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This is KTRU News at Rice University master tape, E master tape. E this is for the spring semester, 1970 the spring semester master tapes began with D and this is the second one, second master tape for spring semester 1970. Ktru News Rice University Master tape. I'm

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Pat Baum. News director R. Ac Razzi protest from February 1970 Paul Laka. The politics of confrontation was foiled today by a combination of apathy, rationality and all that is Rice. The scheduled Revolutionary action committee protests against an ROTC recruiting lecture could only be described as meek

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even by Rice standards. The nucleus was there assembled at Willie's Statue at 130 where R ac leaders Frank Veering and Doug Bernhardt, a former U of H student who is currently banned from that campus. And along with them were a generous collection of rice jocks who

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comprised the majority of the Spectators. After a shouting match between Bernhardt and a few of these more vocal Spectators. The group moved toward the physics amphitheater where the chief of campus security issued a directive that no non students could enter the building. Bernhardt was detained but

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no ID check was made of the just over 100 and 50 people who entered the building major Norman of the Rice Military Science Department gave the recruiting lecture just after he began speaking a group of a half dozen or so non students including Bernhardt and Barty

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Hale nonstudent U of H activist who made a name for himself in campus disturbances last fall all entered the building without restraint. The predicted shouting contest never came off. The initial casting of rhetorical questions generated something which almost became a rendering of rational discourse between protesters

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and army people. The military Science Department maintained a stiff upper lip for the most part and attempted to field all questions which were asked and as one might expect, the jocks present kept both sides laughing with their remarks, questioning some of the freakier participants, sexuality, physical

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prowess and such related things. Nan of students, Frederick Wham told KTRU news. I think the fact that uh the general student body is determine that a very small number of radicals are not gonna in your flee block, stop eliminate the normal process of the university as

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well. Swell, the expression a good time was had by all might seem more fitting coming from the society column of the Hallettsville Tribune or maybe the Wharton Journal, but it also fits perfectly here. So we're going to use it to sum it up a good time

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was had by all. This is Paul Laina ktru News. The band appearing in Houston. Soon from Pat Baum February 5th, 1970 times. 55 seconds. I'll be down to get you in a taxi. Honey. Better be ready by half past eight now, honey, don't be late. I

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wanna be there when the band starts playing. The band will fix things right for Houstonians this spring March 1970 the band performing in Houston. Listen to KTRU for details. King harvest has surely come is mhm. interview number one by Paul Laina with Steve Wendell of the

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basketball team February 9th, 1970 time, one minute and 15 seconds. Steve Wendell's fantastic performance against Baylor last Saturday night was only repeat of what he did to them in Waco last year. Rice travels to Waco again next Saturday. Can he do it again? Rice's big man

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tells KTRU news. Well, uh I, I don't think they were expecting much out of me last year or probably this year either so, uh uh I think that probably accounted for. Am I doing well against Baylor both times? But I think maybe they'll be ready for

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me this time. What will a Baylor Wind do towards leading the Alice to a possible conference flag? Wendell States? Well, I, I think it's still too soon to say because we still got Baylor on the road and Texas tech on the road and A and M

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and uh we will have to play real well at home in addition to beating at at least two more of these teams on the road. Joyous Rice Partisans gave Steve a ride to the dressing room after Saturday night's victory. Wonder sheepishly admits he enjoyed it. Well,

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I was kind of in the days and, uh, Gary Carly lifted me up and was bouncing me around a little bit and then somebody pushed my arm up. So I really didn't do that, uh, at first, but I, I really didn't know what was going on

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just in a daze. If Steve Wendell was in a daze on the court Saturday night, then Rice trainer Allen Eggert just better find a potion to keep him that way. If Steve keeps on going, it just may mean a conference flag for the Owls. This is

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Paul Lavin Ktru news interview number two by Paul Laka with Steve Wendell from February 9th, 1970 times, 35 seconds after Saturday's victory over Baylor, Steve Wendell stands even taller than his 6 ft eight frame normally carries him. But wonder came off the bench to spark the

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Owls and their come from behind win. And in this interview, he tells Kgru news where he found the turning point of the game. I think the turning point was, uh, right at the sec, uh, beginning of the second half. Coach Noel told us to go out

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and play like he knew we could. And so we came out pressing and it got us moving more. It was something we hadn't been doing in the first half, Wendell's return to form may prove to be a turning point in itself for the Owls who now

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face four of seven remaining games at home. A few more performances like that might mean a conference championship. Paul Laka Ktru news news promo for the upcoming, ah, Vandever, their tethered flags book interview. Pat Baum February 8th, 1970 time. About 45 seconds. Yeah.

