£LXJ H P WRESHER Volume 75, Number 21 Rice's lame-duck newspaper Friday, February 26,1988 SA Presidential election ties; runoff to be held by Samantha Hendren the original date of March 14 until be the University Council student With a one-vote margin and two- after the presidency is decided. representatives. vote discrepancy, this year's race for All of Tuesday's other elections The Honor Council referendum, Student Association president be- were decided as usual. Hanszen Col- which modified the Honor Council came the most closely contested elec- lege junior Alex Flenner won the Rice Constitution to exclude an unneces- tion in Rice history. Despite an elec- Program Council presidency with sary part of the appeals process, tion system specifically designed to 709 votes, compared to 522 votes for passed with an 88 percent approval by avoid the agonizing process of runoff Wiess sophomore Steamer LeCar- students. elections, the university's highest pentier. Lovett College senior Jamie The Student Association internal student office must remain vacant Daruwala won RPC internal vice- vice-president will be Baker sopho- until a runoff election Tuesday, president after a run-off with Will more Dennis Abbott, who ran March 15, between Will Rice College Rice junior Beth O'Donnell. The unopposed. The race for SA external junior Andy Karsner and Baker Col- RPC external vice-president will be vice-president was won by Hanszen lege junior Chip Lutton. Sid Richardson College sophomore sophomore Adam Carr with 788 The tallying of first-place votes Katherine Tasheff, who ran votes to 326 for Lloyd Bellah, also a yielded 623 for Karsner, 612 for Lut- unopposed. sophomore from Hanszen. Because ton, and 141 for the third candidate, Hanszenjuniors PatMcGarrity and Carr, as SA Secretary, was this year's Wiess College junior Saurabh Shah. Joel Sendek won the Thresher editor overall elections chairman, the tabu- When the second choices of Shah's election after a runoff with Will Rice lation for this particular race was supporters were redistributed, the sophomores Mary Elliott and Jen overseen by alternate members of the final results were 679 votes for Lutton Cooper. The first-place votes ended elections committee. and 678 for Karsner. with 465 for McGarrity and Sendek Hanszen sophomore Jenni Rausch Because there were two discrepan- and 479 for Elliott and Cooper. Add- won the race for S A treasurer, follow- cies, either candidate needed a margin ing in the second-place votes for ing a runoff with Baker junior James Baker Brown Hanszen Jones Lovett SRC Wiess WRC of three votes for the election to be Hanszen juniors Keith Couch and Dean. Wiess sophomore Lisa Th- A graphical distribution of the votes in Tuesday's Presidential election. Votes valid. Because the election will be re- Michael Lamont resulted in a total of ompson won SA secretary by a mar- for Andy Karsner are represented by the shaded area and votes for Chip run on March 15, the initiation of new 698 for McGarrity and Sendek and gin of 88 votes o ver B aker sophomore Lutton are represented by the lined area. SA officers must be postponed from 588 for Elliott and Cooper. Rose Unite. Running unopposed, Jones Col- RPC Treasurer was the only race in lege junior William Barrett will be which two runoffs had to be held to Fight Night raises $2300 for SHAPE University Court Chairman. Will get a candidate with a majority. It by Keith Couch fees, boxer entry fees and student Spagnola, Rice Weight and Strength Rice junior Michele Wucker and Will finally resulted in a win for Jones Approximately 600 spectators pledging of fighters. The SHAPE Coach Jeff Madden, and Houston Rice sophomore Mike Raphael will see SA elections, page 6 watched someof Rice's toughestmen Center, located in the Third Ward, Oilers comerback Richard Johnson ilght at Hanszen College's Fight provides educational help, drug abuse judged the event. Night Friday at Autry Court. Twelve clinics, tutoring, legal counseling and Ring girls were Marisa Salinas, Rupp announces plan boxing matches featured fighters employment programs for youth and Tricia McCutcheon, and Nancy iron- all eight colleges and weight adults. Jones. classes. The proceeds from the event McGaughey said, "We think that The evening opened with the clash to increase tuition wont to the Self Help for African everyone involved came away feeling of flyweights Lucky "Dragonfly" by Anu Bajaj hind us now," Rupp said. Peoples through Education (SHAPE) good about the event, and we hope it Sahualla of Hanszen College and At Monday's Student Association Private gifts have also been under Community Center. becomes an annual affair." Brian "FTD" Tagtmeier of Wiess meeting, President George Rupp tremendous pressure due to the slug- Fight Night organizers Bob McGaughey and Madden expressed College. Hanszen and Wiess had announced plans for a probable tui- gish Houston economy. There have McGaughey and Mike Madden were thanks to Houston Boxing Associa- taunted each other all week over this tion increase for next year. Although not been enough private gifts to cover able to give SHAPE approximately tion owner Josephine Abercrombie fight, and their fans brought the crowd Rupp said that the amount would not expenses. $2,500, raised through admissions and HBA manager Bob Spagnola. see Students, page 6 exceed last year's increase of $500, an Rice will also have to bear a greater exact amount has not been set. portion of the financial aid burden. "In December, we were five mil- Texas Tuition Equalization grants lion dollars short on the revenue side. used to provide approximately $2-2.5 Tuition will be voted on in the March million in aid and were the biggest Board of Governor's meeting. We are source of aid for Rice students. These working very hard. . .we want very grants are being cut and will no w only much to avoid a tuition increase," said provide roughly half as much aid. Rupp. "In general, over the last four to Though the tuition increase would five years, the percentage Rice gets account for only a small percentage of from state and federal aid has dropped the $5.23 million shortfall, Rupp be- from ^-5 percent to 30 percent," said lieves that the students should carry Rupp. their share of the burden. The Financial Aid Officc still plans "I guarantee that any tuition in- to fulfill all need. However, because crease" will generate only a small frac- of the decline in federal and state tion of the $5.23 million gap. It seems grants, more of the money will have to only reasonable that tuition.. .carries come from Rice's own resources. its fair share of the load," said Rupp. The Student Association does not Currently, Rice subsidizes 80 per- plan to fight the tuition increase. The cent of a student's education at Rice S A could only express an opinion and for students paying full tuition and would have no say in the matter. more for those on financial aid. Rupp According to SA President Kevin said he hopes to maintain this ratio. Gass, "That's [voicing an opinion] "We want to try to keep the tuition basically the only thing we have read- level at approximately 20 percent of ily at our disposal. The options in- the educational cost," he said. see Tuition, page 4 A number of factors have contrib- uted to this loss in revenue. These INSIDE: factors include revenue problems from investments, decreasing reve- Opinion: Allen Parkway Village nue from Institute on Computer Serv- housing project, p.2. ices and Applications (ICSA) and News: New building to go up decreasing federal and state financial (what tuition increase?), p. 7. aid grants. "We have had revenue problems Feature: Presidential candi- £TRU fan Scott Davidson requests autographs from cisk jcckeys Jonathon Sadow, Alex Malinin 2nd B-id Thomas. from oil, gas, and real estate invest- dates plugged, p. 7. Malinin and Thomas brodcast Rice's Women's Basketball SWC home games. Sadow is their color man. Fans should ments. These investments have not bring their Walkmans to the last game on March 5 at 5 p.m. against the University of Houston. KTRU disk jockeys will Sports: Beloved ruggers be playing Rice women basketball alumni during halftime of the men's game that evening. The tipoff for the men's game been increasing lately. Hopefully, trounce UH team, p. 14. ls 7:30 p.m. —L. Cowsar these problems are pretty much be- 2 Friday, February 26,1988 THRESHER Opinion Saving housing project worthy The City of Houston is noted for its lack of commitment to planning and SPANNING THE HEDGES to its lack of commitment to social by David Schnur T0S/AN6EUST services. It is not surprising, then, that the Houston Housing Authority is The HHA advances several more The architect is accurate, but one PSTCHI/W trying as hard as it can to tear down arguments for tearing down Allen could also call The Woodlands a * Allen Parkway Village and sell the Parkway Village. The authority rea- prime example of 1980's upper- land to developers. sons that smaller projects should be middle class suburban housing de- „ But the HHA's plans were set back built, dispersing the poor across the sign. This does not automatically last week when the 44-year-old pub- city rather than concentrating them in make it historically significant. lic housing project was placed on the a few ghettoes. While this is a valid Significant or not, Allen Parkway National Register of Historic Places. point, the factremains that the city has Village must be saved not only be- Allen Parkway Village perhaps is not many homeless residents and very cause it can provide shelter for 1,000 truly historically significant, but if the few units of low-income housing. needy families, but because it serves designation will save the project then Renovating Allen Parkway Village as buffer between downtown and an ^HSWAGGfiRKHAVE A SEAT NEXT To MR. BACKER.... the end will have justified the means. would expand the number of avail- area with real historical importance, Allen Parkway Village is a dingy, able units by more than one-fourth. Fourth Ward. I n our waiting iw gt have time p[|\YBoy sprawling complex immediately west Destroying the project would de- Fourth Ward is one of this of downtown, facing 60-story office crease Houston's public housing country's oldest black urban neigh- towers from across Interstate 45. The supply. It would be shameful for the borhoods, settled by freed slaves project could house 1,000 families, city to eliminate inexpensive housing during the Reconstruction. Today it is What makes an editor but currently only 130 units are occu- when homelessness is on the rise. one of the poorest sections of Hous- pied. According to the the Housing Au- ton, but it also contains some of the The position of Thresher editor is one that requires a huge time The Housing Authority has ne- thority, selling the 37-acre site would city's oldest houses. investment What's more, the position requires a significant amount of glected Allen Parkway Village, fail- generate so much income that new, Currently the neighborhood is technical knowledge and familiarity with how the staff operates. The ing to make necessary repairs as part better low-income housing could be worthless to developers. If Allen Thresher is typeset and composed completely on computers, and the of a multi-part plan to hasten the built. Parkway Village were torn down and software we use is tricky to master. The total staff, including people demolition of the project. By allow- It is doubtful, however, that many replaced by office towers or condo- who work occasionally, is about 150 people, and the editor-to-be ing it to become run-down, the HHA developers would have money to miniums the small lots of Fourth should have spent time working with at least some of them. forces residents to move out of the spend on the property today, when Ward would be snapped up in a min- project. The vacated units are then Houston's economy is so shaky. One ute, and, like a cancer, new construc- Because Thresher editors are responsible for the content of the paper closed off, resulting in fewer tenants thousand units of public housing tion would overrun a historic neigh- and for how blanket tax money is spent, they should be accountable for to evict, and fewer tenants to lobby would, for the present, probably be borhood. Then the HHA would need their actions. To that end, it is good that they are elected by the students. against demolition. reduced to one more vacant lot every cent it could find to house the But the student body has no idea of which candidates are familiar with Because the project is now so de- To derail the destruction of Allen newly-homeless. the way the paper is run. Under the current rules, even occasional work crepit, the authority can argue that Parkway Village, project residents Allen Parkway Village is impor- as a proofreader qualifies someone to be a candidate for editor. A repair would be too expensive, and and their supporters were able to get tant both for the families it shelters cleverly written campaign statement or creative campaign poster, that destruction of the complex would the complex listed on the National and for the neighborhood it protects. combined with popularity, could get an unqualified candidate elected be more expedient. Indeed, the HHA Register of Historic Places. A local To demolish the complex would be to to the position. claims it would cost as much as $36 preservationist has justified the de- demolish an important comer of our isgnation, calling Allen Parkway Vil- inner city. While the methods used to An editor without experience or support from the staff could have million to renovate the complex, al- though the real figure may be as low lage a prime example of 1940's low- save the project may be suspect, sav- disastrous results. To avoid the election of students who have not as $15 million. income public housing design. ing it is beyond reproach. demonstrated familiarity with the Thresher or put in the long hours indicating commitment, the requirements to run for Thresher editor should be made much stricter. The following suggestions are a start. Writer comments on Tyson story •Candidates should be required to have held a certain level position in the staff. Section editors and the production manager are all likely to To the editor: significantly, either. I feel only The letter is not so much an edito- slightly more empowered than they THRESHING IT OUT have sufficient preparation for the office. rial comment as an emotional reac- are, the advantage being due to the letters to the editor •Candidates for Thresher editor should be required to have been on tion to your flashback article on the fact that I am a Rice graduate. the staff for at least a year, and at least ten weeks of that year of controversy surrounding the proposal In forty years, we have progressed Did a certain university last year experience should be served in the academic year in which the election made forty years ago to admit Blacks to the point that if a black person has deny tenure to a biology professor is held. to Rice. As a Rice alumna and a the proper combination of innate tal- who was not producing enough re- •Candidates for Thresher editor should also be required to be on teacher at Jefferson Davis High ent, perseverance and luck, he/she search? Does another university boast campus (not studying abroad) for at least one semester during the year School, whose principal was so vio- can aspire to attend the number 14 of professors who research the role of in which the election is held. This is important for training, and it gives lently opposed to the idea at that time, college in America. My hope is that in perfume on work productivity? Does the editor-elect better knowledge of some of the issues which may I feel compelled to comment. the next forty years, the entire educa- a certain university have a campus tional system can be reformed to become important in the fall. Davis' racial composition at pres- pub that is operating in the red? Does ent is 85% Hispanic, 10% Black and remove luck entirely from the process another university have students who Other options for tightening requirements could include requiring 5% Asian. The number of white stu- and make Rice and American society are working to put a local drinking es- petition signatures from a certain number of staff members. Or the dents could be comfortably counted in general truly egalitarian. It will take tablishment back in the black? Thresher staff could nominate candidates before the rest of the students on the fingers and toes of one person. the brightest and the best from all However subtle the merits of vote. Either of these options would help screen out people lacking the This is probably considerably differ- disciplines to effect these changes, "Beyond the Hedges" may be, I hope support of at least some of the Thresher staff, who will have to work ent from Coy W. Mills's day. and I hope we can count on those best the next Thresher editors will not long hours closely with the editor. As it stands, although they, are qualified to help. deny the students this news from In any case, the Thresher staff should have more say in naming aware that the possibility is open to N. Lynn Williams across the nation. Give us all the news editors. They are the ones who know the candidates best, and they are them, few Davis students contem- Will Rice '87 that's fit to print, and raise some hell, the ones who will be most affected by the outcome of the election. plate attending college exept as schol- but don't take away "Beyond the The position of Thresher editor is like a full-time