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Herman Brown Hall and Lovett College are dedicated
by WAYNE YAKES
The fourth clay of Freshman
Week, August 26, 1971, was
highlighted by the double dedi-
cation of Herman Brown Hall
and Lovett College. Chancellor
Carey Croneis presided over
ceremonies in Brown Hall at
11:00 am and in Lovett College
at 12:00 noon.
Dr. Charles F. Jones, repre-
senting the National Science
Foundation, and Mr. George R.
Brown, for the Brown Founda-
tion, formally presented Her-
man Brown Hall for the mathe-
matical sciences to Rice Uni-
versity. Accepting the gift for
the Faculty was Professor Hu-
bert E. Bray; for the Univer-
sity was President Norman
Hackerman. Mrs. William P.
Hobby, of the Board of Gov-
nernorss paid tribute to Her-
man Brown, calling him "a
progressive leader of men." The
commemorative plaque was un-
veiled by Mr. M. S. Stude and
a portrait of Herman Brown
was unveiled by Mrs. Fayez
Sarofim.
The dedication of Lovett Col-
lege was preceded by a lunch-
eon in the Lovett College Com-
mons. Mr. George R. Brown,
again representing the Brown
Foundation, presented Lovett
College to Rice University. Mr.
Brown, a former Chairman of
the Board of Governors, recall-
ed "Edgar Odell Lovett, who
was my friend and a man for
whom I had much admiration."
Accepting the gift for the Lov-
ett students was President
Henry Holcomb, for the Rice
Mastei's was Dr. Robert F.
Curl, for the Alumni was Presi-
dent John F. Heard, and for
the Board of Governors was
Chairman H. Malcolm Lovett.
Pres. Norman Hackerman, in
accepting Lovett College for
the university, said that "the
residential colleges have in-
deed borne some fruit — not
all they should. There is po-
tential on this campus for do-
ing what universities are sup-
posed to do ... f am most
pleased to accept Lovett Col-
lege."
Mr. Gus S. Wortham, from
the Rice Board of Governors,
delivered a short speech honor-
ing Edgar Odell Lovett, "the
academic founder of Rice Uni-
versity." Mr. Edgar Odell Lov-
ett II then unveiled the Com-
memorative Plaque and Invita-
tion to Opening of Rice Insti-
tute.
Lovett President Holcomb accepts as M( Croneis look on
Senate considers resignation, TISA
By CHIP LANSDELL
In its first meeting, the Rice
Student Senate moved directly
into the business it is concerned
with.
The lettter of resignation of
Internal Affairs Vice President
Kathy Kobyashi was read into
the minutes and discussed,
broaching very fundamental
questions of student govern-
ment. In her letter, Kobyashi
expressed her belief that the
Senate was not accomplishing
anything worthwhile and that
its main aim seemed to be self
perpetuation. The criterion for
continuation of any such or-
ganization, she felt, should be
what that organization was ac-
complishing, especially if one
considered what had or could
have been done without its ex-
istence. The best way to do
By NEIL ISBIN
Over the past three years, a
number of Rice students have
participated in a program called
the Rice Tutoring Project. For
one afternoon a week, these
students volunteered their time
to tutor deprived children in
two inner city elementary
schools, Harper and Crockett.
In addition to providing rem-
edial instruction in reading and
arithmetic skills, we, as Rice
tutors, have befriended the
young "tutee". Working in a
one-to-one relationship, we have
given the tutees something that
they have rarely experienced, in-
dividual attention. Often starved
for affection, the tutee soon dis-
covers that he has found some-
one who really cares about him.
The warm human relationship
that, develops can be directed
toward giving a renewed sense
of self-confidence and a feeling
of self-worth to the tutee, at-
titudes essential to the improve-
ment of both the tutee's ability
and desire to learn.
We have been very successful
and we have earned an admir-
able reputation in Houston.
However, we have also had a
number of problems ranging
from lack of expertise and lack
of materials to organizational
problems and frustrated super-
visors. This year, building upon
a fine foundation, we hope to
embark upon a significant pro-
gram of improvement.