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A new history by Doctor Frank Vandever, acting President of Rice University and the leading scholar of the confederacy has just been published. This is Pat Baum Ktru news director. This week, I've invited Doctor Vandever to discuss his new book entitled, their Tattered Flags. Listen to Ktru

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Wednesday night, February 11th at 10 p.m. when Doctor Vandever and I will discuss his new epic of the confederacy interview with Lee Horstman student Senate President on the proposed job interview policy. Four cuts total time 78 seconds from February time out. That's February 1970. The proposed

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policy will not bar any recruiter will not bar any recruiter from the campus provided. Um His company submits to a discussion if, if it is asked, the suggested discussion, period will not be a courtroom drama. There should be guidelines on fair and proper discussion, for instance,

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no shouting or indecorous behavior, et cetera. The company in question may answer questions in any manner it chooses including a silence which should be respected, having participated in a decorous discussion, even if a company has professed a position abhorrent to the entire campus. The proposed policy

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would not prevent that company from recruiting on the campus. In most cases, I think that this proposal should be uh in fact an incentive to many recruiters um to come to the campus because many companies such as Dow Chemical and others probably um welcome an opportunity

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to, to give their side of the case in a, you know, responsible public forum as opposed to having uh people on the campus read information which that company may feel is biased. Uh And this gives them an opportunity to state their side interview with John Clark

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concerning the Co ed dorm proposal of the college committee, which was submitted to Dean mcenany February 9th, 1970 times, 58 seconds. He presented the plan to mcnaney this afternoon and talked to him about 45 minutes and he is going to read the proposal and study it

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and come up with questions and problems that he wants to come with us and we are going back to meet with him Thursday before. Well, he was generally favorably, you know, in favor of the idea but wanted to make sure that all the problems were solved

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and we've got it totally worked out in details because when the parents and stuff give him, you know, questions to him and other members of the administration, he wants to be able to answer them and have everything going through. But he seems right now to be.

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Well, he's not opposed to the idea and polls are going out in the colleges today and tomorrow and the, the committee of representatives from all colleges will meet again Wednesday. We will meet with mcnaney Thursday afternoon and then the proposal will be sent to the meeting

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of the Masters and Presidents on Thursday night, the Rice Band at Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, a report filed by John Doe February 10th 1970 times, 65 seconds. Tonight, the rice is band is at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana to be sure accommodations

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in this town are scarce. The band is launched on collapsible cots in the hallowed halls of Warren Easton High School but not much time has been spent sleeping Tuesday morning, the marching musicians were awakened at six o'clock AM and by one o'clock in the afternoon, they

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had marched four miles in the largest parade of the carnival rex. A police estimate to place the crowd at over one half million persons along the parade route. The rice band received a very responses. Repeated requests for the LSU fight song were instead fulfilled with a

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rousing rights fight song and shouts of tiger bait from the bystanders were answered with cries of birdseed. One LSU supporter remarked y'all play better music than football. Wednesday is the morning after the bars will close, the streets will be cleaned and the war in Easton High

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School students returning to their classes will be greeted by a hungover. Rice is band straggling on board buses back to Houston from the Mardi Gras, New Orleans with the Rice is band. This is John Dor Ktru news editorial by Pat Baum from February 11th, 1970 subject.

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Houston school board integration plans time 100 seconds. The following message is an editorial statement by KTRU news director, Pat Ball. Almost 16 years have elapsed since the United States Supreme Court ruled that segregation by race in American public schools would no longer be the law of

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the land. Since that time, many school districts including the one in Houston have continued to segregate races and provide inferior educational opportunities for many Children. Methods used have included forced bussing of students across Houston to promote segregation. However, the Houston School Board recently directed the transfer

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of a limited number of principals, both Negro and Caucasian to schools where the majority of students are of another race. The principals are allowed to take as much as one third of their teaching faculty with them to their new assignments. Disturbed parents and teachers have complained

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violently that immediate transfers would disrupt their children's education. Yet the school superintendent explained that transfer of principal that mid semester is preferable since no new programs or administrative procedures need to be implemented at that time. In addition, teachers would not be required to leave their classes

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immediately. They would move to their new assignments in the fall the false alarm sounded throughout the community can only serve to cause the disruption that the firebrand so fiercely want to avoid the board's plan is reasonable when one considers that federal court ordered faculty crossovers last

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summer. As demonstrated. Thus far, the new school board's leadership merits the sincere cooper operation of parents, teachers and students. The preceding was an editorial statement by KTRU news director, Pat Ball Web, Gard Doy and Maine reports on the Student Senate meeting of the week time, one

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minute 20 seconds date, February 11th, 1970 the Student Senate met Tuesday night and high on the agenda was a proposal to join the National Student Association which passed with no real opposition. Also, the Senate scraped up some $825 to send students to various conferences around the

