The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1982 Page: 4 of 24
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THRESHING-IT-OUT
Bailey befriends editor
in face of GOP barrage
T o the Editor
1 was appalled at the first issue of
The Vox, the rag published last
week by the Rice Republicans. I
found it condescending ("The
story remains the same,"
paragraph one), inane (every-
where, specifically "Democracy
and the free press," p. 5, "This will
represent a tremendous step
forward in journalistic thinking
here at Rice.") and hypocritical
(political rhetoric is used to
rationalize every point).
Normally one need not
demonstrate the inadequacies of
such an illiterate publication, but I
was personally offended as a
member of its intended audience
and as a friend of Tom Morgan, a
good American.
Steve Bailey
WRC 'this decade
Soccer enthusiast finds
subliminal journalism
To the Editor,
The last few weeks, I have been
reading your editorials with great
interest. For since your editorial
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stating you would place the Union
Logo at the credits part of your
newspaper, I could tell you
wholeheartedly supported a
varsity soccer program for Rice
University.
Gradually, I could see you
gaining momentum as you blasted
complacently smug conservatives
and the "macho instincts" of
certain administrators and alumni.
My friends laughed at me as I
pointed out to them how
everything you said supported the
notion of varsity soccer. But I
persevered in my convictions.
Two weeks ago, you suggested
we open our eyes to our brothers in
the fourth and fifth wards who, as
you noticed, don't speak English. I
knew immediately you were
referring to our Mexican and
South American brothers who
aren't very literate but play some
very creative soccer. And when
you suggested we open our eyes
and our campus to these people, I
knew you were pointing at varsity
soccer with its scholarships to help
integrate them into our Rice
community.
And last week you finally came
out of the closet. You openly
pleaded for varsity soccer.
Without having to say so, you
acknowledged that there was no
way the Rice Lads could compete
with schools like TCU and SMU
with 20 and 30 thousand dollar
budgets. You somehow knew that
the $3000 the Rice Lads presently
receive isn't even enough to pay for
a coach. Your perceptiveness is
astounding and such sympathy
from someone with real power is
not unappreciated.
Keepupthegoodjob Mr. Editor
and give yourself a pat on the back
for opening my eyes to this new
genre of journalism called
subliminal editorialism—Time
and Newsweek would be proud of
you. Those fools who say your
editorials have no content just
don't know what they're talking
about.
Gustavo Acevedo
APC '83
Keller corrects college
budget story erratum
To the Editor:
In your article last week on
college budgets, you unintention-
ally may have given the impression
that Baker has significantly more
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never told you
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And when it's Hiram Walker
Triple Sec, it isn't just good.
It's fantastic! (Sorry, Mom.)
Sees can be respectable.
Introduce your friends to
Hiram Walker Triple Sec
on the rocks. Watch
how quickly they
respect you for
your mind.
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Curagao oranges
give Hiram Walker
its See's appeal.
So try some.
And discover
love at first sip.
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money at its disposal than other
colleges. In fact, this is not the case.
Baker only appears to have a larger
budget because of the way we
record our revenues. In our main
budget, we include Freshman
Week fees, Washer/Dryer fees,
and revenues from Shakespeare
Week. Other colleges' main
budgets often only record net
losses or gains on their parties,
playes, etc. Since ali colleges
receive about the same amount in
dues, the only real differences in
their budgets come from the
amount of damage assesed each
college, the amount of revenue
each college can generate, etc. As
the article pointed out, such a
difference does not come from
endowment income.
Ed Keller
Baker College President
John Knox
Baker College Treasurer
Eynon defends defense
as American necessity
To the Editor:
Nobody wants war, but only the
naive fail to prepare for it. The
history of Man is the cumulative
result of two fundamentally
different approaches to averting
war. The first, and initially most
obvious, method of preserving
peace is to outlaw the instruments
of war. Among the most
outstanding efforts in recent
history occurred in Munich shortly
before World War Two. The great
result of zero defense spending is
that social welfare programs may
then be proportionately increased.
For the U.S., ballooning social
programs in the past 15 years have
wrought several changes in our
society. First, we now have a
trillion dollar deficit with Social
Security about to borrow one or
two billion dollars to stay solvent.
Second, we now have more people
living below the poverty line than
when the programs were initiated
(this, in itself, does not mean that
welfare decreases people's
standard of living, but it certainly
has not formed a permanent
solution).
The essential failure to this type
of approach is that it overestimates
human nature. ' While Man's
natural state is hardly continual
war, aggression will continue while
there are aggressors—despite the
outlawing of weapons. While I
believe in the essential
peacefulness of the Russian
people, the-actions of the Soviet
government lead to many doubts.
Item one: A continuous, sustained,
and broad-based increase in
military spending and pre-
paredness over the past 15 years—
a time, according to the peaceniks,
that the Russians should have felt
reassured by a continual slump in
our own defensive preparedness
and outlays. Item two: an
increasing aggression on the part
of the Soviets. This has escalated in
several stages. The initial stage was
Vietnam, with arms supplied to
indigenous troops. Their primary
victory was supplied by an
increasingly left-of-center media
that portrayed a virtual victory as
an insolvable stalemate. This
liberal* bias carries over into
today's media, whether it has a
factual basis or not. The second
stage involved the usage of proxy
Cuban troops to impose
Communism on Ethopia. Big
liberal "so what?" response. It was
see Threshing, page 3
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Morgan, Tom. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1982, newspaper, November 5, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245514/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.