^35g09" • The Magazine of Rice Universtty Fehruary-Nlarch 198$ - cientVisions What I Did on my Summer Vacation 7 Curious about "real-world journalism," Rice senior Karen Nickel satis- SALUTE"' fied her curiosity last summer with an internship in New York City at Feb.-March 1988, Vol. 44, No.3 Fortune magazine. Along the way, she learned about deadlines, about pink sheets and, working for alumna Mary Johnston '41, about the Rice Editor bond. Suzanne Johnson Assistant Editor Maggi Stewart The Editorial Assistant Ties that Blind 10 Andre Fox Contents As society becomes more technologically advanced, it has become Contributing and increasingly harder for us to see the subtle threads separating ethical Staff Writers from unethical behavior in our lives. Rice ethicists look at the role Nathan Broch education can play in helping us see our options more clearly. Mimi Crossley Bill Noblitt Valerie Rohy '88 Art Director Unearthing the Past 14 Jeff Cox For more than a decade, Rice archaeologists Walter Widrig and Philip Graphic Designers Oliver-Smith have been Corinne Zeutzius slowly digging their way through the ruins of Geri Snider ancient villas outside Rome. Now, with several major finds behind Photographer them, they are able to present concrete details of Roman social and Tommy C. LaVergne cultural life. Meanwhile, on campus, a new major in Ancient Mediter- ranean Civilization brings Ancient Rome to Rice. Officers of the Association of Rice Alumni President, William (Bill) Merriman '67 1119 President-Elect, J.D.(Bucky) Allshouse '71 Truth and Consequences 1st Vice-President, Dan Steiner '77 Providing the most correct answers to Sallyport's recent "Demisesqui- 2nd Vice-President, Juliana Williams Itz '72 centennial Trivia Contest" earned some Austin alumni a copy of the Treasurer, H. Russell Pitman '58 new Rice Past President, Gwynne E. Old '59 Press book,Rice University: A 75th Anniversary Portrait. An Executive Director, Susan Baker '78 alumnus in Pennsylvania went for the "tacky owl" prize by making up his own Association Committee answers. With grades on the curve and the Honor Code out the on Publications window,Sallyport reviews the answers. William (Bill) Merriman '67,ex On the Cover:'Rice's Raman Muse"gazes officio, Association of Rice Alumni from a 2,000-year-oklfresco discovered on Susan Baker '78, ex officio, the Via Gabina.( illustration by Brad Caber) Association of Rice Alumni Nancy Boothe '52,chair Darrell Hancock '68, past chair through the Campus Store. Anyone inter- Please accept my sincere congratulations W.V. Ballew Jr.'40 ested in ordering should write the Rice for the new look of Sallyport. Now our John B. Boles '65 University Campus Store, P.O. Box 1892, friends and family from Philadelphia do not Charles Bracht '69 Houston, TX 77251 for a catalog. have to ask so many questions about Rice, Nancy Burch '61 as I am proud to display Sallyport in my Lynda Crist '67 Magazine Fans home and to our friends. More and more Kent E. Dove Like my good friend George Williams, I con- people are eager to learn about Rice. Your Alan Grob fess to "a few haunting doubts" about the new look and style is very handsome and William F. Noblitt new Sallyport. elegant, as well as being informative about Evelyn Nolen '62 At the same time, it's so fantastically the university. Patti Simon '65 unusual, so unexpected for an alumni maga- As a humble newsletter editor for my Geri Snider '80 zine, that I'm heavily for it. Right on! class at the University of Pennsylvania, I ap- Charles Szalkowski '70 G. King Walters '53 Waldo F. McNeir'29 preciate the time and effort you all have Houston taken to make Sallyport an outstanding rep- Alumni Governors Letters resentative of Rice throughout the country. Joyce Pounds Hardy '45 Just a note to let you know how very much I Again, best wishes from a parent of a junior Jerry McClesky '56 have enjoyed the new Sallyport. The pic- at Rice. Pat H. Moore '52 tures are wonderful and I have read all the Rosalie Cummins Shelton Paula Meredith Mosle '52 articles — and learned even more about Oreland,Pa. Rice. Sallyport(USPS 412-950)is published in Mail-order Pride I am retired from Rice, having worked 'Hoot'Dispute: September, November, February, April and It is too bad that all the demisesquicenten- there from August 1965 till December 1979. So Much for Satire June by the Association of Rice Alumni, and nial sweatshirts sold out. Mail order might I thoroughly enjoyed my years at Rice work- is sent free to all university alumni, parents have been arranged for some of us alumni ing in the registrar's office with the graduate So Sallyport thinks it's gone high-class with of students, and friends. Second-class post- who never get back