One major change will be our
closer alliance with the Tutor-
ing Committee of the Houston
Volunteers in Public Schools
(VIPS). Up until now, the Rice
Tutoring Project has been an
autonomous group of concerned
students tutoring within regu-
lations established by the Hous-
something here would be for a
group interested in a project,
i. e. co-ed colleges, student
health service reform, or stu-
dent voice in university deci-
sions, to find a solution on their
own and tlhen to convince those
with power to implement it.
Dr. Charles S. Burrus, faculty
advisor to the Senate, offered
a different view. He Stated that
the faculty, administration, and
the Houston community had
great respect for the Senate as
a result of its conduct of the
Masterson crisis. He credited
that with accomplishing the
most far-reaching changes in
the university's history. As an
example of those changes, he
cited the Senate's ability to ap-
point two undergraduate mem-
bers to the University Council.
The Senate is a body which is
listened to, he said, and in a
time when the trend is away
from student power and control,
temporary problems should not
be allowed to hamper itis ef-
fectiveness. Elements of the
university community might
consider the Senate meaning-
less, he said, but it should with-
stand such criticism and main-
tain its present respected posi-
tion.
The Senate set elections to
fill the vacancies in the Internal
Affairs Vice President's office
and in the Honor Council for
September 29th. The deadline
for filing- for these offices will
be September 15th. In the re-
signation of Hal Gober as
cheerleader, the Senate deferred
action until their next meeting.
On a motion by Off-Campus
Senator Christi Oliver, the
Financial Aid Committee has
been charged to study exten-
sively any cuts in financial aid
and determine why funds are
no longer available. Rick Jones,
chairman of the committee last
year, pointed out that the nature
of the Parent's Confidential Sta-
tement would make this study
difficult. However, Dr. Burrus
menioned that a group of alumni
and the Welfare Committee
were also interested in the
same question. The Senate de-
cided that the Financial Aid
Committee shall try to work
with these groups in competing
its task.
Dr. Ira Gruber, master of
Hanszen college, presented the
plan's for inauguration of Dr.
Norman Hackerman as fourth
president of Rice. Students from
the colleges will be asked to act
as hosts for the delegates of the
academic institutions which will
be represented. In addition, col-
leges will be paired to host the
four major speakers for the
evening's banquet, McKinley
Kantor, George Beadle, Logan
Wilson, and Jack Valenti. Kan-
tor and, Valenti have expressed
their intent to forgo the inau-
guration ceremonies in order
to conduct informal seminars
with the students.
Just before adjournment, Ex-
ternal Affairs Vice President
Leighton Read announced the
Texas Intercollegiate Student-
Association was interested in
holding its annual meeting of
Texas student body presidents
on the campus October 1st and
2nd. The key topic will be voter
registration for Texas college
students.
Rice Tutoring Project organizes
ton School Administration. allowing for more cooperation acquiring teaching aids and toring. For th
However, this year, as the
VIPS program expands to in-
clude nearly all of Houston's
170 elementary schools, it has
become imperative that the
Rice Tutoring Project, along
with other small tutoring proj-
ects co-ordinate their activities
with the VIPS program. Far
from being restraining, this co-
operation will provide us with
a number of benefits. This year,
we will have two VIPS tutoring
kits, one each for Harper and
Crockett, a bilingual kit for
Crockett, and $150 to spend on
educational games and teaching
aids. In turn, our responsibility
will be to keep more careful
records of what each of us do,
what materials we use, and
what progress the tutees make.
As we tutor at two different
schools, five days a week, we
will divide into ten working-
units. Each unit will include 6-
15 tutors, a faculty wife super-
visor, a psychologist, and a
reading consultant. Once merely
a Houston Independent School
District (HISD) requirement,
the faculty wife supervisor will
be the backbone of our new oi--
iganizational structure. The
psychologists will be coming
from Rice and HISD, and the
reading consultants also from
HISD. Tutors will meet their
respective consultants at the
home of the faculty wife super-
visor before the tutoring begins.