job, and the person arship athletes. Even fewer think of Goodman on BTH Hedges." going to as fine auniversity as Rice. In who holds that job can have a tremendous impact—positive or nega- Jill Goodman the jargon of today's educators, we To the editor: Baker '88 tive—on the paper. For this reason, there should be safeguards against call these students "educationally Having written "Beyond the The Thresher welcomes letters to the edi- candidates for editor who don't have the knowledge or experience underprivileged," which translates Hedges" for two of my last seven necessary to run the Thresher with the support of the staff. tor. Letters are due by noon the Wednes- roughly into "so neglected and semesters at Rice, I feel I must com- day before the issue. Submissions must be abused by their schooling up to this ment on the campaign posters and double-spaced, typed or neatly written, point that their future seems difficult, statement made last week by Keith and must include the writer's phone if not impossible, to salvage." Need- Couch and Mike Lamont, candidates number department or college affiliation less to say, most Davis students for Thresher editor. and year of graduation. Letters must be choose to take advantage of the high "Beyond the Hedges" is a sum- signed; unsigned submissions will be school's admittedly extensive voca- mary of—not a commentary on— considered misclass. The Thresher re- tional program. serves the right to edit for length, clarity, issues, events, and happenings on and grammar, and to refuse to publish any To their credit, students at Jeffer- college campuses across the county. letter. Our address is P.O. Box 1892, son Davis are not unaware of whathas It is not intended to be an in-depth Houston, Texas, 77251-1892. happened and is happening to them. analysis of world news events. If They know that in the current Hous- Couch and Lamont are looking to ton economy they are nowhere with- eliminate this column, I hope they Correction out a high school diploma, and they will reconsider. Last week's "Spanning the have the vague idea that somehow a "Beyond the Hedges" can in no Hedges" column contained a few Davis diploma may not be as highly way compete with the more important paragraphs that should have been valued as one from one of the pre- political and social issues which the written as quotes attributable to dominantly white high schools in students and the Thresher editors various people involved in lawsuits town. However, they come into the must confront But I ask these candi- against the Reagan ad- high school woefully unprepared to dates not to overlook the importance ministration's anti-abortion rules. change the track they have fallen into. of reporting events at other universi- The Thresher regrets this error. And I cannot claim I am helping them ties. THRESHER Opinion Friday, February 26.1988 3 Massachusetts University protest ends peacefully Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian civil suit last semester against Associate Dean of change the required freshman reading list for the students ended their six-day occupation of a BEYOND THE HEDGES Students Patricia Lampkin and Assistant Dean Western culture program. University of Massachusetts building last by Jill Goodman of Students Angela Davis because the students The program has gained attention as the Wednesday after they reached an agreement felt their First Amendment rights had been vio- controversy mounts. Secretary of Education with the school's chancellor on reforms to cor- lated by removal of their fliers from dormitory William J. Bennett, among others, has charged rect alleged racial harassment on campus. Gays get equal rights bulletin boards. that faculty members are being pressured to The takeover of the New Africa House ended The posters, entitled "Ways to Keep Your drop classic texts from the reading list, because when nearly 150 students walked onto the front Georgetown University has announced that it Door Unlocked," suggested methods for prop- those works are by white European males. porch of the building and sang a gospel song. will grant groups of gay students equal treat- ping doors Open with such items as gum and duct The university's faculty senate will decide "We, the Third World students, wish to ac- ment and that it will provide a $3,470 subsidy to tape. The Cavalier Daily reported that the pur- whether to abandon the list completely or to add knowledge the time and effort of the administra- a gay support organization at its law school. pose of the fliers was to enhance the issue of a writings by women, minorities, and non-Euro- tion and the support of those on campus and The university had previously said that it 24-hour lock-up policy. peans, says The Chronicle ofHigher Education. elsewhere in the world," said Dwayne Warren, could not accord gay students equal treatment But Associate University Legal Adviser Any of eight year-long courses concentrating a senior who served as spokesman for the pro- because such a policy would conflict with the Roger Martin said the fliers encouraged stu- on Western culture fulfill the freshman require- testers, according to Associated Press reports. Roman Catholic Church's teachings. The dents to violate the policy, because of the phrase ment. Each course uses a core reading list that Protesters say racial tensions at the university school is a Roman Catholic institution, and the "Do your part." Martin argued in court that includes such thinkers as Plato and Darwin. date back to the 1986 World Series. The recent Church's teachings do not support homosexual administrators had a right to remove the fliers A special panel formed to review the contro- takeover was the result of an alleged beating of acts. because their posting resulted in a continuation versy suggested that Stanford develop a "Cul- two black students by five white students. The announcement was made after nearly of crime in the dormitory. tures, Ideas, and Values" requirement with After four hours of negotiations, Chancellor three months of arguing over the interpretation After several weeks of negotiation, the similar goals as the existing program, but with- Joseph Duffey and nine of the protesters signed of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of groups agreed to drop the case. The deans con- out a core reading list. a five-page agreement including a promise to Columbia ruling. sented to refraining from filing a countersuit John Perry, a philosophy professor on the change the school's student conduct code to At the same time, the D.C. Office of Human against Fall for alleged violations of the univer- panel, said, "Minority students are upset with allow suspension of students found guilty of Rights announced it would commence a major sity security policy, and Fall and Peterson con- [the course] because they believe it means that committing acts of racial violence or harass- investigation into the university's treatment of sented to dropping their suit against the deans. works by minority writers are not as important ment, as well as to increase funding for the re- gay groups. A spokesman for the university said The settlement does not change the existing as those by whites." cruitment of minority teachers and students and the university's announcement was in no way policy which prohibits staff from removing But Vice-Provost for Academic Planning and to also increase funding for educational and cul- connected with the Office of Human Rights' fliers without "specific prior authorization of Development William M. Chace said the cul- tural activities for minority students. announcement. one of the deans or some other authorized uni- tures and values option is an exaggerated re- Though the school's chancellor rejected a There still exists the possibility that Geor- versity administrator." Although the possibility sponse to the problem. He prepared a counter- demand for student involvement in the hiring of getown will file a formal request for the U.S. for removal of student fliers remains, Fall said proposal including works by women and minor- faculty members, he agreed to allow formation Supreme Court to review the case. Last month, university officials assured him that the issue ity-group members on the existing reading list. of a student committee to monitor progress. the Court twice rejected requests by the univer- will not reappear. "You don't find anyone on this campus Approximately two hundred spectators, in- sity that the appellate court's ruling be stayed. "We have taken them on their word," Fall against the inclusion [of women and minority cluding Amy Carter, watched the end of the said. With the deans prepared to countersue Fall authors]," said Chace. "But we feel [the cultures takeover. Flier conflict dropped for violating a university security policy, Fall and values option] is wholly vague if not vapid. said that Peterson and he had little choice but to In four or five years we'll have a hundred differ- Students and administrators at the University settle out of court. ent books taught in a hundred different ways and of Virginiareached an agreement on aconflict in the course will disintegrate." which the university's right to remove fliers was Reading list debated Professors currently supplement the reading posed against students' rights to post them. list with other authors, as they teach students to Editorial Staff Students Chris Fall and Scott Peterson filed a Stanford University will vote on whether to analyze the core texts analytically. Editor-in-Chief Michele Wucker Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU Managing Editor Michael Raphael News Editors Anu Bajaj, Mary Elliott OKAY, DUKB, TODAY'S THE OKAY... IPO. YOU KNOUJ UJHY? K£AP~y 1 Fine Arts Editor Jen Cooper BIG PAY. 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Advertising infor- mation available upon request. Mail subscription rate per semester: $15.00 domestic, $30.00 international (via first class mail). The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of anyone except the writer. Obviously. ©1988, The Rice Thresher. All rights reserved. mm All wrongs revenged. 4 Friday, February 26.1988 THRESHER News SA creates appointed Executive VP position by Elise Perachlo hike. Many senators wondered what ramifications approved by the senate. The change stated that The Student Association discussed the con- He also wanted studentresponse to anew idea the budget cuts would have on the athletic de- the Executive Vice President will be in charge of tinuing debate over installation of tennis court which would allow future incoming freshmen to partment and financial aid. Rupp said the ath- campus communication. The new S A president lights, approved the creation of the office of have their tuition "locked in," meaning that each letic department is getting "substantially less in will fill this appointed position after taking of- Executive Vice President and discussed pos- student would pay the same tuition at which he the way of resources than it wishes to have, but fice. sible changes in Thresher staff salaries at their started at for the "duration of his stay at Rice." it won't get squeezed disproportionately hard." The issue of tennis lights came before the last meeting. In addition. President George This system would allow the university to make The issue of financial aid concerned Rupp senate again this week. Brown Senator Jon Rupp spoke on the "imminent" tuition increase more substantial tuition hikes when needed. greatly because he said that while the amount of Luckstead said that the P.E. department is in and Officer Ivan Putzke spoke about a seminar Senate reaction was mixed. Many liked the money Rice puts towards financial aid is on the favor of installing lights in the intramural fields on campus law enforcement at the meeting. locked-in system, but feared that if substantial rise, federal and state aid is decreasing consid- and in the courts furthest from Wiess College. Rupp came to the meeting to inform the SA tuition increases were made each year, Rice erably. He implied that he would work to keep Wiess Senator Charlotte Sun once again about his plans to raise tuition and create a might eventually lose its reputation as the "best the situation under control "without having to stated that "several Wiess people are pretty "pretty lean" budget for next year due to prob- bargain in higher education." Will Rice Senator increase tuition any more than we have to." much opposed to the idea." She said she re- lems with revenues and special expenses. He Andy Karsner said, "That thought to me is just Putzke came to give a report of a seminar he ceived complaints that the noise would be dis- said that the final decision on the amount of this scary." The Senate expressed concern that stu- attended for campus police chiefs. He said there tracting late at night for the people living by the year's tuition increase will be made at the March dents who come to Rice because of its good were a large range of schools represented who courts. She also said that many fear the lights Board of Governors meeting, but he wanted to price might opt to go to an inferior state school came to discuss their problems with campus law will increase the risk of security problems hear student opinion on this imminent tuition if Rice's tuition continues its upward trend. enforcement of alcohol policies. He said that caused by non-students from off-campus . Rice was one of only 5-6% of the schools that Sun asked the senate to "let us at least have attended the meeting which allowed public some input Let us put it through our cabinet." Tuition increase planned consumption of alcohol. Of the other campuses, The senate agreed. They are also unanimously 50% were dry and 40-45% allowed students to supporting the installation of lights in the intra- continued from page 1 "I like it as an option, but I do not like it as an consume only in their rooms. mural fields. elude a student protest, which I would not advo- only possibility," said Gass about the tuition He said that many schools were committed to The S A is also exploring some financial prob- cate; receiving permission to look at the lock-in proposal. "I like it because it gives the alcohol awareness programs to help reduce lems at the Thresher. President Kevin Gass university's books ourselves and determine if parents the opportunity to be their own financial consumption. Some campuses had courses on announced that the Thresher amassed a $ 12,000 the burden is being unfairly placed on the stu- analyst. I don't like it because I don't see tuition alcohol consumption and counseling services. debt last year and that debt has been reduced to dent body—this would be a physical impossibil- ever staying the same as it should. No one who Punishment for violations of alcohol policies on $5,000 this year. To pay the debt, Gass said the ity to do in two weeks with only Acco 305. The will be affected by the increases has a say in the some campuses were quite harsh including senate will consider possible changes in the alternative would be to hire an outside consult- matter. I don't think it's fair to insist on this expulsion upon a third offense. Putzke added, "distribution and volume" of salaries. ant. However, I have pretty good faith in Dr. option." "We're very, very lucky to be able to handle In other business, the S A passed a resolution Rupp and believe in what he says. The costs he Anther disadvantage of the tuition lock-in alcohol the way we do." written by Baker President Andy Kopplin urg- referred to are real costs." plan is that it would require the university to He also asked senators to ask students to be ing Central Kitchen, Cohen House, the Athletic This proposed tuition increase is only for next predict, in advance, how the economy would aware of a man for whom the campus police are Department, Sammy's and Willy's Pub to stop year. For the future, Rupp suggested looking change. looking and showed than a sketch which is use of foam containers, including styrofoam into a tuition lock-in. Under a lock-in, the tuition However, Gass does intend to pursue the posted at the Campus Police Headquarters. cups. The foam is an enviromental hazard in that would remain the same for incoming freshmen tuition lock-in as an optional plan in his next After these two speeches, the SA moved on to when heated it releases chlorofluorocarbons for each year until their graduation. However, meeting with Rupp. "I'm going to talk to him their regular agenda and voted on the creation of which are scientifically proven to be instrumen- there would have to be a substantial increase about it at our March 10 meeting. I don't know Executive Vice President Lovett College Presi- tal in the destruction of the ozone layer. from year to year to make this proposal work- his feeling on the optional plan. It would create dent Glenn Dukes requested a change in the This foam is also nonbiodegradable. Kopplin able. more bookwork, which means more money." constitutional duties for this position which was pointed out that many organizations such as agencies of the U.S. government, the city of Doonesbury Berkeley, California and McDonald's have dis- BY GARRY TRUDEAU continued use of harmful containers. Kopplin added that it is possible to create foam contain- that'S the/A- HBY! I'M TRYING TO GET LAUGH ABOUT IT! SHOUTABOUT IT! GOOP THING ers which are not destructive to the ozone layer, GOING ON TIENTS ARE LETS GO TUB GROUP 10 INTER- WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO CHOOSE!coo,coog STRAW POLLS but these are not in