The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1963 Page: 7 of 10
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WED., FEBRUARY 20, 1963
THE THRESHER
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RICE-NASA RELATIONS
EagiRecring Dean To haigirato
Spring Speaker Series In Baker
Tonight Dean F. R. Brotzen
of the Department of Engineer-
ing will conduct an after-dinner
discussion on the general topic of
Rice's relations with NASA.
Thfl discussion will be the first
of a series of informal talks
presented in the Baker College
Health Officials:
No Bladder Worms
In Commons Food
If you've wondered what's be-
come of the food committee, rest,
assured that they've been at work
in the best interests of the stu-
dent body. At the last meeting
of the; committee, Doty Murphy
of Wiess was elected as its new
chairman.
THE COMMITTEE is now
waiting for a special budget that
President Pitzer is having drawn
up. The budget will show the
break-down of money spent in
three areas; room, board, and
upkeep.
Once the committee has an
exact statement of how much
students are paying for meals,
it will be better able to deter-
mine whether the Rice food serv-
ice is operating at maximine
efficiency and what changes
might be profitable.
WHITNEY-
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ernmental echelons, he found the
general attitude of the American
people discouraging, remarking
that we suffer from an "una-
wareness or unwillingness . . to
look at the facts: and examine
them from any other point of
view that everything is all black
or white; we're goodies and
they're baddies."
"MOST PEOPLE don't know
enough politically to judge on
matters of national importance,"
he quoted Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas as saying,
Centering his discussion of
present American attitudes
around the affluence and influ-
ence in the U. S. of a "military-
industrial" complex, Whitney at-
tacked universal peacetime mili-
tary conscription and the fact
that 80% of all earned income
in a city like San Diego comes
from defense contracts:.
MR. WHITNEY concluded that
"we need to find non-violent al
ternatives for solution of inter-
national conflicts that can no
longer he dealt with by war."
The problem, he said, is as much
moral as economic and political;
western society will stand or fall
or our ability to solve it.
"When any people," he quoted,
"base their hope of security on
their technological capacity to de-
stroy tens or hundreds of mil-
lions of their fellow human be-
ings in the interest of their own
self defense, that people has ac-
cepted a moral degradation that
denies it the right to any free-
dom itself."
Complete Cleaning
Laundry Service
Sunset
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spring speaker program. Dean
Brotzen is one of the key men
in the Rice-N.A.S.A. axis, and
can be expected to reveal much of
great general interest to Rice
students.
NEXT WEDNESDAY Profes-
sor H. H. Lehnert will conduct
a similar informal discussion on
the topic of World War II. Dr.
Lehnert is the co-author of a
book on this subject, "Humanitat
und Diktatur," which is current-
ly being used in German 200.
February 27, Joe T. Doke and
Bob Ward, engineers for the
Apollo manned moon shot, will
lead a discussion which will deal
with NASA in general, and the
moon shot project in particular.
Professor Alan Grob of the
English department will give an
informal talk within the general
framework of "Romanticism," the
following Wednesday, March 4.
FOLLOWING DR. Grob on
the Baker speaker calendar will
be .Dr. Frank E. Vandiver of the
Department of History, who will
conduct a discussion Wednesday,
March 15 which will be concern-
ed with academic freedom.
Wednesday, March 20, James
Johnson Sweeney; of the Museum
of Fine Arts will lead an after-
dinner discussion on an as yet
unannounced subject.
Last week at Baker's first
spring College Night, Dr. Carey
Croneis showed slides and spoke
about his travels through Russia
and Asia.
A speaker for the last week
in March has not yet been
selected.'
Indigent Children Tutored
By Rice Inter faith Group
By LINDA WALSH
As we walk along the narrow
sidewalks, past the rows of
cramped apartments, we listen to
the sounds of San Felipe Courts.
Each of the thousand families
there may have from four to
twelve children, and it is the
sound of these children that we
hear with special interest.
SOUNDS OF their crying and
laughing, their singing and their
shouting, mingle with voices of
parents, blare of televisions and
night-noises of the city. In teams
of two, one boy and one girl,
we go to their homes and speak
to them. Others of us talk and
work with them in the library
and study rooms which the
Housing Authority of the cohrts
has made available. Many of the
students are Latin-Americans
who have difficulties with Eng-
lish, in addition to questions in
about courses.
Most parents are interested in
seeing that their children do well
in school, but they have no means
of helping them and don't en-
courage them. Poverty and
illiteracy are infectious diseases
that reach into every corner of
the Courts. Bright and curious
minds are often not enough to
fight them, and after children
are well into school they find
their appetites dulled by en-
vironment.
RICE STUDENTS tutor these
children under the auspices of the
San Felipe Tutoring Project,
organized by the campus Inter-
faith Council and supervised by
the Rev. Jimmy Reese, a social
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for a career that offers
TRAINING — Planned programs provide know-how and lead
quickly to management experience in positions of real responsi-
bility.
RECOGNITION — Promotion is based on performance and
capacity for growth rather than an inflexible timetable for
advancement.
EARNING POWER—Department store managerial salaries
rank with the best in U. S. industry and business, and often are
more quickly reached.
