From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Reports from the Heartland
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 21:40:17 GMT

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Reports from the Heartland
Gary Ashwill, Take This!

The Great Campus Credit  Card Kickback Caper
	It sure is swell being a campus leader. You get recognition, 
privileges and fabulous networking opportunities, plus great perks.
	Just the other day, for instance, we leaders all got an offer in the mail 
from an organization called On Campus. The envelope read, "Earn extra 
credit without increasing your course load." Inside, On Campus told us 
about a fundraising scheme they had cooked up--members of needy student 
groups can sell credit cards on campus, earning "up to $2.50 for each 
completed and signed application...To earn your $1000, all you have to do is 
collect between 200 and 400 applications (the choice is yours) from any of the 
credit cards available."
	Sounds good, huh? Get out there and scrape up some profits for 
Citibank, American Express, etc., and get bucks for your cause in return.
	But that's not all. Get this: if you do well enough, On Campus will 
pay you (us leaders, that is) "dollar for dollar, up to $1000, the exact amount 
we pay to the club."
	"That's right! If your club is one of the ten most productive between 
Jan 1, 1992 and April 30, 1992, we'll not only pay your club...but we'll also 
pay to you the exact same amount."
	It didn't take long to fully appreciate the brilliance of this marketing 
ploy. It harnesses not only the energies of students wanting to help their 
clubs or causes; it also harnesses the individual greed of leaders like us, an 
unbeatable combination. Of course, the non-leaders who make up the bulk 
of most groups' membership don't need to know about this understanding 
between On Campus and us leaders (still less the poor dupes who actually 
get credit cards from us). Little do they suspect that all their hard work and 
all those usurious interest rates will, in addition to helping out our student 
groups, line their leaders' pockets as well.
	So look for credit card-pushing student groups the next couple of 
months. Sign up for one. Come on, at least one of those gas or department 
store cards. You can afford that. It's the least you can do for the leadership 
only we can provide. 

Lawrence, Kansas Basks in Official "Point of Light"
	Lawrence is officially the 691st Point of Light, according to the Bush 
Administration.
	Health Care Access, a local non-profit group dedicated to providing 
health care to low income residents of Douglas County, was informed of the 
honor in February.
	The Point of Light campaign was started by the Bush Administration 
to recognize non-profit, private sector charities and other organizations. 
The term "point of light" derives from one of Bush's speeches, in which he 
called for "a thousand points of light" to emerge and carry the 
government's burden of compassion and caring for the underprivileged. 
Worthy groups and individuals are designated "points of light" and 
assigned a number.
	"It (the points of light campaign) gives people pats on the back for 
tackling social ills the government won't touch," said Health Care Access 
employee Brian Schwegmann. "In my opinion, at least, I don't see Health 
Care Access as a permanent solution to Douglas County's health care 
problems."
	Health Care Access is the recent beneficiary of a federal grant which 
will allow it to remain open full time. At present, the clinic is staffed only by 
volunteer doctors and one part-time nurse; the grant will enable the hiring 
of a full time nurse practitioner.
	"It's weird being the tool of domestic policy nobody here really 
believes in," said Schwegmann. "It's getting awfully close to 1,000, and 
things don't seem to be getting much better."

Feminist = Suspect
	Women at Northwestern University experienced a campus roundup 
of a different sort in January after a shady looking package was delivered to 
the office of NU's president Arnold Weber. When the local bomb squad 
declared this postal hot potato harmless, a hunt for the perpetrator began. 
Since the package, according to federal postal inspector Dennis Piel 
"centered around feminist issues" many women activists were called in for 
questioning. Activists protested in outrage that women were suspected of 
making bomb threats either because they wrote a feminist editorial in the 
campus paper or were active with women's issues. Piel claimed that, 
"people being interviewed are not necessarily suspects." So then...why were 
they interviewed? Hmmmm.
	If that weren't enough, women at NU got another dose of criminal 
treatment when a gang of goons raided the campus and pitched stacks of 
the latest n magazine along with flyers advertising it. Apparently the 
rascals were duded up in black jackets, sunglasses, boots and bell caps, hell 
bent on assuring that no one reads that fine publication. And why? The 
magazine was running an article called "Guerrilla Graffiti," which 
concerned NU women who had written names of rapists on campus in 
bathroom stalls a la Brown University. Although it's beside the point, the 
article itself didn't point the finger at any men; it was neither for or against 
this unfortunate phenomena. Don't any of you maniacs out there try that 
with Take This! (Box 46, 400 Kansas Union, Lawrence, KS 66045.)

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