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Volume I, Issue I

THE CENTURION The Journal of Conservative Thought at Rutgers University November 1st, 2004

Liberal Edition
“All the News New Brunwick: Today, scattered bias,
That’s Fit to Slant” A1. Tomorrow, hailing Kerry A15.
Yesterday, spotty journalism A1-A15

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STUDENTS LAUNCH CONSERVATIVE New Study ECONOMY DOING


PUBLICATION AT RUTGERS Reveals Truth TERRIBLE, SO
Intolerant Diversity-Haters Promote Fanatical Agenda about Bush MUCH INJUSTICE
choice movement. The Centurion shame-
By ARTHUR OCHS
lessly attempts to denounce popular student
informative literature explaining vegan
viewpoints. They are attempting to infil-
Study Shows Mr. CAPITALISM IS PROBLEM
SULZBERGER JR. involvement, such as the NJPIRG referen-
dum. They ignore the potential benefits of
trate hate speech into the University, and
must be stopped before the progressive
Bush Unfit for
this non-partisan environmentalist group,
NEW BRUNSWICK, November 1st
and insist that the referendum is a public
environment is compromised.
Presidency
— Intolerant and mean spirited students at
Rutgers University have recently had the
interest fraud. These fanatical students also Communism and
criticize Vegan Outreach for passing out Continued throughout Paper
audacity to exercise their first amendment
rights by publishing a journal of conserva-
Socialism Seem Like
By MAUREEN DOWN
tive thought today, inaptly named the
Rutgers Centurion. WASHINGTON, August 1 — A new Sensible Alternatives
The Centurion advances various ex- partisan study conducted exclusively by
tremist causes including the belief that mass Dan Rather of CBS and the paper of record,
genocide by dictators is wrong and that The NewYork Times, has shown that
capitalism creates wealth and opportunity. “President” Bush lacks the charisma and
They hold an unspeakable endorsement of charm of respected massachusetts Sena-
the status quo, and deny that capitalism cre- tor John F. Kerry. By BOB HERBERT
ates social injustice and staggering percent- First, the study has shown that Mr.
ages of poverty. These students assert other Bush’s has a physchological disconnect WASHINGTON, August 1 — All the
right wing theories, such as individuals with the average voter. The whole coun- news the voters are seeing is bad. In fact,
should be held accountable for their ac- try knows the war has become an ongoing all the bad news is piling up like mounds of
tions instead of the government. They hold disaster with innocent sovergn Iraqis being trash in a garbage strike, and
controversial positions in today’s hot top- killed for no reason. Iraq was a land filled that’s never good for an in-
News
ics, such as blaming the terrorists for 9-11 with liberty and opportunity before the cumbent.
Analysis
and not America, and that abortion is im- United States intervened, but now it is in The stock market has
moral. They advocate the use of insensi- shambles. But Mr. Bush has held the insidi- tanked, the cost of oil has gone
tive language and political incorrectness ous view that this war is “freedom on the up 75 percent, the price of homes is esca-
while affirming their support of the anti- march.” Rummy and Dicky also endorse lating and many Americans don’t have
Fire at Brower Commons last wednesday most likely caused by conservative extremists. such nonsense, without justification. health care. News in Iraq is horrible. It is
Next, the study has shown that W’s quickly becoming another Vietnam. The
origin; namely the racist and fascist state United States has gone there for their own
of texas, has been a source for his unilat- self-interest while countries like France
FIVE PALESTINIANS “Partial-Birth- eral diplomacy and his lies about the offi-
cial reason for going to war in Iraq. The
have no interest in oil, only in the peace
and well being of the world.
Abortion” Ruling State of Texas as well as the midwest has But what’s even worse is the gap be-
MURDERED BY Kills Women
historically been a land filled with
intolerane and racism. Every voter should
tween the rich and the poor. The richest
one percent are only giving away 500,000
be skeptical about any individual that was dollars a year to the government to subsi-
MILITANT ISRAELI By DAVID OKRENT
not brought up in complete poverty, because
those individuals success are completely
dize programs that don’t effect them. Busi-
nesses are not paying enought taxes to those
due to inheritance and luck. who have no stake in the company. The
Third, Mini-Me holds religious views, proletariat is beoming massive and we are
By ALFREDO GARCIA NEW YORK, November 1 — Con- which are completely unacceptable. Es- looking at a revolution beginning to take
gress is again debating a bill banning par- pecially in circumstances where human place in the disunited states.
tial-birth abortions. This sweeping legisla- This smokestack is completely irrelevant beings have god-given rights. There is no The only reasonable thing to do is to
JERUSALEM, November 1 — Five tion would deny women their right to ter- from every news story, but maybe its proof that Human beings have rights, al- ensure true freedom and liberty is to force
Palestinian youths were brutally murdered minate their pregnancies within one to three image will make you hate Bush. So we though there has been mounting evidence equality upon individuals by an tax system
by several Israeli soldiers while helping months before birth. published it. that animals such as squirrels, mice and that takes away money from those who
little old ladies cross a busy street in down- A fundamentalist Christian doctor guinea pigs may certain rights. have worked hard up the social ladder and
town Jerusalem. The Palestinian youths, from a prominent anti-choice foundation Condoleza Rice and Colin Powell are give it to those who have not worked at all.
reportedly on their way back from a char- claimed before Congress that brain waves, Conservatives traitors, due to their being african-american This will ensure justice. Second, the
ity bake sale to raise awareness about a heart beat, and complete organ systems and conservative at the same time. To wealthy should become liable for all acci-
women’s rights, were killed for no appar- were clear indications that the fetus is its Against Equal Rights support limited taxes and responsibility your dents, regardless of who’s responsible for
ent reason by Israeli soldiers occupying own human being, and that anesthesia given skin must be white and you must be from any accidents, because many times it is
their land. to the mother during the procedure is no-
This recent violence in the
By JASON BLAIRE
where near the level needed to induce a
area is a part of Israel’s recent insurgency Continued on Editorial Page Continued on Editorial Page
painless death in the fetus. He further ar-
into Palestinian lands, in what Prime Min- WASHINGTON, November 1 — The
gued that if a fetus is a human being, it is
ister Ariel Sharon described as, “A neces- GLBT community has shown nearly
sary part of our plan to oppress Palestin-
entitled to rights under the Constitution.
The passage of this ban would open
unanimous support for Senator John F. INSIDE
ians for absolutely no reason at all and Kerry in recent polling. The DNC claims
the way for increased deaths of women
continue this so called, ‘cycle of violence.’” this is attributed to Kerry’s outstanding
Palestinian witnesses were shocked
seeking to curb the loss of their control over
their bodies by visiting unregulated and
record on supporting GLBT rights. Fidel Castro Injured
by the Israeli soldiers’ brutality toward in- Allthough Kerry does not support giving Fidel Castro was injured last week but
unsafe back-alley abortion clinics for late-
nocent Palestinians. “They were such good same sex relationship marriage rights, he is steadily recovering. Millions of content
term procedures.
kids. They liked to spend time with the supports legal “civil unions,” and is always citizens with nationalized health care breath
Several hundred women protested
homeless and bake quiches for local char- eager to mention his support for the GLBT sigh of relief for their beloved communist.
outside the Capitol during the deliberations.
ity drives,” says Abdul Al-Zwahari, a lo- community. He has contributed an Open
Some of the protestors displayed coat PAGE A10
cal Palestinian merchant. “The Israeli Forum opinion article to Planetout.com, an
hangers, to indicate the risky measures into
online gay and lesbian community, and
soldiers just opened fire with no provoca- which legislators will force women need-
publically announced his support for Vice
Red Sox Win
tion.” ing to terminate their pregnancies. Others
The Israeli army alleges that the five President Dick Cheney’s daughter, Mary Underdog Red Sox defeat evil New
decried the current administration with
Palestinians were actually armed terror- Cheney, during the third presidential de- York Yankee Empire and win the world Humanitarians Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro at the Ball Game
chants referring to Mr. Bush as “repres-
ists who hid behind an old woman and bate. The GLBT community can be en- series! Analagous to politics, we hope the
sive” and “fascist.” News Summary A2
opened fire on the soldiers, but Palestin- sured that Kerry is the obvious pro-homo- Red Sox will serve as a lesson to the ruling
ians vehemently decry that charge as sexuality candidate, that does not use the class that how much money you have The sad thing...........................................C1-7
“completely ridiculous” and “out of char- Continued on Page A13 community as a political tool. Instead, he doesn’t matter. The underdog will end up Is that..................................................A24-25
acter for our human rights based civiliza- sincerely cares about the community’s triumphant. Many of.................................................F1-14
PAGE D1 The sentences.........................................A3-14
tion.” needs. President George Bush’s record on
On this page............................................B1-6
homosexuality starkly constrasts with the
WHY TAXES HAVE TO GO UP
The United States carries the biggest Senator’s. Like Kerry, he openly opposes
Film Contest Are not made up...................................A16-23
But are rather............................................D1-8
deficit and debt loads among the world’s most Micheal Moore’s new film Directly taken.........................................E1-28
For info on 26 Israeli children Killed advanced countries. We are losing trust with incendiary! Mel Gibson’s new film: From “The Paper of Record”..................E29-40

