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Basketball breaks losing streak

Despite an up-and-down year, scoring has been one thing the Rice University men’s basketball team has done consistently throughout this season. Yet again, on Saturday night, the Owls showcased their offensive firepower. Freshman guard Marcus Evans starred as the Rice University men’s basketball team won a shootout against the University of North Texas Saturday night at Tudor Fieldhouse by a score of 95-87. Evans, the leading freshman scorer in the country, poured in 25 points to lead the Owls to their seventh victory and earn his fifth Conference USA Freshman of the Week award. According to Evans, the Owls’ offensive success was a product of their confidence.

Spotlight shines as unlikely Oscar contender

With the 2016 Oscars just around the corner, most pundits have truncated the official list of eight Best Picture nominees to an unofficial shortlist of three: the gripping “The Revenant,” the provoking “The Big Short” and the oddball – “Spotlight.” Mainstream media have largely sidelined “Spotlight,” which is a true story about the Boston Globe’s investigation of the Catholic Church child sex scandals in the early 2000s.

Scholars discuss politics in black churches

Is it justified to spend millions of dollars on a church serving primarily black neighborhoods when the congregants themselves may be of low-income backgrounds?

Critical Thinking in Sexuality Task Force releases website, video series

Rice University’s Critical Thinking in Sexuality Task Force launched a new website, Facebook page and video series this week as part of their effort to garner support and student input for a new mandatory course educating incoming students about healthy sexuality. The task force, which was created by the Student Association Senate in November with a mandate to develop a proposal for the course, is working to gain the Rice community’s backing, according to task force member Angela Masciale, who also serves as president of Hanszen College.

Students launch boba business

Bubble tea, or “boba,” a sweet tea-based drink with tapioca pearls, is coming to campus. This past Saturday, the on-campus boba business East-West Tea launched its first promotion in Seibel Servery by handing out 200 free samples in under 40 minutes. The founders claim that East-West Tea is better than Kung Fu Tea, and in the coming weeks, students can find out for themselves. On Feb.

Brown College senior Samuel Waters passes

The Rice community lost an uplifting mentor and extraordinary voice last Wednesday. Samuel Waters, a Brown College senior and voice performance major at the Shepherd School of Music, passed away Jan.

Kidd’s Korner: A case for the compassionate Rice baseball players

Last Tuesday, the Rice Owls baseball team and I took a trip to Shriners Hospital for Children located just down Main Street. If you read the first sentence again you will realize that I purposefully separated myself from the remainder of the team. It is “the Rice Owls baseball team” and then there is “I.” This mentality has been instilled in me and will probably never leave me; growing up with cerebral palsy, there was always just me. I had no team because I was different, I was the outcast who was picked last, the one who could never contribute worth a darn. That was until I came to Rice University.

Solar decathlon club advances to national competition, plans to build environmental home

Rice University’s Solar Decathlon Club is advancing to nationals after competing in October in Orange County, California.

The Fifth Quarter

Rice has recently demonstrated a commitment to increasing its athletic fan base. Specifically, they’ve been focusing on increasing student support and turnout at games, and I commend them for that.

Rice Athletics promotes student attendance

What do free pizza, a $5,000 iPhone app and Shia LaBeouf memes have in common? They are all tactics used by the Rice Athletics marketing team to promote game attendance and ticket sales.

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"Modern Love" provides solace for the heartsick

February brings with it many gifts — TV series premieres, leap year celebrations, President’s Day — and one defining date more polarizing than American politics.

We shouldn’t put circumstance over assault

The art of plane binge-watching

It was a 13-hour flight from Houston to Taipei. The constant repretzeling of legs, headsets that bite into your skin and bad breath were the all-too-familiar baggage that came with my actual baggage.

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Seventh under scrutiny: Sexual assault at unregistered party spurs investigation, questions

A Rice University student was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning at an unregistered party, themed “Lads in Plaids,” on the seventh floor of Sid Richardson College, according to the Rice University Police Department.

News in Brief: Hebl wins national teaching award

Psychology professor Mikki Hebl is the 2016 winner of Baylor University Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, one of the most prestigious national teaching awards given to academics.

Southern history gets a deeper look in 'Teaching Slavery'

How do people in the South perceive the Civil War and what does slavery mean to them? In the United States, race is prevalent in conversation, from the Black Lives Matter movement on university campuses to immigration policies proposed by presidential candidates

Renaissance man Dean Carroll passes away at 79

Former Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering Michael M. Carroll passed away on Jan. 17 at age 79. Carroll was also the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor in Mechanical Engineering and a professor computational and applied mathematics.

Restaurants split on open carry policies

Few things are more Texan than barbecue and guns — and now, at Brooks’ Place BBQ, you can have both.