The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1964 Page: 1 of 8
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An All-Student Newspaper For 47 Years
Volume 51—Number 15
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, JAN, 8, 1964
—Thresher photo by David Turner
CROWDED AT NIGHT—With the vending machines demoted
to the basement and the fountain and short-order grill open until
10:30, Sammy's has regained its former popularity for the mid-
evening coffee break. The campus gathering place reopened January
6 under the management of the National Food Service, a division
of'Automatic Canteen.
Sammy's Now Open Longer Hours;
Quality, Service To Be Improyed
By LYN MARTIN
Nationwide Food Service, the
company now catering at Sam-
my's, plans to improve quality on
the hot foods and speed up the
service, according to manager
Marion Hicks.
At noon the number of em-
ployees is about the same as the
number working under the old
management, and all old em-
ployees who wished to stay were
retained. At night the service
will employ a short order cook,
a girl on the counter, a cashier,
and a dishwasher.
NO MAJOR changes were made
in the first day of service. "It
will take a day or two to see
what we can do and exactly what
is needed," explained Mr. Hicks.
Student consensus, even after
one day, was that the atmosphere
was much more pleasant. The
"thank you, come again," from
the cashier was an innovation
Fifteen Will Seek
Wilson Stipends;
Finals Thursday
Rice will send fifteen repre-
sentatives to Thursday's final in-
terviews for the coveted Wilson
Graduate Fellowships' The fif-
teen :
Don Du Pre, Mark Elson, Jo-
seph E. Lester, Robert B. Thomp-
son, Fryar Calhoun, Catherine
Carl, William C. Johnson, Jim
Edd Jones, Thomas F. Lockwood,
Sears McGee. Dean Mixon, Tom
Sears, Edward Snow, Gary Tlfbm
and Doug Harlan.
The scholarships, designed to
finance the graduate education
of prospective college teachers,
cover tuition and fees for one
year.
The fifteen Rice finalists were
selected after faculty members
nominated thirty candidates. The
finalists will compete in the in-
terviews with approximately 170
other candidates from this region.
which almost all students no-
ticed.
"BETTER MERCHANDISING"
was one student's comment. Ue
remarked particularly on the
changed wording on the menu and
on the ham and roast beef "sliced
right before your eyes."
"The great problem is that the
food is so good I'll be spending
too much money for lunch" moan-
ed one student.
Even the between class coffee-
breakers appreciated the new
management. The coffee and the
cherry pie both received much fa-
vorable notice.
THE MACHINES have been
relegated to the basement, al-
though with the 7:30 am to 10:30
pm hours the sandwich and coffee
machine will be dispensed with.
Present plans are to remain open
for Sunday evening supper also.
When asked about financial ar-
rangements, Mr. Hicks indicated
that the Nationwide Food Service
Would pay Rice a commission,
based on a percentage of sales.
The new management has an-
nounced the following schedule:
Mon,-Fri.: 7:30 am-10:30 pm
Saturday: 7:30 am-1 pm
Sunday: 4 pm-8 pm
Service on Sunday will be
continued only if it is found to
be profitable.
• o
Noted Historian,
Pulitzer Winner,
Here Wednesday
Richard Hofstadter, the Pulit-
zer Prize winning historian from
Columbia University, will speak
next Wednesday on "The Mean-
ing of American Populism" at
2 pm in the Fondren Library Lec-
ture Lounge.
Professor Hofstadter, termed
by a History Department spokes-
man as one of the nation's fore-
most historians, is widely known
for his work in late nineteenth
and twentieth century American
history.
THE DeWITT Clinton Profes-
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Library Schedule
The Fondren Library has
announced the following sched-
ule of closing hours for the
end of the first semester:
January 7-10 1 am
January 11 11 pm
January 12-17 1 am
January 18 11 pm
January 19-22 1 am
January 23-24 11 pm
January 25 5 pm
January 26 11 pm
Classes and normal library
hours will resume Monday,
January 27.
Thomas, Ten Others Request Court
To Grant Change In Rice Charter
By BILL BROYLES
Eleven former Rice students,
including Representative Albert
Thomas, filed a suit of interven-
tion yesterday in Judge Phil Pe-
den's State District Court, asking
that the Trustees be allowed to
integrate admissions and charge
tuition here.
The new suit, the third to be
filed in the legal proceedings
which began February 26, 1963,
is in contrast to a plea made
this summer 'by two other former
students seeking to block Trustee
action.
THE FIRST SUIT of interven-
tion was initiated June 20, 1963,
by John B. Coffee and Val T.
Billups.
The Trustee's suit has been
given a preferential setting for
the week beginning February 10.
