The Rice Thresher

RJCB volume 65, number 10 Thresher thursday, october 13, 1977 Student directories could arrive in November by David Butler students provide the registrar of computer printouts, either prepare all the listings in two the proceeds being added to with current local addresses using them as is or typesetting weeks.) the SA's general revenue fund. The Student Association and phone numbers. The them in a more space-saving He also noted that since has taken over the job of directory will also include format might not be cost- Lueckenhoff hopes that students will have until producing Rice student graduate student listings, if effective,' says Lueckenhoff. ad sales plus subsidies from October 24 to inform the Dean directories, which were the SA can obtain the (The typesetting will be done the Business Office and the of Undergraduate Affairs if handled by the Campus necessary files. by an Arizona firm which Rice Campus Store will allow they wish for information to be Business Office. If plans Lueckenhoff claims is "half the SA to sell the book for "a deleted (see notice, page 5,) the proceed on schedule, the books Since the directory is based again as cheap as anyone in nominal fee—somewhere directories could not appear should arrive before the end of on college listings, students' Houston" and will be able to between 10 and 25 cents," with before "mid to late November." November. home addresses will not be provided as in the past. SA External Affairs vice- Lueckenhoff said that he was president Joe Lueckenhoff not able to obtain the home Parties provide release told the Thresher that addresses from the registrar Half way into your first calculator. Two events next and we'll talk about it," he'd undergraduate student because of federal privacy semester, you find that Rice Friday will give you the say. listings would be prepared regulations. isn't quite what your high chance to relive another time Marc would be down on the using directories prepared by school counselor said it would of purity or an opportunity to couch in the Commons, the colleges' secretaries. Lueckenhoff indicated that be. Gone is seven weeks of life, celebrate your new depravity, watching a little TV and Lists from the registrar's directories might include half a grand of your old man's the SRC Night of Innocence, boning up on practice MCAT's office, used in compiling faculty and staff listings, bread and that sense of beginning 7:30pm and Wiess' when the other kids returned previous directories, are not which have already been naivete and innocence that Night of Decadence at 8pm. from their dates. Girls would being used this year because, compiled by the Business you brought with you Ted Andrews and Marc walk * alongside, loosening according to Lueckenhoff, Office. However, since the new freshman week along with the Hairston bring you more their clothes. Marc went to only about 70 percent of Rice faculty book is a printed copy extralong bedsheets and new details. sleep in a room stinking of perfume and cheap gin. Friday night. The same as Former ERDA head to speak In this business you stand any other but Marc felt the cheek by jowl with the darkest electric sparks of anger surge Robert W. Fri, the former (ERDA), will address a public March, 1975, moved up to sides of human existence. You through his veins. He had to acting administrator of the seminar at 2:30pm Tuesday, acting administrator in get so used to it that when the break out. He hopped in his federal Energy Reserch and Oct. 18 in Hamman Hall. The January of this year, and clouds part and the sun shines car, thinking of others who'd Development Administration lecture, open to the public free resigned that post effective through you don't notice. The done the same things before. of charge, is sponsored jointly Oct. 1 after creation of the good guys win sometimes. We The great explorers. Colum- by the Rice-based Energy federal Department of Energy. recently heard this story about bus, Marco Polo, Phelan, Research and Education one who did: Armstrong. Foundation and the Univer- In addition to his Rice Marc Frommage'8 college He drove past a Casino. sity. degree, Fri received his days were stamped with People had fun, that's for sure, Fri's talk is entitled "Lost in master's degree in business deathly images. Since he'd but they looked like everybody the Energy Wonderland." "We administration from Harvard been a freshman his room- Marc had seen walk through all seem to want a compre- in 1959 "with distinction," mate, a blond golfer from the Commons. Downtown, in hensive national energy plan, was a Baker Scholar at California, had kicked him out the shadows of Shell Plaza the but energy policy is a jungle of Harvard and is a member of each Friday and Saturday bright young people lounged economic