The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1987 Page: 1 of 20
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Volume 74, Number 25
Rice's
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March 27,
University hires vice president of computer facilities
by Lisa Gray
Former Rice professor Edward
F. Hayes has been chosen to head
the university's research and
graduate programs and to oversee
all computer facilities, President
George Rupp announced
yesterday.
Hayes, now a director of the
National Science Foundation, will
begin as Associate Provost and
Vice President for Information
Systems this summer. He will also
serve as a chemistry professor.
The search committee for an
associate provost selected Hayes
and recommended that the
position be expanded. Biochem-
istry Professor Kathleen
Matthews, chair of the committee,
said the committee "recognized
from the beginning" that the
associate provost position could be
upgraded to a vice presidency.
"Obviously, in final negotiations it
could come up," she said.
"The position is really a
combined title," Provost Neal
Lane told the Thresher. Lane said
that Rice created the position in
response to the 1984 Self-Study,
which urged the university to
consolidate its computer services
administration.
Lane said that as vice president
for computing, Hayes will report
to President Rupp and will oversee
the Institute for Computer
Services and Applications,
administrative computing needs,
and will play "a strong
coordinative role" in academic
computing. Hayes will take,charge
of Rice's computer networks,
including both the campus
network being installed, and off-
campus systems.
Lane stressed that Hayes will be
able to integrate his offices easily.
He pointed out that research and
graduate studies are closely tied,
and stated that "increasingly grant
proposals will have a computing
component."
Hayes was a chemistry professor
at Rice from 1968 to 1978. He has
served in managerial positions in
the National Science Foundation
since 1975, and he chaired the NSF
task force on advanced scientific
computing resources.
Hayes is now director of NSF's
division of chemistry. From 1980
to 1982 he worked on assignment
from NSF for. the Office of
see Vice, page 6
Committee reacts to proposal
by Mike Raphael *
Members of the coherent minor
committee discussed their feelings
about the forthcoming coherent
minor proposal this week.
Individual committee members
have not voiced their personal
opinions throughout their work
this year, but Provost Neal Lane
has spoken for the committee as a
whole.
The revised proposal will offer
students optional minors in fields
other than their majors and will
require foundation courses. The
committee drew heavy criticism
last December of a preliminary
proposal that required both
minors and foundation courses.
In addition, the humanities
foundation course will be two
semesters long instead of the one
semester recommended in the
preliminary proposal.
President Rupp said he
approves of the proposal. "1
support the proposal coming from
the committee. I think it will be an
improvement in our curriculum,
and I strongly urge students and
faculty alike to support the
proposal," he said. "I think the
committee has worked very hard
to address the issues raised."
Committee member Ronald
Sass, Chairman of Biology, thinks
optional minors are better than
required ones.
"I think it's probably the best
way to go right now," he said. "I
think the students are more
relaxed this way. It seems to me the
students will be receptive to it."
Professor Emeritus Franz
Brotzen, a committee member,
said the optional minor is a good
idea .since the effectiveness of the
minors needs to be evaluated
before a definite decision is made.
"In two, three, or four years
when the whole thing comes by
again, then it's possible for three
things to happen," Brotzen said.
"First, the students could take to it
in large numbers. Secondly, the
students might not like it at all.
And thirdly, which I think is most
probable, some students will go
one way and some the other
way. . .but we cannot tell without
experience."
Brotzen said that a few years of
optional minors will enable people
see Committee, page S
Edward F. Hayes will return to Rice
Mysterious caller bothers KTRU
by Lisa Gray
Rice radio station KTRU is
beginning legal proceedings to
trace an unknown male who
phones the station regularly and
who may have phoned a bomb
threat to the campus operator.
According to KTRU General
Manager Dennis Ogburn, station
members have met twice with the
campus police to discuss obtaining
a court order for a phone trace.
Ogburn said that the campus
police became involved in the
matter after a bomb threat was
made to the campus operator.
When a KTRU deejay put the
caller on hold, the man "called up
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Army ROTC drills at the biology building
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the campus operator and asked
why the number was on hold, and
then he made a bomb threat,"
Ogburn said.
Chief of Police Mary Voswinkel
said the campus police are not sure
the KTRU caller made the bomb
threat. "There were two calls in
close proximity, but we can't be
sure that the caller was the one,"
she said.
Voswinkel said that there is
"absolutely no connection between
him [the anonymous caller] and
the bomb threat."
Michael Gladu, KTRU Chief
Engineer, said that the man has
been calling the station for at least
two years. The caller has often
talked to deejays for hours, played
tapes of other radio stations to the
deejays, and has lately become
abusive at times, according to-
Gladu. Other times the man has
called up and not said anything at
all, while the deejay can tell it is
him from background noises
Gladu said the man calls at all
times of day and night.
Ogburn said that the caller will
"request twelve songs and
continually annoy a deejay, and
will bitch at the next deejay on a
shift." He says that the man
generally calls girls.
One female deejay said that the
man has called her during her shift
for about a year. Though he was
"never really abusive" to her, the
deejay said, he learned persona)
information about her by talking
to other deejays.
see Man. page 6
Watson fellowships
send seniors abroad
by Kayhan Parsi
Alice Levisay. Heather Miller.
Scott Snyder. Three different
students. Three different sets of
personalities, goals and interests.
And yet all three share one
common distinction: each has been
awarded a prestigious Watson
Fellowship for next year.
Although a common distinction
ampjng the students, this is no
common event. In fact, since Rice
started nominating seniors in 1971
for the Thomas J. Watson
Fellowship, this is the first time
Rice has ever produced three
winners.
The University shares this honor
with only a handful of other elite
schools in the nation: Pomona,
Carleton, Reed, Johns Hopkins,
and Grinnell, each of which also
boasts of three winners. Only four
other schools (Amherst, Caltech.
Newcomb, and Colorado College)
managed to have all four of their
see Watson, page 7
INSIDE:
\ RSVP election st'ments, p. 5
• Safe Rides gets calls, p. 6
• More about Watson Fellows,
including photos, p. 7
• Album Review, the premiere
of a fortnightly feature, p. 12
• Beer-Bike preview, pp. 16-17
• Rease, God, take Oral
home anyway!
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Greene, Spencer. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1987, newspaper, March 27, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245661/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.