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VOLUME 80, NUMBER 3 OBVIOUSLY, MONEY GOT TO USE VISITOR PARKING SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 Music school admission rule questioned Parking for students

by Leezie Kim tion, who wrote a letter to Hammond than others." Scheid pointed out that describing in detail her reasons for athletes and architecture students, wanting to leave the school. Earlier, who also are admitted through a What began as a scheduling prob- Hammond offered her a schedule separate process, are not committed lem for one Shepherd School of mu- which cut down her music classes to a program for a year. sic student has led to questions about for the first year, but would require 1Tie process by which the the dean the fairness of a new condition for more than four years of study if she of music, the dean of admissions, and admission to the music school and chose to stay with music. The stu- the chair of the admissions commit- about the process by which this con- dent did not accept this offer. tee created this policy has been dition became university policy. Last winter, at the time of the brought into question by some aca- The arguments revolve around student's interview, the new policy demic advisors. Pointing out that the three lines of text added to the Shep; did not yet exist, but was the topic of policy affects curriculum, English herd School freshman class's accept conversation between Dean of Ad- Professor and Hanszen College tance letters which made admittance missions Richard Stabell, Dean of Master Dennis Huston said,"Itseems conditional upon a commitment to the Shepherd School Michael Ham- to me, and I'm speaking only from study music for one year. The letters, mond and Chair of the Admissions my own knowledge of the university which were sent out April 15 to regu- Committee Fred Rudolph. rules, that they have exceeded their The reason for the one-year com- authority." Huston was also careful mitment condition is two-fold, stem- to note, however, that the situation is 'People are always ming from problems faced by the fraught with ambiguities."I just got admissions department and the concerned because the student trying to find ways of Shepherd School. seemed to have so few choices.... "People are always trying to find Both sides have powerful argu- being admitted to ways of being admitted to universi- ments," he said. ties," said Stabell." [The question is,J The new condition is not de- universities.... [T]he what's the path of least resistance; scribed anywhere outside the ac- how can I position myself to get in? ceptance letter. It is absent from the 1 ... [T] he word on the street is that one General Announcements, the codi- word on the street is of the ways to get into Rice is through fied rules and regulations of under- the school of music. Because if you graduate academic life at Rice. The that one of the ways to have talent in music and your aca- rule was not published in this year's demics aren't as strong, since the admission applications. get into Rice is through music school is growing, they will The student's academic advisors Rice students parked on Kent Street Tuesday at 3 p.m take you." SEE MUSIC, PAGE 4 the school of music.' Stabell said he does not know this student, or the details of this particu- lar situation, but that cases like the Money magazine ranks Rice first again —Richard Stabell type he described have occurred in the past effect was too dramatic for it to have MIT, said, "Basically the low cost of lar admission students, state, "Your Vice President for the Shepherd by Terzah Ewing been a coincidence." Rice was what made the decision for admission requires thatyou complete School Gary Smith estimates one or Though the quality of the applica- me." a minimum of one full year of study in two students depart from the music For the second year in a row, tions did not rise markedly, Stabell List year's article also attracted a the Shepherd School of Music be- school every other year. Even this Moneymagazme has ranked Rice first said that the sheer volume of applica- more geographically diverse group. fore considering transfer to another small loss can create a noticeable gap on their annual list of the best buys in tions allowed the admission office to "I think the article really exposed academic division." in the school's departments. American higher education. choose the class of 1996 more selec- the West Coast to Rice," said Jones One student, admitted to the mu- "[The strategy] means someone Though the September issue of tively. Many admitted students were freshman Haley Robertson, a native sic school with this letter, wants to else who went through the proper the magazine is notyeton the shelves, also accepted at institutions such as of San Jose, California. "A lot of my leave the music school but has not . channels has lost a space at the my- President George Rupp and Richard Harvard, Yale, and the Massachu- friends decided to apply after hear- completed one year there. The stu- "sic school," said Hammond. "With Stabell, dean of admissions, were no- setts Institute of Technology. ing about the rankings." dent acknowledges receiving the let- only 20 or 25 students in each admit- tified of Rice's ranking Monday. Tom Watson, a Brown freshman Stabell said he hopes these trends ter and understanding the conditions ting class, you can see how by losing "Obviously I'm very happy about who was accepted by Cal Tech and will continue with this year's ran king. under which she matriculated to the a few a year, there is no way to re- it," said Stabell. "I see Rice as a well- Shepherd School. She says, however, coup." kept secret, and appearances in polls that the one-year commitment was The fairness of the new policy is such as this one and the one in U.S. University funds not to be never explained to her during her being questioned by some involved News and World Report have really admissions or music school inter- with the student's case. Associate increased national awareness." views, and she was not prepared to Director of Academic Advising Mark This growing prestige had dra- used to purchase alcohol have so few eleetives in her first two Scheid feared the policy might be matic tangible results for the admis- years. unfair in putting undue burden on a sion office last year. Stabell and his make it clear that what is said in the "[EJveryone told me how easy it small number of select students since colleagues received over 7500 appli- by Sei Chong alcohol policies and in the student was to change from one major to music students often don't have as cations in 1991-92, a 24 percent in- handbook is really what we mean," another...that [the flexibility] was one many choices as other students crease over the previous year's 6000. The administration will no longer she said. of the university's publicized at- do."[It's] telling people all students "I would attribute most of that to appropriate money to colleges for Presently, at Sid Richardson Col- tributes," said the student in ques- are equal, but some are more equal Money's ranking," said Stabell. "The the purchase of alcohol, starting next lege, $2,500out of a budget of $28,000 year, according to Dean of Students goes to the purchase of alcohol at Sarah Burnett SRC, according to Jay Murphy, SRC "There was a meeting, and it was treasurer. ...and parking for faculty the university attorney's opinion that "This could potentially have a ma- the university needs to stop spending jor impact on the nature of social university money on the purchase of events here in the colleges," said alcohol," Burnett said. "The masters Stan Hsue, Brown president. He said felt it would be too disruptive [to that the RPC would be affected more implement] this year, so it will go than the colleges because it would be into effect next year." less able to raise money for alcohol in This ruling affects any money col- other ways. lected by the university. Thus the Gordon Wittenberg, SRC master, $60 college fee, which is collected by said that it was unclear how the col- the university, will not be available leges would raise money for alcohol for the purchase of alcohol. under the new system, and that the "I've consulted with outside issue of students who don't want to counsel," said Rice General Counsel have their money go to alcohol will Shirley Redwine. "The conventional have to be discussed at length. wisdom among lawyers is that this "I've always liked the indepen- [using university funds for alcohol] dence and the self-governing quali- is not wise for the university." ties of the colleges," he said. "I think Redwine also said that this action we can handle it." is not an attempt by the university to control drinking on campus. FEATURES "Rice students are adults. It is first the responsibility of the individual student to obey the law. The univer- Students find sity has not tried or wanted to ban drinking," she said. "Because we extraordinary [Rice University] resist the old idea of the university as in loco parentis, we summer concede we cannot control the ac- tivities of each student." activities The "SPAC" lot, 2 p.m. Wednesday. "The university is trying to re- move itself from student's parties to 8 2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER OPINION

On music school rule, end doesn't justify the means

A new policy making admission to the Shepherd School of Music conditional on remaining in the music school for one year has recently led to questions about both the requirement itself and the process by which it came about. rhe new policy is essentially a good one. The Shepherd School must J* maintain the right balance of students in different fields. Allowing students to renege on their obligations can leave the school without some vital component. Letting people leave the school immediately upon arrival at Rice also creates an unfair loophole—a way into Rice Letting people leave for students who would not oth- the music school erwise make it through the ad- mission process. immediately upon Keeping students in the music arrival at Rice also school for their first year will help maintain the necessary balance of creates an unfair student talent. It will also dissuade LWJUSI loophole—a way into applicants who actually want to Rice for students who study something other than music but apply to the Shepherd School Parking solution obvious failure, would not otherwise as a way arou nd the regui ar admis- make it through the sion process. and potentially dangerous admission process. However, the legitimacy of the decision-making process sur- To the editors, faculty/staff lot just north of the Space can it be however, before the residents ~ rounding the policy is question- I think by now it is painfully obvious Physics building. Notice how empty the get signs erected prohibiting parking during working hours? able at best—the requirement was created by a small group in a series that the new parking regulations are a lot is. Next, examine the lot just west of disaster for all parties concerned. For the SPAC. Not a single car on it! And the What do I suggest? Well, if the admin- of informal meetings last spring, after most admission interviews had graduate and off-campus students who other commuter lots look very similar. I istration really wants everyone to park already been held. Decisioas about issues as central to the university as come on campus during business hours examined the lots Friday, August 28, at out in the stadium lot, really wants to curriculum should not be made by a few faculty members and admin- andleave in the wee hours, the long walk about 12:45 p.m. While this is not the continue losing money from al 1 the em pty in the darkto cars in the stadium lot is not busiest time of day on these lots, I can spots on the close-in lots, and really istrators. The new requirement should have been presented to and only annoying, but potentially danger- assure you that these lots have been wants to exist under the constantly in- approved or disapproved by the entire faculty, as all curricular changes ous. For the faculty and staff, $75 to park similarly vacant at almost all hours of the creasingthreatoflawsuitsstemming from are. This exception, if allowed to stand, will be a dangerous precedent. close to their work place is the dangers of stadium lot park- rather a steep increase from ing—especially late at night— Finally, the implementation of the new policy has been less than last year's cost—-free— mak- By now, it is painfully obvious then I say, 'Tear out that unused perfect. The information was not in the General Announcements. The ing them understandably re- concrete on those dose-in lots! college masters and the office of academic advising were not informed. luctant to pay. And for the that the new regulations are a Plant lawns and trees in their Even this year's application for admission does not include the informa- university,havingfaculty/staff stead! Adda couple of new intra- lots mostly, if not entirely, disaster for all parties concerned. mural fields—and how about a tion. empty during business hours swimming pool!" At the very The new requirement is a good idea. But before becoming official must be an economic disaster as well. day for the entire first week of classes. least, however, get off your duffs and do university policy it should be properly approved. The faculty should By allowing students to purchase So where are all the cars? A glance something to change this ridiculous some permits for these lots, the univer- across the street from entrance 13 sheds parking policy! discuss the policy at its next meeting. If approved, it must be well sity most certainly could increase its rev- some light on that question. It appears Gary A. Morris publicized: the university should publish it in the General Announce- enue from parking. But let not my words that Houston street have become the Graduate Student ments as well as in the information prospective applicants receive, and stand on their own. Examine first the new commuter parking lot. How long Space Physics academic advisers should be kept informed about the rules.

T • The r \ a| "I «»nce iti« Shields' newfound interest in the parking issue too little, too late

