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Volume 73, Number 14
THRESHER
Friday, November 8, 1985
INSIDE:
• Too late to drop, but not too
late to withdraw
• More South Atrica. pp 2-3.
• And lots of college theater
See page 9.
• Check out those hot new
intramural soccer rankings
Rice electorate
favors Whitmire
by David Friesenhahn
The Rice University/Texas
Medical Center area voted
overwhelmingly for incumbent
Kathy Whitmire in Houston's
mayoral election Tuesday.
Unofficial results showed the
area giving Whitmire 81.06 percent
of the vote. Challenger Louie
Welch only managed 18.53 percent
of the area's vote.
Support for Whitmire in this
area of the city proved much
stronger than for Houston as a
whole.
Whitmire's finish in the
cumulative vote for Houston was
over 30 percent poorer than in this
section of the city.
With all of the city's 480
precincts reporting, Whitmire had
200,788 votes, 58.8 percent of the
total. Welch won 138,552, or 40.63
percent of vote.
Rice also helped elect Professor
of Graduate Business Administra-
tion George Greanias to another
term as city councilman
representing District C.
Greanias won by a comfortable
margin, capturing 30,493 votes,
65.99 percent of the total cast in his
district. Charles C. Carter finished
second, with 10,061 votes, 21.77
percent. Carl Denton won 4,618
votes, 9.99 percent. Sam Johnsom
finished last, with 1,036 votes, 2.24
percent.
The conservative political action
group Straight Slate had targeted
Greanias for defeat in this election
because has supported city
ordinances to guard against the
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discrimination of homosexuals in
civil service hiring.
Carter, the Straight Slate
challenger, campaigned on a
platform which called for the city
to administer A.l.D.S. tests to all
restaurant employees in Houston
and to shut down homosexual
bathhouses.
However, he never posed a
serious threat to Greanias at any
point in the campaign and could
not force the incumbent city
councilman into a run-off.
Running third was Denton, a
video news editor employed at
Electronic News Services.
Denton favored a limited zoning
ordinance for Houston and
wanted the city to lobby for more
federal Environmental Protection
Agency Superfund money to help
rid the county of its toxic waste
dumps.
Greanias campaigned for more
City Council participation in the
see Election, page 6
Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire celebrates her electoral victory Tuesday night. —E. Salituro
Students cautious of divestment
by Jenny Ettelson
The Student Association
Senate's proposed resolution
against Rice University investment
in firms doing business in South
Africa and proposed forum to
discuss the issue may be met with
indifference on the part of many
students.
Many students either question
the right of the Senate to discuss
political issues or say they are not
interested in the issue of
divestment.
Richardson President Steve
McLaughlin has advised the
Senate to steer clear of political
issues. He believes that "The S.A.
should not be talking about
political issues, but student issues,
such as the college system social
life after the drinking age is
raised."
"The S.A. should
not be talking
about political
issues, but student
issues, such as the
college system
social life after the
drinking age is
raised."
McLaughlin also questions how
well the Senate's decision reflects
student opinion.
"When I make a statement," he
said, "it implies what the college
feels. Student organizations
Steve McLaughlin —M. Hulberf
should do what the students want,
and 1 don't think this is what they
want."
Margaret Chriss.a Baker junior,
doubted the forum would interest
students who were not yet
see Students, page 6
Dividing up the RSIO budget
SA funds community
service project ideas
left for future projects:
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Central American Peace Forum
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Rice OUT-Reach:
$1,240
by David Friesenhahn
The Student Association Senate
distributed left over funds from the
now-defunct Rice Student Interest
Organization to three new campus
groups Monday night so that they
could finance community service
projects.
The Senate voted to give $1,240
to the Rice Organization of
Undergraduate Tutors (Rice
OUT-Reach), an organization of
Rice students that will tutor
underprivileged junior high
students from the Houston
Independent School District; $400
to the Rice Student Volunteer
Project (RSVP), a clearinghouse
for community service; and $300 to
the Central American Peace
Forum, which will sponsor films
and lectures about politics in Latin
America.
The Senate tabled discussion on
requests for funds made by the
"This is a classic
example of what we
are supposed to be
doing with this
money, getting
students involved in
the community."
—Bob Casey
Senate External Affairs
Committee, which wanted to
donate funds to the Houston Area
Food Bank; a group from Hanszen
College, who wanted to have
Beer/ Bike teams adopt local
charities; and Student Association
President Barry Nicholson, who
suggested improving the condition
see Service, page 5
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Snyder, Scott. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 8, 1985, newspaper, November 8, 1985; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245619/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.