Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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The admirable efforts of Doug Kilgore and his cast of tens brought Wiess its third novelty act championship in four years with the saga of Snoopy and the Red Baron, co- starring Ben Teague as the mustached villain, alias the hard-working and dedicated direc- tor of the chorus, which provided Wiess men with sparetime activity and participation in the Songfest. Further attempts to prove our scholarly nature provided several provocative eve- nings under the guiding hand of Tom Bert- rand and the program committee: the little old cartoon maker himself, Bill Merriman, met the freshmen with projector in hand to provide a slide show introduction to Rice. A couple of card-carrying black belt jocks pushed all the tables back in the Commons and demonstrated how to split boards with hands and feet and other tricks in the art Of Self and friend mutilation. Contributing to the delinquency of minors, the program committee introduced us fincluding our own TSU-SNCC leader Charliej to the shock treatment of SNCC leader James Foreman and black power. Interested in youth and service the Fellows sponsored a study of youth through a pho- tography con-test and exhibit and threw a Christmas party for underprivileged chil- dren. The usually famous Spring Dance with champagne hour proved to be the evening to be jolly. The film trilogy of Ingmar Berg- man was followed by discussion with Gerald O'Grady, who also participated in an unusual program covering the finer points of graffiti which provided Drs. Mackey and O'Grady with an opportunity to deny the death of God, who, they say, has only fled to the bath- room wall, along with all the other dirty words which are in reality not dirty at all. At last it was neither as scholars nor gentle- men that the Wiess guys proved themselves. The good old jock in them showed their true colors. In college competition, they finished first in basketball, defeating Hanszen in a preliminary to a varsity game, second in volleyball and track, and third in football and softball. A predominantly Wiess intra- mural team, the Pseudo Jocks, combined to win three separate intramural champion- ships, in basketball, bowling, and softball, losing in the semi-finals in volleyball and the finals in volleyball. For the third of four years, a Wiess team won the freshman intra- mural touch football championship. And in that sport to end all sports, it was Slow Larry Thomas carrying the banner of the weanies into the depths of the pool room to put down Saskatchewan Skinny Steve Moffitt and wrestle from the jocks first place in Byron Jeffery's pool tournament. In their role as weanies, several Wiess men found their glory. NSF Fellows were Robert Eanes, Frank Gerth, Tom Hammerstrom, and Bill Leeman. Dan Albright, Paul Berdahl, Joe Dendy, Paul Johnson, and Don Lamb were recipients of Woodrow Wilson Scholarships, and college president Don Lamp was named a Marshall Scholar. Among the list of the honored belong Ster- ling Walton, for his midnight escapade at the piano, which won for him the Annual Tallyboo Award, California Dreamer Jim Chandler as Winner of the B. S. Hinkley Award, freshman Tom Bible, for service above and beyond the line of duty, dubbed Super Serverg and Jerry Rothrock as recip- ient of the college service award. To maintain a. sense of order, the Cabinet, in accordance with its final referendum of the year, called a straw vote to determine the future abode of Wiess College Mascot Sobie. Due to his extracurricular activities, the Cabinet sought to have the canine engineer move off-campus his fifth year. But true to form the majority of the college seemed to disagree with the wishes of the Cabinet to strike down another hallowed tradition. If only they had moved to abolish finals . . . 255

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254 For the men of Wiess, the year seemed an attempt to prove themselves gentlemen and scholars. Scholars, yes, as college, members accumulated more PBK memberships Qtenj, more Woodrow Wilson Scholarships Qfivej, and more National Science Foundation scholarships ffourj than any other college. But as gentlemen, they would not conform. Following much general discussion, several Cabinet meetings, and a college meeting, an election was conducted in an attempt to define evening dress in the Commons. To some it seemed a question of ties or no tiesg to others, blue jeans or slacks, and to the rest, socks or none. But the Cabinet's seemingly ambiguous referendum settled nothing, and clothes remained come-as-you- are, or as-you-can-get-by-with. However questionable the Cabinet action, at least it was acting, and more was to follow. The need for a more explicit definition of the differ- ences in duties and responsibilities of the Cabinet and the College Court resulted in another referendum. The college members supported the Court's view of distinct juris- diction in disciplinary matters and favored legislation to improve communication between the two bodies. summers parish merwin hellums franklin o'nei1 parrish baker dvoretsky baker

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