The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1958 Page: 4 of 8
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THE THRES9E
FRIDAY, OCTOBER SI, 1988
The Center
The days when the Sallyport was the center of
student activity are only a memory now, and the days
when the lounge in the library basement was the favor-
ite gathering-place will soon be a memory.
It's a long way from the Sallyport to the new
Memorial Center. The dream became a blueprint,, and
the blueprint has at last become a reality.
The part of student life outside the library and
classes will at last have a center of its own. Extra-
curricular activities will no longer have to wander
through the rooms in Anderson Hall and the library
basement, looking for some place to settle.
We hope that the new Memorial building will be-
come a focal point for all student activity, and that its
facilities will make it a true student center.
The Thresher took an informal poll last year to
determine student opinion on the various recreational
facilities in the Center, but nothing was established
except that students do want them.
feince the Memorial Center is to be a center for
student activities and recreation, we hope that even-
tually it will contain specific recreational areas, such
as those for ping-pong, cards, billiards, TV, etc. Once
the Center is completed, these recreational develop-
ments can be considered with regard to space in the
building, facilities in the Colleges, and above all, with
regard to student needs.
An Op en Letter
TO THE STUDENT BODY:
We would like to express our thanks to a wonder-
ful student body that throughout this football season
has unfailingly supported a fine team.
The enthusiasm of the student body has surpassed
the wildest dreams of everyone. As Buddy Dial said,
Before, the best that any coach or football team could
hope for was to have a student body behind them; but
we have more, we have a student body with us. And
that really helps."
We hope that throughout the remainder of the
year this same spirit will prevail and grow stronger.
Last year school spirit contributed a great deal to our
Southwest Conference Championship; this year it has
contributed much already and we are sure that it can
produce the same results again. Let's not let up.
School spirit builds team spirit and team spirit
makes champions. Let's be champions again.
Again we would like to express our appreciation
to the student body. Keep yelling.
The CHEERLEADERS
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THRESHER
GINGER PURINGTON jjjg
Bdltor Business Hanaro
ED SUMMERS FRANK DENT
Manacinc Editor N«w« Editor
Department Editors
Ann M. Dsirli FVMtvftti
Royal Roussel ...".Lli'.Pia# Arte
Clarence Temple gporte
Phil Barber and Bill McGrath Polities
Don Coney
Ann Bartlett and Ann Bebert . flaslsQ
Claire Plun*ulsn num..
0rten Graphic Aria Editor
Max Jodeit Circulation Managtr
Staff
David Rash, Harriet Hokanaon, Jarrene Mengden, Mary Ann Boone
Maureen O'Leary, Franjl Henaley, Baddy Hers, Gary Webb, Hester Finke,
Mike McNeil, Phyrne Mammas, Ray Ruhlen, Robert Hlnten, David Lod*e,
Hugh Hudson, Ann Krie*el, Skippy Johnson, Katharine Kelly, Kit Kellon,
Lynn Graham, Bob Durst, Leslie Arnold, Judi Travis, Marjorle Trulan, Tad
Hermann, 8yd Nathans, John Mcintosh, G. 8. Edwards, Mary Kay Hawkea,
Max Jodeit, Leonard Car*ill, Bobby Moy, Hardee Kllcore, Gayle DuPont, Joa
Rider, Mike Arch, Roberta Thompson.
THRESHING IT OUT
Betts Is Against
Crude 'Nocturnal
Pep Rallies'
DO THE so-ealled students of
the Institute really believe that
chanting and howling each night
for half an hour will assist in the
coming football game? And then
do they claim that they are bet-
ter than all the students at the
school of the week's Enemy?
NOW, IT IS argued that the
players on the team are measur-
ably influenced by their fellow
inmate's desires that they should
win. This supposition lacks much
in supporting evidence, but even
if the point would be granted, so
what?
THERE ARE A number of
objections to these pep rallies.
The first is that their crudeness
exceeds all bounds of good taste
and sensibilities, those qualities
which are supposed to mark the
Rice student off from his fellows
in other schools in the South-
west Conference.
SECONDLY, the pep rallies in-
trude themselves on the students
living in the Colleges who have
more serious endeavors to occupy
their minds; how can one study
in the presence of noisy, ab-
original war-dances?
AND LAST, the noise and its
content makes itself heard off
the campus and thus propogates
the opinion that Rice students
are a pack of wild Indians, in-
deed, that they"«re no better
than common Aggies.
RICHARD J. BETTS
TEAM SAYS
'THANK YOU'
To the Rice Institute Body:
The Rice Institute Football
team and coaches would like
to express their sincere appre-
ciation for the tremendous
support provided by the en-
tire student body so far this
season.
With your continued support
we feel certain that we can
remain Champions!
Keep up the good work.
