the Rice Thresher

Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Ariel Shnitzer Martel College students donned capes and painted on abs to pay a lunchtime visit to Lovett College. Martel Jacks Coordinator Matt Drwenski said Martel wanted to assert its dominance as the Greek college on campus.

Although spring break may have allowed students a relaxing respite from school, Willy Week, which began Monday, more than made up for the previous week's lack of activity. Mock Beer-Bike, the Beer Debates and Willy's Picnic may have enhanced the Willy Week experience, but colleges were the real stars of Willy Week with the many jacks they executed across campus.

Late Sunday night, members of Martel College sprayed WD-40 in trashcans filled with water balloons at Brown College to pop the balloons.

Brown President John Land said he was surprised that Martel was so quick with their jack.

"It was pretty clever, actually, because it was midnight on [Monday] morning," Land, a Brown junior, said. "They put us on the defensive."

Monday night, Martel students walked through the Jones College hallways late at night every hour, a tradition Martel does every other year.

"We were waking up people on the hour, every hour," Martel Jacks Coordinator Matt Drwenski said. "We would march, a line of people with pots and pans, shouting, '1 o'clock, and all is well,' '2 o'clock, and all is well,' and we stopped at 3 o'clock."

Consequently, a Jones student called Rice University Police Department for a noise complaint, and the police told the Martel group to stop the jack.

Drwenski said the noise complaint was unreasonable given that it was Willy Week.

"On Willy Week, you have to expect to get woken up in the middle of the night," Drwenski said. "Don't call the police. Wear earplugs. If you call the police on people, then the jacks will be over."

Hanszen College's first jack was not against another college, but was on the grove fence facing Hanszen. Hanszen Jacks Coordinator Evan Miller said Hanszenites inspired by their Beer-Bike theme, "Dr. Brews: Slammed I Am," spray-painted the fence with slogans, pictures and poetry. However, he said the artwork was short-lived, because someone was offended by the graffiti and it had to be taken down Tuesday morning.

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