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Last weekend, the Kru sports predictors were bombed again picking Texas over Texas Tech. The Red Raiders managed a three point victory at home which brings up this week's lesson in the gentle art of sports betting. It's called November. It's when heads clash and the true winners

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emerge. It is quite frankly, that month, the people at ABC sports dread most in Texas for their carefully laid laid plans for a December 4th meeting for the Southwest conference title to have dimmed considerably as of last week and they're looking even worse day by day.

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But what if today and your chestnut so carefully set aside in hopes of picking up on that long shot bet you made on Jerry Ford for president. Well, this week S M U is a three point pick over Rice at our homecoming if Tommy Kramer can

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manage to play. And that's still questionable at this point. The Owls can make the end of the year look very respectable indeed. Otherwise Homer Rice's first year is going to look very much more like warmed over Bo Hagan. Elsewhere, Texas tech is a 27 point pick

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over T C at Fort Worth and you can look for the frogs to beat that spread since tech will be down. However, there are better chestnuts roasting on the open fires of the football war grounds for you to place your money on Texas. For example, is

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a six point pick over the University of Houston at home and Memorial Stadium, but U H has proven that it belongs in the league, other than ours, one which includes the big state schools like the Longhorns who may be sending some rumbling noises down. Do Royals

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way after the Cougars upset them. But the best bet of the week lies in Waco where Arkansas is a six point favorite over Baylor. Not that Baylor is going to upset the conference co leaders. Nothing of the sort but Archie needs a big win to impress

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the pollsters with the fact that despite their customary loss to Tulsa earlier in the year, they're as real as Texas tech is and Texas tech is ranked number five right now. So give it, make it Arkansas even given the point, giving the points to Baylor six

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of them. In the words of Jimmy the Greek, that's the week's best bet for K T R U sports. I'm Dana Blankenhorn last week was a mixed bag for the K T R U sports predictors. Our general inclinations were correct that Houston could beat Texas and

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that even a down tech team could name the score against T C U even if that score happened to be a long one. But our best bet Arkansas over Baylor with the points was a loser. And that brings up this week's lesson in the gentle art

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of sports betting. The card, most practitioners of the gentle art don't bet one game that would be risky. They bet a slate of games. A group cold from the best bets around the country. This way, their bad instincts on one game can be offset by the

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cold cash of victory on the others. The chips in sports betting as in any gambling art or dollars and your job is to amass them in as great a quantity as possible this week. Then let's devise a card that might work. I say might work because

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we'll only be using Southwest conference games and you're with K T sports predictors, you can look for mistake and spreads elsewhere if you like and better my results. But for openers, let's look at Jimmy the Greeks line, for example, he has Baylor by 10 here at

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Rice Stadium here. You place your money on Rice not necessarily to win but to at least beat that spread. Baylor is out of their goal structure. A shot at the conference title. They should be down after a strong game against Arkansas and Rice will be playing

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for the private school championship. Next Texas A and M and Arkansas are rated as even at Little Rock place your money on Archie here. But pray the Greeks, write the Aggies have the better material but the hogs have the home field advantage and a chance for

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the conference title. Next. He has Texas by 22 over T C U. Here we take Texas even though the game is in Fort Worth and the frogs want desperately to win one for their departing coach, Jim Schaffner. The fact is they're incapable of it with the

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magic destroyed in the wake of Houston's route last week on his home turf. Dare Royal could soon find himself fighting for a job so he should have the T sips ready. But remember you have to give T C U 22 points in order to win that

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bet. Lastly, we have Texas tech by 20 over S M U according to the Greek and here we find him up to date on his injury reports. The Mustangs who had little enough to start with lost Ricky Weston against Rice last week. He's their scrambling quarterback.

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So you go with tech in spite of Ron Meyer's miracle coaching and give him the 20 points to play with with the results. I'll be back next week. But meanwhile, for K T sports, this is Dana Blankenhorn. If you've been following

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K T R us lessons in the gentle art sports betting recently, you probably felt ambivalent about our prediction Saturday as our line had two winners and two losers first. The good news, Texas beat its spread of 20 points. Handling and downing T C U by a

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34 to 7 count in Fort Worth snow. Meanwhile in the snows of Dallas Texas tech was beating its own 22 point spread over S M U with the same 34 to 7 score. So much for the good news. Now for the bad Jimmy, the Greek was

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more than right about the relative merits of Texas A and M in Arkansas as the Aggies defeated RT 31 to 10. Virtually eliminating the hogs from the cotton ball chase. What the hogs will need now is the defeat of Texas Tech after Houston defeat of Tech.

