RMC Grand Hall to become Hanszen's commons Houston: the view ...

In aftermath of fire 

RMC Grand Hall to become Hanszen's commons 

by EMILY COFFMAN 

Sine© fire destroyed Hanszen 

Commons last month, the University 

has been searching for a 

solution to offer Hanszen members 

as a suitable temporary 

replacement. This past week, the 

administration announced that 

the Grand Hall would be designated 

"Hanszen College North" 

for the upcoming academic year, 

or until a new commons can be 

built. 

Hanszen President Dave Fleischer 

feels that, while the RMC 

is not the "optimal solution for 

Hanszen," it is "more than adequate." 

And, he adds, though a 

temporary building would have 

been more satisfactory from the 

college's point of view, its higher 

cost made it less than acceptable 

for the University. Both he and 

(Master) Stephen Baker feel that 

the RMC is the only acceptable 

alternative to a temporary building, 

since other solutions would 

have meant dispersing the college 

and loss of college spirit. 

The Grand Hall will be used 

for the same purposes as other 

college commons, and Fleischer 

envisions a "restructuring and 

decorating" of the room to 

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volume 63, number 2 august, 1975 It's coming 

Houston: the view from inside the hedges 

by GARY BREWTON 

Critics of the Athletic Program 

often say that big time 

athletics (especially football) is 

out of place at Rice, the socalled 

Harvard of the South. In 

fact, it may be the other way 

around; Rice, not football, may 

be out of place in the cultural/ 

social/economic milieu which is 

Houston. That may give you an 

idea of the environment in 

which Rice, like an oasis in the 

desert, exists. 

Rather than being in competition, 

though (despite differing 

value systems), Rice and Houston 

have long benefitted off 

each other's prosperity. Since 

1916, Rice has provided 

leadership and technical expertise 

for much of Houston's (and 

Texas') business world, particularly-Big 

Oil. 

in this issue... 

This August issue is particularly directed towards incoming students. 

Various articles provide information about entertainment (page 

8), sports (page 14), and the overall environment ( page 1). 

The problems at Fondren Library are investigated, page 3. 

Title IX's effects on women's athletics are reported, page 13. 

Hanszen College will get the Grand Hall for its Commons until a new 

one can replace the one damaged by fire earlier this summer, 

above. 

Regular features: Capsules, This Month, page 10; Letters, page 2; 

Calendar, Misclassifieds, Notes and Notices, page 16. 

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In exchange, Rice has received 

substantial gifts from its 

alumni and friends, the Captains 

of Industry. These have included 

people such as George R. Brown 

(founder of Brown and Root, 

general contractors), Harry Wiess 

(founder of Humble Oil Co.), H. 

G. Symonds (chairman of Ten- 

neco), Jesse Jones (the Houston 

Chronicle, Texas Commerce 

Bank), Oveta Culp Hobby (the 

Houston Post), J. Newton Rayzor, 

R. H. Hargrove, Mr. and 

Mrs. John deMenil (Schlumberger), 

J. S. Abercrombie (Cameron 

Iron Works), W. W. Fondren, 

Mrs. Cleveland Sewall, Gus Wor- 

tham (American General Insurance 

Company), Herbert Allen 

(Cameron Iron), and many 

others. Even though the wealthy 

are in the driver's seat, they have 

wisely chosen not to interfere in 

most routine University affairs 


Rape counseling service open 

by EMILY COFFMAN 

The rape problem at Rice 

seems rather incongruous, considering 

the insularity from Houston 

most on-campus students 

feel. However, the FBI reports 

that rape is the most rapidly 

increasing crime of personal violence 

in the country. And, 

though state Jaws are changing, 

rape is still for the most part a 

crime that sets up the victim for 

more scandal that the attacker 

receives. 

The trauma of rape is often 

compounded by the response 

from those around the victim 

long after the actual attack. Not 

only are the hospitals and police 

stations unfriendly and uncaring, 

undergo extensive training 

before becoming counselors, are 

always available by calling Crisis 

Hotline, 228-1505. 

The Coalition also offers discussion 

groups, self-defense 

courses, and other information 

about rape and how to handle it. 

The group was started a few 

years ago when the Houston 

chapter of NOW sponsored a 

Task Force on Rape. The members 

of the then-unnamed group 

interviewed hospital employees, 

police, and others who deal with 

rape victims, to get their reactions 

to the crime; they then set 

up the non-profit organization. 

They receiv no federal or local 

funds, but survive only on con- 

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the victim's associates are often**tributions and the monies thev 

unsure of how to react. 

To help reduce the feeling of 

aloneness, a group of women 

and men in the Houston area 

have volunteered their time to 

form the Houston Rape Crisis 

Coalition. These people offer 

counselling to rape victims, no 

matter how long ago the attack 

occured. They will also talk to 

family and friends of rape victims, 

or anyone else who wants 

information about rape. 

But they offer another service 

to victims as well. For those who 

cannot face the-medical examination 

or the police alone, advocates 

of the RCC will accompany 

them through as many of 

the procedures as necessary. 

Even if the victim does not want 

to press charges, the advocate 

will accompany her to the police 

station so she may file an informational 

report about the 

attack. The advocates, who 

receive from training programs, 

seminars, and the sale of pamphlets 

about preventing rape and 

handling it when it does occur. 

Members of the group are 

also interested in new legislation 

about rape. The latest aid for 

victims is a state law requiring 

reimbursement for examinations 

relating to crimes of personal 

violence.-Now, when a rape victim 

is examined at Ben Taub or 

Hermann Hospital (the only hospitals 

in Houston treating such 

cases), the bill is sent directly to 

the city. This means that now, 

the woman does not have to 

"pay" additionally when presented 

with a $40-$70 bill for 

the examination. (The bill 

applies only to the exam; treatment 

of wounds is still charged 

to the victim.) 

The group's main emphasis is 

on the 24-hour telephone service 

through Crisis Hotline, where 

information is given free of 

charge and in complete confidence. 

Currently, they receive 

about five calls a week from victims, 

and an additional 10 to 15 

from individuals requesting 

information about the crime. 

They hope that when more 

people become aware of the service, 

more will seek help from 

them. 

Hackerman 

surveys NSF 

arctic projects 

President Norman Hackerman 

left last Saturday (July 26) to 

visit the arctic, his second polar 

trip this year. He is spending several 

days in the area with*headquarters 

at Point Barrow, 

Alaska. 

In his capacity as Chairman 

of the National Science Board, 

the governing body of the 

National Science Foundation 

(NSF), Hackerman will review 

the progress of NSF projects in 

the area. There are almost 100 

experiments currently under 

way, including projects in glaciology, 

meteorology, geoscience, 

environmental science, and 

upper atmosphere physics. 

Last January Hackerman visited 

the South Pole to dedicate 

the new NSF-sponsored Amundsen-Scott 

Research Station 

there. 

He is expected to return to 

Houston August 3.

threshing-it-out« 

Kopra: Program Council needs Grand Hall, too 

To the editor: 

On July 23 I met with Prgjjij 

dent Hackerman to discuss tm; 

relocation of Hanszen Commons 

in the Grand Hall of the RMC. 

At that time he suggested that I 

write a brief letter outlining the 

RPC's plans for the coming year, 

and the effects the relocation 

would have on them. [President 

Hackerman had not been made 

aware of these effects when the 

decision to assign the Grand Hall 

to Hanszen was made—Ed.] 

Here is the text of that letter. 

Dr. Hackerman, 

Andy Kopra 

RPC President 

July 25,1975 

I would like to briefly outline 

what the program council is 

planning on for the coming year 

and how this relates to the 

Grand Hall matter we discussed 

yesterday morning. 

The functions of the program 

council are broken down into 

nine standing committees. These 

are the Social, Film, Concerts, 

Forum (speakers), Fine Arts, 

Pub Entertainment, Student Services, 

Communications, and 

Graphics committees. The Communications 

and Graphics committees 

are responsible for the 

collection and organization of 

information concerning RPC and 

university events and the physical 

aspects of publicity, respectively. 

The Student Services 

committee is currently working 

on discounts at local businesses 

and movie theaters and exploring 

other service possibilities. 

The Pub Entertainment committee, 

as its name suggests, will 

work closely with the pub manager 

to provide live music in the 

pub, primarily 011 weekends. The 

film series will be in Hamman 

Hall, as usual. The film committee 

has also worked with the 

colleges to coordinate all the 

films on campus. The Fine Arts 

committee will sponsor small 

events, some in cooperation with 

the Contemporary Arts Museum 

here in Houston. With the possible 

exception of the Fine Arts 

committee (in the case of a 

larger recital or performance), 

the committees 1 have just mentioned 

will not he affected by 

the loss of access to the Grand 

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the rice thresher, august, 1975 — page 2 

Hall. The remaining three, Social, 

Concerts, and Forum are seriously 

affected. 

Social: Most large party/ 

dances are held in the Grand 

Hall. These include all the traditional 

RPC sponsored parties 

(one at the beginning and end of 

each semester and generally one 

in between) and some of the 

college-sponsored parties. Locating 

the parties outside is an 

alternative, but restricted by 

weather, and they seem to be 

less successful there. I would like 

to see the Grand Hall used for a 

back-to-school, midterm, and 

end-of-school party each semester. 

These will be held on a 

weekend night, so set-up and 

clean-up in the required time 

will be feasible. 

Concerts: Rather than try to 

have one large concert a year 

(which, as you may remember, 

proved extremely difficult), the 

program council was aiming 

toward many smaller and more 

feasible concerts in the Grand 

Hall. These have been very successful 

in the past. We could 

focus our efforts on music in the 

pub; many musical groups have 

expressed an interest in playing 

there. Access to outdoor areas 

for small-scale concerts (in front 

of Hamman Halt, the track stadium) 

in the warmer months 

would alleviate the loss of the 

Grand Hall. 

Forum: This is the only area 

in which no substitute seems 

possible. I would like to propose 

that the Hanszen members eat 

dinner at the other colleges two 

or three times a month. This 

would allow the program council 

to continue with its plans for a 

speakers series, without damaging 

any of the Hanszen college 

experience. Skipping dinner also 

makes setting up the Grand Hall 

feasible. I think this compromise 

will be the best way to resolve 

the difficulty. 

I believe it would be mutually 

beneficial if we could discuss the 

activities of the program council 

more often. I am somewhat surprised 

that the deciding body in 

the Hanszen commons relocation 

was unaware of the extent 

to which the program council 

uses the Grand Hall. This may be 

understandable; all too often the 

council has been a mere beer- 

dispensing agency. I would like 

to see its input to both the student 

body and the administration 

take on a more viable 

nature. This can be accomplished 

best, it seems to me, if 

the administration and the program 

council are both aware of 

the other's activities and opinions. 

