The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1980 Page: 3 of 20
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THRESHING-IT-OUT
Anonymous letter asks
why no one speaks out
at Rice
(I received this letter in the mail
without a signature. I decided to
print it, in contradiction to my
normal policy of avoiding
unsigned letters to the editor,
because of the interesting
questions it asks about approval
by acquiesence at this university.
I do have to wonder at the
naivete of the faculty author of this
letter, whoever he or she may be.
Critics choose to remain
anonymous because criticism of an
administrative superior can have
bad results and takes nerve. To
imply that there ought not to be
any reaction from the recipients of
criticism, human nature being
what it is, seems foolish and silly.
Sometimes one does just have to
say what one thinks, and stand by
it.
I hope this letter's author will
take the time to acknowledge his
opinions for next week's Thresher.
—Editor)
To the Editor:
Since you quoted some of my
fellow faculty members anony-
mously, may I ask for the same
privilege in connection with the
Akers appointment:
It seems to me that Akers is
actually forecasting a further
enlargement of the already top-
heavy Rice administrative staff.
Some of the younger (untenured)
faculty feel that these high-paying
jobs will go to underemployed
older and tenured faculty
members. This, in turn will bolster
still further the need to again raise
board and tuition for students and
parents already hard pressed by
mounting inflation.
At a time when Rice, like many
other universities, appears hard up
for funds, it amkes little sense to
add layers of administrative fat to
an already overly staffed
apparatus.
It was also noted with interest
that your interview with
Hackerman appeared to take
Akers out of the presidential
contest at Rice, a fact underlined
by Akers' own quoted feeling that
he does not expect to be asked.
Does this, perhaps, indicate that
Dean Alan Chapman will indeed
become Rice's next president and
the first Rice alumnus (Masterson
I'm told doesn't count) to serve in
that capacity.
Getting back to the quite
excellent coverage of the Akers
appointment in The Rice
Thresher, one is startled by the fear
that animates people to be quoted
by name, including, of course, this
writer. This sets the Rice campus
apart from a school like Boston,
where faculty and student damn
the torpedoes, went fullsteam
aheatUwith their criticism of Mr.
Silbercmd his board.
Why is there this fear on the Rice
campus?
Would it not be a good service to
the school to go back to your
original contacts, without
compromising their anonymity,
and ask them to explain the
reasons for their reluctance to go
public with their apprehension
over the Akers appointment.
Is it possible that some of the
critics whose anonymity remains
secure hope to be part of the vastly
expanded "overhead" in Akers'
mushrooming authority. While
this may well be "all too human" it
also shows lack of ethics and might
well be worthy of further attention
by The Rice Thresher.
Finally, in the drawer of one of
the older faculty members in this
department is a copy of an issue of
The Rice Thresher from the
summer 1975, fully describing
faculty reaction to Akers*
appointment as vice president.
That newspaper has turned brittle
and yellow, but the faculty
reaction to Akers doesn't seem to
differ much from the sentiments
conveyed in today's paper.
(No signature provided)
Grad students
shouldn't field team
in College intramurals
To the Editor: ^
Recently it was decided by the
college sports representatives that
the Graduate Student Association
would be allowed to field a team in
the college intramural soccer
competition. While I enthu-
siastically support the committee's
intention of broadening the sports
opportunities available to the
graduate sudent, I maintain that
the decision was iss-advised. In
college intramurals, by definition,
the basis of team affiliation is that
Dallas
The Garland Division of E-Systems, Inc., located in
the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas, will be interview-
ing at the Engineering Placement Office January 30,
1980. We are looking for electrical engineers to do high
speed digital circuit design and for software engineers
to work with scientific mini-computer software
applications.
For an interview time with Bill Rolston or Dave Wylie
on Wednesday, the 30th, please contact the Engi-
neering Placement Office.
If unable to interview with us on campus, please for-
ward a copy of your resume to Tom Shepherd,
Employment Manager, E-Systems, Inc., P.O. Box
226118, Dallas, TX 75266.
E-SYSTEMS
Garland Division
An equal opportunity
employer M/F, H, V
The problem solvers.
of college membership, and
therefore random. The early soccer
season provides ample op-
portunity to form teams on any
other basis one might like; faculty
and clubs alike seize this chance.
College intramurals is for the
college members and their
associates, but the important point
is that this does not preclude the
graduate student from playing
eleven man soccer.
