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HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1949
Dorm Students' Complaints
Aired by Hall Committee
by Ted Cornelia
At the open Hall Committeemens' meeting which was held
in the Senior Commons at 1:15 Sunday afternoon the com-
plaints discussed at the dormitory students' meeting of last
December were again stated. Since the meeting, intended for
all those dorm students who wished to "set forth their gripes,"
had not been advertised far
Infirmary Offers Free
Student Immunization
Freshman Petitions Due Friday
Candidates to Tell
Qualifications at
Rally February 25
enough in advance the attend-
ance was quite small.
Leonard Attwell, chairman of the
Hall Committeemen, took charge of
the meeting, and Mr. Penney, who
is responsible for the cleanliness and
general up-keep of the dormitories,
answered several questions about
the proposed improvements for the
dormitories.
Because several residents of the
hails have complained about the
apparent theft of the magazines to
which they had subscribed, Mr. Pen-
ney said that in the future the mag-
azines would be held in South and
West Halls' offices until their prop-
er owners called for them.
There was no solution offered for
the empty fire extinguishers in the
dormitories. Although they are
checked once every three months,
it was stated that they ai*e never
it} a suitable condition for use when-
ever they should be needed. The im-
possibility of catching the emptiers
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-of the extinguishers was realized.
To -bring the seriousness of the
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crime home to the offenders, those
students living near the emptied ex-
tinguishers will be fined whenever
they are found tobe empty.
Attwell stated that if ONE more
more pay-telephone is destroyed in
the halls the telephone company
will remove all of the telephones
from the dormitories. Recently sev-
eral receivers have been either torn
or ripped from the phones.
At fche dormitory students' meet-
ing in December Mr. Cameron took
notes on the complaints of the food
situation and promised to see whatf
could be done to improve it. The
ideas Suggested had been for the
institution of meal tickets and an
■improvement in the appetizing qual-
ity of the food. Attwell was unable
to give any report on Mr. Cameron's
progress. The chief complaint of
those students present at Sunday's
meeting lay in the fact that the
onions which are cooked with almost
all types of vegetables seem to de-
stroy the natural taste of the veg-
etables.
Attwell said that nothing could
be done about improving the de-
livery of insured packages to the
students. The reason given was that
Mr. Brown is under bond with the
Post Office to keep the packages in
the basement of Lovett Hall until
their owners call for them. Mr.
Brown's duties as mail clerk for
the Institute cause him to be away
from the basement most of the
day and many students have found
it difficult to see him and get their
packages.
The problem of "line jumping" in
the cafeteria's food line was brought
up, but no satisfactory method of
preventing it was proposed.
Mr. Penney said that the general
cleanliness of the rooms has been
greatly improved since he first came
to the halls this year.
Beginning February 21, and ex-
tending through April 4, immuniza-
tions for Typhoid, Tetanus, and
Smallpox will be given by Miss
Werner, R.N., at the Student Health
Service in West Hall. This service
is included in the annual Health
j Service fee paid by all students. As
ja preventative measure, all students
| should avail themselves of this serv-
ice. Those who have had previous
Immunizations should have a boost-
er at that time.
To facilitate the work of the
Health Service, students are asked I Baptist Student Union meeting will
Quad-Lit Council to Sponsor No-Date
Dances; Lits Unite to Swell Attendance
The Literary Council adopted a plan to revitalize the Wednesday
night A-house dances last Friday at their regular meeting. A series
of short entertainments will be presented at each dance, sponsored by the
Literary Societies, and perhaps other campus organizations. The Liter-
ary Council also decided to publicize the "no-date" policy of the Wednesday
night dances.
Each Literary Society was assign-
ed a Wednesday night for the next
month. The Owen Wister Literary
Society will sponsor the first dance
tonight. The Pallas Athene Literary
Society will sponsor the dance the
night of February 23rd. The Eliz-
abeth Baldwin Literary Society will
take the dance March 2nd, and the '
Sarah Lane Literary Society March
9 th.
