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by Chris Ekren 

University President Norman 

Hackerman has expressed little 

concern over the mediocre ratings 

of Rice's graduate program in 

recent surveys that place Rice 

below many colleges. The surveys 

polled university faculty members 

across the country, and ranked 

institutions on the basis of quality, 

effectiveness, improvement and 

the faculty's familiarity with the 

institution. 

At the Rice faculty meeting held 

Friday, January 28, Hackerman 

stated, "We'll have to be satisfied 

with our own assessment, good or 

bad." 

Hackerman argued that Rice 

should not worry itself with polls, 

as the small and undergraduateoriented 

nature of Rice places it at 

a disadvantage in graduate polls. 

Commented Hackerman, "We 

ought to be unconcerned about 

ratings and not being on the list of 

Volume 70, Number 19 

best schools. We should be 

concerned about our scholarship. 

This attitude should not be taken 

as complacency, however." 

President Norman Hackerman 

He added, "Jones and Lindsay 

(one of the studies) made a point to 

correlate the relationship between 

the size of a department and the 

potentiality of being rated in an 

opinion poll. Except for Cal Tech, 

it is impossible for a small 

institution to insert itself in the top 

section. 

"Good ratings require large 

departments; 30 to 70 people. We 

have a maximum of fifteen people 

in a given department." 

Hackerman continued, "Rice 

will never make these lists in my 

opinion. The chances are so small 

as to be zero. 

"At Rice, the quality of learning 

is spread uniformly across students 

and faculty. Most other places 

have a dichotomy between 

research activity and graduate 

instruction. Rice professors are 

interested in both students and 

research. I suggest we not deviate 

from our dual interests." 

Electrical engineering Professor 

Sydney Burrus suggested that the 

poll results be taken seriously. Said 

Burrus, "In the rankings Rice is 

shown to decrease. That bothers 

me. The other schools haven't 

gotten all that bigger or better." 

Burrus .elaborated, "In the 

perception of outsiders, our 

quality has decreased. Whether the 

perception is true or not, such a 

perception is bad for Rice. 

"Our reputation, our image 

affects the quality of students and 

professors we attract. Roughly the 

same people that completed this 

survey are the type that review 

grant proposals. These peers of 

ours review our papers when they 

are submitted for publication. 

Their opinion matters." 

Material science Professor 

Franz Brotzen also believes that 

Rice's evaluation should be taken 

seriously. Said Brotzen, "We are in 

the top ten nationally in terms of 

endowment. We certainly are not 

even near the top ten in research. 

Rice is good, yes, but for the 

money it has it should be much 

better." 

THRESHER 

Friday, February 4, 1983 

Faculty council tables changes in grade policy 

by Paul Havlak 

The Faculty Council voted last 

Friday to table a set of 

recommendations from the 

Committee on Examinations and 

Standing that proposed grading 

changes. 

The Committee had recommended: 

"a. that a minimum grade point 

average (GPA) for all courses 

taken at Rice and for all courses in 

fulfillment of the major taken at 

Rice be established as a 

requirement for graduation. 

"b. That the minimum GPA for 

all courses taken at Rice be 1.67; 

that the minimum GPA for all 

courses in fulfillment of the major 

taken at Rice be 2.00. 

"c. To prevent confusion 

between the student's GPA and the 

present grading system, that the 

grading system at Rice be changed 

GSA finds student housing 

by Bruce Davies 

Through an agreement with the 

Rice Graduate Student Association 

and the University of 

Houston, graduate students can 

now be housed at a housing facility 

adjacent to the U of H downtown 

college. 

According to Judy Harper of the 

U of H General Office, Rice 

Graduate Students will be charged 

$293.33 monthly for room and 

board. That includes maid service 

twice a week. Students wanting 

singles will be charged $436.66 a 

month. The facility also provides 

covered parking, a gameroom, 

study halls and a swimming pool. 

"The only drawback is that it's 

not on campus," said GSA 

Houston Committee member 

Sergio Cabrera, "but it's still a 

pretty good deal." The board 

consists of 13 meals a week, 

breakfast and dinner on Monday 

through Saturday, and one mea|| 

on Sunday. 

The arrangement originates 

from the GSA housing committee 

which has sought ways to ease the 

burdens on first year grad 

students, especially the large 

number of out of state and foreign 

students. 

GSA Chairperson Nicole Dolby 

states that "This is just a temporary 

situation to ease the immediate 

burden. We are still talking to the 

administration about the graduate 

housing problem," said Dolby. 

The facility being offered by the 

U of H was originally a hotel that 

was purchased by the downtown 

campus in 1980 and converted for 

use by university students. "It 

looked like a relatively nice hotel," 

said Cabrera, "but everything isn't 

exactly brand new." 

Cabrera, who help to negotiate 

the agreement, said that there are 

approximately 40 spaces available 

for immediate occupancy, and that 

the rooms looked "fairly large." 

Students interested can contact 

Judy Harper of the U of H General 

Office at 225-1781, extensions 122 

or 123, or Nicole Dolby, GSA 

chairperson at 527-8101, x2580. 

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from 1, 2, 3, 4. 5 to A, B, C, D, F, 

where a GPA corresponding to A 

is 4.00. 

"d. That a current updated GPA 

be shown on the student's 

permanent record in the registrar's 

office." 

After students complained that 

they were ill-informed about the 

proposal at the Student 

Association senate meeting on 

January 24, several students met 

with President Norman Hackerman 

and Dean of Undergraduate 

Affirs Katherine Brown to voice 

their opinion. When SA President 

Mary Ellen Trunko presented a 

petition to the Faculty Council last 

Friday asking that the changes (c) 

and (d) be put off until more 

student input can be gathered, the 

council sent the proposal back to 

the Committee on Examinations 

and Standing. 

The petition, signed by 

hundreds of students from at least 

six colleges, stated: 

"This policy (of not putting 

GPAs on transcripts) prevents 

employer and graduate school 

'pigeon-holing' because it does not 

reduce an individual's accomplishments 

at Rice to a single number. 

Director of Student Advising 

H.C. Clark agreed somewhat with 

this opinion remarking, 

"(Calculating a GPA) is deriving a 

number to fit a transcript without 

looking at the quality of the work 

done." 

The petition also stated, "These 

proposed changes may affect the 

academic atmosphere at Rice. The 

distribution system could suffer as 

students looked for 'rolls' to raise 

their GPAs. Professors of more 

Brotzen continued, "Dr. 

Hackerman may be correct in that 

we have a good faculty. I think so. 

We may have the best product in 

the world, though, and it will be 

useless if we don't sell it." 

He refuted Hackerman's 

justi' ation, stating, "The size 

argument just doesn't hold water. 

Cal Tech is smaller than Rice. 

Stanford has the same or fewer 

people in its chemical engineering 

department, as well as Delaware, 

Princeton and others above us. 

The University of Houston is 

ranked way above us in chemical 

engineering." 

Brotzen emphasized, "We are 

not listed in the top ten in any 

discipline. Any." 

Commented Brotzen, "What is 

most distressing is Rice's low 

improvement scores. Other 

schools are passing us right and 

left, schools of less money and 

see Profs, page 6 

INSIDE: 

• Introducing a new comic strip 

that doesn't copy Doonesbury, p. 

» Ntozake Shange takes on Rice, 

(but will Rice take on her?), p. 9 

• Prodigies give artists' rendi- 

Today is the deadline for 

adding courses and pass,/fail 

designations. 

Measles' vaccinations will be 

given from 2-5 p.m. today in the 

Wiess PDR. 

Campaign statements for 

campus-wide offices are due Feb. 

13 by 5 p.m. in Thresher office 

difficult courses might fee! 

pressured to change their grading 

standards to keep up enrollment in 

their classes." 

Clark also noted that the old 

quality requirement in which 50 

percent of a student's credit hours 

must rate a 3 or better for 

graduation, "encourages students 

to experiment with courses they 

might not otherwise take." 

The petitioners also argued, 

"Currently, a team approach to the 

rigorous course load at Rice is the 

rule rather than the exception 

see SA, page 8 

Campos review masters' safety ideas 

by Chris Ekren 

The Rice Campus Police have 

finished reviewing college masters' 

suggestions for security 

improvements and expect funding 

decisions in a matter of weeks from 

Vice President for Administration 

M. Gladu 

William W. Akers. According to 

Assistant Campus Police Chief 

Mary Voswinkel, the majority of 

security spending requests concern 

increased lighting around campus 

to eliminate dark spots where 

students walk and congregate. 

"We plan to re-direct the 

lighting at Hanszen to*covered 

areas in the parking lot currently 

dark," said Voswinkel. A woman 

was raped the night of December 3 

in the Hanszen parking lot. 

The campos will also 

recommend increased lighting in 

Allen Center and Lovett College 

parking area P-lot, the scene of a 

rape last spring. Other areas that 

should benefit from more 

illumination include the Sid 

Richardson parking lot, the dirt 

parking lot behind Lovett, 

shadowed areas around Baker, 

and the back of Lovett commons. 

The lighting plan advocated by 

the campus police will concentrate 

on the pathways students normally 

use at night and the parking lots. 

Optimally, a light will be located 

every fifty feet. 

Said Voswinkel, "We haven't 

made many hardware recommendations 

beyond the ones about 

lights because putting in locks 

wouldn't be cost effective. We had 

19 thefts in the last month. 

Seventeen of them were out of 

unlocked rooms. Locks are only 

good if they are used." 

The Campus Police do not plan 

to recommend hiring additional 

officers, although the department 

is currently interviewing to fill one 

opening for a patrolman. 

Voswinkel commented, "We will 

continue to change the patterns of 

patrolling to respond to the area 

plagued by thefts." 

1'he college requests for more 

lighting were organized by Baker 

Master Jeffrey Kurtzman. 

Voswinkel thinks that Kurtzman's 

initial request has caused the 

colleges to evaluate their security 

situation to everyone's benefit.

Money should be spent 

Rice University has an endowment of about 400 million 

dollars. Unfortunately, too much of it seems to be gathering 

interest. The recent national faculty rankings comparing Rice 

to other institutions tend to support an opinion I have long 

held. Rice should invest its funds in what it professes to believe 

in: education. 

Specifically, Rice should follow the example of schools like 

Princeton, which plunge millions into teaching and research, 

targeting weak departments for extra attention. Princeton 

recently decided that it was weak in microbiology, so it is 

committing a cool 30 million dollars to excellence. By spending 

money on graduate research, Princeton has not compromised 

its excellent undergraduate program, the program Rice was 

originally modeled after. 

Size in and of itself does not confer greatness, and smallness 

does not relegate universities to obscurity. With less students to 

teach, Rice should be able to spend more on the students and 

professors it does have. Only Princeton has more money per 

student than Rice, yet over 30 colleges often overshadow Rice 

in many fields. 

Rice's failure to realize its tremendous potential can be 

squarely blamed on Rice's administration. A modicum of fiscal 

conservatism is always prudent. With close to 400 million 

dollars, however, Rice is very unlikely to wither away. Rice's 

Board of Governors needs to stop managing investments and 

start running an institution of higher education. 

— Christopher Ekren 

Phys Plant fixes my a/c 

Last Monday I received a call from the Physical Plant 

Director Ed Samfield. He had read about my cold room, and 

asked if he could please send his air conditiong expert over to 

have a look. I assented, and on Tuesday Tony Ullrich inspected 

the vent in my room, affectionately known as 'Dalhart.' 

Walking into my room from class Tuesday, I felt a deliciously 

foreign sensation: warm air. 

"You must have been freezing this winter," Samfield told me 

when he checked back later. "We should have heard from you 

sooner." 

Well, 1 thought he had heard from me sooner. I have told my 

B & G representative many times that my room is icy, 

Arctic/Antarctic, or a designated Laplander preserve. 

1 thought I had gotten the message across. Now it is obvious 

that if a student needs repair, he must deal with Physical Plant 

directly. Sometimes this is no more efficient than carping to the 

B & G, but it least it saves a step. 

Physical Plant will not perform any labor until it receives a 

work order. My speculation is that students reps fear that 

Physical Plant will not let them have their resumd-enhancing 

job again if they submit too many work requests. 

This fear is everywhere. The Food and Housing director says 

he "can't answer for Physical Plant," but will he even ask them 

to overhaul the decaying residential buildings on his own 

initiative? Will either ask for budget increases? 

The campos need another patrol car, but they won't ask for 

it. Will Vice President William Akers ask someone for them? 

There's an answer out there waiting for the question. Don't 

be afraid to ask. Then demand. Make yourself heard until they 

do the job. It could get your a/c fixed. 

—Jeanne Cooper 

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NUKING THE HEDGES/by David Curcio 

Murder by injection on Death 

Row is no better than murder by 

handgun in a back alley. In fact, it 

is worse. For the killer now is not 

some worthless punk wit ha violent 

antisocial past, but a sane, 

calculating state acting for us all in 

the name of justice: The street 

hoodlum hyped up on drugs 

doesn't care or doesn't know of the 

immorality of murder; we know 

killing is wrong, yet we sanction it 

anyway. 

The vain hope of preventing 

future murders is the standard 

justification for capital 

punishment. Study after study, 

including one in 1978 by the 

National Academy of Sciences, 

has shown that letting the state kill 

does not clearly deter people from 

killing. While deterrence works 

when individuals behave 

rationally, murder is most often an 

emotional crime perpetrated by 

one who does not weigh the pros 

and cons of his actions. 

Occasionally, the murderer is 

aware of the consequences, but is 

either equally aware of the 

probability of conviction or is 

intentionally seeking to take the 

risk and bask in the publicity. As a 

general deterrent, capital 

punishment is a farce. 

The real reasons behind the 

death penalty are as emotional as 

the original killer's motives. Fear 

of a growing crime rate and the 

satisfaction gained from 

retribution lurk behind" the 

deterrence theory. The fear, 

though understandable, is 

exaggerated; while the murder rate 

has increased in recent decades, it 

has now levelled off at 9.8 per 

100,000 population: the same rate 

as fifty years ago. Nonetheless, this 

powerful emotional force has 

fostered a movement to make 

punishment more severe and less 

humane than our current system of 

incarceration and death. It would 

be better to channel this force 

towards more effective and 

positive actions such as controlling 

handguns, which are involved in 

half of American murders. 

Retribution does satisfy a 

legitimate human and social need. 

It convinces us that our system 

works in conquering evil. 

However, a society that needs to 

resort to murder to preserve its 

legitimacy hardly seems worth 

defending. The doctrine of an eye 

for an eye serves only to equalize 

the moral fabric of society with 

that of its lowest element. 

In response to the inevitable 

"what if someone you loved was 

n 

murdered" question, I have this 

answer: while my immediate 

reaction would be vengeance, in 

the long run, I would rather have 

the murderer, not I, live with the 

guilt. A lifetime injail is betterthan 

a lengthy appeal that dredges up 

the horrible memory again and 

again. Also, what if someone you 

loved was on Death Row? 

Partly in recognition of the 

baseness of capital punishment, 

some semblance of humanism has 

been coupled with the fear and the 

wrath. Numerous safeguards, 

including the lengthy and 

expensive appeals process, were 

created to ensure that no innocent 

person is put to death, and to make 

the whole procedure a little less 

discriminatory. 

More recently, there has been a 

trend in America towards 

"humane executions." Thus, cells 

on Death Row are painted blue 

and yellow, some have televisions 

and, in Texas at least, 

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electrocuting the person has been 

replaced with an allegedly painless 

lethal injection. 

These "reforms" are the ultimate 

in hypocrisy; swabbing the victim's 

arm with alcohol before injecting 

the poison does not make the 

killing any less real or evil. 

Replacing the electric chair with a 

gurney does not relieve us of the 

responsiblity for the death. 

No one has the right to take 

another's life regardless of what 

that person may have done. 

Society does have a right to 

remove those who violate this 

fundamental proscription from the 

mainstream, that is what those hell 

holes we call corrections 

institutions are for. Killing can 

never be justified as a deterrent; it 

is done not in pursuit of what is 

right, but rather in response to a 

barbaric element in all of us. 

Capital punishment is not justice, 

it is murder. 

Patty Cleary News Editor 

Deborah Knaff Fine Arts Editor 

Mark Mitchell Sports Editor 

John Krueger... Back Page Editor 

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Todd Cornett Advertising Manager 

Lorraine Farrell Managing Editor 

Conrad Reining Photography Editor 

Matt Petersen "Copy Editor 

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Jeanne Cooper 

Editor 

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Alan Mathiowetz (Sports), Ray Isle (Photography), 

Contributing Editors Michele Gillespie, 

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Graphics Lynn Lytton, John Lemr, 

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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Michele Gillespie 

Pizza Thugs: Part Two 

Aggies indicted for heist 

Two former Texas A&M 

football players, dismissed in 

December by head coach Jackie 

Sherill after they allegedly stole a 

pizza from a delivery man, have 

received misdemeanor indictments 

from the Brazos County grand 

jurors. 

In an indictment alleging assault 

and theft, the grand jury named 

former A&M freshman defensive 

end. Gary Rogers and former 

junior linebacker Burnis Simon. 

Witnesses for the case included 

Rogers, Simon, Sherill and the 

delivery man, Brenton Bailey. 

Beside dismissal from the 

football team and indictment, the 

perpetrators of the "Pizza Heist 

Case" must now undergo 

university disciplinary proceedings, 

according to A&M 

Student Affairs Office Assistant 

Director Bill Kibler. 

