1987_04 The Daily Collegian April 1987

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CALENDAR
Sing* Faculty and Staff are In¬
vited to a weekly coffee hour today
at 9 a.rri. In the Vintage Room.
"Peace Through Reverence lor
Life," a lecture about the phil¬
osophy of Abe* Schweitzer, will be
given today at noon in CU 312 by
Professor Emeritus Walter ErtssRn.
The London Semester Program
will be discussed today at 12:30
p.m and Friday at noon in CU 309.
The Academic Policy and Plan¬
ning Committee will meet today at
2:15 p.m. in Main Cafeteria 203.
A Library Lecture The Kaiser
Sweepstakes: Origin of a Place
Name" will be given by Hayward
Moore at 4 p.m. in Library 1209.
"Sun Stone," a lecture by Or.
Cecilio Orosco, win be today at 5
p.m. in San Ramon 1 Room 25. The
event is sponsored by the Colmena
Hispana Universltaria.
A Folk Music Concert sponsored
by CSU Fotklife will be tonight at
7:30 in the Downstairs College
Union Coffeee Shop. The Critton
Hollow String Band from West
Virginia will perform and admission
is free.
"Masada," an illustrated lectui
by Professor Paul Priebe, will be tt
night at 7 in CU 314-316.
Senior Clarinetist Don Miller will
present a free concert in the
Wahtoerg Recital Hall in the Music
Building at 8 p.m.
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Quotas inefficient
Dear Editor,
It used to be that workers were rewarded on
the basis of their job skills or performance,
but now rewards are based on a person's
chromosomes. Affirmative Action programs
have allowed the incompetent among us to be
put into positions normally reserved for the
competent Government agencies have a
special affinity for these genetically based
hiring quotas and as a result, are as Inef¬
ficient a* they are Integrated.
I feel that discrimination, reverse or other¬
wise, is a very negative thing, particularly
when it is state-supported. In the private
sector, discrimination occurs on the basis of
ability, not race. In private industry, profit is
the prime motivator, not politics. Our gov¬
ernment may lose money because it hires un¬
qualified workers, but then it also prints its
own money as it wastes it.
I'll have to admit that my disdain for
Affirmative Action does not stem entirely
from the fact that it is a racist policy — it's
partly personal. When I first applied here, I put
an "X" in the box marked "American Indian"
instead of "Anglo/Caucasian." At the time, I
thought that was funny because "American
Indian" sounded like "Fresno Indian" (a dero¬
gatory nickname for Armenians). I figured
that maybe I'd get some favors (which I didn't
deserve) or perhaps some money (which I
didn't earn),,but what do you think I got
instead? A big pile of junk mail. So much for
Affirmative Action.
Have a nice day,
Ed Melikian
Ed gets kudos
Dear Editor,
I would like to take this opportunity to
congratulate Ed Melikian for devising prac¬
tical solutions to common problems that
beseige the CSUF community. There was
concern among inner circles that the li¬
beral subversives had successfully silenced
you. After your brillant exposes on manda¬
tory drug testing for the perverted liberal
subversives and Culturemania I, it was
clear that after losing your cookies, you
were  alive  and  well  and  functioning  at
peak performance!
Anyone who has the cognitive capacity
to immediately recognize that Bill and
William are indeed the same entity will
certainly recognize that EDitor has your
name included within. I encourage you to
seek the position of editor in chief of The
Daily Collegian. As EDitor, you could
closely' monitor the material that shapes
and influences the CSUF community. No
longer would we be subjected to the liberal
claptrap that perverts and warps our minds.
No longer would column space be devoted
to chronicling and sniveling tribulations
of Angela Arnold
Instead, we could have an entire news¬
paper devoted to the- realities of Ed's
world. Imagine the redeeming values of
such a newspaper! You would receive
monetary remuneration for presenting your
realistic views of the world and in the very
least, you can probably earn college
creditl!
Ed, please consider this proposal — in
the mean time, have a nice day!
Keep up the good work.
