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Fire in the Sea LIBRARY Oceanographer Rachel Haymon's Deep-Sea Discovery Won't You Consider Sending Rice Something Back? ati°1 9) MAPIHI kGAZINE OF RICE LNI1ERSIT1 JUNE/JULYRI 1993 RICE UNIVERSITY JUN IA) 1993 Fire in the Sea LIBRARY Oceanographer Rachel Haymon's Deep-Sea Discovery Won't you consider sending Rice something back? Your voluntary subscription helps cover the cost of our prizewinning magazine. Please see the bound-in, postage-paid envelope for full subscription details and subscribe today. mEl RI FEATURES 12 Newsworthies RICE UNIVERSITY Since the early 1980s, Rice professors Stephen Klineberg and Robert Stein JUN 10 1993 have monitored Houston's vital signs and examined its politics. Along the way, they've become media favorites. —by David D. Medina LIBRARY 4•---i "'""Th•"""P1 18 Booked for the Summer Rice professors and administrators help Sallyport readers find the perfect books to dive into this summer. 26 Fire in the Sea The deep-sea eruption that oceanographer and Rice gradu- ate Rachel Haymon discovered in 1991 raises new ques- tions about the biological and geological forces at work on the ocean floor. —by Philip Montgomery 32 Making a Difference In the midst of preparations for his move to Columbia University, George Rupp discusses his views on institution building and on the big impact of small decisions. —by Michael Berryhill 38 Four Star Alums The Association of Rice Alumni celebrates four stellar alumni: Melvin Perelman, Alan Chapman, Robert Cruikshank and William Broyles. —by Michele Pavarino June /July '93 1 Lett rs Through the Sallyport Jungle Gym warrior cheers to the beat of a different drum. 6 News Excerpts from Jimmy Carter's commencement address; new director of admission named; and DOD awards Rice $19.3 million grant. oci, Di 8 tor Artist Karin Broker talks about the big picture. igii Jimmy Carter, page 6. stir 10 Books. Etc. • William Camfield follows Max Ernst from Dada to surrealism; Sororophobia takes a new look at Ri relations among women; essays on southern women avoid "partial truths" of traditional history; tet and "If you come to a fork in the road, take it," and other wise words from the world of Abel var baseball. k 1'. Willi org,e by V 49 Students b" Rice's low-profile literary and visual arts magazine confronts budget woes. Rey flair ide Pr 43 Sports Pr Men's and women's tennis teams poised to serve up victory. Id dies Ant. 4/ Gifts and Giving YPI Captain James Addison Baker Society honors donors for deferred gifts; Frank and Lynda Kelly As CN, cochair Baker Society; Knox Banner has helped make Washington, D.C., and Rice what they Dl are today; and scholarship recipient reflects on the gift of education. offi ern t, Rice tennis, page 43. Skji 46 Salk- Forth cid, ARA sponsors trip to San Miguel de Allende, the artistic heart of Mexico. 48 11tunni Gazette Homecoming 1993 will offer something old, something new; Homecoming committee chairs; and staying involved with Rice. 49 Classnotes 64 Yesteryear Traveling to Mexico. page 46. I 'alendar 2 Sallyport !FOR EWORD What We Are Here For behind upraised colorful banners. The members of each college are distin- AUYNIRT In March when the azaleas on campus guished by the stoles of their gowns: burst into fervid bloom, you can sense yellow for Brown College, black with the semester winding to its conclu- a red border for sion. A senior you have known for Baker, rust for blished by the Office of External Affairs several months and whom you have Will Rice, blue never seen in any apparel but a T-shirt for Hanszen,gold ecutiye Director of News & Publications, and shorts or jeans appears one day in for Wiess, black ,hael Bernthill skirt, jacket, heels and makeup. She with a green bor- sociate Editor, Greta Paules has been interviewing for a job, one der for Jones,blue of a round of such interviews she and Director, Jeff Cox for Lovett, white her classmates are making. for Sid Richard- orial Staff: David D. Medina, She is beginning to ask herself son. The gradu- Montgomery, Michele Pavarino, staff writers; much money it will take her to • Monholland, copy editor how ate students, who live. She is wondering whether she number around igh Staff: Tommy LaVergne, photographer; should take the "money" job or the Stine Minuto, Dean Mackey, den:spiels 400, assemble at "meaningful" job. the Rice Memo- Some seniors have already de- rial Center behind Rice University Board of Governors cided. Elaine Reilly, who works part- lees: Charles W. Duncan Jr.. chair, Josephine their banner: a Ahercromhie lief' chair, D. Kent Anderson. time in this office, is going to teach book portraying vans Attwell. John L. Cox. Burton J. McMurtry. English in Mongolia for the Peace seven fields of graduate study in k T. Trotter: Term Members: James A. Baker III, the illiam Barnett, William P. Hobby, A.L. Jensen, Corps