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Campanili Dominate \Fulton Quotes Profs-
Buildings of Rice
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feeding of molasses by freshmen to
each other. Such activities had been
classified as "humiliating" by Far-
rell Fulton earlier in the meeting.
Tom Eubank opposed the motion
to amend by Kelley saying: "We
might as well do it completely and
wholly and not just partially. We
should bring out mental as well as
physical. We might as well go ahead
and do it right." Earlier in the meet-
ing Eubank had asked that consid-
eration of the resolution be post-
poned until next Tuesday. Though
i lie Entire Rico campus is dominated by two structures which are
n the form of the Italian campanile, or bell tower. They rise above
he rest of the buildings in much the,same fashion as do their pro-
totypes from the plains of Lombardy
is as Interesting as it is beautiful.
It is generally conceded that the;
earliest campanili extant are the
circular towers of Ravenna, but it
is unfortunately by no means to
establish at what date these struc-
tures were erected. It is generally
believed that the campanile of S.
Apollinare in Classes is the earliest
of all the bell-towers
The history of the bell tower
tween the two is the lack of the
pyramid-shaped cap on the top of
the one on the Rice campus in con-
tract to its presence on the other. S.
Mark's is wider, but the same em-
phasis on vertical lines is present,
and the same type of arched win-
dows are used. There are differ-
i iUr ' ei1('es in the divisions of the two, but
because trie '
, . , ! the general shape is Very similar.
bricks are thick, that is to say, of'
the Lombard and not of the Byzan-
tine type. The Campanile of the S.
Apollinare seems to fall in about
the year 755. Circular campanile
were evidently a peculiar feature of
the local style of Ravenna, and con-
tinued to be erected there after the
square type had come into use else-
where.
In certain instances the campanile
were made polygonal instead of cy-
lindrical or square. A notable ex-
ample is S. Pietro of Acqui. The
centra] towers of S. Antonio of Pia-
cenza, or Morimondo, and of Mo-
nastero <li Provaglio, are all octa-
gonal. This is the case of the upper
portion of the campanile on the
Chemistry Building. The campanili
always remained deprived of archi-
o -
tectural adornments save for the
windows which are spaced so as to
lie more numerous towards the top.
The campanile of the Mechanical
Kuyineering Building must be com-
pared to that of S. Mark's in Venice.
They are both square of base with
a smaller square form on top. One
of the most obvious differences be-
The campanile of the Chemistry
Building has the square base with
the octagonal upper section, capped
with the red tile roof, the sJiape
of which is similar to almost any of
the polygonal towers previously
mentioned. Windows are used in this
tower below the division, while in
the upper structures the windows
are all above the division of the
tower.
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Haymes Wins Prize
From Chesterfield
Early this semester Paul Haymes
was announced as the winner of
Chester-field's "award of the month"
and presented with a portable radio
as a prize. Haymes won the prize
for'making the most "conversions"
of any campus Chesterfield repre-
sentative in an "A-Class" college
for that particular month. Being
named as one of the award winners
makes him eligible for competition
for a 1949 Crosley to be given as the
graiid prize for the year.
Councilman Calls
Self Poor Politico
To the Editor:
Jimmy Meyers, a very good poli-
tician, "stands with the people." I,
myself, a very bad politician, stand
absolutely opposed to the use of
physical hazing and personal humil-
iation on the Rice campus. By vir-
tue of a regulation of the Board of
Trustees, hazing is utterly illegal.
Then too, School Spirit—the Great
Excuse given for hazing—school
SPIRIT, intangible thing that it is,
does not derive from the application
of a broom to a freshman's extre-
mity. That is pure physics, not an
ounce of spirit in it. Pure physics!
There is no hazing at Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Coi*nell, Chicago U.
or any of the truly high class uni-
versities of this great nation. There
is hazing, however, at Texas A. and
M. Which will be our ideal, our
standard—Harvard or A. and M. ?
Scholastically, Rice sides with
Harvard. When it comes to dorm
life . . .
