The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1953 Page: 7 of 8
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17. IMS
THE THRESHER
Seven
Friday's Forum
Perturbs Guests
A number of remarlu%y some
of the visiting women were over-
heard at last Friday's Forum on
intellectual freedom. This is *
sampling:
"Thank you very much, Mr.
Rogge. I'll certainly have plenty
to tell the trustees."
"Just listen to 'em talk. You
know 'they teach Communism in
this school. Just listen to 'em
talk."
"There are only two positions
to take. Either you're for Mc-
Carthy and Americanism or
against him and for C o m m u -
nigra."
"Why are you boys ashamed
to admit you're Americans?"
"As soon as I get away from
here I'm going to get somebody
—I don't know just who yet-
but somebody to come out and
investigate The Rice Institute
because you're all just a bunch
of Communists out here."
"It's the Jews. It's the dirty
Jews."
Unreported—
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person will have no ill feeling
against another st u d e n t who
thought-he saw him cheating and
reported him. Of course, the ac-
cused person may not feel this way.
Then the student who sees the
cheating must decide which is
worse—reporting the cheating and
facing the person whom he accused,
or not reporting it and violating a
pledge to which he has committed
himself. If he believes honesty to
be a guiding principle, he must re-
port the violation. If he does not
believe this, and enough" others be-
lieve like he, not only the Honor
System, but also our type of society
will fail. When a person accepts
honesty, he must apply it to his
friends as well as to other people,
for such a basic principle cannot be
used and discarded as convenient.
Number 3
As to the third reason mentioned
above, we feel that someone else's
cheating does harm the innocent
members of his class. If a person
is allowed to get away with cheat-
ing, he gets for nothing something
for which the others have had to
work. This means the others in ef-
fect have wasted their time in stu-
dying since they could have cheated
too. Not only is this not particular-
ly fair, but it lowers the value of
the other students' efforts. . .This
is most obviously seen in classes
graded on a curve or on other rela-
tive bases.
With regard to the future effects
of being suspended from college,
the cheater surely must realize the
possible consequences of being
caught. If he realizes these and still
cheats, there seems to be no reason
for someone else to protect him by
not reporting him.
Without the cooperation of each
individual student practicing the
Honor System fully and completely,
we can never have a successful
Honor System. If just a few peo-
ple are willing to overlook and pur-
posely avoid what they know is
cheating, the Honor System con be
nothing but a burden to those who
do enforce it.
The engagement of Miss Mar-
jory Joan K r o u p a to Edward
U m b r i c h t, Jr., has been an-
nounced. Miss Kroupa is a sen-
ior architecture student at the
Rice Institute. They will be mar-
ried at St. Andrew's Presbyter-
ian church onJTune 27.
Threshing It Out
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advocate walking out on any speak-
er. I listen carefully to what the
opposition has to say—some of my
political opponents have even ac-
cused me of being too attentive to
their activities. J?ut I do not choose
to help pay the salary of anyone
who is peddling ideas I consider
contrary to the principles of the
Constitution of the United States
of America.
Incidentally, Mr. Korgeg, if you
truly "bolted" (an ineffective tech-
nique, let me assure you) Friday
night's meeting, and denied your-
self the benefit you might other-
wise have derived from succeeding
speakers' remarks—as you said you
did—how did you know just when
to stride down the aisle in order
to ask the first question during the
question period ?
Sincerity,
Mildred McCall
My dear Miss McCall:
My attempt to demonstrate the
only outcome of practices similar
to those upheld by you and your
colleagues evidently was a failure.
But the fact remains that only in-
tolerance and ignorance (not truth)
can arise from the removal of "un-
American" commentators, books,
and ideas from our education. Let
me assure you, however, that the
notable work of the Minute Women
has not gone unheeded — even
though you do work as individuale,
not as an organized force. Never-
theless, I do find the defense of
intellectual freedom of paramount
importance. If intellect were a lit-
tle freer, perhaps Mr. Rogge would
not have given the kind of speech
he gave (I am punning on the
word free, you understand, Miss
McCall) and perhaps we would have
more speeches like that of Dr.
Tsanoff, printed in this issue.
Sincerely,
James Korges
P.S.: May I say publicly, Miss
McCall, that I am not, nor was I
ever, nor do I plan to become, a
Communist—nor am I a Royalist,
an Anarchist, nor a Fascist, Miss
McCall.
To the Editor,
Does Barbara Hall believe in
free love also?
Yours truly
John Urquhart
Editor's Note:
Why do ,you want to know, Mr.
Urquhart?
