The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1960 Page: 2 of 6
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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, ltM
12-25-60
The Christmas story once again peals out upon a
happy little stereophonic, filter-tip world of parking
tickets, bluebooks and dexedrine.
The booming carols in glittering, teeming depart-
ment stores remind us of the joyous message—that we
can shelve our books for bottles and speed over turn-
pikes to share a few precious days with our families,
old friends, and perhaps lavishing what remains of
ourselves and our wallets on a special someone.
Strange that the humble birth of a baby in an
obscure village of the Near East a couple of thousand
years ago should so disrupt the pattern of The Good
Life that even the New York Stock Exchange pauses
for the day.
Odd that church bells in Brussels, Boston, Buenos
Aires and Biloxi ring out to commemorate the coming
of a child who would never know the intricacies of
economic warfare and foreign policy, much less the
diplomacy of cocktail party etiquette.
Funny that angels and shepherds should share top
billing with Maverick, missiles, and sensational mur-
ders.
More unusual still are the moments amid tinsel
and egg-nog when we realize that this celebrated in-
fant of a far-off time and place was a living symbol
of all the love and humanity that man can ever hope
to know.
—The above editorial appeared in The Thresher, December 18, 1959. Written by
Rill Delaney, then associate editor, it gives a message we feel can not be im-
proved upon.—M.T.
o
Forward *61
As the happy, if somewhat inebriated, sound of
"Auld Lang Syne" rolls across the country, we would
take time for a look back at the accomplishments of
the dying year, and express some hopes for the new.
For the first time in a long time, the campus is
the proud possessor of a department of Classics. After
forty-eight years, we are back at the roots of Western
culture, the Greek and Roman civilizations. It is fitting
that Rice's attempt to move into the charmed circle of
great universities should be accompanied by the Class-
ics. But The Thresher would like to see this fledging
department grow, and more and more emphasis placed
on it. Perhaps freshmen can begin taking Latin, and
Greek when it is added, as well as the traditional
French and German. Maybe we can even dignify the
campus with a few classics majors.
The Fine Arts Department is another addition.
We would hope that 1961 sees more music, more art,
and all the faculty needed in this important part of the
cultural life of the university.
We even have an anthropologist, the kernel of an-
other new department.
New faculty poured in last year, and already they
are stirring up intellectual storms. We can not
ask for any better qualified, but we would like to have
more of the same in 1961.. <
A whole new building was given to the academic
quadrangle. With all the massive building program,
we would like to see the men's colleges air-conditioned.
Along with the tremendous expansion of the cur-
riculum, we saw a new phenomenon this year—the
Independent Work program. The Thresher staff has
been working independently for a long time, and we
give the new program a resounding vote of confidence.
Last, but most of all, the University saw the res-
ignation of a great president. All we could wish for is
someone to try and fill his shoes.
What it adds up to is that our small university
took some giant steps forward last year. Our hope for
1961: added momentum.—W. P.
The
Thresher
An all-tludent newspaper for 44 years
The Rice Thresher, thT"official student newspaper of Rice University,
Is published weekly from September to June, except during holiday recesses
and examination periods, and when unusual circumstances warrant a special
issue. The opinions expressed are those of the student staff and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the Rice University administration.
BILL DELANEY
Editor
MARJORIE TRULAN
Associate Editor
GRIFFIN SMITH
Managing Editor
EM LINDAMOOD
Newt Editor
DICK VIEBIG
Business Manager
MILTON NIRKEN
Advertising Manager
BURTON SILVERMAN
Circulation Director
DENIS ASHTON, BILL PANNILL
." Editorial Assistants
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AW, COME ON! YOU'VE GOT TIME FOR JUST ONE
LITTLE DRINK!
RECESSION HITS TICKETS . . .
Parking Lot Situation
Gives Edge To Faculty
By FRED PHILLIPS
With the exception of the stad-
ium parking lot there are approx-
imately 1050 parking places on
campus.
THESE SPACES are in eight
major lots — the lot behind the
Chemistry Building with 220
spaces restricted to faculty and
graduate students, the Hamman
Hall lot with 290 spaces open to
"special privilege" stickers and
faculty.
The Jones lot containing
ninety-six spaces for residents of
Jones College, the lot behind the
Physics Building usually for fac-
ulty but termoparily occupied by
construction workers, Lovett Hall
lot with forty-six spaces for fac-
ulty and visitors, Cohen House
lot with seventy-one spaces for
faculty only.
