The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980 Page: 5 of 16
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Brody declines top-level job
by Matt Muller
Dr. Baruch Brody, chairman of
Rice's philosophy department and
director of the Legal Studies
Program, has declined an offer to
become Dean of Humanities at
the University of Houston.
Describing the offer as "very
flattering," Brody said the position
"is a wonderful opportunity for
somebody who wants to do
administrative things."
Brody, who is scheduled to take
a sabbatical next year, said he
declined the offer primarily
because it would have prevented
him from working next year on a
project to "study the values
underlying the federal budget,
particularly the redistributive
parts of the budget."
"The U of H position involved a
very big administrative
responsibility," said Brody, "and it
was clear to me...that I did nq|>
want to lose the chance to work on
this project."
"I looked at it very carefully,"
said Brody, "but when you've
enjoyed your work someplace it
becomes very hard to decide to
leave."
"Rice is an exciting place, a good
place to work—at least I have
found it so," said Brody.
Brody told the Thresher that he
had had a few other offers "over
the years " to take administrative
Nobel winner
positions at other universities.
"Something like this happened a
few years ago when I was offered a
deanship but was in the middle of a
book that I wanted to finish," he
said.
Brody also confirmed rumors
that the University has moved
closer to signing a widely respected
philosopher, Richard Granby,
who, if appointed, would join
Rice's faculty as a full professor
(thus, with tenure) next fall.
"He (Granby) has accepted the
Dean's Letter," said Brody.
Acceptance of this letter is the last
step before Rice's Board of
Governors decides to issue a
formal offer—usually a formality
once a Dean's Letter has been
issued, say sources.
Granby, "a widely-respected
younger philosopher of language
and logic," represents an
important addition to the
philosophy department, according
to Brody. "A lot of people told us
we wouldn't be able to find anyone
in this field because almost all the
good people were comfortably
settled at one place or another,"
said Brody, adding, "I'm glad we
were able to prove them wrong."
Library rates higher
by Anita Gonzalez
In contrast to a last-place rating
by the Chronicle of Higher
Education on the number of
volumes, volumes added, and
current serials present among the
98 members of the Association of
Research Libraries, Rice's
Fondren Library has received a
relatively good rating by the ARL
on the number of microform
holdings. Rice placed in the top
half of the 98 universities and
colleges surveyed during the 1978-
79 academic year.
The ARL list showed that Rice,
holding about 1,115,000 microform
pieces, placed above such
Biochemist to speak
Sir John Cornforth, a Nobel
Laureate in chemistry and a
pioneer in the field of
stereochemistry, will speak on "An
Attempt to Imitate an Enzyme" at
3:30 pm, Friday, in 301 Sewall
Hall.
"Cornforth has made outstand-
ing contributions in chemistry
throughout his career," stated
Biochemistry Professor George
Schroepfer. "His research has been
characterized by extraordinary
quality and creativity in areas of
significant importance in medicine
and biology."
Schroepfer noted that
Cornforth has done original
research with, among other things,
antibiotics, cholesterol, vitamin D,
the application of isotopes to
biomedical reaction study, plant
growth regulators, aiicl funda-
mental studies of stereochemistry
and the mechanics of enzyme
catalyzed reactions.
"Professor Cornforth has made
these remarkable contributions
under severe personal limits,"
added Schroepfer. "He has been
totally deaf throughout most of his
scientific career."
An Australian, Cornforth was
educated at Oxford University.
After World War II he
was a staff member of the Medical
Research Council before being
named director of the newly-
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Research Ltd. In 1975 he became a
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at the School of Molecular
Sciences at the University of
Sussex, England.
In addition to the Nobel Prize
and the C.B.E., Cornforth has won
the Prix Roussel, the Ernest
Guenther Award of the American
Chemistry Society, the Davy
Medal of the Royal Society, the
Stouffer Prize and the Flintoff
Medal of the British Chemical
Society.
An honorary member in both
the American Association of
Biological Chemists and the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Cornforth has held
several lectureships, including the
Tishler Lectureship at Harvard
University.
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distinguished universities as Johns
Hopkins, Purdue, MIT, Chicago,
Tulane, and Georgetown. Also
rated below Rice were such state-
supported institutions as
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Alabama
and Colorado State.
Fondren Librarian Sam
Carrington was pleased with the
rating, but continued to stress that
all rating lists must be taken
suspiciously. Carrington feels that
when Rice is rated among schools
of its own size and in the
departments the library stresses,
such as microforms, it places very
near the top.
"If you went by the number of
books per faculty or by the number
of books per student, we're
number one in Texas," noted the
librarian.
Carrington added that library
staff salaries have increased
substantially when compared to
other institutions.
Erratum
One student was inadvertently
left off of the Phi Beta Kappa list
published in the Thresher, Phi
Beta Kappa Chapter Secretary Liz
Williams announced.
The missing Kappan.is:
Steven Ernest Sailer
History / Economics I
Managerial Studies
Approach of race day spurs added effort —Bruce Davies
Beer-Bike track patched...
continued from page I
on the race track about twenty feet
from the track's starting line that
has been partially covered with
asphalt.
Baker Bike Captain Ned Lee
explained that Golden had
concentrated on accelerating
during the dual men's and women's
practice Tuesday, and failed to
notice the protrusion. "He hit it at
a strange angle," said Lee.
Lee felt that the manhole cover
is not terribly dangerous, however.
"I've been biking for years and
have never seen it," he said.
Golden is cut and bruised, but
was saved from serious injury by
wearing a safety helmet. "He may
be able to ride," said Lee, "but he'll
be stiff for a couple of days."
Lee noted that potholes and
lumps in the track are not nearly so
dangerous as strewn gravel and the
track's sharp curves, but admits
that accidents are to be expected.
"The track is rather treacherous,"
he said.
Nevertheless, Lee felt that the
track's location in the stadium lot
is the best possible on campus. In
the 1960's, the Beer-Bike race was
held on the road which runs
around the academic quadrangle.
"There was an accident every year,
then," Lee said, with the most
dangerous spot being the corner by
Wiess College and the car-wash
area.
Lee expressed disappointment
that the race track has not been
maintained during bike practices.
Each college has been assigned a
week in which to sweep gravel off
the track for the eight weeks before
the Race. Mounds of gravel tend to
form on the outside edge of the
track, causing dangerous
condition for bikers passing on the
outside.
"I also think that they should
have patched the track over in
February and again in April," Lee
said. "This would have made
practices safer."
Although the final solution to
the condition of the track would be
total resurfacing, which has been
refused by the administration as
too expensive, there may be hope
for next year.
Campagnolo, leading bicycle
component manufacturer, has
expressed interest in sponsoring
the Beer-Bike Race for next year.
"They sponsor lots of races," said
Romanko, who talked with
Campagnolo public relations
representative John Howard, "and
it's possible that they might
resurface our track." However.
Romanko has not yet discussed the
possibility of resurfacing with
Howard.
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980, newspaper, April 10, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245438/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.