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by Kimberlee Barrett I.css than 15 of Ricc's teaching were part of the problem and we "If you were to ask people in the Professor of English Alan Grob professors are oriental or have need to take part in the solution." administration, 'Why are there not suggested at a recent faculty Hispanic surnames. However, neither Grob nor a fair share of minority professors meeting that Rice University must Until 1965, Rice had an official Briggs believes that the fact that at Rice?' they would answer that strive to recruit and hire more policy of racial discrimination in less than one percent of the they can't find them; 1 think there minority professors. hiring and in the admittance of university's faculty is black is truth to this," Grob said. Currently, only three of Rice students. automatically indicts Rice as being University's approximately 400 Grob believes Rice should make racially discriminatory. Grob said that if Rice is to faculty members are black: an effort to correct some of the They attribute the present correct this problem, the hiring of Professor of English Robert Jones, inequities which occurred in the situation to apathy instead. They blacks would have to become a Professor of Art History George university's past. said that the small number of priority, as it has at several other Smith, and Professor of Electrical "1 think Rice has a particular minority professors in the country Southern schools. Alan Grob —H. Turner Engineering Faye Briggs. social obligation." Grob said. "We makes it difficult to recruit them. see Minority, page 4 Infrastructure improvements critical Whitmire seeks more capital improvement

by David Friesenhahn and 1 think that's important lor our economy's growth." Houston Mayor Kathy Despite low tax rates, Houston Whitmire told a meeting of the Houston Water Pollution Control has still looked unappealing to Association in the Rice Memorial some businesses because the city Center Thursday night that the city government has not maintained its must continue the capital infrastructure or provided basic improvements her administration services. Whitmire said. She said has begun in order to compete she has directed much of her economically with other cities. administration's energy toward correcting this situation. Houston's past accomplish- ments, such as the construction of "We suffered from years oi its seaport and its impressive being unprepared, of not taking skyline, demonstrate the historic steps in time," Whitmire said. attitude of its people that they can "Sometimes we didn't maintain the achieve anything, Whitmire said. cleanliness of our water. She said this attitude has provided Sometimes we didn't anticipate the economic opportunities for supply we would need in the Houston's residents. future. Sometimes we didn't Whitmire said the city's ability anticipate the waste we would have to weather its recent recession to dispose of. And now we have to places her administration squarely go back and make up for some lost within this tradition. time." Mayor Kathy Whitmire addresses an audience in the RMC Thursday evening. Hulbert "We've been through a recession One problem which has proven these past few years," Whitmire to be particularly frustrating is said, "but now we're beginning to sewage treatment, the mayor said. come out of it because we are The city lacks sewage treatment Smaller intro courses supported working once again to apply our capacity, which has slowed by Cheryl Smith would ask what's the difference energies to diversify our economy economic development in some "We have a limited number of President George Rupp's between a state university and to compete with other cities and to parts of the city, Whitmire pointed professors who can teach out. promise at last week's faculty Rice." elementary courses," Professor ot make sure that our economy will meeting to increase the Rice Houston's failure to treat He said the fact that many other Chemistry Edward Lewis said continue to provide opportunities faculty by the end of the decade sewage resulted in the pollution of universities also have huge "But I'd have to be convinced that to citizens of Houston in the years prompted a discussion among local water supplies such as Lake introductory classes should not the class size is a problem ahead and in the decades ahead." faculty and students about the Houston, she said. influence Rice's attitude towards Virtually every college in the She said, however, that need for such an expansion, them. country has large introductory Houston's future economic health Whitmire said Houston cannot especially for introductory "I don't know what other private classes. Many have courses in is in jeopardy. The city will be continue to sustain commercial freshman courses. , universities do about this which the students never see a unable to compete with others development if it does not Professor of Physics Ian Duck problem," Duck said. "We should professor at all." unless it creates a more favorable guarantee that these businesses proposed that the new professors do what we think is right. All of the Lewis said teaching smaller climate for business, improves its will have essential city services. be assigned to teach large students, not just upperclassmen classes would prove prohibitively infrastructure, and enhances its "We can't see the kind of introductory-level science classes. or graduate students, have the expensive and would place too quality of life, Whitmire said. economic growth that will provide There are now approximately right to a small student ratio." much of a burden on the faculty. Whitmire said her administra- opportunity to Houstonians if we 350 students in two introductory Professor of Mathematics "It would be nice to teach everyone tion has made progress on all three continue to have restrictions physics sections, which prevents William Veech also expressed the in a class of twenty," he said. "But fronts during her two terms in because of the inadequate capacity professors from giving freshmen concern that courses in his Rice can't afford that and neither office. of our own [infrastructure] the individualized attention they department might begin to suffer. can any other university. We have Her refusal to raise taxes to pay systems," the mayor said. often need, he said. to compete for faculty, and if we for increased city services has left However, Whitmire said her "There is no arguing Rice "We have four sections of 101," ask everyone to teach one more Houston more attractive to administration has addressed devotes a very small amount of he said. "One section of 101 last course, we would lose faculty to businesses which seek to escape the some of these issues. She said the resources to the freshman and year was close to 200, which of other schools." sophomore classes," Duck said. high tax rates of other cities, efforts of the city health course is too large. But we have Some students have also voiced "We mass produce the freshman Whitmire said. department to control pollution already rather radically cut back concern about the large numbers class by not differentiating "Our city has always been have resulted in "dramatic on our junior- and senior-level in their introductory classes. improvement" in the quality of between the differing abilities. recognized as a city with a good, courses. As a school that caters to Delaina Foster, a freshman water in Lake Houston. Those with weak backgrounds are favorable business climate — one the academically elite, we need to taking both physics and chemistry, lost to other majors because the that has kept its tax rate under She also said she hopes that the be able to offer some of these said the lack of contact with her first three weeks are sink or swim control," she said. "WeVe fought capital improvement projects her specialized courses." professors makes it more difficult for them. If 1 were a parent some pretty tough battles in these office has initiated will insure that However, not all science faculty for her to master some problems. last few years at City Hall to keep considering sending my child to Houston will have adeqbate consider the present class sizes a see Smaller page 4 our tax rate at a reasonable level. see Whitmire, page 4 Rice and paying the full tuition, I problem. The Thresher back page and journalistic ethics I'm glad that Jim Colton has taken advantage of the editorial policy he criticizes in order to express his views on the misclass. These pages are a forum for the Rice community to discuss issues, but only if readers are willing to take the opportunity to do so. Colton suggests that the Thresher has wielded the "ugly knife of censorship" with regard to the misclass section and makes several suggestions as to why the misclass has changed. None of these suggestions is accurate. 