The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1965 Page: 3 of 8
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THE GREENER GRASSM
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
U.S. Colleges: SMU Students Judge c:aLt~. Tinauelv moves sculoture
SMU—-Men students at SMU the same applies to every good V f V If II IVr w W w
SMU—Men students at SMU
will begin to handle their own
discipline problems within a
month.
The University Life commit-
tee of the Student Senate rec-
ommended and the Faculty Sen-
ate has approved a Judiciary
Committee to be composed of
seven male students, a faculty
member, and the Dean of Men.
The faculty member and the
Dean of Men will serve as non-
voting members.
Members of the committee
will be nominated by counselors
in the men's residence halls and
by a selection committee con-
sisting of the President of the
Student Senate, the Dean of
Men, and the chairman of the
Faculty Senate discipline com-
mittee.
The Judiciary Committee will
handle all cases directed to it
by the Dean of Men of the Fac-
ulty Senate discipline commit-
tee. The body will also hear ap-
peals from students whose cases
have been heard in residence
councils.
MINNIE THE MERMAID
University of Florida — A
blonde striptease artist, billed
as Minnie the Mermaid—40-24-
36, has been rebuffed by of-
ficials at the University after
she advertised her willingness
to perform for campus organiza-
tions.
In a promotional brochure,
Minnie announced her avail-
ability for sexy stag parties,
kick-off membership drives, and
fund-raising projects.
It is not known whether Min-
nie's offer extends to other
campuses or not. But she's a
bargain for any takers at $75.
IN A NUTSHELL
Texas Tech—The Tech Daily
Toreador in a recent issue has
provided the "key plug words"
describing life at Tech in a nut-
shell.
Academic freedom ? "Tolerat-
ed but not encouraged."
Typical Coed? "Bubbleheads,
husband-hunters, stereotypes."
Religion? "Sunday laziness."
Student Government? "Stu-
dent indifference."
School spirit? "The greatest."
(Students have just chipped in
to buy a $300 trophy for "their"
basketball champs and a plaque
for each player.)
PROTEST HOUSING
U. of Kansas — Two^days of
student demonstrations protest-
ing alleged racial discrimination
at the University ended with an
agreement by the administra-
tion to reinstate 110 students
suspended after a sit-in at the
University Chancellor's office.
The University will also take
steps to end any bias in student
housing, advertising accepted by
the student newspaper, and
placement of teachers.
DEMAND SEDUCTION
College, U.S.A.—Behind ev-
ery good man is a woman—and
the same applies to every good
playboy, or so says "Mademoi-
selle" in a recent article con-
cerning "Playgirl Philosophy."
The Playgirl can best be char-
acterized by contrasting her
with her exact opposite and
arch-enemy, the non-Playgirl.
From the Playgirl's point of
view, the non-Playgirl is a de-
luded creature, stifled by warp-
ed Puritan values, so naive that
she believes that the Playboy
Philosophy demeans and lam-
poons womanhood, that it emas-
culates and makes a mockery
of manhood.
Not only that. She actually
wants to be seduced—but by the
"whole man." This includes his
intelligence, his character, his
values. What she really wants
is for her mind to be seduced.
OVERPROTECTED COEDS?
University of British Colum-
bia—Do American co-eds some-
times feel overprotected? Con-
sider the system of Totem Park
girls' dorm. This dorm is sur-
rounded by an eight-foot high
wall with barred gates. Areas
inside and outside the walls are
floodlit. A girl returning from
a date must sign in at the gate
with the night porter.
Then she and her date may
walk to the dorm remembering
to speak lowly since there is a
microphone which picks up ev-
erything for the benefit of the
porter. When she's ready to en-
ter, she tells the microphone, a
buzzer sounds, and she has four
seconds to get in before an
alarm rings. Escape from the
dorm is impossible since win-
dows open only a few inches at
the top and bottom. Applications
for residence can be obtained
from the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver.
LIVE IN LAUNDRY ROOM
University of Kansas—23 girls
have been forced to take up
residence in laundry rooms be-
cause of temporary overcrowd-
ing. According to reports, all are
adjusting nicely. But one of
them has a complaint: "The
girls keep coming into my room
to wash their feet in my big
sink."
STILL FOR SALE
Carthage College — Carthage
is for sale to anyone wishing to
pay $1.5 million for her class-
rooms, dormitories, library,
chapel, football field, and bird
sanctuary. Recently the small
four-year liberal arts college
run by the Illinois Synod of the
Lutheran Church found itself
without a manager when the
Synod merged with three other
Lutheran groups. Interested
parties may contact Carthage
College, Carthage, Illinois.
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By STEVE THORPE
Thresher Amusements Editor
Mr. Tanguely's works, reviewed
below, are discussed in The New
Yorker (Feb. 10, 1962). A copy is
on reserve under English 100 in
Fondren.—Ed.
