The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1998 Page: 1 of 24
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by Greg E. Norman
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A broadcast media advisor at the
State University of New York at New
Paltz formally accepted Rice's job
offer to become KTRU's first-ev?r
general manager. Will Robedee, who
currently directs the radio and tele-
vision facilities at New Paltz, will
begin work at Rice's student-oper-
ated 50,000-watt radio station July 1.
President Malcolm Gillis char
tered an ad hoc committee last year,
which advised that KTRU hire a
general manager to bolster relations
between the student management
of the station and the Rice adminis-
tration, as well as to ensure that
KTRU operates within Federal Com-
munications Commission regula-
tions. The general manager will not
control programming, Station Man-
ager and Sid Richardson College
junior Heather Colvin said.
"He will not have any influence
on programming — the students
will still decide the programming.
The only reason that he would ever
be able to interfere with program-
ming would be if it were violating
FCC regulations," Colvin said.
"I envision my role as general
•manager of KTRU to be a facilitator,
an advocate for students and the
lierson the university will hold re-
sponsible for the legal and respon-
sible operation of KTRU," Robedee
said.
"It will be my responsibility to
help share with the students the
programming goads of the admiirhs-,
tration and to help both parties to
seek a common ground."
A committee of students, faculty
and administrators selected
Robedee after an interview process
that included screening s? resumes,
interviewing 10 candidates by tele-
phone and interviewing three candi-
dates in person. Three students —
Colvin, KTRU Music Director and
Hanszen College junior Maggie
Large and Student Association rep
resentative and Hanszen junior
Anders Ryerson — sat on the com-
mittee. Assistant vice president for
public affairs Janet McNeill chaired
the committee.
Both Colvin and McNeill said the
committee worked well together to
select a person whom both the KTRU
staff and the administration ap-
proved.
"Everyone on the committee,
even administrative people, kept
stressing that KTRU is a student-
run operation (which] has to be re-
spected," Colvin said.
McNeill called the committee's
deliberations "definitely coopera-
tive."
"We kept the interests of both
students and administration in mind
— in truth, I think we believed that
the right candidate would not see a
conflict [between them]," McNeill
said.
Improving reception of KTRU on
campus will be among the first
projects Robedee will undertake.
KTRU'sbroadcasl antenna is located
in Humble, about 2Q miles northeast
of Houston.
The "shadows" of downtown sky-
scrapers prevent clear reception in
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KTRU disc Jockey Bob Ferguson selects music for his '60s music show.
the Rice area. One of the proposed
solutions is the construction of a
small, local antenna to serve the
Rice/Montrose area. Colvin said that
Robedee's presence as a professional
radio administrator will give the sta-
tion direction in undertaking such a
project
Robedee will join the Student
Affairs staff and report to Assistant
Dean of Student Affairs Cathi Clack
and Vice President for Student Af-
fairs Zenaido Camacho. The new
position will serve as liaison bet ween
KTRU staff and administration, capi-
talizing on the cooperative momen-
tum that was generated by the search
committee.
"(The adminstration's and stu-
dents') goals are not so far apart as
we thought — they're riot out to gel
us, as we originally feared. / think
that they just want to help, more
than anything else," KTRU program
director and a Wi/1 Rice junior Kristin
Murray said.
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"Il seemed to us that they had
always thought of us as a bunch of
punk kids who just wanted to play
loud, obnoxious music all the time
and use the radio station as toy, and
we thought they just wanted to take
us over. But a lot of the problems
between KTRU and the adminisfra
lion (have) mostly been due to lack
ot communication," Colvin said.
"|The general manager] will act as a
buffer between the station and the
administration." .
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Honor at Rice
Btome Management Coordinator Tony Burgess describes the ecosystems within the Biosphere 2 Center. The Center
a variety of Monies, including a rain forest, desert and swamp.
Classes visit U.S. Southwest over break
BAKE 303 tours Biosphere 2, RICH 311 examines Santa Fe rock art
by Susan Egeland
THRESHER EDITORIAl. STAFF
Students in two college courses
spent midterm recess visiting sites
that complement their respective
class discussions. The RICH 311
class. Prehistoric Native-American
Art, toured rock art in Santa Fe and
El Paso, and the BAKE 303 class, a
lab for Understanding Environmen-
tal Systems, went to Biosphere 2 in
Arizona and the Grand Canyon.
RICH 311 professor and Assis-
tant Dean for Student. Judicial Pro:
grams Patricia Bass said that pre-
historic Native-American art is com-
monly known as rock art and in-
cludes images on cave walls and
boulders.
She said the class decided to go
to the Santa Fe area hecauSe of the
abundance of sites in and ground
the city, "We were able to see the
most art in the shortest amount of
time," she said.
Bass and 12 of the 19 students in
the class spent Feb. 28-March 6 tour-
ing rock art sites. They spent one
night in the Davis Mountains and
the rest of the week in cabins in a
KaitPgrounds of America outside
of Santa Fe,
While in Santa Fe the class vis-
ited Petroglyph National Monument,
Bandelier- National Monument and
Pecos National Historical Park. On
the way back to Houston, the group
toured the Hueco Tanks site in El
Paso.
Sid Richardson 'College subsi-
dized most of the trip, although each
student paid $50 for lodging and
vehicle transportation. Students also
covered their own food costs.
lx>vett College junior J yoti Gupta
said, "Since RICH 311 focuses on
rock art, it's nice to see real ex-
amples of what we are studying in
their natural environment ~
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by Angelique Siy
THRESH!: K SIM I
Undoubtedly, the honor sys-
tem at Rice-has problems. The
problems — the six unheard
cases that were dropped last se-
mester, unpublished penalty
structures, backlogs and lack of
campus awareness of the Honor
Code — result in student misun-
derstanding of both the council
and the code.
Fear, disinterest and lack of
awareness
Many students fear the Honor
Council, and some say that coun-
cil members tend to believe re-
flexively that all accused stu
dents are guilty until proven in-
nocent. Other students also be-
lieve the code is just a sham, a
system that allows both students
and faculty to be lazy about test-
ing procedures, a system that
"everyone" takes advantage of by-
cheating at every opportunity, al-
though "only the stupid ones get
caught." Still others hold genu
ine faith in a system they recog-
nize has flaws, both human and
organizational. Most students"
perceptions fall somewhere in be-
tween.
To remedy the problems, the
Honor at Rick is a two-part
series on the problems that
have plagued the Honor
Council this year and the
proposed solutions to
those problems. Part one
discusses Rice students'
fear of the council and the
council's attempts to allay
that tear. Part two, in next
week's Thresher, will
discuss student reactions
andcouncilmembers' views
on the council's proposed
changes.
council held open college forums.
The response has been better
than council membersexpected,
with about five or six participants
at each college, except lor the
Honor Council's Jones College
forum Jan. 29, which drew aii
crowd of 21
Former ombudsman and
Jones senior Jon Gillum, who pre-
sented a list of grievances at the
forum said. "I think that such
fear is well-founded, and students'
who are not afraid of the Honor
Council probabk should be "
Gillum said he doubts that many
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