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What is your reaction to the students at Rice University having a radio station which is free of university control? Mr Lovett, I congratulate the students on developing this program. It's a wonderful thing as it was and it will be better as they will make it with

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the new facility. Communication is almost everything today and anything that improves it and makes it water and more effective is a wonderful thing to have operating. One of the programs that we have considered for next year is having various members of the university come and talk

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on an interview show and of course, Mr Lovett, we would be more than happy to have you sometime next year come as an interview session of some sort. I talk to the students. That's very nice. Of course, I'm here tonight. I don't want to monopolize it.

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How about you? What do you think about the Rice University students having a radio station? Well, Dan, I think it's very exciting today. Seems to be a very appropriate day. I understand it's World Communications Day today. Uh I heard that on another station three. Uh it

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seems to me that on such a day as this, that extension into the F M broadcast range will help to continue its function as an immediate and accurate and sensitive source of communications on this campus. And I certainly look forward to continued good relations and uh

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much fun with the radio station. I understand your husband's up in Washington right now. Yes, he is. And this is one of the first times I've had an opportunity to scoop him. And so I get to congratulate you instead of him. I really am so proud

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to be a part of the Rice community. And I think all of us students and faculty and administration are privileged to be here on this campus and particularly tonight for this opening night. What do you think? What role do you see for a radio station here

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at Rice? I don't think you'd have to go back and uh uh recite a role for it. You've already proven your part in the communications, not only for the campus and now communications for the entire community. It's always been interesting to me, Dan, that without having

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a particular communications course or journalism course, even that it rice, the students have maintained their own weekly newspaper. And uh you and buddy Trotter, John Dore and all of your good workers at the K T R U have maintained and now have gotten permission and they're

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putting on their K T R U F M to serve not only all of Rice University, but all of the community around us for at least eight miles. Dave Roberts, our fine pole vaulter, uh, is ranked in the top three in the country. He has the

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second best collegiate vault of 17 ft 1.5 inches. Uh, and also Mike Kron has, is tied with the best time in the full 40 yard hurdles at 15 to 10 seconds. So, both of these people have an excellent chance in. Yes, yes, both of them and

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our has the third best time ranking. So uh we feel that all three of these uh uh events are will be good for rice and we have a good chance of placing in all three of them. Well, starting this weekend, we have six boys that will

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be participating in a series of meets, uh starting in the one in El Paso this Saturday night and then on to Modesto and then to the Kennedy Games. That's our M relay consisting of Chip Grand Jean Steve Strawn Bingham and, and Danny Dickey then uh Walter

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Dave Roberts and a 400 m her uh Mike by the way with 100 votes to 44 which is a pretty good sign. It means that most of the members of the house were for this bill and a mandate like that will certainly help when the committee

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begins looking around for where to find the money. They're going to feel like this is something that represents a pretty good part of the state got back from three days in Austin trying with the people working for the independent colleges and Universities of Texas to help

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pass Senate bill 56 this bill would provide up to $300 a semester for Texas students at private colleges and universities in this state. Besides being good for students and the schools that they could then afford to attend. It's financially a good policy for the state. Every

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student who chooses to attend a private school saves the state $1400 a year. This bill passed its second reading in the house Thursday and it will probably pass its third and go on to a conference committee. But next week, the funds will still have to be

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appropriated and this is the very last week of the session. The award which I am here to present was instituted this year by the Student Association to honor a very special and very important member of the university community that is those members of the faculty and

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staff who have provided outstanding service to the students of Rice as advisors, counselors, teachers and friends. The award is to be called the recognition award after the Ancient Greek mentor, a advisor, a wise and trusted counselor and teacher because we wanted this award to be a

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very special indication of our deep and enduring respect for the man receiving it. We have chosen to commission a piece of art to express to the mentor, a small measure of our gratitude. Accordingly, the award this year is a modern circle a carving from the heart

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of a 500 year old piece of camper wood by the Japanese artist Masaru Takeuchi. He named it a word for peace, which means literally in Japanese people, helping each other people, helping each other, I believe comes close to defining the human essence, which is what we

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the students of Rice created. The word for. It is with great honor that I asked Doctor Paul E Pfeiffer, a member of the Department of Mathematical Sciences to receive this award. Doctor Pfeiffer, uh the uh item that I guess that I was most concerned with was

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a proposal to create a new University Council and the University Council will be very similar to an institution which has been in existence for a number of years, the Faculty Council and it's an advisory board which uh with which the president consults on a on a

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range of uh plans for the university. And uh the innovation of this new plan which went through his first reading today. There will be a second reading. Next September, the major innovation was the addition of three students to the council and the addition of two Assistant