Simon and Rogers have received 

notification of the proceedings and 

must respond by requesting formal 

hearings or Kibler will hear the 

case without their presence. 

Possible disciplinary measures 

range from a reprimand to 

permanent suspension. 

Though Simon and Rogers 

attest to a different version of the 

incident. Bailey, maintains that he 

was requested to deliver a pizza to 

Room 306C in Cain Hall. Upon 

reaching 306C, he discovered the 

room was a broom closet and then 

was grabbed from behind by two 

large men in hoods. One man fled 

with the pizza and the other man 

shoved him down the stairs. Bailey 

was not injured. 

Although Simon and Rogers 

hve made no comment since the 

incident, their statements to the 

police claim they found a pizza in a 

hallway and after eating part of it 

were suddenly accosted by an 

angry Bailey, who shoved them 

away from their spoils. Rogerssaid 

he shoved Bailey back accidentally 

down the stairs. 

Peso devaluation disrupts 

UT Mexican students' life 

Although Texas university! 

officials are unable to recite exact 

figures, many fear that the 

devaluation of the Mexican peso 

has made financing a college 

education very difficult for many 

Mexican students. Since foreign 

students remain ineligible for any 

form of U.S. government financial 

aid, the Mexican students' 

situation may become a desperate 

one. 

Some schools are providing 

short-term financial assistance and 

considering long-term financial 

assistance programs for the future 

geared to the needs of Mexican 

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are being decreased and fewer 

scholarships are given out. 

Alma Guzman, a University of 

Texas English major, recently 

discussed the financial worries she 

and her husband must face. 

"We were receiving money from 

our families in Mexico. We can't 

receive money now because they 

were sending us dollars and now 

they can't get dollars," Guzman 

explained. 

"We do have our own money, 

and we have saved to come over 

here. We are trying to get some 

dollars through the border but 

they are very expensive," she said. 

The Guzmans will have less than 

half the money they expected to 

have before the devaluation if they 

exchange their pesos through the 

black market. 

Prep queen visits A&M, 

falls for esprit de Corps 

A recent visit to Texas A&M 

University has convinced Lisa 

Birnbach, author of the Official 

Preppy Handbook, to include 

A&M in her new venture, another 

expose to be entitled Lisa 

Birnbach's College Book. 

Scheduled for publication in 1984, 

the book will include analyses of 

non-academic college life at 150 

American colleges and universities. 

Focusing on social activities, 

political orientation and sexual 

attitudes, Birnback's latest 

endeavor will be informative but 

will not compare or rank the 

schools. 

"1 want to let people knowabout 

each school's climate, politically 

and socially," Birnbach stated. 

"College — and college students — 

have changed a lot just since I was 

in school, and I'll be writing about 

what it's like to be in school now." 

Prompted by students she met at 

colleges and universities across the 

country while promoting her very 

successful Preppy Handbook, 

Birnbach realized that a need for a 

good guide to college life existed 

"This definitely won't be a satire 

in the Preppy Handbook vein," she 

asserted. "Of course, I'm going to 

be as witty and entertaining as 

possible but it will be a serious 

work, one I hope will be useful." 

Birnbach first heard about 

Texas A&M only a year ago, but 

immediately planned to visit the 

school. After spending a day on the 

campus, Birnbach was awestruck 

by the school's uniqueness, its 

dedication to sports, its wealth, its 

efforts to upgrade the faculty and 

its traditions. 

"I've never, ever seen such 

loyalty or adherence to tradition," 

she commented. "And wherever 

we went, students kept smiling and 

saying hello. It was truly unlike 

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to indicate how little they knew, a 

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spent the last fifteen years studying 

television's effect upon children's 

actions and thought. 

The researchers have found that 

children as young as two years 

learn to make distinctions between 

the television world and the world 

of parents and home. In fact, 

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THRESHING-IT-OUT 

'Leaders' anger Hooper, 

food action takes 5 years 

To the editor: 

I was recently angered and 

confused by a letter written by 

several of our student leaders. This 

letter was printed on pages 4 and 5 

of the January 21, 1983 edition of 

the Thresher. The stated purpose 

of this letter was to inform the Rice 

community that "the Department 

of Food and Housing uses 

practices which make student 

leaders their unwilling policy 

enforcers, and the colleges their 

unsuspecting operations financiers." 

I was just a little bit bothered to 

be informed that my college wasan 

unsuspecting operations financier, 

and even more horrified to find 

that my poor student leaders had 

been forced to be mere "policy 

enforcers." Somehow I had led 

myself to believe that I had helped 

to elect student leaders that had 

enough intestinal fortitude not to 

become, unwilling policy enforcers. 

I've heard something about 

unwilling policy enforcers before, 

but I think it was towards the end 

of World War II. 

In the very least, I would like a 

student leader that has nerve 

enough to admit to his peers that 

maybe he is in need of some help in 

dealing with administrators so 

barbaric that they would force my 

college to become an unsuspecting 

operations financier. 

Unsuspecting, sure I'm 

unsuspecting. I had no idea that 

"administrators routinely ignore 

students' legitimate requests." Why 

did I have to titeit until now to find 

out? Five years elapsed from the 

time a variable meal plan was 

initially proposed before a serious 

proposal was offered? What 

happened? Were the administrators 

too bull-headed to change, 

or just too stupid to see that a 

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is your name, please? 


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the student population? 

Somehow I think that it took 

five years for a serious variable 

meal plan proposal, not because of 

the administration's lameness, 

although this certainly played a 

part, but because it took five years 

to find a food committee with the 

determination to poll the students 

opinions and then to form the 

results into a serious specific 

recommendation for a variable 

meal plan. Next year we will be 

offered a variable meal plan. 

I don't know about you, but I've 

become weary with excuses from 

my student leaders. Even if I don't 

start seeing some action, I'd loveto 

stop hearing rationalizations. I'ma 

little bit bored with starry-eyed 

politicos fostering delusions of a 

grand new student leadership, who 

run away with their tails between 

their legs the first time an 

administrator says, "I'm sorry, but 

our budget won't allow it." I don't 

need a Utopia; all I wish is that 

someone would fix my leaky 

faucet. 

Rich Hooper 

lovett '85 

Editor's note: 

Rich Hooper is chairman of the 

Food Committee, which 

distributed a variable meal plan 

preference poll in mid-November 

of 1982. 

Sadow raises stink over 

saga of shower, Samfield 


With respect to myself, the 

history of maintenance at this 

University has been a sorry one 

indeed. In my first year on campus, 

the shower in my suite 

malfunctioned, reducing it from a 

shower into a trickle. We did not 

appreciate taking a trickle every 

morning, so we went to 

extraordinary means to maintain a 

Freeze. 

Thank you, gentlemen. Please 

be seated. Our panelists have a few 

questions for you. We'll begin 

tonight with Panelist A. 

Panelist A: Thank you. Number 

One, what do you mean by 'nuclear 

freeze*? 

I: We must freeze now! No more 

nukes! Make the world safe for 

state of acceptable cleanliness. 

Naturally, the request to repair the 

shower/trickle was made; 

naturally, the shower/trickle was 

not repaired for a lengthy period of 

time. Finally, after a repeated 

number of requests, the repairs 

were finally effected, nearly a 

month after the first request. 

Thankfully, the suite suffered no 

more breakdowns in the ensuing 

semesters. 

Over the Christmas break, my 

roommate returned to our room to 

make some improvements in it. As 

he entered the room, he noticed 

suddenly that the door had no lock 

on it; it had been removed. 

Amazingly, a repairman came to 

fix the lock after the first request. 

The story might have ended there, 

except that the repairman had 

done his job well. He had done it so 

well that the door was now 

impossible to open. This was not a 

minor problem, as I came to the 

sudden realization that I was 

paying $1,500 for a room into 

which I could not enter. 

All things shall pass, it is said, 

and so did this in the end, but not 

before four requests were made to 

re-repair it and a couple of phone 

calls from the college secretary to 

the Physical Plant to investigate 

this situation. In the meantime, we 

had to use the door of our 

suitemates' room, and hope that 

they were in. If not, then the 

secretary or the master would have 

to be bothered. 

Now the nightmare is repeating 

itself. Our shower became again a 

trickle. It was worked upon last on 

January 31, 13 days after the 

submission of the first request for 

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tide wait for no men, eh? 

It is out of desperation that I 

write this letter. A couple of weeks 

ago the presidents of the eight 

residential colleges and of the 

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I: Of course! We all have to freeze 

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Student Association advocated 

such a means to illuminate the 

many problems of housing at this 

university. 1 offer my personal 

experiences to do iust that. 

One might recall the Lovett 

elevator, or lack-thereof, in the last 

semester. For over a month it did 

not function, or fuctioned only 

sporadically, causing inconveniences 

to almost everyone in the 

college, especially to one student 

whose room's location in the 

higher reaches of the college did 

not permit him to climb the stairs 

with his cast and crutches. A 

temporary room switch was 

arranged, and the procrastination 

continued. Finally, in frustration, 

a sizeable number of students sent 

a sizeable number of letters to the 

director. Some were requests for 

action, others were pleas for help, 

and still others were blatantly 

obscene remarks, insinuations, or 

otherwise unfit for family reading. 

Furthermore, a "sit-in" was 

planned a the director's office. 

However, this never took place, as 

the elevator then was repaired. 

Note carefully the sequence of 

events: The elevator is idled for a 

number of weeks, while little is 

done, and then after concentrated 

student protesting, it was repaired. 

Afterward, the college president 

received a letter, stating among 

other things, that he had shown, in 

effect, poor leadership in allowing 

those actions of protest to take 

place. It might have been poor 

leadership, but for poor 

leadership, it surely got the job 

done. 

As those students have 

protested, so now do I. 

Apparently, the Physical Plant 

director responds only in 

situations which otherwise might 

lead to total embarassment. Like a 

child, he is irresponsible. He must 

be told time and time again to do a 

job, and to do a job correctly. In 

we can stin blow each other U P ? 

2: Of course! Makes 'em feel more 

secure so they don't gotta put no 

more them missiles in the ground. 

A: Number Three, do you agree? 

3: Personally, I'd have to say that 

in my case, since I advocate 

freezing at reduced levels, these 

negotiations would have already 

taken place. The stage, then, is 

already set for a second round. 

A: Thank you, Number Three! Let 

me collect myself. There's just so 

many different ideas— 

(A gong sounds) 

I'm sorry, Panelist A, but your 

time is up. Panelist B, you may 

proceed. 

the interim, residents of the 

colleges must continuetosufferfor 

his procrastination and his 

inefficiency. In order to get action 

done to the Lovett elevator, the 

students had to lower themselves 

to his level; now, in order to 

cleanse myself of this effluvium, I 

reluctantly must do the same. 

I could, of course, avail mvself 

of calling the director of Food and 

Housing, which I have had done 

several times in the past in regards 

to my door, the shower, the 

elevator, ad nauseum, even though 

he has said that he "cannot answer" 

for the Physical Plant. The point 

here is, of course, that these repairs 

should be effected without there 

ever being a need to call the 

director of Food and Housing at 

all. Such, then, is the maintenance 

at Rice University. 

I only can echo the plea of our 

editor. Jones has unbearably hot 

water. Wiess has rats. Baker has a 

leaky basement. Lovett is too 

hot/too cold/too ugly, and it has a 

room in which its inhabitants can 

take only a trickle. 

I only can echo the plea of our 

presidents. If the administration 

desires a battle with the student 

body over this, then it may have 

one. After all, we shall be here for 

only a few years, so the problems 

can outlive us easily. The shower 

wil remain unfixed, and I shall 

stink still, although not as badly as 

the administration will in this 

matter. 

If it wishes, the administration 

can win this battle, if it is a battle at 

all, or should be. It would be a 

Pyrrhic victory, however, as along 

with no maintenance complaints 

there will be no students, either. 

Now, that stinks. 

Jonathan C. Sadow 

Lovett '84 


Jonathan Sadow prefaced his 

see Threshing-it-out, page 5 

2: Don't matter to me. All we gotta 

do is freeze. Them Ruskies'll know 

we mean business. They're good 

folk. 

B: But does a freeze make nuclear 

war less ljkejy, Number One? 

1: No! But at least— 

(A gong sounds) 

I'm terribly sorry, guys! It's time 

for Panelist C to take charge. 

C: zzzzzzzz...nk! My turn? Uh, 

Number One, what about 

modernizing or re-deploying our 

existing forces? 

1: Absolutely not! Freezes are like 

wage-price controls! We maintain 

forces at current equilibrium .! No 

changes! Cuts come later! 

B: Thanks. Number One, you C: Number Three? 

advocated a simultaneous freeze— 

3: I tend to agree with- 

1: That's right! 

2: Well I don't! Them Ruskies 

B: — —How Ho< does this affect U.S. would get buried in a high-tech 

security? 

race! 

1: Not in the least! We'll be just asi 

strong as ever, and so will the 

Russians! We could still blow up 

the world 16-odd times! 

B: Yes, but aren't current 

negotiations farther advanced? 

Wouldn't we have to start all over 

again. Number Two? 

C: So much disagreement! How 

will we ever decide what kind of a 

freeze— 

(The gong sounds three times) 

I'm sorry! We've got to wrap up 

the show. Will the real Nuclear 

Freeze please stand up?


continued from page 4 

letter with a "poem" that he 

described as-suitable for the back 

page, although he preferred to 

submit to the letters section in view 

of his "desperate situation." While 

the Thresher empathizes with his 

frustration at the poor physical 

condition of his room, the 

"childish and immature" (Sadow's 

words) nature of the "poem" 

relegates it to the back page. 

Sadow's letter conveys his 

opinions well enough in prose not 

to need such a preface. References 

to the poem in the body of the 

letter were deleted by the editor. 

Retired Episcopalians rail 

at Mother of God, Jeanne 

' To the editor 

Jeanne, Jeanne, Jeanne, you 

have truly taken charge of the 

Thresher. Mother of God, we have 

not seen any person in years with 

as much vigour and zeal as you 

have exhibited in your programme 

for reformation of our dear 

campus tabloid. And we are very 

glad you have been able to take our 

piece of "misclass" and use it in the 

establishment of your new 

journalistic "canon law" for the 

Thresher. Nevertheless, we are 

concerned that you have taken our 

letter which was placed in the 

Misclass Box (solely for 

consideration as such) and have 

used it in the grounding of your 

new policy for Threshing-It-Out. 

The letter which we submitted 

was Misclass — including the 

signature. It was never meant to be 

part of some supposedly 

meaningful discussion of ideas. It 

was and remains simply words to 

be read in Misclass, to give cause 

for an occasional laugh, and 

nothing more. Surely no one 

would read a letter in Misclass 

signed "Two Episcopalians, 

Retired" and regard it as the Truth. 

We originally composed a 

response to Mr. Anderson's 

confession that questioned his 

theology or rather the lack of it, 

but we realised that our questions 

and opinions of a serious nature 

would be best delivered in person 

and not relegated to the lines of 

Threshing-It-Out. However, we 

had in sheer jest written a comic 

piece of literary fluff and thought it 

appropriate for the Misclass. We 

anticipated no one taking it 

seriously, but alas and well-a-day! 

Ultimately, Jeanne, we question 

how important a name is to the 

editorial staff after reading the 

review of the Main Street Theatre's 

most recent production, a review 

by one Wiggy Martin. Were we 

simply to be confused by the aside 

"—Speak for yourself, Ray. Ed."? 

Is there a Wiggy Martin who wrote 

the review, or is the author's name 

Ray Isle? If we had signed our 

names as Fred Schiller-Jones '84 

and Johnny Goethe-Wiess '86, 

would you have simply published 

it, or would you have investigated 

these names to discover their 

authenticity? 

We are glad our Misclass item 

was of service to you, Jeanne. We 

only wish it would have served the 

humour of our academic 

community. 

The Two Episcopalians, Retired 

Vincent W. Uher, III 

Baker '85 

Ian L. Hersey 

SRC '84 


Through an unexplained mixup, 

the Two Episcopalians, 

Retired's first letter appeared in 

the editor's box. However, the 

letter would not have appeared in 

the Misclass section even if it had 

been found in its proper place. 

To say that the letter contains no 

argument of ideology, but is meant 

"to give cause for an occasional 

laugh, and nothing more" is a 

deliberately naive pretense. Simply 

because the tone is both 

patronizing and needling, and the 

language prances humorously with 

quasi-British smugness, does not 

alter the basic rebuttal nature of 

the letter. 

Furthermore, no matter what 

the manifest intent of the letter, it 

latently functions as a personaljibe 

at Jim Anderson. The letter may 

not, after all, be a "meaningful 

discussion of ideas," but it is a 

sharp critique of Anderson. One 

can infer from their argument 

"questions and opinions of a 

serious nature would be best 

delivered in person" that saying 

someone is "deluded" or has a 

"nebulous, childlike vision of 

God"" is not of a serious nature. 

Moreover, one can infer from 

the same argument that personal 

attacks are thus best delivered 

anonymously in a public forum. 

No one might have taken the letter 

seriously if printed in the Misclass, 

but after reading Anderson's name 

10 times, they might not have 

taken Anderson seriously again. 

Perhaps I share the Balinese 

inclination to avoid using personal 

names unless for intimacy; 

nevertheless, in your pretty, verbal 

onslaught, Anderson lost 10-0. 

