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SATURDAY NIGHT'S HERO—David Ferguson gets pro-
tection for one of the passes which helped the Owls defeat the
Longhorns 20-17 Saturday night in Austin. The upset, the
biggest of the season so far, was the first victory for Rice in
Memorial Stadium since 1953. (See story page 9.)
Sammy Owl, Rice Mascot, Dies
With Broken Neck Following Fall
iSammy, the Owl, Rice's of-
ficial mascot, is dead.
The great horned owl was
found yesterday morning lying
on the ground beneath his ac-
customed perch in a tree in the
Wiess College courtyard.
As nearly as can be deter-
mined, Sammy met his death by
falling out of his tree and
breaking his neck.
According to Harry Holmes,
cheerleader, the body has been
turned over to a taxidermist to
be stuffed and preserved.
Sammy II
Sammy, one of two owls be-
longing to the Student Associa-
tion, had been at Rice since fail
of last year. The other owl,
named Sammy II, will be desig-
nated official mascot.
Sammy was acquired by
cheerleaders Ann Holland and
Harry Holmes, but became the
property of the entire student
body when purchased by the
SA. Sammy II, the new mascot,
was given by Ronald Hill, a
Rice Alumni, last spring.
Sammy was best known to
the freshmen who were required
to bow to him during the foot-
ball games. He first gained
campus-wide fame, though,
when his keepers unsuccessfully
tried to teach him to fly.
Both owls had been captive
since birth and neither had
learned the trick of flying. Dis-
astrous attempts were made to
force the first bird to fly by
dropping him off the Hanszen-
tower. Bribery, in the form of
live mice, was also tried, but in
the end Sammy preferred to
stay on his perch and cast a
sleepy eye at the adulating
football crowds.
Need Facilities
Harry Holmes, custodian of
the birds, blamed the death in
part on the unsatisfactory fa-
cilities provided for the Sam-
mys. For lack of more suitable
quarters, the birds have re-
mained in their tree both day
and night and in all weather.
The cheerleaders have been
seeking permission to erect a
permanent shelter for the birds,
probably near the college park-
ing lot.
The Architecture Department
has agreed to donate one of the
fiberglass roof sections from
the structure which has been
standing on the lawn opposite
the library for a year. With
$150 the cheerleaders will be
able to provide wire screen
walls, a concrete floor and suit-
able perches for Sammy II.
AN ALL-STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 50 YEARS
Volume 53—Number 7
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1965
Brown Schedules Morals Forum
To Examine University's Position
An open forum to examine
the extent of the colleges' and
the University's responsibility
for standards of morality
among Rice students will be
sponsored by Brown _ College
Tuesday night, November 2, at
7 pm in the Brown commons.
The participants will be Dean
of Undergraduate Affairs M. V.
McEnany, Dean of Students
Paul E. Pfeiffer, Dean of Wom-
en Alma Lowe, and Dr. Frank
E. Vandiver, Master of Brown
College.
Linda Walsh, Brown Resi-
dence Council Chairman, said
that the event will consist of a ,
panel discussion to coved rele-
vant points which may need
further clarification.
She also reported that "the
College intends that this forum
be a dialogue, not a debate, to
demonstrate that necessary,
though often uncomfortable,
questions can be asked and con-
fronted jointly by students and
administrators.
The topics which will be
specifically discussed by the
panel include:
0 To what extent is the Uni-
versity obligated to protect and
discipline students, and what is
the source of this obligation?
0 How can the Univex-sity's
concern for the safety and wel-
fare of the individual be re-
• conciled with the individual's
concern for his privacy?
0 Should there be a struc-
History Of Art
Major Offered
Rice University will begin a
new major in art and history
of art next year.
The program, directed by Pro-
fessor John O'Neil, chairman of
the Department of Fine Arts,
will be a regular four year se-
quence leading to the Bachelor
of Arts degree, according to
Professor J. D. Thomas, Secre-
tary of the Rice faculty.
The major will normally in-
clude 24 to 3?) hours of courses
in fine arts and art history, be-
sides related courses in other
departments and the required
distribution of the general aca-
demic curriculum.
The new major was unani-
mously accepted at a general
faculty meeting last Friday in
Hamman Hall.
ture in which students judge
their peers for moral trans
gression?
O In what ways does cur-
rent policy reflect society's
double standard for men and
women? How could this in-
equality be corrected?
0 What particular problems
do freshmen have in recogniz-
ing and adjusting to the moral
standards of the University?
Should Orientation include a
focus on these problems?
Preparation for the forum,
according to the Brown Resi-
dence Chairman, took shape as
the College began idealizing the
undefined nature of many prob-
lems confronting the govern-
ment and judiciary systems in
the college.
Senate Committee Will Investigate
Control Over Student Publications
By FOLLY HINDS
Thresher Reporter
Jeff Norris, Ralph Parks,
John Hamilton, and Sandy Coy-
ner will serve on a Senate com-
mittee to reformulate Senate
policies toward student publica-
tions.
The ocmmittee, set up at the
October 26 meeting of the Sen-
ate, was instructed to come up
with specific proposals to solve
the Senate dilemma about the
status of the Publications
Board.
