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VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN _ NUMBER THIRTY HOUSTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
Entered as second class mailing matter, October 17, 1916, at the Post Office, Houston, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Lit Representatives Argue Sportsmanship Trophy Awarded
Effect* of New Rules To Rice At Austin Track Meet
All women students are asked to vote today on an advisory
ballot concerning the disputed article on rushing procedure for
literary societies for the next year. In a special open meeting
of the Student Council committee on the rushing regulations,
held Monday at 12:30, this vote was recommended. As the
. Council convened after the open
Women's Council
Meets; Rush Rules
Passed by Members
Clara Margaret Mohr was elected
president of the newly organized
Women's Council at the first meet-
ing of the group, Friday, May 12.
Virginia Barber is vice-president of
the Council; Ruey Boone, secretary;
and Nancy Boothe, treasurer.
Two committees, were appointed
to work during the summer: a con-
stitution committee, consisting of
Paula Meredith, chairman, Doris
Jaffe and Neysia Cummings; a com-
mittee to draw up plans for the big
and little sister program for next
year, (a program previously carried
out by the now disbanded Girls'
Club). Members of this committee
include Camille Coulter, chairman,
Virginia Barber and Edwina Blan-
kenship.
Lists are being referred to the
girls in their lit society meetings
so that all girls interested in being
big sisters may sign up. Lists will
also be posted on the bulletin board
in the lounge, in case any girls do
not have access to the other lists.
The proposed rushing regulations
were discussed and a vote was taken
to determine the members' opinion.
Eleven members voted in favor of
the rules as they were originally
^rawn up, and three members voted
in favor of the changes made by the
Student Council.
Members of the new council in-
clude Neysia Cummings and Edwina
Blankenship, CRLS; Virginia Barber
and Paula Meredith, EBLS; Doris
Jaffe and Marian Roco, MELLS;
Jean Upshaw'and Norma Jean Rod-
gers, OKLS; Helen Stephens and
Ruey Boone, OWLS; Clara Margaret
Mohr and Ruey Kunzman, PALS;
Camille Coulter and Nancy Boothe,
SLSf Nancy Brannon and Barbara
Watson, VCLS. •
Graduating Seniors
To Hear Millikan
The Baccalaureate speaker for the
Rice Commencement exercises this
year will be Samuel L. Joekel, pro-
fessor of English Bible at the Austin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
The Baccalaureate service will be
delivered on May 28, at 6:30, in
the court of the Chemistry Building.
Robert A. Milliken, Professor
Emeritus of Physics of California
Technological School, will speak at
the Commencement ceremonies.^
Commencement will be held on June
2, at 6:30 in the court of the Chem-
istry Building.
Four service awards are to be giv-
en to students who are graduating,
along with 319 Bachelor degrees, 36
Masters degrees and 13 Doctors de-
grees. The Bachelors' and Masters'
hoods will be worn throughout the
entire ceremony, and 'the Doctors'
hoods will be awarded during the
course of the Commencement cere-
monies.
*
meeting, the members voted
to ask the entire body of wo-
men students to cast their opinion.
Blanket taxes will be required to
vote.
The special Student Council com-
mittee, headed by Hal DeMoss, start-
ed its open meeting in the Exam
Room with a summary of previous
Student Council action on the mea-
sure in question. The proposed rush-
ing regulations for next year had
been passed by the Council, with the
exception of any portions which al-
lowed girls to be placed in literary
societies to which they had not been
actually bid. The plans as changed
by the Council's action were referred
back to the Council by the Student
Activities Committee for reconsi-
deration.
The contention lies in whether or
not the possible ten or fifteen girls
left after the eight societies have
formed their bid lists shall be placed
in the lit of their choice, it that lit's
quota is not already filled. Arrange-
ments would be made so that only
the lit presidents and possibly one
other representative of each lit
would know which girls had been
bid and which had been placed.
Ruey Boone, chairman of the rush
rules committee created by the Lit-
erary Council, presented the commit-
tee's views on the plans. Her points
included: (1) the four new lits have
been created to include more girls in
lit membership, with the ultimate
goal of allowing every girl who
wants to, to be able to join a lit.
(2) the possibility of conflict w.ithin
a lit because of a placed girl is small
since the girl will join the lit in
which she knows and is known by
the most girls. (3) in a school which
selects its students as carefully as
Rice does there would be no reason
for Any girls to be completely social-
ly unacceptable; and any girl who
wants to be a lit member will be
willing to make any effort neces-
sary to get along with the other
members.
Speaking in opposition to the pro-
posed plans, Coletta Ray raised these
points against placement: (1) com-
petition for new members will be
stronger next year than ever before
with eight lits rushing; therefore
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Campanile On Time; Contains
Best Features In Long Career
Bill Collins Chosen
New Editor Of Rl
Bill Collins, a sophomore chemical
engineering major, was installed as
new editor of the RI on Thursday,
May 11. Marilyn Marrs will be the
new business manager and Ted John-
son will be the assistant editor.
Although the plans for next year's
RI are still indefinite, Collins in-
tends to make the magazine a quar-
terly and also to make each of the
four issues three times as large as
the present RI. The RI will be given
away free next year. Since the
RI is not on the Blanket Taxes, it
will be paid for by advertising.
