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PREXIES — Five of the six newly- from left to right, Julius Sensat (Hans- and Tom Bertrand (Wiess), Chip No- college elections are detailed on page elected college presidents are shown zen), Martha Johnson (Brown), Sandy votny (Will Rice) is not pictured; ho 10 of this week's Thresher. above in natural habitat. They are, Mueller (Baker), Joan Gurasich (Jones), forgot to come. Results of the recent Thresher I'hutu Kv Uich.-'.n! Sawyer
Have A Good Rousing THE RICE THRESHER Easter AN ALL-STUDENT NEW SPAPER FOR 51 YEARS Volume 54—Number 21 RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001 March Ifi, 1%7 SCEP stresses Penn Jones, noted Warren critic 20 Wilson Fellows need for support Twenty Rice seniors have won Woodrow Wilson Founda- and Texas newsman, speaks Friday tion Fellowship for 1967-68. They are: Penn Jones Jr., editor of the France. Since 1945 he has ed- in filing reports Daniel F. Albright Wiess English weekly Midlothian (Tex.) "Mir- ited and published the ''.Mir- By PHIL GARON Paul H. Berdahl Wiess Physics ror" will speak at 7:00 pm this ror." In 1968 he was awarded Thresher Editorial Staff Sandra J. Coyner Brown History Friday in Baker Commons on tlje Elijah Parish Lovejuy the topic "New Perspectives on Award for Courage in Journal- About 2,000 of the 5,000 Richard E. Darilek Hanszen History SCEP forms mailed out have Kennedy's Death: a Criticism of ism by Southern Illinois Uni- Joel E. Dendy, Jr. Wiess Mathematics been returned, according- to the Warren Report." Jones has versity SCEP Chairman Peter Hollings. Don C. Des Jarlais Baker Social Psychology written a book, "Forgive My According to Ramparts mag- However, a lack of response in Linda R. Fagg Brown Biology Grief," subtitled "A. Critical Re- azine, he is "almost: alone in several departments has cre- James Ronald Green Baker English. view of the Warren Commission Texas to challenge publicly the Report on the Assassination tenuous conclusions of the War - ated problems in evaluation. Jerome C. Hafter Hanszen Political Science of President John F. Kennedy." ren Report." Hollings stressed that returns Ned A. Hurley Baker English from most of the courses in Jones was born in Anona, a About the assassination, the Paul M. Johnson Wiess Political Science Group B, with the exception of small East Texas town, where Texas Observer said "Penn economics courses, has been George W. Kennedy Baker English he lived until entering junior Jones is one of those who can- "wretched." Kenneth W. Kennedy Hanszen Mathematics college in Magnolia, Arkansas. not forget about it, perhaps he*- Response has also been poor Donald Q. Lamb Wiess Physics He later attended the Univer- will solve it, or help solve it . " from the departments of geol- John Eric Lueders Hanszen English sity of Texas. During World ogy and electrical engineering. Karen J. Payne Jones English War II, he served in the in- The greatest scarcity of returns vasion of Italy and southern Noted Far East has come from the small, up- Steve F. Sapontzis Baker Philosophy per-level coui^es in all of the Le Anne Schreiber Jones English departments sampled. Jane Ann Starling Jones Genetics scholar to speak Hollings urged that students Eva A. Wydra Jones English who have not returned the com- In addition, the following si v seniors received IK on nomad, China puterized forms do so immedia- mention: Hubert H. Ekvail, a ' r 'Vr •- : tely, and suggested that stu- Mary J. Amspoker Brown History : i l: : 1 o!| till: !'\i.' K\ ' . W dents make use of last year's Patricia E. Bryan Jones History i irr.ii"; L a so '':>"S of Uon : SCEP forms, which are now in William T. Hearron Baker English ' ribo: 1.ifo \ays <•" • . U 1. • • O '• the college commons and the Ijawrence M. Jordan Hanszen Chemistry -KMC, to evaluate any courses, Robert L. Stout Baker Mathematical Psychology particularly the small, advanced Letitia K. Zumwult Jones English courses. Nationwide, a total of 1251) fellowships were awarded. The deadline for all the forms The Rico awards represent about 4.5^ of the senior class. sent through the mails is Mon- The Fellows receive tuition and 1'ees for one academic day, March 20, since the com- year Of graduate school, a living stipend of $2,000, and allow- puter will evaluate these forms ances for dependent children. In addition, the schools in which Thursday. All of ; aosc !• Cores 'during the spring recess. The the Fellows enroll each receive a supplementary grant from will take place a: toe Kondiva forms now in the colleges may the Foundation. Loci tire Lounge. be filled out during the vaca- Fellows are required to give serious consideration to col- Tn addition. Ekvail will epoak tion and returned by the end of lege teaching as a career. PENN JONES on '"'China "Now"' on Friday. March. At Baker Friday March :?1 at 8 pm in Ham- man Hall. The author of numerous ar- ticles and books on Tibet arid Caravan will drive home problems of indigents China, Ekvail has had long ex- by BARRY KAPLAN the unbelievable. The mechanics of the caravan are quite perience in the Far East. He Thresher Editorial Staff Travel is truly broadening, and the simple: was horn in China of mission- Moses led a caravan from Egypt to miles between the civilized parts of the Anyone at Eke who wishes to go to ary parents and lived there un- Palestine, the Crusades are a history of state of Texas and Starr County will drive Rio Grande City should appear at the til the "age of 14, when ho was caravans, the civil rights movement is home the message that Texas apologists Huelga table in the RMC Friday a n d sent to the U'.S. for his educa- noted for caravans, and the movement to need: leave his name. Anyone with inquiries or tion. doubts will he gratefully received. (Doubts He attended Whcaton College aid the farm workers of the lower Rio If Texas is to be as great as the tradi- might include the perpetual question of and the University of Chicago Grande Valley will have its caravan next tional "brags" say it is, there must be an what happens to young ladies on such and then returned to China and weekend. almost total reform of some of the prac- rough and ready outdoor excursions. All Tibet, living there between 192?. Two separate trains of cars and trucks, tices of the owners of a large part of women on the caravan must stay in hotels and 1941. From 1914-1958 he was one leaving Austin, the o t h e r leaving the State's agricultural economy. or motels along the route, under lock and by turns an army intelligence of- Houston, will arrive in Corpus Christi on The food and medical supplies delivered key.) ficer, a truce negotiator in Ko- Saturday night. The next afternoon, to the strikers will, of course, be the tan® rea, an interpreter for the Mil- Easter Sunday, people from all over the gible goal of the caravan. But the educa- On Friday, March 24, at 7 pm, there itary Armistice Commission, state will be able to view first-hand the tional value of the experience will be per- will be a meeting of all caravanistas at the State Department, and As- physical conditions in which human beings haps equally important to the future of the Religion Center of the University of ian Conference at Geneva, an must exist in the state that will be instru- the Mexican-American laborers of the Val- Houston. At that time, the trucks will be intelligence officer for the Pen- •fcientkl -in piloting a man on the moon. ley. This cause transcends partisan and loaded with foodstuffs and medicines to tagon, and assistant military At the same time, the feudal barons of factious political questions. be delivered. the southern part of Texas will become The assembly time Saturday morning attache to the U.S. Paris em- aware that exploitation does not go un- There are votes in the Valley, and there will be 6:15 in the parking lot of the new- bassy. observed. The mutual shock of recogni- are future shapers of the policies of Texas. University Center. The cani^gan will r-oll He has been associated with tion will benefit all concerned—the grow- But above all, there are Texans in tyae at 7 am, and will arrive in Corpus Christi the University of Chicago and ers, because they will move up into the Valley, Tescians whose culture can add much that evening. The rest will be history. the University of Washington twentieth century; the caravanistas be- to a state that ever admits the possibility VIVA LA HUELGA! while doing research, teaching, cause they will see with their own eyes of enrichment. Next week: The Real Thing. and writing. *)K toco maiden «uutt Carpenter urges Fiber open lines On most college campuses, students protest regulations altogether ? of communication for discussions against their administration about social- regu- The in loco parentis notion still prevails. The An open letter to President Pitzer: lations, and the general trend is for students woWn's colleges act so conservatively for two to favor a minimization of restriction. On the reasons: they don't want to do anything radical I read with great interest your words to the men of Hanszen Rice campus, however, a unique system of stu- for fear of jeopardizing their control over the as excerpted in last week's Thresher. And well I should be in- dent government allows students themselves to regulation procedure (which, if so tenuous and terested, because as a student, I think of Rice as my university, play the role of old mother hen; and, merely so easily dominated, must not really be control existing to serve my (students') needs. As President of Rice, exercising this right, the girls of Jones and anyway); and the cabinets are filled with girls you are likely to think of it as your university. And since you have Brown have instituted for themselves a new who honestly believe it is their function to regu- considerable power, I am very concerned about what needs you regulation. late and