Rice Thresher Shields should have vehemently shuttles. Leezie Kim, Chad Carson by John McCoy Editors-in-chief lobbied the administration into realiz- Part of the problem is the ing that moving all commuters to the administration's attitude. However, a Shane A. Speciale I would just like to enter into the stadium would be detrimental to the lot of it is our own failure to elect fray over the parking changes and say college system Rice seems to prize so representatives who will go to bat for Business Manager thatjohn Shields' facade of leadership highly. Being active at the colleges us when needed. while living off-campus can require NEWS SPORTS on the issue is exceedingly weak. Perhaps tlje student body should Eric Carmichael Editor Peter Howley Editor The way he paints it in his letter to several daily trip>s to and from cam- consider this lesson before we elect KracttJi Epperson Assistant Editor Terzah Ewing Assistant Editor the Thresher; the SA fought the good pus, often after shuttle service has another untried, uncontested presi- Kevin Mistry, Sara Maurer, John Jamey Findling, Jason Katz, Torrey fight with Shields at the helm to no stopped. Faculty come to campus dent. McCoy, Sei Chong, Lan Huynh Folk, Amy Schumacher, Prerana Patel, avail against the intransigent admin- usually once a day and often for only David Rhodes istration; the way I see it, he's following a few hours. In addition, forcing kitchen staff, John McCoy is a junior at Brdtun behind to pick up the pieces. 1 OPINION Leadership is not dropping the ball college secretaries, and resident asso- College and co-editor ofthe Backpage^ Shala Phillips Editor PHOTOGRAPHY on the committee meetings. Outgoing ciates (people at the low John McCoy, Jym Schwartz, Tony Barb Solon Editor president Mitra Miller and Shields end of the pay scale or Chen Chris Sonneborn Assistant Editor didn't coordinate student attendance who are donating their Caryn Dietrich on the parking committee. As a result time and energy to Rice) Reply beyond no one went. The representative se- to pay $75 is oppressive ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT lected by the eight college presidents and even counter-pro- Shaila Dewan Editor PRODUCTION also failed to attend. ductive. Why should RAs Heidi HuclXner Assistant Editor Josh Denk Production Manager give of themselves to Rice mere disgust f Sooth Babcock, Jeff Karem, Eric Stotts, Kei Furukawa Copy Editor Granted, student input was asked Rainey Knudson, Jeff Kuhr, Jenny for at a very late stage in the process, if Rice is going to screw Salomon, Jennifer M. Lee, Peter but had a student been present, he or them? The rape statistics sear the soul Howley BUSINESS she would have been able to scream Because of the failure But I am certain of my role George D. Nickas Ads Production about the proposed changes well be- of our leaders to articu- In stopping this unholy crime. . . fore the 'Ibresher got the committee late our concerns at the It won't be halted by this rhyme. BACKPAGE Phone: 5274801 rep>ort. Advance warning would have appropriate times, the You see, and cannot fight this war. John McCoy, Erica Ollmann Editors © COPYRIGHT 1992 lent a lot more force to protest. Once University felt it could ig- By doing what one's done before. everyone is gone for the summer, the nore students. Who can Why write self-righteous views and lose, administration feels unfettered by mere blame them taking this Reiterating former news, The Rice Thresher, the official student newspaper at Rice University since student concerns. opportunity laid at their When rapists flip the Thresher page 1916, is published each Friday during the school year, except during I was on campus this summer and feet by our laziness? Unheeding all your cries of rage? examination periods and holidays, by the students of Rice University. saw and heard the argument develop- As a result, faculty And so this issue's caught a blight— Editorial and business offices are located on the second floor of the Ley Stop telling us that we should write! Student Center, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas, 77251. Advertising ing. Brown SA Senator Tom Harris concerns outweighed information available on request. Mail subscription rate per semes^r: showed ten times more initiative than student needs in the deci- I don't "reply beyond disgust" $15.00 domestic, $30.00 international via first class mail. Non-subscription Shields by starting a letter-writing sion process, and several Unless I feel I truly must. rate: first copy free, second copy $1.00. Letters to the editor must be campaign at Brown College. This faculty lots now sit empty So stop this mess, by now we know, received by 5 p.m. on the Monday prior to publication. Unsigned editorials campaign spread to many of the other all day while commuters, It's left to us what we can show. represent the majority opinion of the Thresher Editorial Staff. All other pieces •colleges, and Shields eventually banished to the stadium, David Ross represent the opinion of the author. Obviously. adopted Harris' letter verbatim. wait for the slick new Lovett, '96 OPINION THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 3 Republican convention sacrificed issues for rhetoric by Tony Chen said, the Republicans claiming that political conventions, as Buchanan Reagan after Buchanan on the speak- periodically bellowing, "And the they killed communism is "like a fervently claimed, then the Republi- ers list. First, the Reagan Democrats Democrats said no!" Gramm neglected rooster claiming credit for the dawn." can convention was the greatest ex- who had bolted back to their native to give the reasons why the Demo- Why do I feel compelled to write It's like the Democrats running on ample of intolerance since the Holo- party after the Democratic convention crats said no, satisfied that the Repub- an article on the Republican conven- V-E day. The defeat of communism caust. would flock back upon inhaling lican policies were flawless and would tion when 1 know that the took decades, not one term, and for The most striking aspect of the Reagan's hot air. Second, after the have catapulted America into Utopia. disinformazia fomented by the GOP Bush to run on historical serendipity is speech, however, was that the sickly unrelieved doom and gloom of Naturally, the parable of Dickie should be patently obvious? to belittle the accomplishments of the rhetoric only tangentially endorsed Buchanan, the delegates would be Flatt surfaced in Gramm'sspeech. Isn't Why cant I forgo refuting the par- men who held office before him. Bush. In fart, the most powerful argu- infused with a sense of dizzying opti- it interesting in this year of racial, sexual tisan rhetoricwaftingaround the rafters Buchanan then descended into a ment Buchanan could muster to en- mism. and class turmoil, that the person that of the Astrodome when 1 know that morass of specious general izations and dorse our president was that he was a Unfortunately, the substance of the Gramm thinks of when he writes the political conventions have tradition- nigh-slanderous characterizations of steward of "who we are and what we speech amounted to little more. laws of this nation is a white, male, ally been stage managed to stroke a Clinton, his wife, and his party. stand for." Not surprisingly, since Bush has middle-class print shop owner from party's ego? Bill "The Thrill" Clinton was de- In this statement, Buchanan is cor- accrued such a poor record as our northeast Texas? Why? Because the gap between picted as a cowardly, draft-dodging rect. The Republicans' weak record as president, Reagan's endorsement was On the final night of the conven Bush and Clinton has narrowed far sumbitch, and judging by the tenor of an incumbent party forces them to limited to endorsing the party. tion, Bush emerged from hiding, as if enough for me to become suspicious Buchanan's speech, is also an invoke a Lernerian pol itics of mean- Rather than ask the voters if they he was saving himself up for a big of the supposedly informed electorate. unrepentant abortion junkie—per- ing, whereby voters cast their ballots were better off now than they were surprise. And surprise us he did by Some recent polls even show our haps an indirect reference tothe many not through a rational process of dis- four years ago, Reagan asked voters if speaking on domestic policy. quailing president trailing the slick, times Clinton has wantonly sown his course, but rather through an appeal they were better off now than they Yet at times he was confused about bimbo-prone, commiesymp by only a seed in a Floweresque bimbo and to an emotionalized, visceral world were "twelve years ago." Rather than issues like abortion. Prior to 1980, the few scant percentage points. gist of his politicking evinced a clear That the American voting public bias towards the pro-choice position. would so eagerly inhale the Thereafter, he has grown increasingly smokescreen issued forth by the As a political commentator once said, the Republicans claiming that silent on the topic. To this day, many conventioneers defies analysis. pundits sincerely believe that he pri- But as responsible voters, we must they killed communism is "like a rooster claiming credit for the dawn." vately agrees with Ms. Bush: abortion be careful not to succumb to Repub- has no business being in politics. 1 ican pol itics and dirty tricks. Although In fact, Bush has expressed his the convention was designed to then has been forced into becoming a view. The GOP seeks not only to gov- addressing specific successes achieved disagreement with several planks of showcase Republican unity, the real frequent flyer at abortion clinics. ern Americans, but to govern the con- by Bush in both foreign and domestic the platform adopted during the con purpose was to dragoon the eclectic Hillary Clinton was pilloried as an struction of our reality. Indeed, the matters, Reagan glossed over the is- vention. How can a candidate dis- coalition of voters who elected Bush example of the innate depravity of convention strove not to inform the sues and made the dubious claim that agree with the party platform, yet run in 1988. "radical feminism," whose central electorate about specific national Bush was the "steady [Republican] as the representative of that p>arty? Most political analysts agree that principles Buchanan construed to probl ems a nd p>ol icy object i ves, but to hand on the tiller" of America. These and other ideological fis- this coalition can be divided into at mean that Ms. Clinton considered the define the arena of debate to exclude The speech could have been given sures threaten to tear asunder the 1988 least four distinct segments: the reli- idea of family tantamount toslavery— these very things, relying instead on in 1988—before George Bush even coalition and pxxse the greatest chal gious right, the country club Republi- which is probably the reason why vague propositions such as "family had a record. lenge for the Republican party. In the can, the wealthy independent subur- Hillary decided to have a family in the values" to produce a mythology sym- The next night, Phil Gramm deliv- previous election, the economy had banites, and the Reagan Democrats. first place. pathetic to the American voter. ered yet another rhetorical smoke gre- not yet begun itsdownturn, Americans Exam ining the convention day-by- The Democratic Party itself was Of course, not all Republicans gave nade, blaming Congress for our had not yet begun to see the true day confirms this hypothesis. portrayed as the party of morally Buchanan currency, which is why Ro- country's unrelieved domestic woes. nature of the Reagan era, and the On the first day of the convention, bankrupt nihilists, of very baaad nald Reagan stepped up the podium "Clean the House!" the convention- Democrats nominated a dismal I v the GOP brought us its firebrand, Pat people, whose sole intent was to sys- afterthe hyperconservative Buchanan. eers raved, not real izing that the abuse uncharismatic candidate. With these Buchanan, the speechwriter turned tematically violate each of the Ten The legendary spin doctor of the of prestige and privilege was the only factors worsening, absent, or flipping candidate who was handed the key- Commandments. eighties had arrived to quell any pos- thing that Congress has ever cooper- burgers, the future augers poorly fo- note address to appease the hard-core So much for a campaign about sible political backdraft. Gippah' in da ated on. the most powerful "Texan" in electeci religious right of the party. issues. hous'. A spate of dogmatic invective fol- office. Amen, /all. The speech began with Buchanan Buchanan closed the address by The Republicans fulfilled two im- lowed, decrying the negativism of the proclaiming the death of commu- purporting to expose a religious war portant political objectives by placing Democratic Congress—with Gramm Tony Chen is a junior at Brou/n College nism—an event allegedly precipitated in America, a Christian jihad in which by the staunch defense policies of the Republican were on the side of Reagan. Buchanan ultimately claimed light and anybody who disagreed was that more people were freed under on the side of dark. Bush's tenure than at any other time in If the Democratic convention was the "history of the world." indeed the greatest example of" pol iti- As a political commentator once cal cross-dressing" in the history of Election recap for the media disabled by Jym Schwartz Earth ( Weekly World News, August 11). What more do you need to know As a public service for those of you about the guy? who have just awakened from a six- George Bush has been called a month coma, this week will be a recap "bitter, tired, cranky old man trying to of the issues and the candidates that save his own butt." The truth of this will be important to you in November, statement has become apparent re- presuming you don't suffer a relapse. cently when George actually bit the Should this happen, your vote will be head off of a Los Angeles Times re- cast for you by highly trained mon- porter, and then spit it into the crowd keys, thanks to the new "Uninformed of media jackals. Although this little Voter Simulation" program. transgression has been hushed up, So who's in the election? This year the country remains shaken. His ac- Barbara Bush isrunningagainstHilary tual goal is to prolong retirement so CI inton. No contest, you say, H il wears that he won't have to live on a piece of hairbands. But have you taken a good land slightly larger than a tennis court look at Bab's complexion? I think the in Houston. country is tired of having a First Lady But there are more than just per- that looks like a handbag. Granted, sonalities involved here. There are she looks 1 ike a very expensiveone, but also issues, such as the Who-Has-The- a handbag none the less. Most-Pitiful-Family-Story-To-Dredge- People have also been paying a lot Up issue. And there's the Which-One- of attention to their husbands. Al- Can-We-Really-Trust issue (neither). though this baffles me, I suppose I In fart, there are so many issues, that have to talk about them too. They're one may lose sight of the rea 1 issue, the George and Bill, and although they Who-Can-Make-Up>-The-Most-Issues- have quite a bit in common (white, In-Which-I-Have-The-Upper-Hand upper class, liars), they just can't see issue. (It is my understanding that the eye to eye. That's probably because Boxers versus Briefs issue will be the they want the same dumb ol' job, next hot topic.) mmsmsssm although it beats the hell out of me I should also mention that when why anybody would want it. Maybe you buy into these candidates, as a it's that nifty tune they play when you free bonus, you also get a Vice Presi- walk into the room. Let's talk about dent (much like getting a pack of Now You KNOW WHAT each of these potential presidents, and cigarettes that comes with a cheap where they stand in crucial moments pair of sunglasses attached). Their GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. in front of various crowds: names are Al and Danny. Al is a radical Bill Clinton has been called a "pot- environmentalist. Danny is a radical Our over-door towel rack is perfect for the dorm room. It doesnt't take up much space smokin', draft-dodgin', womynizer." mentalist. This is definitely ail you and can be adapted to hang on an \A/AC &\A 00 MOW 00 (Pol itical correctness added.) Certainly need to know about these two. existing towel rack, wall or door ¥ YHJ 7j llv ¥ Y ^0.77 this is his strongest endorsement, since Next week: How to pick a candi- it endears him to a large portion of the date, or your nose, or how to pick a population that can relate to any and candidate's nose. The Container Store all of the primal urges involved in said activities. As if this weren't enough to Jym Schwartz is a first-year graduate BACKTO SCHOOL SALE put him ahead in the polls, he has also student in Geology and Geophysics al been endorsed by an alien visiting Rice University. 4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1992 THE RICE THRESHER NEWS RPC Notes Lederman to deliver first President's Lecture The Rice Program Council met on Sunday, Aug. 30 in the Lovett PDR. by Lan Huynh The following appropriations were approved: Nobel Prize-winning physicist •$400 for a deposit for the Screw Yer Roommate DJ Leon Lederman has been chosen to •$200 for the Rice Student's Speaker's Forum to help bring Ward be the first speaker in the 1992-93 Churchill of the American Indian Movement to campus President's Lecture Series. He will •$292 for Wiess Films speak on "Quarks and Quasars: The •$242 for Brown Films Union of Inner and Outer Space" Sept. The film appropriations will be reimbursed by the colleges. 15 at 8 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the Rice Memorial Center. •Screw Yer Roommate will cost an estimated $2,200, according to Lederman, who received the the social committee chair. Nobel Prize in 1988 for his work in high-energy particle physics, has •The application process for new committee members was de- been a primary force behind the con- bated at length, and the issue was tabled until the next meeting. struction of the superconducting su- percollider in Waxahachie, Texas. •Damage to the bike track caused by Republican National Conven- His contribution to the scientific tion parkers was discussed. RPC President Conley Wake expressed community includes revolutionary her wish that the university and not the colleges be responsible for research in areas ranging from sub- paying for the repairs. atomic particle behavior to the enig- matic workings of the universe. Next meeting: Baker, Sept 13. Linda Bramlett, director of events —compiled by John McCoy and functions, said she hopes the event will draw both science and liberal arts majors from the student body. RUPD identifies 0-Week Part of the reason Lederman is such a popular speaker, Bramlett said, is because "[he] communicates Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman will begin the 1992-3 President's Lecture Series. car thief, files charges complex scientific concepts to audi- ences with little or no scientific social concern. Laboratory. ing for this guy," Ryals said, explain- background." by Sara Maurer "Science and education," It was on the basis of these formi- ing that Parker will be charged with For those intimidated by the I^ederman explained, "are the admis- dable credentials, as well as due to contributing to the death of an offi- somewhat imposing title of the lec- sion tickets to the 21st century." Lederman's reputation as an engag- The Rice University Police De- cer, as well as several car robberies. ture itself, Bramlett noted that To further this goal he has served ing and dynamic speaker, that the partment has filed aggravated rob- During one of these robberies, the Lederman takes great pains to infuse in various positions as an educational President's Lecture Series selection bery charges against Bobby Parker suspects abducted Mark Vaughns, humor and comprehensibility into consultant, including co-chairman of committee, chaired by Kate Beck- for stealing Jones junior Mike Woods' cousin of Jones college secretary his speeches. He has undertaken a the Board of Trustees for the Teach- ingham of the Biochemistry and Cell car at gunpoint Aug. 17 in the Jones Jaquelyn White, and killed him, be- personal crusade to make science ers' Academy of Mathematics and Biology Department, invited him to parking lot. fore abandoning his body on the side more accessible to non-scientists. At Science, chairman of the Governor's inaugurate the 1992-93 season. The Ryals, who has been investigat- of the highway. the University of Chicago, Lederman Science Advisory Committee, and committee is also solidifying plans to ing the case, explained, "1 knew the "[White] said shewasjustamazed taught a course called "Quantum vice chairman of the Illinois Coali- host lectures by a noted environmen- at how lucky I'd been," Woods said. Mechanics for Poets." tion. Yet despite his tremendous talist, a former president of Costa "At the time of the robbery, I really In addition to this experimental commitment to science education, Rica, a Harvard astronomer, and a 'A police officer died didn't think that the guy would shoot class, Lederman has also initiated Lederman has also dedicated vast famous novelist. The names of these me after he told me to run. With this several teacher training programs, amounts of time and labor in a re- future speakers will be announced because of them. other guy, they told him to run and which focus on both basic scientific search capacity. He has served as immediately prior to each engage- then they shot him." theories and improved teaching director of major international facili- ment. These guys are going "We're lucky that nothing of that methods. The issue of science illit- ties such as the Nevis Laboratory Admission is free. Seating will be sort happened to a student because eracy among children is his principle and the Fermi National Accelerator on a first-come, first-served basis. [thesuspects] did hurtother people," to be in jail for awhile.' said Jones master David Minter. "I find nothing very consoling or —Mike Woods reassuring about the whole incident. GSA becomes involved in Outreach Day It's not a pleasant thing to think There have been several changes homeless. by Kevin Mistry Houston Police Department was about." in Outreach Day this year. While the number of graduate dealing with similar cases which had Woods' car has been found aban- In addition to the consolidation of students participating is not yet occurred recently in the north end of doned in a parking lot. Ryals specu- .An earlier sign-up, new projects, some activities, a new project was known, Martin expects it to be much Harris County. In these cases an au- lated that the car had been abandoned and greater involvement by the developed withWellsprings, Inc. This higher than last year. tomatic weapon was involved, just as by Parker, and later vandalized by a Graduate Student Association will foundation shelters Houston-area As of last Monday, over 300 stu- an automatic weapon was used [in third party. enhance this year's Outreach Day, homeless women and children while dents had volunteered. At this rate the robbery on campus]. The physi- There's really not much left of which will be held Saturday, Sept. 12. providing educational and job skills. the total should exceed last year's cal description of the suspect was the car," Woods said. The sides are The Rice Student Volunteer Also, the popularity of some count of 526 volunteers. also consistent." bashed in, the wheels are gone, the Program's largest event of the year, projects has changed. The SPCA Brown RSVP representative Ryals worked with the Houston stereo and the battery are gone." Outreach Day is an effort to get stu- project has been horribly popular this Heather Hawley said, The last day Police Department Robbery Division Woodsexpressed satisfaction that dents involved in serving the Hous- year. I guess a lot of people really to sign up is FYiday, butyou could call to identify possible suspects. the suspects had been apprehended. ton community. miss their dogs or something," [RSVP] on Saturday morning. Woods participated in a photo "Of course I'm happy that they've Student signups for Outreach Day Martin said. ... [S]ignups are going very well. In spread on Monday, in which he was been caught," he said. Because of began this week. Tom Harris, RSVP The GSA is also getting more in- two days, we've had over 40 people asked to pick out the suspect from the multiple charges broughtagainst external vice president, said, "First, volved with Outreach Day. Two sign up at Brown alone." among the photographs of six men. the suspect, Woods said that it is planning and signups are much ear- graduate students, Nick Panaro and Hawley added, "I think more "Mike identified Bobby Parker as unlikely that his case will ever come lier than last year, so we're a lot bet- Joseph Elias, will serve as GSA repre- people should sign up because it's a the individual who robbed him at to trial "Mine's notoneofthe harsher ter organized. Also, last year two col- sentatives. Both have been instru- great way to get to know and meet gunpoint," Ryals reported. charges," he explained. "But, still, a leges had college nights the night mental in the drive to set up a Rice other Rice students and increase "1 only saw the gunman, not the police officer died because of them. before, so that hurt things a bit But chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a awareness in the community while driver," Woods explained. "They said These guys are going to be in jail for this year, that won't happen." group that builds housing for the helping others." t hat there were two of them working awhile." Vo lunteer projects are categorized together, but. 1 could only identify Parker has already served time in into crisis work, mental and physical one." theTexas Department of Corrections disabilities, hunger and relief assis- Campus Crime Statistics Parker was apprehended last for murder. tance, and youth, health, environ- week in Corsica, Texas, after a high- Meanwhile, Woods wants to put ment, animal, and education agen- For the week ending August 24 speed car chaseduringwhich Parker the incident behind him. "I'll be glad cies. RSVP Director Lucy Martin said, and his companions exchanged gun- when I can stop having to deal with "We try to make volunteering BUILDINGS DATE TIME INCIDENT fire with pursuing police officers. One the police ant' the insurance com- simple, pleasant, and gratifying." Abercrombie 7/16-8/18 1200-0730 Computer taken from police officer suffered a fatal heart pany, " he said. Projects will last throughout the day, locked office attack during the chase. "Still, I guess I've been pretty with RSVP coordinating transporta- Biology 7/4-8/20 0800-0900 Computer disks missing "There are more charges pend- lucky." tion. from public area Gym 8/20 1410-1416 Bicycle taken from the change in the music school's ad- teed a place in the engineering de- bike rack Music missions policy, in effecting curricu- partment if that was not their initial Mech Lab 8/17-8/18 1530-0830 Computer chair taken FROM PAGE 1 lum requirements, can be made major." Stabell reports the ratios have from private office outside the music school told her without the consent of the faculty as evened out and eliminated any she cou Id change, and were notaware a whole. "It seems to me that a deci- "backdoor" between these two aca- COLLEGES DATE TIME INCIDENT of the new rule until the student de- sion as major and different to univer- demic fields. Baker 8/18 0300-0700 Cash taken from cided to move out of the music school sity policy governing transfer be- If the student is not released, her wallet left in public area 7 and the admissions office informed tween departments and curriculum advisors have suggested that she ask Grad Houtoe 8/19-8/21 1900-1200 Locked bicycle taken from them of the new rule. Hammond needs to come before the faculty as a the Examinations and Standing bike rack pointed out that the student's case whole before it can be made law," Committee to review the case. Stabell, Grad House 8/1-8/16 1500-1100 Locked bicycle taken from was unusual because the music said Huston. Proposals to the faculty however, claims it is an admission bike rack school has its own advisors and stu- council must undergo two readings issue and not within the committee's Lovett 7/16-8/18 1200-1900 Purse taken from chair in dents do not usually seek academic and a vote by the faculty as a whole. bounds. The rule is expected to come Lovett Commons advising outside the school. Rudolph noted that a policy simi- up at the next faculty meeting. Re- "We do our own advising," said lar to this had been enforced before gardless, the student has not been PARKING LOTS DATE TIME INCIDENT Hammond. There is little or no when Rice had an influx of engineer- attending her music classes in hopes Jones College 8/18 0015-0017 Vehicle taken at gunpoint chance of academic faculty knowing ing students and the "backdoor" was the dean will release her from her North Lot 8/17 2240-2248 Unauthorized operation of well enough what academic architec- through the social science and hu- conditional acceptance. construction equipment ture or .music requirements are." manities majors departments. Stabell has said Rice could re- Sid Richardson 8/18 1130-1230 Locked pickup truck taken Such was the case when Huston "We just had too many chemical scind its admissions acceptance if from lot called Hammond to talk about the and electrical engineers," said the dean of the music school does Entrance 13 8/21 1955-2001 Man driving red pickup student's schedule. Rudolph, The letter we sent them not release the student and she does exposed person to female The question remains of whether said that they could not be guaran- not fulfill her music requirements. ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 5

