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(10/05/16 1:00pm)
This is the last week to register to vote in Texas for the upcoming election, and we implore you to do so. In the 2012 election, Texas ranked 48 out of 50 in terms of voter turnout, and its ranking didn’t improve with the 2014 midterm election. Last year, 20 percent of registered Rice students voted in the mayoral election, a significantly higher number than expected. Even so, the average age of voters in this election was 69, leading to the defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance and one of the closest mayoral races in decades.
(09/07/16 1:59pm)
An exercise in one of my classes illustrated what having the happiest students means. We anonymously ranked how satisfied we were with certain aspects of our lives and viewed the overall data. While the scores skewed slightly higher than average for our age group, few felt “extremely satisfied” and many felt either “extremely dissatisfied” or “somewhat dissatisfied.”
(04/14/16 1:27am)
Although interest for the Critical Thinking In Sexuality course appears to have waned over the past semester, research we recently conducted for Sexual Debates in the U.S. (SWGS 385) underscores the need for the course. As a population, Rice students receive woefully inadequate sex education in secondary school, especially when compared to the SB#4 recommendations for the proposed Rice course.
