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VOLUME THIRTY-NINE — NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1952

LETS VOTE The Forum Committee an- ROCKWELL LECTURES nounces that the political rally for the Senior Class will Spring Elections be held this afternoon at Reformation Expert Read to Give noon in the Physics Amphi- theater. The rally for all- Set For Mondby school elections will be held Public Lectures, April 1,2,3 Dr. Conyers Read, Professor Emeritus of English History One hundred sixty four candidates for political offices will tomorrow at the same time at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the annual Rock- crowd the Spring Election ballot in Monday's voting. The polls in the same place. well Lectures April 1, 2, and 3 in the Fondren Library Lecture will open at 8 in the morning of the thirty-first and will close Lounge. The general topic of his lectures will be the English at 1 P.M. Reformation. ' John McClane and Bass Wallace are the candidates for the Harvard Professor "The Break from Rome" will be office of President of the Stu- Rondelet Coming the subject of Dr. Read's lecture Expense accounts of all candi- dent Association. Running for To Address Sigma Tuesday night, April 1. The next dates except honor council and the position of Vice-President Up On May Third topic will be "Anglican Establish- honorees are due before noon of the Student Council are Julia XI Group Tonight ment", and on Thursday night Dr. Saturday to a member of the Read will consider "Puritanism". Picton and Beverly Ward. The job "The Molecular Basis of Vision" Election committee. The By- Weekend The lectures, which start at 8 PM, of Secretary of the Student Associa- will be the subject of a public lec- Laws require an automatic dis- Plans are culminating for the are open to faculty and students of tion will go to either Dorothy Kelly ture tonight by Dr. George Wald of qualification of any candidate Rondelet weekend of May 3. With Rice and to the general public. or Carolyn Coy. John McClintock the Harvard Biological Laborator- violating any part of the by laws .the elections of the court and es- Dr. Read is the most outstanding pertaining to expense accounts. or Walter Baker will be elected ies. The lecture, sponsored by the corts out of the way the Rondelet Rice Chapter of Sigma Xi, will be- English Reformation scholar in the They should have the candidates Committee is busy planning de- United States, and probably in the name, the office, a breakdown of All students are urged to bring gin at 8 PM, and the public is in- tails of the pageant and formal ball. their blanket taxes Monday in vited. world. He holds a Ph. D. from Har- the expenses and be signed by Last week letters went out to the i vard, a B. Litt. from Oxford, and a the candidate. Julia Picton, De- order to be able to facilitate the Interested primarily in the chem- six Southwest Conference colleges voting in the general elections. istry and physiology of vision and j Litt. D. from Ursinus College. In mitri George, Florence Kessler, plus the University of Houston, i addition to his work at the Univer- or Ben Gantt will accept the ex- biochemical evolution, Dr. Wald dis- Treasurer of the Student Associa- University of St. Thomas, and Sam sity of Pennsylvania, he has also pense accounts. covered and identified Vitamin A in Houston State Teachers College in- tion. Nominees for Councilman at the retina while working in Kar- \ taught at Princeton and at the Large are Harold Lacy, Tom Taylor, viting representatives from those j University of Chicago. rer's laboratory in Zurich. He is a campuses to attend Rondelet. Each and Khleber Attwell. j Dr. Read is pasty executive secre- fellow of the American Academy of college will send a girl who, togeth- | tary of the American Historical As- Students Asked Rodger Bonney is the only candi- Arts and Sciences and the New York er with her escort, will be presented i sociation, and he worked for the date for Business Manager of the Academy of Sciences, as well as at the May Fete along with the ! Office of Strategic Services during Thresher. many other distinguished scientific Rice honorees. To Vote For HC Eleven people are in the race for societies. .