Papoutsakis wins Presidential Investigator honor Technology Policy in the White Papoutsakis' selection as one of biochemical reaction engineering, Dr. E. Terry Papoutsakis, 33, Science Foundation administers House. 200 engineering and scientific the program. such as fermentations of an assistant professor of chemical awardees "from among 1,089 saccharolytic bacteria for the engineering at Rice University, has News of the honor reached the Papoutsakis, a native of Greece, nominees in a very difficult production of oxychemicals from been named a 1985 Presidential Rice chemical engineer in a letter has been a member of the Rice competition attests to the selecting biomass hydrolysates. His Young Investigator, the White faculty since 1980. He holds a from G.A. Keywor.th II, science committee's high regard for your research also involves computer House announced. diploma in chemical engineering advisor to President Reagan who potential, research and teaching." aided fermentations, tissue-culture told Papoutsakis that the award from the National Technical The honor carries with it The awards are designed to fund reactors and methylotrophic embodies "the nation's determina- University in Athens and M.S. and $25,000 per year for five years from research by faculty near the fermentations. tion to assure vitality of American Ph.D. degrees in chemical the federal government. This beginning of their academic Papoutsakis is the second young engineering from Purdue amount may possibly be raised up research universities and to careers and thereby help Rice professor to win the University. to $100,000 per year through a strengthen our ability to train the universities attract and retain Presidential award. Last year Dr combination of federal and next generation of technical outstanding young Ph.Ds. who Papoutsakis' research areas at Robert L. Bryant, a Rice matching private funds according leaders." might otherwise pursue non- Rice include various aspects of mathematician, was among the to the Office of Science and Keyworth also pointed out that teaching careers. The National biochemical engineering and first honorees. INSIDE: in • Go abroad and make your 'rents drool, see pages 6-8 • I'm innocent, really I am • Brown play opens tonight The college, not the color I THRESHER Loads of fun. See page 4 Tuesday, March 19, 1985 Volume 72, Number 32 SACS: Administrative services need improvement facilities are certainly adequate for Southern University, who by Kimberlee Barrett Provost and Dean of Academic the size," the committee reported, commented upon the undergradu- Although Rice University's Affairs at Vanderbilt University, according to Gordon. ate program, said that while he undergraduate programs and said that the committee's main However, the organization of believed that undergraduate financial management are purposes were "to review and administrative services begged education is strong at Rice, he feels generally strong, the university evaluate the quality of Rice and the improvement they said. that Rice needs to tighten needs to better organi/e effectiveness of the self-study distribution requirements, administrative services and to look scheme." The committee felt that one of especially with regard to writing. at the possibility of tightening He said that the committee also Rice's chief concerns should be to He also said that Rice needs distribution requirements. wanted "to be helpful in the better organize its budget-making process. more equipment in the science Those were the preliminary transition of leadership." Their suggestions in this area deparments, especially the space recommendations of the according to Gordon. include making the provost chief physics department. committee which visited Rice two The committee praised the budget officer and increasing the The committee member whit weeks ago as part of the university for its fiscal responsibilities of the deans. studied the Jones School, Dr. university's reaccreditation responsibilty. Elizabeth Zinser. the Vice process under the direction of the Overall, the committee found Dr. William Whipple. Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Southern Association of Colleges Rice's financial resources President for Development at the the University of North Carolina- and Schools. William Gordon excellent. They listed Rice as University of the South, also said rhe Rice's public relations could be Greensboro, said that the Tones Provost William Gordon ranking third in endowment per However, "the question was handled more efficiently. School was a "good investment." reported on the committee's student. whether the committee members He advised that a staff and She noted that it is "well-tied to comments at a Monday afternoon "Rice's assets are substantial could provide helpful advice." he computerized alumni records be the business community." meeting. with no long-term debt. Compared said. placed under the direction of a However, she expressed concern Gordon said there was little with the education industry. Rice single supervisor, who should that the Jones School faculty be doubt that the committee will Chairman of the committee. is in good condition. The campus is possibly be given the title of vice made to feel more a part of the reaffirm Rice's accreditation. Dean Glen Clanton, the Denutv beautiful and spacious and the president. university's faculty. Another problem that the With respect to the humanities, Speakers headed for national meet committee noted was the lack of the committee advised that it adequate personnel in some should be Rice's "prime mission to by Paul Havlak McClain in extemp and sweepstakes competition, departments. They suggested that recruit faculty who are vital and Despite the common conception impromptu. considering the number of entries the university train supervisors interesting, with the emphasis on that the George R. Brown The nine qualifications place Rice has. better. They also pointed out that undergraduate education." Forensics Society is just a debate, Rice ahead of all other universities This is the second year of departments often lacked the "Rice could be viewed as a team, four society members will be in Texas and the Southwest competition for the fledgling personnel they needed to perform template for other universities," attending American Forensics conference in the number of entries forensics society, and the first with their tasks and that this personnel the committee reported. Association nationals in individual in the national tournaments. By a coach. In contrast, the University was sometimes not properly Gordon emphasized that this speech events. Rice's one debate this measure, Rice is probably also of Texas at Arlington, which has trained. report was a draft report and that team will, however, be unable to in the top 20 of the approximately devoted substantial years and Undergraduate education, when the actual report comes he attend the separate debate 120 universities participating in funding to the development of its t hp ugh strong, could stand can provide more detail. nationals because of lack of A FA Nationals, according to Rice speech program, lags behind with reforms in several areas, the "It was a line visit. 