The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 1960 Page: 1 of 10
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C. I
SMU ANSWERS
'LEFTIST ATTACK
SEE PAGE 2
THRESHER
an all student newspaper since 1916
RICE HYMN
JUDGING POSTPONED
SEE PAGE 7
VOL. 47—NO. 17
HOUSTON, TEXAS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1960
Student Senate
Campanile Data,
Forum, Juke Box
Plans Discussed
The Petition deadline for Ron-
delet Queen has been extended
to Saturday noon to allow more
petitions to be turned in. This
will no affect the elecion date on
Monday the 15th.
George Clark, chairman of thte
Student Center Committee, an-
nounced that the Gene Swilley
combo will be performing again
Sunday night at the Student
Center jam sessions. The music
starts at 6, lasts til 7:30. It is
hoped that these functions will
evolve into an integral part of
campus life.
Juke Box Move
The juke box is to be moved
to the basement shortly. Dancing
will be encouraged in this un-
congested area.
In the latest meeting of the
Publications Board, the first
24% of the Campanile copy was
approved. Things are progressing
pretty generally on schedule for
spring delivery with the 50 %
deadline approaching Monday.
Latest On Speakers
The Forum Committee, work-
ing on the development of a
campus-speaker program, has
sent out fifteen letters of recom-
mendation. This will be taken
up further at the next meeting.
Sheila Hiller and Jimmy Jen-
nings were approved as-members
of the Executive Committee of
the Freshman Class.
PALS Burlesque
Into Semester
March 11 and 12
Burlesquing into the new se-
mester the PALS are casting a
new script on an old theme for
the March 11 and 12 take-off in
Hamman Hall. A new chapter in
the PALS' tradition of exposes
on the battle of the sexes, this
year's parody works the tradi-
tional fast songs, dances and
girls into -an Australian setting.
The plot lays bare, among other
things, the interlocking triangles
involving Eva Fairfax, the touch-
me-not movie queen, and Amy
Sinclair, her charmingly dissipat-
ed companion, with racy report-
ers, wealthy old lechers, money
conscious managers, and pho-
tographers.
Cole and Sessions
Judy Cole will play Eya; Fran
Murphy, Amy; while Tom Ses-
sions takes the male lead as a
reporter, Jeff Adams. Tom Mc-
Keown, Roy Reid, and Chuck
Berry fill in the details of thte
theatrical atmosphere. «
Ann Pettus will play Jenny,
Eva's sex-starved maid; Manya
Brooke, her worldly wise aunt;
and Kay Kelly, one of the local
girls that Eva cuts out.
McKeown Directs
Tom McKeown will double as
director of the show. Fran Mur-
phy is the author of the script
which features twelve musical
numbers (and several rabble
routers).
No definite action has
been take# by the Board
of Trustees of the Rice
Institute concerning the
anticipated change in the
name of the school to the
Rice University, The
Thresher learned Thurs-
day.
In the January 16 issue
of the Thresher, "a reli-
able Lovett Hall source
was quoted as stating that
the Institute would be-
come the University dur-
ing the Board of Trustees
meeting the last week in
January. The reliable Lov-
ett Hall source now in-
forms the Thresher that
no action has been taken
or is anticipated for some
time.
However, it is expected
that if a change is to be
made, it will come before
the end of the spring se-
mester.
Filing Deadline Postponed for Queen
Rondelet Election Monday
Elections for the Rondelet
court and queen are set for this
Monday, February 15. Each class
will select a duchess and two
maids and the entire student
body, a queen.
Because only one candidate
filed a petition for queen, the
Student Senate amended the
Rondelet petition deadline to this
Saturday noon for the queen
position only. Charlotte Reeves
has filed for Rondelet Queen.
Freshman candidates for Ron-
delet are Betty Branard, Mary
Fae Coulter, Evelyn Crooker,
Elizabeth Embry, Margo Garrett,
Marietta Morris, Kathleen Much,
and Pat Shannon.
Sophomores are Mary Ann
Calkins, Leslie Cummings, Eliza-
beth Downs, Pat Jones, Renee
Lipman, Kay MacDonald, Mary
Kay Manning, Melanie Maxted,
Pat Pizzatola, Judy Poinsett,
Eleanor Powers, Anne Shamblin,
Sue Shepherd, and Sally Smy-
ser.
Martha Breedlove, Barbara Da-
vis, Ann Hebert, Fran Murphy,
Karen Olsen, and Ann Pettus are
the junior candidates.
Seniors are Gertrude Abel,
Sylvia Davis, Deanna Day, Helen
Hardin, Emily Jordan, Kathy
Pickard, and Cathy Terrell.
Each court nominee presented
a petition signed by ten members
of her class to receive a spot on
the ballot.
