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The
Thresher
An All-Student Newspaper For 47 Years
Volume 51—Number 20
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WED., FEBRUARY 26, 1964
Players To Stage
Shaw, Fry Works
In Double Header
Works by George Bernard
Shaw and Christopher Fry will
appear on the Hamman Hall
stage this weekend—February 28
and 29, and March 1, as the
Rice players present a Midwinter
double feature.
fehaw's "Androcles and the
Lion" and Fry's "A Phoenix Too
Frequent," will both be directed
by Phyllis Moore, a Rice grad
and a former Player.
STARRING IN the Shaw
comedy set in Roman times are
Bob Lowenstein as Androcles;
Ron Green as the Captain; Helen
Gaines as Lavinia; and Kent
Morrison as Ferrovius. Doug
Peel will play the other title
role—the lion.
Others in the cast of "Andro-
cles" are Kai O'Halloran, Gary
Anderson, Thom Scrutchin, Mike
Cooper, Eric Lueders, Sid Disher,
Dennis Kear, and Tom Davis.
Lawson Taitte, Cynthia Lyle, and
Jane Rulfs appear in the con-
temporary One-act play by Fry.
Sets and costumes for both
plays were designed h^ Jim Lan-
dry. Tickets for the three per-
formances (all at 8:15 pm.) are
on sale in the Student Center
and in the colleges after dinner.
Tickets can also be purchased at
the door.
GRAND HALL—Noted architect Paolo Soleri (right) made the
first stop in a tour of- twenty-eight schools when he spoke at Rice
on Monday and Tuesday. A native of Italy now working in the
Arizona desert where he once studied with Frank Lloyd Wright,
Soleri is a visionary architect whose means of expression range
from the creation -of bronze and ceramic bells to the awesome Mesa
City Project for which he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal.
In a public lecture Tuesday night, Soleri devoted his time to
showing slides and renderings of his latest major project, the
Cosanti Foundation, which he describes as a "planned environment
in which to develop a village center for the arts and other cultural
endeavors?' Included were slides of the apprenticeship work which
Soleri guides at his Scottsdale studio.
Expert To Explore
Political Trends In
Emerging Nations
Dr. H. Field Haviland, Jr., Di-
rector of Foreign Policy Studies
at the 'Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C., will deliver the
fifth in the President's Lecture
Series.
"Political Development in Un-
derdeveloped Countries" will be
the topic of his lecture to be
given at 4 pm on March 4th in
the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge.
A former professor at Har-
vard and Haverford, Dr. Haviland
holds three degrees from Har-
vard: B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. He
served as counselor to the Hoover
Committee Task Force on For-
eign Policy before assuming the
position presently held.
Presidents' Senate Amendments
To Face Student Balloting Friday
An amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the Student Association
prepared by the five college
Presidents will go to the student
body for approval Friday. The
amendment was approved by the
Senate? February 18.
Under the terms of the pro-
posed _ amendment, the member-
ship of the Senate would be re-
duced from the present 21 to
"not more than sixteen nor less
than eleven." This provision was
written to provide for the elec-
tion of only one representative
from each college whenever the
total number of colleges reaches
seven.
TH E COUNCILMAN-at-large
position would be abolished, re-
ducing the number of S.A. Of-
ficers to four. The President of
the Freshman Class would no
longer sit on the Senate.
Former Student Kills Self, Rice Girl;
Both Had Been Outstanding Students
Kaylah Holcomb, a junior Ro-
mance Languages major, and
John Calhoun, who withrew from
Rice last June, were found dead
Tuesday morning in an uptown^
hotel room, the victims of an ap-
parent murder-suicide.
Miss Holcomb, a native of Bay-
town, was a quiet, reserved girl
and a careful student according
to friends. She is listed on this
semester's President's Honor
Roll as well as last's. She had
been dating Calhoun for several
years.
'CALHOUN, son of the Vice-
Chancellor of Texas A&M, drop-
ped out of school in June in good
standing. This was his second
withdrawal on % record marked
by one probationary semester and
several dean's-list ones.
A member of Wiess College,
Calhoun was described as an ex-
tremely brilliant if somewhat er-
ratic student by friends at the
college.. None remembered hav-
ing seen him this year, although
he was working at the Houston
Central Post Office since the
summer.
ALTHOUGH HE never ad-
vanced beyond the sophomore
year, Calhoun was reportedly
very talented in mathematics and
physics.
iX
Polfce theorized that the couple*
had been dead for some days be-
fore the discovery of the bodies.
The hotel room was Calhoun's,
being located across the street
from the post office where he
worked. Evidence on the scene
indicated that Calhoun fired the
fatal shots.
The colleges would simply have
"an equal number" of representa-
tives of no special office, i.e. the
Presidents of the Colleges would
no longer be required to sit on
the Senate, a demand made each
year for over five years by the
Presidents.
SENATE ACTION concerning
"independent organisations" (to
lie defined as the college and the
inter-College Court) would be
prohibited. The constitution
presently reads that wherf deal-
ing with these independent organ-
zations the Senate "shall endeav-
to obtain a solution that is
agreeable to those colleges con-
cerned."
The amendment also provides
for a process of reconsidering
Senate action: "A majority of the
college cabinets may call for a
reconsideration of any action of
the Student Senate." The recon-
sidered action -must then receive
a "two-thirds majority of the
Senate." No comparable provis-
ion exists in the present consti-
tution.
THE REMAINING changes as-
sign the present duties of the
Councilman-at-large to the vice-
president, who under the terms
of the amendment may be either
a junior or a senior. The vice-
president shall, in addition to his
regular duties, "be chairman of
the social committee, and shall be
in charge of coordination of the
various activities of the annual
homecoming ctelebration."
