The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1978 Page: 1 of 8
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Rice Thresher
volume 65, number 26
thursday, february 23, 1978
Beller, Smith, Bosse win contested SA races
by Philip Parker
In Tuesday's Student
Association general elections,
Roy Lee Beller, Michelle Smith
and Steve Bosse won
contested elections for the
posts of SA president,
Thresher editor, and Rice
Program Council vice-
president. The KTRU and
Campanile blanket tax
increases passed comfortably
while the Honor Council
amendments failed to garner
the necessary percentage of
favorable votes.
Marlene Madden, Jeff
Wood, Lou Ann Montana and
Bill Wade polled the most
votes among the nine
candidates for senior
representative to the Honor
Council. In a recount, John
Heaner edged David Koks,
119-118, to take one sophomore
Honor Council rep position,
while Liz Israel won the other
with 148 votes. Tom Kobay-
ashi, Sara Hill and Vince
James were elected to the
Junior representative spots
unopposed.
Beller relied on strong home
college vote to defeat Jones
junior Marian J. Barber as he
collected 205 SRC ballots to
Barber's 24. He also gained
large majorities in Lovett and
Brown to offset losses in the
other five colleges and the
RMC and win 606-547.
In the Thresher editor race,
Smith outpolled Steve
Sullivan and David Butler 570
to 365 and 208, respectively.
Smith piled up large leads in
her home college, Brown, and
at Will Rice, and won
pluralities in six of nine
polling places. In the second
round of the preferential
voting, she defeated Sullivan
628-493.
Bosse lost at only one ballot
box to Kevin Campbell and
easily beat him 617-380 to
become next year's RPC vice-
president.
The blanket tax referendum
fulfilled both requirements of
a thirty-five percent turnout
and sixty percent approval.
The KTRU request for an
additional dollar passed 918-
285 or a 76 percent approval.
Seventy-two percent of the
voters (865-331) wished to see
and increase in the Campa-
nile allotment from $7.50 to
$9.00.
Honor Council amendments
did not fare as well. The
proposal to allow the Honor
Council to consider previous
convictions in the assessment
of penalties received a
majority of 852-365, but fell
short of the needed seventy-
five percent approval. The
amendment concerning
faculty representatives on the
Council was favored by only
66 percent of the voters (799-
410) and also failed.
Write-in candidates showed
no strength and all unopposed
candidates ascended to office.
Next year's line-up includes
Matt Muller and John
Cockerham as SA internal
and external vice presidents,
respectively, Mark Whitney,
SA secretary-treasurer; Alex
Arts and Joe Lueckenhoff,
University Council reps; and
Tom Wiilcutts, University
Court chairman. Gene Creely
will head the RPC while Susan
Mezynski will serve as RPC
secretary-treasurer. Helen L.
Toombs and Becky Mathre
were reelected as Campanile
editor and business manager.
Three positions remain
unfilled, the off campus
senator posts and the
Thresher business manager.
REDDI announced
President Hackerman has
announced the formation of
the Rice Engineering Design
and Development Institute.
Organized within the George
R. Brown School of Engineer-
ing, REDDI will provide a
vehicle for the participation of
Rice faculty, staff and
students in applied research
projects under the sponsorship
of local and other industry.
While participation is open
to the faculty, staff, and
students of all divisions of the
university, it is anticipated
that the majority of all
projects will be engineering
and applied science oriented.
These applied research
projects will provide an
opportunity for graduate and
undergraduate students,
especially in engineering, to
participate in the solution of
practical problems as a part of
their education at Rice.
Dr. Alan J. Chapman,
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Dean of the
George R. Brown School of
Engineering, is Director of the
Institute. Hardy M. Bourland,
longtime staff member of the
School of Engineering, and
Lecturer in Electrical
Engineering, is Associate
Director.
Fire, smoke, water damage Sid Rich sixth floor
by Charles Jenkins
Last Sunday, a lire broke out
on the sixth floor of Sid
Richardson college and
caused extensive damages
and two minor injuries. The
fire apparently started when a
smouldering cigarette set a
sofa on fire. The sofa was
sitting in one of the upper halls
off the main lobby. Although
the concrete wall prevented
the fire from spreading, the
burning foam of the sofa
produced huge amounts of
smoke which poured out the
open balcony. The smoke
spread across all of the sixth
floor causing smoke damage
to the lobby and several halls.
The fire was discovered about
noon when the students began
to come down for lunch.
Quick action on behalf of
Clay Crawford, the college
president, led to the fire being
quickly put out. With the help
of some of the sixth floor
residents, Crawford had the
fire put out before the fire
department arrived. However,
the smoke continued to be a
problem even after the flames
were put out. Many of the
people that came to help clean
up were forced to move out
onto the balcony to escape the
dense smoke.
Two people were trapped in
their room by the blaze, which
was in front of their door, and
could not come out until the
fire was extinguished. It was
some time after the fire was
put out before the smoke
cleared enough for the damage
to be surveyed.
The heat from the fire
severely scorched the walls of
the hall causing the plaster to
fall down. The ceiling was also
severely damaged both from
the heat and from the smoke.
The smoke covered the upper
part of the floor with a thick
layer of soot which damaged
the light fixtures and also the
hall opposite the one in which
the fire occured.
Another source of damage
was the water used to put out
the blaze. The water flowed
directly into the rooms on each
side of the hall ruining
carpets and anything placed
on the floor. The water also
damaged rooms not directly
associated with the fire.
By the time the firemen
arrived, clean-up operations
had been started by the
students. The firemen assisted
with the removal of the water
and plaster. The sofa was
removed from the building
and the water swept out of the
rooms. By Sunday evening,
most of the damage had been
cleaned up, although the soot
remained on the walls and
ceiling. The floor later began
to peel up from the water and
now has several holes in it.
The light fixtures are still
covered with soot, leaving the
floor with a dingy look.
Fortunately, there were only
two minor injuries resulting
from the fire. Clay Crawford
received a burn on his hand
and Hardie Morgan received a
cut on his hand when he
removed the fire hose from its
case.
M
Although confined to the couch, the fire caused extensive smoke damage to Sid Rich's sixth floor
-charles |enkins
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1978, newspaper, February 23, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245363/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.