(th e. last war. At present he is a cheerleader, four of whom will ob- Decorations for the pageant are J member of the Royal Historical So- under the direction of Bob Stavely tain the position. Running "are ciety, the American Philosophical Amendment and Bill McMinn with the lighting Charles Henry, T.F. Arner, Jayne Society, and the Council on Foreign There is a new amendment to the Sutton and Harris and sound ejuipment being set up Wunsch, Joe Kelly, Bill Harrison, Relations. He received his Doctor- honor council constitution that will by Bill Fowler and Dan Daggett. Wade Melton, Byron James, Ever- ate in Civil Law in June, 1951, and be put before the student body at Win In Rice Bridge (Continued on Page 2) this spring election which will ette Frazier, Joe Lipper, Allen is the Guggenhein Fellow for 1951- strengthen our system of honor and Pierce, and Willie Berryman. Tournament 1953. exams to such a degree that it will Thirty-five girls are candidates Dick Sutton, sophomore, and J.T. Installation Of A noted author, he has written be more workable, more stringent, for honoree. From this number ten "Spider" Harris, senior, will com- "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the and more enforceable. will be chosen. The list includes pete in the 1952 National Intercol- Dispenser Has Policy of Queen Elizabeth" and "The Tudors". At present, he is The amendment proposal is that Anne Acker, Patti Ambrose, Ther- legiate Bridge Tournament in Chi- writing a companion biography of for a conviction of guilt the change ese Arnold, Sherrill Carmichael, cago, Illinois, on April 18-19, all Small Effect William Cecil to his biography of will be from a unanimous to a 3/4 Letty Castille, Carolyn Coy, Elsie expenses paid. The new iron monster which dis- Mr. Walsingham. vote. The proposed amendment will Crossman, Virginia Easley, Jackie The two Rice .students aualified gorges coffee in four varieties, re- (Continued on Page 2) eliminate mis-trials of people who Darden, Mary Anne Davis, Fay for the national tournament in com- cently installed in the student seem obviously guilty to the great- Flower, Marilyn Hooper, Martha petition with Jim Freeman and H.A. lounge, has had little effect on sales er part of the council; but, due to Hodge, Barbara Kunetka, Dorothy Smith, Garth Gobeli and Jim Vetty, in the Roost; Mr. J.R. Garner, the the presence of someone on the Kelly, Florence Kessler, M.E. Kinz- and Harry Clampett and Lynn Yar- Roost's i?fenager, explained yester- R 0 T C Federal council who is simply too timid to bach, Barbara Madden, "Carol Mar- borough on February 26 and 27. day that between twenty five and act against an obvious offender, of shall, Mary Ahne Mewhinney, Doris Dr. J.T. Smith, tournament direc- thirty gallons of coffee are still sold each day under the sign of the Inspection To Be someone who is a friend of the ac- Neal, Dorthyle Nicholl, Carol Ann tor for Rice, supervised the playing perching owl. cused and naturally preiudjceji, or Oden, Peggy O'Neill, Julia Picton, of 18 prepared hands which had of someone who has been elected Jan Price, Bridget Rote, Lorena Ru- been sent to colleges in each of Mr. Garner thinks that the ma- Held Today for the sole purpose of never vot- land, Carol Smith, Virginia Lee eiglft regions where the top eight chine's installation will be especially The inspecting team will cover welcomed by those students who ing anyone guilty, the case is dis- Smith, Pat Stallings, Carolyn Thom- players fro meach college in the re- every phase of the unit's training as, Notelie Turrentine, Beverly gion competed. Texas is in the Cen- may prefer coffee to soft drinks missed. and administration as well as facil- Ward, and Florence White. tral Zone along with Minnesota, after the Roost closes. Lingering Most people attack this amend- Candidates for the position of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Okla- loungs-scrounges will probably ap- ities and government-owned pro- ment on the grounds that a trial (Continued on Page 5) homar preciate the variety. perty. Classes will be visited while for murder retires a unanimous instruction is in progress. Individual Vote, and .since the penalties for cheating are synonymously as bad, STUDENT COUNCIL members of the unit will be in- a* unanimous decision should be re- spected for appearance, fit of uni- quired here. This is a false state- form and military proficiency, both ment, because it must be remem- in the classroom and on the drill bered that these men on the honor Thoughts On the Need of a Television Set field. council are elected by you, and that By JERRY WEINER they will do all that they can to bank account, and although this is Heading the inspection team will (Continued on Page 4) A petition