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volume 60, number 4 thursday, September 14, 1972
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'Arbuckle Effect' explains fantastic Rice win over UH
by BILL JONES and GREG
NORRIS
Saturday night the Rice University
Owls defeated the Houston
Cougars, 14-13 in one of
the greatest Rice wins in recent
years. The Owl win came as no
great surprise to most Rice
fans as we correctly predicted
in last week's Thresher that the
Owls would upset their crosstown
rivals by the same score,
14-13.
Although heralded by the
highly unacclaimed Daily Cougar
sports staff as a major upset,
the Rice win was an obvious
manifestation of the "Arbuckle
Effect" described in outbook
Football Fables and Forecasts
(unavailable at ,$8.95 in
the Campus Store). We will use
the same principles described
in our book in an effort to explain
the Rice victory.
We first call your attention
to Chapter 3 of our book, "Winning
the I're-season." In Table
13 we described the followiwng
aims for a successful debut:
]\o. 1: Gain the respect and
admiration of y o u r players.
There is no doubt that Coach
Conover has done this.
No. 2: Work their asses off.
Coach Conover said that he
didn't think that they could
work that hard.
No. 39: Become one of the
guys. A common remark has
been that it just doesn't seem
right to call him coach.
All in all, Big A1 seems to
have won the pre-season contest.
In fact, we have never
seen an Owl team which has
such strong feeling for their
coach. With such a good preseason
it seemed only natural
to hope for "The Good Season"
promised in The Book.
"TGS" received an excellent
beginning with the now famous
14-13 win. As Chapter 5 in The
Book states, the first step in
winning any football game is
the offense. And the basic key
to any offense is the backfield.
At quarterback Bruce Gadd
showed much poise in leading
the team on scoring drives of
58 and 77 yards. Of course, the
most pleasant change in Gadd
was that he threw 0 interceptions
while completing 8 of .17
passes for 2 touchdowns.
At running back John Coleman
demonstrated that the anticipation
was justified as ho
gave every indication
and fro (i.e., out). Perhaps
the greatest danger is the possibility
that Jim Wynn will miss
a sign and be thrown out stealing
second base.
No. 2: Executing to near perfection.
The most obvious solution
to the lack of variety is
more fingers for the coach. But,
since at last count Coach Conover
had only ten digits, the
Owls are wise to seek perfect
execution. Against Houston the
strategy was moderately successful,
as there were only two
obvious breakdowns in execu-
tion. These were, however, interesting
in that one set up a
Houston touchdown and the oth-
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Testy Texas delegation struggles for impossible unity
by MIKE ROSS
Democrats in Miami
Conclusion
On Monday afternoon, Texas
held its first caucus and both
camps were represented. Clay
Smothers, a black Wallace alternate
who "later placed his
own name in nomination for the
Vice Presidency, gave a stirring
speech attacking the controversial
McGovern proposals...
Casting evil glances toward Mc-
Govern, who was standing at the
side of the stage awaiting his
turn to speak, Smothers lambasted
McGovern's welfare plan
saying that the money to finance
it would "come out of
my black pockets."
McGovern then stepped up,
was introduced by Sissy (an
obvious strain for Briscoe) and
replied to the attack( "I got the
message.") Then the California
question arose. McGovern said
that he had tried to force the
California primary to be proportional,
but that that pro-
posal was voted down by the to change them. That's exactly what hap- to mend some fences by propos-
committee, which allowed five
states until 1976 to eliminate
the winner-take-all primary.
"You don't change the rules
for the game after the game is
over," he pleaded. Humphrey
disagreed. He mentioned the
precedents set by the 1968 banning
of the unit rule and the
1964 seating of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party delegation.
He claimed the the
convention has the right to
set its own rules and since the
proportional way was the fair
way, everyone Should support
the majority report.
The situation was quite ironic.
Humphrey had supported
the winner-take-all primary
("I'm no spoil sport," he told
CBS a few days before the primary)
and McGovern led the
fight to overturn the unit rule
in 1968. Now both were arguing
the opposite cases. McGovern
wanted to keep the rules and
Hubert wanted the convention
Make love or war--choose one
Tryouts for the Brown College
production of "Lysistrata,"
a Greek comedy by Aristophanes,
were held Sept. 12 and
13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brown
' Commons.
"Lysistrata" is named for
the heroine of the play, who
organizes the women of Greece
in an attempt to force their
husbands to end war. With the
slogan "make peace, not love"
as theirt rallying cry, the
N.O.W. of Ancient Greece
swears an oath to abstain completely
from sex until the men
sign a peace treaty.
Production is scheduled for
Oct. 19, 20, and 21. The Douglass
Parker translation "will
serve as the script. For more
information, contact Kate Jones,
Brown College.
Fairness goes down the drain
when the political stakes get
high. All is pragmatism or
Old Politics, but it is inevitable.
"Politics is the application of
power," one McGovern staffer
told me.
South Carolina challenge
The first test of who had
the power would be the vote
on the South Carolina women's
challenge. McGovern supported
it, so ABM lined up against it.
The California 'delegation seated
by the Credentials committee
had 120 delegates pledged
to McGovern and 151 committed
to others. Two parliamentary
rulings favorable to Mc-
Govern lowered the victory
number on the California question
from 1509 to 1483. The
worst thing that could happen
to McGovern would be a narrow
loss on the South Carolina challenge.
In that case the rulings
could be challenged by ABM
from the floor and overturned,
meaning doom for McGovern
on California. That event would
turn the tide away from Mc-
Govern and his chances for the
nomionatin would greatly diminish.
So when Rick Stearns, the
McGovern delegate counter,
could see that they couldn't win
the challenge, he decided to pull
votes and lose convincingly,
with a total less than 1433.
Then the ABM might think the
McGovern strength to be weak
enough not to bring up the procedural
questions.
pened. The challenge lost 1559.7
to 1429.05. The ABM was fooled
and did not raise any questions,
it was a beautiful maneuver.
For example, Oregon, which
has 34 strong McGovern votes,
passed (a stall), voted 23-11
and eventually changed its vote
to 16-18. Senator Wayne Morse,
the delegation c h a ir m a n,
thought that they were voting
their consciences. But a young
Oregon delegate told me, with
a wide grin, that "the Oregon
delegation is very anxious to
nominate Senator McGovern"
and that "Senator Morse did not
come to the caucus" in which
the strategy was revealed.
While the ABM was celebrating
the defeat of McGovern, the
McGovern forces were celebrating
the impending nomination,
for now they knew that
they had the ,1433 votes to seat
the McGovern California delegation
and it would be all downhill
from there. The ABM was
shot down and they didn't even
know it.
The vote on the California
challenge was 16.18.28 to 1238.22
in favor of the minority report
seating the McGovern slate.
