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2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1990 THE RICE THRESHER
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College system clearly
worth extra dues
The colleges need money. And the college presidents need our
support, fiscally and otherwise. OnTuesday, each college will hold its
own referendum on whether or not to raise college fees $40 to $60
dollars. The Thresher urges you not only to vote, but to vote in favor
of the $20 increase.
The college presidents argue that inflation has undermined the
purchasing power of the college budgets. Dues were last raised, from
$35, in 1984.
But the erosion is far greater than that. College dues were stan-
dardized in 1970, at $20. They would need to receive $66, at today's
prices, to have the same amount of purchasing power.
However, the increase in fees promises more than a continuation
of already existing events. New funds will enable colleges to revive
previously supported functions. For example, as college president,
Andy Tucker brought back the Will Rice College Art Show last year.
With a solid fiscal foundation, other cultural events will not remain
shelved so social coordinators can have a third keg at a TG.
Furthermore, an increase in college revenue will foster new
"traditions." Brown College suffered severe financial woes because
of overspending at the first annual Bacchanalia last year. The result-
ing monetary crunch caused a significant slashing in the rest of the
college's budget. The Hunt, a sort of scavenger hunt around Houston
which its planners hoped to make into a new tradition, had to make
do with less than expected. A bigger college budget will lessen the
financial burden of new events, encouraging both intracollegiate and
intercollegiate bonding.
There are also expensive capital improvements which would
greatly improve living in the colleges for many years, for example,
additional computers or turning a dilapidated area into pleasant study
lounge.
And finally, a part — but only part — of the extra revenue can be
spent on campus parties, which can no longer charge if they serve
alcohol. The decision by V&W Permits not to allow undergraduates
u se of the Willy's Pub picnic license has made the college fee increase
not only a good idea, but a necessity.
Besides, 20 dollars is one-third the price of most science courses'
textbooks. It comes to under fifteen cents per class day - not
including weekends.
Twenty dollars for the college system, one of the things which
most defines Rice, the nexus of student life. It's worth it.
Kudos to SA, RUPD
Two weeks ago, running an escort service between the library and the
colleges would have cost the university $6200. Thanks to the Student
Association, especially Hanszen senator Ron Chapman, and the RUPD, the
new cost will be only $600.
Specifically, Chapman secured the donation of a golf cart, and RUPD has
volunteered to handle necessary paperwork, as well as allowed the service to
use its dispatcher.
The two have acted quickly on the issue of campus safety, which lies at
the heart of students' interests. Hopefully, the administration will, too.
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Help keep NOD by buying T-shirts
RiceThneshef
Kurt Moeller, Jay Yates
Editors-in-Chief
Harlan Howe Christopher Lowe
Managing Editor Business Manager
NEWS
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Shaila Dewan Assistant Editor
Jonathan Briggs, Gambrill Hollister,
Heidi Huettner, Leezie Kim, Leslie
Raneri, Neil Robinson, Terri Shieh,
Renee Valdez
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Ann Zitterkopf Editor
Ix«zie Kim Assistant Editor
Ixiciana Barroso, Heidi Huettner, .Sarah
Ijfiedy, Andrea McCallough, Ryan Wyatt
FEATURES
Shaila Dewan
Erica Ollmann
SPORTS
Darrell Speck Editor
Charles Kuffner Columnist
Gus Attwell, Ozgur Bayazitoglu, Stephen
Dartt, Wes Gere, Peter Howley, Charles
Kuffner, Jonathan Morris, Ray Reynosa,
Alan Rosen Jeff Saland, Ali Uberecken
OPINION
Peter Howley Editor
Ryan Wyatt Cartoonist
PRODUCTION
Josh Denk Manager
Ixstie Raneri Copy Editor
Thomas Anderson, Erica Bess, Stephen
Boucher, Jonathan Briggs, Chad Carson,
Matt Daly, Stephen Datt, Jennifer
Drummond, Shawn Dube, Heidi
Huettner, Ryan Koopmans, Neil
Robinson, Carey Sargent, Renee Valdez
PHOTOGRAPHY
Chris Sonneborn Editor
Caroline-Conn, Mike Gladu, James Yao
BUSINESS
David Mansfield Ads Manager
Chris Cowles
Assistant Business Manager
Ijjcien Tenn Ads Production
Tiffani Cook Distribution
Phone - 527-4802
© COPYRIGHT 1989
BACK PAGE
Pete Umpc.risEditor
The Rice Thresher, the officic.1 student newspaper at Rice University since
1916, is published each Friday during the school year, except during exami-
natibn periods and holidays, by the students of Rice University. Editorial and
business offices are located on the second floor of the Ley Student Center,
P.O. Box 1892, Houston, Texas, 77251. Advertising information available
upon request. Mail subscription rate per semester: $15.00 domestic, $30
international via first class mail. Unsigned editorials represent the majority
opinion of the Thresher Editors. All other pieces represent the opinion of the
author. Obviously.
