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The North Texas Daily
Tuesday, November 27,1990
Commentary
Editorials
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and listen to how hard the audience wanted a room full of fans with only
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Testing on animals is cruel
tive people — 2,000 or so — mani-
cured to perfection and all wanting to
have their 30 seconds of fame in front
of a TV camera waiting to take action.
ITHOUGHTOFHeather’shopes and done something immediately af-
and dreams. She had joined the mili- ter Iraq took over Kuwait But we’re
tary tq pay for medical school. She not doing anything, except leaving
wanted to be a “country doctor” — our men and women a target for Sad-
In most offensive military situ- a thousand reasons not to be involved •
ations there is a need for an element of in a war, Congress should have the --
surprise. However, how can that be power to withdraw.
Besides, it took Congress too long power to determine the worthiness of
to decide on the federal budget. What U.S. involvement in the conflict.
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felt for the mothers who watched their him from trafficking drugs into our
sons go to fight, the girlfriends who country(ifhedidso—hehasn’tbeen
could possibly never see their boy- tried yet).
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Itmaynotbe every person'sdream,
being an audience member of a nation-
ally broadcast talk show, but it can be
one of the most fascinating ways to
spend a morning.
My morning started at 7 in a
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If this had become a full-blown laughs when they make fun of gays, positive things to say — he wanted
race riot it would have been the fault Granted it’s not the most creative mad-as-hellTexans toyellandscream
of the NT and Denton police depart- comedy, but gays are among the easi- their lungs out. Phil wanted us to
To take an animal that is independ- petition and ban the products your-
ent in its own environment and put it self. But don’t stop there. Make your
into an environment, where it is com- effortsknown to thesecompanies that
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their adrenaline pumping, ears ring-
ing and a new-found appreciation for
the effort it takes to put a large show
like Donahue together. And Phil may
just have enjoyed himself so much
he’ll want to return to Dallas.
Leslie Hue holt is a managing edi-
tor for The NT Daily.
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pletely dependenton humans who stick test their products on animals. Police should approach
it with needles, spray it with sprays As the Denton Alliance for Ani- . M
and conduct tests on it, is insanely mal Rights says, “We live in a con- racial matters carefully
cruel. nected universe — what hurts the
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them with thepowerto withdraw U.S. American soldiers have died in each
troops. military action.
The Democrats, who filed the suit Presidential powers shouldinclude
last week in federal court, quote Ar- the right to declare war, and swift
tide 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, action can be taken. If the president
which says Congress “shall have has thepowerto deploy nuclear bombs
power to declare war.”
on cigarettes as if a Hueholt
- criminal were about
to be hung (which
basically turned out to be the case).
And then there were some who were
more interested in being a part of the
show than in the actual topic of it,
which was the savings and loan scan-
dal.
A woman who lost all of her sav-
ings because of the scam, a Republi-
can congressman from Iowa, news-
man Byron Harris and a former owner
of a failed Irving thrift were the panel-
ists. Each was there to point the finger
at one another, and the latter of the four
ended up taking most of the heat for
the $500 billion catastrophe.
None of them could possibly have
known what they were getting into
when they agreed to be guests on
Donahue. Nor did the audience.
About 45 minutes before the show
began, Phil, exhibiting a grin that
illuminated 50 low's of spectators,
dashed out on stage wearing a pair of
faded blue jeans and a spirited Dallas
T-shirt. Some of his fans had never
even seen him smile, and his appear-
ance was not a typical sight for a not-
so-laid-back, 54-year-old talk show
host.
He warmed up for his hour-long
workout by running back and forth in
the huge room to pass the mike to
various fans, working his audience in
his usual jaunty manner. He told jokes
about how many times his fly had
been down during a show and how
the tabloids’ misinterpreted the sta-
bility of his marriage with, Marlo
Thomas.
“You look great in your jeans!”
one woman yelled, almost seeming to
fluster him a bit—if that’s possible.
It was enlightening because a differ-
ent side of Phil came out He was
more human and more likable than
many of his TV viewers will ever
have an opportunity to know.
But then the personality transfor-
mation took place. He no longer
But to bring an animal into exis- animals, hurts us.”