ABM tried too late to overrule
the parliamentary questions.
There was cheering by Mc-
Govern fans and stunned solemnity
by his foes. Willie Brown
had been given back his delegation
and McGovern would go
on to win the nomination.
McGovern immediately tried
m
ing a compromise between the
Dalev and Singer Illinois delegations,
but no one would buy
it and Daley was ousted early
Tuesday morning.
Briscoe glum
With the handwriting on the
walls, Humphrey and Muskie
withdrew from the race the
next day. That only left Scoop
and Terry Sanford in the ABM
camp.
Briscoe looked quite glum at
the Tuesday Texas caucus,
which was addressed by Sanford
and Jackson again. Sanford
pleaded for Southern pride
and Jackson started out on the
same speech that he gave
morning before. Again lie
gan with wife and went
about his family tree and
Protestant heritage. "All
the
beon
his
>my
ancestors were Protestants until
the Reformation, before
which they were all Catholics."
And more Party Loyalty.
"I was never a part of a third
party 'movement,".'twas the jab
at McGovern',s involvement with
Henry Wallace's Progressive
Party of 1948. Unfortunately,
that remark was taken as an
insult by the Wallace supporters,
many of whom were in the
American Party four years before.
The ABM seemed to make the
avoidable mistakes.
Briscoe still claimed that "the
convention was not over" but
his wife Janey admitted that
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'Brain tax' designed to stop emigration of Russian Jews
A growing fear of adverse
publicity has caused the Soviet
Union to reassess the release of
more than a thin trickle of the
hundred thousand Russian-Jews
waiting to emigrate to Israel.
The image of their social Utopia
shown to the world may fade if
exposed to too much light.
Taking advantage of the fact
that a majority of the Jews are
highly educated, they recently
devised a new method of controlling-
Jewish emigration from
the Soviet Union. The ruling
compels each degree-holder who
wishes to leav«e Russia to pay
exorbitant fees, ostensibly to l'eimburse
the state for his education
according to this scale:
Graduates of Teachers
Colleges
4,500 Rubles ($5,000)
Graduates of Technical
Institutes
9,000 Rubles ($10,650)
University Graduates
12,(200 Rubles ($*13,550)
Ph.D's
19,400 Rubles ($21,530)
M.D.'s
20,600 Rubles (22,870)
Claiming a "brain drain/' the
Soviet ambassador to France,
Pyotr Abrassimov, defended his
country's new policy by saying,
"It is not only the U.S.S.R. but
other countries, which also face
and respond to the problems of
a brain drain. The new law applies
absolutely to all Soviet
citizens, regardles of their nationality."
Reaction from Jews all over
the world was sharp. A group
of 47 Moscow Jews were de-
the rice thresher
editorial
Space City! is 5ead.
To Houston newcomers, that doesn't mean much.
But if you were here last year, you remember Space City!
as Houston's one legitimate "underground" newspaper.
Anyway, it's gone now. After a run of slightly longer
than three years, Space City! has stopped publication.
Neither the midnight terrorism of the radical right nor
the intramural squabblings of the far left did it in,
though. Space City! finally succumbed to the oldest prosaic
capitalist maladies: lack of money. The staff lost
its business manager and started spending capital it
never recovered. R.I.P.
When Space City News (its original name) started,
it was a typical underground paper badly written, foulmouthed
purely for shock value, and looking for trouble.
However, early in 1971, the staff rethought its position,
coming up with a cleaner, saner, more credible (if not
more "respectable") paper.
That's why I'm sorry to see it go. For a year and a
half, Space City! was a reasonable, responsible exponent
of the New Left philosophy, the "alternative lifestyle",
and the youth culture in general. And that was all right.
You can disagree completely with someone and still respect
his ability to state his position well. And good
theatre or music reviews aren't political, they're good.
It doesn't matter where they're printed, or whose the
talent that produces them—except that with Space City!
gone, a lot of that talent is-out of circulation.
There are still "underground" papers in town; Space
City! spun off Mockingbird before it died, and half of
Mockingbird broke away to become Abraxas. They looked
like Space City! but read like old grocery lists. Apparently
they're both still going; we don't know why.
No doubt a lot of people were happy to see Space
City! go. But that's wrong. Journalism, like the world,
needs all the views it can get, and if something's going
to be said, it ought to be said well. That's what Houston
has lost.
•hraJif
H. DavitI Dunj-rlo Assistant Editor
Morty Rich Assistant Editor
Doan Ornish Head Photographer
liill Jones . Sports Editor
Greg Norris Sports Editor
STEVE JACKSON
Editor
MALCOLM WADDELL
Business Manager
Lew Hancock Advertising Manager
Virginia Jee Assistant Business
Manager
Kevin Phelan .... Circulation Manage!
Ralph Umbarger Calendar Editor
Staff: Andy Hurley, Chip Lansdell, Charles Pau, Frank Presler, Mike
Ross, Lee Silverthorn, Gary Brewton, Jim Lawler, Mark Onak, Charles Clubb,
Cathe Krause, Michael Peek, Craig Stafford, Randy Guehprt, Forrest Johnson,
Wendy Nordstrom, James Wilhoit.
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045. The opinions herein are not necessarily those of anyone except the writers.
Obviously.
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tained by the K.G.B. after a
rare public protest in front of
the Kremlin, according to the
Associated Press. They delivered
a letter to foreign newsmen
which decried the new rulings
as a double payment for education
provided, as official statistics
they produced showed that
three years of work after graduation
repays educational investment
by the state.
Golda Meir called a special
session of the Knesset, the Israeli
parliament, when the new
head tax was revealed. In a
voice quaking with anger, she
addi'essed the Knesset:
"This cruel and shameful decree
enacted by the rulers of
the great Soviet Union, which
has rightly prided itself on pro-
viding a chance for education to
all its citizens, is anti-Jewish in
spirit and inhuman in content.
This is a decree aimed against
the Jewish community in the
Soviet Union, but its immoral
significance is universal inasmuch
as it contains elements of
brutality against man's human
spirit and liberty, and man's
right to live in affinity with his
people. This policy actually tells
every educated Jew in the Soviet
Union: 'Your brains and
whatever you have studied and
thought don't actually belong to
you. Since you are a Jew, it is
doubtful whether you are entitled
to study and gain an education
at all. And if you are
bound for Israel to join your
people, it is your duty to suf-
fer. As for us, we will do our
best to find clever means to
prevent your emigration in all
ways possible without choosing
our means.'"
