The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1977 Page: 1 of 16
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Rice Thresher
volume 65, number 13
thursday, november 3, 1977
Super College competition to highlight Telednor
The RPC sponsored Teled-
nor weekend of intercollege
competition resulting in the
determination of the Super
College begins Friday,
November 4, with the Games
Tournament and ends
Saturday night, November 5,
with the "St. Elmo's Fire"
concert.
The Super College will be the
college that accumulates the
largest total of points for both
participation and excellence
in the various Telednor events.
The Games Tournament
Will be held in the Hanszen
Commons from 7-11 Friday
night. Anyone may partici-
pate in the competition which
includes Mastermind, Risk,
Monopoly, backgammon,
bridge and spades. Bring your
tickets for the "St. Elmo's
Fire" doorprize (which
consists of reimbursement for
one or two tickets to the
Telednor Concert) will be
awarded to a person who is
present and holding tickets. A
total of eight different people
will be reimbursed for their
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Catch-22, the Telednor
drive-in movie, will be shown
Friday night at 11 at the
Stadium Parking Lot. The
movie will be projected on a
stadium pillar, and the sound
will be provided by L.D. Sound
System. Admission is free. 50<£
two-packs with 10<t can
deposits will be available.
Saturday at eleven there will
be an all-school picnic in front
of Hamman Hall. The field
events competition in Frolf
(Frisbee-Golf), earthball, tug-
of-war, and monkey bridge
races will be held from 1-5 on
the Telednor Grounds, the
area between Hanszen and the
track field. In earthball, a
team attempts to move a ball
(six feet in diameter) through a
goal. Monkey bridge races are
an individually timed agility
drill where three ropes
stretched between two
supports are used to cover
about twenty feet of ground.
Each college will get four
points for each participant in
the games, and one-fourth of a
point for each warm body in
the tug-of-war plus 10 points
per win.
In Frolf, the eight people
with the lowest scores will win
points. The lowest time in the
monkey bridge races will score
30 points with the next lower
scoring 29. Only the top 30
participants" will be given
points.
At 5:15, the college with the
most points from the Games
Tournament and the Telednor
Field competition will be
presented with the Super
College Trophy.
"St. Elmo's Fire" will play in
the RMC Grand Hall on
Saturday night at 8 and 11.
Ticket prices are $3 for Rice
students and $4 for others.
Tickets may be purchased in
the SA office, or from the
college RPC representatives:
Baker—Gene Greely, Brown—
Susan Dufficy, Hanszen—
Fritz Morsches, Jones—Val
Dessler, Lovett—Chris
Lahart, Sid Rich—Steve
Telednor
Grounds
Bosse, Wiess—Clint Walker,
and Will Rice—Pete Mims.
For further information
about Telednor or the events,
contact your RPC representa-
tive. Otherwise, come on out
and represent your college in
the Super College Competi-
tion.
Hackerman to answer questions
On Monday November 14
President Norman Hacker-
man will field questions about
the university from twenty-
four representatives from the
colleges. The session will
begin at 7pm in SH 301 and
should last an hour and a half.
The question and answer
format, which was begun last
Drop Date
This Saturday, November 5, is
the deadline for dropping
courses or converting Pass/
Fail options to a letter grade.
The Registrar's office will be
open on Saturday from 8:30am
to 12 noon.
year, replaces the "state of the
University" addresses of
years past. "Hackerman
thought that the program was
successful last year, so we will
try again this year," explained
Claude Sisson, student
association president.
Representatives should be
chosen next week by the
respective college govern-
ments. If you are interested in
quizzing Hackerman, talk to
your president. Volunteers
may be needed.
The meeting is open to all
students, but questions will be
taken only from the twenty-
four college representatives. If
you have something that you
have to ask Hackerman, pass
it on to the designated
questioner of your college.
KTRU will broadcast the
program so you can remain at
home and do your homework
and still hear what Hacker-
man thinks about your
education.
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Colleges to study security
by David Butler
After investigating security
problems and procedures in
the colleges, Baker College
Master David Minter will
recommend this week to the
Committee of Masters and
Presidents that each college
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appoint its own security
coordinator. These coordina-
tors will be responsible for
collecting information about
security problems and "any
sort of criminal activity" and
reporting those problems to
the university police.
Rice's in-town location,
while relatively isolated, is
still an occasional target for
visitors from the real world. In
recent years, the number of
thefts, assaults and rapes
reported on campus appears to
have risen, though as Minter
points out, there is no real
method for collecting and
coordinating statistics on
crimes on campus. "We know a
lot of rumors go around, (but)
most of the time people don't
even know what's going on
within their own college," he
said.
The coordinators, once
appointed in their colleges,
will hopefully serve as a bridge
between the colleges and the
campus police. The coordina-
tors will have the job of
checking specific problem
areas within their own college
and reporting those problems
to the campos. Minter said
that "we want to find out what
kind of acts go on, and
whether there's any geogra-
phic or temporal pattern" to
those acts. By getting specific
times and locations Minter
hopes to achieve a more
effective deployment of
security personnel, possibly
using "bicycle beats" or foot
patrols in order to cover the
college areas or by deploying
extra police during particu-
lar problem hours or days.
Baker and Jones colleges
have already appointed their
security coordinators: others
wall be announced in the near
future.
Runoff
In the event that the
results of the city election of
Nov. 8 necessitate a run-off
election in the mayoral
race, the Rice Republicans
and the Rice Democratic
Caucus will present an open
forum with the two
candidates in the mayoral
run-off on Nov. 10 at 7:30pm
in Room 301, Sewall Hall.
All are invited to attend.
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1977, newspaper, November 3, 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245350/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.