1 think thc\ funding. forensics coach Mark Fain. only six entries foNJiationals. committee said. went away with some real The society entry fees and travel Fain predicts that the team Because of the prominent appreciation ol what Rice is." expenses are partly funded by an Dr. Wesley MeClure. Vice could do as well as 10th in see Rice, page 2 Gordon concluded. endowment established in George Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Brown's memory. Additional money comes from the Songwriting offered Department of Humanities. Hanszen College is sponsoring a instructor. The speech team racked up four course in songwriting for the fall Larry Lesser, the student more qualifications at the A FA semester of the 1985-1986 coordinator for the course, said District Three qualifying academic year. that there may be a modest tuition tournament on March 9-10, held at Hans 101, entitled, "Songwrit- charge for entrance into the Wichita State University in ing: Theory and Practice," is course, ranging to as much as $75. Wichita, Kansas. Those qualifying designed to allow students to The size of the fee will depend on were Lea Hong in extemporaneous review the fundamentals of music how much of subsidy the coursed speaking and poetry interpret- theory, analyze the lyrical and receives from the college and the ation, Anne Laffoon in musical structures of a variety of size of the class enrollment. informative speaking, and Evan songs, and then write and produce The class will not require that Kramer in impromptu speaking. their own compositions. students buy textbooks, however. Kramer also qualified as an The two-credit-hour course will Lesser said. alternate in communication be offered on Tuesdays and Lee Martin, a composer with analysis. Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. Rice's Shepherd School of Music, District Three comprises Texas, Admission is open to all students. will teach the course. Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, However, students wishing to Martin has experience writing Arkansas, and Missouri. enroll in the course must have contemporary music as well as in Rice students had already already completed Musi 117 or an the field of classical composition. qualified five times: Hong in equivalent thereof. Students will He has helped make albums for the impromptu, Laffoon in extemp also be allowed into the course if former local rock-music group and impromptu, and David they have the permission of the Volumatix. An altercation at the lovett Casino Party. W. Gulp Dgja vu Rice champs to miss debate nationals
I met Dr. George Rupp last week, shook his hands, and continued from page I nation, from California State- until all their teammates had a listened to him as he talked, first with the college presidents and successes in individual events, and North Ridge, the heartland of chance to qualify. then with Thresher news editor David Friesenhahn, about Rice the fact that the forensics society CEDA debate. Fain noted that many and his future role as president. All in all, 1 was rather impressed budget was set before Rice had a Rice will have four contestents tournaments have made special debate team, the team of McClain by his mental agility and his refusal to make premature policy at nationals in impromptu mention in the awards of Rice's and Kramer, state champions in- rise among forensics powerhouses. announcements on important issues. speaking, the squad's strongest CEDA debate, will be unable to event. Rice has dominated Rice has finished in the top four in But upon reading these words in a Thresher article, 1 find attend debate nationals, scheduled impromptu at every tournament sweepstakes competition in each of myself more than a little amused and concerned: "[The president for April 3-5 in Reno, Nevada. the squad has attended, and they the nine tournaments the society said] that the present athletic program is 'experimental' and that Fain said financial reasons are tied with another school for the has attended — with approxi- if after five years the program has been judged unsuccessful that forced his decision to cut debate largest number of students mately 30 schools attending every the university would have to reconsider the role of the athletic nationals from the society's qualified in the event. Rice also tournament. department at Rice... '1 really would like us to have an athletic itinerary. "David and Evan are ranks in the top five schools by "We definitely have made our program of some quality or not have one."' somewhere in the top 30 CEDA number extemporaneous speaking mark this year, and our showing at The article is remarkable because it appeared in the April 15, teams," he noted, and would be contestants. regionals just emphasized it even certain to be accepted to nationals. 1971 Thresher, describing a speech by President Norman Having such a small squad more," said Fain. CEDA teams do not go through McClain is president of the Hackerman, who took office at the beginning of that academic competing in a small number of the same qualification procedure events hurt the squad, said Fain, forensics society, with Laffoon as year. as individual performers; every because of members having to vice president and Hong as After 15 years of Hackerman, the football program is still, team above a certain rank simply compete against each other. secretary. Rice students interested more than any other sport, "experimental." The highlights of gets to go to nationals. According to McClain, they in joining the speech team should Rice football during those years include no winning seasons; the CEDA stands for Cross- lessened this problem by having contact one of the officers or coach downs have left the team winless for over a season at a time. Rice Examination Debate Association. team members qualified in an Mike Fain through the has received substantial publicity — as a consistent loser. CEDA debates are similar to event not compete in that event Department of Humanities. When Watson Brown's first contract expires, the Rice football debates held in connection with the National Debate Tournament, cnsrawittoOMtyHeuia—umwFBftweBsw. program will either be back on track or it will be entering a except for the goal of value- second quarter century of losing seasons. To my knowledge, no resolution debate, as opposed to other sports team at Rice has accumulated as poor a record and NDT-style legislation-oriented survived. Club teams with much greater success receive almost debate. no funding. McClain and Kramer have held Dr. Rupp is partly right in not criticizing the football program the championship since winning THE ONLY THINGS THE in the middle of the Watson Brown "experiment." Under no the state tournament held at circumstances should Brown be denied his chance to make Rice Abiline Christion University in STAR WARS DEFENSE SYSTEM competitive. But Rupp should make it clearly known that if the February. They have since WILL DEFINITELY KNOCKOUT.. experiment does not succeed, it is the end of Division 1 football defended their title, taking first- place at Texas Southern at Rice. University. Any other course of action will inevitably result in another 15 At the UT-San Antonio h.JOBCORK, years of wasted effort. tournament, the Rice pair defeated 570PSNTAIP, —havlak the fifth-ranked debate team in the MEP/CARE, ETC, Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU
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We caught it just as it was about to convert (o£>/^U The Rice Thresher, March 19, 1985, page 3 WRESHER FINE /IRTS Brown College Theatre's Uncommon Women opens this evening Dresser), an inner-directed Uncommon Women and Others freshman whom the group had Brown College Theater "adopted," L.eilah (Chu Preview Ferreyros), who did not attend the reunion, and Susie Friend (Gwen A reunion with college friends Richard), a very social type who can often be an enlightening organizes and plans everything. experience. It is a chance to see Directed by Allison Leach and how far one has come in the past Shannon Halwes, this production few years and to compare one's will include actresses from six progress with others. This is the different colleges, and six of the subject of Uncommon Women ami nine actresses are also seniors. Others, Brown College Theater's According to Miss Leach, this spring production. Written by play has captured the plight of Wendy Wasserstein, the play seniors very well. These girls were begins as five young women freshmen in 1968 and the group is informally meet for lunch in 1978. suffering the aftershock of the Rita (Debbie C a t s i k e a s). sixties. They are the first women Samantha (Amy Fredrickson). who will not automatically go out Muffet (Ann Marley). Holly (Beth and get married. They must decide Reingold) and Kate (Andrea what to do with their lives and deal Martin) reflect on their with the problems of combining experiences at Mount Holyoke in marriage and a career. the early seventies and their lives Lest this sound too heavy and since then. dramatic, it should be stressed that this play is also very funny. T he play is also a memory play. It flashes back to their senior year Uncommon Women and Others will open Tuesday, March 19 and in college, 1972, and the women run through Saturday, March 23. consider their past lives (many had Tickets are $3.00 and reservations very different backgrounds) and can be made by calling x3574 or their plans for the future. This 630-8193. Performances are at 8 section of the play also includes: p.m. in Brown commons. their housemother, Mrs. Plumm (Adele Morris), Carter (Laura Debbie Catsikeas gives a thumbs up during rehearsal of Brown College Theatre's Uncommen Women and Others —Karin Murphy Bogdanovich's Mask depicts hardship of physically marred boy Mask lives and parties with a California their lifestyle. The characters come dreams like anyone else, and Mr. fun and games, but while she never Directed by Peter Bogdanovich motorcycle gang. Rocky is no across not as stereotypes but as Stolz makes this wonderfully denies her son's handicap exists. freak to her and the gang; he never human beings. Miss Phelan's script apparent. Rusty makes sure Rocky always acts like one and they never treat Mask is a remarkable movie. It is not subtle but doesn't pummel realizes he can live any life he him like one. Rusty and Rocky As Gar, Rocky's father-figure is emotional yet not sappy, the audience with its message. wants as long as he believes in have a special relationship, like and Rusty's old flame who comes himself. Full of life and energy. romanticized yet not overly Flowing and coherent, the plot is any mother and son. They make off the road to be reunited with Cher and Mr. Stoltz are a dynamic- sentimental. The film concerns the still secondary to the interesting jokes a lot about Rocky's disease, them, Sam Elliot gives an pair onscreen. true story of a young boy, Rocky people involved. but they never forget the gravity of understated yet strong perfor- Appearances aren't everything Dennis, who. despite being born it. Of course, most captivating is mance. Mr. Elliot's Gar is an and after getting to know Rocky with a disease that was supposed to Rocky himself, remarkably well interesting contrast to Cher's and the people around him, the have left him dead as a young Rocky's story could easily have played by Eric Stolz. Under a very Rusty. audience has tp agree. Mask is a child, survives well past anyone's been make into a television realistic make-up job, Mr. Stolz special movie about someone who expectations. "disease-of-the-week" movie, As Rocky's fiery mother, Cher portrays Rocky so naturally that gives a fantastic performance. struggles to live an exceptionally Rocky (Eric Stolz) is not an dripping with saccharin and Rocky is immediately a Rusty is impetuous, obnoxious full life for as long as he can. An adorable poster child with a pretty signifying nothing. But in the sympathetic character not because and somewhat self-destructive but excellent and extraordinarily face and crutches; Rocky has hands of director Peter of his deformity, but because he is enormously loving and caring moving film in every aspect. Mask neural fibrumitosis, or "the Bogdanovich and scriptwriter truly just another person behind about her son and her friends. is not to be missed. elephant man's disease." His facial Anna Hamilton Phelan, Rocky his "mask." Rocky has feelings and Being mother to Rocky is not all —Frances Egler bones have never stopped growing, and those around him become not making his head look like it has just flat symbols of the outcasts of been pulled and stretched in every society, but three-dimensional Orwell's 1984 comes to the big screen direction. Outwardly, Rocky is characters, somewhat romanti- ugly, almost garish. cized but still realistic. 