Diane Reifschneider
By Daily Bruin Staff
July 14, 1996 9:00 p.m.
Media stifles electoral choices
Editor:
This Fourth of July weekend, C-Span provided more than 40 hours
of coverage of the Libertarian Party convention in Washington, D.C.
It was terrific, in-depth coverage, unlike today’s byte-size news
stories in the mainstream media. Anyone who saw Harry Browne’s
acceptance speech saw a viable third party, and its candidate
finally give the American people a real choice in November’s
election  not another statist boob. Not even Dan Rather had
the balls to report on this momentous event! His top story on the
Monday evening news was a UFO celebration in Roswell, New
Mexico.
While media watchers continue to debate whether the media is
liberal or conservative, it doesn’t take more than two brain cells
to realize that the media is biased against presenting the American
people with the real choices that exist in politics today.
Harry Browne is the first presidential candidate in history to
qualify for federal matching funds and refuse to take them. You
can’t say this about Clinton, Dole, Gramm or Buchanan. This fact
alone should have made front-page news!
So what does it say about U.S. media when C-Span devotes four
days to America’s third-largest party, while mainstream media, for
the most part, doesn’t even acknowledge it? It means they aren’t
telling you the whole story. Perhaps it’s because they don’t want
to tell you the whole story. To find out more about the Libertarian
Party, call 1-800-682-1776.
Mary Szterpakiewicz
B.A. Economics, CSUSM
UCLA’s inaction unacceptable
Editor:
Some of the facts about UCLA’s handling of Diane Reifschneider’s
sexual harassment allegations are very disturbing. UCLA says that
it treats allegations of sexual harassment with the "utmost
seriousness" and conducts "a very extensive investigation as
quickly as possible."
Eleven months after Ms. Reifschneider’s original complaint, made
in August 1995, UCLA says it will "consider what actions to take
when the facts become clear." If it takes UCLA over 11 months to
investigate a sexual harassment case, and still the case is not
resolved, something is seriously wrong with the way UCLA handles
such complaints.
Robert Leland
Alumnus and Visiting Research Engineer
(See The Bruin’s on-line coverage of the case at
http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/news/news.html  Editor)
SHAWN LAKSMI
Diane Reifschneider recently filed suit against UCLA for sexual
harassment.