FINE AND UGLY: A DOUBLE DOSE Without divine inspiration, Broker explores darker side of intimacy

BY RAINEY KNUDSON what links all the criticism of her monochro- describes as a matic, evocative pieces is what Diane Kett, co- "mental Scrabble People are fearful of being in Karin Broker's curator of the exhibition, calls Broker's "opti- game," creates a art Her work, which explores highly personal mism in the midst of uncertainty." meaningful whole issues of family, romantic, and sexual relation- But one doesn't have to be clad in angst- from seemingly ships, has been described by art critic Susanna ridden black to appreciate Broker's message. unrelated, Sheffield as a "running narrative inquiry into the Whimsical constructions like Table and Chairs mundane objecLs darker aspects of heterosexual intimacy." and Big Girl Lie expose a down-to-earth sense of or ideas. Broker Broker herself describes the emphasis of her humor even as they cast a pointed look at what describes herself art with "Everybody's hunting for this elusive Broker calls the "hocus-pocus traditions" which as "an emotional happiness... You get married, things get twisted surround both men and women in contemporary Velcro person." up. I'm interested in that." life. Her more abrasive F Night S Night explores Bits of conversa- Karin Broker: 1980-1992, Searching for a the simplified, cartoon-like role women tion she overhears sometimes assume. are carried back to Screwed Blue is a new piece—an agonized the studio and woman drawn on Formica with a steel cable provide the images overlay of a smiling stick figure. Screwed Blue is for her work. the artist's commentary on a society in which It is this some women "feel compelled to work out with creative process makeup on." (It was Broker who—as a tenured which Broker member of the faculty—suggested the Gorilla emphasizes in her Girls exhibition last January which rubbed the fur classes. She likens of many members of the Rice community in just putting images the wrong way). together to putting Broker's awareness of feminist issues does an outfit to- Rice profeesor Karin Broker not, however, manifest itself as blind anger in her gether—with a an Pieces like Adam and Man, in which the men visualization of the Saint is the first retrospective of a member of the are represented as sympathetically as Broker's desired whole in Rice art faculty. In addition, Broker will have a women, create fully faceted characters who are mind, she chucks solo show of new work at McMutrey Gallery, to partially to blame and yet victims themselves. the pieces which open Sept. 12. Broker says that she has far less of a problem don't fit into the Broker's work has been shown in cities world with artist David Saley's representation of a vision. "You have wide—including Taipei, Reykjavik, Seoul, Koln woman placed next to a piece of ham than she to have a system and Lubbock. She has presented several solo does with fashion magazines like Vogue. or you will be very shows at Houston galleries and her pieces have Broker says of her profession: "Art is not just frustrated." been purchased by numerous collections, fine drawing. Art can be ugly drawing." Though Broker including the Fogg Museum, the Smithsonian the images drawn on her freestanding Formica encourages and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. creations are often smudged or abstracted, her students to at least The pieces featured in the Sewall show span a work displays a keen sense of visual order, and be aware of the prolific period in Broker's career, though to packs forceful emotional punch. Sheffield said "weirdness of describe the show with such wholly optimistic Broker's style "both establishes the personalities everyday life." language is misleading. Broker's work is at times of her people and suggests their emotional She strongly massive, dark, and painfully introspective. But weather, which ranges from hopeful-awkward- emphasizes the comic to dejected-grieving-tragic." importance of Broker gets inspiration from the images of creating for Sebastian #2 Is among the new works at McMurtrey Gallery. everyday life; and, in a process which she SEE BROKER, PACE! 1 F R 'Dietrich, director Maximilian Schell), 7:30 pjn.,and YES I'M GONNA BE A STAR The Blue Angel (Mariene Dietrich, director Josef Von Sternberg), 9:15 p.m. Rice Media Center, $4 double Sing along club regulars say karaoke is Tike a drug' featuie or $3 for second show only. BY J E F F K U H R rock'n'roll." with nature, and with the large Mexican woman KfRU CONCERT, live alternative But it's tough living for a dream, concedes in the back who was waiting to sing "Crazy" by The lights are low, forcing awkward intimacy, Mike, who says, "You have to realize that not Patsy Cline. All was good. Life was full. And all s A T bands from noon til 7 pan., In and the walls are graffitied with fluorescent every night is going to go your way," which is because of karaoke. the courtyard near Anderson Hall. musical notations, suggesting complete why he explains wistfully that he sometimes "Face it," says Tony placing his hand on my See story, page 6. cheesiness. At the front of the room, bathed in sings up to 12 songs a night. "Yes," he confesses, shoulder and preparing to take the stage for "My celestial nightclub-esque spotlights is a fiftyish, "karaoke bars are my way to learn." Way," by Frank Sinatra "Brown, black, or white, RICE CINEMA: Pierrot le Fou, 7:30 p.m., Asian-American named Tony—sleeves rolled up, With over 500 songs to choose from, ranging we are all brothers that like to sing." and Band of Outsiders, 9:30 p.m. tie loosened—crooning Englebert Humperdink's from Neil Sedaka's "The Dairy" to Depeche Karaoke is alive and well in Houston and is Both directed by Jean-Luc Qodard. "Release Me." Mode's "Policy of Truth" to Van Morrison's the perfect way to relieve stress during the What is this? A scene from David Lynch's "Moondance" to the Village People's "YMCA," weekend as well as possibly meet your mate for RMC. new movie? An unreleased Talking Heads video? the Sing Along Club is a great place to practice life. Some places worth checking out arc: Well not exactly—but it is a glimpse at the one's voice, like Mike, or to just have fun with The Sing Along Club at 5757 Westheimer, 4£Ricc cinema: James Joyce's latest entertainment craze causing small some friends after work, like Holly, who also open Mon. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., Tues. -Fri. 5 p.m. to s u N Ulysses, 7:30 p.m. RMC. riots across happened to be there with her mother Wendy. 2 a.m., Sat. 8 pjn. to 2 a.m., and Sun. 9 p.m. to 2 the nation— When asked which karaoke bar was the best p.m. You must be 21 to go in and there are no karaoke. in town, Wendy praised the Sing Along Club windows so you can't peep in. 781-2026. JpFPmamme Louis Splegler (Will Karaoke, emphatically as the most fun because of its The Rose on Richmond is located at 6367 M o NRtce '92) will screen his 12 mln. which options. At the club, you can sing any song you'd Richmond Avenue. The karaoke bar is only open feature, Umbrella Man, at 9:30 p.m. originated in like for free, or if you'd like to preserve the Thurs. and Fri. from 4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Sat. Japan during golden memory— an audio tape copy of your 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. If ybu plan on going here, you at the Media Center. "Black tie/ the Reagan performance for five dollars, or, for the techni- should wear long pants and a collared shin pseudo formal-funky dress," era as a cally advanced, a video tape copy for $10. because, as the door says in bold letters, dress says Lou. method of "It's just good fun," says Wendy whose been code is enforced. No one under 21 allowed, releasing to numerous karaoke bars throughout Texas. "It's unless your name is Rose. 978-7673. jO>ComDBMu»E: Joel stress while so free. When you're up on stage you feel Dave and Busters, Inc. has everything in the singing favorite Frank Sinatra hits, is a way (in alive...like you're really a star...like Gladys world that you could want to do and pay money r u estein, original acoustic. Rice America) for the average Joe or Josephine to sing Knight." for—just like the sign says "There's nothing Forum will convene at 10:30 p.m. to their favorite hits with pre-recorded back-up And this feeling of freedom, of being a star, is quite like it." Dave, etc. is located at 6010 discuss the new parking plan. instrumentation. It's like "Puttin' On the Hits" what Daryl, the Sing Along Club's Master of Richmond Avenue and is open Sun .-Thursday without the lip sync or like singing in the shower Ceremonies, says keeps people coming back. 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. and Fri. and Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 2 without the water, dressed, and in front of 75 "[Karoake] is like a drug...you want to do it again a.m. No one under 21 allowed unless you have a 9 COFFEEHOUSE: Peter Adamczyk, people. Most importantly though, karaoke, by and again." fire arm. 952-2233. WEeD d piano. putting you up in front of a small crowd, allows So I tried. Mao Tai: Karaoke Club and Sushi Bar is you to be the star you've always wanted to be. "Jeff, you're next..." announced Daryl, now located somewhere on Richmond, down the And that desire to be that famed singing star hidden in blackness. I stepped forward towards street from the Rose. This is a great place that "If*! SEWALL GALLERY: reception for is what keeps people coming to karaoke bars the microphone and angelically sang Andy boasLs mostly Beatles songs plus Doris Day's thu Karin Broker: 1980-1992, around Houston, like the Sing Along Club at Williams' version of the classic Henry Mancini "Que Sera Sera," and Hava Nagila. Also a great Searching for a Saint, 8:30 p.m>. Bro- 5757 Westheimer, says Sing Along Club regular song made famous by Chevy Chase during the selection of Japanese, Cantonese, and Chinese Mike. proctologist scene in Fletch, "Moon River." tunes. However, this club is only open Fri. and ker will speak at i p.m. In Sewall 301. "I love to sing," says the dirty-blond haired And when I was finished, I was shaking—not Sat. from 8 p.m. to midnight and no one under See story, this page. service technician who has been coming to the from fear nor from nervousness, but simply 18 will be allowed inside after 10 p.m. because of club for about a year. "One day I'm going to because singing "Moon River" in front of a strict underage sushi laws. 975-8808. COFFEEHOUSE: Dave Degeller, original fulfill a dream of being a professional singer like mostly intoxicated crowd of Texans was the high 1 know there are more places out there, so Hall and Oates or the Everly Brothers and sing of my life. I was completely at one with myself. have fun finding them and yourself. 6 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

