Photo: You grab the blanket, I'll make the picnic
Students gathered on the Central Quad lawn to celebrate the beginning of Willy Week Monday. The Rice Program Council hosted a campus-wide picnic featuring musical stylings by Lovett College sophomore Tristan Clement, who DJed during dinner, and two local bands, the Erin Jaimes Band and The Sour Notes, who performed after dinner. RPC handed out Wild West Willy Week-themed water bottles to the first 200 attendees and sold T-shirts.
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