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The
Thresher
An All-Siudeni Newspaper For 47 Years
"Volume 51—Number 4
HOUSTON, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1963
SCHOLARSHIP RETURNED
Charter Intervention
Draws Alum Protest
The interveners in the Uni-
versity's suit asking permission
to integrate and charge tuition
received a protest last summer in
the form of a check and a letter
from Mr. James L. Aronson, a
1959 gi*aduate of Rice.
Addressing his protest to Mr.
John B. Coffee, one of the two
men who filed a countersuit
against the University, Aronson
objected to the obstruction of in-
tegration at Rice, informing Mr.
Coffee that "legally you may be
right, but morally you are not."
MR. ARONSON returned to
the University the sum of $100
which he had received as John
B. Coffee Scholar in Geology in
1958-59 with the request to Presi-
dent Pitzer that the award be
stricken from his record.
(The Thresher learned of the
protest when the editor and a
staff member heard Rabbi Rob-
ert I. Kahn of Temple Emmanuel
say in his sermon at last Friday's
services that a countersuit biled
by a businessman against a Uni-
versity in this state, which has
filed suit for permission to inte-
grate, had been dropped. The
Rabbi used no names.
The suit had been dropped, said
Rabbi Kahn, because of a protest
by a, recipient of a scholarship
§4ven by the businessman. All but
the crucial point of the story,
the dismissaj of the suit, proved
upon investigation by the Thresh-
er to be true, and to concern Rice.
The Rabbi told the Thresher
that he had heard the story as a
rumor and had purposely avoid-
ed the use of any names.)
IX HIS LETTER of July 12 to
Mr. Coffee, Mr. Aronson thanked
Mr. Coffee for the award, saying
that the award "certainly helped
me financially to complete my
undergraduate education at Rice."
He then stated that he had just
learned of the efforts of Mr.
Coffee and Mr. Billups "to pre-
vent integration at Rice." He
stated that "My feelings are that
you are wrong in this matter.
Any man who can qualify on his
ability for entrance to Rice is a
top quality man, regardless of his
race, and I would be happy to as-
sociate with him. To deny that
man an opportunity for a Rice
education is selfishly cruel; in
denying that opportunity it is
also an admission of one's own
sense of possible inferiority.
"RICE IS a great university;
it has no business belonging to
this undignified policy.
"I can even less afford $100.00
today than I could in 1958," Aron-
son said. "As a peaceable protest
to your action I am returning
this money to Rice, and asking
that the John B. Coffee Scholar
in Geology award be removed
from my record."
ARONSON, A MEMBER of
Will Rice College and the Honor
Council while at Rice, has been
a graduate student at the Cali-
fornia Institute of Technology
for the past four years, has re-
ceived a Masters degree, and is
working on a doctorate. His pres-
ent inclination is to go into re-
search and teaching, but he says
that his plans are not definite.
Aronson was notified of the
countersuit against the Univer-
sity by a clipping sent him from
his father in Dallas. When inter-
viewed via telephone by the
Thresher, he stated that he felt
that he had found this summer
a "rare opportunity" to ifiform
the interviewers that there is a
proportion of the alumni, pos-
sibly large, that favors integra-
tion. He stated that he had re-
ceived a "gentlemanly reaction
from Mr. Coffee."
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Colleges Set Budgets
"Let's loosen up and get THE SOCIAL BUDGET for
something done," reads a mar-
ginal note on a copy of one of
last year's college budgets.
"We are only limited by funds
and imagination."
Working on this premise, the
five college cabinets have re-
cently completed work on their
budget^, for the coming year.
Most are hopeful at best that
the end of the year will find
actual expenditures coming
reasonably close to fund allo-
cations.
A COMPARISON of the
budgets shows that the col-
leges have a set of common in-
terests about which the fiscal
thinking is much the same.
Most of the colleges support
a meal subsidy program in
which off-campus students are
given a reduction in prices sev-
eral times a week. The result-
ing loss is absorbed by the
colleges.
For this purpose, Baker has
allocated $350, Jones $300,
Wiess $250 and Will Rice,
$200. Hanszen has discontin-
ued the program in view of the
campus-wide reduction in meal
rates.
Jones, Wiess, Baker and Hans-
zen have been around $1,100-
$1,200 during the last tw-o
years. This heading is gen-
erally assumed to cover all ac-
tivities of a "party" nature.
The one prominent exception
in this list is Will Rice. In
'61-'62, the allocation was $900,"
in '62-'63 only $800 and in
'63-'64, a healthy $1,250.
UNDER THE heading De-
velopment and Permanent Im-
provements, Will Rice has set
aside during the three years
beginning with '61-'62 $4,655
for its basement improvement
project. Other colleges are in-
volved in similar projects. Ba-
ker has allocated a total of
$1,600 in two years, Hanszen
$2,000 for the period '62-'64,
Wiess $1,700 and Jones $250
for this year.
$1,075 is to be spent this
year by Jones, Will Rice,
Wiess and Hanszen on their
college libraries.
The bulk of college incomes
come from the $10 college fee
paid by each resident and non-
resident member and from
commissions on vending ma-
chines and laundry operations.
Out Exceeds In:
University Budget
Fails To Balance
The financial report of Rice
University, released Monday
and published as required by
law, revealed a deficit of
$150,127 in the operations of
the University during the year
ending June 30, 1963.
This was confirmed by L.
S. Shamblin, treasurer and
business manager, and Howard
A. Thompson, Director of De-
velopment. The added expen-
diture was blamed by Thomp-
son on the rising costs of ed-
ucation.
EXPENSES FOR the year
amounted to $5,200,524, total
income to $4,913,029. The bulk
of the income was from in-
vestments. Income in the form
of gifts and grants totaled
$431,904.
