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Threshers In RMC
This Week
AN ALLSTVDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 49 YEARS
Associates' Dinner
Last Week
VTT
Volume 52-Number
Ten Pages This Week
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
THIS ABOUT THAT—University President K. S. Pitzer sux'-
prised a near-capacity crowd at last Friday's all-University con-
vocation by making a statement outlining the University's policies
on the academic freedom of students. See right, and pages 2, 3, 4
and 10.
California Truce Njgar
After Faculty Proposal
The recurring conflicts be-
tween the student-led Free
Speech Movement and the Uni-
versity administration on the
Berkeley* campus of the Uni-
Enteritis Strikes
Across Campus
By JOHN HAMILTON
Thresher Staff Reporter
The malady which so deeply
affected many Rice students
Wednesday has been diagnosed
as acute enteritis by Dr. Ray
H. Skaggs, Health Service phy-
sician. - .
Symptoms of diarrhea sent 45
students rusihing to the clinic
for doses of vile tasting kaopec-
tate by 3:00 Wednesday after-
noon. One student was kept at
the infirmary with acute
stomach cramps. Wiess, Will
Rice and Jones reported most of
the cases.
The symptoms became mani-
fest for many very early Wed-
nesday morning. According to
Dr. Skaggs there is reason to
believe that there were many
who isuffred in silence. Over
40% of Wiss college reported
definitely having the symptoms.
While the source of the in-
fection iis not definitely known,
the luncheon meal is suspected.
The Health Service has col-
lected specimens from a num-
ber of patients and from food
♦'.service personnel. Cultures will
be grown in these to be com-
pared with cjiltures .grown ,-in
food leftover from Tuesday's
mealsi.
Hopefully it will be possible
to trace how the germ was
carried. According to Skaggs it
will take at least 48 hours to
prepare the cultures and by
then all the symptoms will
have disappeared.
versity of California have ap-
parently reached a stage of
truce following the passing of a
generally student-favoring res-
olution by the Academic Senate.
The Academic Senate, com-
posed of the 1500 resident fac-
ulty members at Berkley, recom-
mended in its^resolution that the
University not take any discip-
linary measures against stu-
dents for actions before Decem-
ber 8, and that the political ac-
tivity on campus should be reg*
ulated, but off-campus should
not.
The Senate also suggested
that'the regulations for activity
be those which are now in effect,
until they can be further con-
sidered.
Faculty Committee
Finally it was Recommended
that future disciplinary mea-
sures in the area of political,
activity should be determined by
a committee appointed by and
responsible to the Academic Sen-
ate.
This resolution will be sent
to the Board of Regents of the
University early t next week for
their consideration.
•The demonstrations which
(Continued- on Page 5)
Pitzer Announces Speaker Veto,
Gives Power To College Masters
Indoctrinating And
Proselytizing Will
Not Be Accepted
Forum Plans For
Communist Guest
Prompt Statement
By PHIL GARON
Thresher Staff Reporter
President Kenneth S. Pitzer
told a convocation of students
and faculty Friday that "there
will not be any supression of
ideas on thei Rice campus; but
the University does not have
to allow its educational effect-
iveness to be weakened by out-
side speakers whose primary
purpose it is to indoctrinate or
proselytize, rather than to en-
gage in rational debate."
Dr. Pitzer made his remarks
during his introduction of Col-
umbia University historian and
political scientist Philip Mosely,
who had come to the Rice
campus to lecture on the ideolo-
gical rift between the Soviet
Union and Red China.
The president's comments
were made with reference to the
current discussion on campus
concerning Foi*um Committee's
recent request that they be
given the right to invite more
controversial figures to camplis
in their all-school speaker pro-
gram.
'Dangerous To Forum'
In reply to Dr. Pitzer's pre-
fatory remarks centered around
the "essence of -academic free-
dom" at Rice, Forum Com-
mittee chairman Charles King
had the following comments:
"We (the Forum Committee)
feel President Pitzer's state-
mnt on academic freedom is
dangerous to the University and
to the Forum Committee." King
added that "I do not feel the
basic question to be that of
academic freedom, but that of
the role of the Forum Com-
mittee at Rice."
On the speaker's platform
with s President Pitzer and Mr.
Mosely was Mr. J. Newton Ray-
zor, long-time member and Vice-
Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the University.
Rayzor recounted his own ex-
periences at "blasting the uni-
versity" when he was a student
at Rice in an article he wrote
for the school paper; Rayzor
added " that he then felt his
actions . had been completely
justifiable.
'Right or Wrong'
Speaking for the Trustees,
Rayzor commented that "the
Board of Trustees will not in-
fo The Thresher
Information relating to Uni-
versity President K. S. Pitzer's
controversial statement con-
cerning speakers: on campus
will be found throughout this
week's Thresher. In addition to
the stories on this page, see:
0 The text of the Presi-
dent's statement, Page 2.
