1980 CACTUS YEARBOOK Volume 87 The Univer ity of Texas at Austin Thi copy of the 1980 Cactus Yearbook is presented to S EVEN PUMPHREY with thank and appreciation. Thi hook is number 24 of a limited edition of 50 copies from a total pre run of 13,000 copies. -· 1980 CACTUS Features 18 Military 366 Athletics 102 Llmelight 392 Academics 178 Honoraries 410 Student Leadership 222 Greeks 430 Special Interests 256 Classes 546 1 1 Paso is a pretty city, but isolated. I like it because it's home and because the weather is nice. Mexican culture is more intense ­you get to know the Mexican holidays and we have great Mexican food. We have the Rio Grande River and the mountains. It's really hot in the summer -about 105 degrees. The winters are nice, and it snows once in a while. The best thing about El Paso is that there are no natural disasters -maybe once in a while you'll nave a dust storm. The city is bigger than Austin, but for young kids there's a lot less to do. A lot of older people live there -retired people. There's no beach, no place to go sight-seeing. We have only about three good rock 'n roll clubs and one amusement park. Kids go to Juarez in Mexico for fun. That's fun because they don't (ard you. You lan go over there during the day and get mangoes. Usually, families are close-knit because of the Catholic belief. The bigge t money in El Paso is in industry, restaurants and real estate. People don't spend money on entertainment. Likewise, people aren't as nil<: in Au~tin. You also don't find weird people in El Pa o like here. For example, the Drag rats arc: pretty bi1.arrc and people here are also into drug ·. ouston has been my home all my life. ~ It's the fastest growing dry in the nation -1,000 new families are coming in a week. The people are very rich, very poor and a lot in between. We've got it all. You can't stereo­type a Houstonite -they're all different. The traffic is horrible, the weather is terrible:. Every time I go home, it rains. Likewise, every time I go home there's a new building going up. But, it's got its good points, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Jones Hall and the Alley Theatre. Also, lots of good architecture. The man who designed the Pi Phi house (John Staub) designed most of River Oaks. When it comes to UT. this is a training ground for junior politicos. I wish some of the classes were smaller. When I first came here, I thought all the orange and white jazz was overdone, but the longer I was here, the more I began to appreciate it. It unites the students -whether it's a good reason or not. We've got one of the best library systems in the world. Also. we've got one of the best pho­tography collections in the world and no one knows about it. There's so much diversity in the ·rate you can Harlm Fkming. smior in an from Houtton. do anything you want to -it's practically its own country. I'll probably stay in Texas the rest of my life. like bcina from Midland. I a small fOWn -but not IOO Peyton Place· everybody lcfto.n everybody else. 1 bad a plain ol' childhood. I bid childhood. Midland is not the ~robe when you re a child. To ba~e.ldli"tit• ba'fC to IP out of Midland. idland i andy bot dca ooaise, I.ubbock and Odessa ha br" neighbon). Lubbock ~....... ·"*'* RIGHT F.ncr~c canoers Plddlc through the San F1'21lci!CO npids in rhc l~rcanyons of rhc Rio Gnndr. BELOW: Rc:vdcn at Willi~ Nchon's 4rh of July picnic roasr in the SWI. have a really unique background -I'm one of only 10,000 busines major . A one in four chance at UT. There are more bu iness majors these days becau e there seems co be le s money around. I'm not a typical finance major. For one thing. I don't have any izods. My father is an mgineer for an oil company. I have lived in Sydney. Singapore, and Indonesia; now, my parents live in Japan. I v.--a born in Ari­zona and grew up in California in an oil town. I feel like a Texan because I like Texas. Accordingly, I like Texans because they're inde­pendent. There's still hope for Texa -room co grow. Other places have filled up. I've never been in a cirv that's really like Aus· tin. Austin has its own CV:.i!ight zone. This place seems like the most painless blend of converging lifestyles. Austin has liberals and conservatives and communist youth brigades. I think Austin is really lucJ...-y tO be growing ­economically. culturally -everyone is conscious of the perils of growth. Austin may have the chance to be the first big tity that grew success­f ullv. In Austin. you can't escape che friendli­ness. There are lakes and rhe un hines all the time and it'-not a dust bowl. Out of the country, the image of Texas is going back to Gene Autrey and John Wayne. On that same line, here's an Australian joke. 