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TA • The
Kice Trasher
VOLUME 80, NUMBER K
A SLIGHTLY OBSCURE MOLDED DESSERT
APRIL 1,1993
Board busted in alcohol policy crackdown
by Teddy Bear
In an aggressive enforcement pro-
cedure, the Texas Alcohol and Bev-
erage Commission in cooperation
with the Rice campus police accom-
plished a bust of Rice's Annual Out-
Of-State Donor Party held each year
at the president's residence. In all, 32
donors were arrested for drinking
wine without proper Texas identifi-
cation, including four members of
the Board of Governors who were in
the state solely for this event
Rice Chief of Police Mary
Voswinkel stated afterwards, "It is
state law that one cannot consume
alcohol without a proper Texas ID.
The enforcement was a total suc-
cess. People should be warned, we
will enforce the law on this campus,
and continue this until the illegal
drinking stops."
When it was pointed out to
Voswinkel that it is not state law that
one must be carrying a Texas ID in
order to consume alcohol, she an-
swered, "In that case, everyone
should be really amazed that, even
though they didn't have IDs.wewere
still able to identify and arrest an
enormous number of drinkers. This
just proves that if you try hard enough,
any goal can be accomplished."
TABC agent Bubba-Joe Winslow
was especially pleased with the out-
come of the raid, even though he
suffered a black eye in the ensuing
struggle. "We captured more than 30
of those sloshing louts, and that's a
pretty good haul/Those out-of-state-
types come in here thinking they can
get away with anything. They'll know
better next time."
Several injuries were suffered
during the incident, both among do-
nors and arresters. Two donors had
their legs twisted out of socket in a
maneuver known as the "figure-four
leg lock" by members of the campus
police, while three bloody noses and
a broken finger were suffered by cam-
pus police.
One donor, whose legs had to be
replaced into their sockets by a chi-
ropractor, was Lillian Ford, grand-
mother of associate professor of an-
thropology Allen Ford and president
of the Washington D.C.-based Na-
tional League of the Blind.
"I've not wrestled since my high
school days back in Missouri and the
ol' leg lock was against the rules
then. Otherwise, I would have taken
the bastard. I don't know. I guess I
was getting a little rowdy, but you've
gottoletyour hair down sometimes,"
said Ford.
While the use of the lock on do-
nors was considered excessive by
some, most donors agreed that the
use of metal truncheons in the initial
moments of the raid was not neces-
sary.
Voswinkel explained the tech-
nique. "We have to ensure complete
and immediate compliance in the first
few moments of the enforcement,
both for the safety of the officers and
for the safety of the persons arrested.
No other method of communication
works," said Voswinkel, "Effective
use of theT-72 tactical baton helps to
ensure this compliance and makes
the entire thing go much smoother."
While President Rupp was not
taken in this raid, agents from TABC
indicated that it was "only a matter of
time" before he too would be arrested.
"I can assure you, well be keep-
ing an eye on him until he heads for
New York Then he and his friends
will be the New York State police's
problem, and that's fine with me,"
said agent Winslow.
President Rupp guilty of Honor Code violation
by Seymour the Hedgehog
President Rupp has confirmed
that his resignation is related to an
Honor Council accusation of plagia-
rism in connection with his "Report
of the President." He allegedly took
large portions of the report directly
from a similar report released by
Harvard's president last year.
In his weekly Thursday morning
press conference, Rupp announced
that he is not actually resigning—
instead, he is planning to withdraw
for two semesters so that he can
return in a year with a clean Honor
Code record.
Rupp announced that Vice Presi-
dent Ronald Stebbings, Director of
Admission Ron Moss, and former
Student Center Director Marty Vest
are also involved in the withdrawal
plan. In addition, he said that earlier
rumors tying his resignation to fi-
nances or athletics were unfounded.
The Trasher began an investiga-
tion of the report when it learned that
Rupp had mysteriously signed, "I
have neither given nor received any
unauthorized aid on this report," be-
fore students even voted on the pro-
posed pledge change. The Trasher
obtained the text of the original re-
port from Harvard and compared it
to the Rice report. Except for
administrator's names and a short
discussion of the college system, the
two were nearly identical. The report
even included statements specific to
Harvard, such as "Rice's top-notch
crew team is the crown jewel of its
athletic program" and "Houston's
tough winter weather and deep snow
make it important that the mainte-
nance department keep the heat on
at all times."
When asked about the charges,
the Honor Council confirmed that it
was conducting an investigation but
would release only an abstract of the
investigation, to avoid naming the
accused.
