Contractors finish road, RMC repairs before classes begin
by Jeanne Cooper state. We got a capital process. After the old surface was in Houston," said Samfield. inconvenience while the potholes The repaying of Laboratory appropriation for the worst part of removed, more lime-stabilized The contractors will remain on are being filled. "We're asking for Road should be finished and the them." shell was add^d to the base, which campus to resurface a small section cooperation from faculty and construction barricades removed According to Samfield, the was releveled with an inch layer of of the drive from the President's students all over the campus if they today, completing the major roads' base of stabilized shell and asphalt on top. The contractors House to Brown College, a job see some activity in their parking portion of a $40,000 road low-grade concrete had failed then added a layer of polyester which Samfield predicts will take lots to respect any barricades that improvement project. Contractors under the duress of constant road fabric, followed by the Wi only a day to complete. The might have to be put up." repaved a substantial part of expansion and contraction from inch layer of wearing asphalt. Planning and Construction Office While the road rehabilitation College Way earlier this summer seasonal changes on. the According to King, the asphalt also has approximately 34 pothole went on outside this summer, before beginning the similar work underlying roots. penetrates through the polyester sites marked for filling by the former Rice professor Stewart on Laboratory Road on August Architect Bob King of Physical layer, binding itself to the lower contractors, with the most Baker's contracting company, the 14. Plant's Planning and Construction layers for a road less prone to extensive work needed inthe Jones Bremond Company, kept busy Commented Director of Office described the repaving cracking. College parking lot. inside the Rice Memorial Center Physical Plant Ed Samfield, technique of contractors AAA "It's not a new process, just one Samfield expects some drivers with extensive improvements to "Those roads were in a pretty bad Blacktop Paving as a four-step that hasn't been used appreciably may experience temporary , I lib i
r INSIDE: • It you thought you missed summer, find it in Doonesburv. pp. 8-9. • To see how Garp fares in film, see p. 10. I I THRESHER • lake a peek at Rice's football Volume 70, number 2 Friday, August 20, 1982 Hopes, page 13. TWU to house 50 Rice transplants by Jeanne Cooper The transplants will pay $3200 shuttle bus system which Rice will Approximately SO new students room and board to Rice University contract to a Medical Center firm. will move into the Texas Women's like on-campus students, with the The planned route will run University residence hall in the University picking up the between the residence hall (6723 University President Medical Center tomorrow, under a undisclosed difference. Noted Bertner off Fannin) to Allen Norman hiackerman and contract developed in late July by Stabell, "More important was Center via the Lovett College Student Association Director of Admissions Richard having a place for them, not the entrance from Main. The schedule President Marry Ellen Trunko N. Stabell. cost." Whenever rooms become will focus on transportation to addressed a rapacity crowd Of the TWU group, only an available, the TWU residents will classes and meals, which will be matriculation Tuesday estimated 15 are of the 60 or so be given the option to move on eaten in the transplant's assigned mnnt in the Rice Memoria Houston-area freshmen who were campus. college. Said Stabell on Lenv - C. Retninq denied housing due to the Rice's contract will last through Wednesday, "I envision three or so unexpected increase in accept- the fall semester, to be renewed at trips early, maybe around 7:15, ances of Rice's offers of admission TWU's discretion if the 7:30, and 8 a.m., with a couple last spring. As attrition and supplemental housing is still around the noon hour, perhaps 11, overflow housing in the older necessary in the spring. "My 12, and 1 p.m., with a couple colleges reduced the group, Rice feeling is we will carry it through around dinner and a couple later at offered spaces in TWU to the entire year," said Stabell. night, perhaps 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 freshmen who entered waitlist' He observed, however, "The p.m." housing and female transfer obligation is to those 15 to 18 who Stabell emphasized, "We're students. we promised housing." If thai going to play it by ear. If there's a According to Stabell, the group all obtains other housing by demand for it, we'll do it. It (the exclusion of male transfer students the spring, Rice would most likely shuttle system) will start running from the housing opportunity not ask TWU to allow the Monday, and we'll adjust to it. Of stems from a request by TWU that remaining transfer/waitlisted course, a lot of students will take it the male/female ratio of the transplants to continue their TWU on their own and just walk across." transplanted Rice students remain residence. The Rice Campus Police have the same as the original Houston In the meantime, Stabell and volunteered to coordinate security- area-only group, which numbered Dean of Undergraduate Affairs arrangements. more men than women. Stabell Katherine Brown are working out Two Rice graduate students will expressed surprise at TWU's the practical details of daily life for serve as resident advisors, in preference; the residence hall is all- the transplants. addition to the TWU staff. female during normal school year. Still under consideration is the , Ri'videiii Benjamin explains 'Rice Shock'
Religious studies Professor Monday. shock. Watts admits to Fossi murder, 1)L I C. Benjamin delivered the And there won't be a period in And .so what we're talking Orientation Week address last your life, like this first year here about—what I'm talking to you police investigations continue Wednesday in Ha mm an Hall. at Rice, in the near future where about this afternoon—is how to KTRU recorded the speech, you'll make as many changes in cope with all of the things people I'alU ( l«m Watts has admitted to the transcribed by Kelvin Thompson are asking you to be by the time Coral Eugene Watts, a 28-year- murders of eleven Houston- and Jeanne Cooper. classes start on the twenty-third old former Houston bus mechanic, Galveston area women and attacks of August. And your life has been has admitted to the murder of on six women. Watts is also One of the things that's been totally changed. That causes pain fifth-year architecture student suspected in the deaths of twelve part of what's been happening to for most of us, because there Margaret Everson Fossi. Fossi you ever since you got here on aren't many of us who don't like died on January 18, 1982 after Michigan women. campus the early part of this where we are right now. At least receiving blunt trauma to the Houston police apprehended week is that you've had most of us like most about throat. Watts May 23 as he was leaving an everybody you've met trying to ourselves. And so when you're On the night of her death, Fossi apartment in which he had tried to coach you on how to make all the suddenly rushed by a campus full left the Rice campus between 2 and drown a woman in her bathtub. changes that are going to go on in of people saying what you are 3 a.m. Houston Police Homicide Watts pleaded guilty to a charge of your life. now won't do—"be something Detective Kenneth Williamson, burglary with an intent to murder I mean, if it wasn't your different"--then we begin to get who is assigned to the Watts' case, relating to the incident. If his plea mother telling you that you put very uncomfortable. said that Watts recalled spotting is accepted, Watts will be the dresser in the wrong place The symptoms of the kind of Fossi on Main Street. He followed sentenced to 60 years in prison and and you have your shirts in the your life. And what happens to us shock that goes on here at Rice her to where she was parked and granted immunity from the Harris wrong drawer, it was a student as human beings when we're are all connected with a basic attacked her as she left the car. County killings such as Fossi's to* adviser telling you how to beat rushed with change—not only fact: you're smart. Admissions Houston police discovered which ••"'fife has confessed in the system in your first year by the number of changes people every year says that 64 percent of Fossi's body in the trunk of her car, exchange for giving police getting a good schedule, or ask us to make but the pace at you graduate in the top 5 percent parked 500 feet away from her information about the other campus police telling you where which we have to change of your high school classes. And home with two flat tires on one slayings. you couldn't park. And there everything from our phone that 26 percent of you are side. The Harris County Medical Although Watts would be probably hasn't been a period in number and our friends to our National Merit Scholars. And eligible for parole after twelve your life where as many changes Examiner's office determined that attitudes about what going to do that all of you have SAT scores of years of good behavior if sentenced are going to be asked of you as Fossi died from asphyxia due to a with our lives—is that we freeze. almost 1300. under the current charge. you started making since fractured larynx. Williamson said And that's what sociologists call that Watts did not claim Williamson stated that such an responsibility for the flat tires. earlv release would be improbable. I WSHTOSfc WfcHSECDWiy FORCES HE/ IT'S THE CHEER IX? COUNELl Thresher remains free WOUD BE TlME&WHEHlHEy TOWUPE PRISONERS] rn NEVER get "THESE HOPE OF BLOODSHMNSOUT/ WlSNESSi A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. mum —Albert Camus in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