I look forward to the possibility 

of discussions in the 

future. 

I plan to write an article for 

the first fall issue of the 

Thresher, outlining how the program 

council will deal with the 

Grand Hall situation. If you 

would like me to include any of 

your thoughts on the subject, I 

would be pleased to do so. 

Thank you for your consideration 

of this matter. 

Eichblatt: editorial courage "refreshing 

To the editor: 

Congratulations on your superb 

summer issue! It is refreshing 

to learn that a student editor 

still has the courage to take a 

strong anti-administration stand. 

I have good reason to believe 

every word of your anti-Hackerman 

editorial. Last year, when I 

was a Rice student, I had a similar 

interview with "the Hack." 

My purpose in visiting him was 

to present him with a number of 

signed requests for a child care 

center. He turned me down, of 

course, saying, "We ain't got no 

money." The only source of 

money for a child care center, 

according to Hackerman, would 

be "to cut faculty salaries." Obviously, 

this is untrue. 

But there's more: I pointed 

out that the presence of a child 

care center might serve as an incentive 

to attract female faculty. 

It could be seen, I asserted, as a 

form of affirmative action. 

Those last two words set off a 

flurry of hostility in him. He 

pointed his finger angrily at me 

and said, "You can file a complaint 

with the Federal government 

if you want to. They can 

make me build you a child care 

center." I demurred that I knew 

of no law which would require 

Rice to build such a facility. 

"Oh, yes, they can make me 

build it," he replied. "Just like 

they can keep me from firing 

people who can't do their job." 

What can I say? The man is 

against affirmative action for 

minorities, against equal opportunity 

for women—the only 

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thing he seems to be for is football. 

(I wonder how much this 

affected his selection of Chapman.) 

I agree with your earlier 

position that "big football" does 

not reflect student or faculty interest. 

Yet with the dearth of 

funds that Hack constantly refers 

to, Rice still participates in 

Southwest Conference football, 

campus apathy notwithstanding. 

Keep up the good fight, 

Gary! 

Linda Eichblatt, '75 

Letter from the Guv: for Friends only 

by JOHN ANDERSON 

I received this letter the other 

day from 711 Executive Building, 

Montgomery, Alabama. (I 

give-the adflress for those of_you 

who might want to obtain a 

copy.) 

"Dear Fellow American: 

"I suppose you are wondering 

why Governor Wallace is writing 

to you." 

As a matter of fact, aha, yes, 

I was wondering about that. 

"Well, 1 want to discuss two 

things with you today." Nigras 

and commies, yessah. 

The first subject, the good 

governor assured me was "a-per- 

sonal matter." Would I fill out a 

"National Issues Poll" form and 

send it in? The poll, printed on 

white paper with red and blue 

bunting and decorated with stars 

asked whafc issues concerned me 

most. I could choose "from a list 

of ten including "Budget deficits 

caused by excessive government 

spending," "guaranteed income 

for those who can but don't 

want to work," and "welfare 

cheating abuse." 

I tell you friends, the great 

governor of the great state of Alabama 

has certainly broadened 

his appeal. He's not standing out 

there on those steps blocking the 

way of some black guy; hell no, 

A 

now he's out chasing those welfare 

cheaters (course they do all 

happen to be black). 

The Governor set my fears to 

rest. I could relax; America was 

in the process of being saved: "I 

do intend to seek the Democratic 

Presidential nomination next 

year." 

The Guv was gonna give those 

liberal politicos the message. 

"The people say no busing, 

but the politicians give us busing. 

"The people say don't force 

.lis to have school books that 

have curse words in them and 

school books that are anti-God, 

but the politicians ignore us. 

"The people say no sex on 

TV, but the politicians ignore 

us." 

After listening to the Guv 

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Emily Coffman .... Associate Editor 

John Anderson . Contributing Editor 

Elaine BoniUa Fine Arts Editor 

Debbie Osterman .... Sports Editor 

awhile, I decided that the average 

liberal pinko Eastern politician 

spends most of his time in 

organized ignoring. 

Amazingly enough, I had received 

another earlier letter from 

the Guv back in April of this 

year. It was much homier, more 

down to earth, more distinctly 

Southern in tone and direction. I 

was "Dear Friend." That's Capital 

"F" Friend, you'll notice. 

It just made me plumb proud 

when I read of this great American, 

my Friend, that he would 

"do all that I humanly can. And 

quite frankly, it's not easy for 

me these days. I need all the 

help I can get from my friends." 

I was reminded of the time 

when my then State Representative 

in Beautiful Baptist East 


GARY BREWTON 

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(c) Copyright 1975, The Rice Thresher. All rights reserved.

The Founder, William Marsh 

Rice, carefully provided for both 

an institution of higher learning 

and the library that such an 

institution must necessarily 

have. Founder Rice might be 

surprised to learn that today his 

Public Library for the inhabitants 

of Houston is beset by 

serious financial troubles. 

Today the outlook for the 

Fondren Library at Rice is 

gloomy. Provost Frank E. Vandiver, 

a leading research scholar, 

states flatly that, "The Library is 

going to hell in a handbasket. 

And you can quote me on that." 

His viewpoint is shared by 

Sociology Professor F. Chandler 

Davidson, former chairman of 

the Standing Committee on the 

Library. Vandiver's assessment 

of Fondren, Davidson says, is 

"fair." 

In a Sallyport article (Jan/ 

Feb. 197 5), "Balancing the 

Books at Fondren," Davidson 

concludes that money is both 

problem and answer: "The hard 

truth is that the only solution to 

Fondren's woes is more money 

— in the neighborhood of 

$300,000 a year." 

Money problems 

pose threat to Library 

by JOHN ANDERSON 

The objects, intents, and purposes of this Institution are declared to 

be the establishment and maintenance, in the City of Houston, 

Texas, of a Public Library and the maintenance of an Institution for 

the Advancement of Literature, Science, Art, Philosophy, and Letters... 

Article II 

The Charter of the William Marsh Rice Institute for the 

Advancement of Literature, Science, and Art. 

Since that time, the Administration 

has acted on the 

Library's budget for the next 

academic year, 1975-76. And 

Fondren will be receiving more 

funding: up 16.8% overall from 

last year. Materials budgeting is 

up 20.6% and new purchases 

funding was raised by 35.5% 

Even so, the problems have not 

been solved, but only ameliorated. 

What are the financial problems 

of the Fondren Library, 

and how did they come about? 

Davidson, in his Sallyport article, 

traced the spiraling costs of 

library services back into the 

1960's. 

During the Pitzer Administration 

of the early and middle 

sixties, .a time when universities 

everywhere in this country 

expanded and thrived, Rice 

began a major effort to become 

a great research university. But, 

of course, great research universities 

are great only so far as 

their graduate programs and 

libraries can support them. 

Eight new graduate programs 

were established in those years, 

often with little apparent plan- 

Not even all graduate students are able to get carrels — the 

problem of crowding is one of the most serines. 

ning or coordination, and corresponding 

library holdings had to 

be increased. The costs were 

high, but inflation rates were 

low. Between 1962 and 1967, 

library expenditures increased 

from $500,000 to $800,000. 

"The Library is 

going to hell in a 

handbasket" 

— Provost 

Frank Vandiver 

By 1967, the spiral had 

begun; costs of materials (particularly 

the enormous costs of 

serials renewals) climbed rapidly, 

while sources of library funding 

declined. Today, the total costs 

of library expenditures at Fondren 

stands at $1,400,000 

yearly; and there is no end in 

sight to the increase. 

As for inflation, Chandler 

Davidson has noted that while 

today's materials expenses are at 

double their costs in 1963/64, 

those same expenditures when 

expressed in constant dollars are 

at less than 60 per cent of 1967 

funding. 

Richard O'Keefe, Librarian, 

shies away from quoting statistics; 

but some facts ought to be 

considered. According to statistics 

provided by the Association 

of Research Libraries (ARL), 

Rice ranks 80th in t?rms of volumes 

in the library, 75th in volumes 

added last year, and 80th 

in the number of periodicals. Of 

the 82 member libraries of the 

ARL, Rice ranks near the bottom 

in all but one of the ten 

categories of comparison. 

What implications does the 

library's plight have on educa- 

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Houston from inside the hedges... 

(continued from page 1) 

(with several notable, and scandalous, 

exceptions in the past*). 

Except for broad guidelines 

from the Trustees, the President 

of the University sets Rice's policies. 

Bring an umbrella 

Houston is HOT, and it rains 

a lot. Cynics prefer to divide the 

* During the campus' brief flirtation 

with student activism, the 

students occupied Allen Center 

(administrative offices) when the 

Board of Governors threw out 

the administration's approval of 

students' invitation to Abbie 

Hoffman to speak on campus in 

1 970 just after the Chicago 

year into only two seasons: wet 

and wetter. Even worse, the rain 

doesn't come down gently, but 

rather in torrents. Sometimes 

rainy weather will move in for a 

solid week, with never a break. 

The nicest times of the year are 

early spring and late fall, when 

cold fronts sweep the skies free 

of the oppressive humidity. On 

these few precious days, clear 

and free of pollution, Houston 

isn't bad. 

Seven trial. The Board's rationale 

for its actions (which also 

included closing the campus to 

all outsiders) was that it feared 

violence. The fact that they 

thought they could keep the 

outside world out reflects the 

widely-held view of the campus' 

insularity from the "real" world. 

Plenty of civic pride 

Houston has no lack of civic 

boosters, perhaps justifiably. 

The effects of the recession are 

unseen, quite simply because 

there is no recession in Houston. 

At a recent conference of U. S. 

Mayors, Houston's Fred Hofheinz 

drew much sharp (and 

probably jealous) language from 

the others when he boasted of 

the city's budget surplus and 

overall prosperity. 

The thirtyish Hofheinz may 

in fact symbolize the progressive 

(at least economically) attitude 

and peculiar sense of destiny felt 

by many residents of "Space 

City." Son of Judge Roy (the 

builder of the Astrodome), 

Mayor Fred is a Phi Beta Kappa 

(UT Austin) and has a Ph.D. in 

economics. With his relatively 

liberal political views and personal 

charm, Hofheinz has an 

almost Kennedyesque charisma 

and style (the latter no doubt 

cultivated). He, like the city, 

definitely gives the impression 

he is going places. 

The plans got left behind 

Planning-wise, the city is a 

paradox. Despite the fact that 

there is no zoning (except by 

deed restriction), the downtown 

area is thriving (albeit as a 

single-purpose, daytime-only 

district). It thrives even though 

small cities-within-the-city (such 

as Greer way Plaza, City Post 

Oak, and many others) are 

springing up. It thrives despite 

the lack of public mass transportation. 

