The combination of Nicholas Sparks' (A Walk to Remember) writing and Channing Tatum's (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) good looks should make Dear John the perfect Valentines Day crowd pleaser. However, the movie may not be for everyone - thoughit should placate the Jersey Shore crowd.After 2004's The Notebook became the romantic movie for Gen Y, Sparks has proven his books have enormous potential at the box office. Of course, any new film with Sparks' name attached also causes numerous T-shirt Web sites to begin conceptualizing their next kitschy "Ladies, I cried during The Notebook" design.
While the university may be following the nationwide pattern of fiscal restraint, Rice's funds have avoided the negative national trend in philanthropic giving. Vice President for Resource Development Darrow Zeidenstein said that participation in alumni giving at Rice has gone up 1 percent over the past year, reaching 35 percent and an all-time high in cash donations.
After passing the milestone of choosing its first masters, Duncan College is now on the search for resident associates and a head resident fellow. Duncan's RA and HRF search committees are composed of both Duncan freshmen and transfers and are facilitated by Duncan's current HRFs and future masters, Luis Duno-Gottberg and Marnie Hylton. Students who were interested in being part of the search committee turned in applications, from which Duno-Gottberg selected the final committee members. While there is one committee for both the RA and the HRF search, each part is headed by a different student.
Lovett College senior Chelsea Smith listens as Baker College senior Julia Lukomnik performs "My Vag was my Village" from The Vagina Monologues during the Women's Resource Center's Take Back the Night candelight vigil last Thursday.
The following were noted at the most recent meeting of the Student Association Feb. 8.SA President Patrick McAnaney reported that President David Leebron has formed a Committee on Investor Responsibility. This committee will advise the Rice Management Team to promote responsible and ethical actions.
New Orleans is a special place. It's hard for a city to maintain a unique culture when technology makes it effortless for Americans across the country to conform to a single identity. But New Orleans always had its own spirit, and those of us who call it home have always had pride in this fact. As you may remember, a small storm by the name of Katrina threatened to wash all that away four years ago - and as you may know, we did not take kindly to it.
With spring break only two weeks away, students involved with the Alternative Spring Break program are pushing their last fundraising projects forward in a final effort to balance their budgets. This year, volunteers are spread out between 11 different trips that address issues such as education, healthcare and the environment. The Community Involvement Center assists in guiding and supporting the students, but the students themselves are primarily responsible for planning and fundraising.
Consistency is one of the main goals of any athletic team. For the women's basketball team, it has been one of the toughest to reach. The Owls (11-11, 5-4 C-USA) have suffered humiliating losses against teams that should have been easy victories, but have simultaneously managed to rally to defeat some of the elite teams of Conference USA.
What do the 1985 University of Indiana men's basketball team and the 2010 Rice women's track team have in common? Early in their seasons, both could be described as teams on the brink of greatness.
After taking a week's hiatus from the annals of pole vault lore, senior Jason Colwick reminded everyone at last weekend's Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational just why he is considered one of the preeminent pole vaulters in the world. Colwick won the event with a mark of 5.67 meters (18' 7.25"), good enough to break his own Rice record. Colwick's vault is also the 10th-highest vault in the world this year.
This week's installment of Taco Trek, the last of our four-part series, is all about simplicity. So often, in the heat of competition, restaurants attempt to one-up each other, seeking any tool to gain an advantage. Whether it be in the form of a bigger dining area, fancier menus, a waitstaff dressed to the nines or HDTVs on the wall, numerous strategies are employed to bring back customers, often at the cost of quality.
The five-story 'Mongol college,' sitting near Duncan Hall and the Inner Loop, is the 10th residential college established as part of Rice's residential college system. After a few early growing pains, it is clear that the college, named after Rice alumni Burt ('56) and Deedee ('56) McMurtry, is on its way to developing its own identity.Currently comprised of 74 freshmen, McMurtry College represented Rice's first foray into the growth of the college system in nearly a decade. But instead of being forced to grow on its own, McMurtry has had the experience of sharing close quarters with Will Rice College. With such close presence between the two colleges, it was unavoidable that the older college would have a heady influence on the new college's formation.
Reasons have begun to trickle out why Rice University and BCM failed to reach common ground under their Memorandum of Understanding last month.The two institutions ceased considerations of a merger Jan. 11, in advance of the Jan. 31 deadline set by the MOU. An e-mail notified the Rice community of the developments Jan. 12, while announcing the two schools would maintain a mutual commitment to collaborative efforts.
Had you told women's basketball Head Coach Greg Williams in July that his team would get off to the worst start in the program's history, he probably would have been shocked. Had you told him that over the next 14 games, his team would find 10 wins to get back to the .500 mark, he might have called you a liar. Williams' disbelief may be hypothetical, but these situations are all too real for the team this season. The Owls (10-10, 4-3 Conference USA) captured two key C-USA games this weekend - one against Southern Methodist University, the other against the University of Tulsa - to earn not just a .500 record but, for the first time this season, more conference wins than conference defeats.
The following were noted at the most recent meeting of the Student Association Monday.Campus-wide Beer Bike Coordinator Brian Henderson reviewed the Beer Bike poll results and announced that this year's Beer Bike will retain the same format as last year's event.
Prepare your plastic bottles and last semester's notes, because Rice is participating in the national contest of RecycleMania. This competition, which started Jan. 17 and runs until March 27, is intended to familiarize students with their campus environmental programs and instill in them a lifelong habit, according to the Recyclemania Web site, recyclemania.org. At Rice, the EcoReps at each residential college are responsible for publicizing the event, which is sponsored by Sustainability at Rice.
After a sound defeat at the hands of the University of Texas Jan. 23, a week's worth of practice and reflection was apparently just what the women's tennis team needed to resume its winning ways. Rice (3-1) began the road back to victory Saturday against Texas State University at the Galleria Tennis & Athletic Club, emerging with a 7-0 victory. Five of the six singles players defeated their opponents in straight sets, and every singles entry took their match.
Come March 20, students sober and inebriated alike will accompany a caravan of trucks around the Inner Loop toward the Beer Bike track, water balloons at the ready. Because recent changes proposed to the parade route were voted down, most of the participants will be familiar with the route, as this year's Beer Bike parade will hold the same format as last year's.The college Beer Bike coordinators voted Monday against the proposed changes, the majority electing to maintain the current parade format. The result of the vote matched the results from a recent poll conducted by the Student Association, which showed student support for maintaining the parade's current format.
