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The North Texas Daily
Tuesday, February 26,1991
Letters to the Editor
quickly. How thoughtful.
Iraq poses no threat
Union expansion draws criticism from students
David Tuttle to American homes
committed since he invaded
The protests don't get the troops'
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A Message to all UNT employees
You Have A Choice!
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Ridicule of beliefs
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ing with bayonets and powder doesn't symbolize peace? To all
muskets. Casualties are not lim- the vets I have talked to it symbol-
ited to the battlefield. izes hatred and violence toward
killed in this ground war in Iraq
do not differ from those sacrificed nowhere. Even though you might
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by Hussein in Kuwait, except for mean well, the troops only see the
nationality. bad.
Where does the insanity end? I wish that those who gather at
War is not a humane way to obtain peace rallies would show more
world order. President Bush did support for the troops by wearing
not give economic sanctions time more patriotic items instead of
to work. Women and children peace symbols. Maybe that will
would have slowly suffered from help, for the sake of our troops.
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R-oc4-~ Acore finQ laxing with information vital for both in fee brochures nd billing
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for obtaining transcript ening that is occurring in our di- know if we will be able to provide
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Houston junior
In response to the responses to and Michael Alves This war is unjust. There is a
our letter about cartoonist Scott Austin junior real danger to making blanket
Kurtz's Feb. 7 Capt. Amazing statements. But anything that has
cartoon — wow. If only we could Protesters hurt feelings emotions this strong circling over-
debate the war with such zeal. c gA1;,r €,w:;,c head makes strong statements
Reaction to the war is personal, ‘ necessary, if you’regoing tobother
with emotions ranging from fear ... . to say anything at all.
to anger to disbelief. Student As- • -m writing in response to a The point is argued to death, so
sociation President Bill Miller's etterthat, received from a good I‘11 just say that i‘s obvious that
response is "hair peace." For a lot friend of mine insaudiArabia. It the war is about oil. If the United
of us interested in the peace move- really made me think. He told me Nations voted to send troops, there
ment, action is the response. that the peace protests really up- should be an even representation
In retrospect, our reaction to set him and the other soldiers, of the U.N. nations in the troops.
Kurtz's cartoon is not as serious as Now, Im not ragging on. peace I believe that the only just war
at first. Cartoons are funny when protesters at all. They definitely isoneinwhicharedefendingyour
they satirize others. But when you haveanght.Andlknowthatmany homes, not your interests. Hitler
see yourself and something that of them support the troops. was an eventual threat to our
you believe in being ridiculed, the But they don’t seem to under- homes through invasion. Iraq is
reaction becomes negative. stand that what they are doing is not going to invade California. If
The point of our first letter was hurting a lot of feelings__not just he could eventually pose a nu-
notclearlyexpressed.We,aspeace 410 ne but also their families clear threat, there are better ways
activists, do not claim to have anatfriendsDleftbehind. I know to deal withhimthan the one we're
concrete answers to this war or this because I'm a military kid. I involved in.
any other world problems. But to have friends over there, and I see But my biggest gripe is with
rely on war and violence instead the pain that their families go college students and teachers,
of diplomacy tosolveintemational through I personally dread the Most of the activism I see looks to
disputes is, in this modem day daywhenmydadwillcallandtell bea collection of peoplewho wish
and age, a regression for human- me that he is leaving for the gulf, jt were 1968. They looklike they're
kind. Meeting aggression with inforthedramaofthe whole thing,
aggression does not make two I also know another thing that
wrongs a right. We must look no one has even brought up: peace
toward a future that does not in- signs. Did anyone know that to a
elude war. We are no longer fight- Vietnam veteran a peace sign
p Todd Greenwood
chhl Vernon senior
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ties Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein say is what my friend asked me to: /
committed since he invaded The protests don't get the troops'
Kuwait Aug. 2 At the same time, morle up. Instead, they bring it
how can we advocate the actions down. p egpem- M
of the United States and its allies? "m . —gea
Those innocent civilians being It's depressing enough being "/ k
killed in this ground war in Iraq out in the desert in the middle of 64p“8/• \
I am writing regarding tran- The students'performance was printing of our newest fee bro-
script policies at NT The Board of such that1 felt a deep sadness for chures; however, pleasebe assured
Regents of each institution has the those who did not attend. that at some point in the future a
responsibility of establishing poli- It is my hope that Alton Scales, better explanation of the fees that
ciesandsenfegs WLil+Le coordinator for InterculturalServ- students are paying will be avail-
boards at somefnstitutions might ices, Dr. Joyner of the music fac- able.
choose not to charge a transcript ulty, and our music students do .
fee, the NT board has established not give UP because of a lack of Phil Diebel
a policy that requires a $3 fee for attendance. Instead, they need to vice president for fiscal affairs
each official transcript. continue to provide our NT com-
They chose this approach, munity with more "awakenings"
which charges only those students through the arts throughout tne
needing the service rather than year, not merely for 28 token days,
charging a general fee for all stu- The beauty of black music, for
dents. By law, a state institution in example is something everyone
Texas cannot extend credit as can appreciate when exposed to it.