An alternate amendment pro-
posed by Student Senate Com-
mittee asked to study the consti-
tution was rejected by the Sen-
ate in favor of the proposal for-
warded by the college Presidents
in its February 18 meeting.
Polls will be open Friday in
the usual places from 9 am un-
til 1 pm. If passed, the Amend-
ments will go into effect im-
mediately.
Final Ruling Needed
To Remove Restrictions
Although the jury ruling in the
Rice Charter Suit appears to be
favorable for the Trustees, the
University must wait to inte-
grate or charge tuition until the
judgment is final.
Requests for a judgment in the
case are being prepared by the
two major parties, the Board of
Trustees and the opposing in-
terveners.
The judgment will not be final
until all possibilities for appeal
have been exhausted or the time
limit on them has expired.
Tom Martin Davis, attorney for
the Trustees, is expected to re-
quest a judgment based on the
jury's findings that William
Marsh Rice's "main purpose" the
establishment of a "first class"
educational institution and that
restrictions limiting origins of
Sammy's Burglar
Steals $900 From
Office Strongbox
The cashbox in the Sammy's
office was robbed sometime in
the wee hours of Tuesday morn-
ing resulting in a "considerable
loss, in excess of $900" according
to Automatic Canteen area Di-
rector Dayle Lee.
Lee said that the robber enter-
ed the building without forcing
any of the outside locks, enter-
ing the small office in the Sam-
my's kitchen" after shattering its
plate glass window.
SAMMY'S Manager Marion
Hicks reported that the police are
working on the burglary, but
added that so far no particular
leads have turned up# The loss
was insured.
The area director emphasized
that all of the former employees
of Sammy's (when it was being
run by Mrs. Hardy) have been
cleared. "We had the locks
changed for Mrs. Hardy's pro-
tection when we took over the
management," Lee said.
Rice Sports Day,
Televised Same
On Tap Saturday
. Bill Whitmore, Rice Sports
Publicity Director, lias declared
Saturday, Feb. 2!), as Sports Day
on Campus. The first event of the
day will be the Rice-TCU basket-
ball game at 2 pm on Autry
Court. The game will be re-
gionally telecast on CBS.
According to Whitmore, "It
sure would be nice if we ^didn't
have an empty gym to show peo-
ple all over the state."
IMMEDIATELY following the
basketball game will be the an-
nual Blue-Gray, spring game. It
will mark the nearly halfway
point in spring training and is
being held in conjunction with the
coaching clinic for high school
football mentors.
Halftime entertainment for the
Blue-Gray game will be a soccer
match sponsored by the Health
and Physical Education Depart-
ment and featuring the Rice Soc-
cer Club.
AT THE SAME time as the
festivities in Houston, the Owf
thinclads will be at a triangular
meet in College Station with
A&M and Texas.
And for those who want an
earlier start than Saturday
afternoon, the baseball team
opens their season Friday after-
noon with Sam Houston State at
2 pm on the Rice diamond.
See you at the game.
applicants and prohibiting the
charging of tuition now makes
this main intention impossible or
impractical.
JOE REYNOLDS, attorney for
intervenors John B. Coffee and
Val T. Billups, will most likely
ask Judge William Holland to
disregard some or all of the jury's
findings.
The jury's decision can be dis-
regarded by the judge only if he
finds that the questions presented
to it were matters of law and not
of fact and that they should not
have been sent to the jury at all.
The jury reached their verdict
shortly before 2 pm Friday after
over eight hours of deliberation.
Jury members told the Thresher
that the vote was unanimous on
first pollings on all but one of
the eight issues and that un-
animity was reached in all issues
on a second ballot taken im-
mediately after the first.
ALL EIGHT of the issues
presented to the jury were ans-
wered "We Do," a finding gen-
erally considered to be favorable
to the Trustees. The jury did rule
in favor of the intervenors in
that William Marsh Rice did in-
tend that the "university should
be for white inhabitants only"
and that the benefits should be
free from tuition.
Their earlier findings concern-
ing the founder's main intention.::
and its present incompatibility
with the restrictions appear to
offset the findings favoring the
intervenors.
FINAL COURTROOM argu-
ments by the lawyers were equal-
ly adamant on both sides. Davis
characterized the intervenors'
main objective as "to have en-
bfoi*ceable, until the end of the
world, the restrictions 'white' and
'free' no matter how damaging
these restrictions might be."
Stating that the "object of
a first-class university is to
search for truth," Reynolds sun
ported the intervenors by refer-
ring to the "only unimpeachable
witless called, the original chart-
er." The issue, to Reynolds, is net
integration, but "whether ur not
these restrictions in the inden-
ture should be stricken from
Dillon Anderson closed the
lawyers' presentations by charg-
ing Reynolds with not looking
to the future. The attorney for
t lie Trustees said Reynolds
"would dr:ve out on the ireeway
of higher education ami run out
of gasoline."
The ruling of the court re-
mains. The clerk in Judge Hol-
land's court told the thresher
that a judgment could be expect-
ed in about sixty days.
Noted Manchester
Nuclear Physicist
To Join Rice Staff
Eric B. Paul, Professor of
Physics and one of Britain's lead-
ing scientists, has joined the Rice
faculty effective September 1, it
was announced Monday.
Paul, presently a ^pnior ex-
perimental physicist at the Uni-
versity of Manchester, was one
of five scholars named by the
British government last year to
map*a ten-year plan for the de-
velopment of the country's nu-
clear research program.
A native of Canada, Paul re-
ceived his Ph.D. from Cambridge
in 1948. He has been a member
of the American Physical Society
since 1918 and a Fellow in the
Institute of Physics since 1901.
He is the author of more than 66
articles in physical journals.
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 26, 1964, newspaper, February 26, 1964; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244909/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.