The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1992 Page: 2 of 20
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2 FRIDAY. MARCH 27, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER
OPINION
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For 0-Week, Rice can and
should find a hotel before
becoming one
Next Orientation Week could be a regular three-ring circus with
18,(XX) of the Grand Old Party's elephants in town bidding with Rice's
new students for hotel rooms in Houston. The Republican Conven-
tion has already staked its claim in over 90 hotels in Houston and
blocked out so many spaces that there are no rooms available in the
Rice area from the Wyndham to theTides for Sunday, August 17. So
where are the estimated 200 students and company to go?
It was suggested at the latest masters and presidents meeting that
t he colleges put up the stranded new students and parents for that one
night, much to the protest of the members present. And so they
should protest. For reasons both practical and traditional, parents
and new students should not be in the colleges with the advisors the
night before Orientation Week.
The simplest reason is that there are still hotel rooms available in
Houston. Granted that the GOP has most major hotels in and around
I he Med Center locked up, but the Thresher was able to find a Holiday
Inn Express near Intercontinental that would set aside 100 rooms for
Rice.
Debbie Gatewood of the Holiday Inn Express quoted rooms there
at $75 plus tax with a credit card reservation. 'Hie problem, then, is a
logistical one, trying to notify 200 individuals that they need to pull out
that credit card and make reservations immediately. With demand
for rooms on that weekend so high and availability so low, it's
obviously not a buyer's market. If Rice wants to have rooms for its
incoming students, it'll have to act quickly and decisively.
No hotel will block off rooms for Rice on a loose promise when
GOP delegates are eager to get to Houston. What Rice must do is
reserve those rooms available using its own funding now and get
reimbursed from the students later. Seven thousand five hundred
dollars is no small sum, but it is worth avoiding the hassle of issuing
and collecting keys to parents and new students staying at the
colleges on Sunday night. Certainly it's worth avoiding the cleaning
and recleaning of the rooms. And can we really ask whole families to
provide their own sheets while they're at the colleges?
There is a kind of solidarity built into the hectic madness of
moving in together on Monday morning, of being new and lost
together, and finally being on one's own when the parents are firmly
shuffled off. This would be lost if some students came a day earlier
and some a day later. While there is still time (and room) available,
Rice should take the action necessary to ensure the class of 1996 has
its own Orientation Week, regardless of other conventions.
Leezie Kim, Chad Carson
Editors-in-chief
Shane Speciale
Business Manager
NEWS
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Kraettli Epperson Assistant
Editor
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Anne Chettle, Kevin Mistry, Sei
Chong, Mitra Miller, John
McCoy, Steve Rodrigues, Jean
Kosela
OPINION
Mark Schoenhals Editor
Bradley Monton, Assistant Editor
Chandler Davidson
SPORTS
Peter Howley Editor
Tim L'im Scoreboard
Tcrzah Kwing, Randy Block, Paul
Abosch, Riva Rahl, Lynanne Fos-
ter, Allison Tilly, Thco Mallinson
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Shala Phillips Editor
Ross Grady Columnist
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Babcock, Heidi Huettner, Neha
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FEATURES
Shaila Dcwan Editor
Jill Salomon
BACKPAGE
John McCoy, EricaOllman Editors
M. Wasz Cartoonist
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Production
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Rodrigues
BUSINESS
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Big corporate recruiter reluctant to
hire Rice grads because of football
To the editors,
Mike Gardner's letter on the im-
pact of Rice's varsity sports on the
University's image called to mind an
experience five years ago that illus-
trated how the impact can be negative.
In late 1987, I succeeded in per-
suading one of the country's preemi-
nent management consulting firms,
whose executive office was in a
Northeastern city, to interview gradu-
ating seniors at Rice. The firm had
never recruited in the Southwest be-
fore. Before the firm would engage in
formal recruiting, however, it wanted
to interview a sample of Rice seniors.
I supplied the firm with eight to ten
resumes, and the firm's recruiting co-
ordinator came to campus in Febru-
'All I had known
about Rice was that
it played in the SWC.
I thought it was one
of those big football
schools.'
ary 1988 to conduct the trial run. The
coordinator was about 30 years old
and a graduate of Lehigh and the
Harvard Business School. I doubt he
had ever been to Texas before.
Following the conclusion of the
interview schedule, I trooped over to
the Placement Office (as it was then
known) to receive the recruiting
coordinator's judgement He said that
he was very impressed with the qual-
ity of the interviewees, and then ex-
plained why he had felt it was neces-
sary to have the trial run. "All I had
known about Rice before coming
here," he said, "was that it played in
the Southwest Conference, and I
thought it was another one of those
big football schools."
Is this the image that Rice's par-
ticipation in big-time sports projects
in other parts of the country?
Stephen A. Zeflf
Herbert S. Autrey Professor of
Accounting
Unpleasant and dangerous off-campus
life simply reflects real-world problems
To the editors,
I wish to express my support of
the "off-campus" articles written by
Michael Overcash and John McCoy
last week. Way to go, guys. Your
articles penetrated the curtain of
terror that surrounds me in my off-
campus life, and, for a brief time, 1
was transported back to my blissful
days of on-campus isolation.
Ah, yes, the "salad days" I call
them now... I was cuddled and pro-
tected in a womb for the privileged.
How can I help but smile at the
memory? Instead of facing any sort
of reality, I was encouraged to turn a
superior back to elements of society
which I found to be distasteful.
The present system of forcing
people to live off-campus is ridicu-
lous and completely un-American.
Off-campus life is
very disquieting.
So is the fact that a
neglected and de-
clining third-world
nation exists within
this country.
Michael is right: off-campus life is
"very disquieting." So is the fact that
a neglected and declining third-world
nation exists within this country. But
who cares that the system which
prods me to be intelligent, educated,
and comfortable is the same system
which demands that others be
uneducated, impoverished, and des-
perate? The idea that we can and
should ignore social reality is one of
the fou nd ing pillars of this fine nation.
We have the right to be sheltered
from violence and crime. Many oth-
ers do not have this right
I mean, you can't really expect for
me to cope with the injustices that
support my current position in this
society. Those who look for guilt in
me arc patently absurd. Did I sleep
well on campus? Of course. I had
pleasant dreams of little aristocratic
children playing on a sVing set made
from my recycled materials.
Brandon Brown
Brown '92
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