The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980 Page: 1 of 16
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Bike track repairs made
by Allison Foil
Last-minute repair work was
done yesterday on the stadium lot
race track to be used this Saturday
for the annual Rondelet Beer-Bike
Race. Campus Business Manager
Russ Pitman said that he had
requested that the patching work
be done last week, but due to
delays in the Buildings and Grounds
Department, the repairs were
rescheduled for today. Because the
Beer-Bike Race is this weekend,
however, Physical Plant
Administrator Russ Sullivan
arranged for a crew to lay out the
asphalt a day early.
Although bike team captains
said that they were glad for the
renovation, many expressed
concern about the general
condition of the track.
"They need to resurface the
whole thing," said Will Rice Bike
Team Captain Walter Romanko.
"The track's been in real bad shape
for at least the last three years."
This is not the first year of
problems with repair of the track
Romanko said. Last year, the bike
captains went before Building and
Grounds officials, asking that they
repair the track. When B&G
refused, some captains went to
their college governments and
asked for money to repair the track
privately. Finally, a week or two
before the race, when they found
out what we were going to pay
ourselves, B&G repaired the track
themselves," Romanko said.
Romanko added that B&G
workmen have been very helpful
with patching the track this year,
once they got started.
Some problems in Rice's Beer-
Bike track are inherent, however.
Baker biker Kevin Golden was
injured in a accident Tuesday
involving a manhole cover situated
see Beer-Bike, page 5.
Brown & Root workman flattens asphalt patches on track —Wayne Derrick
1HRESHER
Volume 67, number 31
Thursday, April 10, 1980
INSIDE:
• Baylor's at it again. See Beyond
the Hedges, p. 2.
• Violence in Houston: does it
come with the territory? p. 4.
• DeeDee Ramone still wants to be
a pinhead. We think, p. 8.
Proctor Holt approves Honor Council revisions
by Richard Dees
Proctor E.C. Holt approved last
week the proposed changes in the
Honor Council Constitution,
bylaws and procedures, including
a proposal to restructure the
appellate process.
Procedural changes will become
effective immediately, while
constitution and bylaws must pass
an April 17 vote of the student
body before taking effect. A three-
fourths vote of the students is
required for passage.
Holt, in an April 3 memo-
randum to Honor Council
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Proctor E.C. Holt (left) and Steve Schooner
Protests renovations
-Bruce Davies
Chairman Vince James, said the
changes had "my wholehearted
approval and I think they will
improve the operation of the
Honor Council in the future."
Under the changes in the appeals
procedures, an appellate board,
consisting of three council
members who had not previously
heard the case being appealed, will
be appointed by the chariman for
each appeal as it is received. A
statement of the appellant offering
explanations of defense or rebuttal
will be made available to the
board, as well as a statement by the
chairman summarizing the
testimony of the witnesses and the
decisive factors in the council's
verdict, any material evidence, and
the transcripts of the trial.
Two votes will be required
to grant an appeal. The
board will have the power, as does
the current appellate body, to
reverse the decision of the council,
lessen (but not increase) a penalty,
or to dismiss the case on the
grounds of procedural error or
defective deliberation.
The current appellate body is a
quorum of ten council members of
which two-thirds must vote to
uphold a verdict and a simple
majority must vote to appeal on
any other grounds.
Therefore, before the changes,
at least four of ten votes were
required to grant an appeal.
Charles Mays, new senior
representative, said,"Although
one of three seems close to that, to
do that would require unanimity
twice." Mays argued that requiring
only one vote to grant an appeal
would make one council member
as powerful as the proctor or the
president (to whom final appeals
are made). "One Honor Council
member does not equal a proctor
or a president," he said.
Sophomore Representative
Steve Schooner, principal author
of the new appeal procedures, said
the procedures would give the
appellant "phenomenally more
rights. He is given much more
opportunity to get an appeal
granted." He explained that the
appellant is now given the
opportunity to rebut any
statements made ir. the final
summary by the chairman and
see Honor, page 7.