The argument that "surely no 

one would read a letter in Misclass 

signed 'Two Episcopalians, 

Retired' and regard it as the Truth " 

is not supported by reaction to 

many Misclass entries this year. 

Bert the Big Dog, Frustrated 

Blonde, Zorro: all of these writers 

have been taken seriously enough 

to evoke intensely felt response. I 

still believe the unseen author 

garners more, shall we say, 

authority in his freedom from 

personal questioning. 

The original letter asked if the 

activities of the Bible-studying 

students that Anderson praised 

were "productive of good." Yet 

was the letter itself productive of 

good? If the writers indeed had 

"questions and opinions of a 

serious nature," why could they 

not have been incorporated them 

for the benefit of readers who may 

not know so much theology, or be 

able to discuss it so eloquently? 

Why try instead to rob Anderson 

of "that which not enriches 

(them), I And makes (him) poor 

indeed"? 

I mentioned in an early editorial 

that unsigned letters will be 

relegated to the Misclass, but I did 

• not say all would be printed. Some 

letters simply require a signature. 

The reviewer, of Main Street 

Theater was indeed Ray Isle, and 

his name ought to have appeared 

with his comments; the "Ed." 

referred to the section editor, and 

not to myself. Authorship of 

submissions is verified as much as 

possible. Finally, I know who 

Schiller and Goethe are, and if they 

were alive, they'd probably be in 

Baker or Will Rice. 

Since the authors have revealed 

themselves, here is the text of their 

original letter: 

Mr. Anderson must be specific 

as to which God he is referring in 

his opening question, "When was 

the last time you felt the presence 

of God in your life?" Does he mean 

Jesus, since he confuses the 

concept of the person of Jesus with 

the term God later on in his 

"confession"? Do only those 

involved in the Rice Christian 

organizations feel the presence of 

God as he so absurdly intimates? 

His further invocation of the 

blessings of his God upon 

members of Christian ecclesial 

(sic) crowds at Rice we will not 

question. 

Indeed, it may be "different" for 

more Rice students to be in "Bible 

studies," partying only in Christian 

circles and coming out of the closet 

to babble Jesus' name, but is this 

productive of good? 

"By now you've looked down 

the page to see who is writing this 

stuff about Jesus." Really! 

Heretofore Mr. Anderson has only 

made a passing reference to the 

utterance of the name of Jesus. Is 

Jesus God? We further regret that 

Mr. Anderson has been deluded 

for so long. 

He writes of making an easy 

mental and spiritual choice for his 

myth of Jesus, but in stating that it 

was physically and socially 

difficult, is this to refer to some 

form of asceticism on the order of 

hair shirts or the giving up of beer? 

What pretense in imagining that 

Jesus lives His life through Mr. 

Anderson! Does he have a 

crucifixion planned for himself? 

We shan't toy with his nebulous, 

childlike vision of God answering 

his prayers. 

We are so very happy that Mr. 

Anderson found the confessional 

experience so simple in the light of 

the excruciating processes toward 

belief of so many literate 

Christians. 

Concerning the next "paragraph," 

We would hope Mr. 

Anderson would have the inner 

strength to take responsibility for 

himself and to find security outside 

of the intervention of the 

supernatural. 

The theories Mr. Anderson 

espouses in the next "paragraph" 

contradict everything which has 

gone before. Suddenly he calls 

upon the individual to act instead 

of letting his God coerce him to His 

Will. Would he have us believe that 

all one must do is make a conscious 

decision for Jesus and life will be 

peachy-keen? Would he have us 

believe that God would withdraw 

His Grace from those who don't 

babble the name of Jesus? 

Is Mr. Anderson so learned and 

so endowed with the Holy Spirit 

that he may disregard Hugh and 

Richard of St. Victor and forget 

that the universe, according to 

these men of mystical gifts, is 

wholly revelatory of the Divine in 

every bit of empirical data? Mr. 

Anderson seems to rely on God 

now to win his arguments for him 

instead of using his own mental 

faculties. (Your outlook, your 

perspective, sir, is hideously 

warped.) 

Dear, dear Mr. Anderson, you 

have not a clue as to the authentic 

nature of a miracle, do you, poor 

chap? Are we to assume God is 

simple, that we mere mortals may 

perceive the Ineffable? 

In the words of the great Kyot: 

"Silly fool, impetuous brat! 

Dost thou know where thou art at? 

Dost thou know thy true God's 

name? 

Jesus and Father, one and the 

same? 

Whilst thou be at it, consider this 

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The Rice Thresher, February 4, 1983, page 5

Hackerman states. We are not a research machine' 

Profs urge commitment to paying for faculty excellence 

continued from page I 

reputation, schools with less gifted 

students." 

Brotzen thinks that Rice needs 

more "first-rate" names, names 

that can be bought as some 

universities do, or built through 

generous funding of young and 

promising graduates. 

Said Brotzen, "We need a plan. 

We need to concentrate in a few 

areas, decide which programs need 

improvement first as Princeton 

does. Princeton was originally a 

model for Rice. We would do well 

to follow their example now. It is 

easier to go to a contributor and 

say 'we need $200,000 for two 

super professors,' rather than just 

say 'We need $200,000.' 

"Our biochemistry department 

is terrific. Why? Because they 

targeted people and got them. The 

enemy of understanding is 

mediocrity." 

Visiting mathematics Assistant 

Professor Frank Morgan, on leave 

for one year from Massachusetts 

Institute for Technology, 

concurred with some of Brotzen's 

points. 

Said Morgan, "President Kelly 

of Tulane has done what Rice 

needs to do. He has raised a lot of 

funds, moving Tulane from the red 

to the black. He's increased faculty 

salaries 20 percent, increased 

average freshman SAT scores and 

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aggressively recruited faculty." 

He continued, "Bowen of 

Princeton has shown that a school 

can be respected as both a graduate 

and undergraduate institution. 

Rice is a fine school, with its 

commitment to undergraduate 

education and its college system. 

Rice deserves to be the preeminent 

school of the South in the future as 

well as now. 

"The best way to assure that is to 

aggressively seek the best faculty 

and give them the resources they 

need." 

Chairman of the English 

department Alan Grob feels that 

Rice's reputation in the academic 

community is generally excellent, 

but is concerned with the survey 

results. 

Said Grob, "I think these 

rankings obviously have a selffulfilling 

quality. Nevertheless, I 

feel that in my department we have 

a very good teaching faculty. We 

have college masters, people 

involved greatly with students. A 

lot of top-rated universities don't 

bother with things like that." 

Grob noted, "Over half of the 

English department between 1979 

and 1982 wrote books, books 

published by good presses. Our 

only major loss was David Minter, 

who went to Emory as their Dean 

of Letters and Sciences. We 

just couldn't match that offer." 

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He continued, "No matter what 

Rice does, there is always the 

obstacle of institutional history. 

We gave our first Ph.D. in English 

in 1954. Chicago, Stanford, 

Berkeley and schools of that 

caliber have been around a lot 

longer." 

Grob stated, "We need to make 

an effort to improve our research 

image, but not at the expense of 

inculcating indifference to 

teaching." 

He feels that a better leave policy 

and library might help Rice in the 

area of research. Said Grob, "All 

of the really great research 

institutes have a better policy of 

leaves than Rice. Leaves serve to 

enrich the faculty. They allow the 

faculty to take part in research 

without adversely impacting their 

teaching. A program of 

competitive leaves would help 

increase Rice's output of 

research." 

He added, "We could also use a 

better library." 

Hackerman believes that Rice's 

leave policy is "among the most 

liberal around," indeed that the 

sabbatical leave policy is often 

abused. 

Regarding ratings, Hackerman 

stated, "I can't say that ratings 

have nothing to do with grant 

money. However, Rice's draw of 

grant money has steadily 

increased. Grants are based on 

individuals, not so much on 

institutions." 

He noted, "We have ideally a 

constant number of faculty and 

students. To increase our staff 

would require new buildings, new 

facilities. We have chosen to spend 

on students. Every students here 

costs us $13,000 from the 

endowment. The important thing 

is that Rice's focus is on teaching 

and learning." 

Hackerman emphasized, "We 

are not a research machine. Both 

professors and students come here 

to learn. If we are being rated for 

just research, Rice will never be the 

absolute best." 

Four earn endowed professorships 

Four Rice University faculty 

members who have won wide 

recognition for accomplishments 

in their professional fields have 

been honored with endowed 

professorships. 

Dr. Richard E. Smalley, a 

member of the Rice chemistry 

faculty since 1976, will fill the new 

Gene and Norman Hackerman 

Chair in Chemistry. Smalley is 

widely known for his pioneering 

research, including the interaction 

of lasers with molecules at very low 

temperatures. Currently Smalley is 

studying properties of molecular 

Dr. Richard E. Smalley 

beams of metal clusters; the beams 

are generated by techniques 

invented during his research. 

The new chair was established 

by Paul N. Howell, a Houston 

industrialist, and Mrs. Howell, to 

honor Rice University President 

Hackerman and his wife. Dr. 

Hackerman, an internationally 

recognized chemist, has been 

Rice's president since 1970 and is 

the immediate past chairman of 

the National Science Board. 

Commented Smalley, "I take 

this (the chair) as evidence of 

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Rice's support of basic research, 

and of course, I'm very happy to 

receive it." 

Dr. Sydney M. Lamb 

Dr. Sydney M. Lamb, an 

internationally known authority 

on linguistics, becomes Rice's first 

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of 

Linguistics. Chairman of the 

fledgling linguistics department, 

Lamb has been a member of the 

Rice faculty since 1981. 

The Arnold Trust established 

this professorship in memory of 

Mrs. Agnes Cullen Arnold, a Rice 

Dr. Katherine Fischer Drew 

alumna and prominent Houston 

civic leader. 

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Dr. Katherine Fischer Drew, a 

Rice alumna and one of the 

nation's distinguished medievalists, 

becomes the Harris 

Masterson, Jr. Professor of 

History. Drew has been on the 

Rice history faculty since 1950. 

The professorship honors the 

memory of Reverend Masterson, 

an Episcopal priest and longtime 

director of Autry House. Current 

Texas A&M President Frank 

Vandiver previously held the chair. 

Dr. Martin J. Wiener, who has 

won recognition on both sides of 

the Atlantic for his research and 

Dr. Martin J. Wiener 

publications on British history, 

becomes the Mary Gibbs Jones 

Professor of History. Wiener 

garnered acclaim for his book 

English Culture and the Decline of 

the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980, 

and was asked to speak on the 

subject in Japan last month. 

Houston Endowment, Inc. 

established his professorship to 

honor the memory of the widow of 

Jesse H. Jones who, in her own 

right, was a longtime friend and 

supporter of Rice, and a moving 

force in Houston's cultural and 

educational life. Dr. Wiener joined 

the Rice history faculty in 1967. 


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Your article in the recent issue 

relating to George R. Brown is a 

good one and quite appropriate. 

However; in one respect it is not 

correct. George entered Rice as a 

freshman in the fall of 1916, as a 

member of the class of 1920. He 

returned toRiceas a sophomore in 

the fall of 1917. He left Rice at the 

end or near the end of the fall 

semester in December 1917 and 

êntered the service. 

I entered Rice in the fall of I9l 7, 

class of 1921. 

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Heliums given grant to explore platelet response to stress 

by Todd Giorgio 

The National Institute of Health 

recently awarded $324,000 in a 

three-year grant to Dr. Jesse D. 

Heliums, Dean of the George R. 

Brown School of Engineering and 

professor of chemical engineering. 

The grant will fund the seventh, 

eighth and ninth years of a 

research program involving the 

determination of blood platelet 

response to shear stress. Results 

from Heliums' research may lead 

to more effective treatment of 

vascular diseases. 

Shear stress is the frictional 

force exerted on a fluid as it flows 

around an object or through a 

conduit. Although platelets, the 

cellular components of blood 

which play a key role in clotting, 

normally begin to aggregate and 

release specific biochemical 

substances at the site of an injury 

through biochemical mechanisms, 

shear stress may mimic 

biochemical signals in some cases. 

Research by Heliums and his 

research team in conjunction with 

the University of Texas Medical 

School and the Baylor College of 

Medicine has shown that platelets 

can also be activated through the 

application of shear stress. Platelet 

response is hypothesized by 

Heliums as a function of both 

shear stress levels and the length of 

time stress is applied. 

Past studies at Rice, also funded 

by NIH grants, have examined the 

response of platelets to shear stress 

exposure through times ranging 

from a few seconds to minutes. 

Present research involves platelet 

response at approximately .001 

seconds in duration. 

Recent studies indicate that the 

response to shear stress in the 

intermediate time range (on the 

order of seconds) is of great 

importance. A new project is 

underway in which an instrument 

will be developed which will aid in 

the assessment of platelet function 

continuously in a controlled shear 

field. 

Helium's previous research 

indicates that at the exposure times 

and shear stresses characteristic of 

certain devices such as disc-type 

artificial heart valves and kidneydialysis 

machines, platelet 

aggregation can occur. Such 

aggregation may lead to internal 

blood clotting or decreased 

platelet activity. Several types of 

Gottlieb advocates nuclear freeze 

by Mark Rome 

Dr. Sanford Gottlieb, executive 

director of United Campuses 

Against Nuclear Weapons 

(UCAM), discussed the nuclear 

arms race in the United States in a 

speech last week on campus. 

His organization UCAM, a 

conglomerate of over 500 studentfaculty 

groups from universities 

and colleges around the world, 

hopes to bring about a freeze in the 

nuclear weapons build-up in order 

to lessen the likelihood of nuclear 

war. UCAM currently focuses its 

attention on a bi-lateral agreement 

between the U.S. and the Soviet 

Union. 

Gottlieb began his talk by 

noting, "The new peace movement 

really began because we had a 

wonderful recruiting team named 

Reagan, Haig and Weinberger, 

who spent the better part of 1981 

talking about limited nuclear war, 

and survivable nuclear war, and 

announcing that over a five-year 

period that there would be a $1.6 

trillion military budget." 

Their success, Gottlieb said, 

resulted from convincing most 

Americans that either the U.S. or 

the U.S.S.R. could trigger a 

nuclear war. 

He believes the new peace 

movement differs from older ones 

in that it has attracted many 

respected individuals. The nuclear 

freeze movement has also 

increased its political influence in 

several significant areas. 

"One (area) is that while Reagan 

scared the bejeezus out of 

everybody by talking about limited 

nuclear war in '81, by '82 he had 

disavowed it," said Gottlieb. "He 

(Reagan) had admitted publicly 

that there could be no limited 

nuclear war." 

Gottlieb outlines a second area 

of influence, "Because of 

American pressures, peace 

movements' pressures, and 

European governments' pressures 

on the United States, this 

administration started negotiations 

with the Soviet Union on two 

sets of talks, one on European 

missiles, the other on strategic 

arms reduction." 

According to Gottlieb, this act 

marked a change in stance by the 

Reagan administration, which 

came into office "committed to a 

military build-up before even 

beginning to think about talking to 

the Soviets about arms reduction." 

Although Gottlieb admitted 

that American policy has not yet 

been altered by the peace 

movement, he foresees a change. If 

President Reagan runs for reelection 

in 1984, his only platform 

will be arms control. "I suspect 

that its entirely feasible, however 

bizarre this may seem in January 

of 1983, to have us witness in 1984 

a Ronald Reagan running as a 

peace candidate," Gottlieb 

• commented. 

For these reasons, Gottlieb 

predicts that some kind of peace 

agreement will be made during the 

Reagan administration, if only due 

to a "political necessity pushing 

Reagan in that direction." 

Gottlieb proposed two other 

reasons for being hopeful about 

the likelihood of peace 

negotiations in the near future. 

First, he suggested, "the politics of 

the situation are what we shoul^ 

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"I feel that a lot of people have 

an unformed notion that somehow 

the questions of war and peace are 

decided down deep in the bowels of 

the Pentagon by the joint Chiefs of 

Staff. Not so. The decisions are 

made by the political leaders on 

both sides." 

Gottlieb finds another reason 

for hope in the firing of Eugene 

Rostow as the head of the Arms 

Control and Disarmament 

Agency. According to Gottlieb, 

Rostow's firing has placed 

Secretary of State George Shultz 

in the most influential position of 

any of the president's aidvisors on 

this issue. Gottlieb considers 

Shultz to be "a pragmatist, not an 

ideologue, and [someone who] 

doesn't come to his office with the 

same kind of mindset that many of 

the more ideological people in the 

Reagan administration share." 

In addition to providing 

information on the nuclear arms 

freeze movement, Gottlieb's 

speech served as a recruiting effort 

to form a UCAM chapter at Rice. 

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vascular disease have recently been 

attributed at least partially to the 

interaction of platelets with the 

inside walls qf< blood vessels. 

Helium's experimental work is 

complicated by factors such as the 

complexity of the biochemical 

response of platelets, the partial 

reversibility of the aggregation 

processes, and the requirement ot a 

uniform shear field over the entire 

sample volume. Such difficulties 

have been overcome through the 

use of unique equipment especially 

designed and built at Rice. 

Said Heliums, "At the present 

time there are three graduate 

students on the project, as well as 

some post-doctoral people and 

technicians. The major contributions 

on the project are 

coming from Rice students." 