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country among which were the national college newspaper editors conference in Washington, the New Democratic Coalition, the yearbook editor's conference, the Urban Affairs Conference, the Student Mobilization Conference, the conference on student housing. President Lee Horstman also revealed proposals for a university council composed of students, faculty and

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administration. That topic was tabled for later discussion. The virtual termination of Doctor Ronald Maggot's contract has troubled many people, especially at Hansen where he is a valued associate. Thus, Hansen President Lee Butters presented a resolution passed by that college's cabinet deploring this dismissal and asking the

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university to reconsider his position in the ensuing discussion, no action was taken but President Horseman directed the SKEP committee to report on its plans for this year's SEP report. The report has been used in past years by the faculty as a measure of faculty members teaching

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ability as observed by the students. The report has been lacking in recent years and may be part of the reason for the dismissal of good professors. This is Web Gard KTRU news, the so called Richardson plan on the CO Ed colleges report by Jim Rollins Times

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68 seconds. February 11th, 1970 several members of Jones College have issued what is titled an alternate proposal for co-educational colleges. This alternate proposal raises three objections to the one drawn up by the joint committee of seven colleges. Number one, a five week experiment is neither long

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enough nor because of finals. An accurate picture of Co Ed living. Number two, the authors of the alternate proposal want a co ed college with an almost equal number of men and women living in it rather than the normal rice ratio. Number three, the Jones girls

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feel that even the permanent plan of the joint committee proposal would still be an experiment untested and unproved. The ultimate proposal is to use Richardson College as an experimental project since Richardson will not be complete. Next fall, the fall semester will be devoted to ironing out

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problems and cutting red tape. People will occupy Richardson during the spring to carry out the experiment. All members will be volunteers and thus supposedly interested in making a co-educational college work at the close of the semester. The experiment will be evaluated and recommendations made from the

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results. Jim Baker, KTRU news statement from basketball coach Don Noel acquired by Paul Laina time 50 seconds. Feb Feb Yeah, February 11th, 1970 something to that effect. Rice basketball coach Don Noel, in a Wednesday interview with KTRU News had this to say about the avid support

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our fans have been giving the team. This is something that really makes a ball club play, uh, maybe a little bit over their heads. And I know, uh, in our ball game last night that, uh, we weren't playing very well and we were, we were awful

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sluggish. And, uh, and I think our student body picked us up. They made us aware of the fact that we weren't doing very much and, and when you can get spirit like this, uh, it's just a great thing and, and something that a team needs when

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it's going down the home stretch and making a bid for any type of championship. But I think, uh, uh, in number, our, our student body is, uh, is great. They, uh, they have, they have just been wonderful and, uh, we hope that this is something that

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can not only carry through the basketball season but carry on into the spring sports and also into our football season next year. It's easy to pull for a winner. This is Paul Laina Ktru News summer job plan proposed by developed by a placement office report by

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John Doe February 12th, 1970 time, 58 seconds. Ed Emmett, President of Love at college and Kerri Vandel, president of Baker met this evening with Mr Moser, a Rice alumnus of 1939 and now executive director of the alumni association. The program they have conceived is called reap

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rice employment from Alumni program. Its objective is to encourage the summer employment amongst alumni of rice students by setting up a central clearing house for job opportunities and applicants. Mr Moser intends to initially launch the program in the Houston area. Letters will be sent out this

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month to each of the 7000 Houston alumni. If a favorable response is received, the program will be extended throughout the nation. Mr Moser has every reason to believe that a favorable response will be forthcoming. In his own words, rice students are good workers. The alumni should

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be sympathetic with the problems the rice student has in financing a most expensive education. Ed Emmett will go to the placement office tomorrow afternoon to determine application procedures for interested students. John Dor ktru news review of Baroque Ensemble recital from Austin Bay February 13th, 1970. I'd

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be the first to deny myself membership in the Music Critics Union, even an apprenticeship. But here I am going for Baroque getting back to the essentials. Actually, what I'm trying to say is the performance given by the Shepherd School of Music's Baroque Ensemble Friday night in

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the Rise Chapel was more than enough to unglue this blues rock fanatics, musical cool and the cool of all of those in the pack views. The evening began with bach concerto and D minor for violin and oboe, the precision and speed of both allegros leaving several

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heads in the audience nodding and bringing the soloists back with a curtain call. The beautiful wedding Gonzaga number 202 brought a curtain call for the soprano soloist. And finally, the whole group sort of got it together with the overt and see Ma major which left all

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in the audience enchanted. Next Sunday, organist Edward Kaufman will present a recital in the rise chapel at 3:30 p.m. You can put that in your musical notes. This has been Austin Bay Ktru News Film Program expansion, Rice Pat Vaugh February 13th, 1970 time 42nd Rice University's