LOLLAPA-LOSER Wheat, Livers, three more offer aural smorgasbord at KTRU s free concert

BY JENNY SALOMON At 2:15 take a stroll through funkville with KTRU favorites Joint If Nirvana is the farthest off-center Chiefs. The Houston band reached you can morally allow yourself to go number two on the station's charts last on the alternative music scale, do not spring, and the single "Read my Lips go to KTRU's free concert. Saturday's You Suck" achieved unprecedented all-day, outdoor affair takes a stab at air-play success on you-know-what Lollapalooza, which will take place station. the same day at the Fort Bend County With happening lyrics and soulful Fairgrounds. vocals, Joint Chiefs—with former KTRU bigwigs claim this year's Fleshmop singer Jay MauLsby—LS a Lollapalooza—sponsored by Pace sure crowd pleaser. Concerts instead of a smaller, Terminus will follow the funksters independent promoter—is a pseudo- in what should be the concert's most alternative, money-grubbing sell-out. creative performance, rumored to The KTRU show, right here on include microphones distributed campus, will spotlight some of the throughout the audience so that the region's finest non-commercial music crowd, with the help of some high- from all over the spectrum, from tech mixing equipment, can create its classically-influenced jazz to what own sounds. Like psychedelic finger- Request magazine calls "acoustic painting with your voice. speed-metal bluegrass thrash." Topping off the "bands with The show kicks off at noon with awards" list is The Mike Gunn, who the homegrown talent of Wheat Two tied for Best Grunge Band in the Wheaues are Rice students. Since the Public News' 1992 Music Poll. The band doesn't have a demo out, I was Gunn's hour-long set is sure to include unable to get a feel for their sound, but the low, wandering vocals and '60s- I hear they are kooky, whimsical and influenced style that has made them indecisive about which instruments famous. each likes to play. Headlining at 6 pm. is Bad Livers, The Bad Livers will headline the KTRU concert with their thrash bluegrass Motorhead covers. Because of this trait, they have the only band brave enough to play been known to switch instruments acoustic, speed-metal, bluegrass many times in one set, an activity that thrash. Ever seen anyone thrash to JOY, STINK, SUGAR AND PAIN can remind me only of the announce- bluegrass? KTRU station manager ment at the roller-skating rink about Heidi Bullinga says it's a trip, so if changing the direction of the all-skate you dig banjo, bass and Motoihead between Top 40 ditties. covers all in one set, Bad Livers are New Asylum wit fill shoes of defunct Axiom Caf6 Noir, voted Best Jazz Group your men. by the Dallas Observer four years It's seven bands, it's free, it's on BY BOOTH BABCOCK appeared to be made up entirely of grunge, the new album is great, running, takes the stage at 1 pjn. for campus (Smith Courtyard) and there's media people and friends of the band. featuring a lot of their older music. an hour of their own brand of music. beer (that's not free). The KTRU Free For years, The Axiom served as a The club itself is simply a big open Friday night, they played a too-short, The Dallas-based quintet claims more Concert, being advertised as Lollapa- Houston institution, narrowly escaping space in what I assume was an exceedingly sloppy set that probably awards than the Germans did medals loser, is certain to expose each the grim fates of bankruptcy and abandoned warehouse. The decor is took a Sugarshack fan to love. at the Olympics, and Cafc Noir's member of the audience to a really closure despite the burdens of a hostile limited to fluorescent paint showing Lots of big guitar noise, a fair sound lives up to its rdsumd, offering new musical experience. Come on, fire marshal, incompetent manage- the usual scenes of sodomy and amount of hair, and patter consisting entrancing jazz tunes with rich who can say he or she's vocally ment, obscure bookings, and a location surgery, along with large sheets of of talk about how much the band classical gypsy, folk and international finger-painted before? in a truly horrifying neighborhood. plywood leaning up against the walls. sucks—this is what I came for and I influences. This group—on the KTRU FREE CONCERT Finally, after much optimism when Okay, but what about the actual loved it. Go see 'em if you get a forefront of the American jazz scene- BAD LIVER, CAFE NOR, ETC. new management took over, The bands? The show did not get off to a chance, before they become rock stars will be playing in Houston for the First SAT., SEPT. 5, NOON Axiom is no more. Its doors appear very auspicious start: the first band and forget where they came from. lime. SMITH COURTYARD closed forever, maybe because of too was called Joyfinger, and included The next band was Stinkerbell, a many years of marginal (at best) mostly woman (one of the two males profitability, or as a result of Tab The decor is lim- wears a tutu in concert) band that Productions (owner of The Unicorn appears to be trying for that old L-7 and The Vatican) muscling into the ited to fluorescent sound (before L-7 became insuffer- alternative music scene—how long ably dull and uninteresting; before All students interested in a part-time will it be before Tab has a monopoly paint showing the they became an example of what position dealing with the stock market. on underground music in Houston? being signed to a major label can do to Whatever the cause of the club's usual scenes of a band). Future as a broker possible, so please, on/y demise, it will be tough for any new Mainly, they were loud played fast serious applicants. If interested, please club to fill the Axiom's spacious shoes sodomy (if not very well), and yelled a lot. I contact Harolyn Browning with (or combat boots, as the case may be). think the most compassionate thing to Oppenheimer & Co. at A new club, The Asylum, opened and surgery. do at this point is not talk about them last week with a bang, attempting to anymore, so I'll move on. 650-2138 become the new Axiom. The club members of Cinco Dudes. While they Finally, after one in the seems even further from viability than did a fairly good Soundgarden morning, the Pain Teens took the the Axiom was, and I have a hard time imitation, they didn't play together stage. The Pain Teens are about the seeing it lasting long enough even to very well—even in the relatively hottest thing in local music right now. The Rice Karate Club put a scratch in The Axiom's long and forgiving genre of grunge, a little more Their latest album, Stimulation glorious legacy (okay, maybe that's a polish is required. I've heard rumors Festival, is receiving heavy airplay on little exaggerated; this has all made me that Joyfinger has an album coming college stations around the country, proudly presents a demonstration by a little melodramatic). out. I find this hard to believe; unless it and is selling well coast to coast. The Asylum is located a far cry was a bad night, they are hardly They play a mixture of grunge and Grandmaster Kim Soo from central Houston—a 20 to 30 worthwhile. industrial music. Their albums often ninth dan black belt minute drive from the Rice area. Its Following Joyfmger was the feature experimental and sample- North Houston location mystifies, mighty Sugarshack, onetime grunge ridden songs while their live shows until one considers that it is in prime kings of the Houston scene. tend to feature their harder, more heavy metal territory. This does little Sugarshack won the Public News band abrasive side. I've never really to enhance its possibilities of usurping of the year award a couple of years thought they were such a great live the Axiom's place in history, though. ago and feature local punk rock legend band but Friday night they were as My guess is that the club intends to J.R. Delgado, former owner of the good as I've ever seen them. be a heavy metal and cock-rock club, aforementioned Axiom. Supposedly They seemed to be in exceedingly bringing in hair farmers and the f they are huge in Australia, tyit the high spirits as they took the stage, ° leather-and-studs crowd, as opposed to difficulty in verifying this fact makes possibly because just about everyone tapping the lucrative if under- me suspicious of its veracity. left in the club at that point was a represented alternative crowd (the At any rate, several releases and a friend of theirs. They joked and Pirne: Thursday, September 10, 1992 at 7:30pm always sinister Agnostic Front will be great live show have put these guys chatted with the audience—a far cry Place: Grand Hall playing there September 3). near the top of the Houston scene. from their usual snarling attitude. This Admission: Free In fact, Friday night's opening They hqyc finally landed on a national contrasted strangely with their lyrics, Please arrive early and bring a friend. show made it seem as if the club didn't label, Fist Puppet records, and will be which usually spotlight religion, weird care if anyone showed up at all. For distributed all the hell over the place sex, and mental or physical abuse. starters, there was very little advertis- by Cargo. The lineup is very tight and skilled Refreshments will be served afterward. Karate Club members and ing. On top of that, the cover—SI 1 for Sugarshack's going to be big especially guitarist/tape loop operator instructors will be on hand to answer questions and accept new members. minors—is ridiculously high for a soon—you heard it here first. The new Scott Ayers, but singer Bliss Blood is l or those unable to attend, regular classes are held in die dance studio local show. album gets away from their grunge the true focus of their shows. Bravely (located in the gymnasium) every Tuesday night at 7:00 pm and every It didn't seem to matter, though, roots for more of a smart-ass, punk wearing clothing usually reserved for Saturday afternoon at 1:30 pm. because I don't think anyone there rock kinda sound. While my heart much, um, slimmer figures, she actually paid—the small crowd aches for the loss to the world of SEE ASYLUM, PACE 11 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 7

LATE LUNCH Professional victim/artist advocates terrorist defense tactics for women

BY SHAILA K. DEWAN frustrated by the lack of sphere: "I don't have heroes, because a against, well, everything. (Should they research dedicated to finding hero is someone that does something stop buying her albums, too?) Lydia Lunch came to town too late. a cure for PMS. She begins to for you that you can't I do everything One can't help but compare Lunch She missed the hype. experiment on herself, and for me myself." to her peer, the avant-pom goddess The self-styled "professional eventually takes so many Perhaps if Lunch—who was and former prostitute Annie Sprinkle. protester" would probably have felt male hormones that she sexually abused by her father—had let Where Lunch fails to inspire, Sprinkle more at home and been more effective becomes an aggressive serial invites her audiences to acknowledge amid the hoopla of the Republican killer—the first woman serial "You can't beat the taboo, to explore new regions of Convention, which galvanized killer in the U.S. Lunch says sexuality—both hers and ours. Where Houston's art community during such this demonstrates the basic 'em, kill 'em. You Lunch chews over old subject matter, events as the huge GAG [artists nature of men—violent and Sprinkle sits in gynecological stirrups organized to protest censorship] rally aggressive. However, after can't kill 'em, fuck and allows us to approach the stage and the Women's Action Coalition witnessing the killer's and peer into her vagina. Lunch's activities headed up by Laurie performance, one would think 'em. You can't show is about the crimes against us; Anderson and co. But hoopla is hardly that this serial killer was fuck 'em, kill 'em." Sprinkle's reveals our strength and Lydia's style. Instead, she "per- actually perfect for Lunch's ability to heal. formed" for a quiet, attentive audience femme militia. the audience in on the noir source of "Annie Sprinkle is a very unique at Rockefeller's on Tuesday, and her To Lunch, we (women) her anger, we would have been moved person because she has no anger at "political rant," as she later referred to are "all victims of white male closer to the brink of action. Many say all," said Lunch on KTRU. "She has it in a KTRU interview with Michelle rape." This means me. It also she is at her best when she relates no fear, no anger. It's all very love- Pulich, fell flat. Lunch confronts. means you, dear Readerette. stories instead of statistics. But we did based. And that's a unique position to Lunch is, among other things, a targets might pop into sight. As victims, we have no choice but to not so much as glimpse a naked be in in this day and age. It's kind of prolific performance artist, punk diva, Lunch's 45-minute performance fight back, on the same violent terms Lunch. Even if every woman in the tofu, but it's very beautiful at the same poet and screenwriter who has disappointed. And her message as the enemy. "Violence," Lunch audience had been raped, it is doubtful time....I believe in that but it's not my collaborated with the likes of Henry dismayed. Her scripted rant was pointed out in a reasonable tone, "has they would have been persuaded to trip to espouse it. I have too much Rollins, Penn & Teller, Sonic Youth exactly that—the raving of a teen rebel always been a part of the American undertake her "Independence Day anger. I have to be the spokeswoman and Exene Cervenka. She was high school dropout who ran away to political process." 1993 Plan," when everyone is for the Angry Generation.... Every recently included in the popular Re New York. She punctuates with Lunch may be a victim, but let us supposed to quit their jobs, refuse to day there's a new atrocity that crawls Search publication Angry Women and seething yeaaaaahhhhh's and calls to remember that she is a professional pay their bills, and go on strike into my orifices and makes me mad." a PBS "Alive from Off Center" arms. Lydia sees her job as marshal- victim. It's how she earns her living. special. She hit the scene in New ling the forces: "You can't beat 'em, She's also eloquent. Only, she gets lost Happy Hour 11AM-7PM daily! York in the late 70s with her "no kill 'em. You can't kill 'em, fuck 'em. in her own rhetoric. On the one hand, Live music, darts, wave" band, 'Teenage Jesus and the You can't fuck 'em, kill 'em." 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It might have been How's that for machismo? forgetting even as she speaks to let go Fri., Sept. 4 Donna Chatham confrontational, had there been any The inherent contradictions in of it. rich Republicans present. But Lunch, Lydia's militant persona are perhaps Lunch is a tough broad, who wants Satv Sept. 5 People with Hands who says she likes the lack of pressure best illustrated in her latest, as yet women to unlearn "the need to be on the underground circuit, doesn't unproduced screenplay— loved." And this rather limiting - Monv Sept. 7 Labor Day Fund Raiser venture to venues where her real Psychomenstruum. The protagonist is position extends beyond the private Benefit for AIDS

