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IRICE: A LOOK BACK, A LOOK FORWARD]

SHAPING A CENTURY 16 It's a wonderful life, Rice! Just imagine what Houston or the world would have missed if Rice hadn't been around during the last 100 years. BY DAVID KAPLAN AND CHRISTOPHER Dow

ASSIGN NO UPPER LIMIT 20 Have you ever wondered when the first Thresherwas published or how Sammy got his name? Our timeline will tell you these Rice historical tidbits and more.

MAIN STREET FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM 34 The times they are a'changin'. See what's in store for the future of South Main Street and how Rice is involved in the area's growth, preservation, and future.

EYES OF A DIFFERENT CULTURE 40 When diversity is made a priority, everybody wins. BY DAVID D. IVIEDINA

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME 46 Batter up! A record crowd gives a warm welcome to Reckling Park, the Owls' new baseball stadium. FOREWORD THINKING

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SPRING 2000, VOL. 56, NO. 2 With this issue, we celebrate Rice University—its history, its far-reaching effects on its community and the world, and its efforts to help create a better U.:, life for everyone regardless of personal background. And we take a bit of a peek at its future. Rice holds an honored place in the hearts of its students and alums, its EDITOR faculty and staff, and its city and state. And no wonder: In less than a century, it has grown from a school of local esteem to a university of international importance. CREATIVE DIRECTOR As all Rice people know,William Marsh Rice founded the Rice Institute to give something back to the community in which he had made his fortune. Also well known is the name Edgar Odell Lovett, Rice's first president. A first EDITORIAL STAFF president with lesser vision might have seen the Rice Institute as simply a trade David 1). Medina '83, senior editor school or technical college. Not Lovett. He envisioned a full-fledged univer- M. Yvonne Taylor, associate editor sity. He insisted on high academic standards for students and for faculty. He Kristi Bennett, assistant editor foresaw the importance of being international in scope. He selected the Grace Gardner, production assistant original faculty, picked the site for the campus, chose the original campus architects, and suggested the eventual implementation ofthe college system. DESIGN STAFF He even composed the text of the diploma. Most important, though, he Virginia Barach, deoigiitr brought to Rice the then-new ideal that a university must equally embody :huck Thiirmon, designer research and teaching. As nothing else could, this single ideal made Rice a *fonimy LaVergne, photographer force ofc hange during the age oftechnology and now has made the university Jeff Fitlow, assistant photographer a leader in the age of information. Because of William Marsh Rice, Rice University exists, and because of THE RICE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Edgar Odell Lovett, it has the characteristics that have carried it forward to E. William Barnett, chair; J. 1). locks Allshouse; D. excellence. These founding legacies are well ingrained in mythos of Rice, and Kent Anderson; James A. Baker, Ill; Teveia Rose Barnes; Raymond Brochstein; James W. Crownover; with good reason. But there is another legacy as important as founding—it Janice Cornell Doty; James A. Elkins, III; Lee Huge legacy of continuance. Jamail; Albert N. Kidd; Frederick R. Lummis, Jr.; is the Michael R. Lynch; Robert R. Maxfield; Burton J. Your legacy. McMurtry; Robert C. McNair; Bob Parks; W. Ber- exceptional, it's not because William Marsh Rice laid the nard Pieper; Harry M. Reasoner; William N. Sick. If Rice is foundations or because Edgar Odell Lovett proclaimed that Rice would be ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS a great university. It is exceptional because,throughout Rice's history, people Malcolm Gillis, president; Zenaido Camacho, vice like you—students and alums, faculty and staff, and friends alike—have president for Student Affairs; Dean W. Currie, vice president for Finance and Administration; G. Anthony worked hard to make it exceptional. So, in celebrating the university, we Gorry, vice president for Information Technology; celebrate not just the historically obvious but every single person who has had Eric Johnson, vice president for Resource Develop- ment; David Minter,interim provost; Shirley Redwine, a hand in this ambitious and eminent endeavor. We celebrate you who, day general counsel; Terry Shepard, vice president for Pub- by year, have sent Rice striding forth into the world,shaking lic Affairs; Scott W. Wise, vice president for Invest- by day and year ments and treasurer; Ann Wright, vice president for from its boots the black mud of the prairie from which it rose. Enrollment.

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Rice in 1975, as well as her master's dents involved caused some unex- in 1974. Again,our apologies to her pected tears to be shed. They are and to our readers. very lucky to have learned some- —EorraR thing so valuable at what seems from my vantage point to be such THE PLAY'S THE a young age,and lam very lucky to (WRONG) THING have been provided some much- needed self-revelation. Congrats our usual interesting PETER LAYNE '70 articles. As a Player who graduated Houston, Texas with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering then shifted careers after a few SCATTERED APPLAUSE years to theatrical lighting,I ofcourse turned first to David Kaplan's ar- I read the winter'99 Sallyport with ticle on Sandy Havens. I have one great interest. Excellent job and challenge to its accuracy. As a loyal publication. Makes me "prouder" undergraduate alumnus ofCarleton to be a Rice alum. College, where the world premiere JOE TAMASY '48 Cypress, Texas THE ERRORS OF of The Caucasian Chalk Circle took place in 1948, I don't see how OUR WAYS Sandy's second directing project I read with interest the last Sallyport could have been the show's first [winter 1999].I was mostimpressed I ‘‘ as just bro‘‘ sing through the with the articles, both the variety winter 1999 Sallyport, and I came American production. In fact, I believe that the Carleton student who and the content. I want to compli- across a blurb about the merging of ment you on the magazine.I'm one the Departments of Physics and pertbrmed Azdak went on to a professional New York production be- alumna who wishes to say thanks Space Physics and Astronomy(page for keeping me informed. I do not 7). I found the juxtaposition ofthe fore Sandy even made it to Rice. Other than that,though, great work attend many Rice functions, but I two head shots, captioned "Dr. am proud to have been a student Barry Dunning" and "Patricia in capturing so much ofhow Sandy has made the Players such an impor- there. I think I enjoyed the article Reiff" to be a bit odd. It seems to about Rozella Gray '82 the most, imply that Pat doesn't have a Ph.D. tant part of Rice. PAUL EPTON '77 and I admire what Ms. Gray has I'm sure you didn't intend to send Minneapolis, Minnesota done for societv. that message (particularly since she EMILY BUTLER OSBORN '47 obtained her doctorate here at LESSONS FROM Lake Jackson, Texas Rice), but shouldn't you be a bit THE STREETS more careful about the message My wife (Fofo Catsinas Lewis '51) you're sending with this sort of and I received the winter'99 Sallyport I would like to express heartfelt editorial decision? a day or so ago,and both ofus,quite thanks to you for an article in[ the DANIEL MITTLEMAN independently, found it one of the winter '99] Sallyport that I re- Assistant Professor ofElectrical best ever. It is fill of interesting ceived this morning, titled "Life and Computer Engineering matter and reflects very well on Rice. on the Streets." I think you have Rice University If you succeed in maintaining this in some way changed my life—I standard in future issues, Sallyport know that you've certainly will certainly join a very few other changed my mindset about what The unfirtunate reference you've alumni magazines over the country decision it means to be homeless. noted was not an editorial as distinguished publications oftheir but In the past, when approached an editorial gaffe not caught institutions. I have been associated lilt by a homeless person for money, ring the proofreading stage. Since with Rice for a long time and am we designa- I've always assumed that they do not tend to use degree delighted to see this issue both for its priliTrittg the term would spend anything I gave them tions in stories, representation of Rice and because error was not in leav- on beer or liquor. At the same "professor,"the nearly all the articles have my own ing Re/J's time, there was always a "discon- the "Dr." off Patricia memories attached. Congratula- name in allowing it to remain nect" between that opinion and but tions! Keep it up. the reaction! got when I rebuffed with Barry Dunning's. Butthat does EDWARD S. LEWIS notexcuse ourdiscourtesy to Dr.Reiff. them—as if they expected my re- Professor Emeritus of Chemist"), We apologize to her. Patricia Reiff action and were embarrassed. Rice University did, indeed, earn her Ph.D. here at The eloquent words ofthe stu-

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BAKER INSTITUTE Nelson Mandela Offers FOR PUBLIC POLICY Insights in Campus Talk Charming and quick-witted, Nelson Mandela ad- monished a Rice audience to settle whatever situation they may face by peaceful methods, just as he and other South African leaders did in their long fight against apartheid. • Nelson Mandela greets the enthusiastic • audience as he is introduced at Autry Court. Mandela made his remarks to a packed emphasized the importance of the crowd at Autry Court during an Oc- United Nations and its charter, which suspects in the bombing of Pan AM tober 26 event sponsored by Rice's calls on all its members to resolve Flight 103 over Lockerbie,Scotland. James A. Baker III Institute for Pub- their problems through peaceful When he announced his plans to lic Policy. For 27 years, Mandela means. "I urge you," he said,"when meet with Gadhafi, Mandela was told fought injustices in his country from you face any situation, bear in mind by the U.S. State Department that if a prison cell. He was awarded the consciously the charter ofthe United he did, aid would be cut off to South Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was Nations." Africa. "I must confess," he said, elected the first black president of Black South Africans not only re- "that I spoke more from my blood, South Africa the following year. spected the UN charter but also re- which was boiling, than from my After his speech, Mandela was pre- alized they had to be willing to brain, and I said, 'No one in the sented the institute's Enron Prize change to bring about an end to universe will dictate to me. I am for Distinguished Public Service by apartheid. "We had to try to change going to Libya.' Kenneth Lay, chief executive officer ourselves as individuals," Mandela "Many people, including the and chair of Enron; James A. Baker, said, "because there's no use trying United States, said we would never III, 61st secretary of state and hon- to change others if you are unable to convince Gadhafi to hand over those orary director of the Baker Institute; change yourself. . . . Our emotions suspects, but we were able to per- Rice University president Malcolm said,'It is revolting for me to talk to suade Gadhafi to hand them over. Gillis; E. William Barnett, chair of the people who for more than three Again in that case, we worked closely the Rice Board of Trustees; and Ed- centuries have persecuted our people with the United Nations, and we ward Djerejian, director ofthe Baker and treated us like flies.' But our kept reminding Gadhafi that the char- Institute. The Enron Prize recog- brains said something totally differ- ter calls upon all of us, including nizes outstanding individuals for ent. Our brains said, 'If you don't Libya, to try to settle problems their contributions to public service. talk to the enemy, then this country through peaceful means." Mandela is the fourth recipient of will go up in flames, and innocent In another message to his audi- the prize. Past recipients are retired human beings—men, women, chil- ence, Mandela told students that they U.S. general Colin Powell, former dren, and the aged—will be slaugh- should acquire the best instrument to Soviet Union president Mikhail tered.' Our brains prevailed over our save their society—a good education. Gorbachev, and Georgian president blood, and we sat down and talked Following his speech, Mandela took Eduard Shevardnadze. with our enemy." questions from the audience,includ- Baker, who met Mandela just weeks Still using South Africa as an ex- ing one from a 12-year-old, who after his 1990 release from prison, ample, Mandela added that "when asked him how he wants to be re- introduced Mandela and lauded his you have a strong case, you don't membered. legacy. He described Mandela as "soft- have to resort to violence. You actu- "I never wanted to be regarded as spoken,but determined;dignified and ally want to meet your opponent an angel. I am an ordinary man with willing to compromise,but absolutely because he can't answer your case." weaknesses," Mandela said. "I am committed to his ultimate goal—the The mandate of the UN charter not a saint, unless you think ofa saint creation of a multiracial, democratic was also pivotal in Mandela's nego- as a sinner who keeps trying." South Africa." tiations with Libyan president After a standing ovation, Mandela Moamar Gadhafi to turn over the -DANA BENSON

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GIVING GRADUATE STUDIES A BOOST Commitment Graduate students are vital to the life rate graduate students throughout the of a university. They conduct creative country, President Malcolm Gillis has scholarship, publish papers, and dis- established the President's Graduate to Diversity cover new information and knowl- Fellowship Program. "The goal is to edge. Some work as teaching assis- bring the very best graduate students Pays Off tants and add value to the to Rice," says Konisky. "This fellow- undergraduate programs. Other ship program shows that Rice has a mentors to strong commitment to graduate edu- Hispanic magazine graduate students act as •lowleess. Cane Nius.6 CM.II undergraduates, working with them cation and reflects President Gillis's has ranked Rice shoulder to shoulder in the labs. Lately, strong commitment to the graduate University number though, recruiting top students for program at Rice." two in the nation among schools that Tony graduate school in all divisions has The fellowships, which begin in fall Garza: are succeeding in I.ve. 2000,will not increase Hooded for gotten tougher for Rice. Not only is enrollment but Watiolantoe the pool ofstudents shrinking nation- will serve to attract the highest caliber recruiting and retaining Hispanic ally, notes Jordan Konisky, vice pro- students. Each year, 36 graduate fel- Tarsyb Labors vost for research and graduate studies, lowships will be added until there are students. the competition for those students is a total of 144 fellowships. Awards will In its March is- tougher. be made solely on evidence of aca- sue, the magazine demic excellence—without regard to selected the top 25 "This fellowship departmental or school affiliation and colleges and univer- with no attempt to balance awards sities for Hispanics program shows that across departments or schools—so that and ranked them according to in any given year,one department may the number ofHispanic students, Rice has a strong receive more than one award. Each Hispanic graduation rates, His- commitment to fellow will likely rank in the top five of panic-related degree programs, all entrants to Rice programs. The Hispanic student organizations, graduate education amount of each stipend will vary by recruiting and minority support and reflects academic discipline. programs, and Hispanic faculty. The quality of Rice's graduate stu- Overall academic excellence was President Gillis's dents is as important as the quality of also considered. the undergraduate students, says University of Calitbrnia—Ber- strong commitment Sidney Burrus, dean of the George R. keley was ranked number one, to the graduate Brown School ofEngineering. "These while Florida International Uni- new graduate fellowships will help us versity in Miami placed third,fol- program at Rice:' attract the very best graduate students, lowed by Massachusetts Institute —Jordan Konisky and that is necessary for us to achieve otTechnology and Stantbrd Uni- our goals ofimproving as a world-class versity. In 1998, the first year of the magazine's rankings, Rice For example,although Rice hassome research university." placed fourth. of the most distinguished humanities Another positive side of attracting The magazine applauded departments in the country, their Na- excellent graduate students is that lead- schools such as Rice for using tional Research Council rankings are ing academic graduate programs at- more creative methods in main- low because Rice did not have notable tract and retain faculty. "Next to ap- taining a diverse student body in graduate programs.The Rice programs pointing and retaining the best faculty the wake of the Hopwood deci- were relatively new and were severely in the country,improving the funding sion, which banned the use of underfunded,says Judith Brown,dean of our graduate programs, and hence race in admissions and financial of the School of Humanities, which their quality,is a priority," says Brown. aid for Texas institutions. made it difficult to attract a critical "These two goals are related. Without Among the sources that His- mass of students, let alone the best graduate programs that are well funded panic used in compiling the list students in the country. "Last year," and attract excellent students, it is in Higher Brown says,"we lost some of our best increasingly difficult to attract and re- were Hispanic Outlook Education; Top 100: The College's prospects to graduate programs at tain good faculty. The President's Fel- Bestfor Hispanics; and U.S. News Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and other lowships will be of great benefit in &World Report's"America's Best top schools that offer very generous improving the national rankings of Colleges, 1999." funding packages with which we could our departments and of the university not compete." as a whole." iimmoi Davin D. MED. To give Rice's schools an added boost in their efforts to recruit first- MONTGOMERY I

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TEACHING TEACHERS

It's a match made in teachers' heaven—an innovative educational program that will allow talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 schools. Aimed at strengthening relationships between universities and communities, the project teams Rice University, the University of Houston, and UH- Downtown with the Houston Independent School District in an exchange of knowledge and teaching skills. A three-year, $1,373,900 grant from the National Science Foundation(NSF) will help Rice develop the fellowships as part of the NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in Kindergarten-12 Education (GK-12) program. "The current national crisis in K-12 education requires participation from institutions of higher education and involvement from our students and faculty," says Kathleen Matthews,dean ofthe Wiess School ofNatural Sciences and principal investigator on the grant."To encourage such participation, the National Science Foundation now includes K-12 teaching initiatives in the Former President program grants it awards." Co-principal investigators with Matthews are Fred Rudolph, chair of biochemistry and cell biology and the Ralph and Dorothy Bush Delivers Looney Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Richard Tapia, the Commencement Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Address to Class "THE CURRENT NATIONAL CRISIS IN K-12 EDUCATION REQUIRES PARTICIPATION FROM INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER of2000 EDUCATION AND INVOLVEMENT FROM OUR STUDENTS AND FACULTY."- KATHLEEN MATTHEWS President George Herbert Walker Bush, whose vantage points have stretched GK-12 fellows \vill join seven lour-member teams that will work together from the cockpit of a World War II in Houston middle schools over a 15-month period to share content fighter plane to the Oval Office during knowledge and teaching skills. Not only will the fellows serve as role models the Gulf War and the implosion of for middle school students, but their knowledge of and familiarity with the communism, delivered his views on 'science and mathematics content to be taught will help bring up the world affairs and the new millennium I knowledge levels in new teachers who may not have extensive background in during Rice University's Commence- these areas. ment 2000 ceremonies. "One benefit to the fellows is that they will gain experience breaking down He expressed his optimism about a complex concepts so that novice learners can understand them," says Nanda new American century and called for a Kirkpatrick, director of precollege science education programs at Rice. "It's "new patriotism, a new sense of pride a skill that will benefit the fellows in any teaching environment." and purpose coming from a new gen- In turn, master teachers will share teaching expertise with team members, eration to take our country to new giving fellows valuable experience in the classroom and preparing them to heights ofachievement." Bush admon- support K-12 education in their future careers. This experience will be ished the students to "be bold in your ' important for novice teachers as well as for the fellows, says Kirkpatrick, caring. Be bold in your dreaming. And because some 30 to 50 percent of novice teachers drop out ofteaching in the above everything else, always do your first five years. "The novice teachers will have the advantage of interacting best for yourself, for your family and, with master teachers as well as with the content knowledge of the graduate yes, for your country." 1and undergraduate students." The occasion marked the second time The fellowships began in May with an intensive seminar, followed by a in three years that Bush has attended three-month teacher enhancement program over the summer. Work with the commencement festivities on the Main teacher teams begins in August. After spending an entire academic year Street campus. He and former first lady working with their teacher teammates, GK-12 fellows will serve as instruc- Barbara Bush were on hand in 1998 for tors in the teacher enhancement programs during the last three months of the graduation of grandson George P. their fellowship. Bush,son ofFlorida governor Jeb Bush. The former president also has been an -LIA UNR AU associate of Lovett College.

6 SALLYPORT THROUGH THE SALL YPORT DOUBLE Rice Alliance to YOUR Boost Start-ups DOLLARS In an initiative to provide a network and resources for the development of start-up ' technology businesses arising from innova- TO THE RICE UNIVERSITY tions of Rice University students, faculty, ANNUAL GIFTS CAMPAIGN, AND researchers, and alumni, three Rice schools YOUR SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS GOES TWICE AS FAR! have joined forces to form the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. Just follow these simple steps:

"The Rice Alliance is a bold interdisci- are being planned. • Make a gift to the Annual Gifts Campaign. plinary effort that will produce new Following the initial concept forum entrepreneurial business concepts,new stage, interdisciplinary teams of tech- • Find out if your employer (or your spouse's jobs, and new sources of wealth for nical and business experts will assist in employer)matches gifts to universities. If you are Rice, Houston, and the U.S. analyzing commercial business oppor- retired, check to see if your previous employer economy," says Steve Currall,director tunities and creating early-stage busi- will match your gifts to universities. ofthe Rice Alliance and associate pro- ness plans, taking into account factors • fessor of man- such as mar- Get a corporate matching-gift form from your agement and ket size,com- human resources office and send it to the Rice psychology. petitive envi- University Annual Gifts Campaign.Some com- The new ini- ronment,and panies require just a phone call. Yours may be tiative will potential one; check with your human resources office. take a team- profitability. based ap- Finally,teams You've just doubled your dollars to the proach that with promis- joins the Jesse ing innova- Rice UniversityAnnual Gifts Campaign, H. Jones firTECHNOLOGYand tions will Graduate present their ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORTING YOUR FAVORITE School of plans at a Management, business plan INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION the George R. Brown School of Engi- • forum to members of the financial IS THAT EASY! neering, the Wiess School of Natural community. Start-up firms that are Sciences, Rice alumni. • identified through this process are can- and QUESTIONS? The alliance process begins with didates for further early-stage incuba- innovation concept forums that are tion. Call 713-348-4991 to obtain more informa- designed to help innovators with early- The Rice Alliance is governed by an tion about doubling your dollars to the Rice stage ideas in engineering, science, or • internal oversight board and has active University Annual Gifts Campaign through software as well as with e-commerce partnerships with Houston-area en- the corporate matching-gifts program. ideas. Business idea presenters meet trepreneurship groups, including the with and receive immediate feedback • Houston Technology Center and the from students,faculty, and alumni able • Houston-area MIT Enterprise Forum. Rice University to help analyze the commercial poten- For more information about the Annual Gifts Office—MS 81 tial ofinnovations. The first forum was . Rice Alliance, visit http:// P.O. Box 1892 held in January, and future programs • www.alliance.rice.edu/. Houston, TX 77251-1892 713-348-4991 [email protected]

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NEW URBAN LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIPS ESTABLISHED Rice University and the Houston Area Urban League have established a scholarship program to identify and give opportunities to outstanding students who otherwise might not pursue a quality private education.

