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Fire guts Hanszen Commons; cause unknown 

by EMILY COFFMAN 

Hanszen students will be eating 

out this fall. Their Commons 

was destroyed by a fire of yet 

undetermined origin on Thursday, 

June 5. 

The fire was first spotted at 

about 7:30pm by Stewart Baker, 

Master of Wiess College. He notified 

Security of the blaze, and 

by 7:38, the Houston Fire 

Department had arrived. However, 

it was already too late to 

save much of the building and its 

contents. 

The Hanszen Commons was 

being used to store furniture 

from adjacent Wiess during the 

remodeling of that College's 

Dr. Richard A. Chapman, a 

scientist-executive in the Central 

Research Laboratories of Texas 

Instruments in Dallas, has been 

elected by alumni to the Board 

of Governors. 

Chapman received his B.A. 

from Rice in 1954, his M.A. in 

1955, and his Ph.D. in 1957. In 

1961 and 1962 he served on the 

Executive Board of the Association 

of Rice Alumni. 

At Rice, Chapman's graduate 

work was in low-energy nuclear 

physics. Before joining Texas 

Instruments in 1959 he spent 

two years researching nuclear 

power reactors at General Electric's 

Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory. 

He is widely published in 

scientific journals and is a member 

of the American Physical 

Society. 

During his undergraduate 

days at Rice, Chapman was one 

of the University's oi^standing 

athletes. Upon graduating in 

1954, he- was the first draft 

choice of the Detroit Lions, but 

chose graduate school over professional 

football. He played 

tackle and guard on the Rice 

football teams of 1951, 1952, 

and 1953. He was a Tri-Captain 

commons area, together with 

numerous mattresses from both 

colleges. This large amount of 

fuel, coupled with Houston's hot 

weather, allowed the fire to 

spread rapidly. 

By the time the fire was extinguished, 

all that remained were 

the outer walls. The ceiling had 

buckled in many spots; the inside 

of the building was gutted. 

First estimates assumed that the 

old walls would become the shell 

around a new lounge and dining 

area, to be completed by October. 

However, when Bill Cannady, 

Professor of Architecture, went 

over the building with a structural 

engineer, they found that 

Wall of flames guts Hanszen Commons. This shot was taken 

by Donald Clayton, Wiess resident associate, before firemen 

arrived. 

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elected Alumni Governor 

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on the Southwest Conference 

Co-Championship Team of 1953 

and played in the 28-6 win over 

Alabama in the 1954 Cotton 

Bowl. He was selected as an All- 

Conference guard in 1952, as an 

All-Conference tackle in 1953, 

and as a tackle on the Players' 

Ail-American Team of 1953, 

which is the team for the College 

All Star game. He has been 

named to the Cotton Bowl All 

Star Team for the decade of the 

1950s. 

Chapman was elected alumni 

Governor through mail ballots 

and will replace District Judge 

James R. Meyers '49 of Austin, 

whose four-year term on the 

Rice Board of Governors expires 

June 30, 1975. Chapman will 

serve until 1979. 

Also, two current term members 

of the Board of Governors 

have been recently reappointed. 

Baine P. Kerr, a term member 

since 1972, is general counsel 

and chairman of the executive 

committee of Pennzoil Company 

and a partner in the law firm of 

(continued on page 12) 

the load-bearing masonry was 

unsafe. The whole structure 

would have to come down before 

any re-building could begin. 

The completion date has thus 

been delayed to January 1. 

Cannady is designing a new 

structure to replace the old 

Commons, and his drawings will 

be used when bidding for the 

contract starts. 

Rice's insurance will pay for 

the replacement or repair of the 

building and its furniture. Since 

the Commons will be redesigned, 

however, and not simply 

replaced as it was, the University 

will pay the bills above the "replacement 

cost." One hesitant 

member of the Business Office 

has come up with a figure of 

between $500,000 and 

$1,000,000 as a "ballpark estimate" 

of the damage. Exact figures 

will not be known until 

Cannady finishes his designs. 

There are also other problems 

to resolve. Hanszen people will 

be without a Commons at least 

through first semester. Plans for 

their feeding have not been finalized, 

but Stephen Baker, Master 

of Hanszen, feels that "the rest 

of the University will have to 

reel and bend" with the college 

in any solution. 

The biggest puzzle, though, is 

to determine how the fire started. 

Even though no work was 

being done on the Commons, 

the building was often open and 

unsupervised. Against specific 

instructions to the contrary, the 

Commons had been left open for 

workmen and B&G personnel to 

get water. Witnesses have reported 

seeing workmen in the area, 

though not necessarily right 

before the fire broke out. Arson 

has been discounted for the time 

being in favor of the more likely 

possibilities of accident or negligence. 

The formal arson report 

has not yet been released. 

One point is clear, though: no 

plans to rebuild the Commons or 

otherwise correct the damage 

will be finalized until sometime 

in July. 

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volume 63, number 1 thursday, june 26, 1975 

Chapman appointed new Dean 

by JOHN ANDERSON 

and GARY BREWTON 

President Norman Hackerman 

has named Alan J. Chapman to 

be the first Dean of the new 

George R. Brown School of 

Engineering, effective July 1. 

First word of the appointment 

came at a special meeting of the 

Dean Selection Advisory Committee 

in the President's Office 

on Monday of this week. 

The committee, which had 

been assured by Dr. Chapman 

that he would not accept the 

appointment under any circumstances, 

had not considered 

Chapman a candidate and did 

not include him in its final deliberations. 

A list of three Other 

candidates for the position was 

submitted to Dr. Hackerman on 

Friday, June 20. Chapman's 

name was mentioned in that 

report, together with the two 

best of the three actual candidates, 

as an indication of the 

caliber of individual being 

sought for the position. 

President Hackerman told the 

assembled committee on Monday 

that they "had missed the 

best man," and that he (Hackerman) 

had persuaded Chapman to 

serve. 

A number of committee 

members were pleased with the 

appointment of Dr. Chapman, a 

man who has strong ties to the 

University ( B.S. Mech. Engr., 

1945; a wife who is the daughter 

of retired Distinguished Professor 

of Mathematics Hubert E. 

Bray; and a son who has just 

graduated from Rice). 

Others on the committee, 

while all noting Chapman's 

integrity and character, expressed 

displeasure with the 

selection process used by Dr. 

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Hackerman. Several questioned 

Hackerman's consistent failures 

in the past to consult with the 

University Council on matters of 

administrative appointments and 

changes. None of the faculty 

members wished their names 

used in conjunction with any 

Thresher article. 

The committee members' dissension 

was not directed at Dr. 

Chapman, who is described as a 

"Low pressure, easy-going guy, 

one who is well-liked," but 

rather at Dr. Hackerman's 

method of selection. One faculty 

member explained that the 

method used was much more 

offensive than the result, saying, 

"This isn't like the Masterson 

Crisis where they (the Board) 

used a bad method of selection 

to pick a bad man." 

(continued on page 5) 

Aftermath of the fire -james aronovsky

the rice thresher 

editorial 

EtlENC 

The Presidency and the Cult of Power at Rice 

The method of President Hackerman's 

appointment of a new dean of the school of 

engineering must surely seem discouraging to 

anyone interested in the welfare of this university. 

Coupled with other incidents over the past 

several months, it shows an insensitivity on the 

part of the President toward faculty participation 

in the setting of common goals and demonstrates 

once more his clear determination to 

bypass the faculty in making important and farreaching 

policy and administrative decisions. 

It would seem that Hackerman is more concerned 

with preserving the powers of his own 

office than in seeking a broad consensus for the 

direction of the university. 

High level appointments are made by and 

from the President's office. And the University 

Council, which ought to be strengthened, is 

deliberately and sometimes deviously bypassed 

by a President who is intent on preserving to the 

fullest his own power. One faculty member says, 

"Hackerman has an abysmal record of 

appointments." Even when the people are good, 

are well-liked, the methods are bad, for they 

repeatedly illustrate President Hackerman's 

reliance on the principle of rule by presidential 

fiat. 

Here are but a few other examples of President 

Hackerman's style of leadership: 

In separating the school of engineering from 

the sciences, Hackerman bypassed the University , 

Council, claiming that the move involved no 

Although Dr. Hackerman 

prides himself on the fact that 

he is accesible to anyone in the 

Rice community, from my own 

experience, the meaningfulness 

of such personal contact is 

questionable. One of Hackerman's 

techniques is to use the 

telephone call as a vent for his 

anger, a technique which conveniently 

leaves no tell-tale 

traces the way a sharply-worded 

letter or memorandum would. 

Even in a personal interview, 

Hackerman uses his position and 

authority to intimidate even the 

most docile reporter. On one 

occasion, I had been informed 

by one of Hackerman's administrators 

that there would be "big 

changes" in the women's athletic 

program next fall, and that I 

should speak to the President to 

get further details. 

When I opened the succeeding 

interview with the question, 

"what changes will be made?", 

Hackerman jumped on the word 

"changes" and said there weren't 

going to be any "changes" — 

only "evolutionary changes," 

whatever the distinction is. 

He also said, "You birds that 

write have a bias," and accused 

me, in very belligerent language, 

of being hostile to the athletic 

program and wanting to destroy 

it. 

When I asked him about a 

petition with 70 signatures (sent 

to the President's office several 

months before) requesting that a 

female faculty member be 

placed on the Committee on 

Intercollegiate Athletics, Hackerman 

flatly denied ever 

receiving the petition, and curtly 

suggested that I check my stories 

more carefully. 

