The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1987 Page: 6 of 24
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Friday, February 13, 1987 THRESHER News
Physical plant powwow
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Physical plant workers don't walk to their meetings
Turner
continued from page I
though, but students who signed
the petitions say that research is
not the issue. The students feel that
Martin's teaching skill is not being
given enough consideration.
"We think that he's a good
teacher, very good and very
effective," said Baker sophomore
Jennifer Berry, who helped
distribute the petitions. "From our
point of view, whatever a professor
is publishing doesn't have any
importance to the undergradu-
ates."
Baker junior George Tyler, who
also signed a petition, agreed. "I
took his class, and he's really a
good teacher," he said. "To let him
go for not having published
BLOOM COUNTY
something would be an injustice."
Berry said that 420 students had
signed the petitions as of
Wednesday.
Sass explained that some
professors in the biology
department, which did not
recommend Martin for tenure,
would echo the students'
comments.
"The department feels rather
badly about this, and there is no
one in the Biology Department
who would not like to have Joseph
Martin here permanently," he said.
"But we do have certain other
considerations. The President has
said that he wants to make Rice a
premier research institution along
with a premier liberal arts college.
Sometimes it's hard to balance the
two."
The committee struggles with
the problem of weighing teaching
and research every year, and this
year is not a particularly notable
exception, Sass said.
"The committee has no formal
method of weighing the
components [of the evaluation],"
Gruber said. "We consider each
and every case separately. Since
the cases are always different, we
have no specific formula."
Sass said that before Rupp
makes the final tenure decision, he
receives the complete set of
information the committee has
considered, including the student
petitions.
by Berke Breathed
awright awri6ht.
i'll concepe that the name
"oeMTdtme" is nor partic-
ularly conducive to positive.
christian, all'american 1h0v6ht
in our nation's mm...
which,..uh. which, of
course, is why we
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last week w.er to..
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they were showing
cross sections
of the present's
blapper main.
ya know. for
my money, you
never can see too
much of that sort
of thing.
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...or more graphic
diagrams of
the president's
prostate.
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no.
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of it just
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maybe
winger"
has some ugly,
unsavory
connotation
we haven't
thought of '
away.
knaves' might
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SEXUAL BE 'BUY
EUPHEMISM T ANP THE
PIPPLERS.
doesn't
challenge the
sensibiuties of
the TRAPmoNAL
establishment.
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Richardson, Brown
fill up transfer spots
signers praise teaching
by Rebecca M. Monroy
Sid Richardson College will
accept more female transfer
students than their original limit
due to a unexpectedly large
number of requests to transfer into
the college. The college originally
planned to accept twenty-four
undergraduate women as
transfers, but will accept all thirty-
two women who requested to
transfer.
Richardson President Guy
Hardin said the college decided to
accept all of the requests in order
to avoid a selection process that
would have excluded only eight
girls. Any type of selection process,
whether random or with
interviews, could have led to some
bad feelings on the part of those
not accepted, he said.
The acceptance of the additional
transfers will mean the reduction of
next year's freshman class at Sid by
at least six people. These six
freshmen will be absorbed by other
colleges. Hardin said that some
other colleges have tentatively
pledged to take some of the extra
freshmen.
Richardson needs to reduce the
number of college freshmen in
order to guarantee on-campus
housing to the new transfers.
Hardin said that the chances that a
new transfer will be bumped are
"very, very slim" and that there is
no need for the transfers to worry
that they won't receive on-campus
housing.
The reduction is also to assure
that more college members aren't
forced off campus than in the past.
If the number of freshmen weren't
reduced, college sophomores
could be forced off campus
because of the transfers. None of
the sophomores will lose housing
on account of the transfers, Hardin
said. Instead he said the number of
men forced off will be determined
by the number of incoming
freshmen.
According to Brown College
President Cathy Bell, Brown sees
no problem guaranteeing housing
to its new members. Twenty-one
men requested transfer into
Brown, exceeding the college's
original limit by one. Bell does not
see this year's bump being any
more extensive than in the past
because the number of women
leaving Brown for other colleges
totals twenty-seven.
The large number of women
leaving, Bell feels, is not due to
their dissatisfaction with'' the
college, but because the women are
leaving for a new challenge in the
college system. However, Bell is
also confident that the co-ed
conversion will spark renewed
interest in Brown college.
Both college presidents feel that
the reception of the new members
and the entire conversion process
has been favorable.
Sid's new members were invited
to their own induction ceremony,
complete with a surprise water
bucket dousing last Thursday.
Brown's new members have been
invited to study breaks and will
have a chance to meet more of their
fellow college members this
Sunday at a pizza party at Vito's,
in the Brown basement.
Both colleges have accepted
their new members without
reservations. This means that they
are eligible to run and vote in the
upcoming college elections. In
addition, they will be eligible for
choice rooms in the college room
draws.
Coeds had annual issue
continued from page 5
here. Something that would serve
to awaken the student body from
its lethargy.
But once this year has the
student body, or a part of it, shown
any real spirit, and that was the
Tuesday evening preceding the
Texas football game when the
mess hall went wild. Since then not
a bubble has come to the surface to
disturb the uttertranquility of Rice
undergraduate affairs.
Let's have a freshman dance this
year, with freshmen, sophomores,
juniors, and seniors piling in to
make things interesting.
Let's have an honest-to-gosh
fight in the mess hall sometime,
nothing barred.
Let's have a great egg fight of
our own in West Hall's big front
yard, letting members of the
various classes choose their
opponents.
Let's get some enthusiasm
around campus.
Let's wake up!
'■ ***
Co-Ed Thresher To Appear On
Campus Next Friday, Maybe—
The annual edition of the Co-ed
Thresher will appear on the
campus next Friday, "out on
time," the editor, Miss Lura Duff,
Houston, announces.
Even at this early hour, when the
ink of this copy of The Thresher is
hardly dry, the co-eds have
approximately half their paper
written. And more is yet to come,
the women declare.
According to the editor, this
year's issue will be conservative in
tone, and will not decry the
domination of men in campus
activities as was the case last year
when the co-ed attempt at
journalism announced in glaring
red letters that "the lid is off at
last."
"But we may exercise our rights
to change our minds," the editor
declared.
The women are going about this
business of getting out an issue of
The Thresher in a business-like
manner. Assignments were given
out early this week; five staff
meetings already have been held,
and next week is yet to come; every
news source available to the
regular Thresher has been closed,
this accounting for the scarcity of
news in this issue; and it's a dollar
to a doughnut that red paper will
be used.
The staff for the issue is
composed of: Beverly Fonville,
managing editor; Irene Ward,
business manager; Gene Rhodes,
features; Margie Thiel, society;
Betty Moody, sports; and Rachael
Waples, humor editor.
Miss Duff, at press time, denied
that Miss Waples' efforts at
journalism would compose the
greater part of the paper.
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Greene, Spencer. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1987, newspaper, February 13, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245656/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.