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Time1 s Sidey views presidency
Hugh Sidey
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by Juli Jones
"There is no handbook for
being President," said Hugh
Sidey, Time magazine's
Washington correspondent
and columnist. Sidey was here
Tuesday as the first speaker in
Rice's annual President's
Lecture Series.
His premise was that
leaders are shaped most by
their backgrounds, education,
and experience. "They must
ultmately turn to themselves.
There is no escape from it," he
stated. Sidey alluded to
Eisenhower's courage and
self-confidence, Truman's and
Kennedy's tremendous
reliance on and respect for
books and history, Lyndon
Johnson's Texas upbringing,
The Rica
Thresher
volume 65, number 8
thursday, September 29, 1977
Coed polls near completion
by David Butler
Vote-counting in the univer-
sity-wide poll on expansion of
the coed-college system
continued as the Thresher
went to press Wednesday
night, with only one of the
eight colleges reporting by
that time.
The only college to report
results at press time, Lovett,
showed a high level of support
for expansion among those
members responding to the
polk With 68 per cent of the
membership counted, 81 per
cent agreed or strongly agreed
with the statement that "the
♦ number of coed colleges should
be increased." Seventy-three
per cent of those polled agreed
or strongly agreed that Lovett
should be included in a coed
expansion plan. Sixty-three
percent said they would whole-
heartedly support the intro-
duction of women into Lovett.
Another 20 percent said they
would accept the change
without reservations.
Over 70 percent of the Lovett
members listed the 5-2-1 plan
presented last year by the
President's ad hoc committee
on coed college expansion as
their first or second choice.
(This proposal would convert
two male colleges and one
female college to coed status,
resulting in five coed, two
mens' and one womens'
college.)
The poll, designed to
ascertain the extent of student
support for expansion, was
designed by the Committee of
College Masters and Presi-
dents and distributed to the
colleges in the hope that at
least 90 per cent of the
members of each college would
respond. However, difficulties
in contacting off-campus
college members, who con-
stitute approximately one-
third of the student body, have
delayed the colleges in
reaching that 90 per cent goal.
Wiess Master Stewart
Baker, who drafted the
original poll, told the Thresh-
er Tuesday that he hoped the
colleges "will continue work-
ing until they get a 90 per cent
response ... without a very
high rate of response, I think
the students are limiting the
effectiveness of their res-
ponse." Since off-campus
members may decide to
become more involved in
college activities if their
colleges become coed—or
even decide to move on
campus—Baker feels that
input from the off-campus
community is extremely
important. Some of the
colleges are telephoning their
off-campus members in an
attempt to maximize their
response.
While the results of the poll
will be considered by the
Masters and Presidents, they
will by no means be considered
as a referendum on expansion.
The results will serve as one of
several factors to be weighed
by the Committee, whose
recommendations may then
be modified by Undergraduate
Affairs Dean Katherine
Brown and President Norman
Hackerman if they see fit to do
so.
and Richard Nixon's need for
power and the respect of
others. These basic aspects of
each man's character, Sidey
feels, more than anything else
shaped their decisions,
motives, and actions.
Sidey, a fourth-generation
reporter who has covered
every president since
Eisenhower, said that
Washington today is con-
fused. People there just don't
quite know what to make of
Jimmy Carter. In Sidey's
terms, Carter's "Sunday
School style," though at first
appealing in its simplicity,
"just isn't working,"
especially in the wake of the
Bert Lance incident. Sidey
said he saw "the best and
worst of Mr. Carter" in the
news conference announcing
Lance's resignation. He was
impressed by the President's
humaneness, but Carter's
"lack of experience is
appalling."
The president was on the
one hand a human being
worried about a close friend, a
virtue Sidey said has been
missing in Washington for
quite some time, but at the
same time he made a grave
error by "putting personal
feelings above the presiden-
cy."
Jimmy Carter just "hasn't
found his formula yet "
Although he is optimistic
about Carter, Sidey stressed
that Carter is now in a testing
period. "The President's
leadership has fallen," and
now only when and if he
regains that leadership will
Carter at last grasp his own
individual formula. When
asked for his overall rating of
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SA election Tuesday
Baker noted that "it's very
likely" that a college could
show overwhelming support
for inclusion in an expanded
coed system and still not be
included, since it's unlikely
that we'll convert more than
two men's colleges to coed."
(Three of the four men's
colleges — Lovett, Will Rice
and Wiess — are currently
eligible for conversion; the
fourth, Sid Richardson, might
be considered by Hackerman
if overwhelming reasons were
presented.)
While vote-counters are
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Voting will be held in the
colleges next Tuesday to fill
the five vacant student offices.
Polls will also be open that day
in the lobby of the RMC. Those
wishing to cast absentee
ballots can do so in the S.A.
office on the second floor of the
RMC from 9 am to 4 pm
tomorrow (Friday) and Mon-
day.
Three candidates, Barry
Jones, Chris Bounds and
Kevin McKenna, are running
for the post of Student
Association Internal Vice
President. J. Brent Wilkey,
Sara Hill, Geoffrey B. Walne,
David J. Wolk and Cindy
McCabe will be seeking the
position of sophomore Honor
Council representative in the
only other contested race.
Unopposed candidates are A1
Molson for RPC Vice Presi-
dent, Carmen Eggleston for
S.A. Secretary-Treasurer, and
Helen Toombs for Campanile
editor.
Campaign statements of the
candidates appear on pages 10
and 11 of this issue.
As a word of explanation to
the who have never parti-
cipated in a Rice election
before, or did not understand it
the first time, preferential
voting will be used to deter-
mine the outcome: Instead of
putting an X beside the name
of your favorite candidate,
rank all the candidates
according to your preference,
i.e., number one for the most
desirable and some suitably
large number — three, six or
googol — for your least
favorite. If after a counting of
the ballots no candidate has
received a majority of the
votes, the candidate with the
least number of votes will be
eliminated. Ballots listing
him/her as a first choice are
then redistributed among the
second choices listed on the
ballot and the votes retallied.
The process continues until
one candidate attains a
majority.
Listing additional choices
on your ballot will not affect
your selection of a first choice,
as long as the first candidate is
still in contention. After
he/she is eliminated, the
second and often the third
choice can become important.
Although somewhat compli-
cated, the system generally
averts the need to have run-off
elections.
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1977, newspaper, September 29, 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245345/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.