The Knesset immediately
passed a resolution demanding
the Soviet Union repeal the
law, which they said was "appropriate
to the dark period of
the history of the Soviet Union,
which we all had hoped had
passed, never to return." The
resolution "calls upon scientists
of all nations to raise to the defense
of the human and national
rights of their colleagues in
the Soviet Union . . . The people
in Israel, as well as the
Jewish nation the whole world
over, will not rest until the head
tax is abolished."
u Whatever you want to do
An Open Letter from TexPIRG
During the past few weeks
the TexPIRG Local Board members
have often been asked the
question: "What is TexPIRG
going* to do this year?" The
answer is simply "whatever you
want to do with it."
The Texas Public Interest Research
Group is your resource.
Its purpose is to encourage and
facilitate student-originated research
into public interest fields
on. the local to state level Tex-
PIRG stands resolved to convert
the results of this research
into positive change of public
policy. This- is done initially by
publicizing the results through
the mess media and, on a higher
level, by testifying before
regulatory agencies, lobbying in
the Texas legislature or other
legislative bodies, and ultimately,
by seeking change through
the courts. These efforts are
possible because TexPIRG has
money and, as of October 1, a
professional staff. *
Brilliant insight is not required
to bring to mind myriad
rip-offs and injustices perpetrated
by unresponsive government,
quasi-monopolistic industries,
and unethical business
practices. If there is a particular
problem area you would
like to investigate, but are not
sure how to begin, talk to Tex-
PIRG. TexPIRG will help you
find a faculty advisor and possibly
arrange course credit for
your research, provide you with
technical and legal assistance,
money to insure the quality and
success of your project, and
publish and disseminate the
results of your research when
it has tbeen completed. If you
don't wish to take a long-term
project, but would simply like
to help, TexPIRG will be conducting
a number of consumer
price surveys this fall which
will not require a large time
commitment. Whatever your
particular public-interest goals
are, come to the TexPIRG meeting
Monday at 8:30 pm in Bio
Lab 123 and discuss them with
the local %oard.
Rice students have supported
TexPIRG by signing a petition
in its support and by voluntary
donations. Now TexPIRG asks
that you come and get your
money's worth.
Paul Sanner
WRC '73
Rice has help for job-seekers
The Rice Placement Office
is a service supplied to students
by Rice University. Recently
relocated in 301 Lovett Hall,
its purpose is to aid students
in finding a job after graduation.
According to Placement Director
Mary Leatherwood: "We
do not 'get you a job'. Only you
can do that. We help you make
contacts, and we are ready to
assist you during your search
for your contacts, and we are
ready to assist you during your
search for .your place in the
business or academic worlds."
Employment opportunities
available through the Placement
Office range from parttime
and summer jobs to recruitment
by representatives of
government, industry and education
for professionally trained
people in many fields.
For part-time work the regular
session, students should
register with the Placement Office
early in the first semester.
For summer work, early spring
registration is helpful.
Job study should not be postponed
until the last year before
graduation. The job interview
is not the first step towards
employment, but nearly
the last step. To use the Placement
Office services fully, you
should:
As a Freshman and Sophomore,
visit the Placement Office
and read the cal'eer opportunity
literature. Seek information
from those .already employed
in fields which interest
you. As soon as possible, try
to s&lect and apply for summer
jobs in one of your fields of interest.
Extra-curricular activities
as well,as grades are important
to educational, business
and industry representatives.
When you are a Junior, your
fields of interest will become
clearer. This is the time to set
up your Placement Office file
and begin interviewing with
companies in which you are interested.
When you are a Senior or a
Candidate for an Advanced Degree:
(a) In September, update
your file to be sure it is
current and correct as to address,
phone numiber and •references;
(b) If you plan to go to
graduate school or to the military
service, interviews with
company representatives will
be "good insurance" for the
future; (c) Do not limit your
contacts to companies interviewing
on campus. Prepare
and send a resume to companies
not interviewing. Sample resumes
are available ih the
Placement Office.
Job interviews will begin
September »20; lists of companies
interviewing will be
available on Sept. 15.
Jee hits Jones Security lack
To the editor:
As a female, living on-campus,
I am required by the University
to pay a room and board
charge $71 higher than the male
student. This additional amount
is supposed to be necessary to
provide security (ie a night
man) in my college after the
college closes. However, the
security provided is inadequate.
I am talking specifically
about tthe situation in Jones
.College where I live. Jones has
two wings but only one night
man. Presently this man is located
in the South wing. This
poses a problem in that it is the
North wing which is next to the
parking lot and the street.
If one considered the matter
of security only, the man should
be stationed in Jones North. As
it is now, any student returning
late at night via the parking
lot (no matter if she lives Jn
North or South) must traverse
the insecurely lighted area of
the parkiftg lot and walk by the
commons to get to South before
she can get into the college.
Before, she could go directly
into North and be escorted by
the night man to South. Granted,
there have been additional
lights, placed in the parking lot
but there are still a great many
areas in which trouble could occur.
Moving the man back to
North, however, would be unfair
to the girls in South who
are also paying for "security."
Because the college is built in
two separate wings it is totally
inadequate to have only
one night watchman. It is inconvenient
and also pointless,
especially since his main function
is just to let the girls in at
night.
The same could be accomplished
by giving the girls their
own keys. This, however, is not
practical because there are no
locks on the doors in Jones.
(That's worth another letter.)
It would seem that hiring another
man is the dnly reasonable
alternative. And since I
am being charged extra for
"security," I feel it unfair not
to be getting it.
Virginia Jee
Jones '73
Oft
99

Police arrest Rice student for assault
Neil Williams III, a thirdyear
student and off-campus
member of Will Rice College,
was arrested here Tuesday by
Houston police and charged
with aggravated assault on an
officer. A confrontation between
Williams and Sergeant
Anderson of Rice security in
front of the Rice Memorial Center
concerning improper vehicle
registration brought on the arrest.
Williams was attempting to
leave on his motorcycle, parked
in front of the RMC, when Anderson
approached him to discuss
several parking tickets and
the vehicle registration. When
the motor was turned on, Anderson
reportedly grabbed Williams,
who, according to one
witness, struck the office be-
fore landing in the lawn at the
side along with the motorcycle!'
During the next ten minutes,
Anderson at first tried to restrain
the struggling Williams
while a small group of students
gathered, among whom was
Wiess president Rob Dickinson,
who tried to calm the student
down. Security officer Mc-
Coy arrived and helped to handcuff
Williams and lead him to
the Security office.
According to Dean Wierum,
who also came to the Security
Office, Williams was "very belligerent
and vengeful and very
contemptuous." He asked him
to go home and return in the
morning to the Dean's office
to discuss the registration and
the tickets. Williams, who had
already kicked attending of-
ficers Brooks in the stomach
and McCoy in the head, "refused
to follow that course of
action. He continued to be belligerent
and vengeful and contemptuous,
and used vile language
in resisting attempts to
calm him down."
