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By Rodney Rather
Staff Writer
Contrasting views on the
ite<i States’ bombing of Libya
_ n the terrorism issue were
measurabit| ei t d M(>nda y during anopen-
■ing forum at Rudder Foun-
tire processH e crt)W( ] fluctuated between
ss ' ,Ilajt and 60 people during the
to ;n|, which was sponsored by
oorterof ^femorial Student Center’s
e untold litlcal Forum committee,
rl. And it fhc Rev. Dr. Douglas Reisner,
Iways thert m was die only scheduled
tin Her at the event, introduced
>uld and :t0i>lc ’. p . llT .
r i I Adordmg to Reisner, 1 erro-
s / Hs not greatly different from
ms wastes see k s to gain political
disposal a i s |,y killing some people and
I Hdating the rest.”
i our He said a nation is at its best
oes anvot: le 1 ] acts on moral grounds,
eone to hei than out of expediency,
sites'" I H esl ‘ n ' an Qussama Qawasmi,
)tii ncv orI er student, said ter-
Hn is directed at the United
Nnum.iN ltes b ecause u.S. policies sup-
rnobyl are j-iihg Israel are responsible for
ling so Hrustration and deaths of
■ H people in the Middle East.
■ Hwasnii said, “When you find
opf who are very frustrated
yf Hon’t know what to do about
p Honnidahle force and very
Hg military machines of Is-
:1, and when it's all funded and
-riehteous H )rted hy the United States,
■ ;n these people are going to re-
, ptl one way or another.”
luttal to r
i has a righi |
my
Terrorism is the only outlet
some people have to force the
United States to change its poli
cies, he said.
Qawasmi later agreed that kill
ing Americans is wrong.
“It’s wrong to kill any human
being,” he said. “Nobody justifies
terrorism, but one has to realize
the underlying issues and why
these people are willing to strap
themselves to bombs and blow
themselves up. The problem is,
people have been pushed far
enough.”
Todd Hulsey, a junior political
science major and a sergeant in
the Marine reserves, said terror
ism is an ancient form of warfare,
and it is the right of all nations to
defend themselves against terror
istic acts.
Hulsey said, “When there can
be no consensus to act among the
allies, when diplomacy and eco
nomic sanctions have no effect,
when our only resource is force,
resort to it.”
The bombing of Libya, he said,
wasn’t designed to stop terrorism
or convince people not to commit
acts of terrorism against Ameri
cans.
“What it does is show the world
the United States is willing to use
that which it is capable of using
against those nations who sup
port acts of murder, aggression
and violence against Americans
abroad,” he said.
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rum held Monday at Rudder Fountain. About 40 to 60 people at
tended the forum, which was sponsored by MSC Political Forum.
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By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Staff Writer
The Memorial Student Center
Council made preliminary plans
Monday for administering the Jor
dan Institute endowment.
The council approved the cre
ation of an ad hoc committee whose
members are to be selected from sev
eral MSC committees by the MSC
executive committee. The ad hoc
committee will establish guidelines
for use of the $ 1 million endow
ment.
The suggestions made by the ad
hoc committee will be screened by
the MSC executive committee and
presented to the council at its June
28 meeting.
The recommendation originally
put before the council would have
placed the Jordan Institute under
the auspices of the International
Programs Committee, whose lead
ership is in doubt despite five at
tempts to nominate a chairman.
According to the original sugges
tion, the “IPC could accept propo
sals for funds from other MSC com
mittees presenting programs of
international scope” as well as use
the funds for its own purposes.
But several council members ex
pressed concern over past lead
ership problems in the committee
and said it could create a conflict of
interest since the IPC would both al
locate and use the funds.
But MSC Director Jim Reynolds
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leaders to the IPC and put the Jor
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“I don’t think it’s above an MSC
committee to both use and dispose
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The council also approved a num
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Issues and Political Forum for the
fall/including Sen. Phil Gramm, Lee
lacocca and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Political Forum also announced
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Ethics” would be the topic for the
E.L. Miller Lecture Series.
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