• aV- *• * e Rice Thresher Vol. LXXXVIII, Issue No. 28 SINCE 1916 Friday, April 20, 2001 Autry uniforms optional by Meghan Miller a light blue uniform shirt or a shoe Beckwith was placed in charge of THRESHER STAFF tag. Uniforms will still be available the recreation center earlier this se- for those who want them. mester. Mandatory Autry Court uniforms Right now, check-in will involve "I like to run and lift weights after are finally gone. signing a sheet of paper at the equip- [running]," said Tiffany Bludau, a After nearly six months of dis- ment room desk, but people will soon member of the Student Association cussion, uniforms in the recreation have to swipe a Rice ID card or a Uniform Policy Committee and a Sid center, which encompasses Autry recreation center membership card Richardson College sophomore. "It Court and other athletic facilities, to use the facilities. The sign-in sheet discouraged me when I'm already will no longer be required begin- will monitor the numbers of people working out and then I have to go ning Monday, the Office of Student coming through the center. change to work out [at the gym J. It'll Affairs announced this week. "Hopefully, students will appre- be nice, you can come in from a run A series of other administrative ciate the fact that they don't have to and then lift weights or whatever." changes in the recreation center will use the facility uniforms anymore so The UPC, headed by Beckwith, also be implemented. they won't mind taking a few sec- examined Autry Court's identifica- People using the weight room onds to write their names down," tion and safety policy when discuss- and gym facilities will be required to Student and Recreation Centers Di- ing uniform alternatives. To identify check in at the desk and wear either rector Boyd Beckwith said. See AUTRY, Page 10 Spring recess decision stands

by Olivia Allison tion President Miles Scotcher, a gradu- dar changes before they were pre- THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF ate student in biochemistry and cell sented at the April 3 general faculty biology, and SA Presidents Jamie meeting. Although three undergradu- Faculty members will not discuss Lisagor and Gavin Parks Monday to ate slots currently exist on the com- reinstating the 2003 two-day spring 'liscuss further recommendations. mittee, no graduate students serve. recess that they voted to remove These include creating a new commit- "There really was no effort not to April 2 at this year's final general tee to evaluate calendar changes and include students in the discussion, it faculty meeting despite a Student reinstating dead week. was sent to the committee where that Association resolution calling for the Patten said he will suggest that was in place," Patten, an English pro- faculty to reexamine its decision. the faculty create a new committee to fessor, said. "What isn't in place was The resolution, approved April 9, deal with calendar approvals in the the forum for graduate students to also requested "Rice University to future. Patten, the faculty sponsor for state their opinions. That's probably CALEB REDFIELD/THRESHER establish formal lines of communi- the GSA, said he thought one prob- a wrinkle we will have to address." cation with the Student Association lem with the current procedure was An additional suggestion from 'Heavenly Child' president in the academic calendar the lack of graduate student repre- Lisagor and Parks, Hanszen College Lovett College Resident Associate Rick Spuier plays William in Lovett decision-making process." sentation on the University Standing juniors, included reinstating dead sophomore Tariq Tapa's play "Heavenly Child." The play will be per- Speaker of the Faculty Bob Patten Committee on Undergraduate Cur- week, the time between the last day formed on Night A of Baker Bits/Martel Take Ten. See Review. Page 20. met with Graduate Student Associa- riculum, which approved the calen- See CALENDAR, Page 13 Worker injured in 30-foot fall

by Mark Berenson when Nava leaned back, the carabiner disen- THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF gaged and he fell through an open area where a stairwell will be located. Victor Nava, an employee of Keystone Rice Emergency Medical Services was noti- Structural Concrete, suffered a severe head fied of the incident, and several emergency injury at the Jesse H.Jones Graduate School of medical technicians responded, including REMS Management construction site when he fell Director Noah Reiter. who was first on the scene. more than 30 feet and landed headfirst on Reiter (Jones '(X)) said Nava was lying face- concrete. He remains unconscious after the down and immobile in a large pool of blood. April 5 accident. "It didn't look real promising." Reiter said. Nava, 38, was working on a concrete col- "I wasn't even certain he was still alive when I umn on the second floor of the structure near saw him as I was walking up." the northeast corner of the construction site However, as Reiter got closer, he saw that when he fell. Nava was breathing sporadically. With the Project Management and Planning Direc- help of a few construction workers, he rolled tor Barbara White said Nava was wearing a Nava onto his back and began treating him. harness equipped with two carabiner-like Several other EMTs began arriving at the safety devices. Correct usage of the harness scene, including REMS Captain Christine requires that both carabiners, oblong metal Borgstrom. the on-duty supervisor. rings with a spring-loaded hinge commonly Borgstrom. a Jones College senior, said used for rock climbing and rappelling, be they stabilized Nava's neck and head and be- locked onto a concrete form. gan assisting his breathing with a bag mask LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER Investigations by Gilbane, the general con- and oxygen. In addition, Nava was prepared tractor for the site, and the University Police for transportation to the hospital. Expanding your mind said Nava was attached by only one carabiner, An ambulance transported Nava to Ben Harvard University professor Cornel West spoke Monday night, beginning Racial Solidarity and it was not securely locked onto the con- Taub Hospital. Week's dialogue on diversity. See Story, Page 5. crete form. The second was not attached at all. According to Reiter, Nava was in the emer- University Police Chief Bill Taylor said See CONSTRUCTION, Page 12 Sammy's breakfast eliminated INSIDE FEATURE Page 14 Sammy's, as the numbers of meals being by Mark Berenson The man behind $500 million served at Sammy's has dropped significantly. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF Meals eaten at Sammy's are not covered by A&E Page 19 After serving breakfast to members of the the all-you-can-eat meal plan. Lifehouse unaware of stardom Rice community every weekday for more than Food and Housing Director Mark Ditman OCirass a decade, Sammy's ended breakfast service said the elimination at the start of this school SPORTS Page 25 on Monday. year of the breakfast Training Table, meal Men's tennis faces No. 8 SMU To help fill the gap in breakfast options, service for varsity athletes held at Sammy's, continental breakfast is now available at the also contributed to the decrease of volume for convenience store. breakfast at Sammy's. Baseball Assistant Director of College Food Service Ditman estimated that last school year, LAURA WIGiNGTON/THRESHER Rice's recycling program began in 1971. Rice 5, Houston 3 Rebecca Scheiner said Sammy's had been two-thirds of the those eating breakfast at See Feature, Pages 15-16. Lamar 10, Rice 6 serving breakfast each morning from 8 to 10 Sammy's were athletes. a.m. to around 60 people, mostly employees Many j>eople who regularly got their break- Quote of the Week from Facilities and Engineering. fast at Siammy's were upset by the change. "We're like five dicks in a band. Without Friday Cereal, bottled juices, coffee and now a few "I've been eating here every morning for Partly sunny. 68-79 degrees you, we're nothing, so thanks." hot items, including breakfast tacos, are avail- the past 10 years, and they just cut if off, Saturday — Rob Thomas, frontman of Matchbox able at the convenience store. Prices are the without warning, and I don't know why," Tho- Mostly cloudy, 72-82 degrees Twenty. See Story, Page 19. same as they were at Sammy's. mas Yeates, an F&E mechanic, said. "I don't Sunday Scheiner said the new meal plan was re- know if they're losing money, or if they just Isolated thunderstorms, 71-82 degrees sponsible for the elimination of breakfast at See BRKAKFAST, Page 11 • • • - • ' • '"• 1 ' '

THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, APRIL 20.2001 —— &y pavip cwen the wm a*

Leslie Liu, Michael Nalepa Robert Reichle Opinion Editor Editors in Chief Students need recess instead of a dead week

The chances of there being a spring recess in 2003 are looking slimmer than ever. The faculty has decided not to reconsider the changes they made to the 2002-'03 academic calendar at their next meeting (See Story, Page 1), so barring a miracle, there will be no spring recess in 2003. According to Speaker of the Faculty Bob Patten, the year will serve to test the revised calendar. Unfortunately, even if this test is carried out with good intentions, it takes two years for any newly approved calendar to take effect, which means that even if the faculty decides against it after spring 2003, a reinstated recess wouldn't appear until 2005 at the earliest. panTS aRe STILL eftanpaToRy. The lack of student input in the process that led to the elimination of the recess is disturbing and frustrating, to say the least. Due to some miscommunication, student members on the University Stand- ing Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum had no opportunity to provide input on the decision, much less gather student-body input. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Student Association is currently taking steps to make sure that student voices are heard on this issue, and they are also trying Unfortunately, this trend continues Senghor also claims the United Photo selection unfair throughout the article. It begins by States is suffering from a lesser vari- to come up with alternatives to make the end of the spring semester focusing on the men for four para- ety of the same "plague" because we easier on students. One proposed remedy, however, would actually to women bikers graphs. Afterwards there is a brief have cut government services. He is do a lot more harm than good. To the editor: recap of the women's race for two obviously incapable of seeing that Reinstating dead week is a bad idea. Creating a whole week for I eagerly awaited the Beer-Bike paragraphs, the alumni for one, and smaller, limited government is both studying between the end of classes and the beginning of exams issue of the Thresher because our a conclusion for the last. This is part of the democratic tradition in unacceptable. The women were es- this country and the will of the would merely prolong the agony of exams and effectively add a week office assistant, Brown College sophomore Marie Schwieterman, sentially given as much attention as people. to the amount of time we spend at Rice. had been preparingforweeks. Marie a group no longer present at Rice: I don't argue that efforts to elimi- Even worse, the faculty might decide to compensate for the added rode the anchor leg for the Brown the alumni. nate Third World debt are mis- dead week at the end of the semester by making the semester begin women, and posted the fastest time Jones' victory was exciting and guided; indeed, the reduction of such a week earlier. Since the faculty has expressed interest in keeping of the women while securing an- without a doubt merits pictures and debt could help give those coun- other first-place finish for Brown. commentary. We in no way ques- tries, many of which are newly demo- graduation at the same time (one of the reasons behind taking away There on the front page of the tion that. cratic, a new chance. But this should spring recess instead of adding two class days to the end of the Thresher was a picture of a biker At the same time this should not not be framed as an entitlement that semester), beginning classes earlier would be the likely solution. from the men's winning team. I be done at the expense of the the Third World deserves; if it oc- And if both semesters had a dead week, students would be spending pulled out the Beer-Bike 2001 in- women's race. This race by no means curs, it will be because of generosity two more weeks of the year at Rice instead of enjoying time off. sert; there on the cover was another lacked material for a story. With two on the part of the very people picture of the men's winning team. I accidents and a victory won by Sahnghor maligns. We appreciate the SA's attempts to fix an unacceptable situation, flipped through all the pages look- Brown by a mere three seconds, Clearly, Senghor and his follow- but replacing two days off with these two weeks off would only make ing for Marie or the Brown women's followed by a long period of delib- ers want to portray their cause as a Rice students spend more of the year fretting about schoolwork. team. Much to my dismay, out of all eration, the women's race was most humanitarian one and cast any crit- those photographs, there were only definitely exhilarating to watch and ics as cronies of corporate globaliza- two pictures of women riders at the participate in. tion. In the Thresher, however, such top of page six, and neither were of Not only should Brown be recog- biased views should be reserved for Marie. nized appropriately for their victory, the opinion page. I am very disappointed in the but all the women should be ac- NCAA should reconsider photo selection. I hope in next year's knowledged for their sportsmanship Todd Makse Beer-Bike issue the women will be and competition. Evidently, the Sid senior regional track meets featured on the front page! Thresher did not choose to do this. Patty Napoleon Kerry Loughran The NCAA's decision to institute regional qualifying meets for language Programs Coordinator Brown freshman CONTACTING THE School of Continuing Studies Robert Gillette the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships is a mistake that Brown sophomore THRESHER will cost both individual athletes and university athletic programs. i Angie Temple (See Story, Page 25.) Thresher' Beer-Bike Hanszen freshman Letters From an athlete's perspective, the decision makes an already section ignores women • Letters to the editor extremely long season longer. Indoor track competition begins in Article fails to question should be sent to the Thresher To the editor: by mail, fax, e-mail to late January and the NCAA outdoor meet currently takes place the We are writing in response to first week of June, and now it will be pushed back another week. Jubilee 2000 beliefs [email protected] or be deliv- your Beer-Bike insert from the pre- ered in person. We prefer that Also, the decision puts far too much weight on an athlete's vious issue. Rice's General Policy To the editor: letters be submitted on disk performance in one meet. The NCAA should seek to fill the fields in number 821-92 is that "Rice does not After reading Elizabeth Decker's or by e-mail. Letters must be discriminate on the basis of race, the national meet with the best athletes in each event overall, not the story and interview on Third World received by 5 p.m. on the Mon- color, religion, sex, sexual prefer- debt cancellation ("Jubilee 2000 day prior to a Friday publica- athletes who did the best on one individual day. ence, national or ethnic origin, age, founderspeaks on eliminating Third tion date. Though the NCAA has included at-large bids to those not quali- disability or veteran status." Justifi- World debts," "Jubilee 2000 founder • All letters must be signed fying in the regional meet, the athlete is still required to compete at ably, it seems that Rice's newspaper comments on organization's goals," would uphold this policy. However, and include a phone number. the national meet in order to be eligible for an at-large bid. The April 6), I am bothered by the lack of Rice students and alumni must last week's publication of the objective journalism in these pieces. purpose of the rule is to prevent top athletes from sitting the meet Thresher greatly disregards this include their college and year. Despite taking up the better portion We will withhold names upon out; however, the rule will do is force schools to decide if sending a guideline. of two full pages, Decker never once sick or injured athlete to the track for the regional meet is worth request. Specifically, the Thresher ne- addressed the criticisms of debt can- • Letters should be no getting a chance at an at-large bid. glects the women's Beer-Bike teams. cellation, nor did she challenge longer than 250 words in This inattention begins with the front Additionally, since the national bids will be based on an athlete's Seydina Senghor's claims in any way. length. The Thresherreserves page of the main part of the Thresher placing at the regional meet, lesser athletes may advance from As such, let me take this chance to the right to edit letters for with a picture of a male rider cross- do so. both content and length. weaker regions over athletes from stronger regions. Track and field ing the finish line. Continuing to the For one, Senghor argues that is one of few sports that can evaluate its athletes with precision, and supplemental Beer-Bike insert, the structural adjustment programs of- News Tips front page is fully devoted to the the sport should take advantage of that fact by continuing to invite ten included restrictions "including • Tips for possible news sto- the athletes with the best marks over the course of the season. male race winners: Jones. In total, liberalizing the economy, ... [and) the pictures of the men bikers and ries should be phoned in to Finally, the meet isn't cost-effective. It forces athletic programs to those conditions created an unprec- the Thresherat (713) 348-4801. other pictures concerning the men's edented poverty." This is, of course, come up with the money for transportation and lodging for an entire race number nine. The women on far from true; capitalism does not Subscribing the other hand had four, one of which team to another meet. create poverty. • Annual subscriptions are was the only black and white photo The NCAA said that it took coaches' input into consideration Those conditions were attached available for $50 domestic and in the feature. when making its decision, but the extent to which that's true is to those loans by people who under- $105 international via first questionable. Rice head coaches Victor Lopez and Ray Davidson The inequality between males stand, as Senghor obviously does class mail. and females does not end with the not, that capitalism is the cure, not both oppose the change. If Lopez and Davidson met with fellow pictures. The article concerning the the disease. He correctly cites the Advertising coaches and the majority shared their feelings, the group would actual race is entitled, "Jones wins dictatorial regimes of the Third • We accept both display have a solid case to present to the NCAA committee to change the again! (this time for real)." There is World as being the cause of massive and classified advertisements. format back in future years. no mention of the women's race win- debts, but then tries to pass the eco- Contact the Thresher for more ner, Brown, who unlike Jones was nomic woes off to his favorite bogey- information. the team who actually won again. man, global corporations. THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2001 Guest column Are they laughing with me or at me? issues *• Owls should attempt to So it*S finally happening. Martel, At Lovett College's room jack this borrows an unknown number of having written up a goofy constitu- year, we had to k>k off the exact freshmen from the class of 2005 — tion and having made its timid first same number of people as last year. Martel will start directly receiving appearance at Beer-Bike, is almost a Even stranger, we had to jack suites its own class in fall 2002. get full story on Rice college. Nothing you can not composed entirely of And this is where Martel's big- do will change this. freshmen for the first time gest potential lies. The fewer rooms I fell in love with Rice when I her friends. Have conversations Around 150 people are in anyone's memory. All other colleges have to set aside for came to Owl Weekend four years with people of different races, currently "Martelians" or this was in spite of the fact freshmen, the happier their room ago. sexes and appearances. Wander "Martelizens" or what- that we had 25 Lovetteers draws will be for their upperclass- It was pretty hard not to. Ev- over to the Student Center, where ever, and some of them transfer to Martel, 14 of men. But for that to work, the num- eryone I was intro- you'll encounter a will graduate as such in a whom are currently liv- ber of freshmen in future incoming duced to was happy pretty broad sample of month. ing on campus at Lovett. classes has to stay the same, or at and relaxed, and the the Rice population. With all the recruit* From what I've heard, most increase marginally. campus was beautiful. Try to find students ment talk about the ad- the same thing happened At some point in February or Rice seemed to have who have lived off cam- venture of creating a neft Adam at most of the other col- March next year, the Office of Stu- non-stop parties and ac- pus, because their Rice college, a lot of people have Keith leges. Room draws that dent Affairs will instruct the colleges tivities, and everyone experience will be lost sight of the reason were expected to be to reserve certain numbers of beds seemed to be enjoying strikingly different themselves. Plus, I was than your on-campus why the board chose to bloodless for the first time for the new class. (For the record, able to wear shorts host's account of uni- construct a ninth college: to make it in years simply weren't. The widely freshman bed counts this year were: down here, while versity life. And, if possible for more undergraduates held expectation that getting a room Baker, 80; Brown, 72; Hanszen, 89; Michael spring was still another there is an activity or wishing to live on campus to do so. (A on campus wasn't going to be a cut- Jones, 78; Lovett, 88; Sid, 88; Wiess, Nalepa month off back home sport that you are in- possible increase in undergraduate throat waste of time this year prob- 86; Will Rice, 87.) If the number of in Chicago. terested in participat- enrollment is another reason, but let's ably defeated itself. I knew entire freshman beds at your college hasn't ing in while here, why not talk to leave that for now.) Brown and Jones suites of people my freshman year gone down, then either your college After I accepted and came some people involved in it and Colleges are also being expanded to who decided not to enter room jack down to Houston the fall of my had an additional wing grafted on to find out what it's like? work toward that goal. Any student given their poor chances of getting a it, or Martel is a failure. freshman year, I noticed some- who's been jacked off campus and spot, and I have no doubt that prom- New beginnings and founding thing — Rice is actually nothing Unfortunately, this is going to any master who's had to deal with ises of an easy on-campus room this committees aside, the reason for like Owl Weekend. require a little extra effort. If you those students' irate and confused year lured people to sign up who Martel's creation was to prevent so The university had been on just follow the Owl Weekend parents knows this is a worthy cause. would have otherwise thrown in the many people from getting jacked. It its best behavior when I had schedule like I did four years The addition of Martel was sup- towel. must be tempting to raise enroll- come down to visit, and I had ago, you will get a very "Leave it posed to help achieve that goal in This year's experience showed ment, I have no doubt. But while the been duped. Not everyone who to Beaver"-like image of this two ways. First, by reducing the that there is still a significantly larger administration technically can both went here was blissfully happy, school—heavy on positives, light number of upperclassmen currently number of students who want to live raise enrollment and get more and there were times when I on negatives. at the other colleges through mas- on campus than the campus can people on campus, they can't do both was one of them. Life was not If you do decide to come here, sive amounts of immediate trans- support, a number that's hard to well. just one big party. Classes were it will be pretty hard not to be often hard and the food fre- fers, it will reduce the competition measure but larger than one year's Watch your college's numbers idealistic about Rice. And while quently bad. The college sys- for beds there in the short term; and worth of Martel-bound transfers next year, and hope that the reward this school is far from perfect, I tem that had sounded so won- second, by thinning out the incom- could satisfy. for two years' worth of construction have to admit that during the derful on paper began to reveal ing freshman load taken by each So Martel didn't prevent any bro- at Martel is a shinier, happier room four years I have been here, it its flaws, as its "big happy fam- college in the future, freeing up more ken hearts this year. But it has an- draw. has certainly tried to be. ily" image broke down into ex- rooms for upperclassmen. other card left to play. In addition to clusive groups and cliques. The first of these two steps didn't taking current students — which it Adam Keith is Backpage editor and a work. will do again after fall 2001 when it Lovett College junior. That's not to say that I would have gone somewhere else if I The university had had known what I know now back then — I've had a wonderful time been on its best Sober since the age of one here. But it still would have been nice to have been a little more behavior when informed when I committed to I came down Grad students, undergrads should improve relations Rice. So I have some advice for Owls There's been quite a bit of dis- tions of grad students at face value, I ger thrills of my own life as a grad to visit, and this weekend: Try to get the full cussion at Rice recently about diver- would have believed that entering student two weeks ago when I musi- scoop. Talk to your hosts and I had been duped. sity, mostly in the context of issues grad school would irrevocably trans- cally accompanied one of my under- their friends, and don't just ask such as race or sexual orientation. form me into a creepy, lecherous, graduate friends during her perfor- them what they like about Rice. What's interesting is how miserable, smelly, un- mance at the Artemis Rice concert. Be sure to also find out what they In all such instances, students aban- little attention another, kempt, arrogant, bitter, wish they could change about But whatever you decide, don the labels "undergraduate" and much more Rice-specific resentful lab rat with apoor the university, and what they con- make sure that you go to the "graduate" and focus instead on what diversity topic has re- command of the English sider the negative aspects of go- school that is right for you, and they have in common. It's true that, ceived: the relationship language and a social life ing to school here. make your decision for the right academically, undergraduate and between the undergradu- consisting solely of getting reasons. Find out as much as you graduate lifestyles necessarily have These are not things that are ate and graduate student trashed at Valhalla. I re- can about your options, so that little overlap, but people make the going to come up in any informa- populations at this univer- member thinking, "Damn, tion session you go to, and they you make an informed decision. sity. I hope those traits aren't mistake of assuming that separation extends to all other aspects of student won't appear on any of the litera- So get cracking. There are The tension between part of my degree require- ture that the university sends you about 2,700 people here that can these two groups has ment." (They aren't. 1 life. If we were to abandon just that one assumption, I think grads and in the mail before your accep- give you the real scoop on being bothered me since my checked the General An- tance deadline. a student at Rice. Why not intro- nouncements.) undergrads would realize how easy it freshman year, but it's Try to make sure that you talk duce yourself? The remarkable thing is for them to not merely tolerate each only been during the last to a broad cross section of stu- is that I didn't even have to dig out a other, but actually like each other. couple of years that I've realized just dents here; don't limit yourself to Michael Nalepa is opinion editor thesaurus to write down those ste- how nasty it can get. More distress- just speaking with your host and and a Lovett College senior. ingly, I've seen that the hostility be- reotypical views of undergraduate Raj Wahi is a chemistry graduate tween undergraduates and grad stu- and graduate students. All I had to student. dents isn't just something that oc- do was think back to a few over- curs here and there between indi- heard remarks, conversations and vidual students; it's a firmly in- excerpts from college Orientation grained aspect of the culture here at Week manuals. The Rice Thresher, the official student Rice. In other words, grad students It's been said many times before, newspaper at Rice University since 1916, is published each Friday during the school year, and undergrads are taught and ex- but it's worth restating here: The the Rice Thresher except during examination periods and pected to hate each other, and many only reasons two groups persist in holidays, by the students of Rice University. of them seem disturbingly comfort- viewing each other in terms of nar- able with that dynamic. row stereotypes are (a) that stereo- Editorial and business offices are located Since I've experienced the un- types are easy and require no Leslie Liu, Robert Reichle on the second flobr of the Ley Student Outer. dergraduate-graduate interaction thought, and (b) that members of Editors in Chief 6100 Main St., MS-524, Houston, TX 77005- 1892. Phone (713) 348-4801. Fax (713) 348- each group conveniently have a from both sides, I figured I might as 5238. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: well take the opportunity to say that whole other group of people on http://wwiv. ricethresher.org. neither group is innocent when it whjch to take out their frustration NEWS BACKPAGE comes to perpetuating mutual re- the instant it arises. This is one of Olivia Allison, Editor Alex Fay, Editor Annual subscription rate: $50 domestic, sentment. As an undergraduate, I the central problems in any "diver- Mark Berenson, Asst. Editor Adam Keith, Editor $105 international. Nonsubscription rate: first sity issue": the expediency of hav- Rachel Rustin, ,4ss(. Editor copy free, second copy $4.11. took at least two lab courses in which Erin Mann, Page Designer PHOTOGRAPHY my graduate TA had apparently de- ing a specific target at which to di- Renata Escovar, Editor The Thresher reserves the right to refuse rect the less attractive (though nor- OPINION Katie Streit, Editor cided ahead of time that each of his any advertising for any reason. Additionally, Laura Wiginton, Editor students was a whiny, immature, mal) human emotions, such as an- Michael Nalepa. Editor the Thresher does not take responsibility for ger and aggression. grade-grubbing, incompetent rodent COPY the factual content of any ad. Printing an who needed to be put in his place via The good news, in the case of SPORTS Sarah Ainsworth, Editor advertisement does not constitute an a 50/50 mixture of condescension undergraduate-graduate interac- Chris Larson, Editor Melissa Bailey, Asst. Editor endorsement by the Thresher. and dirty looks. Now, I'll admit that tions, is that most of the hostility can Jason Gershman, Asst. Editor David Chien, Illustrator I, along with my most of my peers, be removed if the members of these ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Unsigned editorials represent the majority Mariel Tarn. Editor Adam Lazowska. Online Editor opinion of the 77i res/fpreditorial staff. All other did my share of obsessing over groups simply start doing a few more Dalton Tonilin. Editor opinion pieces represent solely the opinion of grades and making silly mistakes in things together. This isn't a guess Angelo Zanola, Asst. Editor BUSINESS the author. organic lab, but I've never felt that on my part; I've seen it work. I've Shannon Scott, Business Manager Robert Lee. Ads Manager undergraduates deserve to be so LIFESTYLES The Th resheris a member of the Associated seen how much fun undergraduate Corey E. Dcvine, Editor Lindsay Roemmich. Asst. Business Manager completely defined in those terms. students have had in the swing Chris Landry, Classified Ads Manager Collegiate Press and the Socicty of Once I got to graduate school, I classes offered by the Rice Social CALENDAR Carly Halvorson, Office Manager Professional Journalists. The Thresher is an Dance Society, a group whose most Carly Kocurek, Editor Sol Villarreal, Distribution Manager ACP All-American newspaper. Who wants to discovered that the undergraduate be an opinion editor? No, seriously ... active members and instructors are students don't exactly have the ©COPYRIGHT 2001. healthiest perspective either. Had I typically graduate students. I per- taken the undergraduates' descrip- sonally experienced one of the big- f 1 M r\ I J I * * » 13 1 • -/'•- ••:"-•• , • : •|| . THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 m 4