please turn to A26 other countries and eveything is eventually Continued on Page A20 religious garbage.
PAGE E20 Isn’t...............................................................................................................That sad?
going to go to hell.

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Inaugaral Issue: What is Conservativism?

INAUGURAL CONTENTS

WHO ARE WE
3. The Truth Will Set You Free
4. LGBT & Conservative. A Contradition?
5. Government, Responsibility, Morality
6. Against the Grain
6. This is Conservatism
THE COMMENTARY
CENTURION 7. National Topics
8. Veal Parmesan
FOUNDED MMIV 9. Chomsky, Nader, Moore, OH MY!
10. NJPIRG's Public Relations Fraud.
11. Selective Diversity
Editor-in-Chief 12. Women Should be Conservative Coercion, Fraud and Corrpution
James O'Keefe 12. Appease the Terrorists at the NJPIRG voting booth

EIC@rucenturion.com
ACADEMIA
Art Director
Justine Mertz 13. Rutgers, Here's Your Speech Code
Artdirector@rucenturion.com 14. Feature: Behind Closed Doors
15. THE CENTURION AWARD
Managing Editor
Joseph Nedick
Managing@rucenturion.com LIBERAL BIAS Dr. Gillett of the History Department wins
our award for most decorated door.

Business Editor
16. Liberal Logic
Matthew Klimek 17. We're Not Pro-Life, We're Anti-Choice
Business@rucenturion.com 18. A Message from Our Faculty Advisor
19. What Your Professors Don't Want You to Read
Faculty Advisor 20. I Have a Dream
James Livingston
Our Socialist Faculty Advisor,
Dr. Livingston, I presume?
Honorary Contributor
Gary Cocco THE CENTURION is the Journal of Conservative Thought at Rutgers University.
Our motto is “Veritas vos Liberabit,” which means “The truth will set you free.”
Contributers T HE C ENTURION was founded in 2004 to serve as a non-partisan politically
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If conservatives could take it in the 60's, they can take it now.

FROM THE EDITORS

The truth shall set you free

G
eneral George Patton once said “When certain ideological perspective. Let Rutgers be a place as
everyone is thinking the same, no one is thinking at President McCormick envisioned in his Inaugural Address
all.” Throughout my life, in all my pursuits of obtaining “where there is tolerance for the student who challenges the
knowledge, the one thing that has stimulated me most has professor’s ideas.” If our arguments are so flawed, so unsound
been a good challenge. Everyone is in agreement that the and so problematic, then let us expose them for everyone to
only way to learn is through constant stimulation. criticize. Then we will rest our case.
Conservatives and traditionalists are in this respect very There is nothing academic about an ideological majority.
fortunate in college. They are challenged. They learn material There is nothing liberal about a monopoly of thought, nothing
through postmodernism, historical revisionism and the plight enlightening about blatant partisan endorsement, and nothing
of the disenfranchised. The are forced to disect morality and equitable about discriminating against conservative students
examine the ethical obligations of the West. They are lectured and professors because their beliefs are different than your
about the injustices and struggles of those who have been own. Rutgers is a diverse research university with a goal not
victim of systems favorable to those in power. They are only to represent the citizens of New Jersey, but views and
drowned in relativism, concepts of distributive justice and theories from all over the country and the world. More
redistribution of wealth. They are taught that there is no such importantly, it is an academic institution that pursues something
thing as truth and you are not allowed to make judgments even deeper, beyond knowledge or ideology, beyond the
upon anyone or anything, except America. They are taught to rhetoric of a debate.
be sensitive and defensive, emphasizing artifice and political “Sol Iustate et occidentem Illustra.” “Sun of righteousness
correctness over fact. For Rutgers students who have not shine upon the west also." For the past 200 years and to this
taken any classes in the liberal arts, look no day Rutgers lives by that motto. Give us virtue,
further than your mandatory Expository give us justice, give us truth. So read about
Writing course. You read about the evils of "Sun of Righteousness Shine our truth to challenge yourself politically in the
capitalism and the gluttony of America. You process. Find out that although we go about it
read about the corruption of the elections upon the West also" differently, we are in pursuit of the same things
processes which elect diplomatic morons. you are. Disguising truth has helped every
You learned about the consequences of globalization, the need blood-thirsty tyrant and dictator keep the shackles on humanity
for cultural contexts and the corruption of an all men’s throughout history. Let us rock the foundations of academia
institution discriminating against women. Liberals are very and challenge the thrones that have for too long indoctrinated
unfortunate in college. They aren’t really challenged at all. us about our world and the context in which we live. As the
Have advocates for progress with an alleged pursuit of Journal of Conservative thought at Rutgers university T HE
tolerance ever attempted to understand or listen to their CENTURION will try its hardes to serve to that end. Turn the
conservative counterparts, the same way they tell their America page. You may read things you agree with and you may read
to listen to their political enemies? Have they been forced to things that you disagree with. But at least you’ll come closer
read the Nobel Peace Prize winning works of free enterprise by to realizing your own truth, and in the words of Jesus Christ,
Milton Friedman (A Rutgers graduate) or Friedrich Hayek the “The truth shall set you free.”
same way I have been forced to read the communist works of
Karl Marx? Have they studied Ayn Rand’s objectivism,
Edmund Burke’s belief in “sound practice” or William F.
Buckley’s “Up from Liberalism?” Do they see they are living
in the most fruitful and prosperous country in the world,
admiring egalitarian systems that in 20th century have lead to Cordially,
more barbaric cruelty, famine and death than any privileged
American intellect could ever fathom? Have those in academia
been challenged morally? Have they studied the principles
that this country was founded upon? Have they studied
principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and equality, and truly James O’Keefe
compared them to the principles of other societies?
Why, in a country that is at least half conservative, do we
Founder, Editor-in-Chief
not have this ratio represented in higher learning? Some will THE CENTURION
say conservatives shouldn’t have a right to express Veritas Vos Liberabit
themselves. Some say principles of limited government,
personal responsibility or of an objective standard are flat out
wrong. In the words of Michael Moore, “let’s have that debate.”
But let’s not have it through the filter of a professor who has
endorsed a certain candidate or who always comes from a

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Inaugaral Issue: What is Conservativism?

FROM THE EDITORS

WHAT IS CONSERVATISM?
LGBT & Conservative
A Contradiction?

