The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 9, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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Two
Caen-Aid Drive Sparks
Freedom in France
Today Rice students may give to a charity that is especially
theirs. They may give with the assurance that the money is going
to fellow students who need the aid and who will appreciate it and
put it to the best possible use. Aid given by Rice students will
help students at the University of Caen help themselves to rebuild
their university, and their native land. Money given to the Caen
Aid Fund will help students now, but it will be an investment in the
future also. It will be a gift with a heart, from student to student,
and yet it will be more than that; it will be a reassurance to fellow
students that the future belongs to the youth of today, and that
tomorrow will be better than yesterday.
The success of the drive depends upon the hearts and minds of
1500 individual students. Without the will to give, separately formed
and individually executed, the drive will be a failure. It is charity,
because there is no compulsion except the will to give to a worthy
cause. It is worthwhile because it combines thought and planning
with a long-range plan of international brotherhood, that will even-
tually be of gain by everyone concerned.
1 he drive is hard-headed, it is practical. It makes America
friends where America has need of them. It helps keep the sparks
of freedom alive in France. It buys actual material goods that most
Rice students know and use every day. It helps rebuild a Univer-
sity, destroyed by the recent war.
1 he drive is sound and is based on the firmest of principles.
It looks to the future of freedom, with a deep trust in the future of
the French people, and the eventual triumph of freedom, equality,
and fraternity in Europe. It pledges the hearts of Rice students to
the history-long struggle for world-wide brotherhood between all men,
regardless of national background, religious beliefs, and race.
o
Rl Suggestion Provokes
Serious Consideration
In the last issue of the RI, the Editors proposed a plan for
betterment of student-faculty relations. She suggested that each
faculty member "adopt" a tew students to which he would be a
kind of "big brother." This plan is not perfect. But it is a step
in the right direction. It proves by its existence that students are
not satisfied with the student-teacher relations as they are now—that
they are thinking about it seriously.
As a matter of fact, the faculty members also are dissatisfied.
A number of instructors tell their classes at the start of each academic
yeai to visit their offices and discuss any and all problems. The
instructors report that student response to these proposals are meager,
to say the least. Most students neglect to appear. Some come once
and then stay away. There was really very little interest shown.
The truth is that, although most students and most instructors
would like to be better acquainted, there has never been a plan formed
which makes this easy and unstrained. When two people are pro-
gressing from acquaintanceship to friendship, with this end expressly
m view, things are bound to be strained at first. But if this period
is successfully passed, the result will be extremely valuable to both
parties.
1 "he only way which is practical at present is for each individual
tc approach his instructors. The instructors have already invited
these visits. The next step is the students'.
0-
New Club Needs Support
A new organization is rapidly taking shape on the campus which
hopes tc counterbalance the large number of merely social clubs.
[ he purposes and underlying motives of the group are training and
exercise in all types of forensic activity to stimulate an interest in stu-
dent government and build leadership qualities in a larger part of
the student body. Also, from this organization will come the represen-
tatives who will take the Rice Institute's name into intercollegiate
speech tournaments. Perhaps Rice will soon be competing for honors
on sthie and national levels of public speaking.
There is only one qualification for membership—an interest
in speech work. A number of the students who attended the first
of the club had no experience, and others had only a limited partici-
pation, but through the more experienced members of the club these
people will receive training which will be useful to them not only
in their school life but in whatever field of activity they may choose
after graduation. Although the club will probably be officered
by students, its membership is not limited to students alone. There
are many faculty members who could profit from the experience and
criticism of the other members.
The club will hold its second meeting today at noon to consider
a constitution and a name. The meeting will be in Anderson Hall
105 and will last for an hour. ^
THE THHESHEP
The Caen Aid Fund
Here's What Your Donations Will Buy for Caen Students
(1) Refractometer $ ?
(2) A Spencer Microscope for Research • - 47S.Se
(3) A Bansch and Lomb Model A-2 Microscope 136.5S
(4) Kodak movie camera and projector
for 16MM Film - 250.00
(5) Mechanical Vacuum Pump ?
A Dollar A Student Is The Goal!
Election of Editor Proposed; Caen-Aid Plan Asks
Advantages in New System Student Donations
Earlier in the school year a pro- organization provides for a wider A. . .
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posed By-Law for the Thresher was scope of activity for each member '
published for the stodents' consider- of the staff and necessitates a more cussion of various plans to consoli-
ation, and the editors advocated in thorough knowledge of the difficul- campus charity drives. The
... . , . ,, , .. . .. . , , , ... ,. ... students in this election voted to
the editorial column that the posi- ties of a student publication. It is hold on,y Qne ch&rity driye ^
tion of an elected Assistant Editor the editors' duty now to train his year, and that to aid some war-de-
be eliminated. No comment on the staff and acquaint them with all vastated college in a country that
planned change was voiced, so the phases of the paper's publication. still has a democratic government.
provisions for it were made accord- From this well-trained group will During the past weeks letters
ingly. come a larger number of students have been published from various
The plan, which was adopted by better qualified to undertake editor- "ambers of the University of Caen
the Student Council, provides for ship of the newspaper. of 'he need, and of
t .1 . .. , , , the use to which aid would be put. A
the direct election of the Editor of In the Past 1<; has been a practical j. t f equjpment that ^ji b jj0uev,4.
