The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1950 Page: 1 of 6
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Monday
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Tax
VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN — NO. TWENTW-THREE HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1959
Entered as second class mailing matter, October 17, 1916, at the Post Office, Houston, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Run-off Elections
To Be Held Monday
Run-off elections for the Student Association offices will
be held next Monday. Candidates for the run-offs are: Vice-
President—Etta Collish and Bertha Gray; Secretary—Casey
Croom and Paula Meredith; Campanile Editor—Shirley Arnold
and Nick Athas. Expense accounts for all candidates must be
in by Saturday noon, and all
voters must bring their Blanket ~ *1 m n
Taxes to the polls if they wish C/ttttipClllllBS 1 O liC
t0„.™te-,,. , ... Issued After
Ihe All-School officers elected __ _¥ .
Monday are: President of the Stu- EdSteY HollddlJS
dent Association: Tom Eubank; p, . ,. , ,
Treasurer of the Student Asaocia- Starting immediately after
tion, Jim Gerhardt; Thresher Edi- the Easter vacation the 1950
tor, Ruey Boone; Assistant Business edition of the Rice yearbook,
Manager of the Thresher, Georgia the Campanile, will appear to
Rice's Ugliest Man To Be Named
Hink; Councilman at Large, Bob
Cruikshank; Cheerleaders, Teddy
Montz, Willie Moreno, Gordon Baker,
and Earl Bellamy.
However, most of the class and
the all-scho&l offices are already
filled. Although the freshman candi-
Rice students, and will be hand-
ed out between the hours of ten
and twelve each day; blanket taxes
are necessary for obtaining one of
these yearbooks. Due to the fine
planning of Gloria Wilson, the edi-
„ tor, and Barbara Roos, the business
date for Sophomore Class Secretary- manager> the Campanile is coming
Treasurer, Perry McPherson, was
eliminated before the election. Since
McPherson was the only candidate
out two months ahead of time this
year.
Contained in the 1950 edition of
for this office, another e lection must Campanile are sixteen full-spread
be held
pictures of the Cotton Bowl Cham-
The following officers were elect- pions with highlights of the SMU>
ed for the Senior Class offices:
President, Larry Westkaemper; Vice
President, Colletta Ray; Secretary-
Texas, Baylor, and Cotton Bowl
game with North Cax-olina. There
is, in addition, a running commentary
Treasurer, Bill Jenkins;^ Student by Football Coach Jess Neely, who
Council Representatives, Richard Al- describes the strategy planned in
len, Don Eddy, Ward Gregory, and each game. Also in the Sports Sec-
Gay Schneider; Honor Council Rep-
representatives, Finis Cowan, Dewey
Gonsoulin, Charlie Tighe, and Jhn
Jackson.
Junior Class officers are: Presi-
dent, Alan Pirece; Vice President,
tion are pages of pictures of the
Rice Basketball Team, which wound
up irt the cellar this year after win-
ning the Championship last year
und losing many star performers.
However, the book is not all de-
Malady Hits Dorms;
Invasion This Year
On Total War Basis
The customary disease of the dor-
mitories, the so-called "Malady," so
far unheard of this year, has broken
out at last. The symptoms of this
disease, mysterious that it is un-
dentified, are diahrrea and extreme
nausea.
Starting in the faculty tower in
East Hall, the malady spread rapidly
until there are cases of it in all of
the halls, and approximately 80 per
cent of dorm students are infected in
of dorm students are infected in
greater or lesser degree. Five cases
are severe enough to be transferred
to the infirmary, and an estimated
twenty-five more are confined to
beds in the halls.
According to the infirmary staff,
the only treatment which allegiates
the disease's symptoms is complete
rest and a liquid diet.
All indications as to the possible
source of the epidemic point to the
water supply and possible pollution
from the "Blue Danube," which was
covered over this summer and fall.
Authorities have promised immedi-
ate investigation, and students are
warned not to drink water on or
near the campus until the investiga-
tion is complete.
