The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1986 Page: 1 of 24
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Volume 73, Number 30
Rice University's Most Superlative Newspaper
Friday, April 18, 1986
Shaving cream fines total $400 alter run of Club 13
by David Schnur
Each of the eight residential
colleges has been fined $50 by the
Department of Physical Plant to
pay for the clean up of shaving
cream left by Club 13 in a streaking
run Sunday night.
Members of Club 13 run across
campus on the 13th, 26th and 31st
of each month wearing only
shaving cream. It is customary for
them to either "body print" or
spray the number "13" on windows
and doors of the buildings they run
past.
Baker senior Stephen
Blackstock, who claims to be
familiar with the workings of the
group, said that the fines were too
high. "It's certainly an outrageous
price. I can't imagine that it would
take five hours at $10 per hour to
clean up some shaving cream," he
said.
Manager of Residential
Colleges Frank Petru said that he
has never seen damages as
widespread as from Sunday's run.
"This is the first time it's happened
at all the colleges," he said.
Will Rice College is refusing to
pay its fine, according to college
President Mike Cherubino. "We're
just going to send it to Baker," he
stated. "It's pretty obvious where
the shaving cream came from."
Many people associate Club 13
with Baker College because most
of the groups' members are from
that college and because runs begin
and end there.
But according to Baker
President Mike Hogan, the club
has no official connection with his
college. "Every college was
represented in that run last
weekend," he explained.
Baker is not responsible for the
damages, Hogan feels. "Baker's
position is the same as that of all
the other colleges — that a group
of people came in and put shaving
cream on the building," he said.
Hogan feels that any damage
fees would be unwarranted. "No
college should have to pay
anything. After weekends all the
colleges are more littered than
normal," he noted.
Baker plans to appeal the fines.
Said Hogan, "We're planning on
first talking to Mr. Petru, and then
well have to see what happens."
From there he plans to appeal to
the Residential College
Maintenance Advisory Commit-
tee.
Baker Treasurer Debbie
Mueller suggested that the
university had hidden motives in
fining the colleges. "They've never
done this before. I feel like they're
doing it just to stop Club 13," she
Sunday's run of the Not-All-Baker 13
said.
Petru denied that the
administration was trying to clamp
down on Club 13. He stated,
"When I sent those bills out I had
no idea that they did it."
—S. Buchanan
Blackstock said that Sunday's
run was Club 13's best-attended in
many years. "This is the biggest
that I've ever known," he said
Almost 80 people participated in
last weekend's outing.
Committee plans ways to make SRC & Brown coed
by Spencer Greene
According to Will Rice Master
Robert Haymes, head of a group
studying ways to convert the last
two single-sex colleges to
coeducational residences, a
conversion could be effected as
early as fall 1987, as President
George Rupp implied several
weeks ago. However, said
Haymes, no one has yet decided
that such a transition is to take
place, or, if so, when.
Haymes chairs a four-member
subcommittee of the Masters and
Co-masters Committee investiga-
ting how Brown and Sid
Richardson colleges might be
made coeducational.
Richardson members respon-
ding to a Thresher survey opposed
conversion of their college by a 3-
to-2 margin. Brown members
responding to a similar survey
were split evenly on the issue.
Haymes reported yesterday to
the Masters and Co-masters
Committee practical plans for the
possible transitions. Details of
those plans were not available, but
J ones Master Walter Isle said early
suggestions that Jones might be
made single-sex by building were
not included.
Haymes' report was considered
by the full committee, which will
now "put together a plan for
Rupp's consideration," Haymes
said.
President Rupp asked for the
plan earlier this year in response to
what he termed "very strong
sentiment" on the part of the
masters in general, as well as
requests from some students, that
the last two colleges become
coeducational.
Rupp said that, although he
feels the masters favor a change to
coed, he expects they will be open-
minded in studying the issue. Their
report, he said, should give "clear
recommendations on desirability
and feasibility" of the transitions
and "should include recommenda-
tions from students and faculty
members."
If the report leads Rupp to favor
the change, he will present a
recommendation to the Board of
Governors and confer with
representatives of the donors who
funded construction of Brown and
Richardson colleges. Clauses in
both gifts would have to be
changed to allow the colleges to
become coed.
Haymes' subcommittee
examined mainly details of how a
conversion would be done from a
"historical and practical"
standpoint, but did seek "some
student input," Haymes said.
see Single-sex. page 6
Two-part election held
Triangles and arches
—M. Hulbert
by Scott Snyder
Shannon Wong defeated Ed
McConnell for the final at-large
Honor Council position this week
in a controversial run-off election.
The election was resolved this
Tuesday when Wiess members
voted; members of the other seven
colleges cast ballots last Thursday.
Wiess College failed to hold the
run-off election on April 10 as a
result of "general miscommunica-
tion" between the old and new
elections chairmen at Wiess.
According to incoming chairman
Chris Bieber, she was not notified
by either the old chairman, Paul
Nelson, or the Wiess cabinet that
she was supposed to run an
election on the 10th.
The election was originally
scheduled to have been last
Tuesday, April 8, before turnover
of the Wiess cabinet. The Honor
Council moved the election to
Thursday, according to Student
Association Elections Chairman
Thomas Hyer, because some
colleges did not receive ballots on
time last Tuesday. After
discovering that Wiess College had
not held the election scheduled for
the 10th, Hyer asked the elections
chairmen of of each of the colleges
to approve a late election to be held
only at Wiess. The chairmen. Hyer
said, "voted 7-1 in favor of running
the election late at Wiess and
keeping the results of the seven
colleges that had already voted."
He explained, "the decision
wasnt unanimously favored to run
the election only at Wiess, but
most said that that was less unfair
than running them all again."
Both run-off candidates agreed
with the decision of the election
committee. "1 thought it was
probably the best and simplest way
of getting things solved," Wong
explained.
McConnell said he has "no
grounds for protest, because I
think there was a clean race. Given
the circumstances, it was probably
fair."
However, said McConnell.
"voter turnout went down each
time they ran the election. That
was something that hurt me
personally. 1 had been ahead
during the run-off election when
Baker forgot to vote."
He said he hopes that reforms
will result from the problems
experienced with this election.
McConnell has been involved in
seven run-offs this semester for a
position on the Honor Council.
"It seems like the elections could
have been held right at the
beginning." he said. "I can
understand one or two run-offs,
but when we get to three or four,
that's too many. I'd like to see a lot
see Wiess, page 6
INSIDE:
• Soccer team wins SWC
championship. Ftige 14.
• Houston Festival pictures
Fbges 10 and 11.
• Sid has new master, p. 5
• One more issue.
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