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June 10, If
your graduating year ends in a 5 or a 0, you are celebrating an
anniversary. Questions
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Environmental Engineering Plumbers Club Location: Smith Auditorium, Campus For
more information or reservations, |
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George
Sheehan Five Mile Run and Runners' Expo Redbank, NJ |
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JULY 18
Jasper Cup - Yale, 29 Capital District - Day at the Races |
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July
30-31 The Manahttan College Jasper Dancers will be
performing as part of the NBA's Rhythm N' Rims Tour on in |
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
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I'm kinda blue this week – one Jasper left, 5 obits, and life in general. In one of my other groups, I discussed with one subscriber the need to write our life's story, the lessons we have learned, the notable – remarkable – great – terrible things we have experienced, and recognize those great and terrible people who have helped or hurt us. Upon reflection, there have to be a lot of reasons why we don't do this. Takes effort, who'd read it, hurts to recognize our failures, takes humitiy to admit our mistakes, but probably most of all it's like writing an obit. I know that, when I read a one paragraph obit, it is not doing the individual justice. But, what can I do. So I urge all my fellow alums to put finger to keyboard and share what you have in the way of wisdom, knowledge, information, or even just data. If no one else is, I'm interested in hearing anything you have to say.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44047 Hillary
gets the Catholic out of Catholic college === <begin quote> === A college has been stripped of its status
as a Catholic institution because it invited pro-abortion Sen. Hillary
Clinton, D-N.Y., to give its commencement address and receive an honorary
degree. The decision Thursday by the Archdiocese
of New York to end its relationship with "The decision to honor one of
Congress' most outspoken and strident advocates of abortion rights was just
the latest episode in a long history of secularization at === <end quote> === Boy is this sad. I usually try to inspire and motivate in this space. But, this week all I can do is weep. When “our” institutions of higher learning don’t lead and inspire us, then what hope do we have. One of the reasons to financially support conforming institutions is because they serve as a beacon. Saying to one and all, we’re still here and we believe. UPDATE: The
Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section B; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Catholic News Item Proves To Be Not So New at All BYLINE: By ANDY NEWMAN; Lily Koppel contributed reporting for this article. The
reports spread quickly yesterday through Catholic news services and religious
Web sites: The
Cardinal Newman Society, a group that works to keep Catholic schools Catholic
and had led protests against the scheduling of Mrs. Clinton as the speaker,
announced the news in a press release, in which it applauded the archbishop
of There
were only two problems. Marymount, a liberal arts
school on the And the archdiocese said it had taken no action against Marymount. It, too, has not thought of Marymount as a Catholic school in quite a while. Marymount Manhattan was Catholic at one time. It is the institutional daughter of Marymount College of Tarrytown, which was founded by an order of nuns called the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and still has ties to the Catholic Church. Marymount Manhattan is still listed in the Official Catholic Directory, a 2,000-page tome that has nearly biblical status in Catholic circles. Both the school and the archdiocese said that the listing was an oversight. ''We
haven't been Catholic in quite some time,'' said Margaret Minson,
the college's spokeswoman, who has worked at the school for three years and
said the move long predated her arrival. ''We are independent and
nonsectarian. I can also tell you we are quite excited to have Senator
Clinton here as our commencement speaker. She's worked diligently on behalf
of Senator
Clinton, as the Cardinal Newman Society notes, supports a woman's right to
abortion. The society, based in Last
year, the society identified 20 ''inappropriate commencement speakers'' at
Catholic colleges, including The society also campaigns against college performances of ''The Vagina Monologues,'' or as the society's Web site refers to the play, ''The V***** Monologues.'' While
the spokesman for the Archdiocese of ''She called me yesterday and said 'I can formally confirm that they are not Catholic and are being removed from the Catholic Directory,''' Mr. Reilly said. Mr. Zwilling said he was not aware of any such statement. Mr.
Reilly claims a similar triumph for 2003, when Scott Stoddant, an administrator in academic affairs who left the library cradling a box set of ''Queer as Folk'' DVD's, said the school had been ''pretty much secular since they started accepting men in the 60's.'' Jesse Barton, 21, a theater major on a cigarette break, said she saw little Catholic influence at the school. ''Every now and then, you see a couple of nuns walking around,'' she said. ''We have a chapel. That's about it.'' URL: http://www.nytimes.com LOAD-DATE:
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It’s still sad to see “us” Catholics lose “our” institutions of higher
learning to the Church of the Secular Humanists. It seems quite bizarre for Marymount to retain the name Mary,
a name associated with Jesus’ mother and communicates certain values, as an
appellation for an institution which promulgates the exact opposite values.
Perhaps we should have truth in labeling for institutions. Having been to
dances, back when it was “Catholic”, it saddens me. Perhaps the Leadership of
the Church should insist on a name change when one of these institutions
leaves the flock. And, perhaps, despite the fact that I’d have to change my
internet searches again, it should insist that the institution’s name include
the trademark. Perhaps something like, “ |
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief" John
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OF GLOBAL AD AGENCY JWT AND Bob
Jeffrey, chief executive of JWT and 1975 graduate of RIVERDALE,
N.Y. – Manhattan College alumnus Bob Jeffrey '75, chief executive officer of
global advertising giant JWT (formerly known as J. Walter Thompson), was recently
inducted into the 2005 Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction. All 12
honorees have made outstanding contributions to the state of This
year's class of inductees is comprised of individuals who came to Jeffrey completed a bachelor's degree in English from the College in 1975. He then went on to establish an impressive career in advertising. Before joining JWT in 1998, Jeffrey was executive vice president of Lowe Lintas, where he established the agency's first West Coast operations. Earlier, he co-founded Goldsmith/Jeffrey, a successful start-up that Lowe later acquired. Now one of the most powerful people in the business, Jeffrey continues to focus on revamping JWT's reputation as the oldest and one of the largest advertising brands worldwide. He was nominated to chief executive in January of 2004 after spending five years in several top executive roles, including president of JWT North America. CICU,
which created the Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2000, is a group that
represents the chief executives of Manhattan College, founded in 1853, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate study in education and engineering. ### [Reported
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[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.]
