The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1988 Page: 8 of 16
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8 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1988 THE RICE THRESHER
Tuition
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all religious, racial, and socio-eco-
nomic backgrounds. Cumulative
increases in tuition could squeeze
potential applicants out of our appli-
cant pool. We appealed to their sense
of tradition, the charter.
"A precedent set in a 1965 court
case upheld tuition increases as a
last available means to generate
revenue.
"We're not accountants or finan-
ciers, but we just don't see this as the
last means," he said.
Karsner predicted, "It will proba-
bly be an increase moderately
higher than last year's, less than
$1000 and more than $400."
Hanszen College junior Becky
Durrer organized a protest to be held
at noon Thursday at William Marsh
Rice's statue in the academic quad-
rangle. The protest was cancelled
Wednesday night
Durrer said, "Several members of
the committee asked me not to go
through with the protest I didn't
necessarily agree with them, but I
know some of them personally and I
know how much work they've done.
They probably know more than I do
and they thought this could hurt all
that work."
Karsner said he asked Durrer to
cancel the protest "We called for a
major student outpouring months
ago. The time has passed. The Board
understands student opinion—we
must channel it constructively to
discuss further increase.
"We risk undermining the six to
eight weeks of our committee's work
with this competing strategy. The
increase will be modest, in my opin-
ion, because of the committee. 1
wanted a stable situation."
The Challenge for Excellence"
poses five questions which both the
Board and students will be forced to
address as economic conditions
tighten at Rice.
Fundraising
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reputation in the bioscience field, but
will also induce biotech firms to
move to the Houston area. Dean
Carroll compared Houston's future
as a major biotech center to the Sili-
con Valley computerphenomenon in
California.
Carroll, who relocated to Rice two
months ago from the University of
California at Berkeley, said the bio-
science labs will benefit Rice and the
students as long as the focus on
undergraduates remains strong and
does not shift to research and gradu-
ate training.
Ending the fundraising an-
nouncement, President Rupp said,
The two buildings embody in bricks
and mortar more concretely the
commitment that Rice has to con-
tinuing to be very strong not only in
sciences and engineering but also in
the arts, humanities, and social sci-
"How will a tuition increase im-
pact student life at Rice? How will a
tuition increase affect the composi-
tion of the current and future student
bodies? Should tuition be a primary
source for increasing revenues? Will
the revenue generated by a tuition
increase be significant relative to all
other sources? Do the overall effects
of a tuition increase adhere to the
founder's intentions for the Univer-
sity?"
Casey said, The answers to
these questions certainly transcend
the financial—they are questions
about what Rice University is to be.
We are asking them to adhere to
traditions providing equal opportu-
nity and an egalitarianism that is
special to this school."
Few students attend justice forum
by Harlan Howe
The Judicial Review Committee
expressed disappointment about
low attendance at their campus jus-
tice forum November 23.
The Committee is currently com-
piling a report on improvements in
the campus justice system to submit
to Vice President for Student Affairs
Ronald Stebbings by early next
semester.
Only about 10 students showed
up at the forum, which was meant to
elicit student input on the current
Late directories result
from computer errors
by Tim Carroll
Administration officials ex-
plained reasons for delay of the
campus directories and for certain
mistakes in the directory, both in
faculty and student listings.
Associate Director of Student
Activities Lois Waldron said the de-
lay was a result of new information
added to the book's original format
after an original test copy of the tape
had been sent to the publisher, Data
Nationals.
According to their contract with
Data Nationals, Rice is required to
send test copies of both student and
faculty/staff listings to Data Nation-
als by July 1 to provide Data National
time to work over the information
and return sample copies to Rice.
Waldron was informed by Associ-
ate Vice President for Administra-
tion Neill Binford August 1 that there
was a strong desire to include an
electronic mail system code to the
general information. This new infor-
mation required an additional test
tape.
The electronic mail submissions
were bordered by a certain type of
bracket which was not a universal
character and which was misread by
Data Nationals' computer.
It became necessary to retype,
electronic mail systems information,
replacing the brackets with paran-
theses, which could be read cor-
rectly by the publisher's computer.
This delayed the project until ap-
proximately September 23.
Associate Vice President for
Administration Neill Binford said
the Committee on Computers had
requested electronic mail numbers
to be included a year ago. This re-
quest was forgotten until the sum-
mer, when Associate Provost Ed-
ward Hayes and the Computer Plan-
ning Board pushed for introducing
departmental electronic mailing ad-
dresses.
Hayes and the Planning Commis-
sion worked with the Institute for
Computer Services and Applications
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and the Registrar to formulate a let-
ter code for each office and
department This information was
not submitted to former Student
Association External Vice President
Adam Carr and Waldron until Au-
gust.
Mistakes in the student section of
the directory are the fault of the indi-
vidual students. Waldron said any
errors are because a student did not
submit correct information.
Mistakes in the faculty section
occurred because of members of the
faculty who asked to have their
numbers omitted. The code for a
blank number on the file was a zero,
and when existing numbers were
deleted, they were not replaced with
the necessary zeroes. Data Nation-
als' computers misread the file and
substituted a preceding number in-
stead of a blank.
Binford emphasized his support
of the directory project, mentioning
that in past years the phone books
had been printed separately, with
one book containing student infor-
mation and one with staff. The staff
issue was printed at a cost of $6000,
whereas the SA stand s to gain a profit
of $8000 from advertising sales in
this issue. The SA has not yet re-
ceived $8000 from Data Nationals.
court system and discuss possible
changes to the system.
Committee members said atten-
dance might have been low because
the forum was held the night before
Thanksgiving.
Committee member Paul Pfieffer
said, "The group that we had was
very interested. We got some of the
kind of feedback we had been get-
ting informally from others.
