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THE RICE THRESHER Pages 4 & 5 CELEBRATING the THRESHER's 50TH YEAR Twelve Pages Free University? This Week THE RICE THRESHER Pages 4 & 5 CELEBRATING THE THRESHER'S 50TH YEAR Volume 53—Number 4 HOUSTON, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1965 lp; m Weltner Of Georgia Speaks On Kitchen Changes Southern Electorate For Forum Blamed In Rice Rep. Charles L. Weltner of that Mr. Weltner represents was Food Shortages Georgia, Southern civil rights created after the federal courts Reports from the college headwa iters indicate the recent supporter, will speak on "The overturned Georgia's unfair "food shortage" on campus is Changing Electorate in the county-unit electoral system, the result of innovations in the South" in Fondren Library- which lopsidely favored rural Food Service's new Central Kit- Lecture Lounge at 8:45 pm counties as opposed to urban chen system. Monday night, October 11, in areas. He represents an Atlanta The blame for this "shortage" the first Forum Committee district in which reside some rests primarily on three fac- program of the year. 105,000 Negroes, of whom 57,- tors: college distribution, tight 000 are registered voters and ordering, and new dieticians. Mr. Weltner has first-hand supporters of his. knowledge of the ever-changing College distribution methods have changed. Instead of appor- Southern electorate. Though he tioning colleges' food by pans, has strong traditional ties with With the courts requiring as was done prior to this aca- the South, Mr. Weltner, a states to redistrict in order to demic year, food is processed Democrat, supported the 1964 adjust to the shifts in popula- by the gallon; meat by the Civil Rights act and the new tion and the passage and en- pound. The new methods are as voter registration act and urged forcement of new voting laws yet unproved, and will be modi- that the K.K.K. be investigated. by Congress and the President, Paul Brewer, chairman of the fied as future experiences dic- As Time recorded, Mr. Welt- Forum Committee, feels that tate. ner's position on these and other Mr. Weltner may serve as an A college headwaiter ex- issues "was partly a testament accurate forecast of things to plained "tight ordering" citing to his integrity." Time went on, come in the South. Most of his Photo by Burgess a recent incident at one of the "Even more, it was a result Southern colleagues in Congi-ess DESIRE—Linda Walsh (left) and Faith Hazelton have lead- men's colleges. "At an evening of the South's changing politic- have even begrudgingly come to ing roles in the Rice Players' first production of the year, 'A meal for which 229 people were al climate, in which the Negro Streetcar Named Desire,' directed by Neil Havens. The play accept his position. "After all," expected, only 230 baked pota- opens a four-night run on Thursday, October 14. Other per- vote is increasingly important." says Brewer, "a man has to formances are on October 15, 17, and 18. Curtain is at 8 every toes were ordered. In this case, The fifth district of Georgia represent his district." night in Hamman Hall. a dropped tray would have USELESS COMMITTEE? caused a real shortage." In The Thresher In addition to new distribu- Since our business staff tion and ordering techniques, broke a record selling ads new dietitians have been ap- SA May End Publications Board this week, we have attempted The Student Publications which are ready for press be- feated, but the question was to fill the increased number pointed to each of the men's Board, the committee of the fore graduation, sometimes" Tess raised of controlling the Cam- of pages with items of inter- colleges, which indicates some Student Association which is than fifty percent of the book. panile before it was printed. est to the Rice community. delay as the new staff members responsible for the supervision Later Campanile pages are Some members felt that the Among them: become acquainted with the of the Thresher, Campanile, and read by the two faculty mem- editor should have full re- Janus, came under fire at the bers of the committee. sponsibility; others suggested • A slight mix-up by a Service. Improvements have al- Senate meeting Tuesday night. Former Committee chairman that the Senate attempt to di- national columnist as to just so been made in the college kit- where a new free university The committee, it was Patti Lewis told the Senate that rectly control the yearbook chens. The most frequently charged, has no real function. the committee also acts as is. He claims its at Rice. We through moral suasion of the noted improvement is the in- Originally designed to censor liaison between the Senate and editor. can't find it. Pages 4 and 5. "irresponsible" publications, the the publications. • The president of the stallation of roll-heating ovens A motion, by Jeff