The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981 Page: 4 of 28
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Karen Strecker
Baylor forces rock
off campus radio
The administration's edict to
censor lyrics at Baylor could spell
death to rock 'n' roll on campus
frequencies. Last week KWBU,
Baylor University's student-
operated radio, was ordered to
cease its use of offensive, vulgar,
and sexually insinuating records
while on the air. The replacement
format suggested by the powers
that be was anything "less
offensive"—probably something
of the easy listening genre. The
Baylor Lariat printed a front page
story, attributing the decision
simply to "the administration,"
and interviewed Dr. John Belew,
vice president of academic affairs
at Baylor on "the administration's"
change in the format.
"We have responsibilities to our
constituencies, and since Baylor is
a denominational school, we don't
want to be seen approving the use
of offensive language. Just because
this type of language can be
printed it doesn't make it
desirable," he told the Lariat.
"To many students, this type of
explicit language is very
offensive."
Defending the university's belief
that putting an end to rock 'n' roll
music on KWBU-FM does not
constitute censoring. Belew
commented that "to most people.
censorship means having someone
standing over a publication, or a
radio station, and daily dictating
what is to be done, and waiting to
snip away anything that appears to
be violating policy."
"On the other hand, if you have
a policy like Baylor does, that there
will not be gutter words used over
the radio station, and in the
newspaper, then a person either
follows policy or he doesn't,"
Belew said. "So depending on
one's definition ot censorship,
some may call it censorship, while
others would see it as simply
following a standard policy."
The Daily Texan attempted to
reach Hebert Reynolds, Baylor
executive vice president and
chosen successor to president
Abner McCall, for comment.
Reynolds originally issued the
statement directing the change in
Baylor radio music, and although
he could not be reached for an
interview, a Texan editor briefly
spoke to McCall himself. In a
telephone conversation, he said, "I
have no respect for The Daily
Texan and no respect for their
editorial integrity."
Barry Kolar, a reporter for The
Waco Tribune-Herald and former
Lariat staffer, quoted Reynolds in
an interview as saying,
"Unfortunately, some people's
tastes (in music) are for sewage
instead of for a higher order."
After the ethereal issues of
censorship, free speech, religion,
and good taste have been
considered, there is still one very
practical problem left. Cindy
Sangster, student manager of
KWBU-FM, told The Baylor
iMriat that as a result of the
university's decision to ban rock
on the air, the radio station would
be left with several thousand
dollars worth of now unplayable
music.
Space physics gets grant for plasma study
Electron beam in magnetic field
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The Space Physics and
Astronomy Department has
received sizable grants from
NASA to study electron-beam
plasma interactions in the
laboratory and in the ionosphere.
Professor Hugh Anderson and the
Senior Research Scientist William
Bernstein head the research.
Bernstein explained that his
research will progress through
various stages. Continuing
preliminary laboratory experi-
ments have been conducted in a
laboratory situation in an immense
vacuum chamber at the Johnson
Space Center. "We will try to
understand what happens to an
electron beam when fired into
neutral, dilute gas, or into an
ambient plasma," said Berstein.
The goal will be to understand the
"collective wave-particle
interactions which produce gross
modifications in spacial and
energy distributions of the electron
beam" which passing through such
a medium. t
Further experiments will be
conducted in the ionosphere, on
board the space shuttle. The space
lab will equipped with the SEPAC
accelerator, which will inject
beams into the earth's ionosphere.
Berstein hopes that this
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"electron beams producing the
visible aura do not get completely
messed up and modified in their
spatial and energy distributions,
while generating intense radio
wave emissions. Eventually we
hope to understand the physics of
radio emission from the earth."
The plasma experiments, planned
for the 1985-86 space shuttle flight,
include Rice and five other
institutions. Rice has received a
quarter of a million dollars for the
research project by NASA and is
expected to receive a total of $1.7
million in grants in the future.
Finally, to test under conditions
of a thin, horizontal emission
region, instrumental rockets
payloads on board the small
Tomahawk rockets will be
launched from Alaska late next
year. The department will receive
$ 122,000 in grants from NASA for
the first year.
At Pre-Law meeting
Schwartz lauds lawyers
by Tom Morgan
Former State Senator A.R.
"Babe" Schwartz praised the role
of lawyers in America and
encouraged Rice students to
follow their lead in his speech given
to the Rice Pre-Law Society
Monday night.
Schwartz decried the decreasing
quality ;of other professions'
educations, commenting "Engi-
neers spend too much time
working slide rules to become truly
educated. Doctors are the same
way: they traditionally have been
the best-educated professional
people, but they have stopped
caring al out a true education; they
are becoming illiterate." Schwartz
continued, "Lawyers, on the other
hand, are constantly being sent off
in different directions and learning
more, whereas engineers and
doctors only learn more about
engineering and medecine."
Schwartz expounded upon the
role of lawyers, stating, "Lawyers
are what keep our republic from
becoming a tyranny. Nobody else
out there has read the constitution
woth the view that it was designed
for protecting others. We need
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re-election in the last general
election to James E. "Buster"
Brown, was the leader of the
infamous "Killer Bees" in the last
legislative session. His legislation
over a 20-year period has included
efforts to preserve the Texas Gulf
coast and the creation of such
institutions as the University of
Texas at Dallas and the University
of Houston at Clear Lake City.
Columbia prof to
discuss women
Joan Ferrante, professor of
English and comparative literature
at Columbia University, will speak
on the topic "The Education of
Women in the Middle Ages" on
Thursday, February 19, at
7:30 p.m. in Biology 131. the
lecture is sponsored by the
Departments of Education, French
and Italian, German and Russian,
History, the Dean of Humanities,
and the Office of Affirmative
Action.
Professor Ferrante will be in
residence on the Rice campus
February 19-21. She will meet
informally with faculty, under-
graduates and graduate students
and members of the Rice Women
Faculty Members Group.
Professor Ferrante received her
B.A. from Barnard college, and
her M.A. and Ph.D. from
Columbia University. She has
received several research
fellowships and written several
books and numerous articles on
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981, newspaper, February 12, 1981; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245463/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.