In starting the new academic year by lauding the free press, I 8SKM hope to explain the Thresher's assets and deficiencies as a medium for student expression. We try to report the news as objectively as possible while protecting the rights of the individuals involved. In addition, we try to provide a chance for wu, boh/ Wt&M got you BET, coum/ -mere's NO members of the Rice community to express themselves without WWXJEWSH90CLEW, HWW-WGWS RECORD TOO WWY TOR hindrance. We thus have the freedom to produce an excellent \ DOKT EVEN REfiOGNfZE IT/ rSOlF newspaper, but this freedom entails the responsibility of foowoKsw: GET omimwmmr quality writing and reporting. We hope to fulfill this responsibility. In order to explain this year's editorial policies, I shall examine some specific changes in this year's paper. While the Thresher remains substantially unchanged from last year, I have made some adjustments that should help us to serve you
better. OnlW fmduu If you will glance beneath the staff box on this page, you will notice that we now print the union bug or logo on our paper. TRIMMING THE HEDGES/by Jonathan Berk We are using the same union print shop as last year, but this year I have asked them to use their logo to show the Rice As long as I have been at Rice, excellence, it can not afford to astonished that the committee community that the Thresher employs union workmen. Rice there has been an ad hoc treat its students as if they were in a would like to see a core curriculum University has profited handsomely from non-union committee investigating Rice's state school. Any student who has introduced at Rice that passed on a employers such as Brown and Root, and I believe that it is time distribution requirement. Even the resourcefulness to apply to 6-3 vote. It is quite clear that that the Thresher support the working man. while our admission's literature Rice and be accepted should be different people have different We will continue the policy of printing any signed letter from proudly proclaims the desirability accredited the ability to pick his ideas on what constitutes a "broad any member of the Rice community on the editorial page. of our present system, the powers courses judiciously. Either that, or education"One can but wonder Letters will not be edited unless space restrictions force us to do that be seem to have decided that the committeeshould address itself what sort of recommendation the system needs changing. The ad to the admissions office or the would have been arrived at if nine so. hoc committee investigating Rice's choice of courses. Changing the different but equally qualified The misclassified section on the back page represents the distribution requirements distribution system will not solve people sat on the committee. freest press possible. It costs nothing to submit a misclassified published its latest report just as the problem of easy courses. Far Surely, on a single committee except wit. This page reflects the Rice community, and it is the summer vacation began. What from eliminating the need for them, making such an important your responsibility to make it funny and informative. We will it consists of is basically what they this system will simply require recommendation, unanimity continue to print racist and sexist jokes in the misclassifieds if decided in their last report — a more. It is one thing for a student should be required. that is what the Kice community submits. It is better to reveal thinly-disguised core curriculum to master a tough course he is Rice's weaknesses in a public medium than to pretend that we that leaves little room for interested in, it is quite another to I would hope that the University are flawless. The Backpage Editor, Steve Bailey, ultimately individual choice, especially for expect the same thing out of a ( ouncil in their next meeting decides what is printed in misclassifieds. Please see his science and engineering majors. student who dislikes a subject. follow the example they set last "Operating Instructions for the Backpage" for a more detailed Exactly why a committee Interestingly enough, the time, and vote down the proposal. explanation of this rare journalistic phenomenon. established to investigate committee itself could not agree The next step they should take is to distribution requirements unanimously on the final recom- seriously consider whether we need We have the freedom to produce a quality newspaper. With concerns itselt with the advising mendation. I am quite frankly this committee at all. your help and understanding, we shall continue to make the system remains a mystery. Thresher a means of finding truth and fact on the Rice campus. In my experience here, the administration and faculty have either not taken seriously or totally disregarded student opinion. This Thanks, summer staff case is no exception. I can not Tom Morgan recall any widespread discontent Editor I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those with the present system on the part of the students. As usualy Rice is who worked on the summer issue. I especially want to thank tak ng advantage) of student. Sandra Wasson Jay Grob and Jeanne Cooper for their work and help during apathy to push a serious change- Business Manager the summer. A novice in this business, I need all the help that through. people are willing to offer. Thank you Thresher staff. If Rice values its reputation for
Jeanne Cooper News Editor David Koralek Advertising Manager Dave Potash Managing Editor Conrad Reining Photography Editor HMM..SUQUIDI OR SHOULD Mark Mitchell Sports Editor BETTER! Matt Petersen Sports Editor RETIRE AFTER Deborah KnafT Fine Arts Editor •KEEPS Steve Bailey Back Page Editor MY FIRST WORKING? WORKING Jay Grob Senior Editor Matt Petersen Copy Editor
News SUIT Assistant Editors Patty Geary (News), Mike Dishart (Production), Gwen Richard (Fine Arts) W Contributing Editors Michele Gillespie, Jonathan Berk, Chris Ekren News Staff Joseph Halcyon Production Consultant Mike Gladu Business Staff Assistant Business Manager Susan Brown Assistant Advertising Manager Todd Comett Circulation Matt Petersen Subscriptions David Steffen The Rice Thresher, the official student newspaper at Rice University since 1916, is published each Friday during the school year, except during examination periods and holidays, by the students of Rice University. Editorial and business offices are located on the second floor of the Rice Memorial Center, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas 77251. Telephone (713)527-4801 or 527-4802. Advertising information available upon request. Mail subscription rate: $20.00 domestic, S40.00 international, (via first class mail). Tne opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of anyone except the writer. Obviously. ® 1982. The Rice Thresher. All rights reserved.
The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 2 BEYOND THE HEPGES/by Michele Gillespie carrying sabers after last year's suspension for Hood, and an order 'head' of the family? There is no game against Southern Methodist from Commandant of Cadets Col. one answer to these questions Aggies to wield sabers University, when Cadet Greg James Woodall no longer Textbook committee today." Said Gabler, "This creates during gridiron shows Hood chased an SMU cherleader permitting Cadet ODs to carry lack of respect for men as heads of compiles fair book list off the sacrosanct Kyle Field with sabers. Nine months later, family and is an attack upon the his saber drawn. They may now Woodall has now reinstated saber religious beliefs of many people." Watch out for those Aggies, bear sabers but are forbidden carrying with these stringent The State Textbook Committee, Rice football fans, team, MOB, "under any circumstances" to guidelines: swamped by opposing lobbyist Low grades may mean and especially cheerleaders. Texas unsheath them. "Under no circumstances will efforts, is attempting to produce a A&M's Cadet Officers of the Day Hood's behavior, spurred by an the saber be removed from the list of recommended books for loss of government aid will carry those toothsome sabers Aggie tradition allowing only scabbard. This means before, Texas Public Schools. The 15- at their sides throughout all A&M football teams, officials, and the during, and after the game. During member committee, composed of A report released by the General games this fall. Aggie Band on Kyle Field, resulted the playing of the national anthem, teachers and administrators from Accounting Office has prompted Cadet ODs were banned from in nationwide notoriety, university the hand salute will be rendered." throughout the state, recommends Senators Don Nickles, R-Okla., certain carefully screened books and Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., to for use in public schools. These introduce legislation curtailing textbook hearings are held federal aid for any student with a annually on rotating subjects. low grade point average. The bill Written objections to certain would affect all students who textbooks from the Austin and failed to maintain a "C average or HERE? AT THE SOUH05SWIHHIN6? NIGEL! STILL 2.0 cumulative GPA during the WHAT FOR.. 7O CHAIRMAN SURE!HEY, YASSER' Dallas chapters of the National COMMODORE HOTEL BELIEVE ME, THEFFSWORKING ON CHECKOUT THE ARAFAT! WHATS COME OVER HERE! semester. POOL? BUT TT&E MCRESCMMRRR YOUR TAN, Organization for Women (NOW) RUBBLE AGAIN* HAPPENING? LOOK I GOT SOMEONE: ISNT EVEN ANY HERB THAN AT THE urge the committee to avoid all Released last December, the THIS is WHERE I SEE ING FOR ANOTHER ARAFAT? WANT YOU TO MEET! IT'S HAPPEN- SI BEVERLY WHSH1RE textbooks containing examples of report reveals that approximately ING MATE. DURING ACADEMY TO DUPE7 AWARP WEEK! sexism. Fortunately, according to 20 percent of all students receiving Donna York of the Austin federal assistance fail to maintain a ^4 Chapter, fewer sexist books reach 2.0 GPA. Another 10 percent have publication these days, due in part less than a 1.5 GPA. Under the new ft to the changing role of women in bill, a student earning less than a society. "We turned in 600 bills 2.0 GPA would be placed on [objected to 600 books] ten years probation the following semester. ago," York said, "and only 25 this Failure to improve grades to a C (sid/mJe.
