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leadership Rice, the university
initiative born a year ago fjnom Vice
President tor Student AffairsZenaido
Catnacho's desire to belter prepare
Rice students for leadership, has un-
veiled a number of important <uga-
ni/atiot)al changes designed to ce-
ment its place at.Rice.
Three major changes are to be
implemented in the immediate fu-
ture •' l*h e program's direct i > rsh i p wi 11
be split into the positions of pro-
gram director and executive direc
% tor to better manage increased re-
sponsibilities, Leadership Rice will
move from the Office of Student Af-
fairs to the Office of the IVovost and
an Advisory Board will be created to
bettei'guide the lotig-tenrulevelop-
ment of the program and support
the efforts of the directors.
Malt hew Taylor, a lecturer'in the
History I )epartment since 1992 and
former Brown College resident as
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team-taught spring;
on principles 6 fie;
sity 210. with a summer mentorship
and a follow-up fall seminar course.
University 310, which addresses
leadership issues using guest lec-
turers and a case-study approach,
I-ast summer, 15 students took part
in the mentorship program and en-
rolled in IINIV Hid in the fall for the
first time. UNIV 210 is currently
being piloted by 32 students and ari
eight-member teaching team.
'The big issue that sort of set off
this whole soul-searching process
was 'what we needed to grow."' lead-
er ship Rice Assistant to the- Direc-
tors Glenn Levy said. "We had cre-
ated a sort of startup or pilot pro-
gram without the resources to see it
through."
After the the program's first di
be-
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position as i
Governors i
committee i for her i
gan to examine there
tor and the organize
gram as a whole.
Program participant and Wiess
C ollege junior lx ri Rudge simulta-
neously began her UNIV 310 project
on possible changes to Leadership
Rice on the advice of Academic Co-
ordinator John Hutchinson, who
taught the class. The search com-
mittee also included, two student
members, Lovett College sopho-
more Amy Cooper and Brown se-
nior Krista Noack.
In t he search for Burke's replace-
ment. the committee realized Tilling
her shoes would be more difficult
than they had thought. "We needed
a sort of superhuman person who
could handle interaction with the
faculty and with the students here at
Rice as well as relate to the business
community, but still be a Ph.D. in
some kind of highly-respected aca-
demic discipline." Noack said.
As program director, Taylor is
coordinating UNIV 210 and will be
teaching UNIV 310 in the fall. He is
charged with managing the day-to-
day needs of Leadership Rice, main-
taining its academic integrity and
strengthening faculty support for the
program. The new position of ex-
ecutive director was created to so-
licit community support for the pro-
gram in the form of speakers, men
tors and funding, as well as to help
guide the general vision of the.pro-
gram in conjunction with the new
Advisory Board. It will be filled dur-
ing the summer, after if and its land-
ing have been better defined.
The Advisory Board will be com-
posed of faculty, deans, students,
alumni, families, program sponsors,
donors and mentors from the Hous-
ton community and will most likely
meet four or five times per year.
The board will help direct the
overall vision of the program but.
aid, its most important role
• gaining support for Leader-
"ce by involving people from
rounds. "We need support
thin the university, from the
, from the deans and from
of the organizations like the
Institute or the Jones School.
Ve also need support from the
outside community in terms of fund-
ing for the program, mentors and
speakers for the lecture series we're
hoping to offer," Levy said
'Parents are eating up
Leadership Rice. They
-
it.
— Glenn Levy
Leadership Rice assistant to
the directors
A more informal Friends of Lead-
ership Rice group that meets only
twice a year will be created to in-
volve students and family members,
faculty, community members and
even prospective students with the
program. "Parents are eating up
leadership Rice." Levy said. 'They
love it."
Rudge described the current po-
sition of Leadership Rice as being
"stuck in between an extracurricu-
lar and a curricular activity." Levy
characterized the current teaching
team as being strained, making fur
the? expansion under Student Af-
fairs impossible.
According to Rudge. that expan-
sion is vital. "In order for the pro-
grain to be effective, it has to reach
out to the rest of the curriculum and
not just into these two particular
classes that they're offering right
now. In order to do that, they're
going to have reach a larger group
of faculty, and the Provost's Office is
really one of the only places where
lhal can happen," «jbe said. -
This summer, 20-30 mentorships
Cay for information HbuMi true piBCiiCi
College statistics students''
find error in Lottery ads
The Texas Lottery Ifas pulled .
printed ads for its Cash 5 game from
stores after a college statistics class
sent it a letter claiming that possible
winnings were being exaggerated.
The class at San Antonio Col-
lege. which was using Cash 5 data to
practice statistical analysis, deter-
mined. that someone who matches
all live numbers in the game could
win S57,-575.70.
In store ads for J he game. How-
ever, state that winners can win
$75,000.
Lottery Commission spokesper-
son Steve Levine said Cash 5 televi-
sion ads will not be changed, and
the decision to remove the printed
ads is not an admission of error.
" The students just came up with
a different way of finding their fig
ures than we did — we're not saying
their way is right," Levine said.
