The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1969 Page: 8 of 10
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notes and notices
Tinkertoys—the Baker Col-
lege Course, "Architecture for
Non-Architects," will be offered
next semester. The course, open
to 15 non-architecture majors
and 5 architecture students, will
be a project-oriented, 3-hour per
week seminar dealing with
architectural, urban, and envir-
onmental planning.
Applicants must apply by 5
pm Monday, November 10, writ-
ing a short explanation about
why they want to take the
course and listing name, classi-
fication, and major.
Applications may be submit-
ted to Bruce Coats, 251 Baker.
Like all college courses, the
c lass will be a 3-hour free elec-
tive. Notification of acceptance
will be within a week.
Computers—Lawrence Brown
of IBM will speak at a joint
meeting of the Rice and UH
chapters of the ACM on "Gen-
erating- Efficient Code with
PL/1."
Theatre—Today was the sec-
ond day of a three-day sympo-
sium on the theatre, sponsored
by Brown College. Tonight at
!> p.m. in the Brown Commons,
Dr. John Velz, a former Eng-
lish teacher at Rice, will lec-
ture on Tudor Theatre. Miss
Wanda Lewis, Di\ Dan Kelley,
and Dr. Velz will speak on
Modern Theatre tomorrow.
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Hagan—Head football coach
and athletic director Bo Hagan
will present the game film of
last Saturday's game against
Texas Tech, tonight at 8 pm in
the Wiess Commons. A discus-
sion will follow.
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Giiad Committees—Interviews
for graduate positions on sev-
eral university committees will
be conducted by the Graduate
Student Association around 'No-
vember 10. Interested students
should contact their depart-
mental representative.
The following committee po-
sitions are available: Campus
Safety (Chairman, Dr. Frank-
lin); Committee on Computers
(Dr. Rachford); Religious Ac-
tivities (Dr. Nielsen); Sched-
ules (Dr. Curl)—committee is
concerned with calendar
changes; Student Health (Dr.
B earden) ; Undergraduate
Teaching (Dr. Sass) — this
uroup examines general propo-
sals for teaching improve-
ments; Humanities Research
Council (Di\ Hyman); Science
and Engineering Research
Council (Dr. Brotzen); Library
Committee (Dr. Haymes);
Graduate Council (Dr. Van-
diver) .
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FIRST CLASS POSTAGE
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Flicks—A one-evening film
festival, featuring nine short
movies, will be shown at 7:30
pm in the Grand Hall of the
RMC. The film screenings, open
to the public without charge,
are sponsored by the Chapel
Lecture Series.
A few of the film titles are
"Unswerving Arrow—A Tribute
to Camus"; "Orange and Blue"
—a artistic fantasy of two
bouncing balls, traveling
through the backyards of civil-
ization; "Homo Homini" — an
animated expression of the re-
lation of the human heart to
the electronic brain.
Regatta—The Rice Univer-
sity Sailing Club will meet to-
night at 7 pm in the Will Rice
Commons. The purpose of the
meeting will be to discuss plans
for the upcoming regatta.
ASCAP Award — For. the
third consecutive year, "Arthur
E. Hall, Rice University Asso-
ciates Professor of Music, has
been selected for an annual
American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) award.
Hall was chosen for his con-
tributions to the music educa-
tion field and for annual per-
formances of his compositions.
He was among 583 ASCAP
writer-members in the classical
music field who received the
award. The ASCAP award
and the accompanying financial
grant are intended to stimulate
creation of contemporary music.
Ewing Prize — The 1970
Mary Hayes Ewing Publication
Prize in Southern History, en-
dowed by the late Andrew For-
est Muir, will be given to the
Rice Student, grad or under-
grad, who has published during
1969 the best article in southern
history. The 1970 prize will be
$372.60, the amount of interest
on the principal.
Campanile 1970 — The final
day for individual pictures for
next year's yearbook by Photo-
machine will be Friday, Nov. 7,
closing at 11 pm. Do it. You'll
be glad you did.
College Films — has an-
nounced prizes in film art. To
insure that "today's film scene''
will be the basis of judging the
Esquire Film Festival, judges
are Roman Polanski, Andy
Warhol, .Gene Youngblood,
author-critic, of the L. A. Free
Press, Peter Goldfarb, 26 year
old producer-director of NBC's
Experimental Theatre and a
graduate of UCLA's Theatre
Arts, Motion Picture Division,
Peter Bogdonavich, young pro-
ducer, director-writer of exper-
imental films, Les Goldman,
producer and academy-award
winner of animated films,
Jacob Brackman, 25 year old
film critic for Esquire, and 22
year old Universal Pictures,
director Steven Speilberg, a few
years ago himself a student
film-maker.
There will be a $500 first
prize in each of five categories:
dramatic, documentary, ani-
mated and experimental. There
will be a special Foreign divi-
sion. Additional awards and
certificates will be presented
for second prize winners and
special awards will also be
presented. Entrees will close
February 1st, 1970, with judg-
ing to start shortly thereafter.
Results are scheduled to be an-
nounced April 1, 1970.
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