year. It has indeed changed." average would result in ineligibility K AH, YES A PLEASURE, »V5R 50 WHAT HAVE PT&SEDTOMEER ROLANPHERE THEY'RE GETTINGWHOA! YOU MEAN. for federal student aid programs. MR.HEPLEY.WE ARE MOST RAMUZ OF COURSE, YOU BEEN UP TO, As might be expected, NOWs YOU, MRCHAIRMAN. ISWRT.HABC HARPER TO FINP YOU'RE EVEN GRATEFUL TO NETWORK VTHF YOU ARE, MR MR CHAIRMAN ? Exceptions would be made for I'MRCLANPBUR- NEWS, ARAFAT, I HAP TO KISS RUNNING OUT objections contrast sharply with TONHEPLEY.JR 0NEOFTHE TELEVISION FOR SHOWING HEPLEY. OUT POSING WITH A CHRJSTIAN WAY WE OF INNOCENT familial illness and death, or AMERICAN AMERICANS ^ ^ BABIESAGAIN? KIP THIS those of the conservative Gabler SEE IT, CIVILIANS NETWORKS. THE REAL C- - ? <*C„ v ) MORNING £ group. Mel and Norma Gabler of personal and emotional ISRAEL! ' " Lorigview believe in "traditional difficulties. family values" and protest all Nickles explained, "In no way is textbooks that do not support such this bill punitive legislation. It values. would just ensure that financial aid Because the volume of would continue to be targeted to textbooks bought by Texas Public needy students who are serious and Schools is so large,- publishers sit responsible in their pursuit of post- on the edge of their seats and grit secondary education." Pell noted, their teeth in frustration during the "The GAO report indicated that YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT KJNP OF FOR THE ISRAELIS, /J/AA/T HO, NO, I CAN SEE PEOPLE THESE ISRAELIS ARE? THE IT IS GAMES. FOR JRNALK THAT YOU'RE BUSY. YOUJOURNAL- committee hearings. The scenario many institutions have inadequate . TWO CM AFTER I DISCUSSED EN- US, OUR EXIST- /TOUT YOL/RT PREOCCUPIEP i OORSING U. N. RESOLUTIONS 242 AND ENCE AS A COHFBW&! /575- is reminiscent of a tug-of-war with satisfactory progress standards TOUCH. Me ruaie- WTTH GETTTNG ATTHE 33B, THEY BOMBEP BEIRUT AT EX- PEOPLE IS AT MAN? TRUTH ABOUT THIS I/IKATLARIJ;! NOW objecting to stereotyped and/or failed to enforce the ' ACTLY211PM AND3 38P.M.! STAKE UNCONSCIONABLE images of women and the Gablers standards that they have in place." J^MS/ON. urging the emphasis of the To bolster his argument, Nickles . t, ^ •; nurturing mother role. Occasion- presented these "glaring 1 ally, both groups will find the same irregularities" to the senate: books objectionable. • A student received $2438 over A health book entitled Today's three quarters during which his Teen was criticized by NOWfor its grade point averages were 0.44, illustrations of men in occupations 0.28 and 0.63.
like medicine, law, and science • A student received $2215 over BELIEVE ME, GENTLEMEN, SO YOU THINK THAT OF COURSE. WHAT AMAZES WHETHER WE LIVE OR PIE ME IS THAT IN TWO SHORT' while women shopped, raised five semesters, sucessfully ISRAEL HAS D4M- M THIS IS NOT IS IMMATERIAL. WHATTHE MONTHS OF WWION BRUTAL- AGEP TTSELF MORE THE.. ISRAEL YASSER, children, and made clothes. The completing only 3 of 58 credit • ISRAELI INVASION HAS PONE* ITY, THE ISRAELIS HAVE 1 THAN THE P.L.O-, GIVE US IS EXPOSE THE INJUSTICE I KNEW Gablers, on the other hand, hours with an 0.11 GPA. MR. CHAIRMAN ? SQUANPEREP 30 YEARS A BREAK. ^ OF THE PALESTINIAN PLIGHT' / OF MORAL CAPITAL! disliked the book due to passages • A student received $7771 in / such as this one, "Who earns the federal assistance over four income in the family? Who is the semesters with a GPA of 0.76.
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The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 3 WEINGARTEN Admit and enjoy being smart. continued from page I And for the first time in your And so the treatment for Rice That's a very difficult fact tor life, and for the first time in my life, Shock is primarily being able to people who are smart to live with, when I came to work at Rice in say "I'm smart." Because being because one of the symptoms of 1978, I had to ask myself that smart's like being an alcoholic: it Rice Shock is that smart people question, "What am I going to do isn't a problem you solve or have never had to work for it. with being smart?" I had to earn it something you get over—it's a It isn't that you didn't study and for the first time in my life. condition you live with. And what it isn't that you haven't tried to And why that is difficult is that you have to do to begin to deal appear intelligent in the years you many of us who were smart not with this part of yourself, and what spent in high school; what happens only didn't work to be smart; we every smart person has to become to most of us is that we just grow spent our whole life denying it. comfortable enough to do, is to be up smart, rm smart. And I didn't Y ou know you didn't matter if you able, like people who go to Open 24 Hours Everyday do anything to get that way for the said, "Aw, I like school. Y'know, I Alcoholics Anonymous, to stand PRICES GOOD: AUG. 20-26 first thirty years of my life. read." in front of a group and say, "Hi. But no matter how many I'm Don, I'm smart." And you I happen to be a son of a couple different ways we all had of wait, hoping that group will accept Clip TheseValuable who were in the military and who cloaking being smart so people you by saying "Hi Don." And not moved every year, and so to keep wouldn't discriminate agains us, yawning and saying, "Oh god." their kid from getting really dumb you catch yourself doing things So the first treatment for Rice Coupons For grades and thrown out of every like reading in the bathroom. You Shock is the ability to admit who school I went to—and I went to sign up for "self-enrichment" you are. five elementary scfeools and threo courses. You want to learn to And the second thing after you high schools—they tutored me all speak Spanish. You listen to more begin to get comfortable with the time and I didn't have a choice. than one radio station. You get a being an intelligent person is to SUPER begin to enjoy it here at Rice. One of the greatest difficulties about enjoying intelligence is that we like everything. We like science and math. We want to major in SAVINGS humanities and drama, we want to take French literature and Russian theater, we want to be a geologist and a PE major, we want to work WEINGARTEN on the newspaper and the radio station. And we want to play Super Duper Coupon intramural sports. You know, like we like beer and- sex and philosophy and it all goes together. REFRESHING And the greatest difficulty— which you've already faced—is Coca- choosing something to do. Your student advisors are saying, "Pick PAC6K 99 Religious Studies Professor Don Benjamin Reining 12 OZ>AC. CANK S a course, any course, just pick it." Cola l. CANS Sunday it was church in the perfect grade on an exam. "The And you sit there sweating, WITH THIS COUPON AND 7.80 PURCHASE morning, math from noon to three, teacher asks you fill ir. when shi s thumbing through the announce- LIMIT ONE EXPIRES 8-26-82. RT and English from three to six. I going to be absem. Somehow, no ments for this year, wondering if didn't dare say no. When I went to matter how clever your dodge, you'll get them all in: "I want to high school and then to college I people find out you're smart and graduate with 200 hours." made the choice to enter a Roman they ask > ou t idmit it. It took me five and a quarter Catholic seminary in the days And there's another way in years to get through college and I when there wasn't any choice after which we deny being smart, which had 185 semester hours by the time you got there. All you had to do was really cruel, and that's to pick I finished. I suffered from the Super Duper Coupon was know what time it was and you out some other smart person and inability to choose. knew what you were doing. If it persecute him. And that's perhaps And not only does our SPILLMATE was five o'clock in the morning, one of the cruelest things that we intelligence which gives us a you were getting up. If it was four have to change about ourselves. tremendous interest in and a o'clock in the afternoon, you were When you come to Rice, where tremendous voracity, a hunger for Paper in the study hall and people were the admissions office has given you life become a problem when we go saying "What are you doing?" the permission to say "I'm smart," to make choices; the other thing is Towels ROLL And so by the time I was thirty I you have to share that with other we're used to thinking long 49 had two master's degrees, and by smart people. And you have to put distances—we only want to make WITH THIS COUPON AND 7.80 PURCHASE the time I was 35 I had a Ph.D. in down calling other smart people choices that are going to last religion all because it paid to be names, and describing them as LIMIT ONE EXPIRES 8-26-82. RT /• II':M (7". smart. It wasn't that I had done "weird." And finding their interests You come to Rice and you *ant anything to earn the reputation of bizarre. And that isn't easy. the first person you meet to be a being a smart person; it's just that Because the one thing we learn friend until you die. You want the the people in my life who were the when people hate us and when i you put down in your WEINGARTEN adults and decision-makers took people hurt us is how to do it to M'lv.omore year to last until you're me and said, "Do this." And I other folks. When you're 65 and they're giving you an Super Duper Coupon never questioned it. persecuted you don't end up being honored alumnus award at For the first time in the lives of more tolerant. What you end up commencement. FAIRMONT ASSORTED FLAVORS most of us when we come to Rice, doing is being sharper at hurting What is important if you're ever Rice is the real world for smart someone else. You know how to going to make choices here at Rice Swiss Style people. Because you get here and get it done. is to realize things are limited. It you say to the first person you And so that's what Rice Shock you don't change youc major five 80Z.10 0 meet, "I'm smart" and they looks like. It looks like being smart times before you get out of here, Yogurt 3 CTNS say,"So?" Everybody here is smart, when you didn't work for it, and it you weren't here long enough. even the students are smart. looks like trying to spend your life There is in every one of us a need to WITH THIS COUPON AND 7.80 PURCHASE The question at Rice is not that denying it and coming here realize that if we're going to enjoy LIMIT ONE EXPIRES 8-26-82. RTj you're smart, it's what are you suddenly and having people Rice, we have to be able to make going to do with it? say,"Y ou have to admit it." choices that are going to last us for a while, but then there'll be very THERE IS A WEINGARTEN different choices for us at another semester, or another year. 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The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 4 Resident grads will link schools
