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by Leslie Liu spectives on genetics taught last fall. She appealed the decision to THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF The paper in question was copied President Malcolm Gillis and the from a Web site. She was suspended interim assistant dean for student A student found guilty of plagia- for two semesters and failed the judicial programs Ron Sass, chair of rism by the Honor Council did not course after her Honor Council case. the Ecology and Evolutionary Biol- graduate this year despite her law- During the case, Bangale claimed ogy department. Both upheld the suit against Rice trying to force the that the plagiarized paper — which Honor Council's decision, leading institution to grant her a degree. was submitted by e-mail to one of her to file suit against Rice. Baker College senior Anita the professors in the class — was If she had graduated, she would Bangale's lawyer argued in court that not the paper she turned in at all. have attended Baylor College of the evidence gathered by the Honor She said she wrote an entirely differ- Medicine this fall. As it is, she can- Council was not clear and convincing, ent paperand submitted a paper copy not attend classes without a degree. and that the judge should grant a tem- to her anthropology professors.- Now the case will be brought porary injunction allowing her to Neither professor received the back before the court in a hearing in graduate May 12, according to an ar- hard copy of the paper. June, where Bangale and her law- ticle in the Houston Chronicle that day. Bangale said that someone else yers will say whether they want the The judge did not grant *he in- must have stolen the paper she court to set a trial date. junction. turned in and submitted the clearly Bangale declined to be interviewed, Bangale was accused and found plagiarized paper via her e-mail ac- at the advice of her lawyers, but a in violation of plagiarizing a paper for count, which she often left open in close friend, Arnab Ray (Baker '00), Anthropology 314, a class about per- her frequently unlocked room. See PLAGIARIZE, Page 10

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CHRISTINE LIANG/THRESHER Junior Eric Arnold will help lead the baseball team into postseason play, which begins today as the top-seeded Owls host a regional at Reckling Park. Rice faces the University of Texas at Arlington at 3 p.m. in today's opener. Owls begin regional play

by Jose Luis Cubria the rest of the 64-team NCAA THRESHER STAFF Tournament field. Second-seeded Baylor University will take on Today the journey to Omaha be- third-seeded University of Hous- gins in earnest. And the Rice base- ton at 7 p.m. ball team will start the voyage in its Say what you will about increased own backyard. revenues, comfortable seating, a Top-seeded Rice faces No. 4- luxurious press box, improved re- seeded University of Texas at Ar- cruiting and all the other benefits lington at 3 p.m. today in the opener that come with having one of the of the first NCAA regional ever held best college baseball facilities in the at Reckling Park. country. Two familiar names round out Today is the reason Reckling Park the four-team regional, which was was built. announced Monday along with See BASEBALL Page 27

ROB GADDI/THRESHER Student charged with assault Walking into the real world by Olivia Allison floor balcony of Sid with several other Brown College graduates walk through the Sallyport after Commencement May 12. See photo spread, Page 12. students for "Primal Scream" at IHRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF about midnight the night of May 2. I Sid Richardson College freshman Sid's Primal scream is a tradition in Tom Hicks was rusticated May 3 which Sid students yell off the after he threatened to kill another college's six balconies at midnight Sid freshman. Mathias Ricken. each night during finals. Women's track defends WAC title Hicks was tried at a Student Judi- The night of the alleged assault, trailing the University of Nevada by They had someone in the discus cial Programs hearing May 7 on an Ricken said he heard other students by Chris Larson 14.5 points. and the high jump, but that was assault charge filed by Sid Master yelling from the vicinity of the Hanszen THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF But the Owls weren't worried. about it. In the running events, they Steve Cox. A judicial programs sub- College quadrangle after the scream- There's something about having Head coach Victor Lopez has said all didn't have enough." committee chaired by Political Sci- ing was over. The Sid students yelled won three straight Western Athletic season that his women know they're Rice won just two events on the ence Professor Richard Stoll con- anti-Hanszen cheers in response. Conference titles that gives a team a winners. On May 19, they ran like it, day. as sophomore standout .Allison ducted the hearing. Stoll declined to Ricken said the people in the certain amount of confidence. using a complete team effort to domi- Beckford went unchallenged in the comment on the hearing. quadrangle continued to yell as they The women's outdoor track and nate the final day of competition and 400-meter dash and the 400-meter Interim Dean for Student Judi- approached. When the three stu- field team was gunning for its fourth finish with 142.5 points, giving them hurdles. But the Owls had a pres- cial Programs Ron Sass said he dents arrived at the bottom of Sid. straight WAC track title May 16-19 a comfortable 31.5-point margin over ence in nearly every event and still mailed Hicks the verdict from the one of them shouted, "You'd better in Fresno, Calif., having won the last runner-up Nevada. consistently racked up points. hearing, but the decision was not stop yelling shit or I'll come up to the two indoor titles and last year's out- "We had a great Friday and quali- Junior Keitha Moseley and fresh- public at press time. Sass, the chair balcony and throw you off!" door meet. fied everybody we needed to man Keia Watkins were second and of the Ecology and Evolutionary Bi- However, Ricken said he and the Things looked tough for the Owls qualify," Lopez said. "We knew the ology department, refused to com- Sid students on the balcony contin- fourth, respectively, in the high jump. heading into the final day of compe- amount of points Nevada would get ment on the verdict. ued to yell cheers because they did Junior Aimee Teteris and senior Erin tition, when thev found themselves in the other events on Saturday. See WAC, Page 26 Ricken said he was on the fifth See ASSAULT. Page 9

INSIDE Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage FEATURE Page 14 Welcome home PAID Growing up inside the hedges This issue of the Thresher Houston, TX will be mailed to the homes of Permit No. 8300 A&E Page 16 current and incoming students. Sammys theater awards Another issue of the newspaper PHOTO SPREAD Page 12 will be mailed in July. Have a Graduation finally comes good summer! SPORTS Page 25 More than caffeine Track coach resigns The coffeehouse has begun Quote of the Week serving Island Oasis Smoothees, "I'm playing a lesbian! That's what compliments of Willy's Pub. I'm doing." The coffeehouse will be open UURA WIGINTON /THRFSHER — Janeane Garofato, triumphantly 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Visitors view the student art describing her role in an upcoming Friday, during the summer. exhibit. See A&E, Page 18. movie. , > TT* >; V ' / / • ' • ' • 1V> , , t t / , , > / ^ > / / > ,/!/>,. I - : I • • > - J . , i - - , > i . ) I I i ( r > I » > * * f ' - f ) I I I I < I < . < I • i

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/ouKnov- ya\ U—1L T=f suRe spirit. The chunks of music KTRU broadcasted during breaks difficult goodbyes to masters they they really didn't deserve. I say this prompts the disagreements we have have come to know and not because I always with them — namely, their human- in game play filled the valuable service of educating sports love as leaders, advisers agreed with their point of ity. We students are so used to see- listeners about KTRU's other programming. and friends. Now it's view or their actions, but ing our college masters as larger- And even though the new sponsor recognition messages Wiess' turn to cope with a because I believe people than-life heroes that we rarely allow feel less like commercials, it should have always been KTRU's loss of its own, as John at Rice have grown far too them to make normal human mis- and Paula Hutchinson accustomed to suspecting takes or have normal human emo- prerogative to broadcast music on their own station. leave, having served a the worst of anyone in a tions. Yet John and Paula would not lengthy seven years as col- position of authority. have touched so many lives had they lege masters. John was, because of not been willing to take the risk of From the weekly his positions in the admin- remaining stubbornly human in or- "Simpsons" gatherings at istration, occasionally ac- der to better understand and relate Saying goodbye to our Wiess House to the spring cused of being "a tool of to the students they met. musicals, the Hutchinson the man." Paula some- All college masters are, both by family's involvement in times experienced verbal nature and by necessity, exceptional seniors student life was active and enthusias- (and, in one case, physical) attacks individuals. They are people who, in tic, yet never intrusive. John and Paula by students at parties like NOD, ap- addition to caring for their own fami- Like every other campus organization, the Thresher loses knew how to let students make their parently for no other reason than lies, have room in their lives and members to the real world every time graduation approaches. own decisions and their own mis- that she was over the age of thirty hearts for 300-plus college students, takes, and when they intervened in and telling drunk students to go some of whom will reciprocate and This year is no exception. It is somewhat unusual, however, student affairs at Wiess it was always, home. Yet I don't want to make the others who will simply take advan- because many of our graduating staff members have been in my opinion, for a good reason. Hutchinsons out to be martyrs, partly tage of their generosity. To be an intregal parts of the paper for so long. Mariel Tam and Jose Most impressive, though, was the because I know they wouldn't want effective college master, one has to Luis Cubria have put in long hours every week since their Hutchinsons' humility. If they did or that either. The good experiences genuinely care about the students, freshman year, and Elizabeth Jardina has been doing the said something which they later be- we have shared with the Hutchinson and I can't think of anyone who has same for the past three years. Their contributions have been lieved to be a mistake, they acknowl- family overwhelmingly outweigh the illustrated this characteristic better edged it and apologized for it. One bad. I can tell from talking with John than John and Paula have. more than most readers realize, and we thank them for the example that comes immediately to and Paula, and from the looks on years of hard work. mind is John's involvement in the their faces at their farewell dinner in Raj Wahi (Wiess '99) is a graduate But above all, Brian Stoler deserves special recognition. He KTRU shutdown: Having made deci- March, that they feel the same way. student in chemistry. was editor in chief twice, first in 1998-'99 and again in 2000-'01. sions that a number of students inter- They served as masters because they preted as wrong and insulting, he wanted to, because they loved the He put an incredible amount of effort into making the Thresher wrote a letter of apology that was not students with whom they lived. They an objective, respectable news source. Even when the stories only gracious but also free of defen- gave of themselves not because they CONTACTING THE that needed to be covered were difficult to approach or went sive remarks or disclaimers. Very wanted a reward, but because giving came naturally. WESHER against popular opinion, he stood his ground. Thank you few students or administrators would fr. V ' ' *A- ' * J i f Brian, for setting a standard of quality we hope to adhere to. have behaved with such dignity in When we think of the word Letters that kind of situation. "caregiver," EMTs and counselors In fact, when I think about it, I'm are usually the kinds of people who • Letters to the editor should We also recognize these other graduates who made signifi- amazed at what John and Paula were come to mind. Yet I personally be sent to the Thresher by mail, cant contributions to the Thresher during their time at Rice: able to put up with over the last seven wouldn't have learned half as much fax, e-mail to threshemirice.edu years. The Rice community is re- about caring for others if I hadn't or be delivered in person. We Joseph Blocher Opinion markable for the rewarding experi- had the opportunity to watch John prefer that letters be submit- ences and friendships it offers, but and Paula in action ted on disk or by e-mail. let- Abi Coen A&E, Photography ters must be received by 5p.m. Jose Luis Cubria Managing editor, Sports on the Monday prior to a Fri- Jen Frazer Copy, News day publication date. Jason Gershman Sports LETTER TO THE EDITOR • All letters must be signed Carlv Halvorson Office manager and include a phone number. have never heard a more eloquent Rice studentsand alumni must Mike Sew Hoy Opinion McAleese brings peace speaker and feel as a member of the include their college and year. Elizabeth Jardina Senior editor, News, Copy process to life audience that I actually was part of • Letters should be no Amy Krivohlavek Calendar the process. 1 found it especially longer than 250 words in Marisa Lev\y A&E To the editor: gratifying (hat the Baker Institute length. The Thresher reserves Mark Lewis Backpage Hats off to Rice University, the invited all faculty, students and stall the right to edit letters for James A. Baker III Institute for Pub- to the event for a glimpse to see and both"content and length. Aalok Mehta News lic Policy and the Rice Thresher for hear not only a world leader, but a Mary Messick Copy hosting and reporting on the speech woman that is a world leader. News Tips Michael Nalepa Opinion given by Irish President Mary It was a once-in-a-lifetime oppor- • Tips for possible news sto- Ajeet Pai Business McAleese. It was also appropriate tunity for me as an Irish-Texan and ries should be phoned in to Sarah Pitre Backpage that her speech coincided with the Irish-American to not only see and the Thresher at (713) 348-4801: Racial Solidarity Week of April 1(> hear her but also to get to actually Subscribing Maria Stalford A&E 20. McAleese is more than well meet and shake hands with her. Top Brian Stoler Editor in chief, Senior editor, Opinion qualified to speak on the topic of that off with the wonderful full-page m Annual subscriptions are Esther Sung News diversity, and she spoke of how in article in the Thresher, and I truly available for $50 domestic and Belfast; people lived right next door believe Rice is head and shoulders $105 international via first Lizzie Taishoff Photography class mail. Mariel Tam Editor in chief, Managing editor. to neighbors that they claimed to above the rest and certainly one of know, hated bitterly and really the best universities around. We all Advertising A&E, Copy didn't know a thing about. Igno- should stand proud. • We accept both display Lynlee Tanner Ads rance of other cultures and lack of and classified advertisements. Sports a dialogue were major stumbling Tim Werner Larry J. Miggins Contact the Thresher for more blocks that had to be overcome in Gordon Wittick Opinion Engineering technician information. order to bring about real change. I Facilities and Engineering THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, MAY 25,200 1 Guest column <"rndcuff s and traffic tickets don't mix Are they laughing with me or at me? time I ever got a traffic Chasing the ever-elusive The first law. Four years ago, Alwater was terest of public safety. ticket was late one Friday night. I was driving her four-year-old son and six- Turek was not acting in the inter- 18 years old and had been at a night- year-old daughter home from their ests of public safety—he was acting club downtown since 10 the previous soccer game in Lago Vista. One of like an angry, immature child who graduation handshake evening, when I told my the children dropped a toy wanted revenge on someone. The mother I was going out for out of the window, and courts should not be giving imma- Graduating last Saturday felt And maybe he was in a rush. a cup of coffee. It was now Alwater and her children ture children who happen to be po- like a dream. I kept thinking I But isn't a minute or two spent 5 in the morning and it unbuckled their seatbelts lice officers the go-ahead to punish would soon wake up and still be in talking to a parent time well was imperative that I get to look for it. An approach- people at will. the middle of my junior year, read- spent? home before she woke up ing police officer, Officer I think it's scary how much dis- ing the last 200 pages for an exam Anyway, back to graduation. to go to work and began Michael Turek, noticed cretion this decision gives police the next morning. As I walked across the wondering exactly how that Atwater had her officers across the country. In rul- But as my class- stage, Gillis held the long it could take me to seatbelt off and pulled her ing that any citizen can be arrested mates and I lined up to diploma, and the pro- get one cup of coffee. over. Turek approached anywhere at any time for commit- march into the quad, I vost had his hand ex- So there I was, racing Robert the car screaming "You're ting any crime, no matter how mi- realized it was actually tended. I took the di- down a deserted freeway Lee going to jail, woman!" and, nor, the courts have opened up an going to happen — ploma and extended at 90 mph when I saw in front of her crying chil- entire new avenue for police abuse President Malcolm my hand to Gillis. He flashing lights behind me. dren, handcuffed Atwater, and harassment of citizens. If police Gillis was actually go- already had the next Busted! I panicked; I had never even put her in his police cruiser, and took officers are free to arrest citizehs ing to shake my hand diploma in his hand, gotten a parking ticket before, much her to jail. who have filed complaints against and give me a diploma. and made a poking mo- less been pulled over for speeding. After being searched and detained them in the past for minor traffic Or so I thought. Michael tion at me, urging me I stopped on the side of the free- for several hours in jail, Atwater violations, what's to keep officers As we stood lined Nalepa to move along. Unsuc- way and, as the police officer was pleaded no contest to one count of from arresting minorities they don't up alphabetically by cessful, I shook the getting out of his car, I realized what failing to secure herself and two think belong in a certain neighbor- college, a student as- provost's hand and re- I sight I must have been. I was wear- counts of failing to secure a child hood for jaywalking, or protestors sistant began moving down the turned to my seat. ing a shiny silver shirt and tight while in a motor vehicle. She paid the outside city hall for walking on the line and making an announce- Later, I thought about the situ- black pants, had bleach-blonde hair, maximum fine of $50 per offense and grass? You would think that if we as ment. Gillis would be handing us ation some more. Gillis at least was covered in glitter, and was drink- was released that evening. a country have learned anything our diplomas, but he had an el- could have worn a sling, a brace ing a Diet Dr. Pepper. From the view Atwater later suedthecityof Lago from the recent instances of police bow condition and had delegated or a cast, anything to indicate of a police officer in northwest Har- Vista for violating her constitutional brutality in Cincinnati, New York the handshake responsibility to that he was injured. ris County I must have looked like I right to protection from unreason- and Los Angeles, it's that we need to the provost, Eugene Levy. And then, I thought it might was from another planet. able search and seizure. After four have more guidelines for the con- I have to say, it really pissed be possible that Gillis' arm was The officer walked up to my car, years of litigation, the Supreme duct of police officers, not less. me off. About 600 of us had put in fine and that he was more wor- took a good look at me, asked for my Court, by a ruling of 5-4, overturned When I first heard of the At water four (in some cases, even five) ried about hurt feelings than a license and proof of insurance, and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and decision I thought back to my own years of blood, sweat and tears, hurt elbow. We'll never know for then asked me to step outside of the found that Turek and the city of brush with the law. Like Atwater, I not to mention paying the univer- sure, but here is a possible expla- car. My mind started racing — he Ligo Vista had not violated Atwater's had been pulled over for a minor sity about $85,000 apiece, and nation for Gillis' avoiding student wasn't going to handcuff me and constitutional rights by arresting her traffic violation to which I admitted, the man couldn't even shake our handshakes. take me to jail for a speeding ticket, and that "government's interests in and like Atwater I knew I was being hands. What the hell? In a front page Houston right? I stood there literally shaking enforcing its laws outweigh any judged on the spot for something Doesn't he have a left hand Chronicle article about Gillis as the officer searched me, and then citizen's right to privacy when it has other than that traffic violation. At too? Couldn't he have just grasped printed the day after commence- left me standing spread-eagled probable cause to believe an offense the time I was angry that I had been our hands and not shook? Or ment, KTRU Station Manager against my car as he walked back to has been committed." humiliated and mistreated on ac- maybe he could have given us Johnny So said that he would not his car with my license. After what Turek had previously failed three count of a county cop's small-town each a high five? I wouldn't have shake Gillis' hand as he received seemed like an eternity, the officer psychological examinations and had mentality. In retrospect though, I left G-dogg hanging. his diploma. If the KTRU inci- came back with my speeding ticket, a grudge against Atwater stemming guess I was lucky I didn't get hauled I decided I would pretend I dent and other issues where the told me to go home, and walked from a complaint she filed against in. I guess I'm also lucky Officer hadn't heard the announcement administration and students away with a loud guffaw. him a year earlier. I^ago Vista has Turek wasn't there. and shake his hand anyway. Af- didn't see eye to eye this year, When I recently heard the story since fired him, and yet their attor- ter all, it would be one of the few such as campus construction, are of Gail At water, I couldn't help but neys still insist in court that by ar- Robert Lee is ads manager and a times I would see Gillis face to taken into account, it's easy to • think of my'own encounter with the resting Atwater he acted in the in- Jones College sophomore. face, considering I have bumped "see why Gillis would be worried into him walking around campus about students snubbing him on T v r J - ;Ii^ * f. " .» J" > J I f . * : * I % ' * • « *; only about five times during the the handshake. Do you know where the power lies? past four years. I hope this isn't what hap- One of those times was dur- pened. I hope Gillis realizes that ing Families Weekend my fresh- most students are fairly mature Rethinking our stereotypes of The Man man year. My mom. dad and I people. We can distinguish be- had just left Sewell Hall, and Gillis tween agreeing with someone was walking out of Cohen House. and respecting him. Malcolm Gillis must have it an easy target for students griping (heaven forbid) be thanking him 20 My mom recognized him and ran I don't think everything Gillis rough. Sure, he has a nice house about campus construction, too. years from now when our degrees up to him before I could tell her does is right, but I still think he is with a big pool and he's the presi- As students, we tend to focus on are worth more because the school that Gillis really didn't interact doing his job. which is to help dent of the most prestigious univer- what we disapprove of. I don't think has a better reputation. much with students. make Rice one of the best institu- sity west of the Missis- I've ever heard a student So, the next time a steamtunnel As we greeted him, he looked tions in the country. And even if sippi River, south of Kan- say, "Thank goodness for trench appears outside your window, like an animal that had its foot he does things I don't agree with, sas City and north of Gillis' visionary plan for remember that Gillis is not The Man, stuck in a trap and was consider- he is doing what he believes is Mexico. But think about Rice! In a few years, this but one of many men and women, ing whether he should gnaw it off right and is in constant pursuit of how it must feel to be one school will rock!" and even though we get outraged at or not. As my mom pumped his this goal. of three members of the But why don't we say what they're doing to us now, they hand and mentioned that Gillis And that is at least worth a administration that stu- such things? The new col- might very well be laying the founda- had gone to my parents' alma hearty handshake. dents actually recognize. leges will be about five tion for both a better school and our mater, the University of Illinois, President Gillis, Vice steps up from the current future job marketability. he said he was in a hurry and Michael Nalepa is a Lovett Col- President for Student Af- living conditions at Wiess made a hasty exit. lege senior. fairs Zenaido Camacho Robert College. Not all of us will Robert Reichle is editor in chief and a and Assistant Vice Presi- Reichle get the chance to live in Mess College junior. dent for Student Affairs the new buildings, but I'm John Hutchinson are excited for those future pretty much the only familiar faces students who will. The construction The Rice Thresher, the official student representing The Man. Forget the of the new library will undoubtedly newspaper at Rice University since 1916, is Board of Trustees and the numer- be a pain for the entire Rice commu- published each Friday during the school year, ous other vice presidents for such- nity, but have you seen the plans for the Rice Thresher except during examination periods and and-such — when students think of it? That library will be amazing when holidays, by the students of Rice University. names associated with the adminis- it's finished. Just because these projects won't directly affect some Editorial and business offices are located tration, these three come to mind on the second floor of the Ley Student Center, the most often. of us doesn't mean we shouldn't be Ix?slie IJu, Robert Reichle Editors in Chief 6100 Main St., MS-524, Houston. TX 77005- As the most recognizable of the happy for those who will get to take 1892, Phone (713) 348-4801. Fax (713) 348- Triumvirate of Recognition, think of advantage of them. 5238. E-mail: threshlr<@riee.edu. Web page: what a strange year Gillis must have Of course, I realize that such http://uiwui. ricethresher. org. had. This year Rice has been at the projects cause a demonstrable de- NEWS COPY Annual subscription rate: $50 domestic, height of its construction frenzy, cline in the quality of student life Olivia Allison, Editor Sarah Ainsworth, Editor $105 international. Nonsubscription rate: first here. The lack of a new masters' Mark Berenson, Ass/. Editor Melissa Bailey, Asst. Editor awash in projects meant to increase copy free, second copy $4.11. the quality and prestige of the uni- house at the new Wiess building will Rachel Rustin, Asst. Editor Erin Mann, Page Designer BACKPAGE versity. As Rice's heavy-duty make it a little harder for Hanszenites Alex Fay, Editor The Thresher reserves the right to refuse fundraising machine, Gillis has fre- to visit their masters; jackhammers OPINION Adani Keith, Editor any advertising for any reason. Additionally, and bulldozers outside your window the Thresher does not take responsibility for quently been mentioned in the same Robert Reichle, Acting editor breath as the capital campaign that's at 8 a.m. make it hard to sleep; shut- PHOTOGRAPHY the factual content of any ad. Printing an Rob Gaddi, Acting Editor advertisement does not constitute an funded the construction. His ac- ting down a student-run radio sta- SPORTS Renata Escovar, Editor endorsement by the Thresher. claimed fundraising ability was even tion to usurp its resources is undeni- Rachel Rustin, Acting Editor Katie Streit, Editor mentioned in a May 13 article in the ably bad. I get as frustrated as any- Chris I .arson. Editor 1 .aura Wiginton, Editor Jason Gershman, Ass/ Editor Unsigned editorials represent the majority Houston Chronicle ("Gillis labors to body else at the way the administra- opinion of the Thresher editorial staff. All other ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT David Chien, Illustrator pieces represent solely the opinion of the author. raise Rice's status, funding"). tion has gone over students' heads Mariel Tam, Editor Adatti Lazowska, Online Editor But with high visibility also comes many times during the past few Dalton Tomlin, Editor scrutiny. When the administration years. Angelo Zanola, /Issf. Editor BUSINESS The Threshers & member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Society of shut down KTRU in December, many But Gillis (along with the many Shannon Scott, Business Manager LIFESTYI.ES Robert Lee. Ads Manager Professional Journalists. The Thresher is an students blamed Gillis for the other hard-to-name administrators Corey E. Devine, Editor Undsay Roeininich, Ass/ Business Manager | ACP All-American newspaper. Wait until university's actions, forgetting that who put these events into motion) Chris landry. Classified Ads Manager Stanford hears about this. the Athletics Department and the seems truly set on increasing Rice's CALENDAR Suzy Cox, Office Manager Sol Villarreal, Distribution Manager Office for Student Affairs also helped prestige. And no matter how bad life Carly Kocurek, Editor ©COPYRIGHT 2001. determine the course of events. He's as an undergrad may get, we might „ frrfrJ > v 'U : < ?' t;Vn ' I << t) I» tI (I */' » *I > '( fI ^I tf Ii

THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 NEWS — POLICE BLOTTER Police tow cars from reserved area The following Incidents were reported to the University Police for the period April 24-May 20. Items were omitted due to space constraints. By Elizabeth Decker

THRESHKR STAFF Residential Colleges Sid Richardson College April 24 Debit card stolen from Sid Rich Police towed more than 20 ve- Commons. hicles from the Allen Center/Cohen House Lot April 28 for parking in the Wiess College April 28 CDs stolen from student's room. restricted areas near Cohen House and the 24-hour reserved faculty Sid Richardson College May 3 Disturbance between two students spaces. on balcony reported. One student The vehicles were moved to the was banned from the residential stadium, rather than to an off-cam- area by the masters and was pus lot. Students were charged $37 escorted to his vehicle. for the towing and given a $15 ticket for parking in a'restricted area. Will Rice College May 4 Bicycle stolen. Students are allowed to park in the Cohen House section of the lot Will Rice College May 6 Money and watches stolen from from 10 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. on week- room. days and from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. on weekends. Six spaces in Lot M are Hanszen College May 8 Vehicle damaged while parked in reserved for faculty and staff 24 hours residential lot. a day. Warning notices were posted in Academic Buildings residential colleges Friday afternoon Anderson Hall April 25 Vacuum cleaner stolen from closet. and evening saying that cars would be towed if not moved from the Mudd Lab May 1 Officer stopped vehicle due to strong Cohen Hou se portion of the lot by 10 smell of marijuana. Student a.m. Saturday. Notices were also admitted to smoking marijuana and placed on vehicles in the north and had 1 gram of marijuana cigarette. south college lots and the Allen Cen- Subject released, and a report was ter and Cohen House lots Saturday filed and referred to University Court. morning. As 10 a.m. approached, officers walked through the colleges Herman Brown May 3 Three books stolen from offices. warning students that cars were about to be towed, University Police Keck Hall May 7 Money bag and money stolen from Chief Bill Taylor said. room 129. The police department had re- ceived many complaints that the Shepherd School May 10 Visitor's daughter's wallet stolen Cohen House spaces were not being from her backpack in concert hall. kept open for the special events held MARK BERENSON/THRESHER there, Taylor said. University Police tow cars parked illegally in the Cohen House/Allen Center Lovett Hall May 11 Staff member's wallet and day Taylor said police were also re- Lot April 28 in order to free spaces for employees working weekends. planner taken from the Welcome ceiving complaints from faculty and Center office. staff regarding the 24-hour reserved was too dramatic of a step to in- Gupta said it was especially diffi- spaces. Faculty and staff pay $220 crease enforcement from no enforce- cult for off-campus students to learn George R. Brown May 16 Wallet stolen from room W117. for those permits, making Lot M the ment directly to towing. about the plans because warnings most expensive on campus. "My thing is that it's not [that] were only posted in the colleges, Anderson Hall May 16 Cell phone stolen. "Faculty and staff were sending e- big of a deal if they ticket it, because and no e-mails were sent. mails and complaining, and would if we're not supposed to park there, Taylor said a copy of the parking Other Buildings come in and there was nowhere for then they should have ticketed," regulations is given to every student Campus Store April 25 Suspicious man attempted to them to park and were having to Gupta said. "It's the fact that they upon vehicle registration and that defraud cashier. Subject arrested park out in the stadium lot," Taylor started towing without telling any- the regulations are posted online for fraud and transported to Harris said. "Here they are coming in on the one, and that they've never ticketed (http://rupd. rice. edu/Parkingregs County Jail. Subject also had weekends to do extra work to make before. They were trying to make a •pdf). numerous outstanding warrants things work right, and they couldn't point, but you can't just go from not Taylor said next year the regula- from around the United States, even park in the lot they're paying a ticketing to towing." tions will be more consistently en- including one felony warrant. Subject fair amount of money to park in." forced from the beginning to avoid entered store with nothing and later Taylor said loose enforcement of this problem. wanted a refund on some books, the parking regulations regarding "It wasn't the best timing," Tay- which he picked up in the store. the 24-hour reserved spaces and the 'They were trying to lor said. "I'd have preferred if we had Cohen House spaces was one rea- gotten the message across sooner, Greenbriar Building May 4 Money stolen from room 102. son for the difficulties experienced make a point, but you but we will probably have to be more by faculty and staff. consistent early on next year." Rice Media Center May 14 Graffiti on wall outside of building "Basically what had happened can't just go from not Taylor said the root of the park- reported. was during this semester we'd not ticketing to towing.' ing problem is the shortage of park- been real strict, as a matter of fact ing on campus, especially near the Autry Court May 16 _ Money stolen from wallet at gym. we've pretty much been not enforc- — Simi Gupta residential colleges. Because of con- ing over In the Allen Center lot, and Brown College junior struction. the Jones College lot and Stadium May 17 Wallet stolen. we were getting continuous com- Hanszen College lot have been elimi- plaints from faculty and staff that nated, contributing to the perma- Parking Lots when they were coming in on Satur- nent loss of over 700 parking spaces April 25 CD player and CDs stolen from days on Sundays to work or in the Taylor said the loose enforcement on the east end of campus. vehicle. evenings to work that they couldn't was clue to an earlier shortage of park- "Unfortunately it's not going to West Stadium Lot find parking spaces," Taylor said. ing enforcers and a deliberate choice change. It's going to be tight from April 27 Burglary of a motor vehicle in Baker College freshman John to focus on other programs. Currently here on out, and people are all going residential section. Peek, whose car was towed, said the department has two employees to have to learn to live with the cur- East Stadium Lot lack of enforcement in those areas who enforce parking regulations, but rent situation," Taylor said. "We just April 29 Student reported battery charger of the lot made him unsure whether the department was operating with don't have the same amount of park- from ADA golf cart had been stolen it was legal or not to park in the only one for most of this year. ing that we used to have in that area." East Stadium lot approximately a week and a half Cohen House section of the lot. "Frankly, there wasn't a major Taylor said parking illegally only earlier. "Well, I thought | it was illegal ] at problem. If people were respecting exacerbates the parking shortage the beginning of the year, but then what was going on, we weren't go- by displacing someone else. East Stadium Lot May 1 Two-car minor accident in East after they let me park there rather ing to worry about it that much," "If somebody parks their car in Stadium Lot. Municipal Citation than giving me a ticket for months Taylor said. an area where they're not permitted issued to driver with no insurance. on end, I was beginning to think Because of the loose enforcement ... it means that somebody that has a maybe they changed the rule," Peek this year, Peek said a longer notifica- permit for that area can't park there," West Stadium Lot May 8 Report of failure to stop and give said. tion period would have helped, in- Taylor said. "There is no open park- information and burglary of motor Brown College junior Simi Gupta, stead of placing notices on cars the ing on the front of this campus. Ev- vehicle taken on vehicles in West whose car was also towed, said it same day they would be towed. ery space is accounted for." Stadium Lot.

West Stadium Lot May 15 Two juveniles — one male, one PRESENT CARD FOR 10 DISCOUNT female — caught attempting to burglarize vehicles. The subjects' vehicle was inventoried and towed. y&ut MMHI EXPEHXLY/W £ Criminal Trespass Warnings were issued to both juveniles, and they were released to responsible adults.

Other Areas ELXHAUSEN'S Laboratory Road April 27 Previously booted student threatened ticket writer. Subject CUSTOM FRAME & ART GALLERY, INC. transported to station, report filed, OV»« MAC? A OINTUWV HOUVTON subject released. Fine Art Priau Photo FrmmeA Laboratory Road May 20 Traffic stop for possible DWI. Subject was slightly intoxicated and passed a field sobriety test. 2425 RICE BLVD. 524-7402

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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 Seniors recover from last-minute job offer changes by Olivia Allison them. I sacrificed a lot." I HKKSHKH EDITORIAL STAFK He will begin Sept. 20 if he accepts the offer in the technology division. The day before his graduation, He said he and the other reassigned Baker College senior Mike Cohen students are negotiating some terms lost his job. of the reassignment with Accenture. Consulting firm Booz-Allen & He said the students want to be trained Hamilton called Cohen the afternoon for both divisions, so they can be con- of May 11, telling him to call back sidered first for any strategic division before 5 p.m. that day. When he con- openings. tacted Booz-Allen, he found out the "It's just a temporary change in company was changing all of its newly position, so it's not a bad thing at all," hired undergraduates' start dates to he said. "You get a variety of experi- September 2002. Because the com- ence." pany did not guarantee the students a He said he is not excited about m job, Matherly said they were basically working for Accenture's technology rescinding the offer. The company division and has begun looking for also laid off other current employees. another job at a consulting or engi- "1 guess the ironic thing is that neering firm. we'd gotten a letter earlier that week "I'm not excited about starting in saying our sign-on gifts—which were a new or different position," he said. just a nice pen — were in the mail," "Eventually I'd like to get an MBA, Cohen said. "So on Thursday I got so this is a good training for that, but the pen, and the next day, they said, if I had known that I wouldn't be 'Well, you'd better find somewhere I working in the strategic division], I else to use that pen 'cause you're not probably would've gone in a differ- going to be working here.'" ent direction." Booz-Allen offered Cohen two He said while he thinks Accenture J months' salary as unconditional com- handled the situation badly at first, ROB GADDI/THRESHER pensation. regardless of whether he he feels the company has done its Baker College senior Mike Cohen answers phone interview questions from Carol Snodgrass of Duke Energy May 18, chose to accept the 2002 start date. best to compensate the students who the fifth day of his job hunt. Booz-Allen & Hamilton rescinded Cohen's consulting job offer the day before graduation. Since Booz-Allen rescinded its were reassigned. He said he has spent about eight hours a day setting up job interviews and looking for jobs since May 14. employment offer, Cohen said he has 'The situation was handled very spent eight hours every day looking badly at first, but from talking to a lot Monster.com only a few hours be- "Rice graduates have such a good the demand we had expected," on the Internet for job openings and of people last week it seems like they fore JDS told him he would be work- reputation in the job market that of- Johannigman said. using contacts from previous jobs to do care about their employees," he ing in San Jose. He decided to reac- ten times we are one of the last schools Although C ompaq denies rescind- help him get last-minute interviews. said. "The company basically said, tivate his resume. to get cut," she said. "We sit in a good ing summer internship offers, at least He said he is looking for jobs in 'We're going to try and make this "I was in shock the rest of that position to start with in that our gradu- one Rice student's internship offer the energy industry with companies right if at all possible.' I don't think day," Leman said. "Less than 12hours ates are considered really worthy. To was revoked. Matherly said. Compaq such as Duke Energy and Enron. they could've done a better job." after 1 had deactivated it, I had to go that end, companies will often delay laid off 5,000 employees last month. Cohen, a chemical engineering Delaying start dates is the most back and reactivate my resume." in making the decision to cut us." Dell Computer, which did not and economes major, said lie planned common change employers have Leman said he is not worried A New York Times article earlier recruit at Rice this year, laid off 1,700 a trip to Europe for the month of made to job offers. Various technol- about the future of JDS, however. this month listed companies that employees in March, Matherly said. June. Now he said he doesn't know ogy' firms and the consulting firms "I'm not too worried long-term," changed their job offers due to an However, Johannigman said the how long he will be able to stay in or Boston Consulting Group and he said. "Fiberoptics is based on the economic slowdown in the past few layoffs and decreased numbers of it he will go at all. McKinsey and Company have demand for the Internet, and that is months. Matherly said articles like hires do not indicate a serious prob- While Cohen said he is disap- moved some students' start dates to not going to decrease any time soon. the one in the Times overemphasize lem for technology companies, but pointed, he is not worried about get- September or October. "JDS expanded by purchasing the situation because, overall, few only that these companies must be ting a new job because he has many Three weeks before graduation, other companies so they have a lot students' offers have been changed. economically responsible. contacts from summer jobs. Jones College, senior Kyle Farli's of offices and redundancy. Economic Johannigman said he expects the "I had gotten to the poiubwhere I start-date with Austin-based soft ware booming can support inefficiency, number of Tivoli's new hires to rise was excited about working with Booz- company Trilogy was changed from but when the economy slows down, next year, and he is optimistic about Allen,-' Cohen said. "But 1 haven't July 23 to Sept. 10. Trilogy laid off they have to become more efficient." 'It's serious ... but if you the fate of technology firms. had more than eight seconds of pes- about 40 percent of its workforce Ionian said he has received an- "A lot of the technology compa- simism. I'm cheap employment for this year, Matherly said. other offer from the young fiberoptics go into this and you're nies realize they're not seriously these companies I'm contacting now company Latus Lightworks but does prepared, you're not hurting but also realizing it's time to — they don't have to pay me a lot, not know which offer he will accept. do some belt-tightening," he said. relative to what they pay other em- He said he would rather work for going to be destitute and "It's not all gloom and doom out ployees, and I'll work really hard." The two concerns are JDS, but his salary will not be worth there, it's simply the time we need to Job locations, descriptions or as much in California, where the cost jobless at graduation.' be battening down the hatches for a start dates have changed for other when or if I start, what of living is much higher. — Cheryl Matherly storm, but it's not a storm we expect Rice students as well. "In the end, this just means I to even last a couple of years." Career Services Center Four students signed contracts work will I be doing, if can't go where I want to," he said. Matherly said other industries with the Strategy and Business Ar- Hanszen College senior Marc Director have been affected less by the eco- chitecture consulting division at at all? And the second Russo declined an offer of $20,000 to nomic slowdown and will continue Accenture, formerly Andersen Con- is basically, what defer his start date at investment to increase their hiring next year, sulting. These students were told two banking firm Credit Suisse First Bos- A recent survey by the National especially oil and gas companies. weeks before graduation that they happens if things ton for a year. Russo said he refused Association of Colleges and Employ- Sharyl Hackett, Campus Rela- will be working in the technology because he had already deferred en- ers found that less than 4 percent of tions and Diversity Manager for division instead. Strategic consult- continue to go badly for trance into medical school two years 106 employers polled in an informal ExxonMobil, said the company will ing is the most competitive area of to work forthe firm. Russo said every phone interview reported revoking continue to increase its hiring of consulting. The four reassigned stu- the company?' new investment banker was offered offers of employment to new college college seniors. Last year, she said. dents will join the 21 Rice students — Kyle Farh the money in the form of a loan that graduates. Another NACE survey Exxon hired 400 college students hired by the technology division. would be forgiven if the employee found that only 21 of 70 participating nationwide. This year the target was Jones College senior Rice, Columbia University, worked for Credit Suisse for six colleges said they had reports of stu- 850 students, and the company Emory University and Massachu- months. dents' job offers revoked. According ended up hiring 900 college students. setts Institute of Technology were He said if he hadn't already de- to the survey, this affected fewer than "We foresee maintaining that type targeted for the reassignment be- "The most worrisome aspect of it ferred entrance to medical school, he three students on each campus. of target for at least the next three to cause these are four of the schools is that there's really not guarantees would have viewed the money as a Technology firms, such as Tivoli five years," Hackett. also a member Accenture began recruiting with that, given the general economic slow- fellowship for independent learning. and Dell Computer, have been hurt of the CSC's Employer Advisory most recently. Because Accenture down, there would be work for me in "I look at it like a Watson or a the most by the economic slowdown Board, said. "With the demand for does not anticipate any openings in September," Farh said. "The two con- Fulbright," Russo said. "It's almost because now fewer companies can energy, we have a world of opportu- the strategic division, it will not be cerns are when or if I start, what work as much money, and really, it's better afford new operating systems or other nities. Our biggest problem is find- recruiting at any of these campuses will I be doing, if at all? And the second because you're guaranteed a job at high-tech products, said Jeff ing enough staff to develop all the next year However, the technology is basically, what happens if things the end of the year." Johannigman, Manager ofWorldwide projects on the shelf. division will recruit at Rice in the fall, continue to go badly for the company?" Despite the difficulties with some Staffingfor Tivoli, a subsidiary'of IBM. "ExxonMobil is a diversified pe- and Career Services Center Direc- Farh said he was still consider- students' offers, Matherly said the Johannigman is a member of the troleum/petrochemical company. tor Cheryl Matherly said she ex- ing offers from Microsoft and NetlQ problems seem more serious than CSC's Employer Advisory Board, a As long as peopk continue consum- pects the strategic division to re- in April, but signed with Trilogy. He they actually are because the job mar- group of twelve employers who meet ing our products, we will continue cruit at Rice in the future. said if he had known Trilogy would ket has been so good for the recently. regularly with the CSC throughout staffing. Really, we do not foresee Although salaries in the technol- change their offer, he would have "Part of what makes this hit so the year to discuss job market trends any slowdown in the consumption." ogy division are lower than in the accepted a job at Microsoft. hard is that the job market for new and recruiting tactics. Matherly said the CSC will be strategic division, the four students Farh said Trilogy is still his first graduates has been so good for so "Anything with the word 'dot- encouraging oil and gas companies who were reassigned will receive sala- choice for a job in the fall, but he has long now," Matherly said. "Now you com' attached to it is the thing that is to consider hiring more liberal arts ries comparable to their former offers. begun looking for another one. How- have these serious soft spots, but on leading the bleeding, and the ripple majors from Rice, especially for jobs One of the students who signed a ever, his search has not gone well the whole, it's not like the bottom's effect moves on up the technology such as trading and marketing. contract with Accenture's strategic- because the recruiting season is over. falling out, and to go from that kind chain from there," Johannigman Matherly said next year's seniors division but was reassigned to the "I'll just have to play it by ear but of environment to this kind of an said. "Once the bubble burst around will have to work harder to get good technology division, who wished to by August I'll know what Trilogy is environment really has a big impact the internet economy, it had a ripple jobs because they will be competing remain anonymous, said he was an- going to do," Farh said. on perceptions. effect on the high-tech industries." for fewer openings, but she thinks gered and surprised by the change Will Rice College senior Mike "I think it's easy to sit at this point Johannigman said Tivoli had a students will be able to obtain work. because the company seemed stable Leman said he was hired to work in and ask, 'Where did all the jobs go?' small layoff in November and has "I don't want people to go into next during the recruiting process. the Dallas office of the fiberoptics when that's really not the case at all." significantly decreased its new hires. year with a sense of hysteria about the "It came completely out of the blue," firm JDS Uniphase in March. How- Matherly said Rice students have "We've probably ended up hiring job market," Matherly said. "It's seri- he said. "The recruiting process made ever. his offer was changed last month not had as many changes to their job about a third of the total target we ous — we don't have the same kind of it se"m like the company was doing to the San Jose office because JDS is offers as students at other schools had set and predicted last year at job times we've had previously, but if very well I had a lot of offers that I planning to close the Dallas office. because companies do not want to this time, mostly because all of the you go into this and you're prepared, turned down in engineering that prob- Ionian said he had taken his re- ruin their recruiting relationships changes in the economy and busi- you're not going to be destitute and ably wouldn't have had this happen to sume off the job network Web site with Rice. ness meant we didn't have nearlv jobless at graduation." > ', % \ 7 V ) • ; , V > '} "i / < >Y>"> n't iu I i li ! I I f'CM I 1 i I I

THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 Food to be prepared in colleges

each college will have a different prove efficiency and food quality. by Meredith Jenkins menu. College chefs will be encour- "If you kind of take a look at what THRESHER STAFF aged to experiment with new recipes Roger's accomplished at Brown and The slang term for Rice's cen- as well. what Angela Riggsand her staff have trally produced food — CK — will "One of the things we're trying to accomplished at catering, imaging a not be accurate next fall. get into the staff is that ownership little bit larger scale and the two of Food and Housing plans to elimi- mentality, that it's not just a college them working together, that's what nate centralized food production to servery, it's their restaurant; make it you're going to get," Ditman said. make each college's menu more wonderful, make it where "We think it's going to be spectacu- original. Catering functions will be everybody's very proud of where lar." moved from Hicks Kitchen to the they are and where they're going Because individual colleges have Wiess/Hanszen servery. and what their food's going to be," less storage space than Hicks Hicks Kitchen was formerly Scheiner said. Kitchen does, food deliveries will called Central Kitchen, or CK have to become more frequent, "Central Kitchen is going away," Ditman said. Ditman said kitchen F&H Director Mark Ditman said. staffs will have to adjust to this "There won't be any CK anymore. ' One of the things change. * i: ! That's been a big objective for a "One difficult thing about [the] couple of years. The functionality of we're trying to get into college[sl is no storage, so they will Hicks Kitchen is going to be distrib- the staff is that have to increase the frequency of uted through the two new deliveries to the colleges," he said. serveries." ownership mentality, "This means more time will be spent Beginning next fall, all meals ordering." served at each college will be pro- that it's not just a Additionally, producing each duced in that college's kitchen, and meal within the college kitchen will each will have its own chef. college servery, it's increase the amount of time required Self-production was tried at for the kitchen staff to prepare each Brown, Baker and Sid Richardson their restaurant.' meal, Ditman explained. Colleges this year. — Rebecca Scheiner "A lot will have to occur between "We're actually going to have sous- Assistant director of food meals and before the next day," he type management running each of service said. "But it's not really a difficulty, the kitchens," Rebecca Scheiner, as- it's just a different way of delivering sistant director of food service, said. a product." The only foods that may be cen- Ditman said next year, because trally produced will be baked goods. Ditman said the chefs should some colleges have smaller kitch- The new Martel servery will have not have any problems implement- ens, nearby colleges will have to more baking capabilities than other ing the new system because they work together. For example, Brown KATIE STREIT/THRESHER college kitchens, so Martel may sup- have been trained to run their own and Jones College will have to coop- ply baked goods to the catering ser- restaurants. erate to produce meals because fws on the ball vice and other colleges. The baking "This is what a chef has been Jones' kitchen is small. Lovett College freshman Andrew Thompson watches the ball carefully area will be located in the serving trained to do," he said. "It is a funda- "It's possible that some of the as he sits in the dunking booth during this year's Edgar Odell Lovett area. mental competency for the chefs." smaller kitchens may need some day April 28. Since each college kitchen will be Ditman and Scheiner expect de- support, so I'm not sure if we can go producing its food independently, centralized food production will im- 100 percent next year," Ditman said. Parking fines, fees increased to reduce parking violations

by Elizabeth Decker "In |the] committee, there were belong, and it's particularly acute a number of people that felt that the right now because of all the activi- THRESHER STAFF SCHEDULED FEES AND FINES INCREASES fines at [those] levels weren't get- ties on campus," Binford said. ! Parking fines will almost double ting anyone's attention, and so the Binford cited increases in visi- Student premium lot parking fee to $94 from $90 this August — the first increase in a whole idea is to make people think tors for athletic events, campus con- decade — in an effort to get drivers twice before they do something that struction and activities at the Cohen Student shuttle fee to $31 from $30 to comply with parking regulations, they know will get them a fine," House as sources of the increased while parking fees will rise modestly. Binford said. demand for parking. Employee stadium parking fee to $31 from $30 Instead of receiving a $10 or $15 Police Chief Taylor agreed the The increase in fines is aimed at fine for parking illegally in restricted previous fines weren't effective in de- changing parking habits rather than Employee near-lot parking fee to $125 from $120 areas, drivers will now receive a $25 terring people from parking illegally. generating revenue, Binford said. fine for most parking violations. This "The current fines weren't get- "What they're interested in is not Employee lot M (Allen Center-Cohen to $229 from $220 includes parking in lots for which ting people's attention," Taylor said. money, because these people really House-Lovett Hall) parking fee drivers do not have the correct per- "They were the cost of doing busi- are not involved in how the fines are mit and parking overtime on the In- ness. It's just like paying for park- used," Binford said. "They're inter- Illegally parked in college lot to $25 from $10 ner Loop. Parking illegally in a fire ing." ested in changing the pattern, so zone or reserved handicap space will they feel they have to do something Illegally parked in non-parking area to $25 from $15 carry a fine of $50, increased from that gets the attention of people, and $20 or $25. 1 $25 fine is going to do much more Illegally parked in faculty/staff lot to $25 from $10 However, the parking committee People also need to than a $10 or $15 fine." has reduced the penalty for exces- The committee is looking for the Illegally parked in restricted space to $25 from $15 sive violations. Previously, all fines understand that we level of fines that will act as a suc- incurred after the first three tickets don't write tickets to cessful deterrent for illegal parking, Illegally parked on grass or walkway to $25 from $15 in a 12-month period tripled, but Binford said. When that happens, they will now double. This decision generate revenue. The Binford warned the income gener- Illegally parked overtime to $25 from $10 reflects the higher levels of the regu- ated by fines will decrease. lar fines, Associate Vice President tickets are written to "Someday we're going to hit the Illegally parked in fire zone to $50 from $20 for Finance and Administration Neill number where students say, 'Well, Binford said. enforce the parking I'm not going to do that,' and that lllegallv parked in spaces designated to $50 from $25 The shuttle fee charged to all income source is going to decrease. for people with disabilities undergraduate and graduate stu- regulations to get And that's the whole desire of the dents will increase from $30 to $31, people to comply.' department." Binford said. "The Operating vehicle in unsafe manner to $50 from $25 while the fee for premium lots, such Parking Committee and I are inter- as lots near the colleges, will in- — Bill Taylor ested in maximizing the use of avail- Speeding—up to 15 mph over speed limit to $50 from $20 crease from $90 to $94. Parking fees University Police Chief able parking spaces, not maximiz- for staff will also increase slightly. ing fine revenues." Unauthorized driving or riding motor to $50 from $20 Binford approached the parking Both parking fines and fees are vehicles (including motorcycles and carts) committee about increasing fines in paid directly to the university, and on walks, fields or other non-roadways early April, and the committee pro- Will Rice College sophomore Jor- are allocated by the Budget Office. posed the new schedule of fines and dan Vexler, a student representative Currently, revenue from fines is used Vehicle booted to $75 from $50 fees, which was approved by Presi- on the parking committee, said the to supplement the equipment and dent Malcolm Gillis in late April. changes were made to "adjust the operations side of the police budget. Fines will be doubled instead of tripled for excessive parking The increases are the first since 1991, prices to an amount that will mean Revenue from fines was $250,200 in citations, or more than 3 in a 12-month period, including warnings. and are aimed at decreasing the num- something to our generation." the fiscal year 1999-2000, and ber of parking violationr. Police have Vexler said the new changes will $198,400 has been collected so far issued 23,196 tickets since July 1, benefit students by encouraging this year. Revenue from parking fees is "If people would follow the park- 2000. Additionally, 84 students lost people to park in their correct spaces. However, Binford said fines don't used to help pay for the shuttle ser- ing regulations, I wouldn't have their parking privileges in the fall "Following the parking regula- correlate with spending decisions. vice, including maintaining buses people out there ticketing at all," due to excessive violations — more tions, although sometimes irritating, "Those fines don't drive manage- and paying drivers. Taylor said. "And that would be great. than 10 violations in a 12-month pe- helps keep parking organized," she ment decisions for spending. We Despite these increases in fines, We'd love not to have to write any riod. Another 35 lost parking privi- said. don't have a direct correlation. There Taylor said police enforcement of tickets." leges this spring. Binford said parking has become are no quotas," Binford said. the regulations would not change. The parking committee is a uni- "The Parking Committee and I increasingly tight on campus, and as Taylor emphasized tickets are "Our enforcement I think will stay versity standing committee and believe that these are ridiculous a result, the parking committee is written to ensure compliance with consistent. We'll go ahead and write makes recommendations directly to numbers. We need more adult be- working to encourage people to use the parking regulations. the tickets as we see them," Taylor the President. The committee is havior," Binford said. their assigned spaces to avoid dis- "People also need to understand said. chaired by Architecture Professor The committee felt higher fines placing others. that we don't write tickets to gener- Taylor hopes the new fines will William Cannady, and is composed would be more effective in eliminat- "The committee is interested in ate revenue," Taylor said. "The tick- help deter illegal parking and de- of faculty, staff, and student repre- ing this pattern of illegal parking on getting people to park where they ets are written to enforce the parking crease the number of tickets his of- sentatives. Binford and Taylor serve campus, Binford said. belong and not park where they don't regulations to get people to comply." ficers write. on the committee ex officio. THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 Researchers crack digital code NEWS IN BRIEF slow but steady and the prognosis Education professor for his recovery remains positive," Computer science students, professor meet recording industry challenge Joe Dan Austin dies Soto said. One concern with Nava had been Joe Dan Austin, Jones College vision. Soto said Nava's sight is fine by Mark Berenson associate and education professor, in one eye, but although the other THRESHER EDITORIAI. STAFF died of brain cancer May 10. Me- eye's optic nerve is intact, it still morial services for Austin, a mem- lacks normal vision. A group of Rice researchers — ber of the education department for including two students — risked "His vision in that eye is improv- 23 years, were held Monday, May ending up in court against the re- ing," Soto said. "The eye is respond- 14 at St. Luke's United Methodist cording industry recently. ing to light, but his vision is very Church. The computer science research- blurry." % Austin was 57. ers were part of a group that made Soto said the Occupational Safety Austin was diagnosed with can- national news last month when they and Health Administration investi- cer eight years ago and had a re- withdrew a paper on breaking digi- gator who visited the construction lapse earlier this year. He had been tal watermarks, a device the record- site on April 18 has not yet filed a on leave due to his illness and was ing industry has considered using report, as the incident was deemed admitted to hospice shortly before to protect copyrighted music, un- low priority. he died. der pressure from the recording Nava was injured April 5 while He was an active associate for 22 industry. working on a concrete column on years, often eating lunch with stu- the second floor of the structure I^ast fall, Assistant Computer Sci- dents four times a week, Jones Mas- near the northeast corner of the site. ence Professor Dan Wallach, Will KATIE STREIT/THRESHER KATIE STREIT/THRESHER ter Maribel Barrera said. Nava was wearing a harness Rice College sophomore Adam Will Rice College sophomore Adam Assistant Computer Science "Even with all these issues he equipped with two carabiner-like Stubblefield and computer science Stubblefield Professor Dan Wallach had to deal with, we saw him all the safety devices. Correct usage of the graduate student Benjamin time at Jones," Barrera said. harness requires that both Swartzlander took part in a public Workshop, which took place April awful lot of time in [Rice General Because he died two days before carabiners, oblong metal rings with challenge sponsored by the Secure 25-27 in Pittsburgh, and was ac- Counsel] Richard Zansitis' office," graduation, no definite plans have a spring-loaded hinge commonly Digital Music Initiative. cepted. Wallach said. been made at Jones to set up a me- used for rock climbing and The SDMI is an umbrella organi- However, two weeks before the However, before the researchers morial, but Barrera said students rappelling, be locked onto a con- zation representing groups holding conference, the group received a decided to withdraw the paper, some- are considering creating a student crete form. the copyrights to music, companies letter.from the Recording Industry one leaked a draft of it, which was award in Austin's name. The investigation by the Univer- who manufacture music playing de- Association of America suggesting then posted on a Web site (http:// "He was not just loved by the sity Police found that Nava was at- vices and various technology firms. it not present the paper. cryptome. org/sdmi-attack. htm). students but also by the associates," tached by only one carabiner, which One of its'main goals is to prevent The RIAA is the organization that Wallach emphasized that none she said. "We felt really happy we was not securely locked onto the unauthorized copying of digital mu- sued Napster last year, claiming its the co-authors released the paper, were able to know Joe as long as we concrete form. sic. software led to the unauthorized use and he was disappointed that the had. It was good to see an associate When Nava leaned back, the of copyrighted music. A court agreed paper was made public. wanting to be here at Jones even carabiner disengaged and he fell with the recording industry, and "It is not the final version of the with his illness. He never looked more than 30 feet, landing headfirst Napster has spent the last few paper, there are typos in it," Wallach down about it." on concrete. 'Is it worth $500 to be months attempting to limit the dis- said. "So I'm not real happy with Austin is survived by his wife He suffered a basal skull frac- tribution of copyrighted material on that." Kathleen and two sons, including ture, which caused trauma and swell- enjoined from its servers. Wiess College senior Jon Austin. ing to the brain, a broken wrist, a "We urge you to withdraw the discussing what you Contributions can be made in broken forearm, a collapsed lung paper submitted for the upcoming Austin's name to St. Luke's. and crushed sinuses. Information Hiding Workshop, as- did? ...In our 'We were skeptical — Meghan Miller — Mark Berenson sure that it is removed front the about the wisdom of interpretation, the thingt Workshop distribution materials and destroyed, and avoid a public dis- Sid Richardson names Weissenberger named for us to do was screw cussion of confidential information," going forward and the letter, which was written by presenting that paper college coordinator cultural center director the money and publish Matthew ()ppenheim, RIAA's senior Physics Department Under- German and Slavic Studies De- vice president of business and legal [our findings].' while there were so graduate Coordinator Kelly Penrod partment Chair Klaus Weissen- affairs, said. has taken over the position of Sid berger will take over the Goethe — Dan Wallach In the letter, Oppenheim said that many unexamined open Richardson College Coordinator. Center for Central European Stud- what the researchers would disclose Computer science "I've always wanted to be a coordi- ies July 1. could directly lead to the illegal dis- questions. There wasn't assistant professor nator,"Penrod said. "When I first came The goal of the GCCES is to tribution of copyrighted material, to Rice in '97, I told the people that I create and maintain interest in Ger- and that publishing the paper was time to come to a worked with that if there was ever a man culture, Weissenberger, who not allowed by the click-through reasonable conclusion coordinator position that ever because is also master of Hanszen College, agreement the researchers agreed The public challenge was to re- available, I would apply for it." said. He added that the center has to in order to get to the data. move digital watermarks from mu- about whether or not Penrod said she is looking for- sponsored many guest speakers, sic. A digital watermark is coding Furthermore, Oppenheim wrote ward to increased interactions with musical performances and film that tells the playing device what the researchers would be in viola- there were very serious students, after working mainly with showings. can be done to the song — whether tion of the Digital Millennium Copy- legal impediments.' faculty since she came to the Rice "We are trying to call on authors it can be copied, ripped into MP3 right Act. physics department. and intellectuals," Weissenberger form or played. The DMCA is a federal law de- — Eugene Levy "The job that I am in now is an said. "We do not understand our- Digital watermarks are currently claring it illegal to study certain tech- Provost academic position," Penrod said. selves as a merely German institute used to limit the region of the world nologies, even for academic pursuits, "My support is to staff and to faculty, but we want to represent all of Ger- in which a consumer can play a DVD. without the permission of the holder but I really feel like I want to be there man culture around the world." However, if the digital watermark of the technology. for the students and not necessarily The GCCES was created in Janu- were removed, people could do what- For this study, permission was However, Wallach said the com- for the faculty. That's why I'm em- ary 2000 after shortages in its bud- ever they wished with the song. obtained through the public chal- bination of the censoring and the ployed here and I think that some get caused the German government Wallach said even the idea of a lenge and the click-through agree- paper's release led to it being rela- people miss that." to close many of its Goethe Insti- digital watermark is somewhat para- ment between Wallach's group and tively well-read. She said she tried to make help- tutes, including the one in Houston, doxical. SDMI. "As everybody knows, academic ing students a focus in the physics in October 1999. "The important property that a Wallach said the RIAA was using papers are boring, but anything that department, but sees even more Weissenberger said the GCCES watermark needs to have is that it the DMCA and the click-through is worth censoring must be worth opportunities for friendships with performs the same functions as the must be inoffensive to your ear — agreement to stop them from pub- reading," Wallach said. students in her new position. previous Goethe Institute, but does otherwise you'll hate it," Wallach lishing the paper. The RIAA told the Associated Penrod said she will spend her not provide German courses for the said. "But it must also be very diffi- "They were trying to use the Presson May lttit had never planned summer getting used to her new job Houston community. These courses cult to remove without destroying DMCA and the 'click-here-I-agree to file a lawsuit against the research- and learning the names of everyone are now handled by Rice's Continu- how the song sounds." agreement' as a bludgeon to make ers. However, Levy said Rice is still at Sid, a challenge she said she is ing Studies, he said. Wallach, Stubblefield and us shut up," Wallach said. concerned about the possibility of ready for. Weissenberger said he thinks last Swartzlander were part of a group of The group decided on April 26, legal action. Penrod took over as coordina- year was a successful first year for researchers that decided to take part the day the paper was to be pre- Wallach said the researchers still tor on May 14; the position had the GCCES, and he plans to con- in the challenge. Wallach described sented, to withdraw it from presen- hope to release the paper. been temporarily filled by long- tinue along the same path as direc- the group as an "all-star team" that tation at the conference. "We are very actively pursuing time Will Rice College Coordina- tor of the center. included members from Princeton Provost Eugene Levy said Rice our options." Wallach said. "We still tor Babs Willis after the March 25 "We agree with the progress University and Xerox Palo Alto Re- supported the paper's withdrawal believe very strongly in our right to death of coordinator Sharon made through the center," search Center. from the conference. publish the paper, and the paper is McDonough. Weissenberger said. "I'd like to con- The group succeeded in remov- "We were skeptical about the wis- not dead. Exactly in what venue and — Rachel Rustin tinue on along the same line. It's not ing the digital watermark. dom of going forward and present- in what form we choose to publish a matter of changing things, but try- Wallach said SDMI planned to ing that paper while there were so the paper is not something that I am ing to make use of all the opportuni- offer $10,000 to be shared among all many unexamined open questions," prepared to discuss." Construction worker ties offered." of the people who broke the water- Levy said. Levy said the university believes recovering from fall Associate Professor of History mark in exchange for a non-disclo- "There wasn't time to come to a the paper should be published, but and German Studies Peter "Carl" sure agreement, which would forbid reasonable conclusion about he added that certain legal issues Victor Nava, the construction Caldwell had been interim director the researchers from publishing whether or not there were very se- still need to be overcome. worker who suffered a severe head since the center was established in their findings. rious legal impediments and President Malcolm Gillis said the injury at the Jesse H. Jones Gradu- January 2000. 1 lowever, Wallach said the group whether or not there had been a university has taken action in sup- ate School of Management construc- Weissenberger said he was cho- decided not to accept the money. violation of the click-through agree- port ofWallach, but would not elabo- tion site last month, has regained sen for the job because he has spent "Is it worth $500 to be enjoined ments to get the data that involved rate because of possible legal impli- consciousness and begun his reha- 20 years working for the German from discussing what you did?" issues that the courts would decide cations. bilitation at the Institute for Reha- Consolate's office in Houston and Wallach said. "No, that is not a good in ways that we would be unhappy "We believe we are in the right, bilitation and Research in the Texas has helped to integrate the former tradeoff. In our interpretation, the with," Levy said. but in this day and age you must be Medical Center. Goethe Center and the GCCES. Ad- thing for us to do was screw the Wallach said the two weeks lead- very careful with what you say." Gillis Nava. an enoloyee of Keystone ditionally. he said he has hosted money and publish [our findings)." ing up to the conference were hectic said. Structural Concrete, is talking and many GCCES events in the past year. The group wrote a paper and sub- for him. Neither Stubblefield nor walking around. Project Manager Weissenberger has taught at Rice mitted it for presentation at the In- "I can't really discuss all of the Swartzlander could be reached for Eleni Soto said. for 30 years. ternational Information Hiding details, but suffice to say, I spent an comment. "His rehabilitation progress is — Olivia Allison I I i ' ' > i /1' '• i < > /1, • 'i 11 i i. ( y * i \ * i t i 1 U id I I n M ' t'i

THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 KFC undergoes first test • , • . ... • ...... ' dressed the matter, however, be- Holly Hall plans cause confusion by Robert Reichle cause during that meeting it was THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFE ter under "favorable conditions." decided that Home and Athletics by Rachel Rustin apartments. After Martellians discovered The Martel deal at Holly Hall KTRU's new organizational struc- Director Bobby May could come to THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFE there was a miscommunication, will also provide Martellians with ture was put to its first test when the an agreement on their own. they met with representatives free furniture, paid by Martel and station's management and the Ath- "It was never really considered The Martel College plan at Holly from Holly Hall and informed Food and Housing, for the fall se- letics Department worked out a plan formally by that body, we just worked Hall includes three-bedroom/2.5- Martel of the mistake. mester. Rice was considering buy- to recognize corporate sponsors on it out," May said. bathroom apartments, not three- "They were initially upset be- ing furniture and then moving it the air during sports events. Both KTRU and the Athletics bedroom/three-bathroom apart- cause they expected three-bed- into Martel, but the cost of mov- The new policy, which went into Department are satisfied with how ments as previously thought. room/three-bathrooms but that ing and the possibility of damage effect May 10, allows athletics an- the situation resolved itself. A series of misunderstandings was just miscommunication on was deemed too high. nouncers to list the names of spon- between Holly Hall and Martel both sides," Bradley said. sors during breaks in games. The led to the confusion. "We have met with the project announcers will also read public ser- Martellians will be living in re- manager for the Martel construc- vice announcements and other mes- 'The real thing that I modeled three-bedroom/2.5-bath- tion on this question and have a sages provided by KTRU manage- room apartments. The two-story 'They were initially plan," Few said. "There are two ment. was happy about was apartments have two bedrooms designated storage areas in upstairs that share a bathroom Martel, a basement storage room The policy was created after ath- upset because they that it came out in a and two vanity areas. A kitchen, for student property and a theater letics announcers played messages living room, bedroom and bath- storage area off the commons. The containing company tag lines dur- expected three- peaceful manner. We room are located downstairs. contractor will have these areas ing baseball games April 24 and 26. finished and secured by early Previously, long breaks in game play "Rumors started going around bedroom/three- sat down and discussed December." were filled by dead air or music sup- and it sounded really bad at the bathrooms but that plied by DJs in the KTRU studio. it, which is exactly how beginning, but then when Holly Whether Martellians will move According to KTRU Station Man- Hall explained their real purpose was just their belongings into the Martel ager Ben Home, the Athletics De- any change should take for doing that... the feedback I got basement, the commons or their was a lot more positive," Mindy rooms depends on how construc- partment began playing the mes- place.' miscommunication on sages in April without notifying sta- Tyson, who worked on the hous- tion progresses. tion management first. — Ben Home ing agreements for the Martel both sides.' "Ideally, Martel college is sup- "We found out about it when it KTRU station manager Founding Committee, said. posed to be done in December, A chain of events led — Ishmael Bradley before we leave for winter break. was on the radio dial, which was a Wiess College sophomore problem," Home, a Wiess College Martellians to think they had a If everything goes on schedule ... junior, said. "Basically, the Athletics deal they didn't. everyone can move their stuff, not Department was unaware of the new "What we were trying to do was Previously, Holly Hall had only into their rooms, but into storage changes that had been put in place. everything we could do to improve one layout of three-bedroom apart- Martel president Alice Hill, a into Martel, before they leave for ... They didn't know that the proper the broadcast," May said. "We just ments, so when Martellians heard Will Rice College junior, said winter break," Hill said. avenues for putting those ads on wanted to kill the dead air and pro- about three-bedroom apartments, though they could have done Hill said tentative plans have would be to go through KTRU man- vide for appropriate acknowledg- Tyson, a Brown College junior, said things differently, "what's done is been drawn up for room draw at agement." ments and overall improve the they assumed they had three-bed- done." She said some people have Martel, but she thinks that is some- According to Home, members of broadcasts, so now we're doing room/2.5-bathroom apartments. complained about the arrange- thing a lot of people are going to the KTRU staff disapproved of the more PSAs. KTRU provided us with Also, Tyson said some ments but many people have been want to talk about. messages because of their commer- some information they wanted us Martellians called Holly Hall and understanding. "I think that's going to be a cial nature. to read over the air. ... Wc re cer- spoke to leasing agents who were Martel Master Arthur Few said long, drawn-out process because "The impression we get from lis- tainly pleased and I hope KTRU is not aware of the renovated apart- he thinks Holly Hall was fair everyone is partial to certain sys- tening to those was that it was a very as well." ments with 2.5-bathrooms. throughout the process. tems," Hill said. commercial feel," Home said. "The Wiess freshman Amie Knieper, a Holly Hall had a price sheet "I think the owners of Holly Martel has also been trying to way the sponsors were listed was in member of the KFC present at the that only had one type of three- Hall have been fair and straight- work opt a transportation system a very commercial manner. meeting, said the process of events bedroom apartment on it. forward with Rice from the begin- for those living at Martel. A trans- "It may have technically been un- demonstrated the benefits of the Tyson said the incorrect ideas ning," Few said. "It is very unfor- portation survey given to the col- der the legal limits of FCC guide- committee, which was established about the three-bedroom/three- tunate that the details of their plans lege showed that people preferred lines for noncommercial stations, but after the shutdown of KTRU in De- bathroom were reinforced when a did not get communicated to all of carpooling over a Rice shuttle, it was not within the spirit of KTRU's cember. Holly Hall agent showed an orga- the employees of their managers." Metro passes or other types of noncommercial nature, so we "It was good that the KFC was nized Martel tour a three-bed- Few, a physics and astronomy bus systems. The survey results changed the wording in such a way there because it allowed us to be room/three-bathroom apartment. professor, said he does not think showed that enough people had She said the agent was unaware of the founding committee had the cars that a carpool system, in 2 that it was much more subtle and able to work something out in a very matter-of-fact." non-hostile way," Knieper said. the deal, and showed the meansto pursue negotiations with which drivers might be compen- After the April 26 broadcast. Station management was also Martellians the three-bedroom/ multiple complexes. sated, may be arranged. Home and Assistant Athletics Di- thankful the new pieces of KTRU's three-bathroom apartments. Tyson said Holly Hall was will- Bradley said this will provide rector for Marketing Mike Pede tried organizational structure were used Wiess College sophomore ing to give short leases because another way for Martellians to over e-mail to establish a policy for to decide on a policy. Ishmael Bradley, who has been they already decided to remodel come together. playing the sponsor messages, but "The real thing that I was happy working on the housing some apartments because of Bradley said Martel will have were unable to come to an agree- about was that it came out in a peace- arrangments with Tyson, went on changing market demand. everything a functional college has, ment. ful manner," Home said. "We sat a separate tour of Holly Hall and Bradley said there is no longer including Emergency Medical The issue was then brought be- down and discussed it, which is ex- was showed one of the renovated a waiting list because everyone Technicians and College Comput- fore the KTRU Friendly Committee actly how any change should take three-bedroom/2.5-bathroom found housing for the fall semes- ing Associates, except a building. May 7. The KFC never formally ad- place." Accelerated language courses offered CONGRATULATIONS! by Rachel Rustin enrollment in the August class Despite its late advertisement, THRESHER EDITORIAL S I Al l pushes them over the 20 hour limit close to 50 people responded to of credit hours for a semester. Matherly about the program. She Studying a language at Rice jusl "I think everyone involved in the said about 20 students are currently got a little more convenient. original situation understood the im- enrolled in the three classes, and Under a recently expanded ac- portance of what we were doing and anyone who is interested should celerated language program, stu- how if this were not arranged as such, contact her via e-mail at dents can take their first semester of that it would pretty much |prevent] [email protected]. French. German or Spanish Julv 30- this from ever being a possibility." "The response has been over- Aug. 17. whelming," Matherly said. "It's been "The intensive sequence had huge. 20% OFF started because many engineering "I had no idea at the last minute if students were having trouble 'It's a really exciting people would actually be interested, RICE DIPLOMA FRAMING* squeezing into their academic sched- but it really seems clear to me that ules time for a foreign language," development. ... I think this model seems to have struck a Otter good through August 31, 2001 Career Services Center Director real interest on the part of Rice stu- Cheryl Matherly said. "The required it's going to really fit dents. There is enough of an inter- classes were so heavy and many into a lot of Rice est in language and things interna- Our expert framers will preserve your students just didn't have the latitude tional that when presented with a or the time to be able to do that." students' schedules very convenient opportunity to sand- sheepskin diploma in a beautifully crafted frame The program for engineers be- wich it in, |they] do it." selected by you and our talented designers. gan three years ago and was linked well.' Matherly said it has not yet been to an international internship, which — Cheryl Matherly decided if an accelerated portion of is why il is run through the Career the class will take place in May. She Services Center. Career Services Center said it depends on how many stu- Matherly said the course arrange- Director dents express interest, although a ment is possible because it techni- May class was always offered when * cally counts as a Fall 2001 class. the class was only offered to engi- "It's this arrangement that makes Matherly said she can arrange neers. this whole course sequence a possi- on-campus housing for those en- Matherly said the same profes yiLLAGE pRAME QALLERY bility." Matherly said. "If it wasn't rolled, although students would have sors will teach the language classes counted as a fall semester class, you to pay that expense. in the fall and that hopefully the 2528 Rice Boulevard 713 .528.2288 would have to pay summer school Registration for the August class classes can stay together. tuition, which is expensive, and for a was done late in the semester, when "It's a really exciting development lot of people it would just price the the arrangements for the program and a new way to be able to offer a whole course sequence out of range ." were finalized. Matherly said other- more creative alternative for lan- T"o*&v&c,> vj MaMierly said Vice President for wise the program would have had to guage study," Matherly said. "I think *Libor not included • Not .aiid with ers Student Affairs Zenaido Camacho wait until next year to be imple- it's going to really fit into a lot of Rice IF ASSOC tfJ'T* has agreed to help students? whose mented. students' schedules well " i»S! THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 Six students win government-sponsored Fulbright Scholarships

by Rachel Rustin "My interest in it specifically came "I have never been to Freiburg THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF because I studied comparative law but from everything I have heard it over the summer and for a semes- sounds beautiful," Hoben said. "I am After being roommates since ter, so I'm interested in how differ- especially looking forward to hiking their sophomore year, Hanszen Col- ent legal systems approach similar around the Black Forest, but I am lege seniors Mike Sew Hoy and Jo- problems," Blocher said. really excited to be doing a project seph Blocher will spend next year Sew Hoy said he heard about the where I am actively part of the de- on different continents, courtesy of scholarship through Blocher and sign process." Fulbright scholarships. decided to apply as well. Hoben contacted professors at Hoy and Blocher are among the Sew Hoy said he has always the university in Freiberg, who wrote six Rice students, five undergradu- wanted to study abroad in an Asian a letter saying they would accept her ate and one graduate, who won country, but his biology and political in their lab. Hoben said she thinks Fulbright Scholarships for the 2001- science double major never allowed this letter strengthened her applica- '02 school year. him the opportunity to do so. He saw tion. The winners include Wiess Col- this as a way to take a year off before "I'm a little bit scared because I lege senior Steve Benham, Hanszen starting law school. don't speak German, but the senior Gwen Hoben, Will Rice Col- Fulbright sponsors a seven week lege senior Margaret Van Meter and intensive language course in Frank- LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER KATIE STREIT'THRESHER anthropology graduate student Jae furt," Hoben said. Steve Benham Mike Sew Hoy Chung. 'The Fulbright selects Hoben said she will start the MD/ The Fulbright scholarship is Ph.D. program at Baylor after her funded primarily through the U.S. for bright students who year in Germany. The Ph.D. compo- Department of State. It was estab- want to do interesting nent of her studies will be in bioengi- lished at the end of World War II in neering at Rice. order to increase understanding academic projects Benham will be teaching English amongst countries through the ex- in high school in Germany through change of students. overseas. and who will the Fulbright program. Benham said "The Fulbright selects for bright he will be in Chemnitz, a city in students who want to do interesting also be good Eastern Germany near the border academic projects overseas, and with the Czech Republic. who will also be good representa- representatives of the After spending a year in Germany, T tives of the United States," Director United States. Rice Benham will attend the New York of International Programs and University School of Law. Scholarships Mark Scheid said. students have Anthropology graduate student "Rice students have traditionally Jae Chung will be going to South done extremely well in this compe- traditionally done Korea to do a cultural analysis of tition." risk in venture capital industry. Scheid said students must be extremely well in this She said she knew this was what KATIE STREIT/THRESHER ROB GADDI THRESBEP nominated by Rice and screened by she wanted to study because she Joseph Blocher Margaret Van Meter the U.S. Fulbright committee. The competition.' saw how the Asian currency crisis of U.S. committee then recommends — Mark Scheid 1997 affected people's lives. finalists to the committee in each Director of International Chung has also received a Wag- host country. Programs and Scholarships oner scholarship and a National Sci- Traditionally, the committee ence Foundation scholarship this nominates about twice as many can- year. didates as there are spots available. Will Rice College senior Marga- Blocher heard about the scholar- I >uring the fall semester, Sew Hoy ret Van Meter won a Fulbright schol- ship when he asked Mark Scheid said he plans to take both Chinese arship to study in Madrid, but has about programs that would allow and comparative politics classes at decided instead to start medical him to leave the country for a year. the National University of Singapore. school at the University of Califor- He will spend the year in Ghana. During hi^ secpnd semester, which nia at Sau Francisco this fall. , ) I'J ~ J'rf' .V >• <5{.T| ,< . >;• is his research period, he will study She said that while the Fulbright Studying how the country s legal at the Institute for Southeast Asian is a "great honor and undoubtedly is System deals with property l ights. Studies. a once-in-a-lifetime experience." im- Blocher said Ghana provides this Hoben also knew she wanted to portant changes have occurred in opportunity because it has both its take next year off, so she will be her life since she applied in October, native legal system and one left over studying skin bioengineering, spe- and she has decided to decline the AURA WIGINTON/THRESHER RA WIGINTON' from the days when England colo- cifically skin grafts, in Germany. award. nized the country. Gwen Hoben Jae Chung Sid freshman rusticated after baiconv assault incident