direct their peers toward young lady- think my university is here to serve. So in what follows, I shall be Once upon a time there was a deanly rule shfp, perhaps to preserve the cultured "atmo- offering comments on your words as they concern me as a student. requiring Rice girls to dress like young ladies sphere" of the place. —skirts only to classes, library, etc. A bit of Brown College recently drew up a long recom- During my three years at Rice, I have performed many roles investigation this year, however, revealed that mendation for curfew regulation reform, includ- besides that of "student." For instance, I have been trained in the current deans are not interested in such ing some liberalizing measures and an actual techniques of literary and rhetorical analysis. I have been taught trivial matters. Confusion reigned, largely in tightening of regulations for freshmen. Why to pay close attention to the way men use words, and I have the Jones College cabinet. Indeed, according to does not a college cabinet take a stand some- acquired tools for questioning (if not understanding) the as- established college constitutional procedure,'and what respectful of the supposed or anticipated sumptions and motivations which are reflected in (although not what could be learned of nebulous "University maturity of the college woman and propose often made explicit by) the ways men express themselves. Being policy," no regulation existed. But, since some abolishing curfews altogether? For safety's sake, only human, I can never completely separate the roles I've learned, girls seemed to THINK there was a rule (once there is validity to locking up the colleges at and thus I shall also be offering comments on your words as they upon a time there had been), that cabinet de- night; but with roving security men and other concern me as a rhetorical analyst and literary critic. cided to make one. So, by various devious means, possible systems, such as a key system, why set the women's colleges acting in concert planned up rules and punishments for girls who have Your printed text begins by documenting the range of your to hold an election. And on the ballot would be cause to stay out beyond the witching hour? experience with other universities and their educational structures. two choices: a strict rule or a loose rule. No It is indeed necessary for residential colleges You have kept "in touch" with the Colleges at Claremont, are choice for no rule at all. to establish and enforce rules governing those familiar with the Santa Cruz and La Jolla campuses, and so on. Well, the loose rule won, and Rice women areas of behavior where, for the sake of the What you are doing in this opening, rhetorically speaking, is may now wear slacks and bermuda shorts, as community, it is necessary for some individuals establishing yourself as having sufficient knowledge, and hence, well as skirts, to class and the library, etc. to restrict their individual actions. It is not Such rules ought to be unnecessary. If our under any circumstance necessary or legitimate authority, to speak on the educational structure at Rice. Your administrators have confidence enough in the for a University, or in particular the students technique here is analogous to my own in this letter, where I .-judgment and taste of college women, why don't or student government of a residential college, open by documenting my interest and authority (as a student and to adopt restrictions which require conformity to the students ? Administrators and students alike analyst) to make comments on your speech. seem to have concluded that forcing girls into archaic, or even current, notions of how to mold ladylike dress is an archaic procedure; but why college women into somebody's idea of a lady. You show that you have certain preconceptions about what don't the girls take the next step, the logical That is for her to do for herself, and if her sort of experience qualifies one to speak upon Rice's educational step, the one implicitly recommended to them environment is filled with worthy examples, she structure. Your second paragraph further elaborates your precon- by the deans' denial, of abolishing such dress shall learn it soon enough. —SJC ceptions with a reminder that certain areas of experience (knowl- edge structure at Harvard and Yale) are more relevant and lend more authority than others. By this appeal to your audience ("Let us remember . . —line 1, paragraph 2), you indicate that you For you and your Yum-Yum • feel your ideas on what qualifies a person to discuss Rice are shared by the students you address. Sex rears its ugly head at Jones At this point, I would like to raise my first questions. A By ROGER GLADE Heh. good many students you addressed are interested in initiating a Thresher Fine Arts Editor THAT, gentlemen, is a master stroke—for dialogue Avith men in thqgadministration and faculty such as your- It lias long been a standing axiom around if one dials that number he will make contact self. At least, this is what they claim each week in the Thresher, tliis place that if one locks up the mares the with Miss Mary Regina Prynm, a delightful in college meetings, and elsewhere. And before they expend con- stallions won't get into any trouble. seventy-three year old spinster who lives in siderable amounts of their valuable time on such dialogue, they That is, at least in the^ Rice vocabulary, sex- Omaha, Nebraska, and raises goldfish. might reasonably be concerned with whether they'will be listened is a four letter word. Further, she LOVES to speak to Rice men, We could hardly agree more. Our basic Puri- and has long ago ceased wondering why she to. That is, they would wish to know more about your conceptions tan strain rebels at the very idea of—well, all gets so many calls. of what qualifies a person to speak on the Rice situation. Does THAT, you know. . «. Ah, vigilance, you have triumphed again. one need to know about Oxford, Cambridge, Claremont, and Yale? Anyway, after two weeks Once more the forces of reproduction have What sort of contact with such institutions qualifies one to speak ? of blissful rest and relaxa- been thwarted &nd the world is safe for democ- What attention will be paid to a person deficient in these areas ? tion, we of the Yum - Yum racy. staff have returned feeling at You leave, of course, wounded and wonder- These are vital questions to your audience, Mr. Pitzer. I sin- once beneficent and serene. ing why Miss Prynm insists on talking so cerely believe they would like a further articulation of your ideas Hence, we come not to lam- much. And once again the happy hop-frogs . on the subject. And for that matter, I hope that you would be bast, but to salute those who return to their seats in the basement guarding interested in related ideas they might hold. You see, an under- are in the forefront of pre- the washing machines. standing in this area of qualification is basic to any discussion venting—well, "foals" we suppose—from over- CROW: which might ensue. It could be (this is just a possibility, not T running the campus. We recant! W e recant! Go see "the Sea-Gull" an accusation) that you feel no student has enough experience to We refer of course to those champions of at the Alley. Who are we to disagree with be qualified with you. chastity, the delightful, loveable, and essen- Ann Holmes? Besides, everybody has loved it. tially hospitable staff pf Jones North. (We do wish, however, that something more It could also be (again, just a possibility) that many students Picture this, you, a male (healthy, red- daring might be forthcoming, Alley Theatre, hold criteria which disbar you from being qualified to speak on blooded, apple-pied, American) approach the so there) this issue. They might notice, for example, that your training front desk to make contact with your yum- (also, so there, Houston Chronicle) profoundly influences the way your thought is structured. They vum who is, blissfully ignorant, ensconced in PHEASANT: could look to your published statements and gather evidence for some cubicle above. It's here! It's here! (No, friends, I don't their conclusions from the way you use language. For example, in your statement last week, they might emphasize phraseology The desk of course is vacant — the staff mean Antonioni's "Blow-Up"—which by the such as "the fundamental principle," "a second principle," or having secreted themselves in the basement in by is here too at the Delman) But rather "A "principle of equal access" as indicative of the peculiarly scientific the hopes, of course, that you will (a) go Man For All Seasons" which has finally ar- structuring of your mind. And they might use such observations away and leave them alone or (b) stay, get rived—would you believe?—the Village. IT IS, to construct theories of their own which might explain how a frustrated, answer that telephone that's been QUITE SIMPLY, A MUST. mind of the particular scientific cast as yours would, by its very buzzing for fifteen minutes, and tell whoever ORIOLE'S TONGUE: nature, be incapable of being open to ideas and innovations they Ts calling that THEY should go away. "The Infernal Machine" comes to the Attic were interested in discussing. And by such reasoning (not dis- At any rate, assuming you are patient, a Theatre at U of H tonight. It's a latter-day similar to the logic which could be implicit in the two paragraphs staff member returns looking somewhat like Oedipus by Jean Cocteau and should be seen of yours I was discussing), they might conclude that there was a disgruntled bull-frog at having been forced by anybody who's a theatre nut and has the no future in attempting to initiate any sort of dialogue with you. to appear at all. time. You ask to speak with whatever-her-name "A View From The Bridge" is essential for So, you see, a fairly detailed and mutual understanding is was and are told, smilingly, that "she has a the O'Grady cultists at Country Playhouse this necessary here. A misunderstanding here can, with very few private number." week-end. We, on the other hand, must con- additional assumptions, lead to a situation.of mutual frustration And it is here, friends, that the defenders fess a certain dislike for Miller. in which there is no communication. Rather, all parties, having of virginity are at their most fiendishly.clever. A PARTING TASTE: despaired of productive interaction, withdraw behind their rhetori- They look up at you assuming an almost bea- "Man For All Seasons" Friday,. "Blow-Up" cal defenses to pursue their other interests, and vent thetr residual tific contenance and intone: "Her number is Saturday. "The Last Drop" after each. Total frustrations in occasional sniping at the other sides. 14026 JACKSON." cost: $6.00 more or less. We have money. I began this letter with the intention *of commenting on the whole body of your printed address, but now it seems I haven't THE RICE THRESHER gotten past your second paragraph. Mr. Pitzer, I am intensely interested in initiating some sort of open and detailed dialogue
