Pitzer names Wischmeyer an all-student 7 newspaper 'Continuing Studies head By CLARK CHAMBERLAIN planned for the summer of 1968. Thresher Reporter The program will assist participants 52 years the Baker master Carl R. Wischmeyer in bridging the gap between their earlier will resign his college post at the end formal education and the rapidly chang- of the spring semester to become director ing scientific and technological discip- of a new Office of Continuing Studies, lines, according to Wischmeyer. said University President Kenneth Pit- Such fields as computer technology or zer in a surprise announcement last econometrics could be covered under such night at the annual Baker Night dinner. a program, he said. Actual subjects cho- No choice has been made on a re- sen will be those in which particular Rice placement as Baker master, Pitzer said. faculty members specialize, Wischmeyer The new office will organize inten- added, emprasizing that no final de- sive, short-term courses designed to cisions have been reached on what cour- thresnef counter the problem of professional ob- ses to offer. vol. 55 no. 12 honston, texas thuvsday, december 7, 1967 solescence. Initial course offerings are As director, Wischmeyer will be faced with organizing the entire struc- ture of the new program. He will primarily concern himself SCEP outlines plan to investigate with the industrial and acadc-mio groundwork necessary to es- academ science and math courses tablish the project rather than By LAI HA KAPLAN Cohen reported that there will problems of course content, he Thresher Reporter be an effort to eliminate the said. S<T',p chairman Peter Sar- Baccalaureate, at which attend- Wischmeyer was one of the torius reported to the senate ance is required, or to make the original five masters appointed Tuesday that his committee is service non-sectarian. in October, 1956 during the se- <• ii i" »•' e n 11 y investigating a mester before the colleges were Complaints about the Campus change in the science-math re- formally organized. His retire- store were addressed to Kim <juirements for academs. ment will reduce the ranks of Hill. It was noted that gradu- the original masters to two— The investigation will ques- ate students and professors get, Dr. James S. Fulton at Will tion the. necessity of a lab sci- discounts. Expansion of the Rice and Dr. Roy Talmage of ence in terms of the limited bookstore was also mentioned. number of choices and require- Wies-. ments for each major. As a sub- Budgeting for construction of Wischmeyer, who earned his stitution for the six semester the RMC courtyard and the electrical engineering degre e science-math requirement, SCEP Owl Cage was approved. The from Rose Polytechnic and proposes an interdepartmental Senate is currently expecting Yale, has been connected with science course which will cover a financial report on room the University since 1939. the philosophy of science, the charges from the administra- lie is affiliated with over background of various fields, tion. sixteen professional societies and the history of scientific and has written over thirty- No one expressed interest in thought. Sartorius also suggest- four technical papers and. re- attending the TISA Leadership ed reform of Math 101. ports. Training Conference at El Paso The committee will circulate Wischmeyer has served as and Proviso, New Mexico, De- 1 a questionnaire to determine consultant for severa industrial cember 8-10. student and faculty opinion on firms, including Hum!i,e Oh and changing the requirement, said The Championship Rice In- TGR Research. He was recipient of a Na- Sartorius. SCEP will also write tramural football team will play to the NSA to analyze the sci- tional Science Foundation grant the University of Saint Thomas ence-math requirements of oth- for research at the Technologi- er schools around the nation on December 10. cal University of Eindhoven, before submitting its proposal Nancy Meffert announced The Netherlands, in 1959. to the Margrave committee. He is currently serving a that the 19G7-68 OWLS direc- second term on the ICEE board In addition, SCEP is working tory will go on sale Friday, De- to improve the status of audited of directors. He also holds eight cember 8, for 75 cents. Jackie Wright courses. Goals include official patents. WOULD YOU BELIEVE A CONSCIENTIOUS INTELLECTUAL notation of audited courses on Mike Thorpe as Jax dictates from his bed in "Fragments," a student's transcript, as well the best of the current players' one-acts, according to Thresher as some form of credit for a Turkey grades about average reviewer Gordon Braden. Review on page four. student who audits a course but The infamous Rice "turkey grades" were issued last week passes the final exam. by Registrar James C. Morehead, Jr. Of 2,769 grades for regu- Also under current study by lar freshman courses, about 10 percent were l's and about six SCEP are: percent, 5's. Both numbers are slightly lower than usual. Oser optimistic about local political Reduction of course loads, Number of grades-—Percentages adoption of Plan II, the Wood- Course l 2 l 5 ward Plan, evaluation of the Architecture 0 0 43-100', v 0 0 climate despite election difficulties honors programs, and the ques- Biology . 