Colleges to unveil seminar courses By BUDDY iROTTER Research are still indefinite as fiction in countries other than Thresher Reporter of now, but the course is Great Britain, and on "the Registration ended last Fri- planned to be an.evaluation of methodology for comparing day and a "full house" is re- fundamental issues in contem- modern literary phenomenon." ported in enrollment for the porary Physics. "It will be a A sampling of selections to seminar courses to be present- journal club also," Stellingwerf be studied includes "Dr. Zhiva- ed by Jones and Hanszen Col- explained, "with study of arti- go," "Naked Lunch," and "The leges during- the spring semes- cles fro m current scientific Last Picture Show." The course ter. Approximately ten students journals. will be supervised by Dr. Wal- will be enrolled in each of five Honors Seminar in Organic ter Isle, who noted that "it will full-credit courses to be offered. Chemistry will consist of read- be run by the students and Three courses are scheduled ing and discussion of current sponsored by the faculty. The by Hanszen and two by Jones. research (topics in Organic students will teach it them- The Hanszen courses include 'Chemistry. "It is designed for selves." Honors Seminar in Organic advanced students and research Rigor Mortis Chemistry (Hanszen 350), Top- program students in Chemis- Meaning of Death in Western ics in Current Physical Re- try," Stellingwerf noted. Dr. Culture is an investigation of search (Hanszen 352), and Ronald Magid, who will teach death and its impact on social Topological Groups (Hanszen the course, remarked, "The institutions and human values. 354). Jones offers Seminar in course has been restricted to "Death will be studied from an ('ontemoorary Fiction (post ten p e o p 1 e. It is an honors objective point of view," Miss World War II) (Jones 388), course for junior and senior Dietz said, "from a biological and The Meaning of Death in chemistry majors. and medical point of view con- \V( stern Culture (Jones 392). Student Structure cerning the national policy and Topological Groups the war and arms policy, and "The students themselves will Holi Stellingwerf, Chairman from the point of view of death prepare topics for the seminars of the Hanszen Academics Com- and its relationship to modern throughout the year, taking one mittee, described the Hanszen funeral practices. each week." Dr. Magid went on courses: Topolgical Groups is to say that the topics would be "There will be studies of a study of the analytical and KilsmiD ones that were actively being music and art forms, studies algebraic structure of the topo- studied, current topics "you of authors such as Tolstoy and SHADES OF SHELTON—.Jones quarterback Peggy Shortzer logical groups, a "synthesis for don't find in journals." Zorka, and attention to a lot of seems unintimidated by Ann Marti's fierce rush as she shows junior and senior mathematics He commented, "The students different areas," Miss Dietz her fine (passing) form in Sunday's PowderpufT game. Shertzer majors." The course is to be were selected by me mostly on continued. "We have to impose dazzled several hundred incredulous spectators with her fine taught by Dr. J. Dugundji, an grades. They are all M' stu- limits on a limitless topic, and (passing) form, but Brown avenged last year's defeat at the hands "international figure." dents, with grades* of '2' here choose areas of the course for of Jones with a 27-11) victory. Story on page 7. Topics in Current Physical .and there." The course will be students to study 1 .em use of open to auditors, and will meet diversified backgrounds." Mondays and Wednesdays at The course will be sponsored ton o'clock "somewhere in by Dr. Robert Cox. ITanszon," Dr. Magid said. The Hanszen courses will the rice threshean all-student newspaper for 52 years r In the Thresher meet two hours a week, and Even as the Thresher fades will consist of informal dis- vol. 51, no. 10 rice university, houston, texas [hursdav, novemher 1 (?. 19(>7 quietly into Thanksgiving cussion and student participa- stupor, it coughs out visions tion. of sweetness and light, Admission & curriculum Contemporarv Fiction •Want to know how to Nancy Dietz of Jones ex- make Houston's kids smart • plained the Jones courses. "The Thresher tells on page 2. courses will be meeting three • And for a bonus, your Committees evaluate Rice po> hours a week, but the schedule investigating ways to finance own fate and fortune. Read By JIM DENNEY mendations to the Committee will be determined by the peo- Thresher Editorial Staff the special program as well as on Examinations and Standing' how the draft will get you, ple in the course. They'will be The student committees on a summer enrichment program on such heretofore untouched page 2 also. conducted in a seminar-type Admissions Policy and Educa- • to bring the admissions cre- areas as a reduction of course •Braden lays another movie fashion." tional Policy have begun their dentials of Negroes up to par loads, at least for freshmen, bare before your very eyes, The S e m i n a r in Contem- arduous tasks of getting some with other entering students. and the status of audited page 9. porary Fiction will place an things changed at Rice Uni- Challenging the Rice policy courses. This last point con- And more, more, more. emphasis on post World War II versity. that two-thirds of entering cerns the possibility of a stu- SCEP. under the direction freshmen be from Texas, one- dent listing an audited course of Nancie Litin, is beginning third from out-of-state, Miss on his transcript or of getting the most adventurous revalu- Litin argues that "qualified partial credit towards a degree Peace forum to offer opportunity ation of Rice admissions in the candidates for admission should for audited courses in which committee's history. Miss Litin be admitted regardless of their he passes the final exam. for discussion of myths of Vietnam listed the committee's greatest place of residence. Other things SCEP hopes to A new organization of Hous- tors of tha Houston Chapter of concern as integration, geo- SCAP is also trying to deter- consider this year are the ad- tonians opposed to the war in the United Nations Associa- graphical distribution, and the mine whether better-qualified visor system, the viability of Viet Nam will sponsor a forum tion. admission of more "eccentric students from out-of-state are "programmed education" in the on "Viet Nam: Myths and Re- The Citizens for Disengage- people" to Rice. rejected in favor of Texans. "majors" policy, the effect of alities" November 19 at 8 pm ment in Viet Nam was organ- Though it has been an in- Wider geographical distribu- the Ten Year PIewi on under- in the Fondren Library Lecture ized this summer as a means terest of SCEP for some time, tion, she feels, will break up graduate education, and the ef- Lounge at Rice University. of expression for Houstonians the campaign for integration the overwhelming homogeneity fectiveness of the tutorial sys- Panelists will include Dr. who believe the involvement of beyond token levels has been of the Rice student body. tem used in many courses. the United States in Viet Nam given added impetus this year John Ambler, Associate Profes- Artsy-Craftsy When asked about last year's far exceeds this country's na- by the letter from Dr. Alan sor of Political Science at Rice; To further counter the Rice much criticized course review, tional interest. The group is Grob of the English Depart- Sheldon Clark, Peace Educa- student image, the committee Sartorius said SCEP will strive headed by Dr. Stephen Baker, ment which recently appeared tion Secretary of the American suggests that Rice admit peo- for more "objectivity" this Assistant Professor of Physics, in the Thresher. Friends Service Committee; ple of so-called "artsy-craftsy" year. Also, SCEP hope s to Rev. Philip Stephan, Lutheran Rice University. Dr. Baker will Special Admissions inclinations to "add more color get this herculean task com- Chaplain, Rice University and act as moderator of the panel. Grob argued that Rice should to the campus," and that it im- pleted in time for it to be help- the University of Houston; and The November .19 forum is make special exceptions for prove such areas as Fine Arts ful to students in selecting William Dazey. Attorney and open to the public, and admis- the admission of Negroes be- and Music to attract such their 1968-69 course schedules. Member of the Board of Direc- sion is free. cause of the substandard sec- people. ondary education they have re- The Student Committee on ceived. SCEP is looking into Educational Policy hopes to do the possibility of instituting far more this year than just Chapel will present Perry London such a special admissions pro- produce a course review, ac- gram by contacting other pri- cording to chairman Peter Sar- in discussion of morality, behavior vate universities in the country torius. The review will remain By MIKE BROWN London has held teaching for information on how the an important task, said Sar- Thresher Religion "Editor posts at the University- of Illi- problem is handled elsewhere. torius, but "by working through Dr. Perry London, noted psy- nois, Stanford University, and SCEP also hopes to bridge the various faculty and stu- chologist and author, will dis- the University of Southern the communications gap be- dent-faculty committees, SCEP cuss "Behavior Technology and California, and is a member of tween Rice and Negro high can effectively make recom- Personal Morality" in a Chapel the American Psychological schools by arranging for indivi- mendations, voice feelings, and program this evening at 7:30 Association, the International dual Rice students to talk at make suggestions on educa- pm. Society of Clinical and Experi- these schools. tional policy in progress, as London was recently select- mental Hypnosis, the Board of The committee approached well as initiate new policy." ed a Career Scientist Develop- Directors of the Lilly Founda- the Athletic Department last SCEP will study proposals ment Fellow with the U. S. tion's Institute of Psychiatry year, seeking to increase inte- already under consideration by Public Health Service at the and Religion, and the Behavior gration through the athletic the Margrave Committee, such National Institute of Mental Therapy Institute in Sausalito, program. The response was as the pass-fail grading sys- Health. He has been a consult- California. negative. Department officials tem, the Jan Plan, and an in- ant to the Child Welfare Included in London's re- intimated that the idea was terdepartmental science course Branch and Guidance Associa- search interests are hypnosis, not good because the athletics for academs to replace the tion in Olympia, Washington, personality motivations, and program is supported by alum- present science-math require- and to the psycho-physiological the ethics of psychotherapy. He ni, who might tend to look ment. stress section of the aerospace is co-author of a recent publi- upon integration with disfavor. Mote Objectivity laboratory at Wright Patter- cation, "Foundations of Abnor- DR. PERRY LONDON At the present time SCEP is SCEP plans to make recom- son Air Force Base. mal Psychology." Chapel Speaker editorial 'China uber Alles?' the rice thresher By BILL SCHNITT Thresher Editorial Staff dc4aofo & t&e need cAeut^e The following is written in reply to Professor George Williams' letter in last week's Thresher, defending U.S. policy in Vietnam. The conservative majority of the Houston four other candidates, the best of whom is Jim There are many Americans today who support the Viet- school board is a public disgrace. It controls the Ferguson, a 44 year old liberal and member nam War, though grudgingly and with serious misgivings body charged with shaping the educational sys- of the National Teacher Corps, an organization about the whole rationale of our involvement. Had we not be- tem of a modern city, while its own members which the Houston School Board voted not to come enmeshed in that Asian chaos, thflK.now realize, our own have apparently failed fully to enter the twen- use. Although he has no campaign funds and national security would not have beeiT^eroded