OPPORTUNITY — Foley's is growing more rapidly than the
general economy, providing unusual opportunities for personal
growth.
with opportunities in
MERCHANDISING — Merchandising executives are responsible
for planning, buying, presentation, selling, personal leadership,
sales promotion and the generation of profits.
CONTROL AND FINANCE— Here executives develop and
analyze operating and financial reports to improve management
effectiveness.; direct auditing and accounting procedures for the
control of funds; and develop and administer credit plans.
STORE OPERATIONS—Operations executives direct the flow
of merchandise from the resource through the store to the cus-
tomer. They are responsible for developing and administering
customer services; for maintaining and operating the physical
plant; for analyzing, planning and purchasing supplies and
materials.
AND MANY OTHER AREAS— There are challenging manage-
ment careers in research, method analysis, advertising, per-
sonnel, and other fields requiring diversified skills and talents.
«$e Foley's
•I* will be on your campus
February 21
FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT YOUR
PLACEMENT OFFICE
worker at the courts. Nearby
schools co-operate by making
available the names of those
who need special help.
DIFFERENT GRADE levels
are taught on different evenings:
Mondays, 1-4; Tuesdays, 7-9;
Wednesdays, 10-12; and Thurs-
days, 1-3. Students going out at
least once a week number about
fifty. The student representatives
of the Rice campus are Ron
Wilder, Thorpe Butler, and Judy
Gathers.
A progress report will be made
tonight as those participating in
the project and those interested
in it will be meeting with Rev.
Reese at 8:30 pm in Anderson
Hall, 108.
On Campos
with
MaxShulman
(Author of "I Was a Teen-age Dwarf", "The Mann
Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
GLAD RAGS
The hounds of spring are on winter's traces. Soon buds the
crocus, soon trills the giant condor, soon come the new spring
fashions to adorn our lissome limbs.
And what will the American college student wear this spring?
Gather round, you rascals, and light a Marlboro Cigarette and
enjoy that fine mellow tobacco, that pure white filter, and
possess your souls in sweet content, and listen.
As everyone knows, campus fashions have always been casual.
This spring, however, they have gone beyond being merely
casual: they have become makeshift.
The object is to look madly improvised, gaily spur-of-the-
moment! For example, why don't you girls try wearing a
peasant skirt, with a dinner jacket? Or matador pants with a
bridal veil? Or Bermuda shorts with bronze breastplates? Be
rakish! Be impromptu! Be devil-take-the-hindmost!
And, men, you be the same. Try an opera cape with sweat
pants. Or a letter-sweater with kilts. Or a strait jacket with
hip boots. Be bold! Be daring! Be a tourist attraction!
■f/fdikh
But. all is not innovation in college fashions this spring. In
fact, one of the highlights of the season turns time backward in
its flight. I refer, of course, to the comeback of the powdered
wig.
This charming accoutrement, too long neglected, has already
caught on with in undergrads everywhere. On hundreds of
campuses the bossa nova is giving way to the minuet, and
patriotic undergraduates are dumping British tea into the
nearest harbor. This, as you may imagine, does not sit well with
King George III who, according to reliable reports, has been
stamping his foot and uttering curses not fit to reproduce in
this family newspaper. For that matter, a lot of our own people
are steamed up too, and there has even been some talk about the
American colonies declaring their independence of England.
But I hardly think it will come to that. I mean, how can we
break with the mother country when we are dependent on her
for so many things—linsey-woolsey, Minie balls, taper snuffers,
and like that? She, on the other hand, relies on us for turkeys,
Marlboro Cigarettes, and R ute GO. So-Lsay, if Molly Pitcher
and those other Radcliffe hotheads will calm down, and if
gentlemen will cry "Peace! Peace!" we may yet find an
amicable solution to our differences. But let not our British
cousins mistake this willingness to negotiate for weakness. If
fight we must, then fight we will! Paul Revere is saddled up,
the rude bridge arches the flood, and the ROTC is armed!
But I digress. We were smoking Marlboro Cigarettes—O,
splendid cigarette! O, good golden tobaccos! O, pristine pure
white filter! O, fresh! O, tasty! O, soft pack! O, flip top box!
O, get some!—we were, I say, smoking Marlboros and talking
about spring fashions.
Let us turn now to the season's most striking new feature-
pneumatic underdrawers. These inflatable garments make every
chair an,easy chair. Think how welcome they will be when you
sit through a long lecture! They are not, however, without
certain dangers. Last week, for example, Rimbaud Sigafoos, a
sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, fell <5lit bf a 9(>th
story window in the Tower of Learning. Thanks to his pneu-
matic underdrawers, he suffered no injury when he struck the
sidewalk, but the poor fellowr is still bouncing—his seventh
consecutive day—and it is feared that he will starve to death.
* ($ 1903 Ma* Shulman
Fashions come, fashions go, but year after year Marlboro
Cigarettes, sponsors of this column, bring you the tastiest
tobaccos arid a pure white filter too. Try Marlboro soon.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1963, newspaper, February 20, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231228/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.