The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1966 Page: 1 of 6
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Volume 53—Number 23
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1966
Brown Cabinet Reconsiders Liquor
Decision At Request Of Vandiver
FUTURE UAG CAMPUS ON DISPLAY
See Story On This Page
Broyles Defends SA's 'Debating';
Morehead Issues Draft Statement
By FOLLY HINDS
Threehrer Reporter
In a joint meeting of the old
and the new Student Senate
Tuesday night, outgoing SA
President Billl Broyles stated
that the Senate has often been
called § debating society.
"It is," he said, "a debating
society because it has issues
worthy of debate, issues which
affect the abroad, patterns of a
student's stay at this universi-
ty."
After Broyles' recapitulation
of the Senate's activity during
the past year, the Senate de-
bated whether to subsidize
printing SCEP course review
in the Thresher or to have the
report printed as a mimeo-
graphed copies to be sold to
students.
Last Word
After being asked if the
Thresher could print the SCEP
report in full, Sandy Coyner
stated, "The Thresher reserves
the right to edit."
The motion to subsidize
printing of the report was
tabled and will be brought up
before the new Senate.
In a letter to Broyles con-
cerning the policy of the regis-
trar's office in sending letters
to draft board's on a student's
behalf the Registrar James C.
Morehead stated. "I will not
write letters in support of a
student who, to the best of my
knowledge, is occupying space
on the Rice campus and who is
not making an effort to take
advantage of his academic op-
portunities here."
Activities Important
Morehead stated that this did
not imply that extra-curricu-
lar activities were not an im-
portant part of a student's ed-
ucation.
After the outgoing Senate
adjourned, SA President Jerry
Hafter told the new members
that the Senate "should be more
than the Senate has been be-
fore."
Hafter said that the Senate
must promote the idea of the
existence of the student body
as a whole, and secondly the
idea of the Senate as the exec-
utive committee of the student
body.
Ad Hoc
In addition to the standing
committees the Senate plans to
work through a large number
of ad hoc committees.
Interviews for standing com-
mittee chairmen and Inter-Col-
lege Court chairman will b e
held Sunday, April 17. The elec-
tion for Rondelet court will be
held Friday, April 15.
The Brown College cabinet
has voted for a second time to
adopt the new University liquor
policy. The cabinet had been
asked to reconsider its request
by Master Frank Vandiver, who
disapproved the action.
Two weeks ago the cabinet
voted to delete the college resi-
dence rule forbidding all alco-
holic beverages on the prem-
ises, thereby adopting the new
University rule which prohibits
alcohol only in the college's pub-
lic rooms, on a trial basis.
Vandiver responded to the
cabinet's action with a letter
which he read in a closed col-
lege meeting March 23. Van-
diver was "convinced that pos-
session and consumption of al-
coholic beverages in a women's
college is wrong" and asked the
cabinet to reconsider its mo-
tion.
Erosion and Evasion
Vandiver objected to the new
University policy itself because
it "would put students in a pos-
ture of evading the State liquor
laws" by leaving "the implica-
tion that nothing will be done
if liquor is consumed in other
(than public) places."
He stated that social pressure
would force minors to drink,
and that the resulting atmo-
sphere of erosion of respect for
the i"ule of law would carry over
to the college's other residence
rules. "If the State law has been
evaded, how can a student gov-
ernment hope to keep its own
rules of conduct?"
The bulk of the letter^ how-
ever, was concerned with the
considerations of "Image." Van-
diver stated, "There are some
things, even in our happily lib-
eralized 20th century, which la-
dies simply do not do—if they
wish to be ladies. Among these
is to drink untidily or excess-
ively."
He expected drinking to be
widespread and the whole col-
lege to be "branded by the com-
pany it keeps. . . simply because
you are living in the unusual
freedom of modern college life
does not exempt you from en-
vironment or social judgment."
Although he agreed that "the
College should help teach liv-
ing," Vandiver added that "I do
not agree that the College is a
sociological experiment station.
The basic task of the College is
to provide experience and guid-
ance in community life."
The Fund Drive
Vandiver cited the relation be-
tween the University, the col-
lege and the community. "The
University undertakes to aid in
making life as pleasant as is
commensurate with the educa-
tional process . . . but there are
limits imposed by the Univer-
sity's and the college's com-
munity ties."
The current fund drive in-
volves a "debt of loyalty" on the
part of the students, said Van-
diver. The proposed rule change
"may hurt your College and
University in the community"
and "defaults your debt."
"To the present," Vandiver
continued, "student government
has failed to do its full duty . . .
If student government has not
been able to deal effectively
with the freedom already al-
lowed why should it do better
with more?"
Vandiver concluded with sad-
ness over "the almost reckless
urge of the College to seize on
the words of the new Univer-
sity regulation ... as a mandate
to lower standards." He point-
ed out that "the University laid
no obligation on the College to
change its ways, and I think so
hasty a rush to conform hardly
shows mature judgment."
The cabinet, confirming its
eax-lier decision to press for the
change in policy, will draw up
a formal statement of its posi-
tion in reply to the letter, "both
to clarify cabinet's position and
out of courtesy to the master,"
said President Carolyn Porter.