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visiting filmmaker James Blue announced that the free film programs presented by the Art Institute's Media Center will be expanded effective immediately. In addition to the regular 8 p.m. film screenings, Thursday and Friday nights in the new Media Auditorium, the Friday film will be sneak previewed each

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week. Thursday afternoon at three pm weekend. Film fair includes rerun screenings of all the previous week's movies. Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. James Blue also invites amateur filmmakers to present their eight millimeter super eight or 16 millimeter sound or silent flicks at the Thursday night

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showings, check with the Media center a day in advance to schedule your film. Pat Baum KTRU news report by Web Kard Doy and Maine on the Jones Baker, Shakespeare Senior Feast February 14th, 1970 Saturday night, the senior classes of Jones College and Baker College got together

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in Baker College Commons for one of the biggest bashes in the history of rice. It was quite an affair with roast goat, roast turkey, roast beef, roast chicken and a lassak roast duck. There were many happy occasions as uh examples of juggling a short Shakespeare and

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play and all sorts of groovy stuff went on at this feast. It's something that future Baker College and Jones College seniors should miss because it was really something. Let me tell you as an example of something I'm going to eat a piece of celery taken directly

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from the feast. Doesn't that make you hungry? And that's just an example of one of the few fantastic feasts that were available tonight. I want everybody to remember this because this was quite an affair. Mrs Web Gard Ktru news bus being chartered to the Baylor basketball

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game time. 24 seconds from Burt Kleman, ah February 13th, 1970. We have a bus going to Waco to the Baylor game tomorrow night. Uh It will leave the Hanson parking lot at 230. Uh, it'll cost $5 a person. Anyone from Rice University is welcome to come,

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the bus will uh have a keg of beer. It'll be free. The $5 ticket includes $2 a $2 reserve ticket to the Baylor game. The bus will leave Hanson at 230 as I said will return at 2 a.m. Film programs summary from February 13th, 1970. Pat

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bomb time. 40 seconds. Rice University's visiting filmmaker James Blue announced that the free film programs presented by the Art Institute's Media Center will be expanded effective immediately. In addition to the regular 8 p.m. film screenings, Thursday and Friday nights in the new Media Auditorium, the Friday

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film will be sneak previewed each week. Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. weekend. Film fair includes rerun screenings of all the previous week's movies. Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. James Blue also invites amateur filmmakers to present their eight millimeter super eight or 16 millimeter sound or

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silent flicks at the Thursday night, showings check with the media center a day in advance to schedule your film. Pat Baum KTRU News, ah, the study committee on my commencement ah from Pat Ba February 16th, 1970 times, 35 seconds. An informal committee at Rice consisting of

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faculty and students will meet Thursday afternoon to discuss proposed changes in commencement exercises for graduating seniors. Some of the suggestions received by the committee include making attendance at Baccalaureate services optional, eliminating the commencement speaker providing in addition to the main ceremony, individual college observances of graduation

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and increasing the role of pageantry in the commencement exercises. The committee hopes to submit their recommendations to Acting President Vandever as soon as possible. That bomb Ktru news review of Potter lecture with excerpts residents lecture series from Pat Baum February 16th, 1970 time two minutes, 30

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seconds conflict or consensus. Historians continue to argue whether American history is best described as a series of major conflicts which continue to divide society or whether history has been unified by certain basic concepts from which Americans never really deviate. Professor David Morris Potter of Stanford University

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spoke to this issue Monday afternoon when he addressed a near overflow crowd in the Fondre Library. Doctor Potter explained that a concept of limited war better describes America's past even as it describes the manner in which boys were often expected to settle differences. They were expected

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to fight to a certain extent they were expected however, to fight fair and fighting. There was a form of limited warfare in which nuclear weapons, horizon gas kicks in the groin and other such measures were not employed. But as Dr Potter emphasized, this was the past,

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he sees now a trend in America whereby individuals are not able to fight for ideals without heating all the opposition, the urge to destroy was almost totally absent from the conflicts of previous American generations. It is urgent for us not to treat our real enemies as

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lenient as if they were merely adversaries. But it is equally important for us not to treat our mere adversaries as harshly as if they were mortal enemies. Dr Potter hoped to see a concurrence of conflict and concord this kind of concurrence will not prevent us from

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going as we have in our past, from the meeting ground to the battleground, but it will enable us to do so in the way that we have done in the past, in such fashion that we can limit our conflict. And that when the conflict is over,

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we can return together from the battleground to the meeting ground. If this is all, Doctor Potter hopes society will achieve an ability to make the same mistakes as did our predecessors. Then it is an empty hope at that fat baum ktru news.