The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1958 Page: 3 of 6
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THE THRESHER
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LAST PROSE OF SUMMERS
Tin Cans Won't
Replace Wild Ducks
BY ED SUMMERS
Ever been hunting? Like most
Houstonians, we just assumed
everyone went hunting; we have
been informed, however, that a
1st of people who are from out
of town at Rice either do not
hunt or have not hunted in a long
time.
We are, of course, talking
about game hunting. We are
aware of another kind of hunt-
ing participated in by most all
Rice people, with widely varying
(usually from bad to worse) de-
grees of success.
Mud Hens and Tin Cans
Game hunting this time of year
is generally done for ducks and
geese. Other good targets are
mud hens, blackbirds, windmills,
tree trunks, and tin cans — both
moving and stationary.
A week or so back we went on
a hunting trip to shoot some
ducks. Rainy, cold weather is re-
quired to make the ducks come
in off the bay and settle in rice
(small R) paddies to feed, so
the weather the morning we went
hunting was bright and sunny.
They Were Brave
Two of our three roommates
and our brother were brave
enough to accompany us. We left
COUNCIL...
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vote and this time passed the
motion 12-9. Some people will
no doubt view this as "the great
white father Student Council tells
us naughty children what to do."
IT IS ONLY fair to point out
that for the Council to defeat
this motion gives the impression,
especially to outsiders, that the
Council and the student body are
in favor of crudity in mixed
company just for the sake of
crudity in mixed company. The
question still remains as to
whether or not it is the business
of the Council to express an
opinion on matters such as this
one.
THE STUDENT Center Will
not be open until after Christmas
holidays. The Roost will be
closed until after holidays.
(Someone ought to start a cof-
fee concession in the lounge.)
This time at least it isn't an
Administration plot to inconven-
ience us. The builders simply
have some small but important
jobs to finish. Greenberg said
that as far as he knew those
organizations which had schedul-
ed "parties and such in the Cen-
ter would get to use it, namely
the dance after the Follies and
the Colleges' Christmas party.
in the dark and got to a town
near our hunting spot before
dawn. After a hot breakfast,
during which we seriously con-
sidered calling our other room-
mate long distance collect and
asking for ourselves strictly to
wake him up, we drove out to
the spot selected for the hunt.
This happened to be an arti-
ficial lake of moderate extent
with only one blind. This blind
on that morning came complete
with hunters, duck calls, and, it
later seemed, machine shotguns.
'Way Out' Decoys
We settled down by the bank
of a rice water canal and set out
our decoys — much farther out,
we discovered, than we could
wade in after them.
Unfortunately, a person can
go to a sporting goods store and
buy everything he needs for
duck hunting, except ducks. These
he must go out and wait for
squatted on his haunches in
waist-deep salt marsh grass that
is sopping wet and very cold.
And, no matter how long he
waits, he is never guaranteed
they will ver oblige him by com-
ing.
Under Fire
These people out.on the lake
had apparently made a pact with
the devil, or something, because
shortly after we got there some
ducks came in and settled in
their decoys. As soon as they got
clear of the water the artillery
in the blind cut loose with a
dramatic if ineffectual barrage.
As the unscathed birds soared
high over our heads we came un-
der fire, with spent buckshot
dropping down all around us.
The Black Bird Phase
By 8 o'clock nothing much
had come close enough to shoot
at, so we passed into the black-
bird-hunting phase of duck hunt-
ing, thence to the tin-can phase
of blackbird hunting. Shortly
thereafter we departed.
We gave our friends one scare.
On our only clear shot at a couple
of geese, we were attempting to
place the shells in the gun up-
side down when one of our room-
mates asked if we were nervous.
More Companies
Affect Your Mind
The Placement Office has
announced the following schedul-
ed interviews:
Collins Radio Co., ME, EE -r-
205 Lovett Hall — 12/1/58
Operations Evaluation Group—
M.I.T.—Physics, Physical Chem.,
Math. (adv. degrees only) — 205
Lovett Hall — 12/1/58.
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regula-
tion Co. — EE, ME, Physics (Ms
PhD) — 205 Lovett — 12/2/58.
U. S. Dept. of Commerce C.A.
A. — EE, CE — 205 Lovett —
12/2/58.
U. S. Steel — ME, CHE — F.
L.L. — 12/3/58.
Northrop-Aircraft — CE, ME,
EE, Physics, Math — F.L.L. —
12/3/58.
Temco Aircraft — EE, ME,
Physics, Math — F.L.L. — 12/
4/58.
Fidelity Union Life Ins. Co. —
Liberal Arts and Phy. Ed. — 205
Lovett Hall — 12/4/58 and 12/
5/58.
Standard Oil of California —
CHE, ME — *F.L.L. — 12/8-58
and 12/9/58.
Litton Industries—Math, Phy-
sics, EE — F.L.L. — 12/9/58.
Kellogg Co. — CHE, Chemis-
try (Adv. degrees only) — F.L.L
— 12/9/58.
Insurance Co. of North Amer-
ica — Eco, Education, Phy. Ed.,
English, H i s t o r y, Languages,
Philosophy, Psychology — F.L.L.
—12/11/58.
Air Force Flight Test Center
— F.L.L. — 12/11/58.
Apex Corp. — ME, EE — F.L.
L. — 12/12/58.
*Will be changed to new
placement office if possible)
"Of course not!" we yelled,
pointing the now-loaded gun at
the lad's-head. "Just goose down
so I can get a shot at that stoop
over there. . .!"
All this is fun to talk about,
but next week we are going to do
a story on a serious issue — pro-
fessionalism in intramural ath-
letics. We will feature an inter-
view with a noted personage on
this campus popularly known as
"Bear."
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Editor's note:
One-half of Dent and Coney
didn't make it back from
Thanksgiving in time to write
a column and the othpr half
said he couldn't do it alone.
For this reason, we are not
printing a Dent and Coney
column this week. They'll be
back next week.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1958, newspaper, December 5, 1958; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231103/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.