signed by 145 members of the student body ask- of course not a warrant for spending be Col. Frederic A. Henney, former ed for a referendum vote on the TV Set for the student lounge. the money, it makes more feasible chief of the Department of En- The student council has already voted down the motion for a from a financial viewpoint the pur- gineering at the Engineering School INSIDE THE TV Set for the lounge, 9-7, with four abstaining, and now the chase of a TV Set, which is being at Fort Belvoir, Va. During the war purchased at wholesale price. he served as division engineer of THRESHER students will get a chance to voice their opinion and the SC The TV Set would, I believe, pro- the 9th Division in North Africa has to honor the results of the vide a great amount of entertain- and later as Corps Engineer of the % Speecial emphasis this week referendum. I think that this a worthier purpose, and where the ment for a large number of students 36th Corps. is placed on the Honor Council matter requires a lot of thought money is coming from. The money who would not otherwise have a' Other members of the inspection amendment and TV referendum. on the part of the voters, being a is in the fund of the Student Prop- chance at this form of entertain- board are: Lt. Col. Virgil V. Laugh- Both stories start on page 1. question which must be decided erties Committee, and can only be ment. First, from the dorm students lin, PMS & T, Fort Worth High used to furnish the lounge with any- sooner or later. A TV Set in the viewpoint, -ther are many students Schools; Lt. Col. Corson L. Hilton, thing that the council votes on. It who on Sunday night or any other • Dorm students air gripes on lounge has its advantages and dis- Jr., co-ordinator of ROTC activities cannot be used for any worthy pur- night might not either have a way laneh line waiting, in a letter on advantages; I believe its advantages for the Texas Military District and pose or anything else except for or the means to provide themselves page 2. are more than its disadvantages. former PMS & T of the El Paso property for the student lounge. The with a movie or other forms of en- high schools and Maj. Frederick R. tertainment, and would enjoy a TV f Candidates platforms are to I have heard ^many people ask Student Properties Committee now Gehring, PMS & T, Ball High (Continued on Page 2) N found on pftflpt o» why this money couldn't be used for has over a thousand dollars in its School, Galveston, Texas.

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Two THE THRESHER FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1*52 by Bibler Preferential Voting Is TSIMH. Vol. II LiM,e Man °n c#mpu_! Hit Student Show Prejudicial Voting (& /. gxpnifi |y OfTtktL i4Vf PrrrrnTir By Jerry Wiener that since you must vote for a sec- Rawlings Shines ond and third choice, your second The Preferential Voting System By Allyer Tinsley Cole and third place votes can elect a was instituted at Rice in October of second choice candidate. And again the PALS score. John mlRficr ( 9.eri)Z last year, and most of us will be 3. A third complaint, and one Rawlings once more puts a dozen or voting under it for the first time made by the members of the elec- so relatively untrained gals into in the Spring Elections on Monday. tion committee itself, is that the leotards and produces one of the This system has one and only one amount of time required to count more professional students shows advantage, as far as I can see, and the votes under the Preferential given on this campus. "The Stage is that is that it eliminates the dread* System is almost alarming, to say My Handkerchief" played Monday, ed and evil run-off, as the student the least. Members of the election Tuesday, and was held over Wed- council seems to regard it. The Pre- committee estimate that they will nesday to deservedly full houses ferential Voting System, then, elim- be counting votes until very late in who found that true to its title Vol. inates one fault of the majority the night. It puts an unnecessary II was second edition of last year's voting system, while introducing strain on the election committee and tradition shattering show. Loud, many more inherent in its own-self. the candidates, which although ad- fast, and carefully executed total A run-off is bad, admittedly, but is mittedly a minor complaint, is one confusion earmarked certain pas- a run-off so bad that we must re- that is again partially solved by the sages, contrasted