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Then pray that the Air Corps can down the Cougars to send the Hogs back to the Cotton Bowl at the 61 and one conference slate. But those hopes will be dim. Indeed if Tommy Kramer and the cops don't put their shirts on against the Baylor team

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that looked beatable and with his defense playing its best game of the year, Kramer wore a tear away jersey only underneath over his shoulder pads in the first half. The result, cold hands, cold, cold hearts and the 38 6 loss to Baylor which had no business

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happening. Kramer wants to be a number one draft choice and star in the pro ranks much as Frank Ryan did 15 years ago in Cleveland, but Ryan at least had enough sense to dress for the, for the weather. Kramer is indeed the number one prospected quarterback

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in the nation today. His chances for success in the pro ranks will depend heavily on his being drafted by a good coach in a warm city. Some place like Tampa Bay, for instance, that incidentally would make Rice's own the first choice of the 1977 draft which

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has been declared illegal in the courts. Oh, sweet vagaries of life for sports. This is Dana Blankenhorn villain last week. If you've been following K T R us lessons in the gentle art of sports betting, we give you a card of games and recommendations. If you

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play the game with a friend, taking our advice, you split evenly. If however you've been ahead of us all along and went to a bookie, you're standing right now with mud in your face. Bookie. That's illegal, isn't it all true? But making book has always been

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one of our national pastimes. Like chicken ranching and backyard gardening bookies make their money by charging the better vigorous so that if you should win, what is always theoretically an even bet, you'll get less than even money in return. If you bet $5 on each game

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of, of K T L U slate, your bookmaking friend took perhaps a dollar off each of your winners and confiscated the whole of your losers to pay off other winners. This is what keeps them in business. The state of Delaware recently instituted legalized wager, nonprofessional games.

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Their goes up to 40%. So be thankful then that the wall take only 10 to 20% of your money. Remember also, as we said earlier in the year that each bookie has his own book. Watch your bets. This week, we'll be taking our recommendations off the

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Bob Harman forecast, one of the lesser known and lesser respected bookmakers. He will give you 36 points if you'll take T C U off his hands against the Aggies in Fort worth, for instance, check T C US defense and their passing, then bet them with the

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points. Florida which has lost two games in a row faces the aisles at Gainesville in a homecoming game for which Bob will give the rice rooter only 20 points to work with. My guess is and considering every possibility of a rice upset that you shouldn't take

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those points. So if you're going to bet the game, bet it with Florida minus 20 Arkansas is an 18 point favorite over SMU at Shreveport of all places and Archie needs a good game. Give up those 18 points and run with them. U tech is a

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toss up and Harman gives it to the Raiders on the strength of the home field advantage. My instincts tell me he's wrong. Tech has had 16 years to choke and they won't fail to now. But our last game is a must if you're looking for a

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killing Harman rates, Baylor, a two point favorite over the University of Texas at Austin. So if you can get those odds, you've got the week's best bet. The K T O U sports. I'm Dana Blankenhorn. Last week. Sports Illustrated did an article on Rice quarterback Tommy

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Kramer and attempted however, briefly to explain the dichotomy between a high school sized college going up against the size of such schools as Florida, Texas and Louisiana State. But he didn't get to the heart of the matter of course. So why does Rice play major college

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football? It's a perennial question asked here while we're losing seasons fall like the autumn leaves accompanying them. Certainly, money is one reason. As a member of the South West conference, Rice gets a small share of the television money doled out by the ABC people. Every time

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they televise a game in this neck of the woods. We also get some cotton ball money from CBS and a share of that gate. So that doesn't hurt either. But the big attraction is the people in the stands and this year there have been many of

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them despite small crowds against S M US, Baylor T C U and Tech Rice still stands to profit to the tune of on my rough estimate, 175,000 paid admissions with an average of $77 per paid admission. Rice was the homecoming victim, for example, of both Florida

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and Arkansas this year. So we took home 40% of the booty each time when U H sold out our stadium for games with Arkansas and Texas A and M, we took home 10%. The sport does pay for itself even in, even in a 38 season. Prestige

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is another reason we play college football here. You're not important in this state unless you play by the rules and rule. Number one is football. But another and perhaps most important reason is the diversity which football jocks won the university every undergraduate here, unlike those at

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other schools knows of one or two jocks personally and the relationships are in deep. They affect us and we affect them whether we all know it or not and somehow it's all for the best. Imagine a wiener who'd never face here. The challenge of understanding the

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lifestyle of a £260 pound dispensed lineman, struggling in accounting three oh five a while. He the wiener pursues quantum physics. Where else could 10% of the student body march in the band. So you'll be at next Saturday's U F H game. You'll be there with about

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202,200 other students. Some of your best friends will be wearing football helmets. You'll realize with every great cheer that it's for the other guys, we're the victims, the underdogs. Once in a while we win and with Homer Rice, the winning may indeed grow more with time.

