The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1997 Page: 4 of 16
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civil rights, then 1
But if a black person stands up for
his civil rights, like Amoko does,
he's a complainer. He's overreact-
ing. His experience of being pre-
sumed a criminal because of the
color of his skin is deemed trivial.
Amoko charges that self-impor-
tant, busybody "officials" at the
Graduate House informally encour-
age police officers to violate the pri-
vacy and personal dignity of conn
pletely innocent students. I would
like to vouch for this.
One month ago 1 was sitting at a
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at the Graduate House eating
Across from me sat a woman
involved with the Loan Closet
w"wr"u*' and consequently is very important
white person fights for his or her in the Graduate House hierarchy,
vil rights, then he or she is a hero. She went on about how "they"
(meaning the Asian population at
the Grad House) are singularly re-
sponsible for the mfesses'that are
left in the Graduate House kitchens,
as if white people didn't use them as
well.
She continued on about how
"they" didn't know how to use appli-
ances correctly, and felt someone
should condescend to instruct them.
Apparently, "they" keep items in
"their" rooms that "they" shouldn't
and informally suggested that the
police (or whoever) ought to con-
duct weekly room searches. Make
no mistake about it, racism is alive
and well at the Graduate House —
Amoko is right.
People deny Amoko's complaint
because he is holding a mirror up to
Rice's collective conscience, and
Rice doesn't like what it sees.
He is owed an unqualified apol-
ogy by the police department with-
out attempting to defend their ac-
tions, because for whatever reason,
h&' is a human being who was
wronged. That he didn't get such an
apology is testament to the faltering
of Rice's collective conscience.
Robert Gross
Graduate student
Shepherd School of Music
Gingrich
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.Why should this be any different in
Gingrich's case?
H wang also praises Gingrich for
not seeking the advice of a tax attor-
ney before teaching the course with
donated funds. According to the
special prosecutor, Gingrich had
dealt sufficiently with tax-exempt
organizations to know that mixing
any sort of politics with tax-exempt
groups is bad.
He did it anyway. And inciden-
tally. contrary to a remark in Lewi's*
column on the subject, Gingrich is
being investigated on at least two
coiints of violating tax laws.
Also, Hwang and Lewis failed to
mention where the money to fund
Gingrich's course caine from. It
i ame from a fund which had been
originally set up to help inner-city
youths in Colorado. The office of
this fund became affiliated with
GOPAC, and the money was then
transferred to Gingrich, a situation
which led oa-e columnist to call jt
"embezzlement."
Unfortunately, there
is not enough room *
here to bring to light
all of the errors in
Hwang's and Lewis'
columns.
Finally, Hwang accused the
Democrats of violating Gingrich's
free speech by condemning his get-
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Although this happened a while
ago, there is something everyone
should know: Gingrich was paid $4
million up front before writing a
single page.
This-kind of money is unheard of
even for well published authors,
which Gingrich is not. The person
who owns the publishing company
was effectively given a 100 percent
tax cut for handling Gingrich's book
deal.
Unfortunately, there is not
enough room here to bring to light
all of the errors in Hwang's and
I /'wis' columns, but this rather brief
commentary should hopefully help
to expose some of the lies "that they
are spreading, and I certainly hope
they will try to be more truthful about
what they write in the future.
Algis Kudys
WRC '00
Baseball
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In addition, for the second year
in a row, we fell one game short of
*llie College World Series in Omaha,
Neb., becoming, in the process, the
only one of the eight teams tojnake
the regional finals the past two years
to not play at Rosenblatt Stadium.
Still, to be included with the likes
of those other teams — with the
Alabarnas, the Miamis, the Florida
States — is extremely respectable.
It is a long way from the decent, but
far from spectacular, teams we used
to turn out Nearly.
But I think I speak for my team-
mates when 1 say that second place
isn't good enough. It's our turn to
win: The preseason polls seem to
think we can, judging by their rank-
ing us as high as fourth in the nation
entering the year. It's the highest
preseason ranking for our team ever.
This brings me to the reason for
writing this letter. I think most of my
tiXE ALMOST every Amen-
can, I tuned into Fox on Sunday
to vafcfe the Super Bowl Even
before the game began, though
1 found myself embar-
ra *ed to be an Ameri-
can, and it had nothing
to do *$01 my lack of
love for the gridiron.
