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Condoms on Campus
Following recommendations made by the Task Force on AIDS,
Food and Housing has placed condom machines in five colleges with
machines for Baker, Lovett, and Sid Richardson Colleges on the way.
For related story, see page 7.
Rooms at WRC, Hanszen burglarized
by Lorraine Snyder
Residents of six rooms and two
quads at Will Rice College and one
quad at Hanszen College woke Sun-
day morning to find their rooms had
been burglarized the night before.
The thieves stole $190 to $200 in
cash, three watches worth $160, and
a high school ring valued at $30.
Rice Campus Police believe the
incidents are related, but no reports
regarding suspicious looking people
were filed over the weekend. The
Campus Police have no suspects at
this time.
WRC has been especially hard hit
by burglars since the beginning of
the semester. Between August 19
and September 19, 21 burglaries
were reported across campus. Thir-
teen of these were at WRC, and six of
the thirteen occurred last weekend.
Baker, Hanszen, Jones and Wiess
Colleges have also reported burgla-
ries this semester.
Between January 1 and August 10
of this year, only 31 burglaries were
reported, including the burglaries at
Wiess and Hanszen Colleges over
semester break.
"The same person apparently just
made a round in through there. The
burglaries could have happened
within minutes of each other," Cam-
pus Police Director Harold Rhodes
said.
Headwaiters demand checks at SRC
by Elise Perachio
Sid Richardson College head-
waiters staged a protest during Sun-
day brunch and Monday breakfast
this week because they failed to re-
ceive their paychecks for the first
two-week pay period.
Headwaiter Robert Foreman said
this first paycheck was to arrive on
Friday, September 9.
He did not receive his check on
that day, nor did Stephen Smith or
Warren Lopata, the other two head-
waiters at SRC.
The three spoke to Betty Lewis,
head of SRC kitchen staff. She in-
formed them that Central Kitchen
was experiencing accounting prob-
lems and they could expect their
checks the next Friday, September
16.
When they did not receive then-
checks on September 16, Smith
called CK to find out where they
were. CK told him the check had
already been sent and suggested he
make sure he had filled out all re-
quired forms with the payroll office.
Smith decided to try to locate the
check himself and founcfit had been
sent to Food and Housing.
Smith was also working for Food
and Housing Manager of Residential
Colleges Robert Mathis as Student
Maintenence Representative for
SRC.
Food and Housing Director Mar-
ion Hicks said the payroll office at
Rice follows a policy of sending
checks to the employee's "Home
Department." This means checks
are sent to the person's original em-
ployer. In Smith's case, that was
Food and Housing.
Robert; Foreman discovered his
check was sent to the Math Science
Department, where he worked last
year.
Warren Lopata's check was sent
to his former employer, the Geology
Department.
In order to get checks sent to a
new place of employment, these
three should have filled out a form
with the payroll office notifying it of
the change.
Although he finally received his
cheek, Smith was frustrated by the
fact he had to locate it himself.
"It's CK's job to pay us, not to
In all but one case, the burglars
entered rooms through unlocked
doors. They picked up cash and
wallets which were lying out on
desks or dressers.
The burglars removed cash from
the wallets while still inside the
rooms, or took the wallets outside
and removed the cash. No credit
cards or checks were stolen.
A wallet stolen from the living
room of the Hanszen quad is still
missing. About $40 was removed
from two other wallets. The students
were asleep in their bedrooms when
the burglaries occurred.
One of the victims said, "We went
to bed at three and found one of the
wallets lying unfolded by the door
around eight."
The burglaries at six WRC old
dorm rooms followed the same pat-
tern. None of the victims reported
waking up during the night, all had
left their doors unlocked, and all had
cash but no credit cards taken from
their wallets.
In one case, the burglars took a
pair of pants from the room, removed
cash from a wallet in the pants
pocket, and left the pants and wallet
on the floor of the men's hall bath-
room.
