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4 FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1995 THE RICE THRESHER
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Sept. 21 — Rice Continuing Studies student Daehyun Kim, a 23-year-old visiting Korean student, died in his second-floor Graduate House
room after shooting himself in the head, according to the Houston Police Department. Kim was taking language classes as part of Rice's English
as a Second Language program.
Sept. 23 — Rice ranked 12th in this year's U.S. News and World Report evaluation of colleges and universities, rising two places from last
year. Harvard, Princeton and Yale Universities ranked first, second and third, respectively, out of 229 schools in the national university category.
Rice tied with the University of Pennsylvania for 12th place, just behind Brown University. Last year, Rice ranked 14th among national
universities.
Oct. 14 — A group of students circulated a petition to President Malcolm Gillis to reinstate Graeme Rankine. an assistant professor in the
Department of Accounting and Administrative Science, whose contract was not renewed. Rankine has won several teaching awards, including
the Amoco Teaching Award. The students claimed Rankine was let go because he didn't publish enough research.
"He is a tremendous teacher," said Hanszen College sophomore Jeff Carpenter, who helped organize the petition. "We're annoyed that
research is taking priority over teaching at Rice."
Ben Bailar, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Administration, couldn't
give specific reasons for the dismissal but said, "Any faculty member is
considered for their entire record of performance."
Rankine has since accepted a teaching position at Thunderbird, a business
school in Arizona.
Oct. 16 —The Rice Owls defeated the University ofTexas 19-17 to break
a 28-game losing streak to the Longhorns. In the first game ever shown on
ESPN at Rice Stadium, the Owls used a relentless rushing assault to bring
down the Longhorns.
"It just felt great to get the monkey off our back," said cornerback Bobby
Dixon. "We just attacked them relentlessly on defense and did the things we
had to do."
Students poured out onto the field and proceeded to tear down both goal
posts as the weight of 28 straight losses was lifted by the Owl's victory on
national television.
Oct. 20 — The Baker Institute's ground-breaking ceremony was graced
by the attendance of former President George Bush, former President Gerald
Ford, James A. Baker III and Board of Governors Chairman Charles Duncan.
In addition, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan gave video-
taped messages at the ceremony.
Oct. 24—A Hanszen College senior died after falling from a building near
University Boulevard and Fannin Street. The body of Alan Ashley Lewis was
found by a jogger near the entrance to the Smith Tower garage. Houtson police
ruled the death a suicide. Lewis, a biochemistry and English major, was a
member of the Rice-Baylor program for pre-medical students. He was 22.
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Quarterback Josh LaRocca looks for daylight against the Longhorns.
Oct. 29 — A storage shed and a portion of the fence on the Graduate House grounds were set ablaze in a suspected case of arson. The campus
police was called, and the Houston Fire Department came to put out the fire. The shed was located on the Main Street side of the Graduate House.
It contained old glassware, lumber and outdated yellow pages. No one was injured in the incident. The fire caused about $25,000 worth of smoke-
related damage.
Oct. 30 — The Rice women's cross country
team captured the crown at the Southwest Confer-
ence Championships to become the first women's
athletic team in the history of the school to win a
conference title. Candace Lessmeister and Stacy
Swank led the Owl runners. Lessmeister edged
Mardrea Hyman of the University ofTexas at the
finish line to take second place while Swank took
fourth. This conference title is the Rice athletic
program's first in 22 years. The men's tennis team
last captured a title in 1972.
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Nov. 1 — Students chose Texas Governor Ann
Richards as Rice's 1994 Homecoming Queen and
Doofus the Ferret as Homecoming King.
Nov. 14 — Ground was broken for the Compu-
tational Engineering Building. The $16.5 million
CEB is scheduled for completion by 1997. It will be
followed by the Baker Institute and the
Nanotechnology Building. The building will house
the Center for Research on Parallel Computation
and the Computer and Information Technology In-
stitute. It will include several classrooms, an audito-
rium and lecture halls, conference rooms and of-
fices for both resident and visiting scholars.
From left, George Bush, James Baker, Gerald Ford, Charles Duncan and Malcom Gillis put their
shovels to work during the ground-breaking ceremony for the James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy.
Dec. 2 — An Honor Council case raised questions about the council's jurisdiction after it penalized a student for excessive citation mistakes.
The council found a student in a lower-level humanities course guilty of academic fraud after it was determined that almost all the citations she
had included in a paper were incorrect. Several students were unhappy with the ruling because they did not feel that citation mistakes constitute
plagiarism.
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Klein, Charles & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1995, newspaper, May 19, 1995; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246513/m1/4/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.