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There were lots of places that I reallj wasn't allowed to go. Because I was If Idl< an alternative pilgrimage an American, they didn't have digging a hole to china muni enough security checks on me," have Egelman said. / i. When Jones college Junior Laura Unlike Beijing, several of the cit- P< The base was never attacked even Perkins left for China this summer, ies and villages that Perkins visited with though the state of Israel is still In the she felt confident with her Chinese were far removed from Western theC middle of the Intefadeh, the Pales- and knowledge of the culture. An culture and Influence. One of the tinian uprising. Asian studies major and student of biggest differences she noticed was Right across the street from the Chinese for the past two years, Perkins the dying but still existent clutch of base, however, was the number one thought that this trip would cement communism on the Chinese site of Israeli soldier abductions In together everything she had learned economy. the entire country. about the culture previously. How- The Chinese government Issues Despite his limited Involvement ever, many of her preconceived no- two currencies: renminbi or In military operations, Egelman was tions were dashed Just upon her ar- 'people's money' was the soft cur- still able to experience some of the rival. rency used by the Chinese and the army's past glory. "I thought my Chinese was very FEC or Foreign Exchange Currency The week before he arrived In good but when I got there I found out was the money Issued to tourists Israel, the government had Just com- that I couldn't say a word," Perkins when they changed currency upon pleted Operation Solomon, a secret said. entering the country. According to airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews out Language wasn't the only barrier Perkins, most stores and restaurants from their oppressive country. Perkins faced. With blonde hair and had different prices for Chinese na- This was probably the first time blue eyes, she also had to deal with tives and for tourists. The higher price In history that blacks were taken out some amount of xenophobia. Luck- always was In the FEC currency; thus fc of Africa for freedom rather that for ily, however, the majority of the the differentiation. slavery. They received an amazing Chinese were more curious than hos- Perkins also noted that the class welcome from the Israelis. One night tile. They'd Just sit and stare. I'd structure of China still dates back to my aunt and I went down and taught smile and they'd look at me like I was the heyday of communism. No vis- them some Hebrew and English and a Martian," Perkins said. ible class differentiation existed played games with them," he said. Perkins went to China with the among the people except for the His experience with the Ethiopian US-China People's Friendship Orga- occasional person driving a Euro- Jews gave Egelman a deeper under- nization, a program whose main pur- pean sports car down the street standing of the universal bond be- pose Is to bring Chinese and Ameri- through all of the pedestrians and tween all Jews. cans closer together and to foster bicycles. "Going to Israel was something I good Slno-American relations. She "When I got home, a lot of people Perhaps volunteering for the Is- volunteers did odd Jobs around the wanted to do my whole life, to fulfill studied for six weeks In Beijing and asked me what It was like to travel raeli army Is not a typical way for a base like painting the barracks. a need. The thought of never going afterwards traveled around China for through one of the only communist Rice student to spend his summer "It was a pretty unglamorous job to see the Jewish homeland killed another three weeks. countries left In the world. There's vacation. Jones college senior David — typical military work — not Holly- me," he said. Egelman, however, Is not your typi- wood military work," Egelman said After his two months In Israel, cal Rice student. Egelman spent his The government subsidized his Egelman went to a small Bedouin junior year away from Rice. He spent flight and paid for his room and board. community In Egypt to see what a semester abroad studying In En- When money got tight, as it did life was like there. Even though gland and another semester working several times, Egelman played his he and his friends took off their What I did for my s In Los Angeles. The summer before harmonica on the street until he had Mogan Davids — the six pointed all this, he was In Tel Avtv on an enough money to go out to dinner or star that is the symbol of the Israeli army base. to a bar. Jewish religion — Egelman says Due to the high security stan- As an American volunteer, that he still remembers feeling dards of the Israeli army, Egelman Egelman was not allowed as much uncomfortable. arrived in Israel not even knowing freedom to move around the base as "Among other things, I where he wouid be stationed. He the Israeli soldiers. He said that If a brought back a real appreciation These six was chosen, with about 20 other war broke out, he probably would of my heritage. I'd do It again in Americans, to go to Tel Avtv. The not have gotten to see any action. a heartbeat." Egelman said. students did so that's why he came to texas inalawoffiee,

pearance. He wore a tie while eventoodling everyone else wore shorts and T-shirts. "You could not believe the with daddy's people who were Involved — loonies — the reason was par- tially because Perot was an Inde- pendent and partially because we were In New York. There weren't a lot of clear thinking by Jill Sal people on the campaign," Rhodes said. A clip of Rhodes aired on the program CBS This Morning stating every what he thought about several new american abroad found people working on the campaign. It Weste was definitely no small* feat for a of the mere high school graduate and one Sid Rich college Junior jamey "One time we were at a pavilion llevabl of the youngest salaried members Flndllng was certainly not the only that we probably wouldn't have got- In the working on the campaign. American to visit the Expo in Seville, ten Into If we didn't have a pass." Th€ Rhodes ended up In one of the Spain this year. In fact, this year's Flndllng said. seven permanent positions on the World's Fair was probably the big- Flndllng was also able to attend committee and had regular respon- gest In the past 30 years, accommo- several other press-only events. He sibilities. His duties Included keep- dating about 300,000 people per attended, with probably a dozen ing track of all the committee's ex- day. Flndllng, however, was the only other reporters, a press conference penses, filing reports and ensuring one who went on an official press for a Mexican musician. Flndllng said that the Federal Election Committee pass endorsed by the Thresher. that even though the conference was regulations were followed. Flndllng got the Idea for the pass all In Spanish, it was interesting be- Perot dropped out of the race on from his father. As a history professor cause It was the first time that he had July 16 but Rhodes worked on the from Indiana University Southeast attended such an event. committee "closing out the books" who had J ust edited a book on world's As another added bonus, on the for another two weeks. Some of the fairs, Flndllng's father had a pass of day that the Expo showcased India, other volunteers continued working his own from a Journal specializing in the delegation from that country set Probably more than anyone else, it," Rhodes said. to put him on the ballot anyway, but the world's fair. out a 30 foot buffet table with an Will Rice College freshman David Rhodes started out In May volun- according to Rhodes, "Perot was not "My dad had a press pass so I open Invitation to all Journalists. Rhodes knows the meaning of the teering three hours a day but by the going to let them do that." asked Leezle [KJm] to sign mine on a "This was the best thing that word politico. At the end of his se- middle of June, he was volunteering Rhodes took a day off to graduate whim," Flndllng said. happened to me at the Expo. The nior year of high school, Rhodes eight hours a day. from high school. "That was part of , The Expo gave out a little over food was amazing; I ate partridge. started volunteering for People for "I listened to Robert Penn Warren: the beauty of the grass roots move- 60,000 of these passes which prob- That's the kind of thing that doesn't Perot, a grass roots petition drive 'Follow the money.' I thought the ment. This kind of political campaign ably explains why a representative of happen to your normal starving committee. most Interesting thing would be the was a real meritocracy — everyone a small college newspaper was given Journalist," Flndllng said. The group's purpose was to get money. That's the reason I chose the was Judged on the skill that they the same opportunities as a reporter Although Flndllng didn't attend H. Ross Perot on the presidential financial end of it," Rhodes said. have — an 18-year-old was able to from Life magazine or El Pals. the Expo for the express purpose of ballot In New York state. Before Perot The committee CQnsIsted of, rise up In the system," Rhodes said. Flndllng's pass got him Into the reporting, he was able to get a taste dropped out of the race In the middle among others, a woman who later Rhodes' activity In politics didn't fair free for four days and entitled for what real world Journalism was of July, Rhodes rose to assistant fi- left to Join the Ashram, several dis- end with his Job on the campaign. him to many special privileges. At like. He admits, though, the skewed nancial manager, the number two barred lawyers and an ex-mlsslonary This semester he's going to head up several of the pavilions he didn't nature of his experience. V position In the department. turned construction worker. Rhodes the Rice faction of the national lobby- even have to wait In line but Just Flndllng noted: "I don't think I had "I wanted to help out because I said that part of the reason he at- ing group Lead or Leave, aimed at sauntered up to the front holding his a true Journalistic experience. I got thought Perot was a good guy. I tained such a high position at such a the concerns of 18 to 30 year-olds pass In front of him a la Wayne's only the good side — no work." didn't want to make a big Job out of young age was because of his ap- and deficit reduction. World. Flndllng was Impressed by almost !"URF FEATURE THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 9

really a good free market system and She also noted, however, the advan- mountains with horses, guides and ! f I didn't already know that the Com- tages of traveling to a totally different keepin' the west western gear. The outfitters also take groups munism was there, frankly) I wouldn't world and coming back to the US on fly-fishing trips and are some- have noticed." Pterklns said. again. times required to act as caterers which : cit- Perkins said she brought home "The one thing that traveling al- Is only a fancy term for cook. ilted with her a better understanding of ways does Is make me feel grateful Even though she's lived In the city tern the Chinese people and their culture. for my home," Perkins said. all of her life, Glanville has always the worked In stables. Taking a year off was between Tufts and Rice, she went out h of west and for three months attended ese NOLS, National Outdoor Leadership School In Lander. "I told the people sues at NOLS that I wanted to work In this or business and they kept pointing me cur- In the direction of Jim Allen's ranch." the Glanville said. ncy The amount of raw skills that she rlsts acquired over the summer goes well ipon beyond what anyone could ever g to dream of learning In a university at- ants mosphere. na- "I learned how to break colts, I >rlce learned how to shoe [horsesj. In most thus m places a woman would never get to guide or even shoe a horse. I guess iass I'm lucky because Jim Allen's pretty k to liberal," Glanville said. vls- Nicole Glanville's pretty liberal, ted too, because nothing of what she did the this summer could be called tradi- uro- reet tional woman's work. In addition to and all of her other duties, she gathered up hay Into bales, fed the horses, cleaned the tackle and cut poles for Dple fences. avei "It's raw country, It's not for ev- nlst When Sid Rich junior and transfer Glanville grew up In a typical ur- eryone. No electricity — propane re' s student from Tufts University ban household In Houston. She was lights. No plumbing either," Glanville Nicole Glanville arrived at CD- exposed to all the culture and atmo- said. Week this year she was still sphere of the city life but still she Glanville said, however, that the dusty and dirty from the trail prefers to say 'crick' over 'creek.' country she saw up In the mountains and wearing the same clothes And when she speaks of the city folk In Wyoming was the most beautiful, that horses probably saw her who came up to the ranch this sum- untouched land that she ever saw summer vacation in. By looking at her now, three mer, she still calls them dudes. and she wants to go back after gradu- weeks later, you'd probably This summer Glanville completely ation to get a Job on a working cattle never guess she spent the separated herself from the city life ranch. Ultimately, she plans to be a summer In the Wyoming wil- and went to jlm Allen's Diamond 4 livestock veterinarian. derness; unless of course you ranch outside of Lander, Wyoming "1 couldn't have been happier. peeked Into her room and saw to work as a horse pack outfitter. The I'm a work-body. I'd rather be using all of the tackle, saddles and ranch's main purpose is to supply my body and my mind together. I'd amazing Rice spurs adorning the walls. people who want to go up Into the rather be outdoors," Glanville said. more t h an work eschelons of the companies who ad- at the pool or la chica olimpica vertise but not everyone on the ship was a high paid executive. Shell Oil In Australia gave out their tickets to around Europe several of their gas station owners. The ship had 600 guests every four money. days. "The guests ranged from gas sta- tion owners to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to Kathy Ireland," Tho- mas said. Thomas' Job Included taking the guests to the games on a chartered Salomon bus and making sure everyone got to their seats. Once she took care of all the guests she was able to watch the events herself free of charge. every aspect of the fair from the new realize, however, was that maybe "The sponsor's get the best tick- round sense of unity among the journalism is not the path he wants to ets. The best way to come was with Western Europeans with the coming take after graduation. a sponsor. 1 was able to see gymnas- of the EC to the futuristic and unbe- "It kind of made me Interested In tics, equestrian, boxing, volleyball, Ion lievably complex buildings located Journalism but I don't think that lt'd water polo and soccer," Thomas said. ;ot- in the center of the fair grounds. be as much fun as my first Impression All of the hosts had seats at the ss," The one thing the fair made him was," Flndllng said. opening and closing ceremonies as well. 2nd On the cruise ship, Thomas' next He door neighbors were Gall Devers and zen Jackie Joyner Kersee of track and field nee fame who preferred the ship to the iaid Olympic Village because the ship was wasalr conditioned. Gold medal track be- runner Rafer Johnson and boxer Tad George Forman were also guests on the ship. the "Every four days we'd have a big dia, party on the ship — fireworks, ev- set erything. We'd have the 600 boat an guests as well as 400 more we'd When the Thresher asked Han- working vacation. invite from Barcelona. I danced with hat szen senior Pam Thomas how she "For the first two weeks we stayed Pablo Moralesand Nelson Diebal who The was able to secure a Job at the In Barcelona for orientation. We had were medal winners in swimming." p to remember where all the venues, S - Olympics this summer In Barcelona Thomas said. sn't she replied, "It was pretty much entrances and seats were so we could At one of these same parties. ing nepotism." show the guests of the magazine Thomas' director told herand another Thomas' father is an advertising when they arrived," Thomas said. host to Jump Into the pool to get the >nd salesman for Time magazine In New After that they moved to a cruise party rolling. The celebrities that fol- o! York. As on of the top twelve spon- ship stationed in the Barcelona har- lowed her lead got coverage In the iste sors of the Olympics, Time sent 40 bor. Most of their guests on the ship New York Times. vas people to work as hosts for the offi- were advertisers with Time or Sports "Energy all the time, never slowing i/rci cial guests of the magazine traveling Illustrated. Every company that had down. We had to always smile in to Barcelona. taken out at least a two page ad in front of the guests. It was just the ad Thomas was one of the 40 people either magazine got Its dole of most Incredible experience I've ever got accepted out of the over 400 that Olympic tickets that It could distrib- had. Everyday wasa new experience, applied. She stayed In Barcelona for ute any way It pleased. Most of the something, I've never encountered ost a month on an all expense paid guests were part of the upper before," Thomas said. 10 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT No MORE FAITH Axl likely to continue battle witk fans at G n R, Metallica marathon today