Wenkert goes West
Petition on Quad circulating
by Pam Pearson
Two Jones seniors are
circulating petitions expressing
"strong disagreement" over the
renovation of the Academic
Quadrangle. The two hope to
change the present administration
stance on grounds renovation,
which precludes any regular
student input in B&G decisions.
The authors of the petition.
Susan Smiley and former Jones
President Susan Lopez, want the
petition to address the more
general problem of lack of student
participation in planning, as well
as to the more immediate problem
of the Quad's hedges.
Lopez and Smiley hope to
present the petitions to
Undergraduate Affairs Dean
Katherine Brown later this week.
As of Wednesday several hundred
people had signed.
"It was the way the University
ignored having a student in on this
that angered them," said Lopez.
Lopez stressed that with Rice's
tradition of having students serve
on many standing committees, no
reason exists for the exclusion of
students' opinion on the Quad
matter.
"It's inconsistent," she charged.
"They're doing this differently
than they're doing anything else."
The Quad is one of the centers of
campus life at Rice, added
Smiley. "It's not like it's not
important to us. It is important
and I'm mad."
The two asked that anyone
interested in signing a petition
contact Lopez or Smiley in room
202 Jones South, or call 526-7324.
The petition reads, "The
decision to 'renovate' the
Academic Quadrangle was made
without any student input, yet
represented a major break from
tradition. We strongly disagree
that Buildings and Grounds
matters outside the colleges are not
of our concern since we are
primarily affected by these
decisions."
"Admittedly," the petition
continues, "the administration
does not need our input on every
see Petition, page 6.
"We've gotten a lot of compliments on the openness." —Campus Business
Manager Russell Pitman, August 30, 1979, on Rice's de-hedged track
stadium perimeter. —Bruce Davies
by Mark Winstein
Dr. Ernest Wenkert will leave
his post at Rice University at the
end of August, the Thresher has
learned. Wenkert is presently
chairman of the Chemistry
department and has held the E.D.
Butcher Professorship since his
arrival at Rice in 1973.
Professor Edward S. Lewis will
take over Wenkert's chairmanship,
University President and
Chemistry Professor Norman
Hackerman indicated. But
"There'll be no rush" to find a
replacement for the Butcher chair,
Hackerman added.
"We're sorry to lose an
internationally-known scholar,''
Hackerman told the Thresher.
Wenkert received his Ph.D. at
Harvard and has taught in France,
New Zealand, and Israel as will as
at several American institutions.
Wenkert's lectures have taken
him to almost every continent.
Among other achievements, he is a
member of the Swiss Chemical
Society and the comite do
Direction, 1'Institut de Chemie des
Substances Naturelles in Gif-sur-
Yvette, France. Presently the
professor is responsible for
monitoring the quality of organic
chemistry programs at universities
in India.
Wenkert preferred not to discuss
the motivations behind his move to
the University of California at San
Diego in La Jolla. He said that
Rice had been very good to him
and that he made the decision for
what he termed "personal
reasons."
Dr. Ernest Wenkert —Bruce Davies
Hackerman indicated that
geography was a strong factor in
Wenkert's decision to leave Rice.
"There's not much we can do about
putting Rice in San Diego," the
president commented.
Sources in the chemistry
department suggested, however,
that better equipment would be
available for Wenkert at La Jolla.
The same sources also confirmed,
however, that La Jolla's California
location gave it a definite edge
over Rice, regardless of any
improvement of equipment or
salary which Wenkert may have
been offered.
As the new Chemistry chairman,
Lewis will head a search for a
successor to Wenkert's Butcher
professorship. "It's a University
chair" Hackerman said, "but it'll
probably stay in the Chemistry
department."
Hackerman felt that Wenkert's
greatest contribution had been the
recruiting of talented, young
chemists for Rice's Chemistry
department.
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980, newspaper, April 10, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245438/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.