Car thefts, vandalism mar calm summer, vex Campos by Dave Collins near the Rice Memorial Center. Gohn, who keeps records and "If people read something in two opened a new crime prevention Despite the presence of eight According to Sergeant Don Gohn statistics at the police office, noted consecutive issues of the Thresher market for the Rice Campus hundred junior high and high of the Campus Police, the owner that the quiet summer is a dramatic and then its not in the next issue, Police. People outside the Rice school students on campus this approached the vehicle as the change from the 1982-83 academic they'll assume that the problem has Community have heard KTRU's summer, it has been a quiet season break-in was in progress and year. Nevertheless, he referred to just disappeared," Sgt. Gohn afternoon news with weekly crime for the Rice Campus Police. The confronted the suspect, who fled the amount of bicycle thefts and explained. If campus-dwellers see reports and have called the Campos have received only three the scene. The victim was unable to burglaries on campus as a continuous problem with thefts Campos for tips on prevention ol reports of serious crime since June identify the suspect in a picture "ridiculous" and "of epidemic and burglaries, their vigilance will crime. line-up. also be continuous. 1: two automobile thefts and one proportions." He proposed that "People call and ask, 'Can you attempted auto burglary. Other than these isolated the key to solving the campus "The amount of burglaries and suggest a good bike lock?', 'Where incidents, Sgt. Gohn remarked, crime problem lies in a prevention One of the auto thefts occurred other crimes here has been can 1 find someone to run with there was "nothing worth program above and beyond past on the Sid Richardson college ridiculous, especially for such a me?' and 'How can I lock up my efforts. parking lot on June 19 late in the rting" in the field of summer small community," Gohn house better?'after they hear about A major aspect of the prevention afternoon. The other occurred Ce. There were cases of continued, "but then there are so us on KTRU," Gohn said. between 2 and 4 p.m. on July vandalism and sabotage of video program involves continuous many open doors." Unlocked dorm 13 in front of Lovett Hall. In games and bicycles at the RMC, exchange of information between During the year the Thresher rooms and bicycles accounted for neither case has a suspect been mostly connected with Rice the Campos and the student will publish weekly reports of almost all burglaries and thefts on apprehended. Summer School students, but the organizations and colleges, crime statistics and security campus last year. June 19 was also the day of a Campus Police dealt with none of particularly with the campus suggestions from the Campus successful vehicle break-in in H-lot these on a criminal basis. .media. KTRU has already unwittingly Police. k n INSIDE: / A |*Tom Morgan returns to the Thresher editorial page. •Sandy Havens marks 20 years with the Rice Players: page 5. |*Our crack sports staff predicts THRESHER the SWC race. Guess who's first? Volume 71, number 1 Wednesday, August 3, 1983 History department offers new courses in '83-84 Rice's History Department will Francis Loewenheim will offer Rodney Olsen, a Mellon Post- Seed's "Elementary Demography offer twenty new courses next year "suites" of new courses, Matusow's Doctoral Fellow in History, will and Social Statistics", Guilmar- in an effort to take advantage of offerings being a two year cycle in offer a general history of everyday tin's "Warfare and Technology new faculty and to change the American history leading from the life in America, "Private Through the Sixteenth Century" department's emphasis towards Progressive Era to the present. Dimensions of Everyday Life in and "W & T from the Sixteenth courses broader in subject and Loewenheim's courses are American History, 1607 to Century to the Present." chronology. essentially a repackaging of his Present" along with a course in Commented Gruber, "The Commented Department previous offerings. American autobiography entitled Department expects to gain new Chairman Ira Gruber, "We are Professor Martin Weiner, "American Autobiography and junior members in both ancient trying to offer more general recently elevated to a Chair in American Culture." Olsen expects and European intellectual history courses. For instance, Dr. Charles History, will offer "Crime and his "Private Dimensions" course to in the near future, probably next Garside, who formerly taught Punishment in Victorian England" deal with "lived" realities as well as year. We interviewed over two specialized courses on Luther and in collaboration with Professor the ideological boundaries of hundred candidates while seeking Calvin, will offer a more general Ira Gruber —C. Clay Robert Patten of English. The everyday life. Olsen's courses will people for four positions last year. overview of Reformation