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Charity Drive
Contributions
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Volume Forty-Three—Number 26
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956
Debaters Win
SWC Meet; To
Go To Atlanta
Rice's debaters won the over-
all team championship at the
Southwest Conference Tourna-
ment here last Friday and Satur-
day, as Rex Martin and Roy Hof-
heinz were undefeated (5-0) and
won the negative argument tro-
phy, while Al Beerman and Joe
Steele tied for top affirmative
honors with Texas and Baylor,
with a 3-2 record. The affirm-
ative trophy was awarded to the
Texas team of Irvin Devore and
Myer Witt on the basis of their
speaking rating score.
All the SWC schools except
Arkansas participated in the
meet, each school entering af-
firmative and negative teams on
the topic of the Guaranteed An-
nual Wage. The tourney was con-
ducted on a round robin basis,
with Rice having a winning score
of 8-2; Texas and Baylor tying
for second with 7-3 each.
The Forensic Society's next
trip will be to Atlanta, Ga., on
April 20-21, where they will de-
bate Southeastern Conference
schools. Those making the trip
will be: Martin, Hofheinz, Beer-
man, Steele, Jim Bernhard, and
Graham Campbell. The team will
leave here by plane Thursday
night, April 19th;
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Dr. Durst Elected
UgIy°Man of 1956
At Charity Dance
Biology Building
To Be Announced
According to rumors circulating the campus early this
week, plans for the much discussed, long awaited, biology
I building are to be announced within the next few days.
| While the Thresher was unable to obtain an official com-
ment from the biology department, the building is sup-
posed to be built on the sta-
Ronnie Flinn, chairman of the Charity Drive, checks over re-
ceipts with Johnny Joiner. Collections for the drive were made Tues-
day and Wednesday mornings.
CHARITY DRIVE
SHORT OF GOAL
Student contributions to the
Charity Drive for the Light-
house for the Blind totaled only
$472.65 Wednesday night, after
the drive had been in progress
for two days and representatives
Student Council previously con-
sidered sending Rice's charity
contribution to Africa to help
prevent the spread of Commu-
nism by educating African stu-
Dr. Lincoln Durst was pro-
claimed the Ugly Man of 19&
for Rice Institute at the j^PO
charity dance held Saturday
night. He intends to auction off
his Stetson hat, which was his
prize for receiving this great hon-
or. He will then donate hisinoney
to the charity drive.
A grand total of $8.69 was
made by the contest for the drive.
Lots of dances were sold Sat-
urday night. And lots of pies
were thrown at those generous
people who so unselfishly donated
their sSrvices and their faces. A
price of 5c was charged to dance
with a girl and 75c to throw a pie.
The APO made $40.00 from the
dance after expenses were paid,
all of which will go to charity.
dium side of the chemistry
building somewhat closer to
Rice Blvd. than the chemis-
try lecture hall.
Reports indicate that the build-
ing will be a part of the Biology -
Geology group, consisting of the
biology department, the geology
building, and an auditorium. The
geology building will be almost
in line with the biology struc-
ture, and will be closer to Rice
Blvd; the auditorium is slated to
be built where the new chem
parking lot is now located.
The donor of the building, re-
puted to be a long-standing
friend of Rice Institute, has not
been announced as yet.
The biology building is a part
of the current building program
which will see fourteen new cam-
pus building's erected in the near
future including three men's dor-
mitories now under construction
along with master's houses and
enlargement of dining facilities.
Future construction contemplates
a Memorial Student Center on
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Little Nell *
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Houston Symphony
3
Exposition Plans
4
Threshing it out
5
Sigma Tau
6
Rush Rules
6
Interposition
7
Homecoming Changed
8
Rondelet Escorts
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dents, but the Council finally
had asked for donations in the voted in favor of usinjr the money
9 and 10 o'clock classes Tuesday j for a local charity. _
and Wednesday mornings. No official action had been
Charity Drive chairman Ronnie ■ taken to extend the time limit the A-House road near Cohen
Flinn said Wednesday, "We're 1 for the drive, but indications j House, Women's Dormitories,
disappointed tha# students as a ! were that more time would be 1 the geology building, and the au-
whole didn't give more than 30 ; needed to reach the goal. ditonum.
cents apiece." Contributions from i - -
the various student organizations Men Behind Rice
had not all been received. The
following contributions were re-
corded: Student Council—$200.00,
Rally Club—$16.69, Senior Class
—$25.00, C.R.L.S.—$25.00, Jun-
ior Class — $25.00, P.A.L.S. —
$15.00. Donations from students
and student organizations total-
ed $779.34. In the past, organiza-
tion contributions alone have av-
erged $1000.00.
