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The
Thresher
An Alt-Student Newspaper for 45 Year*
Volume 49—Number 10
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1961
'Traditionally Weak' Debaters
Win Two Trophies For Rice
By BILL PANNILL
Jousts in two tournaments
have produced two trophies for
Rice debaters, traditionally weak-
sisters in Southwest debate.
'The trophies, one a third place
in junior division debate at the
41-college T.C.U. debate tourna-
ment, the other a third place in
the Bellaire High School's Col-
lege Division tournament, were
won by Eddie Price, freshman
debater from Houston's Spring
Branch High School, with two
different colleagues.
Price teamed with Linda Boles,
another freshman, from Hous-
ton's Waltrip High School, to
produce the T.C.U. trophy. The
team was defeated by Abilene
Christian College in the semi-
finals, after surviving the octa-
and quarter-final rounds.
At Bellaire, Price was teamed
with Mike Jaffe, a sophomore
from Hillcrest High School in
Dallas. Price and Jaffe won five
straight debates until their de-
feat in the semi-finals by the
University of Houston's "A" de-
bate team. r
Other Rice teams at the T.C.U.
tournament were Jim Doyle and
Seal's McGee, who went 5-1 in
the preliminary rounds,- then lost
to Kansas State Teacher's Col-
lege of Emporia in the octa-final
round of senior men's division;
Bill Pannill and Eugene Keilin,
who squeezed into the senior di-
vision octa-finals after losing two
debates in the prelims, and
promptly lost to another team
from Kansas State Teacher's of
Emporia; and Jim Stones and
Don Carson, who won three de-
bates and lost three in junior
men's division.
Teams were juggled at the six-
college Bellaire tournament, as
the largest number (seven) of
Rice debate teams to attend a
tournament in recent years en-
tered. " ■
Other than Price and Jaffe, Jim
Stones and Bill Berg were elim-
"'mated in the quarter-final round,
and Martha McLaughlin and Lin-
da Boles in the octa-finals.
Other Rice teams who went to
the tournament, but did not
bring home any bacon were Bill
Pannill and Reed Martin, Carroll
Shaddock and Kenn Carr, and Ed
Hughes and James Anderson.
Although none of the victories
were particularly decisive, the
squad expressed optimism in
signs of rebuilding.
Rise is noted for having top
debate talent, but for never using
it.
But, as the T.C.U. debate
coach, Professor Dave Matheny,
expressed it: -
"I'd coach debate at Rice for
a year for free, if they'd pay me
a second year's salary for my
won-lost record the first year."
With the Southwest Conference
debate tournament coming up the
first weekend in December, the
uncoached Rice squad will try to
make good on Matheny's ap-
praisal of its potential.
Time Magazine Does
Research For Rice Story
Time Magazine may publish a story soon on Rice Uni-
versity and Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, its new president.
Mark Sullivan, chief of the magazine's Dallas bureau,
was on campus with a photographer Monday and Tuesday
of this week interviewing everyone from administrative
officials to individual stu-
dents.
RICE IS A very good school,"
Mr. Sullivan said. "It has a
fine reputation, but people really
don't know too much about it,"
he added.
Mr. Sullivan said that Time
would feature the article in its
education section, possibly next
week.
"It depends of course on what
to do with it," Mr. Sullivan point-
ed out. "It's a story that could
be run at almost any time."
NO MORE LAB OVERNIGHTS
Savage Enforces Jones Curfew
HE ALSO said that the fact that
Dr. Pitzer is now president of the
University and that Rice will be
working closely with NASA in
the future influenced Time's de-
cision to do the feature.
20 Beauties Picked
As Semi • Finalists
For '62 Campanile
Mrs. Catherine Savage, Advisor
to Women, issued last Wednes-
day, a notice restricting Jones
College members from using la-
boratory facilities after dorm
hours.
The ruling applies to both resi-
In The Thresher
0 Faculty disinterest is sug-
gested as the reason for the
Rice students' "lack of commit-
ment on basic issues" by his-
tory professor. See Faculty
Sound-Off, page two.
0 Senate discusses intellectual,
judicial, social, and financial
problems. See Senate Report,
page three.
0 Gort replaces Peanuts and
Hugger-Mugger is out for this
week only. The l-egular car-
toons apparently were lost in'
the mail to the engraver.
0 Trustee Professor Radoslav
Tsanoff reminisces on 43 years
at Rice. See page four.
0 What's happened to the
Owls?^ The Aggies will be
ready for Saturday's encounter
before 50,000 fans. See Owlook,
page eleven.
0 Z and O say no. See page
dents ami non-residents of the
college and affect architects and
students enrolled in genetics and
comparative anatomy labs.
PRESENT DORMITORY hours
are to 11:30 weeknights and 2
a.m. Saturday nights. Seniors in
good standing may have two
12:30 permissions a week.
In an interview Monday, Mrs.
Savage declined to elaborate on
The Rice Campanile staff has
announced the names of the
twenty girls who were selected
in the semi-final round of judg-
ing for the Vanity Fair section of
the '62 Campanile.
