The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1982 Page: 1 of 24
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Beer-bike chairmen acquire stands, change rules
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by Jonathan Berk
Beer-Bike co-chairman
Brinkley Sprunt and Mohit
Nanda announced the implemen-
tation of rules requiring all bikers
to wear helmets, the acquisition of
spectator stands, nominations for
"chugging expert," and progress
on plans for an alumni race at a
meeting last week.
RPC President-elect Doug
Gardner also announced that
cycling champion John Howard
will speak in the Richardson
commons on March 31, at about
6:30 p.m.
Reaction was mixed to the rule
requiring all the bikers to wear
helmets for safety reasons. While
all colleges agreed to the rule, they
could not agree as to what
Grandstands have been acquired for this year's beer-bike race.—M. Gladu
constituted a safe helmet. The Brown College has in the past used
committee, much to Brown leather helmets and is now
College's displeasure, decided all required to spend about $150 on
leather helmets were unsuitable. new helmets.
The meeting then moved on the
proposal to rent spectator seating
for $1000. Wiess Bike chairman
Eric Bauereis assured the
committee that these stands were a
"great deal." He claimed that he
could not find a cheaper price
anywhere in the country. Rice
Program Council President-elect
Doug Gardner explained that he
felt he could ask the beer
companies to donate $100. The
RPC promised $300, and the
colleges will each donate $75. With
an assurance from the college
Beer-Bike chairmen that they will
provide the manpower to erect the
stands, the committee decided to
erect the stands.
Sprunt next asked for
nominations for a "chugging
expert." He will be a person
familiar with chugging procedure
who will coach the judges.
The committee finally received
an update from Gardner on the
progress of an alumni race. This is
a race between all the alumni of the
colleges that will be run just before
the women's race. Most college
chairmen reported that they were
not having too many problems
putting the teams together.
Gardner pointed out some
minor, but potentially serious,
problems that could develop in the
alumni race. The teams needed
cans and T-shirts, and Gardner
made it clear to the colleges that
they could be expected to provide
these. He was unsure as yet whose
bikes the alumni could use.
Volume 69, number 2§
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HRESHER
Friday, March 26, 1982
INSIDE:
• MacBeth, Contrast, A Little
Wight Music reviews, pp. 9-10.
• Meet Ricky Pierce. Rice's finest
eager talks about the game,
school and more, p. 16.
Crime surge plagues campus,
administrators seek solutions
by Joan Hope
A rape, two assaults, and four
instances of criminal trespass have
occurred at Rice since March 16.
The surge in crime has sparked
concern over personal safety on
the campus. Campus Police Chief
Harold Rhodes has issued a
campus-wide memorandum
urging members of the Rice
community to exercise extreme
caution whenever traveling across
campus and the administration is
currently studying plans to make
the campus safer.
On March 16f around 6:50 p.m.,
a Rice woman was raped'near her
car in the Allen Center parking lot.
The rapist was a black male about
20-years-old, 5-8, with a three inch
afro and acne scars on his face.
Campus police apprehended
Gene Howard, a 28-year-old black
male, possibly fitting the
description of the rapist on the
East Athletic Field near the gym
Friday afternoon. Howard was
later cleared of suspicion and was
subsequently released with a
criminal trespass warning.
A developing assault was foiled
on the third floor of Sewall Hall
March 18 when Rice Architecture
Professor William Cannady and
24 students from Political Science
Professor Gilbert Cuthbertson's
Texas Politics class captured 28-
year-old black male Gordon L.
24 profs promoted
The following promotions have been approved for 24 Rice faculty
members by the Board of Governors, effective July 1, 1982.
To the rank of Professor
Madeleine Alcover
Robert L. Bryant
F. Barry Dunning
Graham P. Glass
Huey W. Huang
Jeffrey Kurtzman
Gordon S. Mutchler
Michael Watkins
William L. Wilson
French and Italian
Mathematics
Space Physics and Astronomy
Chemistry
Physics
Music
Physics
Psychology
Electrical Engineering
To tenure at present rank of Associate Professor
Joe Dan Austin Education
Michael Fischer Anthropology
Walter M. Widrig Art and Art History
To rank of Associate Professor with tenure
Bernard Ar&u
Stanley A. Dodds
Tohru Fukuyama
Don H. Johnson
David Lane
Basilos Poulos
Robert Stein
To rank of Associate Professor
Richard Batsell
George C. Greanias
Elizabeth Sanders
Michael Underhil!
