volume 65, numbeRicr ttv. e Threshefridayr, octobe r 28, 1977 Brown recommends different co-ed conversion timetable for Jones and Lovett erman also proposed that the sible, to maintain high occupan- proposed that the Dean of Un- a recommendation; Hackerrnan by David Butler coed colleges be allowed to set cy, and to equalize the waiting dergraduate Affairs submit a re- "will make his own recommen- their own room assignment poli- lists for men and women in years port to the President each year dation to the Board, and the Undergraduate Affairs Dean cies, subject to the approval of when there is an over-demand on the status of the Colleges, Board's action will be decisive." Katherine Brown has recommen- their masters. Currently, rules for on-campus housing. "including, whenever appropri- She also added that "the recom- ded that Will Rice, Jones, and dictate that male and female Also included in the proposal ate, a recommendation for chan- mendation is now under study Lovett Colleges be converted to sections of the coed colleges be is a recommendation that any ges in the provisions governing by the President, but I have not coed status, as proposed by the separated by exterior doorways decisions regarding coed colleges the coed Colleges or a possible yet discussed it with him," since Committee of College Masters or stairwells. However, Dean be made on a year-by-year basis, further increase in their num- Hackerrnan has been out of and Presidents two weeks ago. Brown noted, the new policy rather than a fixed period of ber." town. However, Dean Brown has ad- would allow the colleges to time, as was the first "experi- Dean Brown again emphasized (The full text of the recommen- vised that conversion of Jones accomodate demand for rooms mental" period for Baker and to the Thresher that her recom- dation appears on page 3 of this College be delayed for one year, with as much flexibility as pos- Hanszen Colleges. Dean Brown mendation to Hackerrnan is only issue.) with only Will Rice becoming cocd next academic year. Dean Brown's action differs Student Association seeks ad volunteers, tables Media Board from that of the Masters and Presidents, who wanted Jones Monday's SA meeting saw an til January 1, following the new Board. As originally written, the the Publications Committee and Will Rice to convert next "agreeable" Senate approve two election amendment passed by bill would replace the current from former Internal VP Marian year, with Lovett converting in constitutional amendments and the Senate. Senate Publications Committee Barber, presented the bill to the 1979-80. Under her proposal, two of three "affiliate" organiza- That amendment, which will with the Media Board, composed Senate, but then moved that the both Jones and Lovett will wait tions, and send the controversial allow vacancies in campus-wide of faculty and administration ad- matter be sent back to commit- an additional year before be- Media Board proposal back to offices to be filled by appoint- visors plus student members tee. Bounds and Sisson noted coming coed. committee. ment rather than special elec- elected at large or appointed by that KTRU is already controlled The meeting opened with a re- tion if they occur with two the Committee of Masters and by the FM Committee, chaired The reasons cited for delaying port by External Affairs vice months of the spring general Presidents and the Senate. The by President Hackerrnan, and the change in Jones' status were president Joe Lueckenhoff on election, passed unanimously. Board, according to the propo- that any administrative changes the comparatively small majority the status of the student direc- Also approved were changes in sal, would "conduct all hiring at the radio station would have favoring conversion in Jones, as tories currently being prepared the constitution and by-laws to and firing of salaried staff, set- to be approved by the Federal. well as the fact that if Jones and by the SA (see Thresher Octo- change SA "dependent" organi- ting of policy, and making of Communications Commission. Will Rice converted next year, ber 13). Lueckenhoff said that zations to "affiliate" organiza- other major decisions" for the Bounds also commented that the Brown College "would be left the list of student names and tions. Both changes will become Thresher, the Campanile, and bill, viewed by many as an at- for a year with three single-sex addresses is ready to send to the official in one week unless chal- KTRU. tempt to prevent future prob- men's Colleges, which seems soc- typesetter in Phoenix, and that lenged with a petition bearing Newly-elected Internal Affairs lems with Thresher editor elec- ially undesirable," according to the directory could be ready for the