1 made the decision to follow an editorial policy which excludes personal attacks and obscenity because it is in the best interest of the Thresher to follow such a policy. First Amendment protections and journalistic ethics set precedent for my decision. The First Amendment fails to protect published matter in the case of either libel or obscenity, according to the Supreme Court. Libel, according to College Student Press Law, is "any visual communication which exposes a person to hatred, ridicule, contempt, or which lowers the person's reputation, causes the person to be shunned, or injures the person's livelihood." Someone who makes accusations of libel must successfully prove identification, publication, defamation, and negligence m and/or actual malice in order to win a suit. According to the Supreme Court, in order for a work to be obscene, one must prove the work appeals to "prurient interest" by "applying contemporary community standards," or that the work "lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." My desire as expressed last springduringelections to make the Whitmire's political support decreases Thresher into an "excellent newspaper" according to common The charmed political life of and to companies owned by invincible to her opponents on the standards of journalistic ethics was another factor in my decision Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire minorities, and pushed them campaign trail, either. This to strengthen our editorial policy. 1 feel that past journalistic may finally be drawing to a close. through the City Council. election and the one of 1983 have irresponsibilies on the backpage have weakened the Thresher's The once-formidable Whitmire Although Houston's powerful few features in common. reputation and its voice in university affairs. If the Thresher can has grown vulnerable in the eyes of government unions complained Everyone, it seems, wants to earn back respect by acting in a responsible fashion, then the her critics and voters as of late, a loudly, she still managed to place a mount a campaign against her this paper can be a force for change in the Rice community, not just a perception that may cost her her cap on the salaries of city time. Keep in mind that waging a campus rag. My personal sense of responsibility for the paper job come the November election employees. And she ran virtually major campaign is a risky venture, and politicians are reluctant to and pride in good workmanship is a factor in this change, and lessen her ability to govern. unopposed when election time rolled around again in 1983, enter a race unless they feel they especially since the editor of a publication is ultimately capturing over 70 percent of the are likely to win. But though it is responsible for any unsigned material which he allows to be At this time a year ago, Whitmire's critics would hardly vote. not yet autumn, two businessmen, printed. This is a responsibility which I should and will take have dreamed they could unseat Louie Welch and John Hudson, seriously. her. She appeared unbeatable — But a weaker side of Kathy have already declared their intention to seek the office So far, what you have seen on the Thresher back page is what and with good reason. She won Whitmire has revealed itself since Whitmire now holds. And even has been submitted. My back page editors tell me that few of the almost every political battle she then. She unwisely favored a one of her past supporters, misclasses that have been submitted have been rejected as a engaged in during the previous Metro bond issue which many, councilmember George Greanias, result of the new policy. Printing the calendar, paid ads, and three years. The coalition of voters considered an expensive boondogle. and she lost badly. She has considered running against notes and notices are the first priority of the back page editors. political have-nots she organized allowed her opponents to make her her. As in the past, all decisions concerning which misclass — minorities, women, homo- support of a pair of gay rights submissions fill leftover back page space are made by the bpe. sexuals, and young professionals — defeated an establishment- ordinances a major test of her The new misclass policy is salutary for the Thresher and Early public opinion polls also backed sheriff and allowed her to credibility with voters and she lost testify to the frailty of Whitmire's increases its credibility as a voice in university affairs. If anyone snare the mayor's seat in 1981. again. Most recently, some city political position. Some polls has further comments, suggestions, or complaints about this Upon taking office, she proposed councilmembers have begun to commissioned by the local media policy, or if they can prove that this policy is not in the Thresher's several reforms guaranteed to challenge her fiscal policies as well, have said Whitmire slightly trails best interest, he should feel free to write a letter to the editor or enrage Houston's business injuring her reputation as a tough one of her challengers, Welch. And discuss it with one of the back page editors or myself. establishment, such as awarding manager of the budget. Whitmire's own polls show her — Scott Snvder city contracts to out-of-town firms Whitmire no longer looks only marginally ahead of the other candidates. Both are hardly THRESHING IT OUT encouraging signs for an taken care of by a clause that reads the appropriateness of that article, Rice community at various times incumbent at this point in the Colton criticizes "No personal attacks..." The only and 2) journalistic accuracy. There in the past, on the back page and campaign. rights now being violated are those is another underlying concern, elsewhere. Who is responsible if back page policy of the student population when we however, which I think also needs the Thresher commits libel? All of this does not mean wish to share a bit of humor or a to be brought to the surface — the Whitmire cannot win in To the Editor: Certainly the writer of the article gem of wisdom. issue of the Thresher's November, of course. But even if You left out two words — "used and the editor bear some 1 think if you were to ask your responsibility in cases of libel. she does win, it will most likely be to" — in your August 30 Editorial responsibility, but the Thresher readers, you would find that the in a close election. And a divided Policy. The first sentence should exists by authority of the Rice misclass was often the first part of Whether or not a professor electorate will only make the job of have read: "The Thresher used to Board of Governors. It occupies the Thresher we read, and that we might technically have been provide an open forum for space in a university building, governing Houston even more thought it was at least good for a libelled in that particular article, expression of ideas on all issues for collects blanket tax money, sells difficult for her in the future. laugh now and then. And that a there definitely have been its readers..." see Threshing, page 3 few unpleasant remarks were far instances of libel of members of the — David Friesenhahn What has happened to the better than the current status of the misclass? For almost fifteen years Iron Shrapnel Man by Robert Boyd back page. it was an outlet for some otherwise Please, give us back the misclass Though faced WAS OUTFITTED AMD A TEST t^USSloN stifled creative impulses of Rice and let us decide what to read and WITH AN IRON- WAS DEVISED FORME. AND NOW I'M HER students. It was also sometimes with incred- what not to read. PLATED UNIFORM-' • WOW! hysterically funny. Now the ugly CUBA? NAH, Jim Colton ible danger, knife of censorship has all but TOO Bl&.' Baker ^8 eliminated the misclass. Why? Iron Shrap- Pressure from alums? The administration? Or are you just Free press must nel Han using your power to try to inflict £ ^^i\VGrRENADA? your personal beliefs upon the rest take responsibility continues to of the Rice population? To the Editor: dwell on You may choose to argue that an The letters to the editor and your indiscretion on the part of last editorial following upon the article his past... year's bpe almost led to trouble. on teaching evaluations seem to Try again that problem was have aired the primary issues