The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1982 Page: 2 of 16
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Joyce needs you
When I was forced to submit my identification for
verification by a computer, I resented the imposition on my
privacy. But I must admit that I can find no fault with Joyce
Rubash's plan for variable board next year, and I applaud her
efforts to make Rice food service more flexible. By allowing on
campus students a choice of repasts, Ms. Rubash is removing
some of the stigma that her service has suffered in the past.
I believe that the food service has suffered unfair criticism,
and I would like to address this indiscretion. When one
considers the logistics involved in feeding 1750 people three
times a day, one must admit that a certain amount of quality
need be sacrificed to quantity. In addition, most students
would not be willing to pay the price of the type of meals that
they would like to eat.
My good friend Sam Scott postulates that the reason Rice
students gripe so much about the food is that they feel a sort of
political impotence, the frustration of which they direct at the
food service. I agree, and I wish that students would ignore the
red herring of food quality and address the larger problems at
Rice such as racism, sexism, and perhaps the quality of
education rather than the quality of baked chicken.
Returning to the issue at hand: I have a suggestion that
would save the food service money and make Rice students
appreciate democracy. Rice should institute mandatory grub
service. If we must have a physical education requirement and
an honor code, why not a grub requirement?
One of the finest centers of education in the world, Deep
Springs College, created by the Telluride foundation, makes its
students grow and prepare all their own food. Students divide
their time between agriculture and education. By combining
the two, Deep Springs teaches its students a holistic lesson in
life and learning.
The program here would work this way: in order to graduate,
every student would have to work as a grub for free for several
weeks. The headwaiter would continue his role as supervisor,
but the actual washing of dishes would be done by grub
draftees. Grubs could even be graded by the headwaiter, and
perhaps they could receive an hour or so of course credit.
A liberal arts education should include some amount of
manual labor to teach students empathy for people who have to
work with their hands for a living. Grubbing teaches people the
equality of waste - the fact that every human being, however
intelligent or wealthy, may leave plates glued together with
peanut butter. What better way to teach Rice students a sense
of community than by making everyone plunge into soap suds
together.
I must admit that my position may be biased, as I was a grub
my freshman year and some of my favorite people are grubs.
But if examined carefully, my proposal will stand as an
effective means of saving the food service money, and thus
improving food quality, as well as building the Rice
community spirit. The University that grubs together learns
together.
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EXPANDING THE HEDGES/by Chris Ekren
I don't have the answer to the
perpetual crisis in the Middle East.
I don't even think I have the
answer. Perhaps there is no
answer. Menachim Begin,
however, thinks he has the answer.
So does Yassir Arafat. That's why
there is a perpetual crisis in the
Middle East.
President Reagan also thinks he
has the answer. He has decided
that America belongs in the middle
of the crisis in the Middle East.
Namely, Lebanon. Whether the
United States dispatches ten
armed "peacekeepers" or one
thousand, in concert with an
international group or alone, the
net effect will be the same: further
involvement in a no-win
proposition.
Reagan has offered in
justification of his benevolent loan
of Marines, "Israel must have
learned that there is no way it can
impose its own solution on hatreds
as deep and bitter as those that
produced this tragedy." He is
correct, of course. The very idea of
Isreal "protecting" the population
of Lebanon is farcical. It would be
unfair to expect the Israelis to
protect the very Palestinians that
of late have been lobbing mortar
shells into Israel.
That the United States should
fill the peacekeeping void Israel is
unable to does not follow,
however. Israel has clearly
demonstrated that it will not or can
not honor the requests of the
United States regarding Lebanon
in particular and the Palestinian
question in general. Despite the
supposed leverage in military and
economic aid the U.S. has aquired
over the years vis-a-vis Israel, in
the end Israel does as it wishes
One might even go so far as to say
that Begin intentionally annoys
President Reagan at times,
accusing him of "backstabbing"
while concurrently ordering more
F-16 fighter bombers to cluster-
bomb Lebanese hamlets. Israel
certainly cannot be realied upon to
make U.S. intervention in
Lebanon easy.
Placing 800 or so American
troops in Lebanon along with
other contingents from countries
like France will certainly preclude
any future Israeli incursions into
restricted areas of Lebanon.
U nfortunately, given the history of
the region and the nature of the
principals involved (Begin, Arafat,
the entire radicalized Christian
Phalange establishment), a
solution to the Palestinian/
Lebanese question comprehensive
enough to afford withdrawl of a
peacekeeping force may never
come. American troops could
easily be bogged down in Lebanon
for the next half century, assuming
a war elsewhere in the region does
not break out.
Israel is not going to accept what
the Palestinians want unless it is
forced to. The Palestinians,
whichever claims of theirs are
legitimate, won't compromise
unless they are forced to. The PLO
in its darkest hour in Beirut never
officially recognized Israel. With
world opinion shifting toward it
as a result of the recent casualties
in Lebanon, one can hardly expect
the terrorists to change their stand.
A Palestinian state could
conceivably be created without the
PLO, but not recognizing the PLO
will not make it go away.
I am sure that President Reagan
does not want to send US soldiers
to get shot while patrolling
demilitarized zones. Reagan may
be portrayed as a knee-jerk "send
in the Marines" reactionary, but
above all he is an astute politician.
Of the two options he considered,
watching the Israelis watch the
Phalange beat up on the
Palestinians or actively
intervening by sending troops,
protecting the Palestinians is the
"right" thing to do. There is a third
alternative, however, that he failed
to consider seriously: setting up a
peacekeeping force without U.S.
Marines.
A non-American peace-keeping
force would be accepted bv the
Palestinians. The Israelis would
balk, but finally would succomb to
the threat of aid cutoffs, assuming
Congress can muster the guts to
surmount the Jewish Lobby.
Keeping the United States out of
Lebanon would isolate the U.S.
from blame for the eventual,
inevitable failure of any solution
imposed on the Israelis and
Palestinians.
Certainly, if necessary, the
United States could re-introduce
itself as a major factor in the
Lebanese peacekeeping force.
Non-participation in the force
certainly will not compromise
Israel's integrity as a nation or
necessarily change our relation-
ship with ISrael. Inasmuch as the
United States cannot solve the
crisis in the Middle East, it should
resist becoming part of it.
I p;r;
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Tom Morgan
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