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Professors University Council. If if indeed, it's created, if it passes the second reading next fall, we'll have rather broader range of consultative uh powers in the present Faculty Council. It's not a revolution but it's a, uh, I think uh a rather important evolutionary step in broadening,

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broadening and, and regularizing the, uh the means by which the president uh uh consults faculty members. Rice University Baccalaureate exercises will be tonight at seven o'clock and they'll be carried live on the radio. Featured speaker will be Dr Samuel Eich Stump, president of Cornell College in

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Mount Vernon Iowa. The former Vanderbilt philosophy professor will speak tonight on the New learning tomorrow. The university's 58 th commencement exercises are at seven o'clock and again, you can hear them on the radio. Jeff Las, the news very that you guys are getting started now and

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I hope that you'll business like and get it, get it kicked off real well and do the school a lot of good the tuition equalization bill sponsored by the independent Colleges and Universities of Texas to provide a end of tuition for students who attend private colleges

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have their own choice. Passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 104 to 43 against on its second reading. Leon Reed led a delegation of rice students along with students from five other colleges and Universities of the Houston area, such as University of ST Thomas,

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the Houston Baptist College, South Texas Junior College, Dominican College. Hope I'm not leaving out one. But there's another one. Number 16, if the relative level of sophistication imparted by a college education at any degree level is indeed constant relative to the times. And at the general

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level of intellectual and functional sophistication increases with time. Then either you continue learning without hiatus or you fall behind your contemporaries and far behind those who poli far behind this idea, certainly contrary to an old Saul, which says in the fact that now that your education

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is complete, throw away your books and get down to the serious business of living. That latter statement is the very spirit of anti intellectualism. And that spirit supposes that being in college is a ritual which it is not, this point of view is not as popular.

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Now as it once was. In fact, one could talk on the problems inherit and believing that everyone has to have a college education to get along in the world of today. And if I were making such a speech, it would end by noting that everyone capable

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of gaining from a college education should have the opportunity to acquire one. But to get back to the point, I don't object to getting on with the business of living in the real world or of ending formal continuous education with a degree. I do object to

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the idea though very strongly if it is included that with school out of the way intellectual activity should cease. Number 17, sometimes one hears messages to the effect that we must educate into the future. For example, one could easily find I'm sure a speech entitled, quote

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the class of 1991. Where is it going? Unquote? Such speeches often are intended to say, don't educate for the past. And I have no quarrel with that, but many of them are intended to say that we should educate people for living in 1991. And I do

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quarrel with that. Just imagine it. If you will, a student who graduated in 1951 suppose he had been educated for 1971 he would have been lost. She would have had no, particularly if she stopped learning, she would have no way in the world to get along

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in the world. I don't want to argue as the world of the world is better now than it was 20 years ago. But there is no argument that it's different. So the point really is to educate for the present and the very near future and leave

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you educable. If that's a word, I want to be sure that the seeds for continuous learning and for receptiveness to change, not only for its own sake, but for the practical good, it can do you and therefore society is with you. Number 18, an educated person

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now will have mastered more than his predecessors, as I've already said of more importance. If he is to have an equally broad understanding of the world and his place in it, he will have to know more, be wiser, he will have to be aware that the

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extent of his knowledge and the extent of his ignorance are basic to the ability to participate, participate meaningfully meaningfully in the affairs of society. By the way, he United University is the one that must participate in the affairs of society. The evidence is quite clear that

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the level of education and government and business and other areas of human endeavor is rising. While at one time, the Horatio Alger story fit many people in high places. The great majority of the current leaders have had college experience. In most cases, their position results not

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from education, but from their ability to maintain objectivity, to sort out complex problems and to be concerned with general welfare, their education helped them alone. I'd like to make a point that you ought to know that a high level of intelligence is not necessarily associated with

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education nor stupidity with a lack of things. Number 19, academic achievement simply says that he is one who might have intellectual capacity since he seems to have mastered certain areas, areas of knowledge and thought wealth. I can show you by citing a few examples that academic

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achievement is not a static factor. I won't do that. That would mean simply listing the large number of advances made over the last 20 years. And I'm sure you've heard about them, but I will say that if you do not learn along with the advances, you

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will not understand them. The traditionalist may say that this does not order well, for the race that the old good values are growing by the way and that culture is losing out. However, he speaks only from his own experience and his and in his own world

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as he recognizes it and defines it. It would be interesting by the way to speculate on how the traditionalist predecessors felt about him and his variation on their world. In other words, culture is not unchanging, it must have something new continually if it is not to

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define, become purely ritualistic, the arts, for example, constantly experiment with form sound materials and methods. And all of this can be summed up by saying that evolutionary change is necessary in everything and combating change for its own sake is not only useless but debilitating. Number 20

