The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1983 Page: 5 of 16
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THRESHING-IT-OUT
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V nless these realizations are made,
the university is going to continue
muddling along with an
uncooperative student body and a
frustrated student leadership.
Mary Ellen Trunko
SA President
David Fincher
WRC President
H.R. Phillips
Wiess President
Edward J. Keller
Baker President
Sheryl Shirley
Brown President
Richard W. Morefield, Jr.
Hanszen President
Paul Godec
Lovett President
T. Roger Ford
SRC President
Megan Clark
President
Cunyus counsels students
on importance of friendship
To the editor:
Think about this for a minute or
two. You are completely unique;
there is not now, nor will there ever
be again, nor has there ever been
before a human being like you.
You are alive and you have a mind
and your life is your life! Your life
doesn't belong to the chemistry
department, or to your mother and
father, or the United States
government, or to your church or
anything else. These institutions
might take credit if you fail. That
comes down to you.
Now, let me remind you that to
Rice and to the U.S. government
you are nothing but a number. You
have no other worth to them as a
human being, an intellectual, a
pretty face, or anything. You are
a number! But you are not a
number to your friends and
hopefully not to yourself.
So let me pose a question: where
do your loyalties lie? To a
government which assigns you a
number and if you're lucky will pay
you a pension when you're 65 and
which also can — at its own
pleasure—call you to fight and kill
other people, people with friends,
families, goals, etc., just like you,
in the name of some glorious
cause; or to your brothers, sisters,
and friends here.
It's not my intention to argue
political or philosophical
ideologies here. I simply want to
remind you to appreciate your
friends; they matter. You owe no
greater loyalty to anyone else than
to them.
Jesus said, "Greater love hath no
man than he lay down his life for
his friends." Be the one that says a
resounding "No!" to wars and to
hatred and to abstractions — you
can't make love to the government!
Friendship is a sacred bond higher
than life itself. Christ himself said
so. Just remember that a
government hung him on a tree for
it. Do you value friendship and
love enough to risk the same?
John Cunyus
Baker '84
Quintero urges support for
Martin Luther King holiday
To the editor:
Last Saturday marked the 54th
anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther King, the "Dreamer" who
has been the most effective
American peacemaker of recent
times. His accomplishments and
sacrifices have gone well beyond
the achievements of people that we
today call "heroes."
Ever since his death, people of
all colors and creeds have pleaded
to have his birthday^ecognized as
a holiday. Admittedly, measures to
get it nationalized have failed
under administrations of both
major parties, for various reasons.
Most recently, however, Reagan
stated that he would probably not
declare it as a national holiday
because "then people of every
American ethnic race will come
asking for a holiday comme-
morating one of their own."
Good grief! Are Reagan and his
aides that blind about King's
achievements, or is he gradually
coming out of the neutral election
closet with all his prejudices
showing? I can understand their
possible misinformation as a result
of the "great white media silence"
of King's true life and covered-up
death. It would not be-the first time
that Mr. Reagan would have
shown extreme ignorance of the
true, whole historical record. For
our sake, let us hope that he short-
sightedly relied on incomplete and
twisted scholarship. If not, the ship
is sailing with a dyed-in-the-wool
racist at the helm.
It will not be long before
Americans wake up to these and
other accomplishments of
Americans that pointed out and
protested against leaders and
practices that had us living in
nothing less than a dictatorial
Communism.
At Rice, it was great to see the
RPC Calendar make note of
King's birthday. It's a start for this
place, but it will be a long time
before this pseudo-concerned
university responds to the holistic
needs of all its "non-majorities"
that they socially and fiscally
ignore and deter.
I urge you to commemorate
King's birthday and live the ideals
of the Dreamer's dream.
Brian Quintero
Wiess '84
Letters to the editor must he
submitted by 5 p.m. the preceding
Monday to appear in the Thresher
on Friday. The Thresher cannot
guarantee publication, ami
reserves the right to edit letters jor
length. Suggested length is 5 OH
words; longer letters should he
brought to the attention of the
editor before the 5 p.m. Monday
deadline. Unsigned letters will not
be printed in the letters-to-the-
editor section, but rather
published on the back page, if at
all. Return of letters cannot he
guaranteed.
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Our Garland Division will be on campus interviewing on January 25 and 26
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Cooper, Jeanne. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1983, newspaper, January 21, 1983; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245519/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.