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the rice thresher
volume 57, number 14
rice university, houston, texas
thursday, january 15, 1970
Teller kicks off series tomorrow;
Potter and Lord Snow to follow
Dr. Edward Teller, one of
the developers of the first
atomic bomb, will speak on
"Secrecy in an Open World" to-
morrow afternoon at 3 pin in
the Grand Hall of the Rice
University Memorial Center.
He will be the first of three
distinguished speakers appear-
ing in the annual President's
Lecture Series. All lectures are
open to the p u b 1 i c without
charge.
The other speakers will be
historian David Potter on Feb-
ruary 16' and British author
Lord C. P. Snow on April 16.
Teller continued working on
atomic weapons after World
War II ended. A native of Hun-
gary and now a U. S. citizen
he made significant contribu-
Rice men win
two Rhodes
Rice University nominees won
two of the 32 Rhodes Scholar-
ships awarded for 1969-70 for
two years of study at Oxford
University in England.
Butch Engles, an electrical
engineering senior, and Charlie
Shanor, a 1968 graduate Eng-
lish major, won the prestigi-
ous scholarships.
Engles is chief justice of the
Wiess College Court and aP
member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Shanor, who is currently a
law .student at the University
of Virginia, Was president of
the Student Association and a
member of Baker College while
at Rice. He received the Rice
University Service Award given
for outstanding contributions to
the University in 1968.
Two other Rice nominees
made the state finals in Texas
during elimination rounds. Jeff
Cox, a Will Rice history honors
major and vice-president of the
SA, and Charlie Szalkowski, a •
Baker economics honors major
and co-editor of the Thresher,
reached that final round.
Nominees may compete in
either their native state or the
state in which they attend col-
lege. Engles won the Arkansas
competition and Shanor won in
Florida.
Only four other Rice students
have received Rhodes Scholar-
ships. They were Dr. Rhodes
Dunlap, a 1931 English major
who is now Professor of Eng-
lish at the University of Iowa;
Dr. Roy Hofheinz, Jr., a 1957
graduate who is now a profes-
sor of Asian studies at Har-
vard; James Robert Doty, a
1962 graduate who is currently
an attorney in Houston; and
Robert Johnston, 1963 gradu-
ate who was an All-SWC foot-
ball tackle and is now a gradu-
ate student in political science
at Columbia. •
tions to the design of the first
hydrogen bomb.
He helped establish the Un-
ited States' second weapons lab-
oratory at Livermore, Cal., and
directed it from 1958 to 1960.
Teller is now Professor of Phy-
sics-at-Large at the University
of California and Asoociate Di-
rector of the University's Law-
rence Radiation Laboratory.
Dr. David Morris Potter, for-
mer Harnsworth Professor of
American History and Fellow of
Queen's College, Oxford Univer-
sity, will speak at 4 .p.m., Feb-
ruary 16 on "The American
Past: Battleground or Meeting
Ground?" in Fondren Library
Lecture Lounge.
He is now Coe Professor of
American History at Stanford
University in California and is
a Fellow of the American Aca-
demy of Arts and Sciences. Pot-
ter is also a Fellow of the Am-
erican Academy of Arts and
Sciences and a member of the
American Philosophical Society.
Lord Snow is the British
chronicler of the scientific es-
tablishment. He lias written
over a dozen books.
He speaks April 16 at 4 pm
on "Science and Human Van-
ity" at Hamman Hall.
A former Parliamentary Sec-
retary to the Minister of Tech-
nology, he was knighted in
1957, named a Commander of
the Ouder of the British Em-
pire and created Baron of the
City of Leicester in 1964.
Lord Snow is an honorary
member of the American Aca-
demy-National Institute of Arts
and Letters and an honorary
foreign member of the Amer-
ican Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences.
Baker raps holiday thefts
Acting upon complaints by
several college members of
thefts during the Christmas
holidays, the Baker College
Cabinet resolved to make of-
ficial recommendations to the
University administration con-
cerning better security for res-
idents' personal belongings,
during their meeting Monday
night.
Probable suggestions include
schemes for increasing and
changing the manner of pa-
trolling by campus security of-
ficers, such as hiring part-time
officers for extra duty during
Vietnam priorities slated tepie for
'Town Meeting' at 0 of SI Thsmas
prime vulnerability poriods, in-
cluding school holidays, sum-
mers and times such as football
games when large numbers of
visitors are present or many
students are absent from the
colleges. It was emphasized that
the security forces appear to
be handling the matter effici-
ently as organized now, as long
as large numbers of residents
are present.
Other plans incJ-ude altering
I he locks on rooms, especially
in the new wings. Currently the
locks are double locks, with
push-button and key-bolt mech-
anisms. The push-button locks,
however, can and often are
opened with a pocket knife or
credit card. Eliminating those
locks and thereby forcing resi-
dents, and custodial staff es-
pecially, to use the key-bolt
lock, which is. at least, more
rht
difficult to pick,
down on the number of dis
appearances.
It was mentioned that resi-
dents who had ho I ted -then
doors when they left for the
holidays found them unbolted
upon r e t u r n i n g, probably
through the laziness of janitors
or air-conditioner maintenance
men, who simply did not take
the time to turn key t11
force the holt lock into place.
