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VOLUME 80, NUMBER 27
ONLY AT RICE: STUDYING FOR SEX?
APRIL 23,1993
Julie Browning served at Duke University before coming to Rice in 1990.
Admission Office names
Julie Browning director
Former senior associate director brings
Rice and outside experience to position
by Jean Kosela
The Admission Office an-
nounced Julie Browning's appoint-
ment this week to director of ad-
mission. Browning has worked at
Rice as senior associate director
of admission for two years.
"I'm very pleased that the
search resulted in the appointment
of Julie Browning," said Dean of
Admissions and Records Richard
StabelL
"She's outstanding. She has a
national reputation, she's talented,
and she has the ability to ensure
that Rice will continue to have
excellent classes."
The search for a director of
admission began in January, Sta-
bell said. "The final decision was
made last week, the position was
offered last Friday, and Julie ac-
cepted the position [Monday af-
ternoon]," he said.
Before coming to Rice Univer-
sity, "I was at Duke University for
five years," Browning said, where
she was associate director of ad-
missions.
She also has been associate
director of admissions at Meredith
College in Raleigh, N.C. and as-
sistant director of admissions at
Rhodes College in Memphis,
Tenn.
Browning's appointment is the
result of "a national search which
was conducted through the
Chronicle of Higher Education and
other associations. We received
approximately 95 applications,"
Stabell said.
There was only one other can-
didate from Rice. "That candidate
withdrew her application," he said.
The search committee con-
sisted of "two students, two fac-
ulty, and two alumni," Stabell said.
The committee was "primarily
looking for someone who had ex-
perience at a school like Rice."
The job advertisement called
for someone who had at least five
years' experience in a private, se-
lective-admissions type of school
and had standard things like the
ability to communicate, manage
people, etc," Stabell said.
"The director of admissions is
basically in charge of leading the
office," Browning said.
She said the director's major
duties are "coordination of all ad-
missions decisions; identification
and implementation of recruiting
objectives for the office; staff su-
pervision and evaluation; re-
searching the effectiveness [of
the admissions program]; and
budgeting."
Browning said she is not plan-
ning and major changes for the
Admission Office.
"What we've been doing
works. We just want to make sure
we're doing it in a high-quality
way," she said.
"We'll probably increase re-
search activity for one and take a
look at the applicant pool and see
what kinds of trends and changes
[there are]. We want to look at
that and stay abreast of where we
are and where we're going,"
Browning said.
"We have an excellent staff
here—very experienced and pro-
fessional [Wewanttojmake sure
they're fully challenged and de-
veloped in their positions," she
said.
Browning replaces Ron Moss
who left last month to accept the
director of admission position at
Southern Methodist University
in Dallas. He had held the posi-
tion for 11 years.
"They recruited him quite
heavily," Stabell said.
"They wanted him to come, so
they pulled out all the stops. He'll
do fine there—I wish him well."
U.S. grants $19.3 million to Rice professor
by Keith Hoffman
The United States Department of
Defense has chosen Rice professor
C. Herb Ward to direct a research
consortium studying environmental
remediation and cleaning of hazard-
ous waste sites. The government is
granting Rice and five other schools
$19.3 million to conduct this research.
The grant, the second-largest Rice
University has ever received, will
provide Ward and the six-school con-
sortium the funds necessary to test
and demonstrate new technological
developments in the field of remov-
ing hazardous and radioactive wastes
from polluted DOD sites.
"There is lack of proven cleanup
technologies that are reliable, cost
effective and able to meet the DOD's
restoration goals," Ward told The
Houston Post.
The consortium, composed of
Rice, the University of Texas at Aus-
tin, Lamar University, Stanford Uni-
versity, Louisiana State University,
and the University of Waterloo in
Ontario, Canada, will work in con-
nection with five environmental en-
gineering and consulting firms to
determine which of the many new
technologies have the greatest po-
tential for waste cleanup and demon-
strate cost-effective results.
The firms are Groundwater Ser-
vices, Inc., of Houston; ReTec Inc.,of
Massachusetts; Battelle, of Illinois;
Geotrans, of Virginia; and Gerhaty &
Miller, based in New York.
" [Thegoal] is to demonstrate new
environmental remediation technolo-
gies, particularly new technologies
to cleanup hazardous waste sites,"
Charles Newell, a 1978 Rice gradu-
ate and a principal and vice-president
of Groundwater Services, Inc.
"[There are] a lot of new technolo-
gies out there, but no information on
which ones work."
While any number of technolo-
gies may be considered by the con-
sortium, the grant proposal, written
by Ward with the assistance of
Newell, mentioned 10 examples of
techniques to be tested. These tech-
nologies included such new waste-
cleanup methods as bioventing, sur-
factants, mixed waste techniques,
passive treatment walls, biodegrada-
tion, and composting technologies.