widespread circulation yet. ACT RESPONSIBLY. ARE MEAN- TO THE EVERY WAY YOU LOOK AT Gass told the senate that he discussed the CANDI- \ CH00.M& INGLESS. INWERE, CONDUCTING IT, YOU LOSS! possiblity of doing work to pay disciplinary A DATES' \ fines with Vice President for Student Affairs DOCTOR * DEBATE! / PENTIAL Ronald Stebbings. Stebbings "liked the idea in STRAW /HA STROLL theory," said Gass, but pointed out the difficulty POLL... ~ HA' AROUND THE. of finding work to do and a supervisor to make GROUNDS... sure the work was done. Gass said Stebbings is open for suggestions. Many senators had ideas for possible work such as helping clean up after games or close the Pub. None, however ,had a n solution to the problem of supervisors. In other announcements, External Affairs Vice-President Robert Nevill said that a coupon book will be made available soon to students which will provide discounts at local establish- SO HOW D WE MAKE OUT, ments. Also, Internal Affairs Vice-President YES, BUT IT THATS FOR FINALLY, GROUP? ANY CONSENSUS HEU/AS LYNDON HE'S ONE Michelle LaFoe announced that the deadline for WASNTEASY!DAMN SURE' A CANDI CANDIDATE? V THERE LAROUCHB OFVS! standing committee interviews is March 1. DATE PICK* THERE UJERE EMERGED. ALL NOW THAT The SA approved the admission of the SQUABBLES, / ALONG! HAIGS OUT, WE WERE Windsurfing Club. They also approved ballots BFTTBR DIF- HE'S ALL for Tuesday's election. These ballots concerned FERENCES OF FOOLS TO WE'VE GOT! changes in the appeals procedure for the Honor OPINION! / ARGUE! ( / Council, the calender referendum, and the Beer- Bike referendum. The SA voted to have the word Rondelet striken from the Beer-Bike refer- endum at the places of voting. Actors to act by Andrew Li Z-2JZ, Five award-winning actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National The- WELL, I THINK YOU DID VERY PROUD? YOU HAVE NO IDEA BUT I HAP A FEELING ABOUT YOU. atre will present a program, "Actors from the WELL ON YOUR FIRST PAY UJHEN YOU FIRST ARRIVED I KNEW ALL YOU NEEDED WAS London Stage," that includes performances of A WITHOUT RESTRAINTS, DUKE... HERE, MOST OF MY COL- A LrtTLB TOUGH LOVE, SOME DIS- Midsummer Night's Dream and Throwing LEAGUES THOUGHT YOU CIPLINE, AND MOST OF ALL... i ...TRUST. Stones at Shakespeare (hosted by George Ber- / YOU'RE UJERE TOO VIOLENT, TOO nard Shaw). PROUD OF FULL OF RAGE, TO The troupe will present/4 Midsummer Night's ME THEN, TREAT WITH ANY REAL HOPE OF Dream on March 10 and 12 and Throwing SUCCESS. Stones at Shakespeare on March 11. All per- / formances will be at 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for non- students. The actors will be speaking to English classes beginning March 7 and holding a drama workshop March 9 from 3-5 p.m. in the Jones Commons. This program is developed by the Alliance for 2-Z1 Creative Theatre, Education and Research. THRESHER News Friday, February 26,1988 5 Biosciences research laboratory to be built soon by Elise Perachio including the Shepherd School, will cal Company which was named 1987 also a home for the Shepherd School processing and separation technolo- A new biosciences and bioengi- not be available until the latter part of Lab of the Year by Research and of Music, Rice has renewed its pledge gies in biochemistry and biomedi- neering research laboratory on the the current semester. Architects of Development Magazine. to encourage the finest in both the cine. Assisting architect Charles Red- Rice campus will be located on the both the biosciences and bioengineer- This building will provide a new humanities and the sciences." mon with the project will be northwest end of campus. Its exact ing building and the Shepherd School state-of-the-art, high-tech research Currently the Rice biosciences and McKittrick, Richardson and Wallace, location, size and construction date building will be arriving to make facility for Houston as well as Rice. bioengineering department is en- Houston Associate Architects. Also, are as yet unknown. some final decisions in March. President George Rupp said, "The gaged in genetics, cellular develop- CHP and Associate, Inc. will help The building will contain the Labo- Abercrombie also announced that new biosciences and bioengineering ment, the search for new drugs and with mechanical engineering and ratory of Biomedical Engineering and the building will be designed by the building underscores our commit- diagnostic tools and basic under- plumbing and Walter P. Moore and bioengineering laboratories, cell and architectural firm of Cambridge ment to research at Rice. In determin- standing of major diseases. Another Associates, Inc., with structural engi- developmental biology laboratories, Seven Associates. Charles Redmon ing how to build a new facility and focus of theirs is the development of neering. the Laboratory for Basic Medical will be the chief designer. Science and organic chemistry labo- Redmon, an alumnus of Rice ratories. The facility will house the (1964) and the Rice School of Archi- BLOOM COUNTY by Berke Breathed new Institute of Biosciences/Bioen- tecture (1965), previously designed gineering, according to the institute's the San Antonio Museum of Art and Executive Director Bette C. Sherill. BRACE YOURSELF WRP IS THAT 5HE'5 YA KNOW. HE 5 YOUNOER •jTrEiSANDS the Houston Design Center for which BARBRA 5TREI5ANP ACT1N& LIKE A THAN HER PPACVCALL/ TOY 37Y
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by Pab Schwendimann reviewed by the Promotion Tenure •SNOKS The Tenure Committee will meet committee. This committee consists today to present its tenure candidate of nine faculty members, six of which recommendations to the University are elected by their peers and three of Council. which are Presidential appointees. About twenty faculty members "These are amongst our most well- were considered to receive tenure, respected faculty members, and they promotions or both this year. The are selected from all departments in names of the professors receiving order to dispassionately represent all M PALUCKY MP tenure will be announced after a board areas in this conscientious process," PERTUR&EP... ON 7HE PLUS SIPE, I NOW CAN FACE me PONAHUE EMOVONALLY ive BEEN HOWEVER, ive MAPE SHOCKING/ FACT THAT OPRAH meeting in April and the decisions said Vice President for Student Af- VERY WOBBLY... A WANT BREAKTHROUGH • I NEEP' SOUP PROFESSIONAL SALLY. will take effect July 1. fairs Ronald Stebbings. HELP... BERALPO The tenure process begins in the The committee meets with the fall semester every year within the deans of each school, and reviews all individual teaching departments. the eligible candidates with the deans. Every promotable professor is re- They then discuss the recom- viewed by his superiors within the mended candidates with the depart- department. ment chairmen and with an advocate A professor must prove valuable in that the candidate has chosen. Gener- three aspects in order to be eligible for ally, these advocates are fellow fac- tenure and promotion. These aspects ulty members who can best discuss include his professional activities, the candidate's scholarship. such as research ability and scholar- The committee then votes in a pre- I'M SUFFERING FROM A 1 REALIZE 'MALE MENOPAUSAL MIP- OK AN HOW BOUT ship; his teaching ability, as rated by liminary ballot on whether to grant MY I'VE BEEN PONAHUe WAS PATERNAL CAJCASIANAL M.M.M.PC JU5T his students; and his service to his tenure to the individual candidates. ACTINd S0 TALK!NO ABOUT IT OUtLT POST-PENGUINAL OP PEL PECULIAR THIS MORNING. EARLY-LIFE 5N/T department, to the University and to These votes indicate the enthusiasm LATELY... the community at large. of the committee, as the professors are Letters and opinions are then solic- rated on a scale of one to ten. ited by the department heads from The preliminary vote is discussed people outside of the Rice community in order to formulate new ideas and a who know the candidates. These let- final vote is then taken, the results of ters help assess the candidate's value which are given to the President to to the community. If reactions to him present to the board for approval. are positive, a dossier is prepared on The candidates may receive pro-
Great copies and complete Thresher services, day or night. Only NOW INTERVIEWING at Kinko's. o for Business Manager 4: i- for next year kinko's Call Carlos Soltero at 527-4801 Great copies. Great people. Deadline for applications is March 11 2368 Rice Blvd. In The Village 521-9465 Friday, February 26,1988 THRESHER Feature 7 Sidney Poitier stars in suspense flick Shoot to Kill Shoot To Kill maxes m a big car chase though protection's sake. (Lest I get locked Directed by Roger Spottiswoode downtown where they all get to ride into past tense, they still do.) Cry Freedom the ferry and kill each other, but I Naturally, when Biko slips up one Directed by Richard Attenborough won't say who. too many times, they arrest him, then I know what you're thinking. Why Cry Freedom is also a black guy/ happily beat and oppress him to death. should I go out and see a movie when white guy film, but a good one any- Poor, naive Biko is at a loss for words. it's Winter Olympics time? The way, even if it is about the hottest The government calls his death the Olympics are just about over and political topic of 1986, namely apart- result of a "hunger strike" (most admit it, we got our butts kicked clean heid. Denzel Washington plays black deaths of black people in South Afri- out of Canada. The commies are guy Steven Biko, complete with ac- can prisons go in those cynical going home with a boatload of medals cent. Kevin Kline plays white guy quotes) and figure that's the end of the to melt down for their fighter planes. Donald Woods, also with accent. You story. America is DOI, Disaster on Ice. may not have heard of Steven Biko, That is only the end of Cry Free- Besides, Black History Month is since he isn't a biggie in America like dom Part 1. In Part 2, a suspicious rapidly drawing to a close, and I '11 bet Mandela (Mr. and Mrs.) or Tutu, but Woods wonders about the real cause you haven't gone out and celebrated. in Europe he's hot. of Biko's death and forces the gov- "But I celebrated the contributions of Cry Freedom is like two.. .two... ernment lackeys to habeas corpus. blacks to sports by watching the two movies in one! Cry Freedom Part Funny how a hunger strike produces Olympics," you offer. Remember a 1 is the story of Donald Woods meet- all these terrible marks over his body certain person who celebrated the Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger star in Shoot to Kill. ing the at-the-time famous banned that look just like beatings. contributions of blacks to sports? black activistBiko andlearning about After Woods is banned and op- He's in Vegas calling the numbers at HAROLD BUNNIEMEISTER him during the last years of his life. pressed, he decides to get his family Reno tables now. Bunniemeister say: movie review Biko was a clever, insightful and Biko's story clean out of the watching the Winter Games don't speaker, but comes across as a wee bi t country. This part of the movie is your count Poitier is pissed off, so he pursues some rare freshwater trout or snail naive. He honestly believed that as regular tension-filled escape saga, but Unfortunately, they are pretty this perpetrator up into the Rockies to darter or something. Alley doesn't long as he played by the stupid, hate- the flashback of the Soweto uprising much a white sport, with white snow catch him. Trouble is, he must hire realize that one of her fishers is really ful rules of the stupid, hateful South keeps the perspective. and white parkas and white athletes. Tom Berenger to guide him into the a psycho fisher until he tosses all the African government, everything This movie will piss you off be- Yeah, maybe there's that bobsled mountains. Berenger doesn't want to other fishers off a handy cliff. would be okay and his folk would cause everthing Biko worked for ten power that could be mistaken for a do it, but when he finds out that his Poitier and Berenger become good someday would be treated as equals to years ago has not happened, and the pickup basketball team in Harlem, but girlfriend (Kirstie Alley) is unknow- buddies after nearly getting killed the white people. Biko's problem was folks that run the place probably don't until this week, the only snow they've ingly guiding a bunch of city-boy following Alley and the psycho, but that the white minority considered intend it to let it happen. But as you seen is the kind that comes in plastic fishers including the psycho, he starts just as they catch up to the psycho, he South Africa to be their country watch, remember that our own black bags. It snows in their home country tossing out Poitier's electric socks. gets away and hitches a ride into because they had made it, and so they history hasn't been particularly about as often as there aren't armored See, the fishers want to go into the Vancouver. Now Poitier is in the city got to beat and oppress anybody that smooth either. personnel carriers doing donuts in the Land of Amazing Scenery to fish for and pissed. -The whole shooting cli- opposed their point of view for —Harold Bunniemeister 7-11 parking lot. Then how could you celebrate Black History Month? Bunniemeister Rent-a-Cop boring and incredibly stupid say: check out a movie directed by or Rent-a-Cop than anything else, it is a statement I've never liked him since he was in revolutionary morals that encourage starring blacks—like Cry Freedom, Directed by Jerry London about how easily legitimate actors Ice Castles, and seeing him here as much thought as anlsuzu commer- School Daze, Action Jackson, Shoot Last Thursday,! got the chance to can fall into the trap of self-parody. reminded me again of all those guys in cial. ToKill or, gulp, Eddie Murphy: Raw. see about five minutes of a movie The two stars of the movie are Liza tight silk pants and skates. Reni-A-Cop is a harmless movie, For example, I can think of no other called Bloody Birthday that was being Minelli and Burt Reynolds. Minelli Throughout Cop, I got the feeling the kind of thing that you could sit actor who has done more historically showcased by Channel 39 as part of puts a lot of energy into her role, but that I'd seen all of this before. Good through if you couldn't sleep on a to further blacks in the motion picture "Inhuman Week." I wanted to watch then again she puts a lot of exuberance cop gets disgusted by bad cops and Saturday night and if it was playing on industry than Sidney Poitier, star of the whole thing, but the goobs I was into her pantyhose advertisements. goes into private practice to save the Channel 39 as part of "Subhuman Shoot To Kill. Heck, the man hasn't with were so obsessed about seeing She was great as a dancing and sing- city. Police Week." As for me, I'd much appeared in a movie since the Ford guys wearing makeup and tight silk ing madwoman in Cabaret, but that Good guy feels bad for hooker and rather watch something that stretches Administration and here he is, 60- pants on skates that we had to turn was during the Nixon administra- tries to save her. And at the end of the itself a little bit, like Bloody Birthday. plus years old, jumping over automo- back to the Olympics. tions, and since then she hasn't done film, the audience is given a couple of —Greg Kahn biles and chasin' down the bad guys. But during the glorious five min- diddly. Poitier has more class in his little utes that I was allowed to watch Reynolds appears to be trying hard finger than a Chicago high school has Birthday, I saw two terrific scenes. to act, but it seems that the days he Rice University in its whole building. First, in an attempt to drive his mother spent working on iheCannonball Run • Summer Program The premise behind Shoot To Kill crazy, this little kid acted like he had movies have taken their toll. Rey- of Hispanic Studies is not even new—it's another black put rat poison on the cake everyone at nolds was fantastic in Deliverance, Seville Spain, June 4 - July 15,1988 guy/white guy flick. Here's a short the party was eating. A couple of and he did a good job in an average Language and Upper Division list of movies in the genre: I Spy, minutes later, a little girl got her older movie, The Longest Yard. Here, he Courses, Graduate Courses Tenspeed and Brownshoe, 48 Hours, sister to put her eye up to a hole in the tries to get back to real acting, but it's Eligibility and Admission Trading Places, White Knights, Run- wall. When the older girl did so, the not enough to save a horrible "film Courses are open for credit to Rice Students and students from other ning Scared, Lethal Weapon. Now little one (on the other side of the wall) with the most unoriginaTtitle in years recognized colleges and universities. For application forms and further you know what I mean. shot an arrow into her eye socket. I (Robocop..Jlent-A-Cop...hmm). mean, this was really great, inventive information contact Dr. Maria Teresa Leal de Martinez, Summer Progi am Poitier plays FBI special ag^nt This movie also showcases Robby in Spain, Department of Spanish, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251. stuff! Stan tin. He's the guy you call when a Benson. I dare you to name a good Deadline for application: April 15, 1988. pesky psycho is holed up with a hos- I say all this in reference to the new Robby Benson movie. Personally, tage in a millionaire's mansion and is movie Rent-A-Cop because those ! rr demanding a shovelful of diamonds five glorious minutes of Bloody as ransom. Luckily for Shoot To Kill, Birthday had more innovative this very thing happens. After Poitier elements than the entire two hours of ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS comes in and takes over, however, Rent-A-Cop. It is a really bad movie. LEGAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS things go tragically wrong and the I'm talking about terrible, as in bor- pesky psycho gets away. ing, worthless/and stupid, But more
