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Republican action... I received this email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Jacknis)
Mon Apr 24 01:07:05 1995
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 01:06:12 EDT
From: Mike Jacknis <mjacknis@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Panels to be held at MIT
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 21:25:56 EDT
Dear officers of all the MIT organizations:
It is with great pleasure that I want to invite all of you and your
members to the series of panels to be held at MIT featuring several key
Republican Speakers. Some of the persons coming to MIT so far include,
Gov. Weld of Massachusetts, the two Republican Congressmen from MA Blute and
Torkildsden, former alumni and White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, the
Massachusetts House and Senate Republicans Leaders, and the Speaker of the
House himself- Mr. Newt Gingrich. Over the last months we have met with
both the current and incoming UA presidents and key persons of the faculty
to let them know of our progress. They have exxpressed their interest in
helping us the newly formed, MIT Republicans, welcome our guests.
Our purpose is not, as we have stated to the UA presidents and the
faculty, to have Republican pep rallies or spread Republican propaganda, but
to have another point of view be brought and heard at MIT. Precisely, because
of this we want to invite all MIT organizations, all members of the MIT
community, all liberals and conservatives to participate and be part of the
audience that will ask questions, raise their concerns and interact with the
speakers. You know, we felt very bad every time in the Protest against the
Contract, we, the Republicans, were portrayed as facist monsters who just
wanted to take food out childrens mouths, with nothing positive in our ideals.
We are determined not to see that happen with the persons who do not think
like us. We know that above all those who do not think like us are
people whose intentions are good at heart but differ in the approaches to
solve those problems. We want everyone to have a voice, minorities, gays,
lesbians, women, white men, liberals, conservatives, EVERYBODY.
Therefore, as I write this invitation to you, it is my hope that you will
accept to participate as members of the audience. We also want to sponsor
bipartisan events as the 96 campaing comes closer,and we have already in
the planning stages one such bipartisan event.
You know, a few months ago I was in a panel sponsored by the BSU.
They were kind enough to accept me as one the panelists. Unfortunately that
same panel and audience were extremely one sided. Out of that experience,
I learned, however, that never again do I want the same thing to happen to
a Republican or a Democrat. Yes some of our panels will be one sided, but
I do not want to fill the audience with only MIT, BC and other College
Republicans or with adult members of the Republican Party from all
over Boston. It is only fair that we let others that who do not think
like us have a voice. Therefore, our pledge to your groups is that every body
is welcome. We are working out a specific set of rules so that the panels
and debates will be held with the highest of standards, and that everybody
from any ideology feels free of asking any question of the speakers. We will
have persons of the faculty moderate such events and expect only that
we all conduct ourselves with the maturity that MIT students have.
Again, I stress that it would be very easy to just do this one sided
and very biased, but that is not our goal. I hope all officers and groups,
therefore accept our invitation to attend some of the upcoming events and
work with us in sponsoring bipartisans events. An article of this information,
is going to be out in the Tech this week. The first event will be held
in early May with the Senate and House Republican Leaders from Massachusetts.
Please let us know if you are interested. Thanks for your time,
Ricardo Egozcue
espiritu@mit.edu
If you want to send email to the officers of the MIT republicans
you can send it to republicans-request@mit.edu
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