The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1980 Page: 10 of 24
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TexPIRG/news for consumers
Discrimination charged. ..
Last spring, airplanes applied
two pesticides— 2,4,5-T and
2,41) repeatedly to cropland near
several small towns in California.
However, much of the pesticide
drifted over the communities.
Nineteen of thirty pregnancies in
the towns resulted in miscarriages,
stillbirths, or deformities. A study
in Oregon suggests similar
occurences there.
In some instances, up to 93
percent of the presticides sprayed
aerially never reach the crops they
were intended to protect. Instead,
the chemicals drift over other
property. Thirty percent of the
pesticides applied by airplanes
drift more than 1000 feet from
their target.
This can have disastrous results
for neighbors, especially in areas
such as Houston where urban
sprawl creates fringe lands used for
Room, board rise $330.
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1! percent, and the increase in food
and gasoline is where the brunt of
it is. So, under the circumstances,
we'll be lucky to get away with 12
percent," he said.
"There should not be a change in
the quality of food next year,
though," promised Hackerman. "I
had the option of going below the
$2,520 and taking two chances. One
would be that we would overspend,
run in deficit, and then start having
the colleges pay interest on the
deficit. If this happened, the costs
would rise even more. The other
chance was that the quality of food
would decrease. But the recent
complaints with the cost-cutting
changes in food service proved to
be more upsetting to the colleges
than it's worth."
Hackerman was making
reference to Food Service Director
Joyce Rubash's recent budget-
cutting moves, which included the
cancellation of steak and shrimp
meals.
Said Rubash about the
President's approval of the
RCMAC budget, "We're still a
lone wav from where we need to
be. But I'm glad Dr. Hackerman
realized that with higher inflation
rates and student demands to
maintain the quality of services,
something had to give."
Hackerman worries that the
room and board increase could
deter some college prospects from
considering Rice University.
"There's bound to be a point
beyond which each individual
decides they want to come, and
that's one of the reasons I was
considering to take the loss and
run in deficit. But then I would be
putting the burden on the future. A
year from now we'd have to raise it
even more to catch up."
Concluded Hackerman, "I
dislike it very much, but the budget
that starts in July of this year has
been designed to at least maintain
the quality of both food and
housing."
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both residential sites and farming.
Friends of the Earth, an
environmental organization, has
requested joint action by the
Environmental Protection Agency
and the Federal Aviation
Administration to protect the
public. The group has requested
"■Required pesticide labels
ordering aerial appliers to receive
written permission from property
owners or residents within 1000
feet of the spray project boundary.
"■Requiring pilots to receive
sanctions against their living
licenses if they make a mistake
such as wetting someone's skin
with pesticide, destroying part of
someone else's crop, or spraying a
nearby house.
""Setting up a hearing system
within the FAA for spraying
victims to seek remedies if they are
injured by aerial applications.
*A ban on aerial spraying of
right-of-ways, since they are too
narrow to avoid drift.
If you would like to see these
rules adopted, write a short note to
the following officials and tell
them you support the Friends of
the Earth proposed rules on aerial
spraying of pesticides:
Doug Costle, EPA
Langhorne Bond, FAA
To: Seniors and 5th years
A complaint has been lodged
against the bank, claiming false
advertising of these accounts. The
bank has been cancelling these
accounts for people who have
made overdrafts, or any other
"unorderly" keeping of the
accounts.
Check your January statement
for any unusual charges. Also
check for the contract agreement
you signed to get the account.
Please call and report your
findings to TexPIRG, and give us
any problems or praise you have
for the bank's handling of your
account.
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A Taste Of
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"that's what they [the Department
of Labor] tell us," he said.
MacDowell would not offer any
opinion on the case and referred
the question to Dr. Hackerman.
Hackerman was not available for
comment yesterday afternoon.
MacDowell noted that "this is
the first time, beyond routine
reports, that we've been involved
in an agency with a complaint."
The investigation, currently at a
standstill to allow Director of
Rice's Affirmative Action Office
Eva Lee time to assemble more
materials for the investigators, will
probably not be complete for some
time. One professor reported
hearing from an investigator that
the investigation could take a year
to complete. When contacted by
the Thresher, Department of
Labor investigator Charles Rose
commented, "We really don't
know how long it [the
investigation] will take."
Many of Rice's female faculty
members come up this year for
promotion or tenure consider-
ation. Some of these professors
are: Deborah Modrak (Philo-
sophy), to be considered for
promotion only; Susan Clark
(German), to be considered for
tenure; Meredith Skura (English),
to be considered for promotion
only. Sarah Burnett (Psychology)
and Deborah Nelson (French) may
also be considered this spring for
changes in employment status.
Final decisions in all of these cases
are expected to be announced by
April 1 of this year.
Pass/fail change mulled. ..
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could be assigned retroactively for
any non-major course. This plan
would, for example, allow a senior
to declare four of his first-semester
freshman courses pass/fail if those
were his lowest grades.
Sid Richardson President
Hardie Morgan expressed concern
that some people wouldn't make
the Honor Roll because they
wouldn't use their pass/fails until
senior year, but the general
consensus was that the new system
would be much better for most
students.
"Are we worried about the guys
who are bucking for Honor Roll
and don't want to make a 4 in their
Ocean Motion course, or are we
going to worry more about the
freshmen who almost fail math
and decide to become pre-law?"
asked Lovett Senator Steve
Michaels.
"There's a heck of a lot more
people that we can help than we
could possibly hurt," said another
senator.
The proposal for retroactive
pass/fail status on non-major
courses is still in a preliminary
stage, however.
A straw vote at the end of the
meeting found 14 senators in favor
of investigation of budget
management in central kitchen by
an outside agency, with none
opposed and two abstentions. The
concern about the food budget was
spurred by Food Service Director
Joyce Rubash's recent substitution
of budget-stretching, low-meat
main courses for shrimp and steak
as dinner entrees.
Carrington named. . .
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other schools, and since all of
Rice's books are in one facility
instead of being duplicated in
several libraries, Fondren
Library's collection is deceivingly
small, Carrington said.
"If you went on a department by
department basis, I suspect we're
about middle range in size of
collection," he added.
Yet Fondren Library is by no
means at a loss for what to do with
funds—"1 could spend $10 million
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as easily as $ I million," Carrington
quipped.
Carrington felt that "the
University is doing all it can" to
combat flooding and rain damage
in Fondren Library. Roof leaks
and seepage have been reduced to a
minimum, he said. While most rare
materials have been removed from
the library basement, Carrington is
concerned that the art .library is
located there, and hopes to find
another location for the collection.
Theft.. .
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instructors, having asked students
to dump their waste salts in the
vats, planned to use proceeds from
the sale of the waste to help
subsidize purchases of Chemistry
Department supplies.
Possibly the phenomenal rise in
the price of silver over the past year
prompted the burglary. Busby
noted that silver nitrate, which cost
$22 per pound about a year ago,
now costs over $l 100 per pound.
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