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YOU'RE ALL FIRED!
MAY 17,1996
A fond farewell
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women for fake film
Chris McKanzie
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During the month of April, nu-
merous harassment complaints were
filed with the Campus Police against
Krittibas Ray. Ray, a former political
science graduate student, had asked
several Rice women to be in a video
he claimed to be making for Rice
University.
'From time to time,
people like [RayJ come
to campus claiming to
be part of a national
publication or
modeling agency.'
— Mary Voswinkel
Campus Police chief
Ray approached each of the
women individually, asking them if
he could film them for his video
project, which he claimed to be do-
ing either for the Political Science
Department or the university itself.
However, since last year, when
Ray graduated with a doctorate in
political science, he has had no di-
rect affiliation with Rice.
Jones College sophomore Mel-
issa Wingard-Phillips was in Fondren
Library on April 12 when Ray ap-
proached her claiming to want to put
her in a promotional film he was
doing for the university.
Though she found the situation
unusual, her suspicions were not
fully aroused until she later discov-
ered that a friend of hers had gone
through the same situation, Her
friend had been made uncomfort-
able by Ray's questions, which be
came more and more personal.
Both Wingard-Phillips and her
friend checked up on the situa-
tion by speaking to Political Science
Professor Richard Stoll, whom Ray
claimed to be working for. Stoll had
no knowledge of any such project,
according to Wingard- Phillips, and
SEE HARASSMENT. PAGE 5
Baker College senior Joseph Saunders gets a laugh out of President Malcolm Gillis as he accepts his degree.
Saunders literally bounded across the stage to give Gillis a big bear hug (inset) during the 83rd Commencement
ceremonies held on May 11 in the academic quadrangle Rice graduate Anita Jones delivered the address (see
page 6) after which 690 undergraduate degrees. 339 masters degrees and 11 7 doctorates were handed out.
Carnegie's enrollment VP provides consultation
Peggy Lai
Stttff Writer
* William F. Elliot was invited to
Rice on an enrollment manage-
ment consultatation visit from
April 18 to 20. Elliot is the vice
president for enrollment at
Carnegie Mellon University.
Elliot's visit, was coordinated
hy Provost David Auston. "The
purpose of bringing Mr. Elliot to
Rice was to seek his advice on
how we might improve student
services," Austonsaid.
" "Carnegie Mellon University
has recently made some innova-
tive changes in this rbgard and
we wanted to learn about them
from him.
"We are also planning to in-
stall a new student information
system, and Ihis visit was intended
to advise us on newdevelopments
in this regard. In the future we
plan to consult with people in
other universities as well," Auston
said.
Elliot met with students, fac-
ulty, academic advisors, college
masters, institutional research
staff and financial management
Elliot also held meetings with
the-administrators and staff in-
volved in the admissions, finan-
cial aid and registration pro-
cesses.
Elliott also served as a mem-
ber ofateamofexperts whocame
to the Rice campus in late 1095 to
examine the overall enrollment
management structure of Rice.
KTRU's role undergoes re-evaluation
Strategic Plan recommends committee to determine changes
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Marty Beard
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to be carefully monitored
Marty Beard
Eiliioi in Chief
Jacks during Orientation
Week will not be eliminated
Rather, they will be much
more carefully monitored
and planned.
TTie New Student Ori-1
entation Review Commit
tee has released its 1996
Orientation Week Jack
Policy, which reveals a con-
sensus among O-Week coordi
nators that can be summed up as
"same game, different rules."
Other changes in the policy in
elude the fact that colleges can de-
cide whether or not they want to
participate in jacks during 0-Week,
and college chief justices will adjudi1
cate if the coordinators cannot deal
with the problems that occur.
One coordinator from each col-
lege must serve as jack coordinator.
If any conflicts occur, then the jack
coordinators from each college will
meet to remedy the situation.
All jacks must now
be approved by the
jack -coordinators
before they may be
carried out.
