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WRESHER
Volume 73, Number 15
Friday, November 15, 1985
INSIDE:
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Esperanza? See staff box
• What can you buy in the
Village9 See pp. 7, 9.
• Wendy Wood, p. 1 7.
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Right-wing group
disrupts meeting
by David Schnur
A planning meeting of the newly
formed Central American Peace
Forum was disrupted Tuesday
night when a group of 22 students
opposed to giving blanket tax
funds to the Peace Forum entered
the room and attempted to take
control of the organization,
passing a new constitution written
by themselves, electing new
officers, and adjourning the Peace
Forum's meeting.
Members of the Peace Forum
said they were also verbally
harrassed and have called upon the
Rice University administration to
take disciplinary action against the
intruders.
The SA last week gave the
Forum $300 from the funds of the
defunct Rice Student Interest
Organization. The SA took
control of the money upon the
demise of the RSIO and decided to
spend it to increase community
awareness on the Rice campus.
Lovett sophomore Grady Gibbs
organized the group of students
who entered the Forum meeting.
Gibbs, who opposes spending
any blanket tax funds on any
political group, said, "1 decided
that the best thing to do would be
to organize a group of people to go
in and take control of this group
[the Forum] in a democratic way."
John Thornburgh, also in the
opposition, explained how the
meeting ran. "Those of us who
were concerned about the $300
being granted to the Forum met in
Lovett Commons to discuss what
we wanted done at the meeting
tonight. We walked over to Autry
House where most of the earlier
members had already arrived.
Grady began our presentation. It
was not a yelling match; he was our
spokesman."
Will Rice College senior Jane
Mitchell, one of the founders of the
Peace Forum, gave a much
"I decided that the
best thing to do
would be to
organize a group of
people to go in and
take control of this
group in a
democratic way."
— Grady Gibbs
different version of Tuesday
night's events, saying, "Grady
walked in with his friends and
completely disrupted me, shouting
above my voice, and reading his
constitution. He refused to answer
me, refused to acknowledge I was
speaking."
Mitchell and Thornburgh both
said that Gibbs then asked for a
vote on his constitution, which was
accepted 22 to 0. None of the
Forum members voted. Mitchell
explained that the SA had already
approved a previously submitted
constitution.
Student Association Parliamen-
tarian George Webb said that the
first constitution remains valid
because the later one has not been
submitted to the SA for approval.
He received the second
constitution for preliminary
approval but did not accept it.
Webb explained, "Normally
people come to the SA as one
group without any factions." The
document also contained a
technical error in that it did not list
a method for selecting a faculty
advisor.
According to Mitchell, Gibbs's
group also voted to cancel the first
Forum program, a lecture by
see Forum, page 9
Jana Sanchez (I) and Jane Mitchell (r), organizers of the Central American Peace Forum —H. Turner
1986 Watson nominees named
by Jenny Ettelson
Four seniors have been chosen
as the Rice University nominees
for the 1986-87 Watson
Fellowship: Jon D. Hanson, Kevin
Havnes, Jeff Steele and Vincent
Uher.
Nominees submitted project
proposals that should enable them
to "test their aspirations and
abilities, view their lives and
American society in greater
perspective, and concomitantly,
develop a more informed sense of
international concern."
Jon Hanson, an economics and
policy studies major, in his project
titled "Tragic Choices in British
Neonatal Care: Lessons for
America," proposes to study
neonatal health-care facilities in
Britain.
He hopes to learn how Britain's
health-care system deals with the
problem of children born
prematurely or with birth defects,
given limited financial resources.
Although technology has
increased the quality of health care
dramatically over the past twenty-
five years, prices have increased
also, almost as dramatically. Both
American and British public
policies have attempted to provide
health care to the public regardless
of financial position. However, as
medical costs continue to rise,
Hanson said, certain "tragic-
choices" must be made in the
distribution of health care.
He plans to spend approximate-
ly five months in London, which
receives "an overwhelmingly
disproportionate share" of the
health-care budget, and plans to
utilize the many health-care
facilities, governmental bodies and
university libraries for informa-
tion
The remaining seven months, he
will study health-care facilities
throughout Britain, observing how
factors such as geography, social
class and income level affect the
quality of health care.
Kevin Haynes, an English and
history major, in his project titled
"Touring England as a Modern
Pickwickian," proposes to spend
the next year in England
celebrating the sesquicentennial of
Charles Dickens' first novel. The
see Nominees, page 8
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Construction continues on the Ley Student Center.
-E. Salituro
Students ignorant of
college court system
by David Friesenhahn
A recently released Student
Association Senate study on the
Rice Judicial System charged that
the university's judicial code is
confusing, that judicial officers are
sometimes unaware of their duties,
and that students in general are
ignorant of judicial procedures.
The Senate commissioned the
study in November of 1984. It was
conducted during the spring of
1985 by a committee composed of
Chris Claunch, David Dankworth,
Garland Kellev, David McClain,
and Brian Zook.
The committee's findings are
based on interviews with Rice
"The student body
is largely
uninformed about
the judicial system;
individuals usually
have no knowledge
of it unless involved
in a case."
administrators as well as college
masters and judicial officers.
Committee members concluded
see Judicial, page 8
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