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Seven colleges elect leaders; more races still to come
by Mark Bennlngflcld
The month of February is
notable at Rice for its elections for
various posts in student
government. Often those elections
spill into March due to runoffs,
reruns, and deferments of
deadlines for petitions. Seven of
the eight residential colleges have
cast their votes for offices within
the colleges. Here is a partial list of
newly-elected college officials.
Baker College elected: Joanie
Hastings, president; Ryan
Anderson, executive vice
president; David Park, education-
al vice president; Franz Weller,
chief justice; and Marcine Gibson,
treasurer. Class representatives
elected are Sarah Wayland, senior;
Katherine Fletcher, junior;
Michael Hogan, sophomore.
Current food representative
Madeleine Strum, who will turn
her position over to John Deuel,
will serve as Rice Program Council
representative.
Brown College elected:
Shannon Halwes, president; Rita
Mendez, internal vice president;
Andrea Martin, external vice
president; Anne Sparks, secretary;
Nancy Sitowitz, social coordi-
nator; and Kim Bresler, treasurer.
Leticia Fernandez will serve as
Orientation Week coordinator.
Alice Few as associates
coordinator, Migi McGrath as
Student Association senator, and
Linda Haugen as publicity
coordinator. Elections for several
positions will be held later.
Hanszen College elected: James
Medford, president; Scott
Bauman, external vice president;
Mark Butler, internal vice
president; Jenny Ettleton,
treasurer; Laura Wildenthal,
secretary; Matt Brown, chief
justice; and John Boyea, advocate.
Jones College elected: Greg
Roberts, president; Karen Kelly,
executive vice president; Terri
Fullan, associate vice president;
Heather Gillespie, secretary; T.J.
Bath, treasurer; and David
Dankworth, chief justice. Jones
elected Wade Guidry, Baxter
Montgomery, Charles Philpott
and Sandra Price as associate
justices. Stefany Cooper and Anne
Dessel will coordinate room
assignments for next year, while
Jessica Landisman and Jonathan
Kessler will coordinate Orienta-
tion Week.
Lovett College chose Chris
Kreidler as its new president, with
Randy Swartz as vice president,
Nick Poulos as chief justice, and
Steve Wilson as secretary. For its
coordinators, Lovett elected:
Stephen Bend, academic; Rosanna
Lin, cultural; Gene Vaatveit,
properties; and Rich Hooper,
social coordinator.
Will Rice College elected: Geoff
Orsak, president; Chris Hoffman,
vice president; Sandy Weist,
treasurer; and Lou Lopez,
secretary.
Richardson College's top
officers for next year will be: Gene
Shrock, president; Steve Tomkies,
vice president; Ted Adams,
secretary; Frank Markle,
treasurer; and Jeff Abbott, SA
senator.
Wiess College will hold its
elections after^2ilj2^J££lL™—
1HRESHER
Volume 71, Number 22
Friday, March 2, 1984
INSIDE:
• Expanding your Macintosh's con-
sciousness with Dr. Leary, page 12.
• Thought Kagemusha was tough to
say? Try Koyaanisqatsi, page 16.
• Yea, yea, sure buddy — and a Rice
team is rated in the Top Ten, page 19.
Winn wins top spot; editorial races remain undecided
by Greg Keaton
Baker College junior Tracy
Winn emerged victorious from a
hard-fought race for Student
Association president February
28. Winn collected 601 votes to 445
for Jeff Michel, a junior from Will
Rice College. In the race for
internal vice president of the SA,
Richardson junior Andy Crocker
defeated his collegemate Jonathan
Wolens 470 votes to 295.
Some of the other races were not
as cut and dried as the races for the
two top spots. The contest for the
position of Thresher editor ended
in a virtual tie, 511 each. The
number of write-in votes to be
distributed between candidates
Paul Havlak and Steve
Mollenkamp was less than the
number of discrepancies between
the number of people who signed
up to vote and the number of
people who actually voted. Their
race will be rerun March 20, along
with the races for which petitions
were not submitted on time.
The election for editor of the
Campanile yearbook caused even
more controversy. The SA
Election Committee decided
Sunday night to postpone the
election until March 20 due to a
complaint about Chip Clay's joint
campaign with Pam Truzinski.
According to SA Secretary
Steve Sokolyk, "Sunday night the
Election Committee met, at the
behest of Kristin (Merrigan,
Clay's opponent) to talk about
Chip's joint candidacy for two
reasons: First, the constitution
specifies that only one candidate
run; second, because there were
petitions altered and submitted
late.