(A week later, after checking, 

we discovered that the petition 

had somehow wound up in the 

office of Doug Osburn, the 

director of women's athletics, 

yet it had been clearly stamped 

"Received, Office of the Presi- 

the rice thresher, thursday, june 26, 1975 — page 2 

change in curriculum or programs. How can he 

say this when he himself emphasized the need 

for more professionalism in engineering and a 

re-establishment of links with industry as justifications 

for the separation? If this does not 

involve a change in programs, then what does? 

President Hackerman again failed to consult 

the University Council concerning the appointments 

of the two Vice Presidents — even though 

the charter of the Council specifically says that 

he should do so. Indeed, he has repeatedly insisted 

that he will not consult the Council with 

regard to high administrative appointments. 

President Hackerman has repeatedly asserted 

that he is the only link between the Board of 

Governors and the rest of the University. Surely, 

however, as he himself must know, no one can 

or ought to be expected to convey alone that 

infinitely complex pattern of needs which is 

Rice. 

The fullest sense of Hackerman's attempts to 

buttress the position of the President as the ultimate 

center of authority within the university is 

his arrogant assertion, oft-expressed to both students 

and faculty, "This is my university." 

President Hackerman has at times noted the 

corporate character of the university, stressing 

his role as chief executive. 

But the university is much more. In its most 

precious essence it is a fragile collectivity of individuals. 

But this fragile collectivity, this essence 

of free thought, is easily lost. And the evidence 

dent," with date and time. 

When confronted with this 

find, Hackerman became 

agitated and insisted that he had 

never seen the petition and that 

there was "no chicanery" going 

on in his office. 

Though I believe him on this 

point, it still mystifies me that a 

petition with 70 signatures could 

be sent off to someone else's 

office without the President or 

his executive secretary ever 

knowing about it.) 

At the previously mentioned 

interview, though, I continued 

by asking whether he was going 

to appoint a woman to the Committee 

on Intercollegiate 

Athletics. He replied, Yes, but 

he couldn't give out her name 

until she was approved by the 

Board. The previous week at 

Alfred's I had overheard a conversation 

at the next- table, at 

which one of the people matterof-factly 

remarked that Mary 

of this loss is all too apparent now in the current 

demoralization of the faculty. 

The Hackerman administration has often 

been based on expedience; it, like the administrations 

of Coolidge and Harding, has had for its 

keynote "Balance the Budget." Laudably, President 

Hackerman has done that; but he has 

shown much less commitment to principles and 

ideals. To many students and faculty alike, the 

University seems to be simply wandering, its 

course uncharted. 

That is the mood of Rice today. Good faculty, 

good staff, good students, all know that the 

situation is deteriorating. Faculty morale is at a 

low. Meanwhile, the library, the very heart of 

the university, continues to decline surely and 

perhaps precipituously given the priorities of 

this administration. 

If the University is to survive during this 

period of retrenchment, then it is essential that 

the faculty be given a meaningful say in its fate, 

and made to feel a vital and continuing part of 

the university. It is not a matter of choice; it is 

an absolute necessity. The view of the university 

as corporation may be appropriate for a large 

state university; but such a limited outlook at a 

small private university can only result in disaster. 

Strong leadership linked to faculty participation 

has its place in the university; government 

,„by presidential fiat does not. 

—John anderson and gary brewton 

Wheeler had been appointed to 

the committee. So I asked Hackerman, 

"Is it Mary Wheeler?" 

He practically exploded. He 

asked me if I had tapped his 

phone, asserted that it wasn't a 

difficult thing to do with all the 

thres m 

John Anderson . Contributing Editor 

Emily Coffman . . . .Hobbit Emeritus 

Mark Linimon .... Back Page Editor 

and Chief Technician 

Debbie Osterman .... Sports Editor 

E.E.'s running around, and that I 

must have tapped his phone 

since the only person he had discussed 

the appointment with 

was Mary Wheeler herself and 

that only over the phone. 

—editor 

GARY BREWTON 

Editor 

JANET DOTY 

Business Manager 

Cathy Egan Assistant 

Business Manager 

Elaine Bonilla Fine Arts Editor 

Dana Blankenhorn . Features Editor 

Staff: James Aronovsky, James Robert Sable, Jack Adams, Joel Rennie, 

Michael Doty, Ed Deiter. 

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Obviously.

Renovation: ripping 

everything out 

is the first step 

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By 1974, the old sections of 

three colleges, some of the oldest 

buildings on campus, were 

collapsing from within. Roofs 

and windows leaked, there 

wasn't enough access to the outside 

to pass modern-day fire 

codes, cockroaches were reportedly 

approaching the size of 

cats, and the shower water was 

rusty. Something had to be 

done. 

That something is the complete 

rebuilding of the insides of 

the old sections of Baker, Hanszen, 

and Will Rice Colleges, now 

proceeding this summer. The 

workmen, who literally evicted 

the last students remaining on 

campus after exams, appear to 

be on schedule for completing 

the ambitious project before 

school starts in August. 

The actual planning was 

much more detailed than it 

might appear on the surface. 

First, with the aid of a survey 

taken by Rice archi students, 

and the leadership of William 

Cannady and Anderson Todd, 

the School of Architecture came 

up with a list of priorities for 

improvements. Following the 

usual round of committee discussions, 

the Business Office 

gave its approval to the ideas in 

November. 

The next step was to obtain 

specific design plans and corresponding 

cost estimates. Linbeck 

Construction was appointed 

Construction Manager and General 

Contractor for the project; 

there was no competitive bidding 

for the $1.5 million job. 

According to Ken Williams, an 

administrator in the Business 

Office, this was because of the 

two companies which expressed 

an interest in the job, only Linbeck 

had the size and experience 

to do the job on time, and Linbeck 

had previously done considerable 

work at Rice, including 

the construction of Sid Rich and 

Lovett Colleges. Williams added 

that, "When you approach a 

construction manager position, 

you have to be able to put complete 

fidelity in the man you're 

dealing with." Walter Murphy, 

Executive Vice-President of Linbeck, 

is President of Rice's fundraising 

Parents' Council; his wife, 

Evelyn Murphy, is First Vice- 

President of the Alumni Association. 

Wiess gets bigger, brighter commons 

by DANA BLANKENHORN 

At Wiess College the problems 

were altogether different. 

The only entrances from the 

street were at opposite ends of 

the 2-block long building and 

the Commons was one of the 

smallest on campus. There was 

little in the way of a basement, 

and the Wiess laundry room was 

a dungeon parked among the hot 

water pipes. Wiess had been built 

without public space in 1949 to 

house the mass of engineering 

students in the post-World War 

II boom. It was an afterthought. 

Three Wiess archis, Tim 

(Frog) Barry, Dan Canty, and 

John McCloud, conducted a survey 

at the college in the spring 

of '74 to discover what was 

needed. It was submitted as a 

course project, and only later 

picked up, when it became 

apparent that the work on the 

older buildings would give Wiess, 

for the first time, the atmosphere 

it needed to present 

requests for improvement. 

The Wiess additions are 

designed by Alan Taniguchi, 

Dennis Kilper, and Marvin Clede. 

Taniguchi and Kilper are Rice 

jirofs, and Clede received his B. 

Arch, in 1973, after five years as 

a Wiessman. In addition to their 

work in the project's preparation, 

McCloud, Canty, and Frog 

kept the Wiess Cabinet informed 

with models and drawings. 

As with the older buildings, 

many changes had to be dropped 

to prevent the project form 

going over its $300,000 budget. 

An estimate of $45 per square 

foot for new space by the architects 

was revised to $95 by Linbeck, 

so such improvements as 

an archway system facing the 

street, and the removal of the 

Wiess College office to the east 

end of the Commons were discarded. 

In the work now underway, 

the Commons is being widened 

through a system of skylights 

and shortened by new kitchen 

space and a library-PDR facility 

in what was once the Commons' 

entrance. A covered hall-space is 

being constructed from the 

street to the grassy court facing 

Hanszen, cutting through what 

used to be room 142. The laundry 

room will go into the present 

library area, and a second 

entrance door is being put into 

what will remain the lounge. 

Wiess Tabletop Theater is getting 

a new tech booth, and on the 

third floor, Resident Associate 

Donald Clayton and his wife are 

receiving various improvements, 

including a kitchenette and central 

air conditioning system. 

According to workmen on 

the scene, the project will be 

completed in time for freshman 

week "if it doesn't rain." If 

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however, expect long lines all 

over campus, reminiscent of the 

early 50's, when Baker College, 

then called North Hall, was the 

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The architecture itself is 

unique in the history of Rice 

design. Fifteen Rice archis 

worked with Cannady and Todd 

in the formulation of the plans 

and the actual drafting. Everything 

is being torn out and 

replaced except the walls, and 

the "new" buildings will all have 

the same general floorplan. 

Lounges on each floor will 

reduce capacity approximately 

5% in each college. The plumbing, 

electrical wiring, doors and 

windows will all be new. In 

Hanszen and Baker, fire doors 

will replace what were once 

walls separating stairwells. 

A number of Ride students 

managed to get jobs with Linbeck 

working on the project at 

rates up to $4 per hour. 

The whole renovation project, 

which includes Wiess College's 

new public space, was 

given a $2 million appropriation 

in March, in the form of a 22year 

loan from the endowment. 

The loan will be repaid through 

increased room and board costs 

to all students. 

