The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1955 Page: 4 of 8
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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21, IMS
We Don't Know
The Thresher specializes in unknown facts, but until
last Monday nobody on the staff knew that Keio Univer-
sity was the oldest university in Japan. This fact was
brought home to us then, however, for we received a copy
of the Mita Campus, an English newspaper published by
the students of that school.
It was fascinating to read about Broadway plays in
Japan, and to read the other student news which made us
realize that we really aren't very much different from our
fellow students across the Pacific; but the most interest-
ing item in the paper was the editorial entitled "The Rise
of Militarism."
This article lamented the fact that Japan was again
building up military might. It stated that just when the
world seemed to be trying to achieve its ultimate end—
peace, its government was receiving rockets able to carry
atomic war-heads from the United States. It spoke of the
atrocities committed by Japan in the Second World War,
and favored her living up to her "No War Clause" in the
Constitution.
It pointed out that farmers in Sunakawa were rebell-
ing against the government which was taking away their
iand in order to enlarge jet air fields, and asked why farm-
ers cannot till their own land without having to fight for
it.
To the Mita Campus, we can only say that we share
your dissolutionment. We, too, cannot understand why the
nations of the world cannot live in peace.
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"Libraring" Problem
Rice students who were goofing off used to be "Sally-
porting," now they are "scrounging," but unless something
is done we may be using the term "libraring." The situa-
tion is becoming so bad in the library that students can
hardly use the building to study because of the great num-
ber of students using it for a lounge.
Both the faculty and students have expressed concern
over the volume of noise in both the reading rooms; and
the upper floors are not much better. Food is being taken
from the lounge to the upper floors, and smoking is not
loo infrequent in the stacks.
The Rice library is a magnificent structure, and its
facilities leave little to be desired, but the best aspect of
our library is the comparative freedom the student enjoys
in the building. The open stack system, the absence of
signs or any type of proctoring system add to this free-
dom, but unless it is quiet enough to use the reading rooms
lor their purpose, and unless books stop disappearing from
the shelves without being checked out, these advantages
may no longer exist.
All this abuse of the library occurs within a short
" alk from the student lounge. It is truly a privilege to be
able to use a building as fine as the Rice library. Let's not
abuse this privilege and thereby lose it. Instead of holding
social hour on the upper floors of Fondren, let's keep them
in the basement. The top decks may be less crowded, but
they will be more useful.
Religious
Activities
tiTHi man on campus
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by Dick Uhlf
THRE
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Associate Editor
Bill Gordon
Managing Editor Libby Farrar
News Editor Walker Jordan
Feature Editor Donna Paul
Sports Editor .! Alan Ringold
Staff Polly Benoit, Alice Cowan,
Barbara Veyofi, Helen Morris, Rex Martin, Roy Hofheinz, Walt Silvus,
Bruce Montgomery, Rice Aston, Sally Wheeler, Carolyn Dearman, Nancy
_ Angle, Joe Steele, Bill Musgrove, John Olson, Margie Wise, Jim Hedges,
C... Patsy Botts, Henry Johnson, Jarrene Mengden, Frank Dent, Sandy Gordon,
Fran Bailey, Ann Stevens, Gary Canton, Ron Davis, Dave Connor, Jim Bern-
hard, Charles Earhart, Ginger Purington, Joan Fields, and Allen Butler.
Advertising Manager Bill Landfield
By Polly Benoit
While students are recovering
from the trip to Dallas, B.S.U.
students are also trying to catch
up on work and sleep missed by
attending the State B.S.U. Con-
vention in Waco. Along with
memories of after session get-
togethers, 31 Baptist students
will long remember the messages
of top notch speakers.
Probably, the most impressive
thing on the convention was the
perfomrance of the State B.S.U.
Choir; Hearts and minds were
stirred on Friday night as they
sang Fred Warring's arrange-
ment of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic," in the large, modern,
Seventh and James Baptist
Church of Waco. The total at-
tendance was estimated at 3,000
students, coming from schools
all over the state of Texas.
The Canterbury Club will meet
at Autry House Sunday after-
noon at 4:00. The program will
be on the Episcopal Church's re-
cent Triennial Conference in
Hawaii.
In December (27-Jan. 1) 3,000
students will gather in Athens,
Ohio, for a Student Volunteer
Movement for the Ecumenial
Conference on the Christian
World Mission. For this event the
M.S.M. is beginning a program
series for the conference, the
theme of which will be "Revolu-
tion and Recpncillation." Dis-
cussion groups for all Christian
religious organizations will be
organized for this Ecumenical
Conference. The planning meet-
ing, open to all who are interest-
ed, will meet Friday at 12:00, 3rd
floor F. L. There, preparatory
material for the conference will
be discussed.