ASSAl LT. from Page 1 what do they pay you?" "It is almost what I had hoped not interacting well with other stu- not think the other students were Ricken said Hicks then stepped on for." Ricken wrote in an e-mail Tues- dents, I know that at least one of our serious, and the three students then the elevator and while the elevator day from his home in Germany. officers had talked to him about some entered the Sid building. doorswereclosing,Hicksyelled."This "Even though I have not yet fully things." Hicks, his roommate Sid fresh- isn't over yet. I'm going to kill you!" processed it. I believe that the ver- Hatfield said Hicks' behavior on IF YOU THINK man Rene Aninao and another stu- dict was just and approximately what the team was good. dent stepped off the elevator on the I had hoped for." "He behaves himself down here." A NIGHT IN fifth floor and confronted Ricken. All In an interview May 6, Ricken Hatfield said. A FOXHOLE IS three students were football players. 'He kept choking me said he had demanded Hicks be ex- President Malcolm Gillis refused TOUGH, TRY "Tom Hicks got off the elevator pelled. saying expulsion is the only to comment on Sass' verdict but said A LIFETIME and screamed, 'Did you yell shit at and I couldn't breathe reasonable action Rice could take. that if any assault had occurred, it IN A CUBICLE. me?"' Ricken said. "He grabbed me Ricken also filed an assau It charge would be dealt with appropriately. by the neck and pushed me to the anymore and I told him through the Rice University Police "We take a very dim view of any [ The U.S. Army offers edge of the balcony and kept asking but he still wouldn't let Department. The first arraignment kind of action that involves harm to 212 different career me, 'Did you yell shit?"' for this charge was held May 7. students, and particularly one that opportunities in Ricken said he told Hicks the go: Hicks' lawyer. Tony Aninao. re- might threaten their life or limb," fields ranging from cheers were a part of primal scream fused to comment on the case. Tony Gillis said. "Anybody who does physi- medicine, construction and not directed at him, but Hicks — Mathias Ricken Aninao is Rene Aninao's father. cal violence to another student is and law enforcement to continued to choke Ricken. Sid Richardson College Ricken said he and Hicks were in going to hear from me at one stage accounting, engineering and intelligence Ricken said Hicks then said, freshman the same Orientation Week group, or another if they are shown to be "Look down. Do you think you can but he had not seen Hicks often guilty. We are not going to stand for You'll be trained survive the fall? I'm going to throw during O-Week because of Hicks' that sort of thing." Then you'll use those skills from the first you off." obligations with the football team. Taylor said assaults and fights day on the job It's a "He kept choking me and 1 Salinas called the University Po- Ricken said although he had not between students are more common great way to start couldn't breathe anymore and 1 told lice to report the incident, Ricken had any previous personal problems on other college campuses, because moving m the direction him but he still wouldn't let go," said. After talking with Sid Master with Hicks, once when he ran Club Rice's college system fosters har- you want to go Ricken said. Steve Cox, Sgt. Les Hulsey and Of- 13 Hicks had squirted Tabasco sauce mony between students. ficer Sandra Veliz, Ricken said he into his and other runners' eyes. Students from the sixth floor bal- "Basically everybody that comes Find One of 212 Ways cony, including Sid Chief Justice thought Hicks should be rusticated. Police Chief Bill Taylor said the on the campus hasa place that's theirs to Be A Soldier at Around 1 a.m. on May 3, Hicks was police had no prior documented when they arrive and they're part of it SOARMY COM or call Myrna Salinas, freshman Jeff Bishop t-800-472-7192 • and freshman Sushi Suzuku, escorted off campus by the police problems with Hicks. However, and it's a big group." Taylor said. "On Contact your Ricken's roommate, saw Hicks chok- and rusticated by his master. Hicks worked in the department in other campuses, you don't have it local recruiter ing Ricken and ran to the fifth floor. Football Coach Ken Hatfield said December to pay his parking fines, that way. ... when you have cam- Ricken said Hicks then pulled he did not know why Hicks would so the officers knew him and at least puses that have more adversarial situ- him away from the edge of the bal- claim he receives scholarship one officer had confronted Hicks for ations in the organizations or society cony but repeatedly pushed him into money, because Hicks is a walk-on acting "immaturely." on the campus, they're more likely." the balcony's west wall. football player. "We never arrested him or any- Hatfield said whether he pun- Bishop said Salinas asked Aninao "He's not getting anything to thing."Taylor said. "He was a known ishes Hicks depends on Student Ju- to make Hicks leave the balcony, come out here, but he's putting out person, but there's nothing negative dicial Programs' verdict. and Aninao told him to leave. the time and effort on his own," about it. I do know some of our "He knows that our rule is to do Hicks then confronted Salinas, Hatfield said. "Anybody else knows officers had had contacts with him things that reflect goodwill on the Bishop said, yelling that "weiners" that if he said that, that's ... not a in the college environment and he athletic department," Hatfield said. — Hicks' word for non-athletes — true statement." was acting a little immaturely. "If he gets into trouble, we'll see do not sufficiently respect athletes. At press time, Ricken said he "It's not anything we had reports what happens there and if he is found Bishop said Hicks yelled, "They pay could not reveal the verdict but was on or anything like that. ... But for guilty, we'll take the appropriate ac- me $25,000 a year to come here, pleased with the outcome. some of his behaviors, boisterous or tion at that particular time." r '

10 THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY. MAY 25, 2001 onor Council investigates plagiarism case, suspends accused PLAGIARIZE, fiy-> Page 1 turned in another paper copy. Nei- file was deleted along with the Win- Bocchini dismisses these All they would have to do is go by he commented on the case. ther the original nor the revised pa- dows system file on her computer. charges outright. night before all papers are due." The paper in question was an per was found by either teacher. However, Ray said Bangale told She said all defendants in Honor Likewise, he said that writing the assignment due last November. Mcintosh said Bangale believes him a calculator, some books and a Council cases approve the Honor e-mail containing the plagiarized Professor Susan Mcintosh, who an enemy has framed her for the suitcase with expensive Indian Council member who chairs his or paper would be theoretically simple. taught the class with Associate Pro- plagiarism. clothes was stolen. her case, and that Bangale could "Anyone could have just walked fessor Nia Georges, said the paper "Her claim for this is that some- After this incident, the council have asked for a new chair if she had in, composed the e-mail in a flash, was worth 20 percent of the course one, this nemesis of hers who is bent member said Bangale agreed to allow any doubts about Bocchini's ability and sent it, thereby making it look grade. Students could write about on ruining her, was following her her computer to be checked, and die to be fair. like Anita sent it. I don't know who popular representations of genetics around and picking up the papers as police sent the computer to the Hous- "At every point I made sure that would do something this terrible, or do a research paper on eugenics, she deposited them," Mcintosh said. ton Police Department. However, she understood what was going on but that is not Honor Council's job to the science that deals with improv- Mcintosh said she has been at Rice since the case was low priority to HPI) and obtained her approval, as did figure out," Ray said. ing the hereditary qualities of a race since 1981, and has never had a hard and would take four to six months for her ombudsman," Bocchini said. "Their job is to determine through control of human mating. copy of a paper handed in disappear. them to get to, the computer was Bocchini said she was in Anth whether or not Anita did this, and 1 "When the papers were due, I got Ray said Bangale was picking him brought back to campus and given to 314 last fall, but she said since she know for a fact that she didn't." an e-mail from Anita Bangale of a up from the airport when the first Information Technology. and Bangale were not in class to- Ray said she had an explanation for paper on eugenics that had no cita- paper was supposedly sent from her gether during the spring semester, everything the Honor Council asked. tions, no in-text references," Mcin- room, and said that Bangale proved she did not feel she would be biased "If both theories are equally viable, in the case. tosh said. "I simply scanned it, ever during the Honor Council trial that 4 it was simply Anita's word versus the so briefly, saw that it was quite unac- she was in lab when the second was Given Anita's "The Honor Council was ex- Honor Council's," Ray said. "Given ceptable, and I e-mailed her right sent. He said, though difficult to tremely confident in its decision," Anita's background and her eyewit- away to say this paper is not accept- believe, it is not impossible that background and her Bocchini said via e-mail. "Our coun- ness defense testimony, shouldn't that able as it stands because I don't know someone could have entered cil has an extremely high standard have been enough to clear her? At the where any of this material came from." Bangale's room and sent the paper eyewitness defense of evidence — this standard was least, this should have been declared Also, Mcintosh told Bangale via from her computer. testimony, shouldn't certainly met in this case." a mistrial or no decision. [The] Honor e-mail that it looked as though she The Thresher was unable to obtain Bocchini was the Honor Council Council never produced clear and had used secondary sources instead a copy of the written abstract for the that have been enough external vice chair until April convincing evidence." of primary sources, and asked case, even though such abstracts are changeover. The Honor Council Bangale made a statement, but oth- Bangale if she would like to revise it public record. The library's copy was to clear her?' chair, internal vice chair and exter- erwise declined to answer most ques- and resubmit the paper. missing, and Honor Council mem- — Arnab Ray nal vice chair take turns chairing tions on the advice of her lawyer. However, Mcintosh said Bangale bers did not provide a copy to the cases as they come in. "I fully stand by the content of the Baker '00 didn't respond to her e-mail, so she Thresher despite repeated requests. The case was later reviewed by lawsuit and am prepared to prove sent another e-mail a week later ask- An Honor Council member Sass and Gillis, who had access to all my case in court," she said. ing what she wanted to do about the present at Bangale's trial agreed to the audiotaped proceedings of the trial. She also said, via e-mail, that "by paper. tell the Thresher the basic facts of IT eventually said they could re- Ray can't explain who took the grace of God, I will begin medical Mcintosh said that within 12 the case on condition of anonymity. store the computer files, and called Bangale's papers, or who sent the school this fall outside of Houston." hours, "I had an e-mail copy arrive This Honor Council member said Wilbur to ask if he wanted to look at it. plagiarized ones from her account. Bangale matriculated in 1998 and from her of a revised paper that had that over the winter break, Bangale Wilbur contacted I-ovett College However, he said "most likely it planned to graduate in three years in-text citations and bibliography." received her grades from the regis- sophomore Joan Shreffler, Bangale's was one or two people working in a She was part of the Rice-Baylor Medi- When Mcintosh began to read trar and noticed an incomplete mark ombudsman, and Shreffler got in concerted effort. The teacher's drop cal Scholars Program and planned to the paper, she realized the subhead- for the anthropology course. Subse- touch with Bangale, who said box was located outside of her room enroll in medical school this fall. ings sounded familiar. She went to a quently, she called Mcintosh and Shreffler and Wilber could go look so that anyone could walk by, sift Web page she had recommended to found out that her paper was being at it without her present. through papers, and theoretically Elizabeth Jardina contributed to this the class as a source of archival turned over to the Honor Council for However, by the time they take one out that had been turned in. report. material on eugenics, which in- investigation. planned to look at it, Bangale re- cluded several brief essays by differ- Jones College junior Steve Wilbur fused to let them look at it at the ent authors. The paper that had been was the investigator for Bangale's advice of her lawyers. e-mailed to Mcintosh from Bangale's case, so he tried to look at Bangale's Ray said Bangale was able to re- Mass e-mail criticizes Dees account "consisted of three of those computer to verify what she said produce the paper she claimed she essays downloaded, changed very about the papers. turned in via hard copy from a floppy "Ask your Commencement minimally," Mcintosh said. "You can However, Bangale and Wilbur disk. by Mark Berenson •rftesHKR f nifobiAi even vile, lies," (iilliV; wrote. "That in the [Honor Council] parked her car in the Allen Center "Anita was one semester from , certainly was the case when Rice Lot. She was almost mugged, so she graduating and going on to med police caught the Alliance's fol- case, that this was a went to the police station and re- school," Ray said. "What would com- lowers improperly attempting to ported it. pel anyone in her position to cheat? To the best of our place racist fliers in some of our plagiarized paper.' The police blotter from that night She was not even in danger of fail- parking lots in the dead of night a — Susan Mcintosh reports that in the Allen Center/ ing, and if she needed more time on knowledge, none of year ago." Cohen House Lot, someone reported the paper, which she didn't, she Anthropology professor Gillis said he sent the letter to "a male either black or Hispanic, could have just asked for it. them showed up at prepare students for whatever attempted to snatch her purse from "This Web page was repeatedly the commencement they received from the group. When the case was brought be- her in the parking lot. Subject was talked about in class by the profes- "We were trying to make sure fore the council, Mcintosh said that unsuccessful and ran toward Main sors. If you were going to plagiarize and nothing was done if something happened students the original paper submitted via e- Street. Area checked and suspect it, you would do it in a much more were prepared, because Morris mail was not original work. gone on arrival." subtle manner. Instead, the page was during commence- Dees is hated by these people," "There wasn't any question, and The council member remembers just cut and pasted and sent in. I Gillis said. this was never a contested issue in that the police record showed that think this shows that this plagia- ment that would Gillis said the university the [Honor Council] case, that this Bangale left the University Police rized paper is not Anita's work, but indicate that they learned about the possibility of a was a plagiarized paper," she said. station at 2:30 a.m. or so. An hour the work of someone who broke into letter being sent through con- "It was. And (Bangale], as the defen- and fifteen minutes later, at about her room in a rush, just trying to were there.' tacts in the law enforcement pro- dant, agreed that it was. So that 3:45 a.m., she called either her mas- blatantly get her in trouble," Ray fession. wasn't the issue." ters or her resident associates to say said. — Bill Taylor "We have good ties with both Mcintosh said Bangale claimed that her room had been broken into. Ray said Bangale used Netscape University Police Chief state and national law enforce- that someone else sent the paper She said her clothes were all over to read and write e-mail. "Netscape ment agencies," Gillis said. from her computer, then read the floor and her computer was blink- stays open so that you don't have to University Police Chief Bill Mcintosh's request for revisions, ing. The police were then sum- log in, and Anita always kept it open In addition, some Rice stu- Taylor said members of the group revised the paper and re-submitted moned. on her desktop," Ray said. "Anyone dents received a letter with much did not show up at graduation it by e-mail a week later. "The police didn't file a burglary could have just walked in, composed of the same content that also con- May 13. Furthermore, Mcintosh said or a breaking and entering, which the e-mail in a flash, and sent it, tained several demeaning draw- "To the best of our knowledge, Bangale claimed she wrote a paper we thought was significant," the thereby making it look like Anita ings of Dees, including one in none of them showed up at the on a cultural representation of ge- council member said. sent it." which a devil is holding a mask of commencement and nothing was netics — the other option for the The blotter for that night shows a Ray also accused Hanszen Col- Dees. done during commencement that paper topic — and not eugenics at report from Baker that says, "Stu- lege senior Claire Bocchini, who The e-mail claims the SPLC would indicate that they were all. dent reports that she returned to her chaired the Honor Council case, of focuses on fund-raising, rather there," Taylor said. Mcintosh said that neither she room and found the door open. It being biased against Bangale be- than practicing law. In addition, However, Gillis added that the nor Georges ever received a copy of appeared that someone had entered cause Bocchini's roommates dis- it accuses Dees of being an un- police were prepared for the the paper Bangale claimed she and gone through her room." agreed with Bangale about Divali ethical lawyer and concludes by group to protest at commence- turned in. According to Mcintosh, The council member said the po- Night plans. Ray also said Bocchini urging Rice students to question ment. Bangale said she revised the paper lice found no sign of forcible entry was in Anth 314 with Bangale and why Dees was chosen as com- "We had security pretty tight," she believed she had turned in after and nothing was stolen, but an article could have been part of the con- mencement speaker. Gillis said. receiving Mcintosh's email and of clothing was torn and every .doc- spiracy to frame Bangale. THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 Dees challenges seniors to bring justice to the world The following is the text of the speech Morris Dees, civil rights leader and co-founder of the Southern Pov- erty Law Center, gave at the 88th Commencement Ceremony May 12. • "v " my§|* 1 Tom Brokaw in his best-selling book. The Greatest Generation, tells the story of my time. The story of your time is yet to be told. In our time, we had courage — courage to fight World War II — but also humil- ; ity to admit our mistakes in Viet- •c: : nam. We had industry, to conquer diseases and to put a person on the Wmx:- moon. And we also had passion, be- cause in America's civil rights move- ment, we changed our times. Hope- fully, we fought the last battle for the American Revolution. Your slate is clean. It's up to you to write on those pages. You can look at the things we did. Some- times they're bottled like old wine by politicians who try to sell us on living in the past. You might look, • - • ... but you probably will never taste that old wine, because you're work- y.. 4 ing on a new batch. The success of F f *' . i your generation will be measured wi' * "" Wk not in our gross national product but in our gross national consciousness. You can, though, look at people from our generation for examples. There have been wonderful ex- amples set by heroes, all not perfect people but who were diligent to make our generation great. There have been people who sought to protect our environment. Rachel Carson awakened our con- science by writing Silent Spring. FDR lifted us out of despair when he told us we "had nothing to fear but fear itself." And to show us re- ROB GADDI/THRESHER Co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center Morris Dees spoke at the 88th Commencement Ceremony May 12. Dees, a civil rights leader, spoke about sponsibility as citizens, it was John Martin Luther King Jr.'s positive impact on his generation, and said King was the most important figure in his generation. F. Kennedy who said, "Ask not, but ask what you can give." And it was finally they settled and built a great Baptist Church, because shortly red clay hills of Georgia," and today Ralph Nader who has tried to make city near the present site of Jerusa- thereafter in 1963, he went to Wash- he might add, "in the barrios, in the us better public citizens. And, yes, lem. And they were very successful. '[These] degrees that ington to express that faith and hope ghettos, on the reservations and in it was Richard Nixon who reached Those among thein who were suc- in you and me today. He stood on the the seats of economic and political his hand across the Iron Curtain in cessful got nice building lots, and youll walk away from mall with 250,000 people at his feet and judicial power in this country, friendship to the largest and most they built beautiful homes overlook- here today with will be and millions on television watching that the sons and daughters of populous nation on earth, China, so ing fertile valleys. And they had a when he expressed that dream in former slaves and the sons and that we could one day have world good education system, a good law the keys that will open you. He said, "I have a dream that daughters of former slaveowners," peace. enforcement system, a court sys- one day in the red clay hills of Geor- and today, he might tell you, "the tem. And in the marketplace, people many doors. But also gia, that the sons of former slaves poor, the homeless, the powerless prospered. and the sons of former slaveowners and those who hold the keys to the From far and wide people remember that you, as will sit down around the table of economic and political power of this 7 know that each of brought goods in to sell in the mar- brotherhood." nation, sit down around the table of ketplace, and there was a farmer the brightest among us, It's been nearly 30 years or more personhood and will truly learn to you will not be satisfied who came there to bring his goods hold the keys to the since Dr. King left us. Times have love one another." through those big gates as they changed. We've taken three steps When the book about your gen- with your life, with your opened early in the morning to be gates of justice. And forward and two steps back — I eration is published, and it might be country and with your placed in his stall in the market- doubt if he would recognize the written by one of you, I think it too place. And he saw things that both- therein lies a grave landscape today. But I think if he will be entitled, The Greatest Genera- contribution to this ered him. He saw able-bodied men was with us making that same tiont, and I know that each of you will and women sitting at those gates responsibility. ' speech again, and knowing you and not be satisfied with your life, with nation; I know that begging for food. And upon inquiry — Morris Dees what you stand for, he would still your country and with your contri- he learned that they wanted to work, have faith in us. And I think if he bution to this nation; I know that youll not be satisfied but because they weren't with the was making that speech here at this you'll not be satisfied until truly, jus- right group or didn't know the right graduation, he might say that "I tice rolls down like waters. until truly, justice rolls people, they didn't get a good job or your 401k plans are adequate to sup- have a dream that one day, in the Thank you very much. down like waters.' a job at all. port you and your children and your Then as he went into the market- families in the future, when you edu- — Morris Dees place, he heard grumbling from the cate your families, when you buy Co-Founder of the Southern people and he inquired and found your homes and your automobiles, Poverty Law Center that they didn't believe the court that you also do not forget the least Hey, Graduates! system was fair, that sometimes among us. some people got arrested and put in Because without justice, there jail when other people who belonged can be no peace among us. [These] But the greatest person to raise to a different group didn't get ar- degrees that you'll walk away from our conscience in my generation was rested and didn't get put in jail. here today with will be the keys that the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther And this bothered this fanner. will open many doors. But also re- Want the 2000-01 Campanile King. He, in his way, set about to He wanted these people to succeed. member that you, as the brightest make us realize the dreams of equal- He was a man of some means and among us, hold the keys to the gates sent to you next fall? ity set forth in our constitution in some reputation and so he asked for of justice. And therein lies a grave 1776. an audience before the leaders of responsibility. It is important that And he understood something the town. we look out to see those people who very powerful when he walked You know this farmer. He was are standing by the gates with their Send your name, permanent among us, a time when America had the prophet Amos. And he went be- hands raised and to listen to those turned its back on millions of its fore these leaders and he said, "You people who have complaints about address and a check for $7.50 citizens, treated them less than sec- know, you people have a good thing our wonderful system that we live in ond-class, he understood the power here, but unless you're fair to every- today. of justice. And he understood that body in this country, unless you give By the year 2050, the popula- payable to the Campanile to: there could be no peace without jus- everybody an equal opportunity, tion of this nation will be drasti- tice in the world as well as in our you're not going to be able to keep cally different than it is today in its country. And he went about this the good things you have and pass racial and ethnic make-up. This country talking to us about justice. them down to future generations." state and California are leading the CAMPANILE MS-526 And he reminded us of another coun- And he spoke to them the words way. And if we are to have a partici- try, of another people and another that the Reverend Dr. King spoke to patory democracy where justice PO Box 1892 time who also was not living up to us at a time when our country also prevails, it is incumbent upon each the way it treated its people fairly had wandered from its principles. one of us to do our part so that all Houston, TX 77251 and equitably. He said, "Don't be satisfied until jus- Americans will have a place at He told that old story many times. tice rolls down like waters and righ- America's table. It was 900 years BC, the children of teousness like a mighty stream." Dr. King did not lose hope. He Israel had wandered in the desert, It is so important that when you're didn't lose hope in the face of a bomb- Questions? 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14 THE RICE THRESHER FEATURE FRIDAY. MAY 25, 2001 Growing up.

by Mariel Tarn

Rice is home to about a dozen kids, the children of college masters and resident associates. What's it like to raise kids on a university campus?

