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NEWS
FEATURES
A & E
Tradition
VOLUME 84, NUMBER 3
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1996
N, BAKER, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
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A fter receiving a critical evaluation
IX from an external review commit
JL tee, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of AAaa^M^rwon is olinnin* to
revamp its programs.
In an eight-page analysis of the busi
ness school, the committee of business
Police nab repeat
offender at SRC
Angelique Siy
troubles in the Jones School
Qaorga Hatoun and Vlvak Rao
Editorial Board
leaders and graduate school professors
pronounced tnat the school has two alter-
natives: "Either Jones must
embark on a course of be-
coming recognized for
world-class distinctiveness
and quality in management
education, orit should close
th^ doors," ,
The committee labeled
Jones as "a good, but undis-
tinguished school."
"Its greatest asset is the
Rice name, but it does little
to reciprocate by adding to
Rice's refutation," the report
said. "The school is now on
a plateau, and even may be
declining."
According to Provost
David Auston, he and Presi-
dent Malcolm Gillis made
the decision to conduct the
external review. He said
there was no specific reason.
for conducting the review at this time.
"It's part of a plan to review all aca-
demic divisons at Rice," Auston said.
Although Au$ton would not comment
on the. specifics of the report, he said the
university is 'taking it very seriously £
The report criticized the school's ad-
missions pool, starting salaries for JorteS
Sc{K>otgraduatesvuncertainty among jun-
ior faculty and campus-wide dissatisfac-
tion.
"Today, there is far too much ambiva-
lertce within and outside Jones over its
place in the larger institution," it said.
Also, the report recommended that the
Jones School seek international recogni-
tion but warned that a- greater commit-
ment from the. Rice administration at<the
'Its greatest
asset is the Rice
name, but it
does little to
reciprocate by
adding to Rice's
reputation, ...
The school is
now on a pla-
teau, and even
may be declin-
ing.'
— Jones School external
review committee
highest levels would be needed to achieve
this; "If Jones' course is to become an
internationally recognized school and a
contributor to Rice, then it follows that
Jones will need to be accepted as impor-
tant, vital and a top priority within Rice.
Only die president and provost can ac-
complish this clarification and understand-
ing."
The report further faults
the Jones School Cor not be-
ing able to critique itself:
"Candid assessment of this
kind is not ingrained in the
Jones culture."
Further, the report cites
a 100 percent or greater tUi*n-
over rate in junior faculty
over the past five years. For
the 100 positions that exist,
the Jones School has hired
110 professors.
"Junior faculty feel, they
get mixed signals about
what is important for them
to stress; in this regard they
are critical of the school's
lack of vision."
One former junior faculty
member whose teaching
contract was not renewed
* 1 ' ■ " was displeased with the di-
rection of the school. Graeme Rankine,
now an associate professor of accounting
at the Thunderbird graduate school, said
that while he enjoyed most aspects of his -
time at Rice, he was displeased with the
way the Jones Schoici operated.
"The people there are not fit to run a
business school," Rankine said, "It'sa mess
there now. ... I'm glad to be out of that
mess."
The committee outlined the steps that
would need to be taken in a 10-year effort
to improve the school. These include in-
creasing student enrollment, seeking ac-
creditation by the American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of Business, expand-
ing the executive education program and
' * SEE JONCS PAGE 7
About 2:30 p.m. last Saturday,
Sid Richardson College sophomore
Ciara Martin walked onto the lourth
floor balcony to take a study break.
She ended up witnessing the arrest
of a suspected bicycle thief, com-
plete with guns, handcuffs ant i shout-
ing.
According to Rice <. ampus Po-
lice Chief Mary Voswinkel, the t'am-
pus Police received a call reporting
a suspicious person near Bakei i ol-
lege. Officers then began a search of
the area and arrested the individual
in front of SRC's bicycle racks
"I saw the officer kirn the coi iter
lrom Will Rice U ollege], and he
immediately pulled out hi1- gun.
Right as he did that, I noticed a guy
stand up from the bike rat k." Mai tin
said
SRC senior Jimmy Bennett saw
the arrest lrom the fifth floor
"1 was sitting in my window box
and had seen the cop walking around
in a yellow rain jacket. iust looking
around
"I didn't think much of it and just
looked away lhe next thing 1 heard
was. '(ret on the ground, nioiher-
Kkker1' and lhe cop had h.- c.un
di awn out," Bennett said.
Martin saw (he suspect lie lace
down on tin ground and put his
hands behind his head.
"'1 hen .! 1 ai . ( ret cited :w outul
die hull' •)! Sid. and auoihe >t-
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Rice starts door-to-door recycling
Vi^ay Ifer
Shift Willi '
last week,. Food and Housing
placed a blue recyclingbin for "clean,
dry paper" in every student room on
campus. The paper collected in the
bins will be removed by custodians
as they become full. Residential Col
leges Manager Bob Truscott said.
