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OCTOBER 27, 1989
Masters Committee considers moratorium on College Nights
by Lorie List
and Jennifer Rios
In response to extreme rowdi-
ness at college nights over the last
few years the Masters Committee
recently discussed the future of col-
lege nights. The committee met
because of more than $700 of dam-
age caused by a food fight at Sid
Richardson's College Night About
three dozen glasses and 22 dinner
plates were broken, and a couple of
SRC students also drove motor-
cycles into the commons, running
into a table and chairs.
There were a lot of people who
got really drunk before they came
down to dinner, and I guess the alco-
hol hit them once they got inside,"
SRC President Todd Peiffer said.
"It just seems that the past couple
college nights people hold the per-
ception that you're just suppose to
get drunk and throw your food,"
Peiffer said. "I think a lot of it has to
do with it being dry and people get-
ting really drunk before hand and
then coming in."
Hanszen college night, which
took place the week after SRC's, also
resulted in an enormous food fight
Hanszen president Nick Shannin
said despite all of the food that was
thrown, no physical damages were
reported.
According to Lovett's master,
Professor Susan Wood, the masters
addressed the question: "What pur-
pose does college night serve? It's
become a night where anything
goes, and there are many people who
don't like it because it is imposed on
Baker Cabinet rejects CK
take-out window plan
by Elise Perachio
At its Tuesday cabinet meeting,
Baker College rejected an offer from
Central Kitchen to install a take-out
window in Baker's parking lot by a
vote of 7-3. This window would pro-
vide food for students wishing to buy
meals after serving hours. The deci-
sion came after college members
voted 75-25 in favor of the proposal in
a non-binding referendum the previ-
ous week.
Central Kitchen ^Director Bill
Boorom made the proposal after
receiving a large number of com-
plaints from parents during Orienta-
tion Week. He said "They asked
'How are you going to feed my child
on Friday and Saturday evenings if
he can't getoff-campus?" He added,
"There is no question in my mind
that there was a market for this serv-
ice."
He explained that students could
use their meal cards and thus elimi-
nate the need for cash. An additional
benefit of the window which Boorom
mentioned was the extra revenue it
could bring to Central Kitchen.
Boorom said, "All the revenue would
go back into the college food service
to help reduce expenses," Boorom
said
Baker's cabinet blamed the dis-
crepancy in voting on inadequate
dissemination of information on the
issue to the college at large. Baker's
Executive Vice President Allan
Muchmore said, "Most people
hadn't been exposed to the nega-
tives. Unless people came to recent
cabinet meetings they probably
were not adequately informed on the
issue ahead of time." Baker Food
Representative Mark U 11marm said,
"Most of the support came from
underclassmen. Votes against it
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them by a minority," she said. " Its
simply not clear what people want
college nights to be."
"I was really disgusted, because it
seems to me that there were a lot of
people who were dressed in cos-
tumes and looked like they just
looked like they wanted to have a
nice time and not get really messy,"
said Megan Fedders, one of the or-
ganizers of the SRC college night
"There were only like three tables of
people who were being really obnox-
ious enough to cause the whole
commons to be destroyed."
Peiffer said it took more than two
and a half hours for 20 people to clean
the commons. The college court is
presently investigating the incidents
and may take disciplinary action
against those involved.
Because of the damages and po-
tential hazards seen at recent college
nights, some masters proposed put-
ting a moratorium on college nights.
Wood said, however, that the major-
ity of the masters felt they would like
to see the change come from the
students themselves, and will be
closely watching the remaining col-
lege nights this semester.
James Disch, SRC master, said,
"Change at Rice takes place with
student initiative. If what happened
at college night is what students
want, except for the danger, they can
have it but I won't sponsor it finan-
cially, and I don't think it should be
called college night College night is
a coming together of all aspects of
the college and what college life is all
about"
The future of college nights for
masters and especially students lies
SEE COLLEGE NtQHT, PAGE 9
Hanszen students recover from a food fight at rts Fall College Night held Friday.
