The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1984 Page: 3 of 28
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Scheleen Johnson
Brown undergrads vote for pills
to suicide in case of nuke war
Undergraduates at Brown University
voted last week on a proposal asking the
university health service to stock poison
"suicide pills" for use upon request in the
event of a nuclear war.
About 700 students signed petitions to put
the referendum on the ballot for Brown's
student elections, and student-government
officials told The Chronicle of Higher
Education that more students than in several
years before voted in the elections.
A Brown administrator said that even if
the initiative passed, the university would
not stock the pills. "We do not accept the
alternative of stockpiling suicide pills," said
Robert A. Reichley, Vice-President for
University Relations. He went on to state,
however, that the university did not dismiss
the motives behind the referendum. "There
is a real fear of nuclear war. We take that
very seriously."
Sponsors of the initiative conceded that
they had not really expected the
administration to stock the pills. Their aim
was to raise the consciousness of nuclear war
among students. "We think that the
potential of a nuclear war for destruction is
so great that it will not only destroy our
civilization, but our whole value system,"
said Jason Salzman, a junior and the
organizer of Students for Suicide Tablets.
Institute of Peace created to
find scientific basis for peace
Congress has authorized a new
educational institution, the U.S. Institute of
Peace, to bring scholars and diplomats
together "to examine the disciplines in the
social, behavioral, and physical sciences,
and the arts and humanities, with regard to
the history, nature, elements, and future of
peace processes."
According to James H. Laue, Director of
the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the
University of Missouri in St. Louis, the new
institution is not just a sign of American
commitment to promoting international
harmony. He envisions it as a "small form of
national commitment that says
THRESHING IT OUT
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out really fun. I was talking to a girl that 1
had just met. Everything was fine until 1 told
her that I was a graduate student. Her
response was "What are you doing here?"
Well that really made me feel uncomfortable
like I wasn't welcome here. This kind of
rudeness doesn't happen often (most under-
grads are nicer than that) but it does show
how poorly grad students are stereotyped.
Now I'm not trying to blame the
undergraduates for the split that exists
between grads and undergrads. It's hard for
undergrads to get to know grad students
since grads don't live in the colleges. Also
some grad students don't even make an
effort to get to know the undergrads. This is
a shame since I have met some very nice
undergrads and I am glad they are my
friends.
So what can be done about this problem? I
think taking a grad student to lunch is a
great idea. I have eaten at colleges before but
it's very hard to strike up a conversation with
a table full of students you don't know,
especially if you're by yourself. In general,
I think that the friendliness and "let's get to
know one another" attitude that exists
during freshman week should be extended to
everyone all year long.
As for me, I'm going to continue to go to
TG's and parties because they definitely
are a good time.
Robert M. Palenchar
Graduate Student '85
Rude fans anger Mobster
To the editor:
I'll start with an anecdote:
Two photographers were standing on the
top of the pressbox taking pictures of the
peacemaking and conflict resolution is a new
field that has arrived."
In the last decade, sholars say,
interdisciplinary work on how to negotiate,
mediate, or simply carry on a dispute has
indeed begun to form a new field of
scholarship.
Last month the second annual national
conference on peacemaking and conflict
resolution was held on the University of
Missouri's St. Louis campus, taking as its
theme "Issues of an Emerging Field." The
group outlined the roots of conflict
resolution as an academic field. They lie in
several disciplines and specialties: studies of
aggression in social science and behavioral
science; international studies of diplomacy
and foreign affairs; research in labor
management and collective bargaining;
research in peace, dealing less with the
formal diplomacy of foreign affairs and
more with nonviolent strategies and general
theories of the causes of war and peace;
studies on the resolution of family and
neighborhood disputes and how such
conflicts can be resolved out of court;
Doonesbury
conflicts over how to negotiate a growing
number of environmental disputes on such
issues as the placement of toxic waste dumps
or the compensation of the victims of
environmental hazards.
All of these areas are being drawn upon in
order to come up with the common
denominators involved in conflict
resolution.
"Practitioners used to negotiate by the
seat of their pants, doing whatever worked,"
Roy Fisher, Professor of Law at Harvard
University, told The Chronicle of Higher
Education. "Now a lot of researchers are
looking at the data and trying to come up
with some hypotheses about the way a
dispute unfolds and the way it can be
interrupted, negotiated, or arbitrated," he
said. "We're talking about the best way to
carry on a difference. We're not asking why
we should negotiate, but how."
