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ANY REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON THIS REPOSITORY IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE PARTY THAT DOES SO. This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspaper at Rose-Hulman Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rose Thorn Archive by an authorized administrator of Rose-Hulman Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Housing picture darkens by John Sparks not quite as grim as they appear should look into it. News Editor at first glance. Currently, 25 A list of apartments is Housing space will once again seniors are housed on-campus, available in his Crapo Hall be at a premium on-campus next and the Deming addition will office. This list is made up of fall, according to figures provide space for 29 more apartments Rose students have amassed by Pete Gustafson, students. lived in, apartments seniors are Assistant Dean of Students. In addition, some space may currently living in, faculty The Intent to Live On-Campus be available in the BSB owned apartments, and realtor forms distributed last month basement. Freshmen and listings. indicate 428 students are seeking upperclasssmen are expected to An off-campus living guide is on-campus housing for next fall. be housed there. also available. Only 353 spots are available to Gustafson contributes the Gustafson insists that the off- upperclassmen. number of students requesting campus housing market is These numbers indicate that 75 on-campus spots, which is up competitive. He said many people will be left without from last year, to two reasons. apartments can be rented now, housing. The least likely to First of all, off-campus with no payments until fall. In no receive on-campus spots are expenses have risen case, he said, should anyone pay those with low housing substantially. Hence, rent over the summer to hold an priorities; transfer students, off- sophomores and juniors are not apartment. willing to live off-campus as campus students, and seniors. as caution students to to be. He did If these numbers were to they used beware of the neighborhood, apply, only seven seniors would Secondly, Gustafson believes created though. Many students have be housed on-campus next fall. the Deming project has thieves feeling that housing is fallen prey this year to However these numbers are only the vacations. preliminary estimates and are available on campus. People who that operate during subject to change. normally do not apply for For those students who truly The next link in the housing housing are applying on the do want to live on-campus, process is the completion of the chance that they will receive a Gustafson says they should at Housing Preference Form and a place due to the Deming project. least wait until the end of the Joan Singer Spicknall will close the 1979-80 Fine Arts Series fifty dollar deposit. Normally Gustafson recommends that month before doing anything. next Tuesday with a piano recital. Spicknall, who received a about 90-95 percent of the above any senior who may be More accurate figures will be doctorate in music from the University of Maryland, is an ad- students actually deposit, in the interested in living off-campus available then. junct professor of music at Rose-Hulman. The performance will process retaining their priority take place Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. In the auditorium. for an on-campus spot. Tickets are free to Rose students. The numbers, therefore, are Till:3111r Vol. 15, No. 23 Rose-Huiman Institute of Technology April 11,1980 VP position only SGA race The final SGA elections for next year are being held today. The elections feature a run-off between Vice-Presidential candidates Mark Bates and Brock Rule. Kendal Smith is running unopposed for President. Mark Bates states: I feel that my current position as SGA treasurer qualifies me to chair the Student Congress and finish the budget process for the next school year. I have been extremely active North joins faculty in ministering current funds and keeping all clubs notified of their Mark Bates Brock Rule by Dale Arand joined Prat-Whitney Florida term balances. and Rod Braun Research and Development for I feel that as VP I can have a students, faculty, and Council, Staff Writers four years. The Aerospace administration, and A welcome addition was made greater influence on the process administration is a perennial and faculty. Division of the Chrysler to the Rose mechanical Corporation in Huntsville, of alloting funds and determining often overworked campaign I feel my best qualifications engineering staff this past Alabama hired him in 1964. It policy; jobs which my previous issue. However, I feel that, in the for Vice-President are my experience will help me do well. light of the pressing problems January when Professor C. was in 1965 that he decided to go willingness and desire to spend Mallory North I feel that the current SGA before the Institute today, joined the facult to graduate school at the the time and effort required to He came here from the University of Alabama. Congress procedures should be communication is a valid issue. ensure that the Student Congress changed to further incorporate It appears that integration of University of Arkansas where he and office of Vice-President had been an instructor since Dr. North has many interests, the student body. This may in- the residence halls will occur but truly serve the student body. 1971. Before that, he had been an he enjoys music the most. He volve making the SAB a part of next year on a trial basis. If plays the piano I have the experience instructor at Southern Methodist and the organ. He the SGA. elected Vice-President, I would and is also interested knowledge gained from University for two years. in stereo I believe that it is important to ensure that student opinion being a equipment. He member of Student Congress, Professor North has an has directed maintain continuity and order as would be a major force in the church and high school the Secretary of the Student impressive educational choirs in we change administrations, and decision as to whether past years. These activities the experience that I have gained integration continue. Congress, a member of a background. He originally should received consume the bulk of his spare as a member of the Executive I would also Presidential Commission, and his Bachelor of encourage Aerospace Engineering time. Council this year will serve the congressmen the current Student Government and a to seek out and Master of Science in Physics school well if you elect me SGA present the opinions of their Secretary. Teaching at Rose has been a from the University of Florida. VP. constituency. Once the Congress For these reasons I feel that pleasure so far for Dr. North. At I Later, he earned a Master of Brock Rule says: had made its stand I would carry would be your best vote for the present time he lives alone in SGA Arts in Applied Mathematics communication between that view to the Executive Vice-President. an apartment here in Terre from the University of Alabama. Haute. His wife, Sonya, is still in He received a Ph.D. in Little Rock, Arkansas because Engineering Mechanics from the their house is not yet sold. They Rube Goldberg event same institution. have a five year old son, Nathan, returns Professor North has held who is also still in Arkansas. It Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical complex, comical, and hole from a distance of one foot. many industrial positions. In should not be long before they Engineering honorary, is pleased sometimes preposterous No guides may be used for the 1958 he worked for Lockheed in are all together living in Terre to announce the Rube Goldberf mechanisms for performing ball. Marietta, Georgia. He later Haute. Design Contest. This contest, relatively straight-forward The system must take betwen open to all Rose-Hulman tasks. 15 and 120 seconds to operate; it must be mechanically, students, faculty, and staff, will The majority of Moenchfest program set Goldberg's electrically, and chemically self- be held during the Rose Show on designs use no electricity or- contained; and it by Eric Donsker potato salad, apple cobbler, Parents' Day, April 26, 1980, in fossil must be no fuels, instead relying on larger than three feet to a side. Senior Reporter and beverages will be served, Moench Hall. the ingenious use of gravity. More On Saturday, April 26, followed by a short program The object of the contest is the In keeping complete rules are with the spirit of available from Rose-Hulman wig have a honoring Dr.