Heliums hopes that the newly 

.funded research will yield a better 

understanding of the chemical 

pathways by which platelets 

activate and how those pathways 

can be altered to prevent unwanted 

activity. Commented Heliums, 

"We are delighted to see the NIH 

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Rice's ' legal studies curriculum 

will be reorganized, students will 

not be allowed to have more than 

three majors, and approximately 

$18,000 has been granted by the 

Brown Foundation for innovative 

teaching proposals, according to 

committee reports presented to the 

Student Association senate in its 

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majors. The committee recommended 

the reorganization of the 

legal studies curriculum since some 

legal studies courses are currently 

non-existent due to professors 

leaving the university and going on 

sabbatical. 

The Committee on Undergraduate 

Teaching awarded $3178.65 to 

Dr. Linda Adair of the 

anthropology department for 

human skeletal materials, 

comparative primate materials, 

fossil casts and anthropometric 

equipment. The materials will aid 

the department in teaching 

physical anthropology courses. 

An award for $4796.90 was 

granted to Dr. J.B. Cheatham, Jr., 

of the mechanical engineering 

department for a senior robotics 

project. The project will lead to the 

inclusion of a robotic programming 

experiment in Mech 331 

laboratory courses. Among the 

materials to be purchased will be a 

robotic arm, an Apple II interface, 

a power supply, and an Apple II 

95K microcomputer and disk drive 

with printer and ancillary 

equipment. Money for both 

awards was provided by the Brown 

Foundation. 

The committee has recently read 

and summarized students' 

evaluations of teachers who are up 

for promotion or tenure, a major 

project for the committee. The 

committee has also awarded 

$10,000 to Dean of Humanities 

Allen Matusow for a preparatory 

seminar designed to develop an 

interdisciplinary program in the 

humanities. 

The project has received $37,000 

from Rice and a request for 

$40,000 has been made to the 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities. These funds will 

support the summer salaries for 

participating faculty members, 

visiting experts and staff. "This 

effort to build an interdisciplinary 

program in the humanities might 

be a first step in the future 

enhancement of the Rice 

curriculum," commented 

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Dean of Humanities Dr. Allen J. 

Matusow noted that although 

professors at Rice often 

incorporate feminist perspectives 

into their individual classes, there 

is no cohesive feminist studies 

program. By bringing the cutting 

edge of feminist scholarship to 

Rice, Matusow hopes to generate 

similar activity on campus. 

University of Wisconsin history 

Professor Gerda Lerner will open 

the lecture series Mondav with a 

presentation on "The Challenge of 

Woman's History." Lerner will 

speak in Sewall Hall 309 at 8 p.m. 

The series will continue with a 

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Senate to survey students 

Continued from page I 

Making all the student's GPAs 

readily availîle could change this 

spirit of positive competitiveness 

and teamwork to one of academic 

selfishness which is detrimental to 

the entire Rice experience." 

One of the drafters of the 

petition, Darryl Burke, remarked 

that if the Faculty Council meeting 

had not been postponed to last 

Friday because of George Brown's 

death, the matter would already 

have been decided. 

"Now we have the time needed 

so the ramifications and rationale 

behind these proposed grading 

changes can be explored," he 

commented. 

Trunko will appear at the 

committee's meeting on February 

16 to present student opinions 

about the changes. Trunko said 

SA senators will survey student 

views until then. Any sufficiently 

condensed written opinions may 

be submitted directly to the SA. 

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Shange finds teaching refreshing and enlightening 

Ntozake Shange is best known 

for her Obie-winning For colored 

girls who have considered suicide 

when the rainbow is enuf, but she 

has also written volumes of poetry 

and has just completed a novel. 

However, these varied literary 

accomplishments are not the only 

things that she considers 

important, and these other aspects 

of her character are what have 

brought her to Rice. 

Shange is teaching two courses 

at Rice this semester, an English 

course on Afro-American 

literature and a history 

department course on the 

Reconstruction and its effects 

throughout the entire country, not 

just the South. The English course 

is nominally a survey of Afro- 

American wried them with her 

personal favorites. Shange hopes 

that this combination of the most 

famous with the well-written but 

not-so-well-known will give her 

students a more representative 

view of black literature in this 

country. 

Just as her survey lit course is 

more than a survey, so to her 

history course is not simply a 

historical recounting of what and 

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who came when, but is an attempt 

to discover the reasons why certain 

people have became hallmarks of 

black thought. "It's not a question 

that I know the answer to," Shange 

admits, Til be looking for the 

a nswer j ust as m uch as my students 

will. This course is a seminar in the 

true sense of the word, an attempt 

to find answers through the 

academic processes of discussion 

and interchange of ideas. We may 

even find by the end of the course 

that the answer is very simple." 

This aspect of Shange's course 

is, in a broader sense, the reason 

that she came to Rice. Having been 

trained to teach in college, she 

found that she missed it when she 

immersed herself in theatrical 

work for seven years. "I wanted to 

teach, 1 always have. Theatre after 

seven years had become arid to me. 

I was losing touch with my 

motivations as an artist. The 

subject of my writing is contact 

with people. I get that from 

teaching." 

Although Shange's Mellon 

appointment at Rice is presently 

only for one semester, she would 

like to continue teaching here. If 

she is not offered a more 

permanent position here, she will 

still remain in the Houston area, 

which she now considers her home. 

Shange feels that her move from 

New York was painless, both 

because she needed a break from 

its frenetic theatre world and 

because Houston offered her the 

chance to teach and to be near her 

family. (Shange's sister, Bisa 

Williams-Manigault teaches 

English, Spanish, and Portuguese 

at Rice). 

Although Shange sees teaching 

as her major activity for "as long as 

possible," she doei plan to 

continue to do some professional 

theatrical productions, "so long as 

they don't interfere with my 

writing. I'm at the point where I do 

whatever I can for my writing, and 

if that means doing just one show 

every two years in New York or 

Los Angeles, then I'll do that." 

After just finishing a novel, 

Shange doesn't have plans for her 

next work yet, but says she will 

"write whatever presents itself to 

me. ... I started writing because 

there were things that I couldn't find 

that I wanted to read and later to 

hear. Later, I started to write 

theatre because there were 

Ntozake Shange in her new niche 

characters that I wanted to know 

that I couldn't find. I put my 

characters into works to let the 

world love and cherish them, as / 

love and cherish them." 

Hopefully Shange's tenure at 

Rice will continue past this term. 

Otherwise, too few of us will have 

had the opportunity to catch the 

vitality that has characterized her 

work and that she now shares with 

the students. 

— Deborah L. Knaff 

Attenborough captures grandeur of Gandhi's struggle 

Gandhi is a magnificent film. 

Breathtaking in its scope, it 

undertakes the story of the man 

responsible for winning India's 

independence from Britain. It 

reflects 20 years on the part of 

Richard Attenborough to produce 

the film. The mass of people on the 

screen, the film's great length (over 

3 hours with an intermission), the 

beautiful cinematography, and the 

intense characterization of Gandhi 

by Ben Kingsley combine to 

overwhelm the viewer. 

Beginning with Gandhi's 

expulsion from the first class 

section of a train in South Africa, 

the film alternates between 

intimate and epic scenes. As it is 

impossible to capture all of the 

incidents and people who were 

pivotal in the development of 

Gandhi's life, the film begins with a 

disclaimer explaining that the film 

is only an attempt to capture the 

spirit/ of Gandhi's life. This it does 

to a remarkable degree. 

Inevitably, the focus of Gandhi 

is on one aspect f his life — that of 

Gandhi the saint. In fact, only one 

scene alludes to the hardships 

experienced by those closest to 

him. This scene, an altercation 

between Gandhi and his wife about 

her status in the ashram, is 

effective in illustrating the strain of 

living with a saint. However, this 

obviously realistic theme is 

expunged from the rest of the film. 

In real life, Gandhi's strict 

adherence to his ideals and 

standards created extreme 

problems for his family. These 

standards deeply affected his wife, 

who bitterly resented the vow of 

chastity he took. Although he 

remained married, it provided a 

continual source of strain. 

Gandhi's attempt to mold his sons 

after his ideals had disastrous 

effects upon his eldest son who 

rebelled with drunkenness and 

debauchery. 

It is important to remember the 

power of film. When people see 

something portrayed on the 

screen, it is very easy to believe that 

it is the truth, without explaining it 

critically. Ghandi was not only a 

saint but was also a man whose 

unrealistic expectations sometimes 

led to unfortunate consequences. 

Thus, it is a serious fault in the film 

that the director's bias has created 

an unrealistic biography. 

A major reason to see Gandhi is 

Ben Kingsley's portrayal. 

Kingsley, a member of the Royal 

Shakespeare Company in London, 

is a dramatic stage actor, not a film 

actor. This strength become^ 

apparent over and over again as 

Kingsley takes the character from 

the young Mohandas K. Gandhi to 

the Mahatma (Great Soul). 

Kingsley's being part Indian 

himself adds a realistic touch that 

affords the viewer a chance to 

believe in this incarnation of 

Gandhi. 

Small touches distinguish 

Kingsley as an actor grounded in 

the theatre. The sinuous posture 

Kingsley assumes when he sits on 

the floor, the trembling of his 

mouth at the death of Gandhi's 

wife, and the protective arm 

grasping his robe to his body all 

contribute to a richly detailed 

perception of Gandhi as both man 

and saint. Kingsley's performance 

certainly deserves an Academy 

Award nomination. 

The length of the film is 

necessary to weave a story this 

vast, but Attenborough also uses it 

as a stylistic device to underscore 

the Herculean task of Gandhi and 

the immensity of India itself. The 

visual grandeur of terribly 

crowded cities and rural expanses 

highlights the difficulty of 

Gandhi's task, to lead his 

countrymen against British rule 

using only nonviolent means. 

After Gandhi effected a 

relatively peaceful transition of 

power from British to Indian 

hands, his troubles began again. 

The conflict between the Hindus 

and Muslims of India's provinces 

provides some of the most exciting 

and riveting moments in the film. 

These scenes in the film 

reverberate with the intensity that 

only religious fervor can provoke. 

Attenborough balances this action 

against the quieter, even austere, 

scenes of Gandhi's fasting and the 

solemn splendor of Gandhi's 

funeral where hundreds of 

thousands of people lined the 

streets as his cortege passed. 

Gandhi professed that we are ail 

children of God, but instead of 

using this philosophy to relegate 

responsibility into the hands of 

Fate, he demanded that each man 

be accountable for his own life. 

Placing the burden of correct 

conduct back upon the person 

instead of on an outside entity 

effectively negates the choice of 

abdicating responsibilty. This 

philosophy of Gandhi's made him 

demand peace and equality for all 

the peoples of the world, for all the 

children of God. Perhaps Gandhi 

will help to remind us that such a 

goal is still viable and necessary 

amid the myriad injustices 

perpetrated today. 

— Geoffrey Westergaard 

Film describes danger of nostalgia 

Robert Altman's newest film, 

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, 

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, gives 

the movie-goer exactly what he has 

come to expect from an Altman 

film: something definitely out of the 

ordinary. Adapted from the stage 

production, which won mixed if 

generally favorable reviews, 

Jimmy Dean brings a freshness 

and originality to the screen that 

has rarely occurred since 

another Altman film. 

The film's setting is that of a 

small Texas town with one general 

store and an annual rainfall 

comparable to Rice's winning 

percentage. The plot focuses upon 

a twentieth reunion of the 

Disciples of James Dean, who 

congregate in their old hangout, 

the town's one Woolworth's. 

Twenty years before, Dean made 

Giant in Marfa, Texas, a scant 80 

miles from this town, and two of 

the club members, Mona (Sandy 

Dennis) and Joe (Mark Patton) 

made the trip (along with half of 

the town) to try to get in the film as 

extras. 

Moreover, the trip lead 

to a chance encounter with Dean 

himself one night, and out of their 

passion came Jimmy Dean, the 

love-child of the great one himself. 

The Woolworth's store is now a 

shrine to Dean, and both Mona 

and Sissy (Cher), another member 

of the club, still work there twenty 

years later. However, the arrival of 

a strange woman (Karen Black) in 

a Porsche casts a shadow over the 

proceedings as she reveals to those 

gathered the true events of twenty 

years before. The characters, you 

see, live their lives based upon false 

conceptions of the past to 

legitimize the present. 

However, things are not what 

they appear to be in this film, and 

neither is this mysterious stranger 

recounting the past with such 

stinging accuracy, as the girls 

discover to their astonishment. 

The "stranger" is Joe, who has 

since undergone a sex-change and 

is now Joanne. Joanne, as the 

Vivat 

James 

audience learns via flashbacks, 

never really fit in as a man and was * 

considered by the towaspeople as 

see Jimmy Dean, page II 

The Rice Thresher, February 4, 1983, page V

Theatre 

Chocolate Bayou strips sympathy out of Steinbeck 

Of Mice and Men 

Chocolate Bayou Theatre 

Through February 20 

While time never stands still, the 

essential elements of man's 

situation remain the same. His 

7 

Chocolate Bayou cast of Of Mice and Men 

needs, fears, hopes, and desires are 

universal and timeless. As cliched 

as these themes are, they provide a 

continuity that assures a relevance 

to John Steinbeck's dramatization 

of his novel Of Mice and Men. This 

classic story (first staged in 1937), 

details the lives of two drifters as 

they track from ranch to ranch 

motivated by that "stake" which 

will buy them their dream. The 

current production at the 

Chocolate Bayou Theatre turns the 

compelling, hardhitting script into 

a supine, mildly disheartening 

insight into the human condition. 

The story is built around the 

relationship between George and 

Lennie, the drifters. At first glance 

têy are foils of one another. 

George is small and intelligent; 

Lennie is large and simple-minded, 

upon which all the action must 

emerge and converge again. After 

emerge and converge again. 

When George is left with the 

responsibility of taking care of 

Lennie. However, the tie between 

them is more than that between 

caretaker and dependent. They are 

bound together by a shared dream 

and common goal. The Chocolate 

Bayou's success here results from 

the two central actors and their 

ability to forge this merger with 

conviction. 

R.J. Maxwell (George) and 

Peter Bryson (Lennie) suqpeed in 

establishing an onstage interaction 

that offers depth among otherwise 

shallow performances. They both 

move and speak in synchrony. 

Their speeches of the future, 

concerning rabbits, cattle and 

alfalfa, are complementary reactions 

to each other. They are not 

merely two actors sharing a stage. 

R.J. Maxwell, in addition to 

working well with Bryson, stands 

out as the single most consistent 

actor in theshow. He maintains his 

tough, but pliable George with 

ease and fluidity from start to 

finish. That he is able both to 

merge his character and keep it 

distinct is remarkable. 

Peter Bryson at times carries the 

role of Lennie well. He appears 

sufficiently dimwitted, eager, and 

without malice. He is large enough 

to suggest the brute strength of 

Lennie that throughout the play 


proves lethal. When not on center 

stage, however, Bryson's 

performance loses conviction. He 

fluctuates between Bryson and 

Lennie. When directly called upon 

to affect Lennie's character, he 

rushes to the task with perhaps too 

much alacrity, but once his lines 

are finished he puts Lennie away, 

and leaves Bryson waiting for his 

next cue. 

The rest of the cast only graze 

the surface of their characters' 

natures and spirits. As Curley's 

wife, Ashley Crow did not develop 

her character beyond the walk and 

the makeup. Similarly, Steve 

Caporiccio, in the role of Slim, is 

ineffectual. Slim should be in 

control, calm, self-assured, with an 

innate wisdom that prevents him 

from pursuing the impossible goal 

that those around him are so 

feverently pursuing. Caporiccio 

instead exhibited so little emotion 

that he seemed more like one of the 

mice than one of the men. 

Paul C. Mathews accurately 

depicts Curley, the boss' son, as a 

big-mouthed bully with more 

brains than soul, and equally 

endowed with cowardice and 

selfishness. Regrettably, Curly's 

wrath seemed more like the temper 

tantrum of a spoiled child than the 

product of a wicked envious heart. 

Charlie Trotter (Candy) and 

Maxwell and Bryson hold show together 

Willie Dirden (Crooks) are both 

guilty of making their characters 

superficial. The characters they 

play are complex and profound, 

but both Dirden and Trotter let 

indifference into their performances. 

This play is about a mouse, 

caught and killed. It is also much 

more, and we should accordingly 

feel more than we do when we see a 

mouse dead in a trap. 

—Aniko Kiralv 

The laughs cover the flaws 

Political farce sparkles, but just not brilliant 

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! 

Chocoiate Bavou Theatre 

Through February 20 

Food riots, miraculous 

pregnancies, police searches and 

birdseed-soap are elements of We 

Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, R.G. 

Davis' translation of Dario Fo's 

political satire. This entertaining 

play is presently staged by the 

Chocolate Bayou Theatre on its 

second stage, The Other 

Production Space. 

The lively production is similar 

to an I Love Lucy episode in antics, 

confusions, and comic style while 

its political moments tend to drag 

it out. The comic side of the play 

develops out of Antonia's need to 

hide groceries she stole in a riot at 

the supermarket. Once the 

groceries are home, she hides what 

she can and gives the rest to 

Margherita. The food cannot be 

carried openly because of police 

searching for the stolen food, so 

the women stuff the grocery bags 

under Marcherita's coat in feigned 

pregnancy. 