By all accounts, Houston 

ETS influence extends beyond SA T's 

by JIM ASKER 

''What were your SAT 

scores?" 

Before long, hundreds of neophyte 

weenies will be roaming a 

labyrinth of unfamiliar buildings 

on the campus on South Main, 

and that question will roll off 

their lips as naturally as "Where 

are you from?" 

That freshmen, having already 

made it to "the Harvard of 

the South," will still be concerned 

with college entrance 

exams is not so much an indication 

of their insecurity as a 

measure of the great impact the 

Educational Testing Service 

(ETS) makes on academic life. 

Many of those arriving Freshman 

Week will again, about 

three years later, pay homage— 

or succumb—to this Princeton, 

N.J., non-profit corporation and 

time-consuming, expensive 

efforts to arrive at quotients of 

intellectual worth. The institution 

not only offers tests for 

undergraduate aptitude, which 

are required by virtually every 

first-rate school. It also examines 

minds for potential in law, medicine, 

dentistry, veterinary medicine, 

graduate study, and teaching 

ability. 

Student concern about the 

exams reflects the enormous, if 

indirect (and often exaggerated 

in the student's mind) power the 

organization wields. Naturally 

with such a large hand in determining 

academic fortunes, the 

private group has frequently 

been criticized. 

The most common blast 

against ETS is that its tests carry 

too much weight and suggest an 

unwarranted—or impossible- 

degree of precision. Culture bias 

is another common charge. The 

exams are geared for middleclass 

whites and discriminate 

against blacks and other cultural 

minorities, critics say. 

Now, the New York Times 

reports, the ETS is "doing some 

soul-searching about (its) responsibilities 

to the public" and is 

even making some reforms. 

The Princeton outfit now 

gives Scholastic Aptitude Test 

(SAT) scores rounded to the 

nearest 10 points, thus admitting 

the failure of the half-day long 

quiz to gauge scholarly potential 

out to three places. 

The company also will refuse, 

effective Sept. 1, to supply 

National Teachers Examination 

scores to the State of South 

Carolina, which the ETS considers 

to have misused data. The 

you 

It's a nasty trick to use a catch-word in big letters to get your attention, but 

this is important. Face it. Whether you know it now or not, Rice is not 

going to be as hard as you've been led to think. And you're going to have 

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lot in the past year and we're going to be growing some more. If you're 

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test score embargo follows the 

state's refusal to quit using the 

information to determine a 

teacher's pay category, even 

after the teacher has been on the 

job many years. 

Unequal testing conditions 

and monitoring are also a concern, 

Gene I. Maeroff reports in 

the Times. The possibility of 

ETS setting up its own, uniform 

monitoring system could draw 

more criticism than it quells, 

though. 

"The implication would be 

that ETS considers itself more 

fit than others to judge what is 

proper," Maeroff writes. 

"It is a problem of whether 

we should be appointing ourselves 

inspector general at a time 

when we're already being criticized 

for having too much influence 

on education," said Dr. 

Robert J. Solomon, executive 

vice-president of the firm, which 

grossed $53.9 million last year. 

As to the charges of culture 

bias, the ETS appears to realize 

their test results are influenced 

by social background. Radical 

changes in this area are unlikely, 

though. 

"We would like to see the 

tests be as constructive socially 

and educationaly as it's possible 

to make them," said Dr. William 

W. Turnbull, president of ETSV 

The trouble is finding out what 

is most constructive socially and 

educationally. 

The Guv speaks... 


Texas was in a tough bid for reelection. 

His opponent was a 

Bible-thumping populist with a 

pretty smiling little lady for a 

wife. 

Old Rayford was losing, he 

knew it, and he had to do something. 

So, he had this television 

commercial where his brother 

Grady came walking onto camera 

with the aid of a cane, sat 

down at a piano and played 

"God Bless America," while the 

announcer intoned, "Grady 

Price. ...a real American... 

blind since birth. A man who 

has overcome his handicaps." 

After he had finished playing, 

Grady stood up and said, "I 

know that my brother Rayford 

can lead you and Texas. He's led 

is breaking all the rules of the 

game, and winning. 

Conservative politics 

Politically, Houston is conservative. 

Houston contains its own 

suburbs, so the votes of more 

liberal urban blocs are diluted by 

middle class, white collar votes. 

All this is in addition to the 

general conservative climate of 

Texas. 

Extremist groups are still 

active, although less so than in 

the past, particularly on the 

north side of town. The Klan 

lingers on, though its methods 

are different than a decade ago: 

in 1975, it has its own candidate 

for mayor. The lunatic fringe 

was responsible for bombing 

KPFT, the listener-sponsored 

and countercultural radio station, 

twice; it hasn't happened in 

three years, though. Things are 

quieter these days. 

The press is asleep 

To date, there has been no 

journalistic challenge to the 

directions given the city by its 

corporate bosses. The local 

dailies (the Post and the 

Chronicle), are equally poor 

when it comes to reporting local 

affairs. Everett Collier (Rice, 

'39), editor of the Chronicle, has 

used his paper to defend Big 

Business (especially the oil 

industry) and to bludgeon his 

political foes. The Post is generally 

bland. The Chronicle has 

better national news coverage, 

including the N.Y. Times News 

Service, the Los Angeles Times 

and Washington Post Syndicate, 

and Reuters; but the Post has 

columnist Lynn Ashby (who's 

very popular on campus), so it's 

a tossup. 

Undefeatable optinjism 

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cities in the rest of the country, 

optimistic about its future. That 

optimism colors nearly every 

aspect of life here, outside the 

hedges. It is this optimism, this 

spirit of progress (no matter 

where we're going) which makes 

Houston's sell-out to the almighty 

corporation more tolerable. 

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Altman's "Nashville" is microcosm of America 

by ELAINE BONILLA 

Did you know that only once 

in the last fifty years has Tennessee 

failed to vote for the winning 

presidential candidate? Nashville 

is Tennessee, and Tennessee is 

America: Robert Altman has 

undertaken to create a broad 

panoramic view of the American 

character within the microcosm 

of the Tennessee city. There's 

not much of a plot in Nashvilleit's 

more the story of the people 

that make up the city: how their 

lives intermingle. 

The catalyst is Hal Phillip 

Walker, the Replacement Party's 

candidate for the presidency, 

who's out to win the Tennessee 

primary. He's in favor of rewriting 

the National Anthem (so 

that everybody can sing it), abolishing 

the Electoral College, and 

getting rid of lawyers in government, 

especially those in Congress. 

But in spite of his momentum, 

he needs Tennessee, the 

grass roots voters: the people 

who elect the President. 

Tennessee, however, doesn't 

need Hal Phillip Walker. He 

insists that everyone is involved 

in politics whether they like it or 

not, but the city that ignores his 

ever-present message denies any 

kind of involvement." Haven 

Hamilton is the major singer in 

Nashville, and he never "takes 

sides politically." 

From the moment Haven is 

first seen recording his newest 

hit, "We must be doing something 

right to last 200 years," to 

Nashville 

Directed by Robert Altman 

At the Alabama 

his final appearance when 

Walker's big rally is interrupted 

by an assassination, his philosophy 

never wavers. His parting 

comment at the assassination is 

"This isn't Dallas—this is Nashville: 

you show them what we're 

made of. Come on, somebody 

sing." And somebody does. In a 

few moments the crowd is clapping 

and nodding to the song, 

"It Don't Worry Me." 

Altman has come up with a 

brilliant comment on the apathy 

of America, a particularly timely 

nudge just when everyone is professing 

interest in the coming 

Bicentennial. That timeliness, 

however, is as accidental as the 

film's reception was unanticipated: 

it has taken Altman over 

a decade to actualize this project. 

Some of the Altman regulars 

from his previous films are there, 

such as Michael Murphy who is 

trying to arrange Walker's rally, 

but there are quite a few wellknown 

performers who are far 

from type-cast. Lily Tomlin is 

excellent in a serious role as a 

gospel singer with two deaf children 

who is entering on an affair 

with a young rock singer, Keith 

Carradine, and Geraldine Chaplin 

is extremely funny as a journalist 

doing a documentary on 

Nashville for the BBC. But the 

one that steals the show is Henry 

Gibson as Haven Hamilton, 

introduced as "Mr. Nashville 

himself." Seeing Gibson in a dramatic 

role is an impressive sur- 

Lily Tomlin, as the white lead in a black gospel group, lets 

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Ronee Blakley and Henry Gibson, as the most popular stars of country music, appear 

prise, and he carries the part off 

superbly. 

The performers aren't limited 

to acting—many of them were 

involved in writing the songs 

that make up the film's soundtrack. 

Gibson wrote several, 

including his opening number, 

"200 years." Carradine's contributions 

included the frightening 

"It Don't Worry Me," and 

Ronee Blakely, playing the 

sweet singer Barbara Jean, wrote 

"The Cowboy Song," as well as 

several of her other numbers. 

The music, so important to 

Nashville, was arranged by Rich- 

together at a political rally in a scene from "Nashville. " 

ard Baskin, and the soundtrack is 

well engineered, holding the 

surges of the film's action 

together. 

Actually, Nashville's only 

flaw is the editing. There are 

some messy cuts that would be 

practically unforgivable except 

for the power of the movie as a 

whole. But that's all part of the 

simplicity of the film that 

heightens the complexity of the 

theme. The very fact that Altman 

has been so unpretentious 

in doing this film makes the 

commentary far more serious to 

the viewer. It can be appreciated 

and enjoyed on so many levels— 

as diversion, as cinema, as art, 

but its message is unmistakable. 

Nashville is an important 

work, possibly one of the most 

important to have come along in 

the last ten years, and there have 

been a great many message films 

in that time. But people are 

flocking to see Nashville and are 

enjoying it because it has so 

much sheer entertainment, yet 

are being overwhelmed by the 

breadth of Altman's project. 

This is a film that deserves to be 

seen, to be thought about, and 

to be seen again. 

"Rollerball": revamped Western plot 

by DAVID COURTWRIGHT 

Start with a grandiose but 

con fused director—Norman 

•lew is on. Add a pretentious 

premise—"In the not too distant 

future, wars will no longer exist. 

But there will be Rollerball." 

Top it off with Kubrick's Little 

Alex all growed up and whizzing 

from mayhem to mayhem on 

ball bearings—James Caan as 

Jonathan E. Then you have 

some idea of Rollerball. 

Before dissecting the film's 

utter moral and intellectual 

chaos, a word about the central 

character, Jonathan E. Frightfully 

underplayed by Caan (remember 

Steve McQueen in Le 

Mans?), Big Jon is the last of a 

vanishing species, hardassus existentialus. 