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"Because we are going to limit The new plans, part of the Study student participation to the affiliated Appropriate majors include Marketing, Management, Human Resource Management, Inter- Abroad Transition for Expanded programs, affiliation suddenly really national Business, Communications, and General Business. Fluency in other languages is a Programming, resulted from an in- means something, especially to the plus. The Executive Recruitment field is dynamic, fast-paced, and sure to offer the motivated crease in the number of Rice stu- outside programs, and they are al- dents who go abroad. ready very responsive in terms of college student invaluable hands-on experience. "When there were fairly few stu- negotiating special terms for Rice dents studying abroad, we were able students," Cates said. Intern Duties: to spend a lot of time with each of When deciding whether to affili- • Research competitive data them individually," Associate Direc- ate with a program, the study abroad tor for International Training Shan- office will look at both academics • Prepare candidate references and candidate synopses non Cates said. "While we'll still be and student services, Cates said. • Fax written correspondence to clients and candidates spending a lot of time with each Students will be able to go • Update weekly progress reports individual student because we think through an appeals process if they that's a really important part of the feel none of the affiliated programs • Conduct administrative tasks planning process, what we are try- satisfy their needs. • Prepare client information to send to candidates ing to do is get students better infor- "There are always going to be • Gain in-depth knowledge or entire search process mation up front about what programs new things coming up that we don't • Assist in searches if appropriate are like, what programs offer and know about yet," Cates said. "Actu- how to choose between them." ally, students do a lot of educating us • Control and handle mail flow out of office about the programs. Some of the programs that we know best and have the nlost confidence in were For additional information please contact Mathilde Boyd @ Kristan introduced to us for the first time by International Inc. at (713) 961-3040, fax your resume to (713) 961-3626 or e-mail 'We are going to be a student using them, so we want to to [email protected]. able to give better keep that avenue available." In addition to changing the way advice because we are Rice affiliates with programs, the office is also going to begin offering no longer going to have a $600 travel stipend through STEP to students who participate in direct to be responsible for international exchange programs. "We haven't really put a lot of knowing everything energy into creating new exchange about every program in relationships because of the hous- ing crunch we've been having. But the world. ' now with Martel opening, we have a RICE SUMMER SCHOOL lot more possibilities to really make — Mark Scheid use of that kind of relationship," Take advantage of the summer credit courses at Rice. Enjoy smaller classes with bright, Director of International Cates said. "We wanted to build a motivated classmates. You can complete nearly a semester of work by attending both sessions. Programs and Scholarships new incentive for students." Cates said there are advantages EARLY SESSION: GENERAL SESSION: to direct exchanges for all involved. The foreign university gets a Rice MAY 14-JUNE 1,2001 JUNE 4 - JULY 27, 2001 Executive Director of Interna- student, international undergradu- Application Deadline: May 4 Application Deadline: May 18 tional Programs and Scholarships ates come to Rice and the arrange- Mark Scheid said reducing the num- ment is often cheaper for everyone. ber of programs students can attend ANTH 201 Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology "I think that the financial benefits ANTH 318 Monies and Places: Cultures of Capitalism will translate to better advice from in the Age of Globalization are going to make study abroad avail- ANTH 313 Language and Culture the study abroad advisers. able to a wider range of the student ANTH 419 Law and Society BIOS 207 Evolution. Genetics, and Society "We are going to be able to give population," Cates said. "It doesn't ECON 211 Principles of Economics I ECON 211 Principles of Economics 1 better advice because we are no sound like much when you are just ECON 212 Principles of Economics II longer going to have to be respon- talking about switching from unaf- ECON 212 Principles of Economics 11 sible for knowing everything about ECON 370 Microeconomics Theory filiated to affiliated, but it really ECON 375 Macroeconomic Theory every program in the world," Scheid, means that we have much greater ENGL 346 Survey of Twentieth-Century British Fiction ECON 448 Corporation Finance also the assistant to the president, leverage with programs and I think ENGL 369 Literature of the American West: EDUC 440 Supervised Teaching: Summer School said. "We can pick two or three hun- that we are going to see a really high Contemporary Women Writers dred and we are not going to have to level of interest from programs and ENGL 336 Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction ENGL 372 Survey of Contemporary decrease the number of places that a really high commitment to student C'hicano/a Literature ENGL 362 Survey.of American Fiction: 1910-1940 students go, and we can know those services on their part." ENGL 489 Studies in Major American Authors: HIST 118318 The United States. 1877-Present The Asian American Novel KINE 100 Writing for Professional Communication GEOL 210 Past and Future: Earth's Climate Variations KINE 311 Motor Learning HIST 117/317 The United States, 1815-1877 . KINE 321 Exercise Physiology HIST 232 The Making of Modem Africa KINE 325 Motor l earning Lab. 1 credit hour We're lofikin' for a new HI IMA 201 Public Speaking KINF 495 Independent Study: Cardiac Function and HUMA 308 Business and Professional Speaking 1 schem i a/Reperfusion KINE 100 Writing for Professional Communication LING 313 Language and Culture opinion editor. I.PAP 101/102 Lifetime Physical Activity. 0 credit hours LING 409 Special Topics: The Structure. History, and Usage of Ebonics MATH 102 Single Variable Calculus II I.PAP 101/102 Lifetime Physical Activity. 0 credit hours MATH 355 Linear Algebra MATH 101 Single Variable Calculus I POLI 315 Elections and Voting Behavior MATH 211 Ordinary Differential Equations and RF.LI 335(535 Afro-Caribbean Religious Thought Linear Algebra WGST 329 Literature of the American West: MATH 212 Multivariate Calculus Contemporary Women Writers PHIL 105 Historical Introduction to Philosophy PHIL 106 Logic All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology noted. Courses are subject to change. 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http://scs.rice.edu/SummerCredit School of Continuing Studies RICE 713-348-4803, ext. 311 * [email protected] - ... ^ 4 . . •ihi*-v.' f,, - •' ^V\V A '•: j THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 RACIAL SOLIDARITY WEEK WALK-OUT , Author begins diversity dialogue Members of .student groups in- pus, including the environment of cluding the Black Student Asso- Orientation Week and the high by Meredith Jenkins ciation, HACER and Advance percentages of minority upper- THRESHER STAFF planned yesterday's walk-out for classmen who live off-campus. 11:45 a.m. As of press time, the following Noted author Cornel West initi- According to BSA President were cheduled to speak: Sociol- ated Racial Solidarity Week's Dia- Audrey Ette, the event was planned ogy professor Chandler Davidson, logue on Diversity on Monday by to last about 45 minutes with pizza Student Association President discussing the connections between for the event and music scheduled Jamie Lisagor, Will Rice College diversity, humanity and democracy. for afterwards. senior Mugambi Jouet-Nkinyangi, The Dialogue on Diversity kicked Last year a similar walk-out was Associate Sociology Professor . off Racial Solidarity Week, an event organized in response to racist fli- Michael Emerson, Lovett College initiated last year in response to rac- ers distributed on campus. sophomore Mayra Cuello, Will Rice ist propaganda distributed on cam- This year's event is aimed at President Jesse Dickerman, Jones pus. Racial Solidarity Week was orga- bringing unity to campus and at College senior Vivek Mittal, Assis- nized by the Black Student Coalition, discussing issues affecting cam- tant History Professor Alex Byrd. which is made up of the Black Stu- dent Association, the Black Gradu- ate Student Association and the Na- tional Society of Black Engineers. West is a professor of African- American studies and religion at Hopwood participants Harvard University and is author of many books and articles, including Race Matters. debate affirmative action He began his lecture by warning the audience he would say things by Mark Berenson "That these people are just as quali- people did not want to hear. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF fied — that is a lie," Rogers said. "I hope I say something that thor- Rogers concluded with a story of oughly unsettles you, unnerves you, "j'mr ' ,si ' f Five years after sitting across how he, a white man, benefited from maybe for a moment unhouses you," ' from each other in the court room, affirmative action. West said. "We're here for dialogue, V- ' < two of the major participants in the In 1988, Rogers served as a del- not chit-chat." 1996 court case Hopwood v. Texas egate for Jesse Jackson at the Demo- West said a true dialogue on di- %LX2jbE sat at the same table in Keck Hall to cratic Convention. He said he was versity requires courage. debate the merits of affirmative ac- selected because Democratic party "It's very difficult to engage in a tion Wednesday night. rules required a candidate's delega- serious dialogue on diversity with- In the 1996 case, the Fifth Circuit tion be as diverse in race and gender out courage," West said. "Who has ruled the University of Texas I>aw as possible. Because most of Jackson's that kind of courage to examine our- School could not use race as an ad- supporters were black, he was chosen selves: the white supremacy in me, missions criteria. The decision states in place of a more qualified person. in ourselves; the male supremacy in LAURA WIGINGTON/THRESHER that the ruling is applicable to all Rogers said this experience me, in ourselves; the American arro- Cornel West, the author of Race Matters and other books, spoke Monday public schools of higher education showed him realized why blacks like gance in me, in ourselves?" night about the importance of striving for diversity. in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, affirmative action. West said a barrier to discussing ended project." your traditions. You don't inherit tra- and the Texas Attorney General has "It is like winning the lottery — diversity is that too many Americans West criticized the notion of a ditions, you have to fight for them." interpreted the decision to apply to you didn't do anything special, but are complacent and willing to accept "color-blind" society that ignores West also expressed his hope that private schools, including Rice. you get the benefit," Rogers said. societal norms. race, saying his color and culture audience members would continue The formal debate, sponsored by In the rebuttal portion of the de- "We've got forms of bondage and are integral parts of his humanity. the dialogue on diversity in their Advance as part of Racial Solidarity bate, Owens said the benefits out- conformity — learning to be well- "Why not look at me and keep homes, classes and workplaces. Week, sought to answer the ques- weigh the costs of affirmative ac- adjusted to the status quo, not learn- track of my humanity by keeping "There has to be much more se- tion "Should race be a factor in the tion. Some students might not gain ing to be maladjusted to evil," West track of my African-ness, my black- rious discussion and dialogue in the university admission process?" admission to their top choice univer- said. "We've got so much ness?" West said. black community of both internal Betty Owens, a lawyer who rep- sity but this remains the most effec- complacency ... and sheer coward- However, West said progress in diversity and the diversity outside, resented the University of Texas Law tive method to obtain minority rep- ice." matters of race and diversity has especially in the context of struggle," School in the Hopwood case, argued resentation in a class. West said the question of what it been made. West said. "We need a culture of in support of affirmative action. "We recognize that there will be a means to be human is at the center dialogue in the black community, David Rogers, a plaintiff in the cost, but it is a very limited cost," of a discussion on diversity, and part black-white, black-brown ... all case, spoke against it. Owens said. "Affirmative actions of the answer requires discussing across the board." Owens stressed the need to go gives you the most bang for the buck." death. 'Who has that kind of Audience members were invited beyond numbers in admissions de- Owens said percentage solutions, "America is the most death-dodg- to ask questions of West following cisions. Since Rice is more academi- such at Texas' plan — in which the ing, death-ducking, death-defying of courage to examine his lecture. cally challenging than many schools, top 10 percent of graduating seniors all civilizations," West said. "Yet you Black Student Association presi- someone with a lower CPA from from every high school in Texas are can't talk about diversity, you can't ourselves: the white dent Audrey Ette said the organiz- Rice might still be viewed as quali- granted admission to Texas public talk about white supremacy, with- ers of Racial Solidarity Week chose fied for admission. universities — are not effective. out talking about forms of death. For supremacy in me, in West to speak because of his reputa- Owens said the next question af- "This only works as long as our 244 years, slavery was a form of ourselves; the male tion as a scholar and his ability to ter decreasing the emphasis on num- high schools remain segregated, and social death." • address issues people often ?vrid bers, was which factors an admis- thus it promotes segregation on the West discussed the history of sla- supremacy in me, in discussing. sions committee should look for in high school level," Owens said. very, segregation and racism in the "He's able to unnerve you, and he candidates. Rogers commented that this sug- United States, as well as current prob- ourselves; the addresses things you don't want to Owen listed criteria the ruling gestion had some very negative con- lems related to diversity. One of the hear," Ette, a Baker College junior, said were acceptable, including so- notations. problems he named was wealth in- American arrogance in said. "We were just really pleased cioeconomic status and whether an "The unstated premise here is equality. that the audience consisted of mem- applicant's parents attended the that blacks can't compete in an inte- "We can't talk about diversity me, in ourselves?' bers of the Rice community, espe- school. grated environment," Rogers said. connected with humanity and de- — Cornel West cially students. We felt those were the people who needed to hear it, "If you can take all of those things Rogers also commented that the mocracy without talking about Author into consideration, why can't you take idea of affirmative action compen- wealth inequality, and it's getting especially if we talk about Racial race into account?" Owens asked the sating for slavery and segregation is worse every year," West said. "We Solidarity Week and diversity issues audience of about 100 people. not fair. need to talk about how much in- on campus." Owens concluded her initial re- "I am paying for segregation that equality the polity can take before it "In the last 35 years we've made a Brown College sophomore Uri marks with the claim that consider- happened before I was born," Rogers snaps." lot of progress," West said. "But like McMillan agreed. ing race leads to more diversity in said. West said another major prob- Malcolm X said, you don't stab a "I thought he was the best experience. During the question and answer lem related to diversity in America is person in the back nine inches and speaker I've ever heard," McMillan "Race is not a proxy for different session that followed, the two were racism in the criminal justice sys- pull it out six inches and talk about said. "I think it's really important points of view, but it is true that asked about the effects of Hopwood. tem, addressing recent police progress. We've got a lot of work to that he came, especially with the people of different race have differ- Owens said the University of shootings of innocent black youths do." minority flight discussion. If Rice is ent experiences," Owens said. Texas Law School suffered a huge as well as current drug policy. West also addressed the impor- going to improve diversity, they've Rogers, currently a law student drop in the number of minorities "The war on drugs was the tar- tance of discussing diversity on col- got to start bringing in different at Texas Tech Uiw School, began attending the year following the geting of poor, black and brown lege campuses. speakers, like Cornel West." his comments by defining affirma- Hopwood decision. However, legal youth," West said. "Drug use is just "I'm thoroughly convinced it is Other audience members said tive action as "naked raw racial pref- methods of recruiting have brought ubiquitous in American life. You can impossible to Ifb a first-rate, high- they enjoyed the lecture. erence," not a tie-breaker as many of levels of minorities close to pre- go to Wall Street and find more ec- quality college without taking diver- "His lecture was by far the best its supporters often describe it. Hopwood numbers again. stasy than you ever wanted, and how sity seriously," West said. I've ever seen," Hanszen College "If the University of Texas I.aw Rogers said the decrease was many of them get prosecuted? Not West said the reason diversity in sophomore Carolyn Shulman said. School used race as a tie-breaker, I mostly a backlash against the Uni- very many.... Are we simply giving colleges is important is that one must "He just tied everything together. wouldn't have joined the lawsuit," versity ofTexas Law School, and not lip service to being a democracy?" experience it in order to be truly He touched on elements of culture Rogers said. using race had almost no effect West said the other crucial ques- educated. and history and economics and poli- Rogers said that before Hopwood, through Texas as a whole. tion connected to diversity is what it "You need to be challenged, you tics — he got into all of it and made it all important." blacks were 17 times more likely to Owens concluded by saying she means to be part of a democracy. need to meet folks from backgrounds be admitted to the University of hoped for the day when no type of "Democracy is about voices you know not of," West said. "That's Many people who were not di- Texas Law School than whites with racial preference would be needed. heard; lack of democracy is voice- why a good citizen is a multi-contex- rectly affiliated with Rice also at- comparable qualifications. But until that day arrives, varying lessness," West said, alluding to the tual citizen." tended the lecture. "That is more than just the benefit experiences require that race be con- "black national anthem" "Lift Every West concluded by emphasizing "As usual, his speeches and his of the doubt; it is naked racial deci- sidered. Voice and Sing." the importance of carrying on the lectures go into an area where- no sions and it is wrong," Rogers said. Rogers concluded racial diver- "I think that democracy is really struggle for equality and avoiding one likes to go — and that's to the Rogers then produced statistics' sity is a good thing, but the state about ensuring that all those groups complacency. truth," Maiy Seales, a community that suggested black and Mexican should not mandate it. that have been excluded have their "Every generation has to meet member who attended the lecture, American graduates of the Univer- "As long as government doesn't voices heard," West said. "But as the challenge of whether they can said. "The main thing I liked was that his speech touched on the root sity ofTexas Law School were signifi- ignore the color of skin, it can not they have their voices heard, there preserve the best of what came be- of what this world is made up of, and cantly more likely to fail the bar exam expect the rest of us to move beyond will still be deeper problems. fore," West said. "If you don't fight that's love." than white and Asian graduates. race," Rogers said. ... That's why democracy is an open- for it, you can't preserve the best of ",* 'v " V . . * , . f - • ' a , t, > A v , k* , •» hi