I
'm constantly asked how it is that I am a member of the GLBT
(Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) community, and a
conservative. That question indicates ignorance of what
exactly conservatism is. To me, conservatism is a responsible
way of life: I don’t want the government to be too involved in my
life, because I don’t expect them to bail me out. I live my life
making the correct choices, and I don’t care how people choose
to live their lives as long as it doesn’t hurt myself or others. I love
my country, and all the benefits I get from living in a powerful
democracy. I understand, however, that these benefits are not
handed to me- I need to work hard, make responsible choices, and
not break the law. These values I live by are part of the
fundamental conservative philosophy. What does this have to
do with my sexuality?
Sexual preference is a personal aspect of our lives that should
be given minimal attention by the government. I do not approve
of extremism practiced in politics. It causes an unnecessary
government intrusion on our personal lives. I don’t agree with
amending the constitution to dictate civil rights. I also don’t
believe activist government officials should issue illegal, invalid
marriage certificates to make a political point. Extremism ties up
the system and is ineffective. I believe all partners, gay or straight,
should be given the same legal rights so the government can butt Justine is responsibe for the photography
out and everyone can enjoy equality. and the cartoons seen in T HE CENTURION.
It is unfortunate that many on the far right continue to fight
against GLBT rights. I refuse, however, to deny my value system
and vote for a liberal because I disagree with the Right on this one
issue. Instead, I support GLBT inclusion within the Right. I
encourage people who are pro-gay rights to evaluate their values.
They should avoid supporting liberals only because they tend to
be more supportive of gay marriage than conservatives, and vote
for the side they have the most in common with. The GLBT
community will earn more civil rights as the demand for our rights
grows. This means there needs to be demand from all sides-not
just the left.
I hope to have the same civil rights as heterosexuals. But no
matter what, I’ll keep my conservative values.

Sincerely,

THE CENTURION

Justine Mertz
Co-Founder, Art Director
I'm defined by my values.
THE CENTURION
Veritas vos Liberabit
Not my sexuality.
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“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation.” — Ronald Reagan

FROM THE EDITORS

WHAT IS CONSERVATISM?
and foolish. We live in the greatest country on the earth, with
Limited Government, the freedom to make our own choices, to create our own
destiny. God endowed men and women with free will, and the
Responsibility, Morality ability to discern right from wrong. People must take
accountability for their actions, and accept the consequences

T
he word “conservative” seems to often trigger alarm and of those actions. Unfortunately, our society appears to be
anxiety on our beloved campus, a condition caused by drifting towards irresponsibility, as a culture of blame,
the extreme liberal bias that pervades the Rutgers capriciousness, and disrespect for human life is advanced by
administration, faculty, and student study. Perhaps the most a campaign of intimidation and fear by groups like NARL, the
disconcerting thing about the liberal bias that exists in academia ACLU, and others. Since 1973, there have been over 40 million
is that those who have an ideology that differs from the abortions performed in the United States. Only a small fraction
prevailing one are often marginalized or harassed. Conservative of those abortions were a result of rape, incest, fetal
students are often demonized or ridiculed by their abnormalities, or potential risk to the health of the
professors, who consequently offer little mother. What is plainly clear is that the murder of
perspective or balance while proclaiming their pro- innocent and defenseless human life has occurred
Marxist, liberal dogma. Being conservative is often on a grand-scale because of blatant irresponsibility
associated with being “racist”, “ignorant”, or and a failure of so many to accept the consequences
“mean spirited”. Yet, such classifications are only of their conscious actions. To those who speak of
themselves ignorant. Rutgers University is an “abortion rights” – what right do we as human
institution that regularly prides itself on its beings have to decide who should live or die? What
diversity, but what is consistently lacking of the rights of that unborn child? It is a sad day
throughout the University is an intellectual when a million people will march to defend the
diversity – or a diversity of opinion. A university senseless killing of unborn children, yet we toss
should be a place where students open themselves away human life at the rate of 4,000 per day with
to different ideas; instead, it is often a place of hardly an afterthought. We should be protecting
indoctrination, close-mindedness, and ridicule. those who cannot protect themselves, the most
T HE C ENTURION was founded to offer the defenseless and innocent of us all, the unborn child.
viewpoint that is so desperately needed to be Thirdly, conservatism embodies a strong set of
advanced on the Rutgers campus. values and morals that are vital to the preservation
As a conservative, I believe that government of our American way of life. A social morality based
acts by the will and consent of the governed. on the Judeau-Christian heritage that founded this
Government should be minimally invasive in the country is the very essence of society. Our society
lives of it citizens, and should not impose cannot function without a reasonably universal set
excessive and unnecessary taxes. Conservatives of moral principles, and to deny this is to deny the
believe in small and efficient government that humanity of mankind.
solves problems and doesn’t create new ones. As It is my hope that THE CENTURION will help to
a conservative I also believe in strong local open a broader dialogue on the ideological chasm
government, with individuals exercising their right to determine that exists on our campus. A truly “liberal” education cannot
what is best for them and their families. Sadly, our federal be attained by merely exposing oneself to a single way of
government has become a model of wasteful spending and thinking, instead, one must be open to read and listen to what
inefficiency; and since the 1960s, has become a bloated others have to say.
bureaucracy, with burdensome social entitlements that have
the potential to bankrupt this country and bring ruin and chaos
to our economy. Conservatives believe strongly that it is not Thanks for reading,
the role of the government to redistribute income, rather, the
government should help create the conditions where business
can prosper, where people can work hard and use their ingenuity
to succeed, and where entrepreneurship and free enterprise are
not punished. This is common sense for any reasonable person.
Yet, liberals believe that government – not business, and not
the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the American people, Joseph P. Nedick
drives our economy. Co-Founder, Managing Editor
Secondly, as a conservative I hold that people should be THE CENTURION
held accountable for their actions and that those who deny this
responsibility and blame society for their problems are naive Veritas vos Liberabit

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Inaugaral Issue: What is Conservativism?

FROM THE EDITORS

WHAT IS CONSERVATISM?
biases it will become apparent that they with these ideas, not dogmatically, as is
are the true revolutionaries. They see the increasingly the case with liberalism in
Against the Grain value in having absolute standards. They
realize that a society in which each
this country, but considerately,
respectfully, and with others’ best in
generation strikes out against the values mind and at the center of his actions. I
In the liberal environment of of their parents is dangerously lacking in feel that this sort of intellectual
academia, conservatives are often stability. They alone among their peers dare stimulation is sorely missing in our
depicted as ignorant or backward. to stand for the unpopular position rather otherwise diverse field of ideologies.
Students are made to feel by faculty or than parroting the party line. They cut
by their peers that conservative values against the grain to question the
they may hold are foolish. Some come to assumptions and expose the inherent
believe that these values are truly contradictions found in many liberal
indefensible. Conversely, those who arguments.
follow the liberal trends are told that they Moreover, they do so with civility. One
are thinking for themselves and thing that strikes me about the liberal
advancing society by tearing down activist scene is the hostility and anger
conservative constructs. They are led which is often present: the raging against
to believe that any thinking person must the President and the absolute disrespect
necessarily lean to the left. shown toward his office; the hate shown
This is simply not the case. In fact, I toward conservatives by those whose Best regards,
believe it is often the case that desires we hold as indecent; the way it is
conservative values are much more acceptable to ridicule or defame a
reasonable than opposing liberal conservative in way which would be
philosophies. unacceptable if directed at any other
My desire is to debunk the typical minority. That last bit ties into the
Matthew Klimek
anti-conservative rhetoric and hypocrisy so abundant in many areas of
demonstrate why I believe conservatism liberal thought. Co-Founder, Business Editor
to be the reasonable choice. When The true conservative seeks to find the THE CENTURION
students know that they can speak out logical and reasonable basis for his beliefs Veritas vos Liberabit
confidently against the prevalent liberal and to challenge his peers and his leaders

THIS IS CONSERVATISM

THE CENTURION believes morality to be intrinsic. We believe our country to have a moral
high-ground when battling those who disagree with our principles. We believe our system
is delicately molded around a right and a wrong. This foundation is not arbitrary, or due to
specified religion (divine providence), but an optimal system governing mankind. This Maoist
system arrives itself from truths that are inherent, self-evident and dedicated to proposi- Internationalist
Movement
tions so good and right, that it will be his ultimate priority to protect them. A conservative
does not believe in resisting change, rather he believes in protecting, realizing, and aug-
menting preexisting principles. It is the realization of these propositions and truths, rather
than aiming to modify them, that will allow America to realize “progress.”

- VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT

"People in the wealthiest capitalist


countries are the most brainwashed
because they think they are not." -
MIM Notes, October 1st
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"The West won’t contain Communism. It will transcend Communism." - Ronald Reagan

COMMENTARY
a NATIONAL TOPICS
™
THE ELECTION
Although we resolve to follow the 2004 Election closely, near full capacity in our oil refineries. If we obtained all Iraq's
THE CENTURION will endorse neither President George W. Bush oil, we would be incapable of doing anything with the raw
nor Senator John F. Kerry, or any other candidate for the office of crude, simply because there is no space for it in our refining
President. True conservatives stick to their principles of limited systems. Interestingly, the most outspoken foreign opponent
government, personal liberty and accountability, underlying of the war, France, receives a significant percentage of its oil
objective truth, and limited spending. resources from Iraq. No blood for oil, indeed.
It is true to say that in general, conservatives share more Contrary to the selective film editing of Michael Moore
beliefs with the Republican Party than with the Democratic Party. and the biased reporting of The New York Times, CNN and
Senator Kerry is an unabashed liberal, displaying virtually none CBS, Iraq is a country with an overwhelming majority that
of the principles that define a conservative. However, the supported regime change. Saddam’s crimes against humanity
incumbent President has also found himself departing from a few are impossible to defend. Hussein was a dictator with
of these core principles. For example, President Bush maintains a absolute control, killing those who disagreed, and murdering
record of increased government spending, soaring deficits, and more for no reason at all. As we are reminded by Locke,
has not vetoed one bill as President. In addition, the freedom is a human right, not only an American right. Giving
Constitutional Amendment banning homosexual marriage that autonomy and freedom to the Iraqi people is the truest form
he proposed to Congress boarders on radicalism. But the of political righteousness.
Democratic Party’s indecision and demagoguery is not what Ronald Reagan’s tough stand against the Soviet Union
America needs in a time of war. was the right decision to make back in the 80’s. George W.
America needs a leader with resolve, substance and Bush’s determined stance against terrorism is exactly the right
consistency in defeating a determined enemy. We make note of course to take in the 21st century. Saddam Hussein was a
our disagreements with Senator Kerry more than those of threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. He supported
President Bush not only because his policies are at odds with Palestinian terrorists and had
conservatives, but also because his policies have not been the will and the capability to
challenged by most faculty members at Rutgers University - where restart his weapons programs.
the overwhelming majority of professors are registered Many people wonder why
Democrats. Students deserve to hear both sides. The faculty’s we went into Iraq. Was it for
blind partisanship must be challenged. WMDs? Not really, but the
media certainly made it seem
that way. Was it oil? No,
THE WAR because their crude doesn’t
help us. So why did we go to
war? America removed the
The United States fought a war to remove a brutal,
most powerful and corrupt
abusive dictator from power, and our nation has succeeded in
regime in the Middle East,
that attempt. The Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein has been
gave power to back to the Iraqi
torn down, and America is safer because of it. At the time President
people, and we have rid the world of a gathering and
Bush made his decision to go to war in Iraq, politicians on both
dangerous threat. President Bush has made it clear that he
sides of the aisle stood behind him. Senator Kerry himself said
will not wait for America to be attacked again before defending
he believed that Saddam posed a real threat to the United States
our interests and protecting our people.
and the world, cautioning that “Saddam Hussein may yet have
weapons of mass destruction.”
The new Iraqi Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi, is now in office
and is making decent appeals to the United Nations. He’s getting Pre-emptive Strike Indeed
Iraq back on its feet and the country will soon be holding its first
free elections in almost thirty years.
The major media outlets are fixated on the terrorist insurgency
centralized in a few cities (Fallujah or “Sadr City” for example). W hen FDR led us into World War II. Germany never
attacked us--Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives
were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. Truman finished that
What is consistently missing on the evening news is the story
of how America’s best and bravest are helping to rebuild a country war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us.
that has faced almost constant war, fear, and oppression under From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per
the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. year. John F. Kennedy...started the Vietnam conflict in
Oil: Less than 4 percent of our oil comes from Iraq. Even if we 1962.Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson turned Vietnam into a
went to war in Iraq because of its oil, we are already operating at quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost an average of
5,800 per year.

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COMMENTARY
WHAT IS GOING ON
AT

VEAL PARMESAN LIB OF THE MONTH!


Recently a group called “Vegan Outreach” passed Earlier this month The Rutgers College Republicans
out “educational” pamphlets on Douglass Campus explaining had a table set up outside Brower Dining Commons, where
the benefits of the Vegan lifestyle. Students walking by were they were gathering signatures for membership. The bourgeois
handed a pamphlet entitled “Why Vegan? Boycott Cruelty!” liberals on College Avenue haven’t been kind to the CRs as of
This pamphlet contained horrific images of animal late, ripping down their flyers and peeling BUSH/CHENEY
mistreatments by factory workers, quotes and pictures of bumper stickers off their cars. They have also been vandalizing
tumors and force feeding. On the website, the group states its dorm doors that have pro-life declarations, stealing campaign
goal is to “promote veganism through the widespread items and shouting obscenities at students who have
distribution of our illustrated booklets...” Without getting endorsements on their clothing.
into the graphic details, the images were some of the most Luckily, THE CENTURION was on the scene with a camera
grotesque imaginable, and unsuspecting students were left when one lib was having a tantrum at the republicans table. He
feeling sick to their stomachs. What’s even worse, is that the approached the table screaming "Your war has killed so many
group targets all students. Starting as early as Middle School, people... Bush should be shot!" He then flipped the table right
“Vegan Outreach” distributes this mindless filth on the most in a fit of rage, where it knocked both girls standing behind it
impressionable youth. on the ground. We don't know his name or anything else
Shocking students with images taken out of context to about him, but we award him the "Liberal of the month" award
garner their political support is nothing less than propaganda, for his bravery and his actions in accordance to liberal
and is a cowardly way to deal with the often debated issue of principles.
Animal “rights”. Those who claim that the disgusted reaction But THE CENTURION has come to a realization. We realize
of some students is some sort of “proof” that most students we shouldn’t blame liberals for their actions. You see, many
sympathize with the Vegan’s cause is a very interesting times it's their social circumstances that lead them to behave
argument to make. Students at Rutgers rallying against abortion in such a way, or their upbringing… or their lack of a balanced
outside Brower Commons in the past were subject to harsh education. It's not their fault. We should forgive them. In fact,
criticism for their display of aborted fetuses. “Pro-choice” let’s reward them. After all, they're doing what’s right in
students argued that abortion opponents should not have accordance to their own moral code. Not only that, but let’s
been allowed to display their images because they were gross blame the Republicans for putting those evil anti-choice stickers
and unwarranted. Isn’t it incredible how the academic left on those doors, infiltrating the privacy of those who walk buy.
interprets freedom of speech based solely on their own political And why stop there? Let’s sue the Republicans for causing us
views and what is politically expedient? emotional damages by displaying bumper stickers endorsing a
President for a war we don’t support? But that’s not going to
A Pithy Poem on Planthood prevent them from doing it in the future. Let’s do some physical
harm to them. Let’s walk into Brower Commons right up to
their table and flip it over, hopefully injuring one of them in the
process.
™ That is exactly what this lib did earlier this month.

Ripped from the Ground


Life is Ended ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

I am Blended
~R.I.P.~
Liberal
™
of the
Month!
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Remember, Rutgers: Plants have "rights" too
"Make peace, not war!"

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“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.” — Voltaire

COMMENTARY
WHAT IS GOING ON
AT

CHOMSKY AND NADER AND MOORE, OH MY!