The relationship of the graduate
student to the college system has
not been clearly developed, but as
far back as the spring of 1975 the
committee of college masters and
the Dean of Undergraduate
Affairs had decided that graduate
students could indeed join the
colleges. In fact, the graduates
were assigned to colleges
randomly, without regard to sex,
and were free to pay dues at their
option. Of the thirty grads whose
names were sent to Lovett, two
expressed interest, but none
joined. The graduate student
should not be outside the college
system, atid continued effort is
being made to effectively involve
the grad in all that the colleges
offer. Graduate students should
not, and need not, compete as an
entity foreign to the college system,
as this will only worsen a situation
that is unintended and
unnecessary.
T.E.Case
President, Lovett, '80
DOONESBURY
good evening. today
the candidates for
president help a joint
! news confefencb to
, make: an urgent ap- h
a peal for national v
piscord. jupy wood- /
governor connally, i
wonder if you coulp
explain what prompted
you anp your fellow
CANDIDATES TV DECLARE \r
TODAY "DISUNITY PAY." '
Tjmtildi
SENATOR KENNEDY, PO I
YOU AGREE WITH YOUR i
FEUOUJ CANDIDATES THAT \
THE PRESIDENT HAS MIS^" JJ
- HANDLED THE CRISIS IN K.
I AFGHANISTAN'
i! I! i:
governor 8pouin, po you
think president carter
was right 10 rule out
a military strike to
free the hostages
in tehran?
/
gentlemen, all of you
haw- been extremely
critical of president
1 carters actions, but
; no one has salp what .
hewouldhave -
gentlemen, i won-
dsr. if h/e coulpre-
turn to the central
question posed by
disunity pay..
they call tt"disunity
pay." led by governor
john connally, the ma-
jor candidates officially
callepoff their self-
imposed ban on criticiz-
ing president carters
foreign policy. ^
WELL, I CANT SPEAK FOR. I
ALL MY COLLEAGUES HERE,
BUT I FOR ONE WAS SICK
ANP TIRED OF PRESIDENT !
CARTER TRYING TO COR-
« NER THE MARKET ON /
PATRIOTISM!
f
WEIL, IN THIS M0t>IENT0F
NATIONAL CRISIS. ANY
SECOND-GUESSING THAT I., j
ER..PERSONALLY. it/ITHRE- >
SPEC,T TO THE INTERESTS £
' OF PEACE. V''•'
absolutely not. n00pwn
should ever be ruled out.
especially in the face:
of a serjous threat to
the viability of star- _
ship .america.
each of you has implied that
some sort of direct military
action might have been in
order. does anyone care *
to go on the record as '
advocating mat?;
IF YOU HAP BEEN PRESI-
DENT CARTER, li/HAT
WOULD EACH OF YOU
HAVE PONE DIFFERENT-
LY THIS PAST MONTH?
GOVERNOR. BROWN?
charging that carter.
hap unfairly taken ad-
vantage of the ban by
rallying the country be-
h/np him, connally 5aip
he was "sick anp tired
of putting hostages /
aheap of politics." £ v\^7
THE SOVIET THREAT AF-
FECTS all OF US, ANP
I DONT BELIEVE WE CAN
HAVE A FAIR ELECTION
AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE
r OF THIS COUNTRY KEEP
\ UNITING BEHIND THE /
INCUMBENT1 <£'-
UTIMRi
MOREOVER, WTTH THE.. UH.
UNCHALLENGED SOVIET
THREAT THE.. ER..GRAIN
EMBARGO WHICH..UH.. AS
FAR AS STRONG LEAD -
ERSHIP IN THIS .
foreign poucy has to
be viewed as process.
under certain circum-
stances, a military
posture should be per-
mitted to evolve.
mr. pepfern, i'm afraid i
can't answer that question.
this time next year i ex-
pect to be president, anp^
ip rather not vp my
hanptothe
IF I HAP BEEN PRESI-
DENT CARTER I WOULD
HAVE GONE TO IOWA TO
DEBATE JERRY BROWN
AS I ORIGINALLY
PROMISED.
as* t?; ]
the call for pis-
unity is expected
to receive bipar-
tisan support
L_>
ALSO, I'M TER-
RIBLY CONCERNED
ABOUT THE AMER-
ICAN PARMER
f ME. TOO!
? ufv
TtMf. ■
NOUI, IN
a i'em,
SENATOR,
m NEED
A VERB!
!0 ht
607*.
| what sort
I! OF reaction
j :j time are we
| TALKING HERE,
|jj GOVERNOR?
/
SAME HERE.
ME, TOO-
SORRY. GOOP
- QUESTION,
THOUGH.
THANKS.
HANK YOL
ffl. SAME
QUESTION
I It/OULP HAVE
BEEN BADLY BEATEN,
OF COURSE, BUT AT
LEAST I WOULD '
HAVE TRIED.
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 1980, newspaper, January 24, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245427/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.