THE LIBRARY lot containing
fifty spaces also for faculty only,
and last, but most important to
the students, the college lot with
189 spaces for the residents of
the men's colleges.
Temporary parking is also per-
mitted for thirty minutes in the
spaces so marked at the Student
Cener, and for forty-five minutes
at Lovett Hall.
FACULTY MEMBERS have
about 765 spaces on campus while
undergraduate studeflts have
about 405. Also the faculty mem-
bers may park in any of these
spaces depending on who gets
there first while all the student
spaces are rigidly assigned.
The Proctor, Mr. Foley, when
asked about the parking ticket
situation this year, said that he
has been giving only eight to ten „
tickets a day, significantly less
than in the past.
HE FELT that this drop in *
tickets is due to an increased
amount of co-operation on the
part of the students as evidenced
by the fact that there has been
very litle trouble this year with
students not putting parking
stickers on their cars.
Mr. Foley also expressed a
reasonably lenient attitude to-
ward students who park illegally
just to run in somewhere and
those who commit minor offenses
such as parking out of the lines.
THE BURNS Agency patrol-
man, who is on duty at night,
expressed the same type of len-
iency towards minor violations.
About cars that "park" in the
shadow of Rice Stadium late at
night, he said that he had in-
structions to tell them to move
on.
The parking situation on cam-
pus this year seems quite good,
but it is easy to understand the
confusion that sometimes results
among the students about park-
ing regulations when one notices
the signs along the street run-
ning from the gym to the men's
colleges.
THE SIGNS on the south side
of the street say, "No parking
on this side of street," but the
signs on the other side of the
street say, "No parking at any-
time."
Threshing - It - Out
Shinoda Vacates
Cheerleader Job
In Transferring
To My Friends and Comrades
At Rice,
My deepest apologies. I have
come through and have done it
again. I have completely and ut-
terly failed you for the second
straight time. It just doesn't pay
to elect that Shinoda fellow. He
is the worst.
FOR THOSE who didn't get
the chance to express their sen-
timents in a violent manner be-
fore I left, I have gone. I am no
longer a member of the Rice Uni-
versity, much to my regret. The
reason is an academic one, in-
volving leaving before my grades
would be recorded and trans-
ferring to another school next se-
mester. I love Rice and its people
and have hopes or returning.
All I can do now is ask for
your forgiveness and wish you
the best of luck in the Sugar
Bowl. Keep behind that team;
they're the finest there is. And
you people are the greatest!
Yours truly,
PETER SHINODA, JR.
Weigel Speaking
In Chapel Jan. 4-6
The Rev. Gustave Weigel, S.
J., Professor of Ecclesiology at
Woodstock College (Maryland)
School of Divinity will come to
Rice University as Chapel Lec-
turer on January 4, 5, and 6.
The lectures will be held at
7:15 p.m. each evening with a
discussion period to follow.
Fr. Weigel's Ph. D. is from
the Gregorian University in
Rome. He is a writer and lec-
turer of renown, both in Cath-
olic and non-Catholic publica-
tions and institutions.
Store's Profits Explained:
Defraying RMC Expenses
Two months ago $19,371.58 was
transferred from the account of
the Rice Campus Store to the
University in order to help de-
fray the expenses of operating
the Studeot Center.
THE RICE CAMPUS Store is
not, nor does it pretend to be, a
discount house for Rice students.
On most items besides books,
however, the prices here are low-
er than the manufacturers sug-
gested list price, and lower than
most smaller colleges' campus
stores'.
Through the years the store
has greatly contributed to cam-
pus activities of students: it
bought the old furniture in the
basement of the library for the
Student Center, it furnished the
office furniture in the Center, and
provided most of the typewriters
used by student organizations
housed there.
THE POLICY of the store is
determined by the 'Campus Store
Board of Control, consisting of
the President of the University,
Dr. Sims, and Verne Simons; with
William S. Mackey and John Ken-
nedy serving in an advisory ca-
pacity. There are two voting stu-
dent-members of the Board, se-
lected for a two-year period by
the Senate. They are Boyd King,
133 Hanszen, and Barry Moore,
329 Wiess. «
Any questions, complaints, or
suggestions about the operation
of the Campus Store, should be
forwarded to your student repre-
sentatives.
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