with such really lovely acts as Sally Ringer singing place the system which causes a Majority Voting System. run-off by a system that has at least the blues. three serious faults which negate i As a true burlesque-to each his the Preferential System's one good TV Set own particular favorite skit—but on of e-^minating a run-off, The faults (Continued from Page 1) the top of any list, I should think I speak of are: would rank the Rawlings-Pat Kenny Set. The students studying in the take off on "Les Sylphide" and 1. In the Preferential Voting Sys- library might enjoy spending their "Swan Lake"; Neal O'Brien and . tem as we now have it, if a person relaxation periods looking at TV chorus with the Noel Coward receives a majority of first place instead of looking at four miserably "Mad Dogs, and Englishman Go C-oz votes, he is automatically declared colored walls, while drinking their Out in the Noon Day Sun" and the "Sure you remember—it was the elected. This is good, but if no candi- coke or coffee. A coaxial cable will Rawlings-Cruse "We're The Thea- experiment I said you wouldn't need date receives a majority of first soon reach Houston, and many more tre, We're the Little Theatre, We're to remember or take notes on." place votes, then all the second enjoyable programs will be seen on le Petite Theatre Intime", and the place and third place votes are coun- TV. The TV Set has its advantages, Julia Picton-Sarah Luger "Red Hot ted, and it is very possible that a and those people who are against Mama" number. The usual Rawlings person can receive twice as many it merely because people who should touches in music, dance, and light- Threshing It Out first place votes than any other be studying will be looking at TV ing were in evidence. By using a To The Editor: . - candidate and still lose the election instead, do not have a valid objec- small number on an equally small because more people wanted some- tion, in my opinion. Those people stage, somehow and at some time The following unsigned letter has been called to my atten- one else for their second and third who will look at TV when they everyone member of the cast made tion.-Realizing the Thresher cannot print letters whose author- place choice. Say 100 people vote, should be studying will be doing her own particular bow. ship is unknown, but believing that opinions expressed in this something else instead of studying, and A gets 50 first place votes, and Noel Coward came in for other letter represent a real campus problem, I would like to include only 10 second place votes, assum- because they just dont' want to honors with the song and dance rou- excerpts of the aforesaid, letter in this letter. ing that there are three people run- study. Any person who is going to tine of "Please Don't Put your ning for the office, and B gets 25 Rice should be able to make up his daughter on the Stage, Mrs, Wor- The letter reads: first place votes, but 75 second mind about studying or looking at thingham" by the invincible four- 'To the Thresher Staff— with dormitory life that badly needs place votes. C gets* 25 first place TV. some of O'Brien, Picton, Maryanne I would like to call your attention airing. The Hall committee is re- votes and 15 second place votes. A Three amendments to the honor Mewhinney, and Tigre Thomas. to a situation existing in connection maining oblivious to the situation by has 170 points, but JB has 225 points, council constitution were approved To J. Rawlings a special shiny choice, in other words, they are do- although having only half as many by the SC to be presented to the stu- brass button. He may never produce ing nothing about it, or shall we say, first place votes as A, and is de- dent body for a vote. An explana- a show which meets with his full Rondelet are powerless. clared elected. This seems to me a tion of these proposed amendments approval. He may never approach (Continued from Page 1) If you are wondering what this gross miscarriage of voters' opin- will be found in an article in this what is in his mind's eye. But no A modern dance group under the situati°" make like a dorm ^ ion, which could not happen in the paper specifically on the proposed matter how poor these attempts s0 e and over and et Majority Voting System. amendments. may seem 'to his eye, Rawlings and direction of Mrs. H.B. Poindexter "". noontime, « brutes wlth Voting System you must vote for 2 Rice student shows from the ice age dents will appear as entertainers the 'YheU-mth-the-rest-of- or 3 people, according to the num- Lecture into a heat wave and have set mo- also. The twilight presentation yon-guys-I'm-hungry" expressions on fac s wd ln front of 0 ber running. You must make all the (Continued from Page 1) dern-adult standards for previous promises to be one ol the most im- = "? , J " choices required or your ballot will super-high school ones. To John, a pressive seen at Eice in recent •'? 