The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1989 Page: 5 of 16
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THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1989 5
Students win Goliard travel awards
by Jennifer Rios
The Goliard Scholarship Com-
mittee met Saturday, April 1, in the
RMC courtyard to select the 1989
Goliard Scholarship winners.
The Goliard Scholarship is spon-
sored by Sid Richardson College
alumni. This year, because of the
addition of two corporate sponsors,
KLM andTravelTrends, and greater
than expected contributions to the
fund, the committee was able to
make three awards.
The recipients are the Rice Uni-
versity Everest Exploration Team,
Wiess College senior Debbie
Schmidt, and exchange student
from I^ancaster Stephen Donlan.
Each recipient will reccive $500.
The Everest Exploration Team
consists of SRC sophomores Joel
Weber, Jay Isaacson and Dan
Cheyette. They plan to travel to
Nepal and hike to the base camp
used by Everest explorers tackling
the peak. With them will be a SRC
banner and a Schaeffer light. Erom
Nepal they intend tovisittheobscure
towns and valleysof China recruiting
freshman for the Rice Ping Pong
team.
"We want to see if we can get
three guys drunk off of one beer, and
the only way of doing this is at ex-
tremely high altitudes, so we're
going to go up to the Everest base
camp and try it up there," Cheyette
said.
Schmidt plans to spend the next
year exploring Europe and the rest of
the world trying to decide what to do
with her life and collect material for
her memoirs. Schmidt has a work
permit for Ireland and England
through the Council on International
Educational Exchange.
"I plan to go to Ireland, starting
somewhere around June 1, and work.
I don't have a job, but I'm going to
find one when I get there," Schmidt
said.
Schmidt also plans to travel to
Germany and later work in England.
Dolan wishes to explore the
United States and its cheaper night
spots on his way to New York to meet
his plane home. The Grand Canyon,
Boston, Washington, D.C. and New
York are among the places he plans
to visit.
"I plan to travel by Greyhound, so
I'm going to meet some interesting
people. . . .There is going to be a
group of three of us going around,
two Englishmen and an Indian, and
so it's going to be interesting to see
what we think about America."
Chinese religions conference held
by Grace Chen
Rice University, Lilly Endow-
ment, Inc., Houston Baptist Univer-
sity, Houston Graduate School of
Theology, Institute of Religion and
University of Houston sponsored a
three day Conference on the En-
counter of Religions in China from
April 1-3.
Chairman of the Religious Stud-
ies Department Niels C. Nielsen
organized the event
Nielsen said the event was
sparked by the visit of world famous
theologian, Hans Kiing. Kting is a
professor of ecumenical theology at
the University of Tubingen in West
Germany.
Kiing and Julia Ching, an interna-
tionally known scholar of religion,
co-authored the novel Christianity
and Chinese Religions. Kiing and
Ching also teach RELI 206: Encoun-
ter of World Religions in China.
Nielsen said he believes the pur-
pose of the conference is "to show
that religion of every kind is still vital
in China." Also, it is to prove that the
cultural revolution did not destroy
Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, or
Confucianism.
The three day conference consid-
ered various religious questions
each day. Ancient Chinese religion
and Confucianism were the topics on
the first day; Taoism and Buddhism,
Visiting Professor of Religious Studies Hans Kung gives a lecture at the
conference on Chinese religions.
on the second day; and Christianity
on the last day.
Nielsen said he felt the confer-
ence was a success. Nielsen said an
important point of the conference
was that "Westernization came with
Christianity, but Christianity goes
beyond the West."
After the conference, Kiing was
asked, "Can you be Confucian and
Christian?" Kting said, "one can
easily be Confucian in a cultural way,
after all, Catholics in England use
English customs."
Kiing said he believed the confer-
ence was "a real success because we
know more about the present situ-
ation, especially the problems of
Christianity in China." He said the
progress of conversion to Christian-
ity is slow, but so was the conversion
to Buddhism, Taoism, and Confu-
cianism.
Kting said he hopes the students
understood "that in every area of
study whether economics, history,
or mathematics, religion is a very
basic dimension in the life of every
human being. A person who is edu-
cated in his or her field should not
remain in, how do you say. . . .chil-
drens' shoes."
Rice seeks out new health educator
by Mich£le Wucker
A university committee has be-
gun searching for a new full-time
health educator. Vice President for
Student Affairs Ronald Stebbings
said he hopes to have the position
filled by July 1.
"The health educator will be re-
sponsible for a Vellness' program
ranging from sexually transmitted
diseases to substance abuse to
stress," said Director of Student
Activities Patricia Martin, who heads
the search committee.
He or she will coordinate campus
health education efforts. Specific
tasks include coordinating the Peer
Counseling Program, developing
and presenting workshops for Orien-
tation Week on timely health-related
topics, developing health education
materials, and referring students to
appropriate health care profession-
als or treatment facilities.
The health educator will also
serve on the University Committee
on Student Health and other ad hoc
committees related to health issues.
Martin said the health educator
will work closely with Health Serv-
ices, Psychiatric Services, the Office
of Student Activities, and the col-
leges.
"He or she will approach all sub-
jects in a positive way, stressing
preventative, educational meas-
ures," Martin said.
According to Martin, Rice de-
cided to create the new position for a
number of reasons. She said univer-
sity ad hoc committees on alcohol,
acquaintance rape, and substance
abuse all contributed to the decision.
Martin said the rise in the drink-
ing age forced campus administra-
tors to seek ways to decrease the
amount of drinking on campus. In
addition, last year Congress linked
federal aid to substance abuse pre-
vention programs on campus.
"There has been national pres-
sure to hire health educators," Mar-
tin said.
Stebbings said he sees the new
position as "a major step forward" for
Rice. "It came about because of a
growing awareness that the absence
of such a person prevented proper
determination-of health problems on
campus and ways to solve them," he
said. The search committee includes
students, faculty and administration
members, and staff from Health and
Psychiatric Services.
New RPC takes office
by Harlan Howe
Next year's newly elected Rice
Program Council officers assumed
their duties at the changeover meet-
ing Monday, April 3.
Accepting their new positions
were: Steve Cantrell, President; Tif-
fani Cook, Internal Vice President;
Rick Hahn, External Vice President;
Chris Lowe, Treasurer; and Chris
Cowles, Secretary.
When asked how he felt about
being the new RPC President, Can-
trell said, "I was external VP last
year, so I'm not getting some sort of
power trip about it. It's important for
me to stay on people's level."
The members present discussed
Rondelet, which was held Saturday,
April 1 at the Decorative Center of
Houston.
Ticket sales for the formal dance
grossed about $10,000.
"It was a really beautiful place. I
thought the Decorative Center was
an excellent choice," Jones College
sophomore Liz Vazquez said.
Shuttle buses did not start run-
ning to the site until about midnight,
although they were supposed to
have started at 10 p.m.
"They were here early," Cantrell
said.
"They were here at nine when
they were supposed to come at 9:30.
Nobody was here, so they left. Then
we had a hard time getting them
back," he added.
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McGarrity, Patrick & Sendek, Joel. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1989, newspaper, April 7, 1989; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245719/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.