Antonia's husband, Giovanni, is 

shocked to come home and find his 

best friend's wife in a sudden 

advanced stage of pregnancy. A 

police search cuts short the 

makeshift explanation and leads 

into the first of many political 

dialogues concerning the injustice 

of the social, economic, and 

political situation in Milan in 1974. 

The humor follows lines that 

should not be new to anyone who 

has seen reruns of the late 1950's 

sitcoms. 

The political side of the play is 

quite poignant. The riot at the 

supermarket is in protest to 

increasing prices. Antonia asks, 

"Who are they competing against?" 

The question sends Giovanni 

into a tirade against capitalism. 

While the first policeman is 

searching the apartment for stolen 

groceries, Giovanni discusses 

government and how nothing ever 

| gets done. The policeman agrees 

with him but explains that he 

sympathizes with the workers since 

he is one himself. He gives the 

apartment a thoroughly 

inadequate search, opening 

everything and looking in nothing. 

The policeman and Giovanni 

are on common political ground 

when the inspection ends. Both 

agree the government is a pawn of 

the rich. A second inspection 

follows, only this one is made by a 

Hitler clone. Giovanni starts where 

he ended with the previous 

policeman since they look the same 

(both parts are played by Clive 

Carnes) except for the Nazi 

mustache. His authoritarian 

reaction to Giovanni causes 

Antonia to prompt Margherita 

into "labor" to keep her husband 

out of jail. The play works and the 

politicizing ends for tffe moment. 

Fo attacks every hierarchy and 

political ideology possible. His 

general indictment against the 

working class is indifference. He 

summarily attacks capitalism, 

communism, socialism, fascism, 

authoritarianism, and unions. 

Each time his solution is that the 

workers must rule since union 

leaders, foremen, etc. do not act in 

the workers' best interests. The 

play ends with open revolution and 

chaos in the streets. It is likely that 

Fo's anarchistic political actions 

have kept him out of this country. 

The production lacks the 

crispness needed to flow smoothly. 

A tighter performance would 

speed up the pace and make the 

political proselytizing more 

palatable and possibly cleaner. 

There was a noticeable amount of 

hesitation in delivering lines. 

Clive Carlin provides much of 

the needed life to the performance 

in each of his four roles: two 

poljcemen, grandpa, and 

undertaker. He definitely injects 

energy into theshow. Margherita, 

played Ginny Lang, also does a 

good job especially with the 

physical aspects of her role. Her 

expressions and movements 

support her lines as do Antonia's, 

although her dialect is off again, on 

again. 

The play is staged in The Other 

Production Space at Chocolate 

Bayou. As the name suggests the 

theatre feels like it was hastily 

thrown together as an afterthought. 

Frankly, many college 

commons have been made into 

better theaters. Poor ventilation 

and crowded seating make slower 

parts of the production seem 

unbearably dull until the humor 

False pregnancy hides political message. 

crops up again. At some points this 

feels quite long. Approximately 

half of the audience had to contend 

with light in its eyes. Seating is on 

three sides of'Tne stage and lights 

are on walls opposite two of them. 

The audience eventually adjusted 

to this but they need not have had 

to do so. The lead-in music is 

interesting albeit confusing. Opera 

arias are played until the lights go 

down and a circus tune comes on > 

The circus lead is appropriate for 

the chaos that is advocated and 

some of the stage antics. While the 

arias set an Italian tone to the 

pre-show and intermission breaks, 

there is no connection between the 

working class story and the high 

culture of opera. 

The play is funny enough to 

cover most of the flaws. It is worth 

the 50c to $1 more than a movie 

that it would cost to see We Won't 

Pay! We Won't Pay! although do 

not expect a perfect performance. 

—Michael Trachtenberg

Preview 

Players continue success of season's political dramas 

Tango 

Rice Players 

February 7-12 

This has been a good year so far 

for the Rice Players. Box office 

returns have kept the coffers 

filled; production costs, 

meanwhile, have remained within 

manageable bounds. Both critical 

and popular response to last 

semester's shows were, almost 

without exception, quite positive. 

Shaw and Stoppard were full 

successes. 

This is not too surprising of a 

track record for Rice's wellrespected 

theatre group, under 

Neil Haven's highly polished 

direction. It is, still, a flattering 

testament to the group's 

professionality, especially 

considering the fact that both 

shows last semester (Major 

Barbara and Stoppard's two one 

acts) are particularly difficult 

genre. Political farce, be it late 

19th-century liberalism or 

"post-modern" rose-tinted wit, is 

tough theatre, to say the least. 

Success here seems to come only 

when the political ideology is 

presented with ease, humor, and 

human gentility; diatribe and 

debate made sensitive and even 

funny. The blend is attempted 

The Players present political Polish farce 

often these days, though the 

Players' success record is rather 

rare. 

The Players continue this year's 

ambitious theme of political 

farces with their third production, 

Tango, by Poland's leading 

playwright, Slawomir Mrozek. 

Like Shaw and even Stoppard, 

Mrozek has been a central political 

activist as well as artist, voicing the 

note of concern common to his 

time and situation. In years to 

come, critical acclaim will likely 

include him among the elite of 

theatre's politicians. 

Tango, one of his most highly 

touted works to date is an 

ideological foundation, a 

microcosm of Poland's 20thcentury 

turmoil. The play focuses 

on a highly ideosyncratic 

family; odd and quirkish but also, 

of course, a paragon of man's 

struggle. Father Stomil (played by 

M. Christopher Boyer) and 

mother Elinore (played by Ann 

Laffoon), are slightly outdated 

remnants of a liberal hippie past; 

Stomil is a beer-bellied director 

still stuck on Dada theatre while 

Elinore calmly longs for a return 

to good ole protest days. This 

loose, unstructured couple have 

raised a niece (played by Karen 

Chatfield) and son Arthur (playe> 

by Joe Ponessa). 

Arthur returns from college as 

the spirit of reactionary 

conservativism, armed with logic 

and a new sense of tradition. He 

plans to clean up the past 

generation's histrionic debunking 

of order, and reestablish a civilized 

family life. Think now, if you must, 

of Poland's highly conservative 

reformation after the dangerous 

explosions of WWI; Mrozek 

certainly keeps it in mind. 

But then, from the struggle of 

right against left comes the sheer 

brute force of simple Edek, a 

"vulgarian bounder" played by Hal 

Kohlman. Once only hovering at 

the periphery, Edek launches forth 

to beat all into a strict control 

clearly reflecting Stalinist Poland 

in WWII. Mrozek postulates 

clearly and simply this full swing of 

the political pendulum from liberal 

to conservative extremes and 

finally to a fascist tyrrany. 

Fortunately though, director 

Havens exacts more than so much 

didactics. Major Barbara had an 

equally blatant "point" and 

Stoppard just as obviously pokes 

fun at British bureaucracy. Yet 

both productions seemed 

considerably more, and Havens 

explains his process of 

depoliticalizing, more theatricalizing 

as it is worked this time in 

Tango. 

"We had to do a lot of editing. 

Our translation seemed bad at 

spots: repetition of important 

V«|| 

^ V/. 

Joe Ponessa and Karen Chatfield in Tango 

New Wove 

ideas, a little too much 

philosophical debating." While 

Tango will certainly voice 

M rozek's rather pat view of Polish 

politics, the real business of the 

play is to develop other, more 

human elements. A soft and airyset 

design by Barry Watkins with 

smooth, natural lighting by Penny 

Remsen (guest artist from the 

Alley Theatre) all put the piece in a 

comedy mode with an intimate, 

domestic feel. 

The characters are an 

interestingly mixed bag: some are 

semi-absurdist caricatures 

(although none are left to be mere 

walking symbols), others are 

see Tango page 13 

British wavers wow dance crowd 

Bow Wow Wow 

Numbers 2 

January 30 

Bow Wow Wow delivered the 

sensual experience of the week on 

Sunday. The thrill was short-lived, 

however, as the group followed the 

one-hour concert tradition set by 

some British import band in the 

days of the Paleo New Music era. 

Lead singer pubescent poppet 

Anabella charged onto the stage 

with a high-energy version of 

"Louis Quatorze." Although she's 

no longer fourteen, as the lyrics 

claim, Anabella charmingly 

conveyed her mingled surprise and 

pleasure (they're always mingled) 

at being statutorily raped by an 

Cinema 

absolute monarch. As she 

whispered "Louis Quatorze. I love 

you" at the song's end, she gave a 

demure little toss of her 

mohawk/ponytail that sent the 

heterosexual faction in the 

audience into advanced erotic 

stimulation. 

Anabella seized the moment to 

launch into her projected next hit, 

"Baby Oh No." Dance club 

denizens took a beat to shiver 

happily before resuming their 

patented dance music gyrations. 

The Burmese-British beauty led 

her legion like a Burundi-beat 

cheerleader: now flailing, now 

robotic, always moving. 

Malcolm Mcl.aren fans were 

not disappointed, as the group 

neatly performed a number oi 

early tunes produced by him alter 

his stint with the Sex Pistols, 

including "C-30, C-60, C-90 Go!" 

and "Sexv Eiffel Towers." 

Unfortunately, Bow Wow Wow did 

not replicate nearly as well the 

sound of current producer Kenny 

Laguna: the crowd failed to 

recognize the AM hit "I Want 

Candy" until Anabella began 

singing. 

I had the personal joy of seeing 

her warbling "little piggy iggy eyes" 

during a rave-up "Golly Golly Go 

Buddy," and being in the middle of 

some sensuous slam dancing 

during "Elimination Dancing." If 

only it could have gone on longer. 

—Jeanne Cooper 

Jimmy Dean returns every year 


an oddity to be ridiculed. She is 

now the protagonist, the 

instrument employed to tear away 

the facades behind which her 

comrades hide. 

As every character has more 

truth revealed about herself, the 

audience feels the emptiness that 

remains. This is precisely the 

reason that the ending works so 

well; it is a logical and appropriate 

result of this revelation process. 

The only problem 1 had with the 

film was that at times the plot is too 

predictable. The characters 

become so vivid that the truths 

about them are hardly surprising 

in most cases. 

The brilliance of the film lies 

mainly in the acting. Black is 

superb, giving one of her best (if 

not the best) performances. Her 

credibility as a transsexual is never 

in doubt as she gives a haunting 

portrayal of a victim of society's 

ignorance. Dennis is good as well, 

the role being well-suited to her 

nervous facial expressions. The 

real surprise is Cher, who shows a 

comedienne's flair while giving a 

memorable dramatic performance, 

particularly memorable in 

light of her past work. In fact there 

is not a weak performance in the 

film, a reflection qn Altman's 

ability as a director as much as on 

the actor's themselves. 

The images in the film are 

excellent as well, and enhance the 

dramatic effect, particulary the 

flashbacks which appear in the 

mirror on the wall. Thus the 

present becomes a mirror of the 

past, but a past based upon lies is a 

weak foundation. This past has 

become so firmly entrenched in the 

characters that they no longer 

know what the truth is. Only 

through the help of one who sees 

the past clearly can they come to 

self-realization. And when self- 

realization comes about, there is 

no longer the need for icons of the 

past. 

Ultimately, whether or not you 

care about "subtle meanings" and 

"images" is immaterial, the film is 

enjoyable and thought-provoking. 

However, you might have to wait 

until it comes to the River Oaks to 

see it, for it has already finished its 

run at the Greenway. Sorrv. 

— Ian Hersev 

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Cinema 

Media Center lacks audience, but offers quality cinema 

Colin Young and 

New British Films 

Rice Media Center 

January 27 

The Rice Media Center was 

honored last week to present Colin 

Young, who sports, among other 

accolades, Director of the UCLA 

film school during the late 1960's, 

and mentor of such notables as 

Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Bartel 

(director of Eating Raoul), and 

rock legends Jim Morrison, and 

Ray Manzarek. However, it being 

Rice Night at the Pub, caustic 

masturbatory endeavor prevailed 

over art, as usual. And so, as 

youthful scholars braved gauntlets 

of grackle guano to suck down 

their indifference at the Pub, the 

devoted and curious arrived 

sparsely and quietly to experience 

the magic of the new British films 

of the graduates of Colin Young's 

National Film School. 

Young, an eminent cinematic 

educator, played an essential role 

in the establishment of the Media 

Center in 1968 and was here on his 

annual visit bearing gifts of film 

and commentary. 

The evening began with David 

Anderson's fourteen-minute 

animated delight Dreamland 

Express. A favorite at numerous 

European film festivals last year, 

the black-and-white fantasy is 

based upon a 1929 book of the 

same title by H.R. Miller. 

Anderson's absorbing graphics, 

contrasts of soft luminescence and 

stark blacks and greys intimating 

a provocative and mysterious 

depth, carry the viewer from a 

boy's bedside into a spectacular 

journey on a mystical train. 

The boy pilots the enigmatic 

express and its cargo of humanity, 

which devolves in the passing 

windows from modern bourgeoisie 

into primitive ape men, through 

galaxies of imagery, by syfnbols of 

uniformity, paranoia, brutality, 

struggle, suppression, until the 

dream track terminates in a circus 

tent and the passengers emerge as 

animals. Then the tent is gone, the 

train is gone, and the boy and the 

animals watch the stars from a 

surreal Eden. At the end, the boy's 

empty bed suggests a clever 

manipulation of reality. It is all fun 

to watch, and pub goers would like 

the funny faces. 

The second film, Coming Back 

by Rob Daniel, is an observational 

documentary about an internationally 

popular British concert 

pianist, John Ogden, who early in 

a stellar career was stricken by a 

total mental breakdown. First we 

see Ogden, a plump and beaming 

prodigy, shyly engulfed in 1929's 

newsreel and headline acclaim. 

Immediately juxtaposed is Our 

Man Ogden, transformed, obese, 

and returning to London from 

overseas therapy. 

The camera lets us observe 

Ogden the Man, Ogden the 

Smoker, Ogden the Husband, 

Ogden In His Undies — he is 

hopelessly lost in all human roles, 

displaced, disoriented. Then we see 

him at the Diano. we exr>erience his 

musical magnificence, and Og's 

perfection is clear. But in his 

Derfection he has lost his 

humanity, and in his effort to 

relate, especially to his wife, we are 

as maddened by his genius as he 

has been. 

Daniel's observational 

Shepherd School concert listings 

February 10 Shepherd Singers 8 p.m. RMC chapel 

February 14 Richard Pickar, clarinet (faculty) 8 p.m. Hamman Hall 

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February 16Jeanette Lombard, soprano; Al- 8 p.m. Hamman Hall 

bert Tipton, flute; Mary Norris, 

piano (faculty recital) 

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technique provides what Young 

called "priveleged access" to 

Ogden's daily personal experience 

and allows for an almost 

unbearably sympathetic sense of 

the pianist's predicament. 

Conspicuously simple shooting 

methods, in addition, coupled with 

Ogden's awareness of being filmed, 

creates a consciousness of the 

camera that involves the viewer as 

a sharer of Ogden's confusion. We 

emerge from Coming Back 

knowing that Ogden has not 

returned, indeed, was never quite 

"here," was always isolated in his 

genius, unable to touch humanity, 

to compromise his perfection, to 

empathize with the normal, to go 

for nachos with the puboisie, to 

stand up in the middle of the film 

and shuffle out, mumbling with 

random indignation, "No more 

cartoons?" 

The following film, Sins of the 

Father, Sins of the Son, is a 

journey into darkness and a poem 

in film reminiscent of Apocalypse 

Now in its image and development. 

The Colonel has forsaken England 

and his family for solitude on the 

coast of Kenya. His son David, 

considering the priesthood and 

desirous of his father's sentiments. 

journeys to Kenya only to find his 

objectives confused, transformed, 

his piety compromised. David 

endures the old man's magnetic 

distance, becomes absorbed in his 

father's element. Cryptic poetic 

quotations spill forth from the old 

man's lips till David joins in, 

entranced. A struggling piety 

finally collapses, David cavorts in 

the surf with a mysterious mulatto 

enchantress, consumates a primal 

profundity, the puboisie tumble in 

with nervous giggles and a lamb's 

throat is cut with raw brutality as 

the Colonel quotes Poe's "Annabel 

Lee" and reveals the mulatto to be 

his own daughter. 

The lamb, split-necked and 

spurting, is held upside down and 

aquiver, David blindly beats the 

girl naked and plunges into the 

ocean in which he first soiled 

himself, into a suicidal catharsis. 

The colonel is suddenly cognizant 

of his destruction and, for the first 

time, expresses his love for his son; 

David emerges from the depths in 

torchlight, and the two are united. 

The awe-inspiring Kenyan coast 

ajid the seductive glint of sunset on 

•water and brown skin and the old 

man's monocle draws the viewer 

into David's absorption, while the 

magnificence of the setting, 

coupled with recurring religious 

images and sounds, emphasizes a 

contradictory holiness. Ultimately 

the water draws the 

contrasts together. 

The final feature of the evening 

was Brian Gilbert's The Devotee, a 

comedy about an art collector who 

will do just about anything for 

certain works, and how his 

devotion leads to moral quandary. 

Hilarious in its subtlety, artful in 

its reproduction of the English 

countryside of the devotee's art, 

The Devotee is cleverly sensuous in 

transforming the protagonists 

perception of love and, since it has 

a couple of nude scenes, would be 

entertaining for virtually any Rice 

student. 