The abstract read, in part, "Uni-
versity President A claimed that he
was innocent, stating that he had no
idea why the two documents were so
similar. He also said that he was un-
sure of the proper procedure for foot-
noting annual reports."
Rupp was advised of the opportu-
nity to withdraw for two semesters
and return with a clean record. He
chose that option and advised the
others involved in the case to do the
same. Charles Duncan, chair of the
Board of Governors, reportedly also
knew of the plagiarism, but he has
refused comment on the issue.
During the press conference,
Rupp indicated his enthusiasm about
coming back to Rice next year, "t
shall return," he said.
Students were shocked to learn
about the plagiarism.
Said Jones sophomore Emily
Connor, "I feel so betrayed.... After
all the work he's done to make the
services here top-notch, why would
he go and do this?"
"I couldn't imagine him ever copy-
ing someone else's work. For one
th ing, who else would write like that?"
asked Hanszen senior Bill Elliot
Some faculty members were less
surprised. "We all knew that Rupp
wanted to make Rice an exact replica
of Harvard. Raising tuition, introduc-
ing the foundation courses, moving
towards research rather than teach-
ing—this is just the logical next step,"
said history professor Richard
Cartwright
And then there were 21
Four more Brown College students have been reported stolen. The campus police have confirmed that the
thief is collecting a student from each state. They have placed Alaskan Tony Kim under armed guard.
Does Bo know chemistry?
Chemistry professor Richard Smalley won this year's World Cup.
Shuttle system to receive
high-tech upgrade
by Happy Fun George
Rice University will install a state-
of-the-art mass-transit system, Vice
President for Finance and Adminis-
tration Dean Currie said in a press
conference Tuesday.
The system, named RUST (Rice
University Super Train), has been
instituted to alleviate continued park-
ing problems and traffic congestion
around the inner loop. It comprises
10.4 miles of reinforced, electrified
monorail track in tunnels 60 feet un-
derground, and is only the fifth sub-
way system in the United States.
The train itself is a marriage of
advanced French high-speed tilt-train
technology and revolutionary
supercollider/particle accelerator
physics, Richard Smalley of the Rice
Quantum Institute said in an exclu-
sive Trasher interview Wednesday.
"The tunnel the train travels in
generates aiteraating magnetic di-
poies whvh yv'.'. the train through at
high spoevs,.* n."jAijo s«jk." "The tr.v.r.
itself has a s,;xy:a..
shell with exeelxv.*.: :ra^.vcv -,v\v
erties. We anticipate a top scocv o.t
almost 850 miles per hour."
According to Smalley, who has
headed the secret project since its
inception almost two years ago, a
one-way trip from the Lovett Hall
Station to the Stadium Terminal, a
distance of approximately 1.2 miles,
will take only seven seconds.
"Of course, this has forced us to
invent new passenger accommoda-
tion technology," Smalley said. "With
initial and final accelerations of up to
eight gravities, not to mention ex-
treme transitory torques, an average
passenger would feel as if he weighed
upwards of 1200 pounds. We have
incorporated into the design heavily
sloped liquid-press acceleration
couches which will ensure passen-
ger safety and comfort. It's really
quite ingenious."
"We really have so me great peop le
working on this," he said. "The sonic
boom gave us enormous problems
until we invented Sound Blackbody™
inertial- and shock-dampeners. We
incorporated these directly into the
fusion outtake vents which open into
the tunnel, and bam, we were there!"
Reports from researchers in
Osaka, Japan who have run into prob-
lems while working along similar
lines have not discouraged the Rice
project coordinators. The Osaka re-
search team reports that the train's
unprecedented acceleration rates
"liquefied" the test animals involved.
"Look, a couple of dogs turned
into putty in a Japanese prototype
doesn't mean that our system won't
work," said Smalley. "We'll handle
any problems in an expedient man-
ner as they emerge."
When asked why the RUST
project has remained secret for the
past two years, Currie had no com-
ment Other sources indicate that
trouble obtaining federal safety certi-
fication on some of the new technolo-
gies originated for this system
prompted Rice to keep it secret.
Financially, Currie said that the
project cost Rice approximately $860
nv.'.jon. Of this cost, $144 million was
sKv.n: sr. congressional safety deregu-
'-.ation lobbying. •
'We think it was well worth it," he
said in the press conference. "RUST
expenditures are noticeably less than
Rice's total endowment, and our
money was going nowhere with the
junk bonds we've been buying. The
tourist revenues and student fees in
the first five years alone will cover
the initial outlay. With the new pat-
ents, marketing and promotional fees,
and advertising, it's easy to see that
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