The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1976 Page: 1 of 16
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volume 64, number 23
thursday, december 2, 1976
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Texas Monthly editor speaks on Texans
by Matt Muller
Texas Monthly editor, Bill
Broyles, explored he question
"Can We Take Texas
Seriously?" before a full house
in Hamman Hall last night.
The Rice alum (Hanszen '66)
emphatically asserted, "I
wouldn't live anywhere but
Texas." When asked why he
chose to remain in Texas
Broyles explained, "Tra-
velling in Europe I found there
were two kinds of Americans:
Americans and Texans. I
realized then how nice it was to
be from somewhere.
Beginning his lecture with a
description of Texas as the rest
of the world sees it, Broyles
commented that to most of
America, "we are the nation's
Arabs." He quoted an
Englishman who described
Houston earlier this century as
"the greatest sink of vice and
dissipation that the modern
world has ever created."
"Houston is practically a
country within itself," he
added and suggested that
Houstonians are isolated from
the rest of the state because of
the faster tempo of their lives.
Broyles related his under-
graduate experience here to
his present feelings about the
state. "I can remember
professors who honestly
believed they were carrying
education to the provinces by
teaching here. We were
mistakenly taught that since
most history was written in
the East it all happened
there." Broyles, a former
Student Association presi-
dent, said that the influence of
numerous excellent professors
and the experience of working
on the Thresher led him tc
choose publishing over some
other career. Displaying a
grasp of the characteristics
that give a peculiar identity to
Texas, Broyles echoed the
words of Walter Prescott
Webb, saying that Texas'
great men were the products of
the frontier milieu of unlimited
opportunities. "In Texas
everything comes back to the
land; power in Texas has
Lovett hosts porn debate
Residents of Lovett College
and other interested Rice
students were treated to a no-
holds-barred debate after
dinner on Monday, November
22. Mrs Geneva Kirk Brooks of
Citizens Against Porno-
graphy and Mr. James
Calaway of the American
Civil Liberties Union wasted
little time in resorting to sleazy
rhetqric and character
defamation in seeking to sway
a large and enthusiastic
crowd.
Mrs. Brooks, who went out of
her way to look like the
stereotype of an anti-
pornography activist, made
the opening statement. Her
organization, which she said
had half a million followers
who swelled to an even million
within the next hour, had
drawn up an anti-porn
ordinance designed to buttress
older laws, which have come
under attack in the courts for
their vagueness. The new
proposal therefore delineated
which acts would be pro-
hibited. Mrs. Brooks stunned
her audience by reading the
proposal listing, among other
things, "acts of oral or anal
copulation, masturbation,
portrayal of the male erection,
acts of homosexuality, incest,
SA semester closes
by Steve Sullivan
With the help of funds left
unspent from last year, the
Student Asociation has
stepped up its efforts to open
communications between the
students of Rice and the
administration, alumni, and
the rest of the world in general.
The SA has funded this
year's Convocation and also
occasionally paid expenses for
students to attend conferences
beneficial to Rice as well as the
students involved.
The SA has been working to
try to give students an avenue
for input into the workings of
the University. This year the
SA sent questionaires to all the
departments asking them to
recommend juniors or seniors
in their department who could
serve as a liason between
students and that department
and sit in on the curriculum
committees and offer their
opinions and suggestions.
TNventy-two out of the thirty
departments responded and
now most of them have
undergraduate student
representatives.
The SA also sponsored the
recent question and answer
session between Dr. Hack-
erman and student represen-
tatives from the colleges.
Another such session
sometime next semester is in
the planning stage.
The SA sends students to
Austin every year to lobby in
front of the legislature for
increases in the finding for
the Texas Equalization Grant
program. Presently, there are
over 400 students going to Rice
receiving TEG's.
The SA also handles all
those miscellaneous jobs that
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always been rooted in these
265,000 square miles." Of its
great leaders, Broyles
observed, "The greatness of
Texas has never resided in
goody — goodies anyway.
These men were real human
beings." Broyles, an ardent
Texas booster, mentioned the
economic benefit he reaps
from the existence of a state
identity conciousness; even so,
he offered thoughtful criticism
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Glenn to lead cheers
and so on." She also pointed
out the recent Supreme Court
decision which allows
communities to prohibit
material which does not meet
community standards.
