The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, October 6, 1975 Page: 1 of 8
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To open in May
Committee urges summer school program for Rice
by TED ANDREWS
and GARY BREWTON
The Ad Hoc Committee on
Undergraduate Summer
Programs will recommend to
President Norman Hacker-
man within the next two weeks
that Rice initiate a limited
summer school program. The
program should begin in May
1976 with students free to take
a maximum of 4 courses.
The committee was chaired
by Ken Kennedy of the Math
Sci department and included
both the faculty and students.
The basic plan formulated by
the committee calls for, the
Thresher has learned, "two
six week terms in which
courses proposed and designed
by individual academic
departments are offered."
Summer school courses will
Slater wins,
apathy second
in SA race
Apathy ran a close second in
last Friday's campus-wide
elections for SA Secretary-
Treasurer. Calvin Dale Slater,
running unopposed, won the
post with 288 of the 472 votes
cast.
Write-in candidates drew
162 votes; 22 votes abstained.
As expected, only about 20% of
Rice students voted in this
special election.
Slater takes office upon
Senate approval of the election
results. The election was
forced by the resignation of
Stephanie Knight earlier this
year.
cost undergraduate students
$100 per credit hour, the
committee suggests in their
report. Graduate students
would be charged $125 per
credit hour. All students would
be charged an additional $50
fee for registration.
Financial aid was one of the
committee's most difficult
problems. They suggested,
however, that "financial aid
coverage be extended to the
Rice Summer School through
an increase in the student loan
fund and an increase in the
annual student indebtedness
ceiling for students who use
the summer school to
accelerate their graduation
dates." An accelerated student
would have to be a "full time"
student, i.e., he must take four
courses during the two
summer terms, which, in
combination, would equal a
complete semester.
Current students at Rice, as
well as incoming freshman
and graduate students, would
be admitted automatically.
Visiting students would be
allowed to enroll if they submit
a letter "requesting admission
and outlining a proposed
course, a transcript, and a
letter from his 'home'
university's registrar indi-
cating that the courses taken
at Rice will be accepted for
credit." Standard forms are to
be distributed with summer
school brochures to regularize
admission and credit pro-
cedures. Presently the
admission of visiting students
is handled by the Dean of
Undergraduate Affairs.
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The committee suggest that
a summer school be estab-
lished to provide students with
more flexibility in planning
their degree programs.
"Students could use a summer
school to 'make up' missed
courses, to 'get ahead' so that
their normal academic loads
are lighter and even to
advance their graduation
dates," the committee's report
states.
A summer program would
also permit efficient usage of
the Rice campus and its
facilities. With the facilities
being better utilized, Rice
instruction would be available
to a wider audience. The
committee doesn't intend to
offer a school on the scale of
the University of Houston
Summer School, but to offer a
few well-chosen courses of
interest to a wide variety of
people.
The summer program will be
"experimental" but not
"overly ambitious." One of the
main hazards of the program
will be to avoid upsetting the
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monday, october 6, 1975
UT committee boycott working
by GARY BREWTON
Student and faculty protest
over the appointment of
Lorene Rogers as President of
the University of Texas at
Austin took a more concrete
turn this past week as faculty
continued their boycott of UT
University Council and
committee meetings.
As a result, the University
Council could do no business
at its Monday meeting—it
lacked a quorum. Only 22 of
the required 48 were present.
Since faculty comprise a
majority of the Coucil, their
boycott shuts down the
Council, the official policy-
making body outside the
administration at UT.
Rogers blamed the lack of
quorum on conflicting
University events, including a
symposium on the arts.
However, John Durbin,
council secretary, said that
Rogers' explanantions were
"trivia...There is no doubt that
a quorum would have been met
at this meeting had the
members not been boycotting
her presidency."
An "evacuation" of the
campus by graduate students
and teaching assistants was
ineffective Friday. According
to one observer for the
Thresher on the scene, the
evacuation's effects were
impossible to detect. A "teach-
out" by graduate students and
teaching assistants drew some
200 of the 1700 TA's and their
classes outdoors Wednesday.
Moreover, opposition to the
Regents' actions September 12
in appointing Rogers against
the recommendation of the
Faculty-Student Advisory
Committee drew protest from
the academic deans. In a letter
to Regents Chairman Allan
Shivers released last week, the
deans urged the Regents to
change the presidential
selection process to "restore
the right of faculty and
students to participate in the
selection of the president in
accordance with good,
academic tradition and the
spirit of the former provisions
of the Regents' rules." The
letter goes on to cite the "doubt
and turmoil" which resulted
from the Regents appointing a
president "without reaching
accomodation with the elected
committee."
Shivers replied only that he
might appoint a committee at
the next Regents meeting to
study the possibility of
changing the process.
Rice student loses in school board bid
by TED ANDREWS
Rice University sophomore
Morris Phillip Konstantin, a
resident of Pasadena, failed in
his bid to gain a seat on the
Pasadena school board in last
Saturday's election. Kon-
stantin received 176 votes out
the 2800 cast, about 6%.
(Lamar Winebrenner, deacon
of Pasadena's First Baptist
Church, was elected with 36%
of the votes.)
Konstantin has long been
active in Pasadena politics.
"Two years ago I ran for the
city council and received 12%
of the votes. But I think getting
the 6% in the School Board
race was a fairly good
response. Many of the local
churches here are very
politically oriented and
oftentimes their deacons will
be involved in the elections,"
Konstantin says.
Konstantin's percentage of
the vote was also remarkable
due to the fact that Pasadena
is not bombarded with
television and radio spots for
the different candidates like
Houston. "Most of the
advertising was done through
those signs on wheels that you
see in the shopping centers.
There was little advertising. I
mentioned it on my radio show
(a public service effort of
KIKK, KULF, and KYND)
and it was well covered by the
local paper. Being a member of
the Jaycees gave me a lot of
access to politic^] 'groups. I
spoke to the local parents
groups, League of Women
Voters, and senior citizens
clubs."
Even that amount of
advertising failed to affect the
voter turnout. "Historically,
school board elections are
poorly attended. This year we
had only 2800 out of 80,000
voters. In the last mayor's
election here we only had
13,000 voters."
Konstantin cited as his
qualifications the fact that he
is an undergraduate at Rice,
former Pasadena Jaycees
Director, member of the
Pasadena Library Board, and
had attended school board
meetings for the past four
years. His campaign was
based in part on emphasis and
financial support to learning
disabilities remediation; girls',
elementary, and lifetime
sports; academic counseling;
board-teacher communi-
cations; vocational counsel-
ing; and practical skills. He
also said, "High school
football needs less emphasis."
Konstantin feels that the
main bloc against his political
advancement is his age. "The
average age of the school
board voter here is 45." With
the conservative bent of the
town the liberal forces are
often outnumbered. "A lot of
people probably would've
voted for me, but they
probably decided to vote for
someone with more chance of
winning."
Konstantin doesn't claim to
be a wild-eved radical; in
Pasadena, though, people
often think of him as such.
"But when they listen to what
I have to say they usually end
up agreeing with me," he says.
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Brewton, Gary. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, October 6, 1975, newspaper, October 6, 1975; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245255/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.