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Billie Carr: the "Godmother" 

of local liberal politics 

by JOHN ANDERSON 

Billie Carr, the colorful local 

political organizer and liberal 

leader, describes the first time 

she met Bob Bullock, the waspish 

Texas State Comptroller: 

"Bullock walked up to me, and 

he says, 'Billie, my friends tell 

me that you're the meanest 

damn woman in the state of 

Texas,' And I said, 'Well, whoever 

told you that, Bob Bullock, 

is a lyin' sonofabitch.' " Billie 

Carr tells that story and she 

chuckles, throwing back her 

round face and red hair, then 

stops a minute to catch her 

breath and says, "Why you 

know, Bob Bullock is the only 

politician in Texas who's got 

both brains and guts." 

Billie Carr is a big woman, 

rough, gruff; and she talks like a 

steelworker. One very upper 

middle-class lady I know can 

only shake her head when I mention 

Carr's name. "That awful 

woman," she'll say. 

A gut-level activist, Carr is the 

spiritual leader of the progressive 

Harris County Democrats organization 

(which is distinct from 

and independent of the formal 

county Democratic machinery). 

A member of the Democratic 

National Committee, she has 

been active in liberal politics for 

better than twenty years and is 

famous for her sharp tongue. 

Carr's cohorts tell how she once 

accosted Houston conservative 

John Brunson: "If you're lyin' 

to me, John Brunson, I'll cut 

your balls off and fry 'em in 

grease." You look at her, at that 

strong face and that hair, and 

you think she damn well might. 

"They oughta take 

(County Judge Jon) 

Lindsay down the 

tunnel and leave 

him, he probably 

wouldn't find 

his way out." 

The Harris County Democrats 

have their offices in a run-down 

old professional building downtown 

on Travis Street. It's where 

Carr works; and that's where we 

talked to her. 

She was explaining the socalled 

Bentsen Bill, a new state 

act designed to further the ambi- 

tions of Texas Senator Lloyd 

Bentsen, with barely-concealed 

scorn. The bill provides for a 

complicated winner-take-all Presidential 

Primary and for proportional 

precinct conventions. 

"I think Wallace is going to 

be helped more by this Bentsen 

Bill than Bentsen is," she says. 

"I think Bentsen may well have 

outsmarted himself. For one 

thing he's already talking to 

some of our people saying if we 

run a slate, we'll split the vote 

and help Wallace...Bentsen now 

thinks we ought to join forces 

and support him to stop Wallace." 

"I told him we weren't going 

to do that when he passed the 

damn bill...You know, I think a 

man who doesn't have enough 

understanding to have forced 

this bill on us, why he doesn't 

deserve to be president. If he 

can't handle this little problem, 

then he sure as hell can't handle 

the problems of the country." 

"Bentsen may well 

have outsmarted 

himself." 

Billie Carr paused a minute to 

light up another cigarette and 

leaned back in her chair while 

the smoke filled her small cubicle-sized 

office. Behind her were 

two large wall maps of Harris 

County precincts. And on the 

left, a framed photo of Carr, 

angelic halo drawn above the 

head. 

Asked cfbout her counterpart, 

former Harris County OOP 

Chairman Nancy Palm"!'known 

to her friends and enemies alike 

as Napalm), Carr said that, "I 

think she's feelin' good about 

defeating [County Judge] Bill 

Elliot with Jon Lindsay, although 

I don't know why anybody 

would feel good about 

that...why I keep telliri' 'em they 

oughta take Lindsay down the 

tunnel and leave him, he probably 

wouldn't find his way out." 

She laughed and sort of harrumped, 

"But you know Nancy, 

she'd go get him for sure." [In 

Texas, the County Judge is the 

County Executive Officer. 

Republican conservative Lindsay 

defeated liberal Democrat Elliot 

last fall.] 

"You know, Lindsay is really 

dumb; and it's no credit to Nancy 

that he won. Bill Elliot 

defeated himself." 

Someone asked if State Sen- 

How did Billie Carr come to be a precinct organizer? 

"I went to Austin during Alan Shivers' administration 

and saw and heard some terrible things and felt like the 

governor was a horrible man.. We had a little private conference 

with him, and I was telling him what a terrible man 

he was and how I was going to go home and tell everybody. 

And I was about 22 or whatever I was. And he said 

to me, 'Young lady, I hold Texas in the palm of my hand.' 

And I just decided that nobody ought to be able to say 

that. I've spent 22 years trying to prove that isn't true." 


ator BoW^Gammage, a liberal, 

was going to run against incumbent 

conservative Congressman 

Bob Casey. "No, I'm afraid 

not." Why? "Well, he and Casey 

have gotten to be friends now." 

Laughter. "He [Gammage] has 

been visiting up in Washington 

with Casey. And he tells me that 

Casey is thinking about retiring 

this time. Casey has all his 

money coming now...and he can 

get that Congressional retirement. 

Bob is hoping that'll happen; 

then he can run and win. 

"Only I don't see Casey 

resigning. Alligators [politicians] 

just don't quit. They all say, 

'I'm going to get out.' But when 

filing date comes around they 

push and shove to get down 

there and file to run. And you 

couldn't keep one of those alligators 

out of there with a baseball 

bat. 

"Some people even think 

Casey looks sick. But I think 

he's probably going to live to be 

a hundred. That waiting for 

someone to die is the longest 

wait in the world. They'll outlive 

you every time." Laughter. 

Asked what she had to say 

good about the Houston Chronicle, 

"Houston's Family Newspaper," 

Carr chortled, "Not 

much. I can't think of anything 

good to say about the Chronicle 

hardly ever." 

She was asked what kind of 

influence Editor Everett Collier 

(Rice BA '39) has on the Chronicle's 

political reporting. "Oh my 

God," she drew back, "everything 

in the world. He guts 

[reporters'] stories." 

"What he does is he gets on 

that phone and calls people and 

uses all the influence he can and 

then he uses his p

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(continued from page 1) 

Some members were surprised 

and angry that Hackerman 

had bypassed the committee 

(which is composed of 

eight faculty members, one 

undergraduate, one graduate student, 

one alumni representative, 

and one Governor Advisor) in 

speaking directly to Chapman 

before speaking to the committee; 

they felt Hackerman 

should have sought out the 

committee's opinion before 

asking Chapman to accept the 

job. 

One member of the committee 

said, "Hackerman took 

someone we really hadn't considered, 

someone we had not 

listed because we thought he 

didn't want the job at all ... I 

think Chapman was his (Hackerman's) 

personal choice." 

Another said, "I think he 

(Hackerman) had Chapman 

picked all the way along. We just 

wasted a lot of time, frankly. 

But that's just conjecture." 

Asked why there was so little 

dissension at the meeting Monday 

with Hackerman, a 

committee member said that 

Chapman was well-liked and also 

that, "There are many people 

who think the appointment is 

fine." Those who were opposed 

to Hackerman's methods, he 

said, "were so flabbergasted that 

they couldn't think of anything 

to say at the time. There wasn't 

much discussion. It was just 

announced how things were 

going to be." 

At that Monday meeting, 

Hackerman told the committee 

that he felt very strongly that 

the school ought to move in a 

more "professional direction," 

and that the experience of the 

sixties was that engineering 

science programs tended to 

develop into "second rate phys- 

ics departments" which was not 

the primary function of an engineering 

department. 

One committee member suggests 

that Hackerman may have 

felt that Chapman would be able 

to reestablish links with industry. 

Another suggested that 

"There may have been some 

understanding (between Dr. 

Hackerman and the Board) with 

George Brown in regard to setting 

up the school. I don't know. 

That's just a possibility." 

Dr. Chapman indicated Tuesday 

that he had accepted the 

assignment, after Hackerman 

had persuaded him by "making 

it sound like something a person 

ought to do . . . I'm not thrilled 

by being an administrator, but if 

it's a job that needs to be done, 

then we'll try." He indicated 

that one of his goals would be to 

"pull all the engineering departments 

together and get us 

working in one common 

direction." He also said that 

engineering "must somehow be a 

bridge between the academic 

world and the real world." 

Hackerman was out of the 

city and unavailable for comment 

both Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Several members of the committee 

argue that Dr. Hackerman 

has essentially bypassed the 

University Council in these proceedings. 

(There are two members 

of the University Council 

on the Search Committee, however.) 

They note, too, that Hackerman 

did not consult the Council 

when he split science and 

engineering to form the two new 

schools. 

One faculty member, not on 

the Council, points out that .he 

charter of the University Council 

specifically says that the President 

is to consult with the Council 

on administrative appointments. 

"That was a document 

Rice Hotel:still unsold 

The fate of the Rice Hotel, 

which the University is trying to 

sell, is still uncertain. The Rittenhouse 

Corporation, which 

signed a letter of intent to buy 

the hotel on April 1, has been 

thus far unable to get financing 

for the purchase and planned 

remodeling; the deal was to have 

been closed on May 1. A first 

extension of two weeks, to May 

15, was granted; then a second 

extension, to June 27. 

Acquisition of the hotel and 

the 50-year lease on the land 

(which the University plans to 

keep) amounts to $15 to $17 

million, according to James M. 

Cazanas, managing partner of 

the Rittenhouse group. 

£3 

that Hackerman participated in 

the writing of, and he agreed to 

live-by it. And he hasn't." 

