The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION Saturday May 2 , 1999 A Voters Must Make nee HUMIC)SeInELE Kiss of Death for Politician: _BY DONALD KAUL TRIBUNE MEDIA representati SERVIC ES pect Well, well, well, it looks like welive jemocracy after all . kn people y The Republican majorityinthe United States Senate, a week after rejecting a posal to require background checks on ©f e its is made up of nice tochurchonSunday,many Whomeat witha knife and fork, but they nut; n the subject guns. You can with them about it. They tools of a rapacious gun industry toes not go to church) and they don't s will still be able to protect themse the NRA hot talk sense buyers at gun shows and hearing fromits are e mstituents about it last week, reversed that was moreofa fig leaf for those who want to be loyal to their NRA masters without ticking off the homefolks too much. A great numberofgun-controlad. vocates in the Senate, Democrats mainly didn't vote forit on grounds that it was < the means to kill animals and t Congre I even knowit to ir we their homes. All it will me will be able to begin to fi requirementsof public safety, while guardingindividual rights. Such is possible, but not so lon ice of the NRA drowns out all others The Senate was busy on other f this week, being senatorial. For ¢ fight the influence of to vote st NRA funding muse th: it. You're either serious about gun ontrol or you're not Diehard Republicans who favor gun oir re Seedabout any it passed a bill that set aside $7 billi projects to pay off constituents of pov and $283,000 0really Democrats, But hey. iffatescca disturbed about then ? nd don’t think that didn't takealot of and there will be NRA-Hell to ve : Y now, this isn't making it. You Mow the NRA to elect your :‘ol ege ( 0 ege 1 teapainst.a Republicanor two. It’s for Barbie maehedset of Uzis are going to i eae eeaeen also included hundreds ofmillions (or th tiety. you cy tobedoneistomakeanNRA endorsement a liability to a politician, whatever his party. Ifwe do that. we shall render it powerless And guns will not disappear from our society and hunters wil not be without eye . . years ago,underthesponsorship WILLIAM F.BUCKLEY small foundation, National Review ndetere in ambitious four-year project he views ofcollege students on presen ative political and philosophical questions affected by their four years in school The results (published in the current e has of thedirectionof college educa which tends to attract students to il and political modernism. “But then or penalty), is opposed by environmental ists, but not by Gorton. whe is up for reelection next veat The mine, which would leave mountains of waste rock and cyanide-treated ore on federal land (and for which the mining company would pay no royalties the refusal to allow the mining. system of fina And, in the ways of the Senate, I sup. rupting that it pose it is. To do something that keeps your ference if they sponsors from making millions, merely to We to ste state of Washington. ts where possible. Twelve col e examined: Liberty, The Citadel Jarquette, University of California at Ir- Indiana, UCLA, Wisconsin. DartMichigan, Stanford. Yale and 1. As one might have expected, Libty and The Citadel imparted tradition. sitions on Godand man. ing from west to east, onepauses at Cl Indiana and Brown, to ask. Vhich of the following designations N il consideration to designated minorities?” UCLA freshmen: yes, 31 per cent. In senior vear.39. Indiana freshmen: yes, percent. In senior year, 17. Brown Do you believe in immortality. if this 24 to GOP. freshmen: 44 percer nt reent Democrat. In senior yea _ 30 1031. Brownfreshme reent D Democrat. In Would you prohibit the d sath penal. CE A freshmen 5. Indiana f h 1g t fe tion This timeto take Rielle It’s always exciting to discover you enjoy a constitutional right you never yen knew vouhad pe.vsri seis could be used to me Soe ue GET nowa little more citizens not just of the United States but of every state in it. The taxicab licenses ina cesi Tes alsolaice’tolicnow: thatlwalarc yes. 71 percent. nians who recently moved