Baker Shakespearean Festival: Bawdy As Usual by EMILY COFFMAN Booth (A Favorite from the Past) the Bloodthirsty Watched Sword Price to Set Him Free
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Casino party to use riverboat theme Lovett College presents its running craps tables and spin- ple are invited to dress up and Fourth Annual Casino Party this ning roulette wheels. "Wooden board the Delta Queen for an Saturday evening, March 22, Leg" will provide music for unforgettable ride through from 9pm to lam in the Rice dancing. The bar, where big time Dixie. Memorial Center. This year's gamblers can celebrate their Costumes are not mandatory, theme centers around the river- winnings or drown their sorrows but possibilities could include a boat "Delta Queen", famous in drinks mixed with bourbon, wide cast of characters such as for its trips on the Mississippi scotch, rum and vodka, will be Tom Sawyer, Johnny Reb, the River between New Orleans and located in the lobby between Old Southern Colonel, St. Louis. Sammy's and the Book Store. Mississippi gamblers, Union Magic shows, bank robberies and soldiers, and, of course, The Delta Queen will feature swinging chorus girls will accom- Southern Belles. gambling in the Grand Ballroom pany the Dixie float. with the Lovett College Faculty The entire festival costs only For further information, call Associates dealing blackjack, $2.50 per person. All Rice peo- xl278 or 523-1143. Hie „ uce Some costumes were simple and outright obscene; others thresher chose more elaborate and more modest dress, —doug peck volume 62, number 35 monday, march 17, 1975 Baker Shakespearean Festival: bawdy as usual by EMILY COFFMAN booth (a favorite from the past) The bloodthirsty watched sword price to set him free. TexPIRG Martha McDavid and Paul Warm weather and plenty of to a cotton candy stall. The fights, while the esoteric had members formed the Shyster Pearson. Whip-carrying ladies beer drew several hundred Rice ever-present stocks and slave their cards read. Even the and Shyster Law Firm to hand competed with tassel-twirling people to the annual Baker auction competed with relative Thresher had a booth, selling old down legal judgments in criminal gentlemen for whistles. Pearson's Shakespearean Festival held newcomers such as the dunking letterpress engravings. There was, cases, but expanded their busi- lewd "Peter Meter" was used to yesterday afternoon in Baker booth and cowchip-throwing it seems, something for almost ness to capturing, trying, de- measure response to the candi- quad. contest. Alumni came to relive everyone. fending, and punishing guilty dates. This year's festival featured the past, while freshmen came to parties. everything from a mind-blowing gawk at the weanies going wild. Some old favorites from the This year's festival offered This year's slave auction did past were less than popular this more food than earlier ones. not beat last year's high of $25 year — the mind-blowing booth Shrimp, oysters, and chicken for Alexi Bonifield; Middy Day care issue juggled became a gypsy parlor when were among the -main courses Benedict came close though; she only a few customers showed served; corn on the cob, pumper- was sold for $22.50. Hackerman turned the matter by LINDA EICHBLATT up. The kissing booth was en- nickel, cheese, and pickles were These revels open a week-long over to Katherine Brown Dean tirely missing. popular side orders. Drinks tribute to Shakespeare and Six- An on-campus child care cen- of Undergraduate Affairs. Brown TTie stocks were well-used. teenth Century England. The ter at Rice remains a slim future then asked Jeff Glassberg of the abounded, and wine booths Dr. Minter was imprisoned festivities continue with As You possibility. Twenty persons, Graduate Student Association if competed with the beer booths. Like It in the Baker Commons with a total of thirty children the GSA would be interested in twice, and many barely escaped Tuesday-Saturday, and cul- among them, expressed support forming an ad hoc committee t& the quick-pursuing guardsmen. The Lord and Lady Godiva minate with the Annual Feast for such a facility in response to study the feasibility of a child For a price, one could have a contestants turned more obscene and Orgy for Baker and Jones an earlier Thresher article. These care center, including location, "friend" locked up; one of his with less seen than others on College seniors and dates. responses were delivered to Pres- funding, and supervision. Brown friends in turn had to match the recent years. Prizes went to ident Hackerman last week. requested that Bonnie Heliums, Director of Student Activities, Dr. Hackerman asserted that n... >> while he has no objection to the be asked to serve on the commit- I** • concept of a child care center, tee in an ex officio capacity. the money required to build one In a meeting Thursday, March is not available. "The only way 