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Six students receive SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS AT RICE Twenty Rice students won National Science Foundation scholarships in this year's competition. The award, given to those studying science, Wagoner scholarships math and engineering, gives an $18,009>stipend and $10,500 intuition abroad in Hyderabad, India, study- a year for up to three years. by Rachel Shiffrin ing the impact of mass media on THRESHER STAFF Elizabeth Bartmess Baker College senior post-colonial Indian identity. She is She will study social psychology in a Ph.D program at the University of French Maoism, post-apartheid participating in a program through Michigan. South Africa and Spanish are often the University of Wisconsin at Madi- studied by students. However, four son. Before leaving for India, she Danielle Monlque Bllyeu Lovett '99 Rice undergraduate students and will go to Madison and receive inten- She could not be reached for comment. two graduate students who are the sive language tutoring. She will also recipients of the Wagoner Scholar- be set up with a language tutor and Teresa Kubos Jonathan C. Borck Lovett 00 ships will be studying these topics an adviser in Hyderabad. He is studying public policy in environmental policy in a Ph.D program next year at each of their sources. Last year, Levy studied in north- at Harvard University Each scholarship is worth up to ern India researching the ways in $15,000. The winners of the award which Indian women use art as a tool Jae Chung Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student for the 2001-'02 school year are for social change. She has not decided if she will accept the NSF grant. Hanszen 'College junior Hassan Her research involved studying Irshad, Wiess College sophomore media such as street theater and Riki Conrey Jones '00 Colin Elliott, Wiess senior Marisa government-sponsored commer- She is a graduate student in Social Psychology at Northwestern University. Levy and Wiess sophomore Teresa cials, which piqued her interest in Kubos. The graduate students se- the impact of mass media. "India has Seth Eatlnger Wiess College Senior lected are Jae Chung in anthropol- the largest film industry in the world, He will be a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. ogy and Ron Haas in history. Aimee and the fact that they've gained inde- Placas, an anthropology graduate pendence in the last 50 years makes J.J. Emerson Baker '00 student, has been named an alter- them a prime candidate for observa- He is a graduate student in biojogy at the University of Chicago. nate for the scholarship. tion," she said. The scholarship was created in Irshad plans on studying South Kim Foster Hanszen College senior the name of 1929 Rice alumnus African religious leaders of faith com- She will go to graduate school in biophysics at the University of James T. Wagoner, a veteran of munities at the University of California at Berkeley. World War II and an avid traveler. Capetown in South Africa, focusing Marisa Levy The first scholarships were given in on the role of religion and Christian- Chris Harrison Sid Richardson College senior 1997. ity in rebuilding post-apartheid South He will study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware's Executive Director of Interna- Africa. graduate school. tional Programs and Scholarships Irshad said he is "interested in Mark Scheid said the scholarship learning about how historians plan Scott Harrison Sid senior was created to make sure Rice stu- on dealing with the burden of a his- He will pursue a Ph.D in chemical engineering at the University of Texas dents had ample opportunities to tory of injustice." at Austin. perform research abroad. Elliott will study political science The scholarships are funded by in Avignon, France, and hopes to Nathan Hilison Wiess '99 Wagoner's estate from an endow- improve his French while he is ment that can only be used for these there. He will complete a third year in the Harvard biophysics Ph.D program. scholarships. Haas will travel to Paris, France, "It was envisioned as kind of a to perform research for his disserta- Theresa A. Holland Sid senior Rice-only Fulbright scholarship," tion on French Maoism. The Maoists Scheid, assistant to the president, were "dissident French Marxists She will be a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department at Rice. said. inspired to start cultural revolution Fulbright scholarships are in France in the 1960s and 1970s," Dana Hunt Wiess senior awarded by the federal government he said. She will study environmental engineering at MIT graduate school. to college seniors and graduate stu- Haas said the issue is important PHOTOS BY KATIE STREIT/THRESHER MicheUe Meyer Baker senior dents interested in researching, because the movement is not well Hassan Irshad She will not accept the NSF award. studying or teaching in a foreign known in the United States and has Linh Pham Lovett College senior country. been "swept under the rug in She will study immunology at Stanford graduate school. To apply for the scholarship, stu- France," he said. Haas "thought of dents submitted essays detailing the project as kind of an expose," he Aimee J. Placas Anthropology Graduate student why they wanted to study abroad, said. She will be completing dissertation research in Athens, Greece. what they planned on studying and He will conduct his research in what led them to those interests, Nanterre, a working class suburb of Nate Vandesteeg Baker senior Scheid said. Paris that grew from an immigrant The Rice Committee on Schol- shantytown. Most Maoist move- Ph.D in Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology arships and Awards tried to choose ments were founded in Nanterre in students who would benefit the the late 1960s. Ray Wagner Wiess senior most from the experience abroad. "Very few universities have this He will enroll in the Masters/Ph.D program in Dept. of Electrical and The committee also looked for kind of money to spend on graduate Computer Engineering at Rice. scholastic achievement, character and undergraduate research," he Michael B. Wakin Brown '00 and dedication to the subject the said. He is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at Rice. candidate was pursuing, Scheid Chung will spend the year in said. Seoul, South Korea, doing a cultural Bethany Weber Hanszen '98 Kubos will spend the year in analysis of risk in venture capital She is a graduate student in cognitive psychology at Rutgers. Seville, Spain, to complete her Span- industry in South Korea. She be- Jae Chung ish major. Kubos said that although came interested in this when the she has studied Spanish for six years, Asian currency crisis emerged in she has yet to experience the cul- 1997. ture firsthand. "When this devastating thing "I've learned a lot about Spanish happened, I knew that I wanted to culture, but I've never been there," study something that dealt with ^0^(713) 523-7770 Kubos said. "I thought it was time to the globalization because of its im- put everything I've learned into con- portance in people's lives," she text." said. 5733 Kirby location Kubos also hopes to become cer- She chose to follow the progress tified in teaching English as a Sec- of the venture capital industry be- ond Language during her year cause it developed in Asia in re- • ••••• abroad, and plans on tutoring En- sponse to the currency crisis, she glish. said. 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STUDENT ASSOCIATION The Student Association met April 9. The following were discussed:

• The senate approved Hanszen College junior Suzy Cox as the new SA director of publications. <55& • The senate passed a resolution calling for the university to reexam- . H f ine the termination of spring recess. (See Story, Page 1) • The senate tabled a resolution calling for reform of the Higher • 1 Education Act, which mandates that students convicted of any drug- related offense be dewed financial aid. The issue will be discussed again next week, after all the colleges have had cabinet meetings.

The Student Association met Monday. The following were discussed:

• Students interested in proctoring self-scheduled exams should contact their senator or Internal Vice President Kim Tran ([email protected]). • Students who were undergraduates during any of the past three school years can pick up their yearbooks at the Campanile office, the Office of Student Media or the student organizations office. • Undergraduates who will not be at Rice next fall and would like to receive a Campanile by mail should turn their permanent address and $7.50 in to the Campanile office. • The Presidents Jamie Lisagor and Gavin Parks presented an update on the academic calendar resolution passed April 9. While the issue • • >>•:'' v;>: will not be on the agenda at the next faculty meeting, the presidents are working to make the change more bearable for students. Options they are looking into include reinstating "dead week" arid formulat- ing a policy forbidding the assignment of group projects during the la§t few weeks of class. They pointed out that there are advantages to having equal semesters, including the possibility of offering first semester science classes during the spring semester. The presi- dents are hoping to help form a new university standing committee so that the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee is no longer in charge of the calendar. (See Story, Page 1) KIJANA KNIGHT/THRESHER Pulitzer-Prize winnng author Jared Diamond spoke April 10 on understanding European society's successful develop- • Students for a Sensible Drug Policy representatives answered ment, compared to other continents'. Diamond was the last speaker in this year's President's Lecture Series. questions about what they said at the meeting April 9. • The new SA standing committee chairs were approved, and the committees met unofficially for the first time during the meeting. Each committee came up with a few goals for next year. Lecturer explains European success • The Academics Committee will be chaired by Will Rice College freshman Renee Edlund ([email protected]) and Wiess College sopho- more Ricky Kalra ([email protected]). The committee will continue to by Aalok Mehta years ago, every human everywhere gatherers and carried their crops, work on projects from last year, including evaluating the Economics in the world made his or her living as THRESHER STAFF livestock, languages and genes with Department and creating the peer academic advising program. a hunter-gatherer," he said. them around the world. Committee members also brainstormed goals including identifying At the beginning of his speech, Because natural food sources "In modern times, a metaphor for other departments students feel need improvements and starting a Pulitzer-Prize winner Jared Diamond were scarce, hunter-gatherers had a how the fanners spread is given by minor program at Rice. quipped that he would have to sum up low population density, ranging from the title of my book," Diamond said. a The Athletics Committee will be chaired by Hanszen College sopho- 13,(XX) years of human history over one person per square mile to one "When I'd written my book and was more Ryan Keedy ([email protected]) and Sid Richardson College five continents in only 42 minutes. per 100 square miles. They also lived trying to figure out a title for it, my sophomore Jamie Story ([email protected]). Goals the committee His April 10 speech, the fifth and a mobile, nomadic lifestyle and did wife, who's my editor, came up with came up with included improving relations between athletes and the final presentation in this year's not have much stored food. the idea Guns, Germs and Steel be- entire student body, ensuring athletes are included in Orientation President's Lecture Series, was titled Diamond said these factors, in cause guns, germs and steel exem- Week activities, making sports schedules more available to stu- "Guns, Germs and Steel" after his addition to the fact that mothers plify the ingredients of Old World dents, bussing people to nearby away games, having college varsity 1998 Pulitzer-Prize winning book of could only carry one infant at a time, success. sports reps and working on green space issues. the same name. He focused on the prevented these societies from grow- "The result of the fact that the • The Space and Facilities Committee will be chaired by Brown College importance of environmental factors ing rapidly or developing complex people who got farming and herding freshman Ian White ([email protected]) and Sid freshman Shirin in shaping the major events and technology or government. earliest expanded, overran every- Hakimzadeh ([email protected]). Goals the committee brainstormed trends in human history. "The characteristics of a hunter- body else, is that today ... maybe 95 included clarifying the parking rules; claritying the location of shuttle Diamond is a professor in the gatherer society, which characterized or 98 percent of you in this room stops; adding more lighting to campus: and increasing the availabil- University of California at Los Ange- everyone on the world until 10,(XX) today speak languages that 10,000 ity of shuttles and other forms of transportation on the weekends. les' School of Medicine. years ago, are low population density years ago were confined to one of • The Construction Committee, a new SA standing committee, will be His theory proposes that the [and ] long birth spacing, not much in two tiny areas of the world: the Fer- chaired by Jones College freshman Alan Kolodny ([email protected]) domination of Europeans and Asians the way of complex technology, lack tile Crescent or China." and Will Rice sophomore James Sullivan ([email protected]). Goals the over the rest of the world is the of social stratification and simple po- Furthermore, Diamond said it committee brainstormed included having models of the construction result of luck, their success simply a litical organization," Diamond said. was only luck that those particular projects in the library rotunda; establishing construction noise limits by-product of the distribution of "All of those things began to change areas developed farming first and during finals and other testing periods; having a forum so students domesticable plants and animals and ten and a half thousand years ago therefore triumphed culturally and can hear and respond to the master construction plan; and dealing the shapes of the continents. with the development of agriculture politically over other societies. with the problems library construction and other projects will cause. "The broadest pattern of history and herding: the farming lifestyle." Europeans' earlier development • The Student Life Committee will be chaired by Brown freshman ... seems to me to be attributable to of farming is. Diamond said, the rea- Kathleen Milazzo ([email protected]) and Hanszen freshman Melissa differences among continental envi- son they possessed advanced tech- Andrews ([email protected]). Ideas the committee brainstormed ronments and not the biological dif- nology like steel and guns while the included creating a furniture co-op, organizing clubs on the Web site ferences among people themselves," '/ think it should be Native Americans they conquered in a more orderly fashion, increasing the food options available in the Diamond said. possessed only stone tools. Student Center, improving relations between graduate and under- "In particular, the availability of clear that the European Diamond said he hopes this graduate students and increasing publicity for functions in the wild plant and animal species suit- conquest was just the theory will reduce popular racist architecture and music schools. able for domestication ... contrib- overtones about human history — uted decisively to the varying rates culmination of overtones that are all too prevalent The next meeting will be held Monday in Farnsworth Pavilion in the of rise in agriculture and herding, because up to this point historians Student Center at 10 p.m. which in turn contributed decisively h istorical processes had not come up with an explanation to varying rates of human popula- for the basic facts of human history. tion numbers, population densities that took 13,000 years/ "The reason people fall back on and food surpluses, which in turn — Jared Diamond these racist explanations is that his- contributed decisively to varying Pulitzer Prize-winning author torians have not told them what is rates of epidemic infectious diseases, the correct explanation for the most writing, technology and political or- obvious fact about history," he said. ganization," he continued. "I think it should be clear that the Diamond is a physiology profes- Diamond said fanning allows the European conquest was just the cul- JAPANESE sor, but he said he was intrigued by same land to feed more people. Com- mination of historical processes that the question of why history unfolded pared to hunter-gatherers, fanners took 13,000 years," he continued. "It as it did. had much greater population den- was the result of... the different dis- WOMEN NEEDED ( NOW or this SUMMER )! He asked why the people of Eu- sity, around 1,000 people per square tributions of domesticable wild plant rope, sub-Saharan Africa and Norfti mile. Farmers were able to store food and animal species around the world, Physician is assisting 8 couple wanting to start family.PLEASE HELP!! Website"Www. America are so similar physically and the population could grow more and the different shapes, areas and physician.yourrfld.com* or tollfree (800)862-515 8 Inquire "donor program" and genetically, while the inhabit- rapidly because mothers did not have distances among the continents." ants of the Indian subcontinent and to wait for infants to reach walking Some scientists have critiqued New Guinea are so different. age before having another child. Guns, Germs and Steel because it His quest to find an answer led to A surplus of food also meant that uses non-verifiable historical meth- the publication of Guns, Germs and not everyone had to farm; people ods rather than current scientific Steel, a book that Paul Harcombe, a could take on specific trades. Thus, method. Diamond is not worried. On the Verge professor in Rice's Ecology and Evo- fanners developed complex technol- "We should surely be able to un- 38th Annual Student Art Exhibition lutionary Biology Department who ogy, socially stratified societies and derstand human history because introduced Diamond, called a centralized government. introspection and preserved writing "monumental treatise on human his- "The farmers and herders from give us far more insight into the OPENING THURSDAY APRIL 26 tory." In England, it is subtitled "A the homeland spread too rapidly, tak- ways of past humans than we are 5:30 - 7:30, Rice Gallery, 7:00 - 9:00, Media Center Short History of Everybody for the ing advantage of their enormously ever going to have into the ways of Last 13,000 Years," Harcombe said. greater numbers, their more power- past dinosaurs," Diamond said. free food and drink, DJd music, performances by Rice Dance The key to understanding this ful technology, particularly military "For that reason, I'm optimistic Theatre and Rice Players, fashion show, awards ceremony puzzle, Diamond said, is looking at technology, and their armies and su- that we can eventually arrive at con- the lifestyles of ancient peoples. perior political organization," he said. vincing explanations of these broad- www.rice.edu/ruag/ontheverge.html "Until ten and a half thousand Farmers conquered the hunter- est patterns of human history." . : - .. . - ?* * •- i'* ; *:; THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001

NEWS IN BRIEF : m I . . i . v directory online again this year, sav- places by students," Cox said. "I designs the cover of the club guide Cox named director of ing the SA money and giving stu- think that a lot of people don't use and helps with the homecoming T- dents more access to the directory. [the card]. Ill go to House of Pies shirts. Cox said she hopes to work publications They are going to work together with a bunch of people and none of with Students for Athletic Spirit and As the ne\v Student Association on that because [Director of Tech- us will use the Silver Saver Card, Support to make the homecoming director of publications, Hanszen nology Josh Ginsberg] is going to even though there's a Silver Saver shirts, and possibly design a second College junior Suzy Cox is looking be doing the whole Web site," discount on it. I'd like to get some shirt to sell on campus. to make the SA publications more Lisagor, also a Hanszen junior, said. more places that people go to a lot." "Next year, we are going to do useful for the student body. While Cox is officially in charge In addition to finding better two shirts," Lisagor said. "We're Cox said she is looking forward of the summer directory, Ginsberg, places, Cox would like to make stu- going to sell T-shirts, probably the to the job and sees it as a great way a Wiess College junior, will help her dents more aware of what the card T-shirts that everyone has been talk- to be involved in the SA. set it up on the Web site. has on it by better publicizing it. ing about making, 'Rice: a great place "I'm just really excited to have the Cox said she plans to keep the "It shows up in your box and you to live in however many years.'" opportunity fo do this," she said. "I newcomer's guide basically the stick it in your wallet and you forget — Rachel Rustin think that the SA spends a lot of time same. Though she will be abroad for about it," Cox said. putting together all these publica- a month during the summer, she While she will not start working Quayle awarded tions, and the only one that anyone said she will solicit advertising be- on the off-campus housing guide LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER fore she goes and will be back in until December, Cox said she has really cares about is the new guide, Hanszen College Junior Suzy Cox Watson scholarship so I'm excited about the opportunity Houston before freshman pictures already begun thinking about ways to try to change that this year." Parks, a Hanszen junior, said Cox are due. to improve it. She said she used it to Will Rice College senior Patrick SA Presidents Jamie Lisagor and had ideas about ways to incorporate Cox also hopes to improve the find an apartment, but she doesn't Quayle will spend next year travel- Gavin Parks said they chose Cox the publications she will make into Silver Saver Card. think students take advantage of it, ing the world after receiving a because she was the most enthusias- other SA activities. "I'm going to try to get better and she would like to find out why. Watson Fellowship. tic candidate and had many new ideas. Cox said she will put the summer discounts at more frequently-visited The director of publications also Quayle said he will study five of he best airlines in the world to see low the culture of the country in .vhich they are based affects their operations and individuality. "We've all experienced the ser- /ice the airlines can give you and I vant to know what these companies lo to make it a pleasant trip," Quayle said. Quayle is the third Watson Fel- owship recipient from Rice thisyear. rle was named as an alternate for the scholarship when the awards were announced last month. Quayle will spend the coming IK ENEMY FOR /ear doing this case study, which he sees as a practical project. The fol- owingyear he will earn a masters in business administration at a univer- sity yet to be determined through he Rotary scholarship he also re- reived this year. AN AU-NKiffl RAVE"Whe n I come out of those two /ears, it will give me a complete oicture of the whole industry," Quayle said. He said he wants to see how plans ire transformed from an idea on pa- oer to a plane in the air. He is cur- ently choosing the five airlines from WITHOUT THE British Airways. KLM, Singapore \irlines, Air New Zealand, Lufthansa, l"opa Airlines and Grupo TACA. "I went and I researched each airline to see which airlines are mown for service, and I looked in mmm ••FnimlmaaWH ravel magazines and at awards," 3uayle said. In making his decision, Quayle is ooking at each company's history ind the overall global opinion of it. He said it might be a challenge to .vork out arrangements to spend two or three months with each airline, out he thinks he will succeed in JAIL TIME :onvincing the airlines. Quayle said he has gained some experience,in the airline industry after working with the manager of George Bush Intercontinental Air- >ort last year. FORPOSS — Rachel Rustin Police warn against e-mail scam An e-mail scam preying on recipi- ents recently hit Rice, University Police Lt. Phil Hassell said Tuesday, rlassell has received at least five re- sponses concerning the e-mail. The liessage is supposedly from "Mariam \bacha, the wife of a former Nige- ian head of state." It opens with the ine "Dear Sir," followed by "private ind confidential" in capital letters. The exact intent of the e-mail is inclear, Hassell said, but it promises i monetary compensation of 20 per- :ent of Abacha's "family fund" in ex- :hange for a response to the letter. Hassell said he believes many >eople may have received these e- nails. He said he does not know the :onsequences of responding to the e-mail because no one has told him Gonna be a late one? Then reach for new BALANCE GOLD* with 23 vitamins and minerals. With a 40-30-30 ratio of hey've done so. "Just don't respond," Hassell said. carbs, protein arid dietary fat, it helps give your body sustained energy. Plus, you can't These people do catch some folks." go wrong with all those peanuts, caramel and that rich chocolate flavor. Want to know more? Log on to Balance.com. Hassell said he doesn't know why :ertain people in the Rice commu- lity received the e-mail, but he be- ieves that they weren't specifically argeted. He thinks the message was sent out to thousands of people. — Matt Cuddihy 7. • •HMIIiiHiI f' f' J I « % e> 4 . • • • - , THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2.001 V ore Martelians I If? can live at Holly Hall by Elizabeth Decker "I asked everyone, 'Do you mind

THRESHER STAFF sharing?'" Bradley said. "Some people said yes, they would mind Martel College students living at sharing, some people have said, 'No, Twenty-One Eleven Holly Hall next I would like to share.'" semester will be allowed to live four Bradley hopes to shorten the list to a three-bedroom apartment in- from 35 to 30 people through this stead of just three to help shorten arrangement. the waiting list of students who did For the other students on the not get a room originally under the waiting list unable to get a room at Martel Plan. Holly Hall as part of the Martel Plan, The agreement was reached Fri- Bradley suggested living there un- day during negotiations between der the Rice plan that is open to all Food and Housing Director Mark Rice students who have not yet made Ditman, Wiess College sophomore other arrangements. Ishmeal Bradley and Diane Lawson, "Some of them have already made the assistant vice president of other plans. If they don't make it and Anterra, which manages the Holly they don't have plans, we are just Hall apartments. encouraging them to go along with Bradley, who is transferring to the Rice plan," Bradley said. "That Martel College, was selected by the would probably be the second-best Martel Parliament to work on the option for them." rooming situation at Holly Hall. Bradley said there were no other r,t Negotiations originally focused ways of improving the arrangements on increasing the number of rooms at Holly Hall to accommodate more available to Martel students, which Martelians. Lawson said was not possible. As a "We didn't really have any other ROB GADDI/THRESHER partial solution, Lawson agreed to options. The space we got at Holly allow four students to live in the Hall was all they were willing to give Fair enough three-bedroom apartments. Permit- up at a particular moment in time. Baker College freshman Eileen Chollet cuddles a goat kid at the Baker Fair held April 8 in the area between ting five students to an apartment It's what they had open at the mo- Will Rice College and Baker. The fair was held as the final activity in Baker's series of medieval events. was discussed, but Lawson was con- ment and what they were willing to cerned about possible parking short- give us for the semester," Bradley ages at the apartments. said. "You would think this school The fourth student will pay $150 has enough money to do something, a month in addition to the rents of but that hasn't been an option, so $425 for each of the two master bed- from the students' point of view this rooms and $350 for the smaller bed- is pretty much as much as we could room the other three students will have done." ? pay. Students will give their portion of the rent directly to Holly Hall, but We do research may divide rent and utilities among themselves however they see fit. 'We're going to do Ditman said he thought Rice stu- dents would pay the fee and not try everything we can to that will to get a fourth student in for free. make sure the stars "It has been my experience that Rice students have a well-developed align and Martel sense of integrity and fair-play with matters of this nature," Ditman said. doesn't come in late discover the "I don't feel there needs to be any- — Mark Ditman thing specific in place to prevent 'unofficial' overcrowding." Director of Food and Housing mmm In total, Martel students will pay treatments of $1,350 for the three-bedroom apart- ments if they choose to live four to An additional outcome of the ne- an apartment, but the list price for gotiations last Friday was a decrease each apartment is $1,225. in the holdover fee. Previously. Rice the Riture. Bradley said the system will lower agreed to pay the equivalent of three the individual student's rent, but still months' rent for the apartments be advantageous to the manage- leased under the Martel plan if stu- jtK'l kupersmith, MD ment. dents needed to stay longer than Dean, Texas Tech School of Medicine "It's cheaper for everyone, but arranged. Under the new agreement, they still get a bigger profit in the Rice is only liable for one and a half end." Bradley said. months' rent, decreasing the fee from However, Ditman said Holly Hall approximately $70,000 to $35,000. is taking a financial risk by leasing to Ditman explained this was a show ^Martel and will likely not profit from of confidence in the pace of Martel the additional rent paid by the fourth construction on Holly Hall's part. student. "I see that as an act of good faith "I think what people don't under- on their part," Ditman said. stand is what a huge concession this Ditman said construction is still is on Holly Hall's part, to do short- on schedule, and he does not antici- pate having to pay the holdover fee. At the term leases, because what happens is at the end of these leases, they're "You can have that holdover fee if hung with 19 vacant apartments in you want, but it's not going to be the middle of the winter," Ditman exercised," Ditman said. "I'm very said. optimistic that everybody's going to do what they need to do, and it's just Forefront Ditman also explained that apart- ment managers incur additional not going to be a problem." costs every time they switch ten- Ideally, Ditman said, the rooms ants, and Martel will create relatively at Martel will be ready before winter high turnover costs by vacating 19 break for students to move their belongings in. of Medicine. apartments at one time after only a four and a half month lease. "We're going to do everything Ditman said that while Holly Hall we can to make sure the stars align could take a short-term loss on the and Martel doesn't come in late," At Texas Tech, as in other academic medical centers, we bring the latest in medical Martel Plan, they are hoping to be Ditman said. 'To me that's ideal, if repaid with an increase in the num- some time during finals you can drop care to our patients...the latest in compassionate, high-quality medical care. We are ber of Rice students renting from your stuff in your room. ... That's them in the future. what we'll work towards." a center that does research and teaching. This allows us to be at the forefront of "On the surface it looks like Bradley anticipates the transition they're making this huge financial back onto campus next winter will medicine. We do research that will go smoothly despite the problems gain out of this deal, and I think discover the treatments of the future. This realistically it's probably revenue created by the shortage of space at neutral for them," Ditman said. "What Holly Hall. is what makes academic medical centers TEXAS TECH they're leveraging is a longer-term "We don't have a physical build- relationship with Rice. What they're ing yet, but we have the weekly so great and this is why we are so proud of MEDICAL CENTER hoping is that it'll kind of become the meetings, we have the parliament AM\RIUO H PAM) tUHVOCK (> O K S S A preferred location, or the first place meetings, we have officers, so we Texas Tech. people consider from Rice." are coming together," Bradley said. 4th & Indiana • South Loop 289 & Quaker Students will be asked to volun- "The transition will just be to an teer to live with a fourth roommate, actual building, but most of the ac- and no one will be forced to accept tual college spirit is already being one, Bradley said. put in place." I team best in tournament four who qualified for the American by Susan Abramski Forensics Association National Fo- THRESHES STAKE rensics Tournament. The forensics team held onto its "We need to improve our speech title of best speech and debate team ranking. ... I spent so much time in the country at the Pi Kappa Delta trying to rebuild the debate pro- National Tournament and Conven- gram with so few of them coming tion held at Boise State University back after the accident that I didn't March 28-31. focus enough energy on coaching Debate Coach Dan West said the the speech events that I do," West tournament is important because it said. offers an overall title in speech and The team's place at speech na- debate rather than just one. tionals, which were held last week- "We are a complete team," end at George Mason University in Hanszen College junior Brook Ames, Virginia, dropped from 14th place president of the George R. Brown last year to 20th place this year. Forensics Society, said "For a lot of schools, they focus either on just

