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SINCE 1916
The
VOLUME 81, NUMBER 19
SOMEONE YOU HATE NAKED
FEBRUARY 11, 1994
for college courses
by George E. Hatoun
President Malcolm Gillis announced plans this week to give $40,000
to the residential colleges for college courses that would improve
students' academic environment
Each of the eight colleges will receive $5,000 to pay for expenses
associated with offering new college courses during the 1994-1995
academic year.
"[The decision to fund college courses] should help the colleges
foster a stronger degree of intellectual engagement among residents,"
Gillis said.
The expectation is that it would better enable students to partake of
faculty strengths not already reflected in courses offered in the curricu-
lum," he sad.
The announcement came as a result of discussions with student
leaders, faculty, masters and officials in student affairs, according to
Gillis.
Sarah Burnett, interim vice president for student affairs, said the plan
is part of a continuing effort to include the residential colleges in the
academic community.
"The colleges are more than places for students to live... One way to
SEE COURSES PAGE 9
Pink Floyd performing here
Show marks first time a major tour has stopped at Rice Stadium in six years
by Mike Bogaisky
Pink Floyd is coming to Rice.
Promoter Pace Concerts is selling
tickets tomorrow for an April 5 ap-
pearance of the British rock band at
Rice Stadium.
The band announced plans Feb. 3
for the North American leg of its
Awaken to The Sense of Reality World
Tour at a Los Angeles news confer-
ence, including a stop in Houston.
Pink Floyd's appearance marks the
first time a national tour has stopped
at Rice Stadium since the Monsters of
Rock tour six years ago.
Assistant Athletic Director Steven
Moniaci said an official agreement for
the use of the stadium has not yet
been reached between Pace Concerts,
Pink Floyd's local representative, and
the Rice Athletic Department, despite
full-page ads for the concert this week
in many local newspapers.
"A contract hasn't been signed,"
Moniaci said, "and until then, nothing
goes." He declined to speculate on the
chances of both parties reaching an
agreement or when this would hap-
pen.
But Pace President Louis Messina
said, "That has to be his position until
we sign. We're very confident that this
will happen." Messina also declined to
comment on when they would do this.
The last major concert hosted here
was the Monsters of Rock in 1988 — a
combined bill of Van Halen, Metallica,
Dokken.TheScorpionsand Kingdom
Come. Moniaci said Rice also hosted
the Beach Boys in the mid 1980s.
Moniaci said the stadium has been
considered for major concerts fourto
five times in the last five years. He said
promoters generally pit Rice against
the Astrodome in an attempt to lower
prices. But the Astrodome generally
wins, possibly because of its better
facilities and invulnerability to weather
conditions.
Astrodome press liaison Peter Fink
confirmed that Pace contacted the
Astrodome about the April 5 show,
but a Houston Astros game conflicted
with the date.
In 1989 Paul McCartney was con-
sidering Rice Stadium for his world
tour, but arrangements fell through
when McCartney became ill and sub-
sequently canceled half of the tour.
Moniaci would not say how much
money Rice stands to gain from the
SEE CONCERT PAGE 9
Election Notes
Junior Andrea Johnson was
elected president of Baker
College on Tuesday.
Brown College elected the
following students to its
executive cabinet Tuesday:
Shawn Brooks, executive vice
president; Guss Sattem,
internal vice president; and
RoseAnn Martinez, secretary.
There will be a run-off election
for treasurer on Feb. 22
between Jeremy Smith and Tino
Tran. .
The Rice Threshet'inadvertently
reported last week that the
deadline for general-election
petitions is Feb. 15. It was
actually Feb. 8, but the Student
Association Senate agreed to
extend the deadline until today
to avoid elirninatingcandidates
from the race. Petitions are
due at 5 p.m. in the student
Organizations office. Campaign
statements are due today by 5
p.m., on a Macintosh disk, in
the Student Organizations
office. Campaigning may begin
.Tuesday for SASenate officers,
Rice Program Council officers,
Rice Thresher editor,
Campanile editor, Honor
Council class representatives,
University Court class
representatives and Rice
Student Volunteer Program
officers.
The spring election will be
March 15. Petitions will be
available Feb. 23 for Honor
Council representatives at
large, University Court
representatives at large and
Sammy the Owl.
