Rice Thresher
Letter to the editor
September 22, 2000
To the editor:
Last week you printed a letter from a Rice faculty member who was upset at
the Marching Owl Band for telling "the most lame, sexist joke" she has
heard in a while. This accusation seems unwarranted.
The inherently light-hearted nature of the MOB ought to imply that no one
should take personally anything that we say. But this particular joke is
noteworthy in that it was not even directed against the female gender. The
specific script segment in question read verbatim as follows:
"What would the world be like if luck really was a lady? We need only
show you a nun, a stripper and a blonde to remind you that there is good luck,
bad luck and dumb luck." I believe that the women of Rice University are
secure enough not to be offended by that sentence.
It is the primary purpose of the MOB to entertain its audiences, so it's
unfortunate that any Rice fan should be offended, but as it's been observed many
times, we can't please everyone every time. I hope and believe that most of the
Rice community will agree that the MOB did not overstep good taste in our
halftime show at the Tulsa game.
Jonathan Ichikawa
Will Rice Sophomore
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The Marching Owl Band