Norris, to committee no longer investi- Motion Tabled Rice Student Association in each college kitchen. Head- abolish the committee and re- gates the Janus or Thresher. Ray Needham made the mo- wants Rice to take a larger waiters note the ovens ensure quire instead bi-yearly reports The full committee reviews only tion that the . committee be role in Texas higher educa- better service and larger, fresh- the pages of the Campanile abolished. The proposal was; de- from all editors was tabled tion, page 2. pending more discussion next er portions. week. Dedication Ceremony, Open House Food Comm. Seeks Members David Turner, Food Com- Pfeiffer To Head Math Research, mittee Chairman, reported that Mark Addition Of Brown College he is now ...recruiting members Margarett Root Brown college to avoid the confusion which Large Faculty Increase Expected for his committee" from each By JOHN WELGE separate departments of sys- was officially turned over to would have resulted from hav- college. He hopes to gain more tems research will be establish- Rice University at the dedica- ing personal guests thei'e with This year two new buildings food in the colleges and more ed. tion and open house in the col- the 1500 guests invited by the will appear on Rice's' ever- popular menus. The biology department is lege last Sunday, October 3. college. Sixty-five of these expanding skyline, a math Turner's committee will also also active fn the research field, guests came to the luncheon sciences building and a million The ceremony itself was very investigate the room and board receiving $600,000 this year in before the dedication. dollar addition to the biology brief. Dr. Frank Vandiver, Mas- charges. laboratory. 25 research and training grants. ter of the College, introduced Senate President Bill Broyles The math building will house, As a part of this an extension Mr. and Mrs. George Brown presented a report on the Texas as well as the math faculty, a to the Rice biological laboratory and other distinguished guests. Intercollegiate Student Asso- Committee on Applied Mathe- will be built to the west of the The Browns are primarily re- zBm ciation meeting, which he at- matics and Systems Research, present building. sponsible for the college's cre- tended in Wimberly last week- headed by Dr. Paul Pfeiffer. The U. S. Public Health ation, as well as its design and end. Broyles advocated estab- Rice obtained last summer a Service has provided $458,000 decoration. lishing better contact with other National Science Foundation for this, and Rice has more than President K. S. Pitzer then school through such organiza- grant for $2.39 million to matched this sum for the new accepted the College on behalf tions, rather than remaining inaugurate a systems research research facilities. of the University. isolated. program. $900,000 of this will Faculty Increases go into the main building ac- To meet its expanding re- Martha Kirkpatrick, Presi- Work Force Formed cording to Dr. M. Curtis, chair- research committments, the dent of Brown, accepting the Broyles recommended - that man of the Math Department. biology department will add six college for the members, said Rice participate in TISA's Con- The remainder will provide for to eight new faculty members that although the building was ference on Higher Education in new faculty members, an analog over the next couple of years. complete, the work of the girls Texas in February. He also computer, graduate study There are currently 28, grad- was just beginning. Their task asked for a bylaw amendment grants, and secretarial assist- uate students and 10 post- is to make the college "a way to allow the SA to spend money ance. doctorate fellows doing re- of life, not just a place to live." for TISA at its discretion, Systems Research search in the department, ac- The dedication was followed rather than under the one Systems research involves cording to Dr. Read, chairman by an open house from 3 to 5 hundred dollar limit now im- dividing problems into more of the department. p.m. for all the guests. The posed. digestible components. Relation- Support for their projects girls of the college gave guided The Senate accepted Jeff ships among these components comes from the National In- tours of the college. A separate Norris's suggestion that the can then be studied, using com- stitute of Health, the Welch open house followed from 5 to senators sign up volunteers in puter techniques. Foundation, the Atomic Energy 7 p.m. for the residents private Photo by Burgess each college interested in work- One goal of the program is Commission, and the National guests. MARTHA KIRKPATRICK ing on student activities, in i n t e r-disciplinary co-operation Science Foundation, as well as The open house was divided Brown College President (Continued on Page 3) in research.
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