The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1986 Page: 2 of 24
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Required minor
committee should
hold forums soon
The committee working on a coherent minor proposal is nearly
set to go. It is loaded with competent faculty members who wish to
make a proposal in a fair and efficient manner; they have spent
much of their time in long meetings, some giving up time during
their summers. The committee even has two student representatives.
What the committee is missing, however, is the most important
ingredient to an equitable proposal — input from the rest of the
student body and faculty.
Last year, when the committee framework was being established,
the committee indicated that open forums for students and faculty
would be an integral part of the proposal process. But recently
Provost Neal Lane, who is overseeing the committees, has said that
forums are a long way off. In fact, it appears that forums will not
be held until the committees are ready to put forth a definite plan.
Many students and faculty not on the committee have opinions
on the issue, and those opinions deserve to be considered by the
people creating the proposal. Since the proposal will affect the
student body and the faculty, it follows that those groups should
have a voice in the construction of the proposal.
The two students on the committee are a part of student
representation, but should not be the end of it. The two cannot
represent all the views of all the students, and any serious student
view deserves consideration. The best way to achieve representation
of the entire Rice community is to hold a forum open to everyone,
where students and faculty can discuss the issue with committee
members.
And such a forum should be held before a definite proposal is
made. That way, student input will be a part of the proposal and not
a reaction to it. In fact, it seems a forum should be held before the
end of this semester.
We fail to see why the committees, being serious and well-
intentioned, would not want to hold an open forum. It's certainly
possible the ideas expressed there would be completely worthless,
but it's more likely that valuable information will be gained by
Lhose trying to resolve this complex issue.
On Rice's honor
1 recently had an occasion to appreciate the Rice Honor System.
The Educational Testing Service conducted the Graduate Manage-
ment Admissions Test on campuses across the country last
Saturday, including Rice, where more than 200 people participated.
In the testing room to which I was assigned, there were only two
Rice students in a group of about two dozen. When one examinee
tried to pass test answers across the room, both Rice students were
willing to tell the test administrator exactly what had happened,
while the other students looked at us as if we were vermin.
Somehow I feel even more vehemently about cheaters when I pay to
take an exam.
—Crystal Davis
Thanks to our sponsors
who made possible this
Thresher live, in color
This week, the Thresher prints color photos for the second time
in its 74-year history, and for the first time in eleven years. We
thank Bill Irish, the athletic department, and the Rice Media Center
for their help.
The KTRU Rice Radio Folio was not included in this week's
Thresher because of the ugly technical problems associated with our
beautiful four-color center spread. The Folio will be in next Friday's
Thresher, and current Folios can be picked up before then in the
KTRU station on the second floor of the RMC addition. We thank
the station for its patience.
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Rice students
'got into' the
Beach Boys
To the editor:
We in the athletic department
would like to extend our thanks
to the Rice student body for your
help this past weekend prior to
and during the Beach Boys'
concert. We had asked that you
refrain from coming onto the
playing field after the game so
that the band could set up as
quickly and efficiently as
possible; and everyone seemed to
help us out in this regard. The
promoter (who basically was
responsible for making the
concert possible) was most
pleased and said that it was one
of the smoothest "gigs" he had
ever done. The Beach Boys on
the way to the airport after the
concert, remarked about how
great the students were at "get-
ting into" the concert.
We are still in the process of
negotiating for another post-
game concert this season and for
still other concerts later in the
school year. Your willingness to
cooperate with us in this, our
first concert venture, certainly
will make it easier for us to have
future shows.
Again, thank you for your help
and support.
Steve Moniaci
Asst. Athletic Director
Editorial was
'uninformed,'
Perrault says
To the editor:
I am writing in response to
your "uninformed" October 10
editorial regarding the SA.
Senate's role in the recent contro-
versy concerning Rice's judicial
policy. In your editorial you
stated, "The Senate appeared com-
pletely uninformed of its own
actions of the previous semester,
when a preliminary report by the
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SA Judicial Review Committee
had been issued... Instead of
moving to censure Holt, the SA
Senate should simply have taken
steps to implement its own
recommendations concerning the
judicial system from its previous
semester." In fact, we did. Had
the Thresher editorial board taken
the time to check with its repor-
ter covering the meeting, it
would have discovered that there
was a committee formed at the
September 29 S.A. meeting,
headed by University Court chair-
man Joanna Throckmorton, to rea-
lize last year's recommendations.
