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The
Thresher
An All-Student Newspaper For 47 Years
Volume 51—Number 10
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1963
'i)holo by David Turner
FLAMES LICK UP THE SIDE of the Rally-Club constructed
bonfire before Saturday's Homecoming game. Visible through the
evening drizzle is a papier-mache pig symbolizing the gridiron op-
ponents. Lou Bertsch, veteran cheerleader and senior French major
was elected Homecoming queen with a court of sophomores Becky
Cardiff, Nancy Henderson Cynthia Hood. The Owls won the
game 7-0.
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Three Major Addresses
Here To Deal With Law
In the next five days, three
prominent speakers will visit the
Eice campus; all will discuss top-
ics related to one theme, the law
of the land.
Senator Allen J. Ellender-will
speak Thursday night at 8 in
Hamman Hall on President Ken-
nedy's Civil Rights Bill.
DESCRIBED BY A prominent
magazine as a moderate segre-
gationist, this distinguished dem-
ocrat from Louisiana has recent-
ly said, "The so-called liberals
of the North are trying to force
the South into submission; they
are not trying to defend the
Negro rights . . . Don't fool youi'-
self, there's' not an ounce of
pure sincerity on the part of any
of them on the question of civil
rights. They want the Negro
vote.*'
Senator Ellender is presently
Chairman of Senate Agricultural
Committee, and fourth on the
Senate Seniority list, having
served almost thirty years in the
upperhouse.
PROFESSOR EDUARDO Gar-
cia-Maynez, of the National Uni-
versity of Mexico, will lecture
on the subject, "Natural Law
And Legal Postivism," Friday,
November 15, at 8 p.m. in the
Fondren Lecture Lounge.
This public lecture, sponsored
by the Rice Philosophy De-
partment, will be of interest not
only to lawyers and pre-law stu-
dents but to anyone interested
in the foundations of our legal
systems.
DR. RADOSLAV A. Tsanoff,
Distinguished Trustee Professor
of Humanities At Rice, met Dr.
Garcia Maynez at the Interna-
tional Congress of Philosophy
and invited him to lecture here.
"Personal Income-Tax Prob-
lems and Prospects" will be the
subject of a public lecture to be
given by Dr. Richard Goode at
8 p.m. Monday, November 18, in
the Fondren Lecture Lounge.
DR. GOODE, an international-
ly-known expert on taxation and
public finance, has the first in a
series of lectures to be sponsored
this year by the Rice University
Economics Department.
Currently, Dr. Goode is writ-
ing a book on income taxation
in the U.S. to be released on the
50th anniversary of the U.S. in-
come-tax law. He has been an
economist for both the U.S. Bu-
reau o f the Budget and the
Treasury Departments, editor of
the National Tax Journal, a
Chief of the Finance Division;
Research and Statistics Depart-
ment, and later assistant Direc-
tor of the Asian Department of
the International Monetary Fund.
Parent Orientation
Some 500 parents will in-
vade the campus Saturday as
the Junior Class sponsors a
Parent Orientation Day.
The program will open at
9:15 am in the RMC with an
introductory speech by Chan-
cellor Carey Croneis.
The parents will then be able
to judge for themselves the ri-
gors to which students are sub-
jected when, at about 10-10:30,
Dr. J. I. Davies and Dr. R. L.
Sass deliver sample freshman
lectures.
A tour of the campus will
end the morning's activities.
After lunch, the A&M game
will draw the parents' atten-
tion. A reception held by Presi-
dent Pitzer in the RMC will
follow at 5 pm.
Mascot Returned;
Inept Kidnappers
Caught In Transit
Amid a flurry of front-page
coverage in the Houston papers,
almost before the student body
discovered their loss, Sammy,
erstwhile school mascot, was
stolen, discovered and returned
by a group of Aggies whose dar-
ing was matched only by their
ineptitude.
The loss, first reported Mon-
day morning, came after the
still-unidentified abductors had
enveigled the RMC night man-
ager to show them where the
Owl was kept Sunday night. In-
vestigating police officers theor-
ized that the owl-nappers re-
turned later, jimmied the lock to
the basement entrance to the
student center, and fled with
their prize.
In any case, the four farmers
were caught by A&M night-
watchmen sneaking the fiberglass
bird onto the College Station
campus. The news of the discov-
ery was relayed to the Rice Dean
of Students, who in turn notified
student officials that the mascot
was on its way home.
The undamaged Owl was
brought to the student center at
2 pm yesterday by Calvin Reese,
A&M dii*ector of student activi-
ties, with a duo of sheepish
freshmen ("fish") doing the
honors.
Said Reese to the "fish" as
they hauled the Owl toward the
RMC lobby: "Deny everything,
boys." There was nothing they
could say, anyway.
Trustee Pledges'Quality University,'
Urges Students To Pass On Ideas
"The Board is determined that
Rice will be maintained as a
quality university," Tnistee J.
Newton^ Rayzor tpfel a Wiess
College audience last night. "If
we can't keep it at a superior
level, why have it at all?" he
asked.
Rayzor's speech followed a
white-tablecloth, coat-and-tie col-
lege night that hosted Universi-
ty President K. S. Pitzefc, Chan-
celor Carey Cronies, Dean of
Students S. W. Higgginbotham,
Mrs. Harry Carothers Wiess, and
a group of Wiess associates in
addition to the principal speaker.
