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Jump
—Bruce Davies Troeistra
-Bruce Davies
SRC, WRC get acting masters
Two colleges—Sid Richardson
and Will Rice—have interim
masters this semester. Dr. Arne
Troeistra at SRC and Dr. Robert
Jump at WRC, both electrical
engineers, are serving as college
masters while Drs. William Martin
and Constantine Armeniades are
on sabbatical leave.
Troeistra, an EE professor at
Rice since 1969, will be interim
master at Sid Rich until Martin
returns for the next fall semester.
He, his wife, and daughter
Catherine moved into Richardson
House on January 3.
Martin is presently in France,
and will spend the rest of his
sabbatical writing at a ranch
owned by the University of Texas
before returning to Rice.
The Sid Rich faculty associate
from the Netherlands admitted
that he and his family "had mixed
feelings at the beginning" about
applying to serve as interim
master, but he is glad he accepted.
"I think that interaction with the
students here is much easier and
even more exciting than I thought
it would be," Troeistra said.
Jump, chairman of the new
Computer Science Department
and a professor in the electrical
engineering department at Rice
since 1968, has assumed the
position of interim master of Will
Rice College for the spring
semester and the fall semester of
next year. Jump and his family
moved into Will Rice House
during the Christmas break.
Armeniades will return to Rice
University after Christmas break
next year and is expected to finish
the last one and one-half years of
his five-year term as master of Will
Rice. Armeniades is on leave in
Scotland, where he will be teaching
at an institution for a year.
Jump is an associate of Will Rice
who was recommended by
Armeniades to be the interim
master. First the Will Rice Diet
and then President Hackerman
approved the temporary
appointment. Jump says that he
and his wife Gerry have "looked
upon this as maintaining the same
attitude and atmosphere as the
previous master."
THRESHER
Volume 67, number 20
Thursday, January 17, 1980
INSIDE:
•Rice's resident China-watcher
has comments on China, Russia
and Afghanistan: page 9.
•Two football coaches are out, and
a track coach is in. All the sports
that's fit to print, pgs. 12-16.
It's official: Akers will become VP for administration
by Allison Foil
President Norman Hackerman
has confirmed last week's Thresher
report that Vice President for
External Affairs William Akers
will be handling the duties of
resigning Campus Business
Manager Russell Pitman.
In a memorandum to Rice
faculty and staff, dated January 9
but distributed yesterday,
Hackerman said, "Dr. Akers has
demonstrated his ability to
manage large and complex
enterprises and I look forward to
his new assignment."
Akers, 58, has held several
positions at Rice over the years,
serving as chairman of the
department of Chemical
Engineering, director of the
biomedical engineering labora-
tory, Assistant to the President for
Development, and, his present
position, as Vice President for
External Affairs.
The appointment of Akers as
Business Manager follows Russell
Pitman's announcement in
November of last year that he
wished to retire.
The Rice Campus Business
Manager oversees such various
operations as the Campus Store,
Rice Memorial Center, Campus
Police, Campus Maintenance and
Food Service.
"In this broad collection of jobs
for business manager, a lot of
things don't exactly fit together,"
said Akers. "I hope to do several
things. One of them may be to
organize it into parts where each
will be stronger."
In addition to handling the
duties of Business Manager, Akers
will continue his work in
Development and Information
Services. His duties now include
widespread fundraising. "I
concentrate on major gifts to the
University," Akers said. "I'm
talking about gifts of $100,000 or
more—the large scale."
Hackerman, who is out of town,
was asked over the telephone why
he chose to consolidate the two
offices into the position of Vice
President for Administration. He
explained that he wishes to reduce
See Akers, page 8
MEMORA N DU M
Faculty and Staff
SUBJECT: Campus Business Offi
As you know, Russ Pieman wi.il retire from his position a
Manager of the Campus Business Office on June "JO, 1980
Mr Pitman has been very effective as Campus Business
Officer these past several years and I am happy to take
this opportunity to thank him for all of us Many of
you will remember that he served the University also as
its Comptroller and then as Assistant to the President,
and he performed valuable services to the University in
His
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ted, did pr.
Physical Plant
College Operation
Traffic & Securit
Personnel, Proper
Bice Campus Store
Rice Memorial Cen
a position of Vice President for Admit;
Dr. Akers to accept this assignment an
do no, and the change will become efi'u
At that time the title. Vice President
will be discontinued but "Jr. Akers wil
activities in Development and Informar
Dr. William Akers
Wcyne Derrick
Hackerman OKs closing of jock tutorials
by Rolf Asphaug
The Athletic Department may,
if it wishes, keep non-athletes from
attending special tutorials for
athletes, following a declaration by
President Norman Hackerman
late last semester that he sees
nothing wrong with closed
tutorials.
Hackerman's decision, while
legal, goes against the opinion of
the Honor Council, which "does
not feel that athletes should have
any special advantage over other
Track improvements delayed
by Bill Bonner
The renovation of Rice's track
stadium, originally scheduled for
completion by the beginning of
1980, has now been delayed until
"near commencement time",
according to Campus Business
Manager Russell Pitman.
Both Pitman and Track Coach
Steve Straub stated that Brown
and Root, contractors for the
renovation, simply presented the
university with what now can be
seen as an inaccurate timetable
m *■** > ~
Diehard joggers run on rubble
—Wayne Derrick
when they undertook the project.
The delay cannot be attributed to
any significant outside factors, as
Houston has had relatively little
rain during the construction
period and there have been no
labor disputes.
Pitman said cost overruns are
not anticipated.
The contractor's revised
timetable calls for the pouring of
the track's asphault base sometime
in February, with a subsequent
settling period of approximately
one month, followed by the laying
of the all-weather surface with
another one-month settling
period.
Rice's track team has been
holding practices at various local
high schools while the track is
being completed. The three home
meets scheduled for this year will
be held at Kinkaid High School.
students in closed tutorials,"
according to Honor Council
Chairman Vince James.
"Ultimately, Dr. Hackerman
determines how the Honor System
operates," James noted.
Dean of Undergraduate Affairs
Katherine Brown said the
"apparent problem" of quality
tutorials for athletes and poor or
nonexistent tutorials for general
students is "something we hope we
can work out" by next year.
Hackerman made his statement
in a meeting with Brown, who
reported the president's opinion to
James. "He feels that the Athletic
Department tutorials are for
students who have particular needs
and on whom the University
makes particular demands,"
Brown told the Thresher.
"In discussion with Dean Brown
I expressed my displeasure,"
James said. According to James,
the Honor Council discussed the
tutorial issue in its open session
last semester and decided that
administrative improvements
could be made without closing
Athletic Department tutorials.
Hackerman is away this week
and could not be reached for
comment. Assistant to the
President Carl MacDowell said he
had no knowledge of the
statement.
Although Hackerman's opinion
was "no official statement or
anything." according to James, it
in effect allows Athletic
Department tutorial administrator
Mark Bockeloh to close the
tutorials immediately.
As of Wednesday evening
Bockeloh had still not been
informed of Hackerman's month-
old statement and its indications,
and as a result he expressed anger
to the Thresher about rumors that
athletic tutorials were going to be
closed to non-athletes.
"No one's ever said that," he
stated. "I'm upset about it,
because people think we give these
kids something for nothing."
Bockeloh, a 1976 Rice graduate
and former Honor Council
chairman, noted that athletes have
much less time for studying than
do most students—especially
during their sport's season, when
up to 60 hours per week may be
spent in training.
"We provide tutors because it's
needed," said Bockeloh. The
Athletic Department, he satd, pays
See Athletes, rage $
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1980, newspaper, January 17, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245426/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.