The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1989 Page: 7 of 16
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AIDS Awareness
Week
November 13 to 19 is National
AIDS Awareness Week, and Rice
University's Health Education De-
partment is sponsoring events
throughout the week on campus.
On Monday, Health Representa-
tives will be distributing Safe Sex
packages in front of Fondren Library
from 11-1 p.m., and additional pack-
ages will be distributed in the col-
leges.
On Wednesday, Michael Mizwa
will be giving a speech on the topic of
"AIDS and the Homeless" from 12 -1
p.m. in Miner Lounge. That same
evening, Bart Loesner will be giving
a presentation on AIDS and safe sex
with plenty of audience participation
in the Wiess Commons at 7 p.m.
On Sunday, November 19, there
will be a city-wide AIDS Awareness
Week Street Party inthe Villagefrom
12 - 6 p.m. with live reggae music.
Look for AIDS-related posters in all
the college commons throughout
the week.
Houston area
universities unite for
week on hunger,
homeiessness
November 13-19 is National Stu-
dent Hunger and Homeiessness
Week, and Rice University is com-
bining efforts with the University of
Houston, SL Thomas University, and
Texas Southern University to gain
support and momentum for the
week's events.
On Monday, November 13, Jon-
athan Kozol, author of Rachel and
Her Children , which was written
after he spent one winter in a New
York shelter for the homeless, will
be be speaking privately with univer-
sity students in the Kelly Lounge in
the Rice Memorial Center from 5 to 7
p.m. before he gives his speech to
the public at 8 p.m. that evening.
Following Kozol's 8 p.m. speech,
university students from around the
city will gather in the field between
Herring Hall and the RMC for a slee-
pout to visibly present the plight of
the homeless.
"The major problem with getting
support from students and other
members of the community is the
prevailing attitude that hunger and
homeiessness are problems that are
distant or have no impact on them
The reality is that Hermann Park
across the street from Rice Univer-
sity is becoming the home for an
increasing number of homeless
people," said Becky Evans, external
vice-president of Rice Student Volun-
teer Program.
On Tuesday the radio station
KMJQ (Magicl02 FM) will be
broadcasting live from the Rice
Memorial Center courtyard and
promoting Rice's efforts on the air-
waves. That same evening, Duncan
Cormie, from Interfaith Hunger
Coalition, will be speaking at Baker
College at 7 p.m. about projects such
as Community Gardening which are
carried out by residents of impover-
ished communities to help them-
selves. He will also discuss different
ways students can get involved in
these projects.
On Wednesday Carl Umland,
from Habitat for Humanity, will be
speaking in Miner Lounge at 7 p.m.
about efforts that group's efforts,
which are similar to those of Inter-
faith Hunger Coalition, except in the
area of housing and shelter. He will
be discussing how people through-
out Houston are repairing old and
condemned houses into usable
forms of shelter.
Rice students will be collecting
donations for food on Thursday at
Randall's and AppleTree and on Fri-
day at Fiesta and Rice Foods. These
food drives will be coupled with a
week-long food drive on campus.
These events will require plenty
of student support and involvement,
and RSVP asks students to contact
their RSVP college representatives
or the RSVP office.
Who's Who
Nominations
Announced
Sixty-one Rice University stu-
dents have been selected to appear
in the 1990 edition of Who's Who
Among Students in American Uni-
versities and Colleges. They were
chosen from a sizable number of
juniors, seniors and graduate stu-
dents nominated by masters, depart-
ments, administrators and other
students. Certificates for the awards
will be distributed through the col-
leges and the Office of Graduate
Programs.
Rice was designated its quota of
recipients by the Who's Who board,
based on current enrollment As
stipulated in the Student Association
Constitution, a committee of admin-
istrators, faculty and students se-
lected the recipients, considering
scholarship, service and leadership.
The recipients represent all eight
colleges; six are graduate students.
The recipients include Dennis M.
Abbott (Baker), Edward B. Adams,
Jr. (Will Rice), Aviva Manoj Ajmera
(Brown), Khleber Chapman Attwell
(Brown), Michelle Lee Barz Oones),
Angela Yvette Berry (Hanszen),
Patricia L Bowen (Brown), Kristen
Adel Brelsford (Lovett), Robyn Lynn
Bryant (Wiess), Scott L. Bury
(Graduate Student), Alexander
Xavier Byrd (Sid Rich), Michael D.
Capistran (Graduate Student), Jed
Anthony Chamberlin (Wiess),
Daniel Louis Cheyette (Sid Rich),
Brian H. Collins (Baker), Jennifer L
Cooper (Will Rice).
Other recipients includejeffrey A
Cunningham (Will Rice), Maricela
Dominguez (Ijovett), Barry R. Dono-
van (Will Rice), James Worsham
Fallaw (Lovett), John R. Fessler
Oones), Richard Valentine Frueh
(Brown), Gretchen Bolt George
(Brown), George Albert Gonzalez
Oones), Stephen R Grobmyer (Will
Rice), Edward Joseph Guey Oones),
Bradley R. Hamer (Wiess), Donald
W. Hollas (Lovett), William J. Hollas
(Sid Rich), John Charles Isaac (Lov-
ett), Cynthia Lynn Johnson Oones).
