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Rice develops programs for minorities
By Jeff Solochek
Rice University will initiate the
Student Ambassador Program and a
Science and Technology Center for
Parallel Processing this year. These
two programs are designed to help
Houston-area minority students.
The Student Ambassador Pro-
gram, sponsored by the Office of
Minority Affairs, will begin its activi-
ties immediately. A Science and
Technology Center for Parallel Pro-
gramming, sponsored by the Na-
tional Science Foundation and di-
rected by the departments of Mathe-
matical Sciences and Computer Sci-
ence, will start work in June 1989.
In related developments, Provost
Neal lane revealed that Professor of
Mathematical Sciences Richard
Tapia has been named Associate
Director of Minority Affairs in the
Office of Graduate Studies. This
position, which is unaffiliated with
the Office of Minority Affairs, gives
Tapia official capacity to recruit
minority students to Rice's graduate
programs. He will target groups his-
torically underrepresented in United
States higher education: African
Americans, American Indians, Mexi-
can Americans/Chicanos, and main-
land Puerto Ricans.
A Teacher-Scholar Program, pro-
posed by Director of Minority Affairs
Cathi Clack, is also under considera-
tion at this time.
Under this program. Rice would
offer "two, four-year fellowships of
$5,000 per year to [minority] stu-
dents with interests in both graduate
school and teaching." The fellow-
ships would be supplemental to any
grants received from the student's
graduate program.
After completion of Ph.D. work,
the teacher-scholar would have the
option of returning to Rice as either a
post-doctoral scholar or as a disserta-
tion fellow if the dissertation is not
complete.
The Teacher Scholar program
still awaits final recommendations
from the Dean's Committee and final
approval from President George
Rupp. lane, who chairs the Dean's
Committee, said he could not predict
the outcome, but that he sensed
support of the plan and hoped for
approval early enough to offer the
fellowship this year.
The Student Ambassador Pro-
gram, created by Clack, will focus its
attention on urging minority stu-
dents at Houston high schools and
middle schools to remain in educa-
tion and to consider attending col-
lege.
Rice students will act as ambassa-
dors to area schools with high minor-
ity enrollments, visiting at least two
schools per week during the lunch
hour or directly after the end of the
school day, Clack explained. Ap-
proximately 25 students attended
theFebruary23 organizational meet-
ing.
At the high schools, the ambassa-
dors will answer questions about
student life and academic issues
which the high school students
might have. They will also explain
that minority students can and do
succeed in a university or college
community. Most of the volunteers
for the program are minority stu-
dents.
Since most middle school stu-
dents have not begun to think about
attending college, Clack said, the
ambassadors will present a 30-min-
ute play at the middle schools. The
play, A Trio of Cools, written by Rice
alumna Krystal Williams, stresses
the importance of remaining in
school. "School is cool," the text
moralizes.
Clack said Rice must do more to
reach out to the Houston community
in a leadership role. She said she
hopes this program will help to break
down the barriers between Rice and
the surrounding areas.
"If nothing else from this office
succeeds, this program will last,"
Clack said.
In a further effort to help Houston
minority students, the Mathematical
Sciences and Computer Science
departments proposed a Science and
Technology Center (STC) for paral-
lel programming. Richard Tapia and
Computer Science Department
Chairman Ken Kennedy helped to
develop this program.
Rice received funding for one of
only eight STC's nationwide with a
National Science Foundation grant
of $21 million. The Texas state gov-
ernment has contributed $5 million
to this program. Rice University has
also pledged $100,000. Only the
University of Illinois received a
larger sum of $24 million.
In order to earn funding for an
STC, the proposal had to show how
the program will impact the sur-
rounding community, Tapia said.
With its large minority popula-
tion, Houston would benefit most by
furthering minority education,Tapia
said. The parallel processing pro-
gram will help by advancing US
expertise in math and sciences, a
goal of President George Bush, and
by presenting Houston-area minor-
ity students with opportunities in the
computer science field.
Beginning in June 1989, the STC
will bring math and computer teach-
ers from local high schools with high
proportions of minority students to
Rice for intensive courses in compu-
tational sciences. These courses aim
to teach the teachers new trends in
technical as well as professional
advancements in computing. Tapia
said this information should help the
teachers to better counsel their stu-
dents in both professional and re-
search computing.
Middle school teachers will enter
the program at a later undetermined
time.
The STC will also target minority
students to do graduate-level com-
puter science research. In addition,
the SIX will hold summer program-
ming and lab assistant jobs for mi-
nority high school students.
"I'm very happy with the commit-
ments Rice has made and that the
NSF has made," Tapia said.
Shepherd Singers tour Northeast
By Megan Dixon
The 25 members of the Shepherd
Singers will fly northeast for a four-
day, four-concert tour March 3 to
March 6. The Singers, mainly voice
majors from the Shepherd School of
Music, have toured the west coast
and Texas but never the northeast's
metropolitan areas.
The group will sing at Saint
Bartholomew's Church in New York
City; the Nassau Presbyterian
Church in Princeton, New Jersey;
the First Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia; and the Haverford
School in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Jolis^Krueger, a graduate voice
major in the Shepherd Singers, said,
"This is probably the best opportu-
nity [the Singers] have had. In the
four years I've been here, this is the
most serious undertaking we've
done."
The conductor of the Shepherd
Singers, Thomas Jaber, said the
school "has a very very fine national
reputation."
The twelve-year-old Shepherd
School has "a superb orchestra and
The 25 members of the Shepherd Singers will tour the Northeast over this spring
break with director Tom Jaber.
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an extremely high-powered faculty."
As well as showcasing the Sing-
ers, the tour will hopefully attract
potential conducting and singing
students that have inquired about
the School.
"We're eager to dispel the silence
about the [Shepherd] School. Until
we have the new building, we have to
recruit on the strength of faculty and
graduates," Jaber said.
Jaber, who arranged the concerts
and the publicity, said the perform-
ances happened to fall together con-
veniently.
The first concert in New York will
occur during a weekend of events
organized by the New York chapter
of the Rice University Alumni Asso-
ciation, honoring Sandy Havens of
the Rice Players.
Three concerts will be in
churches, but Jaber said there are
"no particular religious connotations
at all."
"There are several churches in
this country that rival concert halls.
Also, costs are prohibitive for normal
concert halls."
Frank Almanza, a tenor with the
Singers, said most of the group
thinks this tour will put the Shepherd
School's voice department on the
same footing as the instrumental
department Almanza said Jaber has
improved the music school's reputa-
tion.
"We're getting bigger crowds and
people are starting to say that the
choral program is coming back,"
Almanza said.
Jaber is in his first year as Direc-
tor of Choral Activities and Assistant
Professor of Vocal Coaching after
joining the Shepherd School last
year from Philadelphia.
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