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4 FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1993 THE RICE THRESHER
NEWS
Poultry, new president
mark matriculation
by Sara Maurer
Live chickens, streakers on bi-
cycles and a call to a lifetime of learn-
ing marked the matriculation of the
class of 1997 Tuesday. The ceremo-
nial beginning of the students' life at
Rice also provided one of their first
opportunities for displays of college
spirit
Opening the ceremony, Dean of
Students Sarah Burnett encouraged
freshmen to "reflect on the responsi-
bilities of citizenship at Rice. Take
everything
from Rice that
Rice has to of-
fer."
Chad Farga-
son, chair of the
Honor Council,
addressed the
students on the Honor Code. "The
Honor Code is not just about academ-
ics. It's about personal, lifelong integ-
rity affecting all facets of life," he said.
He counseled the students not to
wait until Rice's academics over-
whelmed them. "Decide now against
cheating," he said.
StudentAssociation President Julia
Farn ham was greeted enthu siastically
by Lovett College members who held
up signs proclaiming "1 slept with
Julia." Members of Brown College
released live chickens and roosters
into the audience during her speech.
The animals, reluctant at first to
leave their captors, initially went un-
seen by many, but word and odor
'Live long and prosper.'
—Malcolm Gillis
President
spread through the crowd. The birds
garnered even Farnham's attention.
"For four years now your goal has
been to get intocollege," she said. "So
what's the plan now — other than
chickens?"
President Malcolm Gillis took the
antics in stride, welcoming the first
freshman class of his Rice presidency
with the wish, "Live long and pros-
per," his hand raised in the Vulcan
greeting from Star Trek.
When interrupted by the crow of a
rooster, President Gillis alluded to his
love of agriculture, remarking that he
felt "right at
home." He then
proceeded to
identify the
chickens by
breed for hisau-
~~" dience.
Gillis
opened his speech with an account of
Rice history that was punctuated by
the appearance of two naked cyclists
who burst through the Sallyport,
streaking behind the podium on yel-
low bicycles.
"At Rice we're not interested in
making ideas safe for you; we're inter-
ested in making you safe for ideas,"
Gillis said.
He encouraged freshmen to be-
come involved in more than academ-
ics at Rice. "Make a commitment to a
lifetime of learning," he said.
The ceremony concluded with a
procession through the Sallyport, sym-
bolic of the students' entrance into
Rice.
4 *
President Gillis doesn't let uninvited livestock mar his matriculation speech Tuesday.
Colleges get new addresses — and the wrong zip codes
by Terzah Ewing
Rice's Department of Retail Sales
and Services surprised students this
summer by changing college ad-
dresses to speed up sluggish mail
service. But efficiency hasn't set in
right away—students were given the
wrong zip codes when the announce-
ment was made.
In the old system, mail arrived at a
ciowntown post office box and was
picked up and delivered to campus
each day by a private courier. Campus
mailroom personnel then sorted the
mail by college. The process delayed
mail arrival by a day or more.
Now, mail will bedelivered directly
to college street addresses. The cou-
rier and the time-consuming process
of on-campus separation will be elimi-
nated.
"It will be cheaper for the univer-
sity and faster for the students receiv-
ing the mail," said Robert Rawlings,
department director.
The Post Office told us they don't
normally deliver to college dorms,"
Rawlings said. "But we told them that
people do live in those dorms and
they're supposed to deliver mail to
people's residences." *
Though the Post Office finally
agreed, the details of the change
proved difficult to iron out Problems
have resulted.
Brown and Jones colleges initially
had a different five-digit zip code than
the other six colleges. But because
such a situation meant adding a route
to a station's delivery circuit, the Post
Office decided to group the colleges
under one five-digit code with each
co liege bearing its own street address
and four-digit code.
But Rawlings and his department
received the wrong five-digit code and
sent it on labels accompanying the
letters announcing the change to stu-
dents.