Wierum remarked that by
then there "was no choice but
to take him to the City of Housto
police department." Officers
McCoy and Anderson waited at
the entrance gate with Williams
until the police arrived. All returned
to the Security Office
for a discussion of the incident,
then drove to the police station.
Williams was released on a
$1200 bond; the delay was due
to his inability to contact his
parents living near Dallas. Several
members of Will Rice also
Football intramurals to kick off
By BILL BELL
The annual intramural football
vendetta got underway last
Tuesday with another mixture
of established oldsters and
young hopefuls that should delight
the hearts of pseudo-jocks
everywhere. Though the total
number of teams is down from
last year's 38 to a more modest
30 the competition should be as
fierce, and as unpredictable as
ever.
At seasons end, when the last
whistle has blown and the last
rump slapped, the omnipresent
Bang Gang should repeat as
champions. Bang Gang certainly
seems to thave the Monday
League sewn up with no established
teams to challenge
them. With their superb quarterback
and team leader Mike
Hundt, and defenders like Elliot
Shapleigh, the Gang hardly
needs the help of two fine newcomers
Mike Lynch and Rick
Hollington. Sticky Fingers, last
year's freshman champs, and
the always unpredictable A.R.
O.T.C. might give the Gang a
game but they just don't have
the material or the experience
to really challenge the champs.
Tuesday's league is less secure,
although this biased reporter
gives the nod to the
Knickerknockers. The Knicks,
who were edged by the Bang
Gang, 13-0, last year in the
finals, have a decidedly new
look this year. Gone is the overshadowing
threat of B-baller
Bert Schmidt. New faces John
Jaggers, Joe Zylka, Lew Hancock,
and Mike Webster add
defense. Frank Allen will lead
quality to both the offense and
the team this year at quarterback,
and his excellent arm and
crazy legs carry the Knicks
championship hopes. The Knicks
real challenge will come from
the darkhorse Nodders. The
Nodders arc basically a carryover
from last years UAM-MF
which barely lost to the Knicks,
7-6, in the playoffs. The team
has a good reservoir of talent,
but with ljQ.resetablished quarterback
their true potential remains
unknowwn.
Wednesday league has only
three teams and will play a
double round-robin, Steve Holder's
Climax should prevail
without great deal of trouble
in their own league. John Mikus,
Tommy Lassater and Gordon
Davenport are all fine athletes
and if the rest of the team
can solidify around this nucleus,
they could give Bang Gang a
challenge come the playoffs.
Friday has both the largest
league and the biggest question
mark. The class of the
league seems to be the 12 Angry
Weiners. Thank goodness
their talent on the field is better
than their talent at namegiving.
Mike Venson is a solid
quarterback and Bill Starnes is
probably the best center in any
league. With Craig Ank at
blocking back and Walt (Goose)
Buenger at rusher the team has
a solid nucleus. The only weakness
seems to be at the corners.
Several changes have been
made this year in intramurals
in regards to rules, eligibility
and financing. The contact in
intramural football got clean
out of hand in several games
last year, and rules concerning
roughness and sportsmanlike
conduct have been strengthened
this year in an attempt to tone
the game down. Tactics such as
forearm smashes (especially to
the face, butting, and other
cheap shots may have their
place in another league but
certainly not in intramural football.
Sure the game entails
clean, hardnosed contact. But,
especially without padding,
these clever attempts at maiming
are patently absurd. Last
year touch football participants
incurred too many injuries and
any continuance of this trend
may force the adoption of such
changes as shield blocking to
eliminate contact. Also any plaer,
coach, or student using insulting
or derogatory language
toward the opposition will be
summarily dismissed from the
contest. Any person attempting
violence toward his opponents
will be barred from any future
participation in intramurals for
one full year. These rules will
be strictly enforced, so keep
your tempers cool.
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er thwarted an almost certain
Owl scoring drive.
No. 3: Operating from multiple
sets and shifts. This tactic
will often deceive the defense
into thinking that you actually
have a variety of plays and
may even deceive some of your
own team into thinking that
they are the Dallas Cowboys.
No. 4: Allowing the "other
team" to make the mistakes.
Tli is tenet demonstrates the
risk involved in this style of
play. For as The Book says,
"One seldom lives on mistakes
alone." Taking this to heart,
the Owls saw fit to introduce
"the drive" as defined in footnote
4.
The second step to winning
a football game is a good defense,
and this is handled in
The Book in Chapter 9, "Defense:
Friend or Foe?" Coach
Conover took the wisdom of the
chapter to heart in designing
a specific defense to stop a
specific opponent. It seems apparent
that Conover paid particular
attention to Part III ,of
the treatise, "Defensing the Big
Play Team."
Part III is quite simple in its
presentation. You must find the
big play, and you must defense
it. For example, Houston's big
UST builds new center
A new University Center
named for John II. Crooker, a
rounding partner in the law
firm of Fullbright, Crooker &
.Taworski and major supporter
of University of St. Thomas,
wdl be built in the coming year
on the UST campus. The center
will occupy a major portion of
the block at Mt. Vernon and
Branard Streets, across from
from their new Doherty Library.
The Crooker Center, answering
the needs of a vapidly increasing
student body, will
house multiple non-academic
student functions. World-renowned
architect Philip Johnson
< f New York, who designed the
Academic Mall for St. Thomas,
has agreed to be consultant for
the center, to assure conformity
of this building with his
overall plan.
Wilson, Morris, Grain and
Anderson are Houston architects
for the $750,000 building,
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of St. Thomas, made the
announcement, saying, "The
building will consolidate innumerable
services now housed all
over the campus. It will also
supply a number of new and
long awaited additional services."
University of St. Thomas,
celebrating its 25th Anniversary
this fall, has shown 2')';
increase in enrollment in the
last three yars. The fall semester
will begin with over !>•' o
students.
Convinced that the University's
rapidly rising needs must
be met swiftly, the Directors,
Trustees and Administration
will have erected three major
buildings in three years with
the completion of the Crooker
Center in 1973. The $2 million
Doherty Library, named for the
late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pace
Doherty, will be dedicated in
in November. A $1 million residence.
hall housing 200 students
was opened in the fall
of 1970.
Construction on the Crooker
Center will begin in January.
plays are the veer-T sweeps
and the long bonib. The remainder
of the Cougar attack
is merely a distraction. Consequently,
the Owls used fine end
play and good pursuit to stop
the outside running; the defensive
backs concentrated on
stopping the long passes, while
the linebackers kept the U of
H inside runs to four yards per
carry.
In conclusion, it is difficult
to fault success, but we question
how successful these same
strategies will be in the coming
weeks and months. While this
conservative offensive strategy
may have been appropriate for
this particular game and situation,
we hope that the offense
is more capable of varying its
tempo in the future.
