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Humanities
by Jeanne. Cooper
The School of Humanities will
offer a three-course interidisciplin-
school to offer 3-course interdisciplinary program
Allen Matusow —C. Reining
ary program beginning spring of
1984. Working with Rice faculty,
newly-hired Franklin Lentricchia
from University of California-
Irvine will develop the program
over the next year.
Students in the program will
examine methodologies of
criticism during their second
semester of their sophomore year,
applying their understanding their
junior year in a year-long course
on the seminal works of Western
culture.
Dean of Humanites Allen
Matusow commented, "There was
a feeling in the division that while
we have a lot of excellent
professors and a great number of
stimulating courses, the programs
that we offer are fragmented.
They're incoherent; there's no
systematic effort to offer the
student an overview of Western
culture, or to introducee them to
the great works of Western
philosophy, literature and art."
According to Matusow, the
School of Humanities began its
plans to remedy the fragmentation
when it received an endowed chair
from the Lynn S. Autrey
foundation last year. uWe looked
for an interdisciplinary humanist
who not only had the scholarly
merit necessary for the position,
but also the commitment to taking
leadership in developing the
humanities program."
Lentricchia, whom Matusow
describes as an "outstanding
scholar," fills the chair well,
holding advanced degrees in twin
specialities of American literature
and critical theory, and having
taught in a similar humanities
program at UC-Irvine. He
furthermore has "a missionary zeal
to impart the humanities to
undergraduates," said Matusow.
Although Matusow noted that
"it's going to take a while to refine
the concept of the course," the
basic structure of the program has
been developed. Sixty second-
semester sophomores of all
divisions will be able to take the
methodology course, which
Matusow describes as "designed to
introduce students to theories of
interpretation." Lentricchia
believes the course will be team-
taught by four professors,
representing several disciplines.
"We want to introduce the
notion that texts are interpreted,
and to show how interpretation is
practiced in particular disciplines,"
said Matusow.
"I'm not sure you can teach the
critical spirit," said Lentricchia. "1
see Committee, page 4
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Volume 70, number 3
THRESHER
Friday, Ai>gust 27, 1982
INSIDE:
• Know your rights. Check the
Privacy Act summary, p. 5
• Greater Tuna shows Texas the
way it is, p. 6
• Meet Kris Wingeroth, swim
coach par excellence, p. 9
Herring Hall plans form new quad
by Patty Cleary
Preliminary designs have been
completed for Herring Hall, the
future home of the Jones Graduate
School of Business Administra-
tion. The projected cost is $7
million, and the 50,000 - square
foot building will be located across
the street from Wiess College, the
current site of faculty and Wiess
College parking lots I and J.
According to the plan of Cesar
Pelli and Associates, an
architecture firm based in New
Haven, Connecticut, Herring Hall
will be a steel and masonry
structure with a brick and stone
exterior.
The early plans show that the
three-story building will have a
two-story reading room with a
skylight on the west end and a
paved courtyard mirroring the
Ray Garden of the Rice Memorial
Center. A large lecture hall will be
located on the east end of the
courtyard. The long, narrow part
of the building which will face
Wiess College will have classrooms
on the ground level, administrative
offices on the second floor and
faculty offices on the third floor.
Student claims campo struck him,
arrested friend in late-night fracas
by Sumit Nanda
A Campus Police officer
allegedly struck a Rice student he
later placed under arrest, and
arrested another student acting in
the former's defense in a heated
incident that occured over last
Friday night into Saturday
morning The case has since been
referred to the Proctor's office.
The incident arose when the two
students, who wish to remain
unidentified, joined fellow Jones
advisors and other students in
removing chairs from the Brown
j^ommons and lining them along
officer tried to throttle me while
the other two grabbed by arm from
both sides, until I couldn't
breathe." When the second student
tapped the officer on the shoulder
and said, "I think you're out of
line," he was also charged for
obstructing justice. The student
also alleges that when he shouted
to eyewitness Jones advisor Max
Laun to get the master, the officer
replied that "You don't need the
master here."
see Proctor, page 4
The building will have two
entrances on both the north and
south sides.
