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PREXIES — Five of the six newly- from left to right, Julius Sensat (Hans- and Tom Bertrand (Wiess), Chip No-
elected college presidents are shown zen), Martha Johnson (Brown), Sandy votny (Will Rice) is not pictured; ho
above in natural habitat. They are, Mueller (Baker), Joan Gurasich (Jones), forgot to come. Results of the recent
college elections are detailed on page
10 of this week's Thresher.
Thresher I'hutu Kv Uich.-'.n! Sawyer
Have A
Rousing
The Rice Thresher
AN ALL-STUDENT NEW SPAPER FOR 51 YEARS
Good
Easter
Volume 54—Number 21
RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001
March Ifi, 1%7
SCEP stresses
need for support
in filing reports
By PHIL GARON
Thresher Editorial Staff
About 2,000 of the 5,000
SCEP forms mailed out have
been returned, according- to
SCEP Chairman Peter Hollings.
However, a lack of response in
several departments has cre-
ated problems in evaluation.
Hollings stressed that returns
from most of the courses in
Group B, with the exception of
economics courses, has been
"wretched."
Response has also been poor
from the departments of geol-
ogy and electrical engineering.
The greatest scarcity of returns
has come from the small, up-
per-level coui^es in all of the
departments sampled.
Hollings urged that students
who have not returned the com-
puterized forms do so immedia-
tely, and suggested that stu-
dents make use of last year's
SCEP forms, which are now in
the college commons and the
-KMC, to evaluate any courses,
particularly the small, advanced
courses.
The deadline for all the forms
sent through the mails is Mon-
day, March 20, since the com-
puter will evaluate these forms
'during the spring recess. The
forms now in the colleges may
be filled out during the vaca-
tion and returned by the end of
March.
20 Wilson Fellows
Twenty Rice seniors have won Woodrow Wilson Founda-
tion Fellowship for 1967-68. They are:
Daniel F. Albright
Wiess
English
Paul H. Berdahl
Wiess
Physics
Sandra J. Coyner
Brown
History
Richard E. Darilek
Hanszen
History
Joel E. Dendy, Jr.
Wiess
Mathematics
Don C. Des Jarlais
Baker
Social Psychology
Linda R. Fagg
Brown
Biology
James Ronald Green
Baker
English.
Jerome C. Hafter
Hanszen
Political Science
Ned A. Hurley
Baker
English
Paul M. Johnson
Wiess
Political Science
George W. Kennedy
Baker
English
Kenneth W. Kennedy
Hanszen
Mathematics
Donald Q. Lamb
Wiess
Physics
John Eric Lueders
Hanszen
English
Karen J. Payne
Jones
English
Steve F. Sapontzis
Baker
Philosophy
Le Anne Schreiber
Jones
English
Jane Ann Starling
Jones
Genetics
Eva A. Wydra
Jones
English
In addition, the following si
v seniors received Ik
mention:
Mary J. Amspoker
Brown
History
Patricia E. Bryan
Jones
History
William T. Hearron
Baker
English
Ijawrence M. Jordan
Hanszen
Chemistry
Penn Jones, noted Warren critic
and Texas newsman, speaks Friday
Penn Jones Jr., editor of the
weekly Midlothian (Tex.) "Mir-
ror" will speak at 7:00 pm this
Friday in Baker Commons on
the topic "New Perspectives on
Kennedy's Death: a Criticism of
the Warren Report." Jones has
written a book, "Forgive My
Grief," subtitled "A. Critical Re-
view of the Warren Commission
Report on the Assassination
of President John F. Kennedy."
Jones was born in Anona, a
small East Texas town, where
he lived until entering junior
college in Magnolia, Arkansas.
He later attended the Univer-
sity of Texas. During World
War II, he served in the in-
vasion of Italy and southern
Robert L. Stout Baker
Letitia K. Zumwult Jones
Mathematical Psychology
English
Nationwide, a total of 1251) fellowships were awarded.
The Rico awards represent about 4.5^ of the senior class.
The Fellows receive tuition and 1'ees for one academic
year Of graduate school, a living stipend of $2,000, and allow-
ances for dependent children. In addition, the schools in which
the Fellows enroll each receive a supplementary grant from
the Foundation.
Fellows are required to give serious consideration to col-
lege teaching as a career.