College chief
justices must be involved in
the meetings of jack coordina-
tors, but only justices from col-
leges not involved in the jack being
discussed may vote. Penalties meted
Out by chief justices may include
clean-up, restitution, individual or
college, fines, suspension of a
college's jack privileges or removal
of any non-freshniaii from campus
SEE JACKS PAGE A
KTRU may no longer be as inde-
pendent of the administration as it
has been in the past — if the sugges-
tions made in the Strategic Plan are
implemented...
Under Section V: "Beyond the
Hedges, Community Education," the
plan calls for'greater "interaction
with the community ... making the
University's educational presence
felt throughout this region" and pro-
poses the" formation of a group of
students, faculty and staff to explore
KTRU's potential influence.
'Forming a committee
to govern a student
organization makes no
sense.'
— Andy Campbell
KTRU station manager
KTRU is currently the only, blan-
ket-tax organization exempt from
student body elections.
Station Manager Andy Campbell
is "very unhappy" about the plan.
"Forming a committee to govern a
student organization makes no
sense. (The administration is] ig
noring the fact that KTRU is a stu-
dent organization. Either KTRU is A
student-run station or it is not a stu
dent-run station."
On behalf of KTRU, Campbell
wrote a letter addressed to mem-
bers of the Strategic Planning Corn?
mittee expressing discontent with
the station's mention in the plan.
The plan points oufthat the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin has a success-
ful radio program, WHA. Campbell's
letter, however, says that WHA is a
"classical station .;. staffed by paid
professionals [that] allows for little
if any student involvement."
KTRU was started 25 years ago by
students who wanted to see a stu-
dent-run radio station at Rice. How-
ever, the actual FCC license is owned
by the Board of Governors.
Campbell's letter points out that
KTRU already does many things
proposed in the plan, such as broad-
casting news, lectures and interviews
with "writers, musicians and schul
ars."
Some of the Strategic Planning
Committee's suggestions for
KTRU's expansion are logistically
and financially difficult. Broadcast
ing Shepherd School concerts, for
example, is not legal because the
University of Houston's KUHFowns
the broadcasting rights to Shepherd
School concerts/The "broadcasting
of language courses" would also be
a legally sticky issue because
KTRU's current license is for En-
glish broadcasts only.
Campbell also mentioned that a
committee similar to what is pro-
posed already exists in a different
form . At the time of the station's
founding, a committee known as the-
FM Committee was set up.
Article AH-1 of the Student Asso-
ciation By-Laws designates the FM
Committee's purpose as "determin-
ing the general programming and
operating policies of KTRU." The
committee" is composed of the uni-
versity president, KTRU's faculty
adviser, a member of the Associa-
tion of Rice Alumni, the station man-
ager and a KTRU staff member a|>-
pointed by the station manager In
addition, the SA president is an ex
officio member. The FM Committee
has not met since 1991, according to
SA President Mary ana Iskander.
Bill Wilson, KTRU's faculty spon-
sor, said, "{Director of Student Ac-
tivities] Sarah Nelson Crawford and
1 have been keeping abreast of sta
tion activities,'and since (liere were
no major policy decisions to be made,
there was no need to convene the
FM Committee.
"As per the charter, the FM Com-
mittee deals with overall policy is-
sues-^aml lets the students run the
station otherwise," Wilson said.
President Malcolm Gillis said t hat
the new KTRU committee will actu-
ally exist for the purpose of advising
him as to KTRU's future, and it will
examine the station in all aspects.
"There is no hidden agenda here,"
Gillis said. "Thiscommittee will look
at much more than programming
and operations; it will look at KTRU
as an asset to the university." 'lite
committee, Gillis said, is not meant
to govern KTRU so "much as to make
recommendations.
Serving on the committee will be ; •'
two undergraduate students — one
of which must have KTRU experi-
ence — and one graduate student,
pluS two alumni, four faculty, four
staff members and one member of
the Board of Governors.
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