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Online only: Medicine and Morals class offered by Jewish Learning Institute

(10/29/10 12:00am)

Should doctors be genetically engineering babies? Should they proceed with clinical trials at the risk of a patient's life? Should a doctor be able to force lifesaving but painful treatment on a patient? Medicine and Morals: Your Jewish Guide Through Life's Tough Decisions hopes to answer these questions and more through lessons from the Torah and modern Western ethics. The class is provided by the Jewish Learning Institute and is offered at the Barbara and David Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center in classroom 160B. Classes are held on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. for six weeks, starting Oct. 26. Each of the six classes will cover a different issue of ethics in modern medicine, including patient autonomy, assisted reproduction, patient confidentiality, mental illnesses, organ donation and medical experimentation.


Earworm to DJ homecoming

(10/08/10 12:00am)

Rice students asked for bigger artists on campus, and the Rice Program Council Concerts Committee has responded. DJ Earworm is coming to Rice for the Homecoming Concert, which will take place Oct. 22 in the Grand Hall at the Rice Memorial Center from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Tickets are on sale for $5 in advance and $10 at the door. They can be purchased from RPC college representatives and at the information desk in the RMC. Due to the venue's fire code restrictions, only 550 tickets will be available.


DSS director begins year

(10/08/10 12:00am)

Alan Russell took the helm of Disability Support Services at the beginning of the academic year. As director, he said he wants to remove physical and academic barriers for disabled students at Rice."Disability is a social issue, not a medical issue," Russell said. "Lack of access to [education, jobs and the physical environment] is what disables a person."


Nature-themed works put on display in Brochstein

(09/17/10 12:00am)

The white walls of Brochstein Pavilion are bare no more - "paraMuseum: Environmental Exigencies," a new photographic project by artist Charles Mary Kubricht, moved into its permanent home at Brochstein on Tuesday evening. Visitors to the Pavilion can see the four striking four foot by eight foot photographs on the wall opposite the food and beverage kiosk.The black and white photographs depict four leaves, each from a different indigenous oak tree on campus. Kubricht gathered the leaves herself and then photographed each leaf using a high-resolution camera.