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20 per cent of student body cheer, jeer Nixon appearance
By JON GLAZIER
and
KATHLEEN WILLIAMSON
About 400 Rice students, al-
most 20% of the undergraduate
population, gathered Friday ev-
ening in the quadrangle to dem-
onstrate either for or against
'GOP Presidential candidate
Richard Nixon, who was slated
to speak in Miller Amphitheater
in Hermann Park.
The Rice Young Republicans
turned out about 200 Rice stu-
dents who, together with local
high school students, local dig-
nitaries, and UH students, as-
sembled at Willy's statue.
Beneath Lovett Hall arcade
another 200 students with black
armbands milled to protest the
Vietnamese war and the three
Presidential candidates^ Sport-
ing signs such as "Millions for
Defense — Not One Cent for
Rat Control," the protestors
moved out first in an orderly
manner across Hermann Park
to the Amphitheater.
Fruitcakes
32,000 Nixon fans—including
many boisterous children and
silver-haired suburban matrons,
overflowed onto the grassy
slopes of the new theatre. The
demonstrators, greeted with
derogatory shouts from the
crowd, including, "You bunch of
fruitcakes, go on home," march-
ed once around the sprawling
crowd chanting anti-war slogans
and singing as much as the ma-
•—Tim Leon.tr
CONFLICT ON ISSUES—Fifty foot banner in red, white and
blue proclaims Rice YRs' support for Nixon. . .
jority remembered of "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic"
and "We Shall Overcome."
They sat down in a staked-off
area, reportedly on the route
of the Rice-UH Young Repub-
licans parade. The marchers re-
fused to move when asked,
prompting a Houston policeman
to comment, "I hope they run'em
over."
Another policeman added,
"It's legal; we aren't going to
'have any trouble, though."
About eight policemen remained
in the area of the demonstra-
tors.
Back at Rice, 600 Nixon sup-
porters, many of them high
school students, were hearing
Rep. Bill Archer promise "peace
with pride" and an end to gov-
ernment hand-outs. Their huge
banner proclaiming "Rice Uni-
versity YR's Welcome Nixon"
in red, white, and blue had
crumpled under its own weight.
They marched under a police
escort and with television cam-
eras whirring up the slope of
the amphitheatre to stand quiet-
ly with the crowd.
Nice Negro
The crowd, meanwhile, was
growing restless under the en-
forced entertainment of cowboy
star Dale Roberston, numerous
anonymous "celebrities," and a
local patriotic singing group,
"Up With People," which was
booed off the stage after fin-
ishing only five of its nine
songs.
There were long introductions
followed by Senator Edward
Brooke, at whose presence one
little old lady marveled, "Why,
look, he's a Negro! Isn't that
nice?," Mayor Louie Welch,
congressman George Bush, and
Senator John Tower, who
pleased the protestors by ex-
horting, "Next November, let's
send this man where he be-
longs!"
Humanist
In their area the protestors ,
clutched their signs and ban-
ners, jeered the platitudes of
the speakers, and bespoke their
own. When asked by an uniden-
tified nasal-voice blonde which
candidate, if any, they support-
ed, one cut her off with a short
"I'm for humanity."
Richard Nixon finally made
his appearance to a flood of
red, white, and blue balloons and
the thunderous ovation of the
crowd. Amidst the cheers of the
mass, the shouts, chants, and
songs of the demonstrators
went largely unheard as they
made a last loop around the
theatre, and then dispersed.
The YR's waved their banner
for the cameras and remained
to hear and cheer Nixon's plan
for law, order and "an honor-
able peace."
• -Richard Sawyer
. . . while unaffiliated opposition marchers demonstrate
peacefully for peace.
join us!
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the rice thresher
urban futures
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volume 56, number 2
rice university, houston, texas
thursday, September 12, 1968
Radio KOWL to start transmission
of classical to acid-rock programs
"We're still having a few basement of each college. The
On to Stanford
Pitzer goes to greener pastures
minor difficulties, but we hope
to overcome them and be on the
air by October 1," says Stewart
West, manager of the long-
awaited Rice University radio
station."
Beginning October 1 the sta-
tion, whose call letters are
KOWL, hopes to offer 41 hours
of varied programming per
week. Transmitting will begin
at 7 pm Monday through Friday
and at 2 pm on Sundays.
■ "We will play everything
from classical to acid-rock,"
West commented. He added that
each dee-jay will be given a
format and a time period but
is otherwise on his own.
Programs will have a limited
amount of advertising and will
have formats including show
music, jazz, folk, a request
hour, a talk show, current hits,
jsoul music, a 12-4 am under-
ground show, news, weather,
sports, and editorial comments.
The idea for an all-University
station sprang from the old
Hanszen College radio station,
KHCR, which was in . operation
two years ago. Acting on this
idea, West, who was also man-
ager of KHCR, and student en-
gineers Rick Simpson, Doug De-
Long, and Gene Mutschler
labored last year and this sum-
mer raising funds from the col-
leges and the University, ob-
taining equipment (a large
amount of it loaned by Houston
radio station KTRH), and lay-
ing cable through the Universi-
ty's system of steam tunnels.
