The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 139, Ed. 1 Monday, April 9, 1979 Page: 6 of 11
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administration.
Book contends that,
since the student activity
fee “comes from student
pockets,” those funds
should be used, respon-
sibly, by the students, not
treated as state funds.
1 agree with him, but
his point is irrelevant to
the issue of funding
political organizations.
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Lauren Fairchild, Patty Ledvina
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Editor.................................Tim Ford
Managing Editor....................Jan Harrison
Assistant Managing Editor..........Valerie Zayal
Sports Editors.......Steve Wright. David Donchin
Entertainment Editor...........Alison Dingledein
Minority Affairs Editor.........Tommy Cummings
Our belief in peace is
very strong, because
peace was born in our
country, Palestine.
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for Organization <if
Arab Students
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Editorial Supervisor
Opinions expressed on the editorial pages are those of the signed author and
do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Oklahoma administration
The Publications Board assumes no responsibility for financial obligations in-
curred on the behalf of The Oklahoma Daily without authorization of the director of
Student Publications
Telephones—Editorial, 325-3664; Editorial Supervisor. 325-4487. Business.
Classified and Display Advertising. 325-2521
Why don’t the Arabs
wait and see what hap-
pens and learn something
international
name withheld
by request
for Egyptian
Students Association
THANKS FOR BEING WTTH
US. DR MAHDAVI WE CER-
TAINLY WANT TO WISH YOU
AND YOUR GOVERNMENT THANK
THE BEST OF LUCK WTTN
vour new experiment
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It is never proper for a
political or religious
organization to use the
government, in which
word I include the
UOSA, to extort funds
from their political or
religious opponents, nor
even from those who
HOW DO YOU OUR REVOLUTION
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TOMORROW.
BUCKAROOS.
THIS IS..
May freshman Oklahoma Rep. Mike
Fair, R-Bethany, fail in his attempt to find
a Senator to push his amendment which
would abolish vehicle inspections.
Fair first stole HB 1372, originally in-
tended to raise the inspection fee from two
dollars to five dollars annually, replaced
the language with his amendment and suc-
ceeded in getting it past the House in
March.
At least it looks like the Senate will not
vote to eliminate the system, because it
would probably cause a loss in federal
funds. But if that is done, the bill must go
back to the House.
Fair wants to abolish the inspection
system because many stations do not make
thorough inspections — they can’t make
money on inspections.
He’s right here, but his remedy is wrong.
Instead, inspections should cost enough to
provide incentive for the inspection
agents; inspections should be tougher and
enforced.
Oklahoma’s inspection system /.sa joke.
As a result, our roads are filled with poten-
tially lethal vehicles. This situation should
be improved, not allowed to deteriorate.
There seems to be a popular movement,
reflected in the House, in Oklahoma of
disregard for safety. Does anyone out
there care?
March 29 has been
published daily between
April 2 and April 6, al
least.
Despite Lynn-Philip
Book’s remarkable asser-
tions in his letter,
published in the Daily
Friday, the Young
Democrats, Campus
Republicans, religious
groups, etc., are clearly
totally ineligible for fun-
ding from the student ac-
tivity fee.
I will grant that, if the
decision were completely
in the hands of our local
student political/social
club, some peculiar inter-
pretations might be
possible. However, 1 can-
not see a major
likelihood of agreement
To the Editor:
(in answer to “Egypt
first'' letter)
Just like Tarek Ahmed
said, some fought Israel
in four wars with blood,
while others had fought
with words or money on-
ly-
It is known that Egypt
suffered a lot during the
past 30 years. It lost the
Sinai desert and about
l(M).000dead.
But it has been the
Palestinians who suf-
fered the most; they lost
more (han 250,000 dead,
in addition to the most
precious thing they had,
their country.
Ahmed was born in
Egypt, but I think he
knows how it feels to be
born in a refugee camp
and live there while so-
meone else (Zionists) is
living in your home.
I will never forget the
days when the Israeli
planes used to bomb the
refugee camp 1 lived in in
Lebanon.
You (Ahmed) know
very well that Israel is a
country based on race,
and you know also that
Arab prisoners there are
being tortured just
because they refused to
sell their country to the
Zionist occupants.
So why would a person
like Sadat, once a hero,
negotiate with Begin,
once a member of the
“Ergon” terrorist
organization?
Egypt was not the only
one that fought against
Israel; many progressive
Arab countries did, too,
like Lybia, Iraq, Syria
and others.
The Palestinians will
continue to fight until
they succeed in
establishing a democratic
state in Palestine where
Arabs and Jews can live
in peace. And they will
never ask for mercy.
Many people think
that the Palestinians are
against peace, but God
knows that we’ve always
been for peace.
