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7 The Rice Thresher
AN ALL-STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 49 YEARS
Barry. In Focus:
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Volume 52—Number 3
Eight Pages This Week
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1964
ON THE HUSTINGS—Three Rice students prepare a mailing
for the Professors for Johnson-Humphrey-Yarborough (see p. 6).
Elsewhere, a national group, "Scientists and Engineers for John-
son-Humphrey" will form a local chapter this Monday at 8 pm
at the Houston Theatre Center. Rice president K. S. Pitzer, TSU
President Nabrit and heart surgeon Michael DeBakey were among
the founders of the national group.
Cybernetics Overtakes Registrar,
IBM Organizes Courses, Grades
By CAROL STARR
Thresher Staff Reporter
The registrar's office is now
assigning a whole set of num-
bers to Rice students in order
to use computers in filing class
records. The new system of
registration is modeled after the
plan used at the University of
Houston.
From preliminary informa-
tion received in the spring, a
tentative list of class enx-oll-
ments is given to each in-
structor the first day of classes
as a substitute for individual
registration cards used in the
old system. When students
change courses, the registrar's
office programs the revised
schedule into the computer
memory storage unit.
Lists For Instructors
A final corrected list of stu-
dent enrollment for each class
will be given to each instructor
when three or four weeks of
classes are completed. Prior to
grading period at the end of
the semester an actual grading
list will be sent out. Instruct-
ors will report each student's
grade on this sheet, and final
Johnson Wins In Thresher Poll;
First Democrat Since Roosevelt
grades will be recorded using
the machines.
The single grading list should
cut down on paper work at the
end of the semester, explained
Mr. James C. Moreh'ead, Jr.,
the newly-appointed registrar. A
complete list of students is
easier for the instructor to
handle than a bunch of loose
cards.
Student and course records
are to be kept on two sets of
IBM cards in the registrar's
office. One set contains a card
for each student, programmed
with such information as his
name, college, and a course of
study.
* Cards On File
A set of cards for each course
is also on file. These cards are
programm.ed with the name of
each student enrolled, the course
description, and the hour of the
course.
How much the system will
speed up the efficiency of the
registrar's office neither Mr.
Morehead nor Mr. Louis, Michka,
the university IBM program-
mer can predict. Both know
that defects will become ap-
parent in the next few months.
President Lyndon Johnson de-
feated Republican Presidential
candidate Barry Goldwater in
the Thresher Straw Poll held
last Friday. Johnson received
56.2% of the 602 student votes
cast.
In a separate faculty poll,
Johnson piled up an overwhelm-
ing majority of 52 to 6, or
89.6%.
Of the 338 students who
supported the President, 61.5%
did so enthusiastically, while
69.5% of the students voting
for Goldwater backed their can-
didate with enthusiasm.
Science-Engineering students
gave the Arizona Senator his
only victory among the Uni-
versity's curriculum divisions
119-94. Physical Education and
Commerce majors backed John-
son 9-5, and Academs and Ar-
chitects gave LBJ a 322-138
majority.
Faculty For Johnson
S-E faculty members favored
Johnson 21-3, and the Academ
and Architecture faculty gave
complete support to the Presi-
dent 28-0. The Physical Educa-
tion and Commerce faculty was
split 3-3.
Goldwater edged Johnson by
one vote in the Freshman Class
and two in the Sophomore
Class. The Senator lost the
Junior and Senior vote t>y wid-
er .margins, 77-63 v. and 82-48.
SA Elections Today
An all-school election to
pick a male cheerleader, SA
Treasurer and an SA Off-
Campug representative is be-
ing held today until 1:15 pm.
.. Polls are located at Anderson
Hall and the student center.
Baker sophomore Phil Mont-
crief and Hanszen senior Mike
McClung are in the running
for cheerleader. Hanszen sen-
ior Jim Surlock, junior Ray
c Needham and senior Peyton
Barnes both of Wiess, have
filed for the off-campus post.
Incumbent Don Jones is
matched by Mike Carter, both
juniors from Baker, for the
SA Treasurer position.
Graduate students backed John-
son with a total of 48 to 23.
A survey of the residence of
the students who participated
in the mock election showed
that 57% of the Texans fav-
ored Johnson. Students from
other Southern states gave
Goldwater a 33-26 edge. All
other areas backed the Presi-
dent.
Moderates Favor LBJ
Midwestern students voted for
Johnson 30-24. Those from the
Atlantic Seaboard and North-
east supported the President
24-21, and LBJ received a 9-4
majority from Mountain and
Pacific States students.
Students who classified them-
selves as liberal or conserva-
tive gave huge majorities to
Johnson and Goldwater, respec-
tively. Ninety-one per cent of
the students registering as lib-
erals supported LBJ. Goldwat-
er was the choice of 93.5% of
conservatives.
Students who labeled them-
selves as "moderate" supported
the President 140-68.
The thirty-six faculty mem-
bers who termed themselves
liberals all favored Johnson.
Goldwater received the unani-
mous support of the four facul-
ty members who classified
themselves a s conservative.
Johnson was chosen by 14 of
the 16 faculty who held mod-
erate political views.
The student preference for
Johnson expressed in the
Thresher poll this year reversed
the conservative trend shown by
student polls taken in the last
three Presidential election
$ears.