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But football here, even as a spectator is an is an important part of education at Rice and when it pays for itself as it will this season, it's beautiful. The K T R U sports, I'm Dana Blankenhorn. The

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Southwest Conference is the only one in the nation where small private schools compete with large public schools on an equal basis for the last two years. It hasn't been so equal. Suddenly, last week it turned around, Baylor defeated Texas 20 to 10 S M U defeated

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Arkansas 35 to 31. Ruining any chance Arkansas might have had for a bowl bid. Meanwhile, Florida was whipping up on Rice 50 to 22 which is not as bad a score as they had against. It is not as bad a loss for us as it was

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for the University of Houston two months ago. A and M solidified its ball bid with a 59 10 drubbing of T C U which was totally uncalled for and U of H beat Tech as you probably know, 27 to 19 U of H can win the

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Southwest conference title and trip to the Cotton Bowl with a victory over Rice Saturday and it should be a good crowd. Hope you're there for K T R U. Sports. I'm Dana Blankenhorn tradition is the title of this final lesson in the gentle art of sports

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betting schools put their reputations on the line most severely in the last week of their season. And the results are fired up teams and more money in the schools coffered. This week's s late of four conference games is designed to give a boost to flagging attendance

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figures that losers share and a boost. Also to the flagging morale of those losing teams like rice for whom the end has arrived. If you want to bet the Owls this week against the University of Houston, for example, hurry before the odds change. U H is

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a 27 point favorite to win a Cotton Bowl invitation before a crowd reminiscent of 1972 S U hr game which the Owls won by a point. Baylor is ranked 18th in the polls. But those who hand out the bowl invitations consider their name mudd so they'll

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end the season at Fort Worth in anonymity against T C U. Baylor is a 28 point favorite with nothing to prove while T C U is winless and losing its coach Jim Schoffner immediately after the game. So take the points and bet the Frogs Tech travels

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to Arkansas to finish its season in preparation for either the Astro Blue Bonnet Bowl or the Cotton Bowl. Should the air down the Cougars, but they're only a six point favorite against the Hog team going nowhere but to national television against Texas on December 4th. So

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I bet the Raiders can give the points. Finally, we have our best bet of the week. The Aggies have never beaten Texas at Memorial Stadium while do Royal has been the coach. They'll be on television too tomorrow night in, favored by 15 points. Can you imagine

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an Aggie giving a U T fan 15 points against his team in Memorial Stadium? Well, I can't, even if the Aggies get lucky and win, they're not going to beat the Js that bad with the best bet of the week. Texas plus 15 versus A and

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M at Austin. I'm Dana Blankenhorn. K T R U Sports. If you think sports in the Southwest ends with football, you're wrong. Rice started it basketball season off on a winning note with an 81 to 62 trouncing of Wayland Baptist College last night at Archery Court.

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Frank Thomas, a freshman from Fort Wayne, Indiana led the scoring with 21 points. Paul Ficker, sophomore from ST Louis got 12 points and 12 big rebounds. Gary Francis led Wayland scoring with 16 points in other SWC scores. Arkansas beat Cal State at Hayward 89 to 59

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A and M beat Texas Lutheran College. 70 to 61. Texas tech beat South Dakota 87 to 56. Baylor beat Pan AM 90 to 70 T beat Oklahoma State in overtime, 74 to 73 Tulane beat SMU at Dallas 77 to 75. The Rice Owls will host that

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Tulane team tomorrow night at the Rice Gym for K T R U sports. I'm Dana Blankenhorn. The A lot of sports betting returns with an upset note, Tommy Kramer without a high power publicity campaign or a winning football team behind him finished fifth in the voting

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for the Heisman trophy yesterday, behind four running backs Coe Dorset of Pittsburgh, the winner, Ricky Bell of Southern Cal, Rob Lyle of Michigan and Terry Miller of Oklahoma State. Kramer received six first place votes from sports writers nationwide. Meanwhile basketball opens new and different vistas for

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the sports better before warned. However, the odds are far more volatile in a game where scoring comes at the flick of a wrist tonight. For instance, Texas is a four point underdog at home against Oklahoma while Rice is a 10 point underdog at Archard Cork tonight

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against Delane Tulane, narrowly beat S M U Monday at its own court, the Superdome in New Orleans, but it's impossible to know whether that was caused by a good play on the part of the Mustangs or a down night by the green wave who packed an