12- ;r • 18-14'; 46-36' r 34-27'., 17-13'p George Oser, unsuccessful 150 attorneys have volun- tion of transfer credit and ad- Chemistry . 17- r. • o 115-36' <' 129-40% 40-12',; 2i- 7 candidate in recent Houston teered to help him contest the vanced credit. Commerce 100 . 3- 9' 'r 9-26'r 18-53'; 3- 9'. 0 school board elections, told a election, he claimed. Registration by semester Commerce 110 .. 2- 7'.; 8-30'e 12-44 % 5-1!)'. 0 small group at Will Rice Tues- rather than for the entire year English 7- 2' f 167-35',, 267-55 9b 36- 7' o 7- 2'c day that he is actually optimist- Although out of power, Oser has been approved. Course Math 100 .. 43-13'. 83-25'r 110-33'/o 66-17','<• 32-10% ic about education in Houston has organized a special "watch- changes will be free for the Math 101 13-13'r 5o-5o( o 16-16'/o 11-11', 7- 7r'o because the "old cliches" are dog" committee to observe and first week of the semester. Physics 12-12 Vis 26-25', 42-41', c 15-15',; 7- 7' a breaking down. criticize the board. Senate vice-president David Oser was removed from the run-off ballot by the conserva- Likes Sgt. Pepper tive majority of the board, which charged that he was not a qualified candidate. Previn notes musical mediocrity dichotomy He compared Houston to Dal- By LEE HORSTMAN ceded that this "primitivist" music of sheer Second, it may be better for the listen- las, where a coalition of young Andre Previn charmed an audience of rhythm—which is everywhere that muzak er to put on a shirt and ritually attend business and professional peo- about fifty persons at Wiess College last is not—sometimes achieves excellence. the live concert, so that he may in some ple and the city's poor recently night as he light-heartedly discussed the But even the Beatles, in their "Sgt. Pep- way match the professional effort and broke the hold of the "reaction- full spectrum of music—and the value of per's Lonely Hearts Club Band", make no self-control that goes into the .creation of ary conservatives" on the school its absence. attempt to escape the "right now" preoccu- music. To Previn, "listening is a talent like- board. Previn is an accomplished jazz pianist, a pation of current pop music. playing" and demands practice. The 54,000 votes he polled composer for movies and concert orchestra- Coat-and-tie Electronics has definitely brought the before being disqualified in- tion and the Conductor-in-Chief of Hous- After examining this dichotomy of composers of "chance music" to a flower- ton's Symphony Orchestra. mediocrity in "everyday music culture", ing, he said, in a kind of rebellion against cluded significant number of 1 voters who ordinarily voted for He opened by observing that music de- Previn took note of the increasing de- canned music' combined with an embrace hard-core conservatives, he said. rives its value from the fact that "once pendence of the whole musical field on of the technology that engendered canned in a while it stops". electronics: from muzak, to electric har- music. Oser insisted, however, that For this reason, Previn decried the grow- monicas, to-computer music by John Cage, Previn called such chance music "rare- the label "liberal" does not ac- ing omni-presence of muzak, composed and as well as that basic revolution which is ly profound but always clever," and rather cui'ately describe him. He called recorded to be "heard but not listened to" the phonograph record. The move to elec- "like a hapening." An example of this, is himself a "fiscal conservative" by an annonymous and "meaningless un- tronics is a distinctly 20th century revolu- the performance where nine radios are who is liberal when meeting derground" of talent. He averred that air- tion, culminating in a situation where "if turned one and aimlessly dialed non-syn- human needs. He was a Young plane and dentist-office muzak do anything the lights go out, you have no music." chronously. Republican in college. but alay his fears about either environ- Previn questioned whether electronics Musical Welfare After outlining the way in ment. will kill the live concert, though. First, he Previn defended the right of serious mu- which his name p &s removed Decibles sees a value in the listener actually wit- sicians to do commercial work (Hollywood, from the ballot, Oser said he Previn saw the opposite musical extreme nessing human error in the creation of Broadway, Madison Avenue), claiming that would continue to challenge the —pop music "at its zenith of decibles"— music, rather than hearing a de-bugged it prevents starvation among the former as equally reprehensible.