Mr. Calaway then used the
free marketplace of ideas
theory to defend pornography,
and cited a study which
concluded that pornography
has no detrimental effect on
the psychologal development
of children. He soon likened
her proposals to McCarthyism
and equated the proposals to
censorship.
The debate soon drifted to an
argument over Mrs. Brooks'
advocacy of requiring college
professors to submit "fact
sheets" listing the professor's
"philosophy of education" and
course materials. She insisted
she had no objection to a
professor advocating the
overthrow of the government,
as long as he let that be known
before the course started. Mr.
Calaway labeled Mrs. Brooks'
"fact sheets" as "dossiers",
and claimed that the
underlying purpose of her idea
is to censor college professors.
When Mrs. Brooks attri-
buted Mr. Calaway's tolerance
of pornography to the fact tht
he didn't have any daughters,
Calaway replied that he knew
"several young women very
well," a remark most of the
audience did not interpret the
way Mr. Calaway intended.
When Mrs. Brooks later
mentioned that the porn
industry is largely controlled
by organized crime Calaway
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by Debbie Davies
An honored Rice tradition
will be resurrected Saturday
night at Autry Court when
Jack Glenn leads the cheering
at halftime of the Southern
Mississippi game. Jack, who is
permanent president of the
class of 1926, has been in
Houston for his 50th class
reunion, and has been living
up to a long reputation of being
in the middle of whatever is
going on. He made a surprise
appearance at the Home-
coming game, but due to the
inadequate loudspeaker
system few students outside
of the MOB knew what was
happening. That was enough,
however, and now he is back
by popular demand to teach us
some of the original Rice
cheers and learn a few of the
ones we use now.
While he was a student at
Rice, Jack edited the
Thresher and Campanile,
organized the Rally Club, held
down up to three part-time jobs
at once, and was head
cheerleader for three years
running (among other things).
Somewhere in there, he
actually found time to stay off
scholastic probation. When he
finally left Rice so the rest of
the student body could do some
of the work, he went to Paris
with the Reverend Harris
Masterson, Jr. (who founded
Autry House) and became a
writer for the New York
Herald. Jack next arranged to
become a cameraman so he
could return to the States on
the U.S.S. Memphis with
Lindberg. His success in this
escapade convinced him to
stay in film, and he later
produced The March of
Time, a newsreel series under
the auspices of Time, Inc.,
from 1935 to 1953. There have
been many other interesting
events in his life, and if anyone
stays around after the game
Saturday I'm certain he can be
persuaded to tell about them.
Although he has had few
opportunities to visit Rice
through the years, he has
maintained a reputation as the
all-time greatest cheerleader
and is always glad to lend a
helping yell to the incumbents
of that post. Incidentally, our
spirited Tom Glenn is no
relation—despite gleeful
rumors to the contrary. Jack
will be leaving Houston to
return to New York after
exams, so now's the time to see
the living proof that RICE
FIGHT NEVER DIES.
Ikle to speak Thursday
Dr. Fred Charles Ikle,
Director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament
Agency will speak "National
Security and Technology
Transfers" at 8 p.m. Thursday,
Dec. 16, in Room 309, Sewali
Hall. Announcement of Ikle's
appearance here comes from
Dr. Fred R. von der Mehden,
Albert Thomas Professor of
Political Science and Chair-
man of the Department under
whose auspices the Wash-
ington-based specialist on
international affairs will
appear.
Dr. Charles F. Doran,
Associate Professor of
Political Science, will
introduce Ikle.
Prior to assuming his
present responsibilities, Ikle
was known mainly for his
contributions to strategies for
reducing the risk of war. His
work has covered analysis of
ways to protect against
accidental or unauthroized use
of nuclear weapons, how
nations negotiate, and the
adequacy of the strategy of
nuclear deterrence.
Ikle's work on the risks of
accidental or unauthorized use
of nuclear weapons con-
tributed to improved safe-
guard by the military services,
including the introduction of
the "permissive action link," a
device for making it physically
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