The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1960 Page: 2 of 8
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THE THRESHER
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FRIDAY, MARCH i, 1M0
Not On T.V.
For 48 years the Rice Institute has served to educate
the students of Houston and Harris County. Its fame and
..reputation are unequaled in this area and the state of
Texas as a top flight school of Higher Learning.
Sunday, the Rice Institute attempts to spread its
reputation throughout this nation when a picked team
of students representing the school meet a team from
Dartmouth on the G.E. College Bowl show.
Although people throughout the country will learn
of the outstanding academic programs of the Institute and
excellent facilities for learning, residents of Houston and
Harris County will not be given the chance to view repre-
sentatives of their city and county on television.
We are utterly disgusted with the mercenary atti-
tudes of KHOU TV, supposedly a station dedicated to
serving the community. KHOU can easily alter their
broadcasting schedule for some type of athletic event,
but it would appear that the College Bowl is too intel-
lectual—too cultural—for the officials of the station
and what they consider to be their public.
Sunday afternoon, another ten to twenty-year-old
movie will be seen from 3:30 till 5 p.m. while two thousand
miles away undergraduate students of the Rice Institute—
publicity agents of the State of Texas, Harris County, and
city of Houston will go unnoticed in their home locale be-
cause of one television station's yearning for the almighty
dollar.
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More Speakers-Yes
It is with a feeling of hope and anticipation that we
applaud the work of the Student Senate and the Forum
Committee on their handling of matters concerning the
appearance of Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey.
The quick'response of our elected leaders to the
unexpected opportunity which Rice now enjoys, is cer-
tainly a credit to the work this year of Wayne Hanson
and company.
But it is now in the hands of the student body to indi-
cate that renowned speakers are in demand on the Rice
campus. If Hamman Hall could be packed for Sunday's*
appearance of Governor Meyner and next Friday's talk
by Mr. Nyrabi, then more nationally-known or inter-
nationally prominent speakers could easily be brought
to the Institute in the future.
But unfortunately words do not fill an auditorium.
Student response will ultimately tell the tale.
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Mata Mua
In reply to questions asked us concerning the place-
ment by some mysterious group of the Mata Mua's head
in the Memorial Chapel, we simply do not wish to dignify
such actions with any sort of comment.
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---DAMN THOSE BIRDS I
Neil Anderson
Vaguancy Evident In
The Upper Echelons
COLLEGE DRINKING SONG
(To the tune of the Kingston
Trio's Merry Minuet)
The idiots are rioting
They're throwing their trays
They're stealing the crackers
And Queeg's on his way.
The whole college is festering
With unhappy sores
The Master hates the rioters
The rioters are bored.
But we can be tranquil
And thankful and proud
The Diet's now meeting—
Engulfed in a shroud.
And we know for certain
That some lovely day
Some will set a spark off
And we will all be Pro'ed away.
For the idiots are rioting
They're changing our name
No more Will Rice College
We're now called—The Caine.
*1 + 4* +
ODE TO THE BIRDS
While praised in poetry
And lauded in Poem
One look at the ground
And you wish you'd stayed
home.
The groundsmen hate them
The lovers the same
They look like dive bombers
While playing their game.
And though the school didn't
hire them
It certainly won't fire them
For their bittersweet smell
Just matches our hell. —R.W.
The tremendous receptions ac-
corded President Eisenhower in
the course of his recent journeys
to the Near East and now South
America are testimony to the
great effectiveness of personal
diplomacy.
John Foster Dulles utilized this
technique to the utmost in con-
tributing to a precedent in which
ali important negotiations are
carried on by either the chief ex-
ecutive or his top foreign ad-
visor.
IN WASHINGTON last week
former Secretary of Defense and
Under Secretary of State Robert
Lovett leveled strong criticisms
at this method and proposed the
creation of a Minister of Foreign
Affairs to fulfill these responsi-
bilities. As Walter Leppmann
points out, such a step is un-
practical due to the exigencies
of protocol and the functional
arrangement of our government.
Even so, the habit of personal
diplomacy has given rise to "con-
gestion at the top accompanied
by a down-grading of our am-
bassadors and a neglect of the
normal channels of diplomacy.
THERE ARE two possible so-
lutions to this problem. The first,
Jim Bob Doty
World's Popula tion May Double
In roughly sixteen centuries,
between the birth of Christ and
the death of Queen Elizabeth I,
this earth's population doubled. If
the present date of population in-
crease is only stabilized, the
earth's. population may double
within the next fifty years.