Cleanup technologies from the oil
industry may also be tested.
While most of the grant money
will be used to test and demonstrate
these cleanup techniques, a portion
of the $19.3 million will be used to
establish the research center at Rice
and to pay the salaries of several full-
time employees for the center. The
actual headquarters of the [consor-
tium] will be associated with campus;
there will be a staff that will report to
[Ward]." Newell said. "Most [of the
money] will go to actual demonstra-
tions themselves."
"[The firms] would help univer-
sity partners to select which tech-
nologies to test and evaluate and to
oversee the demonstrations them-
selves," Newell said. "Dr. Ward's
original idea was to combine these
different groups who are working on
these technologies."
Newell praised Ward's efforts. It
was a "pretty difficult job in a very
short time frame...[the project] is all
his baby...he was the main thing in
getting it," he said.
Wiess students injured in party confrontation
by Sam Cole
Two Rice students were injured
last Friday during a party at Wiess
College. Senior Brian Hamill and jun-
ior Randy Block, both from Wiess,
suffered minor injuries in the inci-
dent.
Wiess President Celeste
Campbell said the problems at Wiess
began when the party, which origi-
nated as an off-campus party for foot-
ball players, was shut down. The party
then spread to Wiess, got out of hand,
and the campus police were called.
"It became an alcohol-policy viola-
tion," she said.
According to Campbell, while the
police were at the Wiess party, three
individuals who had come from there
began throwing a trash can against a
window in the Wiess Acabowl.
Hamill said that when he asked
them to stop, the individuals became
violent "As I was talking to one of
them, a second one came up behind
me on his hands and knees as a
tripping stool, and another one
pushed me," he said.
"One guy was at least 220 pounds
and another was at least 270," Block
said. "They could push around who-
ever they wanted to."
Block said he was punched from
behind when trying to get between
Hamill and the others. "A third guy
got behind me," he said. "He came
up and popped me in the eye."
Hamill said his hand was scraped
but has no other injuries. Block, how-
ever, said he is afraid that a previous
eye injury might have been aggra-
vated.
Block said that after he was
punched in the eye, the person who
hit him ran off. "I figured they could
put me between two slices of bread
and eat me for lunch," he said. How-
ever, they ran away in the direction of
Hanszen College.
Block then began chasing his as-
sailant, who ran towards Will Rice
and Baker Colleges. Block said he
met a campus security officer on the
way and stopped to tell him what
happened. The offifcer called for
backup.
The campus police and Block pro-
ceeded to search for the two sus-
pects who ran toward Hanszen. Block
said they found the two people there,
andthen someonewenttogetHamill
who was being treated at Wiess for
his injury.
Block said he could have identi-
fied the two, but the campus police
never gave him the chance. "They
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didn't give me the option of identify-
ing these guys or pursuing the [guy
who hit me]," he said.
Block said he originally thought
the campus police did not take deci-
sive action because all three individu-
als were black, and The Thresher had
recen tlypu blished a story on tiie cam-
pus police's dealings with black stu-
dents. But after meeting with cam-
pus police Chief Mary Voswinkel, he
said he was mistaken. "1 now think 1
was wrong about that," he said.
Block said the police acknowl-
edged that th e investigatio n had bee n
h and led improperly at the ti me. "They
apologized that the investigation was
not handled thoroughly enough last
Friday," he said.
The police are attempting to lo-
cate the individual who struck him
from behind, Block said. "They have
every intention of getting that guy's
name," he said. Block emphasized
that the only reason he wants the
name of his assailant is to recover any
medical expenses he might incur.
Campus police have filed no
charges, but Voswinkel said an inves-
tigation is currently underway. "We're
investigating it from the personal-
injury standpoint right now," she said.
According to Block, only one indi-
vidual was a Rice student
Although Block said he thought
that the Rice student was a football
player, he emphasized that he did not
think this reflected a problem with
the football team.
"I don't think in any way, shape, or
form it's the fault of the Athletic De-
partment," he said.
Campbell, however, said that she
thoughtitwasaseriousenough issue
to bring to the attention of the athletic
department and Coach Fred Gold-
smith. "We let him know what was
going on, and he said he'd look into
it" she said.
The Student Association Senate approved Wednesday alcohol
policy violation guidelines for non-college-sponsored events. The
following guidelines will go into effect in the fall:
• For partygoers violating the alcohol policy at their own college, the
first violation peryearwill result in a written court warning. Subsequent
violations will cany a penalty of one to 10 hours of community
sen/ice or a $10-100 fine.
•Partygoers violating the alcohol policy at another college will by tried
by the University Court.
• Party hosts found to have violated the policy will receive a written
court warning for the first violation per year and 3-15 hours of
community service ora $10-150 fine forevery subsequent violation.
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