Two WRC new dorm quads with
an adjoining bathroom were also
burglarized sometime between 4
and 7 a.m., but victims of both quads
reported having locked the doors
and closed their windows. One re-
ported having heard noises around
6:30 a.m.
"I woke up and heard someone
rustling around. I thought it was my
roommate getting up or talking in
her sleep, and I told her to be quiet
But it may have been the burglar,"
the victim said.
"It seems like it might have been
two people because in one of
SEE BURGLARY. PAGE 8
Students wait in long lines at SRC where headwaiters protested last weekend.
make us go looking for our checks,"
Smith said.
Smith decided to help Robert
Foreman with his plan to protest
On Sunday, September 18 at
brunch and on Monday, September
19 at breakfast, Foreman and Smith
did not use the computerized card
reader, but instead wrote down the
names, identification numbers and
amounts charged.
Foreman planned to keep the list
of prices in his room until he re-
ceived his check. On Monday morn-
ing, Foreman still had not located his
check. He also had not yet communi-
cated with CK nor looked for the
check.
The computerized system was
used at Monday lunch because Fore-
man was not working.
Smith said he only participated in
the protest when Foreman was work-
ing because he supported Fore-
man's actions. ^
Since he and Lopata already had
their checks, Smith thought it would
not be fair for them to continue the
protest when Foreman was not
there.
Foreman posted a sign warning
people the line might be slower and
explaining why he was doing it. CK
did not find out about these actions
until Monday lunch.
Foreman explained it takes 24
hours for computerized information
to reach CK Hicks and College Food
Service Manager Bill Boorom had
no idea the protest was going on until
noon, when numbers from SRC did
not arrive.
Boorom was upset because he
felt it "short-circuited the whole sys-
tem."
He explained the computerized
card readers were the access system
for forecasting amounts of food
needed for next week and for ac-
counting.
"I don't think it [the protest] was
appropriate, because it affects every-
one in the college. I think there are
, SEE HEADWAITER, PAGE 8
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Wiess College was the site of recent vandalism on Campus
Revived college rivalry
sparks vandalism at Wiess
by Jean Chen
EarlyTuesday morning, Septem-
ber 13, an unknown number of
pranksters defaced Wiess College
outer commons with catfish bait and
fish heads. Damage costs amounted
to $200 for general clean-up and
another $50 for carpet cleaning.
Several Hanszen College mem-
bers may be the culprits. An investi-
gation is in progress.
Initially thought to be fecal mate-
rial, the smelly bait was smeared on
the television, the glass doors, the
fireplace, walls behind the lockers,
coffee tables, the game table, floors,
and the bulletin board.
The perpetrators even removed
the air vent grill in order to spread
bait inside. Dead fish and fish heads
were found underneath several sofas
and around lables.
Food and Housing Manager of
Residential Colleges Robert Mathis
said the prank was "well-planned."
"These students took time to h ide
it [the bait]. The vandalism was one
of the more disgusting, rather than
costly tricks in recent Rice history,"
Mathis said.
Wiess College members were not
as affected as the Rice cleaning staff.
The maids spent a total of
twenty-two hours cleaning up what
they thought was feces," Mathis
said.
Wiess College Master Joan Rea
was very disturbed, but both col-
leges wish to minimize further con-
flict.
Wiess College president Mike
Yanochik said, "Hanszen has been
cooperative so far. I doubt the matter
will go as far as the University Court
level."
Hanszen College president Dan
Haddock said the investigation will
conclude by next week.
Reactions of Wiess College
members were varied,
Wiess sophomore Robert
Bartsch said, "The initial anger has
died down."
Wiess freshman Sarah Edmon-
son was a little surprised at the inten-
sity of college rivalry at Rice.
"It surprised me because prop-
erty damage actually happened, 1
always thought that this was taboo
here," Edmonson said.
Wiess freshman Sharon Discor-
fano said, "Certain college pranks
are okay. They usually are fun, but
this one went too far."
NEWS
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than ever!
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OPINION
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negative aspects of the
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