The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1949 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN NUMBER SIX HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1949
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Old Custom
Revived For
TU Victory
Locked Gates Bring
Unofficial Holiday;
Pep Rallies Abound
People in the area surround-
ing the Rice campus wondered
Monday morning just what was
going on around these usually
calm cloisters. An exhibition
as has never been seen before shock-
ed as well as pleased both parti-
cipants and observers. This is how it
all started:
There is a custom here at Rice to
lock all the gates to the campus
after the football team has won its
first conference victory. When the
students failed to close them fol-
lowing the SMU victory, many stu-
dents thought that the custom had
died with the war. But Sunday af-
ternoon several exuberant dorm stu-
dents decided it was high time to
reinstate this old custom, and so
they began to plan for it.
The aid of every red-blooded dor-
mitory student was enlisted, and
after dark scavenger teams were
sent out to secure the chains, pad-
locks, wire, and other implements
necessary for locking the gates.
Having decided upon 4:30 a.m. as
the best time to commence locking
the gates, everyone went to bed with
the alarm clock set for that hour.
When the students assembled out-
side South Hall Monday mosning,
they discovered that the gates were
already securely fastened together
by an unknown group of over-zeal-
ous students. All that remained
was the light task of placing the
freshly painted victory posters on
the gates, and assigning Freshmen
to guard them, and to inform anyone
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Pre Arkansas Rally
To Light Bonfire
For Homecoming
A huge bonfire is being planned
for the homecoming game with Ar-
kansas. Friday night, November 4,
in the Stadium parking lot, during
a student pep rally, a fifty-foot
high pile of lumber and other mis-
cellaneous objects will go up in
smoke and flames accompanied by
enthusiastic yells from the sidelines.
Jim Ellis, who is in charge of
plans for the bonfire, has issued a
request to the students for informa-
tion concerning the possibility of
borrowing trucks from business con-
cerns in town in which to haul lum-
ber for the bonfire. Students' help
is also needed in obtaining lumber
and in putting up. the structure.
Anyone able to help in any of these
ways is asked to call Jim at JU-1679
in East Hall or the following heads
of sub-committees: Roy Simpson,
trucks, JA-4519; Allen Kinghorn,
lumber, MA-4396; Larry Westkeam-
per, bonfire construction, JU-1201
in South Hall.
All students, men and women, are
asked to come down to the stadium
any afternoon, next week, to help
put up the structure.
Five Seconds And Three Points For Victory
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Froggy Williams' last-second kick j from the Longhorns for the jubilant i of the day.
sails high and true to snatch victory Owls, and make Williams the hero
Charity Committee Plans 1949-50 Drive
Outstanding Senior
Contest Planned
By Campanile Staff
As an outgrowth of the 1950
Campanile staff's determination to
give a representative and memorable
annual to the students of Rice, a
new section, to be known as "The
Ten Most Outstanding Seniors of
1950" will be presented, it was learn-
ed at Tuesday's student council
meeting;
In a letter from Gloria Wilson,
editor, the Campanile asked that
the council open the floor to nom-
inations for the section at the next
regularly scheduled meeting. The
nominees will then be given to the
editor who will call a special staff
meeting to add any other senior
names which the group feels should
be included.
A committee, composed of five
faculty members and five students,
will rate the candidates on the basis
of twelve characteristics which the
annual believes should be possessed
by the most representative Rice sen-
iors. These qualities include constric-
tive contribution to student welfare,
personality as distinguished from
popularity, leadership, scholarship,
dependability, trustworthiness, char-
acter, promise of future worth, loy-
alty, helpfulness, courteousness, and
cheerfulness.
Members of the committee to se-
lect the most outstanding seniors
this year will include Mr. McCann,
Miss Lane, Dean Cameron, Mr. Ry-
on, and Mr. Hermance, Jack Cooper,
Gloria Wilson, Jeff Campbell, John
Eidom, and Teddy Montz.
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Conroe Negro School
To Receive Donations
From Rice Students
Rice's annual charity drive
will begin November 12 and
last through Sunday, Novem-
ber 20. The Student Council
passed the committee report
of J. S. Binford, chairman of the
Charities Committee, at the Tues-
day meeting, recommending that the
drive this year be directed for the
benefit of the Loyal Industrial Col-
lege for Negroes in Conroe, Texas.