measurably— tieth century. In an age when few concerns are as therefore almost no chance at all of winning, nor would the outbreak of World War III have been hastened vital as destroying racially-oriented conceptions he is the one candidate in the entire race willing appreciably. It is with agonizing precision that they weigh the of human worth, the majority has knowingly to call the "neighborhood schools—busing" dis- ambiguous consequences of withdrawal, against an ever-escalat- attempted to preserve the dual system of schools pute a pseudo-issue. He alone points out that ing toll of human suffering. But they tell us we must perse- that perpetuated old racial patterns. Faced with all the busing done in Houston has been by vere: to "uncommit" oneself hastily—despite the questionable complaints about everything from food bidding the conservative majority in order to maintain basis of the policy—is to invite the enemy to challenge our practices to the quality of certain instructional segregated schools. commitments in other, more vital spheres. programs, it has deliberately resisted attempts Indeed, the argument is a very compelling one, and not to to make objective studies to define the problems. Position six—Liberal Mrs. Charles E. White be trifled with. But professor Williams does not fall into this Faced with the growth of technical-industrial is defending against Dr. Ed Franklin, a former category of "pro-war" thinking: he believes not only that we plants near Houston, it has ignored pleas to basketball coach who sees the most serious should STAY in Vietnam, but that we were RIGHT in the build secondary plants adequate to prepare stu- problem facing the Houston Independent School initial assumptions which brought us there. dents for the newly created jobs. And, sadly, District as "the election of board members on the list of absurdities could be lengthened and November 18." Mrs. White's record is sound Quest For Lebensraum lengthened. and merits her re-election. He admits that South Vietnam "was split into a dozen warring factions, and was to collapse"; that the army "was Members of the Rice community should not Position seven—Mrs. H. W. Cullen, the con- on a steep and disastrous downslope of defeat and defection"; fail to vote in the H.I.S.D. board elections this servative incumbent, defends against five other and that the Victcong "controlled most of the population." Yet Saturday to try one more time to break the candidates, of whom Dr. George Oser is the best Professor Williams would brand us as "immoral'' had we dis- hold of this short-sighted group on the future of qualified. This is the race that could swing the entangled ourselves at that time. For had we not intervened Houston. balance of the board. Dr. Oser would be a per- massively to save South Vietnam, China's quest for Lebens- ceptive and intelligent addition to the group, a raum would have gone unchecked, and Communist tyranny Position five—J. W. McCuHough, conservative man able to discern real problems beneath sur- would have imperiled the whole of Asia. board president, is defending his seat against face issues. Anschluss with India, a key Chinese objective, was im- minent: indeed, Professor Williams conjures up the terrifying spectre of Bombay besieged by Mao's goose-stepping Wehr- macht. And the creation of what he calls the "Indonesia-China Axis" (!) boded further ill for the Free World. The draft: attempt at evaluation Happily, though, there were no Munichs. American power The following assessment of the im- of the next college year might if they were 19 and placed in pact of the new Selective Service Act deflected the Chinese Drang nach Westen (und Suden), and and the President's Executive Order enroll for further study, but the pool with the actual 19- the Indonesian Duce—Sukarno—was replaced by a leader more of June 30 on colleges and universities has been prepared by the Commission they would be subject to call year-olds. amenable to the West. Thus, according to Professor Williams, on Federal Relations of the American at any time during the college Council on Education. Washington, This would result in a pool of President Johnson's Asian policy has been not only effectual, year without any real prospect D.C. available men of such size that but it lias averted "national death" as well. The Council notes that "We are not of deferment to finish the year. sure that there has been a full realiza- (assuming a 200,000-300,000 Yet this explanation deserves more careful scrutiny, as tion of the situation in the academic it seems to defy both facts and reason. For example: when community, the country as a whole, IMPACT ON THE ARMED need) approximately one out or indeed the Congress at large. . . China faced an acute food shortage in the early 1960's, why did Obviously the decisions reached will FORCES: of every four in the pool would sin- PURCHASE wheat from the West? If her intent had really lie of tremendous importance not only It would appear that for a be inducted. Put another way, to the graduate and professional been aggressive and expansionist, wouldn't it have been more schools, but also to the entire nation." 12-month period beginning in 25% of eligible 19-year-olds The following are excerpts .from the July, 1968, between half and not enrolled in college and 25% plausible to absorb neighboring food producers such as Thai- report: land—particularly since the American force in Southeast Asia two-thirds of all men inducted of the older men (mostly col- at that time was a mere token of advisers ? BASIC FACTS: by Selective Service will -be lege graduates) would probably 0 As has already been re- college graduates or will have be called. While all those pass- Colossal Headache ported, undergraduate students pursued their studies beyond ed over would still be subject And then there is the India Question. Does Professor Wil- are, with certain limitations as the baccalaureate degree. As a to call in subsequent years, the liams sincerely believe that China had covetous designs on In- to age and normal progress, as- result, a majority of those in- likelihood of their induction dia? Hasn't Mao sufficient troubles without worrying about sured II-S deferments. ducted will be considerably would decline each year as a masses of hungry Indians? Would ANY strategic advantage 0 At the end of the current older than the age-group most new group reached the age of justify the colossal headache of occupying India? Indeed, the academic year, all II-S defer- desired by the armed services. 19 or lost their II-S defer- mind boggles at the proposition. ments will end for those re- In Indonesia and Africa, there is no doubt but that China ceiving their baccalaureate de- ALTERNATE POSSIBILI- ments. suffered serious setbacks. In this connection, the significant grees, those completing their TIES: fact was not the psychological impact of America's presence first year of graduate study, % The statute provides that, in Vietnam; rather, it was the ABSENCE of overt American and those receiving their ad- on the advice of the National influence in these two arenas. vanced degrees. At the moment Security Council, fields of study The case of Indonesia is instructive. There, the State De- the only exception to this gen- in addition to medicine may be partment had written off its policy as hopeless, when events eral rule is for those engaged identified as eligible for defer- unforseen transfigured bitter failure into sudden triumph. in the study of medicine, den- ment on the grounds that they Moreover, Professor Williams should be reminded that tistry, veterinary medicine, os- are necessary to the mainte- India and Indonesia—though allegedly "saved" by the Ameri- teopahty, and optometry. nance of the national health, can sacrifice in Vietnam—condemn the bombing of North Viet- # In trying to analyze the safety, or interest. There is no nam. It is the prospects of a widening war that alarm them, situation, we are making a per- indication as yet whether Se- not Communist belligerence. haps unwarranted assumption lective Service will exercise this authority. If it does, it Gathering Storm that Selective Service must might define such fields nar- Admittedly, China today is dangerously paranoid. But even produce for the armed forces rowly (i.e., specialized areas paranoids have real enemies, and our bombing at their borders next year between 200,000 and within particular fields) or has done little to assuage their suspicions. And all too often 300,000 men—roughly the num- broadly (i.e., the natural sci- we have mistaken their rhetoric, which surpasses "Mein Kampf" ber drafted this year. ences and engineering). in vehemence, for serious intention. 0 Both the statute and the In fact, the evidence suggests that from China we can ex- regulations require that the 0 Under the existing stat- pect more of a blustering wind than a gathering storm. Yet oldest among those eligible ute and Executive Order, the American efforts to "contain" China and to avert the outbreak for induction be drafted first. Department of Defense could of World War III in Asia—as though it vfere World War II in Thus it must be assumed that request Selective Service to Europe—may well hasten the eruption of that conflict. under the current conditions produce a given ratio (i.e., 4-1) virtually all men described of 19-year-old men to older above will be inducted unless men. The rule of drafting old- they are overage or physically est first would still apply for A It-. DARRELL HANCOCK PHIL GARON disqualified, or have previous- both groups. For the older f I 1 Editor Associate Editor ly served in the armed forces. group the order of induction JERRY MANHEIM would be based on year of • •* rice Business Manager IMPACT ON GRADUATE birth, with, for example, those AND PROFESSION- born in January, 1949, being Dennis Iiahler Managing Editor William Schnilt ....Contributing Editor AL SCHOOLS: Charles Szalkowski .. News Editor liari Watkins Contributing Editor called first, followed by those It would appear that unless Sue MeNair Copy Editor Jim Denney Contributing Editor born in February, March, April, Mike Brown Religion Editor changes are ,made by amending Jack Murray ...Sports Editor Joe Graves Calendar Editor etc. Richard Sawyer Graphics Editor Jerry Serwer Ad Manager either the statute or the regu- Fine Arts: Gordon Braden, Ron Brown, Clint Goodson, Ralph Burdick, lations, enrollment in the first 0 The Congress has indi- George Bright. two years of graduate and pro- cated a willingness to hold Spoils: Larry Turner, Bob Thompson, Ronnie White, Mary Beth Martin, Rachel Adams. fessional schools next fall will prompt hearings if the Presi- Reporters: Troxel Ballon, Ken Carpenter, Clark Chamberlain, Jerry Evans, .limmye France, Jon Glazier, Lee Horstman, Barry Kaplan (non-resident meta- be limited to women, veterans, dent proposes legislation to in- physician), Laura Kaplan, Karolyn Kendrick, Bonnie Lindberg, Bobbie Lynds, men physically disqualified and stitute a random selection sys- Terry O'Rourke, Eddie Phillips, Duane Riddle, Karen Sagstetter, Debbie Theo- dore, Buddie Trotter, Vivian Vahlberg, Mark Williamson (computer consult- those over the age of 25. Obvi- tem. If such a system were ant.!, Chuck Young (Oracle). ously this will have impact on adopted, a prime age group ^ Copy Readers: Susan Ammerman, Christi Oliver, JoAnn Weinberg. Graphics: Peter Jordan, Troxel Ballon, Bill Blanton, Timmy Leong, Jackie the supply of teaching and re- would be designated, probably Wright. Business Staff: Jim Levering, John McBride. search assistants, faculty as- age 19. Those who had passed The Rice Thresher, official student newspaper at Rice University, is pub- signments, and budgetary allo- age 19 without military service, lished weekly on Thursday except during holidays and examination periods by the students of Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001. Phone JA 8-4141, ext. cations. Men described above and were no longer entitled to 221. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the writers and are not not inducted by the beginning necessarily those of Rice University, its adminstrators or officials. deferment would be treated as Imagination or reality?
