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Black at Rice: Gabby Falcon

After Gabrielle Falcon, who goes by Gabby, announced on Facebook that she was chosen as a 2019 student director of Orientation Week, she got a call from her grandmother.

Perfect Pairs: Roommates who’ve lived together for four years

Assigned roommates. It’s a struggle that almost all new students at Rice have to deal with. But sometimes these pairings work out surprisingly well, leading to great friendships and pairs who live together all four years

Students take on teaching role through college classes

From classes on media and esports to biological information about skin, fall 2019 college courses cater to a variety of student interests. 

What would you do? Three Rice seniors win one year of funded travel

If you could spend a year doing anything you want, anywhere in the world, what would you do? If you’re Eliza Martin, you’d spend the time traveling to countries with interesting immigration patterns to study how those societies care for the children of immigrants.

4-10-2019 crossword solutions

Carpool: Student-engineered car sharing app takes off

Carpool’s mission is to facilitate ride sharing among Rice students to and from George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport in an attempt to replace a shared Google spreadsheet and Facebook group that was used for a similar purpose before.

The Sorting Hat: A closer look at the residential college selection process

Although the residential college system is one of the most prominent aspects of life at Rice, the process of sorting students into colleges remains shrouded in mystery. Is it a computer program? A sorting hat? Fate? 

Beer Bike 2019 photo gallery

Spring Breakers: A look at three spring break experiences

Earlier this month, Rice students had a chance to put down their books for a week and take a much needed break. Here’s a look at what some owls did.

An inside look at Willy Week across campus

Take a look at the different Beer Bike themes around campus. 

Beer Bike floats take shape

A volcano that erupts wine and Fireball and a massive bottle of Smirnoff are two phallic floats that will grace the parade from the water balloon fight to the Beer Bike track. 

A castle rises: Martel build transforms sundeck

This is the eighth year that Martel has done a Beer Bike build, according to Rill. Past projects have included Rick’s garage from Rick and Morty and an upside-down room for a Spiderman theme.

3-27-2019 Crossword solutions

Black at Rice: Cordy McJunkins

Where Cordy McJunkins comes from, going to a school like Rice is unheard of. “You’re set up to fail in high school,” McJunkins, a Duncan College sophomore, said. “We don’t hear about big names like Rice, Harvard — we don’t expect kids to get in there.”

Across the country in 49 days: Baker senior to run for charity

Madison Nasteff needed to find a way to fill her summer before starting her job designing running shoes for Nike. Then the perfect opportunity arose: a 49-day, 4000+ mile relay across the country.

3-20-2019 Crossword Solution

New magisters fall head over heels for Hanszen

Hanszen College’s new magisters, Fabiola Lopez-Duran and Carlos Martinez-Rivera, are an adventurous couple. From their love of travel and the fact that they have lived in three different continents, it’s clear that they enjoy excitement in life.

From Screw to ‘I love you’

Dressing up in costume, finding a stranger in the crowded Grand Hall, going on a blind date — only Rice would combine these three things into one event, Rice Program Council’s Screw Yer Roommate. 

Overcoming Failure and Imposter Syndrome: A Conversation with Matthew Hayes

As a freshman at the University of Chicago, Matthew Hayes was feeling out of place. He had just moved from his small hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska where he attended what he called a “not so great” public school.

Black at Rice: Summar McGee

For most of her life, Summar McGee didn’t envision herself attending a school like Rice. “I always joke that I still don’t know how I got here,” McGee, a junior at Hanszen College, said.