One student has been at Rice so long Emma, citing her friendships with students that she can hardly remember what her life over the years, likened her neighbors at Wiess was like before coming to college. to siblings. But although she's been at Rice for almost "You get to do stuff, you get to be with seven years, she's not on her way to a univer- [students] a lot, and even if you do have home- sity studies degree just yet. work you can still go over and talk to them and Emma Hutchinson is 13 and has lived on do [play] rehearsals and stuff," Emma said. campus with her parents, Wiess College Mas- "It's a really fun life growing up with a lot of ters John and Paula Hutchinson, for more different big brothers and sisters." than half her life. Students take an interest in how Matthew "I really don't remember a different life is growing up, said his mother. Will Rice Mas- because I was 6 when we moved — I was just ter Elise Sawyer. turning 6," said Emma, now a seventh-grader. "It is a regular joke amongst the students Her life at Wiess, on the other hand, has about, 'Oh my God, will you look at how inclu ded acting in college musicals, participat- Matthew's grown!"' she said. "They came back ing in intramural sports and biking in Beer- after this past summer when he'd grown 4 or Bike. 5 inches — 'Matthew, what happened?!'" He Classmates of Matthew Sawyer, 14, think now stands 6-foot-l. it's cool that he gets to hang out with "older Masters are also aware, however, that kids" on campus. sometimes college students don't need to rnrnm "The only drawback is, I've been eating the feel like they have siblings around. The Saw- same food for four and a half years now, and it yers' rule for their children is that they should does get kind of old," he joked. stay out of students' rooms, which is their Matthew, who lives in the Will Rice House private space. mm, with his parents, has built sets and performed "We just felt that the students in the college //////////> in college theater, been a ball boy for the didn't need our two pests being pests. And it football team and been kidnapped by rival Sid was more anticipatory on our part that the kids 'W/ffff/// Richardson College during Beer-Bike. would be pests, or could occasionally be," Emma and Matthew are among the do^en Sawyer said. or so children of college masters and resident Sawyer imagined that the way an 18-year- associates living at Rice. The number of kids old student could feel about having a sibling- living on campus varies slightly each year due like 16 year old around might be, "I really don't

to the changes in RAs and masters — the need that Y'know, just leave me alone, I left wmSm v* ' < tS Hutchinsons' term as masters, for example, one of you at home." ends June 30, and the new Wiess masters have Having children in the masters' house f1 s < two girls. And of course there's the occasional makes it seem more welcoming to students, V r h , :* ? - * birth. said Paula Hutchinson, Emma's mother. Not all college masters have children living "We hear all the time from them that ... with them, and many RAs are single. But having a family in a home close by is like a safe colleges often try to look for variety in select- house, a place they can go, that they know : ing masters and RAs. they can go at any time," Hutchinson said. Wm-M - t * - ; Masters say that most students are open to "And if things are crazy for them person- CHRISTINE LIANG/THRESHER the idea of children growing up alongside ally or something's wrong, or they just need a Emma Hutchinson, 13, takes aim in the yard of the Wiess House, her home for the past seven them. quiet corner or whatever, they know they can years. Emma is the daughter of the departing Wiess masters. "I think it's really great when you have come here. And the fact that it's not just John seling when it's needed, can eat away at time applause of everyone around her. families of all types on campus because it and me makes it for them a home." that could be spent with the family. Children on campus get an additional edu- gives the college as a whole the chance to On-campus parents agree, however, that The drawbacks of raising children on cam- cation in college traditions. sort of be a part of that family," said Enrique one of their main problems is balancing the pus come with being masters, Hutchinson "It's like, 'What do you teach your chil- Barrera, Jones College master and father of demands of college students with the needs of said. dren?'" Barrera said. "We teach them good two. their own children. A master's job, which in- "Family time can get severely curtailed and manners and we teach them to say 'yes sir,' "It just extends that family unit to a broader cludes meeting with students, dining with interrupted, and sometimes they can get re- 'yes ma'am,' but we also teach them to say sense," he added. them in the cafeterias daily and giving coun- sentful of that," she said. And sometimes the 'JIBA,' 'Jones wins again.'" parents need a little reminding. Tommy moved into the Jones House when "But Emma's always been real good to say, he was 6 months old, and Monica has lived on 'You know, you've had a masters' meeting this campus for most of her 8 years, except for a week, and then we had to go to this awards two-year break between the Barreras' term as thing, and then you had to go to cabinet, and R\s and their mastership. In fact, she was I haven't spent an evening with you all week - - and I really need you,"' Hutchinson said. Will Rice Master Dale Sawyer, the father of The obvious question ar;" m • two teenagers, said there are some similari- ties between being a college master and being that most people asked a parent. "You accept, in both cases, 'I can't do every- us [was], "How could thing,"' he said. "Because there's so much that you possibly consider could be done, you'd just drive yourself crazy if you did everything. raising a teenage While it's important to maintain some fam- ily time in privacy, masters also find that they daughter amongst all can make family time in the midst of activities those men?"' with the college. The Barreras' biggest issue is "our desire to do everything we can with the college, and — Elise Sawyer then as parents to do the same thing with our children," Enrique Barrera said. Will Rice master "And you realize you can't do both, so you try to ... put your family life with the college born at St. Joseph's Hospital in the Mary Gibbs life. So everything that you would typically do Jones ward, also named for the Jones College as a part of a family, you do in an audience of namesake. The Barreras brought her home to tens and twenties and fifties and hundreds." their RA apartment the next day. Forinstance, he and his wife, Maribel Barrera, Yet even with such young children around, taught theiryoungest.Tommy, 4, tochant "JIBA," masters say they don't need to worry about ROB GAODI/THRESHER the Jones cheer that stands for "Jones is bad- Rice students being anything but helpful, even Tommy Barrera, 4, plays with his toy cars on the floor of Jones House. His parents, Jones Masters ass." Monica Barrera learned to clap when she on this campus notorious for Beer-Bike and Enrique and Maribel Barrera, taught him to chant "JIBA," one of the college's primary cheers. was 2 at Jot>es Awards Night, mimicking the foulmouthed cheers. •*V:

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"We've never seen much of a problem with "And the girls are hanging out the window any students trying to coax them into saying going, 'Lauraaal You know them?!'" Elise Saw- bad things or doing bad things," Barrera said yer added. of Monica and Tommy. Not all children take easily to living in close Monica, for one, learned on her own what proximity to herds of 18- to 22-year-old stu- the bad words were and not to say them. "She dents, though. Hutchinson sees a difference sometimes thinks that what the students do is between Emma and her older sister Ashlyn, silly," her father said. who lived on campus during her high school Silly or not. the students are careful around years and is now a junior at the University of the younger children. "The students have al- Colorado. ways been very conscious ofthem being young and small," perhaps remembering their own siblings, Barrera said. 'It is as close as you In fact, parents say students and other can get these days to people on campus always keep an eye on the college's children. living in a small town When Tommy recently wandered into the mm. '1 &*» • new Jones wing construction site next to his where everybody house to play with rocks, Maribel Barrera knows each other.' said, it was students who found him and brought him home. All of the University Police officers know — Paula Hutchinson Emma by sight if not by name, Hutchinson said. Wiess master "When she takes off riding her bicycle on campus. I know that there are any number of During her first year living at Wiess, people who know her and recognize her and Hutchinson said. Ashlyn dove into the college keep an eye out for her," she said. "It is as and made good friends, many of whom were ROB GADDI/THRESHER close as you can get these days to living in a Jones College Master Enrique Barrera hugs his daughter Monica. 8. who has lived at Jones for all seniors. small town where everybody knows each but two years of her life. "And it hit her very hard when they all left other." at graduation, and she started pulling back the By its very nature of being a university "And we sort of said, 'Well, it's a giant leap his friends think college is all about getting next year." Hutchinson observed. "And at first campus. Rice is an educational environment. of faith."' drunk, but he tells them it's not as cool as they it kind of concerned us because we wondered Emma decided she wanted to see the latest Laura, the Sawyers' older child, is now think it is. if there was something about living here that President's Lecture Series speaker. She didn't finishing up high school and entering Rice as "I get to learn about a lot of things that a lot was bothering her. make it because she fell off her bike and a student in the fall. In their decision to bring of kids don't learn about until they're in college, "But eventually, the way she put it to us skinned her knee, Hutchinson said, but the their children on campus, the Sawyers fo- so I take a different outlook on a lot of different was, I'm a high school student, I'm not a fact remains that only living on a college cam- cused on the positive aspects of college life. things than my friends do because I've actually college student. And I don't want to try to act pus can provide that kind of opportunity. "We looked at it ... as having them in the seen them happen." Matthew said. like a college student.' Which I thought was "If you're not living on campus, how else midst of incredibly talented, capable students And of course there's always the coolness really healthy — that she figured that out on are you going to have that kind of experi- who did more than go to school, who have in factor of living on a university campus. The her own, and that it was OK." ence?" Hutchinson said. "They are opened up amazing ways managed to balance service Sawyers remember a time not long after they Emma herself realizes that college life isn't to possibilities that just don't exist in the real and fun and work with going to school," Elise first moved on campus when Laura brought for every kid. One of her classmates gets world out there." Sawyer said. "And that's a pretty mighty ex- her friends over to visit. skittish whenever she visits Wiess. Raising older children at Rice presents a ample to put before teenagers when they see "They were driving along the campus loop, "She's kind of afraid." Emma said. "She's slightly different challenge, however — espe- that those things can be done." and they were doing what I guess teenage like. Well, I know that you're used to it. I cially with teenagers who are closer in age to Living in the college system also teaches girls who are 14 or 15 do all the time," Dale haven't lived around college students.' So for the students. teenagers about the less wholesome aspects Sawyer said. "And then they were looking out me, it's natural, and for her it's kind of like, "One of the things that we looked at four of college, such as alcohol. the window and the Rice men's cross-country 'Um, there are a whole bunch of big people and five years ago when we were considering "They've been around when students got team was running along on a hot, sweaty day that I don't know, but I'm standing in the same mastership was the obvious question that most in trouble — in trouble with alcohol, in trouble with no shirts on, and the girls were all going room with them, and I don't want them to pay people asked us, 'How could you possibly with excesses," Sawyer said. "They're there gaga over them. attention to me.' consider raising a teenage daughter amongst when the phone rings at 1 in the morning." "And she could go, 'Oh, I know that one, "And I'm up there and talking and acting all those men?' Elise Sawyer said. Matthew echoes the sentiment. Some of that's Tyson, and that's so-and-so."' like they're our age - they're my age."

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. First awarded in 1980, the Sammys are the THE THRESHER'S Thresher's way to spotlight the year's best in Rice theater. RECOMMENDATIONS The nominations were made by Thresher FOR EVENTS AROUND staff critics, and they were voted on by about 80 members of the Rice community — college HOUSTON THROUGH theater coordinators, Rice Players coordina- JULY 15, 2001. tors, Thresher critics, and other students famil- iar with campus theater (as chosen by college theSB theater coordinators). The text about the win- J the best of Rice theater ners comes from reviews by Thresher writers. EDITORS'

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tomorrow nominees • "Unpredictable" (Martel) plays • "Heavenly Child" (Martel) I KOTTONMOUTH winners KINGS • "Praying at a Bus Stop" (Martel) "Praying at a Bus Stop" shows its nominees creators' clever, off-kilter senses of This hip-hop/punk group • Marlowe's Last Death and Tale humor. In "Praying," God speaks to (Lovett) from California is on a an ordinary, confused man waiting • Baby with the Bathwater (Will national tour following last for his ride to work. Rice) • "The Complete History of • Spike Heels (Players) year's High Society. Corporate America, Abridged" (Wiess) • The Vagina Monologues (Lovett) Avengers, Phunk Junkeez and The trio of actors races through • Free Will and Wanton Lust Sprung Monkey open. an episodic, souped-up rendition of (Hanszen) American history pumping with cyni- write-in $15. 8 p.m. Engine Room. cism, utter looniness and parody. • American Buffalo (Lovett) 1515 Pease. For more info, • Smash (Players) • House of Yes (Brown) call (713) 654-7846. best director • subUrbia (Wiess) nominees winner june 2 and 3 • Rassul Zarinfar, "Hills Like White • Macbeth (Baker/Players) Elephants" (Martel) But there's nothing unlucky PRINCE AMILEC • Cyrus Caroom and Ben Johnson, about Baker Shakespeare and the "The Complete History of America, Rice Players' ambitious and largely KATIE STREIT/THRESHER Abridged" (Wiess) successful production. ... Macbeth Lady Macbeth (Baker junior Laurie Scott, Best Actress in a Play) and Children from 3 to 18 years of • Will du Pont, "Praying at a Bus is a play for the active viewer; if Macbeth (Carl Huffman, Wiess '95) try to get rid of that damn spot in the age perform an interpretive Stop" (Martel) you're not paying attention, you won't Rice Players and Baker Shakespeare's joint production of Macbeth. • Brad Demarest, "Heavenly Child" dance of Tanith Lee's fairy know what's going dh, but if you are, m Carl Huffman, Andrew, Spike and Wanton Lust (Hanszen) (Martel) it's worth it. Heels (Players) winner tale, in which a prince seeks a winner write-in • Blake Barker, Buff, subUrbia • Blake Barker, "Unpredictable" witch's help so that he can • Carl Huffman, Macbeth, Macbeth (Wiess) (Martel) best director (Players) Lovett senior Blake Barker hi- marry a princess. Presented "Unpredictable," directed by nominees winners lariously plays dumb, goofy Buff, | by School of the Woods. Lovett senior Blake Barker, follows • Brad Demarest, Marlowe's Last • Mark Barrett, Sidney, Smash the prime comic relief in the play. in th^light, comedy sketch-like vein. Death and Tale (Lovett) \ Free for members of the Rice (Players) The self-referential play skewers the • Trish Rigdon, Spike Heels (Play- Hanszen junior Mark Barrett %• community. 7 p.m. on June 2 predictability of movie plots by try- ers) plays his character well with rich ing to do the exact opposite—throw- • Alesha Herrera, Free Will and and 3 p.m. on June 3. emotions. Barrett's handle on two 1 ing wild, unexpected twists and Wanton Lust (Hanszen) actress Hamman Hall. distinct British accents, as he punch lines at the audience. write-in switches from high English to Cock- nominees For more info, call • Mark Ramont, Smash (Players) • Kendall Moseley, Nanny, Baby • Blake Barker, Teresa Kubos and ney to disguise his identity, is com- (713) 686-8811. best actor mendable. with the Bathwater (Will Rice) Elisa Silva, Vagina Monologues • Sarah Bethea, Sooze, subUrbia nominees (I>ovett) • Rick Spuler, Teach, American Buffalo (Lovett) (Wiess) june 2 4 • Brett Murphy, "The Complete • Tim Lott and Elisa Silva, subUrbia • Lindsay Trott, "My Angry Va- History of America. Abridged" (Wiess) Lovett Resident Associate and German and Slavic Studies Lecturer gina," Vagina Monologues (Lovett) / PRIDE FESTIVAL (Wiess) winner • Mona Hicks, "The Little Coochi • Tariq Tapa, Liam, "Heavenly • Robert Kimbro, Macbeth (Baker/ plays Teach, a veteran criminal. ... j Spider's Teach is nasal and frantic. SnorcherThat Could," Vagina Mono- Child" (Martel) Players) logues (Ix>vett) A marketplace of write-in Director Robert Kimbro (Sid '95) ... Spuler is excellent and rarely misses a beat; even when he's not • Rahdi Dinavahi, "The Vagina businesses and • • Rick Spuler, William, "Heavenly has put together a show with a large Workshop," Vagina Monologues Child" (Martel) cast, and on the whole, he has coaxed talking, he's fidgeting with some- organizations and several thing. (Lovett) winners good performances from them. write-in local and national • Bryan Debbink, "The Complete ... Kimbro's directing is thoughtful, • Maria Collins, Lydia, Spike Heels History of America, Abridged" making the play jell quite well as a best actress (Players) musicians will take part in (Wiess) whole. • Sasha Cooke, Miss Wilson, the festival portion of nominees Wiess freshmen Bryan Debbink, Smash (Players) Mary-Margaret Miller and Brett • Reena Chckshi, Estelle, No Exit % Houston Gay & Lesbian • Lauren Farr, Ursula, Sweet Char- Murphy are positively electric.... It best actor (Lovett) ity (Hanszen) | Pride 2001. Many other would be hard to single out just when • Robin Jacobs, Jackie-O, House of nominees • Maria Collins, Porter/Gentle- the actors are at their best, but their Yes (Brown) Pride 2001 events are • Matt Frost, John, Baby with the woman, Macbeth (Baker/Players) unabashed attempt at a rap about • Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Bathwater (Will Rice) winner c scheduled throughout June, the first colonies and their pot-in- Henrietta, Smash (Players) • Tariq Tapa, Narrator, Marlowe's • Christin Davis. Amy, Free Will f $10 advance, $12 day of. fused portrayal of the writing of the Last Death and Tale (Lovett) • Julia Robinson, Georgie, Spike Bill of Rights are two standouts. Heels (Players) and Wanton Lust (Hanszen) 1-7 p.m. Garden in the • Amanda Blankenship, Claire, Brown sophomore Christin I )avis • Jonathan Ichikawa, God, "Pray- delivers a stunning performance as Heights. 3926 Feagan. ing at a Bus Stop" (Martel) Free Will and Wanton Lust (Hanszen) winner Amy. ... Demanding that all eyes For more info, call He's not exactly a vengeful God stay glued on her, she shifts con- — but he amuses himself by playing • Laurie Scott, Lady Macbeth. (713) 529-6979. Macbeth (Baker/Players) vincingly between snotty, rebellious 20 Questions and I Spy with a con- teenage brat to sensitive, intelligent, fused average Joe. ... Will 'Rice Baker junior Laurie Scott is a ter- mature young woman^ Davis has < : sophomore Jonathan Ichikawa rific Lady Macbeth. She is intense imbued her character with amazing comes across as a little childlike, and charismatic, using her sexuality depth, emotion and desperation. eternally bemused by his creation to persuade Macbeth to kill I hincan. and almost smugly proud of it. But even though husband and wife collaborated on Duncan's murder, Macbeth alone becomes king, a situ- best actress ation poignantly realized by Scott. nominees musicals • Mary Margaret Miller, "The Com- best supportin •plete History of America, Abridged" best musical (Wiess) actor nominees • Hayley Brown, Marie Saluzzo, nominees • Blood Brothers (Sid) "Family Names" (Baker) • Jay Henderson, Tim, subUrbia • The Butter Battle (Will Rice) •Kat Messick, Actor 2, (Wiess) • Damn Yankees (Lovett) "Unpredictable" • Matt Tramel, Erskine, Smash winner (Martel) (Players) • Sweeney Todd (Baker) winner • Nitin Kapur, Edward, Spike Heels It's rather appropriate that Baker, •Hallie Antweil, Sheila, (Players) which has traditionally identified it- "Family Names" (Baker) write-in self with hell, beckons you to de- Hanszen College • Tariq Tapa, Bob, American Buf- scend to the depths of human evil sophomore Hallie TERRA HUDLOW/THRESHER falo (D)vett) with Sweeney Todd, a blackly funny, Antweil plays Sheila, a Lovett sophomore Tariq Tapa acts • J. Cameron Cooper, Banquo, beautifully rendered and ultimately shrinking violet. ... out his original quasi-detective story, Macbeth (Baker/Players) unsettling production. Antweil is an apt fit for Marlowe's Last Death and Tale, • Eric Rombokas, Philip, Free Will Sheila — she uses body named Best Student-Written Play. THE RICE THRESHER ARTS A ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 17 -

