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(02/13/09 12:00am)
[Editor's Note: Upon receipt of an e-mail from Student Center Director Boyd Beckwith containing corrected numbers and additional information pertaining to the proposed Valhalla rent increases, the Thresher editorial board updated the following story (update posted to Web on Sunday, Feb. 15). The original story stated that Vahalla's proposed increase amounted to a 147 percent change.]Valhalla's reputation for inexpensive beer may soon take a hit as the graduate pub attempts to make up for a proposed 30 percent rent increase next year.
(02/13/09 12:00am)
Republican Representative for Texas Ron Paul spoke to Rice students last week to share his personal opinion on the state of the economy and discuss how to restore the United States back to a responsible fiscal system. "The system we have today has failed," he said.
(02/13/09 12:00am)
In honor of Black History month, Executive Vice President of Electronic Data Systems Corporation John Castle spoke to students Wednesday about how the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. have transcended racial and generational boundaries. In his lecture entitled "Martin Luther King Jr.: Preacher, Leader, Scholar", which was hosted by the Black Student Association and Leadership Rice, Castle detailed the story of King's civil rights movement and the qualities that made King a successful leader.
(02/06/09 12:00am)
Seniors and off-campus students may soon see another option on the list of meal plan choices if barriers to planning such a drastic change can be overcome. The new plan, a joint effort between the Student Association and Residential Dining Director David McDonald, will explore the feasibility of a meal option that would allow seniors and off-campus students to purchase a yearly package of 10 meals per week.
(01/30/09 12:00am)
Last week, Lovett College Resident Associate Rolf Ryham announced he would be leaving Rice to pursue a tenure track position at another university. In response to his recent announcement, Lovett's Central Committee has formed a search committee charged with finding a new RA for the upcoming school year.For the past two years, Ryham has served as RA for Lovett College along with math graduate student Renee Laverdiere. Both Ryham and Laverdiere hold degrees in mathematics, and can often be found assisting students in the common areas.
(01/16/09 12:00am)
Rice was ranked fourth last week on both the Princeton Review and Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's lists of best value private schools for 2009, falling from the number one position it held on last year's Princeton Review and improving by one spot on Kiplinger's list. The lists compiled data from private campuses across the country. Schools were ranked on the basis of academic quality, student opinion and financial aid packages. Other consistently high-ranked institutions include Princeton, Harvard and Yale universities.
(01/09/09 12:00am)
Concerned by the United States' dependence on foreign fuels and lack of sustainable domestic energy, Chairman, founder, and CEO of BP Capital T. Boone Pickens addressed a full auditorium at a town hall meeting hosted by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy last Tuesday, Jan. 6. In the meeting, Pickens, ranked the 117th richest American by Forbes, challenged the American people to divert one-third of imported oil to domestic energy resources within the next 10 years."I'm gonna put up my money and say what is my solution," Pickens said. "I'm a lone ranger."
(11/14/08 12:00am)
Architecture. Music. Rice schools of the arts rank among the best around. In 2006, the Design Futures Council ranked Rice's Undergraduate Architecture program second in the nation. The Shepherd School of Music was one of eight music schools chosen by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for its Conservatory Project. However, when it came to visual and dramatic arts, Rice somehow slipped off the radar.Well, that's all about to change, according to Professor of Visual and Dramatic Arts Christopher Sperandio.
(11/07/08 12:00am)
As the first day of spring registration draws near, students will inevitably begin scrambling to sign up for the best classes. This semester, in addition to the typical roster of courses, a new evening course will be available to students. Alumnus Rudy Ramirez (Lovett '01), a Houston lawyer at the District Attorney's office, will offer a course in cybercrimes and cyberlaw in conjunction with Lovett College, LOVE 247.Ramirez's class will aim to teach students about cyber law as it applies to internet fraud, P2P downloads, hacking and phishing, among other topics. According to Ramirez, cyber crimes are crimes committed through the use of any electronic device, typically computers.
(09/26/08 12:00am)
Rice hosted its first medical triage center last week in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen in an attempt to keep the hospitals in the Texas Medical Center from overflowing with patients arriving after Hurricane Ike. The triage was planned to remain on campus for several weeks, Jim Parisi, Memorial Hermann Hospital System Executive for Emergency Services, said. In another effort to help the overburdened medical center, the university opened its Greenbriar lot last week as a landing pad for five helicopters.
(09/19/08 12:00am)
For some students, fall means a return to school life, colder weather and football. But to some Muslim students, this time of year is one for fasting, forgiveness and prayer, as they observe the 30-day Ramadan period. Since Muslim students who fast during Ramadan are unable to eat during the serveries' normal operating hours, Housing and Dining has been working with the Muslim Student Association to make special accommodations. After discussions last week, a university oversight committee agreed to add 65 extra tetra points to Muslim students' meal plans. Martel College sophomore Selim Sheikh led a petition to add 100 tetra points - 50 more than on-campus Muslim students are currently allotted - to the meal plan, since Muslim students miss 20 to 30 lunches in September during Ramadan observance. As of last week, his petition had gained 400 student signatures from a Student Association meeting and from SA senators at different residential colleges.
(09/12/08 12:00am)
After nearly a year of deliberation, the Faculty Senate approved an academic calendar for 2010-'11 at its meeting last Wednesday. The new calendar, which is based on a matrix calendar system, will include several changes to the current calendar, such as an extended four-week winter break period and a common finals period for seniors and non seniors.The Faculty Senate, a group composed of 30 faculty members from all university departments, devised the new calendar on the same matrix system used for this year's calendar. Such a system will allow the senate to project future Academic Calendars indefinitely. The previous system for calendars often led to errors and had to be redone each year.
