j A# D . P 3 Alternating colleges to serve brunch In efficiency test by Jeff Burton Brunch, featuring breakfast weekends will save eighty hours of She also emphasizes that the alternating-college program was In an effort to improve the items such as eggs to order and a labor per week. Hicks says the first time students go through the not encouraging. According to quality and variety of food choice of lunch entrees, and savings will contribute to higher line, they should ask for only one Hanszen Master Dr. Rich Smith, available to students, the Brown, continental breakfast will only be quality and a better selection of made-to-order item, such as eggs, the feeling was that the students Will Rice, Richardson and served in four commons. food on Saturdays and Sundays. and return later for others such as were against it and the plan was pancakes. Rubash explained that voted down. Hanszen commons will not be The colleges have been paired The only obstacle to the brunch this courtesy keeps the grill free for open this Saturday. according to their proximity to one plan he sees is "college After the meeting a group of individuality." Special weekend more than one student at a time. The four-week brunch another: Jones with Brown, .Will Hanszen students approached events such as college picnics could Smith, questioning the decision to experiment, approved after an Rice with Baker, Richafdson with This trial period is the result of interfere with the alternating years of discussion about the reject the proposal. Upon finding informal investigation of student Lovett, and Hanszen with Wiess. opinion, will offer a wider schedule imposed by the program. feasibility of a brunch plan. substantial support for the plan in Each college will close its assortment of food on weekends Joyce Rubash, director of During a recent visit to Tulane Hanszen college. Smith contacted commons on alternating days. but will force half the commons to College Food Services, points to University, the food committee Hicks and the masters and Central Kitchen is encouraging close on Saturdays and Sundays. some practical difficulties which observed a successful brunch presidents renewed the investiga- students to eat at the college with For the next five weeks have appeared since Sunday program and decided to try it at tion. With the exceptions of which they have been paired. excluding Easter, weekend meals brunch began. Since long lines and Rice. Hicks then submitted the Richardson and Baker, all colleges will consist of continental Food and Housing Director delays have reportedly been a proposal to the committee of seemed to be in favor of the plan breakfast until eleven o'clock and Marion Hicks estimates that problem, students will have to eat masters and presidents. and the masters finally agreed to a brunch until one. closing half the colleges on at different times, says Rubash. Initial reaction to the four-week trial period. INSIDE: • The Hackerman Years: 1970-1985, see pages 8, 9. • New Beer-Bike track plans approved, see page 5. • Everything is absolute, if you look at it the right way. Volume 72, Number 33 FRESHEFriday, MarchR 22, 1985 Incoming athletes show smarts with higher grades placcpclassecs miccprmissedl fof f ar r travetravel l orr\ by Spencer Greene competition. "Absences are a Higher grade-point averages for tremendous problem," she said. "I student athletes show that athletes try to alleviate that problem." are moving "closer to the Among Phillips' accomplish- mainstream of our students in ments this year has been a general," according to a report by reorganization of the athletic Mark Sheid, Academic Advisor to .tutoring program. In the past, she Student Athletes. said, tutoring was done on a case- Freshman athletes' median by-case basis; athletes found their GPA for the fall semester was 2.46, own assistance, and the athletic up from 2.00 last year. The report department merely funded it. Now says that this increase comes Phillips selects tutors based on despite higher enrollment by interviews and professors' athletes in the "big three "fresh man recommendations and trains them courses, Chemistry 101, Math 101 as well. The program currently and Physics 101. includes 15 tutors. One reason for the improve- Phillips did not think that ment, says the report, is the "higher athletes' performance in their quality of student athlete" sports would suffer from greater entering Rice in 1984. The median stress on academics. SAT score was 1040 last year, an "Our emphasis," she explained, increase of 90 points over the "is on staying current in academic- previous year. work. [Athletic Director] Watson Scheid's report also credits "the Brown believes that students who athletic department, coaching Student-athletes at the training table in Sammy's perform better in academic work staff... [and] the hard work of Dr. —D. Gilabert will perform better as athletes. Lyn Phillips and