"We're psyched about recycling,"
Truscott said. "1 don't know any-
body else in the country doing door-
to-door recycling."
He expressed concern. however,
because during the first week of
classes, custodians have noticed
large amounts of trash in the bins.
'The containers are only for pa-
per recycling and not for other ma-
terials," Truscott said, adding that
wet paper, food wrappers and pizza
boxes are*also unacceptable.
Glass bottles and aluminum cans
will still be collected in public areas
of the colleges like hallways, eleva-
tor lobbies and each college's com-
mons.
In a meeting with college presi-
dents during the fall semester last
year, Truscott suggested placing
bins in eachroom. Soon afterward,-a
pil<Hprogram began in the new sec-
tion of Hanszen College to see how
much would be collected.
The resulting volume was large,
as was the corresponding reduction
in the amount of garbage. „
"It was amazing — there was no
trash," Hanszen College president
1'ara Miller said.
Based on the lest program at
Hanszen, Truscott is expecting to
collect about four tons of paper from
each college per week.
Currently, plastic is not accepted
for recycling in either the colleges
or the other buildings, primarily
because the demand for it is not as
great, Truscott said. Champion Re-
cycling pays the university $35 for
each ton of paper collected, but no
company will take Rice's plastic,
'The containers are
only for paper
recycling and not for
other materials.' Wet
paper, food wrappers
and pizza boxes are
also unacceptable.
*— Bob Truscott
Residential Colleges Manager
"If we can find somebody to pull
(Mr plastic for nothing, then we'll do
it," Truscott said. "Recycling has to
be at least revenue neutral."
He said that the company that
hauls tTte aluininum forthe univer
sity would take plastic along with it
for free. However, Rice has not been
generating significant enough vol-
umes of plastic to be picked up. Ac
cording to Truscott, aluminum is
such a high-demand product that it
has been disappearing fromthe bins
before custodians have been able to
pick it up. He refused to speculate
about who was taking the cans.
The custodians will place all the
collected paper into the green and
yellow Champion Recycling dump-
sters. Students can place larger
items, such as the cardboard boxes
which abound at the beginning of
each year, directly into the
dumpsters.
The recycling dumpsters can be
found wherever garbage dumpsters
are placed, typically, near parking
lots.
Recycling in the academic build-
ings is. for the most part, handled
separately, said Eusebio Franco,
manager pfcustodians and grounds.
In addition to paper, glass and
aluminum, Facilities and Engineer-
ing also collects other metals to sell
as scrap. Students can bring recy-
clable metals to the scrap dumpster
behind Central Kitchen althodffeh
there is no formal system in place
for collection from students, Franco
said. ^
Mill" sees room for improve-
ment in some university buildings
and has been trying to place recy-
cling bins in the Athletic Depart
tiienf rFFaifico'SStd' Thar HP his pi ans
to obtain bins for tjie athletic build
ings
lack policy 'works,'
coordinators say
Peggy Lai
Sliiff H i ilt'i
The'adoption of an Orienta-
tion Week jack Policy this year
led to a decrease in the number
of destructive jacks compared to
previous O-Weeks.
"1 think for the most part il
was a giant step forward," Vice
President for Student Af-
fairs Zenaido Cam-
aclio said. He cited
gof*d communica- J
tion between the O- j
Week coordinators I
as t he reasonforthe*'
improvement.
Every year, the co-
ordinators for the up-
coming O-Week have the
power to recreate or alter the
jack policy.
"All of the coordinators agreed
that changes in the jack policy
were necessary, and so we essen-
tially redefined jacks and created
a new policy, of which all of the O-
Week coordinators approved,"
Jones College Jack Coordinator
Cynthia Chi said.
jadk .e^or* '•
dinator Jenn Healy said, 'The jack
policy was t reated on a basis of
trust between the coordinators.
Hiecoordinatorsdecided that the
policy should not set rigid limits
which would most likely encour
age circumvention and testing of
such hard and fast rules.
"Instead, the policy encour-
aged jacks that focused on the
spirit of jacks: freshman partici-
pation, creativity, responsibility,
etc.," she said.
In the new jack policy, col-
ihmvm leges h«id the op- :
■Ul turn
Week to choose
not to participate
in jacks. If so, they
would neither jack other
colleges nor be jacked No-
college chose this option. Also
during O Week, the jack coordi-
nators met every morning to dis-
cuss the jacks that had occurred.
Any unresolved'conflgpts would
have been brought before the
chief justices. They never had to
meet
t "The jack policy this year was
intentionally imprecise and was
very dependent upon lhe trust
built among the coordinators this
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