'me' Feel thf burnm8: seMatlon be thrown out. This means that in The Rockwell Lectures, which years. It will be free to all students, that. creeps up to your ea'3.as y°u big fat cigar. realize you can say nothing, do many cases you will have to cast were inaugurated in April, 1938, faculty members and friends of your vote and give points to a candi- have brought many prominent nothing. Just stand there and wait Rice. in line for 30 minutes without mov- date whom you perhaps don't know, speakers to Rice, among whom were Co-producers Albus and Rosen such outstanding people as Dr. Ros- have extended an invitation to The formal ball, to take place at jng at au unless backwards. Now, or if you do know don't want to vote Autrey Court, is under the direc- j . for for various reasons. Why should coe Pound and Mr. Charles P. Taft. the students of the Rice Insti- will say one thing for some They tion of Gordon Redd and Neel Gar- tually think about standing in you have to go to the polls and in Each series of lectures is bound and tute to attend a special perform- do ac land. Ronnie Weiss, Bud Cruse and ij but upon observing its length, many cases be forced to vote for place din Fondren Library. ance of "Room Service" at the ne> Tom Wharton are working on the ft realizing they would not bear more than the candidate you favor- Playhouse Theatre, Monday af- 0 en extensive decorations which are be- he g ny of waiting 15 minutes. Of if you want to vote at all. Even if ternoon at 2:30. There will t a 0 Attention ing planned to turn the court into se, the other 99% don't even you think only one man on the bal- be no charge-for admission, and cour a ballroom. gi it a thought but walk right up lot is competent to hold the office, Anyone Interested In French Music the doors open at 2 Monday af- ve The APO will have the conces- to the front, waving to all those you must give points to the other Come to the Sunday evening mu- ternoon. sions at the dance and Buddy unfortunates who think enough of candidates or not vote at all. This sic soirees held by the French Club, Brock's orchestra will furnish the their fellow students to give them is how your second and third place "Les Hiboux". Food, music, chat- entertainment. If it rains, the May an even break. votes might put in office a candi- ter. Watch the billboards for fur- Fete presentation will also take „ . ~ date who is definitely a second place ther announcements of these unique Hippos Sur Les ln al u8tlca 1 place In the Field House. ' ^ choice in the minds of a majority of parties. (The fact that you don't Beverly Ward is in charge of fi- are not the 8°'e »«a»da", ' the voters. So the end result of the speak French is no handicap, ask hose Points Highlight nancing of the Eondelet. This year « 1 preferential voting system could be those who attend). ° _ _ demdomas whnrhon tinIwilIl -notroinever* becomVio/tATVtea mamen/n " two kinds of patron bids are being The above quoted letter is sighed sold for the dance. Four dollar ones CA Museum Film will be sold to commercial estab- "No- rm lo°' In conjunction with the Design lishments and campus orgaiiiaa- »*»»»•. I *• **•" in Nature exhibition at the Con- .. j 4.1. j 11JL ° .ir , obvious reasons, I am asking you temporary Arts Museum, 302 Dallas bona, and three dollar one. will be ^ • Entered as second class matter, October 17, 1916, at the Post Office, sold to individual friends of Rice. my Houston, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Avenue, a nature film festival is All campus organizations have been Name withheld on request. Subscription Rate $1.00 Per Year. being shown. Friday, March 28, at sent letters requesting them to buy Editor's note: Represented by National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York City. the Houston Public Library, a ser- a patron bid and the Committee ^licy of the THRESHER is Published every Friday of the regular school year except during holiday and not to p nt etter8 examination periods by the students of the Rice Institute. Editorial and ies of films on the growth of