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the problems of the university are as old as the universities themselves. The basic premise you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free has added to it on campus. The proposition that truth changes in the light of new understanding, this disturbs those who

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wish to maintain the status quo and even many of us who are less concerned about traditionalism. The problem involves a number of conflicts, for example, higher education as an investment versus higher education as a stimulating learning experience, the characteristic restlessness, therefore, the inherent instability of the

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academic community and the attractiveness of that to radical thinkers. Parenthetically, I might say that radical causes are not certainly not injured by the high ratio of immaturity to maturity on campus. Since those people who are undergoing this transition at its peak are somewhat more prone to

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view problems from a personal perspective than their elders. Another conflict involves the use of the campus as a maturation center. This is not new but the the numbers now involved on campus make it a problem of much much greater dimension. Moreover, the conflict inherent and use

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of the campus as a podium or sanctuary, which is also as old as campus as themselves makes for instability. I don't intend to detail the problems here, but I do want to tell you that the nature of the problem can probably best be expressed in the

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proposition that the portfolio of the university now has in it too, all encompassing problems, too many own incomes and problems and the old problems of universities are now aggravated by the numbers of people involved. Consider that 5% of the population of this country is now directly

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involved with college and university campuses as students, as faculty or staff. And this doesn't take into account those people who are our friends who work with us directly involved. About 11 million people. Also, I might point out that the cost of higher education runs into the

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billions, uh direct cost runs into the billions. And this doesn't take into account the the cost to society of tax free properties and tax free gifts and so on. So that the costs are tremendously high. Also, the nature of the problem also is aggravated by the

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more ready communication that's available to us. In spite of by the way of the constant concern that we don't communicate with one another and by the continued emotional focus which campuses have forever had either because of nostalgia or because of its good shows or because this

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is a way to ensure posterity in attempting to encompass too wide to span. There arises in the inability to reallocate resources as readily as the increasing and changing needs required. Universities have been turned through many times to solve. So problems which society does not know how

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to handle and therefore dumps into the university's lap or to teach this of that specialty. And without pursuing that further, I point out to you that the numbers involved in the areas covered undergraduate, graduate, professional, adult, non-qualified, fine arts, literary arts, natural sciences, social sciences. So

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on with one faculty and one set of facilities has stretched the fabric of the university. Number 21 I want to congratulate those who are graduating from this university for the university and for all of us here tonight, you've attained this objective and that's the reason for

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the graduate. The congratulations wish also to give you best wishes from all of us in attaining your future objectives. It is interesting to me that I share with you or most all of you at least graduating tonight. At least one common experience. This is our first

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rise commencement. I hope this has been a satisfactory year for you. And I hope indeed that the stay at rice has been satisfactory to you when you've had sufficient time to make an assessment. I trust you will find that you are better for your experience for

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having been here. I'm reasonably sure you're better prepared, but I hope certainly that we left you with a thirst for learning and an interest in understanding which never gets extinguished. Number 22 on balance, this has been a satisfactory year for rice too. And certainly for me,

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rice has maintained its high position in the family of universities as seen by undergraduate, by graduate and by alumni evaluation during the course of this year. And I think perhaps even by student evaluation, although that might be debatable, it has examined essentially all of its problems

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and has solved some is in the process of trying to solve others has shelved a few and that has created a few, very few. I hope it has strained a bit but stable financially. So on balance, it is good and it is substantial and I hope

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you're proud of having been at Rice. Number 23. One of the characteristics of university is the constant change unless you tag me on that. Let me point out that there are some 800 of you who are graduating tonight, which means that well over 25% or about

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25%. At least of those who have been on campus during the course of this year are leaving tonight. But the more university changes, the more it stays the same since it retains the one feature which is quite characteristic that of almost constant youth. Yet it has

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nowhere near the constant outlook. I won't be able to quote this precisely for you. But one of your number with whom I was talking last week said to me that he found it a little difficult to understand the freshman here. Now you understand he was one

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of you seniors and he had already detected the opening of a generation gap. OK. What this really means is with constant youth, but with changing outlook, there is constant change, a university hallmark this constant change, albeit it is too slow for some of you who have

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been involved in it most recently and too fast for some of you who were involved in it some time back. Number 24. Well, his appointment was just effective. The first of May now working with other health professionals in the area, including the Texas School of Public

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Health where he has a appointment, they a College of Medicine where he also has a faculty appointment. And of course, city and state officials, it's a little bit too premature. I think at this time to, you know, announce a health program that's sort of set in