Untapped sources of food may
well be discovered, but whether
the overpopulated, underdevel-
oped countries of Asia will be able
to afford the equipment or fur-
nish the talent to tap those re-
serves is another question. Isn't
it possible that nations just be-
ginning industrial development
will be as wasteful of their re-
sources as this country was ?
THE WESTERN hemisphere
might support the Asian over-
flow, but the expense of trans-
porting populations to this coun-
try or to other planets could be
prohibitive, and the land area is
simply limited.
The focal point of the problem,
I think, must be on the imme-
diacy of this situation, on our
changes of maintaining democra-
tic institutions in a present world
where some nations cannot form
capital and others cannot even
feed their people. ATdous Huxley,
in his Brave New World Revisited
has observed that the human
race may survive, that the United
States may never be over pop-
ulated.
BUT, HE SAYS, a nation of
even our industrial and agricul-
tural productivity could not sur-
vive if the vast populations of
the Asian world (two-thirds of
the world's total) were under to-
talitarian governments. This na-
tion has recognized the necessity
of preserving democratic institu-
tions and the western ideals of in-
dividual worth and freedom to all
nations.
We have committed ourselves
to supporting democracies
throughout the world and articu-
lated our belief that the freedom
of the Laotians of the Burmese
is vital to our own.
THE MORAL question involved
in a limitation of the population
increase has no clean-cut answer.
There is a real choice, and no ex-
ternal, normative principlas will
give a complete answer.
I suggest that it may be im-
moral to walk, eyes open, into a
situation which will cause future
generations to starve or to live
under a despot.
obviously, is to break the habit—
a very simple answer yet one
which would be to our detriment
to pursue.
A more sensible solution seems
to be a bolstering of the support
from below. At the present" the
policy of making patentialities of
young foreign service officials are
deliberately stifled in favor of the
development of a kind of adminis-
trative steadfastness which can
only translate into lack of imag-
ination and foresight.
THE ROBERT MURPHY type
of diplomat advances while the
George Kennon type is ousted
from the ranks. The Rubottom
note to Governor Brown of Cali-
fornia in connection with the
Chessman affair is a good exam-
ple of the muddle that results.
It is an interesting paradox
that the President's visits to the
golf course are deplored while
his trips abroad are widely hailed,
yet in each his escape from ad-
ministrative responsibilities in
Washington strains governmental
operations.
The General Elections this
year will be held on the 28th
of March with run-offs on the
30th. Petitions will be due ten
days before the election date.
The entire student body will
vote for the following offices:
President, Vice-President, Sec-
retary, and Treasurer Of the
Student Association; * Council-
man-atLarge (Chairman of the
Social Committee); and four
Cheerleaders.
Next year's Sophomore class
will elect a President, Vice-
President, and Secretary-
Treasurer, as well as two rep-
reresentatives to the Honor
Council. *
Future Juniors will elect the
three class officers and three
representatives to the Honor
Council, next year's Seniors
will elect three class officers
and four people to the Honor
Council, and the fifth-year
graduates will elect three class
officers and two representa-
tives to the Honor Council.
ratNce
THRESHER
an all student ntmpaper tince 1916
BUDDY HERZ
Editor
JOEL HOCHMAN
Bus. Manager
BILL DELANEY
Associate Editor
The Rice Thresher, the official student publication of the Rice Institute,
is published weekly from September to June, except during holidays and
examination periods, and when unusual circumstances warrant a special
issue. The opinions expressed are those of the student staff and do not
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Entered as second class matter, October 17, 1917, at the post office
in Houston, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press.
MANAGING EDITOR MARJORIE TRULAN
DEPARTMENT EDITORS
News Editor Sue Burton
Amusements Reed Martin
Student Life Ann Kriegel and Wanda Phears
Sports Ted Hermann
Colleges Jim Deegan
Religion Dick Vieblg
Circulation Manager Melvin Buok
Graphic Arts Scott Morris and Preston Bras hear
Faculty Advisor Dr. Jack Conner
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTS
Harry Reasoner, Victor Emanuel, Barry Moore, Mike Gels, Ralph
Weaver, 8yd Nathans, Jim Bob Doty, and Neil Anderson.
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