Europe. Labor History", along with a fifth, course will center around the be substituted for his previously Not everyone we wanted to come Hopefully changes like this will "African Social History", to be reading and discussion of 19th scheduled courses. History 435a to Rice this past semester accepted appeal to more people." offered in 1985, will fill a gap in the century English literary and and 436b. our offer, but that was more a Gruber is particularly History Department's offerings. historical texts treating problems Other new offerings are function of the counteroffers made enthusiastic about the courses to Both Matusow and Professor of crime and punishment. Fitsimmons' "France, 1787-1870", than Rice." be taught by Mellon Distinquished Visiting Professors George Fredrickson and Harold Perkin. Fredrickson, author of The Inner Clark named temporary advising director Civil War and the recent, award German Professor Susan Clark possible improvements. Com- official faculty advisor in their advanced placement a student may winning White Supremacy, will be will assume the office of Director mented Clark, "One of my major department) students get lost." get credit for. Two traditional teaching an intensive two credit of Student Advising during H. C. goals will be to improve The Office of Student Advising special offerings Clark plans to course on "Ideas and Institutions Clark's semester leave of absence, sophomore advising. Sometimes is responsible for publishing the make available this semester are in Post-Civil War America" during according to Thresher sources. it seems that between their academic information package the Strong-Campbell interest the first four weeks of the Fall Clark, whose official interim freshman year and officially freshmen groups receive and inventory test and the Sensa Semester. appointment is expected soon, cnoosing a major (and getting an ascertaining the amount of reading improvement course. Harold Perkin, of the University expressed excitement with the of Lancaster, England, will offer a opportunity to implement plans to lower level lecture course on "The improve the advising available to Social Impact of Industrial different elements of the Rice Revolutions" dealing with Britain, community. Remarked Clark, "I France, Germany, the United plan to schedule monthly meetings States and Japan, and an upper with students in each college to level seminar and discussion answer any questions about Rice's course on "Elites in British Society distribution and major require- Since 1800" this spring. Perkin, ments, outside study programs, the author of The Origins of Modern availability of tutors, area English Society, and The Age of majors...anything they want to the Railway, is currently President know." of the Social History Society of Clark hopes to step up Great Britain. recruitment for outside Four new courses in African scholarships such as the Marshall history have been approved by and Rhodes Scholarships. Said Dean of Humanities Allen Clark, "I hope to flag people that Matusow. The courses, to be would be competitive to receive taught by the newly appointed such an award and prepare them Floyd Seward Lear Lecturer in for the application process. I plan History Luise White, are intended to hqye Rice alums that have been to provide both a broad survey of successful in the past consult with African history and detailed ^interested students. The quality of studies of Sbuth Africa and undergraduates at Rice is such that African labor history. (See related we deserve more representation in interview, page 4.) national fellowship programs." The four courses, "Africa Before 1900", "Africa in the Twentieth Clark intends to review the Rice New assistant basketball coach Marty Coach proves his versatility by bala ncing a spinning basketball while Century", "South Africa in the Tutorial Program and athletic shaving. (See related story on Gross, page 9.) — M. Sass Twentieth Century" and "African advising program and look for EVER/wey W3 it VIGO«UiMOM(TC0N& Hard core thinking... BOOT cwsn .CHWOWt NPMNG mm! VKSOKUSMONtTORKG LET IT Ail In his commencement address, Newsweek editor Bill Broyles, citing the HOW decline of American education since the early '60s, advocated a return to norar HWKQW a core curriculum. Certainly,Broyles's worries about the quality of the CKHIC'HM; graduates Rice produces are not unjustified. If prompted, anyone with a J> history at this institution can run off a list of engineers he knows who cannot string two sentences together, and another list of academs who cannot comprehend the intricacies of a pocket calculator. And, certainly, people have graduated from Rice without having to prove they were capable of either task. Early specialization is part of the problem. Too many people come to ONCE MOM FROM THE TOP- Rice "knowing" what they want to do with their lives, and proceed to take AN' PUT SOKE 5UBTL6Ty only those courses they can justify as relevant to their future careers.