.. co , . .. • „ impossibility for candidates to offer e<tulPment tnat be bought
the 1951-52 Thresher in the spring ,atfom]s ^ ^ student under the *h money given by Rice students
of 1951 and the succeeding Editors proposed plan this would bc ellmi. is published, in the order of neces-
in succeeding years.. No Assistant nated. The student body would be y' ln y s lssue on page two'
Editor will be elected this spring called upon to decide between the , ^ ^as ^een hope of the Char-
and the present Assistant Editor candidates on the basis of their ex- ^ committee that this drive would
.... „rirp^pH vif>w<; nlans and roritro- Sain the united support of all Rice
will automatically become Editor ' The n'eamess Qf the students and faculty members. It is
next year since he was elected un- term under consideration, and the to be a yearly affair, offering aid
der the provisions of the present broader field of aspirants would to FOme particular charity chosen by
Student Association Constitution. precipitate difference of opinions Rice students, as long as support is
Because this is a significant and show of originality which would g:ve" by Rice students and faculty
change, the .editors feel that their stimulate interest and understanding me™bers'
' ' . , , for both the candidates and the en- It is with the expressed hope that
reasons should again be presented tirg student body The outcome of Rice students accept the University
to the students. Thef should consider t.he election would automatically of Caen as a fellow school, in need
them carefully and decide whether indicate the trendtof student major- of aid now, that the students who
or not the proposal is more sound ity interests. If this decision was have organized the Caen Aid Fund
than the present system*, reached in a "personality poll" it Drive present it to the students of
Both the student body and the would become obvious in a short the Rice Institute.
publication would profit by the time that it was degrading to the q
change for several reasons: 1) a high standards of Rice Institute's ^
wider field of better qualified candi- student society. BoWllltg Attf&CtS GlIlS
dates; 2) a fuller realization of <the By eliminating the position of an .
issues at stake which would lead to elected Assistant Editor, who has Present> a £ir s S1**£es our
better expression of student opin- formerly occupied the attention and nament in bowling is being played,
ion; 3) stimulation of greater inter- required the training of the Editor, This is the fourth week of the six
est; 4) elimination of electorially he could instead expand his activi- week tournament. Bowling will con-
divided mandate; and, 5) de-empha- ties to the entire staff. This again tinue after the tournament, so all
sis of "popularity" contest" elec i„surcs the students a number of g.r|s jntercst€d shou]d come oycr t0
tions. trained candidates. _
, „ ,. , , „ ., , the .Recreation Bowling Alley on
The proposed system of direct The proposed system fails to re-
election includes a requirement that move one of the possible dangers of Mondays at 12:15.
the candidates of Editor must have the present system, and might in-
a minimum of one year's service on deed increase the danger: the ex- radically from those of the Editor,
the paper, while the present regula- tended control of a self-interested So here again, the responsibility of
tions provide for only 16 weeks of clique. But this, too, can be elimi- the students to choose between in-
work. Hence, the student body would nated with the increased interest dividuals and individual platforms
have twice as long to read and eval- Df the student body. By merely becomes evident.
uate the work of all the candidates working on the paper for a year any The Thresher can deny no one the
than they do now. They would have student may meet the service quali- right to serve on the paper, and the
an opportunity to understand better fication, and by diligent application student body cannot deny itself the
the views of these people and de- can prepai-e himself technically right of intelligently selecting its
termine more intelligently who in even though his views might differ responsible representatives.
their opinion is better qualified to —
edit their paper. Also, the proposed WEDNESDAY EDITION
plan would provide for a larger field Managing Editor Emmett McGeever
of candidates since a student could Assistants Clarke Foster, Camilla Groebe, Ted Cornelia
begin work at the first of his junior Assistant .... Werner Grunbaum
year and still be qualified to serve
as editor, while the'present system —
requires that a student can begin JJtiF BPdj
work on the paper no later than the 9fl|
middle of his sophomore year.
Therefore, the proposal offers the Editor Brady Tyson
students an increased file of more Assistant Editor Robert Mellhenny
ably judged candidates. Business Manager Nancy Hood
The present staff has proved Assistant Business Manager Tom Smith
quite conclusively that the Thresher Published every Wednesday and every Entered as second class mailing mat
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 9, 1949, newspaper, March 9, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230795/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.