WE KNOW BETTER. YOUR VOTES DON'T COUNT. The identity crisis at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, or Wisconsin State University, or MacArthur-Mitchell Normal School, continues. Referenda don't matter to vanguardists.

Although the referendum may be seen as a setback for name-change proponents, the movement isn't over, said Jim Price, a UWM journalism instructor who is part of a group of students and faculty working to change UWM to Wisconsin State University. The ad hoc group didn't ask for a referendum, which was initiated by the student senate.

"It's not like we're betting all of our chips on the referendum," said Price, pointing out that UWM is actually the sixth name for the school.

Price said the group advocating a change to Wisconsin State University will spend the summer lobbying alumni, UWM administrators and the Board of Regents.

"The fact that the majority were opposed to any name change at all doesn't surprise me in the least because it's Milwaukee - nobody wants to change anything around here," Price said. "I think we've got news for them that a name change is inevitable sooner or later, and we're just trying to make it sooner."

May Day used to be for Communist parades. It's useful to remember that vanguardism, let alone the dictatorship over the proletariat, still lurks in the shadows. Today the name of the university, tomorrow your tax cuts?