The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981 Page: 5 of 28
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Workers install electrical and plumbing innards to Anderson Hall.
—D. Keen
Rorschach named Worden Prof
by Mary Ellen Trunko
Harold E. Rorschach of the
physics department has become
the first professor named to the
Sam and Helen Worden Chair in
Physics. He will assume the chair
July 1.
Rorschach, whose research has
been in the area of low-
temperature solid state physics,
has been teaching at Rice for 29
years. During that time, he has
won the George R. Brown Award
for Excellence in Teaching in 1968,
the Brown Superior Teaching
Award six times between 1967 and
1980, and the Brown College
Teaching Prize in 1972.
Rorschach feels that this award
is "a great honor and compliment"
and that he and his colleagues feel
Doody discusses modern poetry
by Pam Pearson
"Why is Modern Poetry
Difficult?", a six-week course
sponsored by the Alumni
Association, attracted more than
50 people at its first meeting
Tuesday night.
The lecture, by Terrence
Doody, covered Frost's "The
Wood-Pile" and excerpts from
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
Doody cited the impersonality and
juxtaposition of several different
"voices" in The Waste Land as two
major aspects of Eliot's work,
Boorman book printed
Associate Professor of Spanish
and Portuguese Joan Boorman
will publish the twenty-fourth
volume of a series entitled
l.iteraturo Hispanoamericana en
imagenes (Images of Spanish-
American Literature). Sponsored
by La Muralla, a Madrid
publishing house, this volume will
be subtitled El Teatro de Siglo
Veinte (Twentieth Centrury
Theater).
"This is the final volume of the
series, and there are slides of
rehearsals and performances that
go with the text. In fact, I had more
problems collecting the slides than
writing the text," commented
Boorman.
She continued, "One problem
in working with theater is that
there are two different
perspectives: the written text and
the performance itself. My
research tries to tie the text in with
the acting and directing. The
problem with contemporary Latin
Baker elects
Fox president
Chuck Fox was elected
president of Baker College for
1981-82 Wednesday defeating
fellow juniors Philip Easterling,
Anita Gonzalez, Chaz Wampold,
and Dan Jacobs.
Other officers elected were
David Pickett, secretary; Lloyd
Lacomb, treasurer; and Mike Tull,
off-campus representative.
Elections for Baker's three vice
presidential spots will be held
Friday.
American theater is that the
performances differ vastly from
the written text, so that in order to
write about such theater one must
witness the performance."
Boorman has previously
published nine articles and one
book. La Structura del Narrador
en la novela Hispanoamericana
Contemporana (The Structure of
the Narrator intthe Contemporary
Spanish-American Novel) and is
currently working on a study of
contemporary Spanish-American
theater. Using material gathered
previously in Argentina, Uruguay,
Chile, Central America and
Mexico, she hopes to create a
book-length study that will help
place Latin American theater
within the broader scope of
contemporary Western drama.
especially when compared with the
familiar, idiomatic speech of
Frost.
Winner of several Rice teacher
awards, Doody told the class, "I
was taught that all 1 had to do was
take the dictionary in one hand
and the poem in the other and look
at it long enough. When blood
broke out on my forehead, I would
have understood it."
Doody suggested instead that
one read modern poetry aloud to
better grasp its meaning. "That'll
slow you down, and. . .you'll be
able to feel and hear that which
your eye won't pick up." He
advised readers not to worry about
taking a long time to comprehend
some of the complexities involved.
"No one expects to breeze through
the theory of relativity," observed
Doody, adding that next week he
would comment on "why we
expect Ulysses to be clearer than
relativity."
The class will meet every
Tuesday for the next five weeks at
8:30 p.m. in Sewall Hall 301. Other
poets to be studied include
Stevens, Pound, and Yeats. The
course is free for Rice students.
STUDENTS
Work evening hours on the
west side. Guys or gals, 4 to 9
p.m. Weekly wages plus bonus.
Immediate openings. Cail Mr.
Stoner 464-0883 after 2 p.m.
Placement Office Interviews
Date
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2/16
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2/16
Hughes Tool
2/16
Scientific Atlanta
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2/17
North Telecom
2/17
Ralston Purina
2/17
E-Syst'ems
2/17
McDermott
2/18
Stauffer Chemical
2/18
Boeing
2/18
Burroughs
2/18
Conoco
2/19
Tektronix
2/19
Martin Marietta
2/19
Packard Electric
2/19
Southern Nat. Resources
2/20
Flour
2/20
Data General
2/20
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2/20
Philips
2/20
Chevron
grateful towards Sam and Helen
Worden.
Known for his work on the
quartz gravity meter, Mr. Worden
has been involved with the Rice
physics department since he
graduated from Rice in 1935.
Mrs. Worden, who graduated in
1938, has also maintained an active
interest in Rice, and is curently
chairman of the Rice Fund
Council and is a member of the
Rice Board of Governors.
Rorschach recieved his BS, MS,
and PI\P degrees from MIT. He
then joined the Rice faculty in 1952.
Harold Rorschach
-B. Davies
Three sign recent books
by Tom Morgan
Three Rice English professors
promoted their recent works at a
book-signing party at the Brazos
Bookstore last Monday. Former
English department Chairman
David Minter, now dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences at
Emory University, promoted his
William Faulkner: His Life and
Work, Wesley Morris marketed
his Friday's Footprints:
Structuralism and the Articulated
Text, and Terrence Doody pushed
his Confession and Community in
the Novel.
Minter's book is, according to
Doody, "the most intelligent and
thorough biography of Faulkner
that has ever been written."
Morris said his book reflected
his current interest in linguistics,
anthropology and the philosophy
of language. "I am currently
working with several other faculty
members including (anthropology
Professor Stephen) Tyler to
develop an interdepartmental
linguistics program," said Morris.
Doodv's Confession deals with
the response of the reader to
confessions in fiction from St.
Augustine to Rousseau to
Dostoevsky.
All three books sold out at the
gathering.
STUDENT HELP
NEEDED IN
ALUMNI OFFICE
3 to 5 p.m. weekdays (Work Study)
Apply in Alumni Office
2nd Floor RMC
$3.50 per hour
S1AN FORD
summer
session
Introductory and advanced
courses, workshops and
seminars in the arts, earth
sciences, education,
engineering, the humanities,
social sciences, sciences,
and mathematics.
June 22 through August IS
All students in good standing
are invited to attend.
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1981, newspaper, February 12, 1981; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245463/m1/5/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.