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Hostile Wife wins after all!
After a long and seemingly endless discussion
that lasted
5
hours and twenty-nine minutes and
forty-six second, the homecoming committee final–
ly gave in and recounted the votes cast for the
Homecoming Queen of 1989. The results of the
committee's recount clearly indicates that Hostile
Woman won the Homecomming Queen award.
The pressure was exerted from a delegation
formed by Hostile Man and his wife. They formed
this delegation, according to Hostile Man, because
"she [Mrs Hostile Man] was not even on the
BEEP
ballot. That is just not
BEEP
fair. I want to
BEEP
know
if
everyone
BEEP
knew that." lam Awe–
some, a representative of the homecoming commit–
tee, responded to the accusations: "I am sick and
tired of this. I want to go home." A observer close
to the discussing meant that "a factor, which had
alot of weight, was the demonstration they had."
Wesome is referring to the demonstration the
delegation organized last Sunday behind the print
shop. Officials from the Homecoming committee
say there "were about five people at the place." A
official from the delegation counted about 245.879
people. The San Diego Police, which was present at
the beginning of the demonstration, said they saw
9.456 people.
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Vista Makes News Of Its Own On Channel 10 News
The city ofSan Diego had trouble accepting
Vista's editor-in-chief, Kent Sligh's, attempt
at satire. Kent Sligh published his editorial, in
the September 19, 1989 issue of the Vista,
concerning the topic of minorities at USD.
He made comments on the role of minor–
ities at USD, "Okay, I reali1.e that we need a
few of them to cut the grass and cook for us,
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but do we have to put up with minority students?" Kent Sligh also stated
some reasons why he feels we should not have minorities here, "Also they
clash with this school's white architecture. It's unsightly ... State is a good
place for minorities, they have all kinds of different colored buildings.
President Hughes advocates ethnic diversity on campus. Ethnic diversity
is a goal that the university hopes to achieve. Kent's opinion on that goal
is,
"I guess it's okay to say we are trying for ethnic diversity if it makes the
school look better to outsiders, but I don't want us to actually do any thing
about It."
Kent Sligh used his current exposure to minorities as defense of his
statements "I watch the Cosby Show. I party in Tijuana. I eat at Chinese
restaurant; two or three times a year. I know about ethnic folk."
Kent suggests "that we stop letting ethnic people in this school before it's
too late."
Vista readers read the Kent's editorial and read the "Note: The article
above is sature." But some felt Kent Sligh had pushed the limit. The general
public found Kent's attempt at satire
too
hard to swallow. Using direct
comments open-ended statements are all part of the Vista's ideals in
reporting the news. Anewspaper plays an important role in stating "how It
Is," and this was definitely their attribute this past school year!
Another Kents editorial. See page
92
Censorship!!
After a long stand-off
between the Associated
Students and the Edito–
rial
Board of the Vista. a
picture was finally cen–
sored. Kent Sligh, the
Editor-in-chief, said that
the censorship was a
"letdown, but also a vie~
tory, because we are
al–
lowed to print
it"
''The whole year we
were fearing that we
might be censored," said
Sports Editor Murphy
Canter. "Especially my
section was looked at
closely." Indeed the
sports sectionoftheVista
was watched carefully
and
read with great en–
thusiasm from both the
Administration and the
students alike.
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