policy, technological Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. night. "Get a girl of your own (continued on page 5) fixes, lifestyle changes, and He also gradated at the head political credibility," he of his class from Navy Officers claims. Candidate School in 1959 and Fri, who graduated from served in the Navy until 1962, Rice with honors in physics in stationed at the Bureau of 1957, became ERDA's first Naval Weapons in Wash- deputy administrator in ington. Off-campus party planned Senate ponders 'cosmetic' Changes by Tom Gerleman was explained as a purely the plan of Carla McFarland, cosmetic modification in order Off-Campus Senator, for a Proposed changes in the to more fully reflect organ- party to be held on October 28, Student Association consti- izational standing. Since this which would be for the benefit tution and a projected off- was a first reading, the of off-campus students, campus student beer and proposal will not face a vote although open to all. tamale bash provided most of until the next meeting. An McFarland intends to spend the ground for discussion at amendment was also pro- $1200: $400 from the Off- the SA Senate meeting pounded which provides for an Campus budget and $800 from Monday evening. election within 30 days from a the combined colleges. As it vacancy, except when the term was proposed, the party would After some preliminary of office expires in 2 months or start about 11 or 12 and "fade business, including an less; this would eliminate a into" beer and tamales as the announcement that nomin- current discrepancy between afternoon progressed. It was ations for Who's .Who in the Constitution and the By- mentioned that students American Colleges could be Laws. taking a biochem exam that submitted to Ms. Bonnie Application for organ- afternoon would not appre- Heliums' office until 5pm izational status for the ciate the planned location in Friday, the motion to approve Cascade Juggling Club was the vicinity of the Chem Lec the recent elections was granted, while similar Hall. After McFarland also passed unanimously. Nita applications from the Rice mentioned that miserable parking conditions and the Vandiver then read a proposed Ballroom Dance Society and formulation of a housing list constitutional change which the Rice Memorial College were tabled due to the non- are prime objectives for the would alter certain organ- Off-Campus Senators, the presence of any represent- izations' status from "de- meeting adjourned. pendent" to "affiliate." This atives. The Senate turned to Shootin' Blind OK, SO NOW (Shooting Blind is an irregular feature in which the editor comments on the state of the university or universe or the state of nothing in particular. Remembering this feature's rather short and inglorious past, the Thresher reminds you that the opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of anyone except the writer.) Last week I noticed that some Wiessman had brought up some very important questions about the validity of the recent coed college poll. I agreed with them that all the other colleges neglected their responsibilities in canvassing their members and, frankly, not enough people were asked. If those in charge had used the methods pioneered by LBJ's campaign team in 1948, they could have produced a return of 101%, 113%, or even 120%. With these possible figures, you can see that a ninety-one percent rate was wholly inadequate. Survey polls and the like merely show the strides human intelligence has made in decision-making. The ancients, in plotting the course of future actions, would read chicken threshing-it-out .=• • entrails. The poll is quicker, more accurate, and, not to be forgotten, less messy. After careful consideration of the facts about the attitudes toward coed colleges, the appropriate bodies will make the right Game 'hero' salutes coverage decision. Once they solve the coed problem, the Masters and To the editor: probably would have men- sheets. The Thresher Presidents, President Hackerman, and the Board of Governors As much as I feel like tioned tailback Lee Hodge (8 suggests that team captains will attend to other pressing matters like validating Howard applauding Pete Schwab's touchdown passes,) slick (at least, the captain of one Hughes' will and making Rice competitive in the SWC. perspicacity in singling me out receiver Andy Weinheimer (5 squad) check the scoring Some people tell me they were confused by the format of the for well-deserved attention in touchdowns,) defensive summaries after the game. survey and the need to rank the answers according to their two succesive write-ups of stalwart Joe Davis (2 Besides, the refs always know second and third preferences. I didn't find this the case.

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