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Faculty attendance
poor at Symposium
The Wesleyan Symposium
was conducted on Feb. 12-13
and, on the whole, at least ap
peared well attended. Most
sessions were almost filled
and showed that there is a
genuine interest in the affair.
That is, a genuine interest
among the students.
When many professors
make it a requirement for stu
dents to attend a number of
sessions on the basis that their
attendance is necessary to
learn about the “real world,”
it is a disappointment to find
out these same professors feel
that they need not attend.
How are students to believe
that the Symposium is impor
tant when the faculty fail to
show their enthusiasm for the
event? When an average of
18 or 19 professors (includ
ing the business professors
who were running the pro
gram) or less than 50 percent
of the faculty attend, what
kind of appreciation does this
show to the speakers?
Admittedly, student par
ticipation was also very poor
and the students should feel
ashamed. Many tumed the
Symposium into a five-day
weekend and did not attend a
session at all.
However, some students
did attend one or two, failed
to see their professors there,
and said they felt the Sympo
sium must not really be that
important.
Perhaps the professors re
quired their students to write
papers on the Symposium in
order to find out what they
were gong to miss.
Besides the fact of the poor
participation of both faculty
and students, the Wesleyan
Symposium was a success and
beneficial to those who at
tended. It brought about an
improved perspective on glo
bal activity and our society's
participation in the world,
Most people left thp^ ses
sions feeling satisfi^ with
what they had leam6d or at
least wiA new ^as about
themselves in tti^temational
world.
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SEE ... AT HEART I'f^ REAU.V JUST AM EDITOE
Candidates need scrutiny
Voters failing responsibility
By DR. STEVE FEREBEE
How can President Bush have
gone from 90 percent approval to
40 percent in one year? Is he a
different man? Are his economic
or political agendas any differ
ent? Now that many voters are
waking up to what actually hap
pened during the Reagan 80’s,
whom do they blame?
Say what you will about Ro
nald Reagan, at least he pretended
to have an agenda. And the vot
ers pretended to understand that
agenda. Why do they now act be
wildered about problems caused
by defense build-ups without re
venue increases, about problems
arising because of deregulation?
If voters don’t educate them
selves about history and about
contemporary circumstances, they
cannot avoid part of the blame
for their problems.
Putting aside Mr. Bush’s
plummeting polls for a moment
(he will be able to soar back up
Dr* Steve
Muses
without substantially changing his
rhetoric), let’s take a look at Gov.
Clinton’s two major issues. Or, I
suppose I should say the media’s
two major issues.
Clinton, the media told us, was
the front runner, so we began
treating him as the front runner.
Then the media announced that
he had had extra-marital affairs,
and a woman stepped forward to
say she was tired of the lies and
would teU all — to the highest
bidding media outlet.
Right after some ridiculously
overblown sporting event or an
other, one of the networks gave
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Bashing Japan no solution to U.S. problems
By KEN LEONARD
Typical of the nonsense nor
mally associated with elementary
school playgrounds and foreign
affairs is the current bickering
between the United States and
Japan. It actually started several
years ago, but was brought back
into the limelight by recent events.
Of all things, the Japanese didn’t
apologize for bombing Pearl
Harbor on the 50th anniversary.
Fifty years? As I recall, we
already took care of an apology
long ago, and made it all even.
Are we going to toss 40 years of
mutually beneficial trade down
the toilet for a sneak attack
launched half a century ago? It
strikes me as odd that the same
people who want to pick a fight
with oin trading partner of 40
years are the same ones who want
to pour untold billions into the
former Soviet Union, which was
our enemy for the same time as
Japan was our friend. Very
strange.
For some inexplicable reason,
the trade deficit has suddenly be
come the hot issue in politics. The
Japanese sell more to us than we
sell to them. When George Bush
went over to Japan to try to talk
about this, bringing the ultimate
crybabies of American industry
notably Lee lacocca — I had
certain feelings about the trip. He
expressed those quite well, al
though I would not have made
them quite so clear at the dinner
table.
Now, the press is telling us
everything any Japanese official
says about American workers —
as long as the comment is nega
tive.
You have to watch the right
shows to hear the Japanese report
that indicates that the U.S. labor
force is the more productive of
the two involved, that our stan-
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