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estimated 2200 into the 80,000 capacity football stadium for the game. If you're from that neck of the woods, you might be particularly interested in this ball game. It's being televised back to Louisiana. No home radio. However, K T R U is taking off to listen to

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Bill Royle 66 discuss the question. Can we take Texas seriously for K T R U sports? I'm Dana Blankenhorn. The flu vaccine is available from seven different city clinics and from five county clinics, it's also available at several mobile unit stops in the city and the

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county and all physicians in the county can get the vaccine who want it and hospitals and universities and nursing homes can get vaccine too to administer their people. Actually, what we need more than anything is, is people to get the shots. That's where our real shortage

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is a central clinic on North mcgregor is offering the flu vaccine from 8 to 4 Monday through Friday. And that's right across from Herman Park. Also at this central clinic, we have an evening clinic on Tuesdays and Thursdays till eight PM. So that might be very

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convenient for uh university students. Well, I think, I think the goal uh initially was of course to uh protect Americans against swine flu. You see, but I think the uh as the uh as the year went by and there was no swine flu outbreak, then I

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think the goal kind of changed and the secondary goal seems to be now protecting people from the A Victoria which is last year's flu. No, we're very definitely urging people to come and get the shots because number one, the the threat, we can't really say for

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sure that the threat is passed. It may be quietly seating itself in the population and may break out later on. And number two, the fact that the bio violent vaccine does protect against a Victoria makes it imperative for a lot of individuals, particularly the elderly and

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the high risk to get this protection from for a Victoria if for nothing else, the wandering minstrel, which brings us to an interesting occasion in honor of the New Month December 1st. That's what's happening today. The hands and carolers are here live in the studios of

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K T R U Rice Radio and in just a few moments we are in for a live treat. Hit it boys. When, when you find yourself in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a lickin, there will be someone

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waiting who will hurry up and rescue you. Call for Super Chicken and if you are afraid you want or overlook it. Oh, well, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it, he would drink your super sauce and throw that bad guys hor off and

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he will bring them in alive and kicking and there's something you should learn. And there was no one else who took you call for Super Chicken, call for Super Chicken call. Now a pilot program of 12 courses to see how they would go. Eight of those

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courses made up or achieved sufficient enrollment to be offered. And although we didn't break even or make money, we lost considerably less than we had originally anticipated. And so on the basis of this, we asked president Hackerman if we could go ahead for a two year

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experiment. And the language. People tell me that the level that you come out of that course with exceeds what you would come out with during the regular year. If you took that course, and if you go on then right away to take the second year of

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the course, you're off to a very good running start in the, uh, in the mastery of one of those languages. So. Right. I think they can beat somebody. Their biggest problem right now is a lack of experience. A lot of these girls absolutely have never played

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basketball before. Some of them never touched basketball before. They came out for the team. And, uh, most of the teams who play have, uh, at least several scholarship players. They've been playing basketball for years. But, uh, they're trying, they're working so hard in practice and on

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their own that they've improved a ridiculous amount in a month and a half of practice. We only practice about three times a week. Sure. It will be a give and take session. We'd like to hear opinions from people, but we're also prepared to answer questions about

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what we've been doing and what other opinions we have heard and so forth. Anything that comes up, we will be glad to discuss probably the first difficult I had with Poke was a letter I wrote to the thresher early in, I think my junior year and

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I, and I said that I thought I didn't think it was a very wise idea for Rice to try to have big time basketball. That if Rice wanted to, to push your athletic program, it'd probably be better to, to promote something a little more established like,

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like football. And that Rice was just not the type of campus to, to have big time basketball. And I, I, I heard later from Coach mclemore that he was outraged that a player would be daring enough to comment on the program that, you know, stuff like

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that was totally in the coach's domain that the administrators that, you know, the players don't speak out on things like that never really understood. I, I, I would have liked to have under stand a man a little better. I never understood what made him tick. Uh

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I just saw the only thing I could think of is it was sort of a, a, just a, a respect for power or something. I mean, what, you know, what makes a man like Stalin or, or, or, or whoever, you know, want to have the power

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and the position they have rice rice people are a little more sophisticated in their thinking. They're a little, they're a little more individual and they're a little, they're, most of them are a little, a little more mature than your average player. And I, I think that

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the, the typical rice player found, found it a little harder to relate to poke than, than say that the average person would, would play ball at the college level. I thought that was a bunch of tunes. I hated every minute of the, of the Rats. They

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ruined our team last year. The Rice basketball team got off to its fastest start in years this season by winning their first six games all at home. The holidays were far from joyous. However, as the Owls dropped five nonconference games on the road and two at