KOWL now sports two stu-
dios in the RMC basement from
which cables are run to the
signal is transmitted along
these cables to the colleges
where they can be received on
any standard AM radio.
Quadrangle Area
will be completed
with new edifice
The preliminary phases of
construction on a building
which will complete the aca-
demic quadrangle have begun
west of Lovett Hall.
The new building, first pro*
posed in 1929 by the architects
who conceived Rice's original
architectural plan, will house
classrooms and faculty offices
of the fine arts and social sci-
ences departments. It will be
financed by an anonymous alum-
ni gift of more than $'3.75 mil-
lion, according to the Develop-
ment Office.
Duplication of the Mediter-
ranean style of upper Lombardy
reflected an the other main court
buildings, including materials
and custom sculpturing, will be
the most difficult architectural
problem encountered by the
planners.
Architect Hermon Lloyd said
that the building will have a
thin rectangular shape with an
adjoining wing connected to
Lovett Hall by a cloister. An
outdoor sculpture garden for
fine arts students may also
be included in the plans.
By DENNIS BAHLJ5R
Dr. Kenneth Sanboi-n Pitzer,
President of Rice since 1961,
has resigned and will become
President of Stanford Univer-
sity in Palo Alto, Cal. effective
Dec. 1.
A four-man executive com-
mittee, chaired by Dr. W. E.
Gordon, Dean of Engineering
and Science, will act on any
matter requiring presidential
authority until a successor to
Pitzer is named.
The othpr members of the
executive committee are Chan-
cellor Carey Croneis, Dr. Vir-
gil Topazio, Dean of Humani-
ties and Social Sciences, and Dr.
James Sims, Campus Business
Manager. Each of the commit-
tee's members will have "broad
authority to handle matters
within his own area of respon-
sibility," according to H. Mal-
colm Lovett, Chairman of the
Rice Board of Trustees. Gor-
don is empowered to sign cor-
respondence as the University's
chief executive officer.
Lovett also announced that the
Board of Trustees will name a
committee from its own ranks
to begin the seai-ch for a new
president. A screening commit-
tee, drawn from members of
the faculty, will assist in the
search. No plans have been
made, however, to enable stu-
dents to have a voice in choos-
ing the next, president of the
University.
In his letter of resignation
to the Board, Pitzer said, "My
decision to accept the Stanford
position was based primarily
on the attractiveness and chal-
lenge which it presents and it
certainly does not in any way
imply any complaint about our
relationship or support you have
given me."
Pitzer, the third man ever to
be Rice's president, succeeds J-
E. Wallace Sterling, who has
been President of Stanford since
1949 and who leaves to become
that school's permanent Chan-
cellor.
Understanding
Pitzer, according to Lovett,
"came to Rice with a thorough
understanding of the priciples
and standards upon which Rice's
educational program had been
built."
Although, according to form-
er Rice SA president Jerry
Hafter, Pitzer "brought stu-
dent viewpoints into the highest
levels of decision-makihg" by
such means as forming the Un-
dergraduate Affairs Committee,
Pitzer's reputation in student
relations is not untarnished.
Speaker Ban
In 1965, in response to a re-
quest by the Forum Committee
for University funds to bring
U. S. Communist Party Chair-
man Gus Hall to the campus to
speak, Pitzer issued an edict
banning any speaker from cam-
pus who refused to "engage in
rational debate." He was forced
to retreat from this position
when it triggered events leading
up to the last major student
demonstration Rice has seen
since that time.
Pitzer has been a member of
the Board of Trustees of the
Rand Corporation since 1962.
At Stanford last August 23, he
was quoted as saying that he
intended to remain in that posi-
tion until 1972 because "one
makes contacts in these circles
that can benefit the university
in the long run."
He has been a member of
President Johnson's Science Ad-
visory Commission since 1965.
He is also on record as op-
posing scientists using their
scientific expertise as a plat-
form from which to advocate
nuclear deescalation.
In 1957 he testified against
a petition circulated in scientific
circles by chemist Linus Pauling
which sought to stop the test-
ing of nuclear weapons.
Stanford University, a school
of 900 faculty and 11.400 stu-
dents, half of them graduates,
has a relatively long history of
both close connections with the
so-c a 1 1 e d "military-industrial
complex" and militant < pnosi-
tion to it by some of its stu-
dents.
Stanford: CBW
In fiscal 1966, Stanford own-
ed $18,569,000 „ worth of De-
fense Department contracts
(Rice, by way of comparison,
that year held $379,000). Stan-
ford is also the sponsor of the
Stanford Research Institute, one
of the principal chemical and
biological warfare research cen-
ters in the country.
In his commencement address
at the University of St. Thomas
in Houston last June, in a state-
ment perhaps aimed at the mili-
tant minority of Stanford un-
dergraduates and faculty who
have been steadily increasing
their demands on the Univer-
sity and its subsidiaries, Pitzer
said that "a small hard core of
extremists with the greatest ar-
rogance and the least faith in
their country have escalated
their demonstrations from the
legal range to the level of kid-
nap and blackmail. Unfortuna-
tely, in a few cases substantial
numbers of other students and
faculty have supported these
extremists or have opposed the
feasible methods of dealing with
them."
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