The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1980 Page: 3 of 20
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Karen Strecker
Johns Hopkins begins
counseling by students
In an attempt to better serve
the real needs of the student body,
the health center at Johns Hopkins
is in the process of developing a
new counseling program. Since
most of their clients come in with
questions concerning birth control
and alcohol use, a peer
counseling service may be in
operation as early as January
1981, The Hopkins Newsletter
reports. Such a program would be
able to answer other students'
questions on these and similar
issues.
Hopefully, this service will free
the medically trained personnel for
more skilled work, Joan Rehner,
Health Services director, says. A
THRESHING-IT-OUT
SRC master explains
college not 'Bedlam'
To the Editor:
Since the appearance two weeks
ago of a fair and accurate story
about my having closed two
balconies at Sid Rich, readers
among students and faculty have
understandably drawn several
inaccurate inferences that I would
like to clear up.
First, we are not living in
bedlam. On the contrary, this has
been, after an explosive beginning,
an. exceptionally quiet and
pleasant semester, for which the
men of Richardson and Wiess
Colleges and our coeducational
neighbors deserve appropriate
credit and recognition.
Secondly, since the wheel-
chair-and-barrel toss is not an
approved intramural event, some
immediate and avowedly
temporary policy seemed in order
until a more leisurely communal
assessment and response could be
framed. I did not lock in anger or
desperation, nor was my regretted
action met with notable hostility.
Virtually all members of the
college seemed to recognize that
some action was appropriate and
appeared to understand, if not
always to agree. Our council is, as
we have come to expect of it, acting
responsibly and fairly in
fashioning a policy that will have
as its primary aim the well-being of
the community.
Finally, do not believe for a
moment that we are in disarray.
Like families or teams or
communities—and we are all of
these—we have our disagreements
and diversities of style. But we
think a lot of each other and the
college we have built together. The
Spirit of Sid—always exuberant,
usually inventive, often
outrageous, frequently funny,
sometimes sentimental, oc-
casionally noble or even heroic—is
alive and well. Check the next
party or pep rally or ball game or
intramural playoff or road trip or
concert or play or blood drive or
Dean's List. We'll be there.
Together. You might even be able
to spot us.
William Martin
SRC Master
Brown criticizes 'unfair
criticism' of Hackerman
To the Editor:
I read your unfair comment on
President Hackermaff in your
editorial in the October 23rd issutf
of the Thresher. He can only give
what he has in the till. The Brown
Foundation Challenge Grant is
raising roughly $5 milion a year;
$2'/$ million from Brown and $2'/£
million from friends of Rice
University.
Most informed people realize
that all schools are suffering from
losing their personnel to the
private sector, who is is "killing the
goose that lays the golden egg."
Help from the private sector is the
only hope for the universities.
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large proportion of the staff
time is spent answering simple
factual questions, and turning
these duties over to students would
give the staff more time to take
care of patients requiring medical
attention. Rehmer believes
students would make better
counselors on these topics than
adults, and stresses that such
students would be directed to just
give facts, not advice. To allay
students' fears concerning
Drivacy, the peer education
sessions will probably not
take place in the infirmary.
Students for the program will be
chosen carefully, after extensive
interviews with all interested
candidates. The assistants will
receive training in both counselling
skills and giving information on a
variety of topics over which
questions might be asked. At all
times, the student advisors will be
closely supervised by the infirmary
staff, Rehner says. She is
undecided, however, whether to
award these student advisors with
cash or academic credit.
Many other universities, among
them California Polytechnic
Institute, University of Maryland,
and Dartmouth already employ
peer educators, and Hopkins
officials plan to study these and
other similar programs f<5r ideas in
how to run the Hopkins service.
D00NESBURY
mtrsms?
A00FFUTABLB
BOOK ON m
j KITCHEN TABLE?
IT'S B.D.'S
NEW COPY Of
"REAGAN'S
BRAIN"
yOU MEAN OH HUH rVE BEEN
FROM THE FADING THE SEC-
TV SERIES7 T10N ON REAGAN'S
V INTELLECTUAL FAC~
■ ULTIE5. THE ILLU-
STRATIONS ARB
INCREDIBLE!