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From:
Michael F. McEneney [1953] Dear
Today I mailed you a detailed
Obituary from the Asbury Park Press for Henry King '42. In reading it, I
thought that it is too bad that we do not know all the good things our fellow
Jaspers do until after they die! One
way of remedying that is for folks to share their accomplishments with Jasper
Jottings ( or if some one knows of an accomplishment
of a fellow Jasper to share that) and eventually with the entire Manhattan
College Community. == From:
Dick Kaufmann KING--Henry
Brazell. Resident of Published: 04 - 28 - 2005 , Late Edition - Final , Section C , Column 1 , Page 18 === Henry
B. King, Brewers Association Chief, 84 Henry
Brazell King, a former president of the United
States Brewers Association and the recipient of a Silver Star in World War
II, died of a heart attack A
resident of Henry B. King was a decorated World War II Navy Reservist and led the United States Brewers Association. In 2000, the beer publication "American Brewer" recognized Mr. King as one of the industry's 50 most significant figures of the millennium, along with Louis Pasteur, William Bass, Adolphus Busch and others. The
magazine highlighted his leadership during an American brewing crisis, the
1966 discovery of cobalt in beer and its link to deaths in the He was tough and decisive when he had to be, but at other times the industry couldn't have had a more convivial representative. A bon vivant and a born storyteller, he enjoyed holding court in the evenings at Duke Ziebert's restaurant. A son recalled that, as a beer industry representative, Mr. King was happy to quaff whatever brew came to the house, although his favorite drink was a whiskey-based Rob Roy. Mr.
King was born in After
graduating from During
the battle of Vella Lavella
in the He was awarded the Silver Star. In his citation, Adm. W.F. "Bull" Halsey noted that King's actions were responsible for the downing of seven Japanese aircraft and the damaging and probable downing of several others. Mr. King's LST carried John F. Kennedy and the crew of PT-109 back to base after the encounter that tore the PT boat in half and left its surviving crew members on a remote island in the South Pacific. Mr. King gave the future president his bunk for the voyage. He was awarded the Purple Heart and 14 combat decorations for his service in the Pacific. = DGH Apr 30, Mr.
King received a law degree from In 1962, after a series of jobs in the food industry, he became president of the United States Brewers Association, a trade group representing domestic and foreign brewers. Henry B. King was a decorated World War II Navy Reservist and led the United States Brewers Association During
his tenure with the brewers association, he developed a close relationship
with the Department of Defense, the beer industry's largest customer. In 1964
and again in 1968, he visited every After
his retirement from the brewers association in 1983, Mr. King taught business
and management at In addition to his teaching, he represented microbrewers before Congress and regulatory agencies as president of the Brewers' Association of America from 1991 to 1999. Mr. King served on numerous boards and commissions, including the National Council on Alcoholism and the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving. From 1963 to 1978, he served on the board of directors of Keep America Beautiful, where he developed the public trash receptacles with the ubiquitous "Pitch-In" logo. Mr. King's first wife, Ottilie Rosina Sandrock, died in 1979. A son from his first marriage, John King, died in 2002. Survivors
include his wife of 25 years, Patricia Roe of Spring Lake Heights; 14
children from his first marriage, Michael King of Montclair, New Jersey,
Henry King Jr. of Kensington, Mary Jarmon of Spring
Lake, Matthew King of Mamaroneck, [JR: Personally I am always touched when I read obits like these. On one hand, I am dismayed that the wisdom, knowledge, information, and just plain data that left with this Jasper. On the other hand, I don’t know what I would have been able to do with it if I had captured it all. That’s why I think that BLOGs are such a great idea. If every Jasper had one and poured their thoughts into it, then WOW what a resource we could give the world. ] [Reported As: 1942 ] |
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Walter
G. Emge, a former vice president and dean at Mr.
Emge, most recently a professor of philosophy at The
He
held several positions at Survivors
include his mother, Gertrude Emge of Services
will be Monday in LOAD-DATE:
== QUADRANGLE The
Quadrangle - News Last
Monday began like any other at After teaching morning classes, Dr. Emge returned home before returning to campus to teach during the afternoon. Due to currently unknown circumstances, a fire began in his home, and Dr. Emge was found unconscious when paramedics and firefighters arrived, and subsequently died upon reaching the hospital. Detectives suspect that the fire may have been caused by a cooking accident. Upon hearing of the accident, the usual chatter of professors having conversations with students and peers was eerily absent. A hush came over the fourth floor of Miguel, as peers of Emge learned of the accident that took the life of their peer. Dr.
