/ r-s r~/''r * ,(/ •t , I f SL.V Gryk garners Fulbright honor for studies in Austria Harry Benjamin Gryk, 26. a extremely difficult to get. Gryk is minister of music at St. Peter Britain, Connecticut. graduate student in Rice one of our most gifted students. Roman Catholic Church. New At Rice's Shepherd School. University's Shepherd School of His year in Austria will be very Britain, Connecticut, and before Gryk has received tour fellowships Music, has won a one-year valuable for the growth of his that as organist and choirmaster of in co mp osi 11 on-t he o rs and Fulbright Fellowship for study work, particularly the creation ol a Trinity United Methodist and Shepherd and Heinen Pri/cs l<n and creative work at the School ot major composition, possibly a Sacred Heart Catholic churches in Excellence in Music He holds Music and Dramatic Art in Graz. symphony, that will be evaluated New Britain. teaching assistantships m both Austria. along with his continuing studies, music composition and organ and toward Gryk's doctorate in music Gryk graduated mangna cum was named a magna cum laude Gryk is the first student of the some time after his return to the laude with a bachelor's degree in teacher on the basis of Rice student Shepherd School to be so honored. Shepherd School." music with majors in both organ evaluations. His professors at the school and music theor\ from the include composers Paul Cooper Grvk's fellowship is funded b\ Gryk has composed a number of University of Hartford (Connecti- and George Burt and organist the Austrian-American Educa- works and was commissioned b\ cut) in 1981. having held a Clyde Holloway. tional (or Fulbright) Commission the 1985 Houston Festival tc scholarship at that school from create a work for electronic tape. It Harry Gryk and covers transportation, tuition. Dr. Ellsworth Milburn, acting 1976 until his graduation. At the was performed March 25 and 28 in Using costs, books, and chairman of the Shepherd School's the doctorate in music, Gryk is a University of Hartford Gryk the tunnel system of downtown incidentals. Department of Composition and candidate for a master's degree in studied with composer Arnold Houston in collaboration with the Theory, said ofGryk's award, "It's organ. Since August, 1982. he has Franchetti and organists John Upon completion of his two Chrysalis Repertory Dance a real tribute to his ability as a been serving as organist of United Hoi/ and Edward Clark. The Shepherd School degrees Gr\k Company. composer that he won a Fulbright Methodist Church, Pearland. honoree is the son of Mr. and Mrs. hopes for a career as composer, Fellowship something In addition to his work toward Texas. He had previously served as 1 eon (ir\k. 27S I ewis Rd. New performer, and teacher. INSIDE: 1 / . It's Random-lay weekend You know what that means Beer-Bike ana a formal with a /" 7 funny name, Pofh tomorrow Beer-Bike history, previews1 L. _J L . J See pages 10 11. 13-14 Volume 72. Number 38 1HRESHEFriday. April 12R, 198.; Underground gnome paper criticizes management by Sarah Jordan Usually two pages in length, Disturbed by what they perceive most of the newsletter's items arc to be poor administrative practices attacks on the practices of the and unfair treatment of workers at Physical Plant administration. the Rice Physical Plant, a group of The first newsletter was unidentified employees have been basically an appeal to the publishing a monthly newsletter administration for better which is critical of the treatment of Rice employees. Said department's practices. the Gazette, "First of all, let's start Entitled the Gnome Gazette, the with some dignity. We only ask newsletter was first published in that you call us 'Sir' if you w ant to February. be called 'Sir,' and that Issues of the Gazette have been Management come to the left in the men's restroorn of the realization that we 'back shop' Physical Plant every month, where persons have wives, children, they have been widely read by the homes and self-respect and we also department's employees. on the average are younger, and "It's left in the men's room,"said our kids get sick, our cars break * one craftsman. "When Dozier[Ece down and we get sick, our teeth Dozier. Manager of the Physical need work, our cars need work, Plant] or Samfield [Edwin our kids teeth need work, our Samfield, Director of Physical wives cars break down, and Facilities] find it. then it repairmen must be met." disappears." The edition also complained mm Said another employee, "They that the administration was not don't like it. but we do." see Gnomes, page 6 Physical Plant