Baker festival: Shakespeare would have liked it by IRENE WALKER revere the spirit of fun at least as organization dedicated to the (anyone who owns an oyster players and an expanded male The fifth annual Baker much as in Shakespeare's time Celebration of The Medieval way knife or knows where one may selection will aim for the all time Shakespearian Festival will relive from 3pm to sunset. of life. Free Parvana (a medieval be purchased is asked to contact record of $25+ paid for a slave the Middle Ages as they should Authenticity will be repre- dance) lessons, taped music of Pat McGee, 2100 Baker, last year. have been in the Baker Quad- sented by a new booth this year the period and swordplay dem- 523-5649). Dinner fare of fried "If Shakespeare had known rangle Sunday, March 16. Var- run by the Society for Creative onstrations will be a part of the chicked and barbeque will also about it, he would've used it" ious booths and activities will Anachronisms, a nationwide booth's membership drive. If be sold. will be the theme of many successful, the group hopes to Every hour on the half hour booths. Bill Fulton will produce establish a barony (or branch) in auctioneer Cheryl Hein will sell antique-looking daguerreotype the Rice area. her fellow Baker cabinet mem- photographs of lords and ladies Food booths will be numer- bers on the slave block. The in ten minutes. A massage ous and include boiled shrimp, slaves will be subject to all booth, kissing booth, and for- six-foot loaves of bread, 25-lb. reasonable demands of their pur- tune teller compete for business wheels of cheese, pickles in a chasers for one hour. Other vol- with the stocks and dunking barrel, corn on the cob, wine, unteers, including some of the booth. (Anyone who would like beer and whole, raw oysters championship Baker powderpuff (continued on page 8) the thre^Kef volume 62, number 31 thursday, march 6, 1975 Ellen Horr and friend; Baker Shakespeare Festival, 1973 Historic buildings: a past worth saving and using The past is a valuable heritage others. (See related story, page At 10:30am, Mr. Arthur The conference will break for for the Historic Building Defense which Americans seem recklessly 11.) Skolnik, City Conservator, an open lunch after Dr. Papa- Fund to save the much-publi- set on destroying in the name of The conference starts at Office of Urban Conservation, demetriou's speech, and will cized Pillot and Sweeney build- "progress." In recent years, how- 9:30am with opening remarks Seattle, Washington, will speak resume at 1:30pm. The director ings. He will also discuss the sig- ever, there has been a growing by Chairperson Mary Lynch and on "Leadership Role of the City of the Harris County Heritage nificance of state historical land- interest in the preservation of Associate Director David War- in Preservation." He will demon- Society, Peter Rippe, will deal marks, state archeological monu- historic buildings—not only for ren. strate how the city of Seattle with the choices Houston has for ments, and the procedure of des- their architectural value, but as A series of addresses will be made a commitment to preserva- saving its native landmarks. He ignating buildings as landmarks. functioning elements in the presented throughout the day, tion and carried it out in the feels we have the tendency to Howard Barnstone, Professor of modern city. beginning with "The Case for development and renovation of create a Disneyland past by tear- Architecture at the University of In line with this philosophy, Preservation: National Efforts," Pioneer Square. ing down our own landmarks Houston, will speak on the con- the Rice Design Alliance and the by Terry Morton. She is the At 11:15am, Rice's own and replacing them with replicas version of the 1922 Federal Museum of Fine Arts will pre- Director/Editor, Department of Peter Papademetriou, Associate of the pasts of others. Reserve Bank fortress into the sent a conference this Saturday, Publications, National Trust for Professor of Architecture, will At 2:15, case studies of local first-class office building now March 8 entitled "Old Buildings Historic Preservation, Washing- discuss the role of the past, in a preservation efforts will be pre- called the Crispin Building. The —A Past Worth Using." Registra- ton, D.C. Her goal is to protect city's future. He will cover Hous- sented. The legal aspects of sav- building was unoccupied for 12 tion for the conference, covering the historic and cultural land- ton's lost past and the impor- ing historic buildings will be dis- years before being restored in both national and local preserva- scape, and she sees the energy tance of making efforts to regain cussed by Terence O'Rourke, 1974. The owner of the recently tion efforts, will begin at 9am in crisis as a