and Lauren Sinnott (Art) to live in function will be to act as "a liasion According to Brown, Rice will pay the hall in the men's and women's for the students both with the for Tom Pajewski (Biochemistry) area, respectively. Their principle TWU residence hall staff and the Undergraduate Affairs office." Brown continued, "The graduate students will feel free to call this office for any problem, major or minor, and we'll resolve it at this end. Their role isn't just to handle problems, though; I hope there won't be any problems." The resident advisors will complete a two-day orientation with the TWU staff tomorrow. Commented Stabell, "The TWU people have been very cooperative; they're going to include the Rice students in their own activities." Nevertheless, Brown and Stabell both emphasize the singularity of the situation. Brown planned to speak with the transplants this week on "what is for us a very unique arrangement—placing Rice students in another college's dormitory, and on our expectations for them." Said Stabell, "This will not be a ninth •e TWU dormitory in which Rice students C. Reining college." Pub to meet health requirements f c Campus Police have initiated bike patrols around campus in order fo in the RMC Grand Hall. open shelving, putting finish on the '.'HI a more careful eye on crime. the Pub and the creation of an Architect Guernsey Palmer concrete floor and installing an office for the RMC staff on the oversaw the numerous Pub employee hand sink. The bar now mezzanine level of the RMC. additions and renovations, which benefits from under-cabinet Planning and Construction's included the purchase of a new lighting and four hub drains as architect Ross McCready deemed icemaker and the installation of a well. Wiess Commons quieted the office construction simple but glass-washing sink. Behind the Funds for both the office and "much-needed." The office, which bar, several improvements were Pub construction came from the by Patty Cleary According to Ed Samfield, was essentially complete made in order to comply with City RMC budget under RMC The Wiess College commons Director of Planning and Wednesday, does not preclude the Health Department requirements. Director Martha Vest. Palmer was recently fitted with 800 square > 11 v 11 ti c 11 (i I !i I) i o r i l' i ii .i ! use of the three mezzanine According to Palmer, these estimated total costs at over feet of acoustical board in an effort reflective surfaces of the commons' projector windows used for films included building doors for the $25,000. to reduce the level of noise. interor amplified sounds to an objectionable level. Commmented Samfield, "The new wall treatment Avoid obsessive-compulsive learning, limit choices will greatly reduce reverberation ask you anything. Or wondering because most of you know how to obsessive-compulsive about time and decrease the noise." yes to being an electrical engineer, how you'll find some place to put study—you wouldn't be here if you learning, as smart people. The one-inch thick fiberglass you say no to being a whole lot of that one fact you do know into didn't. What we really need is to And then we tend to spend all board was installed by Johnson other things here at Rice. JBut most your answer. know how to play. Of all the things night in Fondren or ICSA, and all Specialties at a cost of $4965, of us kid oursielves that we can go And there's no way that you're to treat Rice Shock that are going day drinking or spraying ourselves following a plan conceived by on saying, "Sure, sure, yeah, fine, going to enjoy anything you do if. to be important to you, knowing with shaving cream to forget it. We Guernsey Palmer, an architect okay, yeah. Great, yeah, fine, put it when you leave the class, or the how to forget the intensity of tend to feel so paranoid about with Planning and Construction. down." And then you realize that extracurricular, or the time you've academic life is critical. If the having committed so much time to The white sound-balcony and two it's going to take an office staff of spent with a friend, you don't give Brown Fund had given us a grant a project we're not sure was worth walls in the dining area proper. 15 people to fulfill all the yourself a period to relish it, to be to run a workshop on how to play, it, that we choose ways of commitments you made in the first able to think back over it, to be priority given to arriving entertaining ourselves and Samfield considers the panels an ten days you were on campus. able to create myths about what an freshmen, we'd probably be relaxing that aren't healthy. Their "effective step toward sound absolute success you were, or what healthier by Christmas. The reason only purpose is to scream madly to reduction within a limited budget If you c^n't say no, then you a damn fool you rri&de out of is that we have a temptation to be of 55000." can't say yes. And if you're going to yourself. Part of enjoying what enjoy the limited choices you make you do is being able to lie about it. as a smart person, you have to If you don't give yourself time to in Rice Village.... realize that a choice is not simply tell those lies to people who will to do something, bvt it's a choice to listen, you'll run from one hour to be able to prepare for something the other, not knowing whether halt and then to celebrate it. you're in physics or drama or chemistry, or if you ate your lunch or just ate your notes. 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The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 6 Thresher/ Fine Arts The machine prevails in the modern spirit of art Russian art with Leger and the attempts to combine the Leger and the Modem Spirit Modern Spirit: An Avant-Garde mechanicalness of the years- Museum of Fine Arts Alternative to Non-Objective Art, between-the-wars with the Through September 5 an exhibit which exemplifies the essential subjectivity of art. international spirit of modern art. The Museum of Fine Arts Artists from across Europe and The exhibit uses mixed follows its exhibit of modern America are shown in their media, but concentrates on paintings. The majority of these, including those by Fernand Leger, are 'still-lifes,' but not in the traditional sense. These paintings picture springs, cylinders, and other geometrical shapes suggestive of mechanical devices. There are no subtle shadows—no exact, luscious curves of fruit in a bowl or the fall of cloth, These still- lifes of the 1920's and '30s are devoid of life and familiarity. The artists were hoping to portray their world as a series of angles, carefully superimposed, as truthfully stark as a photograph. Charles Sheeler, American Landscape, (1930)
Some of it succeeds magnificent- But there are other works, the time, not so long ago after all, that ly. Le Corbusier's Still Life with "purist abstracts," like Thorwald valued efficiency and a smooth- Egg (1919) or Nicolay Diulghe- Hellesen's Painting (1920) that runnihg motor more than the rov's The Young Girl from the 14 th seem to have crossed the border graceful lines of a human body. Floor are both excellent paintings, from art that expresses the Perhaps the most refreshing part reflecting the fear or hope of the mechanical to the mechanistic. of the show is a small group of age—that everything can be Many of the paintings appear to paintings, notably Charles geometricized. The colors in these have hidden coils inside, ready to S heeler's American Landscape paintings—the first muted, the spring out as one walks by. (1930), which shows the necessary second vibrant—met in crisp Whether or not you like the art end to societies which glorify the Thorwald Hellesen, Painting, (1920) lines which intermesh like the teeth in this exhibit, it is worth machine. of a gear. investigating as the evidence of a — Deborah L. Knaff Collage captures current whimsy
The Americans: Collage tribute to the irresitible urge of interesting because of their Contemporary Arts Museum civilization. unusual combinations of texture, Through October 3 Many of the works incorporate often they seem too crowded to be materials most artists would never aesthetically pleasing. One dream of using — advertisements, example of this overcrowding is The new show in the CAM's postage stamps, cigarette ends. JaeZucker's Aquarium, composed upper gallery is the work of While these works remain of painted, synthetic cottonballs. There is no space left here for nuances or our interpretation. The artist's viewpoint is dominant. At the worst, the collage art exists to state the artist's opinion on some point (a series of cigarette butts, a commeqtary on the incorrectness of Isadora Duncan's life), without trying to include the viewer in the subject. Whatever cigarettes might mean to this artist, we are never given the opportunity to know. Dorothy Hood, Untitled, (1981 Overall, the show is enjoyable. Some of the individual pieces are exciting (John Torreano's works should certainly be included in this group). As a whole, the exhibit proves that collages, like politics, may make strange bedfellows, but 2902 Kirby that whatever has texture and color can be made into art. 529-1837 — Deborah L. Knaff Charles Simonds, Number 5, (1978) 7605 Bellaire modern American artists who are 995-1837 concerned with texture as an aspect of art. Of course, these BEST SELECTION OF ADVENTURE collages are concerned with what GAMING ACCESORIES IN TOWN all art is concerned with—color, 12 kinds of line, form, balance—but what PARENT TEACHERS SUPPLY hamburgers makes the collages unique is the use of different textures. 25% OFF WITH THIS AD! french fries Some of these collages I find very enjoyable becuase they catch beer and wine the sense of whimsy essential to an odd mixture of media. Robert Kushner's Cygnettes Noires (1979) combines acrylic, silkscreen on SO* OFF! cotton, mixed fabrics, sequins, and peacock feathers to produce a curious sort of ballet corps that is ANY HAMBURGER WITH half glamorous, half cheap. THIS COUPON Another work that captures the Corner of Gessner and Westhelmer spirit of a moment is Judy Pfaffs o|fer expires 8-26-82 Circe (1982), a multi-media work Phone 780-4544 in fluorescent colors that is a The Rice Thresner, August 20, 1982, page 7 FPOMSTRIFE~ OP ANYONE NOPE. NOT .. AND. OF COURSE, HE'S QOL IN MR. HEY.TTSA ANOTHER AUGUST VACATION OH sma&t SOWHERN see ANY A SPR16 HANTS DESERT, J LEBANON, THIS IS GREEN IN JUST SAND , COMING UP, WHICH THE PREST P0II\ ARB THE FELLAHS. 1 • ROLAND BURTON THAXMIE AND SMOKE. DENT PROBABLY WONT EVEN LUHA FIRST LIGHTEN ENJOY BECAUSE HE'LL BE HE0t£/.m. REPORT? cmmes UP. WORKING SO HARP. _ T
