However, about those Rice girls... Well. It sounds like they've revamped the admissions standards then. But tell me. How did Dan secure these names? Simply ask them, with the understanding that he was passing them on to his son? Pretty nifty!
We at the graduate business school were considered the poorest of stepchildren back in 1983. In fact, the year or two before, there was quite a tempest in a teapot about having a business school there at all, it just struck many as...well...unseemly. Like there goes the neighborhood. Which is why when I first went there they went to great pains to say that it was most certainly not an MBA program, it was an MBPM (something like Master's in Business and Public Management). They have long since dispensed with the pretense.
Anyways, they had no on-campus dorms at the time for us, and too, many of the business grad students lived in Houston anyway before they were admitted. So we were housed in the dorms across from Rice, at Texas Women's University in the Medical Center. Now. Most of us young men domiciling in TWU assumed that it would be hoglet heaven, all these TWU nursing students on the hunt for us MBA (well, MBPM) candidates. No such lucks. They were all on the prowl after the med students and interns at Baylor and SMU med schools and never gave us a second glance. |