SANDY COYNER The Rice Thresher, official student newspaper at Rice University, is pub- here. I have many more comments on your Hanszen speech. Others Editor lished weekly on Thursday except during holidays and examination periods by do also: Sandy Coyner began last week (see especially the last five the students of Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001. Phone JA 8-4141, ext. paragraphs of her editorial). Mr. Pitzer, I'm sure I speak for 645. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the writers and are not ROB EASTON others as well in "making this plea: Speak to us. - Communicate Business Manager necessarily those of Rice University, its administrators or officials. with us. Try to answer our questions. We are concerned about our Barry Kaplan Executive Editor Tommy Hearron Sports Richard Sawyer Photography Editor university. Phil Garon _. Managing,mEditor
THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 1 9 6 7—P A G E 2 Threshing-it-out Behrman questions Olsen's insistence on 'education' a To the Editor: I doubt that Mr. Homer con- social ills. La Huelga—the farmworkers' siders himself an anarchist, but I rather suspect that behind 1 strike—is only incidently a his vituperous attack on the the minimum wage rhetoric I problem in the conventions^ source of ideas which he finds the actual strategic goal is a regime in which the landholder economist's theory of prices. discomforting and frustrating and his liquid capital are paid The strike is, above all, an at- is symptomatic of a malaise and amortized—or is it vice tempt to gain visibility and a which destroys civilized order. versa—at their respective vmp's challenge to rethink our analy- Still, it is to Mr. Olsen's analy- and in which the farmworker ses, not trot them out in all sis that I direct my remarks. gets the residual, for a change. their threadbare splendor. Mr. Olsen gets my very highest marks as a fellow stu- Oh clear, but that involves I am most sympathetic to Mr. radical social reorganization. Brito's gut-empiricism. Mr. dent of economics for his pres- entation. But I wonder what Indeed, that is what strikes Homer's literary criticism of are usually about. social concern is basically an A would stand for in this And what about education? College governments change hands waspish anarchy. Like the instance, if not the damnation What could be or has been a Hapsburg's of fifty years ago, of our profession, for what is this "solution:" More Educa- better educational experience tion? It is, I submit, uncritical for the unskilled than familial recourse to a deus ex machina attachment to the land to which Olsen defends Huelga critique from editor's charge in order to cover our discipline's they ai-e so close under plenti- (The following comments are green card program definitely Valley farm workers better off impotence and borderline rele- ful and humane circumstances ? in response to an editor's note results in a lower wage for the mainly at the expense of other vance! Or does Mr. Olsen mean by to a previous letter of Mr. American farm workers than Valley farm workers. The pri- The farmworker is a nearly "education" trucking the truck- Olsen's which appeared in the they would receive if the pro- mary transfer of income is not homogeneous factor of elastic farming truck-families into Thresher on March 2.) gram were terminated. from the rich to the poor but supply to the economist. "It" is truck-schools at government from the poor to the poor. paid "its" marginal product in expense, so that they may have (1) Neither the dollar Nevertheless, most of the truck-knowledge trucked into A reasonable short run ap- value terms under efficient amount of "profits" nor the conclusions in my letter are still their heads which will enable proach to the alleviation of competition. Indeed, so is rate of profits on sales can correct. Combining the fixed them to truck up to the city poverty among Valley farm everything in the economists' be used to infer that an enter- factor, land, with more work- and drive a truck? workers and all other poor peo- frankly preposterous Newton- prise is making economic (pop- ers increases the marginal These Mexican-American peo- ple is direct cash subsidies to ian world. ularly, excess) profits. The cor- productivity of land. Hence, the ple have the remnants of a these people through the in- However, it is in fact the rect measure of the profitabili- land owners gain from the rich—if medieval—culture in come tax system. This solution case that only day labor ty of an enterprise is the rate "green card" program. Never- their souls. There are latent to poverty has long been ad- and liquid capital is paid and of return on invested capital be- theless, no exploitation of labor values in these souls which— vocated by Milton Friedman amortized at its vmp. The land- cause profits measure the gain is likely to occur. holder qua landowner receives if developed — can enliven all from the enterprise to the own- and other economists of his The imposition of a minimum —not his vmp—but the entire our lives. When the economist ers and the amount of capital tradition. wage of $1.25 an hour is still residual, i.e., profits. When — who is appallingly inept in invested represents the sacrifice (4) Although you evidently likely to result in massive un- land resources are fixed in the activity himself — proposes necessary to obtain this gain. agree that there is nothing ele- employment. In competitive supply—as they very nearly More Education, he usually vating about unemployment, situations, restricting- the sup- are — the Ricardian monopoly means more schooling and he However, the rate of return you do not specify what "po- ply of labor is the only means rent to landowners will, in gen- invariably succeeds in commend- on invested capital itself does tential elevation of human wel- by which labor unions can gain eral, be in excess of land's
THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 1 9 6 7—P AGE 3 O & Marsh suggests admission off well-rounded students New methods in social sciences aired To the Editor: disciplinary education has its a radio or set a door on its By DOUG McNEAL often are organized according Your editorial in the March drawbacks, and the idea of col- hinges properly. The real prob- Thresher Reporter to the American or British pat- 9 issue entitled "Teaching: lege-centered courses would ac- lem is that the engineers get no Last Sunday afternoon Drs. tern. Neither model is approp- What is it?" tended to transfer centuate the negative aspects. pleasure value out of Jackson William McCord and Douglass riate in countries which need the blame for the problems of The feelings of most students on Pollock and the academs get Price-Williams discussed "New primarily agricultural workers Rice from the students at large, this matter is that an interdisci- none from reading physics Ways of Studying Man" on the and engineers. where it really belongs, to the plinary course would be easier texts. sixth program of this year's Current Projects faculty and especially to the to study for than a rigorous KTRK-TV series, "Rice Univer- Price-Williams spoke of his . administration. treatment of a single subject. To instill such pleasure re- sity in Service and Truth." The current project, an internation- actions is almost impossible in program presented the activi- Those olympian creatures in- This will be true if a broad- al study of cognitive processes, a teacher-student type of re- ties of the new Center for Re- habiting the upper reaches of based course is taught by one which is designed to determine lationship; they come only from search in Social Change and Lovett Hall are showing more or two teachers. To be effec- to what extent there are simi- personal contact on an emotion- Economic Development, started wisdom in their conservatism tive, and to be rigorous, such a larities in the way people see al level between equals. this past September. than you would admit. course must utilize as many dif- and think. He wishes to con- President Pitzer's decision to ferent teachers as possible so To get such contact we need The Center takes an inter- trast psychological processes in wait until the colleges show as to show students all the as- a different kind of student. Far disciplinary approach in the so- our society with those in other their worth before inundating pects of a broad field. too many of the students here cial science to problems in cul- cultures, and thus determine them with money for education- An academ won't get an ob- are contemptuous of anything tures and religions in both the the extent of environmental in- al programs is a wise one. The jective view of all