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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1955
PARKING LOTS OVERFLOW
Every day the Rice parking
lots resemble the picture above
as student and faculty cars jam
them to capacity. The proctor
has indicated to the Thresher
that he has noticed all the spac-
es in every lot filled more than
once, and at times, has allowed
students to park along the roads.
The situation in the dorm lot
is no better, and the overflow
of cars to the other campus lots
is in part responsible for their
crowded condition. The library
and other faculty lots are also
filled to capacity. The total num-
ber of cars registered by faculty
and students is approx. 2076.
As the figures on the number
of available spaces are not avail-
able, it is only a matter of con-
jecture that it is something less
than 2,000.
In spite of the tendency to
receive tickets for illegal park-
ing because of crowded condi-
tions, most of the penalties for
violations have been imposed at
times when "legal" space was
available.
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Thirty-nine per cent of the
deaths and 35 per cent of the in-
juries due to motor vehicle acci- j
dents last year occurred on Sat
urdays and Sundays.
'55 FOLLIES—
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Such script and funny lines
that the show may have will be
the product of Jonesy Jones,
Phil Martin, and Fred Woods.
Ronnie Flinn has self-sacrific-
ingly assumed the Herculean role
of producer.
The only other staff member
named thus far is John Wolden,
business manager.
Crutchfield promises that au-
ditions will be held very soon,
probably in about two weeks.
The Follies tentatively will be
held in the spacious auditorium
of Lamar Senior High School.
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Freshmen, are you sorry you
ever heard the word Sophomore?
You must remember that they did
go through a lot of screening to
get in Rice, Today's senior class
originally had 503 freshmen, out
of 854 applications. The present
junior class numbered 431 when
they were freshmen, out of 610
applications. The sophomore class
however, started out with only
470 members, out of 1134 appli-
cations considered.
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Speeding on U. S. strets and
highways injured 659,000 men,
women and children.
A Campus-to-Career Case History
"I represent 30,000 people"
That's the population of the Mason
City, Iowa, area where Jack MacAllister
(Iowa U., "50) is Manager for North-
western Bell Telephone Company. How
would you like this kind of job?
• • •
64 As Telephone Manager I represent
Mason City to my company, and vice-
versa. Among my customers are bank-
ers, farmers, housewives, merchants ...
e&ch with different questions and prob-
lems about telephone service. Through
public information and good business
office service, my people and I do our
best to furnish the answers.
6 My assignment calls for varied activi-
ties—sales, public relations, office super-
vision. One minute I'm describing a
new construction program to a group of
businessmen . . . the next explaining a
new service to a rural customer.
"it's a job with lots of variety and re-
sponsibility, and I enjoy every day of it.
My supervisor is 75 miles away," says
Jack, "and that puts me pretty much on
my* own—which is the way I like it."#
Jack MacAllister graduated with a B.S. in Com*
merce and started with Northwestern Bell about
five years ago. As Telephone Manager at the age
of 28, he is typical of the many young men who are
building careers in telephone work. Similar op*
portunities exist today with other Bell telephone
companies . . . also with Bell Telephone Labora-
tories, Western Electric and Sandia Corporation.
Your Placement Officer has all the details.
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TELEPHONE
SYSTEM
*P. S. Since this case history was prepared, Jack has been promoted.
Now a manager at Des Moines, Iowa, he has increased responsibilities.
STUDENT COUNCIL—
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lem and the meal ticket pro-
posal.
The Offering
The Food Committee of the
council had decided Monday that
the Hall Committee was doing a
competent job of polling the
daily recipients of Ma Hardy's
offerings to find out their likes
and dislikes as to the food. The
purpose of the Hall Committee's
poll was to improve the food.
The other issue was a desire
on the part of some students
for the administration to adopt
some syst#m of meal tickets.
Dean McBride has estimated a
20% rise in boarding cost if &
meal ticket plan is adopted. It
has long been a supposition on
the campus that if Ma Hardy
were forced to compete with lo-
cal food dispensers, the food
problem would solve itself ...
and quick. At the present time
all those living in the dorms are
forced to pay the monthly board
bill, regardless of how many
meals they may eat in the com-
mons.
