The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1977 Page: 2 of 12
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the rice thresher
Creating this summer issue wasn't quite as easy as
doing the past two; there just weren't any good
natural disasters to fill space with. Two seasons
ago, Rice experienced a fire in the Hanszen
Commons; last year, water destroyed the RMC
basement. This year I was hoping for locusts to
complete the cycle. Or is that toads. Anyway. With
another effort slated for August 11, plenty of time
remains for a catastrophe to meet our deadlines.
New to the Thresher this year is the feature
magazine, Quadrangles. The thirty-plus page
publication will contain articles about dining,
entertainment and cultural events in the Houston
area and about the traditions and history of Rice
University as well as some reflections on its present
and its future.
Appearing in late July, Quadrangles will be
mailed to incoming freshmen and Houston area
alumni. However, plenty of copies should be
available for returning students during the first
week of classes. Next semester the Thresher will
return to weekly publication on each Thursday after
two and a half years of semi-weekly publication. The
staff reached the decision when they discovered that
there were other things to do besides working on the
paper: sleep, eat, attend classes, and possibly even
pass.
However, the cutback will only be in the number of
days the Thresher appears. The size should remain
the same—sixteen to twenty pages a week. In a
weekly Thresher we plan to have news coverage
which is more than just a headline service, more in-
depth articles on aspects of the university and more
in<lepth articles about you, members of the Rice
community. The fine arts section will focus on
upcoming events and help you plan your weekend
activities and the sport section will provide
information about Rice sports the Houston papers
won't. (Does the Post care who won the Tuesday
intramural football league?)
I'm getting ahead of myself. Some of you are new to
this. This is the Thresher, or Trasher if you prefer.
Don't confuse us with the Daily Fish wrap, Deadly
Texan, or Buttalion. We might not be what you
would expect from a college newspaper. We just have
that slightly out of phase world view that keeps us
from ever taking ourselves too seriously.
Come by and talk. We're relatively harmless.
Besides, this is your newspaper, not the property of
the staff, editor or any other student organization.
"An all-student newspaper" is a hollow phrase
without your help. _phiUp parker
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(Thresher staffer Jim Fowler
mailed his article for this issue
in along with a covering letter.
When these missives arrived
in the Thresher office,
however, no one was able to
determine which one was
which. The only fair thing to
do was to flip a coin. Herewith,
Jim Fowler.—php)
Dear Phil,
Here it is only two weeks
since I received your letter and
I'm already answering you.
How time flies when you're
putting off something. You've
probably noticed by now that
this is not typewritten, but not
all of us have expensive
writing equipment at our
fingertips. But then if I make a
mistake, all I have to do is
BBancx&out and it's all taken
care of.
For the past three weeks I've
been working with my uncle's
construction company. They
let me climb to the top of the
company ladder. They don't
know it yet, but I'm quitting
next Wednesday. I don't mind
working for my money, but
this is ridiculous. Maybe I've
acquired a lazy streak working
for the Thresher. Just sit
around drinking free Coke and
putting down whoever is not in
the office at the time. You
remember the good ole days.
As for when I am coming
back to Houston, I can say
with much conviction that I'm
not sure yet. Probably when
my money runs out on me and
I find myself longing for the
good things in life like food
and shelter. Maybe I could
make a living selling
Thresher subscriptions door-
to-door. Show them a copy of
the Post and tell them that the
Post reviewers lift articles
from us. They'll never know
the difference.
You kn^w that jingle that
Channel 2 uses? "It's 2
country, it's your country, it's 2
country..." Well, it seems that
a channel 13 up here uses the
exact jingle except for the digit
change of course. Make me feel
right at home in the heart of
hokiness. "It's too hoky, it's so
hoky, it's too hoky..."
So much for the really
crucial events in my life. You
can probably tell what a wild,
excitement-packed summer I
am leading. Turning into a
regular hellion, the terror of
the local Dairy Queen. It's the
dippy cones. Do it to me every
time.
Enclosed is my contribution
to the June 30 edition of the
paper. I know how much
everybody is looking forward
to some brand new bullshit
after all the same old bullshit.
Just imagine the look on their
faces when they thumb
through and realize that even
during the summer they can't
get away from us. But then we
do want them to get their $3.60
worth. The "YOU-CAN'T
GET-AWAY-FROM-US, WE-
HAVE-YOUR-MAILING-
ADDRESS, OCCUPANT"
issue of the new, improved,
wildly out of control
Thresher. The new, improved
Thresher. It slices, it dices, it
absorbs more than ever. Think
of the possibilities.
See what happens when I
get a pen in my hand? My
paragraph structure bites the
dust, my sentences become
sentence fragments, my pen
runneth over at the tip... Yes,
if you too find it difficult
expressing yourself, you may
have a rewarding future
awaiting you in pseudo-
journalism.
I've always found it difficult
ending a letter without being
obvious about it. If a
paragraph starts out with a
"Well, I better wind this up
now", you just know the final
salutation is sneaking up on
you.
So, to alleviate this
situation, I'll just pick a space
at random and end it
here. No, maybe
it would look better
here. Uh uh,
clashes with the period. Let's
see, how about
over there? Here?
No, a little more to your
right. Too far, now
move it to your left. How about
Don't be silly, not in the
margin. Nice people don't use
the margin.
Jim
No, wait a minute, I don't like
that ending. It's not like the
book at all. It's awkward,
clumsy. Too predictable. What
I need is an ending that sums
it up without advertising this
fact. An ending that tastes
and smells like an ending, but
with only half the calumnies.
A refreshing difference, like a
thousand tiny fingers urging
you to let go. What I need is a
beginning, something that
fulfills the USDA minimum
daily requirements for
vitamins and irony in a tasty,
bite-size form. So light you can
swim with it on and not have
to worry about tell-tale stares
from rude people who shake
their heads and go tut-tut as if
you were going out of your way to
attract attention when all you ask for is
your own comer
PHILIP PARKER
the Editor
STEVE SETSER
■ ■_ M _ -HlVfVt Business Manager
tnresner Becky Bbnar
Advertising Manager
Barry Jones Associate Editor
Jim Beall Associate Editor
Jim Fowler Columnist-in-exile
T. W. Cook Head Photographer
Bill Studabaker Production Chief
Greg LeRoy F. Arts Editor
Mark Linimion «• Page the Back
Editorial Staff Stan Barber, Kim Brown, Matt Muller
Photography Staff A1 Bird, Wiley Sanders, Walter Underwood
Production folk grungy
London Bureau Carla McFarland, Jim Tennant
The Rice Thresher, the official student newspaper at Rice University
since 1916, is published weekly on Thursdays during the school year,
except during examination periods and holidays, by the students of Rice
University, phone 527-4801. Advertising information is available on
request, phone 527-4802. Editorial and business offices are located on
the second floor of the Rice Memorial Center, P.O. Box 1892, Houston,
Texas 77001. Mail subscription rate, $10 per year. The opinions
expressed herein are not necessarily those of anyone except the writer.
Obviously.
©Copyright 1977, Hie Rice Thresher. All rights reserved.
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1977, newspaper, July 1, 1977; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245338/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.