The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1973 Page: 1 of 8
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The candidates speak
Hofheinz cuts Short, Gottlieb fudges, Fein fumes
by FORREST JOHNSON
Three (of the ten or so)
mayoral candidates spoke in
Lovett commons on Monday
night.
Dick Gottlieb, a City Council
member, haltingly shared a few
points of his "solid eight-point
program".
On police: Gottlieb said he
considers crime on the streets
the city's "number one prob-
lem", next to taxation. He
favors better pay for police-
men. When asked about the fu-
ture of Police Chief Herman
Short, Gottlieb declined to an-
swer, saying that a statement
would constitute a promise that
would violate the Texas Elec-
tion Code. In other words, he
plans to keep Short.
Gottlieb considers mass trans
it "a monumental headache,"
but said it would be necessary
to combat the rising fuel short-
age. He backs the creation of
a hass transit authority, but
said the authority might not
pass in referendum because
many citizens are opposed to
the auto emissions tax. Gottlieb
also supports the Vorhees mass
transit plan, explaining that it
would eventually benefit the
whole area, not just Houston.
Gottlieb plans to continue
Welch's fiscal policies, probably
including a balanced budget,
and avoiding Federal-funded
(and, therefore, regulated)
programs.
In passing, Gottlieb mention-
ed he supports the old $1,250
mayoral filing fee, recently
ruled out by the courts. He
thinks candidates for mayor
should also own property.
Daniel Fein (Socialist Work-
ers Party) gave a vigorous
speech.
"The Houston Police Depart-
ment is a racist police depart-
ment ..." and, he says, is a
corporate tool largely concern-
ed with "spying, bugging and
burglaries." "The Court system
is rotten. It doesn't give any
justice at all."
Fein would correct these
faults by excluding Houston
police from Black and Brown
neighborhoods and giving strik-
ers the right to organize "their
own armed defense" against
police.
Fein feels Blacks and Browns
should "patrol their own neigh-
borhoods." (As vigilantes?)
Fein opposes the creation of a
mass transit authority, since
its auto 'emissions tax would
be "regressive." He says he is
not against mass transit in
general.
Fein has an answer to pollu-
tion. "We would simply take all
the profits off of any corpora-
tion that refused to put on a
pollution control device."
He also favors a corporate
income tax.
Fred Hofheinz (1971 candi-
date for mayor) stood on his
record as a reform candidate.
When asked who would re-
place Police Chief Short, Hof-
heinz replied, "I haven't made
up my mind about that, but cer-
tainly someone will." (He later
introduced Inspector C. D. Tay-
lor, a 30-year Department vet-
eran and ex-Director of the
Criminal Justice Division of the
Houston/Galveston Area Coun-
cil. Inspector Taylor was wear-
ing a "Hofheinz '73" button.)
Hofheinz also intends to beef
up the police with nation wide
collegiate recruitment, police-
man education incentives and a
three year part-time cadet pro-
gram. He plans to help pay for
it all with Federal money.
Hofheinz plans vigorous en-
forcement of air pollution laws
hiring new lawyers and develop-
ing an integrated county-wide
program.
Hofheinz also favors the mass
transit authority. He plans to
help pay for mass transit with
Federal money.
Other mayoral candidates are
scheduled to speak on campus
in the near future. Watch the
Thresher for details . . .
Shannon Vale
Socialist Dan Fein makes a point.
forts
and
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volume 61, number 6
September 27, 1973
Media Center cited for artistic excellence
The Texas Commission on the
Arts and Humanities has rec-
ognized the Rice University
Media Center as a Major In-
stitution of the Arts in the
state of Texas.
According to Maurice Coats,
executive director of the Com-
mission, the Media Center was
selected because of its high
standards and professional com-
petence in the film field. The
National Endowment for the
Arts will match the Commis-
sion's award of $2,500 to the
Center with another funds
grant.
In only five years the Rice
Media Center has reached the
stage of a major institution. A
Major Institution in Texas, ac-
cording to the definition and
guideline as established by the
Commission, May 10, 1973,
shall be defined as an estab-
lished cultural institute clearly
exhibiting "high professional
competence and standards in
their fields, and . . . serve
large numbers of people."
The Media Center's high
quality programs are designed
to orient a student to the de-
veloping use of the new lang-
uage, media, in all disciplines,
more than to train profession-
als.
While any unnamed state
cultural institute can define it-
self as a major institution, only
.the Commission can designate
such institutions for Major In-
Owls squeak by Montana despite errors
bv T. G. KAHUNA
A1 Conover: "If you want to
know the truth about it, that
game was just a big ploy for
the LSU scouts." That' state-
ment contains more pathos, than
humor." No football team could
have set out to do so poorly
against so inferior an oppon-
ent. A series of unending men-
tal lapses cannot be that well
planned. And from the looks of
it, I'm not certain anything at
all was planned against Mon-
tana.
A1 Conover: "A win is a
win." Truer words never spok-
en. This is one of the few
positive things to come out of
last Saturday's sluggish — no,
not sluggish, but apathetic 21-
10 victory. The Owls, without
question, got a bad game out
of their collective (in the tini-
est sense of the word) system.