Four Take New Posts
As Two Take Leaves
By ROGER GLADE
Two major changes are in the
offing for the faculty next se-
mester, as Dr. Roy Talmage and
Dr. William H. Masterson take
leaves.
Dr. Talmage, Chairman of the
Biology Department and Master
of Wiess College, will depart
January 25 for the University of
Lieden in Holland, where he
plans to confer with a biologist
whose researches into the bio-
chemistry of bone is related to
Dr. Talmage's recent work on
bone phisiology.
DR. TALMAGE'S POSITION
at Wiess College will be tem-
porarily filled by Dr.4 Paul
Pfieffer of the EJectrioal Engi-
neering Department. Dr. Clark
P. Reed will serve as Chairman
of the Biology Depai'tment. Tal-
mage will return for the next
academic year uin time for
Freshman week."
Planning to leave on a Sab-
batical is Professor Masterson,
Master of Hanszen, Dean of Hu-
manities, and Professor of His-
tory. He will travel to England,
to do research on his latest book,
a political and social study of
early Washington.
DR. JAMES STREET Fulton
becomes Acting Dean of Human-
ities, and Dr. Ronald L. Sass,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
will replace Masterson as Master
of Hanszen during his absence.
Dr. Masterson will return to re-
sume his teaching duties during
the next academic year.
Other changes in the Faculty
include new additions and other
present members either leaving
or taking temporary leaves of
absence. Added to the faculty will
be Barnes Lathrop from the Uni-
versity of Texas as a visiting
professor in History.
CHARLES W. KEGLEY, a
visiting professor in religion,
comes to Rice from Wagner Col-
lege, Staten Island, New York.
Kacherine Wheittlj., vlsiLing from
the University of Texas, will be
added to the French Department.
In the Anthropology Depart-
ment, Dr. Edward Norbeck will
leave for research in Japan. Pro-
fessor Roger Goldwyn arrives
from Harvard to take up a per-
manent place in the Electrical
Engineering Department, while
Dr. Deans of the Chemical Engi-
neering Department will begin a
leave of absence.
Further information on changes
in the other science departments
was not available at this time
in the President's office.
The Trustees' petition, filed last
February, was ammended Decem-
ber 12.
ACCORDING TO James G.
Winters, the attorney who drew
up the new petition and himself
a Rice alumnus, the plea was
filed by the eleven ex-Rice stu-
dents acting "as parties stating
an interest in the case in the be-
lief that the Trustees' petition
should be sustained."
The action in favor of the
Trustees is required, in the words
of the petition, for "sound admin-
istration" and "sound steward-
ship" to allow the Trustees to
both formulate a d m i s s i o n s
policies and charge "a reasonable
tuition to those students able to
pay."
"It is therefore both right and
necessary, and justice and public
interest require that the plain-
tiffs be given the release re-
quested so that the high pur-
pose of the original Indenture
and the university's charter may
be fulfilled."
REPRESENTATIVE A 1 1. e r t
Thomas, one of the signers of the
petition, told the Thresher from
Washington that "my purpose in
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Library Announces
Stiffer Penalties
To Prevent 'Losses'
In its continuing campaign
against those who would keep
library books checked out for-
ever, the library has revealed a
modified circulation p e n a 1 t y
scheme, effective January 20.
The new plan provides for the
usual second overdue notice car-
<A
rying the clause that bill infor-
mation wf!I he senr the cashier if
the book is not returned within
a week.
IF THE BOOK is returned af-
ter the grace week, a $2 fee is
charged: for each additional month
the book is kept, one dollar is
added to the fee until it reaches
$(!.
If a student pays for a lost
book but finds it before the li-
brary has ordered a replacement,
he will receive the difference be-
tween the replacement cost and
the fine which would ordinarily
have been charged. ,
If the book is really lost,
the loser pays the list price of the
book (plus 50',; if out of print),
plus binding cost if required, plus
a $6 processing fee.
CIRCULATION L i bra r i a n
Frederick Ruecking, Jr., described
the move to counter "students
with poor borrowing records" who
display a "tendency to 'find'
books only after the loss has been
reported to the Cashier's office."
He described the new system as
being "adapted from the prac-
tices of several institutions in-
cluding Harvard University and
the University of Michigan."
IX YEARS PAST the library
held to a very loose laissez-faire
lending policy (four unguarded
and imwatched exits, no fines or
formal policy for replacement, no
checking the identity of borrow-
ers) which left the library at one
point with some tens of thou-
sands of books unaccounted for.
One intrepid Rice student was
once discovered with a thousand-
volume personal library of un-
checked-out Fondren books.
All Seniors who had their
pictures taken for the 1964
Campanile are jjeminded that
the senior biography forms
must be returned to the cam-
panile office by 6 pm January
10, 1964.
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 8, 1964, newspaper, January 8, 1964; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244904/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.