the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 2 threshing-it-out DeBremaecker refutes arguments on Vietnam war To the Editor: tempt of most of our European must be ratified by two-thirds It may be helpful to sum- friends, it horrifies many Ca- of the Senate. I conclude that marize and refute the most nadians, even Australians are our presence there was a free popular arguments for our bitterly divided about it. act on our part. n present policy in Vietnam. Only our Asiatic satellites 4) "We protect freedom in * 1) "We are there in response approve it, or claim to. Is there South Vietnam." What freedom to an aggression from the not an American document that can South Vietnamese expect North." Facts: Vietnam was speaks of "a decent respect of when most members of the considered one country at the the opinion of mankind"? Our military junta fought in the Geneva negotiations; the vic- country was once militarily French army against their own torious Vietminh signed the weak, but its ideas made tyr- countrymen? It was more than agreement only because they ants tremble. Today our ideas a year ago that Neil Sheehan knew that they would win the are gone, and our military wrote his famous "Not a dove forthcoming election, a fact might supports tyrants. but no longer a hawk" (N. Y. later confirmed by Eisenhower; 3) "We have sacred obliga- Times Mag., Oct. 9, 1966); he mSBB in the South, members of the tions to South Vietnam". The sadly remarked that "idealism government are from the facts are: the SEATO treaty and dedication are largely the North; a parallel situation ob- commits us either "to act in prerogative of the enemy." 1 tains in the North. In view of accordance with our constitu- The corruption and nepotism these facts I conclude that we tional processes" or "to con- in the South are too well- have intervened in a civil war. sult with our allies" (this known to need repeating. Is it treaty can be found in the Fon- 2) "If we leave Vietnam the not likely that the freedom dren Library). Communists will take over all that most Vietnamese peasants of (Southeast Asia, the Pacif- The Gulf of Tonkin resolu- desire is freedom from bomb- ic, etc. The area varies.) I do tion was clearly never intended ing, from oppression, and from not deny that our withdrawal to justify doing- whatever the foreign occupation ? Let us re- I'M SOGS&TO CALL OFF OU1Z tW^WORTHAL—T- 6~TcP/ffZgpPY- - - HAVE TO STUDY TON ITE •" would have some serious con- President wishes; finally the member that we, too, once rose sequences, but so does any "word" of the President has no to protect these freedoms. course of action. Our action to legal force: the Constitution date has earned us the con- wisely decreed that treaties In view of what precedes 1 suggest that we should enter into immediate negotiations with the National Liberation Vahlberg decries wasted creativity Craig claims US war bogged down Front and with Hanoi. Our To the Editor: time—we have more talent pet- To the Editor: In fact, General Williams' aims should be: 1) to be free I would like to write a hearty capita than most universities I don't see the beauty of the argument proves exactly the from attack while we depart as "Amen" to Dr. Magid's letter and it is often wasted. This is war in Vietnam the way Mr. opposite of what he wants it speedily as practical, 2) either in the November 2 Thresher. why it's encouraging to see Williams does, but even if I did to prove. He is saying that the to obtain supervised guarantees One of the biggest problems productions like "Hello Ham- I would still think that his ar- communist world is having its against widespread reprisals or with Rice is that very few peo- let"—some of that Rice origi- guments are farfetched and fal- divisions and troubles, and to resettle abroad those who so ple feel they have the time to nality is showing through. lacious. therefore our policy is success- wish (the cost would be mini- do anything but study and I think many of those people He points out that Red ful; I say that our policy tends mal compared to even one date, and some only to study. who feel they have no time for China is either in trouble or to drive the different parts of month of the war). They gripe about the condi- anything- but study would find less aggressive than it used to the communist world together. Free at last from this cruel tions around Rice but never their studying easier and their be in various places, and he be- We are playing their game, be- burden, we should devote our do anything constructive to help life fuller if they would get lieves that the U.S. presence cause they have us bogged energies and our resources to the situation. outside of themselves for awhile in Vietnam is responsible for down in a war of attrition, in- the fight for human dignity at This is a large waste—peo- and do something else. It's this. I am glad that the Chi- stead of our being able to play home and abroad. In due time ple at Rice are here because when life has no meaning that coms are in trouble, but there it cool and take advantage of this would restore our faith in they are intelligent, talented it takes hours to study one is not an ounce of evidence to their difficulties. our country. and have shown prowess in paragraph. show that this country is re- HARDIN CRAIG, JR. J.-CL. DeBREMAECKER something. It's a waste to sup- VIVIAN VAHLBERG sponsible. Department of History Department of Geology press this by studying all the Jones '70 Another view: Manheim urges revitalized role for off-campus student By JERRY MANHEIM At the present time I know of no col- cover all areas of the dilemma, but only • The colleges should form telephone There is a forgotten man at Rice. He lege which successfully performs either to provide some basis for forming a committees (possibly even on a one-to- is the victim of an appalling communi- of these functions. policy to deal with these areas. Second, one basis) to relay daily those events cations gap, a lack of considerations, and Into this void one might hope the I shall propose a long run solution to which, for example, are announced at the apparent absence of either knowledge Student Association would leap. One the problem. dinner to those non-residents who, upon of or interest in his predicament and might, but one had better not. For the Proposals for Change being asked, request that this service be the state of his welfare. deficiencies are the same here. Student The six proposals which follow, if not provided. Who is this unfortunate character? Association bulletin boards are often in- always immediately applicable, are at With regard to a long-term solution. The answer is simply that he is half the complete and may be counted upon to least indicative of the nature of the I wish to propose the establishment of students at this University. He is most omit notice of events which are schedul- problem: an Off-Campus Students' Association to easily distinguished by the fact that ed at the last minute. 9 A special provision (office, booth) provide for those functions for which he lives off-campus. Lack of Facilities should be provided to make available to the colleges and Student Association An off-campus Rice student cannot Facilities provided by the Student As- off-campus students tickets and other have demonstrably failed to nrovide. I presently have as full and rounded aif sociation are even more lacking. The items which are currently sold after suggest that such an organization would educational experience as can the on- basement recreation room of the Me- dinner in the colleges. This facility be better suited to solve the problems campus student, not merely because he morial Center is overcrowded and under- should have regular hours and its main- of these people since its primary inter- misses the educational opportunities of furnished. There are no television facil- tenance should be the responsibility of ests would lie in their welfare. communal living, but because he is ig- ities, as there are in the colleges, no the Student Association. Off-Campus Power nored and overlooked by the very people meeting rooms, and no study facilities. • A member of the Student Associa- The OCSA would fill a large gap in who are responsible for providing that Furthermore, it is simply not practi- tion, for example the off-campus sena- the provisions of the present structure. experience. cal for a non-resident to eat dinner at tor, should be charged with keeping non- It could provide study, meeting, and Double Standard his college each evening so that he can residents informed, perhaps through "a recreation areas, a sufficiently large The college governments, all their find out what events are coming up. mailed or posted (and current) newslet- cafeteria, a communications center, and statements to the contrary notwithstand- In fact, it is often not practical to come ter, in addition to his duties as "re- most importantly a gathering place. The ing, have done nothing for the off-cam- to the college at all, since one's classes presentative". social basis for an OCSA already exists pus student. Their physical facilities are seldom anywhere near the colleges, • The facilities of the Memorial in that most off-campus people have were designed to serve about 200 people, and since the nearest an off-campus Center or colleges should be expanded more friends and acquaintances who live not 400 as would be necessary to serve member can park to the men's colleges to meet the needs of the off-campus off-campus than on-campus. all on- and off- campus members. This is at the opposite end of the campus. students and to a degree commensurate In fact, this is still one more reason includes commons, library, study, and Obstacle Course with their numbers. why "coming to the college" is a shal- recreational facilities. I cannot dispute the fact that anyone • All announcements should be post- low suggestion. From this social basis Non-residents are generally notified of „ who really wanted to could participate ed by a person with this specific duty in and to meet the obvious shortcomings up-coming- events after the fact, though in the colleges to a greater degree than the library and in the RMC. These, post- of the present system, an OCSA could Wiess is now taking minor corrective most non-residents do now. But I can ings should at all times be both up-to- and should be developed. measures through use of drops for dis- and do strongly dispute the reasoning date and complete. 1 do not pretend that this is either tribution of the college paper. Announce- that off-campus students should be re- 9 The colleges should personally in- a totally original or nearly flawless ments which are made at dinner are quired to run an obstacle course, as it vite their non-resident members to come idea, but neither do I expect others to expected to reach all ears, a most unlike- were, to take an integral part in the life over for lunches, dinners, and college pretend that the alternative solutions ly event. of this University. The failures of the nights, both specifically and generally. of the past-and present have been ef- In the view of this writer, if the col- colleges and the Student Association If, as we noted, the facilities are in- fective. If the present system has short- leges are to fulfill their responsilibities should not be cast upon the shoulders sufficient, small groups may be asked comings, as this writer believes it has. with respect to the non-resident mem- of the victims. to attend until everyone has been in- then appropriate steps, regardless of bers they must perform two functions. No ax-ticle of this nature should be vtied. Like it or not, the colleges have how radical a departure from the col- College Obligation allowed to stand if it does not put forth a low reputation among non-residents, lege system philosophy, should, indeed First they must provide a communica- viable proposals to help solve the prob- and should strive to improve their im- must, be taken. tions link between on-campus happen- lems which it points out. I propose to age. They must keep in mind that they, Half of the Rice student body suffers ings and off-campus people. Second they fulfill this function in two steps. as institutions, have as much to gain from lack of integration into the life of must provide for and encourage social First, I shall suggest six specific from off-campus participation as do the this University, and it cannot be but that participation of non-resident members. short run steps which are not meant to non-residents. the University also suffers.
