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Volume 51—Number 27
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1964
New Trial Denied
For Charter Suit;
Appeal Is Certain
The intervenors against the
Trustee's suit to change the Rice
charter were denied a new trial
in State District Court last week,
leaving the next step the appeal
to the Circuit Court of Appeals.
ALTHOUGH appeal bond has
not yet been posted, Intervenor
John B. Coffee told the Thresher
Monday that he will definitely
appeal the case. Coffee declined
to guess what chance his case
might have in appeals court.
Coffee indicated that if the
circuit court rules in favor of the
Trustees, he and Val T. Bill-ups,
his partner in the suit, will ap-
peal the case to the highest pos-
sible court, in this case the
State Supreme Court.
ATTORNEY for the Trustees
Tom Martin Davis told the
Thresher Wednesday that he ex-
pected the intervenors to ap-
peal, but added that "they are
going to have to raise some mon-
ey."
Regarding financing of the ap-
peal, Coffee said that he and
Billups^will bear the entire cost
of the appeals, in contrast to his
statement last September that
the suit of Intervention was sup-
ported by "hundreds" of alumni.
Senate Committee
Disallows Burgess
In Treasurer Race
A candidate in Monday's spe-
cial election for Treasurer of the
Student Association has been
found guilty "in spirit and in
fact" of a violation of the elec-
tion rules and has been barred
from the race.
The candidate, Ken Burgess, a
Wiess sophomore, was convicted
of election irregularities at a spe-
cial meeting of the Election Com-
mittee of the Student Senate
held last night.
ACCORDING TO Student As-
sociation President Mike Jaffe,
an ex officio member of the com-
mittee, Burgess violated the rules
when he distributed printed cam-
paign cards. Jaffe said the rules
were established by the candi-
dates themselves and prohibited
written campaigning in any form.
In the election, held Monday,
Burgess received enough votes to
gain a run-off with Don Jones,
defeating four other candidates.
Burgess' disqualification will ne-
cessitate a second election, sched-
uled for Friday.
BURGESS told the Thresher
that the rules he was convicted
of violating were agreed upon at
a meeting of the candidates in
the special election held Monday,
April 13.
"As I understood them," Bur-
gess said, "the rules provided for
no posters, mailbox stuffing or
organized speaking."
Burgess said he had ordered
both campaign cards and posters
before the Monday meeting. The
posters were never distributed,
he said, although he was told by
one election committee member
that such campaigning would be
legitimate.
IN THE election to be held
Friday, Jones, Georgiana Boren,
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John Harris and Linda Walsh pose in a scene from the
Rice Players' production of "The Taming of the Shrew"
opening tomorrow night for a six-night reserved-seat run
in Hamman Hall. Tickets are fifty cents for students and
one dollar for adults and may be purchased at the Student
Center.
Starting time for opening night (April 23) is 7:30 pm
but all five succeeding performances will begin at 8:15 pm.
A symposium on the play will follow the Thursday night
production. On the panel are Dr. Trenton Wann, of the
Department of Psychology; Dr. John Velz, of the English
Department; and David Dannenhaum, director of the play.
Beverly Wehking and Linda Walsh alternate in the
role of Katherina while Ann Riquelmy and Beverly Hutchi-
son share the role of Bianca (with the former girl in each
pair playing on April 23, 25, & 27; the latter on April 24,
26 & 28).
Others in the cast are Bob Loewenstein, Roger Glade,
Lawson Taitte. .John R. Harris, Tom Davis, Bill Seward,
Mike Holmes, Dennis Kear, Mike Cooper, .Judy Lufts, (.inny
Baird and Jane Rulfs.
Rondelet Offers The Traditional;
Wine, Women, Song, Bike Racing
Singing, dancing, bike racing
and beer drinking will ho the
highlights of the annual Ronde-
let celebration scheduled to be-
gin Friday, May 1.
The traditional event will com-
mence with the songfest in Ham-
man Hall, featuring choruses and
novelty acts from the various
colleges in competition with each
other. Last year's winners, the
Will Rice Chorus and the Hanszen
novelty act, are defending their
honors. „
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'FOLLOWING THE songfest,
which will be emceed by Harry
Guffee, an informal dance will be
held in the student center fea-
turing the music of the Bed Bugs.
Visiting honorees from other
schools will join the Rice roy-
alty in a luncheon at Cohen
house, following a coffee given
by Mrs. K. S. Pitzer in the
President's home. Jones girls are
invited to the coffee.
THE BEER-BIKE race, for
many the highlight of the week-
end, will last from 2 until 3 pm.
Will Rice, which emerged the vic-
tor in last year's race, will be
challenged by strong teams from
the other colleges. Due to past
misunderstandings, the rules
have been written down for the
first time. Because of minor
changes which allow two bikes to
be used iif the relay exchange, a
new record will have to be es-
tablished for the overall race
tune.
According t > Pat Calahan.
speaking for the team captain-;.
"The distance which the indi-
vidual riders travel is the same.
There should be some strong at-
tempts to break Hanszen's Ron
Keating's lap record of 1:59.8."
EACH RIDER must be pro-
ceeded by another team member
who downs a tall-boy. Records
for chugging the tall boys have
not been kept, but according to
Calahan, "a good -guess is that
the record is about 3.8 seconds,
held jointly by several men."
