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4 FRIDAY. APRIL 12. 1996
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MANAGING
EDITOR
IS amazing how many people
can integrate, optimize, theorizeand
philosophize, yet cannot complete
the simple task of doing a load of
laundry. Inhere
are three cat-
egories of laun-
dry deviants:
those who can-
not launder,
those who can
launder yet
choose not to
and those who
use selfish
schem ing to en-
sure exclusive
personalaccess
to washers and driers.
Category I. I^t's address the
people who can't use the machines.
In the prototypical model of domes-
ticity, some elder family member or
friend takes the college-bound up-
start and instills in him or her the
laundering basics,
'ITh> most fundamental laundry
room know-how is color separation.
There are foolish people who have
not yet figured out that white and
red makes you see red. If you have
ever seen some poor fool walking
out of the laundry room with a freshly
ruined basket of lights and former
whites, you know this (God forbid
that the person was you). Remem-
ber llus.
Temperature select ion is the sec-
ond lesson of laundering basics. The
tighter the color, the hotter the wa-
ter. Conversely, the darker die color
of the garment, the colder the water.
Or to keep it simple, just don't use
hot water for anything but white
socks and pungent sports gear. Col-
ors fade and bleed in hot water; and
just about everything shrinks in it
By the way, if you just finished
playing some sand or dirt-oriented
sport like volleyball, shake the sand
out of th^j garment before putting it
in the washer. Puh.
Now that the stuff is clean, dry it.
Netfer overload a dryer. It can spin
for hours and never do anything but
waste electricity if there are too many
garments filling the bin. Be careful
with towels and jeans, They should
be packed into the dryer even more
loosely than other items.
For the more advanced users,
adding a fabric-softening sheet has
the potential to make clothes softer.
1 dq,not recommend it as I think that
the whole industry pulled this tech-
nology out of the air to increase
revenues.
Club soda, lemon juice or any of
the commercial stain removers are
most functional on stains if you use
them immediately. Once a stain sets,
not even ancient Chinese secrets
can get it out.
Also, never put linen, rayon, silk
or any other delicate in the drier —
not even on its most gentle setting.
The "delicate" setting is misleading
The only true way to preserve the
condition of these items is to dry
them on a hanger or line.
Category II. Most of you do your
own laundry and should have
skipped over that first part. Hut
among those of you who can laun-
der, there are many who will not.
We all have sat next to someone in
class who decided that the jeans
they last washed in February were
the cleanest that they had available.
I wonder about the people who have
one pair of jeans but 34 pairs of
boxer shorts.
It's a simple equation. Wear your
shoes without socks, wear each pair
of boxers twice and air-out those
jeans. With the average collection of
Beer-Bike. O-Week and college T-
shirts numbering 76.1, a two- month
laundry-free wardrobe is available
with minimal recycling.
Let me say that no matter how
many of you all do this, it does not
make it right. It may sound like I am
picking on the guys. But just* ask 9
close female friend when the last
time she washed her favorite bra
was. and you may get an answer that
you do not like.
Category III. As if the people
listed above weren't annoying
enough, there is an eyen more sinis-
ter group of Rice people; those who
for selfish gain seek to disturb the
natural order of the laundry room.
These are most loathsome creatures
— the laundry.schemers.
Have you ever opened a drier to
Promise to move Wiess should be honored
To the editor:
. Recently, my wife, who is unfor-
tunately art alumna of Wiess Col
lej.n , received a letter and. survey
iroin several Wiess seniors con-
cerned with I lie university's proposal
to ra/e the current structure of Wiess
and relocate the college to a site
The
University
of Texas
near Jones and Brown.
So that all our iuierests are repre-
sented. 1 write on behalf of, 1 believe,
all llaiis/enites. past and present, to
state our vehement and unbending
support for any plan that involves
the destruction and relocation of
Wiess ( ollege.