But that raises serious ques-
tions about the remainder of
the season. Before that, how-
ever, I would like to point out
the few good things that did
occur in Rice Stadium during
the course of the game.
It was announced that Hank
Aaron hit his 712 home run.
The fans went crazy later,
when it was announced that
Texas lost. Texas A&M played
LSU a close game in the Tiger
Pit, but fortunately (for us)
were not able to upset the
Bengals. James Sykes interupt-
ed thunderous applause for one
high school girl's fantastic
half-time gyrations by making
a beautiful, record-typing 99-
yard return of the second half
kick-off. Defensive end Larry
Medford looked strong consider-
ing he just this week made the
switch from offense. The Mon-
tana band did not show up (in
fact it does not exist). The Mon-
tana comedy offense attempted
a heretofore unseen shift on
only one play, by attempting
not only to move out of a wish-
bone into a Power I, but then
from there to a pro-set. Re-
gretfully, they were penalized,
for this tricky maneuver is il-
legal, even in junior high.
I really am not able to say
a lot about the second half,
because I spent it all watching
only Cornelius Walker, to keep
from going to sleep. Montana
blocked him every way pos-
sibile, and still could not stop
him from almost single-handed-
ly preventing us further em-
barrasiment by the Montana
ground game. Not only was the
big nose guard double and even
triple-teamed, on one play Cor-
nelius was both double-teamed
and trapped. Too bad the Griz-
zlies didn't have that kind of
respect for the rest of our
defense.
Naturally the Owls had a let-
down after the UH loss, and
were prepared for a very in-
ferior opponent. The mental
lapses were only surprising in
their variety and consistency.
Six turnovers, some costly pen-
alties, (there are no uncostly
penalties), numerous dropped
passes, and a mere 221 yards
total offense (less than against
UH), certainly add up to an.
i ncred ibl e performance.
In part, this is attributable
to the coaching. Was there a
game plan at ali ? If so, it seem-
ed to be pass, pass, pass; score
six quick TD's, and scare the
hell out of the rest of the con-
ference by amassing 1000 yards
passing. Actually through this
this attack Rice managed a
meager 115 yards via the air.
Less than four y^rds«J per at-
tempt. There is an older foot-
ball axiom that states, "A
team shall establish its ground
game to open up its passing
attack." It worked for three
quarters against H o u s t o n.
Against Montana we were able
to run for consistent yardage,
but failed to do so often, due
to the mania for striking quick-
ly via the long pass. Rather
than set up a passing game,
our coaches seemed to be set-
ing up the draw play. Defen-
sively the Owls were unable
to stop UM's only consistent
gainer, a back-handed handoff
resembling a draw play. It was
run so often that it must have
been their bread and butter,
It must have been on our
shut it off.
But for one in my four yea:"
I'd like to see a winning sea-
son, and this team could puii
it off. The abilty is there, but
the last five quarters of foot-
hall they've played have been
worse than awful. With LSI!
and Notre Dame coming up, the
Owls may head into the con-
ference schedule totally de-
moralized, unless they begin to
play up to potential. For once
thing, a cohesive offense is ab-
solutely necessary. But with
two entirely different back-
fields running in and out of
the game constantly, cohesion
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stitution Grants. The Commis-
sion will net award the grant
to any Institute in two years
consecutively, and from time
to time will review and revise
criteria for designating major
cultural institutions. Once an
Institution is recognized, a pro-
posal of purpose by the in-
stitute must be approved by the
chairmen of the Grant Com-
mittee and of the Commission,
and the executive director.
The Media Center was start-
ed in 1968 at University of St.
Thomas, and moved to Rice
(Lovett Hall basement) in the
summer of 1969.
The first director, Dr. Ger-
ald O'Grady (now director of
the media center at the State
University of New York in
Buffalo), asked James Blue to
start the film programs, and
Geoff Winninghani to initiate a
program of photography. When
the Media Center moved to
their new building near Uni-
versity Boulevard ("the barn"),
two new professors were added
—Mark Mc-Carty and David Mc-
Dougall. both on leave—David
Hancock from the National •
Film School of" Great Britain
is visiting professor this year.
Self-Study seminars scheduled
by WILL ARTHUR
The Self-Study Steering Com-
mittee is sponsoring six semi-
nars on various aspects of Rice
University, October 17 to 31. The
seminars will all be held at
4pm in Sewall Hall 301 except
the one on Governance which
will be in the Chemistry Lec-
ture Hall.
In these seminars, the Self-
Study Committee will present
its findings on the given
topics, and hold open discus-
sion. The main purpose of the
seminars is to answer ques-
tions and receive suggestions
films. It stilhjtook too long to and relevant information that
Certainly as an ardent Rice the Self-Study committee may
football fan, I expect too much, have missed. These comments
will lie used in writing the final
Self-Study report.
The report has a dual pur-
pose. First, it will fullfill the
Southern Association of Col-
leges and Schools' accredita-
tion requirement. Second, and
more importantly, it will be
used by the Board of Directors
and the President to guide their
decisions for the university.
The titles of two of the lec-
tures may be somewhat mis-
leading: "Forms of Excellence"
examines how well Rice is ful-
filling its high standards of ex-
cellence. "Governance" will an-
swer the questions of who keeps
Rice running and how. Further
lectures will be announced in
the Calendar.
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