The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 19, 1954 Page: 2 of 8
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1M4
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Student Housing Committee
Discusses College System
The Committee on Student Hous-
ing held its second meeting Mon-
day, November 8, in Lovett Hall
307, and at that time discussed
topics for committee consideration
and the tentative order in which
they will be discussed at future
meetings.
With the aim of housing 100 girls
and 225 boys on campus, the com-
mittee began to think of some over-
all plan which would meet the
needs of these extra students, and
perhaps at the same time strength-
en all of Rice student life. Not
only do the purely physical prob-
lems, such as dorm locations, build-
ing designs, cafeterias, and so on,
have to be worked out, but also
some system of distributing the
men students among the various
dorms. At this time boys apply for
the looms they want, and often get
them, but the administration still
does the placing.
The Housing Committee has been
discussing the feasibility of some
form of the College System. This |
system works differently in all ;
schools, and Rice would not attempt !
to initiate any one existent pattern. \
Under this plan each dorm would
be called a College and would in-
vite freshmen boys into its .College.
Each would have its own student!
government, dining hall, and
lounge. Many problems must be
met if this system is to he em-
ployed, such as the handling of!
transfer and graduated students, ;
how to incorporate town boys into !
the colleges, and whether the fresh- j
men should be housed in one dorm '
and "rushed" at the end of the
year, or rushed at the beginning
of school.
The Committee is very anxious
that the student body understand
the aims behind the proposed
change. The College System would
not be instituted for the purpose of
supervising the boys, as to hours
they keep, table manners, etc. First,
the members considered the found-
ers' original plan of housing all
students on campus and feel this
could be a step in the right direc-
tion. Then the committee found
that the system had worked well
in other schools. Also, the type of
individual Rice wishes to graduates
was considered: a well-rounded one
who has taken as active a part in
school life as~"his studies permit.
Further, campus unity would result
from strengthening the individual's
feeling of participation. For ex-
ample, an engineer would be living
with 100 other boys, ones with va-
rious majors, with whom he would
cat in smaller quarters than the
present commons, participate in
inter-collegiate sports, participate
in self-government of the Colleges,
and enjoy facilities of lounges and
recreation rooms to which he could
even bring dates.
The Committee members would
very much like to hear student |
body views and suggestions on the j
dorm situation while plans are still j
in the formative state. j
The students on the committee!
are: Kathy Hill, Martha Harris,!
Burton McMurtry, Clayton Stone, j
Ray Jageman, Jack Holland, and Ed;
Harris. , j
The. Committee is headed by Dean ,
McBride, and the faculty members
are: Dr. Dowden, Mr. Hermance,
Mr. Hedges, Mrs. Kotch, Miss
arahS Lane, Dr. McKillip, Mr.
Neely, Dr. Nielsen, Dr. Parish? Dr.
Ulrich, Dr. Ryon, and Dr. Waser.
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Student Council
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nothing taorally wrong about the
idea. The majority of the council
seemed to be with the faction that
insisted that if such advertising
were allowed, it would be to the
detriment of all-school organiza-
tions, as the body refused permis-
sion, 9-3.
Bill Allen announced that the
council was sponsoring a program
which would feature Israeli stu-
dents next Tuesday night. He ex-
pressed his disappointment if? the
sparse attendance at the business
forum ajjd demonstrated definite
Republican tendencies as he asked
each member to call five friends
and in turn ask them to call five,
urging attendance at the program.
'Under Milkweed' To Be
Read At Alley Theatre
Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood
is to be given a staged "concert
reading" at the Alley Theatre next
Tuesday (November 22) at eight
pm
Under Milkwood was the last
work completed by the celebrated
Welsh voet before his death a year
ago The work was commissioned by
the BBC but was first produced by
the Poetry Center in New York
City under the supervision of the
author
The work mirrors the life of a
town in three episodes: the dreams
of night, the toils of day, and the
recreations of evening
Debaters Demonstrate
Talent In Forum Friday
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Honor System
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velop more thoroughly a code of
honor—a real Rice Spirit—which
would so permeate the student body j
that no violations would occur. J
Xo conclusion has yet been j'
'reached on how to make the Honor
System most effective, hut future
meetings will be devoted to this
problem.
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The Rice debaters demonstrated
their winning ability in tbeir first
public debate of the year spon-
sored by the Forum Committee. Mr.
J. D. Thomas of the English de-
partment acted as chairman of the
Friday night debate in the Lec-
ture Lounge.
"Resolved: that the United States
extend diplomatic recognition to
the Communist government of Chi-
na" was the topic with Brad
Thompson and Rex Martin support-
ing the proposition and A1 Beer-
man and Joe Steele on the nega-
tive. «
Thompson began the debate by
declaring that a realistic policy
toward China was necessary to re-
assert United States' initiative in
world affairs and to strengthen the
free world. He pointed out that
there was no denying that, the Reds
are the actual government in Chi-
na, and that our Allies in Asia and
in Europe have recognized them.
