CADDES HEADS STUDENT ASSOCIATION All - School, Class Officers Elected I Elections for All-School and Class Offices Were Held Monday, March 25
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P 9m <&- 3 41 Tmts All fltraf—t a./ Neviptp«r Vote Today Vote Today - In Senate In Senate Straw Poll THRP; Straw Poll Volume Forty-Four—Number 24 HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1957 CADDES HEADS STUDENT ASSOCIATION All - School, Class Officers Elected I Elections for all-school and class offices were held Monday, March 25. From these elections resulted five run- offs, which were held Wednesday, the 27th. Tn Student Association offices, there was a runoff for SA president between Don Caddes and Henry Gissel, with the final vote going to Caddes. Vice - president is Patti Blackledge, and Secre- tary is Ann Page. Frank Dent Straw Vote Today gained the office of SA treasurer PATTI BLACKLEDGE FRANK DENT DON CADDES unopposed, while a runoff be- On Senate Race S. A- President New S. A. Veep Treasurer tween Lee Dozier and Park Wea- Vote today for U. S. Senator. ver placed Weaver in the post This is the message from the Student Council of councilman-at-large. Young Republicans, sponsors of Cheerleader a straw ballot election to drum- Out of twenty-one candidates up student interest in one of x,:: >:;••• Senior Honor ; for cheerleader, Bob Fulmer, Car- !the most important senatorial olyn Dearmond, Homer Spencer, elections in Texas history. and Mike Smelley were elected, Candidates on the Rice Ballot Council Ballot with Bob Fulmer receiving head will include; Searcy Bracewell. cheerleader. attorney and member of the Tex- Honorees are Patti Blackledge, as Senate from Harris County, Is Discussed Penny Blackledge, Linda Davis, a Conservative Democrat, and Eisenhower Democrat; Martin BY ERLENE HUBLY Carolyn Dearmond, Annita Fite, Dies, Congressman-at-large and Morality with liberal sprink- Sammie O'Kelley, Eileen O'Leary, Conservative Democrat; James P. lings of legality and a dash of Ann Page, Phyllis Phair, Rilda Hart, former Chancellor of the Steve Shapiro formed tHe core Richardson, and Sandra Schlafke. University of Texas, loyal and for the student council meeting— Class B Graduates liberal Democrat; Thad Hutche- which centered around elections,. Class elections for the Class B ANN PAGE PARK WEAVER son, sole Republican on the tick- The big dispute before the coun- graduates placed Bo Wilbanks as Secretary Councilman-at-Large et; John White, Agriculture Com- cil and the students was (and is) president, Wes Pittman as Vice- missioner, liberal and loyal Dem- that of Senior Honor Council po- President, Hank Coors as Se.cre- ocrat, and Ralph Yarborough, sition. Of the ten candidates, two, tary-Treasurer, Frank Driskill as three-time candidate for govern- as of last week's council meet- student council representative, FOUR WIN DANFORTH, or, also a loyal Democrat. ing, were declared "illegal" as and David Shoemaker as Honor not all of the ten signatures on Councilman. FULBRIGHT GRANTS Republican or Democratic con- their petitions were from the can- Officers for the class of 1958 Two Danforth graduate fel- liminary research in her doctor- trol of the Senate is the big ques- didate's class. * However, the ar- were selected with a runoff be- al thesis, which she expects to tion of the election. Only six of gument has come up that mem- lowships and two Fulbright tween Jim Greenwood and Ben complete on her return to Rice. the 22 candidates are well known bers of the election committee scholarships have been recently Orman for president, with Or- to state voters and they are the signed these petitions as they were awarded to Rice students. Sen- Roy Hofheinz, the other win- rnan winning. Vice-President is ner of a Fulbright award to Eleanor Mengden, and a runoff ones on the Rice ballot. Thad turned in, thus implying their va- iors Rex Mai'tin and John Cham- lidity. University of Vienna, will not j was held between Don Bell and i Huteheson is the Republican who, bl«ss, holders of Woodrow Wilson accept his vgrant because 'he j Don Payne for Secretary-Treas- 'if elected, will tie up the division The council was split pretty scholarships, have been awarded already holds a Rhodes scholar- | urer, from which Payne emerged J between Republicans and Demo- evenly on the question, causing Danforth fellowships, and Mrs. ship. I (Continued on Page 8) j crats and throw the vote to Viee- two different viewpoints to de- ! President Nixon in case of a tie. velop. Some of the council felt Catherine Savage, graduate as- that because members of the | sistant in French, and Roy Hof- College Names Polls will be open from 8 to election committee had signed the heinz, wtho will be a Rhodes | 1:30 and all students are urged petitions in question as they were to vote in the all-school