The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1981 Page: 3 of 12
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by David Butler
Ivy League bands told
to watch their steps
Ivy League college bands, whose
half-time antics are similar to those
of Rice's Marching Owl Band,
have been warned to clean up their
acts. The Ivy Policy Committee,
which controls half-time
entertainment at league games, has
apparently received enough
complaints from outraged fans
and irate alumni to issue warnings
to the bands at all eight Ivy League
schools.
David Polinsky, drum major of
Yale's Precision Marching Band,
told the Yale Daily News his group
will try to broaden the appeal of its
shows, by focusing less on inside
jokes and blatantly risque humor,
and more on subtle double-
entendres and music to appeal to
older alums. Polinsky adds,
however, that "no one is proposing
censorship or administrative
involvement."
Non-union Jeans
snubbed by studio
From our Absurd Irony files:
One of the latest brands in designer
jeans to hit the market is the
"Norma Rae" line, named after the
movie character who fought to
organize textile plant workers in a
Southern plant remarkably like
the old J. P. Stevens factories.
But there's one small problem:
"Norma Rae" jeans are being made
by Kratex, a New York clothing
firm—and a non-union shop.
Kratex spokesman Lewis Kaplan
says he's not sure how the
company decided to market that
particular line: "We got drunk in a
bar one night and thought, 'Why
not? It's just as good a name as
any.'"
The real Norma Rae, union
organizer Crystal Lee, was not
amused. "It seemed like a bad
joke," she told Mother Jones
magazine. "The owners of that
company knew what that movie
was about. But they didn't care.
They just wanted to make a
dollar."
But Kratex won't be making any
more money off "Norma Rae"
jeans. 20th Century Fox, which
produced the film, yanked the
licensing rights from Kratex when
they learned the company was
non-union. Fox VP Marc Pevers
said, "The essence of Norma Rae is
its pro-union message. We didn't
want to promote union-busting
through our licensing agreement."
UCLA cheerleader asks
for workers' comp
A former cheerleader at UCLA
has appealed to the California
Supreme Court to ask for workers'
compensation for medical
expenses, to cover surgery for knee
injuries suffered while she cheered
the Bruins on five years ago.
Karyn Rust claims she was an
employee of UCLA, even though
the cheerleaders' jobs were non-
paid. The school claims that
because Rust was a volunteer, she
wasn't covered by the school's
regular workers' comp plan for
employees, and is therefore not
entitled to payment for medical
expenses. Lower courts have ruled
in favor of UCLA.
THRESHING-IT-OUT
To the editor:
How much would you pay for
your on-campus room if it was
off-campus? Probably, not very
much. Consider the following: For
the same price ($ 1300) that you pay
for nine months of on-campus
housing you could get, with a
roommate, an apartment with one
bedroom, a sitting room, an eating
area, a kitchen and a bathroom,
that is across the road from the
campus. All of this, in one of the
best areas of Houston. Obviously
either local landlords are running
at a loss or we are being ripped off.
Last semester I put this question
to the Director of Food and
Housing Marion Hicks. Mr. Hicks
admitted he really did not have an
answer for me, but did offer the
fact that building costs on campus
are double what they are across the
street. This should not
substantially affect the cost of
housing, though. With the
exception of the major renovations
undertaken in the mid-fifties, the
cost of building the colleges was
not borne by the university. The
colleges were donated to us.
Nevertheless Mr. Hicks was very
helpful. According to his statistics,
the major expense (42% of the
budget) is spent on "distributed
charges." According to Mr. Hicks
these include security, utilities,
power plant, solid-waste disposal,
steam tunnels and other related
services. The three other large
categories of expenses are "debt
services" (repayment of debts
taken out by food and housing,
24%), "salaries" (17%) and
"maintenance repairs" (11%).
However these expenses would
also be incurred by any landlord.
Why is it that Food and Housing's
costs are so substantially higher
per capita, when in fact because of
the bigger scale involved they
should be less?
On a per student basis, last year,
$ 180 was spent to pay salaries. One
should also bear in mind that this
figure only includes the housing
segment of the budget. Joyce
Rubash and her central kitchen are
separate.
Because food and housing pays
a share to the physical plant for
maintenance of the campus,
on-campus residents subsidize
off-campus residents, who also use
the campus facilties to the tune of
about $50 per student.
Realistically, however, this sum is
meaningless when compared to the
$1300 budgeted. Unfortunately
these reasons do not adequately
explain the high cost of on-campus
housing.
Theoretically Food and
Housing is not supposed to make a
profit, and they do not.
Nonetheless, a landlord does and,
by all accounts, he makes a pretty
handsome one at that. Further-
more the landlords charg£torthe
location (i.e., the type of area)
something Rice certainly should
not do. Clearly there is a flaw
somewhere.
The University is using the
attractiveness of on-campus life to
charge these ridiculous fees. The
fact remains that our rooms would
go for a fraction of the price on the
open market, if at kll. I feel it is the
duty of the University to provide
us with a valid reason why we are
paying so much; either that or
lower room and board.
Jonathan Berk
Wiess '84
Abner McCall, the voice
of reason? Yep.
Baylor University chancellor
Abner McCall was defeated last
week in his bid to become
president of the Southern Baptist
Convention. McCall, until
recently president of the Baptist
school at Waco, drew large
amounts of media attention when
he fired the editors of the college
newspaper, the Baylor Lariat, in a
dispute over editorial policy two
years ago. (That flap, you may
recall, started when McCall
threatened expulsion of any
Baylor woman who appeared nude
in a Playboy feature on the
Southwest Conference.)
McCall was supported as the
candidate of Baptist moderates, in
their attempt to unseat current
SBC president Bailey Smith, an
Oklahoma fundamentalist who
was quoted last year as saying that
God does not hear the prayers of
Jews. The fundamentalists and
DOONESBUBT
moderates are also involved in a
battle over the removal of
theologians at Baptist colleges-
including Baylor—who do not
support a literal interpretation of
the Bible.
Beyond the Hedges is the
Thresher's weekly collection of
news tidbits from other colleges
and the real world. David Butler, a
Thresher contributor for most of
the past six years, is now a news
writer for KTRH radio.
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Davies, Bruce. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1981, newspaper, June 18, 1981; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245473/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.