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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT — NUMBER FOURTEEN HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951
Ten Outstanding Seniors Named
Improved Fatuity Rating Poll
Scheduled For Monday, Tuesday
by Don Eddy
Next Monday and Tuesday have been set for the annual
faculty rating poll.
"The new type faculty rating sheet that we are planning
to use this year features a much wider range for grading than
the old form," explains Ward Gregory, chairman of the election
committee, in whose hands the
S.C. and Women's
Council Approve
New Rondelet Plans
task of preparing and distribut-
ing the faculty rating sheets
has been placed. Since Ed Jennings,
in the fall of 1947, first introduced
the idea of giving the instructors
at Rice an opportunity to see what
their students think of their course,
with an eye toward possible im-
provement, the faculty rating sheets
have been modified but slightly in
each of the past three years. This is
the first year that any major chang-
es have been made in the sheet.
For those students who are un-
familiar with the faculty rating
sheet, its makeup and its purpose,
perhaps a few brief comments will
be helpful. The old-type sheet, used
until this year with few modifica-
tions, gave the student an opportuni-
ty to grade the instructor on such
things as Enthusiasm Toward Teach-
ing, Knowledge of Course, Ability
to Get Point Across, Delivery, Prepa-
ration of Lectures, and Ability to
Create Student Interest in the
Course. The choice of answers fell
within an Excellent-Good-Fair-Poor-
Very Toor range. At the bottom of
the page were several blank lines
where Additional Remarks could be
made.
An important aspect of the old
rating sheet—and of the new—is
Lee Duggan, chairman of the co-
mittee of the Student Association to
consider possible revisions of Ronde-
let procedure, brought his final re-
port to the first meeting of the Stu-
dent Council in 1951, Wednesday,
January 3.
The new Rondelet plan, already
approved by the Women's Council,
is as follows: Rondelet shall con-
sist of four separate functions 1) a
parade, 2) a pageant, 3) a dance,
and 4) entertainment for the out of
town guests. The entire Rondelet
will be under the direction of the
Women's Council and the profits will
go into a permanent Rondelet fund.
The committee in charge will be
composed of a chairman, a member
of the Women's council to be nomi"
nated by the Women's Council and
approved by the Student Council;
and a committee of two members of
Women's Council, two Student Coun-
cil members and two members each
of the Engineering and Architec-
tural Societies. The chairman of the
Dance committee will also be a mem-
that the rating was done anonymous- -4?er and the dance committee will be
ly-.
This year the Student Council
Committee decided that perhaps a
rating sheet could be prepared that
would cover the same general topics
but that could be lerifethened, modi-
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Players Plan Feb. 7
Opening For Play
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
will be presented Feb. 7, 8, and &
in the premiere performance of the
Rice Players in the new Rice theater,
The Sallyport Stage.
The final cast announced by di-
rector Gerry Hiken before Christ-
mas include Derek Lawford as Al-
gernon; Art Cole as Jack; Marilyn
Marrs in the role of Cecily; Allyce
Tinsley as Gwendolyn; Barbara Roos
as Lady Bracknell* William Sharpe
in the role of Dr. Chasuble; Sharon
Camp as Miss Prism; and Harry
Schroeder as Lane. Ruey Boone and
Nancy Markle originally cast as
Gwendolyn and Miss Prism respec-
in charge of the Rondelet dance. This
was stipulated since the Student
Council must cover any losses and
the Dance Committee is in charge of
dances involving Student Associa-
tion money. However, profits from
the dance will go into the Rondelet
fund.
The Student Council offered its
help to the new Rondelet committee
and urged that'any difficulties be
brought to Student Council for ad-
vice. The final plans of the overall
program are to be submitted for ap-
proval March 1.
The committee will be announced
at an early date and work will be-
gin at once.
Follies Acts Go On
At Vets' Hospital
Study Offers
For Grad Students
Flood Registrar
All students who are interested
in continuing college training after
graduation, or who wish to further
graduation work already started are
urged to make plans immediately.