Recently, the anti-American Noam Chomsky came to the banks


to speak in front of a welcoming audience. Chomsky is among
three of the most renowned leftists in existence to visit Rutgers in We
recent memory. The university expended a large amount of money Demand a
and resources to host Michael Moore and Ralph Nader in the
recent weeks. This is just one stop on the tour for Chomsky, a self Recount!
described anarchist, who has recently been doing a series of uni-
versity indoctrination rants about how America is to blame for 9-
11, receiving thousands of dollars each time he does so.
Chomsky actually published a book entitled 9-11, where he THE CENTURION
argues America is a leading terrorist state in today’s world. This During "The Referendum," Ballot workers who were requied by
argument is getting absurd. Many innocent people die in terrorist law to implement an impartial election were caught handing
out fliars endorsing NJPIRG. When questioned by THE
attacks against America, including working-class janitors and im-
CENTURION, the one on the right "had no comment."
migrants – those to whom Chomsky says sympathizes with.
Chomsky was in Skull & Bones at Yale University, an organi-
zation with many powerful and elitist people. Chomsky himself
was a beneficiary of privilege, but continues to identify with those
in poverty and those with a “lack of opportunity”. Chomsky is a
signatory of “Not in Our Name,” an anti-war “peace” coalition
very similar to MoveOn.org.
MoveOn.org has in the past compared President George W.
Bush to Adolph Hitler. It has received funds from IFCO and
Muslim organizations with links to Hamas, while having relation-
ships with the RCP, (Revolutionary Communist Party), and the
Revolutionary International Movement (RIM). The RIM endorses
Palestinian terrorism and even states in one of its publications
that “With the weapon of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism…Zionism Traitor Noam Chomsky testifies against the United States at the
will meet its doom.” It sounds like these organizations are much "Centre for Human Rights" at MIT in December 2002.
more similar to Hitler than Israel-supporting George W. Bush is.
But it is the communists who attempt to capitalize on the evil "Hey George, did you hear about THE CENTURION?
reference. Ironic. Apparently their looking into instances of rediculous liberalism run amok
on campus. All such instances can be sent to mail@rucenturion.com"

“I mean, here, we have a thing called an election, which is a


choice between two men, both born to great wealth and
political influence, and went to the same fancy private schools,
same elite university, joined the same secret society where
you train people to be members of the ruling class” – Noam
Chomsky. October 18, 2004

Chomsky was born to great wealth, went to private


school, attended an elite university (Yale), and surrounded
himself with many powerful people who who are now
members of the "ruling class." But yet he is a socialist.
THE CENTURION

"Wait just a minute there Barby, let me get a pen and write that down."

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NJPIRG

PUBLIC INTEREST FRAUD


What Rutgers doesn't want you to know about NJPIRG

P
assing through Voorhees Mall, any lecture hall, or the Student deductions line. Perhaps even more distressing is the fact that little
Centers, they are hard to miss. From Cook and Douglass to or no information is given to tell parents and students what NJPIRG
Busch Campus, liberal activists of the New Jersey “Public actually is. Most incoming freshman, and dare we say most students,
Interest Research Group” are putting on their triennial campaign to pay the fee out of ignorance, not out of education. Including the fee
continue their scheme of fraud, deception, and abuse of student fee by default in your Term Bill, and by in effect discouraging you from
money. The NJPIRG referendum has descended upon Rutgers opting out of it by making the process as confusing and nonsensical
University. as possible, one must ask how “voluntary” is the donation?
Before blindly voting “yes” in the PIRG referendum, THE Aside from their morally bankrupt policy of extorting money
CENTURION encourages students to check the facts on this so- from the students of Rutgers University, NJPIRG is a shameful
called “non-partisan” public interest group. Founded in the 1970s waste of money and resources. The Centurion feels that students
by Ralph Nader and his close associates, PIRGs sprung up around have a right to know what their fees are paying for. In Fiscal Year
the country under the guise of consumer protection, advocacy for 2004, of the $475,000 expected to be collected from student fees,
the environment, and students’ issues. What has developed instead less than 50% is actually going to fund the activities that NJPIRG is
is a massive liberal lobbying apparatus that channels money from most noted for: NJ Water Watch, The Hunger and Homelessness
college students and their parents into the pockets of “professional Campaign, and its other programs. Over 30% of student fee money
advocates”, lobbyists, and lawyers hell-bent on advancing an agenda ($144,300) collected is dedicated to fund the salaries and benefits of
that is anti-growth, anti-American, and decidedly left-leaning. The NJPIRG’s “professional staff”. Another 8% ($36,420) is earmarked
group has been consistently critical of the Bush Administration’s for the salaries and benefits of NJPIRG’s Administrative Staff. An
policies, has lobbied hard against drilling in the Artic Wildlife Refuge, additional 12% (58,020) is to pay for NJPIRG’s operating expenses
and among other things, has opposed the – which among other things, includes
President’s nominees to head the EPA and professional services such as “legal services”.
the Department of Interior. You would be Before any “public interest program” has been
hard pressed to find any ideological balance launched, before any river has been cleaned,
among PIRG’s staff or student volunteers. before any whale has been saved, before any
The sad reality is that students and parents Caribou’s habitat has been saved, or before any
are being duped into supporting causes that student is registered to vote Democrat, NJPIRG
they might otherwise oppose or despise. has already planned on spending over
Unfortunately, the fee that is used to fund $230,000 just to pay its staff of liberal
the PIRGs is so carefully hidden that many professional lobbyists, advocates, organizers,
students and parents do not even know they and administrative staff. Perhaps even more
are contributing. disconcerting is that an undisclosed amount of
NJPIRG is funded through an obscure the remaining student fee monies allocated to
and little-known mechanism put in place “programming” is earmarked to pay
by the Rutgers University Senate. Of the professional staffers and lobbyists who have
well over 200 student organizations at Rutgers, only two student creative titles like “NJ Clean Water Associate”, “DC Advocate on
organizations – The Daily Targum and NJPIRG - are funded via a Forests and Artic Policy”, “NJ Consumer Protection Organizer”,
“voluntary” donation paid on each student’s term bill. In this case “DC Clean Air and Diesel Advocate”, “NJ Energy Associate”, and
of NJPIRG, the annual fee students pay from the Term Bill is others. Of the remaining $230,000 of student fee money left, how
$19.30 ($9.65 per semester). In the grand scheme of things, $19.30 much is actually going to student programming? On top of all this,
doesn’t seem like a hell of a lot of money, however, if you aggregate NJPIRG pays annual dues to USPIRG, the national umbrella liberal
that number over the entire student body, NJPIRG student chapters think-tank and policy arm of the PIRGs. In FY 2001, $57,300 of
collects close to a half million dollars each year ($475,000 in FY04). student fee money went directly to Washington lobbyists and not to
The problem is that because NJPIRG is technically an Rutgers University initiatives, community endeavors, or state-wide
“independent” organization, its use of student fee money is not projects.
subject to the close scrutiny of student activities advisors and Although we disagree with NJPIRG on most issues, we applaud
administrators. In fact, the very method in which they extort the efforts of students who volunteer and fight for the causes they
money from students is nothing short of misleading and morally believe in. However, THE CENTURION refuses to condone the
dubious. current state of affairs at Rutgers University. Money should never
Instead of using an opt-in fee on the Term Bill, NJPIRG and be the driving force behind civic-minded student volunteerism, but
Rutgers University are able to trick thousands of students and NJPIRG is trying to convince students that they must collectively
their parents into thinking that they are paying a regular part of the donate half a million dollars so that their interests will be heard.
student fee by including the NJPIRG fee as part of the bottom-line That is a total and complete falsehood. Vote NO on the referendum
figure. If you choose to opt-out of the fee, one must read the fine and visit http://www.rucenturion.com to find out how to get your
print on the reverse side of the Term Bill and follow the modestly redund.
complicated steps of subtracting the fee from the credits and
Veritas vos Liberabit

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Save the Whales!


"Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey embodies the ideals of diversity" - diversityweb.rutgers.edu

CONTRIBUTORS
SELECTIVE DIVERSITY?
GARY COCCO

O
ne thing that everyone hears about on college campuses ruining America, how he’s taking away people’s rights, fighting
all across the country is diversity. From open houses, to a war for oil, lying to the American people, letting our boys die in
freshmen orientation, to graduation day, students hear Iraq, and exporting jobs overseas to give the wealthy a tax cut. It
about how wonderfully diverse their school’s student body is, is not enough that all these are highly debatable and problematic
and how all opinions, beliefs, and cultures are appreciated and statements, but the professor will often completely misrepresent
accepted. Diversity is viewed to be a worthwhile goal because why the Bush administration acts the way it does, or why half
learning and living in a rich, diverse environment improves the this country supports him. Instead, the professor will simply
quality of our education and produces better, more worldly mock and demonize President Bush. Almost exclusively, when
graduates. No one will question the fact that Rutgers strives for explaining Bush’s rationale for his policies, complex domestic
diversity and prides itself in its current state. and foreign policy decisions are reduced to two simplistic and
I would argue, however, that our educational experience at offensive statements: first, that Bush is a complete idiot, and
Rutgers has been negatively affected because all opinion, views, second, that Bush is a Nazi.
and beliefs are not appreciated or accepted because Rutgers Left with the two answers to everything the President does
chooses to be selective in what forms of diversity it seeks. In fact, as being explained by him being an idiot or a Nazi, both the
there are opinions that are routinely mocked as professors, in general student body and those who agree with him and hold
stark contrast to creating a more diverse environment, daily make conservative views are hurt. The student body is hurt because it
a point of lecturing not on class material, but on their political is deprived of the advantages of diversity. By not employing
objectives, which almost always take the form of one voice, one diversity, but selective diversity, this university has chosen to
idea, one mind. The adherents of these mocked opinions are deny students the knowledge and open discussion needed on
personally ridiculed and must relinquish what they believe if they views of incredible importance that run our country today. This
wish to participate in class and avoid the tirades of their professors leaves students without a complete understanding of
and fellow classmates. The opinions of which I conservative ideas that significantly decreases the
speak are that of conservative. value and quality of our education. Worse,
The problem is much less the fact that students at Rutgers often learn to not just
conservative ideas are no where to be found in our misunderstand President Bush and conservatives,
classes, but instead the malicious way these ideas Intellectual but to hate them. In a political system that requires
are demonized when they are discussed. American
history is taught at this university as a battle
Diversity political participation and the acceptance of
whoever wins an election as legitimate, hatred can
between good and evil, with conservatives and undo this acceptance and ruin the fabric of
Republicans being the bad guys and liberal democracy.
Democrats, the good guys. This is especially Rutgers: 'Not in Our Name' Conservatives on campus, as a result of the
interesting since moral relativism is driven down the student’s teachings of the university they attend, find themselves the
throats, which denies good and evil. Apparently, the only thing target of the anger the student body feels toward President Bush
that can be called evil is not Hitler, nor today’s terrorists, but only and conservatives due to the social engineering done daily in
conservatives. class. With their most deeply held beliefs ridiculed and demonized
Considering the goal of diversity, how can this be? Should not in class, with their classmates viewing them as they view Bush,
conservative viewpoints, literally consisting of half the people of and with their professors encouraging and perpetuating all this
this country, be openly taught, appreciated, and discussed as and even using hatred of our President to encourage class
with every other viewpoint and culture in this university? After all, discussion, conservative students can easily feel lost and like
one must not agree with conservative views to be diverse, one their opinions and viewpoints are wrong and do not matter. This
merely must accept, appreciate, and discuss it. This creates a richer is something that the notion of diversity is supposed to prevent.
learning environment that improves students’ education and leads If Rutgers takes diversity seriously as a goal, then it must
to better, more worldly graduates. To teach, learn, accept, and include conservative thought in its umbrella of diversity.
discuss conservative viewpoints, within the framework of diversity, Otherwise, by excluding it and being selective with which forms
would greatly improve the quality of education here at Rutgers, of thought and ideas to accept, Rutgers is acting contrary to its
especially given the large number of adherents to these views in goal of diversity. Given the advantages of diversity and
our country, and the important force they play in politics. It is particularly the importance of the ideas being excluded, I
unfortunate to say that this university feels it is more important to challenge Rutgers to accept and teach conservative ideology,
force its political views upon the student body and stifle and giving it no more and no less importance than all other forms of
ridicule conservatives at the expense of the students’ educational the diverse nature of beliefs, cultures, and ideologies on campus.
experience.
Students see this daily in class. No matter what the class
material, even if it is completely remote from politics, the professor Gary Cocco is an honorary contributor to THE CENTURION
frequently finds a way to “inform” the students of the evils of the
Bush administration. Students are told of how President Bush is

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!


Inaugaral Issue: What is Conservativism?

CONTRIBUTORS
THE TERRORISTS
YONI RUBEN
WOMEN SHOULD BE CONSERVATIVE W henever I have heard people say, “When
we fight terrorists we are only creating
more of them” or “There are more terrorists
AMY CASTELLI today than before we attacked Al Qaida or
Saddam, I have always been perplexed. It seems

w W hen I arrived at Rutgers University, I


a s
ready to pursue a career in politics, which
to help those of a lower socio-economic status
end up not being effective due to government
to go against all common sense. When police
try to arrest as many murderers as possible, it
doesn’t increase murder. If there were no police,
waste in spending. Therefore by giving some
had been my dream since grammar school. government charity programs to the private crime would increase not decrease.
Excited to meet new people and ready for a sector, taxes would be lowered for hard-working Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual
change, I welcomed college with open arms. middle class women and poor people would receive mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center
As a student entering Douglass College, I a better kind of economic assistance. bombings, declared clearly, “There is no truce
loved the message that women can do Conservatives are not anti-equality. I have in jihad against the enemies of Allah.” Professor
anything—a belief I have held since I was young never heard a conservative man say he wants of Sociology at City University of New York,
and something my parents had instilled in me. women beneath men, and that women should not William Helmreich, met with the head of Hamas
The university was thought by me to be a place earn the same wages as men. The notion that Sheik Hamed al-Bitawi and recently assassinated,
of open discussion. In my classes, I would be conservatives want to hold women back is just Abdel Aziz Rantisi. In his article, No Sense
able to exchange ideas with others. My ludicrous. Many conservatives believe in school Negotiating With Terrorists, he points out that
viewpoint made sense—if people disagreed with vouchers. Vouchers give students a choice for appeasing those who commit terrorist attacks
me, we could debate, as this was my experience grammar school and high school of where they and the many concessions that have been made
in high school. I was in for a surprise. I quickly would like to go to school. In turn, for private to the terrorists, “while they may appear
learned at Rutgers women can do anything—as schooling, parents would receive a tax credit, and successful in the short run, serve only to
long as they believed in a woman’s right to not have to pay twice for their child’s education. convince the religious terrorist that total
abortion. This type of program would help many working victory is just around the corner.”
In a women’s course I took my first semester moms trying to make ends meet and would help Pastor Bruce Porter, a representative from
in college, the subject of abortion came up, and bright young girls go to grammar schools and Columbine, Colorado, went in September to tour
a woman my age was quick to jump over the high schools that could best meet their needs and the Russian school where many lost their lives
pro-choice fence. She said that every woman help them place into college and obtain a degree. after being held hostage. He listened to stories
who believed in equal Conservatives also about the horror that took place inside. He
rights would support Whoopi Goldberg Holding a Coathanger believe wholeheartedly in recounted a story he heard where “one of the
abortion because not the free market. They do terrorists yelled to a group of children, ‘Come
supporting abortion not want government to me, I’ll save you; Come over here and I’ll
could reverse the running people’s lives and save you,’ and the people ran to him and got
women’s movement. believe the free market can close and he yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ and he blew
When no one responded run himself up”. When terrorists are religious
negatively to her, I itself. These are not bad fanatics there is little chance for negotiations.
decided to in hopes that things. In fact, I believe We are dealing with people who proudly cheer
maybe the class was shy. women would be better off if when their own children are successful suicide
the government stopped bombers, yet cry when the house a suicide
I responded to this interfering with their lives. bomber lived in is destroyed.
classmate that I believed "From my cold dead hands..." When I apply for a job After Israel targeted and killed three Hamas
abortion is unnecessary after college, I hope to get leaders, terrorism has diminished. Now Hamas
and should not be used on the basis that every that job because I am a qualified applicant. I do is even afraid to publicly announce who their
human being deserves a life—who are we to not want a job offered to me because the law says leaders are. If we don’t use violent measures
pick and choose who should live and who should a company must hire a certain amount of women. aimed towards the perpetrators of terrorism,
die? I explained I do believe in women’s equality I believe that in the United States, anyone can what then will we use? UN resolutions?
and that I did not think abortion had anything do anything with a lot of hard work. I believe we Sanctions?
to do with women being equal to men. My all can pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, The US military has a hard time getting
response was quickly shot down by all 30 or so women included. This is the optimistic belief in people to join the military unless they give lots
women in the class, and I was left to fend for conservative ideology, the ideology I will continue of incentives, because Americans don’t want to
myself. to hold. Conservatives believe in everyone having die, they want to live. When Helmreich asked
That day I learned a lesson I will never a chance and working hard, not just in one gender’s prominent West Bank Hamas leader Sheik
forget—it takes courage to be a conservative at progress at the expense of another. Hamed al-Bitawi about his views on suicide
college. Trying as hard as they could to change me, bombers, the Sheik fixed him with a hard stare
It takes even more courage to be a Rutgers did not. I will graduate a conservative, and said, “For us, the suicide bombers are like
conservative woman at college. The message I but do see merits to the challenges I faced at angels sent to us from heaven. Their lives have
would like to send to women is that it is okay to Rutgers. I am now more grounded and stronger just begun.” For the religious terrorists, no
be a conservative. Conservatives believe in in my beliefs than I ever was before. By amount of appeasement will stop them from
many things that are good for women that are researching the ideology I have always believed sacrificing their lives in order to force their
never discussed in Academia. Conservatives in, I am more convinced than ever that many of religious beliefs on others. If we don’t fight
believe in low taxes and limited government my beliefs are right. If nothing else, it is now terrorism with force, what then will we fight
spending—which would put more of working easier to debate an issue after having to defend them with? Professor Helmreich ends his article
women’s money into their own pockets again. myself to an entire class my first semester at by concluding “When it comes to religiously-
Conservatives also believe in the private sector based terror, we must reluctantly recognize that
college .
taking on some of the programs to help people Amy Castelli and Yoni Ruben are there are only two real choices here - protect
who are less fortunate. The reason for this is ourselves and eliminate the terrorists or turn
because a lot of government programs designed Contributors to THE CENTURION the world over to them.”
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Free Palestine!
“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” - Paul Harvey

