Athletic Director to Leave After 17 Years
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
. Vol. XCIII, Issue No. 26 SINCE 1916 Friday, April 21, 2006 E-mail system nears capacity IT to install new system with more storage space over summer by Risa Gordon capacity is reached. have changed, allowing the system THRESHER EDfTORIAI. STAFF' Vice Provost for Information to reach capacity without all students Technology Kamran Khan said IT using 150 MB of space. Rice's undergraduate e-mail plans to move student, faculty and Ribbeck said shifting e-mail to system neared 100 percent capacity staff e-mail accounts to a new e-mail, the new system will take about an this week, prompting Information storage and back-up system around hour for an e-mail account near Technology to post flyers around July 15. Khan said the $1.5-million capacity. campus asking students to clean system will allow 1 GB of storage "Working to get the connection out their e-mail. If the e-mail system space for each undergraduate. The between the [off-site] data center reaches capacity before IT switches system is currently being piloted, and campus has taken longer than to a new system in July, there will but IT does not want to begin using expected, but it is in place now," not be space for additional e-mails it until the semester is over. Khan said. "We feel confident that to be saved, and new mail will not Ribbeck said about 70 percent of the new e-mail system will be ready be delivered. the e-mail sent through the e-mail when students come back." Barry Ribbeck, the systems, ar- system is spam, and it accumulates Khan said capacity should not chitecture and infrastructure direc- because some students do not be a problem with the new e-mail tor said as of Wednesday morning, delete their junk mail. Also many system, not only because of the extra the five-year-old mail system was students automatically forward storage, but also because adding about 96 percent full — a decrease their messages to other systems additional storage will be easier. because students deleted e-mails and never delete email in their Ribbeck said IT has monitored since receiving ITs warnings. ITs Rice accounts. the increase in e-mail storage for six goal is to keep the system below 95- "If people cleaned out their mail, to eight months. In January, the sys- DIANA YEN/THRESHER percent of its capacity for the rest of we could easily survive the next few tem was at about 90-percent capacity, Athletic Director Bobby May (Will Rice '65) announces his retirement the semester, Ribbeck said. weeks," Ribbeck said. but there is usually an increase in at a press conference Tuesday. Ribbeck said IT will not delete Each student is allotted about 50 storage utilization around the end anyone's e-mail messages, even MB for inbox storage and 100 MB of the semester, Ribbeck said. if an account is clearly not being for folder storage. IThas used clean-up procedures used. Ribbeck said if the system Ribbeck said the actual amount to clear up space on the system. In Athletic director to reaches capacity, another system available to each student depends on the summer, a policy change allowed will store messages for 30 days, the storage limit theoretically avail- graduates only one month before which then will be delivered when able to each user and the number of their e-mail accounts would be space becomes available. Users will people the system serves. Ribbeck deleted, in contrast to the previous still be able to send e-mails even if said either of those variables could one-year allowance. leave after 17 years 11 -"j. •' by Matt McCabe here a long time and did a great THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF job. It's better for us to take the time we need to get the right Athletic; Director Bobby May result than to just put someone (Will Rice '65) will end his 17- in place." year tenure at the helm of the May, who has spent 45 years athletic department July 15. May at Rice as a student, coach or announced his retirement at a administrator, said the decision press conference Tuesday. was difficult. President David Leebron "Retiring now will give me a said a national search will be chance to recharge, regroup and conducted to lind a new athletic relax," May said. "AD jobs are director. Leebron will form the 24/7 and provide little free time search committee — which will if you do the job right." likely include athletic depart- Leebron said May's depar- ment staff, coaches and Board ture comes at a high point in ofTrustees members—after he Rice athletics. consults with the board about "[We have had] spectacular what to look for in applicants and seasons in many of our sports when to make the hiring. and the hiring of a new football "Ideally, we'd like to have coach," Leebron said. "It is an TIFFANY YEH/THRESHER somebody in the fall," Leebron announcement of transition. For said. "But if we determine that those of us at Rice University, it Pure Bollywood that is not a good stretch to be is an announcement of apprecia- on, we could appoint an interim tion and gratitude." South Asian Society members perform a dance at the SAS Night 2006 — Law and Order: Strictly Vegetarian director. 1 think the most im- May's administration Unit April 15. The dance was part of the medley entitled Pure Bollywood. portant thing is that Bobby was See RETIREMENT, page 7 New college options considered INSIDE by Beko Binder said many options are on the table and Registration deadline OPINION Page 3 that the only certainty is that there will THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline to reg- Commencement needs a student speaker be a combination of new construction and ister for Fall 2006 classes without having LIFESTYLES Page 12 At its May meeting, the Board ofTrustees renovations to existing buildings. to pay a failure to register fee. will attempt to decide how to add 900 beds "Most of the options involve two new col- Housing beyond the hedges to campus. leges, but the board has not yet addressed in SPORTS Page 21 The targeted increased in on-campus hous- any direct way any precise plan for construc- Wiess Jamfest New helmets and other football changes ing is a result of President David Ijeebron'splan tion," Forman said. Check out the Wiess Acabowl with to increase undergraduate enrollment by 30 Whether two colleges will be built — and your Owl between 4 p.m. today and 2 percent while raising the percentage of students their location if they are built — are still a.m. tomorrow for a showcase of Rice living on campus from 71 to 80 percent uncertain, Forman said. band talent. The Housing Steering Committee is tasked Another idea the committee is looking at with crafting and proposing a plan to the board. would connect Lovett, Sid Richardson and Assistant to the Dean of Undergraduates Will Rice colleges to a common servery, Research symposium Matthew Taylor (MS '01) said at the Student Taylor said. The plan includes a new wing The Rice Undergraduate Research Association meeting Monday that two of the and commons for Sid that would connect to Scoreboard Symposium is today in Baker Hall. There options the committee is considering call for the servery. Baseball will be two sessions: a morning session two new colleges. One plan calls for one north Taylor said at the SA meeting that a new Rice 3, Oklahoma 15 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and an afternoon college and one south college—and the other south college could be constructed where Rice 19, Memphis 8 session from 1-3 p.m. for two new north colleges. Wiess College used to be located—between Leebron said the idea of two north col- Hans/en College and Herring Hall — and Weekend Weather leges came from student input into the Call that Abercrombie Parking lot is a possible Welcome Owls! Friday to Conversation. location for a new north college. Isolated thunderstorms, 65-85 degrees "The clearest effect on planning [from the Forman said the proposal will also include Tell the prospective members of Saturday C2C1 was the majority student view that we plans for renovating existing colleges. the class of 2010 what you think of Mostly sunny, 64-88 degrees ought to try to build colleges in the north," " [We intend to] renovate some of the 1950s Rice.The second Owl Weekend for Sunday Ijeebron said. wings of the [south] colleges," Forman said. admitted students began yesterday and Scattered clouds, 67-87 degrees Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman See COLLEGES, page 5 ends tomorrow. THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, APRIL 21,2006 the Rice Thresher This weekend, experience Rice's Social Heptathlon: College expansion must maintain individuality UBIue Launch Rondelet @ D&B's When touring the Rice campus, one cannot help but notice the stark difference between the airport-esque steel and glass serveries and the cozy camaraderie of Will Rice, Sid Richardson LETTERS TO THE EDITOR and Lovett College kitchens. As part of Rice's planned expansion, the Housing Steering Committee is considering linking those for a popular concert is consistently do seem endangered these days. colleges' commons with a central servery, (See story, page 1). RPC tries its best over $40. To subsidize this down to However, I do not believe that $ 15 will cost RPC at least $25 a ticket a student newspaper, or indeed On the surface, this seems like a good idea.