The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1982 Page: 1 of 24
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2 Watson fellowship nominees make
• v by Patty Cleary values when the rigid basis of a
The University Commmittee on culture has been destroyed."
/ Scholarships and Awards has Hunt hopes to spend part of the
I L/ selected seniors Richard Hunt, year with a youth group,
7 Max Laun, Lynne Thomas and examining values among the
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seniors
Max Laun, Lynne Thomas and
Reese Warner to be the Rice
nominees for Thomas J. Watson
Fellowships. The Watson
Foundation awards fellows with
$10,000 for a year's travel abroad
on the basis of individual project
proposals.
Hunt, a triple major in
behavioral science, political
science, and religious studies,
proposes to study secularism in
Japan. "In the four decades since
World War 11," he said, "there has
been a radical change in Japan
from a culture that was tied closely
to religion to one that has little or
no concern for religious values.
He explained, "I hope to
discover what becomes the
primary basis for viewing the
world and establishing morals and
young.
existing pockets of religous culture
and spend time in a Zen
monastery.
Hunt would like to spend his
final three months in Japan writing
a young-adult novel based on his
findings that would deal with
issues of the struggle for identity,
privacy and involvement.
Laun, who has a double major in
history and Russian, also proposes
to work with youth. He wants to
study children's athletics systems
in Romania and England.
"In the American culture," he
explained, "winning is everything.
I want to discover the roots of
competition and find out if the
capitalist system and Protestant
Work Ethic cause such
competitiveness or
universal attitude."
He continued, "Maybe the
American experience is a unique
one, but I'd like to investigate how
governmental policy affects
children's attitudes toward
athletics." Laun wants to
determine the pressures parents
and governments exert upon
developing children.
Laun continued, "1 plan to
coach children in Britain, which is
Below
Reese
(left to ri
Warner
ght): Rick Hunt, Max Laun; above (left to right): Lynne Thomas,
—C. Reining
becoming increasingly socialist,
and Romania, which is
Communist, and use the United
States as mv control."
I nomas, a double economics
and policital science major,
proposes to study democracy in
India and the effect of a nation's
elite upon its political heritage.
"I would like to explore," she
said, "an aspect which figures
largely in the success of democracy
see Final, page 10
1HRESHER
Volume 70, Number 12
Friday, November 5, 1982
INSIDE:
• We must export grain though our
people starve.
• Eating, breathing, living:
"A senseless dream."
•See communism, page 1-24
Holt reopens campo case, throws book at Berk
by Jeanne Cooper
Nearly ten weeks after the
incident, Proctor E.C. Holt found
junior Jonathan Berk guilty of
disorderly conduct and resisting
arrest on August 21. Holt levied a
$50 fine and permanent
disciplinary probation in a
judgement made late Wednesday
afternoon. The Proctor's decision
follows the September 28 dismissal
of the case by University Court
Chairman Jay Barksdale.
Berk had earlier joined other
Jones advisors and students in
removing chairs from the Brown
College commons and placing
them on Virgins' Walk early in the
morning of August 21 when he was
Alumnus
by Patty Cleary
In an effort to revive the Rice
Recycling Center, Noel Shenoi has
announced his intention to work as
a volunteer alumni director for the
program. The Recycling Center
has been inoperative since April
1981.
Shenoi founded the program in
1975. "By May of 1977," Shenoi
explained, "the recycling center
was handling over one million
pounds per year of newspaper,
aluminum and bi-metal cans, steel,
and elass and making approxi-
mately $10-15,000."
Shenoi maintains the program is
important not only because it saves
energy and resources, but because
it keeps the university clean and
can provide well-paying jobs for
students.
"While I was running the
center," he said, "profits went to a
fund for the recycling program.
Out of this fund we purchased a
truck for hauling and had a small
building constructed on campus."
When demand for newspaper
fell, the center was forced to close.
Interim director Craig Yeager
noted, "Last year all we did was get
paper from ICSA, but people still
left tons of newspaper."
Although interest in newspaper
recycling rose again in mid-spring
confronted by Campus Police
Officers W. M. Bragg and Carl
Chandler. With other officers, the
two arrested Berk under
controversial circumstances.
Several weeks later, the officers
agreed to leave the force. At the
time, Vice President for the
Administration William Akers
said, "We decided that these
officers were probably not the
most appropriate people to serve
as peace officers on the Rice
campus."
