c ; i i\ < • /CD C P" SINCE 1916 VOLUME 76, NO. 14 FRONTPAGE JANUARY 20, 1989 Goldsmith takes head coaching jobicE UNIVERSITY by Keith Couch The feeling here is of a family fight- integrity, ties to Texas, and history of ing the outside enemy. Everyone winning. "It took a special individual AM 1989 here is really together." to come in here and take this chal- m At a press conference Tuesday, Goldsmith predicted an offense lenge," May said. "This is a unique January 17, President George Rupp based on drop-back and sprint-out school. Fred has an understanding J IRRARi named former Arkansas assistant passing. "There would have been no of the importance and place of inter- •*" coach Fred Goldsmith the new head trip to interview here if I wanted to collegiate athletics at Rice." football coach for the Rice Owls. run the Arkansas wishbone," he May graduated cum laude from Goldsmith replaces Jerry Berndt, said. "I think we need to be more Rice in 1965 with a BA in Com- who resigned to become the head open to move the ball." merce. As an undergraduate athlete, coach at Temple University in Phila- Rice's defensive strategy will be he was Southwest Conference cham- delphia. Former associate athletic modelled on the offense of the Razor- pion four times in hurdles and was director J.R. "Bobby" May was backs, a unit Goldsmith has led as NCAA Champion and All-America in named the new athletic director, a defensive coordinator forthe lastfive 1964. He has been involved with Rice post also vacated by Berndt. seasons, he said. During that period, athletics as a coach and administra- "I think this is a unique situation the Arkansas defense was consis- tor since 1967, and was named asso- here," Goldsmith said. "Rice doesn't tently among the Southwest Confer- ciate athletic director in 1980. just give lip service to academics. ence's best In 1981, Goldsmith was Most of the staff of assistant foot- This school is above the norm in also head coach at Slippery Rock ball coaches has been filled. Key intercollegiate athletics." (compiling a 2-7 record) and was an appointees are offensive coordinator The new coach pointed to the assistant under Ken Hatfield at Air Mike Heimerdinger from California successes of other academically ori- Force for four seasons. State—Fullerton and defensive coor- ented programs such as those at The immediate concern for Gold- dinator Craig Bohl from the Univer- Duke, Wake Forest, and Stanford as smith and his new staff is recruiting, sity of Wisconsin. Recruiting coordi- examples for Rice. "I really believe where they are already far behind. nator Mark Cordelli came from Ar- New head football coach Fred Goldsmith addresses reporters on Tuesday. this is the best time in the last 25 Rice's primary focus will be on Texas kansas with Goldsmith. years for schools with academic in- in contrast to past years. "I want to tegrity to have a resurgence," he recruit Texas like we're the Univer- said. sity of Texas," Goldsmith said. "I've Goldsmith downplayed Rice's 0- recruited in Texas for eleven years Coach Berndt leaves Rice for Temple 11 finish last season, saying, "I feel and I know there are great athletes after several daysof intense delibera- coach was headed by J. Evans like I'm 10-2 and just went to the and there are many places where by Elise Perachio Cotton Bowl (with Arkansas last academics are strong." tion and negotiation with Temple's Attwell, member of the Board of season) and that Rice is 0-0. That Goldsmith is the third head foot- athletic director Charles Theokas. Trustees and managing partner of monkey just isn't on my back." Ar- ball coach in five years at Rice, and Jerry Berndt resigned as Rice At the end of this season, Berndt still Vinson & Elkins, attorneys-at-law. kansas' slim seven point victory over the sixteenth in the 77 year history of University's head football coach and had two years left on his five-year Other members were: J.D. "Bucky" Rice was a better indicator of the the school. athletic director December 31 to contract with Rice and was not plan- Allshouse, the 1989 president of the Owls' play last season, according to May echoed Goldsmith's opti- accept a head coaching position at ning to leave. Association of Rice Alumni and the new head man. "Rice is hungry. mism and praised the new coach's Temple University in Philadelphia. According to the Houston Post, Houston attorney, Dr. Hally Beth Berndt may be the first college foot- Berndt might have stayed if Presi- Poindexter, chair of the department ball coach to come out of a no-win dent George Rupp had challenged of