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Please contact the Career Planning and Placement Center to schedule an interview. 24 hour Complete transcripts, a research paper, and a resume must be provided to the Center by March 11,1988. yhU C0(M 6c (jOW $2.00 plustoll.ifany For further information, contact Ms. Judy Boiling, (713) 651-2246 Jiackf JJ 8 THRESHER Feature Friday, February 26,1988 Rice perspectives on the presidential candidates March 8—Super Tuesday. Twenty states candidate should be elected. will be holding presidential primaries, and Republican Jack Kemp and Democrat Texas is the largest among them. Gary Hart are the only major party candidates of candidates isn't particularly exciting. There is no national hero, no Kennedy-like motivator, not Who should a Rice student vote for? The not represented. Richard Gephardt's state- even a charismatic personality like Reagan. There Thresher asked students who are working for ment is by the Gephardt for President are just a bunch of guys who don't really say the major campaigns to write on why their Committee, Inc. anything—unless they're ripping into each other. caricatures by Steve Lait So, knowing all of this, I'm going to explain why I think Robert Dole should be the next president. fense, and foreign policy agenda. For his loyalty in I know a lot of people are so disgusted with the defending the Administration in the recent Iran- Reagan administration that they are ready to kick Contra affair, Bush received a compliment that every Republican out of Washington D.C. That's few Republicans can claim having been paid. understandable, but not very realistic. A Republi- Besides Oliver North's praise of Bush's courage can is not necessarily a Reaganite, and Bob Dole in dealing with the El Salvador military, radical certainly is not a Reaganite. The senator from congressman Bruce Morrison (D, Conn.) called Kansas has served in the Senate for almost thirty for Bush's impeachment. years; he was a member of the Kansas House of Loyalty as well as intelligence and determina- Representatives while Reagan was still a Demo- tion are George Bush's strongest assets. When crat. And he has always been committed to "regu- confronted with a difficult decision he is the type lar" Republicanism—to a balanced budget and of man who weighs the odds and makes an intel- fiscally conservative spending policies (Yes, until ligent choice. He sees all sides of an issue and is Reagan, Republicans were traditionally thought more level-headed than some other candidates. of as proponents of fiscal conservatism). Today Among the policies Bush favors the most are a Dole is one of the biggest supporters of a balanced- strong defense, a constitutional amendment to budget amendment. He has also proposed the balance the budget and definite opposition of tax creation of a tax-free IRA-type account for financ - increases. He supports SDI on the grounds that in ing a college education. the nuclear age, advancements need to be made "to Dole is no idealogue—he's a moderate pragma- put weapons at risk instead of people." As presi- tist. He knows that the Reagan revolution is over. dent, George Bush would continue the defense Reagan did a lot of bad things. He did a lot of good buildup that Reagan has started. things, too. But the point is that his time is gone. Recently, Bushhas drawn accusations that he is The country doesn't need someone like Bush who not decisive enough. There are two reasons for this is going to asssume Reagan's mantle, but neither that cannot be overlooked. First, he is the Vice does it need someone like Gephardt who might President. This is a sensitive position where one is overreact against the Reagan years by erecting not constantly protected by a group of advisors. barriers to free trade. Bush has had to think before he speaks, something Republican Bob Dole And finally, Dole has crucial experience that a President does not have to do. A man who is VP the other candidates just don't have. After forty is supposed to support and serve as a "backup" to by Libby Schwartz years in Congress, the last several as Republican the President. Bush has done this ceaselessly. Hey, it's 1988. Aren't we supposed to elect a leader in the Senate, Dole knows more about how Secondly, George Bush is intelligent, and has new president or something? Yes, an election year Congress works than any other candidate since tended to think aloud in the past. If he were Resi- is upon us and, for many Rice students, it will be Lyndon Johnson, «nd he'll be able to use that dent, I am sure he would leam to make a decision Republican George Bush the first presidential election in which we can vote. knowledge in both planning and legislating his before facing the public and would conquer his And the election is certainly occurring at a critical policies. No, he's not a visionary. But we don't by Felix Dawson habit of thinking aloud. These are characteristics stage for the U.S.; our next president will have to need visionaries now. We need someone who can When one takes a look at the field of candidates that come with the job. Conservative voters must deal with a trillion-dollar deficit, a "new" Soviet guide us through reality. for this year's presidential election, one sees that not overlook the fact that George Bush has always Union, and an ever-growing fear of AIDS, just to Libby Schwartz is a sophomore at Jones Col- the GOP has a slate of candidates with a wide been good at whatever he does. name a few things. To top everything off, the list lege. variety of interests. Of these candidates, George Finally, quoting congressman Robert Dornan, B ush has the most experience and the abilities that an old-time Buckley-Goldwater Republican and are required of the president to follow Ronald present day Bush supporter, "It is important that Reagan. Reagan started a political realignment all conservative leaders take a hard and fair look at Christian Leadership Conference. He left SCLCin which requires more than the eight years he has the Vice President of the United States. He has 1971 to found and preside over Operation PUSH been in office, therefore the next president must certainly paid his dues and earned his current (People United to Serve Humanity), an organiza- tion devoted to economic development, moral and understand the process which is being followed in frontrunner status for the Republican nomination. academic excellence through education, health, order to continue what Reagan has started. I be- Embracing Bush is absolutely essential to housing, and international peace. lieve that George Bush is the Republican Party's advancing the conservative agenda." Mr. Jackson's credentials are global as well as best chance at keeping the Reagan Coalition to- When it comes time to vote, vote for George national. He has met with more national leaders gether. For the past seven years as Vice President Bush. He is the most qualified person running for than any other Democratic candidate. He met with he has been completely loyal to and supportive of President. Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in the President's conservative economic, social, de- Felix Dawson is a sophomore at Jones College. Geneva to discuss the arms race and the treatment •Across-the-board federal budget reductions of Soviet Jews. He went to Syria and brought back aimed at cutting waste. captured U.S. officer Lt. Robert Goodman when •No further tax increases on the American President Reagan could not. He met with Cuban people. leader Fidel Castro and secured the release of •Guaranteed retirement income and improved American hostages. Meanwhile, PUSH was qui- long term health care for the elderly. etly finding new and innovative methods of feed- •Federal laws and tax policies that promote and ing America's hungry and educating the many reward stable families. whom the government seemed to have forgotten •Paramount Human Life Amendment to the about. Constitution to safeguard the elderly, the infirm, While other candidates are making broad and and the unborn. often empty political generalizations, Jesse •Appointment of federal judges who will inter- Jackson is acknowledging and addressing the is- pret the constitution, not try to rewrite it. sues and concerns facing America. We must edu- •An end to illiteracy and the restoration of ex- cate and cultivate our people so that they can V cellence in education—choice through vouchers. produce products that will compete successfully •Stepped-up war on drugs—mandatory sen- in foreign and domestic markets. America can ill- tencing for people dealing drugs to minors. afford to allow her competitors to take jobs from •Repeal of government regulations that impair Democrat Jesse Jackson her people. Rarely—if ever—do the capital gains U.S. productivity and competitiveness—tort re- by Russell L. Ross on Wall Street negate the current losses on Main form. I^s time for bold new leadership in America. Street. Jackson's tough positions on national de- •Strong national defense—immediate'testing We need a leader who's proven he's not afraid to fense, education, foreign policy, human rights, and deployment of SDI technology. honestly embrace the concerns of a vast majority and trade, as well as his strong to committment to •Support to indigenous freedom fighters. of Americans who want jobs, real peace, eco- sound family values have won the respect and •Upholding of traditional moral values in soci- support of a large and growing number of Ameri- Republican Pat Robertson nomic security, and national integrity. Of the ety and public affirmations of faith in God. remaining Presidential candidates, none is more cans of all ages, occupations, races, and religions. by Steven Krzentz and Peter Adamczyk •Religious freedom for all people. qualified than Jesse L. Jackson. His charisma and communication techniques have The Presidency demands the responsiblility of Pat Robertson has carefully considered both di- Jesse Jackson has devoted his life to serving the brought into focus many American concerns that dealing with domestic social interests as well as rect and indirect issues currently important to American people. After graduating from North many politicians have yet to grasp. That's leader- international relations. Americans and he strongly believes that people Carolina A&T University in 1963, he attended ship. Doing what's best for America, not simply We believe Pat Robertson is the candidate most make government work. We ask you to consider Chicago Theological Seminary and was ordained talking about it to maintain the status quo or pacify capable of assuming this responsibility. Pat Robertson for President of the United States a Baptist minister in 1968. He left the seminary to special interest groups from state to state. We need The legislation and initiatives supported by Pat based on his stand on issues and to remember that join the Rev. Martin Luther King in his efforts to that kind of leadership and the only candidate who Robertson are the following: he aims to serve you. unify the American people and later aspired to has demonstrated it repeatedly is Jesse Jackson. •Constitutional amendment to balance the fed- Steven Krzentz is a senior and Peter Adamczyk become Executive Director of Operation Bread- Russell L. 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march treasures of the s & m in concert programming notes Local bands, new music and the whole sixties happy s & m gang bring you a ktru favorite During the sixties, you didn't hear any each week on Friday from 7 to 10pm. Feb. 26 Sik Mentality thursday feature sixties music on ktru. As a matter of fact we Afterbirth didn't go on the air until 1970. We make up albums for this every Tuesday night from 8 to 10pm Saturday night Dead Horse On Thursday evenings at 16 p.m. ktru by playing obscure and forgotten music from Axiom* airs an album that has managed to survive the Sixties and Seventies from our expansive special collection of the genre. 10 years. Tune in this month for: 10pm on most Saturday nights. Coming Feb. 27 Loco Gringos 3/3 Sly & the Family Stone— soon, the National Finals of the Snickers Weeds Fresh New Music Search. 3/10 Pretty Things chicken skin Cinco Dudes Silk Torpedo If it's music David John knows it, but he's Axiom* 3/17 Mott the Hoople— limited himself to folk, bluegrass and blues no one expects All the Young Dudes for this three hour set Wednesdays from 7 to At lam Saturday night/Sunday morning, Mar. 5 Preston Reed 3/24 Iggy Pop & James Williamson— 10pm. Local and national acts wander by the Kill City those NOE people offer you the least Anderson Fair studios upon occasion and he'll put them on expected comedy and weird programs both 3/31 Buzzcocks— the air without a second thought. Mar. 6 TheJuggs Another Music in a Different locally produced and otherwise. Kitchen Astrodome* hardcore sonlite Mar. 8 P.i.L./INXS women's music Nothing radical to say about the show Hey! This ain't "Amazing Grace" with a Summit* this time since wisdom wasn't handed from Beauty and the Beast has been rated best rock beat. It's creative artists playing and above. But Wednesday nights from singing about life. It's music you might not Mar. 10 Roger Miller new program this season and highest among midnight to lam Ray takes over the tv programs that are watched by women. hear anywhere else. It's popular Christian Saqqara Dogs airwaves and brings you some of the most artists, but it's also new or obscure or While this has nothing to do with musical radical noise ever to modulate the frequency. taste, ktru broadcasts a program of music of, unusual Christian artists. Each Sunday at 7 Axiom* (Some thing about beer and making a.m. Sonlite starts with a feature album and by and for women each Monday evening from requests.) Anyway, it's sure to please. Mar. 12 These Immortal 6pm to 7pm. George Rupp is a monkey. continues until 9 a.m. Take a listen— you might be surprised! Souls monday feature rice radio reggae Axiom* Friday afternoon from 1 to 4pm is your jazz Mar. 13 GeneLoves Jezebel album chance to relax to the rasta beat with Donny Houston's longest running jazz program Flesh for Lulu and Lisa and they play the best from ktru's airs immediately following the rice radio Every monday night at 10pm, ktru airs a collection of reggae music. The first hour of journal Sunday evenings at 5 until 11:30 pm. Zelda's brand, spanking new Alburn speedily each show begins with^a re-broadcast of a The finest in progressive and mainstream Mar.18 Echo & the delivered to your source of new and Reggae Beat Internatiofifel program from jazz with Kevin, Vince and Keith. Featured alternative sounds. This album is so new our collection (we anticipate a rebirth of this each week at 7pm: re-broadcasts of Garth Bunnymen that not even the music director knows what program in some form in the near future, Jowett's "The"Sounds of Jazz" program, it will be until just seconds before it's aired. hosted by Hank Holmes, half of the original sponsored by AllRecords in the River Oaks Music Hall Be on the cutting edge of eveiything and team). Shopping Center. * Indicates an All Ages show listen in. rice radio folio march 1988 page 1 3 baseball ktru begins its coverage of the 1988 Rice Owls Men's Baseball season approximately at the same time this folio will be hitting the mail bags. We start with a match-up against powerhouse NTSU on f-word February 27 at noon. Catch the action as ktru's very own Sports Director Chuck "HOMERUN" Weese takes the field in an effort to win fame and fortune while retaining his musical taste. V Listen in as our crack sports team (including the infamous Bud stuff Thomas) broadcasts of one of the few sports Rice U. can regularly Dr. Contrary to unpopular rumor, ktru will NOT be changing boast about. Take your Walkman™ out to Cameron Field and be its call letters. Despite the offer 6f the entire record collection a participant in a unique form of sports coverage ktru has been of a San Francisco radio station, made by an AM station from providing for almost a tenth of a century. someplace that I can't even remember the name of, we refused to sell Here is a tentative schedule of ktru's baseball coverage: out. How could we possibly be sure that the deal would enable us Feb. 27 North Texas State Noon to complete our Air Supply and Bee Gees collections? Mar. 1 Dallas Baptist 4pm You might have noticed a new program airing at seemingly Mar. 12 Western Kentucky 2pm random times on Saturday evenings. It's called Live At The Mar. 16 Missouri 7pm mal Knitting Factory, and it should be settling down soon in the 6—7pm Mar. 19 Texas Tech 2pm wit slot on Saturdays. The programs are taped live at the Knitting Apr. 2 Texas Christian 2pm Factory in New York City, and they include some of the most Apr. 9 Texas 2pm important artists in the N. Y. (and sometimes, elsewhere) avant- Apr. 23 Houston 2pm garde jazz scene. Previously aired programs have included John May 19-22 S.W.C. tournament Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tom Cora, and Rashid Ali. at Cameron Field Match-ups and times —Robert To Be Announced.