He has survived for ten 

years in a vicious sport designed 

to display on multi-vision for the 

pampered millions "the futility 

of individual action"; in so doing 

he has come to be regarded as a 

threat by the Corporate Directors, 

ever vigilant lest individualism 

re-emerge in their tidy 

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Produced and Directed by Norman Jewison 

Starring James Caan and John Houseman 

At the Windsor Theater 

world. The solution: Entice 

Jesus-in-a-jockstrap to resign. 

But Big Jon will have none of it, 

intimating that there is something 

more than early retirement 

at issue here, and his peculiar 

crucifixion takes the form of 

rule changes designed to make 

the game progressively more 

deadly. 

All of this, to Jewison's 

credit, is executed most vividly. 

Rollerballers blur across 70mm 

frames, the slap of leather across 

flesh mingles with strains of 

Bach (conducted by none less 

than Andre Previn), and the 

game itself is developed with 

appalling ingenuity. The wide 

screen and superb sound system 

of the Windsor highlight the 

film's technical virtues; $3.50 

buys you a visual and audio trip. 

But that is about all—one is hard 

pressed to recall a film thematically 

more out of control. 

On the one hand Jewison 

wants to condemn the game 

whose rules he has formulated: 

it is a deadly affair that grinds 

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men to a pulp, and the life 

expectancy of a rollerballer is on 

par with that of a World War I 

fighter pilot. But Jewison also 

wants to condemn the society 

which derives such vicarious satisfaction 

from watching rollerballers 

pound one another to 

scrap. Now get this, Pete 

Rozelle: Jewison "resolves" this 

tension by having the protagonist 

Jonathan E. defy one evil by 

excelling in another, rather like 

the director of an anti-war film 

casting Mean Joe Green as a 

Luftwaffe ace who expresses his 

displeasure with the German 

High Command by shooting 

down more Allied airplanes.... 

So glorified is Jonathan's violence 

that one at times wonders 

if the script was not co-authored 

by Peckinpah. In fact, strip off 

all the chrome and future muck 

and you have your basic Armageddon 

Western, replete with 

OK Roller-corrals and Big Jon is 

really just Shane in Averse who 

figgers it's wrong to stop fightin', 

beggin' your pardon ma'am, 

thar's a world to save.... 

Great, Norm. We eagerly 

await your forthcoming 

thoughts on Western Man's 

Struggle to Transcend His Animal 

Nature Without Losing His 

Soul. And the pictures sure were 

pretty. 

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Local fine arts/entertainment slowly evolving 

Once upon a time, not so 

very long ago, Houston was 

known as a "whiskey and trombone 

city," a metropolis with 

more cattle roaming the trails 

than people. Today, things have 

changed. In the past ten years 

Houston's fearless leaders have 

thrown themselves into the civic 

spirited project, pouring millions 

into buying culture. All things 

considered, they haven't done 

too bad a job. 

As far as drama is concerned, 

there is the Alley Theater which 

performs five plays on its main 

stage during the academic year, 

and several others on its smaller 

arena stage. Students can attend 

on special student rush tickets, 

subscribing to the five main 

shows for only $12.50. The various 

universities in the city are 

also pretty active in drama: the 

John Merkling, Bill Horwitz, and Donna Yeager of the 

Rice Players from last year's "Adaptation. " 

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University of Houston and St. 

Thomas University both have 

drama departments that produce 

plays regularly, and Rice itself 

has several extra-curricular 

groups producing shows (the 

Rice Players and about three college 

groups). 

Community theaters and dinner 

theaters are very popular and 

can be found sprinkled throughout 

the city. There are also nonprofessional 

troups eager for participation, 

such as Main Street 

Theater at Autry House, right 

across Main Street from the Rice 

Campus, organized by Rice graduate 

Becky Greene. Then there's 

Theater Under the Stars (TUTS), 

with free musicals in the summer 

in Hermann Park, and indoor 

productions in the winter. The 

outside world comes to visit 

Houston sometimes, too, in the 

form of various touring productions. 

The Society for the Performing 

Arts (SPA) is responsible 

for bringing many excellent 

events here, the most recent 

being Nureyev's Raymonda. 

Which brings us to the subject 

of music—yes, it can also be 

found in the city, though not in 

quite so many or such varied 

forms. The Houston Symphony, 

conducted by Lawrence Foster, 

plays a season at Jones Hall. You 

can subscribe, or just take them 

as they come. Students can save 

as much as 40% of the regular 

price of subscriptions to any of 

the three series offered, and one 

of them is on Sunday afternoons 

(no conflicts with classes, and no 

transportation problems since 

city buses run during the day). 

There's also a full season at 

the Ballet and one at Houston 

Grand Opera, both performed in 

Jones Hall. Subscriptions to the 

Ballet are probably the least 

expensive of the three musical 

possibilities, but this year the 

Opera is» making a special Scholarship 

Fund for college students. 

Benefactors can donate $12 or 

more to the Opera, and one student 

on a scholarship to any 

University in the city can attend 

the whole season. If you can get 

Houston Symphony Conductor Lawrence Foster 

someone to donate that, and to 

specify your name, you can get 

in remarkably cheaply. 

Modern music has a piece of 

the action, too. Groups stop 

through Houston to play at the 

Houston Music Theater or at 

Hofheinz Pavillion by the U of H 

campus, and KPFT radio sponsors 

free concerts at Miller Outdoor 

Theater in Hermann Park 

occasionally. There's something 

for everyone, just not too much 

of it. 

Museums are also represented 

in town—right near the Rice 

campus, in fact. About three 

blocks down Main Street is the 

Museum of Fine Arts which 

offers a collection of its own and 

often brings in special exhibitions. 

Until September 14, for 

example, it will be showing 

"Modern Painting: 1900 to the 

Present." The museum itself is 

free, but students can subscribe 

for a year (until October 1 of 

next year) for only $5. A subscription 

entitles you to discounts 

on many of the extras 

offered, such as films, catalogues, 

art books and works, and 

studio and art history courses at 

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Museum of Fine Arts is the Contemporary 

Arts Museum, focusing, 

as its name implies, more on 

modern work. And in Hermann 

Park, across Main Street from 

Rice, is the Museum of Natural 

Science. Neither of these have 

very broad collections, but they 

are available, and sometimes 

offer worthwhile exhibits. 

There are films shown 

throughout the city, ranging 

from first-run features like Nashville 

to art films at the Museum 

of Fine Arts. The Bijou Theatre 

specializes in old favorite movies, 

including classics such as 

Casablanca. Then you can find 

various film festivals. Our own 

Media Center, for instance, 

shows unusual films, American 

and foreign, all year. 

Houston is working rapidly to 

catch up with the world around 

it, and as far as the arts are concerned 

it's doing pretty well. 

Everything offered is not as professional 

as the viewer might 

wish, but things are available, 

and there's a sufficient selection 

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This past year, the people of 

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featuring Rudolph Nureyev, 

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Alvin Ailey City Center Dance 

Theater, Marcel Marceau, Vladimir 

Horowitz, Andres Segovia, 

the Peking Opera Company, and 

27 others, all brought to town 

by a dynamic young group, the 

Society for the Performing Arts. 

Since its formation in 1966, the 

SPA has continued to bring the 

best of international talent to 

Houston, year after year. An 

example of their fantastic skill is 

that within a two week period 

this June, the SPA hosted both 

the Bolshoi Ballet's first performance 

in Texas and the American 

premiere of Rudolph 

Nureyev's production (with the 

American Ballet Theater) of 

Raymonda. 

According to SPA General 

Manager Jim Bernhard (Rice '59 

and former Editor of the Thresher), 

the 1975-76 season will be 

just as spectacular. The program 

begins September 25 with the 

Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan. 

Later performances will include 

guitarist Julian Bream, Michael 

Lorimer, Angel Romero, The 

Pennsylvania Ballet, Garrick Ohlsson, 

Mazowse Polish Song and 

Dance Company, Don Cossacks 

Soviet Dancers of Rostov, Ted 

Josselson, the Cleveland Orchestra, 

and the City Center Joffrey 

Ballet. Seventeen of the usual 20 

to 25 performances have already 

been scheduled. 

Surprisingly, considering the 

plight of most fine arts and performing 

companies, the SPA is 

doing rather well financially. 

Although in its fledgling days 

the SPA was supported by donations 

from wealthy members on 

its board, today it earns 75 to 95 

per cent of its income. This 

includes ticket sales, program 

advertising, and National 

Endowment Grants. The remaining 

five to 25 per cent comes 

from contributions. Its current 

budget is close to $700,000. 

The actual booking of 

performers is something like 

ordering out of a Sears-Roebuck 

catalogue. An executive committee 

of the SPA board of 

directors reviews the available 

performers and touring companies 

listed in the catalogues and 

brochures of various management 

companies. Meeting about 

twice a year, this executive committee 

shapes the coming season 

and chooses the Society's direction 

for the coming year. 

"Probably, about ninety per 

cent of what we get is managed 

by one of several New York 

management companies," 

explains Bernhard. These include 

Hurok Concerts, Columbia Artists 

Management, and Shaw Concerts. 

Selections of artists are 

made on the basis of "what artists 

are available, what artists we 

have had recently, what artists 

we want to have, and sometimes 

what artists are being pushed by 

a particular management company." 

Even after the season is set 

there are always changes in fees 

and schedules which result in 

cancellations and postponements. 

A unique example was 

the scheduled Kirov Ballet tour 

of last summer. The Kirov performances 

in Houston were to 

be sponsored by the SPA, but 

public opinion against the Soviet 

Jewish emigration laws which 

restrained the Panovs, former 

principal dancorc with tKo com. 

pany, in Russia resulted in 

enough political pressure to 

cause cancellation of the entire 

tour. Ironically, the very day the 

Panovs were allowed to leave the 

Soviet Union, was the day the 

Kirov had been scheduled to 

open in Houston. 

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is the reason so many of SPA's 

performances come at the end of 

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Some thought has been given to 

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but such an undertaking would 

cost in the neighborhood of $1 5 

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Contributions still come from 

generous directors and other 

benevolent individuals, but: a 

new and important source of 

income is the Houston business 

community. The Combined Corporate 

Arts Fund collects donations 

from about five hundred of 

Houston's largest corporations 

and distributes it to SPA, other 

performing arts groups and local 

museums. Other reliable sources 

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y ELAINE BONILLA 

Bicentennial events planned 

for next year are many and varied, 

but one of the more unusual 

has got to be a sculpture competition 

in Austin. No, the subject 

is not American history, and 

the birthday being celebrated is 

not necessarily our country's. 

FAFA (Fine Arts for Austin) is 

seeking to commission a Texas 

sculptor of any age to capture 

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A.A.Milne's little donkey, 

Eeyore. The occasion is Eeyore's 

birthday party next April, and 

complete designs can be submitted 

by September 15 to FAFA, 

606 Guadalupe, Austin, Texas 

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founded by English professor 

James B. Ayres, who will be one 

of the judges of the designs. 