Mark Smith
Courses important
Dear Editor,
Let's all' sit down and get a few facts
straight: 1) There is no such thing as a
big American Melting Pol 2) Annette
Aquino has been both lucky and mislead if
she believes that skills are enough. 3) Ed
Melikian and AJ. Di Maggio are exactly
the land of people who need to take ethnic
studies courses and 4) Ed Meliltians girl¬
friend has my deepest sympathies for her
unfortunate ignorance and inability to do
anything about it.
I would like to say on behalf of all my
minority brothers and sisters who are both
proud and knowledgeable of their cultures
that Ethnic and Women's Studies courses
are important to anyone who wants to
know the rest of American history. All of
us, cultural and non-cultural alike, have
had to take Anglo Studies 10, 35 and 101
in the form of American history before
1800, American history after 1800 and
English literature.
I  See RESPONSE, page 3
BLOOM COUNTY
by Bcrfce Breathed
US Catholic, Church
must be realistic
The Catholic Church is finally awakening
to the fact that members of its U.S. church arc
far more open minded than the Vatican. The
church is finally awakening to the fact that
unless it begins to relax some of its sexist and
archaic rulings. U.S. followers will continue
to search elsewhere for religious fulfillment
and direction.
The move to publish an American Bible
with less scxtially exclusive language was a
modernizing tactic that it should now direct
toward other aspects of the church.
One of the U.S. Catholic Church's most
backward rulings is that it continues to forbid
women from the priesthood, following "the
example Christ set," or so church leaders
claim.
But what sense docs this supposed example
make? If Christ were here today, might he do
it differently, or would he again choose only
men as his disciples? Do church officials really
believe that Christ felt men make farsuperior
orators or church leaders simply because, of
their genitals ?
Would the "divine being," God in human
form whom the church claims is loving and
accepting of all, would this person say, "Yes,
come be my disciple, just as long as you aren't
a woman?"
According to the Bible, Christ also did not
choose black men or disabled people as his
disciples, does this mean they cannot be
priests either? According to this senseless
logic it would.
Birth control is another issue which the
church must reexamine. According to the
Bible, God said to go forth and multiply,
something which the church cites as its
justification for the prohibition of artificial
birth control. But isn't it presuming a bit
much to infer that this "divine statement"
actually means to "have as many children as
you possibly can" and that the only time you
should have sex is when you plan to make a
baby? At one time, the church touted the belief
that this is the only reason for sex, and above
all it should not be enjoyed. After all it is a
"sin of the flesh."
Sex in general is another confusing issue
along with the belief that it is a sin if it occurs
between two unmarried peoplc''Again this
goes back to the idea that sex is not to be
enjoyed, that it is only for the purpose of
creating babies.
The Catholic Church itself now
acknowledges that its past attitude-of sex being
"dirty" and unenjoyable is archaic, and it even
allows birth control and the limiting of one's
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By Angela Arnold
family as long as it is done through natural
means. '
The church needs to make more such
changes, to examine more past interpretations
which have unfortuantely been subject to the
judgment of some very human church leaders.
The Catholic Church is facing harsh times
as the average age of religious clergy rises
into the 60s. An alarmingly low number of
Americans enter the religous life today and
even fewer slay.
The vows of celibacy supposedly allow a
religious person to be devoted only to God and
God's work. However, many Protestant clergy
members have no trouble having both a family
and a religous life. Not having sex does not
necessarily make someone a better religious
leader, nor does having sex made another an
ineffective or unqualified religious leader.
The Catholic Church, like any other
church, has deeply held doctrines which should
not change simply to fit the mood of the
times. However, many of its decisions and
interpretations are based not so much on
doctrine but on the feelings of some very
human decision makers.
Those who made these decisions and
interpretations are extremely fallible and the
interpretations such as those mentioned are
archaic and sexist. If the church is to continue
to reach the masses of American Catholics, it
should concentrate on a more pure word and
not rely on the sexist interpretations of some
very human males.
Angela Arnold is this writer's pseudonym
Her column appears every Thursday in The
Daily Collegian.
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