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(02/13/09 12:00am)
Last year, nine Rice students got away with sidestepping the Honor Code. Even after being officially confronted with the accusation against them, these students faced no formal hearing and had no mention on their records, due to the allowances of the Honor Code's Article XII - known to many as the "loophole" clause. On the Spring Election ballot next week, Rice students will have the chance to make our Honor System significantly more fair: The amendment to Article XII must pass! What is Article XII? In a nutshell, it allows a student faced with an Honor Code accusation to voluntarily withdraw from Rice for two semesters and, by doing so, to bypass the Honor Council process and have all charges against them dropped when they return. The plain truth is that Article XII harms more Rice students than it helps and undermines the fairness of the Honor System we have all agreed to abide by.
(11/07/08 12:00am)
Every five years, each residential college at Rice conducts a search process to select its next masters. This year Hanszen and Lovett colleges' turns have arrived. Both of the colleges have formed eager student and faculty search committees, have prepared to market the virtues of their colleges and have been spreading news of the opportunity far and wide by word-of-mouth and through attendance at a faculty reception. However, the number of faculty members expressing interest in the job of college master has been disappointingly small. There are several wonderful potential candidates among these, but their strengths are overshadowed by a remarkable lack of broader faculty interest in two of the most influential faculty positions at Rice.The simple point I hope to make - for this year's search and for the many searches in the years following - is that Rice faculty members should clamor for the role of college master. Yet this isn't the case, and department chairs and our university president should waste no time in addressing this issue.
