The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1970 Page: 6 of 8
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Huser's Jewelry-
Diamonds — Watches
Jewelry
2409 Rice Blvd. 528-4413
Harold's Garage
HENRY J. ENGEL, Owner
^ Automatic Transmissions
^ Paint & Body Shop
^ Air Conditioning
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2431 Dunstan
JA 8-5323
Off the wall:
Basil Webb reminisces about good ole days
By BASIL WEBB
One of the editors must not
have liked me much. They cut
my column the last two weeks
to fill this rag with unabashed
drivel. Sorry, folks, I just work
heie.
More potpourri: This writer
noticed one characteristic of the
people who packed the Home-
coming- Dance Saturday night:
Nearly all were seniors, fifth-
years or recent alumni. The
day when Rice was known (and
revered, for such things were
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important, then) as the school
that threw the wildest parties
are long gone. In 1965, for ex-
ample, the Rally Club threw
Grundelet, and paid (not to
mention scores of unpaid) ad-
missions totaled more than 1500
couples. Needless to say, they
were not all Rice students, but
the unanimity of student at-
tendance at such events was
well-known. They were the pan-
acea for a week (and weeks
wei*e six days then, for classes
used to be held on Saturday,
too) of the Grind.
Troubles with the law slowed
down the big parties, when in
1967, the sheriff of Sugartown
checked over 150 ID's at the
Sugartown Airport Grundelet
before he found a single person
who was at least 21. The beer
supplier was hauled away, the
party ended, and the Rally Club
lived off the profits for three
years. But today's parties, and
today's "in" things-to-do pre-
sent bigger problems: after all,
there are no ID's which legalize
dope. Until such an ID exists,
the unanimous Rice party is
probably dead, and those few
that do happen will be attended
largely by individuals paying
tribute to a glorified, and ex-
tinct, tradition.
U of H In
One of the columns which
was supposed to be printed but
was cut dealt with the subject
of admitting the University of
Houston to the Southwest Con-
ference. This writer presented
his viewpoints and declared that
the University of Houston
needed the SWC and that the
SWC is really hurting unless
U of H gets in. These argu-
ments may be read in the over-
set type at Scardinos' print
shop.
Hostile
If you were in the audience
at the Saturday matinee per-
formance of "Little Murders,"
you witnessed the all-time low-
point of audience reception for
a Players production. The alum-
ni, as befits their average sta-
tus of middle-aged, middle-
classed, conservative, tradition-
bound Americans, were plainly
offended, but, by all the wrong
parts. One member of the cast
swears that the audience's per-
functory applause at the end,
instead of swelling as the cur-
tain call progressed, actually
died almost entirely when the
prof who played (and quite
superbly, I might add) the
preacher came out. It was as
though they forgot any sort of
open-mindedness their Rice ed-
ucation was supposed to instill
in them and accepted the play
not as an artistic presentation
but as a statement of belief by
the cast. Let us fervently hope
that if we learn nothing else
from our years here, that we
gain an open mind, or at least
a tolerant attitude.
Not Oct. 15
The editors have asked me to
announce that there will be no
Tresher next week. The edi-
torial deadline for the next pa-
per will be Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Crowfoot says increase needed
To the Editor:
Why vote for a blanket tax
increase? A favorable vote will
moan that KTRU can go FM
effectively, the SA Senate can
act rather than merely react,
due to its present financial
straitjacket, the SA Social Com-
mittee can expand its opera-
tions, and the Honor Council
can keep out of debt when pub-
lishing' its handbooks.
The Student Association was
1 conceived as an institution to
handle those matters out of the
concern of the individual Col-
leges, to act independently of
"them in those affairs that con-
cern the Student body as a
whole. But this ideal of inde-
pendence has not been realized
over the last two years. The
money budgeted to the SA out
of blanket tax fees is simply
nut enough to cover the de-
mands made on this organiza-
tion. Time and again we have
had to beg the colleges for fi-
nancial support for our im-
portant projects, chiefly social
activities and more recently,
the hiring of a permanent, full-
time secretary to coordinate the
affairs of the Student Center
Board, the Honor Council, and
the Forum committee as well
as the Senate. However, the col-
leges operate on budgets as
tight although considerably
larger than o.urs, and only grud-
gingly help us out. We would
never have made it last year
without a generous loan from
the SCB.