To the Editor:
UOSA Student Code,
revision of March 29,
1979, Section XIII Ac-
tivity, para. 2, b, second
sentence, as published in
the Oklahoma Daily
April 6. 1979: “Student
Activity Fee funds may
be appropriated to eligi-
ble organizations for pro-
jects or programs which
have substantial campus-
wide interest, but not for
political or religious pur-
poses. "
Is it beneath the liberal
dignity to read, or is the
honourable
congressman-at-large for
the GPU deliberately
distorting the issue? The
complete text of the stu-
dent code revisions of
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To the Editor:
1 he Egyptian Students
Association was founded
to exchange cultural rela-
tions and promote the
good relations which
always existed between
Egypt and the United
States.
It has never been our
intention to bring our
domestic political pro-
blems to this community,
because we believe we are
all hosted by the
American people.
Therefore, we have to
make our stay a pleasant
experience, for both the
internationals and
Americans.
A letter in the Daily.by
a member of a fellow
organization criticizing
Egypt's search for peace
in the area, and a
demonstration against
Egypt’s conduct, led by
the same organization,
and the fact that during
Israeli Week on campus
the Israelis expressed
their opinion about the
peace treaty, all promp-
ted us to express our opi-
nion in a calm, civilized
way to the American
readers and the whole
community.
Egypt's history dates
since more than 7,000
years. Since then, the
Egyptians have been liv-
ing in the valley of the
Nile River. They had the
most advanced civiliza-
tion at that time, a
civilization which still im-
presses the whole world.
Egypt was the first
country to have a perfect-
ly structured governmen-
tal system at that lime,
therefore, we, the Egyp-
tians, don’t expect the
Arabs, who proved to be,
so far, politically im-
mature, to tell us what to
do.
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Night Editors.........Patty Ledvina, Steve Wright
Tommy Cummings, Lauren Fairchild
Head photographer.................John Wilson
News Editors
Those organizations,
of which the Gay Peo-
ple’s Union (or al least
some of its supporters) is
among the most locally
vociferous, which main-
tain they hase some
higher moral right to tap
my pocket to pay for
their causes, are con-
temptible leeches.
A political or religious
organization, whose
members are too few oor
too disinterested to keep
it alive, probably is better
dead. It clearly serves no
generally useful purpose.
Arthur Buswell
Norman graduate
student
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by strengthening Egypt’s
task in the negotiations.
This could have brought
to Egypt and the Arabs
more benefits, and it
would have eased the
United State’s expensive
mediating role that will
cost the American tax-
payer $3.5 million and oil
supply to Israel.
The Israeli’s were
smart enough and made a
deal, one that no oneculd
ever dream of, on the ex-
pense of the American
taxpayer.
Egypt could have made
a separate deal a long
time ago and retrieved its
own land, but always the
rights of the Palestinians
were in our considera-
tion, since they never did
anything useful to
retrieve their own land.
A final word to the
Israelis: our search for
peace was not to feed the
people. We have never
heard that the Egyptians
ever starved.
We hope that the
Israeli government shows
that it is trustworthy and
never reverts to the
devious mannerisms used
in the negotiatians.
We hope that they
show their good will and
let the Palestinians
establish their own state,
to defuse this ever-
explosive cause and also
to ensure the skeptic
Arab neighbors of their
sincere aspiration to
peace.
Otherwise, this peace
treaty will never have a
fertile soil. Who knows
what will happen if the
Israelis are not really
sincere in their search for
peace? We hope it never
happens, and let’s try the
Israelis and see what kind
of people they are.
If somebody has a bet-
ter, practical, not vocal,
alternative, we will also
be glad to see that it
works.
Egypt used to send
teachers, physicians,
engineers and other pro-
fessionals to the
neighboring Arabic
countries, on the Egyp-
tian people’s expense, to
help develop their coun-
tries.
W e do not expect them
now to deem themselves
equal to us, however
wealthy they are, because
what we acquired
throughout or long
history is matchless.
The Egyptians fought
throughout their history
to defend the Arabs, who
were not even kind spec-
tators. Recently, since
1948, we fought four
wars trying to retrieve (he
Arab’s land until we lost
some of our own land
and four cities complete-
ly destroyed and hun-
dreds of thousands killed
and wounded.
Look at the Egyptian
students at OU. They all
spent several years in the
military service and
fought the last war,
which none of the Arab
students here did other
than vociferant battles as
childish demonstrations
bothering the community
and proving their im-
maturity.
If they are talking
about war, they have to
take their political auc-
tioning away to their
homeland and show us
what military talents they
have.
War in itself is not an
object, but peoples revert
to warfare if this is the
only way to make the
other side understand.
We were fighting to
retrieve our land. But
since we are going to take
our land back, why
should there be more
bloodshed?
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