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Eight former Rice Owls participated in NFL training camps this summer, including wide receiver Luke McCaffrey, who was drafted by the Washington Commanders in April 2024. However, only five of these players remained on NFL rosters when Week 1 games kicked off last week.
Rice Football avenged its opening week loss with a 69-7 victory over Texas Southern University on Saturday evening.
Tyler Strothman’s passion for running began with a one-mile race in fifth grade. The event set the foundation for a lifelong connection to the sport; he hasn’t stopped running since. Rather than competition or personal records, a sense of camaraderie and connection led him to run at the Division I level, he said.
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Ever sit through a boring lecture and wish you could be doing something that brings you immense joy and a rush of dopamine instead? The next time you find yourself in this scenario, try playing one of these video games that the gamers here at the Thresher have hand-picked. After hours of grueling research, Diet Mountain Dew and financial ruin, we have scientifically identified the optimal video games for you to waste away on as we approach Sept. 12, National Video Game Day. Also, we included horrible video games. Because, what if, actually, you don’t deserve that dopamine hit?
Visitors strolled through rows of sketches, thumbtacks and sticky notes pinned to the gallery walls of the Moody Center for the Arts during the Sept. 6 opening of “Do Ho Suh: In Process.” The exhibition emulates the studio of world-renowned artist Do Ho Suh, featuring major works by the South Korean-born and London-based artist in an unprecedented presentation of Suh’s practice that emphasizes his methodology and process.
Students outside the engineering department and those especially averse to fulfilling their Group III distribution requirements may be unaware of the growing presence of operations research – or even what it is.
Rice students’ lives are intertwined with avian life, from our mascot Sammy the Owl to the many birds that inhabit our thousands of trees. Recently, a group of students and faculty have raised concerns about the safety of birds at Rices and the unintended dangers campus architecture may pose.
Sarofim Hall, the new home of Rice’s art department, is set to be completed next summer, according to university architect George Ristow. Construction of the building enclosure will begin soon, and construction teams are currently laying structural steel, said Ristow.
Martel College hosted the first public of the year, Don’t Mess with Texas, Sept. 7. Tickets were separated into quad and sundeck locations, with sundeck tickets distributed based on first-come-first-serve priority of Google Forms submissions.
An environmental engineering major and Asian language concentration within the Asian studies major are now offered at Rice. Additionally, the operations research B.A. will convert to a B.S. and the social policy analysis major is now housed within the political science department. These majors are available for declaration this academic year.
Funding for Blanket Tax organizations — including student media organizations, the Rice Program Council and University Court — may be delayed until the Student Association resolves its debate over budget allocations.
Rice’s anti-discrimination office has concluded that the Student Association’s proposed boycott and divestment resolution did not violate their policies. It is unclear whether S.RES 02 will be reintroduced at the SA this semester.
Rice policy now allows all faculty and staff to remove posters and restricts the permitted times and locations for public demonstrations. The changes went into effect Aug. 30, according to an announcement from Kelly Fox, executive vice president for operations, finance and support.
In Wayne Graham’s first team meeting in the spring of 1993, he told players that Rice University was going to win a national baseball championship, and anyone who didn’t believe him should leave.
Last week, I knew what I was going to write here. I spent the night before the semester began reading and re-reading what old editors-in-chief had to say in their welcome letters, picking up on common themes: building trust with readers, supporting student media, running a paper in unprecedented times. Then last week, one hour before our first staff meeting of the year, we received notice of an immediate shelter-in-place: RUPD was investigating a tragic homicide at Jones. Campus shut down, and everything stilled.
Dear Little Kitchen: it’s only been a week, but we already miss you. Please take us back — this new relationship isn’t working for us.
“Cool drone show, but I’m the better Sammy”
