Faculty, Staff Parking Fees Raised to Cut Pollution by Rachel Dornhelm Ments of 1990 (FCAAA) Require Rice Driving Alone to Work Will Pay $250 Employees at Rice

SINCE 1916 VOLUME 82, NUMBER 1 THE PLURAL OF "Y'ALL" IS -ALL Y'ALL" AUGUST 26,1994 Faculty, staff parking fees raised to cut pollution by Rachel Dornhelm ments of 1990 (FCAAA) require Rice driving alone to work will pay $250 employees at Rice. Student parking tions. to increase the average passenger annually for near-lot parking and $75 fees will not change. 'Die Rice News reported the follow- occupancy (APO) for cars to 1.47 by for stadium parking. Last year near-lot Fiscal means will be used not only ing incentives: To meet federal environmental Sept 15,1996. parking cost $75 while stadium park- to dissuade driving, but encourage • Employees scheduled to arrive at standards, Rice has increased its fac- The FCAAAaffectscompanies that ing was free. alternative forms of transportation. work between 6 and 10 am. Monday ulty parking fees for nearby lots from have more than 100 employees and "A lot of people are not happy. It The committee has tried ... to through Friday who bus, vanpool $75 to $250, causing complaints among allows the companies to effect the hurts," said Neill Binford, associate make it something where there is a [seven or more passengers including faculty and staff. changes. A recent survey of univer- vice president for finance and admin- disincentive and the university does the driver], bicycle or walk to work Increased parking fees are the core sity employees determined the APO istration. not gain funds," Binford said. "The will earn $1.50 each day they use alter- of a plan to change the commuting of faculty and staff to be 1.22. Binford and Hardy Bourland, as- plan is not revenue enhancing." native transportation. habits of Rice employees. The Rice If the target APO isn't met, the sociate dean of engineering, were co- Accordingly, the funds that result • Employees who carpool. Employer Trip Reduction Plan will government will fine Rice $25,000 for chairs of the committee that made up from the higher fees will be chan- telecommute [conduct business elec- take effect in October. each violation and for each day the the plan. neled into a reward program. tronically] or do not come to campus It was created in response to legis- violations continue. The committee is comprised of 15 Employees will receive the money because ofan authorized compressed lation requiring 10 cities, one ofwhich To meet the mandated APO, Rice faculty and staff members appointed each month after filling out a transpor- workweek schedule will receive 50 is Houston, to meet air quality stan- is using monetary incentives for fac- by President Malcolm Gillis. tation report sheet Though the plan is cents per day. dards by 1996. ulty and staff. Rice employees arriving Students won't be affected by Clean based on the honor system, the uni- • If employees decide they can bus, The Federal Clean Air Act Amend- on campus between 6 and 10 a.m. and Air Act regulations because they aren't versity will conduct periodic inspec- PLEASE SEE PARKING PAGE 8 Matriculation displays student spirit, humor Hunt to whom many freshmen were' by Christof Spieler presumably grateful, received more applause than anyone else did. Rice welcomed its freshman class College spirit dominated through- Tuesday at matriculation with serious out the proceedings. The speeches addresses, loud chants and a few and processional were punctuated strange "jacks." with college chants. This year's matriculation was Baker College members appeared moved inside from its usual site in in togas, Jones College pulled out a front of Lovett Hall to Stude Recital few dozen "I shot Marty" signs as Hall in the Alice Pratt Brown Building Student Association President Marty because of morning rain. The evening, Makulski spoke and Sid Richardson though, turned outclear and pleasant College, seated above the stage, hon- "I am a terrible predictor of weather," ored SRC Master Gordon Wittenberg Vice President for Student Affairs with a shower of white balloons. Zenaido Camacho told the crowd. As Makulski and Gillis spoke, a President Malcolm Gillis formally student dressed in army fatigues greeted the new students. "I welcome sneaked along the side and crawled at you now one and all," Gillis said. "You audience members' feet as he ap- are now one of us." proached the stage. He leaped onto In the eyes of the audience, the the stage and placed two sugar cubes speeches clearly played second fiddle. on Gillis' lectern. As the hall burst into chants and ap- After the speeches, the recessional plause again and again, Camacho trial moved to Lovett Hall. "It's a nice to quiet them. "If I could, please..." he evening for a walk," Richard Stabell, said, then paused, smiled and said, dean of admissions and records, told "This is great!" The audience burst Gillis as they led the procession. Brown College junior Tino Tran places sugar cubes on President