the rice thresher, november 1(>, 1967—pagfe •'$ ONE HOUR MARTINIZING Jones votes on closed-door policy Our Clever Cleaners Clean Clothes Carefully By VIVIAN VAHLBERG if there is a match or paper They say that since any vio- Thresher Reporter between the door and the frame, lation, or hint of one, reflects Discount for Rice Students Jones College members voted and the inability of a college to on the moral character of the 20% Off With ID Card today in a college referendum legislate morals for its mem- college as a whole, the college We Clean All Day Saturday to decide whether to allow bers. has a right to legislate what it closed doors during open Some, feeling that there is wants its "moral character" houses. At stake is the revoca- not enough of a free social at- to be. tion of the present rule which Lawrence Morningside Cleaners mosphere at Rice, believe that They feel that the policy as i allows closed doors only if there a closed door policy could help it now stands "is sufficient to i -JA 3-9112- are three or more people in the provide this. They feel that allow anyone to do anything j 2400 Bolsover Same Block as Village Post Office f room. f i open doors create a stilted, un- that they ought to do at open The issue was brought to a natural, "fishbowl" and formal house." head by the decision of cabinet atmosphere. President Joan Gurasich said, November 2, at the recom- "It is a question of the nature mendation of the residence Individual Affairs and function of open house— with council, to leave the open-door Others note that open house whether it is a college or an MaxShuIman rule as it stands. is not a college but an individ- individual affair. The decision On Campus ual affair—individual girls ask the college makes is just one Freedom to Think (By the author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!", A petition for reconsidera- individual boys. Thus the indi- more facet of the study on so- "Dobic amis," etc.) tion was circulated and signed vidual should have the right to cial regulations we undertook by 150 college members, so the govern her activities. last spring." cabinet called a referendum. Those against the closed door This study polled college FOOTBALL FOR SHUT-INS At a college meeting Monday policy fear a possible, perhaps members, parents and associ- night, about 130 Jones girls undesirable, change in the at- ates on social regulations. At next Saturday's football game while you are sitting in your choice student's seat behind the end zone, won't discussed the proposal. mosphere and activities of open From this, the college goals you pause and give a thought to football's greatest and, Some of the reasons cited by house. They cite the impossi- committee formulated a phi- alas, most neglected name? I refer, of course, to Champert those in favor of closed doors bility of imposing checks on losophy of social regulations Sigafoos. are more privacy, less noise, such a situation and the fear which applies to all social rules Champert Sigafoos (1714-1028) started life humbly on freedom to think of Jones as that "future generations of and changes in them. Jones has a farm near Thud, Kansas. His mother and father, both home and thus to entertain as Jones girls . . . might not un- already changed dress, curfew named Walter, were bean-gleaners, and Champert became one does in a home, the hypoc- derstand the spirit of the clos- and signout procedures in ac- a bean-gleaner too. But he tired of the work and went to risy of considering a door open ed door policy." cordance with this philosophy. Montana where he got a job with a logging firm. Here the erstwhile bean-gleaner worked as a stump-thumper. After a month he went to North Dakota where he tended the 1 urnace in a granary (wheat-heater). Then he drifted to Texas where he tidied up oil fields (pipe-wiper). Then to Arizona where he strung dried fruit (fig-rigger). Then NOW MAILABLE 1<> Kentucky where he fed horses at a breeding farm (oat- t"ter). Then to Long Island where he dressed poultry < duck-plucker >. Then to Alaska where he drove a delivery at van for a bakery (bread-sledder). Then to Minnesota where he cut up frozen lakes (ice-slicer ). Then to Nevada HICE CAMPUS STORE v. 11<1 re he determined the odds in a gambling house < dice- pricer). Then to Milwaukee where he pasted camera lenses together (Zeiss-splicer). Finally he went to Omaha where he got a job in a tan- NOVEMBER fi"ry, beating pig hides until they were soft and supple NOVEMBER CISEQD • hog-fiogger) • Here occurred the event that changed not only Champert's life, but all of ours. Next door to Champert's hog-lloggery was a mooring mast for dirigibles, in flew a dirigible one" day, piloted by BEST-SELLING a girl named Graffa von Zeppelin. Champert watched Graffa descend from the dirigible, and his heart turned PAPERBACKS over, and he knew love. Though Graffa's beauty was not best bets quite perfect—one of her legs was shorter than the other (.blimp-gimper)—she was nonetheless ravishing, what . with her tawny hair and her eyes of Lake Louise blue and '* ' . . . .) her marvelousiy articulated haunches. Champert, smitten, THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA THE DOCTORS ran quickly back to the hog-floggery to plan the woQing. (Dell Books $1.25) Gross To begin with, naturally, he would give Graffa a pres- ' (Dell Books .95) Crichton ' ent. This presented problems, for hog-flogging, as we all THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS PAPER LION know, is a signally underpaid profession. Still, thought (Pocket Books .95) Plimpton . 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And who should walk by just then but Jim Thorpe, Knute Rockne, Walter Camp, and WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL FIVE WOMEN 1 LOVE i Pete Rozelle! ^ (Crest Books .75) MacLean ' (Avon Books .75) Hope They walked silently, heads down, four discouraged — •• j men. For weeks they had been trying to invent football, UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE IN MY FATHER'S COURT but they couldn't seem to find the right kind of ball. They (Avon Books .95) Kaufman 10 (Signet Books .95) Singer tried everything—hockey pucks, badminton birds, bowling balls, quoits—but nothing worked. Now seeing Champert APPENDIX . . . COOK BOOK THE UNMAKING OF A MAYOR kicking his pigskin spheroid, their faces lit up and as one " (Crest Books .60) Bracken • ' (Bantam Books .95) Buckley man they hollered "Eureka!" The rest is history. THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING *X* (5)1967, Max Shulman THE GRADUATE (Berkley Books .95) White Speaking of kicks, if you've got any about your pres- (Signet Books .60) Webb ent shave cream, try Rurma-Shave, regular or menthol.
the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 4 owlook On Powderpuff and Varsity By JACK MURRAY Sunday's Powderpuff game. Despite the enthus- ONE'S A MEAL Thresher Sports Editor iastic response with which it was greeted, several It's a sad commentary on Rice varsity for- points deserve serious consideration if the annual BROOKS SYSTEM SANDWICH SHOPS tunes when the most interesting and exciting contest is to remain a desirable part of the in- on-campus gridiron exploits of any given week tegrated college experience. 2520 Amherst FINE FOOD FOR EVERYON930E 7 Stella Link occur in a mock-serious clash between partici- We do not question the validity of promoting In The Village Stella Link Center pants from the two non-male colleges. college spirit and inter-college rivalries through Before Saturday's homecoming fiasco the athletics. Nor do we say that a thoughtfully 24 HOUR LOCATIONS AT Owls' chances to salvage a respectable season planned and organized football game is not the 9017 South Main 4422 South Main were good, if not spectacular. Now, injury-rid- proper means of expressing this spirit. . . if dled and tired after three conference defeats, sportsmanship does not become subordinated to they must recover the pride which cai-ried them winning. through earlier victories if they are to win It seemed, however, that certain important 1 again. technical aspects were ignored, particularly the Little else remains; without pride there is unavailability of on-the-field professional medical with nothing. personnel. The possibility of serious injuries On Campos MaxShuIman Originality seems to be a forgotten quality as should always be anticipated, and all due precau- far as Rice signal-calling is concerned. The re- tion taken to avoid them. The rough play of {By (he author of "Hall;/ Hound the Flay, IS (•yd ', gularity with which the Owl offense resorts to Brown defensive star Janice Alexander, who "Dub - 'nii'- ," Ct-C.) 1 1 certain stereotyped plays and the equal regular- several times came dangerously close to being ill ——mii '""' HI>M|„I,M| m " • , ity with which these plays are squashed makes kicked in the mouth after making a semi-tackle, one wonder whether Rice opponents know better emphasized that precautions, if not enforced, are THERE ARE NO BAD TEACHERS; than our players what plays will be run. worthless. THERE ARE ONLY BAD STUDENTS Coach Ilagan has stated publicly that his Although the officiating was much superior The academic year has only just begun and already lack of an inside running threat has rendered to that of last year, there was an obvious and one thing is clear: you're not ready for college. the ground game virtually ineffective. Certainly dangerous reluctance to control the roughness. What, then, should you do? Should you throw up your a shifty halfback in the class of McVea, Simp- To call penalties in borderline cases is under- hands and quit? I say no! I say you must attack, grapple, son, or Keyes would do no harm. Yet though the standably difficult, but it is far better to call cope! 1 say America did not become the world's leader in available material is not of demonstrated All- too closely than not at all. Laxity encourages motel construction and kidney transplants by running American calibre, Shelton, Lehman, Taubert, and abuse of the rules, and abuse can lead to un- away from a fight! Hughes are nonetheless talented enough to be necessary and undesirable consequences. A sin- To the question then: You say you're not ready for col- employed with at least a hint of creativity. trie serious injury would have more than cancel- lege. You're too green, too naive. You lack maturity. Okay, the answer is simple: get mature. How? Well ed all of the Powderpuff's intangible benefits. Two yards and a splash of mud is no one's sir, to achieve maturity you need two things: idea of excitement. Worse still, such strategy, This week's SWC predictions: Arkansas over a) a probing mind; if it may he called that, will never work. SMU by seven; Texas and TCU, even; Tech over b) a vest. With that we turn to some comments upon Baylor by 10; Rice over A&M by 14. A probing mind will be quickly yours if you'll remem- ber that education consists not of answers but of ques- tions. Blindly accepting information and dumbly memorizing data is high school stuff. In college you don't SI feSi just accept. You dispute, you push, you pry, you chal- lenge. If, for instance, your physics prof says, "E equals By BOB THOMPSON plenty of time to prepare for at tackle, John Stoerkel, at mc squared," don't just write it down. Sav to the prof, Thresher Sports Staff the hapless Owls. guard. Also Dan Van Winkle "Why?" The Texas Aggies will make This will show him two things: The Aggie offense features moved back to first team wing- their last annual pilgrimage to back. And, if you haven't heard a) Your mind is a keen, thrusting instrument. Houston this Saturday as seven- one of the conference's best b) You are in the wrong major. and most consistent passers, by now, Robby Shelton is num- point favorites over the Rice ber one quanteback again. Ask questions, questions, and more questions. That is Owls. A&M has recently ex- Edd Hargett, and a high-rank- the essence of maturity, the heart and liver of education. panded Kyle Field, and hence ing rusher named Larry Steg- Although A&M is favored, Nothing will more quickly convince the teachers that you ent. Bob Long, the tailback, is Rice fans may take some cour- are of college calibre. And the tougher your questions, forth the series will resume the the better. Come to class with queries that dart and Hash, home-and -home arrangement near the top of the SWC scor- age from the fact that" A&M ing list and is one of Hargett's must face Texas, a crucial con- that make unexpected sallies into uncharted territory. used prior to 1957. Ask things which have never been asked before, like favorite receivers. His 20 re- ference test, on the Thursday The Cadets are riding the "How tall was Nietzsche?" and "Did the Minotaur have ceptions to date include seven following the Rice game. crest of a wave of SWC vic- ticks? If so, were they immortal?" and "How often did touchdowns. tories which include Texas One who looks at statistics Pitt the Elder shave?" Tech and Arkansas as victims. In an effort to choke off a mighit also note that Rice will A&M is 4-1 in Cbnference play, three-game losing streak and test the A&M defense, eighth having suffered their oijly loss preserve a chance for a winning in the conference, with an of- at the hands of SMU. Off last season, Bo Hagan has been fense which ranks number one week for an open date, Gene moving people around. Ken Lef- in the SWC and eighth in the Stallings, A g g i e s have had ner has moved to the first team nation.