0 Two views on the state-
ment and its. implications:, Page
3.
9 A brief summary of the
university and the law, Page 4.
% Threshing-It-Out, Pages 2
and 10.
terfere in the execution of
policy by the president, but
will support his decisions',
whether they are right or
wrong."
In his speech President Pit-
zer pledged his support to
maintaining the student's right
to express his views without
fear of punishment or harass-
ment.
He stated that visiting speak-
ers on affairs outside the
cloisters of the university are
necessary in the sphere of
collge activities that 'the stu-
dents; a"id faculty might remain-
informed; he cited the chief
responsibility of the University:
"to offer its students the best
possible educational opportuni-
ties."
Dr. Pitzer then re-emphazed
the place of the Board of Gov-
ernors at the head of the Uni-
versity power structure. "The
Board delegates authority to the
(Continued on Page 7)
The College Masters are free
to approve the invitation of
speakers to college functions,
President Pitzer said Wednes-
day, extending his statement
of Friday concerning academic
freedom to the,Acolleges as well
as the Forum Committee.
The Masters are not obligated
to have each speaker approved
by the administration, provided
such invitations are not sent to
"speakers whose primary pur-
pose is to indoctrinate or pros-
elytize," Dr. Pitzer said.
The president clarified recent
events regarding the Forum
Committee's request to invite
Communist Gus Hall to speak
on campus.
The proposal was made this
summer by Charles King, For-
um Committee Chairman, be-
fore the formal organization
of the Forum. The pi-oposal was
discouraged though not formal-
ly rejected; President Pitzer
. asked to discuss the matter
with the committee as a whole,
but the committee has not sub-
sequently pressed for Hall's in-
vitation.
President Pitzer expressed the
opinion that by bringing to the
campus two speakers with op-
posing political views, greater
freedom in inviting representa-
tives of extreme positions are
achieved.
Rice is slightly restricted at
(Continued on Page 4)
Appeal Filed In Rice Trustees' Suit;
Errors Alleged In March Ruling
Attorneys for John B. Coffee
and Val T. Billups, opponents
to Rice's lawsuit to remove ra-
cial restrictions and charge tu-
ition, filed an appeal brief Tues-
day in the First Court of Civil
Appeals.
Arguments will be made be-
fore the appellate court on Jan.
14 in an effort to reverse a
judgment of District Judge Wil-
liam Holland, given March 9
of this year, which allowed the
University to charge tuition and
admit qualified students with-
out regard to race or color.
Both of the new practices
permitted by the March court
Thanksgiving Brings More Fives
The Freshman Thanksgiv
ing. grades, released Tuesday
by Registrar James C. Moore-
head, Jr., were generally low-
er than the semester grades
last February.
Most noticable was the in-
creased percentage of 5's in
Biology 100, Chemistry 120,
and History 110. The failing
percentage rose from 2.5% to
9% in Biology 100, from 0.7%
to 10% in Chem 120, and from
3.8% to 10% in History 110.
Number of Grades — Per Cent
Course
1
2
3
4
5
Biology
7- 6%
41-32%
46-36%
22-17%
11- 9%
Chemistry
52-17%
73-23%
133-43%
to
00
30-10%^
English 100
11- 2%
138-30%
235-51%
73-16%
7- 2%
History 100
24- 9%
88-34%
76-29%
68-26%
o 5- 2%
History 110
8- 3%
69-24%
109-38%
79-27%
28-10%
Mathematics
51-14%
73-21%
114-32%
66-19%
48-14%
Physics 100
40-14%
56-19%
138-47%
35-12%
26-'9%
Physics 101
13-12%
24-22%
28-26%
30-28%
12-11%
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ruling will go into effect in
University policy in September
of 1065.
The attorneys for Billups and
Coffee, Joe H. Reynolds, Wil-
liam Kay Wilde, and Wright
Morrow, claimed that the pur-
pose of the Trustees' 'Suit was to
"contravene and destroy the
plain, and unambiguous intent
of Mr. Rice and to substitute
therefore, the desires and pur-
poses of the present trustees."
The attorneys alleged 12
points of error in the ruling
handed down by Judge Holland.
They challenged the entry of
the judgment oh the assumption
that Rice suffered a deficit in
its 1963 operations, and that
there would be a substantial in-
crease of the deficit in 1964.
The University did operate
at a loss of $269,525 in 1964,
which was greater than the loss
of $150,127 suffered in 1963.
Also included among the al-
leged points of error vtus the
appealants' contention that
Judge Holland wag at fault in
admitting evidence concerning
the intentions of William Marsh-
Rice other than as stated in the
1891 indenture which created a
trust fund for the University
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