Another professor, not a 

member of the committee, was 

also concerned about Dr. Hackerman's 

treatment of the 

faculty: 

"In the past, Hackerman 

deviously got around the University 

Council by making these 

administrative appointments in 

two steps. First, he appoints a 

man to a level below the dean's 

level. That's OK, since that's 

below the dean's level and Hack- 

Committee appointees named 

President Norman Hackerman 

has named 22 undergraduates to 

positions on 14 University 

Standing Committees. The students, 

listed by committee, are: 

Admissions 

Bill Newsom, WRC 

Paul Simpson, Hanszen 

Affirmative Action 

Nancy L. Brannin, Jones 

Kim D. Brown, Wiess 

Campus Safety 

Tim Jacquet, Wiess 

Computers 

Frank Duca, Baker 

Bob Prochnow, Hanszen 

Examinations and Standing 

Elizabeth Labanowski, Baker 

Mark Prendergast, SRC 

Intercollegiate Athletics 

Ernie L. Danner, Baker 

Joni 0. Thompson, Brown 

Library 

John Anderson, Baker 

erman can't be expected to consult 

the Council on every 

appointment. Second, he 

promotes the person in that 

place to dean. Hackerman says, 

well, that guy is already acting in 

that capacity. He (Hackerman) 

doesn't need to consult the 

Council about changing the title 

of somebody. 

"Hackerman did that with 

[Samuel] Jones and [William] 

Akers." [Jones was promoted to 

Dean of the School of Music, up 

from director. Akers was 

promoted to Vice President of 

Public Lectures 

Don M. Glendenning, Wiess 

Religious Activities 

Clark Guest, WRC 

ROTC 

Tom Gehring, Hanszen 

Student Financial Aid 

Barbara J. Morris, Brown 

Student Health 

Lynn Ellen Newkirk, Baker 

Student Affairs 

Wayne Hale, Hanszen 

John Dragovits, WRC 

Birna Petursson, Brown 

Undergraduate Curriculum 

Louis R. Hedgecock, WRC 

Pat Lucas, Baker 

Six positions on four committees 

remain unfilled to date. 

They are: Media Programs, 

Undergraduate Teaching, Residential 

College Management, and 

the University Review Board. 

the University for External 

Affairs, up from Director of University 

Relations.] 

"I think the Council would 

have thrown up if he (Hackerman) 

had tried to push Akers 

through. I mean Akers would 

have failed. Nobody on the 

Council, that I know of, likes 

Akers. 

"I think President Hackerman 

ought to be censured. He has 

completely ignored the Council. 

He shouldn't be a dictator. But 

that's what we've got: a 

dictator." 

Summer school kids invade Rice 

An alumnus walking around 

campus during the next several 

weeks might think that Rice students 

are considerably younger 

in 1975 than they were in the 

old days. He wouldn't know, of 

course, that they aren't "real" 

students, but rather junior and 

senior high school students taking 

special six-week courses 

while the campus is otherwise 

mostly deserted. 

The school, established in 

1974, serves two purposes. First, 

it provides Rice University 

teacher trainees with the 

required student-teaching experience 

necessary for certification. 

Second, it offers secondary students 

the opportunity to take 

subjects which might not fit into 

a regular schedule, subjects 

which they enjoy and would like 

to explore more widely, or subjects 

in which they would 

improve with a little extra help. 

Many of the courses carry fairly 

sophisticated titles, such as 

"Ecology of Populations," 

"Astrophysics," and "Film: 

what keeps us watching?" 

Courses are offered in art, 

biology, chemistry, English, foreign 

languages, health, physical 

education, mathematics, physical 

science, psychology, and 

social studies. 

The fee for three summer 

courses, running through July 

18, is $90. No credit or grades 

are given; however, at the end of 

the term a written evaluation of 

the student's progress is sent to 

the parents. The summer courses 

are sponsored by the Department 

of Education. 

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TUTS' "Pajama Game": bright musical comedy 

by ELAINE BONILLA 

The Pajama Game 

Starring Barbara Lang & Jay Stuart 

Playing at Miller Outdoor Theater until June 29 

There was a time when all a 

musical comedy really needed to 

survive was bright happy music, 

bright happy people, and an 

innocuous plot. Add a few 

complications, a pinch of social 

commentary, a love song or two, 

and a dash of flamboyance, and 

success could be achieved. Such 

a creation is The Pajama Game, 

currently enjoying a run of 

twelve free performances at 

Miller Outdoor Theater. 

Twenty years after its 

conception, the musical is far 

from dated. Often indulging in 

high camp, always remembering 

that it is musical comedy, 

Pajama Game is the tale of love 

in the Sleep Tite Pajama 

Factory. The complication is 

that Sid is factory 

superintendent while Babe is the 

head of the employee's grievance 

committee and, when the union 

decides to strike for a IV2 cent 

4 

raise, she is the first one that he 

has to fire. Hardly sounds out of 

step with current events, except 

for the amount of the raise, eh? 

Jay Stuart is excellent as Sid, 

with a rich baritone that he 

handled well when the sound 

system failed during his second 

song, "Hey There." But he rose 

above the environmental 

problems like a real pro, and 

proved a good balance for 

Barbara Lang's Babe. Lang's 

performance was certainly bright 

and enjoyable, but her voice suffered 

by comparison in such 

duets as "There Once Was a 

Man." 

The boss (Jay Stuart) tries to be stern with admiring employees in "The Pajama Game' 

Alley to feature classic films 

Starting July 1, the Alley 

Theater will open its ten-week 

long summer film festival. Cinemafest 

'75 is the Alley's seventh 

season, and will include the 

usual thirty films as well as a 

special Friday Midnight "Sleaze" 

Series of eight additional films. 

Paying tribute to first-run versions 

of films, the festival begins 

with its first week (July 1-6) 

devoted to original cinema. The 

first is the 1937 Lost Horizon, 

Frank Capra's adaptation of the 

James Hilton novel starring Ronald 

Coleman and Jane Wyatt. 

Next is the 19 31 Howard 

Hughes production of The Front 

Page, and the first week's regular 

series ends with Rudolph Valentino 

in Blood and Sand, accompanied 

by the Stan Laurel short, 

Mud and Sand. 

The second week (July 8-13) 

honors legendary ladies of the 

cinema, opening with Jean Harlow 

in Blonde Bombshell, the 

Hollywood satire about a movie 

glamour queen whose dreams of 

refinement are thwarted by her 

P.R. man. Bette Davis is featured 

next in Jezebel and the week 

closes with Down Argentina 

Way. Originally designed to star 

Alice Faye, this film became a 

vehicle for Bettye Grable, who 

took on the role of a wealthy 

American in love with Don 

Ameche. 

After the performers on the 

screen comes the spectacle of 

the action itself, and week three 

(July 15-20) starts with Leni 

Riefenstahl's spectacular Olympia, 

his documentation of the 

1936 Olympics. Nearly two million 

feet of film was shot and 18 

months of editing passed before 

the action film was ready to be 

viewed. A different type of spectacle 

is presented in Fellini's 

Roma, a series of rich and brilliant 

images that merge in an 

impressionistic ode to the carnival 

of life atmosphere of his 

city. The last offering of the 

week is the 1936 science fiction 

version of a subterranean metropolis, 

Things to Come, featuring 

Raymond Massey and considered 

a fitting successor to 

Metropolis. 

The last week in July, the 

22-27, focuses on stage work 

transformed into film. Paul 

Robeson starts this phase of the 

series off with his performance 

in The Emperor Jones, adapted 

from the Eugene O'Neill play. 

Next is Katherine Hepburn, 

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recreating her stage role in The 

Philadelphia Story, the 1940 

adaptation of Philip Barry's 

work, and finally, Lillian Hellman's 

The Little Foxes features 

Bette Davis in a new print made 

especially for the Alley showing. 

The Friday midnight 

"Sleaze" Series starts on July 4 

with Freaks, Tod Browning's 

1932 suppressed classic of the 

revenge of circus freaks on a 

beautiful girl. Gimme Shelter 

will be shown on the 11th, and 

Night of the Living Dead returns 

on the 18th. The last presentation 

in July will be Schlock, on 

the 25th, the story of the 

banana killings performed by 

Schlock, half-man, half-ape. 

- The first film of each regular 

series will be shown on Tuesday 

and Wednesday at 8:00pm, the 

second plays Thursday at 8:00 

and Friday at 7:30 and 9: 30pm, 

and the last on Saturday at 7:30 

and 9:30 and Sunday at 6:00 

and 8:00pm. All of the Friday 

night series will be shown at 

midnight. 

The ticket prices remain the 

same: $1.75 for any film on any 

evening. Alley subscribers for 

the forthcoming Heritage Season 

will receive a discount of 25 

cents per ticket, and Cinemafest 

Membership Discount Coupon 

Books can be purchased for 

$1.00 apiece. For eight coupons, 

that's a savings of $4.00 over 

general admission. For more 

information, call 228-8421, or 

write the Alley Box Office, 615 

Texas Avenue, Houston 77002. 

Ed and Martha Lu Wetzel, a 

delightful husband and wife 

team from Houston, played off 

of each other with great gusto as 

an efficiency expert and a boomingly 

practical secretary. This 

energy and general sense of fun 

is what makes the show work so 

well: bright, clear-cut characterizations 

like Gerry Burkhardt's 

Prez, the Union leader, Nancy 

Taylor's Gladys, the boss' secretary, 

and Meg Crady's Mae, the 

lovable but well-muscled shop 

girl. 

The company is obviously 

enjoying itself up on the stage. 

The choreography produces 

magnificently organized bedlam, 

but the only really outstanding 

dancer is choreographer Bill 

Hudson. To his credit is his tal- 

ent for giving the ensemble choreography 

that they could handle 

rather than stranding them with 

steps that would have come off 

awkwardly at best. The only 

problem he had was with the 

"Steam Heat" number, a tourde-force 

that featured Hudson 

but left his two co-dancers out 

in the cold, unable to match his 

performance. 

TUTS' The Pajama Game is 

theater: an old-fashioned musical 

in the best sense of the 

phrase. It's a big bright production 

guaranteed to please. Free 

tickets for the seated area can be 

picked up at the Miller Theater 

box office after noon on the day 

of performance. The show starts 

at 8:30pm. 

this month... 

