Online comments of the week
In response to "The clutch side of choosing to drive vehicles with manual transmissions" (Jan. 11 2013)
Joey Capparella's column encouraging students to learn how to drive a manual transmission is right on. Not only does a stick shift compel you to drive with less distraction, but it's also useful in case of emergencies and foreign travel. In many other countries, if you can't drive stick, you can't drive.
Anonymous
In response to "Take the time to smell the roses and consider gardening at Rice" (Jan. 11 2013)
I confess that I had zero interest in gardening until my mother visited one spring and I bought a kids garden kit for her to get my kids involved with. It didn't take their fancy, but for me it opened a whole new world - now I've got an herb garden on the side of the house along with some spicy peppers. If you really want to take it to the next level, however, start looking at aquaponics. It's a bit different in that you are taking care of fish as well, but the plants grow at an incredible rate once you get it going. Since my first aquaponics planting in September, I've grown the cool weather plants - romaine lettuce, broccoli, spinach, arugula and kale.
It's a shame I didn't get exposure to gardening earlier. I don't think we had such a class at Rice in the early '90s. Sid Richardson College did have a college-sponsored wine tasting class, or - That leaves memories. So guess what my next planting is going to be? Two muscadine grape vines!
Anonymous
In response to "Glasscock School gets new home" (Jan. 11 2013)
This new facility will help beautify what is somewhat of an ugly area of campus. In addition, it will be a major source of revenue for the school. Some of this revenue can be used to support other Rice programs. All in all, it sounds like a win-win situation. Glad we are making this expansion now.
Anonymous
More from The Rice Thresher
Rice community, experts lend support to Kerrville after deadly floods
In the early hours of the morning on July 4, flood waters rapidly rose the Guadalupe River to 30 feet above its normal height. One of the few gauges on the river failed. Young girls sleeping in the cabins of Camp Mystic on the banks of the river had no phones to receive the flood warnings.
Tea Nook to close after 9 years of business
Rice’s student run boba tea shop will likely shutter its doors after managers were informed that they could no longer operate out of Sammy's Cafe in the Rice Student Center.
Summer indie staples serenade House of Blues on Peach Pit and Briston Maroney’s “Long Hair, Long Life” tour.
A crowd gathered at House of Blues Houston on June 18 to hear the upbeat bedroom pop that got many of them through high school. Titled the “Long Hair, Long Life” tour (see the band members), this collaboration between Peach Pit and Briston Maroney felt like a time capsule to 2017: a setlist teeming with both original songs and music from their latest albums, “Magpie” and “JIMMY”, and an unspoken dress code of cargo shorts, graphic T-Shirts and backward caps.
Please note All comments are eligible for publication by The Rice Thresher.