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MORE ABOUT
NEW CONSTITUTION
SEE PAGE 4
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Volume Forty-Six—Number 23
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1959
Students To Vote On Senate
STUDENT COUNCIL PASSES
NEW SA CONSTITUTION
By DAVID HACKETT
AT A STORMY three hour ses-
sion last Sunday afternoon, the
Student Association adopted the
new Constitution with only slight
changes. The principal issue
under debate was the representa-
tion on the new Council.
THE NEW Constitution must
now be approved by all of the
college governments and % of
the voting members of the stu-
dent body. The general election
will tie held Saturday. Many of
the colleges are planning College
Nights to discuss the new Con-
stitution before the college gov-
ernments vote on the issue.
REPRESENTATION under
the new Constitution will be en-
tirely by colleges. It provides for
a Student Senate of 21 members,
composed as follows: president,
vice-president, secretary, treasur-
er, councilman-at-large, freshman
representative, and three repres-
entatives from each college. The
college representatives will be
the president of' the college, a
representative from the combined
sophomore and junior classes,
and a councilman-at-large for the
Ashworth Will
Speak At Jones
Mrs. Mary Wells Ashworth,
who helped to finish Douglas
Southall Freeman's Pulitzer
Prizewinning biography of
George Washington, will speak at
Jones College Monday, March 23,
at College Night. Her topic will
be "The Man and the Making
of the Book."
college. It was later amended to
state specifically that the fresh-
man representative would be the
freshman president.
PETE HUFF read the new
Constitution on behalf of the
Student Government Committee,
which had prepared it. This com-
mittee was composed of four
members from the Student
Association and foui^ members
from the Inter-College Council.
Huff outlined the changes speci-
fically and opened the meeting
to discussion of the Constitution.
THE BY-LAWS, as planned,
will give more power to com-
mittees of the Student Senate,
Huff explained. An Executive
Committee is envisioned to as-
sume some of the detail work. It
was also pointed out that there
would be no Student Center Com-
mittee or Manager, since the Stu-
dent Association now has only
an advisory status. A Student
Property Committee is also plan-
ned.
IN RESPONSE to a suggestion
that college representatives be
designated by class, Huff stated
that the Committee felt the sug-
gested arrangement would pro-
vide for more competition and
create a better council. Since the
college presidents are required to
be seniors this assures them five
representatives. Huff felt cer-
tain that the other two classes
would get fair representation on
the council.
IT WAS THEN pointed out
that it was possible to have a
Student Senate entirely without
sophomores, or entirely without
juniors, or without non-residents.
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STUDENT COUNCIL
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE ON
WEEKDAY SOCIAL EVENTS
By LESLIE ARNOLD
WITH THE NEW constitution
already approved by the Student
Council and by the College cab-
unets, and ready to be submitted to
the student body this Saturday, the
Council's biggest problem was out
of the way. However, there were
a few minor changes to be, made
in the wording of the constitu-
tion. No radical changes were in-
troduced.
IT WAS provided that the
Councilman at Large (the one
who is the SA officer, not the one
from the colleges) be in charge of
tiie Annual Homecoming celebra-
tion. It was provided that the
President of the SA be chairman
of the Executive Committee.
These duties would have bften
filled by the same people any-
way( but it was felt that the du-
ties Were important enough to
be mentioned in the constitution.)
IN THE DISCUSSION of the
new proposed Social Committee
by-law for the new government,
Huff revealed what the situation
is on the so-called Social Ruling
from the Administration. In a
meeting with members of the
Faculty Executive Committee it
was decided that any organiza-
tion which has some type of an-
nual banquet will be allowed "to
hold it on a week night.
FURTHERMORE, any night
before a day on which a holiday
is wide open. -For instance, we
(get out of here on the Thursday
before Easter. The Wednesday
before would be an open (socially
speaking) night. If the rule was
in effect this semester, that is.
College Nights are also exempt
from the ruling. It was decided
that the social committee will be
ipole judge of what constitutes a
social event on a week-night.
0
DR. ALBERT C. OUTLER
Easter Speaker
Outler To five
3 Easter Talks
Dr.* Albert C. Outler, Profes-
sor at the Perkins School of
Theology at SMU, will speak at
three pre-Easter sei"viees March
23, 24, and 25 in the Rice Memo-
rial Chapel. These three services
will last from 12:35 to 1 pm and
will take the place of the former
long all-school Easter services.