. would be necessary in the billing Thank you, Alton Scales and Dr.
process. Therefore, we must col- Joyner,
lect the money- before mailing a
transcript.
If you wish to receive a copy of
your transcript to keep in your
personal file and need it soon, you
should call 817-565-2928 24 hours
per day for recorded instructions fiscal affairs attempts
on how to order a transcript and . .
informationoncurrentfee charges. to clarify fee mysteries
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C--—cEnen-nc;A like to think that were still 5 University Union expansion. For
-nuu- nnas expansion years old. In that case, we would once,Iwantedtoemploymylim-
overburdens Students still be too stupid to see the ab- ited powers of apathy and just
surdity of a proposed $4 million stay out of this one. But there is
Last week the Minority Cau- multi-purpose room. always someludicrous viewpoint
cus came to a unanimous deci- However, we are all adults that seems to bring out the activ-
sion to oppose the $14 million now, and we are questioning this lst in everyone. This viewpoint
University Union expansion proposed University Union ex- was expressed in John Royer's
plan. The overall opinion of the pansion. Lef s forget a moment guest column in the Feb. 19 edi-
presidents of various organize- about the fact that college tuition, tion of The NT Daily. His argu-
tions was that expansion would is high enough, and the students ments about more spaces for
immediately and negatively af- have to bear that cost also. Do several of the off ices was weak at
feet the minority population by you honestly expect us to believe best.
increasing the cost of taking that a bigger meeting room/ The icing on the cake is this
courses at NT. banquet hall is going to, some- business about a bigger, more
Based first and foremost on where down the line, increase expensiveUnionmakingouraca-
the economic conditions that a the prestige of this university? demic degrees more valuable,
minority must overcome to even . First, you must have people When I chose to come to NT, I
attend the university at its cur- out there who can and who want had no idea where the Union was,
rent cost, the members felt that to contribute to the school. Sec- how much it would cost or what
expansion is not feasible under ond, it doesn t take a genius to its effect on the value of my de-
the proposed plan being offered deduce that a school s prestige is gree would be — and I didn't
to students on this week'sballot. determined by thequality of edu- care. I came here to get an educa-
The caucus is investigating other cated students it graduates. tion — you know, classes and
options and reasons that will be Improve our quality of educa- books and teachers. I have a great
submitted to Dr. Mary Yates, tion so that companies will want deal of sympathy for anyone who
Union director. to hire us. When companies hire honestly believes that the value
Finally, members of the cau- us and they're happy with us, of his degree has anything to do
cus, organizationsand their con- we'rehappy. When we rehappy, with the Union.
stituency will refrain from use of we'll remember who was respond You obviously chose this uni-
the facilities. sible and we will, in turn, be grate- versity for the wrong reasons. I
ful and charitable to the institu- realize that prestige has a good
William Murphy tion that was the catalyst for that deal to do with choosing your
Houston junior success. When you havesaccom- university. But prestige at a uni-
Moderator for the Minority plished that, then you might ask versity ought to be the result of
Caucus us to expand the Union. This all the quality of the education. Did
or nothing" attitude reflects the any of you people call your de-
Single offer reflects childlike behavior described in partments before you came to
1.81 1,25 j my first paragraph. If s time for Check out the programs, or did
Chlldllke attltude us to play parent and set the you just have a drink at the Rock
Have you ever wanted some- &uidrinesbanauseitsourmoney Bottom Lounge and call it a day?
thing really, really badly and Vote ‘no to $14 million, and I understand that the funds
askedyourparntsttohelprou ‘yes’ to an optional plan that for the Union expansion come
Pafriinyourtparentsistarter should be offered. If the admini- from a different pool of money
mavbe ning. that vou weren't stration doesn t want it, they can than funds for scholarships or
makhngtttheshgthttdcisinsere- live with their ignorance. academically-oriented improve-
garding the purchase, did you , Williford ments.Butmaybethestatewould
respond bystating, "all or noth- :o-aurewiiord bemore willing to appropriate
ingMom and Dad. Either give Richardson sophomore money for scholarships and re-
m?alltheymoneylrequire,orl . . , 2. search ifthe university wasn’t
don't want it at all"? Argument for prestige asking for $14 million in "mad
Well, maybe as a 5-year-old doesn't hold Water money:
you might have used that tactic,
but we're all adults now, right? I wanted very much to not get
But the NT administration would involved in this debate about the
Joneel Harris
Registrar I read with interest the Feb. 1
letter in The NT Daily by Kristen
Pickett, Lewisville junior, in which
she expressed her frustration for
Reader compliments efforts not receiving an (adequate expla-
for black awareness month nation of what fees students pay.
In reviewing the comments with
‘ Last week, I had the pleasure to members of my staff, we believe
attend a campus event sponsored thepointsaboutthefeesontuition
by Intercultural Affairs.lt was Dr. bills being vague are well taken.
David Joyner's Harlem Awaken- Accordingly, we have begun to
ing. The music was wonderful, work on improving the fee infor-
The monologue was easy and re- mation available to our students,
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