The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1978 Page: 1 of 12
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The
Rice Thresher
volume 65, number 30
thursday, march 30, 1978
$1.4 million renovation of gym begins this week
by David Butler
In the latest round of earth -
turning maneuvers on the Rice
campus, construction began
last Monday on a $1.4 million
addition to the gymnasium.
The expansion is part of a
general renovation of gym and
stadium facilities which will
eventually provide increased
room for Rice intramural and
intercollegiate programs.
The gym expansion will be
in the form of two 84x142 foot
buildings flanking the rear of
the present building. All areas
of both the new buildings vKll
be accessable to men and
women, through the use of
walkways located underneath
the present balcony in the pool
area.
The new facilities will
include two full-size basket-
ball courts, with provisions for
use as volleyball courts as
well. Each building will also
contain three air-conditioned
handball courts; the addition
on the west side will also
contain a squash court, while
the unit on the wast side will
hold classroom and office
space for the newly estab-
lished Health Education
department.
While the additions are
being constructed, further
renovations are being planned
for the existing building. The
area of both men's and
women's locker rooms will be
expanded by eliminating the
equipment rooms inside them;
in their place, a single coed
checkout room with both
staffs still present to speed up
service, will be located in the
current table-tennis room.
As the football team's
dressing rooms are relocated to
their new quarters in Rice
Stadium, the space previously
occupied in the gym will be
given over to other men's and
women's teams. The current
athletic training room,
already informally integrated,
will become fully coed after the
renovation.
The central air-conditioning
planned for the new handball
courts will be extended to the
present offices of the HPE
department, which are now
using window air-cond-
itioners. While air-handling
ducts and fans will be
installed in the two new
basketball courts, the present
budget does not allow funds
for air-conditioning them.
(Autry Court, which is under
the control of the Athletic
Department, rather than
HPE, will also remain without
air-conditioning.)
HPE chairman Frank
Bearden "guesstimated" that
the east wing of the project
(facing the tennis courts and
Wiess) should be completed
around December, while the
other half of the building
should be finished "some-
where around this time next
year." The remodeling and
relocations in the present
building will take place over
the summer.
The new building was
originally budgeted at $1
million, but contractors'
estimates set the figure for the
project at $1.4 million.
According to Bearden,
estimates for an addition of
comparable space in 1969-70
were around $350,000.
However, Bearden defends the
expansion as a move "serving
the needs of the average
student at Rice...I think the
athletic program's well and
good, but I think the average
student deserves equal
facilities and equipment,"
considering the wide extent of
student involvement in
intramural and college sports.
Rondelet features wide variety of activities
by Kathryn Payne
This year the traditional
Rondelet weekend will include
a variety of activities to please
a variety of people.
In keeping with the old
adage that all good weekends
begin on Thursday, the RPC
presents the Mel Brooks
comedy Twelve Chairs at
7:30pm on April 6.
On Friday, April 7, the lawn
in front of Hamman Hall is the
place to be. German professor
Richard Helt and his band will
play bluegrass and pro-
gressive country at a 4pm
TGIF with free beer. An all-
school picnic will follow at
5:30. At 6:30 local singer Mike
Macolea will entertain with
country music until 9, at which
time a screen will be erected to
show the film "Topaz." The
climax of this diverse schedule
of events will be a street dance,
featuring the Austin-based
blues band Paul Ray and the
X-Rated Cobras, who will
perform from 10pm to 1:30am.
Saturday morning is
reserved for recovery from
Friday night and the all-
important preparation for the
Beer-Bike races. Beer-Bike
team entrances will begin at
1:30pm Saturday, with the
women's race at 2pm and the
men's race at 3:30. Speculation
on the results will undoubtedly
abound; in fact, dinner table
conversations have already
turned to intensive analysis of
speeds, track condition and
the effect of the dreaded "7
second penalty."
After the Beer-Bike races is,
o? course, the Rondelet Ball.
This year's Ball will be held in
the Texas Room of the
Houston Club downtown.
Valet parking will be
available for $1, and a
limousine service from Rice to
the Houston Club will also be
provided. Details concerning
this service will be available
next week through the RPC
reps. The dance will feature
music by "Second Coming"
and an open bar. Tickets are
on sale for $15 from the RPC
reps and the SA office, 2nd
floor RMC. Tickets will be $18
at the door.
On Sunday, April 9, the
weekend will close with the
Songfest at 7pm in the RMC
Grand Hall. TTie Songfest will
include both serious chorale
and a light-hearted Gong
Show.
From Paul Ray and the X-
Rated Cobras to an oppor-
tunity to play dress-up,
Rondelet Weekend this year
promises to offer a good time
for everyone.
Copyright changes felt
by Steve Sullivan
"NOTICE: The copyright
law of the United States (Title
17, U.S. Code) governs the
making of photocopies of
copyrighted material. The
person using this equipment is
liable for any infringement."
This notice, which can be
found on all the copying
machines in Fondren, is a
result of the Copyright Law of
* 1976, which goes a long way
towards specifying what is
" and isn't legal in photo-
copying copyrighted material.
The main determinant of
whether an incident con-
stitutes a copyright infringe-
ment is the doctrine of "fair
use." This concept takes into
account the purposes of the use
of copyrighted material as
well as the effect the use has on
the value of the work. Thus,
copying a few pages out of a
book for a research paper
would probably not run afoul
of the law, but to make several
photocopies of a booklet and
sell them would be a violation.
The new law has other and
perhaps more important
effects on the university.
Under the old law, non-profit
institutions were exempt from
paying royalties on copy-
righted music, but the new law
doesn't preserve this shelter.
When the government hands
down its final guidelines, due
sometime in June, KTRU, the
MOB, and the Sheperd School
of Music wil have to pay
royalties on all the music they
play.
For KTRU, the royalties
will be handled through three
licensing companies which
collect royalties for almost all
the record companies. So far,
says KTRU general manager
Eric Sisson, the radio has only
heard from one licensing
agency— SESAC, by far the
smallest of the three
companies. SESAC wants
KTRU to pay $150 for the right
to play all the records they
handle for the upcoming year.
ASCAP and BMI, the other
two companies, are still
negotiating with the Public
Broadcasting System and are
reportedly not close to an
agreement. The contract these
companies reach with PBS is
expected to serve as model for
the thousands of individual
college radio stations.
Carl McDowell, Assistant to
the President, is the admin-
istration's expert on this
matter. "We're still waiting to
get a definite proposal from
the major copyrighting
companies," he said. He had
no idea how much the new law
would cost the university. He
expects to receive some
definite information sometime
within the next thirty days.
Until then, he says, "the music
thing is still very much in the
air."
-wunderwood
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1978, newspaper, March 30, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245367/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.