The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1958 Page: 4 of 10
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THE THRBSHER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1958
Class Vs. College
The Campanile's reported new policy of arranging
student pictures by colleges, rather than by classes,
points to a larger area of conflict than mere yearbook
policy preferences.
It boils down to: Do you first consider yourself a
member of your class or a member of your college?
Insofar as the Campanile pictures are concerned,
we heartily favor retaining the old system of pictures
by classes.
Present upperclassmen have enjoyed only one year
under the College System and have a feeling of com-
munity with the people they have been with for four
years.
Seniors graduate as a class, not as a college, and
therefore they should be so portrayed in the record of
their senior achievements.
It is entirely possible that in future years—when
college-consciousness has become more widespread—
that college categorization would be desirable. But for
the present, we believe the majority of students would
like to appear in their class group in the Campanile.
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Another Conflict
Another instance of college-class conflict cropped
up at the Student Council meeting Wednesday night.
Several Council members advocated holding col-
lege elections on the same day as the general S.A. and
class elections. As they said, many masters believe that
when college elections are held after general elections,
1 he colleges get only the "left-over" office holders.
We believe this argument has little merit.
If elections for both types of office were held
simultaneously, it seems clear that the ablest student
leaders would run for S.A. offices—since they are all-
school offices with more prestige. That would force
candidates to choose between the college and any other
office.
But if college elections were held latei;, capable
leaders who were defeated for all-school posts would
then be free to run for college offices.
It seems clear to us that holding elections separ-
ately would give the colleges a wider base of qualified
candidates than any other system.
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Why No Girls ?
Who, we would like to know, was responsible for
the election by-law which reads: "Of the four yell
leaders elected, at least two shall be boys" ?
We were fortunate in last year's election to pull
through with one girl to grace the sidelines at our foot-
ball games. But as the election rules read, we might
very well have sent four male specimens out to yell for
the gray and blue. In fact, in the past, Rice has fre-
quently wound up with nary a girl on its cheerleading
squad.
Not that,we wish to disparage our very fine male
cheerleaders, but we wonder why no provisions are
made to assure us of girls, as well as of boys. Surely
no able-bodied Rice man will deny that the sight of a
couple of pretty girls is a mighty inspiring sight on
the sidelines.
Therefore, be it highly and most definitely re-
solved that the election code be revised to guarantee
two boys and two girls as cheerleaders.
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THRE
The Rice Thresher, written and edited by students of the Rice Institute,
« published weekly in Houston, except 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.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press.
JIM BERXHARD
Editor
GINGER PURINGTON
Assistant Editor
FRED ERISMAN
Managing Editor
STEVE WILLIAMS
Business Manager
BILL LANDFIELD
Assistant Bus. Mgr.
MIKE REYNOLDS
News Editor
THRESHING
IT OUT
AU letters must be signed. Keep
s abort as possible. The Threahe
them
as short as possible. Tile inresher re-
serve* the right to edit all letters.
Peanuts... by Mib
i • \ M I 's
Dent and Coney
- No Guts?
Fie, fie on you, Dent and
Coney. Have you no belligerence?
Just because the current anti-
DC, roly-poly, cigar-s m o k i n g
editor is crucifying you, does this
mean you are just going to stand
around and evaporate ?
Quitting?
Just because your column is
trite, insignificant, and barfy,
does this mean that you are just
quitting? You mean you are go-
ing to disappoint millions of Rice
students who eagerly look for-
ward every week to your adult-
erated, retchy garble?
Admittedly, numerous other
activities leave little time to dash
off filthy college gobbledygook.
But you must think of your
public.
Millions Clamor
WEIile millions clamor to see
you at the glorious Rice Follies,
at the EB Melodrama, and while
more millions await the coming
PALSY walsy production of
yours, there are still other mil-
lions who cannot live without
their weekly Dent and Coney.
It is narcotic to them.
It is realized that the lits are
your life blood and that the
Thresher is only an avocation
with you. But don't be selfish.