Colin Young's presentation at 

the Media Center was a fanciful 

and energetic amalgam of 

tenderness and brutality, irony 

and illusion, cleverness and 

malevolence, a small collection of 

provocative visions. It is 

unfortunate that such mastery 

would alight, then lift away, so 

easily unnoticed without so much 

as being offered a beer. 

—Scott Flukinger 

Lovett Theatre presents absurdity at its finest — in one act. The Resounding Tinkle and The Bald Soprano wi II run 

tonight and tomorrow night in Lovett commons beginning at 8 p.m. For ticket information, call 526-6584.

Cinema 

Children give their comments to more mature review 

When the advertisements try to 

lure you in with "Fun for the whole 

family!" you know what they 

mean: it's a children's movie. So 

when I saw the ads for The Man 

from Snowy River, I did the only 

sensible thing. I recruited some 

children (ages 6, 7, 9 and 11) to 

take me to the movie so that we 

could have Fun (with a capital F). 

Actually, I thought that it would 

be interesting to see how kids react 

to a so-called kids' movie and how 

they would rate it. 

Well, the movie is about Jim 

Craig (Jack Thompson) and his 

A 

struggle to become a man. At the 

beginning of the film, he's kicked 

out of his late father's home by the 

High Country Men (whatever they 

are) until he goes down to the Low 

Country and proves himself 

worthy of living in the High 

Country. If you're confused, you 

should have seen the children. 

After 1 had explained this 

confusing situation to the 9-yearold, 

she asked "how do you know 

so much about the story? Did you 

read the book?" Well, no, I didn't, 

and I'm afraid that some of the 

details which must be reached 

deductively and are only hinted at, 

may escape a child's grasp. 

Anyway, to prove himself, Craig 

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goes to work for a rich cattleman 

named Harrison (Kirk Douglas), 

who has a beautiful daughter 

(aha—zee plot sickens!) fort?faig 

to fall in love with. Complicating 

the plot is Craig's relationship with 

a gold-hunting partner of his 

late father's who turns out to be 

Harrison's estranged brother. 

The movie stars Kirk Douglas in 

two roles, as the hard-nosed, 

obstinate Harrison, and as Spur, 

his one-legged brother ("But how 

could he talk to himself?" and "Did 

he cut his leg off?"). Douglas, I 

thought, put in a good 

performance as Spur but was 

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much less convincing as Harnson, 

and the children agreed. Aside 

from liking Spur better since he 

was a Nice Man, they thought he 

was more believable. From the 

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Another problem that the 

children noticed was the pace; at 

times the film seemed hardly to 

move at all. I was feeling rather 

restless myself at the same time 

that one of the kids leaned over 

and asked "What time will this be 

over?" At times there was 

DANger, exCITEment, adVENture, 

and at other times I had to 

shake myself awake. 

A bothersome aspect for me was 

the film's portrayal of women. The 

film is set in 1888 in a Man's world, 

with dozens of men and only three 

women—a housekeeper, an aunt 

(who, while insisting that women 

should be allowed to do whatever 

they are capable of as individuals, 

tries to teach Jenny to be a Lady), 

and the beautiful daughter, Jenny. 

Jenny has intense arguments with 

her father about being treated like 

a silly female, then she goes out 

and does inane, senseless, silly 

female things from which only a 

man can recue her, thereby 

proving that she is a silly female. 

After the film, the general 

concensus among the children was 

that they all liked it well enough. 

Except for the contrived plot, the 

lack of resolution of certain 

problems which cropped up, and 

the dragging pace which almost 

put me to sleep, I thought it was 

okay. It was more Fun (with a 

capital F) for me to watch the 

children get their reactions, 

though. Everyone sitting around 

us must have thought so, too. since 

the whole section began laughing 

when Jim and Jenny started 

kissing. I looked around to see the 

two younger children covering 

their eyes and making faces! 

Afterwards, the 7-year-old stated 

flatly, "There should have been less 

of Jenny in bed." And everyone 

else, including me, agreed. 

— Gwen Richard 

with Cooke (6) 

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Winifred (9) 

Mac (11) 

Tango follows seasonal genre trend 


deeply ambiguous personalities. A 

full range of styles will be apparent 

in the cast's portrayals. Says 

Havens, "You can't act a 

philosophy. You have to make a 

person; a person who might think 

this or that, but first a person." 

Havens, his cast and crew, piece 

together not just a statement, but a 

human story of family "relations as 

much as national movements. The 

comedy results from a warm 

blend of people and familiar 

perplexities, all just reflecting 

distant political patterns. 

Havens admits the intricate 

complexity of such a multileveled 

allegory. A mere three-week 

rehersal schedule made it a rushed 

business, weaving each character's 

particular persona together into a 

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whole, significant play. Says 

Havens of Mrozek's piece "It's just 

so much richer than 1 thought it 

was when we began; it really fooled 

me. But then, they always do. Once 

you start working on a play's 

inside, it just blooms and expands; 

becomes so much more than what 

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informed, sophisticated approach 

to the play's inner integrity will 

once again make cohesive, 

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Tango will run Monday, 

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February 12, at Hamman Hall. 

Monday and Tuesday nights arcstudent 

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Films 

Lord of the Flies. Veteran director Peter Brook 

managed one of the most provocative of all novel-toscreen 

adaptations with this production of William 

Golding's book. His version of the psychological 

horror story of British schoolboys stranded on a 

deserted island has faded into undeserved 

anonymity. Oddly mismatched at the River Oaks 

Theatre next Tuesday night with a considerably less 

impressive film, You Are Not Alone, Lord of the 

Flies shows at 7:30 p.m. 

* * * 

The Tin Drum. The River Oaks presents a double 

feature of Volker Schlondorffs best known works, 

The Tin Drum and Circle of Deceit, Wednesday, 

February 9. Released earlier this year, Circle speaks 

clearly and with determination, though with little 

content or true insight. The Tin Drum, on the other 

hand, is a classic commentary on the new German 

opulence. Screening time is 7 p.m., with Circle 

playing at 5 and 9:45. * • * 

A Shot in the Dark. Showing Friday, February 11, 

in the Lovett College Commons at 7:30, 9:30, and 

11:30 p.m. is Peter Sellers' and Elke Sommer's 

comedy where the well-beloved Inspector Clouseau 

returns in one of the most popular modern film 

serials. Admission is $1. 

A Shot in the Dark comes to Lovett after one-acts. 

1900. Bertolucci's four-hour magnum opus is just as 

purely a product of the rich continental cinema as is 

The Tin Drum. A panorama of 20th-century Italy, 

the film touches — with surprisingly intimate 

tenderness — the rise of fascism, the modern 

deterioration of family, love, hate, and sexual 

maladjustments. While Bertolucci has been far more 

fluent and visually charming, 1900 remains a 

formidable work of art. At the Media Center both 

February 9 and 10, the film shows at 7:30 each 

evening. 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Not much of a 

classic, European or otherwise, this 1981 movie 

seems, nonetheless, to be unique among its campadolescent-spoof 

genre since it manages some 

genuinely fun moments. With only an occasional 

bite of social satire, Fast Times avoids the heavyhanded, 

low budget awkwardness of so many other 

high school flicks, playing around, instead, with, 

well, playing around. SRC presents this cult classic 

at Chem Lec tomorrow at 6:30, 9 and 11:30 p.m. 

Museums 

Japanese Netsuke. Evolving into a fine art during 

the 19th century Edo period of Japan, the tiny ivory 

carvings have become highly collectable, eminently 

fashionable trinkets. The Museum of Fine Arts 

exhibits some dazzling examples of this intricate art 

form in the Hirsch Library Gallery through April 10. 

With hopes of showing netsuke not as decoration 

but as a highly ritualized artistic tradition, the 

museum has gathered 40 pieces from Houston 

collections, offering notes on history and technique. 

Full of Oriental mythology, netsuke art is an 

important testament to Japan's culture heritage. 

Music 

The Houston Symphony. Sergiu Comissiona directs 

a concert of Salieri, Chausson and Ravel. Pianist 

Radu Lupu will also perform Mozart's Piano 

Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, a Houston-area orchestra 

premier. Tickets range from $3 to $23; students are 

entitled to rush for half-price tickets 30 minutes 

before curtain. Reservations can be made at 227- 

ARTS. The twelfth concert in the "Classical 

Experience" series, performances begin at 8 p.m. 

Saturday, February 5 and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, 

February 6. 

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Tango. The Rice Players will open this Polish 

political farce Monday, February 10. On the surface 

a story of one particularly colorful family, the play is 

actually a careful comment on the political swing of 

our times from liberalism to reactionary quietude 

back into something suspiciously like fascism. Neil 

Havens delivers this easy, light script in a primarily 

comic production. Playing through next Saturday, 

Tango begins at 8 p.m. in Hamman Hall. Call 527- 

4027 for ticket reservations. 

The Ensemble One Acts. Houston's only black 

resident theatre will present an evening of two oneact 

plays, opening Thursday, February 10. Laurence 

Holder's When the Chickens Came Home to Roost 

is a tight personality drama, pitting Elijah 

Muhammad against Malcom X in a confrontation 

of ideologies and energies. Dreams of Flight, by 

Richard Mori, focuses on a personal relationship 

between two black men, that deals ultimately about 

all men living alone in a seemingly purposeless 

world. The Ensemble is at 1010, Tuam off Main. 

Reservations can be made at 520-0055. 

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Brian Ru hard Mori's 

"Dreams of Right" 

The Houston Reading Series. Two important 

woman writers will be in Houston this week to read 

from their critically acclaimed works. Harryett 

Mullen, one of the most impressive of the younger 

black writers in Texas, will present readings from 

her award-winning volume of poetry, Three Tall 

Women. Carol Forche, recently spotlighted for her 

eyewitness poetic account of Salvadorean struggles, 

will read from her book, The Country Between Us. 

pjhis especially topical volume, along with other 

writings, has made Forche the rave of contemporary 

poetics. Both women will appear free of charge in 

Brown Auditorium of The Museum of Fine Arts 

Tuesday, February 8.

THE RICi THRESHER/SPORTS 

Healthy netters to open season soon, set sights on Top 20 rank 

by Tony Soltero 

The Rice men's tennis team 

begins its season February 19 with 

an excellent chance of cracking the 

national Top 20. With a solid 

lineup of players like Tres 

Cushing, Don Tomasco, John 

Albert and promising freshman 

Martin Siekman, Owls coach 

Larry Turville is looking for a 

national ranking. 

"We're shooting for the top 20," 

said Turville. "If we play up to our 

potential, I'm sure we can make it. 

We have very good depth and 

experience in our team this year." 

^This is encouraging news in light 

of Rice's recent football and 

basketball struggles. "We're the 

best-kept secret at Rice," points 

out Albert. "I'll guarantee you 

John Albert 

we'll do better than the football 

team did." 

Says Cushing, "We're in better 

shape than we were last year. In 

1982 we had a lot of people out 

with illnesses. If we stay healthy, 

TRACK 

I'm sure we can win a couple more 

SWC matches than we did last 

year." 

Rice meets the University of 

New Orleans in its season opener. 

"They're not to be taken lightly," 

warned Turville, "but we should 

come out on top." The Owls have a 

formidable schedule from then on. 

They must play several teams 

currently ranked in the Top 20, 

among them number one SMU, 

number five Trinity, number eight 

Arkansas, number ten Texas and 

number thirteen TCU. Other 

heavyweights in Rice's schedule 

include Louisiana State 

University, Florida State and 

Auburn. 

"If we can win a good portion of 

those tough matches, then we can 

—C. Gubin 

vault into the Top 20," remarked 

Turville. 

The coach also expressed 

optimism about Rice's chances in 

SWC play. "We've never defeated 

TCU and Texas A&M, but this 

year we have a real shot at them," 

he said. 

Turville added, "I really feel 

good about this team. Bob 

Anderson has really improved 

over last year, and in Cushing and 

Tomasco we have two first-rate 

players." 

Cushing is coming off a 

successful autumn, in which he and 

Tomasco reached the semifinals of 

a tournament in Milwaukee. He 

has defeated several players 

ranked in the top 50. 

"A few more performances like 

those, and he'll be in the top 50 

himself," says the coach. 

The loss of freshman Manuel 

Ruiz over the semester break has 

not dampened the team's spirits. 

Albert reflects the Owls' lofty 

goals with his desire that the team 

win 20 of its 25 matches. 

"That's what I hope," he says. 

"It'll take us some work, but it's 

not impossible. This is the best 

team we've had for at least the past 

12 years. We're going to prove 

ourselves on the court." 

Rice tennis fans need not worry 

about the fact that Albert and 

Cushing depart after this season; 

Siekman has been a valuable 

addition to the squad. Turville 

spoke of two recruits who have 

expressed interest in coming to 

Rice. 

"One is from Chicago, and he 

performed admirably in the 

national Indoor Tournament, 

another is one of the top five 

players in the East," he 

commented. 

If many accomplished recruits 

continue to select Rice, then the 

Owls should have a consistently 

good team. Turville pointed out 

that many tennis players are 

attracted to Rice because they 

often come from families that 

stress education. 

"It's the academics that attract 

many top players here," he noted. 

"Rice balances a top-notch 

education with an excellent tennis 

program, and that is what many 

players are looking for." 

Cushing, Tomasco shock top seeds 

by Tony Soltero 

R ice tennis players Tres Cushing 

and Don Tomasco teamed up to 

reach the doubles semifinals 

recently at a tournament in 

Milwaukee. Despite being 

unseeded, the pair eliminated the 

top-seeded team in the process. 

Cushing rebounded from what 

he termed "a disappointing singles 

performance," losing in th« second 

round. He and his partner 

Tomasco stunned the number one 

seeded pair from the University of 

California at Irvine, ranked 

eighteenth in the nation. After 

dropping the first set 7-5, the Rice 

tandem recovered to win the 

second set 6-3, and then pulled out 

the decisive set 7-6 to score the 

upset. 

Even though Cushing and 

Tomasco were later eliminated in 

the semis by a Duke team, their 

showing was encouraging as the 

Rice tennis season soon begins. 

"I feel we're gong to have a good 

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Don Tomasco and No. 1 singles amateur Tres Cushing 

year," says Cushing. "Our singles experience." 

and doubles are stronger and the If the Milwaukee performance is 

arrival of Martin Siekman has any indication of the season to 

improved the team. And Don and I come, then Rice can make a strong 

now have another year of thrust into the top 20 this year. 

Two-mile relay takes fourth at Millrose Games, team runs at McNeese 

by Steve Mollenkamp 

The strongest, fastest, and best 

of this nation's amateur track and 

field athletes assembled together 

last Friday at the 76th Wanamaker 

Millrose Games in New York City. 

Among those invited to compete in 

Villanova, University of British 

Columbia, and Virginia were 

ahead of them. 

Rice may well have done better 

if Francisco Melendez had not 

stumbled midway through his leg 

of the relay. According to Coach 

JL 

Vince Courville, Terry Jones, and Willy Mays out of the blocks—C. Reining 

the Madison Square Garden event 

were such track giants as Billy 

Olson, Carl Lewis, Mary Decker- 

Tabb and of course the stellar Rice 

University two mile relay team of 

Francisco Melendez, Charles 

House, Jerry Fuqua, and Gawain 

Guy. 

Running their way to a fourth 

place in the two mile relay with a 

time of 7:34.3, these four runners 

showed the rest of the country 

what informed Thresher readers 

already knew, that the blue and 

gray can compete with anybody. 

Only such powerhouses as 

Steve Straub, Melendez 

apparently jostled, tripped up the 

heel of the runner in front of him 

and fell but quickly recovered 

himself. 

"By the time Francisco 

recovered, he was a good 10-15 

yards behind," Straub remarked. 

"He just couldn't get his 

momentum back after that." 

Jerry Fuqua, running third, was 

still able to pick up some of the 

slack with his split of 1:51.9. The 

Owls moved up from sixth to 

fourth during the last three legs. 

"We had trouble running on the 

banked wooden track, but we 

should have done better," said the 

fleet-footed Fuqua. "Sico's getting 

tripped certainly hurt us because 

it's always hard to catch up." 

Sprinter Vince Courville also 

went up to New York to compete. 

Courville just missed making the 

finals of the 60-yard dash with his 

time of 6.27. Courville, who tends 

to run slower in his first race, was 

knocked out of the competition by 

the likes of such heavies as 

Herschel Walker and eventual 

winner Ron Brown of Arizona 

State University. 

The remainder of the men's 

track team went to Lake Charles, 

Louisiana Saturday for the 

McNeese State Indoor Meet in the 

McNeese Recreation-Complex. 

By sending its star performers to 

the Millrose games, Rice had 

effectively taken itself out of the 

competition and therefore only 

came in ninth of the twelve teams 

at the meet. While Rice's 24 points 

were quite a ways off from meet 

winner Lamar's 84, the team did 

get encouraging performances out 

of Greg Johnson and Craig 

Hermann. 

Johnson, a Lovett sophomore. 

come in second place in the slowly 

paced 1600 meter run with a time 

of 4:17.29. The time is much better 

than it seems for the McNeese 

track is generally considered one of 

the slowest in town. He placed 

sixth as well in the 3200 meter run. 

Hermann's time of 2:33.71 in the 

1000 meter run was good enough 

for a third place finish. 

Rice will be traveling to Dallas 

this coming Saturday in order 

to compete in the Dallas 

Invitational held in Reunion Area. 

A number of Southwest 

Conference schools will be among 

those attending the meet. 