1984 of the '40s, the movie feels like Worker, Minitru Records Section, Inwardly, Rocky is a different Mr. Bogdanovich shows the Directed by Michael Radford what might have run through is embodied in actor John Hurt. story. His mother. Rusty (Cher), good (freedom) and bad (drugs) of Orwell's mind as he wrote the Mr. Hurt lives up to his name, 1984 has come and gone with all original, giving it the credibility looking somewhat the worse for the Orwellian fanfare that was needed for acceptance in 1985. wear, perpetually pained, visibly Brown College Theatre Presents expected, and now we get to see suffering from the oppressive The film opens during the two- how it might have been. The 1984 weight of Big Brother's regime. He minute hate period with the crowd that is described on the screen is an seems to thrive on the copious screaming into the camera, amazing world, one of desolation, "victory gin" and cigarettes, radiating hate off the screen and decay and doom. Unlike most film although he has little to live for into the audience. What follows is adaptations, 1984 has miraculous- other than his work. Uncommon no less intense: as the hate gives ly avoided being reassembled way to Big Brother and the Mr. Hurt's characterization of under the guise of "artistic license." national anthem of Oceania, the Winston Smith is intense, Combine this achievement with crowd takes on the feeling of delivering to the audience the full fine acting by the principals and terribly scared children with B.B. force of the revulsion he feels for the film yields a production of both Women providing paternal reassurances. the world around him. literary and cinematic merit. Set in This is but one example of the Throughout the film, we conspire what looks to be wartime London insights which Mr. Radford gives with Smith, cringe with Smith, and Others us into the emotions of the crowd, dream with Smith and, after he is the society, the individual. And crushed by O'Brien, mourn his — Spend a summer of passing. by Wendy Wasserstein J*' service in tMlin America. thanks to the fine acting of his cast, Enhance your professional there is an overall intensity Richard Burton, in his last role school application. matched in few films. for the screen, portrays the J* instrument of the state, O'Brien. As an AMIGOS volunteer you can 6079 Smith, W.. Outer Partv provide public health services that see 1984, page 5 March 19-23 save lives in Latin America while gain ing valuable experience for your future Starl framing now for next Lr Ai K* WIL LI AM 5 summer Contact: Attorney at Law Brown College Commons 8:00 pm Amigo5 de icis Americas 5618 Stoi Lone DIVORCE FAMILY LAW WILLS BUSINESS LAW Reservations 630-8193 527-8101x3574 Houston Texas 7 /0S7 • 600 231 '<'796 ' 1J•• 76? W! 520-4500 ! 600 IV? 4560 In Texas Nid ctrtifmj by Hit Taut third of Ugml SptmliutHM The Rice Thresher, March 19, 1985, page 4 THRESHER FINE/IRTS Sewall Gallery's exhibition focuses on satire and caracatures Red Grooms and Grooms is often associated with events, all free and open to the Warrington Colescott the Pop Movement. A native of public, which will take place Sewall Gallery Nashville, Tennessee, he has lived during the period of theexhibition: and worked in New York City for Friday, March 22 from 1:00 to Red Grooms and Warrington many years. 2:1 5 p.m.. Rice Media Center: Red Colescott, Masters of Contemp- Colescott. who enjoys and G r o o m s a nd W a r r i n g t <> n orary Satire, an exhibition of fifty international reputation for his Colescott. A Diaglgue, moderated prints and paintings on paper lent satirical prints and paintings, has by Dr. Marion Grayson. by the artists, will be on view in the taught intaglio printmaking since Friday, March 22 from 7:00 to Sewall Art Gallery of Rice 1949 at the University of 9:00 p.m.. Sewall Art Gallery. University from Friday. March 15 Wisconsin-Madison, where he Sewall Hall: Special Reception through Saturday, April 13, 1985. holds the Leo Steppat Professor- (artists will be honored from 7 to X Brought together for the first time ship-. Among his best-known p.m.). in a two-man show organized by works is the riotous color etching Saturday, March 30 at 3:00 Gallery director Marion Grayson, series, The History of Print- p.m., Sewall Art Gallery. Sewall the works of Grooms and making. owned by numerous Hall: Gallery Talk by Dr. Marion Colescott offer provocative museums and private collectors. Grayson, a specialist in the history mesages about contemporary life Selections from it will be included and connoisseurship of the fine and the human condition in the in the exhibition. print. grand artistic tradition of such past While both artists have This project has been funded in masters as Hogarth, Goya and underlying affinities as humorists part by a grant from the C it\ ol Daumier. working in a caricatural syle, and Houston through the Cultural Grooms is well-known for his both derive their subject matter Arts Council. Additional support critical commentary on the urban from direct, incisive observation of Picasso ai the Zoo, a 1978 color etching by Warrington Colescott at Sewall has been obtained from scene in America through man's follies and foibles, each has body of charicteristic works by anonymous donors from Parisbas. one of pure visual and mental 1 paintings, prints and sculptural his own special point of view and Grooms and Colescott with a view delight in confrontation with these Houston: For more information, constructions called "Ruekuses." approach to his work. toward a critical understanding of masterpieces of contemporary call the Department of Art and Art A highly individualistic artist This exhibition provides a their similarities and differences. satire. History at 527-4815. unaligned with any "school," unique opportunity to examine a Ultimately, however, the goal is The following are some ol the — Freddie l.undk vis i M.I.A. 2 and Norris prove the B- movie is alive, well, successful Missing In Action 2: and his men still captive in a Braddock escapes, steals a cache of B-movie. For example, Braddock more of a regular guy rather than The Beginning Vietnamese prison camp. Here weapons large enough to destroy a wipes out about twenty guys single an overly macho, rough, tough, Directed hy l.ance Hool they arc subjected to both physical fair sized army, and proceeds to handedly and then wipes out slug-it-out real man. This is quite and psychological torture in an fight back. He plants tons of high another ten during the obligatory- refreshing and does not hurt the chase sequence. However, you action at all. Ever wondered what the effort to break Braddock and force explosives all round the camp and never see more than four at a time. Vietnamese did to good ole Col. him to sign a "confession" which proceeds to wipe out the guards But when all is said and done. Hmmm, must be a coincidence. Braddock to make him so upset in acknowleges his "war crimes" using such diverse means as karate M.I.A. 2 is still a B-movie which M. I.A.I Well, this prequel tells all, against the people and the chops, flamethrowers, hand The setting was quite realistic, seems to have traded higher in true B-movie style. There's not government of Vietnam. granades. machine guns, knives, unusual again