The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1983 Page: 2 of 20
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Elect to elect Tuesday
This Tuesday, ballot boxes will practically bar the way into
colleges1 commons. Sixteen elections and three blanket tax
proposals will command your attention. Please give it to them.
If a student chooses, she or he can live and study at Rice
without ever acquiring a sense of being part of a university. This
student fails to realize that there is more to Rice than one's
college. As a university, Rice is a community with a complex
structure of organizations that both support and are supported
by the society within the hedges.
Perhaps it is a measure of their efficiency as well as their deep
roots that these organizations can operate without demanding
conscious effort from all members of the Rice community.
Nevertheless, all do benefit from the often tedious machinations
of the university-wide groups.
Although often stereotyped as a body of politicos and resume
padders, the Student Association senate nevertheless performs
many tasks essential to student life. Similarly, students often
take for granted the many TGs and movies, the cheap cinema
and theater tickets, and Rondolet/Beer-Bike that the Rice
Program Council works tenaciously to offer. You can recognize
and affect these groups' efforts Tuesday.
You can begin to make the acquaintance of the active but
under-used TexPlRG by voting for its officers. The campus
publications also deserve your considered attention at the polls.
The organization that permeates the Rice experience so
completely that most of us never come into direct contact with it,
the Honor Council, will also seek members Tuesday.
Why not read the candidates' statements over the weekend, or
tune in the candidates' debate on KTRU Monday at 8 p.m.?
Then vote Tuesday. By doing so, you will acknowledge not only
the university organizations' importance, but also your own.
—Jeanne Cooper
A modest proposal
Upon their return to Rice, the students of that esteemed
institution were confronted with two issues which threaten the
sanctity of their bodies. With the respect to these two heinous
violations of decency, 1 would like to present, in the spirit of that
brilliant Irishman Jonathan Swift, this modest proposal for their
solution:
Whereas, the food served to the residents of the eight dining
halls gracing the Rice campus has sunk to a level of quality of
such impenetrable depths that such a plague has not been known
to those residents in recent memory (or at least since last
semester); and
Whereas, the cost of that food has reached such exorbitant
heights that the powers that be continue to search for alternate
food systems; and
Whereas, the multitude of winged beasts which inhabit the
grounds of Rice during the winter months cause considerable
nuisance to the flesh and to the olfactory organs; and
Whereas, any cooked fowl cannot possibly be of any lower
quality than the food which is currently presented to the Rice
students, ,
I propose that the Rice Food Service secure said fowl for the
purpose of human' consumption.
— Richard Dee§, 1981
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EXPANDING THE HEDGES/by Chris Ekren
Anatoly Scharansky has been
confined in a Soviet prison for the
last five years. Arrested for his
activities on the Helsinki Watch
Committee, a group of Russian
intellectuals monitoring the Soviet
Union's compliance with the
Helsinki Human Rights Accord,
Sharansky has eight more years to
serve.
The Wall Street Journats
Suzanne Garment has demon-
strated that Scharansky's captors
are sys„. ""Really torturing him.
Scharansky is toid that he will be
released momentarily only to be
thrown into a new session of
starvation, isolation and physical
abuse in a cynical strategy to break
his will to resist.
Scharansky's treatment is
certainly a shocking example of
the inhumanity of the Soviet
political system. On the other
hand, thousands of people are
arrested every day in Gulagland,
many for less heinous crimes than
expecting their country to keep its
word on a human rights treaty.
What makes Scharansky's case
special is the fact that the current
Communist Party leader in the
Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov,
specifically approved Scharan-
sky's arrest and incarceration
while head of the KGB.
Andropov has reached the top
of the Russian anthill by climbing
on bodies. As KGB chief, he
presided over a wave of repression
well portrayed by Solzhenitsyn
and Sakharov. Flaunting scores of
international treaties ranging from
United Nations declarations to the
Helsinki Accord, Andropov's
thugs are presently occupied with
training East German Berlin Wall
guards to shoot to paralyze and
covering up what many people
believe was a Soviet/Bulgarian
piot to kill the Pope.
One does not have to believe all
or even most of the information
our painfully liberal press prints
about Andropov and his killers to
realize that Andropov is not a nice
guy. Certainly, he is not the type
one would want to buy a used car
from. Yet a large number of
otherwise decent Americans,
including a wing of the Democratic
party, believe Andropov when he
claims to offer a "fair" huclear
freeze proposal. The USSR's
blood-stained Andropov has
learned a lot from his propaganda
days with the KGB: he has
convinced even Catholic bishops
that Reagan, not he, is a "war-
monger."
Andropov can afford to offer
any nuclear arms reduction
concoction under the sun simply
because he never plans to honor it.
Jerry Ford was beaming when he
walked away from the bargaining
table with the Helsinki Accord,
only to find that the Soviet
interpretation of human rights is
highly subjective, incorporating
torture, J forced labor and non-
existent press freedom.
One of the major reasons we
need a new arms treaty is because
the Soviets escalated over the last
arms agreement we had with them.
After a brief pause, the Russians
have returned to encoding their
missile triangulation data, which
makes verification of their
compliance impossible.
Our Carter-emasculated CIA is
hardly up to penetrating the Soviet
strategic command, particularly
since Phillip Agee named most
of our agents in his paperback
expose, available at your local
airport bookstall.
Ideally, a nuclear arms
freeze agreement with the
Soviets would be verified
by on-site inspection ot warheads
by both parties or by a neutral
agency. Giving the Soviets free
reign in the US and allowing
American inspectors into the
USSR would alleviate fears on
both sides about cheating and
obviate the need for further
military spending.
The Soviets have constantly
refused American proposals for
on-site inspection for one major
reason: they would work. Instead,
the Soviets prefer indirect methods
susceptible to manipulation. For
example, while satellites can
provide a rough estimate of the
number of silos a nation has, they
can't determine the nature of the
missile and warhead inside.
The United States does not
harbor any inward, repressed
hopes of annhilating the Soviets.
The Russians have no reason to
spend 20 percent of their GNP on a
defense/repression budget. The
continued Soviet commitment to
an arms race is independent of
American actions and intentions,
as the failure of Salt I has clearly
shown. Yuri Andropov has proven
that he can kill and repress
repeatedly without qualms. To
expect him to suddenly become
rational and honest is not only
naive but potentially deadly.
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Jeanne Cooper
Editor
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