Opinion

Nyquist's SJP reform platform misguided

One of the core planks of Jake Nyquist’s Student Association presidential campaign has been his promise of reforms to Student Judicial Programs.

Meaningful campus change stems from innovative ideas

Over the past week, we have seen policy points in the Student Association presidential election criticized because they cannot be unilaterally executed by the SA president.

Reforming SJP fines another opportunity to improve accessibility

The fact that the burden of Student Judicial Programs fines falls unevenly on students of differing socioeconomic statuses is not up for debate.

SA should endorse bipartisan Bridge Act

Over the past three months, our campus has engaged in a variety of critical conversations regarding how we, as students or educators, should respond to a political climate that increasingly threatens our ideals of diverse and inclusive scholarship.

Political advocacy at Rice is more than a vote

This op-ed is based on our opinion as individuals, not as college presidents. We are committed to advocating for our college and will vote based on our colleges’ beliefs, not our own.

Revised constitution better serves student interests

A year and a half ago, I assumed my role as parliamentarian of the Student Association, charged with ensuring the SA justly represents the student body through the constitution.

SA should investigate disinterest in IVP position

Though uncontested elections are nothing new to the Student Association, it seems this year no one will be featured on the first round of ballots for the positions of internal vice president and treasurer (see p.

Opportunities abound for activists

Our segment of the Berlin Wall defaced. Willy’s Statue became a canvas for hate. If you see the Rice community’s exceptionally brief, muted response to these acts of vandalism as testament to its coolness under stress and unwillingness to bend to provocateurs, I sincerely applaud your ability to see the good in an apparently unfortunate situation.

From the Managing Editor: On the writing process, ethics, and privacy

On Feb. 16, the Thresher published an article I co-wrote titled “SA addresses campaign ethics concerns.” I would like to discuss some of the concerns members of the Rice community have raised and be transparent about the Thresher’s journalistic ethics and the right to privacy.

​Letter to the Editor: Unmentioned March for Life missed opportunity

Following two articles featuring the Women’s March in the Jan. 25 edition of the Thresher, the lack of mention of the March for Life, which occurred Jan.

A eulogy for Rice Gallery

For 22 years, the Rice Gallery has been a crown jewel for the arts at Rice. This semester will see the space’s final exhibition before the Gallery’s closure and apparent absorption into the Moody Center for the Arts, and that’s a move I can’t help but mourn. Unique in its format for a university exhibition space, the large-scale, site-specific installations that graced the ground floor of Sewall Hall had a special effect.

Hate crime at Rice unacceptable

On Friday Feb. 3 I was walking back home with my friends when I came across Willy’s Statue with a swastika and the word “Trump” scrawled along its back.

V2C2 must support humanities, arts research

Several ongoing research projects at Rice University might not exist without federal grants through the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Climate change crisis demands our action now

Forty-two percent. That’s the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since preindustrial times.

Letter to the Editor: Alumni donations address perceived needs at Rice

This letter is in response to “Invest in college facilities,” an op-ed in the Feb. 1 edition of the Thresher.

Letter to the Editor: Where were they radicalized?

To the Editors: The title of this piece popped into my head as I visited the Twitter page of the Texas Vanguard, the racist group said to have posted the white supremacist flyers around campus.

The fires of Mordor are spreading

Invest in college facilities

I am the alumnus who wrote a one-line critique of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders under the Thresher’s Jan.

Ask Merri and Webster: Comparing

I end up comparing myself to other people at Rice and feel like no matter how well I do, it’s never good enough.

Letter to the Editor: Jan. 25 backpage dismaying

To the Editors: We were dismayed to read the content of the Jan. 25 edition of the Thresher Backpage.