Iowa Department of Transportation workers have been trying since Monday to make some lighting repairs on the Illinois-bound lanes of the Interstate 74 bridge between Bettendorf and Moline.
Sex on television is no longer as taboo as it once was, so it may come as little shock that RTV5 is combining business with pleasure by creating a new show that mixes entertainment with a healthy dose of sexual education. The main objective of the show, "Strapped for Rice," will be to highlight different health issues as well as provide artistic performances in what religious studies graduate student Aundrea Matthews, the creator of the show, calls "edutainment."
Jenny, the protagonist of the new British film An Education, is no Lolita. She is just 16, yes, and she is seeing a man twice her age, but they are genuinely in love. The man, David, remains polite and demurs when Jenny says she wishes to remain a virgin. Their romance is a mutual adventure, not an exploitation. Or is it? The ambiguities of An Education, and the sympathy and suspense it adds to a story which could have been sensationalist, make it a beautiful film. Director Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself) and screenwriter Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch) did not aim to demonize the predatory older man or sentimentalize his prey, and the result is so subtle that for a few minutes we wonder if these characters are actually in love.
Junior Suleiman Braimoh battles at the rim in Rice's opening exhibition game against Sacramento State last Monday. The Owls defeated the Hornets 79-71, with sophomore guard Connor Frizzelle's 22 points leading the Owls.
One of the most popular arguments against a possible acquisition of the Baylor College of Medicine is that buying a medical school would damage the culture and traditions that make Rice unique. I am here to argue that the opposite is true. Though the acquisition would not be without side effects, adding Baylor would, in fact, fit our institution's traditional personality perfectly. In his presentation to the Student Association, President David Leebron demonstrated a deep understanding of the issues at hand with the BCM merger. He defied expectations by clearly expressing his readiness to pull the plug on merger talks if they become unproductive or if the expense would outweigh the benefits.
As if there were not already enough of a disincentive to cheat, the Honor Council has recently made several changes to its consensus penalty structure for the 2009- 10 academic year to strengthen and streamline its focus. Each fall, the Honor Council meets to adopt a standardized penalty structure, which dictates both the type and severity of penalties the council may allow for Honor Code violations. The starting penalty for deliberation under last year's penalty structure was a grade of F in the course and a two-semester suspension. The maximum penalty currently allowed is an F in the course and a three-semester suspension, but under unprompted self-accusations made in good faith, the maximum penalty allowed is an F in the course.
Rice is facing a devastating, but ill-publicized, loss. Two assistant professors in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department, Mary Ellen Lane and Kevin MacKenzie, are leaving the faculty because they did not receive tenure. Lane, a prominent Baker College associate, studied the development of the nervous system. Additionally, she was part of the Committee on the Undergraduate Curriculum, served as an academic adviser and could often be seen dining at Baker. Denied tenure in April, Lane filed an appeal, which went unanswered. She left last month and is now the assistant dean for admissions for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Heath Science Center.
For the first time this season, the football team has one play they can point to as the reason for their loss. This play came at the close of the first half of last Saturday's game against Southern Methodist University, as Rice (0-9, 0-5 Conference USA) had the lead in its hands and was looking for more. Senior Clark Fangmeier lined up for a 37-yard field goal, but instead of splitting the crossbars, the kick found the hands of SMU's (5-4, 4-1 C-USA) defensive line. Mustangs cornerback Bryan McCann scooped up the ball and sprinted 74 yards for the score, giving SMU a 21- 20 lead they would not relinquish in the second half.
Dear Denver, I am an upperclassman trying to make new friends at other colleges. This is harder than it sounds, because apparently other upperclassmen are settled into their current friends and not looking for any new ones. Do you have any suggestions on how to increase my friend circle, or join another one, while feeling like a full member?
Entering the final weekend of the regular season, the powderpuff playoff bracket was anything but set. Martel College and Jones College were virtual locks with just one game to play, but the final two spots were still up for grabs among four teams. Both Wiess College and Baker College-Duncan College would have to win out and get some help from a few other teams, while Sid Richardson College and Will Rice College-McMurtry College held their playoff destiny in their own hands. In a pair of games critical to the playoff scheme, Wiess faced off against Jones while BaDunc and Martel squared off. But the Game of the Week was a Sunday showdown pairing Sid Rich against McWill, with the winner guaranteed a spot in the playoffs.
Precious, a movie adapted from Sapphire's novel Push, is a story of undying hope and painful sacrifice. It takes viewers on an emotional rollercoaster and sucks them, phenomenally, into intense swings of the pain, anguish and joy of the characters. Set in Harlem in the late 1980s, Precious revolves around 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones (newcomer Gabourey Sidibe), an obese, illiterate girl whose sole activities revolve around her struggle for emancipation from the abuse that surrounds her.
I didn't cry when the New York Yankees won the World Series last week. I didn't mope, or bite my tongue, or call home and complain until I turned blue. I didn't throw a trash can at a Baker 13 runner out of anger or spite.Don't get me wrong - I was angry. The veins in my head looked like a roadmap through West Texas. But within the anger was an emptiness, a what's-the-point? voice that made me deflate quicker than Brad Lidge's confidence. After years of battling New York's legacy, trying at every turn to chide them and reprimand them and belittle them, I had never felt more defeated. The energy had quickly drained from me. The Yankees had won. My cause had been crushed.
As with the majority of the music in my iTunes library, I first discovered electro house artist Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse," born Joel Zimmerman) while playing video games. His remix of One + One's "No Pressure," featured on Grand Theft Auto IV's ElectroChoc FM radio station, originally got me hooked on his driving bass beats and smooth electronic melodies. And when I found out a few months back that he was going on tour for his new album, aptly titled For Lack of a Better Name, I was pumped. Swinging through Houston's House of Blues Sunday as part of the North American leg of his For Lack of a Better Tour world tour, Deadmau5 played to a house brimming with electricity. Some folks even went so far as to build their own mau5 heads, some with glowing lights for eyes, and one father had dressed his young child in the bedsheet ghost outfit from the latest Deadmau5 music video, "Ghosts N Stuff."
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After a two-year hiatus, the phoenix that is Will Rice College's theater program has risen from the ashes in the form of Unnecessary Farce, a hilarious comedy of errors directed by Will Rice junior Amara DiFrancesco, which involves nothing more than seven people, two motel rooms and eight doors. The plot, originally penned by Paul Slade Smith, starts out simply enough, with police officers Eric Sheridan and Billie Dwyer (played by Sid Richardson College senior Anish Patel and Will Rice freshman Mary Nelson, respectively) staked out in a motel room. The two monitor the video camera set up in the adjacent room that is set to record a meeting between Mayor Meekly (Will Rice sophomore Geoffrey Holmes) and accountant Karen Brown (Lovett College junior Sarah Lyons), who has found some interesting discrepancies with the town's books.
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