election scholar next year, were awarded turned in, they were legal . which will determine Rice's straw- while others felt that the candi- Fulbright scholarships. WILL RICE SERVED AS candidate to the United States dates should have expressed The Danforth appointment is Senate. State-wide voting will be enough interest "to check their given to about 60 men preparing held on April 2. petitions before submitting them TRUSTEE FOR 45 YEARS O to see if they were in order." for college teaching. Selection is based on outstanding academic This is the first of a series of articles civil engineering. He gv^uated Further Complicated on the lives of the men for whom Rice's records, personality congenial to new colleges have been named. in the class of 1879, which also Annual Lectures The issue was further compli- the classroom, and integrity and By MARC SMITH (Continued on Page 9) included Woodrow Wilson, a per- O character with emphasis on moral ". he exposed bis mind, no sonal friend of Mr. Rice. Set on April 2, 3 and religious values in teaching less than his body, to the search- The annual Anderson Lectures ing sun, electric storms, and con- Will Rice returned to Texas and counseling. The appointment will be presented this year on flicting winds, of the great out- 3-Lit Barn Dance which grants $'1800 a year for (Continued on Page 7) April 2 and 3 at 8 pm in the dooi-s." single men and $2400 a year for Fondren Library Lecture Lounge. Scheduled April 6 married men, is expected to be Thus did Edgar Odell Lovett, Doctor E. Harris Harbison, the retired president of Rice In- Brought about through the mu- renewed throughout the years of Anderson Visiting Lecturer of stitute, metaphorically describe tual efforts of the MELLS, graduate study. Martin and 1957 will give two talks with William M. Rice, the founder's PALS, and OWLS, the 1957 Tri- Chambless, who will do graduate "The Intellectual as a Social Re- nephew, on his death in 1944. Lit Barn Dance will be held Sat- work next year at Columbia and former" as the general title. urday, April 6, at the Light Princeton* using their Wilson Lifelong Friendship The subject for the April 2 Guard Armory. Hours will be grants, will hold the Danforth For his lifelong friendship, his ' lecture will be Machiavelli, while from 8 to 12"pm. fellowships "without stipend"' many benefactions and services to j the second topic will be Sir Thom- Tickets will go on sale in the Until the other appointments the Institute, tlje new Will Rice i as More. Doctor Harbison will Lounge Monday, April 1, priced lapse. College has been named for him. | attempt to sketch how these two at $2.00 per couple. They will Mr. Rice, named after the founders of modern political also be available during this week Mrs. Savage, winner of the founding William Marsh Rice, thinking came, to develop their from any member of the sponsor- Fulbright award, will spend next was born here on October 26, ideas and how they differed in ing literary societies. year at the University of Gren- 1857, seven years after his par- the conclusions which they draw. Hillbilly music will be fur- oble in the French Alps, wthere ents moved to Houston from Machiavelli's realism and nished by Ken Williams and the slhe expects to profit from the Springfield, Massachusetts. He More's Utopianism will be treated Southernaires, appearing at the many courses and lectures on attended the now-defunct Hous- as two polar attitudes of political 1 WILL RICE Barn Dance for the third con- French literature, art and civili- ton Academy, and then Princeton thought. On^ April 3 modern secutive year. zation. She will undertake pre- University, where he studied Former Trustee (Continued on Page 9) f y,. ™ - "W J* • W"'« i, , Two THE TdllSBll FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1M7 THEY WELCOME Rocket tp Launch APRIL SHOWERSl Symphotiy Ends Season Those Rice raincoats being Earth worn by Patti and Penny Black* Satellite ledge, Shirley Severin, R i 1 d a With Powerful Ninth BY FRED ER1SMAN minutes—a speed of 17»500 mph. Richardson, Carolyn Dearmond, During the International Geo- By MARC SMITH and eightih Symphony. We were anti- At this speed, the satellite will and Donna Martin are a gift from physical Year, from July, 1957, to HELEN MORRIS cipating the Ninth. travel across the United States Joske's of Gulfgate. Named December, 1958, there will be Last Monday evening the Hous- Performance of Ninth in approximately ten minuteB. "Slicka Tog" by Rainfashions of fired from Patrick Air Force ton Symphony performed its The performance of the Ninth, To place a satellite into an or- New York, they are white trim- Base a rocket carrying a basket- final concert of the subscription while falling short of perfection, bit about the earth, certain re- med with blue corduroy and grey ball sized magnesium sphere.