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NEWS 5/16/10 7:00pm

REMS modifies transport protocol

By Jaclyn Youngblood

Beginning in the fall, Rice University Emergency Medical Services will follow a new protocol for students who are transported by ambulance to a hospital: The Rice University Police Department will provide the student's name and destination hospital, as well as the nature of the injury, to the student's college masters. Currently, there is no official protocol in place for notifying anyone of a student's transport off campus, Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman said. However, masters often end up finding out if a student has been transported to a hospital through conversations with other students. RUPD Chief William Taylor said as it stands, when a student needs an ambulance, an RUPD officer will usher the Houston Fire Department responders to the student who is receiving care from the Rice EMT.

NEWS 4/22/10 7:00pm

Common reading brings focus to Houston

By Jaclyn Youngblood

For next year's incoming class, summer nights might be less about strolling through an arcade and more about turning the pages of a book. This year's common reading, Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America, by Jay Mathews, will be sent to new students over the summer. The book follows the story of two college graduates as they participate in the Teach for America program and ultimately create the Knowledge is Power Program in Houston.On March 4, Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman and Associate Dean of Undergraduates Matt Taylor selected Work Hard. Be Nice. from two suggestions made by the Common Reading Program Selection Committee. The other suggestion was Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village by Dr. James Maskalyk. Taylor said Work Hard. Be Nice. fit the general criteria the committee aims to meet - it is under 400 pages, has paperback availability and relevant subject matter - but had the added benefit of featuring the city of Houston.

NEWS 3/18/10 7:00pm

Willy Week update: Parker, Jones jack campus

By Jaclyn Youngblood

Houston mayor Annise Parker (Jones '78) came to campus Thursday as part of a jack organized by Jones College. Parker spoke for about five minutes before announcing Jones was the best college. At that point, Jonesians in the crowd stood up and sprayed silly string on the rest of the audience amid chants of "JIBA" and "Jones wins again!" Parker then walked through the crowd, shaking students' hands and wishing them a happy Willy Week.Yesenia Montoya, Division Coordinator of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduates, captured this all on video, which you may find here on facebook.

NEWS 3/11/10 6:00pm

New art blends with organic landscape

By Jaclyn Youngblood

Miracle-Gro is not responsible for the sculptures that have cropped up on campus; James Surls is. Rice was selected as the venue for seven of Surls' bronze and steel installation pieces, which are now featured in the Central and West Quads, the field next to Herring Hall and the area outside the BioScience Research Collaborative. The sculptures are part of a traveling exhibit that had been on display on New York City's Park Avenue. When University Art Director Molly Hubbard heard the show was coming to Houston, she submitted a bid for Rice to host the sculptures.

NEWS 2/25/10 6:00pm

Online only: Leebron holds town hall, discusses budget cuts, tuition increase

By Jaclyn Youngblood

In an address to over 500 people during his Town Hall meeting Thursday, President David Leebron spoke about budget cuts, tuition raises and the decision not to merge with the Baylor College of Medicine.Though citing the fact that the endowment lost approximately $1 billion during the recession, it has started to recover, leaving Rice still on track for Vision for the Second Century mission, Leebron said.

NEWS 2/18/10 6:00pm

New Beer Bike initiative announced

By Jaclyn Youngblood

While Beer Bike is already a student-run initiative, the future of the event may include even more student voices. At a Student Association meeting Feb. 8, Baker College junior Diana Cahill presented a student initiative that would restrain the power of the campus-wide Beer Bike coordinators. The referendum stems from recent discussion about moving the parade - including the water balloon fight - to the football practice field. Cahill, a former Beer Bike college coordinator, said she was bothered by the absence of an established method for making changes to Beer Bike.

NEWS 1/28/10 6:00pm

Up, up and a-weigh

By Jaclyn Youngblood

Your heart rate is not the only thing that will rise on your next trip to the Barbara and David Gibbs Recreation and Wellness Center. "Lift," an otherworldly installation piece by New York artist Aurora Robson, commands attention, drawing all eyes upward upon entry to the building.The sculpture, which hangs above the Rec Center lobby, is comprised of a large central orb, which Robson calls "Big Boy," and several smaller structures made of recycled bottles and bottle caps held together by thousands of rivets. University Art Director Molly Hubbard said the artist drew inspiration for the piece from solar flares.

NEWS 1/21/10 6:00pm

CIA agent discusses covert ops

By Jaclyn Youngblood

For the 150 people in the Kelly International Conference Facility Tuesday night, the unassuming man in a modest brown suit standing behind the podium might not have appeared to have been one of the key players in the CIA's largest covert operation, that of aiding the mujahideen of Afghanistan against the 1979 Soviet invasion. But Milton Bearden, a former agent in the CIA's clandestine services and the station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1986-89, has been used to being covert for years, so don't feel fooled.

NEWS 11/19/09 6:00pm

Rice & BCM: Faculty Merger Review Committee

By Jaclyn Youngblood

The Faculty Merger Review Committee is an independent committee designed to evaluate the benefits and costs of a merger and, if necessary, provide advice to the Faculty Senate. Committe Chair Donald Morrison provided his outlook on the merger.The Faculty Merger Review Committee was formed April 23 due to a resolution passed by the Faculty Senate during a plenary meeting that same day.

NEWS 10/29/09 7:00pm

Mentoring gives high school students a hand

By Jaclyn Youngblood

Outside of passing AP Chemistry and finding a date to prom, applying to college can be one of the most daunting tasks of a high school student's career. To address this issue, The Mentorship Project, a club formed recently at Rice, held a college workshop in Dell Butcher Hall last Wednesday and Thursday for 125 Houston-area high school juniors and seniors seeking assistance with the college application process, Chair Christina Rojas said. Rojas, a Brown College sophomore, said the workshops were done in collaboration with Project GRAD, a Houston non-profit organization that aims to increase high school graduation and college attendance rates, according to its Web site, www.projectgradhouston.org.

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