science from outside their childhood inter- US and abroad. It is financed fluences. colleges at Rice are not struc- a chemist, or an S-E won't ests. They are not generally ap- by an initial grant of $500,000 McCord discussed his current tured to deal with education learn about music from a phil- athetic, only selectively so. which will run for two years. work of interviewing 8,000 peo- per se; they have other uses osopher. The colleges, with But to get a more diversified Hopefully it will be extended ple in the Middle East to de- and an attempt to use them for their associates, cannot provide student body will require some- thereafter. termine the social changes education would not be worth an education that is both broad thing of a change in the admis- brought about by urbanization. the time, money, or effort. and rigorous; only departments Observations sions qualifications for getting Through detailed interviews, The whole concept of inter- can do that. Price - Williams pointed out into Rice. Too often an appli- the project attempts to discover The problem and the solution that choosing a project is de- cant is accepted on the basis of how peasants' beliefs change as of getting students to pursue pendent on both the nature of his math SAT score rather than they encounter those of the so- education outside their own the problem and the availabili- You Lucky V.W. Owners! on his maturity and openmind- phisticated city dwellers. narrow specialties lie in the ty of investigators. Keep your Volkswagen edness. Surely with the large The work of the Center students themselves. Culture, in young. number of applicants (larger McCord commented that the should involve both graduate terms of fine arts, is free or than the number of acceptan- emergence of national univer- and undergraduate Rice stu- Send $1.00 for 56 page cata- very nearly so; yet it is rare to ces, there is room for improve- sities, especially in Africa, will dents. A number of undergrad- log on ways to increase the .see engineers attending the con- ment. lead _to social change as native- uates as well as American and value and usefulness of your certs or theatrical performan- VW. Write to: trained leaders come to power. foreign graduate students will ces or browsing through the DANIEL MARSH He observed, however, that the be sent abroad to work on the ROMNI MART art museum just down the Baker '70 curricula of African universities projects. 1'. 0. Box 75 street. Trcmonton, Utah Similarly, there aren't too 81337 many philosophers who can fix Curran claims Wischmeyer trying to kill liquor bill To the Editor: change the state liquor law. dents in solving problems that In a memorandum addressed This suggestion is entirely ir- are not "insoluble at this time." I ONE HOUR MARTINIZING j to Baker College (dated March relevant. We are not asking This, Mr. Wischmeyer, is a fair ! Our Clever Cleaners Clean Clothes Carefully j 14) Professor Wischmeyer, that the University allow any- warning. We will not ask you Master of' Baker College, tried thing it does not at present. for help with this issue. Thank to kill the Baker Liquor Pro- Rice allows liquor parties to be you for letting us know where \ Discount for Rice Students J posal. you stand on the issue. g $6.00 Dry Cleaning For $5.00 ^ j held in its name; that they Wischmeyer's s t a t ement are off campus does not change It is quite evident that Pro- | We Clean All Day Saturday j (which can be read by all stu- the fact that they are RICE fessor Wischmeyer's attitude dents on the Baker bulletin parties. can give us students an indica- hoard) is little more than an tion of what the administra- I Lawrence Morningside Cleaners j In fact all that has been sug- unconscious attempt to smother tion's attitude to the Baker } JA 3-9112 j gested is that Rice allow liquor the proposal beneath several ir- Liquor Proposal will be -— un- parties be held on campus. My I 2400 Bolsover Same Block as Village Post Office | relevant recommendations. suggestion is that Rice adopt less the student body demon- In the first Professor Wis- the same attitude that it has strates an active interest in chmeyer suggests that the stu- concerning the consumption of the issue. As it was proven sev- dents investigate how other liquor in the private rooms. eral years ago the administra- campuses in this area of the tion will not concern itself with country deal* with this prob- The third sugjfestion needs the demands of the students un- lem. I would suggest that our only to be quoted: "That you less they act as a whole—en campus is different from any undertake a serious education- masse. of the nearby campuses — or al effort concerning the use of No, Mr. Wischmeyer, this is- at least the entering freshmen alcohol, with specific regard to sue will not die so easily—we arc: told that Rice is better than the problem drinker." How ri- will fight for what we want other universities in the south. diculous! and will not be put aside by di- The be.-t university in the south The fourth and fifth sug-. versionary actions. i-'{zdtca£ dznbz •z Beauty SaCcn should be able to establish its gestions indicate that Mr. Wis- CITR1S CURRAN own standards. chmeyer will only aid the stu- Baker '(37 Mr. Wischmeyer's recommen- dai ion suggests that we try to
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THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—P A G E 4 Roll over, Ludwigl Phelps, Glade performances shine Sir John assassinates Beethoven in a wildly scatological 'Alchemist' By STEPHEN piece. musicianship, and to the harp- Last weekend the Wiess Tab- ality, the action took place in This week Sir John Barbirolli Complementing the piece was sichordist whose name we have letop Theater again pleased at least 3 rooms of the house, and the Houston Symphony Or- the orchestra's superb per- been unable to find, for ignor- Rice audiences with their sec- in addition to outside. chestra again revealed another formance in the face of dif- ing- the boisterous violinists. ond production, The Alchemist, drama of unusual contrast. This week's Bad Guy award a comedy by Ben Jonson. The Another production problem ficult conditions. lay in the size of the stage. Beginning the evening was a This week's Good Guy awards goes to Sir John for his brutal performance, though run at mediocre rendition of the Pro- murder of Beethoven, ignoring break-neck speed, was general- Though completely unavoidable, go to tympanist David Nuliger the last scene definitely seemed metheus Overture by Beethoven. for his continuing excellence of Bruno Walter in the process. ly very effective. Following this up, and greatly The players followed their cramped. enlivening the evening were former technique of making Miss Stojan is to be congrat- baroque works of Bach |ind The Mamas and The Papas - prop changes in the view of the ulated on masterful costuming. Berg, the latter composer com- audience, this being indicative The general groady appearance bining modern abstract, atonal McLuhan Generation Supergroup. of a change of setting with added greatly to the prevailing schemes with baroque themes. Two years ago they were minimal props. However, this scatological imagery of the Sir John provided a wonder- beach bums in the Carib- lack of props was confusing, play. ful, tragic ending- for the pro- bean. Today the Mamas and leading many in the audience Hbm. to feel that there were only Making a valiant contribution gram with Beethoven's Seventh the Papas are the McLuhan ffssssasw*:: Symphony. Aside from the fact mr two locales of action. In actu- to this slag-heap imagery wjis generation's supergroup. Virgil Phelps as Sir Epicure that there was no interpreta- Follow them in the current tion given this work, it was A NO Mammon, an absolutely repul- issue of The Saturday Eve- THE PAPKS ««<<<<<<<<<<<<<<«<<<<<«<<<<<«<<<«<<<<<<< sive character. Roger Glade al- only a poor performance. Out ning Post as they kick off a of respect for dear Ludwig, I freewheeling concert week- I CLOSE TO I so gave a truly great perfor- shall discuss it no further. THE HEART | mance of an expert swindler. end with a gin-and-tonic His dancing around and hoarse Boisterosity breakfast. Learn why "Fat OF THE 5 voice were quite convincing. The second number of the Angel" Mama Cass, a big- CAMPUS | Rob Sheldon as Face and San- evening's program, a delight- beat Kate Smith, credits a dra Coyner as Dull Common ful Bach concerto for violin, konk on the head for her suc- seemed almost type-cast in oboe, strings, and continuo was cess. Find out why Michelle, their parts. well performed by the soloists. a favorite among aging hip- Singing out melodic parts for pies, was once ousted from the group. Read how the Mamas 4: 2519 University Blvd. ^ Showing no great inconsist- violin and oboe were Henryk and the Papas instigated a teeny-bopper riot to prove Papa - £ J A 8-1509 | encies, the supporting cast con- Szeryng and Evelyn Rothwell. John's theory on controlled-audience hysteria. Catch up to tributed to the overall effects the legend of the Mamas and the Papas in the March 25 | Also Bellaire: MO 5-5557 5 (Miss Rothwell was to have * x of the drama. appeared in concert at Rice, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Buy your copy today. •••••••••••>••»•>••••>•»»•»•••»>••••»••> —Bv S.C. FOX but the pei'formance was can- celled because of illness.) Both soloists displayed excel- lent technical ability and superb mmmm tonal quality. Miss Rothwell's tone was especially mellow and lit the next few years, Du Pont engineers and pleasing. Unfortunately for the solo- scientists will be working on new ideas and products ists,and more so for the harp- to improve man's diet, housing, clothing and shoes; sichordist, the violins persisted in their usual manner, drown- reduce the toll of viral diseases; make light without ing much of the piece in poorly executed, excessively loud ac- heat; enhance X-ray diagnosis; control insect plagues; companiment. The lower strings, however, repair human hearts or kidneys; turn oceans into performed beautifully, and the first chair, cellist is to be es- drinking water... pecially congratulated for her XL excellent articulation in tricky solo passages. On the whole, the performance of this con- certo, written by Bath for the Academic Society of Leipzig', was very good. Quite appropriately placed was the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Alban Berg. This concerto, ?ompo-sed in the last year of Berg's life, com- bines the modern techniques and intriguing sounds of his time with, in the last movement, melodies from several- Bach cantatas. mmm- W3& Throughout the work Berg, employing a motif in fifths, mM remains»* *faithfu l to the twelve- tone technique which he deftly issn mastered. In this blending of «?..iX> v- deep personal musical expres- j sion with the two dominant m, trends of atonality and baroque m tonality, Berg far outdistanced his master Arnold Schoenberg. 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THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—PA G E 5 >V Notes and Notices
