The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1969 Page: 1 of 8
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the rice thresher
volume 56, number 17
rice university, houston, texas
thursday, january 23. 1969
Faculty research to be described
in TV spectacular 'Spectrum '69'
On minority admissions
Grob discusses committee's work
"The Under-Aged U n d e r-
ground," featuring Rice stu-
dent-teacher Beth Tomich and
a group of her summer school
students showing and discuss-
ing the films they made in an
experimental classroom project,
will be featured on "Rice:
Spectrum '69" this Sunday; Jan.
26. at noon on Channel 13.
The show is the second in a
series of half-hour TV pro-
grams illustrating current re-
search and community service
on the Rice campus, and is
moderated by Dr. James Cas-
taneda, Professor of Spanish.
The series is scheduled for
broadcast each Sunday through
March 16.
Genesis
On Feb. 2, Dr.. G. King Walt-
ers, Rice Associate Dean of Engi-
neering and Science; Dr. Henry
Goldwire, Jr., Assistant Pro-
fessor of Space Science; and
graduate student Read Pred-
more will demonstrate the use
of radio astronomy in seeking
clues to the origin of the Uni-
verse, in a program entitled
"Isotope He3: A Search for
Genesis."
Feb. 9, in a program called
"Harnessing the Information
Explosion," Richard O'Keefe,
Rice Librarian; Rita Paddock,
Regional Information and
Communication Exchange
(RICE) Associate Director; and
Elizabeth Rodell, Assistant Li-
brarian for Technical Services,
explain the automation of mod-
ern college libraries to help
academic and business research-
ers keep up with the informa-
tion explosion.
Summer stock
Neil Havens, Lecturer in
Drama and Director of the Rice
Players, relates the managing
of a summer stock theater to
teaching, and tells of the hard
work and plain business in-
volved in show business, in a
spot entitled "No Time For
Temperment," on Feb. 16. Play-
ers Roy Hollingsworth and
Jolie Bain will also appear.
Architecture Instructor Fred-
rick Gardner and student John
Spear explain how the Visual
Stimulation in Time system
developed by Gardner adapts a
Hollywood movie technique to
architectural models, in a pro-
gram entitled "V.I.S.I.T.: A
Snorkel in Lilliput," on Feb. 23.
On March 2, the series will
present "Undersea Pipelines:
Arteries For Tomorrow." The
program features discussion of
possible solution to underwater
pipeline construction by Dr.
James Wilhoit, Professor of Me-
chanical Engineering, and Dr.
James Jirsa, Assistant Profes-
sor of Civil Engineering.
Biblical sources
Dr. William Murdock, Pro-
fessor of Biblical Studies, de-
scribes the discovery and signi-
ficance of Coptic Christian
books from Second Century
Upper Egypt, in a program en-
titled "Updating the Bible," on
March 9.
The last program of the
series, scheduled for March 16,
features Assistant Professor of
Geology John Warme and grad-
uate student William Ward.
They discuss the sandy islands
off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula,
which are turning into stone,
on "Isla Mujeres: Geologists
View Yucatan."
The series is presented as a
public service by Channel 13,
KTRK-TV. The station's pi*o-
duction director, Wayne
Thomas, directs the series. The
sets for the show were de-
signed by Bill Colville of Rice,
and executed by Paul Mont-
ague, KTRK-TV art director.
The show has been aired each
year since 1957 by Channel 13.
This is Castaneda's third year
as moderator.
By DENNIS BAHLER
Dr. Alan Grob, Associate Pro-
fessor of English and chairman
of the Committee on Minority
Admissions, said in a talk Tues-
day night at Hanszen that his
committee is "cautiously hope-
ful" that the number of minor-
ity group students at Rice can
soon be "significantly increased.''
Long a forceful advocate of
increased racial and cultural
heterogeneity in the student
body, Grob said that such an
increase is his aim, and "that
of the committee, SCOUR, and,
1 can say with a good deal of
confidence, the administration."
He said the University has
now "broken its racial barriers
■ not in a token legal sense, but
in the spirit of a desire to fully
integrate."
'Social justice'
In the past, he said, Amer-
icans "assumed that 'equal op-
portunity' meant that the 'quali-
fied' could participate as every-
one else did. There was no sense
then of the real dimensions of
the kind of deprivation that
the black community experi-
ences. We have moved now
from 'equality' to social justice
as something to which we must
be committed."
Grob prefaced his remarks
about the committee's current
activities by stating that the
group was formed "not to make
negative conclusions, but to de-
termine how to achieve maxi-
mum success for minority
groups at Rice."
lie said that members of the
committee and officials in the
admissions office have visited
numerous minority group high
schools in recent weeks. Direc-
tor of Admissions James Giles.
Grob said, lias recently returned
from a recruiting trip to the
Rio Grande Valley region, and
other admissions officials have
visited Miami, Atlanta, New
Orleans, Memphis, and other
areas in the south and south-
west. He said many faculty
members have volunteered to
make trips to high schools in
the immediate region, and will
visit about 50 more schools in
Rice high school science program
seeks student volunteer assistance
75 promising high school stu-
dents with limited science back-
grounds and opportunities will
be exposed to science and engi-
neering on the Rice campus next
year, under a program spon-
sored by the National Science
Foundation.
An open meeting for all Rice
students interested in helping
with the program will be held
Monday, Jan. 27, at 6:45 pm in
the Brown College Commons.
This science program is aimed
at exposing, underprivileged stu-
dents to filmsT..Jabs, and field
trips, on Saturdays for 30 weeks
during the school year. Rice
professors from chemistry, geo-
logy, physics, and engineering
have agreed to donate time to
teach the students. Rice stu-
dents are badly needed to help
in recruiting and teaching, and
to manage a variety of labora-
tory, clerical, and transporta-
tion tasks.
The Rice program will be one
of about seven in the nation
operating next year. Rice pro-
gram director Dr. John A. S.
Adams of the Geology depart-
ment will attend the national
planning meeting for the Stu-
dent Science Training program
in Washington, D. C. Jan 24-25
to help establish guidelines for
the implementation of the pro-
gram.
the next few weeks.
The trips are sponsored by
the University. "They pay our
way," he said.
Rice's interest
In response to a question.
Grob said that students are not
needed to help with visitation,
"at this time," since the people
making these trips are dealing
mainly with counselors and oth-
pr high school administrator.-.
He noted that the Student As-
sociation had recommended that
his committee have six student
members, twice the number
usually allotted.
Grob reported there have been
20 applications for next year's
freshman class from "minority
groups," somewhat Jf'vad
last year's pace. IK < .aitroi
this phenomemon "can only in-
attributed to a growing aware-
ness that Rice is interested" in
such students.
"We have discovered from
SCOUR and from our contact
with other institutions," Grob
said, "that a compensatory, re-
medial program is necessary" if
Rice is to admit students who
do not have sufficient back-
ground and training to qualify
for admission under the Uni-
versity's present standards. The
committee has not yet approved
such a program, although Grob
has suggested a tentative pro-
posal. He said he plans to visit-
several universities in the north-
east, among them Weslayan,
Yale, and Cornell, which have
analogous programs, "to gath-
er the opinions and experience
of others."
FairneSvS in admission
Grob described two problems
faced by those who work in
this area: how to identify stu-
dents with limited achievement,
but who with compensatory
training have the potential to
succeed at Rice; and second,
how to go about telling the stu-
dent that he can be admitted
only if he agrees to remedial
training. "Any deviation from
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