from other policies of c freshme n: yes, 72 percent. In states. tuition for senior year E | the welfare-bashing in- s the law was saving 72 lated le fi hitting out-of-state sti about i ional wor It could lead to years of e affirmation new w denied iy states to citizens of st nearly describes your ownpolitical ment?” UCLAfreshmen: 28 per alarms Justice Clarence warned, in a dissen assistance fair conspectus of the issues ne ont at home, a It seems that by this act of meanness. riking in the sks also at 3 ; cents. y UCLA freshmen: 41 percent. In senior Californ. by its own estima year, 16. Indiana freshmen: 36 percent. In? nly apitifs 1! $10.9: million out of a wel senior year. 14. Brown freshmen: 20 perbUdget of $2.9 billion in trying ent. In senior year, 13. constitutionally impermissible restric How often. outsideof religious ser. 00. Justice John Paul Stevens, in his elvices, do you pray to God? (Daily oquent affirmative opinion, pointed out nountedto reducingthe wel UCLA\freshmen: 35 percent. In senior lifornia recipient Indiana freshmen: 63 percent. In ea few pennies and 32. Brownfreshmen: 21 per as gettin tough onthe mi 16. rant poor, California has now openedup nalies there and others, no, sev ral barrels of consti can 1 ¢ vi have the effe freshmen: The main reason it was moronic ai eee ear paiste 68 ‘0 44. Indianafreshmen: 38 conservative, 29 percent liberal 29 to 39. Brownfreshmen: reent conservative ie us free of obnoxious law U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a nservative, 39 percent liberal. In 0 aitendy plone NEWSDAY moronic law enacted by California that reduced the welfare payments of Califor Brown freshmen: yes, ¢ cor dif “ C is taken to mean the continued existence In senior year, Bator ee of the individual soul as a surviving en. tity after the end ¢ of nic life?” UCLA 1a eteoni these clowns. TI U s or Ss BY ROBERT RENO services? (Once a week or more often liberal. In se ioryear, 9 to 66. With hich political ; rty are ye ou »affilia i, either in spirit actual n bership?” UCLA freshmen: perce GOP. Democrat. In seniorye: NewRi R e =acGhud oallesetaninisenn OMies eive prefere protect natural This is just immoral.” he has said of 35. Brown fresh percent, In senior year, no How often do you attend religious Students were polled when they ar1's four yearslater, the identical stu 30 percent. In senior year, men: a percent. In vould remark ed as freshmenin 1995, and polled as agreed. In senior percent. senior year, V's what colleges are supposed to do!” th. permit for a gold mine in Gorton’s home 09. They sustain the intuitive sense e. ‘ : overturnthe administration's denial of a freshmen: yes, 48 percent. In senior year sue) are instructive, not to say electri SEO Ss 7 ee cessful effort to add language that would eshmen: . fo Social and Political Modernism . ul farm, steel, oil andgas industries DeAieetiege : to thebill was Sen. Slac Education Attracts Tracts Students Students:7&"a:sie.se""2""" a ee a ucation rkplace shooting, an hurricanes, but only lardingit with another$7 billion worth of HuUeas ele0) hadproposed jembraced one ENgun-control measure by President Clinton. It votedto banthesale political courage. If tha l a into law,the sales of the Ken PRESS 3 aid war refugees in Kosovo and provide victims of last ye: ¢ i vnirol will have a tough choice. because ful senators. 0st NRA campaign money goes to Re- My favorite, I think, was Sen. ‘Ted ! candidates. In 1998, the organi- Stevens of Alaska getting i:$3 mill if semiautomatic weaponsto children. sc) rscag PRESS 1 ae gE re c about a pase shooting, y charade. But Thursday, the Senate Fife ne vulsnaV anita: issvenmingre ‘You have reached The policy that meets some of the minimum Tho: lar n of their neonveniences this could cause, not 19 mention the ex tensive litigation it is likely to provoke. could give the state legislatures fits as they try to figure out just how muchthey can get away with ) discriminating against arrivals fr m other states Great SupremeCourt decisionsare al ways great nuisances. 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