The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1978 Page: 2 of 8
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A Fellini movie is a must in hedonistic, or are you being
your pursuit of higher crude? Especially during
education. Depending upon Satyricon, this division
which part of your body you between the sensual and the
think with, you can go either vulgar raged rampant
for the intellectual or the through my mind. That's a
sensual. And a double feature nice place to keep vulgarity,
Fellini. Well, if you missed your mind. You can be as
Roma and Satyricon at the vulgar as you want and still
River Oaks this past week, keep a straight face. While
perhaps you'll get another watching, I wasn't sure
chance at the Media Center. whether I should play English
What is so earthshaking major and try to figure out
about a Fellini movie? Well, it some meaning to the really
(for lack of another vague earthy scenes, or just value all
word) points to a crucial the hedonistic debauchery for
dichotomy typical among what it's worth. The main
people in various periods of characters seemed to live
history, the split between the according to the "Eat, drink,
rational and the solidly and be horny" school of
hedonistic. Rice people find thought. Like those who go to
themselves straddling that the party schools I always
canyon at times. Portnoy hear Rice people sighing over,
complained about it back in In a Fellini movie the
the sixties, the rift between intellectual, sensual, and
mental and physical satis- crude meet, their stomping
faction, the desire for secure grounds overlap. So, what you
ordinariness vs. the craving get out of one depends upon
for the old visceral fuck. I use your inclination and how
that word loosely, as Portnoy many of the subtitles you
used that word, among others, can see around the big head of
and it shocked a bunch of folks the stupid person seated in
who like to keep dirty words front of you, who walked in
and unnatural acts confined to half way through no less and
the bedroom. Either that or started munching on popcorn
"Nice people don't do those to distract you. Buttered
things" etc. popcorn at that. Just the way
So, when you do those you like it. And didn't even
things that nice people don't offer you any. Imagine that,
do, are you being sensually The selfish twit. O tempora, o
BS value questioned
rp about as much as those with
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Bachelor s degrees.
In the Institute, news This result is another
supplement to IEEE (Institute indication of the declining
of Electrical and Electronics value of the BS degree.
Engineers) Spectrum, The universities that are
volume 1, no. 5, December planning to base their future
1977, a salary survey report existence on undergraduate
was published under the title education only, should learn
"Salary Survey Report II." from it.
In it, it was emphasized: T. Kazakos
"Respondents without any Assistant Professor,
degree actually are earning Electrical Engineering
PHILIP PARKER
TTlfi Ring STE\TO SETSER
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Editorial Staff Matt Muller. Georgiana Young, Chip Bledsoe,
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Photography Staff Mark Catlett, Charles Jenkins, Tom Neal,
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the rice thresher, january 12, 1978—page 2
mores! That's Latin. It means
what times are these when
strangers won't share their
popcorn like good Christians
should. And be it made
known,8t that he who refuses
his neighbor in the matter of
popcorn sharing shall not
walk among the lilies of the
field, but shall have nasty,
pointed briers prick his heels,
and suffer from indigestion
even unto the second
intermission. Yea, it were
better for him to sleep with his
neighbor's barnyard'animals
than suffer the insult surely to
be heaped upon him between
showings. (Book of Cliches
12:8)
Note the dilemma of the two
main characters in Satyr-
icon. Nobody ever told them
there was a difference between
being in love and being a pair
of raging bisexuals. Having
blond hair and blue eyes may
have something to do with it,
which would shed a new light
on what type of superman the
Germans claimed Aryans
really were, and why
Mussolini covered up all the
nasty bits on the nude Roman
statues when he came to
power. See, there's some
history in Fellini movies too.
And after you've gone to a
Fellini movie, you can
compare mental notes with
other tasteful people and cart
out all those French phrases
you've been saving for just
this type of situation.
"It was all so chic de le
monde."
"I thought it rather
nostalgie de la boue myself."
"I particularly enjoyed the
tit-fest scenes."
And even if you don't like
Satyricon, at least you can
appreciate the complexities of
production. What would you
do if you were in charge of
casting, and the script called
for one albino hermaphrodite
on the young side? You can't
just walk up to anyone and tell
them that they'd be perfect for
the part. They'd be likely to
take offense at such a
suggestion. Nobody wants to
be called an albino hermapro-
dite.
"Johnny, what did you say
to your sister? She's locked
herself in the bathroom and
refuses to come out until you
take back what you called
her."
Maybe it's for the better that
Fellini movies like Roma and
Satyricon are R rated.
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Alum regrets lack of MOB support
To the editor:
You may be interested to
know that a reply from Dr.
Hackerman to my letter which
you printed (Dec. 1 Thresher)
concerning lack of travel
support for the MOB failed to
alleviate my concern about
that situation. Consequently, I
regret that the MOB will
probably never be seen again
in Dallas, and one of the few
WILLY
valuable expressions of
support for the football team
has been eliminated.
I believe that this policy is
more near-sighted than
economical, since the amount
of money involved for one bus
trip is hardly substantial
compared to the enormous
amount invested in the
football program. Rice is not
matching even the effort put
forward by the other private
conference universities
toward the game environ-
ment, yet it collects its share of
TV and bowl game payments
from all conference schools. I
can only hope that someday at
Rice the significance of morale
as a factor in football will be
recognized.
Shelton Ragland
Hanszen '69
by Jeff Kerr
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1978, newspaper, January 12, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245356/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.