'ABOVE WE SEETHE FULL PANO-
RAMA OF REMANS INTELLECT.
LOOK OUT (MR THE VISTAS OF
REASANS /MAS/NATION AND FORE-
SIGHT. NOTE TUB TOTAL RANGE
OF HIS CONCEPTUAL THINKING."
H
"FINISHED?
OKAY. LET'S LOOK.' THERE'S
M0VE0NP0WN WHERE HE STORES
THE BRAIN HIS ONE-LINERS'
STEM." j
K
HEY,ARENT
YOU GUYS GO-
!N6 IN TO WITH THE CHOICES
\ iflrc? THIS YEAR, WHAT'S
! >?' THE POINT?
Cb /
mm DO YOU MEAN. WHATSTHE POINT7
THE OUTCOME OF MS ELECTION COUP
PROFOM.Y AFFECT THE DESTINY OF
THIS COUNTRY! THERE HASNTBEEN
A CLEAR-CUT CHOICE IN
S ^ YEARS!
NO KIPPING?
JEEZ.. I PIPN'T
KNOW THAT.
YOU T0LP ME mav
CARTER. ANP { „
REAGAN WERE
RUNNING1 IT WRONG
\ \
(p&rcuA
GOOD NEWS, CAP'N!
THE ELECTION
RESULTS ARE
FINALLY IN!
\
SAVE IT UNTIL THE ENP OF
THE GAME, HARRIS. IF REAGAN
HON, WE'LL BE TOO EXCITED TO
PLAY. IF CARTER WON, WE'LL
8E TOO DEPRESSED.
THEN THERE'S NO
PROBLEM. IT WAS
A VICTORY FOR
ANDERSON!
0
murk, HAVE
you seen
. mike*
I /
ANDERSONS
WHATS
TROUNCING.
IN HIS ROOM.
WRONG?
Ml RE'S TAKING
HEHASNT
COMEDOWN
TT PRETTY
HARD.\
SINCE LAST
NIGHT. \
WELL, MORAL,
/ n-r MOSTLY, BUT
WHAT 17-fc r-AiK.)^.
SON? KIND OF QUITE A
I VICTORY. STIR
1 ZONK? i
Am-
%
THOSE DAMN POLITICIANS I THEY'LL.
BREAK YOUR HEART EVERY VME.
POOR MIRE.. I BETTER GOUP
AND HAVE A TALK WITH HIM
YOU CALL ANDERSON ZONK. I
ANP TELL HIM TO PONT REALLY
GET OYER HERE. THINK IT'S
HIS FAULT.
MIKE, YOU CANT BE
50 HARD ON YOUR-
SELF. YOU KNEW IT
WAS A LONG SH0K,
FROM THE START-
I KNOW, I FAILURE* WHAT
KNOW..IT'S ON EARTH ARE
JUST I PIPN'T you TALKING
MIKE, YOU HELPED SH0U/THB
WHOLE WORLD THAT AN UNKNOWN
CANDItm UMTH NO CHANCE OF
WINNING COULD RUN FOR PRESI-
rTS A TREMENDOUS
ACHIEVEMENT. WE'RE
ALL VERY PROUD
T DIP? OF YOU, MIKE.
expectthecam
MIGNTOBE
SUCH A TOTAL
FAILURE
about?
'—
J. J., MIKES BUSY
BROODING OVER THE
ELECTION. CAN HE
CALL YOU BACK?..
WHAT?.. OKAY. I'LL
TELL HIM.
SHE SAYS NEVER
MIND, SHE'LL FIND
SOMEONE ELSE TO
TAKE A SHOWER
WITH1 /
NO! WAIT!
DON'T HAN6
UP'
ITS ASK HER
1 J.J.l IF I CAN
CALL HER.
BACK
HEY. HAMLET!
ARB YOU
TAKING
CALLS
/
IS IT?
r
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1980, newspaper, November 6, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245454/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.