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From: gt@umich.UUCP (Gus Teschke)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: E.g. Student Gov't Project.
Message-ID: <473@umich.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 18:38:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 18:38:35 1986
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In <705@ihlpm.UUCP> From: leb78@ihlpm.UUCP (Bosnak) (actually Laurie Donahue)
writes:

>I agree 100 percent with Lori's posting.  What ever happened
>to freedom of choice!  

Freedom of choice has never been absolute.  You don't have the choice to
murder people, to take an extreme example.

>I believe a person going to college is capable of making a decision
>about where they want to work after college.  

I hope so.

>Does the MSA believe everyone at U of M feels the same way about the CIA?

No, that's why it's a referendum.  But I can't imagine people voting FOR
terrorism.

>I have
>been reading the net for quite a long time and this is the first
>time I felt it was necessary to put in my two cents.  Lets allow
>the decision of employement be made by the individual students;
>not dictated by the MSA.  
>                        Laurie Donahue
>                        Another Michigan Alumni

You miss the point.  Future CIA employees are not doomed to work at
McDonald's for the rest of their lives even if the referendum passes
and the administration heeds it.  The idea is that if you know
something immoral and illegal is happening, like terrorism, you don't
ignore it or support it, either directly or indirectly.  You fight it.
One small way to do this is to deny any group that supports terrorism,
like the CIA, access to UofM recruiting facilities.  It is a public
statement against terrorism, and ANY group that engages in it, EVEN if
you happen to want to work for them.  They can still recruit UofM
students off campus.  They could even buy UofM!

Isn't this a logical outcome of the moral and intellectual development
a university is supposed to foster?  (Is that a loaded question or what?)

				Gus Teschke
				Yet Another Michigan Alum
				ihnp4!umich!gt