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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER !«, 1951
Guest Ticket Changes
^ PETITION IN THE Student Lounge advocating a Change
in the policy on guest ticket sales has accumulated approx-
imately 1000 names—an overwhelming majority of Rice stu-
dents. This petition recommends two changes—that guest
tickets for home games remain on sale until two .days before
all home games and that the price be lowered from $3.60 to
$1.20.
The matter of the price of the tickets is out of the hands
of the Rice Athletic Business Department, that being a matter
that was decided—rightly or wrongly—by the Rice Trustees.
The matter of the closing date of the ticket sale, however,
is quite definitely under control of the Business Department
and Athletic Business Manager Emmett Brunson.
Following an editorial in The Thresher two weeks ago and
the spontaneous student reaction to the petition, Student Asso-
ciation President Hal DeMoss went to see Mr. Brunson to ascer-
tain the facts. The facts, as related to Mr. DeMoss, are as
follows:
• A section and a half or two sections—depending on
the game—are withheld from public sale for the benefit of
the students until a week before the game. The tickets that
have not been taken up by students at this time are then
placed on general sale.
• This results in some injustice to people who have
been told earlier that only end zone tickets are available.
At no time, according to Mr. Brunson, have students pur-
chased all the tickets at their disposal.
Tn short, holding open the sale of student tickets to home
games would work an inconvenience on the Athletic Business
Department. The students appreciate this fact, and it was
specifically mentioned in the first Thresher editorial on the
subject.
What the Athletic Business Department does not seem to
realize, however, is that its policy works no small inconvenience
on the students. The Thresher feels that in the matter of
ticket sales to Rice games, particularly Rice home games, the
convenience of the students of The Rice Institute is of para-
mount importance.
Threshing It Out
TO THE THRESHER:
Two weeks ago a letter appeared
in the Thresher criticizing certain
aspects of the band's half-time ex-
hibitions at the Texas and SMU
games. Since that letter appeared,
there has been a great deal of heat-
er. illogical argument on both sides.
The students who signed the art-
icle have been burned in effigy and
scorned in letters as students with
no spirit and no understanding of
the band organization. While I am
Irying to express the views of the
larger part of the Student Associa-
tion and refuse to take sides, I feel
1 must answer this attack upon per-
sonalities.
Many of us who sat in the stands,
sank into our seats, blushing while
I he routines reached the epitome of
all the "Rooty-toot-toot-ism" for
which Rice is characterized by the
other schools of the conference. Say-
ing that the critics have no spirit
is the argument of a person who
has no other way to defend his view.
Anyone who has no spirit would
not^ie concerned with the impres-
sion made by Rice representatives.
As for saying that some of the
students who signed the fated let-
ter had given no service of their
own to the school, that attack be-
long in the same ^category as the
first. Still, it must be answered,
I do not have the names of those
authors and I am not well enough
acquainted with them to give biog-
raphical sketches of their lives at
Rice. However, I am suit that our
cheerleaders would be the first to
tell us that every member of the
cheering section is a part of the spir-
it. The students m.ust be allowed
to voice their opinions, especially on
things run by students, without fear
of bitter retaliation.
In the Student Association, every-
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Editor Bill Hobby-
Business Manager Georgia Hink
Assistant Editor Allyce Tinsley Cole
Associate Editor Betty McGeever
i t-oorts Editor Howard Martin
Assistant Sports Editor Norris Keeler
News Editor Mary Ann Mewhinney
Feature Editor Mary Ann Johnson
Women's Editor Florence Kessler
Reporters: Marion Boone, Betty Bess, Marlin Cruse, Jerf^ Logan, Jerry
Weiner, Joe Watt, Jo Ann Hickman, Fred Duckett, Dick Karig, Neil
O'Brien, Tim Weakley.
Fanfare Editor Grace Marie Chandler
Staff Photographers Dan Daggett, Eddie Soniat, Bruce Vemor
Hits the Villain
At Melodrama
Theatre/ Inc.
By MARLIN CRUSE
Something different, if not
entirely new, is being offered
by a new local theatre. Now
starting its second week, the
new Melodrama Theatre, Inc.,
is something to see. Located at 4418
Almeda, an old' grocery store con-
verted into a theatre, they put on
a real "hiss the vallain" show that
would make the EB's look to their
laurels.
Their work "Dirty Work at the
Crossroads" is presented in an at-
mosphere o f informality. Shirt-
sleeves will do. The audience sits
at small tables,
eats peanuts, and
drinks cider
while the show
rages forth.
Bob and Garn-
er Bartell, a hus-
band and wife
team, are the producers. The show
can be seen any night except Sun-
days.
Alley Theatre
Tuesday night marked the open-
ing of the Alley Theatre's newest
production, "Thunder Rock." Rob-
ert Ardrey's play deals with the tale
of a disillusioned war correspond-
ent who shuts himself up in a
watchtower to hide from the rest of
the world. Caddell Burroughs has
the leading male role.
Johnny Nelson George, a favorite
actress at the Alley, is seen as the
girl who helns .him to return to the
outside world. Curtain time 8:80.