Theater 

Hay Fever — Sir Noel Coward's 1925 comedy about an eccentric 

family of artists. At Main Street Theatre at Autry House, 

524-3168. 

Kiss or Make Up — Comedy about an unmarried architect who 

sports a fictitious husband and daughter. At the Dean Goss Dinner 

Theatre, 666-4146. 

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

a boys band in River City, Iowa. At Dunfey's Dinner Theatre, 

771-1331. 

The Owl and the Pussycat — See this week's review for information. 

At the Windmill Dinner Theatre, 464-7655. 

The Pajama Game — See this week's review for information. At 

Miller Outdoor Theatre. 

Under the Yum Yum Tree — Comedy opening Brian Pinette's new 

theatre on July 8. At the Little Theatre at Westbury Square. 

Films 

Bambi — Rerelease of the Disney film. At area theatres. 

Bug — Science fiction tale about twelve-inch cockroaches threatening 

to ignite a California city, starring Bradford Dillman as the 

scientist. At area theaters. 

Day of the Locust — John Schlesinger's version of Nathaniel West's 

conception of Hollywood. At the Galleria & Town & Country VI. 

Doc Savage — Ron Ely as the bronze superhero. At area theatres. 

Funny Lady — Streisand as an older but otherwise unchanged Fanny 

Brice. At Loew's Saks. 

The Great Waldo Pepper — Air stunts of the thirties with Robert 

Redford as the pilot. At the Windsor. 

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

Roy Scheider. At the tralleria. 

Lepke — Tony Curtis as the infamous gangster. At area theatres. 

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

this time by Christopher Plummer. At area theatres. 

Rollerball — Social commentary on the need for an outlet for violence. 

Set in the 21st century, starring James Caan. At the 

Windsor (starting June 26). 

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

nuclear family. At area theatres. ^ 

Music 

American Ballet Theatre — Nureyev's production of Raymonda 

featuring Cynthia Gregory, Eleanor D'Antuono, Erik Bruhn, Tfed 

Kivitt, and Rudolf Nureyev. Performances at Jones Hall on June 

26 (8pm), June 27 (8:30pm), and June 28 (2:30 & 8:30pm). 

Houston Symphony, — Associate conductor Akira Endo will continue 

the Symphony's free concert programs with performances 

June 30 at Garden Villas Park, July 1 at Proctor Plaza Park in the 

Heights, and July 3 at Sam Houston Park. The programs will start 

at 8pm. 

Houston Symphony — Choral Workshop June 20-22 at Hamman 

Hall on the Rice campus directed by Roger Wagner, culminating 

in a concert on June 22 in Jones Hall at 8:30pm featuring the 

Haydn Te Deum, the Brahms "Schicksalslied," and the Faure 

Requiem. 

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At Autry House 

Main Street Theater opens with "Hay Fever 


Several years have passed 

since Roger Glade closed down 

the Playwright's Showcase that 

he had founded at Autry House 

and moved east to New York, 

but interest for such a theater 

has not died. In response to that 

interest, Rebecca A. Greene is 

officially opening the Main 

Street Theatre at Autry House 

on June 21 with Noel Coward's 

Hay Fever. On the second and 

third weekends in July she will 

present Beyond the Fringe, 

adapted and performed by Ira J. 

Black and Brian Curry, and in 

September she is planning a pro- 

duction of Family Reunion to 

start off the fall season. 

Autry House has been 

working with Greene throughout 

the spring, using her to direct its 

Eliot cycle, a series of readings 

commemorating the life of T.S. 

Eliot, the most recent being a 

concert reading of Murder in the 

Cathedral. This summer production, 

however, will be the first 

that Greene has done without 

official Autry House support. 

Many ex-Players 

Main Street Theatre at Autrj 

House is Greene's creation, but 

she is being assisted by a circle 

of friends that form the core of 

her artistic and technical company. 

A Rice graduate herself, 

she has managed to attract many 

ex-Rice Players, but she is 

encouraging as much community 

participation as she can get, on 

the stage as well as in the 

audience. 

"We want people who like 

theater," she commented during 

a Hay Fever rehearsal last week, 

"people who are interested in 

variety, in not seeing the same 

type of thing all the time." She 

wants to explore plays that have 

not already been overworked. 

Coward comedy chosen 

"Hay Fever was chosen to fit 

the summer mood, light and 

fun," she explained. That the 

show certainly is. Written in 

1925, it has not lost any of the 

Noel Coward brilliance in performance 

fifty years later. The 

comedy centers around a family 

of rather eccentric artists: Judith 

Bliss is a recently retired stage 

actress who can't adjust to the 

small audience that her family 

provides, and is considering 

returning to the stage for a revival 

of her favorite role, the lead 

in Love's Whirlwind. An unexpected 

houseful of weekend 

guests allows her to slip once 

again into full performance level 

"The Owl and the Pussycat" falls flat 

The Owl and the Pussycat 

Starring Sue Ann Langdon 

Playing at the Windmill Dinner Theatre 

There is always the need to 

relieve daily tension through 

light comedy and social relaxation, 

and the creation of the dinner 

theatre has done much to 

satisfy this need. It provides a 

complete evening of food and 


Some people in Houston, dissatisfied 

with the state of local professional 

theater, have decided 

to do something about it. 

On July 8, Brian Pinette will 

open the Little Theatre at Westbury 

Square, Houston's third 

professional theater. He's starting 

out with some safe projects: 

his opener is Under the Yum 

Yum Tree, to be followed in 

August by The Fantasticks, but 

Pinette also plans to offer Children's 

Theater, directed by 

Linda Shuler, on Saturday afternoons, 

and is hoping that people 

will contribute original scripts. 

* * * 

Throughout July and August, 

the Museum of Fine Arts is presenting 

a series of films on art on 

Wednesdays and Sundays at 

2pm. The Wednesday series will 

include The Origins of Art in 

France on July 2, Pompeii: City 

of Painting and Etruscan Tombs 

of Volterra on-July 9, Fra Angelico; 

Beaune: Roger Van Der 

Weyden; and Piero Delia Francesca 

on July 16, and The Olmec 

Tradition on July 23. 

The Sunday series will feature 

Digging for the History of 

Man and The Winged Victory of 

Samothrace on July 6, French 

Romantic Art and Pisa on July 

13, and Michelangelo: The Medici 

Chapel and Cathedral and 

Baptistery of Florence on July 

20. All of the films will be 

shown in the Brown Auditorium 

of the Museum of Fine Arts. 

Tickets go on sale at 1:30pm the 

day of each showing. 

* * * 

On campus, the Media Center 

is offering a Film /Video summer 

seminar to start on July 7. There 

are five courses open for public 

enrollment: Film Analysis, conducted 

by Franticek Daniel in 

the evenings; Introduction to 

Film/Video, offered by Chris 

Nicolaou and Rick Arnold in the 

•afternoons or evenings; Basic 

Screenwriting, conducted by 

Franticek Daniel in the after- 

entertainment for its audience, 

and serves a big name star as its 

special attraction. There are 

times, however, when the 

theatre can seem to do everything 

right and still fall flat on 

its face, which is what is hap- 

C4PJULES 

noons; Introduction to Animation, 

taught by Adrienne Montgomery 

in the mornings; and a 

Traveling Workshop which will 

work with various citizen groups 

to make documentary or promotional 

films, directed by Ed 

Hugetz and meeting anytime in 

the mornings, afternoons, and 

evenings. To enroll or to find 

out more information about 

prices and schedules, call 

522-7997 or 528-4141, 

ext. 1396. 

* * * 

The American Film Theatre 

has chosen to take a year's break 

in its subscription series in order 

to release commercially The Man 

in the Glass Booth starring Maxmilian 

Schell, ana to take the 

opportunity to evaluate the 

results of its past two seasons. 

According to the AFT's contract 

with its subscribers, a film cannot 

enter into general circulation 

for one year if another series is 

to follow immediately, and it 

was decided by the company 

that it would be wiser to release 

the widely-acclaimed film into 

the commercial market than to 

run another season in 

1975-1976. 

:fc * ^ 

The Houston Gilbert & Sullivan 

Society is presenting a special 

centennial celebration at 

Jones Hall on July 18 and 19. 

Trial by Jury, a musical presentation 

without a single word of 

dialogue, is one hundred years 

old this year, and the Society is 

taking advantage of this date to 

present the musical romp in conjunction 

with the better-known 

H.M.S. Pinafore. 

The production will feature 

Terry Slezak as the love-lorn 

Ralph in H.M.S. Pinafore, 

Demetra Mustafa as Josephine, 

and Laurie Rutherford as Little 

Buttercup. Trial by Jury will be 

performed by Paule Boire, Van 

Russell, and Kim Josephson. 

* * * 

KLEF is planning two special 

musical programs in the next 

pening this month at the Windmill 

Dinner Theatre with its 

latest production: The Owl and 

the Pussycat. 

Although the play is classic 

dinner theatre fare, this production 

suffers from obvious caricatures, 

cheap sexual innuendoes, 

and a leading actress at least fifteen 

years past the role she's 

trying to play. 

few weeks. On June 21 at 6pm, 

the station will broadcast A 

Bouquet of Hoffnung for Midsummer 

Eve. For those unfamiliar 

with the late Gerald Hoffnung, 

he was a cartoonist for 

Punch magazine who had a penchant 

for music and an excellent 

sense of humor. Combined, 

these qualities produced a collection 

of musical satire and several 

Hoffnung festivals in 1956, 

1958, and 1961. 

