i 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.