"They were saying the kind of
things the student members on the
committee had been saying," Pfief-
fer said.
"We're looking at the Honor
Council and the Honor system as
providing some ideal for which to
work.
"The major change is restructur-
ing the University Court One of the
things we're looking at is the possi-
bility of structuring membership in
the terms of representation of vari-
ous classes, with the idea that some
people who come in early will stay on
and give some continuity," Pfieffer
said.
Committee member and Student
Association President Andy Karsner
said, "There will be some reforms of
the administration's institutions.
The Office of the Proctor will be han-
dling a lot less than in its current
regard, but will have hopefully more
positive aspects and more positive
contacts with students and student
affairs.
"So we will be redefining and pos-
sibly even renaming the office."
One issue the committee is con-
sidering is greater involvement of
the University Court as a stronger
central court than individual college
courts.
"It is very hard for the college
courts to deal with the alcohol policy
with any real firmness because it is
an unpopular policy with a lot of indi-
viduals," Pfieffer said.
Karsner said, "This unique and
model atmosphere of Rice Univer-
sity has given us the opportunity to
launch a really grand experiment
with student justice—students ad-
ministrating justice upon other stu-
dents—and the administration only
coming into the loop when a penalty
is to be doled out or in cases of ex-
treme circumstance. That's really
revolutionary in terms of the coun-
try."
Wells drilled on prairie
By Jennifer Rios
Rice's Environmental Engineer-
ing and Geology departments, Terra
Technologies, and Reed Morris
Drilling, Inc. drilled three shallow
wells next to the Biology Depart-
ment Prairie Wednesday, November
30. The wells will be used for future
assessment of water quality and
availability.
A cone penetrometer which de-
termines subsurface geology includ-
ing water level measurement, chemi-
cal testing and water productivity
was completed Wednesday near the
stadium parking lot along with other
"twin" wells near the Biology Depart-
ment.Prairie.
Among those involved in the drill-
ing were Professor of Environmental
Science and Engineering Philip
Bedient and Associate Professor of
Geology H.C. Clark.
Bedient said a lot of the work
involved in the drilling was donated
by Terra Technologies and Reed
Morris Drilling, Inc. The permanent
wells will be used to evaluate the
subsurface water bearing formation
or aquifer system, Bedient said.
The well sites will be used as a
"laboratory^ for environmental sci-
ence and geology students in the
future for water level and chemical
testing,Bedient said, "Normally
wells like these are only put in
around hazardous waste sites and it
is difficult to get students to observe,
because of exposure and liability."
Testing of the wells will be incor-
porated in to ENVI 401, ENVI 518,
GEOL352 and GEOL452.
Newsbriefs
by Ross Goldberg
BSU co-sponsors
apartheid film
The Black Student Union in col-
laberation with the Student Coalition
Against Apartheid will present the
Walter Cronkite documentary,
"Children Against Apartheid," to-
night at 7:30 p.m. in the Kyle Morrow
Room of Eondren Library.
A brief question and answer pe-
riod will follow the film.
Rice announces
Truman nominees
Brown College sophomores
Chap Atwell and Teresa Shiller and
Sid Richardson College sophomore
Miriam Ma have been selected as
Rice nominees for the Harry S. Tru-
man Scholarship.
Truman Scholarships are
awarded to students who are plan-
ning a career in public service and
pay up to $7000 per year toward tui-
tion and expenses for the student's
junior and sen ior years and two years
of graduate study.
Finalists and winners will be
chosen by the foundation by March,
1989.
Applications due for
Trinity exchange
The selection committee for the
C. D. Broad Exchange Program in-
vites applications from students who
are able to meet the costs of the
program (estimated to be $12,000).
The Rice student will spend the 1989-
90 school year at Trinity College at
the University of Cambridge.
All Rice students in good stand-
ing and scheduled to graduate after
May 1990 are eligible.
In order to apply, submit a 500
word statement on your reasons for
applying, a personal biography, and
three letters of recomenjlation to
Vice President for Student Affairs
Ronald Stebbings by Friday, Decem-
ber 9,1988.
Sophomore wins
Post contest
The Houston Post has named
Hanszen College sophomore Grace
Chen as winner of the "Being Orien-
tal in Houston" Writing Contest.
Chen will receive $2500 and recogni-
tion at an awards ceremony. In addi-
tion, the 15-page essay will be pub-
lished in the Parade section of the
Post Sunday, December 4.
In Chen's essay, entitled "Double
Happiness," she stresses the impor-
tance of keeping her culture and
realizing her Chinese-American
identity.
Registrar moves to
Allen Center
The Registrar's office moved
from Lovett Hall to the first floor of
Allen Center this Saturday. The of-
fice was closed on Monday, Nov«Jh-
ber 21, but was reopened on Tues-
day, November 22, at 8:30 a.m.
Support staff of the Admission
Office now occupy the vacated
space.
GSA sponsors
canned food drive
The Graduate Student Associa-
tion is sponsoring a Food Drive
December 1 -13. Each academic and
support department will receive one
grocery bag to fill with non-perish-
able items such as canned goods,
rice, and cereals.
The food which is collected will
be donated to the Houston Food
Bank.
Contact Susan Hult (623-0722)
for more information.
Esperanza:
lost and found
Found: 2 black tuxedo jackets at
Esperanza formal. Please come by
campus police station to identify.
Lost: Blue leather purse. Per-
sonal papers inside. Please call Will
Rice College office with any informa-
tion at 527-2307.
Financial aid forms
due for '89-'90 p
Forms are now available in the
Financial Aid Office, 201 Lovett Hall.
Forms must be filed by March 1,
1989.
If notification of aid for 1989-90 is
desired prior to leaving school, the
spring deadline for filing is June 1,
1989.
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