Malcolm Gillis' lectem at matriculation Tuesday. * into renewed applause. Administration officials then As faculty and administration mem- watched and applauded as the class of But the pranks didnt end with the cessional, four students on the edge of the quad. But few heads bers seated on the stage were intro- 1998passed through the Sallyport into ceremony. During the president's re- rollerblades stripped in the arcade by turned as the skaters stayed far from duced, Director of Financial Aid David the moonlit Academic Quad. ception at Willy's statue after the pro- Anderson Hall and skated naked along the crowd and soon disappeared. Campus entrances closed at night but only through this entrance. issue of security to trie forefront and to by George E. Hatoun "I think it's one of those sacrifices encourage public debate. prompts 2nd shutdown that we have to make to make our He said trie committee was formed President Malcolm Gillis has de- community a bit safer," said over trie summer and that trie mem- by Charles Klein cided to close all campus entrances Voswinkel. bers plan to meet weekly. except entrance 8 from midnight to 6 Emergency vehicles are allowed Makulski said that he wanted to a.m. daily, effective yesterday. to enter the barricaded entrances but have student input to the committee. After a FBI Investigation and multiple changes in passwords last The newly formed ad hoc commit- will be escorted by a university car He said trie committee was consider semester, Owlnet the campus network system, was again breached by an tee on campus security voted last week that will meet them at the entrance ing holding open forum meetings. outside source over the summer, according to Mudd M icroconsultant to recommend closing all entrances and unblock it An SA committee, headed by Will Paul O'Brien. to campus at night, except for one Campus Police cars usually es- Rice College senior Rick Killough. is Password sharing was the cause of the breach, O'Brien said. Due to near the Campus Police station. corted emergency vehicles to their also studying the security situation, the break-in, Owlnet was shut down for the second time in less than six The final decision was made in destinations before the entrances were Makulski said. months. Owlnet officials banned the user from the system for an undis- consultation with the college masters blocked, since many campus roads Gillis confirmed that he has asked closed amount of time. and chair of the Faculty Council, and and buildings are unmarked, Vice President for Finance and Ad- last semester, an intruder entered Owlnet, capturing password files timed to coincide with the arrival of Voswinkel said. PLEASE SEE CLOSED PAGE 7 the returning students, Gillis said. Voswinkel said that she thought inconveniencetousers,the intruder damagedfiles. The casewas referred This is the result of ongoing work the decision to close the entrances to the FBI, and Owlnet officials changed all 3,500 account passwords. and study [by the committee]," Gillis would be permanent Although the disruption did not affect the mqority of students, the ' said. SheeStimated that over half of the A&E shutdown did cause an uproar in thecommunity. Bill Hobby ofthe Hobby The 18 entrances to the campus crimes committed on campus are com- Foundation called the Mudd Consulting Center to find out exactly what will be closed and opened each day mitted by people who come to Rice by the problem was with Owlnet, O'Brien said. using barricades and chains by Facili- car. Lollapalooza The breach required returning students to change their old pass- ties and Engineering staff members, Gillis said that the university would words. As a precautionary step, Owlnet officials locked all passwords. according to Campus Police Chief take a wait-and-see attitude to making Students will have to log onto a terminal and give day of birth, month of Mary Voswinkel. the closing of the entrances perma- cleans up birth and student ID. Then users have to enter their old password and No Campus Police officers will be nent then their new password a few times. permanently posted at the remaining Student Association President its act After waiting an hour, students can access Owlnet again. But several entrance 8 to intercept traffic onto the Marty Makulski, a member of the campus. security committee, said that the deci- a bug in the Sun operating system. The bug shuts down the password Delivery vehicles will still be al- sion was made for three reasons: to PLEASE SEE OWLNET PAGE 7 lowed to enter the campus at night, improve Rice's security, to bring the 11 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1994 THE RICE THRESHER OPINION SINCE VOU>NONJT EEABLETOGOTO POLLUTION THt WE \H ONE OFTHt Parking plan could be good first step While the new parking plan offered by the administration is not perfect and will need some improvement before it becomes an effective system, it is a step in the right direction.

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