The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1997 Page: 4 of 28
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THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 1997
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So hero’s my problem. I’m thinking it’s going to be a long season,
and I’m in the market for a few, good, under-used, over-inflated, out-of-
the-park sjkhIs cliches to get me through it.
Of course, as they say, go to the source. And Coach Flowers is always
good for a few colorful phrases. Coach says tomorrow night’s game is
going to bo “in-your-face, mash-mouth football."
N ow whet her or not you know what that means, you’re sure not going
to miss seeing it for yourself, are you?
Needed: Buyers and Sellers plus Listings in all
price ranges - farm, ranch, residential and
commercial. All Buyers, Sellers and Listings
are appreciated.
CAROLINE
CORNETT
Broker/Realtor
OFFICE LOCATION: 501 S. 2nd (HWY 60/83)
MAILING ADDRESS: HC 1 Box 32
Canadian. Texas 79014
PHONE/FAX: (806)323-8206
RESIDENCE: (806)323-8203
RESIDENTIAL
New Listing: Spacious 1604 Mam has 1907 sq. ft. of
attractive living space, plus a well-constructed steel
24' x 24' carport and a 14' x 18' storage building. This
is in a nice neighborhood and ready for your special
family to move into. S65 000
New Listing: 206 Kelly. Buffalo Hills, is a nice three-
bedroom, 1 3 4 bath brick on a large lot. This home
has a warm pellet fireplace in the living room that
bums 24-48 hours The double garage has fresh
interior paint $70,500
New Listing: Beautiful three-bedroom. 1 3 4 bath
brick at 1737 Willard Place I. This well-cared for
home is bnght and cheerful Enjoy the elevated
fireplace, brick wall and outside view $66,000
517 Houston ,s a three-bedroom home with centra
heat ana air and a free-standing fireplace The
attractive tree-shaded lot has alley access parking for
the boat or fifth wheel $43,000.
1801 Willard: Attractive three-bedroom, two-bnck
has two large bedrooms Seldom do we have a bnck
in this pnce range so hurry. $45,000.
916 Main Street, Canadian: This four-bedroom, two-
bath. two-story home has a large yard, double carport
and nice ocation. This jnique home is on a great lot'
Needs some work $35,000
Commercial land on Highway 60/83. This is located
just west of our hosp.tal ana includes a steei-fnameo
bundmg or ts north s.ae $69,800 for the entire
oversired c ock ncludmg the bu a "*g and horse
pasture
Corned Reartv criers you lots for that soeoai home in
Sage HiHs (town) or in Buffalo Hills ^oose to town),
pi^s 12 town acres ''orth of town and trai er lots
p ease see Caro: ne about mese
opinion
page
Stereotyped and Linotyped
by Michael King in the Texas Observer
Houard Stem was funnier. The last time Texas
nas in such a flap over racial yahooism was in
March of 1995, following the murder of Tex-Mex
pop-star Selena.
BaDIO TALK SHOW BOZO Howard Stern
flmocked Selena's death and her music, announc-
ing in his impeccably tasteless fashion (accompanied
by gunshots), “Spanish people have no soul.” Now,
thanks to Professor Line (Laugh-a-Minute) Graglia,
the University of Texas Law School has joined
Stern's distinguished company.
Not content to celebrate the victory of his cher-
ished notions of racial stratification as embodied in.
the Hopuvod decision, Graglia denounced continu-
ing U.T. efforts to promote diversity by proclaiming,
"Blacks and Mexican Americans are not academi-
cal competitive with whites in selective institu-
tions...They have a culture that seems not to
encourage achievement. Failure is not looked upon
with disgrace."
It’s not often that a man confirms at a stroke his
own willful ignorance and the gross inadequacies of
his highly privileged education. Graglia never tires of
recalling his own acceptance at Columbia Law solely
on the basis of his test scores, it's apparent, on the
evidence of his perfect ignorance of history alone,
that he has ample grounds for a lawsuit against his
alma mater. But even setting aside Graglia’s sweep-
ing dismissal of several centuries of achievement, his
“they" is a particularly revealing turn of phrase:
Graglia firmly believes he's white people, and they
ain’t. He later added that “whites" shouldn't have to
mingle with the "lower classes" — presumed, of
course, to be black and brown. He has shamelessly-
forgotten that until recently, Italian Americans were
routinely subjected to the same slurs and discrimina-
tion now generally reserved for blacks and Hispan-
ics.
