The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 23, 1962 Page: 1 of 10
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Rivals7 Called Rambunctious Good Humor
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"YOU SEE, SHE HAS BEEN ALL MIRTH AND SONG—not a thought of me," says Faulk-
land (Dick Robson) as he pours out his troubles to Bob Acres (John Bassler), Fag (Clark Moore),
and Bob Absolute (Sam Stewart), in this scene from "The Rivals."
The
Thresher
An All-Student Newspaper for 45 Years
Volume 49—Number 18
HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962
Rights Group Seeks Student Aid;
Will Complete Report Next Week
By EUGENE KEILIN
The semi-official Student Asso-
ciation Committee on Student
Rights is nearing completion
of a draft report on student par-
ticipation.. in disciplinary proce-
dures. '
The proposed report will con-
tain two sections, "A Statement
of Student Position" and "A Rec-
ommendation for Action." The
Ronald Reagan
Speaks
Sunday
To Forum
Afternoon
i
Ronald Reagan, well-known
motion picture and television
actor, will present his views on
national affairs in a Forum Com-
mittee presentation Sunday after-
noon, February 25, at 2:30 p.m.
in Hamman Auditorium.
Reagan, frequent star of TV's
"General Electric Theater," often
finds time in his schedule to
deliver addresses on his belief
that the growing power of the
federal government represents an
imminent danger to the Amer-
ican people. His talk at Rice will
be on "Losing Freedom by In-
stallments." A question and
answer, session will follow the
address.
THE FORUM program will be
Reagan's second visit to Rice. He
was featured in a program at
Hanszen College in October of
1957.
Much of Reagan's career in
Hollywood has been devoted to
exposing and attacking Com-
munist influence in the film
capital^ He has served as Presi-
dent of the Screen Actors Guild
and played an important role in
negotiations between the guild
and the studios for a conclusive
work "contract.
Eureka College, where Reagan
earned an AB degree in Econ-
omics and Sociology, has honor-
ed the actor with a doctrate of
Humane Letters for "real under-
standing and courage in re-
cognizing and exposing com-
munists and their influence" in
Hollywood.
committee is being chaired by
Reed Martin, President of the
Student Association, who stressed
that membership is open to any
interested Rice student.
THE PRESENT open commit-
tee is an outgrowth of the Com-
mittea.to Extend Student Repre-
sentation in Disciplinai-y De-
cisions, begun last May with Lar-
ry Moore as chair-man. The first
committee terminated its activi-
ties last fall when Dean Higgin-
botham requested that action be
deferred until he had had an op-
portunity to become more famil-
iar with existing procedures.
The committee continued to
function unofficially, gathering
information and suggestions from
interested students and faculty
members. When President Pitzer
reopened the question at a meet-
ing of student leaders and admin-
istration representatives thi'ee
weeks ago, the committee was
reactivated in its present form.
According to Martin, there has
never been a comprehensive ex-
planation of student position in
this area, and such a statement
is necessary before concrete pro-
posals can be submitted to the^d-
ministration. Martin describ^Fthe
intention of the proposed report
as "comprehensive but not im-
pertinent, strong but not inflama-
tory."
WHEN THE report is com-
pleted, it will contain not only
a statement of student opinion
but also a set of concrete pro-
posals. The administration has
asked that such concrete sugges-
tions be made. ,
Martin continued that the need
for a comprehensive report was
urgent because student leaders
currently lack any long-range
plans, not to mention a specific
mandate from the students. "The
present practice of point by point
negotiations has placed the stu-
dents and their government in the
defensive position of preserving
what structures they have at the
expense of long-range expan-
sion."
THE COMMITTEE is moving
toward the submission of a pro-
posal embodying three primary
objectives: a public and defined
set of regulations so that students
will know exactly what the law
is; student pai'ticipation in for-
mulating and administering the
(Continued on Page 10)
Players' Production Will Be
This Weekend in Hamman Hall
By ARMSTRONG PRESCOTT
Director, "The Rivals"
Why do amateur theatrical groups, especially uni-
versity amateur theatrical groups, insist on producing
period pieces, Shakespearean tragedy, and antique comedy,
as opposed to contemporary drama?
There probably are a number of valid reasons why
they should and a number
of equally valid reason's why
they shouldn't persist in
this.
The Rice Players have chosen
to present "The Rivals" on the
evenings of February 23, 24 and
25. When I was asked to direct
the Players' production, I must
admit I was dubious. As I dimly
recollected the play from my
reading, twenty odd years before,
all of the reasons opposed to
such a choice came to mind.
I AGREED, however, to reread
the play and thus discovered that
it contained perhaps the most
valid reason there is for produc-
ing any play. It is full of vast
rambunctious: good humor from
start to finish.
