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THE CENTURION
Volume I, Issue III

The Journal of Conservative Thought at Rutgers University

Veritas Vos Liberabit

February, 2005

The Truth Shall Set You Free
FEA
TURE

PAUL ROBESON
"TO YOU MY BELOVED COMRADE"
By Rutgers' Most Beloved Alumnus, RC '19

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ut in the Soviet Union, Yakuts, Nenetses, Kirgiz, Tadzhiks - had respect and were helped
to advance with unbelievable rapidity in this socialist land. No empty promises, such as
colored folk continuously hear in the United States, but deeds. For example, the transforming of the desert in Uzbekistan into blooming acres of cotton. And an old friend of mine, Mr.
Golden, trained under Carver at Tuskegee, played a prominent role in cotton production. In 1949,
I saw his daughter, now grown and in the university - a proud Soviet citizen.
Today in Korea - in Southeast Asia - in Latin America and the West Indies, in the Middle East
- in Africa, one sees tens of millions of long oppressed colonial peoples surging toward freedom.
What courage - what sacrifice - what determination never to rest until victory!
And arrayed against them, the combined powers of the so-called Free West, headed
by the greedy, profit-hungry, war-minded industrialists and financial barons of our
America. The illusion of an “American Century” blinds them for the immediate present
to the clear fact that civilization has passed them by - that we now live in a people’s
century - that the star shines brightly in the East of Europe and of the world. Colonial peoples today look to the Soviet Socialist
Republics. They see how under the great Stalin millions like themselves have found a new life. They see that aided and guided by the
example of the Soviet Union, led by their Mao Tse-tung, a new China adds its mighty power to the true and expanding socialist way of
life. They see formerly semi-colonial Eastern European nations building new People’s Democracies, based upon the people’s power
with the people shaping their own destinies. So much of this progress stems from the magnificent leadership, theoretical and practical,
given by their friend Joseph Stalin. Slava — slava — Stalin, Glory to Stalin. Forever will his name be honored and beloved in all lands.
Yes, through his deep humanity, by his wise understanding, he leaves us a rich and monumental heritage. Most importantly - he
has charted the direction of our present and future struggles. He has pointed the way to peace - to friendly co-existence - to the
exchange of mutual scientific and cultural contributions - to the end of war and destruction. How consistently, how patiently, he
labored for peace and ever increasing abundance, with what deep kindliness and wisdom. He leaves tens of millions all over the earth
bowed in heart-aching grief. - "To You Beloved Comrade,” New World Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, April, 1953, pp. 11-13.

A tribute to Joseph Stalin upon
his death on March 5, 1953

Wins Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.
“Many friends have asked me how it feels to have
received one of the International Stalin Prizes
“For strengthening peace among peoples.” Usually I say — as most prize winners do — “It’s a
great honor. But, of course, this award
deserves more than just passing acknowledgment.'"-Thoughts on Winning the
Stalin Peace Prize,” Freedom, January, 1953

Paul Robeson Travels To U.S.S.R.

"Land of Equality and Peace."

“I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to
time to the USSR — the country I love above all. I
always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal
friend of the Soviet Union." - "'I Love Above All,
Russia,’ Robeson Says,” Afro-American, June 25,
1949, p.7

“I have been, I am, and I shall always remain, a
strong, unbending friend of the Soviet people, their
wise leaders and the Land of Socialism, Equality
and Peace!” -”Land of Love and Happiness,” New
World Review, Vol. 20, No. 12, December, 1952,
pp. 3-4.

Fun Facts about Uncle Joe!

It is estimated that Joe Stalin slaughtered between 20 and 50 million people (50,000,000) during his 26year reign of terror (1927-53) in forced labor camps ("Gulags"), purges, show trials, forced famines
Over six million Ukrainians starved to death in the 1930’s as a result of Stalin's forced collectivization (aka stealing) of the national harvest.
The Weak and the sick in the forced labor camps were executed by Stalin's KNVD unit. A hundred
thousand P.O.W.s died in constructing White Sea Canal, which went to waste after completion.
Over 35,000 officers, not incuding four fifths of the naval high command, were shot or imprisoned
during Stalin’s purges in 1937. This left the nation grossly unprepared for Hitler’s invasion.
Revisionists like Paul Robeson have denied and even condoned such atrocites. But a 1937 USSR
census (censored by Stalin) reveals a sudden drop in Russia's population by millions.

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“The Soviet Republic should be made more secure against class enemies (anyone with property) by isolating them in
concentration camps.” “How can you have a Revolution without executions?” - Vladamir I. Lenin

CONTENTS
THE CENTURION has had the honor of being accepted

into the Collegiate Network, after only our 2nd issue.

Visit http://www.isi.org/cn/members/papers.aspx to read
conservative collegiate papers from across the country!

INSIDE THIS ISSUE
3. Feature: Paul Robeson in his Own Words
4. THE CENTURION accepted into The Collegiate
Network
5. Conservative Manifesto
6. Letters to the Editor

THE

RUTGERS TOPICS

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7. Cop Killer Comes to Rutgers
8. Americans Embarrassed by America
9. Wal*Mart: Rutgers Hates Low Prices
10. Liberal of the Month, Hippies Fail
11. Our Tribute to Dr. Livingston, NJPIRG
12. Feature: Rutgers Ridiculous Racial Ratios
14. Diversity Gone Wild!

FOUNDED MMIV
Editor-in-Chief
James O'Keefe
[email protected]
Art Director/Webmaster
Justine Mertz
[email protected]

NATIONAL TOPICS
15. Harvard, Tsunami, Iraqi Elections
16. Death of Santa, the CIA
17. Condi Rice, W.A.R. Notes

Executive Editor
Kian Barry
[email protected]
Managing Editor
Joseph Nedick
[email protected]
Business Editor
Matthew Klimek
[email protected]
Director of Investigative Reporting
Greg Walker
Layout Editor
Matt D'Amico
Rutgers Topics Editor
Ariah Laing

Dr. Drew Humphries wins our
Award for bringing a
cop killer to speak on academic panel!

CENTURION

National Topics Editor
Joe Glyn

COMMENTARY
18. A Ruined State: A Success Story
19. Laci and Connor's Law
20. Affirmitively Racist
21. Budget Deficit: Point/Counterpoint
22. Conservative Diversions
24. Faculty Lacks Diversity of Ice Cream
Preferences

Visit www.rucenturion.com to
watch the award presentation!

THE CENTURION receives an early
valentine from Tabitha Rice

THE CENTURION is the Journal of Conservative Thought at Rutgers University. Our
motto is “Veritas vos Liberabit,” which means “The truth will set you free.” THE
CENTURION was founded in 2004 to serve as a non-partisan politically conservative
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"The essence of political tragedy is to make the perfect the enemy of the good." – Aristotle
FROM THE EDITOR

The Conservative Manifesto - Part III
A spectre is haunting Rutgers — the spectre of conservatism. All of
the powers of the ivory tower (Rutgers) have entered into a holy alliance
to exorcise this spectre: “diversity” proponents, speech-code advocates,
multiculturalists, feminist radicals, and your professors.
Where is the student that has not been decried as “conservative” by
the liberals in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back
the branding reproach of conservatism, against the more advanced liberal
ideology at Rutgers, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. Conservatism is already acknowledged by Rutgers to be itself a power.
II. It is time that Conservatives should openly, in the face of all their
professors, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet
this nursery tale of the spectre of conservatism with a manifesto of the
ideology itself.
To this end, I have assembled the following manifesto, to be published
in THE CENTURION:
A conservative believes in natural rights. A conservative believes
in natural rights; those rights endowed to human beings by their creator.
They believe in a system of government ordained around truths that are
self-evident. Furthermore, he does not believe “No culture’s way of life
is better than another,” as anthropologist Theodosious Dobzhansky has
argued. Allan Bloom claims in his book The Closing of the American
Mind that America promises, “the untrammeled freedom to reason,” and
therefore the highest achievement of truth and self-actualization.
Conservatives are guilty of the sin of pride. We are proud of our nation
and its values. We would rather study the political philosophies of
freedom, justice, and liberty by John Locke, Adam Smith, and Thomas
Hobbes which have inspired generations of prosperity. We choose not to
buy into the political philosophies of conflict theory and revolution by
Marx or Mao which have inspired only genocide. A conservative is not
afraid to tell the multiculturalists and western intellectuals that ridding
the world of genital mutilation, infanticide, religious discrimination,
patriarchy, cannibalism, forced abortions and corrupt dictators is not
“culturally imperialistic,” or “ethnocentric.” It is rather our civic duty to
our fellow man.
A conservative believes in objective truth. A conservative
professes external order. He is firmly opposed to relativism's claims that
truth is relative to the eye of the beholder, or claims that it is contextually
constructed. He defends his view that there exists an outside truth by
pointing out that disagreement doesn’t entail interminability, that there
are undeniable facts like “the world is round,” and if there was no ethical
or moral truth, then there would be no distinction in virtue between
Mother Theresa and Adolf Hitler. A conservative believes strongly in
virtue: pursuing the good life for man for its own sake. He also beliefs in
family and the traditions ordained in the family. Discipline, faith, selfconfidence, personal responsibility and conviction are essential in all of
man’s pursuits.
A conservative believes in limited government. “Government is
not the solution to the problem, it is the problem” (Ronald Reagan).
While law enforcement, basic education and maintenance of infrastructure
are all necessary, the government does not have a good track record in
succeeding at what it sets out to do. He knows this for two reasons.
One, government is not some distinct, almighty, independent moral entity;
rather it is comprised of human beings with all the innate characteristics
and corrupt susceptibilities that affect those “evil” corporations and
masses of ignorant citizens it attempts to govern. Second, government
operated programs fail economically, because unlike profit, there is no
measurable end to determine the level of achievement. The conservative
prefers the alternative of privatization; private ownership of the means

