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Financial aid to depend on credit-hour progress
by Christopher Ekren
The Office of Financial Aid has
established a minimum standard
of satisfactory performance to
determine student eligibility for all
Rice awarded funds, Guaranteed
Student Loans and parent loans.
Effective in the fall of 1983, the
new aid requirements comply with
the Federal Higher Education Act
of 1965.
In order to continue to receive
financial aid at Rice, undergra-
duates must pass an average of 12
hours of courses each semester.
Students will have a six-credit
hour leeway applicable to the total
number of credits earned during
their undergraduate years to
compensate for extenuating
circumstances.
Students who use the six-credit
h
Dqvid Hunt —C. Reining
hour leeway are encouraged to
take sufficient hours the next
semester or in summer school to
make up credits. After termination
of aid, a student can be
reconsidered for aid only when
enough credits have been amassed
to reach normal progress levels.
Graduate students, who must
pass nine hours of credit each
semester, have a three-credit hour
leeway over the course of their
graduate career. Graduate
students may receive aid for a
maximum of six semesters, while
undergraduates are eligible to
receive aid for 10 semesters. Each
semester of enrollment at Rice is
counted in the semester limitation
even if no financial aid is received.
Athletic scholarships, which are
under separate regulations, will
not he affected.
The Financial Aid office plans
to notify by letter all students who
do not meet aid requirements.
These letters will be sent beginning
June 1 to students' permanent
addresses. Students may make
appeals of the aid decisions to the
Committee on Student Financial
Aid.
Director of Financial Aid
David Hunt believes that the
new policy will not pose a hardship
to most Rice students on aid. Said
Hunt, "A freshman would have to
pass six hours the first semester,
although he would have to make
up a deficiency the next semester."
Hunt continued, "We have a
satisfactory progress policy at Rice
now: if a student is allowed to stay
at Rice, he is making satisfactory
progress. The new policy is not
very strict, nor does it require good
grades. All it asks is that a student
pass four courses each semester.
There is one bill before Congress
that requires a C average for aid.
Things could get tougher."
Hunt further explained, "The
new policy will affect those
students who enroll for fifteen
hours and drop all but three." The
policy will also affect students who
withdraw after the 10-week refund
period, as their aid will already be
spent. Said Hunt, "We want
students to think twice about
dropping."
Hunt thinks that there may be
many appeals concerning the new
policy and expects to see many of
them upheld. "If someone becomes
ill and must drop out, we are not
going to cancel aid. We are not
trying to lose students; rather, we
are merely trying to comply with
the government's regulations."
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THRESHER
Volume 70, Number 17
Friday, January 21, 1983
INSIDE:
• All the 'appenin' at the Alley.
see p. 7
• Women win i SWC hoop game.
see p. 1 1
• Track teams suit up for spring.
see pp. 12-13
Barksdale to release verdict Monday
President orders Berk hearing
by Patty Cleary
Apparently at President
Norman Hackerman's request, the
University Court held a hearing
Tuesday night on the Jonathan
Berk case. A verdict and full brief
will be released Monday.
Two campus police officers
arrested Berk in a controversial
incident on August 21, 1982.
Confusion arose last semester
when Proctor E.C. Holt removed
jurisdiction in the Berk case from
the University Court. Holt
reversed University Court
Chairman Jay Barksdale's
decision to dismiss the case and
instead, found Berk guilty of
disorderly conduct and resisting
arrest. The proctor fined Berk $50
and placed him on permanent
disciplinary probation.
Both Berk and Barksdale
appealed the proctor's decision.
Berk appealed on the grounds of
procedural error while Barksdale's
appeal claimed that the University
Court had original jurisdiction.
The University Review Board
upheld Barksdaie's appeal.
Nonetheless, at the end of last
semester, Berk was notified that a
hearing with the University Court
would take place. According to
Berk, the president's decision was
instigated by a request from the
proctor.
"All I heard," said Berk, "was
that the proctor appealed the case
for me to the president. In every
judicial system, this one included,
only I have the right to appeal the
case; he had no right."
Berk continued, "It was my
understanding that it was a
question of original jurisdiction.
The University Review Board
came to the unanimous decision
that the University Court has
original jurisdiction.
"At that point, the president had
two choices. If he agreed that the
University Court has original
jurisdiction, then the case would be
dismissed. If he thought the
proctor had original jurisdiction,
then the case would stand by the
proctor's earlier judgment."