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home, the end of Camelot came with a 107 to 60 defeat at the hands of the ranked UCL Bruins in Los Angeles. While not unexpected, the law seemed to take something out of the Owls. The game itself was not as bad as the L A press

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indicated in the first half. The Bruins shot a miserable 44% compared to Rice's 47% merely took more shots at the basket and so led at the half, 44 to 33 all American forward Marcus Johnson didn't play for UCLA due to an injury and David Greenwood didn't

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start for disciplinary reasons. But when Rice pulled ahead, nearly going, Greenwood was sent in in an effective full court press applied the second half foul. The Owls out shot out, rebounded and outplayed. Although Frosh standout Tim Bowe was held to a few points. Frank Thomas had

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an outstanding night. The long road trips took their toll in the Owls and not just in the record book, Harry Huggins. A freshman who went home for the holidays and has not yet returned. Ernie rogers' offensive tackle in the fall is now the backup center. I'm

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Peter Camp K T R U sports. The Rice Thresher newspaper was the victim of a $13,000 embezzlement. This past semester, Kru News learned today, Robert Butch Spa, the circulation manager of the thresher is pleading guilty to charges of vandalism, theft and forgery and an action handed

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down from Proctor Sam Carrington. Today this week, Spa has been suspended from Rice University for a minimum four semesters. Rice University student attempted theft and forgery to steal a large sum of money from a Rice student organization. The student has pleaded guilty to this charge. I

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have suspended him for a minimum of four semesters and required restitution for an act of vandalism committed by him. Carrington gave no indication as to the sort of restitution he has asked, but it will include payment for a desk in the rice thresher office. The entire

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episode apparently began before last Thanksgiving. When Spa allegedly broke into the desk of the thresher business manager, Catherine Egan by breaking apart the side of the desk. He pilfered the thresher checkbook and play the desk back against the wall where he had found it, hiding the

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broken side flush against the wall. Then he opened up an account in a New York branch of a Swiss bank in the name of Stafford Stewart, his roommate in Will Rice College Spall wrote thresher checks in total of $13,000 to the order of Stewart forging the

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signatures of Egan and thresher editor Carla mcfarland as required and forging the endorsement of Stewart on the reverse side of the check, a $2000 payment from this account went to the subsequent purchase of a motorcycle while the remaining $11,000 sat in the account as it appears

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right now. The problem developed when the thresher account ran dry since publication of the paper was halted during December due to finals. Thresher business manager, Egan rather understandably, didn't bother to deposit the large amount of incoming funds the paper was collecting in their year advertising payments.

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She preferred to wait until this January to make that deposit. All the checks bounced due to insufficient funds and were returned to the only address Spa had provided the bank which was P O box 3312 Will Rice College. But Spa had included the name of Peter

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Cullen in this return address rather than Stewart's name, of course, or his own Stewart explained, he he would come in and look for the track, you know, and Mrs Armenia was in the office one day and he was just uh going through ba desk to sit

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with that had come to Peter Cullen and I guess by this time, Babs had done something about it, sent it back, turned it over to the Proctor. I don't know how that part went. These had been in earlier experiences throughout the semester. This time, the Wool

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Rice Secretary Barbara Willis knowing no such person as Peter Cullen held the mail and by Christmas vacation, checked to see the letter's contents inside were two bounced checks totaling $7000 paid to the order of staff Stewart. So goes the criminal side of this story. MS Willis

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reported the finding to Carrington who spoke with Spa Spa at first denied the story but after a week pleaded guilty to Carrington saying that Peter Cullen was a person inside of himself, that Spa hadn't committed the deed. But this Peter Cullen with him, him had Spa

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is now undergoing some psychiatric treatment. The story is very bizarre and there are many interesting twist to it that we have on tape down in the newsroom and haven't yet had time to edit into this newscast. They will be on later this evening. We have an

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interview with Stafford Stewart who had some words to say on the whole issue for now though the FBI is pursuing the matter though Rice University pressed no federal charges. The crime is a felony and by that nature, the FBI is required to look into the case.

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Carrington explains the contact with the FBI is initiated by bank's concern, not the individuals, the individuals have signed affidavits stating that signatures appearing on certain documents are not there. Spa and Stewart were roommates for three years and Stafford couldn't quite understand why this all took place.