The Houston program is the model for an Urban be on campus at a time. Any additional financial need League Scholarship that will allow Rice and Urban a student has will be met by a combination of grants League affiliates throughout the country to form a and self-help. close relationship. The Urban League will nominate For more information about the Rice Urban League outstanding students for four-year, $3,000 per year Scholarships, contact the Houston Area Urban League scholarships to Rice that will be funded by the univer- at 713-845-2501. sity. Rice will select the winners from students who earn admission. When the program is in full flower, a —MICHAEL CINELLI total of 40 Urban League scholars, 10 each year, will

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elaY to the Rice rot. Graduate Student , M 11 4 4 Alb. Association. Members of the Rice community A Master Teacher celebrated the PIANIST ANDRE WATTS SHARES HIS THOUGHTS WITH SHEPHERD SCHOOL event last STUDENT ANDREA METZ DURING A November with a MASTER CLASS IN STUDE CONCERT HALL ON FEBRUARY 4. WATTS DE- party on the lawn LIGHTED THE CROWD WITH HIS HUMOR AND INSIGHT. outside Valhalla.

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emission source emits different individual organic compounds."It is these different organic compounds that give 1 Clearing the Air emissions their distinct smell," Fraser explains. "For example, it is easy to smell the difference between cigarette Rice engineer Matt Fraser is working to help smoke,wood smoke,diesel smoke,and smoke from meat cooking." Houstonians breathe easier. By integrating measurements made in the Gulf Coast Aerosol Research and Characterization Program with .t those made in other studies, Fraser, an assistant professor of the researchers plan to develop environmental science and engi- a combined database on par- neering at Rice, is the co-principal ticulate matter; gaseous air pol- investigator in a new 16-month U.S. lutants,including volatile organic Environmental Protection Agency compounds,or chemicals that va- (EPA) study that will characterize _L porize easily such as gasoline and Houston's particulate matter—the vis- solvents;and weather variables. The ible part of air pollution—and its database then could be used to test sources, how it travels across large models of how particulates are regions, and how it affects health. formed and transported in the atmo- Called the Gulf Coast Aerosol Re- sphere. search and Characterization Program, The new research also will provide the project will involve a consortium information about ozone levels in of universities and is funded with a Houston. Last year, for the first time, $3.65 million award from the EPA. Houston had more days per year than The study also includes in-kind contri- any other city in exceeding federal butions, such as equipment, valued at limits on ozone,one ofsix measures of more than $2.5 million from the Texas a city's air quality. In the other five Natural Resources Conservation categories—carbon monoxide, sulfur Commission. David Allen,a profes- dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate sor of chemical engineering at the matter, and lead—Houston does not University ofTexas—Austin, is the exceed the federal standard, while six principal investigator ofthe study. cities—Chicago, El Paso, Los Ange- The EPA-funded study is part les, New York, Phoenix, and Pitts- of an overall $10 million, com- burgh—go over the limit in three prehensive air quality initiative areas, and 25 cities exceed limits in called Texas Air Quality Study two areas. (TexAQS) 2000 that will identify Ground-level ozone is formed when particulate matter and ozone levels, sunlight mixes with chemicals in the determine air pollution sources, and air, primarily nitrogen oxides and vola- assess how the pollution travels. Com- son to season, how it is affected by tile organic compounds.The peak days prehensive air quality studies are neces- weather patterns, and how it is related for high ozone levels occur mainly in sary in Texas because the state is in the to human health. the summer months—June through process of defining new regional ap- During the study, Fraser's research September. Ozone formation is a com- proaches to air quality and is setting group will be measuring the concentra- plex process that is further new regulations. "This coordinated ef- tion ofindividual organic molecules to complicated by weather patterns such as El fort to collect and analyze local air determine the original source ofambi- Nino and La Nina. The goal quality data will improve the scientific ent particulate matter. "This is impor- of the TexAQS 2000, says Fraser, is to un- rationale behind our air quality im- tant," Fraser says, "as any proposed derstand the processes that govern provement plans," Fraser says. plan to improve air quality must begin ozone and fine particle formation and For the EPA study, the researchers with identifying the relative contribu- to provide scientific research that will will conduct an intensive 16-month tion from different sources to the over- help policy makers develop the best sampling program beginning next June all problem." strategies for managing ozone and par- at three core sites and 20 peripheral The technique of identifying and ticulate matter in Houston and South- sites around Houston. Researchers will quantifying individual organic mol- east Texas. characterize the types, size, sources, ecules in the atmosphere for locating and spatial extent of particulate-matter their source has been labeled "molecu- -LIA UNRAU air pollution, how it changes from sea- lar fingerprinting," as each difkrent

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GOING WITH THE FLOW

A paratrooper's greatest immediate concern in stepping from an aircraft is not the ground rushing to meet him, nor where or how to land. Rather, it is the turbulent air left by another plane's wake, which he might have to cross, possibly affecting the opening and control of his chute. This and similar problems present highly complex challenges for the Team for Advanced Flow Simulation Researchers are developing methods needed and Modeling (TAFSM), which spe- for computer simulation of a parachute crossing the wake of an aircraft. In this cializes in developing sophisticated simulation, the shading shows the air computational methods and tools for pressure distribution on the surface of the simulating and modeling the flow of aircraft, and the streamlines indicate air air and water. TAFSM is an interinsti- flow around the plane and the parachute. tutional group of researchers with headquarters at Rice and led by Tayfun Tezduyar, the James F. Barbour Pro- ous considerations are the parachute's terms of water speed and pressure, the fessor in Engineering and chair of the interaction with unsteady and turbu- position and behavior of the water Department ofMechanical Engineer- lent aircraft wake, air pressure, the surface also need to be computed." ing and Materials Science. continuously changing size and shape This class ofchallenges is one ofthe To make the paratrooper jumping of the parachute,interaction between research areas for TAFSM member process as safe and effective as pos- the parachute and the payload, the Marek Behr, who recently joined the sible, TAFSM developed a computa- aerodynamic forces on the parachute Department of Mechanical Engineer- tional method to simulate the effects and the payload, and the changing ing and Materials Science. "The dam of air flow from an airplane on a porosity of the unfolding fabric. This that we are currently studying is suffer- trailing aircraft and a paratrooper leap- particular problem is so challenging ing from erosion of its concrete floor ing from it. The computations will because flow drives the shape of the because of large pressure variations in help predict conditions for paratroop- parachute, and the chute's shape af- the flowing water," Behr says. "These ers, taking into account the relative fects the flow. pressure jumps may be reduced by positions of the airplanes and the Helicopters, high-speed trains pass- adjusting spillway configuration, and distance between them, prevailing ing one another, air circulation and computer simulation allows us to study winds, and the dynamic response of contamination in subway stations,sta- many such scenarios." the parachute. bility of tanker trucks carrying slosh- Tezduyar says that TAFSM recog- Both the U.S. military and NASA's ing liquids, tidal flows in oceans and nizes that successful research in flow Johnson Space Center are especially bays, and water flow at river dams simulation and modeling requires three interested in large,ram -air parachutes, have all been subjects for TAFSM's essential ingredients: powerful com- or parafoils, that can carry heavy pay- simulation and modeling techniques. puters,development ofadvanced com- loads and maneuver well. Large A computer model of the Olmsted putational methods, and training of parafoils measure up to 7,500 square Dam on the Ohio River was devel- students to become effective in using feet and carry up to 21 tons. By com- oped to study hydrodynamic behav- these tools. As high-performance com- parison,the parafoils popular with rec- ior at a river dam. "Computer simu- puting power increases, new opportu- reational skydivers measure about 200 lation of flow patterns, soil erosion, nities to solve complex problems will square feet. The size requirements of and other hydrodynamic behavior at a allow these researchers to keep on go- these parachutes make drop-testing river dam is a challenging task with ing with the flow. them costly—at $10,000 per test in significant practical outcomes,such as For additional information, log on the field,simulated tests on computers being able to predict, in a cost-effec- to http://www.mems.rice.edu/ are far more economical. tive way,the environmental impact of TAFSM/. TAFSM is developing advanced the dam's operation," Tezduyar says. —LIA UNRAU methods to simulate the deployment, "The computational challenge comes gliding, maneuvering, and landing of from the fact that in addition to com- these parachutes. Some ofthe numer- puting the unsteady flow patterns in

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Charitable Gift Annuities More Attractive Than Ever Charitable giving doesn't have to be a one-way propo- A charitable gift annuity offers many attractive ben- sition. It is possible to make a charitable gift and to efits for the security-minded individual. A gift annuity actually have a stream ofpayments flow back to you— may be established with Rice beginning at age 50 for all while enjoying valuable income-tax benefits. a minimum contribution of $25,000. If your objec- There are a variety of charitable strategies that allow tives include receiving a guaranteed, dependable in- you to realize such benefits. One of the oldest—and come for life, substantially reducing income tax, pro- most popular—is known as the charitable gift annuity viding additional income for other family members,or Rice University offers favorable rates for charitable gift shoring up your income for a comfortable retirement, annuities. This is good news for persons who want to all while making a significant gift to Rice University, a make an important charitable gift but need to retain a charitable gift annuity may be an attractive alternative source ofcash flow based on the value ofdonated assets. for consideration. A very attractive feature of the gift annuity is its simplicity. The gift annuity is a straightforward instru- $25,000 CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY ment that does not require extensive,complicated legal documents. But even though it is simple, the gift ONE LIFE annuity can be a powerful planning tool. Annuities are flexible, dependable, and sate. They can be excellent Annual Paymcnt Tax-Free investments for those concerned with ensuring steady V, RAC 'Fotal Portion Deduction income beyond their peak earning years. At its heart, a gift annuity is simply a contract 70 7.5% $1,875 $890 $10,825 between a donor and a charity,such as Rice University. 75 8.2% $2,050 $1,084 $11,548 a gift ofa specified amount,Rice agrees In exchange for 80 9.2% $2,300 $1,343 $12,380 to make specified annual payments for life to one or two beneficiaries. Our obligation to make gift-annuity 85 10.5% $2,625 $1,706 $13,392 payments is backed by all the assets of Rice University, not just by the amount contributed for any individual TWO LIVES gift annuity. Example: Mary R., age 82, Class of 1937, had a 70-70 6.8% $1,700 $762 $9,398 certificate ofdeposit maturing.She decided to make a 75-75 7.3% $1,825 $913 $10,036 gift of $25,000 to Rice University. In return, Rice 80-80 8.0% $2,000 $1,114 $10,858 a yearfor the rest promised to pay Mary $2,400(9.6%) 85-85 9.0% $2,250 $1,391 $11,793 ofher life. payment depends on the The amount ofthe annuity Note: Caleulat based on quarterly payments age(s) of the individual(s) receiving the annuity and and an 8.2% discount rate. the amount of the gift. In addition to receiving an income-tax charitable deduction, a donor may also receive tax-free income as a portion of each annuity For More Information: payout rates at I'lease call for more information. We will be payment. The table shows the various happy to provide individual gift illustrations different ages, the tax-free portion of each payment, and calculations or details about other giving and the charitable deduction calculation for an annuity opportunities at Rice University. established for one or two lives. THE PLANNED GIVING OFFICE Funding a gift annuity with long-term appreciated 713-348-4610 stock is an excellent way to minimize and spread out the capital gain tax. Part of the appreciation escapes ANN J CM:MEYER ED HARRIS '82 capital-gain taxation entirely,and the portion ofcapital Executive Director Amociate Director of Development of Planned Giving gain that is reportable may be spread out over the donor's life expectancy. 713-348-4635 713-348-4617 [email protected] [email protected]

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Interactive Game Teaches Children about Benefits and Dangers of Drugs The year is 2252, 10 years after the Great Plague that killed millions and caused the collapse of civilization.

Most medical knowledge has been lost, scholar at Rice's Center for Technol- and painkillers are almost nonexistent. ogy in Teaching and Learning. "Be- There are, though, stories and docu- cause this program is built in a gaming ments that refer to powerful pain-re- environment,we hope to'seduce' chil- lieving medicines from the past. The dren into learning something." challenge is to "reconstruct" the lost Set in the fictional futuristic City of medical knowledge to help survivors Neuropolis, The Reconstructors has of this devastating plague find relief three main characters who assist the from pain. player in uncovering clues from An- This is the premise of The Recon- cient Egypt, 19th-century China,and structors, a new interactive problem- beyond. Players learn, for example, based episodic adventure game that that some important pain-relieving engages the player in the role ofscien- drugs were originally derived from tist, historian, geographer, and detec- botanical sources,such as willow bark tive. As each episode evolves, players and poppies, and in the process, they conduct virtual experiments and de- learn the physical and legal conse- duce results through a maze of facts quences of opiate addiction. and conflicting information. Though "We take a whole different approach designed specifically for middle school to teaching children about drugs," ex- students, players of all ages and skill plains Miller. "We don't see it as a levels can follow clues from around the quick fix but, rather, as a science/ globe to solve the medicinal mystery education approach to the problem. while being given the opportunity to The message we hope children and consider various scientific and social their families take from this interactive issues—from chemistry,pharmacology, experience is that there are scientific and neuroscience to medicine, history, and historical reasons why the use of and public policy. some drugs is controlled. Opiates, in Created by researchers at Rice particular, can relieve pain, but they University's Center for Technology in have the potential for abuse.The knowl- Teaching and Learning and funded by edge gained from each episode will a grant from the National Institute on help kids make informed and better Drug Abuse, The Reconstructors is health choices when it comes to avoid- accessible on line and in a kiosk exhibit ing drug abuse throughout their lives." at Houston's Museum of Health and Each animated episode of the Medical Science. "Our real mission is game can be played in about 20 To play The Reconstructors,log on to take the excitement of the interac- minutes, and the technology and to http://reconstructors.rice.edu. For tive games that kids love to play on the content are appropriate for every- educators interested in adopting the Internet and turn it into an educa- one from the beginner to the expert game for use in school environments tional advantage," says Leslie Miller, computer user. Currently two epi- and for others interested in more in- principal investigator of The Recon- sodes are available, and two more formation about the game,go to http:/ structors project and senior research will be completed this year. /cttl.rice.edu/projects/medmyst/.

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Molecular Computing—One NEW ON LINE Oil Switch Closer to Reality The interdisciplinary nature of The world of molecular computing, computing power,leapfrogging the lim- Rice recently manifested itselfin a with its ultrafast speeds, low power its ofsilicon. In addition,the molecular new form—a joint website for the needs, and inexpensive materials, is logic gate shows a dramatic increase in George R. Brown one beaker closer to reality. Using signal reliability over silicon. School of Engi- chemical processes rather than silicon- "A big piece of the puzzle has been neering and the based photolithography, researchers at solved, but we're looking at properties Wiess School of Rice and Yale universities have created of single and very small packets of Natural Sciences. a molecule-sized switch with the ability molecules," Tour says."Now we need Located at http:/ to be turned on and off repeatedly. to learn how to string them together. /dacnet.rice.edu/ The switch is a 30-nanometer-wide Integrating these switches into a full- SEnews/,the new self-assembled array of approximately blown system where site serves as a cen- 1,000 molecules that we need to address tralized informa- allows current to perhaps 10 mil- tion resource for flow only at a lion of these de- prospective stu- prescribed vices remains a dents, faculty, "turn-on" volt- big challenge." alumni,and mem- age. When the Even so, Tour bers of the science correct current says, the findings and engineering flows, the switch are exciting and community. Development of can be said to be bring molecular shared resources for the alumni in the "on" or computing one section, http://dacnet.rice.edu/ "one" state; at step closer to real- SEnews/Alumni/,is also planned, higher or lower ity. "Fifty percent and features will be added to allow voltages, no cur- of the job is done," alumni to participate direc rent flows, and the says Tour."The other this section of the website. switch is "off." Such a switch, or 50 percent is memory." The Rice and The latest edition of Rice e- logic gate, is a necessary computing Yale researchers took that step, too, cycles, the newsletter for the Rice component used to represent ones and and they announced a molecular Recycling Program, has been pub- zeros, the binary language of digital memory device at the International lished exclusively online, reducing computing. Earlier experimental mo- Electronic Device Meeting in Wash- the amount ofpaper being used on lecular logic gates, demonstrated by a ington, D.C., on December 6. "It campus. The newsletter is located team at UCLA and Hewlett-Packard, really looks like we're going to have at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/-re- could be opened but not closed. hybrid molecular- and silicon-based cycle/rrn3-00.html, and you also The findings were reported in the components within three to five years." can visit the Rice Recycling Pro- November 19 issue of Science, in a gram website at http://rice.edu/ paper titled "Large On-Off Ratios UNRAU recycle. and Negative Differential Resistance in a Molecular Electronic Device." The authors are James Tour,the Chao Professor of Chemistry, and graduate student Adam Rawlett of Rice and EMS AWARD Yale professor Mark Reed and gradu- Helping a person in a medical emer- dation(NCEMSF) to the one colic ate student Jia Chen. gency is usually its own reward. But giate EMS agency, out of approxi compound, The active electronic last February, the Rice University mately 150 programs, that the designed by Tour and syn- which was Emergency Medical Service(EMS) NCEMSF feels has demonstrated has molecules that arc thesized at Rice, received a special pat on the back outstanding service to its campus smaller in area than 1 million times when it was selected as the 1999- Rice EMS members on hand in Dela -based transistors. Tour typical silicon 2000 Outstanding Collegiate EMS ware to receive the award were Cap switches says the cost of the molecular Organization. The award is pre- tam n Clay Juckett, Lieutenant Chris thousand times would be at least several sented by the National Collegiate tine Borgstrom,and senior member than traditional solid less expensive Emergency Medical Services Foun- Sean Joyce. state devices. They also promise continued miniaturization and increased

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Not Your Mom's American Girl With a very lucrative job on Wall Street as a stock analyst at Merrill Lynch, Pam Nelson '86 was set for life. But that was before 1997, when she went looking for

Christmas gifts for her nieces and cousins. practical to reach my dreams and.. . [is] exactly what we girls need to become self- reliant, business-savvy women." "There just weren't any cool books Her third and, so far, best-selling Another high school student wrote: for girls," she says. "I realized that there book is Girl Boss:Running the Show Like "I can't help but wonder what I might was this whole generation ofpeople like the Big Chicks, the 1999 official book of have done if I'd had your book when I me, who wanted something stronger the Ms. Foundation for Women's Take was 12. All I really needed was a push, and more interesting and savvy than Our Daughters to Work program. The someone to tell me that I actually could American Girl [a popular series of doll book teaches entrepreneurial skills, gives do it. .. I'm so glad this book is available books] to encourage their daughters." girls encouragement, and contains pro- for girls now." Taking up the challenge, she threw files ofsuccessful female bosses. It's in its Girl Press is branching into other me- her life savings into her own start-up fourth printing. dia. Nelson has struck a deal with the publishing company—Los Angeles- In February, Girl Press released The television network American Movie Clas- based Girl Press. Her books aim to Real Rulesfor Girls, which Nelson jok- sics to launch a 13-part series based on inspire girls and boost their self-esteem ingly describes as "Emily Post's worst Cool Women. It will be produced by an- at a time when they typically lose self- nightmare." The book offers no advice other Houston native, actress/producer confidence, she says. "We're creating on "being demure or well behaved,"she Debbie Allen. And actress Gillian Ander- books to make girls strong, self-reliant, says,"just straight talk about being smart, son has expressed interest in producing a and ready for life's adventure." successful, and self-assured." The book television show based on Girl Boss. Ander- Nelson's own big adventure is look- gives tips about romance, social life, son wrote the book's foreword. ing like a success. She has published four work, money,health, and family. Chap- Nelson received her own girl boss well-received books, two more are in ter titles include: "Jobs Will Suck Along training as a finance major at Rice,where production, and one Girl Press book is the Way" and "Take a Second Look at her last name was Taft. At Rice, "the being made into a TV series. the Dweeb." standards were unlike anything I had Nelson believes that girls oftoday are In the production stage are Girl Di- ever come up against, and it really pre- looking for books with attitude,which is rector: Making Your Own Chick Flick pared me for life beyond the hedges," why Girl Press books are splashy,playful, (spring 2000) and the first of a Cool she says. "I guess I feel like I can do and irreverent. Her first release, Cool Women Adventure Series titled Holly- anything after Physics 101." As a stu- Women:The Thinking Girl's Guide to the wood: Discover the Haunts ofthe Hippest dent, she "did more than my share of Hippest Women in History(1998), is an Women in Hollywood (fall 2000). The partying" and managed the women's encyclopedia of unique and innovative adventure series books will be historical basketball team. women, including Lucille Ball, Jane travel guides for girls. Noting that she is thrilled to be in Goodall, Dorothy Parker, the Harlem Nelson says her company is at the publishing, Nelson says, "It's helpful Renaissance women,suffragists, and fe- point where "we're still struggling to that I have the safety net of my Wall male pirates. pay the bills, but I'm beginning to see Street training, but the farther and far- Later that year, Nelson released Zine that everything's going to be fine." ther I get away from it,the more I realize Scene: The Do It YourselfGuide to Zines, Feedback from readers is what keeps I can never go back." a how-to book about creating a "zinc," her going,she says. One letter from a 17- She's too cool for that. which is a combination personal journal, year-old aspiring fashion writer noted newsletter, and magazine. that Girl Boss"helped me realize that it is —Oav,o K ARLAN