Literary Research
Journal Due In '61
The first issue of a new journal
of literary research, entitled
Studies in English Literature:
1500-1900, will appear in Jan-
uary, 1961.
Dr. Caroll Camden, chairman of
the Rice English Department, has
been named editor-in-chief of the
new publication. He will be
assisted by a twenty-member edi-
Sylvan Goes Polynesian
Architects Prepare To Orgy
.By ANNE WATTS
Thresher Staff
Warm, friendly natives (nor-
mally cold, unfriendly Ricites)
will invade Sylvan Beach at 8:30
Saturday, February 20, for the
annual Archi-Arts orgy.
This year the theme of the
dance will be gay, carefree, hap-
py, cheery, festive, etc. A Poly-
nesian atmosphere replaces the
dark, morbid scenes of past years.
Archi-Arts promises that dec-
orations will include a dense
jungle, a beach, and all the other
comforts of a typical native
island.
Costume Consultant
To prevent an excess of native
girl and brave Polynesian war-
rior costumes, Archi-Arts will in-
stall a costume consultant in the
canoe-type ticket booth soon to
dominate the student center.
There the consultant will help the
more imaginative students be-
come coconuts, exotic butterflies,
palm trees, and surf boards.
Archi-Arts members will ab-
stain from entrance in the cus-
tomary costume contest. Instead
of designing costumes in compe-
tition with the less gifted, run-
of-the-mill students, the society
members will all come as Duk-
Duks. For those unfamiliar with
Duk-Duks, they are a kind of
grass-thatched group of Polyne-
sian witch doctors.
Faculty Contest
Faculty members attending the
Archi-Arts Ball will have a spec-
ial costume contest conducted for
them.
Ed Sullivan's Orchestra will
provide continuous music for the
dance, the only break being for
the pageant.
Festivities have already got-
ten underway with a reception
for the honorees February 12,
at the Contemporary Arts Asso-
ciation.
Acording to Phil Morris, presi-
dent of the Architectural So-
ciety, all proceeds from the dance
will go to the William Ward Wat-
graduate study abroad. This has
been the custom since the first
Archi-Arts Ball in 1922.
Equipped Coffin
The Archi-Arts Ball began as
a small undertaking and in its
early days was held in such places
as State Guard Armory, Junior
League, and Elks Hall. Through
attention-getting promotion
stunts including a funeral proces-
sion complete with borrowed, ful-
ly equipped coffin, Archi-Arts'
dance has become one of the ma-
jor features of the rather drab
Rice social season.
Administration Ban
In 1936 the able young archi-
tects managed to design three dif-
ferent sets of decorations, all of
which were promptly banned by
the administration. However, in
the 1950's, a freer period, the
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—Photo by Morris
Y'ALL COME—To the Sophomore Dance, the Tijuana
Stomp, say Sophomore Class officers Barry Moore, presi-
dent; Lillian Jungle, vice-presidentand Milton Nirken.
secretary-treasurer. The dance will be tonight, Saturday,
at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2616 Louisiana.
Tickets are $3.00 per couple, and western clothes will
be in order. The sophomores promise a flamenco guitarist
as entertainment, also.
torial board, composed of four
Rice professors and 16 members
from other schools.
Rice, Harvard, London
Rice will be represented by
Professors Jackson Cope, Wil-
ford Dowden, Thad Marsh, and
J. D. Thomas. Other board mem-
bers will be from such interna-
tionally known schools as the
University of London, Johns
Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale.
The journal, to be published
quarterly, will be devoted to his-
torical and critical studies in four
periods, together with an analyti-
cal review of the year's most
significant scholarship in these
periods.
Studies Outlined
The winter quarterly will be
concerned with the literature of
the English Renaissance, while
the spring publication will con-
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Swilley Combo:
Casual Evening
Sunday at RMC
A variety-of music for dining
or dancing will be featured by
the Gene Swilley combo at a free,
strictly informal all-school dance
Sunday evening in the Rice Me-
morial Center.
The music will last from 6 to
7:30 pm, while Sammy's will be
open for refreshments and
snacks.
"No Dates"
"No dates allowed unless you
are going steady, engaged, mar-
ried or out-to-lunch," announced
RMC committee chairman George
Clark.
Last December the Swilley
group donated its talents for a
similar Sunday evening causal
session, which brought hearty
approval from some 60 students
who appeared to listen and dine.
New "Tradition"?
The campus jazz and dance
group expressed hope at that
time, with the endorsement of
Clark and The Thresher, that
other musical ensembles would of-
fer their services to continue the
informal dances to ameliorate
student complaints about the
"sterile showcase" atmosphere of
the RMC.
This Sunday, the Swilley five-
piece combo promises a complete
change of style—fast, slow, and
rock and roll—for an hour and a
half of relaxing entertainment.
And it's free.
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