LETTER: O-Week committee should realize its limits

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by David Long

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To the editor:

It is my opinion that unless the Thresher article ("Committee proposes ban on O-Week jacks," Jan. 26) on banning O-Week jacks is completely incorrect, the mem- bers of the O-Week Review Committee should be the ones banned instead.

The point of O-Week is to have fun, meet people and discover Rice.

The idea of regulating jacks is fundamentally opposed to their nature.

And everyone already knows that banning them will not stop them.

I think that some people got carried away this year (namely, those pranks involving hydrochloric acid and a truckload of manure), but the administration lacks the ability to restrain students; they have to recognize where the boundaries lie on their own.

David Long

WRC '98

This item appeared in the Opinion section of the February 2, 1996 issue.

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