French andltalian
Physics
Chemistry
Electrical Engineering
Psychology
Art and Art History
Political Science
Jones School
Jones School
Politick! Science
Architecture
Smith who had assaulted a Rice
woman. Smith apparently asked
the woman for a cigarette, and
when she refused, he reached for
her pocket. She pushed his hand
away, he became angered and
threw her against a wall.
Cannady reacted when he heard
the woman scream. "I never heard
a scream so scary in my life," he
said. Cannady chased Smith and
caught him outside Lovett Hall,
with the class members not far
behind. The group subdued Smith,
holding two chairs over his head
until campus police arrived.
On March 19, the mother of a
Rice student, on campus for
Parents' Day, was walking from
the Tidelands Motor Inn to
Richardson when a black male
approached her, stuck his finger at
her chest and stated, "I have a gun,
give me your money." The woman
screamed, and the man ran away.
He has not been apprehended.
Criminal trespass warnings have
been issued to three other men by
campus police. Edward B. Walter
Campus police arrested a rape suspect near the gym last week. — M Gladu
and Greg Clark were stopped on
separate occasions in the Allen
Center parking lot. Reginald R
Ramsey, a white male with blond
hair and blue eyes was caught in
the library on March 18 after
annoying women for two days in a
row.
A man just released from
Hermann Hospital walked into the
Richardson lobby on March 19
and asked for a gun so that he
could kill himself. The man was
apprehended and taken to Ben
Taub Hospital.
Four ol the seven persons
arrested for criminai trespass were
living at the Star of Hope Mission,
a home for vagrants downtown.
Two were being treated by
TRIMS, a drug outpatient
program at Ben Taub Hospital
Campus Police Chief Harold
Rhodes, in his memorandum,
attributed the rise in crime to the
country's worsening economy and
the fact that many people are
moving to the Houston area.
The memorandum also suggests
see Fence, page 5
Petition handed to Hackerman
;
by Ian Davidson
A petition circulated last week
by students protesting the
administrative decision-making
process to convert Wiess to a coed
college garnered 876 signatures.
The petition, which stated in part
that, "The significant disregard for
the opinion of Wiess College on
this issue represents to us a
precedent dangerous to the well-
being of the college system," was
presented to University President
Norman Hackerman last Friday.
Not necessarily opposed to the
possible coed conversion, Wiess
member Jonathan Berk explained
that the signers of the petiton "felt
that it was wrong for the
administration to unilaterally
make Wiess coed without any
student opinion." A student
committee could be elected, Berk
suggested, to convey student
opinion to the administration as a
liason in the decision-making
process.
Wiess master Geoff Winning-
ham agreed, "I feel that student
opinion should be one of the major
factors in the decision-making
process; however, 1 do wonder
how many of those who signed
the petition actually know the
decision-making process which
they were protesting."
Winningham emphasized tht the
importance of the feelings of the
incoming freshmen in the decision.
"Over fifty percent of the incoming
freshmen at Wiess over the past
two years have stated a preference
for coed living," he noted. "There is
no reason to believe that next
year's class won't have the same
preference. Although it's
obviously impossible to include
these people in our polls, I feel that
their opinions should be
considered."
Factors other than student
opinion, Winningham believes, are
also important. "The opinions of
faculty associates-both present
and p o te n t i a 1-s h o u 1 d be
considered strongly." Also
deserving important consider-
ation, he stated, are "the
experiences of the colleges which
have already converted."
The petition originated,
Winningham believes, due to
faulty communication. "I feel that
many students who either wrote or
signed the petition were reacting
largely to the Thresher article of
two weeks ago on the question at
Wiess," he said. "That article
distorted several important points
on the subject and led to students'
feelings of being disregarded in the
process when, in fact, they were
not."
Hackerman expects to release
"an if-and-when decision within
two weeks."
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