BY PETER HOWLEY get it together. Rose himself has a jarring rendition of "We Care a Lot," One thing about G n' R shows has about the band's performance and cut suffered from vocal chord problems and igniting the crowd with the hit not changed: the delay preceding the the show off prematurely, reportedly The show that was initially billed throughout the tour, causing some "Epic." band's arrival. Rose defends his inciting another riot. as the greatest rock concert ever limps shows to be rescheduled, but he is Metallica is likely to follow Faith frequent tardiness, saying that fans Rose will no doubt continue his its way into Houston this afternoon at slated to appear tonight nonetheless. No More after the customary hour- deserve the best possible show, which batUe with fans who break his rules by 3:30. Guns n' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More opens the show long set change. Their set includes a requires preparation. The audience in videotaping him or throwing objects Faith No More will take the stage at with a performance that threatens to number explosive devices like the one D.C. and at the Summit earlier this on stage, a habit that further breaks up the Astrodome for eight and a half overshadow the wounded headliners. that ignited Hetfield in Montreal, as year entertained themselves during the an already erratic show. hours of metal in a stop on a tour that Their performance in Washington well as a gliding drum platform for The songs themselves are for the has seen more than its share of proved their ability as a concert band Lars Ulrich. Metallica's set most part winners. Although Rose's complications. to a skeptical crowd, and if they In D.C., Metallica sounded nearly vocals are sometimes strained and the Even before the first U.S. stop in maintain a high level of energy, they perfect, powerfully churning out most includes a number overlapping layers of noise occasion- Washington, D.C., the entire tour was should impress Houston fans as well. of the cuts from their newest album, ally indiscernible, the energy and put in jeopardy when Guns n' Roses Material from their new Angel Dust highlighted by an acoustic "Nothing explosive devices emotion that define G n' R for many lead singer Axl Rose was arrested in album was well-received, particularly Else Matters." There is plenty of time fans come through loud and clear. One New York on charges stemming from the popular single "Midlife Crisis" and for songs from previous albums as like the one that notable exception is the hit single a riot he allegedly incited during a the cheerily satirical "RV." These cuts, well, since they are slated to play a "November Rain," which suffers from show in St. Louis' Riverport Amphi- as well as "Caffeine" and "Jizzlobber," full-length set ignited Hetfield the poor sound quality of Rose's piano theater last summer. highlight the changes the band has Hetfield engaged the D.C. fans in work. Rose was released in time for the undergone since their last album. The some standard concert banter and led in Montreal. Axl yields the microphone to D.C. show, and the tour moved across Real Thing. them through a volume contest to the bassist Duff for "So Fine" and an the continent, only to run into more Vocalist Mike Patton has found an refrain of "Seek and Destroy." The wait in the traditional fashion: annoying cover of the Misfits' trouble in Montreal. There, Metallica on-stage sidekick in keyboardist band emerged for an encore, which watching teenage girls expose their "Attitude," and Slash steps forward for lead singer and guitarist James Roddy Bottum, and together they included crowd favorite "One," then body parts on the big television a lengthy guitar solo or two. Matt is Hetfield was injured on stage by a create a very casual, spontaneous yielded to Rose and company. screens. even showcased in a monster drum pyrotechnic device. He is unlikely to mood. After D.C. fans threw articles Fans who last saw G n' R in their When the band finally emerged, solo. play guitar at the Dome, so a backup of their clothing onto the set, the two original, stripped-down guise may be they stuck to the same show that The Gunners have wrapped up guitarist will be available to replace urged the audience to participate in a surprised by the composition of the Houstonians saw at the Summit. A what turns into a long, long evening him. streaky underwear contest and invited supporting cast behind founders Rose, number of Appetite for Destruction with an encore featuring power ballads Also ai that show, Rose cut G n' the winner to join them onstage for the Slash and Duff McKagan. Matt jams kick it off, interspersed with "Don't Cry"and "Estranged," as well R's set short after a few songs and last song. FNM even reached back into Sorum's precise drum work is familiar some newer material from Illusion. as "Paradise City." apologized for the band's inability to their pre-Patton repertoire, digging out to owners of Use Your Illusion I and The audience is also likely to be By then, Faith No More seems a II, while the replacement of rhythm treated to one of Rose's famous pleasant memory from the day before, guitarist Izzy Straddlin is barely tirades. In D.C., he castigated the St. and Metallica a dull throbbing in the noticeable. Louis district attorney who had him ears. The three bands together have The band also includes keyboardist arrested; in Houston, he slammed provided an unmatched marathon of Dizzy, a harmonica player, and the homosexual groups who protested the hard rock so far on this tour; whether "976 Horns," who provide backup early G n' R tune "One in a Million;" they can overcome adversity and vocals and brass. in Montreal, he ranted disgustedly continue to so will be seen tonight.

NOT JUST FOR PEAKS FREAKS Lynch's new flick flirts with surreal, too real

BY JENNIFER M. LEE can try at home. As much as half of the series Allow me, as a "fan" of the doesn't really figure into the movie, You won't see much cherry pie, show—though I'm not saving my due to the shift in focus from Laura's but you will find a whole lot of Threshermoney for that dream unsolved murder, which necessarily answers in David Lynch's Twin vacation in Snoqualmie, Washing- examined her community and the Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. If it seems ton—to observe that you can read all investigators themselves, to Laura's a little bizarre to see a movie about a television show—it is. But think about Anyone familiar with Lynch's penchant the abundance of artistic freedom you'll be exposed to, and the absence for the bizarre, regardless of her initiation of commercials, for as litde as $3.75 if A night out costs a lot less you see it at AMC. into "Twin Peaks/' will relish the horses in Although the unique relationship between the movie and the series bedrooms and other cosmic phenomena than you might imagine. could mean box office blues—people who didn't see the show might shy which punctuate this work. away from the movie—the relation- Now for less than the average cost of a movie, ship presents an unprecedented the negative reviews you want in other life, which did not involve the opportunity to evaluate the benefits newspapers. I thoroughly enjoyed characters of Audrey Home (Sherilyn you can have a grand night out. and limitations of each medium watching the companion to the series Fenn), Josie Packard (Joan Chen), or involved. The movie should be and the different perspective it offered. those exclusively related to them. The Houston Symphony introduces its Student valuable for non-Peaks fans in that it's Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise, who play Anyone familiar with Lynch's different from mainstream movies. Laura and Leland Palmer, present the penchant for the bizarre, regardless of Express program. $5 buys you a ticket anytime Now that videos of the first sue undesirably but intriguingly complex her initiation into the 'TwinJPeaks" episodes are commercially available, father-daughter relationship with mysteries, will relish the horses in this "experiment" is one that everyone sensitivity and insight. SEE LYNCH, PACE 11 during the regularly scheduled 1992-93 Classical r

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IT TAKES TWO More on Bang Tango: uncovering history with Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains

BY ERIC STOTTS "Dancin' on Coals," "Someone Like insecurities of larger bands as a reason Spinal Tap style. In the midst of all of the Alice in Chains bassist Sunday You," and "20th Century Boy," which Tango hasn't been invited on the road. this, the finishing touches are being night. One may question Bang The Backstage on Bissonnet and sounded wailing and unoriginal on the He hypothesized (very correctly 1 made on a new album which should be Tango's willingness to depart from the Southwest Freeway had all of the album, were at least palatable live. might add) that part of this might be ready for recording very soon. influences which, for the most part makings of a Top 40 nightmare—tight Yes, at certain moments the band due to the fact that many bands would When questioned about the band create music far superior to that of the leather pants, lots of big hair, and a lost any sort of grinding edge and feel uncomfortable opening with a concept and about steps toward a more Top 40 quagmire in which Bang plethora of motley crew—as Bang lapsed into a rehashed Tesla-riffic Tango previously languished. Tango rolled into Houston last Sunday sound, but at other times they The band still gave off the intense glam Whatever comes of the new night. Despite the pre-show atmo- redeemed themselves by offering forth concept, Kyle promised a music that sphere, the terrible opening band a bevy of funky and delightfully rock aura as they strode to the stage would strive to be more straightfor- (name unknown), and the chunky bass riffs. ward and raw and much less sterile unimpressiveness of their latest EP After the show, as bassist Kyle dressed in all varieties of exotic leather than any of their previous work. Ain't no Jive..Live, the Tango crew Kyle munched down a bag of plain At least they are dissatisfied with put on a surprisingly entertaining show M&Ms on the posh tour bus (I noticed stretch pants and gaudy pewter accents. their cun-ent position and are taking which showed enough promise to he ate an unusually large number of steps to remedy the situation. impress even the most skeptical, Top green ones), he divulged that the band band whose lead singer looked too alternative sound, Kyle broke into a One big hurdle in breaking into the 40-loathing college student. itself was not in the least new to the much like their own, but he didn't series of startling revelations about new music scene full-on is the Admittedly, the band still gave off scene, and in fact has been around mention any names (the Cult!). An both the band's influences and its problem of band misrepresentation. the intense glam rock aura as they since 1988, when they were signed by unsuccessful tour with Ratt and LA. direction. Although moments of a very While the live EP Ain't no Jive..Live strode to the stage dressed in all MCA/Mechanic Records to record a Guns, as well as incompetent promising alternative sound came comes across as sickeningly cheesy varieties of exotic leather stretch pants live album under their own label — management were other reasons cited through occasionally, the band's new and unoriginal, the live show and gaudy leather and pewter accents. World of Hurt Records—which did for the band's publicity problem. concept involves moving away from demonstrates potential that if properly But once they tore into their first songs very well on the import charts. In 1989 Despite this disturbing lack of the alternative sound popularized by played up, could make Bang Tango at of the evening, including "Love the band made an extended appearance publicity, the band is currently such bands as Pearl Jam, Alice in least bearable, if not solidly in step Injection" and "Soul to Soul," they on "Dial MTV" with the song undertaking many steps which it hopes Chains, and Mother Love Bone. with the current exciting trends in new produced a strikingly heavy sound. "Someone Like You," which remained will lead to big time success. Having I was shocked to learn that all three music. Indeed, some of the best stuff the in the top three for 14 straight weeks. just completed a relatively successful of these bands have at one point or Whatever happens, consider your Tango crew belted out is for a yet-to- Despite the band's attempts at big tour of Europe after the release of their another opened for Bang Tango— options carefully before making any be-recorded album. Amazingly time exposure, a mixture of factors has live EP, the band plans to finish off its indeed, Kyle Kyle was using the bass new Bang Tango purchase. enough, even some of the cuts off the made it difficult for them to break into current U.S. tour and head for the land previously assaulted EP, such as the mainstream. Kyle cited the of the Rising Sun to test their success,

BROKER throw out that which does not work in She does, however, tell students to FROM PAGE 5 apiece. take advantage of the multitudes of personal satisfaction, not for the Broker is also quite frank with galleries in the Houston area and to commercial market. "I make every students about her opinion of the steal ideas from other artists. It seems piece for me...All my boxes sell, I pursuit of artistic brilliance: "You're only fair, as Broker laughingly admits could just make them for that purpose, not geniuses. I hate to tell you guys. "I steal ideas from you guys all the q/t urs but you know what? You can't do it. You expect God to spit down in your time. I see something, I go home, and Philly Sirloin Special You have nothing to say." brain. A light has never gone off on it's sitting on my brain...I get to $2.99 w/Rice ID Broker is highly respected in the me, you know? No divine inspiration create, to draw all these things which Houston art community for the skill here." interest me. It's better than working at (reg. $3.99) and enthusiasm which she brings' to Though she emphasizes the Sears every day." her classes. "When I talk about it, it importance of being a "large vessel"— SEARCHING FOR A SAINT seems really easy. It's taken me 22 that is, having an unlimited acceptance SEWALL GALLERY, 527-6069 Free Delivery! years of being stupid, O.K7...I have to rate, Broker discourages the "Art Sin" THROUGH OCT. 10 (min. $15 order, 3 mile limit) draw horizontal. That's how I started of gleaning undue significance from KARIN BROKER (SOLO SHOW) using Formica—drawing in the bath random objects, of drawing the first MCMURTHEY GALLERY, 523-8238 $20i Fannin • 524*1®®® and wiping it off with Comet." She thing one sees (her classic example is SEPT. 12-Ocr. 1 7 emphasizes the creative ability both to the number of drawings of the physics "take everything in" and to ruthlessly building she receives each year).

ASYLUM alternative crowd in favor of the head FROM PAGE 6 bangers: I would find it exceedingly attempts to convey an image of sad if Tab managed to completely take sensuality and domination, both over. Just ask anyone who went to the feminine and sadistic. recent They Might Be Giants show I have to question the effectiveness what they think of the management. of her act, but it is something one Tab already controls the lion's comes to expect as a Pain Teens fan. share of the local scene and there is Anyway, the Pain Teens, like little to keep them from charging as Sugarshack, are on their way to much as they like for shows. Support becoming a pretty good deal, so you instead smaller venues who charge DOESYOUR MAKE-UP should check 'ejn out lower covers and book more challeng- It's always good to have another ing bands, clubs like Emo's. My guess club in the local scene, even if it is less is that The Asylum won't last six than desirable geographically. I hope months; it will take someone else to The Asylum doesn't forsake the continue the tradition of The Axiom.

LYNCH TV series allowed. FROM PAGE 10 Lynch seems to assert that every bedrooms, other-worldly dimensions, semblance of normalcy merely and other cosmic phenomena which conceals a dark and consumptive punctuate this work. reality, but the story of Laura Palmer, Familiarity with the series provides rather than undercutting the ideals of little advantage to viewers during the the "American girl," demonstrates that first 30 minutes of Fire Walk With Me its parameters aren't elastic enough. since Lynch brings in a cast of Unlike her complacent best friend characters—including Chris Isaac, Donna Hayward, Laura is perpetually Kiefer Sutherland, and David Bowie— conscious and painfully aware of the Our five compartment divided tray is perfect for storing cosmetics. So now you can put your 1 who are searching for the murderer of contradictions in her existence. She make-up away as neatly as you put it on. lAfAf rf / AT klAlAf AP a young woman who bears a striking overflows the mold of what she has Also works great in a desk or junk drawer WAS $6.95, NOW $3.95 resemblance to Laura a year before been taught to expect of life as the Laura dies. Homecoming Queen, a Meals on The Container Store Lynch chooses to frighten people Wheels volunteer, a daughter who by forcing them to confront issues they keeps her bed made and her room BACK TO SCHOOL SALE would rather not deal with on an neat; but she doesn't know what to do everyday basis—open secrets. He with the excess. With the energies that shows us how we construct a reality "good girl" protocol doesn't acknowl- based on the things we want to see. edge she, leads a "secret" life in a Laura and her father are forced to world unimaginable to her best friend, reconcile themselves to hidden truths good girl Donna. The pressure of which undermine their most basic self- . living such mutually exclusive lives definition. Although Lynch stays well leaves Laura vulnerable to the escape within the conventions of an R rating, cocaine offers, and she frequently a great deal of his subject matter is alludes to the realization that her life is more deeply disturbing than what the speedily slipping out of her control. 12 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS SPORTS Volleyball team crushes Lady Tigers in opener

