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tured almost half, the country and
•are threatening to take over Presi
dent Mobutu Sese Seko s last strong-
hold, the capital city of Kinshasa
After seven months of fighting, rebel
forces led by Laurent Kabila have
reached the city of Bandundu, .155j
miles northeast of the capital. On
Friday, they took over Zaire's sec- >
ond-largest city, Lubumbashi. The*
rebels demanded that Mobutu re-
sign; to increase pressure, millions
participated in a one-day general
strike in the capital city on Monday.
The strike came after Mobutu re-
placed opposition leader Ktienne
Tshisekedi with an army general as
prime minister.
Tliis week, the airlift of thousands
of Rwandan refugees from Zairian
jungles back to Rwanda will begin.
These refugees have fled into north-
central Zaire as Zairiah rebels trying
to oust Mobutu moved west.
Source: USA Today Online,
April 14.
Australian young adults will
hava to work for public aid
In September, the Australian gov-
ernment plans to start a program
that requires young adults to work
before receiving public aid.
Australia's overall rate of unem-
ployment is 8.5 percent; Tasmania
with an unemployment
i unemployment rate
rate of 10
percent and an
for 16 to 19 year olds of 33 percent.
With this background, residents
of Tasmania .hope the government-
subsidized training program will
give them skills for future jobs.
However, such programs are
costly. The government's outlay at
the College of Aluminum Training,
the locat ion of a*pil<^ work program
for example, is roughly $6 million a
year to train 450 youths. Although
many of these youths proceed to get
permanent j6bs with the company,
the program only accepts one of 10
applicants.
Many unemployed young people,
however, fear t hat the job programs
under the new system will require
rhe menial chores that were offered
in past programs. Under the
government's new work program,
10,000 people who have been job-
less for more than six months will be
put to work for two days a week on
50 to 70 projects across the country.
The program does not affect older
welfare recipients.
Much support for this program
comes from the year-old government
of the Liberal Party which is, despite
its name, a business-oriented politi-
cal force.
Source: Houston Chronicle,
April 13.
The Student Association Senate postponed their meeting to Thursday
night the following was announced; .
* O/C Housing Guides are available in college secretaries' offices.
Next meeting; Monday at 10 p.m. in Relley lounge in the Student
Center.
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Students commemorated last
year's rally against the Hopwood
ruling with a forum, "Race/Rice.
The State of Minority Students at
Rice University," held in
Farnsworth Pavilion on Wednes-
day.
The Black Student Association
and-Hispanic Association for Cul-
tural Education at Rice developed
and presented the effort as a joint
project. The forum's topics in-
cluded the history of minority stu-
dents at Rice, the origins of affir-
mative action and an analysis of
the Hopwood decision.
BSA member and Baker Col-
lege sophomore Neema Jones
opened the forum by stressing the
importance of exploring Rice's past
to understand its present.*."By re-
tracing the steps of those who
came before us, we can better un
derstand the state of minorities
today," Jones said.
English Professor Alan (irob
and Sociology Department Chair
Chandler Davidson continued the
theme of exploring the past by
recounting their experiences with
minority students during 'their
time at Rice.
"1 would like to reminisce on
some of the students that 1 have
known while being here,"
Davidson said, sharing anecdotes
about some of his high-achieving
former black students, including
Linda Fay Williams (Jones '69),
one of the first two black students
to graduate from Rice.
Richard Tapia, professor of
Computational and Applied Math-
ematics, described the role that
he has played since he entered
Rice in 1970 and spoke about the
Hispanic student population.
Tapia explained that he began
nurturing the growth of the His-
panic presence on campus, not
because he wanted the role, but
Richard Tapia speaks about his experience at Rice since his arrival
because no one else did. "I didn't
come into Rice to correct the world
then I got involved with these
liberal people here," he joked, re-
ferring to his co-panelists.
Tapia outlined his efforts over
the years to actively recruit under
represented minority students and
discussed his success in achiev-
ing balanced demographics
among graduate students in the
Mathematics Department. He ar-
gued the importance of not only
recognizing problems on campus
but also taking an active role in
solving them.
Following Tapia, Craig Jackson
(SRC 77), a University of Texas
Ixtw School graduate, explained
the history of the Hopwaod deci-
sion. Rice is as selective as UT
1 .aw School but has done a better
job of admitting blacks, he said
Jackson predicted that within the
next five years the Supreme Court
would uphold ;t ruling similar to
that of the Hopwood decision.
David Kravitz, ;t visiting psy
chology professor, ^ravc his per-
spective on affirmative action. He
described people's common re-
sponses and react ions to 1 he policy
and how they affect its future vi-
ability.
Roland Smith Jr., the associate
provost, spoke last. He described
his own reaction to the Hopwood
decision and his positive response
to Rice's increased numbers of
minority students.
The forum ended with remarks
from Student Association I'resi-
dent Daryl Shorter.
SRC freshman Amanda Goad
attended the forum. "I thought it
was really good.. They explained
a lot of past history that I didn't
know," she said.
'Tm hoping this will keep the
issue on people's minds and keep
people fighting against the
Hopwood decision," Harith I'aki
Nelson, the incoming BSA presi-
dent and a SRC junior, said.
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this area. A temporary entrance will be established west of the work
at University Boulevard and Montclair. At night, the temporary
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Residential College*
Baker
Brown
Lovett
Herring Hall
Shepherd School
Anderson Hall
Central Kitchen
Other Areas
Grtfd House Overflow
Alumni Drive
Brown Lot 'A'
Laboratory Road
April 9
April 12
April 12
April 8
April 9
April 10
April 7
Fight between two kitchen
employees reported.
Theft of bicycle from phone
closet on fourth floor.
Student received harassing phone
callefrdm person identifying
himself as Todd.
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one)f the
Registered bicycle
Purse stolen from onff of the
percussion practice rooms.
Unregistered bicycle stolen.
Money taken from secured
personal locker.
April 8 Vehicle break-in reported.
April 8 Subject cited for disorderly
conduct after gesturing obscenely
to police OTncer.
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April o vemcte oreaiwn reported. rortao e
CD player and a box of
approximately 90 cassette tapes
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April 10 Subject cited for disorderly
conduct after obscenely gesturing
to ticket writer who was issuing a
citation because the subject's
vehicle was H gn|>y ____
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Hardi, Joel & Siy, Angelique. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1997, newspaper, April 18, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246567/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.