Silva, Jimmy Fly Like a Dog PopLlama Single Gun Theory Exorcise This Wasteland Nettwerk Sisters of Mercy Floodland Elektra SPK Gold and Poison Nettwerk march playlists Sylvian, David Secrets of the Beehive Virgin Tail Gators Tore Up Wrestler MPs Trash Matinee Underworld No I. heavy compiled by Julie Grob/ ktru Music Director Various Artists Epic Presents the Unsigned Epic Pool Berryhill, Cindy Lee Who's Gonna Save the World? Rhino Various Artists She's Having a Baby IRS Radia Creepers Rock'nUoll Liquorice Flavour Red Rhino Visigoths Pining by the Grave of Stardust Rexco Ring i D. D. Ranged Unfolded Deranged Waldo the Dog-Faced Boy Wood Flux Santa Electric Love Muffin Playdoh Meathook Buy Our Records Saxor Firehose Ifn SST Screa Full Fathom Five Cry of a Falling Nation Link heavy ep's and singles Snop< Godfathers Birth School Work Death Epic Bambi Slam Is ... Rough Trade Soup Gun Club Mother Juno Red Rhino Breaking Circus Smokers* Paradise Homestead Squa] Hitchcock, Robyn Globe of Frogs A&M Cassandra Complex Kill Your Children Play It Again Sam Stom, House of Freaks Monkey on a Chain Gang Rhino DeJarnett, Ann Dr. Dream U.S. HR Human Rights SST Fly Ashtray The Day I Turned Into Jim Morrison Phoaming Edison Unjui Jazz Butcher Fishcoteque Creation I Relativity Fourwaycross Shimmer Motiv Urba: Live Skull Dusted Homestead Hickoids Driftwood Budget Ranch Vario Negativland Escape From Noise SST House of Lai-ge Sizes Man Overboard South East Vario Tear Garden Tired Eyes Slowly Burning Nettwerk Laughing Hyenas Merry Go Round Touch and Go Vario Mecca Normal Oh Yes You Can K Vario Mission of Burma Taang moderate Pastels Comin' Through Glass B.A.L.L. Period (Another American Lie) Shimmy-Disc Piano Moscow Don't Throw Out Your Books Deco Banton, Pato Never Give In Primitive Man Sonic Youth Master Dik SST Barone, Richard Cool Blue Halo Passport Broadcasters 13 Ghosts Enigma ja: Close Lobsters Foxheads Stalk this Land Enigma moderate ep's and singles Eider, Max The Best Kisser in the World Bigtime 11th Hour Alder St. AWOL Gaye Bykers on Acid • Drill Your Own Hole Caroline Animal Crackers Small Loud Song Sub Up Harmon Band, The James Those Dangerous Gentlemens Rhino Crocodile Shop Head Susstones Moni Naked Prey 40 Miles From Nowhere Frontier Dangtrippers Incantation South East Nich( Pop Will Eat Itself Now for a Feast Rough Trade Echo and the Bunnymen Bedbugs and Ballyhoo Sire Russi Pretty Green Nettwerk Fishbone It's a Wonderful Life Columbia Sane Spiral Jetty Art's Sand Bar Incas Highwaymen Highway 61 Revisited I Wanna Shelc Stewart, Mark and Maffia — Upside Insanity Emotion Ocean Instant Tea Swans Children of God Caroline 0 Positive Cloud Factory Link These Immortal Souls Get Lost (Don't Lie) SST Scruffy the Cat Boom Boom Boom Bingo Relativity Various Artists At Dianne's Place Penultimate Son of Sam IK BPM Rouska mc Various Artists No Age SST That Petrol Emotion Genius Move Virgin reed, White Flag Wild Kingdom Positive Force Thin White Rope Bottom Feeders Zippo da vie White Zombie Soul-Crusher Silent Explosion Trained Attack Dogs Pizza Rave with Yung Wu Shore Leave Coyote Soundgarden Screaming Life Sub Pop lovet hayr warr light eclectic whip Age of Chance One Thousand Years of Trouble Virgin Always August Largeness With (W)holes SST varic Alien Sex Fiend Here Cum Germs Passport Aztec Camera Love Sire cood( Copernicus Deeper Nevermore Big Picture The Homeless House Terminal faye, Doctor Nerve Armed Observation Cuneiform Circle Jerks VI Relativity erwii Domino, Anna This Time Giant Commodity Fetish Zen Kitchen Sabotage boan Honor Among Thieves When the World Runs Fast Flaming Pie Dream Academy Rememberance Days Reprise jones Hula Threshold Red Rhino Easter Chameleon willi Hyaa! Get Yer Hyaa-Hyaa's Out! Hyaa! Essence A Monument of Trust Midnight redp Johnnys Highlights of a Dangerous Life Enigma Fields of Nephilim Dawnrazor Beggar's' Banquet gork Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust Columbia Fish & Roses Lost sun Reed, A. C. I'm in the Wrong Business Alligator Four Way Cross frill the Sky BMI guy, Room Nine Voices ... of a Summers Day C'est La Mort Gaflhey, Chris Road to Indio Cactus Club griffi Severed Heads Bad Mood Guy Nettwerk Gang Green You Got It Roadracer erwi Iric e radio folio march 1 ball the unruly j ulie's on march's |>orts Irt to new show new Bud Tune in Thursday March 3rd at 7:00 for the first installment of larly Dr. Red Grob's Pychotic Lone Star Jukebox, a half-hour of td be casettes, tapes, and vinyl from around this great state of ours. tracks )een Bands like the Daylights, Buckpets, Cinco Dudes, Nice Strong Some of the stuff you are or will be hearing soon on ktru: Arm, Sprawl, Bad Mutha Goose, etc. etc.s will be featured, proving Alter Natives/Group Therapy... Brian Ritchie/Nuclear War/ once and for all the supremacy of Texas musicians over all others Atomkrieg... Chills/Brave Words... The Verlaines/Bird-Dog... in the U. S. of A. So forget that imported junk from Boston and New Das Damen/Tiskaidekaphobe... Divine Horsemen/Handful of York, and take a listen instead to Dr. Red's musical platters and Sand... Dredd Foole & the Din/Take off Your Skin... Nice Strong pleasures. And remember—Buddy Holly was no fluke! Longnecks Arm/Secret Language(7"J... H.R./Now You Say... Happy make your beer taste better! Secede from the Union and to hell Flowers/Never Put Your Mouth on a Bomb... Nick Lowe/Pinker with Athens, Georgia! and Prouder than Previous... Phantom Tollbooth/Power Toy... See y'all in the funny papers, Salem 66/Natural Disasters, National Treasures... Sister —Dr. Red Grob Double Happiness/Sister Double Happiness... Timbuk 3/Eden P.S.—The Jukebox won't be airin' on March 3rd if I can rustle Alley... Wall Of Voodoo/The Ugly Americans in Australia... up a car by then which will make it to Graceland. But I'll be back Woodentops/Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway... Jimmy Lmes the following week after paying my tributes to the King (who was Cliff... Rave-Ups... Soup Dragons... Stranglers... and the beat goes Texan in spirit). on!!!
^\ Hollywood Indians Lock Up the Dog Ruling Factor metamora morning walk windham hill Invisible Dystopia Midnight rare air hard to beat green linnett Kool Moe Dee How ya Like Me Now Rooftop funderburgh, anson & the rockets sins black top Ledernachen Boogaloo & Other Natty Dances Strike Back chenier, clifton sings the blues arhoolie Legendary Pink Dots Stone Circles Play It Again Sam terry and the pirates walk the planxty thereown MPs Beater Release Aratron No I. D. Atomic Cartoon Third World Pool Sharks Final Adjustments Strike Radiators Law of the Fish Epic Ring of Power Ride the Bubble No Tresspassing Santana, Carlos Blues For Salvador CBS Saxon, Suzy & the Anglos Scream to be Heard Brat Screaming Trees Clairvoyance Velvetone Snopek, Sigmund III Wisconslnsane Dali Soup Dragons Hang Ten Si# Squares Enjoy Yourself and Others Boat Sam Stomachmouths Wild Trip Voxx U.S. Mods From the Free World Rock Hill Unjust Hammerhead Big City Urban Waste — Big City Various Artists Diamonds in Darkness Midnight Various Artists DiscPan Hands Rave Various Artists Have a Tampa pop Various Artists The Last of England Mute Various Artists The Iowa Compilation South East Zero Boys Vicious Circle Toxic Shock Zorn, John Spillane Elektra /Nonesuch
jazz compiled by Kevin Long/ktru Jazz Director Bluiett, Hamiett The Clarinet Family Black saint Getz, Stan The Lyrical Stan Getz Columbia Mingus, Charles Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Columbia Monk, Thelonious & Nichols, Herbie — Savoy Russel, George Stratusphunk OJC /Fantasy Sanchez, Pancho jFuerte! Concord Sheldon, Jack Quintet Hollywood Heroes Concord
chicken skin compiled by David-John Scribner mc cutcheon, joho. gonna rise again rounder reed, a.c. i'm in the wrong business alligator david grisman quintet with s. asmussen svingin' with sand zebra lovett, lyle pontiac mca curb haynie, don & samuel, sheryl life in the circus hard pressed warner and davis traditional american folksongs flying fish whippersnapper tsubo varrick various artists matewan daring cooder, ry get rhythm warner brothers faye, glenda flatpickin' favorites flying fish erwin, randy cowboy rhythm four dots boarding party fair winds and a following sea folk-legacy jones, casey solid blue rooster blues Williamson, sonny boy down and out blues chess redpath, jean songs of robert burns v.6 philo u gorka, john i know ' red house sun rhythm section old time rock n' roll flying fish guy, buddy left my blues in san francisco chess griffith, nanci little love affairs mca Ray and Julie, our past and present Music Directors, pose politely for their portrait in the Music erwin, randy cowboy rhythm four dots Library of the radio station at Rice University, ktru. They fled shortly afterward —db alio inarch 1988 pages 2&3 D
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Here are more of the letters and weekend. (Besides, I was never comments we've found in the last awake for it on Saturday few months in our mailbag. mornings.) If you would like to get a A question— what happened to bumper sticker, comment I rave I Bud during Friday afternoon drive moan about something heard on time? Is he long gone or just on ktru or just send us a postcard to hiatus? Or was he lured away by reassure us that someone actually the promise of big bucks and does listen out there, give it to your stardom to mainstream radio? Or local representative of the postal was he just too darned irreverent monopoly so we can partake of for his own good and got canned? your infinite wisdom. If space Or has he just switched hours and permits, we may continue to show I haven't found him yet. them off like this in the future. Anyway, I just wanted to let the ktru staff know that they have dear ktru, one more relatively loyal listener C. J. dees hir. thing one la it time before dissapearing into the ether. —db I haven't listened to a radio out there in radioland and their station for 4 years. One exception, work is truly appreciated. No I discovered you guys 1 year ago. ulterior motives here...well, maybe Thanks for helping me not wear just one. Can I have one of your all good things... my tapes and albums out. You new bumper stickers? play the coolest tunes! Keep up the good work! This issue of the rice radio folio marks my last (at least Lori Broussard Donna Hupman for the time being) as Publicity Dir./folio editor. The last Houston, Tx Houston, Tx year has seen changes and, I hope, improvements in the Bud has, alas, graduated from way ktru is presented to you, our loyal readers and dear ktru, Rice, class of'87. For those of you listeners. The future holds more promise as ktru stays on To me, ktru is the only radio who cannot live witout him, he station in town. When you are not occasionally substitutes for other the edge, and the folio will be there to bring you the best in on the air, my radio is not on. I DJ's, and can be heard doing play- alternative music information. Keep those letters and cards really have no complaints; I don't by-play for our sceduled coverage coming, as all of your comments have been enjoyed and like all the programming, but I of Rice Baseball. When he finally listened to. The address here is: appreciate the variety. You do a leaves we will miss him.—ed. super job— keep it up! ktru folio "A Devoted Listener" p. o. box 1892 Lynne C. Leach houston, tx 77251 * Houston, Tx To tie up a few loose ends: dear ktru, The picture in last month's issue was, if you haven't I would like to thank you for guessed, most of this year's ktru staff. providing such great music over ktru News now airs Monday through Friday @ 5pm and the airwaves of Houston. It is an understatement to say that it is a Monday through Thursday @ 9pm. relief to turn on the radio and hear ktru will be broadcasting selected Rice Owls Baseball bands of the calibre of Htisker Dii, games, beginning on Feb. 27th against North Texas State. the dB's and X, instead of Disc And lastly, I thought you'd like to see just who stays up " Jockeys playing to a pre-pubescent 'til all hours putting this thing together just so you can keep audience playing top-ten drivel. My senses are grateful. up-to-date on our cozy little radio station. My heartfelt Sincerely, Phone Etiquette thanks and appreciation go out to all the ktru staff, and Annette Pieniazek ktru does not have an especially Dingbat (Mike Gladu) and Stu Derby for help Houston, Tx expensive phone system that can transfer calls or ring in with this month's folio, and our very own Ray Shea for new such a way that the DJ can insights into our world of music. dear ktru, hear all the lines. Please call Cruising through thee galaxy, Please send me a copy of the Rice Radio Folio or else my life in requests only on 527-4050. will be empty and meaningless— requests 527-4050 -cx_ my Enquiring mind wants to know news 527-4088 when I need to listen in. business 527-4098 mailing list update form i Thanks, J ktru folio • Ken Nelson ATTENTION! Once again it is time to update our Houston, Tx ktru staff mailing list. While the folio is mailed free of Robert Stewart o GM charge to you just for the asking, you DO have to dear ktru, Bruce Mast o Asst. GM Just a note to say how much I Dennis Ogburn o Program Dir. do something to keep on receiving it. Namely, you Cheri Kedrowski o Asst. Prog. Dir. enjoy the radio station. It's fresh. Craig Dial o Chief Engineer - must tell us that you still want it. Therefore, It's now. It's unpretentious Julie Grob o Music Dir. J below are blanks for you to fill out telling us your (except for the S & M show). It's a Ray Shea <> Asst. Music Dir. breath of fresh air and all those Jeff Nunnally o Asst. Music Dir. J current existence. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY David Cole <> Music Staff [ AND CORRECTLY OR THIS MIGHT BE THE other cliches. I've been a listener Lisa Parikratz o Music Staff J LAST FOLIO YOU RECEIVE. Mail it to the for a couple of years and I am still David Tuttle o Interim News Dir. amazed at the quality of radio that Pat McGarrity o Business Mgr. J address in the above column by Friday. Anril IS. you people can produce. David Stivers o Production Dir. • 1988 and you will continue to get the folio. If we Julie Wroble o Promotions Dir. A special "Huzzah!" goes to Stan Barber o Special Prog. Dir. I don't get it by then, its purge city for you. those who have made the Folio a Tracey Renner o DJ Dir. bit more lively. I have always Ibnia Lucio o DJ Dir. Name enjoyed the letters and opinions of Ellen Westkaemper o PSA Dir. the staff. Let's hear more. Also, Chuck Weese <> Sports Dir. Company. Kevin Long o Jazz Dir. thank you for returning the Karen Nickel <> Classics Co-Dir. Address Apt #. Reggae show to Friday afternoons. David Ottcnhouse <> Classics Co-Dir. City State ZIP It's the perfect way to wind up the Steve From Earth <> ??? work week and mellow out for the C. J. Lukas <2 Publicity Dir. aric e radio folio march 1988 page 4 D THRESHER Fine Arts Friday. February 26.1988 the existing federal Guaranteed Student Loan pro- gram. the future—Al Gore. Dukakis is committed to building a strong and Gore, 39, is the son of former U.S. Senator durable partnership with a new generation of Albert Gore, Sr. He graduated with honors from democaratic leaders in Latin America. A partner- Harvard in 1969, then served with the Army in ship to restore economic development and eco- Vietnam. Upon returning to civilian life, Gore nomic opportunity, ensure peace and security, and worked as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean to promote democracy and human rights. By en- and attended Vanderbilt Divinity and Law couraging radical revolution, we are weakening Schools. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of our own neighbors. We need to work with Central Representatives in 1976. He is now an eleven-year America; they must have access to foreign mar- veteran of Washington, having served four terms kets and be challenged to create opportunity not in the House and three years in the Senate. He was just for some, but for all their people. We cannot named "one of the six most effective members of impose respect for human rights, but we can place Congress" by The Washington Monthly. strict conditions on our military and economic aid; Gore's strongest suit is his foreign policy repu- we can support the Inter-American Commission tation as an expert in national defense and global and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights; security. He is a member of the Senate Armed and we can demand that international humanitar- Services Committee and a former member of the ian standards be observed. House Intelligence Committee. Gore is one of Of course, he has also addressed the need for Congress' leading experts on arms control; he more economic development in our own country created a widely praised comprehensive plan to as well. Mike Dukakis has used the power of the limit first strike capabilities of both superpowers, Governor's office in Massachusetts to turn his and was a member of the bi-partisan U.S. Senate state around economically. He began with a state Arms Control Observation Group which moni- with 12 percent unemployment and has since tored the Geneva arms talks. made it into a state with one of the lowest rates in Rebuilding America's economy is one of industrial America—2.9 percent He has created Gore's foremost goals. He advocates forging a 400,000jobs in the last five years. And he did it all responsible budget policy, and encouraging while balancing nine budgets in nine years and American competitiveness and global economic cutting taxes five times. He has outlined a farm growth. He is a member of the Senate Democratic policy that includes a combination of supply Budget Task Force, and a co-author of the Demo- management and resonable price supports and cratic Caucus "Economic Alternatives" report. benefits that go to the family farmers who need Gore is chairman of the Environmental and them most. It will make the farm programs more Energy Study Conference in Congress. He led the predictable and less complex and address the farm Democrat Al Gore fight for clean groundwater and air, and co-au- credit crisis. He also understands the need for by Amanda Gilbert and David Nathan thored the Superfund law aiming to clean up toxic Democrat Michaei Dukakis more affordable housing to deal with the thou- The Presidential elections of 1980 and 1984 dumps and spills. Gore has authored laws requir- by Ei in McGilvray sands of homeless Americans. bear witness to an increasingly noted trend in ing tougher cigarette warning labels, forming an Fcr the last three years Massachusetts has had Dukakis strongly believes in environmental American voting patterns—the weakening of tra- efficient national organ donor network, and pro- the lowest unemployment rate of any industrial protection. He will use the federal government to ditional party alliances. In particular, the liberal tecting children from defective formulae. state in America. M'--hael Dukakis has been in- reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, to fight acid rain, democratic alliance has begun to crumble as sup- Gore is a strong advocate of a more just society. strumental in turnLv, Massachusetts around, and and he supports the Clean Water Act programs. porters have shifted toward the conservative end He strongly supports the U.S. Civil Rights he can do the same for the rest of this country. Dukakis is also committed to arms control with of the political spectrum. The inability of the Commission, and is a co-sponsor of the ERA Rec ognizing the key role of education in creat- an agreement for the elimination of medium and Democratic Party to adjust to this trend led to the resolution. Other goals important to Gore involve ing opportunity, Dukakis and the Massachusetts short range missiles in Europe—the zero-zero overwhelming rejection of the Democratic candi- protecting the elderly and homeless, and improv- Legislature quadrupled scholarship assistance and option; as well as moving beyond this agreement dates in both elections. ing America's educational system. increased resources for public higher education by negotiating a mutual and balanced reduction in If the Democratic Party has any hope of recov- In conclusion, Al Gore is eminendy qualified to faster than any state in the nation. He plans to: 1) conventional forces. ering the presidency, it must recognize and seek be President, more so than most of his competitors. end the current Administration's assault on Pell Basically, Dukakis is a moderate Democrat support from the moderate majority of American Unimpressive early performances in Iowa and Grants and college work loans; 2) encourage state with a lot of experience in running a government. voters. To do this, it must present to voters a New Hampshire should not be the cause of any governments to create college opportunity funds We need to nominate a Democrat who has a nominee who will not only be acceptable to tradi- concern, since Gore's main concentration all and tuition prepayment plans that will make it proven record of economic leadership, and who tional Democrats, but who will be able to garner along has been on the upcoming March 8 Super easier for families to set aside enough today to can clean up the mess the Republicans will be support from the moderate majority. If the future Tuesday election, where his position as the only meet the financial requirements of college tuition leaving behind. success of the Democratic Party depends on its Southern candidate will be a big advantage. in the future; and 3) initiate a thorough review of Erin McGilvray is a junior at Jones College. ability to moderate, then there exists a candidate Amanda Gilbert and David Nathan are juniors who embodies the successful Democratic party of at Hanszen College and Wiess College. Dick Gephardt is that rare combination of a fight against cut£ in student aid, the schobl lunch progressive pragmatist, with a distinguished rec- program, and Pell Grants. He has the NEA's ord of transforming good ideas into good policy. highest lifetime ranking of all the Presidential The record speaks for itself: candidates on voting for issues vital to American •Bradley-Gephardt Fair Tax Act. This legisla- education. tion paved the way for t^jt reform. Arms Race: Paul Simon wants the U.S. to lead • 'Kennedy-Gephardt. This legislation is the the way in arms control, not.the arms race. His goal major Democratic proposal to overhaul Medicare. is an America strong enough to defend its freedom •Gephardt Trade Amendment The Amend- against any enemy, but also an America not afraid ment demands tough but fair trade policies and to use diplomacy to bring greater security to the seeks to open global markets for American prod- work. He supports the INF Treaty as a promising ucts. first step. He will continue to fight for further cuts •Schroeder-Gephardt. Now the national focus in strategic offensive and defensive weapons pro- for the arms control debate, this legislation calls grams and for an end to nuclear weapons testing. for a Nuclear Test Ban. Defense Spending: "I propose an independent •Harkin-Gephardt. This legislative proposal Procurement Directorate within the Defense has become the national rallying point to save the Department to make purchases free of bias or family fanner. conflict of interest. We'd see far fewer $9600 •Education Funding. Dick Gephardt was instru- wrenches and $12,000 airplane seats." mental in obtaining $ 1 billion in funding for math, Budget: Paul Simon is a co-sponsor of the science and language education—a key to increas - proposed Balanced Budget Amendment Act. He ing America's competitiveness. feels strongly that the United States government •Pay Equity Act. Dick Gephardt was a co- should be held legally responsible not to spend sponsor of the Pay Equity Act and a leader of the more money than it receives in income. fight to re-introduce the Equal Rights Amend- Equal Rights for Women: Paul Simon is a co- ment. sponsor of the resubmitted Equal Rights Amend- •Since 1983, Dick Gephardt has been a leader in ment. He supports extended child care support for the fight against contra aid. working parents. He also believes in a woman's Dick Gephardt, a St Louis native^ is a graduate freedom to choose if she will have an abortion. of Northwestern University and the University of Democrat Paul Simon Civil Rights: In 1984 in the House of Represen- Michigan Law School. He served six years in the by Jeff Solochek tatives, Simon was chief sponsor and floor man- Missouri Air National Guard as captain and legal Senator Paul Simon of Illinois. Former newspa- ager of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, a bill to officer. strengthen civil rights laws weakened by the Democrat Richard Gephardt per editor-publisher, Illinois state congressman • He served two terms as a St. Louis alderman (1955-1969), and U.S. Congressman (1974- Supreme Court's Grove City decision. He steered For the last decade, Dick Gephardt has proven before being elected to Congress in 1976. He has 1984). Now, Democrat for President. Rather than thajbill to a victpry margin of 3-1. This is just one to be* one of the most effective leaders in the won every re-election since with more than 66% of speak on his behalf, I will simply outline his of lift many successes in the field of civil rights Congress of the United States. the vote. vision. His commitment and his beliefs can do him during the past 40 years. So effectiv^, his congressional peers honored Dick Gephardt is £6 years old. He and his wife,, greater justice than I can. , Central America: "The United States govern- him with election tothe prestigious Chairmanship Jane Byrnes, have been married for 20 years and Education: "Our goal as a nation has been to ment should cut off all assistance to the Nicara- of the House Democratic Caucus. He is the young- have three children: Matthew, 16; Christine, 14; make a tuition-free, quality education available to guan contras.. .the people of Central America need est member to achieve this distinction and the only and Katherine, 9. all Americans....We need to invest in a quality the best, not the worst, of what the United States one elected unanimously in the history of Con- Written by the Gephardt for President Commit- education fojthe future of American public educa- has to offer." gress. tee, Inc. tion. Not undermine it." Paul Simon has led the Jeff Solochek is a junior at Jones College. 10 Friday, February 26,1988 THRESHER Fine Arts Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera entertaining Threepenny Opera Peachum and begins his career as a absolutely timeless, and although ever, was the absolutely dynamic I felt that the actors weren't confident Teutonic Productions professional beggar. some of the singers have some trouble performance of Vincent Uher (Mack enough to follow through with some Although Bertolt Brecht is consid- In the meantime, the Peachums' carrying the more difficult tunes, the Knife). Uher skillfully presents of their actions on the stage. They ered by some to be the "amateurs' daughter Polly marries the notorious overall I was uplifted and excited by the pinstriped gangster as the very should be, though. German professor playwright" for his stereotyped char- gangster, Mack the Knife, in a "bor- the expressive German voices. likeable Brechtian folk-hero of the Susan Clark has some fantastic direc- acters, simple staging, and short, rowed" bam with stolen goods, sur- Exceptional performances were present day—the kind of guy whose tion, as well as some really unique and straightforward scenes, his material is rounded by the bumbling members of given by Michael Myers (Peachum) bully image is replaced by a great funny surprises for the audience. This far from simplistic. Rather, it comes Mack's gang. Infuriated, the who keeps excellent eye contact with personality. His voice is also pleas- show is really an experience, since we to us through an absolutely revolu- Peachums have Mack arrested for his the audience (as Brecht would have ingly wonderful, strong in speech and are constantly reminded that we are in tionary approach to the theater, numerous crimes, and Polly discov- wanted), as well as by Claudia Signer deep and resonant in song. Totally a theater, and I advise seeing it, backed up by years of Brecht's ers that her new husband has another (Mrs. Peachum) and Roswitha Firth energized was his whole perform- whether you speak German or not thoughts and writings. This seeming girlfriend when the two women visit (Polly), who avoid letting themselves ance, and this power was felt in many Words aren't everything, you know, complexity often discourages ama- him simultaneously in prison. The get emotionally lost in their some- aspects of the show. and what I saw and heard left me teur groups from producing his plays plot goes on to introduce crazy char- times frantic characters, while still Overall, this production is ex- clapping and satisfied—just as Brecht to the point where a Brecht produc- acters and events of the underworld in remaining artfully expressive. tremely enjoyable and performed in would have wanted it. tion has become a rarity. Fortunately, an opportunist vision, so that we see The highlight of the evening, how- the right spirit of fun, though at times —Kirsten Stammer Rice's ownTeutonic Productions has society in light of the individual's had the bravery and energy to tackle, drive for personal gain. in German, the brilliant Die In true Brechtian style, Teutonic Tiger's Tale bombs Dreigroschenoper, or Threepenny Productions succeeds in retaining the A Tiger's Tale Opera. link between players and audience, so Directed by Peter Douglas Written in 1927 in collaboration that we are not so much caught up in BeforelwenttoseeA Tiger'sTale, with the composer Kurt Weill, the emotions of the characters as we I noticed the nice caption that movies Threepenny Opera is an adaptationof are in the observance of what's going always have with their advertise- John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's on in front of us. Much of this success ments. It read: "Rose wouldn't fall in Opera. Brecht took a parody of Ital- is due to the epic balladeer (played by love with him in a million years. He'll ian opera, updated it, and presents it to Zeno Schmid) who introduces and wait." I wondered then why the ad us as an outrageous, contemporary comments upon each scene. His per- was so small for a recently1 opened social satire. formance is truly excellent as he leads movie, and why the movie was only The time is ambiguous, though we us objectively into the thick of the showing at one theater. Before the may come to believe it's set in the plot, while reminding us of the play's movie started, I counted the number 1920's. The pface appears to be Lon- comically satirical basis. of people in the theater—seven don, though it is probably a land of Periodic songs also serve as enter- people including myself, and this was Brecht's own imaginings. A man taining and objective commentary on the first Friday it was showing. Dur- named Filch applies for a job at the plot, as actors step out of the action ing the movie I realized why there Peachum's outfitting shop for beg- to sing operatically to a single, jazzy were so few people—A Tiger's Tale gars where he meets Mr. and Mrs. piano. Kurt Weill's music proves is not a good movie. J The movie starts with 19-year-old Bubber (C. Thomas Howell) observ-
ing Shirley's (Kelly Preston) breast *&', 'mm:;. WAREHOUSE SALE ^ with a flashlight in a car at night in .r front of Shirley's house. She and • Bubber are caught by Shirley's 40- year-old mother (Ann-Margret). WHAT: ART PAPER FILE CABINETS Shirley screams at Bubber, screams at her mother, threatens to go live with DRAFTING SUPPLIES LEADS her "ideal" father and runs into the Ann-Margret and C. Thomas Howell star in A Tiger's Tale. FURNITURE DRAFTING FILM house. Bubber invites the fed-up in love with Bubber. In fact, within 30 There does happen to be a tiger in MUCH MUCH MORE mother into the car. When we leam minutes they are sleeping together. this movie—Bubber's pet. During the that the mother's name is Rose, sud- About fifteen minutes later, they have course of the movie, Bubber must denly the caption makes sense. Bub- moved in together. All this time Rose learn that having a tiger for a pet is not WHEN: SATURDAY 2-27-88 ber will fall in love with Rose, but is slightly worried about their age a good idea, and that you sometimes Rose won't fall in love with Bubber, difference. Bubber is not since they have to let go of the things you love. 8 AM TILL 3 PM tad there will be all types of fun com- are both at their sexual peaks. Mean- I expected the acting to be slightly plications since Shirley is Bubber's while, Shirley goes to live with her better. Only Ann-Margret showed ex-girlfriend. father who turns out to be much worse any decent acting talent. None of the WHERE: 4102 GREENBRIAR That is exactly what happens, with at parenting than Rose. There are a lot other actors was convincing. Overall, (Behind Greenbriar Chateau Apts.) one small exception. Rose takes of plot twists along the way, but, of the movie was disappointing. slightly less than a million years to fall course, there's a happy ending. —Robert Bartsch