Walter G. Emge's last position at In a press release distributed earlier last week, Brother Thomas Scanlan, President of Manhattan College, said "We're shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Walter Emge. Walter's passing is a great loss to our entire college community." After
earning his Ph.D from Emge also held the positions of both Vice President and
Dean of Transylvania University in Cave said, "Dr. Emge and I were both early arrivers on campus, so he spent a lot of time in my office talking over life. Having had both my children in his Ethics class, he was always sure to inquire about them." As
a professor and family friend, Emge took an
interest in Cave's son's basketball career, and an avid baker with her
daughter, with whom he would exchange cookies for banana bread on a regular
basis. Cave continued, "He followed my son's basketball career through
college and became a bake-pal with my daughter. Walter would send her baked
cookies and she would bake him banana bread. Once he left my office, he would
make his rounds and visit with other members of his Dr. Rentaro Hashimoto, Chair of the Philosophy Department, commented on Dr. Emge, saying "He was a very popular teacher: he understood that most of his students were not philosophy majors, and he was good at translating philosophical terms into understandable ideas. For many years, his classes would fill up the earliest since he was so popular with students." A
memorial for Dr. Emge will occur on Tuesday, 10 May
at ### |
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MORTOLA, 94, of Jamesburg, formerly of River Edge, died Thursday. He was a
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Carmine Masiello, 89, He
was born Survivors
include his wife, Etta; daughters Chris Rudacille,
Elsa Gluvna, Donna McElhiney
and Margie Nelson, all of The
visitation will be from Memorial
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From:
Michael F. McEneney [1953] Dear
Attached is an obituary for Judge
Frank S. Rossetti. The obituary states that he was
a Manhattan College Alum. I knew the Judge for many years and never was aware
that he went to May He Rest in Peace, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NY
LAW JOURNAL Frank S. Rossetti Retired Court of Claims Judge Frank S. Rossetti died Sunday. He was 70. Since
1988, Judge Rossetti had served as an acting Judge Rossetti retired in March. A
graduate of He served as assistant counsel to the state commission on the revision of penal law from 1964 to 1968 and as assistant counsel in 1971 to the state Assembly's minority leader, Stanley Steingut. In 1972, at age 37, Judge Rossetti was named to the Court of Claims by then-Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Judge
Rossetti is survived by his wife Carole, his sons,
Frank Rossetti III, a senior trial attorney in the
Garden City law offices of Robert P. Tusa; [MCAlumDB: Two '54 or '58. ] |
[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "updates". These are changes that "pop" in from the various sources that are not really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to alert old friends seeking to reconnect or "youngsters" seeking a networking contact with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in. This is a benefit of freeing up time trying to make email work by "outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "negative updates". These are changes that "pop" in from the various sources that are not really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to alert old friends or "youngsters" that someone they maybe interested in has “drifted off”. Yet another benefit of freeing up time trying to make email work by "outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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News & Observer ( PITTSBORO
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has more than 20 years of public health experience and has worked in He
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Fed News The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate issued the following press release: Official retirement ceremonies today concluded the 44-year federal career of Raymond P. Urtz, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate since its inception in November 1997. Maj. Gen. Paul D. Nielsen (Ret.), former AFRL commander and the commander of Rome Laboratory from 1992 to 1995, was the featured speaker at the event, attended by dozens of current and former laboratory officials. The
general presented Mr. Urtz with the Department of
the Air Force Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award, signed by Brig, Gen.
Perry L. Lamy, current AFRL commander, and a Retirement
Certificate denoting a career in Air Force research and development that
began in Mr.
Urtz was also presented with congratulatory letters
from President George W. Bush and Gen. Gregory S. Martin, commander of Air
Force Materiel Command. In addition, he was given an American flag that had
previously been flown above the U.S. Capital, Mr.
Urtz, a member of the Senior Executive Service,
joined the staff of the Rome Air Development Center (RADC) as a physicist
following graduation from In
addition to a bachelor of science degree in physics from Mr.
Urtz is succeeded by Dr. Donald W. Hanson, formerly
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Wire -American Express Company today announced the appointment of Stephen Squeri, 46, to the position of executive vice president, chief information officer, effective immediately. He formerly served as president of American Express' Global Commercial Card group. Mr. Squeri succeeds Glen Salow, who has accepted a new position as executive vice president of Technologies and Operations for American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA). Earlier this year, American Express announced plans to pursue a spin-off to shareholders of AEFA. The transaction is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2005, subject to certain conditions. As head of the global Technologies organization, Mr. Squeri will be responsible for further strengthening the company's position as an industry leader in the strategic use of technology, and will continue to serve on the company's Global Management Team. "For the critically important position of CIO, we looked for someone who has demonstrated the ability to integrate leading edge technologies into successful business building initiatives, and who possesses a combination of outstanding business acumen, a keen focus on the customer and strong organizational leadership skills," said Ken Chenault, chairman and CEO. "Steve has strengths in all of these areas, as well as a deep and broad knowledge of our core businesses." Mr. Squeri joined American Express as a manager in Travelers Cheque Group (TCG) in 1985 and subsequently held increasingly senior roles in TCG, Worldwide Marketing and Establishment Services (ES). He was named president of the Global Commercial Card group in January of 2002. Mr. Squeri has been responsible for a long list of accomplishments over the course of his 20-year career at American Express, including many instances of effectively using technology to build business. In TCG, he was responsible for developing products and services that automated TC sales and settlement. While in ES, Mr. Squeri led the development of the merchant services Internet strategy, spearheaded the establishment of the ATM network, which was subsequently sold in 2004, and implemented the company's point-of-sale capabilities. He also served as the senior business leader overseeing the company's Y2K efforts, ensuring a seamless transition into the 21st century. Under Mr. Squeri's leadership, Global Commercial Card (GCC) has grown and transformed over the past three years. He created a global infrastructure with a strong leadership team and centralized business and investment planning. Mr. Squeri added global focus to new account acquisition by tripling the proprietary global sales force and opening up new acquisition channels through partnerships with banks, airlines and travel agents. GCC has also invested substantial resources in expanding product and service capabilities and developing technology solutions, which has led to increased client retention and stronger sales. Before joining American Express in 1985, Mr. Squeri spent four years as a management consultant at Arthur Andersen & Co. He
received a bachelor of science and MBA from American Express Company (www.americanexpress.com) is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a world leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel, financial planning, business services, insurance and international banking. CONTACT: American Express Company Judy Tenzer, 212-640-0555 judy.g.tenzer at aexp.com URL: http://www.businesswire.com LOAD-DATE:
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Every
Friday afternoon, four undergraduates from But their commute could soon be as short as a walk across campus. Emboldened by a high-turnout student referendum two years ago that put support for ending the R.O.T.C. ban at 65 percent, a politically eclectic group of undergraduates has raised the program's profile. The
debate has done more than expose predictable fault lines over the Pentagon's
''don't ask, don't tell'' regulations and the war in ''From
the point of view of a veteran of '68 here, which I am, it's a different
world,'' said Allan A. Silver, a professor of sociology, referring to the
year that student protests convulsed the campus. Mr. Silver, who has taught
at More
than three decades after the Vietnam War drove a wedge between ''There certainly is opposition, and there are issues that need to be dealt with,'' said Michael M. Segal, a neurologist and Harvard alumnus who runs Advocates for R.O.T.C., an umbrella group for campus R.O.T.C. supporters. ''But there's more interest now than there has been at any time since the early 1960's.'' The
interest has been greatest by far at Since
then, periodic attempts by students and alumni to bring it back in some form
or another have been rebuffed, though But
that began to change in 2003, when Sean Wilkes, a soft-spoken ''All
they could think of was people marching back and forth like in Monty
Python,'' recalled Mr. Wilkes, now a junior and the head of Advocates for He
and his fellow advocates soon found support not only from alumni who had
served in the military, but also from many fellow students. That April, Mr.