NOW! the present Freshman
Guidance By-Law has no prohibition
against hazing. The Guidance Com
mittee, as far as the By-Law is con
cerned, could interpret its loose-
drawn phrases in any manner what-
soever. Let us throw out this ill-
devised by-law in order that the
Student Council may write one that
does have the no-hazing rule, one
that will in conformity with the
regulations of the Trustees, one
above all that will show the world
that the Rice Institute Student Body
is utterly opposed to high-schoolish
horse play and military school bar-
barism, opposed to the childish an-
tics of overgrown children, opposed
to the primitive hangover which now
taints and insults the reputation
of The Rice Institute and which
thrusts doubt on the quality of ouj
student body.
A sensitive feeling regarding what
people think about Rice and her
students—that is what the hour
calls fori Come the .referendum, i-e-
ject the pro-hazing by-law, make
way for a no-hazing by-law.
With my sincerest wishes,
FARRELL FULTON.
supported by Council members Wolf,
Shockley and Bryant Eubank's mo-
tion was lost. Ralph Atmar and
Raymond Lankford also opposed the
motion. Atmar said that some stur
dents might be in.favor of the reso-
lution and in favor of the By-Law
up for a referendum vote Monday.
He staled that this was the way he
felt, and pointed out that the action
of the Council would be bound to
influence the voting Monday. Lank-
ford said that it was the duty of the
Student Council representatives to
lead in student affairs, and not to
wait until the students had ex-
pressed their opinion on an issue
such as this.
Immediately following Fulton's
speech Tom Eubank made it clear,
by asking questions of various peo-
ple present, the exact nature of the
disagreement of the students who
handed in the petition calling for
the referendum. Fultpn, whose name
appears on the petition, said: "I'm
not at all against the Guidance Pro-
gram but just against the physical
part." Later, Martin Haest, Junior
Representative on the Council, stat-
ed the he also was against some
forms of hazing, but emphasized
that this was a personal opinion
and did not necessai-ily represent
his class.
"You shall not crucify the fresh-
man class upon a cross of brooms!!"
Fulton cried at one point. He began
by pointing out that in his opinion
hazing would allow outsiders to cast
doubt on the quality of the student
body. He then told how the original
prohibition of the Board of Trustees
had been adopted because of a ser-
ious injury, with a law suit against
Rice, many years ago. He stressed
that in the eyes of the administra-
tion hazing is now strictly illegal.
He then quoted fourteen Rice pro-
fessors whom he had interviewed
1 the past few days. He quoted Dr.
William S. Dix, Librarian, as saying
of hazing: "Why it's Mdiculous! Ab-
surd! It seems it ti-ies to reduce
everyone to a dead level of medio-
crity when a university's real pur-
pose is to encourage individuality.
School spirit in the A&M sense of
the word may require hasing, if that
is the kind of school spirit you
want. It doesn't produce any indi-
vidual thinking and it reduces all
to a common experience and a com-
mon thought."
Dr. B. B. Hudson, Assistant Pro-
fessor of Psychology was quoted as
saying that physical hazing is bad
psychologically speaking. Dr. H. P.
Weld said: "It's savage! In fact
even .savages wouldn't do it—only
sophomores. I'm completely against
it."
Dr. J. S. Fulton of the Philosophy
Department said: "Hazing is im-
mature, in fact it's not really a part
of the college tradition; it's not part
of the university life. I see no rea-
son for it and I think the school
authorities should stamp it out at
once. In fact I didn't even know
hazi ir went on at this Institute
until I heaH about it in the Thresh-
er recently.".
Mr. George G. Williaims 'of the
English Department prepared a
statement for "Senator" Fulton that
read: "The hazers refer to the unity
of spirit that hazing produces. Well!
That's just what we're trying not to
do. We want to make a student an
individual and not one of the so-
called unified crowd. It is not only
juvenile and sadistic, but it defeats
the very purpose for which a uni-
versity exists. The mature profes-
sors have a hard enough time train-
ing college freshmen. How can an
immatui-e and inexperienced sopho-
more succeed where a mature and
experienced professor often fails?"
At one point in his speech Fulton
asked "Senator Shockley, would you
like to demonstrate what 'Buttoning
Up' is like to the Council?" Shock-
ley replied "The only thing I've
known is "just from hearsay, I never
have seen or heard of it in prac-
tice ..." When told by Shockley
that Shockley lived in South Hall
Fulton commented that apparently
South Hall was more civilized than
East Hall. During his talk Fulton
had quoted Freshman John' Lawler
of East Hall extensively as to the
exact program of the Freshman
Guidance committee.
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