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VOLUME THIRTY-NINE — NUMBER FIVE
HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951
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FOR ATOM RESEARCH
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/ftce To Get New
High Voltage Lab
Construction will begin this Winter on a High Voltage
Laboratory, housing a five-and-one-half million volt Van De
Graaff Accelerator, Institute President Dr. William V. Houston,
announced Sunday. The Accelerator, the latest development
for the study of nuclear disintegration, was acquired recently
when Rice was designated for
advanced study in nuclear phy-
sics by the Atomic Energy
Commission.
MIT Has Only Other
Rice will be one of the two in-
stitutions in the country and the
only one in the South with a ma-
chine of this size. The only such
machine is located at MIT in Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts.
The new $200,000 lab will be lo-
cated in the area between Aber-
crombie lab and the Physics Amphi-
theater now used as a parking lot.
The building will face South, to-
wards the Amphitheater. Arrange-
ments will be made to replace, the
parking space, it has been announced
by the Faculty committee on build-
ings and grounds.
Designed to harmonize in appear-
ance with the Abercrombie Lab,
the new building will employ the
same style of brickwork that has
been used in earlier campus build-
ings. Functional in design, the struc-
ture is designed around the 70-foot
tower that will house the Van De
Graaff Accelerator.
The actual machine will be located
on the second floor of the tower. A
travelling crane will be installed in
the tower so that the 18-ton pres-
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INSIDE
THE THRESHER
0 Are prices in The Roost too
high? At least one Rice student
thinks so. See Letters to the Ed-
itor, Page 2, Column 1.
• The Rice-SMU .game tomor-
row night may be a scoring cir-
cus says Sports Editor Howard
Martin on Page 7, Column 5.
# New regulations have been
announced for the Women's Dorm.
See Page 5, Column 3.
0 The new preferential vot-
ing system adopted by the Stu-
dent Council could miscarry. See
The Editor's Corner, Page 2, Col-
wmn 4.
sure tank which houses the genera-
tor while it is in operation can be
lifted off for adjustment and re-
pairs.
Heavy Concrete Walls
Both the tower and the "target
room", located on the first floor
will have heavy concrete walls thick
enough to stop harmful radiation.
In addition to the tower, the
building will contain laboratories,
a large work space, and an office.
Only a portion of the final build-
ing will be constructed now. A two-
continued on Page 5)
"Silence" To Begin
10 PM Sunday;
End Wednesday
The Women's Council has announc-
ed the extension of the period of
"silence" which will occur under
the rushing program next week. The
"silence" will begin Sunday, October
21 at 10 PM and end Wednesday,
October 24 at 6 PM.
Silence is defined as "no communi-
cation between literary society mem-
bers and freshmen girls or between
freshmen girls themselves. Car pools
in which freshmen girls are involved
are to be dissolved during the "sil-
ence" period, except on special per-
mission from the Women's Council.
Violation of this rule of silence
will be subject to penalty under the
rushing regulations as set up by
the Women^ Council.
Job Interview
Applications Due
The Placement Service urges all
seniors to fill out applications for
job interviews immediately. Twen-
ty-five interviews have already been
scheduled between now and January
1. In order to be eligible for these
interviews, students must submit an
application to the Placement Ser-
vice in the Alumni Offices in Lov-
ett Hall.
Draft Test
Applications Due
November 5
Applications for the December 13,
1951, and the April 24, 1952, admin-
istrations of the College Qualifica-
tions Test are now available at Se-
lective Service System local boards
throughout the country.
Eligible students who intend to
take this test on either date should
apply at once to the nearest Selec-
tive Service local board for an ap-
plication and a bulletin of informa-
tion.
Following instructions in the
bulletin, the student should fill out
his application and mail it imme-
diately in the envelope provided.
Applications for December 13
test must be postmarked no later
than midnight, November 5, 1951.
According to Educational Testing
Service, which prepares and ad-
ministers the College Qualification
Test for the Selective Service Sys-
ten, it will be greatly to the stud-
ent's advantage to file his applica-
tion at once, regardless of the test-
ing date he selects.
The results will be reported to
the student's Selective Service local
board of jurisdiction for use in con-
sidering his deferment as a student.
Election Petitions
Due Noon Today
Candidates' election petitions for Assistant Editor of the
Thresher, Assistant Editor of the Campanile, and Sophomore
Representative to the Student Council must be turned in to
a member of the Election Committee by noon today. These
petitions will be approved by a
Council in the Student Associa-
tion office at noon today. Cam-
paigning will begin Monday.
The new system of preferential
voting which was recently made a
part of the Student Association's
By-Laws will be used for the first
time in this election on October 29.