of: 1) NEXT: VIOLENCES STUFF! The Rice Thresher, September 17, 1985, page 2 THRESHING IT OUT continued from page 2 from editor to editor and even year, fortunately, points to a new with student involvement in the Sept. 6, 1985, Thresher read as ads, and uses the name Rice in its from one staff writer to the next? attitude in the SA — something governance of this University. though the Rice Karate Club masthead all by authority of the Can the Thresher protect itself and we've needed for a long time. I feel confident that none of the "came forward. . . to move their Board of Governors. It is the university against committing Last Monday Cati Moses and I Administrators, much less (its) funds" in support of a poli- ultimately the Board that is libel without a set of standards? introduced a short but important President Rupp, harbor ill-wishes tical cause. Actually, the Rice Karate responsible. Were someone I don't believe for a minute that piece of legislation before the for Rice or its students. I am also Club moved its funds last May successfully to sue the Thresher for no one on the Thresher staff cares Senate. It simply calls for the semi- confident in their general level of from Texas Commerce Bank libel, the university, in the form of about such considerations or that annual collection and publishing competence. That in no way (downtown) to the Texas the Board, would be left holding no one in the student body cares. of the activities of the various implies that I wish to give up all Commerce Medical Bank for the bag. Caring about these issues is not University-wide Standing voice in the governance of this financial reasons. The Rice Karate only part of the responsibility of Committees. institution. It in no way implies Club is a n o n - p o 1 i t ica 1 1 would venture to say that the the Thresher staff, it is one of the What many students fail to that any one of us should adopt organization. Board has no desire to intervene in ways the staff can learn the most recognize is that most of the apathy towards decisions of Jon Luckstead the running of the Thresher. from their experience on the paper. important decisions that face this critical consequence to Rice President, Rice Karate Club Indeed, the student newspaper Working for the Thresher can and University are either made or society, Rice's national and Hanszen *87 would be worthless if it were should be wonderful fun, but it reviewed by one or more of these international prestige, and, most subject to censorship. The also should be educational, Standing Committees. They importantly, to the very quality of Wells defends Thresher must be free to raise meaningful and even inspirational usually have two or three student education we can draw from this questions and to criticize in the in terms of significant issues. members as well, student members University. Salituro's article best sense of aggresive and Journalistic responsibility and with the opportunity to work I have already noted that this is a To the editor: investigative journalism. But libel ethics is one of those great issues, effectively and positively for the relatively short and succinct piece In response to the letter by Ms. lies outside even the constitutional and the importance of learning interests of the student body on of legislation. However, its Squatriti, Ms. Fagerhaugh and guarentees of a free press. For that about it was probably among the matters anything but trivial. implications spread beyond its Ms. Vincent concerning Mr. matter, so does obscenity, even primary reasons the Board of immediate effect. It represents a Salituro's article about the Lovett though the courts have difficulty in Governors authorized a student Cati and I felt, however, that new commitment by the Student men who apprehended the rapist in defining precisely what obscenity newspaper at Rice in the first there were two major flaws with Association Senate to a real Hermann Park (9/13/85), it seems is. place. this system. First, that the students participatory government. It to me that they haven't completely The fact that these issues are not Jeffrey Kurtzman often didn't know that these begins a commitment on the part considered the situation. always clear does not mean that Professor of Music committees existed or exercised of all Student Association they can simply be ignored. Nor is the privilege of being represented members towards making Rice Co-Director of Student Advising Firstly, a news article should be it true that just because the there. Second, that the Student University primarily responsible to an objective account of the facts of Thresher is a student newspaper it Association Senate had failed to those people it was meant to serve SA keeps eye on an event. The lauding or deploring is not subject to the law or is not accept responsibility for the — the students. of an event or act is the duty of an responsible for the character of its Student members of the school committees Daniel Price editorial, which a front page story journalism. Doesnt freedom of the University-wide Committees. SA Senator, Will Rice College by a reporter generally is not. press also entail responsibility by To the editor: This is not designed to threaten Secondly, about the Thresher's the press? The Student Association Senate the integrity and secrecy of those disclaimer at the end of the staff What the matter really comes of Rice University, like the committees which have, of a Karate Club not a box: "The opinions expressed down to is a set of journalistic corresponding unit of most necessity, confidential hearings, political group herein are not necessarily those of standards and ethics. Does the universities, is infamous for its nor is it meant to challenge the anyone except the writer. Thresher have such a set? Is it inactions, vacillations, and authority and competence of the To the editor: Obviously." Not quite so continuous from one year to the preoccupations with the trivial. student members of those The article "Few Groups Move see Threshing, page 4 next? Or do the standards vary The first meeting of the new school committees. The bill deals rather Funds Over Gay Rights" in the W'WAV.VAVVAVV.WA'.W.V.V, Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU

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©1985, The Rice Thresher. All rights reserved. •w.waw.v.vw.v.v.w.vav.v.v The Rice Thresher, September 17, 1985, page 3 THRESHING IT OUT Minority professors continued from page 3 the movie of the same name. It is a very unfair and narrow- obviously. Any article which Unfortunately, there was much minded action that Mr. Brister continued from page I has said he has made one of his top appears here may be edited, and in controversy surrounding the ideas took. We feel that he and others Emory University actively seeks priorities. this process, the opinions may be for the party, whether from actual with similar external influences qualified minority professors and Briggs said increasing the tainted by those of the editors). plans or from various rumors. We have no right to intervene with the has instituted courses which deal percentage of minority professors The day his article appeared feel that the overall tone and college system or with one of its with ethnic questions, including would also increase the retention (9/10/85), Eric came to me and activities were reasonable and do constituents. We hope that this of minority students once they urban politics and ethno- expressed his dismay at how his have precendents on this campus. sort of action will not be tolerated American history, he said. arrive because it would give them article, which he put a great deal of by the system and will be prevented Topics of this sort are "of people to identify with and to go to effort into in order to get accurate We do respect the rights of from happening again in the inherent interest to most," as mentors. information, had suffered from a Richardson College members and future. according to Grob. Rupp said he believes it is great deal of editing. Now, I the University administration to "I think it's really good for all "highly desirable" to have "as haven't read the original, uncut express concern with college Stephen McLaughlin, SRC students, white and black both. 1 diversely populated" a faculty as version, so I don't know what was activities. There were questions President think white students benefit from possible. cut, and I don't know the criteria raised by various sides, and we working in an integrated society," He said we now have an active used by the