European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 columns the stars and stripes wednesday july 2.1986 today s crossword student protesters usually right by Andy Rodney this year College students arc protesting the fact thai their College administrators have invested some of their Money in companies thai do business with South  students Are always protesting something and the rest ofus Don t pay much attention to Ihm. Most of us arc Busy with our personal things like making a living or keeping our family in one piece so we leave the world problems to government officials in Washington and the College students. Sometime though an important Issue is brought to our attention so forcefully that we can t avoid thinking about it Solh Africa is a Good example. I Hope South Afri can student protesters both Black and White who were beaten last week with clubs and Metal tipped whips know How much the beating hey look did for their cause. Millions of americans who Are normally disinterested watched and if they had been disinterested before they no longer were after watching the storm troop behaviour of he South african police. For several months now reporters have been barred from covering police activity in putting Down the rebel Lions in the Black townships in South Africa. We Haven t heard anything bul the statistics on How Many protesters police killed because the government won t allow report ers 10 go and Waich. Reporters and television cameras were there during this recent horror Story because the action took place in the Central part of Johannesburg it made the rest of us More aware of Why our College Stu dents Are protesting the situation in South Africa just As the nuclear disaster in chernobyl made us sensitive Lothe cause of the nuclear premiers. The students protests at some of our Best colleges put College businessmen in a difficult position. A lot of them Don t like South african government policies any Betler than the protesting students do bul they re More practical about it. They invest the Money to produce the mos tit can for their College without regard for How Hose companies conduct their business. Some College administrators have no sympathy for demonstrating students because those students often accept scholarship Aid from the same College endowment funds whose investment policies hey Are protesting. Milton Friedman the economist who makes Ronald Reagan look like a Pinko Liberal says that College Stu dents who demand that their College sell stocks in companies that do business with South Africa should firs make some sacrifices themselves few temptations Are so irresistible the Brilliant Friedman says As doing Good a someone else s sex pens he says that the students should first gel rid of any personal possessions they have that were made by companies that do business in South Africa. He Points out that this would mean no More radios electric clocks hair Iryck Etc. From general electric. No More cars from general motors or Ford or for that matter Honda or Nissan it s a Catchy idea. I imagine a lot of protesting Stu dents would be less ready to give up their record play ers made by a company that deals with South Africa than they Are to have their College give up their Klocksin those companies. Still Friedman in writing it and 1, in finding it Catchy Are wrong. There is something wonderfully pure and naive about Campus protests. The one thing hey have in common is that they re always on solid moral ground. The students Are usually right. Forget that what the demand May not be practical. Americans Are moral people. Our foreign policy should conform to our moral standards. When presi Dent Reagan makes a decision on a weapons treaty he should be thinking not of outsmarting the soviet Union bul of what s right like protesting students do. Doing what s right is where America s strength lies. Al Tatum Obdu Sirum inc. A Bird a plane no a columnist by Ellen Goodman i did t really mind when Jeane Kirkpatrick became a columnist. What the Heck ii could have been worse she Mikhol have become a lobbyist. I was equally philosophical when Lee Iacocca started being syndicated. After All he d already been incorporated. He was a garage hold name. When they started marketing the Pope As a columnist it did make me a touch uneasy. How would you like 10 compete with someone who s infallible bul you know How these things go. I adjusted. This however is too much. I have just heard that 48 year old Clark Kent is getting his own newspaper column. Let me Trace this journalistic scandal to its beginnings. The Guy known throughout Metropolis As super Man is being updated by do comics. The sole survivor of a destroyed planet the veritable Man of steel the Guy faster than a speeding Bullet has been suf Fering from sluggish sales. They have decided to enlarge Superman s popularity by reducing his superpowers. He s not going to Beable to Fly to Mars and Back before breakfast says a Mere mortal from do comics. If he s holding Back a Boeing 747, he s going to notice  they Are betting that a Small Grunt a bit of sweat a Speed slower than that of Light will Bridge the credibility Gap that has grown Between Superman of j9j8 and the science savvy kids of 1986. Well it s bad enough that Superman is getting renovated it s far far More serious that Clark Kent the mild mannered reporter for the daily panel ii Gellin reassigned. No longer the wimp s wimp Clark Kent will emerge now As  More open about his feelings a Guy who Wales novels on the Side and keeps a fitness machine in his Bachelor pad. And during the Day he is going to be a feature writer or a  you know whal that Means another columnist is joining the ranks a Cross Between Bill Buckley and Maria Shaver s husband. Frankly 1 think Lois Lane should file a suit for being passed Over. She a covering news All these year while he was making it. In fact. Kent made a Lousy reporter. He got Overly involved in the Story. He dropped his objectivity every time he dropped his Civ vies. He was forever taking sides. But that does t mean he should moved into opinion writing. It just in t fair to the rest ofus in the business. Clark Kent already has an alter ego he does t need a column. The whole conceit of Superman is that brawn is stronger than brain that a superhero May be weak with words but powerful on the Wing or at least the Cape. Superman is supposed to be a creature faction not analysis. The old Clark needed the newspaper to get to Theattle scene not to fight the Battle. The defender of truth Justice and the american Way never once wrapped himself m the first amendment when he could strip Down to his big s. The rest of the columnists take my word for it Are not that Lucky. We need the work More than he docs the won processor is our Telephone Booth we enter it mild mannered and emerge with soaring Power it s a Bird it s a plane ii s a cause carrying columnist n0. Down a t measure up. We know that Lark Kent s alter ego can Slop injustice while the rest of us can Only deplore it. He can pursue in american Way while we can Only Point to it. He Miv suffer from conflict of interest but we suffer from a inferiority Complex. 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