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APPRECIATE WHAT I'M " 5H0V- AND HAVE IT IVES \ APTITUDE GOING THROUGH. jih A 7/^^: The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 9 y * Film Hollywood's Garp makes a better world than Irving's The World According to Garp Well right; know from the beginning shortly after WW II, There are a few scenes regularly between Garp's dreams of flying Warner Brothers beginning that director Hill's film and ending somewhere in our cited in which Williams seems and his unsettled fascination with Directed by George Roy Hill is not an exact reworking of contemporary time and sensibility. slightly too much the comedian death. This becomes a pretty If E.T. was the most Irving's text, and that if you Music of the Beatles and vague with just a little too much pretense blatant literary artifact, an energetically, most eagerly awaited jealously guard the book's hints of sixties civil rights rumbles and joke consciousness. And artificial construction smack in the movie of the past summer season, wholeness, you'll likely be put off make our immediate past seem surely it is likely that Williams was middle of a subtle and unassuming and if Annie was pushed with the by considerable cutting and other uniquely upstaged, real and unaware of the effect his stand-up movie. Why the conflict? most expensive, theatrical—well, more imporant adaptations to the important. Irving's novel also man experiences worked. But just colorful—publicity campaign, film form. If, on the other hand, carried interesting ipsights into the as surely, Hill seems to have Well, Irving indulged heavily in then it seems easily the case that you finished the book feeling time, though nothing of the film's intentionally allowed these odd such academ's stuff in his novel; it The World According to Garp was slightly manipulated or even first-hand "experiencing." becomes the rule and controlling heralded with the most cool and tricked—if you grew tired ot a style in fact. There, literary critics intellectual speculation — heavy-handed technique and an In the movie's time and place, explained — apparently with academic contemplations, film- unrelentingly smart-assed attitude Tesich and Hill do an interesting "...Garp is a quaint, Irving's consent — that these buff analysis and that sort of thing, —then the film might provide the thing with what was a sharp, post-modern poeticisms are the writer's based on John Irving's best-selling warm and subtle message you cumbersome, often contrived attempts to lend order to his life, or novel, Garp, the film (directed by suspected the novel hid thesis in Irving's novel. Irving, it is film..." at least the life of his character; George Roy Hill) was supposedly somewhere. If, best of all, you have now well known, has great force a rhyme and a reason into the movie adaptation which simply no opinion about the book, and sympathy for women and the realism even if reality is reasonless. could not be done and which cannot compare the two, then current struggle of feminism, excesses and lapses into obvious Apply the same understanding would end up either farce or rape know that Hill's Garp is an though his style speaks of this in clowning; would there not be to the film, and Hill's odd flashes of the original literature. Robin impressive bit of careful, well- broken, disconnected, and many moments when Garp himself of symbolism become cinematic Williams was also suspected of an considered movie-making which is confusing arguments. The film, would be able to cope only through rhymes. Thus the film's realism is interminable Mork complex which not a novel in any way. however, has two splendid factors cartoon-like silliness? interrupted often by these schemes would leave him unable to play the working this same end: Glen Close because Garp is himself a writer, real and sensitive man about In definitely cinematic terms it — Garp's mother — and Mary This sort of stretched and is looking upon his life, hoping whom the film would have to works its intended effect Beth Hurt — his wife. Here I saw, explanation becomes somewhat to make there some meaning. To revolve. Other chic objections, and accurately and far more deeply remarkably, two complete and more important when the film, as a the very end then, Garp is able to a few optimistic hopes, made Garp than is at first realized. And accurate portraits of the conflict whole, is thought of as a sly, maintain some hold on his life by quite the film to think about this considering the enormous amount created by a suddenly free and cinematic manipulation — a joke applying his famous flying theme. summer. of critical attention which has been finally strong feminity. Each actor of sorts. There is, at least, He finally flies, and his whole life accorded Irving's novel in these plays a veritable internal something about Hill's conscious can then be seen as a sort of I found it odd, then, that years following its publication, the battlefield of masculinity and use of opposing film styles which running start; he has had a reaction to the film has been film is badly cheated by only a femininity, though each with a indicates just how carefully purpose. And even such a hopeless somewhat superficial or at least quick viewing. wonderfully different, touching constructed Garp is, and how purpose is better than total and less intellectually powered than As a matter of fact — or rather style of the paradox. More so than important it is to think of it as a impersonal chaos. opinion — the film might even be in the novel, these women — along film and not as a visualized novel. said to beat the novel Garp at its with all the women of the film — own game, along with adding the become central figures, trying Specifically, Garp is "filmed, for Now, my first reaction to Garp "Garp, quite the film to whole new dimension possible furiously to make their lives have the most part, in what might be as seen in this light is not at all think about this only in film, realized in only a few dignity and meaning where the called an unobtrusive, snapshot- positive: Garp's life meaning isn't excellent films. For this delicate world seems to have in mind only like technique. As a rule, camera real, rather his own imposition. summer..." success, Steve Tesich's screenplay degradation, suspicion and an angles, lighting effects and even the But it is a meaning, and in that adaptation deserves considerable undefeatable absurdity. sound track simply do not become there is happiness and even a praise, and maybe a little careful In a similar way, Garp is so the focus of attention. Rather, the solemn hope. To me, just this study: situated in an absurd world where realistic, untheatrical actors and sort of ambiguous reaction is what response to Irving's novel. Most love or any other sort of meaning their immediate story are Irving works for daily. It happens critics agree that Garp is a mild, The story itself is, of course, still and importance is a constant fight, "featured" in the most effecient, to be the same reaction which the pleasing flick, through not the basically the same character study where every "common man" can, uncomplicated manner — allowed film does successfully — even book's equal and not very of writer T.S. Garp as he goes at best, be happy for a while, in center stage to work a close-up and poignantly — evoke, once it is effective film making. It is simply aboty the business of living intelli- only a small way. Certainly a deep handy realism. However, allowed to be more than a flat sort not what was expected from gently and perhaps even happily, proposition, yes? And it becomes occasionally Williams does break of domestic comedy. Taking Irving-ism and only a few consider living originally investigated one tediously, obviously made in the quiet with a punch line Irving's thesis and making it into the film independently of the Garp's time as well as his character. the novel. In the film though this is delivery; often, Hill works flesh and blood images, Garp is origi na 1— necessa rily different— And likewise, the film gives a fresh, softened and merely embodied in apparently incongruous gimmicks finally very loyal to the spirit of the work. not really nostalgic feel for the era the character of Garp. Here, and obvious directorial tricks. novel. The technique is simply and Williams adds what must be a Those few sequences in which appropriately made more significant personal vitality and Garp's writerly imagination sophisticated. Standing, as it style to Irving's theory, making in actually comically changes reality should, as an independent work, are out of synch with an otherwise Garp is a quaint, sharp "post- the mix a whole man with oddities calm realism. And it is finally modern" film spoken in well and idiosyncracies, but still with an impossible not to notice the formed performances with a per- underlying, touching real life suspiciously poetic connection fectly apt "message-within-a- accuracy. message" structure. Were it paid the serious attention that the novel earned, Hill's film would properly be seen as an importantly different, independently more successful 30JD" i Elvis Costello opens up Theatre Leger and the Modern Spirit. In Cullinan Hall at the Museum of Fine Arts through September 5. This Imperial Bedroom than four minutes in an era of Bacchae. Rice Classics Department will present exhibit explores the influence of 20th century Elvis Costelh and the Attractions wasteful dinosaur rock. The three Bacchae August 27 and 28. Both students and technology on all media of art. The museum is open Columbia Records four-minute-plus songs on Side faculty are involved in the work, which will be Tuesday through Sunday. One, "Shabby Doll", "The Long presented in Greek, spoken with tonal accents and This album has been dubbed a Honeymoon", and "Man Out of with the pronunciation of the fourth and fifth masterpiece by Rolling Stone, Time", tread the area between centuries B.C. For those who don't speak Greek, that home of overinflated praise. brilliant pop and schlock that was please come anyway. A complete program synopsis Throwing