The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1973 Page: 3 of 8
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Beyond the hedges
Protein-rich manure to be recycled as cattle feed
by GARY RREWTON
A survey conducted by the
Educational Testing Service
(remember them from your
SAT's) of 21,000 college sen-
iors has disclosed that only
29% of all women as compared
to 45% of all men planned to
pursue advanced study, even
though in general women had
better grades than men.
Moreover, only three percent
of all women had plans for
medical or law school, versus
13 percent of all men.
The survey, conducted in
1971, also indicated that more
black seniors (18 percent) in-
tended to study towards a doc-
torate than white seniors (.14
percent).
The differences in aspirations
were explained in terms of en-
couragement from family and
friends, level of self-confidence
and self-image. Almost as many
men with C+ or lower grade
averages intended to pursue
doctorates as women with B-f-
or A averages.
Miss America of 1974, Re-
becca Ann King, expressed her
belief that marijuana should
be legalized because "you can't
legislate for individuals." In-
cidentally, Ms. King will earn
$100,000 for personal appear-
ances during the next year.
How's that for women's libera-
tion?
Up to 6000 have been killed
and tens of thousands maimed
in Iraq after the victims ate
grain treated with mercury as
a fungicide and intended only
for use as seed. Warnings were
printed on the bags of Mexican
corn and American barley and
the grain was sprayed with a
bright pink dye, but there were
no warnings in the local lan-
guage. Even though the police
issued strict warnings against
eating the grain it was stolen
during loading and transporta-
tion.
Rumors in Austin are that
Off-campus
Register now
or lose out twice
by AMAZON
There are two important reg-
istrations coming up in the
next two weeks:
1. BIKE REGISTRATION.
If you live off campus and yo*
ride an unregistered bike, you
may be interested to know th^®
you are illegal; on Tuesday,
September 18, members of the
Houston Police Dept. will be in
the RMC (probably the patio
area) to register bikes. It will
happen from 9 to 5, and the
cost will be $'1.00.
Remember that not all fire
istations are registering bikes —
if you do not take advantage of
■ this opportunity, you may have
to go a long ways to get it
done.
2. VOTER REGISTRATION:
The City of, Houston will be
holding elections as well as
some sort of referendum on
Mass Transit in the next two
months; please register at a
table that will be set up in the
RMC, starting Wednesday, Sep-
tember 14. (Volunteers are
needed.)
KTRU and 528-OWLS are
working now; these are good
sources to check into when
you want to find out what is
going on in the Rice commu-
nity.
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold,
candidate for governor last
year, will be running for of-
fice again in 1974, and that
she is interested in a seat on
the Texas Railroad Commis-
sion, which regulates the oil
and gas industries in the state.
If you think you had prob-
lems getting your phone in,
imagine the situation at the
University of Texas at Austin,
where Ma Boll institutes a pro-
gram similar to the plug-it-in
yourself routine here at Rice.
There are about 40,000 students
at UT, and if you consider that
problems increase exponentially
as the number of individuals
increases, we might speculate
that students there will have
complete phone service by De-
cember 5, 1995.
The ultimate in recycling
operations is being tried on cat-
tle by one of the nation's lar-
gest cattle feeding companies.
The Ceres Land Co., which
feeds 60,000 head of cattle each
year, will use processed animal
manure as a protein-rich food
supplement. The feed, which is
sterilized, washed, and then
either fermented or evaporated,
contains from 8 to 35 percent
protein, depending on the pro-
cess used. The idea is to make
beef more available at lower
costs by making use of the 1.7
billion toils of manure produced
each year in the U.S.
Eldridge Cleaver, author of
'"Soul on Ice," was been denied
political asylum in France. The
French Minister of the Interior
called him "undesirable" on the
basis of his "proviolence
theories and advocacy of ex-
treme methods." Cleaver, now
living in Algeria, argued that
he has been deprived of his
American nationality and is
now stateless.
A real biggie: More than
40 Brands of New
Calculators
LARGEST DISPLAY
SHOWROOM
IN THE SOUTH
(Student Special)
Used Calculators
$19.95
and up
JENKINS
Business Machines
6601 Gulf Frwy.
926-9476
5 min from downtown
$200 million was spent in Hous-
ton on scientific research last
year, acording to the Chamber
of Commerce.
Finally, an appeals court in
Michigan has ruled that a
homosexual relationship involv-
ing mothers does not in itself
create an environment unfit for
children. The two women lived
together with their children,
and a lower court judge had
ordered the two sets of children
placed in a foster home. In
overturning the lower court's
order, the appeals judge de-
clared that the prosecution had
not proved that the mothers'
relationship caused the home to
be unfit.
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Jackson, Steve. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 13, 1973, newspaper, September 13, 1973; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245169/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.