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Gets more scholarships
Hagan follows tDean of Coaches'
By TOMMY HEARRON
Thresher Sports Editor
Bo Hagan, Jess Neely's newly
appointed successor as Rice's
head football coach, is a man
who should make subtle, but
noticeable, changes in the ap-
pearance of intercollegiate
athletics at Rice.
A dynamic, energetic person
who still embodies the integrity
long associated with Jess Neely,
Hagan, a favorite of the players,
should mix knowledge of the
game, ability to communicate
with his players, and dignity
into a winning combination.
Having come to Rice ten
years ago from SMU, the
popular backfield coach had
formerly served under Bobby
Dodd at Georgia Tech, in the
company of Ray Graves and
'Frank Broyles, both of whom
have since become head coaches.
Ending speculation that Rice
might be planning to de-empha-
size football, Hagan announced
the University had consented to
an increase both in the coach-
ing staff and in the number of
athletic scholarships offered.
Concerning assistant coaches,
Hagan said he had not yet
decided who he would like to
bring in nor who among the
present staff he would ask to
remain. He emphasized, how-
ever, that those currently on the
staff would receive first con-
sideration.
Concerning^ cholarships, Coach
Hagan declined to specify the
exact number he would like to
give each year, but noted that
the state schools in the con-
ference were currently giving
the legal maximum of fifty.
Rice would give, he said, a
number "such as to compare
with the other private schools
in the conference."
When asked about his philo-
sophy of football, Coach Hagan
answered that offense and de-
fense are stereotyped in college
football and offer few opportun-
ities for variation. He prefers
the "I" formation, however,
with a passing attack to com-
plement the running game. "You
can't win without throwing,"
See HAGAN on page 7
The Rice Thresher
AN ALL-STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 51 YEARS
Volume 54, Number 11 RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001
December 1, 1966
Thresher photo by Hill Hlanion
BO HAG AX AND HIS PREDECESSOR
Long-awaited announcement came yesterday
Minority problems probed
Rice to hold first teach-in Monday
Thresher photo by Bill Blanton
WARING FINCKE
VISTA volunteer to expound 'doctrine of implied power'
Only two years behind the
other leading universities in
this country, Rice will have its
first teach-in next Monday af-
ternoon and evening. Under the
auspices of the Forum, and
planned and organized by a
group of unaffiliated Rice stu-
dents, a ten-hour program on
basic social issues will be pre-
sented in the Chemistry Lecture
Hall, starting at 1:00 pm. In
informal lectures and panel dis-
Cybernetics 'simplifies' system
Students to schedule final exams
'Students will schedule their
own final examinations for the
first time during the next two
weeks—by filling out a fistful
of forms.
Self-scheduling will not ap-
ply, however, to 100 and 200
level (freshman and sophomore)
courses, or to the 20 upper level
courses with enrollments of 50
or more, or which will use slides
as part of the examination.
Deadline Dec. 15
Students must complete their
schedule for examinations by
December 15, turning in a com-
plete schedule and separate cards
and envelopes for each course.
All undergraduates, both resi-
dent and non-resident, will ob-
tain and return these forms in
their colleges. (Class I gradu-
ates will schedule through the
Registrar's Office.)
The Registrar's Office will
assign a room to each student
for each examination, and will
prepare and post lists of these
room assignments.
Exam Committee
A student committee, which
has yet to be selected, will dis-
tribute examinations in the as-
signed rooms 20 minutes before
the beginning of each examina-
tion period, and will collect the
examinations at the end of the
period. These students will re-
turn the examinations to the
Registrar's Office, where facul-
ty members may pick them up.
The new system thus will re-
quire a volume of work from
the Registrar's Office in sort-
ing and keeping straight
schedules and examinations, and
some time from the students
who aid in distribution and col-
lection of materials.
Trial Basis
Registrar James Morehead,
who has just developed and an-
nounced the procedure, stresses
that the plan was adopted by
the faculty last June on a trial
basis only, and that the future
of the system will depend on
its success this January.
Morehead expressed enthusi-
astic approval of the plan. "I
just want the thing to work so
badly," he said, "that I want
the students to realize how
much is up to them. I will do
everything possible in this of-
fice to see that it works
smoothly."
The plan follows substantially
a SCEP proposal first submitted
in 1964, and worked out last
winter.
Computer Check
The procedure in the Registr-
ar's Office will be simplified by
the use of IBM-size cards (filled
out by the students) and the
envelopes. The Registrar will
punch the information onto the
cards and use a sorting machine
to sort the cax-ds by time (to
assign the rooms) and then to
sort by course (to submit to
professors to ensure that all
students have indeed scheduled
all of their exams.)
The envelopes will contain
the unwritten exams, will be
distributed to the exam rooms
at the proper time, and will
later hold the completed exams,
to be sorted by course by the
Registrar and held for profes-
sors.
Fast Grades
Morehead also explained how
automation has speeded up the
processing of grades.
