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VOLUME 82, NUMBER 27
TWO STRIKES
APRIL 28,1995
U. Court to hear case of couch, tables thrown from balconies
by Charles Klein
Two Rice students are being ac-
cused of throwing furniture off of
the fourth and fifth floor balconies at
Sid Richardson College Sunday
morning.
SRC Master Gordon Wittenberg
called Campus Police at 5:05 a.m.
Sun., April 23, 1995, to report the
incident. Campus Police Officers C.
E. Veltman and D. L. Marshall re-
sponded to the "criminal mischief'
call at 5:06 a.m.
The objects, two wooden tables
and a sofa, severely buckled the
metal railings on the SRC front steps.
The police report set damages at a
minimum of $200. At a SRC Council
meeting Tuesday night, the dam-
ages were estimated to be several
hundred dollars.
"It is as serious a situation as I
can imagine," Wittenberg said.
"What they did was very danger-
College bowl at nationals;
Konkel goes on 'Jeopardy'
*
Todd Konkel
by Gabrielle Frandsen
The Rice College Bowl team com-
peted for the first time in the Ameri-
can College Federation (ACF) Na-
tional Championships in Knoxville,
Tenn., on April 7 and 8.
The team competed against vet-
eran schools including Harvard,
Duke, Cornell, Berkeley, Princeton
and Pennsylvania State.
~ Holding their own against stiff
competition, Rice finished with a
record of 10-8, losing to nationally
ranked Brigham Young University.
BYU placed 5th in the tournament.
A bad-luck-riddled journey to
Knoxville included a 7 a.m. flight
from Houston which was fogged-in,
refueling in New Orleans, followed
by a flight cancellation and another
delay. The team finally arrived at the
tournament three hours late. One
match had to be forfeited, and two
others were made up.
Captain Matt Kane, a Wiess Col-
lege junior, said, "By the time we got
there, we were so dead tired that we
could hardly walk, much less think."
The team lost two of their first three
matches.
Teaching Awards Recipients
George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Larry Temkin, associate professor of philosophy
George R< Brown Awards for Superior Teaching
Alan Grob, professor of English
Thomas L Haskell, Samuel G. McCann professor of history
Don H. Johnson, professor of electrical and computer engineering
.arid statistics
Carol E. Quillen, assistant professor of history
Pol D. Spanos, Lewis B. Ryon professor of mechanical engineering
and civil engineering
RichaVd J. Stoll, professor of political science
Nicholas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award
John S. Hutchinson, associate professor of chemistry
Amoco Teaching Award
Marco A. Ciufolini, associate professor of chemistry
John S. Olson, professor of biochemistry and cell biology
ous.
No one was injured, but SRC
sophomore Chris Blache was 15 feet
away when one piece of furniture
came down, according to eyewitness
accounts. Wittenburg was concerned
about college members' safety.
"The point that I made obvious is
that these guys are liable for any
damages, but what disturbs me about
this case is that it was a series of
actions," Wittenberg said.
"They did this while other stu-
dents were telling them to stop," he
said.
The two students are Rice base-
ball players, and neither was from
SRC.
Assistant Athletic Director Steve
Moniaci called Wittenberg between
8 a.m. and 9 a.m. that morning to
talk about the situation, and Head
Baseball Coach Wayne Graham
called after Moniaci.
"He [Graham] was concerned
that this had happened," Wittenberg
said.
"He was concerned about how
this would reflect on the baseball
team. He was completely straight
forward and not defensive in the
least," he said.
Wittenberg wrote a formal com-
plaint to Dean of Students Sarah
Burnett naming the two players
based on eye witness reports. Three
SRC students came forward as eye-
witnesses.
SEE BALCONIES PAGE 8
At halftime the next day, Rice led
Georgia Tech, who ended up plac-
ing second after Harvard in the tour-
nament. Rice won their last five
matches but ended up losing to BYU
in overtime. Kane said, "We lost
some narrow matches and were a
couple of questions away from do-
ing much better." Team member
Tim Pulju, a Rice graduate student,
was named an All-Star for the ACF
tournament.
College Bowl tournaments are
similar to the game show "Jeop-
ardy." Kane said, "College bowl is
... the varsity sport of the mind."
