The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1997 Page: 1 of 16
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ARC YOU THREATENING US?!
JANUARY 24,1997
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David Gordon
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Student Association External
Vice President Charles Klein is
spearheading a campaign to bring
ESPN basketball announcer Dick
Vitale-to Rice to call the Feb",'u24
game between Rice and the Uni-
versity of Utah.
Vitale, who is
commonly known as
the voice of college
basketball, is sched-
uled to call a game
between the Univer-
sity of Kentucky
Wildcats and the
University of Ten-
nessee Volunteers on Feb. 25.
According to ESPN Coordinat-
ing Producer Dave Miller, Feb.
24 is set as a travel day for Vitale.
leaders of the campaign. t it led
"The Dick Vitale Campaign,
Baby" after Vitale's own broad
casting style, hopes that a flood
of messages to both Vitale and
Miller will convince them to alter
Vitale's schedule to allow him to
be at the game.
"If they get enough mail, there
is a possibility that. IHck Vitale
will switch over and call our
game," Klein said.
Klein, along with Sid
Richardson College senior Josh
Earnest, spoke to Head Coach
Willis Wilson in November be-
fore the season started. They
were concerned
about a lack of stu-
dent support for the
basketball team.
Wilson made
some suggestions,
oneofwUjch was the
campaign t'o bring
Vitale to Rice. Wil-
son said that a cam-
paign had been tried, unsuccess-
fully, a few years ago.
The initial meeting led to a
second meeting where Wilson,
along with Assistant Athletic Di-
rector Steve Moniaci, met with
several students to discuss the
campaign.
"The most logical time to get
Vitale seemed to be the Utah
SEE VITALS. PAGE 6
Student's project brings
Science Olympiad to Rice
Elizabeth Egle
Staff Writer
This Saturday Rice will host the
"p Science Olympiad, a contest for st u-
dents iff grades K-12 that stresses
hands-on group participation. This
will be the first time Rice has hosted
the event.
The $crence„01ympiad will con-
sist of a variety t)f events,, including
an egg-drop and an aerodynamics
event consisting of paper-airplane
flying, A "Surfing the Net" event will
also be introduced this year.
Noah Rosenberg, a Hanszen Col-
lege senior, got the idea of hosting
the Olympiad while he was partici-
pating in the Leadership Rice pro-
gram last year.
'Through Leadership Rice we
had to find a problem and try.to fix
it," he said. Rosenberg had com-
peted in the Olympiad while he was
in high school.
'"HieTexas chapter does not have
as well-developed a network of re
gional competition" as other states
do, he said.
Rosenberg wanted to change this,
so he made the Science Olympiad
his Leadership Rice "problem."
> will be H*k Feb, 14-19. .Petition# wfil
.at 10 a.m. in the Student Organizations Office
i second floor of the Student Center aboveAcademic Advising,
it must be turned In by noon on Feb. 7.
The election it for Student Association Senate officers, Rice Program
Council officer*, Thresher editor, Campanile *ditor. University Council
llfwieMSwi's; TOW# Counciland University flow* dm
representatives and Rice Student volunteer Program officers.
Vikki Otero
Features Ediun
A Rice football player has been
suspended for the spring semester
after the University Court found him
guilty on charges of assault. The
charges were filed by a fellow stu-
dent with the Rice University Police
Department. However, his accuser
is unsatisfied with the treatment of
the case and the end result.
The accuser, a female freshman,
who spoke on the condition that all
involved parties remain anonymous,
said that a pattern of abusive behav-
ior on the part of her former boy
friend led to her taking action with
the RUPD and ultimately to his one-
semester suspension. Both the ac-
cused and his lawyer declined to
comment on the case.
The charge, which was filed with
the •RUPD on Dec. 6, accused him of
"assault and threat of bodily injury"
during the period of Sept. 1 to Dec.
1, W9(>. The instances cited by the
alleged victim included repeated
poking, pulling her hair, threaten
ing bodily.injury and threatening to
kill her. The ongoing behavior, she
said, had its effects.
' Rice doys everything it
can to protect every
student.'
