The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 23, Ed. 1 Monday, November 10, 1975 Page: 1 of 12
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In honor of George R. Brown
Engineering School dedication set for Wednesday
by DAVID BUTLER
The George R. Brown School
of Engineering will be
dedicated in special cere-
monies Wednesday honoring
Brown, a Rice alumnus and
former Chairman of the Board
of Trustees.
Alan Chapman, Dean of the
newly-established school, will
preside at the formal
dedication ceremonies in
Hamman Hall at 3:30pm. Lead
speakers include Chairman of
the Board of Governors
Herbert Allen and President
Norman Hackerman.
That evening, Arthur Fox,
President of the 70,000-
member American Society of
Civil Engineers, will deliver a
major address at the
dedication dinner in the Grand
Hall of the Rice Memorial
Center. He will speak on
"Making Engineering Educa-
tion Relevant."
The school was formed last
spring with the separation of
the Science-Engineering
Division into two schools, the
second of which is the School
of Natural Sciences. Former
Dean of Science and Engin-
eering William Gordon
became the Dean of Natural
Sciences and Alan Chapman
was selected from the Rice
faculty to be Dean of
Engineering when the split
became effective July 1.
One of the reasons cited in
the decision to separate
science and engineering was
the need for increased
professionalism in engin-
eering.
Other speakers at Wednes-
day afternoon's ceremonies
include James R. Sims,
professor of civil engineering;
J. Frank Overton, speaking for
the Rice Engineering Alumni
Association; Wayne Hale, SA
President and spokesman for
engineering students; Robert
L. Pigford; Ernest F. Gloyna,
Dean of Engineering at UT-
Austin; and Harry E. Bovay,
President of the National
Society of Professional
Engineers.
Brown just recently retired
as Chairman of the Board of
Brown and Root, a world-wide
engineering and construction
firm. He is a long-time Rice
benefactor, beginning in 1942
when, largely through his
efforts, the University
acquired almost half the
Rincon oil field in Starr
County. He became Chairman
of the Board of Trustees in
1950, retiring in 1968. During
his years as chairman, the
University underwent tremen-
dous expansions in the
number of faculty, students,
buildings, and programs. He
led the University's $33
Million Campaign which
began in 1965 and ended less
than three years later more
than $10 million above its
goal.
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volume 63, number 23
monday, november 10, 1975
Wiessmen thrown out of bank, plan protest
by TED ANDREWS
As the Thresher went to
press early Monday morning
RPC President Andy Kopra
and Wiess Cabinet member
Ronnie Carroll, acting as
private citizens, were
planning to lead a protest
against Houston Citizens
Bank this afternoon. The two
were ejected from the bank last
week by a security guard who
apparently found their Wiess
Night of Decadence T-Shirts
offensive.
In a telephone interview
Carroll said "Andy and I were
waiting in a long line in the
lobby. We'd already endorsed
our checks. I was standing
with my arms folded. A guard
came up and looked at the back
of the shirt. All it says is
"Wiess College Night of
Decadence." Then he looked at
the front which has the nude
on it. He tapped Andy on his
left breast and pointed
towards the door. We
protested, asking, 'Why should
we leave?' He kept saying, 'just
leave.' "
The guard also refused to
allow the pair to take their
shirts off. When asked he said,
"You have to come back with
another shirt." They threw up
their arms at that point and
left the building. Kopra then
spat upon the pavement and
kicked the building. Carroll
remarked, "Andy was very
angry. We just went out to the
car and sat around, fuming,
for a few minutes. Then we
left—we had to pay the $1
parking fee. We ended up
going to the tellers window
outside."
Reached later, Kopra
modeled his shirt. "This isn't
cheap," he said. "We have to
clarify this whole obscenity
versus art issue. The guard
wasn't performing any official
policy. He was making a
judgment on the spot. We were
polite the whole time."
Still angry over the inciden t,
the two will lead a protest
Monday. Kopra expects to
speak with the college service
officer while a group of
Wiessmen wearing the shirts
will mill about in the lobby.
Kopra points out that
TexPIRG statistics show 70%
of the Rice Community have
accounts at Houston Citizens.
Even the RPC has the bank
handle their $12,000 account.
"Since we were depositing
money I'd think that they
should show us a little
respect."
N
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isk
Futurist Daniel Bell to speak here
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Would you censor this t-shirt?
The Wiess College Night of Decadence T-Shirt is based on an illustra-
tion by Aubrey Beardsley, "The Mirror Of Love," done in 1895 as a
frontispieces for a book of poems. The author of the book refused to
use it, claiming, "whatever you may say the figure is hermaphrodite."
—waiter underwood
The future has arrived and
you didn't even know it was
here. That's one of the theses
of Daniel Bell's book The
Alumni
yAlternative
Careers' talks
continue
The Association of Rice
Alumni will continue its
Alumni Alternative Careers
program tomorrow night at
7pm in 309 Sewall.
Speakers will include Robert
Johnson, chief of the
Laboratory Operations Office
at NASA; John T. Smith, a
consulting geochemist with
Shell Development; computer
programmer Jeff Finger; John
Riola, a geophysicist with the
Exploration Department of
Texaco; and Karl Ten Brink,
general manager of the Texaco
Beacon research lab in New
York.
The program is designed to
help students find answers to
the question: "What can I do
with my Rice degree?" [You
g-'essed it.—Ed.]
Coming of Post-Industrial
Society. Bell will speak pn
campus this Friday at 7:30pm
in the Grand Hall of the RMC,
sponsored by the forum
committee of the RPC.
Bell's book, already
controversial in academic
circles, asserts that a new
society, the "knowledge
society", had already emerged
out of the ashes of older
corporate capitalism. He
believes that the consequences
of the new society will include
the decay of the already-
declining working class, the
rise of a new class of scientists,
and the onset of political
controls over technology.
Besides The Coming of
Post-Industrial Society,
Bell has written The New
American Right, The
Radical Right,^he Refor-
ming of General Educa-
tion, Toward the Year
2222, and Capitalism
Today. He has been mana-
ging editor of the New
Leader and Common Sense.
Previously he has been a
member of the President's
Commission on Technology,
Automation and Economic
Progress, co-chairman of the
Panel on Social Indicators,
H.E.W. from 1966-69 and
Chairman of the Commission
on the Year 2000 of the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences in 1967-72.
Admission is $1 fbr students,
$2 for others.
mmmm
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Even adopting the other team's mascot couldn't help the Owls get past
Arkansas Saturday. See story, poge 8. —wiley sanders
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Brewton, Gary. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 23, Ed. 1 Monday, November 10, 1975, newspaper, November 10, 1975; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245263/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.