The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1980 Page: 4 of 24
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Van Hightower: Old-style feminism out
by David Keen
Feminist and former Houston
City Advocate for Women Nikki
van Hightower, addressing a
meeting in Baker Library
yersterday, spoke of a shift of
emphasis within the women's
movement in recent years.
Hightower was the first of the
Baker series of speakers on
"Leadership in America 1980."
Van Hightower was pleased
with the growth of women's
business and professional
organizations and with the
increase of "crisis-oriented"
groups, dealing with violence to
women and children.
But she said that there was a
"disappointing aspect" to the
recent shift of emphasis.
Compared to the old-style feminist
organizations, the new women's
business and professional
organizations have "no sense of
going someplace and building
something new," she said. "They're
not talking about change, they're
talking about getting their share of
the pie." And the crisis-oriented
groups have focused, she said, on
the effects rather than on the real
causes of violence.
Van Hightower said that "the
feminist organizations in Houston
have suffered considerably in past
years in terms of membership,
finance and leadership." And she
found a partial explanation for this
in the difficulty of finding a
permanent headquarters and in the
high mobility in Houston.
Still, she felt that the problem
went deeper. And she isolated four
factors which she felt had
handicapped the old-style feminist
organizations.
Van Hightower first felt that
"the strong ideological sense of
equality and fairness" in feminism
made organization very difficult.
"Once someone moves into a
leadership role, they're very
quickly driven off," she said. Van
Hightower quoted criticisms of her
own leadership in her fight against
the city council as an example of
this suspicion of leadership.
Van Hightower also said that
the feminist community felt a "very
strong sense of rejection" from
successful career-women who
found it difficult to maintain their
ties with the feminist movement.
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Thirdly, Van Hightower felt that
the feminist "attack on male
privilege has been interpreted as an
attack on males per se." And " the
attack on systems that force people
into a homemaking role has been
interpreted as an attack on
homemaking itself." This
confusion, she felt, has damaged
the feminist cause.
Finally, Van Hightower felt that
the widespread tendency to link,
even equate, feminism with
lesbianism has been "effectively
picked up by the right wing." She
added, "it keeps a large number
out of this movement who might
otherwise be active."
Van Hightower
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Miele wins AAS's Brouwer Award
Angelo Miele
Dr. Angelo Miele, professor of
astronautics and mathematical
sciences, is the 1980 winner of the
Dirk Brouwer Award, the
American Astronautical Society
announced Tuesday. Miele will
receive the award in Boston on
October 21 at'the society's annual
meeting.
"This award is presented to one
who has made significant
contributions to space flight and
astrodynamics," said Dr. Paul B.
Richards of Washington D.C.,
Chairman of the society's awards
committee. Richards said that
Miele wa£ being honored
specifically for his "extensive
contributions to the literature in
flight mechanics, astrodynamics,
optimization theory, and
numerical methods, and in
particular, for early contributions
to optimum rocket trajectories, for
the development of the theorem of
image trajectories in the Earth-
Moon space, and for recent
development of efficient and
Program promotes Ri
Prospective students not living
in the Houston area will now have
the chance to meet informally with
representatives of the admissions
office during their senior year
through a program called "Rice
Today." The program, sponsored
by the admissions and develop-
ment offices, will take place in ten
cities including Dallas, Austin,
Corpus Christi, Atlanta, and
Washington, D.C.
According tc Admissions
Director Marina Ballantyne, the
program, usually held in a local
hotel meeting room, consists of an
hour-and-a-half presentation to
the prospectives and their parents.
It includes a film entitled "A
Walking Tour of Rice." The
presentation is given by one of the
admissions representatives, an
administration representative, a
financial aid representative, and,
in Texas, a few Rice students.
The program, begun last spring,
also includes an hour presentation
for local alumni.
"We've had very good turnouts,"
said Ballantyne. "We don't know
yet the yield of this program
because we haven't gone through
the admissions procedure for this
year. But the turnout has been very
good and very well received."
Similar programs have proven
to be extremely successful for
other universities, according to
Ballantyne. This success
prompted Rice's admissions office
to establish the "Today" program.
"It's an idea that I and (Assistant to
the President for Admissions and
Records) Richard Stabell have had
for a long time and is just now
being implemented."
practical algorithms for solving
trajectory optimization problems
on a digital computer."
A Rice faculty member since
1964, Miele is the author of 300
publications and is known
internationally for his pioneering
work in analytical methods for
optimal flight trajectories.
Miele said he was very pleased
with the award. "To every scientist,
the recognition of his peers is very
important. That is the general rule,
and I am no exception to the rule. I
feel very happy for the award and
at the same time humbled by the
experience."
Miele is a native of Italy and
attended the School of
Engineering University of Rome
and the Graduate School of
Aerospace Engineering of the
same university. He holds a
doctorate in aerospace engineering
from the University of Rome.
Miele has taught at various
other universities, including the
Argentine Air Force schools and
the University of Cordoba,
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn,
Purdue University, and the
University of Washington in
Seattle. He was Director of
Astrodynamics and Flight
Mechanics at Boeing Scientific
Research Laboratories in Seattle.
The Rice professor has also
received other awards, including
the Louis E. Levy Medal and
Journal Premium of the Franklin
Institute. Miele has also served as
principal investigator of some 30
research projects sponsored by the
National Sicence Foundation, fhe
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and the U.S. Air
Force.
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Students at Southwest
Conference schools may now
purchase tickets to "away"
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normal admission price, according
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approved this year by the
Southwest Conference, will
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for teams playing away from
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The change in regulation also
resulted in a procedural change for
actually obtaining the tickets.
Whereas before one student could
pick up any number of tickets by
presenting an identification card
for each ticket purchased, now a
student buying tickets must come
personally to the ticket office,
show his ID and sign for the ticket.
Klapp stressed that students
interested in attending games that
are potential sellouts should
purchase their tickets at least one
week in advance, because unsold
tickets must be sent back to the
opposing school to be sold there.
She also said that these tickets
were always in "blocks" reserved
for Rice students, so that students
may sit together. The ticket office
is located outside the front doors
of the gym and is open from 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday thru
Friday.
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1980, newspaper, October 10, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245450/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.