The new system will almost entire-
ly eliminate runoff elections.
Petitions must be turned in per-
sonally to Demitri George, Florence
Kessler, Julia Picton, or Ben Gantt,
chairman. They may not be left on
the Student Association Desk. A
special meeting of the Student
fifty cent filing fee and a signed
statement that the candidate has
read the Constitution and By-Laws
of the Student Association must be
included with the petition. The Con-
stitution and By-Laws are on file
at the Circulation Desk in the Li-
brary.
Campaign posters may be exhibit-
ed only in the quadrangle bounded
by the library, Anderson Hall, Phys-
ics Building, and Lovett Hall; along
the road from Anderson Hall to the
Mechanical Engineering Laborator-
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REVIEW DATES SET
The Rice Review of Arts and
Sciences is planned for April 4
and 5, 1952. It is a biennial affair
put on by the Rice students to
show prospective Rice students,
prospective Rice student em-
ployers, and citizens of Houston
the projects and ideas going on
at Rice.
Preferential Vote
System Approved
By Student Council
In order to prevent runoff elec-
tions, the Student Council adopted
an amendment to its election by-laws
on October 10. The amendment,
which applies only to elections for
a single office, provides for a sys-
tem of preferential voting. The sys-
tem will be used for the first time
in elections Monday, October 29.
When there are only two candi-
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PEOPLE OPTIMISTIC
Israel's Problems
Grave, Says Welsch
By Mary Ann Johnson
Perplexing problems that must be solved soon face the
infant nation of Israel, says Mr. Reuben Welsch, Rice reference
librarian, who spent two months in the new Jewish state this
summer. Separated from his family for 13 years, Mr. Welsch
flew to Jerusalem to visit them and spent a fascinating two
months observing the birth and
growing pains of a new nation, j
ridden with internal strife'and
struggling for existence against the
three hostile countries which sur-
round it.
Beautiful Country
Mr. Welsch found the country
beautiful and inspiring, but he also
stated that during his visit there he
was constantly aware of the grave
problems and difficulties fating the
nation of Israel. Although the peo-
ple are showing great pluck, willing-
ingness to work, and have confi-
dence in themselves and their na-
tion, they are faced with some al-
most insurmountable problems, Mr.
Welsch said.
Distrust Is Problem
The worst of these problems, as
Mr. Welsch sees it, is the tension
and distrust between the Israelites
and the Arabs. Surrounded on three
sides by hostile nations, the boundar-
ies of Israel are in reality nothing
more than armistice frontiers.
Jerusalem, the main city of Pal-
estine, is a divided city—there
is no travel, no trade carried on -
REUBEN WELSCH
between the Jewish and Arab sec-
tors whatsoever.
Understanding Necessary
Until there is some semblance of
understanding between Arab and
Jew, Mr. Welsch fears that nothing
conclusive can fee settled. Nor is
right entirely on the side of the Is-
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Judges Select
25 "Vanity Fair"
Beauty Finalists
Twenty-five of Rice's most beauti-
ful girls were picked by judges Gene
Van Grona and Paul Gittings at a
reception at Sallyport Stage. From
these 25 will be selected the 10 girls
whose pictures will be in the Cam-
The 25 were chosen from 50 beau-
panile "Vanity Fair" section.
ties nominated by a student com-
mittee earlier in the year. The 10
winners will be announced by Cam-
panile Editor Bill Collins in the
Spring.
The girls were selected by number,
no names being given the judges.
Those selected were:
Therese Arnold, Patti Ambrose,
Ann Acker, Betty Belscher, Jane
Booker, Vera Camarda, Betty Cas-
tille, Ann Coe, Joan Cooley, Carolyn
Douglas, Ellen Elizardi, Faye Flow-
er, Elsa Holland. Beverly Kemp,
Billye Littlepage, Georgie Leland,
Mary .Anne Mewhinney, Dorothyle
Nicholl, Jan Price, Judith Reeves,
Norma Jean Rogers, Beverly Ward,
Florence White, and Sarah West.
Follies Tryouts
Thursday; Piano
Player Needed
A piano player is desperately
needed for the Rice Follies, accord-
ing to Ronnie Weiss, Follies direct-
or. Weiss also urges everyone, with
an act or not, to come to the try-
outs for the Follies next Thursday,-
October 25, in the Fondren Library
Exani Room.
The piano player must be able to
play by ear and follow the tempo
of dances. He must also be able to
spend a great deal of time at re-
hearsals.
All seniors who have financially
solvent friends that would not mind
getting browbeaten into taking an
ad in the Follies program are re-
quested to see Ben Gantt for blank
contracts.
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