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We have few words from Stafford and his reaction to this entire episode later that evening, he told me what happened and I was just, I was so surprised I was in a shock, you know, an unbelievable shock. I could not function. No, Doctor Carrington Bush never

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did say anything about it. All right. So that's what we have assembled as of right now. And like I say, we have a whole newsroom full of tapes of other sorts of very bizarre twists to this entire story. But the news is $13,000 is embezzled from

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the thresher rate. It has all been returned to the thresher office because of course, the checks did bounce but spa faces criminal charges at this point and we'll have more on it when we assemble a little bit more later this evening for K T news. I'm

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Lee hockberg and thanks to Tom Selman for work during the day. Mhm. He says that there's this little man inside of him named Peter Cullen who is responsible for all of this mess, you know, and uh I, I, I, I think he's kind of wacko true

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enough, you know, I, I really do. Um I told him about it on several occasions. Uh but I think the thing was too well planned to plead insanity, you know, uh things that go on the psychotic nature, you know, uh are more or less spontaneous and

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instantaneous rather than something that's drawn out anything. Some male came to the university and it was addressed to, uh Peter Cullen and uh, on the inside of the mail, my name, dear Mr Stewart, and whatever was said, I don't remember what was said because I never

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didn't read it. He is he god damn. He himself told the FBI, you know, he called the FBI in on this, you know, and along with Dr Carrington, I'm sure he did it under Dr Carrington's supervision. And I told him that this had been done. No,

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I don't, I cannot give you exact dates and things like this. I don't know when he talked to them because no one ever, I was, I was in the dark, you know, about all of this until, uh, Doctor Arminia, the master of Will Rice confronted me

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with it, you know, at lunch one afternoon, you know, and I was just really shaken by all of this. And then, uh, Doctor Armenia himself said, well, if you didn't do this, don't worry about it. So I didn't, you know, but then I, uh, went to

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see Doctor Carrington. He said that the FBI asked him if I did this, you know, did, did your roommate do this? Uh, and he said, well, yes, I, you know that he was pretty sure that I did, you know, admitted to me that the FBI agent

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thought there was every reasonable reason in the world to believe that I did this, you know. Well, it was indicated that the, that the signatures on the checks were not those of the, of the people having access to the accounts. And uh, looking at the documents

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concerned, one could see that the signatures were all the same I E super imposable. The signature was had to be a very old one because I was using that form of an s back in my freshman year. But as work has piled up and things like

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that, you always look for quicker ways to get your notes down. And so I've developed just the handprint s you know, instead of the cursive elaborate that was on the track. Our, our relationship had really gotten to a bad state because one time he borrowed my

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car without asking me, you know, and I held him responsible for it. He had a flat on it. So, and our relationship had been on the skids since that time. Like I said, I was in a state of shock. I just didn't know what to think,

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you know, about the guy that had lived with me 2.5 years. What, what I just could not even see it for a while. I could not believe that he did this, you know, I was in a stupor but um Doctor Carter went on to say, well,

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he did it because he says that he loved you, you know, he loved you like no one else loved you, which I thought was pretty damn peculiar. All American apple pie boy. You know, this is what I thought. This is what I saw into him. You

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know, now that it's over, I guess it's over. Uh, my judgment after looking back on it, I think the book should be thrown at him. Right. Oh, yeah. Uh, apparently he made a, a rice university student attempted through theft and forgery to steal a large sum

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of money from a rice student organization. The student has pleaded guilty to this charge. I have suspended him for a minimum of four semesters and required restitution for an act of vandalism committed by him. Yeah, he, he would come in and look for the check, you

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know, and Mrs Armenia was in the office one day and he was just uh going through Baptist desk to see if that and he may had come to Peter Cullen and I guess by this time Babs had done something about it, send it back or, or

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turn it over to the Proctor. I don't know how that part went. We, we couldn't use the word we're making like that. Yeah, the conduct with the FBI is initiated by the bank's concern, not the individuals, the individuals have signed affidavits stating that signatures appearing on

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certain documents are not there. News. This is Lee Hockberg. We have an update last we told you the presidential election was going through the preferential treatment as it were. And so far we had Claude Si originally with the winner before we went through any cutting out

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of candidates and adding number two votes into it. We have since this last process of Ricky Balthrop dropping and mckenna dropping through that process, Claude Sisson has picked up 34 votes. So it appears that he continues this way and now you can pretty much say 99%

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he will, that he will win right now. All they have to do is go through what's Laverty first name? Lynn Lafferty's 1st, 1st votes and add those to Sisson and Andrews right now, Sisson has 451 votes. Ted Andrews has 348 votes. So this time, we'll say

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for sure that clause and it will be the new president. Another interesting election. The race right now is between Joe Luen Hoff and Nita Van Der for External Affairs. Vice President of the first votes had Van Der with 415 Luen Hoff with 414. They're going to

