The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1971 Page: 2 of 8
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Read notes TISA reorganization
editorial
The last semester has seen a significant increase in
the number of assaults and violent crimes committed
on and in the immediate vicinity of the Rice campus.
Little publicity has been given to these events.
In discussion with Campus Security, I became a-
ware that they do not know of many incidents. In the in-
terests of the community, prompt notification of trouble
or unfamiliar people in questionable circumstances to
the campus patrol may not only save property, but per-
haps lives. Security Chief Rhodes stresses that 500 sets
of eyes are better than three.
It was also noted that many girls walk back from
the men's colleges unescorted. At the risk of being chau-
vinistic, it would seem that some Rice male would jump
at the chance. The Campus Patrol noted that they are
available to escort girls from their colleges to the library.
Hut perhaps the best way to solve this problem is to
institute co-ed colleges. Strictly from the standpoint of
security, their can be no cheaper and more efficient way
to provide the amount of security that is necessary.
mauldin
There are 428,000 college and
university students in Texas.
They share many common prob-
lems, interests, and hopes. If
there were some way to or-
ganize and bring attention to
student's efforts, the results
would be overwhelming. Right
now, the Texas Intercollegiate
Student Association may be
that way. It is a newly reor-
ganized association of Texas
schools that has been concen-
trating its efforts aojd re-
sources on helping students to
be truly effective in the poli-
tical processes of this state. It
provides printed information on
dealing with legislators and
working for political candidates.
Other programs include a state-
wide voter-registration drive on
all Texas campuses, and the
publication of a regular news-
letter with a legislative voting
record.
TISA employs a full time
Executive Director. He is Ed
Wendler, a man with a great
deal of experience at the Capi-
tol, and as a practicing at-
torney. His job is to help make
the programs more effective by
working with the lawmakers
and to provide a continuity„that
is rare in student organizations.
We got to know Wendler and tion that few students in this
the oftficers of TISA last week
at their annual convention and
conference. Several legislators
including Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes
addressed the group and gave
us some ideas on how they feel
about bil'ls pending which are
of interest to students. TISA
is making its influence felt on
bills concerning the 18 yr. old
vote, state school tuition in-
creases, the Landlord-Tenant
Act, permanent voter registra-
tion, and bills providing mil-
lions of dollars in state aid to
students at private schools.
It was clear at the conven-
state enjoy the personal freedom
of Rice students, but we sure
don't lead in everything. Un-
fortunately, it seems that all of
the major campuses in Texas
have a much greater interest
and awareness in what's going
on outside their hedges than
Rice has ever had. Perhaps
TISA will be a vehicle for this
school's long overdue participa-
tion in the leadership of one of
the largest special interest
groups in the state.
LEIGHTON READ
SA External Affairs V-P
Herbert knocks Rockwell Lectures
Editor
The Rice Thresher
It was with dismay that I
left the April 15 Rockwell Lec-
ture on "Faith and the Inter-
pretation of the Personal". Ap-
proximately 25 people had at-
tended, 6 of student age. Maybe
4 or 5 were faculty members.
The speaker hesitantly com-
municated with, from, and to
his notes. He not only gave no
answers; he did not even pose
any questions. Well, actually,
lie did cite one dilemma. It can
be paraphrased like this: "How
can we reconcile the diverse
theological movements (you
know; Neo-Orthodox, Existen-
tialist, etc.) of the past century
with each other and with our
personal relationship to God?"
He did do two useful things:
(1) He gave a good paper-back-
book-quality exposition of some
Protestant theological move-
ments, and (2) He served as a
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Baker College designs new course on World Futures
The world is confronted with- problems of nuclear prolifera-
te increasingly complex and un-
wieldy array of problems en-
compassing in scope the entire
planet. It is operating under a
system > of international rela-
tions that permits war and is
inadequate for fulfilling the
vast needs of economic develop-
ment, achieving elementary so-
cial justice, and insuring ecolog-
ical survival. Considering the
existing trends evident today,
the outlook for the future is
bleak. It seems highly probable
that in the next two or three
decades, given the projected de-
velopment of those trends, the
tion and innovation, the popu-
lation explosion, ecological de-
struction, and mass starvation
will become so collectively dev-
astating as to defy all efforts
to deal with them within the
existing framework. To mod-
ify these somber projections,
those trends must be altered
rationally. The present interna-
tional system, based on the com-
petition of nation-states, each
acting in its own narrowly per-
ceived interests and the pre-
dominant mode of crisis prob-
lem-solving, consisting of speci-
fic challenges to the system be-
Financial
(Continued from Page 1) expect his tuition to remain un-
changed during his four to five
faculty in the Economics or Ac- yoars &n ^ndergradute, the
counting Departments, if pre- administration should publicize
sented with the facts, would be the tuitiofl schedu]e five ye&rS
able to judge, more equitably jn advance> This would enable
than myself, the desireability the gtudent to p]an according]y.,
of current University alocations. 4_ j ask that the administra_
In conclusion, I present sev- ti(m continue to inform thc stu_
cial pioposals. dent body about the details of
1. If the administration the prospective loan funds as
wishes to maintain, or reassert, they are being worked out.
