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Volume 54—Number 10
RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001
NOVEMBER 17, 1966
Student officials
seek new policy
in college change
By CLARK CHAMBERLAIN
Thresher Reporter
The college presidents and
SA president Jerry Hafter have
submitted to the Undergraduate
Affairs Committee a Statement
of more liberal policy for
changes in college membership.
Under the present system, an
individual can change college
only with the unanimous con-
sent of all the masters. The
policy is otherwise silent, as to
justifiable reasons for such
a change.
The pi-oposed policy calls for
a petition giving "substantive
reasons" for the change. It re-
quires that changes have the
consent of four masters, includ-
ing those of the two colleges
concerned;
One Shot
A student will be allowed on-
ly one change during his Rice
career. The transferee may not
avoid restrictions and punish-
ments by changing his college.
One of the college presidents
pointed out that the plan's con-
servative outlook was aimed at
allowing changes only for "sub-
stantive reasons." That is, free
exchange was neither encour-
aged nor envisioned.
Monday night, the Baker Col-
lege Cabinet unanimously en-
dorsed the plan, with the re-
commendation ' that - only the
consent of the masters con-
cerned be required.
Home-sick
The feeling was that some
persons have good reason to be
at home in a college other than
their own.
Adjustments in membership
could both aid the colleges and
their members in enjoying the
benefits of the college- systefn. -
In submitting this proposal,
the college presidents asked
that the cases be examined in-
dividually in order to streng-
then the college system. No
fraternity-type "rushing" or
vindicative "exile" is intended.
Baker proposes liquor on campus
for cheaper parties in commons
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Proposed addition to biology building
Construction begun on Bio growth;
new wing to be completed next year
By CHARLIE DUNCAN
Thresher Reporter
The construction currently
muddying the west end of the
Rice campus will eventually
double this University facilit-
ies for research in biology.
On October 26, the Board of
Governors approved an expendi-
ture of in the neighborhood of
$1.2 million. The majority of
the sum will be paid by the
National Institute of Health
for the advancement and con-
tinuation of research. The rest
of the cost will be paid by the
University.
The new wing will extend the
existing one to within about
15' of the roadway on the west
end. of the area. The building
will be used entirely for re-
search.
The architects, Pierce and
Pierce, who designed the exist-
ing structure, and Samuel Mar-
shall, Contractor of the present
biology labs, have indicated
that the building will be
completed about the end of
November, 1967. Personnel will
be committed for the spring
semester following that date.
The plans, including working
drawings, prepared by Pierce
and Pierce, in coordination with
Dr. Clark Read of the Rice
biology .department and Dr. J.
R. Sims, Campus Business
Manager, were submitted to
NIH before approval of the
grant for the 16,000 sq. ft.
structure.
Included in these plans is a
120 man departmental seminar
room, a private graduate read-
ing room with 10 study car-
rels, and a heavy duty eleva-
tor.
Fiedler at Hanszen
By CHARLES SZALKOWSKI
Thresher Reporter
A proposal to allow semi-
formal social activities in the
commons of each of the col-
leges, including liquor parties,
was passed unanimously by the
Baker College Cabinet in its
meeting Monday night.
The proposal will be formally
drafted by Jim Scott, Baker
president, and Sandy Mueller,
first vice-president, and pre-
sented to the Undergraduate
Affairs Committee for consid-
eration.
Cited as reasons for the
liquor proposal were the high
cost and difficulty of securing
places for off-campus parties,
the danger to drivers and dates
returning to the campus from
such parties, the convenience
and fairness to students without
cars (who now subsidize the
social events through their col-
lege dues, through they cannot
attend), and the tendency the
proposal would have to center
social affairs around the col-
lege, thus strengthening the
Rice college system.
The proposal itself states
that colleges or the entire school
may schedule such social func-
tions for the college commons,
contingent upon approval by
the master of the involved col-
lege or the Dean of Students.
The proposal would be inter-
preted to exclude beer or
"groady" parties, including only
coat and tie affairs.
The Cabinet also approved a
motion to allow the president
and vice-president to draw up,
subject to the Cabinet's ap-
proval, a change in the Open
House policy, allowing the
Babinet or Executive Committee
to schedule as many afternoon
open houses during one week
as decided. After approval by
the Baker Cabinet, the proposal
will also be submitted to the
Undergraduate Affairs Com-
mittee.
Dynamic critic to lead symposium
By PHIL GARON
Thresher Editorial Staff
Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the
most dynamic and outspoken
figures in contemporary Am-
erican literary criticism, will be
the central figure in the Hans-
zen College Fall Symposium. •
"Race, Class, Sex and the
Novel" will be the topic of
the formal Symposium address,
which Fiedler will deliver after
the evening meal in the Hans-
zen Commons on November 30.
The English Department has
scheduled a colloquium for 4
pm Wednesday, December 1,
iu which Fiedler will deliver
a brief lecture and will then
engage in an informal discus-
sion with faculty, graduate
students, and, undergraduate
members of the English Depart-
ment.
A panel discussion on "The
New Mutants" will be held that standard text in classes of
evening in the Hanszen Com-
mons, again after the evening
meal. Drs. Louis Mackey,
Douglas Milburn, and Gerald
O'Grady will sit on the panel
along wifch Fiedler in andiscus-
sion which proposes to examine
the youth culture—the "gen-
eration of mutants," in Fied-
ler's words.
