The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1978 Page: 2 of 12
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Editorial
Next week one of the foremost globetrotters of all
times takes a side trip to Rice— the big "K" himself—
Henry Kissenger. His fare, however, did not come
cheap. Considering what the convicted criminals of
that administration command in lecture fees, the
Development Office had to shell out a lot of devalued
dollars to get the man who saved the world to speak at
the Rice Associates banquet.
While his hosts could have had him appear before a
gathering of substantial contributors to the university,
it was decided to add a talk for the students. My
prejudice against fetes for rich donors aside, I would
like to commend the Vice-President W. W. Akers and the
Development Office for their generosity. They didn't
have to do it. Unfortunately the location of the lecture
remains in doubt because of a scheduling conflict. The
Sheperd School of Music had set a recital in Hamman
Hall the same afternoon, so the Kissenger talk was
moved to Chem Lec. The move cost about 200 available
places. As any Chem 101 student will confirm, there is
an obvious esthetic difference between the two
facilities.
By the time this Thresher appears, the difficulty
might have already been resolved. (I hope so.)
Nevertheless the final location remained TBA for
almost two weeks. Granted there is a lack of suitable
places for public meetings— if the audience is too large
for Hamman or the RMC Grand Hall and too small for
the stadium, forget it. Eventually someone may build a
medium-sized auditorium and more than likely the
music school will be the department to do it. In the
mean time we must cooperate in using the present
facilities. —philip parker
LeRoy review blasted
To the Editor:
In last week's Thresher,
Greg LeRoy stated that Baker's
production of Love's Labors
Lost needed more sobriety.
How much sobriety do three
enthusiastic youths in search
of perfection need? The oath
was completely ridiculous to
begin with, and their non-
adherence to the punishment
of Costard blended perfectly
with the "Three Stooges"
start.
Since the play deals with the
absurdity of courtly love and
its deficiencies in communi-
cating the true feeling of love,
it is appropriate to use farce
and slapstick comedy as a way
of underscoring a theme of the
play.
WILLY
Aside from the English
major's viewpoint that it
emphasized the absurdity of
courtly love, the production
made the play highly
enjoyable. Without the
comedy and movement the
play would have been an
intolerable drama dragging
on and on.
The eavesdropping scene
and Muscovite encounter
unmentioned in LeRoy's
review made it an especially
delightful production. Does
Greg LeRoy object to an
audience's obvious enjoyment
of Shakespearean theater?
Eddie Jennings
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A Modest Proposal—An Open
Letter to the Honor Council
On a recent Physics 102
quiz, one-third of the students
misspelled "neither" or
"receive" in the honor pledge.1
(Perhaps this only occurs in
science courses.) It has
become very tiresome to me to
correct the misspelling of
these words. I also realize that
it is a great intellectual
challenge to a student to be
expected to worry about
spelling on a difficult physics
quiz, and especially to expect
him to remember that
complicated rule:
"Put i before e, except after c,
or when sounded like a, as in
neighbor and weigh."
Learn this rule—do it today!
(There are, of course, a few
exceptions. Science and
neither are prominent ones.)
by Jeff Kerr
Some students try to evade
this challenge by writing
"Pledge" or "On my honor..."
but this is not in the spirit of
the honor code. I therefore
suggest that the wording of
the pledge be changed so that
it requires very little thought. I
propose:
"On my honor, I never gave
or took aid on this exam."
To borrow a phrase from a
recent laboratory report of one
of my students, I hope this
proposal will be "subject to
scrutinous examination."
1This is still considerably
better than a random guess
which would give a factor of
three-fourths.
H.E. Rorschach
Professor of Physics
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PHILIP PARKER
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 22, 1978, newspaper, March 22, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245366/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.