for a B-movie. The production quality for some of the much acting or plot, but who needs Braddock, of course, w on't sign, and strangulation. jungles of Mexico and the West action. It should still be mildly that? This is a real movie where the regardless, and so the time passes The only real martial-arts scene Indies pass well for the jungles of satisfying to purveyors of hard- good guys beat the hell out of the with occasional attempted escapes is the final duke-out with Ho. The Vietnam. There are no mistakes core action but will probably not bad guys. which end eitljer in recapture or action is rather mild for devoted such as occured in previous films stand out as one of the better of this type, such as the majestic examples of this genre. Chuck Norris, a real-life death on one of the many Norris fans, without much hills just "north of Galveston. undefeated karate champion, boobytraps which surround the originality, but nevertheless, the It you like B-movies, action and Texas" that appeared in plays Braddock, a colonel in the camp. bad guy takes a massive beating. Chuck Norris. then you'll like this Uncommon I alor. U.S. Army. In 1972. he boards a The camp commandant. Col. Surprisingly, the production for a cheap, twilight shou, helicopter to do some reconnais- Ho (Soon-Teck Oh), is a martial quality is superior to previous Chuck Norris comes across as —Ian Seath ance. While flying around, he sees arts champion and uses this to Norris films. The are no major some other good ole boys in keep his big, bad guards in order. glitches and no real directing trouble, flys down to save them, But this does not prevent him from problems. Lance Hool does and For the lWfi Stanford Summer Session Bulletin and doing his own dirty deeds when adequate, if uninspired, job and. application . mail this c by Jason Binford Photography by Susan Buchanan hard, because the thing got really heavy. But it was great "I was also lucky in Freiburg to live in a dorm with for my racquetball game." German students. Housing there is at a premium, but I While classes were not in session, Mailman was able to was able to get into the regular dorm rather than the travel to other parts of China. He was surprised to find international dorm where much more English was travel less restricted than he expected. As he explained, spoken. I spoke German almost all the time, and it got to "If I wanted to go out of town, I had to check in at the the point that if I wanted to say something in English, I local travel office and fill out a card with a planned would think it in German and then have to translate it. itinerary. Then in the cities I stopped in I would check in "It can be hard to get to know German students, with the travel office there, but it was possible to revise especially for people on a traditional junior-year-abroad my itinerary. Apparently,vthey were less rigorous in program who spend their time with other students in Mongolia than they would have been in Beijing [Peking]. their program. But it is possible to be accepted by the I was able to go to Beijing for about two weeks, and to Germans. One of the things I found most helpful, not Shanghai and other areas for a week. Even there I wasn't only in Germany but in Italy and other countries I visited, restricted like I expected." was to try to see things from the inside out, rather than Mailman noted that China is a poorer country then the encountering something new, saying, 'Oh, that's really U.S., and, though clean, the environment is less healthy different,' and looking from the outside. I also tried not than that here. "The living situation was relatively to be special with the German students. There's that primitive, so it's important that you be in good health stereotype that Germans are cold people, but once you before you go. There was one student on the program get to know them, the students there are a lot like U.S. who was in bad health to begin with, and she got sicker students. It's just that the German character on the Danny Mailman: until they finally sent her home. It's a good idea to see a surface is very orderly. doctor in advance to talk about things that might come "They did have certain conceptions about Americans Inner Mongolia up. As for myself, I had one really severe earache that — for instance, that we are very materialistic. But I think I lasted maybe two days, but none of the digestive broke some of the stereotypes they had. One of the "I was warned about the cold," said Danny Mailman, problems that everybody worries about." hardest things for me to adjust to was the cultural "but I wasn't prepared for it at all." Mailman spent six While some of his fellow U.S. students had some expectations of women in Germany. 1 remember one months of the spring and summer of his sophomore year difficulty adjusting to the different culture, Mailman felt time I went sailing with a group of friends, and when we at the University of Inner Mongolia in the city of able to avoid culture shock. "Some of the other got back, all the guys sat down in lawn chairs expecting Huhehaote, Mongolia. "It was fairly cold near the Westerners had trouble with the Chinese language, the women to go into the kitchen, make lunch, and call Russian border and the cold arctic wind came off over since they hadn't studied it before but were trying to use them when it was ready. In the same situation at Rice, the steppes. For the first five weeks I was there the it in the new culture. Actually,therudecultureshock for everyone would help out, and I explained this to my temperature didn't get above thirty degrees." me was coming back to San Franciso. In China I had been German friends. I didn't want them to look at me as a Fortunately for him, however, thetemperamentofthe used to seeing everybody dressed in these dark blue feminist, since I really don't see myself that way. But I did people he met did not match the weather. "I went over Mao suits, and then I came into the airport in San want to be treated more equally. I certainly came to there with the typical idea that since these people are in Francisco. When I came out of the customs office, the apprciate how much more equally women aretreated in a communist system, they must be really repressed and first thing I saw was five prostitutes dressed in these really this country." unhappy. They weren't. The students were very much gaudy, revealing outfits. That was a shocking sort of Blume was also able to compare the German like students anywhere — fun-loving and easy-going. thing, but really kind of nice. education system to the system at Rice. "After Freiburg I Their attitude toward Americans, more than anything "Things are much simpler there and fairly regimented. enrolled as a visiting student at the University of Munich, else, was curiosity. It was a good environment