The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1985 Page: 1 of 12
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The Megaphone
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Feature
Parents
to experience
student
filmed
life
for PBS
by James Bass
Thomas Roeser
Southwestern University
debate
abortion
Goldsmith
and Falwell
Abortion
is justifiable
Volme 79 Issue 18
15 February 1985
On February 5, 1985, The Student
Senate passed the following resolu-
tion, introduced by senate vice-presi-
dent, Kathy Dunn.
Abortion
is inexcusable
Senate resolution
assails
racial discrimination
in greek system
,2
Britten opera
I
to be
Lobbyist at S.U.
Thomas F. Roeser, a Quaker Oats
Co. official from Chicago visited
Southwestern this week as a Woodrow
Wilson Visiting Fellow. He came to
share his experiences in corporate and
government affairs. Roeser, vice presi-
dent for government relations Quaker
Oats, has had a distinguished career in
both business and government.
As assistant to the U.S. Secretary of
Commerce in 1969, he established the
federal government’s minority enter-
prise program. Roeser was the first
director of the Office of Minority
Business Enterprise and chairman of
the Inter-Agency Task' Force on
Minority Enterprise.
see Roeser, p. 3
currently reflected in campus organi-
zation* must occur on this broader
community. Notably, the purported
"rec boards” must come to recognize
Southwestern’s policy and the author-
ity behind it:
Southwestern University
grants the privilege of allowing
national fraternal organizations
to establish local chapters;
however, it grants this privilege
only under the auspices of a
non-racially discriminatory pol-
icy.
The Student Senate submits
this statement to the Student Life
Study Committee in the hope that
neither its content nor force will be
diminished as it is incorporated into
the Master Plan and presented to
Southwestern’s Board at Trustees.
S.U. students will entertain their
parents and grandparents - with a
little help from the office of
University Relations - during the
annual Parents’ Weekend set for this
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16 and 17.
President Roy Shilling officially
opens the weekend with welcoming
remarks at 10:30 Saturday morning at
the Alma Thomas Theatre. An open
forum will follow the welcome.
Then, parents (and grandparents)
will be herded into the Commons for
lunch. During lunch, they will be
treated to music by Delta Omicron, a
women’s music fraternity.
Parents will “go to class’’ - perhaps
even more than their own children -
and hear faculty presentations from
1:30 - 3:00 Saturday in Cullen. They
will be able to choose two class
sessions to attend. To be sure, many
of them will wish to attend three or
four of them, but limiting them to two
is more representative of the limited
class times offered at Registration
each semester.
Also in keeping with the academic
see Weekend, p. 3
The Student Senate heartily con-
donee study on the admittance
practices of fraternity and sorority
organizations on Southwestern’s cam-
pus. Southwestern University strives
for a fUlly representative and thereby
enriching student community. To-
ward that end, Southwestern's policy
specifically does not permit discrim-
ination by criterion of racial or ethnic
identity. The Student Senate realises
that active fraternity and sorority
members are guided, to a less or
greater extent, by alumni associates.
Therefore, the Senate believes that a
real approach toward rectifying the
pattern of racial discrimination.
Judy Goldsmith, of the National
Organization of Women, and Jerry
Falwell, head of the Moral Majority,
stated their cases Wednesday night in
a nationally televised debate. It
wasn’t exactly hand-to-hand combat,
but the intensity of the issue at hand
and the controversial leaders who
argued their positions that this was a
matter of life and death: the issue of
abortion.
Goldsmith argued for the rights of
women to make their own decisions
with their own pregnancies. Falwell
strongly opposed “abortion on de-
mand” but acknowledged that abor-
tion in dire circumstances - rape
victims or when the mother’s own life
will be threatened by childbirth - is
not out of the question and, indeed, is
politically expedient.
Abortion clinics bombed....Doctors
th reatened.... Patients harassed....
Has the Anti-Abortion movement
abandoned their pickets and taken up
bombs?
There have been some 30 abortion
clinics bombed since 1982 and some
people are wondering if perhaps those
protesting abortion will become even
more violent in their opposition.
Leaders in the Pro-Abortion, or
Pro-Choice, camp are beginning to
claim that President Reagan and
Pro-Life leaders are somehow respon-
sible for the escalating violence.
Abortion advocates reason that the
president and the leaders are inciting
people by their “inflammatory
rhetoric” (calling abortion murder,
equating it to Nazi Germany, etc.) to
take such drastic measures.
This charge by Pro-Choice groups,
while clever, is false. The truth is that
neither the president nor pro-life
leaders condone this sort of activity at
all. The president himself called the
see Bass, p. 4
Southwest Texas Public Broad-
casting Council (which operates
KLRN/KLRU public television sta-
tions), and Southwestern University
will produce a documentary on Ben-
jamin Britten’s opera, “Curlew
River,” to be staged as part of the
Brown Symposium February 20
through 22 on the Georgetown cam-
pus.
The documentary will also include
interviews with symposium speakers
from England, including Sir Peter
Pears, internationally known tenor
who created the lead in the opera’s
1964 premiere at the Aldeburgh
Festival in England.
Leo Eaton, executive producer for
special projects at KLBN/KLRU, will
be producer and director for the film.
SWTPBC and Southwestern hope for
a broadcast date by the end of the year.
Southwestern raised the necessary
funding for the project from Republic
Bank of San Antonio and Austin, First
City Bancorporation, Houston, and
friends of the university.
“Curlew River” will be presented
see PBS, p. 6
by Chris Carlson
I believe that abortion can be
justified. I hold this view on the
premise that a fetus, in its early
stages of development, is not human.
The fetus, not being human, is not
entitled to the rights of a human.
A fetus in its early stages bears no
resemblance to the human physique.
It certainly can not live on its own. A
fetus has no power to change its
physical position or act in its best
interest. It is simply a mass
human-like stuff-
A common comparison of fetus-to-
human is that of the acorn-to-the-oak
tree. One would not call an acorn an
oak tree, so why should one call a
fetus a human being?
I challenge any person to say, after
having seen a week-old fetus, that it is
a human being. It is unrecognizable
as such. It is a mass of tissue
completely dependent upon its mother
in a parasitic sense. It owes its total
see Carlson, p, 4
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