^HEW debate or they focus on just speak- ing, whereas we have all these stu- dents that can do very well at both, 'We are a complete which is evidenced by the overall team. For a lot of title." LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER In addition to the overall champi- schools, they focus onship, Rice debaters received 50 Food for thought awards in other categories, includ- either on just debate or ing the national championship titles Provost Eugene Levy (middle left) joins Wiess College students for lunch in the Wiess Commons April 11 to in dramatic interpretation by Sid they focus on just talk to members of the college about various topics. Richardson College sophomore Bemadette Cadena, reader's theater speaking, whereas we and poetry interpretation by Brown have all these students College junior Chas Cahn and per- Beckwith hopes to improve recreation center suasive speaking by Lovett College that can do very well at junior Jitu Sardar. AUTRY, from Page 1 with Orientation Week Student Di- In addition to the Pi Kappa Delta both, which is evidenced people who should not be using the rector Shannon Scott, and next year National Tournament, the team par- facilities, staff members will make 'Hopefully, students the recreation center will be open ticipated in a debate competition at by the overall title rounds and record activity levels'in will appreciate the fact during O-Week for the first time. the National Parliamentary Debate — Brook Aines the recreation center every 30 min- "Incoming new students will have Association Championship Tourna- George R. Brown Forensics ment at Metropolitan State College utes. The committee hopes this will that they dorit have to a chance to tour the facility," Society President allow closer monitoring of the facil- Beckwith said. "I'm working with of Denver from March 22-26. ity than uniforms alone. use the facility uniforms Shannon and the other advisers to "What's nice about the debate Other administrative changes will arrange activities and maybe a pool tournament is that we went from accompany the uniform change. anymore so they wont party or something." 14th last year to 4th this year," West, "So I think that next year, now There will be job openings for He is also trying to establish an a Brown resident associate, said. "We that my debate teamis back together, students in the recreation center. mind taking a few aerobic fitness room by the fall. made a big. jump." I can spend more time coaching Positions for lifeguards and equip- Plans are in progress to eliminate West, who has been coaching speech events. ...20th plaqe is still ment room attendants are available seconds to write their either a racquetball or squash court forensics at Rice for eight years, said not bad out of 100 schools," West immediately, and the center will need names down.' to create space for the treadmills there were over 250 teams of part- said. weight room attendants and facility and bicycles that are currently in ners at the competition, including Ames said his goals for the team managers as soon as the program is — Boyd Beckwith the weight room. The new room five from Rice. next year include defending the na- fully in place, Beckwith said. Facility Student and Recreation will have more equipment than is "We had our van accident last tional title, continuing a winning manager duties will be similar to Centers Director currently available as well as televi- year on the way home from debate streak at the fall' state champion- those of Student Center managers, sions. • nationals," West said. "I started this ships, retaining all current team including opening and closing the Beckwith isaccepting suggestions year with only threo debaters re- members, recruiting aggressively center, answering questions and as- from students for additions to weight turning from the year before that among incoming freshmen and re- sisting patrons. ity, by the fall. trainingand aerobic equipment. Even- chose to debate again. I had to re- taining and improving the current Architecture students will design "I'm hiring student architecture tually, an advisory council will exam- build the debate program. So I spent standings. signs to direct people to the facility. majors to design those, and none of ine recreation center policy to make most of my energy trying to rebuild West said Cahn will represent The signs will be put in place outside them have any time until after school improvements. The council, which has that." Rice this weekend al the last tourna- the recreation center, visible from is out," Beckwith said. not been formed yet, will meet four Ames said (he team recruited ment t>f the season, the Interstate the Inner Loop and inside the facil- He also said'that he is working times a year, Beckwith said. some strong freshmen, including Oratory in California. Juniors STUDENT TRAVEL Order Your Class Ring

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KATIE STRF.IT/THRESHER Getting in the groove Gabe Bullock (top) dances the Sancy dance at the April 6 Pow Wow FAST. NOT FAST FOOD held in Autry Court. Bullock is affiliated with the Sac-n-Fox and Alabama-Coushatta tribes. Will Rice College freshmen James Stone and Yee Huang participate in the audience's potato dance competition at the Pow Wow. O-Week Position The Health Education Office is looking for a Wellness Coordinator for O-Week 2001. The Wellness Coordinator plays an essential role in the development and implementation of the Wellness Program for O-Week. The Wellness Program is designed to present incoming students with basic information about college health issues and resources available. Topics presented in the Wellness Program include Alcohol & Drugs, Body Image, Depression & Stress, and Sexual Health. Benefits include: stipend, flexible hours, on-campus housing for O-Week, GOURMET BURRIT0S&TAC3S. PR0NT8. direct experience with public health KIRSY & NOTTINGHAM re-A^x. ;V" • w v - ' ''

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THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 Worker remains unconscious after fall The following Incidents were reported to the University Police for the period April 4-17. CONSTRUCTION, from Page 1 gency room less than 15 minutes Residential Colleges before he was sent to the operating Brown College April 8 Student reported being harassed by room. other students! Nava's injuries included a basal skull fracture, which caused trauma Brown College April 9 Student reported watch and money and swelling of the brain. stolen from room during Beer-Bike. In addition, he suffered a broken wrist, a broken forearm, a collapsed Hanszen College April 10 Bicycle stolen. lung and crushed sinuses. Until April 10, Nava's brain was Sid Richardson April 10 Bicycle stolen. unresponsive and he was on a venti- College lator. He has improved since and is now responding to simple com- Sid Richardson April 11 Bicycle stolen. mands. College As of press time, Nava was in critical condition in the Neurologi- Academic Buildings cal Intensive Care Unit of Ben Taub Fondren Library April 7 Wallet and cell phone stolen. and was still on a ventilator. On Wednesday, Nava underwent Mechanical April 17 Purse stolen. reconstructive surgery to repair his Engineering Building sinuses. According to Project Manager Parking Lots Eleni Soto, the prognosis for Nava's North Lot April 4 Attempted burglary of a motor recovery is good. Soto said Nava's vehicle. neurosurgeon told her he should have a full neurological recovery Allen Center/Cohen April 5 Non-Rice subject arrested for public within six months. House Lot intoxication and transported to However, although his eyes and Harris County Jail. optic nerves are intact and function- ing, his doctors are still unsure about South Stadium Lot April 10 Two subjects stopped for distributing the brain injury's effect on Nava's flyers on campus. One subject vision. arrested for outstanding warrants White said Gilbane has reviewed and released to Houston Police all safety precautions related to fall Department. protection at the site. On Wednesday afternoon, the ^wearr. Continuing Studies April 12 Vehicle struck while parked. No Occupational Safety and Health Ad- information left. ministration visited the site to as- t sess its safety. West Stadium Lot April 13 Wallet stolen from a vehic'e. White said Gilbane Project Man- ager Brent Ivey was told OSHA was not at liberty to discuss its findings, West Stadium Lot April 13 Vehicle burglarized. Stereo stolen. £ but that nothing disturbing had been MARK BERENSON/THRESHER Abercrombie Lot April 16 Vehicle struck while parked. No found. Construction worker Victor Nava fell from the top of the pole pictured in the center of this area of the new Jones School of Management site. information left. White added that the OSHA in- spector wanted to see the actual har- Other Areas ness Nava was wearing when he fell. the entire group of workers from the sive for a site of that size." Jones School April 5 Male fell 30 feet. Subject suffered The harness is in a lock box at Key- site and they offered them the op- White said Rice does not antici- Construction Site head injury and was unresponsive. stone Structural Concrete. portunity to leave for the day in case pate any legal action to be taken Houston Fire Department White said she expects a report they had been upset. against the university in response to transported subject to Ben Taub from OSHA within a week. "They were very, very careful to the accident. Hospital. (See Story, Page 1) She said Gilbane followed Rice's interview every one of the workers "Obviously, there is always a li- accident procedures. that would be going up on the forms ability potential in a situation like Academic Quad April 10 Student reported an alum was "We were pleased that they fol- in subsequent days to make sure this," White said. "But our concern distraught and incoherent. Subject lowed all of our emergency crisis pro- that everyone was emotionally ready is for the worker and to make sure transported to Ben Taub Hospital cedures and guidelines to the letter," to go up there." that any safety issues are addressed for evaluation. White said. "They did a great job." White said this was the first acci- on site immediately." White added that she was im- dent at the Jones School construc- Wliite said Keystone had provided pressed with how Gilbane handled tion site. accommodations for Nava's family in the immediate aftermath of the acci- "Gilbane is really terrific in terms a hotel adjacent to the hospital. dent. of safety concerns," White said. "We have not been involved in "[Gilbane] was very careful to "They even reward people for doing [helping the family], but we abso- make sure that no one else would be routine jobs safely, and they have lutely want to understand how they We have oatmeal with at risk from the event having hap- gone in excess of 300 days without are being taken care of and that their your name on it. pened," White said. 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' THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 13 's decision ERRATA . CALENDAR, from Page 1 way since it's so close to the end of dents made it to the meeting." The following are errors from the April 6 issue: of classes and beginning of finals. the semester," Sullivan said. The three undergraduates ap- This semester, the last day of classes However, Wiess College fresh- pointed to this year's CUC last year In the caption of the feature photo "Coming out ahead" on Page 1, Jones is April 27, and final exams for non- man Christine Liang said the two- were Brian Stoler (Hanszen '01), College senior Richard Fuquay is misidentified. graduating students begin May 2. day break can be more relaxing than Wiess senior Sarah Pitre and Baker However, exams can be self-sched- the week-long spring break. junior Kevin Askew, but none at- In the article "Jubilee 2000 founder speaks on eliminating Third World uled as soon as April 28. "Spring break is a whole week tended the meeting where the com- debts' arid the interview "Jubilee 2000founder comments on organization's Lisagor said she did not know and when students have a four-day mittee approved the calendar. Stoler g on Pages &-7, Seydina Senghor's name is misspelled. whether the dead time between weekend, they're less inclined to do lost his membership when he gradu- classes and exams should be en- something like go skiing," Liang ated in January and became a com- In the article "Rotary scholar named" on Page 8, the University of forced — banning tests and meet- said. "So the two-day break is more puter science graduate student. §id Edinburgh is misspelled. ings between the last day of classes like a real break." Richardson College senior Esther and the first day of exams—or if the Brown College freshman Valerie Sung replaced Askew when he went In the jump "Two days added to spring semester" on Page 10, the amount of time should be extended. Lewis agreed spring recess was im- abroad, but Sung said she never re- reasons that the undergraduates on the University Standing Committee "Right now what we have is not a portant. ceived any of the committee's e-mails. on Undergraduate Curriculum did not attend the meeting where calendar real dead week because you can start "It's necessary for the sanity of CUC Chair John Zammito added her discussion took place are inaccurately explained. There were three scheduling exams immediately," she students," Lewis said. to the committee's list Wednesday. undergraduates on the committee last semester: then-Hanszen College said. "We don't know if we want to Patten said the faculty had planned Pitre said she had a scheduling con- senior Brian Stoler, Wiess College senior Sarah Pitre and Baker College change the way we use the time that to review the calendar changes after flict with the CUC meeting but un- senior Kevin Askew. However, Askew went abroad this semester and already exists or make the time longer. it saw how the removal of the break derstood why the change was made. was replaced by Sid Richardson College senior Esther Sung. Sung did "We need to make it at least a affected the campus. However, Gillis pointed out that not attend the CUC meeting last month when the calendar changes were time when you can't schedule meet- "This is voted for and we're going academic calendars are approved two discussed because she had never received any information about the ings and no one is taking tests so to try it out," he said. "We are going years in advance, so changes made committee or its meetings. Because Stoler graduated in January and that it's just a time for relaxing and to reexamine it at the end of the trial during spring2003 in response toTeed- became a computer science graduate student, he was not a voting preparing." period." back from students would not take member of the committee and did not attend the meeting. Pitre, as the Patten said he agreed some stu- Patten said he thought both parts effect until the 2004-'05 academic year. article states, was unable to attend the meeting because of a schedul- dents would not have enough time of the SA resolution —reexamining Lisagor said students should be a ing conflict. to prepare projects and papers at the the decision and establishing formal bigger part of the calendar approval end of the semester without the two- lines of communication with the SA process. In the feature photo caption "Becoming culturally aware" on Page 11, day recess, and dead week might president— were already in place in "We need to find ways in the fu- Willy's Pub Manager Mike Hauenstein and Hanszen College senior help compensate for this. the calendar approval process. ture to not let the academic calendar Shanna Kuzdzal's names are misspelled. • "We would at least have to have "We are not only responsive to go through without student input," dead week because you just can't get both parts of the resolution but also she said. In a photo caption on Page B7 of the Beer-Bike feature, Will Rice College together for group projects during an both of those things were intended Sullivan said students aren't the freshman Javier Garcia is misidentified. academic week," he said. "The faculty to be done," he said. best source for decisions on the aca- needs to think about the consequence President Malcolm Gillissaid stu- demic calendar. The Thresher regrets the errors. of its actions in these other terms." dents' opinions would be taken into "I don't know if students always Registrar Jerry Montag said he account when the faculty reconsid- make the best choices when it comes thought the faculty should reconsider ers the removal of the break, but to breaks," he said. the decision before finalizing it. emphasized undergraduate commit- Zammito, a history professor, said "I agree with the resolution in that tee members' absence from the CUC student opinion on the academic INSTITUTE I think the faculty should reexamine meeting when the calendar changes calendar was important, but the de- the termination of spring recess and were discussed. cision was the faculty's to make. 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illis is an unlikely mix of liberal lege, starting with Chipola Junior College and scholar, self-made man and no-non- an associate's degree — not a standard begin- G sense Southerner. He's a familiar ning for an academic career. From there, he figure on campus — white-haired, barrel- spent two more years at the University of chested, with a weathered face that tinges Florida. with red when he gets angry. And, on meeting "And it was a pretty good university, but him for the first time, you might believe that had I known about places like Harvard and • -mliil he did have a pickup truck, shotgun rack and Duke — I actually had the scores, I could have JEN FRAZER/CAMPANILE Gillis is "not an absent president," said English professor and speaker of the faculty Bob Patten. all. gotten in," he said. "But I had no idea about He often shows up at events like Willy's Birthday and Beer-Bike. Gillis, 60, has never been one to waste his these places. But that's fine. Look, University time with-anything, and he's not shy about of Florida served me beautifully. And I got from his years at Harvard, and he's proud to became the dean of the graduate school and discussing his accomplishments, which are good jobs there to support myself when I was show them. vice provost. He was promoted to dean of the impressive. studying, and there's nothing I would change, "My courses were always the top-ranked faculty of arts and sciences from 1992-'93, and Going to high school in rural Florida, he nothing." courses in economics, and they had the repu- was then hired as Rice's president. didn't bother with the sub-par Latin instruc- After college, he applied for a fellowship to tation for being the hardest and most demand- He clearly loves being the university presi- tion, but he throws a little in as he talks about go to graduate school, but he made alternate ing," he said. "So I wasn't buying popularity dent, joking that since he lives on campus at it, just to let you know he knows some. plans also. like people with easy courses. I gave Cs and the Ralph S. O'Connor House "I'm at work all He taught economics for 25 years, and he's "I was already committed to going into the Ds; nobody else did. I gave the last F at Harvard the time." i worked as a consultant on natural resources Marine Corps as an officer," he said. "The in economics." But he doesn't shy away from a hectic and taxation for groups as disparate as Native fellowship offer came two days after the Ma- The evaluations are nothing to be ashamed schedule. American tribes in the United States and the rine Corps offered me a commission." He said of. "A typical day is meetings, telephones, government of Indonesia. In 1986, he became that if the letter hadn't come, "I would have His public finance course was described as speeches, consultations with my colleagues at involved in university leadership at Duke Uni- probably been sent to Vietnam in time to be being the department's "best and most rigor- other universities, particularly about the chal- versity, and he became the president of Rice in part of the landscape now, pushing up dai- ous" during the 1982-'83 school year. His ex- lenges and opportunities that we face from 1993. sies." ams are described as "murder: question after Washington," he said. Since then, the endowment has doubled, Instead, he went to the University of Illi- question after question. You really have to "And my planned day doesn't usually look construction on campus has boomed and the nois. After receiving his doctorate in econom- know your stuff: Gillis' exams do not succumb at all like the day that actually happens be- university has launched a $500 million capital ics, Gillis went to Duke as an assistant profes- to B.S." They also mention that he led his cause I'm interrupted, things come up, one of campaign. sor, and then to Harvard University, where he classes in a semesterly game of touch football my vice-presidents may need a decision, or But his story is like something from Horatio spent 15 years teaching public finance. against another economics class. one of the deans may need to tell me some- i Alger. Gillis paid his own way through col- He still has every unofficial course guide He went to Duke in 1984, and in 1986 he thing, so I've got to listen," he said. His open ear gets high marks from faculty members. "He is not an absent president," said En- glish professor Bob Patten, the speaker of the faculty. t "He is very much on campus and will talk to anyone. It's amazing when compared to, say, the president of Princeton. There, you have to c get through three layers of bureaucracy be- fore you can lay your eyes on the sacred body."' Former Speaker and Electrical and Com- putational Engineering Professor Bill Wilson agreed. «?• "I found him very open to faculty view- points and he was very Qpen to our concerns and questions," Wilson, a Wiess College resi- dent associate, said. "There were times when he was constrained by outside things, by opin- ions of the board and such, but he was very willing to tell us what the scoop was." He is also universally recognized as a gifted 'k fundraiser, especially in light of last fall's la inch of a $500 million capital campaign — iwo- thirds of which has already been raised. Patten spoke highly of Gillis' role in the campaign. 'To be conducting it without a tremor in the worst stock market crash in any undergraduate's lifetime is a tremendous feat," he said. But Gillis has his detractors, some of whom allege he has a bad temper. Many students in the class of 2001 remem- ber a show of anger at their matriculation ceremony, on the first day of Orientation Week in 1997. I"he ceremony was interrupted by pranks, or "jacks," by upperclassman advisers, as it had been in previous years. But that year, the pre- ferred "jack" was mooning the stage, where Gillis and his wife, as well as many other faculty members and administrators were sitting. JEN FRAZER/CAMPANILE Malcoim Gillis jokes around with Assistant to the President Mark Scheid, Baker '67. Sec GILLIS, Page IX •/ Wm

