The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1966 Page: 3 of 8
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For you and your Yum-Yum
Christmas present to Yum-Yum
Martin stresses constructive ends
By ROGER GLADE
Fine Arts Editor
Saith the poet: "Christmas
[Time is here, by, golly!"
We agree. We know it's here
Ibecause Sammy's has changed
I its decor from Institutional
[insane-asylum airplane-hanger
| to homey Foley's five-and-dime.
We realize that this was done with no little
expense as one loyal employee remarked that
they'd have to raise prices to make them con-
summate with the atmosphere.
We, in our own inimitable fashion, shudder.
Another sure sign of Christmas is that it
falls after Thanksgiving and before finals.
Also presents and gifts get given. We, of the
Yum-yum staff, have, for example, been given
ours.
Please regard the "new look." Yes, Ann
Landers, Dick Peebles, and Dr. Joyce Brothers
no longer have anything on Yum-yum.
We have arriven.
It's nice to be loved.
Sigh.
So much for this week's "pap for the populace."
Since you obviously have been lost because we
didn't appear last week (sorry, but even Fine
Arts Editors have to sell out some time), to
spare you any further anguish, here we are
once more:
BAR-B-CUED PRAIRIE DOG:
PLEASE GO SEE THE PLAYER ONE-ACTS,
HUH? They are GOOD! Yes. And besides Ham-
man is BIG! That's tonight, Friday, and Satur-
day. It is easily the best theatre buy in town
this week-end.
CAMEL-BURGER A LA CALIF:
If you'd like to act in a play (that is to say
laugh at the world from inside the monkey
cage for a change) you have your chance Mon-
day and Tuesday when Players cast "Tiny Alice"
in Anderson 108. (7:30 pm)
STUFFED GILA MONSTER WITH RAISINS
(AND CREME SAUCE):
Starting tomorrow at Houston (Blech!) Music
Theatre, a (gag!) western music show. DO NOT
ATTEND. The box office personnel are nasty,
discourteous, not to mention illogical. You can
pay by check, for example. ONLY if you hap-
pen to have a Texas driver's license. We sup-
pose that only Texas researches the credit refer-
ences of its drivers.
HORNY TOAD WITH PARSNIPS:
The Alley has "Dairy of a Scoundrel." Hous-
ton Baptist College is a surer bet with "All
My Sons" if you are careful as to what you are
betting on. Actually, the Alley is, as always,
excellent but expensive.
EAU DE TARANTULA:
The Village Theatre, in their wisdom, managed
to avoid showing the magnificent Pasternak
adaptation of "Hamlet" for more than two days
this week. You missed it. Try "The Color of
Her Skin" instead.
Elsewhere:
"The Magic Flute" (Jones Hall)
Beatles double-feature (That is, "Help!"
and "Hard Day's Night"): Loew's State
"Phaedra": (Art Cinema)
"The Sound of Music": (omni-presence ends
in 10 days) (Alabama)
A PARTING TASTE:
Players on Friday, "Beatles on Saturday
(Loew's) and the Last Drop Coffeehouse after
each (esp. Friday when they will have the Post
Oak Singers—the same group which sang inter-
ludes and madrigals at the last Rondelet song-
fest).
Total cost: $5.00.
Ulrich demands Thresher censure for letter-editing
To the editor:
Last week I wrote a letter
to the Thresher which was
printed after a major editing.
The reason for this editing, as
I understand it, was to imple-
ment a change in Thresher pol-
icy regarding printing personal
attacks on the editor.
That the Thresher be able
to change its policy, or estab-
lish such policy is a perogative
of the editor, although I per-
sonally disagree with said
policy. That the Thresher imple-
ment the change in the way it
did with my letter is indefens-
ible. The letter was, in effect,
no longer mine although my
name was retained on the
letter.
In deference to the Thresh-
er's policy, I do not present the
missing pasts of the letter for
publication. I do announce that
the letter, which dealt not with
freshmen initiation as billed
but rather with the lack of
positive emphasis by the
Thresher, specifically stipulated
that it be printed "in full and
unabridged." In such case,
there was little ground for the
interpretation by the editor.
In view of this, I can only
advise the students of Rice Uni-
versity of this incident, and
trust that public censure be
brought to bear.
This letter is to be printed
full and unabridged.
CARL W. ULRICH
Hanszen '67
Schnitt comments on Ulrich tirade
To the editor:
"We at A&M are not op-
posed to criticism as long as
it is constructive criticism.
There is no call for destructive
criticism . . . Aggies have to
stand up for Aggies."
—General Earl Rudder, cen-
suring the Texas A&M
Battalion.
"Constructive criticism, not
detractive criticism, is the pre-
requisite for a positive develop-
ment."
—Carl Ulrich, censuring the
Rice Thresher.
Although I am extremely
reluctant to draw what might
be considered a scurrilous par-
allel, the two quotaticfhs do
bear a startling similarity. In
fact, General Rudder and Mr.
Ulrich's philosophies of criti-
cism would have been in com-
plete accord, had the latter
only exhorted Owls to stand up
for Owls.
Yet it was Henry Cabot
Lodge, of all people, who had
the clearest insight into the
real nature of criticism:
"It is not the business of
criticism to be constructive. If
a burglar comes into a house
and threatens my life and that
of my family I shall shoot him
if I can, which is destructive
criticism; but I do not feel
bound ... to offer him another
profession instead of the one
he now practices."
