The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1984 Page: 3 of 28
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/bv Scheleen Johnson
Kansas State students
arrested following riot
Fifteen Students at Kansas State
University were arrested after a late-night
riot in a bar district near the university that
left seven police officers injured.
After Kansas State's victory in football
over the University of Kansas, between
4,000 and 5,000 people by police estimates
crowded into the area to celebrate.
The crowd apparently became excited
after a police officer was allegedly stabbed
by someone in the crowd. Witnesses said
that the crowd — mainly students,
according to the Chronicle of Higher
Education — turned on police officers,
throwing bottles and other objects at them.
The university will not act against the
arrested students until civic action has been
completed.
UT asks state agency
to help get rid of birds
We are not the only ones to have problems
with The Birds. The University of Texas at
Austin is having them, too. The birds —
mostly great-tailed grackles — are noisy,
social birds that recently have invaded the
northern campus, perching on large trees
and squawking continually. The many
women living in nearby dormitories are not
charmed by the serenade.
In fact, the women living in Littiefield
Dormitory are so irritated that they have
called the state anima'l control unit for help.
Pat Hohertz, the Wildlife Damage
Control Specialist of the Texas Rodent and
Predatory Animal Control Unit, told the
Daily Texan that they will drive the birds
away by using fireworks and recorded
distress calls of birds.
"Scaring the birds away is only a
temporary solution," said Ken Caskey, the
Vice-President for Business Affairs at U.T.
He stated that the Physical Plant employees
are studying the problem and will come up
with ways to control and contain them
"within the next few weeks."
CSU student charged
with shooting of prof
A Vietnamese student at California State
University at Fullerton has been charged
with murder in the shooting of a professor of
nuclear physics at the university.
Minh Van Lam pleaded not guilty to the
murder charge. The student said that the gun
had gone off accidentally while he and the
professor, Edward Lee Cooperman, were
playing with the gun. Minh reportedly had
THRESHING IT OUT
Mango: Owls deserve
more appreciation
To the editor:
It is enjoyable to go out and support your
team in whatever endeavor. Rice fans have
always had a reputation for being hardasses
towards opposing teams, a case in point
being any of last season's baseball games.
Rice students also pride themselves,
somewhat, on their intelligence. Well, 1
would like to address a touchy subject, a
sacred cow of sorts for many students, and
that is the football program. We have a
football team. Not like the Jetsons', with a
roster of robots and a coach controlling the
action from a sideline keyboard; no, our
team consists of players, fellow Rice
students, athletes, even jocks. A label,
however, is not a single-edged blade. If
they're jocks, we're wieners. Either way.
just bought the gun for protection.
Some investigators speculated that
Cooperman might have been killed because
of his involvement in scientific and cultural
exchanges with Vietnam. This was resented
by anti-communist members of the
Vietnamese community in Orange County,
California.
Vietnamese leaders discounted any such
political motive.
Colorado student group
calls statewide strike
A coalition of almost 50,000 college
students in Colorado has called a one-day,
statewide strike this week to protest the
financial plight of the state's public colleges
and universities.
The Colorado State Student's
Association, a two-year-old coalition
representing students at Colorado State
University, the University of Colorado at
Boulder, Mesa College, and the University
of Southern Colorado, said the strike would
call attention to the financial troubles of the
state's colleges and universities.
Tech faculty prohibited
to meet with president
A member of the Faculty Senate at Texas
Tech University called the decision of the
Board of Regents prohibiting Tech
president Lauro Cavazos from meeting with
the faculty "close to a declaration of war."
The faculty had requested Cavazos to meet
with them in an effort to restore faculty
confidence in him.
Eighty-one percent of the Tech faculty
Doonesbury
voted that they had no confidence in
Cavazos. This action followed the
unanimous approval by the Board of
Regents of a controversial new tenure policy
requiring teacher evaluations every five
years. Faculty members claim they were not
allowed to help formulate the policy.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution
asking Cavazos to meet with them at its
meeting on November 12 to "discuss ways to
restore confidence in the president."
Joe Peavehouse, Chairman of the Board
of Regents of Texas Tech, said that the
Regents do not feel their November meeting
is the "proper time" for Cavazos to meet with
the faculty. Pevehouse said that the
President is meeting once a week with deans
and department heads.
Evelyn Davis, president of the Faculty
Senate, said that the faculty members have
begun a letter-writing campaign to
Governor of Texas Mark White in an effort
to bring outside pressure on the board.
