The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 70, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 14, 1979 Page: 2 of 8
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Editorial
Suit says government aids employment mayhem
The store where America shops has added a new
piece of merchandise to its stock—a 33-page suit
charging that the federal government is responsible for
an unbalanced civilian work force.
Sears Roebuck & Co., the world’s largest retailer
with 400,000 employees, filed the much talked about
class-action suit two weeks ago on behalf of all
retailers employing more than 15 persons. In attacking
federal employment rules, Sears named 10 defendants
in its suit, the most prominent being the U.S. attorney
general, the secretary of labor and the chairman of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The suit charged that federal laws, ranging from the
GI bill to veteran preferences and the military draft,
forced an uneven work force upon the company—a
work force deficient in the employment of minorities
and women.
In addition, it alleged that federal laws, rules and
regulations are so inconsistent that employers can’t
comply. Sears argues that these conflicting signals,
such as the new law raising the mandatory retirement
age to 70 and veteran preferences for federal contrac-
tors, assist the production of a white-dominated male
work pool.
Cries of unfair immediately came from advocates of
affirmative action. In the current economic environ-
ment of high unemployment and low job placement
among minorities and women, affirmative action
programs are deemed essential by their backers. The
Sears suit could change the complexion of employment
practices by either dismantling, weakening or
strengthening these programs.
But while many analysts and government officials
allow that the Sears suit is potentially explosive, they
doubt that the fuse will ever be lighted. Rep. Abner
Mikva, D-Ili., said the suit will be unsuccessful because
"they (Sears) are trying to sue history.” Howard
Gh-kstein, a law professor at Howard University, also
believes the suit will fail.
If the Sears suit has any impact, most believe it will
be with its argument that the government is currently
sending out conflicting employment signals. The
private sector has always complained that where one
federal agency tells them one thing, another agency
turns right around and tells them something different.
As T.C. Kammholz, a Chicago lawyer, said, the Sears
suit "strikes a friendly chord with nearly everybody
that’s against big government and a bungling
bureaucracy.”
Sears, however, wasn't the first to recognize this dis-
turbing property of government. President Carter saw
the need for a more uniformed enforcing effort I Vi
years ago and reorganized the EEOC to where it now
controls litigated claims. He also gave the Department
of Labor control over all affirmative action by govern-
ment contractors.
Although steps have already been taken to make the
system more efficient, the Sears suit could still in-
fluence how much and how quickly that efficiency is
achieved—an attractive item on anyone’s list.
Commentary
The North Texas Daily
Page 2
Wednesday, February 14, 1979
Assorted legends account for Valentines Day
ROSES ARE RED,
VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
Today, before you give your sweetheart her
candy and card (not to mention her kiss), perhaps
it might interest you to know that during the Mid-
dle Ages, Feb. 14 was believed to be a day when
birds mated. That’s right.
Laugh if you like, but history indicates that until
the beginning of this century, the Ozark Hill folk
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Willding
believed that birds and rabbits started their mating
season on Feb. 14. Did this animal play, should we
ask, prompt our ancestors into giving us Valen-
tine’s Day? Probably not, but the bird example is
just one of many Valentine’s Day theories.
Valentine’s Day is a celebration virtually teem-
ing of legend. But the legends, everything from
birds to a beheaded martyr (or three beheaded
martyrs), all lead up to the same prevailing emo-
tion the day means for us today—romantic love.
While it is known how and when we celebrate
Valentine’s Day, it is difficult, if not impossible, to
determine exactly why the holiday was created. A
popular belief is that Valentine’s Day is named for
a specific saint. But, the early lists of church mar-
tyrs revealed at least three St. Valentines. And,
some sources claim there were as many as eight
Each of the three most recognized Martyrs
celebrated his feast day on Feb. 14, but one is
known only through the martyrdom he shared
with a group of Christian believers. The other two,
a Roman priest and a bishop, are both said to have
been beaten and beheaded by the Emperor
Claudius II in A.D. 269.
One legend has it that Valentine, while in
prison, cured his jailer's daughter of her blindness.
However, another version of the legend claims
that Valentine fell in love with the jailer’s daughter
and sent her a letter which he signed, "From Your
Valentine.”
The evolution of Valentine’s Day as a celebrated
holiday carries with it equally as many legends as
the day’s name. The celebration seems t<> have
evolved, in custom, from a holiday celebrated by
the Romans. A celebration for their god Lupercus
(a Roman version of the Greek god Pan), the
Romans required their young women, on this day,
to place their names in a public box. After this was
done, the young male Romans each drew a name
from the box. The girl the boy then selected was
considered to be his partner for the year.
As Christians began to acquire power, they
modified this Roman custom to meet their own
standards. The name for the day of the drawing
was changed to St. Valentine’s Day. History sug-
gests the date of Valentine’s martyrdom and the
date of the Roman drawings were very nearly the
same.
Our modern practice of sending Valentine cards
and/or verse is traced back as earl) as the 1400s.
By the latter 1600s, it is believed the practice of
giving a Valentine gift began to develop. By the
early 1900s, in the American colonies, the practice
of sending Valentine cards was said to be com-
mon. And, interestingly enough, the custom was
further reinforced with the importing of what were
called "Valentine writers” from England.
Valentine writers were actually booklets con-
taining verse and other assorted love messages.
One popular writer of the time w as said to contain
verses for the men to send to the women and ac-
ceptances or answers for the women to return to
the men.
