The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1997 Page: 1 of 16
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On Monday, poor Willy caught a cold
Winter storm closes campus; wind, ice damage trees
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There was rain only under the trees on
Tuesday — the weekend's downpour dripped
to the ground, delayed a few days by freezing
temperatures
"It was as if the weekend's winter wonder-
land was finally thawing into the reality of a
new semester," one student observed melo-
dramatically.
As early as last Friday, university officials
were discussing contingency plaits in antici-
pation".of icy road conditions. On Monday
morning, they decided to close all of campus
but the Food and Housing and Facilities and
Engineering departments.
"Really, the campus was not so bad, but we
had to consider others' ability to get here,"
Campus Police Chief Mary Voswinkel said.
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Anatomy of a freeze
Arctic cold fronts, roaring down across the
Great Plains, are typical for Texas winters.
Lrtbt week's front, though, brought freezing
temperatures along with rain, leaving Houston
coated with ice.
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IM intern Mike Morgan appointed to fill position
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The Human Performances and Health Sci-
ences Department has promoted its intern
Mike Morgan to the position of interim direc-
tor of intramurals. The appointment fills the
gap left by the termination of lor me [".Director
of Intramurals Lisa Widner
"Mike is qualified, and he was on site.
Since Mike was already in place, he was a
Logical and capable replacement," Human Per-
formances and Health Sciences Department
Chair Jimmy Disch said .
Morgan holds a master's degree in Physi-
cal Education and Recreation from Ohio Uni-
versity.
Disch also said that Morgan is appropriate
for the job because "intramural sports at Rice
have a different character from intramurals
elsewiitie," and Morgan has a good feel for
what the Rice community is like.
Because Widner is now seeking legal coun-
sel, she declined to comment on her termina-
tion. She lost her position at Rj^e in Decern
her. According to Disch, the reasons for
Widner's termination are confidential. "We
cannot comment on the specifics. This is nor-
mal ufiiversity procedure," he said
Disch would not comment on rumors that
Widner was fired for allegedly tunneling
money through a HPER department
employee's paycheck in order to pay an inter-
national student -**■ yho was ineligible to work
in the-U.S. — to do work promised but not
completed by the HPER employee.
SEE MORGAN PALM
'Thresher' earns ACP recognition
Chris Strathmann
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The Associated Collegiate Press an-
nounced that it has awarded the Threshermih
an "All American" rating. The rating is the
highest honor a f allege newspaper Can re-
ceive from the ACP.
"It's a great feeling to know that the Asso-
ciated Collegiate Press rated us so highly,"
Co-Editor in Chief Vivek Rao said. "Not very
many newspapers get this kind of"nccIaim,
which makes it even more special."
Six issues from the 1995-% volume of the
Threshervwrv submitted to the ACP for evalu-
ation. Thv/Th/esher received 3,620 total points
out "of a possible 4,150 to receive the All-
American rating. The Thresher also received
four marks of distinction. A rating of at least
..li^KXi-t^jiequkcultoMxonsitlereff for the All
American distinction.
Rao, a senior at Baker College, and Sid
Richardson College senior Charles Klein were
co-editors in chief of the issues that received
the award. Rao said that before submitting the
issups, he was concerned that there might be
certain obstacles to the Thresher receiving
such recognition.
"Because Rice does not have a journalism
department, it is difficult for us to get the kind
of constructive criticism that other stfiflent
newspapers get," Rao said.. "For that reason,
this award is especially important to us."
Rao said that while the Thresher highly
valuesJbeing'student-rUn.one of the disadvan-
tages of not having an adviser is that its edi-
tors must rely on skills learned in high school.
However, both Klein and Rao feel that the
staff has been able to overcome these difficul-
ties to produce a newspaper tfiar is highly
competitive with other college newspapers
"This is one of the top three or four awards
in the country for collegiate papers, and to my
knowledge, the Thresher has never won this
honor," Klein said. "We had an "amazing sT'afT,"
and all their effort made this possible It's just
nice to get external praise for our hard work "
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Marshall Fellow speaks Norse, Akkadian, Sanskrit
Michael Castillo
Staff Writer
On Dec. 3, $aker College senior Coulter
George was awarded the Marshall Fellow-
ship. As a Marshall Fellow, George will
attend Trinity College at the University of
Cambridge fof the next two years.
The award is given by the British gov-
ernment to 40 American students every
year; those students are invited to enroll at
graduate school in Great Britain.
'I am furious that they gave
him this scholarship, which
will carry him off from us.
We have far too few
Coulters in this or any
other world.'
— Douglas Mitchell
Linguistics professor Mars
w Coulter George
While at Cambridge, George plans to
pursue a master's^egree in the Classics
Department specializing in Indo-European
linguistics.
"I will be looking at Mycenaean Greek;
Toueharian — a Central Asian language
spoken in the 8th century A.D. — and the
relationships between the languages of
the British Isles in the first millennium
A.D.," George said.
His love for the study of classics and
linguistics dates to his formative years.
*fve beenwarped -foir a long-time. [My
interest in classics) started in the second
grade or earlier," George said.
That interest was sparked during a
three-week family s.tay in London. Of all
the places they toured, the British Mu-
seum was his favorite, and it still is.
* Upon his return from England, he be-
gan to study the first of his many lan-
guages: Latin, George also learned Ger-
man, Greek ami Old Norse, all prior to his
matriculation at Rice.
George studied these languages by
splitting time between his normal classes
and sessions with older students at schools
• •* where thhiie clashes were offered. When
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Beard, M. Margaret & Rao, Vivek. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1997, newspaper, January 17, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246556/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.