Thereafter, tutors will have
their telephone number to call
them for consultations through-
out the semester. By creating
these working units we hope to
provide competent advice for
the tutors and promote greater
interaction among the tutors,
and feedback.
In addition to our outside con-
sultants and VIPS materials,
we have also spent $150 this
summer for educational games
and teaching aids. Our mater-
ials will vary in scope from
idea books to phonics and math
teaching aids, and in difficulty
from simple to difficult.
Of course we will have our
usual Halloween and Christmas
parties first semester for the
tutees.* Second semester, we will
have an ice skating field trip
and an end of the year party.
"Most of the other field trips
that tutors may wish to take
can be either individual, in
small groups or a project in-
volving their working unit.
There is a good possibility that
we will have extra funds avail-
able for these excursions. But
if not, there are ample things
to do and places to go that will
not cost anything.
With the changes made in
procuring outside consultants,
this should prove to be an ex-
citing year. 1 urge all of you
who are interested in becoming
a tutor this year to attend our
introductory meeting, Wednes-
day. September 8th at 8 p.m.
in the Fondren Lecture Lounge.
At that time we will present a
more comprehensive view of the
Rice Tutoring Project and we
will also continue the sign up
of tutors that began earlier this
week in the RMC. Monday
nigh.t, the 13th, we will have a
training session that will basic-
ally consist of looking over the
new materials which have ar-
rived. We will still be tutoring
one afternoon a week. The
changes are being made in or-
der to improve the quality of
our tutoring and to facilitate
the job of tutoring. They are
deliberately structured so that
the tutor should not have to
spend more than one hour a
week in preparation for his tu-
]participate as tutors because of
labs or whatever, and who would
like to become involved in some
way, be it from week end field
trips to helping out at the par-
ties. call Brad Morris at 521 -
0068.
Tutoring is not easy and is
often frustrating", but it is
highly rewarding. Working
with young children who not
only see you as a friend and
brother (or sister), but also
look up to you, seeking your
help, is a most powerfully re-
warding experience. Through
your participation in the tutor-
ing program, you are not only
giving these children a new
lease on life, but you are ais.>
gaining the personal satisfac-
tion of being able to contribute
in some small way to the better-
ment of our society. In fact, as
your courses start grinding this
year, that satisfaction can be-
come very gratifying.
Tryouts for ribald Canterbury Tales welcome all
Auditions for The Rice Play-
ers first production of the sea-
son, the ribald musical comedy,
Canterbury Tales, will be held
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sep-
tember 7 and 8, at 7:30 pm in
Hamman Hall. The cast in-
cludes seventeen principal roles
in addition to a chorus of sing-
ers and dancers.
With music by Richard Hill
and John Hawkins, lyrics by
Nevill Coghill, and book by
Martin Starkie and Nevill Cog-
hill, Canterbury Tales is freely
adapted from Mr. Coghill's
modern English translation of
Chaucer. The play opens with
Chaucer's recitation of a por-
tion of the Prologue, then im-
mediately moves to the Tabard
Inn and the Canterbury Pi 1 -
■grims. As they journey toward
Canterbury, the pilgrims enact
the four bawdiest of the Tales.
Each pilgrim assumes different
roles in different tales.
This kind of "tale within a
play" structure suggests imag-
inative contemporary staging
possibilities which Rice Players
director Neil Havens hopes to
exploit fully. It also promotes
an even distribution of roles
such that no single actor bears
a disproportionate share of the
show's weight. Songs and lines
are very evenly divided.
Many newcomers to Rice have
perhaps heard that the Players
are some kind of closed clan of
aesthetes, admitting to their
ranks only the chosen few. Not
so. The opposite is in fact true.
It is the Players' hope that the
freshman week program and
party and the particularly large
opening production will help
dispel this myth. The Players
wish to extend a special invita-
tion to all Rice newcomers who
wish to work with them in any
capacity. Anyone interested
should be at the auditions on
May 7 and 8 in Hamman Hall
at 7:30 pm.
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Freed, DeBow. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1971, newspaper, September 2, 1971; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245108/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.