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(05/17/10 12:00am)
Beginning in the fall, Rice University Emergency Medical Services will follow a new protocol for students who are transported by ambulance to a hospital: The Rice University Police Department will provide the student's name and destination hospital, as well as the nature of the injury, to the student's college masters. Currently, there is no official protocol in place for notifying anyone of a student's transport off campus, Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman said. However, masters often end up finding out if a student has been transported to a hospital through conversations with other students. RUPD Chief William Taylor said as it stands, when a student needs an ambulance, an RUPD officer will usher the Houston Fire Department responders to the student who is receiving care from the Rice EMT.
(04/23/10 12:00am)
For next year's incoming class, summer nights might be less about strolling through an arcade and more about turning the pages of a book. This year's common reading, Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America, by Jay Mathews, will be sent to new students over the summer. The book follows the story of two college graduates as they participate in the Teach for America program and ultimately create the Knowledge is Power Program in Houston.On March 4, Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman and Associate Dean of Undergraduates Matt Taylor selected Work Hard. Be Nice. from two suggestions made by the Common Reading Program Selection Committee. The other suggestion was Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village by Dr. James Maskalyk. Taylor said Work Hard. Be Nice. fit the general criteria the committee aims to meet - it is under 400 pages, has paperback availability and relevant subject matter - but had the added benefit of featuring the city of Houston.
(03/19/10 12:00am)
Houston mayor Annise Parker (Jones '78) came to campus Thursday as part of a jack organized by Jones College. Parker spoke for about five minutes before announcing Jones was the best college. At that point, Jonesians in the crowd stood up and sprayed silly string on the rest of the audience amid chants of "JIBA" and "Jones wins again!" Parker then walked through the crowd, shaking students' hands and wishing them a happy Willy Week.Yesenia Montoya, Division Coordinator of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduates, captured this all on video, which you may find here on facebook.
(03/12/10 12:00am)
Miracle-Gro is not responsible for the sculptures that have cropped up on campus; James Surls is. Rice was selected as the venue for seven of Surls' bronze and steel installation pieces, which are now featured in the Central and West Quads, the field next to Herring Hall and the area outside the BioScience Research Collaborative. The sculptures are part of a traveling exhibit that had been on display on New York City's Park Avenue. When University Art Director Molly Hubbard heard the show was coming to Houston, she submitted a bid for Rice to host the sculptures.
(02/26/10 12:00am)
In an address to over 500 people during his Town Hall meeting Thursday, President David Leebron spoke about budget cuts, tuition raises and the decision not to merge with the Baylor College of Medicine.Though citing the fact that the endowment lost approximately $1 billion during the recession, it has started to recover, leaving Rice still on track for Vision for the Second Century mission, Leebron said.
(02/19/10 12:00am)
While Beer Bike is already a student-run initiative, the future of the event may include even more student voices. At a Student Association meeting Feb. 8, Baker College junior Diana Cahill presented a student initiative that would restrain the power of the campus-wide Beer Bike coordinators. The referendum stems from recent discussion about moving the parade - including the water balloon fight - to the football practice field. Cahill, a former Beer Bike college coordinator, said she was bothered by the absence of an established method for making changes to Beer Bike.
(01/29/10 12:00am)
Your heart rate is not the only thing that will rise on your next trip to the Barbara and David Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center. "Lift," an otherworldly installation piece by New York artist Aurora Robson, commands attention, drawing all eyes upward upon entry to the building.The sculpture, which hangs above the Rec Center lobby, is comprised of a large central orb, which Robson calls "Big Boy," and several smaller structures made of recycled bottles and bottle caps held together by thousands of rivets. University Art Director Molly Hubbard said the artist drew inspiration for the piece from solar flares.
(01/22/10 12:00am)
For the 150 people in the Kelly International Conference Facility Tuesday night, the unassuming man in a modest brown suit standing behind the podium might not have appeared to have been one of the key players in the CIA's largest covert operation, that of aiding the mujahideen of Afghanistan against the 1979 Soviet invasion. But Milton Bearden, a former agent in the CIA's clandestine services and the station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1986-89, has been used to being covert for years, so don't feel fooled.
(11/20/09 12:00am)
The Faculty Merger Review Committee is an independent committee designed to evaluate the benefits and costs of a merger and, if necessary, provide advice to the Faculty Senate. Committe Chair Donald Morrison provided his outlook on the merger.The Faculty Merger Review Committee was formed April 23 due to a resolution passed by the Faculty Senate during a plenary meeting that same day.
