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THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1989 5
Health
survey
completed
by Jennifer Rios
The Student Association's Stu-
dent Health Services Committee
compiled the results of a survey of
student opinion about Student
Health and Psychiatric Services.
The committee chose ten names
per page from the directory and sent
them surveys. Of200 surveys distrib-
uted, only 49 were returned.
When asked what kind of reputa-
tion the SHS has, 23 said "fair;" 18,
"poor;" 8, "good;" and 0, "excellent"
Twenty-six had problems with
delays for scheduled appointments;
ten had not experienced any prob-
lems. Thirteen reported having
problems with inaccurate diagnoses.
Regarding 'prescriptions, forty-
had received medicine from SHS, 22
had used an SHS prescription to get
medicine elsewhere, and 10 said
SHS's medicine was not helpful.
Asked if they had problems mak-
ing an appointment, 14 said "yes,"
and 27 said "no." Twenty-five said
they w?j*e satisfied with SHS serv-
ices, and 15 said they were not.
Three questions were included
A student fills out the health survey.
about Psychiatric Services. Forty-
three students said they had never
used the psychiatric service either
for themselves or a friend.
When asked what they thought of
PS's reputation, 13 said "fair;" 12,
"good;" 4, "poor;" and 0, "excellent"
"The main thing we were trying to
do.. .is try to get a general idea about
how people at Rice felt about the
Health Services system," SHS Com-
mittee Chair Mary Elliott said.
"We [the SHS Committee] saw
that there might be a problem with
Health Services.. .But from the sur-
veys we got back, it didn't seem like
there was a problem," she said.
One doctor works on campus for
forty hours a week, and during busy
hours there are two.
Newsbriefs
Singer to tango
The Department of Spanish, Por-
tuguese and Classics will present
Silvia Bezi, who will sing
Argentinean Tangos in Hamman
Hall, Friday, May 5, at 8 p.m. Admis-
sion is $3 for students and faculty.
For information, call x3238.
Quartet successful
New World Records will release
an album featuring the Continuum
Percussion quartet in the fall of 1989.
The album will be produced and
recorded by the Foundation for
Modern Music, Inc. of Houston, at
Sugar Hill Sound.
The Continuum Percussion
Quartet of Rice University has also
been invited to participate in the
quarter-finals of the Concert Artists
Guild 38th International New York
Competition May 5,1989.
The group is the first percussion
quartet chosen to perform and is one
of 105 chosen from 475 applicants to
participate.
Finals will be held May 10,1989.
Prizes include $2,500, recitals in
New York and other major cities, and
a commissioned work by a composer
of the winner's choice.
The Shepherd School of Music,
the Rice Program Council, the Shep-
herd School Student Council, and
the Rice University Student Associa-
tion are funding the trip to New York.
Members of the quartet include
Gabriel Dionne, J. Riely Francis,
Christopher Rose, and Richard
Skains. All are studying at the Shep-
herd School under Richard Brown.
Brown and Salgo
teaching awards
The George R. Brown Prize for
Excellence in Teaching has been
awarded to Dr. Larry S. Temkin,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
Winners of the six George R.
Brown Awards for Superior teaching
are: Dr. William L Wilson and Dr. C.
Sidney Burrus, Professors of Electri-
cal and Computer Engineering; Dr.
Gale Stokes, Professor of History;
Dr. Susan L Clark, Professor of
German; Dr. Kathleen S. Matthews,
Professor of Biochemistry; Dr.
Robert L Patten, Professor of Eng-
lish.
The recipient of the Nicolas Salgo
Distinguished Teacher Award is Dr.
Thomas Garrity, G.C. Evans Instruc-
tor of Mathematics.
Debate team wins
The George R. Brown Forensics
Society attended the National Foren-
sics Association Tournament last
weekend.
Will Rice College sophomore
Anderson Brandao and freshmen
Lisa Bell and Diane Bunton travelled
to Upsala College in East Orange,
New Jersey, for the four-day tourna-
ment.
Brandao made the quarter finals
in extemporaneous.
Bunton, who qualified in prose
and poetry, is the first person from
Rice to qualify in a national tourna-
ment in an interpretation event
Ma wins Truman
Sid Richardson College junior
Miriam Ma was one of three stu-
dents in Texas to receive a Hairy S.
Truman Scholarship for 1989.
Each student receives an annual
maximum stipend of $7000 peryear
for the last two years of college and
two years of graduate study. The
awards are granted to promising
students who have demonstrated a
firm commitment to a career in pub-
lic service at the federal, state or local
levels.
The Harry S. Truman Foundation
makes one new scholarship avail-
able annually to a qualified student
from each state, the District of Co-
lumbia, Puerto Rico, and considered
as a single entity, Guam, the Virgin
Islands, American Samoa, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands.
Wood wins Parish
Wiess junior Kenneth Wood is
the recipient of the 1989John Parish
Fellowship for summer travel.
Wood, an art and architecture stu-
dent, plans to spend two months
traveling through Greece painting
watercolors.
The Parish Fellowship, worth
$1800, is intended to give a Rice
University undergraduate a chance
to experience another culture first-
hand. Nine students applied this
year.
Applicants submit a two-to-scven-
page proposal. Although grades are
not the primary factor for choosing
the winner, applicants must submit
transcripts. Three finalists were
chosen for interviews to determine a
winner.
WRC court's yell war decision passed
by Jennifer Rios
Proctor Edward C. Holt approved
the Will Rice College Court's deci-
sion to acquit five students involved
in a yell war Saturday, February 18,
on the WRC sundeck.
The Court acquitted WRC fresh-
men Andrew Sansom, Chris Griffin,
Jeff Feinberg, and sophomore John
Clay of violating the city ordinance
and state law of disorderly conduct
because of a lack of specific univer-
sity policy regarding yell wars.
The decision had been pending
for over a month after Holt rejected
the Court's initial decision of March
15.
WRC Master Edward Doughtie,
WRC Court member Mary Elliott,
and former WRC Chief Justice Kent
Taub met Friday, March 30, at Holt's
request to discuss the reasons for
the first report's rejection.
The WRC Court sent Holt a re-
vised decision April 6 and was noti-
fied of its approval April 10.
When asked how the Court's
argument had been changed for the
Proctor's approval, Taub said,"We
just deleted the sections about deter-
mining whether it [the sundeck] was
public or private, and about there
being no complainant, sent it back to
him, and he [Proctor Holt] approved
it"
The original report of March 15
had stated, "The case for the defense
rested on the lack of a true complain-
ant, lack of precedent, lack of specific
university policy regarding 'yell
wars', and what they felt had been
'selective reinforcement' of a rarely
enforced state and city ordinance."
The WRC Court had argued in its
original report that the RUPD offi-
cers who filed the report could not be
individual complainants in cases
brought before any of the court sys-
tems.
According to Taub, Holt main-
tained that there was no vacuum in
university policy regarding yell
wars, and that the Court should base
the decision on whether or not there
was a disturbance to the police offi-
cers.
Taub said if the Proctor had not
approved the court's final decision,
the case would have been dropped
because of new reforms this year
regarding the Proctor's role in stu-
dent disciplinary cases and the little
time left in the semester to reach a
decision.
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McGarrity, Patrick & Sendek, Joel. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1989, newspaper, April 28, 1989; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245722/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.