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4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1990 THE RICE THRESHER
Freshman rusticated from Brown college grounds and activities
by Leezie Kim
A Brown college freshman was
rusticated from his college on the
evening of Nov. 1 in an incident that
began with a domestic quarrel of the
student's girlfriend and ended in that
student's eviction from Brown col-
lege.
That Thursday evening, the
Campus Police were sent to Brown
College to investigate suspicions
that the girlfriend of Brown fresh-
man Carlos Anderson, who had a
warrant out for her arrest, was stay-
ing there. Charges, which were later
dropped, resulted from an argument
the woman had earlier that evening
with her sister in which she threat-
ened her sister with a gun and left
with her sister's car, according to
Brown College master John Brels-
ford.
Though it had been rumored that
the woman and Anderson had had
arguments before in which articles
of Brown's furniture were thrown at
Anderson and broken, Anderson's
former roommate, Mike Ecklund
described the rumors involving the
incident as "all exagerated and
mostly untrue."
"When I asked people on the floor
(where Anderson lived), everybody
had a different story," said Brelsford.
"But 1 couldn't in good conscience
let him (Anderson) stay when it
became unsafe for the other stu-
dents living in the college."
It is unknown whether the
woman had the gun with her while
she was at Brown, but since the inci-
dent, she has been banned from
campus on the grounds she presents
Student plans conference in Japan
by Shelley Fuld
Ix>vett College sophomore Brad
Smith is helping organize the 43rd
Japan-America Student Conference
to be held next summer in Japan. The
conference convenes 40 American
and 40 Japanese students for a
month to present papers and discuss
political, economic, and socio-cul-
tural issues.
Smith applied to the program af-
ter he read about it in the ITiresher.
After he was accepted, he wrote a
research paper on international rela-
tions which he presented last sum-
mer at the conferences held in An-
chorage, Seattle and Berkeley. At
the end of the month, he was elected
to the ten-member executive com-
mittee organizing the 1991 confer-
ence.
There are two completely sepa-
rate tremendous benefits," Smith
said. "One is that we have serious
discussions on economics, trade re-
lations, politics. The other half is far
more beneficial. We were living with
40 Japanese students and learning
about their culture. We became
close friends. You don't really realize
you're learning, but in the end you've
learned so much."
The 1991 conference, "Meeting
the Challenge of Global Citizenship"
will be held in Tokyo, Niigata and
Sapporo. The executive committee
met for two days last summer at the
end of the conference and October in
Washington, D.C. to decide on the
"discussion tables," ten topics which
include sports and society, contem-
porary legal issues, and cultural
pressures.
There is also a trade symposium,
which included the president of
Isuzu Motors last year; forums on
defense and racial relations, which
will feature prominent business and
government leaders; and colloquial
discussion sessions on communica-
tion and gender.
The conference is subsidized by
corporate donations, including a
major benefactor, The Japan Foun-
dation, and the cost to participants is
$1900 for round-trip airfare from
Seattle to Japan and all expenses for
a month. Smith said President
George Rupp helped subsidize his
trip last year as well.
Open to all university students
through doctoral candidates*, the
conference has spaces for 30 Ameri-
can students. Smith said he expected
between 300 and 400 students to
apply for next year, up from over 200
this past year because the confer-
ence will be in Japan in 1991.
The conference is conducted in
English, and all the Japanese stu-
dents speak English. Smith said one
73-year-old delegate had been in
World War II and had recently re-
turned to school.
Smith said he will be presenting
an information session on campus
about the Japan-America Student
Conference on Tuesday evening,
November 26 to answer questions
for anyone interested in applying.
"You learn more in one month
about Japan than you could in a
semester of classes. You can't learn
in a classroom what you can interact-
ing with forty Japanese students,"
Smith said.
a safety hazard on campus.
"He's [Anderson] a good kid . .
.[he's] doing well at school," said
Anderson's football coach, Fred
Goldsmith. "If he was an out-of-town
student, we probably wouldn't have
moved him off campus." Anderson,
who is from Houston, is currently
living at his parent's home.
"It's [Anderson's home] close to
some apartments where a lot of the
football players live, so it worked out
well," said Goldsmith. "He's really
just the innocent victim, a victim of a
domestic dispute."
Now rusticated from Brown Col-
lege, Anderson will not be allowed to
enter the college or attend any func-
tion on its ground until the college
master deems it permissible.
Rustication is an emergency
power given to the college master
that allows the master to evict a stu-
dent from his room and forbid him to
enter the college when the student is
involved in some activity that is in-
herently dangerous to the other
members of the college, according
to Edward Doughtie, master of Will
Rice College and chairperson on the
committee of masters.
Though rare, cases of rustication
have appeared on Rice's campus
with the last one involving a student
who was banned from Will Rice Col-
lege for solicitation of illegal drugs.