fun- hopes this request will be received " * whose author- Advertising offices are in the Fondren Library on the campus. gus, life in a drop of water, spiders, favorably. ship is unknown. The authorship of Editor Allyce Tinsley Cole in addition to other attractive fea- Any boy selling four patrons bids-the above letter in its entirety is Business Manager Georgia Hink tures will be displayed at 7 p.m. will be given a free ticket to the known .to the editor. Most unfor- Associate Editor A. Betty McGeever Another film, a full length dance. The Rondelet Committee tunate of all, in our opinion, is be- Tr Advrrtising Manager Richard V. Whitty, Jr. documentary of the Lewis-Cotlow hopes to sell at least four hundred havioJu'tha^ would make P*>tectton expedition into Africa will be shown i+p® ia Editor Howard Martin of these patron bids. of the author necessary. The Wednesday, April 9, at Contempor- Assistant Sports Editor f Norris Keeler THRESHER is glad to call attention News Editor Mary Ann Mewhinney ary Museum, 8 p. m. This picture Attention: Members "Les Hiboux" to any campus problem. It is not oar Featiire Editor Mary Ann Johnson features "fascinating scenes of na- Your French Records Now On Re- policy to single out for attaek any Women's Editor Florence Kessler tives performing their ritual and serve For Your Listening Pleasure, particular group. However, the con- Reporters: Betty Bess, Marlin Cruse, Jerry Logan, Jerry Weiner, Joe dances; and underwater ballet per- If Interested in Hearing These Ree- census of opinion pooled is that the Watt, Jo-iAflne Hickman, Fred Duckett, Dick Karig, Neil O'Brien, formed by hippopotami at the bot- ords in Your Off Period, Contact statements in this letter are fair, Tim Weakley, Jean Donaldson, C. T. MacAllister, Jr. tom of a secluded pond," etc. What Suzanne Goodson, President, or and a just representation of existing Staff Photographers Dan Daggett, Eddie Soniat, Bruce Vernof more could you ask for? Keith Perry, Secretary. conditions. The Editor. I®

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1S52 THE THRISHKK Thstt All-School, Class Candidates' Platforms • * John McClane 2. Purchase a portable microphone Council ... as Councilman-at- Charles Tapley Pay Flower for ~ for cheerleaders Large, Vice President and Presi- 3. Run Homecoming more effi- dent. for for S. A. President ciently, especially the dance. . Future Aims . . . Junior President Junior Vice-President The Student Council in expressing Tom Taylor a. Closer Relationship of Student Its primary function of expressing Council to Student Body With glasses on high let's toast If I am elected, I do hereby promise student opinion must be as represen- for to: b. Solution to Campus and Dormi- good-bye to years of romp and tative as possible; therefore there Councilman at Large tory Parking 1—Get a girl for every dorm boy must be a closer coordination be- 1. Thorough all school representa- stomp, and settle down at last, at and the town boys, too, if they tween the Council and the students. tion. Richard Chapman last, and have a damn good class. will just leave their phone num- The Council cannot operate effec- 2. A Better Homecoming. for bers with me. tively as an isolated organization. 3. An active dance committee. Junior President Elsie Crossman 3—HAVE MORE JUNIOR PAR- TIES!! , Bass Wallace 4. An efficient student properties promise to provide: for for committee. 1. An efficient class administra- Junior Vice-President Carol Smith S. A. President Oliver LeBlanc tion for An excellent Junior Dance and A strong interest by Rice stu- for 2. 1. Grade A parties accessories Junior Vice-Pres. dents in their Student Council; its Senior Class President 2. Pasteurized organization A willingness to serve you I won't give up whiskey, policies, its endeavors, its accom- Oliver LeBlanc, candidate for sen- 3. Since our class is the cream of A large, hard working bureau- Nor my cigars, nor wine; plishments encourages efficient go- ior class president, pledges, if elect- 4. cracy the crop, let's all get together and But give me your vote, vernment. The council has enjoyed ed, to carry out the duties of that Lots of parties float to the top. (Continued on Page 4) such an interest this year and has, office with sincerity and concentrat- we hope, acted in a fair manner on ed effort. all questions concerning our stu- Bill Rapson dent body. This candidate as presi- "v. m dent of the Student Association up- for hold the policy of the present Stu- Senior