The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1962 Page: 1 of 12
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Celebrating Rice's Semicentennial Year
Volume 50—Number 12
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WED„ DECEMBER 12, 1962
Green Victorious
In Frosh Election;
Referendum Wins
FINAL RETURNS
Ron Green narrowly defeated
Ralph Parks in today's runoff
for Freshman class president.
The vote was 133-131.
Brenda Barry was elected
Vice-President and Chris Grig-
assy won the Secretary-Treas-
urer's spot.
The proposed Intei*-c o 11 e g e
Court passed convincingly and six
members of the Class of '66 found
themselves in runoffs after Tues-
day's referendum-election.
Students approved the Court by
a 603-143 margin, well above the
three-fourths majority needed fox-
passage.
THE NEW COURT will have
power over disciplinary problems
involving student organizations,
as well as individual offenses by
students of more than one college.
In Freshman elections, write-
in candidate Ralph Parks will
meet Ron Green in a run-off for
President today. The two led sol-
idly over five opponents.
BRENDA BARRY, who led the
ticket for Vice-president, faces
Anne Holland. Nancy Henderson
Snd Alice Rudolph were elim-
inated in the first voting.
The secretary-treasurer's race
will find Stan Dozier pitted
against Chris Grigassy. Two
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Committee Will Study
Expansion Of Colleges
A new student-faculty committee which could signifi-
cantly alter Rice's college system has begun its preliminary
organization.
The Committee on Residential Colleges, chaired by
Dr. Street Fulton, Master of Will Rice College, met with
President K. S. Pitzer on De-
WE ARE GNOMES, GNOMES ARE WE — Five
Riceites portray a familiar theme from the annual Senior
Follies, opening Friday at Hamman Hall. Left to right are
Jay Foster, Paul Dodge, Charles Morgan, Harry Guffee,
Jim McDaniel.
—photo by Bruce Herron
DENT DIRECTS
Follies Revives Semicentennial
By ANNE WATTS
"The Grody Years," a motley
production, will be staged on De-
cember 14 and ft, in Hamman
Hall, under the aegis of the Class
of '63.
Although considered a unit in
the series of annual cultural of-
ferings traditionally designated
Senior Follies, "The Grody Years"
celebrates a higher distinction:
It shares in ^he Semi-centennial
Academic Festival.
AND SO, THE theme — The
University Forced To Reject Negroes;
Courts Approve Tulane Integration
~ implied that the court's judge-
Rice has received several "in-
quiries" from potential Negro ap-
plicants, President K. S. Pitzer
revealed Monday.
"We have simply had to answer
them with a frank statement of
our position," Dr. Pitzer said.
(Rice University is.segregated by
restrictions in the original char-
ter.)
"THE INQUIRIES all seem to
have been made independently by
individuals," he said. There is al-
so no evidence of a concerted
campaign to integrate the school,
and no indication that a "test
case" will be made by any or-
ganization to break the color bar
at Rice, a privately-endowed uni-
versity.
Dr. Pitzer added that "we told
them there might soon be a time
when they would be eligible for
admission, but under the present
circumstances they were not. Of
course, they felt it would be det-
rimental to their educational
plans to wait."
He said that he did not know
whether any of the prospective
students had formally completed
an application.
* * *
A Federal district court ruled
last week that it was unconsti-
tutional for the State of Louis-
iana to compel racial discrimina-
tion in private affairs. The rul-
ing paved the way for Tulane
University to voluntarily admit
Negro students to the all-white
co-educational school.
THE COURT was ruling on a
civil suit initiated by two Negro
women who sought admission to
Newcomb College, Tulane's under-
graduate-division for women. The
suit was filed on September 1,
1061, but the women's attorney
that the court's
ment would not end the compli-
cated litigation.
Judge Frank Ellis noted in his
decision that while state law
could not prohibit the Negro's
admission, the court could not
compel it either, since the uni-
versity is a private institution.
John P. Nelson, counsel for the
Negroes, claimed the ruling
"opens the door to new and more
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Rice Image: Prenatal,
and Centennial.
Present
Charlie Dent, a substantial
figure in the art world, directs
"The Grody Years." (Dent draws
funny cartoons and directed the
PALS Burlesque last year.)
Justin Kidd, scholar and vet-
eran of Players productions, is
the integrationist for Follies.
(Kidd makes it one big lump in-
stead of lots of little lumpify
Crawling out of the lump is
Goodman Beaver, a character so
major that he's played by two
people: young by Jim Campbell
and old by Giles Bumpas.
BEAVER IS A public relations
man who becomes president of a
Great University. "The Grody
Years" commemorates the cen-
tennial of that university, stress-
ing Beaver's role.
Act I, a tale told by Goodman
Beaver, treats fancifully the up-
bringing of founder William
Marsh Rice. Young Rice, played
by Sandy Parkerson, is born dur-
ing Scene II. Mother Rice (Bar-
bara Barrow) and Father Rice
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cember 5 to organize into sub-
committees. During the remain-
der of the 1962-63 year, it will
consider the possibility of ex-
pansion and improvement in the
College system.