Other recipients include David B.
Johnson (Graduate Student), Gre-
gory Howard Kahn (Sid Rich), Cinda
Lee Kassing (Baker), S. Leigh Kil-
lian (Wiess), Edan Lee (Lovett),
Miriam Ming-Wai Ma (Sid Rich),
Mahmoud Naraghi (Brown),
Stephen Kirk Oden (Baker), David
Michael Oro (Graduate Student),
Laurence B. Pearl (Will Rice), Todd
James Peiffer (Sid Rich), Elise V.
Perachio (Baker), Rifat Javed
Qureshi (GraduateStudent), Moses
I. Scheinfeld (Will Rice), Robert B.
Schmunk (Graduate Student), Eliza-
beth Schwartz Oones), Nicholas A
Shannin (Hanszen).
Other recipients include David
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and drugs in the schools. Washing-
ton addressed not only the violence
among students, but also the "vio-
lence" perpetuated by faculty and
staff in schools.
"Corporal punishment is deleteri-
ous to a learning environment Chil-
dren get the message that when all
else fails, violence is a means of
controlling the situation," he told the
audience.
Washington also attacked the
present attitude towards drug con-
trol. "We need more than catchy
phrases and jingles like 'Just say no
to drugs.' We need to find a way to
intervene early in the educational
process to fight the problem of drug
abuse like we did with sex educa-
tion," he said.
Castillo addressed the audience
next with statistics on the changing
composition of Houston-area stu-
dent bodies. "There are 96 different
languages spoken in the homes of
children attending Houston Inde-
pendent School District schools. We
have more Spanish-speaking people
than San Antonio and more blacks
than Atlanta. Our Asian population is
second only to Los Angeles."
Castillo also discussed the
greater need for technical education
and innovation for students to com-
pete in the next decade and the next
century.
Farenthold then talked about the
decline of language in modern soci-
ety. She replied, "Language envel-
ops our beliefs and behaviors like the
air envelops our bodies. However,
when our language deteriorates, the
signs are less clear."
She said the government uses
euphemisms such as "deterrence"
and "bargaining chips" for weapons,
"devices" for nuclear bombs, and
"exchanges" for nuclear attacks.
"There is also a consistent use of fear
appeals and doublespeak. The gov-
ernment also uses abstractions and
technical details which sterilize and
blunt reality and distort the potential
for destruction."
Professor Klineberg concluded
the forum by discussing what he
considers to be one of the most criti-
cal problems with the prevalent view
of education. "Our school system is
still based on the father works,
mother stays home' system," he as-
serted, while pointing out that "the
average child has not had a parent at
home at the end of a school day since
1974," he said.
After the forum the participants
attended various workshops on the
subject of the "Changing Culture of
Schools." Topics included "Student-
Based Conflict Mediation Projects,"
"Keeping the Melting Pot from Boil-
ing Over," "Integrating the Immi-
grant Student," "Empowering
Teachers and Students," and "New
Ways ofThinking about Global Inter-
dependence."
Shelley Berman, National Presi-
dent of Educators for Social Respon-
sibility, gave the conference's key-
note address. He showed examples
of drawings by children who had
been asked to draw pictures which
explained their place in society.
Most children had an acute under-
standing of the major events occur-
ring in the world. The disturbing fact
was that most of the children's im-
ages were centered around the nega-
tive aspects of society such as wars,
drugs, and AIDS. Very few children
drew positive images.
One girl explained her picture by
saying, "I care about the world, but I
don't think it concerns me- but it
does." These ambivalent feelings
reflect the confused signals many of
these children receive daily, accord-
ing to Berman.
Berman continued his presenta-
tion by having the audience draw
their own pictures, and he asked
them to discuss their drawings with
the people around them.
He finally discussed the relation-
ship between society, the school,
and children. "Schools have focused
on self-realization, not social self-
realization. To really find a personal
identity, your personal history must
fit in with social history," explained
Berman. He gave six steps neces-
sary for students to be "engaged with
the world."
They were understanding inter-
dependence, having opportunities
for social contributions, having op-
portunities to be a responsible
member of a community, developing
basic participatory skills, stepping
out of one's own perspective, and
exploring real world issues.
After Berman's address, the par-
ticipants attended another round of
workshops dealing with "Reconcep-
tualizing the Curriculum" These
workshops focused on addressing
national concerns in the classroom
such as AIDS, the environment, eth-
ics, sex education, the pro-demo-
cratic movement in China and
glasnost in the Soviet Union.
H. Smith Oones), DWayne M. Tan-
ner (Baker), Kimberly Dawn Tanner
(Hanszen), George Alexander Tho-
mas (Hanszen), John W.Thompson
Oones), Lisa J. Thompson (Wiess),
Carol Lynn Trippitelli Oones), An-
drew Wesley Tucker (Will Rice),
Rosemarie Unite (Baker), Gretchen
Lauren Wasserstrom Oones), Keith
Winkeler (Lovett), Spenser H. C. Yu
(Will Rice), Lori A. Zoellner
(Brown).
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Kahn, Greg & Leedy, Sarah J. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1989, newspaper, November 10, 1989; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245734/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.