Texas Southern overwhelmed in three games

the net as well, totalling 14 blocks. by David Rhodes Lowenthal thought that the match was "definitely fun," and that it pro- The Wee women's volleyball team vided an intangible boost as welL "Well made a superb showing in front of a have a lotof momentum coming out of supportive home crowdTuesday night this game," she said. at Autry Court, shutting down the Coming off a difficult season in Texas Southern University Tigers in 1991, the team has reason to be confi- three straight games. dent about this year's prospects. They The season's opening match, while have few injury problems and expect again st a team which was not expected to finish in the top three in the South- to be extremely competitive, showed west Conference, which is considered that this year's women's volleyball the fourth-best collegiate volleyball squad is a force to be reckoned with. It league in the country. was clear from the outset of the match Intense training sessions have al- that the contest would not be a difficult lowed the Owls to build an offense one for the Owls. which is "powerful and intimidating," Rice won the first game of the best- according to Head Coach Debbie of-five match, 15-2. The Owls went on Sokol. The team had no difficulty de- to shut out the Tigers in game two and veloping a rhythm on Tuesday night, to trounce them again in the third controlling the court for the duration game by a score of 15-3. of the evening. Freshman Casey Roon admitted An encouraging blowout may be that the Tigers "weren't that tough," necessary for the Owls, who have a but believed that the game was useful difficult road trip ahead of them the for the Owls, as it allowed them to weekend of Sept. 4. The Molten/Ne- "work outthe kinks" in what is already vada Invitational, a tournament held a very cohesive team in Reno,willfeature WestCoastteams Roon and junior Jessica Williams that will test Rice's mettle. Sokol ex- split time at the setter position, allow- pects a particularly difficult match ing th e team to experiment with differ- against Gal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and ent styles on the court Roon recorded as Lowenthal said, "the teams from 13 sets, while Williams had seven. California are always good." Outside hitter Michele Kaminski After the tournament, the team led the Owls on offense, nailing seven returns to Autry Court for games kills for an attack percentage of 54.5. against Alabama, Illinois-Chicago, and Hitter Cheryl Dell and middle blocker Eastern Washington in the Rice-Baden Terri Loewenthal each added see kills. Showcase on Sept 11 and 12. Their Defensively, Rice held TSU to a first conference game will be at the negative attack percentage, meaning University of Houston on Sept 23, a the Tigers had more attack errors game which will be televised on HSE- Middle blocker Terri Loewenthal nails a spike. Loewenthal had six kills against Texas Southern Tuesday. than kills. The Owls were dominant at TV. Club soccer teams take to the practice field Men's team confident as Baur prepares tofill shoes of graduated keeperOwl s face first test of ture major. He practiced with the team players will return on a squad of 17. season against Air Force by Torrey Folk during the spring and played a game McMath predicted that their mostdif- at the national tournament in Austin. ficultgame will be against the Univer- The men's soccer club is prepar- The team, christened the "Lads" sity of Texas on Sept 27. Falcon wishbone could create problems ing for what they expect to be a suc- by their British coach, Mike Henshaw, "Most of us would like to go cessful season at both ends of the started try-outs Aug. 24. Practices run undefeated, which means winning by Peter Howley field. On offense, Adam Kinsey, last from 4 to 6:30 p.m. five days a week, against UT. Of course, we also want to year's leading scorer, is returning for and the team does additional condi- win the national championship," said a fifth year. And while the team lost tioning several mornings a week. Baur. The Rice football team kicks off the 1992 season tomorrow with a 1 goalkeeper Ken Finger, they have Ten freshmen came out for the team, I .a st year the Lads placed eighth in p.m. game against the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The found junior Stu Baur to fill the net but because of the time commitment the national championship. "We've Falcons should be a stiff challenge for the Owls: they were 10-3 last year "Finger had been there five years only one, Mike Dowling, stayed on. done pretty well in the past We won and capped their season with a liberty Bowl victory over Mississippi and we didn't have anyone to replace "I went to the activities fair and the conference in 1989 and 1990. And State. him," said club president Dave signed up. After the first practice they we have always been in the top four [in Although there is little rivalry between the two teams, which have McMath. "However, Baur will be a encouraged me to stay and so I did. I the Southwest Conference] in the last only faced off twice before, a connection exists. Rice Head Coach Fred great asset to our team—we wouldn't know it's going to be tough," said five years," said James Young. Goldsmith was an assistant coach at Air Force for four seasons. have a team without him," Dowling. He is balancing a work-study Their first game is Sept 12 at Lamar "We have a lot of really pleasant memories about the whole organiza- Baur spent most of his time last job and 16 hours of courses. University. Their first home game is tion and the people there at the Air Force Academy," Goldsmith said, year with his studies as an architec- While the club lost five seniors, 13 Sept 19. "When we came in, it was one of the worst teams in the country. Now, they play with tremendous confidence. Those guys expect to win every game." Women's club practicing hard to make up for lack of depth on roster The Falcons' strength last year lay in their potent wishbone offense, nament in New Orleans. over two hours a day, four afternoons which generated 338.1 yards rushing per game. Only four starters return by Prerana Patel Club president Jen Evans re- a week, with pickup scrimmages in- this year, however, and there is a question mark at quarterback: Jarvis marked that the club has fewer mem terspersed. Even after a severe thun- Baker, a backup last year. F urthermore, no ne of last year's starters on the With the beginning of classes came bers than usual, but she also noted derstorm last week, a few die-hards offensive line will play. the first pilgrimage to the field for the that there were several returning could be se$l on the field.*" Running backs are still au Air Force strength. Both Obasi Onuoha and Wayne Youngwill play, alongwith Antoine Banks, who averaged 6.6 Rice women's soccer club. Under the players and "somestrongnewplayers" Fresh man Jenna Hutchins offered 4 guidance of new coach John Elder, composing this year's team. her perspective on the competitive yards a game last year. v the club began a regimen of scrim- Barbara Moyer, club treasurer, level of the club after several prac- Air Force will have to rely more on its defense, which returns eight mages, sprints and conditioning ex- said, "There were quite a few return- tices. "I'd say that we'd be competitive starters, including cornerback Carlton McDonald, the Western Athletic ercises to meet the challenge of the ing players, but the team is still look- with all Division III and quite a few Conference's defensive player of the year. Linebacker Vergil Simpson totalled 12 sacks last year and could pose a threat to the Rice attack. University of Texas and other tradi- ing for new people because many Division I teams." tional rivals. members of last year's team gradu- Moyer also mentioned hard work As for the Owls, they hope to have a more balanced attack than last year. Tailback Trevor Cobb will obviously see a lot of action, but the The club's activities are scheduled ated." as the most lately key to team success, r question is who will be handing off to him and leading the offense. tci'begin this weekend with a tentative Also returning to the team are adding, re practicing hard with Quarterbacks Josh LaRocca and Bert Emanuel have been vying for scrimmage. They open the regular I .aura Darley, Rachel Decker, Jenny our new coach, so we're hoping for the startirfjfjob since spring practice, and while I^aRocca seems to have season with a game at Southwestern Gaunce, Kathy Gniady, Kit Kittleson, good matches against Baylor and UT, the edge, both will likely see time. University Sept 12. Galen McKinley, Brooke Mann, I^iura who are really competitive." "Both quarterbacks will play. Both can'hin theoption, both can throw, The season lasts until early No- Melton, Kristi Spear, team captain The team gets a chance to prove both can hand it off to Trevor," Goldsmith said. "The objective is to have vember, when playoffs begin.Theclub Marta West, and Monica Willman. itself against one of its strongest rivals a guy who's fresh." will face NCAA Division III varsity Extensive practice seems to be the in its first home game against the trams in October at the Tulane Tour- hallmark of the club. Practices run for University of Texas on Sept. 20. SPORTS THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 13 Women's tennis counting on camaraderie HEAD TO HEAD Veloso to lead Owls through gauntlet of nation's top teams this season

makes a big difference in the kind of The squad's season opener, the by Amy Schumacher team support we give each other." Texas A&M Four Way Tournament Although the team is relatively at College Station, will begin on Sept. Driven by a renewed sense of young, members maintain that they 18. The competition should be pretty teamwork and enthusiasm, the Rice will remain competitive. Two new re- strong at A&M," Blankenship said. women's tennis team is eagerly ap- cruits will help fill the void made by He added that this year, more than in proaching the beginning of its 1992 the graduation of the team's number year's past, the team will be looking fall season. Team members are excited two and three players. for "new blood" outside of the region about last year's strong third place "I am confident of the talent that by travelling to tournaments that in- finish in the Southwest Conference we have right now," Blankenship said. clude more nationally-ranked teams. Championships and hope to build on "Rice's attractiveness to tennis players The Harvard Invitational in Cam- the team support and work ethic de- has upgraded the quality of those bridge, Mass., on Sept. 25-27, the LSU veloped during last year's campaign. considering our program and that Invitational, and the University of "We've always been fortunate to helps the team" Arizona Invitational in the spring have good team spirit and camarade- The return of sophomore highlight the team's search for expo- rie, butthose characteristics are really Antonette Veloso will also help the sure outside of SWC. strong right now," Head Coach Paul team She played in the number one "Competition this year will be Blankenship said. "The team unity slot last year, finishing number 71 in tough, but we will be scrapping to the Randy Block (left) and Tom Harris are held apart by the Sports Editor promoted by the upperclassmen sets the nation, and will attend the presti- end," Blankenship said. "If we fall, it a positive example to newcomers on gious clay court nationals this fall. won't be easy." the team." Randy Block v s. Tom Harris "Although people on the team have always gotten along, each year it seems to get more and more team-oriented. Rice at Air Force It really makes a difference in the way you play," explained junior Blair Barker cut by Redskins Rice Head Coach Fred Gold- With 12 starters returning from Strassner. "Tennis is such an indi- smith has worked all summer last year's 10-3 Air Force squad, vidualistic sport When you can put a for a game plan to beat his old Rice has an extreme^ rude wake- team element into it, it just makes Former Rice linebacker Tony Barker was placed on waivers by the employer. He has Trevor Cobb. up call. However, when you want everyone play so much better." defendingworldchampionWashington Redskins Monday, according to news reports. He has Josh LaRocca. He has to go to a bowl game for the first Abby Daniels agreed: "Being Bert Emanual. But on the road time since the Cuban Missile friends on and off the court really against a Bowl winner? He Crisis, you simply dont lose the doesn't have enough. first game. The Owls in a thriller. Mississippi State at Texas A bowl team from last yearwith Only the excitement of UTs cen- Tulloch wins NCAA javelin championship 18 returning starters, Missis- termial season opener and the sippi State spells trouble for departure of David McWQliams Haynes, Haywood take seventh and eighth in triple jump at NCAA meet new coach John Mackovich. will prevent the Bulldogs from Look for the Long horns to start again rumrngtheljon^ioms'year. enth in the triple jump with a leap of 42' third place [in Austin]," Bevan said. with a home loss. UTtakes it by Peter Howley 5 1/2", but was still disappointed. "It was good for her to at least score." "I wasn't pleased because I wanted Pam Brooks made the trip to Aus- Texas A&M at LSU Even though women's outdoor to do better," Haynes said. "My aim tin as well, coming away with a tenth The Aggies have to be hungry While somewhat less severe than track season ended in June, assistant was to get into the 43 to 44 foot range." place finish after turning in her per- after their close call against Hurricane Andrew, the Aggie coach Jim Bevan is still excited about Haynes also felt that conditions sonal best time. She was timed at Stanford. LSU isgood, but they assault should be more than the team's performance. Rice finished were less than ideal. "Jumping at 1 pm 58.07 in the 400 meter hurdles. can't win tomorrow. Look for enough to belittle the Bayou Ben- 18th in the nation, its highest ranking on a day like that was hard. It was very "She almost made it the finals and Greg Hill to get big numbers. gals. A&M on top. ever, and sent four athletes to the hot," she said. she's only a sophomore," Bevan said. NCAA Championships. Haynes also competed in the 100 Haynes agreed: "Winning in her Miami (FL) at Iowa Thrower Valerie Tulloch, a fresh- meter and 400 meter hurdles during first year was a great achievement" This one should actually be Hayden Fry can only hope that man at the time, led the Owls by hurl- the outdoor track season, as well as Rice's 4x100 meter relay team was close, with the game in Iowa. teams improve most between ing the javelin 191' 2" to become the the long jump. denied an opportunity to compete at But defending national cham- their first and second ffsmes. national champion. Tulloch was in "She's a good competitor and she's the NCAA meet despite turning in a pions Miami got stung in their Miami's overconfidence and third place before her final throw, learned a lot," Bevan said. "She's go time under 45 seconds. "It was a really season opener against BYU Iowa's search for respect will which put her over the top and almost ing to be a lot better next year." deepyear. Most years our 4x100 team two years ^go, and will not go keep it close, but the Hawkeye 20 feet ahead of the nearest competi- Triple jumper Claudia Haywood would have been at Nationals," Bevan home losefs. The Hurricanes defense is simply not good enough tion. was slowed by a hamstring injury dur- said.-"*If they were running consis- should win'by at least 10. to pull off the upset "She ripped off a throw that was ing the NCAA meet, but managed a tently, they could have been in the about'' ten feet better than her best leap of 42' 4 3/4" to place eighth. Two finals, but the problem was they didn't USC at San Diego State ever in her life," said Bevan. "The weeks later, at the U.S. OlympicTrials get there." USC has the nation's toughest While the Aztecs have more guns conditions weren't very good to throw in New Orleans, a healthy Haywood Bevan anticipates another strong schedule and will struggle to than Smith & Wesson, their de- that far, either. It was still. It was just set a Rice record with a jump of season next year, since almost every have a winning season. San fense has mom holes than the dead air." 43' 2 1/2" to place fourth. member of the women's team will Diego State and the nation's university parking policy. In a Yvette Haynes also went to Austin "Conceivably we could have had return. "Hopefully this year we'll be best player,Marshall Faulk, will game made for over/under bet- for the NCAA meet She finished sev- her finishing no worse than second or 18th or better." not make things easier when ting, USC succumbs to the San they win tomorrow. Diego assault Last Week: 0-0, .000 0-0, .000 Year to Date: 0-0, .000 0-0, .000 SCHOOL SALE ZONE. 1 The Oa k Container

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Officials meeting for co-ed basketball and women's BACK TO SCHOOL SALE volleyball mill be held on Sunday September 13 at 6 pm Sale ends Tuesday, September 8. in Classroom A. Mr. Gatti's pizza will be provided for all Post Oak at Westheimer (across from The Galleria), (713) 960-1722 signed officials. For more information call Lisa or Bill at 285-5398. 14 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS Kice I nresher EBALL • BASKETBALL • CREW • CROSS-COUNTF MG • FEATURES • FOOTBALL • GOLF • INTRAMUF ACROSSE • LAYOUT • OPINION • PHOTOGRAPHY )ICTIONS • RUGBY • SAILING • SOCCER • SWIMMI S • TRACK • VOLLEYBALL • BASEBALL • BASKET REW • CROSS-COUNTRY • CYCLING • FEATURES BALL • GOLF • INTRAMURALS • LACROSSE • LAY >INION • PHOTOGRAPHY • PREDICTIONS • RUGBY AILING • SOCCER • SWIMMING • TENNIS • TRACK YBALL • BASEBALL • BASKETBALL • CREW • CR NTRY • CYCLING • FEATURES • FOOTBALL • GO NTRAMURALS • LACROSSE • LAYOUT • OPINION « iOTOGRAPHY • PREDICTIONS • RUGBY • SAILING CER • SWIMMING • TENNIS • TRACK • VOLLEYBA EBALL • BASKETBALL • CREW • CROSS-COUNTF , • -- " ^G • FEATURES • FOOTBALL • GOLF • INTRAMUF ACROSSE • LAYOUT • OPINION • PHOTOGRAPHY Members of the Rice rugby football club work on a passing drill during an early practice. )ICTIONS • RUGBY • SAILING • SOCCER • SWIMMI Rugby football club hoping to repeat success

We've got it covered. various metaphors have been applied Rice Alumni Theplayers call this game by Jason Katz in an attempt to describe the action of the Alumni Bash and fans can see the Call 527-4801 if you are interseted the game. action at 2 p.m. on Sept 5. The Rice rugby football club is Some people describe rugby as After the Alumni Bash, the official in joining the Sports staff. gearing up for the beginning of its similar to football. Others believe it games will begin on Sept 12 when season with the hope that this year vaguely resembles soccer. Still others Rice will battle St Thomas College. will end as triumphantly as last On deem it to be a kind of trench warfare. Next they will play Sam Houston on the heels of an informal match with And for tho se unclear on the history of Sept 19,andSouthwestTexasonSept former members of the club, the Owls rugby, the sport began over 160 years 26. WARNING: This ad acts directly on the mammalian limbic system. confront St. Thomas on Sept 12 in the ago in England and is slowly winning The first tournament, the Eastern first official game of the season. fans and loyalists here in the United Texas Rugby Fest, will be held on Rice will again compete in the East States. Nov. 14 at Steven F. Austin University. M»lHWa Texas conference, which includes To the spectator, rugby appears On March 27-28, Rice will be compet- such universities as SouthwestTexas, dangerous and brutal. "It's not that ing at the T.RU. Collegiate Champi- IN III M E the University of Texas, Texas A&M, bad if you know what you are doing onships. the University of Houston. During the out there," said one player. The winner will then represent the 1991 season, Rice finished first in their Although the club has lost five stateofTexas at the Western National CDs in the Village conference and stormed on to the starters from last year, the team has Tournament, which will be held at Western National Tournament, where gained nearly fifteen freshmen. This Rice this year. (especially jazz & classical) they finished in third place. depth will be needed, as the 1992 This year's Rice squad has a lot of 2442 Times 942-8863 Though the rugby team boasts a squad has a tough road ahead of them potential for success, and the players loyal following, most Rice students to match last year's success. plan to be in the "heart of the battle" have at best a limited knowledge of Their journey will begin Labor Day when the Western National Tourna- the history of the sport, and many weekend against a team composed of ment comes to town. you Q iticinbcT of the Fortune 4Qo?

