The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1988 Page: 1 of 20
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Volume 75, Number 21
Rice's lame-duck newspaper
Friday, February 26,1988
SA Presidential election ties; runoff to be held
Baker Brown Hanszen Jones Lovett
SRC
Wiess
WRC
A graphical distribution of the votes in Tuesday's Presidential election. Votes
for Andy Karsner are represented by the shaded area and votes for Chip
Lutton are represented by the lined area.
by Samantha Hendren
With a one-vote margin and two-
vote discrepancy, this year's race for
Student Association president be-
came the most closely contested elec-
tion in Rice history. Despite an elec-
tion system specifically designed to
avoid the agonizing process of runoff
elections, the university's highest
student office must remain vacant
until a runoff election Tuesday,
March 15, between Will Rice College
junior Andy Karsner and Baker Col-
lege junior Chip Lutton.
The tallying of first-place votes
yielded 623 for Karsner, 612 for Lut-
ton, and 141 for the third candidate,
Wiess College junior Saurabh Shah.
When the second choices of Shah's
supporters were redistributed, the
final results were 679 votes for Lutton
and 678 for Karsner.
Because there were two discrepan-
cies, either candidate needed a margin
of three votes for the election to be
valid. Because the election will be re-
run on March 15, the initiation of new
SA officers must be postponed from
Fight Night raises $2300 for SHAPE
by Keith Couch
Approximately 600 spectators
watched someof Rice's toughestmen
ilght at Hanszen College's Fight
Night Friday at Autry Court. Twelve
boxing matches featured fighters
iron- all eight colleges and weight
classes. The proceeds from the event
wont to the Self Help for African
Peoples through Education (SHAPE)
Community Center.
Fight Night organizers Bob
McGaughey and Mike Madden were
able to give SHAPE approximately
$2,500, raised through admissions
fees, boxer entry fees and student
pledging of fighters. The SHAPE
Center, located in the Third Ward,
provides educational help, drug abuse
clinics, tutoring, legal counseling and
employment programs for youth and
adults.
McGaughey said, "We think that
everyone involved came away feeling
good about the event, and we hope it
becomes an annual affair."
McGaughey and Madden expressed
thanks to Houston Boxing Associa-
tion owner Josephine Abercrombie
and HBA manager Bob Spagnola.
Spagnola, Rice Weight and Strength
Coach Jeff Madden, and Houston
Oilers comerback Richard Johnson
judged the event.
Ring girls were Marisa Salinas,
Tricia McCutcheon, and Nancy
Jones.
The evening opened with the clash
of flyweights Lucky "Dragonfly"
Sahualla of Hanszen College and
Brian "FTD" Tagtmeier of Wiess
College. Hanszen and Wiess had
taunted each other all week over this
fight, and their fans brought the crowd
see Students, page 6
£TRU fan Scott Davidson requests autographs from cisk jcckeys Jonathon Sadow, Alex Malinin 2nd B-id Thomas.
Malinin and Thomas brodcast Rice's Women's Basketball SWC home games. Sadow is their color man. Fans should
bring their Walkmans to the last game on March 5 at 5 p.m. against the University of Houston. KTRU disk jockeys will
be playing Rice women basketball alumni during halftime of the men's game that evening. The tipoff for the men's game
ls 7:30 p.m. —L. Cowsar
the original date of March 14 until
after the presidency is decided.
All of Tuesday's other elections
were decided as usual. Hanszen Col-
lege junior Alex Flenner won the Rice
Program Council presidency with
709 votes, compared to 522 votes for
Wiess sophomore Steamer LeCar-
pentier. Lovett College senior Jamie
Daruwala won RPC internal vice-
president after a run-off with Will
Rice junior Beth O'Donnell. The
RPC external vice-president will be
Sid Richardson College sophomore
Katherine Tasheff, who ran
unopposed.
Hanszenjuniors PatMcGarrity and
Joel Sendek won the Thresher editor
election after a runoff with Will Rice
sophomores Mary Elliott and Jen
Cooper. The first-place votes ended
with 465 for McGarrity and Sendek
and 479 for Elliott and Cooper. Add-
ing in the second-place votes for
Hanszen juniors Keith Couch and
Michael Lamont resulted in a total of
698 for McGarrity and Sendek and
588 for Elliott and Cooper.