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NEW ORLEANS BY THE BOOK I3ooknotes People who love to read know that with vampires. And it's all here in this A Biography of Distinguished Scientist some ofthe best books,fiction or non, book. A chapter on the literary history Gilbert Newton Lewls. by Edward S. are strongly grounded in a sense of of New Orleans is followed by a com- Lewis, Rice professor emeritus of place. And if that place has a vibrant pendium ofshort bios of authors who chemistry(Edwin Mellen Press, 1998). character and rich history, like New have lived or worked in New Orleans. Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Orleans, what better treat? With names like Anderson, Capote, tool Errancy in 7: S. Eliot, Jaunts lover, Right from the beginning, New Or- Dos Passos, Faulkner, Ferber, and Marcel Proust, by Colleen R. leans has drawn fine writers who de- Fitzgerald, 0. Henry, Percy, Twain, Lamos, associate professor of En- veloped a literary tradition there that Wilder, and Williams (Tennessee, of glish at Rice (Cambridge University Press, 1999). continues to blossom. It's a tradition course), just to name a few, the list so remarkable and exuberant, in fact, reads like a who's who of American Ethnic Sensitivity in Social Work, by that New Orleans Times—Picayune literature. Michael Winkelman '76, director of the book editor Susan Larson '73 fre- Literary landmarks Larson Ethnographic Field School, Arizona State University (Eddie Bowers Pub- quently found herself fielding ques- mentions include authors' lishing Co., 1999). tions from tourists and locals homes, buildings featured in alike about authors, lit- novels, and other structures Eu.ontiers in 7iSSIIC EllgilliT1711g, by Larry imbued with the V. McIntire, E.D. Butcher Professor of erary landmarks, city's lit- Bioengineering and Chemical Engi- bookstores,and erary history. Readers neering, and Antonios G. Mikos, as- literary festivals. looking for works by a sociate professor of bioengineering A book of her favorite author can and chemical engineering, both at own—the warm, start with her gener- Rice (Pergamon Elsevier Science, 1997). fun,and informative ous catalogue of Booklover's Guide to writers and their Masterim .5J.111 'LINK 2, by James New Orleans (LSU works, then Dabney and Thomas L. Harman '73, move on to adjunct associate professor of electri- Press, 1999)—was a cal and computer engineering at Rice natural. the next (Prentice Hall, 1997). Following her graduation chapter, from Rice, Larson spent which Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nos- lists talgia, Ethics, and the Question of Dif- much ofthe next decade work- inde- jerence, by Lynne Huffer, professor of ing in bookstores. That career pendent and French studies at Rice (Stanford Uni- led to an interest in writing, and specialty bookshops as versity Press, 1998). she began writing book reviews, well as chain bookstores. Or, Numerical Linear Algebra .fin- High- first for the Houston Post and later,in for the hard-to-find item,check the PerfirmanceComputers,edited by Jack 1988, for the Times—Picayune, for chapter on literary resources for the Dongarra, adjunct professor of com- which she became book editor the locations of libraries and special liter- puter science, Danny C. Sorensen, same year. Since then, Larson has been ary collections, both public and pri professor of computational and ap- vate. plied mathematics, both at Rice, Lain reading professionally about New Or- S. Duff, and Henk A. Vander Vorst leans,and writing The Booklover's Guide Literary festivals, book fairs, and (SIAM Publications, 1999). was a way for her to fill gaps in her writers' favorite haunts and hot spots knowledge of the city and its history. add icing to this literary King Cake. Programming for Design,.from 77.worv to Practice, by Edith Cherry '63, asso- The New Orleans literary scene is And the prize—the baby in the cake— ciate professor at the University of like that ofany major city, Larson says, well,that would have to be the numer- New Mexico (John Wiley & Sons, but things are done with a slightly ous literary quotes from books by fa- 1999). more festive flair. "Writers are extraor- mous New Orleans writers that are Rereading the Renaissance: Pen-arch, dinarily generous and accessible here, interspersed throughout. Augustine and the 1,1111filiage of Hu- largely because people respect their If you love books about New Or- manism, by Carol E. Quillen, associ- work and their privacy. We have a leans, or if you're a book lover plan- ate professor of history at Rice (Uni- wonderful history of success stories, ning a trip there, you'll want this book. versity of Michigan Press, 1998). and we have our share oftragedies. We Actually, you'll probably want this 71.ue Student Edition OfSIMULINK, by also have better parties!" book even if you're just a book lover. James Dabney and Thomas L. New Orleans writers have taken on Harman '73, adjunct associate professor of electrical and computer en- everything from Antebellum sensibili- —CHRISTOPHER Dow gineering at Rice(Prentice Hall, 1998). ties to contemporary American angst, from folklore to politics, from nature Tim-king the Axis Enemy, by Alan Har- to crime, with a few stops along the ris Bath '95 (University of Kansas way for food, music, and interviews Press, 1998).

SPRING '00 15 A LOOK BACK ON RICE'S FIRST CENTURY OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EVOLUTION OF HOUSTON AND THE WORLD

By David Kaplan and Christopher Dow One hundred years ago two men forged the will of businessman William Marsh Rice, murdered him, and were about to walk away with his millions—the money Rice had intended for the creation of an institution of higher learning. They were caught after Rice's attorney, Captain James A. Baker, helped uncover the crime and bring them to justice, but imagine ifthe crime had gone undetected. How different would Houston and the world be if Rice University did not exist? HAD THEY PULLED OFF THEIR SCHEME, THERE WOULD BE NO RICE UNIVERSITY.

At the very least, we can suppose that ferent landscape. From the tree-lined that promise to transform every aspect Edgar Odell Lovett, a rising star at path surrounding Rice to the magnifi- of life in the 21st. Princeton, would not have left the East cent quadrangle at its heart, the Rice The foundation for one of the most Coast to journey to Texas, which was, campus is one ofthe most beautiful fea- far-reaching of these fields was laid in says Rice history professor John Boles, tures of Houston's cultural center. And 1962, when President Kennedy came the "frontier in American education." significantly, Rice was the first institu- to Rice to announce that the United Boles also notes that, at the time, the tion to occupy the area. If Rice hadn't States would send a mission to the combined income for all 15 colleges and been built on what was then empty prai- moon. The following year, Rice estab- universities in Texas was 40 percent less rie beyond the city limits, it's easy to lished the nation's first space science than Princeton's. Lovett did come to imagine that the city would have taken department. And, had Rice not been Houston, however, and although con- a different character as it grew in this in Houston, NASA's Johnson Space ceiving a major university from scratch direction. Envision, for example, the Center might not have been built near must have been a daunting prospect, South Main area as an unbroken series the city. Today, Rice continues to work he knew he was being offered an in- of neighborhoods interspersed with with NASA in developing experiments credible opportunity at an exciting commercial districts. The other great and spacecraft equipment and materi- moment in history. institutions and cultural features of the als, and Rice graduates fill every level It was a revolutionary time in higher area—the Museum District, the Texas of NASA's ranks, from technical spe- education, with bold new ideas—such Medical Center, and Hermann Park— cialists and engineers to flight directors as the notion that teaching and research might never have been established. Or and astronauts. And aside from work go hand in hand—beginning to trans- if they had, they most likely wouldn't with NASA,Rice faculty and alums have form the American university. Lovett have been grouped together in such a helped make major astronomical dis- brought these ideas to the fledgling Rice significant and dynamic urban space. coveries—Professor Robert O'Dell Institute, and to Texas, and he hired a We also have to note that Rice was found some ofthe earliest evidence for world-class faculty to implement those Houston's first university, and the pres- planets outside our solar system, and ideas, establishing a first-rate academic ence ofa great university changes a city alumnus Robert W Wilson '57 won the environment in Houston that laid the in more ways than altering its immedi- Nobel Prize in 1978 for helping prove foundation for Rice to develop into one ate landscape. A research university like the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins ofAmerica's best universities. By stead- Rice encourages industrial and eco- by discovering the background radia- fastly adhering to Lovett's standards, nomic development. In the first half tion in the universe, just to name two. the university has ensured that it will of the 20th century, Rice was a steady Another field Rice has played a ma- further push the boundaries of emi- supplier of engineering and scientific jor role in advancing is a natural exten- nent,innovative teaching and creative, know-how to the burgeoning petro- sion of the work Rice scientists did in leading-edge research—the new fron- chemical industries that had found developing the first artificial heart in tiers ofAmerican education that Lovett homes along the Houston Ship Chan- 1964. Since then, biosciences and helped pioneer. nel. In the latter half of the 20th cen- bioengineering at Rice have grown and We also can assume that, without tury, Rice significantly influenced and flourished. Currently, Rice bioengineers Rice, Houston would have a very dif- advanced five fields ofscientific inquiry in the George R. Brown School of

SPRING '00 17 Engineering are manipulating tissues basis for superstrong yet lightweight economic growth, a great university and cells with the hope of providing structural materials, affordable solar helps bring out the best in people, and replacement organs and tissues grown power,targetable drug delivery systems, Rice has done much to elevate the in- from the human body itself. Other Rice computers the size of molecules, and tellectual, social, and cultural climate of bioscientists are developing artificial much more. Houston and Texas and to improve the blood substitutes that will boost wan- Rice has truly been the home of quality of life for people here and ev- ing blood supplies and decrease trans- amazing discoveries. But research, no erywhere. mission of blood-borne diseases, matter what the field, is not an isolated Take, for example, Texas Monthly, studying gene therapy techniques that endeavor. It is a partnership with other founded by a group of Rice alums, or are noninvasive as well as effective, and institutions; it is an effect on the real the literary work of alums such as John finding ways to reduce the negative ef- world. Right from its beginning, Rice Graves and William Goyen and Rice fects oflow gravity on living organisms. has brought its scientific knowledge and professors such as Max Apple. Or con- The third endeavor in which Rice technical expertise to bear on extensive, sider Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist has made a scientific mark began here ongoing interinstitutional research pro- Larry McMurtry, who had a longtime in 1957, when the first computer on grams and industrial partnerships that presence at Rice as an undergraduate, campus began chugging out calcula- have made Rice a powerhouse of graduate student, and professor. tions. Rice's pioneering work in the change in a number ofimportant fields. McMurtry once described the univer- field of computing continued as re- Because of that, Rice has been a key sity as his "academic and intellectual searchers built the room-size R1 com- home" and "a very fine place to de- puter, which went on line in 1960. Less velop as a writer." If he hadn't had Rice than a decade later, Rice established one to hang his hat on, would the world ofthe nation's earliest programs in digi- have Lonesome Dove? tal signal processing, resulting in im- And if Rice hadn't come into being, proved technologies in communication we would not have had the Rice Play- and making possible applications such ers, long a dramatic force in Houston; as cellular phones, voice recognition the Rice Art Gallery, which has exhib- systems,digital audio,and medical elec- ited works by artists from around the tronics. And recently, Rice interdisci- world;or the Rice Media Center,show- plinary programs in computational case of distinguished international and engineering have sped new applications classic films. Nor would in science and technology by develop- we have the Shepherd ing networks of computers that oper- "We choose to School of Music,one of ate in unison, vastly increasing the best music schools computing speed and power. go to the moon in the country. Not Protecting the environment is the only does the Shepherd fourth field in which Rice has had an in this decade School number among effect. Among their many efforts, Rice factor in attracting busi- and do the its renowned scholars scientists in the Department ofEcology nesses and industry to and musicians a and Evolutionary Biology and the De- Houston, and the eco- other things not Grammy winner and partment ofEnvironmental Science and nomic benefits have American Society of Engineering are finding processes to been enormous. Those because they are Composers, Authors remediate hazardous industrial waste, economic benefits also and Publishers award studying air quality and methods to re- have been greatly en- easy but because recipients,it hosts many duce greenhouse gasses, and research- hanced by the presence musical events that are ing ways to protect the ecology of of the Jesse H. Jones they are hard." open to the public, en- Galveston Bay. Graduate School of estuary systems like -JOHN F. KENNEDY hancing Houston's cul- The ultra-small, though,is the field Management. Through SEPTEMBER 12, 1962 tural atmosphere. And in which Rice has had some ofits great- its M.B.A. and Execu- Shepherd School est scientific impact. Nanoscale science tive Education pro- graduates go on to per- and technology effectively began in grams, the Jones School has become form in the world's finest symphonies 1985 with the discovery at Rice of one of the most innovative business and opera companies. fullerenes, the third major form ofcar- schools in the United States and is deep- And it is difficult to imagine Hous- bon,by Nobel Prize-winning chemists ening and broadening economic and ton without Rice's nationally renowned Richard Smalley and Robert Curl. That scientific partnerships for companies School of Architecture. Not only have discovery could profoundly change the and institutions here and abroad. Rice architects and architectural engi- world. At Rice's Center for Nanoscale A university's true partnership, neers built many of Houston's land- Science and Technology,researchers are though, is with the community, local mark homes and buildings, but the studying the properties and potential and worldwide. Along with advancing school has consistently broadened the of new materials that may provide the scientific knowledge and encouraging scope of architecture to include the

18 SALL YPOR T study of complex metropolitan issues. partment, which is breaking ground in of Rice's outstanding professors, but Faculty frequently have participated in the vital new field of medical ethics in they can study foreign languages and public design projects, and through the conjunction with the religious studies earn advanced certification in comput- school's ambitious Rice Building Work- department, the Baker Institute, and ing, teaching, and other areas. shop, students are designing imagina- the Texas Medical Center. And we Rice's commitment to public edu- tive houses for Houston's inner city. wouldn't have Studies in English Lit- cation has been outstanding. The uni- And the Rice Design Alliance, a non- erature, a major scholarly voice in lit- versity has more than 50 outreach profit spin-off of the School of Archi- erary studies that was founded at Rice programs dedicated to the improve- tecture, has served since 1973 as a in 1960. Rice humanities also contin- ment of K-12 public education for public forum for the advancement of ues to expand the frontiers of knowl- both teachers and students, ranging public architecture, sponsoring tours, edge and understanding through from academic development and en- lectures, exhibits, and design competi- important interdisciplinary programs hancement programs for students and tions for Houston public spaces. such as Asian Studies, the Program for teachers to tutoring for students to a Rice's imprint on Houston arts is pro- the Study of Women and Gender, the partnership with the Houston Inde- found, but Rice's impact on the under- Center for the Study of Cultures, and pendent School District aimed at curb- lying structure of society is no less the Center for the Study of Language, ing substance abuse among children. important, helping us understand who all of which have had direct impacts on And in higher education, Rice's effect we are, where we've been, and where the ways people deal with one another. has become truly international. In ad- we're going. Without Rice social scien- And Rice reaches out to the wider dition to its growing number of ex- tists, we wouldn't have the Houston community in a multitude of ways change and overseas programs, Rice is Area Survey, which has been tracking other than the purely academic, fre- providing the model for International RICE HAS TRULY BEEN THE HOME OF AMAZING DISCOVERIES.

Houstonians' attitudes and belief's about quently joining forces with govern- University Bremen, the largest and critical social and political issues for ment, public service groups, develop- most ambitious private, independent nearly 20 years. We wouldn't have the ment organizations, and other research university in Europe to date. James A. Baker III Institute for Public educational institutions to improve the A research university that takes its Policy, which, though less than a de- lives of Houstonians, Texans, and undergraduate and graduate students cade old, has already influenced policy people across the globe. very seriously, Rice provides an extraor- makers in the United States and world- At the personal level, this means that dinary academic environment for stu- wide. The institute has brokered peace Rice undergraduates in the Rice Stu- dents of every ethnic and economic and developed effective policy for dent Volunteer Program lend their background. And maybe that's the America and the world, and it has pro- muscle and enthusiasm to disadvan- most important of all the effects Rice vided a forum for discussion of the taged residents in Houston and as far has had. In its nearly 90 years, Rice complex domestic and international is- away as Central America, building and has conferred more than 30,600 de- sues that face all of us today. And with- repairing homes, participating in grees to some of the nation's, and the out Rice's unique academic neighborhood cleanups, and working world's, best and brightest students. atmosphere, influential work by Rice with children. It also means that Rice From nanoscale research to telecom- social scientists, such as William hosts a large number offree public lec- munications, from archaeology to Martin's powerful studies of contem- ture series, bringing to Houston, just space exploration, and from education porary American religion or the award- as President Lovett did,renowned po- to entrepreneurship, Rice alumni have winning journal Feminist Economics, litical leaders, scholars, and public fig- consistently supplied innovation, en- edited by Diana Strassman, might have ures from the world over. ergy, and commitment in helping cre- been cast in a very different mold. The intellectual environment that ate the world in which we live today. Without Rice's School of Humani- Rice has always cultivated finds one of How different that world would ties, we wouldn't have one of the its most meaningful and influential be if we hadn't had the generosity nation's top history departments, public outlets in the School of Con- of William Marsh Rice, the quick ac- which has influenced American histori- tinuing Studies, among the largest such tion of Captain Baker, or the vision cal thinking through its alumni, programs in Texas. Through continu- of Edgar Odell Lovett—if we hadn't through its faculty, and through the ing studies, members of the Houston had Rice University. Journal of Southern History. We community not only can take interest- wouldn't have Rice's philosophy de- ing and informative classes with many

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Rice was chloroformed to death by students that will provide them with attendees include local and state of- 1816 Patrick and Rice's valet, Charles Jones, an occupation for life. They do not ficials and dignitaries from govern- William Marsh Rice is born in Spring- in a conspiracy to claim Rice's estate. envision that the institute will become ments and universities around the field, Massachusetts, on March 14, Jones turns state's evidence, and a trade school, but rather that it will world. In his address, Lovett an- 1816, to David and Patty Rice. In Patrick is sentenced to death. After aspire to university standing of the nounces that Rice will "aspire to uni- addition to working as an inspector Patrick spends 10 years in Sing Sing highest level, seeking "to attain that versity standing of the highest in the Springfield Armory, David also prison, his sentence is commuted. high place through the research work grade," and he proposes "to assign serves in local and state political po- of its early professors, setting no up- no upper limit to its educational en- sitions and helps establish a local per limit to its educational endeavor" deavor," He also states that "the resi- school in which William is later en- 1904 dential college idea ... is prominent rolled. By age 15, William has gone Thanks to the efforts of Captain Just as significant is the decision to . . . in the plans of the new institu- to work in the Family Grocery Store, Baker, legal challenges to Rice's build and maintain the institute on tion." Buildings completed for the owned by retired whaling captain genuine will are resolved, and the annual income alone, keeping en- ceremonies are the Administration Henry L Bunker. He stays with Bun- Rice Institute receives a $4.6 million dowment funds intact. Because of Building(later to be renamed Lovett ker for about five years, then buys founding endowment. A large part the prohibition on debts, this means Hall), the Mechanical Laboratory, his own store. In less than two years, of the estate consists of timberland that growth will be slow. South Hall (later to be renamed Will he clears $2,000 on this first busi- in Louisiana. Proceeds from the sale Rice College), and the Commons ness venture. of timber from this land fund the And finally, the institute becomes dining room (later to be renamed construction of the Administration more of a reality with the purchase of Baker Commons). Building (later to be re-named Lovett the 300 acres at the end of Main Street 1838 Hall) and other early buildings on that Lovett recommended as the site Lovett chooses as the school colors selects Ralph "a blue still deeper than the Oxford Spurred by economic depression in campus. of the campus. Lovett blue . . and the Confederate gray, Springfield and by the promise of Adams Cram of the Boston architec- Goodhue and enlivened by a tinge of lavender" It cheap land and untapped wealth in ture firm Cram, plan has been suggested that blue and the new Republic of Texas, Rice 1907 Ferguson to design the campus buildings. Crams gray were chosen because William decides to seek his fortune in Texas. In January, the trustees begin search- and the earliest Rice Administration Build- Marsh Rice amassed much of his for- He sends all his goods by ship to ing for the first president of the Rice design for the renamed Lovett Hall) tune by trading with both the North Galveston and travels there himself In.stitute. They receive 39 recommen- ing (later to he the look of and South during the Civil War. down the Mississippi and by rail. dations from around the country. As lays the foundation for building—a When he arrives in October, he dis- the trustees consider the options and the "traditional" Rice Mediterranean/Byzantine blend of A football team is organized, and it • covers that the ship carrying his narrow the field, one individual details, and facades adopts the owl from the Rice seal as goods has been lost at sea and that stands out—mathematician and as- cloisters, whimsical St. Joe brick. its mascot. he is penniless. tronomer Edgar Odell Lovett, who of marble, concrete, and •04/04 has been recommended by Woodrow Wilson, president of 1839-1890 Princeton University. On November 19110 1913 Lovett establishes the University Ex- Rice is in business by April 22, 1839, 20, the trustees formally offer Lovett In August, William Ward Watkin tension Lectures, the precursor to the as a wholesaler of wine and spirits. the post. During the hiring negotia- comes to Houston as a representa- School of Continuing Studies. By the end of the Civil War, Rice's tions, Lovett visits Houston and rec- tive of Cram, Goodhue and many business enterprises, including ommends that the institute be built Ferguson to oversee construction of Rice organizes a baseball team. groceries, cotton, land, railroads, and on a 300-acre site at the end of Main the Rice Institute buildings. He re- supplying Civil War materiels, among Street—an area he feels will never mains to join the Rice faculty and to found the others, have made him one of the become industrialized. architecture program. wealthiest men in Texas. In the 1880s, 1914 Rice considers the establishment of Rice qualifies for admission to the a philanthropic enterprise in the city 1908 1911 Southern Association of Colleges and where he gained his wealth. Cesar On January 18, Lovett formally The cornerstone for Rice's first build- Secondary Schools and is certified M. Lombardi, president of the Hous- agrees to become the first president ing, the Administration Building, is as a Class A college by the Texas ton School Board, convinces him to of the Rice Institute, and he arrives laid on March 2, Texas Indepen- Department of Education. found an educational institution. in Houston in March. One of his first dence Day. The stone is of Ozark acts is to depart, in July, on a world- marble and contains a sealed cop- Until now, the faculty members have wide journey to great universities per box containing a copy of the been only loosely organized due to 1891 and centers of learning in England, King James version of the Bible, the their small numbers, but because of additions, there is a growing need The charter for the William Marsh across the Continent, and all the way charter of the institute, brief biogra- phies of William Marsh for more formal faculty organization. Rice Institute for the Advancement to Japan. His goals are to understand Rice and the The earliest minutes existing for the of Literature, Science, An, Philoso- what makes an exceptional insti- trustees, a photograph of the general campus plan, a copy of the January 12 faculty sitting as a formal body are phy, and Letters is signed on May tution of higher education and to Houston Chtunick, and a copy of the dated March 27. 13 and is registered on May 19. Rice organize a distinguished first fac- January 18 I/maw:Daily Pug. appoints six trustees—Captain James ulty. Equally important, with this In May, a committee is appointed to Addison Baker, Jr., Cesar M. journey, Lovett establishes two of Construction of establish an official curriculum. Lombardi, Everett McAshan. Rice's enduring principles: A great the Mechanical Emanuel Raphael, Frederick Rice, university must be international in Laboratory and the Campanile take In an August h letter, Julian Huxley and Alfred S. Richardson. The insti- scope and must have an eminent fac- place. (biology)and Arthur tute, which is not to be begun until ulty firmly grounded in research as Hughes(physics) petition President Lovett for four im- after Rice's death, will be tuition free. well as in superior teaching. 1912 provements in faculty conditions: Rice's first matriculation is on Sep- better IOi4 better living accommoda- 11900 1909 tember 23, with 59 students. Stu- tions, a high table for faculty in the Com- dents admitted later mons,and a common room for faculty. William Marsh Rice is found dead Lovett returns to Houston on May 7, bring the first in New York City on September 23. and he and the trustees begin mak- class to 77 students-48 male and The Physics Building (later to be The next day, lawyer Albert T. ing decisions that will set the tone 29 female—to be taught by 10 fac- renamed Herzstein Hall) and East Patrick presents a will purportedly and scope of the institute. They be- ulty members. Hall (later to be renamed Baker Col- signed by Rice that bequeaths the lieve that a university should be use- lege) are built. bulk of Rice's estate to Patrick. Sus- ful to society by bringing various Rice holds formal opening ceremo- pecting foul play, Captain Baker ini- services to the community and by of- nies on October 12. In addition to The Engineering Society is formed. tiates an investigation that finds that fering a utilitarian education for its the trustees, faculty, and students,

