The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1980 Page: 5 of 12
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Froehlich will accept nomination
SA's Tim Stout, Scott Froehlich, Jay Hebert, Joe Valderrama
-F. Woriey
Scott Froehlich agreed to let
President Tim Stout nominate him
for Student Association Treasurer
at the Senate meeting Monday
night. Froehlich had previously
resigned as treasurer because he
felt he did not have the time to
fulfill his responsibilties.
Nominations for the post of
S.A. Treasurer will be considered
at next Monday's Senate meeting.
Nominees should submit a
statement explaining their
qualifications for the position, and
the S.A. will select a Treasurer.
Nominees are asked not to attend
the meeting.
Daniel Hu captured the off-
campus senator position in
Tuesday's election, tallying 58
votes, over twice as many as his
nearest competitor.
In a move to strengthen the
Managerial Studies program, the
Managerial Steering Committee
has asked Tim Stout to appoint
two Managerial Studies majors to
the committee. "I want to make
any changes in the program serious
and deliberate," said Dean Tuggle.
According to Tuggle, the reasons
for the investigation of the
program are, first, the large
number of students in the program
and, second, an interest in
maintaining the integrity of the
managerial B.A.
The room improvement
program is about to be submitted
to the administration. Specific
proposals include a demand for
better chairs for Rayzor 110 and for
TexPIRG/news for consumers
By now, most people have
heard of the Filthy five — Dow
Chemical, International Paper,
Occidental Petroleum, Republican
Steel and Amoco — which
combine long records of
environmental abuse with massive
contributions to anti-en-
vironmental candidates.
According to Federal Election
Commission figures the Filthy five
had pumped some $350,000 into
the campaigns of 250 candidates
for federal office as of July 31,
1980. The total figure will be well
over a million by election time.
Certainly all of the contributions
were made legally. The
bothersome aspect is that the
monev is being used to unseat or
defeat candidates who have
established committment to the
environment.
For instance, in South Dakota,
Republican challenger Jim
Abdnor, who has received over
$8,000 from Amoco, Dow and
Republic, voted for environmental
protection only 10 percent of the
time between 1977 and 1979. His
opponent, Sen. George McGovern
(D), who had an 83 percent
pro-environmental record, has
received no money from any of the
Filthy five.
Similiarly, Rep. Bob Eckhardt
(D-Tex.) had a 96 percent
environmental record in 1979 and
has gotten no Filthy Five money.
His opponent meanwhile has been
given $4,000 dollars so far by
Amoco and International Paper.
In the 22nd Texas Con-
gressional District, which includes
Rice, incumbent republican Ron
Paul had received $2,500 Filthv
bucks as of July 31. Not
suprisingly, Paul, who is running a
close battle against Democrat
Mike Andrews, has a notoriously
poor environmental rating.
In the end the thing about these
donation that really stinks is that
the money spent by the five
companies fighting proen-
vironmental candidates and court
battles far exceeds the money they
actually spend cleaning up their
messes.
Further, while the donations do
not necessarily buy votes for the
contributor, the money does
purchase a portion of the
Congressman's ears. As for our
filthy Five, a desire to lease some
Washington ears is clearly shown
in the fact that in several races in
which the candidates are aqually
sour towards their planet our
nation's filthiest are contributing
running
for
to both candidates
office. Hmmm.
Since the contributions are
technically legitimate, the only real
solution to this scam is to demand
as voters that our candidates keep
their hands out of dirty dollars.
Only after we force our
representatives to answer to the
mandate of the people they serve
can we look upon Congress as a
great deliberative body rather than
the world's biggest office auction.
—Rick Hunt
desks for each seat in Hamman
Hall. Vice-President for
Administration Dr. William Akers
agrees with the general intent of
the program, although he has not
yet received any specific requests.
He will receive these after next
Monday's S.A. meeting.
Vikki Kaplan, a senior voice
major in Lovett, will represent
Rice at the Southwest Conference
pageant next week. The pageant is
sponsored by RS productions.
Kaplan was selected after an
interview bv an ad hoc senate
committee. S.A. secretary Martha
Craeger urged students to attend
the pageant being staged at 7 p.m.
Friday and Saturday night at the
Rhinestone Rangier off South
Main. The Pageant will be
broadcast October 26 on Channel
2, KPRC.
A variety of other business was
conducted. The establishment of
this year's telefund was discussed.
There were also discussions on
homecoming activities including a
bonfire and a dance November 7.
The senate is sponsoring a booth as
part of the American Cancer
Society's Great American
Smoke-Out, planned for
November 20. Smokers will be
able to take a no-smoking pledge
at the booth, which will he
positioned outside the Fondren
Library.
Physical plant moves to
eradicate mosquitoes
Seven bike thefts reported
Seven more bicycles "from all
over campus" have been reported
stolen in the past week, according
to Campus Police Chief Harold
Rhodes, bringing the total number
of stolen bikes on campus to 35.
The thefts are not limited to any
one place on campus, Rhodes
stressed. "They're looking for new,
nice bikes," he said. "They just
wander around until they find
what they want attached by a three
dollar Mickey Mouse lock, and
there goes the bike."
"We've got places for the bikes if
students would just use them,"
added Rhodes, who cited the
library, the biology building and
the RMC, all of which have the
special Citadel lock-up stalls.
Rhodes asked that students call
in to report any suspicious
persons, especially teenagers, seen
loitering around the bike racks.
No further information has
surfaced concerning the stadium
fires or the Jones-Brown intruder,
who has not made any new
appearances, Rhodes stated.
In reference to the rising cases of
assault on other Houston
campuses, Rhodes asked Rice
students to remain alert.
"We're open to the elements of
this city," he said. "Be aware of
what's around here — don't be a
sitting target."
by Cecile Closmann
Physical Plant administrators
have contracted Firestone
Exterminating Company and the
Houston City Health Department
to spray insecticides on and
around the campus in an effort to
reduce the number of mosquitos
now infesting the campus.
The action was taken as a result
of the recent city outbreak of St.
Louis Encephalitis, according to
Campus Service Administrator
Ken Williams. The disease is
carried by a certain mosquito
assumed to have overpopulated
Houston since the rains of
Hurricane Allen in August.
Firestone will spray campus
grounds on either Fridays or
Saturdays during the intense
periods of mosquito infestation.
The company will also spray the
infested areas on weekends of
home football games.
So far, most of the spraying has
been done around the open athletic
fields and streets surrounding the
campus. Spraying will also be done
around the Rice Memorial Center
courtyard and the marshy areas
around the men's colleges.
Williams credited connections
with City Councilman Lance Lalor
for the university getting the deal
with the city health department.
He said the spraying will continue
until the mosquito infestation is
lightened.
Ken Williams
—L. Rohwer
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1980, newspaper, October 16, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245451/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.