' Most scholars agree that no consensus on
a new theory of conflict has been reached
yet. They do, however, recognize conflict
recognition as an increasingly important
field.
Said Madeleine Crohn, director of the
National Institute for Dispute Resolution in
Washington, "It's almost like the technology
for settling disputes is developing faster than
the thinking about them."
U New Hampshire to strive for
equality through cold cash
While clerical and technical workers (82%
of whom arc women) are on strike at Yale
University due to low wages, female faculty
members at the University of New
Hampshire will get $500 raises this year and
the next. This should help to bring their
salaries up to the levels of their male
colleagues.
The increases were approved after studies
last year by faculty groups and a women's
commission showed that female professors
earned an average of $1,800 less a year than
the male faculty members.
According to a university spokesman,
about 100 women will get across-the-board
raises, and money will be set aside for
additional increases in special cases.
BY GARRY TRUDEAU
SOHOOU'D
IT 60,
HANDSOME?
H0UU PIP ITG0? WELL, 1ST ME- TELL YOU.
FIRST, IMI55EPMY TRAIN ANDI WAS
AN HOUR LATE.. THEN MY OFFICE
WASN'T REAPY THEM
jr<X THE RECEPTIONIST
'tMAPE A MAJOR PASS
AT ME
MIKE, HJHY15 WELL, CASSIE
REAGAN EVEN SAYS HIS PEO -
BOTHERING UJITH PLE UJANT TO
BLACK VOTERS? BROAPEN HIS
HE HARPLYNEEDS MANDATE..
THEM<__/ \
-Zll
YOUR CLUTCH
IS FIXED, MAN.
NEED ANYTHING
ELSE DONE ON
WE CAR?
NO, THANKS,
RUFUS. LISTEN,
BEFORE YOU GO,
I GOTTA ASK
YOU A QUESTION.
GREAT. THEY
OFFEREP ME
THE NEW REA-
GAN ACCOUNT
/
THE WHOLE
ACCOUNT*
WOW! YOU
ACCEPTED
OF COURSE-
THEN, TO TOP IT OFF, T WAS IN-
FORMS? THAT MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT
IS TO PREPARE A REAGAN CAMPAIGN
, SPOT AlMEP A T BLACK
dvr VOTERS CAN YOU
dELIEVEIT?
ft
THEY'RE ALSO TRY TNG TO COUNTER A
NEW NONPARTISAN STUDY THAT'S
F0UNP THAT BLACKS OF ALL CIAS5ES
ARE PRAMATICAUY WORSE OFF AS
A RESULT OF REAGAN POLICIES ■
WHAT'S MM YOU THINK OF
SOMETHING GOOD
I RONALD REAGAN HAS
\ DONE FOR BLACKS'
OF
COURSE.
GOP, YOU ARB
A FAST-TRACKER1
I KNEW IT! SO
HOW DO YOU
FEEL?
NEVER MINP 'THAT THE WHOLE IDEA
IS PREPOSTEROUS. WHAT REALLY
WORRIES ME IS THAT I ACCEPTED,
THAT I'M ALREADY BEGINNING
TO LOSE THE COURAGE OF MY
CONVICTIONS.
IM SUPPOSED TO COME UP
WITH A SLOGAN THAT MAKES
THE POINT THAT REAGAN HAS
IGNORED ALL THE PISAPVANTAGEp
NOT BLACKS PER.SE.
HMM..LETME
SEE.. THAT'S A
TOUGH ONE. IS
THIS A RIPPLE
OR SOMETHING?
UH..
YEAH,
SORT OF
LIKE A GOOP
GBRMAN.
UH-OH.
TORTURED-
BROW TIME.
NEED A
SHOULDER?
n n n i fn
DOES IT NOT NEARLY AS
WORRY YOU, MUCH AS THE
TOO, J.J:? RECEPTIONIST
7HATS JUST A
REAGAN: ROUGH DRAFT
HE'S NO ZWAUTTOPLAY
RACIS T " AROUND WITH / T
\ SOME MORE. |
a1-
HE GOT
MILLIONS
OF US TO BLESS
REGISTER1 YOU.
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