Class President r< 1 dent government in working for the After withdrawing the Chastity best interests of the student body. and Prohibition platform, I would Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests \; Allen Pierce work hard to promote all senior ac- for tivities, make the activities the best, and further unite our class. Cheerleader No. 37...THE SWORDFISH Patti Ambrose You all know about next year's good team so elect a good team of for yell leaders to back it up. Elect Senior Vice-President "Horizontal Nose" cheerleader. More class meetings Carolyn Coy Reports from1 Student Council rep- for resentatives Weekend Party & Open-Houses Secretary of the Student Representative Committees Council More class unity My writing's fairly awkward, Florence White And my spelling is much worse; for But my sympathetic letters Are much better than my verse. Senior Vice-President Yep! C. Coy's minutes « I- am in favor of a more liberal Will be accurate and terse! and democratic representation on Dorothy Kelly committees for Senior Class activities, and for well planned and exe- for cuted activities. Secretary of the Student George Staten, Jr. Council for As the type girl for Secretary, I Senior S.C. Rep. will use my shorthand, my other 1. Experience . . . hand, and I guarantee that my min- Pour Years High School Student utes will last for years. Harold "Admiral" Lacy "THE BEST FOR RICE" for Councilman-at-Large HEBERT'S m If elected I will try to: BARBER SHOP 1. Get a free telephone in the 1729 BISSONET lounge

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fbur TBI TIBI8HIB FRIDAY, MARCH S8, 1M1 eil Representative, I, Bill' Allen, guarantee that the Student Council Rice Owlets Nil My to Lope Platforms will be run as never befbre. (Continued from Page 8) Mary Paitie Sigler I And I'll give you my time. HI-HAT Carol Smith for Junior V.P.! for Again In Contest With Allen DeWitt Wolfe Soph S. A. Rep. — LI-0116 — By J. FRED DUCKETT 1—Every class member urged to for Friday & Saturday After winning a well-played game 5-8 over Allen Academy Junior Student Council present petitions, which will be at Bryan last week, the Rice Owlet baseball team dropped a vigorously supported. 7020 Old Main Street Road Representative 2—As Pogo's representative, will very loosely played 12-11 contest to the academy boys on the I am not one of these radicals, but fight for all present class fights Rice diamond last Tuesday. In the former game Dick Floyd if elected I will represent the whole plus more, too. Hall Available toi and Sid Jones held Allen to four hits and two earned runs. interests of the Junior Class, of Rice, Ladon Cox led Rice batters with and of every student. NO-BULL. The APO softball team will Private Parties and games next week. They will play Charlotte/ Brandenburg practice at 2:00 PM Saturday. two singles in four trips to the each of the conference freshmen Meet in the dressing room. Any Dancina Durina plate. for teams twice. Soph Veep APO member who wishes to play However, the second game was o please contact Harold "Admiral" the Week. very different. Floyd was a little 1—Any member desiring to partici- Lacy. wild, and the heretofore tight Owlet Owlet Track Team pate in class activities shall do so. infield could not find the handle on 2—Better planned, better advertised the ball. Rice committed about six class activities. errors and Rice pitchers issued a Scores 13 Points 3—Complete expression and support Come In And See Our total of 15 bases on balls. But the of members' opinions. game was not without its good In Tri - Meet Barbara Alfie points too, as blond ex-Lamar flash By J. Fred Duckett for REW DURERE T-SHIRTS Garland Fielder, Owlet centerfield- The undermanned Rice Owlet Soph RC Rep. PERFECT FOR SPRING er uncorked a four for five day at track team, further weakened by the Barbara Alfie will give student the plate, spraying his hits to all scholastic ineligibility of its star council representation for the for- One Line of T-Shirts Now On Sale fields. sprinter, could manage only 13 gotten man. Remember her and be WERE $1.10 Allen Starts Fast points in a tri-meet with the Aggie remembered. Allen began scoring immediately and Texas Freshmen. The Short- Pam Riley NOW 80° in the top of the first inning, as Wil- horns won with 88 points, while the for son, Minoz and Cockerbam all walk- Fish were second with 57. ed, and Parete doubled in two runs. With Charles Gary's sure 10 Student Council They went down in order in the