James C. Morehead, Assistant to
the president, has reminded students
that various opportunities for grad-
uate study have begun to flood the
office of the president and the Reg-
istrar's office.
Circulars announcing graduate
opportunities are regularly posted
on the bulletin boards around Lov-
ett Hall and particularly on the
board in the Registrar's office. In
addition a file of all such opportuni-
ties, called the "bulletin board file,"
is kept by the Registrar and is avail-
able to al interested students. Within
the next two months virtually alll
announcements will be resolved by
the Institute and will be either post-
ed or included in the above mention-
ed file.
As much space as is possible will
be devoted in the Thresher to op-
portunities that are available, but
since it is impossible to even list all
of the opportunities presented, stu-
dents are urged to keep in constant
touch with the above sources of in-
formation.
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Effect Of Rice
On Religion Is
On Forum Tonight
The Forum Committee has picked
another religious question for the
topic of tonight's round-table dis-
cussion. "How Does Rice Affect a
Student's Religion?" will be the sub-
ject tonight. Setting forth their
views on tht subject will be Gail
Mount, Raymond Lankford, and Bill
Hobby.
Lankford and Mount are expected
to speak from a Protestant point of
view, while Hobby will speak on the
effect of education on a traditional,
Catholic religion.
The most interesting feature of
the program is a point of view that
is not represented.
In their search for speakers, the
Forum Committee attempted to find
among Rice's scientists an atheist
or an agnostic— a spokesman for
pure scientific determinism.
The Committee found that, like the
Eskimo and the duck-billed platypus,
the breed is not as numerous is once
Student - Faculty
Committee Chooses
The Campanile staff announces today the students who
have been named the ten outstanding seniors for 1950-51. They
are Shirley Arnold, editor of the Campanile; Finis Cowan, chair-
man of the Honor Council; Don Eddy, president of the MSF:
Tom Eubank, president of the Student Association; Bertha
Gray, vice president of the
was.
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Bill Whitherspoon, director of the
Follies '51, announces that there will
be a command performance of sev-
eral Follies acts Friday night, Jan-
tively dropped out of the play when ary 19 at the Veterans' Hospital. A
the performances were rescheduled request was made by the hospital
to be in February.
Rehearsals are conducted in the
Sallyport Stage nightly except
Thursday and Saturday. The cast
will take a two-week break for finals
with the explanation that they had
heard what a fine show the Rice stu-
dents had given. •
Cast members who will perform at
the hospital are members of the
and rehearsals will begin again the "Raunchettes," Carolyn Thomas,
first week in February. Several of
the final rehearsals will be sched-
uled as previous and representatives
of various campus organizations will
be invited.
Robert Boyett, Don Holcombe, mem-
bers' of the "Stephen Got Even" cast,
the male quartet, Sharon Camp and
members of the OWLS' St. Louis
Blues cast.
Students Consider
Cameron Memorial
The Cameron Memorial Fund com-
mittee was announced by Don Eddy,
committee chairman, last week. Eddy
was appointed by Tom Eubank, Stu-
dent Council pi'esident, to head this
committee formed to choose a last-
ing memorial to Rice's first Dean of
Students who died suddenly last
July."
The 15 committee members ap-
pointed by Don Eddy were: J. S.
Binford, Etta Colish, Bob Bowles,
Bill Dorsey, Dick Whitty, Margaret
Blau, Georgia Hink, Ellis Rudy, Al-
lyce Tinsley, Vicky Schwarting, Gene
Wright, CharlJi Marchand, Gene
Langworthy, and Nancy Boothe.
Engineering ROTC
Group Will Be
Added To Campus
According to an announcement
made in Washington Tuesday, an
Army Engineering Branch ROTC
will be installed here at Rice this
year. The corps will be open to fresh-
men and sophomore science and eng-
gineering students.
An attempt was made last year
by Rice administration to obtain an
Army ROTC gi*oup on the campus
which would be open to academic
stijdents as well as those engaged in
technical studies, but is was explain-
ed that no general ROTC groups
were being established at this time.
