The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1984 Page: 19 of 48
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fried misclass
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Feb. 28.
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fflisclassing you
What is this malarky? I mean,
almost half a page of available
space and no one with guts
enough to speak his mind without
even having to admit to it. But, alas
we have no takers. It's a damn sad
state of affairs when a ghost has to
do a column of misclass. Has the
eighties turned into that wimpy an
era?
In the 21 years I did the back page I
averaged about a letter a month
complaining about the basically
limp quality of the misclass gracing
these pages. I realize that the art of
active protest died in the sixties
and that the general misclass
format has been in place since the
seventies, but holy B'Jeezus, have
you folks lost your balls?
From my own ghostly point of
view, it's about time Zorro came
out of retirement to save the school
from becoming a campus of sheep.
Remember Zorro (Fall Tte)? He
may very well have been the last
person to contribute any
significant misclass. What he
lacked in tact he made up for in
sheer guts — to an extent. For all
his abuse of the intellectual
standing of the faculty and the fact
that he didn't have to sign his real
name, he actually managed to
change a static environment. For
those of you who missed it, he
wrote three of the most scathing
letters I've seen ridiculing a
proposed change (read more core)
in the requirements. Sure, he upset
a lot of people along the way;
However, the committee in charge
of making such decisions retreated
with its tail between its legs.
I'm certainly not advocating
violent overthrow of the
administration or a return of the
"grand old misclass": violent
revolution went out in the sixties
and the grand old misclass went
out with this morning's trash.
However, it's about damn time for
some meat and potatoes in the
misclass, if for no other reason
than to spare yourselves tsuch
angry diatribes as these — the
space could be far better used, like
to* improve your lot before this
school becomes as pl&tlc as
tupperware.
—the ghost of jfk
the only good note is a dead note
Get involved in drugs before your
kids do.
—commercial, Jones N.
* *
I'm not into physical pain: I prefer
to inflict it.
***
The bigger the charge, the better
the flux.
—Physics 102.
***
You only need half a brain.
What's up? Not much.
***
It amazes me how many people
come to Rice who so staunchly
believe in an omnipotent,
omniscient God, and divine
control of nature. It astonishes me
that they preach goodness and
kindness and the resurrection of
the dead to a world already "saved"
by modern intellectualism. In fact,
no true intellectual can pretend to
such a hopeful philosophy. All
intellectuals realize that man is
only a thinking animal; that he
instinctually lives to bring harm
and destruction; that his hope is
none, his future, black; that his
existence is but a twinkle in the
dark. The opposable thumb and
hairless skin are all that separate
man from animal; moral
definition, moral absolutes, innate
moral consciousness are all
delusions of an illusory world. So
all intellectuals spend their time
questioning reality. Who are these
Christians who have such
happiness in a world writhing in
pain? — who are these
simpletons? Maybe I should ask
who the sophisticates are who have
brought the pain, and the sorrow.
"Yet wisdom is justified by all her
children", and these intellectuals
have made man a child of hell.
Seniors
Graduate Students
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Wednesday, February 8, 1984
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The Rice Thresher, February 3, 1984, page 19
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Mitchell, Mark M. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1984, newspaper, February 3, 1984; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245550/m1/19/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.