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NEWS 9/20/17 2:15pm

SA bylaw amendment aims for transparency

By Claire Carpenter

The Bylaw Amendment To Establish Mechanism for Transparency and Accountability requires all SA officials except residential college presidents to submit a platform at the beginning of their term and each semester, detailing their goals for the year.

NEWS 9/20/17 2:10pm

New Fondren equipment revamps experience

By Andrew Mu and Rishab Ramapriyan

Fondren Library has had multiple upgrades driven by student and community feedback throughout the spring and summer including standing desks, elliptical foot pedals, and the Mothers’ Room for Nursing. “It's really about creating different spaces within this building that serve specific needs,” Fondren Library Head of User Experience Debra Kolah said.

NEWS 9/20/17 1:59pm

Rice for Reproductive Justice partners with Planned Parenthood

By Kristen Ferrara

Members of Rice for Reproductive Justice joined local Planned Parenthood volunteers to make period relief kits for those impacted by Hurricane Harvey. According to Citlalli Alvarez, a senior field organizer at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, “approximately 1,000 period kits” were created and packaged for delivery to local shelters. The success of this operation was contingent upon volunteers, Alvarez said.

NEWS 9/13/17 2:19pm

Minter remembered for educational impact

By Jacey Parham

“His brilliance, his impeccable honesty, his open-minded curiosity, his open-hearted generosity — all these stand out, as they stood out, day to day, year to year,” Porter, an English professor at Berkeley, said. “He came to represent a kind of standard of intellectual integrity.”

NEWS 9/13/17 2:15pm

Martel public stays first, Lovett postponed

By Caroline Siegfried

Hurricane Harvey interrupted not only Rice students’ studies, but also an arguably more important aspect of college: their social lives. Martel College’s Don’t Mess with Texas Party was rescheduled to the same weekend as Lovett College’s Getcheroxoff Party, causing Lovett to move their party three weeks later.

NEWS 9/13/17 2:11pm

Students speak out for DACA

By Shami Mosley

Student groups organized phonebanking drives and discussions in response to the Trump administration’s announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.

NEWS 9/13/17 2:03pm

Moving on: Students find homes after Harvey

By Emily Abdow

“These disasters have made me value a sense of normal,” Nguyen, a McMurtry College junior, said. “I just want to know what tomorrow is going to be like. For a week after Harvey, I didn't know what tomorrow was going to be like.”

NEWS 9/6/17 4:46pm

RUPD braves Harvey flooding

By Anna Ta

As Houston took on over 40 inches of rain, Rice University Police Department officers received helicopters filled with evacuees from a hospital and a nursing home, and waded into neck-deep floodwaters in student rescues on Sunday, Aug. 27.

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