The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 26, 1964 Page: 5 of 10
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WED., FEBRUARY 26,1964
THE THRESHER
Five
Students Must Have
Choice Of College
By JERRY HANSON
Hanszen College President
Plans are now being made for
the addition of two new colleges
to the Ilice ,eampus. These col-
leges are the first amendment
to the system begun in 1957.
This addition invites an apprais-
al of how the colleges have de-
veloped and how they can be ex-
pected to develop in tjie future.
Basically all the colleges have
extensive programs designed to
orient Ires h m e n (freshmen
week, guidance, and tutoring ac-
tivities throughout the year.
The past few years have
brought about the consolidation
of early gains in college over
dormitory life—civilization in
residential as well as dining
areas, refinement of speaker
programs such as the Jones and
Hanszen Symposia, the Wiess
Lecture Series, and accumula-
tion of traditions of past com-
petitive successes (in particular,
the Will Rice Rondelet vic-
tories).
THE LATEST trend in col-
lege development is the creation
of a more academic atmosphere.
All colleges have, or soon will
have, college libraries and inde-
pendent study facilities which
will tend to make the college
more a part of a student's ed-
ucation.
No one contends that the col-
leges have not brought about
a vast improvement in campus
life, and yet they have failed to
bring to the campus something
that is very lacking — what I
will term a "vitality" of the
student body. Our student body
is famous for its apathy toward
almost any subject—from stu-
dent problems and intellectual
curiosity to national politics and
world problems.
The Rice student simply does
not care. He is too concerned
with his own problems, too wor-
ried about The Grade, and too
often his time is consumed in a
lonely battle against, not with,
the books.
THE PROBLEM of student
apathy is crucial to the college
system, as it is to the student
himself. For the student will
make of the college system, as
he will make of himself, exact-
ly what he wants to. This ar-
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tide is intended to suggest for
this problem a partial solution
which could be enacted within
the present college system.
It is my feeling that too much
has been taken to construct each
men's college as a completely,
homogeneous unit. Each college
has approximately the same
number of architects, E. E.'s,
hell-raisers, athletes, student
legislators, and introverts.
The purpose of a completely
random membership is that ev-
erybody is to "rub off" on ev-
erybody else and the sum result
is to be a production of "well-
rounded" individuals. 1 would
suggest that this is not the
case and that effectively the re-
sult is a diffusion of common
interests which tends to bring
conversation, dress, and activi-
ties clown to the lowest common
denominator.
I FEEL THE students and
colleges would benefit if people
of the same interests were able
to concentrate in the same col-
lege. This would mean that they
could constantly stimulate each
other's interests and could gain
from each other on a level of
commun ication commensurate
with their intelligence.
To this end, I would like to
see a provision established
(Continued on Page 8)
The Collegiate Iconoclast
(The following was excerpted from a letter to the editor of the Min-
nesota Daily written by Mulford Q. Sibley, an associate editor of 'Lib-
eration" a small, decidedly left-wing magazine. We do not know what
construction Thresher readers may put on the piece; we consider it
printable nonetheless.—Ed.)
". . . We need students who challenge the orthodoxies.
American culture is far too monolithic for its own good.
Personally, I should like to see on the campus one or two
Communist professors, a student Communist Club, a chapter
of the £®hierican Association for the Advancement of' Athe-
ism, a Society for the Promotion of Free Love, a League for
Overthrow of Government by Jeffersonian Violence (LOGJV),
an Anti-Automation League, and perhaps a Nudist Club, No
university should be without individuals and groups like
these.
"If we don't sow seeds of doubt and implant subversive
thoughts in college, where, in heaven's name (if there be a
heaven), will they be implanted? And if they nre never sown,
moral and intellectual progress may be even more doubtful
than many of us think."
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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/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.