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Newly-appointed Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright made her
first foreign policy address outside
the Washington, D C. area Feb. 7 in
the Grand Hall of the Student Cen-
ter. The James A. Baker 111 Institute
for Public Policy played host.
Albright said that her new goal is
to cut through the red tape of Wash-
ington and "clear away the fog from.
Foggy Bottom."
"1 will do my best to talk about
foreign policy not in abstract terms,
but in human terms — and in bipar-
tisan terms," Albright said.
Albright focused most of her
speech on President Clinton's pro-
posed budget, which was submitted
to Congress the day before Albright
spoke at Rice. "Approval of this bud-
get matters, not only to me, or to
those who consider themselves for-
eign policy experts, but to each and
everyone of us." Albright said.
Albright also explained how the
foreign policy aspect of Clinton's
budgetproposal would greatly help
America keep its current station in
the world. "The success or failufe of
American foreign policy is not only
relevant to our lives; it will be a
determining factor ill the quality of
our lives." she said.
Afbright proceeded to outline the
effect1 of foreign policy on job cre-
ation and the'upkeep of the economy.
"For as long as I a hi secretary of
state, America's diplomatic influence
will be harnessed to the task of help-
ing America's economy to grow,"
Albright said. She cited NAFTA and
other commitments in Latin America
and Asia as being principal reasons
for a growing economy
AlbrigHt concluded with a pledge
to pursue approval of the Chemical
Weapons Convention in the Senate.
"The CWC establishes the standard
that it is wrong to build or possess
chemical weapons.... It will send a
message that if a country wants to
be part of the international system
and to participate fully in its ben-
efits, it must ratify and comply with
the CWC," Albright said.
The speech was attended by a
crowd of students and members of
the Houston community 4hat iilled
the Grand Hall and Sammy's dining
area to capacity. According to Stu-
dent Center Director Steve Sutton,
students made up about a quarter of
those in attendance. "We had seat-'
SEE ALBRIGHT PAGE 5
At Wednesday's debate, the candidates for Student Association president answered questions. From left to right, they
are Ryan Melgiri and Hrish Lotlikar, Teddy Kapur, Daryl Shorter, Noemie Dharamraj and Packy Saunders.
SA candidates discuss platforms
Fellsa Yang
Assoc. News Editor
On Wednesday evening, the can-
didates for the position of Student
Association Senate president con-
vened in Farnsworth Pavilion to de-
bate issues and explain their plat-
forms.
The candidates are Daryl Shorter
(Hanszen College *98); Teddy Kapur
(Hanszen '99); Noemie Dharamraj
(Hanszen *98); Packy Saunders
(Jones College '98); and Hrishkesh
Lotlikar (Baker College '98) and
Ryan Melgiri (Baker '99), who are
co-candidates.
The debate was moderated by
KTRU General Manager Andy
Campbell (Baker '97)and Thresher
Co-Editor in Chief Marty Beard
(Brown College '98). The candidates
opened with general remarks, dur-
ing which they outlined their plat-
forms and goals.
Lotlikar and Melgiri explained
that their partnership "leads to
greater efficiency and energy, be
cause the job of SA president is time-
intensive and work-intensjve."Their
goals include improving Rice's na-
tional reputation by offering more
programs that will increase student
involvement both on- and off-cam-
pus. They at*e also pushing to re-
form general curriculum so as to
offer greater freedom in choosing
classes.
Kapur also focused on student
involvement as a Mlultun to the oft-
quoted "Rice-student apathy."
Kapur's suggestions entailed link-
ing academic credit with commu-
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information, encourages feedback
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l sculptures have been on exhibit in the Rice Art Gallery in
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these new works as wait as previous wor* by LeWitt.
in oonjunction with the new exftibtvthe geitery le Auctioning off an
ortglnel gouache on paper, titled Squiggly Brueh$trokes,1996. The
pieee is valued *t $10,000. The futklsfromthe auction will go fdrthe
gaNery's exhibition program The wftyner will be announce April 13.
The department oT Food and
Housing has created a new Website
to improve communication with the
eight residential colleges and help
make information more available to
students, faculty and staff.
College Food Service Manager
Mark Ditman explained that the
main purpose of the page is to dis-
tribute information.
To Ditman, one important aspect
of the Internet is that it allows for
interactive feedback from students.
Utilizing it gives Food and Housing
a much more efficient tool compared
to their previous method of getting
student input, which involved com-
ment cards. Ditman said that he is
already receiving five to six mes-
sages a day concerning nutritional
information.
In the future, Ditman said he
would like to increase the scope of
the page, and he realizes that there
is potential to do a lot more. Next
year, for example, he intends to get
the annual food survey online and
also include late-night information
about Sammy's. Ditman empha-
sized, however, that he did not want
the page to consume a lot of time
and money.
According to Jones College se-
nior Packy Saunders, who began
working on the Website last Decem-
ber, "Our main thing now is getting
dinner nutrition on it. That's the one
thing that's lacking."
Saunders surfed the Web for
ideas on the design of the Food Ser-
vice page, „
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was inspired by some leading Web
designers' work," he said.
Although the page is still in the
final stages of completion, Ditman
said that he is extremely pleased
with the quality of the page thus far.
When asked about how he feels
students will react to the page, he
said, "I'm not putting up a page just
because it's the 'thing to do,' but I
am confident that students will find
the page to be a valuable resource."
Hanszen College sophomore
David Grenardo had a similar reac-
tion to the page. "I think it's a last
and easy way for us to get informa-
tion and to lei Food and Housi
know how we feel."
Saunders praised Ditman's ini
tiative in commissioning the pro-
duction of the site.
"As Food Service director, Mark
Ditman is very receptive to student
concerns." Saunders said.
"(Ditman's] primary concern to
me was that the Webpage was to
crate a forum to get student feed-
back to him.'' he said.
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