(10/30/09 12:00am)
Outside of passing AP Chemistry and finding a date to prom, applying to college can be one of the most daunting tasks of a high school student's career. To address this issue, The Mentorship Project, a club formed recently at Rice, held a college workshop in Dell Butcher Hall last Wednesday and Thursday for 125 Houston-area high school juniors and seniors seeking assistance with the college application process, Chair Christina Rojas said. Rojas, a Brown College sophomore, said the workshops were done in collaboration with Project GRAD, a Houston non-profit organization that aims to increase high school graduation and college attendance rates, according to its Web site, www.projectgradhouston.org.
(10/23/09 12:00am)
West Servery is not the only novelty in Rice's dining options this year. Money saved from last semester's removal of trays from the college serveries is being put toward more expensive, higher-quality and healthier beef and seafood options. The new menu choices this year include all-natural, antibiotic- and hormone-free Angus beef, as well as seafood that follows the Monterrey Bay Seafood Watch Program guidelines, a set of recommendations for purchasing seafood from sustainable sources to promote thriving oceans.
(09/11/09 12:00am)
After nearly a year of research, the Working Group on the Honor Council presented its findings on efficiency within the organization this week.The 11-member group - comprised of an assortment of professors, students and a representative from the Office of the President - was charged last October with evaluating the functionality of the Honor Council.
(09/04/09 12:00am)
Two dollars will not buy you a latte from the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion, but it will be the per-diem budget for a group of students next week who will mimic poverty firsthand. In a simulation of Third World shanty towns, dozens of Rice students will be encamped in makeshift housing near Brochstein Pavilion next week. This past summer, students from Engineers Without Borders and Rice MicroFinance tackled logistics for the $2 A Day Challenge, working with a number of administrative organizations: Housing and Dining, Rice University Police Department, Facilities Engineering and Planning and Vice President for Administration Kevin Kirby.
(08/28/09 12:00am)
As part of Orientation Week, each new student who matriculates at Rice must take an exam proving their understanding of the Honor Code. This year's exam, like many other aspects of O-Week, was different than in years past.Last year, the Honor Code exam was given on OWL-Space before registration on Friday, Honor Council chair Lindsay Kirton said. Students were allowed to take the exam as many times as necessary until they passed, with a score of 70 or higher, and scores were reported immediately. Once a student passed the exam, the judicial hold on his or her ESTHER account was removed, Kirton, a Wiess College junior, said.
(05/15/09 12:00am)
The South Colleges will have to say goodbye to some of their parking lot next year. Project Manager for the South Colleges Renovation Larry Vossler spoke with all the college presidents about the changes in a meeting on April 30.Vossler declined to comment further than what he discussed in the meeting.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
The Texas state legislature is currently considering a bill that could have some college students up in arms. The bill, HB 1893, was introduced on March 5 by State Representative Joe Driver (R-Dallas). It would overturn the provision in the Texas penal code that states that no concealed handguns can be brought onto the premises of a college campus, Rice Chief of Police Bill Taylor said. As it stands, breaking this law is a third degree felony.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
This year's Common Reading book will take students an ocean away and back again. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, by Helene Cooper, has been chosen as Orientation Week 2009's selection. It exposes students to a coming-of-age story written by a woman who survived a war-torn upbringing in Liberia to eventually immigrate to the United States. The Common Reading selection committee, composed of faculty, staff and students, began searching for a book last fall, Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman said. A month ago, the list of potential books was whittled down to four: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, Transforming Leadership: A New Pursuit of Happiness by James MacGregor Burns, Opportunity Urbanism: An Emerging Paradigm for the 21st Century by Joel Kotkin and The House at Sugar Beach.
(04/10/09 12:00am)
If the current economic situation has a silver lining, it is next year's on-campus parking rates, which will not increase for the 2009-'10 academic year, Director of Administrative Services Eugen Radulescu said. "Everything stays the same," Radulescu said. "Everything is frozen ... for everyone: for faculty, for staff, for students, for visitors."
(03/27/09 12:00am)
If you did not get all of your spring semester thrills out at 100Days, fear not: 30Nights is just around the corner. The party is set for Wednesday, April 8 from 9 p.m.-2 a.m., event coordinator Dylan Guyer said. Guyer, a Brown College senior, said the event will be held at one of downtown Houston's newest dance clubs, Element.
(03/27/09 12:00am)
Trees are not the only thing spring has turned green around Rice. A new green initiative spearheaded by Graduate Housing Manager Abeer Ali Mustafa and Associate Vice President of Housing and Dining Mark Ditman has brought 35 bicycles to graduate students living at the Rice Village Apartments.Students who sign up for a 12- month housing agreement and agree not to register a car at the apartments are eligible to receive one of 33 free bicycles. The other two bicycles have been set aside for temporary use by those students who have a car but still want to bike occasionally, Mustafa said.