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THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—P AGE 6 T "Rebels" attempt takeover at UT model United Nations By CHARLES SZALKOWSKI voking of a charter rule pro- trol, multilateral assistance to presented France. russian SSR and Dahomey dele- hibiting simultaneous debate of underdeveloped nations, and UN- The delegation, composed of gations also fell under the con- Sixteen Rice students found the same topic in both the provided birth control informa- Kathy Davis, Kitty Schild, Tom trol of the Baker delegates. themselves in the midst of General Assembly ahd the Se- tion and aid filled the commit- Bertrand, Bill Blanton, Nick Chris Curran was chairman realistic international diploma- curity Council kept the dele- tee sessions which preceded the Gilliam, and Jeanne Jarvis, was of the Czech group, with Lee cy last weekend at the Seventh gates busy on the floor for final meetings of the General the only Security Council mem- Hall also on the Czech delega- Annual Model United Nations three sessions. Assembly. ber not composed of UT stu- tion. Sandy Mueller and Jean at the University of Texas in dents. •Talbott were the Mongolian Austin. Meanwhile, in the Security At a banquet Friday, Krasu- Baker College originally ambassadors, George Forristall Council, a battle of wits and lin, a graduate of the Moscow sponsored two delegations: grabbed Dahomey and Charles The Riee delegates, along procedural rules was being Institute for Foreign Relations, Czechoslovakia and the United Szalkowski led the Byelorus- with more than 600 other dele- waged between the Western and spoke to the delegates about Arab Republic. Upon arrival at sians. Bruce Coats chaired the gates from 22 universities and Soviet bloc nations. the USSR's stand in the world the conference, the over-staffed UAR group, with Mike Ross, colleges, witnessed an attempted today. He stated, "There are Doyon Main and Tom Wright Eventual use of a procedural Czech delegation noted the ab- takeover of the United States two roads open to the world as the other Arabs. The Soviet rule allowed a last-minute stall sence of certain of their fellow mission by a "revolutionary" today: war and peaceful co- bloc, under the direction of the by the atomic powers to pre- Communist-bloc countries and group, passage of several sig- existence." USSR and with aid from its vent an exuberant clique of the absence of several of the nificant resolutions, and a pair emerging nations of Africa. Rice-guided "underlings" man- of addresses by Boris P. Krasu- emerging nations from passing Krasulin went on to elabor- With shrewd and alacritous aged the passage of several lin, first secretary of the USSR a rule outlawing nuclear Weap- ate on the real existence of on- action, the control of the Mon- important bills and the block- delegation to the United Na- ons among UN member nations, ly one choice, that of peaceful golian People's Republic, Byelo- ade of several more. tions in New York. but failing to provide for Red coexistence. He explained that Chinese participation. the purpose of the United Na- The "rebels" livened up the tions is to promote peace, and Anticipated debates on sub- noted that the differences be- final session of the Model Gen- stantive measures concerning CHARGE eral Assembly, but were cut tween the US and the USSR on the Vietnam war and the ad- world policy are not serious. ACCOUNTS short when the chair turned mission of, Red China never INVITED off their microphone and the materialized. Again, procedural The ideological differences Assembly revoked the creden- rulings and a successful tabling are deep, he stated, but his tials of the Nigerian delega- motion effectively killed the dis- country does not "force the MEN tion which had surrendered the cussion. development of a permanent floor to them. gap between the two powers." Debate on the questions of CORNER OF In the General Assembly, Arabia and Yemen, Israel and A delegation sponsored by 2402 UNIVERSITY BLVD. MORNSNGSIDE procedural rulings and the in- Syria, international arms con- the Student Association rep- MUN proves place for role-ploying his gives tradition By JEANNE JARVIS interdelegation causes, notes, the viewpoint of their real U.N. The most important insight or personal exchanges. counterparts. into the functioning of the Un- Role-playing a kick inAthe pants ited Nations provided by the As a member of* tlie Security When a session convened, dis- Council, the delegates from MUN experience cannot be cussion actually amounted to reckoned in terms of substan- Rice initially considered resolu- role-playing determined either tions concerned with seating tive issues or physical struc- by a country's own interests or ture. Red China and with the inter- previous diplomatic agreements. national status of Yemen, Rho- The parliamentary machina- Floor debate was thus more desia, and the divided nations. tions of the student USSR dele- concerned with the manipula- gate, who kept the issue of East tion of MUN parliamentary Meanwhile, the General As- German recognition off the Se- rules than with real issues. Rus- sembly delegates divided into curity Council floor for more sia, for instance, resorted to two groups to deliberate on pro- 1 than two hours, were far more walking out of a Security Coun- posals dealing with the Syrian- interesting and stimulating, for cil meeting to prevent a vote Israel conflict, Vietnam, arms 'instance, than the address by on the substantive issue of Red control, and the colonial ques- Boris, P. Krausulin, first sec- Chinese membership. On an- tions. retary to the (real) USSR mis- other occasion the Gaullist Parliamentary Machinations sion. delegation exited from the Later all the committee As in a chess game, every Eighteen Nation Disarmament merged to form the General move was precalculated. Dele- Meeting. Assembly which met concur- gates usually acquired *a pre- Students delegates at the rently with the Security Coun- vious understanding of the dir- well-organized three-day con- cil in sessions lasting from ection of floor action through clave are required to represent i):00 am until 10:30 pm with breaks only for meals and fre- quent diplomatic recesses. The Rice delegation was in one sense fortunate that France $ GET YOUR FLOWERS FROM . . . traditionally abstains on many votes. British and Russian dele- gations, on the other hand, I EMILY JANE FLOWER SHOP conducted intensively research- •V ed and sophisticated tactical battles. At one point, in fact, | - 1724 BISSONNET a disgruntled British represen- tative reacted to a French ab- 1 JA 4-1123 — J A 4-4444 stention by asking whether the delegation represented the Fourth or Fifth Republic. 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piano James Tankersley French horn Otis Lumpkin paintings David Gallery San Jao Coll Slocum Aud Exhibits 2243 San Felipe CAMPUS 8 :30 pm UH Symph Oreh concert Cul- "Once Upon A Time" paintings and Trachino paintings Kiko' Galleries 419 len Aud Hi drawing St Thorn Jones Hall through Lovett 9 pm "Pschedelia '67" Archi-Arts 819 March Harvey Quaytman "flow paintings" McGowan $5.00/couple Helene Cohen oils Courtney Gallery Contemp Arts Assoc 6945 Fannin a CALENDAR Saturday, April 1 2037 W Alabama through March Woody Gwyn paintings Houston Gal- "Life in Sweden" color photographs leries 2325 San Felipe "Six Painters"—Mondrian, DeKooning, Thursday, March 16 APRIL FOOL'S Day Hou Pub Library 500 McKinney Kline. Guston, Pollack, Rothko St Minit Man Fifth Year All-School Party Paintings by Merry B Loomie, Hay- Thomas Jones Gallery 3 pm "Problems in Set Theory and 5 pm Just wait and see! wood Veal, Harry Ahysen Bute Gal- Hou Bapt Faculty Art Exhibit Stud Combinatories of Infinite Sets" Dr 8 pm "La Boheme" (in Italian) Metro- lery 1981 W Gray Center through Mar Stanislaw Ulam ,UH 154 Lamar politan Opera National Company Sculpture by Mario Shinoda Kiko Gal- Exhibit of UH Art Dept Award Show Car Wash Fleming Jesse Jones leries 419 Lovett Foley's, 9th floor gallery 7 and 10 pm "One-Eyed Jacks" UH Works of Horak, Staley, Fowler, mem- Robert Weimerskirch and Douglas Oberholtzer Hall Ballroom Sunday, April 2 bers Art League of Hou 906 Tuam Gorsline Dubose Gallery 2950 Kirby 8 pm "Viet Nam" Sander Vanocur Colored Sculpture Am Fed Arts Con- America's Finest UH Stud Center Hou Room 2 pm "La Boheme" (in English) Met- temp Arts Assoc 6945 Fannin Interviews 8 pm Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters ropolitan Opera National Company "Selections and Accessions" of Fine Car Washing Brown Commons Jesse Jones Arts Museum Cullinan Hall 1001 17 Monrovia Unified School District, 7:30 pm "Rape of Lucretia" (in Eng- Bissonnet through March 26th Monrovia, Calif. Friday, March 17 lish, not recommended for children) Fourth Annual Jury Award Exhibit Metropolitan Opera National Com- n pm "Porous Gas Diffusion Elec- pany Jesse Jones Jewish Community Center 2020 Her- 5001 S. MAIN trodes" Ronald Derby 120 Bio mann through March 19th 3 pm "Heuristic Work in Mathematics Current "Painting Inspired by Machine" Sam on Hitch-Speed Computers" Dr Stani- Houston Coliseum Checks Cashed for 6900 HARRISBURG slaw Ulam UH 1G3 Lamar Fleming "The Sea Gull' Alley Theatre 709 Berry "Creative Collaboration" sculpture and Rice Students 7 pm "New Perspectives on Kennedy's "Satellites in Orbit" Burke Baker crafts related to arcliitecure RMC Death: A Criticism of the Warren Planetarium through May starts 18th through April 2 Report" Penn Jones Jr Baker Com- "The Infernal Machine" UH Attic "Distortions" Andre Kertesz photos Aaron Lee Now This Month mons Theatre 8:15 pm through 21st Fine Arts Museum Jones Galleries s pm "Timeless Turkey" Arthur Dewey "Fantastics" Hou Theatre Center 2243 San Felipe through Mar Enco Service Rice Invitational Tennis Tournament $1.30 with Rice ID Prudential Awl Spring Art Festival of Museum of 2361 Rice S pm "Blue Angels" and "The Brig" Rice and MacGregor Courts through Fine Arts Junior Gallery through JA 8-0148 UH Lib And Fri April 23 rd S :3() pm Fredell I.ac-k violin Albert Hirsh pianist UH Cullen AuU Saturday, March 18 12 noon Classes out for Easter I MEAN YOU'RE REALLY ON THE WAY, YOU'VE GOT IT AGED! WORKING- WITH Sunday, March (9 J pm "Weather for the Astronauts" THE REAL PROS... THE GUYS WHO Dr William K Cordon Robert BUDDY80/! ALL THOSE IDEAS YOU'VE Shower KTRK Channel 13 > ::!() pm Helen llaiipt piano recital UH KM0W WHAFT HAPPENING- IN RESEARCH Cullen Ami SEEN HITTING ME WITH! MOWS VOUR Monday, March 20 EXOTIC METALS AMD ADVANCED 7 ar.ii 10 pm "lUirabbas" UH Stud CHANCEI WHAT COULD BE GREATER? ('(•met- Ballroom 35 cents :;;ti pm Hou Symph Oreh and UH Conceit Choir Shirley Trepel cello TECHNOLOGY. WHAT COULD BEAT IT? J i ,1 ones Tuesday, March 2 9 ANEW SCOOTER. s ::>,o pm Hon Symph Oreh and UH \ A NEW SCOOTER. 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0 Houston exhibitions of modern sculpture range in quality By CLINT GOODSON sheets, carved wood, plastic, The present exhibition at the IV, 1965," and paintings uy He seems now like an old Thresher Fine Arts Editor cloth, and found objects. In Fine Arts Museum features Thomas Erma, Ida Kohlmeyer, master, though he died prema- Education by juxtaposition: most cases, the resultant sculp- new accessions and selections and Hassell Smith. Also hang- turely in 1956. Also represented to see bad modern sculpture is ture ignores the nature of the from the museum collection. In- ing are some of the museum's at the St. Thomas exhibition to understand the freshness and medium and then doubles the cluded are three found object modern canvases, most notably are two of his most innovative integrity of-good modern sculp- confusion by adding color. sculptures which are, by com- a Motherwell and a Rothko, a abstract expressionist brothers, ture. Comparative viewing of parison with the ones at this Vasarely and an op-art dart- Willem de Kooning and Franz the current Houston art exhibi- Worst of all are some of the other exhibition, dynamic. Most board. Kline. Both are well repre- tions presents this opportuni- found object conglomerations; notable of these is the recently But Houston's best show in sented. These canvases, taken ty for perspective; and such a it is almost as if the sculptors acquired "Piastra," a plane con- painting is to be found at St. with the huge Robert Mother- viewing offers, as well, a real- have thrown these artifacts to- structed from rusty iron plates Thomas University. The art de- well and Antonio Saura's "Im- ly meaningful survey of the gether out of sheer ennui. They and chain. It is the work of Et- partment there has arranged aginary Portrait of Goya" now graphic arts since the war. totally lack imagination. tore Colla and was shown at a show of post-war masters, on display at the Fine Arts Museum, document the main- Start with the Contemporary As illustration consider the the Venice Bienniale of 1964. and its instructive value is im- stream of the movement. Arts Museum, not so much be- keynote work of the exhibition Its strength is its simplicity. mense. cause its present exhibition is —George Sugarman's "Four Hung like a painting, the work Abstract Expressionists Selections from the work of hideous as that it closes in a Walls, Five Forms." Done in sets up between its plates a Here are several canvases by Piet Mondrian, Philip Guston, couple of days. Entitled "Col- wood, it ignores the importance tension which is resolved in a Jackson Pollock, the best known and Mark Rothko are included ored Sculpture," the show de- of grain and then tries to cover strikingly unconventional man- name in contemporary Ameri- in the same exhibit. Mondrian, monstrates what can happen its mistakes with paint. It is, ner by strong chain. can art, a leader of the ab- two generations older than any- when a new idea is executed beyond that, a rambling, un- Good Painting stract expressionists and crea- body else here, has been called, without a genuine understand- easy work that contrasts in this This exhibition includes good tor of colorful, dripping can- rightfully, the most fundamen- ing of means. respect with the harmony and painting as well. New to the vases that caused a critical tal constructive force in mod- In this case the means are balance of the wood sculptures museum are an interesting Al- furor when he and his cohorts ern art. He is included in the artificially pigmented metal of, say, Eduardo C-hillida. berto Burri entitled "Bianco B. were fighting for recognition. exhibit because of his influence on the younger artists. Guston is the least known of the six painters; it is, per- THE RICE THRESHER haps, the intricate coloring of his canvases that stands out March 16, 1967 RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS Page 9 here. The eight Rothkos, all in a single chamber provided with Two party campus! benches, are the most impres- sive part of the show, lie is best assimilated sitting down; lioihko, the most like Mon- Kilgarlin delineates YDifficulties drian of.' the younger artists, By BARI W ATKINS even Senator Ralph Yarborough hind the conservatives, no liason demands concentration, Thresher Reporter has not been able to build up between the liberal YD's and Tradition and Innovation Bill Kilgarlin, guest speaker a liberal organization into the senior party seems possible. It is the tradition m-ated at a meeting of the Rice Young which the Young Democrats by these artists that will de- During the same meeting, Democrats held on Tuesday could fit. termine future art. Th" form- the Young Democrats passed a night, stated that the YD's can This situation exists despite alism "!' Mondrian an i, con- resolution to support the Val- be most effective in educating the fact that the existing lib- trastingly, the. evocative power ley Farm Workers strike with the public on political issues, eral Coalition — PASO, labor, of the abstract expressionists not as a part of regular party "food and moral support." A and Negroes—can together del- aie tiie poles from whieh paint- resolution to support the ef- functions. iver approximately 30% of the in:.;- will envoive. fort to lower the voting- age vote. Kilgarlin admitted that he to 18 was also passed. There are sign?, tu>>, that had lacked the courage to raise No Liason painting and sculpture are mov- the issue of the war in Viet Another difficulty facing the A committee to study the ing closer together. Burri ami Nam in his campaign against YD's, according to Kilgarlin, is situation in Viet Nam was ap- Colla, both represented at the Bob Casey last year, a n d that they have thus far failed pointed at the meeting. It will Fine Arts Museum now, evi- pointed to issues of that sort to attract campus liberals or present its proposed resolution Photo by liill lilanton dence this trend, as does the as the kind of thing with which graduate students who are in- at the next YD's meeting which increasing use of color in sculp- YD's can concern themselves. terested in politics. will be held on March 28, the BILL KILGARLIN ture. The ground is not yet very YD's and the Party To begin his talk on the pos- Combined with traditional Tuesday following the Easter firm; recent painting seeks new direction. sible effectiveness of the Young- Texas newspaper support be- holidays. Democrats, Kilgarlin summar- ized the history of the organi- zation in Texas. 