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Friday, February 27, 1987 THRESHER Opinion
Vietnam protester caught, charged with 1970 bombing
A 1981 graduate of Duke University has
been ordered to stand trial on charges that
he planted a bomb on the University of
Washington campus 17 years ago in a
Vietnam protest, reports the Chronicle.
A founding member of the radical
Weatherman faction of the Students for a
Democratic society, Silas Trim Bissell has
been charged with "conspiring to damage
federal property in placing a bomb at the
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
building on the University of Washington
campus on January 18, 1970, and with
possessing an unregistered firearm, the
explosive device."
Although the bomb never went off,
Bissell and his wife were both arrested;
they jumped their bail of $25,000 each.
Mrs. Bissell was again arrested in 1977,
and served five years in prison for the
bombing attempt and for "conspiracy to
bomb a California state senator's office."
Bissell assumed the name Terence Peter
Jackson, obtained a master's degree from
Duke University, and was working at a
hospital as a physical therapist until he
was arrested January 20.
His attorney argues that he should be
released from jail, because he is not "a
man on the run." If convicted, he could
face up to 15 years in prison and $20,000
in fines.
PP strikes at VD on V-Day
It seems that students at various schools
celebrated Valentine's Day in different
ways this year. While the usual flowers
and candy were in evidence at Case Wes-
tern Reserve University this February 14,
an unusual number of condoms also
changed hands on the romantic day.
Planned Parenthood of Cleveland rose to
Doonesbury
BEYOND THE HEDGES
by Jill Goodman
the occasion and honored St. Valentine as
part of a much greater celebration. Natio-
nal Condom Week. The organization di-
stributed free "Sheik ESQ Elites" on the
fourteenth.
The Case Western Reserve newspaper,
The Observer, was reportedly happy with
the gift, and in thanks said, "some of us
are more than happy to provide a campus-
wide example of practicing an ounce of
prevention."
Frosh extend art of traying
Swarthmore's Phoenix reports that Swat
students have created a new sport called
"Supertraying" which they hope "will be
used in Olympic competition by 1996."
With the efforts of two freshmen, the
sport of traying has been modernized "by
attaching a wing-styled plastic chair to a
normal SAGA tray."
These two freshmen have created four
Supertrays. Although they admit that the
Supertray "does not have optimal weight
distribution," their trays make for an en-
joyable ride. They hope to introduce ano-
ther model to their tray line which will
"add another tray to reduce drag while main-
taining comfort."
Students at Swarthmore are taking advan-
tage of the cold weather and availability of
snow, and might be reluctant to return
SAGA's trays, "even if it means a rise in
the prices of room and board."
Stanford: no teaching test
As tuition rises, private institutions
"are feeling pressure to prove their worth
as centers of teaching and learning in
relation to their costs," according to the
Stanford Daily. Thus, private institutions
like Harvard, Bowdoin, Wellesley, and
Wesleyan have implemented programs and
tests to evaluate the quality of teaching
and learning at their schools. But not
Stanford.
Both Carolyn Lougee, dean of Unde-
rgraduate Studies at Stanford, and Dr.
Ronald Rebholz, professor of English, feel
that such tests "would be useless as well as
expensive" at Stanford. Professors would
be hindered by "teaching to the test," and
would lose their sense of "freedom and
autonomy in the classroom."
Students fill out course evaluation
forms, and a teacher can volunteer to go to
the Stanford Center for Teaching and
Learning (CTL) if there is a consistent
complaint from students.
Memory of past can brighten black future
The following piece was submitted under the
pseudonym John Nevermind.
Who am I? How many have asked that
question of ourselves, and of each other? My
name doesn't matter. I am an athlete and an
academ. I am a comp jock and an artist. I
have been called "militant" by some, "Oreo"
by others, and "cool" by yet others. Above
all else, I am black. Black in a society where
respect is often grudging, and the price paid
for it is often too high. I am a black student
in a anomalous position: having to be the
best because I know that merely being "just
as good" will never be good enough. In
addition 1 know that for better or for worse,
fairly or not, that 1 am expected to be
representative of all my people. I write this
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
an essay
as an individual, but also as a small part of
the whole of which I am.
"Know Thyself," Socrates once said to his
pupils. February is nearly gone, and with it
Black History Month, and how many of us
can say that we know ourselves? How many
of us even give a damn? Recently, a friend of
mine showed me a study that belabored the
complancy of black college students: their
single-minded pursuit of material items,
over the less "real" but more important
essentials of principles and ideals, was
leading to a wholesale apathy among young,
college-educated blacks. What stunned me
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was the date of the study—1956, just prior to
the most explosive and progressive era of
this decade, the 1960's, a decade that saw
concerned and aware students of all kinds
leading the struggle.
Now, three decades later, history is
repeating itself, and complacency has again
gripped us. Young children growing up
believe that black history starts and ends
with Martin Luther King. The top priority
of many of us is the pursuit of the dollar, the
300ZX, and the climbing of the social
ladder. In short, we have a generation of
people who lack any essential knowledge of
self, and a foggy view of reality. In the
meantime, our community, our future is
disintegrating in a hail of teenage
pregnacies, dope, poverty, and illiteracy.
Where has our perspective gone? Our
selfhood?
Know thyself, because those who forget
history are doomed to repeat it. To know
oneself is to have a sense of direction that
cannot be distorted by anyone for any
reason. To know where you are, it is
necessary to know from whence you came.
What has Black History Month been for
you? Is it going through the motions, the
mere fulfilling of a obligation? I am asking
those reading this to reconsider. To
paraphrase George Orwell, he or she who
has a grip on the past has a grip on the
future, and he or she who controls his
preseflt can control his past. This is our
chance to get a grip on our past, and in the
process reassess our present and change the
future. Each person may and can have his or
her way of observing. However you do it,
keep in mind:
This is a time to remember all of our
heroes, the ones deemed "safe" and
otherwise—Martin and Malcolm, Cleaver
and Carmichael, Denmark Vesey, W.E.B.
DuBois and Paul Roberson. See it as a time
to rediscover those who have been forgotten
and altered by history: Garrett Morgan,
Alexander Dumas, and Ludwig Van
Beethoven. Honor those in our ancient past,
like Cleopatra and Imhotep, and those
recent. Remember those at home, and those
abroad like Toussaint L'Overture, Vincente
Gurrerro, Alexander Rushkin, and Ann
Zingha.
And when you read of our heritage, don't
just read the letter, but feel the spirit. Our
history, if nothing else, is a testimony to the
heart and soul of people who often had little
else. Forget to feel, you have forgotten to
live.
Lastly, I ask you, are you black in
February only? Are you alive in February
only? Let's take Black History Month past
this all-too-short Feburary. Take it
into March, April, May, into all twelve
months. Let's learn about ourselves, and
know ourselves. Do it with pride and
purpose, and do it knowing that we are
making history, and that the next chapter
will be written by us, and that by
understanding our past, we can take control
of our future.
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Greene, Spencer. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 27, 1987, newspaper, February 27, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245658/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.