The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1958 Page: 4 of 10
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THB THRESHER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, IMS
A Real Student Center?
Momentum is gaining among the students in a
drive to incorporate a few recreational facilities into
the new Student Memorial Center, scheduled for com-
pletion in November, 1958.
According to our reports, the architect's plans are
so designed that a number of these .features could be
incorporated into presently unallocated basement space.
The gaping hole in the ground on the SMC site looks
suspiciously like a basement—and there can be few bet-
ter uses for a basement than a bowling alley, billiard
and ping pong tables, and other features which could
provide the weary Rice student a few moments of re-
laxation.
Wednesday night, College representatives at the
Student Council meeting refuted the fears that such
recreational features in the SMC would infringe on the
Colleges' social role. As one member put it: "We
couldn't afford a bowling alley in our college, anyway."
Since students will be paying a SMC fee some-
where in the neighborhood of $10 a year, it would
seem just that a few of the luxuries of student life
should be provided.
Our watchword: "The Student Center for the Stu-
dents !"
77ie Mob
The Student Council proposed Wednesday night
two Constitutional Amendments of extreme import-
ance: one to give the Inter-College Council Constitu-
tional status, and the other to remove some restrictions
on a candidate for Student Memorial Center chairman.
There's only one hitch.
These amendments require approval of % of the
student body in the spring election.
In an earlier election this year—on Honor Council
amendments—the Rice electorate displayed its junior
high schoolish inadequacy to vote intelligently on cam-
pus issues.
It was not that students rationally decided against
the obviously desirable Honor Council amendments.
They had perfectly childish and irresponsible reasons
for voting against all the amendments as they did.
They didn't "have time" to read the proposals,
they didn't understand them, or, like veritable jack-
asses, they voted "no" just to foul up something.
It is to be hoped that when these two amendments
come before the student body, the Rice voters will have
matured enough to exercise rational judgment — to
vote intelligently one way or the other.
Rice Book Tells
Tale Of 6939
Time Capsule
By ANN DAVIS
Features Editor
People may worry now about
harmful, radiation-caused gene-
tic changes or about the problem
of an all-out nuclear war which
could possibly destroy the world,
but in 1939 one group, at least,
was far more optimistic.
The record of this optimism
can be found in "The Time Cap-
sule," a book found in Fondren's
Rare Book Room that tells of
the time capsule planted by West-
inghouse fifty feet underground
at the New York World's Fair
Grounds.
This capsule is supposed to
be opened in 6939 A.D.
Combs and Cosmetics
This time capsule, made of a
copper alloy, contains data about
our civilization, with the empha-
sis on the present. Since arche-
ology can establish many of the
material aspects of a civilization,
the group at Westinghouse want-
ed to supply a glimpse of cultural
life with films, novels, newspa-
pers, pictures and everyday ar-
ticles like combs, razors, cosme-
tics.
The book itself is more in-
teresting to our time than the
capsule, for it contains the exact
date the capsule was deposited in
terms of major, modern calendri-
cal systems and heliocentric lon-
gitudes, the exact place in terms
of geographical location and geo-
detic coordinates.
Mann and Einstein
The proper methods of exca-
vating, cleaning and opening the
capsule are given in great detail
—so that one has the feeling that
the writers were more certain of
someone's finding' the book than
they were of the discovery of the
capsule itself. This idea is
strengthened by the messages at
the end of the book to the people
of the future from R. A. Milli-
(Continued on Page 8)
Co-eds: Yes Or No?
A Syracuse University journalism professor has
recently aroused considerable uproar and rallied some
noted support in his thesis that most women don'flHte-
long in college.
The professor reasons that men have more de-
manding needs for college education than women, and
that most co-eds waste their college experience in later
life. Since colleges will be packed to the scuppers in
coming years, his c<5hclusion is: exercise much greater
selectivity in choosing co-eds in order to cut down the
number of women students.
There is certainly some merit in this argument.