workers are voicing their complaints in an underground newsletter. -K. Isackson Army R. O. T. C. phased out at Rice / by Jeff Burton campus instruction but is aff iliated change in status will be complete The Army is eliminating much with a host unit. A cross-enrolled Despite the changes. Ei\andais of its Rice R.O.T.C. program in school must send its students to a stressed that Rice students would the interest of efficiency. host unit for R.O.T.C. courses. still have opportunities to till Due to falling enrollment. Rice Rice has such a relationship with higher level leadership positions cadets may have to take R.O.T.C. several smaller schools in the area. such as battalion commander. courses at the University of The Army is planning to close Fhe change is in response to the Houston beginning in the fall of the Rice R.O.T.C. facilit\ and small number ot participants at 1986. cross-enroll the students at the Rice. "The arms likes to see so In spite of the current plans. University of Houston. main lieutenants graduate from Rice's R.O.T.C. staff is trying to One officer will sta\ at Rice each school each year." stated maintain some sort of administra- through July I986. when the Ntr Army page f) tive and instructional presence on campus. Major Eivandais. who is in charge of Army R.O.T.C. at Rice, explained that a college or university can have one of three types of programs. Currently. Rice- is a host unit. It provides instructional staff and is relatively self-contained. If a school were too small to support a host unit, it might have an extension center or could be cross-enrolled with another school. Like to suck beer? See feature on page An extension center offers on- Army R.O.T.C. to move to U. of H Self-referential headline. Somebody distributed a parody of the Forerunner last week. vou underpaid VOUP Who did it? Why did they do it? I'm not so curious about these things as 1 am about the fact that distributors of the real taxes bv 10$, Forerunner, which came out at the same time as the Foreplayer, 00 did not receive their customary harassment. vouoweus $150, 1 don't know about other colleges, but at Baker there area few The Govt, individuals who harass Maranatha members to no end when they try to distribute polls or newspapers. Once this very nearly resulted in a violent tug-of-war. Why? What's the point? In my opinion, freedom of speech sanctions both offensive and inoffensive material. In fact, freedom of speech is nothing ISEMERAL P«^jAM(CS wo overcharged unless it exists for ideas that someone may consider offensive unobjectionable ideas need no protection from censors. theGovernmtnt Rice, of all places, should be a free marketplace of ideas. Rice 300Million dollars. students are presumably some of the brightest in the nation; are they not then just as capable as students at Cal-Berkeley to vouoweus choose lor themselves among diverse religious, political, and an apology intellectual philosophies? As for the Forerunner. 1 find its lack of accuracy atrocious, its politics biased and arrogant, and its religion cold. Nevertheless, BULLDOZING THE HEDGES/by Steve McLaughlin people who work on it think they are doing the right thing. The Recently it appears that the the Botha regine (one assumes that authoritarian regimes feel that only problem arises when they insist that what is right for them is latest fad of the Beltway Bandits is all democratically inclined what they are doing is for the country's best interest and that right for everyone else. to petition the South African individuals believe this is true) but Embassy to abolish apartheid and about the most practical and they'll be damned if they will listen to some hot-headed foreigner with But of course, people who throw stacks of Forerunners down to then have themselves arrested expedient method of involving the entire population in the entire a holier-than-thou attitude. Their the steam tunnels are guilty of the same offense. A response to and displayed on the evening news in front of their constituents back political process. The Reagan response to such a holier-than- disagreeable ideas which merely involves covering them up is no home — looks real noble, doesn't administration, via Assistant thou attitude is to become even response at all. it? Yet when one steps back and Secretary of State for Africa, more repressive, which hardly looks at the issue it appears as if Crocker, has emphasized "quiet serves the purpose of the people So respond. If you find the Forerunner ludicrous, ridicule it. If these public figures are protesting diplomacy," which basically one is tryingto help.