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go through the same process taking Matt Mueller's votes and taking the number two votes and adding them to either Luff or Van Der. And so far upstairs, they haven't done anything on that. So we'll keep you in touch on that. The thresher editor Philip Parker came

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up with a bit of a surprising margin for his victory over Kim Brown. He ended up with 780 votes. Kim Brown had 463 and Phil Parker is in our studios right now and we're going to have a short interview with him. Phil. Come on up to

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the mic a little bit. Tell us a little bit about what you think you can do in your one year at the thresher that will improve it or change it. Well, as I promised during my campaign that I'd make the threshold a bit more visible in

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the community that I've worked on the threshold for three years. And I found that the pressure doesn't go out and look for things that I want to go and try to find all the news that's happening. I think that this is going to make the threshold

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better newspaper. Would this perhaps include maybe an adding adding of a features section where you don't only report things that are going to happen tomorrow at such and such a time, but you find things that are always happening and just perhaps of interest to the reading.

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Well, we need to find a features editor that I know that somewhere out there on this campus, there's that talent which can produce these kind of things that there's a lot of, there's not really that much hard news on this campus, but there's a lot of

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things that you need to know what well needs to describe them. And I'd like to kind of revive the college editorship where you can where each college will have a space of its own to let their off campus members know what's going on if anybody's interested

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in joining the thresher, I suppose, with a new, new administration now, maybe this is the time to go on up and express an interest. What do they do? Well, you just come up to the office, uh, and leave your name and number, uh, and we'll try

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to get back in touch with you. Uh I'll, I plan to step up recruiting a little bit more heavily there in the, in the beginning of next year. Uh Actually, my term doesn't begin until June 1st, which is the middle of summer. So, uh, well, I

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wanna, in the past, we haven't been as active in recruiting as we can. So that's one thing that needs to be taken care of. Are you looking for any help in the editorial department or the sports department by any chance? Well, we'll take talent. Well, like

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most football teams, we'll just draft most of the best available talent and we'll fit them to our needs. Ok. That's Phil Parker, the new thresher editor. Congratulations on a big victory. We have just been given a final on the S A election. Claude Sisson ended up

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with 508 votes for president and Ted Andrews came in second with 387. Congratulations to Claude. Come on down to the pub right now and maybe we can celebrate maybe a little later this evening, maybe 11 o'clock will come on with the final result of everything that's

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happened. If by any chance they happened to have finished the external affairs, vice presidential preferential race, otherwise everything else seems to be pretty well final back to Jeanine for some more music coverage and we'll just go right down the list telling all the winners, all the

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losers how many votes they got and just about everything that you need. If there's any, you be sure to give us a call a little bit later and we'll have the breakdowns like college and other sorts of things like that. Starting out for a president. As

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earlier mentioned, Claude Sisson ended up the victor. By the time the preferential breakdown was done, he ended up with 508 votes and Ted Andrews, the second runner had 387. No real contest there in the long run. But let's shoot down and just say how all the

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other competitors did in the original balloting. We had Claude system 367 votes, Ted Andrews 283 Lynn Laverty 229 Kevin mckenna with 169 and Ricky Baller with 160. Claude Sisson, the new president, Internal Affairs Vice President. The winner was Marion Barber 362 votes. Tom Mo was second

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with 272 and Peter Martin Schwab was third as he stands behind me with 219 votes. Nice try Peter. The winner on that one again, Marion Barber for External Affairs, Vice President. We have a final on that. The winner, Joe Luen Hoff with 542 votes after the

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preferential business 528 for Nita Van Der. Originally Nita ended up with 415 votes and Joe with 414 but there was a third candidate, Matt Muller, that was 322 extra votes that had to be split up among the two. And by the time that was all done,

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Joe Luen Hoff ended up the winner in that a very close race and congratulations to both of them on a very, very close campaign for secretary treasurer Terry Jones ran unopposed and clearly was the winner off campus senators Carla mcfarlane and Ken Moseley who made an

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attempt to run at a ticket won very big final totals on those. Carla mcfarland who was reigning editor of the thresher 691 votes. Ken Moseley 465 votes was second Don mccune from Will Rice College 314 votes. He was earlier a member of the off campus senate

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and he's now out Phil Constantine 300 votes. And John Nicole with 212 the winners, Carla mcfarland and Ken Moseley Thresher editor is always the most interesting in my opinion of all the elections because somebody always manages to say a word or two about somebody else. Well,

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the final Victor was Phil Parker with 780 votes of big victory over Kim Brown with 463 we had on the station a little bit earlier and he's running around with a cigar in his mouth and he's very happy. Phil Parker. The new editor of the thresher