sec- points in the 100 and 220 yd dashes Economy is my platform ond, but came up with four more gone due to Gary's classroom trou- Bill Allen THE RICE IHSTITUTE runs in the third on four walks and bles, and Dick Loudan's similar dis- for three singles. comfort keeping him from the high Soph SC Rep. COOPERATIVE STORE After Allen scored once more in jump, the Owlets did not make as As your Sophomore Student Coun- the fourth inning on three walks and good a showing as they did the week an error, the Rice hitters finally before at A and M. However, prom- came to life. After rightfielder Don ising frosh discus throwers Ed Costa had flied deep to center, Jackson and Fred Stancliff were Fielder came through with his sec- able to compete this week, as the ond, but, a slow roller to shortstop freshman discus event was not f ' t which he beat out. The next four called off again. Both of these boys College Men! Rice men walked, forcing in two threw well, Jackson placing second runs, and Duane Dean batted in the and Stancliff fourth. Jackson wasn't third with a fly to left field. beaten until the final throw by Sam- CHOOSE A CAREER Owlets Threaten uelson of Texas, who unlaced a pro- digious 145 foot toss to beat Jack- The Owlets threatened to tie up 'Ir- the game in the bottom of the fifth son by some 8 feet. in the U.S. Air Force as Ladon Cox singled, Costa got on In the two hurdle events, the Owl- on an error, Fielder again came ets appear to be quite strong, as through with a hit sending in a run, Lamoine Holland won the 120 yard and Monte Robicheaux singled in high hurdles and Ken Whitniire two more runs after John "Pinky" placed third in both the highs and Nesbit had walked. the 200 yard low urdles. The Owlets' next meet is on April AIRCRAFT But the Academy boys were not to PILOT OBSERVER 18 at Dallas. By then, the injuries be held down. In the sixth Parede to sprinter Jim Stegner and dis- and Sanchez walked, Broach sin- tance man Jim Bradner should be gled, and when shortstop Page Rog- Aviation Cadet Program Offers Special Opportunities healed, and Rice will be able to ers hobbled Allen Pitcher Casey's make a better showing. grounder, two more runs scored, o for Collegians Now Preparing for Military Service sending the score to 9-6 in favor of Allen. Here is a real man-size opportunity! You Allen scored a single run in the Honor Council can choose—immediately—between being a (Continued from Page 1) Pilot or Aircraft Observer in America's seventh on Munoz' single, a wild swiftly-expanding Air Force. The Air Force pitch by Sid Jones, an error, and a prove your innocence. Since anyone encourages candidates to stay in school groundball by Cockerbab. In the svho comes before the honor council and graduate. However, seniors and stu- 3* Accomplish Flj eighth Allen scored what proved to would probably have a friend on it, Aptitude Tests and en- dents with two years or more of college list for two years only! be the winning run on a walk and the evil of prejudice here would be who anticipate early entrance into military two singles. avoided, and this weak discrepancy service can insure their future and serve Rice Rallies would l>e annulled. their country best by applying for Aviation At present, everyoae must vote a Cadet Training today. You receive the However, in the bottom of thtf finest training and experience when you fly 4. The Selective Service eighth, the Owlets came to life. person guilty without the inkling of Act awards you a four- doubt, but under the new amend- with the U. S. Air Force—experience that month deferment while Jones got life on an error, Ladon pays off in later years. awaiting class assign- Cox flied out, hut Tom Pearce ment there would be a slight margin ment. walked, Ladon Cox singled and went to account for those who are not WHO MAY APPLY to third as the ball got through the thinking clearly for gome reason, AOE—BtlWHR 19 and 26% years. Allen left fielder for an error. Jones •and the system will be strengthened EDUCATION—At least two years of college. immeasureable. MARITAL STATUS—Single. 5. Immediate assign- and Pearce scored on this. Then PHYSICAL CONDITION—Good, especially ment to Aviation Cadet 'Costa was safe on an error, but There was a very close vote last eyes, ears, heart, and tooth. Training Classes starting year that the margin of two percent May 27, July 19, August Fielder forced him at second, Cox HOW TO QUALIFY 19 and October 2, ' Hcoring. 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