Optimism is clearly justified,
as this can be the type of win
around which a season can be
built. It certainly is better than
building a season around a
loss, as we did last year.
m M
Sports clubs - an alternative with variety
by BILL BELL
Sometimes lost in the limelight
of intramural competition
and the big time athletics are
the Rice Sports Clubs. These
clubs allow persons with specialized
athletic talents or interests
to engage in or learn
sports not specifically included
in the intramural program or
athletic dept. Almost all the
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clubs are endorsed by some national
or statewide organization,
and not only compete in,
but are also involved in teaching
their various disciplines.
The Rice Health and Physical
Education Department, in the
person of Mr. Bland, is in
charge of the overall program,
but in effect each club is functionally
independent.
Probably the two best known
clubs are the rugby and soccer
clubs. The Rice Rugby club
has been in existence for some
five years now and is a member
of the Lone Star' Rugby
Union. The league Is a solid,
spring season are played every
year with the winner of the
spring season winning a cup.
The Rice team on their conference
last fall compiling an 8-
3-1 record, including a 16-12
victory over LSU. The spring
semester was not so successful
as the team struggled to a respectable
5-4-1 record. The action
is fast and furious, and the
Rice team, which is noted for
its quickness and .not its size,
plays clean, hard nosed rugby.
The team is always looking for
people who enjoy a lot of contact
and is more than willing to
teach any newcomers who really.
want to play. Ruggers don't
jfm lawler
kelly hill
direction is welcome to try out
for the team. Dr. Van Helden is
the enthusiastic coach for this
club which practices on Tuesdays
and Thursdays at 5:00 and
plays Saturdays at 2:00. (Rumor
has it that the team may
even try to schedule an exhibition
game this season with the
professional Dallas Tornadoes).
The Rice Scuba Club is also
active and is even conducting a
college course (Lovett 303a,
for those interested in that
The Science of Scuba Diving)
sport. The club sponsors several
interesting field trips every
year for qualified divers.
competitive ^jolTecl^pn o£ teawte" have to stand 6'4" tall, weigh The Rice Rifle and Pistol Shoot-
aroupd.^'ftexas including Texas
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Rugby Club, and others from
Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and
Galveston. (A fall season and a
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above description, however, * of the ROWTC. Active clubs also
please contact the Rice Rugiby
team immediately. The team
practices Mondays and Thursdays
at 4:00 and usually plays
at 2:00 on Saturdays.
The Rice soccer team is also
a highly competitive team,
playing a good brand of soccer
in the Texas Collegiate Soccer
League, (see article concerning
last Saturday's 3-2 victory over
U of H). The rumor that no one
on the team can speak English
has no foundation, and anyone
who thinks he has talent in this
0
compete in bowling, gymnastics,
fencing, karate, sailing, water
hockey, and water polo. Anyone
interested in any of these ac-'
tivities should contact Mr.
Bland at the gym for further
information. -Anyone having any
other interests should also contact
him if they would like to
form some other club. Any club
that would like information
published concerning their activities
should get in touch with
myself, Bill Bell, at 626-8649
or through the Rice Thresher.

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NSA conference - a radical muddle of campus politicos
By DANA WHITLEDGE
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months beforehand, the advance
literature makes it sound very
tentative, perhaps even spur
of the moment. This is not the
case, but things are far from
perfect at the Congress. A
large portion of the uncertainty
stems from not knowing who
or what will show up: 500 or
2000. This year it was about
750.
At any rate, registration at
Catholic University in D. C.
last August 12 showed all the
confusion that could be expected.
The staff had planned to
have the pre-registered delegates'
information ready to go,
but about sixty delegates had
arrived in Washington the night
before, and the whole national
office had been mobilized to
find rooms for them. So much
for advance planning where
student are concerned.
1 was going to the congress
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goodies that the Program Council
could desperately use. Jer
Mardis had been to the congress
last year in Colorado and had
warned me that it would be extremely
political. Well, I intended
to avoid all of that and just
stick to seeking out services
and meeting people from other
universities. Saturday evening
before the first plenary session
(where all official business of
the congress takes place) I
suddenly found myself on the
Congress Steering Committee
representing Texas and Oklahoma.
So, instead of avoiding
all the politics, I spent my entire
time caught up in all of
the inner workings of the congress
and the NSA. The Steering
Committe (CSC) was a
combination of credentials, platform,
agenda, and steering
committees. In short, if you
wanted something to happen
there, you had to bring it
through the CSC.
So, starting every morning
during the congress, I reported
to the Committee room at 10
am, and stayed there, except
for lunch and dinner breaks,
until plenary sessions at 8 pm.
We heard credentials challenges,
squabbles over office machines,
attempted infiltration
by the Communist Party, mandates
to boycott lettuce, conquer
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amendments to restrucure
the ruling bodies of the
NSA. In short, it seemed like
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miniature Democratic Convention.
Although we followed parliamentary
procedure in the CSC,
discussion often lead to argument.
The most violent of these
was the result of my asking
the Third World representatives
to clarify the phrase "U.S. domestic
genocidal policies." This,
and my inability to understand
someone from New York City
while he was screaming, resulted
in an almost physical confrontation.
However, things
cooled off, and order was restored.
Plenary sessions were something
else again. They were
boring, long, sometimes exciting,
irritating, but always uncomfortable.
They were held in
the gym, which was like holding
them in the Rice gym in
August. The only saving grace
was the Good Humor Man who
parked his truck outside the
plenary hall until the session
was over.
For the three years previous
to this congress, there had been
some kind of podium takeover
by the blacks or Third World.
We thought this year would be
the exception, since major reforms
in the structure of NSA
had been made during this congress,
but this proved to be
a false hope. On Friday, the
plenary, we were to hold elections
for national officers.
When the first ballot was over,
there were still three candidates
in the running: Larry
Friedman from Queens College,
Mae Jimison, a black woman
from Indiana* and Tim Higgins
from Wisconsin. Friedman and
Higgins were tied, and a question/answer
period for the
three was to begin, when suddenly
Friedman dropped out
of the race, and gave his support
to Jimison. It became immediately
obvious that some
sort of deal had been made,
and suddenly the whole atmosphere
changed and turned
against Mae. The resulting ballot
gave Higgins a clear victory.
At this time Omar
Fareuk, a Black Muslim from
Chicago, stormed the podium
and attacked Tim Higgins. The
next few minutes were confusion,
anger, and violence. Before
we knew it all the bottles that
had been on the tables were
gone, and the blacks were carrying
them around, gently
swinging tfiem. Within ten
minutes the Third World Caucus
had left the gym and was
deciding on its next move. This
was about 1:30 in the morning.
The next few hours were
spent with the two groups talking
about what had happened,
and what needed to happen
next. In the end the Third
World came back about Sam
and another election was held,
with all the candidates in it.