THESE ARE AVAILABLE AT niNOBjUy, GENE'S TAILORS, INC. 5249 PALM CENTER m (Incidentally, you" may never know the complete an- swer to Pitt the Elder's shaving habits, but of one thing you can be positive: no matter how often he shaved and no matter what blades he used, he never enjoyed the shaving comfort that you do. I am assuming, of course, that you use Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades, a logical assumption to make when one is addressing col- lege men—which is to say men of perspicacity, discrimi- nation, wit, taste, cognizance, and shrewdness-for Personna is ar blade to please the perspicacious, delight the discriminating, win the witty, tickle the tasteful, coddle the cognizer, and shave the shrewd. (I bring up Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades lie- cause the makers of Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades pay me to write this column, and they are in- clined to sulk if I omit to mention their product. I would not like to see them unhappy, the makers of Personna. for they are fine ruddy men, fond of morris dancing and I've Got My Eye On The Man... home brewed root beer, and they make a blade that shaves closely and cleanly, nicklessly and hacklessly, and is sharp and gleaming and durable and available both in inaVAN HEUSEN* double-edge style and Injector style. (And from these same bounteous blademakers comes "417' VANOPRESS SHIRT Burma-Shave, regular or menthol, a lather that out- lathers other lathers, brother. So if you'd rather lather And what an eyeful he is! A physique as better, and soak your whiskers wetter, Burma-Shave's well-built and manner as smooth as his your answer.) permanently pressed . . . VANOPRESS But I digress. We have now solved the problem of maturity. In subsequent columns we'll take up other is- shirt. A swingy style that matches the sues, equally burning. Since 1953 when this column first "417" authentic tailoring of his button- started running in your campus paper, we've tackled down collar and V-Tapered fit. Switched-on such thorny questions as "Can a student of 19 find hap- stripes or colorful solids in dress or sport, piness with an economics professor of 90?" and "Should Van Heusen has them all. Will I keep him capital punishment for pledges be abolished?" and "Are in sight? You'd better believe it! room-mates sanitary?" Be assured that in this, our 14th year, we will not be less bold. * * * © I'".;. Max Shnlman The makers of Personna Super Stainless Steel Blades Build up your followin^with Passport 360, (double-edge or Injector) and Burma-Share (regular the influential line of meq's toiletries by Van Heusen or menthol) are pleased (or apprehensive) to bring you another year of Max Shulman's uninhibited, uncen- sored column.
the rice thresher, november 16,1967—page 5 GUITAR LESSONS Frosh lose to Baylor Cubs in rain By LARRY TURNER bled the snap from center and except for the one touchdown Folk-Beginners IBM professional typing, Thresher Sports Staff lost six yards trying to run. pass. They held the Cubs to spelling, grammar cor- The Rice Owlets squared off The Owlets took over first and —JA 2-7251— only 45 yards on the ground rection. Pick-up and de- against the Baylor Cubs last goal from the Cub nine. Cald- and allowed them to complete livery if desired. Thursday and came out on the well picked up eight through only six passes for 98 yards. the line and then Charles WE'LL PAY YOU TO HAVE 326 Gershwin short end of the score. The Bucky Allshouse intercepted FUN: Enthusiastic, energetic jun- Cubs won the mud-battle by a Blackwell carried over for the two Baylor passes, his first ior or sneior to write chapter for Memorial West student guidebook. Expenses and score of 16-6. score. The try for two was not two of the year. Hale's grab fee plus by-line and short biogra- —HO 4-0453— good. was his second this season. phy. Tell us who you are imme- The first half was pretty un- diately. Write: WHERE THE The offensive effort was FUN IS U.S.A., Simon and exciting and wet as the two The Owlets finish their sea- Schuster, 630 Fifth Ave. New pretty weak as the frosh ac- son with a game tonight York, N.Y. 10020 teams fought to a scoreless tie. Rains fell during most of the cumulated a net total of minus against the Texas Tech Pica- game and turned the field into four yards rushing and 118 dors in Rice Stadium. The Tech a sea of mud and football play- yards through the air. Fleming frosh bring a potent offense ers. caught three passes for 33 to Houston to challenge the de- yards. fense that has helped the Owl- COX'S BLOSSOM SHOP The second half kick-off was The defense had a good day ets to a 2-2 season mark. 1716 BISSONNET fielded by Rice and returned to the 47. Larry Caldwell fum- JA 9-4102 bled on the first play from scrimmage and the Cubs recov- Longhorns crush Forgotten Few FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS ei-ed. A 40-yard TD pass on the first Baylor play and extra Corsages and Football Mums Our Specialty point kick put the Baptists for 'mural football championship ahead to stay with 19 seconds By RONNIE WHITE of captain Joe Pratt and Jim gone in the half. Thresher Sports Staff Levering, were no match for The mighty Longhorns are Fumbles proved as costly to Friday's heroes. Van Court the baby Owls as to their older the 1967 undergraduate league passed for 300 yards and eight brothers. Two minutes later a intramural football champions. touchdowns, with Pratt on the receiving end of three scoring bad pitch from Gary Thomas to In Monday's championship strikes. Bill Fleming was recovered by game, the Longhorns crushed the Cubs in the Rice end zone. The defense also deserves SOUTH TEXAS the Forgotten Few by the in- Again the PAT was good and much of the credit for the win. Baylor led, 14-0. credible score of -55-0. Led by Bill Costa, Cal Court- The Longhorns earned the ney, and Bob Stalker, they al- VENDORS Caldwell fumbled the kick right to play the Forgotten lowed the Forgotten Few only off and Baylor recovered. Chris 85 total yards, no penetrations, Few by defeating the TRB's Hale stopped the Cub threat and only one first down, which 25-6 last Thursday. The For- 4529 Harrisburg with a timely interception on came in the last two minutes Rice's five-yard line. On the gotten Few had drawn a bye of play. next play, Thomas was tackled after winning the Friday In the graduate league, the in his end zone to give the league. As the championship "Serving- the Rice Campus with Physics met the Geojocks Fri- Cubs their final two points game neared, everyone involved day for the championship of with 10 minutes left in the sensed a close, tight game. Automatic Vending- Machines" the Tuesday league. In a wdl- quarter. But the Longhorns, behind fought contest which was tied The lone Rice score came the passing of Dudley Van 0-0 at halftime, the Physics led after the Baylor punter fum- Court, and the pass receptions 6-0 with about 2 minutes left to play. Steve Guthier of the Geo- jocks then got behind the safe- ty man, and hauled in a long pass to knot the game at 6-6. The same pass pattern to Gu- thier was good for the extra point and the Geojocks hung . How to on for a 7-6 victory over the Physics. The win enables the Geojocks to meet the Euhlers, champions of the Wednesday interview, league, for the graduate title. 130 companies f raKy alter! i me game! j \ V After the game, rally with the gang ill half an hour. at Village Inn! If Back room available free for private parties. Rustic motif! Cozy fireplace! Great pizza!
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As you do, you'll find that you An equal opportunity employer 6003 Betfort the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 6 >/^AAAA/»/W»/WWWWSAAA»WVW>AA Brown jugs Jones in gridiron win Checks Cashed for ADVENTURE '68 sion, and the score remained and-off defense halted the The potent ground attack Rice Students A Unique Way to Tour Jugs' once again in Jones' ter- and stalwart defense of "The at 13-6. Europe. Free Information ritory. Aaron Lee Little Brown Jugs" offset Interception George Grace Peggy Shertzer's aerial bom- Defense Brown scored again near the Enco Service 914 Dante Street bardment and enabled Brown Brown surrendered the ball end of the half after Pat Brown Mechanic On Duty New Orleans, La. 70118 and geared for an onslaught to defeat their Jones arch-ri- intercepted an errant Shertzer 2361 Rice — JA 8-0148 of the dangerous long passes vals Sunday in the third re- pass and returned it to the which Shertzer had begun to newal of the annual Rice Pow- Jones seven-yard line. Fizer complete. But Janice Alexan- derpuff Classic. picked up four yards around Brown quarterback Jody Fi- right end, and then smashed der, Brown's defensive star, saved the game when she in- WANTED DESPERATELY: zer raced 16 yards on an option over for the score on a quar- Trustworthy soul to assist in handling accounts of bigtime. tercepted a pass with two min- rollout to score the game's first terback draw play. Diana Mc- organization. If you have completed BA 200, you may now utes n maining. Linda Pike touchdown on the fifth play Clain took a handoff and went apply for a fascinating, salaried position as Assistant Busi- sewed it up with her second from scrimmage. Fizer and for the extra point to give ness Manager of a thriving student newpaper. Call, write, long touchdown gallop, a 29- halfbacks Diana McClain and Brown a 13-point lead at half- or wire Jerry Manheini at the giant Thresher complex, yard jaunt on an end-around Linda Pike startled the Jones time. second floor of the Memorial Center. play. defense with consistent and un- But Jones came fighting expected long-gaining runs back with two quick second from a tight T formation. half scores to make a close Jones went immediately to contest out of what had ap- Invitational for All the violent beauty peared earlier to be a runaway. the air and stayed with the of Thomas Hardy's passing game the entire first Marilyn Pfeiffer carried four half. Shertzer, operating out yards for a touchdown and distance runners immortal love story! of the traditional Jones shot- Starling caught a Shertzer gun, was able to connect only pass for the conversion as Jones set by Baker occasionally as Brown domi- came within seven points of By AARON D. CAMPUS nated the first 24 minutes. knotting the score. Thresher Sports Staff Baker defends its track su- Reverse Long Passes premacy this Sunday in the The Jugs upped their lead to Brown was forced to punt third annual running of the 13 late in the first quarter when their offense stalled Baker Invitational Cross-Coun- when Linda Pike rambled 60 near the midfield stripe, and try. yards untouched to score on a Jones took over on their own Final details have now been well-executed halfback reverse. 30. After three attempts, set. Starting time will be 2:30 Jones took the ball and Shertzer hit Rachel Adams pm (not 2 pm as previously marched quickly downfield in with a beautiful long pass. reported). The race will begin their only concerted first half Adams went to the Brown sev- at the same place as in past x drive. Shertzer found Jane en before she was stopped by years, the Allen Center en- Starling in the end zone and hit Alexander. trance on South Main. Contest- her with a 20-yard scoring Jones came within a point of ants should arrive early to pick A JOSEPH strike as the opening period tying on the next play as up a number and have their ended, but the play was nulli- Shertzer and Adams combined name recorded by the meet of- fied by a Jones holding pen- to scoi-e on a short flag pat- ficials. alty. tei-n. The pass to Starling for It remains uncertain wheth- JULIE CHRISTIE TERENCE STAMP Two plays later the Jones the extra point was complete, er any outstanding times will quarterback rolled to the right but she was stopped inches be turned in this year. Wheth- PETER FINCH and scampered into the end short of the goal line. Brown er or not there are any record- zone on a 10-yard touchdown retained a slim one-point lead. breaking performances, final run. She overshot Rachel Ad- Brown got the ball on Star- standings depend on a united ams on the attempted conver- ling's kickoff, but Jones' on- team effort: Will Rice beat Hanszen for second place last c^JUUL8JLft.