around meaningless the personal property for a time of will be provided in English, and the calibre of terms like "masterpiece" sems one of Costello's mentors, productions from this department is consistently unfair to Costello. Pumping up the Burt Bacharach. Costello updates high. The performances are next Friday and expectations of the audience with this genre with his own lyrical wit, Saturday nights at 8 p.m. in Hamman Hall. For hype has been generally self- leavened with a mature more information please call 527-4040. deprecating for rock artists. vulnerability—"I can't excuse the cruel words/That I use whenever we fight." "Now I'm a Shabby Unexpected Guest. On the Alley's Large Stage. Doll." Thursday and Friday at 8:30, Saturday at 4:30 and 9, and Sunday at 2:30 and 7:30, will be Agatha Christie's Unexpected Guest. Tickets for this "And in Every Home" finishes mystery thriller range from $5 to $12.50. Call the the first side by introducing Steve Alley Box Office at 228-8421 for reservations or Nieve's string orchestrations, further information. complementing a story of martial disappointment that features lines like "They say they're very sorry/But you are not desired." Black Comedy. The Chocolate Bayou Theatre Did someone say this guy had Company (at 1823 Lamar) will present Black Leger and modern art come to the MFA. mellowed? Comedy by Peter Schaffer tonight and tomorrow Remember when Bruce Spring- night at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. The play is about the accidental antics in a London flat steen was "rock and roll's future"? Side Two is more energetic, and Film during a power failure. Tickets are $5 for the play Imperial Bedroom is an excellent the cream of this side are tow and a short revue which precedes it. album, but it doesn't need to be put near-perfect pop-rockers, "Human Babette Mangolite in Person. The Museum of Fine on any pedestals. Hands" and "You Little Fool". Arts will show this conglomerate film today at 8 p.m. Museums Perhaps people are just shocked The latter song steals a backwards The film opens with Babette discussing the role of that Costello actually says "I love women in film, then screens her latest, The Cold Eye. tape loop at the fade from the Edward Paschke: Selected Works 1967-1981. The you" (gasp!) on record. This does and closes with Mangolite discussing her own work. Beatles, which shows that Elvis did Contemporary Arts Museum opens this show in mark progress from fun songs like learn a few things from ex- their Perspectives Gallery, August 21. Paschke's "No Action" on This Year's Model producer Nick Lowe. In "Human paintings are a record of contemporary culture seen Decameron, Canterbury Tales and The Arabian ("I don't want to kiss you/1 don't Hands", Costello forays outside through a view of combined realism and Nights. River Oaks Theatre presents these three wanna touch"), and it's true that the insularity of personal transformationalism. The CAM is open Monday classics this Friday night only. Call the theatre at Costello has never been so relationships, playing assembly through Saturday, 10-5; Sunday, noon-6. 524-2175 for times. emotionally open. But what is line facelessness against romantic more striking about Imperial longing. Bedroom is Elvis' subtle command of pop and rock styles. He has The entire second side is a never made it look so easy. songwriter's clinic, and while one might wish for a larger dose of the FOR A SMARTER CHARTER CALL . . . loud rock the Attractions are Costello gets away with a lot on capable of slamming out, 7K TRANSIT COMPANY this album (extensive use of Costello's success in almost strings, basically no hardrockers), every one of his gambits. He has GROUND TRANSPORTATION SPECIALISTS but his solid pop integrity ties maintained a predictable "Since 1954" together and validates the songs. unpredictability through eight SIGHTS TO SEE The ballad-dominated first side albums, and with Imperial Houston sets the listener up for Elvis' Bedrooms, he may finally win over ambitious approach. those who could never see past his Astrodome I remember being proud of Elvis scowl before. 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He steered his Austin 1981 was a rebuilding year in the LBJ team through a very classic sense for the Rice football successful season last year, team, but it left the Owls with a capturing the tough district 26 more experienced team than they AAAAA title. An excellent have had in years. In fact, the 1982 student as well as athlete, Overton squad has more returning seniors was one of the most heavily than ever before in their seventy recruited quarterbacks in the state. year history. Quarterback Michael He sustained an unfortunate lower Calhoun will be back, alter tying back injury in training early this the Southwest Conference record fall, but if that heals he might get a for touchdown passes last year chance to prove himself a few times with 21 scoring tosses. Teammate this year. * Deron Miller should have an Alvin Rettig arrives at Rice after excellent year as a tigh end, and completing a brilliant season as the Clenzie Pierson is a good bet for leading rusher for state AAAAA all-Southwest Conference and champion Dallas Lake; Highlands. perhaps Ail-American honors as a He does double duty as a defensive defensive tackle. back as well as a running back and With such a strong returning pulled in five interceptions during team it will be difficult for the his last season in high school. freshmen players to earn much Though there are several sharp playing time. However, Rice did returning players ahead of Rettig recruit some top quality players, on the roster he may get a chance and Head Coach Ray Alborn is to do some work for the Owls this watching them closely to see if they season and will certainly get can make a place for themselves on playing opportunities in the this year's roster. coming years. One of the top prospects is Two other bright prospects for Gridders feel the crunch as the Owls donned full pads for the first time Thun day morning. C Reining freshman quarterback Kenny the Owls are defensive back Steve Kidd and wide receiver Jay Jefferson. Both were standouts for linebackers, but he may become a their respective high schools, and force on future Owl teams. Coach INTRAMURALS bofh were heavily recruited by Alborn has been impressed with Texas colleges. Kidd will probably Jefferson in the early workouts see little action this year since he and may give him some playing Barker keeps competition vibrant plays behind some excellent senior time this season. Men's Intramural Calendar Women's Intramural Calendar 1982-1983 1982-1983 Entries close at 4 p.m. on days listed below Sept. 3 Touch Football (followed by College) Sept. 10 Volleyball (followed by College). V-waiibail needs skill Sept. 10 Tennis Singles, Doubles, & Mixed Doubles. Sept. 24 College Soccer. Oct. 15 Soccer (followed by College); Basketball Oct. 1 Racquetball Singles & Doubles; Bad- (followed by College); Racquetball Singles miton Singles & Doubles. by Matt Petersen of the individual player in terms of I & Mixed Doubles; Table Tennis Singles, Dec. 3 Basketball (followed by College); Those uninitiated with the sport reaction time and coordination Doubles, & Mixed Doubles; Badmiton Singles. Volley-wall-ball. volleywallball may consider it an with teammates. I Dec. 3 Volleyball (Men & Coed, followed by College); Feb. 4 Tennis Singles, Doubles, & Mixed activity relegated to YMCA gyms I Badmiton Doubles; Racquetball Doubles; Squash. Doubles; Softball (followed by College) In addition to the split-second | Feb. 11 Softball (Men & Coed, followed by College); March 16 College Swinning Meet. and P.E. classes. But the sport has timing required of participants, Badmiton Mixed Doubles; Volley-wall-ball (Men March 18 College Racquetball & College Tennis. many adherents locally, as well as caution must be exercised to only); Ultimate Frisbee. April 16 College Track and Field Meet. on the east coast, where prevent injuries. Since six I March 16 College Swimming Meet. April 21 Bar-B-Que for Champions. April 16 College track & Field Meet. volleywallball first gained teammates are confined to an area April 21 Bar-B-Que for Champions. popularity and is now pursued on about half that associated with All tournaments will be open an organized, competitve level. traditional volleyball, each player unless otherwise designated. The game was invented in the is forced to play close to an mid-fifties by a Princeton P.E. adjacent wall. An otherwise well- by Mark Mitchell worked real well through the years. for the intramurals program, coach who was looking for new calculated shot can be ruined when After the most successful The original masters thought the Barker cites the popular and ways to utilize racquetball space. the player inadvertently slams into intramural season on record, open system, in addition to the grueling Ultimate Frisbee. "It has The sport caught on at that school the side of the court. Racquetball Professor J.R. Barker, director of college intramurals, would create always been our policy that if there and quickly spread to other Ivy players are familiar with this intramurals, expects an even more the most interest. But we still is enough interest in any sport or League schools. Volleywallball is problem , but even they are used to popular year ahead. Barker claims insisted on having some type of activity we will sponsor it. Such is basically a variation of volleyball: the relative freedom of having two that all men's, women's and coed competition between the the case with Ultimate Frisbee." a net is strung between the two side players roaming about the space tournaments from the previous Colleges." Barker also tells of ambitious walls of a racquetball court, and all which confines twelve players in year will be retained, with the The intramurals' main selling programs for the use of seven new four walls as well as the ceiling are volleywallball. addition of coed Ultimate Frisbee. points are the wide scope of sports golf greens around the Rice used in the course of play. Sonce Played properly, volleywallball it offers and varied range of people campus. At first the greens will th"e space is so confined, action is can be enjoyed both as a low-key, The intramural program at Rice it embraces. At present there are only be used in freshmen physical much faster than in traditional co-ed P.E. activity and as a more has both an Open and College well over 25 sports or events for education classes, but will be open used in the course of play. Once competitive intramural-type sport. Division. Last year's participation which anyone who works or to all students. Barker stresses the in the men's and coed sections studies at Rice is eligible. As Mr. intitial instructional nature of the totaled 4421 players. This is an Barker puts it, "It's a program for golf areas, which are being increase of 500 people over the all the students, faculty and staff. constructed on the southern side of 1979-80 season. Barker attributes We hope everyone finds an interest the campus and adds that they will FREE the bulk of this rise to and comes out to participate in not be open to the public. The overwhelming interest in softball. friendly competition. It's also a greens are being designed along the Barker, ah original coordinator great opportunity to meet people lines of the popular "pitch-n-putt" PREGNANCY TESTS of intramurals when the College from other colleges." greens and are being built with • Confidential Counseling system was adopted in 1957, feels excess earth from the Mudd • OB-GYN Specialists that "the open tournament has As to the inception of new sports Building excavation. • Birth Control Information * Early. 