For the Fourth of July, 

KLEF will broadcast, for the 

second year, An American Kaleidoscope, 

an evening of music 

and verse reflecting the country's 

history. The program, 

scheduled for 10pm, features Ira 

J. Black, Cary Smith, and Gigi 

Yellen. Both specials were conceived 

and produced by Ira J. 

Black. 

And on July 12, KLEF will 

broadcast the first recording of 

Ralph Vaughan Willians' Sir 

John in Love on its Saturday 

afternoon opera series. Composed 

in the period from 1924 

to 1928 and not performed professionally 

until 1946, Sir John 

has not enjoyed the popularity 

that it deserves. This recording, 

on Angel, features Raimund Herincz 

in the title role, with Felicity 

Palmer and Elizabeth Bainbridge 

singing opposite him. The 

performance is conducted by 

Meredith Davies. 

Sue Ann Langdon may have 

an impressive studio biography 

that is well-deserved, but she is 

too old for Doris the kitten who 

sets out to challenge the intellect 

with more practical knowledge 

in Bill Manhoff's comedy. This 

becomes more apparent as she 

plays opposite David Westberg. 

who is much better cast as the 

young intellectual owl trying to 

resist her lessons. 

Their age difference aside, 

both performers have let themselves 

be directed into a series of 

pretentious scenes by Jack 

Emrek (Langdon's husband). 

Their reactions are affectations, 

and the sequence of events 

becomes vulgar rather than 

amusing. 

Cheap sexual sitcom 

This is not to say that at least 

part of the problem doesn't lie 

with Manhoff's play: besides 

being dated and little more than 

a cheap sexual sitcom, The Owl 

and the Pussycat is a poor imitation 

of the Neil Simon genre 

that fails to lift itself into the 

realm of sophisticated comedy. 

(There really is a difference 

between sophistication and vulgarity.) 

There are many light comedies 

that would be excellent 

choices to serve on the dinner 

theatre stage, too many for the 

theatres to be wasting their time 

producing trite plays that 

become boring before Act Three 

begins. And there are wiser ways 

to cast good performers than to 

handicap them with roles that 

they have long since outgrown. 

All things considered, the 

Windmill's production of The 

Owl and the Pussycat is little 

more than the promise of light 

froth that results in a sour aftertaste. 

/ / 

and, flanked by her writerhusband 

and her two full-grown 

children, she indulges in quite a 

display of histrionics that results 

in total bewilderment for her 

captive audience. 

The family, featuring Rose 

Malone as mother Judith and 

Charles Tanner as her husband 

David, is set apart from the 

houseguests according to 

Greene, because of the "eccentricities 

that make their lives 

that much more entertaining ... 

They're very conscious of being 

funny people." The juxtaposition 

of this conscious wit and 

the accidental humor of the 

guests make the play delightful. 

Three-sided arena stage 

Catherine Hitt as Sorel and 

Mack Hays as Simon complete 

the family circle, with Sandra 

Zimmerer as Judith's dresser, 

Clara, the final member of the 

household. The unfortunate 

guests are portrayed by Donald 

A. Bayne as Richard Greatham, 

a diplomat invited by Sorel, 

Jenifer Hartsfield as Myra 

Arundel on invitation by Simon, 

Ira J. Black as Sandy Tyrell, a 

youthful devoted admirer of 

Judith, invited (naturally) by 

Judith, and Ellen Horr as a sweet 

young thing invited by David. 

But the pairings suggested by the 

nature of the invitations quickly 

shift, allowing the family greater 

scope in which to amuse themselves. 

Greene is directing the production 

in a three-sided arena, 

with Rick Cordray as the 

scenery coordinator. Paul Epton 

is designing the lights, and 

Greene is doing the costumes. 

Hay Fever will be performed on 

June 26, 27, and 28 at 8pm 

in Autry House at 6265 South 

Main at Outer Belt. Admission is 

$2.00; for reservations call 

524-3168. 

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Miiier Theater: freebie films 

This summer, Miller Outdoor Theatre is broadening 

its program to include free films as well as 

the usual musical and theatrical offerings. This is 

the schedule planned for July: 

July 1 — W. C. Fields in The Great Chase and 

Paramount on Parade. 

July 2 — The Still Alarm and The Scarlet Empress. 

July 3 — No Indians, Please with Abbott & 

Costello and It's a Gift with W.C.Fields. 

July 4 — Happy Faces and The Naughty Nineties 

with Abbott & Costello. 

July 5 — All American Drawback and Jack Benny, 

George Burns, and Gracie Allen in The Big 

Broadcast of 1937. 

July 9 — Champs of the Chase with Abbott & 

Costello and Grand Hotel with Greta Garbo and 

John Barrymore. 

July 10 — Have Badge will Chase with Abbott & 

Costello and Bringing Up Baby with Katherine 

Hepburn and Cary Grant. 

July 16 — Rudolph Valentino: Idol of the Jazz 

Age and Golden Age of Comedy. 

July 17 — Tillie and Gus with W.C.Fields and 

Swiss Miss with Laurel & Hardy. 

July 23 — Milestones of Animation and Guns of 

August. 

All films are scheduled to start at 7:15pm, and 

tickets for seats in the covered amphitheater can 

be picked up on the day of the performance. For 

further information, call 222-3576. 


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Track team leads SWC performers at NCAA 

by DEBBIL OSTERMAN 

Rice's celebrated "walk-on" 

Jeff Wells placed fourth in the 

3-mile run at the NCAA meet 

held June 5-7 at Brigham Young 

University. The current trend 

among track powers to recruit 

foreign students, however, contributed 

to this fourth place; 

Wells was among the first two 

Americans in the event, won by 

a Kenyan from Washington 

State. Wells, a two-time SWC 

Cross Country champion and 

winner of this year's SWC 3mile, 

came in behind former 

Rice student Paul Geis who took 

second place in the NCAA event. 

Geis, a graduate of St. John's 

prep school here in Houston, 

came here as a freshman in the 

fall of 1972 and competed for 

Rice the following spring. The 

next year, however, he transferred 

to Oregon, attracted by 

the chance to train with runners 

like the late Steve Prefontaine. 

Geis was redshirted for a year, 

then competed in the 1974 

NCAA's to win first place in the 

3-mile. 

Rice was represented at the 

NCAA's this' year by Wells, 

sprinter Zoe Simpson, and hurdler 

Curtis Isaiah. At the SWC 

meet, Simpson was barely beaten 

in the 100-yard dash by 

TCU's Bill Collins in 9.5 sec. 

Isaiah, who will be a sophomore 

this fall, gained valuable experience 

by attending the NCAA 

meet. His best time in the high 

hurdles is a 13.8 from the Texas 

Relays. 

Rice placed fourth in this 

year's SWC meet held im Lubbock 

May 22-24, retaining the 

distinction of having scored 

more points in NCAA Championship 

meets than any other 

SWC school. Besides winning the 

3-mile, upsetting record-holder 

Randy Melancon of Arkansas, 

Jeff Wells was a close second in 

the one-mile. 

In the last athletic contest 

prior to finals, Rice took part in 

the well-known Drake Relays in 

Des Moines April 25 and 26. Jeff 

Wells broke the school record 

and ran the third fastest 3-mile 

in SWC history with his 13:31.9, 

although he only finished eighth 

in an open field which included 

some Olympians. Mike Fulgham, 

who had a fine year, ran a 13.8 

in the high hurdles but failed to 

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qualify for the finals since he 

was in the fastest heat, won at 

13.5. He pulled a groin muscle 

while at Drake and was later 

troubled by the injury at the 

SWC meet. At Drake, the Owls 

also captured good third places 

in the 440-relay and the 480 

shuttle-hurdle relay. 

Track Coach Bob May and 

assistant Steve Straub, graduates 

of Rice in 1964 and 1971 respectively, 

have signed eight 

recruits thus far. The coaches 

have made a strong effort to 

recruit distance men, explaining 

that their versatility will enable 

Rice to compete in a number of 

events — cross country in the 

fall; 880, one-mile, 3-mile, and 

various relays in the spring. Furthermore, 

Rice will be hit after 

next season by the graduation of 

current distance runners Jeff 

Wells, Rory Trup, and John Lodwick; 

younger talent is needed. 

Mike Novelli of Houston's 

Strake-Jesuit signed a national 

letter of intent with Rice on 

May 16th. He has had the best 

high school mile in Texas for 

two years straight, with a 4:10.2 

in 1974 and a 4:11.1 this year. 

In the Gulf AAU meet at Butler 

Stadium in Houston, Novelli ran 

a 4:10.2 to come in second 

behind SWC 3-mile champ Jeff 

Wells, who had a 4:10.0. Novelli 

was an all-state miler and cross 

country champion in the Texas 

Catholic Interscholastic League 

for the past three years and finished 

second in the National 

Junior Olympic Championships 

mile last year. 

He graduated in the top ten 

percent of his class at Strake- 

Jesuit and is now competing in 

various invitational meets 

around the US. Two weeks ago 

he won the two-mile at the Atlanta 

Track Classic in Atlanta, 

Ga. with a 9:04.2 to set a Texas 

state record. He is slated to compete 

June 21 in the Golden West 

meet in Sacramento. 

German Amador, a teammate 

of Novelli's at Strake-Jesuit, has 

also signed with Rice. His best 

time in the mile was a 4:14.0 at 

the state TCIL meet this year, 

and his fastest 880 is a 1:56.0. 

He took a second in the twomile 

at the Texas Relays and was 

a member of the team which 

won the high school division of 

the Rice Relays. This summer 

Amador is competing in the 

Summer Olympics, since he will 

not turn 18 until August. He is 

trying to get to the National 

Junior Olympics and will run in 

a qualifying meet for regionals 

on Thursday, June 26. 