Development Of Artificial Heart
Is Problem Of A Fantastic Pump
Upperclassmen, Girls
Outsmart Most Others
Analysis of statistics from
the Registrar's Office reveals
that Rice's women make bet-
ter grades than the men, and
that the number of students on
probation decreases consistent-
ly as students reach the upper
classes.
Both women's colleges placed
a higher percentage of their
membership on the President's
Honor Roll last semester than
any men's college. In Jones
38% of the membership, or 73
girls, were listed. In Brown,
30% of the college, 57 girls,
made the Roll.
With 96 persons listed Baker
had the largest number and a
percentage of 29.5%. Wiess had'
72 members, 21.5%; Will Rice
placed 73 members, 21.2%;
Hanszen placed 19.8%, 68 mem-
bers.
There were 75 freshmen on
scholastic probation this semes-
ter, as compared with 42 soph-
omores, 12 juniors, and only 7
seniors.
The number of freshmen on
probation,, increased by 41%
over the 51 on prq in 1965.
* Those listed on the Honor
Roll included 83 freshmen, 123
sophomores, 95 juniors and 132
seniors.
By DICK WESLEY
Threshrer Reporter
"The heart is not the home
of the soul, the fount of emo-
tion or the source of courage,
but simply a pump," said Rice's
Dr. William Akers in a lecture
at^Tones College Thursday even-,
ing.
Dr. Akers went on to say
that, however, the heart is a
pump with fantastic endurance,
expanding and contracting sev-
enty time per minute, 40 million
times per year, and . over 2 bil-
lion Uimes in" the life span of
an individual.
The problems of constructing
an artificial pump are numer-
ous as well as enormous. To be-
gin with, the left ventricle,
supplying blood to the body,
and the right ventricle, to the
lungs, must pump at equal
rates.
Major Problem
Blood itself is a fragile fluid,
composed primarily of red blood
cells, white blood cells, and fi-
brinogen. Rough treatment re-
sults in denatured protein frac-
tions which often prove toxic.
A major problem is the clotting
of fibrinogen upon foreign ma-
terials in the blood. For this
reason special materials inert
Guadalajara University Aided By US Scholars
By JOHN DURHAM
"It's a university with "two
first floors."
Professor Harry Ransom,
Rice University "architect, was
speaking of the future campus
pf the Universidad Autonoma-.de
Guadalajara to a group of Tex-
as newsmen who visited Guada-
lajara over the weekend.
Pf of ess or Ransom is just one
of many academic people from
16 United. States universities
who are working with UAG t&
develop a master plan which
will plfice the university in a
position of academic excellence.
Unique to Latin American University of Houston, Univer-
universities, UAG is a private
university, free from the sup-
port and control from either the
'church or the government.
Founded in 193S as a result of a
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student movement in favor of a
truly independent university,
UAG began in 1962g to reor-
ganize and plan for the future.
It sought the advice of Amer-
ican universities and the finan-
cial support of private individ-
uals and foundations.
The Texas universities which
are cooperating in the project
are Rice, University of Texas,
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sity- cPf Dallas, and Baylor Uni-
versity.
Croneis Is Consultant
In addition to assistance in
the architectural field, Rice's
chancellor, Dr. Carey Croneis, is
the chief consultant for UAG in
the Exact and Terrestrial Sci-
ences.
The Exact Sciences make up
one of the three institutes which
will be the nucleus of the uni-
versity. The other institutes will
be natural sciences, and humani-
ties.
These three institutes, along
with the 8-story library will be
at the center of the neW UAG
campus, designed by Professor
Ransom . and the architectural
staff of the university.
The new campus will be lo-
.cated on a 190,000 square meter
tract on the west side of Gua-
dalajara, in one of the best
residential areas of the city.
Native Architecture
The plan for the new campus
has been designed, according to'
Ransom, to blend in with the
nativ^ Guadalajaran architec-
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to both blood and body tissue
are required.
The major engineering fac-
tor to date is the lack of space.
No model has yet been devel-
oped which can be placed com-
pletely inside the body, nor ..
does this seem likely. The best
results expected center upon an
internal pump with an external
power supply.
Long-range Goals
The method of attack by Dr.
Akers and his associates has
been to replace only the left
ventricle, the major source of
failure. The artificial heart
pump is connected in parallel
with it, moving the blood from
the left atrium to the aorta.
Immediate plans include the
development of a heart which
can be used for a matter of
weeks following a heart attack,
thus allowing the left ventricle
to repair itself while at rest.
Long-range goals are still
aimed at permanent replace-
ment, however.
The best results obtained
thus far have relied upon a
plastic structure with a dacron
inner lining which permits fi-
brin to anchor itself and living
tissue upon the fibrin in turn.
Thus the problem of clotting
due to foreign matter has been
eliminated.
Many Helpers
Aside from the biological as-
pects of the problem, Dr. Ak-
ers acknowledged the aid of the
faculty of other departments.
Among these are Dr. Tony
Banard, in mathematical anal-
ysis, and Dr. J. V. Leeds of the
electrical engineering depart-
ment. In structural design, the
mechanical department has ad-
ded its share.
As this work has rtever been
attempted before much of the
equipment necessary such k'as
blood flow meters, high-speed
electric motors and solenoid
heart valves, has had to be spe-
cially designed and constructed."
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Durham, John. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1966, newspaper, March 31, 1966; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244970/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.