SPRING '00 21 Rice becomes a charter member of Texas A&M, Rice students hire a pri- The Pallas Athene Literary Society the Southwest Conference. vate detective to find out where he for women forms. 1923 has been taken. After locating the Undergraduate enrollment passes the The men's track team is organized. owl, the detective sends a telegram The Thresher and Student Council 1,000 mark, and there are 20 gradu- saying, "Sammy is fairly well and resume operations. ate students. The biology department would like to see his parents at turns away students for lack of space. 1915 eleven o'clock." Admission requirements are raised, The men's basketball team is 1920 and entering freshman enrollment is organized. The first Rice Engineering Show, an limited to 400 per year. 1918 exhibition of the work of student Rice's first Ph.D., in mathematics, engineers, is held. Exhibits include 1916 is awarded to Hubert Bray. This a "bucking broncho," magnetic 1924 event signifies that Rice is, from stunts, nitroglycerin explosions, X- The Honor System is adopted by John W. Heisman, for whom the the beginning, not just an under- ray demonstrations, and a radio- a vote of the student body. Each Heisman Trophy will eventually be graduate school but also a center controlled car. Despite President student has to sign the pledge, named, becomes Rice's rim full-time for graduate study and research. Lovett's belief that the show will not "On my honor, I have neither head football mach. Although Heisman Bray becomes a professor at Rice attract much attention, it draws given nor received any aid on this has a reputation for coaching champi- and, later, chair of the mathemat- 10,000 visitors. examination," at the end of each onship teams, his record at Rice is less ics department. test. The Honor Council is formed than stellar His first season ends in a to decide on cases of infraction tie with Texas A&M for third plan, in The Student Association and Student of the Honor Code. 1921 the Southwest Conference, his second Council are formed. Autry House is built under the aus- in seventh place, and his third in the The student newspaper, the pices of the Episcopal Diocese of cellar. Following an even more dismal Captain and Mrs. Baker endow the Thresher, begins publication on Janu- Texas. Located on Main Street, it is fourth season, Heisman resigns on first Rice scholarship for high aca- ary 15, and the first issue of the year- built with a donation from Mrs. December 1, 1927. book, the Campanile, is published. demic standing, named in honor James Autry in honor of her hus- of their eldest son, the late Frank band, Judge James L. Autry. It The Owen Wister Literary Society Graham Baker. It is open to both West Hall (now Hanszen College) quickly becomes the "fireside of (OWLS) is formed. is built. female and male undergraduates, Rice" by serving as Rice's first cul- and the recipient will receive a sti- tural, religious, and recreational stu- The Owl football team defeats pend of $360 for one year. (Even dent center. 1925 Southern Methodist University though Rice is tuition free, there The Chemistry Building (later to be 146-3, the largest winning margin are a registration fee and room- The Field House is opened to pro- renamed Keck Hall in honor of the in Rice history. and-board costs.) vide facilities for physical training W.M. Keck Foundation) is built. classes and for intramural and inter- Biology professor Julian Huxley stirs The Owl basketball team wins the collegiate sports. The Rally Club is formed to help up public controversy by advocat- Southwest Conference title, and foot- usher at events on campus, to cheer ing equal rights for women and by ball continues. Due to VUorld War I, The Dramatic Club is formed,(It will for the teams, and to raise school advancing the idea of human evo- however, other student activities become the Rice Players in 1951.) spirit. lution from a tailless ape. dwindle, and the publication of the Thresher is halted. Physical education classes are made The first nonacademic clubs begin mandatory for freshmen men. (YMCA, YWCA, Menorah Society). Students' Army Training Corps re- 1927 Cohen House, the faculty club, is places ROTC; both are eliminated Intramurals begin, featuring football, built. Funds for the building are The Rice band is formed. at war's end. basketball, and track. donated by George S. Cohen, and it is named in honor of his parents, To challenge the mind, students es- The first May Fete is held. This spring tablish three "literary societies": the 1919 celebration includes the crowning of Robert and Agnes Cohen. Owls Literary Society and the Administration first comes to Rice a May Fete queen, Rosalie Hemphill, Riceonian Literary and Debating So- with the appointment of Robert G. and king, Parks Williams. ciety for men and the Elizabeth Caldwell as first dean of students, 1928 Baldwin Literary Society for women. Samuel G. McCann as first registrar, A faculty committee recommends and John T. McCants as first bursar. 1922 that Rice begin charging tuition. Requirements are established for Prior to this, the administration con- On June 28, after many years of sus- Rice is awarded a chapter of Phi Beta graduate degrees. sisted of Edgar Odell Lovett and taining a reputation as the second- McCants, who served as President worst hazing school in Texas (after Kappa. Rice's first commencement is held Lovett's secretary. Texas A&M), Rice announces a com- with 35 graduates-20 men and plete ban on hazing. Rice also bans 15 women—receiving 27 B.A. de- By this year, the institute has con- social clubs that resemble fraterni- 1929 grees and eight B.S. degrees. The ferred 144 undergraduate and 18 ties and sororities. Both hazing and The Department of Physical Educa- first master of arts degree is graduate and professional degrees. social clubs, say the administration tion is created. awarded. The diploma is designed In November, at Thanksgiving and faculty, violate the university's by President Lovett. homecoming activities, the former democratic principles. Building plans for the campus are students organize into the Associa- frustrated by the onset of the Great tion of Rice Alumni. Their first presi- Depression. After a Thresher campaign for a dent is Ervin Kalb '17. 1917 school song,"For Rice's Honor," writ- World War I brings military regula- ten by Ben Mitchell '24, is chosen. tions to campus, including reveille A student-run Hall Committee is 1930 formed to establish roles by which at 5:45 kra, and taps at 11:00 P.M. All The Rice Ord literary magazine is The statue of William Marsh Rice, the residence halls are regulated. classes previously segregated ac- formed. containing his ashes in its base, is cording to gender are opened to unveiled on June 8. To help ensure that student life men and women alike. Radio station 5YG begins. maintains a democratic tenor, President Lovett bans sororities and l'he owl mascot gets a formal name The Owl Debating Club and fraternities. in an informal manner. When the Fticeonian are resurrected. owl is kidnapped by students at

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24 SALLYPORT a sequence of events prevents the Lovett's original intentions to provide time, candidates are advised to take 1930 filing of the necessary suit to alter especially good training for a limited the Graduate Record Exam, with high- The statue of William Marsh Rice, the charter. First, on April 23, the number of students through a sound scoring candidates given preference. containing his ashes in its base, is board has to file a renewal of the basic program that sets a high stan- unveiled on June 8. charter. Second, on May 14, Edgar dard of scholarship and provides lead- There is also a plan to increase the Odell Lovett resigns as president, al- ership in higher education. Faculty will number of faculty, but President though he agrees to stay on until a be increased, and the curriculum will Houston insists that candidates pos- 11932 successor can be found. And third, be further developed, with expansion sess two characteristics that echo a Due to the Great Depression, fac- on August 1, Captain Baker, the only in the arts and letters, though the tradition set by President Lovett: ulty salaries are cut 5-10 percent. chair the Rice Board of Trustees has emphasis will remain on science and They must be outstanding scholars Students pay a price, tr)o. The regis- known, dies. But tuition becomes,for research. The tru.stees also call for a who publish or who are involved tration fee is raised from $10 to $25, the time being, a moot point when substantial building program, includ- in research, and they must be in- and students are required to live one oil is discovered on the Rice lands in ing plans for a library, classrtoms, spiring teachers. year in the residence halls and to Louisiana that were part of the origi- laboratories, residence halls, and a house pay $18 per year to support the Stu- nal endowment. for the president. Rondelet, a spring festival, replaces dent Association, the Honor Coun- May Fete. cil, and student publications. Due to World War II, campus life is SaIlyport, the alumni and university disrupted academically and socially. magazine, begins life as a four-page "Freshman Guidance," a semihazing Naval ROTC is established, and 530 newsprint tabloid. program, begins. Freshmen must, 1933 naval trainees are quartered on cam- for example, wear beanies and red pus, outnumbering civilian men two suspenders, and they are not al- In a show of solidarity with the admin- to one; no civilian men live on cam- lowed to cut their hair until istration, the student txxly adopts a 1946 pus. Rice goes on the navy's sched- Thanksgiving. resolution favoring compulsory mem- After 25 years of all-male ule, holding classes year-round and bership in the Student Association and cheerleading. or "yell leading," Betty adhering to navy-prescribed cur- Jean "Foxie" Fox levies a blanket tax of $8.40 per student. is elected the first The Sarah Lane Literary Society is ricula and campus routines. female yell leader. established. 1935 The May Fete is held for the last time. RI replaces the Rice Owl as the uni- Anderson Hall is the first building versity literary magazine. completed in the postwar building Samuel R. Dunlap is Rice's first The Engineering Society is dis- program. It is named for M. D. Rhodes Scholar, banded after its hazing practices get Anderson, whose foundation had out of control. 1947 helped Rice purchase the Rincon Oil 1936 William Vermillion Houston, former Field. Sophomore William G(xxle wears professor of physics at the Califor- Bermuda shorts on campus, caus- 1942 nia Institute of Technology, is inau- The Administration Building is re- ing a committee to find him guilty Rice announces its plan to permit gurated as the second president of named Lovett Hall in honor of Rice's of insubordination. Goode is al- male seniors to graduate early if they Rice on April 10. first president, Edgar Odell Lovett. lowed to finish the semester hut is enter the armed forces. Classes are prohibited from returning in the fall. accelerated, senior men attend sum- With ticuston come many changes, not mer school, and the 1942-43 aca- the least of which is a ievamping of 1948 demic year ends early, allowing the the curriculum, which has remained The Honor System, weakened dur- 1937 students to complete their degree re- virtually untouched since its original ing the war years and their disrup- The English department requires stu- quirements in February 1943. formulation and still does not provide tive effect on campus life in general, dents to pass a spelling test before for the modem concept of the "ma- is reinstituted—proctoring is banned, they can graduate. Rice buys into the Rincon Oil field jor" To keep in step with developments alternate seats are used for exams, in Starr County, Texas. The invest- at other major universities, to Iv Wen and students are allowed to leave the Rice physicists begin building a 2.5- ment of $1 million (50 percent sup- the curriculum, and to give .students room solely for personal rea.sons. The million-volt atom bombardment ma- plied by the institute and 50 percent more experiences that will prepare Honor Code pledge and student sig- chine to study the nucleus of the atom. by friends of Rice) will make Rice them for the outside world and for nature are still required. $35 million richer by 1978. graduate school, formal academic pro- 11938 grams are established These ate bro- Abercrombie Engineering Lab is ken into two main areas. academics completed. It is named in honor of Rice football plays its first Cotton 1943 and science/engineering, each having donor James S. Abercrombie and his Bowl, beating Colorado 28-14. In January, George R. Brown '20, its own required core coutses. Students wife, Lillie, and their daughter, partner in Brown & Root, becomes take courses that, for the first two years, Josephine. Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor the first Rice alumnus elected to the are designed to emphasize basic skills society, is formed. Board of Trustees. in English. mathematics. history, and A job placement service for students science. At that time, they will declare is established. a major and will begin taking courses 1939 1945 in their specialization. The Rice Owl student literary maga- The trustees devise a 10-year plan to 1949 zine merges with Rice Alumni News, meet new goals for Rice. In preparing The admission prtxess also receives Rice wins its first Southwest Confer- a combination that lasts until 1946. the trustees analyze the this plan, attention with the esublishment of re- ence football championship with a institute's past developments, present quirements beyond an excellent high season record of 9-1, defeating status, and future outkok. This analy- school academic record. Personal and North Carolina in the Cotton Bowl. 1940 sis shows that Rice is not simply the mental qualifications will now he con- engineering schrol many think it is. Louis Girard writes the "Rice Fight sidered, and applicants have to take Fondren Library, named for oilman 1929 and 1943, 49 percent Song." Between an entrance examination, provide let- W. W. Fondren and his wife, Ella, of students had been registered in the ters of recommendation. and haw: per- opens, as does Wiess Hall, named liberal arts school(which included the sonal interviews with a member of the in honor of oilman and Rice trustee pure sciences and mathematics), 33.7 11941 Admission Committee. Harry C. Wiess. In April, troubled by the institute's percent in engineering and architecture, and the remaining financial position, Captain Baker rec- 17 percent in Additional graduate student enrollment The President's House (later to be physical education, premedical, and ommends to the trustees that the is encouraged, in part using stipends renamed O'Connor House for graduate programs. The foremost ob- charter be amended to allow Rice to as incentive, but entry requirements are trustee Ralph S. O'Connor) is built. charge tuition. The board agrees, but jective of the trustees' plan follows becoming more stringent. For the first

SPRING '00 25 Hazing returns with Hell Week, a ri- campuswide, the freshman class valry between freshmen and sopho- 11955 president, the five college presidents, 1962 mores that occupies the seven days Rice begins using standardized Col- and two other representatives from On September 12, President John F. leading up to the sophomore dance. lege Entrance Examination Board each college. Kennedy delivers his space explo- scores instead of its own entrance ration address in Rice Stadium, examination. Rice starts to honor graduates with promising that the U.S. will send a 1950 designations of cum laude, magna man to the moon by the end of the The trustees announce that most of The faculty drops the spelling test cum laude, and summa corn laude. decade: "We choose to go to the the 10-year goals adopted in 1945 required for graduation. moon in this decade and do the have been completed five years The R1 Rice Institute computer is other things not because they are ahead of schedule. The Board of constructed. It occupies an entire easy but because they are hard. .. . Trustees itself undergoes changes. room and has 3,000 tubes and hard And I am delighted that this univer- 1957 disks three feet in diameter. By 1999, lb the seven trustees, who still hold Edgar Odell Lovett dies on August sity is playing a part in putting a man legal ownership of the institute, are its calculating power will be matched 13 at age 86. on the moon as part of a great na- added eight nonvoting term gover- by a programmable calculator about tional effort of the United States of the size of a cellular phone. nors to help shoulder the responsi- Lovett does live long enough, how- America." bilities of the developing institute. ever, to see one of his dreams come to fruition with the establishment of The colleges develop their own in- Rice Stadium is designed and built the residential college system. The 1960 ternal judicial systems and c-reate the in little more than nine months. Seat- first colleges are Baker(formerly East The Board of Governors, echoing Inter-College Court to handle dis- ing 70,000, it is still the largest sta- Hall, named for Captain James A. President Lovett's long-held belief putes between colleges. dium—indoor or out—in Houston. Baker,Jr.), Will Rice(formerly South that the word "institute" no longer Hall, named for trustee William conveys the true scope of Rice's edu- A semicentennial celebration simi- Marsh Rice, Jr.), Hanszen (formerly cational program or its status in the lar to the opening celebration of 1951 West Hall, named for trustee Harry academic world, proposes that the 1912 is held on October 10-12. Hun- The administration announces that Clay Hanszen), and Wiess, all for Rice Institute change its name to dreds of scholars and distinguished the aim of the university is "to raise men, and Mary Gibbs Jones(named William Marsh Rice University. In representatives from universities the liberal arts and humanities to the for the wife of businessman and the face of only minor opposition, worldwide visit the campus to hear level of excellence and breadth of Houston Endowment founder Jesse the new name becomes effective special speakers, to attend lectures, coverage now enjoyed by the sci- H. Jones) for women. on July 1. and to participate in ceremonies ences." Graduate programs will also commemorating the university. The be enhanced universitywide. The first Beer-Bike race is held. President Dwight D. Eisenhower highlight of the event is the formal visits the campus to give a nonpo- installation of Kenneth Pitzer as A new gymnasium is built. Hell Week is abolished. litical address. Rice's third president. The low point is a football game against the Uni- Rice is Southwest Conference cham- The dreaded "Math 100" course is versity of Oregon that the Owls lose 1952 pion in football again. split into a section for scientists and 31-12. Enrollment reaches 1,500: 1,304 under- engineers and a section for graduates and 204 graduate students. The first computer on campus, a nonscience majors. Rayzor Hall is built to house humani- Litton LGP-30, starts chugging out ties and is named in honor of trustee Clyde M. Williams is awarded a calculations. President Houston resigns following J. Newton Rayzor. Rhodes Scholarship. a heart attack. Carey Croneis, pro- Roy M. Hoffieinz, Jr., is awarded a vost and chair of the geology de- James R. Doty is awarded a Rhodes Rhodes Scholarship. partment, becomes acting president Scholarship. 11953 until the post can be filled. Although many significant financial contributions have come to the in- 1958 The English department starts a new 11963 stitute since its inception, the board, The first Rondelet Song Fest mu- quarterly academic journal, Studies In January, the hoard approves, for for the first time, seriously consid- sical competition is held; it re- in English Literature: 1500-1900. the first time, a formal tenure policy ers soliciting contributions as part of mains an annual event through the and, by March, has assigned all fac- a vigorous fund-raising effort, and mid-'70s. ulty tenure or one- to three-year ap- the Development Committee begins 19611 pointments. The board also activities. Rice Memorial Center opens, as does Kenneth Pitzer, who had been a addresses several connected issues Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories professor of chemistry at Berkeley, is of vital concern: rising costs, a need A lab for nuclear experimentation (built with a gift from the daughters inaugurated as the third Rice presi- for increased capital expenditures, opens. Housing a six-million-volt of trustee Harry C. Wiess and his dent. Although Pitzer wants Rice to and a difficulty in securing grants Van de Graaff particle accelerator, it wife, Olga Keith Wiess), Anderson remain modest in size, he proposes because the university is perceived will be named Bonner Laboratory Biological Laboratories (built with a enlarging undergraduate enrollment as not using all its possible financial in 1963 in honor of Professor Tom gift from the M.D. Anderson Foun- and encourages growth in the gradu- resources to the fullest. A unanimous Bonner, dation), and Hamman Hall (built ate school—from 400 to 800 students. board files a lawsuit to alter the with a gift from the George and In an effort to attract the best gradu- university's charter to permit Rice to Josephine Hamman Foundation). ate students, he increases the number charge tuition. The suit, filed on 1954 of graduate fellowships. Pitzer aLso be- February 21, also contains a second On January 1, one of the most fa- The Journal of Southern History lieves that a faculty of great distinc- important provision allowing Rice to mous plays in college football oc- moves to Rice. tion, consisting ofoutstanding teachers admit qualified students without re- curs during the Cotton Bowl, when who aLso are eminent in research, is gard to race or color. an Alabama player jumps off the the key to a university's reputation. bench to tackle Rice player Dicky 1959 He predicts that an upgraded faculty Rice becomes the first univer- Maegle, who was heading for a The college system begins to have will benefit the undergraduate as well sity to establish a space science touchdown. Officials award Rice the a dramatic effect on student politics. as the graduate programs, helping to department. points, and Rice goes on to defeat The Student Council, which prima- attract good students. In addition, he Alabama 26-6. rily had consisted of generally wants to see several new buildings— A new committee on educational elected students, changes to the Stu- one for architecture, one for fine arts, policy begins running official course dent Senate, a body composed of and two for new colleges. And last, evaluations. executive officers elected he proposes a professional school for business administration.