Prize Horror Will Receive Load of Valuables
In Addition To Campus Reputation and Notoriety
The five finalists in the APO "ugliest man" contest will
be presented at the Elk's Hall during the SLLS "Fools' Fantasy"
Saturday night. The contest for the ugliest man at Rice is being
sponsored by the APO in order to raise money for making im-
provements in the campus, such as: benches, lights on the
tennis courts, etc.
T h i s contest is traditional
with APO on campuses across
the nation.
Voting stations for casting
ballots are at the corner of An-
derson Hall and in the lounge. Each
vote costs one cent.
Voting to determine the winner
will continue next week.
The winner of the contest will
profit by such prizes as: $200, cor-
sages. haircuts, clothing, hardware,
meals, photos, cleaning, laundry,
cigarettes, a yacht, a cadillac con
Southwest To Be
Theme of Social
Science Convention
The Rice Hotel will be the scene
of the annual convention of the
Southwestern Social Science Associa-
tion on April 7 and 8. Mr. James B.
Giles of the Economics Department
at; Rice will be chairman of the open-
ing Friday, April 7, at 9 AM, the
general theme of which will be "Re-
vertible, a weekend in Cuba, Rice's
cent Economic Developments in the ten beauties, a two year scholarship
to Arthur Murray's, and a house on
the bay.
contestants from whom the
finalists are to be presented are:
Southwest." The leading paper at
this section will lie read by Dr.
Watress II. Irons, vice-president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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Carolyn Douglas; Secretary-Treas- voted to Sports. There are 80 pages
urer, Gordon Redd; Student Council
Representatives, Hal De Moss, Jack
of class pictures as well as sections
devoted to Society, Favorites, Or-
Davis, Martel Bryant Douglas Hale, ganizations, and Administration. In
and Neel Cotton; Honor Council the Favorite Section this,, year is a
Representatives, John Blakemore,
Martel Bryant, and Ulrich Wolff.
Officers in the Sophomore Class
(Continued on Page 5)
new feature—pictures of the ten out-
standing seniors at Rice Institute,
voted upon by a committee com-
(Continued on Page 4)
The Fools' Fantasy, a semi-for-
mal dance, will be presented this
Saturday, April 1, by the SLLS
It will be held in the Elks' Hall
from 9 until 1, with Buddy Brock
providing the music. The price is
$2.00 couple or stag. The APO
will present the floor show, in
which will appear the Ugly Men.
Also, Mr. O. O. McCracken will read Paul Giroski, Bobby Eckhart, Ike
a paper entitled "Recent Housing Trachtenberg, Bobby Harris, Dean
Legislation and its Impact on the Moore, F. W. Johnson, Tom Scurry,
Economy." Joe Watson, Carroll Camden, Hal
Mr. Verne F. Simons of the Busi- Davis, Gene Woodyard, Allen King-
ness Administration Department at horn, and Jerry Stevens.
Rice will lead an Accounting section
on "Income Statements-" at 9 AM,
April 7. Dr. Bradford Hudson of the
Psychology Department will also
participate in an informal discus-
sion, limited to psychologists. This
meeting is sponsored by the Harris
County*Association of Psychologists.
The Southwestern Social Science
Association was organized in 1919 The Student Religious Council's
bv the faculty of the Department of annual Easter program will be held
The winner will be announced next "
Thursday.
0
Easter Service To Be
Wednesday Noon
In Palmer Memorial
Government at the University of
Texas for the purpose of stimulating
Wednesday noon in Palmer Church
(next to H-House). Dr. Boyd Hunt
Science and Arts Review
Visitors Participate
In Show Exhibits
Several new exhibits have been recently added to the Rice
Review of Science and Arts which should add immeasurably
to the enlightenment and entertainment offered to visitors
next April 14 and 15.
The electrical engineering department has erected an
electric chair which all visitors
will be able to test at their leis- ment used in this experiment is a
ure. This is a special electric straight line.
of the hot dog cooker which works physics exhibit is still in the
like high frequency radiation and in- process of development, but at the
duction. Also like the hot dog cooker, present time it appears that the
it does its work in 1/10 of a second, feature of the department's exhibit
The chemistry department is hold-
ing a symposium hourly on the mo-
dern developments of the transmuta-
tion of baser metals to gold. Rep-
resentatives of the economics depart
will be Dr. Heap's hourly perform-
ance. •
Especially interesting to many of
the visitors to the show should be
the exhibit of the biology department
ment will also participate in these which has been conducting dissection
to ascertain any possible effects on
the backing of the currency.