"We're not sure where the error
occurred," said Debora Duplechain,
the postal service representative who
worked'with Rawlings on the change.
" It might have been back in May when
we were working out the bugs in the
codes."
New letters and labels bearing the
correct zip code, 77005, are due to go
out next week to students' permanent
addresses so their families can use
them
"The mix-up shouldn't affect the
long term," said Rawlings said. "We're
stillgoingto begetting faster service."
Rawlings said the new system
should also increase the security of
The mix-up shouldn'/
affect the long term. Were
still going to be getting
faster service."
—Robert Rawlings
Retail Sales & Services
college mail. Last year students re-
ported theft of checks and gift certifi-
cates from letters.
"Fewer people will have access to
the mail now that there are fewer
steps," Rawlings said. "We've tried to
close opportunities for theft"
The mail system for other campus
buildings remains unchanged. Out-
going mail can be sent from the col-
leges or through the campus system.
The new addresses are:
• Baker College: 6320 S. Main St,
77005-1891
• Brown: 9 Sunset Blvd., 77005-1898
• Hanszen College: 6350S. Main St,
77005-1888
• Jones: 23 Sunset Blvd., 77005-1894
• Lovett College: 6310 S. Main St,
77005-1893
• Sid Richardson College: 6360 S.
Main St., 77005-1847
• Wiess College: 6340 S. Main St,
77005-1889
• Will Rice College: 6330 S. Main St,
77005-1894
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1993-94 policy adds BYOB section
by Kraettli Epperson
A new section and several phrases
added to this year's alcohol policy
reinforce the trend of shifting respon-
sibility for alcohol use away from the
university and toward students.
A new section, starting on page 99
of the 1993-94 Rice Student Hand-
book, presents guidelines for "bring
your own beverage" events that allow
individuals to bring their own alcohol
to BYOB-designated events. The sec-
tion is in addition to lastyear's declara-
tion, first appearing in thisyear's hand-
book, that university funds would no
longer be used in the purchase of
alcohol. According to Sarah Nelson
Crawford, director of student activites
and member of the Alcohol Beverage
Policy Advisory Committee, the two
changes are directly Belated.
"It came to my attention when stu-
dents came in to get permission for
parties that it wasn't very clear that [a
BYOB event] was legal," Crawford
said. "Also, the university decision [to
cease purchasing alcohol] gelled the
need for this to be clear."
The new section is intended to
clarify policies aiding the colleges in
the funding of alcohol for on-campus
parties, which is expected to be more
difficult after the university morato-
rium on direct purchasing. The com-
mittee recommended the new guide-
lines to the president's office, which
has ultimate say over university policy.
The BYOB guidelines provide for
registration of alcohol brought to par-
ties, the designation of those allowed
to consume it, the securing of it be-
hind the bar, and the return of
uncomsumed portions.
Jay Murphy, president of Sid
Richardson College, said the presi-
dents have not yet been introduced to
the new guidelines, except through
the handbook. "I really can't say [how
it will work]. I don't fully understand it
because we've neverseen it in action,"
Murphy said.
Murphy indicated some skepticism
that the policy would be frequently
used and foresaw complications in
dispensing the personal alcohol to
designated persons.
Crawford, however, pointed out
that an additional person, not a bar-
tender, will register the alcohol, and
that only at the beginnings and ends
of parties will there be any complica-
tion.
"[BYOB events have] been done
before with no problem. I'm sure that
weH find some problems, as with any
good policy, and then we'll hone it and
change a few things," Crawford said.
In other minor changes to the
policy wording, the addition of the
phrases "[Security officers] shall in-
sure that unauthorized supplies of al-
cohol are not brought in [to a party]"
and "Security officials shall seek to
prevent underage drinking," on page
98, explicitly emphasizes university
policy that security officers are to ac-
tively prevent underage drinking, in-
cluding students appointed as secu-
rity for an event
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