The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1962 Page: 1 of 10
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Semicentennial
-Lingers On
The
Thresher
Celebrating Rice's Semicentennial Year
Ten Pages
This Week
'/■ TO
Volume 50—Number 8
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WED., NOVEMBER 7,1962
Scientists' Study
First Of Its Kind
In Two Decades
BY FRYAR CALHOUN
Seventeen distinguished archae-
ologists, said by profesional col-
leagues to be "as brilliant a ga-
thering as could be accumulated,"
will read papers in a history-
making symposium this week at
Rice University.
The conference, dealing with
"Prehistoric Man in the New
World," was called by Sympo-
sium Director Edward Norbeck
"the first attempt at an apprais-
al of this scope—covering the en-
tire New World—in a couple of
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A complete schedule of speak-
ers and topics for the archae-
ological symposium may be
found on page 6.
decades.' Hamman Hall will host
the academic sessions Friday and
Saturday.
SPONSORED BY Rice and the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for An-
thropological Research, the col-
loquim will be one of the high-
lights of the university's Semi-
centennial celebration.
Contributing scholars represent
universities and institutions from
the United States and Mexico,
and the expected 150 out-of-town
guests will include professionals
and amateur archaeologists from
the entire Western Hemisphere.
Famed Mexican scholar Ignacio
Bernal will present the summary
to the symposium, and Utah's
Jesse D. Jennings will be senior
editor of the collection of the
papers. Dr. Norbeck will serve as
co-editor of the book, which will
be published by the University
of Chicago Press this spring.
DR. NORBECK characterized
the aim of the conference as "a
review and appraisal of facts
and theories concerning prehis-
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photo by Iiruce Herron
Halloween Celebrated In Colleges
When Power Cut In Men's Dorms
University Considers Tuition,
But Final Decision In Doubt
By GRIFFIN SMITH
Copyright 1962 The Rice Thresher
Rice University has made "no official decision" on
the subject of tuition, President K. S. Pitzer said Monday.
But the school, tuition-free since its opening- in 1912,
is becoming' more and more hard-pressed for money, Dr.
Pitzer said. Although the 1962-63 budget is in the red
for the first time, he explained that the real problem was
not in the current financial sit-
The men's side of the campus
was without electricity last Wed-
nesday night as the major circuit
to that area was disconnected to
make urgent repairs on the line.
A RECENT lightning bolt had
struck the line and had backed
up into the 40,000-volt line that
supplies the colleges and Cohen
House, causing serious damage
and requiring major repairs.
The announcement of the black-
out at supper Wednesday caused
furious preparations as the tra-
ditional crew of night-owls made
ready to spend the night in study
by firelight. Candles were at a
premium. Many people were pre-
pared because it was Halloween
and some of the colleges had
jack o' lanterns in the Commons.
THE STUDENT Center, which
usually closes at 11 but was kept
Cox Captures Student Poll
But Connally Takes Texas
By EUGENE KEILIN
Latest state-wide election returns indicate a slowly
widening margin of victory for Democratic nominee John
Connally in his successful attempt to crush the guberna-
torial hopes of Republican Jack Cox.
Returns from 252 of Texas'
254 counties, 134 of them com-
plete, gave Connally 737,110 votes
to Cox's 622,605. On the basis
of these returns, Connally se-
cured 53.7% of the total vote.
Connally, a former University
of Texas student body president,
had promised a progressive ad-
ministration and placed emphasis
on the need to improve the qual-
ity of Texas public education.
HIS VICTORY capped ten
months of nearly steady cam-
paigning since he resigned from
his post as President Kennedy's
first Secretary of the Navy last
December.
To reach the Austin statehouse,
the 45-year-old attorney had to
survive two grueling primaries in
addition to yesterday's general
election. In the second primary
Connally won a bitterly-contested
race with Houston liberal Don
Yarborough.
Although many liberals sup-
ported Connally in the general
election, others sought to ad-
vance the cause of a two party
sitate by aiding Republican Cox.
Connally's victory is seen by
many as a vindication of his at-
tempt to weld togethed a coalition
of the many divergent interests
that traditionally compose the
Democratic party.
NONETHELESS, Cox's im-
pressive showing is generally
considered to indicate growing
state Republican party strength.
He polled 45.9% of the total on
the basis of still incomplete re-
turns.
Houston funeral director Jack
Carswell, the Constitution Party
Candidate, is expected to receive
about .4% of the state-wide vote,
roughly 7,000 votes.
Rice students apparently took
little active interest in the cam-
paign. An informal Thresher poll
taken yesterday drew only 255
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open until one am, had a large
crowd which began to stream in
about ten pm. "Like rats from
a sinking ship," was the descrip-
tion made by one observer as the
exodus began.
