The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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Freshman
Football
Today
Volume Forty-Two —Number Nino
For
88 Year*
An
All Student
Newspaper
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Program
Tuesday
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1954
Chevron Dance
The Rice Chevron is holding an
informal dance after the TCU
game this Saturday from 8 to 12
at the Organized Reserve Armory
— 1850 OST.
All Chevron members and their
dates will be admitted free; non-
members $1 per couple. Music
will be by Hi-Fi.
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Management Jobs
/Mr. Marvin Garrett, Jr., rep-
resentative of the Civil Service
Commission, will be on the cam-
pus next Monday between 1 and
3 p.m. in the Fondren Library
Lecture Lounge to discuss the
federal government's program of
Junior Management Careers.
Christmas Jobs
jobs at the Post Office may be
picked up at the Placement Of-
fice (201 Lovett Hall). About 100
Boys from Rice are usually em-
ployed by the Post Office during
the Christmas season.
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Faculty Lecture
Dr. C. M. Class, Assistant Pro-
fessor of Physics, will deliver the
sixth lecture in the Sunday after-
noon series by members of the
Rice Faculty at 4.00 P. M. in the
Lecture Lounge. He will speak
on Recent Advances in Nuclear
Science.
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Favorites Election
This Tuesday once again the
students of the Rice Institute will
be called upon to choose the fa-
vorites of. the campus for the
year 1955. The polls will bej set
up at south entrance of Ander-
son Hall from the hours of 8:00
to 1:00. All are reminded to have
in mind five girls which they
would like to select, for there
will not be a list from which to
choose. The winners will appear
in the Vanity Fair section of the
1955 CAMPANILE.
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Scavenger Hunt
The Rice YMCA is having a
scavenger hunt Tuesday, Novem-
ber 23 to obtain canned goods
for a Thanksgiving basket. All
members are invited to meet in
the lobby of the library at 8:00
p.m. Bring dates! Refreshments
and entertainment are planned
for after the hunt.
1 Pep Rally Today
Friday at noon there will be a
pep rally in front of the library.
The band will be there. The var-
sity who will be playing their
last home game of the year will
be honored.
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Mixed Chorus
New members are wanted for
the mixed chorus in order to plan
7 a Christmas program Monday at
U A. M. or Tuesday at 9 A. M.,
'/. faculty^ chambers, Lovett Hall.
Owls Battle Frogs Tomorrow
RABBI ROBERT I. KAHN
TCU Selects Rice Game
For Student Body Trip
The Student Council has re-
ceived a letter from Jack B.
Graff, president of the T. C. U.
Student Body, saying that T. C.
U. has chosen Rice for their stu-
dent body trip this year. They
will arrive at noon Saturday by
a special train.
The Student Council has
planned a luncheon at College
Inn for members of the visiting
Student Council..
Hubert L. Rawlins, Jr., who
graduated from Rice lq,st spring
was burned to death in an oil
field explosion Tuesday. He was
working for the Shell Oil Com-
pany as a chemical engineer.
The funeral was yesterday after-
noon.
Thanksgiving Service
Tuesday at Emanu El
Rabbi Robert I. Kahn will be the main speaker of the all-
school Thanksgiving Service which is to be held next Tuesday
at 12:15 at Temple Emanu El (1500 Sunset Blvd.)
Student participants on the program will be Bill.Allen for
the Invocation; DeeDee MecK, scripture reading; and Pauline
Applebaum, solo.
A voluntary offering will be ta-
ken during the service and funds
collected will be given to the World
University Service for its program
of material assistance to universi-
ties abroad.
Rabbi Kahn, spiritual leader of
Congregation Emanu El, is a na-
tive of Iowa. Granted a B. A. by
the University of Cincinnati and
ordained by the Hebfrew Union Col-
lege as Rabbi (from which he also
received an earned Doctorate of
Hebrew Letters in 1950) he came
to Houston in 1935. Except for
three years as Chaplain with the
Infantry in the Pacific, he has
served as Rabbi in this community.
Rabbi Kahn has always been ac-
tive in the general Jewish and civic
community. He is a Rotarian and
a Scottish Rite Mason (honored
with the degree of Knight Com-
mander of the Court of Honor).
He has, at one time and another,
been • president of the Houston
Lodge B'nai B'rith, of the Kallah
of Texas Rabbis, of the Religious
Education Association. He serves at
present on the Board of the Tra-
veler's Aid, Boy Scouts and Com-
munity Council.
Article Result Of
After-Class Talk
An after-class discussion between
graduate .student D. E. Wade and
W. W. Akers, associate professor
of chemical engineering, has re-
sulted in a featured technical' ar-
ticle in the November issue of
Freshman Elections
To Be December 4
Petitions for six freshman offices
(president, vice-president, secre-
tary-treasurer, and three Student
Council representatives) must be
submitted by Wednesday, Novem-
ber 24, according to Clayton Stone,
chairman of the Student Council's
Election Committee.
Campaigning may begin on No-
vember 29 and will end on De-
cember 4 with an election rally at
which all candidates may speak to
the class. Expense accounts must
have been submitted by that time.