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MEN'S BASKETBALL 

Suitts suspends Johnson, Washington in their "best interest" 

by Jay Grob 

Junior guards Teddy Johnson 

and Tyrone Washington have been 

suspended from the Rice 

basketball team for the remainder 

of the season. The pair will miss the 

Owls' remaining 10 games this 

season, including Wednesday's 

game against Arkansas, and it is 

unclear whether the two will return 

to the squad next year. 

In a prepared statement given 

Monday, coach Tommy Suitts 

indicated that Washington and 

Johnson had broken a team 

training rule, but did not 

elaborate. "Our coaching staff 

feels that Washington and 

Johnson have let the pressure of 

our season adversely affect their 

behavior," said Suitts. "As a result, 

they haven't been able to function 

in the best interest of the team. We, 

therefore, feel that they shouldn't 

continue as members of the team 

for the remainder of the season." 

Suitts concluded his statement 

by stating that Washington and 

Johnson will retain their 

scholarships for the remainder of 

the season, and will immediately 

begin a weight training program. 

"We will help them and 

encourage them to do well in 

school, and we will meet with them 

after the season is completed to 

discuss the 1983-84 school year," 

said Suitts. 

Suitts added that the frustration 

of an 0-7 conference record had 

Tyrone Washington 

been detrimental to the pair's 

relationship with their teammates. 

Commented Suitts, "I want to 

make it clear that this was no 

blatant violation of the rules. The 

decision was made in the best 

interest of these two young men." 

Johnson disagreed with Suitts, 

commenting, "I don't know what 

he (Suitts) had in mind, but all he 

has done is belittle us in the eyes of 

our peers and cast a great deal of 

uncertainty about us." 

He continued, "I thought the 

punishment was pretty severe. 

Hopefully, I'll be back next year." 

Freshman Ivan Petitt will 

replace Johnson, who had been 

splitting time with Washington, in 

the starting lineup. Johnson and 

Washington had been averaging 

4.2 and 5.8 points per game, 

respectively; Washington was 

considered the team's premier 

defensive player. 

The suspension marks the first 

such penalty levied by Suitts in his 

two years as head coach. The last 

player suspended from the 

basketball team was senior guard 

Anthony DeCello, removed from 

the team in 1980 by former coach 

Mike Schuler for a violation of 

"team rules." 

The loss of Washington and 

Johnson leaves the Owls, now 0-8 in 

conference and 6-12 overall, with 

only 11 scholarship players. Rice 

lost senior center Kenny Austin 

due to academic difficulties at the 

beginning of the current semester. 

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Teddy Johnson against Texas Tech last year —M. Gladu 

Losses pile up, sad streak reaches nine against Hogs 

by Jay Grob 

It was bad. No, it was worse than 

Wednesday night in Fayetteville, 

Arkansas. Reeling from the loss of 

junior guards Teddy Johnson and 

Tyrone Washington, and playing 

one of the best teams in the 

country, Rice picked a bad time to 

play its worst game of the year, as 

the Arkansas Razorbacks ripped 

the Owls 70-43. 

The loss dropped the Owls to 0-8 

in conference play, while Arkansas 

stayed in second place at 7-1. 

Quite simply, the Owls were 

massacred in every aspect of this 

game. Rice shot a dismal 30 

percent from the floor compared 

to Arkansas' 43 percent, and the 

Owls only grabbed 27 rebounds 

compared to the Hogs' 51. 

Arkansas stole the ball from Rice's 

inept ball-handlers ten times, 

although it seemed like more. In 

addition, the Owls out-fouled the 

Razorbacks 29-20. 

Four Hogs scored in double 

figures. Darrell Walker scored 14 

points, 6-11 center Joe Klein 

:counted for 13, while Leroy 

Sutton and Alvin Robertson had 

10 apiece. Rice guard Tracie Steele 

scored 13 points before fouling 

out. 

Said a dejected Tommy Suits, 

"I'm embarassed for our players. 

We're not a very good basketball 

team right now, but there is a 

difference between when we don't 

play well in general and what 

happened tonight." 

Indeed, Wednesday night's 

performance was much worse than 

last Saturday's game against 

Houston when the Owls played 

reasonably well before being 

buried by 36 points. Arkansas 

dominated from the opening tip to 

the final buzzer, and was ahead 

eight to nothing after only three 

minutes of play. Not that Rice 

played any better the rest of the 

half, but the Owls did finally 

manage to get the ball past 

midcourt a couple of times, after 

being victimized repeatedly by 

Arkansas' zone press. Still, 

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Arkansas pushed onward and at 

Ihe half was ahead 38-19. 

The onslaught continued in the 

second half, as Rice's poor 

shooting worsened. The 

Razorbacks gained a 30-point lead 

at 6:19 on John Snively's jumper. 

But the Owls fought back, 

outscoring Arkansas' scrubs in the 

final minutes for the 70-43 loss. 

Though it is painful to look at 

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL 

Rice's individual performances, 

the public must know. Renaldo 

O'Neal continued to slump, hitting 

only two of fifteen shots and 

scoring eight points. Ivan Petitt, 

starting his first conference game 

in place of Johnson, also had eight 

points on three of nine from the 

field. The freshman guard was also 

guilty of four turnovers. The 

starting forward Tony Barnett did 

not score. 

Steele was the only Owl to hit 

half his shots as the Arkansas 

native canned five of 10 attempts. 

In a game that everyone agreed 

would be better forgotten, Suitts 

said, "There is only one Barnhill 

Arena and one Arkansas. Thank 

heaven we don't come back for 

another year." Hopefully the Owls 

will play better tomorrow night as 

Rice faces Baylor in Autry Court 

at 7:30 p.m. 

Owl hot shots to return for big Baylor game 

by Steve Bailey 

Rice dropped two games on 

enemy turf over the weekend, an 

87-57 loss to Miami and a 95-60 

loss to Florida International. 

However, the team did acquire 

nifty suntans to go along with the 

sunny outlook for Saturday's 

Southwest Conference contest 

with Baylor. 

In both games Rice gave the ball 

away far more often than they took 

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it away, and free throw shooting 

was still under par, but freshman 

post Ann Fisher had two strong 

games and senior forward Jennifer 

Stone continued to play the best 

basketball of her career. 

"I'm very pleased with our inside 

play of Stone and Fisher," noted 

head coach Linda Tucker. "Ann 

had two real good back-to-back 

games. She's getting over her 

shyness, and learning to position 

more and more each game." 

Fisher hit 15 of 26attempts"from 

the field and grabbed 19 rebounds 

in the two games. Stone made 13 of 

30 shooting attempts and added 

six-for-nine from the line for 32 

points. 

"The teams (Miami and Florida) 

were strong and experienced," 

Tucker continued. "International 

was ranked ninth last year (AIAW 

Division II) and Miami is big, 

strong and fast. 

"Our bench will have the 

experience they'll need when we 

play S WC games. We're not giving 

in, and by Conference time (SWC 

Tournament) we might upset some 

people. 

"I can never complain about 

people not playing. When kids are 

playing as hard as they can, that's 

all a coach can ask. If we can just 

eliminate our turnovers, that will 

make us a much better basketball 

team." 

Most Rice players had at least 

one good statistical game in 

Florida, and all signs indicate that 

losing will soon be pastf for the 

Owls. Forward Pennie Goff and 

post Katie Osten are scheduled to 

play Saturday against Baylor, and 

if both players are at half strength, 

the Cubbies will have their paws 

full. 

"I'm going to bring them (Goff 

and Osten) along slowly at first. 

This will give everyone a positive 

lift," said Tucker. 

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INTRAMURALS 

Cinzano romps to soccer crown 

by Ed Swartz 

Cinzano easily won this year's 

soccer intramurals by overpowering 

the Buzzards 4-0 in the 

championship game. 

Cinzano's only tough game 

came in the first round of the 

playoffs against an intimidating 

Warriors team. The Warriors were 

the only team to ever score against 

Cinzano, but it wasn't enough to 

win the tight game as they bowed 

out 2-1. 

Cinzano then erased E.S. 

Tylenol in an 8-0 effort, after the 

latter received a bye the first 

round. 

The Buzzards advanced to the 

finals by beating W.A.T.W. 4-1 in 

the first round, and squeaking past 

a scrappy Ipswich V team 3-2 in the 

semifinals. 

College soccer 

Although only one game has 

been played so far, Baker appears 

to be the team to watch this year in 

college soccer. Baker manhandled 

a solid Sid Richardson team 6-1 

Saturday. 

Before Baker scored the first 

goal, the game looked like it might 

be close with both teams showing 

good ball control. The Baker team, 

comprised mostly of two 

tournament teams, Warriors and 

Ipswich V, drew out the SRC 

Ready to Score shows it 

Monday league 

Ready to Score, managed by Bill 

Stockton and basically a Lovett 

team is steamrolling over its 

opponents having racked up scores 

of 41-10 against the Free Throws 

and a whopping 70-6 crusher over 

Sweet Georgia Brown. No one 

team member dominated the 

scoring as Jennifer Geran, Karen 

Ashby, Jodi Radziewicz, Gina 

Pabst and Wanna Hadnot scored 

equally well with Tracie 

Blumentritt a strong sub. The Free 

Throws have a 1-1 record as do For 

Colored Girls Who Considered 

Suicide When Rice Was Enough. 

Sweet Georgia Brown has the 

cellar position with two losses. 

Wednesday league 

Lisa Kay Mao's Fast Break team 

is out in front with a 3-0 record. 

One win was awarded by a forfeit 

from The Few who evidently were 

too few and had to withdraw from 

the competititon. Dana Mischlich, 

Kate Moynihan and Mao sparked 

the scoring. Fast Foods gave Fast 

Break some tough competition 

with Leslie Neblett and Wendy 

Brockman pumping in all the 

baskets only to lose 22-30. Sex 

Kittens, captained by Christy 

Moore, are tied with Fast Foods 

having 1-0 records. 

Thursday league 

Good Girls and Flaming 

Flamingos are tied with 2-0 

records. Baker's Best and White 

Shadow Returns are both looking 

for their first win. High scorers for 

Flaming Flamingos were Mary 

Ellen Trunko, who garnered 16 

points against Baker's Best, and 

Genie Lutz scoring 14 points in the 

same game. Good Girls led by 

Naomi Logsdon's 14 point effort 

and assisted by 8 points from Joan 

Pflugrath had a 38-10 victory over 

Baker's Best. 

February 4 is the deadline for 

women's tennis singles, doubles 

and mixed doubles, and women's 

softball. 

Rice athletics Feb. 5-13 

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Basketball vs. Baylor AUTRY COURT 2:30 p.m. 

Basketball vs. Baylor AUTRY COURT 7:30 p m. 

Swimming vs. TCU RICE 1:00 p.m. 

Track at Dallas Invitational Dallas all day 

Golf at Columbia Lakes West Columbia all day 

Golf at Columbia Lakes (cont'd.) West Columbia all day 

Golf at Columbia Lakes (cont'd.) West Columbia all day 

Basketball vs. Texas A&M AUTRY COURT 7:30 p.m. 

Basketball vs. Texas A&M AUTRY COURT 7:30p.m. 

Golf Club Campistre Invitational Monterrey, Mex. all day 

Golf Club Campistre Invt'l. (cont'd.) Monterrey, Mex. all day 

Basketball vs.Texas Tech AUTRY COURT 7:30 p.m. 

Golf Club Campistre Invt'l (cont'd ) Monterrey, Mex. all day 

Swimming vs. Austin College Invt'l. Sherman all day 

Tennis vs. Lamar JAKE HESS 1:00 p.m. 

Swimming at Austin Col. Invt'l. (cont.) Sherman all day 

Basketball vs. Southern Methodist Dallas 7:30 p m. 

Baseball vs. St. Edward's (2) Rice 1:00 p.m. 

Track at Oklahoma Invitational Oklahoma City 2:00 p.m. 

Lacrosse vs Sam Houston State Rice 11:00 p.m. 

Baseball vs. St. Edward's Rice 1:00 p.m. 

Lacrosse vs Texas A&M College Station 1:00p.m 

Attention Pre-Meds! 

Full Medical School Scholarships Available! 

A limited number of scholarships are offered 

annually by the United States Navy. 

The scholarship includes tuition, books, fees and 

necessary equipment plus a stipend of $556 a month. 

Applications are now being accepted. For more 

information or application contact: 

Navy Medical Programs 

1121 Walker St., 9th floor 

Houston, TX 77002 

• (713) 226-2431/2447 

goalie on offense while playing a 

strong game on defense. 

Sophomore Leland Key became 

the offensive* star for Baker, 

earning four goals. Classmates 

Tom Loose and Bill Burgess also 

added a goal apiece. 

Baker's defense also played 

aggressively, turning back several 

SRC advances. Goalie Jim Gage 

had a good game but was not 

seriously challenged, thanks to the 

strong defensive line. 

Baker will next play Lovett, who 

had a first-round bye. Also this 

weekend, Jones will face Will Rice 

and Hanszen will square off 

against Wiess. 

SCOREBOARD 

Miami 87, Rice 57 

Rice fg fgfga fga ft fta reb a pf pti 

Barnard 1 3 

Stone 6 14 

Ziegler 7 15 

4 15 

Fisher 8 13 0 10 

Schunck 0 8 3 2 

Landry 2 4 

Hershey 0 1 

Cavallini 1 5 

Tilden 1 4 

Taft 0 0 

Babino 0 0 

Total* 26 67 5 12 32

IN THE COLLEGES 

HANSZEN 

Martin Zacarias; 

The annual B&P talent show 

will be Friday, February 18. Signup 

list for acts in in the commons. 

WIESS 

Dave Chilton 

For those of you who are having 

cash flow problems but still covet a 

good time, Wiess has the answer. 

Tonight in the Wiess Commons 

there will be an absolutely free 

party featuring beer, music and 

punch. The free fun starts at nine. 

Due to the underwhelming 

response to last week's notice, we 

once against exhort you to see the 

taking of your Campanile picture. 

Call or see Dave Chilton in Room 

227 or Vince Hu in Room 205 

sometime soon. 

v. 

LOVETT 

Albert Throckmorton' 

Today is the deadline for adding 

courses designating pass/fails. 

The Lovett Plays, The Bald 

Soprano and A Resounding 

Tinkle, continue tonight and 

tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Lovett 

commons. Reservations are 

suggested; call 526-6584. 

Dr. Burrus is having a beer 

tasting party with Wiess on 

February 10. 

Your 

February 11, Pink Panther, in 

the commons. 

Important dates coming up. 

February 16 there will be a seminar 

on room jack. Singles draw is 

February 17; suiteless doubles 

March 10; suites March 17. Sign 

up in Mrs. Paine's office for draw. 

$50 room deposits are due in the 

cashier's office February 18. Show 

your receipt to Mrs. Paine. 

BAKER 

Stu Werbner 

Congratulations to the Baker 

men's soccer team on their 5-1 

blowout over Sid Rich. This 

weekend Baker plays Lovett. 

Don't miss the Baker film 

Kentucky Fried Movie tonight at 

doesn't 

surprise 

us... 

The Rice Thresher, February 4, 19S3, page 18 

Chem Lec playing at 7:30 and 9:30. 

Admission is $2. 

& GSA 

Carol Wilder 

The GSA Valentine's Party on 

February 12 is at Valhalla from 8 

p.m. until 2 a.m. Signup for 

bartenders in Valhalla. 

This year the GSA will try to 

field a women's beer-bike team. 

The first meeting for women 

interested in participating will be 

at 5 p.m. today in front of Valhalla. 

Anyone interested in participating 

in this year's men's beerbike 

race should contact Stuart at 

x3587 or Jay at x2331 (Bike 

Captains) or Howard at x4884 

(Beer Captain). 

At TRW it's what we're all about. 

We've created an environment 

encouraging people like you to 

define and go after your individual 

professional goals. 

So when you work with us, 

you'll get a personalized approach 

to your technical growth. An 

approach that includes ... . 

An informal atmosphere that 

encourages insightful thinking. 

Co-workers who value the free 

interchange of ideas. 

Responsive managers who look 

out for your advancement. 

A broad spectrum of challenging 

projects to choose from -- 

Projects ranging from large data 

base software systems, 

communications spacecraft and 

alternative energy sources, to 

scientific satellites, high energy 

lasers and microelectronics. 

And you'll appreciate the 

opportunity to see these 

projects to completion. 

In the long run we think 

you'll find that TRW offers 

n environment that brings out 

the uniqueness in you. 

M 7 

February 17 

TRW will be on campus February 18 

hiring graduates in most Engineering 

and Scientific disciplines 

at all degree levels. 

See your Placement Office for 

more information. 

College Relations 

TRW Electronics and Defense 

Bldg. R5/B196, Dept. 

One Space Park 

Redondo Beach, CA 90278 

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/H 

U.S. Citizenship Required 

i i i f 

Entries for the beer-bike T-shirt 

design contest should be submitted 

to Nicol in the Biology Dept. no 

Uater than February 17. 

There is a possibility of 

obtaining residential facilities for 

graduate students at the UH 

downtown campus, located at 101 

Main. The approximate room and 

board expenses would be $280 per 

month, with a $120 deposit for 

double occupancy, and 13 meals a 

week. 

For further details, contact Judy 

at General Offices at 225-1781, 

xl22 or xl23 or your GSA rep. 