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The new policy (if "no-dates" is
All-Rice Picnic Planned
An all-school picnic and supper
sponsored by the Student Religious
Council will be held this Saturday at
Milby Park. The picnic will be open
to all students, with or without
dates. Recreation facilities for base-
ball and football will be available.
Those students wishing to attend
may sign up with the president of
their religious organizations or on
the lists posted on the bulletin
boards before Thursday noon.
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Boyd Speaks to Baptists Today
This noon at Autry House, the
to report for their "shots" between ! feature J. Boyd. Mr. Boyd, a for-
the hours of 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and
12:30 to 2:30 p.m. any day of the
week except Saturday and Sunday.
Students desiring Smallpox Vac-
cination are urged to report before
March 15. 1
mer All-American tackle for Texas
A&M, has been engaged in evangeli-
cal work since he graduated from
the Fort Worth Seminary. His talk
will be an informal discussion on
current subjects.
Dorm Freshmen Stage Primary Monday,
Will Run Bill Shockley for President
by Ted Cornelia
The purpose of the Freshman Meeting held Monday night
at 7:30 in 110 Anderson Hall was to develop a stronger Class
spirit and to stimulate the freshmen to vote in the forthcoming
class election. Approximately seventy-five students attended
the meeting. Dormitory residents comprised the greatest
number of students present.
Bill Sl\ockley opened the meet-
ing. He stated that its purpose was
to impress upon the freshmen the
seriousness and importance of nom-
inating and electing class officers
who would be a credit to their class.
He said that if a large number of
the students voted in the election
it would show the Institute that the
freshman class really is united and
that it dftes have a class spirit. He
stressed the importance of sticking
behind a candidate once he had been
nominated.
Charles Bishop was elected chaii'-
man of the meeting. After he was
elected he opened nominations for
the class presidency. The nomina-
tors were allowed to give a short
speech to stress the* qualities of the
person of their choice. The speeches
pointed out the amount of interest
shown and work done by the candi-
dates for their class.
Bill Shockley and Gordon Bakar,
the leading contestants, were tied
in the initial ballot. After a great
deal of rallying by the voters, a
second voting was performed. Shock;
ley won by the narrow margin of
three votes.
Shockley then took over the
meeting and opened nominations for
secretary-treasurer. Speeches were
given by the nominators after the
nominations were closed. In the first
voting Dick Wilson was elected by
a wide margin.
There was a -brief debate &s to
whether or not a vice-president
should be nominated. It was pointed
out by several students t^jat since a
man's taste if* women is often varied The dance is being announced in
it would be Best if the choosing o£ all the Literary Society meetings.
the future office-holder be left up
to the individual taste of the voter.
The students said that although the
physical beauty of the candidate^
would be a factor in influencing
their voting, her mental ability
would not be overlooked. It is cus-
tomary to elect a girl for the office
of vice-president.
The meeting was closed with a
speech designed to remove any pre-
judices held among the members of
the class. It was proposed that all
feeling towards other students due
to the section of Texas or of the
United States from which they
hail should be forgotten. One stu-
dent said, "There should not he any
discrimination between the residents
of the different halls and the town
students. It should not be South
Hall, West Hall, East Hall, or town
students, but the Students of the
Rice Institute."
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No Date Dance Tonight
With Entertainment
The first of the "no-date" Wed-
nesday night A-house dances will
be sponsored tonight by the O.W.L.
S. Besides the usual juke-box music,
the O.W.L.S. are furnishing music
by the "Singing Hicks," a local ag-
gregation specializing in hill-billy
music;
According to a new policy adopted
by the Literary Council girls are
not supposed to accept dates for the
Wednesday night dances. The dances
are especially designed to create an
opportunity to make new friends.
being announced in all the Literary
Society meetings, and members of
the Literary Council urge all other
girls to follow this policy. Signs will
be put up in the dorms advertising
the "no-date" dances.
