The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1975 Page: 1 of 16
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Although you can't see it, our new campus phone system is being
installed in the basement of this building, the Allen Center. See
story below. —wiley sanders
Hackerman picks two students
for athletic review committee
program in full and make
whatever recommendations
they feel are appropriate.
In his memorandum to the
newly-appointed member of
the committee, Hackerman
states that the review of Rice
athletics is especially timely
because of "the impact of Title
IX." (Title IX guidelines
require that men and women
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by GARY BREWTON
President Hackerman has
selected the two undergrad-
uates to serve on the ad hoc
Select Committee for Review
of Intercollegiate Athletics at
Rice. The two students are
John Anderson, Baker '76,
Internal Affairs Vice-
President of the Student
Association; and Troy Squires,
Hanszen '76, a former
scholarship athlete.
President Hackerman
promised at the time of his
arrival at Rice in 1970 that a
thorough review of Rice's
athletic program would be
conducted in five years.
Hackerman's appointment of
the Athletic Review committee
is the realization of that
promise, and the committee
has been given broad
guidelines to evaluate the
volume 63, number 20
october 30, 1975
Switchover in mid-November
Minor problems continue to delay new phone system
by GARY BREWTON
Switchover to the new
campus phone system has
been delayed, probably until
mid-November, so that the
installer, Fisk Telephone Co.,
can work to correct "the large
number of bugs, glitches, and
just plain goofs that have been
uncovered by testing," says
Rick White of the Campus
Business Office.
However, the problems are
mostly small, easily correc-
table ones rather than large,
complicated ones. Fixing all
the problems is just a matter of
time.
Drug price varies widely
A recent survey by the Thresher staff has revealed that the so
called "discount" drug stores may not actually offer the lowest
prices, at least in the case of the one particular drug studied.
Several stores in the Rice-Medical Center area, together with a
couple of large stores in other parts of town, were questioned
on their prices for Norinyl 1 + 50, an estrogen hormone.
Here are the stores surveyed, with their prices:
Brompton Pharmacy
7271 Brompton
$2.00
Eckerd's
various
$1.89
Jones
2400 Rice
$2.75
Clinic Drugs
6624 Fannin
$2.50
Eagle
3102 Kirby
$1.99
Foley's
various
$1.19
Globe
various
$1.38
Hermann Prof. Bldg. Pharmacy
$3.09
Peterson
2439 University
$2.25
Sage
various
$2.09
Super-X
various
$2.19
Target
various
$1.95
As White points out, "more
than 13,000 pieces of
information are involved in
the specifications on the new
phones—including color,
style, location, and options."
Whenever the installer gets
something wrong on one of the
phones, "it's a small thing, but
then again it's not. If a
secretary can't answer her
boss's phone, then it's obvious-
ly a big thing," White says. To
avoid such problems before the
switchover is made, Fisk repre-
sentatives are checking all
phones on campus to make
sure they are working and that
they provide the kind of
service ordered.
White expects that fewer
than 130 phones—ten percent
of the instruments on
campus—have something
wrong with them. A special
operator is on duty during
regular hours (at x4001 on the
"new system) to handle com-
plaints.
Once the new system is oper-
ating, it should provide better
service than the old one has,
and at approximately the
same cost. Eventually, fewer
operators may be needed, but
at least for the present time the
same number of operators will
be kept on duty. Within a year
or so the switchboard may
close at 5pm (it now stays open
until midnight); for now,
though, the present hours will
be kept.
The number of extensions on
campus has been increased
only slightly under the new
system, from 970 to 1000. Its
capacity is 1200 extensions.
One of the biggest problems
expected in the changeover is
the confusion that will result
from changing all the
extensions. The Business
Office has,prepared a list of the
old extension numbers with
their corresponding new ones;
certain ones, like Security, are
similar to the old ones (x333
old system, x3333 new).
A small directory, listing
departmental numbers and
other important extensions,
will be distributed once the
new system is connected; a
more complete directory will
be published soon after that.
Switchover, when it finally
does come, should be on a
weekend. Announcement of
the change will come at least
three days before it is made.
Minority groups get
chance at blanket tax
China expert to speak Friday
Jack Ch'en, internationally
known journalist and artist,
will deliver a public lecture
Friday, October 31, at 8 pm in
301 Sewall, entitled "China,
after the Cultural Revolution."
Mr. Ch'en, who is currently a
Senior Research Associate at
Cornell Universuty's Center
for Chinese Studies, has
recently written a book on the
Cultural Revolution, which he
witnessed in the late 1960's.
This book, Inside, the
Cultural Revolution, which
Publisher's Weekly de-
scribed as providing a picture
of the events of the 60's "more
vivid than that of virtually
any other writer," is only one
of several well-received books
by Mr. Ch'en. These include
The Chinese Theatre, Folk
Arts of New China, New
Earth, A Year in Upper
Felicity, Soviet Art and
Artists, and Japan and the
Pacific Theater of War. He
has also contributed articles to
the Far Eastern Economic
Review, Esquire, Foreign
Policy, and other journals.
Born in Trinidad in 1908,
Mr. Ch'en was educated at
University College School in
London, and later graduated
from the Polygraphic Institute
in Moscow (1930). His father,
Eugene Ch'en (1878-1944), was
personal lawyer and confidant
to Sun Yat-Sen, as well as
twice the Republic of China's
Foreign Minister. After
establishing the New China
News Agency branch in
London in 1948, Ch'en lived
and worked for twenty-one
years in the People's Republic
of China as consulting editor
for the magazines People's
China and the Peking
Review. His perspective on
recent events in China is
especially interesting.
Mr. Ch'en's newest book,
entitled Sinkiang Story, is
scheduled for publication by
Macmillan and Company in
1976. He is currently working
on a biography of his father.
by TED ANDREWS
Old business dominated
Monday's marathon session of
the SA Senate. Two items, the
"Wiess Plan" for the
reorganization of the Senate
and the minority affairs
blanket tax election, had been
tabled at the last meeting after
discussion bogged down.
The "Wiess Plan," which
calls for replacing the college
presidents on the SA Senate
with college senators elected in
the fall, was ably presented by
Wiess College Senator Waldo
Maffei. Maffei felt that one of
the most favorable elements of
the plan was the fact that
when a new senate takes over
no one knows "the ropes," and
the lack of continuity—that is,
the lack of awareness of the
new Senate of the old Senate's
business—hinders the new^
people in grasping its affairs.
Another point was that the
already-overburdened college
presidents have little time to
devote to SA matters.
Opposition to the plan
focused on the belief that with
Rice's strong college system
there is a big need for a
university-wide forum to
facilitate communication and
coordination. WRC President
John Dragovits, External
Affairs President Rick Bost
and SA President Wayne Hale
led the opposition. After some
debate, one member suggested
that the motion be divided and
the colleges be requested to
elect Senators in the fall. The
motion was defeated.
Minority affairs report
The minority affairs report,
presented at the last meeting
by committee chairfnan John
Dragovits, suggested that an
election be held to use a $1
blanket tax, divided evenly
between the CSU [Chinese
Student Union], BSU [Black
Student Union], and RAMAS
[Rice Association of Mexican
American Students], to insure
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Brewton, Gary. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1975, newspaper, October 30, 1975; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245260/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.