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of production. Privatization is more successful that its government
counterpart because it is vastly more efficient, self-regulating, and costeffective. Examples of successful areas of privatization the conservative
points to include health care, social security, mail delivery, prison
operation, etc. While Norwegian president accused the United States
government of being “stingy” with the tsunami relief effort and other
charitable contributions, private United States companies had already
donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the effort as well as to other
charities worldwide.
Prosperity, incentive, free market, growth, human fulfillment and
the pursuit of happiness are created from the bottom up, not the
government down. He believes that a free-market will lead towards
human prosperity and happiness. While doomsdayers and naysayers
warn that overpopulation is due to prosperity, the exact opposite is
true. The most industrialized places on earth have a birth rate far below
what is needed to maintain their population.
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only
when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies
and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain
economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free, and only then can
human beings achieve happiness. Trust the people. This is the one
irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion
that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
A conservative is Politically Incorrect. A conservative reveals the
facts regardless of whose feelings get hurt. He acknowledges there are
differences between the sexes. He knows what a statistical bell curve is,
and understands that an outlier or exception cannot disprove a rule, sin
qua non. He is against language reform and other futile and aesthetic
attempts to soften reality by calling toilet paper “bathroom tissue,”
freshmen “first-year-students,” and more recently Christmas trees “trees
of giving.” A conservative does his best to act rather than talk and does
his best not to get caught up in names, labels, and terminologies.
Buzzwords like “inclusion,” “tolerance,” and “diversity” are racist,
hypocritical, and exclusive to, as Leo Strauss said, “those who have
stated clearly and forcefully there are unchangeable standards founded
in the nature of man and the nature of things.”
A conservative believes in equality of opportunity, not equality
of outcomes. That being said, he is strongly opposed to racism. He
recognizes there are many human beings who lack opportunities. But
current programs that institutionalize racial consciousness, like
affirmative action, must be reformed on the ground that they encourage
racial identity, promote suspicion of minority success, and violate civil
rights by putting skin color before character. Racism is most prevalent
in college admissions where skin color alone determines how one acts
and thinks. In some cases, race is all that matters. “Diversity” becomes
nothing but skin tone. One’s desires, intellect and even background
become irrelevant. The postmodernists, whose philosophy is founded
upon fragmentation, assume skin color alone can determine how one
acts and thinks, therefore bringing a range of perspectives. Conservatives
suggest an alternative program based solely on socioeconomic need.
Such an alternative would bring diversity of economic backgroun and
benefit minorities because, as the left itself confesses, a disproportionate
amount are “socioeconomically disadvantaged.” A conservative is against
“identity politics” and racial pride movements on the grounds that they
too identify and polarize skin color. The conservative recognizes that
since the 1960’s, activists have shifted their cause from civil rights to
racial identity, a cause which will serve as an impediment to racial equality.

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“What is beauty? According to Donald Rumsfield it’s the smell of napalm in the morning.” –Professor Swanson, Rutgers Philosophy Dept.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

letters to the editor

f*** the centurion
Oh Lord, if you exist, please be the God of
vengeance of the Old Testament. Tell me this:
why are Republicans such enormous vag**as? I
mean no direspect to women or their vag**as, but
is there anything worse than BEING a pu**y?
[James O’Keefe] is about to burst into tears (I think
his typos might have actually been the result of
big, fat teardrops hitting the keyboard as he pecked
out his semi-literate message). Have we become
so powerful, Almighty Fellow Lefties, that rightwingers tear up at the thought of us, the same
way they do when they make a wrong turn and
wind up driving their SUVs through a bad
neighborhood? have you ever seen those
f**kwads? They look like they’re about to cry—
and if a black person cared enough to confront
them, I believe they would bawl like the big,
overfed, undereducated babies they are. What a
bunch of f***ing useless c**ts!
I have a partial solution to this young man’s (?)
problem. Let him (?) exercise what he (?)
apparently believes is his (?) right as an American:
to be an individual. This she-male is all in a huff
because he (?) wants what he (?) wants, and
ain’t nobody gonna tell him (?) no diff’ernt, *********!
A very nice university professor [James
Livingston] offered to teach him (?) and his (?)
band of drunken, pi**-drinking frat boy (?) MBA
candidates about politics and history, and how
one might make a reasonable argument for
conservatism by utilizing those tools. The monkeys
wanted none of it. They jeered, and double-dealt,
just like the Rovian ***clowns they are, and took to
their 1000 typewriters attempting to produce that
most elusive of masterpieces: the conservative
manifesto (little tip for the TV/TS Young
Republicans: if Ayn Rand couldn’t do it, you dumb
s**ts don’t have a prayer. HA!). Instead, all that
came out was s**t-stained gibberish. Naturally.
So now, they’re back at square one, asking who,
oh WHO?! will teach them; if by “teach” we
understand that they mean “let us do and say
whatever we want, and what we want is to be
like Karl Rove, George Bush, Charles
Krauthammer, and any other easy-answer ***less
wonders we can latch onto!”
Here’s the solution: f**k them. F**k them
till they’re dead. They want to be rampant
individualists (and they hate being cursed at, too—
), so let’s let them go at it. They think community
and the state are a bad thing, well fine. Kick their
b**ch a**es out of Rutgers, the STATE University
of New Jersey. Make them pay back all the property
owners whose TAXES paid for the schools the
little ***offs went to. Make them all go out and live
in the Heartland of America—you know, the
boonies—without food, shelter, or clothes, since

Like receiving death threats because
you hold beliefs that the majority of
the country holds?

we all, every one of us, helped make those things
possible. No city sewer, or electricity, or running
water, or police protection, or roads, or cars, or
any other f**king thing. They can all live in *******
mud f**king huts, and cower in the corner
wondering when (not if!) their neighbors will come
over, kill them, and take their s**t. THAT, my friends,
is the Hobbesian nightmare, and these STUPID
A****** NUMB*** **** JOCKEYS WANT IT!!!!! Cancer
and syphilis can’t possibly get them all; but oh
God! If you’re up there...
Josh Fennell
Chicago, Illanois
[email protected]

"F*** [The Editors of The
Centurion.] F*** Them till
they're dead"

Josh Fennell is a graduate student of History at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. (Not to be confused
with University of Chicago). His areas of Research
includes: Modern American Labor, Gender and Women’s
History. More rants from his blog can be read at http://
dumbocracy.blogspot.com/
This wasn't the first letter to a publication Mr. Fennell
has wrote. He has also written to Sports Illustrated on
one occasion. We found the letter he wrote to the sports
editors at http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/
arash_markazi/09/30/hot.read/
Here it is:
“Why don’t you and all the other wusses from SI.com shut
the hell up about soccer already? Every damn column you
guys write has to end with some stupid “gem” about
obscure/crappy soccer teams. I want football, baseball,
basketball, even some hockey (when and if it returns) —
you know, the sports of the North Americans! Who the hell
do you think is reading this crap?! Are you dorks just
trying to look cosmopolitan or what?” — Josh Fennell

That's Ignorant

I am writing in response to your “Veal
Parmesan, The Second Course” blurb in
your December 2004 issue. You stated “It
seems to us that PETA and other groups of
its ilk would make us believe that
carnivorous behavior is an evil invented by
humans who care more for their
gastronomical pleasure than the rights of
any other creature”, and go on to argue
that cheetahs and pythons eat antelopes
and rodents, so therefore you cannot hold
humans morally responsible for killing and
eating animals without holding other animal
carnivores responsible as well. I don’t
disagree with you about that. In fact, that’s
the argument I used to justify my meat eating
for years, until I realized that other animals
don’t raise their prey on factory farms
where they are pumped full of hormones
and antibiotics, crammed together in cages,
debeaked, castrated (without anesthetic),
beaten to death when sick, and collapsing
in their own excrement and vomit. I feel
that you have misinterpreted the animal
rights movement, leading you to believe that
it “isn’t soundly based”. There is diversity
of opinions among animal rights supporters,
and it seems that you fail to realize that. I
became vegan after learning about the
prolonged and unnecessary torture
livestock animals endure, as well as the
catastrophic environmental impacts and
negative effects on human health caused
by factory farming. Wild prey animals do
not suffer through unimaginable torture their
entire lives before being killed. I do not
believe eating animals is inherently wrong;
instead I believe that factory farming is far
from the “natural” way in which cheetahs
and pythons do so. Before you go so far
as to dismiss the validity of the entire animal
rights movement (which, by the way,
encompasses much more than just
vegetarianism), you would do well to
explore the full range of arguments among
its members.
Amy Karpati
Graduate School, NB

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It doesn’t take much to become a Big Man On Campus these days. At Rutgers University, all you have to do is murder cops. — New
York Post, January 22, 2005.
AT RUTGERS

WHAT IS GOING ON AT

COP-KILLER COMES
Reported by Matthew Klimek and James O'Keefe
TO RUTGERS

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n August 27, 1964, two Lodi, NJ, police officers, Peter Voto and Gary Tedesco, entered
a night club to investigate a disturbance. Inside, a man name Thomas Trantino and an
accomplice assaulted the officers, disarmed them, and then commanded them to strip to
their underwear. Trantino and his sidekick then taunted and pistol-whipped the officers
before finally shooting them execution-style. One of the officers’ brothers found the two
slain policemen at the scene. Originally condemned to death, his sentence was commuted to
life when the Supreme Court overturned the death penalty in 1972. Since 2002, this cop-killer
has been walking the streets on parole. Within 18 months, Trantino was under arrest again
for charges that he assaulted and restrained his girlfriend. He was acquitted. A conviction
would have put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Following his release, Trantino had
some difficulty securing work but he has now found a job, one that brought him to RutgersCamden on January 22. The Friends Transitional Support Services, a Quaker organization
that reaches out to ex-inmates, was
looking for a program director. They
chose Trantino. Now, the FTSS and
Prof. Drew Humphries, director of
the criminal justice program at
Camden, have cosponsored a panel
to discuss “How to Survive on Parole and Probation.”
Of the thousands of NJ parolees,
who should they chose as their public liaison but Trantino. Humphries
was quoted as saying in the Star-Ledger that the panel was meant as “an
open forum for discussion, no matter how controversial.” Rather it
would seem she means “as controversial as possible.” Leah Morris, an employee of the Office of Public Defender, sat on the
panel with Trantino and Humphries, though she was not acting in any connection with the
office. The discussion was held in a university auditorium, which the two sponsors leased
privately from Rutgers. No representative from the New Jersey State Parole Board was
present at the event. Their delegate withdrew when the board learned that Trantino would be
on the panel. Edward Bray, Parole Board spokesman, told the Philadelphia Enquirer, “It’s
inappropriate for one of our officers to be sitting with a parolee... and be expected to treat
him as a peer.” State law enforcement officials were outraged, and pleaded with the University
to cancel, but to no avail. “He’s not someone we want to put up as an example of a good
parolee,” said Bray. Dr. Humphries would disagree. “Tommy Trantino is on the panel
because he’s a role model for those who have come out of prison and are looking to turning
their lives around,” she said. “Tommy is a very peaceful person. He’s done a good job. I don’t
think he’ll turn into an ax murderer.”
And what if he were to turn into an ax murderer? How would that be any different
than what he already is: a first degree double cop killer? If the purpose of this panel was to
build a positive rapport between parolees and the community, why did the sponsors choose
the perpetrator of a premeditated murder which left two families and an entire community
bereft, and who is now freely walking the streets after narrowly escaping his capital sentence,
as their lead man? To the Camden department of criminal justice, exactly what is their
definition of the word “justice?” Still, Trantino wishes someone from the Parole Board had
been present. “I’m willing to talk to those police officers,” he said. “I’m willing to go in to
their training and talk to them. I used to talk to the police in prison and I have no problem
with police.” No, he only executes them. “We recognize that Tommy is a controversial figure
and for many people it’s rubbing salt in very tender wounds,” said
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THIS MONTH'S