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by Esther Sung an interesting subject for the pe- riod. THRESHER STAFF "It was the beginning [of main- When Duane Marks was in col- stream recycling]," he said. "The lege, he spent his Friday nights pick- economics of solid waste manage- ing up trash. ment were changing at that time." In 1972, Marks (Hanszen 74) be- A student-run Recycling Club gan working with Craig Collins picked up the issue of campus recy- (Hanszen *73), Bonnie Hoskins Oones cling again in the 1980s, and in 1995 '74) and Sue Woodson (Jones '75) to F&E took over the program and ex- begin Rice's first recycling program. panded it to include the administra- f Marks borrowed a truck from Facili- tive and de' 'mtal buildings on ties and Engineering over the week- campus, Jur .tutionalizing recy- ends and drove to all the colleges to cling at P«*e. . pick up glass bottles, newspapers and aluminum cans. F&E would let Marks and his environmentally-conscious co- workers keep the truck until Mon- day. 'Plastic recycling is a Marks took the recyclable items good way to get students to recycling centers and exchanged them for cash. This revenue was involved with the [Rice used to pay participants in the pro- gram, who also received work-study recycling] program funds. "It seemed like a good thing to do, again. Student and we made some money out of it, too," Marks said. participation has fallen The program eventually made off a bit since F&E took enough money to buy a new truck to supplement the one borrowed from over recycling at Rice. F&E. However, after they purchased the This lets students be new vehicle, Marks and the other recyclers were told they could no part of the process.' longer use the F&E truck. — Ryan McMullan "Eventually the program kind of Recycling coordinator got shut down because the university didn't want us getting rich on it," iaugncu Marks. "I don't know if they didn't want us learning to be youiig Although the program has ex- capitalists or what." panded since ivlaiks began driving Marks graduated and passed the an F&E truck in 1972, many students recycling program on to Lewis still find the current recycling pro- Putnam (Hanszen '76), a friend of his, gram inconvenient. but unfortunately the program came "The blue recycling bins just aren't to a gradual end about two years after as convenient [as trash cans]," benefits for students, staff and the cardboard and plastic, in addition to kitchen staff to collect the cardboard Marks graduated. Hanszen College senior Katie Grysen university. paper. waste at each college's loading dock Scrap m< After graduation. Marks went to said. "You have to actively seek out In the long term, recycling saves and feed it into the compactor. Rice a work for the City of Houston for a the receptacles." money by cutting down on the Aluminum recycling which is z semester. During this time, he put amount of natural resources con- F&E works with students to pro- Glass recycling program t together a feasibility report on the Recycling statistics sumed to make new products. The mote recycling around campus and The money Rice makes from recy- pus don't i possibilities of city-wide recycling, Recycling at Rice has economic amount of energy saved by making a has contracts with various companies cling paper is used in other parts of a regular! new aluminum can out of recycled interested in picking up Rice's the recycling program. For example, that's ma cans instead of using unprocessed recyclables and turning them into it compensates for the loss from recy- cabinets, aluminum, for example, is enough to usable products. cling glass — Rice actually loses mcnt and & & • . & w- power a television for three hours, The custodia! and grounds staff money in the process because only in a large • Rice's Recycling Coordinator Ryan takes the aluminum cans after they one company in Houston can do it. When • •' <*• > McMullan said. have provided students' midnight Because most bottling companies are delivt -'V' Recycling also saves money in caffeine fix. Staff members recycle have started using plastic bottles, glass metal tak more tangible ways. Rice generates them on their own and can keep the is in less demand and recycling com- five tons, about 1,400 tons of solid waste per exchange value for themselves. panies have found it more economical otherwise sa# •»>.m '*smy,y,: year•< '•. >In th'. Ae Houston area, it costs McMullan said that some to drop it from the list of products they payment, i»£3M8ftjgaai^'• •; ^ £&&S- • l 3A $35 per ton to throw things away — groundspeople first take all alumi- will accept. Rice generates more glass free. to have trash collected and hauled num cans from the recycling bins to waste than the general community — "It's aj */- off to a landfill — so Rice spends be sorted and then divide the pro- about 30 tons — so the university pays "We get t BitHIHuflUS about $49,000 every year just to dis- ceeds from recycling the cans among around $30 every time its glass is put to gc mm;™* pose of its trash. (If Rice were in a themselves. picked up for recycling. chargedI more expensive area, like California "It's not the most efficient sys- "Most of the glass comes from the or New York, it would pay even more tem of recycling," McMullan admit- colleges, the Pub and Valhalla," Reusing — $120,000 or $210,000, respec- ted, "but it does get the cans re- McMullan said. "Rice is losing a little Rice e1 tively.) cycled." bit of money in recycling glass, but through i "We pay a little under $300 each it's worth it to get the glass recycled." passed b time our waste gets taken away," Paper recycling McMullan said. "But recycling — we Other parts of Rice's recycling pro- don't pay to get it taken. We get paid gram are more institutionalized. for it." "Paper is now our star poster Out of 1,400 tons of waste Rice child for recycling," McMullan said. Three years generates per year, 580 is from paper "It's given us some funds to work waste, and Rice actually gets paid for with. It's the most voluminous of Rice's Recycling Coordinator Ryan Mc the paper and cardboard it recycles. our waste and gives us the most materials over the past three years. Pi Instead of paying $35 to get each ton return." first year. The volume of food recycled of paper waste taken to a landfill. Rice Part of the reason paper recy- tub was moved out-of Jones College b recycles about 230 tons and receives cling has developed so well at Rice of the move, the tub was not in operai about $500 per month for all the pa- is because the university now has a decreased because individual water b per that students, faculty and staff paper compactor, which breaks Measurements are in pounds. throw into those blue recycling bins. down cardboard boxes and presses Rice recycles 27 percent of its solid them into a 42-cubic-yard holding waste, a significantly higher percent- container. The compactor, located age than most college campuses na- behind Ryon Lab with the rest of Paper 408.000 Paper tionwide, McMullan said. Rice's recycling collection bins, re- Yardwaste 240.000 Yardwas Paper recycling is just one facet of duces the manual labor once needed Glass 68,000 Glass Rice's growing program. The to compress cardboard boxes by Metal 40,000 Metal LAURA WIGINGTON/THRESHER hand. Food 20,000 Food A staff member loads cardboard boxes into a Facilities and Engineering truck. A university's repertoire of recyclables Plastic 4,000 Plastic Donohue Recycling truck eventually takes cardboard and paper to a recycling has expanded in the past few years to F&E Grounds Superintendent Ron plant. include scrap metal, glass, aluminum, Smith works with each college's 2 I I 1 I *

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Brown College junior Megan McGehee Glass: and Brown senior Peter Ly (left) Most types of glass can be recycled. empty plastic containers they Paper: collected from recycling bins into a White, colored and computer paper is recyclable. A.I envelopes (including receptacle at the West University those with plastic windows), brochures, stationery, adhesive notes, notepads, Recycling Center. Volunteers from the catalogs, newspapers, magazines, manila folders and letterhead paper are Environmental Club empty the bins for recyclable. Staples and paper clips do not affect the process. recyclable plastics because there is a Cardboard: weak plastic recycling market and no Empty and flatten cardboard boxes for better storage. Small amounts of companies will pick up the items from flattened cardboard can be placed with the paper recycling. Large boxes Rice. should be placed on a loading dock or flattened and placed next to a paper recycling bin. Scrap metal: Departments can mark scrap metal for recycling and place it on a building's loading dock. Plastic: Although Integrated Waste Management Services does not recycle plas- tic, student volunteers from each college take #1 and #2 plastics from bins placed at each college. board have noticed a big green V2t with a for every college or servery. Because dock Scrap metal and old computers yellow lid. That's the Garden Tub — Garden Tubs are so expensive, Rice also recycles scrap metal, an "in-vessel composting system." though, they won't become a com- Not recyclable which is a more "behind-the-scenes" "We're taking the natural process mon sight at Rice any time soon. Glass: program because most people on cam- of decay and accelerating it to be Not all Rice's organic waste goes Glass from laboratories, plate glass and glass from mirrors is unaccept- recy- pus don't dispose of steel products on more convenient for our time scales," into the Garden Tub. Intramural and able. !irts of a regular basis. Anything thrown away McMullan said. college athletes may have noticed that Paper: mple, that's made of steel, like old filing Food scraps, paper napkins and the IM fields, like some other lawns Phone books, laminated paper, wet paper, food wrap or other materials recy- cabinets, broken electronics equip- woodchips all go into the Garden Tub. on campus, are usually covered with such as plastic and glass should not be put in paper recycling bins. loses ment and rusted chairs, is collected What conies out when the tub is emp- grass clippings. Those clippings are Cardboard: only in a large metal bin behind Ryon Lab. tied are two cubic yards of mulch-like actually part of what McMullan calls Waxed and food-stained cardboard — including pizza boxes, paperboard lo it. material used in groundskeeping "grasscycling," a direct recycling of When the bin is full, its contents and cereal boxes — cannot be recycled. Styrofoam, packing material Dailies around campus. In a full school year, the cut grass without using the Gar- are delivered to a scrap yard. If the (including styrofoam peanuts) and plastic bags should not be included glass a Garden Tub can compost 40,000 den Tub. metal taken away weighs more than with the cardboard. com- five tons, Rice receives $30 per ton; pounds of food and yard waste, effec- That means none of the waste from Plastic: imical otherwise, the university receives no tively eliminating all the waste from a groundskeeping ever gets included Plastic #3-#7 are not recyclable at Rice. sthey payment, although the delivery is still college kitchen. in Rice's 1,400 tons of trash. glass free. Because of the construction of lity— "It's a good deal," McMullan said. Martel College, the tub was moved Expanding the program y pays "We get the stuff off campus, it gets from Jones College, its original site, McMullan said he hopes Rice will only paper," Grysen said. "My room- reduce the amount of trash thrown ass is put to good use and we don't get to near Hicks Kitchen. eventually be able to recycle 30 per- mates throw trash in there." away. charged for it." The Garden Tub is currently in a cent of its solid waste. He has espe- However, McMullan said students Most types of paper are recyclable, >m thi> pilot-project stage and services only cially big plans for paper recycling. do not need big cans for trash be- with the exception of wet or lami- lalla," Reusing grass and food Hicks Kitchen, but McMullan hopes Rice recycled 200 tons in the 1998-'99 cause half of Rice's waste is paper. nated paper and phone books. Most a little Rice even recycles organic matter to use some of the money that Rice school year, 230 tons in the 1999-2000 'That's mostly a case of idealism types of glass are also recyclable, but s, but through composting. If you've ever receives for recycling paper to buy school year and 275 tons so far this clashing with reality," McMullan ad- glassware from laboratories, like cled." passed by Hicks Kitchen, you may one Garden Tub — at $8,000 each — year, exceeding his original goal of mits. "Fifty percent of our waste is Pyrex, glass from mirrors and bro- 260 tons. paper, so ideally all you need is a ken plates are not. Another one of his highest priori- small trash can. We encourage people Still, even if some trash gets into ties is to streamline plastic recycling, to use the big trash bins for the larger the recycling bins in each room, as which is currently handled by the Rice things they throw away, like pizza long as a majority of the bin's con- years of Rice recycling Environmental Club. Student vokin- boxes." tents are recyclaole the custodial staff teers collect the plastic from the desig- Sometimes recycle bins fill quickly will collect the bin's contents sepa- inator Ryan McMullan gave estimates of the volume of recycled nated blue bins, sort it and take it to a and aren't emptied. People with con- rately from a room's regular trash for t three years. Projections for 2000-V1 are based on data from the West University recycling facility. cerns like these can visit the Rice sorting and recycling. McMullan said if food recycled with the Garden Tub decreased this year when the "Plastic recycling is a good way to Recycling Web site at http:// students still need to make an effort Jones College because of the construction, McMullan said. Because get students involved with the [Rice www. rice, edu/recycle, and submit sug- to separate their recyclables from their trash, however, because no one as not in operation for several weeks. The volume of plastic recycled recycling] program again," McMullan gestions for improving the recycling program at Rice. sorts through the general waste of Hvidual water bottles were no longer available in each college, said. "Student participation has fallen off a bit since F&E took over recy- "No one at Hanszen ever goes by the university before it gets taken to oounds. cling at Rice. This lets students be the recycling bin anymore because a landfill. The Rice Recycling Web part of the process." it's by an exit that's now blocked by site has guidelines for what Rice stu- 2000-01 (projected) Many students, for example, point construction | of new Wiess College 1," dents can recycle. 08,000 Paper 452,000 Paper 540.000 out that the trash cans in the colleges Grysen said. "It's just not very visible." One thing that McMullan hopes 40.000 Yardwaste 240.000 Yardwaste 240,000 are so small they end up using the Students can report problems like to emphasize in order to encourage 68,000 Glass 34,000 Glass 20,000 blue recycling cans provided for each these to the Rice Recycling Web site recycling at Rice is that its benefits 40,000 Metal 40,000 Metal 44,000 room for trash instead of recyclable as well. The Web site also has infor- for students are two-fold. 20,000 Food 40,000 Food 8,000 paper. mation about where recycling bins "Recycling is more benign envi- 4,000 Plastic 4,000 Plastic 3,000 "No one tells you that the blue are located on campus, statistics about ronmentally, but also more benign recycling bins for each room are for recycling at Rice and tips on how to economically," McMullan said. » ' » • - fi * w m w- 18 THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 •: f % ; ' •" » ' Gillis: Slow down a GILLIS, from Page 14 "We do not compare ourselves last month, is the right way to moti- Gillis put an end to the interrup- with institutions that are not leading vate students to learn languages. tions by furiously going to the po- institutions," he said. "If I'm making "At a university like Rice, we've dium and declaring that he did not comparisons, I'm looking at what got these seven schools, and it makes find "naked male backsides" funny. Stanford is doing, what Harvard is it very hard to impose a language Others target his lack of tact. doing, what Chicago is doing, and requirement across all these schools He was criticized during last what Northwestern is doing, and with different needs," he said. "Most December's KTRU shutdown for what Columbia is doing. places that have had language re- saying in interview with The Rice "We don't ask the chair of the quirements, like Duke, only impose Thresher that the administration was department of chemistry at Spearfish it on arts and sciences." "not dealing with adults," refering to State University, we ask the chair of Alan Grob, an English professor the student management of the ra- the department of chemistry at and a self-professed advocate of dio station. Caltech to come and review our Rice's undergraduate focus, praised Gillis said he hopes he's remem- chemistry program for us." Gillis' attitude toward undergradu- bered as honest. Despite his desire to make Rice a ate education. 'Truth-telling is very important world-class research institution — "I've been here for four presi- in building trust, and in one of these which involves boosting funding and dents, and I've always thought he's jobs, if you don't have trust, you support for research and graduate the only president for whom the fact don't have anything," he said. programs — Gillis has maintained that something was in the interest of "You've got to have the trust of an interest in those receiving under- undergraduates has really mattered the board, you've got to have trust of graduate degrees. to him," he said. "We've differed on the faculty, you've got to have trust . "In undergraduate education, stuff, but I do think he really grants of the students. there's nobody better than Rice or the fact that the interests of under- "They may not like what you do, Princeton," he said. "And we have graduates should be a paramount but if they think you're lying to them, the edge there." consideration of the administration." then they have a right to get up on He's been involved in under- Also changed since Gillis' arrival their hind legs and scream." graduate curriculum issues for most is the amount of construction on His leadership style is straight- of his administrative career, from campus, which he said is to Rice's forward. his leading a 1987 curriculum re- benefit. "I delegate, but in the end, I de- form at Duke to 1996 examination of "I know students complain a lot cide," he said. "For each of my vice- the curriculum at Rice. about construction, but we were los- presidents, and the provost, I pick Wilson, who was speaker of the ing faculty when I came because people I have confidence in, and I faculty in 1996, said Gillis was an facilities were not very good in sci- want them to do their jobs, but then active participant in the discussions. ence and engineering and humani- when the time comes for a decision "Clearly, undergraduate educa- ties and social science," he said. on the budget, or on anything mate- tion is one of his major concerns," "Faculty, of course, are con- CARSON TAYLER/CAMPANILE FILE PHOTO rial, then it is up to me, and there are Wilson said. "He's worked with fac- cerned with monetary value, they A photo from year one: Malcolm Gillis was hired as Rice's president in 1993. no bucks to be passed." ulty working to improve the curricu- have spouses or partners or chil- He insists that he's not been solely lum ever since he's gotten here." dren to support. Gillis, who is in his eighth year as "Rice students work too hard," responsible for the changes that have The reform ultimately failed, but "But they're mostly concerned president, said he would like to stay he said. "I've seen this ever since I happened to Rice since he arrived, out of those discussions a language with two other things: number one, "as long as the board wants rne," but came here, and I'm comparing them that those changes are a result of requirement was implemented. the facilities, and two, the quality of that he believes the ideal tenure for to Duke students and Harvard stu- cooperation between the Board of Gillis, who speaks fluent Spanish the students. a president is 10 to 12 years. dents. Trustees, the faculty—both of which and conversational Indonesian, said "We had humanities faculty in "I haven't felt it yet, but I've seen "I'd like to see more people in- he's quick to praise — and his office. languages have been instrumental offices inferior to what I had as a my colleagues who are far more ca- volved in exploring different things, He said Rice's position as a na- in his career. But, he said he isn't graduate student at Illinois," he said. pable than I go stale," he said. like drama and music. I'd like to see tional leading university has im- sure that a language requirement, "We had full professors in third-rate As for the Rice he'd like to see in students slow down a little bit and proved since 1993. which was repealed by the faculty offices. You can't do that." the future? smell the flowers."

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THERJCE THRESHER ARTS M "ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 19 m—H — m THE THRESHER'S l«)i A x/ \/\X I \J \I SI li\\.\) 1<)() RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EVENTS AROUND HOUSTON THROUGH Lifehouse holds its own without rock-star attitude APRIL 26, 2001. Everclear, Matchbox showed through when they opened for Everclear and MatchboxTwenty Twenty set stage afire at the Compaq Center on April 11. Even with seven months' touring Carly Kocurek experience, Wade's on-stage pres- THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF ence is self-conscious. There's something hopelessly He may have the black T-shirt picks endearing about a band that doesn't and studded bell of a rock star, but realize it's hit star status, particu- he doesn't quite have the swagger. larly when the band has a platinum When he shouts, "We appreciate you album, has toured with Pearl Jam guys coming out to see us," during and is currently opening for the opening song, his sincerity is tonight and Everclear and Matchbox Twenty. unquestionable. tomorrow "Performing to me isn't really * second nature," Wade said. "I had to 1 JABBERWOCKY matchbox twenty, work at it because I'm more of a everclear songwriter by nature." Even after the concert, when fans and lifehouse f Jones College junior Corey crowded by the press exit and Wade Cogswell presents his April 11 was swamped by giggling teenage I i Compaq Center girls with cameras, he looked more interpretations of Lewis frightened than excited and ducked back inside as soon as possible. Carroll's works through Interviewing Lifehouse lead But on "Everything," the fourth dramatic poetry recitation. singer Jason Wade seemed to make song of Lifehouse's set, Wade Free. 8 p.m. Jones Commons. him distinctly uncomfortable. Each seemed to lose himself completely response was prefaced with a deep to the music. The posturing was For more info, contact breath and peppered with "like" and gone, the self-consciousness had |?f [email protected]. "you know." dissolved, and Wade appeared un- "Our album (No Name Face.) went aware of the stage or the thousands L tonight and sunday platinum the other day and it still of people. hasn't sunk in yet," Wade said of LEON WILSON Lifehouse's newfound success. "It's all very surreal right now, and we're The opening act CLARK OPERA just trying to catch up to everything was like KARAOKE SERIES that's happening so fast." Lifehouse entered the public eye night. It was without much of a build-up. Voice students perform "Everyone's like, 'Can you go places SO CHEESY.' scenes from well-known withou t getting recognized ?' and two works, ranging from Mozart's weeks ago I would have said yes, but The last song, "Hanging by a everywhere we go now, it's like Moment," finally had the crowd ex- The Marriage of Figaro to people are starting to recognize us, cited, and in spite of the band's ap- Loesser's Guys and Dolls. and wanting to come up and talk, RENATA ESCOVAR/THRESHER parent self-consciousness, they which is so weird," Wade said. Singer Jason Wade leads Lifehouse in the band's short but entertaining set pulled off a powerful set. Compared Free. 7:30 p.m. tonight. 2:30 opening for Everclear and Matchbox 20 in Houston April 11. I For Wade, reminders of his new to Wade's unassuming and nonde- | p.m. Sunday. Wortham Opera fame come in unexpected places. was probably when we went on the people there, and we get there and script speaking voice, the rich tex- \ Theatre at Alice Pratt Brown "Yesterday we were passing some- road with Pearl Jam seven months it's a broken-down sound system, ture of his vocals are surprising, es- one on the street and we were like, ago," Wade said. and there were like 200 people pecially his ability to assume a rough Hall. For more info, call 'Do you know where the local Sub- "Like, we didn't actually play that 4there," Wade said. desperate growl. (713) 348-8000. way is?' And she's like, 'Right down much out, but now that we've been "We had a guitar tech that tuned While Lifehouse may have had a the street ... oh, by the way I love on the road for seven months, 1 feel all of our guitars wrong, so during solid set for a young band, Everclear \ your record,'" Wade said. "The big- like most of our live experience has the middle of our single, it sounded had the self-celebratory star power tomorrow ger it gets, the weirder it gets." been in the last seven months." so bad that we had to stop in the of veterans. I've heard the criticism Lifehouse had barely finished Wade relaxed the most when he middle of it and retune," Wade said that all Everclear knows how to do is ON THE EDGE work on its tlebut album when the recounted the band's worst gig. "It with a laugh. 'The opening act was be a pop band, but they're so good at / band had the opportunity to tour was this radio show and everyone like karaoke night. It was so cheesy." it. 'Hie audience was on its feet as Theater Professor Mark with Pearl Jam. "The biggest jump said there was going to be 10,000 Signs of the band's rapid upswing See CONCERT, Page 22 | Ramont's advanced acting f class presents a selection HELL IS ONLY A WORD of scenes from works by 4 | the Greeks, Shakespeare Aussies serve up bland Dish' | and Anton Chekov. I Free. 7 p.m. Ham man Hall. Elisa Gabbert shy physics whiz Glenn (Tom Long). FOR THE THRESHER They are joined by A1 (Patrick Contrary to what you might ex- Warburton), an American sent from t h u r s d a y pect from the poster, this movie is NASA to oversee the affair, and they not about sheep. do their best to convince him they're STUDENT not running a total hack operation. ART SHOW Incidentally, Warburton played 'the dish' Elaine's boyfriend David Puddy on "Seinfeld," though he is less studly This annual show opens at Rating: ** 1/2 here in fat Buddy Holly glasses. the Rice Art Gallery in (out of five) The main problem with this movie In theaters. is the weird pacing. If you were to Sewall Hall at 5:30 p.m. graph the plot progression, it would It includes visual works by Right in line with what you might look like a Hat line with big spikes in seniors, music by DJ Dennis expect, it's gut-wrenchingly cute. the middle and end, instead of a Like the recent batch of British im- steady rise to a climax. Lee, performances by Rice ports apparently targeted at senior Dance Theatre and the Rice citizens (Waking Ned Devine, Sav- ing Grace), The Dish is so utterly The Dish' is so Players (6 p.m.), a fashion non-offensive it's vaguely boring. utterly NON- show by Mandy Gor Nonetheless, it warrants a few good- (6:30 p.m.) and an awards natured chuckles. OFFENSIVE it's Based on a true story, The Dish is ceremony (7 p.m.). The set in the rural Australian town of vaguely boring. reception at the Rice Media Parkes, where a lucky group of sci- NONETHELESS, it entists is chosen to monitor half of Center (7-9 p.m.) features art the 1969 Apollo 11 mission — the warrants a few by other students and film half when the shuttle is only in view projects (8:48 p.m.). from the southern hemisphere. good chuckles. Their qualifications ap- Free. For more info, pear to be a lot of heart The first big conflict occurs mid- call (713) 348- and a really big satellite way through the movie, after a power dish stuck in a field lull outage. Mitch makes a mistake and 6069. of grazing sheep. the group loses contact with Apollo The group is led by 11. KATIE STREIT,THRESHER the thoughtful and fear- When Houston calls about the less Cliff, played by Sam missing signal. Cliff, in a desperate Neill (Jurassic Park, attempt to save face, decides to Like a Greek goddess Event Horizon). His "bullshit NASA." He pretends that Baker College junior Annie Lin plays a solo set at Artemis Rice, a younger colleagues are the problem isn't at their end, and concert on April 6 spotlighting female musicians from Rice. Donations wisecracker Mitch they frantically attempt to fix the at the show supported the Houston Area Women's Center. (Kevin Harrington) and See DISH, Pa«e 22 pap* ••I . gjOSMVl '* * ; 1 , \ ' J . r % 20 THE RICE THRESHER ARTS a ENTIRTAINMENT FRIDAY, APRIL 20,2001 • _ ' '£?$f . - - v; 1 -V' is &* a wit flying colors icked almost identically by his mir- Mariel Tam THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF ror image (Wiess freshman Sarah A couple of the one-acts in this Pak). Somewhat predictably, his re- half of Martel Take Ten's student- iWwtm flection (who happens to be female) written plays are smartly written and steps out of the mirror and starts to thoroughly entertaining. It's a little get all chatty. unsettling to think that were it not This leads to some jokes playing for this theatrical experiment, some on how the man and his reflection of these plays might never have ex- are the same being: When he thanks isted. her, she berates him for thanking his own self, thus showing "a blatant lack of humility." martel take ten, Eventually, the very circular play part 1 meanders into existentialist argu- ments, where it loses its focus and 0 Baker College Commons the audience's attention. It doesn't Rating: *** 1/2 (out of five) help that Pak's overly careful deliv- ery sounds like an oddly robotic lilt. With Baker Bits. Tomorrow However, the night ends on a at 7:30 p.m. Free, with satisfying note. The set of plays donations suggested. closes with "Heavenly Child," writ- ten and directed by Lovett sopho- By their very nature, the one-act more Tariq Tapa, who also acts in it. plays are disjointed and unrelated to Tapa was also responsible for each other. But "Praying at a Bus Marlowe's Last Death and Tale, his Stop," by Will Rice College sopho- well-received one-man play at Lovett more Tommy Belanger and Univer- last semester. sity of Texas sophomore Hung "Heavenly Child" is an enigma Nguyen, and "Unpredictable," by that unravels slowly; the audience is Lovett College sophomore Alex Fay, guided only by a clue in the pro- both show their creators' clever, off- gram, a quote from the Grimms' kilter senses of humor. "Hansel and Gretel." A teenager named Liam (Tapa) pesters William In "Praying," directed by Will Rice KIJANA KNIGHT/THRESHER sophomore Will du Pont, God speaks Joe (Wiess College freshman Robin Pontbriand) ponders the 20 Questions of a goofy God (Will Rice College (Lovett Resident Associate Rick to an ordinary, confused man wait- sophomore Jonathan Ichikawa, a future Martelian) in "Praying at a Bus Stop." The comedy, by Will Rice sophomore Spuler, a German and Slavic studies ing for his ride to work. Tommy Belanger and University of Texas sophomore Hung Nguyen, is part of Martel College's playwriting workshop. lecturer), who is chopping wood in Will Rice sophomore and future the forest. Martelian Jonathan Ichikawa plays Belanger's script toys playfully "Unpredictable," directed by freshman Jeff Bishop and Baker God as an easygoing guy who's long with religion a la Kevin Smith's film Lovett senior Blake Barker, follows sophomore Ed Bruera. They tear of hair and decked out in white cloth- Dogma. His God spouts lines like, "I in the light, comedy sketch-like vein. through an endless series of charac- 'I was an ATHEIST ing that's more baggy-urban than was an atheist back in the 1930s. The self-referential play skewers the ters and one-liners in what resembles back in the 1930s. heavenly and flowing. Boy, that was a disaster." predictability of movie plots by try- improv comedy on speed. The trio's He's not exactly a vengeful God Ichikawa, however, makes a bet- ing to do the exact opposiie—throw- timing is tight, a necessity in a com- Boy, that was — but he amuses himself by playing ter, more unlikely God than Alanis ing wild, unexpected twists and edy as rapid-fire as this. 20 Questions and I Spy with a con- Morissette. He comes across as a punch lines at the audience. At the same time, there's a help- A DISASTER.' fused average Joe (the wide-eyed little childlike, eternally bemused The mini-plots are enacted by the ful .narrator (Lovett freshman Eve Wiess College freshman Robin by his creation and almost smugly frenetic trio of Lovett freshman Kat Bower) whose beer-drinkin', ciga- Tapa's script is a mystery of a Pontbriand). proud of it. Messick, Sid Richardson College rette-smokin' father (Lovett senior fairy tale, and his careful but simple Phil Alexander) brashly predicts writing keeps the audience en- what's going to happen in the mini- tranced. The staging is a little dis- movies. And he's always proven tracting because it's too realistic: wrong—because the audience uses William swings a hefty ax around to multiple choice to select the ending. chop wood and menace Liam. It's a little gimmicky, but solidly All the wood-chopping almost funny in spite of this. threatens to destroy the versatile Both "Unpredictable" and "Pray- stage (designed by Lovett sopho- ing at a Bus Stop" succeed in part more Theo Yaung and Sid freshman because they are comedies, albeit Liang Wu, a future Martelian). But rather smart ones — and they don't Tapa and Spuler's careful, measured try to be anything else. "Perspec- acting keeps "Heavenly Child" tives," written by Lovett freshman grounded, and it concludes with a Katie Streit and directed by Wiess neat twist. sophomore Shannon Hughes, has If Martel TakeTen can coax origi- the occasional humorous line but nal plays like these from students, strives too hard to be philosophical. the program is worth its salt. Tomor- It begins with a man (Fay) search- row night's show is certainly worth ing for his keys, his actions mim- your time. Coffee and Conversation at the Baker Institute. Leaving us? If you subscribe to the Thresher, you can keep up with campus news, opinion, All students are cordially invited to attend sports and arts — which you can't find anywhere else. (And you can keep tabs on your sorry underclassmen friends via the Backpage.) Annual subscription rate: $50 domestic An informal presentation and discussion on the $105 international- Middle East by Baker Institute Director, name address Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian

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— 4 * > ' '31 An old theater tradition combines with a new one this weekend in the Baker College Commons. Sharing the stage are nine original student-written plays from Martel College's playwriting course and three Baker Bits, Baker's annual spring one-acts. Artistic director Victoria Zyp, a Wiess College sophomore and a member of the Martel Founding Committee, originated the idea for the playwriting class, and the production was funded by several grants. Baker Bits producer +Baker Ryann Ferguson, a Baker freshman, collaborated on the production with Zyp. Four of the Martel plays run for two shows — yesterday night and tomorrow Take Terr 4- Bfe at 7:30 p.m. — and the other five run for two other shows — today at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.The three Baker one-acts, mixed in with the Martel plays, -run at each of the four performances.

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Elizabeth Jardina THRESHER STAEE The short plays in the second KIJANA KNIGHT/THRESHER evening of MartelTakeTen are more Will Rice College sophomore Rob Gaddi and Wiess College freshman Jill ambitious, more serious and some- Browning do nothing but try new drinks and look at things in Hemingway's what less successful than the first "Hills Like White Elephants," part of Baker College's spring one-acts. night's. CAN T CIRCUMCISE THE 'BOT

martel take ten, part 2 Chomping at the Baker Bits 0, Baker College Commons Rating: ** (out of five) Mariel Tam skills she needs to play this deeply THRESHER EDITORIAL STAEF conflicted woman. With Baker Bits. Tonight The plays in this year's Baker The piece is serious and somber, at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Free, with Bits, Baker College's traditional which seems especially intrusive donations suggested spring one-acts, combine some easy when contrasted with the first set of laughs and unsettling drama. MartelTakeTen playsand their light comedic tone. Still, it's an interest- The student-written plays are in- ing risk for Baker and Zarinfar to teresting for that fact only, but in- baker bits take, evoking this tense, introverted consistent acting and occasionally Hemingway story onstage. confusing writing harm their total ^3*" EBake r College Commons The other two Baker one-acts take effect. Rating: +++ (out of five) no such theatrical risks, instead re- Will Rice College senior lying on guaranteed laughs. Both With Martel Take Ten. Samantha Liskow's "Five-Liquor Tonight at 7:30 p.m. and are directed by Baker freshman Cocktail" is the most sophisticated tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Ryann Ferguson, who also produced of the pieces — so sophisticated it's and 7:30 p.m. Free, with the Baker Bits. entirely baffling. It's hard to tell who donations suggested. "Pillow Talk," by Peter Tolan, the characters are and what kind of plays off the idea that some straight relationship they have until well into men are wary of sleeping in a bed the piece. The most intriguing Bit is an ad- with anotherman. Baker senior Mike Wiess College senior Darya aptation of a short stoiy by Ernest Cohen and Baker sophomore Pollak plays Sophie, a self-centered Hemingway, "Hills Like White El- Sanford Holmes are typecast as two and thoroughly unlikable character ephants." Hemingway's style is typi- average guys. Their acting and tim-

— a disappointing realization to i - :>V- -v.- . . v V - cally terse, giving a lot of dialogue ing aren't great, but they're mildly come to about a protagonist. I was with little description of how it's de- entertaining in the script, which is glad it wasn't a full-length play — livered. He leaves that up to his read- standard sitcom-type fare. spending 10 minutes with her was a ers— or. in this case, director Rassul "Family Names," by Edna

trial. CALEB REDFiaO/THRESHER Zarinfar, a Baker freshman who also Pelonero, is also sitcom-grade mate- She is dining at an Asian restau- Lovett College junior Tomi Fatunde plays a mother focused solely on her did the adaptation. rial. but it elicits more laughs than rant with her boyfriend, played ser- daughter's marriage in Jones College senior Altovise Rogers' "Leah's Song." In "White Elephants," a couple "Pillow Talk" because the actors' viceably by Wiess sophomore Darius sits in a bar, drinking and waiting for chemistry and timing has been re- Roberts in a prominently lake mus- Also a problem is the unlikely more Victoria Zyp, set on New Year's a (rain. We sense from their tedious, fined. Hanszen College sophomore tache, although he hardly has much relationship between the mother Eve 1999. Two' looters (Hanszen substanceless conversation that Hallie Antweil plays Sheila, a shrink- of a part. (Fatunde) and her daughter Jessica College sophomore Sunil Patel and there is something uneasy between ing violet who finds her foil in hard- Roberts'play, "How to Lie, Cheat, (played by Wiess freshman Sarah Wiess junior Marco Campos) go to them. They talk to each other with- ware store worker Marie Saluzzo Steal and Talk on the Phone," is the Pak, who is Asian-American). 1 can the catacombs beneath Rome to steal out really saying anything meaning- (Baker freshman Hayley Brown). lightest of the original works in the suspend disbelief but an Asian girl a valuable portrait of Christ. The ful. "That's all we do, isn't it — look Sheila wants to boldly confess to set, and the most successful. It's the speaking in African-American dia- infamous Y2Kbug strikes, and chaos at things and try new drinks?" says Marie her affair with Mr. Saluzzo. story of three ordinary folks who lect — and badly — is too much for ensues. the woman (Wiess College fresh- but she's frustrated by Marie's cool fight big corporations by keeping me to handle. It's an odd play to produce in man Jill Browning). attitude and the usual comedic mix- them on the telephone as much as In "Indecisiveness?" by Jones 2001, when everyone knows that the The story slowly reveals that the ups and misunderstandings. possible. sophomore Julie Tarn, the actors transition between 1999 and 2000 man (Will Rice College sophomore Antweil is an apt fit for Sheila — The theme isn't exactly subtle, valiantly try to salvage the play, but passed with almost no effect. Rob Gaddi) is trying to persuade the she uses body language to hold her- but even occasionally awkward act- unclear writing and misguided di- Gresham also appears in this play as woman, Jig, to agree to an abortion self like a timid, mousy woman, ing can't hide the good-natured fun. rection overwhelm the performance. Time, and while her speech at the she isn't sure she wants. In Zarinfar's clutching nervously at a purse that's Lovett College senior Nathan A woman (Will Rice junior Nancy play's beginning is interesting, the interpretation, the man is angry and too large for her. Brown, in contrast, Zumwalt gives a standout perfor- Gresham) announces to her live-in situation seems terribly contrived. unsympathetic, more so than is entirely unflappable, playing Marie mance as a slimy lawyer represent- fiancee (Lovett freshman Andrew Also, Patel's and Campos' acting is Hemingway's bare words might sug- as a sexy, collected broad who ing the Corporate Man. Engroff) that she doesn't want to get weak. gest. smacks her gum loudly and (inexpli- "Leah's Song," by Jones College married and she's seeing someone On the whole, these shows are Gaddi speaks in a harsh, annoyed cably. in a hardware store) wears a senior Altovise Rogers, is marred by else. But the situation is treated as noble experiments that just don't tone; we don't believe his character big fur coat. Lovett juniorTomi Fatunde's poorly sheer comedy. The acting is too natu- work out so well. Perhaps a setting when he says, "You know I love you." The two comedic Baker Bits seem enunciated delivery. Fatunde acts ral to belong in a farce, but the play in which they could be presented It seems like he's liable to leave his to aim a little too low while the third with verve, but between the dialect is too absurd to be anything else. more as a workshop than finished girlfriend sometime soon. Brown- aims too high, but they're still mildly and her lack of projection it's hard to The final play in the set is "Post- pieces would have better suited the ing doesn't make an entirely cred- entertaining. I just wouldn't want to understand her. Millennial Anxiety" by Wiess sopho- plays. ible Jig; she hasn't honed the acting watch them twice.

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CONCERT, from Page 19 Sometimes the projected images and lights soon as someone hit a stray chord—the lights did heighten the music, like on "Last Beautiful weren't even up yet. Girl," when a series of portraits of women of After hammering through the first three various ages and ethnicities, complete with songs, lead singer Art Alexakis introduced names, rolled across the screen. the band members and pulled audience mem- Overall, the band exuded an impressive bers up to dance on stage. "You cannot just amount of energy for most of the set. Particu- stand there, or 111 kick you off the stage," larly enjoyable were two tracks on which Tho- Alexakis warned. mas played piano. He lit up a cigarette almost As the band launched into "Rock Star," as soon as the piano was rolled out, which they were quickly upstaged by a couple of added to the cocktail bar feel of the segment, dirty-dancing blondes, but the band was and Thomas's singing voice for "You Won't Be unfazed. Alexakis encouraged fans to sing Mine" took on a quality similar to John Lennon. along, both on and offstage, and even shared the microphone with one fan, saying, "This guy kicks ass." I've heard the If nothing else, Everclear knows to what criticism that all extent its success depends on their fall base. Nearing the end of their set, Everclear played EVERCLEAR knOWS "Wonderful," and while Alexakis sang the intro softly over the piano introduction, he periodi- how to do is be a cally screamed at the fans to sing louder. pop band, but they're When the lights fell after "Wonderful," all I on, could think was that I really didn't want the set so GOOD at it. to end, and no one else did either. The audi- ence remained tensely on its feet, applauding The band quickly picked up the pace as if hoping to bribe the band back on stage. though, and Thomas delivered one of the Hopes were not in vain since the lights came most memorable lines of the evening as he up and the band launched into "I Will Buy You thanked the fans. "We're like five dicks in a a New Life," and then finally "Santa Monica." band,"Thomas said. "Without you, we're noth- Everclear has found a good balance. While ing, so thanks." promoting their newer albums, they under- The raw energy of "Black and White People" stand the importance of pleasing fans who reminded me of the Blues Brothers as Tho- want to hear older hits. mas jumped onto the drum stand and waved Matchbox Twenty had a tough act to fol- the microphone stand over his head while low, but they managed. The light show was nearly screaming lyrics. Apparently, the band impressive as the band opened their set, but had the same thought, and ended the song by the time they launched into "Benz," it had with the final tag from 'Turning it I^oose." gotten distracting. Finally the band performed an amazing Lead singer Rob Thomas proclaimed early cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watch- in the set, "We got one rule for the next couple tower" before closing the night with their first hours — we're going to forget about every- hit, "Push." thing." I forgot about most things, but I kept From the newly famous Lifehouse to the ignoring the music to figure out what was firmly established Everclear and Matchbox RENATA ESCOVAR/THRESHER going on with the light show, which often Twenty, the underlying theme of the evening Rock-pop band Everclear, fronted by Art Alexakis, proves in concert that it's found a good involved distracting flashes and images pro- seemed one of stardom and rock 'n' roll dreams balance between new songs and well-known hits. jected onto a large white backdrop. realized. Lunar landing film has heart, not smarts

DISH, from Page 19 error before the Americans catch oh. One of the film's funnier scenes is in this sequence. A visiting ambas- sador asks to come up to the control room for a look, and the scientists are forced to fake him out. Luckily, the ambassador is gull- ible and easily wooed by the flashing computer lights and an incoming walkie-talkie message they claim is from Neil Armstrong. A day and a half later, after struggling over cal- culations, they remember that the astronauts are headed for the moon Sltl tnl and locate them in the vast sky. g<( After another dull stretch, a sec- ond problem arises. Armstrong de- he cides he can't wait to walk on the moon, and Houston calls to tell the ahl Parkes group that they'll have to transmit the video. They do their best iSv- to CONVINCE him they're not * running a total HACK operation. Unfortunately, the outback is hit with an onslaught of high-speed

RENATA ESCOVAR/THRESHER winds, testing the structural integ- rity of the dish. The "theoretical Back to school limit," the point at which the dish Kyle Brackmann (Will Rice '94) wails with Lozenge at the April 14 should be lowered lest they risk it KTRU Outdoor Show. It was the Chicago experimental band's first collapsing, is 30 mph. Cliff and performance at its members' alma mater since 1994. friends must make a hasty decision. Lowering the dish means that they won't receive the signal, and the world will miss seeing Armstrong's giant leap. Keeping it up means putting the group in grave danger. After briefly considering the Webmaster Needed value of their own lives, they ab- COURTESY WARNFR BROTHERS surdly plunge ahead with heregoes- Cliff (Sam Neill, front) leads an eccentric band of Australians behind the The Health Education Office is broadcast of the lunar landing in The Dish. looking for an undergraduate student nothing bravado. In between the big scenes, the sock-wearing Janine, although it is set to inspirational music. That said, i to create a user friendly webpage writers throw in a couple of pseudo- painfully obvious that she has the the acting is fine and the era is cap- this summer. Flexible hours, salary conflicts for good measure. Mitch hots for him. tured well. resents Mr. Big Man from NASA for negotiable. Please call Kim Lopez for I could have done without the There's a reason that this is the waltzing in like he owns the place, cheesy flashback framing (so that's story you haven't heard — it's not all more information, 713-348-5194. but eventually they work out their what Sam Neill will look like in 30 that interesting. But The Dish is a differences and end up buddies. years) and the "MTV News"-style nice Sunday afternoon movie. Espe- Glenn is too meek to ask out knee- montages of grainy NASA footage cially it your parents are paying. f thetucei-HSK: 'APRIL 20,2001' >m 28 Salami, pastrami and roast corey e. devine

The neon sign out front reads, to the choice of decorations. It is an "Katz's Never Kloses" — perhaps it all-night eating spot, and as far as should. I'm disappointed with the these go, Katz's is head and shoul- ders above the rest. But I expect authenticity of this deli and find flaws more from a restaurant that claims with the menu. Overall, Katz's more. doesn't do it for me. House of Pies doesn't ever put on airs. They know it's dirty. They real- When you approach the facade ize the food is only mediocre. I'm on Westheimer, Katz's appears to sure they've noted, even purposely be just what it's supposed to be, a created, the tacky '70s-throw-back New York deli. decor. All this can be overlooked I must give an "E" for effort here because they aren't aspiring for — the two-story red brick building, more. Katz's is, and it falls short. the '50s-style neon sign and the yel- On my first visit (around 3 a.m. low cab out front serve as certifi- one Tuesday night), I was able to cates of authenticity. make all these observations about er Once inside, you'll see an adapted the place while I was waiting for a version of the prototypical New York table. deli. You'll see the glass deli cabinet, That's right — the lackadaisical which doesn't appear to be cleaned hostess found her conversation with on a regular basis. the bartender much more important The meats look old and the than seating me. In fact, she felt that cheese even more so. It's possible I should wait a full 15 minutes before v • that this was only an impression, so being seated. I guess she wanted to I'll reserve full judgment and allow make sure I was hungry before I sat you to decide for yourself. down to eat. LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER Once seated, I only became more and more disappointed. The menu had huge pictures of the dishes, but Katz's Deli unfortunately it failed to make me more excited about ordering any of 616 Westheimer Dr. them. (713) 521-3838 That aside, I dove right in and ordered Katz's signature appetizer Hours: — fried pickles. Amazingly enough, 24 hours a day fried pickles taste much like any other green fried vegetable (fried Price guide: green tomatoes, fried zucchini, etc.). Above: Katz's deli poses as They're served with America's fa- a tradition kosher deli. The Fried Pickles $5.95 vorite flavor—ranch dressing. What exterior does pretty well. It's Potato Skins $6.75 better to drown the taste of fried too bad the food was pickle with? Roast Beef $7.95 lacking. Reuben $8.95 If you aren't up for fried pickles, Key Lime Pie $3.95 you could try the potato skins. They're pretty standard fare and hard Right: The interior of Katz's to mess up. If 1 had to choose, I'd reminds me of a deli mixed Katz's offers a full bar until stick with these. with a TGI Friday's. Can you 2 a.m. for those over 21. After the thrilling appetizer se- tell I'm not impressed? They actually make decent lection, it's on to the main course. LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER drinks, though I wouldn't Now, I was under the impression that Katz's would be perfect for sand- choose this as the prime wiches — it is a deli, and that's what Houston spot to sit and sip a delis are supposed to be good at. martini. (You must remember that New- York-style delis don't fix sandwiches up with lettuce and tomato. '£hese Black and white photos speckle are for sandwich pansies.) mmaam the walls (they're all for sale), and I will say that the sandwich selec- the ceiling is tiled with antique-look- tion is quite impressive. You can ing ceramic tiles. Mixed with the find everything from hard pastrami sporadic use of etched glass and to tongue. It's hard to find that any- dark wood, there's an almost con- where else in Houston. fusing ambiance. I can't figure out if When you get your sandwich, Katz's was aiming for modern and the meat will be pouring from the sleek or clubby and laid-back. It's sides. You'll probably have a hard too bad, because there are some time putting it in your mouth. (I'm good ideas underlying the decor not sure proper manners allow coat- i here — they just need more work. ing a sandwich with a fork.) But after It's possible, maybe even prob- eating my sandwich, 1 was left . able, that I'm being harsh in regards See SALAMI, Page 2\ a STUDENT TRAVEL

