The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1961 Page: 1 of 8
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Crossroads For The Thresher
For 48 years the student-published, student-censored
Thresher has added much to and demanded relatively little
from the Rice community.
Monday will be a momentous day for the entire Univer-
sity, for by 2 pm that day its undergraduates will have decided
whether or not Rice merits a weekly newspaper with suffi-
cient space to report and direct its expanding horizons.
This copy of The Thresher costs its publishers over thir-
teen cents; it costs the reader, if he holds a blanket tax,
Slightly less than two cents. Thus Rice's newspaper is forced
to rely upon advertising for roughly 85 percent of its costs
merely to break even.
Hit by a $450 rise in printing costs this year, the business
staff of The Thresher has made persistent efforts to bridge
advertising. Successful experimentation with
classified guide to advertisers—helped re-
pressure, but many businesses feel it is a
advertise in a newspaper of 1800 circulation
a million, and regular Thresher adveritsers
disheartened by a lack of response or the
customers to identify their patronage with
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this gap with new
a new medium—a
move some of the
waste of money to
in a city of over
too oftenr become
failure of student
a Thresher ad.
Advertising alone dictates the size of The Thresher at
the present time. The ambitions of the editors and the neces-
sity for a complete coverage of events have no voice in the
matter.
After an extensive study of this dilemma, the Publications
Board recommended a $1 increase per blanket tax in order to
allow The Thresher more space for campus news, views, and
photographs, and to assure its business staff a reasonable
profit for long hour of drudgery. This recommendation was
unanimously approved by the university student government.
As these campus leaders realized, the best gauge of the
interests and scope of a university community is its newspaper.
When presentation of its opinions and events are both severely
curtailed by meager financial support, the campus must bear
an unnecessary and unfortunate loss.
For the benefit of both Rice students and faculty, Mon-
day's referendum must pass—and pass overwhelmingly.
Colleges Will Elect
Beginning Next Week
Elections for officers of the
colleges will begin next week and
continue into April. Petitions of
budding politicians in Hanszen
and Wiess must be filed by to-
day; the deadline for Baker can-
didates is March 24, Will Rice
April 9 and Jones College April
12.
Stephen F. Austin
Band To Plav For
RMC Dance
Sunday
Sunday the Rice Memorial
Center committee will play host
to a 17-piece stage band from
Stephen F. Austin State College
coming to Rice expressly to play
for a dance Sunday evening in
the RMC Grand Hall.
The band had previously plan-
ned to arrive on Saturday and
take part in campus activities:
over the weekend, but due to a
change in plans, they will arrive
at noon Sunday. They will be
guests of Baker College for din-
ner, and Sunday afternoon they
Will be taken on a tour of the
campus. Sunday evening a sup-
per has been planned for them
in Sammys before the dance.
The band, under the direction
of Bob Teel, plays a variety of
music from strictly dance music
to jazz. Called the Ambassadors,
they will feature a vocalist for
the Rice performance. They are
coming to Rice free of charge
and are chartering a bus at their
own expense in exchange for the
privilege of playing for a Rice
dance.
Casual dress will be in order
for the dance. Everything is: free,
including cokes, cookies, and cof-
fee. Everyone is urged to come,
dates or no.
The Hanszen College elections
are scheduled for Thursday, Mar-
ch 23, and runoffs, if necessary,
will be the following day. Wiess
College candidates will be in-
troduced the night of March 20
preceding the election on March
22 and runoffs the next day.
Those running for offices in
Baker will speak on April 5, a
college night. Votes will be cast
on Friday, April 7, with runoffs
scheduled for the next Monday.
Members of Will Rice College
will be given a chance to hear the
qualifications of candidates on
April 10 and 11. Elections ani
runoffs will be April 13 and 15,
respectively.
Jones girls may hear the
speeches of aspirants to office
during their April 13 college
night. April 17 is the date set
for the elections and April 19th
for the runoffs.
The
Thresher
An all-student newspaper for 44 years
VOL. 48, NO. 22
HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1961
New Culture - Entertainment
Program Proposed By Senate
In a special session Tuesday
night, the Senate unanimously
approved plans to bring noted
speakers and entertainers to the
Rice campus. The plans were
embodied in the report of a
special Forum Planning Com-
Forensic Society
To Sponsor Rice-
Stanford Debates
The Rice Forensic society is
in the process of finalizing plans
for a series of debates to be held
between a team from Rice match-
ed against debaters from at least
two California schools, Stanford
and the University of California.
A team from Stanford will
come to Rice for a debate to be
held March 27 in the assembly
hall of the Biology Building to
which all Rice students are in-
vited, while the Rice team will be
in California for debates to be
held in Palo Alto and Berkley
early in April, the trip for the
Rice debaters is being made pos-
sible by a generous gift of a pro-
minent Rice alumnus who was an
outstanding debater for Rice dur-
ing the 1930's.
COMPETITION FOR the Rice
representatives was open to any
interested freshman student in an
attempt to bring the forensic so-
ciety to the attention of the large
number of Rice freshmen who
might be willing to participate
in collegiate debating. According
to one of its faculty advisors'., J.
