Politics Continues Rice Ten-Year See Pages 2-3 THE RICE THRESHER Plan Next Week AN ALL-STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 49 YEARS Volume 52—Number 4 Ten Pages This Week HOUSTON, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 Two Rice Alma Maters Rice Operates At Share 'Official' Status Loss For Second By PHIL GARON school, "Rice's Honor," received Thresher Staff Reporter a general, indifferent accept- The opening games of the ance from most of the members Time In History football season have precipitated of the university for many years Rice University operated at a familiar note of discord on after its inception. campus, centered around the a deficit of $269,525 for the We Will Fight ill-defined status of the Rice fiscal year of 1964. This was Then a group of students alma mater. the second year in a row, and launched a campaign decrying the second time in history, that Speaking for the Alumni As- "Rice's Honor" as nothing more University income had failed to sociation, President W. L. Davis than a glorified fight song, re- balance expenditures. gave his own personal feelings plete with militant phrases such on the controversy: "I think The excess of expenditures as "we will fight on," and "we that it is regrettable that we over income for the fiscal year will be fighting when this day have this problem at all. The .19G3 was $150,127. In 1962 Rice is done." Even the isochronous alumni reaction to this situation realized a net profit of $77,- rhythm lent itself more easily is stronger than on most of 047. to old marches than to old the major issues the University The largest areas of ex- mothers. has faced. penditures for the year were This conflict over a so-called instructional departments, which Something the Same lack of dignity in the song saw received $3,091,801, and gen- "I particularly did not like the genesis of the more sedate eral and administrative ex- the manner in which 'Rice Is: "Rice Is Our Home," performed MORE POLITICS—Rice History professors Frank Vandiver, penses, which claimed $1,071- Our Home' was presented dur- to the tune of Sibelius' "Fin- W. H. Masterson and Allen Matusow discussed the presidential 526. The chief source ->f in- ing the half-time of the West landia." The adoption as the campaign Monday before a full house at the West University come was investments, and it Virginia game. My hope is that school song of "Rice Is Our Community Center. amounted to $4,543,529. we will not divide and have two Home," a paean to "cherished songs. One wants something to days" at The University, seemed Total educational and gen- stay the same, something to tie to offer a good solution for ev- Three Rice Historians Interpret eral expenditures for the year with." erybody . well, almost every- ending on June 30, 1964, were Bill Timme, SA President, body. $5,712,000. Educational and gen- eral income for the same pe- stated that at' the present time Seats Bring Split '64 Campaign For LBJ Partisans riod was $5,287,700. Income two songs, "Rice's Honor" and The plot began to thicken By EDDIE PRICE porting him and to seek sup- from auxiliary enterprises, in- "Rice Is Our Home," have when the Rice Alumni Asso- port from other groups in order cluding such as receipts from equal status as school alma ciation stepped into the pic- "The 1964 election is a show- to govern. maters, but added that, the stu- ture to proclaim that a great down between conflicting value athletic ticket sales amounted to systems — pitting 19th century an additional $154,775. ^ dents are "basically dissatisfied injusticg had been done. The Rap Total Victory rural individualism against an with this situation, and we are emergence of the fledgling Dr. Vandiver, widely respect- Subtracted from the income going to bring it under negotia- "Rice Is Our Home" was a se- essentially urban attitude to- ed as a military historian, felt for the past year was a $242,- tion as1 soon as possible." rious break with tradition, a ward government, labor, and that America's history has not 317 allocation for the reserve The presence of two school violation of one of the great economics, which sees freedom prepared it for the role of. a fund. This allocation is re- hymns has long been a thorn old University standard's. with a social dimension." major world power which we quired by the Board of Gover- With this statement of the in the sides of both the student The student body, sensing a have suddenly been forced to nors, and is based on a certain body and the alumni. The challenge to the justness of issues, Dr. Allen Matusow open- assume. percentage of the income, ac- ed a panel discussion among "traditional" alma mater of the (Continued