Pride, power seen as keys to solving minority problems

By WILLIAM HANEY Thresher Reporter Negroes and Mexican-Americans in Houston, along with their brothers all over the country, are beginning to overcome centuries-old patterns of submissiveness, to take pride in their ethnic identities, and to assert their collective power to compel solutions to the problems of discrimination. This is the clear message that emerged from Monday's marathon teach-in on minority pi*oblems in Houston, the first teach-in ever held at Rice. The teach-in, organized by an informal group of Rice students including Peter Hollings, Pat Bryan, Le Anne Schreiber, and Chris Gever, was a farranging and sometimes freewheeling exploration of the attitude of minority groups in Houston, the problems that face them, and what is being done locally to solve these problems.