to Houston and Rice. students. I think of them often and very slick paper like a Sunday newspaper age paid at Houston, Texas. Since I was at Rice during the 50th anniver- fondly. magazine. sary, I would love to have a sweatshirt from Thank you for continuing to send me And what do we get with this expensive William Marsh Rice University offers equal the 75th celebration. Though I have degrees the Sallyport and other interesting bits color paper? New microphotographs or opportunity to all applicants without regard from other universities, it is the Rice experi- about Rice. They are all a real delight to computer-simulated discoveries? Artistic to race, color, sex, age, national or ethnic ence that! hold so dear. And as I jog around read. achievements or pictures from other origin, or physical handicap. cultures?(Two people sitting in a tree the Washington, D.C., area, the only univer- Esther Canada hardly represent another culture.) sity label I would ever think of wearing Fredericksburg, Texas Editorial offices for Sallyport are located in would be that of Rice. Any chance of mail No, we get brat-packers dressed in Sal- the Allen Center for Business Activities, ordering just a regular sweatshirt with the vation Army who think Rice is a modeling Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Rice crest? school. Houston, TX. If we paid for Sallyport, I'd cancel my Anna Ryan '64 subscription. Postmaster: Send address changes to Woodbridge, Va. Dian L. Hardison '79 Sallyport, Office of University Relations, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, A Titusville, Fla. number of Rice-related items, including TX 77251. sweatshirts, are available by mail order Letters continued on page 31 Copyright 1987 by the Association of Rice Alumni, Rice University. FEBAARCII/Page 2 Through pursue their motion picture dreams. the Taking"The Trust" from stage to screen will involve more than turning on a camera."The film won't be a simple recording of the Sallyport stage play," Killgore notes."The medium is so different and less confining — the script is being rewritten as a film based on the same material. There will be more Rice on Film characters, more locations, a few exteriors — we're even planning to Doug recreate a little corner of the Hur- Killgore has been juggling his ricane of 1900, an event that love for business with his penchant for played an important role in the the arts since he was an under- timing of the murder." graduate at Rice in the late '60s. Killgore says he envisions He should be good at it by now, but quite a bit of the filming to be done the ultimate test will come in Rice campus, and more than the on the next few months as he and Rice 90 percent in Texas. Players director the Neil Havens secure Killgore has been a filmmaker funding to film a movie version Attending "The Must"at Main Street Theater were(from left) William Marsh Rice iv, Treasury of for many years, having co-produced Secretary James A. Baker III, Linda Rice and William M. Rice III. "The Trust." Killgore's play about the with George Greanias '70 his first murder of William Marsh Rice feature,"Grigsby, G.," while an set box office records for Houston's undergraduate in business at Rice. 13-year-0ld Main Street Theater After earning his master's in film Campus with Bud Moorehead," and "Room with a View," for example— last fall. f After selling out every per- from the University of Texas, the 60-second spot currently being were made without astronomical ormance of the the athletic budget."We want to produce a film Was initial run play Killgore returned to Houston, televised during Rice extended twice, then moved to where he has written and directed events. that everyone will be proud to be a larger performance space. There scores of film and multimedia pro- For the stage version of"The associated with. It is an absorbing are even the tentative plans of taking jects over the last 12 years. For Trust," Killgore produced a short, story, and its telling will be impor- production to New York. Rice, he has produced several of 16mm film recreating the begin- tant to Rice." Encouraged by this response, ning of a speech Capt. James A. Killgore the "Rice Today" presentations, and Havens decided to including "A Walking Tour of the Baker made to the graduating class of 1931. Footage of Malcolm Lovett portraying his father and English professor emeritus J.D. Thomas playing an elderly Baker was mixed with authentic film from Rice ar- chives and scenes from a recent graduation. The results were so be- lievable, Killgore says, that even though the film participants were credited in the program, most of the audience(and even a few of the critics) accepted the film as authentic.