to experience for a while. and would attend afternoon lectures with German "After the novelty of being a foreigner wore off, I was There's no question that it was a positive experience, no students. Most of the classes are large lectures with little pretty much accepted as one of the group. I suppose that question at all." contact with the professors. I think in the U.S. system we dorm behavior is almost universal. The main difference is get a lot of our education from personal interaction with that in China you don't have dating to the same extent as professors, but that's not very possible in Germany. On in the U.S. But one of the big things was to play frisbee, Anne Blume: the other hand, I liked the independence of the school which they translated as 'flying pan.' We also spent time system there. Instead of frequent exams in each of their playing bridge and just hanging around." West Germany classes, they had occasional comprehensive exams. Mailman had wanted to travel to China to improve his There seemed a possibility of learning subjects in more Chinese and to learn more of the culture. Rice's In the fall of her junior year, Anne Blume knew that depth and doing it on your own." Linguistics Department offered him a one-time grant to she wanted to study in Germany and get away from Rice For Blume, the decision to study abroad on her own pay for a program sponsored by the US-China Education for at least a semester, but she wasn't sure of the best way was the right one: "When people ask me about my trip Foundation, hie had the option of studying in various to go about it. "Originally," she explained, "I applied to Europe, I say it was the best thing I ever did for myself. parts of China but decided on Mongolia for two reasons. through programs offered by other U.S. schools, but the My time there affected me in a lot of ways that I can't put "Being in linguistics, I was interested in picking up more I learned of these, the less I liked them. I didn't into words very well. I have a lot of fond memories. I also something of the Mongolian language. That turned out want to be involved in a plan where they lead you tell people, if they have any questions about leaving Rice to be something of a disappointment. I did learn around, and some of the programs seemed to do that. for a semester or two, do it. You learn a whole lot from something of the language, but there weren't any classes Also, I couldn't see paying $6000 to another U..S school being out in the world. You gain so much in offered in it as I had hoped. Also, the novelty of the once I learned that I could apply direct to a German understanding people who are different from you." experience certainly did have something to do with my school and be charged just a $25 fee. I decided to apply decision. Even for the Chinese, it was strange to have to the Goethe Institute in Freiburg, and it turned out to Westerners studying in Mongolia. There were six be fairly easy. My application process was shortened Joseph Champion: Westerners at my university at most." since I wasn't a degree candidate, and I was accepted as a "The people I went over with were all Westerners, and foreign student. I learned that there is actually a quota England most didn't speak any Chinese at all. I took Chinese in for a minimum number of foreign students. high school, so I spoke it pretty much already, and they "My goal was to improve my German speaking ability It may not seem possible to simultaneously earn credit put me in a special group. I attended language classes since I hadn't been gettting to do as much speaking as I toward a Rice bachelor's degree and work as an assistant with the others, but I sat in the back with one of the wanted in my German courses at Rice. I accomplished to a member of Britain's Parliament. That, however, is teachers and practiced speaking and writing while the that. During my first two months I spent five hours per what Will Rice senior Joseph Champion did last fall in an rest of the class studied out of a textbook. I'd attend day, five days per week in class, and earned six hours of internship sponsored by the Institute of European lectures that were given to the Chinese students, and credit for Rice. And one of the best things about the Studies'junior-year-abroad program. He spent the1983- although I didn't understand a lot of what was going on, Goethe Institute was that all that the students there have 84 academic year on this program and explained that the it was good practice. in common is that they're trying to improve their internship was one of the outstanding experiences: "I also took a P.E. course, which was learning to use a German. So there were people from India, Saudi Arabia, "The internship was a very personal thing, working for Mongolian sword, called a butterfly sword, really the Korea, Japan, Greece — from all over the world. German a member of Parliament. It was a lot different from an wildest thing you've ever seen. The exercises were like was the common language for us, so we were almost internship in Washington. Our senators and that slow motion tai-chi, onlv using a sword. It's very forced to speak it. representatives, even The Lady and the Clarinet relationships together. high-powered job in advertising, feeling that maybe this time things Stages Paul worked for Luba's father, a and a wife and two children. After may be different. Of the three suitors. Mark Through April 7 wine merchant. As he comes in one a fight one night, the two don't see As Luba, Donna Whitmore Mitchell's portrayal of Paul is the day to get some papers, Luba, a each other for several weeks. When gives a very competent and most touching. His flustered and precocious sixteen year old, Jack returns, he proclaims that amusing performance. Her scenes awkward manner is very nice. Don Luba is expecting a man for manages to get him into a he's left his wife and wants a fresh in the beginning of the play, where Phelan appears efficient and dinner and has decided to make conversation regarding his sex life. starts. Luba is wiser and more she talks almost constantly, never charming as the married Jack, and everything just perfect, including Intriged by what she learns (he is realistic and sends him packing. become boring. Her accompanist, Gary Scullin does well as the musical accompaniment for the supposedly inexhaustible) and played by Steve Norman, is a fine serenely happy and domestic evening. A 'cello was not available needing experience with men, she In the third case, Luba decides complement to her active George. so she was forced to settle for a persuades Paul that they should to marry the man. George is a character. He never says a word The Lady and the Clarinet is not clarinet. As Luba gets ready for practice. widower and after working for and only rarely communicates full of