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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forty-two percent. That’s the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since preindustrial times.
This letter is in response to “Invest in college facilities,” an op-ed in the Feb. 1 edition of the Thresher.
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.
I am the alumnus who wrote a one-line critique of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders under the Thresher’s Jan.
I end up comparing myself to other people at Rice and feel like no matter how well I do, it’s never good enough.
To the Editors: We were dismayed to read the content of the Jan. 25 edition of the Thresher Backpage.
To the Editors: The Thresher’s Backpage assures its readers that it’s satire, but let’s pause for a moment to consider what that means.
For many of us, it can be easy to pretend our lives are removed from daily political battles. However, Trump administration’s most recent actions have struck closer to home, visibly impacting the Rice community (see p.
Petroleum is undeniably the lifeblood of the modern economy, but the finite quantities and poisonous consequences of continued use make its long-term future a literal impossibility.
For many Rice students, the Women’s Marches were the first time they were involved in such broad-scale, politically minded activism that took place outside of the voting booth (see p.
I saw a cheesed bread-triangle from a pizza chain the other day and thought, “That’s not food.