RAYZOR PROMISED t h e
Board of Governor's full support
to President Pitzer's long range
prograrrj to "up-grade the facul-
ty," "put the field of humanities
on the same high level as any
other department at the univer-
sity," and to provide the neces-
sary finances for the increased
expenditures these programs de-
mand.
Rayzor also assured the stu-
dents present that the "Board is
interested in college life on this
campus," and indicated that the
university would grant a loan for
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Major Development In Lawsuit
Within Ninety Days, Says Lovett
H. Malcolm Lovett, a member
of the Board of Trustees and a
partner in the law firm handling
the Rice tuition-integration suit
said Saturday that he expects
to "see major action in connec-
tion with the suit within 60-90
days."
Speaking to the Alumni at last
Regents At Texas
Lower Race Bars
In All But Housing
Rice was generally imperturbed
at the weekend announcement of
the University of Texas Board
of Regents' decision to remove
all racial barriers in student
activities.
The Texas Board of Regents
voted unanimously Saturday
morning to remove all regent-
imposed restrictions, with the
exception of University-own-
ed h ousin g . Intercollegiate
athletics and some aspects of
musical and dramatic produc-
tions had previously been seg-
regated.
THE NEW directive delegates
approval of student participation
in voluntary activities to the
appropriate administrative of-
ficers and faculty members
"without Regental restriction
based on race color, or creed."
Racial restrictions in hiring were
also removed. o
Texas' careful delegation of
approval for student participation
and the retention of segregation
in University housing contrasts
with President K. S. Pitzei-'s
statement in the March, 1963
Rice Alumni Magazine.
IN ANSWER to a question re-
garding Rice's policy if inter-
gration should occur, Pitzer
stated that "While this has not
been officially decided, the pres-
ent thoughts are that if racial
restrictions are removed, they
are removed entirely."
Rice has previously announced
a non-discriminatory hiring
policy.
By its action, Texas became
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Saturday's Homecoming gather-
ing in the RMC Grand Hall, the
Houston attorney said that with-
out the suit of intervention filed
this summer to block the Trus-
tee's action the case would "al-
ready have been through with."
Board Vice-Chairman J. New-
ton Rayzor told a Wiess College
audience last night that he ex-
pects a trial with a short while,
predicting an early setting, prob-
ably in December.
MR. LOVETT stressed that
the motive of the Board in bring-
ing the suit was to equalize Rice's
position with respect to other
colleges in competition for funds
from foundations and the gov-
ernment.
"What Rice will accomplish
with this lawsuit will be to allow
us to compete on an equal basis"
for funds to support the Univer-
sity program. Rice cannot hope-
to compete "with Tulane, Vander-
bilt, Emory College or Duke, not
to mention some of the colleges
of the Northeast or far west"
without relief from the present
charter restrictions, he said.
CONCERNING THE tuition
aspect, Lovett stated that if the
suit was successful, the Universi-
ty would maintain "40-50 per
cent of the student body always
on full scholarship. He empha-
sized that any student who could
not afford a Rice education would
receive generous assistance.
Questioned about the filing for
both integration tuition in the
same suit, Lovett replied that the
two are "almost equally import-
ant" and that "both came up at
same time."
"THE RACIAL barrier is as
important as any, especially when
it cotnes to government grants."
The trustee added that he thought
a greater degree of government
support for higher education "is
not a bad thing," drawing a
comparison with European prac-
tice, where the governments have
supported education for years.
Asked about the effects on en -
rollment of both measures, Lov-
ett said tha«t""wtS will maintain
the same high standards we have
always had." He declined to say
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PBK Chooses Ei
Eight seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa at a meeting
November 5 of the Beta of Texas Chapter Senate. They will be
initiated into the society on December 5, the anniversary of the
founding of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Those elected were Richard Harwood Barry, a Baker Mathe-
matics major from Nashville, Tennessee; Frank West Bertram,
a Biology major from Austin and a member of Wiess College;
Arthur Fryar Calhoun, a History major from Plainview, and
William Clint Johnson, III, an Economics major from San An-
gelo, both in Hanszen.
ECONOMICS MAJOR Hal- Hooper Mc Kinney of Dallas is a
member of Weiss College and Sandra Gayle Sutton, a German
major from Ft. Hood, Texas, represents Jones College. Robert
Bruce Thompson of Baker College is a Physics major from
College Station, and David Jon Vanderschel, Will Rice Col-
lege, is a Mathematics major from Lubbock.
The number of selections for Phi Beta Kappa is based on a
quota as well as on the individual's grades. The national maximum
is twenty-five per cent of the graduating class; the figure at
Rice is fixed at ten per cent by the constitution of this chapter.
Membership is restricted to seniors. This "means that the maxi-
mum this year is thirty members, the rest to be elected in the
spring.
DR. KONSTANTIN KOLENDA, Senate secretary, explained
that the paucity of engineers'in "Phi Beta Kappa is partially due
to the requirement that the student have ninety hours of liberal
arts subjects before graduation, which excludes nearly all of the
engineering subjects. Thus, several students with excellent grades
can not even be considered for membership.
Richard'Barry said, when contacted, "I was* pleased. I" con-
sider it quite an honor." This was echoed by Hal McKinney.
Sandra Sutton perhaps best expressed the feelings common
to all: "My first reaction was one of pure joy. Ever since then
I've been thinking what a responsibility it is; this is something
which will be with me a\l of_my life. Rice means so much to me
already, and this honor and responsibility is more than I could
ask."
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 13, 1963, newspaper, November 13, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244899/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.