"It's just when the master deems
it necessary, when it's in the best
interest of the rest of the college that
a student be rusticated, he [the
master] does it," said Robert Hay-
mes, who was master of Will Rice
when the student was rusticated.
"He [the master] does it reluctantly.
I still feel bad about it, but I had to do
what was necessary."
Brelsford admits he had seen
nothing like the Anderson incident
in his three years as college master at
Brown.
If he chooses to contest his rusti-
cation, Anderson's next step would
be to appeal to the committee of
masters and then to President Rupp.
Anderson has made no comments
on the incident.
Chem dept. develops thin diamond films
by Harlan Howe
In a recent breakthrough, a Rice
chemistry research team has discov-
ered a cheaper and easier procedure
for producing thin diamond films
than previously possible. The new
process may allow diamond coating
to be a successful industry by the
year 2000 and is expected to bring
attention to the Rice chemistry de-
partment.
Chemistry professor John Mar-
graves, head of the project said, The
goal of this research is to change the
perception of diamond from a gem-
stone to an engineering material."
Thin film diamond coatings are
made by depositing carbon from
organic gasses such as methane
onto an object; typically hydrogen
gas is present. Applications of thin
film diamonds include scratch-proof
glass for lenses, diamond grit, space-
craft windows and high-speed, high-
temperature electronics.
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The Rice chemistry group's
breakthrough is the addition of the
more reactive halogen gasses, such
as fluorine. With the old system, the
object to be coated had to be held
between 600-900° C and at very low
pressures; the Rice technique works
with an object temperature of as low
as 250° C and at normal pressure.
The new technique is faster and
expected to be a much cheaper proc-
ess. In addition, "the fluorine seems
to give a higher quality of diamond,"
said Margraves. Because of the
lower pressures and temperatures
required, the film can be deposited
on a broader variety of materials as
well.
Both processes involve passing a
mixture of carbon-based and hydro-
gen or halogen gasses through a
heating system, which splits the
gasses and allows the carbon to
deposit on a solid in several forms,
including diamond and graphite.
The secondary gas reacts with the
molecules left from the methane af-
ter the carbon leaves and with the
non-diamond forms of carbon, leav-
ing a pure film.
Although the vapor-deposit
method for making diamond was
discovered in 1962, "people kind of
ignored it" because it was inefficient,
said Margraves. The new process
may produce thin films relatively
cheaply, "on the scale of tens of dol-
lars per square inch."
Tlie discovery is expected to at-
tract more national attention to the
Rice chemistry department. Mar-
graves said, "For the short range, we
hope it will attract some more re-
search funding." The group is cur-
rently applying for a patent for the
discovery.
Limited tickets available
for Rice vs. Georgetown
Some students expect a she
by Peter Howley
The athletic department has yet
to determine the number of free tick-
ets which will be given to students
for the December 8 basektball game
against Georgetown at the Summit,
according to Athletic Director
Bobby May.
In addition, "we're not real sure
exactly how many we're going to
get," May said. Rice will "try to get to
a number as close as possible to the
number [of students] that attend
Rice games," he stated.
Students can pick up tickets on a
first-come, first-serve basis at the
Autry Court ticket window starting at
9:00 a.m. Saturday, December 1. A
small number of tickets will also be
available from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Monday, December 3 for anyone un-
able to get them Saturday. Students
can not receive tickets for others.
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udents expect a shortage
offree tickets forthe game, although
Miles said, "I don't know what to
expect...we will not necessarily run
out of tickets."
Rice is also selling tickets at the
Summit prices, although mainly to
season ticket'holders, who did not re-
ceive tickets for this game as part of
their package.
The arrangement between Rice,
Georgetown, the Summit and a na-
tional sports cable network, Sports
Channel America, dictated the num-
ber of tickets available to Rice, said
May. Under the arrangement, Geor-
getown received 400 tickets, Rice
received an allotment, and the Sum-
mit kept the remainder.
Miles said, "the game is actually
being run by the Summit"
Sports Channel America re-
ceived the right to televise the game
on its network, although it will not be
shown in the Houston area. In addi-
tion, the network agreed to pay
Rice's cost of renting the Summit
This arrangement stemmed from
Rice's desire to play Georgetown, a
perennial national power. Geor-
getown agreed to begin a series, and
games were played in December
1989 and December 1987 at the
Capital Centre %i suburban Wash-
ington, D.C. The 1989 game drew
7,057 fans to the 19,035 seat arena,
while 4,477 attended the 1987 game.
The basketball team hopes to
benefit from the national exposure
gained from the arrangement,, ex-
plained Thompson. "Both programs
thought it would be great to get na-
tional exposure by playing in the
Summit," he said, since both recruit
on a national level.
In addition, the Summit still has
over 4000 tickets remaining. Prices
range from $10 to $25.
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