The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1997 Page: 4 of 24
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Rice students interested in study
abroad hut unable to afford it now
have a new hope Rice recently re
ceived a $2 million endowment last'6'
month, which will be awarded to
undergraduates on the basis of need.
"We have President 1 Malcolm]
C.illis to thank for this new endow-
ment," Associate Vice President for
Student Aflairs and Director of In
lernational Education Patricia Mar-
tin said.
The endowment will generate f>
percent interest, or approximately
S100,( i()() per semester, Kice expects
to have the lull amount bv the end of
WW.
II a study abroad program costs
more than a semester at Rice, then
students will need^ to supplement
funds from the endowment with
loans, grants oj other means.
Funds will be available tor study
abroad by the spring semester ol
P.>98. and possibly as early a* the fall
■'■me-ie! oj 1997, Marti it said
! tie doiiot's name and affiliation
have nut vet been announced.
CNN's 'Firing Line' comes to
Rice University for taping
William F Buckley Jr. brings his
"linng l.ine" program to Rice Uni-
versity today, and the public is in
vited to the tailing of a two-hour
debate and two hall-hour shows on a
first-come basis.
The debate topic is "Resolved:
Environmentalists have gone too far,
too fast."
• Former CNN "Crossfire" person-
ality Michael Kinsley will moderate
the arguments among eight partici-
pants, including Buckley, Senator
birry Craig (R-Idaho), former Cali-
fornia Governor Jerry Brown, Sierra
Club director Carl Pope and others.
Following the debate, Buckley
and Kinsley will face questions on
any topic from a panel of Rice under-
graduates for one half-hour program,
then take the challenges of law stu
dents from Dallas and Houston for
the final half hour.
The three programs will be taped
in Stude Concert Hall of Alice Patt
Brown Hall. Parking will be avail-
able in the stadium lot adjacent to
the building.
Public seating lor the 1? p.m..de-
bate will--be front 1:30 p.in to 1:45
p in., with noone allowed in or out of
the hall until the conclusion of tap
ing at 4 p.in
Seating for the two half-hour-long
programs will be from I p.m. to 4:1"
p.m. and from 4:10 p.m. to 4:50p.m..
respectively.
For more information, call the
Public Affairs Office of Rice at
(7Pi).H:>l -4700, ext. 102, or send e
mail to finnglin("tiricf rdu.
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He wrote In The Selfish Gene,*
Shirey. a Lovett College junior, said. "A
lot of what he was saying were things that
probably have occurred to other people,
but he articulated these thoughts fluently,
and coherently." „
In his talk, Oawklns summarized ttwftwo
extremes of evolutionary progression that
are currently being debated by scholars.
He rejected both extremes and presented
his own defkiition."His definition of
, progress is right on the money, l thought.
Trying to' say evolution is progressing to
humanity is wrfing, but evolution is still
progressive," Andrew Eisenberg, a Jones
College junior, said.
The speech was attended by both Rice
students and other members of the
community. Colatte Dornelly, a University
of Houston student, was one of the non-
Rice people present. "I thought it was
s pretty interesting. I'm a communications
i major, and that was the first speech
| about Darwinism that I really listened
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it." Sanders said. "They'll just be
snapshots. Somewhere between Pic-
lure Yourselt and ultra-formal high
school mug shots."
According to Clark, there will be
only one person in the picture, and
although the'person'must face front,
"they can wear whatever tjney warn ,
or have a prop or pet." Newman.
Clyrk and Sanders all noted that
Rice students value individuality, and
mi onene wanted their changes to
stifle student creativity or expres-
sion
Newman explained that the
changes made to the sections of the
yearbook as a result of the survey
are .not as drastic as they seem at
first.
He said, for example, that even
when the editors chose to remove
the faculty and Administration set
tion, they knew some faculty, and
administration would still be in-
cluded in the yearbook in other sec-
tions, like college File or Academic
Activities Also, Club Activjpes pho-
tos were added iif place of "posed
(. lub Croup Photos."
Also as a result of the survVv,
Picture Yoursell was scheduled for
two days last semester instead of
Hist one, as it had been in the pasf
"()ne of the main reasons we had
expanded Picture Yoursell to two
days 111is year wa^ to include more
people, but what happened was that
everybody waited until the last day.
and the last hour, just like they al-
ways do." Clark said
"So we are planning on doing
Picture Yoursell once in the fall and
oik e m the spring lor next year. We
want more people to participate, and
we want to be able to include people
who will be abroad for one semes-
ter," she said.
Posed all-college group photos
were alsoadded. According to Sand-
ers, he and Co-Art Director Dan
Sandler, a Will Rice College sopho
more, were able to find a way to
insert color pages between black-
and white pages. They plan to use
\he tub-color college photos on the
divider pages between each college's
sections
Sanders also said. "We're going
to try to do a comprehensive index-
| of all those who appear in the Cam
panilr). even of Picture Yourself,
and even it the name does not ap-
pear in the caption."
"It's monumental, but we think
it's important," lie said.