J. C. Morehead, assistant to the
president, has stated that no official
information on this new campus
corps has been received from Wash-
ington, but it is to be assumed that
enrollment in the ROTC will prob-
ably begin next fall. It is expected
that the course and lab schedule will
closely resemble that which is now
being carried out by the Navy ROTC
at Rice.
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EBLS and Virtue
Triumph Again
Virtue triumphs again tonight at
the annual E.B.L.S. Melodrama, Pru-
dence Makes a Dare. The audience
will have a chance to boo the arch-
villan, Profile Q. Kingsley, a fiend
who traps the spotless heroine, Pru-
dence Lackawanna, in a room with a
time-bomb. But the hero, Dauntless
Adair, arrives in the nick of time
and in the midst of cheers saves the
heroine from certain death.
The leads are played by Shirley
Snow, Maydelle Exley Burkhalter,
and Carolyn Coy respectively. This
threesome is ably supported by Jolyn
Dunnigan, Mary B. Attwell; while
Virginia Barber plays the part of
Tarnishe T'Allure, a vamp with ob-
vious potentials. Between-scene per-
formances will feautre a chorus line
line plus songs, dance routines and
other acts starring members of the
E.B.L.S. The show begins at A-
House at 8:00 p.m. and there will be
dancing afterwards. Tickets may be
bought at the door for 50c.
Seniors Hurry!
All seniors who haven't turned
their lists of activities for the Cam-
panile are reminded that the dead-
line for these lists is Monday. Also
all organizations are reminded to
turn in their membership lists and
$25 by Monday if they plan to have
a page in the Campanile. The lists
and checks may bejpven to Shirley
Arnold, Coletta Ray, Jean Upshaw
or Helen Stephens.
EBLS; Clara Margraet Mohr,
president of the Women's Coun-
cil; Teddy Montz, head yell leader;
Coletta Ray, vice president of the
senior class; Charlie Tijihe, vice
chairman of the Honor Council; and
Larry Westkaemper, president of
the senior class.
Forty-seven nominations were
made by the Student Council and the
Campanile staff from a class of 300
to receive the honor.
A student-faculty committee of
ten members judged the nominees
with a graduation of rating points
on four main considerations, char-
acter, leadership, scholarship and
constructive contribution to student
welfare.
In addition, the nominees ware
judged on such qualifications as
friendliness, dependability, courte-
ousness, promise of future worth,
helpfulness, loyalty, and trustworth-
iness.
If the judges did not feel quali-
fied to .judge a student on certain
points, they were asked to mark "no
comment" pn the rating sheet-. Then
the students were rated on the num-
ber of points they received in re-
lation to the number of points they
were graded on.
Frosh Elect Lee,
Tapley, Kinzbach
233 votes were cast in the Fresh-
man elections held December 17 he-
fore Christmas vacation. Bill Lee
was elected president of the Fresh-
man Class with 124 votes and John
McClintock was second with 102.
Warren Jaycox withdrew his name.
Seven no-votes were c;i. "
M. E. Kinzbach, 90 votes, and
Sarah West, S3 votes, tied in the
vice-presidential election and in the
runoff M. E. Kinzbach was elected
vice-president. Mary Anne Davis re-
ceived 57 votes in- the first election.
Byron James received 46 votes in
the first election for secretary-treas-
ure)' but Howard Martin, 82 votes,
and Charles Tapley, 102 votes, were
scheduled for the runoff. Tapley with
83 votes became the new secretary-
treasurer over Martin with 73 votes.
One no-vote was cast,
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Senior Rings
Tom Smith, chairman of the Sen-
ior King committee, has announced
that Martin Hamilton, representa-
tive of the Balfour Company, will be
in the Student Lounge Monday and
Tuesday, from 8 to 1, to take orders
for senior rings.
Any student who is a candidate
for a degree, whether he is a grad-
uate student or a senior undergrad-
uate may purchase a ring.
Each student must make a $5 de-
posit with his ring order.
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