The winner was again Higgins,
and the Third World started
to protest and walk out again.
But this time Omar Farouk
got up and said the system had
declared Higgins the winner,
and as such he would try to
work with him to further common
goals, not to destroy. At
6am the plenary was adjourned
after also electing Ron Eirenreich
from Temple University
in Philadelphia as vice-president.
While seeing the discord and
politics rampant at such a congress,
it is easy to get discouraged
and decide it isn't
worth a damn, but something
Margie Tabankin, last year's
president, said stuck in my
mind, "This is the only game
in town." The NSA is the only
nationwide clearing house for
information for student governments.
This is the only way
we'll ever get those services
that I went up there for, so
maybe we had better stick with
it and try to improve it. With
this in mind, I ran for the National
Supervisoi'y Board which
oversees the Association and
makes policy for it during the
year. I was elected and now am
one of three from the area of
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and
Missouri. So now we have a
strong input in the NSA policies.
Let's use it.
Scholarship offer deadline nears
By CRAIG STAFFORD
Hey ther£ graduating seniors!
Somebody cares about you
—if you care enough to apply.
October 9 is the deadline this
year for applying for several
special scholarship opportunities:
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High ranking graduating seniors
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Room 101, Lovett Hall for more
information and application
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be seeing the world next year!
For full credit textbooks must be returned within
THREE WEEKS after the beginning of the semester
in which purchased.
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accompanied by our CASH REGISTER RECEIPT.
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What does Marjoe do with the souls he
by ANDY HURLEY
Movies, good or bail ones,
do something to the people that
see them. They push them
around visually and emotionally
and morajjy and ideologically.
In fact, the really avid
movie- goer is willing to see
bad movies, stupid movies,
simply to be able to watch his
own reactions to the clumsy
attempts of the movie makers
to manipulate the viewers. Like
sex transformed into mechanics
by a consciousness of style or
the lack of it, consciousness of
the participation in it, watching
movies can be a very frustrating
and unsatisfying enterprise,
and one which chills
rather than warms.
"Marjoe," for example, is an
ably-made film with a compel-
ling personality to focus on and
follow, an interesting counterpointed
double life to fathom,
and hordes of evangelist campfollowers
to feel patronizingly
smug toward. My audience
over at the Alabama applauded
the film. And I, sitting down
front with an obstructed view
of the ugliness physical and
spiritual, the desperate eyes,
the souls with warts to be removed
by a laying-on of galvanizing
hands and a speaking
of glossolalic jabber, I was depressed
and angered by the
film.
Marjoe Gortner was a victim
of his parents' manic and
zealous evangelism/moneygrubbing.
They worked the
four-year-old child like a gander
who lured the the golden
geese to the canvas tabernacles
erected in towns across America.
They made little Marjoe into
a spiritual freak-show. They
robbed him of knowledge
of moral discriminations by
conflating the good of caving
souls through preaching gospel
(a good I will not dispute
the goodness of) with the evils
of spiritual hypocrisy and
preaching tainted with fraud
and greed. And as Marjoe says,
it is a part of his life he cannot
be responsible for. He was
the innocent tool of his mistaken
if not actually bad parents.
But as an adult, Marjoe
should have more of everything
good—especially if he has, as
he continually wants us to believe,
learned lots ot' lessons
Books make a film and a joke
H. DAVID DANGLO
The human inhabitant of
Tralfamadore is, has been and
always will be, living on that
planet 1 - the natives live in the
fourth dimension. What the natives
do when they're not observing
the humans (in a sealed
dome furnished by Sears and
Roebuck) is unobservable, but
what human Billy Pilgrim docs
is - time-tripping. He jumps
back and forth uncontrollably
through the many events of his
his life.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-F I V E
could become a very epicurean
philosophy of life. Billy begins
his time-tripping after he is
picked up by a Tralfamadorian
light ship, shortly after his
wife's fatal accident and the
plane.crash. He is. limited, however,
to his own existence—his
earthly life span-through which
he hops back and forth as he
spends eternity in outer space
with his idol-mate, buxom starlet
Montana Wildhack. Can you
imagine being warned several
years ahead of time, and then
cramming every activity imaginable
into that time, knowing
that you'd be reliving them forever?
Although I'm sure forever
would soon become somewhat
boring, at least you'd be
doing yourself a service to insure
the postponement of eternal
ennui. Plus you would have
more time to think about your
choice of mate.
Although the situation'is preposterous,
SLIAUGHTER-FIVE
is a very enthralling film, and,
if not :the best this year, at
least the best combination of
perfection and singularity. I
have not read ..the book; therefore
I cannot comment on the
skill of adaptation. To say "if
the book is as good as the movie,
it's worth reading" would
sound rather ignorant — what
can one say about a book which
received rave reviews upon publication,
boasts one of the
world's most renowned contemporary
authors and is part of
a cult? The unusually meticulous
script seems to suggest
that the original was followed
faithfully, and the movie has
plenty of assets on its own.
The acting and photography
are only adequate, overshadowed
by a masterful control of
movement and juxtaposition by
the director, George Roy Hill
(BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE
SUNDANCE KID). Michael
Sacks, aided by a fantastic
makeup job that rivals the ag-
ing process used on D u s t i n
Hoffman in LITTLE BIG MAN
provides a good Billy Pilgrim,
and supporting performances
by Valerie Perrine as Montana
and Ron Leibman as the avenging
Paul Lazzaro are very complementary.
Sharon Gans as
the "pleasingly plump" Valencia
Merble (Billy's wife) and
Holly Near as the prototype
daughter Barbara ("there's no
such place as Trilafamiduke!")
are also notable in their debuts.
The invisible Tralfamadorians
steal the show in this category,
and their celebration of new human
life when Montana gives
birth truly makes the heart rejoice.
George Roy Hill, however,
has managed to direct an almost
perfectly executed movie.
His success as director of Butch
Cassidy has clearly carried over
to a remarkable rendition of a
man "unstuck" in time. Although
he has sacrificed good
characterizations (possibly a
fault of the original) and the
potential for better photography,
he has taken a conceivably
confusing concept and
sorted it out visually for the
audience. SLAU G II T E R-
HOUSE-FIVE is rarely confusing,
and Hill sees to it that,
despite the bumpy story line,
the movie can be easily followed
without too many jolts.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE—
a philosophy, a celebration of
life and a truly fine film. At
the Gaylynn in Sharpstown.
What are perverts? Do aphrodisiacs
work? What is sodomy?
What happens in the body
during sexual intercourse? Dr.
David 1 Reuben tried to answer
these questions in his best seller
EVERYTHING YOU AL-
WAYS WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT SEX BUT WERE
AFRAID TO ASK, with varying
feuccess.