Accordingly, the censuring of
the Proctor was not our solution
to Rice's judicial problems, but
merely a stop-gap measure that
would call attention to the prob-
lem and allow the Senate time to
write up and formally enact last
year's proposals (naturally, with
some modification). It is easy to
see how the Thresher could
misinterpret our intent in passing
the resolution, though it is harder
to understand how it could be so
glaringly wrong regarding the
Senate's knowledge of last semes-
ter's preliminary report. I find it
incredulous that the
Thresher would label the Senate
as "uninformed" when I actually
held a copy of the report you
spoke of in my hand during the
Senate meeting.
I would have hoped for more
responsible journalism and less
antagonism on the part of tin
Thresher this year.
Tom Perrauit
S. A. President
WRC 'K7
Editor's note: The Thresher
knew the new committee was
formed, but assumed that, had tfu
Senate known of the last judicial
review committee's recommenda-
tions, the Senate would have
acted earlier, and thus would run
have needed to pass the "stop
gap" censure. We regret that our
editorial may have been mislead
ing and remind our readers that it
is our job to be antagonistic.
Committee
asks students
about library
To the editor:
The Subcommittee on Long
Range Planning of the Library
Committee is holding an open
meeting with students on October
27 at 2:00 p.m. in the Kyle
Morrow Room of Fondren Library
to solicit student opinion on the
needs of the first-floor public
areas of the library. This informa-
tion will be for the use of the
architects who are currently plan
ning the renovation of the li-
brary, and representatives from
the firm wil be present at the
meeting. All interested students
are invited to attend.
John B. Boles
History Department
ON HONOR/by Paul James
Council lists penalties
At the beginning of each year,
the incoming Honor Council
considers the major sorts of
Honor System violations with
Which it likely will have to deal.
The Council discusses the extent
to which each violation harms
the academic community, and it
attempts to define what a typical
violation of a given sort would
entail. Once this has been done,
the Council members arrive at
penalties that are appropriate for
each of these mythical typical
cases. The result is the consensus
set of penalties. The consensus
adopted for this academic year is
as follows:
Cheating on a weekly assign-
ment: loss of multiple credit for
the assignment; oA a major
assignment •such as a computer
project or a lab report: loss of
credit for the course (LCC); on an
in-class exam: LCC plus a suspen-
sion for one semester; on a take-
home exam: LCC plus a suspen-
sion for two semesters; and, for
The Rice Thresher, October 24, 1986, page 2
plagiarism, LCC plus a suspen-
sion for one semester.
It is important to realize that
the consensus is not a formula to
which the Council must rigidly
adhere. Each instance of cheating
has its own set of surrounding
circumstances and motives, as
well as its own level of severity,
and each case must therefore be
considered individually. The
consensus is not an attempt to
enact what might be called "plug
and chug justice"; rather, it
serves as a reference point for the
Council's discussion. Instead of
having to begin each penalty
deliberation from as many
different starting points as there
are Council members, the Council
can begin at the consensus pen-
alty for the sort of violation that
has occurred. It then is the
Council's task to enumerate the
relevant similarities and dif-
ferences between the present case
and the case that was envisioned
when the consensus was adopted
and to decide the extent to which
the differences should lead the
Council to deviate from the
consensus.
Referring to the consensus
helps the Council to be more
consistent between like cases and
more efficient in its delibera-
tions, but it does not stifle the
flexibility that is essential to a
viable honor code. The Council
is still willing to be lenient
where leniency is compatible
with the integrity of the commu-
nity, just as it is prepared to be
more punitive in instances, such
as repeat violations, where the
consensus penalty seems
insufficient.
So far this semester, the Honor
Council has been unusually
inactive. This is good. If you
wish to review the cases we have
handled, the abstracts of this
year's hearings and trials are
found behind the reserve desk in
Fondren. Take your ID.
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