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Hanszen College sophomore, explains, through masterful use sequent visits, I've ordered other You'll find ample dessert selec- of mathematic equations, why he deserves this highest com- fare. tions to finish off the meal, but I I should make a note about the wouldn't save room for any of them. mendation of true dorkiness. Of course, the cash prize provides pickles. Pickles are the most im- The pies aren't convincingly fresh, a little motivation too. portant condiment in a deli. What but they aren't bad. good is a sandwich without a nice, If you're craving something crispy dill pickle? sweet early in the morning, the The menu at Katz's boasts free Key Lime pie might hit the spot. buckets of pickles. In theory, this But overall, I'd stick to House of •• sounds like a great thing. Of course, Pies to satisfy your sweet tooth. my table of cheap college students You might also skip dessert if I demanded one. There were prob- you're on a budget — Katz's is ex- I| lems from the very start. pensive. Sandwiches for $7 better First, the pickles don't actually be good sandwiches, and as I've come in a bucket — they're served said before, I'm not impressed. Ev- in some sort of dish. Pickles in a erything else on the menu is simi- dish are much less exciting. I de- larly priced. cided to overlook this discrepancy. When I bit into the pickle, it wasn't crispy at all. It was limp and boring. It tasted like a dill pickle, but I'd "Katz's Never Kloses" M prefer a Vlasic from the jar. Two of the people I was eating — perhaps it should. with decided to order "fire dogs" — Katz's term for a hot dog. I'm not huge on hot dogs. You really can't be sure what you're I'm confused about 24-hour din- eating. ers. They always seem to have high Unfortunately, after eating their prices. This may be because they dogs, both of my friends felt a little have to make up for the low profits ill. It was 3 a.m., but I still think it they turn late at night. Whatever may have had something to do with the reason, I'm not inclined to pay the dog. $5.25 for grilled cheese served with If you're vegetarian, there are a soggy pickle. things for you. There are two veg- Katz's has made ample room for etarian sandwiches on the menu — parking. There's a lot in the back the Rueben and the hero. Both and one across the street. Both are come stuffed with veggies. The veg- well-lit, which is nice late at night. etarians I've eaten with seemed rela- The restaurant isn't in a horrible tively satisfied by these options. If 1 part of town, but 1 wouldn't want to had ordered them, I'm not sure I wander around the building after 2 would have found them fulfilling, a.m. At certain times of the night but all in all it's hard to make hearty there's even a guard at the door to and healthy vegetarian dishes, es- the restaurant that patrols the park- pecially if you're a deli. ing lots and keeps the restaurant The menu is pretty large. It's from getting too rowdy. I felt se- filled with other, more substantial cure leaving my car here. dinner choices. There's pot roast All of these comments may seem and strip steak, or if you're in the harsh. In reality, Katz's isn't a ter- shl mood, you could try the roasted rible restaurant. It's as good or bet- inu chicken. But all of this departs from ter than many of the 24-hour h the sole purpose of this restaurant choices you'll come across. I guess i injil — to serve good sandwiches. my problem is high expectations. I can't comment extensively on This deli rolled into town with 5814 Kirby In Rice Village any of these dishes because my much fanfare. There's a new build- visits have always led me to lighter ing, a huge advertising campaign fare, but I can advise you to stay and there's even a company cab. 1 Better Ingredients. away from the steak. A friend found expected the food and service to Better Pizza. <713)432-7272 it tough and unsatisfying, even af- match the ruckus. Unfortunately, ter drenching it in A-l sauce (a it doesn't come close. steak faux pas in my book). Go to Katz's if you're looking for Rice University Specials Early in the morning you can a decent sandwich, and you hap- try out the breakfast menu. "Iliis is pen to have a few bucks to burn. one thing I'm pleased with. Katz's Don't go if you're looking to be 1 large, 1 topping pizza, (2) 20 oz. 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by Chris Larson all events except the decathlon, heptathlon and the men's and ¥ THRESHER EDITORIAL STAF F women's 10,000-meter runs. The Qualifying for the 2002 NCAA selection process for these events Outdoor Track and Field Champi- will be unchanged, although the onships will involve a process con- number of athletes selected will siderably different from the one now likely increase. in use — and Rice coaches aren't Head women's coach Victor *2 „ - • « < 4happ y about it. Lopez said that requiring athletes to H ' ' - < ' ^ Currently, each event has two compete in the regional meet could V"" qualifying standards—an automatic eliminate top athletes who may be mark and a provisional mark. After sick or injured. He also worried that 4%f,t H the "last chance" meets that take selecting athletes based on regional place the weekend before th£ NCAA placing may allow athletes from <* ' •: meet, a final list of marks for each weaker regions to advance in place event is compiled. Every athlete of more talented athletes from stron- meeting the automatic standard is ger regions. assured of a spot at the meet, and the NCAA committee goes down the provisional list of athletes in each event to reach a total of 388. Last This was never the year, most individual events had about 20 competitors and most relay choice of the coaches. It -:r events had 12 or 13 teams. The quali- fying marks can be attained at any was a done thing before time during the season. CHRISTINE LIANG/THRESHER it was brought up.' Next year, however, qualifying Senior right fielder Billy Jacobson went 2-for-4 in Rice's 5-2 win over Southwest Texas State University April 11. Jacobson — Rav Davidson and the Owls return to conference play this weekend when they host the University of Hawaii in a three-game series. will occur through four two-day re- gional qualifying meets. The top five Men's head coach finishers in each individual event and the first three teams in each relay event will advance automati- • "If you don't compete in the re- Cruz, Gonzales out for the year cally to the NCAA meet. At-large gional, you're out," Lopez said. "If entrants will be selected to create for some reason you need a week to fields of approximately 26 individu- by Jose Luis Cubria Cruz, Rice's opening day starter said the condition has worsened to heal and you don't want to run in the als or 17 relay teams, with a NCAA THRESHER STAFF at second base, broke a bone in his the point where Gonzalez will miss regional, you're out. It's not a good right forearm when he was hit by a the rest of the season and may need subcommittee choosing the at-large idea because track's an individual The baseball team has faced its pitch March 30. He was originally surgery. competitiors on the basis of a de- sport, and if you have people ad- • share ofchallcnges this season, rang- expected to return by mid-May, but Needless to say, the Owls will scending-order list created from all vance by placing, the best athletes ing from exhausting road trips and his recovery has fallen behind sched- miss both players. regular-season competition and the might not get to nationals." highly ranked opponents to nagging ule and he is now expected to miss "Cruz is a great player," senior regional meets — but the commit- Men's head coach Ray Davidson injuries and team slumps. up to eight more weeks, likely ruling catcher Phillip Ghutzman said. "He's tee is stipulating that an athlete must has trouble seeing the justification But the Owls may be facing their him out for the rest of the season. electrifying. He can get on base and compete in the regional meet to be for adding another meet — and the most formidable task yet after re- Gonzalez, one of Rice's top mid- run and make things happen, and eligible to be on the descending- accompanying costs of travel and ceiving some potentially devastat- week starters and long relievers, had his defense was improving every day. order list. lodging — to what is already a very ing news earlier this week. pitched well all season despite pain It's a tough deal. Qualification for the regional long season. Indoor track competi- Freshman infielder Jose Enrique in his lower back. But he struggled "Losing Gonzo is also really event will be based on a descending- tion begins in late January, and the [to Cruz and sophomore left-handed in his latest appearance last week- tough. He's an important guy out of order list as well as conference cham- NCAA outdoor meet will now be •v. pitcher Jonathan Gonzalez are both end, giving up six runs in less than your bullpen, a left-hander and a guy pionships, as each Division I pushed back to the second week in expected to miss the rest of the sea- two innings. with playoff experience. It's a real conference's champion in each indi- June. son as a result of injuries that have The tough outing prompted the blow to our team." vidual and relay event will automati- "I wanted to increase the num- proved worse than the team origi- team to take a closer look at his bad But at the same time, Ghutzman cally qualify for the regional event. bers at the national meet, but doing nally thought. back. Head coach Wayne Graham See BASEBALL, Page 27 The new procedure will apply to See TRACK, Page 26 '* j Owls hope to learn from losses

by Eric Raub three liters of fluid intravenously and junior Alexis Pourchet received two as the heat took THRESHER STAFF a toll on both teams. Exactly what the men's tennis team wanted "Everybody was hot, on both sides," Smarr to avoid happened last weekend. said. "There were guys going down on both All year long, .he Owls had taken pride in teams. You don't train for that much humidity. the fact that it had not lost to an opponent it We're not making any excuses about it, it's was expected to beat. The Owls have upset just one of those things." several higher-ranked opponents over the The pride, and bodies, of the Owls recov- course of the season, but they had yet to let it ered quickly enough to take Miami down to happen to themselves — until last weekend. the wire, losing to the Hurricanes 4-3. It's the Ixist weekend the 35th-ranked Owls took second time this season the Owls have lost 4- I on No. 63 Florida Atlantic University and No. 3 to a top-20 opponent, as Rice nearly upset 16 University of Miami. Friday the ()wls fell to 6th-ranked Texas A&M University March 29. Florida Atlantic 4-1, with two singles matches Even though they left Florida winless, the suspended after the outcome of the match ()wls said recovering from the disappointing loss became a foregone conclusion. to Florida Atlantic gave the team confidence. I "Tliat loss against FAIJ really hurt us," freshman Richard Barker said. "We could've crumbled and lost 7-0 but we didn't We fought." • 'We need a really bi<> win to The Owls have one more shot to post a win m • ° over a top-l() opponent when Southern Meth- make our season meaningful.' odist University, ranked eighth, visits Jake Hess Tennis Stadium tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Not — Fabien Giraud only does the game represent a chance to Junior tennis player knock off a top-10 foe, but it also gives the Owls an opportunity to prove themselves as a legiti- mate conference title contender for the ap- "That's our first match we lost that we proaching Western Athletic Conference tour- s should've won," head coach Ron Smarr said. nament, which begins April 27 in Fresno, Calif.. "ITiat was the first time we really were bit in "This is a team we could've potentially beaten the foot. We could've lost a lot of matches. It the past two years," junior Fabien Giraud said. just finally caught up with us." "And the past two years we didn't have half the Besides a strong Florida Atlantic team, the team we have this year. We need a really big ROB GADOI/THRESHER Owls also had to contend with oppressive win to make our season meaningful, make it to A frustrated Richard Barker lost 6-3, 6-1 to 4th-ranked Esteban Carril of Texas Christian University |heat . Sophomore Cody Jackson was given See TENNIS, Page 26 April 7. Barker will try to rebound tomorrow when the Owts face No. 8 Southern Methodist University M*.

, :-4i • -• ' • - 1 ;ti " . THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY.'APRj^2Q, 2001 'suit ? - i , •<•, Cloud 9 hopes to make late run to earn fifth-straight trip to nationals devastating tool against solid com- byJohnTurpin to senior captain Marcus Gavin, at league tournament the young group is coming to- petition this spring. Rice believes FOR THE THRESHER gether. its fifth-straight sectional champi- Previously this season, being "We're a young team after los- onship and a berth in the national by Wei-Han Tan Things looked a little shaky ear- the new kid on the block had ing seven seniors last year," Gavin tournament are attainable goals. THRESHER STAFF lier this season, but now the men's played to Rice's advantage, and ultimate team has begun to hit its said. "But we managed to pick up Sectional play begins this week- What had been an incredible the Owis were able to sneak up stride. good recruits at the beginning of end in College Station and then season for Rice's women's club -on teams that were unprepared Last weekend, Cloud 9 put to- the year and have really started to tougher regional matches follow water polo team came to a disap- for them. This time, however, gether what may have been its play well." in Dallas April 28-29. pointing end last weekend, when Rice's opponents were ready — strongest performance of the year Behind the leadership of captains The team will be looking for Rice won just one of four games and the Owls appeared nervous against some of the toughest teams Gavin, senior Tim Bonner and se- wins over the University of Texas in the Texas division of the Colle- in their first league champion- in the nation at the Yale University nior Steve Abrahams, Cloud 9 is cur- and Texas A&M University, its giate Water Polo Association ship appearance. Cup. rently ranked 38th nationally. toughest opponents in the region. Championships. "The other teams pressured us In the Owls' fourth appearance Inexperience hurt the team at Rice already defeated UT earlier In their first season compet- very hard and shut down our of- at the tournament, Rice started off the start of the spring season, and this season in the Centex tourna- ing in a league, the Owls entered fense," coach Miles Scorcher said. with three straight wins against Rice lost three of its first four ment. A&M is ranked 23rd nation- the tournament seeded second "I think we were maybe a little too Yale, Columbia University and the games. But the Owls were able to • ally and has put together a solid 12- behind hostTexas A&M Univer- excited going into the tournament University of Pennsylvania Satur- turn things around at March's 1 season. sity. The Owls felt winning the and really didn't play our game. day. The Owls then lost 13-3 to Centex Tournament in Austin. Last year, Rice won the South tournament, and the accompa- Often times we got frustrated and seventh-ranked Cornell Univer- There, Cloud 9 went undefeated in regional division and scored a win nying berth in the national tour- threw the ball away." sity, the eventual winner of the five games, including a 13-6 win in the first round of nationals over nament, was possible, especially Still, Rice experienced a great tournament, and finished second over 40th-ranked University of Kan- Tufts University. Cloud 9 wasn't ex- since they had beaten A&M ear- deal of success for a first-year in their pool. sas. pected to repeat that performance lier in the season. program, and the Owls see no The finish was good enough to Gavin said steady play and quick this year, but Rice, which has won I Rice's offense never got going, reason why they shouldn't be a move Rice to the "A" playoff learning on the part of the younger nine of its last 11 contests, has a however, and the Owls lost to consistent contender for the bracket, where Cloud 9 was seeded players have brightened the team's chance to move into contention for A&M, the University ofTexas and league title in upcoming years. 10th. Rice beat Utah State Univer- hopes of a strong postseason perfor- an invitation to the national tourna- Trinity University. Rice had lost "We built a very strong team sity but then dropped its next two mance. Sophomore Ray Yee and ment if it delivers a strong perfor- only two games all season and had starting with only five experi- matches, including a loss in the freshman Bryan Debbink have mance at the sectional and regional I defeated Trinity in both previous enced players and a bunch of semifinals of the consolation stepped up in several games to help tournaments. meetings. newcomers who had never bracket to 34th-ranked Wesleyan Rice pull out important victories. The nation's top 16 teams will be played water polo before," se- University. Cloud 9's zone defense took a invited to the national tournament, "Our team just played like we nior Brooke Wheeler said. "I The team has amassed an 11-6 while for the freshmen to master, which will be held in Boston May hadn't prepared for this tourna- think that this is a great starting record this spring and, according Gavin said, but has proved to be a 25-27. ment," freshman Jen Lin said. "Our passes were all off and we point for the team to build off couldn't figure out why." of."

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On the women's striking distance of the leaders. score better than 75 in the side, the 400-meter relay team won" But then the wind picked up, second round, and Rice the title at A&M and automatically I and Rice's game began to un- tumbled in the standings. | qualified for the NCAA meet, and ravel. Freshman Ryan Morgan, .sophomore long jumper Alice Up next: The Owls head to •, x.- wimffi. who led the Owls in the first round if Falaiye provisionally qualified with with a 69, finished the tourna- Broken Arrow, Okla., May 30 a mark of 21-3/4 at the Texas Relays. ment with rounds of 77 and 75. forthe WAC Championships. Rice has now qualified for the The rest of the team followed NCAA meet in four events, as sopho- Morgan's lead and sputtered to more 400-meter hurdler Allison team rounds of 304 and 297, slid- out since mid-February with a Beckford and the 1,600-meter relay -mm, -mm- ing to a tie for 11th place in the 15- fractured collarbone. Connolly team had already posted qualifying team field. Rice finished 27 shots fired a solid 74 in the first and marks at the Bayou Classic March 31. . *v/r ' mmmm behind llth-ranked University of third rounds but struggled to an The Owls are currently ranked New Mexico, which won the team 81 in the second, finishing 63rd - . - M|BV, f 12th nationally, Rice's highest rank- title. overall. ing this season, based on a ranking "We just kind of backtracked "It's great to have him back," system that forecasts a team's pro- a little bit," Morgan said. "We Morgan said. "I know it's frus- jected performance at the national lost a little bit of focus. If we trating for him, but he's done meet. The Owls' best-ever finish at could've kept our focus a little bit really well. I would've struggled the NCAA outdoor meet was a tie for we could've finished out strong." more than he did." 10th in 1994. Morgan was Rice's top fin- Having Connolly back gives Head coach Victor Lopez was isher, placing 24th overall with a the team more depth, something especially happy with his team's 400- RENATA ESCOVAR/THRESHER Senior Konnett Mays, seen here winning the long jump at the Texas Southern three-round total of 221. Fresh- the Owls have sorely missed in meter relay effort at the A&M meet. University Relays March 24, anchored the 400-meter relay, which posted the man Scott Philips, who came into recent tournaments. The Owls crossed the line in a hand- fastest time in Rice history, last weekend at the Texas A&M Invitational. the tournament with three "Depth has always been a timed 44.0 seconds — with the stan- straight top-five finishes, ended struggle," Lane said. "One time, dard compensation for hand-timing, discus and javelin and a first-place of course I'd like to see him go fur- up 30th with a total score of 223. last year, we brought five guys to Rice's time translates into a time of finish by junior Katie Waite in the ther. Reed's jumping well, but he's "I don't know why, I just didn't a six-man tournament." 44.24 seconds, which ranks them 3,000-meter steeplechase at A&M. still a little inconsistent. When tech- really concentrate," Philips said. Injuries and depth aside, the sixth in the nation and is faster than At the Texas Relays, the 1,600-meter nically he's good, he's great—when "I didn't make any putts, and that's real challenge for the Owls is the Rice school record of 44.37. relay team shaved almost three sec- he's not, he's not. When he puts it really where the scoring is in this finding some consistency, espe- "I've been expecting them to pop a onds off its previous season best and together, it's beautiful." game. Last semester, had I shot cially since their next tournament good one," Lopez said. "It's been frus- finished in 3:35.62, currently 10th in Sophomore Ryan Harlan finished 73, I'd have been 'ah, that's okay,' is the season's most important — trating because in the past meets they the country. sixth in the decathlon with a per- but this semester I've come out the Western Athletic Conferenc i had missed exchanges — they had This weekend, the Owls return sonal-best 6,936 points, but Davidson and shot some low numbers. Championships in Broken Arrow, connected, but not they way we wanted to Austin to compete in a six-way said Harlan could have qualified for When you shoot 73 and you've Okla., which begin May 30. to. But this weekend it happened." meet that includes sixth-ranked nationals if the weather hadn't been been shooting some low num- Four Owls have posted scores Beckford went into the Texas Texas and seventh-ranked Louisi- so windy. bers, there's some disappoint- below 70 at some point this year Relays with the best 400-meter ana State University. "It wasn't what we hoped," ment." — if they can regain the form of hurdles time in the nation and al- "We're moving," Lopez said. Davidson said. "The wind certainly As has been the case in many their best rounds, the Owls could most held on to the nation's top spot, "People are sore and the academics wasn't a help. We're going to wait tournaments this year, the fresh- find themselves in contention for running a personal-best 56.50 sec- are hitting hard, so we're dealing until conference and concentrate on men led the way while many of a conference title. But they'll onds to finish second. with a lot of things right now, but the events he's weak in." the more experienced golfers need to be at their best in a tough "The first part of the race she was we're still on target for conference. Davidson said Harlan has a struggled. Sophomore Bradley WAC field headlined by seventh- a tittle bit too relaxed," Lopez said. The meet's going to be fast, so we're chance to make the NCAA meet this Lane finished 37th with a three- ranked Texas Christian Univer- "The girl she was running with is the just looking for some good marks." year but may be held back by a lack round score of 224, but no other sity. favorite to win the national champion- Two jumpers from the men's team of conditioning since he wag hurt Owl finished in the top 60. Espe- "I'm really looking forward to ship and has the best time in the na- posted provisional NCAA qualifying during the summer and fall. With a cially frustrating was the fact that WAC, that's going to be an awe- young team short on experience but tion right now. Allison closed, closed marks in the last two weeks. Sopho- the Border Olympics was one of some tournament," Philips said. full of talent, Davidson is maintain- and closed but couldn't quite get her." more Reed Ballis won the "B" divi- Rice's strongest tournaments "But we can't put too much im- ing a long-term outlook. The race was just Beckford's sec- sion of the high jump at the Texas last year, when former Owl Drew portance on it, or you'll go out ond in two years because an injury Relays with a jump of 7-1 3/4, which "If Ryan makes it this year, it's Conrad ('00) won the individual and just freeze up." ties Ballis for the second-best jump kept her out of action last year. out of pure courage and talent, be- title and Rice finished third as a TTie Owls know they have the in Rice history. Sophomore Tommy "I pretty much feel like I'm where cause he really doesn't have the fit- team, admittedly against a talent to post a much better per- Oleksy finished fourth at the Texas I need to be right now," Beckford ness level and training to get there," weaker field than in this year's formance than they did in Laredo. Relays in the long jump with a per- said. "I felt loose and just went out Davidson said. "Regardless of how edition. "[The WAC meet] is a tough sonal best of 25-9 1/2. and did the best I could. I'm happy to we do this year, we're setting our- "Personally, I would like to tournament, but I don't think selves up to do really well at all three know that I'm healthy. " "I hate to say this, because it's the see us play solid as a team," head we're out of it by any means," — cross country, indoor track and Other highlights included junior kiss of death, but we feel like coach Clay Homan said. Morgan said. "All of us know outdoor track — next year. I'm still Jessica Sommerfeld's three top-five Tommy's jump will get him in [to the "We haven't really done that. Ev- we're capable of putting to- looking at the big picture." finishes at A&M in the shot put, NCAA meet]," Davidson said. "But eryone has not played well at the gether some good scores, but same time all year." we need to improve the mental A bright spot in the tourna- part of the game. We're capable ment was the return of senior of doing that. We just aren't Grueling schedule continues for Owls Chris Connolly, who had been there vet."