editors, who most took them into consideration. This William McManus, SRC Vice Grob said. affirmative-action policy which probably had to cut for space is the way that the college system President Besides a need to create a more seriously considers female and considerations (you can't fit much here should function — legitimate Uday Sheth, SRC Secretary heterogeneous faculty at Rice for minority faculty applicants. in an eight-page Thresher with inputs from the system's Jeffrey Marinacci, SRC Treasurer social reasons, Briggs said he sees However, while Rupp agrees tons of advertisements), but it constituents. What is not proper in the need for minority professors to that the current percentage of doesn't seem fair to criticize a this system are the threats of act as role models for minority black professors is too small, he reporter for the editorial policies of others, valid or not, for whatever students. said that it is difficult to recruit the paper, especially when reasons. Whitmire He said minority professors can others because so many other subjective opinions are not even continued from page I schools are trying for the same his responsibility. sympathize with and understand In our case, we received a call sewage capacity by the turn of the people. the problems minority students Richard Wells from Scott Brister, a lawyer, who century. face better than whites. Grob. however, wants to see a Baker '86 quoted the Texas Penal Code, A good infrastructure alone will Grob said having more minority more definite policy with active Sect. 43. Mr. Brister also stated not suffice to attract business to professors at Rice would attract recruitment as a priority. "I'm not that the Houston Police Vice Houston, however, Whitmire said. more minority students to Rice, a sure that [affirmative action alone] SRC cabinet upset Squad "might get a tip" on the goal that President George Rupp Ls going to do it," he said. night of the party. This threat She said the city government by outside threats hanging over our heads naturally must now focus on improving the To the Editor: caused us to change our plans. quality of life in Houston. Last Saturday evening, Later, we learned that Mr. Brister "When I think about Houston Problems with alcohol? Richardson College sponsored has been heavily affiliated with the and its attractiveness as a place to "The Bachelor Party," a theme Maranatha organization here at live," Whitmire said, "one of the Rice. 1. Have you ever decided to stop 8. Did you ever try to get "extra" whose source can be attributed to things I think about is the green space in our city and the attractive drinking for a week or so and then drinks at a party because you amenities that need to be just couldn't make it? didn't get enough? developed for our city." 2. Do you wish people would 9. Do you tell yourself you can Smaller class sizes stop drinking even though you mind their own business about Whitmire said her administra- keep getting drunk when you don't continued from page 1 motivated to do it. My freshman your drinking? tion plans to assist with several mean to? "If I needed help in class," she year I still didn't have the discipline projects over the next year 3. Have you ever switched from 10. Have you ever missed work said, "I would go to another to study." intended to cultivate the city's one kind of drink to another to or school because of drinking? student first. I think the professor Senior Pat Takamine added, "I quality of life. keep from getting drunk? 11. Have you ever had any would probably say, 'Oh, you're in came from a small high school and blackouts? my class? Really?' " was used to a lot of individual She listed several projects along 4. Have you ever had an 12. Have you ever felt your life Students have felt the academic attention. I came to Rice, a 'small' Buffalo Bayou, such as the 'eyeopener' on awakening in the would be better if you didn't drink? consequences of this alienation in university, and I was over- construction of the Wortham past year? other ways as well. whelmed. The intro classes are not Theater and the Texas Heritage 5. Do you envy people who can If you answered yes to four or "I definitely would have done geared to the individual. I feel from Museum and the decoration of the drink without getting into trouble? more of these questions, chances better in a smaller class," said personal experience that the profs McK.ee Street bridge, as examples 6. Have you had problems are good that you should be junior Wendy Culp. "If someone are used to talking at huge classes of the type of development that connected with alcohol in the past concerned about your drinking had noticed I wasn't doing my and they don't know how (or don't will improve Houston's atmosphere. year? (Be honest with yourself.) habits. 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women'8 music rice radio mutant hardcore jazz On every Monday from four to This shift is the answer to start An hour of Punk and its Tune in Sundays from 5-11:30 five, listen to music written, ing a perfect weekend. Tune in demented offspring, starting at and listen to the finest in jazz. produced, or just performed by Friday afternoons to catch the midnight on Wednesday nights From Louis Armstrong, women. (Good enough for syndicated program, Reggae with the antics of Ray Charlie Parker, and Django women, but made for everyone.) Beat International, followed by "Mutant" Shea. Local bands Rhinehardt to Chick Corea, Jamaican tunes spun by a truly are encouraged to bring in their Gary Burton and Weather thur8day feature mellow DJ. Guaranteed to own material. Report; we have your favorites. If you haven't already heard calm those end-of-the-week this ,this is your chance, nerves. 8 & m show at ten o'clock Thursday nights. Marilyn, Hope, and Bob bring stardate! The selection is of an older, no one expects you Punk and New Wave music classic album that hasn't been from seven to ten Fridays, Stardate is an astronomy radio during which there are often played enough. Most any Sunday at 1 a.m., a series produced by the interviews with groups appear- University of Texas treasures group of true wackos take over ing locally. the station for a collection of MacDonald Observatory in Austin. Tune in seven days a of the sixties things no one expects to hear on # the radio. Each time you miss sonlight week for information on hap- An entire show devoted to the this program, you are missing a penings in our heavens. Each era. For an hour and a half unique listening experience. daily episode airs at noon and Stan pulls out the obscure and You won't hear a top-forty In case you haven't listened to at seven p.m.,following forgotten favorites from the countdown. You won't hear an this special shift, it features two Calendar on weekdays,and late sixties and early seventies, MTV interview. You won't hours of progressive Christian is sponsored by the Whole music beginning at 10 every Earth Provision Company. every Tuesday half past eight. hear waterbed commercials. Sunday morning. An album Brought to you with the help of (...or will you?) Just try to guess starts the program-new music Barry,s Pizza. what you will hear next when we have it, but otherwise calendar Sunday! a favorite from our collection. Wondering what to do with chicken skin music yourself tonight, tomorrow, Bluegrass,folk and blues is classics on the radio and for the rest of your life? what you'll hear on ktru's monday feature Well, we can't help with the last unique brand of country music. Classics on the Radio offers one, but join Cyndi and John "Turn your radio on" every eight hours of non-operatic One brand-new, just-released for Calendar at 7 p.m. Monday Wednesdav night from seven to classical music every Sunday album played uninterrupted through Thursday, and Night ten, and it you're luckv, you beginning at nine in the starting at ten on Monday Owl Calendar at midnight might catch a live performance morning. Each week there is a nights. This album is so new, Monday through Friday. from our studio or from Willy's featured composer, that is, we not even the Music Director They'll tell you about movies, Pub. Any recordings or play four pieces bt that artist knows what it will be until that plays,lectures,concerts, and correspondence for Chicken sometime during the show. We afternoon/evening (seven just about anything else you Skin snould be sent to David also feature an album of o'clock at the latest, so that it might need to know concerning John at ktru. interest each week at noon. can be included in Calendar). the next few day(s).