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28 SALLYPORT The Dean's List is renamed the built; and Fondren Library gets a President's Honor Roll. 11966 major addition. 11971 The Space Science and Technology President Lyndon B.Johnson speaks The President's Lecture Series, which Building is completed. The pass/fail option is approved. at the dedication of Sid Richardson will bring distinguished speakers to College, and Sewall Hall is completed. campus, is inaugurated. The first Tea-Trike race for women Hanszen College students start is held. KOWL student radio, replacing The Institute for the Arts and the Rice Robert E. Johnston is awarded a KHCR, in the Rice Memorial Center Media Center occupy two large tem- Rhodes Scholarship. Rice's G.E. College Bowl team— basement. porary buildings. Gordon Braden, Don Des Jarlais, Bill Kennedy, Harriet Mauzy, and 1964 Lawson Taitte—coached by 1969 The first Graduate Student Associa- 1972 In February, the court finds in favor Ferdinand Levi, is crowned undefeat- tion Council meets. Enrollment tops 3,000: 2,655 un- of the petition filed the year before ed champion on national television. dergraduates and 624 graduate to allow Rice to modify its charter Rice radio KOWL changes its call students. to charge tuition and to admit stu- letters to KTRU. dents of all races. Although tuition 11967 The English department begins giv- will now be charged, the university The Brown Foundation establishes The Institute for the Arts is founded. ing a freshman competency exam. places strong emphasis on provid- the George R. Brown Program for Intended to open the Rice commu- ing scholarship aid for all qualified Excellence in Undergraduate Teach- nity to artistic and media courses, The Office of Advanced Studies and students who need financial help. ing at Rice University. The program lectures, and exhibitions, the insti- Research is organized to coordinate will recognize faculty members tute is backed by the resources of the graduate division, research ad- The university issues a 10-year plan whose teaching has been rated best the Menil Foundation art collection. ministration, major research propos- that outlines improvements and en- by alumni and will make passible als, and continuing studies. hancements that will be required for seminars and experimental programs The MOB (Marching Owl Band) Rice to meet its own needs and ex- to promote superior teaching. forms. The Rice Center for Community pectations. These include increased Design and Research opens. fund raising, new academic build- A new campus social spot opens in By the end of the decade, Rice's ings, new residential colleges, ma- Hanszen College, its name—Corner total enrollment exceeds 3,000, yet jor purchases of laboratory for the Dreaming Monkey— reflect- the student—teacher ratio improves 1973 equipment, and library acquisitions. ing the tenor of the late '60s. It lasts to 10 to 1. Baker and Hanszen become the first Even more than in the past, students until 1975, when Willy's Pub opens. colleges to go coed; within 15 years, are to be selected for their high in- all others will follow suit. tellectual abilities, motivation, and KHCR (which will become KTRU) 1970 personal qualifications, while pro- broadcasts to Hanszen residents Chemist Norman Hackerman, fessors are the ablest that Rice can from the basement of the college. former president of the University attract. New departments are cre- of Texas at Austin, is inaugurated as 11974 The Superbowl is played in Rice Sta- ated and others strengthened, and Allen Center for Business Activities the fourth president of Rice. He dium on January 13. Miami is victo- the foreign language curriculum is is built. Housing the university's comes to a university that has just rious over Minnesota, 24-7. expanded. busine.ss offices, it is named after completed its most expansive 25 donor and Rice governor Herbert years, and he sees as his main obli- Fred Hansen '63 wins an Olympic Allen and his wife, Helen. gation the need to balance programs Baker 13, an anonymous Rice "so- gold medal in the pole vault at the with means. He is most concerned cial" club in which streakers garbed 1964 Games in Tokyo for a vault of with restructuring the administration only in shaving cream run around 16' 8.75". to address the needs of a larger, campus, makes its first appearance. 1968 more complex, more research-ori- The Office of Continuing Studies ented university. The Development The Shepherd School of Music is Rice and the Jefferson Davis Asso- opens. Its first class, held in June, is Office begins its work in earnest. founded. The establishing donation ciation begin a major historical on the low-temperature processing comes from Sallie Shepherd Perkins, study of Davis, expected to result of petroleum products. Thomas W. The Rice University Fund Council is and the school is named for her grand- in some 15 volumes of reference Leland of Rice's Department of established to seek continuing finan- father, Benjamin A. Shepherd, a promi- works. This project will still be on- Chemical Engineering is class coor- cial support for the university. nent Houston banker who passed his going in 2000. dinator, and other instructors include love of music on to his grandchildren. Riki Kobayashi and Gary Fisher from Jake Hess Tennis Stadium, named Rice's chemical engineering depart- in honor of a Rice tennis champion. The,lesse H.Jones Graduate School 1965 ment and two faculty members from is built. of Administration (later Jones School The Department of Architecture is other universities. of Management) is founded with a renamed the School of Architecture. The last official Rondelet queen is gift from Houston Endowment Inc. Kenneth Pitzer resigns as president elected. and is named in honor of the firunder Jacqueline McCauley and Charles of Rice to become president of of Houston Endowment Inc. Edward Freeman III are the first Af- Stanford University. The trustees Valhalla, the Graduate Student As- rican American undergraduate stu- announce on February 20 their sociation pub, opens. dents to attend classes at Rice. choice for the new president, Will- iam H. Masterson, historian and The first performance of Baker 1975 Tuition ($1,200) is charged for the former dean of humanities, but most Shakespeare is produced. The Shepherd Schixil of Music holds first time. faculty and students protest because an inaugural festival in September. they were not consulted in the de- Changes are made to the Rice cur- A $33 million fund-raising campaign cision. The "Masterson Crisis" ends riculum. Students must now take Willy's Pub opens. is launched. five days later as Masterson resigns. classes from humanities, social sci- History professor Frank E. Vandiver ences, and science/math, following The Science and Engineering divi- Brown College opens as the second is appointed interim president until what is referred to as "unrestricted sion is divided into the George R. residential college for women. the post can be filled officially. distribution." Brown School of Engineering and the School of Natural Sciences (to Charles R. Engles and Charles A. Ryon Engineering Lab is built with Lovett College, named in honor be renamed Wiess School of Natu- Shanor are awarded Rhodes funds from the estate of Professor of Edgar Odell Lovett, opens; ral Sciences in 1979). Scholarships. and Mrs. L. B. Ryon. Herman Brown Hall, named for the cofounder of Brown and Root, is

SPRING '00 29 by President Lovett: Rice will offer munity during the annual Eco- 1976 1980 outstanding education to the most nomic Summit of Industrialized The Brown Challenge, a fund-raising Rice holds a campus forum on "En- capable students; it will intensify its Nations. Leaders in attendance are program designed to encourage an- ergy and Our Present Generation," efforts in research, scholarship, and Italian prime minister Giulio nual gifts, is launched. It is one of the featuring Charles Duncan '47, energy professional accomplishment; and Andreotti, United States president most significant decisions ever made secretary to President Jimmy Carter, it will uphold and extend the very George Bush, Economic Commu- on behalf of the university, and by as speaker.(Duncan later serves as concept of education that animated nity president Jacques Delors, the time it ends in 1995, it will have chair of the Rice Board of Gover- the founder—service to the com- Japanese prime minister Toshiki brought the total of Brown Founda- nors for 14 years.) munity. His plans include improv- Kaifu, West German chancellor tion gifts during the period to more ing the curriculum to maintain Helmut Kohl, French president than $50 million. At the same time, the Jones and Lovett Colleges go coed. Rice's excellent undergraduate edu- Francois Mitterand, Canadian Brown Foundation matching money cation; strengthening graduate pro- prime minister Brian Mulroney, attracts additional tens of millions of grams by building on areas of and British prime minister Marga- dollars from individual donors. 1981 existing excellence; adding new fac- ret Thatcher. The Rice Institute for Policy Analysis ulty with interdisciplinary interests The U.S. Patents and Trademarks Of- is formed to study public policy. It and either great distinction or prom- fice names Fondren Library an offi- becomes part of the James A. Baker ise; fostering research; and initiat- 1991 cial patent depository, the first in Texas Institute for Public Policy in 1993. ing a new wave of building. Rice is named the best buy in Ameri- and one of only 25 in the country. can higher education by Money Rice is made a repository of NASA's Professors Robert Curl and Richard magazine in the September is,sue. Dave Roberts '73 wins an Olympic Johnson Space Center archives. They Smalley of Rice and Professor Harold bronze medal in the pole vault in are housed in WoocLson Research Kroto of the University of Sussex dis- Rice again wins the College Bowl. Montreal in 1976 by vaulting 18.5". Center in Fondren Library and will cover the third-known molecular Team members are Raymund Eich be returned to Johnson Space Cen- form of carbon, '93, Paul Holser '92, Brian Moore '92, ter in early 2000. buckminsterfullerene, affectionately Timothy Pulju '94, and John Skelton 1978 known as the "buckyball." '93. The Rice Engineering Design and 1982 On May 19, Rice celebrates the cen- Development Institute opens. The Houston Area (later changed to 1986 tennial of the filing of its charter with Advanced) Research Center, a four- The Ley Student Center, named for the state of Texas. Symposia, lec- Physicist Robert W. Wilson '57, who university consortium, opens in The Wendel and Audrey Ley, opens next tures, tours, and exhibits mark the helped prove the Big Bang theory Woodlands. Participating universities to the Rice Memorial Center. The occasion. of cosmic origins by discovering the are Rice, University of Houston, Student Association Senate, Rice Pro- background radiation in the uni- University of Texas, and Texas A&M gram Council, Graduate Student As- A building for biosciences and verse, becomes the first alumnus to University. sociation, Thresher, Campanile, and bioengineering—George R. win a Nobel Prize. KTRU move in. Brown Hall, named for the longtime chair of the Rice board—and 11983 Alumnus Larry McMurtry wins the a building for the Shepherd School Pulitzer Prize for his novel Lonesome of Music—Alice Pratt Brown Hall, The Graduate Student House opens 1979 Dove, which was published the year named for Brown's wife—are the Division of Humanities and So- in the former Tidelands Motor Inn before. completed. al Sciences becomes two separate building at the corner of Main Street schools. and University Boulevard, giving graduate students, for the first time, 1992 The Rice Quantum Institute, com- a residence hall of their own. 1987 Sid Richardson and Brown Colleges Rice holds a "Summit of the Mind," posed of chemists, physicists, and become the last colleges to go coed. featuring speakers such as Robert engineers, is founded. It is Rice's first Wiess College goes coed. Wilson, Rice's Nobel laureate in interdisciplinary research center, a Changes are made again to the Rice physics. concept that will become integral to The Seeley G. Mudd Computer Sci- curriculum. The new "foundation Rice University in the decades to ence building is constructed with a course curriculum" states that sci- George Rupp announces his resig- come. Transcending traditional major grant from the Los Angeles- ence, engineering, architecture, nation as president of Rice to pur- boundaries between disciplines, de- based Seeley G. Mudd Fund. and music students must take a sue other opportunities, though he partments, and even divisions, in- year-long humanities course and remains in office until June 30, 1993. terdisciplinary programs bring a social science course, and hu- He later becomes president of research and ideas from widely di- 11984 manities and social science stu- Columbia University. vergent fields to bear on scientific, The Materials Science building dents must take a year-long natural technical, social, and cultural prob- opens, thus completing the engi- science course lems that cannot easily be solved by neering quad. a single approach. 1993 Rice announces the first scholarships Herring Hall, for the Jesse H. Jones Economist S. Malcolm Gillis is inau- for minority students. The Student Senate Association School of Administration, is com- gurated as the sixth president of Rice urges Rice to drop requirements that pleted and named for Robert J. Her- on October 30. He comes to Rice two-thirds of entering classes must ring, Houston business leader and from Duke University, where he be from Texas. Although the policy former chair of the Rice board. 1988 served as dean of the graduate derives from Rice's charter, the policy Wiess College pulls off the biggest school, vice provost for academic is slowly and quietly abandoned. By President Norman Hackerman student prank in Rice history—us- affairs, and then dean of the Faculty the mid-1980s, more than half of the announces his retirement. ing only a hand-built A-frame, stu- of Arts and Sciences. He pays hom- students will be from outside Texas. dents rotate Willy's Statue 180 age to Rice's traditions and academic degrees so that he faces the library. excellence, but he also emphasizes Fondren Library catalogues its one- 1985 the diverse ways Rice needs to re- spond to a changing world. These millionth volume. George E. Rupp is named the fifth changes include investing in efforts president of Rice. Former dean of 1990 to internationalize Rice, concentrat- Harvard Divinity School and a pro- In July, Rice hosts the leaders of ing on new undertakings in science fessor of religious studies, he is the the seven largest industrialized de- and engineering, providing greater first nonscientist president of Rice. mocracies and the representative responsiveness to the community, He reemphasizes the ideals set forth of the European Economic Com- enhancing the quality and value of

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32 SALLYPORT education and scholarship at Rice, 1.1.5. attorney general Janet Reno and her remarks in a videotaped mes- Rice Owls baseball ranks .1 in the strengthening the faculty, and enlatg- Republican vice presidential candi- sage, and former Soviet Union nation during more than eight weeks ing Fondren Library. To achieve these date Jack Kemp speak at the sec- president Mikhail Gorbachev speak of regular season play. Following a aims, he vigorously pushes ahead a ond annual conference of the James to more than 6,0(8) conference at- dozen wins in a row and a best-ever number of initiatives, such as the cre- A. Baker III Institute for Public tendees. Joining in the program are season record of 59-15, the team ation of new interdisciplinary institutes Policy, November 12-13. former U.S. secretaries of state makes its second trip to the College and centers and the construction of James A. Baker, III; Warren Chris- World Series, where it plays three buildings to house them and renewal The baseball team ends the season topher; and Henry Kissinger and games. of fund-raising efforts. with a 42-23 record, winning the CNN news anchor Bernard Shaw, final SWC title and taking second to who moderated a panel discussion. Construction of Reckling Park, Rice's Former president Jimmy Carter de- Wichita State in the NY:AA Midwest new baseball stadium, begins in livers the commencement address. Regionals. Lisa McCormick is awarded a Rhodes May. It is named for donors T. R. Scholarship. and Isla C. Reckling. The James A. Baker III Institute for Two hundred students, alumni, fac- Public Policy is founded in the name ulty, and staff attend the first Rice The groundbreaking for the new of the 61st U.S. secretary of state and Women's Conference since 1963. 1998 Wiess College is on October 5. grandson of Captain James A. Baker. The new practice gymnasium is The Southwest Conference disbands; completed adjacent to the old gym. The new graduate student housing Rice joins the Western Athletic Con- complex is unveiled. The 112-unit 11994 ference. Groundbreaking ceremonies are held complex sits on 2.7 acres and is Rice defeats Texas in football after in December for the new Humani- within walking distance of campus. 29 straight years of losing to the Ike Sanders, the last surviving ties Building. The building will house Longhorns. The score is 20-17. member of Rice's first class of stu- the offices of the dean of humani- In October, former president of dents, dies. ties; the Departments of History, South Africa Nelson Mandela speaks The women's cross-country team in Autry Court before a packed wins the Southwest Conference title. Maryana Iskancler is awarded a Religious Studies, and Philosophy; crowd. Rhodes Scholarship. and the offices of the Center for the Gaiundltreaking for theJames A. Baker Study of Cultures and the Study of III Institute for Public Policy takes place. Women and Gender program. Four Inited States presidents deliver 11997 remarks: Gerald Ford and George The District Court of Harris Rice announces plans to rebuikl Wiess Bush, speaking in person, and Jimmy County approves Rice's request to College and to build a ninth college. Carter and Ronald Reagan, speaking expand the Board of Governors Marian and Speras P. Martel College, via videotaped messages. and to grant all members voting nanxxl for a Houston businessman and Sources privileges. The new board, which his wife, whrse foundation has a tra- Rice l'niversity Office of Institutional allowed up to 25 mem- dition of philanthropy to the univer- will be Research 1995 bers, will henceforth be called the sity. The rerxwated and new colleges A I'n irersity So Conceited: A Brief M., The Baker Institute Inaugural Annual Board of Trustees. will allow 83 penent of undergradu- ofRice by John Boles Conference draws dignitaries from ate students to live on campus. tort' across the nation and the world to Rice wins the WAC baseball cham- A History of Rice I ninerviir The Institute explore foreign policy challenges. pionship and the NC:AA regional, Bobak Robert Azamian is awarded Years. 1907- IMO by Fredericka Distinguished national and interna- compiling a 47-14 record, and ad- a Rhodes Scholarship. Meiners tional statesmen, scholars, and jour- vances to the College Vikirld Series. Witham Marsh Rice and llis InStilllle by nalists, including General Colin Although the team loses its second Andrew Forest Muir Powell, participate November 13-14. game,fans are elated, and hopes are 1999 high for next year's team. Rice enrollment stands at approxi- William Ward Walla?, and the Rice In- An angry student sets fire to Willy's mately 2,750 undergraduate students stitute by Patrick J. Nicholson Fund-raising campaigns for compu- and 1,550 graduate and Pub, largely destroying the pub but professional The Death of(MI Man Rice by Martin L. tational engineering and the James students. Ati of this year, Rice has con- not causing major damage to the Friedland Student Center. A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy ferred 30,627 undetgraduate and 13,580 successfully complete their goals by graduate aixl professi, nal depves. The Rice Institute. Book rfthe opening total of $92 million. The baseball team advances to its raising a Various issues of the Campanile,.Valnport. first-ever N(:AA regional tournament For the last 10 straight years. Rice Rice ,Vt..uN, Rice ()Mersin. Review, the Old Grand Organ and with a school record of 43-19 and Edythe Bates has had the highest percentage' of President:, Annual Report, and the for a musician, ends in a runner-up finish at the Recital Hall, named National Merit Scholars in its entenng Alumni Directory NCAA South Regional behind Cal musical director, and friend of Rice, class of any American university-this John Boles State-Fullerton, is dedicated in Alice Pratt Brown year, 27 percent. Hall. Its 75-stop. manual-tracker Stephen Fox Fisk-Rosales Opus 109-21 organ has In March, Hispanic magazine rates 1996 4,493 pipes. Rice fourth in the nation among Professors Robert Curl and Rich- schools that have demonstrated a School of Music cello pro- ard Smalley win the Nobel Prize Shepherd commitment to diversity. In August, wins two Grammy in Chemistry for their discovery fessor Paul Katz KplingerS Pemonal Finance Maga- Chamber Music Re- of buckminsterfullerene in 1985. Awards—Best zinc names Rice the best value anxtrig cording and Best Recorded Contem- the nation's 1,600 private universities. Composition—for his work Anne and Charles Duncan Hall is porary Quartet. dedicated in the names of a long- with the Cleveland Rice creates the Center fur Neuro- time chair of the Rice board and science, a broad-based program that Hall, the new his wife. It will house interdiscipli- James A. Baker III draws on the resources of five schools Baker Institute, the nary programs in computational en- home of the at Rice as well as the Neuroscience Sciences, and the gineering and the Departments of School of Social Division of Baylor College of Medi- Political Science Computer Science, Computational Departments of cine, to establish a new, interdisci- is dedicated. and Applied Mathematics, Electri- and Economics, plinary graduate program in the president George Bush, cur- cal and Computer Engineering. and Former neurosciences. The Rice Graduate U.S. secretary of state Statistics. rent Council approves 10 courses in neu- Madeleine Albright, who delivered roscience to begin in fall 1999.

