In The News

Each month
Rice News will publish a sampling of faculty, staff and
administrators who have been quoted in newspaper or magazine
articles or have been interviewed on television or radio.
To obtain a copy of the clipping packet from which the In
the News items are collected, contact the Office of Media
Relations and Information at (713) 348-6774.

New York
Times
An article cited a study by, among others, David Ikenberry,
associate professor of management at the Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Management, which showed that companies
that bought back their stock shares outperformed the market
in the 1980s.

Boston Sunday
Globe
Commenting on former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers,
who was among the candidates to be the next president of
Harvard, Rice President Malcolm Gillis said Summers has
mellowed with age.

Washington
Post
Mark Jenkins, physician for Rice’s sports teams and
director of student health services, commented on how to
treat Achilles tendinitis.

Chronicle
of Higher Education
An article cited comments made by Linda McNeil, professor
of education, in her book “Contradictions of School
Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing.”
She commented that in many urban schools, the TAAS system
of testing reduces both the quality and quantity of what
is taught.

Newsday.com
An article featured the ImmersaDesk virtual reality system
at Rice’s Howard Keck Hall. George Phillips, professor
of biochemistry and cell biology, commented on the sometimes
nauseating experience of the virtual ride and using the
virtual reality system to understand protein interactions.

Texas Monthly
Anne Klein, professor of religious studies, discussed what
Buddhism is about, the practice of Buddhism and the growing
Buddhist community in Texas.

Chicago Sun-Times
David Lane, associate professor of psychology and management,
commented that the effectiveness of advertisements on the
Internet is not known.

Dallas Morning
News
Peter Hartley, professor of economics, commented that it
costs companies a lot more to survive the period of a downturn.

Kansas City
Star
Amy Jaffe, senior energy adviser at Rice’s James A.
Baker III Institute for Public Policy, commented that more
public lands need to be opened to drilling to address the
immediate energy shortage and that the country needs policies
that will lead to diverse alternatives to fossil fuels.

Arkansas
Democrat Gazette
In an article about Democrats’ desire to unseat Republican
Sen. Tim Hutchinson, Earl Black, the Herbert S. Autrey Professor
of Political Science, said Arkansas has become “a competitive
state” and that Democrats who want to challenge Hutchinson
should do so before he wins another term.

Houston Chronicle
Edward Djerejian, director of the Baker Institute, commented
that the new administration should re-evaluate President
Clinton’s approach toward the peace process and spend
more effort trying to build Arab consensus for an eventual
deal.

CNN
McNeil discussed education in Texas and the TAAS test.

KTRK-TV
Richard Stoll, professor of political science at the Baker
Institute, said he did not know if the U.S. air strike against
Iraq was President Bush’s message to Saddam Hussein
that he might take a tougher line on Iraq.

KHWB-TV
Steven Lewis, lecturer at the Baker Institute, said the
Falun Gong movement is called a superstition.
Djerejian discussed reasons for the recent U.S. air strike
against Iraq.

National
Public Radio
Djerejian talked about easing sanctions against Iraq.

KTRH-AM
Bob Stein, dean of social sciences, commented in an interview
that higher consumer price figures are helping President
Bush’s tax cut plan, that Bush has been saying his
tax cut will prevent this from becoming a deeper and wider
recession and that Bush has evidence that he needs a $1.6
trillion tax cut.

KUHF-FM
Daryl Boudreaux, director of technology transfer, talked
about the Texas Technology Conference.