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you're going to spend your fall 

semester break. 

"Three Centuries of French 

Posters" opened at the Rice 

Museum on July 10 and will be 

on display through August 15. 

The exhibition, organized by the 

this month... 

THEATER 

The Marriage-Go-Round — Bob Cummings in the comedy about a 

college professor after one of his students. At the Windmill Dinner 

Theater, 464-7655. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew — 

Houston Shakespeare Festival's debut, sponsored by UH drama 

department and Miller Theater. At Miller Outdoor Theater. 

The Music Man — Musical story of a con-man who pretends to 

form a boy's band in River City, Iowa. At Dunfey's Dinner Theater, 

771-1331. 

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever — Lerner and Lane musical. 

At the Country Playhouse, 467-4498. 

Promenade — Off-off-Broad way musical: see this week's article 

for information. At Main Street Theater at Autry House, 524-3168. 

Something Different — Playwright rents a mother. At the Dean 

Goss Dinner Theater, 666-4146. 

FILMS 

Bite the Bullet — A cross-country horse race in the Old West. At 

Cinemas Gulfgate, Meyerland and Northline. 

The Drowning Pool — Paul Newman as detective Harper digs into 

a family murder in old New Orleans. At area theaters. 

The Fortune — Mike Nichols' new comedy: Warren Beatty and 

Jack Nicholson team up to swindle Stockard Channing out of her 

inheritance. At Loew's Saks and Town & Country III. 

Fnnnv T n/lv — Cfvr.it!ciintl at on oldcv but otherwise unchanged 

Fanny Brice. At area theaters. 

The Happy Hooker — Lynn Redgrave as Xaviera Hollander. At 

the River Oaks. 

Janis — Documentary about the rock and blues singer, Janis Joplin. 

At the Bellaire. 

Jaws — Great White Shark vs. Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, and 

Roy Scheider. At the Galleria. 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail — British irreverence directed 

toward King Arthur and Co. At the Galleria. 

Nashville — See this week's review for information. At the Alabama. 

Once is Not Enough — Jacqueline Susann's best-seller about the 

hardships of the beautiful people. At Loew's Saks and Town & 

Country III. 

Return of the Pink Panther — Peter Sellers is at it again, challenged 

this time by Christopher Plummer. At area theaters. 

Rollerball — See this week's review for information. At the Windsor. 

Shampoo — Warren Beatty's study of the deterioration of the 

nuclear family. At area theaters. 

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Activities when you arrive on campus if you do not 

receive your brochu J in the mail. 

Musee des Arts Decoratifs in 

Paris, consists of more than 200 

examples of French poster art, 

and traces the stages in the evolution 

of this art form from the 

eighteenth century to the present. 

Artists featured include 

Daumier, Manet, Toulouse- 

Lautrec, Picasso, and Braque. 

The exhibition is accompanied 

by a program of 240 slides showing 

the poster in its natural 

environment: various streets and 

structures. "Three Centuries of 

French Posters" is being circulated 

through the United States 

by the French Cultural Services. 

As if there weren't enough 

film theaters and shopping centers 

in Houston, yet another has 

just come into being. This 

month heralds the opening of 

Theatre Deauville, the latest 

addition to the new Deauville 

Square shopping center on Interstate 

45 North at Exit 59A. The 

theater's owner, Nineteen-Sixty, 

consists of ten young professional 

businessmen who chose 

the Deauville Square site after 

observing the rapid population 

growth in Northern Harris 

County. 

The metal, porcelain, and 

glass entry is a "super graphic" 

in bright orange, yellow and red 

sweeping curves and circular 

forms that can be seen from the 

freeway, and the lobby carries 

out the theme with glossy surfaces 

of porcelain, glass and mirrors 

reflecting the recessed ceiling. 

The goal is to create a feeling 

of unlimited space. Pretty 

ambitious for twin 273-seat 

movie theaters. 

Remember the Smothers 

Brothers of CBS fame? Well, 

they're back on the performance 

circuit and will be here on 

August 1 and 2 at the Houston 

Music Theater. It seems as 

though their humor has mellowed 

over the last few years, 

and their new satire is a little 

easier to digest, although they 

still claim to keep political and 

social consciousness in their routines. 

They'll be mixing in a few 

serious musical efforts this time, 

as well as including the old interrupted 

folk songs and the brotherly 

bickering. The more things 

change.... 

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"A Midsummer Night's 

Dream" and "The Taming of the 

Shrew" will open on August 8 

and 9, respectively, at Miller 

Outdoor Theater in Hermann 

Park. The. free plays are presented 

by the University of 

Houston Drama Department and 

Miller Theater, and will represent 

the premiere season of the 

Houston Shakespeare Festival. 

Tickets can be picked up on the 

day of each performance at Miller 

Theater and at the University 

Center ticket office on the UH 

campus. 

Of interest to the Rice community 

is the appearance of 

Becky Bonar as Kate in "The 

Taming of the Shrew." Bonar is 

a Rice graduate who was featured 

during her student career 

in many Players productions.

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Exuberant musical ''Promenade" opens at Autry 

by ELAINE BONILLA 

Rebecca Greene, producer of 

Main Street Theater at Autry 

House, promised to present 

plays that were rarely done, and 

her latest production confirms 

her intent. Promenade, the first 

musical to be performed at Main 

Street Theater, will premiere in 

Houston on August 1, and it is 

certainly a welcome change from 

the usual local theater fare. 

"It's a musical," Greene 

explains, "but it's not your 

everyday run-of-the-mill musical. 

The music is really exciting." 

Charles Tanner, featured as the 

Mayor in the play and one of 

Main Street Theater's regulars, 

describes the music as "eclectic. 

There's every kind of song, from 

Rogers and Hammerstein to arias 

to Gershwin, and there's one of 

the greatest torch songs I've ever 

heard." He agrees that it's the 

music that sets the play apart 

from other shows. 

Promenade is almost an 

opera, acutaliy. There are 

snatches of dialogue here and 

there, but they serve largely as 

connecting passages between the 

thirty-odd musical numbers that 

the show offers. The story, such 

as it is, concerns two naive convicts 

who dig their way out of 

prison into a high society party. 

"It's a Candide story in a 

way," Greene comments. "The 

convicts escape from the shel- 

tered prison into the outside 

world....It's a story of discovery 

on the part of the two convicts 

and the maid." 

Tanner is more interested in 

the two main themes that he 

sees running through the play 

than he is in the plot itself: 

"There's the social commentary, 

which is very obvious, then 

there's the theme of time running 

throughout the play, the 

idea of making the decisions that 

shape your life. This second 

theme is much more interesting 

to play around with than the 

first—it allows greater flexibility." 

Main Street Theater is certainly 

producing Promenade 

with considerable creativity. The 

set, designed by Rick Cordray, is 

a giant Monopoly board. The 

furniture consists of six large 

hotels, two dice, and the stacks 

of Community Chest and 

Chance cards. Jack Blaylock is 

doing the lights, and Greene is 

designing the costumes with 

Martha Zimmerman. 

"Everyone will be in black 

and white," Zimmerman 

explains. "The convicts have to 

be in black and white stripes, so 

we decided to put everybody 

around them in black and white, 

too. The aristocrats will be in 

tuxedos and in black flowing 

evening dresses." 

Choreographer Debbie Waldman 

comments "It's a lot of fun. 

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The show is so entertaining—it's 

campy. There are all these oldfashioned 

types of dances, but 

there's so much room to be creative 

in deciding how to do 

them." 

Everyone seems to agree that 

Promenade is great fun to do. 

The cast of fifteen has come 

together from all over Houston 

to be in the show, prompting 

Greene to say that it was drawn 

from the widest segment of the 

population that she had yet had 

the opportunity to use. There 

are some from Houston Grand 

opera, several fairly prominent 

figures on the Houston theatrical 

scene, and a few familiar faces 

from Main Street Theater itself. 

Howard Phillips and Sam 

Cannon are featured as convicts 

105 and 106, and Susan Nussbaum 

(understudied by Debbie 

Waldman) plays their companion, 

the maid. Cash Tilton 

appears as the Jailer, searching 

through the play for his lost prisoners; 

Yvonne Verble is the 

Mother, seeking her lost babies; 

and Tanner is the Mayor ^called 

Jennifer) who puts everybody 

under arrest for keeping him up 

too late. 

Miss Cake is played by 

Luclair Kilgore, who appears in a 

white satin collapsible cake costume, 

and I. Jay Aarons is featured 

as a waiter (among other 

things) with Joe Watts as his 

sidekick, the dishwasher. The 

party guests are Rob Babbitt, 

Ted Giles, Jennifer Hartsfield, 

Christopher Mountain, Fran 

Pearson, and Dallas Purdy. Dr. 

Larry Lake is the musical director, 

assisted by Geoff Greene at 

the piano. 

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Theater, coming hard on the 

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production of Beyond the 

Fringe, delightfully performed 

by Ira J. Black and Brian Curry. 

Opening on September 19 will 

be Part V of "An Eliot Cycle," 

The Family Reunion. Greene is 

hoping to draw a wide collection 

of actors for the fifteen roles in 

the show, and wants interested 

people to get in touch with her 

at 524-3168. 

Due to construction in Autry 

Promenade will be per- - 

upstairs in the eastern wing of 

the Palmer Memorial Episcopal 

Church, at 6221 South Main. 

Admission is $2, and the number 

to call for ticket information 

and reservations is 524-3168. 

There will be nine performances 

of the show, Friday, Saturday 

and Sunday of the first three 

weekends in August. 

Promenade promises to be 

one of the most enjoyable productions 

to be found this summer. 

Main Street Theater at 

Autry House is definitely keepton 

with ~u nu s uafaiYif 1 % 

theater. 

Alley features "Animal Crackers 

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Cinemafest, the Alley's summer 

film series, continues this 

month with an outstanding 

collection of classic movies. 

Week six (August 6-11) 

focuses on love and the cinema, 

opening with Les Violons du 

Bal, the Houston premiere of 

Michael Drach's romantic memoir 

of his beautiful and gracious 

mother and her efforts to save 

her family during the German 

occupation of France. On a 

second level, it deals with his 

efforts to make this film. The 

second in this week's series is 

Closely Watched Trains, a Czechoslovakian 

film focusing on a 

seventeen-year old railway 

worker and his awakening passions, 

and the week closes with 

Gilda, the 1946 film that epitomized 

Rita Hay worth's screen 

personality with her sham black 

satin strip tease. 

