The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1956 Page: 3 of 10
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1956
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THE THRESHER
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People Are No Damn Good
EXCEPT BELL. KATZ, VELTMAN AND WEAVER
BARF! How to be completely
repulsed by this school: The sit-
uation is so bad that upon phon-
ing one semi-girl for possible
date to the Baylor game and be-
ing casually informed that there
is no chance until Rondelet, 1969,
we screamed madly for three
hours then drowned troubles in
dilligent study . . .. Hear that
Rally Club is not going in for
rowdy functions this year, will
hold a Mother's Day Tea in the
spring instead . . . Began to feel
inebriated after fourth glass of
water at recent social blast, that
water is really wicked .. . A vis-
iting fireman from Des Moines
was heard to remark about a pink
elephant seen recently on campus,
"He is almost as cute as Jack
Throckmorton."
NOBODY IS TALKING
ABOUT . . . the roadblock . . .
Robert Sylvester says: The best
way to file your nails is under
the letter N . . . The best way
for UH to draw 70,000 football
fans at Rice Stadium is with an
artist.
SEEN at a big party were
T.S., B.S., and C.S. . . Am re-
pulsed by green-headed sheep
that still continue saying "Good
Morning, sir." . . . Latest book
seen in Fondren Library: HOW
A RICE GIRL IS MADE . . .Bob-
bie adds, the best way to tell
time by the sun is to ..shade your
eyes from the sun while you look
at your watch . . . Bee,v will def-
initely not be served at Junior
Sock Hop tomorrow night .. .
And Rush continues on . . . and
on . . . and on . . . and on . . .
etc,, ad infinitum, ad nauseum,
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something funny and we collaps-
ed on floor ... were revived when
a fifth of gin was waved under
the nose . . . Fianlly got to bed
about 5 and have long since re-
covered fully ... Typical Rice ef-
ficiency.
BOB SAYS: The best way to
listen to Elvis Presley is to
pull your own sideburns over
your ears. . . IBM goes wild . . .
50 junior engineers evade Dirty
Durst for two weeks. . . machine
repents . . . now 80 people jab
each other in the navels while
taking notes ... A toast to the
registrar. . .And finally R.S. says
The best way to see films at a
drive-in theater is to watch the
people in nearby_.cars. . .
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Heyden To Speak
To Engineers
The Engineering Society will
have as a speaker at its next
meeting Mr. Jack Heyden, who
is a Rice graduate in engineer-
ing and a patent attorney. This
meeting will be held in the Fon-
dren Library Lecture Lounge on
Wednesday, October 10.
The officers for this year are
Bob Bradbury, President; Bob
Griffin, Vice-President; Bill Ful-
kerson, secretary; and Ben Har-
vey, treasurer.
The club has announced that,
the Engineering Dance will be j
held this year on Saturday, De- i
cember 1, at the Downtown Elks
Club.
COUNCIL...
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present waste-paper baskets. Fri
said rather than have the large
drums, that we needed a lot of
little ones (cans) — "then the
people won't even have to get out
of their chairs to hit the can."
Wes considered the problem of
emptying the large drums—"it
might be too hard on Hank/'
(Hank is our new lounge jan-
itor). Hank, who was cleaning up
the lounge at the time, was sum-
moned ... he came in, pulling
his garbage cans behind him . . .
stating that the lounge does get
pretty messy . . . then rolled on
his way ... to the central gar-
bage dump. The council decided
to place several large red drums
in the lounge to encourage people
to throw away their trash—in
these drums.
Gissel reported that the Stu-
dent Body's duplicator was "per-
petually" in need of repair ... he
wanted to replace it with a spirit
duplicator. Once again Shapiro
questioned finances—a commit-
tee was appointed to look into the
problem of a new duplicator. . .