Ed Samfield, Physical Plant's
director of Planning and
Construction, noted that the
building's design is compatible
with the architectural theme of the
campus' existing structures.
Herring Hall will create another
quadrangle with the RMC on the
north and Fondren Library to the
east. Sidewalks connecting
Herring Hall to the RMC will be
added. Samfield stated that both
the architect and Rice will
endeavor to preserve the trees in
the area.
The building's construction
budget is $5.3 million, with an
additional $300,000 allocated for
ultility connections and an
extension of Rice's underground
utility tunnel system. Mayan
Herring Hall model on exhibit in Far
Construction Company, a
Houston firm selected early in the
design process to provide cost -
saving suggestions, will contract
the job. A local architect chosen by
Cesar Pelli wili oversee the
construction.
Part of the projected budget
includes replacing parking lots I
and J. Ninety parking slots for
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Wiess College members will be
added behind the present Hanszen
College parking lot. Another lot
with approximately seventy spaces
will be constructed adjacent to the
existing RMC parking lot to
accommodate faculty and staff.
Groundbreaking is planned for
1983 with construction to be
completed in time for the 1984-85
academic year.
Honor Council airs grievances
Honor Council Chairman Tom
Pajewski will submit the following
letter to the University Council
today. The Honor Council is
asking that an ad hoc committee be
formed to study in particular the
role of the administration in the
Honor System and its relationship
to the Honor Council.
Although Pajewski cites a
"general dissatisfaction" and
presents data compiled over seven
years, the Thresher believes the
recent focus on the administra-
rgin's Walk. According to
Assistant Chief of Campus Police
Mary Voswinkel, a group of
officers Were soon dispatched to
investigate the incident following a
complaint from someone in
Brown. The students claim they
were met by the officers in the
Jones North Lobby.
The student who was allegedly
struck explained, "The first officer
asked everyone who was involved
in the incident to go outside, and
some students responded 'what
chairs,' in defiance." The student
claims another officer then
responded, "You don't ask the
questions, I do; I'm wearing the
uniform, not you." The officer
then charged that the students
were swearing at him, according to
the student, who claims he ignored
the officer. In turn, he charges that
the police were using rude, brusque
language.
The student says three officers
then took him between Jones
South and Brown House. "One
Plumbing problem inundates Lovett
by Jeanne Cooper
Plumbing problems in a single
Lovett College bathroom flooded
rooms on four floors and forced an
emergency removal of items from
basement storage areas last Friday
morning.
According to Lovett College
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Hastily evacuated items from flooded areas of lovett basement—C Reining
secretary Toni Paine, the toilet in a
fourth-floor Lovett bathroom had
been running continuously when it
began "gushing like a fire
hydrant." The noise from the
stream could be heard even in the
first-floor office. "It was just a
roar," said Paine. "I wondered,
'What is that?
Several students then rushed
downstairs to the office to report
that the water was flooding
everywhere and to request that the
college water be cut immediately.
The Orientation Week Lovett
population quickly mobilized to
move returning students'
possessions being stored in the
game and terminal rooms of the
basement level, which came under
two inches of water, to dryer areas.
Some confusion on responsibil-
ity for the damage resulted later
when a large group of new students
and advisors from Wiess brought a
travelling water fight to Lovett
set- Wiess, page 5
lion's part in the Honor System
stems from the president's reversal
of the Honor Council's decisions
on several cases of last year.
The Honor Council will hold an
open meeting to discuss this and
other issues students may w ish to
raise Tuesday. August 31 at 7p.m.
in the Kyle Morrow Room of
Fondren Library.
To the University Council:
c/o Michael Trachtenberg
In order to insure that the
Honor System remains an
important and dynamic force at
Rice it is crucial that the entire
University community speedily
accepts the burden of protecting
that System from any challenges to
i.ts viability.
Such a challenge now exists. For
years the relationship between the
Honor Council and the Rice
Administration has been difficult
at times as a result of differing
perceptions concerning the
question of what exact role the
administration should have in the
Honor System. Usually these
differences were resolved with
some effort by both parties. More
recently though, administrative
actions on several cases have
pointed towards an increasing
polarization of philosophies
concerning the role of the Proctor
see Verdict page 5
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