The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1981 Page: 4 of 16
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BEYOND THE HEDGES/by Karen Strecker
Tennis shoe snafu
causes pain at T.U.
The University of Texas at
Austin may find itself entangled in
a legal snare over sneakers if it does
not tighten up its endorsement
policies. The snafu began last
February, when Blue Ribbon, the
makers of Nike sneakers filed an
anti-trust suit against Brooks, Inc.
and six other domestic shoe
manufacturers, claiming that they
had tried to encourage U.S.
Customs officials to raise the tariff
on imported shoes. Brooks then
filed a countersuit, and hearings
began late in December. UT is
involved directly, since it accepts
bids from athletic wear companies
for its intercollegiate teams, and
Brooks, Inc. is trying to use these
bids to show monopolistic
behavior by Blue Ribbon.
Athletic director Bill Ellington
told the Daily Texan that the
university sends out its
required number of shoes
needed and the specifications, then
gives the contract to the lowest
bidder. Problems arose recently
when no one could agree on who
had the contract for football shoes
tor the 1980 season. Ellington
claims his records show Adidas
supplies the university with 200
pairs of shoes at a cost of $7,490.
Blue Ribbon, makers of Nike,
claims to have supplied UT with
the very same shoes, but would not
release details of the contract. "The
only contract Nike has with UT is
in track," Ellington said.
Allen Carmel, an attorney for
Brooks, however claims Nike is
"entering into agreements with
coaches and players to make sure
thev wear only Nike shoes."
Carmel added that "Nike makes
sure a certain percentage of the
players are wearing their shoes.
More important the Nike logo
must be exposed, even though
some players may prefer to tape
their shoes to prevent injuries."
Ellington denied the charges and
stated that the University has no
such agreement with any shoe
company. "The shoe company
must meet our specifications, and
that's all. There are no percentages
given. We use their shoes, but any
player is free to wear another shoe
if he wants."
Professional cheating
plagues Baylor
The findings of a Baylor Lariat
investigation have concluded that
cheating a Baylor is an organized
crime. Besides the usual eye
wanderings, crib notes and
tapping-pen-on-desk type signals,
students at Baylor have been
stealing tests from professors's
offices and taking typewriter
ribbons and trying to read them,
and even robbing faculty members'
homes to get test information.
"I know of'several clubs that are
stealing tests, and there is no way
to prove it. I have no respect for
these clubs, or people who are in-
volved in stealing tests," Dean
Richard Scott of the Hankamer
School of Business said. "It's a
sad case when students don't stand
up and report their fellow class-
mates who are cheating. Those peo
pie who do not report need to
examine their moral standards and
try to preserve the integrity of
the university.
A survey of Baylor faculty found
members agreed that the
occurance of student cheating was
on the rise at Baylor. "I am
convinced that some students have
master keys to get into the offices,"
James Truitt, chairman of the
economics department said.
"These keys could have been
passed down through the years,
and left with buddies year after
year as the owners graduated."
These break-ins occur not only
in the business school, but also are
common in the College of Arts &
Sciences. A student broke into the
political science department before
Christmas and stole several tests,
Robert Miller, assistant dean of
the College of Arts & Sciences
said. "Because of this break-in, the
locks in the political science office
were changed immediately,"
Miller added.
The people doing this will get in
one way or another. The money
spent on changing locks will have
some effect, but some of these kind
of people seem to go to any means
to get into faculty offices," Scott
said. "Changing locks over at the
business school has no lasting
solutions." Scott said he feels that
if honest students do not report the
cheaters, the only real answer to
the problem will be to post security
guards in each building, or to buy
an expensive alarm system. But,
"I'd hate to have this at a Christian
university," Scott admitted.
Yale considers China
exchange program
Student and faculty exchanges
between Yale and the Wuhan
University in the Hubei Province
of China could take place next
spring, in an attempt to make
China more accessible to study,
according to the Yale Daily News.
Richard Fergman, head of
Yale's China Exchange Office,
says that Yale wants only informal
ties because it wishes to avoid the
Chinese bureaucracy. Yale also
does not want to rule out
exchanges with the other major
Chinese universities by formally
singling out Wuhan.
Kao Shangyin (Yale, PhD '35),
vice president of Wuhan, helped
initiate plans for the exchange
when he re-visited the U.S. two
years ago. Yale will send graduate
students and faculty members
interested in Chinese culture and
society, while Wuhan will
probably send people who wish to
make use of Yale's superior
science facilities. Chinese students
who will visit Yale under the
exchange will not be degree
candidates, however, and will have
the title "visiting scholar," a status
that doesn't lock them into any
particular course of study.
Armeniades ends leave in Scotland
by Cecile Closmann
Chemical Engineering Pro-
fessor Constantine Armeniades
has returned from a year of tea-
ching at the University of Edin-
burgh in Scotland to resume his
position as master of Will Rice
College.
Upon his return, Armeniades
became chairman of the
Committee of Masters, replacing
Richardson Master William
Martin. "It's just a person being
first among equals," commented
Armeniades.
The year-long sabbatical at the
University of Edinburgh,
Armeniades said, turned out to be
a "positive experience" for him, his
wife Mary, and his 16-year-old
daughter Eleni, who went to a
British school for the spring and
autumn semesters.
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Armeniades served as visiting
senior lecturer in the chemical
engineering department at
Edinburgh and said "the best of
them (the students at Edinburgh)
are every bit as good as the best
students at Rice." However, since
the University of Edinburgh is a
public institution, they must also
admit the weaker students. He said
that there is less structure to the
educational system in Scotland
and that students are encouraged
to read and study more on their
own. There are no homework
assignments or mid-term exams,
but Armeniades introduced these
two concepts into their system.
"The students didn't like the idea
of homework at first," said
Armeniades, "but after a while,
they learned to appreciate it."
There was not an Honor Code at
the University of Edinburgh, but a
system of investigations. Exams
were monitored, either by the
professor or by a hired person.
"There was a heavy air of strict
discipline hovering over the room
during exams," said Armeniades.
The class sizes are quite similar
to those at Rice, he added, and
tutorials where students can go
and work problems with the help
of a professor are held every two
weeks. The student-faculty ratio is
about 10-1.
Constantine Armeniades
—J. Abramovitz
Armeniades is back at his
position in the chemical
engineering department, teaching
graduate and undergraduate
courses and doing research on
polymetric (plastic and biological)
materials.
Armeniades first came to Rice
University in 1969. He holds a B.S.
degree from Northeastern
University, a masters degree from
the Case Institute of Technology, a
and a Doctorate from Case
Western Reserve University.
During his first five years at Rice,
Armeniades worked as part of a
joint Rice-Baylor team to develop
cardiovascular-assist devices.
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History Professor Francis
Loewenheim will return to Rice in
mid-January to teach a seminar on
"Europe from Bismarck to the
First World War."
Loewenheim suffered a heart
attack in August and underwent
heart surgery in November. I
expected to be back in Houston in
early January," said Loewenheim,
"but first I needed some more
blood and stress tests."
The class will not formally meet
until 7. p.m. January 22, but
prospective sstudents should pick
up a reading lists from the history
department and work on a self-
paced basis.
"I don't think it is going to
adversely affect the course. The
important thing is that the students
start on the reading," said
Loewenheim. "1 think that this
course will still be second to none.
What I mean is I don't think you
will find any better at Harvard,
Yale, Princeton or anywhere else.
The Rice Thresher, January 8, 1981, page 4
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Dees, Richard. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1981, newspaper, January 8, 1981; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245458/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.