Dr. Outler, the baccalaureate
speaker at Rice Commencement
last year, is one of the nation's
leading religious figures. Former-
ly a professor at Duke, Yale,
and the Union Theological Semi-
nary, he is a graduate of Wofford
College, Emory University, and
received his doctorate at Yale.
He is a member of many pro-
fessional societies, including the
American Theological Society,
the American Society of Church
History, and the National Coun-
cil of Religion in Higher Educa-
tion. A former president of the
Texas Gamma chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, he has also been a
delegate to the Third World Con-
ference on Faith in 1952, a mem-
der of the Faith and Order Com-
mission of the World Council of
Churches, chairman of the North
American secion of the FOC
Theological Study Commission.
Special Student Election
To Be Held on Saturday
A special all-school election will be held this Saturday
to give the Rice student body a chance to vote on the con-
stitution of a new system of student government proposed
by a Student Council-Inter-College Council committee.
The polls will open at 8 a.m. Students must present
their blanket taxes to vote.
A 3/4 majority of the votes
will be necessary to put into
effect the new plan, which is
based on a 21-member Student
Senate, and does away with the
present Student Council and the
Inter-College Council. If it gains
'HOONYAHAA'
IS TONIGHT
"Hoonyahaa," this year's
PALS Burlesque, will have its
last performance tonight at 8
pm in Hamman Hall. Tickets
for this "romp through the
borough of Brutin" may be
bought at the door for 75 cents.
(A review of the show is on
page. 5.)
the approval of the student body,
the new system of government
will go into effect next fall.
Spring elections will be held
April 6, and petitions will be
due Thursday, March 26. The
slate of offices will be determined
by the results of Saturday's vote.
The Student Senate plan has
been approved by the Student
Council and the Inter-College
Council, and the individual col-,
lege cabinets this week. A special
Forum was held Thursday night
to give students an opportun-
ity to air their views concerning
the plan.
Members of the committee
which wrote the new constitution
are JaclcWertheimer, Pete Huff,
Jerry Dell Watts, Jack Hollon,
Les Greenberg, Bob Contois, Har-
dee Kilgore, and Harvey Hoff-
man.
LAST DAY TO GIVE TO
ALSBROOK CANCER FUND
Riceites will have their last
chance today to contribute to the
G. F. Alsbrook memorial charity
drive, proceeds from which will
be donated to the M. D. Ander-
son cancer research program.
A dollar per student is the re-
quest of the charity drive com-
mittee, composed of members of
the senior class. - -
Classroom collections will be
taken up in the 9 and 10 o'clock
classes today as was done Thurs-
day, according to Noel Willis,
who is in charge of classroom
collections.
The entire fund collected will
be presented to the M. D. Ander-
# P&LMS IN "HOONYAHAA?" Posing for the PALS
Burlesque are (left to right) Frank Dent, Ann Bartlett,
Don Coney, Joan Whitten, Judy Cole, Mike Reynolds ,and
Fran Murphy. —Photo by Frank Van Orden
son foundation in the form of a
Beckmann spectrophotometer, an
instrument used in analyzing cell
chemicals in basic cancer re-
search.
According to Jack Pietri, chair-
man of the drive, the spectro-
photometer will cost about $2,000.
Over $1,500 was realized in Rice's
1958 charity drive.
Letters were sent to all stu-
dents' earlier in the week urging
their participation in the drive.
Instructors wei'e also written to
obtain permission for the class-
room collections, Pietri said.
- Organizations on campus are
being solicited for contributions
under direction of George Grif-
fith.
Seniors have named the 1959
campaign in memory of their
fellow student and outstanding
athlete at Rice who died of can-
cer last fall.
'Gold Losses' On
TV This Sunday
"U. S. Gold Losses in 1958" will
be the subject for discussion on
this, Sunday's Rice TV program.
Professors Dwight S. Brothers
ad John H. Auten of the Eco-
nomics Department will discuss
the effects of gold leaving the
country on domestic and foreign
markets.
Program time is 2 pm on chan-
nel 13.
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