Rice student crowned Miss Chinese New Year
by Lisa Ann Robertson
Patricia Lin is a self-described waif.
"I never wear makeup ... I wear
boys' clothes ... I have athletic legs.
I'm the last person friends expected to
see in a beauty pageant," said the
Baker College junior.
Not only did her friends see her in
the Chinese American Citizens Alli-
ance Miss Chinatown Pageant, but
they also saw her win first runner-up
and the title of Miss Chinese New
Year.
The Chinese holiday, based on the
lunar calendar, began yesterday and
lasts two weeks. As the first run ner-up
in the Houston-area pageant, Lin as-
sumes the local duties of the winner
who competes in San Francisco this
week for the national title.
Lin's responsibilities include ap-
pearances at CACA-Houston Lodge
events to celebrate the New Year. In
honor of the holiday, different Chi-
nese-American organizations invite
family, friends and community lead-
ers to various functions such as ban-
quets, said pageant chair Jane Gee.
CACA's educational programs help
raise awareness about the Asian com-
munity in general and the Chinese-
American community in particular.
"We foster better American citizen-
ship among our members and work
for betterment of our community,"
Gee said.
While CACA educates the public
about Asian civil rights, it also orga-
nizes the pageant which combines
traditional modeling, swimsuit, talent
and personality/poise competitions
with a category in Chinese formal
dress, known as the chipao.
"We've sponsored the pageant for
the last 24 years to encourage young
women of Chinese ancestry to better
present themselves in the commu nity
and the world, and to help them de-
velop their talents," Gee said.
Lin said she's not traditional beauty
pageant material.
"Some of my friends said That's
not you at all.' People from the pag-
eant had to teach me to do my makeup
and my hair," she said. "But this was
something fun to do. Itwasachanceto
be glamorous for a while."
Despite the glamorous costumes
and treatment at the pageant, Lin said
she endured a comedy of errors the
night of competition. "All sorts of bad
SEE PAGEANT PAGE 9
Miss Chinese New Year Patricia Lin
Students spy on their valentines at RPC party
by Michael Nimri
Potential valentines had the oppor-
tunity to reveal their secret crushes to
unsuspecting students at the Rice Pro-
gram Council Crush Party on Feb. 5.
According to RPC secretary Gene
Paige, the idea for the crush party has
been considered in the past for the
RPC's spring party, which generally
has a different theme each year.
"There's always been kind of con-
cern that if you do something like this,
people might feel left out from getting
invitations," Paige said.
"But this year I guess the commit-
tee has decided that we'd like to give
it a shot I think it's an interesting
idea"
The RPC sent out pink "somepne
has a crush on you" invitations to the
459 people who were anonymously
invited, Paige said. Each person re-
ceived only one invitation, regardless
of how many times he or she was
listed.
White invitations were sent out to
welcome everyone to the party and
console those who didn't get a pink
one.
Several faculty members and
graduate students, including Presi-
dent Malcolm Gillis, were invited to
the party. Gillis, however, did not at-
tend.
Entertainment included bands
Carolyn Wonderland and the Impe-
rial Monkeys. The choice for a live
band this year instead of a disc jockey
was a change, Paige said.
According to Brown College RPC
representative Jeremy Smith, the band
was a good draw for the party. He said
the turnout was better than that of
RPC spring parties in the past few
years.
Both Paige and Smith said they
considered the party a success. Paige
estimated that between 400 and 500
students attended the party through-
out the course of the evening, with no
more than 250 at any given time.
Some students complained of the
long breaks taken by the band, sug-
gesting that a disc jockey shoyld have
been set up to play mtsic during these
periods.
But Paige said having a disc jockey
and band set up at the same time
would have been impossible consid-
ering the space provided by the Grand
Hall.
Other students thought people dis-
missed the party too easily.
"I thought people didn't give it
enough of a chance," said Wiess Col-
lege sophomore John Hunter. "There
weren't enough people thereto have a
good time. Near the end, it got better
with more people dancing."
Sid Richardson College freshman
Stephen Gallagher agreed that there
was a good male-female ratio.
He also commented that the mu-
sic, although talented, was
"undanceable." Hedidn't wan t to leave,
he said.
Wiess freshman Fred Wen said,
"It was a good way to meet women."
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