Following the race, the royalty
from Rice and elsewhere will be
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Beware Bicycles
Team workouts for the Ron-
delet Beer-Bike Race began
Monday and will continue from
2-4 pm until May 2, the day
of the race.
The cyclists will be riding in
a counter-clockwise direction
around the quadrangle which
circles the RMC and Lovett
Hall.
During the practice time, all
traffic will be requested to tra-
vel in the same direction as the
bicycles to avoid the possibil-
ity of a head-on collision. Flag-
men and signs will be posted
at the campus intersections to
aid in traffic control.
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SI Million Moody Grant Creates
Endowed Chairs In Math, English
Rice is one of nine Texas ed-
ucational institutions which are
recipients of an $8 million grant
from the Moody Foundation of
Galveston.
According to the terms of the
grant, the gifts to the individual
schools will be given for spe-
cific purposes and spread over
a five-year period.
ACCORDING TO University
University President K. S. Pitzer,
Rice will receive $1 Million with
which to establish two professor-
ships. One will b e the W. L.
Moody, Jr. Mathematics Profes-
sor and the other will he the Lib-
bie Stern Moody English Pro-
fessor.
When asked by the Thresher
whether the grant would endow
chairs to be filled by professors
already at Rice or by new profes-
ors, Pitzer replied that "either
might be done. We'll have an an-
nouncement about it soon."
BAYLOR University will also
receive SI Million, but for its
new library construction fund-
Austin College in Sherman will
benefit from a ?1 Million grant
Mystery Illness
Commons Food
By CHARLES LANFORD
A mysterious ailment, which
caused diarrhea and regurgitation
in v a r y i n g degrees, swept
through Hanszen College early
Thursday morning. The Student
Health Service records show that
78 students were treated l*« r
gastrointestinitis (infection of
the stomach and intestines).
A Thresher poll, taken in small
miction of Hans/.en Coiifge, in-
dicate- that 93 people fell ill
Thursday morning, at lea.-t to
the extent of stomach cramps.
The 93 people represent 12.K5 -
of the 21.7 people who at«> the
evening meal at Hanszen, and
ihe 78 who were treated at tie-
infimary represent 35.94'/ of
those who ate the meal.
DR. RAY S. Skaggs, .Medical
Director of the Student Health
Service, said: "I feel that this is
an infection that came about from
ingestion whether of food or
drink."
Skaggs pointed out that he did
not believe that the food from
the Main Kitchen could be at
fault, since all the cases were
confined to Hanszen. One ease
is reported of a student who had
symptoms similar to those
treated, but did not eat supper
at Hanszen.
However, Health Center rec-
ords indicate that one or two
isolated cases of this nature are
not uncommon.
MISS CAROLYN Cason, Di-
rector of Food Service, comment-
ed that she felt that the ailment
was not food toxication because
"less than one third of the col-
lege was ill.
"As far as I know, this is the
first time that an outbreak of
this magnitude has ocurred," she
stated.
Dr. Ronald L. Sass, acting
Master of Hanszen College, re-
marked that he had eaten heart-
ily of the meal, and "I think I
for construction of a new science
center.
Southern Methodist Universi-
ty will use its $1 Million grant
for construction of a new aca-
demic and seminar building.
Texas A&M will likewise receive
$1 Million for its expansion pro-
gram.
SO I Til WESTER N U n i vers i ty.
Georgetown, and Texas Lutheran
College, Seguin, will each re-
ceive $'500,000'. Southwestern will
build a new men's dormitory and
Texas Lutheran will build a sci-
ence building.
A new engineering and science
building will be built by Trinity
University with its 81 Million
grant. Texas University's Medi-
cal Branch, Galveston, will re-
ceive $1 Million for construction
of a new medical library building.
The Moody Foundation was
created by Mr. and Mrs. W. L
Moody, Jr., for assistance to ed-
ucational, charitable, scientific,
and religious institutions in tin;
state of Texas. Approximate!"
820 Million in grants have be?::
awarded by the foundation sire-f-
its creation.
Sweeps Hanszen;
Apparent Cause
the
ate from everything
table." He reported that thre-
persons at the table fell ill. ye
unseat:!-"1
all his family wen
except for his daugh
came nauseated tie
('<incerning the cutis*
| "I think it was a
i \ iral infect! .e,."
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evening rnea!
dressing am
salad, and eiueberi
ice cream.
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is being prepared
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produces symptoms- jy. .
resembling thos-- -
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because none of the iVoes
were common carrier;-.
SKAGGS remarked tie J
any number of eontaminatioe-
might have occurred after *e
food was transferred from, tin
Main Kitchen. For example, a
worker might transmit the bac-
teria or virus, but have no active
symptoms himself.
To check this possibility, fesees
tests are being conducted on an
workers who deal with t'ooe..
Skaggs said that an immediate
investigation of the conditions m
the kitchen gave no clues.
Miss Cason stated that no new
help had been working at Hans-
zen that night, and that the
turnover rate of the help was
extraordinarily low. She added
that all food service employees
have health cards, and that the
service passed its health in-
spection last month.
ACCORDING TO Dr. Skaggs,
the Harris County Health Serv-
ice is conducting an investiga-
tion to determine the exact na-
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1964, newspaper, April 22, 1964; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244916/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.