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Friday and Monday through Thursday. * * * Politickin'—Anyone interest- EARN EXTRA MONEY ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS Weekly or Semi Weekly Donations Donors Must Bo 21 Years Of Age TRW CAMPUS INTERVIEWS Call MO 7-6142 BLOOD BANK of HOUSTON 2209 W. Holcombe SEE YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 8 Protest and the press Student journalists claim press distorts demonstration By DARRELL HANCOCK of the march was almost unanimously ian Science Monitor, "but troops repell- Thresher Editorial Staff attributed by young participants and ed them in a heated brawl." "Time" magazine, reporting the Wash- observers to biased and incomplete Marginal Sympathizers ing demonstration of late October coverage. Student activists, like "Time's" foot- against the war in Vietnam, suggest- "Their efforts have largely been in ball-watching typical American-general- ed the reaction of the nation to the vain," wrote two reporters from the ly disapproved of the incident and, feel- event. "Kenyon Collegian," "because the truth ing that it was not representative of the "... On a crisp fall weekend when of what they did was not available to peaceful orientation of the majority of most Americans were watching foot- the public they wished to influence." the marchers, saw the press spotlight ball, raking leaves or touring the coun- as an attempt to discredit the entire tryside, the biggest 'peace' demonstra- Atmosphere of Peace protest. tion in the history of the nation's The young critics most commonly cited "Wesleyan Argus" reporter Guy capital unfolded. To the vast majority, the emphasis on student-instigated viol- Baehr cited instances of students drop- the banners of Communism fluttering ence as an attempt to discredit the protest. "Yes, there was violence," ad- ping out of the march after the first in Washington, the fist-flailing clashes mitted the "Collegian" reporters, "but violence which they said had "destroy- and the violent verbiage were unsettling, the overall atmosphere was one of ed the dignity" of the march, and which, almost unreal." peace." as reported by the press, would lose the Student journalists and demonstrators, anti-war movement many "marginal Further, students claim the press fail- returning and writing in their campus sympathizers." newspapers in the week following the ed to report far more serious unwar- event, expressed nearly the same ranted violence of the soldiers and fed- Andy Thurnauer, a Brandeis junior, bewilderment and even outrage at the eral marshals. also left the scene of the protest after national press coverage of the march Most national media accounts of the witnessing the mall violence, but, as he on Washington. The newspaper and protest centered on brief clashes on the wrote later in a letter reprinted in the television reports "just weren't quite main mall of the Pentagon soon after "Carletonian" of Carleton College, Min- real," said one 18 year old Bronx High the marchers began arriving from Mem- nesota, the conflict had seemed so in- School student. orial Bridge gathering point. Protesters significant that he was "unaware that apparenty moved onto the elevated mall there was really a violent demonstra- —Richard Sawyer Media Mishmash rather easily. tion going on." Other participants and observers call- ed the press coverage "scandalous." Then while thousands of marchers He returned, however, after having section One major goal of the march had settled around the building, a small con- watched an 11:45 television report that, been to "gain the support of the many tingent of radicals carrying the cele- "as most of the press was to do after- citizens who have been standing on the brated North Vietnamese flags surged wards, spoke only of student provoca- two sidelines" and to "persuade others to toward the mall entrances. "A few got tion and the like." join" the peace movement. The failure through," reported the reputable Christ- I'm*arranted Attacks He arrived back at the Pentagon in time to witness the "unwarranted" after- fine arts midnight attacks of**MPs and fed< tal marshals on students. "And yet," he concluded, "the press Scenery dominates 'Madding Crowd and government are attempting I • dis- By GORDON BRADEN manent Will, whose motivation is in the ing, sees a schoolboy walking by, n credit the whole thing by writing (only Fine Arts Staff final analysis nonhuman. citing role phrases out of psalter to an about) the violent demonstrators who John Schlesinger's version of Thomas unseen God. Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," When the film comes close to real- virtually provoked the soldiers into de- now at the Windsor, contains half of a izing this conception, and it frequently Such visual moments are ^ simply fending themselves. magnificent picture. That half is the does, it is good, very good indeed, and good. So good, in fact, that the film Students unanimously claim that the photographed land, which is given as perhaps close to great. lives successfully for two and a half military was responsible for the continu- of its three hours almost solely on the imaginative and articulate a treatment ing' violence after the initial flurij, des- Immanent Will poetic nourishment they provide. as we are likely to get from any movie- pite such accounts as that of the New maker now working. The opening sequences, for example, rest on the thin, deathly brown fields Agrarian Film-making York Times" which place the blame for Schlesinger brings to them all the the outbreaks squarely on the demon- I use "land" here in the full agrarian of the Dorset seacost, where mankind appeears as a shepherd with a small, bub- technical skills of composition and strators. sense of the word as meaning the whole rhythm that we saw at work in his "It is difficult to report publicly," massive chthonic context of existence, bling herd of sheep in an obscure corner "Darling," and makes his naturalistic wrote the "Times," "the ugly and vulgar- of which, whether we care to acknowl- of the giant frame. The sense of the materials, which could easily have be- provocations of many ot the militants. edge it or not, our farms, our cities, place culminates horribly and beautiful- come just so much scenery, into his great They spat on some of the soldiers in the and ourselves are so many excresences: ly when a crazed dog drives the whole strength. The film rests solidly on the front line at the Pentagon and goaded land not in the commonplace modern herd over a cliff. land. them with the most vicious slander." terms the victim of its urban and mili- Later, in the more fertile areas in- tary exploiters, but rather literally the Twenty years ago landscape was Self-Restraint of Demonstrators land, the heroine takes refuge in the While, some student observers later indestructible ground by which they woods after a disastrous quarrel with something you stuck in to keep two confirmed taunting of the soldiers, they and yye are defined and judged—-in her husband, and looking out through scenes from slamming together and insisted that it was very sporadic and Hardy's own phrase, the devouring Im- the trees into a painfully green clear- hesTdes it was pretty. * Filmed under such an aesthetic, this novel could have unpopular. "Taunters were shouted down yielded a monstrosity. (by the other demonstrators)," wrote two Schlesinger, perhaps following David Wesleyan juniors who sat on the mall. Lean's lead in "Lawrence of Arabia" "The fact that the demonstrators re- Perlman displays violin skills strained themselves and cooled the situa- By GEORGE W. BRIGHT great as the Tchaikovsky concerto and "Doctor Zhivago," has had the good sense to perceive the landscape as a tion clearly shows the prevalent frame Fine Arts Staff which it preceded. With luck this com- of mind. Most realized that violence was What is there to say in response to major character in its own right-—per- position will return to Jones Hall to be not in the spirit of the demonstration something which is as nearly perfect as haps THE major character—and at- heard again. and that it hurt the cause." any music can be—the Tchaikovsky Vio- tended to it accordingly. And in the Haydn & Stravinsky The heckling was entirely disclaimed lin Concerto played by Itzhak Perlman? The second half of the concert was case of Hardy (like Pasternak), this is a critical judgment of some significance. by another prostestor writing in the The solo was dark and rich and as composed of the Haydn Symphony No. Middle bury, Vermont, "Campus." "1 was romantic as Tchaikovsky ought to be; it 82 "The Bear" and the Suite from "The Elaborate Dentistry sitting in that front line, directly in was at the same time lucidly clear, with Firebird" by Stravinsky. The latter was From this base the rest of the film front of these soldiers. Many ol them each note beautifully distinct. acceptable but clearly not outstanding. grows, however disrespectfully: a city were restive; they had not been relieved It was timed with a precision never The Haydn was played with more slum district where Victorian landowners in five hours. before experience^ not only in the solo vigor and enthusiasm than might be ex- come to find cheap labor, a fashionable "Did we provoke and slandei them . part but also with respect to the en- pected from a group as young as the beach resort complete with mountebank No! We offered them food and cigar- trances of the orchestra and the full tut- Houston Symphony. The performance telling the story of Captain Cook's ettes, told them that we had no quarrel ti passages. Andre Previn's feel was showed the return of the discipline which voyage among the naked savages (with with them, but rather with the brass right, and he had complete communica- was missed so much in last week's con- illustrations). on the steps of the Pentagon: the brass tion with his musicians. cert. The ensemble was very tight, in which refused to communicate with the Musical Experience the sense of being well unified. Schlesinger's eye for relevant and demonstrators." But this is only a hint of the exper- This program will be remembered, evocative detail is excellent, if at times ience that Perlman imparted to the though, because of a young man from a bit over-sarcastic. Best bit: a bloody Military Tactics crowd in Jones Hall this week. The mu- Israel. Yesterday I would not have be- demonstration of tooth extraction at "Obscenities were not shouted, he sician is only 22 years old, and yet he lieved that I would ever join a Houston a tawdry carnival. continued, "and people did not spit on is such a master violinist that he com- audience in applauding between move- Along with this goes an impressive the MP's. Once I saw a student throw pletely commanded the attention of the ments. But this week there was no way assemblage of minor characters, all of bottles at the soldiers; he was promptly audience. He has a maturity of sound to remain silent for Perlman. them marvelously free from the usual set upon by the demonstrators and and style of which Oistrakh or Heifetz The applause was not the embarrass- studio stench surrounding Earthy peas- forced from the scene." would be proud. Music is not a task for ed patter which accompanies the open- ants. The care employed here is made Whatever the cause, students who re- Perlman; it is his soul. ing night of the season, but it was a beautifully explicit in the precisely in- mained on the mall after the telev ision The rest of the concert was certainly warm ovation which showed genuine in- dividuated staggers with which each of cameras were removed near midnight nothing to overlook. It opened with the volvement in the spell of Itzhak Perlman. the male character^ struggle' horfie from unanimously reported a second wave of Symphony No. 1 of Richard Rodney It is