The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1980 Page: 15 of 20
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SA wonders: keep discount or endow library?
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guaranteed a set time to specify
changes in their listing.
The delay in printing directories
led some senators to wonder if the
University should be entrusted
with the responsibility. Organizer
Kent Erickson assured the Senate
that the student directories could
be put out by the SA in October
next year if all goes well.
SA Internal Vice President Tim
Stout reported that Dean Brown
"seems to favor the mobile,
retroactive pass/fail option," but
that "she was very down on the
idea" of extension of the drop
deadline to the end of classes. The
Senate considered but postponed
passage of a resolution on. the
matter.
"The moveable deadlines may
get through the Faculty Council,"
Senate faculty sponsor Richard
Schuberth believed, "but the drop
deadline — well, I would say that
its chances are slim to none."
Campus Store Advisory Board
member Jay Oliphant announced
that "too many hassles with
collections" have forced the store
management to limit charge
accounts to faculty only.
Martinez seeks Latino awareness...
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Until recently, Chicanos had
separate toilets and swimming
pools. They were barred from jobs
that said 'no Latins.' They could
not attend white churches, and
they could not be buried in white
cemeteries," noted Martinez.
Today, the status of Mexican-
'Americans has improved,
according to the Columbia Law
School alumnus.
One reason for this, she feels, is
the economic contribution
Mexican-Americans have made,
especially in the Southwest.
"Mexican-American labor played
an important role in the success of
the cotton fields of Texas, the
railroads of California, and the
rich copper fields of Arizona,"
Martinez said.
"With the civil rights explosion
in the 1960's and '70s, new energy
was brought into efforts seeking to
gain equality for the Mexican-
American people," said Martinez.
Yet, she stated that there are still
two large barriers blocking further
Chicano equality—education and
police brutality.
Martinez felt that a larger
development of the bilingual
program in Southwestern public
schools would help shrink the
differences between education for
white and Mexican-Americans.
But she was quick to add that
society as a whole must first learn
to "accept and promote"
bilingualism.
The MALDEF president also
stated that she was frightened by
the extent of police brutality
practiced against Mexican-
Americans.
"The pattern of official violence
against Mexican-Americans has
continued and has grown because
juries, and, here in Houston,
federal judges, have always been
reluctant to pass harsh sentences
on police who maim, beat, and
even kill Mexican-Americns,"
Martinez stated. She referred
briefly to the murder of Joe
Campes Torres by. Houston
policemen in 1977.
Martinez disagreed with those
who claim Mexican-Americans
are asking for special previleges
and treatment in order to gain
equality. "In fact," she said,
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truth."
Before concluding her speech,
Martinez criticized the standard-
ized tests administered to high
school students seeking college
admission. A recent study shows
that scores received on such tests
"are a much better predictor of the
income of a student's parents than
of a students's potential for success
in college," she claimed.
Despite her views of past and
present discrimination against
Mexican-Americans, Martinez is
hopeful for a better future. "We're
going to see a new awareness
among Mexican-Americans,
Cubanos, Puertos Ricans, and
among all Latinos," she predicted.
Oliphant's request that the
Senate advise him on whether to
press at the next board meeting for
a continued student discount, a
library endowment, or capital
improvements — if the store
surplus cannot support a
combination of the three — led to a
long debate qlimaxed by an
inconclusive straw poll.
Some senators had favored
using the surplus funds for
building a student lounge in
Fondren Library. "I've never seen
a library that doesn't have facilities
where students can go and relax,"
sponsor Schuberth noted.
Eventually the group voted infor-
mally to seek use of a present
staff lounge in the library for
students as well.
Senator Steve Michael pointed
put that suspension of the
discount in favor of an endowment
should at least be considered
seriously because of the many
indirect benefits an improved
library can provide.
Other senators noted that the
University administration seems to
have taken an all-or-nothing
attitude on a library endowment:
they will help to start an
endowment only if they can be
assured that the fund will be large
enough to provide for the library's
entire operating expenditures.
SA President John Cockerham
stated that such an endowment
would have to be enormous,
between 300 and 500 million
dollars.
The straw vote indicated
confusion among senators about
the issue: six voted for keeping the
discount in case of a conflict, four
voted for "something else," and
twelve abstained.
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1980, newspaper, January 24, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245427/m1/15/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.