Summer Jobs Few;
Proctor and Gamble
To Interview Jrs.
Summer jobs ain't what they used
to be. The placement service an-
nounces that very few summer job
offerings have come in. Such choice
bits as summer counciling and var-
ious assistant positions were filled
as soon as the offers came.
Proctor & Gamble representatives,
however, will be at Rice on May 17
to interview junior engineers, and
The Tennessee Transmission Co. rep-
resentatives inferviewed junior B.A.
majors for accounting positions last
week.
Jobs available right now are sell-
ing on c'ommission openings, some
construction jobs, and a few tutor-
ing offers. Job openings are still
coming in, though, and all those
students interested in summer and
part time employment should con-
tact the placement office and file
their application.
Students who think they may
have failed a course and wish to
make arrangements for attending
summer school must see Mr. M.
V. McEnany in Mechanical Lab-
oratories 208 from 9:00-12:00 any
morning during the exam period.
Reports are ordinarily received
by Mr. McEnany within three
days after the final exam in each
course.
No grades will be given at the
Office of the Registrar until the
complete grade reports are mail-
ed.
By Emmett McGeever
The 1950 Campanile, "the first
since the printing of the Gutenbivrg
Bible to appear in the academic year
on which it was paid for," according
to Dean H. S. Cameron, is distin-
guished by its clear, well-planned
and well-composed photography. Af-
ter throwing out the old pictures of
the factulty, some of them evidently
having been shot through a low-
grade piece of window glass, the
Campanile got together a collection
of really excellent pictures, taken
by someone with a taste for more
than the "now look right at me and
smile" schooj in his blood. About
the only exception is the beauty
section; the Campanile cannot seem
.to realize that Rice girls can be at-
tractive without most of their fea-
tures being deleted by retouching.
The yearbook is particularly for-
tunate in its choice of Dr. Dix as the
person to whom the book is dedicat-
ed. Dr. Dix and his library are easi-
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R And Qiyll Banquet
Held Monday Evening
The R. and Quill Society held its
annual meeting and banquet at the
Varsity Room last Monday night.
After the banquet Dean Cameron
spoke introducing the speaker of the
evening, Dr. C. C. Camden who gave
a short speech on "English in Jour-
nalism." .
At the end of the speeches, the
meeting was held at which the mem-
bers of the society elected officers
for the coming year. Ruey Boone,
editor of the Thresher, will be the
new president. The vice-president,
Bill Collins, is editor of the R. I.
and Shirley Arnold, editor of the
Campanile, is the new secretary.
As the final touch of glory for the
1949-50 school year, Rice was named
winner of the Southwest Conference
Sportsmanship award for this year.
The trophy was presented at the
Texas Relays in Austin last Satur-
day, following a meeting of the
Sportsmanship Committee meeting
held there that- morning.
This year marked the third pres-
entation of the trophy since the
idea was proposed by Texas A & M
in 1948. Receiving the trophy in 1948,
SMU was the first winner, while
the Aggies won the award in 1949.
Rice was first in the point tabula-
tion this year with 115 points out
of a possible 477 points. TCU was
close behind Rice with 106 points.
The other Conference schools ranked
in the following order: Baylor, 73;
SMU, 71; A & M, 63, Texas 38; and
Arkansas, 11.
Although many students hold the
mistaken idea; it is not the Sports-
manship Committee that decides
-vho is to win the trophy. The ac-
tual decision is based on a Confer-
ence-wide ballot system under which
66 ballots are tabulated. Each bal-
lot lists three schools in 1-2-3 order
which are awarded five, three, and
one points respectively. The seven
schools in the conference each return
seven ballots, two from the student
government, and one each from the
alumni secretary, Dean, Athletic di-
rector head cheerleader and news-
paper editor. In addition there are
16 ballots sent to various Confer-
ence officials and one to the Con-
ference secretary. Fifty of the 66
ballots distributed were returned this
year.
The Sportsmanship Committee at
its meeting Saturday morning elect-
ed Mac Bintliff head cheerleader for
Texas University as the new chair-
man to replace Ben Hammond who
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Chillman And Rather
Are Advanced To FAIA
At Washington Dinner
James Chillman, Jr. and J. T.
Rather, Jr., members of the Houston
chapter of the American Institute
of Architects, have been advanced
to felowship in the Institute and
were honored Friday night at a
ceremony at the annual dinner of
the 82nd convention of the Institute,
which closed Saturday in Washing-
ton.
Mr. Chillman is a professor of
architecture at the Institute as well
as director of the Museum of Fine
Arts. He received his advancement
for achievement in architectural edu-
cation. He is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, was a mem-
ber of the American Academy in
Rome, and is a contributor to many
art and architectural publications.
Mr. Rather, a partner in the firm
of Staub & Rather, is a graduate of
Rice. He has twice been president
of the Houston chapter, A.I.A. and
he received his advancement by the
Jury of Fellows for achievement in
design and service to the Institute.
The two new advancements make
a total of nine fellows in the Hous-
ton chapter. Among these are Milton
McGinty, a graduate of Rice and
William Ward Wfttkin, who is head
of the Architectural Department at
the Institute.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 1950, newspaper, May 18, 1950; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230844/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.