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TEDxRice speakers motivate students

Co-founder and CEO of Smart Office Energy Solutions Bryan Hassin speaks to students about his experiences as a cleantech entrepreneur during the semiannual TedxRice talks last Sunday.

NEWS

Un-Recap

Visitors explore Rice during UnConvention

Rice went on display to hundreds of off-campus visitors last Thursday through Saturday, April 12 through 14. Faculty, staff and volunteers around campus mobilized to host the inaugural UnConvention – a campus-wide open house to showcase the university to the public.

Rice undergrads show off their research

It wasn’t an athletic event that turned heads at Tudor Fieldhouse last Friday, April 13.

The 11th-annual Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium was held there as part of the Rice Centennial UnConvention.

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OPINION

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Rice University holds a special place in my life and memory.

An open letter to candidate Mitt Romney

Congratulations, former Governor Romney. After flirting with a man whose name shall remain un-Googled, your party has decided to settle down with a candidate whose own press secretary compared to an Etch A Sketch, ready to “shake up and restart all over again” to appeal to voters outside the Fox News universe.

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SPORTS

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Baseball sweeps Marshall over the weekend

Rice is now 9-3 in conference play; team currently on six game winning streak

The Rice baseball team dominated a conference tilt this weekend with Marshall University, holding its hosts to just two runs over three games to improve to 27-11 on the year and 9-3 in Conference USA play.

Nick Williams sets Rice hammer throw record

Amidst the 30-to-40 mile-per-hour winds in the high desert of El Paso, an unlikely hero arose for the men’s track team at The University of Texas-El Paso Invitational.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Rice Dance Theater showcases versatility

Combining Earth’s elements, Spanish telenovelas, bright bold costumes and modern interpretive dance, Rice Dance Theater’s Spring 2012 Production “Dancing Between the Lines” featured 12 masterful performances from all 23 of its company members.

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‘Deathtrap’ discharges twisted humor

While characters are bludgeoned, shot and stabbed on stage, audiences are hit over the head with plot repetition of “Deathtrap.”

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LOCAL

Group works to end sex trafficking in Houston

Houston has more strip clubs and illicit sex stores that serve as fronts for sex trafficking venues than Las Vegas, according to freeourcity.org.

Rice, Medical Center create new chemo technology

Researchers use gold to inject medication into cells

Researchers at Rice, Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are developing new methods to treat cancer using a technology called plasmonic nanobubbles to inject chemotherapy drugs directly into cancer cells.

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FEATURES

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Rice Cribs ventures through Jones’ knuckle to an eclectic suite

Every year O-Week advisors work tirelessly to craft ideal pairings of new students.

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Servery Creation: Overnight Oats

As we trudge through finals, healthy food choices take a backseat to late-night munchies and post-all-nighter breakfast feasts.

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Recent Comments

  • Student transported to hospital after taking designer drug 2,5i
    How can the statement, "Its newness does not make it safe." be simply false? This is especially questionable when followed by "...because of its newness not much research has been done in regards to its effects and dangers." If your operational theory is everything ingestable is safe to ingest until proven otherwise, you simply won't be around long.
    posted by: Anonymous
  • Student transported to hospital after taking designer drug 2,5i
    I second everything Knowledge Is Power wrote. I strongly suspect that the administration pushed for the Thresher to publish this article, and dictated much of the content. It's very sad that Rice University could host a groundbreaking forum on drug law reform just this March and then turn around and be so close-mindedly ignorant as to insist on putting out blatantly false information.
    posted by: Anon
  • Dean’s Cup Proposed
    I do not like this proposal. When the President's Cup was taken away from us last year, there was a lot of anger towards GSA. That anger was misplaced, since it was the IMS Office, not GSA, who was responsible for that whole debacle. GSA had the most points; they won the Cup fair and square, and if it hadn't been for IMS' error, we would have come in second without the uproarious vitriol.

    The GSA does have certain inherent advantages: they are older, and often in their physical prime; they are generally at Rice longer (often 5-7 years), which means if they get a couple of great athletes, they'll be around for even longer than our 4 years at Rice; they have a larger pool to choose from (though in reality, the pool of grad students involved in sports is quite small... we all see this when we face the same 10 people in every sport.)

    Still, they're just as likely as any college to have an excellent core of athletes that fuel them to championships in every sport. And just like any college with such athletes, their run at the top will likely last a few years at the most.

    But so what if they have a great group of athletes for a long stretch (sometimes spanning our entire time at Rice)? Why don't we let it motivate us to do better? I hate GSA, but I let that manifest itself in the "I want to beat their guts out on the court/field" kind of way, not the "get them out of our league" kind of way. When you do defeat them (see: women's basketball), victory is that much sweeter.

    Rise to the occasion, undergrads.

    posted by: HFH
  • Student transported to hospital after taking designer drug 2,5i
    The ignorance in this article makes me question the intelligence of Rice's administrators, the author of this article and the editor that allowed this article to be published. First of all as the comment above stated DMT is not a methamphetamine it's true name it dimethyltryptamine. Yes I see "meth" in both names but they are not even similar substances. I can get past this mistake as I presume or at least hope that the author and editor of this article have never taken Organic Chemistry.

    Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is actually closely related to seratonin and melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine...OH NO! Another methamphetamine!). Like seratonin and melatonin, DMT is a naturally occurring compound that is found in not only plants but humans alike.

    "Everyone believes this is a dangerous drug," Hutchinson said. "Its newness does not make it safe." This statement is simply false. 25i-NBOMe is an unscheduled drug and because of its newness not much research has been done in regards to its effects and dangers. Yes, there have been some isolated incidents of teens overdosing on 25i in Virginia and eventually being hospitalized. But substances like Alcohol and even Vitamin C can have unfavorable effects on humans when consumed to the point of overdosing.

    I am not arguing for or against the legality of 25i or other drugs such as DMT. But it's important for everyone to understand the facts about these substances before making misinformed judgments about these substances. Furthermore, it is especially important that news agencies do their due diligence in researching their topics before brazenly stating fiction as fact.

    posted by: KnowledgeIsPower