The petitions must carry a state-
ment naming the candidate and the
office for which he is runhing, the
signature of 10 members of the
freshman class, and a signed state-
ment by the candidate that he has
(Continued on Page 6)
TCU Game Final
Home Appearance
By ALAN RINGOLD
The Owls will make their final Houston appearance of 1954
tomorrow when they meet the TCU Horned Frogs. The ever
dangerous Frogs handed Rose Bowl bound Southern California
their only defeat this year, and it was by a decisive 20-7 score
to prove it was no fluke. Last week the Frogs ran up 34 points
but still lost to a Texan team
New Committee
Meets to Study
Honor System
By DONNA PAUL
The Student Activities Commit-
tee, reflecting the concern which
much of the student body feels for
the effectiveness of the Honor Sys-
tem, asked for an investigation of
the Honor System to find out if it
is functioning well and if it can
be improved. A committee of six
student members and six faculty
numbers are . investigating the
problem. Student members are:
Martha Parse and Robin Robinson,
representing the Honor Council;
Bob Hartsfield and Elsa Holland
of the Student Council; Louis Ray-
ner from Tau Beta Pi; and Mrs.
Katherine Snow Beutel from the
Phi Beta Kappa. Faculty members
are Messrs. Chapman, Heaps, Huds-
peth, Tsanoff, Ulrich, Weston, and
Mrs. Drew.
Two meetings Already held were
largely devoted to exchanging ideas
with regard to the whole prob-
lem and how to make the Honor
System more effective and mean-
ingful to the students. The com-
mittee has reached agreement on
two main points. First, the Honor
System we have is far superior to
any proctoring system which might
that was about due after a mis-
erable showing so far.
The TCU backfield is loaded with
fast, shifty runners like Ron
Clinkscale, Jim Swink, and Ray
Taylor. The whole TCU team
boasts speed and has probably the
fastest line in the conference.
TCU is noted for running from
formations that no other team
would dream of, much less try, but
they made them pay off and rode
the spread formation into the Cot-
ton Bowl a few years back. How-*1
ever, under Abe Martin the Frogs
have stuck to the split-T, but they
nevertheless have retained their
flair for the wide-open, gambling
style of football.
The TCU Jine is anchpred by
ends Bryan Engi-am and Johnny
Crouch and has a fine center in
Hugh Pitts. The rest of the line is
comparatively weak but has risen
to the occasion several times this
season when the need presented
itself.
This weekend will be a big close
out for the 1954 season in Hous-
ton. The Slimes meet the Baylor
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Engineer Magazine
Comes Out Today
The Rice Engineer goes on sale
today, making its fall debut in a
"surprise" pink cover. But no one
is surprised at its arrival follow-
replace it. There was a feeling that lug the many advance notices made
such a system changes the whole by Editor Tom Flynn,
relationship of student and pro-
fessor, causing an antagonism and
military atmosphere.
The membei-s also hoped to de-
(Continued on Page 2)
Council Refuses To Permit
Ads On Campaign Material
By AL BEERMAN
The first hour of the Student
Council meeting passed in the usual
manner as the council heard seven
communications and no Bass than
sixteen different officer and com-
mittee reports ranging from the
grass in front of the library to
the Honor System; but during the
'The Petroleum Refiner." The ar- last twenty minutes the council dis-
ticle presents a vigorous method cussed and voted on, an innovation
for computing the number of equi-
librium steps required to make a
desired separation of tw*> or more
components in a distillation col-
(Continued on Page 5)
in election campaigning.
The discussion began when Don
Cole, a freshman, petitioned the
council for permission to carry ad-
vertising on the back of cards that
The lead story, written by Dr.
VV. V. Houston, asks, "Does College
Make an Engineer," and then an-
swers in an interesting article that
gives an insight into the thinking
that lies behind planning an edu-
cational program.
Dr. Houston's article is backed
up with a detailed explanation of
the engineering curriculum at Rice
—of special interest to lower class-
men who want to hear the story
from someone who has seen it first-
he wanted to use in the forthcom- hand. "What a Freshman can Ex-
ing freshman election. The ads pect from Engineering" is subdi-
would defray the costs of the elec- vided into articles on each branch
tion, but the entire cost would be of the field written by fifth-year-
included in the $25 limit. men, Robei-t; Stovall, Byron S.
During the debate on the issue James, Sidney A. Bordelon, Jr., and
opinions that the mdve expressed Maurice Patterson.
initiative were contrasted with the Be sure to read "Fanny, the D-C
thought that it would tend to set Variable," a technical-fiction story
a president in elections, and thus about the love life of a resistor
commercialize them. One r'epresen- who was too easily short-circuited.*-
tative pointed out that the U. S. There are other articles by Robin
is a country of business, and that Robinson and Richard Steph and a
an ad helped both the candidate picture story of off-shore drilling
and the advertiser—that there was platforms.
(Continued on Page 2) I The magazine sells for 25c.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1954, newspaper, November 19, 1954; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230980/m1/1/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.