The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1971 Page: 2 of 6
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editorial
With the 'continued cooperation of the Administra-
tion under President Hackerman (along with continued
patience) the Thresher is beginning in this issue a series
of articled on the financial aspects of the University. It
is advantageous to the University to have its monetary
proceedings understood by all its elements, and during
this period of financial crisis, imperative that questions
of priorities be raised.
Rice is currently involved in a one million dollar
unrestricted fund drive, directed concurrently by alumni
and the Development Office.
Alumni and friends of Rice will contribute more
when the nature of Rice's situation (the myth of en-
riched Rice is hard to dispel) and when the priorities
the University gives to its funds are understood.
Questions about the University Funds will be an-
swered in a separate column and may be sent to the
Thresher by campus mail.
KTRU goes FM, plans new shows
Friday at 6:30 and 10:30
KTRU will air Head Coach Bill
Peterson's first press confer-
ence at Rice University. Taped
over the holidays, the confer-
ence includes Peterson's view
of the relationship between
academics and athletics, the out-
look for next year's football sea-
son and the reasons for his de-
cision to come to Rice. Short
excerpts from the conference
will be aired this week on the
half-hour.
KTRU staffers and the Rice
public relations department are
in the process of putting- to-
gether Rice Roundtable, a new
program featuring President
Norman Hackerman. The pro-
gram will be aired in the Hous-
ton area over KTRU and KTRH
740/AM, and eventually on
other major stations through-
out the state. Dr. Hackerman
and student panelists will dis-
cuss topics ranging from uni-
versity economics to the role of
the university in the commun-
ity. Dr. Hackerman did a sim-
ilar show at the University of
Texas.
Anyone interested in partici-
pating on a panel or with a
topic he thinks will interest the
Rice community should write a
letter addressed to RICE
ROUNDTABLE c / o KTRU
RADIO, CAMPUS MAIL, or
call the station. A list of the
first cfive topics will be pub-
lished next week. The first
Roundtable is slated for produc-
tion a week from Saturday.
KTRU's application for an
FM license has been received
by the FCC and the Commis-
sion's response is expected with-
in a matter of weeks. Any in-
dividual with an interest in any
phase of radio operation is
urged to attend the staff meet-
ing 'somewhere on the first
floor of Rayzor Hall', Sunday
evening at 7 pm. The station
has openings in programming,
news, special programming, and
production. More information
will be available Sunday.
Who's who selections announced Scuba club sets plans, activities
The Dean of Students' office, has announced Rice's selections
In)' Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and
Colleges. There are 3 grad students, 2 juniors, and the rest seniors.
■Iones leads with 7 members selected, and Wiess and Baker have 6
•md .") respectively. Will Rice and Lovett have 4 selections and
Itan-xon and Brown bring up the rear with 3.
Kurt A. Alex
Roll it' Michael Alliston
-lack Dale Allshouse
William Josh Arcl, Jr.
Join, Robert Billingsley
Stephen P. Borg
Thomas Anthony Blochei
Frank LeRov Brevoort
.Bruce A. Coats
Alary Melissa Crowfoot
Robert Caldwell Christmas
Patricia Ann Daniel
Kdward Martin Emmett
Michael S. Estep
Bradley P. Etherton
William Ted Farmer
Lucy Ferguson
Thomas Baker Greene
John Robert Hays
William Dwight Haymes
Paul Neyland Hester
Lois Ann Kinclieloe
Daniel L. King
Katherine T. Kobayashi
Jerlyn L. Mardis
Michael Alfred Morrison
«'athleen Marie O'Rourke
.Ann Ellen Patton
William Robert Parkes
Hector J. Ruiz Garden as
J a tie L. Scarborough
Michael P. Smith
Wilimrn Flack Trotter
lames Gregory White
grad student
Wiess
Wiess
Wiess
Lovett
Wiess
Hanszen
Lovett
Baker
J ones
Lovett
Jones
Lovett
WRC
Baker
Hanszen
Jones
Baker
Wiess
Baker
Wiess
Jones
WRC
Brown
Jones
WRC
Jones
Brown
Baker
grad student
grad student
WRC
Hanszen
WRC
projections . . ,
Pussycat leads movies
Can an owl and a pussycat? talent, you'll be speechless when
V s. and Barbra Streisand and
Coorge Segal prove it in one
of the most hilarious comedies
to date,
THE OWL AND THE PUS-
SYCAT was once a fairy talc
-although figuratively speak-
ing it may still seem to be, as
evidenced by the hooker's de-
scription of her prey — "you
finky rat pansy fruity creep!"