The budget was approved. . .
meeting adjourned ... we hur-
ried out cuz we wanted to hear
Sir John tew.
other-wise
BY MARGIE WISE
Traffic! Now that registration
is over and classes have begun,
the number one problem on al-
most every college campus is
traffic. The lack of parking space
is probably the primary com-
plaint. At Baylor there are over
2,000 cars and parking accomo-
dations for only 1,022 cars. Even
the Math professor can't figure
a way out of this.
Lamar Tech. has published a
new set of traffic regulations
and is employing a new set of en-
forcing personnel. At the Mis-
souri School of Mines there were
so many parking tickets the first
week that it was decided that
these would be considered as
warnings. At Texas the problem
is so great that only upperclass-
men may drive cars on the camp-
us. Traffic—the headache of pro-
gress!
Big-Little
The Big-Little Sister program,
long a part of Rice tradition, is
also part of North Texas State
tradition. Here, the upperclass
girls officially "adopt" their
freshman little sisters in a can-
dlelight ceremony. This is the
token of pledging help to the
freshmen throughout their first
year.
Freshman Guidance, a much
debated custom of the Institute,
has been praised by Texas Tech.
Tech students report that fresh-
man traditions are almost non-
existant on their campus. They
say, "We have a long row to
hoe -before our freshman program
is on the same level with such
schools as , , and Rice."
Women have been liberated at
T.U.! It's true—the usual 8:30
curfew on four nights for fresh-
man girls has been dropped. The
Dean of Women explained the
dropping of the curfew by point-
out the "satisfactory scholastic
average of university women."
P.S. Instead of reviewing local
movies the Tulane student news-
paper reviews the French quar-
ter establishments. There is a
reason—New Orleans, of course.
t« TWB
GOT UP at 5 a.m. Wednesday
to begin vigil trying to get pic-
ture taken for annual . . . there
were already fifteen ahead but
luckily got there before the 6
o'clock rush . . . One crew of
juniors had a keg of beer set up
in a loungey area in the Exam
Room and we partied with var-
ious toasts and oaths until the
picture taker arrived ... By 11
the keg was practically gone and
we sent out for replacements . . .
At 1 p.m. had almost made it to
inner room where hallowed do-
ings were being done behind the
Brown Door. Most of the orig-
inal crew were out, literally, and
by 3 made it to the posing stool.
. . . The photographer mumbled
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A Campus-to-Career Case History
v III
Roger Lindblom (left) discussing a construction job with J. R. Young. IFire Chief of Huron. S.f).
"I'm learning more every day—and like it"
Roger Lindblom. B.S. in General Engi-
neering, Iowa State College, '49, is Itodav
District Plant Superintendent for the
11,000 square miles of the Huron, South
Dakota, district.
"The openings are there,says Roger,
"and the telephone company trains you
to fill them. I joined Northwestern Bell
in 1950 and spent one year learning pole
line and cable construction. This, plus
short periods in other departments, gave
me a good telephone background.
"My experience really grew when I
became an installer-repairman, then a
construction crew foreman, and, in 1952.
Wire Chief at South Sioux City, Ne-
braska. There I was responsible for the
3500 dial phones that served the tow*.
In March of 1954 1 w ent to Grand Island,
Nebraska, to help supervise dial conver-
sion projects in that district. Everything
I'd learned to date came in handy on
that job.
"A year later I went to Omaha on a
staff assignment, and in March. 1956, I
moved up to my present position.
"I head a group responsible for install-
ing and maintaining Plant equipment in
the Huron district. We supervise ordering
and distributing supplies, and I'm re-
sponsible for personnel and employment.
I work with other department heads in
the administration of our district.
"Each assignment I've had has been
broader than the last, and believe me, the
more I learn, the better I like it."
Roger Lindblom is one of many young men who
are finding rewarding careers in Bell Telephone
Companies, Bell Telephone Laboratories, West*
era Electric and Sandia Corporation. See your
placement officer for more information on career
opportunities in the Bell Telephone System.
T*i*phon*
System
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