'Latitudes' augurs well for local literary scene No Place to Go Houston, it seems, finally has selections, giving tantalizing and Blazek (whose poetry re- of the Griffin interview, a pre- He pointed out that since another little magazine (little tastes of a wide range of topics views are pretentious and sar- file of the Midlothian Warren 1952 when the YD's defied magazine: an irregular literary and, thus, running the risk of castic—in other words, ideal critic Penn Jones, and poetry Governor Shivers by support- periodical of highly variable superficiality of treatment. for the task) are worthy of by Blazek, Sue Abbott Boyd, ing Stevenson against Eisen- format, cursed with poverty, a (I think, here, of Irving Hal- note. Judson Crews, and Robert; BIy, hower, they "have had no place stranger to the academy, and perin's survey of continental along with other goodies and to go." liable to rapid demise). fiction dealing with the con- The poetry is generally inof- feature departments. Because of what he called Its christening-name is "Lati- eentration-c a m p experience, fensive, neither depressingly Bonazzi's address is 0102 the 'courthouse system' in Tex- tudes" (reminiscent, to me, of and of Bowering's poem, "Pan- trivial nor, magically beautiful; Sherwood: presumably copies as—that is, individual rather "Coastlines," an important and cakes"; in the latter case, one and to round it off, Dugger will be available there and, than organizational politics— —surprise—defunct West Coast gets a deceptively bad impres- writes cogently on the time- eventually, in news stands, lib- mag), and it is run by Bob sion of the talent and serious- honored (if you're interested in raries, and. (who know-;?) cam- Bonazzi as a successor, appar- ness of one of Canada's most that sort of thing all over pus bookstores. ently, to his "Fly's Eye." Local important younger poets.) again, 1 guess you'll want to Prison panel will read it) topic, of the Warren boy makes good, even if no Don't just ignore it if Yet there are several fine Report and its critics. present program money. pieces in the magazine, parti- might go away. And thai, from Nomenclature cularly—one is tempted to say, Coming Attractions the indications of the first is- use, would matter. to counter crime The first place the eyes and not wholly without cause— The second issue, due out in wander in a new magazine is for a Houston-produced effort. April, promises a continuation —By Geoff Bowman "Operation Teenager," a "pan- down the table of contests. Auden Parody el of Texas prison inmates dis- Names, after all, matter if you Merton's poem, "Western cussing the importance of teen- don't have time to read it there Fellow Students Salute with Two bands, seven broads age trouble in causing criminal in the news stand, and Bonazzi Calypso Anthems the Movie careers, will be presented on has fielded an impressive se- Career of Robert Lax," is a March 29 in Hamman Hall. lection: Chicago jazz critic-poet hilarious cross between a drunk- Archis expand minds The program was initiated John Sinclair, John Howard en test and a rambling parody It's been rumored that a show is planned, to be capped in 1962 by a group of Texas of late Auden. Griffin ("Black Like Me''), poets multi-sensual assault of voices, off by an interpretive dance by Department of Corrections in- Thomas Merton (Trappist) and A translation from Fernan- lights, noises, and liquids can the seven Archi-Arts honorees. mates, concerned with the rise George Bowering (Canadian), do Pessea by Merton, who is, produce an involvement/aware- The girls—Bonnie Robinson, of juvenile crime, who realized poet-editors Doug Blazek incidentally, one of the few con- ness quite similar to certain of Mary Corneil, Mary Burton, that their real troubles began ("Ole") and Margaret Randall temporary poets to succeed the effects of the psychedelic Linda Thompson, Mari-Ned in their teenage years—when ("El Corno Emplumado"), and with a rigorous religious out- drugs. Timme, Lili Milani. and Sue habits and attitudes were form- finally, '"local island of sanity look, gives a sample of the oth- Rice students will get a Gilbert—will wear costumes de- ed. Ronnie Dugger. er side of this versatile poet. chance after Easter to test this signed by the senior and fifth- By discussing their own Nice. And there are articles Marjorie McCorquodale's theory, as the architects go all year architects. background and experiences, and recollections (Bonazzi on story captures the mixture of out to create—sans drugs, of The show goes on Friday, the inmates hope to prevent concrete detail and situational course—a "total environment" as Updike and Van Doren, Griffin March 31 at 319 McGowen teenagers from making - mis- ambiguity characteristic of ex- this year's edition of the occa- on Maritain, Merton, and Geis- from 9 to 1. The Dean of Wom- takes that could eventually istential fiction but rarely car- sionally annual Archi-Arts, mar), a film column by Jeff en has granted all girls a spe- lead to crime. ried off well on this side of "Psychedelia '67." Millar, three short stories, hook cial 2 am late permission for the Atlantic, and Elroy Bede's The program represents an reviews, and Sinclair's jazz col- Two bands have been em- that night. unusual attempt on the part of umn. Nice again. And there are fable of identity is nicely done, ployed, the "traditional" Man- inmates to help themselves; precisely 51 pages of text. if a little diffuse. drakes and an offbeat group The price is $5 per couple and seldom do men in prison admit Hint of Superficiality - Warren Report which features television sets proceeds go to finance the Wil- the mistakes they have made, Which, if anything, is the Millar, Sinclair (on the New as instruments and a varied of liam Ward Watkin Scholarship, even more rarely do they show catch. Bonazzi has tried to be Music of Coltrane, Coleman, aural techniques. a traveling scholarship for sen- such concern for others. (almost) too inclusive in his Taylor, and Sun Ra), Bonazzi, In addition, an elaborate light ior architects. Gurasich, Johnson, Bertrand, Novotny chosen presidents By CHARLES SZALKOWSKI Brown will be Paula Smith, and resentative to cabinet and Ka- coordinator; Byron Jeffrey, resident; Bob Ross, sophomore- Thresher Colleges Editor Diane Ping will fill the posi- ren Trask was chosen as a physical facilities chairman; junior representative; Dave Martha Johnson was named tion of Permanent Improve- write-in candidate for off-cam- Lee Horstraan, speaker chair- Roberts, off-campus represen- the president of Brown College ments chairman. pus representative. man; and Kenny Hall, faculty tative; Tom Plant, senior-grad- for 1967-68 in elections held on iSusie Abright defeated Beth * * * ^ participation chairman. uate representative. Wednesday. She defeated Carol Phelps for Program Chairman, Joan Gurasich was elected The newly elected officers * # * Jones for the position. and Marcia Livingston was vic- president of Jones in the college were installed formally at the Cabinet representatives were Susan Jackson was elected torious over Stephanie Ferrante elections held Wernesday, Her Wiess Spring Dance Saturday elected in a special election at vice-president in a contest with for Housing and Residence opponents were Kendra Jensen night. Baker last week. Sandy Tirey. The new secretary Chairman. and Judy Johnston. » * * * Ron Webb and Dave Ander- will be Kathleen Davis, who ran Mary K. Daniel was elected In two uncontested races Ba- Announcement of winners in son were named senior repre- against Janet Blackwell. Treasurer from three othr con- ri Watkins became executive the Will Rice College elections sentatives; Mike Berman and The Social Chairman of testants for the office. Publici- vice-president and Nancy Dietz revealed Chip Novotny to be Dale Stemple, junior residents; ty chairman will be Pam Clay- was chosen to fill, the newly next year's president. Gerald Morehead, junior non- Manuscript, Thesis, Termgf ton. created office of academic Other officers will be Bob resident; Rod Crowl and Doyon vice-president. Mary Mitchell Main, sophomore residents; and Papers, Typing. Experienced,|| The senator for Brown will Ihne vice-president; Lee Varda- defeated Liane Rundle for so- Gary Honberger, sophomore accurate, fast and reasonable.^ be Peggy Tyler, who defeated man, secretary; Bill Casper, cial vice-president. non-resident. IBM SELECTRIC | Carol Flake and Kitty Schild treasurer; Mike McGettigan, Karen Sagstetter was elected Greek letters and engineer-^ for the office. representative - at-large; Dick The new Cabinet, along with Director of Freshman Activi- ing symbols. jf In other contests Kerry Goel- Smith, sophomore resident rep- the new officers elected earlier, ties without opposition. Elea- —CA 8-2144— I zer was chosen sophomore rep- resentative; John Booth, junior will take office April 3. nor Ferguson was selected sen- ior representative to the cabi- net, in another uncontested election. •YOU CAN HAVE AH I NOLEN'S 1 A run-off for the position of junior representative will be | "In The Village" | held between Ann Kershner • 2529 University ± and Frosty Jenny on Thursday. 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American THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—P AGE 10 Owlook A test of courage and endurance, water safari seeks student entries Traclcsters triumph in first big test Shouting defiance at other Rivei's to the Gulf of Mexico, By GREG PETERS Brunson and Erfurth, the Rice track and field students, Jack Wait of South- and then follows the coast to As one who finds the dogmatism of Plato team took top honors in the University Division west Texas State College be- Freeport, the Safari this year refreshing (like a subtle wine, though not as at the Border Olympics in Laredo last Saturday. came the first college student for the first time is being held refreshing as water) it naturally follows that Though it was a total team effort which ac- to enter the annual Texas Water during the summer, June 17 to writing Owlook columns would be much more counted for one of Rice's best performances ever, Safari. 