Nader Urges Student Involvement, Criticizes Corporations Huston Talks on ICSA
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Nader urges student involvement, criticizes corporations by Walter Wells He advised students to understand the workings that will curtail and improve the safety of the Consumer advocate Ralph Nader mesmerized of corporations because many graduates will working place, then that has to be considered a capacity audience Monday night in the RMC eventually work for one. illegitimate coercion." Grand Hall. He urged students to leave their To understand corporations, Nader stressed Rhom and Haas produced highly toxic vinyl "intellectual ruts" by liberating academic time that political ideologies must first be overlooked. chloride, causing many of its workers to for independent study in his talk before over 500 "Start with the facts and then apply these facts to eventually contract fatal liver diseases. Finally, students. your value system. Never mind those categories someone made the connection between the two "Is there any law prohibiting students from if of conservative, liberal, moderate and radical." and, according to Nader, it was stopped. making meaningful contributions as a result of Nader then exposed several examples of "Then the government established a standard their academic work?," kidded Nader. corporate coercion from such companies as controlling vinyl chloride but when it was He noted that independent study infuses the Rhom and Haas, DuPont, General Motors, and proposed, DuPont and other coporations planned curriculum with empirical information, the broadcasting networks. "When millions of complained that it was going to cost over $100 because Nader says, "Students are acculturized workers are exposed to as large a variety of billion and would force the loss of many jobs. Pavlonian style to engage in a process of chemicals, gases and particulates in the mines, Well, the government stood firm for once, and memorization, regurgitation, vegetation." factories, and foundries in this country without now some companies have shown that they have "You'll never be as free to question, challenge being informed of their toxic nature and when actually improyed efficiency as a result of and criticize as you1 are now," Nader commented. these companies refuse to invest in technology i# Ralph Nader -M. Gladu see Business, page 5 INSIDE: • Special Fine arts center section, pp. B1-B8 • Owls-win on the road against Tech, p. A 7 • Reckless Abandon and Thunderducks win Volume 69, number 11 THRESHEThursday, OctobeRr 22, 1981 titles, p. A9 Huston talks on ICSA Students hope to travel abroad by Chris Ekren performance, but feels that the Seniors vie for Watson ICSA Director Priscilla Huston current system is respectable when addressed faculty concerns over compared to those of competitive by Patty Cleary her administration of Rice's universities. Said Huston, " don't Four Rice students have won computer resources in an interview want to seem as if I am bragging, nominations from the Committee Sunday night. Huston welcomed but we have done work for on Scholarships and Awards for constructive criticism but hoped Carnagie-Mellon and M.I.T. In a the 1981-81 Thomas J. Watson that faculty and students would study comparing 'cost-recovery' Fellowship Program. Under this realize that the computer center's systems we came out about program, seniors Sylvia Bennett, controversial "cost-recovery" average." Monica Coe, Luke Painter, and policy is determined by Rice's Huston explained the decisions Priscilla Huston Charles Venable will compete with administration and not her. of some departments to purchase 180 nominees from 50 universities Huston took issue with the claim their own computers, saying "Of supplies such as printouts, cards, throughout the country for 70 made in last week's Thresher by course it is easier to live with etc.," and added, "I have called and fellowships. some professors that the central yourself than with other people." talked to other university Each nominee must submit a Charles Venabte processor is being used However, Huston feels that a computer center directors about detailed project proposal to the inefficiently when compared to central computer is the best the CPU time problem and in fact foundation for review. The other institutions, arguing "It is solution to most problems when had someone call me a few weeks foundation program selects possible to run a computer to full the overall needs of the school are ago and say, 'I was shocked to students whose projects are, utilization, to keep the CPU busy taken into account. discover I was using so little "creative, realistic, and personally fifteen hours out of twenty-four. Huston claims to have never CPU time; our system is bogged significant." However, when you do that you turned down a project proposed by down—people can't get what they Sylvia Bennett of Brown cannot offer the same services we faculty members or graduate