The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1959 Page: 4 of 10
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DECEMBER 11, 1959
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At its new engineering research center and
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Western is relying more and more on com-
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BANNED BOOKS EXHIBIT ? ? ? — Rice publica-
tions have had a colorful history, always facing the specter
of censorship.
-Photo by Morris
Lusty Humor Mag...
'Rice Owl9 Banned
But Never Censored
By GRIFFIN SMITH
Thresher Staff
The Divine Comedy, King Lear,
Grapes of Wrath, Candide, The
Rice Campanile — these are just
a part of the "Banned Books Ex-
hibit" on the second floor of the
Library.
But if The Campanile is in-
cluded, so should The Rice Owl
—a former campus literary and
humor magazine which was for-
ced to halt publication in 1946.
Begun in 1926
Although The Owl was begun
as a literary publication of the
students in 1926, it added the
humor angle in 1932 when the
"Rack" section of the Campanile
was halted for "crudity."
By early 1937, the dose of
humor which The Owl had re-
ceived proved almost too much
for it. The Student Association
presented a petition to Dean H.
B. Weiser stating that they be-
lieved the quality of the maga-
zine had declined, and since the
publication was sent to other
educational institutions as re-
presentative of Rice they asked
that he take immediate steps to
improve it.
Same Song . . .
Of course, this precipitated no
small controversy. General con-
sensus of the student body was
that The Owl needed revision,
but as Bob Illes of the Thresher
noted in an editorial: "The Owl
should not be done away with."
The Student Association was giv-
en the authority in the Constitu-
tion "to control all student pub-
lications," he said, and to peti-
tion the Dean to correct it "seems
to be a case of forcing faculty
censorship of tlhe press . . . The
Council is right in wishing to
raise The Owl's literary level and
it is its right to do so. They
should not set a precedent of
faculty supervision of publican
tions, which might cause dissen-
tion in the future."
Tactful Administrating
Dean Weiser did not act at
once on the petition, however. In-
stead he conferred with The Owl
staff for 1938 about the problem.
The staff agreed to work for
improvement, and no restrictive
action was taken.
The Owl improved, until after
its merger with The Alumni
News, editor Bill Ballew of The
1940 Thresher was able to say:
"The Rice Owl is getting pro-
gressively better. With its Christ-
mas issue it hit a new high in
interest both to the student . . .
and for the alumni."
Suspension In 1946
The War years unfortunately
saw another decline in the quality
of The Owl. A Student Associa-
tion committee in 1946 charged
that "recently there has been a
tendency towards an accent on
smutty jokes." A faculty-student
Board of Sandards was proposed,
but to no avail. Student apathy
for literary contributions and
support of The Owl prompted the
administration to force suspen-
sion of publication.
It is significant to note that
throughout the ups and downs
of The Owl's history, the stu-
dents—with the aid of an appar-
ently understanding administra-
tion—determined the fate of the
magazine, without ever resorting
to administrative censorship as
the only way to keep lusty humor
in check.
Literary Successors
""" The literary portion was re-
sumed first as The RI Magazine
from 1947 to 1951, which folded
because of debts; and later as
The Mill, at first a Thresher
supplement and finally a separate
magazine in 1958.
The humor portion, however,
died with the last of the Owls in
June of 1946. Since then The
Thresher and until recently the
Campanile have become the sole
outlets ffll^Rice campus humor.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1959, newspaper, December 11, 1959; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231134/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.