Over half the expenses were
listed as instructional, amount-
ing to $2,604,050.
THIS IS the first time in the
history of the University that
there has been a deficit. In
connection with the deficit,
Thompson predicted "inten-
sification of attempts to get
further financial support from
alumni, corporations, and the
like."
When asked if the Univer-
sity had. any sort of "backup
fund" to cover the deficit,
Thompson said, "This has not
been answered as yet."
EIGHT STORIES TALL—Rising out of the trees at
the north end of the campus, the eight-story tower which
will house the new Margarett Root Brown College will be
east of of Jones (foreground) and adjacent to Sunset
Boulevard (left) and Main Street.
New Women's College Will Tower
Floors Above Main Street
Eight
Preliminary plans for the new
Margaret Root Brown College
call for an eight-story high-rise
structure to be built between the
present Jones plant and the main
University entrance.
Albert E. Sheppard, A.T.A.,
chief architect for Brown & Root,
said the high-rise plan was adop-
ted "to conserve valuable ground
area" in the .Tones corner of the
campus.
HE INDICATED that *plans
were considered which placed the ! tallest structure on
new college west of Jones, but I HE SHE east
that this idea was rejected in I was
view of expansion needs in the
engineering neighborhood adja-
cent to Jones.
The college, financed by the
Brown Foundation, is scheduled
to open in the fall of 1965.'Shep-
pard said that the new college
would include the usual complex
i of facilities including a corn-
Senate Withdraws Concert Support,
Votes Money For Janus Publication
By G RETCH EN VIC
It was decided to give $125.00
unqualified assistance to Janus
this year to indicate the Senate's
support of this magazine.
Support of the Josh White con-
cert for November 24 has been
withdrawn by the Student Sen-
ate last night because of the
proximity of a Peter, Paul, and
Mary concert to be held in Hous-
ton on the twenty-second. A
later date is being sought by the
Student Center Board.
S. A. President Mike Jaffe
pointed out that the Unutt'rsity
of Houston has promised to sup-
port the Josh White concert with
us by advertising it through their
radio and television stations and
newspaper, and by selling tickets
on their campus.
In what was a nearly-record
breaking short meeting, the
"New Dynamic Student Senate"
also considered its estimated bud-
get for the coming year. Fol-
lowing the example of more ex-
tensive governmental operations,
the Estimated Financial State-
ment of the Student Association
of the Rice University showed a
deficit of $217.00.
THE MOST-DISCUSSED items
were the Discretionary Expenses
which included projected losses
of $200.00 on Homecoming and
$100.13 on the Austin party and
allotments to Janus, Josh White,
and a Student Conference to be
held later this yeai*. 1
To cut office expenses, a di-
rective will be issued to all stu-
dent organizations to the effect
that the Senate is now out of the
office supply give-away busi-
ness.
BECAUSE OF unrest among
the alumni, the New Song (to the
tune of Finlandia) will be called
"The School Song" until further
notice, and "Rice's Honor" will
still be called the Alma Mater.
"The School Song" will be play-
ed at all Alma Mater-like occa-
sions, and the Alma Mater will
be a part of the band's collection
of school songs.
It will be played at least once
every game, even if as a fight
song.
Beer Flow Slows
As Parties Quiet
After LCB Raid
By LYN MARTIN
As last Saturday night brought
the first round of parties held
under the new regime, students
noted a pronounced change in at-
mosphere. The LCB sent no per-
sonal representative to any of the
parties, but there is little doubt
that they dominated in spirit.
"NO RUM, by gum, the song
•of the Liquor Control Board,"
also became the theme song of
the Hanszen party as the college
folk singing group entertained
with a song satirizing what they
considered rather puritanical at-
titudes toward drinking.
'The consensus at all three par-
ties held last weekend was that
a calmer and less boisterous at-
mosphere prevailed. There were
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mons, recreation room, and a
Master's residence.
TH K BROWN & ROOT archi -
tect displayed a whole sheaf of
special perspectives showing the
appearance of the eight-story
building from various vantage
points.
The top several stories will be
visible from Main Street and
most other campus points. It will
not, however, approach the height
of the old Campanile, by far the
campus.
>f J'ones also
)icked because it was land
"which could not have been other-
wise used." Every attempt was
made, the architect said, to "pre-
serve the park-like area around
the college. Very few trees will
be displaced."
The tentative plans reveal that
the tower will be arranged in an
"H" pattern, giving the illusion
of twin towers on the side eleva-
tion. This configuration was se-
lected both for architectural ef-
fect and the utilitarian aspect of
I placing a I! the service facilities
j on top of each other al a cent rui
I local ion.
| The exact local ion ol the ' "'in-
j mons and Master's House for
i new college has not yet been
| determined.
Last Dates Close
For Fellowships,
Graduate Awards
A variety of graduate scholar-
ships for study in both the sci-
ences and the humanities in the
U.S. and abroad are available for
the informed and qualified stu-
dent
Rice is one of the 20 U. S. aca-
demic institutions chosen * to
award Churchill Scholarships
given by Churchill College of
Cambridge University. Each De-
partment nominates candidates,
which are then screened by a fac-
ulty committee.
The nominationss must be in
the Dean of Students office by
October 31; applicants should in-
clude their Graduate Record Ex-
am Scores.
DANFORTH ..SCHOLARSHIP
applicants are also faculty nom-
inated; leters should reach Dean
Higgenbotham by f> pm October
21. Applicants should be male
seniors and graduates of U. S.
colleges and should not have had
graduate study prior to the
grant; the age limit 'is 30. They
should take the Graduate Record
Exam on or before November 16,
1963.
Stipends, awarded in any field
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 2, 1963, newspaper, October 2, 1963; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244893/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.