deep meaning or drama, but this important event, she talks to twenty years, is content to stay Practice they do and Luba is with her by nodding his head or Stages has put on a clever the clarinet player and reminisces home cooking and cleaning, while finallv ready for her meeting with playing a bit of music. He also does production that's enjoyable and about the three most important L.uba runs her father's wine "William. Willie, Bill." the WASP quite well at blending into the entertaining. men in her life. This is the premise business. All is not perfect, though; republican golden boy from her woodwork when needed. -Karin Murphy of The Lady and the Clarinet, a the two don't share a life together school. She perfumes and powders sophisticated comedy by Michael — they are not friends. George has herself and dons a "come and get Critofer, the author of The a friend, a sweet young bride me " dress and spike heels. Before Shadow Box. whom he met in the supermarket, her dream man comes, Paul comes and they trade recipes. Luba tries by to visit, bringing flowers. Luba Luba is a fairly young, to become the woman George quickly cuts him off, telling him intelligent and independent might want, but it ends that she needs no more practice. By STORE woman who adores the male disastrously. r species but hasn't had much luck the time she learns that William near the Texas Medical Center with them, as the audience soon isn't so wonderful after all, Paul The audience never meets the (The First Store in Texas)* learns. Each of the three men has already left town. mysterious dinner guest, but one is enters and Luba narrates and Jack, the next man in Luba's left with a certain amount of Now Open reenacts the histories of their life, has a charming manner, a hopefulness for Luba and the M-F 9-6 Sat. 10-5 Maynard releases his new live album A WHOLE NEW, EXCITING CONCEPT IN SNACKS FOOD SHOPPING Live From San Francisco through. The only detracting turns to "Lush Life" and the Maynard Ferguson aspect is Matt Bissonett's reliance sensual keyboard work of Ron Featuring on heavy funk sounds rather than Pedley. 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Main band. Maynard's solo at the end For the third piece, Maynard demonstrates that he has regained (near Eckerd's, Major's Bookstore) control over his high range. The COLLEGIATE CLEANERS Houston, TX 77030 tone of the early 70s is back and the 522-2443 Students 10% Discount on notes are clearer, stronger and *A Philadelphia Franchise higher than ever. The trumpet Drycleaning and Alterations section of Alan Wise. Hoby 2430 Rice Blvd 523-5887 ^J30% off on V2 lb. of all green items. Good till 3/31/85..) Freeman and Hugh Ragin provide f Straight up the street in the Village excellent backup all the way The Rice Thresher, March 19, 1985, page 9 THRESHER FINE/4RTS Problematical plot and awful acting ruin Gyllenhaal's trite Fury Certain Fury begin by hating each other, even perhaps scared youth but that is followed by gut-wrenching, category. Certain Fury falls flat on Directed by Stephen GyHenhaal going so far as threatening murder, all. !t is still not very good. hackneyed scenes of ridiculous its face, offending the "mainstream but end up as best friends. Ahhh. attempts at tender emotion. movie-goer" with its violence and The plot has several major When films try to escape from so socially relevant. Certain Fury takes itself too the B-movie goer with its awful problems as well. For one. New being labelled as a "B-movie" they They run off to Scarlet's old seriously to be a B-movie and thus and plentiful "friendship" scenes. York has the cleanest sewage 1 almost inevitably end up like boyfriend. Sniffer, who promptly takes itself out of a category where It is certainly not worth spending have ever seen (not that 1 go Certain Fury. They begin with tries to rape Miss Cara. A couple it might have excelled. money to see. around comparing sewage or hard-core action and violence, (well, a dozen more like) whacks Dumped in the "mainstream" —Ian Neath anything). When the two ladies are switch to moving, emotional, on the head with a handy two-by- crawling through the sewer and a socially-relevant statements, then four soon stop the rape and fill the tidal wave of unmentionables throw in some more hard-core bathroom with generous portions comes sweeping down, it looks as if Maynard Ferguson excells action and violence. Then the cycle of blood. Scarlet (Miss O'Neal) an O/.arka truck has overturned repeats. comes back just in time to avoid releasing its pure, crystal clear latum O'Neal is a streetwise having to help. mountain spring water. Even in fantastic jazz numbers youth who can't read and is in But, lest the action stop, three worse, how could they emerge court awaiting trial on various hoodlums come after the girls. from this sparkling clear water all continued from page V Bush. Miles Davis and Thelonius charges such as prositution and Sniffer, who has regained covered with grime, slime, and and varied, ranging from old-time Monk. The opening trumpet lick is dope selling. Irene Cara is an consciousness, blasts one of them goodness knows what else? cocktail to avant garde, but always astounding, with all four trumpets innocent, rich doctor's daughter, through a door with a big shotgun appropriate. Surprisingly, in perfect time in a lightning-fast, also in court. Here is the only and chases the others off. Our two Another question comes to Maynard delivers a solo in the high, high, fanfare. Bassist Matt originality in the film: two girls, dear heroines run off. mind: Miss Cara's character was lower and middle registers and, Bissonett walks his bass well, not guys, in trouble, the rich one Several problems plague this innocent at the tirpe of the trial. what's more, does so extremely proving that though he favors black, the streetwise one white. Hick, not the least of which is Miss Why bother to run out of the well. His tone and control are back funk, he can play more traditional While in court, two other O'Neal. Her perfectly straight, building, down three alleys, into a and his releases are so clean as to jazz-bass very well indeed. women snatch a pistol and a pure white teath, not to mention sewer, and then into a sleazy be almost sanitized. The band In the "Night in Tunisia"section shotgun and start blasting away, her perfectly manicured pornography den? Why not wait, estalishes its ability to play softly especially, Maynard comes across wiping out half the police fingernails, do not match with the with the other people left alive an emotion-packed piece and clear, crisp, powerful and high. department in one go. Our heroes uneducated, streetwise, illiterate from the courtroom, in the lobby continues to be amazingly together Daniel Jordan's sax is outstanding (anti-heroes? Or am I reading too social renegade