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colu.ninist Ray Miller abotit Houston. As our city enters the 21st century, nowhere is Houston's new urban mule carts to reach the campus. character more pronounced than along the Main Street corridor. "Main Between 1915 and 1917,however, Street can become our 'signature boulevard,'" says Houston mayor Lee interest in the area increased, and Brown, "a vital and exciting urban environment that further defines the Houstonians banded together to character ofour city and the quality ofurban life." The goal is to make Main promote an urban design master Street more appealing to everyone, from developers and businesses to plan for Main Street. residents and visitors, by encouraging a people-friendly environment with Such forward thinking and com- places to sightsee, shop,and dine and places to relax by a fountain, learn in munity involvement paid off. The a museum, or become inspired by art. street lengthened, the area devel- Redevelopment of Main Street as a signature boulevard will give Houston oped and prospered, and grand widespread recognition as the world-class city it is. "Main Street holds homes were built. From about Houston's history and its future,"says Susan Young,executive director ofthe 1920 to 1950,Main Street served South Main Center Association(SMCA), a nonprofit organization founded Houstonians as the center of ur- in 1976, with the assistance oflate Rice architecture dean 0. Jack Mitchell, ban life—Hermann Hospital was to build on the diversity and value of the South Main Street area. The built, forming the cornerstone of revitalization effort will significantly impact the South Main area—Rice,the what would become the Texas Texas Medical Center, the Museum District, and Hermann Park—beyond Medical Center; the Museum of simple beautification and restoration. It will have economic repercussions, Fine Arts was founded, beginning influence inter-institutional collaborations, affect transportation, enhance the Museum District; and recreation, and create ease of access to important cultural landmarks. Hermann Park became the city's Redevelopment also will impact Rice in other important, if less obvious, grandest and most developed pub- ways. A great university such as Rice needs to be tied to a great city—one lic recreational space. But Main recognized for its multitude ofofferings—to attract outstanding students and Street lost its focus in the frame- faculty from all over the country and the world. Affordable and accessible work ofthe city with the advent of housing in attractive neighborhoods close to the university, increased job interstate highways and suburban opportunities, medical center additions, and enhanced cultural and recre- development in the 1960s. Hous- ational offerings all will give students and faculty added reasons to come to tonians moved to the suburbs, Rice to live for a while—and maybe to stay. leaving Main Street a ghost of its Ifrevitalization ofSouth Main benefits Rice,it would be poetic justice,since former self. Rice led the initial development ofthe area in the first place. In 1909,the area was farmland and wild prairie. Houston's city limits ended about a mile north A TECHNOLOGY AND ofthe campus, near downtown,as did the pavement on Main Street. But on ARTS CORRIDOR this flat, flood-prone expanse ofprairie that the first campus architect, Ralph Adams Cram, called "a level and stupid site," Rice's first president, Edgar Today, however, in the same way Odell Lovett, envisioned a great university. that community forces joined to- Campus construction began in 1910, and the earliest buildings were gether in the early 20th century occupied by 1912,but even so,for the first few years, Main Street remained to establish a comprehensive plan undeveloped. Rice students who lived downtown rode public trolleys south for developing Main Street, so on Main, got off the trolleys where the pavement ended, and switched to they are doing at the beginning

36 SALL YPOR T of the 21st. Because the South And the University of St. Thomas and the University of Houston are Main area has managed to hold nearby, as is the Menil Collection, one of the most important privately its character despite the urban assembled art collections of the 20th century. With this critical mass, decay that crept into some of the Houston's South Main area could become a hub of entrepreneurial surrounding districts during the activity in the fields of biomedicine, nanoscale science, and computer past 30 years, it is setting the technology, rivaling the technology corridors in San Jose, Seattle, standard and aesthetic for the re- Boston, and Raleigh—Durham. vitalization of all of Main Street. Not only is Rice situated right in the middle of all this activity, its And once again, Rice is helping groundbreaking science and technology programs, and the facilities lead the way in the evolution of they occupy, have no parallel in Houston—or in all of Texas, for that South Main—this time with dis- matter. And these top-ranked programs are extensively augmented by cussions to promote the area as a projects and research sponsored within the Rice Schools of Humanity technology and arts corridor. and Social Sciences, by entrepreneurial connections provided through Those discussions began in ear- the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, by the expertise in nest about two years ago, when urban development embodied in the Rice School of Architecture, and Rice president Malcolm Gillis pro- by the cultural contributions of posed the initiative to the SMCA the Shepherd School of Music, advisory board."The educational, the Rice Art Gallery, and other technological, medical, and cul- Rice arts programs and groups. tural institutions of South Main The possibilities seem endless. have been indispensable ingredi- And to complete the mix,there is ents in Houston's emergence as a Hermann Park, already undergo- world leader in science, technol- ing significant rejuvenation that will continue during the next few years. Friends ofHermann Park(FHP), a "The educational, techno- group actively involved in capital logical, medical,and cultural projects that enhance all areas ofthe 454-acre park,and Trees for Hous- institutions of South Main ton,an organization that promotes green space protection programs, have been indispensable in- are working with Rice to protect gredients in Houston's emergence as a world leader in trees and support green space renewal and expansion programs. science, technology, education, the arts, and medicine. The "Hermann Park complements the circle beauty of the Rice campus," says scope and depth of activity occurring within this Roksan Okan-Vick '80, a Rice ar- captivates existing business chitecture alumna and executive ogy,education, the arts,and medi- director for FHP. "It is a tremen- cine," Gillis stated. "The scope and commercial interests and dous asset to Rice to have an en- and depth of activity occurring serves as a magnet to new- hanced urban green space next within this circle captivates exist- door for students,faculty, and visi- ing business and commercial inter- comers."—Malcolm Gillis tors. Hermann Park and Rice have ests and serves as a magnet to both benefited from each other's newcomers." presence." It is an idea whose time has Major park improvements in the works include reforestation, an come. After all, within a radius of expanded lake, renovations and additions to Miller Outdoor Theater, one mile are Rice,the Texas Medi- and a newly configured Hermann Park Golf Course with lakes, rolling cal Center, the Museum of Natu- topography, and a new clubhouse. A 740-foot reflection pool named ral Science, the Museum of Medi- "The Heart of the Park," will be installed and is being funded by The City ofHouston. The park will also ay cal Science, the Museum of Fine Rice Design Alliance, FHP,and the of Rice architecture dean 0. D- Arts, the Contemporary Art Mu- feature a garden dedicated to the memory initiating "The Heart of the ry seum, the Children's Museum, Jack Mitchell, an influential figure in in and Hermann Park. The business Park" effort. committed to enlarging our presence SO districts ofdowntown, the South- "Rice University is unreservedly the South Main technology and lg west Freeway, and the West Loop outside ofour hedges," says Gillis. "And are each within a 10-minute drive. arts corridor is an important ingredient of that presence."

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Orchestrating a community-based vision for the Main Street corridor has not been an easy task. "South Main needs ease of access, and or- phaned areas have to be adopted and cared for," says SMCA's Young. Al- though various community groups, Rice included, have long-held ideas about how to improve the corridor, space,and limiting noise pollution. Beautification of major thoroughfares and only recently have these organiza- residential streets through landscaping, tree planting, and the construction of tions begun to work together toward fountains and arches will create a captivating urban landscape for visitors to the common goal of redeveloping Main Street and Fannin south ofBinz. New and better modes oftransportation Houston's urban spine. will help make the surroundings more inviting to pedestrians, as will the In June 1999,Making Main Street installation of attractive street lighting and benches. Happen, Inc., a private fund-raising Rice supports these efforts to create people-oriented spaces that organization formed to encourage reflect the history and diversity of Main Street, and the university is corporate and foundation funding of collaborating with governmental and civic organizations to encourage the Main Street area, sponsored a further development. But Rice is interested in more than growth— design competition open to archi- maintaining the character of the area's institutions and neighborhoods tects from around the world. The is also a top priority for the university. Rice believes that a commitment task was to create a bold new vision of to preservation,rather than complete renovation, will allow the area not only to survive but to thrive.

"Where is Houston headed TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

in the 21st century? All one And thrive it will. In the next 20 years, Harris County expects the number of needs to do is to look at its residents to increase by 1 million, with a similar increase in jobs as well. The number ofdowntown Houston households are expected to grow from 690 to what's happening in the more than 5,100; in Midtown, now booming with apartment and South Main corridor—this one small area is a microcosm of townhouse construction,from 7,500 some of the finest intellectual, cultural, and technological to 18,400; and in the Texas Medical Center/Rice/Astrodome area,from minds in the world and can tell us much about where we are 18,900 to more than 20,000. going and how we will get Resolving traffic and infrastructure the Main Street corridor. Los Ange- problems in the South Main area will les-based Ehrenkranz Eckstut & there."—Lloyd Bentsen. require a number of approaches, in- Kuhn(EE&K) emerged as the win- cluding streetscape enhancement,inner. Rice architecture historian creased parking, more pathways for Stephen Fox reviewed EE&K's win- pedestrians and bike riders,and the widening and refurbishing ofthe Southwest ning designs and said they were an Freeway. A new freeway off-ramp at Main Street will provide better access to important first step toward turning the area and will give visitors a front-door arrival to Rice without channeling Main into Houston's "axis oflife." traffic through the area's neighborhoods. The university also is working to IfEE&K's concept is agreed on by strengthen its shuttle service and is looking for ways to improve signage, area stakeholders, the firm would upgrade campus entrances, and protect the area from excessive traffic. develop a master plan for the corridor The mostsignificant development in terms ofsolving the area's potential traffic that will recast Main Street as a signa- problems is METRO's implementation of a ground-level light rail system. To ture boulevard linking together a se- date, Houston is the only major city in the nation without rail transit. The seven- ries of great urban districts. Plans to mile Main Street corridor waschosen to inaugurate the system because it is a high- elevate the aesthetics of the entire volume traffic conduit linking downtown,the Texas Medical Center,entertain- Main Street area include improving ment and sports facilities, parks and museums, and universities and residential commercial districts,supporting his- areas. With the advent of light rail, all members of the Rice community— toric preservation,expanding cultural particularly students without cars—will have easier access to the university and to attractions, enhancing existing park the rich resources of Main Street from downtown to the South Loop. Architectural renderings courtesy of Ehrenkranz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects

39 SALLYPCIRT According to a September 24, 1999,Houston Chronicle article, three studies in Houston have predicted Sowah F that the new rail system would en- P Beginnings courage about $500 million in addi- J. S. Cullinan,the founder ofTexaco, hired St. Louis landscape tional development along the Main Street corridor—development that architect and city planner George E. Kessler to plan the early would never happen with buses. The transformation ofMain Street. Cullinan was so dedicated to the rail also will help curb Houston's idea that he bought the 40-acre tract between the Rice campus pollution problem by replacing the and the Museum ofFine Arts's site and hired Kessler to design 1,200 buses that currently run through the South Main corridor this tract as the residential neighborhood ofShadyside.Cullinan's each day. Construction is to begin daughters, Nina J. Cullinan and Margaret Cullinan Wray, were next year, with the system's first pas- generous benefactors of Rice in the 1980s, and a number of senger taking a seat in 2004. Shadyside families had, or developed, connections to Concerned about maintaining the other aesthetics ofSouth Main Street, Rice Rice. Two Shadyside residents, cofounders ofthe Humble Oil supported a Fannin Street alignment & Refining Co.(now Exxon), became Rice trustees: R. Lee for the rail in the Rice area so that the Blaffer and Harry C. Wiess. rail would be in the "Main Street Corridor" but not on South Main William Ward Watkin, founder and first professor of the Street. Rice's persistence paid off: architecture department at Rice (later the Rice School of The light rail will run on Main Street Architecture), was one of the pivotal figures in the creation of through downtown and the Mid- Main Street. He was the ar- town area, but at Hermann Drive,it will move over to Fannin as it continues through the Rice/Hermann Park/ chitect ofthe Museum ofFine Texas Medical Center area. Arts (the first public art mu- "METRO's proposal for light rail on the Main Street corridor is a winner," seum in Texas), the Edward President Gillis stated in a September 1999 Houston Chronicle op-ed piece. The system, he explained, would positively impact the area by ameliorating Albert Palmer Memorial traffic problems and helping make South Main a magnet for economic Chapel, and the Harry C. development. Wiess and Frederick A. Heitmann houses in SOUTH MAIN TI-E FUTURE OF Shadyside, all facing Main The revitalization and redevelopmentofthe Main Street corridor is perhaps the Street. Watkin also designed most important and comprehensive civic undertaking for Houston since the the original Miller Memorial building ofthe Ship Channel."Where is Houston headed in the 21stcentury?" Theater in Hermann asks former senator Lloyd Bentsen. "All one needs to do is to look at what's Park,the happening in the South Main corridor—this one small area is a microcosm of columns of which were reas- some ofthe finest intellectual, cultural, and technological minds in the world sembled as the Mecom— and can tell us much about where we are going and how we will get there." Rockwell Colonnade when Linking together downtown,midtown, three institutions ofhigher learning, three sports stadiums,the Texas Medical Center,and neighborhoods represent- Watkin's theater was demol- ing our city's diverse population,the Main Street corridorsymbolizes Houston's ished and replaced by the energy and its economic, technological, educational, and civic values. As the present Miller Outdoor The- Main Street redevelopment process continues to unfold,the character ofour city, ater. Watkin's colleague James and our university, will be redefined for the 21St century. • Chillman, Jr., professor of architecture, served as the first LIGHT RAIL DERAILED? director of the Museum of As of press time, the late of Metro's light rail project is in question. U.S. Represen- Fine Arts from 1924 to 1953. tative Tom DeLay of Sugar Land, chair of the Transportation Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, has barred the use of any federal funds for the light rail project pending public approval through a referendum on the matter. Metro is currently unable to hold such a referendum, however, because of legal issues. Metro officials say that building the system might still be possible without federal funds but would not publicly speculate on specific fallback options.

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IliVITSily at Hire moves ill the right direr —

BY DAVID D. MEDINA

CULTURE RICE UNIVERSITY SENIOR KEN MASTERS LEARNED THE value ofdiversity early in life. He was in kindergarten when he realized that, as a member of the Cherokee Nation, he wasn't like most of his classmates.• Saddened by this revelation,Masters went to his great-grandmother,who explained to him in a metaphor why he shouldn't worry. She lifted her hand and showed him that each of her fingers had great freedom of movement. Then she bent her pinkie, Masters says, and suddenly the mobility of the other fingers was diminished. Without one finger, different as it may be,she told him,the whole hand becomes less. Diversity, Masters believes, works sions and financial aid for Texas based scholarships—the Barbara the same way. "Each experience institutions, Rice has done im- Jordan, the James Byrd, Jr., and brings different skills. Eyes from pressively well in its efforts to the Urban League Scholarships— a different culture bring new views foster a diverse student body. Al- that recognize students who build to the same problem. Without though black and Hispanic fresh- bridges between and within cul- diversity, we lose something vital— man enrollment did drop after tural and ethnic communities. A a critical viewpoint, an unex- Hopwood was implemented in group of Rice alumni has estab- pressed thought, a pair of willing 1997(Hispanics went from 76 to lished a scholarship fund specifi- hands. We all become less." 59, blacks from 52 to 28), this cally for minority students (see That's why Masters, who past fall, Rice enrolled the high- sidebar on page 44). And to boost comes from Oklahoma,has a spe- est number of Hispanics in the minority recruiting, Associate cial fondness for Rice. "I have history ofthe school, 85,and the Provost Roland Smith created the grown to appreciate Rice for its third highest number of blacks at Rice Nominators Circle in 1998 challenges to become more di- 50. Last year, Hispanic Magazine to enlist the help of high school verse," he says, "and I admire ranked Rice number four in the teachers, counselors, and com- the willingness ofthe faculty, ad- nation among schools that have munity educational advocates in ministrators, and students to hear demonstrated a commitment to identifying prospective students new ideas." diversity, and this year it rated of color. Rice University has indeed em- Rice second. Among highly Se- Another recruitment program, braced diversity, especially in the titled Vision, has been very suc- last several years, when Rice presi- cessful in attracting minority student Malcolm Gillis made it one dents to Rice. Each year, the of his priorities. "At all levels, program brings about90 students including our Board of Trustees, who have been accepted or who the university has resolved to stand a good chance of being maintain a diverse community," accepted to spend Thursday Gillis explains. "For our part, we through Sunday in one of the are determined to make our cam- colleges. While at Rice, students pus a community ofstudents,fac- take a tour, attend classes, are ulty, administrators, and alumni treated to a special dinner in who will build bridges wherever Cohen House, and interact with essential and dismantle walls wher- students, faculty, and alumni. ever necessary." They also visit local museums, Rice tore down a major wall in Baylor College of Medicine, and 1965, when nonwhite students the Galleria and enjoy a dinner in were officially admitted. There- the Village. About half of the after,integration was slow in com- students who attend Vision wind ing to Rice as Babs Willis, the up enrolling at Rice. The whole college coordinator for Will Rice, program takes extensive planning remembers. "When I came in lective private universities, by the Minority Interest Com- 1969, it was mostly male and Stanford and Rice lead the nation mittee ofthe Student Admission mostly white," she says. "But in in enrolling Hispanic students, Council, which enlists the vol- the'80s, we started getting people according to Julie Browning,dean unteer help of about 80 Rice from all over the world. It was of undergraduate enrollment. students. wonderful." "Given our success in the last two Yet another program, which Today, minorities— years," says Browning, "we are focuses on luring prospective African Americans, Asian heading in the right direction, Hispanic students to Rice, is the Americans, Hispanics,and but we will have to continue to Collegiate World Series, spon- Native Americans—make work very hard to enroll diverse sored by the National Hispanic up 3 5 percent of classes at Rice." Institute. Through the Colle- the 2,731 under- Rice's efforts to increase diver- giate World Series, about 100 graduate stu- sity are tied to a number of inno- high school seniors spend sev- dent population. vative programs that don't use eral summer days on campus to And despite the race as a criteria but, neverthe- learn the admission process. 1996 Hopwood less, expand the pool of appli- They are taught interviewing decision that cants by making Rice a more techniques, the finer points of banned the attractive place to minority stu- essay writing, and how to work use of race dents. Just in the last two years, together in teams. in admis- Rice has established three merit- At the graduate-student level, Rice received a $2.7 million grant versity since Gillis's arrival at Rice last year from the National Sci- in 1993. It is because of him, INTERNATIONAL ence Foundation, which the uni- Tapia explains, that the impor- STUDENTS ENLIVEN versity matched with more than tance of diversity has filtered MIX OF $2 million,to establish the Alliance down to all levels ofthe adminis- RICE STUDENTS for Graduate Education and the tration. "Thanks to Malcolm, Professoriate at Rice (AGEPR). Rice now is perceived across the Of all the U.S. schools that he could have This program seeks to increase country as a friendly place for attended, including Princeton University, the number of minority and other minorities," he says. "Malcolm Obiefuna "Kris" Chikelue came to Rice underrepresented groups with goes out of his way to make mi- from Lagos, Nigeria, because of Ph.D. degrees in science, math, norities feel at home." Houston's "very nice weather." and engineering and to foster the Five years ago,Gillis started the "It doesn't snow and the humidity is development offuture role mod- President's Council on Minority bearable," says the Rice senior. "It's awe- els and leaders. AGEPR students Affairs, a group of students, fac- some." That Rice is small and offers an receive a three-year fellowship, ulty,and administrators who meet excellent education also played a big part tuition waiver,and travel funds to monthly to discuss issues that im- in his decision. attend professional conferences. pact minority success on campus. Whatever the reason, more interna- Students also serve as recruiters Also, through the Consortium tional students are walking through the and mentors to undergraduate on Financing Higher Education, Sallyport each year, bringing their own students and tutor K-12 students. perspectives and cultures to a campus "There is an untapped pool of that welcomes diversity. Rice is intent on talent that, given sufficient sup- becoming a truly great international uni- port, can take their rightful place versity, and the presence of foreign stu- as scientists and leaders," explains dents has enhanced that goal, says Adria Jordan Konisky, vice provost for Baker, director of the Office of Interna- research and graduate studies and tional Students and Scholars. principal investigator for the Since 1986, the number of foreign AGEPR grant. students has increased from 364 to 518, Konisky's office also funds the now making up more than 12 percent of Rice Provost Fellowship pro- the Rice undergraduate and graduate stu- gram, which is designed to pro- dent population. International students mote diversity in the graduate come from 71 countries, such as Sri student body. This fall, Konisky Lanka, Qatar, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Nor- awarded grants to several depart- way, and Argentina, but the majority ar- ments for this purpose. Staff rive from China, India. and Canada. members from his office have "I really believe that the best students also attended graduate student from other countries come to Rice," says conferences to encourage minori- Baker. "They have very good ideas and a ties to apply to Rice. strong set of morals." She adds that the Richard Tapia, the Noah Gillis leads a 31-university initia- best way to learn about another country Harding professor of computa- tive to convey to the nation the short of traveling there is to meet an in- tional and applied mathematics, value of diversity in colleges and ternational student. is widely recognized for his ef- universities. Chikelue takes every opportunity to forts to get more minorities into The impact ofdiversity has been promote his country and has partici- these fields. As part of his cru- felt in other areas of Rice. The pated in various cultural fairs at Rice. sade, he directed for the last 10 Jesse H. Jones School of Man- To aid foreign students in acclimating years the Spend A Summer with agement established annual con- themselves to Rice, Chikelue also A Scientist program, sponsored ferences for Hispanic and black helped start, in 1996, the Rice Interna- by the Center for Research on professionals. This year, the Na- tional Student Association, of which he Parallel Computation, a consor- tional Black M.B.A. Association is now president. tia administered by Rice. The honored the Jones School with "There is nothing you can't do here, program, which was used as a the Outstanding Community because the advantage is that this is a model for the Alliance project, Partner of the Year award, mak- small school." says Chikelue. "You have brings students to campus during it the first time a university more people here who are willing to help ing the summer to assist Rice has won such an award. The Jones you. There are more willing people. There faculty members with research. School also offers diversity work- are more 'yes' people than 'no' people." Tapia, who has been at Rice for shops as part oforientation for all 30 years, says he definitely has M.B.A. students, and diversity is- -DAVID D. MEDINA seen more of an emphasis on di- sues are structured into the