its credibility, I propose that 5> j ask that the administra-
tis administration begin by iion alert the student body as to
transferring athletic scholar- planned changes in policy, and
ships and the Commerce Depart- as to various planned actions
ment to the Athletic Depart- that would concern students,
rnent budget. wb0 otherwise wouldn't learn
2. I recommend that the ad- about the changes until they
ministration replace the state- were already accomplished. Bet-
ment removed from the catalog ter yet, the administration
pertaining to financial aid and should try to involve both stu-
admission. (In presenting this dents and faculty in the plan-
proposal, I learned that a sim- ning of University policies.
ilar statement will appear in 6. As I mentioned before, the
next year's catalog.) University should form a com-
3. If a student can no longer mittee to evaluate the pros
JOHN MAULDIN
Editor-in-Chief
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and are not necessarily those of Rice University, its administrators or
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the rice thresher, april 22, 1971—page 2
ing dealt with by ad hoc meas-
ures, fails to acknowledge that
these crises are but symptoms
of more fundamental inade-
quacies in the international sys-
tem itself. It is fallacious and
dangerous to label problem-
solving what is no more than a
series of ill-conceived and ul-
timately futile holding ma-
neuvers.
Baker College is offering a
course, World Futures, an in-
terdisciplinary seminar of not
more than twenty students. The
course will involve a diagnosis
of the present world system,
and cons of maintaining an
Athletic Department. A yearly
evaluation during the experi-
mental period would facilitate
both the making and the ac-
ceptance of the final decision.
Such an evaluation would in-
clude a study of the social as
well as the economic costs and
. benefits of the program.
7. As Mr. Pitman, Assistant
to the President, informed me,
Universities are not liable to
Federal Income Tax regulations.
They are thus able to juggle
their expenditures and revenues
into various categories for a de-
sired effect. As it is in one sense
the juggling of figures that has
caused the aforementioned
suspicions, I propose that the
Administration and the Student
Senate search for a way in
which the University budget
could be studied by both stu-
dents and faculty. One possibil-
ity would be for the Economics
and Accounting departments to
get together and offer credit
for a course in University eco-
nomics that would include an
evaluation of the University
budget as a research project.
That would necessitate the open-
ing up of the entire budget to
scrutiny and criticism. However,
if this is an open and above-
board society, as we pride our-
selves upon being, opening, up
the budget should prove to be
helpful and not detrimental.
Such evaluations would provoke
widespread discussion and a
multitude of varying sugges-
# projections of present trends
within the next several decades,
descriptions (or models) of pre-
ferred world systems, and rec-
ommendations for bending pres-
ent potentially disastrous trend
lines toward a preferred world.
The acceptable models would be
"relevant Utopias" alternative
system, buttressed by transi-
tional steps, posed in sufficient-
ly behavioral terms to be un-
derstandable and plausible.
Structural concepts embodying
fundamental values of non-vio-
lence, social justice, and eco-
nomic welfare will be stressed.
Students will be urged to cou-
tions and criticisms, yet the
final decision would still be
made by the President and the
Board of Trustees.
Last, in a general and not
novel conclusion, the lines of
communication between the ad-
ple a creative model of a pre-
ferred world with a realistic
consideration of transitional
steps for achieving it. ^
Dr. Doran (Poli Sci) is fac-
ulty sponsor; contributing fac-
ulty will include Drs. Ambler,
Dix, Kapp, Stokes, and Van
Helden, and others. The courses
will serve as an experimental
pilot designed to adjudge sup-
port for more extensive and
vigorous efforts in the area of
world order.
Applications are in the col-
leges, the RMC and library.
ministration, the Board of
Trustees and the students, fac-
ulty, and University qffices
must be improved to avoid fu-
ture mistakes and misunder-
standings and consequent harm
to the Rice Community.
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CHART TWO
<s
Increase in academic undergraduate tuition aid — $18,000
1970-1 — $1,252,000
1971-2 — $1,270,000
Increase in total cost of tuition — $540,000
TUITION
Year 1970-1 Year 1971-2
Seniors — $1500 1500
Juniors — 1500 1800
Sophomores — 1800 2100
Freshmen — 1800 2100
assuming average of 600 per class:
Tuition Cost equals (3) (600) ($300) equals $540,000
As there are fewer than 600 seniors and as there will be more than
600 freshmen, the figure will be even higher.
CHART THREE — Costs of Athletic Department
1. Total number of athletes is 210
All receive tuition.
155 are on total scholarship (room, board, laundry, meals,
books . . . )
30 are married (receive $60 a month, books, fees . . . )
25 receive tuition only.
2. Total cost of supporting the athletes — budgeted under Athletic
Department is $330,000. This includes room, board, meals, laun-
dry, kickbacks to food service, books, fees, and tutoring.
3. Meal kickbacks to Food Service
Lunch „ Dinner
on campusi athlete $ .80 $1.27
off campus athlete $1.25 $2.75
4. Conference limits number of scholarship athletes to 65 per class
or 260 per school. During the five year expansion, Rice will aim
for maximum figure.
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