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an hour until the people, not the po- popular. Just to hear how unpopular
lice, decided to go home leaving the gay-bashing is, go buy an Andrew
police dumb-founded in the middle of Dice Clay or an Eddie Murphy tape,
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Police: the dictionary defines this ments because of their prejudicial and est prey of comedians. Face it, people standonourchairsandgrabthemicro-
as a civil force for maintaining order apathetic approach to the crime on are cruel. phone to get his attention if neces-
and enforcing law. Fry Street. The police could learn To assumepeople actually approve sary, and he was willing to do just
On the night of Nov. 9, the mem- something from Barney Fife (the of gay parents raising a child is com- about anything to make this happen,
bers of the NT and Denton police deputy on The Andy Griffith Show): pletely ridiculous. The thought makes Including stepping on some toes,
departmentswhorespondedtotrouble “When you see trouble coming ...you me ill, and I thank God my parents are He prepared the audience for the
on Fry Street showed no concept of gotta nip it in the bud.” heterosexual. A kid brought up in that mood of the show, conducting sev-
this definition. They strutted around environment is going to be confused, eral sound checks on how loud we
like pompous donkeys, but with less Robin H. Hoffman Qn the large scale, discrimination could yell. Already anxious to arouse
intelligence. Denton freshman is towards skin color or a person’s his audience, Phil began to prod us
The trouble started when a black appearance (obese, ugly, handi- for our opinions on the S&L crisis,
man stepped out of his car and was m », c:_C l capped), not towards sexual prefer- just to give us a taste of what was
assaultedbyanumberof white youths, —•n • SdY9 ence. You ve chosen a lifestyle, not a about to happen.
An officer from NT police saw the new skin color. So quit whining and The panelistsconfidently emerged
fight and stopped it. He lined the white I~S-luue- —-l-y enjoy the life you’ve chosen. Do more while Phil changed his clothes, and he
youths against the window of the positive things for your image: have a returned dapperly dressed in a dark
Flying Tomato restaurant and began I’d like to begin by applauding the bake sale, visit a nursing home, move suit and ready for an oral battle, shout-
to “chew the fat” with them. Minority Caucus for not allowing to Antarctica. ing, I bring you bad news from the
This began a shouting match be- Courage membership into your or- l know I’ll be called everything rest of the country. We re mad at you!
tween the blacks, whites and the po- ganization, Being gay is by no stretch from a bigot to a redneck to a homo- You re the worst S&L state in the na-
lice. More people began to gather, of the imagination the same as being phobe, but I know who will be doing tion!
more police arrived and small scuffles black, Hispanic, Oriental, etc. the name calling so it doesn t bother This IS true, but if you don t think
began to break out The NT officer Secondly I’d like to express my me. I believe gays have every right in sayingitovernational television would
informed the black man the police
couldn’t do anything, but he could go
downtown and file charges against his
“unknown” assailants, whom the
police wouldn’t give him any infor-
mation to file on.
The police began to show their wholeRepublicanparty,IknowIdon’t
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Give president power to declare war
Forty-five House Democrats have about something as controversial as
filed a lawsuit to block President war? In most cases, there would be no
Bush from taking offensive action in time to wait on a vote from Congress,
the Persian Gulf without a declaration The last time Congress declared
of war from Congress. war was 1941 following the Japanese
This suit should be dropped, and bombing of Pearl Harbor. Since that
Congress should forgo the power to time, U.S. troops have been called to
Secondly I’d like to express my me. - J. - J -
purpose for writing this letter. I (as the world to be gay, but I also have the rile a bunch of proud Texans, you’re
well as many other heterosexuals) can right to disapprove of it. I know this wrong. As soon as the cameras came
be so sickof hearing theNT homosex- letter will probably cause a large in- on, Phil’s audience unleashed its fury
ual community whine about every- flux of homosexual mail, but at least, — at the panelists, at him, at each
thing. Just as one member of the Young for once, a heterosexual view has made other, but mostly at anyone who would
Republicans doesn’t represent the it into print listen to their short outbursts.
John H. Venable Noteveryonegotachance to speak.
