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The North Texas Daily
Friday, February 21,1992
Page 3
Greek organizations show little diversity
“I don’t know why we all seem segregated on this campus, but it
shouldn’t be that way. It probably has something to do with an
individual’s upbringing, and who they interacted with when they
were young.”
—Michelle Arnot,
Chi Omega president
By Chris Owen
Daily Reporter
There are many greek organizations at
NT, and although most of their member-
ship is predominantly one race or an-
other, organization members said they
want to include all races in their member-
ship in hopes of ending the segregation
among them.
None of the fraternities or sororities on
campus have anything in their national
by-laws that state prospective members
must be of a certain national origin to be
a member, but some members said they
just don't see an interest in participation
from other races.
Killeen sophomore LaDawn Ashley,
president of the newly formed Sigma
Gamma Rho sorority, which has mem-
bers who are predominantly black, said
the organization is open to anyone on
campus. However, she doesn't expect the
membership to attract whites or other
minorities.
"I've talked to a number of people
other than African-Americans about the
sorority. They like the idea of community
service, which is our primary focus, but
no one has expressed enough interest in
joining," she said. "I have no idea why."
Nationally, the organization has white
and Hispanic members, so they look for-
ward to increased participation from
people, regardless of their heritage.
Chi Omega sorority, one of the largest
on campus, has Hispanic membership in
its NT chapter and black membership in
chapters nationwide.
Trophy Club junior Michelle Arnot,
president of Chi Omega, said people's
nationalities have never been an issue
with them.
"I don't know why we all seem segre-
gated on this campus, but it shouldn't be
that way," she said. "It probably has
something to do with an individual's up-
bringing and who they interacted with
when they were young."
Grand Prairie senior Derrick Polk, a
member of the predominantly black
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, said his group
has a white member, which is unique
among black NT fraternities.
"We have several brothers nationwide
who are of different ethnic origins. And at
this chapter, we do have a highly re-
spected white member," he said. "But he
respects us just as much because we don't
think of him as a white guy, and he doesn't
think of us as black guys. We promote
brotherhood among all of our members."
Sigma Nu fraternity has Hispanic and
Asian members who hold offices and do
a good job, said the group's president
John Magee, Humble junior.
In order to become a pledged member,
100 percent of the fraternity has to vote a
student in. Magee said this procedure
could prevent some people from being
chosen, but it also ensures that the entire
fraternity wants that person, which can
be a big relief to a minority student who
wonders whether he's liked or not.
"We make it a point to encourage di-
versity and individuality through mu-
tual respect," he said.
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Religion
From Page 2
about Jewish people and their re-
ligion.
Brenner said she has never
experienced any incidents of dis-
crimination on campus, but there
are jokes and things of that nature
that are overlooked.
Recently the league has gained
information about an extremist
group that is trying to promote its
message on college campuses.
The Committee for Open De-
bate on the Holocaust has been
seeking an opportunity to gain ex-
posure for its message through
full-page advertising space in col-
lege newspapers.
The advertisement was written
by Bradley Smith, the leader of the
committee. Smith wrote the ad-
vertisement to denounce that the
Holocaust ever took place and to
question the existence of concen-
tration camps.
Although a few college news-
papers have printed the adver-
tisement for debate, many publi-
cations have chose not to.
As stated in the New York
Times, Smith feels that his adver-
tisement should be printed and
protected because of the First
Amendment.
In The Dallas Morning News,
Mark Briskman, regional director
in Dallas of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, said the
advertisement is insidious because
it doesn't come in the hate-mon-
gering language of skinheads or
the Ku Klux Klan, the message
remains the same with carefully
crafted words.
who could represent today's
woman. In that hasty decision, you
chose Ramsay. A true journalist
never takes someone's word that
they are a good administrator. You
should have talked to students in
the academy, then formed a deci-
sion.
als doing their job well.
Neil Sheffield
Second-year academy student
from Richardson
If you still feel you need a role
model, please go talk to Lisa Lan-
ham, assistant dean of student, or
Capt. Nancy Estes of the NT Po-
lice. They are qualified individu-
opposite direction.