and live in a felt tent. Kelley which Rice awards advanced degrees. orge R. Miner, Paula M. Moslc, James L. Pate, Barnes is going to study ballads in This year 9,000 folding chairs will 1'1' W. Sullivan. Alumni Governors: T. Robert Scotland on a Watson Fellowship. b" Jones, Albert N. Kidd, G. Walter be spread out on the lawn to accom- Reynolds, Steven J. Shaper Others are going straight to in- modate the families and friends of the dustry and business. Bob Sanborn, president Jimmy .nistratiye Officers students. Former dent, George Rupp; Provost, Neal Lane; the director of Career Services, esti- Carter will give the address. President fir External Affairs, Frank B. Ryan; mates that 80 percent of Rice's gradu- It will be wonderful to walk President fir Finance and Administration, ating engineers already have jobs as I W. Currie; Vice President for Student Affairs, around that Saturday morning in May ald F. Stebbings; Vice President fir Graduate am writing this, a month before matching the faces of parents with the es, Research and Information Systems, graduation. Graduate students are be- children. I like to imagine Anthony Gorry; Treasurer, Scott W. Wise faces of their ing snapped up too, by business, in- how many papers they have written, IYPort Editorial Board dustry and academia. Still others, how many books they have read, how Asker '74, Rvn Bowers '64, Paul Burka '63, roughly 40 percent of the under- ey Burrus '57, Lynda Crist '67, Mai-y McIntire many conversations they have shared D• '75, Bill Merriman '67, Ronny Wells '62. graduates, will attend graduate or with their classmates and their teachers officio: Frank B. Ryan '58, Vice President for professional school. education. rnal Affairs; Lydia Asselin '79, President- in the course of their s, Association of Rice Alumni; Joseph Elias, While the seniors ponder their Researchers can point to the ar- 3. sident, Graduate Student Association; John choices, the university is preparing for ticle or book or discovery as the prod- ds '93, President, Rice Student Association the biggest celebration of the year, uct of their work. At commencement vport is published bimonthly by the Office the culminating event of the academic we can point to the product of our sternal Affairs of Rice University and is sent calendar, commencement. teaching. Commencement is going to university alumni, faculty, staff, graduate ents, parents of undergraduates and friends. This is a party that requires seri- be a splendid party because the stars of aria! Offices: News & Publications, Allen ous planning and ancient costumes. it will be the students, those people for ter for Business Activities, Rice University, Some ofthe most respected profes- S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005. Mailing whom this university ultimately exists. i ress: P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. sors work out the details of the aca- As they make their choices be- le University is an Equal Opportunity/MI-Irma- demic procession.(They also spend the money and the meaningful, Action Institution. tween hours on the rain plan, which we inevitably students will make compari- untary subscriptions to Sal/sport are hope won't have to be used.) sons between Rice and the "real" liable for a $15 suggested contribdtion. The academic procession is a glo- world. I'm not sure the distinctions are Zinaster: Send address changes to Sal/sport, rious and solemn sight. It is led by the valid. While it's true that there are few 0, ?Ice of News & Publications, Rice University, University Marshal, who wears a blue- you to read books, they Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251. jobs that pay and-gray gown and bears a ceremo- all pay you to learn. Learning, after all, tI993 Rice University nial mace with a crystal owl embed- is the evolutionary advantage of hu- ded in its top. Behind him march the mankind. administrators and faculty arrayed in From that perspective, the univer- order of professorial rank and, within sity represents not a retreat from life the ranks, in order of seniority. but the distillation of human experi- The 600 or so undergraduates as- ence. It is the realest of the real. semble at their respective residential colleges and march to the quadrangle —Michael Berryhill June / July '93 3 Mrs. Butler Fondly A Word on Words same-sex couples quite neatly, since Remembered we are prohibited by law from enjoy- Dear Everyone in the Universe and ing the social and financial benefits of I was saddened to read in the Oct./ especially H.R. Phillips: marriage. I think that this should have Nov. 1992 Sallyport of the recent In the 1983 section of"Yester- been seen as an opportunity for an death of Jane C. Butler, listed as a year"(p. 56) of the Feb./March interesting and topical addition to the "friend" of Rice (p.
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