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Vol. LXXXVIII, Issue No. 1
SINCE 1916
Friday, July 21, 2000
New phone system installed
Call waiting not available due to conflict with voice mail system
by I^eslie Liu
THKKSHKK KIHTOKtAI. STAFF
Students can save their finger
muscles for note-taking begin-
ning this fall. The new residential
college phone system allows four-
digit dialing to all campus loca-
tions instead of the usual 10.
Contractors finished installing
the system the second week of
July, and current summer resi-
dents are already using the
phones free of charge.
Each on-campus student is
required to pay the telecommuni-
cations fee of $54 per semester.
There will be one phone line per
room, and the fee per person is
the same regardless of how many
people live in the room. The tele-
phone fee will be billed through
the Cashier's Office, so financial
aid calculations will include the
new fee.
Call waiting not an option
Each phone line will have voice
mail, caller ID and three-way call-
ing. However, because of a con-
flict with the voice mail system,
students will not be able to get
call waiting, once optional to stu-
dents from local service provider
Southwestern Bell. Telecommu-
nications Manager Reggie
Clarkson said smaller-scale equip-
ment used for an internal phone
system like Rice's does not have
all the capabilities of the more
expensive equipment used by
telephone companies.
Clarkson said voice mail and
call waiting conflict because the
telephone switch's software al-
lows only one service to be set up
to handle calls made to a busy
line.
When specifically asked
whether voice mail could be set
up to pick up only when the phone
was not answered to allow en-
abling call waiting, Clarkson said
she would investigate whether
this is possible.
Networking and Telecommu-
nications Director Farrell
Gerbode said Rice is not opposed
to offering both call waiting and
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If caught, you will be
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KATY BOSWORTH/THRESHER
'Let he who is without sin...'
Lovett College Resident Associate Rick Spuier informs the world that he will not
be a target for childhood fun and games. This summer, 28 camps were held at
Rice, meaning that 3000 people, ranging from kids to adults, lived on campus.
CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
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BRIAN STOLER/THRESHER
The Humanities Building is finished. The pathway from
the residential quad to Fondren Library is open, and
departments and professors have moved in.
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Construction continues on the common kitchen/servery
behind Hanszen College, scheduled for completion in
January 2001. The concrete support beams are tempo-
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Half of the Jones College Commons is gone, as is the
landscaping between North and South, to make room for
a new wing of the college.
JEN FRAZER/THRESHER
The visitor lot outside Baker Hall was demolished to
make way for the new business school building and
underground parking. The building will open in 2002.
Wiess, Hanszen masters will swap houses
by Brian Stoler and Elizabeth Jardina
THRKSHF.R KDITORIAI. STAFF
'l"he chances that a new masters' house
for Wiess College will be built in the
foreseeable future have dwindled to nil.
After a flurry of activity at the end of
the year over the issue — from a Student
Association resolution calling for the
building of a new Wiess House, to a
petition signed by 1,000undergraduates,
to the college presidents meeting with
President Malcolm Gillis — the Board of
Trustees declined to bring the issue up
to a vote at their May meeting
The board's Buildings and Grounds
Committee walked around Wiess and
Hanszen College to examine the dis-
tances involved. The committee's chair,
Kent Anderson (Hanszen '62) said that
although this is not an optimal solution,
with the project already over budget, the
estimated $900,000 cost of building a
new masters' house was too high a price
to pay when there was another house
already nearby.
"We went substantially over budget
in trying to approve the highest quality
we could for the college system," Ander-
son said. "So one place we thought we
could save money on an interim basis
was to use the present Hanszen master's
house and the present Wiess House and
swap their uses. This is not the best
solution."
Anderson said the issue will come
before the board again in the future. "We
did not feel that we were getting$900,000
worth of benefit to build a new Wiess
house ... onlv a natter of a few yards
closer," he said. "But we believe, when
this is all finished, in the longer-term
strategy, something is going to happen
to the site that Wiess College sits on now.