KTRU would like to expand
its facilities to serve the stu-
dents better, also. The pro-
posal for a $1.50 blanket tax in-
crease for KTRU is the mini-
mum amount necessary to pur-
chase equipment vital to the
operation of an FM outlet. With
this money KTRU can apply for
the FM license (all legal and
permissional qualifications have
been met) and send its signal
off-campus for a radius of
about five miles. Without this
money, its service will remain
limited to on-campus opera-
tions.
One other student committee
has been operating on loans
from the Dean of Students Of-
fice for several years. The Hon-
or Council has been hard press-
ed to carry on its allotted ten
cents a student, and is re-
questing an increase of fifteen
cents. Dean Wierum has been
kind to the council in the past
but again, such a group should
be directly and completely fi-
nanced by Rice students. The
approval of this increase, ef-
fective second semester, will
make that possible.
MELISSA CROWFOOT
SA Secretary
l-S(C) presents trap to unwary
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Unfortunately the conse-'
quences of obtaining a I-S(C)
are dangerously misunderstood.
Some draft board members re-
gard the I-S(C) as a "stalling"
device that calls for prompt in-
duction as soon as the student
becomes I-A again.
The source of this misunder-
standing is an obscure proviso
in the new lottery regulations.
Although these regulations were
promulgated by President Nix-
on last November, the impact of
the proviso will be felt for the
first time during the next six
months.
The proviso warns: ". . .
That any registrant classified
. . . I-A or . . . I-A-0 i.e., a
C.O. available for noncombat-
ant service) . . . whose (lottery)
number has been reached,., and
who would have been ordered to
report for induction except for
delays due to a pending per-
sonal appearance, appeal, pre-
induction physical examination,
reclassification, or otherwise,
shall if and when found ac-
ceptable and when such delay is
concluded, be ordered to report
for induction. . . ." (32 C.F.R.
S1631.7a, emphasis added).
This proviso is designed to
trap the man whose lottery
number was reached during his
delay and who would have been
sent an induction order except
for the delay. While the delay
persists, the man will be tem-
porarily passed over. In effect,
the issuance of his induction
order is merely postponed.
That order will eventually
fall like a Sword of Damocles.
As soon as the delay ends, and
the man is I-A (or I-A-O), the
draft board will drop back to
his lottery number. He will
then be caught by the "stalling"
trap and faced with belated
"Greetings."
At first blush, the proviso
seems to raise a serious ques-
tion about the I-S(C): Does a
"delay due to a . . . reclassifi-
cation" occur whenever a stu-
dent is reclassified from I-A
(or I-A-O) to I-S(C)? If so,
the student might justly fear
an inevitable induction order
soon after his I-S(C) expires.
Some draft board members
are under the impression that
"reclassification" into I-S(C)
falls within the scope of the
proviso. In other words, the "re-
classification" has delayed the
induction of a student that
would otherwise have ben ac-
complished.
This interpretation is dead
wrong — although it probably
will not be challenged in court
until at least next summer
(perhaps by one of you). Even
assuming a student's I-S(C) is
a "reclas'sification," no board
member can correctly character-
ize the student as one "who
would have been ordered to re-
port for induction except for de-
lays due to a . . . reclassifica-
tion. . . ." This fact should be,
transparently clear from the
vex-y nature of the I-S(C): A
student cannot even qualify foi
the I-S(C), unless he has ac-
tually received an induction or-
der. Therefore, he could nevet
be characterized as one who
"would have been" ordered ta
report. By definition the stu-
dent has, in fact, been ordered
to report; and this definition
excludes the student from the
specific terms of the proviso.
If your board mistakenly
springs the "stalling" trap on
you next year after your I-S(C)
expires, consult a lawyer im-
mediately. Your board will have
acted in a "blatantly lawless"
manner, and you should be able
to get into court and enjoin
your induction. (In future col-
umns we will have much more
to say about the availability of
preinduction judicial relief).
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Mauldin, John. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1970, newspaper, October 8, 1970; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245088/m1/6/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.