rice radio folio * s« i>f> rtiht'r 1 !>S., * / rice radio playlist Heavy Singles & EP's Alex Chilton Feudalist Tarts Bigtime Coil Panic Wax Trax Heavy Rotation Damned Grimly Fiendish MCA Dreams So Real Everywhere Girl Coyote Big K Chameleons Electric Peace Rest in Peace What Does Anything Statik Fall Couldn't Get Ahead Beggar's Banquet Mean? Basically Makes No Sense At All SST Danny and Dusty The Lost Weekend Husker Du A&M Lucy Show Ephemeral A&M Doctor's Mob Headache Machine Wrestler Lulu Kiss Me Dead The Ultimate Solution Situation Two Jeffrey Lee Pierce Wild weed Statik Iricas Leroi Brothers Miracle Legion The Backyard Lucky Lucky Me Profile Rave-Ups Fun Stuff Outnumbered Positively Lost Me Why Are All the Good Homestead Splatcats 5 Big Ones People Going Crazy? Painters and Dockers Love Planet Bigtime Jonathon Richman Rockin' and Romance Twin/ Tone Moderate Singles & EP's rfnd the Modern Lovers Shreikback Oil and Gold Island Volcano Suns The Bright Orange Years Homestead Big Self Reason Smiles Reekus Zeitgeist Translate Slowly DB Cabaret Voltaire Drinking Gasoline Caroline Various Artists Claws Throbbing Lobster Clintons Girl Next Door Coyote Various Artists The Enigma Variation Enigma Crawl Away Machine Various Artists Return of the Living Dead Enigma Jesus and Mary Chain Y ou Trip Me Up Blanco Y Negro Love and Rockets Ball of Confusion Beggar's Banquet Nightmares He Leaves Moderate Rotation Marc Seberg L'Eclaircle Virgin Sheer Thursday Baseball Altamont Coyote Source Another Look Picture Window Bad Checks Graveyard Tramp Loretta Hypnotized Mute and First Born is Dead Homestead 10,000 Maniacs Can't Ignore The Train Elektra the Bad Seeds Zimbo Chips In a Cave Budget Ranch Love Not Money Sire Judy's The MOO Album Wasted Talent Knitters Poor Little Critter on the Road Slash Midnight Oil Red Sails in the Sunset CBS Mission of Burma The Horrible Truth Ace Of Hearts Anybody catch IRS's "Cutting Edge" show on Austin hands? About Burma No Trend A Dozen Dead Roses No Trend Great stuff. Zeitgeist's new album hasn't left my turntable in weeks. Nudge Squidfish NS Now that summer's over, you should be getting the Folio on a more OMD Crush A&M regular basis. All you record people now have another person to get Really Red Rest in Pain CIA tracking reports from, gripe at, etc...Sabine Pratsch, new Assistant Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising Homestead Music Director. No office hours set as of now, we're still trying to get our Sturm Group Untitled Green Fuse Tones on Tail The Album Pop PVC schedules straight. Don't bother looking for us at the New Music Turning Curious Soul Light Season Relapse Seminar; I'll be back here bemoaning my lack of funds. Probably I'll Tuxedomoon Holy Wars Crammed Discs make it to the CMJ marathon in November, though....

Til next month Light Rotation Ray Shea Music Director Beasts of Bourbon The Axeman's Jazz Bigtime Beat Rodeo Staying Out Late IRS With Beat Rodeo jazz playlist Big Black Racer X Homestead Blackjacks Dress in Black Throbbing Lobster Gary Burton Real Life Hits ECM-Warner Blue Nile A Walk Across the Rooftops A&M Anthony Bruxton Seven Standards 1985, David Byrne Music for the Knee Plays ECM Volume 1 Magenta Stewart Copeland The Rhythmatist A&M Arnett Cobb Keep On Pushin' Bee Hive C.S. Angels Seven Day Week Arista Ornette Coleman Soapsuds, Soapsuds Artist's House Delay Tactics Any Questions? Multiphase Bill Evans Peace Piece and Other Pieces Milestone Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Warners Mitchel Foreman Train of Thought Magenta Bob Dylan Empire Burlesque CBS Bill Frisell Rambler ECM-Warner Frightwig Cat Farm Faboo Subterranean Keith Jarrett Standards Volume 2 ECM-Warner Gleaming Spires Welcoming a New Ice Age Tabb Andy Narell Slow Motion Hip Pocket Meatmen War of the Superbikes Homestead Liz Story Unaccountable Effect Windham Hill Olympic Sideburns Homestead Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtle A&M Talking Heads Little Creatures Warners Translator CBS chicken skin playlist A Western Front Off to the Angels Yo Charm World Deadbeat Frankie Armstrong I Heard a Woman Singing Flying Fish Emilie Aronson & Only A Dream MG mutant hardcore Wayne Greene Chet Akins Stay Tuned Columbia Darol Anger Live at Montreaux Windham Hill playlist Barbara Higbie Patrick Ball Celtic Harp Vol.2 Fortuna Detox _____ Flipside Eric Bogle When the Wind Blows Flying Fish DRI Dealing With It Death Clifton Chenier Live At The San Arhoolie Marginal Man Double Image Casablanca Fransisco Blues Festival Mau Maus Fear No Evil Rebellion C lements/H artford/ Clements/ Hartford/ Rounder Offenders Endless Struggle Holland Holland Party Owls Rock Out Potential Veal Leanord Cohen Various Positions Passport Scream This Side Up Dischord Ry Cooder Paris, Texas WB 7 Seconds Walk Together Rock Together BYO Collegium Vocale Folk Songs CBS Masteriuorks SNFU ...And No One Else Wanted to Koln Play- BYO Cunningham/Ni Dhomnaill/ Relativity Green Linnet Upright Citizens Open Eyes, Open Ears,, BYO O'Dhomnaill/Cunningham Brains to Think and a Mouth Triona Ni Dhomnaill Triona Green Linnet to Speak Bob Dylan Empire Burlesque Columbia Easy Club Easy Club Abbey Hill Ronnie Gilbert The Spirit is Free Redwood Gilbert/Seger Harp Redwood We welcome ads in the folio, as well as Guthrie/Near sponsorship of radio shows. Because we are a N anci Griffith Once in a Very Philo Blue Moon non-profit group, ads help to defray # our Hot Tuna Splash Down Relix Jackson/Mac Innes Cairistiona Iona printing costs, thus enabling us to continue Jackson/Ross Misty Mountains Iona production of this programming guide. Those Si Khan Unfinished Portrait Flying Fish Mark Levy Live and Nuclear Free New Clear interested in advertising in the folio should Utah Phillips We Have Fed You Philo Silly Wizard Golden Golden Green Linnet direct their correspondence to Jana Sanchez, Silly Wizard Live in America Green Linnet Development Director or Gretchen May, Katie Webster Hot links Arhoolie Cathy Winter Breakthrough My Fire Flying Fish Publicity Director, 527-4098. Various Zydeco Arhoolie Various Louie Bluie Soundtrack Arhoolie 2 • rice radio folio * Hcptcmhvr l9H.r) Various Great Accoustics Philo News Flash! ktru has changed its schedule Classics catch our on the newest Radio has program, been moved Osmosis. So to Sunday, 9:00 what about to 5:00 p.m., fol- Saturday? Then lowed by the Jazz we will have our Show, 5:00 to 11:30 regular music, ex- p.m. Sonlite has cept for No One been moved back Expects (1:00 a.m.), to 7 a.m. Also, at which has always 11:30 p.m. you can been there but is ktru staff