Questions are asked of two teams
made up of four members, only one
of whom can be a graduate student,
and each correct answer is allotted
a certain number of points. The team
with the most points at the end of a
match wins.
Toss-up questions are based on
speed, given to the first person with
the correct answer. Toss-up ques-
tions are worth 10 points each and
earn the team opportunities to com-
pete in bonus questions, worth 20-
30 points each and answered by the
whole team.
Rice has an intramural College
Bowl tournament every fall. The
winning team as well as four other
"all stars" join the Rice Varsity
Squad, which competes against
other colleges and universities in
tournaments around the country.
Rice competes in two different
types of tournaments, College Bowl
International (CBI), the original
version, which focuses questions
on a wide range of subjects from
pop culture, to current events,
sports, history, art, music, science,
literature and politics.
ACF, an offshoot of CBI, ex-
cludes questions on current events
and pop culture and emphasizes
more academic subjects and diffi-
cult, in depth, more obscure ques-
SEE TEAM PAGE 6
Rising from the ashes ...
A &' JLi ■
A fan droops from the ceiling of Willy's Pub after the April 6 Student Center fire. Plans for rebuilding the Pub were
released this week. (See Story and Plans Page 9.)
Gates, fitness center to be built
by Hemmy So
The construction of an electronic
classroom, fitness center and gates
at all university entrances are some
of the capital improvement projects
taking place on campus this sum-
mer. Headed by Jill Blackwelder,
technical manager for Facilities and
Engineering, the projects will start
after commencement exercises on
May 13.
The main projects include con-
structing an electronic classroom,
building a fitness center, adding stair-
cases and sprinkler systems to vari-
ous buildings, providing more lights
in certain areas, placing a traffic
light at entrance 8 and installing
gates at all the entrances.
The electronic classroom will be
constructed on the second floor of
Fondren Library. It will also serve
as a video conferencing room where
people can try out various forms of
electronic deliverables. F&E
worked closely with Tony Gorry,
vice president for graduate studies,
research and information systems;
on planning the classroom.
The fitness center will be added
to the athletic offices building on
the south side of the stadium. This
is a large project that will not be
completely finished by the start of
the fall semester.
Blackwelder said she thought the
fitness center would be open to all
Rice students.
Staircases will be added to the
Baker tower and to the third floor of
Anderson Hall, providing both places
with secondary exits. Both will be
internal stairs and are being added
in order to fulfill the life safety ap-
pendix to the Houston Building Code
requirements.
Code requirements are also be-
hind F&E's project of installing sprin-
kler systems in several buildings,
most notably the Rice Memorial
Center, Keith-Wiess Geological
SEE BUILDING PAGE 8
Appreciation Awards given to students
First-annual, master-chosen awards honor 'unsung heroes at Rice'
by Cecilia Tran
The first annual Vice President's
Appreciation Awards were an-
nounced on Mon., April 24. Dr.
Camacho, vice president for student
affairs, presented the awards to 85
Rice students during a ceremony in
the Student Center Grand Hall.
Camacho initiated the awards this
year and also sponsored the cer-
emony. He said, The reception was
a thank you. I wanted to identify and
recognize the unsung heroes at Rice.
These students do so much for the
university, but they are usually not in
the limelight." •
Edward Maa, a Hanszen senior,
said,"I was honored to receive this
award. I would definitely have done
the work anyway, but it was still nice
to be recognized. I think that most of
the people who received this award
do a lot but are often overlooked."
Christine Pan, a Jones sophomore,
said, "I had not expected this at all.
This was a very nice gesture because
it was a personal award given by the
college masters, the people who re-
ally know the most about what is
going on."
Paul Neal, a Sid Richardson se-
nior, said, "As a senior, this award
was really sentimental for me, be-
cause I felt that people were noticing
all of the work I have done for the
past four years."
The college masters and college
secretaries chose the award recipi-
ents. Caroline Minter, Jones College
co-master, said, "We tried to pick
people who had not received much
public recognition for their efforts."
"We considered everyone in the
college and finally chose people who
had given something to the univer-
sity and college system, people who
had worked behind the scenes. We
also tried to think about people who
had been active in volunteer work
and spent a great deal of time help-
SEE AWARDS PAGE 8
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