Woody Allen, in. his new film
of tine same title, has managed
to answer them again in an
equally ridiculous fashion; and
at the same time he spoofs foreign
films (in atrocious Italian),
horror films (mad doctor sex
tfiend[) and historical films (with
thee and thou and words that
rhyme with latch). I think I
read the book at one time or
another, simply because I didn't
think I' could just wait and see
the movie, a previously successful
ploy with such best sellers
as THE GODFATHER and THE
NEW CENTURIONS. I couldn't
have been more correct in my
tMhking.
xhe book is the perfect material
for Allen, and served only
as a springboard for some very
special and unique comedy. With
seven sketches, Allen answers,
seven of Reuben's basic questions,
with as much plausibility
as the original replies. Settings
range from medieval castles to
modern testicles; subjects range
from chastity belts to monster
breasts (captured in a size 4000,
X-cup bra); situations range
from infatuation with a sheep
to gangbanging by a troop of
crazed Boy Scouts.
With EVERYTHING YOU
HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO
KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT
WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Woody Allen has branded pornography
with his low-key humor,
but the effort is about as
significant as other such comedic
trivia as THE OWL AND
THE PUSSYCAT and hardly
more worthwhile. Little more
than a "hard-core" LOVE
AMERICAN STYLE has been
developed.
Every character in the movie
is feature perfect, and I just
have'to praise Allen's sense of
direction and characterization
despite my discontent with the
total concept. His humor trademark
is still clear—the unchanging
straight-faced, anti-serious
comedy unmatched by other
comedians or directors of comedy.
I never thought that this
could be the least bit obnoxious,
but it finally happened with
EVERYTHING. Woody Allen
really ought to find better
things to do with his time.
through his cold-blooded exploitation
of the offering plate
to his own gain. He should have
more sense of responsibility to
those people—however ugly,
however much hicks, however
naive ai\d unconscious of urban
vices they are—who believe in
him and his powers to show
them how to do good. He should
have sympathy for them. He
mustn't let us have fun at their
innocent expense. And he should
have respect for us. His appeal
is great—he's a combination of
David Frye and Mick Jagger
physically—and yet he uses it
to swindle not only those poor
arthritic old folks but us, whom
he seems to be enlightening.
The shell game, played with
celluloid.
Marjoe wants to seem cold,
calculating, and .evil — one
knows this when he says, "I'm
not evil; I'm bad, and there's
a difference," so that you know
he's lying, like the used-car
salesman who wants to be a
Marjomioso. He winds up seeming
not cold or calculating or
evil but sad, self-deluded, and
bad. It would be great to be
evil—Miek Jagger is evil, and
he's the closest thing to a hero
that we have nowadays. But
is evil manque, not heroic but
disgusting, not amoral and
grand and vital but immoral
and petty and sick. Marjoe is
a cheap shyster, and his victims
are pitiable and legion.
"Marjoe" is a vicious, grasping - ,
mercenary movie; its victims
are us, if we applaud or are
angered or if any of it caters
to our sense of our superiority
to the victims we see Marjoe
ripping off.
But the movie is very well
done, very ingratiating, very
slithering and reptilian and
quick and razzle-dazzle. It is
a doozey and I'm very happy
finally to have escaped it by
writing this review. Don't let
it sell you salvation by showing
you that you're elect''"already.
That's a hard temptation
to resist, the appeal to
vanity, but do it, do resist, or
you lose your soul to Marjoe.
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she was all of a sudden "homesick."
The next evening's session
lasted until six the next morning,
the longest single session
in the history of political conventions
in America. It was
platform night and showed the
tediousness of Democracy and
the power of the McGovern
v* o t e manipulation machine.
Many minority planks, both liberal
and conservative, Were presented
and most had enough
delegate support to necessitate
a roll call vote. But McGovern
pressured his delegates to vote
against the strong abortioii
plank and against the $6500
guaranteed income proposal and
against the endorsement of the
rights of homosexuals. The only
planks accepted during the
night were one dealing with Indian
rights and another advocating
a stronger stand on Israel.
It was 5:15 a.m. when the
Indian plank was adopted, the
first constructive vote of the
night. It warranted a full minute
of applause by the delegates,
quite a feat at that time
of the morning.
Some might say that it was a
waste of time, but it was Democracy,
sort of. McGovern had
to be careful. He was hurt in
the Nebraska primary by his
stand on abortion and a tooliberal
plank would make that
issue an easy target for the
Republican opposition, not
known for their gentility in
combat.
Our man Briscoe voted
against the platform and said
that he hoped to draw up a
platform at the state convention
on September 19 (here in Houston)
that would be "compatable
with the will of the Texas people."
He did not look happy.
Visit with Wallace
The next morning, the Texas
delegation was invited to have
a private visit with Governor
Wallace. He was gracious, but
tired from his speech to the
convention the night before,
and still a very sick man after
his gunshot wounds. He
would not withdraw and hoped
that many would vote for him,
but he had no illusions that he
could win the nomination although
he contended that he
represented more Americans
than did McGovern. When told
that there were some McGovern
supporters in the room, he mentioned
that he respected Mc-
Govern personally,. but that it
would be difficult for him to
win in November. He reiterated
that he would not run as a
third party candidate.
It was a very sobering ocasion
for me.
Doral invasion
• **
On Tuesday, McGovern issued
a statement in response to the
support of the POW-MIA wives
which said, "I intend to use
every resource available to the
President, including direct personal
diplomacy in Hanoi, to
insist upon the release of all
prisoners and a complete, im-
• • •
partial accounting for all missing
in action. While I am fully
confident that there would be
no such need, I would also retain
the military capability in
the region—in Thailand and on
the seas—to signal and fulfill
our firm determination on this
issue."
The SDS and other demonstrators
invaded the Doral and
occupied its lobby on Wednesday
afternoon in protest to this
apparent shift in McGovern's
position of withdrawing all
troops from Southeast Asia.
The hotel management overreacted
and called the cops who
rammed through the crowd and
formed a triple line in the lobby.
When the news reached the
McGovern staff, the police
were ordered out. "We don't
care what they do, as long as
they don't storm the 17th floor
(where McGovern stayed),"
said Pierre Salinger. Later Mc-
Govern came down and talked
to the squatters and made a
very impressive showing out of
a possibly explosive situation,
It was about the only thing
that happened during "prime
time" the whole week.
But by this time, the convention
was called to order and the
youth caucus tried to meet
again. With several hundred in
attendence, the meeting was
even more chaotic than before.
Some were interested in insuring
the youth representation on
committees, but most were interested
in nominating McGovern
and to hell with the rest.
After 45 minutes of parliamentary
quibbling and a little real
debate, a motion to table the
whole matter was passed and
the caucus adjourned. The delegates
filed back into the .hall
with nothing accomplished.
lAt about that time, Dolph
Briscoe announced that he was
going to vote for Wallace in
the evening's roll call. This unnecessary
move infuriated the
blacks and McGovern supporters.