Streisand is the part-time act-
ress. model and prostitute ■—
whatever job is handier at the
moment, whether the location
is a paying customer's bed or
the movie location of CYCLE
SLUTS. Believe it or not, she
does not sing a note and, sans
the music, proves well her un-
usual acting ability.
If you don't flip over her
she wraps herself in her night-
mare nightie — a black see-
through with pink hands on the
uppers, red fluff fringe, tail.
BORIS printed behind and a
valentine embroidered on her
front.
Which is still funnier than
George Segal's skeleton costume
used to cure Doris' hiccups and
consequently get them thrown
out of his apartment. Neverthe-
less, Segal's "Felix" is quite a
character — the actor's talent
is a perfect match for that of
his female co-star. The friction
and sparks between the two
are handled beautifully, from
an argument over the nature of
the sun to a spontaneous tryst
in bed where both partners seek
dominance.
(Continued on Page 4)
JOHN MAULDIN
Editor-in-Chief
IhrncSiSff RICK GRIDER
llll 1trSSl 1^*1 Business Manager
Charles Szalkowski Editor-at-T.argc- Jack Murray Senior Editoi
Mike Smith Exec. Assoc. Ed. Mike Ross Calendar Ed.
Marty Helasco Sports Ed. Gary Rachlin Sports Ed.
PcBow Freed Managing Ed. liccky Strader Copy Ed.
The Rice Thresher, official student newspaper, at Rice University, is
published weekcly on Thursday except during holidays and examination
periods by students of Rice University, Houston, Texas 7701. Phone JA8-4141,
« xt 221, G-15.
The Rice Scuba Club, newly
revived on campus after a dor-
mancy of several years has be-
come one of the most active
clubs on campus. After a shaky
beginning with less than ten
members, it has grown to a
membership of approximately
100. This membership includes
undergraduates, graduate stu-
dents and faculty members and
their families.
Future plans for dives during
the spring semester are now
in committee. One that promises
to be very exciting is a week-
long camping-diving trip dur-
ing the spring recess to either
Florida or Mexico. A similar
trip was taken last year during
spring break to the Florida
Keys. Club members traveled by
rented van and camped out
along the way.
Probably the most exciting
activity planned by the club
members will be held Feb. 5 and
G. This will be a dive trip to the
Flower Garden Reef located
125 miles out of Galveston. This
reef is located 500 miles north
of any other known living coral
reef and this makes it a very
unusual phenomena. 20 divers
have chartered a 65 foot boat
for the trip. The scenery one
can expect to see at the Ref
includes colorful corals and
tropical fish, manta ray, oc-
tupus and much more. And the
visibility is always greater than
100 feet!
In addition to the dive trips,
one of the primary functions of
the club has been instruction
and certification of divers.
Classes were held last semester
under the direction of Larry
Evans, a Chemical Engineering
graduate student and a NAUI
(National Association of Under-
water Instructors) instructor.
The course consisted of class-
room lectures and pool instruc-
tion leading to a NAUI certifi-
cation, one of the most widely
recognized certification courses
in the U.S. and throughout the
world.
Also, an advanced divers pro-
gram is being held. This con-
sists of a lecture series encom-
passing such topics as under-
water photography, marine bi-
ology, spearfishing techniques,
underwater archeology and
many more. This also includes
practice pool sessions.