CENTURION AWARD
GOES TO

DR. DREW
HUMPHRIES
OF

RUTGERS CAMDEN

FOR CO-SPONSERING COP-KILLER
TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC PANEL,
AND GOING AGAINST THE WISHES
OF VICTIM'S FAMILY MEMBERS

Visit our website to watch the video of Dr.
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Lodi Police Officer
Peter Voto

Lodi Police Officer
Gary Tedesco

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“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers
to leave that technique to the enthusiasm of radicals.”- James Kirk
COMMENTARY

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Cop Killer (continued)

Humphries. “But the difficulties of people in parole and probation is important work,
so we do it.” More important, presumably, than the dignity of these two officers and
the difficulties of their families following their loss. Two public servants, Voto and
Tedesco, lost their lives, but their murderer not only still has both his life and his
freedom, but is honored as a role mode. Of the law enforcement community, Trantino
said, “It’s a club... The way they survive is, when Tommy Trantino’s name is mentioned, they snap to attention and say ‘RRRR.’”
This report includes material compiled from various sources including: The Bergen Record, The Daily Home News, The StarLedger, NorthJersey.com, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Courier Post. Articles are from 1963 newspaper archives.

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he Americans Embarassed by America represent an angry group of Rutgers students that are disgusted with the
apparent growing fascism in the country. THE CENTURION sympathizes with their concerns. We realize that the process of
leaving the country may seem overwhelming, and students might not know where to start. We'd like to provide these students
with the proper resources so they can begin renouncing their US citizenship, and move to the socialist utopia of their choice as
soon as possible.

Maryann Celis,
Future Brit

Chris Haines,
Future Guatemalan
Adam Cooper,
Future Canadian

Andrea Didonato,
Future Frenchy
Larry Greenstein,
Future New Zealander
Chris Calla,
Future Italian

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Merideth Wood,
Future Australian

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“Bush-hatred is like porn for liberals.” –Steve Merryman
RUTGERS TOPICS

WHAT IS GOING ON AT
Wal*Mart: Rutgers Against Low Prices
The Department of Labor Studies and employee relations at Rutgers joined in on the action of hating
Wal-Mart for stupid reasons late last semester by conducting a study and concluding that big box
retailers such as Wal-Mart “pose a significant threat to New Jersey’s supermarket industry.” Naturally,
because Wal-Mart has made such a large amount of money and has been so economically successful, it
has many enemies in the Academy where anti-globalization, anti-consumerism, and anti-capitalism are
prevalent. But would an academic study at a respected school like Rutgers start making accusations
against the company without backing them up? Of course, idealism over realism is the liberal way.
The Rutgers study stated that big boxes like Wal-Mart use “sharp-elbowed tactics” (no specifics of course), “questionable labor tactics,”
(none given there either) “unfair competition” (we think this may just be snobbery against capitalism) and even stated that New Jersey’s supermarket
industry is “imperiled.” No facts were given to support these statements, only an array of data regarding “employment opportunities” from New Jersey’s
small businesses. The study concluded, “If the supermarket industry is unable to compete with bog-box stores… another of New Jersey’s traditional
and long-standing source of quality employment and economic vitality may be in jeopardy.” Indeed. The Apocalypse is coming. Or is it?
1) Wal-mart supplies its shoppers with goods at lower prices, enabling those without money to have a better way of life.
2) An expansion of Wal-Mart throughout New Jersey could save consumers billions of dollars, ultimately creating jobs
3) 90% of Wal-Mart Employees have health insurance
4) Wal-Mart is not unionized which means pay does not start at minimum wage.
5) Retailers provide jobs, not careers. Even so, two-thirds of Wal-Mart managers come from hourly employees
6) The majority of beginning employees are either teenagers or the elderly, and aren’t supporting families.
By concluding from Big Boxes’ bigness and successes in the free-market, the liberal researchers at Rutgers have joined the rest of the media in
portraying Wal-Mart as evil. Just one question to the Rutgers researchers: When will a study been done on the effects of Starbucks dominance?

The Right Visits Rutgers
On December 8 th, 2004,
Daniel Flynn, author of
Why the Left Hates America
and Intellectual Morons, gave
a speech in front of a
crowd at the Graduate
Student Lounge on College
Ave. Flynn’s audience,
composed mainly of members of the Rutgers College
Republicans, was enthralled by his comments
regarding the negative influence of ideology over
logic, a topic discussed
heavily in Intellectual Morons.
Flynn spoke specifically about four well
known figures in American
Author Dan Flynn Reads THE
culture. Margaret Sanger,
CENTURION. SO SHOULD YOU!
the founder of Planned Parenthood, sexual psychologist
Alfred Kinsey, Stanford environmentalist Paul Elrich, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky.
Margaret Sanger, Flynn said, though loved dearly by pro-choice
advocates, is misjudged by history as compassionate advocate of individual rights. In Sanger’s “Plan for Peace,” published in the Birth
Control Review in 1932, she wrote that it was necessary to “Apply a
stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of
population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that
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try against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as
may be born of feebleminded parents, by pensioning all persons with
transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization, give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or
sterilization, and to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these
segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.”
Alfred Kinsey’s work on sexual tendencies, conducted in the late
1940s and early 1950s, is grossly misinterpreted by today’s public, Flynn
suggested. His work regarding the homosexual community is wildly
inaccurate because he tested a population heavy in ex-convicts (a population that is more exposed to homosexual behavior). Kinsey also
advocated the molestation of hundreds of children so that he could
conjure data on child sexuality. Moreover, his studies sought to normalize pedophilia, or “adult-child sex”.
Daniel Flynn then criticized Paul Elrich of Stanford for his prediction that the population boom of the 1960s would cause a global
famine, and consequently many deaths, in the 1970s. Elrich’s scare
tactics were pushed back numerous times until it became exceedingly
clear that his wild assertions were made to convince people to follow
his ideology without factual backing.
The last liberal target in Flynn’s speech was Noam Chomsky, whom
he called “Michael Moore with his brain on steroids”, for displaying
“knee-jerk anti-Americanism”. Flynn says that Chomsky describes all
actions that are contrary to his personal opinions as “un-American."
Flynn told the students and adults that they should never fear fighting
ideologies, especially those espoused by professors at liberal campuses
like Rutgers. He feels that ideologies are straightjackets on reason and
create an indoctrination, rather than an education because, as Flynn
said, though “your professors claim to be worldly, they are really living
in an intellectual ghetto.”

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"If your Republican don’t talk to me or you will die. Now f*** off!!" - Tabitha Rice, rutgers.thefacebook.com
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"The irony is that
many of those who
are indulging themselves in these strident orgies are the
same people who
were telling us to
“get over it” and
“move on” during
President Clinton’s
scandals. Today the
liberal MoveOn.org
is the last place
where people are
willing to move on."
- Thomas Sowell

Awards
LIBERAL OF THE
MONTH to:

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It was a cold, windy night in late December. The Editors of
THE CENTURION stealthily roamed through the catacombs of
Murray Hall, eavesdropping through a pipe in the wall on
conversations by a group of libs, who were getting ready to go
down to Washington to turn their backs on W.
“Did we get any signatures from tabling?” Inquired the
leader, a young Rutgers College female.
“Nope,” said a sorrowful male hippie. “We forgot to table,
I overslept”
“Do we have a website leading the protest effort?” inquired
the leader.
“ruagainstbush.tripod.com.” (As of Dec. 15th, nothing
was on it. Two months later, Feb 14th, there is a message
board with zero members.)
Amidst other depressing realizations made by the leader
of “the revolution,” one was “our turnout is pathetic.” Another
was “We have no idea how we’re getting down to Washington.”
Humorously with every task that she assigned, nothing was
accomplished. One hippie actually said “What exactly are we
going to be protesting.” The leader responded by saying “It
doesn’t matter what you protest, just protest.” She continued
“Try to provoke the cops. They carry the sticks, and we want
them to use them against us.”
At least we agree on something.

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No one shows up – Leader calls protest effort
“unorganized and unprepared”

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RUTGERS HIPPIES ORGANIZE
PROTEST FOR ELECTION

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WHAT IS GOING ON AT

TABITHA RICE
For manifesting intolerance and insensitivity of opposing
views through the display of a CENTURION overwritten
with the word “DIE” and destroying conservatively
oriented posters on doors. A member of the CENTURION
staff filed a "Bias Incident Report" concerning this
instance of hate speech and threatening language, the type
of activity often attributed to conservatives. University
speech codes prohibit graffiti, threats, poster vandalism,
intimidation, and hate messages made by Tabitha, which
detract from the constructive atmosphere of the community. This month’s award is bestowed upon Tabitha
Rice for disregarding the standards of tolerance and
multicultural respect of various orientations, that are
expected when one is dealing with the diverse
members of an inclusive learning environment. Her
actions have allowed us to demonstrate the existence of
our restrictive speech code. A member of the CENTURION
has filed a formal complaint and seeks redress for her
damning actions, good thing our speech code doesn’t
allow for free speech.

VIEW THE AWARDS
PRESENTATION ONLINE!
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“All Christianity is patriarchal” –Professor Schuster, Rutgers Sociology Dept.
RUTGERS TOPICS

L O VE IS IN THE AIR

AT

Our Ex - CENTURION Faculty Advisor's (November, 2004 - December,
2004) Love notes to the staff of THE CENTURION.

