The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1982 Page: 4 of 20
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THRESHING-IT-OUT
Draft registration called
a form of kidnapping
To the editor:
Once more President Reagan
and his administration are
violating the constitutional law of
the United States of America for
u hich the Americans went through
bitter struggles and hardships.
Amendment 13, Section One
manifests: "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the
party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the
United States or any place subject
to their jurisdiction."
Why Draft? Draft* means
legalized kidnapping of the youth.
When Mr. Reagan was a
presidential candidate, he opposed
draft registration and conscrip-
tion. Draft in this historical period
simply means pre-condition and
preparation for war! Why should
the average Americans invest their
son(s) for Reagan's vicious
militarist ambitions and
offensives? The draft registration
and final recruitment to the Armed
Forces will be a most disrespectful
job to provide for those who are
forming part of the 8'/j million
unemployed Army...and this will
be an element in destroying the
youths' patriotic attitudes.
The Gunboat Policy is outdated.
There won't be any more Republic
Dominican as in 1965 to be
invaded by the United States of
America's Armed Forces. The
Americans should take into
account that the diverting terms
like "peace time draft" or
"mobilization for a national
emergency" are only rationales
and justifications, and would be
nothing more than a few empty
and meaning less phrases.
President Reagan's draft
registration and conscription
simply mean military intervention.
expansion, and war in any spot in
the world. Central America or the
Persian Gulf.
The detrimental, damaging and
war-like features of recruitment of
U.S. Armed Forces abroad will
rest on the shoulders of the people
of the oppressed nations.
Over 800,000 heroes (out of 6
million according to government
figures) have refused to register.
To these and future resistors, 1
wish to give my vocal and moral
support, and 1 encourage others to
give the same support. If the
citizens and Congress of the U.S.
fail to hear me and others, I wish to
make this protest more vocal by
means of speeches and rallies. If
this fails to get attention and
support, I will resort to other
peaceful ways of protest. In this
show of support, 1 wish to enlist
the support of the Amnesty
International. Libertarian Party,
and United Nations Association of
which I am a member. I will seek
support of those Iranian
Associations who are opposing the
fascist-dictatorial regime of
"Ayatollah" Khomeini, Arab
Associations, and other social,
political and humanitarian
organizations as well.
Mahmoud Sheikh. Olya
Graduate housing stats
credit given, thanked
To the editor:
The letter, "Graduate students
seek better living conditions",
which was meant to be published
as an article, was actually written
by Steve Wilkinson, official editor
to the GSA, and Bala Iyer,
graduate student representative to
the University Council. I provided
the statistics on behalf of the
housing committee to the GSA.
Kan nan Moudgalya
Housing committee, GSA
Succeed
in business.
It's a lot easier with a Texas Instruments calculator
designed to solve business problems."
Touch a few special keys on these Texas
Instruments calculators, the TI Business
Analyst-II'"and The MBA"; and lengthy
tjme-value-of-money problems suddenly
aren't lengthy anymore.You can automati-
cally calculate profit
sales and earnings and perform statistics.
And problems with repetitive calculations
are a piece of cake for the MBA. because it's
programmable.
These calculators mean business, and what
they give you is time-time to grasp underlying
business concepts, while they handle the num-
ber crunching. To make it even easier, each
calculator comes with a book written especially
for it, which shows you how to make use of the
calculator's full potential.
The Business Analyst-II and MBA business
calculators from Texas Instruments.Two
ways to run a successful business ma-
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Student role in teacher
evaluations explained
To the editor
In last week's article, "Student
Association seeks new secretary,"
you discussed the report I made to
the SA senate. You wrote, "Wilkey
questioned whether the teacher
evaluations were useful." This is
misleading. I believe (as I'm sure
the rest of the committee does) that
the evaluations are an integral part
of the promotion and tenure
process. In the discussion, I did
point out that any professor has
the prerogative of not distributing
student evaluations. Further, I
noted that the committtee only
summarizes evaluations for faculty
up for promotion and/or tenure
and that we do not review
evaluation of tenured professors
even if their teaching is of
questionable quality. At this point
a member of the senate did
question the evaluation process,
and a discussion began.
If a student or group of students
feel that a tenured professor is not
up to par, they are entirely free to
(and should) bring this to the
attention of the appropriate
department chairmen and division
dean in the form of a letter or
petition. The overall quality of
teaching at Rice is high, but no
student should feel helpless against
any faculty member simply
because he is tenured.
Brent Wilkey, '82
Student Member,
Undergraduate Teaching
Committee
Pollak sues
Rice over
rejection
by Matt Leslie
The assertion ..that "Rice
University does not discriminate
on the ba-sis of race, color, national
or ethnic origin, sex^ age, or
physical handicap" is being
challenged by one Michael Pollak
in a civil action suit which has been
pending since 1979. Pollak alleges
that he was the victim of
discrimination in employment as a
Chemist Researcher at Rice
because he is Jewish.
In August 1978, Pollak filed
charges with the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunities
Commission. According to the
EEOC's response, "Examination
of the evidence indicates that there
is not reasonable cause to believe
that this allegation is true." But
this initial attempt by Pollak to
establish a case for himself was
only the beginning.
Pollak then filed a suit in July
1979 in which he stated: "This
action, is brought...against
Rice...for religious discrimination
in employment of qualified Jewish
chemists who h'ave been
unlawfully excluded from
participation in chemical research
work carried out at Rice
University funded by U.S.
government agency grants solely
because of their Jewish religion
and in total disregard of their
professional qualifications and
research abilities."
.Rice, with il.c services of the
Baker and Botts law firm,, has
made several motions to dismiss
the case, but it is lingering on.
Today, almost three years later,
the file on Michael Pollak v. Rice
University et al. is-some 12 inches
thick. No date has been set for the
case to be tried, apparently for lack
of compelling evidence.
The Rice T hresher, January 29, 1982, page 4
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Grob, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1982, newspaper, January 29, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245491/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.