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HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956
Top Scientist
Talks Science
And Religion
After unfortunate and unavoid-
able delays, the series of religious
lectures sponsored by the Stu-
dent Religious Council will be-
gin the evening of February 9th
in the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge.
First speaker in the series will
be Dr. William G. Pollard, Ex-
ecutive Director, Oak Ridge Ins-
titute of Nuclear Studies. A Fel-
low in Physics at Rice from 1932
to 1935, Dr. Pollard received his
PhD at Rice in 1935. His distin-
guished career in science in-
cludes activity in industry as the
consultant to several chemical
and manufacturing companies,
activity in education as Profes-
sor of Phy&rcs at the University
of Tennessee, and especially out-
standing activity in the develop-
ment and progress of nuclear
physics.
Episcopal Church
A profoundly religious person,
Dr. Pollard was ordained a
Priest in the Episcopal Church in
1954, is a member of the Guild of
Scholars of th'e Episcopal Church,
a member of the Editorial Board
for The Christian Scholar, and a
frequent contributor to religious
publications.
With this dual interest in both
scientific and religious thought,
it is natural that the subject of
Dr. Pollard's talk will be "Sci-
ence and Religion."
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January 14 Date
Of Junior Dance
The junior olass is ahead on
their preparations for finals—
they are throwing the annual
junior dance in the Crystal Ball
Rom of the Rice Hotel.
The dance is from 9 PM-1 AM,
on Saturday, January 14, semi-
formal, featuring Carl Owen's
band, formerly of the Club Ebony.
Also featured will be thirty min-
utes of progressive jazz for all
you suga' daddies, etc.
Its price—only $2.98, "stag or
drag"—slashed drastically _ from
$3.00, in the Juniors' going-out-
of-business sale—(Hm!, perfectly
timed—right before finals, too).
All professors of the junior
classes etc. are jvelcomed as
guests of the junior class. Bob
Griffin, president of the class,
urges all professors to come.
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William Lundigan
To Pick Beauties
today in Library
Today at 2 PM, the Beauties
for the Vanity Fair section of the
1956 Campanile will be selected
by Mr. William Lundigan at a
meeting in the Lecture Lounge.
Mr^ Lundigan, screen and tele-
vision star, will choose the top
ten beauties from a field of 25.
The beauties will be officially
presented at the Campanile dance
in the spring.
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RICE
RIOT
ISSUES
RULES
The administration intimated its future policy on riots
and other public disturbances by the Rice student body
yesterday when it asked the Student Council to consider
a tentative written statement presenting its policy.
The statement expresses the view that Rice cannot
afford to be discredited in
For the past seven years this cartoon has been run in the
Thresher in the issue before Dead Week. For editorial comment
see page 6
Meal Tickets May
Be Sold Next Term
It is likely that a meal ticket meals. This will be good news to
system will begin next semester
in the Commons as a result of
the Committee on Housing's ap-
proval of a subcommittee report'
on the part of town students in
the college system. On the con-
troversial issue of meal tickets
the report recommended a lim-
ited system be made available
to all members of the colleges. It
suggested that two arrangements
be offered as follows:
1. Students pay a monthly bill
for twenty-one meals a week.
2. Students pay a monthly bill
for week-day lunches and din-
ners and Saturday lunch with
meal tickets available for all
breakfasts, Saturday dinner, and
Sunday meals.
Dean McBride will recommend
to the President and Board of
Governors that the subcommittee
report be used under the new
system and that those sections
that can be now instituted be so
started as soon as possible. The
Dean will therefore recommend
that meal tickets for breakfast
begin next semester with a
monthly bill continued for other
Harkl Hark! Dead
Week Approaches
Mid-term exams are rapidly
approaching, and Dead Week be-
gins on January 16th. All social
activities' cease and the midnight
oil will burn in student's homes
and dorms.
The final schedule for Mid-
term exams has replaced the
tentative one, antfwas posted on
bulletin boards around the cam-
pus on Monday, January 9th.
Please refer to this final schedule
for complete information.
The dates of the Mid-term
exams, as posted, are from Jan-
uary 23rd through February 2nd.
Classes will "resume on Feb-
ruary 6th.
This will be the last issue of J:he
Thresher until after the Mid-
Term exams. The next issue will
appear February 10.
the 2/3 to 1/2 students who do
not eat breakfast.
The "complete "report was not
available for this issue but will
be presented in the next Thresher.
the eyes of the public as a
result of action by a minor-
ity of the student body, and that
students, who in the future, par-
ticipate in any such activities are
subject to suspension or expul-
sion from the Institute.