ACADEMIA
"If it were true that a heavy
concentration of industry
Rutgers, here is your speech code
Taken directly from the Rutgers "Policy Prohibiting Harassment"
is destructive to human life,
one would find life expect-
ancy declining in the more
advanced countries. But it ~Speak Softly~
has been rising steadily.
Here are the figures on life
expectancy in the United
States:

1900 - 47.3 years


OR SUFFER
1920 - 53 years THE CONSEQUENCES

1940 - 60 years

1968 - 70.2 years

Anyone over 30 years of


age today, give a silent
"Thank you" to the near-
est, grimiest, sootiest
smokestacks you can find." More Politically Correct Policies violating first amendment can be
read at:
-- Ayn Rand, The New Left: http://uhce.rutgers.edu/h-sexual-harassment.html
the Anti-Industrial Revolu-
tion
HURRAY FOR HIERARCHY!

Logic and truth


transcend art and
politics

THE CENTURION'S take on THE CENTURION'S take on


This is what Ayn Rand's "Objectivist Pyramid" Maslow's Famous "Hierarchy of Needs"
Academia needs
more of

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Inaugaral Issue: What is Conservativism?

ACADEMIA
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
The Centurion takes Pictures of Faculty Doors around Campus
"Fact is... we've never met before (Cheney sits next to guy
with 'reality' t-shirt). HAHAHAHAHA
Barbara Goff of Cook College

Criminal "Justice" Bulletin Board. Dean Traxler


(Article from the Times of course) Anne Q. McKeowen (Mason Gross)
~Welcome to Rutgers~

Damian Catera (Mason Gross) Professor Kevin St. Martin gives good
Marx in the sociology depatment
Office hours for liberals only

Welcome to THE CENTURION Damian

"Flag Burning" According to Mason Gross Art School


Required reading Political Experts, Bush is an idiot
in the Sociology
Department

Dyslexia in the Political Science Lounge

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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bush = fascist Tony Masso of Mason Gross "Come to the end of semester screening...
Or face the Rath of Dick Cheney"

Mason Gross Bulletin Board


Norman History
Markowitz "Professor"

THIS MONTH'S
Dr. Stephen E. Hansell
CENTURION AWARD
GOES TO "Dick Cheney loses his head"
(Sociologist) - Simple but Effective.

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"Unitam logicaUnitam
falsa tuam philosophiam
logica totam suffodiant
falsa tuam philosophiam - May
totam faulty -logic
suffodiant "May undermine your
faulty logic entire philosophy"
undermine your entire philosophy"

ISSUES

Flawed argument #1 – George W. Bush Flawed argument #3 – “Each one to his own”

1. A politician is inarticulate 1. Different cultures, individuals, or


societies have different rights and wrong.
.
. . That politician is a stupid idiot .
. . Therefore, there is no Objective or
Universal right and wrong; its merely relative.

The logic above is not valid. It is quite possible for


one to be inarticulate and extremely intelligent. This logic is invalid to the core. It does not follow from everybody
disagreeing that there can not be an objective right and wrong.
For hundreds of years it was disagreed that the world was round.
Flawed argument #2 – The Death Penalty Hitler believed in the rightness of his actions. However, it is a fact
and the insanity defense that the world is round. And it is (hopefully) a fact that killing
people because they are Jewish is wrong. Saying we are not
allowed to place moral judgments upon other societies is a
1. If one commits a gruesome dangerous precedent. There can never be progress in other
murder, then he is insane societies if we don’t place judgments - and likewise there can
never be progress in our own – because we are bound to our
2 If one is insane, then he should
never be given the death penalty
own moral code.
. Flawed argument #4 – “All men are created Equal”
. . One who commits a gruesome murder
should never be given the death 1. All men are created equal. (As in the
penalty Declaration of Independence)
.
. . Therefore, the government must run social
The above argument is indeed valid, an programs (e.g. affirmative actions, progressive
application of the law of transitivity. It is used income tax, welfare) in order to ensure that all men are
as an argument against capital punishment. But equal
its implications are dangerous, stemming from
premise # 1. Defense lawyers love to place
blame on mental illness in cases of horrific The Declaration of Indepedence says that "All men are created
murder, because its their only defense. It has equal." That is to say all men are created intrinsically equal. It
recently been argued by such lawyers that it is does not follow from premise number one that this equality needs
MORALLY NECESSARY be insane in order to be enforced by any collective body. The fact that the government
to commit gruesome murders. This circular feels the need to "enforce" equality is an affirmation that, in
wackiness leads to a slippery slope where no contradiction to the declaration of independence, they do not
one can be responsible for their own actions in believe that all men are truly created equal.
committing a gruesome murder.