"It was the general consensus of
the committee," Sokolyk
continued, "that the best solution —
well, 'best' is not the word for it —
the only solution was to postpone
the election and give Kristin a
chance to deal with a dual
candidacy, or even recruit a
partner, too, if she wants." The
election was effectively cancelled
for February 28, yet some colleges
inadvertently ran it.
"Kristin is still dissastisfied,"
Sokolyk noted. "She asked us to
reconsider our action, and so has
Mark (Meiches, SA president). We
scheduled a tentative meeting for
March 1 at 10 p.m."
Will Rice freshman Robert
Nevill, running unopposed, gained
the position of university court
chairman. The winners of the two
student positions on the University
Council were C. Chris Claunch
(senior from Lovett) and Darryl
Burke (sophomore from Baker),
defeating Baker junior Karen
Pieper and Baker junior Daniel
Lavin.
All three of the candidates who
filed for sophomore Honor
Council representative positions
— Patricia Perkowski, Susan
Lenamon and John Moses — will
fill the three available positions.
They received, respectively, 254,
254 and 248 votes, and there were
23 write-ins.
Next year's junior Honor
Council representatives will be
Leticia Fernandez, Richard
Torczon and Kevin Dowden,
pulling 209, 169 and 167 votes.
Paul James, with 141 votes, did not
make the cut.
Tom Turk led the pack of senior
HC rep candidates, with 219 votes,
followed by Michelle Schultz with
210 and Lori Swann with 209. The
election for the fourth position will
take place on March 20.
Dianne Nolting, unopposed,
gained the position of fifth-year
representative to the Honor
Council.
Will Rice College earned the
distinction of the highest turnout
among the colleges, with 60
percent of its members voting.
Richardson followed with 46
percent, then Lovett (44),
Hanszen (42), Baker (40),
Wiess (34), Jones (24), and
Brown (23). Overall, 40 percent
of Rice's undergraduates voted
in the election.
Subpanel convenes
Panel predicts computing to spread
by Paul Havlak
The Self-Study Panel on
Computing held the first forum on
its preliminary report in the Will
Rice College private dining room
last Thursday. Though the room
was full, this was not due to any
significant attendance on the part
of undergraduates. Despite the
lack of a significant audience, the
panel did discover a few areas in
which their report could be
improved.
Dr. Sid Burrus of electrical
engineering noted at the beginning
of the forum, "We're miles down
the road from where we were 10
years ago, but so far short of what
we need and what we could have."
There was necessarily a number of
see Panel, page 6
by Cheryl Smith
A record crowd of seven
undergraduates attended the
Monday meeting of the football
subpanel of the Self-Study Panel
on Athletics. Chairman Steven
Baker, a professor of physics,
apparently expected a larger
audience when he wired a
microphone for the open forum.
Regardless of the number of
participants, the panel heard
discussion on most of the issues
thought to be crucial to the
football program.
The first question from the
audience concerned Rice's ranking
in football spending, in relation to
other schools. Scott Wise, panel
member and comptroller, replied
that he had requested information
from Texas Christian, Southern
Methodist, Stanford and Baylor
Universities, and that information
is still being processed.
The next question regarded
alternatives to athletic competition
in the Southwest Conference.
Baker replied, "The Board (of
Governors) decides, and they have
decided we will be competitive in
the Southwest Conference. Other
conferences are not viable
solutions at this time." The
subpanel had decided beforehand
that this particular question would
not be pursued.
Since Rice will remain in the
Southwest Conference for some
time, a host of related questions
arose. The major concern of nearly
everyone present was whether it is
actually possible to attract athletes
see Football, page 7
Bacic stable after wreck
Members and guests of the Self-Study Panel on Computing
-P. Truzinski
by Scheleen Johnson
Andrej Bacic, a junior at Will
Rice College, is still in a coma
following a single-car accident on
the morning of February 3. Bacic
lost control of his BMW 320i on an
eastbound curve of Sunset
Boulevard near Jones College and
skidded sideways into a tree. The
vehicle hit the tree on the driver's
side, leaving Bacic with a "severe
closed-head injury," meaning that
the skull was not fractured. The
"three other'passengers,1 all Rice
students, escaped with only minor
cuts and bruises.
According to a friend of the
family, Bacic remains in the
surgery intensive care unit while
family and friends anxiously wait
for him to regain consciousness.
His condition is stable, and
doctors expect that he will be
moved to an intermediate care unit
in a few days. He has been
disconnected from the monitors
and is now being fed solid food. He
has also begun work with a
physical therapist.
Friends of Bacic told the
Thresher that he shows positive
signs of coming out of the coma
soon and that, as far as the hospital
earn tell, less severe contusions
from the wreck are healing
properly. Nothing can be known
for certain until he regains
consciousness, but members of
the hospital staff have expressed
general optimism.
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