'Q: What's the difference between a rich Texan and a poor one? A· A poor Texan washe:, his own Cadillac.' I don't think that UT spends enough on teachers. Texas could have an excellent aademic reputation. They have everything a good school could wane -a good city, a good academic cen­ter. Bue, they need co spend more money on ocher things besides buildings. UT really does have a bureaucracy and any bureaucracy is impersonal. Bue if anyone is going co win a war on mediocrity then they have to improve chat somehow. orpus Christi ha windy, but plea ant weather. A little lower pace than Au tin, much lower than Dallas. Thi area epitomize ouch Texa because of the beach and no large tree . corm are infrequent, rainfall poradic. metimes people throw hurricane partie . In Texa I like the diverse dimate -you can go co Big Bend from the rna c -the lake in central Texa -pine tree in Ea t Tex:i . I like the water and water ports: fishing on the coa t, water kiing, sn1ba diving. sailing and surfing. Corpu in an industrial town -primarily oil refin­ing. Also ·hipping becaust: it' a port. I like the constant activitie (here at UT). There i an unlimited opportunity for involvement -uch a ocial fraternities, Longhorn Band, variou club , sport· dubs. cultur:il club . intramural port and some honorary <><. ieties. Being from Texas made the cx.ial adju tment -if there was any -from high chool to college t':l } . The people :it UT :ire not e ·tremely outgoing, yet very responsive if the individual takes the initiative co develop pc·rsonal relationship~. There's something and somebody for everyone. The cultural auivitie. Ulh as play-, rnncert . :emi­nars and lecture erie~ pro\ ide unlimited educational opportunities. There are exm:mes in the faculty: CXlCptionall) good and c '-·eptionally poor I rofc ·sor can be found. A professor'. lack of cmhusiJ m or minimal effort bugs me. Accounting scudcnt:. are cxcremely tompeticive. Gener:illy induscrious and limited in their educational exposure. oc ntxe. s:i.rih nJrrow-minded. buc rather. unaware. Both my p:ircnr:. wenc to l'T and so did my brother. The place has more to offer rlun just "my parent went hen:.'" f1.,1udent<<1mbs1hebeantest. Junior Ray Derr cune m a whi7.Zmg first plate fini h with a pmmg di tanle of 2 fttt. on·conte tant Jllayed \'Olleyball and Fri btt in the 90 degrtt heat To I off. they wn urned dozen of warermd n nd gallon of lemonade In July, 1979, kylab space station came rumbling back toward eanh, bur the world awaited its arrival with more glee than rrepi· clarion. Skylab-watch parties were the latest rage on campus, and many students sported official kylab target r-shircs and urvival kits including plastic helmets, targets and Oiicken Little first aid kits. The evem occurred at a good rime. World news was slow, and summer tudents had lit· de to do except speculate where the celestial workshop would land. Although guesses near the Indian Ocean would have been more cor· recr, UT students usually chose targets nearer to home. Projected orbit showed that kylab would pass over an Marcos in the latter part of the week and many student eyed the ky carefully as they walked by railer buildings. Bur where would it land? The cower? Math class! Afrer all, the plummet would take care of rhe professor and next week's rest at the ame rime. No, wait! Hope against hope ... Please, let one itty bitty piece land in the Jester cafeteria -PLEA E! Oh, well. Missing Friday the 13th by a mere day and a half, kylab returned to earth on July 11, 1979, six years after being launched inco space. After 34,981 orbits, rhe space labora­cory landed in the Au rralian outback. Although the largest pieces of debri weighed more than two tons no injuries were reporreJ and nor one of the expected lawsuits material­ized. The final crash did nothing more than give fortune hunters a field day -and put an end ro the parry. -Joan Holland 22 -kylab .. e olo i ally delicate la oon, but breed1n round were not permanent! dama ed. Even so, mo t offi ial a recd it w uld cake year for the fi hin and hrimpin indu tries along the coa t to return to normal. By mid-ober, cwo month after the 011 first washed up on shore, court a tion g:in to determine who hould pay for the mas ive cleanup campaign. Public and privare con· cem , in ludin the me of Texa , filed more than $371 million in dama e uit a ain t. PEMEX, the nationally owned Me ion 011 company ; Pemargo, a private drillin pany contracted b PEMEX ; and E the Texas-based drillin firm whi h leased the well to Mexico. E filed uit m liabil· icy to , cirin maritime: law, wh1 h re tricr liability of ve sel in inremau nal water . The ompany claimed that the oil n was a vessel. nder thi law, all ubsequent law uit had to be filed in Jud R rt ' onor's court, who set the film deadline at r 2 f re the a ne Ii ence lore than 94 percent of the pendm W(:re filed b uthem Te bu i and guaranteed a h r the ne t -J Hollw -1\ SOME LIKE IT HOT! ( Ln gwtan ;alapeiim?c· Qu lanto? gr up of jalapeii cater athe~d at ·holz' Beer arten n • ptember co com­pete for a case of r nd ~O in the th annual Jalapeiio Eaun~ once t The event wa pltt into rwo c nee t women cuffed their fate wtth jalapcii f r one-half h ur, and men rg d th msclvc for a full h ur. pon cnterin the come t, participant had co abide b the foll wing rul t ~ a s g l) nly jalapeiio ould be eaten ; no ocher f wa allowed. 2) n dnnk we~ allowed. 3) ci arctte m kin wa allowed ) one tra of ten jalapcii had co fin­ 1 hed fo~ an her era wa tarted. ~) i ed towd wercall wed 6) a ontescant h d to cart over again if he or he be ame ill Enduring an incen e burnin sen auon, bold people with Id coma hs obbled up i c ~ .... ] the fiery, pickled, green vegetables. In the women's division, Darlene We t con urned 4 jalapciios in 30 minute and c k fir t place honors. With only winning on hi mind, Jared humate out-ate his competition and received the fir t prize for the men's con· test. The second pl:i c winner, lay Ro er • did nor have as trong a toma has Walde ki and ended up with mo c of hi hour's worth of jalapciio in front of him. -Gloru R