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Friday, January 30, 1998
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by Susan Egeland
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Possible improvements to
Fondren Library under the strate-
gic plan "Rice: The Next Century"
include remodeling the fifth and
sixth floors and building an addition
to the 50 year-old structure. With
administration support and univer-
sity funding, renovat ion could begin
in five years.
Hie December donation of $21.4
million by the Hobby Foundation
will fund the first of the strategic-
plan s initiatives to improve Fondren.
The Library Planning Commit-
tee proposed a three-phase improve-
ment plan for the library. Phase 1
freed 8,270 square feet of space pre-
viously occupied by the Computer
by Anderson Lee
rOKTHfc: THRKHHER
Food and Housing Director
Marion Hicks and Director of Inter-
national Education Patricia Martin
both announced that they will retire
at the end of the 1998 spring semes-
ter. The two administrators have
served a combined total of 60 years
at the university.
Martin guided Rice to
international heights
Associate Vice President of Stu-
dent Affairs and Director of Interna-
tional Education Patricia Martin will
retire following the end of the 1998
spring semester, ending her nearly
30-year career at Rice University.
Under Martin's direction, the study
abroad program has blossomed from
roughly a half dozen participants at
its outset to the current group of
over 200 students working, study-
ing and interning overseas each year.
Martin's replacement has not yet
been announced
Martin's association from Rice
dates back to 1968, when she came
to the university with her husband,
and Information Technology Insti-
tute and the James A. Baker III Insti-
tute of Public Policy.
Phase II calls for the remodeling
of the fifth and sixth floors of
Fondren at a cost of $1.5 million, and
is contingent upon the relocation of
the History Department and many
offices of the School of Humanities.
Even after the implementation of
Phase I and Phase II, however,
Fondren will reach maximum ca-
pacity within an estimated six years.
Then, Fondren will need to be ex-
panded or a new library building
constructed.
"It is likely that a new addition
will be built contiguous to Fondren
rather than a separate building else-
where on campus," Librarian and
Vice Provost Charles Henry said.
to retire
Sociology Professor William Mar-
tin. She enrolled in Rice as a gradu-
ate student in History in 1970. She
completed her masters degree in
1976 and Ph.D. in 1981.
Then, together with her husband,
she served for five years as Sid
Richardson College Master from
1976-'81.
In 1981, Martin was appointed
director of the School of Continuing
Studies where she served until she
becaifle" director'of Student Affairs
in 1983. Afterwards, she worked as
director of Student Activities, for-
eign student adviser, director of Aca-
demic Advising and, finally, associ-
ate vice president of Student Affairs
and director of International Educa-
tion.
'The interactions with the stu-
dents, student leaders and the Stu-
dent Association in all the many ac-
tivities has been enriching and re-
warding," Martin said. She also said
that working in the study abroad
program was the most valuable ex-
perience in her career,
"It was the [program] closest to
my heart, the one on which 1 spent
the most energy, and the one 11
consider] my greatest accomplish-
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Phase III calls for an additional
55,000 square feet with no internal
walls to allow for easy future expan-
sion. -
"The committee intends to de-
velop a master plan of library needs
over 1998, create an architectural
design in 1999 and then start con-
struction with an opening in the
spring of 2003," undergraduate rep-
resentative on the library commit-
tee and Student Association Exter-
nal Vice President Travis Hopp said.
Chair of the Library Planning
Committee and Provost David
Auston said Rice is working to ex
pand the library because the cur-
rent collection of resources does not
adequately meet the needs of un-
dergraduates. Fondren has decided
to put,$l million into strengthening
the collection of books for under-
graduates over the next four to five
years.
Fondren currently houses
I,864,300 volumes and the library
typically acquires 50,(KM) new vol-
umes each year.
For space reasons, Fondren has
reduced the size of its collection in
recent years. The library withdrew
II,000 volumes in 1994 and 13,000
volumes in 1995—with fut ure yearly
withdrawals of 1,500 volumes
planned.
Since 1988, 250,000 volumes
(about 14 percent of the library's
stock) have been stored in a remote
site under Rice Stadium. Students
must submit an on-line form to re-
quest the use of one of these books.
Committee member and Profes-
sor of History John Boles said, "At
present, the collections of Fondren
are inadequate for some of out aca-
demic programs ... The collections
should be strengthened both by
adding to our traditional paper and
microfilm collections and by
aggressively taking advantage of
new electronic or digitized sources."
Boles outlined severaf of the
committee's ideas to improve
Fondren. "The library needs more
and different kinds of study spaces
— comfortable chairs and sofas,
places for group study or team-based
research and places where books,
electronic data and other sources
can be brought together for mixed
media research and use," he said.
Fondren will require more
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According to eyewitness accounts, several members of Hanszen College set fire to the Wiess pig. a topiary
mascot that lived at the college. The pig, which was doused with grain alcohol before being ignited during the
Super Bowl, was valued at $544. The Campus Police are investigating the incident.
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Approximately 65 Chinese Rtce students protested Harry Wu s address in the Grand Hall
Jan. 22. Wu spoke about human rights violations in the Chinese prison system.
by Mike Schwartz
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Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident, spoke about hu-
man rights in China as part of the President's Lecture
Series in the (irand Hall Jan. 22.
Wu was imprisoned in China as a counter-rcvolu
(ionary rightist for 19 years, time he served in forced
labor camps known as laogai. He said he now speaks
for human rights and an end to the Communist re-
gime in China to prevent becoming "a traitor to all the
others left" in his homeland
Sixty-five of the members of the Rice Chinese
Students and Scholars at Rice University club signed
up to protest Wu's speech. Lined up along the street
in front of the Student Center, about 20 protesters
distributed a leaflet titled "Harry Wu: Not a Hero for
Us" and held posters bearing slogans such as "We
Protest Harry Wu" and "Stop Lying-" The protesters
also attempted to" engage speech-goers in conversa-
tion about Harry Wu.
Dechun Lin, president of the protesting club and a
graduate student in Space Physics, said, "I feel sorry
about Harry Wu's imprisonment. But he is deeply
damaging relations between the United States and
China We know that the Chinese government has
problems, but there has been a massive reform pro-
cess since around 1980."
Lin said the laogai system still exists, but only a
few political prisoners remain.
Wu explained how, as a 27-year-old geology stu-
dent -uthn lii fW fh>M'nntn 7 ho wound up
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The baseball team opens its home
season Feb. 6 against New Mexico The
Owls are gunning for a return trip to the
College World Series in Omaha,
Nebraska.
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