A case in point is The Rice Institute. Women
candidates for admission here are screened more close-
ly than at perhaps any other university in the United
States. And still we have those who traipse gaily
through four years, get married, and immediately
abandon college-acquired interests in anything except
bridge parties and social affairs. That is a waste of
educational facilities.
We agree with the Syracuse professor that two
years at a good liberal arts junior college would be
quite enough for 90% of present women college stu-
dents. Even that is too much for some.
We only hope this women's junior college would
be located a few blocks from the Institute.
What Should
Be In The New
Student Center?
The Student Council, in an
effort to determine student
opinion on the recreational fa-
cilities in the new student cen-
ter, is conducting a survey.
When conclusive results are
obtained, efforts will be exert-
ed to get what the students
want in the, student's building.
Please fill in the following
foTm and deposit in the ballot
boxes in the "lounge or Ander-
'son Hall by Saturday. Your
co-operation will make a bet-
ter student center.
It is obvious that there will
not be space for all the pro-
posed facilities, so exercise
discrimination in selecting the
activities you want.
I FAVOR THE FOLLOWING
FACILITIES IN THE STU-
DENT MEMORIAL CENTER:
(Please check)
Billiard tables
Bowling alley
Ping Pong tables
Barber Shop *
TV Set .
Juke box
Sound system
(piped music)
Piano
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SEASONED WITH GINGER
You've Got To Get
Earp In The Morning
By GINGER PURINGTON
Rice is really academically secluded. Why didn't we get time
off to see the fabulous Fat Stock Show Parade and Wyatt
Earp? All the children in tht public schools had a holi-
day Wednesday, but did anybody around here get to go? In the
World Outside the Hedges and Staff Parking Lots, people are Going
Texan and looking at Fat Stock.
We haven't seen a single Stetson hat or string tie on campus—
much less a Wyatt Earp badge. People around this campus don't go
Texan, they go Rice. What's the matter with us, anyway? Do we
want people to think we're anti-Texan? What will Wyatt Earp
think of us ? We don't even watch him on television. Who knows the
words to the Wyatt Earp Song? For the benefit of those who would
like to know this great old western ballad, we reprint it here:
♦ # #
O, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp!
(fortissimo, with much feeling)
Brave, courageous and bold! Long live his fame,
And long live his glory!
(pianissimo, with reverence)
And long may his story be told.
We regret that typographical limitations prevent printing the
musical score of this work.
Back to the Fat Stock Show and the True Texans. We urge
everyone to participate in this Great Event. Not only do
you get to see all the Fat Stock, but you can see the
World Championship Rodeo, (Thrills! Excitement! Spills! Popcorn
thrown down your back by the little boy behind you!) Besides all
this, you can buy genuine authentic souvenirs of Texas, the Rodeo,
Wyatt Earp, and the Fat Stock.
* * *
V ou can get pictures, statuettes, and toy horses with legs
that really move. Now who wouldn't like to have a pen-
nant with WYATT EARP in big bright letters to hang on his wall?
If all this hasn't convinced you that you should see the Show,
you have only to go to Bill Williams and look at the nice souvenirs
on the walls. Bill Williams buys Fat Stock and hangs their heads
on the walls to stare at you with reproachful eyes while you eat
your hamburger.
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THRE
The Rice Thresher, written and edited by students of the Rice Institute,
m published weekly in Houston, ex"cept in the summer, during holidays, and
in examination weeks. The views expressed are those of the student writers
and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the administration of the Rice
Institute.
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JIM BERNHARD ' STEVE WILLIAMS
Editor Business Manager
GINGER PURINGTON BILL LANDFIELD
Assistant Editor Assistant Bus. Mgr.
FRED ERISMAN MIKE REYNOLDS
Managing Editor News Editor
Department Editors
Jim Bower and Bob Malinak Sports
Ann M. Davis * Faatnws
Mare Smith Drama
MargU Moore Society
Tom Gady Student Counoi
Phil Barber Polittoa
Don Payne — Colli—
Frank Van Orden Chief Photograph*
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