'Though the current proposal falls
short by maintaining Wiess on cam-
pus, it is an acceptable second-best
alternative to movement of the col-
lege to a site along Buffalo Bayou.
Tre Fischer
Hanszen '90
Cohort
find someone else's clothing in it?
Upon further examination, you find
your missing garments resting on
top*of another machine and sopping
wet?? My friend Brandon has the
solution to this problem: vindication.
Brandon just takes the offending
person's load and sprinkles it about
the laundry room. If more people
practiced this form of vigilante non-
tolerance, the laundry room might
evolve into a safer place.
Another crime often committed
by the schemer-type launderer is
"the fake." I was not aware of this
move until some friends from Sid
informed me of the atrocities occur-
ring consistently in the SRC laundry
room. You see, some idiots run an
empty drier while they wash their
clothing. This way the drier is va-
cant when the washingeycle is com-
pleted.
If I wasted electricity like that at
home, my dad would make me pick
up the bill. Sadly enough, we all pick
up the bill for these people. Why do
you think the campus housing por-
tion of your bill is so high? Because
of the cozy accommodations or be-
cause utilities are outrageously ex-
pensive in Houston? Unfortunately,
you cannot easily target the culprits.
Maybe Brandon has a strategy for
vengeance.
Now on to the last schemer-type
in Category 111. The thief. The thief
takes your clothes. Usually it is done
on purpose, but other times gar-
merits are snatched by mistake. The
unintentional culprit then decides
that your clothes are worth keeping
or that the trip to the basement is too
much of a strain. Then it's "good-
bye" favorite jeans.
That's gotta hurt. Especially if
those were your only pair of jeans —
the ones you were washing for the
first time since February.
Packy Saunders is the managing
editor and a Jones College junior.
Terrorism not key to peace
tJSMAN
HAber
COLUMNIST
The establishment of a
peace accord between the Israeli gov-
ernment and the Palestinian Libera-
tion Organization signified an opti-
mistic new era
in the Middle
East for pro-
gressives and
liberals,
But to con-
servatives, it
also meant a
threat to tradi-
tional views and
established pre-
judices.
Because of *
this perception, it is doubtful anyone
could be certain that peace will be.
easy.
The recent suicide bombings
have made it c lear how far some are
willing go to abolish any chance for
peace between the Israeli govern-
ment and the PLC).
There seems to be a prevailing
attitude, however, that the only rea-
son peace isn't succeeding is be-
cause of terrorist attacks on civilians
by such groups as Hamas and Is-
lamic Jihad.
Even though these attacks have
been rightfully denounced, the truth
is that certain actions taken by the
Israeli government have proven to
be just as damaging to the peace
process.
For example, Israel still confis-
cates Palestinian land to make new
settlements and roads which only
Jews can use.
Palestinians are also denied the
bulk of their water and land re-
sources. This embargo hurts their
agriculture and industry.
Israel also continues to torture
Palestinian prisoners.
A recent policy, in response to
the suicide bombings, has been the
institution of collective punishment
for innocent Palestinians as well as
those responsible for terrorism. For
example, the houses of alleged ter-
rorists were demolished.
While this might send a messge
to the alleged criminal, it also leaves
many innocent wives, children and
grandparents homeless.
Such government policies can
only serve the cause of right-wing
extremism and give Palestinians
more reasons to oppose the peace
process. Proof of this is the decreas-
ing support for Yasser Arafat's Pal-
estinian authority.
If the Israeli government is seri-
ous about peace, then they must
realize that most Palestinians are
too and act accordingly.
Obviously,- most people realize
that peace is the only viable solution
to this crisis.
If this peace is to be realized,
however, Peres, along with Arafat
and Clinton, must acknowledge and
deal with all terrorism.
It is only then that faith can be
restored in the hearts of both Pales-
tinians and Israelis in the inherent
benefits of a peaceful solution to their
centuries-old problem.
Ustnan Baber is a Hanszen College
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