Official recommendations will
be presented next week, but a
present several hundred dollars
worth of tape players, radio-,
cameras, and clocks were mis
sinb from one suite alone. As
any responsibility for hiss ap-
pears to be the fault of the
University administration, re-
quests will probably he made
for replacement or reimburse-
ment.
"National Priorities" will be
the panel-discussion topic at a
Town Meeting to be held next
Friday at the University of St.
Thomas. Dr. Tom De Grcgori,
Curtis Graves, Dr. W. A. Quebe-
deaftx, John Sawyer, and Leonel
Castillo will speak at the meet-
ing, which will be sponsored by
the Coalition on National Pri •
orities.
De Gregori, Chairman of the
University of Houston Depart-
ment of Economics, will mod-
erate the program; Graves,
the State Representative who
was defeated in the November
mayoralty race, will discuss
priorities for the '70's; Quebe-
deaux, Health Director for Har-
ris County, will talk on Pollu-
tion; Castillo, Director of Serv-
ice Employment Redevelopment,
wijlyspeak on employment* and
job opportunities.
Dr. Jean-Claude De Bremaec-
Peace talk
The Peace Committee of the First Unitarian Church of Hous-
ton will sponsor a program this Sunday featuring 12 eyewitness
reports on the November Peace March and Rally in Washington;
D.C.
The program will include a sljde presentation by Rice stu-
dents, questions,, and answers, refreshments, and entertainment
by Isabel Lipschutz and the Bill Haymes-led group, Thyme. The
program will take place from 3 to 5 pm at the Church, 5210 Fannin.
Tonight at 7:30 there will be an Interfaith Memorial Service
for Dr. Martin Luther King at the Congregation Beth Shalom
on Bellaire Boulevard at the Southwest Freeway. King, who was
assassinated in April, 1968, would have been 41 tonight.
ker, professor of geophysics at
Rice, is currently serving as
chairman of the sponsoring Co-
alition. He said the purpose of
the meeting was to broaden the
base of support for the activi-
ties of the Vietnam Moratorium
Committee.
"We feel that this will appeal
to a larger number of people
than the Moratorium has," De
Bremaeeker said.
"The War is of course the
focal point of concern, but if
the War ends soon, there are
other priorities which we must
attack. And if the War contin-
ues, then this group might act
as a pressure group to have the
War ended, and bring these top-
ics to the foreground at the
same time," he added.
De Bremaeeker said the Viet-
nam War will be referred to
only indirectly at the meeting.
He said De Gregori would speak
briefly on infiltration and
might refer to the role of the
War with respect to infiltration.
He added, however, that ques-
tions from the floor about any
topic of concern, including the
War, , would be welcomed.
"The intent of tHe organiza-
tion is action-orientation," De
Bremaeeker said. "We hope to
be concerned not only with what
the problems are, but particu-
larly what people can do about
them."
The meeting will be held next
Friday the 23rd at 8 pm in Jones
Auditorium at St. Thomas.
Glade's Showcase premieres two
Taking a cue from our own
Rice PI a y e r s, Playwright's
Showcase has announced that
"The Madness of Lady Bright"
by Lanford Wilson, and Leon-
ard Melfi's "Birdbath" will open
at The Autry House this Fri-
day and Saturday night' for a
three-weekend run.
Both of the one-acts were
done as part of the Players'
"Listen—three one-act plays"
production earlier this fall.
However, Showcase director
Roger Glade was quick to point
out that threre are few simi-
larities between the two pro-
ductions.
"We've got a new supporting
cast for 'Lady Bright'," Glade
commented," and a completely
new cast and director for 'Bird-
bath!"
Glade was enthusiastic about
the appeal of the two plays for
RiCe audiences, "It's got every-
thing the pepole want," he said,
"sex and violence."
Indeed. "The Madness of Lady
Bright" deals with the problems
of an aging homosexual going
mad in his apartment. The play
is laced with intimate scenes
between the central character
and his various paramours.
"But not TOO intimate,"
Glade cautioned, "only as much
as the script demands and the
Houston audience will bear.
T guess you could call it tiv-
hotest show in town. But in thi-
town, of course, that's not say
in gtoo much."
Glade should know—he's play-
ing the title role. "Lady Bright"
is directed by Max Zimmerman
and includes two cast members
never seen in the show before:
Ron Jarvis, director of the Ac-
tion Theatre, as the Boy and
Dixie Taylor, who was last seen
at Autry House in "The Investi-
gation," as the Girl.
"Birdbath," the other of the
dramatic duet, is a cheery little
piece about a girl who has
murdered her mother and a boy
who craves her body.
Set in downtown Manhattan
that's New York City), the play
itself follows Frankie's (the
boy) seduction of Velma Spar-
row (the girl) from a cafeteria
where they both work, through
the streets, and up to his apart-
ment where he disrobes.
"But not completely," Glade
hastened to add. "Houston, you
know."
We know. The girl, to protect
herself, pulls a knife and the
little comedy comes to an end.
Bruce Hughes and Angel in
Johnson play the little game
under Glade's direction in tin-
roles of Erankie and Velma. It
is a confljletely new production
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Murray, Jack. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1970, newspaper, January 15, 1970; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245071/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.