The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1951 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT — NUMBER EIGHTEEN HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1951
RI Magazine
To Continue
Publication
The RI magazine will resume pub-
lication within the near future.
Neel Cotten, RI committee chair-
man, announced Wednesday that the
magazine has been given a clean
bill of health by the student coun-
cil and will be permitted to go into
print as soon as practicable.
The new RI will be slightly thin-
ner than previous editions and will
be of the campus interest-humor
type rather than a strictly liter-
ary magazine. Plans are to sell the
magazine to students with all sales
money going against the $239 de-
ficit now charged to the- RI. Costs
of the magazine itself will be met
entirely by advertising.
Under the present set up an As-
sistant Business Manager of the RI
will be appointed along with several
advertising assistants. It was felt
that the burden of financing the
magazine was too heavy to be thrown
off on a single individual.
Cotten pointed out that the pres-
ent student council stipulations hold
only so long as the magazine is -in
debt. Once the magazine is out of
the red the RI will be permitted to
operate^mhout official committee
supervision.
Which One Will It Be?
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Salesmen Needed
"The RI is expanding its business
staff," announced Marilyn Marrs,
business manager today.
" Additions to the business staff
will be termed assistant business
managers and will receive 410% of
the amount of each ad sold. The
assistant business managers will be
asked to contact business firms in
the Houston area for ads for the
next RI. Students interested may
contact Marilyn Marrs at JU-3482.
Service Awards,
Piano, Will Be
Cameron Memorials
The Student Council, Wednesday
night, approved the Cameron Mem-
orial committee's recommendation
for & memorial to the late Dean
Hugh Scott Cameron. The memorial
will consist of the Rice Service
Award in memory of Dean Hugh
S. Cameron and a piano for the
Exam Room.
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The Rice Service Award was the
original title of the award given to
students or alumni of Rice who had
performed outstanding service to the
school during the year. Although all
students and alumni were eligible,
the award was usually given to grad-
uating seniors. The plaques4* were
awarded to from one to ten individ-
uals. Last year's recipient were J. S.
Binford, Wally Lovejoy, Ben Ham-
mond, and Jack Cooper. The awards
were and will continue to be decid-
ed upon by a special committee ap-
pointed by the Student Council for
that purpose.
The piano selection has not been
made, reported Don Eddy, and the
committee is investigating possible
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opinions on the controversial sub-
ject of foreign policy.
Mr. Hardin Craig, Jr., Profes-
sor of History; Mr. James Giles,
Assistant Professor of Economics;
Mr. John T. Smith, Associate
Professor of Chemistry; Ruey
Boone, junior English major;
Georgia Hink, junior history major;
Richard Berg, senior sociology
major; and Raymond O'Keefe,
senior history major, will be the
speakers.
Mr. Craig will survey the sources
May Fete Elections
To Be Monday
The first Rondelet elections will be held next Monday, the
Student Council decided Wednesday night. The student body
will vote Monday on the Queen and two princesses who will
reign over Rondelet festivities to be held on the campus April
28.
New Rice Song
To Be Introduced
Tomorrow Night
All unmarried senior girls
are eligible to run. The girl
receiving the most votes will be
Queen. The two runners-up will be
Princesses. Polls will be open Mon-
day from 8 to 1.
The second Rondelet elections will
halftime program at , ,, , i t
, „ be held a week from Monday. In
these elections each class will select
a Duchess and eight maids to partj-
During the
the final home" basketball game to
morrow night, a new song, -com-
posed by Rice students, will he pre-
sented by all all-male chorus. With cipate in the May Fete. Petitions
words by Bob Thomas and music are necessary for this election and
by Jack Reynolds, the song is an at- wj]j be jue by noon, Friday, march
FEW ANCHORS HAVE EVER BEEN surrounded by as lovely a
"crew" as the one made up of these three candidates for the title of
"Queen g/t the Navy Ball." The beauties are Beverly Carter, Carol
Smith and Joan Bfennett.
The ball is scheduled for tonight at the Ellington Field Officers'
Club, from 9 to 1. There will be a banquet and cocktail hour for
senior NROTC members preceding the dance.
The three candidates hare been voted on this week during class-
' time, but the winner will not be announced until intermission tonight,
when she will be crowrifed by Presidet W. V. Houston.
At Forum
Foreign Policy Will
Provide Hot Debate
"Do We Have a Sound Foreign Policy" will be discussed
tonight by three faculty members and four students at 8 p.m.
in the Lecture Lounge of the Fondren Library. The forum will
be open for discussion and questions from the audience after
each speaker has presented his views- on different aspects of
foreign policy in short prepar- , ,, . , ~ 17 7-
_ _ 1 speech, Mr. Achesons reaffirmation
ed speeches. All comments 0f b|g foreign* policy and similar
from the audience must be lim- view points will be debated. "Spe-
ited to one minute and the Forutti cific issues which are sur€? to be
Committee has instructed the mod- debated," said Werner Grunbaum,
erator to time all discussion with moderator, "will be whether we
a stop watch. This has been done should .withdraw from Europe,
so as many people as possible will whether the president's proposed
have an opportunity to add their budget would ruin, the country, what
2. None will be accepted after that
time.