BASEBALL, from Page 25 ton and a three-game series against said, the Owls realize they have the Hawaii that began yesterday and depth to weather the storm. IN FOCUS: BASEBALL ends Saturday. "We can still get it done, abso- Record: 35-11 Overall, Rice is wrapping up a DESSERT GALLERY lutely," Ghutzman said. "Not only do stretch of 10 games in 12 days, with WAC record: 20-4 (1st) we have depth, but we have experi- six of the contests on the road and BAKERY & CAFE enced depth. We have guys who can Since last time- Rice won six six against teams that were in last go out who've been out there before. of 10 games the past two year's NCAA Tournament. INVITES YOU TO HELP US CELEBRATE We're just going to have to buckle weeks and went 3-3 in WAC With the semester winding down down and see what we can do." play against San Jose State and schoolwork piling up, the sched- OUR NEW LOOK, NEW EXPANDED Rice has played without Cruz for and Nevada. ule may be wearing on the Owls, the last three weeks, with senior Up next: The Owls play Hawaii who are just 8-5 in April. CAFE MENU & NEW HOURS! Matt Fox, junior Hunter Brown and (18-22, 8-16 WAC) tonight at 7 The Owls can't wait for March Beginning April 1, we will be open freshman Brian Bonnaster splitting p.m. at Reckling Park. 29, when they begin a 10-day break time at second base. from baseball to concentrate on final weekday evenings & Sundays! But Fox strained a tendon in his exams. Sunday: 11 am - 6 pm ¥0° arm last week, and Bormaster broke "We're thinking about it," Gra- "We knew we had a tough sched- Mori day-Thursday. 11 am - 9 pm the tip of his middle finger two week- ham said. "If Fox can get well, which ule from day one," Ghutzman said. ends ago. Neither is at full strength. he's not, we've got to decide what we "And no matter how much you talk Friday-Saturday: 1? am - midnite about it, when the time comes it's As a result, Brown entered last want to do. We sure hate to lose Present this adiO{i;$unday (alt day) OR night's series opener against the guys, but we've still got people who going to be tough. But like some of University of Hawaii having played can play the game." us older guys have been saying, Monday - Thursday'lvenings (6pm - 9pm) six straight games at second base, Tlie injuries couldn't have come we're going to have to step it up and get FREE DESSERT when you and junior Bobby Bryan filled in at at a worse time, with Rice battling another level the next couple of days third. through the most grueling part of its and really battle to get to that break. purchase an entree! Once Fox is healthy, Graham said schedule. The Owls are in the midst No doubt about it, school's getting Offer valid April 1 - May 31. 2001. Dine-In ONLY (no to-go orders). he would like to alternate Fox and of playing five games in five days, a tougher and people are going to Cannot be combined with any other offers. 1 coupon per party please Brown at second and third, with stretch includingTuesday's 10-6 loss have to bear down on that. But we Bryan and Bormaster providing sup- at Lamar University, Wednesday's have to battle and have another good 3200 Kirby Drive (in back) - 713.522.9999 - www.dessertgallery.com port as backups. 5-3 win over the University of Hous- week." - -- » THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, APRIL ?0,2001 • mwMi* • ' "i Ml iiUy ——

i111 ' mf< 8 frm - 'tfH *" Memorial Center. Sunday we were much more competitive," mn's track signs star triple lack of depth after injuries hit two of the In women's sports, senior Kenya Tuttle freshman John Gaebler said. "We just barely Owls' top golfers. Frank Buttacavoli and received the Gene Hackerman Award as the lost two other races to Tulane and the Uni- I • jumper, two distance runnersEddi e Rowe signed national letters of intent outstanding women's basketball player for versity of New Orleans." [ This year, jumpers and distance runners this week to play golf at Rice. 2001. Senior Kim Maher was honored with The University of Texas went 11-1 over have led the men's track team, and it looks Buttacavoli, a native of Miami Beach, Fla., the Catherine Hannah Award for swimmer of the weekend to win the regatta and will like the future could hold more of the same. is a senior at Ransom Everglades High the year, while junior Leigh Leman took the represent the region at the national team Head coach Ray Davidson announced Tues- School. He won the district championship in Hally Beth Poindexter Award in volleyball. racing championship. day that three athletes with the potential to 2000 and finished third at last season's In men's sports, Wilks was named the The team's final major regatta begins April make an immediate impact signed national regional. This year, Buttacavoli finished sixth outstanding athlete for men's basketball, win- 27, when Rice will compete at the SEISA letters of intent to compete for Rice. at the American Junior Golf Association MCI ning the Billy Wohn Award for the second Dinghy Championships at the University of Marcel Hewamudalige is a distance run- Junior Heritage of Golf in Hilton Head, S.C., consecutive year. Junior Dan Dawson took Texas, with the top two teams advancing to ner from Vancouver, British Columbia. His and was a qualifier for the 2000 United States home the George Martin Award as the out- the dinghy national regatta in Rhode Island. personal best in the 1,500-meter run is 3 Junior Nationals. standing Rice football player. In men's tennis, minutes, 53.00 seconds, and he has run the "He's got a lot of experience on the na- freshman Richard Barker received the Saruny 3,000 in 8:31.00. Hewamudalige finished tional level," head coach Clay Homan said. Giammalva Award for the current season. If third in the 5,000 at the junior nationals in "His top finishes show that he is comfortable Sports with ongoing seasons presented Rice may host 2002 WAC Canada. competing at the highest level and that he 1999-2000 awards. 2000 graduate Charlotte outdoor track and field meet fit Scott Loftin, a middle distance runner can perform well under pressure." Feasby won the Kay Pearson Keating Award from Overland Park, Kan., was the 2000 Rowe, a senior at Monahans High School, for women's tennis. In track and field and The 2002 Western Athletic Conference Kansas state champion in the 800-, 1,600- is a native of Monahans, near Midland. In cross country, current senior Kelechi Ander- Outdoor Track and Field Championships and 3,200-meter runs as a junior and became 2000, he won both the regional and district son received the Fred and Florence Stancliff may be coming to Rice. the first person to win all three events in one events, firing a record-setting 135 over two Award, and 2000 graduate Shaquandra The meet was tentatively scheduled to be year. This season, he won the state cross rounds at the regional events. He finished Roberson took the Eva Jean Lee Award. hosted by WAC newcomer Boise State Uni- country championship. fifth at the 2000 state tournament. The Dell Morgan Award honoring the versity, but women's head coach Victor Lopez "Both of these guys will have an immedi- "He is an extremely hard worker and has baseball team's-most valuable player was given said that since the indoor meet is in Reno, ate impact on our program," Davidson said. a very solid swing mechanically," Homan to current senior Kenny Baugh. Golfer Drew Nev., the conference doesn't want to force all "They are talented young distance runners said. "He's always trying to improve. He's Conrad, a senior in 2000, was honored with the Texas schools to make two long trips. with plenty of room to grow." got quite a bit of experience as far as playing the Vic Cameron Award. Current senior cross Lopez said the conference will ask Rice to Jason Powell is the top high school triple nationally, and he should definitely be an country runner John Jura won the Fred and host the meet. jumper in Texas. Powell, a Rotan native, impact player." Florence Stancliff Award, while long jumper Director of Athletics Bobby May said he finished first at the junior nationals with a Drexell Owusu, a senior last year, was awarded would support Rice hosting the meet. leap of 51-1 1/2, and ranked fourth in the the Emmett Branson Award. "Assuming our facility holds up, since wr country among all high schoolers in 2000. Men's and women's lacrosse Jura, Jada Sanders (swimming) and just did a lot of work out there and made a lot He returns in 2001 as the nation's top-ranked prepare for playoff run Travis Ortega (football) received the Fred ot alterations and repairs, I would be very high school triple jumper. Stancliff/"R" Association Scholarships for supportive of that," May said. "We like to "Jason will definitely do some good things Playoff time has arrived for the club la- postgraduate study. Seniors Jose Luis host championships, so we'll certainly make for us," Davidson said. "We're glad he's go- crosse teams. The men's team begins play- Cubria and Derek Gosnay received the Rice an effort." ing to join our team." offs tomorrow in San Marcos, while the women Spirit Award for their support at Rice sport- Rice hosted the 1998 WAC cross country will try to secure a playoff berth in their final ing events. Junior Josh Seale (football) and meet and the 2000 WAC indoor track meet at two regular-season games this weekend. senior Klara Zelinka (volleyball) received the University of Houston. The men's team finished fourth in the National Strength and Conditioning Asso- D>pez said he wouldn't want to host the Lady Owls sign all-state Lone Star Alliance and will face Texas A&M ciation all-America awards. The training meet unless Rice got a new track. University, the conference's top seed, in the staff also honored seniors Ann Blaine, Krissy "The track's in bad shape," I^opez said. guard from Louisiana first round of the playoffs. A&M, ranked ninth Boulanger, Patrick Porter and Jane Shin for "It's already crumbling, and the track is wavy. Eshombi Singleton of Baton Rouge, La., in the current United States Lacrosse Inter- their service to Wee athletics. People are talking about patching it up, but signed a national letter of intent to play for collegiate Association poll, is 12-2 on the sea- that's no good. We need a new track." the Lady Owls, head coach Cristy McKinney son and a perfect 7-0 in conference play. The announced April 12. Aggies beat Rice 21-9 earlier this season. If Sailing team lags behind at Singleton, a 5-foot-8 senior from Southern Rice defeats the Aggies, they will play either Men's water polo wins one University Laboratory School, earned district Texas Tech University or the University of University of Texas regatta MVP honors this season after averaging 20.5 Texas Sunday for the championship. of three at division tourney points, 10 rebounds and seven assists per On the women's side, Rice is 3-3 in confer- Rice's sailing team straggled at the South- game. During her prep career, Singleton was ence action and likely needs to win its final two Eastern Intercollegiate Sailing Association Rice's men's club water polo team won named to the all-state team twice, was a mem- games to secure a spot in the four-team play- Team Racing Championship at the Univer- one out of three games at the United States ber of the all-metro team three times and offs. They face Texas Tech at home tomorrow sity of Texas April 7-8, finishing last in a five- Water Polo Premier League Divison II Cham- received all-district honors all four years. at 1 p.m. and travel to San Marcos Sunday to team field with a record of 1-11. pionships last weekend in College Station, "We're excited about the addition of play Southwest Texas State University. Saturday, Rice was missing two of its best but the Owls said it was their best perfor- Eshombi to our program," McKinney said. sailors, senior I.aura Sullivan and freshman mance of the year. "She's a great penetrator and scored well in Frank Donnelly, and lost all seven of its races. After a close 11-8 loss to Dallas Club, Rice high school. She's going to bring a lot of quick- Sunday, Sullivan and Donnelly came, and pounded Stephen F. Austin State University ness, penetration and passing to our game." Sommerfeld, Wilks named Donnelly and his crew, junior Chris Donica, 20-2 before losing 5-4 to the University of The Lady Owls still have one available scholar-athletes of the year led Rice to its only win, overTulane University. Texas. Previously this season, Rice's defense scholarship remaining after sophomore cen- In team racing, each team has three boats had suffered against UT, and holding the ter Sarah Bracken decided not to return to Women's track and field senior Jessica with two people per boat, and the team with Longhorns to just five goals represents a the team after recurring knee injuries. Sommerfeld received the 2001 Joyce Pounds the best total of overall finishes wins. In one major step in the right direction. Hardy Award as Rice's outstanding female of its strongest performances of the week- "This tournament, the men brought up the student-athlete, and men's basketball senior end, Rice lost just 10-11 to the University of intensity and played their greatest polo of the Mike Wilks was named the 2001 recipient of New Orleans, which finished second with an season," coach Miles Scotcher said. "We were Golf team inks two the Bob Quin Award as the outstanding male 8-4 record, as Rice placed 2-4-5 and UNO able to capitalize on opportunities on offense Relief is in sight for Rice's golf team, student-athlete April 9 at the Athletics came in 1-3-6. and maintain our composure on defense. ! which has suffered this season because of a Department's all-sports banquet at the Rice "After Frank and Laura showed up on We're going to be a strong team next year."

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Score by Innings R H E Rice (3411) 030 120 000 — 6 10 1 Lamar (29-19) 001 220 32X — %0 11 0 RICE 4 NEVADA 6 « > j >*U ? r & »*>*>«.* .'<* <* V'* • , ,u iUAu lam the « ,'r> ' 4 . Score by Innings R H E • ft :Y> 1 • Rice (34-10, 20 4) 100 002 010—4 8 0 Nevada (21 19,1212) 000 201 03X —6 7 1 AAnalon g Rice: Jeff Nichols, Steven Herce (6), Philip Barzilla 1 momentum »«Hn , , . . . <{t u -4 •>-> •> > •< . |j (8) and Phillip Ghutzman; Nevada: Mateo ...... « „ <1 >i\) , J • ?| *, Miramontes, Clint Kofmehl (9) and Christian Popoff. « ' ' * ' ' . , >f Win — Miramontes (8-1). Loss — Herce (3-1). Save i ' ' •* '* ' > x ' -^frllmlnlllu — Kofmehl (2). 2B — Rice: Davis (12); Nevada: GilNes (10), Mclntyre (12). HR — Rice: Arnold (12).

RICE 18 NEVADA 11 I EX AS INSTRUMCWS UCHNOL0GY Score by Innings R H E Rice (34-9, 20-3) 010 231 650 —18 19 4 • "t < v j . i J J,} V* Nevada (20-19, 11-12)001 100 108 —11 113 £ 4 * •* '* :i # # J < i J ; ? Rice: Kenny Baugh, Jonathan Gonzalez (8), Dustin to takfcyou % 5 y f$ 1$ >£ Wernecke (9) and Phillip Ghutzman, Jeff Blackinton; Zy ^ ri ** "4'% y % ** " Nevada: Darrell Rasner, James Holcomb (6), John Teepe (7), Lee Hafen (8), Craig Norris (9) and Tony f u, r % h e r Cappuccilli. Win — Baugh (8-2). Loss — Rasner (6-3). Save — you ever *f|j None. 2B — Rice; Porfirio (11), Roman (13); Ne- vada: Dickerson (8). 3B — Rice: Brown (1). HR — Rice: Arnold (11), Brown (6); Nevada: Wickwire (3).

RICE 8 NEVADA 7 to take you to the Score by innings R H E Rice (33-9, 19-3) . 103 102 010 —8 12 0 Nevada (20-18, 1111)000 012 301 —7 12 1 Rice: Jon Skaggs, Billy Jacobson (6) and Philip Barzilla (7). Nevada: Jason Mackintosh and George Moran (4). Win — Skaggs (8-0). Loss — Mackintosh (4-5). iconnectwhatyous« Save — Barzilla (6). HR — Rice: Davis (4), Porfirio (7), Arnold 2 (10). then reconnect SW TEXAS STATE 2 RICE 5

Score by innings R H E SWTSU (24 14) 000 020 000 — 2 8 2 Rice (32-9) 210 000 20X — 5 11 0 SWTSU: Tim Wade, Chad Massengale (5), Paul Schappert (7), Kyle Rutherford (7), Dickie Gonzalez (7), and Josh Newland. Rice: Jonathon Gonzalez, , >v Philip Tribe (4), Philip Barzilla (9) and Jeff Blackinton. i • / • - Win — Tribe (2-2). Loss —"Wade (1-3). Save —' Barzilla (5). 2B — SWTSU: Washington (6); Rice: Brown(16), Bryan (2). HR — Rice: Arnold (8). am bigger than any pOSSibl© thought S- RICE 5 BAYLOR 1 but smaNir than you thought possible •'

Score by innings R H E Rice (31 9) 010 102 100 — 5 9 1 Baylor (27-11) 000 000 010 — 1 6 3 r n Rice: Steven Herce, Kenny Baugh 17), Philip Barzilla farr. the 3JBHBPPftsu totamomiw (9), and Philip Ghutzman. Baylor: Jared Theodorakos, rUn Paul Jhorp (5), Zane Carlson (7), Derek Brehm (9), and Kelly Shoppach. Win — Herce (3-0). Loss — Theodoarakos (5-3). Save — None. 2B — Baylor: Murphy (8); HR — Rice: J^aBEHPiob after graduation. Ghutzman (3).

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Score by Innings R H E Rice (30-9, 18-3) 303 010 030 — 10 15 0 . SJSU (19-14-1,8-10) 000 100 00X — 1 3 3 Rice: Jon Skaggs, Philip Barzilla (8), and Phillip Ghutzman; SJSU: Jeremy Rogelstad, Mike Malott (3), Jahseam George (8), Casey Minister (9), and Adam Shorsher. Win — Skaggs (7-0); Loss — Rogelstad (2-4); Save — None. 2B — Rice: Porfirio (9), Roman (12); SJSU: Zwissig (5).

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Score by Innings R H E Rice (29-9, 17-3) Oil 000 201 — 5 12 3 hardware SJSU (19-13-1,8 9) 200 220 10X — 7 10 0 ^ : Rice: Jeff Nichols, Billy Jacobson (4), Stephen Herce (6), and Philip Ghutzman. SJSU: Tim Adinolphi, Matt Kauffman (8), Dave Fuqua (9), and Adam Shorsher. software Win — Adinolfi (4 4). Loss — Nichols (3-2). Save — Fuqua (3). 2B — SJSU: Lopez 2(13), Shorsher (3); 3B — Rice: Lorsbach (2). HR — Rice: Davis (3), open thinking Porfirio (6), Brown (5). RICE 5 SAN JOSE STATE 7 www.ti.com/dsp

Score by Innings R H E Rice (29 8, 17 2) 000 100 130 — 5 14 6 SJSU (1912 1.7 9) 312 010 00X — 7 8 1 i! Rice: Kenny Baugh, Philip Tribe (4), Nick Martin (6), and Philip Ghutzman. SJSU: Chris Sherman, Andy Cook (7), Matt Kauffman (8), and Adam Shorsher Win — Sherman(5-3). Loss — Baugh(7-2). Save — Kauffman(3). 2B — Rice: Davis (11), Porfirio (8). HR < iwKH — Lorsbach(3).

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a performance at 10 p.m. Other APR 20 performers for the evening are Baker From 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., Wiess College College senior Annie Lin at 11 p.m., Udo presents a Cajun-inspired Jamfest — Unplugged at midnight and Delicious JAMBALAYAFEST The Roboticus at 1 a.m. annual free music festival, which features bands with ties to Rice, takes place in the Saturday Wiess Acabowl and includes free APR 21 refreshments. For details, send an e-mail ^e WOMEN'S TENNIS to Katie Beth Higgins at [email protected] teaching workshop on handling includes works from all undergraduate team plays Texas A&M at Corpus Christi at or Sandy Brown at [email protected]. studio classes. The opening reception for 9 a.m. before taking the court against STUDENTS IN CRISIS * the show of underclassmen work at the Abilene Christian University at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Lindley Doran, director of the Rice Ruz, the Rice Arab culture club, hosts Rice Media Center is from 7 to 9 p.m., Both matches are in Jake Hess Tennis Counseling Center, in Duncan Hall, Room with film presentations beginning at 2001 ARABIAN NIGHTS Stadium. 1070 from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. featuring free dinner and entertainment at 8:48 p.m. The Media Center will feature 5:30 p.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion in the The team faces the refreshments and music bv DJs wgm The MEN'S TENNIS team BASEBALL j •> - - Student Center. University of Texas at 7 p.m. before Surveillance Theory and Kelp Animal. The battles Southern Methodist University at playing the University of Nevada both exhibit runs through May 12. 10:30 a.m. and Abilene Christian The team plays the Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. All games BASEBALL University at 2:30 p.m. at Jake Hess University of Hawaii at Reckling Park at are at Reckling Park. KTRU sponsors a free performance by Tennis Stadium. 7 p.m. INDIAN DANCER Namita The BASEBALL team takes the The Rice Philharmonics spite the gods of Bodaji in the Grand Hall of the Student Swinging, dancing and all that jazz. The field against the University of Hawaii at healthy cuisine with free DONUT Center at 7 p.m. Rice Social Dance Society hosts its Reckling Park at 2 p.m. SUNDAES at a study break from 8 m to JAZZ SOIREE p starting at 9 p.m. in the Will Rice College firiday APR 27 midnight in the Grand Hall of the Student Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, to the Tower Party you Commons. The break is complete with Center with swing and ballroom music by go. The Sid Richardson College party a capella musical entertainment. LAST DAY OF CLASSES the Rice Jazz Ensemble. The University of starts at 10 p.m. The theme is "Sid and Bet you can't wait to cram for finals. Houston ballroom dancers and the Rice the SEVEN DWARVES thursday APR 26 Night Owls will both perform. Tickets for the event are $5 at the door. The opening of ON THE monday APR 23 the Calendar submit items: VERGE' annual student art It may be nonsense, but it's literate The James A. Baker III Institute for Public exhibit, is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in nonsense. Jones College junior Corey Policy sponsors an informal presentation the Rice Art Gallery. The free event • by CAMPUS MAIL to Calendar Cogswell presents a free performance of and discussion on the MIDDLE features performances by Rice Dance Editor, Rice Thresher. MS-524. A Tribute to t0 EAST by Baker Institute Director Theatre and the Rice Players at 6 p.m., • by FAX Calendar Editor, (713) 348- JABBERWOCKY 5238. Lewis Carroll through Dramatic Poetry Edward Djerejian from 5 to 6 p.m. in Baker followed by a fashion show of designs by • by E-MAIL to [email protected]. Recitation" at 8 p.m. in the Jones Hall. Coffee will be served in order to have Sid senior Mandy Gor at 6:30 p.m. and an are Commons. a fully conscious audience. awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Music will be Calendar submission FORMS available at the Student Activities Office or provided by biochemistry and cell biology on the Thresher office door. The last UNDERGROUNDS graduate student Dennis Lee. The tuesday .APR 24. The DEADLINE for all items is 5 p.m. of the year is tonight at Lyle's in the Lovett GALLERY EXHIBIT the Monday prior to publication. The Office of Graduate Studies and the features works by graduating art majors, College basement. Lovett senior Clif Submissions are printed on a space- Confident celebrates his CD release with Graduate Student Association sponsor a while the Rice Media Center exhibit available basis.

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Germano held hostage, Well, exc-u-u-se us, Jones!

Dear Mr. Wilbur, fortunate things happen, and Jones demands apology On behalf of my colleagues at people are responsible for those Rice University, I wish to extend things. We are very sorry for that, by Land beloved leader. my condolences for the unfortu- given that we are all people. How "This is some fucked up bullshit, nate manner in which the con- true that is. huh? Oh ... I mean ... um ... All we struction surrounding Martel Col- There, I said it. Very sorry. As President Malcolm Gillis has can do is hope and pray that Lindsay lege may or may not have indi- the student governments of this faced many difficult situations dur- is returned safely. We're all pulling rectly contributed to an alleged university are collapsing without ing his distinguished term as uni- for you Linds," Hanszen senior Alisa decline in your Ms. Germano's pres- versity president. He's had to deal De Luna said. "There. Was that college's quality of ence, we beg you to with shaving cream-covered stu- good?" she then added, having in- life. return our prized stu- dents wanting to use his pool, he's correctly assumed that she was off We understand dent. Peace out. had to order the building of build- the record. that you were very ings and stuff, and he's had to fill out Having given up on receiving fi- close to the Mary Alex and Adam are John Hutchinson that Harvard presidential transfer nancial compensation, the JCCC's Gibbs Jones College having problems this LINDSAY S MOM/THRESHER application. Never before, however, one and only demand was that Gillis Commons. We'll do week. P.S. Just between We missed you, Lindsay. has he faced such a horrific situation offer a sincere apology to the stu- everything we can to you and me ... I never as a hostage crisis. Until now. dents of Jones. For two tension- make it pretty again really liked this whole NOT REAL At 6:57 p.m. CST on April 4, filled weeks, Gillis refused. Reports by fiscal year 2008, in- Martel thing. I said to Editor in chief misidentified Hanszen College senior Lindsay indicate that, while fed and watered cluding planting a Malky the other day, Germano innocently wandered into sufficiently, Germano was required small tulip nearby it "So, honestly ... what Roommate awake too damn the remains of the Jones College to write "The JCCC is not stupid" where students can gather would happen if we just ditched early Commons, having received a cryp- repeatedly on a chalkboard. Am- around and sing songs about the this whole Martel thing and just tic message that she was to meet a nesty International is currently in- beloved commons of yore. put in an Olympic-sized swim- Eight-bit Nintendo remem- friend there. It was then that the vestigating. If you're really nice, we'll even ming pool next to Jones?" But he bered fondly terror began. Germano was am- Finally, Gillis delegated the apol- make Jones' side of the eatery seems to like the concept of hav- bushed by three Jones students and ogy to John "More Phone Numbers bigger than the Martel side. ing the only outdoor pool on cam- Confusion: Why the hell did held hostage at an as yet undisclosed Than God" Hutchinson. (See text of Additionally, please let your pus. Quite a power trip, I sup- he get that award? location. Authorities believe that letter at right.) people know that we are very pose. Just wanted to let you know their super-duper secret location Yesterday, Germano walked sorry for things. Often times, un- I'm on your side. Really. might have been China. The coun- across the academic quad and into Buttocks sore, scratched try. the metaphorical arms of the loving Germano is a well-respected south colleges. Triumphant fanfare member of the Rice U niversity com- ensued as the Marching Owl Band The 'Wish I had class during spring recess' classifieds munity, former president of butchered their own arrangement Hanszen. a resident on the south of When the Saints Go Marching In. COMPUTER SAVVY? Great Opportu- GREAT FUNDRAISING OPPORTU- HOUSING side of campus, and the author of a Germano's only comment was, "I nity! Part-time position in Medical Cen- NITY for all college organizations and strongly worded letter speaking still think I was right. I'd submit that WEST UNIVERSITY AREA. $560 per ter Physician Office. Very flexible hours, clubs. How would you like to earn against the efforts of the Jones Col- letter again in a heartbeat. Except month, one bedroom/one bath — one competitive salary. Skills required in- $500 or more in one week? No sales. l lege Compensation Committee. with more swear words." block from Village — walk to Rice U. clude web-site maintenance, computer No hassle. 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