Judges were Mrs. Ann Mohler,
Everett Collier of the Houston
the college's committee on resi- ; Chronicle, and Harris Johnston,
dence. photographer.
Mrs. Savage said only that the
reasons should be "fairly obvious"
adding that she did not think it
was proper for a girl to have to
spend the night in lab.
FINALISTS ARE Mary West
Adams, Lou Bertch, Nancy Deg-
nan, Elizabeth Embrv, Margo
and the notice "self-explanatory." | G a rrett , Flo Haunt, Danna
Holmes, Elaine Hord, Kathleen
Much, Miriam Peterson,
J Ann Pierce, Marcia Pieper,
AS FOR isolated instances Eleanor Powers, Lyn Rhea, Lynn
Russell,
Anne Shamblin, Sally
Smyser, Annette ^ruance, Judy
when experiments were to be car-
ried on into the night, Mrs. Sav-
age said that she felt that no Wainscott, and Libby Wilson,
the circumstances of the notice, j instructor would penalize a stu-j Final selections will be made
which was sent to all department | dent if regulations prevented her from photographs mailed to the
heads and to I at Jones, head of fz'om attending the lab. 1 person selected as the final judge.
Liberals Win Political Union Debate
On Goldwater's Policies By 32-23
WAS IT STUDENTS?
Neely Hangs From *Sour
Apple Tree* - In Effigy
By FRYAR CALHOUN
and BILL PANNILL
Jess Neely, dean of Southwest
Conference football coaches, was
hung in effigy on the north end
of the campus Wednesday night.
The hanging was discovered by
a passerby about 8:45 p.m. The
dummy had apparently been there
since early in the evening.
The dummy, dressed in a blue
serge suit over a gray sweat
suit, was cut down by bystand-
ers at 9:45 p.m.
Displayed prominently on the
front of the dummy was a sign;
"Jess Neely—November Coach
Arkansas 10—Rice 0"
It was the first such incident in
Neely's 31 years as head coach at
Rice.
Coach Neely said: "I have no
comment to make, except that
I'm glad it was just in effigy."
Ray Alborn, senior tackle, foot-
ball team tri-captain, said: "I
thihk it will just make the team
buck up and go harder against
A & M Saturday."
Johnny Burrell, senior right
end, and another tri-captain, ask-
ed if the incident indicated dis-
satisfaction with Neely as head
coach said: "I don't know if other
people are,1 but, "we're not."
The identity of the person or
persons who hung the dummy are
unknown. Students speculate that
it was none of their number, how-
ever.
The dummy disappeared short-
ly after being cut down.
By BILL LIEBLICH
Political sparks flew last Wed-
nesday night in the Fondren Li-
brary Lecture Lounge when the
first meeting of the Political
Union, sponsored by the Rice
Foi'ensic Society, discussed Bar-
ry Goldwater conservatism.
The Union, which will meet
Wednesdays on a biweekly basis,
was divided into left (libex-al) and
right (conservative) factions.
Participants were encouraged to
switch sides if desired during the
course of the evening.
ONE INDIVIDUAL, who had
begun the evening on the right
side, actually did move ov^r to
the liberal side after one of the
liberal spokesmen delivered a
telling point.
Dr. Louis Galambos, of the
Rice History Department, sit-
ting on the left, opened the dis-
cussion with a short speech for
the affirmative on the topic: "Be
it resolved that this House re-
pudiates the fundamental princi-
ples of Goldwater conservatism."
Dr. Galambos addressed the ga-
thering as an attempt to follow
the policies of 1908 in order to
solve the problems of 1961.
THE UNITED STATES, he
stated, must not flex its muscles,
throw down the gauntlet, and
rush into an atomic showdown,
but must rather recognize the
complexity of the problems fac-
ing it and attempt to deal with
them in a more enlightening and
sensible manner.
Eddie Price, a debate team
freshman from Hanszen College,
then spoke for the negative, or
conservative, side, and accused
the liberals of looking back to
Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 solu-
tions to solve 1961's problems. He
also stressed the importance of
building a strong society by main-
taining the strength and human
dignity of the society's individ-
uals.
Following these opening state-
ments, the floor was thrown
open to debate from the as-
sembled liberals and conserva-
tives. The procedure, patterned
after the British Hoose of Com-
mons, called for speeches of short
duration from each side of the
floor followed by two questions
addressed to each speaker by the
opposition.
] SUCH MATTERS as foreign
j policy and welfare legislation
■ produced vigorous and often
heated debates, with interspersed
i witty comments serving to break
tension.
After an hour of discussion, a
note was taken and the affirma-
tive (liberal) side defeated the
negatives (conservatives) by a
count of 32 to 23. ■
' Following the Union, both par-
ties met to elect representatives
for the purpose of choosing suit-
able discussion topics for fu-
ture meetings of the Union.
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BLOOMER GIRLS—In the ba#dy hguse in this scene from the
Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society's production this weekend are,
left to right, Peggy Saunders, Martha McKean, Sally Terrell, and
Pat Shannon. To find out more, see story on page eight. (Photo by
John Reavis.)
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