Kenneth Tolbert of South 

Oak Cliff in Dallas will join the 

other distance men with a 

4:12.0 in the mile, best in Texas 

public school competition in 

1975. He won the Mein Invitational 

against top milers of the 

greater Southwest and, only 

thirty minutes later, placed third 

in a tough 880 field — an event 

in which he had a 1:54.0.Tolbert 

finished first in the state UIL 

meet but was disqualified for 

allegedly bumping into another 

runner with about a hundred 

yards to go. 

Chris Bounds of Boise, Idaho, 

state champ in the 880, has also 

signed with Rice. Bounds has a 

1:57.1 in the 880, in which he 

has been unbeaten for two years, 

and a 4:28.0 mile. 

Chris Hennessy of Hempstead, 

N.Y., one of the nation's 

most widely sought prospects, 

ranked in the top ten nationally 

in the 880 with a season best of 

1:52.5. He also ran a 48.6 leg on 

the mile relay. 

Daryl "Doc" King of Moorestown, 

N. J., another signee, was 

a member of the high school 

team that set a national high 

school record for the shuttle 

hurdles relay with a 58.2. Doc 

came in second in the New Jersey 

state meet in the 120-yard 

high hurdles with a 14.1. 

Bert Warren of Baytown Lee 

finished third in regional competition 

in the mile with a 3:17.0. 

Coach May will be grooming him 

for the three-mile. 

Scott Edwards, a high jumper, 

will enter Rice with a joint 

ROTC-track scholarship. He 

does 6'10" in the high jump and 

also competes in long jumps and 

hurdles. 

Coach May hopes to sign 

Tommy McCall of Dallas, twotime 

state 880 champ, who also 

runs the 440. Rice has some 

excellent potential for "walkons" 

in Robert Garriot of Clear 

Lake and David Stark of Waltrip. 

• • • JOCK NOTES • • • 

Baseball coach Doug Osburn 

has announced the signing of 

pitcher Allen Ramirez of Victoria. 

Ramirez, with a career ERA 

of less than one, promises to 

help Rice's baseball program. 

Last season's Owls were picked 

for eighth out of nine SWC 

schools yet ended up tied for 

fourth in the first division. Most 

of the players will return next 

season. 

The 180-pound 5-11 righthander 

was a starter for four seasons 

in high school, with a 37-15 

career record (most losses in early 

seasons), with 11 wins this 

past season. Ramirez has a career 

strikeout total of 529, with a 

season high of 175, and game 

high of 18. He was closely eyed 

by pro scouts but emphasized to 

them that he was going to college 

before playing pro ball. 

Ramirez, who plans to be a dentist, 

had been avidly sought by 

Texas, UH, and a number of 

other schools. 

* * * 

Rice was represented at the 

NCAA Tennis competition in 

Corpus Christi June 16-21 by 

Ogi Mitra, Scott Turpin, Brice 

Alexander, and Chris Mullen. 

Mitra made it to the quarter 

finals with the three others losing 

in the first round. 

* * * 

Rice's golf team placed fifth 

in the SWC championship held 

in Lubbock May 23-24. Barton 

Goodwin finished among the top 

five golfers in the 54-hoIe tournament. 

Other Owls included 

Adrian Schjetnan, Mark Johnson, 

Ernie Danner, Robert Ladd, 

and Jim Diaque. Much-heralded 

recruit Jeff New of Victoria has 

been signed to next year's team. 

Rice's placekicker Alan Pringle 

was chosen to play for Baylor 

coach Grant Teaff's West 

team in the 15th annual Coaches 

All-America Football Game held 

last Saturday, June 21, in Lubbock. 

Pringle holds the Rice 

record for longest field goal with 

his 50-yard kick against TCU last 

season. That kick broke the previous 

record of 48 yards, also set 

by him, first against the Baylor 

freshmen in 1971 and then 

against LSU in 1973. 

In Lubbock, Pringle punted 

for the first time in a game situa- 

tion, and hit two of three field 

goals , one of them for a record 

54 yards. Still, his West squad 

lost, 22-20. 

Pringle, an English citizen, 

was raised in Venezuela. He 

attended the Rugby School in 

England where he played wing 

on the soccer team. He had 

never seen a football game in his 

life when he came to Rice and 

was discovered by a PE instructor 

who tipped off Rice coaches 

that there was a "fantastic kicker 

in a frosh soccer class." A few 

days later he was playing for the 

Owlets although he had no idea 

what the game was all about. 

Now Pringle knows football well 

and hit 27 of 28 points-aftertouchdowns 

and 20 of 29 field 

goal attempts while at Rice. He 

was the tenth round draft choice 

of the Houston Oilers. 

Whitmore: 25 years of PR 

Rice Sports Information 

Director Bill Whitmore, known 

as "The Barber" because, as he 

puts it, "I talk too much," 

marked twenty-five years with 

Rice on the first of June. Beginning 

during the Jess Neely era 

when Rice was still the Rice 

Institute, Whitmore's career has 

spanned 259 Rice football games 

(of which he has attended 258), 

not to mention basketball, baseball, 

track, tennis, etc. As SID, 

"Th e Barber" handles the writing 

and editing of all sports programs, 

brochures, and frequent 

press releases, corrals advertising, 

maintains files and statistics, and 

serves as liason between Rice 

and both the news media and 

fans. 

One of Whitmore's favorite* 

memories is the 1957 Rice-A&M 

game where 72,000 fans (in a 

Houston without pro sports) 

witnessed the upset of firstranked 

A&M as Jess Neely's Rice 

Owls won on an extra point, 7-6. 

Born in St. Louis, Whitmore 

grew up in Texas and graduated 

from the University of Texas in 

1942. After a stint as a public 

relations officer with the Army 

Air Corps during World War II, 

he came to Houston's KPRC 

Radio as the city's first full-time 

radio newsman-reporter. Then, 

on June 1, 1950, he joined Rice 

as the school's first full-tirtfe 

SID.

Preseason optimism: 1975might be the year! 

by JAMES ROBERT SABLE 

Summer, that never-never 

time of sunshine and baseball; a 

time to catch the wonder of a 

ten cent hotdog and the power 

of a well hit home run. But this 

is Houston, home of that leaky 

dome, a place where the sun 

never rises and the Astros never 

win. Thus, with a profound 

sense of public need, this brief 

analysis is written to rescue you 

from the horror of Astro base- 

ball and deliver you to the next 

sport season. Yes fans, it is only 

June, but the football season has 

already begun. For the next 

eight months we will suffer the 

endless commentary of Kurt 

Gowdy, Howard Cosell, Mongo 

& Co., as they tell us how football 

should not be played. (No, 

this is not the famous Arbuckle 

poll, but a pre-Arbuckle poll. 

The distinction is not clear.) In a 

fit of summer optamism (see 

Howard, I can spell!), I now predict 

that the MOB will be 

marching in the Cotton Bowl 

come January 1. 

Yes fans, this is the year; the 

future is now; get ready for a 

season of surprise, the OWLS are 

alive in seventy-five, etc. With an 

easy schedule (L.S.U. at Shreveport, 

Peach Bowl champ Vanderbilt 

instead of Notre Dame, 

the Aggies at Rice Stadium) Rice 

will have no problems in winning 

the S.W.C. for the first time in a 

decade or more. All A1 Conover 

needs is a replacement for the 

defensive line. It graduated last 

year. But with the MOB, Rice 

will upset U of H., and with 

seven of eleven games in 

Houston, end the season undefeated. 

How's that for confidence? 

Undoubtably the University 

of Texas is the team to beat for 

the 2nd place Astro-Bluebonnet 

Bankrupt owner sells champion Aeros 

by DEBBIE OSTERMAN 

The state of limbo in which 

Houston's only championship 

team, the World Hockey Association 

Aeros, have been caught 

for the past six weeks ended 

Monday . George Bolin, leader 

of the minority stockholders, 

and his associates have taken 

final steps to purchase the Aeros 

team from bankrupt Houston 

financier Irvin Kaplan. 

Hockey Hall-of-Famer Gordie 

Howe, wio has spent the last 

two years playing for the Aeros 

along with his two sons, has 

been named president of the 

club, replacing lawyer Jim Smith 

who announced his resignation 

May 29. Coach Bill "The Fox" 

Dineen has taken on the post of 

general manager, previously also 

held by Smith, and is retaining 

his job as coach of the team 

which has twice captured the 

WHA's Avco Cup. 

Although the Aeros maintained 

a comfortable lead on the 

other WHA teams through the 

entire season, the playoffs 

brought some exciting action to 

the Coliseum. Houston faced-off 

against the Cleveland Crusaders 

in the quarter-finals. The Crusaders' 

prized goalie Gerry Cheevers 

provided some impressive 

performances, yet the Aero's 

Ticket orders now open 

Season ticket orders are now 

being accepted for the 1975 

Rice Owls football season, which 

begins September 13 against the 

University of Houston, in the 

Astrodome. 

The home opener will be September 

20 against defending 

Peach Bowl champion Vanderbilt. 

Other home games include 

Mississippi State (Sun Bowl 

Champion), October 11; SMU, 

October 18; Arkansas, November 

8; Texas A&M, November 

15; and Baylor (defending SWC 

champs), November 29. 

Four of the five out-of-town 

games will be against regulars 

UT, LSU, Texas Tech, and TCU. 