The chem* try department and the
psychology department will collab-
orate in an experiment to test the
of animals for the purpose of study-
ing muscle structure. The interplay
of muscles in the human anatomy
will he demonstrated in an exhibit
with a specimen specially imported
breaths of all visitors for odors in- for the Review from Galveston,
duced by chemical adulterants or The physical education and civil
other phenomena. The motto of all engineering departments will collab-
students assigned to this experiment orate in a demonstration to show
is: "Your best friend may not tell the qualities necessary to be a good
you, but we will." Among the equip- (Continued oft-'" Page 4)
Institute Chemists
In Prominent Role
At ACS Convention
Two thousand five hundred chem-
ists and chemical engineers from all
parts of the United States convened
at the Shamrock Tuesday for the
opening of the American Chemical
Society's 1l7th national meeting.
The Shamrock Annex is divided
into Assembly rooms for the various
speeches. There are no demonstra-
tions but the speakers utilize slides
to put over their points. z
Rice played an important part in
the ACS meeting. Five Professors
from Rice presented papers in the
daily' sessions. Dr. "\V. O. M-illigan
and Mr. C. S. Morgan, Jr., in their
first paper spoke on "High Tempera-
ture Adsorption Apparatus?' and
"Adsorption of Water Vapor on Fer-
ric Oxide-Chromic Oxide Gels." Dr.
H. B. Weiser and Mr. Paul Merri-
field lectured on the coagulation of
Hydrophobic Sols by Electrolytes,
and Dr. $. H. Richter spoke on
"Training the Student to Use Chemi-
cal Literature."
Much of the success of Rice's part
in the meeting is due to the hard
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and promoting the study of political of First Baptist Church will speak,
science with particular reference to Dr. Hunt is a member of the execu-
Southwestern States, Since that tive committee of the Southern Bap-
time. the Association has been ex- tist Convention; from 1944 to 1946
panded to include Accounting, agri- he taught at Southwestern Baptist
cultural Economics. Business Admin- Theological Seminary in Fort Worth,
istration. Bureaus of Business Re- after receiving his Th.D. degree. He
search. Economics. Geography, Psy- became the minister of First Bap-
chology, and Sociology in addition to tist Church in 1946 The service is
Government. Over 300 members will an all-school affair and will be over
attend the convention. before one o'clock.
No Senior Exams This Year
The Student Activities CoiTnnittee
announced late Wednesday evening
that due to the conflict that arises
each year between senior's com-
mencement activities and the final
examinations, this year's senior class
will be exempt from finals. The
decision was reached at a joint meet-
ing of the Student Activities Com-
mottee and the Board of Directors
of the Institute which was held in
Dean Cameron's office Tuesday.
Since the seniors will not be tak-
ing exams during the exam pei'iod
(which begins on May 16), the joint
committees are requesting that the
seniors plan to hold thejr commence-
ment parties during this time; there-
by avoiding ovei'burdening the regu-
lar schedule of classes which wifl
be held until May 16....
It has been mentioned that many
of the seniors will be taking under-
classmen to the senior functions and
this plan will conflict with under-
class exams. Although there is some
validity in this argument the seniors
feel that taking bot,h points into
consideration, they prefer being
exempt from finals.
Seniors taking junior and sopho-
more courses are requested to con-
sult their instructors concerning
exams in those courses. The exam
schedule for these cases will be left
to the discretion of the individual
professors. *
Any senior feeling that he is be-
ing unfairly treated, e.g., those feel-
ing their grades would be pulled up
by exams, are requested to consult
their instructors concerning a pos-
sible individual examination.
Instructors are advised that the
"no «xam'? rule applies only'to stu-
dents with three or better averages.
All seniors with more than four, on
pro, or with more than one five are
required to take exams in those
courses below threes.
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