The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. [63], No. [45], Ed. 1 Monday, March 22, 1976 Page: 2 of 8
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Coverage of Athletic Review Committee meeting decried
To the editor,
In recent issues you have
defended, quite rightly, the
righ of the paper to publish
controversial opinions. After
all, the Thresher's editorial
stance is a question only for
the editor and his staff. The
recent article on the Athletics
Review Committee goes
beyond this acceptable limit,
however, for it appears on the
front page, usually devoted
only to news, and without any
label that it is opinion beyond
the existence of a by-line
It is in fact opinion of a type
that belongs only in the
editorial sections of any
newspaper. Statements
such as "Most people have
assumed. . may simply be
dismissed as poor journalism,
but a sentence such as that in
the last paragraph "What was
tragic about the whole affair
was the almost total lack of
emphasis on football," is
simply opinion. The fact that
this story appeared as it did is
an example of shoddy writing
and editing, almost with a
yellow journalism approach,
which has pervaded recent
issues. On stories as important
as that concerning the ARC
students are entitled to clear,
factual news reporting, as well
as the opinions of staff
members.
Many less obvious examples
of journalistic sloppiness
appear throughout the paper.
The sentence "in a less serious
vein" in the SA article was
again notgood journalism, asit
reported only how the reporter
felt about the meeting. If a
change in mood was impor-
tant, it should have been
reported as such; if not (as I
suspect was the case) it should
not appear.
Again, although sports
reporting is inevitably less
strictly factual than straight
news, the comment "Players
were slow to comment, as they
wished to continue their
college careers," in the CIA
article was certainly improper,
particularly as this was the
only news article on the very
important decision to rehire
Polk, and balanced a long
editorial on the same subject.
In short, this most recent
issue of the Thresher, like so
many in the past, contained
some good journalism, but
more flawed by simple
sloppiness, the insertion of
opinion in news articles, or
failure on the part of the editor
to edit out irrelevant or
unimportant material.
Though Rice has no journal-
ism school, and can scarcely
expect professional level
writing, students should be
able to count on seeing only
news in news articles, seeing
only important news on the
front page, and in all cases
clean, factual reporting of
what goes on on the campus.
Richard Hunt
Hanszen
Ex post facto honor
roll change slammed
To the editor:
I think that Mr. Butler's
article on the Honor Roll
which appeared in last
Thursday's issue of the
Thresher was misleading.
During the first part of the
article he continually used the
future tense in describing the
new system. It was only in his
last statement on an inside
page that he reported the new
policy was already in effect
and, in fact, had been used to
calculate last semester's
Honor Roll.
This reporting muddies a
major issue—this policy was
used to calculate the Honor
Roll from grades which had
been made before the policy
was promulgated. Some
students who finished the
semester thinking they had
made the "Dean's Team"
because they had met the old
criteria, found that they had
not. This is a case of
University policy being
instituted ex pout facto. Also,
students were kept in the dark
this semester, at least until the
official notice came out on
February 25. This is halfway
into the semester; very late to
inform students of an issue
which concerns them directly
and which might have caused
some students to plan the
semester differently if they
had known earlier.
The new policy does have its
advantages, but it should
nevertheless receive the
administrative and student
attention that it deserves.
Jean Cackowski
Part of your confusion
stems from the fact that
three lines of type were
inadvertently omitted
from the article in ques-
tion. Subsequent para-
graphs made little sense in
light of this omission, but
none of this was Butler's
fault. T h e Thresher
regrets any confusion
which may have resulted.
To reiterate, the top 30%
students (ranked accoring
to grade point average)
will be chosen for this
semester's honor roll.—Ed.
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Wiess Disco-Tech party praised
To the editor:
Last Saturday's Wiess
Disco-Tech was probably the
best event on campus this
year. The Wiess event was well
planned from its conception.
First, it began at 11pm, a time
when most people are just
crawling out of their holes and
are ready to party. That's not a
simple "party," they want to
"paaaaaarrty." The Wiess
event filled the five-hour period
with nonstop music for the
masses. Second, there was
plenty of liquor. Although the
party was basically started to
drink up leftover Night of
Decadence wine, sufficient
liquor was the keystone of the
planning, for as we all know,
the only way to have a good
time at a partv is to get boozed
up; i.e., lubricated. After people
got lubricated (around lam),
the party shifted into high
gear: people crammed the
dance floor, thirsting for the
omnipresent beat, which was
augmented by discomeister
Roland Boyce on tambourine
and cowbell and Arthur
Garrison on drums. People
started passing out.
Social sorts around campus
should take note of the Wiess
event becase it showed that
Rice people, if properly taken
care of, are perfectly capable of
having a good time. Also, it is
possible to throw a party with
tons of drunken people and not
have a college lose a ton ($700-
$900) of money. Cheap booze
and easy sex are all you need.
A tip of the hat to the
Wiessmen.
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GARY RREWTON
Editor
JANET DOTY
Business Manager
Carla McParland Editor-Elect James Carroll . .Advertising Manager
Bill Studabaker .Production Manager
Dale Baker Copy Editor
Frank Duca .... Circulation Manager
Mary Craig Business Assistant
Bill Melstrom Ad Production
led Andrews Executive Editor
Phil Parker Contributing Editor
Kim Brown Editorial Assistant
Elaine Bonilla Fine Arts Editor
Barry Jones Sports Editor
Mark Linimon Back Page Editor
Walter UnderwoodPhotography Editor
David Butler Editorial Assistant
Editorial Staff: John Anderson, Cathy Egan, Lee Hochberg, Debbie Davies.
Pine Arts Staff: Karla Painter, Susan Bechtel, Ira Black, Peter Harland, Hannes
Vogel, Jackie Gilbert.
Sports Staff: Larry Nettles, Rick Schechter, Jimmy Day, Asuka Nakahara.
Photography Staff: Richard Jensen, Robert Dougherty, Tim Bishop, Jim
Grenadier.
Art Staff: Carrie Bay, Jeff Kerr.
Production Staff: Jo Simpson, Steve Norwood, Susan Bechtel, Helen Carleton,
Dale Turner, Leslie Lauderdale.
Austin Bureau: Emily Coffman, Steve Jackson.
The Rice Thresher, the official student newspaper at Rice University since
191H, is published semi-weekly on Mondays and Thursdays during the school
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