Threat # 1
"You need to call me within the
ORIGINAL DEAL: "I’d be glad to sign on as "The upcoming issue has another next two hours to assure me that
your faculty advisor...one condition—you run column from me....but young James [THE CENTURION editor] can’t
my column of 750-1200 words in every wants to renege on the original change what I’ve written. If he
issue...I’ll do whatever I can to shape it, withdeal by running a reply."does, I resign as your advisor".out, however, telling you all what to think, write, politicsandletters.blogspot.com,
Sun, October 24, 2004 6:30 pm
Threat # 2
say, etc.” - September 12, 2004
Nov. 24th
"Bull****. Translation: I don’t
Threat #3
believe you. If you want to play
"Enough B.S. You all are pretty funny in your tortured efforts to
games with me, OK, but keep
be faithful to the truth as you understand it.... I reiterate: you’d
three simple facts in mind. First,
better call me before 9:00 AM tomorrow. "-Tue, 30 Nov
you and I had a deal. Second,
(If you Must)
you are evading me and trying to
200400:34:19 -0500
renege on that deal. Third, if you
do [print a challenge to my
Normal Person: “I don’t know”
Threat #4
column], not only do I resign as
"If you wanted a completely conservative
advisor, I go to the student
publication, you should have acquired a conservaPostmodernist: “The instability of
government and explain your
tive advisor who wouldn’t violate your rule of
your question leaves me with several
chicanery. You are behaving
uniformity. You couldn’t, so you’re stuck with me
contradictorily layered responses whose
dishonestly, and you should be
and our original agreement, unless you violate it
interconnectivity cannot express the
ashamed of yourself. You can be
[violate = printed challenge]. Then I resign and go
logocentric coherency you seek. I can
funded by private sources, so I
to the student government, and explain in exquisite
don’t understand your motives.
only say that reality is more uneven and
detail what liars you are." Tue, 30 Nov 2004
You’d better call me now." its (mis)representations more untrustworthy than we have time here to
November 29, 2004 10:23 PM

How to Talk Like a Postmodernist

explore.”

"The US comes closest to successful socialism" - November 18, 2004 10:10 am

Normal Person:

“We should listen
to the views of people outside of
Western society in order to learn about
the cultural biases that affect us.”

Postmodernist: “We should listen to
the intertextual, multivocalities of
postcolonial others outside of Western
culture in order to learn about the
phallogocentric biases that mediate our
identities.”

Normal Person: “Contemporary
buildings are alienating”.
Postmodernist:

“Pre/post/
spacialities of counter-architectural
hyper-contemporaneity (re)commits us
to an ambivalent recurrentiality of
antisociality/seductivity, one enunciated
in a de/gendered-Baudrillardian
discourse of granulated subjectivity”. -

TO TROOPS:
"No one in the United States
should try to overhype this
election."
LOVE,
Sen. John Kerry,(D-MA) on
Meet the Press

Stephen Katz, Trent University
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“I applaud the court for determining that race may be considered among many factors in the college admissions process.”
– Dr. Richard L. McCormick
RUTGERS TOPICS

RIDICULOUS RACIAL RATIOS
by Ariah Laing

O

n December 10, 2004, the Targum informed the Rutgers populace
via its front page that the Rutgers “faculty lacks diversity.”
President McCormick was quoted as saying, “Our students turn to
the faculty as role models. We are not providing them with those
role models if we don’t improve 'diversity,'” a statement that seems
to neglect the current role models already employed by the university.

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Blacks are doing even worse than whites, with a ratio of 3%
profs/14.4% residents; same with Hispanics, 1.9%/13.3%. Since
we do not know the breakdown of the state’s “multi” category, we
have nothing to compare to that 1.1%, unless RU comes up with a
comparable figure. As for Asians, I will compare their RU professor
percentage to the state of New Jersey’s “other” category 9.4%/6.2%.
Woah. Now this isn’t right. Do these figures really tell us that while
probably less than 6.2% of New Jersey’s population is Asian, a
Diversity Only Skin Deep
whopping 9.4% of RU professors are Asian? Well now, we can’t
have that, especially with the black and Hispanic numbers being
The article states that “The campus [Rutgers New Brunswick/
what they are. So what is the best solution? Either we create
Piscataway] has no female Black instructors.” Oh dear. I
more teaching positions to give to blacks and Hispanics (which
suppose that means that English professor Cheryl A. Wall,
is probably not so feasible due to economic concerns) or we
who is black and still currently a professor at Rutgers, doesn’t
fire some Asians and give their jobs to blacks and Hispanics.
actually exist. And that would mean that Suzan ArmstrongWait, that doesn’t sound right,
West, Associate Dean for Academic
either. If we split the 3.2% taken from
Programs at Douglass College and cothe fired Asians evenly, that only gives
coordinator of Shaping a Life (a
us 4.6%/14.4% for blacks and 3.5%/
required course for Douglass
13.3% for Hispanics. Oh yes, and
students) since it began in 1994, is just
what about the foreigners? According
a figment of my imagination. Then
to the State of New Jersey, in 2000,
so must be Carmen Twillie Ambar,
the percentage of foreigners living in
Dean of Douglass College. I guess
New Jersey was 17.5% 2 , up from
all those speeches I’ve heard her give
were products of my insanity. That’s
52.7%2 in 1990. But only 10% of RU’s
too bad. I like her.
faculty is foreign. Great, now we have
I’ll give the Targum the benefit
to start all over and recalculate the
of the doubt for the rest of its data
percentages in the state of NJ to
(all data came from the 2003-04
account for foreigners… maybe after
Rutgers Fact Book). The Targum
subtracting the foreigners and putting
US*
NJ*
Rutgers**
printed a pie chart showing that 75%
them in their own category, we’ll end
By Population
of the Rutgers faculty is comprised
up with too many white non-foreign
of white US citizens, 10% is foreign,
professors and we can fire some of
If there is any NJ racial demographic
9.4% is Asian US citizens, 3% is black
them.
US citizens and 1.9% is Latino US
I think by now you see my point.
underrepresented at Rutgers, it's white people
citizens. Let’s compare these stats to
I should mention that the
the racial makeup of the State of New
Targum’s article closed by stating that
Jersey: whites comprise 78.3%, blacks
the University Senate formed a
14.4%, Hispanics 13.3%, “other” 6.2%, and multi 1.1%1. President
committee that researched the low number of Hispanic faculty. Its
McCormick is quoted in the article as saying, “the student body looks
co-chair’s report “strongly urged the University to create a 5 year plan
like the people of New Jersey, an incredibly diverse state. The faculty
in order to increase faculty diversity.”
looks less so, and we have to make our efforts just as conscious in
Well for their sake, I hope a lot of Asian professors retire in the
creating a faculty that reflects our diversity.” In other words, the
coming 5 years.
percentage of professors at RU from all racial groups should roughly
equal their respective state percentage. Okay. Well, RU doesn’t have
"73 percent of the 1997 graduating students indicated they agreed
too many white professors. They’re doing all right with 75%
or strongly agreed with the statement that students from various
racial and ethnic groups got along well at Rutgers, an increase of
professors as compared to 78.3% residents in the state of New Jersey,
seven percent since the survey was last done in 1992." - Executive
but to make things equal, RU needs to hire more white professors
Summary, Office of Research and Academic Planning
do away with that 3.3% discrepancy. True, 3.3% is not a terrible
difference, but we should ask ourselves, is that really acceptable?
Shouldn’t the percentages be as close to reflecting the state’s racial
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makeup as possible? Perhaps Rutgers should keep an eye on the
state’s statistics, and as they change, alter its percentages to match.
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2

http://www.wnjpin.state.nj.us/coei/presentations/census_presentation_files/frame.htm#slide0281.htm
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Office of Institutional Research, http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar/factpdf/admit99.pdf
Rutgers Office of Admissions

**

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“Student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify the use of race in university admissions.”
-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
RUTGERS TOPICS
equal employment opportunity, which requires employers to eliminate
Continued from Previous Page
In Order to Become More (Racially) Diverse, Rutgers Needs to
Use Much More Reverse Racism in the Hiring Process

7:1
White

14:1
13.9

Black

14
12
10
7.5

8

Ratio
6
4
1

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2
0

Population Ratios

153,188,000 : 20,527,000*

Advanced Degree Ratio

14,552,860: 1,046,877*

New Jersey Population

While the number of
whites is 153 million
and the number of
blacks is 20 million
(7:1), the number of
whites with advanced
degrees is 14 million and
the number of blacks
with advanced degrees is
1 million (14:1)*
"Diversity" (of skin
color) proponents must
realize this disparity
before calling for "equal
hiring."

But what about diversity? Is a body of professors that represents
the racial makeup of the state impossible to achieve? Not at all. You'll
just have to represent the population against odds that are nearly
2:1. (Rutgers will have to be using quite a bit of reverse discrimation
in the hiring process to beat these odds). This is because the ratio of
whites to blacks, in New Jersey, is 7:1, while the ratio of whites with
advanced degrees to blacks with advanced degrees is 14:1. This may
seem "unfair," to say, because it may seem racist. The opposite is
actually true. Rutgers is racist. The Rutgers faculty must discriminate
on the basis of skin color in order to "represent" the national or
statewide ratios. To deny these ratios exist would be to deny that
racial discrimination against whites occurs in the Rutgers hiring
process.
According to the article, “ 'an advisory board would help recruit
and find candidates of many backgrounds to the faculty', McCormick
said. 'The hiring process would not change.' ” (We're going to hire
you based on your skin color, but nothing will change. P.C. Logic at
its finest. Note to white professor applicants: Be warned). I suppose
if I consider the possibility that if the university must look for
them, there may not, at this point in time, be as many out there as
they imagine, I will be branded as something not very nice. At any
rate, wouldn’t a more useful study have been one that compares the
racial makeup of people seeking professorships at RU with the
makeup of people who have the qualifications (advanced degrees in
education, history, math, etc.), and comparing both to the racial
makeup of the state? A project like this might tell us more about
things as they stand, and from this useful conclusions could be
drawn.
However, this is not the study Rutgers chose to do. Rutgers
sees things much differently, as reflected by its hiring practices. Here
at RU, equal opportunity is illogically equated with equality of
outcome, better known as affirmative action. The Rutgers University
Harassment Compliance & Equity website states: “Affirmative action
means taking positive steps to recruit, hire, train, and promote
individuals from groups that have traditionally been discriminated
against on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry,
age, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital,
military or veteran status. In this sense, affirmative action goes beyond
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http://uhce.rutgers.edu/eeo-aa.html
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discriminatory conditions, whether inadvertent or intentional, and
to treat all employees equally in the workplace”3.
It certainly sounds fair, doesn’t it? Reaching out to members of
groups who in the not-so-distant past would have been rejected
unfairly? But this definition also warrants a closer look. Note that
this approach “goes beyond equal employment opportunity.” Now
I wonder, how can one go beyond equality? If equality is what is
most just, then it is the ideal, a concept of perfection, the top of the
mountain, so to speak. But one cannot surpass a perfect ideal,
because being perfect, there is nothing beyond it, nothing better,
nothing more fair. Therefore, because affirmative action is tipping
the scales in favor of certain groups and not others, it is inherently
unequal.
So what about diversity? Merriam Webster Online defines
“diverse” as “composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities.”
But that means…wait… diversity isn’t all about race? That’s right.
Diversity also means differing life experience; no one should argue
that two people, while of the same race, must therefore have had life
experiences that even remotely resemble each other; one could have
been raised in North Jersey while the other grew up in Southeast
Rutgers Faculty v. New Jersey Population
Breakdown by skin color with those who hold
advanced degrees
4.2%
12.1%
6.2%