Superstars are the featured 

attraction in week seven (August 

12-17). The first are Clark Gable 

and Joan Crawford in Dancing 

Lady (which also features, 

believe it or not, the Three 

Stooges). Next is the Marx 

Brothers in Animal Crackers, a 

tour de force for the four brothers 

as they attend a party given 

by Margaret Dumont, at which 

she hopes to reap the social honors 

of the season. And last but 

not least we have Astaire and 

Rogers in Roberta, the whirlwind 

courtship of Irene Dunne 

and Randolph Scott as told with 

Kern tunes. 

Don't forget the Friday Midnight 

Sleaze Series. On August 1. 

the midnight flick is Lady of 

Burlesque, based on Gypsy Rose 

Lee's "The G-String Murders," 

in which a collection of strippers 

are found strangled with their 

G-strings and all the burlesque 

performers come under suspicion. 

Vampyr is next, on August 

8. Carl Dreyer's 1931 classic has 

little dialogue: the macabre and 

terrifying effects come through 

the camera. August 15 brings 

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana, his masterpiece 

in which every sin and 

outrage of which he had been 

accused was exhibited in its fullest 

development. 

Tickets for all the movies can 

be purchased at the Alley Theatre 

box office for $1.75. The 

regular series features the first, 

film on Tuesday and Wednesday 

at 8:00pm, the second on Thursday 

at 8:00 and on Friday at 

7:30 and 9:30pm, and the third 

on Saturday at 7:30 and 9:30pm 

and on Sunday at 6:00 and 

8:00pm. 

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by DEBBIE OSTEEMAN 

The controversial Title IX 

regulations which ban sex discrimination 

in schools receiving 

federal funds went into effect 

July 21. According to Rice athletic 

directors A.M. "Red" Bale 

and Doug Osbum, the recent 

clarifications of the law's provisions 

will have little current 

impact on their programs. That 

impact came last year. Now, as 

Women's Athletic Director 

Osbum explains, "We have a 

head start on them." 

Bale: "I think everybody 

really wants to comply 

. . . just give this thing 

time." 

Up until last year, women's 

athletics was run almost on a 

club sport basis, with competitors 

paying their own way much 

of the time. According to Athletic 

Business Manager Augie 

Erfurth, what funds there were 

came from the Health-Physical 

Education budget. 

Anticipating the implementation 

of Title IX, last year Rice 

officials named Osburn director 

of women's athletics and gave 

him his own budget, $3600. A 

resident of Houston for 14 

years, Osburn had divided his 

time between coaching the baseball 

team at Rice and general 

coaching duties at St. John's 

prep school. 

New coaches sought 

Beginning last year, the 

women athletes' hotel and travel 

expenses were paid by the university; 

the women were also 

included in the awarding of athletic 

letters and the sports banquet. 

This coming year, Osburn 

promises that they will continue 

to receive "equal facilities and 

equal equipment." Two new 

part time women coaches are 

being hired: one for softball and 

basketball and the other to 

coach tennis year-round. Osburn 

is "quite impressed" with the 

credentials of the applicants, and 

plans to sign the coaches in the 

near future. These new positions 

should eliminate the problem of 

coaching conflicts which were 

experienced last year. 

More money is being poured 

into the program, too. Women's 

athletics will receive $23,000 

next year (compared to the current 

men's budget of $899,230). 

This parallels the national trend 

towards more money for 

women's sports. For example, 

four years ago UCLA began its 

women's program with $35,000 

(the men were receiving at least 

$3 million). The next year the 

budget climbed to $75,000, then 

to $100,000, and last year was 

for $245,000. The UCLA and 

Rice women's budgets are not 

directly comparable. UCLA has 

20,000 women, with only 650 

women or so at Rice. 

Volleyball most successful 

Last year Rice women competed 

in volleyball, basketball, 

tennis and swimming. They also 

had the opportunity to compete 

in golf, track, and field; but the 

handful who did go out for track 

did not stay long enough to 

compete. In Bale's opinion, the 

volleyball team, coached by 

Osburn himself, was the most 

effective. This fall a fast-pitch 

softball team is to be added to 

the program. 

As yet there are no scholarships 

for women athletes. However, 

Bale feels these will be 

offered within the next few 

years. According to him, scholarship 

athletes will make the 

women's teams more competitive, 

even though recruits may 

be facing academic difficulties 

comparable to those faced by 

male scholarship athletes. In the 

meantime, the small number of 

women at Rice makes Osburn's 

recruiting job even more difficult. 

Of these available women, 

some are unable to give the time 

required for intercollegiate 

sports, and ottiers, ymuc -mnvng, 

lack previous athletic experience. 

Tournaments cut costs 

This year Huntsville's Sam 

Houston State University plans 

to take its women's teams along 

when some of its men's teams 

compete. In this effort to cut 

down on some expenses, the 

women will compete much in 

the manner that junior varsities 

used to. Red Bale reports that 

Rice has not considered such an 

arrangement: "Right now 

women's sports are conducted 

through a women's organization, 

the Association for Intercollegiate 

Athletics for Women. As 

such, the AIAW goes in for tour- 

naments." Rather than going to 

on£ school for one game, the 

women's teams take part in tournaments 

which require less 

investment of time but which 

allow about the same amount of 

participation. 

Drastic effects predicted 

Bale does assert that women's 

sports will "affect the men's athletics 

drastically." As the 

women's programs expand, the 

men's programs will be forced to 

cut back. He predicts that club 

will exoand as a result of 

the financial crunch, ciutj 

sports, like Rice rugby, are initiated 

by students and professors. 

They operate on a small budget 

(administered by Osburn) which 

is used to maintain the facilities 

and, occasionally, to compensate 

the officials. Bale is very enthusiastic 

about club sports: "It 

looks like more fun." Last year's 

rugby tournament drew a hundred 

teams from all around the 

country and was a great success, 

with beer flowing freely. He also 

recalls the lightweight football 

which Rice started in the midsixties. 

The players had hopes of 

eventually playing the Ivy 

League colleges which had a 

• • • JOCK NOTES • • • 

The football staff was left 

with some juggling to do when 

defensive coordinator Charlie 

Bailey resigned to go to Kentucky 

and offensive back Coach 

Milt Jackson left for a position 

in California. Jack Westbrook, 

who last year coached the Owls' 

defensive secondary, was promoted 

to defensive coordinator 

but will continue to coach the 

secondary. Westbrook, who 

played two years in the NFL, 

came to Rice in 1973 from the 

University of Miami. Jim Elam, 

last years's receiver coach, will 

take over Bailey's duties as linebacker 

coach. To coach the 

receivers, head coach "Big Al" 

Conover has added to his staff 

Charlie Frazier. Frazier, a native 

of Angleton, attended Texas 

Southern here in Houston 

where, instead o f playing football, 

he ran track. He was a 

member of the U.S. sprint relay. 

Recruited by the Oilers for his 

speed, Frazier made All-Pro and 

remains second in Oiler career 

receptions with 177, second in 

yardage with 3,017 and third in 

career touchdowns with 22 in 

seven seasons. He retired from 

the NFL after the 1970 season 

and since has been coaching in 

the Houston Independent 

School District. Last year he 

played briefly with the WFL's 

Houston Texans and comes to 

Rice from the Sharpstown High 

School staff. 

Taking over Jackson's duties 

will be Keith Daniels who joined 

the Rice staff as a graduate assistant 

after last season. Also new 

at Rice is Ted Unbehagen who 

coached last year at Texas Tech. 

He replaces Les Hanly as offensive 

line coach. Ron Gentry, 

who worked with the offensive 

line last year as a graduate assistant, 

was promoted to assistant 

coach of the Owls' defensive 

interior line, replacing Bob 

DeCrosta. Bill Cox replaces 

Steve Goldman as offensive 

coordinator, and Ray Alborn 

retains his position as defensive 

end coach. These changes leave 

the Owls with a young staff, all 

of whom have graduated from 

college since 1960. 

Fall practice begins on 

August 18th as the Owls get 

ready to face a schedule which 

includes six bowl teams. 

* * * 

Women's A thletic Director Doug Osburn 

full-fledged league. Instead the 

major competitor was Monterrey 

Tech of Mexico, and the idea 

didn't catch on with other Texas 

schools. Nevertheless, the four 

years that it lasted, lightweight 

football was highly popular with 

the Rice community. 

A major concern for Bale is 

raising money for his department. 

Athletics receives only 

four dollars from each student, 

and with only 23 thousand 

alumni, Rice can't cojnt on the 

amount of suDt ort that a 

school like the \jmvexs\vy v>^ 

Texas can. According to Bale, 

the football program "a little 

more than breaks even." But 

then he is left with seven other 

NCAA sports to support (cross 

country, basketball, track and 

field, baseball, tennis, swimming, 

and golf;. Track receives some 

help from the NCAA for each 

participart at a meet. 

Elitist funding 

Some of the fund raising programs 

are quite unique, and 

rather elitist. The Rice Executive 

Cup Tournament netted 

$20,000 last year. Corporations 

pay to enter four representatives 

who, after competing, are 

treated to a dinner party in 

River Oaks. A Tennis Day 

achieved moderate success last 

year. For fifty dollars, an alumnus 

can spend the day playing 

with a member of the tennis 

team against another ex and his 

varsity partner. The day is 

capped off by a cocktail party 

and the presentation of little trophies. 

Similar Golf Days have 

raised a good deal of money. 

Women's sports will 

"affect the men's athletics 

drasncaivy. * 

Erfurth estimates that football 

will bring in $1,300,000 of 

which $374 thousand will go as 

the opponents' shares. Nevertheless, 

Rice football brings in 

enough revenue to support both 

the men's and women's athletic 

programs. 

Desire to comply 

As Bale reiterates,"! think 

this, I sincerely think this, if the 

government and those interested 

in women's rights will just give 

this thing time, I think everybody 

really wants to comply 

with Title IX...Just give this 

thing time." 

Basketball coach Bob Polk 

(continued on page 15) Men's Athletic Director A. M. "Red" Bale 


Hard core Houston sports fans loyal despite losers 

by DEBBIE OSTERMAN 

In some ways, Houston sports 

fans are like children. What they 

lack in sophistication and knowledge 

(and even here they rank 

Tar above New Orleans and Philadelphia), 

they more than make 

up for in enthusiasm — and the 

players appreciate it. Unlike the 

Philly supporters who boo their 

own players, the Houston fans 

remain loyal even to a loser as 

long as the team hustles. During 

the losing spell from 1967 to 

1974, the pro teams hit rock 

bottom and found that they 

could still attract the hard-core 

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sports fan. And now that three 

of the four franchises are winning, 

the fans have been responding 

with renewed support. 