Dean McBride, in discussing
the proposed policy with the
Thresher explained that it was
not definite yet, but that unless
somebody could offer an accept-
able alternative he felt tfcat it
would go into effect. In the past,
the administration has followed
no definite course of action of
holding students responsible for
their participation in riots, and
since it is quite likely that stu-
dents taking part in the future
will be suspended, the adminis-
tration has announced its policy
in advance in order to be fair to
«
the student body.
(Continued on Page 5)
Men Behind Rice
Lamar Fleming Asserts Rice
Is School To Train Leaders
By ALLEN BUTLER
Prominence in business, gov-'
ernment, and education is Lamar
Fleming's contribution to the
community, and service to Rice
Institute as a member of its
Board of Governors has been a
part of Fleming's work for Rice.
Mr. Fleming was born in Geor-
gia, but soon moved to New
York, where he lived for some
time. 'Later, he resided in Okla-
homa City, where .he became as-
sociated with Anderson Clayton,
Cotton Brokers, the firm of
which he is now Board Chairman.
When the company offices were
moved to Houston thirty-one
years ago, Mr. Fleming became
a Houstonian.
It is Mr. Fleming's belief that
Rice's new College System will
prove to be a great advantage to
future students, in that it will
better enable them to realize their
capabilities/ He cites his own
school, Harvard, as an example
of the advantages of a College
System. He attended Harvard
University, but did not receive a
degree, as he was forced to leave
school because of financial diffi-
culties.
Selective Schools
In M^ Fleming's opinion,
"There must be both types of
schools," the schools to train the
average citizens, and the schools
to develop leaders. Rice, afong
with Cal Tech and M.I.T., he con-
siders to be three of the most
selective schools in the country.
Today's emphasis on special-
ized training, Mr. Fleming de-
scribes as "indispensable and
wonderful," but it should not be
at the expense of the humanities.
They should be studied, in that
they will better enable one to live
successfully in his community.
One should study the humanities
not only to know, but to under-
stand, to realize "cause and ef-
fect," and the importance it has
played in human development.
"History is too often taught as
a" story" in which true signifi-
cance is ovei-looked. Mr. Fleming
is glad that Rice includes the
study of humanities for all stu-
dents in its curricula, and be-
lieves' that they will be helpful
after completion of college
He first became interested in
Mr. Lamar Fleming
Student Council
After Discussion
New Riot Proposal
Laid On The Table
By WALT SILVUS
The Student Council suddenly
adjourned Wednesday night with-
out taking a stand on the Mc-
Bride proposal for eliminating
riots. Some members rationalized
that they desired to talk to their
constituents about the proposal.
Some wanted more time to come
up with a better counter-propos-
al. The pertinent point is that the
Council failed to take action and
thus proved the supposition of
council member Steve Shapiro
that "We talk a? lot, but we don't
really do too much," that student
government does not really gov-
ern, but .merely does the dirty
work that nobody else wants to
do.
In debate some facetious coun-
ter-proposals were offered.
"Wrestling matches with the fac-
ulty; Beware of Students' signs
for the gates; dorms for women
on the campus with the accom-
panying pantie raids. In a more
serious vein, Murray wanted
more activities on campus to
counteract the restlessness of
students; Daviss wanted a new
police department policy on the
riots; Jordan was afraid that a
minority would be expelled for
the actions of the majority; he
said the solution for a violation
of the proposal was suspension
(Continued on Page 2)
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Architects Go
Roman In Feb.
A Roman world festival en-
titled "Millarium Aureum" will
be the theme of this year's Ar-
chi-Arts Ball, to be held Febru-
ary 18 in the Shamrock Hall of
Exhibits. Eight girls have been
chosen by the architects as hon-
orees, hut their names will not
be announced until February 10.
Houston bandleader Ed Gerlach
and7 his orchestra will furnish
the music for this Roman revel.
Tickets will be a new low of $4
per couple, announced publicity
chairman, Jack McGinty, and
those interested m^y start think-
ing about their costumes;
The architeects will, as usual,
design the costumes of the hon-
areos, and all costumes will rep-,
resent the theme, "the entire
works of Roman times." Others
can design their own, and those
an
mo aren't original can just wear
Rice due to personal friendships ' anv t0j?a.
with board members. When a va
cancy occurred, he was asked to
become a member of the board,
(Continued on Page 5)
Proceeds from the ball will be
used by the Architecture Society
for the William Ward Watkin
Tiavelling Fellowship.
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