16.5%

White
Other
Black

77.3%

83.7%

Inside Circle: New Jersey**
Outside Circle: Rutgers University***

Asia. While they have the same skin color, their lives would have
been remarkably different.
Diversity also means differing ideas about any and all aspects of
life, whether on topics of race or religion or gender or politics. As
THE CENTURION showed in its December 2004 issue, conservatives
are highly underrepresented at Rutgers. If Rutgers wants to combat
a lack of diversity, it ought to be presented as welcoming to those
whose political ideas are right of the average RU professor. Keep in
mind that President Bush got 46% of the vote in New Jersey4. If
Rutgers is interested in creating more diversity among the faculty,
maybe a committee should go in search of conservative professors.
In fact, perhaps a chart should be made of all the different kinds of
people that exist in the state, and hire from each category! Of course,
that would be impossible. So what should Rutgers, an institution
that thinks it values diversity, do?
How about hiring the best qualified candidates, instead of giving
extra points to those who are minorities or women, as if they need
it? As if they aren’t smart or skilled enough to get a job? And if
certain candidates don’t happen to be smart or skilled enough, what
then? Should Rutgers reject them? Absolutely. It’s not racist, nor is
it sexist, to reject an applicant who happens to be a minority or a
woman. If Rutgers would simply be fair in its hiring practices,
instead of tipping the scales to make up for the past, the resulting
faculty would, on the whole, provide the best possible education to
the students, who are paying good money for it.
***Office of Institutional Research and Planning
*Stastical Abstract of the United States
**New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

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"American English is saturated with 'the language of oppression.' The language of diversity makes people uncomfortable. Words like discrimination,
oppression, dominance, subordination, heterosexism, racism or male privilege often cause negative reactions." - The Rutgers Diversity Factor
RUTGERS TOPICS

Language Reform

T

he Rutgers University administration has become obsessed with advancing a “way of life” that emphasizes skin
color and stereotypes instead of academic and intellectual diversity. Assuming that skin color determines how one acts
and thinks, Rutgers has no less than 33 distinct offices, committees, programs, projects, caucuses and councils to beat the
importance of skin color, “tolerance”, and “multicultural sensitivity” into the heads of students from the moment they
arrive. Every facet of the university seems to be jumping on the political correctness bandwagon. So much time and money
has been spent drafting speech codes and developing “sensitivity initiatives”, that students are left wondering if the madness
will ever end.

Rutgers Diversity RUN AMOK

IS RUTGERS IN A BUDGET CRUNCH?
MAYBE
MAYBE ITS DUE TO ALL THIS BUREAUCRACY!!!
!!!
Give 'em a call and ask what it is they do!

Ms. Lawanda D. King
Assistant Dean for Enhancement Programs and Multicultural Affairs
[email protected]
Ms. Andraé Monroe-Green
Manager, Office of University Harassment, Compliance and Equity
[email protected]
O

Asian American Cultural Center
Black Men’s Collective
Bridging the Gap Retreat
Bias Prevention Steering Committee
Career Services Diversity Committee
Center for Latino Arts and Culture
Committee to Advance our Common Purposes
Cook College Multicultural Awareness Programming Series
Diversity Education & Empowerment by Peers
Diversity in the Workplace Series
Dress for Success Diversity Fashion Show
Employer Diversity Networking Social
Encounters: Orienting Students in Diverse College Communities
Institute for Executive Leadership and Diversity
Leadership Achievement Mentoring Program
New Jersey Diversity Career Day
Office of Diverse Community Concerns/LGTBQ Concerns
Office of Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences
Office of Emerging Populations
Office of Intercultural Initiatives
Paul Robeson Cultural Center
Queers Caucus
Rutgers College Cultural Affairs Programming Committee
Rutgers College Diversity Advocacy Board
Rutgers College Student Life Advocacy Council
Rutgers Multicultural Information Network
Rutgers Supplier Diversity Program
Rutgers University Senate Equal Opportunity Committee
Social Justice Committee
Supplier Diversity Program
Task Force to Increase Faculty Diversity
The Diversity Factor
University Office of Harassment Compliance and Equity

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Dr. Cheryl Clarke
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Ms. Barbara A. Wright
Ms. Isabel Nazario
Executive Director for Intercultural Initiatives
[email protected]

Asst. Director of Recruitment and Enrollment & University Coordinator of
Multicultural Recruitment
[email protected]
Ms. Stephanie Culpepper
University Supplier Diversity Coordinator
[email protected]

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"Since we all have learned the terminology of oppression simultaneously with learning the English language, we cannot unlearn it without making a
conscious effort. Available in print or electronically, the 4th edition of The Diversity Factor Language Guide is an aid in the unlearning process."

I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory
than to the faculty of Harvard University. - William F. Buckley
NA
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PURSUIT OF TRUTH OR SENSITIVITY?
After being condemned by feminists and free-speech opponents
for the suggestion that men and women might actually be different,
Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers was forced
to apologize three times for his explanation that the lower number
of women than men in the hard sciences is due to “innate sex
differences.” This is the second ”controversy” for Lawrence, who
once suggested after September 11th that there be more
patriotism on campus. In the former instance, Lawrence
was citing empirical research that found differences in
brain chemistries between the sexes. In some areas, like
the languages, women were found to be more aptly
suited. In other areas like math and science, men had the
advantage. But the academic elite at Harvard decided to
kill the messenger and began accusing their “sexist” president of being against “diversity” and “equality.” Two
terms that seem to contradict one another. One female MIT professor at the conference left the room telling reporters, “this kind of
bias makes me physically ill.”
While dialogue about the findings of such research has been
condemned in universities which “pursue truth,” outside research
has confirmed that increases in testosterone given to women enhance their spatial abilities, while reducing their verbal capacity. Outliers (those who lie farthest away from the average on the bell curve)
are slightly more prevalent among men. Thus, exceptional genius is
slightly more prevalent among men. Universities recruit the most
exceptional geniuses alive. Hence, male exceptional geniuses are more
prevalent among science and math faculty than women. These are
logical and statistical conclusions.
Just as Copernicus faced discrimination in the 16th century when
he espoused the heliocentric theory, collegiate institutions that pursue truth are currently hushing important debates (and facts) about
human nature. A petition was signed to have Lawrence formally
withdraw his statements. A petition should be signed to have
Harvard’s motto, Veritas (truth), withdrawn as well.

sels to the area to help with immediate aid. Private donations topped
an additional $350 million and continue to rise.
Private corporations–yes,those horrible, greedy, money-grubbing
corporations– have also joined in the relief effort. Pfizer has given
$35 million in cash and pharmaceuticals to the effort. Bristol-Myers
Squibb has donated another $5 million in cash and medication to
the effort. Coca-Cola has donated $10 million, and
Exxon-Mobil has donated $5 million. Dozens more have
contributed millions of dollars in money and goods for
the relief effort. All told, this adds to well over half a
billion dollars in aid. “Stingy” just doesn’t seem to be the
right word here. An accusation of financial “stinginess” is
not the only way in which the tsunami tragedy became a
political issue, but it is the most glaring example. When it
became clear that initial pledges may not have been sufficient, nations and people worldwide were quick to respond;
there was no need to begin pointless accusations or make a mockery
of the tragedy by turning it into a political issue. It is much more
productive to help those devastated by the tsunami by focusing
squarely on that goal, rather than on petty comparisons and accusations amongst the developed world.

THE DOGS BARK...

As pundits and politicians begin determining the ramifications
of Iraq’s election, one must take a step back and contemplate the
magnitude of January 2005. Two historic and hopefully influential
elections were held in an area once thought incapable of holding so
much as a bake-sale. Palestinians had what appeared to be a fair
election and chose Abbas to be their next leader. The situation in
Israel is far from perfect and Abbas has his hands full, but conditions there are better than they were only a few years ago. And it’s no
wonder too, when one considers that Yasir Arafat, Saddam
Hussein, Sheik Yassin and Rantisi are no longer able to threaten
Israel and attempt to derail peace talks. Hopefully Abbas will enact
democratic reforms, control terrorists, establish a real and indepenABOVE POLITICS, BENEATH CONTEMPT
dent court system, a free press like he said he wants, free and fair local
elections, stop inciting Jew hatred in the schools, and so forth.
On December 26, 2004, a tragedy of monumental proportions
A free society allows for free elections, not the other way around.
struck the regions of India and Southern Asia, taking the lives of
If Abbas enacts such reforms, he would be the first Palestinian
well over 100,000 people. As the world gave its thoughts and prayers
leader deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize.
to the tsunami victims and their families, it was also quick to reNow, in Iraq, millions of people have voted for the future of
spond with aid in the form of money and goods. Politics were
their nation. The New York Times reported that Iraqis turned out in
thrown aside as nations, individuals, corporations, and organiza“great numbers” and defied “death threats, mortars and suicide
tions worked towards the common goal of helping a region of the
bombers.” Some areas even had festive parties while Iraqis turned
world ripped apart by a natural disaster. Unforout to vote. Many have showed quiet resolve and
tunately, one of these organizations, the United Greedy Corporations Donated an insistence that they would not be bullied out
Nations, decided to bring politics into what
of voting. Blind people were escorted to voting
was already an incredibly bad situation: “It is over $350 Million. "Stingy" just facilities. Some people walked dozens of miles
beyond me why we are so stingy, really,” Jan doesn't seem to be the Right Word. and many more waited on long lines to vote.
Egeland, a UN official, said of the United States
According to The New York Times, even in the
and other developed western nations. The United Nations has doSunni areas, where voter turnout was expected to be sparse, voter
nated emergency rations of food, water, and other necessities. Perturnout may have reached up to 40%. Clearly, the Iraqi people are
haps their contributions are generous, perhaps they could do much
conveying a message to the fascists within their midst: Iraq will be a
more; nevertheless, no one has characterized this as stingy, least of
free society. So, what does this mean for the future of the Middle
all UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who spent the days following
East? Already, there is optimism that other autocratic regimes in the
the tsunami on vacation in the United States. Yet the United States
area are undertaking reform. This might be a guise to ease pressure
government has pledged $350 million, in addition to sending vesfrom the U.S. after President Bush’s inauguration address, but it