Garland senior or yell, but Phil did his best at keeping
the enthusiasm up. Eyeryone left with
friends again and children who watch But what exactly is the United
both of their parents go. States ’ purpose in the Persian Gulf? I
could understand if we had gone in
sentences they could make using only fact remains, a large portion of the
four-letter words. One officer bravely student body doesn’t give a flip about
blew his whistle... and a voice hailed your views and is pretty sick of hear-
out from the crowd, “Penalty!... Fif- ing gay this and gay that everyday,
teen yards.” The police continued to A Nov. 9 letter stated that "gay-
be the center of comedy for more than bashing” is not acceptable and un-
declare war and instead attempt to Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Libya, —
change the Constitution so it enables Grenada, and most recently, Panama, bddenaam
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Frankly, that language is outdated, shouldn’t he have thepowerto deploy
The United States, and the rest of the troops?
world, has changed dramatically since Congress should not lose all its
1789, the year in which those words power in this matter. Congress should
were written. With the aid of telecom- be allowed to vote to get out of the
munications, information can be trans- war. If citizens are against the war, if
mitted around the globe in a matter of it is costing too much money, if too
possible when Congress has to vote, The Constitution is a superb docu-
and the technology for sending news ment, and changes to it should not be
instantaneously is still there? Not just taken lightly. However, with time this
our allies, but our enemies as well, change has become necessary.
would know the outcome the moment The House Democrats should drop
it is decided. Only in a reactionary their suit, the Constitution should be
move to declare war would the out- amended to allow the president to
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declare war and give Congress the Like many other
students, I went
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time in months. White helping people would be a priority dam Hussein’s chemical weapons.
She came ud from over money. Ever since I’ve known • I feel like we are sticking our noses
Human rights activists, environ- tence, for the mere purpose of testing San Antonio, where her, that’s all she’s wanted to do. into someone else’s business. And it
mental activists and animal rights ac- aerosols, perfumes and other cosmet- she is stationed in the I thought of all the other soldiers would beOKif the United States was
tivists are urging America to do some- ics on, is worse. In doing this, people military. who had already been sent to the Per- perfect and problem-free.
thing we all should do: boycott prod- are playing the role of God. It was great to talk to her. She told sian Gulf. What about their dreams?
ucts that are tested on animals. Companies would never breed a me about classes, military men and The parents whose biggest dream is to . THIS COUNTRY HAS people
While these products mayoffera colony of people for the purpose of San Antonio weekends. She told me seetheirchildgrowup,theboyfriends starving and living in boxes, a deficit
nice-smelling deodorant and a clean, cosmetic testing. In this respect, the how excited she would be to go back who want to marry their girlfriends, inthetrillionsandahighrateofunem-
close shave, the company also refuses companies that do the animal testing to college next fall and finish up her and the sons who want to be with their ployment. Yet we can still afford to
to divest from South Africa, dumps are hypocritical. schooling. (She’s in the reserves to mothers as they grow old? spend lots of that needed money to
toxic pollutants into the environment Granted, animals that are eaten pay for her education.) What if the United States goes to send troops to Saudi Arabia to sit and
and blinds, tortures and kills thou- ultimately die — just like the test war with Iraq? Blood is shed, and wait for someone to declare war.
sands of animals each year, according animals, but test animals generally AND THEN, WHEN I asked her dreams are destroyed. The government should remember
to the Denton Alliance for Animal are not used for food. Animals that if we could get together Christmas, And all for what — who controls that this country is “of the people, by
Rights are bred for food are themselves fed she told me the bad news. barrels of oil? Or just to say that the the people and for the people.”
Companies that test their products well, and when they are slaughtered, “We’ve been told not to buy plane United States is still a major military The United States has dragged this
on animals and argue that those who it is a quick event, not one that comes tickets home, because it could be power in the world? whole escapade with Hussein out for
are against the testing are hypocritical after months of subjection to painful quite possible we can’t use them,” too long. It’s continually costing the
because they often eat the animals tests. she said. IT’S NOT THAT I don’t believe government money it doesn’t have,
later. This is a good point, but not good The Denton Alliance for Animal I knew what that meant. She could in fighting at all. I just believe in And it’s costing family and friends
enough. Rights is starting a petition to be be facing the sands of the Saudi Ara- fighting for a cause or with a purpose, of the soldiers more than that
Animals who are tested come from presented to NT requesting that the bian desert. The thought gave me a When the United States invaded Pan-
one of two places. They are either University Store in the University tight feeling in my stomach. ama, the main purpose of the mission Natalie White is commentary edi-
taken out of their natural environment Union stop carrying Gillette prod- I suddenly realized how sorry I was to get Manuel Noriega and stop tor forThe NT Daily.
or are brought into the world for the ucts, because they said the company
purpose of testing. Both situations are uses cruel methods to test products,
cruel. If you have a conscience, sign the
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