Make no mistake: Graglia's pronouncements are
indeed racist, not to be explained away by some
appeal to "generalities." Moreover, he has devoted
his public career to preventing any amelioration of
the racism ingrained in state institutions, indeed to
restoring wherever he can the institutional discrimi-
nation that perpetuates racism. Some colleagues in-
sist that Graglia is personally racist, but that is
entirely beside the point — he is one of the chief
national legal theoreticians of racist public policy,
and he should not be allowed to hide from the shame-
ful effects of his own ideas and advocacy. The Texas
firestorm of public reaction against him is entirely of
his own making.
That said — like Howard Stem's. Graglia's public
buffoonery is a sideshow As outrageous as his opin-
ions are. he has a right to express them — as a matter
both of academic freedom and freedom of speech.
The survival of affirmative action — which is to say,
of simple justice — remains the crucial issue, and
Graglia has unfortunately succeeded in turning the
spotlight on himself.
It has been disheartening to watch the public
debate abruptly shift from “How can we defend and
promote diversity**’ to “How can we get rid of Lino
Graglia?” If Graglia were to resign or be fired tomor-
row, it would not advance the cause of social justice
one step; indeed, he would quickly become a national
right-wing martyr to political correctness. As long as
students are not required to take his classes, his
racial delusions are well within the bounds of pro-
tected political and academic speech.
The response of the university to Graglia and
Hoptvood is another matter. Asked about Graglia’s
statements, Law- School Dean Michael Sharlot told
the Observer "It’s just an example,” Sharlot went on,"
of how the press seizes upon anything that generates
conflict and gives it attention out of all proportion to
the weight that particular individual carries." Sharlot
insisted that Graglia’s views "have never had any
impact on (the law school’s) commitment to affirm-
ative action,” and pointed with justifiable pride to the
university’s pre-Hopwood record of graduating con-
siderable numbers of African-American and Mexi-
can-American law-yers.
Unfortunately, Sharlot conveniently has forgot-
ten that Hopwood attorney Steven Smith specifically
credits Graglia’s writings with "inspiring" his law-
suit, and that Graglia personally reviewed Smith’s
Fifth Circuit brief. Indeed, it would be more accurate
to say that Graglia’s reprehensible racial opinions
directly underlie the law school’s new, supposedly
“color-blind" admissions standards — the inevitable
result of allowing racist ignorance to be reified into
public policy.
Sharlot went on to argue that unless the Supreme
Court “screws up their courage” and makes a nation-
wide decision, U.T. can do little to maintain diversity-
in its classrooms. U.T. is now, he said, “playing under
different rules" than other national Law schools,
must rigidly rely on test scores and GPAs, and there-
fore can no longer adequately recruit minority stu-
dents.
The University of Houston, on the other hand, has
apparently decided not to wait for the Supreme.-
According to U.H. law professors Michael Olivas and
Laura Rothstein, U.H. has been able, post-Hopivood,
to maintain its minority enrollment — primarily by
de-emphasizing purely numerical standards,
through the labor-intensive method of reviewing in
detail many more already qualified applicants for
such additional distinctions as hardship experience,
leadership, community service, and so on. The result
has been not only sustained minority enrollment, but
increased enrollment of disadvantaged white stu-
dents. "I do not understand," said Olivas, "why Hop-
wood drove (U.T.) to rely more on numbers than on
their own good sense. It was the path of least resis-
tance and least work, but it was not the only path
available to them." The U.H. experience. Olivas said,
demonstrates that Hopwood need not be an impedi-
ment to a perfectly decent class."
Sharlot has invited Rothstein, who developed the
U.H. methods, to consult with his faculty. Perhaps if
the Graglia imbroglio does nothing else, it will impel
the U.T. administration to “screw up their courage
to move the university away from a policy- that puts
into action the racist foolishness only articulated by
Lino Graglia.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1997, newspaper, September 25, 1997; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth520218/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.