SPRING '00 43 school's Organizational Behav- ior and Business Ethics courses. OFFER A WAY The alumni office helped estab- RICE ALUMS lish black, Hispanic, and Chinese alumni groups. Career Services A group of Rice alumni has formed a nonprofit corporation that is not associated with Rice offered its first minority career University but hopes to lure the best minority students to stay in Texas by offering them a day fair, and the Division of Pub- scholarship to Rice. lic Affairs expanded its operations Called Recruitment into Collegiate Education Through Minority Scholarships (RICE- to include minority communities. TMS), the Texas-based corporation plans to help Rice recruit and retain minority students Over the years, the number of cultural student groups has in- who would otherwise go out of state for their education and subsequent careers. creased to about 20. These "We want to help Rice level the playing field in competing for top-notch minority stu- groups represent such varied cul- give Houston and the business dents," says Hank Coleman '66. "I think this program will tures as African American, His- community an opportunity to support Rice's effort to attract and keep in Texas some of our panic, Chinese, Native American, brightest Hispanic and African American students who might be wooed by larger scholar- Jewish, Muslim, Turkish, Viet- ships offered by East and West Coast schools." namese, Korean, Aegean, and Because of the 1996 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the earlier Hopwood Taiwanese and have given Rice a ruling that banned the use of race in admissions and financial aid for Texas institutions, many minority students are leaving Texas to attend schools that are offering substantial scholarships. And the trend doesn't seem to be abating as many out-of-state universities step up their efforts to recruit minority students in Texas. In the last two years, the number of out-of-state institutions requesting a schedule of college fairs in Texas has risen nearly 60 percent, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in its November 19 issue. The article added: "Texas is being picked clean by other states." The exodus of minority students seeking higher education opportunities outside the state is not healthy for Texas, explains Carl MacDowell, president of the corporation. "Experience on college placement of minority graduates shows that students attending institutions outside of Texas often do not return to Texas to seek employment," he says. "As a result, the talents of many of our most able minority sec- variety of cultural programs. Events like Diwali Night, Lunar ondary school graduates are being lost to Texas because of the adverse impact of the New Year, Culture Fair, and an federal ruling." assortment of"awareness weeks" to the president, volunteered to MacDowel I, who recently retired from Rice as assistant are all major projects that in- serve as president of the fund, which is made up of six Rice alumni: chair Andrea S. Ehlers volve considerable student time, '88, Sofia Adrogue '88, Hank Coleman, Jr. '66, C. M. Hudspeth '40, Marco Leal '97, and expense, and talent, says Cathi Steve Shaper '58. Clack, director of the Office of RICE-TMS plans to award its first merit scholarship to minority students admitted to Rice Multicultural Affairs. Rice stu- in fall 2001. The goal of the fund is to award merit scholarships worth $10,000 spread over dents can also reap the benefits four years, or $2,500 each year. By 2003, the fund hopes to present 20 scholarships per year. of diversity by joining AD- To quality for a scholarship, a student must first be admitted to Rice and then be nomi- VANCE, an organization that nated by a high school counselor, teacher, or high school administrator. The scholarship promotes cultural awareness and openly discusses issues of diver- will be awarded strictly on the basis of merit and leadership potential. sity and embraces individual dif- Andrea Ehlers says the corporation will be soliciting gifts from a number of Houston cor- ferences while emphasizing the out in their ability to employ top- porations and businesses. "They are the ones who are losing unity of mankind. notch minority college graduates if we do not keep them in Texas for their education," she Why the increase in student explains. Ehlers is a member of the Association of Rice University Black Alumni (ARUBA). groups? "With this newfound ac- Marco A. Leal, president of the Society of Latino Alumni of Rice (SOLAR), says,"SOLAR ceptance ofdifferences, more and members have been talking about doing this for a long time and believe that it will make an more individuals feel inclined to impact on the Rice community and minority representation." educate themselves about the cultures of both their immediate

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/16.- enrollment, says that one of the fulfilling our mission to train the is instructive that there is often things people don't realize is that leaders of tomorrow. Second, no consensus within the various high-ability students value diver- Anglo students will be deprived groups—any more than there is sity. "Research has shown that one ofthe critical opportunity to learn in the white majority—in many ofthe things they look for in select- from the diverse communities of the debates. Blacks, Hispanics, ing a college is a high level of that they will be working with Asians often differ among them- diversity in the student popula- the rest of their adult lives." selves on the issues, and as they tion," she notes. "They no longer Laura Lynn Huckaby, a Will express their views,it becomes clear want to go to a homogenous place Rice junior, says she came from a to the class that stereotypes about where everybody has the same back- white suburb in Houston, where what the various groups believe are ground. It makes for a very boring she was mostly exposed to "Eu- not trustworthy." class discussion and social life and ropean American ideas, religions, As everyone agrees, Rice has everything else." and holidays." Living in close come a long way since it admitted Cynthia Leonor Garza, a se- proximity to minorities,she says, its first African American student nior from Baker College, agrees. gave her the opportunity to see in 1965. Yet Rice cannot rest on Garza is from the small South other cultures. "They changed its laurels if it intends to become Texas town of Hebbronville, my view in that I am now certain a great international university. where 95 percent of the popula- that there is no one right way to Diversity, as Ken Masters says, tion is Hispanic. Before she came do anything. I find to Rice, Garza's friends were lim- the different ways ited to mostly Hispanics. "Now, of approaching life I have learned to be more sensi- fascinating. I hope tive to other people's cultures," that my continued she says. And surprisingly, she exposure to minor- adds,she has learned to embrace ity groups will en- her own ethnicity. "Learning lighten me even about other people's culture has more." made me want to learn about my Jamila Shukura own," says Garza, a former of- Nelson, a Sid ficer of the Hispanic Association Richardson senior, for Cultural Enrichment at Rice. knows that just hit- Making the student popula- ting the books will tion more diverse is a very wise not guarantee suc- thing to do,says Rice sociologist cess in the working world. "No makes us all whole. Rice, how- Stephen Klineberg, not only for matter how much you learn in ever small it may be, is striving to moral reasons but for practical the classroom, you are not going do its part to ensure that our ones, too. Houston is no longer to make it in the real world if you country, through diversity, re- a biracial Southern city, domi- don't have any experience with mains united and whole. And Ken nated by a white, male business different types of people," she is thankful for that. establishment, says Klineberg, says. "As president of the Black "I think the greatest compli- who directs the annual Houston Student Association,I have made ment I can give Rice is to say Area Survey,now in its 19th year. it a point to increase diversity that I will truly miss it when In 1970, Anglos constituted 69 within the Rice population by I graduate this May. It has percent of the Harris County inviting everyone to our events." become a critical avenue of population; blacks, 20 percent; Having a diverse student body expression and adventure Hispanics, 10 percent; and does bring a variety ofviewpoints for me. I would like others Asians, 1 percent. Today, Anglos to the classroom, says Chandler like me to experience what I are 47 percent; Hispanics, 27 Davidson, professor of sociol- have been fortunate percent; blacks, 19 percent; and ogy and political science. He enough to experience." Asians, 6 percent. teaches a class in social inequal- "Houston has suddenly be- ity, which is often attended by come one ofAmerica's most eth- members of several minority nically and culturally diverse groups. "One of the very useful metropolitan regions," Klineberg things about a diverse classroom says, a trend that will soon spread is that a wider range of perspec- to all the cities of the nation. "If tives on such issues gets ex- we are not reflecting that diver- pressed—sometimes drawn from sity at Rice, we are in trouble for personal experience," he points two reasons. First, we are not out."At the same time, I think it 1111 1,4P9';-;""rt"""' :r7

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the Rice family," and both are "first class." Reckling Park can accommodate more than 3,000 the architectural grace of the Rice campus; on the fans in the comfortable chair-back seats of the main inside, it feels like an old-time ballpark. That shouldn't grandstand, and temporary bleachers can extend the be surprising since the architects incorporated the best stadium's total capacity to 5,000. The spacious press features from 15 U.S. ballparks in designing Reckling box has state-of-the-art communications technology Park. and six radio and television booths, the electronic In his remarks at the dedication, athletic director scoreboard is equipped with a radar gun to post the Bobby May said that Reckling Park's "design and atten- speed of pitches, and the enlarged home and visitor tion to detail create an intimacy and warmth that make dugouts each have locker-room access. And there is a you feel good while you are here and encourage repeat well-equipped weight room. visits. It has produced an amazing new enthusiasm The Owls' loss to the University of Houston Cougars throughout our program." He noted some similarities on opening day may have left Rice fans disappointed, between Reckling Park and Rice Stadium: Both were but Reckling Park promises many great days to come. completed in nine months or less, both were designed and built by firms "led by highly respected members of WHO'S WHO

conducted a parody of a Leonard Bernstein children's concert. Farewell to a Composer According to Milburn, his stint with the Committee was a wonderful experience that helped him significantly as a Artists sometimes get pigeonholed. Ellsworth composer, because by working with an Milburn has not suffered such a fate. Critics have improvisational group, he learned a great deal about timing and pacing. described his music as craggy, colorful, romantic, In 1975, Milburn followed two of aggressive, searing, sweetly poignant, overwhelming, his University of Cincinnati faculty colleagues to Rice, the late Paul Cooper thrilling, powerful, wickedly funny,eloquent, brilliant, and Anne Schnoebelen, the Joseph and Ida Kirkland Mullen Professor of Mu- raging, and engaging. sic, who had both arrived in 1974 to help get the Shepherd School up and running. And members of the Shepherd School Shepherd School, "Ellsworth Milburn Milburn describes composing as a community can summon equally strong has been with the Shepherd School al- combination of "a number ofskills and words for a man they admire as an art- most from its beginning. He has made techniques, along with spontaneity, ist, teacher, colleague, and friend. Art important contributions as a teacher, deeply infused with history. At the same Gottschalk, associate professor and chair composer,and chairman ofthe compo- should reach out to explore that of composition and theory, describes sition department. We will all miss his time, it done." Those skills Milburn as "undoubtedly one of the steady hand." which has not been strongest and most versatile musicians Milburn began playing piano at age have earned him four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and I have known." Milburn's approach to 7 and became interested in composing commissions or performances from music, Gottschalk says, is "risky and yet at age 12 or so, when he realized that always with good he could improvise the Houston Symphony,the Concord and Lark string quartets, and the Da sense of propor- an accompaniment Camera Society. tion, perspective, that he believed to Richard Lavenda, associate pro- and humor." And, be better than what Says fessor of composition and theory: "It's says Gottschalk, was printed on the imagine the Shepherd School "he is an inspiration popular sheet mu- hard to without Ellsworth Milburn. It isn't only to younger faculty, sic he was playing. that he's been here since the school whom he has al- In high school, he opened, but that he's been such an im- ways supported, played in jazz portant person in it. I consider him to and to his students, groups and contin- be one of the finest composers in the who are numerous ued to do so as an country. He's also a great teacher, a and successful." undergraduate at sensitive musician, and a fair and gen- Milburn, profes- UCLA. erous person." sor of composition In 1961, the re- Milburn considers his 24 years at Rice and theory, retired nowned improvisa- to be "the real high point of my career. at the end ofthe fall tional comedy group I wanted to help build a music school— semester after be- Second City came slate—and it has ex- ing a faculty mem- to Los Angeles to start with a clean expectations. I feel very ber ofthe Shepherd perform for three ceeded my proud of my contribution. The Shep- School since it of- ABOVE, MILISURN, STANDING, IS PICTURED WITH months,and Milbum THE SHEPHERD SCHOOL'S NORMAN FISCHER, herd School has achieved a level of ex- ficially opened in PROFESSOR OF CELLO, AND JEANNE KIERMAN, was hired as their cellence that I have not seen at any place 1975. He was chair ARTIST TEACHER OF PIANO. piano accompanist. have studied or taught. Quite a bit of of the department of composition and When the Second City company I Michael Hammond's vi- theory for more than half of his time at branched off to form a San Francisco- that is due to sion and also due to the really superb Rice. Milburn retired to give himself based improvisational troupe called the colleagues I've had over the years." more time for composing, but it was not Committee, Milburn became one of its an easy decision, he says, because he permanent members and performed -DAVID K APL A N loved teaching at the Shepherd with the acclaimed comedy group from School. He will live and work at his 1963 to 1968. Celebrities such as Joan 13-acre country home in northeast- Baez, Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, and Lenny ern Pennsylvania. Bruce would drop in to see the satirical Says Michael Hammond,dean ofthe show. In one skit, Milburn narrated and

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Hardy Bourland,associate dean of physics and astronomy department guished Service Professor; David engineering, retired in January af- and was the first woman to chair Minter, the Bruce and Elizabeth ter nearly four decades ofservice to the department. Dunlevie Professor of English; and the Rice community and the George Last fall, Fred Rudolph, chair Meredith Skura, the Libbie R. Brown School of Engineering. In of the Department of Biochemis- Shearn Moody Professor of En- the 1970s, Bourland worked as the try and Cell Biology, received a Ci- glish. In the Department of His- department administrator for the tation of Merit honoring distin- tory, Richard Smith was named Department of Chemical Engineer- guished alumni ofIowa State Uni- the George and Nancy Rupp Pro- ing, as the assistant to the dean of versity (ISU) in Ames, Iowa. The fessor of Humanities. In the engineering, and later as the associ- citation, presented by ISU's Col- George R. Brown School of Engi- ate director of REDDI, a program lege of Arts and Sciences, where neering, Antonios Mikos was whose start he helped to inspire. Rudolph conducted his graduate named the John W. Cox Professor Mary McIntire, dean of the work, honored him as a distin- of Bioengineering. In the School School of Continuing Studies, is guished alumnus "for outstanding ofSocial Sciences, Herve Moulin among 10 women who were recog- professional achievement." was named the George A. Peterkin nized by Texas Executive Women The American Society of Civil Professor of Economics. In the (TEW) as a 1999 Woman on the Engineers (ASCE) named Pol Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Move honoree. Each year,TEW rec- Spanos, the Lewis B. Ryon Pro- James Tour was named the W. F. ognizes the Houston area's top fessor of Mechanical Engineering Chao Professor in Chemistry. business and professional women and Civil Engineering, as the recipi- The Shepherd School of Music's who excel in their professions and ent of the 1999 Nathan M. Art Gottschalk and Ellsworth have made major contributions to Newmark Medal. The award is Milburn are once again winners of the community's charitable and civic given to a member of the ASCE, the prestigious ASCAP Award. organizations. who, through contributions in Gottschalk is associate professor The International Union of So- structural mechanics, has substan- and chair of composition and cieties for Biomaterials Science and tially helped strengthen the scien- theory; Milburn, who retired last Engineering recently awarded tific base ofstructural engineering. fall, was professor of composition Antonios Mikos, the John W. Cox Susan Wood, professor of En- and theory. The cash awards, Professor of Bioengineering and glish, received a Pushcart Prize for made by the American Society of Chemical Engineering, the status of her poem "Diary." "Diary" was in- Composers, Authors and Pub- international Fellow of Biomaterials cluded in Pushcart's annual anthol- lishers, are granted by an inde- Science and Engineering(FBSE) for ogy, The Pushcart Prize 2000: Best pendent panel and are based on 2000 and beyond. The honorary fel- of the Small Presses (No. 24). The the unique prestige value of each low status is awarded for life. The book includes more than 60 short writer's catalog of original commission ofthe fellows is to foster the stories, poems, and essays selected positions. Gottschalk has won the field of biomaterials science and en- from hundreds ofsmall presses and award annually since 1980 and gineering and to support its profes- literary journals. Milburn since 1974. sional development as a practical and Ten new chair holders were hon- After serving the university for intellectual endeavor. ored at the annual Distinguished the past seven years as an assistant The Women in Aerospace na- Chairs Dinner. In the Jesse H. director of human resources, tional chapter has selected astro- Jones Graduate School of Manage- Russell Barnes was unanimously physicist Patricia Reiff, professor ment,Richard Bagozzi was named recommended by a search commit- and chair of Rice's Department of the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of tee to become the new director of Space Physics and Astronomy, as Management and Jennifer George equal employment opportunity/af- the recipient of its 1999 Aerospace was named the Mary Gibbs Jones firmative action. As director of Educator Award. Reiff, who re- Professor of Management. In the EEO/AA, Barnes will continue to ceived master's and doctoral de- School of Humanities, new chaired support and advance diversity at grees from Rice in 1974 and 1975, professors named in the Depart- Rice and be responsible for ensur- respectively, was the first female ment of English included Walter ing that Rice remains in compliance tenured professor in Rice's space Isle, the Clarence L. Carter Distin- with all federal requirements.

SPRING '00 49 Medal,the highest award a federal agency Rice University Names can give to a civilian. "I anticipate that my ability to continue research will be diminished, but I Eugene Levy as Provost don't expect it to stop entirely," Levy says. "I'm a theoretician, so I don't require a Eugene H. Levy,a University ofArizona physicist who finds big lab and can work with a few colleagues excitement in research, teaching, and "the ability to make or students or even on my own." Levy enjoys teaching both under- things happen," will be Rice University's next provost. graduate and graduate courses, and he intends to continue teaching at Rice, On July 1, he will take the handofffrom search and graduate education—and to though not right away. "I have a lot to Interim Provost David Minter as the suc- do so in a way that not only preserves learn about Rice," he says. His excellence cessor to David Auston, who served as but enhances the quality of undergradu- in teaching and service also have won rec- Rice provost from 1994 until becoming ate education. They go hand in hand. ognition. He is most proud of being the president of Case Western Reserve Uni- "In fact, I would go further to say that inaugural recipient, in 1999, of the His- versity last July. to continue to be what Rice has been in panic Arizona Alumni Association Award Levy, who has served as dean of the the past to undergraduates, we must ex- "for contributions to Hispanic student College of Science at the University of pand our vision in research and graduate education." In 1996, he received a Mar- Arizona since 1993,was selected by Presi- education. The world is changing, and, tin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lead- dent Malcolm Gillis and approved by the increasingly, exposure to outstanding re- ership Award from the University of Ari- board of trustees after a search and graduate stu- zona King Center "for support of civil nine-month national dents is what the best rights and social change." search led by Gale undergraduates want Though a lifelong scientist, Levy says Stokes, the Mary Gibbs and need." he in no way holds science above the Jones Professor of His- A distinguished re- humanities,social sciences,or other fields. tory, and a 14-person search and teaching ca- "Universities should aim—in education committee. "I am im- reer informs Levy's and research—to explore the nature and mensely pleased both views. His specialty, substance of human experience," he ex- with the work of the which he refers to as plains. "An important part of human ex- search committee and "cosmic physics," en- perience is encompacsed by science, which the final outcome," compasses a number of yields deep insights into the physical and Gillis says."Gene Levy is 4 areas of theoretical cos- biological conditions ofour existence and ideally suited for Rice as mic physics, planetary which underlies technologies that im- we enter another cen- geophysics, solar and prove life. However, insights about so- tury. He has been a very space physics, magneto- cial and organizational structures, about effective proponent of hydrodynamics, and the nature ofaesthetic and emotional ex- both undergraduate and electrodynamics. perience, about business and com- graduate education at Arizona and has "Among the subjects I have found most merce—I could go on with a long list— had outstanding results." stimulating for my own research," he says, are equally important to understanding Levy—who normally goes by Gene "are the origins and behavior of magnetic the human condition and are crucial to and whose last name is pronounced Lee- fields, the motion of cosmic rays in the establishing a high-functioning society." Vee—is equally pleased. "I'm extremely solar system, and the physical processes Levy's education includes a 1966 A.B. excited about Rice and its opportunities," in star formation." with high honors from Rutgers Univer- he says. "Rice is a gemstone of a univer- Levy has served as a member or chair sity and a 1971 Ph.D. from the Univer- sity. It has a wonderful student body, a of more than 50 primarily national and sity ofChicago, both in physics. In 1975, wonderful faculty, a terrific reputation. I international advisory committees influ- after a postdoctoral fellowship at the was enormously impressed by everyone encing space and science policy. In the University of Maryland and a research I met—faculty,administrators, Malcolm, 1980s, he played a key role in helping to fellowship and assistant professorship at trustees. I am pumped about the oppor- direct NASA's focus toward discovery of the Bartol Research Institute in tunity to work with these individuals to other planetary systems. In addition, he Swarthmore,Pennsylvania, he joined the achieve what they and I believe is the best led a team—involving collaborators from faculty ofthe University ofArizona. There, for the future of Rice and its value to sur- NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he was awarded tenure in 1978 and pro- rounding society. and the Universities of Pittsburgh and moted to full professor in 1983. In 1983, "Rice is at a time in its development California—San Diego—that designed a he also became head ofthe Planetary Sci- that's truly exciting," he notes. "Deci- technique for the discovery of planetary ence Department and director ofthe Lu- sions have been made to expand its vi- systems. His work won, in 1983, the nar and Planetary Laboratory. He became sion and sense of self-confidence in re- NASA Distinguished Public Service dean of the College of Science in 1993.