her staff" for the increased emphasis placed on concentrate exclusively on this The purpose of these programs, Staying current reduces stress and improved GPA's. Phillips is the academics in the athletic matter, she said. Scheid advises said Phillips, is "not only to help anxiety, and would certainly add Academic Coordinator for department. student athletes on degree plans athletes pass." but also to help to athletic performance," Student Athletes. Phillips and Scheid joined the and majors for their first two years them with problems resulting from In 1984. according to Phillips, athletic department in the spring of until they are assigned there was a conscious effort to 1984. For some time before their departmental advisors. Phillips both accept and recruit athletes arrival, said Phillips, the runs the athletic department's Two Watsons for Rice with better academic qualifica- department had no one working tutoring program, study skills by Erin Blair tions than in past years. This full-time on athletes' performance programs and study tables, as well Watson Fellowships have been commitment has continued in their classes. as counsels students on an announced for 1985 and for the throughout the year, she said, with Both she and Scheid now individual basis. second year in a row Rice has two winners. Jason Binford and Duanc Pryor were selected as Watson OWLS searching for sincere males scholars from among 200 finalists. The Watson Foundation by David Friesenhahn religion, color, national origin or Little claimed that the rule is not annually funds 70'fellowships to be Although the Owen Wister sex." intended to be discriminatory. used in international studies. Literary Society (OWLS) has However, when it amended the Rather, it is designed to provide amended its constitution to allow constitution to allow male OWLS officers the opportunity to Binford plans to go to Japan for males to join the previously all- membership, OWLS also changed educate prospective male members a year to study the relationship female organization, it will require its admissions requirements. as to the purposes of the society. between culture and religion, using men to undergo a different Article III of the OWLS Said Little, "We wanted to be Zen Buddhism as an example, it is admissions process than that Constitution now states that "any certain that only men who wanted a religion practiced in both Japan Jason Binford Truzinski required of women. male student of Rice University to be in the organization would and the United States, two widely diverse cultures. OWLS was forced to alter its not on scholastic probation may join." their religion and culture. Binford constitution when it was become a member of the Society When asked why a similar "Zen has changed in several will visit Japanese students he met discovered that its rule limiting by contacting the President or Vice education process in not necessary significant ways since it was at Berkeley last summer while he membership to women violated a President of the Society and then for women as well. Little said that established in the U.S.: a more participated in an intensive provision of the Student attending the next prescribed female members typically undergo equal status has been given to Japanese language course. He also Association by-laws which meeting of the Society." such an initiation by merely women, less emphasis is placed on plans to stop in Kamakura, just prohibits sexual discrimination. The constitution does not attending a meeting. monastic practices, and there is south of Tokyo, to study with a more emphasis in the U.S. on The Student Association by- require women to meet with "Women who join go through Zen teacher who has taught both social action," explained Binford. laws currently state that "no officers of OWLS before they can the same process because they Japanese and Western scholars. Student Association organization become members of the ordinarily join at the meeting and He intends to study with Zen Binford, a Managerial Studies may discriminate in policy or organization. meet with officers there, although teachers and interact with the major, chose this project because action on the grounds of race. OWLS Vice President Elizabeth see OWI.S, page 6 Japanese people to understand see Watson, page 6 Misclass — a tradition One of the things someone does when he lives in this office for the better part of three years is look at old issues of the Thresher. YOU'LL NB/ER.BEUB/E IT, CHIEF I'm worse about it than most. When, as a sophomore, I found a K CAU. fOIOnU TOM THE. tHPHELEWE box of 60 and 70-year-old Threshers in the morgue, I was pgaHfroF'fNEscMer WSWME? ecstatic; when the business manager gave them to the Woodson UNION HIMSELF# Research Center,* I was crushed. This week, I've had a fascination with the early 70s, when % Norman Hackerman and the misclassifieds both got their start ""WWXERS at Rice.