White will appoint three new Texas Tech
Regents in January.
The Board also passed a motion that
"confirms its confidence in the ability and
performance of President Cavazos."
The Faculty Senate is hoping that the
Governor will appoint three new Regents
who "are sensitive to the faculty and know
how the educational system works," Davis
said.
Nobel Prize awarded to
Harvard physicist
The 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics was given
to a Professor of Physics at Harvard
University, Carlo Rubbia. The Italian will
share the honor with Simon van der Meek of
Holland.
The award was given to Rubbia, said the
Harvard Crimson, for his research that
produced "clear evidence" of the subatomic
W and Z particles. Rubbia was the head of a
team that used a 2000-ton atom-smasher to
observe these particles, which are believed to
carry the long sought "weak force." The
"weak force" is, according to theory, one of
the four fundamental natural forces in the
universe, and it causes such processes as
radioactive decay as well as nuclear reaction
in the sun.
The award includes his halt of the
$193,000 in prize money.
Known as the "Swissair Professor of
Physics" because he shuttles back and forth
weekly between his home, in Geneva, and
Cambridge, Rubbia, 50. becomes the sixth
Harvard physicist to receive a Nobel Prize
Other professors from the nation's
universities to win Nobel Prizes include R.
Bruce Merrifield, a professor at New York
City's Rockefeller University, who was
named Chemistry Laureate for his ingenious
method of creating protein molecules in a
laboratory. He was the first American this
year to win a Nobel Prize.
Black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, a
visiting professor at the General Theological
Seminary in New York, was awarded the
1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of
non-violent stuggle for racial equality in
South Africa. He is the first black General
Secretary of the South African Council of
Churches, which represents 12 million
South African churchgoers, of which 88
percent are black.
Sir Richard Stone of Cambridge
University won the prize in economic-
science. His research focussed on ways to
integrate a government's accounts for
different economic sectors.
BY GARRY TRUDEAU
GOOD B/ENIN6. VICE PRESIDENT
GEORGE BUSH& MANHOOD PROB-
LEM SURFACED AGAIN TODAY, AS
CONCERN OVER HIS LACK OF
POLITICAL COURAGE CONTINUED
/ TO GROW.
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THE ECONOMY. BRA.
ABORTION. DEFICITS.
THESE ARB JU5T SOME
I OF THE ISSUES GEORGE
1 BUSH HAS REVER5ED
HIMSELF ON ID BECOME
i A REAGAN TEAMPLA/ER.
CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS, ALARMED BY
REACTION TO BUSH'S NUMEROUS
POLICY REVERSALS, HAVE PERSUADED
HIM TO TAKE SWIFT ACTION TO PRE-
VENT FURTHER EROSION OF HIS
/ BELIEFS.
10 SHELTER WHAT REMAINS
OF HIS CONVICTIONS, BUSH
IS ABOUT 10 F0RMALEY PLACE
HI5 POLITICAL MANHOOD IN
A BUND TRUST. AND HERE
COMES THE VICE PRESIDENT
NOW ^
ACCORDINGLY, IN A
WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY
TODAY. BUSH WILL FORMALLY
PLACE HIS EMBATTLED
MANHOOD IN A BUND TRUST
IT UJILL BE RESTORED 70
HIM ONLY IN TfMES OF
NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
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P/ZZSIPENT1
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pf&SlPENT!
YES.,
ROLAND?
SIR, WILL
YOUR MAN- VERyUTTLE.
HOOD BE THERE'S NOT \
EARNING THAT MUCH j
INTEREST? CAPITAL I
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TODAY I AM FORMALLY PLACING
MY MANHOOD IN A BUND TRUST
SO THAT I CAN CONTINUE TO
SERVE RONALD REAGAN WITHOUT
COMPROMISING
MYSELF. ^
I TURN OVER MY MANHOOD WITH
GREAT RELUCTANCE. AS I TOLD
WALTER MONDALE, TD LAY MY
RECORD ON MANHOOD UP AGAINST
HIS ANYDAY<
MR. VICE PRESIDENT, FOR
THE RECORD, COULD YOU
TELL US JUST WHAT YOU
MEAN BY1MANHOOD'?
WELL. ACCORD
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AMERICAN
HERJTAGE
DICTIONARY..
X
THAT'S OKAY,
SIR, T CAN
LOOK IT UP
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Havlak, Paul. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1984, newspaper, November 2, 1984; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245573/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.