The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 1962 Page: 7 of 10
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WED, OCTOBER 24, 1962
T*H E THRESHER
Seven
Slime Parade To Kick Off Texas Weekend;
Shamrock Pep Rally, Bonfire Will Follow
Allegorical Significance Absent
In Junior Architect's Project
By DOUGLAS JOHNSTONE
"Light-colored and up-looming
over the sea-green grass, it is ob-
viously Moby Dick."
So a senior English major in-
terpreted the discontinuous com-
pression structure squared in the
angle between the cloiter from
Anderson Hall toward the Me-
morial Center and the walk from
the library toward the Chemistry
Lecture Hall.
Mr. Charles Thomsen of the
Architecture Department, speak-
ing less symbolically, said that
the sturcture was a project ex%
cuted by the junior architects.
THOMSEN, who assigned the
project, said that each of the
twelve junior architects built a
model of a discontinuous compres-
sion structure and that the de-
sign by Hank Winkelman was
selected to be built epic-scale for
posterity, or at least for how-
ever long it would last.
A discontinuous compression
' structures a forth Cottfpcfsed Sole-
ly of members in either pure com-
pression or pure tension so assem-
bled that some compression mem-
bers are supported only by ten-
sion members. Usually there is a
basic unit which is repeated
throughout the structure.
THEORETICALLY each part
of the structure should maintain
its position relative to each other
part regardless of the direction
from which forces unrelated to
PITZER-
(Continued from Page 1)
dent Pitzer continued that al-
though the percentage of non-
Texas residents, . is increasing,
"the ratio of Texas residents is
not likely to drop below one
half." Three-fourths of the cur-
rent undergraduates are Texans.
THERE ARE NOW 16 under-
graduate and 85 graduate stu-
dents from outside the U.S.
Noting this as a sign of the
increasingly cosmopolitan char-
acter of the Rice student body,
President Pitzer said that he
expects the number of foreign
students to increase some in the
future.
On the delicate subject of
racial integration, President Pit-
zer said, "The subject is being
considered by the Board of Gov-
ernors and I am very en-
couraged."
structure are applied. Of
course, something can stretch,
bend, or break, but that doesn't
count. •
Somewhat similar designs have
been studied previously, Thomsen
said, notably by Buckminster Ful-
ler in the 1930's. Fuller was try-
ing to achieve a maximum
strength througn an area with a
minimum of material. A discon-
tinuous compression structure
was exhibited at the Brussels
World Fair.
Thomsen noted, however, that
he knew of no example, except
Winkelman's here at Rice, which
was not symmetrical on at least
one axis.
Thomsen stated that the de-
partment elected to display Win-
kelman's design for its original-
ity, its .variability, and its sculp-
tural quality. Using Winkelman's
basic unit, an equilateral triangle
with a side of another such tri-
angle guyed through its middle,
the over-all form can be de-
veloped unpredictably.
WINKELMAN, a transfer from
Tulane, said that he had con-
sidered a vertical tower shape,
until he noticed the freedom that
his basic unit gave him.
Effacing his inspiration, he
said, "A good bit of luck was in-
volved in the shape of the thing.
I just added a unit here and a unit
there. Of course, I had toconsider
the space where the thing had to
go."
Asked if his structure had any
allegorical significance, Winkel-
man said, "No."
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Parade History:
Frosh Covered
Downtown Area
By RICHARD DARILEK
Friday night, October 27,' will
add a new chapter to an estab-
lished but progressive Rice tra-
dition. The chapter will deal with
an indomitable, everlasting school
classic—the annual Slime Parade.
If the freshmen guidance di-
rectors have done their jobs well,
each of their wards should have a
rough—very rough—idea of what
transpires in the way of fun and
games that eventful evening.
MAYBE THE frosh are even a
bit apprehensive ? To provide the
method in this madness and to
Wiess Open House
Rules Announced
Wiess College will be open to
guests Saturday from 1 to 6 pm,
at the request of President Mel
Lack and Master Roy Talmadge.
Permission was granted by Dean
Higginbotham, who stipulated
that*'these rules be observed:
1) Female guests must be
reported in advance to an ap-
pointed registrar. Unexpect-
ed guests may be reported on
arrival.
2) Doors must be left open
when female guests are in the
room unless it is prohibitively
cold, in which case, the win-
dows must be left unobstruct-
ed. "
LACK FURTHER stated that
a warning bell would be rung
before 6 pm and that guests
would be signed out when they
left the college.
Dean Higginbotham explained
that these rules apply only to
this weekend. College masters and
presidents will confer with the ad-
ministration soon on permanent
open house rules.
Thresher news sources learned
that presidents of Baker and
Hanszen plan to request similar
open houses this weekend.
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Weekend Schedule
Friday:
7 pm: Freshman Skit in
Hamman Hall
8 pm: Slime Parade followed
by bonfire and pep
rally at Shamrock
Hilton
Saturday
8 pm: Rice vs. Texas
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convince the modern freshman
that his lot is considerably better
that that of his predecessor, it
would seem appropriate to review
the history and origin of this
time-honored custom.
The earliest written records re-
lating to the first years of the
slime parade is a somewhat mys-
tic and foreboding article which
appears in a 1925 edition of The
Thresher.
The author, shrouding his work
in an air of intrigue, described the
prime function of the slime pa-
rade as "wholesale butchery for
the morbidly curious," the com-
mon weapons of the slaughter be-
ing leather belts, wooden paddles
and the like.
A LATER chronicler describes
the result as "a natural flush on
the body of the victim" brought
on in part by! paint, in part by
"vigorously applied strokes."
In those days, the parade gen-
erally formed in downtown Hous-
town, somewhere in the vicinity
of the old Humble building, and
snake-danced from the point of
origin down Main Street and to
the Rice Hotel where a monstrous
pep rally of the whole student
body was held.
. There, Tony Martino, Rice gar-
dener, delivered his famous foot-
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'62 Guidance Ends
As Males March
While Girls Ride
Final events of freshman guid-
ance will be held this Friday
night: the freshman girl skit and
the traditional procession down
Main Street known as the "Slime
Parade."
At 7:00 pm the male fi*osh,
colorfully dressed in their pa-
jamas, will gather in Hamman
Hall for the girls' production. Af-
ter the skit each college will leave
through a designated exit to be
met outside by expert lipsticking
crews from Jones.
THEN TO KEEP anyone from
losing his way, the frosh will
form a chain and march via Lov-
ett Hall to Main.
TO THE DELIGHT of the Tex-
as fans inside, a pep rally will be
held in front of the Shamrock,
after which busses will transport
the frosh back to their colleges.
DEAN'S
GROCERETTE
Southgate & Travis
BEER
ICE
SOFT DRINKS
ON
Friday, November 9
YOU
CAN TAKE
A BIG STEP
CLOSER TO
YOUR FUTURE
That's when the Linde Company rep-
resentative will be on campus. He
will be interviewing qualified engi-
neering students who feel their fu-
ture lies in research or applied engi-
neering. *
The Linde Laboratories, for ex-
ample— atTonawanda (Buffalo), N. Y.,
Speedway (Indianapolis), Ind., and
Newark, N. J.-rprovide an unusually
stimulating environment for the sci-
entific-minded to grow and develop.
The many achievements of Linde
people in research and applied engi-
neering have borne a rich harvest of
progress: Over half of Linde's cur-
rent sales volume com£s from prod-
ucts and facilities that did not even
exist 15 years ago.
Plan now to save this date for the
LlNDE representative ... and get one
step closer to your future. Contact
your engineering placement office for
an appointment.
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