The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1984 Page: 1 of 24
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Students to get a chance to improve on-campus food
by Dave Collins
Rice's Food Committee has
announced that it will sponsor a
recipe contest this spring. The
event will give students a chance to
improve the taste and variety of
Rice's college food.
Baker College food rep
Madelein Strum, first informed
the Thresher of the plans Sunday
night. Andrea Neighbors, the
representative from Hanszen
College, then sent a memo listing
all the details of the contest.
Students may enter recipes in
one or more of four categories:
dinner entree, lunch entree, veggie
entree, and dessert. The winners
will receive special T-shirts, and
their recipes will appear on the
menu during the second week after
midterm recess. According to the
memo, "Your college food reps
will judge the recipes themselves,
based on criteria of taste,
appearance, cost, and ability to be
mass produced."
Strum mentioned that cost was a
necessary factor in deciding the
winners. "If it were up to the food
reps, we'd all pick lobster," she
declared. "But that would cost too
much to serve to everybody."
Lobster, of course, is notably
absent from the cycle of dinner
entrees.
Strum sees the contest as a step
toward improving the quality of
Rice's food, prompted by
perennial complaints from
students. Though part of the blame
for sub-standard food rests with
the system of trucking it from
Madelein Strum —P. Truzinski
Central Kitchen to the eight
.olleges, Strum said the kitchen
staff also contribute to the
reduction in quality from
optimum. "Bonnie (Horton, chief
dietician since 1982) has been
standing over them and telling
them, for example, not to put so
much butter in things, and they
say, 'Right,'and do it anyway. The
kitchen workers just don't like to
be told how to do things."
The food reps claimed sole
responsibility for instituting the
contest at Rice, though other
universities, such as Stanford,
have staged similar events. The
idea emerged with neither the
advice nor consent of Joyce
Rubash, director of the College
Food Service. "In fact," said
Strum, "1 called a special meeting
of the food reps last week, without
Joyce, to devise the rules."
So far, the committee has not
chosen a design for the winners' T-
shirts, Strum said. The shirts will
likely bear some kind of message as
"1984 Rice Recipe Contest
Superchef," but nothing beyond
that is certain as of this writing.
Strum has, however, received
suggestions to hold a contest
similar to the Rice Art T-shirt
design contest.
To enter the recipe contest, as
Neighbors' memo directs, "Just
submit your recipe either to
Central Kitchen, your food rep, or
the recipe box in your college
office. Make sure you include your
T-shirt size, the category in which
you wish to enter your recipe, and
your name on a separate envelope
or paper stapled to the recipe so it
may be judged unbiasedly."
Recipes are due by February 24.
ZE
1HRESHER
Volume 71, Number 19
Friday, February 10, 1984
INSIDE:
• Alumni trip to South Africa
does not go unnoticed, page 10.
• Sewall Gallery exhibit offers a
glimpse of the past, page 12.
• Owls continue their erratic ways -
winning here, losing there, page 18
Top firms compete for Rice personal computer market
by Brock Wagner
With one deal signed and
secured and another one being
examined, the market for
affordable computers has opened
up to Rice. While the
administration signed a contract
with Apple Computer Company,
IBM approached the university
with a deal of its own.
Now members of the Rice
community have the opportunity
to purchase an Apple Macintosh®
for just over $1000 and an Apple
Lisa® at a comparable discount.
But beyond just the purchasing ot
computers, Rice's outlook and
approach in dealing with
computers is in a process of
change.
The morning of February 3,
students, staff and faculty
members began signing up to order
Apple Macintosh computers for
purchase; by that afternoon, the
waiting list was already over one
hundred names long in spite of the
limited supplies that will be
available early.
A letter issued Wednesday,
Sallyport editor resigns
by Patty Cleary
Virginia Hines, editor of the
Alumni Association's publication
Sallyport, will resign her post
following production of the
February issue. A 1978 Rice
graduate, Hines has headed the
Sallyport operation since
Septmenber, 1981, and cites poor
pay and lack of challenge as her
primary reasons for leaving.
"Rice's policy," claimed Hines,
"is typically to hire someone young
who has little experience and not
pay that person very well. You get
a lot of experience very quickly,
but Rice doesnt give you merit
increases." The Sallyport, which
appears five times each year, has
had three editors in the past ten
years.