time of slow-down in that past now. Houston Attorney and Counsel (continued on page 8) the Brown Auditorium of the the building energy, with a cor- . Museum of Fine Arts. Cost is $1 responding increase in the time for students, $2.50 for RDA and available for preservationists to MFA members, and $5 for educate the public. Loan collection bribery charged by DAVID WALKER issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, "The private firm is The number of defaulted stu- accused of forging endorsements dent loans has increased drastic- on some checks payable to indi- ally throughout the United vidual universities and depositing States in the past several years. the money in a company Until about four months ago, account. It is also accused of defaulted loans at Rice were using aliases to collect delin- handled by the University. At quent loans, and failing to report that time an arrangement was collections to the universities." made by Rice with the Dallas It is estimated that the company firm Collegiate Recovery and owes at least $200,000 to its Credit Assistance Programs, Inc. clients and three of its ex- to assume the function of col- employees have been dismissed lecting Rite's defaulted student from H.E.W. posts, accused of loans. This company has since "...badgering students and using been placed in receivership (by improper sttong-arm tactics, Feb. 14 court order) and impli- such as implying sanctions were cated in a scandal of considera- about to be applied to those in ble proportions. default." The full extent of the According to the Feb. 24 (continued on page 8) Cotton Exchange Building, downtown the rice threeher editorial ISTRIBUK If recent events at our nearest neighboring schools of the SWC are any indication of sentiment regarding student publications, the Thresher could be in trouble. Not that it particularly reflects a new trend toward faculty control of a previously autonomous publication, last Friday's issue of the Texas A&M Battalion led the front page with a story about University Presi- dent Jack Williams' desire to have a one-year experience 'STEP UPSTAIRS AND TELL MR. WEINBERG HE'S FIRED!' rule for editorial candidates dropped. This was for the ostensible reason of allowing more people to apply for the position, but it may go deeper than that. Rape threat merits caution To quote the Battalion, "Speaking of himself as last in the line of editor approvals, Williams said that of the two by DANNA BLEDSOE common sense. With the large number of present editorial candidates, there is one who will not be and DAVID WALKER off-campus students it is often difficult to editor as long as he is president." Apparently, even if you determine who "belongs" and who does do have final say as to who is editor you can still be A reported rape on campus this semester not. A misguided spirit of casual friendli- hampered by a rule that limits your choices. Notably, the has focused attention on the security needs ness could be an invitation for trouble, story, which named the two candidates without revealing of the Rice community. While this is only especially under some circumstances (at which was blacklisted, appeared in an issue published by the second such incident In the past nine night, in isolated locations, or when no an interim staff (almost all cadets) while the regular staff years, statistics rapidly lose their meaning other students are nearby). The correct was attending a convention. for the individuals involved. There have attitude should be one of cautious alert- been numerous reported approaches made ness, especially in some situations. While Rice is unique in having a newspaper produced to students of both sexes at various places The Security Office, a service organiza- wholly outside the auspices of journalism departments, and times on campus. While this fact does tion headed by Harold Rhodes, attempts to faculty advisors, or boards of review, the prospect of a not justify vigilantism, it does demand a offer comprehensive protection for stu- student-inspired and endorsed takeover of the Thresher greater awareness of the problem and an dents, but they must rely almost exclu- similar to the one perpetrated by the faculty on the Baylor attitudinal change. sively on students to provide cooperation Lariat is frightening. The sense of placid insularity which we and, in the event of crime, formal com- try to maintain "inside the hedges" is a plaints. It is too often the students, though, The primary justification for the sweeping changes function of environment and attitude. motivated by some obscure prejudice made to the Lariat by Loyal Gould, the new chairman of Beyond the hedges, the environment is against the "pigs" who further handicap the Baylor journalism department, was professionalism.