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"I am not religious, but I have a great respect for religion." - F. A. Hayek
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TIONAL TOPICS
may also be a door for reform. It will take more than municipal
elections to reform Saudi Arabia and likewise, no one will be fooled
by meaningless elections under despotic rulers. Regardless, in Iraq
and Palestine, advocates of a free society are optimistic and terrorists
have suffered a crushing defeat. One day, historians will look back at
January 2005, and see it as the month that would eventually transform the Middle East forever. The Islamic fascist dogs bark, but the
caravan rolls on.
HO, HO...NO!
Oddly enough, there was a phrase around Rutgers in December
that would justifiably warrant a burning effigy in your name, a
phrase that was even more taboo in Academia than “I’m so glad
Bush won!” Should you be cursed enough to be like at least 76.5
percent of the United States population, you celebrate a holiday
every December 25. Don’t make the same mistake I did and utter
the words “Merry Christmas.” Apparently these few arbitrary sequences of sounds, when said consecutively, illicit an uncomfortable atmosphere.
The fact of the matter is that Christmas nowadays is not overtly
religious. Universally, Christmas is a day of relaxation, goodwill,
and peace. The Christmas season brings out the best in all of us:
generosity, forgiveness, charity, and hope in the future. Neither of
MEDIA THREATHENING NATIONAL SECURITY
the two biggest symbols for the holiday molds the atmosphere
into a religious one. The Christmas tree is no longer a symbol of
Recently, the Washington Post exposed a secret CIA battlethe Christian faith. It has evolved to be more of a seasonal object.
field group, the Strategic Support Branch, an otherwise covert
Santa Claus’ character origin as Saint Nicholas is now only found in
group created after September 11, 2001. The Strategic Support
songs. Santa is not a missionary for the Christian faith. He does not
Branch was created to expand the Pentagon’s ability to collect
scream from his sleigh, “The power of Christ compels you!” to
human intelligence from spies. This unit had been clandestine in
motivate anyone into joining the Christian faith. Perhaps the ACLU
Afghanistan and Iraq, and was largely responsible for interrogawill contend that he is prejudiced against those who are naughty.
tions that led to Saddam Hussein’s capture. They increase the
Well, I, for one, admire a person who does not positively reinforce
military’s ability to collect “real time information.” Now,
negative behavior. Once again, I am a conservative fighting the
Democrats on Capitol Hill are insisting on hearings about the
battle of personal responsibility.
unit’s secrecy and plan to expose the Strategic Support Branch.
According to 2003 Statistical Abstract of the United States from
These hearings, which are being pushed for by congressional
the Census Bureau’s website, people who identified themselves as
Democrats and the Washington Post, would likely put American
non-religious are very much on the rise: 13.2 percent of Americans
Soldiers and Iraqi citizens at risk. Currently, Iraq is being infilin 2001 as opposed to the 7.5 percent in 1990. This could be justitrated by foreign fighters and terrorists who seek to derail any
fied by the leaps and bounds of science in the past couple decades.
democratic future for the Iraqi people. Whether one agrees or
After all, many hold fickle relationships with faith because perhaps
disagrees with the rationale for war in Iraq is trivial at this
the relentless sword of scientific criticism might damage it tomorjunction; the U.S. cannot morally leave an exposed Iraqi people to
row. However, it is this movement towards an absolute dissoluthe mercy of Islamic fascists from Iran and Syria who seek to
tion of religion that is causing current litigation that is anti-religion
impose a Taliban-like regime. Furthermore, one of the objectives
instead of being tolerant to all religions.
of a war with Iraq was to build a state in
These secularists are renaming Christmas "Santa Claus Violates Seperation of which western ideals such as liberty,
trees into “trees of life,” “giving trees,”
separation
Church and State," says school board. equality, andflourish in aof church and
and especially “holiday trees.” I find it quite
state would
region marred
hypocritical and ironic of such sensitive people to get up in arms
by dictatorial governments. However, when Democrats demand
over something so trivial as beloved french fries, but at the same
to expose secret military organizations, it is more difficult for U.S.
time not thinking twice about having the impudence to relentlessly
soldiers to protect Iraqi civilians and western values. If the U.S.
attempt to rid society of a season that has limited ties to my relilearned any lesson from Vietnam, it was that politicizing a war
gion.
only makes America weaker and makes our troops unable to fight
The ideal world for secularists would be total separation of
a productive or comprehensive war. Impeding the capabilities of
church (ironic, because in their utopia, Christianity is not included)
our soldiers is not only counterproductive to Iraqi freedom and
and state. Christmas is just a small step on their agenda. With the
American interests, it is immoral and hurtful.
destruction of a religious backing comes the destruction of solid
moral fiber. I find the purpose of religion nowadays is not to
explain the wonders and mechanics of nature, but rather to show
guidance towards truth: to reaffirm that some things are right and
some things are wrong. Mandating a change in the holiday which is
enjoyed by people of all faiths using false pretenses for your own
Inclusive
political gain is wrong. “Free Exercise” of religion just does not
Inclusive
Inclusive INSENSITIVE
seem all that free.

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“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” - President Thomas Jefferson
COMMENTARY

Did you know?

Condi Rice is the first African-American to Replace an African-American in the Cabinet

CONDI RICE: THE BLACK WOMAN LIBERALS LOVE TO HATE
On January 26th, Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as Secretary
of State by an overwhelming margin of 85-13. Dr. Rice, who
was named Forbes Magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Woman
of 2004,” played an integral role in the development of the
plan for German reunification, headed by President George H. W. Bush and then
Secretary of State James Baker. From 1993-1999, she served as a provost at Stanford
University and was George W. Bush’s National Security Adviser during his first term
in office. Her successes in the fields of
academia, geopolitics, history, government,
college administration, and classical muJeff Danziger, New York Times syndicate- "I knows all
sic contributed to a resume that made her
about aluminum tubes! (Correction). I don't know
a perfect candidate for confirmation.
nuthin' about aluminum tubes.
Despite these accomplishments, however, the liberal media and several liberal Democrats in the Senate sought to stop Dr. Rice’s
confirmation. Leading the attack on Rice’s integrity were Robert Byrd (a former Klansmen),
and Ted Kennedy (convicted of leaving the scene of an accident in which the passenger of the
The New York Times and
The Washington Post
car he was driving died). Noting the opposition, it was
printed this extremely
thusly not a surprise that Rice was impressively confirmed.
racist cartoon of Condi
Dr. Rice’s reliance on God challenges the secularism of
many liberals. She told Essence magazine that, “When
I’m concerned about something, I figure out a plan of
action, and then I give it to God. I just ask to be carried
through it. God’s never failed me yet.”
Dr. Rice has earned her position and does not deserve
the degradation of ignorant cartoonists. There’s a reason
why she is Secretary of State, and Garry Trudeau is coloring
in the lines for a living.

By AMY
CASTELLI

LIBERALS PRINTING RACIST
CARTOONS... TSK TSK

Ted Rall - Universal Press syndicate - depicting Condoleezza Rice proclaiming herself Bush's "HOUSE
NIGGA." A black man demands that Rice "HAND OVER HER HAIR STRAIGHTENER." His t-shirt
reads "YOU'RE NOT WHITE, STUPID." The caption below the frame reads "SENT TO INNERCITY RACIAL RE-EDUCATION CAMP."

ON THE IRAQI ELECTIONS
W.A.R. NOTES
WILLIAM ANTHONY RIVERA

S

enator Ted M. Kennedy of Massachusetts is a

big fat idiot and a washed up political hack. In a speech
that was labeled a major foreign policy address at the John
Hopkins School for International Affairs the liberal senator
said that the American troops in Iraq were a part of the
problem and not part of a solution and that this war was
President Bush’s Vietnam—a quagmire. It is amazing to me
how people of that generation insist on seeing the world
through the prism of their own mistakes. Iraq is no Vietnam.
On January 30th, millions of Iraqis braved death threats,
violence and uncertainty to vote. Early reports indicate as
many as 60% of Iraqis voted, a gigantic step for the worldwide movement of freedom. Still, reasonable people can
disagree about whether it is worth one American life to bring
democracy to Iraq. It is after all their country, their fight.
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liberal comrades fail to see is that the Iraqi elections are
not just about Iraq.
It is the Cold War all over again. Just as the US
was locked in a deadly staring contest with its enemies,
the Left blinked, blinked, blinked. They blinked when
President Reagan wanted to deploy missiles into Germany, when he wanted funding for SDI, and when he
said to Gorbachev, “Tear down this wall.” Funny, how
as soon as the Cold War was over the liberals took
credit for defeating the Soviet tyranny. If it were up to
Kennedy and his ilk, Eastern Europe would still be
under the yoke of communism. Liberals have proven
themselves incapable of seeing the big picture, to see
struggles historically.
And now as the people of the Middle East get
their first taste of democracy where do the liberals
stand? Cowering in a corner, of course. Do the
words of Kennedy and the other liberals who stand
cowering with him, like Barbara Boxer of California,
and the loser Kerry, help the democrats in Iraq? Of
course not. They inflame the terrorists and encourage
violence. Any sign that the US is blinking will encourage the terrorists to attack and keep the pressure up
because they think, “one more death and the US will
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Syndicated Cartoonist Gary
Trudeau calls Condoleeza Rice
"Brown Sugar" in
"All the News that's Fit to Tint"
But this war in Iraq and these elections are not just
about Iraq. They are a signal to the broader Arab
community. And the results of these elections and the
democratic process still unfolding in Iraq are as critical
to regional stability as they are to US security. Democracy and liberty must prevail.