Battered Sammy
Repairs of Sammy were also
discussed. For further details on
Sammy's injuries look elsewhere
in this paper. Joe Brown asked
if we would look for retribution
for this deed. It was suggested
that we send the Tigers a bad
luck telegram for their next'
game. We believe that Sammy
should not be repaired. Battered
as he is, he symbolizes the an-
cient tradition that old Rice
spirit never dies.
Folweiler, embittered because
he could not find a plaoe for the
fall engineering dance, sugges-
ted that the dance schedule be
set up two semesters early so
that a desirable place could still
be obtained. His plan was
adopted.^*- --*• —vl
Housing Plans
Montgomery wanted the coun-
cil to install more phones in the
existing dorms. McMurtry re-
ported that in the new dorms
there would be a phone jack in
each room so that any student
might obtain a phone in his room
at a slight additional cost. The j
phone situation will be allevated r
under the future plans. !
Our nemesis, crude, lewd,
shrewd, tatooed, but not nude,
Walt Sutton, tried to present the
constitution of th§ philosophical
society;, we can't remember the
name of it. Tltfe Constitution
C®nmittee„r e f u s e d immediate
approval. Sutton argued that it
was a virtual duplication of the
S m e r s o n Club Constitution,
which had been approved. Ful-
kerson argued that the present
council could not be responsible
for previous decisions. Fulker-
son, we observe, was on the
previous council. The whole mat-
ter will be solved next week.
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Though Rice started out with
only four buildings in 1912, the
present campus has 19 buildings
whose total cost is $12,690,966.16.
Reynolds
Barber Shop
2522 AMHERST
In the Village
— JA 4-0404 —
Young Democrats
Become Active
The Young Democratic Club of
the Rice Institute was organized
in the Spring of 1955 and is open
to all students of the Rice In-
stitute who desire to be affiliated
with the organization.
The Club is not affiliated to
any local or national group, but
it does maintain a loose associa-
tion with the state and national
organizations of the Young Dem-
ocrats. Its purpose is to allow
students who so wish to become
informed on the local and nation-
al political picture through per-
iodic meetings, at which times
various spggkers will discuss
topics of local or national inter-
est.
The Club, as a second primary
objective, hopes to alleviate some
of the political apathy present
at Rice by offering to those stu-
dents on the campus Who are
sympathetic with the ideals and
goals of the Democratic party em
organization whereby they mey
express their opinions on mat-
ters of primary importance to the
community in which they reside
and to their nation. By this, the
Young Democrats hope to con-
tribute to a more alert citizenry
to lead their nation and their
community in future years.
The Young Democrats plan to
Hold bi-weekly Wednesday meet-
ings. The Club sponsors are Mr.
Williams of the English Depart-
ment and Mr. Craig of the His-
tory Department, and Joe Steele
is president.
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HALL—
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which the compiled result of
Tuesday's poll will be the first.
It goes on to explain that last
•springes' Hall* Committee
mendations that "some kind of
'meal ticket' plan be dfevised" is
to have immediate attention of
iodic food preference lists of
tee's authority to establish per-
the Committee on Student Hous-
ing.
Proposal to be Scrutinized
'It is necessary that this pro-
posal be scrutinized carefully,''
the Memo continues, "for the
feeding arrangements in the
new dormitory system, involv-
ing very likely a seated 'college
meal' in the evening and cafe-
teria-style breakfast and lunch
are important in the basic phil-
osophy of the new colleges. In
order that we not'rush into some-
thing which will be difficult' to
change later, it semes well to
(the) Hall Committee that the
Committee on Student Housing,
of which several Hall Committee-
men are members, be allowed to
come up with an unprejudiced,
long range solution."
"If such a plan is developed for
the new dormitories and is ap-
proved by the JBoard of Govern-
ors," the Memorandum promises,
"it will be put into effect at that
time in,the present Commons as
it applies."
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Of the approximate 1000 Rice
Graduates, about 74 percent still
live in Texas, while the remain-
ing 26 percent reside in other
parts of the U. S.
RICE STUDENTS SPECIAL
8 LBS. OF CLOTHES
Washed & Dried
SHIRTS 50* DRY CLEANING
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2403 RICE BLVD.
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JA 4-0232
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