Wilkes and his group persuaded the student council of Last month , the task force's 10 members deadlocked on whether to favor letting the R.O.T.C. return to campus next year. But significantly, all but one voted in favor of inviting the program back should Congress reverse the military ban on service by people who are openly gay. ''I don't think this is a partisan issue,'' said Nathan C. Walker, a doctoral student and a co-chairman of the task force. Mr. Walker voted against the R.O.T.C.'s immediate return; like many students, he feels that the arguments favoring it do not outweigh the potential violation of the university's nondiscrimination policies. But, he says, ''I think reasonable people have come to all different conclusions based on different rationales.'' Many
students and faculty members, for example, point to Sept. 11 and the war in ''People
were certainly more willing to speak up in favor of military service during
the war in Afghanistan and even during the war in Iraq,'' said Shane Hachey, an Army veteran who graduated from That sentiment is echoed among today's young people, a generation that was weaned on volunteerism and has never faced a military draft. In July 2001, according to national surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center, 29 percent of respondents aged 18 to 29 had a ''very favorable'' opinion of the military. By June 2004, that number had risen to 45 percent. Some
partisans in the ''My
grandfather was in the military, and my father encouraged me to apply to the The
thousands of dollars in financial assistance that the R.O.T.C. provides
cadets is also a major factor in the debate at ''Two
values which are important to The
military has its own concerns about a potential move to bring R.O.T.C. to
those Ivy League schools that do not have a program on campus, which besides ''We want to be represented in every segment of our society, and to have all those segments represented in the military,'' said William Carr, the Defense Department's deputy under secretary for personnel matters. ''But when a campus is less than interested in the military, it shows up in student enrollment and in turn makes the school less attractive to the military.'' That was one reason the Pentagon did not put up much of a fight against anti-R.O.T.C. protests during the Vietnam era; instead, it opened more R.O.T.C. units in the South, and instituted cross-enrollment arrangements elsewhere. ''It became obvious that many small liberal arts colleges were not going to be economically viable as R.O.T.C. units, both because they were producing relatively few officers and because these students didn't need the money,'' said Michael Neiberg, author of ''Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service.'' But
soaring tuition, along with the emotional appeal of service, has helped boost
the R.O.T.C.'s attractiveness at elite schools like
''We have access to campus and quite a good working relationship with the president of the university,'' said Lt. Col. Brian L. Baker, the unit commander, referring to Lawrence H. Summers of Harvard, who has attended the R.O.T.C.'s commissioning ceremonies and hired a bus line to shuttle Harvard's cadets to M.I.T. Students
there are formally attached to the R.O.T.C. unit at Though
a decision on R.O.T.C. has yet to be made at The senate will hold a nonbinding vote this month, leaving the issue before the university president, Lee C. Bollinger, and the trustees. URL: http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC:
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From:
Michael F. McEneney [1953] Dear John, The Westchester Section of Sunday's NY Times (May 1, ) has an article on page 4 about how a Manhattan Professor of Physics (Rodney Yoder) gets along in Suburbia without owning a car. I thought that you might find it of interest. Best, == The
OF all the suburban family necessities, a car can be listed right up there along with food and shelter. How else would those bags of groceries get home or the kids arrive at soccer practice? Rodney
Yoder is one of the few who seem to get a kick out of challenging that
conventional wisdom. Since he and his wife, Juliette
Wells, moved to Enter Zipcar, the car service that allows the few counterintuitive suburbanites like Mr. Yoder to reserve a car any day of the year -- usually for a few hours, but occasionally for a couple of days -- for an annual $50 fee. Nearly
two years after its pilot program began in Mr.
Yoder is in fairly lonely company: There are only about 100 members in The
company started in In
''This system will surely be more successful and more utilized in the urban areas,'' said Julian Espiritu, regional vice president of Zipcar. ''But if it is near a transportation hub, most of the time you will use mass transit to go place to place and have a car as secondary. This is saying you may not have to do that.'' Suburbanite members, he added, are likely to be families who only own one car because someone works in the city and primarily uses the train. In
that way, the carless Yoders
are the exception rather than the rule. Both Mr. Yoder, a physics professor
at ''This is exactly what we wanted,'' Mr. Yoder said. ''We really don't need a car except for a place far off the train line that we have to get to in a hurry or the occasional weekend trip.'' In
2003, when Zipcar first came to the county, a car
was made available at the ''It's really a low risk for us,'' said Marjorie Anders, a Metro-North spokeswoman. ''It shows the train is not just for commuters.'' For all the expectations, no one thinks there's much hope of changing the car-dependent culture of suburbia. ''When
people have known us for a while and don't realize we don't have a car, we
cause quite a stir,'' Mr. Yoder said. But he acknowledges that they've had an
easier time here than they did during their years in His
only current complaint is that the ''It
will never get to the level of scale of URL: http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC:
Photos: Rodney Yoder, with a Zipcar that he just
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second runner-up honors at the Getting
At
the end of May, directly following the Do
Students Take Advantage of Although
Tennis Wins Second MAAC Championship By Kieran O'Shea. The Manhattan College Men's Tennis team did exactly what everyone expected to do; demolish the competition. According ... |
The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to attend one of these games and support "our" team.