D. Thomas, the society desires
to expand its program to offer
opportunity for debaters beyond
the somewhat limited realm of
competitive activities by arrang-
ing debates and discussions with
other colleges on a variety of
topics.
The Rice team will debate the
California debaters on the topic,
"Resolved, that the United States
should work for a unified and
federated Europe."
PROGRESS—The first signs of construction on million-dollar
Rayzor Hall appeared last week on the north side of the aca-
demic quadrangle. The three-story building, which will house
additional humanities offices, classrooms, and a language labora-
tory, is slated for completion in early 1962. The artist whose work
graces the above structure is unknown. (Thresher photo by Bob
Warren)
mittee headed by Bob Clarke.
Speakers will not be contacted
until financial arrangements are
decided upon, but typical of the
caliber of speakers available to
Rice are such figures as Werner
von Braun, Barry Goldwater,
Stewart Alsop, Arthur Schlesing-
er, Jr., and Gen. Carlos P. Romu-
lo. Entertainment possibilities
include the Kingston Trio, the
Robert Shaw Chorale, Van Cli-
burn, Tom Leher, and Leonard
Bernstein.
According to the report the
program would be financed by a
$4 increase in the blanket tax,
but definite financial arrange-
ments are pending further com-
mittee negotiations with the ad-
ministration. Admission to all
events would be free to blanket
tax holders.
The Committee is considering
holding some of the entertain-
ment features off-campus and
opening them to the public, par-
ticularly alumni, to defray some
of the expenses.
OtheiJ members of the commit-
tee are Betty Branard, Ken
Carr, and Fryar Calhoun.
In its regular meeting last
week, the Senate decided to re-
fer a proposal to increase the
blanket tax by $1 to the students
in the general election Monday.
The extra dollar would go to The
Thresher, and enable a larger
campus newspaper to be publish-
ed weekly. The Senate voiced the
hope that the proposal will be
approved by the student body, as
The Thresher needs money des-
perately.
No Archi - Arts Next Year;
Reasons: Chaperones, Funds
By JAN B. GORDON
The torments of evil, the theme
of this year's Archi-Arts Pag-
eant, became quite a bit more real
earlier this week when it was an-
nounced that the Rice Architec-
tural Society has been prohibited
from holding social functions of
any description for the school
year of 1961-1962.
THE REASONS given for this
action lie in the failure of the So-
ciety to report patron bid lists
and chaperones for the ball and
in the occurrence of a "well pub
licized incident during the dance
which offended good taste." In
an official statement from the
office of the Advisor to Men, the
arrangements or the Archi-Arts
Kail on February 18 violated uni-
versity rules in the following
manner:
1. Chaperones for this event
were not reported to the Of-
fice of |he Advisor to Men
prior to the time the function
Arthur Flemming
To Give Lecture
Here Next Friday
Former Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare, Arthur
S. Flemming, now president-elect
of the University of Oregon, will
deliver a lecture on the Rice
campus, Friday, March 24, under
the auspices of the Edwards
Foundation on Local Public Af-
fairs.
The title of Dr. Flemming's
lecture is, "The Pursuit of Ex-
cellence in Education: The Role
of Local Government."
The lecture will be in Hamman
Hall at 8 pm.
Dr. Flemming will be available
for student discussion groups at
the Memorial Center Friday
morning between 10 a.m. and
noon.
Vote FOR Thresher Referendum
was held.
2. Funds were solicited from
off-cam pus individuals and
firms without approval from
the Of ice of Advisor to Men
as to form of solicitation and
list of individuals contacted.
THESE MINOR omissions in
the planning of the dance did not
come to light, however, until the
storm of controversy over the
awarding of first prize in the
contest of costumes most in keep-
ing with the* theme of "evil"
to a pair dressed respectively as
a pregnant nun and priest. From
February 18 when the dance was
held until March 2 when an article
appeared in one of the Houston
papers, there was no mention of
the situation in any publication
except the Rice Thresher in which
a letter to the editor by a Rice
student condemned the decision
by three judges; the Rev. Lane
Denson, representative of the
Episcopal Diocese of Texas on the
Rice campus; Mrs. E. R. De Zur-
ko, wife of a Fine Arts faculty
member; and Alsey Newton, prac-
ticing Houston architect and 1950
Rice graduate.
At the time of this printing,
several of the parties concerned
were preparing statements con-
cerning the incident and mulling
over a "fall" that offers Satan
Some competition.
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Cutrer To Speak
Monday Evening
Mayor Lewis Cutrer will dis-
cuss "The Future of Houston"
at Hanszen College's college
night Monday, March 20. Mayor
Cutrer's talk, which will begin
after dinner at 6:45 pm, will be
followed by a general question
and answer period.
Hanszen non-residents are
especially invited to the college
night, and may make reserva-
tions for a free dinner that even-
ing by contacting Jim Hammond
at J A 4-2071. Reservations must
be made by 2 pm Saturday for
the free meal.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1961, newspaper, March 17, 1961; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231174/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.