never regular. university of the osmosis ilnmnorl Osmosis is a radio showcase for alternative mellow music: not A weekly half-hour parody of Muzak, never elevator music, General Manager Alex Malinin university life written, but music in a subdued vein Assistant General Manager Jeff Matthews produced and performed by that is both intelligent and Music Director Ray Shea students at the University of creative. Osmosis features Southern California. The show such artists as Liz Story, Assistant Music Director Sabine Pratsch has been described as a hybrid Mannheim Steamroller,Jean- DJ Directors Phil Calvin and Eric Salituro of Dante's Inferno, Room 222, Michelle Jarre, and many Jazz Director Syd Polk Montv Python, and the Hitch- others. If you'd like to relax to News Director Henry de la Garza hiker s Guide to the Galaxy the best avant-garde,electronic, Chief Engineer Willy Hunt and alternately, as " a bunch of and other instrumental idiots doing weird things on music absorb Osmosis every Engineering Consultant Mike Gladu tape." Either way it promises Sunday night from 11:30-1:00. Business Director Mike Cherubino to De a sure success with a Promotions Directors Julie Grob and Dennis Ogburn captive audience so tune in Production Manager John Knapp Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. Program Director Doug Baines during the month of September. 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The Rice Thresher, September 17, 1985, page 5 THRESHER SPORTS Vinnie, vidi vici: Hurricanes take the Owls by storm by Chris Lowrance by the score of 48 to 20 Saturday. The defense, which was the most The air is filled with the staccato But it was certainly not as easy questionable part of the team beat of bongos. Scattered images for the "Canes as their quarterback, coming into the game, proved "fraslu by: ocean surf, pink Vinny "Godfather" Testaverde themselves on the field. They were Jlamingos, a Latin dancer's would have you believe. He outmanned in both size and breasts. The music reaches a claimed that the win was "easier experience, but they came up with crescendo and the television screen than practice." Well, that comes big plays. Junior linebackers Joe is emblazoned with those all too from a man who lined up behind Heikkinen and Mike Lee both had familiar art deco words: Miami the left guard in the first quarter key interceptions in the first half. Vice. But wait. This is Saturday and had to be directed to the center The linebackers and secondary afternoon, not Friday night. And by his fullback. Practice must have were forced to make big plays this is the Rice Owls against the been real easy. because the defensive line was Hurricanes from Miami On offense, Rice showed how unable to put much pressure on University, not a slow-motion serious they were from the very Testaverde. Blitzing efforts were collage of beautiful drug dealers first play by going without a successful, as junior linebacker splashing red dye on each other. huddle. In fact, most^ of tfie James Phorne sacked Testaverde It's the final score. The Rice Owls offensive plavs were run without a twice for a total loss of 16 yards. lost to the bovs from little Havana huddle. But Vinny did have too much time to pass too often. He led scoring drives of 91 and 75 yards on the strength of his !4-for-21 passing performance. But the Owls were able to score, too. Sophomore quarterback Mark Comalander was able to < MP bring Rice to within field goal HYPNOSIS TRAINING range on their second possession Learn the five leyels of hypnosis for pet^onal or with a 32-yard pass to junior tight cxoftossfgnat use. Classes Umitwl to end Ken Major. Senior James student** classa$ afs held evenings trorrf Hamrick booted the ball 49 yards Steve shows why Hurricanes are not Kidd's stuff —H. Turner 9:30, Tuesday, Wednaadaiy or Thursday. For for the first score of the game. and racked up 140 yards to Rice's about the results of the game: "My ful details and expense contact James D. 26. The Owls had the ball only In the second quarter, the hope is that these were first-game KriaRar> Ph.D. ^ Associates «t 713W&77-0707. three times during the quarter, and offense sputtered a bit. mistakes. The game was not a (Otecount writ* this ad) two of those possessions ended in Comalander fumbled on the massacre like it was last year. Give est 197B turnovers. Miami 34-yard line, and Steve me those last seven or eight CLASSES STARTING THIS WEEK- Kidd was called on to punt twice, The fourth quarter was a minutes back, and we could beat for 56 and 40 yards. Comalander defensive nightmare. In the words them." He will get his chance to showed a lot of poise, however, by of Watson Brown, "We flat just beat Air Force this Saturday in engineering a scoring drive at the gave them things." Miami scored Colorado Springs. 1:48 mark. After seeing on all four last-quarter posessions, touchdowns slip through the including three touchdowns. Both OWLOOK/Bv J.H. fingers of two receivers, he scored Brown and the players attributed on a quarterback draw on fourth the catastrophe to mental and one at the five-yard line. mistakes, not talent or fatigue. cQuepasa? Perhaps the most outstanding In the second half, turnovers The PBA (Professional player of the game for the Owls LIBERAL ARTS / HUMANITIES and mental mistakes spelt doom Baseballer's Association) said this was Steve Kidd. He punted four BUSINESS for the Owls. During the third week in a retaliatory statement times for an average of 48.3 yards, quarter, Miami was totally that a change of garments for all SCIENCE / ENGINEERING and was the second leading tackier dominant. They kept the ball for professional athletes is necessary from his safety position. Graduates and Undergraduates almost 12 minutes of the quarter in light of their court-defined Watson Brown was optimistic public image. Starting immediate- CAREER ORIENTATION PROGRAM ly, players are demanding the right to wear capes, masks and glittering Topics: booties onto the fields. 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The Rice Thresher, September 17, 1985, page 6 CROSS COUNTRY Cross country team is paced by one All-American Guy

