The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1980 Page: 7 of 20
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Chicana lawyer to speak Provost choice due in March
as President's Lecturer
Vilma Martinez
Vilma Martinez, a distinguished
Los Angeles lawyer and civil rights
advocate, will speak on MUn Nuevo
Destino: A New Future for
Mexican-Americans," at 8 pm
Monday, January 21 in the Rice
Memorial Center.
Martinez, a native of San
Antonio, is president and general
counsel of MALDEF, the
Mexican-American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund. As its chief
executive and legal officer, she has
direct responsibility for the
formulation, funding and
implementation of a national
advocacy program to secure the
civil and constitutional rights of
the U.S.'s eight million Mexican-
Americans.
After receiving her B.A. in two
and one-half years at the
University of Texas, Martinez
attended Columbia University's
Law School, receiving her LL.B. in
1967. She then joined the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund as a staff
attorney. After a brief stint as
Equal Employment Opportunity
Counsel to the New York State
Division of Human Rights and as
litigation associate for a private
firm, Martinez took over
MALDEF in 1973, at age 29.
Martinez serves on the
President's Advisory Board on
Ambassadorial Appointments, the
U.S. Census Bureau Advisory
Committee on the Spanish-Origin
Population, and the California
Federal Judiciary Selection
Committee. In 1976, she was
named to the Board of Regents of
the University of California.
In May 1978 Martinez returned
to her alma mater to receive the
Columbia University Medal of
Excellence, the highest award
conferred on alumni. In presenting
this award, President McGill
described her as a "Major figure in
American civil rights and the
foremost Chicana lawyer in the
United States." She is a
recipient of the Joh„. D.
Rockefeller III Youth Award and
the American Institute for Public
Service's Greatest Public Service
Award, presented to individuals
age 35 or under.
Martinez has argued before the
United States Supreme Court
and has participated in some of the
most important civil rights cases of
the century. She is a member of the
New York and California Bars.
by Anita Gonzalez
A Provost search group of six
professors, appointed by President
Norman Hackerman, will present
their choices for the post to the
president in four weeks.
The Provost Selection
Committee, chaired by Dr.
Monroe Spears, is now in the
process of narrowing the field of
proposed candidates to a list of
three or five. According to
committee member Peter Rowe,
professor of architecture, the
selection committee has met on
five occasions to review various
candidates nominated to fill the
provost position which will be
vacated when Frank E. Vandiver
leaves Rice to assume the
presidency of North Texas State
University in Denton.
The committee is expected to
present their list of candidates to
Hackerman sometime in mid-
February. Hackerman is then
expected to make the final
appointment in March.
Other committee members, each
of whom were selected by
Hackerman last semester, include
Professor of Music Clyde
Holloway, Associate Professor of
Economics Gordon Smith,
Professor of Biochemistry George
Schroepfer, Jones School of
Administration Professor Douglas
Tuggle, and Professor of Civil
Engineering A. Veletsos.
Although none of the committee
members would give any formal
list of names that have so far been
nominated, those mentioned in the
November 20 issue of the Thresher
last semester were, in Spears'
words, "taken as representative of
student recommendations."
Included in that list were David
M inter, Associate Professor of
English, and Joseph Cooper,
Professor of Political Science, who
have been mentioned as possible
frontrunners in the selection.
Neither Minter or Cooper cared to
comment about the possibility of
being named provost. Says
Minter, "I haven't really discussed
the possibility with anyone."
Rowe added that senior faculty
of each department were also
recommended, and that
suggestions by both students and
faculty will continue to be accepted
as long as the selection process
continues. Recommendations
should be forwarded to Spears.
Scholarship and a demonstrated
Tele fund still needs workers
Students can still volunteer to
work on Rice's annual Houston
Telefund, to be run in Allen Center
from Monday, January 14 to
Thursday, January 24.
"The Telefund is aimed at
Houston alumni who have not yet
responded to mail solicitations
sent during the fall," said
coordinator Margo Downey. "A
major goal is to encourage those
who have not contributed to the
annual fund in the past to do so
this year."
Student, alumni and faculty
$150,000 heist
Two Rice freshmen arrested
Two Rice freshmen have been
arrested and charged Saturday
with theft of $150,000 worth of
telephone equipment from
Southwestern Bell over the past six
months.
Sid Richardson College member
William Watson and Wiess
College member Scott Dawson
were booked with another man,
Ted Lee Ross, for burglary of a
business and felony theft. Bond for
the two was set at $5,000 each.
Most of the stolen goods were
hidden in a warehouse off campus,
but several boxes of stolen
equipment were found in a KTRU
storeroom by Houston police
Monday, said KTRU Manager
Margaret Schauerte.
The University has not yet taken
any action against the two,
according to Proctor Edward
Holt. "We don't really have any
grounds for taking any action," he
said. "They haven't broken any
University rules. Until the
situation becomes clearer, there's
nothing we can do."
volunteers will be making calls on
eight evenings to over 7,000
Houston-area alumni. Volunteers
will be provided with supper on
their shift, and a party or dinner
will probably be arranged for
participants after the fund drive is
over.
Alumni Chairman Mary Arnold
*36 and Vice Chairman Kay
Dobelman '46 are coordinating
alumni volunteers. Kent Erickson,
Student Association Vice
President, has nine college
representatives to help recruit
student volunteers.
Last year the annual fund drive
brought the university over
$1,368,000 in alumni contri-
butions, matched by the Brown
Foundation. The Telefund last
year netted approximately
$26,000. Organizers hope to make
$30,000 this year.
interest in and service to the
University are the main criteria for
the new provost, according to
Rowe. "We're looking for a whole
range of characteristics in our
candidates, including the ability to
get along with students and with
Dr. Hackerman. But the three
most important criteria are that
the nominee has demonstrated
high scholarship, interest, and
service in his or her various field."
According to Rowe, the
committee is confident that the
new provost can be found from
within the University. He
suggested, though, that an outside
search would be conducted if
necessary.
"We're not closed-minded about
it. If we did reach the conclusion
that an outside search was needed,
we would certainly start
advertising the post within the next
month."
But both Rowe and Chairman
Spears feel that the next provost
will be a present Rice faculty
member. Says Rowe, "It's very
likely that we can find a good
candidate within the university.
Rice's faculty presents us with a
pretty good range of choices."
Rowe stated that once the
Selection Committee presents its
list to Hackerman, the president is
free to make his final choice from
anyone he sees fit, whether they are
included in the committee's list of
suggestions or not. But the
committee member concluded that
the chances of a non-listed
candidate being selected as the new
provost "is highly unlikely."
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1980, newspaper, January 17, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245426/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.