MfkMkn Stop f.E. Staff
lite litrimralt Prtgrettii;
Led by skyscrapers Gene Schwinger and Terry Telligman,
the Highballers intramural volleyball team solidly whipped
the Physical Education staff in the tourney finals. Despite
the fine play of Mr. McDougle and Mr. Barker, the Highballers,
made up of varsity and frosh basketball players, won the match
in two straight games, giving
them the championship for the
second straight year.
"In the softball tournament, the
B-Ballers and Chevron remained on
top with 2-0 records. In play this
week, the Rally Club beat the APO
13-5, and the hitherto undefeated
Plumbers dropped two games, to
the Flunkums (Faculty team) 4-3,
and to the B-Ballers 12-7.
In the Flunkum game, the Plum-
bers led 3-2 going into the last inn-
Mr. Urquhart:
It is indeed flattering to discover
that my opinion is so greatly
sought after. My ideas and other
subjects will appear in a slim vol-
ume of autobiographical essays to
be published some ten years from
now, which will of course be banned
in Boston. Until then I fear your
curiosity will have to remain unsat-
isfied.
Barbara Hall
ing, but Dr. Daugherty's solid sin-
gle scored Dr. Smith and Lieuten-
ant Commander Dvorak who had
walked and advanced to second and
third on a wild pitch.
In the B-Ballers game, specta-
tors were awarded one of the bet-
ter clown acts of the year by the
B-Ballers' fielders. The Plumbers
could do little with the right-hand-
ed slants of hefty Eddy Rayburn,
but the B-Baller outfield made the
game more interesting, though the
infield let at least one pop fly fall
right in their midst. B-Baller hit-
ters were led by Rayburn, Don Wil-
son, and Bill Gaskamp.
The teams of Hart and Frost,
and Stevens and Eggleston contin-
ue to lead in the handball doubles
tourney, with the two duos no5
meeting until the final round.
THE DU PONT
DIGEST
A GROWING FIELD—
Instrumentation
Modern manufacturing trends at Du Pont bring
ever-increasing opportunities for technical men
"TOW
Do you think of instrumentation as
applying only to work in electricity
and electronics?
Or would you also include prob-
lems in chemical processing, mate-
rials of construction and materials
handling, as well as application of
equipment — both mechanical and
hydraulic—for measurement and
control systems?
At Du Pont, instrumentation is
applied to widely diverse areas of
manufacturing operations. It calls for
many different technical back-
grounds. In a typical instrument
group there may be men whose formal
training has been in jaaechanic&l,
chemical, electrical or metallurgical
engineering, or in physics, etc.
Instrumentation is becoming more
and more important in the chemical
industry. In fact, many of today's
processes and products would not be
possible without modern measure-
ment and control systems. The trend
toward continuous processes means
challenging and constantly increas-
ing opportunities for instrumenta-
tion men. -
Du Pont's instrument program in-
cludes research, development, design,
and supervising installation of proc-
ess control equipment. Some of the
work is done in the central Engineer-
ing Department at Wilmington.
However, most of tehe' major plants
across the country now have their
own organized instrument groups.
Paul D. Kohl {left), B.S. in M.E., Purdue '46,
checks the assembly of an experimental control
instrument.
So you may visualize the scope and
diversity of the work, here are ex-
amples of instrumentation recently
developed and designed by Du Pont
technical men: .
1. A device to measure flow of approxi-
mately 30,000 lbs. per hour of gas at
more than 10,000 p.s.i. To give 1.2r,
accuracy and be responsive to flow-
changes of five cycles per second.
2. A device to monitor continuously
1200 similar temperatures. Equipment
to record temperature and sound alarm
ata deviation of l°C. from desired point.
3. An automatic control system to main •
tain a predetermined pressure-tempera-
ture relation in a large-batch autoclave
during spontaneous reaction between
two chemicals.
Thus it can be seen that Du Pont
instrumentation is limited to no single
avenue of engineering. Men with an
aptitude for the work get experience
in many phases of the Company's
technical activities—and an excellent
background for positions in manage-
ment and administration.
ASK FOR "Chemical Engineers at
Du Pont." New illustrated booklet de-
scribes initial assignments, training and
paths of promotion. Just send post card
to IS. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
(Inc.), 2521 Nemours Building, Wil-
mington, Delaware.
Fred R. Struder, B. Metal W., Rensselaer P.f.
'BO, examines a pressurestrain recorder with
Allen R. Furbeck, E.E., Princeton '39.
Richard Q. Jackton, B.S. in Ch.E., Columbia
'42, and Gregory L. Laserson, Ph.D. in M.E.,
Columbia '49, test an infrared gas analyzer.
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