The Literary Council is composed j
Candidates for Freshman
class offices must hand in their
petitions by noon Friday, Feb-
ruary 18th, to a member of the
Student Council Election com-
mittee. Members of this committee
are Ben Hammond, Jim Kelley and
j Tempe Howze.
j Petitions must be accompanied by
| a 50c filing fee. All petitions must
| have at least ten freshman «,igna-
| tares. The candidate must sign the
| petition, acknowledging his willing-
i ness to run for the office. All can-
didates must hand in expense ac-
counts by noon, Saturday. Febru-
ary 26th, The 50c filing fee must be
included. No candidate may spend
over $25 for campaign expenses.
Campaigning must be restricted to
the north side of the quadrangle.
Ben Hammond can be contacted, to
of the president, vice-president, and j chu'ify any of these rules,
councilman-at-large from each Lit- j All candidates for Freshman of
erary Society. They meet the firsij fice will speak at a Forum politieaj
Friday in each month. Other organi
zations that Literary Societies which
would be interested in sponsoring a
Wednesday night dance should con-
tact any member- of the Literary
Council.
The Literary Council also set the
dates of the all-school Open Houses.
The four Open Houses will be held
from 7-10 on Sunday, February 27th.
rally at noon, Friday, February
25th. This will be the first political
rally of the year.
The candidate speakers will pres-
ent their quautications and stands
on current campus controversial is-
sues in five minute speeches. The
meeting will have as its chairman a
member of the Forum Committee,
and will be run according to the
The places will be announced later. ! rules of the Forum political rallies.
Imperial Wizard Claims
That Ku Klux Klan Hates None
The following interview is re-
printed from the Technique, stu-
dent newspaper at Georgia Tech
in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Samuel Green,
Imperial Wizard, and leader of
all the Ku Klux Klans, recently
granted this interview to the -Tech-
nique reporter in his downtown
Atlanta offices. Dr. Green is a
practicing medical doctor in addi-
tion to being the leader of the
Klan.
By J. P. BLANKS
In the words of the Technique,
"The following is Dr. Green's
direct statement and does not ne-
cessarily represent the opinion of
this reporter or the Technique."
When my grandfather returned
home from the Civil War, said Dr.
Green, he found his wife and daugh-
ter alone on their huge plantation
in Alabama trying to make enough
to eat on; and all of his 1000 slaves
had run off, leaving him a bank-
rupt man. The country was over-
run with free and ignorant Negroes
—trying to run things they had
never known about before. Negroes
were elected to all the public offices,
for the white Southerners had had
their voting privilege disfranchised,
and they were all at the mercy of
the "free niggers," the scalawags
the carpetbaggers, and the occupa-
tional armies. In a few months
Grandfather saw his plantation sold
for $500 back taxes by a Negro
sheriff to a Northern carpetbagger;
Soon after that the Ku Klux Klan
was organized in pure self-defense.
Something had to be done to pro-
tect the white women from the Ne-
groes and to give the white people
a chance to be free again. They
punished the evil Negroes and some-
times the scalawag whites.. It spread
all over the South and did a fine
job in bringing back white suprem-
acy; as the Negroes became orderly
again, the Klan disbanded.
Then in 1915 some of the South-
erners believed that the Klan was
needed again, so it was reorganized
by Col. Simmons. A constitution was
drawn up and certain qualifications
for membership were written into
it. Now this is why so many people
hate us today—just because we
won't let everybody and anybody
join. We don't hate anybody, but
most everybody hates us. You know
about B'nai B'rith—it's a big or-
ganization, but they won't let me
join. They have a certain qualifica-
tion that says a member has to be
a Hebrew to belong to the group.
It doesn't make me made because I
can't join B'nai-B'rith, but it makes
the Jews made because they can't
join us. And, as a group, they hate
us, too. We don't hate the Jews.
Some of my best friends right here
in Atlanta are Jews, and we like
and respect each other. And some
of these Jews have told me that
they would join the Klan in a min-
ute if we would just let them in.
But our constitution says that they
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