Like in most of Texas, the big 

game is football. Rice football 

was once the "only show in 

town." As head football coach, 

Jess Neely brought four Southwest 

Conference championships 

to Rice Institute, and the Houston 

sports writers devoted 

whole pages to the incoming 

freshmen. Back in the halcyon 

days of Rice football, right after 

their second SWC title in 1949, 

Rice Stadium was constructed in 

the space of nine months, ready 

for the Owls to open their 1950 

season with a 27-7 victory over 

Santa Clara, the defending 

Orange Bowl champs. Aside 

from Houston's minor league 

baseball team, the Buffs, Rice 

football provided Houstonians 

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with their only big-time sports 

for years. 

It didn't last long 

Nevertheless, Houston was 

growing up, and businessmen 

made efforts in the late fifties to 

bring an NFL franchise to the 

city. The NFL, however, wanted 

to play in Rice Stadium, and 

Rice, which still had strong football 

teams, wanted to protect its 

own position in the Houston 

sports scene. Without Rice Stadium 

to play in, the NFL could 

not be lured to the city. So, 

when the AFL formed in 1960, 

oilmen Lamar Hunt of Dallas 

and Bud Adams of Houston 

brought Houston the AFL and 

its first major league professional 

franchise. 

The Houston Oilers, playing 

in Jeppeson Stadium, with 

kicker George Blanda, won the 

AFL championship for the first 

two years of the league's existence. 

Then, in 1962, in the 

playoff game against the Dallas 

Texans (now the KC Chiefs), 

Blanda missed a field goal in the 

fourth quarter and the game 

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just across from the 

Rice Campus on Main Street 

went into sudden-death overtime. 

Texan Abner Haynes was 

so rattled that he chose to kickoff 

into the wind, but another 

Dallas player, Tommy Brooker, 

ended up kicking a field goal to 

win 20-17. 

Oilers Slip 

Since then, the Oiler teams 

have gotten much worse. Bud 

Adams has been unable to keep 

his hand out of the running of 

the club. Except for a brief 

comeback in 1967, more recent 

years have been dismal for the 

Oilers. They finished the 1973 

and 1974 seasons with identical 

records, 1-13. Yet last season, 

under coach Sid Gilman, the Oilers 

amazingly finished 7-7 and 

people began going to see them 

play again. 

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The Oilers play their first 

exhibition game August 9th 

against the New Orleans Saints 

to open the Superdome. The following 

week they play the Washington 

Redskins in the Astrodome 

in the Houston Post 

Charity Game. 

In 1962, two years after the 

Oilers came to Houston, the city 

A First City 

Bancorporation 

Member 

acquired an expansion baseball 

club from the National League. 

The Colt 45's, who chose to go 

with young players, came in 

eighth of the ten teams that 

year, and continued to do 

poorly, even after their name 

change and new home (the 

Dome) in 1965. In the years 

since 1969, the Astros have 

come in anywhere from third to 

fifth place in the division. 

Now, though, the Astros are 

in last place in the West although 

they still have a chance to pull 

out of the cellar. The team has 

evidenced an amazing ability to 

lose ball games at the last minute, 

having chalked up 27 onerun 

losses thus far. The club is 

no longer controlled by Judge 

Roy Hofheinz (who built the 

Dome). The Judge is in debt to 

the tune of $30 million to a triumvirate 

headed by Houston 

Mortgage Company, and they 

have taken over much of the 

operation of the club. General 

Manager Spec Richardson has 

been fired; Preston Gomez will 

apparently remain as manager. 

Gloomy atmosphere 

On paper, the Astros have a 

good ball club but they have 

never been able to put it all 

together. To top that off, the 

club seems to be surrounded by 

an atmosphere of gloom. They 

have been hit by a string of tragedies: 

pitcher Jim Umbright died 

of cancer; first baseman Walt 

Bond of leukemia; pitcher Don 

Wilson of carbon monoxide poisoning; 

Cesar Cedeno shot a girl 

to death in a motel room; Larry 

Dierker ran over a man during 

»prir\g training-, Jimmy Wy nil 

was stabbed by his wife; and 

Hector Torres swallowed his 

tongue when he ran into Jesus 

Alou in the outfield. 

The third pro sport to arrive 

in Houston was an original franchise 

in the ABA. The Houston 

Mavericks, playing in the Coli- j 

seum, were a bad club but the 

attendance was even worse. 

They stayed only one yeat until 

they moved on in the mid-sixties 

to become the Carolina Cougars 

and finally the Spirits of St. 

Louis. 

Rockets come close 

Despite the ABA's lack of 

success in Houston, the NBA 

moved the Rockets here from 

San Diego in 1971. (It's amazing 

what Houston money can do.) 

Last season was the Rockets' 

first year to ever end a season 

with a .500 record. They beat 

the New York Knicks 2-1 in the 

quarter-finals, losing 4-1 to the 

Celtics in the semi-finals. During 

their last ten games in U of H's * 

Hofheinz Pavilion, they drew 

over 8,000 per game and had 

four complete sellouts. Pro basketball's 

smallest player, 5'10" 

Calvin Murphy, finished second 

in scoring with 20.7 field goals 

per game. The financial problems 

of Houston financier Irvin 

Kaplan leave the Rockets with a 

new chairman of the board, 

Wayne Duddlesten. The only 

NBA team to sign all three of its 

top draft choices, the Rockets 

will open their 1975 season the 

first week of November in Houston's 

new sports arena, the 

Summit, in Greenway Plaza. 

(continued on page 15)

Library "going to hell in a handbasket"... 


Also, microforming may 

sometimes prove to be a real 

inconvenience for patrons. And 

that reader resistance, Librarian 

O'Keefe claims, is "not based on 

ignorance." Readers simply recognize 

the lack of standardization 

in terms of microforming; 

currently, there are half a dozen 

or more different kinds of 

microform readers. And as most 

frequent users of microform 

feel, a pressing need exists to 

make them easier to read. 

O'Keefe states "These people 

from the microform companies 

come and hold up a little box of 

microfilm and say, 'This is the 

library of the future.' That's garbage. 

The Fondren respects the 

contributions that microform 

can make, but we also respect 

the fact that books are still 

appearing in full size." 

Frank Vandiver says pointedly 

that, "The argument that is 

heard more and more that 

libraries are 'consuming' elements 

on a campus, that they 

are anachronisms of modern 

time, that they should be 

theaters with microfilms, microforms, 

and other film-flammery 

begs the message. The library is 

still the heart of the university." 

O'Keefe is sympathetic with 

regard to the problems faced by 

the Administration in their 

efforts to fund Fondren: 

"Today there is an average 20% 

increase yearly in the costs of 

serials. Every SV2 years, the 

serials budget doubles. We can't 

expect the university, or any 

university to support such inflationary 

costs." The answer, he 

feels, is to "change the rules of 

the game." 

The main thrust in this 

Hanszen gets RMC Grand Hall... 


make it resemble the "unstructured 

space" of other commons 

areas. College activities will be 

held there, beginning with a 

Casino party to be held Freshman 

Week. Also planned are a 

film festival and several parties. 

Even though at first the college 

will try to honor RMC closing 

hours, the administration 

has authorized the college to 

keep the building open 24 hours 

a day. Actual student use will 

determine hours. Fleischer anticipates 

constant open hours at 

least during Dead Week. 

The main question now is 

whether Hanszen members will 

use the RMC as they have used 

their own commons in keeping 

the college alive. Fleischer feels 

"very posiHt&e about Hanszen 

College as a community to be 

able to make use of the 

resources available" to maintain 

spirit. 

To make adjustment to the 

RMC easier, Hanszen plans to 

install a volleyball net just 

behind the Grand Hall, to entice 

people to make the three-minute 

walk across campus. 

Construction on the new 

commons has encountered some 

snags. Though the University 

and the insurance company have 

reached an "amicable" agreement 

on the furniture damaged 

in the fire, there are problems 

with the settlement on the building 

itself. However, since at least 

one group of engineers has 

declared the building unsound 

(to the point of near collapse), 

settlement should be reached in 

the near future. The University 

has requested bids from two 

contractors for estimates to 

restore the building to its previous 

state. These bids will then 

be used in discussions with the 

insurance company. 

Talbot Wilson, the original 

architect for the Commons, is 

currently drawing up plans for 

the new building. He is working 

with Bill Cannady, architect for 

the Colleges Renovation currently 

in progress, who was 

called in immediately after the 

fire on consultation. They are 

working with two considerations 

in mind — minimizing cost and 

saving the old foundation. At 

present, the old foundation is 

undamaged, as is the kitchen end 

of the building. When the walls 

do come down, efforts will be 

taken to keep these two parts 

intact. The levelling should start 

before Freshman Week. 

Some relics of the fire will be 

saved for use in the new Commons. 

The crest, now charred 

and "instantly-aged," will be 

reused, as will the tiles on the 

outside of the building. Gone 

will be the terra cotta screens in 

front of the windows, to the 

delight of many college members. 

The furnishings, except for 

the kitchen equipment, will be 

replaced. The insurance company 

has called them a total loss, 

and Frank Petru, manager of the 

Loyal sports fans... 


Hockey — in Houston? 

Space City's newest and most 

successful professional team, the 

Aeros of the World Hockey 

Association, arrived in 1972. 

The Aeros played good hockey, 

finishing second in the race for 

the Western Division. Interest 

spread and they finished the first 

season with an overall average 

attendance of some five thousand. 

Then, scout Doug Harvey 

conceived one of the greatest 

sports coups of all time. The 

NHL had had an almost tacit 

understanding that its teams 

would not draft an amateur until 

he turned 20. Harvey reasoned 

that the rival WHA could draft 

Mark and Marty Howe, the 

American-born sons of Hockey- 

Hal 1 -of-Famer Gordie Howe, 

even though they were only 17 

and 18 years old. Since the 

Howe boys were American citizens 

and professionals under 

NCAA rules, the Aeros drafted 

them as professionals rather than 

in the amateur draft with Canadian-born 

juniors. Furthermore, 

the Aeros persuaded Gordie to 

come out of retirement and 

become the first pro athlete to 

play on the same team as his 

sons. 

Double Avco Cups 

Gordie's elbows proved to be 

as sharp as ever, and the leadership 

which he provided helped 

win the WHA's Avco Cup, giving 

Houston its first champs since 

1961 — a space of 13 years. 

Average attendance that year 

jumped to 6800, topped last season 

with 7800 as the Aeros 

Residential Colleges, is handling 

their disposal. The chairs and 

tables not hurt by the fire itself 

were damaged by smoke and 

water at the time, and suffered 

further when left outside during 

Houston's recent rains. 

Though the completion date 

for the new commons has not 

yet been projected, an optimistic 

Dr. Baker feels that the reconstruction 

project is "under full 

steam" and the college would 

like to celebrate the new opening 

before the end of school. 

Construction by the Linbeck 

contractors on the rest of the 

college is going as scheduled, 

with, very little dislocation anticipated. 