After twenty years of viewing
realistic drama devoted to social
criticism, deep psychological im-
plications and bitter caustic hu-
mor a la John Steinbeck, Tennes-
see Williams, Marlon Brando and
"Method a Becket," or the re-
verse of the coin: soap opera—
"Life with Dad, Mom and Junior
or Junior Miss," plus salacious
little items on "John's Other Di-
Wife, Sally, Trapped in the La-
dies' Powder Room at the Stork
Club," I was perhaps more anx-
ious for a change than I knew.
"The Rivals," I was happy to
discover, was just the remedy
needed for a theater constipated
with moral blight, urban blight,
and decaying magnolias.
A PERVADING sense of fun,
foolishness, affection and opti-
mism is achieved at the expense
of a group of funny foolish, af-
fectionate, and optimistic char-
acters.
There is no one to hate, no one
to laugh to scorn and no one to
(Continued on Page D)
Debaters Score
Win Over SWTSC;
Bring Rice $1000
Debaters from Rice defeated
Southwest State College of San
Marcos Sunday in the Texas in-
tercollegiate television debate
tournament, "Y o u n g America
America Speaks."
Eugene Keilin and William P.
Pannill, debating for Rice, had
the negative side of the question
"Resolved: That Congress should
be given the power to reverse
the decisions of the supreme
court."
IN ADDITION TO the two
speakers, the Rice delegation in-
cluded alternate Syd Nathans and
coach Jarred Hazelfon. Both
speakers described the aid given
them by Nathans and Ha£elton.
as "invaluable."
The Rice debaters captured
victory by a thirteen p_oint mar-
gin, scoring 129 points out of a
possible 150.
Last Sunday's win not only
advanced the Rice team to the
quarter-finals, but also won
$1,000 for the school's scholar-
ship fund from Sinclair Refining
Company, sponsor of the pro-
gram. The losing team in each
debate is awarded $500 by the
company.
NEXT SUNDAY, teams from
Baylor and Hardin-Simmons
Universities will meet in the final
first-round debate. Rice will meet
the winner of this debate March
18.
Hardin-Simmons defeated Rice
in tha first round of last year's
tournament.
JIM BOB DOTY
W/iess President: Phi Beta Kappa,
Rhodes Scholar, Debater and Actor
Giesen Resigns
Tom Giesen, President of
Will Rice College, resigned his
office Sunday, February 18.
No reason was given in his
letter of resignation.
Mike McCrea, a junior from
Midland and vice-president of
the college, was appointed act-
ing president to succeed Giesen.
He will Serve until the regular
college elections are held, late
in March.
By DOUG HARLAN
"I've been haPPY at Rice, and
I've enjoyed it!" With these
thoughts Jim Bob Doty, Wiess
College President, reminisced on
his days as a Rice student—soon
to close.
Jim Bob, a native Houstonian
and a graduate of Reagaft High
School, has
achieved enough
awards and
honors at Rice
to fill a basket.
He has been a
member of the
debate team,
Agora (in the
days when
Agora met out
*of "smoke-filled
Rice Players (in
which he claims to have been an
"obscure soul"), and a member
of Phi Beta Kappa (although he
made a 2 in Math 100!).
LAST YEAR Jim Bob was the
stalwart of the debate team and
made the "dream trip" to the
East Coast and Mid-West.
Recently named a Rhodes
Scholar, Jim Bob plans to begin
DOTY
obscurity"),
his studies next year at Merton
College, Oxford, as a student of
modern history. He will study
for two years at Oxford and re-
turn to the states to take a Ph. D.
at Harvard.
ALSO FOUND in the basket
are one copy of the Doty-backed
integration resolution (complete
with a gold star for smashing
success), one slightly torn .and
tattered copy of the Doty-au-
thored resolution calling for aboli-
tion of class governments, and
three unpaid bills from Hanszen
College (for broken windows in-
curred by Wiess in water fights).
During past summers Jim Bob
has received interesting exper-
iences as a worker on a gas
crew. Last summer, however, he
spent an "intellectual" summer
by studying at Harvard and trav-
eling in Canada. For pure rec-
reation, ,Jim Bob finds tennis
relaxing and enjoyable and spends
as much time as possible on the
courts.
JIM BOB, in recalling inter-
esting occasions of past years,
relates how vividly he recalls his
first year and a half when he
lived off campus—and made the
long, dreary walk from the sta-
dium parking lot—through wind,
rain, sleet, snow, and hot Texas
sun. He also tells of the disap-
pointment that he still feels (Tver
the last minute loss Rice suffered
to Army at homecoming his
freshman year.
The problem of Rice girls has
been a particular concern of Jim
Bob's. He believes that Rice girls
suffer under the heavy pressures
of Rice student life and do not
have enough opportunity for ide-
alistic planning ahead. He be-
lieves the girls need more of
what may be truly defined as a
"liberal education."
STUDENT APATHY also has
been of most concern to Jim Bob.
He believes that this apathy is
a result of various ignorances
among Rice students: social, po-
litical, and literary. This problem
is an individual problem, how-
ever; it prevents proper social
intercourse and informed and
alert associations. This is a prob-
lem of "quick and able people
minding their own business;"
(Continued on Page 10)
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