Berk stated, "The president
apparently decided that the
y
Witnesses in Berk case await turn at hearing Tuesday night —C. Reining
Cohen questions King's murder
by Brian Quintero
Was Martin Luther King the
victim of a lone assassin, or was
James tearl Ray merely the trigger
finger of a large conspiracy?
Researcher and associate of the
House Committee on Assassina-
tions Jeff Cohen addressed these
questions in his speech and media
presentation "Who Slew the
Dreamer?" last Wednesday night,
January 12^ in the Rice Memorial
Center.
In 1952 Rosa Parks refused to sit
in the back of a city bus, sparking
the black bus boycott of 1953 and
the majority of King's peace work.
Employing strategies of passive
protest advocated by his study and
admiration of Ghandi, King
founded the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference to bring
about worldwide racial equality.
In August 1963, he led the
People's March on Washington,
where he made his immortal "I
have a dream" speech. King
expanded his visions, and in the
late 1960s also fought against
poverty and imperialist activities
of the United States in Vietnam.
Cohen commented, "Many
government officials of the time
were irked by this man, recognized
around the world as a peace leader,
(because of his) criticizing and
apologizing for the actions and
policies of his home country. Still,
people don't remember King for
his anti-Vietnam activitv."
King won the Nobel Peace Prize
Jeff Cohen
M. Gladu
in 1965 for his role inthe passage of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965
Voting Rights Act. Only 35 at the
time, he is the youngest person ever
honored with the award.
King delivered yet another
famous speech when he addressed
a crowd in Memphis, Tennessee on
April 3, 1968. King said he had
seen the "promised land" of his
ideals, but "would not reach it with
us." He was assassinated the next
morning while standing on a hotel
balcony.
The Federal Bureau ot
Investigation conducted an
investigation and closed the books
on the King assassination
immediately after the incident,
presenting James Earl Ray as the
killer. Cohen made it clear,
however, that the FBI was exactly
the wrong party to look into the
murder.
He explained, "The FBI was the
primary harrasser of King. He, a
man of peace, was at the top of
their international hit list. They
started on him in 1962 with mild
wiretapping, and eventually
formed a full-scale task force to
destroy the Zorro, their code name
for King. One former adminis-
trator wrote an anonymous letter
demanding him to commit suicide
since there was only one thing left
to do.'"
Cohen continued, "When it was
announced at the notorious
Atlanta division that King had
been assassinated, there was
elation, with one chief jumping
and saying, 'All right, they got
Zorro!' They got the SOB.' "
see Cohen, page 6
University Court had original
jurisiction, but forced the Court to
hold a hearing. He was totally out
of line."
The University Court conducted
the hearing for almost five hours
Tuesday night. Seven witnesses
appeared; of the four police
officers orignially involved, only
one testified. The other three have
left the campus force.
Day to highlight careers
by Paul Havlak
Directions '83, formerly known
as Majors Day, will be held on
Tuesday, January 25, from 3 to
5:30 p.m. across campus. The
event will provide information
about majors in participating
departments, as it has in previous
years, with an additional emphasis
on career planning.
According to Carolyn Mata of
the Alumni Office, this year's event
will cover career planning more
extensively than previous Majors
Days and will directly involve
alumni. Most departmental open
houses will have alumni present in
addition to faculty.
"The alumni will be able to talk
with students about how they have
used their Rice experience in their
careers," said Mata. Alumni will
also attend dinner in the colleges.
H. C. Clark, head of Student
Advising, further explained the
modifications of Majors Day,
stating, "While classes will not be
cancelled, I have urged everyone to
let classes out early." Clark cited
low attendance at past Majors
Days as the reason for the time
switch to the afternoon.
Specitic events include the
history department's invitation of
James Doty, Rhodes Scholar and
Rice alumnus, to speak. The
engineering departments will hold
an event incorporating their
annual Career Night with three
engineering alumni present in each
department.
Professor Hardy Bourland,
director of Rice's Engineering
Research and Development
Institute, thinks that the
engineering social from 4:30 to
5:30 will provide students with an
opportunity to learn from alumni.
He remarked, "We hope students
will learn not only what is offered
at Rice, but what is available after
they leave here. They seem to learn
more from one-to-one conversa-
tions and social interaction than
from formal presentations."
In addition to departmental
open houses, other activities will
take place in the Rice Memorial
Center. The pre-professional
societies. Placement Office, Joint
Venture program. Alumni Office
and Student Advising Office will
have representatives in the RMC
lobby to distribute information.
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