that she attempts of the building and let Daddy sort in Mr. DiBlasio's arrangement. and Mr. Wiest's trombone is hot much into the film?) run and to play. Her acting is simply awful, it out? Trombonist Steve Wiest once again. Mr. DiBlasio's scat inevitably get mistaken for the especially when she is yelling To top it all off, the ending is so provides the final cut for side one solo shows his command over his charming young ladies who wasted streams of obscinities; it does not trite, banal, and clichd-ridden that with his "South 21st Shuffle." A voice is equal to his command over twenty cops, two baliffs, and a look the least bit natural. it is patently offensive. "shuffle," in the sense of "Jean, the sax, flute, piccolo, and judge. Miss Cara is only marginally The result is an alternating Jean, the Dancing Machine," is the virtually anything else he cares to Predictably enough, the girls better, coming off as a confused. pattern of action packed violence best way to describe this up-tempo, pick up. upbeat piece. Not surprisinly. the Changing the pace once again, trombones have some great licks, Maynard performs another especially Mr. Wiest who, in the' DiBlasio arrangement, this time first part of his solo, shows his "On the Sunny Side of the Street." absolute command over the Matt Bissonett gets even better instrument by changing from here, strolling exquisitely with ultra-high to super-low notes in a Maynard's vocals. The whole band matter of seconds. His duet with exudes coolness and cohesiveness Maynard illustrates the talents of which shows off Mr. DiBlasio's the two men as they parley back skill as an arranger. and forth in a musical joust. To conclude the album. Side two opens with the medley Maynard has chosen a number he "Bebop Buffet," featuring music co-wrote, "Ganesha," an ancient from such greats as Charlie Hindu prayer which has under- Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Francis gone maynardization. The Prophet V demonstrates its versatility in the hands of Mr. 0 Clothing for Pedley by imitating a sitar perfectly; if I hadn't seen this piece the Rice performed in person, I would not be able to tell the difference. After Community the chanting, the tune goes to a o more Western vein though still heavily influenced by music styles from the East. Of special note is the dual sax solo, i.e. one man, Tim Riess, playing two saxes, soloing on each at the same time. On returning to the chanting, the tempo doubles, with the bass adding an undercurrent which builds dramatically to the conclusion. During Maynard's highly profitable (to him) but unsatisfying (to the jazzophile) dabble in the disco genre, his return to the world of jazz, was eagerly awaited. 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Leave ** * for Rice Invitational Tennis pineapple chunks, garlic bread, tranquility, resting at home, and message for Alex Siegel at WRC Are you interested in hosting a Championship, Fridat, march 22 fudge ripple cake. content in their work, they should office. prospective freshman for Owl Day through Sunday, March 24. naturally speak fine words and do ** * on Thursday, April 18 through Needed to drive, take tickets and Wednesday 20th The Instituto de Cultura Saturday, April 20'.' If so. please host party. Free lunches, good deeds, and so have no need Hispanica of Houston is pleased to stop by the Admissions Office or tournament party, and great for shame in life." Eggs to order, breakfast tacos, tennis! Contact larrv Turville, announce scholarship awards for see a Student Admissions — the **K'ang-hs* i Emperor cinnamon rolls. 1985. This year there will be five Committee member tennis coach. 527-4077/ 520-7273. To Rubash, Hicks, et al: Burritos, chili, succotash, fruit. For the last 2 Sundays, brunch has been plagued by long lines and "New Breed", Sliced Turkey, slow service. Kindly explain to me gravy, scalloped potatoes, how running twice as many people seasoned turnip greens, rolls, ice through the same size bottleneck is cream. going to speed things up!? And in case we can't get enough of Thursday 21st standing about, you're putting us Eggs to order, cream of wheat, through it twice a week now. cinnamon apples, bagels and Please, someone anyone— pull cream cheese. these people's heads out before it's too late? Egg Ro lis.oriental mixed Irately submitted, vegetables, fruit or novelty. an Si-Commons reactionary Roast Beast and gravy, browned EBLS OWLS beware. TRGLS is rice, broccoli spears, poppyseed coming soon. rolls, butter, coconut cream pie. Definition: TRGLS l)Typical Friday 22nd Rice Girl Literary Society; 2) A .lones College tradition; 3) An French toast, syrup, links, hard or overalls formal held once every soft cooked eggs. spring, (as in: see you at TRGLS this Saturday). Fried fish, peas and carrots, fruit. ** * Dear B.(C.)N. Fried chicken, baked tater tots, Where've you been? Don't tell me italian green breans, rolls, fruit. we're gonna leave that little «J;, Hi question untried... at least I hope Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th not. After all, these are our college Continental Breakfast 8-9 a.m. vears ... A.ST.. Brunch 11 a.m.-l p.m. \ #* * *** Proverb of the week: Stick shifts Is brunch sinking so low they won't are fun, but sometimes there's no warn us what it is beforehand? rill substitute for a bench seat. Sunday was pitiful. —phh THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON—UNIVERSITY Find the Cold Gold Bar or PARK LONDON STUDY PROGRAM Silver Bullet Bar and win SUMMER SEMESTERS I & II a Cold Gold or Silver Bullet bicycle! WHERE: London, England WHEN: 5 1 CONTACT: Summer I May 30--July 4 Bars (VA" x /s" x A") London Study Program Summer II July 9-August 14 hidden somewhere English Department Students may enroll for both on campus. UH-UP Houston,TX 77004 summer sessions Attn: Gillian Landreneau COURSES: No digging, climbing (713) 749-3483/749-4726 English and Art or damaging property REQUIREMENTS: necessary. UH-UP students in good standing, transfer students from accredited Clues posted on clue colleges and universities, sophomore, junior, and senior level. PREREQUISITES: boards at convenient The students must have completed his/her freshman English locations. requirements and be working toward a degree. All majors with at least a Questions, contact your 2.00 GPA are invited to apply. Coors college rep COSTS: ONE SUMMER SESSION Coors does not accept any wsponsth for damages to property Tuition for six hours credit: 104.00" Students who sign up tor both summer Housing & Program Fee: 1.096.00 sessions will pay a total of S2.250.00. Airfare is not included Group travel $70.00 plus S3 00 Application Fee: 50.00 tax round trip 'Subject to changes in UH-UP Administration Fee: 100.00 tuition costs Total: $1,35000 The Rice Thresher, March 19, 1985, page 12