To the editors:
Like other large parties on cam-
pus, Night of Decadence has finan-
cial problems this year. The Texas
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
requires any organization charging
money for a party at which alcohol is
served to operate under an alcohol
license.
Rice parties have traditionally
used either the Pub license, which
covers beer, or the Cohen House
license, which covers beer and hard
liquor. Since the corporations hold-
ing these licenses have now denied
their use to the colleges, colleges
can no longer charge for any party at
which they serve alcohol.
Large parties cost a lot of money;
NOD usually runs around $8000. We
will manage to trim our expenses
this year, but since NOD would not
be the same without a band, the leg-
endary NOD punch, and our crea-
tive decorations, we cannot avoid
some costs.
THE EDITOR
Letters
The band (Ezra Charles and the
Works) costs $2200, the punch is
another $1500, and hiring campus
police for security will cost us nearly
$ 1000. With all of the other expen ses,
like construction supplies and lights
for outside security, NOD should
cost around $6000.
For the future, all of the colleges
and the SA are working together to
find new ways to hold large social
events, as an article in last week's
Thresher stated. Since NOD is on
November 2 this year, too soon for
any new solutions to affect it, we need
to raise funds ourselves.
Although some of the funds will
come from within Wiess, we also
need money from the Rice commu-
nity to throw NOD. Around 2000
students, faculty and alumni come to
the party each year, and we need you
to help keep ft alive.
At lunch next week, we will be in
all of the colleges taking orders for a
special, professionally printed T-
shirt. We do not consider fund-rais-
ing T-shirts to be the long-term solu-
tion to the problem large parties now
face, but for the moment buying one
is something you can do to help keep
the tradition of large, student-organ-
ized parties alive at Rice.
Thank you for your help, and see
you on November 2.
Colin Delany, Wiess Social
Margie Mcintosh
Catriona MacPhail
Mike Dahli
Mark May
and the rest of the NOD
Committee
Selling company's stock cannot harm it
To the editors:
The editorial "Don't sell Philip
Morris stock," (Sept. 14), comes to
the right conclusion, but largely for
the wrong reason.
The only time at which refusal to
hold a company's stock can hurt that
corporation is when the stock is
originally issued. Thereafter, the
best chance of influencing its poli-
cies is through initiatives and votes
of the current stockholders.
Dumping nearly three-fourths of
a million shares of Philip Morris
stock on the market might not have
much effect: it would depend on how
many shares are outstanding and the
volatility of the market The only ef-
fect it could possibly have, however,
would be to depress the price per
share and thus make it an attractive
buy for bargain hunters.
The editorial calls "Philip Morris
stock...a fantastic investment"
(whatever that means) and quotes
another informed source as calling it
"a superior choice to 1993-95."
Dumping a fraction even so small as
"less than one percent" could inten-
sify Philip Morris' reputation as a
cheap stock, without injuring Philip
Morris in any way—unless they are
on the verge of marketing a new
issue. Cheapness of stock, in relation
to dividends, is a major measure of
attractiveness.
Joe D. Thomas
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