Date Day Sport Opponent
Location Time/Result
5/8/05 Sunday M. Lacrosse MAAC
Championships$ Poughkeepsie, NY TBA
5/8/05 Sunday Softball Siena* HOME
9:00 AM
5/8/05 Sunday Track & Field MAAC
Championships (at Rider) Lawrenceville,
NJ 11:00 AM
5/8/05 Sunday Baseball Canisius* HOME 12:00 PM
5/10/05 Tuesday Baseball St.
Francis-NY HOME 3:30 PM
5/11/05 Wednesday Baseball Sacred
Heart HOME 3:30 PM
5/12/05 Thursday Track & Field
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Princeton, NJ 10:00 AM
5/13/05 Friday Softball at MAAC
Championships% Stratford, CT TBD
5/13/05 Friday Crew Dad Vail
Regatta
5/13/05 Friday Track & Field
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Princeton, NJ 10:00 AM
5/14/05 Saturday Crew Dad Vail
Regatta
5/14/05 Saturday Softball at MAAC
Championships% Stratford, CT TBD
5/14/05 Saturday M. Lacrosse NCAA
Championships TBA TBA
5/14/05 Saturday Track & Field
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Princeton, NJ 10:00 AM
5/14/05 Saturday Baseball Le Moyne* (DH)
HOME 12:00 PM
5/15/05 Sunday Softball at MAAC
Championships% Stratford, CT TBD
5/15/05 Sunday Track & Field
IC4A/ECAC Championships
Princeton, NJ 10:00 AM
5/15/05 Sunday Baseball Le Moyne* HOME 12:00 PM
5/17/05 Tuesday Baseball St.
John's Jamaica, NY 7:00 PM
5/19/05 Thursday Baseball Fairfield*
(DH) Fairfield, CT 12:00 PM
5/20/05 Friday Baseball Fairfield* Fairfield, CT 12:00 PM
5/26/05 Thursday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/27/05 Friday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/27/05 Friday Track & Field NCAA Regionals %
5/28/05 Saturday Baseball MAAC
Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
5/28/05 Saturday Track & Field NCAA
Regionals %
5/29/05 Sunday Baseball MAAC Championships& Fishkill, NY TBA
6/3/05 Friday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/4/05 Saturday Baseball NCAA Regional TBA TBA
6/5/05 Sunday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/6/05 Monday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/7/05 Tuesday Baseball NCAA
Regional TBA TBA
6/8/05 Wednesday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/9/05 Thursday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/10/05 Friday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/11/05 Saturday Track & Field NCAA
Championships
6/23/05 Thursday Track & Field
USATF Championships $
6/23/05 Thursday Track & Field
USATF Junior Championships $
6/24/05 Friday Track & Field USATF
Junior Championships $
6/24/05 Friday Track & Field USATF
Championships $
6/25/05 Saturday Track & Field
USATF Championships $
6/25/05 Saturday Track & Field
USATF Junior Championships $
6/26/05 Sunday Track & Field USATF
Junior Championships $
6/26/05 Sunday Track & Field USATF
Championships $
If you do go support "our" teams, I'd appreciate any reports or photos. What else do us old alums have to do?
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BASEBALL ADDS SEVENTH MEMBER TO CLASS OF 2009 Riverdale, NY (May 6, 2005)- Manhattan College head baseball coach Steve Trimper announced that Michael Gazzola (White Plains, NY/Iona Prep) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball for the Jaspers beginning in the Fall of 2005. Gazzola becomes the seventh player of the Jasper Baseball Class of 2009. more... MEN'S LACROSSE TO VIE FOR MAAC CHAMPIONSHIP THIS WEEKEND Riverdale, NY (May 5, 2005)- Heading into this weekend's MAAC Championships as the third seed, the Manhattan men's lacrosse team will take on second-seeded Mount St. Mary's for the second time in less than a week, as the Jaspers will face the Mount Friday at 4:00 pm at Marist in the semifinals of the 2005 MAAC Championships. more... WOMEN’S LACROSSE TRAVEL TO Riverdale, NY (May 5, 2005)- The women's lacrosse team will be traveling down to Emmitsburg, MD on Friday, May 6 to play Mt. St. Mary's at 2 p.m for the chance to advance to the NCAA Division I Tournament. Tickets are $5 for adults, $2 for students and children 10 and under will be admitted free. more... WARMINGTON NAMED MAAC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR Poughkeepsie, NY (May 5, 2005)- Manhattan defenseman Brett Warmington was named the 2005 MAAC Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year, while eighth-year head coach Tim McIntee was named Co-Coach of the Year. The Jaspers placed six student-athletes on the All-MAAC teams, including three All-MAAC First Team selections. Seven Jaspers were also named to the MAAC All-Academic Team. more... FORDHAM DEFEATS SOFTBALL, 7-2 |
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was a busy week for Bronder pitched a no-hitter in a 1-0 victory over The 6-foot-2, 188-pound right-hander faced the minimum 21 batters in the seven-inning game. The two runners he walked were erased by double plays. Teammate Nunzio Franzese homered in the fourth inning. For the season, Bronder is 3-2 with a 5.14 earned run average. He's pitched in nine games and made five starts, the no-hitter his first complete game. In 35 innings, Bronder has given up 31 hits, 25 runs (20 earned) with 13 walks and 14 strikeouts. Bronder, a team co-captain, will get another start this
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impressive for The Huskies may look to get some work for either Matt Karl or Jeff Hourigan, neither of whom have pitched since last week. Karl last took the mound April 20 against Army, holding his own through six innings and allowing four earned runs. Hourigan pitched a day later in relief against Quinnipiac, lasting 5 1/3 innings and holding his own before crashing and allowing five runs in the bottom of the seventh. UConn will return home after today's game for a
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John Harold [1964] got this through the newsgroup so I think I'm OK -- but an E-mail change from <privacy invoked> to <privacy invoked> --- thanks!!! and thanks for the hard work!!! [JR:
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Don Stebbins (1961) Dear Jasper John, The
following article gives a short history of poverty levels in the I
should also add that this history is more in line with what I learned in
Political Science and Social Theology courses at Donald
M Stebbins = From: The Reader's Companion to American History Houghton Mifflin, Publisher POVERTY Although Americans have long celebrated their nation's wealth and the abundance of its resources, poverty has been omnipresent in American history. From the colonial period to the present day, large numbers of Americans have been poor: they have lacked the resources to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves adequately according to socially defined standards. Just how many Americans have lived in poverty over the course of more than three centuries is impossible to gauge; not only are data scarce, but the definition of poverty has changed too often (and is too subject to debate) to permit precise measurement. Nonetheless, there can be no doubt that poverty, as a personal condition and as a social problem, has long been a prominent feature of the economic and social landscape. Poverty
was certainly widespread during the settlement decades of the seventeenth
century. Most settlers in the In
the course of the eighteenth century, poverty became a more visible social
problem, particularly in the port cities of the North. While farmers who
lived on marginal lands continued to inhabit a world of scarcity, the urban
centers witnessed a significant growth in the number of wage earners who became
destitute whenever commerce flagged or serious economic dislocations
occurred. In Despite
economic growth fueled by agricultural expansion and the Industrial
Revolution, the problem of poverty did not become any less acute in the
nineteenth century. Rural poverty persisted, particularly in the South; at
the same time, the nation witnessed enormous population growth, rapid
urbanization, and the formation of a large industrial working class most of
whose members were either poor or could easily become so during hard times.