There is this horrible machine
that is rolling back and forth
along a black-painted railroad
track. It has long things that
gyrate crazily at all angles and
cog wheels that move and don't
move and pipes and protrusions
and little wrough iron curlicues
all over it.
And what's more, it's all sort
of haunting]y beautiful.
No, really, this is, not some-
thing out of a surrealistic me-
chanical engineer's nigntmare—
it actually exists and its name
is "MK III" and it can be seen
on exhibit at the Houston
Museum of Fine Arts from now
until May 1(5.
Jean Tinguely, the French
sojalptor responsible for this
exhibit, has succeeded in pro-
ducing sculpture with a fourth
dimension — motion. In the
twelve pieces on exhibit, Tin-
guely has provided the onlooker
with magnificant visual treats
at best and, rarely, horrid visual
novelties.
Kaleidoscope Motion
The best piece by far is a
concoction of enmeshing gears
made out of thin pieces of wire
and studded tastefully here and
there with little black dealies
cut into various shapes and
sizes. And the whole thing
works!
The gears mesh, the wire
wheels turn and what results
can only be compared to a
kaleidoscope for shifting pat-
terns which are generally a de-
light to behold.
"Meta Mechanique" is the
name of this work and it alone
makes the exhibit worth while.
H o w e v e r, Tinguely broadens
this technique in to another
sculpture which can be viewed
in the round; the results are
startling, but here the accent
rests on the novelty of meshing
gears while "Meta" is pure
beauty in motion.
At the other end of the score
Money
Students who wish to be
considered for financial
assistance next year
should obtain an auulica-
tion form for scholarship
aid or financial assistance
in Dean M. V. McEnany's
office, on the second floor
of Lovett Hall.
The forms should be ob-
tained before the Easter
holidays and returned no
later than April 26 to
guarantee full considera-
tion.
sheet lies an unnamed monstro-
sity made up of fox (or maybe
mink?) pelts which, when a
button is pushed joggle ob-
sceuely up and down — the
motion is interesting, but this
reviewer finds little beauty in
shaking fur.
In a slightly different vein
are two pieces composed of
white figures revolving at dif-
ferent rates on a black field.
White On Black
"Meta Mevalich" is composed
of different sized white rods
moving on another black frame
Sounds
By JOHN GUI NX
Thresher Staff Reporter
The fourth concert by the Rice
Symphonic. Society, given last
Sunday evening, demonstrated
once again that the ensemble,
the members of which are im-
mersed in the manifold and im-
posing problems of giving or
receiving an education at Rice
University, plays nevertheless
merely for the enjoyment of
playing.
Conductor Dr. Richard O'Neil
began the concert with the
familiar overture to the in-
cidental music by Beethoven,
op. 84, to Goethe's Egmont.
Though not always unified, the
orchestra showed very good
balance and was expressive in
dynamics.
The second work on the pro-
gram was Chopin's second piano
concerto, op. 21. In the first-
movement the orchestra per-
formed lyrically and was well
balanced in itself and with the
soloist, Eva Wydra.
The orchestra was a little too
heavy in the opening passage of
the second movement, but other-
wise served well its proper
function in the movement, that
of providing accompaniment for
the poignant nocturne which is
the piano's part.
Miss Wydra's mastery of
Bach is well-known to Rice
and the result is an arresting
movement of spatial relation-
ships as the lines converge,
and cut off different sections
of the bl&ckness behind them—
perhaps it could be considered
frivolous but this work has a
certain fascination that will not
let go.
And there are others — but
you must see them to believe
them—You don't have to like
avant garde art, but even an
engineer should be able to find
something to enjoy in th'e off-
beat, off-balanhc, and hypnotic!
sculptures of Jean Tinguely.
audiences; Sunday night she
demonstrated her skill in ro-
mantic interpretation. She play-
ed the Chopin concerto with a
wonderful expressiveness and
with fine clarity and sensitivity.
It: was a truly professional per-
formance.
In the third work. Yiotti's
twenty-third violin concerto, the
ensemble played well except for
a lack of unification in the more
rapid passages of the intro-
duction.
Soloist Valerie Dunn exhibit-
ed a beautiful tone and a gen-
eral skill which told of gen-
erous amounts of time spen!
rehearsing di fficult passage -.
The last work on the program
was Mozart's third horn con-
certo, K. 117. Here the or-
c h e s t. r a ' s introduction was
muddy, and a lack of blend in
the violins and a general heavi-
ness something detracted from
the tender and personal em-
otional value of the second
movement.
The third movement was ex-
uberant, though not always uni-
fied. French horn soloist James
Mears produced a fine sound;
he gave a highly admirable
performance on an instrument
which, as one could occasionally
detect, is particularly difficult
and unpredictable.
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Durham, John. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1965, newspaper, April 8, 1965; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244944/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.