If this is the woman of the '90s,
I can't wait until 2000. But I refuse
to believe that Ramsay symbol-
izes the '90s lady. Instead, I think
of her as a '40s woman, forging
ahead and interested only in main-
taining a position that she can
grasp on to, even if she is not
qualified for it. That is the past.
In your writing, Cathy, I felt
3. She must believe in outdated
systems, such as prohibition.
Under her rules, if a student who
is an adult is caught once with
alcohol, he is immediately ex-
pelled. There must be no interest
in rehabilitation, since the first-
time offenders are criminals.
4. The rights of others are never
important. In judging a situation,
a woman's root feeling is always
right, even if the facts point in the
1. She must get degrees in fields
completely unrelated to what she
wants to do in life. For instance, if
a woman wants to be a chief ex-
ecutive officer of a major organi-
zation, she should get degrees in
library science and electrical engi-
neering. Or, case in point, a col-
lege staff member should have
degrees in anthropology and
dancing. Do you see the wonder-
ful intelligence of this? I think it is
great.
2. In an institution such as the
academy, where she has been
given parental control of more
than 350 students, the '90s woman
should not have any experience in
children. This means that she
cannot have her own children, and
she is not allowed to have any
idea of the adolescent mentality.
There is nothing wrong with being
childless, but the '90s woman must
not listen to other people's advice you were looking for someone
on discipline.
Ramsay not model
for '90s woman
I am writing in response to
Cathy Frye's article on Dr. An-
netta Ramsay, the associate direc-
tor for the Texas Academy of Math
and Science. The mood of the ar-
ticle and the conclusions derived
within it are so far from reality
that I felt that I had to bring a few
more facets of this subject to light.
In all my dealings with Ramsay,
not once have I been struck with
the insane notion that she repre-
sents the "woman of the '90s," as
the article stated. However, if she
truly is the woman of the '90s, I
have compiled the following
checklist for all females wanting
to be at the top of their class in life:
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“In the 1960s the left set out to polarize the political
situation and set one group against another. It became
a Democratic strategy to set labor against manage-
ment, white against black and Jewish against black.”
—David Horowitz,
Los Angeles author
By John McFarland
Daily Reporter
The Democratic party and other
elements of the political left are
largely responsible for the nation's
racial tension, a nationally known
conservative said Tuesday.
David Horowitz, author of
several best-selling books and
frequent guest commentator on
CNN's Crossfire, discussed racism
in a telephone interview from his
Los Angeles office at the Center
for Study of Popular Culture.
"I think there has been a drastic
decline in race relations, and it is a
direct result of agitation from the
left," he said.
That statement is hardly what
would be expected of the one-time
leader of the radical '60s group
New Left, but Horowitz has done
a 180-degree ideological turn since
those uncertain times, he said.
"I changed when I saw the re-
sults of their ('60s radicals) ideas
being put into practice. They claim
to be anti-racist, but they truly are
racist in practice," he said.
Horowitz said the country is
moving toward a more conserva-
tive direction to correct the ex-
cesses of the '60s and as a natural
occurrence in the aftermath of
"unfair affirmative action and
welfare policies." He said that
unfairness has helped to create a
new, hypocritical racism in the
'90s.
"The black community is anti-
Semitic and racist in ways that are
alarming," he said. "It is egged on
by people like Louis Farakhan and
cultural icons like Spike Lee and a
double standard in the leftist press
by which black racism seems to be
OK or understandable."
But Horowitz said the heart of
the racial strife in America is the
Democratic party and its leftist
ideals.
"In the 1960s the left set out to
polarize the political situation and
set one group against another," he
said. "ItbecameaDemocraticstrat-
egy to set labor against manage-
ment, white against black and
Jewish against black.
"The political left is unhappy
with the status quo," he explained.
"It desires a transformation in our
existing institutional structures. To
do that, it needs angry people. It
hopes to incite people by attack-
ing America as racist to get them
to assault the rest of the commu-
nity."
Horowitz sees a return to the
"American way" as the only pos-
sible solution to the racial prob-
lems facing the nation today.
"We need to treat all Ameri-
cans as equals before laws, institu-
tions and business. We need a
colorblind society," he said.
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