The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 24.5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1996 Page: 1 of 12
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CRFAlURES
SPOTS
Supreme
suspends decision until body can hear case
Beat Her Loudly
Alt': it Eiih'iKuniiiciil F.dihn
An Uth-hour plea by Board of
Governors Chair Chucky Donuts to
Chief Justice William Rehnquist has
led to a temporary repreive from last
Tuesday's Fifth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals ruling.
The highly unusual stay to be
released today means that the uni-
versity can resume its policy of con-
sidering race as a factor in admitting
students.
President Malcolm G wasted no
time in praising the action.-
"We are elated that the high court
has wisely postponed this decision
until it can be further reviewed. For
Rice, this action means that implica-
tions of the ruling will not be felt
until next year's admission process,
if at all," he said.
The decision came only hours
.after 450 Regular Decision accep-
tance letters we re .mailed out.
G, Dean of Admission and
Records Dick Stubble and Director
of Admission Julie Basting went to
the Campus Post Office to demand
the letters back.
However, Delivery Services Man-
ager Madd Hatter refused to return
the acceptances, claiming that they
were the property of the U.S. Postal
Service.
G fired Hatter on the spot and
called the Campus Police to escort
him off Rice property.
'We are elated that the
high court has wisely
postponed this
decision until ii can be
further reviewed,1
— Malcolm G
President
Hatter said that he would file a*
complaint with the postmaster gen
erai.
After retreiving the letters, the
trio pored through them removing
50 addressed to white and Asian
students. They were replaced by 50
acceptances to previously accepted
minority stude'nts.
G insisted that the university was
doing the right thing.
"Some people might get the im-
pression that what we're doing is
unfairtosome [majority] applicants,
hut we must do everything in out-
power to further our image as a lib-
eral and progressive university, in-
cluding boosting our minority en-
rollment," he said.
G said that the revised acceptan-
ces will be sent via Federal Express
later today to all applicants at a cost
of approximately $35,000 to the
nnversity.
He said that the measure was
justified because otherwise Rice
would be "eaten alive" by earlier
arriving acceptances from Harvard,
Princeton and other Ivy League
schools.
It was not known when the Su-
preme Court would hear the actual
case', but General Counsel Shirley
Whining was told that Rice would
move with "all deliberate speed" to
expedite the case. Whining sug-
gested that a hearing might occur as
early as mid-May.
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Chandler Dodsoi> takes a swig of the good stuff while pondering G's secret, files.
Jewel Groese
Staff Writer
Vice President for Student Af-"
fairs Hector "Macho" Camacho
will unveil anew program, Power
Rice, aimed at creating a "more
power-hungry student body.
Camacho's intention is to ex-
pand the Ricf education to en-
compass greed and lust for power
into a progfam with national rec-
ognition.
Though still in the concept mil
- """Stage,Power Ric^ wiH teach stu-
dents about the nonacademic
world and, through education,
create highly devious individu-
als ready to usurp power in the
letters, science, arts and espe-
cially politics.
In the current proposal, the
program will identify candidates
for the progfam at birth. How-
ever, there will also be. a stag-
gered entry process to allow Ihe.
program to operate for the next
18 years.
During the sophomore year,
the students would be trained to
seize power from Current lead-
ers in a full-year, for-credit aca-
demic course.
Also connected to the project
would be the student's mentor, a
political leader with a lot of
power.
Camacho was definite on the
subject of the type of training
students would receive. The em-
phasis of the coursework, ac-
cording to Camacho, would be
on "ways to seize pqwpr, keep
power and exploit power."
Coursework will also include
how-to workshops on graft, cor-
ruption and fundraising tricks
and loopholes.
•The project would continue
in the student's junior year, with
die opportu n i|y tt> study the hab-
its of birds of prey and to elimi-
nate student weaknesses such
as compassion and mercy.
The focus of the junior year
program will be to implement
this learned iuthlessness and to
find the means to feign support
of "ideas of social significance "
The summer prior to the se-
nior year would once again in-
volve a weeding-out process
based on survival of the fittest.
The training would prepare
students for their senior year
project, which involves attain-
ment of national political office.
Through thefinal stage of Power
Rice, affectionately dubbed "eu-
thanasia," those who fail will be
SEE POWER? PAGE 5
Debate championship revoked
Ruthie and Lever shocked bv debate association decision
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Charles Hankla
Staff Wriivt
Weather Forecast:
Hourly predictions:
8 a.m.: Sleet and hail..
maybe.
12 noon: Hot as all hell
maybe.
5 p.m.: Who the hell knows?! It's
Houston, after alif -
The "dy namic duo" of parliamen-
tary debate who captured first place
in the National Parlimentarv l )ebate
Association tournament last Mon-
day received.a serious blow to their
credibilityand integrityFriday when
* the association's Board of Regents
jj^ted to disqualify the team and re-
scind the award.
Love-jt College junior Scott
Ruthie and Will Rice College junior
Ryan Lever were accused of general
"moral deficiency" and using their
influence as tournament organizers
to throw the championship in their
favor.
Citing six pieces of evidence sub-
mitted by members of the Rice com-
munity, the board decided lo award
the championship instead to a team
from the University of Wyoming.
The evidence was:
• A check co-signed by I .ever and
George R. Brown Forensic* Society
Coach Dan Fast made out to "Cash"
with the word "Bribe" written on the
memo line;
* Records indicating that the
check was cashed by Ruthie at the
Medical Branch of the Texas Com-
munist Bank;
* Ixver's membership on both the
Honor Council and the University
Court,
• A taped conversation between
Ruthie and Student Association
President Maryana Bikestander in
which Ruthie admits to practicing
breaking into Student Center offices
using thin plastic cards;
'fpSTtmrnrf"from" Ricr Program-
ICE
National Parliamentary Debate Association President Torn Jones pulls a
championship (jf>bon away from Rice debaters Scott Ruthie and Ryan Lever,
after decision to rescind the honor
Council Presidents-elect The
Douhlemint Twins Krika
Windham-Warwick and Angie
"Jackie" Chan — about Lever's re-
lated obsession of destroying what
he termed as the "Kampus Krusade
for Krist;" and
• Ruthie's recent history of shop-
lifting from supermarkets.
While the board could not craft a
comprehensive theory to incorpo-
rate all of the evidence, a unanimous
decision handed down by the seven
man, five-woman panel said that
"while it is hard tu determine exactly
how Ruthie and Lever threw the com-
petition, it is clear that they are
guilty."
Citing "general moral deficiency
on the part of Lever and Ruthie" as
• suffirw'Tit reason1 to rescind Ihe-
"1
honor, the panel demanded that the
tournament trophy be returned and
also'banned the pair from compel
ing in their association for life.
East, who denied involvement m
(he affair, was shocked. "1 can't be '
lieve those pompous assholes [the
board] think they can change the
judges' decision' after the fact
"I know that [Lever] and 1 Ruthie)
are not the most upstanding and
honest members of the debate com-
munity, but they certainly do not
deserve this." Fast said.
He speculated that the action may
have occured in ■ retaliation for a
1994 incident where Rutnie lied
about a coin toss the team had lost.
Lever and Ruthie refused to com-
ment about the incident, citing in-
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Klein, Charles & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 24.5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1996, newspaper, April 1, 1996; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246538/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.