want.' I discovered that we were College, a major in Legal Studies, do unless you bill for things we students as a result of ICSA's billing a little bit more out than he hopes to study police training of don't bill for. We are offering concurrent business activities. was and that we weren't bogged the British "bobby" at Scotland processing in an interactive Said Huston, "I have had my down like he was. But you have to Yard. In her proposal, Bennett evnironment, and have to run a reservations with the "cost- be careful in comparing computer writes that she would like to, program to portion out time. If we recovery" philosophy, but I don't systems." "assess what is the relationship Mooice Co* ran the CPU at higher levels, time know a better plan. That doesn't According to Huston, the best between the techniques of training would not be available instantly. If mean I'm not willing to listen. It is solution to the computing question and the officer's performance." As we got into the seven and eight good to have funding from two may be to run a "benchmark" a further step in her project, (hour) area, we would have terrible sources...our interaction with the study comparing Rice's system to Bennett, "would like to conduct a service." business community has brought that of other universities. Huston similar, albeit less extensive study As part of a constant policy of Rice many benefits, particularly feels that the Rice community is of the...training program of the service improvement, ICSA hopes programs we develop for them for not unduly constrained by ICSA Houston Police Department, and to further differentiate rates by a fee and then use free for policies: "As far as I know, we have engage in a comparative analysis encouraging use during off hours. ourselves." all the time people need to use. As of the two programs." She hopes Huston is also studying a variety of With regards to current ICSA yet, it is not a question of kicking that the information she obtains systems to further optimize operations Huston sought to point someone off. Satisfying ixternal will further our understanding of out that, "We have never increased users is not my primary purpose at the problems police face here in the rates except for items involving Rice. " United States. Luke Painter Holt decides on Monica Coe, an architecture Homecoming Activities major at Jones College, wishes to Wiessmen case study aspects of regionalism and folk architecture in Italian University Proctor E.C. Holt architecture. Coe states, "I am handed down a decision in the case interested in exploring how of the three Wiessmen who were regionalism develops and how the temporarily rusticated for break- geography or climate of an area can shape the regional ing a pane of glass in a bulletin architecture." Coe chose Italy for board of the Wiess commons and her project because she feels, "it allegedly throwing a refrigerator has the strongest tradition of from a second floor balcony. architects using their history." She Sylvia Bennett According to the students looks forward to examining the Painter wants to examine how the involved, all three have been distinct regional styles and looking placed on disciplinary probation, Rastas' faith allows them to cope i at how regionalism evolved and with "an oppressive environment," restricted from any spot on how world trends in style and campus serving alcoholic bever- in an optimistic and constructive thought have been adapted within manner, while others in similarly ages. Two of the three have been regions. rusticated, while the third has been poor conditions, "express their allowed to move back to Wiess. Luke Painter of Hanszen frustration and discontent with Wiess master Geoff Winning- College, an area major in Religious hate, violence, and destruction." He hopes to gain new perspectives ham, the only person at Wiess with Studies, Philosophy, and Science, on, "subjective religious the power to rusticate, has not yet proposes to study the religious sect see Nominees, page 5 see Proctor, page 5 of the Rastafarians in Jamaica. consensus When Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon more or less agree on how to proceed on the Middle East, you'd think YEW the United States had achieved a solid consensus. And indeed their recent comments have cumulatively defined America's THAIS view of their interests or its plan for their protections. THE ONE The Arab world is divided into "radical" and "moderate" camps, ranging from the subhuman Colonel Qaddafi of Libya WH to the late visionary Anwar Sadat. The Soviet Union works through the radicals, Libya and Ethiopia being its main agents, with Afghanistan an unwilling outpost. America depends on the moderates — Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and, with luck, Jordan and Pakistan. The pro-American Arabs look formidable but are highly vulnerable to radical revolutions. That is why Saudi Arabia and Jordan can't confess their yearning for peace with Israel.