H'St ( lli ('( lOI captivity, Johanna's dress is the same green color as the caged birds she nominees sings about, and Mrs. Lovett dons a • Amy Krivohlavek, Blood Broth- crimson dress as the plot turns ers (Sid) bloodier. • Jonathan Ichikawa, The Butter Battle (Will Rice) winner best set design • Troy Scheid, Sweeney Todd nominees O (Baker) • TimLottandElisaSilva.sw&LWa Under the able direction of Troy (Wiess) Scheid, a Baker junior, Baker musi- • Leslie Sage, The Butter Battle cal theater is flourishing, and how. (Will Rice) Pulling off Sweeney Todd, with lyri- • Joseph Gabriel and Jenny cist/composer Stephen Sondheim's Hoover, Nunsense Oones) tricky rhythms and rapid-fire tongue write-ins twisters of lyrics, is no mean feat, • David Chang, Spike Heels (Play- but Baker does it with style. ers) • Dustin Eshenroder, Blood Broth- best actor ers (Sid) • Hari Patel and Nathan Zumwalt, nominees No Exit (Ivovett) • Wes Gunter, Young Joe Hardy, • Leslie Meyer and Scott McKern, Damn Yankees (Lovett) House of Yes (Brown) write-in winners • Udo Mayer, Sister Mary Regina, • Troy Scheid and Steve Nebel, Nunsense Uones) Sweeney Todd (Baker) winners Part of the genius in Baker's • Ben Graf, Applegate, Damn Yan- Sweeney Todd is'its set, particularly kees (Lovett) CALEB RFDFIELD/THRESHER the silver ramp that slashes like a A smooth-talking, well-dressed Mrs. Lovett (Sid senior Amy Krivohlavek. Best Actress in a Musical), the worst piemaker in London, learns that the razor blade through the main stage. version of the devil named Applegate best way to Sweeney Todd's (Will Rice sophomore Ben Westbrook, Best Actor in a Musical) heart is through other Scheid and Baker sophomore Steven (Wiess senior Ben Graf) offers to peoples' stomachs in Baker College's production of Sweeney Todd. Nebel's design is stark and stunning. make him the greatest baseball • Shannon Hughes, Macbeth player ever. ... Graf is a fine McBean, The Butter Battle (Will soloist and lends subtle nuance to (Baker/Players) Applegate. He looks like he's having Rice) her portrayal of the horny princess. The set, designed by Wiess a wickedly good time, and his are • Robin Pontbriand, Ralph, The technical sophomore Shannon Hughes, is often the most delightful one-liners. Butter Battle (Will Rice) best musical simple but versatile — a black stage • Ben Westbrook, Sweeney Todd, winners best student- with chaotic steps on one side and a Sweeney Todd (Baker) • Doward Hudlow, Erronius, A accompaniment raised platform on the other. Will Rice sophomore Ben Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Westbrook, a voice major, brings the Forum (Wiess) nominees power, both vocally and physically, Stealing the stage in a small part • Arwen Johnson, Damn Yankees nominees best sound design (Lovett) • Jonathan Ichikawa, The Butter to his character. Westbrook has the is Wiess senior Doward Hudlow, who Sound design was not an official • Steven Jamail and Andy Einhorn, Battle (Will Rice) build to make his character threat- is searching for his children stolen category on the ballot, but a number Sweeney Todd (Baker) • Tommy Belanger and Hung ening, especially as he stares coldly long ago by pirates. Hudlow gives of voters suggested that it should • Tom Bisciglia, Sweet Charity Nguyen, "Praying at a Bus Stop" into the first few rows of the audi- Erronius the wheezy accent of some be, and the Thresher staff agreed, (Hanszen) (Martel) ence. He's genuinely scary when- Southern grandpa. winner ever he wields his razor. • Carl Goss, Tobias Ragg'Sweeney • Nathaniel Chongsiriwatana, • Alex Fay, "Unpredictable" Blood Brothers (Sid) (Martel) • Katie Soper and Troy Scheid, Todd (Baker) Macbeth (Baker/Players) winner • Karla Sussman, 'Trial by Fire" Toby is a young street barker The sound design, by Jones best actress taken in by Mrs. Lovett. ... His solo • Joe Patrick, The Butter Battle (Wiess) (Will Wee) winner sophomore Katie Soper and Baker nominees in "Not While I'm Around" goes too junior Troy Scheid, is excellent. • Jennifer Lohmann, Mrs. high for Goss for a bar or two. Sur- The prodution boasts a 27-piece • T ariq T apa, Marlowe's Ijist Death orchestra conducted by music com- and Tale (Lovett) Music underscores many of the Johnstone, Blood Brothers (Sid) prisingly, Goss (a Baker freshman) scenes— in particular, a drum-heavy • Kat Messick, Lola, Damn Yan- then settles nicely into a boyish fal- position graduate student Joe Marlowe's Last Death and Tale, Patrick, and it's incredibly effective. by Lovett sophomore Tariq Tapa, is selection provides an effective back- kees (Lovett) setto that's quite suited for the young ground to Macbeth's internal con- write-ins Toby. It would have been satisfying just both a mystery and a statement on listening to the full, rich sounds of the writer's craft.... His character's flicts. The battle scenes are almost • Hallie Antweil, Charity. Sweet always suggested by sound alone. Charity (Hanszen) Sullivan's music for two hours. conversations with the ghostly Chris- topher "Kit" Marlowe on the subway winner • Amy Krivohlavek, Mrs. I^ovett, and in an all-night diner bring him to a sort of anti-epiphany that reorga- Sweeney Todd (Baker) actress nizes lys order of thinking. As the greasy Mrs. Lovett, nominees contribution • Maeve Quigley, Mrs. Lyons, Krivohlavek (a Sid senior) is the write-ins Finally, there is traditionally a Blood Brothers (Sid) source of much of the musical's black • P2ileen O'Brien, Sweet Charity Sammy Award for Outstanding Con- • Clara Rottsolk, Johanna, Sweeney comedy. She has a clear, audible (Hanszen) tribution to Rice Theater. It's hard to Todd (Baker) voice and a knack for song and dance • Lea Ann Chen, Maria Moffet, A nominees single out just one person for im- — especially when that song and write-in Funny Thing Happened on the Way to • Alex Speiser, Spike Heels (Play- provi ng campu s theater—especially • Hayley Brown, Miss Yookie-Ann dance is about cannibalism. the Forum (Wiess) ers) in a year such as this, with so much Sue. The Butter Battle (Will Rice) nominees • Drew Ellis. Blood Brothers (Sid) original and innovative work. • Megan McGehee, Sister Maiy • Jessi Harper, Damn Yankees write-in The voting results reflected this: Amnesia, Nunsense (Jones) (Lovett) • Chris Donica, The Butter Battle the nominees came in a dead heat. • Michelle Precourt, Linda, Blood actor • Daniel Attaway, Blood Brothers (Will Rice) So we'll spotlight several people: Brothers (Sid) winner • Tariq Tapa, a Lovett sophomore nominees (Sid) winner • Sweeney Todd (Baker) • Trish Rigdon, Macbeth (Baker/ who wrote and acted in his own one- • Michael "Bish" Bishop, Mr. • AlysonTom, Princess Josephine, The three nominees for choreog- Players) man play. Marlowe's iMSt Death and Lyons, Blood Brothers (Sid) The Butter Battle (Will Rice) raphy all tied, so we can't single out Macbeth's stark and striking Tale, produced at Lovett. He wrote • Dane Christensen, Judge Turpin, Princess Joseph of the Zooks (Sid any one — but their dances ranged lighting fits the mood of the scenes and acted in "Heavenly Child," a Sweeney Todd (Baker) senior Alyson Tom) is in love with a from nightmarish waltzes to goofy — especially the thunder and light- one-act play that was part of Martel write-in watch merchant named Ralph. ... ning effects. • Joe White, Sylvester McMonkey baseball team numbers. Take Ten, and he performed in Tom does a commendable job as a Lovett's American Buffalo. • Jonathan Ichikawa, a Will Rice best costumes sophomore who wrote, directed and nominees performed in The Butter Battle. Bas- • Leslie Meyer, House of Yes ing the story on Dr. Seuss' The Flut- (Brown) ter Battle Book and using the music • Alesha Herrera, Free Will and of Gilbert and Sullivan, Ichikawa Wanton Lust (Hanszen) adapted and rewrote the lyrics to tit write-in the largely original plot. • Amy Boratko and Trish Rigdon, • Victoria Zyp, without whose ef- Smash (Players) forts there would probably be no • Michelle Meyer, Macbeth Best Student-Written Play category. (Baker/Players) A Wiess sophomore and member of • Amy Boratko, Spike Heels (Play- the Martel Founding Committee, ers) Zyp started the Martel Take Ten • Ix'slie Sage, The Butter Battle student play workshop. She also (Will Rice) wrote a play for the workshop, di- winners rected two others and performed in • Davis Niendorff and LinhThiDo, Lovett's No Exit. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way m Troy Scheid. a Baker junior who to the Forum (Wiess) directed Sweeney Todd and last year's Wiess' production is certainly Camelot at Baker College, both well- colorful. ... The costumes some- received musicals at a college with- times elaborate on the humor. out a standing tradition of musicals. Marcus Lycus wears a black and • .Angela Posada, a Baker senior silver lame toga. His seven courte- who served as Baker Shakespeare sans wear different colorful outfits producer for two consecutive years that suit their characters,"*like wild and is a Rice Players coordinator. woman Vibrata's feather/leather bi- Posada helped the two organizations kini. collaborate to produce Macbeth for SARAH AHRENS/THRESHER • Troy Scheid, Sweeney Todd Baker Shake's 30th year. Will Rice sophomore Jonathan Ichikawa (left) wrote, directed and starred in Will Rice's The Butter Battle. Here, as (Baker) General Frederick of the Yooks, he and his nuclear Big-Boy Boomeroo warhead square off against General Van Itch Sweeney Todd's costumes are kept Compiled and designed (Will Rice freshman Jason Longoria). simple yet effective. Symbolizing her by Mariel Tam m* -a <««.»«•*'•''•WW*" i 1 t v vt \

18 THK RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 «T 'On the Verge' of greatness Students, faculty and visitors alike convened in the Rice Art Gallery at Sewall Hall and in the Rice Media Center April 26 to see the accumulation of a year's worth of student artwork, a joint presentation entitled "On the Verge." The reception at the gallery featured works by seniors, a fashion show by Sid Richardson College senior Mandy Gor and performances by both Rice Dance Theatre and the Rice Players. Later in the evening, the Media Center hosted other students' art that was selected by faculty and showed a couple of hours of film and video projects. The art exhibits are still open for viewing.

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LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER Hanszen sophomore Sarah Cloots models one of the dresses designed by Sid senior Mandy Gor.

made with Will Rice junior Rebecca Tuuri, "Coffee? A Portrait of No Tsu Oh." Sewall Hall Wiess College senior Lay la Fry's installation, "Like in My Older Days" is in the same room. It depicts a ' Once again, the Sewall Hall por- corner of a child's room with writing tion of the Student Art Show fea- on the wall and pictures behind shat- tured works by graduating seniors. tered glass. Not surprisingly, the pieces were Nearby is one of the floor dis-

LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER full of variety and originality. plays, "Stained Glass Window Cos- The Rice Dance Theatre troupe performs a piece outside Sewall Hall. The most noticable group is a tume," a dress designed by Sid Rich- series titled "Construction Posters" ardson College senior Mandy Gor. by Jones College senior Sheila Several fashion designs and photos Herman. The posters were based on cover the wall next to it. photos of the construction around Hanszen College senior Emily Media Center the North Colleges and were digi- Kirkland exhibits a series of pop-art- tally altered: all have "Jones Beauti- style prints with titles one would fication Committee" printed on them. expect to find in magazines like Cosmo — "site's a backstabber!," "the While graduating studio art ma- In a small room in the back cor- color that makes everyone look jors took over the Rice Art Gallery to ner of the Rice Art Gallery, Will Rice good," and so on — as well as sev- showcase their work, the Rice Me- College senior Jason Hardy has a eral printed aprons. dia Center became home to works series of photographs, a few of which * depict the construction around the selected by faculty from all under- — Dalton Tomlin graduate arts classes. Astrodome, as well as a video he Various media and influences converged to create an eclectic as- sortment of pieces in the Media Cen- ter exhibit. "The diversity of the work, in concept and in media, created an interesting show that represented all the students involved in art classes," said Jones College fresh- man Leslie Sage, whose work was COURTESY HOLLY HINSON included in the exhibit. Lisa Cooley molds a model of Hippolytus in a film edited four different ways: For the first time, the show fea- Hippolytus by Will Rice senior Holly Hinson. The Hunt by Will Rice junior Matt tured three awards sponsored by Boles, Hunters by Sid sophomore Julia Buergler and I'm Your Man by Lovett the Arts@rice club. "The awards sophomore Tariq Tapa. were initiated to have Arts@rice do something to support the arts at Rice, David Chien. Brown College junior ideas for the future of these awards and also to open the lines of commu- David Anderson and Baker College is to perhaps increase the awards, nication between the club and the senior Celina Fang. but it's not something I'm too con- art students," Will Rice College fresh- "It was really cool to have work in cerned about now," Garrett said. man and Arts@rice President Ian the show, partially because it was "After all. as a group of arts advo- Garrett said. the first time I've had a chance to cates, mostly artists, arts@rice is Awards were given in three cat- prinl pictures at a larger size," Fang proof that there is some truth be- egories: sculpture, two-dimensional said. hind the starving artist stereotype." media and photography. They were Each of the winners received a awarded to Hanszen College junior Rice Media Center pass. "My only — Curly Kocurek SARAH AHRENS,THRESHER Wiess College freshman Brittany Boulding examines Brown senior Will M > . Vasquez's painting "Everlast" at the Rice Art Gallery in Sewall Hall.

COURTESY TARIQ TAPA LAURA WIGINTON/THRESHER Junie Hoang prepares to end her life while dancing with Lovett sophomore Rebellious schoolgirl Agatha Wylie (Brown sophomore Christin Davis, top) and socialist Sidney Trefusis (Hanszen Tariq Tapa in Last Night, directed by Jones senior Derek Crabtree, Jones junior Mark Barrett) act out a scene from the Rice Players' Smash outside Sewall Hall. senior Sam Davila and Lovett junior Matt Connolly.