humbling indeed to hear a man an all-night drinking bout. violence as the military began advancing Bennett, a work which was completed in so young and yet so much a master. There is even one outstanding and slowly on the sitting demonstrators, 1965 and is full of the sounds expected Many years may pass before such op- possibly great performance, that of arresting and clubbing those who did from such a recent opus. portunity is granted again. But to this Fiona Walker as the wide-eyed maid- not move. Somewhat intellectual, but also of a one man on this one night I shall be servant Liddy. Most national media, including the strangely emotional quality, it is as forever grateful. (see UNSPECTACULAR on page 10) (see STUDENTS on page 12) the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 9 Unspectacular spectacular — (continued from page 9) (Terence Stamp), who has so All this might be seen as so many holes in his development much period piece periphery, that every major* action of his What did but it is not really. It is actual- conies as a considerable sur- you say ly close to being the substance prise and must be accepted of the film, both through its more or less on faith. aboutour own intrinsic strength, and by default. As for the complex central little sister? figure of Bathsheba (accent, in Which brings me, unfor- good Anglo-Saxon fashion, an- tunately, to the second half of tepenultimate) Everdene, all the the film: The plot and the relevant elements are there to major characters. It is not make her tick, but they never really awful, as some reviews seem to be all at work at any have said; but it is unconvinc- one moment. ing, uneven, and, towards the end especially, awkwardly writ- Julie Christie, who plays her, ten and rather slapdash. is of course always worth The most glaring flaw is in watching, for one reason or an- the crucial character of Troy other, but her characterisation here is rather disjoint; she has neither the immense advantage of playing a close approxima- tion of herself, as she did in "Darling," nor the all but in- Harold's Garage j fallible control of David r.,ean to keep her on target. | HENRY J. E'NGEL, Owner If I Boldwood (Peter Finch) and Automatic Transmissions! .-'CA COLA AND "COKE.' 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Rock and Folk Headquarters Gibson—Ludwig * vox Sales - Rentals - Lessons EVANS MUSIC CITY 2435 University Drive a '68'Voungmobile"from Oldsmobile —JA 3-9839— MARK OF EXCELLENCE the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 10 Greek war saga 5006 FULTON OXford 7-8781 n Now thru Monday Iphigenia on the boards at Jones MM Light and Heavy Underground Film By Alex Matter. 2ft. A man By RALPH BURDICK handled, not overdrawn. lay not in his heel, but in his drifts from town to town. . . Thresher Fine Arts Staff woman to woman. Also "A Diehl's Agamemnon was a articulation, all of which will PURITAN'S DREAM" by TEE DRIFTER Tonight and Friday nig'ht fairly incredible character, torn hopefully be cleared up by Rhewdnal. "Rhonda knew the naked truth". U.S. Entry—Venice Film Festival Joges College Avill present with indecision and grief, but opening night. Euripides's "Iphigenia in Aulis" not ruined by it. The chorus, an integral part in the Jones Commons. Menelaus was itching for a of the impedimenta of the College Relations Director Tragedy, especially the seri- fight, and Clytemnestra moved Greek theatre, proved better at ous Greek kind, is a very touchy from joy to grief with worthy singing than speaking. The c/o Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. 20008 thing to present. In accordance control. Ruth McGill as the old music forced a unity on the Please send me a free Sheraton Student I.D. Card: with the conventions of the day, servant did not have a power- voices that was lacking in the very little action takes place on ful part, but handled it well. spoken passages. Name: the stage, and the actors must Another difficulty in Greek There were, of course, the Address:. supply the excitement through tragedy is that togas lack pock- problems attendant upon all the presentation of the powerful ets. Pockets would have solved dress rehearsals. If these are emotions the situations call for. part of Achilles's problems. 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Finally, what is Project X? My address. Exchange operating costs will We don't know yet. Could be we're be supported by fees frorrt the waiting for you to tell us. City .State -Zip Code . member firms. the rice thresher, noveniber 16, 1967—page 11 0 Students disillusioned by media 'distortion' — (continued from jjage strators. At about 4:30 many of the cording to the Pentagon." federal government," wrote the Kenyon two major news magazines and the reporters. marshals emptied their canteens to Estimates of the size of the protest three major television networks, made make the mall wet and uncomfortable were "officially" placed at 30,000-35,000 Demonstrators from Wesleyan Uni- no report of the action. for students sitting in the 40 degree although the "Christian Science Monitor" versity, where profs had pledged $8,000 The "New York Times," however, did cold. guessed 50.000 and students staunchly for a bail fund, put the problem just include a paragraph on the military The students interpreted the actions claimed 50-100,000 and sometimes as as bluntly: move. "The perimeter of demonstrators as harassment of frontline "leaders" many as 300,000. . . No one in America knew what was steadily reduced today by military rather than as any determined effort really happened during the whole de- policemen who inched forward in a to clear the mall. Flower Children monstration. I thought it had been a slow motion shuffle. As the advancing Finally, a number of students were tremendous success until I heard the Tear Gas Employed convinced that two or three soldiers line of troops came in contact with the "So here we see the most crucial radio. Then I found it had failed tre- squatting demonstrators, United States stepped out of formation and joined the mendously. The radios and newspapers period of violence and arrests was a protestors, then were promptly arrested, marshals arrested youths, apparently period of non-violence by demonstrators helped it fail by implying the presence on the technical charge of having cross- and that one MP broke down and had of communists and justifications for the and extreme violence by soldiers," con- to be relieved when a 15 year old girl ed the official lines, and hauled them cluded Thurnauer. arrests." away." put a flower in his rifle barrel. Again, At least one paper, the "Middlebury Students also disagreed with national army sources denied both stories. Campus," editorially concluded that the Freezing-Out Protesters media on a number of other points con- American press, because of its ties with According to Thurnauer, the Bran- cerning the protest. Nearly every student journalist and the administrative "establishment," had dois junior, and other witnesses on the participant writing about the march con- Only a few newspapers reported that cluded by noting the "bad press" given printed "undeniably false and misleading mall, the soldiers and marshals severely tear gas was used; the army officially dubbed each protester who refused to the event by national media. representations" of the march. denied that any was released by soldiers The commercial coverage of the de- give way before they arrested him on One quoted derisively from a nationaal but suggested that it may have come monstration, the editorial began, was the "trumped up" charge. newspaper that lauded the military: "By from demonstrators. But nearly every "almost as frightening and infuriating exercising steady restraint, with few Meanwhile, according to one student student report mentions the presence as the brutality and inhuman tactics of exceptions, officers were able to keep reporter, a protestor with a bullhorn of gas on the mall. the peace-keeping force." The paper "addressed officers on the Pentagon injuries low. Most observers agreed that And Walter Grant and Phil Semas, noted that most reporters had observed s'eps to ask if what the demonstrators the soldiers were subjected to vastly reporters for the Collegiate Press Ser- the event from within the Pentagon and were doing was illegal and if the mili- more violence than they dispensed. Gen- vice, wrote later that "all the sold- had "unquestioningly accepted the of- htry wished them to leave the area," erally the marshals appeared only as iers put on gas masks before the ficial reports of the military." There was no answer. severe as was deemed necessary." first pellet was exploded, and one pellet Credibility Gaps Throughout the night marshals and was shot from the roof of the Penta- "Sunday's newspaper, radio and TV "Their readers did not want to hear s' > 1 (1 ii':• advanced slowly and continued gon. Five demonstrators had to be treat- reports demonstrated that the news about soldiers humiliating the peace sti'i ing and arresting frontline demon- ed for eye injury due to teargas, ac- media are as well versed in lying as the creeps. They wanted to hear about an irresponsible, violent rabble be- ing put in its place. They were told what they wanted to hear." The editorial ended by ques- tioning administration informa- WE SALUTE ALL RICE STUDENTS WITH THESE tion on Vietnam and other mat- ters and by noting the impact of the "credibility gap" on the protestors themselves. Campus According to their reports, they experienced one demonstra- tion and read about another. 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VOID AFTER NOV. 22, 1967 KA 7-1111 |CA 3-4S22 BRING 1 OR A CARLOAD WITH EACH COUPON! the rice thresher, november 16,1967—page 12 News analysis School board election shapes up as power battle By DARRELL HANCOCK of "attempts to turn back the fers to be called an independ- and other activities could serve the volatile issue of whether he Thresher Editorial Staff clock and inject racial issues ent, who will "approach each as community centers in the is a registered voter, while it The Houston school board into the election," she has spe- educational issue the same an- city. could help him by offering pub- election scheduled for this cifically denied ever having alytic way that problems in licity and awakening a public Underdog Saturday has all the drama and advocated the busing of chil- the physical sciences must be sense of fair play, seems clear- But despite his appeal to flavor Texans have come to ex- dren or the rotation of school approached," his presence on the ly to have been brought up to many members of the academ- pect from their politics, and, personnel to engineer racial board would almost certainly embarrass him. ic and professional community, predictably, the main issue is balances. break the iron grip of the It is finally very unlikely Oser must be accounted the purely and simply "Who gets conservatives. that both Mrs. White and Oser Cinched definite underdog in the race. the power?" will win and thus shift the bal- McCullough, running for po- Progress! ? Since he was hardly known be- ance of the board. Mrs. White Is the dominant four-mem- sition five, seems unbeatable While Mrs. Cullen is running fore he began his campaign, has the expex*ience and an es- ber conservative faction of the this year because none of the on the basic record of the con- he has had to establish an o tablished base of support to seven-seat board to be broken four candidates who filed servative majority during the identity as a candidate in a withstand the attack and sur- up, or will it retain control of against him apparently have past few years, Oser has fer- very short time. the school board of the nation's the resources for a strong bid. reted out a number of weak- vive. But the Texas