During the"Star
Spangled Banner,*
Mhw Louisiana signed
the words for the hear-
ing impaired. lt is Otis
kind of Hp service (ex-
cuse the pun) to the
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they are to be
and celebrities j
filled rooms and hyarthetoties
explain how much harderMr
lives would be without
money, Pespleclapand
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courage.. forward,
they go home, and by
the (llil morning die
Congressmen and
other officialsvitofcave
the power to make
changes havefwgotten
die Reeves' real me*-
sage — tfiis count
needs to be more hanc
le me
hail never
soan-
gered by something so small,
but the mote I thought about it
(he angrier I became.
f spent last semester in Aus-
tralia.acountry which does more
than play the game of fitting it-
' self tothe handicapped. The walk
signals have a characteristic
sound which lets visuafty im-
paired pedestrians know when it
feaafe to cross, the nalk signal
button you push moves at differ-
ent speeds for "walk" or "don't
„ capped-accessibie.
Do not misunderstand me. I
is hroadc^tt in sign language 1
such a widely watched event as
the Super BowL I ateo
the handi<
How-
to
ever, it isi
As much as I laugh at some of
ing impaired. Some highly used
walkwayshave bumps which can
befelt through the thickest soled
shoes, allowing even a blind per-
son to know where the sidewalk
is. And donot get me started on
the comparative availability of
public transportation in Austra-
lia and here.
The United States, especially
in the last fewyears, his been
I think the
"Handicapped Awareness Day."
For that one day every year we
would eachhavetolhreasahandt-
capped person and see how well
we got along. I doubt! could
function on a school day without
my contact lenses, let alone if I
were fully blipd or physically im-
paired in some other way. Imag-
ine what it would be fiketolive
every day in a country which
that not aK its citizens,can see.
S correct" lines on wsnea
ig the handicapped. We
have all seen Christopher Reeves
ontelevisionand heard him and
I doubt I could survive here.
Anne Kimbol is the business
manager and a
teammates would agree with me
when I say that this year could be
something sjiecial for both ourselves
and for the university as a whole.
Thus, 1 ask each one of you for
your support as we challenge for the
inaugural Western Athletic Confer-
ence title this season. I realize that
with Rice's small student population
we won't put .7,500 people in the
stands like a Wichita State Uniyer-
sity does with regularity.
Of cour.se, we don't offer majors
such as John Deere Driving and
Weed Maintenance like those
schools either. In recent years at-
tendance has increased and Cam-
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sport one of our
eron Field has turned into a true
home-field advantage for us. This is
invaluable in a sport where so many
home games are played, and we ask
you for the same turnout this year,
although Huck Fawaii may not have
the same ring to it as Tuck Fexas.
We are still playing Texas Chris-
tian University, Baylor University,
t he Uni versity of Houston, and Texas
A&M, although we can't guarantee
an encore of last year's post-Baylor
game "Baker 13 Around-the-Bases
Fun Run!"
We do have other ideas for this
year: having the group Menudo re-
-unifte and sing the national anthem;
allowing one lucky program holder
to play the position of his or her
choice for an inning; having a pro-
motional "Buy a large Coke and get
a date with All-Amcrican Lance
Berkman." Of course that probably
won't happen. I'm sure they'll make
you buy a large Coke and peanuts,
but you never know.
With six out of eight starters back,
two potential No. 1 draft picks in
Berkman and Matt Anderson, and a
No. 4 preseason ranking, our team
has a chance to do some extraordi-
nary things this year. In this crucial
year for our program, fan support is
direly needed as we try to take the
next step to Omaha.
We may or may not get there, but
we're going to give it all we have and
take our best shot. The only thing I
guarantee is that it should be inter-
esting, though hopefully not on par
with the Maalox adventure of last
year in which a late downward surge
allowed us to make UH feel better
by tying with them for last place.
' Thankfully we turned it on in the
postseason, but it was a roller coaster
ride to be sure. This year should be
another one. So 1 ask you to come
f>ut to our home games with your
friends, strap in and be part of the
ride — whenever it m^y^ead.
Joseph Cathey
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