Running unopposed, Jones Col-
lege junior William Barrett will be
University Court Chairman. Will
Rice junior Michele Wucker and Will
Rice sophomore Mike Raphael will
be the University Council student
representatives.
The Honor Council referendum,
which modified the Honor Council
Constitution to exclude an unneces-
sary part of the appeals process,
passed with an 88 percent approval by
students.
The Student Association internal
vice-president will be Baker sopho-
more Dennis Abbott, who ran
unopposed. The race for SA external
vice-president was won by Hanszen
sophomore Adam Carr with 788
votes to 326 for Lloyd Bellah, also a
sophomore from Hanszen. Because
Carr, as SA Secretary, was this year's
overall elections chairman, the tabu-
lation for this particular race was
overseen by alternate members of the
elections committee.
Hanszen sophomore Jenni Rausch
won the race for S A treasurer, follow-
ing a runoff with Baker junior James
Dean. Wiess sophomore Lisa Th-
ompson won SA secretary by a mar-
gin of 88 votes o ver B aker sophomore
Rose Unite.
RPC Treasurer was the only race in
which two runoffs had to be held to
get a candidate with a majority. It
finally resulted in a win for Jones
see SA elections, page 6
Rupp announces plan
to increase tuition
by Anu Bajaj
At Monday's Student Association
meeting, President George Rupp
announced plans for a probable tui-
tion increase for next year. Although
Rupp said that the amount would not
exceed last year's increase of $500, an
exact amount has not been set.
"In December, we were five mil-
lion dollars short on the revenue side.
Tuition will be voted on in the March
Board of Governor's meeting. We are
working very hard. . .we want very
much to avoid a tuition increase," said
Rupp.
Though the tuition increase would
account for only a small percentage of
the $5.23 million shortfall, Rupp be-
lieves that the students should carry
their share of the burden.
"I guarantee that any tuition in-
crease" will generate only a small frac-
tion of the $5.23 million gap. It seems
only reasonable that tuition.. .carries
its fair share of the load," said Rupp.
Currently, Rice subsidizes 80 per-
cent of a student's education at Rice
for students paying full tuition and
more for those on financial aid. Rupp
said he hopes to maintain this ratio.
"We want to try to keep the tuition
level at approximately 20 percent of
the educational cost," he said.
A number of factors have contrib-
uted to this loss in revenue. These
factors include revenue problems
from investments, decreasing reve-
nue from Institute on Computer Serv-
ices and Applications (ICSA) and
decreasing federal and state financial
aid grants.
"We have had revenue problems
from oil, gas, and real estate invest-
ments. These investments have not
been increasing lately. Hopefully,
these problems are pretty much be-
hind us now," Rupp said.
Private gifts have also been under
tremendous pressure due to the slug-
gish Houston economy. There have
not been enough private gifts to cover
expenses.
Rice will also have to bear a greater
portion of the financial aid burden.
Texas Tuition Equalization grants
used to provide approximately $2-2.5
million in aid and were the biggest
source of aid for Rice students. These
grants are being cut and will no w only
provide roughly half as much aid.
"In general, over the last four to
five years, the percentage Rice gets
from state and federal aid has dropped
from ^-5 percent to 30 percent," said
Rupp.
The Financial Aid Officc still plans
to fulfill all need. However, because
of the decline in federal and state
grants, more of the money will have to
come from Rice's own resources.
The Student Association does not
plan to fight the tuition increase. The
S A could only express an opinion and
would have no say in the matter.
According to SA President Kevin
Gass, "That's [voicing an opinion]
basically the only thing we have read-
ily at our disposal. The options in-
see Tuition, page 4
INSIDE:
Opinion: Allen Parkway Village
housing project, p.2.
News: New building to go up
(what tuition increase?), p. 7.
Feature: Presidential candi-
dates plugged, p. 7.
Sports: Beloved ruggers
trounce UH team, p. 14.
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Wucker, Michele. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1988, newspaper, February 26, 1988; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245687/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.