signatures of five percent of VP Chris Bounds, who took over (continued on page 3) Dean Brown. If Jones' conver- sale as early as mid-November. the undergraduate student body. sion is postponed for a year, she He asked the senators for help in Also passed without dissent feels the balance of coed/male/ "running down advertisers" in were applications for affiliate female colleges would shift from order to approach the break- status from the Rice Ballroom Porkers highlight homecoming 2-4-2 currently to 3-3-2 next even point with production Dance Society and the Rice year to 5-2-1 with both of the costs. Repelling Club. The Rice Mem- by Steve Sullivan a good effort last week against latter arrangements appearing President Claude Sisson then orial College did not fare as A&M, will face tough opposition more desirable than the tempor- told the Senate that University well; after untabling last meet- The annual homecoming week- this week in the Arkansas Razor- ary imbalance that would be cre- Court Chairman Keith Cooper's ing's motion to approve affiliate end is nigh upon us as flocks of backs. In last year's homecoming ated next year. Lovett's conver- resignation, reported to the Se- status, the Senate rejected the Rice alums gather for assorted game against SMU the Owls sion will be delayed for several nate last month, had not become request for the second time, on a festivities highlighted by the scored three fourth quarter reasons, including the fact that official since none of the proper 10-6 vote. Rice-Arkansas football game. touchdowns to seize a come- Lovett will be acquiring a new authorities had received his let- The Senate then turned to the The Alumni Association has a from-behind win. master next year. ter of resignation. Cooper has major issue of the evening - the full slate of events for returning Sid Rich throws its annual Ok- Dean Brown's memo to Hack- agreed to stay on at his post un- proposal to create a Rice Media grads, which started with a pre- toberfest Saturday night, which view at the Media Center of the includes cabaret shows and Alumni Art Exhibition II. The enough beer to erase memories program doesn't really get into of alumni and students alike. full swing, however, until Friday Alumni can rekindle old friend- night, when the Alumni Assem- ships at one of the many reunion bly and Dinner will occupy the parties taking place all over the Grand Hall starting at 7:30pm, campus and Houston, with class- to be followed immediately by es going as far back as 1927 and the Homecoming Dance at 9:30. as recent as '73 organizing get- togethers. to For those athletically inclined alumni who aren't too tired from the night before, Lovett graph Multigraph Cotnp Set 500 College will sponsor a three mile typesetting system used to pro- "Fun Run" around the campus duce the Thresher met an un- Saturday at 1 lam. The course timely demise. Immediate cause starts and finishes at the lawn in of death was diagnosed as a fail- front of Lovett Hall. Then the ure of a keyboard interface alums will be subjected to lunch board. We would like to thank at the residential colleges (those Devvitt Graphics and Printing „ *•- 'its - v •» ? * graduated before the college sys- and Reproduction for allowing tem was established in 1957 r V,„ *C 4 if v * < us to use their facilities to bring "jr. - ; J" IA >•,** X have been assigned a college). ou this belated Thresher. Oktoberfest provides yet another excuse to tank up this weekend. Festivities begin at 5pm Saturday at SRC At 2:00 the Owls, coming off —wiley sanders threshing-it-out RAMAS members outraged over shortcomings of Texas law To the editor: forbidding black participation in Secretary of State of Texas duties of the state of Texas in of a Human Rights Commission We, the undersigned members the Texas Democratic Party attempted to evade their ob- controlling and operating its are necessary and just. The time of the Rice Association of primary; Smith v. Allwright ligation to institute the minority public schools" and to require to act is now, in hope of pre- Mexican-American Students (1944) which overturned the language provisions of the that organization to file with the venting a re-enactment of (RAMAS) wish to express our ruling for the Grovey v. Town- Voting Rights Act of 1965 as county clerk a list of its another social and moral tragedy outrage over the inadequacies send case (1935) where a black amended in 1975; and Familias members. Failure to obey such as the Joe Campos Torres case. of the Texas legal system. Texas man was successfully prevented Unidas v. Dolph Briscoe (1975), a request may result in Ray Marchan state laws have always been par- from participating in the Texas where court proceedings are criminal proceedings.