The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1969 Page: 6 of 8
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Graduate students get fellowships
owlook
Ronald E. Plasek, a graduate
student, has been named an
Atomic Energy Commission
Special Fellow in Nuclear Sci-
ence and Engineering.
Plasek is one of 109 first-year
graduates across the country se-
lected for AEC special fellow-
ships in either nuclear science
and engineering or health phys-
ics. The two programs are ad-
ministered for the Commission
by Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities, an educational and
research corporation of 41
.Southern universities and col-
leges.
Plasek received a B.A. from
Rice in 1968.
Two Rice graduate students
Close to the Heart
of the Campus!
In Bellaire - 5105 Bellaire
the Village - 2519 University
have been awarded research
fellowships by the National In-
stitute of General Medical Sci-
ences.
They are Jane Anne Starling,
who received her B.A. from Rice
last year, and Thomas Fairchild
Brownscombe, who holds a B.S.
from MIT.
Miss Starling's area of prin-
cipal research is "Contributions
of Symbiotic Algae to Host Ac-
tinians." Brownscombe will
study "Vinyl Aziridine Rear-
rangements."
The fellowships were award-
ed in a national competition
and followed review by two
groups of distinguslied consult-
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Rice sophs shine, but lose net cup
By PHIL SNYDER
Mike Estep, the scrambling sophomore from
Dallas, upset Zan Guerry, top seed in the Rice
Invitational Collegiate Tennis Toux*nament, for
the singles crown, 6-1, 4-6, 13-11, in a wind-
harried three-hour match at the Rice courts
Monday. Yet the win proved to be an anticlimax
to Sunday's doubles play when Dick Stockton and
Bob McKinley, Trinity freshmen, toppled the two
Rice singles finalists, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5, for the team
championship, enabling Trinity to edge Rice in
total points, 19-18.
Estep appeared to be heading for a runaway
with the crown by breaking Guerry's service
three times. But Guerry, relying on a strong
serve in spite of a 30-mph wind, and an excellent
forehand, scored the deciding service break to
even the match. Both players broke service in
the final set, each having the opportunity to
cash in at match point several times.
Estep and Guerry came from behind Sunday
in doubles to even the match with Trinity, but
the first-seeded doubles team broke service in
the twelfth and deciding game to take home
the Guernsey-Hess Challenge Trophy, prize of
the tournament.
Estep made it to the finals with early round
victories over Craig Parsons (SMU), Marc Boulle
(University of Corpus Christi), Gerry Perry
(Oklahoma), sixth-seeded Colin Robertson (Okla-
homa City University), and second-seeded Vi-
cente Zarazua (UCC). Estep and Zarazua, who
now stand 2-2 in match play, have turned in the
most exciting competition in the tournament for
the past two years.
Guerry scored his first-round win over Rico
Casperis of Pan American before losing his first
set of the season in a 6-8, 6-3, 7-5 match with
gandalf and the invasion force
Pierce Kelley of Tulane. He advanced into the
finals with straight set victories over Karl
Coombes (OCU), Frank Conner (Trinity), and
McKinley.
Tico Carrero and Mike Hamilton, the other
two members of the Rice team, did not fare quite
as well, Carrero losing in the third round to
seventh-seeded Humphrey Hose (UCC), and
Hamilton falling to Stockton in the second
round. They also dropped their first doubles
match to Fikes-Hickey (Aggies), 6-2, 7-9, 9-7.
Controversy arose in the final set when the
Aggies, disturbed by the close calls of the Rice
team, deliberately miscalled a crucial shot by
Hamilton. The point was replayed and the
Aggies took the match.
Further controversy arose in the doubles semi-
finals when the Texas Tech team of Mike Beene-
Rusty Powell, under threat of rain and darkness,
decided to default to Stockton-McKinley, even
though the Tech duo needed only to hold service
to even the sets at 1-1.
If the tournament was any indication of things
to come in the Southwest Conference competi-
tion, the future looks very bright for Rice's
second undefeated dual-match season. Baylor,
TCU, SMU, Tech, and A&M together scored only
16 points, two less than the four-man Rice team.
Discounting Arkansas, the University of Texas
was the only conference team who chose not to
play with the big boys. (Note: one can never be
sure whether Arkansas will field a "team" this
year or not.)
All in all, the tournament was an excellent
display of the best tennis in the Southwest and
some of the best in the nation. For those who
missed it, the only disappointments were the
wind, the line judges, and, of course, the Aggies.
Stonedhenge
Tsk, tsk—another good album marred by bad
production. The bad thing about it is that Ten
Years After's newest release, "Stonedhenge,"
really is very good, deep down inside.
No other group can match them for electric
blues. The best thing about the group, though,
is Alvin Lee, the lead singer and guitarist. He
probably ha:; the fastest fingering and picking
of any player (including Hendrix) and has a
tremendous repertoire of blues chords. His vocal
range is wide too. Lee plays a lot of high
chords and can match tlfe notes one for one,
as he demonstrates in "Skoobly-Dobly-Doobob."
The rest of the group matches Lee in talent,
although their instruments aren't quite as at-
tention-getting. Leo Lyons is a freestyle bassist
who can, and does in concert, play in every pos-
sible position. On drums, Ric Lee gives an em-
phasis on a strong rhythm and the piano and
organ of Chick Churchill, while not drawing at-
tention to themselves, add interest and polish
to the music. Unlike many other groups, Ten
Years After knows how to use instrumentals, i.e.
when to shut up and just play.
This new album is in some ways a departure
from their previous ones. Unlike "Indead," it is
a studio album knit tightly together. There also
seems to be more of a light jazz style in it. The
use of the sound effect of the train on "Speed
Kills," which seems to be a poor job in com-
parison to John MayaH's "Catch That Train" on
"Blues Alone," also sets the album apart. This
imitation may be less apt, but the take off on
drum solos which Ric Lee does in "Three Blind
"Mice" is both musically interesting* and funny.
Now the bad part. The recording, while satis-
factory in most respects, is altogether too con-
scious of stereo. It sounds like one of those
things made when stereo first became popular,
in which airplanes and trains went zooming
from the speaker to speaker in a kind of self-
possessed frenzy. Listening to this album with
headphones one actually gets the impression that
the recording was made on a merry-go-round.
The very height of absurdity, though, is reached
when during one of Lee's guitar solos the notes
alternate from the left speaker to the right. The
stereo is used to emphasize the individual sounds
at the expense of the total effect.
Stereo can make bad music bearable, but, as
we see, it can also make very good music irri-
tating,
—albert
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Bahler, Dennis. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1969, newspaper, March 27, 1969; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245054/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.