The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1981 Page: 1 of 16
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Uj Akers food group begins search for alternative systems
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by Bruce Davies
A group of students and
university officials travelled to two
nearby universities this week to
explore alternative food service
systems. The group consisted of
Vice President for Administration
William Akers, Director of Food
and Housing Marion Hicks, Food
Committee Chairman John
Szalkowski, Co-Master Mary
Armeniades, and students Donna
Torczon, Steve Ingels, and Bill
Cober.
The group visited Trinity
University in San Antonio
Tuesday, whose food is catered by
Handy-Andy Food Services. Inc.
After talking to the school's vice
president of fiscal affairs and his
assistant, the group ate lunch in the
central dining hall and met with
students and catering personnel.
"We collected a lot of good ideas
and information on how we can
either improve our situation or go
to a type of catering situation,"
said Szalkowski.
On Wednesday, the group
visited Southwestern University in
Georgetown, whose food is catered
by SAGA, the national catering
service which Swarthmore/Rice
exchange students praise.
Both Southwestern and Trinity
have one centrally located dining
hall for the entire university. As a
result, serving hours are longer.
Trinity differs from Southwestern
in that students are not allowed to
go through the serving line more
than once, although at
Southwestern, students may have
second helpings.
Szalkowski commented, "We
won't have anything to report
officially until we have seen how
several schools in the Dallas area
do it. After that, we will get
together and compare notes."
The group plans to make its trip
to the Dallas area on February 16
and 17 to visit TCU, SMU, and
Austin College.
1HRESHER
Volume 68, number 22
Thursday, February 5, 1981
INSIDE:
• The folks who want to run
this place. The candidates, p. 5.
• On drugs? Maybe you should
try Altered States, p. 6.
• Dancer gets the axe, p. 8.
• Cagers lose close ones, p. 10-11
RMC key access plan approved
by Joan Hope
Vice President for Admini-
stration William Akers has
approved a plan for access to the
RMC after normal business hours.
Submitted by KTRU General
Manager Frank Vance, the plan
will allow KTRU, the RMC
administration, and the Campus
Police to have control over
whomever enters the building.
Says Akers, "We just want to
maintain some security. KTRU
has a lot of equipment in there."
The system will be implemented as
soon as possible.
According to the plan, two keys
to the RMC will be kept at the
Campus Police office for use by
KTRU personnel. All persons
entering the building, whether
checking out a key or not will be
required to sign in at the Campus
Police office and leave some form
of identification and sign out
immediately upon leaving the
building.
"We needed a system that has
total accountability for who was in
the building and when,"
commented Assistant General
Manager John Taylor. "We've
made sure it's very, very hard to
misuse."
Four groups of people
associated with KTRU will be
allowed access to the RMC after
business hours: directors, disc
jockeys, staff, and visitors. While
in the RMC, the authorized
persons may "inhabit and/or use"
only the radio station itself, the
vending machines in the basement,
and the bathrooms on the main
floor.
Two groups will actually be able
to check out keys: KTRU directors
(currently 13 students) and DJ's
(around 40 students). The
Po tern pa quits council
Honor Council Secretary and
Graduate Representative Thorr
Potempa resigned his position last
week, but refused to discuss the
exact reasons for his departure.
"I will say something at the
proper place and the proper time,"
he remarked. "I'm going to say
something at a University Council
meeting, but I don't feel it is
appropriate for me to make a
statement at this time." The
University Council has directed a
subcommittee to investigate and
evaluate the Honor System.
Honor Council Chairman Steve
Schooner also refused to comment
on Potempa's resignation, noting,
Thorn Potempa
-L. Rohwer
Statements
Candidates for Student
Association, Rice Program
Council, Thresher, Campanile,
and Honor Council positions
who wish to have carppaign
statements published in next
week's Thresher should submit
statements to the Thresher
(o/fices, second floor, Rice
Memorial Center) by 10 p.m.
Sunday, February 8. State-
ments should be less than 450
words.
. Photographs may be either
submitted with the statement ort1
may be taken between 7 and 10
p.m. Sunday in the Thresher
office.
directors, a list of whom will be
kept by the Campus Police, will be
allowed access to KTRU at any
time. DJ's will be allowed access
only at the times of their shifts
(usually three hours long.) The
Campus Police will have a list of
the DJ's and their shift times to
insure that the keys are checked
out immediately before and
returned immediately following
the shifts.
