The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1962 Page: 4 of 10
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THE THRESHER
WED., NOVEMBER 7,1962
College Courts Eilargwl, Reorganized
la Attenpt To Cornet lasuffieieneies
By STEVE DARDEN
Thrusting a well-wetted thumb
into the campus political breezes,
one might notice that the colleges
have become increasingly con-
cerned with the delicate issue of
judicial responsibility.
In interviews with college of-
ficers, The Thresher found that
three colleges have initiated
measures designed to correct in-
adequacies in their judicial
branches.
All the colleges now have some
sort of court to try cases of in-
fraction of the rules of the col-
leges and of the university. Now,
moreover, it appears there may
be an Inter-college Court esta-
blished under the auspices of the
Student Senate to increase the
student body's power over their
all school organizations.
Game Room Due
To Reopen Soon
Due to negligence on the part
of some students, more stringent
regulations for the use of the
Memorial Center game rooms
have been instituted by the Stu-
dent Center Board.
The pool room will be closed
until November 12 in order to
repair damaged equipment and
replace missing cues.
BEGINNING NOVEMBER 12,
all students must deposit their
blanket taxes at the reception
desk in the lobby in order to
check out game room equipment.
Students will be held financial-
ly responsible for any damage
done to equipment they have
checked out.
THE MAXIMUM time for use
of pool room equipment will be
one hour. If there are students
waiting to play, there must be
at least four players using each
table.
In addition, if there is a wait-
ing list, a limit of 30 minutes
will be enforced in the ping-pong
room.
The new Baker Court has
jurisdiction over both resident
and non-resident members, and
is charged with handling cases
arising from infractions of both
college and university rules.
DECISIONS are submitted to
the Cabinet for approval and en-
forcement. Decisions are, of
course, subject to Administration
review.
Baker president Frank Jones
noted that the new Cabinet House
Committee, with one member in
each of nine college areas, has
been highly effective in heading
off disciplinary problems before
they develop.
HANSZEN'S judiciary is com-
plemented by a Cabinet House
Committee similar to Baker's.
This committee functions, as
Chief Justice Marvin Tarrant de-
scribed it, "as a liaison between
the college members and the court.
"College members turn to these
committeemen for arbitration of
minor problems, and should a
serious infraction occur, a formal
complaint is submitted to the
Chief Justice. Of course, a 'cease
and desist' request is usually suf-
ficient, so court action is rare-
ly necessary."
THE WILL RICE Court has
begn functioning since shortly
after the initiation of the Col-
lege System. "Unlike Hanszen
and Baker," remarked Chief
Justice Mark Bowden, "we do not
employ a House Committee to
receive and arbitrate complaints,
but rely upon the assumption of
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individual responsibility by col-
lege members to prevent viola-
tion^."
THE WIESS Court—acting as
prosecution, defense, judge, and
jury for college members—is a
self-perpetuating body of seniors
and graduate students, the final
approval of the newly selected
justices resting with the college.
As Mel Lack, Wiess President,
explained, "In our college system,
unique in stressing both indivi-
dual rights and communal living,
the primary responsibility of en-
forcing the laws of our com-
munity rests with the college
members themselves. They are
reminded of these responsibilities
by the college government."
THE COUNTERPART to the
judiciaries of the men's colleges
is the Residence Committee of
Jones College. Chairman Kathy
Kindt described the committee as
being "responsible to the Cab-
inet, and charged with handling
such disciplinary problems as may
arise.
"The committee's jurisdiction
and powers have been established
by precedent rather than by a
formal judicial code," she added.
Completing the judicial picture,
the Senate is considering the
afox-e-mentioned Inter-C o 11 e g e
Court proposed by Senator Tim
Mock: "The court, consisting of
the Chief Justice from each Col-
lege, will increase the student
body's power over their all-
school organizations. If requested
by the colleges, the court can
handle incidents involving mem-
bers of several colleges, and will
serve as a center for the sharing
of ideas between College gourts,
and for study of problems related
to- student self-discipline."