by Mark Matteson Guy, a Jamaican Olympian, fracture, will be attempting to lettermen lost to graduation last 3000 meter races. He may be held Coming off a season in which returns with every intention of improve on his impressive year. The returnees expected to out of some early meets, however, the team started with ten veterans becoming an All-American in performance as a freshman two help fill that void are sophomores since he just completed his and three very talented freshmen, cross-country; he accomplished years ago. Rich Dissly and Bill Gardner, both competitive season in August. the men's cross country squad will the feat in track the past two Following close behind Guy and very talented. Juniors Shawn "We don't have any room for be hard pressed to match the seasons. Warren will be Martinez. The Smith and Doug Erwin, two of the injuries since we only have nine on expectations of last year's team. Joining Guy as one of several sophomore from San Antonio few really experienced runners on the team," added Straub, who Nevertheless, the 1985 edition is premiere runners on this year's turned in an impressive the team, are also expected to carried 14 on last year's squad. still a group of strong and talented squad will be sophomores Jon performance last year as a make significant contributions. "Our concern is to reach our runners. Warren and Tony Martinez. freshman. With the injuries to Guy Straub is also looking forward potential and be as good as we can The lone senior on this year's Warren, redshirted last year after and Warren, Martinez had to step to working with his impressive be. We're going to work hard to squad is talented Gawain Guy. also going down with a stress in and fill a big void. He did so by freshman recruits. Bill Barrett, improve at each meet. I really want finishing in the top 15 in four out of from New Jersey, and Danny us to do well at the conference meet We do need another hero six meets and finishing 11th in the Morales, from Alta Loma, are two and then for us to peak right Track Athletic Congress Junior continued from page 6 nasal voice cutting through the air. youngsters on which the Owls will around the District VI meet in Championships. answer this question, Dr. "I declare war on bugger-pickers depend. "They both have a order to have a shot at qualifying for the NCAA's. With Gawain and Buzzcock Harper, sports therapist and toilet seat wetters, as well as With Guy, Warren and tremendous amount of potential." Jon and Tony healthy, and with and personal friend of toothpicks, Q-tips® and all other Martinez providing a strong said Straub. The other recruit is the other six working to fill that Ambassador Duke, replied: things which you put into your nucleus, Straub is hoping the Simon Pease from Leeds, fourth and fifth spot. 1 like our "Drugs make athletes heroes. They body and pull back out. 1 have a remaining six runners will be able England, who was All-England chances." make them run faster, play harder dream. . . ." to fill the void left by the five Champion in the 800, 1500 and and fill the headlines. The notoriety from being caught with a miniscule portion of any narcotic can make their careers soar and provide them with all types of royalties from their 'how 1 got into and out of drugs' stories.Taking away their drugs would be like playing ping-pong with cotton balls." But athletes cannot turn their backs on the tremendous responsibility to the public, even if they don't want it. In his testimony in the Chicago hearing, outfielder and mafioso Frankie Snortozzi admitted to selling a teammate % of a gram of cocaine. Outraged, the Racehorse-selected jury of yuppies sentenced Snortozzi to ten years of hard labor for "selling such a trivial amount of a drug which is traditionally shared." Also attending the trial was Jerry Feelwell, lobbyist for the Decadent Minority, who saw the possibility of "our children turning into monsters, if this type of cupidity is allowed to remain among America's foremost drug users." In a related story, Whatsup Brownie, football coach at large, made one of his players run extra laps after practice for using the "f- word" after being stomped like a ripe berry during fumbling practice. "I like to think of my boys as people who have an image to maintain. And I'll be goddamned if I'll let them use this foul-mouthed, s—hole language on my f field." Brownie also issued a mandate that all athletes are expected to attend class in semi- formal attire, speak politely to their elders and "make sure everyone likes them, goddammit." w

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After being One bedroom apartments with Mark for helping members with their killed Southerners. pool, covered parking, security, *** disease, will meet this Wednesday, given the finest training available, In 1985, we kill unborn babies. and cable ready. Near museums September 18th, at 7:00pm in RH they must be airlifted over the My, oh my, we've come a long way, and Medical center. $325 bills Found: A pair of prescription 240. Soviet Union. In each paratroop- baby. paid. Ask about our move-in- glasses in a red vinyl case. The *** er's possession: a mayonnaise jar *** special. Located between frame is muttled brown. Printed For sale: 10 speed bike, $50 or best chock full of roaches and a packet He's the high priest of the future; Bissonnet and Richmond just off on the outside of the case is: Drs. offer. Call Janet, 790-1534. of weed seed. Upon landing, they Controlled experiments are his Hausman & Lieft. Fairfield, Conn. *** are to proceed directly to the specialty. Mandell. Call 524-9787. Choose your weapon! The Rice Call 630-8677 or come by SRC30I nearest Russkie post office and Sewing up questions with mental *** Fencing Club meets Mondays and to collect. free the roaches in the mail room. sutures, Wednesdays at 6:45pm in the gym. Wanted. Travel enthusiasts Roaches are widely known to eat Trying to make some sense out of All experience levels welcome: wanted to join the nation's most Bicycle helmet found Friday the glue off of envelopes. But, you reality. reputable Campus Rep. Sales afternoon between RMC and instruction for beginners, say, the envelopes will be sealed. challenges for more seasoned Team. Earn unlimited commis- Biology. Identify and it's vours. Roaches have a slightly pointed He's a Renaissance Man. sions and free trips promoting Ski Marc. 660-6246." fencers. En garde. mouth which they have been & Beach trips. Call Sunchase known to poke under envelope Some star-stuff that he's made lours Inc. today! * 1-800-321-5911 LITTLE HOUSE MISCLASS^^ flaps and eat away the first Is the cosmos that gave him life. differential strip of glue. Next, they How will it help him feed the Courier needed. S6/hr. Hours Ode On A Dual Admission; cheering crowds, but for the lunch eat away the second differential poor? flexible (usually 3-7pm), with some Process (or: What Has Rice Lost?): rush at the hot dog stand, where strip, and so on. Letters will no How will it help him love his wife? weekends (l-3pm, flexible). Need