KTRU staff members will not be
allowed to check out keys but may
be admitted to the RMC by a
key holder after receiving
permission by phone in the
presence of the Campus Police
Any visitor (anyone who is not a
director. D.J, or staff member)
must be chaperoned at all times.
Arrangements for their entrance to
KTRU must be made in advance
or the chaperone must be with
them when they go the Campus
Police office. No more than three
visitors will be allowed in KTRU at
any time unless a written advisory-
listing the names of all visitors Has
been submitted in advance to the
Campus Police and the RMC by
the General Manager or Assistant
General Manager of KTRU.
KTRU personnel have been
waiting for a new key system since
the fall of 1978. All student
organization offices in the RMC
used to have a certain number of
keys to the building's west door for
off-hours access. After a criminal
trespassing incident in the spring
of 1978, however, all RMC locks
were changed and the key system
was revoked. KTRU was promised
new keys by the next semester, but
see RMC, page 15
■m&mw
*
Workers lay new pipeline at Wiess.
Wiess water Interrupted
by David Keen
Water supplies to Wiess College
were cut off for about six hours
Saturday while workmen replaced
a broken water line serving the
college.
Since the pipeline broke directly
underneath the college's patio,
Physical Plan Administrator
Russell Sullivan decided to avoid
the cost of digging up and
replacing the patio by laying pipe
around the edges of the patio, thus
bypassing the damaged pipe.
Water supplies to Wiess, the
Media Center, and the gymnasium
had been cut off January 27 for
three hours while workmen
installed a valve in lines between
Wiess and Hanszen. The valve
allowed the work Saturday to be
carried out without interruption of
water to other campus buildings.
Swllivan explained that Rice's
recurrent pipeline problems are
caused by Houston's volatile soil.
In dry weather, he said, the clay in
the soil tends to shrink, and in wet
weather, it expands. In addition,
last summer's long drought put a
severe strain on the pipelines. He
commented, "The pipes we're
using are pretty strong, but when
the soil shifts this much, just about
any line is going to break."
"He'll make his statement
eventually."
Potempa, who had threatened
to resign once last year, made the
motion to the Honor Council last
spring to ask the University
Council to review the Honor
System. He contended at the
council's open meeting last May
that in some computer science
courses, a "clear example of total
disrespect for the Honor Code"
existed. (Potempa is a graduate
student in mathematical sciences.)
He also said that he felt that the
council was "woefully inadequate"
to deal with the problems that they
encountered.
His duties as secretary will
temporarily be performed by
Junior Representative Deborah
McCauley, although Schooner
said, "We'll probably alfc take care
of it."
Varied Majors Day activities slated
All 100 and 200 level courses
have been cancelled for the
morning of Tuesday, February 10*
to allow students to participate in
Majors Day activities. According
to Director of Student Advising
H.C. Clark, each department will
conduct a program in its office in
order to acquaint undergraduates
with their major program.
Related activities include the
administration of the Strong-
Campbell interest areas test and an
evening of talks about careers with
alumni. In addition, students will
be asked to fill out a questionnaire
to help incoming Dean of
Humanities Allen Matusow decide
how best to use funds Rice will
soon receive from the Mellon
Foundation.
"Departmental programs (on
Majors Day) run the gamut from
very good to just not very much,"
said Clark. "Although the
programs are intended mainly for
freshmen and sophomores, it's a
good place to go for all."
In conjunction with Majors
Day, the Office of Student
Advising will sponsor the Strong-
Campbell interest areas test for
any student who wishes to take it.
Clark explained that the test is not
an aptitude test, but is a 45-minute
test of interests. The answers of the
student are compared with those of
successful people in specific fields.
The test, which will be given free
of charge, will be administered on
February 11 at 2 p.m. in Geology
Lab room 106 and on February 12
at 2:30 p.m. in the Chemistry
Lecture Hall.
On February 11, the Association
of Rice Alumni will sponsor an
evening of discussion at 7 p.m. in
the Grand Hall of the Rice
Memorial Center. There will be a
question and answer session with
four Rice alumni who will talk
about their careers at Rice and
how it affected their careers in
business.
The survey, sponsored by
Matusow, will be given to
freshmen and sophomores on
Majors Day, while a separate
questionnaire will be sent to
juniors with their spring
registration packets. Matusow
said the poll will help him decide
see Majors, page /5
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1981, newspaper, February 5, 1981; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245462/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.