The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Page: 10 of 11
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10 September 12, 2001
Commentary
The University News
EDITORIAL
Charity Week needs
focus ori service
With the reunion of the junior class after a semester sepa-
rated by the Atlantic Ocean, the returning Romers are eager
to make this year's Charity Week a success.
This October, like every October, the students of UD will
spend thousands of dollars to send carnations, vote for Rome
photos, lip-sink in costumes, purchase men for slave labor and
throw friends in jail.
Charity Week is an excellent time for UD to show off its
school spirit, while raising money for charitable organizations.
Still, more can come from this Crusader tradition.
This year, The University News encourages the class of 2003,
especially Jean Rekowski and Margaret Wilson, Charity Week
co-chairs, to make the week more than just a Homecoming
without a football game and a queen - we challenge you to
make Charity Week live up to its name.
We should be mindful that Charity Week was created years
ago as a week of service to the outside community; and thus, a
week with some type of service and ministry. With no games
and no class time spent in jail, students and faculty came
together in service.
The money spent during Charity Week goes to specific non-
profit organizations, which the junior class chooses. Certainly,
the organizations benefit from the spirit and fun of the week's
activities and each junior class should be applauded for its time
and effort in planning such a unifying campus-wide event.
But at the same time, during Charity Week, University of
Dallas students should think more about service and less
about whom they will buy at the auction or ask to the semi-
formal dance.
We give up time, effort and money for some fun, games
and festivity. We certainly can give some time to service as
well. With hearts, minds and bodies ready to help, Charity
Week can be a reflection of the UD community's generosity
and kindness.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sarah Gaurit
Thomas Watson
Katherine Cook
Janet Hendrickson
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Cartoon by John Wheadon
LETTERS
to the editor
Freshmen
encouraged to
learn actively
A letter to freshmen:
Welcome to UD! You are now
a part of a fine liberal arts uni-
versity. It is time for you to learn
about the things that make UD
what it is.
However, let me issue you a
warning. This is a school found-
ed upon thinking. Too often,
students here fail to think for
themselves.The greatest mistake
you can make as a student is to
accept all you are taught lock,
stock and barrel.
You must seek to answer one
question for yourself. From the-
ology to economics, you must
ask, "Why?" Your professors can
answer the question "What?",
but you have to reason out ev-
erything that you are taught and
compare it to your own values
and subject it to logical interpre-
tation. If you do not know why
you believe what you believe,
then you have learned nothing
at all.
Form your own opinions and
be prepared to defend them in
discourse. Don't be daunted and
discouraged by professors or stu-
dents with whom you disagree
UD is awash with disagreement.
Above all, think for yourself.
Learn from the core, and chal-
lenge yourself to think
Scott Hastings
Student calls for
'Wayne' justice
l am personally outraged at
the violation that occurred to
the student in the apartments.
I completely understand Mr.
Chism's distress.
To use scathing insults is not
enough. We must go beyond
the empty rhetoric we find in the
press. Now is a time for action.
I demand, we band together
to find the missing John Wayne.
We must form posses and vigi-
lante groups, as we've seen in
good westerns.
The time for waiting has past.
Now is the time for action. So
I ask you all to bring your guns
ap^l rope. We have to find the
Campus monopolies
empty students' pockets
culprit and bring him to justice.
John would have wanted it.
I realize vigilante justice is not
a thing to be condoned by the
university.
I ask that if you insist to stop us
from our noble quest, deputize
us as part of campus safety spe-
cial John Wayne task force.
We must bring him home.
Would John Wayne have let
any of you sit in some stranger's
living room as a victim of an ab-
duction for almost three weeks
without coming for you?
No, John would have saved
you. I think we owe him the
same courtesy.
Rianne Page
Junior
Brendan Cronin
Guest Columnist
Competition for customers
encourages producers to make
more attractive products avail-
able to more consumers for
cheaper prices.
As creatures of God and par-
ticipants in an almost (until FDR)
free-market society, it is our
right to use free will to do what
we want with our hard-earned
money, and to be able to con-
tend, as consumers, for the best
options.
This freedom is supposed to
be available to all U.S. citizens in
nearly every aspect of life. Some
UD policies, however, restrict the
economic freedom of students,
and students should consider
their effects.
Presented here is a purely eco-
nomic argument, meant only to
encourage discussion about the
economic shortcomings of some
UD policies.
All students (supposedly)
under 21 are required to live on
campus, the first infringement
imposed upon the economic
liberty of UD students. Those
required to live on campus are
forced to spend far more on
housing than they would if al-
lowed to search for accommoda-
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