Patrick McAnaney has just changed over to Student Association president, Chris Del Conte is in his third year as Rice's Athletic Director and David Leebron has guided our university for nearly a half of a decade. But none of these men have ever held court like Wayne Graham.
It is said that Beer Bike security is the most "sucky" on-campus volunteering experience that one could possibly find. Yet for people who are "forced" to do security, knowing how to outwit all the rules and regulations is of vital importance. After all, you don't want to miss out on this annual festival consisting of weeklong water balloon filling, campus-wide underage drinking, sporadic cheer battles and, unofficially, the largest water balloon fight in the world.Rule No. 1: The Beer Bike coordinators will tell you that you should never show up drunk. Well, the truth is that you just can't show up obviously drunk. And the best way to avoid that is to start drinking as early as possible, so that you can avoid any hangovers or puking during security hours. Early bird catches the worm.
The Rice Student Association voted to pass a by-law amendment to the SA Constitution Monday, instating the SA president as one of two undergraduate representatives to University Council beginning in the 2009-'10 academic year. The University Council, one of Rice University's advisory groups for the university president, serves as a method of communication between President David Leebron and the rest of the university. The University Council is comprised of Faculty Senate members, the faculty speaker and deputy speaker of the Faculty Senate, two graduate representatives and two undergraduate representatives.
Although Rice outdid Memphis in the hit column-17 to 14-the Owls fell short to the Tigers, dropping the first game of a three-game conference series 10-7 Friday evening at Reckling.Trouble started early for the 15-7 Owls, currently ranked second by Rivals.com and fourth by Baseball America. The Tigers scored two runs in each of the first three innings, while the Owls were only able to put up single digits.
"It was like taking my mom's car up and down the driveway ... while no one was looking." Thus begins the slew of awkward sex analogies that pepper the script of My First Time, directed by Wiess College junior Tiffany Kim, who is putting on this unusual Off-Broadway show with the help of eight fellow students and funding from the Dr. Bill Wilson Student Initiative Grant.The overall presentation of the show is sharp, beginning in darkness as an awkward tune plays in the background. In between periods of snappy one-liners ("I lost my hymen in a bike accident") and longer monologues, the stage projector serves to intersperse random fun facts about sex. Did you know that the average French person loses their V-status at 16.8 years? Germany is 16.2! And the United States is ... well, you can just ponder on that for a while.
Rice must have still been on a run-scoring high from last Wednesday's thrilling comeback against Dallas Baptist, for the team opened with a bang against conference rival Tulane in the opener of a three-game series Friday night. The 19-7 (5-2) Owls are ranked as high as second by Rivals.com and fourth by Baseball America.The offense lately has been rolling: in nine of Rice's last 11 games, they have had at least 13 hits. The magic number tonight was 15 hits, which the Owls used to top Tulane 11-3.
I've been doing some spring break thinking, not on spring fashion, but fall. Fall 2009 to be exact. Backwards, sure - but so is the fashion world.As I discussed two weeks ago, New York fashion week for next season was pretty bleak overall, and the European circuit wasn't looking too good, either. After flipping through London's show and starting on Paris's offerings, I stopped and asked myself, "Deanne, what are you doing? It's March. It's going to be six months-plus until anyone in Texas even notices it's autumn. Stop brooding over a hypothetically black future and step into spring. Let's talk about all the stuff that a floral season promises: sugar, spice, everything nice that starts with an 'S' and ends in femininity."
If you did not get all of your spring semester thrills out at 100Days, fear not: 30Nights is just around the corner. The party is set for Wednesday, April 8 from 9 p.m.-2 a.m., event coordinator Dylan Guyer said. Guyer, a Brown College senior, said the event will be held at one of downtown Houston's newest dance clubs, Element.
If you're anything like me, getting a parking spot along the first row of West Lot can pretty much make your week. One of my dreams, unlikely to be fulfilled now that my time at Rice is coming rapidly to a close, is to someday get the spot right by the single gate.However, this past week my goals were not nearly so high, and they were still dashed. With the parking gates thrown open to the world at large, I was lucky if I could find a spot between the first and second bus stop.