Petitions, which must be signed
by 10 members of the candidate's
class and by the candidate, may be
turned in to Camille Coulter, Paula
tempt to g-ive the student body a
"personal" addition to a very short
roster of school songs.
The "Rice Fight Song" is the
only original work which Rice can
claim, since the alma mater, "Rice's
Honor," is based on the-? "Our Di-
i-ector" march tune. The new piece
was instigated by Teddy Montz, head Meredith, Jean L pshaw, or Clara
yell-leader, who has long felt a need Margaret Mohr.il Married girls are
for an original song in keeping with n°t eligible, nor are girls on scholas-
Rice tradition. Montz has announced tic probation.
that the song will be ready for pres- Nq campaigning wU1 be allowed
entation tomorrow night, and has for thege May Fete positions. Fur.
also praised it highly as a sing, that ther questions about the elections
the students "will be proud to sing" win be answered by members of
at various school functions, pep ral- the Women's Council.
lies, and athletic contests.
Before the song is sung, for the Meanwhile, the Rondelet Commit-
first time before a student group, tee is continuing planning May Fete
mimeographed copies of the words activities. The pageant will be held
will be given to the students and near Cohen House on the ni£ht of
other spectators, who will be asked April 28. A formal dance will follow
to join in with the chorus and"band the Presentation of the Queen and
after the first rendition. her court- Invitations went out this
Also during the program will be week to the colleges who a«e beinS
the presentation of the Sportsman- asked to send representatives to
ship plaque which Rice was to have Rondelet-
received last year along with the The Student Council, Women's
first place trophy, but which was Council, the Dance Committee, and
delayed until this year. the Architectural and Engineering
The band and yell leaders will par- Societies? are collaborating to pro-
ticipate in the remainder of the pro- duce what the Rondelet Committee
gram, which will include more songs hopes will be the best Rice May Fete
and several yells. since pre-war days.
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"Birth of a Nation"
Here Tuesday
"Birth of a Nation' one of the
most influential*of the silent films,
is the next Film Society presenta-
tion. The film, dealing with the Civil
War period, was first shown in 1915.
Acknowledged by critics as one of
Hollywood's most important pro-
Rice's Own Gallup Poll
Samples Draft Views
by James Longino
•o
Rice students are very much interested in the current draft
law—most of them for personal reasons..
Of the thirteen students interviewed only three were
exempt from induction under current selective service regula-
tions. Two of these had had previous service while the third was
a foreign student studying in — ~ ~~—'
ductions, the film grossed over $20,-
and basic principles of ofir foreign ''00,000 at the box office, a mark
policy, Mr. Giles will give some of surpassed only by "Gone With the
the effects of economics in the de- Wind." #
termination of foreign policy? Mr. Directed by Dean W. Griffith and
Smith will discuss foreign policy starring Lillian Gish and Donald
from a scientist's point of view, and Crisp, the $100,000 production is ex-
the student speakers will each choose pected to draw a large audience at
some contfb'versial aspect of foreign its two showings in the Lecture
policy for discussion. -Lounge next Tuesday. All who can
Such topics as Mr. Hoover's re- are urged to attend the afternoon
cent ten points to combat Commu- showing rather than the evening. Be-
n i s m, Mr. Hoover's "Gibraltar cause the film is unusually long the
Speech," Mr. Puller's remarks, Sen- showings have been moved up to
ator Taft's "Constitutional Crisis" 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
the United States. Most of the
others were classified 2-A and
Referred until the end of the school
year.
Opinion is pretty well divided on
specific provisions of the law. It
was generally believed that excep-
tional students" should be given de-
ferments to finish college with pre-
offered by students interviewed:
ROBERT CAMERON, freshman
pre-med—"Pre-meds and engineers
should be left in school until they
either flunk out or decide to change
their course of study. Eighteen-,
year-olds should be drafted on the
same basis as anyone else."
HOB BOWLES, senior pre-law—
ference to those majoring in science "Eighteen-year-olds should definite-
or engineering. Many students felt U' not be drafted; they are too im-
a large army necessary t<T U.S. se- .mature emotionally and mentally to
curity but few seemed overly an- be asked to fight. . . pre-meds should
xious to help make it up. Almost no be given some consideration but
one showed any tendency to ideal- physics and chemistry majors need
ize the selective service system as not be deferred unless going into
such. final year of college."
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