So we'll get to deal with this in the fu-
ture."
fhe board had previously received a
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Copelands to step down as Baker Masters
by Elizabeth Jardina
THRESHFR F.DITORIAI. STAFF
Jim Copeland announced
in a May 30 e-mail to Baker
College students that he and
his wife Chris were resigning
as Baker masters.
Arthur and Joan Few, who
were Baker masters from 1994
to May 1999, will fill in as in-
terim masters next semester.
They will simultaneously
serve as masters for the unfin-
ished Martel College.
In his e-mail to the college,
Copeland said his health prob-
lems have made it impossible
for he and Chris to continue
as masters.
Two years ago, he was in-
volved in a serious cycling
accident that required him to
receive 29 units of blood dur-
ing initial surgeries.
"After proving the doctors
wrong by not only surviving,
but also walking again with
limitations, 1 was shocked to
receive the bad news last fall
that the blood transfusions
that had saved my life had
also given me hepatitis C," he
said in the e-mail.
Copeland said that because
of the continuing painful treat-
ments, he was on medical
leave from his job as Linguis-
tics Department chair last se-
mester.
The announcement took
students by surprise. Baker
sophomore Annie Stein, who
babysat for the Copelands' two
children, said she did not
know Copeland had hepatitis.
'"Iliat was the first we'd heard
of it," she said.
But, she said she did know-
he had been in a cycling acci-
dent. "We all knew that he
was in a lot of pain from his
accident and the aftermath of
all that and the treatment he
had to go through," she said.
Baker senior Elisabeth
Rain, a Baker Orientation
Week coordinator, said that
students support the
Copelands' decision.
"My understanding — and
I've been talking to a lot of the
advisers over the summer —
is that everyone is very sym-
pathetic to their situation," she
said.
"We all saw how hard they
were working for Baker, to
balance their family and the
college. They put everything
they had into being Baker
masters," she said.
Vice President for Student
Affairs Zenaido Camacho said
the Copelands' decision to
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Summer student attacked
by Olivia Allison
THRFSHKR FIOTORIAI STAFF
An unidentified male attacked a
female summer student in a Sewall
Hall stairwell June 21. 'ITie subject has
not been caught, but the incident is
still under investigation. Campus Po-
lice Lt. Terry Ryals said.
The victim, who was taking a sum-
mer computer course at Rice, told
police a man grabbed her and said he
"wanted to see her bra" at about 7:45
a.m.
She described her attacker as a
heavyset, 20-to-30-year-old Hispanic
male, around 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-8, wear-
ing brown pants, a tan short-sleeved
shirt with a patch above the pocket
and a dark-colored baseball cap. The
subject ran from the scene after the
student screamed.
'ITie incident was reported within
an hour. A police officer drove the
subject and her mother around cam-
pus looking for the suspect, but they
did not find anyone matching the de-
scription.
Ryals said police are still interview-
ing and eliminating possible suspects
in the incident, including employees
and contractors.
Cpl. Ray Scholton, who is leading
the investigation, said that while po-
lice are not denying the possibility
that the offender is a Rice employee,
police are also pursuing other leads.
Ryals added that Architectu ral and
Engineering Manager John Posch
and Officer Ken Nipe conducted a
general meeting with Gilbane Hu-
manities Building contractors after
the incident to remind them to act
professionally.
"We wanted to stress that they are
not implicated in anything, but we saw
it as an opportunity to remind them to
show common courtesy to all mem-
bersofthecampuscommunity," Posch
said.
Police Chief Bill Taylor said he
does not believe the offender was an
employee of Rice.
The victim has not returned to class
since the incident, according to Lissa
Heckleman, director of Rice Summer
School, a program for middle and high
school students.
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Food and Housing will provide a free
dinner at this event Aug. 1, from 7-10
p.m. Sponsored by the Campus Police,
it will include information about per-
sonal safety, alcohol awareness and prop-
erty security. RSVP to Officer Steve
Reiter at reiter@rice.edu.
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