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WAR:Higher Education in America

   A good sample of higher education in America is Michigan State
University in Lansing, Michigan. "Twenty-five were injured as the mob
set fire to cars, bicycles, and trees. Ten persons were injured and
four arrested in Kalamazoo, seventy-five police officers used tear gas
to disperse a crowd of three thousand students."

   This took place Saturday, the week of October 16, 1989, and was
reported by the Detroit News. "Three thousand revelers gathered
together and started a fire that consumed bicycles, couches and trees."
The meeting was simply a typical student body affair, an all- night
drunk. We read "at least two thirds of America's twelve million college
students are under 21 years old, yet nearly 95% have tried alcohol and
42% are heavy drinkers....'lf you survey all college presidents, I
think you will find that they will identify the abuse of alcohol as
their number one problem on campus,' said Ed Hammon, President of Ford
Hays University in Hays, Kansas.... MSU's forty-two thousand students
made Playboy magazine's 1987 honorable mention list of the top booze
bash colleges in the country....Early Sunday, city work crews used a
bulldozer to clear the debris from some streets, power lines ripped
down when brawling students toppled, cast iron street poles also had to
be repaired. 523 fights and assaults have been reported this year, many
alcohol related, police say."

   These NEA intellectuals connected with the New Age Movement, Gay
Lib, and Women's Lib are the same bunch that have a heart attack every
time a street preacher shows up on the campus. This is the bunch that
goes into a spasm about a Bible showing up in the classroom or a
preacher standing on a stump and telling them they are going to hell if
they don't repent. This is the bunch. Let us examine their cultural
image and their intellectual attainments. "Students drank in smaller
groups bahind closed doors. At Wonders Hall a handful of young men
slipped a keg of beer up to the fifth floor, past a bumper sticker on a
bulletin board reading "A lot of teenagers are dying for a drink." The
keg was dry before midnight. Two kegs also flowed in the women's dorm
of Case Hall. On Virginia Street near the campus George Krutemen, 22, a
senior criminal justice major, estimated that he had poured about three
hundred shots of tequila Friday night at an off campus party. On Grand
River Ave., members of Sigma Ki Fraternity, perched from their porch
roof, feet dangling, watched the parade of passerbys as a group of
young women walked by chanting 'tastes great, less filling,' mimicking
the Miller Lite Beer commerical.

   "The MSU pep band, dressed in green letter jackets, moved from bar
to bar on Grand River Ave., trumpeting the school fight song. `People
were swinging from the trees, this one guy was swinging side to side
and he almost pulled the tree down on top of him. They were all just
partying and tearing balconies down. They got couches and were throwing
them into the fire, whatever was close.'"

   Sounds perfectly normal to me. My creed is "Back to the Bible or
back to the jungle." What can be more appropriate for an American
university than a bunch of sex maniacs on crack and pot dancing around
a fire, half-dressed, burning furniture? I can't think of anything more
appropriate. If you are dumb enough to pay tuition for that kind of a
kid, you deserve just the kind of kid you have.