13, the GSA decided against the v V * »*' we can have a child care center formation of such a committee. here at Rice is by reducing fac- Glassberg said he will turn the ulty salaries in order to pay for matter over to the Graduate it," he stated. Wives Association. -- UT law dean speaks Wednesday <4 Dean T.J. Gibson of the Univ- the discussion and be available ersity of Texas School of Law to answer questions. will speak to Rice prelaw stu- The response to last month's dents Wednesday, March 19 at presentation by Stanford Law 7pm in Bio 131. Gibson will Dean William T. Keogh was most "present a fact situation and encouraging, with between 75 have a discussion on it using a and 100 Rice prelaw students strategic method just as if we attending. One of the points were in an actual law class." This emphasized by Keogh was our will take about 30 minutes. He good fortune in having "one of will then talk about activities of the first-rate law schools of the law students and requirements nation" right here in Texas. for graduation for fifteen or Keogh had nothing but praise twenty minutes. An open ques- for the UT Law School, remind- tion and answer period will fol- ing his audience of the school's low. fine reputation and compara- tively low tuition. Tom Greene, Baker '71 and a The prelaw speakers come to recent graduate of the UT Law Rice through the efforts of pre- School will also participate in law advisor M.V. McEnany. Lady Godiva contestants included (I to r) Tina Tomsen, Liza Stuedivant, Martha McDavid (the winner), Regina Chien, Diane Satin, and Jeanne G/ahn. -doug pock "pr ^ the rice thresher ^ Vl *(• editorial M ! V / Long before he lost the confidence of the entire country for his criminal misdeeds and consistent lies about them, Richard Nixon had lost the confidence of the rl.iiLqLJl ideological conservative constituency whos^pauses he had ) / / ----- championed and who had helped him to power. r"•{/. 7 i. , But the 1968 promise of balanced budgets became " ,1 I ' record deficits, and trips to Russia and China not only I 7 7 1 eschewed his vaunted anti-communism but refuted it. "Law and order" amounted to appointing as Attorney General a Wall Street finance lawyer named John Mitchell to apply his dubious talents (mainly a "tough-mindedness" that would have made Mussolini proud) to making the streets safe to walk again. After continually rejecting wage and price controls or any restraints on the free market system, Nixon incorporated them nonetheless and later appointed Peter Brennan, head of a New York construction workers' union, Secretary of Labor. Brennan had nothing in common with Nixon's economic policies, having always been in the forefront of the push for yet more inflationary wage increases, but he had made Nixon an honorary hardhat, thus making him a blood-brother of other hardhats beating up on war protestors during the 1970 Cambodian invasion. After promising in 1968 to replace welfare with "workfare" but doing nothing substantial to alleviate the welfare problem, Nixon made "That's a guy from Will Rice. He decided to do Caspar Weinberger, another "tough minded" man (whose a little free-lance wildlife management when some feathered friends deposited about six ounces of experience was with the Office of Management and guano on his 50-page philosophy paper." —duncan Budget) Secretary of HEW, with the intent to slash its budget and eliminate such "wastes" as the Office of Economic Opportunity. Nothing much came of it. opinion Despite the tough rhetoric, it became increasingly clear that Nixon's politics were the politics of expediency, not ERA, Title IX setbacks hit women conservatism. In the wake of Nixon's departure, many detailed charge of sex discrimin- pressure from the government is conservatives expressed optimism that Gerald Ford, a by LINDA EICHBLATT ation must be filed with the off. solid, trustworthy crusader for conservative causes for as school involved and investigated My feeling is that the defeat long as Nixon had been, would return to the conservative The feminist movement has thoroughly by the school before of the ERA and the dilution of been dealt, two mighty blows in HEW will investigate. As femin- Title IX are signs of a rather per- maxims so long neglected in American politics. the last few days. First, the But if Presidential appointments are any indication,* ists view this, confidentiality is vasive "backlash" against femin- defeat of the Equal Rights destroyed, complaints made dif- ists in this country. I believe Ford may be even worse news to the conservatives who Amendment (ERA) in several ficult to file, and an advantage that women will keep pressing were appalled by Nixon's lack of a firm ideology. Aside state legislatures meant that given to those wishing to pre- for equal rights and will eventu- from Vice-President Rockefeller, anathema to conservative women would not be given equal serve the status quo.