It was in this century, particularly after 1870, that the social problem of
poverty began to be identified primarily with urban society and crowded urban
ghettos. In 1904, in his pioneering study, Poverty, Robert Hunter, citing
Jacob Riis, noted that 10 percent of the people who
died in The twentieth century witnessed a significant, yet unsteady, decline in the overall incidence of poverty (as well as a dramatic improvement in the acquisition of data bearing on the issue). Increases in real wages permitted many blue-collar Americans to cross the poverty line during the first quarter of the century, but the Great Depression reversed the gains that had been made. When Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed, in 1937, that "one-third" of the nation was "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," he was understating the problem: in fact, the poverty rate was probably closer to 40 or 45 percent. After the Great Depression, however, the proportion of Americans living in poverty dropped sharply: according to government statistics, the figure stood at 30 percent in 1950, 20 percent in 1960, 13 percent in 1968, and 11 percent in 1973. Although these percentages meant that millions of people remained poor (23 million lived in official poverty in 1973), they suggested that the extraordinary growth of the economy between 1940 and the early 1970s was gradually eradicating the problem. Unfortunately, this benign statistical trend came to a halt in the 1970s and reversed itself after 1980. During the depression of the early 1980s, the poverty rate rose above 15 percent; in 1988, well after the depression had ended, it stood at 13 percent, reflecting the poverty of 32 million people—8 million more than had been officially poor a decade earlier. Throughout these years, poverty afflicted some segments of the population far more than others. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, more poor people lived in rural areas than in cities; although less visible and perhaps less dramatic, rural poverty was just as debilitating as its urban counterpart, and there were millions of rural families who experienced chronic or periodic distress well into the twentieth century. Many of these families eventually responded to their plight by migrating to the cities; indeed, after 1940, when technological transformations in agriculture precipitated a massive exodus from the land, the number of poor people living in rural areas declined substantially. This
exodus was most pronounced in the South, which had always been the nation's
poorest region. In the late nineteenth century, poverty was far more
widespread in all the southern states than in any others; as late as 1930,
one-fourth of the population of the South lived in housing that typically
lacked indoor plumbing, electricity, or running water. Only after World War
II did the gap between the South and the rest of the country narrow
noticeably, as a result both of the diversification of the In
both urban and rural Two other dimensions of the distribution of poverty warrant mention. First, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the elderly constituted a relatively high percentage of the poor or, at least, the dependent poor. But in the mid-twentieth century, as a result of both private pension plans and the Social Security system, the incidence of poverty among the elderly declined. And second, at roughly the same time, the problem became increasingly rampant among women and children. In 1988, more than half of all poor families were headed by women, and nearly 40 percent of the nation's poor were children. Public perceptions and understandings of poverty have changed considerably over the years. In the seventeenth-century world where scarcity was commonplace, the existence of poverty was regarded as natural, inescapable, and divinely sanctioned. The poor—meaning the overtly needy and dependent—were to be helped and pitied, but their poverty did not necessarily reflect on their characters, nor was their presence an emblem of societal failure. Only in the nineteenth century did a more secular, moralistic view of poverty become widespread; as urban industrial poverty became more common, so too did the conviction that people became poor because of personal flaws. As more and more able-bodied men and women began to show up in the ranks of the poor, public attitudes hardened: paupers were regarded as improvident, drunken, lazy, or promiscuous. Poverty, in most but not all cases, was construed as a sign of individual failure; the distinction between the "worthy" and the "unworthy" poor became an important one in middle-class perceptions of the working class. In
some circles, at least, this moralistic view was succeeded by a structural
understanding of poverty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Social reformers, Robert Hunter among them, launched numerous
investigations of the problem and concluded that the causes of poverty, in
the vast majority of cases, were societal rather than personal: unsteady
employment rather than sloth, according to Hunter, was the most common source
of poverty among urban workers. (This fact—and indeed the structural
understanding of poverty—was already well known
among workers themselves.) These reformers also transformed the definition of
the social problem of poverty: they argued that pauperism or dependence was
merely the tip of the iceberg, that the real poverty problem in the Not surprisingly, these shifts in understanding and attitudes, coupled with the changes that occurred in the composition of the poor population, led to a succession of public responses to the problem. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, local communities or counties assumed responsibility for caring for their own poor (or at least the dependent poor, who were most commonly either the aged or the infirm). Poor people lacking a legal residence were "warned out" of town, but those who did belong either were given "outdoor" relief (while they remained in their own homes) or were cared for in individual households or almshouses, with the cost shared by the community. The nineteenth century, however, witnessed a series of reforms in these customary practices, reforms that were often aimed at lowering the cost of poor relief as well as helping the poor. Large public poorhouses, designed both to rehabilitate and isolate the indigent, were institutionalized during the first half of the century. And in subsequent decades the "scientific charity" movement successfully promoted the abolition, or diminution, of public outdoor relief; the new charity experts also insisted that private agencies carefully investigate and screen the poor to weed out the able-bodied and to separate the "worthy" from the "unworthy." The most significant policy changes to occur in modern American history were those promulgated during the New Deal. Responsibility for providing aid to the poor was, to a considerable degree, shifted from municipalities