The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1957 Page: 4 of 14
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THE THRESHJ5R
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1W7
Our Cup Runneth Over
- Our cup runneth over-
asking us to fill their cups-
-yet there are those who are
-with water.
Patients of the Tuberculosis Hospital are entirely de-
pendent upon charity; thus their conditions don't say much
for the Houstonians wljo are supporting them. Their build-
ings—small, dingy frame units—were built for temporary
housing after the war; they are still there. Inside the units
are drab and overcrowded. Their grounds are barren and
depressing ... as well as diminishing: two projects, a
freeway and a boys' detention home will be on their prem-
ises.
Our contribution will be only water fountains, but to
the TB patients and the nurses who wait on them, it will
be a blessing: where galvanized cans with spigots now
stand there will be fountains o£_ fresh cold water which
will not need to be periodically filled. There will be less
chance for germs to pass from glass to glass, and there will
no longer be times when the water served is disappoint-
ingly warm. Thus our gift is small, it fills a cup with water
—but it should come wholeheartedly from those whose cup
runneth over.
urns man on campus
by Dick
-0-
iHKfi MK. HSMCK— W& IN CHM&£ Of F0E5HWAN ORIENTATION.'
Think You're Busy?
So you think you've been studying too hard. Listen
to this little tabulation of the time spent in class or on
studying by the average Rice student and you'll quit feel-
ing sorry for yourself.
There are 365 days in the year. The average Rice stu-
dent sleeps 8 hours a day including afternoon sacks. This
amounts to 122 days and leaves only 243 days for studying.
But you have 3 months or 105 days off in the summer.
This leaves only 138 days for scholarly pursuits. However,
you have 14 days for Christmas vacation, 4 days each for
Thanksgiving and Easter, and 3 days off between semes-
ters. This amounts to,25 days and leaves only 113'for-class
or1 study.
Now, happily, we don't go to school on Sundays. This
is 52 days in the year we may enjoy at the church or the
beach of our choices, and leaves only 61 days to REALLY
work. ^
The average Rice student spends an hour for lunch
and an hour for coffee in the lounge. This amounts to 30
days. He spends four hours on a date every Saturday
night. This amounts to 208 hours or about 9 days. This
leaves 22 days for studying or going to class.
Now it is a known fact that it takes the average stu-
dent a half an hour to quit talking or letting his mind wan-
der before he gets down to studying and that during the
last half hour he is too bored to get anything out of it.
This aniounts to 365 hours or 15 days and leaves only 7
days for academic activities.
But the average student skips or misses class 6^ayst
This leaves only 1 day for school and studies.
Now the time spent lighting cigarettes, coming to
class late, or sleeping through lectures amounts, statistic-
ally speaking, to exactly 1 day. Thus the average student
spends no time at all at studies or classes.
HARVEST
(What happened at Bice five, ten,
twenty, even forty years agoT The fal-
lowing are exeerpta from Threshers of
the past.)
BY JARRENE MENGDEN
January 22, 1926.
Under the auspices of the Rally
Club, a crew of trusty freshman
slimes will cooperate with Har-
ris County officials in the drive
to encourage voters to pay pojl
taxes. The county officials have
asked for student aid in painting
signs at various places on the
Houston streets, as reminders to
the citizens to make themselves
eligible for voting. The County
officials will furnish materials
and a car to transport the work-
ers.
February 26, 1926.
Monday has been selected as
the official day on which Seniors
are to wear their striped blazers
and other distinctive garments.
This does not prevent them from
wearing them any other time they
desire, however, the class of '26
decided.
7 HRESHING-ll-OU 7
To The Editor: | this letter to their attention. A
The Rice Religious Council: group of young men may or-
wishes to extend its thanks to
the student body, the faculty, and
the administration of The Rice
Institute for their cooperation in
making possible a highly success-
ful Religious Emphasis Week.
The student body is to be es-
pecially commended for their
participation in the discussion
groups. I -would like personally
ganize at very small expense, and
costs after the chapter is establi-
shed are most reasonable. Infor-
mation on how to organize may
be secured by writing to Execu-
tive Secretary, Box 609, Fair-
mont, W. Va.
If you will please bring this
to the attention of s/ome of your!
men interested in a national sole-;
to thank the members of the Re- ial fraternity, I shall be glad,
ligioug Council for, their planning to-supply-them- with any infor-
and preperation for the week.
NEWLAND OLDHAM
President, Religious, Council
mation desired regarding the
j establishment of a chapter of;
i Kappa Sigma Kappa at your in-!