on Page 10) Dr. Vandiver labeled the idea cording to Leo S. Shamblin, three Democratic sympathizers of total victory as a dangerous Rice University Treasurer. of the Rice history faculty in doctrine in the atomic age, and Rice's financial statement, the West University Place Civic not necessarily the goal we which was released on Sep- 'We Are On The Road To War' Auditorium last Monday for should seek. He did not believe tember 25, listed the assets of local Democratic enthusiasts. that Goldwater would be capable the University at $81,227,758. On the panel with Dr. Ma- Says Ike's Former Air Secretary of talking reasonably with the This figure did not include tusow were Dr. Wm. H. Master- "We are on the road to war," of war with an historical argu- Russians in pursuit of peace. s u c h non-revenue producing according to Dudley C. Sharp ment, Sharp stated, "Before son and Dr. Frank Vandiver, Dr. Matusow, in response to properties as campus land, speaking at Will Rice Monday. World War II we sold scrap who were introduced by Pro- a question from Mr. Hobby, buildings and improvements, Mr. Shai-p was Secretary of the iron to Japan, now wheat to gram Chairman Dr. Louis G:i • denied that Goldwater himself and other educational property. Air Force for six years under Russia; the comparison is ob- lambos as outstanding men in is an extremist. He represents Shamblin pro u clod that Rice Eisenhower. vious." their respective fields of Amer- ican history. The Panel was a legitimate part of the Amer- would operate at a deficit again Supporting his anticipation Wars From Appeasement ican tradition, reminiscent of this year, but University Pres- Wars come about by appease- moderated by Mr. Wm. P. Hobby of the Houston Post. Woodrow Wilson, but a pari of ident Kenneth S. Pitzer was. ment, said Sharp in approving which has* been submerged for unavailable for comment on the the form of bri^manship ex- See More Goldwaters (Continued on Page 7) possible size of this deficit. Jones, McClung, ercised by John Foster Dulles. The great complexities of "Without Dulles' backing, Eis- modern life — bigger cities,- Scurlock Win In enhower weakened in the U-2 longer life, the readjustment of incident. I don't think it would the races — have introduced Mississippi Professor To Analyze SA Special Poll have happened with Dulles." new problems into politics, Returns from last week's elec- Mr. Sharp emphasized that questions of degree and not 'Revolution In The Closed Society' tion placed Jim Scurlock in the the views presented were his simple alternatives, Dr. Master- Dr."James W. Silver, national- newly created post of Off-Camp- own and were not dependent son suggested. ly famous critic of Southern so- us Representative to the Student on Goldwater or the Republican Goldwater, he c o n t i n u e d, ciety and author of the current Senate. Don Jones Avon the Stu- Party. Among the views he pre- working with a very high-level bestseller "Mississippi, T h e dent Association Treasurer po- sented were the following: political organization, voices the Closed Society," will speak to- sition. The new male cheerlead- NATO officials should be al- discontent which has arisen as. morrow evening at 8 pin in er is Mike McCliung. lowed to retaliate in kind with a result, and there are going Hamman Hall. In the election held on Thurs- atomic weapons. "Communica- to be more Goldwaters, and Titled "Revolution in the day, October 1, Jones won easily tions are at best bad. more discontent, before our Closed Society," Professor Sil- over Mike Carter with 258 votes Little .Government Good problems are Solved. ver's lecture will be a review of m to Carter's 174. The race for "Little government is good But Dr. Masterson insisted events in Mississippi during the cheerleader was closer, McClung for us. The government has that even if Goldwater were summer of 1964. receiving 286 votes while Phil gained its prese n t power elected President, he would not Dr. Silver, a member of the Moncrief received 209. through tax laws. What we need have the strength to dismantle history faculty at the Univer- Scurlock and Ray Needham is a down to eaith government, what America has done in the sity of Mississippi since 1936, defeated Peyton Barnes in the not all-powerful."' past thirty years. He would be gained national ..attention in race for off-campus senator. In The Republican attitude to- forced to disavow the extremist 1963 by his public dissent on of- the runoff held on Friday, Oc- ward war is better because they elements which are now sup- ficial policies at the University tober 2, Scurlock defeated Need- have "sufficient determination and the state government in the ham iby a tally of 108 to 74.