CONNALLY-
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responses. Slightly less than 61%
of these indicating a preference
in the Governor's race favored
Republican Cox.
COX RECEIVED 153 votes,
Connally, 90, Don Yarborough's
name was written in on 9 ballots.
One ballot indicated nothing
more than the voter's opposition
to zoning, one claimed indiffer-
ence, and a third showed oppo-
sition to the poll, according to
bi-partisan election officials
Smith andy Keilin.
FEW RICE students worked
actively during the campaign, al-
though a small group of well-or-
ganized- Young Republicans did
contribute to the campaigns of
a number of candidates. Others
assisted voluntarily in the Con-
nally campaign. A few sudents
were seen passing out literature
at the polls during yesterday's
voting.
Connally spoke to a small ga-
thering of Rice students last*
spring during the primary cam-
paign; Candidate Cox did not ap-
pear on campus.
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THRESHING-IT-OUT-
Calhoun Questions Thorn
On Anti-Guidance Stand
To the Editor:
Last week Gary Thorn expressed his disappointment
that The Thresher didn't print an editorial lauding "owl-
bowing," but I notice that he had no doubts that the
paper's opinion is pro-bowing and anti-Will Rice.
I hate to disappoint him again, but his opinions are
rather strikingly incompatible with the facts. Editor Grif-
fin Smith and I served in the spring of 1961 on a Hanszen
guidance study committee which abolished owl-bowing—
to our satisfaction. We were ^ ^
Hazleton Asks For
More Alternatives
Than Red Or Dead
To The Editor:
The article published in last
week's Thresher describing the
frantic efforts of the university
administration to provide a pro-
gram for Civil Defense and fall-
out protection compels one to
question thg sanity of our age.
Coupled with Mr. Price's article
of several weeks ago, we now
have the ludicrous suggestion that
our generation can "hold the
line" by cringing in the depths
of university basements while
mankind commits mass suicide.
IT IS NOT at all comforting
to be told that Rice is providing
three days of shelter in face of
the alarming reality that nuclear
war will in all probability leave
this city -and all other major
cities in this country uninhabit-
able for months and perhaps
years.
It is no less calming to be
assured that Rice will provide
guards for shelter entrances. This
provides the pitiful picture of a
guard turning away our fellow
man becase there is no roon\ at
our inn, only room for Rice fac-
ulty and students.
opposed to the tradition's rein-
statement this year.
But this does not mean that
we share Mr. Thorn's sweeping
anti-guidance prejudices. Instead
of injudiciously condemning all
guidance traditions, he might, I
suggest, profit from reading that
committee's report and discuss-
ing it with us.
The guideline of the committee
was to examine each facet of
guidance, keeping only those
which have definite intrinsic value
and rejecting otherwise "empty"
traditions. Has Mr. Thom applied
this sort of yardstick to guidance,
or has he rejected guidance out of
hand as "sub-high school"?
Let me add that I speak not
as a "loyal Hanszenite," but as
one who believes that each col-
lege should examine its guidance
program objectively and careful-
ly, learning from other colleges
as well. No doubt such a process
would result in different systems
in each college, an undoubtedly
healthy state of affairs. Unlike
Mr. Thom, I have little sympathy
with the attitude that any one
college now holds the final an-
swer to the guidance question.
—FRYAR CALHOUN
'Hanszen '64
SYMPOSIUM-
(Continued from Page 1)
toric peoples and cultures of
North and South America." He
added that "since the last sim-
ilar appraisal, a great deal of
new knowledge has accumulated."
Rice Chancellor Carey Croneis
will open the proceedings at 3
pm Friday afternoon. Papers will
be read in four sessions during
the two days.
THE READINGS will actually
be 30-minute condensations of
the much longer papers, and Dr.
Norbeck stressed that the ad-
dresses are planned for an au-
dience including laymen. Students
and the general public are invited.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1962, newspaper, November 7, 1962; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231218/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.