Delores Potts, secretary for
the downtown Y.W.C.A., attended
the 3rd World Conference for
Christian Youth in Travancore,
India. She will bring some in-
teresting slides from the trip to
the M.S.M. on Oct. 27. And her
topic of speech: "Upheaval in
| Asia."
| The Unfolding Drama of the
I Bible by Bernard Anderson is the
j text for the M.S.M. Bible Study
; which now meets on Monday
j nights in room 234 at 6:45-7:45.
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Top Freshmen
Offered Diplomas
; Smile when you get those-ex-
| tra broom licks or go without
! any lipstick, slimes, for he who
i smiles the biggest gets a re-
' ward. Yes, those who "pass"
Freshman Guidance will receive
genuine Freshman Diplomas in
the form of pocket-size cards to
be worn the week before Thanks-
giving. Only those who have par-
ticipated sufficiently (i.e., held
up the wall for at least 10 min-
utes, worn pigtails and no make-
up for a day, or "become ac-
quainted' with 30 or more fresh-
man girls in the slime parade)
will be eligible to receive diplo-
mas. Selections will be made by
section leaders (bless them) and
the sophomore president.
Quoting from a notice written,
no doubt, by a dedicated sopho-
more, —"the friends you make,
the ease with which you fit in,
the change of mind you go
through, the attitude you adopt,
these are all, at least partly,
a result of Freshman Guidance."
Not to mention the bruises and
aching backs from broomings
and bowing to Sammy, the lack
of sleep from Forrestry 100, etc.,
which are a part of Guidance'
they forgot to mention.
iky rue
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FOUNP ANOTHER SffCIMBNi
MILLING AROUND
Concrete Bridge Over
Roadblock In 2 Years!
By Donna Paul
Someone has just informed us'
of the ..efforts of some misguid-
ed philanthropist. A collection
box has been placed in the lounge
for the purpose
of buying con-
crete to build a
permanent
bridge over
the roadblock.
We investigated
the box to see
how the collec-
tion was com-
ing along (just curious, you
know) and found among its con-
tents 26c, (not enough for a
cheeseburger anyway) a Mex-
ican centavo, and a San Diego
bus token. Not included as as-
sets were an emory board, a cin-
namon toothpick (taste mostly
gone) and an earlobe.
Interested in the progress of
this undertaking (Interpret sym-
bolism as desired) we phoned the
Eureka Concrete Co. who in-
formed us that it would take 7%
yards of concrete to build a
bridge twenty by twenty feet
and six inches deep. At $11.40
a yard the concrete can be pur-
chased for $188.35. If 26 cents
is added each day, the concrete
.can be purchased in only 724
days or a little over two years.
On the other hand, David'?
Hardware informed us that a
hacksaw costs 90 cents or $3.59
for the Giant Economy Sized
Dennis the Menace Brand.
We hinted of these two alter-
natives to a prominent member
of the Administration who hint-
ed back (a bit coldly perhaps)
that another expense should be
taken into consideration. A year
at Texas costs approximately
$1700.
The Extraneous Scoop De-
partment. Have you ever noticed
the descrepancy in the Thresher
heading? "A student newspaper
for 39 years," it says, "Volume
43." Hadn't you ever wondered
why? Well, we hadn't either.
We were willing to accept this
problem as one of the paradoxes
of modern life, but insatiable
curiosity is a characteristic pe-
culiar to the freshman, and one
just had to ask us "why". "Oh, go
drown yourself," we said with
polite impatience, but our cru-
sading editor found this problem
the Rubicon of his career, and
pointed the way to the archives
with his bayonet.
We have just returned from
a week of solitude, loneliness, and
despair, a struggle for survival
among carnivorous bookworms
with predatory looks. And now,,
for the benefit of mathematical
perfectionists, future copy-read-
ers, people who read our Thresh-
er from cover tp cover (both of
you) and our slimy (sic) friend,
here are the results. The Thresh-
er has been an all student news-
paper for 39 years. No, it was
never overthrown by a faculty in-
surrection. The four additional
volumes are" products of the war
years, 1943-46, when Rice was
open for a summer session and
the newspaper was printed year
round in two volumes.
Now if anyone would like to
know the native population of
New South Wales in 1927 we wiil
gladly refer you 'to our editor,
who keeps files on that sort of
thing.
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Famous Rice
Ratio Still
Four to One
Good news, girls! The ratio is
still four to one! To be more ac-
curate, there are 1404 men and
393 women enrolled in the old
Institute. The freshmen com-
prise most of the population,
j numbering 476, and the gradu-
ate students have the smallest
class, of only 223. It seems that
the number dwindles by the
fifth year.
The sophomores rank next in
size after the freshmen, and
then come the senior and junior
The candidates for B. A. De-
gree in June number 280, 203
men and 77 women. Among that
total, 23 are Chemical Engin-
eers, 19 are Mechanical Engin-
eers, 13 are Electrical Engin-
eers, nine are Architects, and 21
are P. E.'s.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 21, 1955, newspaper, October 21, 1955; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231006/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.