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business manager will be Steve Setzer. He was business manager this past year. He ran unopposed. Campanili editor running unopposed Tom Brown. Clearly he won business manager, Becky Mather. She ran unopposed for the Rice Program council president will be Roy Beller who was publicity director. This past

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year, he ran unopposed for vice president. There was some competition between Robert Miller and Vincent. Robert James. Robert Miller was the victor this year for RPC vice president by a margin of 480 to 362. James won real big in Sid Richardson College. Otherwise he didn't have

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very much support and the winner once again for vice president RPC Robert Miller. Secretary treasurer was Jeannette Deco running unopposed. Ok. For University council, two people were elected. Those are Steve Mount and Larry Nettles. The vote totals for that one in the long run was Larry

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Nettles 326 votes, Steve Mount 312 votes. Vicki Gardner 243 votes. A big turnout in Brown didn't help her in the long run. Carri Lane mccarley had 107 votes and Ken Coleman with 100 votes, Steve Mount and Larry Nettles. The New University Council Student Representative, University Court

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D Cooper ran on opposed clearly the winner. The Honor System amendment which said that the verb should, will replace the verb shell in the two articles below which read. First of all, students should sit in alternate chairs of a row and in alternate rows with students

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in line behind each other and except for open book examinations, all books and notes should be left at the front of examination room. That amendment passed with. We don't have a final total on that. Oh, yes, we do. 848 people voting in favor 681 voting against.

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And that does pass. I suppose that's supposed to cover occasions where there aren't enough desks in the room to sit and alternate chairs and such that passed honor council representatives for the fifth year. Only two running and two were elected Terry Jones and Bob Hulin. Senior

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Honor Council representatives. Four winners. First one would be Darcy honey cut. He had 193 votes. Second winner would be Kathy Lankford 148 votes, Stephen tithe 124 votes and Frank Duca with 117. The other candidates in that were just going in order Richard Gaff 76 votes, John

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Rafferty, 103 Joshua Ken 55 Joel Slade 67 for Junior Honor Council. There were three winners out of the four people that ran the most votes were with Leanne Montana with 152 Jeffrey Wood with 142 Bill Wade 105. The only candidate not winning was David Pate. He

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had 95 votes. Sophomore candidates, there were two elected to ran Thomas Kobayashi and Steve Luger. Uh What do we have here? A note that says that the RC and absentee votes were not counted in the preferential voting. Those weren't an awful lot of votes. There were

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probably about 50 of those registered, maybe 60. Also a note from Bruce Marcus that the president and vice president, the internal and external vice presidents, those votes are not official. They're close enough. I'm sure that they'll be gone over again. Oh, they are not official because

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these preferential votes were not counted in the absentee votes were not counted in the preferential voting. Boy. I figured something like that would happen. Ok. And that just about wraps wraps up all the elections. Anything else from many thanks to Patty Bees and David Weiss who

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stuck out a long evening stand. Barber and the rest of the people down here that helped out if there's any individual breakdowns, college breakdowns or percentages or anything else that you're interested in. Don't hesitate to give us a call at 5274088 and we'll give you the

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rest of that information for a little while anyhow, for K News. I'm Lee Hockberg. Mr Waters was a chairman of the electrical engineering department. A number of years ago, I think he passed away in 1964. Uh sometime uh after his death, that one of his students

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had received a small honorarium for giving a talk here at Rice and decided to leave that uh money with rice to be a little award in Mr Waters. Memory for some sort of creative effort, generally not associated with the regular class work. I think this year

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uh two people have spoken to me so far about it. I hope there'll be more but only about two. So far. A one year uh student basically put together the design of his own automobile. I don't know that he actually completed the, the building of the

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car, but he had it partly built and he had a complete set of drawings for the design. Another year, a student who's interested in these uh so called war games that devised some of his own war games, which uh we thought was definitely a creative effort.

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Another year, I remember a civil engineering student had uh had done some experimental work on concrete uh not a part of a course but uh for uh the A S ce uh paper. And uh we recognize that as a creative effort. And 72 recalling is the

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Texas legislator voting to have the Bureau of Documents in Washington DC. Return our ratification papers to us for reconsideration, the political effect is probably just about the same as recession, but it's a different legal procedure. You have no idea. First of all, if the Attorney General

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of the United States would permit those papers to come back. Um, so of course, it would depend on their decision. Uh, then of course, I guess the State of Texas would have to sue to get them back. That, that seems to be, uh, the procedure that

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they are attempting. There is no legal precedent to cover a recall situation. There is a legal precedent to cover a revision situation because when the 14th amendment was passed about 100 years ago, two states then attempted to rescind or voted to rescind and they were still

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counted in the ratified total.