Contemporary Arts
Inauguarating a policy of keep-
ing the Contemporary Arts Museum
open in between its big shows, the
fJivp^tors have put on display six
original Picasso oils.
They will continue to be on ex-
hitit until November 25, when the
"Design for Living" show, an ex-
hibit of contemporary interior decor-
ation. e-oes on display. The Museum
is located at 3*02 Dallas.
Free Concerts
The first of the Henke and Pillot
free concerts by the Houston Sym-
phony Orchestra will be heard Sat-
urday nierht at the City Auditorium.
Free tickets are still available at
any Henke & Pillot Store.
Playhouse
The Playhouse Theatre opened
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Wednesday. The play will be re-
membered by Rice students as one
of the Dramatic club's presentations
last year. Maud Scheerer", a riot in
"Primrose Path", is seen as Lady
Bracknell. „
one is allowed to one vote, and un-
less the voice of each minority is
heard, a vote is meaningless.
As for the band, itself, no one has
criticized the band as being lazy.
No one has cried that it is not pro-
fessional enough. No one has stated
that it must have more intricate
drills.
Every student at Rice should real-
ize that the band is made up of a
gang of hard working, conscientious
people who put in more work in- pro-
portion to returns than any other or-
ganization on the campus. Anyone
who doesn't respect the individuals
in that organization must be ignor-
ant of the conditions under which
they work.
However, the size of the band and
the fact that music is de-emphasized
on the campus is a factor that must
&e taken into consideration before
the routines are worked out, not
things to be used in justifying poor
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THE EDITOR'S CORNER
7 wo Rice Cheerleaders
By BILL HOBBY
THIS IS A TRIBUTE to two Rice cheerleaders. This column
* has never been known as a fountainhead of the flag-waving
variety of "school spirit," but this week, we depart somewhat
fr<5m the script to pay homage to two men who play and have
played no small part in that department of school life—Jack
Glenn and Teddy Montz. 7 T~7 T7~~,
great and strong, and I always jwon-
! S 10ma8® dered if the stands kept up with
takes the form of ^jm
a quotation fj01" "For it's mighty easy to take
r-u 6 fr j ° m j things for granted when your side's
Ga er. e on top, and you may feel the boys
J , °",Z r °,m down there in the mud really don't
Hobby
Jack Glenn who
was a famous
Rice cheerleader a quarter of a cen-
tury ago. It is a personal letter, writ-
ten with no idea that it might be
published. It was personally typed
need your last bit of heart and soul
and lungs.
"And I thought to myself, 'If this
came to pass, and the rooters ease
up just because they're used to win-
ning, then I'm sad, because there
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by a man who might easi y lave ic- wag ajways something mighty won-
tated to his secretary, sjgned it, and derful afaout a gmaU
gang with its
forgotten about it. bacj{ tjje wans> fighting for every
It is sentimental—perhaps overly inch, knowing that up there in the
so—but it has unmistakable ring of stands a student body was fighting
sincerity. with them every second, and loving
.' . . . I was out there where you them whether they were losing or
are 25 years ago—or so the calendar winning.'
says, though I don't believe it. In "Yesterday I was-told, by Ruth
those days when we won a game it McLain over the j)hone, that such
was a small miracle and a cause for fears were needles/because the Owls
great rejoicing, for you knew that haye Teddy Montz, and Teddy Montz
a gang of guys had outfought and is a great cheer-leader. I've heard
outwished and outwitted a larger col- this from other- sources, too, and
lection of bruisers, with the old Owl that's why I'm writing you, Ted,—
stands outyelling their rooters and to thank you for keeping the Blue
the Owl gods outdoing all other gods true blue and the Gray pure gray,
by all odds. "Anyone who has never been a
"Through the years, from many yell-leader will not know what a job
parts of the world, I have read^he it is, and what it takes out of you,
glowing dispatches as the Owl grew but here's one alumnus who does .. ."
exhibitions. If the band is not keyed
to give large tricky exhibitions, then
let's stick to simple, spirited num-
bers.
There is little to be gained and
much to be lost by putting on pre-
ciison drills that, because of lack of
time to rehearse, are not precision.
When the band plays in the stands,
and in the simple marching on to
the field, they are supported by the
students in the stands and they do
a good job on what should be their
real function.
At the SMU game, the Mustang
band gave a tribute to Rice, in a
formation representing an Owl and
playing "All For Rice's Honor." At
the Texas game a tribute was play-
ed to the largest cities in Texas, of
which Houston was one. At both
games, the Rice band replied with
silly routines burlesquing the Mus-
tangs and the Steers respectively. *
Let's keep the numbers in the
band those which fall within our
scope. Let's have good old Rice num-
bers in straight, collegiate style.
Let us be very careful not to aim
over our heads when there is no
necessity for it, when there are no
changes in policy of the school that
would promise easier circumstances
for the band', and when the students
who go to Rice and are very much
interested in our name as the small-
est, fightingest school in the South,
don't want it.
As .McGeever would say, let's all
get behind the band and fight.
Ronnie Weiss
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