Contractors finish road, RMC repairs before classes begin by Jeanne Cooper state. We got a capital process. After the old surface was in Houston," said Samfield. inconvenience while the potholes The repaying of Laboratory appropriation for the worst part of removed, more lime-stabilized The contractors will remain on are being filled. "We're asking for Road should be finished and the them." shell was add^d to the base, which campus to resurface a small section cooperation from faculty and construction barricades removed According to Samfield, the was releveled with an inch layer of of the drive from the President's students all over the campus if they today, completing the major roads' base of stabilized shell and asphalt on top. The contractors House to Brown College, a job see some activity in their parking portion of a $40,000 road low-grade concrete had failed then added a layer of polyester which Samfield predicts will take lots to respect any barricades that improvement project. Contractors under the duress of constant road fabric, followed by the Wi only a day to complete. The might have to be put up." repaved a substantial part of expansion and contraction from inch layer of wearing asphalt. Planning and Construction Office While the road rehabilitation College Way earlier this summer seasonal changes on. the According to King, the asphalt also has approximately 34 pothole went on outside this summer, before beginning the similar work underlying roots. penetrates through the polyester sites marked for filling by the former Rice professor Stewart on Laboratory Road on August Architect Bob King of Physical layer, binding itself to the lower contractors, with the most Baker's contracting company, the 14. Plant's Planning and Construction layers for a road less prone to extensive work needed inthe Jones Bremond Company, kept busy Commented Director of Office described the repaving cracking. College parking lot. inside the Rice Memorial Center Physical Plant Ed Samfield, technique of contractors AAA "It's not a new process, just one Samfield expects some drivers with extensive improvements to "Those roads were in a pretty bad Blacktop Paving as a four-step that hasn't been used appreciably may experience temporary , I lib i r INSIDE: • It you thought you missed summer, find it in Doonesburv. pp. 8-9. • To see how Garp fares in film, see p. 10. I I THRESHER • lake a peek at Rice's football Volume 70, number 2 Friday, August 20, 1982 Hopes, page 13. TWU to house 50 Rice transplants by Jeanne Cooper The transplants will pay $3200 shuttle bus system which Rice will Approximately SO new students room and board to Rice University contract to a Medical Center firm. will move into the Texas Women's like on-campus students, with the The planned route will run University residence hall in the University picking up the between the residence hall (6723 University President Medical Center tomorrow, under a undisclosed difference. Noted Bertner off Fannin) to Allen Norman hiackerman and contract developed in late July by Stabell, "More important was Center via the Lovett College Student Association Director of Admissions Richard having a place for them, not the entrance from Main. The schedule President Marry Ellen Trunko N. Stabell. cost." Whenever rooms become will focus on transportation to addressed a rapacity crowd Of the TWU group, only an available, the TWU residents will classes and meals, which will be matriculation Tuesday estimated 15 are of the 60 or so be given the option to move on eaten in the transplant's assigned mnnt in the Rice Memoria Houston-area freshmen who were campus. college. Said Stabell on Lenv - C. Retninq denied housing due to the Rice's contract will last through Wednesday, "I envision three or so unexpected increase in accept- the fall semester, to be renewed at trips early, maybe around 7:15, ances of Rice's offers of admission TWU's discretion if the 7:30, and 8 a.m., with a couple last spring. As attrition and supplemental housing is still around the noon hour, perhaps 11, overflow housing in the older necessary in the spring. "My 12, and 1 p.m., with a couple colleges reduced the group, Rice feeling is we will carry it through around dinner and a couple later at offered spaces in TWU to the entire year," said Stabell. night, perhaps 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 freshmen who entered waitlist' He observed, however, "The p.m." housing and female transfer obligation is to those 15 to 18 who Stabell emphasized, "We're students. we promised housing." If thai going to play it by ear. If there's a According to Stabell, the group all obtains other housing by demand for it, we'll do it. It (the exclusion of male transfer students the spring, Rice would most likely shuttle system) will start running from the housing opportunity not ask TWU to allow the Monday, and we'll adjust to it. Of stems from a request by TWU that remaining transfer/waitlisted course, a lot of students will take it the male/female ratio of the transplants to continue their TWU on their own and just walk across." transplanted Rice students remain residence. The Rice Campus Police have the same as the original Houston In the meantime, Stabell and volunteered to coordinate security- area-only group, which numbered Dean of Undergraduate Affairs arrangements. more men than women. Stabell Katherine Brown are working out Two Rice graduate students will expressed surprise at TWU's the practical details of daily life for serve as resident advisors, in preference; the residence hall is all- the transplants. addition to the TWU staff. female during normal school year. Still under consideration is the , Ri'videiii Benjamin explains 'Rice Shock' Religious studies Professor Monday. shock. Watts admits to Fossi murder, 1)L I C. Benjamin delivered the And there won't be a period in And .so what we're talking Orientation Week address last your life, like this first year here about—what I'm talking to you police investigations continue Wednesday in Ha mm an Hall. at Rice, in the near future where about this afternoon—is how to KTRU recorded the speech, you'll make as many changes in cope with all of the things people I'alU ( l«m Watts has admitted to the transcribed by Kelvin Thompson are asking you to be by the time Coral Eugene Watts, a 28-year- murders of eleven Houston- and Jeanne Cooper. classes start on the twenty-third old former Houston bus mechanic, Galveston area women and attacks of August. And your life has been has admitted to the murder of on six women. Watts is also One of the things that's been totally changed. That causes pain fifth-year architecture student suspected in the deaths of twelve part of what's been happening to for most of us, because there Margaret Everson Fossi. Fossi you ever since you got here on aren't many of us who don't like died on January 18, 1982 after Michigan women. campus the early part of this where we are right now. At least receiving blunt trauma to the Houston police apprehended week is that you've had most of us like most about throat. Watts May 23 as he was leaving an everybody you've met trying to ourselves. And so when you're On the night of her death, Fossi apartment in which he had tried to coach you on how to make all the suddenly rushed by a campus full left the Rice campus between 2 and drown a woman in her bathtub. changes that are going to go on in of people saying what you are 3 a.m. Houston Police Homicide Watts pleaded guilty to a charge of your life. now won't do—"be something Detective Kenneth Williamson, burglary with an intent to murder I mean, if it wasn't your different"--then we begin to get who is assigned to the Watts' case, relating to the incident. If his plea mother telling you that you put very uncomfortable. said that Watts recalled spotting is accepted, Watts will be the dresser in the wrong place The symptoms of the kind of Fossi on Main Street. He followed sentenced to 60 years in prison and and you have your shirts in the your life. And what happens to us shock that goes on here at Rice her to where she was parked and granted immunity from the Harris wrong drawer, it was a student as human beings when we're are all connected with a basic attacked her as she left the car. County killings such as Fossi's to* adviser telling you how to beat rushed with change—not only fact: you're smart. Admissions Houston police discovered which ••"'fife has confessed in the system in your first year by the number of changes people every year says that 64 percent of Fossi's body in the trunk of her car, exchange for giving police getting a good schedule, or ask us to make but the pace at you graduate in the top 5 percent parked 500 feet away from her information about the other campus police telling you where which we have to change of your high school classes. And home with two flat tires on one slayings. you couldn't park. And there everything from our phone that 26 percent of you are side. The Harris County Medical Although Watts would be probably hasn't been a period in number and our friends to our National Merit Scholars.