The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1981 Page: 5 of 12
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Commencement moves Indoors
Rice University's sixty-eighth
commencement was moved from
the East Lawn of Lovett Hall to the
muggy confines of Autry Court for
the first time in more than a
decade, due to a heavy rainfall on
May 9. Approximately 900
students received degrees at the
ceremony.
University President Norman
Hackerman presided over the two
and one-half hour ceremony, with
undergraduate candidates
receiving degrees from their
respective college masters.
Several special awards were also
presented, to both graduating
students and distinguished alumni.
The Student Association Mentor
Recognition Award went to the
late Professor John E. Parish.
Parish had been a resident
associate at Wiess College for over
23 years before his death last
September.
—M. Gladu
The Distinguished Alumnus
Award was awarded to William F.
Kieschnick, '47, and also to S.I.
Morris, '35. Kieschnick has also
been recently named to Rice's
Board of Governors.
Graduating seniors John
Timothy Stout, Stephen Michael
Flynn, and Kristen Ann Bayne
received the Rice University
Service Award.
A total of 437 Bachelor of Arts
degrees were given to architecture,
humanities, social science, and
science majors.
Bachelor of Science degrees
from engineering departments
were awarded to 35 Chemical
Engineering majors, 20 Civil
Engineering majors, 65 Electrical
Engineers, seven Materials Science
majors and 32 Mechanical
Engineering students.
Thirteen Bachelor of Architec-
ture, two Bachelor of Fine Arts
and 15 Bachelor of Music degrees
were also awarded.
At the graduate level, 236
degrees were awarded, including
74 Ph.D.s
Summer crimes rare
Humanities/business program...
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you might like to try your hand at
business, or learn about the
possibility of a career in business,
this is your opportunity.' We hope
students will sign1' up for the
program."
Beginning next fall, juniors who
have declared themselves to be
humanities majors will be allowed
to sign up for an internship
program that will begin the
following spring semester. It will
be counted as a 3-hour credit
course (Humanities 301) and will
be supervised by George Greanias
of the Jones Graduate School of
Administration. The internship
will entail working eight hours in
one day or working a couple of
afternoons a week at a Houston
business that will be lined up for
them. Molder stressed that these
will be "meaningful positions,
observing positions—so that the
student can get some business
experience and see if he would be
interested in doing his job for a
career."
A second part of the program,
open primarily to seniors, is a
resume' writing and interviewing
workshop. The first one will be
held August 28 and will be taught
by Kathy Kennedy of New York
University. "Once students learn
how to write resumes and do so,"
Molder pointed out, "their
resumes will be put into a special
book that I will take around to
various companies."
Molder has discovered that
many companies in the business
community already look favorably
on Rice's new program. He stated
that the major reason for the early
good response seems to be the
university's strong local
reputation.
Another reason for the positive
response to the program is due to
its third aspect, according to
Molder: a five-week training
institute. When students interview
with companies, they will be
eligible to participate in the
institute upon graduating.
The entire curriculum for the
training institute will be drawn
from the Jones School and will be
taught by Jones School faculty and
members of the business
community. The intensive
program will cover such facets of
business as marketing, manage-
ment, and computer applications.
Molder feels that this training
through the Jones School should
give graduates "a fundamental
understanding of business,"
adding that, "A basic understand-
ing of business is necessary, but I
feel that this knowledge, combined
with a liberal arts background,
provides a student with a much
broader outlook."
Humanities dean, Dr. Allen
Matusow, concurs: "All we intend
to do in the summer institute is
teach students the language of
business so they're trainable."
Matusow, who supervises all
aspects of the program, remarked,
"This Mellon grant was
specifically given to promote the
employability of humanities
majors. With our program, which
is strictly experimental, we hope to
make Rice students even more
attractive than they are now."
Admissions...
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week. Kurt Goedecke, a 1978 Rice
graduate in biology who was
involved in research at the Baylor
College of Medicine, will be the
third assistant and-will begin on
July 6.
Stabell stated that the situation
was not unexpected. "I am very-
pleased with the selection of the
three new assistant directors and I
know they will carry on the fine
tradition that the others
established," said Stabell.
by Jay Grob
An attempted assault in the gym
and a stolen golf cart marked the
only serious crimes since the end of
the spring semester, according to
Campus Police Chief Mary
Voswinkel. Voswinkel added,
however, that the summer's most
mysterious case thus far has been
the finding of a purse containing a
large amount of cash and her
department's inability to locate the
owner.
On May 18, a woman was
dressing in the women's locker
room in the gym when a male
assailant entered the area and tried
to grab her. The woman
immediately screamed, scaring
the intruder so much that he
immediately fled.
Said Voswinkel, "We did a
composite on the subject from a
description given by the victim,
and were reasonably sure that we
had correctly identified the
attacker. However, the woman,
who was leaving town shortly,
decided not to press charges."
In the summer's only other
serious crime, Voswinkel reports
that a golf cart, used by
groundskeepers, was stolen on
May 4 near President Norman
Hackerman's house. The vehicle
was reported by a citizen to be at
the corner of Greenbriar and
North Braeswood roads one day
after its theft. But before Campus
Police could arrive at that
location, the vehicle had
apparently either been stolen again
or had been moved by the original
thieves. The case has been referred
to the Houston Police Depart-
ment, but no clues to the cart's
whereabouts have surfaced as yet.
The most frustrating case for
Voswinkel and the Campus Police
this summer, though, has been the
finding of a purse, in the Will Rice
Commons, containing well over a
hundred dollars.
According to Voswinkel, the
purse contained several pieces of
identification in addition to the
cash, but so far the Campus Police
have been unable to locate the
purse's owner. "We've checked
several places, and everywhere
we've looked the owner has
moved, and even more strangely,
no inquiries have been made here
about the purse." Voswinkel added
that the woman identified from
cards in the purse is neither a Rice
student nor an employee of the
university.
Voswinkel explained that the
focus of campus security changes
irom protection of people during
the academic year to protection of
the property and buildings during
the summer months. In general the
Campus Police department
receives about half as many calls
that require police action during
the summer as they do during the
school year. So far this summer, in
addition to the three more serious
cases listed above, the police have
responded to three accidents, nine
cases of theft, one case of illegal
entry, six cases of criminal
trespassing, five burglaries, one
drug overdose, and three cases of
criminal mischief.
ICSA...
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division will open this fall.
Huston speculates that some
problems may arise from the
location of the building; its
position facing Herman Brown
will increase traffic through that
building and in the surrounding
area. Parking spaces will also be
eliminated, due to both the Mudd
construction and the additions
presently being made to
Abercrombie Laboratory. To
relieve this problem more parking
space may have to be added behind
Abercrombie or in the field beyond
the Space Physics building,
according to Huston.
Though the Mudd Facility is
scheduled to open in August 1982,
Huston does not plan to facilitate
changeover problems by moving
during the semester should
completion be delayed. She said,
"If it's not open before school
starts, they will have to wait until
Christmas."
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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/m1/5/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.