Let everyone have a bit of you.
New Lit
I am sure that you will be
pleased to hear that the three
independents on campus are peti-
tioning to form a new literary
society. The DCLS.
They will meet to read back
issues of the Thresher and
breathe your columns in deeply.
Such devotion! Can you let them
down ?
Roly-Poly Edicts
The edicts from the roly-poly,
cigar smoking, monarchic, pre-
judiced editor should only have
inspired you to greater and
greater depths.
Again, fie, fie on you, No Guts
Dent and Coney.
A DISINTERESTED PARTY
(Name withheld by request)
BO/, I GOTTA
CUT THIS OUT..
TWOSE COLD SNOWBALLS MAKE
W SOLD FILLINGS ACME!
Peanuts is a regular feature of The Houston Press.
SEASONED WITH GINGER
Run For Cover— Of The
Paperbacks, That Is
By GINGER PURINGTON
Ws have done a courageous thing. In broad daylight, we
walked into the Co-op and stood in front of the sex and
Spillane shelf. At the risk of being labeled a clod, a slob
or (even worse) a snarb, we actually stood there and read the titles
and looked at the cover pictures.
When you go into the Co-op you are supposed to carefully ig-
nore the said shelf and try to look as if you came in to buy some-
thing like Swami Prabhavananda's "The Upanishads."
I
Cm our best anti-Renaissance-and-Music-Room manner, we
risked intellectual ostracism to examine the said bc^Pls.
There is just one thing wrong with them. The cover pic-
tures don't fit the titles.
"Hatful of Rain" has a picture of Don Murray rolling up his
sleeve as if he were waiting fearfully for the doctor to give him a
polio shot. Nowhere on the cover are there any hats or even any
rain.
Spillane's "The Long Wait" has a picture of a bedraggled blonde
in a torn blouse who seems tired of waiting. She is looking over her
bedraggled shoulder at a man (also torn and bedraggled) who is tied
to a chair. He looks like he wants to'be left alone.
c
(at Man" has another blonde in a torn blouse who is looking
reproachfully at a man in a torn T-shirt. He is trying
to bite her leg.
"Find My Killer" shows still another bedraggled blonde in a
nightgown. She is about to be shot by a disembodied hand holding
a gun. She looks afraid.
The one that really confused us was "Death in the Fifth Posi-
tion." It has a picture of a girl in what seems to be part of a night-
gown. She is lying on a table, and looks anything but dead.
The same girl may have posed for the cover of "On Life and
Sex" but you can't be sure because you can't'see her nightgown.
All you can see is a pair of eyes peering over a poster advertising
sex in big white letters.
te only book in the lot (we wonder how it got mixed in)
which has a related title and cover-picture is "The Handy
Book of Gardening." It has pictures of flowerpots on the
title page. No doubt there is a deep symbolic significance behind
this mixture of gardening, sex and murder, but we leave our readers
(such as they are) to figure it out.
Lines Intended 7o
Create Political Unrest
By WESLEY HEIGHT
And as for Statesmen, we've a world full now,
Some exiled, some worn out, some like the French,
Who have an overplus who all Know how:
And then there's revolution in a pinch:
The South Americans change from barge to scow;
And then we've got our pulley and our winch
In that great Brinkster at decisive gullies,
The last Grand Canyon suite of statesmen—Dulles.
I am confpsed in limning him, I fear,
Since he makes many sounds and many signs,
Attempting to approach both eye and ear:
The truth is, he resounds and he designs:
And is the most concerted when most near
The edge of doom, where he has raised his shrines:
The God of Precipice, the Prince of Plunge,
And that deft sky-god known to all as Lunge.
And hence the definite theologic twist
That hallows all our dealings any where:
His humble faith hangs like a fairy mist,
And everywhere there is the sense of prayer,
Upon, within, throughout, his global grist:
For all the time our Priest of Punch is there,
Active to show he did not come to hedge,
With one foot in his mouth, one on the edge.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1958, newspaper, February 28, 1958; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231080/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.