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Vote Agcdn
This Week
The Rice Thresher
AN ALL-STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR 51 YEARS
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Volume 54, Number '24
RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1967
Topazio selected
Humanities dean
in a recent action
Dr. Virgil Topazio has been
named Dean of Humanities, and
Social Science, effective June 1.
He replaces Dr. Edward Nor-
beck, who will take a one-year
sabbatical to continue research
and writing' for a book.
In a brief telephone inter-
view Wednesday, Topazio pre-
ferred not to outline any pre-
mature proposals for the office,
but he generally described the
new appointment as an oppor-
tunity to build up the humani-
ties at Rice.
"It is recognized by the ad-
ministration as well as by the
faculty that the humanities
have not kept pace with the
sciences here," he said.
Topazio, who has been at Rice
for two years, is professor of
French and chairman of the
French Department. His field
of interest is 18th Century
French literature.
He graduated from Wesleyan
University in 1943. His M. A.
(1947) and Ph.D. (1951) de-
grees are from® Columbia Uni-
versity.
He lectured at Columbia in
1947-48, joining the University
of Rochester in 1948, where he
remained until coming to Rice
in 1965.
Topazio has published two
books and 13 articles for schol-
arly journals.
Faculty accepts calendar revision;
feasibility of Jan-plan to be studied
The faculty gave tentative begin on Friday, December 13
Thresher Photo by Richard Sawyer
SMILES—Newly-elected cheerleaders Linda Pike and Santira
Leigh are promoting Friday's Blue-Grey same as the first of
their new duties. See story on page 8.
approval Tuesday to a revised
calendar for the 1968-69 aca-
demic year which would sched-
ule first semester final exami-
nations before the Christmas
holidays. The revised calendar
will not become effective until
it is approved on a second vote.
The 1968 fall semester would
begin on Thursday, September
5, and final examinations would
Senate hears Election committee
BY KAREN SAGSTETTER
Thesher Reporter
The new Student Senate met
for the first time Tuesday, April
11 and approved April 20 as the
date of the next election.
The following offices will be
contested: Student Association
vice-president, Student Associa-
tion treasurer, one fifth year
Honor Council post, chairman
of the Inter-College Court, sen-
ior class president and secre-
tary-treasurer; junior class vice
president and secretary-treas-
urer; sophomore class president
and secretary-treasurer.
A run-off between Liane Run-
die and Joe Mims for Student
Center Board chairman will also
be held. The editor of the Cam-
panile will be elected.
Classes Challenged
Two referenda will appear on
the ballot. The amendment to
abolish class offices, except
those of the senior class, would
then make the classes dependent
organizations of the Student
Association.
In the event that the classes
wish to organize for any pur-
pose, they would be legally able
to do so, but formal election of
class offices for freshman,
sophomore, and junior classes
would be eliminated beginning
in the spring of 1968.
The other referendum would
raise the blanket tax appropria-
tion for the Senate from SI.75
per person to S2.50.
Election Referred
The old Senate approved the
results of last week's all-school
election, except in the race for
Thresher editor. That contest
was referred to the Inter-Col-
lege Court for an opinion, ac-
cording to a by-law change
TISA adopts student Bill of Rights
(The annual state convention concerning higher education and as Intercollegiate Student As-
of the Texas Intercollegiate
Student Association was held
April 5-8 in McAllen, Texas.
Rice was represented by Ron
Bozman and Warren Skaaren,
both sophomore representatives
to the 1967-68 Student Senate
from Hanszen College. Their
report on the business activi-
ties of the conference follows.
—ed.)
In its role as spokesman for
Texas college students on issues
student rights, TISA adopted
resolutions at its annual con-
vention defining its positions
on several academic and poli-
tical issues, and took steps to
make these positions known to
the public and the state legis-
lature.
A "Bill of Rights for Texas
Students" was approved by the
annual convention, consisting of
the following points:
We. 'he students of the Tex-
Symposium on Selective Service
to reveal real rights of recruits
The chief administrator of
the Selective Service for Texas,
Col. Wm. B. Sinclair will key-
note "Soldiers in War and
Peace: A Symposium on the
Manpower Needs of the U.S.
Armed Forces" on the Rice
campus next Thursday.
Col. Sinclair's topic will be
"How College Students are
Drafted in Texas." He will de-
scribe the formulas which local
draft boards use in selecting
draftees and the various ave-
nues for appeal.
The symposium will be held
from Thursday, April 20, until
Sunday, April 23. It is spon-
sored by the Student associa-
tion, and will include four
speakers. All events are open
to the public.
Friday night Donald Eberly,
executive secretary of the Na-
tional Service Secretariat will
discuss the concept of national
service as an option to the
selective service system.
Under the national service
which Eberly proposes, a young
man would register for the
draft, but have the option of
declaring his intent to enter
either the military or non-mili-
tary service and would have
some freedom as to when he
would enter.
Speaking in tandem with
Eberly will be James Gerhardt,
professor of political science at
Rice. Gerhardt did his doctoral
dissertation at Harvard Univei--
sity on the Selective Service.
He contends that the nation-
al service may have desirable
characteristics but it cannot
solve the complex problem of
providing men for the armed
forces.
Sunday evening Adm. Les
Hubbell of the Defense Depart-
ment will discuss the type of
wars the U.S. is prepared to
fight in^the decade ahead. His
speech will concern the qualifi-
cations and disqualifications of
the modern soldier in terms of
age, education, and physical
fitness.