— Ken Hatfield
Football head coach
She finally reported the situation
to her college masters toward the
end of the semester. The masters
declined to comment . Shortly there
after, she filed charges through the
RUPD.
When she did decide to file a
report, she decided to go only
through university channels, not
wanting to publicize the situation
and potentially harm the name of
the university, the football team or
the male student, she said.
Throughout the investigation,
the accused was restricted from cam
pus except to attend class, lunch
and football practice and games.
According to the accuser, however,
the restriction was not enforced and
he continued to contact her during
the investigation.
The female student felt that both
the RUPD and the athletic depart-
ment should have made more of an
effort to monitor the accused, both
during and after the investigation.
"He roamed just like everybody
else here on campus," she said.
'They said he was only supposed to
go to certain places. 1 was told this
bv the people who conducted the
investigation, and I was promised
by the football coach, and it wasn't
carried out,"
Football Head Coach Ken
Hatfield disagreed. "Rice does ev-
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Although theparlicipantsin lead-
ership Rice are required only to cre-
ate a theory of how they would fix a
problem. Rosenberg said making the
Olympiad a reality "was not too in-
sane a jump to go through with."
Sid Richardson College junior
Krista Kyle was Rosenberg's unoffi-
cial assistant in organizing the Olym-
piad, which will consist of 16 events.
Students were involved in most
aspects of planning: a majority of the
events are student-run, arid the teSts
that will be administered were writ-
ten by students, Kyle said.
Catherine Arthur, a Hanszen
sophomore, is the coordinator of
the Pentathalon.-"! had to go back
and think of what I knew in middle
school and high school," she said.
She said that after four years of chem-
istry — two at Rice — she was a little
out of* touch with the level of diffi-
culty that younger kids need.
Rice Chemistry Professors and
Nobel laureates Robert Curl and
, Richard Smalley will be presenting
the awards at the end of the compe-
tition.
"There will be some problems,
but a lot of people have been helping
out, so 1 think it will go very well,"
Kyle said.
Martial arts demonstrators include (left to right) Zane
1994 alumnus Ralph Compton.
Vanessa Cobb (Jones '99) and
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Six legs, eight colleges: ants take Over
Ant-related complaints to F&H skyrocket as bugs invade dorms
Felisa Yang
,\Vm \ Kditm
Ants have recently been infest
ing the residential colleges to an
unprecedented degree. While they
have always been an annoyance on
campus, the number of complaints
has gone up significantly since the
beginning of the school year.
According to Residential' Col
leges Manager Robert Truscott, the
ants-related complaints Trotn the
colleges have skyrocketed during
the past semester.
"Right now, it is unbelievable,"
Truscott said of the number of com-
plaints, "{Sid Richardson College]
lias ants all the way to the top of the
building and in the masters' house."
Truscott said that while SRC
'seemsTto have the"WrsTcase of
infestation, it is a problem at all the
colleges. However, the problem
seems confined to the dorms. Ac
cording to Busebio Franco Jr.. man-
ager for custodial services and
groundskeeping, the academic
buildings have not been affected.
Michael Reeves, SRC student"
maintenance representative, said the
situation is complicated by the fact
that residents cannot seem to pin-
point the source of the ants.
"It's relatively confusing in that
they don't seem to be clustered
around food," Reeves said. "They're
not coming from any one source.
"The problem at | SRC 1 is that we
need to know exactly where they
come from. People are just saying
'we have ants' without specifying
where."
Reeves suspects that the ants are
travelling through the drains behind
The problem has grown to such
proportions that Food and Housing
terminated the pest control company
it had been using. A new company
was hired, effective this semester.
According to Truscott, the col-
leges are treated on a preventive
basis every Monday. Two colleges
are treated with bait each week, and
each college gets treated at least
once every four weeks.-In addition,
service requests are fulfilled the
same week.
Truscott also recommended that
students be careful about food in the
rooms.
"Keep all food products and food
trash cleaned up and disposed of,"
Truscott said. "And send complaints
or reports to work@rict.edu."
Reeves echoed Truscott's warn-
ing, while also citing the construe-
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