The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1984 Page: 4 of 20
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Presidential choice near
by Erin Blair
' Progress is being made in the search to
find the next president of Rice University.
The Presidential Search Committee, chaired
by Ralph O'Connor, has narrowed the list of
candidates originally compiled in June. It
expects to present a short list to the Board of
Trustees by the end of November.
In an interview with the Thresher,
Professor of Sociology William Martin, a
faculty member on the committee, said the
committee was making considerable
progress. "Our work isalmost over,"hesaid.
"1 announced our findings to the faculty a
few weeks ago, and 1 anticipate a two to five
name short list by Thanksgiving."
After gathering the names of twenty
potential candidates, inquiries about
appropriateness and willingness soon
thinned the ranks to a dozen. All candidates
interviewed with at least part of the
committee, and all on the short list have
visited with the whole committee twice.
"Everyone is very positive about the
Board's conducting of the search. Mr.
O'Connor has done very well as Chairman
and 1 expect to be very happy with the short
list," Martin said.
Martin listed qualities that the committee
sought in a candidate, which include proven
academic excellence. "Our next president
will be a scholar of some considerable
eminence," he said. "We seek evidence or
promise of administrative ability, too."
Martin said that the committee also
wishes the next president be a "person of
vision," which he describes as someone with
"some idea of where Rice should go or at
least an indication of its future."
The Presidential Search Committee is in
an exceptionally influential position, said
Doonesbury
Martin. "Rice is poised as no other
university in the country for a significant
improvement. We hope to acquire a
president prepared to take advantage of
this," he said.
Martin notes that as a private school, the
university has the flexibility to experiment
and take risks. "We are in no ways weakened
by advances made by other Texas schools,
yet we can't afford to be complacent."
Garland Kelley, a student representative
on the committee is also pleased about the
work that the committee has accomplished.
"We're at an exciting part now; 1 say exciting
because the candidates are so diverse
science, engineering and liberal arts people
from all over the nation, all excellent
scholars in their fields," he said. He
emphasized that there is "nothing
inevitable" about the disciplines of the short
list members, "they just happened to be in
those fields."
In order to better represent student
interests on the committee, Kelley spoke
with the Student Association, student
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P. Truzinski
unions and college cabinets. "1 asked them
'what direction do you want to see Rice go
in?' 'What qualities do you want in a
president?'" he said.
Kelley said that things have gone
"unusually well" for the committee. One
strength of the committee is the sense of
team work that is present. "The students',
faculty's and Board's opinons mesh," he
said."
Bond: Downtrodden lose in Reagan landslide
continued from page I
those who made between $35,000 and
$50,000, and 68 percent of those Americans
who made more than $50,000 a year thought
the President's policies should go on.
And finally, race. Race, more than
income, education or religion, determined
whether a voter wanted four more years or a
sharply different prescription and cure for
America's ills. On this past election, only 36
percent of white voters nationwide chose the
Democratic presidential ticket. In parts of
the southern states, fewer than ten percent of
whites voted for Mondale and Ferraro.
The class and race splits that produced the
President's re-election are frightening for the
future in what they portend. Walter
Mondale did win two landslides on Election
Day. He was overwhelmingly supported by
black voters and by those who earned less
than $10,000 a year. So when he lost, they
lost too. They and the other Americans not
represented in the majority that put
President Reagan back in office again. For
them, and for those who found themselves
on the losing side in poll results about
fairness on foreign policy, the next four
years are likely to be. frightening. They're
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going to produce four more years of the
national nullification of the needs of the
needy, the gratuitous gratification of the
gross and the greedy, of the politics of
penuriousness, prevarication, impropriety,
pious platitudes and self-righteous
swinishness.
Here at home, for black people, the last
four years have meant attempts to give tax
breaks; to segregate schools, opposition to
renewal of the Voting Rights Act and then
cynically claiming credit for its passage; the
trashing of the Civil Rights Commission;
turning the Department of Justice in a
society for the protection of white male
priviledges; halting the integration of
schools and housing; and the pursuit of
triage economics which has produced the
first increase in infant mortality rates in
America in the past twenty years.
Over these past four years, the
Administration has twisted, perverted,
abused, discarded and ignored the civil
rights laws which protect our people. Their
record in this field is appalling. It reveals
official lawlessness, a retreat from the
bipartisan policies practiced in the past, and
an ignorance of the laws which would be
frightening in a private practition. When,
however, the wrongdoer is the Attorney
General of the United States, the rule of law
itself is threatened, and an appeal is made to
the lowest and basest instincts of American
people. Since their first year in office, they
have been the violator of civil rights instead
of its protector; segregation's promoter,
instead of segregation's destroyer; the
politicians' Water Board, instead of an
independent enforcer of the laws... The
predominant theme in all these actions is the
desire to limit and restrict the remedies
available to racial minorities, to women, to
the handicapped, to the elderly, to others
whose rights have been denied.
The sum of these reversals has placed this
administration squarely against granting
and ensuring the civil rights of the American
people, as the law requires and the
Constitution demands.
If the ^4 election leads to any analysis, it is
that almost all blacks, most Jews and
Hispanics, some white women, and very few
white men agree that there ought to be well-
trained teachers in our schools, but never a
state-sponsored prayer; that the civil safety
net ought never be so fragile that a minnow
could escape or so porous it could not
contain Moby Dick; that ketchup has never
been and never will be a vegetable; that
missies, once fired, cannot be recalled; that a
world power displays weakness and fear
when it invades or subverses a harmless
neighbor through terror and encourages
revulsion when it supports the world's only
pigmentocracy; and finally, they agree that if
life does begin at conception, it surely does
not end at birth.
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Havlak, Paul. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1984, newspaper, November 16, 1984; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245575/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.