' stitution. '
Editor, "The Rice Thresher:" Very sincerely yours, j
On page five of your publica-1 GEORGE R. JEFFERSON, i
tion of February 22, 1957 you | Grand Executive Secretary |
stated that the combined circula- j Note: Sorry.
tion of "Tlfe Rice Thresher" and j
"The Saturday Evening Post" j To the Editor:
was 2,001,500. * j In an age possessing the pow-
Ac cording to the 1957 World' er of unthinkable destruction, it
THE RICE THRESHER
Tfcft tRif® Thresher, written and edited by students of the Rice Institute,'
Is published weekly In Houston, Texas, except during the summer. It to not
published during holidays and examination weeks. The views presented are thoee
of the staff and do not necessarily reflect administrative policies of the Ulce
Institute. "
.Editor „■ Donna Pan! Martin
Bwlness Manager Clif Carl
Assistant Editor Jim- Besrahard
Associate Editor Herbert Simons
News Editor Bruce Montgomery
Make Up Editor Ginger Purlngton
Sports Editor JSm Bower
Feature Editors:
.^rtB i: Helen Morris
Society Estelle Kestenberg and Naomi Robins
Exchange Margie Wise
Religious Carolyn Dearmond
Student Council Hrlene Hnbly
Graphic Arts ; Rumtell Rrnwn
Ch"rJe90 Kaphart, Alan Ringold, Jarrene Mengden, Joan Field, Fred
Erlsman, Ed Summmers, Ann Farmer, Steve Williams, Harriet Hokanson, Wes
i?' jJerry Pittman, Mike Reynolds, Gwen Ritter, Claire Plunguian, Francie
Bartseh, Roy Russel, Hester Finke, James Ragsdale, Frank Dent, Doyle Little,
Meyer Nathan, Gary Norton. David Rush, Don Payne, Bob Malinak, Don Bell,
Don Kat«, Park Weaver, Hap Veltman. Pam Hoffman, Mare Smith, Phil Barber.
Almanac (page 542) the circula-
tion of "The Saturday Evening
Post" is 4,764,879. This leaves
the "Thresher" with a circulation
of minus 2,763,397. Could you
give me some data on how this
unprecedented circulation was
achieved ?
DAVID BORLAND
Ed. Note: It wasn't easy. We
have an industrious business man-
ager. "
To the Editor:
I would appreciate it if you
would bring this letter to the
attention of men on the staff of
your paper who ai-e not members
of a national social fraternity,
and who might be interested in
organizing one.
Some of the men of your stu-
dent body, or some of the men's
local organizations of your cam-
pus may be interested in the
national program of the Kappa
Sigma Kappa Fraternity. The
special objective of K^ppa Sigma
Kappa is to foster a good social
organization for college men of
must be the primary concern of
every citizen of this country to
establish international under-
standing, and to abolish the ever-
present possibility of War. The
United States today is in a po-
sition to lead the way towards
peace, and it must meet this
grave responsibility.
We feel that our present for-
eign policy, founded as it is on
the struggle to maintain military
supremacy, is leading us towards,
rather than away from, war. The
outcome of every arms race in
history has been war, and this
one is carrying us headlong in the
samp direction.
The accumulation of military
strength implies the threat of us-
ing that strength as a means for
protecting our interests. It is un-
thinkable that we fully intend to
unleash the destructive powers of
our atomic weapons on even our
most bitter enemies. Yet even if
we do not intend this, and our
threat is a bluff, it is naive to
suppose,that, this bulff will not
eventually be called. When it is
called, we will be compiled to
carry out our threats, and til-
character and campus leadership*
as well as. maintain a nationals use "0f arms wm cease to be a
organization in which all expen- j bluff. It will be a necessity. Our
sese are kept as low as the aver- race for military supremacy
age local fraternity. j draws us inevitably to the use of
If you have'in youf institution! military power.
any local organizations interested Our military policy has repeat-
in the objectives of Kappa Sigma edly failed to achieve its objec-
Kappa, or some young men not j tives. China and northern Indo-
connected with any social fra-! China have both become commu-
ternity who might like to or- j nist in spite of such a policy;
ganize, I wish you would bring I military action in Korea has
solved nothing. Communism has
continued to spread without re-
gard for military alliances. The
growth of fear about us, reflected
in the nervous plunge into ac-
celerated military production, is
an index of this expansion.
We must come to the realiza-
tion that our military policy can*
not halt this advance. The appeal
of communism is ideological. On
this front we.have failed to meet
the communist challenge. Do.we
feel that we have'no strong al-
ternative to offer the new nations
of Africa and Asia ?
We submit that there is much
in the democratic ideals of the
United States to inspire these
new nations. But instead of show-
ing to the world the strength of
our new way of life, we show
them a military policy deeply in
conflict with the very ideals up-
on which this country is founded.
Can we talk to the "Arabs about
democracy and freedom while
still supporting the absolute mon-
arch King Saud? With our mili-
tary outlook we cease to view the
nations af Asia and Afrida as
homes of human beings to whom
ouv moral standards apply. This
very way of thinking will lose the
respect, friendship, an! coopera-
tion of these nations for us.
We have just witnessed another
colossal failure of policy based on
military force. Let us not repeat
the mistakes of Britain and
France in the Middle East. Such
action will cripple us in the ideo-
logical struggle, and place us in
immediate danger of the total'
war which we cannot afford.
To our militaristic foreign pol-
icy is now to be added the Eisen-
hower doctrine committing us to
military involvement in the Mid-
dle East. Expression- of public;
opinion received by mail in "Wash-
ington has been eight to one
against such involvement. We feel
it our responsibility as citizens
of the United States to add to
this manifestation of opinion. As
students we have the unique op-
portunity to do so. If you feel as
we do:
1) Write individual l«ters to
your senator, expressing your
views.
2) Urge your student govern-
ment to draft a petition against
our policy in the Middle East, to •
be sent to the J^sident.
JOHN S. MANN, Chairman
Weslayan University
Middletown, Conn.
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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/m1/4/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.