The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1997 Page: 4 of 24
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proved a series of vehicle regulation
changes April 22 which will go into
effect in September.
The changes include switching
the lane in front of lovett College
from a two-way street to a one-way
street, raising parking fees, increas-
ing handicap accessibility, adding
carpool hangtags to the existing va-
riety of parking permits and initiat-
ing a penalty that will result in the
removal of parking privilege's from
multiple offenders.
The premium) will
encourage people to
try and go to a
different place or to
the stadium.'
— Neill Binford, VP for
Finance and Administration
These c hanges stem from work
done throughout the year by a
committe led by Associate Dean tor
Academic Affairs Wil decker.
"The committee worked very
hard and received a lot of input —
especially Iron) students — which
were direc ted at addressing specific
problems," I fecker said.
According to Neill Binford, asso-
ciate vice president of Finance and
Administration, the restriction to one-
way of the lane iri front of Lovett
stems mainly from tin interest in
allowing motorists to park along the
road with their blinkers on for up to
fifteen minutes without getting tick
eted.
Currently, it is against the fire
code lor cars to park along the street,
because it is a two-way street.
"1 think there has been a favor -
ah! • response. By giving students
l .i minutes, it allows off-campus stu-
dents to drop by and pick up mail or
take c are ol something quick, which
will create more on-campus oil-cam
pus interactions," Lovett president
and junior Brandon Bidlack said.
To address a lack of handicap
accessibility, additional handicap
spaces will be set aside near Fondren
Library, and a systematic evaluation
by the police department about the
utilization of handicap parking will
be undertaken.
"IThe Campus Police) will moni-
tor which {parking spacesl are un-
used and where we have congestion
problems." Decker said.
Parking and shuttle fees will go
up by 50 cents from $ 10.00 to $ 10,50
oyer a two year period. Fees for
close-in parking -—which includes
any residential or building lots —
will increase to $95.00, an increase
of two dollars from last year.
Lot M, the parking area that
stretches from Allen Center to
Cohen House, will have an additional
$100 premium added to the cost of
its parking sticker.
That extra cost will, Binford
hopes, discourage enough faculty
and staff from buying those spaces
to make room for the 20 additional
visitor spots to be added to both
sides of Founders Court. The change
may emedy the problems caused
with the lot at 125 percent usage,
compared to the campus average of
110 percent
"We have had exceptional suc-
cess in visitor outreach, and we need
to keep them coming. [The pre-
mium! will encourage people to 117
and go to a different place or to the
stadium." Binford said.
Carpool hangtags are another
addition to this fall's lineup.
According to Binford, it will be
"possible for people who carpool to
split the cost of close-in lot access
and purchase a hang-tag instead of
separate parking stickers for every
car. Kach member of the carpool
would also pay the $10.50 parking
fee
hi addition, a new penalty will
become valid in September that may
disc outage people from obtaining a
large number of tickets.
The penalty is a complete loss of
parking privileges after more than
10 ticket incidents have been re
corded.
Binford said that campus police
will make a distinction between num-
bers of ticket sand numbers of ticket
incidents, since one ticket incident
sometimes results in two or three
separate tickets.
The Rice Campus Store, normally closed over the weekends, opened its doors last Saturday to give parents an
opportunity to spend their money on Rice parephernalia in the spirit of graduation.
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Rice-designed, constructed
house near completion
The Rice chapter of Habitat for
Humanity has almost completed the
first-ever Rice-designed, Rice-built
house.
Habitat for Humanity, which
builds hoimes for the poor, began
constructing the house Jan. 25. Rice
architecture students designed the
house, and members of the Rice
community built the complex.
"The house is halfway con-
structed," Sid Richardson College
sophomort* and chapter coordina-
tor Kevin Murphy said.
"The roof is almost on. and the
interior has been completely framed
up. By May 17. the dry wall should
be installed in the house, and we
will begin putting in the interior
trim, flooring, painting and closet
shelves. After that, the cabinets will
be installed, and then the exterior
will be landscaped," he said.
The chapter #s shooting for a
completion date of June 14, wifh the
house dedication set for June 21.
"However/this can only be ac-
complished if we have enough vol-
unteers for the summer. We will be
working every Saturday between
now and the end of June to finish the
house up," Murphy said.
"We don't know yet jyho will be
moving into the house. We are hop-
ing to complete the house by June
14, with a family moving in on June
21. Hojvever, it is possible that we
will fall behind that schedule and
push it back [by 1 up to a month,"
Murphy said.
A family eligible for home owner-
ship will receive the house.
In order to be eligible, the family
must have a steady annual income
between $12,000 and $23,000, put in
200 hours of "sweat equity" labor on
other Habitat houses and put an ad-
ditional 100 hours of work into their
house.
