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CHARLIE BROWNE
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Volume Forty-Six—Number 13
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1958
Delegates To
Attend SCONA
And SCUSA
Five students will represent
Rice at A.&M. and at West Point
within the next few days. Bob
Elster and Beate Schoeps are now
attending the 10th annual Stu-
dent Conference on U.S. Affairs
at the national military academy.
The conference, which began De-
cember 3, will end tomorrow, De-
cember 6.
Richard Betts, Thomas Whip-
ple, and Mae Fong C'Tol will go
to Bryan December 10-13 for
SCONA, the Student Conference
on National Affairs.
These conferences are centered
around the fact that the better
informed students of today will
be more responsible citizens of
tomorrow, and around the hope
that students who attend will go
back to their respective campus-s
and spread their interest to mem-
bers of their student bodies.
Tsanoff Accepts
U. of H. Position
Dr. Radislav A Tsanoff, pro-
fessor emeritus of the Rice phil-
osophy department who has been
on the Rice faculty for 45 years,
will join the faculty of the Uni-
versity of Houston next fall as
an M. D. Anderson professor.
Dr. Tsanoff has published
many important books, including
"Ways of Genius," "Moral Ideals
of Our Civilization," "Ethics,"
and "The Great Philosophers."
He is presently doing research
on social progress, and has been
president of the western division
of the American Philosophical
Association and president of the
Texas Folk-Lore Society.
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Photo by Van Orden
THIS IS HISTORY? This miscellaneous-looking group
is rehearsing a part of "The Follies of History" which is
set for December 11, 12, and 13 in Hamman Hall. In the
center are Neville Quarry and Izzy Williamson, Antony
and Cleopatra. Seated on the floor are Dr. Davies and Dr.
Nielsen, who are cast as professors.
'58 FOLLIES FURNISH
FROLLICKING FARCE
Center Opening
Still Indefinite
By BARRY MOORE
As the days slowly pass into weeks and the weeks into .
months, the question continually arises: What about the
Student Center that was supposed to open two weeks ago
from last Saturday afternoon, or whenever it was?
The latest word from Mr. John Kennedy, manager of
the Center is that "It looks
like we may not be able to
get into it officially until
after the Christmas holidays. It
might be sooner, and it might
not." The question hinges around
last-minute finishing jobs which
haven't quite been finished.
Today
By KATHERINE KELLEY
WORKING UP to an epic Rice
TV show-type pitch, this year's
Senior Follies is going to set a
record for originality. With a
score of songs varying from the
ribald to the naive and a cast
which integrates students and
faculty the plot is stuffed with
a set of rowdy situations.
According to Dr. Joseph I. Da-
vies, who, with Dr. Niels Nielsen
will attempt rather futilely to
moderate the farce, "This show
reflects some really arresting
ideas, ideas which don't come a
dime a dozen." These ideas have
been crystalized into a fast-mov-
ing two act production which will
appear in Hamman Auditorium
December 11, 12, and 13.
In the first ecstatic act the
play exposes the Antony-Cleo-
patra myth with remarkable in-
sight into the problems of clas-
sic lovemaking. The second scene
pursues the same theme but con-
fuses it in a medieval maze of
bedchamber politicking, orgiastic
COUNT 10,000 AND DUCK
LELAND ISN'T PLANNING
TO MAKE BOMBS WITH PILE
By ED SUMMERS
RICE INSTITUTE has come
into possession of the most awe-
some and mystifying of mechan-
ical doodads—a nuclear reactor,
or, as the medical-minded put it,
an atomic pile.
THIS MONSTER demon of the
super-scientists' chamber of ra-
dioactive horrors resides under
the floor of the den of its keeper
—Dr. Tom Leland, who, when he
is not performing his duties as a
non-resident associate master of
Jones College, is an assistant
professor of chemical engineer-
ing.
LARGE ATOMIC piles gener-
ate electricity by the millions of
watts, require the diversion of
entire rivers to cool them, arid
produce bucketfuls of plutonium,
which with a little ingenuity can
be made into atomic bombs.
THE RICE atomic pile, how-
ever, is adequately cooled by the
several hundred gallons of blu-
ish water which also serve as its
shielding, generates when run-
ning lickety-split top speed fif-
teen watts of power, and makes
enough plutonium for Dr. Leland
to put together one atomic bomb
maybe every ten thousand years
or so.
BECAUSE THE reactor core
itself sits under water, the whole
thing is known as a "swimming-
-pool reactor." Aquatic acrobatics
among the fuel elements arte,
however, not strongly recom-
mended.
The fuel itself has not yet ar-
rived and is not expected for
several weeks. About two pounds
of uranium-235, which is fission-
able, Will be required to start the
pile up. This is very close to the
minimum "critical" mass re-
quired for a nuclear explosion.
The critical mass for a bomb is
thought to be about 2.2 pounds
of uranium-235.
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partying and spastic jousting.
