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Other Buildings
Fondren Oct. 22 Wallet stolen from
Willy s Pub Oct. 24 South basement telephone torn apart
Oct. 26 Acquaintance sexual assualt reported; no
location given.
Sewall Hall Oct. 27 Possible break-in reported; wires and ceiling
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reported stolen.
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East Stadium Oct. 25 Parked car damaged by ullknown vehicle.
Media Center Oct. 25 Parked car hit by baseball.
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champions were SRC senior Dan Newman (upper left corner, white T-shirt) and sophomore Miguel Castillo.
Castillo also won the singles tournament.
Francis Loewenheim dies at age 69
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Francis I.. Loewenheim, recently-
retired professor emeritus of His-
lorv, died Oct. 17. He was 69 and.
taught at Rice since 1959.
Loewenheim was an authority of
German history and modern diplo-
matic studies.
According to those who knew
him, I oewenheim was a man totally
devoted to Rice: Mary Kubricht, a
personal friend of Loewenlletfn and
Accounts Payable manager at Rice,
said, "He considered his students
and his colleagues his family and
would give 150 percent to his stu-
dents "
Loewenheim had not taught since
1991, but was known for being very
demanding and assigning large
amounts of work Nevertheless,
many students held him in high es-
teem,
John Holes, (..'line Professor of
History, said, "Many students, par-
ticularly in the early 1960s, Consid-
ered himthe finest teacher they ever
had."
Loewenheim memorized his lec-
tures and used a style that required
student participation and discussion.
Sometimes, he would add an un-
usual twist to a regular class. Ira
Gruber, History professor and close
friend, said Loewenheim "taught at
night and would take his class to the
(International 1 House of Pancakes
and class would go on well into the
night."
Francis L. Lowehheim
For the last 10 years of his life,
Loewenheim was very involved with
the graduate school and, according
to those he taught , he made a signifi-
cant impact on these students. Feske
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speak at thegraduatingceremonies.
"We realized that I the speaker
selection process] hasn't been work-
ing for the past couple of years," SA
Internal Vice President Michael
Munson said. "It was this year that
we actually came up with a solu-
tion "
According to Lskander, finding a
commencement speaker has been a
problen^ for the past two years.
"Two years ago, none of the five
people we chose could speak at com
mencement, and we were left in an
awkward position," she said. "So this
year we tried to come up with a
foolproof system that would work
every year."
The SA conducted a survey in
the beginning of October to find out
how to approach this problem. The
results indicated that students do
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and that most prefer a national
speaker
Also, the survey found thai if na-
tional speakers are unavailable, stu-
dents would support inviting a re-
gional speaker of high quality or a
successful Rice alumus.
Customarily, aSpeaker Selection
Committee convenes a year in ad-
vance of the actual evefit. This com-
mittee fulfills its duty of finding an
appropriate speaker through a se-
ries of steps. First, the committee,
composed of representative juniors
and faculty members, composes a
list of 20 potential speakers.
In order to narrow down their
list, the committee presents the list
of speakers to the students in a poll.
From these polls, the top five speak
ers are ranked, and their names are
forwarded to President Malcolm
Gillis. who calls each speaker until
he finds one who agrees to speak at
commencement.
However, recent attempts using
the current process have beeh un-
successful. Unable to secure any of
the speakertTon the list presented to
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Victor, a former Rice graduate stu
dent, went on to dedicate a book to
Loewenheim. Stephen Miner, who
now teaches at Ohio University,
credited loewenheim when he was
awarded the American Historical
Prize.
Loewenheim was born in
Nuremberg, Germany, in 1927. He
came to America with his parents in
1934.
He attended the University of Cin-
cinnati and received his doctorate
from Columbia University.
Alter teaching at Princeton Uni-
versity, the College of William and
Mary and the University of Illinois,
he served a year in the Historical
Division of the United States De-
partment of State. Loewenheim
came to Rice in 1959.
He contributed to many histori-
cal books and wrote articles for sev-
eral magazines and newspapers. He
wrote nearly 600 articles for some
50 newspapers in the U.S., Canada
and the United Kingdom.
"He was very proud to have his
works published," Kubricht said. At
one point, Loewenheim was nomi-
nated for the Pulitzer Prize.
"He will be greatly missed,"
Kubricht said." A great friend to the
university has been lost ."
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Part of the problem in attracting
nationally-recognized or well-known
speakers is that Rice does not offer
honorary degrees or large speaker
fees. Moreover, nationally-recog-
nized speakers may find larger cam-
puses more conducive to their own
situations and find that Rice's rela-
tively small audience is insufficient
incentive to speak here, Munson
said.
"Often, extremely well-known
speakers would rather speak to large
audiences which could hear their
new ideas," Munson said. "Whereas
Rice University is small and its audi-
ence would number about 1,000,
somewhere like University ofTexas
would have a much larger audience."
Another problem with the cur-
rent system is that the well-known
speakers students choose are in high
demaiKfymd often engaged a year in
advance. Hence, it is difficult for
Gillis to acquire such speakers un-
der the present selection system's
a contact or colleague to speak at
commencement, one who did not
reflect the students'choice.
Applications for the 1998and 1999
speaker selection committees are
now being accepted
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Beard, Marty & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1996, newspaper, November 1, 1996; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246551/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.