In a recent Piers Morgan interview, Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) surprised audiences with his outspoken religious piety.
Perfection, unlike success, is an easy concept for any sports team to measure. The feat of going 7-0 in a collegiate tennis match is every squad's paradigm of flawless play. This past weekend, the women's tennis team achieved a 7-0 victory twice, first against Lamar University (0-2) on Friday and then over the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (0-1).
Houston contains a wide variety of restaurants, providing both local specialties and a plethora of foods from all over the world. Although we'd been to plenty of Tex-Mex and Thai restaurants, we still had yet to find a quality, reasonably priced Japanese restaurant. Azuma, downtown on Kirby, solved this problem.
Starting this first edition of Rice Cribs at the top of Martel College seems completely fitting, as this northern residence is in the middle of its "Greek Week." It is no trifling fact that Speros P. Martel, the Grecian founder of the college, would be very proud of the student-designed room 423, a fourth-floor corner-suite tribute to his home country.
Last Thursday, Jan. 19, the athletics department took a strong step in outlining its vision for the second century of Rice athletics by holding a one-and-a-half hour forum for Rice athletics' fans and supporters (see story, pg. 1). The Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan and President David Leebron discussed the merits of Rice student-athletes as well as the five pillars that Rice is choosing to erect its plan for the success of Rice athletics upon.
"Ugh, servery food is disgusting today." "I'm so tired of eating in the servery." "I just can't eat this anymore, let's go off campus." These comments about our on-campus dining, among many others, are much too frequently overheard at Rice, whether it is lunch time on Saturday or at dinner on Tuesday. Many students, myself included, often voice their dissatisfaction with what Rice Dining has to offer in the serveries.
Another week, another split for the Owls' women's basketball team – which is now 0-3 on the road inside Conference USA this season. While things could be worse – they have been able to win pretty reliably at home – the team is failing to live up to its billing as one of the best teams inside C-USA, since it is having difficulty leaving the pack in the middle of the standings.
The following items were reported to the Rice University Police Department for the period Jan. 15-21.
Something, Chairlift's first album since 2008, is a solid collection of joyful, danceable songs that look back to 1980s New Wave music without feeling too derivative or reductive. Each track on the album is polished and well-constructed, with singer and keyboardist Caroline Polachek's soaring vocals and melodies providing the perfect balance to bandmate Patrick Wimberly's grooving bass lines.
I'll be the first person to admit that I'm not the most gifted when it comes to the culinary arts. Sure, once in a while I'll Google "What to eat to get swole," but for the most part, I'm working at a novice level. Still, I have my occasional flashes of brilliance, and while these moments are pretty rare, you don't want to miss them when they come along. I'd even go as far as to compare them to shooting stars, aside from the fact that they're pretty much nothing like shooting stars. In any case, the following recipe results from such an incident.
International Criminal Court Investigation Coordinator Alex Whiting spoke on Jan. 19 to a group of students, faculty and outside guests on the ICC's mission to correct international violations of justice. Whiting, who works for the Office of the Prosecutor in the ICC, began with a quote from the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials from Justice Robert H. Jackson.
With a tagline as bleakly ominous as "The lucky ones died in the blast," The Divide is the kind of movie you go into expecting the worst because you already recognize its plot twists from a mile away. Like most in the post-apocalyptic survival horror genre, the film fetishizes humanity's actual inhumanity in the face of a hugely cataclysmic event. Director Xavier Gens (whose body of work also includes the brutally gruesome Frontier(s)) is the clever man who shows us the wickedness of the human race. He unflinchingly chronicles the worst of human depravity — ranging from murder to rape to psychosexual torture — with a sort of bullheadedness that taunts the audience by asking, "See? I told you we were irredeemable, didn't I?" The Divide offers nothing groundbreaking, but the capacity for evil in this movie, although dramatized, is plausible enough for quite a few chills.
If the pain of last Wednesday's buzzer-beating overtime loss to the University of Alabama at Birmingham after blowing a 17-point lead wasn't enough for the Rice men's basketball team, the injury to leading scorer and rebounder Arsalan Kazemi in the game's final minutes all but assured that the aftermath wouldn't be any prettier.
In last week's issue of the Thresher, the article "RPC calls off dance after week of low ticket sales" implied that Rondelet had been canceled in three of the past four years. However, RPC did not plan to hold Rondelet in 2008 and 2009, and last year was the first time Rondelet has been canceled in several years.
After a dominant start to their season last weekend against Lamar University (0-1) and Prairie View A&M University (0-1), the Owls were excited about hosting two perennial powerhouses in the University of Texas (2-0) and Louisiana State University (1-0). Rice saw a chance to shine and make a statement to the rest of the nation that it was for real.