We must therefore abandon
the fatuous distinction between
"positive" and "negative" criti-
cism. If Thresher criticism of
"cherished things" at Rice is
intolerable for Mr. Ulrich,
then let him join General Rud-
der's academic community on
the Brazos. Politics, they say,
makes strange bedfellows.
BILL SCHNITT
Hanszen '68
To the editor,
It appears from Mr. Need-
ham's piece of oratory in last
week's Thresher that: a) he is
not satisfied with the educa-
tion he received at Rice; and b)
he feels the Alumni Office's re-
quest for funds was poorly
worded. He offers these as rea-
sons for intelligent Rice alumni
to thumb their noses at the
Alumni Association, and it is
this reasoning which I question.
If the Alumni appeal centers
its argument about the premise
that an alumnus owes them
money in return for having re-
ceived an education, then I
agree that it should be revised.
Regardless of what the Alumni
Association says in its letters,
however, it seems obvious to
me that the only reason for con-
tributing is to provide the Uni-
versity with the necessary mon-
ey for expenses and improve-
ments.
If a graduate is interested
in the university making im-
provements, he contributes; if
he is not, he doesn't. He may
contribute and still be free to
orate all he wishes about the
university's faults and short-
comings without being hypo-
critical—in fact, his contribu-
tion might well be interpreted
as a sign that when he criticizes
the school he is doing so con-
structively, not irresponsibly.
Mr. Needham has by now
written me off as another who
has been seduced by universi-
ty propaganda and whose think-
ing ability has been stifled by
"the constrictions of a Rice at-
mosphere." I am only sori-y
that he cannot bring himself to
place a gift of turning pretty
phrases at the service of the
Alumni Office. He would simply
overwhelm the alumni.
JOHN C. MARTIN
Will Rice '66
Louis challenges students' response
1.V n
It is true that last week Mr.
Ulrich appended two notes to
his letter. In one note, he
requested that the letter be
printed in full or not at all;
and in the other note he sug-
gested that the editor confer
with him concerning the letter.
During the conference, the
editor explained Thresher poli-
cy concerning leters and sug-
gested that certain parts of
Mr. Ulriich's letter be deleted
or modified to conform to this
policy. At no time did Mr. Ul-
rich say that he would not
tolerate these revisions, and his
final comment was "Well, it's
your paper. Do what you want
with it (the letter).
The Thresher's policy does
not concern personal attacks on
the editor, but concerns the
proper use of its column space.
The shortage of available space
o|Jen causes important stories
to be deleted or edited, and re-
cent experience has shown that
wordy letters take up more
space than they deserve.
In view of the fact that Mr.
Ulrich's comments seemed not
only irrevelant to the substance
of his argument, but untrue
with respect to the actual op-
eration of the Thresher, they
were deleted as inessential, in-
accurate, and perhaps offensive.
To the editor
An exciting thing happened
on Rice campus Monday: the
Teach-In. I personally ran a
gamut of emotions during the
ten hours. More important to
me, however, was the informa-
tion passed on by the speak-
ers. The First Ward is no long-
er just a vague place on the
north side. "Burn, Baby, Burn!"
cries do exist in Houston. The
Mexican - American migrant
worker is no longer going to
stand for servile wages.
Even so, I left the meeting
frustrated and embarrassed.
The Teach-in had come to Rice,
but Rice had not come to the
Teach-in—at least not in any
significant numbers.
Where was Rice at the
Teach-in? I am not the only
person who wondered. Panel-
ists and newspapermen sought
the answer also. The afternoon
sessions were poorly attended
(2000 persons had classes and
labs all Monday afternoon? I
doubt it.)
The evening program did
muster several hundred spec-
tators and participants. Visi-
tors, however, comprised about
a third of the audience. Of
course, the talks were blared
over the campus via loud speak-
er. Perhaps the rest of the Owls
were nesting in nearby trees.
I fail to see how we as a stu-
dent body can justify our pleas
to the Administration to revolu-
tionize education, to get away
from the Ivory Tower image
when we seem utiwilling to mo-
tivate ourselves out of a womb-
like existence.
Rice has the advantage of a
predominantly "home grown"
Texas student body. We have to
care about community projects.
We live here. I can not be con-
vinced that most of us do not
have some sphere of knowledge
that we would like to utilize in
some other place besides a blue
book.
I do not mean to berate the
proposed Rice community pro-
ject to raise money for a park.
Houston has far too little park
space per capita. However, if I
may paraphrase Kenneth I1 air-
child, special assistant to Mayor
Welch, who was a panelist Mon-
day night: porcelainized water
fountains are not going to solve
the problems of Houston minor-
ity groups.
I throw open to the Thresher
readers Dr. Grob's question to
panelists, do you think there is
a solution? If you do, or if you
do not, I urge you to express
your opinions and act upon
them. I refuse to accept the ex-
cuse that Rice is dead.
JULIE LOUIS
Brown '69
Pickel in a pickle?
To the editor:
The "frustrated" reporter
who contrived the article labeled
"Rice, scream . . ." too cowardly
to place his name at the head
of his article perhaps because
of recollections of the reaction
to another controversial article
to which he did submit his
name, obviously did not com-
prehend the importance of the
petition. In his effort to elicit
chuckles, the young humorist
ridiculed the democratic efforts
of Baker College members to
toward an action of the olig-
archy on the Baker Cabinet, in
opposition to the will of the
college members and obviously
"not in the best interests of
Baker College."
With respect to the reference
to "a frustrated politician," this
t e r m is m ore applicable to
members of the Baker Cabinet.
BILL PICKEL
Baker '67
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Coyner, Sandy. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1966, newspaper, December 8, 1966; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244987/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.