(A report on a recent stu-
dent conference on the draft,
which was attended by two
Rice students, appears on page
4.)
sociation, in order to promote
justice and to better insure the
quality of the communities of
the colleges and universities of
the State of Texas do ordain
and establish this Bill of Rights:
Peaceful Assembly
1. Students shall have the
right to peaceful assembly and
petitioning of their administra-
tion for redress of grievance.
2. School administrators or
employees will not have the
right to search or seize anything
from a student's room or person
without a warrant.
3. Disciplinary proceedings
should be instituted only for a
violation of standards of con-
duct defined in advance and
published through such means
as a student handbook or a gen-
erally available body of univer-
sity regulations. Offenses will
be clearly defined. No student
shall be compelled to witness
against himself. Disciplinary
action will be meted out by a
board of which at least 50% of
the members will be students.
Students will have the right to
counsel (legal, student, or oth-
erwise) before any disciplinary
action is taken.
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4. Educational institutions will
guarantee entering students
that tuition will not be increas-
ed during a student's normal
enrollment period.
5. A student shall be free to
examine and to discuss all ques-
tions of interest to him, and to
express opinions publicly or pri-
vately.
6. All campus organizations
will be open to all students
without respect to race, religion,
creed or national origin; except
religious qualifications which
See TISA. on paste 8
passed early Tuesday night.
Under previous provisions,
the Election Committee was re-
quired to "certify to the Stu-
dent Senate the validity of each
election and request its approv-
al in whole or in part by the
Senate."
Majority Questioned
A written report prepared by
the election committee prior to
the meeting certified the valid-
ity of the election of Darrell
Hancock as Thresher Editor,
and recommended that the Sen-
ate approve the election. When
Charles Schade, election com-
mittee chairman, made his mo-
tion of approval, however, he
did not recommend approval in
this race.
The election committee's writ-
ten report explained their de-
cisions on the two issues for
which the election had been
contested. The first, issue con-
cerned a majority vote.
Hancock's plurality had been
nine votes, but since nine write-
in ballots had been cast, he had
apparently only received exact-
ly half of the votes, and lacked
a majority by one vote. The
committee decided, however,
that as at least five of the
write-in votes had been im-
properly cast or cast for ineli-
gible candidates, according to
precedent set in 1961 they
should lie disqualified and not
counted as "votes cast.''
Elect ioneering V
Hancock's majority tins ho-
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with a one day reading period
preceding. The second semester
would begin on Monday, Janu-
ary 6, with finals beginning
Tuesday, April 29 (again only
a one-day reading period) and
Commencement Saturday. May
17, 1969.
Study Jan Plan
The calendar for next year
(1967-68) will remain as it is,
with first semester classes be-
ginning Monday, Sept. 18 and
Commencement on .Saturday.
June 1, 1968.
Possible future adoption of c.
'■Jan'' plan will be considered
by a special committee to be
appointed by the Faculty Coun-
cil.
The faculty also gave first
vote approval to change the
degree awarded at the end of
the five-year engineering pro-
gram from a B. S. to a Master
of Engineering. The change it-
degree is designed to give ap-
propriate recognition to the
competence attained by students
in the Rice five-year program.
No Thesis
Several changes in the cur-
riculum requirements for the
new degree were given final
approval by the faculty on a
special 2/3 vote, and take ef-
fect immediately. These changes
concern mainly elective choices
in the sophomore and fifth
years.
The present graduate pro-
gram leading to the Master of
Science in Engineering will
continue. No thesis will be re-
quired for the proposed r.ew
Master of Enginering degree.
Registrar James C. Morehead
reported that the Faculty Cms:- -
cil had approved continuatio:
of the self-scheduled finals sys-
tem. but without the extension-
in courses covered which h:id
been requested by the Studc-r.-
Se.nate.
Dr. James S. Fultor: : ep- >; •?
as chairman 'of the O-iv.mer.
Review - Com m i t tee. The facility
voted to continue i he t'-onmerce
projrrani, which will be I ewe .
attain after throe veer-.
Off-campus living rights extended
by committee to all women students
The Undergraduate Affairs
Committee, meeting Wednes-
day, approved a policy permit-
ting all undergraduate women
except freshmen, regardless of
age, to live off campus provid-
ing they have secured parental
permission.
Last spring a similar pro-
posal was approved all owing-
women students to live off
campus providing that they at-
tained the age of 21 during the
academic year for which per-
mission was granted.
The UAC provided that the
University shall prepare a
statement of its policies toward
students living off campus
which shall be distributed to
parents of all undergraduate
students.
The Committee also approved
a request of the Student Senate
that the University collect,
print, and distribute written
copies of its various regulations
for undergraduates in the Resi-
dential colleges. The collected
university regulations will be
reviewed for accuracy by th
Undergraduate Affairs Com-
mittee before it is distributed.
S. A. President Jerry Hafter's
original letter to Dean of Un-
dergraduate Affairs M. V. Mc-
Enany stated that he felt '"'these
policies are of general interest
to all students, particularly
since student judicial bodies are
obligated to enforce all 'univer-
sity regulation.'
"Yet at present it would be
nearly impossible to state the
university regulations in force
or show them in written form
to a student. The current com-
pilation, reissuing and publica-
tion would be appreciated and
clarify much of the understood,
'university policy'."
The Baker College proposal
to allow alcoholic beverages in
public rooms for special occa-
sions was referred to a com-
mittee for further study. The
committee consists of Tom Ber-
trand, Charles Shanor, John
J. W. Rogers, James S. Fulton,
and C. W. Hudspeth as advisor.
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Coyner, Sandy. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1967, newspaper, April 13, 1967; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245000/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.