The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1972 Page: 2 of 14
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the rice thresher
editorials
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The Christmas story once again peals out upon a
happy little stereophonic, filtertip world of parking tick-
ets, blue books, and dexedrine.
The booming carols in glittering, teeming depart-
ment stores remind us of the joyous message—that we
can shelve our books for bottles and speed over turn-
pikes to share a few precious days with our families,
old friends, and perhaps lavishing what remains of our-
selves and our wallets on a special someone.
Strange that the humble 'birth of a baby in an obs-
cure village of the Near East a couple of thousand
years ago should so disrupt the pattern of the Good Life
that even the New York Stock Exchange pauses for the
day.
Odd that church bells in Brussels, Boston, Buenos
Aires, and Biloxi ring out to commemorate the coming
of a child who would never know the intricacies of eco-
nomic warfare and foreign policy, much less the diplo-
macy of cocktail party etiquette.
Funny that angels and shepherds should share top
billing with Peyton Place, missiles, and sensational mur-
ders.
More unusual still are the moments amid the tinsel
and eggnog when we realize that the celebrated infant
of a. far-off time and place was a living symbol of all
the love and humanity that man can ever hope to know.
This editorial was written in 1959 by Thresher associate editor Bill Delaney,
: mi has traditionally been reprinted each year before Christmas.
threshing-it-out
Pre-written papers violate code
Last week the American Copy-
righting and Publishing Com-
pany appeared on campus to
pursue its business of selling
term papers and research
papers. To avoid any possible
confusion the Honor Council
wants to make clear the posi-
tion of these papers in light
of the Honor System.
The Honor System Booklet
defines plagiarism as "the use
of another's words or ideas as
one's own without properly
crediting the source." The sub-
mitting of such a paper as one's
own is an intentional, deliberate
violation of the Honor System.
The Council feels unanimously
that such a violation should re-
ceive a minimum penalty of one
year's suspension.
According to our definition of
plagiarism, there is but one pos-
sible legitimate use of such a
paper. This would be for the
student to treat such a paper
as he would any other source
of information from which he
is writing his paper. Any ideas
or quotes taken from the pur-
chased paper would need to be
properly footnoted in the body
of the student's paper, and the
purchased paper should be listed
in the bibliography. Thus the
purchased paper would become
just another reference. The
proper reference would need to
be something like, "Paper of
unknown author purchased
from American Copyrighting
and Publishing Company." The
Honor Council would consider
anything short of this treat-
ment a deliberate violation and
would recommend at least a
year's suspension.
Finally, any students who
wish to discuss the matter, or
know of any dealings with this
company are encouraged to con-
tact any member of the Honor
Council or the Dean of Stu-
dents.
Gregg Young
Honor Council Chairman
SCOAP wants people to sell Rice
To the editor:
There is nothing accidental
about quality. That applies to
the student body at Rice as
much as anything else.
The past few years have seen
a decline in both overall qual-
ity and sheers numbers of ap-
plicants. Like other private
schools, even "prestige" schools,
we are losing many highly
qualified people to state schools.
An attitude that the good
students will find Rice by
themselves is slowly being re-
placed by the realization that
we must actively recruit or give
up the traditional excellence of
the Rice student body. The Sen-
ate Committee on Admissions
Policy, Richard Stabell, Director
of Academic Records, James
Giles, Director of Admissions,
and others realize the increased
need to "sell" Rice.
Rice students can play a
large role in this effort. Stu-
dents are needed to talk to ap-
plicants and visit high schools
in their hometowns over Christ-
mas break. Those interested in
helping maintain Rice's excel-
lence should attend a meeting
tomorrow, December 8, at 3:00
P.M. in Chemistry Lecture Hall.
Procedures for contacting pro-
spective students will be discus-
sed with the Admissions Office
staff. For further information
contact Goldie Dominque 526-
0639, Glen Morehead 521-9019
or Jim Asker 524-3423.
Sincerely,
The Senate Committee
on Admissions Policy
Rice could benefit greatly from more student input
a: ihe highest levels. Maybe the idea of having one or
more students on the Board of Governors is a good one.
Some advantages are obvious. The Governors are
presently too remote from student life to administer a
I'aiversity; many students have no idea who they are
or what they do. Advisory committees exist, but these
are controlled by President Hackerman. Communication
between students and governors is not ineffective; it
is nonexistent. Clearly, the Board can't work at top ef-
ficiency as matters stand.
Furthermore, some communication (Read: infor-
mation) about Board activity might have prevented
the "R" rorae debacle. It might still prevent a future one.
The Board's greatest fault is that the viewpoint it
lakes is too long-term. This is understandable, but harfK
on those of us who are hurting now for the benefit of
someone twenty years hence. The student viewpoint,
which tends toward a fix-it-yesterday attitude, would
counter this.