The next scheduled basic
scuba class will be held in Feb.
and March and will end in time
to allow the new divers to go
on the Florida trip. Lectures
and pool sessions will be held
in the Rice gym. For further
details contact Larry LeMay,
305 Lovett College, 523-4743.
If you would like to become
a part of the "wet set" activi-
ties plan to attend the next club
meeting, Jan. li)yin the Fondren
Lecture Lounge at 7:00 pm. If
you are interested in learning
to dive sign up that evening for
the spring class. Also, Dr.
Warme of the Geology Dept.
will give a short talk on the
uses of scuba diving in geology.
By BASIL WEBB
New Year's is the time for resolutions, and
the new semester, cagily rearranged a couple
years ago to begin at New Year's, is timed
perfectly. I merely hope that you were not
as foolish as I was in making rash promises.
The Read World?
The wonderful ecstasy of being a college
senior has been somewhat dulled of late by
the incredible pre-ssures that the business
world brings to bear on seniors. It apparently
requires little ingenuity for various and sun-
dry insurance agencies, credit card bureaux,
oil companies, book companies, diploma-fram-
ing "factories, local department stores, ad
nauseum, to acquire a list of graduating sen-
iors,- fifth-years and grad students.
Around February each senior suddenly finds
himself called upon, even in his college room,
by other seniors or recent alums he probably
only vaguely, if at all, knew before. They are,
of course, anxious to help him meet the fi-
nancial responsibility which comes with grad-
uating from college, i.e., buying insurance.
His mailbox is suddenly stuffed with "con-
gratulatory messages" offering credit card
applications and fantastic discounts.
It is apparently a part of growing old.
A Rice Tradition
This column has carried the argument be-
fore, but perhaps it is well to have it re-
stated at this time: Rice athletics are, ideally
and traditionally, different from athletics at
the typical mutilversity.
The ostensible goal, of course, is to win
athletic contests, as many as possible; but
Texas does that, and about all it really
achieves is the development of a warped pro-
fessional island of physically well-trained
gladiators, brain-washed into believing in their
own superiority and in the coach's statements
of the importance of the goal of winning.
No, Rice football must be something dif-
ferent. Sure, a losing season is unpleasant,
but if it means that the athletic department
must become a football factory, a winning
season is not worth it.
Example at hand: at Rice, athletes are not
segregated from the student body, and they
eat at the training table only during the sea-
son when a special diet is most important.
Most of Rice's outstanding athletes, if not
all, have been active members of the student
body, recognized as friends or acquaintances
by many people (which, of course, means
they are not idolized), and elected to office in
their colleges and the SA.
Football is and must be secondary to their
learning experience at the University. And
that learning experience must encompass not
only the classroom, but also the personal re-
lationships which students develop with each
other, and especially with those individuals
previously foreign to their experience (as
non-athletes. Isolating athletes in an athletic
"dorm, or even at a year-round training table,
would destroy a large measure of their accept-
ance as human beings.
The ins'tant that the Rice community senses
that football games are being played in its
name by outsiders (i.e., segregated, semi-pro-
fessional jocks) what support it has for its
teams now will totally disappear, and that
money can be put to better use.
By the same token, Rice must recruit the ex-
ceptional youth, the student-athlete who can
make it as an engineer, or economist, or ar-
chitect, or English major, and refuse to lower
its standards just to get good horseflesh.
Certainly it will take time and. effort to even
find those kind of people, and yes, their de-
votion to the god of team-winning will not
be total, but the University will be a better
one for it. (And, within a few yeaxs, that
new reputation will attract the scholar-
athletes.) Rice should compete with Harvard
and Stanford for its athletes, and with Cal
Tech and MIT, too, by convincing them that
they need not give up their sports interests
to learn something other than basket-weaving
in college. Rice should not compete with Texas
and A&M for its athletes; if all the guy wants
is to be a campus hero, he won't fit in here
and we don't want him.
Football is fun, to play and to watch. If it
becomes anything else, it has gotten out of
hand.
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