In 1956 Republican candi-
date Richard Nixon received
384, or nearly 70% of the stu-
dent votes cast. At that time
36.5% of the students classi-
fied themselves as Republican,
34.5% as Democrats and 29%
Independent.
They Liked Ike
Dwight Eisenhower polled
huge majorities of Rice stu-
dent votes in both 1952 and
1956. In 1956 Ike tabulated
nearly 80% of the 620 student
votes. Eisenhower beat Steven-
son in the 1952 student poll,
520-140, which gave him 76.9%
of the votes cast.
A faculty poll was also taken
in 1952. Twenty-four Rice in-
structors favored Ike, 13 liked
Stevenson, and 10 were unde-
cided.
In the only other results
available on Rice Presidential
preference polls, Franklin Roos-
evelt easily defeated Herbert
Hoover in 1932, 225-79.
In that same poll, Rice stu-
dents voted to repeal Prohibi-
tion, 214-85.
Jones Asked To Limit Negro Guests
Until Conclusion Of Trustees' Suit
Residents of Jones College
have been asked to avoid enter-
taining Negro guests at the Col-
lege until the appeal on the
Trustees' suit, now in the Ap-
peal Courts, is settled.
The request was passed to the
Jones College . Residence Com-
mittee by Dean of Women Alma
Lowe at the direction of 'Uni-
versity president K. S. Pitzer.
Dr. Pitzer explained that the
request "is purely in the realm
of suggestions and advice," em-
Faculty Group Seeks Educational Innovations
By JOHN DURHAM
Thresher Editorial Staff
A group of Rice faculty or-
ganized by Dr. Val Woodward,
is currently undertaking a study
to formulate proposals for re-
vamping the nature of Rice un-
dergraduate education.
Formed last April at the re-
quest and suggestion of several
Will Rice College members, the
committee is not an official Un-
iversity organ, but Woodward
has received encouragement
from University President Ken-
neth S. Pitzer to continue the
study of Rice's educational
problems.
The purpose of the commit-
tee plans, according to Wood-
ward, is two-fold: to change the
attitude toward teaching and
learning at Rice, and to change
the curriculum to make this
new attitude possible.
Woodward feels that these
objectives can be accomplished
by the introduction of three
measures: reducing the number
of lectures and giving the stu-
dent increased opportunity to
articulate his views; reducing
the external pressures of grades
and examinations; and increas-
ing the time and opportunity
for the student to read and dis-
cuss.
The specific proposals of the
committee will be put forward
in a report in about a month.
If approved, these proposals
will be instituted in a pilot
program to begin in September
of 1965 with approximately 50
freshmen and 10 to 14 faculty
members.
These freshmen, all to be vol-
unteers, will participate in the
program which bears scant re-
semblance to the current fresh-
man year. The concept of the
proposal is based on individual
work — reading, consultation,
and papers.
The new "curriculum" will
be divided into four broad areas
—science; mathematics; West-
ern civilization; and reading,
writing, and reasoning. These
fields, Woodward said, will cov-
er the entire range of man's
knowledge.
Each of- these areas would
offer one general, comprehen-
sive lecture a week, which
would be open to the public as
well as the members of the
pilot program. The lectures
would contain ample reference
to books and authors which
would amplify the subject, and
which the student would be
encouraged to consult.
Seminars will be scheduled to
provide a diverse free flow of
ideas between students and
staff. "The student can teach
as well as learn, and the pro-
fessor can learn as well as
teach," Woodward commented.
There will be no mandatory
subjects for the students in the
pilot program to follow. Each
student will be free to choose
Jiis own topics in the four broad
areas outlined in the program.
Woodward emphasized that
grades and examinations will be
nonexistent in the new pro-
program. Attendance at the
lectures and seminars will be
voluntary. All that will be re-
quired is that the student show
that he is maintaining interest
and making progress in his
chosen fields.
This progress, Woodward
feels, can be demonstrated just
as well in conferences with
professors and in papers as in
exams, class attendance, and
seminar discussion.
(Continued on Page 5)
phasizing that Jones residents
"are at liberty to entertain
whom they wish." The president
added that the administration
simply "suggested that they
sort of 'go slow' on this in the
transition period" between now
and the conclusion of litigation
now under way in the courts.
Cooperation Seen
Jones President Chris Keller
reported that the administration
request was passed on early
this week to Jones residents at
the routine college floor meet-
ings. The girls "seem ready to
cooperate" with the administra-
tion in this matter," she said.
A somewhat similar case oc-
curred last May when an 'invi-
tation to a Negro student from
Houston's Texas Southern Uni-
versity to participate as an
Honoree in the Rondelet pa-
geant was withdrawn at the
direction of the administration.
Traditional Policies
At that time Dr. Pitzer stated
that the Board of Trustees
wished to continue traditional
campus racial policies "as long
as the present trial court de-
cision was subject to appeal or
in other litigation."
The university, however, an-
ticipates admission of qualified
Negro students in the class of
1969 and integration of all cam-
pus facilities. The university is
empowered to thus act under a
court order pending disposal of
the appeal to the Trustees' suit.
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Kelly, Hugh Rice. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1964, newspaper, October 1, 1964; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244921/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.