Faculty to vote on research traci
by Kurt Moeller
At its meeting on Monday, the
faculty will vote on a proposal to es-
tablish a research faculty track. The
research faculty's primary duty
would be conducting research for
the department or center sponsoring
them, but they would also obtain
external funding to support their
research, supervise graduate stu-
dents' research, and have a full vote
on non-tenure matters at all depart-
ment and faculty meetings.
The faculty approved the first
reading of this proposal at a hastily-
announced and sparsely-attended
meeting in April. Twenty-five people
voted for it, 21 against it, and five
people abstained.
The positions wouid "closely
parallel the corresponding ranks of
the regular faculty with three impor-
tant exceptions," the proposal states.
"Research positions carry no tenure,
no financial support from the Univer-
sity, and no classroom teaching
English professor dies
over mid-term break
by Greg Kahn
Joseph A "Jack" Ward, professor
of English at Rice, died of natural
causes on October 17, in Albuquer-
que, New Mexico, where he was
vacationing during mid-term break.
He was 58 years old.
Ward joined the English depart-
ment at Rice in 1964 and served as
chairman of the department for sev-
eral years in the late 1960s and early
1970s. He was the author of three
books, two of which were criticisms
of the novels of Henry James and
one, entitled American Silences, on
writer James Agee, photographer
Walker Evens and artist Edward
Hopper.
At a memorial service held Mon-
day in the Rice Chapel, English pro-
fessor Alan Grob began his eulogy
by speaking about Ward's active role
in the 1969 faculty uprising against
the appointment of William H. Mas-
terson as President of the University.
Grob explained that Masterson was
selected unilaterally by the Rice
Board of Trustees, without any input
from the faculty—student presiden-
tial search committee that was also
searching for potential candidates.
Sixty members of the faculty
signed a petition "vigorously [pro-
testing] the procedures used to se-
lect the new president" The petition
was presented to two members of the
Board of Trustees by Ward, whose
selection to read off the names to the
administration was "an obvious
choice," Grob said. According to the
February 28, 1969, Thresher, Ward,
at a teach-in on the presidential se-
lection process attended by more
than 1440 faculty and students, de-
clared, "If the appointment [of Mas-
terson] is not stopped, Rice can for-
get any pretensions to major status."
Because of the protest from the fac-
ulty members and the students,
Masterson resigned as President of
Rice after only five days on the job.
Grob spoke of his 26-year friend-
ship with Ward, and of the "superb"
job that Ward did as chairman of the
department in bringing the faculty
members together. Grob also read a
passage from American Silences.
Walter Isle, chairman of the Eng-
lish Department opened the service
by speaking briefly about Ward's
accomplishments as a member of
the department in his roles of critic
and teacher. Isle concluded his
remarks by reading a moving section
from the James Joyce story "The
Dead," which Ward was about to
teach in both of his English classes.
Terrence Doody, professor of
English, spoke emotionally about
Ward as both an esteemed literary
critic and as a close friend who threw
"unforgettable parties." Ward's
books on James are considered as
SEE WARD, PAGE 8
commitment *
Appointments wouid be made for
a specific period of time, usually
between three and five years, with
renewal if performance is satisfac-
tory and if funding for research is
renewed.
Such external research funds
would pay for all compensation for
the research faculty. However, the
university wouic, set the compensa-
tion, which would generally be equal
to that of reguiar faculty of the same
rank in the same school.
Fringe benefits, except for sab-
batical and tenure, would be the
same as for regular faculty. Using
money from research funds, a con-
tingency fund would be set up for up
to two years for professors whow-
funding had lapsed. Contingency
funding would be taken from money
pooled from all grants, and "would
not cost the University any more,'
Professor Joe High tower said.
Rice currently has a specific prv>
gram for research faculty in only one
department, Space Physics, as part
of an agreement more than 15 years
ago with then-President Norman
Hackerman. The title of "Research
Scientist . . ." has many different
modifications and meanings in dif-
ferent departments around campus.
"We havea mess, quite frankly, in
terms of our research personnel,"
said Joe Hightower.amemberofthc
Research Council and a Chemical
Engineering professor. Another
member of the council, Billy Bonner,
the Chairman of the Physics Depart
ment, agreed. "Inhere is no policy in
SEE RESEARCH, PAGE 6
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