The deadline for season ticket 

holders to guarantee renewal of 

their same-seat locations is July 

1. Orders are now being accepted 

for all games. Although seats 

will not be assigned and distributed 

until later this summer, 

the priority for choice of seats is 

based upon when the orders are 

received. Mail requests will be 

assigned before across-counter 

sales start in August. 

Order forms for tickets are 

available from the Athletic 

Department. 

Summer sports: mostly informal 

A little good-natured interdepartmental 

rivalry has been 

expressed in informal softball 

competition between teams 

from the Biology and Biochemistry 

departments this summer. 

The inhabitants of Anderson 

Laboratory meet each Saturday 

afternoon outside the gym to 

hold coed games. Umpires are 

not readily available, and 

wouldn't really fit into the spirit 

of things anyway. Calls are made 

by mutual agreement, and the 

batter stays at bat until he/she 

gets a hit. On Thursdays the men 

from both sides team up to play 

Space Science. 

Informal volleyball games are 

also going strong on Tuesday 

evenings at Brown College. The 

games were the idea of recent 

graduate Marion Johnson, who is 

working in Houston this summer. 

Anyone who wants to play 

can merely drop by Brown on 

Tuesday or call Pat McGovern at 

664-2827 or ext. 1149 during 

the day. 

Football recruits: not all dumb 

How do you find football 

players who can work together 

to make a winning team and yet 

still be able to survive the academic 

pressures of Rice? That is 

the question foremost in the 

minds at the Athletic Department 

when recruiting gets under 

way. 

Of the twenty-seven football 

players signed for 1975, seven 

are members of the National 

Honor Society, and three others 

have achieved some academic 

success. Four are from private 

schools, and only six are from 

out of state. 1 Whether the rest 

can hack life among the weanies 

is a question that remains unanswered, 

but at least a few checks 

on their academic records have 

been made. 

According to those frustrated 

jocks who claim to know of such 

things between draughts of beer, 

Rice's selection of freshman talent 

is among the worst in the 

conference, matched only by 

TCU's. According to A1 Conover, 

however, "They're fast, 

they're fast." 

rookie goaltender Ron Grahame, 

though faltering at first, gained 

confidence as play proceeded 

and Dineen stuck with him, rather 

than switching off to his other 

goalie Wayne Rutledge. Mark 

Howe scored eight goals, 

unleashing a powerful slapshot 

with which he had had problems 

at the first of the season, and 

Houston pushed past Cleveland 

in a 4-1 series. 

The semi-finals opened in San 

Diego against the Mariners, a 

team which Houston had managed 

to beat only one out of six 

times in the regular season. Nevertheless, 

the Aero's began there 

with a shut-out and, even to 

their fans'amazement, proceeded 

to sweep past San Diego in four 

games straight. 

The finals pitted them against 

the Quebec Nordiques, who, like 

their provincial counterparts, the 

Montreal Canadiens, are strong 

on skating. The Nordiques had 

peaked relatively early during 

the season, with their February 

6th game against the Aeros in 

the Houston Coliseum being perhaps 

the best of the season for 

Houston fans, although the 

Aeros lost 7-5. Again the Aeros 

managed to wipe out their challenger 

in four straight games, 

with Grahame chalking up 

another shut-out. For the second 

year in a row in the WHA's 

three-year history, the Houston 

Aeros won the Avco Cup, this 

time in Quebec on May 12th. 

Grahame was presented the Gordie 

Howe Trophy for MVP in 

the playoffs, much to the joy of 

his fan club, Ronnie Grahame's 

Crackers. The Aeros were met 

by a thousand fans at Intercontinental 

Airport on their return 

to Houston. A parade through 

downtown Houston was held 

later that week, with a reception 

at City Hall. 

The upcoming season promises 

to be an interesting one, 

with the Aeros moving into a 

new sports arena, the Summit, at 

Greenway Plaza. Gordie Howe, 

only man to ever amass 800 

career goals and chalk up over 

2000 points, will play his last 

professional game to close out a 

27-year career and then take off 

his skates to assume the duties 

of club president. His place at 

right wing remains to be filled, 

perhaps by Rich Preston if the 

former Denver University player 

can make the transition. The 

high-§coring Go-Go Line of 

Lund, Hinse, and Hughes and 

the veteran line of-captain Ted 

Taylor, Labossiere, and Hall will 

doubtlessly perform as strongly 

as ever. 

The Kid Line, composed last 

year of three rookies (a real rar- 

ity), is a big favorite with the 

fans. Center Terry Ruskowski, 

third in penalty minutes behind 

defensemen John "Cementhead" 

Schella and policeman Glen 

Irwin, will hopefully exhibit a 

bit more discretion this season, 

while, of course, keeping his fists 

in reserve. Few hockey players 

are capable of getting in the punches 

that this tenacious product 

of the: Swift Current Broncos 

can throw. Another Swift Current 

product and member of the 

Kid Line is Don Laraway, first 

round draft pick of the Boston 

Bruins. The line was rounded 

out by Preston with whom Dineen 

was obviously impressed. 

Defensively, the Aeros promise 

to be strong with returnees such 

as Poul Popiel and Marty Howe. 

One of Gordie's first big tasks 

as president will be to sign several 

veterans whose contracts 

have run out, including Ronnie 

Grahame whom the Boston 

Bruins desperately need. 

Bowl bid. Darrell Royal has 

more football players than 

Campbell has soup. The steers 

will be close to impossible to 

stop. Pray for a Rubberband 

defense. It will be needed. 

In a dogfight, the SMU 

Mustangs will beat out A&M for 

third place. Ricky Wesson is 

back and he is the most dangerous 

quarterback in the conference. 

The Aggies will not finish 

higher than fourth. After all, 

they have almost everyone back 

from last year's team, but the 

Aggies have a habit of losing 

when it counts. 

Arkansas and Texas Tech will 

tie for fifth place and destroy 

the Aggies' chances of a conference 

crown. Arkansas plays 

A&M on national T.V. on the 

last day of the season. Guess 

who will win. Tech's new coach 

won't get his miracle. 

Speaking of miracles, last 

year's SWC champs, Grant 

Teaff's Baylor Bears will not 

repeat. Not even Bernie Parent 

can save them from the loss of 

Neal Jeffery. Baylor will just 

beat out TCU for the cellar. The 

less said about TCU the better, 

but they will need a miracle to 

finish the season. In its last year 

as an independent, the University 

of Houston will go 9-1-0 and 

will not get a bowl invitation. 

Note: Yes, the Alan Pringle in 

the coaches All American 

Game on ABC is the same 

Alan Pringle who kicked the 

football in Rice Stadium. 

Captain Ted Taylor carries the first of two successive 

Avco Cups won by the Aeros —john borg, image 


Thursday the twenty-sixth 

Today is officially declared the 

twenty-third for all intents and purposes. 

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inventory. 

6pm. Threshers out. (?!) 

8pm. Jones Hall. SPA presents American 

Ballet Theatre's Raymonda. 

8pm. Main Street Theatre at Autry 

House presenting Hay Fever by 

Noel Coward. $2. 

Friday the twenty-seventh 

8pm or thereabouts. Lisa McFarland 

is at the Pub, every Friday (usually). 

rice people's calendar 

8:30pm. Jones Hall. SPA/ABT again, 

also the twenty-eighth. 

9:22pm. CPR changes Pub's hours, 

again. 

Tuesday, july the first 

8pm. Alley Theatre. Film series 

begins with Lost Horizon by 

Frank Capra and Freaks by Tod 

Browning. 

11:28pm. Terminal boredom sets in 

until the end of the summer. 

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The 4th. Beginning of Bicentennial 

Year or some such. 

10th-15th. Series of summer programs 

by the Houston Symphony. 

August 15th. Authorized upperclassmen 

begin moving into colleges. 

misclassifieds 

For sale — one VW Bug roofrack 

to help you take your stuff 

home — $15.00. Call 

E.A.Feustel, x448. 

* * * 

To all those who promised to 

show up for my party last Friday 

and didn't, may Godzilla be 

the only one to come to any 

event you ever plan. Hell eat all 

the food I bought for my party 

that is now rotting away. 

* * * 

Housemate needed; 3 bedroom 

house, at 3914 Drake, w/2 Rice 

students. Near W. University 

area. Subsidized rent by absentee 

owner, so only $50/month 

plus utilities. Contact either 

Robert Thomas, 1318 S.Broadway, 

Plainview, Texas 79072 or 

Bernie Hobson, 1330 Estes, 

Chicago, 111. 60626 prior to 

August 20th. 

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To GAL9000: was destroyed by 

great big Bev machine. Hurry 

back. —BoSB 

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Need light travelers to make the 

trip back to Rice in August. Am 

leaving from New York City 

area. Call Marc Siegel at (201) 

791-3108 or write to 1-44 27th 

Street. Fair Lawn, N.J. 07410. 

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PARENTS OF NEW STUDENTS: 

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the first time away from home. What activities and interests will occupy his 

time away from books and classes? What are Rice people concerned about, 

interested in, and working on these days? And what is Rice like, anyway? 

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August 18th—23rd. Freshperson 

week and all the mess that entails. 

August 23rd. Everybody who hasnt 

moved on campus does so. 

August 25th. Semi-annual "Black 

Monday" begins as weanies are 

reported going to classes and the 

library. Such a pity. 

ment! All that's involved is sitting 

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co-op in the Montrose/rice area. 

Especially looking for Pre-law, 

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Robert, you know there is just 

no way I could have made it 

through the summer without it. 

Of "course" I got some. 

notes and notices 

Actor — Dr. Paul Pfeiffer has 

been appointed Acting Proctor 

through the first week of 

July while Dr. Sam Carrington 

is on vacation. 

Two governors 

reappointed ... 

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