The Rice Team
Wager Questions
'Politics1 Column
TO THE EDITOR:
IN LAST WEEK'S Thresher
(Oct. 24), Gerald Dansby's letter
to the Editor was published. He
resented Phil Barber's apparent-
ly ungrounded attack on Presi-
dent Eisenhower and challenged
Barber to back up his accusa-
tions with some facts. It wis
not obvious to him (or to me)
that Ike had failed to lead the
country or that Ike's idea of na-
tional sovereignity was outdated.
INSTEAD OF giving some ex-
amples and perhaps an explana-
tion of what Ike's idea of na-
tional sovereignity is and what
the modern idea is, or perhaps
admitting that his statements
were merely non-factual, biased
personal opinions, Barber defend-
ed the grammatical correctness
of his long sentences and denied
responsibility for the title of his
article, which was not questioned
in the first place.
IN MY OPINION, it is a dis-
PEANUTS
(Peanuts is a regular feature of the. Houston Prats)
1*1 AM is
LOO* AT THE
PICTURE OF THIS
MOVIE STAR...
DOESN'T HE HAVE
NICE HAIR?
T HAVE NICE HAIS?
YOU KNO UIH
1 CAN'T HEP IT THE
WAY I LOOK! I CANT
HELP IT THE WAY I
WAS BORN//
SO-24
7" UJE FANATICS
^AEEgEAL TOUCHY!
FINE ARTS
Playhouse Furnished
With 'The Fourposter'
To start optimistically, it is
worth repeating the obvious fact
that Herbert Kramer is gone—
a fact inherently beneficial to
Texas theater. "Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof" (which has a bed on the
set) was Mr. William's naturalis-
tic answer to Jan de Hartog's
"The Four Poster" (which has a
bed on the set, and did at the
Barrymore in 1951).
From Virginity to Serenity
To those interested in observ-
ing marriagc^om virginity to
serenity in two hours this light
comedy will fulfill the need. It
begins with the embarrassed
male hanging over the edge of
the four-poster on his wedding
night (for the sake of us "mod-
erns" it was 1890) and ending
with a quarrel over an elaborate-
ly embroidered—in purple—pillow
affirming "God is Love."
The Symbols
Serene Agnes wished to leave
this symbol on the four-poster
for a newly-wedded couple who
had bought both the house and
the quatre-phallic symbol. Mich-
ael told Agnes just how he had
felt about that pillow thirty-five
years before when it was left
en the white linen alter as a sur-
prise from mother-in-law. The
quarrel was rather dualistically
resolved.
Introspection
Squeezed in between these
alpha and omega idealisms are
the introspective experiences, if
everyone in the audience is sixty,
of pregnancy and the parallel
attention-getting of the male
animal, adultery, parental
authority versus adolescence
(with a touch of Sophocles), and
menopause — all of which are
accompanied by God's gift of
laughter for . which we thank
Him. - '
Two Sexes
The dualistic solution to the
credit to the Thresher to have
as a politics editor a person who
does not have the sense to writ*
factually, or the courage to stand
up and defend his opinion.
UNLESS I AM given a more
plausible analysis of today's
political situation than that pres-
ented by Barber two weeks ago,
I may have to go back to form-
ing my own opinions on politics
again.
—Unquestionably,
RALPH WAGER
(Continued on Page 5)
pillow problem symbolizes that
after all there are two sexes in
the world which leads us to the
perennial dilemma confronting
Playhouse patrons of Jim Men-
denhall, who played Michael.
Unlike good actors he is un-
able to portray manliness with-
out exaggeration despite noble
violations off stage and he gets
the message across much better
as Michael reaches a less virile
age. Boloslavsky is not his only
need. Also he handles his stage
business in a manner reflected
by the total of the three lines
he received in the program's
"Who's Who."
Pragmatic Womanhood'
Mitzie Wayne, as Agnes, de-
serves praise in handling fifty
per cent of an enjoyable play
with ease and dexterious imagi-
nation. Pragmatic and senti-
mental womanhood does not de-
mand audience supplementation
while viewing her and we assume
her occasional lack of warmth is
a function of house atmosphere.
Tributes
Houstonians can only thank
Robert Glenn, the director, for
coming from San Francisco and
doing the best he could with our
adolescent Houston. A special tri-
bute should be paid to Clare
Durst, and Charles Wyman, and
the competent lighting director
for working behind the scenes
in an effort to make Texas
theater more than just a place
for mediocre actors from the
East (or directors from the
West) to vastly increase what
would be their diet of bread,
cheese, and wine.
—DAN FULMER
AGORA MEETS
NOVEMBER *4
The topic to be considered by
the Agora at its next meeting
Tuesday noon, November 4, in
the- Library, room B38, (next
to the lounge bulletin board),
will be "The Reasons to Believe
in the Superiority of the, Nordic
Race."
The discussion will be led by
Charles Parnell, and all interest-
ed students are invited. Lunches,
as usual, will be provided free
to college residents, and will cost
50c for nonresidents. The Agora
meets every Tuesday, same time,
same room.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 31, 1958, newspaper, October 31, 1958; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231098/m1/4/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.