As of now, no families have com-
pleted their 200 hours, although
three or four are close,Murphy said.
To volunteer during the summer
months, send e-mail to habitat0
rice.edu or leave a message with the
Community Involvement Center at
(713) 527-4970. The chapter is look-
ing for faculty, staff, graduate and
undergraduate students and alumni
to help out this summer.
Faculty win honors, cash for
teaching abilities
The George R. Brown Teaching
Awards and the Nicolas Salgo Dis-
tinguishedTeacher Awards for 1997
were announced recently.
• Theawards..which tecof nize ex-
cellence in teaching, were presented
by President Malcolm Ciillis, identi-
fied several outstanding teachers
and rewarded them with apprecia-
tion and cash.
John 5, Hutchinson, associate
professor of Chemistry, won the
George R. Brown Prize for Excel-
lence in Teaching, the top award
given out in this category. John
AiTibler, professor of Political Sci-
ence; Marco A. Ciufolini, associate
professor of Chemistry; Chandler
Davidson, professor of Sociology;
Eugenia Georges, associate profes-
sor of Anthropaiogyi-Stephen
Klfneberg, professor of Sociology;
and Elizabeth Long, associate pro-
fessor of Sociology won the six other
George R. Brown Awards for Supe-
rior Teaching.
The Brown Foundation made
funds for the Brown Teaching
Awards available at the direction of
George R. Brown in 1967. Alumni
from 1992 to 1995 voted for this
year's award recipients. Qualified
alumni were'asked to vote in prefer-
ential order for the three Rice fac-
ulty members whom they remem-
ber from their time at Rice as par-
ticularly outstanding or effective
teachers.
Many current students agree that
the recognized teachers are excel-
lent people and instructors. "Dr.
Hutchinson is fabulous," Lovett Col-
lege freshman Lauren Kaufman, a
student in Hutchinson's Chemistry
102 class, said.
"He's really approachable and
down to earth when you go to visit
him. He is far from easy, butyou feel
really rewarded when you do well
on one of his next-to-impossible ex-
ams," she said.
Lovett senior Travis Hopp took
Ciufolini's class. "Dr. Ciufolini does
a masterful job of teaching one of
the largest classes at Rice. He com-
municates the complex concepts of
Orgo with humor and passion."
Other awards were given out for
excellent teaching as well. John H.
Zammito, associate professor of His-
tory, received the Nicolas Salgo Dis-
tinguished Teacher Award, which is
based on the votes of current juniors
and seniors.
Joan A. Strassman, professor of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
received this year's Julia Mile
Chance Prize for Excellence in
Teaching.
Elysabeth Gamard, assistant pro-
fessor of Architecture, received the
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award,
and Doug Schuler, assistant profes-
sor at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of Administration, received
the Graduate Student Association
feacbing Award this year.'
For the first time, an additional
group of monetary awards were
given out for the outstanding faculty
or staff associate at each residential
college...
Mickey Quinones, assistant pro-
fessor of Psychology and Baker
College associate; Ion Wilson, pro-
fessor of Chemistry and Sid
Richardson College associate; Terry
Doody, professor of English and
lovett associate; Rick Stoll, profes-
sor of Political Science and Jones
College associate; Terry Gaschen,
Teacher of Guitar at the Shepherd
Schoofo/Mosic and Wiess College
associate; Bruce Cooper, lab and
safety training coordinator for Bio-
chemistry and Cell Biology and Will
Rice College associate; Paul
Stevenson, professor of Physics and
Brown College associate; and
Zammito, Hanszen College associ-
ate, received these awards for the
1996~'97 school year.
Workers put finishing
touches on new buildings
Duncan Hall will be completed
this summer with the facing of col-
umns in the main lobby, seven
months after the dedication and oc-
cupation of the building occured.
The columns — intended to be
covered with U"xl7" gypsum-plas-
ter tiles and shaped to look some-
what like stonework — were se-
verely warped by water leakage dur-
ing shipment from England and only
a few were installed.
Most of the columns were left
with only a thin underlay around
them, which has already started to
crack in several places.
This summer, the columns will
be finished with a layer of gypsum
board, ornamented with inset
painted aluminum bands rather than
tile.
Rice chose to use the board, Fa-
cilities and Engineering architect
Bill Tomlinson said, to save money.
The board will be easier and cheaper
to install than tiles, the loss of which
was covered by insurance.
The work will be done at night to
minimize disruption from construc-
tion activities, although there will
be large scaffolding in the lobby.
Meanwhile, construction contin-
ues on the Nanotechnology Build-
ing, which is due to open in time for
classes in the fall. It will house un-
dergraduate teaching labs as well as
research facilities.
The Baker Institute building,
which opened earlier this semester,
is almost complete. A large chande-
lier has been installed in the atrium,
and landscaping around the build
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