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The certain if her defensive play games,' I was very pleased to hear coach Linda Tucker prepares the swing to Puerto Rico. fifth starting position is up for improves. Rice has generally that we have to be a strong team for entry into Southwest grabs, and the leading candidates played the best defense of the defensive team this year." Conference competition. Tucker had praise for all of the freshmen. "You put kids in their Kathy Landry is a 5-7 point first collegiate game and expect guard from Farmington Hills, them to be nervous,... but I was Michigan, with impressive ball- pleased with the poise they showed handling skills and good touch on moving from high school to her jumpshots. The other three international competition." freshmen, Sandra Tilden from Hot Tucker stated before the trip that Springs, Arkansas, Renee Spence these freshmen would be the nucleus w from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and of the team in a year (four seniors Ann Grace Fisher, from are on the roster), and she now Northfield, Illinois, will be among feels they will be the nucleus of a the Owls' tallest players at 6-11, good team. 5-11, and 6-1. Spence and Fisher averaged 11 points a game Returning seniors Kathy in high school and 11 and 12 Barnard, Lorraine Schunck and / VOUIYBALL Spikers set for 1982 by Steve Bailey as well. Said Sokol, "She's a lot Coach Debra Sokol added quicker this year." Perkins excels height to the volleyball roster with at passing and serving. two 6-0 freshmen, Gina Pabst from Sophomore Christie Nichols Chicago, Illinois, and Lauren Potry may earn plenty of playing time as from Aurora, Colorado. middle blocker and doing some Pabst is a middle blocker, but side hitting. Sherf Sharp, Chris Sokol hopes to expand her duties. Rees and Alecia Abraham "She's got real quick hands, so she complete a squad that usually may do some setting in practice. If spreads the playing time fairly s Sena* she becomes quicker and develops evenly. she could be a setter." Potry will probably play in the The Southwest Conference will Kickers prepare for '82 season backcourt and has impressed ony have six teams entered this by Matt Petersen State, Sam Houston, Stephen F. afternoons and Saturday Sokol with "very good court season, and Rice is about in the As the varsity teams gear up for Austin and Trinity. (Last year the mornings until the season opener sense." Potry played USVBA ball middle of the field in talent. The their seasons there is also fervent Rice girls played in a Houston city against the University of Texas on in the off-season after high school. schedule will consist of ten activity on the soccer field. league.) Sept. 11. Coaches Milan and Setters Nina Akai and Meg matches, home and away matches Monday marks the official start of Taghavi stress the need for Sullivan will probably start for the against each opponent. soccer practice for the Rice Though the schedule will committed players. "We need girls Owls again this year. Akai is The higher quality of this year's Women's Soccer Club. undoubtedly be tougher than last who really want to play. already leaping 28 1/2 inches and competition is probably a good year's, which left the Rice team in Experience is not really a factor. probably benefitted from playing sign for Rice, a team that usually This team has played in relative second place, Coach Milan claims We want girls who will work hard in the National Sports Festival this plays only as well as the team on obscurity since its inception, a it will be better for the team. "It and grow with the program. Our summer on a team composed of the other side of the net, which has condition which coaches Steve will be a lot more serious this year aim is to eventually become a the best players from New Mexico led to spectacular matches against Milan and Bijan Taghavi intend due to the new competition. It is a formidable varsity soccer team, (bp teams. Sokol believes that the to Florida. Sullivan is the only to improve. A giant step in that lot easier to get psyched to play and to have fun doing it." SWC standings, best-of-five senior on the team and a strong direction has been taken as the Texas than some team from The team wilt meet at 4 p.m. matches and stronger competition leader on the court. Texas Women's Soccer League in Bellaire." Monday in the Hanszen commons. will be strong motivation for the Consensus 1981 MVP Caryn which they will play UT, Texas Anyone interested in playing team this year. The club will be practicing Perkins will probably start again, A&M, Baylor, Southwest Texas Monday and Wednesday should be there, ready to practice. This Man Needs Help! His name is Tom Morgan and, he is the editor of the Thresher' Tom and the rest of his staff can use your help in making the Thresher an even better paper than it is already. Visit us on the 2nd floor of the RMC. The Rice Thresher, August 20, 1982, page 14 Learn to play, be committed, to combat'Rice Shock'... ' nntinned from page 5 and one of the more difficult ones. Honduras and Nicaragua and the There's bound to be someone who it's also a sign of the growth that is the world around us, "I'm normal! But when it's all said and done, if agony he goes through as he knows how to heal and how to taking place in you. And if 93 . . . I'm also drunk." all of the things—from finding a struggles to stay close to people console and how to feed the world percent of last year's freshman So we lead a kind of ping-pong phone to finding a friend—are whose lives, because of the politics that we have worked on so long." class survived because they learned life going from intense going to make sense during the of their country, are murderous, The greatest treatment for Rice how to treat that shock by concentration, which is what an years you've spent at Rice, whether and tries, by coming back to the Shock is being able to think those admitting they were smart and by academic career at Rice asks of us, it's four or five or forever the thing U nited States for months at a time, kinds of thoughts. And even learning to enjoy it, and by finding to ridiculous forms of release that that you need if this is going to to talk to people like me about how greater is the ability to say to the ability to play, and by looking end up killing us as we slide make some sense to you is the much difference the way the yourself, "I'm that person. I'm at the world into which they were through beer into a terrazzo wall. ability to commit your intelligence United States treats countries in going to learn something in the going with a sense of commitment You've got to learn to play if to something that you are willing other parts of the world affects time that 1 am here that will leave a to it, so can you. you're going to succeed at Rice. to work for. their people, he said to me, "Well, more human world than the one You've got the opporutnity, And it takes a lot of skill to do that. will Rice students make a that I lived in." Rice is a you've got the ability, and all you You've got to be able to do it in a You can take my word for it— difference?" tremendous investment in a future. have to ask yourself is, are you fashion that just doesn't repeat the you're not going to starve. No And I told him "Yes." I had to And you're it. going do it? I told my two friends obsessive-compulsive that we use matter how bad the economy gets. tell him that, because otehrwise I Rice Shock is a painful thing the other night you would. And I to study in the way we recreate. Or no matter how you try to drop would have to tell him that what I when you're going through it. But hope you won't make a liar of me. And that's a trick. out of society. Mom will feed you. was doing with my life didn't make The question that remains in sense. Because for all the years I It took me a long time before I front of you is: "Who are you going took care of people who were in jail We'll give you a whole found running as a thing I enjoyed to lay your life down for?" And the and who were hungry and who doing. I started running the year I trap is that you'll lay it down for died on the street, and did that with was writing my dissertation, yourself. You really need two a tremendous sense of being a year's worth because I had reached a point microwaves. And a convector person who was physically in where I wasn't speaking to my oven. And a videotape recorder. touch with the suffering of others. of good looks director about the dissertation he And another BMW. And you have Then I come here, into the was directing. And that's lethal. the intelligence and the ability to establishment. I had to make a With Redken" Design Prescription, a totally And he wasn't speaking to me. work hard enough to get all those choice, that this would make a new concept in beauty makeovers. We'll give - That's like a death sentence. things. difference. you an exciting new look and show you how And so I said to Peter and Betty: to update it to be more beautiful all year long. So the only commitment I had But if you're going to make sense "They'll make a difference." Call for your personal consultation today. was the four months I was going to out of all you put in to Rice, and if There's bound to be someone in rewrite it for the third time, and you're going to be able to live