-crazy and want to take quick action in response to things that happen, when all they are doing is reacting unwisely. I blame it on peo­ ple’s, tendencies to want everything fast and now. People are more interested in a quick and efficient solution to prob­ lems, no matter whether it is the right solution or the most effective solution. Does Motorola’s status really warrant a sharp drop in price? Is the Suns situation really that bad that it calls for firing the coach or trading significant players ? Is a major change required in the Suns’ organization? Along the same lines, does the fact that there may not be a budget agreement warrant a loss in the financial markets? We haven’t had a balanced budget for a long time. We did not create the budget deficit overnight. Why do people expect to solve the budget crisis in a short period of time? Why don’t we take our time in balancing the budget effec­ tively rather than rushing through to a less than complete solution? When will people stop, take time off from their hectic schedules and find out how great life is? Make sure you take time off and enjoy the beautiful things life has to offer. People áre becoming too hyper and producing knee-jerk reactions to stimuli in their environ­ ment. By ignoring what we truly know and placing our val­ ues behind what every one else thinks, we are causing a vicious psychological circle of mass reaction. What hap­ pens at the aggregate level, across a population of people, does not truly reflect what a majority of the individuals in the population think. We are contributing to an event that we did not intend in the first place. The only solution is for us to take more time and think through issues before we react. I would strongly recom­ mend moving away from the instant culture of ours and place more trust in effective solutions rather than quick and efficient solutions. And, remember, there is no hurry. Take it easy. After all, it’s spring time. Smell the flowers... and take your time doing it. C. Lakshman is a graduate student studying management. DAVID STROW, Editor DAVID PROFFITT, Managing Editor JEREMY STEIN.......... KENNESBOLIG................. ANGELA MULL....... . CHRISTINA RAII RY........... BRYN CHANCELLOR..... .... JIM POULIN..... DAN MILLER.................... DUSTIN KRUGEL............... JOSH KRIST................... ADR1ANNA GARCIA.......... ..........Asst. Magazine Editor REPORTERS: Brian Anderson, Tim Baxter, Garin Groff, Andrea Healey, Melody M cDonald, Jeff Owens, Ray Stem, Timothy Tait, Kelly Wendel. SPORTS REPORTERS: Randy Jones, Seth Landau, Ed Odeven, Ron Matejko, Damian Shaw. COPY EDITORS: Andrea Healey, Liz Montalbano. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Paul Besing. 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He w rote: “D ear GOODM AN Ju stice O ’C onnor. We read a Syndicated Columnist book about you. You’re the first woman on the Supreme Court. You learned to ride a horse. You must be the fairest judge ' in the U.S.A. I hope that someday you can become a presi­ dent’s wife. Love, Chris.” I don’t know what they teach in school these days, but I’m guessing that Chris got this message from the culture. On paper, two Supreme Court justices may be the most powerful women in America. But in the public mind, the highest ranking woman is still a wife. It’s the first lady who stands in the center of the stage — you might say, the target. That does not mean that Justice O’Connor is looking for a promotion to the East Wing of the White House. Indeed, after watching what’s happened to Hillary Clinton, Liddy Dole has decided that she’d be better off sticking with the Red Cross. In the latest AK-47 attacks, Hillary has been accused of being “a congenital liar,” a sleazy lawyer and a political lia­ bility. An all-around Gal Demon. At the rate things are going, she’ll have to make herown videotape in self-defense. A majority of Americans who don’t know what, let alone where, Whitewater is, think she is hiding “some­ thing.” Just half of the public in one poll now approves of the way she is handling the job of first lady. Although I doubt they could define the “job.” I suspect this too shall pass. There’s barely enough “there” there to keep A1 D’Amoto’s famous adrenalin up. Sooner or later, the opposition will fail to meet their allegation-of-the-week quota. Not even A t can believe that she concealed papers so they would pop up — ta da r r on the eve of her book tour. But the tone of the attacks on this first lady and the cyni­ cism about h er character and m otives from every Republican comer and media round table is unprecedented even in the history of Hillary in the Beltway. I am not just talking about Bill Safire’s “liar” column which disproved his own maxim about column-writing — better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks —- by prov- ing he could be both. More typical of what’s going on was the follow-up column in which he tried to inoculate himself and other character assailants against charges of