Show receipts dated after August 17, 1992 totalling $400 or more and receive another post-season fall from grace a free Fortune 400 T-Shirt! will be bestowed, on us, courtesy of our beloved local by Jamey Findling media. Yes, I know we are given wlA we want and deserve, but look at Chicago or Detroit to see what a Hey, sports fans! Been keeping up with the news mob of overzealous, drunken sports fans can do in the lately? If so, then you are surely aware of the stunning way of creating rubble. I don't want to flog a dead horse, Campus run the O ilers made through the N FLpreseason, falling but couldn't this be construed as laying the fuel for afire just short of what would have been a gloriously unde- we don't really need? Just how important are sports, feated blitzkrieg that would have served unquestion- anyway? able notice to the rest of the galaxy that this would However, since the hype is inevitable, we might as really, truly, hon- estly be the Oilers' year. Finally. Swear What frightens me is that this him of events portends yet UNIVERSITY STANDING COMMITTEE to God and hope to die and stick a another oh-so-disappointing, gee-we-sure-came-close, next- needle in Jerry POSITION OPENING Glanville's eye. year-we'H-really-do-it season Ike last year. Losing to the previously winless The Student Association is now accepting Los Angeles Raiders in the final preseason game was well look for the humor in it That will come following certainly no cause for alarm. We know this, because Ed the Oilers6ignominious playoff exit, when the writers applications for a position to be held by one Fowler of the esteemed Houston Chronicle tells us that who predicted Super Bowl glory will squirm for ex- undergraduate representative to the University such a game was exactly what we needed/That's right, a cuses and think of fun new ways to say "just wait 'til next perfect 5-0 record during the preseason would have year." Perhaps, "This humiliating loss was just what we Standing Committee on Examinations and meant certain death once the real show started—over- needed! Obviously our boys weren't hungry enough Standing. The committee is uniquely busy and is confidence, you know. this year, but this heartbreaker should give them the Well, perhaps Mr. Fowler is right about that, but maturity and desire to play to their foil potential in involved with the recommendations for and questioning my journalistic elders is not the real reason 1993." Or some such drivel But making fun administration of undergraduate academic regulations of my more experi- of the university. The committee also considers enced sports-writ- But the really scary part will be the tremendously overblowning colleagues is student petitions and student academic grievances. really, really not All undergraduates (excluding new students) are hype and build-up which will be bestowed on us, courtesywh ofy I'm writing this. Well, maybe el igible to apply. Applications will be accepted through our beloved local media. just a little bit How- this Friday, September 11, 1992. To pick up an i>ii_iiiiiiii(i_iiever, the message I want everyone to application, please visit the Student Organizations I'm writing this little piece. What frightens me is that take away from this is actually potitical in nature. this turn of events portends yet another oh-so-disap- Everyone should vote for Bill Clinton for president, so office on the second floor of the Ley Student Center pointing, gee-we-surecame-close, next-year-well-really- that Rice can have a winning football season. Last time between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. For more information, do-it season like last year. the Owls went to a bowl game, there was a young For all the true baby-blue Oiler fans out there, that Democratic President in the White House, so Slick please call 527-4079 or talk to your college SA will be painful enough. But the really scary part will be Willie could bejustwhatwe need to make it all the way. Senator. the tremendously overblown hype and build-up which And after all, isn't that what's really important? THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 15

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The The number 1 reason why this campus I just don't fed like a zippy title this week sucks donkeys: I got only one stinking item of Misclass from all eight colleges. CALENDAR The Equal Rights Amendment was Confucius say: he who is orange the Jeopardy theme during self-de- Frlda »Add/Drop Deadline without fee, 5 p.m. registrar's office. part of a "socialist, anti-family politi- must face recognition of that fact struct sequence. • W»ss/Hans2en TG. cal movement that encourages 3. Watch Captain Picard do his Mr. • Getcheroxoff at lovett 10-2. nw.JBeverty Hilts Cop. women to leave husbands, kill their Top nine fun things to do aboard the Clean impression. children, practice witchcraft, destroy Starship Enterprise: 2. Call down to the transporter room, . KTRU Free Concert. Anderson Hall Courtyard. capitalism and become lesbians." 9. Skeet shoot the shuttle craft ask if they've beamed aboard Prince Sept 5 Noon - Wheat, with our very own Chad Shaw. -Republican fund-raising letter 8. Plug Nintendo cartridges into Albert in a Can. * 1 p.m. - Cafe Noir, jazz quartet. What drugs are these guys on? 2:15-Joint Chiefs. Data. 1. Give Wesley a wedgie 3:30- Terminus, eclectic, electric husband & wife duo. 7. Give Warf a nuggie. 4:45 - Mike Gunn. SNC joke of the week: 6. Order pizza from Domino's then Did you know that Rice is demanding 6 - Bad Livers. A grasshopper hops into a bar and go 30 min. into the future to piss its money back from the O-Fest disas- Static Ecstacy will play intermissions. BYOI (Instrument) the bartender says to him: "Did you them off (haha, free pizza!) ter? See the news story next week! •Graffiti Party at Jones. 10-2. Be your own little know there's a drink named after 5. Secretly replace the Dilithium vandal. There'll be paper all over the walls. you?" crystals with New Folger's Crystals. Wenn ihrmirkeineMisclassgebt, dann "Really?" the grasshopper asked. See if Geordi notices the difference. mu& ich etwas ddmmliches au/Deutsch Monday, • Labor Day Holiday. Ahh, bliss. There's a drink called Frank?" 4. Reprogram the computer to play schreiben. Sept 7 Wednesday, • Drunksitter Training 6 p.m. in the Miner Lounge. Toxic Gnome traverses the campus. Sept 9 Thursday, • Alcohol Server training in Bio 131 from 7-9 p.m. Sept 10 Wow! What a lot of activity surrouinding a measly little organic molecule!

Restaurant tip: the Vietnam Restaurant at 3215 Main Is wunderbar. Try the iced coffee. It's got about a trillion calories, but It tastes great and wilt keep you wired for several hours. Here's the deal: you write down funny things (quotes, jokes, etc.) Classified Ads and pick up after school. $5/hour plus HELP WANTED gas expenses. Call John Hutchinson (X3469) or Paul at 651-5681. EXTRA POCKET MONEY! $ 10.00 per hour. Rice undeigraduate tutors wanted: TUTORS NEEDED FOR SCIENCE, Rice Biology (or Pre/Med) majors for math, computer science, engineering Biology I tutor; Rice Math majors for and business courses. Work you own Pre Cal tutor; Rice English majors for hours tutoring high school and college Poetry tutor. Phone 552-9535 week- students. Houston Scholastic Services. nights after 5 p.m. and weekends. 666-9800.

PART-TIME POSITION as assistant to THE HEALTH EDUCATION OFFICE is corporation president and wife. Reli- interviewing for position of office assis- able vehicle required. Hours - 10:00 tant for the 1992-1993 school year. a.m. until ? at least 3 days a week. $ 12/ Duties include basic office maintenance hr. + mileage. Call 659-3680 - ask for as copying and answering phones. Or- Hundreds sit at home in fear. Joy. (Females only please) ganizational skills helpful for upkeep of filing system. Knowledge of Macintosh TUTORS WANTED. Learning Squared, programs required, especially Microsoft a private tutorial service, needs tutors Word and Aldus Pagemaker. Sense of in Math, Chemistry, and French. Office design and creativity useful since duties Then you put them in the misclass folders is close to campus. Call 528-7085. also include creating fliers and bro- chures. Must be work study. If inter- STUDENT (PREF. GRADUATE) ested, please call 285-5194. by monday at 5 p.m. Otherwise the WANTED. Work at law office doing computer data entry and misc. office FULL-TIME EVENING POSITION 7:00 work/errands. Hours flexible, but need p.m. - 4:00 a.m. (Flexible). Monday- Backpage is just full of Notes & Notices apprax. 16-20hrs./wk. Call 523-6660. Friday with weekend and holiday rota- tion. Require MLT certification or ROLLERBLADE HOCKEY. I'm looking THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS Sept 10, 4 p.m. Bachelor's Degree with science major. to find or organize a weekly game. Call WANTED: RELIABLE, responsible per- to the 1992-93 technical and non- son with own transportation to pick up Call personnel 663-6888., .Max at 668-3597 or on campus X3586. technical resume books is 12 p.m., WARP: The Wargaming and Roleplaying Watch this space for more details. elementary school children, 7 and 10, Sept 11, at Career Services. See Deb Club meets every Friday at 7 p.m., and supervise them until parents arrive Fields X4055, for more information. Sewall 207. All welcome. Under new home. Tuesday andThursday afternoons FOR SALE/RENT RESUMAN1A CONTINUES: You can management. 3-5. Salary negotiable. X2720 weekdays VOLVO 164 E: REBUILT ENGINE, new still have your resume critiqued by a THE RIGHT WAY TO WRITE A RE- or 664-3213 evenings and weekends. paint, Ither seats, alloy wheels, garaged member of the Career Services staff, SUME: Tuesday, Sept 8, at 4 p.m. in HACER-THE HISPANIC Association for when not used. Carribean Red/Black. daily, from 3-5 p.m. in the RMC lobby, the Career Services Conference Room. Cultural Enrichment at Rice-will hold PART TIME GENERAL OFFICE clerks. Repair records available. Exceptionally through Thursday, Sept 10. Last time offered this semester! its first meeting of the year Wednesday, Vinson & El kins, L.L.P., a large down- clean and safe; many xtras: $ 1800. Call Sept 9 at 8 p.m. in the Miner Lounge. town law firm has openings for Part Michael 754-3329. GRADUATING SENIORS and juniors NETWORKING AND THE ART OF Open to EVERYONE who has an inter- Time General Office Clerks. The duties interested in the Truman Scholarship Making Career Fairs Work for You: est in making new friends and having entail filing, copying and setting up files RICE VILLAGE. TEN MINUTES walk- for public service: there will be an infor- Attend this Career Services workshop fun. For more info, call Ovidio at 923- in legal sections in the Firm. Available ing distance from Rice. Large house for mation session in the Miner Conference and learn the subtle techniques that 6941 or Rdssana at 630-8567. positions are eitherfor morning or after- lease. Four bedrooms one and a half Room Friday, Sept 4 from 3-5 p.m. will help you get the most from this noon work schedules. Qualifications are bathrooms, kitchen and living room, year's career and job fairs. Thursday, BLOOD DRIVE: Tuesday, Sept 8 from some general office experience and 25 Appliances. Ideal for roommates or rent 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Campus Police/ wpm typing skills. Some computer per room. Furnished or Unfurnished. NROTC Building. Walk-ins accepted. knowledge is also preferred. If you are Call 522-1273. Call 527-4825 for more info. Platelet interested in applying for one of these and plasma donations will be conducted positions, please notify LaneTransou in FOR SALE: MICROWAVE $100, TV also. writing at: Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. Attn: cart with glass doors $20, rugs 8"X10' Interested individuals must call the Lane Transou. 2500 First City Tower. $60 each, TEAC cassette deck with Houston Blood Center at 790-1200. 1001 Fannin. Houston, Texas 77002- Dolby and dbx $60, equalizer $60, 6760. 1200 baud modem $50, all in mint NOT MUCH IS HAPPENING this week, condition. 790-9260. LSAT*GRE but for information about GALOR call GRADUATE STUDENTSPOUSE wanted Cory West at 630-8858. to care for 6 month old infant. M-F THRESHER EDITOR with leopard print 8:30A-6P; Salary negotiable. Call 791- lingerie to sell. Heavily used, but still GEORGE R. BROWN FORENSIC Soci 3713. Leave message. looks good with leather. Will throw in ety invites you to it weekly meetings in two bullwhips if you make me the right Rayzor Hall Rm 240 every monday night PROFESSOR AND WIFE SEEKING offer. frTTENT/o^ at 9:30 p.m. Questions? Call X3216. loving, creative person to sit weekdays, 3-6, with two daughters. Must have car MISCELLANEOUS FAITH'S PROOF IS IN THE LIVING... live it with us. First Christian Church, Rice at Sunset; John Cunyus, Baker '84, Pastor. Sunday Worship: 10:50 a.m., Church School: 9:30 a.m. Thurs- Please Help Mel I day Bible Study: 7 p.m. 526-2561. RICE COUNSELING CENTER fall se mester group program: I desperately need assistance Interpersonal Relationships Therapy Group: Mondays 3:30 - 5 p.m. Adult Children of Alcoholics Therapy in the Thresher's Business and Group: Tuesdays, 4 - 5:30 p.m. nteeo Nontraditional Aged Students Therapy Advertising Department. Group: Tuesdays, 10 - 11:30 a.m. Sexual Abuse Survivors Therapy Group: Wednesdays, 2 - 3:30 p.m. THE I'll pay almost anything Successful Completion: A dissertation/ Start prep before thesis support group: Fridays, 10:30 - mNCETON^B| for your time! noon. Labor Day. review_^BP Gay/Bisexual Male Support Group: Wednesdays, 10:30 - noon. Lesbian/Bisexual Female Support Time is running out. Call Shane at 527-4801 Group: Time to be announced. and don't let a proud man beg any more Call 527-4867 for more information. 688-5500 All services are confidential.