The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1994 Page: 4 of 12
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4 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1994 THE RICE THRESHER
NEWS
Victory's near
■or
Rice basked),'ill fans cheer as their team plays Houston Baptist University on Monday. Rice won, 72-65. (See page 8)
F&E boosts security
after computer thefts
by Sei Chong
ttorf
romr
Thanksgiving break has prompted Fa-
cilities and Engineering and the Cam-
pus Police to increase security for the
burglarized buildings.
Campus Police Chief Mary
Voswinkel said four burglaries oc-
curred between Nov. 22 and Nov. 28.
The first two burglaries occurred
in the Mechanical Engineering Build-
ing and were reported Nov. 22.
The other two took place in George
R Brown Hall and Anderson Biology
I^ib.
Voswinkel said about $15,000 to
$20,000 worth of computer compo-
nents were taken in the four burglar-
ies. One computer hard drive that was
stolen contained research notes com-
piled over three or four months.
In notices posted around the cam-
pus, the Campus Police suggested
that compu ter users should store back-
ups of research materials on floppy
disks.
There was no sign of forced entry
in any of the cases, Voswinkel said.
She said that either the burglars used
a key or a door was left unlocked. The
Campus Police will increase security
in those areas.
F&E Director Bill Mack said all
the rooms involved in the burglary in
Mechanical Engineering Building
have since had the locks changed. A
cardreader will be installed for the
front door so that the Campus Police
can keep a record of who enters the
building.
F&E will also change all external
door locks and give only the Campus
Police the keys.
F&E Maintenance Manager
Russell Price said the cardreader
would be installed within three or four
weeks. The cardreader would go on-
line during evenings and nights.
' News in brief
UNC head coach wants to ban beer ads
by Kate Hallgren
CAPP starts newsgroup
llic College Assistance Peer Pro-
gram lias set up a newsgroup on Owl-
net for students interested in discuss-
ing mental health at Rice. The
newsgroup, rice.capp, is scheduled
lor to be on-line today.
C API' memlx >r Jesse Jou said, "Stu-
dents can post their concerns and also
the Counseling Center will publish
mental health information so people
who are interested can read it."
Hie newsgroup is a "moderated
forum," Jou said. Before responses
are posted, they will be reviewed by
the student m<xlerators, who will con-
Milt with the Counseling Center on a
regular basis.
The newsgroup has been a long-
term project. "At the beginning of the
semester, Bob Zozus in the Counsel-
ing Center wanted to start a user group
on Owlnet for CAPP because he
thought it would fill a need on cam-
pus," Jou said.
The newsgroup focuses on gen-
eral issues of mental health. Jou said
CAPP is working on getting an e-mail
account to deal with individual prob-
lems.
Since the newsgroup is starting
around the start of finals, Jou said the
newsgroup may get discussion about
test anxiety and time management.
The University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill head men's basketball
coach is leading a campaign for the
Atlantic Coast Conference schools to
keep beer advertising from telecasts.
Coach Dean Smith said he feels
the ACC is sending mixed messages
to underage viewers by running the
ads.
"We get so many letters from stu-
dents in the fourth grade through jun-
ior high," Smith said. "And here we
are letting our programs be linked
with 'Our good friends at Budweiser.'"
Cancelling the advertisements
would cost $500,000 per school in the
the hedges
conference, and the conference is cur-
rently constrained by its contract com-
panies.
Some disagree. "I am not person-
ally an alcohol drinker," said Trinity
basketball player Trajan Langdon.
"But if you are already a drinker, you
are obviously not going to stop drink-
ing because an ad does not run."
Another ACC coach, Fred Gold-
smith, head football coach at Duke
and former Rice head football coach,
supports the proposed ban. "It is hypo-
critical to tell kids not to drink and
then take money from the beer com-
panies," he said.
"Young kids want role models, and
they look toward the players for that.
So it is not appropriate to run the ads."
ButTrinity basketball team co-cap-
tain Cherokee Parks called on tradi-
tion in his defense of the ads. "It will
hurt not showing the ads," he said.
"As long as I can remember, beer ads
and athletics went hand in hand."
Source: The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Nov. 23
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Hale, David. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1994, newspaper, December 9, 1994; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246499/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.