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“We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are
freedom’s models in a searching world. We can be freedom’s missionaries in a doubting world.” – Barry Goldwater
COMMENTARY

A RUINED STATE: A SUCCESS STORY
BY GREG WALKER

W

As if all of this isn’t bad
e are going to play a game, and I’ll ask the reader to not jump ahead.
enough, there has risen in
I want the reader to picture in his or her mind a sunny American
the occupied nation an inmorning, life and business as usual. Children are reading or running around,
surgency of loyalists to the
blissful and unaware; most adults are off to work, though some were plandictator’s fallen regime; they
ning on seeing a movie or getting the car washed today. No one expects the
place bombs, assassinate ofroar of planes overhead, or the subsequent sounds of explosions that will
ficials, and intimidate the
wake a sleeping nation to action against evil.
people. Billions of dollars
Although our enemies are identified and the nation rallies to fight them,
are being and will be spent
new military goals will get the attention of the United States and our ally
by the United States on reGreat Britain. Barely a year and a half after this surprise attack on America, the
c o n two allies will invade another region, aiming for a nation whose connection
structo the surprise attack is debatable; certainly, this new target has supplied
tion; it
neither the equipment nor the manpower for the attack on that sunny mornwill be
ing. Now I want the reader to flash forward. The war has been declared over,
almost
the enemy government defeated; and the allies occupy the targeted nation. It
twenty
is an old nation, with historical ties to the region around it. It had been lorded
years beover during part of the twentieth century by a monarchy, which was overfore this
thrown and replaced with a doomed republic; from the republic came a
nation
mass-murdering dictator. A plague on his people, he oversaw thousands of
reaches
murders, where the dead would be piled into mass graves; the dictator even
former
saw fit to invade his neighbor to the east several years prior, prompting an
levels of
international outcry. He also tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction.
economic prosperity, and over sixty years from now, America will still have
But now the war is over, and American and British flags are flying in the
thousands of troops posted here. Everyone frets; as TIME puts it, “The
capital.
troops returning home are worried. ‘We’ve lost the peace,’ men tell you. ‘We
Despite what Americans are being told, the reader should know that
can’t make it stick.’”
things are not going well here. TIME Magazine reports: “…their food supply
Now I want the reader to think long and hard about where this nation
is below subsistence level. In the American zone they beg for the privilege
is, and when these words were said, and then
of scraping U.S. army garbage cans,” calling
read on. If you’re thinking about Iraq you are,
it a “winter of misery.” The President would
US Invasion of Germany, 1945:
as it turns out, wrong. Every word said here
read aloud an article describing what we are
Insurgency, Occupation, Shortage of refers to events that occurred starting with
occupying as “a land in an acute stage of
Supplies, Quagmire.
the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941,
economic, political and moral crisis. [Euroculminating in our invasion and occupation
pean] capitals are frightened. In every [miliof Nazi Germany. The moral is this: occupations will not always go swimtary] headquarters, one meets alarmed officials doing their utmost to deal
mingly. However, Germany today is a model both of a prosperous economy
with the consequences of the occupation policy that they admit has failed.”
and democratic government. No one today thinks of the end result in
The ruling elite have been disrupted, the armed forces and police have been
Europe and Japan in terms of the difficulties encountered along the way.
entirely disbanded, and a long search is on for young, new recruits. InfraGermany is a close friend and ally of the United States today, and we should
structure and public services have been disrupted almost entirely, the proall hope and work for the same result in Iraq.
duction and industrial centers have been wiped out by the war. TransportaPresident Bush said with a grin: “Maybe that same person is still around,
tion systems have broken down; electricity and flowing water are rarities.
Re
writing editorials.” Let us not be that person.
This all follows imposed embargoes that have ruined the once well-to-do
pr
state.
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1945: "Americans are Losing the Victory in Europe" - Time Magazine
2005: "U.S. in Danger of Losing the War" - Detroit Free Press
The Liberal Media 50 Years Later: "The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same." - Alponese Karr (1808-90)
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“The principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them, we put our liberties at risk.”Sean Hannity, “Let Freedom Ring”

CONTRIBUTORS

LACI AND CONNOR’S LAW
You can kill your baby, but you can’t eat my fetus
STEVEN CAVANAUGH
own life. With this new law, the only differn the past few years a new variety of muences between an unborn child and a critically
rder has made its way into national news
sick person are age and citizenship. One would
coverage, namely acts of violence that rethink that a citizen should have more rights
sult in the death of a pregnant female and/or
than a non-citizen, but this is not a reality. Both
the fetus that is carried within. A common
cases can involve humans unable to make the
question that is often asked is how can somedecision of whether they should live or die (if
one be tried for two murders in such an inthe adult is unconscious or comatose). The
stance when a mother who chooses to have an
freedom for the unborn to die is consistent
abortion is not only free from any murder
throughout the country, while the freedom for
charges, but is also “ending a human life”?
the citizen lies within state control.
For a long time, such laws which provided a
The second inconsistency lies with citizendouble standard were created and enforced on
ship itself. Currently, a human can be afforded
a state level – it was only last year with the
some protection under the laws of the United
passing of the “Unborn Victims of Violence
States without being a citizen. The Fourteenth
Act of 2004” that this double standard beAmendment guarantees citizenship at birth, alcame conflict on the national level. This new
though there is no specific reason why such a
law allows violent crimes against pregnant
distinction should be made. Any method of
females to be treated in court as if the crime
separating the living
had been committed
child from the mother
against two individuals, even if the perse- When a Pregnant Woman is Killed, in the United States
cutor had no knowl- Should it Count as Double Homicide? grants the individual
citizenship, whether it
edge of the pregnancy.
be natural birth or caeWhile some view
sarian section. Even the recent murder where
this new legislation as a step forward, others
Lisa Montgomery is accused of killing a mother
view it as a possible path toward the reversal
and then slicing open her abdomen to kidnap
of Roe vs. Wade. Specifically, this law dethe baby constitutes granting of citizenship.
fines an unborn human as “a member of the
Note that citizenship protects a person with a
species homo sapiens, at any stage of develright to life, whereas non-citizens are not proopment, who is carried in the womb.” Quite
tected. At the same time, the murder of a nonclearly then, abortion involves the killing of a
citizen adult (i.e.: foreign alien) would result in
human (according to this law) although this
first degree murder charges whereas the killing
action is specifically exempt from this law by
of a fetus is legal because the fetus is not a
excluding from persecution “any person for
person because it is not a citizen. This reasonconduct relating to an abortion for which the
ing is seriously flawed, because if one must be
consent of the pregnant woman, or a person
a citizen to be a person under the Fourteenth
authorized by law to act on her behalf, has
Amendment, then all non-citizens lack protecbeen obtained or for which such consent is
tion under the laws of the United States, and
implied by law; for any medical treatment of
thus the murder of any of these peoples would
the pregnant woman or her unborn child; or
not be prosecutable.
any woman with respect to her unborn child.”
From these inconsistencies, either volunCurrently the federal government has no
tary euthanasia for critically ill patients must
ruling regarding doctor assisted suicide of a
be made legal, or abortion of a human fetus
critically ill patient, either by the patient’s
must be made illegal. The only other solution
own request or by the patient’s law appointed
would be for the revision of the definition of a
decision maker. If the patient is physically
human or some distinction between a human
unable to express such consent, the decision
life and a human being. Currently there is no
lies with the states, and many states specififederal law dictating the precise definitions and
cally prohibit assisted suicide. Some others
difference between the start of a human life and
allow but do not explicitly provide for it in
the start of a human consciousness, but the
law.
morality issues involved are so complicated that
It is interesting that a mother can act on
the law should not necessarily take them into
behalf of her child to end its life although a
account at this time.
competent adult cannot choose to end his/her

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For the sense of legality, the federal government needs to make a decision as to when a
human life starts and must relate the beginning
of citizenship to some physical transition period other than birth. Arguably, no such distinct transition period exists. Some reformers
propose a “Human Life Amendment”, which
would define a person as a human from the
moment of conception. However, such a regulation would bring drastic and often unwanted
implications including homicide investigations
for miscarriages and the illegalization of many
forms of birth control that prevent embryonic
implantation. A better solution would be to
create an amendment that would instead find
some sort of compromise, giving citizen rights
to the unborn that can at least survive on their
own (with medical care) if they were to be violently separated from their mother. Current
research suggests that preterm infants as young
as 23 weeks of gestation can routinely survive
when provided with proper medical care. Expanding such a limit on citizenship would not
have a profound impact on abortion or contraception law involving fetuses under such an
age. Younger fetuses could still be protected
against non-maternal violence under the current
law. Abortion law would still remain distinct
and then could later be reviewed for legality on
a basis of social, moral, and religious grounds
throughout the country without the fear of creating additional inconsistencies with the law.
It is only after inconsistencies between the
definitions and rights of citizens, persons, and
humans are resolved that issues of abortion can
adequately be discussed as a moral, social, and
religious issue. It is time to put a stop to laws
that contradict and specifically exclude previous laws, thus creating a tangled web of potentially unenforceable nonsense.

Steven Cavanuagh is a Staff Writer, [email protected]

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A New Life
Has Begun
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"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.” - Charlton Heston
COMMENTARY

Affirmatively Racist
By Kian Barry
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the leader of the modern Civil Rights movement in the 1960s exclaimed, “I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of
their skin but by the content of their character,” in a speech he delivered
from the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963. King’s dream is trampled
daily by a form of racism that was not practiced during the time of Jim
Crow. This new for m of discrimination is misnamed as “Affir mative
Action”, when there is nothing positive about it. In order to redress
grievances of past years of vile discrimination and segregation, this process
calls for the reverse discrimination of white Americans. By providing
preferential treatments for certain racial backgrounds and supporting racebased affirmative action, colleges and other public institutions practice
inherently racist policies.
Affirmative Action is effectively defined as “an active effort (as through
legislation) to improve the employment or educational opportunities of
members of minority groups or women.” The problem that occurs at the
onset of this program is not that it is beneficial to minorities, but that it
hampers non-minorities in an attempt to do so. It is impossible to justify
the blatant discrimination against white Americans simply because of the
color of their skin. This program makes clear that it is more important to
have an ethnically diverse student body or place of business than to have
the most qualified applicants assume their rightful positions.
In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme
Court debated over the constitutionality of a procedure that the University
of California- Davis Medical School used in order to admit their class of
one hundred students yearly. Bakke claimed that he deserved admittance to
the Medical School based on his qualifications and that race should never
play a part in the application process. He claimed that “the special admissions program operated to exclude him on the basis of his race was in
violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a
provision of the California Constitution, and Section 601 of Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which provides, inter alia, that no person shall on
the ground of race or color be excluded from participation in any program
receiving federal financial assistance.” Moreover, the University had set
aside 16 seats yearly for minority students regardless of the class that
applies to the school, thus placing a quota that allowed minority students to
apply in a field of 100 and non-minorities to apply for a school with a total
of 84 available seats.
While addressing the existence of the quota system at the University of
California, the Court held in concurrence with the Circuit Court of Appeals that it was unconstitutional to specifically denote points for race or
set aside exact seats for minority applicants in one class. Conversely, however, the Court found that it was constitutional for the University to take
race into account in a qualitative, rather than quantitative manner, in the
acceptance process. Justice Powell wrote the opinion of the Court, and