Oil Hunter Robert Rav Was
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Varsity Athlete, Letterman
ning an independent exploration
company and formed the very
By Brucc Montgomery After several years of securi-
Robei't Ray directs a world i ty as head of the Stanolind Com-
wide search for new oil reserves j panv's gravity exploration de-
The original deadline for the j from a modest office building! partment, Mr. Ray again leaped
Charity Drive had been set as , just a fevv ghort blocks from the i into the hectic business of run-
Saturday noon, April 14, but the ; Rjce institute camous. The loca-
$2000 goal was far from being j ti0n of the Robert H. Ray Co.
reached with the money received j js appropriate, for Mr. Ray has
thus far. j been activelv interested in Rice
The money from the Drive will j since he entered as a freshman
go to the Houston Lighthouse for jn J921
the Blind, where it will be used ; His Rice career is an impres_
to educate blind children. The , siv<> 6ne for even thouf?h he ma_
jored in Mechanical Engineering,
Four Students To
Talk Segregation
At Forum April 19
Thursday evening, April 19, at
eight o'clock, the Rice Forum will
present a discussion of a contro-
versial and interesting topic—
segregation.
Forum Committee Chairman,
Bob Saldich, has consented "to
moderate this explosive Forum,
which should scorch the Lecture
Lounge drapes.
John Chambless, Jr., philoso-
phy major, and Rex Martin, Jr.,
history major, will explain their
reasons for opposing segregation
while Clif Carl, Jr. history major,
will defend segregation and ar-
gue against integration.
Mr. Ray earned eight varsity
lettprs; two in baseball, three in
football and three in basketball.
He was elected captain of the
Rice basketball squad in 1925
and served on the Student Coun-
cil three times.
A star athlete in the days be-
fore athletic scholarships, Mr.
Ray was awarded the impres-
sive-title of Field House Watch?
man and given a free bed in the
equipment room of the old field-
house.
Class of '25
Graduating in 1925, Robert
Ray went to work for Humble
Oil Company's first Seismograph
Crew and found the search for
oil so fascinating that in 1928
he and Jack Pollard formed the
Coastal Oil Finding Co.
ROBERT H\RAY
successful Robert H. Ray Co. in
1939.
Mr. Ray married Collette Lake,
a girl from Rosenberg, his home
town.
tyhen asked what prompted
him to choose to enter Rice, Riay
replied, "Why, I always wanted
to go to Rice — it had the best
engineering courses and I knew
some Rice track men that I'd
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Student Council
Riot Reports,
Party, Lounge
Take Up Time
By Oscar Teegerstrom
A festive spirit pervaded the
Council Wednesday evening. The
happy legislators discussed the
riot committee, student rating-
sheets and their party.v
John Zimmerman, a member o£,
the riot committee, presented
their tentative plans. A flexible
system under student control is
envisioned. The inter-house com-
mittee under the new college sys-
tem will be the governing body
in the event of a riot and, will
make recommendations to the
Dean in the event of violation of
riot rules. If a riot occurs, the
Presidents of the colleges will
be responsible for breaking them
up.
The first riot under the new
rules will be the crucial one since
it will set a precedent. Any dam-
age for a riot will be collected
from the collegers. Punishment
will be either probation or sus-
pension depending upon the judg-
ment of the inter-house commit-
tee.
Bob Smouse was elected by the
Council to fill the Class B grad-
uate position on the Honor Coun-
cil.
Weldon's will furnish the box
lunches for the Council party at
85 cents a box. This was decided
by a vote.
The rating sheets were printed
at the Council's expense at a cost
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Cal TechProfTo
Speak Tonight In
C. Lecture Hall
Tonight at 8:00 p.m. the Rice
chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon,
honorary chemical society, is
sponsoring as its annual guest
speaker, Dr. Norman Davidson,
noted inorganic chemist and Pro-
fessor of Chemistry at the Cali-
fornia Institute of Technology.
He will speak on "Shock Waves,
Flash Lamps, and Fast Reac-
tions."
A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. David-
son received his B.S. degree from
Oxford in 1939 and his PhD from
the University of Chicago in
1941. He has done research at
several leading universities and
for R.C.A. and is at present a
consultant for Naval Ordnance
and the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion. The public is cordially in-
vited to hear Dr. Davidson speak
in the Chemistry Lecture Hall.
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