Dean of Students Paul E.
Pfeiffer feels that there is
"probably some need for moni-
toring publications."
He stated that while he
thinks the student newspaper
should have a large degree of
freedom, the Campanile is an
entirely different type of in-
strument.
'Not Provocative*
"The role that the yearbook
plays is in presenting Rice as it
was when you were here. Tt's
not necessarily provocative," he
told the Senate. "I doubt if the
Campanile really conveys the
Rice that was last year."
Dean Pfeiffer felt that be-
cause of the representative
function of the yearbook, the
administration would feel that
a connection between faculty
members and the Campanile
staff was needed.
"You simply have to re-
cognize," he said "that the year-
book is more than the private
affair of a group of students.
It serves to provide an image
— to use a nasty word here —
of the University."
Board Limited
John Hamilton, chairman of
the now-suspended Publications
Board, said that the board is
limited in the number of things
it can do. He stated that there
UT Regents, Newspaper Clash Over Editorial
By PAUL BURKA
Thresher Austin Bureau
Austin — (Spl.) — The Board
of Regents at the University
of Texas will seek a "final
solution" to The Daily Texan
problem at a special meeting of
the Board in Dallas Saturday.
The Texan, which has sparred
openly with the Regents: since
a March censorship incident, in-
cited Regential wrath last week
with a series of editorials par-
enthetically concerning Amer-
ican involvement in Viet Nam.
A guest editorial by staff
writer Jean Etsinger was the
center of the controversy. The
editorial, appearing while editor
Kaye Northcott was in San
Francisco delivering a speech
about student press editorial
freedom, deplored the killing of
civilians in wartime.
"The Viet Cong has a lot to
learn about the art of eliminat-
ing the enemy," Miss Etsinger
wrote. "They're not likely to
achieve any more by killing off
innocent 'G.I. brats' in this
country than American forces
will by continuing to fire on vil-
lages of women and children in
theirs."
The Regents reportedly inter-
preted the editorial as a charge
that American involvement in
Viet Nam was untenable on
moral grounds^
Not Texan Policy
Miss Northcott's position,
when confronted by Vice-Chair-
man Frank Erwin of the Board
of Regents, was that Miss
Etsinger's editorial was signed
and thus did not reflect Texan
editorial policy. Included in the
editorial staff box of The Tex-
an is the explanation that "the
opinions expressed in the editor-
ial column are those of the
editor," but "guest editorial
views are not necessarily the
editor's."
The Texan has taken no of-
ficial stand on the Vietnamese
conflict, although Miss North-
cot and several guest editorial
writers have supported the
rights of dissenters to protest
American involvement.
Through Erwin the Regents
insisted that Miss Northcott
demonstrate clearly that Miss
Etsinger's editorial did not re-
present Daily Texan editorial
policy. The Board of Directors
of Texas Student Publications,
Inc., a semi-independent corp-
oration which publishes The
Texan, ordered Miss Northcott
to print a retraction which
appeared in Wednesday's issue
of The Texan.
Journalism Lab
TSP's action came in a
closed door executive session
Monday night. Tuesday W. W.
Heath, Chairman of the Board
of Regents, announced that the
Regents would meet in Dallas
Saturday following a meeting
of the newly-appointed advisory
See REGENTS on Page 3
is a difficulty of exchange be-
tween the board and publica-
tions because the power of the
Board is a veto power.
"Frankly," he said, "the board
has never taken any action that
would merit the attention of the
Senate."
Jerry Hafter suggested that
instead of having faculty mem-
bers on a Senate committee
whose function was one of
censorship, it might be more
constructive to have a faculty
advisor working with the staff.
Ralph Parkg feels that
"things should be shaped along
the way rather than broken off
at the end."
Jeff Corbin, editor of the
Campanile, told the Senate that
he plans to seek out the opinions
and advice of a large part of
a large part of the student
body.
Frosh Awarded
240 Scholarships
By KAREN HERRMANN
Thresher Reporter
Among the record 501 stu-
dents in this year's freshman
class, 210 received $423,928 in
Scholarships and •• long term
loans.
The University's extensive
scholarship program initiated
this year was organized by the
Trustees when growing operat-
ing costs forced Rice to begin
charging tuition for the first
time. The program is designed
so that no qualified student will
be denied admission because of
his inability to pay the $1200
tuition.
The University itself granted
$225,255 in the form of schol-
arships. An additional $138,048
of the student aid came from
outside University sources such
as endowments, foundations, in-
dustry, philanthropic organiza-
tions, government agencies and
individuals interested in sup-
porting education.
This year, 176 freshmen from
Houston and other ai-eas of Tex-
as, as well as 58 out-of-state
students, were awarded, accord-
ing to their financial need, Wil-
liam Marsh Rice Scholarships.
Six students were awarded
funds without regard to resi-
dence or financial need because
of exceptional scholastic prom-
ise. According to the scholarship
program, more than one mil-
lion dollars will be provided in
four-year scholarships, or five-
year scholarships in the case
of students in the five-year en-
gineering, architecture or ac-
counting programs.
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Durham, John. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 28, 1965, newspaper, October 28, 1965; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244954/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.