PENN JONES
At Baker Friday
Caravan will drive home problems of indigents
by BARRY KAPLAN
Thresher Editorial Staff
Moses led a caravan from Egypt to
Palestine, the Crusades are a history of
caravans, the civil rights movement is
noted for caravans, and the movement to
aid the farm workers of the lower Rio
Grande Valley will have its caravan next
weekend.
Two separate trains of cars and trucks,
one leaving Austin, the o t h e r leaving
Houston, will arrive in Corpus Christi on
Saturday night. The next afternoon,
Easter Sunday, people from all over the
state will be able to view first-hand the
physical conditions in which human beings
must exist in the state that will be instru-
■fcientkl -in piloting a man on the moon.
At the same time, the feudal barons of
the southern part of Texas will become
aware that exploitation does not go un-
observed. The mutual shock of recogni-
tion will benefit all concerned—the grow-
ers, because they will move up into the
twentieth century; the caravanistas be-
cause they will see with their own eyes
the unbelievable.
Travel is truly broadening, and the
miles between the civilized parts of the
state of Texas and Starr County will drive
home the message that Texas apologists
need:
If Texas is to be as great as the tradi-
tional "brags" say it is, there must be an
almost total reform of some of the prac-
tices of the owners of a large part of
the State's agricultural economy.
The food and medical supplies delivered
to the strikers will, of course, be the tan®
gible goal of the caravan. But the educa-
tional value of the experience will be per-
haps equally important to the future of
the Mexican-American laborers of the Val-
ley. This cause transcends partisan and
factious political questions.
There are votes in the Valley, and there
are future shapers of the policies of Texas.
But above all, there are Texans in tyae
Valley, Tescians whose culture can add much
to a state that ever admits the possibility
of enrichment.
The mechanics of the caravan are quite
simple:
Anyone at Eke who wishes to go to
Rio Grande City should appear at the
Huelga table in the RMC Friday a n d
leave his name. Anyone with inquiries or
doubts will he gratefully received. (Doubts
might include the perpetual question of
what happens to young ladies on such
rough and ready outdoor excursions. All
women on the caravan must stay in hotels
or motels along the route, under lock and
key.)
On Friday, March 24, at 7 pm, there
will be a meeting of all caravanistas at
the Religion Center of the University of
Houston. At that time, the trucks will be
loaded with foodstuffs and medicines to
be delivered.
The assembly time Saturday morning
will be 6:15 in the parking lot of the new-
University Center. The cani^gan will r-oll
at 7 am, and will arrive in Corpus Christi
that evening. The rest will be history.
VIVA LA HUELGA!
Next week: The Real Thing.
France. Since 1945 he has ed-
ited and published the ''.Mir-
ror." In 1968 he was awarded
tlje Elijah Parish Lovejuy
Award for Courage in Journal-
ism by Southern Illinois Uni-
versity
According to Ramparts mag-
azine, he is "almost: alone in
Texas to challenge publicly the
tenuous conclusions of the War -
ren Report."
About the assassination, the
Texas Observer said "Penn
Jones is one of those who can-
not forget about it, perhaps he*-
will solve it, or help solve it . "
Noted Far East
scholar to speak
on nomad, China
Hubert H. Ekvail, a ' r 'Vr •-
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' ribo: 1.ifo \ays <•" : ■
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Thursday. All of ; aosc !■ Cores
will take place a: toe Kondiva
Loci tire Lounge.
Tn addition. Ekvail will epoak
on '"'China "Now"' on Friday.
March :?1 at 8 pm in Ham-
man Hall.
The author of numerous ar-
ticles and books on Tibet arid
China, Ekvail has had long ex-
perience in the Far East. He
was horn in China of mission-
ary parents and lived there un-
til the "age of 14, when ho was
sent to the U'.S. for his educa-
tion.
He attended Whcaton College
and the University of Chicago
and then returned to China and
Tibet, living there between 192?.
and 1941. From 1914-1958 he was
by turns an army intelligence of-
ficer, a truce negotiator in Ko-
rea, an interpreter for the Mil-
itary Armistice Commission,
the State Department, and As-
ian Conference at Geneva, an
intelligence officer for the Pen-
tagon, and assistant military
attache to the U.S. Paris em-
bassy.
He has been associated with
the University of Chicago and
the University of Washington
while doing research, teaching,
and writing.
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Coyner, Sandy. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1967, newspaper, March 16, 1967; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244996/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.