J. S. explained that the committee
has considered various possibilities
and decided that this school is the
most needy and worthy. The school
has a thirty-one acre plot of land
about one-half .mile outside of Con-
roe. The enrollment includes one
hundred and fifty veterans, with
plans for the opening of a home eco-
nomics department for women on
November 1.
The school was founded in 1909
through contributions from civic-
minded Conroe citizens, and in 1939
had an enrollment of 350 when the
school buildings were destroped by
fire. A new building was construct-
ed with bricks contributed from a
demolished school.
The president of the university is
Mr. George B. Bennett, a negro
and a graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity. He has been head of the school
since 1927. When asked what was
needed most by the school, he sug-
gested the donation of a tractor for
use in the agricultural department.
The custom of holding one concen-
trated charity drive on the campus
every year was founded by a student
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Blanket Taxes
Dean Hugh S. Cameron an-
nounced this week that presenta-
tion" of blanket-taxes by each stu-
dent will be necessary in the
future not only for admission to
athletic events but also in all
school elections and for obtain-
ing Campaniles. The action ws^g
passed Tuesday evening in the
Student Council meeting.
All students who have not yet
gotten their 1949-50 blanket tax-
es will find them in Mr. Cam-
eron's office, if they hurry.
("That is not a threat! I'm just
telling them.")
AP0 to Meet 'Not). 2;
To Plan for Confab
The Rice chapter of the APO will
hold its first important business
meeting of the year Wednesday
night, November 2, in Room 108
Anderson Hall. The meeting will
begin promptly at 7:00 PM and all
are requested to be on time. Com-
mittee heads have already been
named but the committees them-
selves will be formed at the meet-
ing. Every member of the chapter
will belong to a committee.
Plans will be discussed for send-
ing representatives to the annual
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Flash Cards
Flash card displays will be pre-
sented at the half-time of the Texas
Tech game Saturday. Co-operation
of all students seated in the card
section is requested.
Sportsmanship
Group To Hold
Rice Meeting
All Conference Schools
To Be Represented
At Nov. 4 Session
The Rice Institute will play
host to the year-old Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship
Committee for a meeting to be
held here next Friday after-
noon. Approximately thirty dele-
gates from the other six conference
schools are expected to spend the
afternoon here to discuss the effect
of the Sportsmanship Code and re-
view the efforts of the Committee.
The various representatives a r e
scheduled to register for the meet-
ing in the Lecture Lounge at noon
and then proceed to the College Inn
| for a luncheon. Starting at 2:45 PM
| the Committee will go into session
to discuss and review the Code, hear
reports from the member schools,
and plan new programs for the coni-
! ing year. The meeting is planned
: to adjourn at 5:30 PM.
j Arrangements are being made for
j any of the delegates who want to
stay over Friday night for the
homecoming activities and passes
for the Arkansas-Rice football game
will be made available for them.
The Sportsmanship Code and
Committee were the brain-children
of The Battalion, Texas A&M news-
paper, and was first drawn up at a
meeting at College Station last fall.
Only Arkansas missed that meeting,
all the other Conference schools
lending their bits to the organiza-
tion.
The idea of fostering better rela-
tions between the schools in the Con-
ference had taken some form under
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Council Back On
Guidance Motion
As Hazing Returns
In a motion presented to the Stu-
dent Council Tuesday evening by
Jim Kelly, senior representative, the
Freshman Guidance program which
was in effect at the first of the
year was put back into action, as the
article of September 27 was res-
cinded by a 14-2 vote of the mem-
bers.
In stating his reasons for res-
cinding the previous amendment to
the Guidance Committee rules, Jim
said that "without freshman guid-
ance as it was at the beginning of
the year, freshman spirit is dead."
He also said that the freshman
guidance program is needed to carry
out the "Christian brotherhood"
feeling among the students, and
that the new program is not doing
this. He requested that the article be
amended to read "there shall be
hazing, personal humiliation, etc."
instead of "there shall not be".
After discussion pro and con on
the motion, including Raymond
Lankford's remark that the new
system is considered "failing before
it started, and should be given a
chance to prove successful," the
motion was defeated once, discussed
further, and finally passed.
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