However, the student 

remodeling of the Weanie Hole, 

the B&P, TV/Game Room, and 

darkroom will not be completed 

by Freshman Week. 

The administration and various 

departments of the University 

have been "very helpful to 

Hanszen in its plight," said Fleischer. 

Food Service has arranged 

for Saturday picnics in the Hanszen 

quad, and is planning alternative 

menus to take into 

account the smaller kitchen 

facilities at Sammy's and the 

necessity of bringing more food 

from Central Kitchen. 

W. S. Red, Director of the 

RMC, feels there will be some 

readjustment of the lunch crowd 

at Sammy's, since both Sammy's 

regulars and the Hanszen mem- 

swept on to a second championship. 

The club was sold in June by 

Irvin Kaplan's creditors to a 

group of Houston businessmen 

headed by George Bolin. Gordie 

Howe was named president and 

manager. The Aeros will open 

this year's season on the road 

and will return to Houston to 

play their first game in the Summit 

on November 5. Gordie will 

not play any of the road games 

and will close out his pro career 

in that November 5th game. 

Understandably, Houston 

lacks the sports tradition of cities 

like New York or Chicago. 

What little history it can lay 

claim to is too often discouraging. 

Even so, Houston fans 

(including the vocal contingents 

bussed in from local bars) will 

support a loser, although they 

sure as hell love a winner. 

attempt to find new directions 

in library acquisition and 

renewal is in the form of 

resource sharing. In the works is 

a planned center primarily for 

the holding of "little used" 

serials. Rice and other academic 

libraries would share the costs of 

the central holding library, and 

the materials there would be 

available to all member libraries. 

However, recent changes in 

U.S. copyright laws may make 

the sharing of resources more 

difficult and more expensive. 

Current interpretation would 

prohibit "systematic" duplica- 

bers will be eating at the same 

time, but he sees no great difficulty. 

He is confident that the 

kitchen has the capacity to handle 

both the noontime crowd 

and Hanszen people. There have 

been suggestion that the Pub 

could sell sandwiches at lunch as 

well; no final decision has been 

reached. 

Red is taking the switch of 

Hanszen to the RMC very 

calmly. He sees no great problems, 

but expects the Hanszen 

members, as well as the RMC 

personnel, to be prepared to sacrifice 

a little. He sees very little 

in the transfer as "newsworthy," 

and is in the process of checking 

to make sure all is arranged for 

Hanszen's entry. 

Hanszen won't have complete 

control over the Grand Hall, 

though. A handful of previous 

commitments could not be 

moved to different locations. 

For example, matt\cu\aV\on can 

not be moved, and the Homecoming 

events are being restructured 

to include Hanszen. Most 

events have been moved, but 

Red is confident that on ^Ixose 

nights when a large event is 

planned, Hanszen members will 

be ready to accomodate. 

JOCK NOTES 


has named his own assistant 

coach to replace Greg Williams 

and McCoy McLemore who were 

left over from Don Knodel's 

staff. Their replacement is John 

Rendek, who, like Polk, comes 

from a Missouri Valley Conference 

school. Rendek spent the 

last seven years at the University 

of Tulsa as an assistant coach 

after having coached for a dozen 

years in Kentucky high schools. 

Williams, a recent Rice grad, is 

now working for Houston Scene 

magazine. McLemore, who finished 

off his NBA career with 

the Houston Rockets before 

coming to Rice in 1972, will 

take on a head coaching position 

at Furr High School in northeast 

Houston. 

Beginning his 26th year as a 

college coach and second year 

with the Owls, Polk carried out 

the actual signing of all six of 

the basketball recruits. The two 

6'11" signees, Paul Fichtinger of 

St. Louis and Doug Ekeroth of 

Laredo, will be the Owls' first 

big men since Kendall Rhine 

played for Rice in the mid-sixties. 

Madison Lane, a starter 

with the Kashmere Rams who 

tion or xeroxing of publications 

without licensing from the publisher. 

Libraries would not be 

allowed to make more than one 

copy of a single article, not even 

for different people at different 

times, without paying the publisher 

a royalty fee. The inconvenience 

and expense of 

bookkeeping under licensing 

arrangements makes resource 

sharing less attractive; nevertheless, 

it is being actively pursued. 

Here in Houston, Fondren 

dren is trying to "develop complementary 

relations" with other 

in-town libraries — particularly 

the well-staffed, well-funded 

Medical Center Library and the 

state-funded University of Houston 

Library. 

Other efforts being made in 

behalf of the Fondren include 

invigorated membership drives 

by the Friends of Fondren, an 

organization of Rice alumni, students, 

and other friends of the 

library. Over the course of the 

last year, the Friends have doubled 

their membership. Still, 

their contribution to the Library 

in terms of dollars is only 

$20,000 to $25,000 annually. 

Finally, plans have now 

passed from the Provost's Office 

to the Development Office for a 

fund-raising drive for the 

Library. Unfortunately, planning 

is still sketchy; progress appears 

to be slow. 

Meanwhile, Fondren's woes 

continue, perhaps not so sharp 

or painful as in the recent past, 

but a continuing and difficult 

problem for Rice and for Rice 

people. 

For his part, F. Chandler 

Davidson sums up the case for 

Fondren, reminding us all that, 

"A library, after all, is an essen- 

Wd\ pail ot a — owe 

the truly essential parts. Universities 

can (and sometimes do) 

exist without football stadiums, 

classrooms, facilities for eating 

and sleeping, faculty clubs, or 

administrative bureaucracies. 

They cannot exist without 

libraries." 

have won the Texas 4 A championship 

for the past two years, 

plans to major in electrical 

engineering at Rice. The 6'0" 

guard was the third high scorer 

for the Houston high school 

which holds a national record 

with a 78-game winning streak. 

From a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, 

comes the 6'6", 195-pound forward 

Andy Miller. The two 

other recruits are 6'3" Wayne 

Cunningham, an All-State ball 

control guard from EttiveV,, Virginia, 

and 6'3" toward Eibert 

Darden from Baytown, Texas. 

Returning to the Owls is Pete 

Meyers who injured his knee in a 

game against A&M late in the 

1973-74 season. Meyers, a strong 

player who was starting as a 

freshman, underwent an operation 

and did not attend college 

last year. 

* * * 

Ticket orders for the 21st 

Olympic Games, to be held next 

summer July 17 through August 

1, in Montreal, must be received 

by Montgomery Ward in Phoenix 

by August 15. Order blanks 

may be picked up at any Montgomery 

Ward store. 


Friday the first of August 

All day. Pub closed until August 

15 th. 

Monday the fourth. 

Who Knows When? Surprise, Threshers 

come out. Eat you heart out, 

K-false. 

Wednesday the sixth 

Last day to send in Newcomers! pictures. 

Friday the eighth 

7:30pm. Media Center. Film: The Big 

Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. $1. 

10pm. Media Center plays it again, 

Sam. 

Saturday the ninth 

7.30pm. Media Center shows Gentlemen 

Prefer Blondes. $1. 

8:38pm. Please don't get the idea 

misclassifieds 

Missclassifieds are free ads for 

Rice people. Buy, sell, trade, 

insult your friends, publish or 

perish. Bring or send your stuff 

to the Thresher office and we'll 

probably print it. 

* * * 

Recent Rice alum looking for 

housemate and/or digs in the 

UH/Montrose/Rice area. If you 

have either a warm body or a 

place to share, please contact 

Ruthie Melton, 918 Roadway 

Lane, Houston, Texas 77058, or 

(713) 4 88-5074. 

* * * 

"I remember when I first said. 

Take me to the Prom.' I'll 

never forget that memorable 

evening." 

that not much happens during the 

summer. It just isn't true. 

10pm. Media Center proves Gentilemen 

Prefer Blondes. 

Friday the fifteenth 

Too early. Authorized upperclassmen 

move into Colleges. 

7:30pm. Media Center. Film: An 

American In Paris, starring Gene 

Kelly. $1. 

8pm or so. Pub officially opens its 

year with the First Annual Eviction 

of the First Drunk. Many 

officials of Rice will be on hand. 

10pm. Media Center. Rebel Without 

A Cause. 

Saturday the sixteenth 

Too early. Jocks move in. 

7:30pm. Media Center. Film: An 

American in Paris, starring Gene 

Kelly. $1. 

9:48pm. God creates rock so big he 

can't lift it. 

9:49pm. Calendar Editor lifts rock. 

9:52pm. God goes to Pub & gets 

smashed by falling rock . . . 

9:59pm. That was vicious, Hobbit. 

Dateline: Dolly Deiter! Yes, all 

you beautiful people, Dolly 

really dug the dirt for this ish 

Just get a load of all the grungy 

goodies we've got for you 

groovy guys and gals: 

Essence Man finds "true" 

love in Irving, Texas. Tune in 

next August for continuing 

adventures in this exciting saga. 

FLASH: Redhair reported in 

Hawaii practicing seductive arts. 

Sexy Rexy was seen early last 

evening near Brown walking his 

Smitten Kitten. 

The Geritol Kid has been 

enjoying himself in Dallas with 

his 45-year-old Playmate. 

SO — That's all, kiddies, and 

remember, this is Dolly Deiter 

saying, "Don't say who told you 

so!" 

Irice people's calendar! 

10pm. Media Center. An American In 

Paris. At today's prices? 

Monday the eighteenth 

8am or so. New students move into 

colleges. 

6pm. Food Service begins. (So eat it, 

Joyce.) 

Tuesday the nineteenth 

8am-12n. Gymnasium. Gym orientation, 

ID pictures (?), and Activities 

Fair. 

2-5pm. All over the place. English 

Incompetency Examinations. 

7:30pm. Grand Hall, RMC. Matriculation 

Ceremonies, President Norman 

Hackerman, presiding. 

7:49pm. "He always matriculates 

people." — C.R.8:30pm. Rice 

Museum/Media Center. President's 

reception honoring new students. 

Free. 

Wednesday the twentieth 

8-10am. CLEP test in Chemistry. Do 

you have the CLEP? 

8:30am-12n. New students visit 

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Roommate wanted: for midpriced 

apt. near campus. Must be 

male, clean, neat, a weanie, 

K101 fan, who won't mind me 

coming in at 4am Sunday 

morning and then getting up for 

church at 8. No dope. Reply 

quickly to Don Macune, Rt. 5 

5611 La Sombra, Harlingen, 

Texas 7 8 5 5 0, or call 

512-423-8519 (no collect calls, 

please). P.S. — I cook! 

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Will be driving to Rice the weekend 

before classes start from 

Minnesota. Anyone interested in 

sharing driving and expenses 

write Clay Phillips, 6208 Nordling, 

Houston, TX 77022. 

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