Commercially, Valentine cards began to be
produced in the early 1800s and Vinegar valentines
were also introduced at this time. These Vinegar
valentines were comical instead of romantic.
Although it is difficult to arrive at why we have
a Valentine’s Day, the basic reasons seem to be ap-
parent. History indicates that generations before
us recognized a need for a special time to express
feelings of care and love. If we can accept these
needs as valid, then the holiday proves itself to be
timeless and important. Valentine’s Day is a con-
venient way for us to express sometimes-difficult-
to-express feelings. If Valentine’s Day can do this;
if a designated time can act as a way to put us at
ease and open our hearts, it is, if for no other
reason, a simply lovely idea.
HAPPY
VALENTINE'S DAV
TO YOU,
SHOO-0I-DOO-BI-DOO
WE FAMOUS VALENTINES
SAY A LOT OF COOL THIN6S!
Valentines cards,
old and new
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haracterizes column as narrow-minded
Curtis A. Zunigha
3505 Huisache
In reference to Dianne King’s narrow-minded
evaluation of male emotion (Feb. 7 issue) I must say to
her—BULL!! Dianne, you’ve been watching too many
war movies and not enough human interaction out in
the real world. If you can count on one finger the
number of times you’ve seen two men hug each other
then I think it’s time you changed the channel or took
off your blindfold.
I happen to be a son, a brother, a best friend and a
father and I guarantee you that I am most capable of
openly showing emotion without fear of reprisal or
without emitting sexual overtones. Haven’t you seen
any male sports team, including our own Mean Green,
that has jubilantly hugged each other on the field or in
the locker room (on TV) after scoring the big
touchdown or winning the championship?
Don’t you remember Richard Nixon tearfully
resigning the presidency or Gerald Ford crying when
he lost to Jimmy Carter? Dr. Christian Barnaard open-
ly wept on the Merv Griffin Show this past summer
when he related an incident about losing a friend while
operating on him. That’s just three examples out of
thousands of public displays of male emotion.
1 will grant you one slight concession in that most
young males are raised not to cry because it’s not
“macho.” But I am not ashamed to admit that I have
cried in situations of deep personal despair and agony
and I know I’m not the only man to do so. You write,
and I quote, "From a lifetime of practice, men are
inept—if not incapable—of being affectionate or
showing emotion in a non-sexual way.” Well whose
lifetime of practice are you talking about? What men
are you basing this on?
After you’ve been out in the real world a little while
you will realize that emotion is human and not just
reserved for women. And if your blind assessments are
representative of what women think of men then that
makes me doubly proud that I am an open-minded
free-thinking MAN who knows better. I can’t believe
your editor allowed such a column full of stupid
generalizations to be printed but 1 can see The Daily
needed something to fill in the blank space.
Recruiter thanks faculty
Elpidio Lizcano
Director of Recruitment
Houston Independent School District
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr.
Ann P. Williamson, Dr. Clarke, Dr. Turner, Dr.
Teeter, Dr. Gallian and Dr. Gilman of North Texas
State University for their fine cooperation in assisting
our recruiters to meet with NT education students and
professors in Jan. 30.
While at NTSU, Houston Independent School
District recruiters met many dedicated young appli-
cants and were impressed with the potential of those
who interviewed with us If any students missed the op-
portunity of discussing job possibilities with Houston
Independent School District, I can be contacted at
3830 Richmond Ave., Personnel Department,
Houston, Texas 77027, (713) 623-5497.
Salim's letter. Zionists are veteran distorters of facts;
no wonder they have a big hand in the American news
media. In his response to Mr. Salim’s letter, Mr.
Sonenthal committed the following fallacies that are
naive distortions of history which are misleading to
those who did not verify the historical facts;
1. It was mentioned in Mr. Sonenthal's response
that if one goes back to the newspapers from 1948, one
will see no mention of Palestinians or a Palestinian
homeland. Well, I challenge Mr. Sonenthal to debate
this issue and for us to go together to the library and
review the old newspapers, as well as other historical
references.
2. The name of Palestine was never given to what is
called "Israel” by Britain in the 1920s. The name of
Palestine goes far beyond that date. Let us check
references!
3. Israel never won independence. There was
nothing called Israel in 1948; there was a Palestinian
land occupied by Britain. In addition, the British
colonialists established a "Palestine Government. "
4. The Palestinians never voluntarily left their
homes, but rather, their displacement was inflicted on
them by Zionist terrorist organizations, which resulted
in one of the most notorious massacres in the Middle
East, Dier Yasin.
Furthermore, the man who was immediately respon-
sible for this massacre is the present prime minister of
Israel, Manachem Begin. These facts have been
verified even in the American press, as Mi. Sonenthal
should have easily found by checking the early 1977 is-
sues of Newsweek and Time. It is supreme!) ironic that
Begin was awarded the Noble Prize last month, con-
sidering that he engineered the murder of 250 innocent
villagers, mostly children, women and elderly people.
Finally, I feel sorry for the American people who
pay billions of tax dollars from their hard-earned
money to Israel, which insists on occupying Arab lands
won by wars, in spite of the good w ill demonstrated by
the Arabs recently to reconcile with Israel.
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This comment is written for American people and to
Mr. Sonenthal. It is not astonishing that Mr.
Sonenthal was telling lies in his feedback to Mr
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