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Call 526- at Zelda's. 1181 for more information. •Teutonic Productions performs •The Contemporary Arts Brecht's Threepenny Opera in the Museum runs their exhibit BillViola: Farnsworth Pavilion tonight and Survey of a Decade through April 17. tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Call 527- Sally Gall: Tropical Landscapes runs 4807 for more information. through April 3. Call 526-0773 for •Comedian/movie star Franklyn more information. Ajaye will appear on the cabaret stage •The Menil Collection's of The Comedy Workshop (2105 Richmond Hall (1416 Richmond) is S an Felipe) tonight through Sunday at hosting Texas Art through May 15. 8:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Call 524-7333 •The Houston Art Dealers As- for more information. sociation exhibit, Houston '88, "pro- viding an overview of the quality and SATURDAY diversity of the 'Houston school' •Kinky Friedman, the man who today," runs through May 12 in the brought you "They Ain't Making 1600 Smith lobby gallery. Jews Like Jesus Anymore," offends everyone at Rockefeller's tonight. UPCOMING •Terrance Simien and The Mallet The Main Street Theater presents a play about dancing pigs. •The Sewall Art Gallery opens Playboys (and you thought Saltwater more information. its exhibit Portrayals, an exhibition Cats was a strange name) play COMING UP •The Actors Theatre (2506 of avant-garde portrait photography, Fitzgerald's with Lips andTheTrips. by John Montag South Boulevard) is performing The on Friday, March 4. The exhibit runs Zelda's hosts Screamin' Kenny and Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In- through April 6. The Sidewinders. Metropolis tonight at 7 p.m. in the WEDNESDAY The-Moon Marigolds each Friday •The Houston Oratorio Society •The Contemporary Arts Mu- Brown Auditorium of The Museum •Zelda's hosts Right to Left, Citi- and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at will perform the complete "St. Mat- seum (5216 Montrose Blvd.) opens of Fine Arts (1001 Bissonnet). zen and The Wheel tonight. 2:30 p.m. through April 3. Call 529- thew Passion" by Bach on Sunday, its exhibit Sally Gall: Tropical Land- •Why do you care what's going on 6606 for more information. March 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Cullen scapes today, running through April MONDAY in town tonight? You're supposed to •The Comedy Workshop Theater, Wortham Center. Call 491 - 3. Call 526-0773 for more informa- •All your friends are having fun be at the beach. performs Looking Ahead to the Past 8783 for information. tion. somewhere else. The pub is probably every Friday and Saturday, reserva- •The Museum of Fine Arts closed. Maybe you should watch THURSDAY tions necessary. Call 524-7333 for (1001 Bissonnet) is showing SUNDAY Newhart. •The Make-Believers and Toby more information. L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui March •Main Street Theater (2504 Blunt rock at Zelda's tonight. •Stages Repertory Theatre 6 at 7 p.m. in the Brown Auditorium Times Boulevard) plays—get this— TUESDAY •Tomorrow is probably your last plays Psycho Beach Party and Vam- as part of the "Cinemarchitecture" se- Every Day at Dawn the Pigs Dance in •Real Hotel, Nervous and The day on the slopes, so spend tonight pire Lesbians of Sodom Fridays and ries. Ancient Ritual. I Know. I Dance With Habits and The Sex are at Zelda's praying for snow. Either that, or drink Them today and next Sunday at 8:30 tonight. so much that it won't matter what p.m. The name really isn't so bad, but •The Effect of Gamma Rays on you're skiing on. This is probably a #iz <1 fx it's produced by The Dreem Katz. Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds good time to practice walking on Probably the same guys who thought premieres tonight at 8 p.m. at the crutches. t # tz up the name FotoFest. Call 524-3622 Actors Theatre (2506 South Boule- ($0 U ? )\y— I-, AWi: for more information—I mean about vard). Performances are scheduled ONGOING the play, not the name. for each Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. •The Alley Theatre runs its pro- •The Rice Design Alliance con- and Sunday at 2:30 p.m through April duction of Sharon and Billy through 'J LT, T * U -hX\ a tinues their "Cinemarchitecture" film 3. Call 529-6606 for more informa- March 20 and The Lucky Spot series with Fury is a Feeling Too and tion. through March 27. 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D'Wayne ton (game high 22 points on 10 of 14 sex. Both sports involve sweaty bod- Unwilling to let up, the Aggies ran off leader. Tanner scooped up his own miss and shooting) proved his competitive- ies bumping and grinding and drib- six unanswered points and embarked For some reason, however, it was scored with no time remaining in the ness, pushing the lead back to lOon an bling. And just as there are sexual on an 11-4 run, broken by Andy the virtuous Owls who were the vic- half to bring the Owls within 12, 28- 8 foot turnaround and a pair of free dysfunctions, there are the diseases of Gilchrist's herculean efforts to slow tims of the Wrath of God. Breathing 40. throws. Of Middleton, Coach Thom- the hoop. the Aggies down (a 6 foot hook and a fire and brimstone, the Bears laid The second half began with hope. pson said: "He hit the key shots when Impotence is an ugly thing. It is layup). The Owls had to call a timeout waste to Autry Court While the Owls Carl Daniels drove in for a layup and they needed them. He broke our back generally acknowledged to be psy- at the 15:03 mark to stop A&M from were concentrating on Darryl Middle- David Willie popped a three-point with those shots." Tanner and Mike chological in origin, stemming from a totally abusing us. Carl Daniels ton, Robert McLemore torched the shot to cut the Baylor lead to 7 with 16 Girardi tried to keep Rice close, chop- lack of confidence. Saturday's ren- proved his manhood against the Ag- Owls with 8 of his 10 first half points minutes to play. Again, however, the ping the lead to 7 with 3:45 to play, but dezvous with the Aggies and gies, sparking the Owls on an 11-2 (5 of 5 shooting in the first half) in Owls could not maintain the pressure, Baylor responded with a flurry of Wednesday's affair with the Baylor spurt with 7 points and an assist, leading the Bears to an 11 point lead at failing to score for the next three points to put the game effectively out Bears showed that this dread afflic- bringing the Owls within 2, 37-39. the 13:56 mark, 16-5. The Owls minutes, and Baylor blew the lead of reach, 67-54 at the 54 second mark. tion has struck our beloved Owls. The Aggies regained their rhythm, stayed within 10 behind some sharp back up to 13 on an alleyoop dunk by Baylor sank their free throws to make Coach Scott Thompson believes that however, and pushed the lead back to offensive plays, but their failure to Michael Williams (19 points). The the final margin of victory 72-57. our impotence on offense has af- 7, with 8:38 to play. The Owls, how- convert free throws and key turnovers Owls regained their composure, David Willie led Rice with 16 fected the rest of the Owls' game: "I ever, would not submit, and David proved very costly. With Baylor up however, and put together a come- points before fouling out D'Wayne feel that we're a little bit frustrated Willie's consecutive 3-pointers gave by 15 with 2:24 to play, The Owls back, chopping the lead to 6 with5:52 Tanner added 14 points and 6 assists. because we haven't shot the ball bet- the Owls their only lead of the half, ter. When we do not shoot well, we 48-46. After trading baskets, A&M have a tendency to lay down in other pushed the lead back to 6 with 3:03 to Lady Owls bounce past Bears areas, for example on defense." He go. With 2:05 remaining, a Willie 3- added later: "Our shooting percent- pointer brought screams of pleasure by Wade Chow to be their downfall against A&M. tormenting the Aggies from both in- age has been down in many of our from the crowd, and Rice, now within The Lady Owls nearly let this one Foreshadowing the Baylor game, side and out. With 5 minutes remain- games. It's a matter of confidence." 3 points, had a chance to seize the slip out of their fingers. After domi- Rice played A&M well until the mid- ing, Rice was up by 10,64-54. Unfor- game. Unfortunately, the Owls could nating the Baylor Lady Bears point of the first half, going up by as tunately, Rice could not score for the Our 37.1% field goal percentage throughout the game, the Owls were much as 11 points, but an Aggie surge next two minutes (missing 3 free against the sadomasochistic Aggies not score for the next minute while Darryl McDonald stretched the Aggie lucky to escape with a 2 point victory, in the last four minutes cut the lead to throws in this stretch), and an ill- allowed them to turn from our hapless 54-52. 1 at the half, 36-31. Rice continued to timed Aggie run saw the Aggies victim to our fearsome dominatrix. lead to 9 on a slam dunk and a pair of Behind the tough inside play of play supremely in the second half, outscore the Owls 16 to 3 in the last The Owls came out fired up and rar- free throws. Rice found the hole only Amelia Cooper (18 points, 9 of 13 with Edith Adams (a game high 20 5:15 of the half. The final score was ing to go, seizing an 18-8 first half once in the final minute, and Darryl shooting), the Owls broke a tight points) and Glenda Jensen (13 points) 70-67, Aggies. lead with 7:19 to go. Ron Robertson McDonald consummated the Aggie game open midway thrbugh the first slammed on an effeminate Aggie, victory with a bounce dunk at the half to go up by as much as 11,29-18. David Willie was working both in- buzzer. The final score was 64-55, The Bears rallied to cut the Rice lead side and out, and everything looked Aggies. to 5. good. Even the Faggies were out in David Willie led the Owls with 22 After the Bears cut the lead to 3 on full force. But the Aggies pulled a points while Darryl McDonald paced sudden role reversal, finishing the an outside shot by Kristin Wiginton the Aggies with 20. (13 points), the Owls hammered the half outscoring the Owls 18-4. Thus, Given Saturday's disappointment, the half ended 26-22, Aggies. After lead up to 15 on the three-point accu- the voyeuristic Autry fans (they like racy of Glenda Jensen and the post starting so hot, the Owls went frigid, to watch) poured into the bleachers to shooting only 28.1% from the field. play of Amelia Cooper. At this point, see the Owls ravage the Baylor Bears. however, the Bears unleashed a fierce Yet it is a testament to Rice's tough- Sporting their lewd green and yellow, ness that they were only down by 4. press and forced the Owls out of their the Bears had come into town with a game. The momentum shifted en- tirely in the Bears' favor, and it re- mained that way for the remainder of AIR SALE the second half. 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Paine, 5712 Kirby 10am-12amSat Treasurer, 5847 San Felipe, Suite 1700, Houston, TX 77057. 12 noon-6pm Sun 432-1200 Registered at a sponsor of CE in TSBPA THRESHER Sports Friday, February 26,1988 13 Rice hardballers indomitable at Cameron Field by Scooter Yee fielder Ramharter went 4-for-5 and The contributors were many in this "All we needed was a little home scored four times with Knoblauh and game as Rice surged for five runs in cookin' to get us back on track." Have rightfielder Tim Vannaman also hav- the third after TSU opened with a 4-0 you ever stopped to think about who ing big games, the former going 3 -for- lead, and nine runs in the sixth. Fresh- was actually the first person ever to 3 with five RBIs and the latter crack- man shortstop Chris Feris was a key use certain overused phrases? Fortu- ing a two-run homer in the fifth. contributor, going 3-for-5 with two nately, no one I interviewed used this Lefthander John Polasek got credit runs, an RBI, and a walk. "Chris re- cliche to describe the adventures of for the victory while pitching a com- ally started us off in the third. He's the Rice baseball team this past week, plete game. been doing a good job for us," re- but it is still an appropriate explana- At San Marcos, it was Southwest's marked Tim Vannaman. "He got a tion for what transpired. After blast- turn to have the key big innings. In the chance to start today with Coach Hall ing Lamar by scores of 8-5 and 15-6 in first game, Southwest wiped out a 5- trying a new lineup to get a good a doubleheader at Cameron Field last 2 Rice lead with a nine-run fifth in- chemistry on the field, and Chris Saturday, to bring the season record ning. The Owls' pitchers just could came through." Vannaman himself against the Cardinals to a perfect 4-0, not seem to find a groove, as the nine came through with another big game, the Owls dropped a twinbill at San runs were charged to three different jacking his fourth home run of the Marcos to Southwest Texas State. pitchers. There were a few bright year and contributing a total of three The losses to Southwest represented spots in the game, such as Vannaman RBIs. Jay Knoblauh hit his third the first of the season for the Owls. going 2-for-4 with two runs and two round-tripper of the season, while That temporary skid was reversed, RBIs and second baseman Mathews Ramharter slammed his second and however, when the men in blue got getting three hits and scoring two of also got his second win of the year, back on their own turf. Tuesday eve- the Owls' eight runs. Lefty Philip pitching a hitless five and two-thirds ning the Owls came storming back Strohbehn was declared the loser. In innings. "We played pretty sloppy at against Texas Southern, to the lop- the second game, the fifth inning was first, but luckily we've been hitting / sided tune of 18-5. again the killer for the Owls, with the ball well lately," said Strohbehn, Coach David Hall's minions have Southwest scoring five runs to cut the who pitched the final two innings. wielded some mighty big bats lately, Rice lead to 6-5. Southwest then went Over spring break, the Owls face a as the above scores attest. Even in the on to score another in the bottom of tough road trip in Louisiana, going up losses, the Owls' offense has been the sixth, after Rice had tallied an- against perennial powerhouse LSU effective, as Rice scored a total of other score in the top half of the inning on March 2 and 3 and McNeese State fifteen runs in the two setbacks. In the and then took the game in the bottom on March 4 and 5. The Tigers cer- first game against Lamar at Cameron, of the seventh, scoring the winning tainly have Vannaman's respect as Mike Grace was the catalyst, going 2- run with one out Third baseman "they have three guys who can throw for-4 with four RBIs, contributing the Grace had another good game, going over ninety" while there can be no game-winner, his second of the year, 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs, letup against McNeese State because in the four run fifth inning. Grace's but not good enough to prevent an 8- "they'll be looking to run up the score line-hugging double brought 1987 7 loss to Southwest. Chris Jones was against us on their field since we beat Academic Ail-American Ben saddled with his first loss, as he gave them here."The Owls have to concen- Mathews and Steve Ramharter home up three runs, all unearned, in his two trate first, though, on North Texas after both had gotten on with one-out innings of work. State, who will be here for four games over the weekend. In fact, Rice's next singles. Rob Howard was the winner Retribution came on Tuesday seven games are at home before hit- (2-0), while Chris Jones got his sec- againstTexas Southern in the friendly ting the road to Louisiana. At the very ond save. The big blow in the second confines of Cameron, as the Owls least, try to catch their next game game was the second inning, when outscored the beleaguered Cardinals against NTSU on Friday at 4pm at Rice scored a plethora of runs (8). The by thirteen runs. The Owls savored Cameron. It's the least you could do, first Owls got on base in that inning, the payback to TSU, who had ham- considering you'll be at some place enabling superstar Jay Knoblauh to mered