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(04/20/16 10:14pm)
Rice’s Honor Council has announced changes to its penalty system: It will base penalties in proportion to the grade weighting of assignments found in violation. Honor Council made the penalty structure changes to bring more consistency to their decisions, according to Honor Council Chair Katie Jensen. Jensen said the new structure will serve as a case’s baseline punishment before consideration of other unique factors.
(04/06/16 6:20am)
Rice University alumni Kevin Ting (Hanszen ’12) and Jennifer Shen (Hanszen ’14) have been working to develop an app, called Soapbox, designed to help inform voters about the 2016 presidential election. The app, which the alumni created for Android and iOS, has already been launched and has around 500 downloads so far.
(02/24/16 2:17am)
A new student arm of the office of Sexual Violence and Title IX Support is searching for dedicated students to help eliminate sexual misconduct and relationship violence on campus.
(02/15/16 3:30pm)
As an unopposed candidate running for the position of treasurer, Maurice Frediere hopes to use the role to streamline the process of club funding. He wants to consolidate clubs with similar goals to ensure that funding for student organizations is used efficiently.
(02/17/16 2:19am)
Sonal Pai highlighted three roles within the SA — Director of Technology, Director of Marketing, and Historian — as positions that other SA members should use more frequently as resources. As Secretary, she will be in charge of drafting applications for new applicants for these positions. She intends to increase awareness of their functions. She hopes that, in doing so, these people will receive more recognition for their efforts.
(02/15/16 3:21pm)
Komal Luthra, the unopposed candidate for Student Association Internal Vice President, has a platform featuring a focus on academics and SA leadership.
(02/15/16 3:23pm)
Hannah Todd has a focus on catering to the wants and needs of students in regards to the meal plan in her platform. As a freshman, she served as a NSR and is currently a Wiess SA Senator. Her accomplishments this year, as a sophomore, include moving the start time of breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. at Baker and West Serveries for people with 8 a.m. classes. She also worked with H&D closely to create the survey sent out to gather students’ opinions about the current meal plan.
(02/15/16 3:13pm)
According to Brianna Singh’s platform, people are only as good as the community they live in, and she believes she can make the Rice community better as External Vice President. She served as a Hanszen College NSR and was Environmental Committee Co-Chair her freshman year. Currently, she serves as the SA Secretary.
(02/15/16 3:08pm)
As a candidate for Student Association External Vice President, Justin Onwenu’s platform focuses on a broad range of issues. In his campaign platform, Onwenu said as EVP he hopes to expand the use of tetra and give student more options with the meal plan, to establish greater lines of communication between students and the Honor Council and Student Judicial Programs, to increase the ability of students to give academic input through faculty advisory boards and to promote environmental sustainability.
(02/11/16 5:45am)
Current Lovett College President Griffin Thomas, a junior, is trying to shift his focus from running a college to campus-wide government, a return to the Student Association after a stint as a New Student Representative freshman year.
(02/11/16 5:45am)
As an active member of the Student Association since her freshman year, current External Vice President Joan Liu, a Jones College junior, wants to expand her role in the SA to the presidency. Over the past year, she has worked on faculty advisory board and Rice University Police Department legislation, helped bring awareness of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance to Rice’s campus, and chartered the Campus Culture Priorities Working Group, which focuses on student well-being. Her main priority is to bring clarity and engagement between students, organizations and the administration.
(02/03/16 3:05am)
Rice University’s Solar Decathlon Club is advancing to nationals after competing in October in Orange County, California. The club’s team is one of just 16 in the world to advance to the October 2017 national competition. Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges collegiate teams to design and build solar-powered and environmentally friendly homes.
