The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1987 Page: 5 of 12
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THRESHER News Friday, May 15, 1987
End-of-year awards presented to student, faculty leaders
MENTOR
Recognition Award
The Mentor Recognition
Award, given annually0 by the
retiring Student Association
Senate, was presented during
graduation ceremonies May 9 to
History Professor Rich Smith.
Tom Perrault, outgoing president
of the Student Association,
presented the award to Smith in
recognition of his outstanding
contributions to the student body
"as an advisor, counselor, teacher,
and friend."
Perrault cited Smith's successful
five-year term as master of
Hanszen College, but added that
Smith's influence has spread
beyond Hanszen, saying that
Smith has served as an "adopted"
master to many students from
other colleges.
Smith has also been named a
Piper Professor of 1987, the
Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation
announced May 1. The award,
which carries a $2500 honorarium,
is awarded annually to ten Texas
professors chosen "primarily for
teaching," according to Smith.
"1 am very pleased to have been
nominated by Rice this year, and
especially honored to have been
selected by the Piper Foundation,
which has contributed so much to
higher education in the state,"
Smith said.
PHI BETA KAPPA
Society
Thirty-nine~Rice students were
initiated into the Rice chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa May 8. To be
considered for membership, a
student must have demonstrated
high academic achievement and
completed 90 semester hours of
courses which "reflecting a breadth
of intellectual interest rather than a
focus on deveopment of special
vocational skills or techniques,"
according to the honor society.
Rich Smith
The Rice students initiated were:
Kathryn Allison, Hanszen;
Michael Bishop, Lovett; Faith
Chang, Brown; David Chustz,
Will Rice; Joseph C. Crivello,
Hanszen;
Jill Foote, Will Rice; Randall
W. Foster, Baker; Denise M.
Haegelini^iess; Damon L. Hart,
Hanszen; Alexander C. Hodge,
Lovett; Lia M. Hotchkiss, Jones;
Michael A. Jones, Lovett; Sue T.
Jong, Brown;
James Kearley, Hanszen; Trang
Diem Le, Will Rice; Patricia
Lipoma, Wiess; Patrick Lynn,
Lovett;^ Robert Makar, Sid
Richardson; Brenda Manry
(Brigaitis), Lovett; Migi McGrath,
Brown;
Heather Miller, Baker; Malcolm
Moore, Wiess; Kendall Moss, Sid
Richardson; lan Q. Neath,
Hanszen; Loren K. Newman, Sid
Richardson;
Patricia Perkowski, Brown;
Marios M. Polycarpou, Lovett;
Royce Ray III, Will Rice; Alfred
Shen, Sid Richardson; Suzanne
Staggs, Jones;
Angela M. Stepherson,*§rown;
Stephen K. Streiffer, Will Rice;
James S. Vera, Will Rice; Beth
Vito, Brown; Valerie Wallace,
Lovett;
Eric G. Wasserman, Will Rice;
James Wells, Wiess; Anne
Wierzbicki, Hanszen; and Hui
Ping Wong, Brown.
RICE SERVICE
Award
Gregory LaBorde and Jim
Mustacchia received the 1987 Rice
University Service Award, given in
memory of Hugh Scott Cameron,
Rice Institute's first Dean of
Students. The award has been
given annually since 1944 to a
member or members of the
Student Association who have
been most exemplary in serving the
university and student body.
The selection committee noted
that during the past year,
Mustacchia has given time and
consideration to students far
beyond the prescribed duties of his
job as community service
coordinator. "Jim has single-
handedly shown the Rice student
body that opportunities for
community involvement do exist
on a massive scale," reported one
committee member.
LaBorde was nominated for his
contributions to student social,
judicial, and service activities,
particularly for his work with the
Honor Council and (he Beer-Bike
race. The award also recognizes his
four years as owlkeeper and his
successful renovation of the owl
facilities. LaBorde, a Lovett
member, received his M.S. in
Electrical Engineering at this
year's commencement exercises.
GOLIARD
Scholarship
Baker member Scott Jones was
chosen to receive this year's
Goliard Scholarship. Jones, one of
the founders of the Safe Rides
program, plans to use the $500
fellowship to study the ethnic
groups in Belize.
The Goliard is named for "a
medieval student given to
licentiousness, traveling, and
singing bawdy songs," according
to Carl Rosene, one of the twelve
Richardson alumni who annually
donates $50 for the summer travel
grant. Rosene says the
scholarship's selection committee
looks for "someone who's
interesting, who'll have fun with
the money — someone like us. 1
guess you could say we admire
ourselves."
BOBB
Award
Scott Snyder, 1986-87 editor-in-
chief of the Thresher, was chosen
by the Thresher editorial staff to
receive this year's Paul Frederick
Bobb Award.
"Scott was the obvious chice,
both for his SnydeRemarks
column this year and for his
contributions to the paper over
several years," said former editor
Spencer Greene. "Though we've
printed a number of noteworthy
articles this year, everyone agreed
that Scott's work deserved the
award."
The $100 award, which Snyder
received at the Prizes and Awards
Ceremony before commencement,
was funded by the family of
Reverend Paul Frederick Bobb.
Bobb, a former Thresher editor,
was graduated from the Rice
Institute in 1920.
Snyder, a Watson Fellow, will
spend next year in South Korea,
studying the spread of Christianity
in that country.
New meal plan causes ID change
by Michele Wucker
Beginning next August, Rice
students will pay for their meals
through a-new "reduced balance"
food plan designed to let them pay
only for what they eat.
The Reduced Balance
Residential College Food Plan
Committee sent a recommenda-
tion April 28 to Vice President for
Administration William Akers,
suggesting that the university
adopt the plan.
Under the plan, students will be
able to buy as many or as few meals
as they like after they purchase a
minimum number of meals. In
addition, off-campus students can
pay the base fee and buy individual
meals at reduced cost. Any meals
that have been paid for but not
eaten by the end of the semester
will be credited to the student's
meal plan for the next semester.
Central Kitchen will use a
computer system to keep track of
the student meals„ Magnetic card-
reading machines manufactured
by the CBORD company will read
11-digit codes in the magnetic
strips on the back of student I.D.
cards.
In the past, bar-code stickers for
Central Kitchens were affixed to
the backs of students' l.D. cards.
The new system will read only
from the magnetic strips currently
used only for access to buildings
after hours.
According to Director of Food
and Housing Marion Hicks, re-
validating returning students'
cards will be the biggest problem in
implementing the new system. "We
need to get I.D.'s validated during
the first week of school. It's going
to be a hassle to keep up with them
until they have all been validated,"
he said.
Hicks also said that CK might
need to hire more people to ensure
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that people pay for what they eat.
In addition, some college head
waiters will monitor food lines at
the exit, point instead of the
entrance.
At family-style dinners, students
may place their I.D. cards on the
waiter's tray and the meals will be
subtracted from their balances
when the waiter goes through the
line. Students who come to dinner
after the I.D. cards have been
processed will go through the line
individually.
Students will be allowed to use
their cards to pay for guests' meals
in the commons, and the cards will
also work at Sammy's.
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Wucker, Michele. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1987, newspaper, May 15, 1987; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245666/m1/5/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.