boorishness. Why, he demurred, he would have been — blush —.a sexist had he given Mrs. Clinton “a free pass.” So attacking her was really a blow for women’s equality. And converse­ ly, anyone who defended this (first) lady must be a chival­ rous, chauvinist pig. Frankly, I have always loved it when mef|make a femi­ nist argument for woman-hashing. It reminds me of men we have all known and loved whose first liberated act is “let­ ting” a date pick up the check or allowing a pregnant woman to stand in the bus. Well, call me Ms. Piggy. For the most part, the pack’s pursuit of Hillary is an attempt to discredit the only member of the re-election team Clinton can’t fire. But if you think that the gleeful attacks on Hillary Rodham Clinton are not also attacks on female uppityness, rerun the tapes of the 1992 Republican convention. For the last three years, the first professional First Wife has tried to figure out — in public and under the minutest of scrutiny — a.new role that would, literally, work. Has she stumbled? You bet. There’s more lawyer than ploitician in her bones, too much fine print in the health care proposal, too much caution in her column, and her book is, well, earnest. As for the “conflict” between law briefs and cookie-bak­ ing, independent woman and wife, policy work and hostess — sometimes we have to stop seeing parts of a whole woman as contradictions. This is a complex, intense, serious, imperfect woman. She has a righteous side that strikes opponents as self-righ­ teous. She believes in government more than is currently popular. There are people who don’t like her husband, her politics or her style. But in an era when we refuse to give anyone the benefit of any doubt, take a deep breath, pull the teeth out of her ankle and think about her. This not a person of bad character. Oh, and about that letter from Chris. Justice O’Connor sent a copy to Hillary Clinton. But the justice reported, “I don’t think she was as amused as I was.” I wonder why. YWe r u s o m Wé f : f i f l m S jÔ N M G H E K K ? R K ïK N N M f ö o f e i s w S o M ew N fc k e u l y , 1 Ö S R 0 IÜ f: OOOOOO WASmT ff?E9P6Hr,VP. \JÜST PUNCH HiS NtfSTYNQSe.' E 600 Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnistfo r the Boston Globe. M oqxveB W X / U.S. role in Bosnian peacekeeping necessary Has anybody else noticed that the events in Bosnia have E N N IF E R slipped off the front pages of 'D O D D most newspapers since the sign­ Colum nist ing of the peace agreement? That must be good news. There is nothing eventful happening in the Balkans now, right? Wrong. Flip a few pages into the newspaper, arid you’ll most likely find a blurb describing the latest disappointment in the peacekeeping efforts there. The early withdrawal of Serbian and Croatian troops from the front lines to create buffer zones seemed promising, but an organized POW sway, a day later, was a bust as only a fraction of the more than 24,000 missing people were freed. Today is the deadline for compliance with all of the terms of the U.S.-brokered Dayton peace agreement, but things don’t look very promising. Unfortunately, burying the bad news on Bosnia deeper in the paper isn’t making the problem go away. The civil war in Bosnia rages on just as it has for years. Hostilities will not disappear overnight, and the combatants are not likely to put down arms when fighting has become a way of life for them. So the burden of ending the fighting is left to the NATO-led peacekeeping force. There has been much debate as to whether U.S. troops belong in Bosnia. It is, after all, a civil war. Shouldn’t the fate of the area^be decided by the people in the area? As my boyfriend, a U.S. Marine, prepares to leave for cold-weather training tomorrow, I worry that he’ll be one of the 12,000 Americans still tobe deployed to the area, and I wonder why the weight of peacekeeping rests on American shoulders. As much as I hate to say it, I do understand why inter­ vention is necessary. The conflict obviously is not being resolved on its own, and probably cannot be solved by peo­ ple with such fierce ethnic rivalries. More pressing, though, is the moral obligations we should feel to intervene. We condemn the acts of genocide by the Nazis in World War II, so how can we possibly permit the ethnic cleansing so prevalent in this conflict to continue? Thus, we would be derelict in our duty to humanity if we didn’t try to create and maintain peace in the area. Unfortunately, U.S. forces are necessary to fulfill our moral obligation, to keep the peace, to do the right thing. With that obligation comes the danger inherent o f any military operation. I support them and applaud them for their efforts, and I pray for their safe return. I just beg that it isn’t my Marine that has to do the right thing. Ü. Jennifer Dodd is a junior studying English. r Sta te P ress etters to the editor The State Press welcomes and encourages written response from our readers on any topic. 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