Berk submitted a letter of appeal
to the University Review Board
yesterday on grounds of
procedural error, erroneous
decision in view of evidence and
the imposition of unusual
penalties, points one, two, and
seven of Article VI, Section C of
the Rice University Code of
Judicial Procedure.
According to Berk, Holt
informed him and fellow student
Andrew Schwartz, against whom
all charges were later dropped,
during their first meeting following
the incident that the case would be
referred to the University Court
under Article III, Section B.2. Said
Berk, "He (Holt) told us only Jay
(Barksdale) could drop the case; I
wrote to Jay asking him to drop it.
Two weeks later he did, and then
the proctor pulls it up again."
Berk noted that under Article V,
to revive recycling
1982, Yeager kept the center shut
down. "The rates (for newspaper)
were only about half as high as
before, and I didn't want to open it
just for,a few months. It was too
messy—people had kept throwing
paper in, which caused the fence to
be in disrepair."
Shenoi believes the center could
be profitably reopened now that
the Mexican economy is so poor.
"There is a terrific demand for
cheap paper and the Mexican
government purchases much of it
from Texas," he stated. Although
it will be necessary to accrue new
clientele in the community, Shenoi
does not foresee any major
difficulties.
"The program is worthwhile and
can provide students with jobs and
eventually provide partial
scholarships from the profits," he
asserted. Shenoi urges students
interested in the program to
contact Bonnie Heliums in
Student Activities or the Financial
Aid Office.
Section H of the code, the proctor
can only affirm the court's verdict
and impose any recommended
penalty or remand the case to the
court for reconsideration of
liability or penalty.
Holt, however, claimed that the
court had failed to take action in a
responsible period of time and
under Article III, Section C.5 thus
had the right to remove the case to
his office.
Holt's claim sparked a strong
letter of protest from Barksdale,
who had already rewritten his
original report, which dismissed
the case, at Holt's request.
Barksdale noted that his own
decision was reached "after having
conferences with two of the
officers involved, both defendant-
students, their college master, and
several student witnesses." He
argued, "I feel that a period of four
weeks is a short period of time to
spend investigating a case that
includes one felony charge and
three misdemeanor charges under
Editor statements due Tues.
Students running in the
Thresher editor election (see p. 9)
should submit campaign
statements no longer than 500
words in length to the Thresher
office by midnight Tuesday,
November 9 for pulication in the
November 12 issue.
the Texas Penal Code. Also the
said period is well within any 'right
to speedy trial' laws that may
exist."
Barksdale concluded his letter,
"Therefore, I feel that you, as the
Proctor, have overstepped your
authority, and as a result, you
should leave this case and any
future cases in their court of
original jurisdiction."
Berk's second ground of appeal
is listed in the judicial code as "a
clearly erroneous decision in view
of the reliable, probative or
substantial evidence on the
record."
Said Berk, "No student witness
ever stated that I resisted arrest,
and all the witnesses stated that 1
see Berk, page 10
Elevators in need of repair
Idle Rice Recycling Center
—C. Reining
by Christopher Ekren
Virtually every elevator at Rice
has either broken down this
semester or is in need of serious
maintenance, according to
elevator technicians from the Able
Elevator Company, with whom
Rice has an elevator maintenance
contract. Several of Rice's
elevators are considered obsolete
by their manufacturers; most are at
best unreliable.
An eight-week wait for the single
Lovett elevator to be repaired led
Lovett junior Thomas Shirocky to
plan a sit-in at Planning and
Construction Director Ed
Samfield's Allen Center office. The
hiatus in service spurred a letter-
writing campaign as well.
Shirocky's sit-in, scheduled for
Friday, October 30, was rendered
unnecessary along with the letter-
writing campaign when the
elevator was fixed Thursday,
October 29.
In a letter to Lovett President
Paul Godec, Samfield labeled the
Lovett service outage a "great
frustration" to himself, blaming it
on a series of related equipment
failures. Lovett's elevator,
however, is only one of the many
campus elevators that have failed
this semester. The library's main
and service elevators, the
chemistry building's elevator and
the geology passenger elevator
have all been out for several weeks.
Samfield blames Rice's current
plethora of elevator problems on a
long history of neglect by Rice's
previous elevator maintenance
firm. Said Samfield, "The elevator
company we had in the past didn't
do too good a job. We just had an
"oil and grease" contract with them
which just called for a visual
inspection and minor maintenance
as needed. All repairs were to be
done at our expense. The previous
concern had no reason to do a
good job. We now have a full
see Samfield, page 9
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