Next Month... - Veritas vos Liberabit

For Bias
EDITIO PRINCEPS THE CENTURION / NOVEMBER 2004 PAGE 16
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.” - President Ronald Reagan

ISSUES Did you know? L For every 3 African American babies born, 2 died to surgical abortion

DON'T LISTEN TO US... WE'RE JUST


ANTI-CH ICE
The “right” to abortion has been When does life begin?
a cornerstone of liberal policy for Whose rights are we to defend?
decades, and one that many
conservatives have opposed. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
While many arguments in with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
support of abortion run along Whose responsibility is it?
the lines of women’s rights and Whatever happened to Roe v. Wade?
“keeping our laws off their In an interview on 8/10/95 with WBAP radio in Dallas, Norma McCorvey (“Roe” was a pseudonym for Norma
bodies,” T HE C ENTURION McCorvey) announced, “I’m pro-life. I think I’ve always been pro-life, I just didn’t know it” (Reaves, DALLAS
believes that these ideas are not MORNING NEWS, 8/11/95).
at the core of the issue. Over Are there circumstances under which it is morally acceptable?
the next few issues, T HE
A survey of women seeking abortions indicated that only 7% of women cited typical “hard cases” (rape, incest,
CENTURION will look at some of or some health concern with either the baby or the mother) as the primary reason they were seeking abortion.
the essential questions that
surround the struggle over
abortion policy.
Every argument for abortion resembles an argument for slavery
ABORTION
SLAVERY Roe vs. Wade 1973
Dred Scott 1857 U.S. Supreme Court Decision
U.S. Supreme Court Decision 7 to 2 Vote
7 to 2 Vote Unborn ruled NON-PERSON
Black ruled NON-PERSON Not citizen protected by Constitution
Not citizen protected by Constitution
Property of Owner (Slave owner) Property of Owner (Mother)

Owner had right to buy-sell-kill Owner has right to keep or kill

Abolitionists should not impose Pro-lifers should not impose

Morality on the slave owner Morality on the mother

Abortion is LEGAL
Slavery was LEGAL

1. The fetus does not feel pain or duress


1. The slave does not feel pain or duress
2. Weatlthy will move to Carribean if outlawed
2. Weatlthy will move to Carribean if outlawed
3. Methodists, unitarians and congregationalists deem it
3. Methodists, unitarians and congregationalists deem it moral, only the Catholics still dissent
moral, only the Quakers and papists still dissent
4. Practice will become barbaric if outlawed
4. Practice will turn barabaric if outlawed
5. Women are not pro-abortion, they are PRO-CHOICE
5. Slave owners are not pro-slavery, they are PRO-LIBERTY
6. Men have no stake
6. Northerners have no stake
7. Pro-lifers break down seperation between church & state
7. Abolitionists break down seperation between church & state
May We look back on our actions 200 years later
We look back on our actions 200 years later and and think "HOW COULD WE HAVE DONE SUCH A
think "HOW COULD WE HAVE DONE SUCH A THING?"
THING?"
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March to Save Womens Lives!


"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." - Thomas Sowell

ON THE LEFT
reinterpretation, or rather they just are this reinterpretation—there is

Why a Socialist is the Advisor to a no difference between the perception and the practical consequences
of “original intent.”
If you believe that the founders had the last word, for example,
Conservative Student Organization you will probably not believe in the rights of privacy and sexuality
recently enunciated by federal courts. But you will nonetheless be
engaged in an argument, because you will have to defend your
interpretation of the “original” language against another interpretation.
JAMES LIVINGSTON Whether it’s the Constitution or the Bible, there are rival accounts of
the same text, and all you have is the words on the pages in question.
To convince others that your account is better than theirs, you have to
do more than recite those words.
I’m a Marxist, a socialist, a feminist, and Think of the debate about the Constitution that Lincoln changed
between 1854 and 1860. By the mid-1850s, conservatives in the
a pragmatic postmodernist. So why did I agree North had fallen back to a constitutional defense of the status quo—
to become the faculty advisor of an avowedly conservative student slavery was sanctioned by the 3/5 clause of the Constitution, they said,
organization? Two reasons. First, no one else would do it. That is not so that any ideological agitation or legislative movement against it was
surprising, of course. By now we all know that the pilot disciplines in the a challenge to the legal basis and the political legitimacy of the United
Arts & Sciences are dominated by leftists of one kind or another. Certainly States as such. Radicals in the North, mainly abolitionists, had long
departments of History, Literature, Anthropology, Political Science, since repudiated the Constitution as a blood-stained document on the
and Sociology are—not just at Rutgers, but throughout the nation. very same grounds, that it sanctioned slavery. They wanted to challenge
Departments of Economics and of Philosophy are more politically the legal basis and the political legitimacy of the United States, and
ambiguous, but they are less visible on campus and in the larger world. they did so by claiming that the Constitution was an unnecessary and
Little wonder that James O’Keefe and Brian Karch had a hard time unforgivable departure from the egalitarian principles of the Declaration
tracking down someone who would lend his or her name to their of Independence.
conservative enterprise. The conservatives and the radicals agreed on one thing—they
Second, conservatism is a valuable political resource at any time, assumed that there was no way to treat the Constitution and the
but it is especially valuable just now, at a moment of rapid change—at a Declaration as politically commensurable or intellectually continuous
moment when cloning and other genetic experiments have become documents. Lincoln changed everything by proving that this assumption
practical questions, when a century of precedent and principle in U.S. was false. From the Peoria speech of October 1854 to the Cooper
foreign policy has been overturned, when radicalism of every Union address of February 1860, he insisted that a clear
kind, on the Left and the Right, seems normal. Conservatives majority of the founders (those who actually made the
revere the past, and caution us against our American urge to Revolution, wrote the Constitution, and led the new nation
discard customs, rituals, and traditions because they do not into the 1820s) were committed to the eventual extinction of
conform to the standards of contemporary reason. They object slavery. That is why they excluded it from the territories by
to “social engineering” informed only by zealous devotion to Congressional acts such as the Northwest Ordinance—the first
the common good because they understand that unintended legislative act of the very first Congress—and why those
consequences often obliterate originally noble purposes. In founders who later served in the national government kept
short, they remind us of what we stand to lose when we want restricting its spread by legislative action.
change. By this account, both the Declaration and the
So conservatives deserve a respectful hearing from us Constitution could be cited as anti-slavery texts, and could
liberals, socialists, and radicals. But who’s a conservative these days? therefore be understood as politically commensurable and intellectually
George W. Bush wants to privatize Social Security, abolish the income continuous documents. To put it another way, the ethical ideal
tax, amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage, and create a new announced but not accomplished by the Declaration (“all men are
American Century by fighting preemptive wars. He is not a conservative; created equal”) was consistent with the historical reality determined
he’s a radical who wants to repudiate, not reclaim, the past. Does that and permitted by the Constitutional settlement. Lincoln was, in this
make John Kerry, a man of the Left, more conservative than his sense, deducing “ought” from “is,” value from fact—a move that neither
opponent? You betcha. politicians nor philosophers are supposed to make.
The editors of The Centurion tell me they believe in utilitarianism, Thus Lincoln had positioned himself as both a radical who would
objectivism, and original intent. How conservative are these beliefs? not compromise on the Declaration’s incendiary insistence on equality
Utilitarianism—”the greatest good of the greatest number”—would have and a conservative who would not forfeit the Constitution’s protections
scared the founding fathers, who feared an “elective despotism” because of enumerated and established rights. That position, that synthesis,
they knew that majority rule (the greatest number) was not necessarily was revolutionary in its time. Rather than insisting on an either/or
consistent with justice, and that popular government would last only if choice between radicalism and conservatism, we should be searching for
it served the cause of justice by soliciting the consent of the governed. a similar synthesis in these interesting times. At any rate, we should
Objectivism, the obscure doctrine invented by the novelist Ayn Rand, is understand that when we choose between radicalism and conservatism,
an extreme form of “radical individualism”—it is precisely what we steer our fellow citizens toward a political dead end.
conservatives such as Robert Bork, George Gilder, Michael Novak, and
William Bennett cite as the primary source of cultural decay in the late-
20 th century. James Livingston has taught U.S. history at Rutgers since
And then there is original intent. The wonderful irony of this 1988. His last book was Pragmatism, Feminism, and
concept is that it is the result of exquisitely complicated intellectual Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History
artifice dating back to the late-18 th century. There is no such thing as (Routledge, 2001). He has written on a broad range of topics,
original intent, in other words, in the absence of argument about it in the from the Federal Reserve to “Romeo & Juliet” to “The Little
aftermath of the founding. There has never been any unanimity about
what it was, because there can’t be. For the founders themselves disagreed
Mermaid.” He is under contract to Rowman & Littlefield for a
about the purposes of their new nation, as the conflict between book entitled The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought
“Hamiltonian” and “Jeffersonian” programs in the 1790s (and after) and Culture at the End of the 20th Century.
demonstrates. These purposes are, then, a product of continuing

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