LETTER: Wiess can accept peace offer by Hanszen or die

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by Glenn Levy

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To the editor:

When I arrived at Rice, it was made clear to me that our neighbors to the west were weak and to be derided. "Wiess sucks!" was the call of the day.

At the same time, my favorite Hanszen co-advisor was Amy Mellor, a Wiessman.

She taught me that despite its peculiarities and its smell, Wiess College has something greater than NOD to offer the Rice community.

A year and a half later, Amy and I coordinated O-Week at our respective colleges, and I believe we helped forge a détente between Hanszen and Wiess which lasted nearly two years.

And now we enter our deadly dance once again. You steal the trampoline we bought to honor the memory of our namesake, Harry Clay Hanszen.

In response, we get our trampoline back and take your trampoline and Commons clock. You then take our clock, pool table and pinball machine.

We are now engaged in a spiral of madness which will result in grave consequences if steps are not taken to put us back on course.

Your enthusiasm does you honor, but your infrastructure is crumbling and your foundations are cracking below the cumbersome weight of old walls.

Have no illusions. If you continue to escalate this cycle with senseless shows of empty might, we will bury you (if F&H doesn't get to you first).

A cold peace is better than no peace at all.

Glenn "Pete Marketos" Levy

Hanszen '96

This item appeared in the Opinion section of the April 26, 1996 issue.

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