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concrete because we're busy now trying to develop it. Number 25. Well, Doctor Lowe's, uh you know, long experience in the field of community health planning uh is very attractive to us uh in our attempts here at the Southwest Center for Urban Research to identify solutions to

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problems in the present health care system and to work towards developing new approaches to treating the health care. And Dr Lowe has been with the city of Houston since 1967. He's an MD has his master's degree in public health. And as we think a very good

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in the city of Houston and Harris County and can be of assistance to us in our health research program. Number 26. So of course, Rice at the University, University of Houston back in 68 approached the Ford Foundation and and asked if the Ford Foundation would be

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interested in funding in university in interdisciplinary research center. And the answer was positive. So they together form the Southwest Center for Urban Research, which is a nonprofit corporation in the State of Texas, headed by Dr Ralph and College of Medicine is now becoming affiliated with us

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as represented on our board of directors and so forth, the other universities in the area would over the next year or so become affiliated institutions. Number 27. Well, uh coach may call me right after the meet. And uh of course, as you know, when he this

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16 6 bo he hit out of the pit and hurt his elbow and lost the feeling in his right hand and I think that he will be all right. He just couldn't continue to go the rest of the day. Number 28. I think, you know, it

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might come on, uh, of course, Mike and, uh, man, at times the best times in the country and I'm sure that these two, uh, young did not come to pass, so they originally were coming, but I think they had some. So I think that yeah, really

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big two big meat from, to see how, what he runs against the man is record holder. Number 29. No, we had uh we have signed six boys now and uh this past week I signed uh a boy down at Corpus Christi who placed the fourth in

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the 4 40 yard dash because they might read a boy named uh Forbes. And then we uh I signed the boy playing View uh the day before yesterday, a sprinter which is, of course, what we've been looking for, uh uh uh Simpson and uh he's a

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96 sprinter which uh we're really pleased to have number 30. Probably a little, I think uh some of the Western uh coach teams will be in there. I know U C L A who has won the national in the Monterey in the last several years. They'll

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be there for the first time because last week they were in their conference meeting. Know that they will be a real strong team and the University of Oregon has a real time when they had a young group last year. And uh I feel sure that they'll

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be probably at Berkeley but not at Modesto. Number 31 the plate of cracking you hear in the background is a sign of the R one as it decommissions itself, it's printing its own eulogy which reads mortal. All things are mortal, the sun, the earth, the sky,

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they all must die. The greatest to the smallest of creation, all must die. Death comes at some time for all. But from death comes rebirth, the ashes of the grave or the substance of the seeds of birth. Life passes from one generation to the next. After

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you prepared, the new generation and the old passes away into dust for its time is gone. The new generation inherits the life purpose of the old, but the purpose is never fulfilled. When the old dies, its toiling is finished but the new begins. The continuation of

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striving. The project continues. R one is dying, its time is gone. Having helped to build a successor, the new generation is coming. The 10 years of striving has ended. This is the last program soon. It will die. Its pieces will be dissembled and scattered, the parts

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will vanish, the frame will collapse and the room cleared. All that will survive is the memory of our one and a sense of completion. R one is finished. May rest in peace. Garbage. 2151351 oh 21173422346. Number 32. Sort of a sad day. But on the other

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hand, we can look forward to the new computer. The R two computer is based on the same architecture as the old computer. It's the architecture designed by John, I, I in England, we're upgrading the hardware. It's going to be a very interesting computer in the sense

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that we'll be able to interconnect experiments very simply on the computer. It will be set up as a research computer. Whereas the old computer was set up for general purpose. Computing number 33. Well, my wife wants me to bring it home and reassemble it in my

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garage. She has some uh grocery lists and things like that that I think would be very appropriate to keep on this machine. Number 34 we haven't received them yet. There's been some delay and we'll be sending, we send both copies of undergraduate um grades to the

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parents' home address and one is marked, you know, student copy. Well, I don't know when they'll be sent out but they'll be sent out as soon as we get our hands on them. Number 35 we're going to send them out to the student's home address sometime

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early next week just as soon as we possibly can do it. But right now the thing about most important is getting everyone graduated. Number 36 the exhibit for Children will open Saturday, May 22nd from 2 to 6 and continue through August. It's an exhibit that was

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especially designed for child's imagination, hoping that Children will become more involved with the arts by being able to touch and actually handle the things. The is being held in the art gallery which is located at the entrance to the campus by the stadium on University Boulevard.

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And um, the exhibit is free number 37 out two letters, two mailings to the students who register here asking their what they, the job to tell us the jobs and salary they have accepted with what company and those they have rejected. And, uh, we just put

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out the second mailing about a week ago just before um commencement. And so we're going to, what do you call that? Assemble all that information about the 15th of June. But right now, we don't have any idea.