the Owls in their last meeting like Vail, Padre, or Cancun while crank his second grand slam of the in 1987 by taking almost four hours these men are stuck in Louisiana. year, both against Lamar. Center- before allowing TSU to limp home. Chuck Weese fires it around the horn —L. Cowsar Netters hustle Huskies, but fall to Amazing Ulfs by David Cumberland McNeese took four of the six singles Coach Turville while somewhat Sophomores Emily Cates and Liz round in singles with wins over a Penn Last week was a busy one for the matches before the Owls came back disappointed said, "It's early in the Sulzberger made their trip worth- State Nittany Lioness and a Virginia Rice Owls men's tennis team, result- to take two of the three doubles, season. We have a long ways to go." while by advancing to the doubles Tech Lady Hokie. Sulzberger ate the ing in a win over Houston Baptist and which wasn't enough. The team goes a long way to Florida finals before being defeated. Cates lunch of a Syracuse Orangewoman losses to McNeese and Oklahoma in Thome took one of the singles over the break, with competition in and Sulzberger wasted doubles teams before losing in two tiebreaker sets in dual match competitions at Jake Hess. matches for Rice by bringing down Tampa and Gainesville. from Virginia Tech, James Madison, the second round. The womens' team On Wednesday the team rolled over Erich "Third" Reich, 6-1,6-4. Bratka Two members of the women's ten- and Princeton before bowing to a will be going to Vegas over the break HBU in a 6-0 victoryfest. The over- also gained a win in rocking Ulf nis team represented Rice in New Penn State tandem, 7-5, 6-2. to play UNLV and other western matched Huskies took only one set Persson 6-1, 6-7, 6-2. Ulf Niklasson, Jersey at the Princeton Invitational. Cates also advanced to the third schools. from the Owls, when Johan Thell- another of the Amazing Ulfs, eased mark won the first set 7-6 over Don past Freeman, 6-3, 7-6. Johan Kjell- Freeman. Freeman came back to win sten needed three sets to overcome GO FOR THE the second set 6-4, at which point Burton, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Wade and Thellmark had to quit due to a knee Schier were defeated in straight sets injury, thus giving Freeman the by guys named Pontus Lavefalk and match. Axel Reich. The rest of the squad had an easier The Owls came back strong in the time with straight set domination over doubles but didn't get the necessary weaker foes. Rodney Burton ran over sweep. Burton and Thome outlasted Pes Dahlstrom 6-1, 6-1, while Ken Niklasson and Lavefalk, 6-7,6-3,7-6, Thome smoked Fransisco Cervera and Freeman and Wade allied to beat WE ARE MRYTHM 6-4, 6-2. the Reich duo, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. S4V4GE Sean Wade toyed with Jira However, one of those Ulfs came At*0 Sakakibara in his 6-1, 7-5 win, and along to save the day for McNeese as Tim Schier whipped Jose Auro 6-1,6- Persson and Kjellsten defeated M 2. Chuck Bratka ended the slaughter Bratka and Andrew Taylor in three by brutalizing Brandt Dozier 6-1,6-0. sets. The doubles were not played because On Sunday the dejected Owls had to i the Owls had already won the dual face the mighty Sooners from Okla- match with the six victories. homa, and the team completed its lost Coach Larry Turville commented, weekend with a 6-2 setback. "HBU is a pretty good team, but we Burton and Thome took the only really jumped on them. We had some matches for Rice with singles wins. good wins." Burton thumped Chris Toomey, 6-4, • Katy Freeway it Bunker Hill 465-769? The Owls sustained a tough loss 5-7, 6-1, while Thome had a good • Neil to Baybfoofc Mall 4M-I737 • Greens Rd across from Greenspomt Mall 876 2550 Saturday with a 5-4 defeat at the time beating J.J. 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SALE PRICES GOOD THROUGH TUESDAY, MARCH 1st QUANTITIES LIMITED 14 Friday, February 26, 1988 THRESHER Sports Ruggers wipe out Coogs to keep spotless record by Brian Holmes fine pass he made just a little too late. Last Saturday, the Rice Rugby Club Anyway, despite the shrill cries of the played its second cup match of the roaring women on the sidelines semester, against, die ferocious, yet yearning for even a glance from Stew inferior, University of Houston Lew, Pat was able to put the penalty Rugby Club. After two painfully kick through for another 3 points. But demanding practices the previous that wasn't the end of first half finesse for Rice. Several consecutive break- m* * week, we felt ready to force ignomini- ous defeat on these longtime rivals of aways by the Rice backs put Rice on ours. Steve "Pugilism" Sain, coming Houston's five meter line late in the off a winecooler hangover from the first half. As the ball trickled past our previous night, after his stunning number 8's feet, Jim Humes grabbed victory at Fight Night, exclaimed, it and fought his way through several "Let's act as though these guys were defenders into the try zone. A conver- roily polly fishheads, and eat diem up, sion put the halftime score at 12-0. yum!" Using that as our pep talk, we The second half didn't prove to be as
% took the field, holding steadfast to our t i:"; • fun for Rice as the first. With a strong goal to remain undefeated. wind in our faces, our minds were on The first half began in our favor, the defense more than offense. The Hous- wind at our backs, morale on our side, ton club knocked on our goal line and a warm gathering of fine folks much more than we would have liked following the fanatical jihad that is them to. A welcome flurry of penal- Rice Rugby. The clashing began, and ties against them gave Mike Gian- Rice was given an early opportunity gorgi a chance to show off his kicking v<:-^ to score on a penalty kick. Pat ability, as he got us out of the hole Courtney's faithftil foot prevailed, several times. Several clutch tackles » and Rice was on top 3-0. Then the by Brarman Smoot on Houston's clashing continued, neither side con- number 8 aided in our defensive ceding anything, save sour words and stand. Rice gave up 7 points to Hous- bitter, death-like stares. Our scrum ton, but ultimate victory was assured. sacrificed flesh for field position, Rice remains undefeated for the Keith, Phil, Jeff, Brannon, Stew Lew, semester. The game's final was 12-7. Tom, Mike, and Steve never admit- So now, at the semester's halfway ting to pain. About halfway into the point we have a chance to pat ouselves first half, an individual effort arose, on the back and, more importantly, setting the stage for our second score. our coach, Duncan Rossiter. We Stewart Lewis, later given the "Back thank the fans who have supported us of the Game" award, broke free out of through sleet and snow, wind and the scrum, proceeded to run approxi- rain, sun and fun. We don't intend to mately 31.7 yards, where a penalty stop the juggernaut that we now are. Jim Humes looks for glory —L. Cowsar -was called for a late tackle after the No way! Lady tracksters sweep to second at conference meet by Anthony Wills instrumental in the Owl's success. contributor, gaining 16 points in three placed eighth in the 3,000 m-run with eighth respectively with times of The women's track team, led by Mcintosh captured first place in the events. Sommerville placed third in a time of 8:15.52. In the 400 m-dash 49.00 and 49.44. Most of the men's Tanya Mcintosh and Pam Klassen, 400 meter dash with a time of 54.05. both the long and triple jumps, with junior Royce Avery and senior team will now turn their efforts to- performed fabulously at the South- She also placed fourth in the 55 meter leaps of 18*6 1/2" and 40'1 1/2" re. Robby Timmons placed sixth and ward the outdoor season. West Conference Indoor Champion- dash with a time of 7.07. About her spectively. She also placed fifth in the ships in Fort Worth, Texas, placing 400 meter race, Mcintosh said, "I high jump with a 57 3/4" effort. Jun- second overall behind the University didn't get out as fast as I should have. .. ior Kirsten Aure placed fifth in both of Texas. The team's second place I think I was coming in strong...When the mile run and the 3,000 m-run with showing is the highest finish by a you're a competitor you can't really times of 4:49.57 and 9:40.06. Mau- women's team in a SWC Champion- tell if the other person is giving out or reen Stewart and Michelle Barz ship competition — in any sport. you're finishing strong." placed third and fifth in the 800 m- Head Coach Victor Lopez was ex- Klassen snared a first place finish in dash with times of 2:12.79 and tremely pleased with the team's per- the mile, clocking in at 4:40.86. Her 2:15.01 respectively. Junior Wendi formance. He said, "Everyone per- time was also good enough to qualify Miller gained a first place finish in the formed up to and in some cases be- for the NCAA Indoor Championship shot put with a heave of 47'3 3/4". yond what I expected. They all Meet Klassen also notched a third Freshman Michele Lynch placed showed a lot of class." Before the place finish in the 3,000 meter run seventh in the 200 m-dash, clocking meet, Lopez calculated that the team with a time of 9:33.86. Klassen said, 25.19. Sophomore sprinter Robyn could finish with 92 points. They "Coach told me I was supposed to win Bryant placed fourth in the 400 m- went out and got 96 points. Lopez but I knew Sally (Ramsdale) and dash with a time of 55.04 and also added, 'They just went out and did it." Trina (Leopold) would be right up qualified for the NCAA Champion- Both Mcintosh and Klassen were there with me. When I run I listen to ship Indoor Meet my coach and also hear J. Fred (legen- The team of Heather McDermid, dary announcer for Rice sports and Michelle Barz, Kirsten Aure, and other athletic competitions) because Maureen Stewartplaced second in the Instant he is such a familiar voice. I feltreally 3200 meter relay with a time of good when I started and also the 8:48.47. The 1 COO m-relay of Bryant, whole way in." McDermid, Kelly Schumaker, and Junior Diane Sommerville was a big Michele Lynch placed third with a Passport time of 3:45.16. PREPARE FOR: Some members of the team will try and qualify for the NCAA Indoor [Championships. According to Lopez, Photos Ithe team has a chance to :end nine out of the 13 team members to the NCAA meet, which reflects the caliber of talent the women's team has. Lcpez 2368 Rice Blvd. said, "Our goal is to finish as high as In The Village possible. Wefeelwehaveachanceto place really high because we have a 521-9465 good group of talent." EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD. The men's team did not fare quite as Open 24 Hours TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SMCE 1938 well overall but did very well in indi- Call Days, Eves & Weekends vidual events. The 3200 meter relay 4/23/88 DAT exam classes to team consisting of junior Danny begin 3/8 Tues6pm Morales, freshman Jay Thompson, juco transfer Slim Durham and junior 988-4700 S22-S113 Bill Barrett placed second with a time 7011 SWFrwy #100 5925 Klrtjy #214 of7:34.65.Inthe mile run, senior Jon Urmanent Centers In Mori Than 1?5 Major u S Cities & Abroad kinkcs for intomulion about older cent an Warren placed sixth with a time of Great copies. Great people. OUTSIDE N Y STATE CALL TOLL FREE 800-223-1712 4:10.80. Senior Alfredo Gomez Tanya Mcintosh took the SWC indoor 400 meter title THRESHER Sports Friday, February 26,1988 15 Women's Basketball SCOREBOARD PRISONERS OF... 02 OUT 12-3 PALS 8-7 Championship PLATEMATES def PSYCHO FIELDERS DAY OFF def BATTOL- JUST JOCKEY def COMPETI- by Davis Gilmer Saturday 1;QQB League BLONDES FROM HELL 11-3 OGICAL CRISIS 22-3 TIVE BITCHES 36-33 MCSID def PRO PROFS 9-8 ARCHITYPES 2 0 WE GO BOTH WAYS def SLUG BUTT BOYS def LARK'S FIELDERS DAY OFF 1 1 PUCKERS Forfeit Men's Volley-Wall Ball Men's Volleyball TONGUES 17-2 ALL NIGHTERS 00 GONE COED def MEGATRON The sport of the 80's and Championship STRAT-O-MATIC FANATICS def BATTOLOGICAL CRISIS 0 1 NO 28-7 Beyond. DINKED TO DEATH outdlnked BLUE DOT BALLS 20-5 BUBBA 8c HER PALS 0 1 GHENGIS KHAN def ED SAVAGE DINKERS 15-7,15-12 HERB & THE FAMILY STONE def SULLIVAN SHOW 16-4 Wednesday League W L NO TALENT 9-4 Saturday 2:15 A League RAF IS LOVE def GUMB 16-10 PRE-MED WIMPS 1 0 Men's Softball MEN W/ BATS 8c SOFT BALLS FATAL DISTRACTION 2 0 FATAL DISTRACTION def TEAM SPIKED GEEKOS 1 0 HANS 8c FRANZ 0 1 Wednesday A League WL def GOT A JOB YET 7-6 SEA MONKEY SAFARI 1 0 MILLDOG LITE 7-6 FOBS 0 1 ROUNDING THIRD 2 0 WHOREDOGS def PRESSED ORGY ON A DIAMOND 1 1 SEA MONKEY SAFARI def CHEM E GRADS 1 1 HAM 18-0 YOU OWE ME $3 01 ORGY ON A DIAMOND 27-0 Thursday League TODD PEIFFER'S FRIENDS 1 1 DIRT PEOPLE def LUST PUPPIES TEAM MILLDOG LITE 02 BASS ELOPE def ELVIS LEFT THE 21-3 BUILDING 13-12 SEX 10 RALLY CLUB 0 2 1 0 MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD def Saturday 2:15 B League BUDPEOPLE def PRISONERS OF PAIN Wednesday B League TOKEN OPPOSITION 22-0 RAF IS LOVE 2 0 CONSCIOUSNESS 8-6 VICTIMS OF GRAVITY 0 1 SCHMOKE MY HOGAN 1 0 SOUL MEN def BACKPACK GHENGIS KHAN 1 0 ARCHITYPES def BUBBA 8c HER PINKTORPEDOS 0 1 BUDMEN 1 0 BOYS 26-5 ED SULLIVAN SHOW 1 1 CRICKET CLUB 1 1 GIRLS BEFORE SWINE def JUST FOR FUN 0 1 HOUSTON'S FUN STEAK HOUSE JOHNNIE & THE POOFTERS 1 1 NAVAL OFFICERS Forfeit GUMB 0 2 OHM RUNS 0 2 GIRLS BEFORE SWINE def ARCHITYPES 7-6 Sunday 2:30 A League STEAK OUT k PARTY Thursday Leqgue AFFIRMATIVE ACTION def WE GO BOTH WAYS ^11:11" YOU BRING THE PEOPLE MCSID 2 0 NAVEL OFFICERS 17-6 SINS OF ADMISSION BUTT BOYS 2 0 GONE COED SUPPLY PRO PROFS 1 1 Softball Rankings by Jake Rue SLUG PUCKERS FUN STRAT-O-MATIC FANATICS 1 1 1. Budmen MEGATRON NO BLUE DOT BALLS 0 2 2. McSid LARK'S TONGUES 0 2 3. Most Precious Blood Sunday 2:30 B League 4. Butt Boys NAVEL LINT Friday A League 5. Soul Men PLATEMATES HERB & THE FAMILY STONE 2 0 6. Pro Profs FARMED OUT NO TALENT 1 1 7. Stort Tippi, starring "Holly- BATES FAMILY MEN W/ BATS &SOFT... 11 wood" Matthiasson, Rice's PSYCHO BLONDES... GOT A JOB YET 01 tallest first baseman. STORTTIPPI 0 1 Sunday 4:00 League Congratulations to Geoff BEEF STU Friday B League Orsak and the Double E PEROXIDE BLUES DIRT PEOPLE 20 softball team. They have RUNNING ON ALL3'S LOVE GLOVE 1 0 been outscored 66-10 by TEAM FUN WHOREDOGS 1 0 their opponents this year. BTRFMLW PRESSED HAM 02 To repeat the Softball LUST PUPPIES 02 Challenge Of my predeces- BEEF STU def BTRFMLW 20-1 OPEN DA LY 5PM - 11PM sor, any team that scores RUNNING ON ALL 3'Sdef STEAKS-SPIRITS Saturday A League 100 runs in a game will get TEAM FUN 13-11 MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD 2 0 their picture on the front BATES FAMILY def FARMED 6100 WE&THEIMER • BRIARGROVE PLAZA • 266-9750 SOUL MEN 2 0 page of the Thresher. BACKPACK BOYS 0 2 Budmen, you play the EE "THE OVERDUE RETURN OF EROTICISM TOKEN OPPOSITION 0 2 depgrtment real soon. AND INTELLIGENCE...it rekindles the sparks of adult Saturday B League Women's Softball sexuality on the American screen...It is about life and death, GIRLS BEFORE SWINE 2 0 In the strike-shortened season, MARIO 1 0 GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS won the love and responsibility, private morality and power politics." AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 1 0 women's Intramural softball Richard G»rliss, TIME MAGAZINE NAVEL OFFICERS 0 2 crown. (Actually there were It leaves an afterimage as '...I loved seeing it happen — it ARCHITYPES 0 2 only two teams signed insistent
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Call 630-8344. 3 3 3 3 Bo°*on *he B©ach Notes & Notices 3 3 3 3 Rice Philosophy Club will have its Jacqueline Brodeur, 4301 Bissormet, Summer positions available - 12 next meeting on Monday, March 7 at #26, Bellaire, Texas 77401. Or phone week, expense-paid internships in 8:30 pm. Dr. Waters will give a talk 667-8177 or 627-3570. Deadline national parks, forests, wildlife ref- titled "Towards a new epistemology: March 25. uges, and other conservation areas evolutionary vs. creationist models." across the U.S. The selection process Following the talk will be refresh- Rice Migratory. Planning to study or begins in March, but applications re- ments and discussion. Everyone wel- travel abroad this summer? Just ceived after March 1 will still receive come. For place and additional infor- dreaming of going abroad? Come consideration for positions as long as mation, check flyers around campus hear Rice faculty members discuss an they are available. 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