24, in order that more college pleasurable (in the classical sense: as one finds a few individuals, may be noted for their par- students might be able to en- Bach more enjoyable than Beethoven, or Pollock ticular contributions. Eight Owls made the blue "Apparently the grueling race 'ter. and Kandinsky more pleasing than Klee) than ribbon efforts, and set two meet records in the has scared contestants from factual sports articles. process. other colleges, but I am going In addition to the glory of to prove that a SWT student It is especially apropos that the subject of Dale Bernauer took top honors in the 100- prevailing against the forces is man enough to take it," Wait this monolog should be that venerable sport yard dash (9.6), the 220 (21.5), and ran legs on of nature, for the first time said. of track and field of which the Greeks so natu- the winning 440-yard and one mile relays (total a scholarship is being offered rally partook. This is the only sport in which times of 40.8 and 3:10.8 respectively). Conley A 538 mile canoe race which to the first college student to man is allowed to be completely man in all Brown set a new meet record in the 440-yard begins in San Marcos, follows cross the finish line, and there his form and beauty and simplicity. Save for dash (46.5) and was a member of the two relay the San Marcos and Guadalupe are other prizes, including the necessity of strength revealing devices such foursomes. $3000 in cash, a week-long canoe as javelins and discusses, the Greeks dispensed trip to Canada, and an alumi- with all accoutrements, i.e., supporters. (Women Fred Cloud and Doug Belzung made the neces- Rice coeds defeat UH team num canoe. were not allowed to watch the fun.) sary additions to the sprint relay, while the The Rice girls' tennis doubles The point in relating the above is to prepare legs of John Moss and Mike Casey lent the team, composed of Peggy Shert- The entry fee is $50, and the way for the understanding of the beauty strength that brought down an old meet record zer and Rachel Adams, de- more information may be ob- in the wisdom of coaches Emmett Brunson and in the mile relay. feated a team from the Uni- tained by writing to: Texas Augie Erfurth. It is the combination of these The versatile power of total teamwork also versity of Houston last week Water Safari Association, Box two men which transmits the content of track manifested itself in the forms of Joe Williams, by a score of 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. 731, San Marcos, Texas. and field to the boys who express the form of who took first place in the discus (162'2") and the same. Ricki Jacobs, who tossed the javelin into the The reason this university will qualitatively realms of winners. have the most sparkling embodiment of this Coach Erfurth (who seems to represent the ^ £ higher sport in the Southwest Conference stems ancient truism, "Those who know do not speak") from the quality of the minds found in these commented, "I think the fellows are coming two coaches, who possess that faith in the form along nicely. They still have room for improve- BROOKS SYSTEM SANDWICH SHOPS and the content of track which has made it ment, though." ! ONE'S A MEAL I whole. It seems to be his nature not to predict a FINE FOOD FOR EVERYONE Guided by the knowledgeable hands of coaches win in the SWC meet in May. 2520 Amherst 9307 Stella Link ± Stella Link Center £ In The Village Jtk. ± Number of bike meets provide pre-Rondelet practice 24 HOUR LOCATIONS AT | By CHUCK YOUNGER Sigma Nu fraternity is spon- of the riders. | 9017 South Main 4422 South Main £ Thresher Reporter soring a rematch of the Rice-U. Details of the above races • ^ The month of April should H. contest which last year saw can be obtained from Roy provide plenty of action for all the Rice teams place ahead Meals, Hanszen College. Pro- members of Rice's bi-and tri- of the hapless Cougars. The race spective bike team riders are cycle set. Three* races are sched- will be held at 2:00 pm Friday, advised to enter as many races as Deadline Deposits For The uled: the Rice-U. H., Houston April 14, on the U. of H. cam- possible to gain valuable Ron- Wheelmen, and the Rondelet pus. Twelve riders from Rice delet experience and to evaluate Tea-Trike and Beer-Bike races. are needed to compete in this the performances of the other event. colleges. RICE FLIGHT TO EUROPE The following Sunday, April Are Due March 31 16, sees the second staging of I Look Again Next Week = the Wheelmen's Houston Invi- ! But This Week at f Contact Mike Wood—RI 7-5544 Dean's I tational, which drew over 40 ! Collegiate Cleaners I entries last year. Prizes and or 0 I 2430 Rice Blvd. [ trophies will be awarded again, Tom Bertrand—JA 8-162(5 j 2 Pants cleaned $1.00 j Grocerette | and there will be a special race | and pressed (with coupon) j | for novices. There was an en- Southgate and Travis j try fee of $1.50 last year, $1.00 1 of which was refunded by the BEER — ICE | P. E. department. SOFT DRINKS i Save Face Finally, April 29th sees the 11th annual Beer-Bike race and Graduating Seniors Rock and Folk 2nd Tea-Trike race. These con- tests promise to expose some of Headquarters the oldest and fiercest rivalries Gibson—Ludwig between the colleges. A good VOX showing saves face, and what and Advanced Sales - Rental's - Lessons better opportunity for showing EVANS arises ? The race will be on the same Degree Candidates old course, faster and bloodier MUSIC CITY than ever, thanks to the state 2435 University of disrepair of the streets and —JA 3-9839— the ever-improving conditioning Orders For Academic Regalia Are Now Being Taken EVERY SUNDAY: 5 to 9 P.M. No. 1 in the REGULAR ORDER' CHICKEN Choice of Potatoes/Pickle Slices Hot Rolls/Honey OR Book Department College No. 38 1 CHICKEN FRIED STEAK of the Students Cream Gravy/Choice of Potatoes •Salad/Hot Rolls/Honey Feature 90* Show your ID Card when Paying Check RICE CAMPUS STORE Good at any location in the Houston area Payment Due When Regalia Is Picked Up THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—P AGE 11 Draft Symposium Senate restructures SCEP, ICC By DARRELL HANCOCK colleges. a telephone directory for Rice Thresher Reporter Terry O'Rourke reported that is too high. The matter was The Student Senate changed a campus symposium on the tabled after a brief discussion. the by-laws of the Forum Com- Selective Service and the Man- After a lengthy debate the mittee, the Parking Appeals power Needs of the nation is be- Senate voted to loan "Collage" Board, and the Service Award ing planned for April 20-23. magazine sufficient funds to Committee in a lengthy meet- The director of the Texas Se- send the student-produced ma- ing last Tuesday. It also added lective Service Board, perhaps gazine to press. Wiess fresh- an article to Senate by-laws Senator John Tower, and other man Lee Horstman was also more definitely structuring per- interested speakers have been given funds to attend a Michi- manent committees such as SC- invited. gan Conference on National Af- EP. Jerry Hafter, SA president, fairs. Dana Copeland, present For- reported that the cost of hiring um chairman, suggested that an independent firm to produce his group should include pro- DROMGOOLE'S gram chairmen of the colleges TYPEWRITER SHOP, Inc. campus pac and a liason officer with the SHORT STORIES Discount to all Rice Student Center Board. He also Poems, essays, wanted—to Students has... pointed out that the group be published and circulated $5 Credit On would be more effective if ap- on campuses across the coun- ANY pointed early in the second se- try in the new literary maga- TYPEWRITER mester in order better to plan zine ARX. Second issue of Rentals Repairs for the next year. Mc Clean's toothpaste ARX at Mount & Village 2482 Bolsover Groom and Clean The Senate approved all the Bookstores. Summit Press, JA 6-4651 Reef mouthwash suggestions as well as a name 12109 Bell Avenue, Austin, Calculators and Adding Machines "in the Village near Rice Stadium Persona Blades change to Rice Forum from Texas, 78759. Post Office" Rice Forum Committee. Rapid Shave Cream The Service Award Commit- Absorbine Junior tee will lie given the responsi- Alkaseltzer bility of selecting students for Old Spice Cologne Who's Who Among Students in TRAVEL UNLIMITED, INC. NoDoz American Colleges and Univer- Angel Face make up sities. The Permanent Parking Com- 2476 Bolsover JA 6-3164 Dream Flower Talc mittee was replaced by the Steve Frakes Parking Appeals Board, since "In the Village" Dream Magic moisture cream their responsibilities overlap. Neutrogena Soap The Senate also added a new Complete Travel Service Lustre Cream Shampoo article more specifically de- Caron perfume fining the purposes and pro- cedures of standing committees on educational policy, admis- >i •/]- policy, financial aid, Eu- ropean travel, community af- fairs. and international stu- You Haven't Lived dents. c Scholarships to Proxies costs 29 .Mickey Guiherteau, chief jus- Til You've Tasted tice of the 1 nter-College Court, proposed that his group be re- structured to give almost com- Campus Pac is an extraordinary collcotion of His and Her plete jurisdiction in disciplin- toilet articles for only 29 cents. Come in today and register ary cases to the college courts. The proposal will be voted on for the $100,000 Campus Pac Sweepstakes which insures in spring SA elections. at least two Rice winners. In further business, the Sen- ate approved a letter recom- mending that next year's Senate attempt to place student mem- bers on the University Library, Examinations and Standings, Admissions and possibly ROT'' RISE CAMPUS STORE BELLAIRE at CHIMNEY RQCK/5011 GRIGGS RD. Committees. The Senate postponed a dis- cussion of a proposal to recom- mend that the University pro- Aide Service Scholarships of SI000 ft "jwiiits Take the ; > il Wk Gellhorn exit just past McCarty t W SELLING 775 Gellhorn Free to on the Beaumont College Highway Enter Fwy. (59 - 90} Students • from 25$ to others A new booklet, published by a non-profit educational founda- i tion, tells which career fields lets RUSK you make the best use of all your college training, including McKINNEY liberal-arts courses —which LEELAND career field offers 100,000 new JEFFERSON jobs every year —which career field produces more corporation PIERCE presidents than any other—what starting salary you can expect. Just send this ad with your name Continuous tour Monday through Saturday and'address. This 24-page, career-guide booklet, "Oppor- tunities in Selling," will be 9:30 to 4:00 mailed to you. No cost or obli- (Plant normally in full production Monday through Friday) cM/u(ser-pu£c(|,! nc. gation. Address: Council on Op- portunities, 550 Fifth Ave., New York 36, N.Y., Rice. THE RICE THRESHER, MARCH 1 6, 196 7—P AGE 12