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None of that, Levy says, was part of a lifelong career plan but rather was a natu- Jones School Welcomes ral progression for a person who likes to Two Faculty Members make things happen."I have rarely given too much thought to my next job," he Two renowned professors joined the Jones School "My research is very eclectic, spanning many faculty last fall. Richard P. says. "I mostly focus on trying to accom- Bagozzi, the J. Hugh M. disciplinary boundaries," Bagozzi says. "I really Liedtke Professor of Psychology, comes from the enjoy working with others and am looking forward plish what I want in the job I'm in. Over Graduate School of Business Administration at the to the collaborations that cross departments in the the past year or two, I did start to think University of Michigan, where he was the Dwight Jones School; Rice allows you to start with a prob- about moving up to a higher level ofuni- F Benton Professor of Marketing and Behavioral lem and to span disciplines to find the answers." versity leadership. And I think ofit as lead- Science in Management. Jennifer M. George, the His book Cognition and Emotion comes out ership, not as C, administration. Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Psychology, taught later this year. "One of my weaknesses, if you will, is in the Department of Management at Lowry Mays "My deep respect for Gil Whitaker persuaded :e that I find satisfaction in a wide range of College and the Graduate School of Business at me to be open about the possibility of coming to c- activities," he says. "Academic leadership Texas A& M University. the Jones School," Bagozzi says. "I was sold by is one ofthose. I find research very excit- Bagozzi demurs at being described as one of the faculty—their excitement, sense of vision, and s- ing. I find teaching very exciting. I find the foremost marketing experts in the world, say- dedication to teaching and research convinced me rd the ability to take leadership and make ing his greatest honors are his teaching awards. to leave a school where I've been happy and fully nt things happen very exciting. I truly love At the University of California—Berkeley, he was expected to retire from." lr- the academic life." named the Outstanding Marketing Professor in the George agrees with her new colleague that this d- Levy's style ofspeaking reflects how oth- M.B.A. program and won an is an exciting time to be part ri- ers describe him: equally passionate and award for outstanding teach- of the Jones School as it vil tough-minded,collegial and willing to take ing from the Undergraduate "makes great strides in charge, humorous and straightforward. School of Business and a improving its quality even ys Words such as "initiative" and "accomplish- university-wide award for his further." She also finds Ie ment" pepper his discussion of the work distinguished teaching— Houston to be an exciting ahead. Take for example,the issue ofRice's the first person from the city with many good busi- business school to win the ness in size relative to its competitors: opportunities. "I would be uncandid if! didn't say I award. At Michigan, he was "I really enjoy my the first recipient of the Out- work," she says. "I focus on x- realize that the size of Rice is challenging RICHARD P. BAGOZZI standing Teaching Award, affect, mood, and emotion x- to some of its aspirations," he says. "At Ph.D. Program, an award he in the workplace. It's a rela- ch Rice, we must especially carefully target won twice in five years. tively new field how resources will be used, what priori- of study, so ad He's averaged 10 pre- I've been able to advance ties will be set, what initiatives will be taken, ad sentations a year at society the understanding of it and what will be nurtured, and we must n- meetings since earning his considerably." make each ofthose decisions with as much o- Ph.D. in marketing, social In recognition of her wisdom, insight, and foresight as we can at psychology, and statistics work, George is an elected muster. Whatever x- our limitations, we must from Northwestern Univer- fellow of the Society for In- n manage within them in ways that help us sity in 1976. He's also pub- JENNIFER M. GEORGE dustrial and Organizational to be our most effective. That's part of lished well over 150 articles in journals, authored Psychology Inc., the American Psychological Soci- ng what's exciting about the job." or edited 16 books and special issues of journals, ety, and the American Psychological Association. to Asked how others would describe him and contributed to an additional 18 books. His Since earning her doctorate in management and or- in that decision-making process, Levy research has been acknowledged by the Ameri- ganizational behavior from New York University in B. thought a moment and replied, "Very can Marketing Association, which presented him 1987, George has published close to 50 articles. Her er- open and very collegial. One ofthe most with its Paul D. Converse Award; by the Academy book Understanding and Managing Organizational er- important roles I can play is in facilitat- of Marketing Science, which gave him its Out- Behavior, coauthored with G. R. Jones and published r5, ing, enabling, and allowing creative ini- standing Marketing Educator of the Year Award; by Addison—Wesley in 1996, is now in its second he tiative on the part of others. by the American Marketing Association/Richard edition. She is also one of three authors of Contem- •ch "A university lives or dies on the basis D. Irwin Publishing Company's Distinguished porary Management, published in 1998 by Irwin at ofits creative initiative," he says."We have Educator Award; and by a lifetime achievement McGraw—Hill. George has made 29 presentations in to hire every faculty member and many award from the Association for Consumer Re- and currently serves on four editorial boards. :he staff members on the basis of their cre- search. No one other than Bagozzi has won all "These major faculty appointments tell me that ative capacities and initiative. One ofour four of these awards. our repositioning actions are being well received He's currently on 17 editorial boards and is in the academic community," ro- objectives has to be to capitalize on those saysJones School dean a member of the American Marketing Association, Gil Whitaker. "We are extremely pleased that the 33, capacities and to afford our people the opportunity and the satisfaction of mak- Association for Consumer Research, American Jones School is a key player both in creating new ing things happen that are important for Psychological Association, American Psychological knowledge and in developing leaders in business." u- Society, and the university." the American Sociological Association. me -DEBRA THOMAS -TERRY SHEPARD

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Schlumberger Students Continue Award-Winning Ways

Recognizes Grad Hanszen senior Anne Countiss was re- selected from an initial applicant pool of Student's cently selected as one of 18 Luce 137,000 high school seniors. Since 1990, Scholars. The Luce Scholars Program, there have been 16 Rice Coca-Cola schol- Contributions similar in caliber to the Rhodes and ars, including four national scholars who Marshall scholarships, will provide her received $20,000 scholarships. Code she's written to help with a stipend and internship to live The Quartet Training Program, which to create a computational and work in Asia for a year. Only 66 began in 1997, is now coming into full tool for widespread colleges and universities are eligible to bloom: Not only was this the first aca- nominate students for demic year in which two chemical applications is the award. quartets trained simulta- beginning to attract sig- In June, Michelle neously, but the first string nificant attention for Meyer,a junior with a bio- quartet to study in the pro- Juanita Jaramillo, a sec- chemistry and chemistry gram, the T'ang Quartet, ond-year Rice graduate double major, received an won awards at its first com- award from the American petition. The quartet—Yu- student. And so is her Society of Pharmacognosy Ying Ng, violin; Chek- work on density functional (ASP)to further her under- Meng Ang, violin; Lionel theory with professor of graduate research in bio- Tan, viola; and Leslie Tan, chemistry Gustavo E. chemistry. Pharmacognosy cello—competed against 14 Scuseria. deals with the study of other groups from around natural drugs and their bo- the world last fall in Weimar,

Such attention recently tanical sources and charac- LUN JIANG, VIOLIN; Germany, and won third came in the form of the teristics. Meyer was one of SHEILA BROWNE, VIOL.; prize and a Special Jury Schlumberger Foundation only three students from QUAN JIANG, VIOLIN; AND Prize for best interpretation CHENG.HOU LEE, CELLO Fellowship,which supports across the country to re- of a contemporary compo- a student in the Wiess ceive an ASP Undergradu- sition. The Quartet Train- ing School ofNatural Sciences ate Summer Research Program's newest quartets are the Anderson and in mathematics,chemistry, Grant. Meyer also received support through the chem- Gotham Quartets. The physics, or geology and istry department's Richter Anderson Quartet—Jeffrey geophysics. Scuseria said in Fellowship. Boga, violin; Marianne a letter recommending Three Rice freshmen Henry, violin; Michael Jaramillo for the fellow- were named recipients of Cameron, cello; and ship, "She has been ex- scholarships from the Diedra Lawrence, viola— tremely quick in grasping Coca-Cola Scholars Foun- is the first African American the work previously done dation, while a fourth ensemble to win a major in the group and has al- freshman received a First competition in the field of ready contributed signifi- Generation Scholarship. classical music. The Gotham JEFFREY Bona, VIOLIN; cantly to the project with The Coca-Cola scholars arc MARIANNE HENRY, VIOLIN; Quartet features identical her own ideas." Scuseria Maro Passeri, Hanszen, MICHAEL CAMERON, CELLO; AND twin, Chinese-born violin- also lauded Jaramillo's Miles Rodriguez, Wiess; DIEDRA LAWRENCE, VIOLA ists, 1.ain and Quan Jiang, work on the computa- and Victoria Zyp, Wiess. violist Sheila Browne, and tional tool. Each student received a $4,000 scholar- cellist Cheng-Hou Lee. Besides doing research, ship, which will be distributed over four Sixty-three Rice students will appear in Jaramillo also teaches years. Aliaquanda Derrick, Lovett, re- the 1999-2000 edition of Who's Who chemistry courses at the ceived a First Generation Scholarship from Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. The recipients were awarded university. the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Texas Independent College Fund. The scholar- certificates through their colleges and the ship provides $5,000 per year for four Graduate Student Association. —PHILIP MONTGOMERY years. The 1999 Coca-Cola scholars were

52 SALLYPORT Through all the changing scenes of life, In Trouble and in Joy. . .

After a string of wins and successes, Rice's George state champions for four straight years. And at the National Parliamentary De- R. Brown Forensics Society was forced to take pause bate Association Tournament in after losing one of their own on March Omaha,they placed 14th as a team and 13. finished sixth for the "yearlong" trophy. What makes the team's accomplish- Baker College freshman Daniel will be missed. Among Rice's individual ments particularly impressive is that Rice Henning was killed when a van in which titles, Henning won the national com- competes against larger university foren- he was riding was hit from behind as petition in the student congress event, sics teams that can draw from commu- the speech and debate team returned a form oflegislative debate. He also took nications departments that have as many from a debate tournament in Omaha, a third place in extemporaneous speak- as 20 faculty and 14 graduate students Nebraska. The accident occurred just a ing. In parliamentary debate—junior var- coaching their squads. Rice has no com- few miles north of Houston. Henning, sity division, he took a sixth place as an munications department and only two who was 18, died at the scene within individual and a second place as a team coaches: West and assistant coach Chris minutes ofthe accident. Two other stu- with Lovett College freshman Randy Aspdal, who notes that Rice's upper- dents, Hanszen College sophomore Meissen. Henning also won an excel- classmen often assist in the training of Brook Ames and Lovett College sopho- lent rating in impromptu speaking. the underclassmen. more Michael Erfe, sustained injuries "This win is that required them to be hospitalized something we've for a time, while five other students were been working for treated for minor injuries and later re- since I started here leased. The team's two coaches and four seven years ago," additional students, who were riding in said Dan West, a a second van, were uninjured. School of Humani- A memorial service for Henning, ties lecturer and di open only to the Rice community, was rector of forensics, held March 14 at Baker College. in an interview be- Henning's funeral was held in Vernon fore the traffic ac Hill, Illinois, the Chicago suburb he was cident that claimed from. The Office ofStudent Affairs pro- Henning's lift. "The amount of work Senior political science/policy stud- vided funds for five Baker students to these kids have done this year has been ies double major Robert Lundin de- attend the funeral. amazing." scribes the forensics team as an "incred- James Copeland, professor oflinguis- At the event, Brown College senior ible" combination oftalented freshmen tics and Baker College master, said: and team captain Hiren Patel won four and upperclassmen. The squad is quite "Dan will be remembered fondly and individual trophies, the most by anyone young collectively: About half the team be greatly missed. He was a wonderful in the history of the tournament. Patel members are freshmen, a quarter are debater, and we were all very proud of won the informative speaking, im- sophomores, and another quarter are him." promptu speaking, after-dinner speak- upperclassmen. Says West,"We've made The sorrow over the death of ing,and communication analysis events. some changes in the way that we run Henning came just two weeks after the Ames became the first student ever to the team this year. We have a group that elation from the team's crowning as succeed in all three genres of perfor- works harder and is more dedicated to overall national champions at a major mance at the nationals by reaching the searching for excellence in all of their tournament in St. Louis. On February finals in oral interpretation, public speak- performances." 29, Rice competed against some much ing, and limited preparation speaking. Despite the painful loss oftheir team bigger schools at the Pi Kappa Delta Rice won nine individual titles and member, the overall national champi- National Tournament. By winning in about 60 awards in all. Although the ons forged ahead with plans for other both speech and debate, the forensics forensics team had never before won the important national tournaments that team became the first Rice team to win overall championship, they took home took place this spring. an overall national championship. the national team championships in de- Henning's contributions to the team bate in 1997 and 1998. They have been

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Lady Owls Conclude Historic Season

SENIOR STARS LEAD RICE TO FIRST CONFERENCE TITLE AND NCAA TOURNAMENT VICTORY The 1999-2000 women's basketball season was nothing short of historic, as the Owls won Rice's first conference title and earned the school's first appearance in the NCAA championship tournament.

Perhaps most unforgettable, that first final match to set up a showdown with at Rice in women's basketball," says appearance was a smashing success, as the top-seeded SMU. The title game went McKinney."And when we brought Kim Owls stunned #9 University of Califor- down to the wire, as seniors Kirra Jor- Smallwood into that class, she made it nia—Santa Barbara 67-64 before a parti- dan and Marla Brumfield each nailed a even stronger." san crowd of 5,800 at the UCSB cam- pair offree throws in the closing seconds "Coach McKinney wasted no time in pus March 18. Rice's to give Rice a 71-67 win. Brumfield led telling us,'You are the class that will bring victory before an the game with 27 points and was named us the NCAA tournament," Cafferty ESPN audience tournament MVP. recalls. "Those expectations were placed snapped UCSB's 26- The WAG title sent the Owls to the on us from day one." game winning streak NCAA tournament as 13th seed in the With each season, the Owls made and sent a clear signal West region, where they upended host progress toward that goal, earning wins that Rice women's UCSB,seeded fourth and ranked #9 in over nationally ranked opponents and basketball has arrived. the nation. Kim Smallwood's 22 points making their mark in postseason play. In Getting to that and Rice's stifling defense sealed the vic- the Class of 2000's first season, which milestone was not easy, tory. Although Rice was flattened by pe- was also Rice's first year in the WAG,the as the 1999-2000 sea- rennial national power North Carolina Owls posted a 16-11 record to end a son got off to a rocky in the second round, the Owls finished string of seven straight losing seasons. start. The Owls' fall the year with a 22-10 record, the most Brumfield was named the WAC's New- nonconference sched- wins in school history. comer of the Year. KIM SMALLWOOD ule included losses to The seeds of this year's success were The breakthrough really began in #17 Texas Tech and to sown back in 1995-96,when head coach 1997-98, as the Owls raced to a 21-9 Michigan and a frus- Cristy McKinney, then in her third year finish, including upset wins over #15 trating one-point de- at the Owls' helm, recruited four high Hawaii and #16 Utah. Rice advanced to feat by Memphis. The school stars to play for Rice. the WAG title game and earned a bid to nadir ofthe season was The class that matriculated in 1996 the Women's National Invitation Tour- a grueling 10-day included Houstonian Marla Brumfield, nament (WNIT), the first postseason stretch in January that an amazingly quick guard who was the berth in the team's history. Both saw the Owls travel to Texas 5A Player of the Year as a high Brumfield and Jordan earned first-team Maine,Tulsa, and Ha- school senior; Kirra Jordan, a tall, ath- all-conference honors. waii and lose at all letic forward from nearby Sugar Land; Last year, Rice posted a 20-12 record three sites. Jenny Cafferty, a three-point sharp- to notch the first consecutive 20-win sea- But Rice bounced shooter from Mounds View, Minnesota; sons in school history. The Owls ad- back from the Hawaii and point guard Sara Ludwig of vanced to the semifinals ofthe WAG tour- loss with four consecu- Springdale, Arkansas. nament and earned not only a repeat bid tive wins. Then in Feb- That class gained another star in 1997, to the NIT but the right to host their K IR R A JORDAN ruary, the Owls went when Kim Smallwood transferred to Rice first-round game—the first time Rice had on a six-game tear, capped by a 69-56 from the University of Tennessee, one ever hosted national postseason play in a drubbing of archrival SMU,at the time ofthe most formidable women's basket- team sport. The Owls made the most of in first place in the Western Athletic Con- ball programs in the nation. Smallwood, the opportunity, defeating Miami in the ference (WAG)standings. who also runs track for Rice, brought a first round,then stunning Baylor on the At the WAG championship tourna- strength and physical aggressiveness that road in overtime before falling to Arkan- ment, Rice easily dispatched host Fresno added a new dimension to Rice's game. sas in the NIT quarterfinals. State in the first round, then edged Ha- "In 1996 we definitely said that it was This steady progress could easily have waii 76-73 in an intensely physical semi- the best class that had ever been signed been derailed along the way. While

54 SALLYPORT Brumfield and Jordan quickly blossomed Cafferty's academic accomplishments into offensive and defensive stars, have been equally impressive. A triple Two Lady Owls Ludwig's promising career as the Owls' major in economics, psychology, and point guard was cut short by both a foot managerial studies with a 3.74 GPA,she Head to VVNBA injury and bilateral compartment syn- was named Rice's female Scholar-Ath- drome, which causes painful swelling in lete ofthe Year and was the national win- On April 25, Lady Owls the legs. She remained at Rice but re- ner ofthe $1,000 Charles T. Stoner Law Marla Brumfield and tired from the team in February 1999 Scholarship, presented by the VVBCA to Kirra Jordan made his- after corrective surgery. a graduating player who intends to pur- Cafferty, the Owls' leading outside sue a career in law. tory, becoming the first shooter, is lucky that her career was not The departing seniors are unanimous Rice women's basketball cut short as well. In the fall 1998 season, in their warm regard for the Rice com- players to be drafted by she developed costochondritis,an inflam- munity. Brumfield explains, "I came to mation of the cartilage in the sternum. Rice because both my parents are edu- the Women's National The condition causes severe pain and cators—my dad is a counselor and my Basketball Association. makes it impossible to take a deep mother is a teacher. At Rice, I've met breath. The only cure is extensive rest, some outstanding professors who have Brumfield, a senior guard and so after six games, Cafferty sat out the outside interests and have great per- Rice's all-time leader in steals rest oflast season—no practice, no run- sonalities." The math major lists math pro- and third all-time in points and ning, nothing. fessors Robin Forman,John Polking, and assists, was drafted by the Min- After a year offorced idleness, Cafferty Frank Jones as among her favorites. nesota Lynx. Jordan, a senior faced the struggle of getting back into "Academics were by far the most im- forward and third all-time in shape. "That was the longest I had sat portant thing to me in choosing a col- blocked shots and seventh in ie out of sports since I was a kid," she re- lege," agrees Cafferty. "But looking scoring, was tapped by the Se- rts calls. "And there were times I wasn't sure back, what I will remember most are the I'd make it back. But Coach McKinney relationships I built with a variety of attle Storm. A third player, se- In told me,'Just give us what you can give people and the things I learned from nior guard/forward Kim :h us, and do it at your own pace.' That them. People like [Wiess Masters] John Smallwood, also has a chance to was a big reason why I was able to be and Paula Hutchinson—people who make a WNBA team. At press a successful this year." have been there for me,supported me, time, she has free agent try- LS. The Owls can look back on the 1999- encouraged me, challenged me. outs in Miami, Orlando, 2000 season with justifiable pride. "It's That's the thing I'll remember v- and Seattle. been an unbelievable experience," says more than any one class or any in McKinney. "We did things that no one basketball game." 9 women's basketball team at Rice has ever While the Rice seniors look 15 done. I'm very proud ofthe players who to their futures beyond to worked hard and learned what it takes the hedges (see sidebar), to to compete at that level." McKinney is already focusing "I was a little scared that we might on winning next year. Two not do it," admits Cafferty. "If we did days after Rice's last game, th not get it done our senior year, that she left for Alaska to visit a would definitely be a big letdown. Yes,it recruit with promising statis- took us four years,and yes, it was a battle tics: a height of 6' 2" and an rd all the way. There were laughter and tears SAT score of 1410. and everything you associate with col- "I think the NIT experience d- lege sports. To get it done our last year the last couple of year ir- makes it that much more special." helped us to win our first id Brumfield ends her remarkable col- game at the NCAA tourna- :ir lege career having earned all-conference ment," McKinney says, "and ad honors for four straight years. This year, that win will help us win further games she became the first Rice player to be there in the future. I'm a basketball of named all-district by the Women's Basket- coach,so ofcourse I don't feel that we're he ball Coaches Association (WBCA), mak- ahead of schedule. But I feel like we're he ing her a finalist for All-America honors. headed in the direction we want to go." n- Jordan was named all-conference for the second time, while Smallwood -GEORGE W. WEBB III ye joined Brumfield on the WAC all- le defensive team.

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New Members Cafferty Claims Three-Point Inducted into the Shooting Crown "ce Athletic Hall Rice shooting ace Jenny Cafferty was crowned the best three-point shooter in the nation on March 30, winning the women's national three-point shooting title then besting the men's winner in ESPN's 12th Annual Slam Dunk and Three- Point Shooting Championship.

There were five racks of five balls, including one "money ball" worth two Five Rice greats were points,stationed around the three-point line. Each player had one minute to inducted into the sink as many shots as possible. The university's Athletic event is held in conjunction with the men's final four. Hall ofFame last fall. Cafferty led the field ofeight after the first round,scoring 19 points. Jill Morton 'they were Susan Rudd '84 and Trade lilumentritt '83, the 1983 AIAW na- of Louisville, who finished the regular tional doubles champions in tennis; season tops in the nation hitting 53.5 per- baseball all-American Jay Knoblauh cent from long-range, was second with '88; longtime football assistant coach 18 points. Oklahoma State's Jennifer Charlie Moore '37; and all-Southwest Crow and Arizona's Lisa Griffith also ad- Conference basketball star Temple vanced to the second round. Tucker '58. In the Shootout of the Sexes, Two contributors to Rice's rich Cafferty faced the men's three-point sports medicine tradition also were champ, Richie Frahm of Gonzaga. The honored: Former football letterman battle went down to the wire, but Thomas Clanton '71, who is now Cafferty hit three of her bonus-point chairman ofthe department ofortho- shots to win 16-14 as the women's pedic surgery at the University of "fexas—Houston Medical School and co- champ beat the men's champ for the sec- physician for all Rice athletics, received ond year in a row. the Distinguished "R" Award, and Cafferty holds the Rice Hugh Welsh, who spent 43 seasons THE BATTLE record for threes in a game as the Rice team doctor (1919-61), WENT DOWN TO (seven) and threes in a sea- received the Honorary "R" Award. THE WIRE, BUT son (74). In addition, she CAFFERTY HIT ranks second all-time with THREE OF HER 123 bombs, despite being BONUS-POINT sidelined with injuries for ole "As Sallyport went SHOTS TO WIN nine games as a sophomore to press, the Rice 16-14 AS THE and 26 as a junior. Owl baseball team WOMEN'S ..1%, had captured their CHAMP BEAT —PATTY BARNES fourth straight WAC THE MEN'S Conference Champion- CHAMP FOR solp \\ ocawng1 THE SECOND iiit, \.\ tnurna- YEAR IN A f.° 11 Pill dilll)11. ROW.

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