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The Marching Owl Band
marches under the leadership of a
new director this year. Sean Will-
iams has replaced longtime director
Kenneth Dye who left at the end of
last year to accept a teaching posi-
tion with the State University of West
Georgia.Dye directed the MOB for
17 years.
"It is very exciting and thrilling
to be here, but it is also a very chal-
lenging job," Williams said,
last August, the university hired
Williams as an interim director of
the MOB for this year only. Whether
Williams will stay on for a few more
years or leave after only a year is still
under consideration.
am delighted with Sean Williams,
who is truly fantastic and is doing an
excellent job this season," the
executive production manager and
Baker College senior Sarah Miller
"Sean Williams is a wonderful
director and a great guy," second-
year MOB member and Brown Col-
lege sophomore Jim O'Ponnell said.
"He has filled in the hole [left by
Dye's absence) seamlessly."
Hanszen senior Andy Hick I. the
student leader and a drum major of
the MOB, also is enthusiastic."{Wil-
liams) is a talented man who has a
lot of energy and leaves a positive
imprint on the band," he said,
Regarding Dye's departure, Hickl
said, "It is a shame that I )r. Dye left,
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but the MOB must go on. The direc-
tor is only one person — there are
two hundred other students out
there, We, as a group, determine
where we want to go."
Even though the length of his
stay at Rice and the MOB's future
leadership is uncertain after this
academic year, Williams still has
plans for the MOB. "I am trying to
make the program funnier and more
entertaining," he said, referring to
the well-known antics of the MOB at
football half-time shows.
Williams, who hails from Roch-
ester, N.Y., has experience in teach-
ing music and in working with stu-
dents. He taught at Brazos High
School outside of Houston for five
years and is currently in his fifth
year with the Foley,Hand, which lie
participated in with Dye
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College in Georgle faces
lawsuit for fraud
The federal government has
joined a lawsuit against Brewton-
1'arker College that accuses tin-
Baptist institution in Georgia of im-
properly giving out more than $2
million in financial aid over 10 years.
A federal judge this week un
sealed t he complaint wh ich had been
filed in February by a former assis-
tant financial aid director at the col-
lege.
Die lawsuit, filed under the False
Claims Act,'alleges that the institu-
tion "consistently destroyed or al
tered evidence of the fraud" and re-
sponded to complaints by the assis-
tant financial aid director, Martha
Faw, by firing her and threatening
her with legal action if she contacted
to the authorities.
The False Claims Act has become
a popular tool of university employ-
ees trying to expose fraud at their
institutions. A provision was added
to the law in 1986 that allows whistle
blowers who sue on the
government's behalf to receive 15 to
30 percent of the amountrecovered.
The lawsuit also demands the
college reinstate Faw and give her
double the amount of pay she would
have received from the college had
she been working there during the
time she was unemployed.
Faw's complaint prompted an
investigation by the U.S. Department
of Education that found numerous
violations involving federal grant and
loan money at the college.
According to the report, the col-
lege had credited Pell Grants to in-
eligible students, distributed federal
money to foreign students, given
financial aid to students who lacked
the required documents and did not
refund students who were due them.
Although the lawsuit alleges that
fraud pervaded the financial aid of-
fice, the complaint notes that "the
students for whom awards that were
improper or overly generous were
predominantly athletes."
Y. Lynn Holmes, president of
Brewton-Parker, said in an interview
Thursday that the college was nego-
tiating a settlement with the govern-
ment. but he declined to give details
of the proposed deal.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher
Education Online. Sept. 26.
USA Today searches for
nation's best students
USA Today, in cooperation with
four higher education associations,
is beginning its annual search for
the nation's best college students.
Sixty of them will be named to their
1998 All-IJSA Academic Team.
USA Today will feature students
selected to the fifst, second and t bird
teams in a special section.
Also, USA Today m\\invite mem
bers of the first team to receive their
awards at a ceremony in Washing-
ton, D C., and will receive a cash
award of $2,500.
Any full-time undergraduate of a
four-year institution in the United
States or its territories is eligible.
U.S. citizenship is not required.
The criteria are designed to find
students who excel not only in schol-
arship but in leadership roles on and
off campus.
The key element will be a
student's outstanding original aca-
demic or intellectual product. The
judges will look for the student's
'ability to describe that outstanding
endeavor in his or her own words.
They will rely solely on the student's
ability to describe the effort in writ
ing, supplemented by recommenda-
tions from the nominating professor
and upto three other persons of the
nominee's choice.
For applications or more infor-
mation, call Carol Skalski at (703)
276-5890.
Source USA Today press release,
Sept. 1997.
Minority enrollment at UT
changes little
Minority enrollment in the fresh-
man class has changed little despite
concerns about the effects of the
Hopwood decision, University of
Texas officials said.
Official enrollment reports re-
leased Monday show that the fresh-
man class has 1,116 more students
than the previous class, while mi-
nority enrollment in the class has
changed little.
The freshman class contains 35
more Hispanic students, one more
African American student and six
more Native American students than
last year.
The number of Asian-American
students in the freshman class rose
34 percent this year, according to
the UT Office of Admissions.
This year's freshman class was
the first to be admitted without race
as a factor in fttlmisSions.
Source: TCU Daily Skiff.
Sept. 17.
Programming fund aids clubs
The President's Programming
Fund was created last year with
funds from the offices of President
Malcolm Gillis and Vice President
of Student Affairs Zenaido
Camacho.The purpose of the fund is
tosupport projects and activities that
are sponsored by Rice Student Or-
ganizations.
A committee comprised of staff
and faculty allocates the $20,000 fund
among various projects and activi-
ties proposed by Rice student orga* <
nidations.
The fund qnly supports specific
events or projects, and it does not
allocate money for a club's general
operations.
The committee will review appli-
cations for funding at four times
during the year; deadlines remain-
ing this year are Nov. 3, Feb 2 and
March 16.
Interested students may pick up
applications for funding and guide-
lines for the completion of iwopos
als online through the Student Ac-
tivities homepage or in the Student
Center Offices in the basement of
the student center.
Rice hosts IBM sponsored
programming contest
Rice's Computer and Information
Technology Institute will host the
annual South Central Region Pro-
gramming Contest-of the Associa-
tion for Computing Machinery, the
professional society for computer
scientists, Oct. 17 and 18 in Duncan
Hall.
Teams of students from colleges
and universities all over Texas, Okla-
homa and Ixiuisia'na will gather to"
test their ability at speed program-
ming and to qualify for the ACM
International Programming Contest
next winter.
Corporate sponsor 1BM will have
representatives present to talk about
the computing needs of industry for
the next millennium and about job
opportunities at IBM. As of now,
over 250 people will be on campus,
dining and competing.
Rice is traditionally strong in this
event and has won a position in the
contest finals every year from 199 J
to 1993.
For more information, visit http.:/
/www. cs. rice. edu/Events/A CM-con-
test/, or contact the contest director,
Doug Moore, at dougm@rice.edu or
or (713) 527-8101, ext. 3702.
Modem number changed
Rice has contracted with South-
western Bell to out source the dialup
modem pool. Students should use
(713) :n 3-8300 to dial into Rice now.
■ Aftef Sept, 30, the old modern
numbers, (713) 942-9020/3616/
3324. will no longer work.
The new modem pool consists of
230 lines, all serviced by 28.8Kb/s
modems.
Students will need to make mi-
nor changes in their dia,l-in setup.
Follow the instructions at http://
ricein/o. rice, edit/Computer/Dialup/
or contact the Consulting Center at
problemfflHce.edu or (713) 527-8101,
ext. 4983 for further assistance.
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