The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1985 Page: 7 of 32
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Goalposts no longer guarded by Harris Co. deputies
Students carry goalpost after TCU game
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However, they said Southwest
Conference regulations require
police to be stationed on the
sidelines, and the campus police
force cannot provide all the needed
personnel.
According to Athletic
Department representative Steven
Moniaci, officers were positioned
in the end zones .after the TCU
game to provide a "visual
deterrent" to attacks on the
goalposts.
However, he said, the policemen
were told to "back off" if students
actually reached the goalposts, and
they were specifically instructed
not to pull their clubs.
Moniaci admitted that this was
not what actually happened.
After the TCU victory students
poured onto the field and headed
for the north end of the stadium,
where six Harris County officers
were stationed.
The crowd attempted to pull
down the stadium's north
goalposts, but they were
unsuccessful, in part, said
Moniaci, because the uprights had
been re-welded and strengthened
during repairs after the Lamar
game.
Hanszen College Master
Richard Smith, who was on the
field at the time, was able to
convince the students to abandon
their efforts, but not before several
had come into scuffles with police
officers.
Junior Guy Hardin, one of those
involved in the TCU incident, told
the Thresher that in the north end
zone officers simply tried to
remove students from the
goalposts. "There was no punching
or fighting — they were just trying
to get us off the goalposts, as they
had after the Lamar game."
A group next rushed to the
south end of the stadium, where,
according to Hardin, students
encountered officers who had "a
very different attitude."
"Until then it was almost like a
game, to see who wins," he said.
"At the south end it was like war."
Senior Kurt Manweiler suffered
a gash on his leg while trying to
rush the south goalpost. The cut
was stitched at Park Plaza
Hospital and he was released the
same day.
Manweiler was injured, he told
the Thresher, by a Harris County
officer "swinging a nightstick."
"He hit me two or three times on
the knee, then I saw him hit other
people too," said Manweiler.
He continued, "We weren't
threatening or yelling at them, just
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going for the goalposts. The officer
was 6'2" tall and 300 pounds — he
didn't need a nightstick to defend
himself."
President George Rupp visited
Manweiler that evening to inquire
about his condition.
Hardin suffered a blow to the
ribs while "hanging from the
goalpost," he said. Harding said he
read the badge number of the
deputy who hit him, 582, "while he
held me by the throat." He also
said that the man who injured
Manwiler wore badge number601.
Although the athletic-
department claims to have given
Harris County officers explicit
inst ructions about the use of force.
Moniaci said those instructions
may not be legally binding when
officers find themselves in danger.
But senior David Reitz, another
student hurt after the game, told
the Thresher that self-defense was
not the motivation of the officers'
actions.
Reitz accused the police of
"egging on" students and
Athletic Department
statement
In an effort to clarify the position of the Athletic Department
relative to goal post destruction at football games, a meeting v.as hefd
this date (October 23) with representatives of the student bod>, the
administration and faculty.
'1 he discussion at this meeting revealed that better comunication
and understanding was needed between the Athletic Department and
the Rice student body. To that end, the Athletic Department wishes to
make it known that we ha\e a deep concern for action which could
result in personal injury to Rice students or spectators and the
position of liability in which such action places Rice University.
Although we appreciate demonstrations of support for our athletic-
program we cannot condone actions which could possibly prove to
be injurious to persons attending our games. We recognize that Rice
students are responsible individuals and as such there should not be
the necessity of protecting the goal posts after home games. Therefore
following the upcoming game with Texas A&M no law enforcement
officials will be employed or advised to protect the goal posts.
There will be Harris County Sheriff's Deputies in the stadium
performing various duties not related to goal post protection. This is a
SWC crowd control requirement of all home teams and these of ficials
have always been involved in this capacity. The number of officers
called upon is directly related to the anticipatednumber of spectators.
It is our hope that our meeting with members of the Rice student
body and this statement of our position will be the first step in
establishing greater communication between the students and the
Athletic Department. We are very appreciative of your support and
feel sure that you can understand our reasons for concern as to the
direction that support should take. Let's insure that any celebration of
a Rice victory on the part of our students is in accordance with Rice
University student regulations and will in no way subject the students
to possible university sanctions.
exacerbating the situation.
"They were very unprofessional.
They're supposed to be able to
handle it in a professional
manner."
While the Athletic Department
has decided not to have police
defend the goalposts in the future,
both they and the university's
administrators stated a strong
belief that the goalposts should not
be taken down after football
games.
At the Advisory Committee
meeting Vice President for
Undergraduate Affairs Ronald
Stebbings cited incidents at other
universities where students and
bystanders have been injured b\
falling goalposts. One Harvard
student, he said, suffered head
injuries resulting in a coma after a
football game two years ago.
Provost former Rice physicist
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and its Colorado Springs campus
as chancellor with distinction."
Rice board chairman Charles
Duncan, to whom the appoint-
ment will be presented for
approval by the board at its next
meeting on Dec. 4, 'was pleased
with the appointment. He said,
"Lane has developed valuable
experience at the senior level of
higher education administration
and at the same time kept an active
research program underway. He
embodies what we like to see in our
administration. I am confident
that the Rupp-Lane team is going
to be very effective in moving Rice
ahead."
The new Rice provost's 18-year
tenure at Rice between 1966 and
1984 included time off in 1979-80
to serve as the National Science
Foundation's director of its
physics division and in 1975-76 as a
visiting fellow of the Joint
Institute for Laboratory
Astrophysics (J I LA) in Boulder,
Colorado. He was also a J I LA
visiting fellow in 1965-66, the year
before coming to Rice as an
assistant professor in physics, and
since 1984 has been a J Il.A non-
resident fellow.
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Lane has also been a visiting
scientist of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, a consultant
to the Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory, and chairman of a
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Foundation evaluation panel of
J ILA. Currently he is chairing a
National Science Foundation
advisory committee on advanced
scientific computing.
Lane was promoted to full
professor at Rice in 1972, served as
chairman of the physics
department in 1977-82, and was
speaker of the Rice University
Faculty Council in 1982-83. He
was recipient of two George R.
Brown Prizes for Superior
Teaching (1973-74 and 1976-77).
chaired the university's research
council in 1981-83, and was
chairman of the Rice self-study
panel on computing in 1983-84.
Born in Oklahoma City on
August 22, 1938, Lane attended
that city's public and private
schools and earned his B.S., M.S..
and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Oklahoma. He and
Mrs. (Joni Sue) Lane are the
parents of a married daughter.
Christy Saydjar. who received her
B.S. from Rice in 1983, and a son.
John, a senior at Rice. His parents,
Walter P. and Hattie Lane, reside
in Houston.
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Snyder, Scott. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 1985, newspaper, October 25, 1985; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245617/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.