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4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, November 17, 1988 Group works to educate public about violations By CRAIG ALLEN Staff Writer Alerting the community to the unethical and unnecessary killing or harming of animals is the purpose of Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. SETA received student govern ment recognition last May, accord ing to Christopher Smith, a gradu ate student in the School of Social Work from Pittsburgh. The group questions the assumption that anim als have no rights and tries to edu- cate students about the lack of animal rights. Campus Group Focus Society infringes upon animal rights in areas including entertain ment, experimentation, the clothing industry and even farming, Smith said. The group tries to involve the entire community, not just students, said Marian Workman,' a lawyer who graduated last year and helped found the group. The group focuses on UNC and its animal research. The best way to alert students to the group's purpose is through edu cation, Workman said. After the students know, they can make their own decisions. "Students should at least be aware of what's going on," she said. The group's material is somewhat graphic, but she said the pictures served to "sober people up.' 1 If students become aware of the problems in animal rights at the University, they will change their minds about the subject, Workman said. But to make a difference, the group must get people involved. "I honestly think if every student on the UNC campus took five min utes to look and see what's going on, they would want it to stop," Workman said. "The only way to do it is to get people to cry out and say this is wrong." Some of SETA's educational efforts include meetings and infor mation tables in the Pit. The group holds meetings once a month, usu ally featuring a film and discussion about animal rights. SETA is also trying to get the cafeterias on campus to serve at least one vegetarian meal a day. Many students would eat these meals instead of meat now served because of current health concerns about cholesterol, Smith said. Trying to establish a course con cerning the philosophical aspects of animal rights in the University's curriculum-is another attempt to edu cate. Smith said one of the group's main objectives is to have the Uni versity become more accountable about experimentation. With the availability of computers to simulate experiments, the use of; animals could be reduced or even eliminated, Smith said. "There are a lot of reasons for ; . people not to want to move into alternatives," Smith said. The main reason is economics many con- sider the necessary computer equir ment to be too expensive to justify the cost, he said. Because SETA meeting times are not fixed, students interested in join ing its cause should be alert for its ! next announcement. CHART YOUR FUTURE. You'll enjoy a challenging career and many Air Force advantages, such as great starting pay, medical care, 30 days ot vacation with pay each year and much more. Plan for your future today. Contact your Air Force recruiter. Call MSGT GARY HUFF 919-294-6734 STATION-TO-STATION COLLECT U s. urged to keep. hands; off 3rd World By KAREN DUNN Staff Writer The United States should do absolutely nothing to improve human rights in Third World countries, UNC political science professor Jack Donnelly said in a Human Rights Week lecture Wednesday. "Almost all the most important things that can be done for human rights need to be done nationally, not internationally," he said. "At the very best, international action can be a minor supplement to national action in terms of realizing human rights. Ill also argue that international action can screw things up pretty easily." The United States has limited influence, Donnelly said. "I think that it is empirically the case that it is extremely difficult to find any country that widely respects human rights as a result of interna tional action," he said. Countries with good human rights records have them Human Rights Week because their citizens forced the government to respect human rights. Citizens take action when their rights are at stake, Donnelly said. Foreign aid from the American government can be used as a bribe for Third World governments not to mistreat its citizens. But a Third World . leader who gets his power from the people would be out of a job or in jail for respecting human rights. The governments would use a small portion of foreign aid, if any, to improve human rights, Donnelly said. - "Repressive regimes have a strong incentive to maintain the repression. The incentive is that if they don't maintain their repression they're out of a job," he said, "so that even if you have a foreign power that is deeply committed to doing something ' 'I 7 f h Jack Donnelly about human rights and is willing to use its prestige and even use some TOWN of its money . . . there is very little that can be done , with respect to' a seriously repressive regime simply because those in power don't have the incentive to reform." Americans can have more of an impact when the foreign government in control is not extremely repressive or when a new regime takes over, Donnelly said. But even when new regimes take over and make positive changes, corruption can trickle into the system that the government can't remove.- The U.S. government should give international legitimacy to opposition movements that otherwise might be dismissed as Communist, he said. The United States should support domes tic opposition groups and govern ments that are doing a decent job. ' "The best thing the U.S. can do for Human rights in the world today and in the next several years is do nothing. Don't muck around in Third World politics anywhere," he said. The U.S. government's record proves that involvement in human rights usually results in a repressive regime, he said. "The world would be a lot better off if the U.S. had just kept its hands off in the last 20 years. r Congress from page 1 to provide an opportunity to hear him, he said. v In other business, congress passed a bill to establish a student committee to decide what criteria should be used to determine which students should receive parking permits. The committee would not handle distribution of permits, Student Body President Kevin Martin said. Student government must come up with a viable allocation process before the committee could be formed, Martin said. Any process would have to be approved by 'the . chancellor The committee would include Student Congress representatives and members of the the executive branch of student government, Martin said. Also, he said, any interested stu dents would be welcome on the committee. Allocation of permits is now the responsibility of the Traffic and Parking Advisory Committee. Congress members sent an act that would limit the use of campaign signs until 30 days prior to student elections back to the Rules and Judiciary Committee. Congress favorably passed a measure to create an optional candidates' meeting to be held the first Tuesday in December. Members also voted to table an act that would change voting districts and passed an act to unfreeze the funds of the Carolina Forensics Union. WERE FIGHTING FOR OURUFE Association v L Nobody holds as much beer as "Big Bertha." She's the coldest fridge in town! 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