and states to the federal government; the unemployed and the elderly were provided with social insurance; public assistance for some of the disabled and infirm, as well as dependent children, became an "entitlement." These programs vastly enlarged the support available to the poor and, coupled with the rapid economic growth that began in 1940, led many Americans to conclude that poverty was a problem of the past. The rediscovery of poverty amidst great plenty in the 1960s came then as a shock to middle-class Americans, a shock that helped launch attacks on poverty by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty—an assembly of large-scale federal programs targeted at a variety of subpopulations—achieved some tangible results, but it did not come close to its widely publicized goal of conquering the problem. In its aftermath, few innovative or significant public policies were put into place; indeed, one of the central tenets of the Republican administrations of the 1970s and 1980s was that the problem of poverty was best addressed by promoting private-sector economic growth. Just why poverty has been so persistent—why more than 30 million people remain poor—is a much-debated issue. Some analysts have argued that the rate of economic growth has been insufficient to eradicate poverty, whereas others maintain that the cause resides more in the maldistribution of income. Some see the poor as lacking the skills or the will to escape their condition; others see the economy as dependent upon the poor to provide a low-wage labor force for industry and agriculture. Some critics have argued that government programs have not been sufficiently extensive or adequately funded to achieve their goals; others have claimed that such programs were always designed not to cure the problem but to discipline and regulate the poor. This lack of agreement, about the diagnosis and the prescription, has long been characteristic of twentieth-century public discourse about poverty. Yet, as the century drew to a close, both policy experts and the citizenry as a whole seemed to be less optimistic than they once were that the problem could, or would, be eradicated at all. Robert
H. Bremner, From the Depths: The Discovery of
Poverty in the = [JR: Wow! That is a tough read. And, I am not
sure that I understand or agree with many of the facts, claims, or
assertions. I think political leanings and biases can be detected in several
places. E.G.: “No definition but nonetheless”; “One third are ill-” or my
personal favorite “maldistribution of income”. As
if “income” was something to be distributed? I am not sure what you expect me
to do with this. The poor we will always have with us. I am not sure that
there even is an agreed on definition of what “poor” means. I like the one
quote from somewhere about the immigrant who when asked why he wanted to come
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Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings TJH: Care to share why? I can't fix, improve, or grow without your perspective. If you feel like it, no pressure, just curious, John'68 ------------ From:
Thomas J. Hickey [1957] John It’s very straightforward. I simply got tired of your rants (whether or not you see them that way is irrelevant) when someone presented a thought or position that differed from your rigid right-wing position. I don’t see why you find it necessary to make these commentaries when you could just as easily let the contributors’ thoughts be what they are: opinions. You seem to not take into consideration that there just may be some thoughtful people on the other side of the aisle who have life and educational experiences different from yours that cause them to think as they do. They are not bad people, nor are they mistaken. They simply come down in a different place. Rather than your assuming the role of defender of the faith, it would be much more helpful to let others in the audience do so, if they see fit. We all appreciate the hard work
and long hours you put in publishing so complete a Good luck in your future efforts, == Sent:
Thanks
Jasper Hickey for the sharing. One can only learn from the viewpoints of
others. I always thought that I was respectful of others opinions. I think
that ddStebins will attest that I have completely
and carefully put his thoughts into Jottings. Even though, I think I disagree
with him, I wanted to ensure that he words were accurately copied in. I paid
special attention to those insertions. I have an item on by final check list
to reread "opposing" emails for completeness and spelling. (I'll
argue against an idea. But, I wouldn't denigrate someone's contribution
unfairly by letting spelling or grammar typos to creep in and act as a
detriment. In email sometimes one's speed of thought exceeds their typing
skill. There is fairness in argument. And to me making one of our fellow
Jaspers look bad, or silly because of a typo in the
argument, while it may be funny, detracts from the serious nature of the
dialogue. I never went for the cheap laffs or cheap
shots. As the editor, I have huge advantage in that I can see my final
product. So I tried to extend that courtesy to our fellow Jaspers. If
something just didn't look right, I'd seek a clarification rather than just
push it out the door.) Interesting in
that I don't think of myself as right or left. I really don't like the
positions of EITHER side of the aisle. And, in my mind, opinions are
something to be discussed. Not left like a lump on the road of life. One of
the reasons I do Jottings is because I always treasured the time in Plato's
Cave or the Engineering cafeteria, where anyone was free spout off and be
told that they were out of their mind. I certainly don't see myself as the
possessor of the "truth", nor do I see myself as a Defender of the
Faith. I'd reserve those roles for people like the Thomas’s -- Aquinas and
Becket. And, far better educated, practiced debaters, more pious religious
spiritual than I, and certainly better equipped than I. I have over the years
come to a realization that the Constitutional recognition and the Church
taught Right to Life is a much more serious issue than I had ever given it
consideration. In the famous message thread with the now deceased Jasper
ex-mayor of [JR:
Sigh. I really don't think I'm so bad. And, "defender of the
faith"? I got enough trouble just getting to work without committing a
mortal sin. It's only venial to send bad thoughts at the left lane Richards
and the tailgating tummies. Make me remember the ex-mayor. Now he really got
upset with me. Questioning the honesty and sincerity of all politicians. How
dare I. That's as close as I got to being sued for Jottings. ] |
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Gerald McCarthy [1965] Rudy Giuliani is a member of the class of 1965, not 1969. Gerald
P. McCarthy = Sent:
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Michael F. McEneney [1953] Dear John, While over at the College this morning I met the new Publications Officer, Jennifer Ernst and told her about Jasper Jottings and she said she would be interested in getting on the "list". I told her that I would ask you to send her an invitation. Her e-mail address is: <privacy invoked> Thanks for all you do, == Sent:
Ahh Mike, too much time on your hands, if you can be hanging around the College. ;-) Now, if you said you were in the Engineering cafeteria hustling the students at bridge or pinochle, that I could understand. (Do the student still do that?) Any way, invite extended. FYI, anyone who wants to join can sned an email to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and include in the body of the message their rationale or connection to the College and I'll approve them asap. If saves a lot of steps and emails. and is a standard facility of all the Yahoo Groups. Later, == From:
Michael F. McEneney Dear John, I have printed out the e-mail that you sent to me on how to subscribe to Jasper Jottings. I will try and find it the next time I have a candidate. Best, == From:
Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings It's pretty easy to remember. It is just the group name Distribute Underscore Jasper underscore Jottings dash the word "subscribe" at yahoo dot com. The construction is the same for any Yahoo group. I guess that is why I remember it. That, and it's on the front page at the bottom of the Yahoo group. Good to chat, John ps, any one can give out the address. |
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Maria Khury [1977] DID YOU REGISTER? DO YOU KNOW AN ALUMNI ? HELP US SPREAD THE WORD...PLEASE FORWARD !!! CLICK BELOW FOR THE REGISTRATION FORM. THE SOCIAL IS MAY 12-THURSDAY----NOT MAY 17TH AS INDICATED ON THE FORM. !! THANKS, MK:-) http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/events/frame2.html PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS E-MAIL. THIS
EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL REGISTRATION TO ATTEND IS REQUIRED. CLICK ABOVE LINK. MANHATTAN COLLEGE Latino Alumni Club Spring Social MCLAC Thursday,
May 12th @ Location:
(Just down the street from Only $20 per person Includes: 2 Drinks, Tickets, Music and Hot & Cold Hor d' oeuvres Free Parking (At college's main parking lot) REGISTRATION REQUIRED! [JR: I reopened the issue because of the date confusion. Now I don't know why she's yelling. (All caps is yelling in Email.) It soesn't help to get your message thru. To sensitive souls like me it's garish and jarring. But, I'm sure she meant well and maybe trying to organize these things is stressful enough. SO as always we cut people a lot a lotta slack. Heck, we even let liberals publish here. ;-) So since there is no 'faith to be defended" or right wing topic to rant about. I'll just shut up. ;-) Have to be able to laff at yourself even when you crying. Besides she didn't laff when I jabbed about I'm not young enough to be a "Young Alum", not old enough to be a "Old Florida Alum", maybe I'm "Latin" enough to be invited to this. I thought it was funny. Maybe she's distracted. My weird sense of humor has me in addition to the holiday cards I send to my Jewish acquaintances on thieir holidays, I also send a StPat's card saying on StP's day everyone is Irish. I get a lot of good feedback about that. It's about inclusion. Now, (let's see if I can provoke a rise out of some lurking alumni), if I knew the patron saint of Poleand, I could send out a cards that say "Everyone's a stupid Polak on Saint <insert name of Polish Patron Saint here>'s day!". Hmm, maybe that wouldn't be appreciated enough. Besides, unless they self identify, how do we know anyone's ancestry? Well, I guess we'll have to stick to insulting their big feet! Most women thing their feet are too big. ] |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/18/143115.shtml Favoring a Flat Tax Proposal Paul Weyrich ===<begin quote>=== I have been blessed with a good wife who is a wonderful mother and a superb grandmother. It is hard to complain about her after nearly 42 years of marriage. I know I have been blessed far more than I deserve. The only substantive problem Joyce has presented is this: She insists on doing our taxes. Her point is that average Americans should be familiar with the tax code and how to apply it. She says that if every taxpayer prepared his own tax return, we would have real reform immediately. <extraneous deleted> I know the president is continuing his Social Security tour, which has convinced people that there is a problem. The president yet must succeed in getting the public to accept his solution. At some point, he must assess the status of the Social Security fight and either postpone his initiative or call for action. At that point, presumably, he will switch to tax code amendment proposals. He has a bipartisan commission which will recommend to him changes in the tax code. I hope that commission will recommend a flat tax and, if so, that the president will go all out to sell it. If the public really understands how fair a flat tax could be, the public would buy it. And then at tax time it would take Joyce about an hour to do our taxes. She would not age in doing so and we would be taxed fairly, which would mean more money for church and charities. ===<end quote>=== As much as it troubles me to pay the taxes, it troubles me more to see the Barbara Striesand that is going on around these issues. While I am always reluctant to disagree with people who have earned my respect, in this case, I’ll make an exception. Paul should know better! (1) Social Security is a Ponzi welfare scheme. (2) Income Tax is unconscionable theft of our neighbor’s current and future labor. (3) Property Tax is like paying rent to the government. (4) Government skools are instrument of propaganda and temples to the new religion of secular humanism. (5) The Federal Reserve with its printing press of fiat currency imposes the hidden tax of inflation on everyone by debasing the value of a dollar. I am hard pressed to say which is the worst. But I find NO persuasive argument for a flat tax. In theory, if one had to fund a government from scratch, one would not choose an “income tax”. The transaction cost is huge. Complying with it is stunning effort. The underground and cash economies evade it. And, in principle, it’s just wrong. Taxation is theft done with a veneer of legality. So why should we allow “them” to change it. The dead old white guys had the correct solution for restricting the amount of money government had to waste by restricting it to what it could extract at the ports of entry. This serves to level the playing field in international trade. Taxes paid here go into a domestic producers cost of goods sold. Imports avoid those taxes. So we compete in a race with one foot in a bucket of cement. But most of all, it allows people to chose whether to pay the tax or not in the first place. |
And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon
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