He could have safely voted
for Jackson," but instead he
voted for Wallace and then to
confuse everybody, he and 14
others changed their votes to
McGovern (wfho already had
gone over the top) "in the interest
of party unity." Well,
the Wallace vote angered the
McGovern followers and the
McGovern vote hacked off the
Wallace people. It semed the
only one who was not furious
with Dolph w,as Janey. It was
not a good night for Unity in
the Texas delegation.
That session ended just after
midnight, the earliest one all
week, and there was a victory
party at the Doral with a band
and a thousand or so very tired
youngsters. The music stopped
after only a hour.
With the rush of caucuses
and the late sessions, that night
was my first opportunity to see
the Miami Beach. It was very
dissappointing. At low tide, it
is about as wide as the Fondren
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Poor Miami Beach.
Thursday was the confusing
day of the Vice-Presidential
nomination* Under the rules,
the Presidential nominee has
until 4 pm to submit his choice.
Eagleton's name was thrown
in just at the deadline. It seemed
that McGovex*n wasted a
lot of time really believing that
Ted Kennedy would accept.
Sheer folly.
Thursday was the one day
that the staff and network people
had hoped that the proceedings
could be carried on
prime time, from about 8-11
p.m. Eastern. Senator Ted Kennedy
was flying in to give a
Unity Speech and McGovern's
acceptance spech would be soon
after that. Who would want
that good stuff to be heard by
almost no one early in the
morning ?
Well, the delegates could not
be reasoned with and eight
names were placed in nomination.
Many were pro-McGovern,
but were hoping for an open
selection of the vice-presidential
candidate. The nominating
and seconding speeches dragged
on, and the roll call ended after
2 a.m., at which time Dolph and
Janey stridecl out of the hall. I
asked them why they were leaving
and Dolph replied, "I'm going
to get a breath of fresh
air. It's hot in there." Too hot
for Dolph at least. He never
came back.
So, very early Friday morning
Kennedy gave his " . . .
and so will George McGovem"
speech and McGovern his
"Come home, America" acceptance
address in "prime time in
Guam."
It is becoming increasingly
important in the eyes of some
that it is not important what
you do, but how large an audence
sees you do it. That is
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Thursday the fourteenth
Twenty questions opens at tthe Museum
of Fine Arts.
5pm soccer behind gym.
5:45pm Thresher comes out, A1 Fin.
Who's he?
7pm Bullit shows at Uberholtzer Ballroom,
UH for only 75c
7:30pm Chapel lecture "On Justice,
Mercy, and Faith."
FILL means four lovely lasses, no lads !
Friday the fifteenth
Poster exhibit ends at Rice Museum tonite.
All day festival at UH climaxes at
9pm with Yellow Submarine outside
Moody Towers.
5pm .cym behind soccer
7pm UH two movies. Crime and Punishment
free in Library, and. Stanley
in and. no 2, Arnold Hall. It costs.
7pm Weiss College presents a popular
soap flick - Cool Hand Luke in
their commons.
Spin L'ag;e D'or, White Head, & Grass
at Media Center.
! Opni Stanley returns . . . the snakein-the-grass.
S a < a rti ay t h e six teen 1 h
; "J'll am Happy birthday to the Trash-
• r's godfathet'
I'll watches Arizona State play foot-
ball on national TV.
12:30pm today is the deadline for returning
books to the bookstore.
You've gotta have a receipt.
7:30pm Joe shows in Hamnian Hall.
RPC movie $1.
8pm Rules of the Game shows in the
media center.
8pm Juliet of the Spirits shows in
Lovett commons for free.
11pm Joe and Juliet run together.
Sunday the seventeenth
3:30pm Marilou Kratzenstein plays
works by Bach in the Chapel.
Mexican Independence Day celebration
& beauty pageant somewhere, sometime
today. Will the Quanah Queen
win'!
Rod makes it to the second floor.
7:41 Doug doesn't do his thing? (ya
wanta bet?)
8pm Thresher B.S. session. Jose Spanada
lectures.
Monday the eighteenth
notes and notices
French *— There will be four
films at the Media Center cu
September IS, all in French.
One is a presentation of the
rulers in the loth century,
two uve of Renissance poets,
and one is a film of an artists
\ lew of his native countryside.
The presentation will
la i 15 minutes, and is highly
recommended to students of
French.
{'oncerI—On .September 18 and
I!), Law fence Foster will conduct
the Houston Symphony
•Orchestra in their presenta-
• ion of Royal Fireworks mu-
>ic, the Hary Janos Suite, and
ih • K y m p h o n y No. 2 by
lirahms. The first two works,
>y Handel and Kodaly respectively
will be presented
along with Brahms symphony
in Jones Hall. For further information
call 224-4240.
Cellist — Gregor Piatogorsky,
will perform with the lionston
Symphony Friday, Sept.
15 at 8:30pm in Jones Ilall.
Tickets are on sale at the
Symphony's Jones Ha'! box
office, 224-4240.
First —* Vote is interested in
conducting a voter-registration
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1X :52am Morning classes start letting
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7:30pm There will be French films
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S :30pm Lawrence F oster conducts
works by Handel, Kodaly, & Brahms,
For more information, contact
their office at 228-8451.
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in Jones Hall.
8:30pm TexPIRG meeting in Bio 123;
you all come.
Tuesday the nineteenth
2-4pm Photos in Fondren 311 for ID
cards if you need a new one.
7pm. 203 Sewall Hall . . . the Christian
Science meeting begins.
Why not Rac ? Because DHFMa & SCa.
7-8pm More Photos, Fondren 311.
Wednesday the twentieth
7:30pm. Bio 131 pre-med meeting.
8:40pm. Reams of paper tell me that
I was wrong, twelve doesn't equal q.
Thursday the twenty-first
5:45pm. Thresher comes out again
9pm Words worthless Society meets in
Sammys. This is their 4th annual
organizational meeting.
Friday the twenty-second
8pm Movies at the Media Center.
Last day of classes until Monday, except
for weekend classes.
8pm Joe Cocker sounds off in Hofheinz
Pavilion. Tickets $4.50 at Foley's &
TJ.C. ticket office.
Saturday the twenty-third
Flash: Flying saucers strafe Karnes
City!
12noon Deadline for adding courses to
schedule.
Later, UH plays again.
7 :"0pm. Once again the MOB does its
thing against the tyand from Clem-
son. P.S. The football team will be
there too.
Sunday the twenty-fourth
3 :30pm Klaus Kratzenstein plays works
by Bach in the Rice Memorial
Chapel.
Maybe 8pm Thresher BS session. Usual
refreshments will be served.
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