The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1952 Page: 2 of 6
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Bylaws Need Revision
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presented as law are laughable, but
they are dangerous as well. They
obscure our good rules. It is not
just a joke that the Dance Commit-
tee is charged with responsibility
over the conduct of every Rice
dance. If they fail to help out some
organization as they should some-
one should complain.
Our hard working Student Council
Treasurer and his accomplices are
finding the By-laws defining their
duties ridiculous in spots. It be-
comes necessary to overlook parts
of the By-law to make it work. This
is producing a condition in which
bewildered publication and class
officers wonder whether to get re-
ports in on the prescribed days, are
curious about the reports of the
lounge or the Thresher.
Our Treasurer deserves a more
practical constitution structure to
support his work.
The election Committee as set up
calls for three members, and there
are four serving on it at present.
•'Why worry about it", you say, but
a split vote over some elction rule
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might become important to you. The
pricing of ties and suspenders sold
to the Freshmen is supposed to be
approved by the Student Council as
the slimes have very little choice in
the matter. There "is no record of
that being done this year.
Does every student organization
have an up to date copy of its con-
stitution and by-laws in the Dean's
Office? Obviously not, but it should
be there. What happened to the
meeting of the Service Award Com-
mittee that is scheduled in the By-
laws for the first of the year?
These are good rules, the product
of long experience, that should be
followed, but have apparently been
overlooked.
With the approval of the Student
Council, the dead ..wood ' could be
cleaned out of our By-laws in a mat-
ter of days with a little additional
effort a good start could be made
on simplifying or modifying our
too technical rules. There is danger
in waiting too long. We may loose
some of our privileges.
or instance, the Student Activi-
ties Committee recently debated be-
fore passing on to the Student
Council a request from a popular
brand cigarette to sell their product
on the campus directly. There is a
By-law giving us that decision.
The Student Activities Commit-
tee, however, might properly wonder
whether we consider this a defunct
rule, or, if not, whether we would
be careless in our application of it.
As another example, early this year
our very capable Dean of Students
felt compelled to send a list of in-
structions to each student organiza-
tion containing By-law rules the
Students themselves should have
published.
Our By-laws need to be vitalized.
The Constitutional Committee ca >
start by disregarding what is use-
less and demanding what we do
retain to be treated with respect.
EB Melodrama
Pleasant Rice
Satire
By MARUN CRUSE
The Elizabeth Baldwin Literary
Society is to be congratulated on
their production, "Prom- Here to
Iniquity." The show was at vary-
ing moments rich, rare, and racy
with the audience deriving a sur-
prising amount of pleasure from the
EB's humor.
Peggy Holsopple, their author,
though possibly not shaking the
foundations of dramatic writing,
certainly proved hersilf a master in
satirizing certain well-known local
events. Margaret Blau, their direc-
tor, took the script and welded to-
gether a strong show with some
eye-catching material.
Several performers stood out as
show stoppers and Billy Crystal
Littlepage led this group. She was
somewhat of a sensation with her
singing and acting. Sugar Sowar,
Katherine Show, Mary Ann Davis,
and Toni Shimeall also turned in
top-notch performances.
Attic Theatres
The University of Houston's At-
tic Theatre will start the second
week of its current production of
Somerset Maugham's "Rain" on
Monday night. The play is very en*
tertaining and is "a relief from some
of the rather poor offerings found
recently in other local non-profes-
sional theatres. It's absorbing story,
set in the South Seas, is performed
by an adequate cast.
Vivian Altfeld is well cast in the
role of the prostitute, Saddie
Thompson. She gives her character
life and reality. David Parker, as
the reverend and reformer, does a
convincing job.
Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts will
open a show in February which
promises to be quite a treat. "Italy
at Work—Her Renaissance in De-
sign Today" has for its subject mat-
ter the Renaissance art work of the
war-torn European country. Hous-
ton's museum has been chosen as
one of the eleven such institutions
in the United States to participate
in the showing of the are objects.
Melodrama Theatre
Speaking of melodramas, the sec-
ond production of the Melodrama
Theatre is going strong. "The Drun-
kard" with blonde, blue-eyed Caro-
lyn Petrich giving the show quite a
life, is a comedy treat. A new policy
of Sunday night performances hes
been inaugurated. It is now closed
on Monday, Crowds are flocking
there to drink beer, eat peanuts,
and hiss the villain.
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