political sixth largest city? Together their reported cam- nesses in the school system and He is also hurt by his image scene is littered with bright History suggests that the paign expenses amount to only attempted to h a m m e r them as the "educated outsider com- young reformers defeated in three conservatives running as about one-third of his $4,100. home in personal appearances ing in from the outside to tell contests with conservative in- a slate will retain at least two Assuming that McCullough around the city. Houston lacks us how to run things." And cumbents. of the three positions being wins, but that Mrs. White can up-to-date technical training contested, enough to insure beat back Franklin, research facilities, has a bad record of that the liberals spend another physicist Ceorge Oser could preparing students for college two years talking and twid- become the white knight of science, has too few counselors, 5511 Bissonnet—MO 8-9797 2110 Riverside—J A 8-1 SO] dling their thumbs at board Houston liberals if his $10,000 refuses to use volunteer teach- campaign against incumbent TIJ X E D 0 H O U S E meetings, but doing little else. ing assistants, he says. SPECIAL STUDENT DISCOUNT The three — board president Mrs. Cullen for position seven He endorses the neighbor- J. W. McCullough, Dr. Ed is successful. hood school concept, suggest- $8.82 Franklin, and Mrs. H. W. Cul- Although he works hard to ing that good neighborhood Includes All Accessories len—are sponsored by the im- avoid the liberal label and pre- schools with adult education pressively titled Committee for Sound American Education in a campaign designed for the South. From What? Their "Save Our Neighbor- hood Schools" slogan is calcu- latedly potent bait in a city Get with a dual system of schools being integrated slowly and only under pressure from the Justice Department. your The conservatives officially favor "local control of an or- derly desegregation process, fair to all races and with a minimum of emotional and physical disturbance to chil- dren and parents." bumblebee But their efforts 'to fulfill the policy have led to charges from the respected "Texas Observer" of "feet-dragging degree ... in an effort to avoid com- pliance with desegregation or- ders." Fear Tactics Newspaper and magazine ac- counts also hint that the con- servative slate has strong, and perhaps unethically coercive, support in the ranks of school administration and faculty. According to the "Observer," "Fear tactics used by top ad- ministrators in the schools in- clude spreading of unfounded rumors that unless the conserv- atives win, School Superin- Dodge Charger R/T tendent Glenn Fletcher will be CHRYSLER Dodge MOTORS CORPORATION fired and replaced by a Negro; that both white and Negro children will be bussed out of their 'neighborhood' schools Enroll in one of three exciting classes. Charger R, T, To add some color lo campus, get your Official into schools attended primarily Coronet R/T, or Dart GTSport. Each has its own dis- Dodge Scat Pack Jacket in the official "Dodge Red'' by those of the opposite race; tinctive sporty style, but all three have a lot in com- ___ Color—with the that white teachers will lose mon. 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Why not sign term in position six. up at your nearby Dodge Dealer's and get your ! Cily Slate Zip Accusing the board majority Bumblebee Degree, today? L. .J the rice thresher, november 16, 1967—page 13 Cleveland will host social dialogue By MIKE BROWN unite representatives from uni- liberately be held "in the midst NOLEN'S Thresher Religion Editor versity communities, ghettos, of the world," rather than on "In The Village" The University Christian minority groups, and interna- a college campus, because of 2529 University Movement, including Protest- tional perspectives, in a dia- its unique eclectic nature. Ac- Jewelers For Houston Since 1918 ant, Roman Catholic, and Or- logue concerned with "social cording to the Rev. 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Warren men- ness of AID's South Vietnam- Menu for November 20-24 problems in South Vietnam, tioned the establishment of ese program (Washington has and how these problems are be- temporary refugee housing and reorganized it twice in 18 MONDAY: ing handled by the South Viet- food allotments, progress in months, in hopes of "better re- Corned Beef w/Stewed Cabbage namese government with U.S. developing urban sanitation sults"), Warren noted that Sloppy Joe Sandwich Served On Toasted Bun assistance, in W i e s s College facilities, the creation of orph- helping foreign nations "is no Home Style Chicken and Dumplings Tuesday night. anages, and AID's teacher easy job u n d e r any circum- Warren emphasized the fact training program. stances, and it's complicated in TUESDAY: that the U.S. AID (Agency for In response to a question, South Vietnam by the fact that Beef Stew w/Fresh Vegetables Internal Development) program Warren acknowledged the resig- the war is there." Chicken Fried Steak (Onion Gravy) in South Vietnam is careful to nation of several AID-affiliated For instance, " there's a lot Fried Fillet of Gulf Trout (Tartar Sauce) leave key decisions up to South U.S. personnel a few months less land under cultivation now Vietnamese officials. "The ago. They were protesting the than 10 years ago because of WEDNESDAY: whole program," Warren said, fact that America's military the war." Complete Mexican Dinner "is contingent on the coopera- assistance has only magnified w/Enchiladas, Tacos, Con Quesos tion of the Vietnamese govern- South Vietnamese civilian prob- and Tangy Mexican Chili ment." lems. Golden Fried Chicken (Cream Gravy) Warren, a native Houston- National Hero Typewriters, Adding ian, went on to note two major He remarked that in South Machines, Calculators THURSDAY: problems in working with South Vietnam, especially among old- Roast Round of Beef, Au Jus Vietnamese officials. 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This ter now under construction) . .. fine art galleries advisor role includes veto power, .. . opera, symphony, ballet, theater in Jones when handling the problem in- Hall ... great restaurants . .. vibrant downtown volves U.S. material aid. Such and thriving suburban areas . . . low-cost housing is the case in the joint admin- istration of AID's school lunch —all the excitement of living in the nation's program, for example. / sixth-largest city! Refugee Problem The primary new urban prob- WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HL&P? lem is refugees. Many Viet- namese crowd into the cities Growth—to serve America's most dynamic invest $270,000 in this program that includes a 'because of job possibilities (al- growth area! 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Teachers are in short supply, as are buildings and the rice thresher, november 10,1967—page 15 interviews campus 17 U of Chicago, Graduate School of Business 17 Alexander Grant Co. . . there is no career that can match business in diver- calendar 17 Houston Lighting & Power Com- sity of intellectual interest ... A vigorous, free society pany calls for the highest type of business leadership . . 17 Texas Research Institute of Men- O thursday, november 16 tal Sciences t—4 7 and 10 pm "A Thousand Clowns" 17 Bell Helicopter "3 Obrhltzr Hall Ballroom U o£ H 75c 17-16 Arthur Andersen & Company The Stanford University 7 :S0 pra Jack Heard WRC commons W CPA Pf 7:30 pm "Behavior Technology and 20 Hercules, Inc. Personal Morality" Professor Perry 20 Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. Graduate School Of Business r»i London Chapel 21 Tulane University, Graduate School x is jim Jacques de Caso Jonas Hall U o of Business invites you to mee its Admissions Representatives, re of St. Thomas 28 Southern Methodist University > S: 15 pm "Iphegrenia in Aulis" Jones School of Law Comm $1 28 Emory University, M.A.T. Program Assistant Dean William C. Hannemann and o 28 Combustion Engineering Company C*5 friday, november 17 28 Worthington A i r Conditioning Mr. Paul Johnson on December 5, 19G7 Company r- Kmperor Vespasian 195Sth birthday 29 Jefferson Chemical Company tX) S am to 2 pm Grad wives bake bale :-u 29 Univac > KMC 29 Personnel Department, County of to discuss the Stanford M.B.A. and Ph.D. Programs in s pm "The Four Hundred Blows" And Los Angeles Business Administration. Appointments to meet with our I.ill And U of H 50c 29 Chicago Bridge and Iron Company representatives may be made through S i>m "The Exterminating Angel" CAA 29 Duke University, School of Law I'rud And !10 Columbia University, M.B.A. s pm Street Dance Sac Heart 2401 Director of Placement Holcombe Better Mousetrap *:15 pm "Iphegenia in Aulis" Jones The M.B.A. Program is a two-year general management Comm SI S-.V.O pm Charles Aznavour Jones Hall course particularly designed for students who have majored | Room For Rent | in liberal arts, humanities, science, and engineering. The Saturday, november (8 purpose of the Doctoral Program is to train for the ± Private homo, quiet neigh--$ stimulating challenge open to business educators, researchers, inn Rice vs Aggies Bice Stadium ± borhood, near Rice, rental^ > • i r. pm "Iphegenia in Aulis" Jones and innovators. Ciimm SI jfc open-room and/or board, iy S :';o pm Thresher staff forgets all! | —MO 7-5087— 5 Sunday, november 19 pm Dup Brid C'luli Hans comm :S0 pm Organ Recital chapel •1 pin Brahms concert Cull And U of H f ree !- pm "Vietnam" FI.T. s pm "The Servant" Jewish Cottim t 'enter monday, november 20 Omeda Bank of Utica New York robbed of $108,600 in J8G3 S pm Preservation Hall Jazz concert Houst Km Univ C'en U of H S :'0 pm Houst Sym Copland's "Lin- coln Portrait" Jones Hall FREE fuesday, november 21 Vulcanization of lubber patented 1843 • pm "Law Enforcement in Houston" r KUHT Channel & 1 Wednesday, november 22 I 24-page brochure has facts >'•:i' 1 pm mass exodus l 1 :-:!)() pm Alma trio Lib Arts And U and figures to help you see of H I thursday, november 23 Britain on a student budget Thanksgiving l Kloctress Sophia Dorothea of Hanover How to travel 1000 miles by dies in captivity 1726 I > pm Lou Kawls Jones Hall train and boat for only $30. I 100 places to get a single room Saturday, november 25 for $4 a night, breakfast II f rod dies 4 > :.'0 pm Manilas I) e p ] t a flamenco I students included—dormitory space r.nitarist Jones Hall costs less. 1 Bicycle rentals for $2.80 a currents week. 1' ,i- Silver Whistle" Pasadena Little 1 heater thru Nov £S Discotheques, folk singing, jazz "After the Fall" Theater Suburbia clubs and boutiques. Music Man" Hons Mus Thea thru i'.nv 26 Season ticket to 900 stately >. Delicate Balance" Alley Theater homes, castles and historic ! *ie Drifter" Nov. 31-20 sights for $3. " J - • i v " Hou Thea Cen Where to get lunch or dinner exhibits for $1. John Alberty" one man show CAA How to choose your 0945 Fannin transportation to Britain. Photography Exhibit Jewish Comm < '.en thru Dec 1 Special student programs Ifamman Collection Civil War Memor- starting at $655, including fare abilia Fondren Lib fehrouugli Nov 13 I Second Japan Art Fest Hou Nat Gas and tour, but excluding cost of Bldg Oct 16-Nov 11 I free time. Bob Rozas one-man show {1310 Stella Travel-study programs, work Lnk Oct 16-Nov 11 Mary Beal Edison one-woman show I camps, summer schools. And Stud Cent HllC Oct 17-Nov 19 London theatres, balcony seats Paintings of Oli Sihvonen Rice Fine I Art! Gal '126 Allen Cen $1.40—some gallery seats 700. I British Travel I Box 923, New York, N. Y. 10019 Please send me your free 24-page brochure "Students Visit- I ing Britain." I Minit Man Name I Car Wash College I Address America's Finest I City State: .Zip. Car Washing L 5001 S. MAIN 6900 HARRISBURG Now This Month $1.30 with Rice ID the rice thresher, november 16,1967—page 16