This year for the first time
professors submitted Thanksgiv-
ing grades by filling out grid
patterns similar to the narae-
gridding used on ETS College
Board exams. This information
was transferred to punch tape
in one hour using a reading ma-
chine at Texas Southern Uni-
versity.
Grade cards can be produced
from this tape in a few hours.
"That's getting 'em out pretty
fast," Morehead observed.
The new procedure will be
applied to semester grades in
February. The tape will be
used to print gummed labels
containing the course names and
descriptions, as well as the
grades, to be pasted directly
on transcripts. Morehead stated
that this procedure will elimi-
nate errors in transferring
grades.
The tape will also produce the
multiple copies of grade reports
which are distributed to several
parties.
Disti'ibution of semester
grades has formerly taken a
month or more. Morehead esti-
mated that, if the new procedure
runs smoothly, it will take no
longer than 2 days for grades
to be processed.
'New Mutants'
Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler will
conclude the Hanszen Fall
Symposium tonight by par-
ticipating in a panel dis-
cussion on "The New
Mutants."
Other members of the
panel will be Dr. Gerald O'-
Grady of the English De-
partment; Dr. Douglas Mil-
burn of the German Depart-
ment; and Geoffrey Bow-
man, Will Rice senior.
The panel discussion will
center upon the new youth
culture, the hiatus between
generations, and the drug in-
fluence. It will begin at 7
pm in the Hanszen Commons.
cussions, twenty-five indivi-
duals will discuss the problems
of Houston minority groups in
the areas of housing, education,
labor, and dealings with the
"white power structure."
The afternoon session will
feature five informal lectures
and question and answer pe-
riods with such speakers as
Chris Dixie, prominent labor
lawyer and president of the
Texas Liberal Democrats, and
Judge Alfred Hernandez, na-
tional pi-esident of LULAC and
one of Texas's most influential
Latin - Americans.
The first panel discussion
will start at 4:45 pm with
Professor Earl Rand of the
TSU Education Department
moderating a discussion of
education in Houston. The panel
will feature such antithetical
opinions as those of Mrs. How-
ard Barnstone, minority mem-
ber of the Houston School
Board, and C. O. Mann, Director
of the Houston Chapter of the
John Birch Society.
Evening Battles
After a one hour recess for
supper, Rice Professor William
McCord will open the housing
panel at 7:00 pm. This session
should be highlighted by some
disagreement between Dr.
Stewart Wilber, Chairman of
the Housing Committee of the
Houston Council on Human
Relations and a strong suppor-
ter of open housing, and* God-
don Nielson, Executive Director
of the Houston Apartment
Owners Association.
The labor panel will start
at 8:15 and will be moderated
by Professor Allen Matusow.
Here the status quo will prob-
ably be defended by Henry Carr,
regional public relations repre-
sentative for the Department of
Labor. The most interesting-
representative of the minority
viewpoint is Hai-tzell Gray, an
Episcopal priest turned pipe-
fitter and union organizer who
recently served as George
Bush's campaign manager.
White Power
The teach-in will close with a
discussion of the "white power
structure" which controls Hous-
ton. This panel will be moder-
ated by Professor Alan Grob,
and its members include recent-
ly elected State Representatives
Lauro Cruz and Curtis Graves,
Millard Lowe, SNOC coordinator
at TSU, and Kenneth Fairchild,
who serves as a special assist-
ant to Mayor Louie Welch.
Speaking in the afternoon and
also participating in the power
structure panel will be Waring
Fincke, a California native who
has spent the last nine months
working in the First Ward as
a VISTA volunteer. In an in-
terview with the Thresher
Fincke stated that he expected
some clashes over basic prin-
ciples in each of the discussion
sessions. However, he added
that the most intense controver-
sy should be generated not over
principles, but over specific
methods of approach to pro-
blems which have already been
generally recognized and ac-
knowledged. Specifically he pre-
dicted disagreement in the
Labor panel between Fred
Wiener, Director of the Voca-
tional Guidance Service, and
Walter Katz of the Crescent
Foundation over exactly at
whom work programs should In-
directed.
How If Started
The basic idea for this week's
teach-in germinated in a Fresh-
man Week discusion vroup at
Jones College. Since then it
has been planned and urbanized
by a small independent group
of Rice students led by Peter
HoHings, Le Anne Schreiber
and Pat Bryan. According t.>
Hollings, the group has made a
conscious effort to present
grass-roots speakers who are
themselves actively involved in
seeking solutions to the key
problems which confront Hous-
ton minority groups. They fear
that Rice's lack of activism and
activists reflects a basic general
disinterest in social conditions.
They hope the teach-in will at
Jeast inform the Rice student
body about these conditions
Perhaps it may even stimulate
some involvement in the social
problems which it will consider.
Hollings also emphasized the
informal, fluid structure of the
program. Both the afternoon
and evening sessions have been
geared to a mobile audience.
Since discussion will be con-
tinuous, students are encour-
aged to come and go as they
please, without any reference
to the posted schedule. He stated
that the novelty of this experi-
ment in methods of expression
was almost as interesting as
the program.
A schedule for the teach-in
is included as part of the cam-
pus calendar on page 8.
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