The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1979 Page: 4 of 12
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Street signs removed...
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and forwarded them to the Board
of Governors. The Board voted in
favor of the plan on December 7th,
1978. Custom-made signs were
ordered by Physical Plant Officials
and arrived last spring, according
to Pitman.
Although installation of the
signs did not start until the summer
break had begun, Pitman stressed
that the timing was not meant to
keep the plan a secret. "This had
nothing to do with school being in
or out," Pitman stated.
Pitman said that he and Brown
had considered consulting with
students on the street-name
possibilities, but had decided
against doing so because "the more
people you talk to, the more names
you're going to come up with."
Brown added that the streets are
part of the permanent plant, and as
such their naming should be
handled in the same manner as the
naming of University buildings.
"I'm as strong a person as any
for getting student opinion,"
Brown declared, "but the students
wouldn't be consulted about
naming a building. It was different
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for Willy's Pub: that's their space.
It would have been a big mistake
for the University to say that the
Pub should have been named The
Rice University Undergraduate
Pub.'"
Figures for the cost of the signs
were not readily available, but the
total amount spent on the failed
project ran to several thousands of
dollars, if one combines Physical
Plant man-hours with the actual
cost of the custom-made signs.
Physical Plant workers had to
install all of the signs during the
summer, take them down and
strengthen them once vandalism
began, put them up again, and
finally take them down for good
when it became clear that the
vandalism could not be stopped.
"Ever since I came here, I've
really been sort of appalled at the
outdoor graphics on this campus,"
Brown said. "The street names
were an effort to identify the
location of buildings and tell
visitors where to go."
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to learn." But at the same time,
Hackerman added, "your
education does not belong to you
alone. You are a member of the
greater society; your usefulness is
its purpose." Continuing in the
same moral tone, the president
added that students who find
themselves involved in changes in
the outside world, including armed
revolutions, will still find that their
education is valuable. "The
development of your mind is the
most important thing you can do
for yourself. That's a biased
statement, coming from one who's
been in education all his life, but
a ttzim that stales,.
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On-campus thefts...
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and that the keys to their padlocks
were not in general circulation.
Once again, laughing as he did so ,
according to Case, the
investigating Campus Police
officer proved that the locks were
regular-issue padlocks which
could be opened with a common
master key.
"I think we took pretty
reasonable precautions," said
Case. "It amazes me that there are
common, everyday locks on the
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other side of doors that they had
absolutely no security on." Case
added that the Campus Police had
no idea of who might have
possessed keys to the kitchen door
padlocks.
As to whether a student or a
Rice employee stole the stereo,
Case declared that "It's obvious
that one way or another (the thief)
had keys, and we can account for
our keys better than anyone else
can."
Pitman defended Rice
employees, reasoning that
custodians are always the first
suspects, but since they know they
will be so, they are less likely to
steal items. "You'd be amazed who
(the thieves) are," Pitman said.
you'll hear it for the rest of your
life, even after you're in the real
world."
Echoing earlier speakers,
Hackerman urged the students to
stay in touch with the rest of the
community, and to "learn for
learning, not for grades." The
president closed his address by
commenting on the graduation
ceremony: "If precedent holds,
you'll graduate on a warm May
afternoon, in front of Lovett Hall,
with the sun in your face.. .by that
time, we hope that the process of
learning by which Rice affects all
of us will have infected all of you."
"It's usually the last person you'd
suspect."
"The issue," Case argued, "is not
the age of the guy but how he took
it. We're concerned about the
policies that allow somebody to
roam around campus with a
master key."
In another burglary apparently
committed with the use of a
University key, $42 in stamps and
money was stolen from the Wiess
College secretary's office. "We
don't know how they got in. It
didn't look like anything was
jimmied or broken into," said
Wiess President Steve Bohannon.
Entry by a window was not
discounted by college secretary
Shirley Kirk.
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MONDAY
Chem. Lec.
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Bruno Bozzetto's
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1979, newspaper, August 24, 1979; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245409/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.