Of Man's first Obligation, and they must toil part-time just to longer have anything to hold them valid driver's license and liability the Truth of his commitment to it, afford the Athlete's free tuition, in the envelopes, and they will fall insurance. Use own car and gas. let us sing, and thereby push away bed, and board. Is there no sense of Tell me. Renaissance Man. out. Think of all the Commie *** Call Fran at Microbiology from Danger's cleats as one, who. inequity of such a system built on communiques that will be lost "God is dead." Specialists Inc., 522-1762. punting on the Thames, might equal woe? For both the sedentary because of separation from their —Nietzsche *** brace his pole the hardest at the and the active Minds do pay— but envelopes! Their mail system will "Nietzsche is dead" starting point to swift propel he only one must grow in order to be Permanent part-time filing come to a screeching halt, and —God opening in financial planning and his Love with Grace. Are we from its job set free — and not the money that would have been spent *** office located in Galleria area. not here to study? Should we be? one that blew the SAT. And to buy grain from us will have to be Those who read the Bible as the $5.00 per hour. 15-20 hours per These are not questions that a though it's clear one thousand is spent on exterminators. Famine Word of God learn how to love week worked around your thinking Mind avoids for long, but enough to fill a stadium that holds will descend upon the country. some things and to hate others. schedule. Martha, 629-1534. like a track athlete comes 'round that much, the bowl at Rice does Then, making use of their They lea rn to run to joy and to run ** * to. and with swift decreasing time ever greater seem — and might botanical skills, the paratroopers away from sadness, and as they are Student wanted with a car to pick must deal with: for waiting in his bring more in leases and in rents will rush about in all the major Red about to grab for their pot of up children after school and take room are books on books in bright than it now harbors in intelligence cities planting weed seed in every spiritual gold with pride in their to various activities. Hours and fluorescent Gloom. But what if. confirmed. But never let us quit or visible crack in buildings, roads, hearts, something tells them that salary discussed over the phone. singleminded. he can't keep his trash the Band — for music is the driveways, sidewalks, etc. Soon there is a faint feeling of evil within References needed. Contact Sandy head above a text, but grows so soul's hard cash and would be weeds will spring up in every crack, them. They look at the pot of gold, Herring, daytime at 526-1250 and tired of Body that his Mind cannot better spent in equal measure for and in time, the forces exerted by feel its leaden heaviness, and spot a evenings at 664-7343. West support another Thought? What both the Mind's flight and the our green allies will cause the newer, better pot of gold on the I niversity area. jocks him then.' What strap will helmet's crash, as this flight cracks to widen to the breaking horizon. They conclude, "This pot bind him to the microscopic view proves. Let no one wear a scowl point. Buildings will come tumbling is evil." and they drop the gold but that he must study things he scarce who loves the Blue and White! All down, roads will be ruined. Soon carry their pride to the next intends to use when next an Aggie loval Owls will certainly agree that the Commies will be a broken horizon. What if they had dropped BIG FRANK S he doth meet? My guess is that his 'YES RICE CAN' and should country and get out of Nicaragua. their pride and carried the gold? pillow is soon blessed with all the survive without a sports program Would they need to travel any weight of Conscience that resides that steals from the Minds that it By the way, 1 am a member of more? Those who learn to love and ! PART TIME HELP deep in the subtle, recessed cavity might feed with scholarships based one of the local ultra-conservative hate never learn anything at all. WANTED WEEK DAYS we call a skull, and where his Brain on financial need and not on Neo-Nazi New Right paramilitary *** doth hide. Is there no fundamental brawn. The Source of our repute is, botanical survivalist support DURING LUNCH Next week: misclass from Walton's Consciousness within this was, and always will be as a school: groups, and I have long been Mountain... CASHIER AND FOOD PREPARER University, this Sphere of Men, of where great Minds play, great —bkm, bpe CALL 664-DOGS Minds, of what a tragedy this is? Minds should be the Rule. Our Obligation fairly cries for him, OR APPLY WITHIN. BHD ^ooTEEN-AGE WEREWOLF MENU*-*--*-* but not for him alone. Others, too. ** * 2601 SUNSET AT KIRBY gravy, Lyonnaise green beans, their study hours waste in uniform Tuesday 17th - but not before the 'plause of Freshmen, beware the dread fruit or novelty. "Wumpus-kittv." Eggs to order, cream of rice, SDS Beef stew, broccoli spears, cinnamon toast. noodles, rolls, pineapple upside- Chicken spaghetti, Italian green down cake. beans, fruit or novelty. Friday 20th Teriyaki pork chops, steamed rice, French toast/syrup, eggs to order, ,*0 WE buttered Oriental mixed STAR to vegetables, rolls, apple pie. bacon, malt-o-meal. Wednesday 18th Pizza burgers, Italian mixed vegetables, fruit. PIZZA DELIVER Eggs to order, grits, donuts. ' DEV\A Baked chicken-in-lime, tater tots, Smoked links, steamed cabbage, seasoned greens (country style), Lyonnaise green beans, fruit. rolls, fruit. Fried fish/seasoned bread crumbs, FREE DELIVERY Saturday 21th macaroni & cheese, leaf spinach, ALL PHONES demi whole wheat bread, ice cream Continental Breakfast, 8-9 a.m. sundaes. 523-0800 Brunch, 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. Thursday 19th OVEN HOT DELIVERY Sunday 22nd Eggs to order, sausage links,cream PIPING HOT CARRY OUTS of wheat, bagels and cream cheese. Continental Breakfast, 8-9 a.m. CASUAL DINING ROOM Chix fried chix, steaks/cream Brunch. 11 a.m.- 1 D.m. 2111 NORFOLK, HOUSTON, TEXAS DELIVERY DRIVERS COOKS $2.00 OFF ANY Restaurant Hours Delivery Hours WAIT STAFF MOT. 11:30 AM 11:00 4 10:30 LARGE PIZZA Tuei. 11:30 AM 11:00 4 10:30 Part/Full Time Positions Available Wed. 11:30 AM 11:00 4 10:30 PICK—UP OR EAT IN Day or Night Thurs 11:30 AM 11:00 4 10:30 WITH STUDENT I.D. Frt. 11:30 AM 12:00 4 12:00 Apply in Person 2-5PM Sat 4:00 PM 12:00 4 12:00 2314 West Holcombe Sun. 4:00 PM 11:00 4 10:30 Expires: Dec. 24, 1985 Pizza, inn The Rice Thresher, September 17, 1985, page 8