We would like to extend our congratulations to a pair of very deserving staples of the Rice campus. The first is Wayne Graham, the unofficial leader of the Rice campus. Where Graham goes we follow - all the way to 800 wins.Secondly, we would like to extend our congratulations to Rice's Emergency Medical Services program for its fourth service excellence award. We cannot begin to express all of our gratitude for the services REMS perform, from hand-making splints to easing our bodily qualms to providing pop quizzes about the current president. They make Rice that much safer, and for that we are indebted.
More about the residential college system at Rice upsets me than I could fit in a single article. Treasonous words, I know. But look, for a moment, beyond the "just like Harry Potter" nonsense.Though dorm assignments are arbitrary, students are immediately encouraged to favor their college above others. During O-Week, incoming freshmen run around campus in hoards, chasing, insulting and screaming at fellow students for their new college identity. "Jacks," midnight pranks determined by college leadership, inconvenience, humiliate and often injure residents of other colleges.
Although Will Rice College swept all of the Beer Bike races, they fell short in one contest on the morning of Beer Bike: the College Battle giving campaign. With an overall alumni, senior and parent participation rate of 8.5 percent, Hanszen College beat out the other eight colleges to win the College Battle campaign, which supports the Annual Fund. Baker College came in second with a participation rate of 8.2 percent, and Jones College took third with a 7.2 percent contribution rate.
They laughed. They cried. They screamed in horror. At times, audience members watching Sid Richardson College's production of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) even considered switching seats to avoid yet another flying projectile, bodily fluid or "human" head.The attempts of director Jacob Lindsey, a Sid junior, along with his small acting troupe of Brown College junior Colin Karlsson and Sid sophomore Graham Johnson, left the actors on stage in the spotlight for the entirety of the show, taking only the occasional break to die or change into a bigger wig. But their energy allowed this absurd rendition to deliver on the promise of its title, providing nonstop laughs as the actors colorfully butcher some of the English language's most cherished works.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Martel College Theatre's I Took My Gun and Vanished has much in common with its director-playwright, Martel senior Alexander Crompton. Both Crompton and the original production now showing at his college are hip, nonchalantly ambitious, funny, long-winded and - in the words of Kyle, the character Crompton plays - "not really representative."While the five-person show reflects a variety of personalities found in the liberal early-20-something world, its format is what makes it unique among recent Rice theater. Featuring countless short scenes, jump cuts, extreme realism and no clear plot, I Took My Gun and Vanished resembles a TV show or a movie more than it does a play.
The relations between the faculty and the Student Association, already significantly improved under the previous two administrations, look to be getting another boost. With the recent appointment of the SA president to the University Council, the students will have yet another conduit of communication between ourselves and the faculty and administration (see story, page 1).While the position is not new, it has certainly seemed to be lacking within the last few years, so much so that the position has lost almost any credence whatsoever with the student body. President David Leebron's office hours have seemed to negate any necessity for the University Council.
Freshman Taylor Wall got the start for the 20-7 Owls Saturday, as they took on Tulane in the second game of their conference series. The Owls offense was churning again, winning 12-7 with 17 hits.In the bottom of the second, two hits-including a double by the hot freshman Daniel Gonzales-Luna-preceded a two-RBI single by sophomore Michael Fuda. The scoring continued in the third when two walks and a single by the other hot freshman Anthony Rendon led to a run.
A few Owls kicked off the men's outdoor track and field season early this past weekend, with a sampling of the members of the men's track and field team competing at both the Texas Southern University Relays in Houston and the Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables, Fla. Redshirt sophomore Ugo Nduaguba was named Conference USA Co-Athlete of the Week for his automatic qualifying mark of 15.61 meters in the triple jump at the TSU Relays, good for first place, while freshman Clayton Chaney and sophomore Connor Hayes took second and fourth, respectively, in the decathlon at the Hurricane Invitational.
The results of Rice University's favorite event of the year, Beer Bike, are out, and Will Rice College broke the women's track record at 16 minutes flat. The record-setting time helped Will Rice seal a sweep of the men's, women's and alumni races.This is the fourth time that Will Rice has swept. Will Rice is the only college to have won all three races in the same year in the over fifty-year-long history of the intercollegiate biking and chugging relay race. Will Rice's last sweep was in 1999, and its previous two sweeps were both in the 1980's.