"We decided Jo pull the ads be-
cause that's the first thing we do
when we get a legitimate and rea-
sonable complaint about out adver-
tising .. and we already were think-
ing about renewing our ads,"he said.
Gerald Busald, who teaches the
statistics class, said students
checked their numbers before send-
ing their complaints.
"We kept doingfhe math, but out-
numbers didn't change, so we sent
the Lottery Commision a letter and
out statistical proof," Busald said.
"The $75,000 figure seems to be
an estimate of the average of the
total winnings from the first 154
drawings, which averages out to
$70,943.79," BuSald said.
Busald argues that, since 10 per-
cent of the money bet on Cash 5 is
awarded to people"whotl'SW'atl'fivr
numbers, the expected distribution
works out to $57,575.50.
lips
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m
will be offered,
number of last
gram. "Ideally.
100 people take
and be able to
over the summer, I
ton but also
tionally,"
Panel discussions are anticipated
for next year as a way to expand the
benefits of the program to those
who cannot make the committment
to the fall seminar. Envision grants
will be moving under the control of
leadership Rice.
Compaq's pledge of $50,000, ac-
cording to Levy, is doubly,important
because one principle.ofjLeadership
Rice is that student^' stipends should
not tome directly from the company
Tor which they work so that mentors
will not feel compelled to extract
thejr "money's worth."
Rudge downplayed the impor-
tance of that logic. "As long as busi-
nesses recognize that they aren't
getting grunt labor for eight weeks,
that they're actually going to get an
intern, then that will make a big
difference."
Applications for mentorships this
summer are available starting to-
day. All Rice students are eligible,
regardless of whether or not they
•are enrolled in UNIV 210. "We're
not looking for established leaders.
... We're looking for people that
maybe have an interest and haven't
found a way to develop that inter
est," Levy said. Mentorship students
work on a project t hat interests them
and submit a proposal at the end of
the summer. It is expected that
mentorship students enroll in UNIV
310, but there is no requirement
that they finish the course'
Mentors are drawn from public
and private institutions and will in-
clude Baylor College of Medicine,
Fiesta Mart, the Houston Area
Women's Center and the Houston
READ Commission. The mentor
ships are accompanied by a $2,500
stipend and will last for 8-10 weeks.
"It's not rocket science," Busald
said. "Students figured it out. with
calculators."
Source: The Battalion. Feb 18.
Utah '.fog buster' professor
helps American troops
N ori Fu k u ta, a U niversity of U tab
professor whose "fog busting" met h-
ods helped in the Bosnia operations,
has been praised for his work by
NATO commanders.
Sen. Orriiv Hatch (R-Utab) said
he received a letter Friday from Gen-
eral George Joulwan, Supreme Al-
lied Commander of the NATO
forces, commending Fukuta for "the
invaluable help his invention gave
the United States forces in Bosnia
last year."
Fukuta's patented method for
defogging sprays liquid carbon di-
oxide into the fog, generating ice
crystals that cause fog to evaporate.
The process is currently in opera-
tion at Salt hike International Air-
port. .
In 1995, Fukuta read about heavy
fog conditions interfering "with mili-
tary air operations in Bosfiia He
called Hatch, offering h1« services
to NATO. Hatch contacted NATO,
and Fukuta was called for help.
"Utah couldn't be prouder of Pro-
fessor Fukuta," Hatch said. "I have
been to Bosnia and know firsthand
the problems our troops were hav-
ing with fog conditions. This 'fog
buster' was the answer to our
military's problems."
SrtMrce:The Daily Utah Chronicle.
Jan. 27
flat* Department warns
travelers about drug laws
Each year, more than 2,000
American citizens are arrested
abroad —about 1,000 on charges of
using or possessing drugs and oth-
ers for violating local laws regard
ing the use of alcohol and the behav-
ior associated with it.
According to the U.S. State
Department's Bureau of Consular
Affairs, many students who go to
resort areas and overindulge in al-
cohol wrongly assume that local au
thorjties will overlook disruptive
conduct because the atmosphere
appears more laid-back than it does
in the U.S. Many also incorrectly
assume that they are immune from
prosecution in foreign lands because
they are American citizens.
According to the Bureau of Con-
sular Affairs, once an American
leaves the country, U.S. laws and
constitutional rigfjts no longer ap-
ply to them, and few countries be
lieve one is "innocent until proven
guilty."
United States consular officers
can visit jailed Americans to see that
they are being fairly and humanely
treated, but they cannot get Ameri-
cans out of jail or intervene in a
foreign country's legal system on
their behalf.
Recently, many countries have
begun increased efforts to stop the
flow of illegal narcotics through their
borders. As a result, Americans have
been arrested for possessing as 1 it tie
as a third of an ounce of marijuana.
If, for medical reasons, a traveler
must take medication or other pre-
scriptions containing narcotics, the
State Department advises him or
her to carry a doctor's certificate
attesting to that fact and keep all
medications in their original labeled
containers.
For more travel safety informa-
tion, visit the State Department's
Web page at http.//travel.stalr.gov
Source; U.S Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs, Febru-
ary 1997.
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