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The VISTA Float - - 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. continued on page 34

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. continued on page 67

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, 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!

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