THE CENTRAL point for
study, Dr. Fulton explained, was
the current overcrowding in the
men's colleges and in Jones col-
lege. Three students are living in
two-man rooms in some colleges,
and other colleges have found it
necessary to deny rooms to large
numbers of Houston students be-
cause of increased demand.
"We haven't closed our minds
to any proposals," he said, listing
several suggestions that had been
made for solving the problem.
These include 1) a new men's
college and another wing to
Jones college, 2) expansion of the
existing men's colleges, 3) a
freshman dormitory, 4) an ath-
letic dormitory.
DR. FULTON plans to divide
the Committee's work into sub-
committees; he indicated that Mr.
Anderson Todd, Associate Pro-
fessor of Architecture, would be
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Keilin, Buchanan,
Calhoun Journey
To A&M's Scona
Two juniors and an English ex-
change student make up Rice's
three-man delegation to the
eighth Student Conference on
National Affairs.
Eugene Keilin, Fryar Calhoun,
and Lindsay Buchanan left this
morning for the four-day confer-
ence which opened this afternoon
with a 2 pm plenary session.
Keilin and Calhoun are juniors;
Buchanan is: a graduate engi-
neer from Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, studying at Rice on a one-
year exchange basis.
THE DELEGATION was chos-
en by the executive committee of
the S. A.
The conference, known as SC-
ONA, is sponsored annually by
Texas A & M and draws dele-
gates representing 79 colleges
and universities including eight
in Mexico and four in Canada.
' Within the context of its gen-
eral theme, "Sources of World
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Student Petitions Gain Momentum;
Commons Meals Under Scrutiny
Petitions requesting a re-exam-
ination of the campus Food Serv-
ice have accumulated more than
400 signatures since students be-
gan circulating them Monday.
The text of the petition, the
most concerted 'campaign in re-
cent years against the food served
in Rice's residential colleges, is
as follows:
"WHEREAS THE. food served
by the food service of Rice Uni-
versity is of an inferior quality,
improperly prepared; and
"Whereas an insufficient quan-
tity of food (especially meat) is
commonly served,
'.'Now, therefbre, we, the under-
signed students of Rice Univer-
sity, request a re-examination of
tho food service in order to rec-
tify these conditions."
A spokesman for the group
which started the petitions ex-
plained that their objective was
to bring "the truth about the
meals" to the attention of Uni-
versity officials.
"WE'RE HOPING to convince
some members of the administra-
tion to come over and try a meal
without special menus," he said.
"If someone like President Pitzer
just dropped in and tried a meal,
without the food service people
knowing in advance that he was
coming, something might be
done." •
Menus are usually revised when
high-ranking university officials
dine in the commons. A typical
example was Monday evening's
meal at Baker College, where
Chancellor Croneis and other ad
ministrators were honored guests.
Steaks were substituted for the
usual fare at Baker, and the serv-
ing procedure. was drastically re-
vised.
A WIESS COLLEGE official
related a similar incident at that
College last year, when it was
discovered less than an hour be-
fore dinner that President Pitzer
would be a guest. "They put down
place mats, warmed his food in
the kitchen, and briefed the fresh-
man server," he said. "Dr. Pitzer
was thus insulated from the real
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CONFERENCE WINNERS—Baylor's debate champ-
tions accept their trophy from Dean W. H. Masterson.
Becky Dawson accepts the trophy, others are Calvin Kent,
Anne Schell, Geogre Schell, and David Deaton.
—photo by Bruce Herron
SWC Tournament;
Third And Fourth
place in the negative division and
fourth in the affirmative.
JIM DOYLE, president of the
Rice Debate Council which host-
ed the tournament, complimented
the administration for its help in
organizing the event and especial-
ly in obtaining judges.
"The administration and Alum-
ni Association could not have
been more co-operative," said
Doyle.
Eugene Keilen, assisted by Jim
Martin, served as director of the
event, with Don Carson as chair-
man of debate.
Jared Hazelton and Ken Can-
supervised the assignment of
judges.
In charge of other facets of
the tournament were Linda Boles,
luncheon and hospitality; Eddie
Price, timekeeper; and Joe
Draughn, Judge Instructions.
Baylor Scores In
Rice Teams Finish
By JOHN HAMILTON
Baylor University made a clean
sweep of the Southwest Confer-
ence Debate Tournament held
here December 7 and 8, carrying
home the Southwest Conference
traveling trophy and the First
Place Affirmative' and Negative
trophies offered by Rice Univer-
sity.
EACH OF the eight schools
in the Conference entered one af-
firmative and one negative team
in the round-robin tournament
to debate the national collegiate
debate proposition, Resolved:
That the non-Communist nations
of the world should establish an
economic community.
Baylor won with an impressive
6-1, 7-0 record. Rice's teams, Eu-
gene Keilin and Jim Doyle for
affirmative and John Early and
John Chrisman for negative,
scored 4-3 and 5-2 to win third
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1962, newspaper, December 12, 1962; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231222/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.