The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1973 Page: 3 of 10
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Rice "types" mix at RPC beer bust
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The deadline for turning in schedules to the Registrar is 12 noo" Friday.
Don't he late.
SA meeting
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Crites discussed the renovation
of the College's basement and
the proposal to build a bar in
the basement, separate from the
proposed university-wide tav-
ern, primarily for Lovett Col-
lege members.
NSA convention
Rice was represented at the
recent National Student Asso-
ciation convention by Off-
Campus Senator Cathy "Ama-
zon" Keneda. The convention
was held in Miami Beach,
Florida. Keneda presented Sen-
ate members with an extensive
report of the convention's pro-
ceedings. She spent most of her
time there in various conven-
tion "workshops" and talking
with student leaders fr om
schools across the country.
From her many talks with
other leaders she feels that,
by and large, Rice is better off
than other schools. Other dele-
gates, she says, were amazed
at Rice's Honor System, stu-
dent representation on univer-
sity committees, and such
things as the meal subsidy pro-
gram. However, Keneda thinks
she also learned a great deal
from the conference, especially
about programs at other schools
by DANA BLANKENHORN
Your typical Weanie was loll-
ing about in the Dorm with the
current Nudie magazine.
"Going to the thing?" The
Weanie looked up, half-expect-
ing to see Miss April desirous
of his Anatomy, and found only
his fellow victim Harold.
"What?" Freshmen are elo-
quent creatures.
"Gonna pick us up some nice
ones?"
"Nice whats?"
"What's the purpose of the
mixer?" Days after the event,
Malcolm Waddell, RPC chair-
man and instigator of the afore-
mentioned Friday night beer-
bust and people meetery, sat
on the floor and pondered the
meaning of his creation. He
smiled. "Well, I saw a lot of
girls getting up to leave with
guys."
And with that, they were
hauled into the annual School
Mixer. The ingredients for this
heady brew are Beers of various
sizes and shapes, a Band bent
on Eardrum Destruction, a
Lack of Lighting, ar.d Warm
Bodies. Blend Heads, Jocks,
fRG's, Weanies, plus a few
general Fruitcakes, Ding-
Dongs, and Lonely Mabels and
you have a mixer.
"vVhy'd you have lark beer?"
"There's us^iliy a lot of de-
mand. We try to keep up. We
had ten kegs. We just ran
out!" Sometimes it happens.
It had been a long time for
the two young Weanies, and
their Opposites had become
Theoretical rather than Prac-
tical. Even among the Lonely
Mabel's, Jockettes, and General
Heavy-Thinkers they were at a
loss.
"Hi. Looking for something?"
"Yes," she said, turning
around. Her smile deflated.
"You ain't it." In a swirl of
Bluejeans, she left the Weanie
with himself.
"Why'd you only have beer?"
"Figure the cost of ten kegs.
You get a discount with ten,
with less you spend even more
per keg. What I'd like to see
done is to get together all the
colleges and organizations and
get one beer bid to save money.
You know 300-400 kegs roll
through here every year."
"That's a lot of beer." I won-
dered who was drinking so
much.
"Harold."
"Yeah?"
"Let's have a beer."
Three beers later they w e r e
prepared to strike again.
"Hi."
"Excuse me," she said. "I'm
looking for my boyfriend."
"1 don't see him anywhere."
"I don't have one yet. Now
if you'll get out of my way."
Harold went back to the beer.
"How do you explain the
huge turnout?" He shrugged.
"How many people were actual-
ly there, anyway?"
"I couldn't estimate. There
were probably 1200 people at
various times. Maybe about, oh,
1,000 at the height of the
thing."
"That's a lot of people in
such a small space."
Harold was gently nudged
back into the stream of human-
ity. After being dragged into
a room, assaulted through the
ears, drunked, drugged, and
bedraggled, the river of people
led him to his fellow victim in
similar straits leading nowhere.
"Nice mixer."
"Yeah."
Malcolm Waddell looked up
for more questions. I wouldn't
•think of any.
"Well, that's it. I don't see
how there's anything else that
could be said. Thanks a lot.
Take care." And I made an exit
sans conclusion. Or was there
something he c uildn't h;n •>
told me?
Harold and Co. went back to
their respective rooms and tried
to convince themselves they'd
had a good time. Then they ap-
plied for transfer to Yassar.
MORAL: A GOOD TIME IS
WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT.
Watson Fellov/ships
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v •vet within a month after
the r unpletion of his year.
Rice is one of thirty-five col-
leges ar.d universities partici-
pating in this program. Each,
school submits from its ap-
plicants four candidates to the
representatives of the Watson
Foundation. From these one
hundred and forty, seventy
Wat«on Fellows are chosen on
the basis of personal interviews
and a careful evaluation of the
candidate's proposal and his
ability to carry it out. Award?
(u' Fellowships for 1974-7." will
he announced around March 15.
If a recipient of the award is
under prior commitments for
the year immediately following
his -graduation, he may request
the Foundation to have the
grant held in reserve by his
undergraduate school for a
period up to three years from
fee date of the award.
Applications for Watson Fel-
lowships should be in the office
of the Dean of Undegraduate
Af.feu.rs, 101 Lovett Hall, not
later than Friday, October 5.
The application should include
that could be implemented afc
Rice stay in the NSA.
Honor Council
Internal Affairs Vice Presi-
dent Scott Thurston discussed
the report of the Honor Coun-
cil Study Committee. The Honor
Council itself is currently stu-
dying that report, as are other
university officials. Thurston
said that the Honor Council
description of the project companied by a University
proposed as veil as pertinent transcript through the Junior
information concerning foreign year and by two supporting
language training, previous ex- letters from members of the
perier.ee in living abroad^ or Rice faculty or other appro-
other projects independently priate persons with whom the
conceived .and carried out. The candidate has discussed his
project proposal should be ac- plans.
1972 Wateon Fellows named
Two Rice seniors. Mary Eliza-
1 >eth (Bet\) Rader and Phillip
B o r i s Uninsky, have been
named Iff7-1 -7 4 Watson Fellows.
Miss Rader, a history and
economics major, plans to spend
her fellowship year studying
the influence of British, French!
and Dutch hanks on colonial
development in the West Indies.
She will study the archive;
of long-established hanks in
London, Paris and Amsterdam
with the goal of writing "a
comparative* report of their
West Indian involvements and.
ties, particularly with regard to
loan policies, interest rates and
currency activities
After her research in Europe.
Beth plans to visit the West
will release a report in several
months and the student body
will probably be able to vote
on proposed changes in next
February's elections.
Thurston also reported that
a number of people are needed
for various positions in the
SA and on University commit-
tees. He asked each of the Col-
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Indies "to compare and m-
trast first-hand their patterns
of economic, cultural and soe; \l
development as they were in-
fluenced by bank-connected in-
vestments."
Uninsky, a history rv / r, :
tends to spend his year abroa I
making a socio-historical study
of Jewish emigration from
Russia over the last 30 years.
Himself the son of a Russian-
Jewish emigre to the United
States,, Philip is particularly
interested in the assimilation of
the emigres into Israeli and
We,stern Euro?iean societies.
"In recent years some 20 per-
cent of Jewish emigres: from
the Soviet Union to Israel have
.returned to the Soviet Union,
says Uninsky. A vdderadv
larger percentage of emvt-s
who .have settled in Wastern
Europe have decided to remain
in their adopted homelands." he
points out. "I would like to
determine how Russian culture
and society have affected the
abilities of the Jewish emigres
to integrate into different types
of societies."
Uninsky will travel through
Israel, France. Switzerland,
Austria and the U.S.S.R. during
his fellowship year.
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