The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1987 Page: 4 of 20
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4 Friday, August 28,1987 THRESHER Opinion
Fall RSVP opportunities to continue spring's spirit
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nearby Texas Medical Center, and
working at crisis shelters to help bat-
tered and abused women at the Hous-
ton Area Women's Center or home-
less kids at the Covenant House.
In addition to weekly projects,
RSVP coordinated many one-time
service opportunities such as the
National Student Campaign Against
Hunger and Outreach Day.
The StudentCampaign is an annual
event which combines two important
issues—cleaning the environment
and hunger relief. Outreach Day, on
February 14 (Valentine's Day),
brought over 500 members of the
Rice Community (students, faculty,
and staff) to participate in over 30
different service projects.
These projects ranged from mak-
ing Valentine cards for patients at
nearby hospitals, to bringing 60
Jackson middle school kids to the
Fine Arts Museum and the zoo, to
building a playground at a local park.
The enthusiasm of Outreach Day
continued throughout the rest of the
year as many of the participants con-
tinued with their service involve-
ments. We're excited about the next
Outreach Day which is planned for
October 17.
Also, in November, RSVP will
host the Southeastern U.S. Regional
Conference of the Campus Outreach
Opportunities League (C.O.O.L.), a
national organization which encour-
ages college students to serve their
communities.
Last year many people joined to-
gether to expand RSVP from a small
band of volunteers to a real model for
college activism in the community.
We are discovering the excitement of
addressing important social issues
and of challenging ourselves to be
part of a process which will make a
difference in our world, one person at
a time. We are also finding that par-
ticipation in the wider community
offers experiences which enrich our
education.
The continuing success of RSVP
lies in our capacity to care and to get
involved for others. RSVP wants to
challenge you as a member of the Rice
community to be part of a solution, to
lend your enthusiasm and your talents
to community service.
RSVP has grown to include a full-
tim6 service coordinator, Jim Mus-
tacchia, as well as an officer staff. Our
office in the RMC cloisters is open
every day and night. If you have any
questions or are interested in any of
our programs, please call 527-4970or
come by our office. We are looking
forward to seeing you.
RSVP Notices:
•There will be a one-hour Univer-
sity wide RSVP meeting Thursday at
9 p.m. in the Sid Richardson college
commons. All students, faculty, and
staff are invited. We will introduce
and have sign-ups for numerous serv-
ice projects, and briefly discuss both
the October 17 Qutreach Day and the
November 13-15 COOL conference.
Come to the meeting early to get a
seat. Refreshments will be served at
10 p.m.
•Volunteers are needed immediat-
edly for: Taping for the Blind, Rice
Students Befriending Youth—a Big
Brother/Sister type program, Rice
Recycling and Recovery, Sharma
Foundation—a drug prevention pro-
gram for young kids. Call RSVP 527-
4970.
•Work-Study Service Opportuni-
ties are available for students to work
with the RSVP office and with a
number of local community service
agencies. If interested, please call Jim
Mustacchia at 527-4970.
Humaneness part of prevention
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work. Such a plan need not displace
paid construction workers, as projects
could be completed that labor costs
would otherwise make prohibitively
expensive. The inhumanly cruel con-
ditions that have traditionally existed
in chain-gangs must, of course, be
eliminated.
To institute either sort of system in
our state would require some rethink-
ing of the purpose of the justice sys-
tem. The goal of our correctional in-
stitutions should not be punishment
the criminal, but the prevention of
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crime.
Only 30 percent of America's
prison population are violent crimi-
nals. TTie others would not pose a
direct threat to public safety if re-
leased, and if they are released into a
properly controlled program, they
could be rehabilitated so that they are
not threats at all, but rather productive
members of society.
Certainly locking every criminal in
a small cell and throwing away the
key would limit crime, but at what
cost? The cost is extracted from our
pocketbooks, at a rate of hundreds of
millions of dollars a year in Texas
alone.
The cost is also extracted from our
value of human rights.
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Raphael, Michael J. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1987, newspaper, August 28, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245669/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.