The only full-time staff member
on the Sallyport, Hines has two
student assistants and a budget to
hire freelance writers. According
to Hines, there is pressure from the
Alumni Publications Committee,
which oversees the Sallyport, to
publish something more akin to a
newspaper. Committee chair-
woman Patti Simon stated that her
committee is simply interested in
bringing items of interest to the
attention of alumni readers.
"At the same time," Hines
averred, "I work in Information
Services and receive pressure there
to make Rice look good to the
exclusion of anything resembling
controversy. Their job is public
relations." Hines feels that there
needs to be a balance between
covering topical news stories on
campus and advertising Rice.
She further argued that the aims
of the Alumni Association, the
Development Office and
Information Services conflict.
"They have very few goals in
common," she stated. "It would be
useful for the Sallyport editor if
they would get together and
February 1 alerted all of the people
who attended the initial
demonstrations and showed
interest in purchasing a computer
to the time and date for signing up,
as well as all of the particulars of
the deal. Until 2 p.m. that Friday,
people who had attended the
demonstrations received priority;
after that time it continued on a
first come, first served basis.
Details given in the letter
included information about the
background of the 24-schoo!
consortium participating with
Apple and stressed restrictions
such as, "Purchasers of the
Macintosh system must be full-
time faculty, staff, or students at
Rice University."
Apple also limited the amount
of discounted Macs available to
one per person, adding that "the
Priscilla Huston —P. Truzinski
purchase is intended for personal
use and should not be resold to a
third party." The letter also
detailed prices, the 20 percent
deposit necessary, software
support, and service information.
Anyone wishing to obtain this
letter may pick up a copy in the
president's office, room 203 Lovett
Hall.
Just as the Apple deal went into
effect. International Business
Machines Corporation, with
timing that seemed more than
coincidental, gave Rice its own
proposition for discounts on the
IBM Personal Computer®.
Although nothing about the
agreement has been finalized or
announced, Rice may offer IBM
and Apple systems with discounts
to the Rice community. As
Assistant to the President Carl
MacDowell stated, "Rice would
not execute an exclusive
agreement."
IBM has introduced several
see ICSA, page 9
Panel addresses undergrad needs
Virginia Hines
-P. Truzinski
outline some common goals."
Immediately after the
publication of the February issue,
Hines plans to go the Italy to relax
and possibly to do some freelance
writing. She then hopes to pursue
job opportunities in New York and
Washington, D.C.
"I'm ready to move on," she
concluded. "I've learned all that I
can learn. I'm ready for a job with
more challenges and greater
rewards.
by Shelina Shariff
On February 7, the Self-study
Panel on Undergraduate
Education met in Wiess College
Commons. About 15 faculty
members and seven students
discussed a wide range of issues.
Discusssion centered around what
kind of education a degree from
Rice should represent. Fears that
many Rice students lack basic
writing skills, do not have fluency
in a foreign language and are
mathematically illiterate were
vehemently voiced.
Wiess master Geoff Winning-
ham, a spectator at the meeting,
said that Rice has an admissions
image problem. "Rice is
recommended to very bright
students going in for math science
or computer science or engineering
by high school counselors, but the
counselors never recommend their
humanities students to come here."
Dr." William Martin of the
sociology department and other
panel members concurred.
Winningham then complained
that some departments are
^.ainetically underfunded. "This is
not affected by student
enrollment," he said. "There is a
lack of incentive for faculty to
excel at teaching, to try and do
better."
The discussion then centered on
how expensive it would be to make
improvements. One student
objected, "How do we not have the
money? We have the highest
endowment per student. Why do
we have to be so poor?" The panel's
reply was that Rice "does not have
students gravitate to fields where
there are jobs." Thus the
departments of engineering have
grown. "These are marketplace
realities which the university
doesn't offset," said Hudspeth.
Dr. Stephen Baker of physics
remarked that the colleges should
be involved in a more central way
in undergraduate teaching, citing
Yale as an example. He said that
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The Panel on Undergraduate Affairs
bagfuls of money" and has ,to
conserve some of its endowment
for the^future.
Dr. C.M. Hudspeth of political
science remarked that while efforts
have been made in the admissions
process to create more variety in
the student body, "the best
and guests —P. Truzinski
there could be classrooms in me
colleges, where tutorials could be
conducted. The Institute for
Computer Services and Applica-
tions could install computers in the
colleges for students. This last
remark seemed to meet with
see Panel, page 8
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