human performance and health season and accept a job with equal, if Temple's offer with a requested science; and Dr. G. King Walters, BSU, MAO march honors not greater, benefits. contract extension. professor of physics and former The Owls finished 0-11 this year, Berndt said in November, "If this dean of the Wiess School of Natural leaving Berndt's total Rice record at were two years from now and I was in Sciences. King's 60th birthday 6-27. the last year of my contract, obvi- Many football players expressed Berndt left his Rice position only ously I would [think'about a coach- optimism about the arrival of the new by Kurt Moeller ing change]. But I still feel we made coach, despite their disappointment significant progress this year. It just at Berndt's departure. The team didn't show up on the scoreboard." members met with Goldsmith ear- The Black Student Union and the Berndt accepted Temple's offer, lier this week. Office of Minority Affairs co-spon- estimated at $170,000 per year, ac- Sophomore Inside linebacker sored three events Monday to honor cording to the Houston Post This Richard Duggan said, "I feel like slain civil rights leader Martin Lu- salary would be comparable to what Coach Berndt did a good job in that ther King on his sixtieth birthday. Berndt received as head coach and he brought in a lot of good talent The BSU held a rally at Willy's athletic director at Rice. Berndt lost some of his confidence in statue, led a march across campus, Possible reasons for Berndt's what he was trying to accomplish. and presented Rice with a plaque. departure may have included That's probably why he decided to At the noon rally, Jones College Temple's plans for a new athletics leave, I also feel there is new enthusi- junior Chris Nixon read a short ex- complex overwhich Berndt will have asm and new hope in the players cerpt from the famous "I Have a some influence. Since Temple does SEF BERNDT. page 8 Dream" speech, which King deliv- not impose academic standards on ered at the March on Washington its student-athletes comparable to August 28,1963. those at Rice, Berndt will be able to OPINION Before Nixon spoke, people wei% choose from a much larger pool of given black ribbons to tie around recruits, subject only to NCAA rules. Stokes speaks on their arms. Afterwards, BSU Presi- President Rupp joins members of the Black Student Union and the Minority As Berndt put it, "It was like dent Anthony Wills dedicated the Affairs Office at Monday's rally commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. Temple made me an offer that was Division I athletics. wreath of flowers next to the statue to very difficult to refuse." page 2 King. nantly black. "I'm pleased to see a lot The ARCO Foundation provided At the news conference announc- About 50 people were gathered, more different types of people. It about $190 to purchase the plaque, ing his resignation, Berndt said, "I but the crowd grew to nearly 80 by shows we've made progress." which is engraved with King's pic- feel whipped. I haven't slept in the the time the speech ended. The march across campus ture and some of his speeches. last seven nights. I feel a great deal of Hanszen College senior Wills started just after 7 p.m. at Brown When asked why the plaque was sadness. We've worked so hard FINE ARTS said when he was a freshman, the College. The marchers went by all presented, Cathy Clack, director of here. My staff put their hearts, souls crowd attending the events honor- the colleges, playing a tape of King's the Office of Minority Affairs, said, and bodies into this program." Every movie we saw ing Luther's birthday was predomi- speech and singing verses of "We "There's never been anything last- Nearly all of Berndt's staff will Shall Overcome," a civil rights an- ing, anything permanent [to honor accompany him to Temple. over Christmas... them of the 1960's. King]. We wanted to do something John R "Bobby" May was pro- page 9 Rice mourns loss A plaque-presenting ceremony on a grander scale." moted from his position as associate was held at 8 p.m. in the Farnsworth Watkins said, "A lot of people. director to become athletic director. of MSCI profes- Pavilion of the Rice Memorial Cen- wanted a constant reminder of the Berndt recommmended May, a Rice sor Jack Roberts. ter. Sid Richardson College junior work of Dr. King and other civil alumnus and a member of the ad- Alex Byrd started by giving a speech, rights leaders." ministration from 1967, as his re- See story page 5 at one point asking specific members When asked what she thought placement.