with that group who at a time and a complete the three years of writing the vocation of being an intelligent place in the future will keep things REDKEN this paper. I needed something that person, you have to look at a world like the Beirut of today or the Salon Prescription Center I could show some progress on that needs smart people. I mean, Honduras of today or the poverty because I wasn't showing any smart people put the world in the of Northern Africa or the By DON progress to myself on the condition it's in. And so it needs frustration of the Caribbean dissertation. So I said, "I'm going smart people to get it out of there. community from happening. HAIR + to start running." And I started And if we're going to give it to There's bound to be somebody running, and the first time I ran, I people who aren't smart, we'll have here who knows how to build a Phone 526-HAIR 2017 Westheimer did the Hermann loop, which is to do that at some other time. reactor that eats its own garbage two miles. I ran one mile, walked a instead of leaving it for somebody 15% Discount with Student ID half mile, ran a quarter, and This week I was talking to two to bury in somebody's back yard. walked another quarter. And yet, people, one of whom has been a each time I ran at the end of the day very important influence in my life, I was so angry at my director, I and had just spent four months at could run farther until I got over the refugee camps along the being angry with him. Honduran-El Salvadorian border. Those camps are filled with people I remember the year I ran the whose lives are committed now to DEMO'S AUTOMOTIVE CENTER first marathon, because you only dying slowly from starvation and ctanuv run two miles the day before the from violence. "We Offer Personalized Service" HA7A Specializing In marathon. I ran the two-mile loop V>UTHW£ST FRM' at Hermann and I wondered how it I don't see Peter very often; he TRANSMISSIONS • BRAKES • AIR CONDITIONING • FRONT END was ever so hard. The thing that was the equivalent of my college ENGINE ANALYSIS • TIRE TRUING • BODY REPAIRS • PAINTING BlSSOHKT running does for me is it gets me master when I was in graduate UNDERCOATING SUHSCT BHD. over being angry. school. He just calls from the bus 24 HOUR WRECKER SERVICE At the end of the day I'm never station in town. And so as we sat M IB Q satisfied: I've never written there at oifle o'clock in the morning cam* enough, never studied enough, I've talking, he was asking me what I IMIVUKITY BLVD. never taught well enough. I want to was doing with my life. I said, "I'm 526-3781 stay there all night to get it right, a Rice professor and for ten years, BCLLAM H0LC0M8E u because I'm perfect. And I'll prove I worked in Los Angeles in the 2438 TANGLEY AT KELVIN it to you. And so at four o'clock, inner city, and I worked in the when I get up from my desk and ghetto with people who were all run, it takes me miles before I am minorities." And he said to me, so tired I can't possibly argue the "Why are you doing the Rice point any more. thing?" Whatever you do to play while I always feel guilty when he asks you're here at Rice, it has to be me that, because somehow I feel OCTOBER 2 Rice University Area something that helps you forget that he's telling me it's the wrong the demands of being a scholar, thing. And my answer over the not just repeats them in another years that I have been here is that COMPACT context. Learning to forget it is one "It'll make a difference." And as he of the ways to treat Rice Shock, talked about his experiences in LSAT CLASS Classes begin 5:30 p.m. Apartmenf. Selector® Lesson 1: 9/2 Thurs. Lesson 5: 9/16 Thurs. H Free Rental Counseling Lesson 2: 9/7 Tues. Lesson 6: 9/21 Tues. GALLERIA/WESTCHASE 782-6730 Lesson 3: 9/9 Thurs. Lesson 7: 9/23 Thurs. 1960/GREENSPOINT 893-8800 Lesson 4: 9/13 Tues. Lesson 8: 9/28 Tues. 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Courses recommended for freshmen non-majors are the Hamman Hall front lobby. calendar (10:45). *** Balfour Jewelry will have senior Linguistics 201, 202 and Chinese Rice Players Auditions! Tryouts rings that were ordered last Saturday, August twenty-first 101, 102. Freshmen interested in for the Players' season opener, River Oaks. A Clockwork Orange (12:30, 5 & 9:30) and The semester on Wed. the 8th and majoring in Linguistics must take G.B. Shaw's Major Barbara, will Warriors (3:15 & 7:45). Thurs. the 9th of Sept., from 9-3:30 Ling 201 & 202, and should take be held Wednesday and Thursday, in the RMC. Sunday, August twenty-second French, Spanish, German, Aug. 25 & 26, at 7:30 p.m. at 8 & 10:30. Wiess commons. Deliverance and beer. Free. *** Russian, Chinese, Hebrew or Sewall Hall 301. No prepared Study Skills shortcourse FREE. River Oaks. Notorious {12:45, 5:30 & 10:15) and North by Northwest another modern language offered (2:45 & 7:30). monologues are necessary; The Office of Student Advising, at Rice. For sophomore majors, auditions will consist of readings through a grant from the Brown Monday, August twenty-third Comp Sci 220 or 223 as well as from the script (copies are on Foundation, will offer a SENSA First day of classes. Latin, Greek or Sanskrit is reserve at Fondren Library). All 4. KTRU show. "Women's music " Study Skills course during the recommended. More information interested actors, technicians and second and third weeks of the fall River Oaks. Pixote (5 & 9:15) and Conjugal Warfare (7:30). is available in the department design artists are invited to show term. Tuesday, A ugust twenty-fourth office, Rayzor Hall 205, or from 8:30. KTRU show. "Treasures of the Sixties." Adviser and Acting Chairman Dr. 10. KTRU show. "Chicken Skin Music." James Copeland (ext. 3218) or paid ads for sale River Oaks. The Story of Adele H. (7:00) and Tess (8:45). For sale: '73 Opel Manta, Rallye Wednesday, A ugust twenty-fifth blood & guts mm Edition. Rebuilt engine, new Montrose/Richmond quiet River Oaks. Thief (5 & 9:45) and Sorcerer (7:30). clutch. Steel belted radials. furnished efficiency, upstairs, near 1 boycott Channel 13 News for Thursday, August twenty-sixth AM/FM cassette $1400. 528-6607. buslines, washateria avUlable, 7. KTRU show. "To the Point." having the tackiest commerical. *** covered parking, close to Rice U. River Oaks. Female Trouble (5:30 & 9:15) and Desperate Living Dave Ward is no type of actor at For sale: Double bed $50; early and Medical Center. Single all. (7:30). *** American sofa with blue cushions occupancy, no pets, ideal for Friday, August twenty-seventh Aw, c'mon, don't ya feel a little $50; stereo—Automatic Radio student. $295.00/month plus 7. KTRU show. "S&M." New wave. Punk. Chatter. sorry for Tim Melton? AM/FM, 8-track, receiver with utilities. 522-2320. River Oaks. My Brilliant Career (5:30 & 9:15) and The Getting of *** speakers $75; Technics SL-23 *** Wisdom (7:30). Come & Greek out at Euripides' beltdrive turntable $90—all Carpets used, good condition $10 Bacchae. to $45 each, some slightly higher. Saturday, August twenty-eighth *** excellent condition***. Call 774-6928. River Oaks. Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock W Roll High School (\:30y "What in the hell is still in the left Cash. 926-9026. 5:30 & 9:30) and Tommy (3:30 & 7:30). Part time employee wanted to put *** lower drawer of the Thresher Wanted—Room with or without a Sunday, August twenty-ninth Business Manager's desk," up posters on campus now and River Oaks. Reds (2 & 8) and Ten Days that Shook the World (6). wondered the FDP aloud one day. during 1982-1983. 2-10 hours/ roommate, or a board and room month, $4.50/hr. Send name, situation in vicinity of HSPVA address, phone no., class year, etc. (40th & Stanford) for female ballet i like misclass" noted the OAS to Mr. Fenton, 152 Temple St., student. Family or group situation Whose head did you say that was? preferred. Willing to baby-sit, run - Overheard in Hamman Hall "That's why I ended up working at Following in the tradition of great #701, New Haven, CT 06510. 8/17/82 Bennigan's —all the good Texas promotions like the Beach *#* errands. Call Dorrie Gage collect. restaurants weren't hiring." Boys at an Astros game, plans are Rent free garage apartment. Rice (402) 477-4041. *** The latest record in the "Hooked now being finalized for Big Dog area. Female student with *** For sale: Yamaha stereo AM/FM On" series features the Velvet Day at Rice Stadium. At a future afternoons available for baby- Female student to live in in Underground. Pick up "Hooked with 2 Advent speakers. Beogram Rice football game, all customers 1900 turntable. Contact Polly sitting from 3-7 p.m. weekdays and exchange for baby-sitting on Heroin" at your favorite record with a big dog will be admitted for some evenings. Possible other (children ages 9 & 11). South store now. 840-6202 or home 266-5506. *** only $2.50, to cover clean-up costs. chores. References required. Call Braeswood/Hillcroft area. Must *** Halftime will include a contest to "What's this large breast doing on 1 guess the real question is: Will Kay Moseley 960-2871 for more have own car. Prefer nonsmoker, they see her breasts before she find the biggest, and thus the the scene of the crime?" queried the Ms. Lande 771-2273. explodes? dumbest dog, with exciting prizes information. FBI. *** for the winning owner. Remember, *** Books for sale: Ceng 301, Ceng if you don't have a big dog, get one! 1 heard about some jerks who 401, Ceng 411, Masc 330. All in *»* n watched Robby Benson in One on good condition. Cheap. 521-2818. 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Own room. • •• —another concerned citizen Share of rent is about $125/month I know a good place to dance on *** Reading the Backpage plus % utilities. Contact Marilyn Thursday nights. It's. New Wave Hey, homophobes, better protect 529-3623 during the day. Night at Numbers. your "manliness," the sodomy law There are four categories of information on the Backpage, as well as was declared unconstitutional. categories within those, not to mention classes such as trivial, boring, Roommate wanted: Female, non- Yep, lots of heterosexuals go there Homosexuals can make you stop and witty. smoker wanted for 2-bedroom, 2- on New Wave Night. oppressing them now. bath apartment within walking *** *** distance of Rice. $295 utilities For sale: Boxspring & mattress, No, I meant that the tune exists in The Rice Calendar in Solidarity with the People's Worldwide paid, good security, swimming twin size, 1 year old, $15. 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