As for the budget. Sanders said
that the completely Student-run year-
book was doing OK.
The current editors have kept
the organization out of debt using a
combination of common sense and
creative solutions to cut cost:
"Mostly it was just little clever
things here and there. By .reducing
the page size to,.#eight-and-a-half
by 11, with a horizontal format ...
from nine by 12, that reduced the
cost of printing enormously. Al-
though [former Campanile editor
Andy Burmeister's] book was nine
by nine, it was a really expensive
book, because they still had to cut it
down fro in a nine by 12. We saved
literally tlnmsands by doing that."
'The number of pages in all and
the number of color pages, though,
will remain mostly the same.
"Also, we're having a si nailer pro-
duction run, and that'll.save us
money as well," Sanders said
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How much do you like these
sections of the yearbook?
(rated on • seal* of 1 to B)
The editors of the Campanile
surveyed the student body on
what they wanted from the
yearbook; 230 responded.
The results have helped
shape this year's book (which"
will be hardcover, without a
CD RQM), It will also feature,
for the first time in several
years, college group photos
as well as individual senior
portraits.
added this ymr; * taken out
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"There'll be plenty of money for'98."
Clark was more specific. "We cut
I the production run 1 by at least 2.0(H)
(books),"site said. "Thereare boxes
and boxes.ai\d boxes of past year-
books lying arotind. So even with
the ct.it, everyone who wants a year-
book should be able to get one."
As the soon-to-be-full editor, Clark
has one major goal for the Campa-
nile. "I'd like t<) leave the yearbook
next year with an editor," she said,
With that in mind, her main con-
cern for next year was staff continu*
itv,
"Each year, the yearbook has
started out with almost acoiflpletely
new set of people, and for the past
two years, no one has even run for
editor (in chief)," she said.
"And so 1 hope to put out a really-
good yearbook, but I'd also like To
spend this year setting up a founda-
tion for all future yearbooks, Fortu-
nately, all of my section editois are
sophomores and have agreed to
Student life
College activities
' College group photos+, Picture
J'; Yourself, graduation
individual portraits-i-, club activities
Music & theater, academics, sports,
club group photos*
Faculty and administration portraits*
come back — so we have experi-
enced people for next year," she
said.
'Hie Campanile will also have to
renegotiate the three-year contract
it has with Jostens, who prints the
yearbook.
According to the editors, the cur-
rent contract is such a good one that
they know printing costs will have to
go up. Clark is confident that the
staff will be able to manage well
enough.
"Jostens is going to work with us
on being able to do the book the way
we want it and deal with these costs.
And after this year, we really know
how to" cut things in the budget that
we really don't need — we know
how to make every dollar count,"
Clark said.
The Campinile editors agree that
these modifications leave the Cam-
panile in a financially secure state,
much more solid than has been
present in years past.
Crafting Your Job Scarch:
An Interactive Workshop
By putting your "hands on," you'll learn about:
Creative Kcsumd Layouts, Paper Types, ^Networking Cards,
✓ l Electronic Resumes, lr Using the World Wide Web to Find a job
Seminar Leader: Jeff Russell, Rice Class of 1981
, i Attend one of the following workshops:
Thursday, Atrril 3, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Friday, April 18, 8:30-1 1:30 a.m. „
Wednesday, April 30, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Workshops held just a stone's throw from Rice at
Jot- W. Kirn; Orthoim-dk: Insiiiuti.
(located- in Texas Orthopedic 1 lospital)
7401 South Main Street
To register or lor more information call
(7i;V)7«)4-M55
Should Rice
have a
yearbook?
paper
yes
Do you want
a CD-ROM
supplement?
Hardcover or
paperback?
yes
Empty portions of graphs represent
miscellaneous and dul-nat-answer responses.
Shannon
FROM PACE 1
asked Mike to purchase the alco-
hol."
Jones personally wrote Shannon
a letter of support explaining the
situation, but the university offered
no official support. Both Shannon
and Shah individually hired lawyers.
Rice counsel Joe Davidson ex-
plained that the level of university
involvement in individual legal cases
depends on the specific facts of the
case.
In this instance, Shannon was
not representing the university and
actually acted contrary to Jones'
advice that he not try to go to Spec's,
according to Jones.
After his experience, Shannon
said he realized how important it is
for "student organizations to know
all the rules themselves, because
the administration doesn't always'
cover for you or the organization."
Shannon's case was Immediately
dismissed when the HPD officer who
originally cited him did not appear
at the trial.
"Ill take it by my officer's failure
to appear that he felt justice was
served," he said. Shannon now plans
to have TABC reimburse RPC for
the alcohol that was seized shortly
after Shah purchased it. Shah has
already been personally reimbursed
by RPC.
With Shah's trial approaching,
Shannon expressed concern that
Shah might not be cleared so easily,
since the charge against him spe-
cifically mentions "to wit Michael
Shannon." If found in violation, Shah
would face up to $175 in fines in
addition to the legal fees he has
already paid.
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Beard, Marty & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1997, newspaper, March 14, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246563/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.