Beerman and Steele contended
that we already deal with the Reds
as to the men in control, but that
recognition would mean that we
recognize the legality of their gov-
ernment and would imply our ap-
proval of them as "members of
the family of nations." Another
point that Steele raised was that
Red China fails to conform "with
the conditions necessary for rec-
ognition of a government in that
they are dependent on Russia The
negative's third major point was
that the United States stands to
gain nothing from recognition.
The final speaker, Rex Martin,
provided the most humorous five
minutes of the evening in his re-
iteration of the "simple, cruel,
blunt, crude" affirmative proposal
for realism. Martin explained that
■'the affirmative's recognition of the
Reds as the de facto government
of China would not mean- that we
approved of them, but rather would
mean that they control China and
are responsible for her acts.
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Questions from the audience
closed another successful program
by the Forum Committee which
next will present a forum entitled,
"Student roles and responsibilities
in the administration of the In-
stitute." Dr. Houston will serve
as moderator of this forum, and
speakers will be Dean McBride,
Mr. Giles, Bill Allen and Walt Sil-
vus.
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Two EE's Attend
National Meetings
Two fifth-year electrical engin-
eering students represented Rice at
the national meetings of the two
major United States engineering
societies recently.
Thomas A. Rabson, president of
the Gamma Chapter "of Tau Beta
Pi, traveled to Ames, Iowa, where
his fraternity's national convention
was held on October 21, 22, and 23.
All of the association's 96 chap-
ters were .represented at the ses-
sion.
Bill Baier, President of Alpha
Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau. at-
tended the fraternity's Golden An-
niversary Conclave November 10,
11, and 12 at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, where
the fraternity was founded in 1904.
The sixty-three roles in the pieee
will be played by about fifteen act-
ors (the New York production in-
cluded only six). The staging is to
be impressionistic and will include
dancing.
The director Michael Egan, was
associated with Dylan Thomas for
three years and assisted him in the
original production. Mr. Egan
stated that in the last years of his
life Mr. Thomas was highly inter-
ested in dramatic art and that the
present work is the poet's experi-
ment at creative self-expression in
this medium.
Mr. Egan is currently appearing
in the Alley's production of Picnic.
Incidentally, he played the lead in
the New York premiere of Sean
O'Casey's Bedtime Story, which is
one of the Rice Players' current
productions.
If this staging of Under Milk-
wood lives up to expectations, it
should be one of the most encour-
aging elements in the current at-
tempt to raise the level of drama
in Houston. The Alley's staged
reading of Shaw's Misalliance this
summer was the first manifesta-
tion on the commercial level of this
dramatic upsurge. The Alley's ex-
cellent production offered, almost
in full, the dramatic and literary
values of GBS's rather awkward
(from the point of view of staging)
comedy.
At present the Playhouse is of-
fering the same playwright's Pyg-
malion (which will be reviewed
here in the next issue) and has
promised Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night later in the season.
It is hard for the Rice Players
not to feel a certain element of
pride in this search for fuller dra-
matic and artistic possibilities of
the stage in Houston. The Pfhyers'.
initial production two years ago in-
cluded T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agon-
ist es and last spring Gertrude
Stein's Yes Is for a Very Young
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Main speaker at Tau Beta Pi's
initiation banquet was Mr. Earl O.
Shreve, retired v i c e-president of
General Electric Company and for-
mer president of the U. S. Cham-
ber of Commerce.
PECKHAM DISCUSSES LATIN
AMERICA AND COLD WAR
Dr. Edmund Peckham, in a fac-
ulty lecture, entitled "The Place of
Latin America in the Cold War,"
given last Sunday in the Lectue
Lounge, discussed the relation of
the United States with its hemis-
pheric neighbors in the light of our
need for friends in today's sad
world.
The world is too small now, and
our friends change with too be-
wildering a regularity for us ever
to turn our backs again, he said.
We must look outward now, and if
the world is to be split in half, we
had better, make sure that our
part is the larger."
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He showed that our past affairs
have not given Latin America rea-
son to be confident. The U. S. was
able to accept half of Mexico with-
out spraining its conscience. The
Monroe Doctrine is unilateral; we
didn't ask the rest of the New
World if it wanted to be protected.
And the protection itself was
called "keeping the rain off Latin
America with a British umbrella."
The English cooperated on the
Doctrine, and could defy it, as they
did when they seized the Falkland
Islands, a deed for which Argen-
tina has never forgiven either them
or us. .
The Cuba grabs', Walker ii^ Nic-
aragua, the Marines in Haiti—
South America felt it would rather
take its chances with Europe. We
insulted the whole area with Wil-
son's moral recognition policy.
However, Mr. Peckham said,
since 1920, with reciprocal trade
(almost) a coqynon effort in the
war, and the establishment of the
Organization of American States,
the nations of the Hemisphere hlv^
drawn together to face the threat-
ening East.
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