Clearly, there will be advantages. But some factors
may or may not work to Rice's benefit, and the com-
mittee drawing up the proposal will have to weight these
carefully.
Method of selection of the student members is one
of these. The students will have to choose their repre-
sentatives, but the Board will insist on some say about
who joins them. Hopefully, compromise will be possible.
Length of terms is another. Students are here for
five years at the most. That's not much time to learn
about Rice, win an election, learn the ropes on the
Board, and still do some effective work.
Finally, there is the effect on Rice's image. Stu-
dent participation on the Board should have only favor-
able results on the community and on admissions, but,
if opponents of the program precipitate a battle, the
reverse will be true. Antagonism will be rekindled, as
students are cast in the role of rebels and administrators
as tyrants for the amusement of the news media and
bystanders. And nothing will get done.
We can't let that happen.
thre
STEVE JACKSON
Editor
MALCOLM WADDELL
Business Manager
Lew Hancock Advertising Manager
Virginia Jee Assistant Business
Manager
Ralph Umbarger Calendar Editor
H. David Danglo Assistant Editor
Morty Rich Assistant Editor
%Rean Ornish Head Photographer
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Greg Norris Sports Editor
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the rice thresher, december 7, 1972—page 2
The following speech, pre-
sented by the Dean of the Yale
Law School to the President and
Fellows of Yale University, was
■sent to me recently by Bill
Ballovv, formerly President of
the Rice Alumni Association.
The speech expresses What he
and many other liberals see, or
believe they see, occuring" in
the American University in the
1970's. Apparently, many per-
sons who delighted in the
changes in the University which
occured in the late 1960's are
disquieted by what they con-
sider to be an apathetic after-
math.
I don't necessarily agree with
this viewpoint, for I think that
student involvement may well
have taken a more practicable
turn. But the real reason for
publishing this article is its in-
herent relevance to the upcom-
ing self-study of Rice Univer-
sity. Students must—and will
—become involved in this self-
examination in order to pro-
duce the meaningful results we
so desperately need.
Rob Quartel
To the President and Fellows
of Yale University:
In my second year as Dean,
the storms we had anticipated
when I took office in the spring
of 1970 did not materialize. The
new intellectual sport on cam-
pus is to fathom what is really
going on. Could it really be that
those who raged so recently are
now satisfied ? The answer in
my view is a complex one. The
students in the Law School
have, after all, lived the history
of the past few years, even as
we have. They have noted the
curiously cathartic quality of
much that had been happening,
the psychodrama that seemed
too often to be taking place. It
became apparent to them and
to- us that volatility and pas-
sion are never enough, that com-
plex phenomena require, study
and organization and steadiness
of purpose if important changes
are to be made.
Perhaps, after a period like
the one we had been through,
it was inevitable that students
everywhere, and faculties too,
would turn inward: out of emo-
tional exhaustion, out of a feel-
ing that everything had become
too complicated, out of a hope
that the withdrawal of our
troops from Vietnam was in
sight. No sooner did things
quiet down on campus than we
heard that perhaps things were
too quiet. Many among us wor-
ried that students might have
given up on our society.
Much of the anxiety we felt,
as a law7 school community and
as a nation, about the "turning
inward'' may be traced to the
overheated rhetoric and apo-
calyptic styles which had be-
come all too common. We had
heard too often from too many
quarters that we were locked
into hopelessly irreconcilable
conflicts: about war, race rela-
tions, education, the environ-
ment. We feared that too many-
would be unable to take the
perspective of history and
would assume that problems
which could not be solved in-
stantly could not be solved at
all. Even as change was taking
place all about us through con-
ventional political process, we
heard the steady refrain that
change was impossible within
the system. Even as a President
was being toppled, 18-year-olds
given the right to vote, political
primary rules revamped, legis-
latures reapportioned—so many
changes that we could hardly
absorb them — we found our-
selves being persuaded that our
society was stagnant.
For all the apocalyptic talk,
for all the doom and gloom,
perhaps because of it, more stu-
dents have been applying to law
schools than ever before: the
the hope that law can be a
greatest part of them moved by
creative force, as well as a mod-
erating one, that it can bring
desired social change without
tearing society apart.
We hope these new students
will learn how essential it is,
for lawyers and people general-
ly, to tolerate and handle am-?
against cynics
biguity. It is much too easy to
asume that somewhere there is
someone who has the key to
it all: the social worker in
juvenile courts and prisons, the
psychiatrist in clinic and hos-
pital, the engineer or the econ-
omist in regulating our en-
vironment. The hard fact is that
every problem we unravel seems
to lead to others. We open door
after door to discover there is
no one there, that there are few
panaceas.
It is at this very point that
we are at greatest risk. Overly
sophisticated and approaching
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