The repairs, just outside of
Wiess House, were completed by
six the next morning and the
power was restored.
uation, but in the indications for
the future. ■
"If we extrapolate our finan-
cial trends," he said, "it's not that
the fit is too bad today, but that
the slopes are bad." Rice, like
any university faced with similar
difficulties, must consider "cast-
ing about for new sources of in-
come," Dr. Pitzer added.'
HE DESCRIBED consideration
of tuition as a "general line of
hypothetical thinking" now being
examined by the University.
Three problems are directly as-
sociated with Rice's tuition-free
status, he said. Without tuition,
the school loses money from out-
side sources such as National
Merit and the National Science
Foundation scholarships—money
which would be paid to cover
tuition costs, but is now simply
kept by the scholarship agency.
Rice absorbs the loss.
A SECOND problem stem-
ming from the absence of tuition,
Dr. Pitzer said, is that such a
situation "conveys the impression
that we don't need money." He
mentioned last year's Time ar-
ticle as one factor that tended
to reduce outside contributions.
Finally, the University has al-
ways met with little sympathy
from various national foundations
which have felt that if the school
could afford not to charge tuition,
it didn't need their money.
ANY TUITION program would
involve a "generous" scholarship
program, Dr. Pitzer said, "prob-
ably more generous with regard
to a given set of circumstances
than Harvard's would be."
Also, tuition would not apply
to any student currently enrolled
in undergraduate work at the
University.
He sti-essed that no decision on
tuition had yet been made. The
terms of the Rice charter pro-
hibit the charging of tuition, and
involved legal action would be
required to change the charter.
HEADS 'SERVICE ORGANIZATION
Thompson Calls Image 'Myth'
BY DEBBY ROMOTSKY
Howard Thompson rejected the
myth of the "Rice image" in a
speech last Wednesday, October
31, as part of the Autry House
series on "The University and
Its Work."
The director of the Rice Devel-
opment Office indicated that such
a concept as the "image" of the
University simply does not exist.
He explained that the purpose of
his office was that of a service
organization, working to bring
the best professors to Rice and
HOWARD THOMPSON
to create student harmony.
MR. THOMPSON'S office also
carries out the public relations
functions of the Univei*sity. Its
director underscored the fact that
his staff for this purpose is many
times smaller than that of any
other similar institution.
It was this office, too, which
was the liaison in completing ar-
rangements for President Ken-
nedy's visit, Walter Schirra's
press conference, and the Rice
Semicentennial events.
ONE OF THE major duties of
the Development Office is as a
fund-raising agency which, the
speaker indicated, they carry out
in "a very quiet, meek sort of
way," through such organizatios
as the Rice University Associates,
the Society of Families, and the
Research Sponsors.
When questioned about the pos-
sibility of instituting tuition, he
pointed out that this suggestion
had been under discussion since
Rice opened is doors in 1912 and
had, in'fact, been a topic of Presi-
dent Lovett's inaugural address.
MUCH OF MR. Thompson's re-
sponse to questions from the floor
involved the divulging of some
unofficial information in regard
to such topics as Fortlm speakers,
publicity, and academic freedom.
On the subject of national mag-
azine coverage, however, the
speaker indicated that Rice has
never attempted to hide any-
thing from reporters since "the
more you try to hide something,
the worse it is." Unfortunately,
the article about Rice which was
to appear in Life Magazine was
pre-empted by the death of Mar-
ilyn Monroe, but Mr. Thompson
anticipates coverage by Look
magazine in the very near fu-
ture.
Other services which the De-
velopment Office offers to the
professors include making slides,
binding papers, typing manu-
scripts, and drafting. It also pub-
lishes a monthly newsletter, the
"Rice Report."
o
Thresher Given
'Excellent' Rating
By ACP Service
For the fourth consecutive se-
mester, The Thresher has re-
ceived a First Class Honor rating
from the Associated Collegiate
Press, a nationwide critical ser-
vice for college newspapers.
THE AWARD, equivalent to a
score of "excellent," was pre-
sented this week for the issues of
second semester, 1961-62, under
the editorship of Marjorie Tru-
lan.
Special credit was given to
news coverage (including head-
lines and leads), editorials, and
editorial page features such as
"Faculty Sound-Off." Frank
Wright, judge, described the is-
sues as "an exceptional job of
coverage and writing."
LOWEST SCORES were given
for photography and sports. Of
the sports page, Wright com-
mented, "this section is not up
to the standards of the rest of
the paper. Given Rice's athletic
emphasis and national reputation,
this section should be a strong
one."
The First-Class rating is only
the sixth in the Thresher's 47
years of publication.
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