2008 Woodie Awards
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Vice President for Finance Kathy Collins and Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman fielded questions at the Student Association meeting Monday night to a full house in an attempt to assuage students' concerns about the financial transformation planned for colleges and clubs.
When it tore through campus in mid-September, Hurricane Ike left $3 million in campus damages in its wake. About two-thirds of the buildings and one-third of the trees on campus were affected, Facilities, Engineering and Planning Manager of Communications Susann Glenn said.
The first residents of Duncan and McMurtry Colleges will not be a new generation of freshmen. Rather, they will be Baker College and Will Rice College students relocated from their own colleges during the south college renovations, Facilities, Engineering and Planning Project Manager Kathy Jones said.
Unfortunately for the Rice football team, it was the University of Tulsa's turn to beat an opponent by a truckload's worth of points. Just one week removed from trouncing the University of North Texas 77-20, the Owls fell hard to the Golden Hurricane's merciless offense and effective defense, losing by a 63-28 score.
The Rice Light Opera Society returns to the stage this week with a solid production of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's one-act light opera, "Trial by Jury." The play is directed by electrical engineering graduate student Patrick Kruse and Claire Hein (Sid Rich '08), with music direction by music graduate student Michael Dirk.
Treasure these years. Because at the rapid rate things are changing, you won't recognize Rice at the end of your years here. Remember the school that you fell in love with during Owl Weekend? On your campus tour? When your brothers and sisters moved in five years ago? Kiss it all goodbye, because you're about to get hit with the full force of a reorganization nearly five years in the making.