The cast includes Beverly
Montgomery, Terry Koonce, Izzy
Williamson, Neville Quarry, Har-
vin Moore, Ann Bartlett, Skippy
Johnson, and Deanna Day in key
roles.
To placate the outraged tra-
ditionalists, the Follies commit-
tee is going to cough up enough
cash for a cast party. Hoping
that no one will attend and drink
up the profits, the place and
time are being held a profound
secret.
Tickets will range
from $1 for Thursday
$2 for Saturday, which
to
i n price
night to
will also
the all-
provide an entree
school dance in the new Student
Center after the last perform-
ance.
Rice Debate Team
In SWC Tourney
Two teams representing the
Rice debate society will be in
Waco, today and tomorrow, par-
ticipating in the annual South-
west Conference Debate Tour-
nament. Neal Anderson and Har-
ry Reasoner, and Gerald Dansby
and Charles Parnell will carry
Blue and Gray colors into the
meet.
Two weeks-ago Anderson and
Reasoner compiled a 5-1 mai'k
to finish third in the A&M tour-
nament. Dansby and Parnell like-
wise had a 5- lmark but a lower
speaker rating. In the junior di-
vision John Wolf and Gary Webb
posted a 4-2 mark. Other teams
attending were Jack Aldrich and
GTegg Edwards, and Melanie
Maxted and Susan Briggs.
Upcoming tournaments include
the Baylor, TCU, SMU and Tu-
lane sponsored meets. Teams ex-
pected to attend one or more of
the meets besides those twosomes
placing at A&M ai-e Joel Rosen-
thal and Buddy Herz, John Shan-
blum and Gale Rommel, Maxted
and Garnet Brown, and Briggs
and Elta Kay Waltemire.
Polls Are Open
For Frosh
Class Elections
The freshmen elect class offi-
cers today, December 5. The
polls, located near Anderson Hall
and the chemistry lecture hall,
will be open until 1 pm.
Having wound up their cam-
paigns yesterday with speeches
after lunch, the following fresh-
men have made theif' bids for of-
fices:
Candidates for president are
Jim Fox, Charles Giraud, and
Judd Stiff.
For vice-president are Mary
Ann Calkins, Elizabeth Downs,
Pat Jones, and Suzy Rhodes.
Running- for secretary-treas-
urer are Nancy Bullard, Ronnie
Marshall, Syd Nathans, and Mer-
ton Young.
Seeking the two Student Coun-
cil posts are Barry Moore, Mary
Milbank, and Dick Viebig.
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Chorus To Sing
On TV Show Soon
The Rice Mixed Chorus, led by
Dr. Hall of the Music Depart-
ment, will present a program of
French and English traditional
Christmas carols on Channel 13,
December 7 at 2 pm.
The chorus will be accompan-
ied in two numbers by the newly-
formed Chamber Orchestra. This
group had aspirations of being
an orchestra at the beginning of
the year, but present membership
is not large enough for a full
orchestra. They will also do a
solo number.
Student chairman of the 24-
member chorus is Fred Cracke.
Mr. Kennedy stated that the
keys to the building, in the hands
of the contractor, stil! have not
even been turned over to the Rice
Institute. lie also stated that
even if the building were open,
there would be, at this time no
one there to be around all the
time.
The Rice Associate's Dinner,
held in the Center Wednesday,
was a catered affair because the
kitchen, facilities are not yet
ready for use.
Other scheduled events in the
building, such as the Follies
dance on December 13 and the
Colleges' Christmas party on De-
cember 19, will probably but not
definitely be held in the Center,
but students will not be able to
move into it permanently until
all the work in the interior has
been completely finished.
WILLIAMS PLANS
COLLEGE TALK
Professor George Williams of
the English department will de-
liver next week's College Lec-
ture at 6:45_pm Tuesday in the
Will Rice College commons.
Mr. Williams, who is the auth-
or of the book, "Some of My
Best Friends Are Professors,"
will speak on "Some of My Best
Friends Are Students."
AT THE COUNCIL
TO SING OR NOT TO SING
WAS DOUBTFUL QUESTION
By LESLIE ARNOLD
MUCH DISCUSSION Wednes-
day night at the Student Council
centered around the singing of
the "To hell with A&M!" song.
Huff invited members of the
Council to comment on a letter
from an alumnus in Pasadena.
IN THE letter the man had
stated in a very nice way that
he felt that the song was not
a credit to the Institute. Moore
pointed out that other schools
use the same song with words
appropriate for the opponent of
the day.
IT WAS also mentioned that
the language of this song was
mild compared to the language
used in other school rivalries,
such as LSU-Tulane and Mis-
sissippi State-Mississippi. Green-
berg moved that the Council dis-
courage the "To hell" song at all
times.
THE MOTION failed 10-9.
Hoffman pointed out that the
problem really won't confront
this year's Council again, that it
won't come up until next fall's
football season. More discussion
followed.
THE COUNCIL decided to re-
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