The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1957 Page: 2 of 14
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ing part of the year: A Presi-
dent, Vice-President, Councilman,
Secretary, Treasurer, and two
representatives from each class.
All candidates for office must
have at least a "8" average.
Qualifications!
The President and the Vice-
President and Councilman must
be a resident Junior or Senior,
while the Secretary must be a
resident Sophomore, Junior, or
Senior. The Treasurer must Jbe
either a resident or non-resident
Sophomore, Junior or Senior. To
serve on the College Cabinet
there will be also one resident and
one non-resident member from
each class.
Petitions for all offices are due
in the Office of the Masters by
9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 2,
and the election will be held on
Saturday, March 9.
The next meeting of Hanszen
College will be on Saturday,
March 9, in the Fondren Library
Lecture Lounge. Hanszen Col-
lege members will probably move
in around the 20th of March.
BAKER COLLEGE
Baker College planned to hold
its initial meeting 6:30 Thurs-
day night. At the time the
Thresher went to press the plans
for Baker College had not been
announced.
WIESS COLLEGE
At the time the Thresher went
to press Wiess College had not
held its first meeting, but the
plans for the organization of the
College had been announced b^
the Master, Dr. Talmadge. Their
first scheduled meeting was to
have been on Thursday night.
A schedule of Inauguration
Activities for Wiess College was
announced as follows: Monday,
noon, March 4 — Nominations of
Officers must be in the Masters
office; Friday, March 8 — Elec-
tion of Officers; Sunday, March
10 — First Meeting of the Col-
lege Council. On Tuesday, March
12, Wiess College will hold its
second meeting at which time the
Officers will be installed and an
open discussion will be held on
the problems facing the College.
Unique Plan
A unique plan for the election
of the Pro-Tem Officers and
Cabinet will work as follows: The
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Senior or Class B Grad receiving
the most votes will be the Presi-
dent, while the Senior or Class
B Grad receiving the second num-
ber of votes will be the Vice-
President. All must be resident
members.
The Junior with the most votes
will be Second Vice-President,
and the Junior runner-up will be
the Secretary. Two sophomores
will be elected to the Cabinet and
also two Freshmen. These, too,
must all be resident members.
Two non-resident members will
also be elected to the Cabinet,
and they may be from any class.
Committees Formed
Committees will be formed to
work on the problem® of the Col-
lege. They are as follows: Athle-
tic Committee, Constitution Com-
mittee, Dining Room Committee,
Election Committee, Faculty
Participation Committee, Fresh-
man Integration Committee,
Housing Committee, Non-Resi-
dent Participation Committee, and
the Social Committee.
The next meeting of Wiess Col-
lege will be on the 12th of March,
and Wiess College members are
all expected to be moved in by
April 1.
WILL RICE COLLEGE
I Members of Will Rice College
hold their first election this
morning. The Election Committee
; of Will Rice maintain polling
places near the front of the Li-
brary from 8-12.
At this election members of the
; Will Rice College will elect an
Executive Committee to super-
vise the transition into College
life and to administer the College
affairs until the regular election
of the regular officers if? April.
Nominees
Nominees for the Executive
Committee are as follows: Chair-
man: Douglas Byrd, George Mc-
Mcllheran, Jr., Richard Stanford;
Vice Chairman: Jay Elston, Kip
Murray, Ben Orman; Secretary,
Calton Barnes; Membe r-At-
Large; Lee Dozier, Robert Hin-
ton, Harrison Wagner, Timothy
W. Watson.
Senior Representative: John N.
Chambless, Ben Harvey; Junior
Representative: Elmo M. John-
son, Flem Smith; Sophomose Re-
presentative: Bill Buttelmann,
Meyer Nathan, Grover A. Zinn;
Freshman Representative: Now-
ton Burkett, Jr., Tim Hower,
Charles Lewis Hull, and Paige
West.
Members will also express to-
day when they vote their pre-
ference of rooms, room-mates,
and suite-mates, and the Execu-
tive Committee will try in every
way to satisfy all room requests.
The next meeting of Will Rice
College has not been announced
as the Thresher goes to press.
Will Rice College will probably
open around March 11.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1957, newspaper, March 1, 1957; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231050/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.