The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1977 Page: 2 of 20
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RAMAS members outraged over shortcomings of Texas law
To the editor:
We, the undersigned members
of the Rice Association of
Mexican-American Students
(RAMAS) wish to express our
outrage over the inadequacies
of the Texas legal system. Texas
state laws have always been par-
ticularly deficient in the protec-
tion of individual civil liberties.
For example, we cite the
following cases: Nixon v.
Herndon (1927), where the
equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment was
upheld against a Texas state law
forbidding black participation in
the Texas Democratic Party
primary; Smith v. Allwright
(1944) which overturned the
ruling for the Grovey v. Town-
send case (1935) where a black
man was successfully prevented
from participating in the Texas
Democratic Party convention;
Sweatt v. Painter (1950) where
a Supreme Court held against
a Texas law prohibiting the
admission of black students to
the University of Texas Law
School; Briscoe v. Bell (1975),
where the Governor and the
Secretary of State of Texas
attempted to evade their ob-
ligation to institute the minority
language provisions of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 as
amended in 1975; and Familias
Unidas v. Dolph Briscoe (1975),
where court proceedings are
underway to have declared
unconstitutional a Texas state
statute which authorizes the
county judge to arbitrarily
decide whether or not an
organization is engaged in
activities "designed to hinder. . .
or interfere with the power and
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Four decry Graham Parker review
To the editor:
$e were disgusted by Chip
Bledsoe's egocentric, supercili-
ous, and uninformed review of
Graham Parker's latest album in
last week's Thresher. "I got
stuck with this British copy of
Bruce Springsteen," complains
Bledsoe. The implication is that
one artist can have a monopoly
on a given form of music. In
other words, the Kinks should
have been ignored because the
Beatles did it first. This logic is
as ridiculous as Bledsoe's claim
that the first three songs on side
one "are virtually the same."
Does "I Heard It Through the
Grapevine" sound like Bob Mar-
ley singing Cat Stevens' songs?
(These are stylistic analogs we
think are accurate.)
Why didn't Ted Andrews do
this review? Besides possessing
a few things Bledsoe doesn't (a
literate and interesting writing
style among them), he also heard
Parker at his recent Music Hall
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Thresher Bu8^^ger
Advertising Manager
Barry Jones Managing Editor
Steve Sullivan Associate Editor
Mark Linimon Back Phase Editor
Jim Fowler Contributing Editor
David L. Butler Assistant Editor
Wiley Sanders Photography Editor1
TW Cook Photography Editor2
Greg LeRoy Fine Arts Editor
William Studabaker Producing Manager
Walter Underwaxl Returned Returning Editor
Editorial Staff Matt Muller, Georgians Young, Jim Beall,
Nancy Finnerty, Ted Andrews, Chip Bledsoe, TW Cook,
Jeanmarie Amend, Martha Ramos, Rawslyn Ruffin,
Juli Jones, and the UBfK-quitous linimon
Sports Staff Larry Nettles, Pete Schwab, Marty Hood
Art Staff Dale Charletta, Jeff Kerr, Randy Furlong
Photography Staff Mark Catlett, Tom Bryant, Charles Jenkins,
Cliff Freeman, Mario Mateo, Zach Anderson,
Tom Neal, Bruce Kessler
F Arts Staff Mike Z, Nick Schriber
Production Staff Steve Sullivan, R. Dale Baker, Thad Pugh,
Debbie Gronke, Karen Barrett, Rawslyn Ruffin, Don Rosato,
Cathy Egan, nameless hordes, and mcl and GrUn:g,y
Circulation Department Bill Barron, Matha Espinosa
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the rice thresher, friday, october 28,1977—page 2
concert. Andrews' articles on
Mink deVille and Bruce Spring-
steen demonstrate his sensitivity
to the genre's richness.
Bledsoe may not know who
Johnny Rotten or Syd Vicious
are. After all, Jim Fowler does
his best to keep them off KTRU
even though Rolling Stone made
them its later cover story. But
the punk rockers summed up
Bledsoe's review quite neatly:
it's "pretty vacant".
Pete Minis WRC '78
Larry Fossi WRC '79
John Harris WRC '78
Stoner Nesbitt WRC '78
WILLY
duties of the state of Texas in
controlling and operating its
public schools" and to require
that organization to file with the
county clerk a list of its
members. Failure to obey such
a request may result in
criminal proceedings. The
grounds for this case are that
such a statute unconstitution-
ally denies the right of political
association and expression.
The most recent example
of civil inequity is the story of
Joe Campos Torres. Although
one result of the Torres case
was a regrettable unfair decision,
there is one good thing that will
come of this tragedy. It is
now obvious that Texas must
update her laws and adopt legis-
lation which will insure protec-
tion of individual civil liberties.
Texas can no longer rely on the
federal government, but must
take responsibility for the civil
rights of her citizens.
This legislation should
provide the citizens of this state
with effective means of judicial
remedy in instances of the vio-
lation of civil liberties. The
Texas Penal Code should be
amended so as to afford the
state courts an equitable form
of retribution against those
who infringe upon the rights of
any private citizen. We agree
also with the State Attorney
General John Hill, that a State
Commission on Human Rights
should be established; and we
further propose that this comis-
sion should have regional offices
throughout the state. The Com-
mission, when established,
should implement the following
programs: the education of the
general populus of the state
about their civil rights and exp
especially to inform the law
enforcement agencies of the
human rights of those citizens
they are to protect.
We believe that these
proposals for the amendment of
state law and the establishment
of a Human Rights Commission
are necessary and just. The time
to act is now, in hope of pre-
venting a re-enactment of
another social and moral tragedy
as the Joe Campos Torres case.
Ray Marchan
Baker '79
Martha V. Ramos
Hanszen '79
(RAMAS Vice-President '76-'77)
Mike Araiza
Lovett '79
Jorge M. Benavides
Hanszen '79
Daniel L. Carillo
Hanszen '79
Alvaro Casas
Will Rice '79
Chris Cruzcosa
SRC '79
(RAMAS President '77-'78)
Laura Esparza
Brown '80
Louis Flores
Hanszen '80
Elisa Hernandez
Hanszen '80
Henry O. Hernadez
(RAMAS President '76-'77)
Lovett '78
(RAMAS President'76-'77)
Carlos R. Herrera
Lovett '79
Elvira Leal Long
Hanszen '78
Arthur Madrid
Lovett '81
Rebecca Morales
Brown '79
Cynthia Muniz
Brown '79
Lucy Ortiz
Hanszen '79
(RAMAS Vice-President .77-'78)
Mike Pina
Will Rice '80
Sandra Resendez
Jones '79
Richard Rocha
Lovett '80
Maria Rodriguez
Jones '80
Melissa Santos
Hanszen '81
(RAMAS Parlimentarian '77-'78)
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1977, newspaper, October 28, 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245349/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.