Outspoken Critic
Among the related cultural
aspects brought into the discus-
sion will be the hiatus that
exists betwen the two genera-
tions, the psychedelic influence,
and the new emphasis on "Pop"
in art and literature.
Fiedler is currently a mem-
ber of the English Department
of the State University of New
York at Buffalo. His magnnim
opus, "Love and Death in the
American Novel," has become a
modern American literature,
and his outspoken viewpoint
has earned him a reputation in
some circles as the "wild man
of American literary criticism."
Whiskey to Drugs—
He has also published "Wait-
ing for the End," a study of
the American cultural shifts
from "a whisky culture to a
drug culture" and the new
attitudes toward race ami sex
as revealed .through works of
literature. His new novel, re-
leased this summer, is entitled
"The Last Jew in America."
Fiedler has taught at Prince-
ton, Columbia, Indiana, and
Montana Universities, and :U
the Universities of New York.
Wisconsin. Rome, Bologna. an;i
Athens, as well a< lecturing
at more than one hundred other
universities.
Red China should have recognition,says McGill conference
BY TOM BERTRAND
Tom Bertrand was Rice Uni-
versity's representative at the
McGill University Conference
on World Affairs, held on No-
vember 9-12 in Montreal, Can-
ada.
McGill University paid all
of his costs at the conference
and one-half of his transporta-
tion costs. The Student Senate
and the History and Political
Science Departments at Rice
paid the other half.
The following is his report
on the proceedings at the con-
ference.
American policy toward Com-
munist China and western ig-
norance of the Chinese revolu-
tion are behig widely cricized
in academic circles. The scrut-
iny given the China question
recently by selected student
representatives from major
American universities has given
rise to disturbing questions
which need to be aired by all
Americans.
Such is the pervading after-
taste of the 10th , annual Mc-
Gill University Conference on
World Affairs held last week
in Montreal, Quebec, on the ference, when the delegates
topic "The New China and the
International Community."
T h e pervasive sentiments
at the conference were open
criticism of U.S. Foreign policy
and a moderate to extreme
sympathy toward Red China.
The basic assumpion shai-ed by
eveVy student representative I
met was that The People's ;Re-
public of China must be rec-
ognized and admitted to the
U.N. as soon as possible. All
discussion seemed to build from
this commonly held premise.
Pro-China
Each delegate had been as-
signed a research paper which
he presented in his discussion
group .ThefTd^ tended generally
to criticize western policy and
to view China sympathetically.
However, the Conference
could not be classified as eith-
er vabidly anti-Aine?ican or ab-
solutely pro-Chinese. Obvious
propaganda was abundant and
at times as lightly enjoyable
as the banquets and numerous
wine and cheese parties.
News
On the third day of the con-
might have begun to fly off
the handle in their enthusiasm,
a Canadian proposal for Red
Chinese admisison to the U.N.
hit the papers. Immediate U. S.
and Japanese protests were
forthcoming. Such a tangible
orientation for discussion de-
* manded realistic assessmeents
by the delegates rather than
abstract sentiments.
McGill's Atmosphere
Perhaps it was the drama of
new ideas that raised my
spirit. Pei-haps it was the cold
weather. But I discovered also
at McGill at truly dynamic ed-
ucational atmosphere, which
we might emulate at Rice.
We pi-obably' couldn't , or
wouldn't. At first glance, Mc-
Gill seethes. An anti-AmeriCan
demonstration led by Amei'ican
students enrolled at McGill
drew the delegates as interest-
ed bystanders on the second
evening of the conference.
Avowed Marxists abounded.
Several of us joined two quite
intelligent young leftists in a
hangout hung with revolution-
ary decor for an evening of de-
bate of Marxist theory and
practice. They claimed to have
just smuggled in another refu-
gee from the U.S. authorities
over their underground railway
for draftdodgers from the
states. Freedom lies to the
North.
Quebec separatist sentiment
overflowed quite often in dis-
cussions with French-Canadian
students," with delegates, with
people along the streets at the
Remembrance Day parade, with
students in discotheques.
A delegate from the states
joked lialf-seriously about being
blacklisted by the CIA, the
catch-all culprit" on whic h
seemed to converge blame for
anything undesirable about U.S.
power.
And millions of beautiful
French girls in higfe mod fash-
ions.
Placidity
These incidents „and scenes
perhaps would present a bit too
much contract with our placid
live oaks and lawns. However,
we could ask at least for some
of the more responsible excite-
ment which permeated that
.campus. We could emulate the
enthusiasm.
Questions were raised, not
answered at McGill. I think that
resumes of several of the out-
standing talks might raise for
Thresher readers some of these
same questions.
Felix Greene
Greene, who has been labeled
in a recent Congressional Rec-
ord as "Red China's Man in
America" was the Conference's
Alpha and Omega. The well
konwn film, "China," provided
the send off on Wednesday. The
address "The New China: Im-
plications for the Future" con-
cluded tha conference on Sat-
urday morning.
In his speech, Greene listed
several assumptions basic to
our western society which we
cannot claim to share with the
Chinese, implying therefore that
western <«riticism of "Chinese
society is based on inapplicable
criteria.
Materialism
The first of these is materi-
alism, the idea that basic to
life is the accumulation of
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