JONES 

Robin Berg 

Jones Night at the Pub is 

Tuesday, February 8 at 8 p.m. 

College Night is next Friday, 

February 11 in the RMC. The 

cocktail party is at 6 p.m., dinner is 

at 7:30 and the dance starts at 9:30 

p.m. Today is the last day to sign 

up for tables. Juniors and Seniors 

can bring dates. Please come help 

set up next Friday afternoon. 

BROWN 

Lina Rillera 

Speeches for executive positions 

on the cabinet will be on February 

7. The elections will be on 

February 9. 

All on/off campus members, 

who have not already done so, are 

asked to check if the information 

on the lists posted outside of Mrs. 

Von Eiffs office is correct. Please 

make any necessary corrections. 

RPC 

Sharon Tinkle 

Audition for the Rice Follies! 

First prize is $100; second prize is 

$75; and third prize is $50. 

Auditions are February 14 at 8 

p.m. in Sewall 301. Showtime will 

be February 24 at 8 p.m. in the 

Grand Hall RMC. See your 

college rep for more info. 

Submit black and white photos 

to the RPC on "The Rice 

Experience"; winning pictures will 

be in the Campanile and prizes will 

be awarded. See reps for more 

details. 

imciyf II, part 1 m 

Lost: a pair of glasses left in Phys 220 

on Friday, 1/21; and Econ 211 book 

left in Mech building on Tuesday, 

1/18. Please call Nathaniel Smith at 

526-9910 if either of these are found. 

& 

SATURDAY 

7:30, 9:30,11:30 

CHEM LEC 

$1.00 

It's Awesome, Totally Awesome! 

UNIVERSAI P'Mu

Obedience to form, while no more 

blind than state or church. 

Serves hardly an excuse for a necrosis 

of the wit. 

The man, but not the meaning, 

have you gleaned from your 

research 

Perhaps my saline writings have 

not yet their focus hit. 

Consider the novella once again 

before response- 

Your own preoccupations, true, 

wane sallow next to such, 

And in your new work, Death, 

have you contrived them to ensconse; 

But even there, impurity of mind 

outsteps its hutch. 

Can we attribute this, say, to an 

accident in youth? 

Or sybaritic effort toward some 

grand Satanic plan? 

By now you understand: or, if you 

don't, I stand aghast, 

Ineptly quotin&here: "You need 

the feeling, notlhe man." 

Appendix I- 

"Cowardice"? Perhaps; more 

likely Lazarus Long's "laziness." 

"Envy"? Never. 

Appendix II- 

I still think they sound dumb. 

*** 

See Animal House at the Animal 

House. A celebration of single-sex 

life, coming 2/12. 

*** 

Volkswagen bus for sale — totally 

rebuilt, like new. Excellent 

condition. $2000 or best offer. Call 

523-0446. 

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calendar 

Saturday, February fifth 

Friday, February fourth 

7:30 & 9:15. Media Center. Peeping Tom and Bluebeard. $2 

8:00. Lovett Commons. The Bald Soprano and A 

Resounding Tinkle. $3, $2 students. 

River Oaks. Emartuelle (5:45 A 9:15) and Emanuelle: The 

Joys of a Woman (7:30). 

2:30. Women's basketball vs. Baylor. Autry Court, free W/Rice ID. 

7:30 A 10. Media Center. Mon Oncle d'Amerique. S2. 

8:00. Lovett Commons. The Bald Soprano and A Resounding Tinkle. S3, $2 students. 

River Oaks. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1:30, 5 A 8:30) and Monty 

Python's Life of Brian (6:45 A 10:15). 

Sunday, February sixth 

7:30. Media Center. The Cheat. $Z 

River Oaks. The Beastmaster (3:15 A 7:30) and Dragonslaver (1:15, 5:30 & 9:45). 

Monday, February seventh 

7:30. Autry Court. Men's basketball vs. A A M. Free w/Rice ID. 

8:00. Hamman Hall. Rice Players present Tango. $3 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. 26 Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (5:45 & 9:15) and Easy Money (l.V)). 

Tuesday, February eighth 

7:00. Autry Court. Women's basketball vs. A A M. Free w/ Rice ID. 

7:30. Media Center. The Willmar 8 and The Detroit Motel. $3. 

8:00 Hamman Hall. Tango. $2 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. You Are Not Alone (5:45 A 9:15) and Lord of the Flies (7:30). 

Wednesday, February ninth 

7:30. Media Center. 1900.S2. 

8:00 Hamman Hall Tango. S3 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. Circle of Deceit (5 A 9:45) and The Tin Drum (7:00). 

Thursday, February tenth 

7:00. Autry Court. Women's basketball vs. Texas Tech. Free w'Rice ID. 

7:30. Media Center. 1900. $2. 

8:00. Hamman Hall. Tango. $3 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. The Postman Always Rings 7Wice (5:15 & 9:30) and Out of the Past 

(7:30). 

Friday, February eleventh 

7 30 A 10. Media Center. The War Game and The Bed-sitting Room. $3. 

8:00. Hamman Hall. Tango. $3 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (5:30 & 9:15) and Rock 'n' Roll High 

School (7:30). 

Saturday, February twelfth 

7:30 A 10. Media Center. Warhol's Dracula. $2. 

8:00. Hamman Hall. Tango. S3 students, $5 non-students. 

River Oaks. Altered States (1, 5:30 A 10) and A Clockwork Orange (3 & 7). 

Sunday, February thirteenth 

7:30. Media Center. Trouble in Paradise. $2. 

River Oaks. Das Bool (1, 3:45, 6:30 & 9:15) 

Lectures, seminars, colloquia 

Institute for the Arts: Marie-Therese Brincard speaks on "African Art Forms." SH 

301, 7:30PM 2/4. 

Religious Studies: John P. Clayton (visiting professor) speaks on "The Centennial of 

the Publication of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'" SH 309, 8PM 2/4. 

Feminist Scholarship series: Gerda Lerner speaks on "The Challenge of Woman's 

History" at 8PM 2/7 in SH 309. 

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science seminar: "Impact of Computers on 

Engineering" by James C. Wambold (Penn State) 2/7 at 3PM in 201 Ryon Lab. 

Physics Colloquium: Prof. Hannu Miettinen speaks on "TestingQCD" at 4PM 2/9 in 

PL 210. 

Lecture: Dr. Gus Nicholson (TSU) speaks on "Collecting African Art" at 7:30PM 

2/10 in the Univ. of St. Thomas' Anderson Hall, 3921 Mt. Vernon. 

Conference on Aesthetics: Geoffrey Hellman (Univ. of Indiana) asks "What Is 

Programmatic about the Program?" 3:30 2/10 in the Kyle Morrow Room. 

Conference on Aesthetics: Nicholas Wolterstorff (Calvin College) speaks on "The 

Text and its Critic, The Author and His/Her Work" at 9:30AM 2/11 in the Kyle 

Morrow Room. 

Conference on Aesthetics: Jerrold Levinson (Univ. of Maryland) talks about "Titles" 

at 1:15 2/11 in the Kyle Morrow Room 

Conference on Aesthetics: Geoffrey Hellman. piano. 7PM 2/11 Kyle Morrow Room. 

iiiifmisclass out the wazoo 

Satisfied, he entered the room and sat 

on his 

Asking his secretary for some coffee 

and tried to 

Master eight repair-orders juggled at a 

time, while he 

Fingered his problem right away; he 

needed at least a twelve- 

Inch stack of orders to feel right, and 

then he 

Ejaculated to his secretary of her need 

to 

Uck some more stamps to replay to 

complaints, and he grabbed his 

Dictating machine, to blow off some 

more students. 

Here exists among us 

A person like this. 

Repairs he will miss. 

Results are not discussed. 

Ljook, my friends, above this! 

First letters are the key! 

The one to boo and hiss 

spell it out, and see. 

*•* 

Attention Company Commandant 

M.A.P: 

I take my cover off to you. Six 

months of active d^ty and you can 

still tolerate me. How about a pizza 

at mess tonight, followed by 

inspection and PFT (costume 

optional)? You bring the enzymes, 

I'll bring the Polaroid. This ad good 

for $1.50 off a large pizza. Love, 

LDP, your CO. (Commanding 

Ogre) 

A humanist in choking sea 

Called for help and presently 

Received in full intensity 

Advice. 

"You must swim, if you would be. 

Rescue breeds dependency; 

Self-reliance makes one free." 

"That's nice!" 

He said, 

And floated easily 

And dead. 


*** 

I know a young girl, misnamed 

Cook, 

Who secretly plans to be Brooke. 

I hear lately she rants 

About her implants 

Saying, "On silicone, I know the 

book." 

*** 

Some roses are red 

Some roses are white 

Some married men will 

Some married men might 

But then there are those 

Who end up in bed 

But never with you— 

With their wives instead. 

the Brown Bard 

*** 

"Our souls are held by what they 

hold; 

Slaves still are slaves in chains of 

gold; 

To whatsoever we may cling, 

We make it a soul-changing 

thing." 

—A.S B. Chbborn 

The ACUI will hold the following 

tournaments: 

Backgammon — 2/ 5-6, conference 

room, 526-0511 for details; 

Ping-pong — 2/6 Sid Rich 

commons, Reeta Achari (526- 

4503) for details; 

darts — 2/6, sign up in Willy's 

Pub, Stan Barber (RMC) for 

details; 

foosball — 2/5 Willy's Pub, Don 

Clayton (520-7544) for details. 

Call 526-0511 for *** any information. 

The SA Senate is now taking 

applications for undergraduate 

positions on all University 

standing committees. Every 

spring, the current committee 

members and senators interview 

and nominate students to serve 

with faculty, staff, alums, and* 

administrators on these policy 

bodies. Appointments are made by 

President Hackerman. If you are 

interested in some aspect of how 

Rice is run, and you have 

something to contribute, this is one 

of the best ways to get involved. 

See your college senator or stop by 

the SA office for details and 

application forms. Applications 

will be taken until Friday 2/11. 

The committees and the number of 

open spots are as follows (current 

members may reapply): admissions, 

2; affirmative action, 2; 

campus safety, 1; computers, 2; 

education council, 1; examinations 

and standing, 2; library, 1; public 

lectures, 1; religious activities, 1; 

ROTC, 1; student financial aid, 1; 

student health, 1; undergraduate 

curriculum, 2; undergraduate 

teaching, 2; university review 

adblaster 

West University/Greenway 

Plaza—Spacious 1BR in well 

maintained adult community. 2 

pools, no pets. Call 661-8549. 

*** 

Greenway Plaza area—65 unit 

apartment community nestled in a 

quiet residential setting. Features 

include many interesting floor 

plans, new carpet, pool, laundry. 

2300 Colquitt 520-6383. 

*** 

Rice/Med Center — attractive 

1BR apt. located in a quiet and 

professional atmosphere. Includes 

new carpet, drapes, wallpaper. 

$350/mo. bills paid. Castle Court 

Manor 524-9787. 

*** 

Help wanted: part time and full 

time at Neal's Ice Cream. Apply in 

person at 2826 Kirby Dr. 

*** 

Rice-Med Center — spacious 

2BR/2 bath apt. with study. 

Located in quiet and professional 

adult complex. $595 bills paid. 

524-9787. 

»** 

Help wanted: easy work as "caddy" 

at bridge tournament Tuesday 

2/15 thru Friday 2/18 1-5PM. 

Work any or all sessions at $12 per 

at Astro Village Hotel (Kirby near^ 

South Loop). For more info call Jo 

Sykes at 622-8631. 

*' *** 

Word processing: theses, 

dissertations, research papers, 

manuscripts. Corrections made 

by Ph.D. w/15 years experience, 

all style manuals. $1.80 page 

double spaced. Pickup/deliver 

extra charge. Near Hobby Airport. 

641-0493. 

Need female roommate to share 3 

BR house close to Rice Campus. 

Private bath, washer/dryer, 

$200/rno. plus 1/3 util & $150 

deposit. Call 524-3280 *** after 9PM. 

Help wanted: Domino's Pizza is 

looking for drivers to deliver pizza 

in the Sharpstown area. Pays $5- 

6/hr. plus tips. Must have own car 

with insurance. Call 270-7722 

anytime. 

*** 

Impeccable typing to your 

specifications. Editing and minor 

corrections free. Prompt service. 

$1 per double spaced page. Keep 

this ad for discount. 626-5478. 

barbecued iguana notes & notices; 

board, 2; athletics, 2; parking 

appeals, 3; campus store, 1; 

managerial studies, 2. 

*** 

Try outs for a KTR U radio play are 

Wednesday 2/9 at 7PM in the 

RMC Grand Hall. Contact Stan 

Barber (527-4096) for more info. 

*** 

Sigma Xi: monthly luncheon at 

Cohen House 2/16 11:30-1. The 

speaker will be Dr. Joe Blansford 

(U of H at Clear Lake) on "The 

Interaction of Radiation on the 

Surfaces of Planetary Bodies." 

*** 

Folk mass — St. Bede's Chapel at 

Autry House (across Main St. 

from Lovett entrance) Sunday 2/6 

at 5PM. Supper to follow. 

— 

NLI Conference: 3/18-20, Dallas. 

The National Leadership Institute 

is conducting a leadership 

training/skills seminar for 

students currently or potentially 

leaders on campus. All expenses 

except travel paid. Please send 

name and list of qualifying campus 

activities to the SA office by 2/9 at, 

3PM. This conference is highly 

recommended by those who have 

attended in the past. 

AIAA Getaway Special: we will be 

continuing our work on Rice's 

Space Shuttle payload this 

semester. New people are still 

welcome and we will be meeting on 

Tuesday nights 7-8PM in Mech 

Lab 260. For more info call Jim at 

526-3879 or contact Dr. Wierum in 

Ryon 101. 

Anyone interested in running for a 

campus-wide office for the 1983-84 

school year should file a petition 

no later than 3PM Tuesday 2/8 in 

the SA office. The election for all 

offices will be Tuesday 2/22. 

Included are SA officers, the off — 

campus Senator, RPC officers, 

Honor Council members (all 

classes). University court 

chairman, Thresher editor, 

Campanile editor and business 

manager, student representatives 

to the University council, and 

TexPIRG officers. 

*** 

Architect & Art students: t-shirt & 

design contest for The Village. 

Slogan must include the words The 

Village and Houston, Texas. It 

must convey the fact that the 

Village is improving and represent 

the vitality of the village. The 

slogan and design will be on the 

front of the t-shirt (white on blue). 

Prizes are: your winning design 

and slogan on the village's first tshirt, 

a graphic design book form 

the Houston Home and Garden 

bookstore, and 2 tickets to a 

production at the Main Street 

Theater. Submit to: Judy Fitch, 

University Village Association, 

p.o. box 25329, Houston 77265 by 

2/11. For further information call 

526-4799. 

B'nai B'rith Hiliel Foundation: the 

first "strictly social" program of 

the term will be a wine & cheese 

party tomorrow night (2/5) from 8 

'til. Come join us for some fun! 

Don't forget our deli lunch on 

Wednesday 2/9 from 12 to 1 in 

Baker House, sponsored by 

Kadimah chapter BBW. The 

program will be "Cults: The Target 

Is You," presented by Rabbi Shaul 

Osadchey. 

»»» 

HP41CV users: due to the interest 

shown last semester, we will be 

getting together in the near future. 

If you are interested in joining this 

group, call Wendell at 526-4910 or 

Jim at 526-3879. 

W0" ' *** 

The Houston Center for 

Photography will sponsor an 

exhibit entitled Agent Orange, 

with photos by Wendy Watriss, 

Mike Goldwater, and others from 

2/19-3/27 at 1440 Harold (in the 

Montrose area) from noon to 5PM 

Saturdays and Sundays. 

Admission is free. 

The Rice Gay/Lesbian Support 

Group will hold an extremely 

important (and fun) meeting at 

4PM Sunday 2/6. Come and brag 

about the cute girl/guy you picked 

up last meeting and rap about 

other things of recent note in your 

life. If you have ever come to a 

party or meeting, or if you think 

you ever will, please call Ann (524- 

7389) or David/Greg (524-0724) 

for details. 

*** 

Rice University ASM will have its 

first meeting of the semester 

Tuesday 2/15 at 7PM in the Baker 

Library. Dr Kamel Salama will 

speak on "Non-destructive Testing 

and Determination of Internal 

Stress." Refreshments will be 

provided. 

*** 

TexPIRG will have an organizational 

meeting on Monday 2/7 

in Mech Lab 260 at 8PM. Anyone 

interested in working with 

TexPIRG in any way, shape, or 

form should attend. Interested 

persons who cannot make the 

meeting should contact 527-4099 

for more info. 

*** 

Anyone wishing to work at 

OWLCON IV, 3/25-27, as a gofer 

or projectionist contact Karen 

Kolker, 526-2149, or come to the 

regular RSFAFA meeting 

Monday night in SH 307 at 7PM. 

Those who gofe or project will 

receive free passes to the 

convention. 

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Patron's Guide the following was 

omitted: Conan the Librarian used 

by permission of Conan 

Properties, Inc., and Tom Peyer 

•with the Syracuse New Times. 

FREE 

PREGNANCY TESTS 

• Confidential Counseling 

• OB-GYN Specialists 

• Birth Control Information 

• Early Detection of Pregnancy 

• Termination of Pregnancy Through 24 Weeks 

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