four justices each wrote concurring and dissenting opinions, both of
which were concurring in part and dissenting in part. Four Justices felt that
race should not ever be taken into account but agreed that Bakke should be
admitted because a quantitative method of using race is unconstitutional.
In contrast, four other Justices agreed with Powell’s holding that race should
play a factor in admittance, but thought also that the University of California’s
admissions process was completely legal. Thusly, though Powell was the
only Justice with his individual ambivalent opinion, it becomes the opinion of the court because each part is the opinion of five justices. This
decision is thusly questionable because of the amazingly conflicted nature
of its acceptance.
I find this decision to be amazingly contradictory to the decision
reached some twenty-four years earlier in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka. In that decision, it was found that segregation was not constitutional because there exists no such thing as “separate but equal.” In that
decision, as well as the concurring opinion of four Justices in Bakke, the
Justices envisioned a colorblind America. Not that this was truly possible,
due to societal policies and personal agendas, but that the law itself should
reflect this ideal. If the law, the most single arbitrary and objective thing we
follow in the United States does not promote this principle, how can we
ever reach legal, social, or economic equality? The Fourteenth Amendment cannot mean different things to different races; it must be clearly read
as equal, and not strictly beneficial to minorities.
Moreover, the policy of Affirmative Action has a connotation which I
am surprised minorities accept. By granting admittance to students of
color more often than white students and accepting less qualified minority
students there is a severe implication of inferiority. There is no reason that
minorities would need such beneficial if they were not inferior in the
minds of schools and places of business. I feel that this is a slap in the face
to the Civil Rights and “equality” movements when we imply that we must
actively make people equal. People are equal simply because they exist;
there is no need to force such “equality” in our contemporary society.
The harsh reality of the subject is that while Affirmative Action has
played a key role in the development of African-American communities
and allowed for some children to benefit from being afforded special
treatment, it has done so at far too great a cost other individuals. Unfortunately, the communities in America are not all economically equal, but they
are all legally equal. In order to send a child to school because he is a
minority, the process of Affirmative Action denies a white American admittance to that same school, even though he may be better qualified. The
white male is now the disadvantaged in today’s society. Innately, what is
being done is that the rights of one man are given to another, and that
simply cannot stand in our democratic society.
We must find alternative methods that are not harmful to non-minorities that promote the general equality of citizens. The United States of
America was founded on the basis of equality and has evolved to be the
freest society in the world. If we sacrifice this in order to further the
existence of an individual group, we lose that emphasis on equality. Once
we recognize the amazingly un-American nature of treating diverse races
differently, we will again become the freest nation on the face of the earth.
Then and only then have the dreams of the Civil Rights movement been
recognized and all people are, as Dr. King dreamed he would be, “free at
last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
Kian Barry is Executive Editor of The Centurion
[email protected]

The Democrat and
the Homeless Guy

A

Exclusively on www.rucenturion.com!
"A Solider's Prespective" By Anthony Gioia

Republican and a Democrat were walking down the street when they
came to a homeless person. The Republican gave the homeless person his
business card and told him to come to his business for a job. He then took twenty
dollars out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless person.
The Democrat was very impressed, and when they came to another homeless person, he decided to help.
He walked over to the homeless person and gave him directions to the
welfare office. He then reached into the Republican’s pocket and got out twenty
dollars. He kept 15 for administrative fees and gave the homeless person five.
Now you understand the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

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A Book Review of Ann Coulter's Treason by
Natalie Poole
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CONSERVATIVE POINT...

...CONVERVATIVE COUNTER POINT

POINT-COUNTERPOINT: THE DEFICIT
Spending Into A Dark Oblivion

The Budget is Shrinking

By S. Hamlin

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The year 1994 was a revolutionary one for the Republican Party and for
conservatism as a whole. Two years after suffering a humiliating defeat
from Bill Clinton, important officials in the Republican Party decided it
was time to recognize their traditional conservative roots. In their famous “Contract with America” the House Republicans pledged to pass
the “The Fiscal Responsibility Act” which promised to create “a balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto
to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress, requiring
them to live under the same budget constraints as
families and businesses.” This act was a clear recognition of the importance of fiscal responsibility, the
notion that it is wise for a government to have a
balanced budget. Proponents of the ideals of the
1994 “Contract With America” supported fiscal prudence beyond immediate economic calculations. Fiscal irresponsibility, demonstrated by large deficit
spending, threatens our national security and national
independence.
The more that the government borrows the
harder it gets to borrow, because it becomes harder
to pay back loans. This phenomenon directly affects
the value of the dollar; because the value of the
dollar is related to how much faith the holders of the
dollar have in the government that issues it. Due to
the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush administration,
the dollar is actually being beaten by the Euro. According to numbers from January 2005, the Euro is
worth 1.32 U.S. dollars. This may have a significant effect on retiree’s
savings as well as on the saliency of US salaries, savings, and investments.
Another impending American fiscal problem is the existence of
dramatic trade deficits. According to recent figures released in January
from the US Commerce Department, the United States is in the red $60
billion dollars in the import/export numbers. This has deep implications. Firstly, it shows the overall trend of importation. Consequently, it
illustrates how dependent America is on outside countries, even those
with undesirable governmental systems. Oil from the dictatorships in
the Middle East makes up a large percentage of the trade imbalance.
Communist China contributes 19.6 billion more to that imbalance. Should
either of these areas decide to cut ties with America, we would become
immediately and painfully aware of our dependency.
Beyond these calculations, great stewards of fiscal responsibility
like Dwight D. Eisenhower saw more dangerous foreign policy implications. “The material foundation of our national safety is a strong and
expanding economy. This we have—and this we must maintain. Only
with such an economy can we be secure and simultaneously provide for
the well being of our people,” Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed in his
1959 State of the Union speech. In Eisenhower’s mind, the Cold War
was going to be a long struggle that required sustainable spending.
In the end, our seemingly solid economy and defense is more vulnerable than meets the eye. Fiscally irresponsible behavior cannot continue.

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By Mike Orecchio
The United States Budget Deficit is rapidly shrinking! And you had no
idea. This accurate statement remains unannounced by the mainstream
media. In the first three months of the current fiscal year, expenditures
by the federal government increased by 6.1 percent while tax collections
grew by a whopping 10.5 percent. With more money coming in than
going out, the deficit shrinks. This can be largely credited to the Bush tax
cuts for small business and capital formation. From the latest economic
releases, business investment has increased a staggering 15%. Coupled
with a 20% rise in 2004 corporate profits, this has
created many new jobs. Bush’s economic policies
have led to new jobs, more profits, more growth,
and more tax dollars. This is a pro-growth economic policy, which will continue to shrink the deficit. At this pace, the deficit will be on the right track
and should be near 3% of our national GDP at the
end of 2005.
Lies about the U.S. budget deficit have passed
as conventional wisdom. On January 29th, 2005, a
Goldman Sachs senior economist was quoted in the
New York Times as saying, “foreigners are continuing to eat our lunch.” Is this man referring to the
Europe with an average unemployment rate of more
than 10%? Poland’s unemployment rate is pushing
19%! Not to mention their ultra-sluggish economic
growth, which barely approaches 2%. Amazingly
enough, these hypocrites now argue for the need to
slow down the economy because it further expands
our trade deficit. To them, prosperity is horrific! Americans borrow,
guzzle, and thrive too much for a media that must continually turn opulence into depression with deceit and misrepresentation of facts.
The economic data has no bias. The private domestic economy, which
is measured as a part of real GDP, the true steam behind the American
economy, increased 5.4% in 2004, 2% more than in 2003. Business investment more than doubled the gain in 2003. Moreover, 2.3 million
payroll jobs were created this past year. Inflation is almost nonexistent,
mortgage rates are still at record lows, the unemployment rate is a mere
5.4%, and personal income is up approximately 5%. The New York
Times will undeniably spin these very strong results.
Even though strong economic growth is bringing the budget deficit
down and import demands up, skewed conventional thought continues
to portray the alleged double deficits as a sign of weakness rather than
strength. But if deficits are really that awful then why is the United
States’ economy so strong? The United States’ budget gap is smaller that
the budget deficiency in both Europe and Japan. And if our allies in
Europe and Japan have any economic growth, the United States trade
gap will narrow considerably. What they need is a taste of Bush’s progrowth “cowboy-capitalism.” Meanwhile, with a solid American economy
featuring strong investment returns in the stock market, the budget deficit is shrinking by the minute.

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almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.” - Allan Bloom
COMMENTARY

CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH
WITH CONSERVATIVE BLACK AUTHORS
Affirmative Action Around the World:
An Empirical Study
Thomas Sowell
Sowell examines the results of affirmative
action policies in five countries (India,
Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and the U.S.)
and contracts both similarities and differences in the outcomes of these policies. He
finds that the results of affirmative action
are not consistent with its goals. In these
nations, he found that preference for the minority transformed
into preference for the majority (U.S.), intergroup tensions
increased (Sri Lanka and Nigeria), and more qualified individuals became frustrated and left the country (Malaysia).
Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public

What Color is a Conservative?
J. C. Watts, Jr. with Chris Winston
Congressman Watts, the 4th ranking Republican in Congress
and first black Republican representing Oklahoma since
Reconstruction, details his thoughts on politics, faith, and
family, and explains his differences with the predominantly
left-leaning black front.

More Liberty Means Less Government
Walter Williams
This collection of articles by professor of economics
Walter Williams provides a libertarian perspective on
the gamut of issues facing the world today including
race, sex, government, foreign relations, education, and
the environment.

Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Uncle Sam’s Plantation
Star Parker
While America is thought of as a capitalist
country, many of the lower rungs of our
society live in a state of welfare socialism.
Parker takes a look at the failing welfare
system which keeps it’s beneficiaries in
slavery to the state, and shares her experience
in escaping the welfare system and poverty’s
grasp on her life.

Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the
Special Interests That Divide America
Larry Elder
Popular California radio host Larry Elder argues that
our government’s priorities are in need of rearranging.
He calls for less red tape and more liberty and personal
responsibility, going so far as to say that protection of
its citizens should be government’s foremost responsibility and that the U.S. could have prevented 9/11 if
tax dollars had been spent more wisely. He also
confronts common liberal ideas such as racial and sexual discrimination
and social “safety nets.”

CONSERVATIVE DIVERSIONS
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Ashcroft
Cheney
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Corzine
Culture Jam
Diversity
Fahrenheit
France
George W Bush
Golan Cipel
Harassment
Jesusland
Kennedy
LGBTQ
Multiculturalism
Radigals
Reagan
Robeson
Sensitivity
Social Security
Stalin
Tolerance
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