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Robots, damn dirty apes and New Jerseyites aplenty i The summer is descending how Christopher Walken — but upon us, and once again we'll be that doesn't guarantee much be- bombarded with blockbusters. yond a decent opening weekend. I'm not about to claim that the Movies about Hollywood gener- next few months will ally aren't too clever, be completely devoid although there are of quality films, but some exceptions like most of the offerings The Player. Also, the will be pretty bland and fact that Billy Crystal run-of-the-mill, espe- wrote the movie is cially the obligatory se- promising. quels. Despite an out- So it's no surprise standing cast of Ed- that The Mummy Re- ward Norton, Robert turns kicked off the Dalton De Niro and Marlon season (with a mere Tomlin Brando, each of whom $70 million opening is one of the best ac- weekend). The first tors in his generation, COURTESY MIRAMAX ZOE Harry (Sergi Lopez) enjoys a tasty raw egg after some special hugging with his girlfriend Plum (Sophie Guillemin) in one had some wit and charm, The Score is not a sure-fire mas- With a Friend Like Harry. true, but there wasn't enough terpiece. I wasn't very impressed left over for a sequel. Even the by the trailer, and I don't have special effects, part of the rea- much faith that a comedy-based son for even going to check out director like Frank Oz will do a the latest multiplex offering, good job of making a thriller. With a film like 'Harry,' who aren't very impressive. Made is the new team-up from Then there are those films Swingers' Jon Favreau and Vince that defy or at least confuse Vaughn. It's not quite as funny or expectations, such as >4 Knight's meaningful as their previous Tale. The buzz was incredible at work, but it does have its mo- needs a Hitchcock wannabe? first, but now critics are saying ments. Vaughn steals the show it's just a popcorn movie with a even more this time as Favreau's Melissa Bailey when the director misses a beat, tion fail to match. Clues as to Harry's few sparks of originality. At the bumbling mob sidekick. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF which he does just often enough to real nature often seem contrived at very leastthejousting looks cool. The ads for Evolution try to Oscar Wilde used to say that a be distracting, the movie has the air best. Murderous or violent scenes Ah, Pearl Harbor. Much like make it look like the next good friend stabs you in the front. of a slightly intellectualized version are not handled subtly. If this were Titanic, it's a great production Ghostbusters, featuring Dan Something of both this sentiment of Single White Female. primarily a comedy, even a ^ark com- technically, but the dialogue (by Aykroyd and director Ivan and its sly humor can be found in Most of this is not the fault of the edy, it wouldn't matter, but too much the writer of Braveheart, no less) Reitman. It doesn't look as clever With a Friend Like Harry, the new actors. Performances in general are of it i§ obviously meant to be taken won't win any awards — I had to as the 1985 blockbuster, al- French-language film by director good, if not extraordinary, especially seriously. roll my eyes at a few points. The though there are bound to be a Dominik Mol. The complexities of that of Harry's surprisingly sensi- bombing sequence is extraordi- few good "X-Files" references, friendship and the question of at tive trophy girlfriend, Plum (Sophie At its best, the nary and well-done, but there's considering the movie is about what point a friend can be called an Guillemin). Michel, obliged to re- about an hour more of the film aliens and features none other enemy give rise to the plot of this main brooding and faintly mysteri- fluid mix of the after it (the whole thing runs than David Duchovny. thriller/comedy that never quite ous, comes across as rather bland — three hours). As you would prob- Then comes an onslaught of seems to find its footing. you wonder what there can possibly familiar and the ably anticipate, It's the box of- sequels: Jurassic Park III, Dr. be to this man for so many people to ABSURD keeps you fice contender to beat. Dolittle 2, Scary Movie II and feel so passionately about him. I had pretty high hopes for Rush Hour 2. Is there any par- 'with a friend Seigner, on the other hand, gives a constantly off- Moulin Rouge, but it's just shy of ticular reason to carry these fran- like harry' masterful performance as Claire, being a masterpiece. Not since chises (and I use that term blending restraint with intense emo- balance, in a state Rating: ++ 1/2 the overlooked Titus have I seen loosely) any further? Oh, right — tion. In spite of her reserve, she is money. Try to remember how (out of five) always real and vivid, her feelings of uneasy a film where every costume, set In theaters. and shot looks intriguing. The • bad The Lost World was. Then playing out across her face with ach- SKEPTICISM. film didn't really make any huge imagine a worse sequel that even ing clarity. mistakes, but in order to work Spielberg turned down. That's With a Friend Like Harry tells the It is Lopez who, in his perfor- Mol likes to play with the nature the audience has to buy into its JPIII. Scary Movie II will undoubt- story of Michel (Laurent Lucas), an mance as Harry, poses the most prob- of ordinary objects, using them to extravagance. I'm not surprised edly up the ante of grossness ordinary Frenchman on his way to lems. In general, he attempts a mix please or disturb by turns, and this that a few people despise it be- from its predecessor, making it a the countryside for the summer with of congenial friend and unsettling odd take on the mundane is one of cause of that. You'd think a mu- hit with teenagers, some of whom his wife Claire (Mathilde Seigner) stranger, but you doubt he has the his strengths. Take, for example, sical featuring warped versions might actually be of age to get and their three children. Michel nervous energy required to commit the eggs Harry eats after every or- of the Police's "Roxanne" and into an R-rated movie. seems content enough with his lot, a murder, much less a string of them. gasm to heighten his energy. The Madonna's "Like a Virgin" would but it is not an easy one: Money is He is not insane — simply irritating. eggs seem by the end of the film to draw in the younger crowd, but I In A/., I expect limited, his parents are a constant His Harry is always sincere and of- symbolize, or at least be linked with, don't have much faith in its box and oppressive presence, his chil- ten ridiculous but seldom menac- all the latent possibility in Michel, office potential. Maybe the fact NOTHING more dren are perpetually ill, his wife is ing. his creative liberation and even the that it's a musical is enough to exhausted and the country house he As a result, the film as a whole limits he refuses to cross. Then there seal such a dreaded fate. than a typical bought is continually falling apart. suffers. Elements of the movie clash is the bathroom of the farmhouse, Tomb Raider, though, will CROWD-PLEASER. At a rest stop he runs across an with one another. The surreal set- with walls that are an oppressive make some decent bank, at least old friend from school, Harry (Sergi ting in the French countryside, the Pepto-Bismol pink. It's a room that's from the video game crowd that Perhaps the diamond in the Lopez), whose existence is as rich dilapidated house, the occasional bizartely surreal, relentlessly bright, wants to ogle Angelina Jolie. rough in mid-to-late summer will and carefree as Michel's is burdened. outside view of a solitary lighted where Michel writes and agonizes in the dead of night. His dream of Some good effects, maybe some be Planet of the Apes, which is Harry remembers Michel with window and a wasteland of empty flying monkeys with propellers on snappy writing, but probably noth- not as much a remake as it is a alarming clarity, down to poems and darkness beyond seem calculated to their heads, and the house itself, ing to write home about. new story loosely based on the stories, word for word, that Michel create a tension and a suspense that See HARRY, Page 20 Not surprisingly, Disney is put- original. (The new one, for ex- once wrote but has forgotten com- the actors and the rest of the produc- ting out an animated feature — ample, isn't set on Earth and pletely. Atlantis: The Lost Empire — to won't have the same famous Harry has a temptingly un- horn in on the river of summer ending.) It could be pretty enter- troubled outlook on life, a refresh- money. Its messy amalgam of taining, consideringTim Burton's ing and sensual appreciation for all DESSERT GALLERY genres and animation styles will at the helm and the apes will that is beautiful and enjoyable. He is probably go over the heads of all look realistic this time. determined to help Michel and to I BAKERY & CAFE I those youngsters whose lower- It'll be a tad bittersweet to see him write again. These desires priced tickets will nevertheless see Jay and Silent Bob Strike at first seem innocent enough, until I INVITES YOU TO HELP US CELEBRATE | add up. Back, supposedly the last install- it gradually becomes clear that I have a creeping feeling that ment in writer/director Kevin Harry's blithe lack of concern masks OUR NEW LOOK, NEW NDED everyone is going to love A.I.: Smith's New Jersey trilogy, er, a real instability, that his longing for CAFE MENU & Artificial Intelligence, the latest series. While it probably won't freedom includes no conception of I I opus from Steven Spielberg. (Is be as weighty as his previous its cost. Harry progresses from an Beginning April 1, e open it just me, or does the title seem films, it should be pretty amus- increasingly smothering friend to a a tad reminiscent of E.T.: The ing. The only problem is that murderer who threatens Michel's weekday eveni Extra Terrestrial?) The project was opening two weeks before is sanity and the safety of his family, I I Sunday; f 1 ar American Pie II — the original while Michel himself struggles to originally the brainchild of the Monday-Thors late Stanley Kubrick, and made twice as much as all of find a balance between personal free- Friday-Saturday: It am - midnite Spielberg's talent is a far cry Smith's movies combined. dom, renewed creativity and the I I from Kubrick's. Maybe he'll take I wish I could offer some posi- possible sacrifice of all he loves. 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sSffiSK??-' M /> \SI \Rl) I r RPRs DreamWorks gets into fairy tale game with low-brow 'Shrek' Elisa Gabbert age) , is a fat ugly green ogre. And it FOR THE THRESHER should be immediately apparent to DreamWorks is the proverbial everyone with a good heart and open 1 H * ' * * " new kid on the big block of Holly- mind that this fact doesn't make him wood studios. It's tried to make a a bad person. name for itself as "artist-friendly," Shortly, the film shows its true though it's hard to get past the mega- colors, which are very much off the ipPj conglomerate initials tagged onto wall. Shrek's enemy is Lord pp •1 y * m their logo — SKG for Spielberg, Farquaad (John Lithgow), a pitifully MVt- '«*$ i J Katzenberg and Geffen — and see undersized prince with two missions: them as "people persons." to capture all fairy tale creatures and confine them to a secluded swamp, and to marry a princess so he can 'shrek' become king. The first mission leads to a scene Rating: *** (out of five)- in which Farquaad's knights dish In theaters. out cash to the villagers for turning in random elves and unicorns as well as more familiar characters like In terms of animation, they have the Three Blind Mice. The swamp a history, however brief, of not quite they're shipped off to, what do you measuring up to Disney. Yeah, Antz know, is Shrek's humble home, and was pretty good, but I'm sorry, A he gets pissed. Bug's Life was better. The Prince of After Shrek wreaks some havoc Egypt was visually stunning but oth- at Farquaad's castle, the prince sends erwise forgettable. And you know him to find a captured princess, since those smug Disney execs were sit- the diminutive lord is obviously too ting around a big table gloating be- pathetic to do the job himself. And cause of it. thus begins the adventure of both But with their new full-length Shrek and his faithful talking don- COURTESY DREAMWORKS PICTURES animated feature, Shrek, key, named, creatively, Donkey, Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) and Shrek (Mike Myers) gaze lovingly into each other's eyes in Shrek. DreamWorks is standing up and played by kinda-sorta funny Eddie saying, loud and proud, "Yo, Walt. Murphy. But Shrek's brand of humor is While some of this material was ingly touching, though hokey—and We don't want to be you. We don't Though tame enough, naturally, decidedly more scatological. There definitely not up my alley, I have to sometimes it doesn't. Smash even like you." for a PG rating, this ain't your typical is much earwax and flatulence. I praise the writers for braving risque Mouth's "All Star" blasting through At first, Shrek seems typical kids' flick. Call me old-fashioned, guess they're jumping on the Farrelly and uncharted territory. It often leads the opening credits put me in an enough. It's your average don't- but I'm rather fond of the classic brothers bandwagon, who revived to some really funny, if extremely ungenerous mood. judge-a-book-by-its-cover story: The Disney scripting — it's dialogue you the "gross is funny" mentality from bizarre, scenes — like the one where The animation, which seems to title character, voiced Scottishly by can watch with your mom without grade school, and people sure seem Farquaad tortures a gingerbread lament the decline of Claymation, is Mike Myers (who is actually as un- blushing (how often can you say to like it. The boys behind me were man with a glass of milk until he rats sometimes plasticky, occasionally derstated as he could possibly man- that?). in stitches. out the Muffin Man. A few jokes, awesome — especially when Shrek though, seemed a bit, um, mature. and Donkey cross a rickety rope Like the multiple references to bridge over a pit of flaming lava. Farquaad's short dick — necessary? Other aspects had their highs and lows. Of course they had to throw Shrek's brand of in some token feminism, which ar- humor is more Want to stay in the loop? If you rives largely in the form of Fiona, Cameron Diaz's sassy princess. This SCATOLOGICAL, will come as a rip-roaring shock — subscribe to the Thresher, you can keep up with campus she's not blonde! Alas, she does have with earwax and Barbie-esque proportions. The em- FLATULENCE. news, opinion, sports and arts — which you can't find powerment factor is her role-break- ing badass-ness, most evident when ' The message, in the end, is re- anywhere else. (And you can keep tabs on your sorry underclassmen friends via she kicks Robin Hood-and-gang's freshingly good. It is most obvious booties in an homage to the Matrix in the final scene that this movie has the Backpage.) aesthetic. a beef with Disney, especially their Another nod to chicks: The happier-than-thou endings. Fiona, Annual subscription rate: meanie dragon who keeps her cap- having realized that Shrek and not tive is, surprise, a girl. But she doesn't Farquaad is her true love, is lifted up $50 domestic put up much of a fire-breathing fight off the ground in a beam of light, a — Shrek and Fiona are able to get painfully clear reference to the trans- $105 international away while she's making goo-goo formation scene in Beauty and the eyes at the ever-charming Donkey. Beast. But the smile-big shocker is name Equally hit-and-miss are the that nobody gets pretty; she turns soundtrack and the animation. Opt- ugiv like Shrek, so they can live ing against an original score (maybe together in eternal green fatness. address because it was so bad in The Prince After all, they think they're beautiful. of Egypt), they splat in a strange I think Shrek basically does what array of covers and pop tunes. Some- it sets out to do — shock a bit, amuse times it works— Rufus Wain wright's a lot. And it's really pretty good. But version of "Hallelujah" is surpris- it's no Tov Story 2. city state zip kA Friend Like Harry' lacks ^ credit card | j check (made payable to The Rice Thresher) coherence, plausible characters payment visa HARRY, from Pago 19 manages to linger in your mind after isolated, shadowy, a perpetual bur- you leave the theater. It has the feel i mastercard den, further intensify the air of unre- of a throwback to an earlier ality. Hitchcock era with its quiet, strik- i american express Particularly well handled are the ing scenes, edgy characters, stark complex psychological relationships images of violence and startling between people and the changes bursts of twanging music at sus- card number undergone by the principle charac- penseful moments. ters. Had this movie gone about its business of being a thriller a bit more expiration date subtly, it could have been genuinely It is Sergi Lopez unsettling. Harry is not a stereotypi- who, in his cal villain: he's deeply sincere in all he does, more amoral than immoral. PERFORMANCE as Michel himself is the most am- signature biguous of all, for though he loves Harry, poses the his parents, wife and children, he most PROBLEMS. may indeed feel trapped by them. Please mail form and payment to: Though by the end of the film his With a Friend Like Harry con- The Rice Thresher Or fax to (713) 348-5238. need to escape from Harry is more veys the persistent sense of the un- than evident, so is the fact that it is real lurking within the real and ev- Attn: Subscriptions For questions, call Harry to whom Michel owes all iiis eryday, always in the air, around us, P.O. Box 1892. MS-524 (713) 348-3971 or renewed confidence and creativity. or behind us, never quite within view. Dilemmas like this, handled with But in the end it's still only imitation Houston. TX 77251-1892 e-mail [email protected]. skillful restraint, make With a Friend Hitchcock, and like most imitations Like Harry a thoughtful and affect- leaves you faintly bored and longing ing film, which for all its unevenness for the original. THE RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 21

THERE'S NO'l E\()l (ill It 1:1:R IX I III. WORLD Chatting with the witty, forgiving Janeane Garofalo

Mariel Tam and Dalton Tomlin Thresher. Why is this your first time come up with your material? THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF back to Houston in so long? Garofalo: I always carry a notebook Beep. Garofalo: I just never was booked in around with me, and if something Message 1, received Friday, April any of the Houston clubs before this strikes me I just jot it down. 27, at 12:49p.m. —just never, for whatever reason. I "Hi, this is a message for Dalton don't know why. Thresher. What kind of stuff are you Tomlin. This is Janeane Garofalo, Thresher. When was the last time working on now? and I'll try you back in a little bit you were here? Garofalo: I'm starting a film the day regarding the interview. OK, thanks. Garofalo: Um, I don't remember. after I leave Houston on Monday for Bye-bye." Maybe Reality Bites. [Laughs] But I HBO called The Laramie Project, Message 2, received Friday, April can't recall. which is the Matthew Shepard story. 27, at 1:18p.m. Thresher: Do you have any fond I have a movie coming out this sum- "Hello, Dalton, it's Janeane again. memories of Houston? mer called Wet Hot American Sum- I will try you back later on. Bye." Garofalo: I actually like Texas. I pre- mer, and a movie coming out in Sep- Message 3, received Friday, April fer Austin to Houston, but I really tember called Big Trouble. And that's 27, at 1:38 p.m. enjoyed when I lived in Houston for it. I'll be doing a play this summer. "I'm now obviously stalking this a couple years after I graduated from I'm not really working on anything machine. I have now called college, when I was doing standup. besides those things this summer. thricefold. Hello, is anyone there? At the time in like '88, '89, '90, the Thresher. What are you doing on The Maybe you're screening. Maybe you comedy scene was really strong. It I Mr ami e Project? don't know you're supposed to be was a lot of fun. Garofalo: [Triumphantly] I'm play- talking to me at 2 o'clock. Maybe ing a lesbian! \Laughs] That's what nobody told you. Uh, 2 o'clock New Thresher. For your show, we've been I'm doing. York time, that is. Maybe you trying to get our friends to go, but Thresher. I guess that's not typecast- thought it was 2 o'clock your time. the tickets are a little too pricey for ing, huh? 'Cause there's a time difference. I'll them. Garofalo: No, although it'll be my try later. Good-bye." Garofalo: How much is it? third time playing a lesbian. I think Message 4 received Friday, April Thresher. It's $32. actually a lot of people think I'm gay 27, at 3:13 p.m. Garofalo: (Surprised] $32! ... That's anyway. It's just the way that I look [Click.] bizarre, because even in New York or the fact that I do stand-up com- when I do Caroline's, it's $20, and edy, but a lot of people think a lot of That's the story of how we inad- that's considered high. [She later stand-up comics are gay, I don't vertently ruined the afternoon of one said, "Please note in your article that know. Janeane Garofalo. The stand-up co- I am deeply sorry about the $32 ticket median and star of film and televi- price. I had no idea it was that expen- Thresher. I looked up Wet Hot Ameri- sion telephoned us for an interview can Summer on the Internet Movie we didn't know we'd get — leaving a Database, and I saw that a lot of series of messages that became in- people from "The State" [MTV's creasingly weirder and funnier. There's nothing short-lived mid-'90s sketch comedy ERIC LIEBOWITZ/GRAMERCY In the 1997 romantic comedy The Matchmaker, Garofalo starred as Marcy Luckily, Garofalo gracefully show] are in it. How much is it like funny about a Tizard, a campaign worker who travels to a small town in Ireland to verify her the show? agreed to speak to us the following boss's Irish heritage. Monday, when we fell over ourselves POSITIVE person Garofalo: It's a comedy in the way apologizing for our incompetence: that "The State" is a comedy. There's day Wes will ask me to participate in ing about that. Garofalo performed at Houston's who says, "Gee, a lot of "State" members in the cast. a Wilson/Anderson production. I don't consider myself any more Laff Stop May 4-6. It was her first isn't that great, I David Wain and Michael Showalter cynical or sarcastic than anyone else, stand-up appearance in her former co-wrote and co-directed it, and Ken Thresher. I loved Mystery Men, and at but unfortunately people typecast home in she can't even remember love EVERYTHING." Marino and Joe Ix>Truglioand Kerri Jerry Stiller's [actor and father of comedians a lot, and then they type- how many years. She showcased her Kenney are in the movie. And I guess Garofalo's friend Ben Stiller] roast cast female comedians even further smart, biting wit and frtacfo cultural Thresher. Have you ever come up it's their sort of sense of humor. at the Friars Club, [comedian] Jef- as being caustic, for whatever rea- references that would fly over the with any material that's just too per- Thresher: I wish MTV would play a frey Ross — son. It seems like when women are heads of most second-rate stand-up sonal to say out loud? show every now and then, but I guess Garofalo: That was hilarious ... that somewhat cynical, they seem extra- comedians, like suggesting that boy Garofalo-. Meaning, I have it in my they need all three or four hours for was the best joke of the night, I abrasive to most people. bands suffer from hubris and recall- mind to say it and it was too personal "Total Request Live." thought — "When I saw Mystery Men Thresher. And possibly lesbians. ing that when she tried to quit smok- to say it and I didn't? Garofalo-. I was very surprised when lit was so bad that] I fired my agent." Garofalo: And lesbians, yes. ing, she expanded from "border to Thresher. Yeah. Like some of the they canceled "The State." I thought Thresher. Yeah, that was funny, but border" like it was her "manifest things you've said were really sur- it was very funny and it seemed to be that's a clever movie. Does it just destiny." prising — the gynecologist who just doing very well. piss you off that most people don't These horribly loved you on "Larry Sanders," and like it? EMBARRASSING Thresher. Something we found out then there's the one about wanting Thresher. What was it like working Garofalo: No, it was a clever movie, recently — you lived in Houston for to punch the person you're having with the Wilson brothers? [Garofalo but it was deeply flawed. I mean, it things, you almost part of high school? sex with in the face. worked with Luke and Owen Wilson didn't work. I thought it was very Garofalo: I lived in Houston for a Garofalo-. Everyone remembers that in Dog Park and The Minus Man, clever, it should have been funnier, have to share couple of years in elementary school joke, my God. All the stuff is true, respectively.] but sometimes things get lost in the and for my senior year in high school. and then there's times when after I Garofalo: Luke and Owen Wilson translation. them with a Thresher. Which schools are those? say it I think, "Oh, I probably are fantastic, I've had the privilege Thresher. Were you a fan of the comic CROWD, to make Garofalo: Spring Branch Elementary shouldn't have said that." of working with both of them and I book? and Taylor High in Katy. But I think for a lot of comedians, definitely hope to repeat that. They Garofalo-. No, I didn't know about them go away.' Thresher. Does that have anything they'll tell you that you're almost are both just hilarious and great ac- the comic book until the movie. to do with Reality Bites being shot compelled to do it, almost like tors, and really cool people to hang Thresher: What are your favorite here, or was that just a coincidence? therapy, for therapeutic reasons. out on the set with. Thresher: Was Sweethearts written films of all time and what are the I In one of her first film roles, Garofalo That these things that are horrible Thresher. Have you had the opportu- with you in mind? It seems a lot like best movies you've seen recently? played a sarcastic, promiscuous that have happened to you, or are nity to work on Wes [Anderson ] and your stereotypical personality. Garofalo: Recently, um ... Memento. manager at the Gap in the 1994 film, horribly embarrassing, you almost Owen's new movie [The Royal [Garofalo played a depressed woman I loved that, I loved Billy Elliot, I shot in Houston. J have to share them with a crowd, to Tenenbaums, coming out this fall]? going on a blind date in the 1996 loved Yi-Yi. 1 like The Ratcatcher, I Garofalo-. No. that's just a coinci- sort of make them go away, in a Garofalo: No, I wish! I would beg to film.] enjoyed Bridget Jones's Diary — ex- dence — Helen Childress, who wrote weird way. be in a Wes Anderson film, if I could. Garofalo: No, Sweethearts-was a script cept for the ending. My all-time fa- Reality Bites, is from Houston. Thresher. On that note, how do you I would absolutely hope that some- that just came to me as it was. I vorite movie? I would have to say. all auditioned and got the part. Albert Brooks films except The Muse, Thresher. But aren't there a lot of and all Woody Allen films and all people that I presume you know, Scorsese films, and all H Hartley like Bobcat Goldthwait and Marga- films....AndallWesAnde -onfilms. 1 ret Clio ... Thresher. You mentions [wanting Garofalo: Margaret Cho, Bob to work with] Wes .And- son. Are Goldthwait, Mitch Rouse are all there any other director i hat you'd friends of mine, but it's a coinci- be interested in working ith? dence we were all in the same movie. Garofalo: Yeah, defini: lv. Hal .. . I mean, it happens. I've been in Hartley, Martin Scorse - . Albert comedy circles, I've been doing it Brooks. Woody Allen. Mira Nair, for 16 years, and eventually you do Penelope Spheeris ... There are so meet everybody, and then some- many, actually. Steven Soderbergh. times you're in the same movie. Thresher: What kind of music do you Thresher. Along that line, do you listen to? I know you're . in of the ever feel typecast because people Old 97's. see you as a sarcastic, witty female Garofalo: Yeah, I love tin )ld 97's. comic? Right now on my CD play is Badly Garofalo: I definitely feel typecast. I Drawn Boy. and Hike Idle lid. Hike don't understand it. First of all, Coldplay, I like the Kings

DAVID IfcE/PARAMOtINT at face value and says, "Gee, isn't native comic. As Ellie, Garofalo talks to Kevin (Paul Rudd) In the famous bathroom scene from 200 Cigarettes, In which several that great, I love everything." I mean, Garofalo: Whatever that means, al- young adults try to celebrate the New Year's Eve of 1981. there's nothing particularly challeng- ternative comic. 22 THE RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2()01

ill\i HEAR n//./. /. i/ vol i/./v /: Radiohead's 'Amnesiac' disappoints but better than most

Dalton Tomlin too-original melody and a sad-sound- chorus full of pomp and huge beats ning Plates" is what you would ex- pieces are coming together. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF ing, almost monotonous piano. But that seem inspired by royal march pect, a mechanical whirring that Amnesiac is not brilliant, but in There were certainly fans and Thom Yorke's swooning vocals and tunes. It's unusual for a Radiohead comes from "normal" music played today's market, it's still a worthwhile critics that were dissatisfied with music, disorienting at first, build to a album to end on a high note, but it's album. It shouldn't alienate Radiohead's release lastyear, Kid A, triumphant ending. The final minute fitting for an unusual album. A lot of Amnesiac Radiohead's many die-hard fans — which was heavy on computers and is filled with Radiohead's signature Most of the remaining songs it's just enough to keep them anx- synthesizers and light on guitars and sadness and paranoia. After a few aren't particularly bad, but they is UNREMARKABLE, iously awaiting the next one. drums. Some felt the band had listens, it will without a doubt get aren't great either. The opener, On the first stop of their North drifted too far away from its tradi- stuck in your head. "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd but the few great American tour, Radiohead will be tional rock base, which had still been "You and Whose Army?" also has Tin Box" (note the clever, crowded performing at the Cynthia Woods evident on its previous album, the an outstanding piano accompani- wording), has some interesting but songs are some of Mitchell Pavilion in the Woodlands masterpiece OK Computer. ment that suddenly builds up to the repetitive music. There are some Radiohead's BEST. June 18. The band's live show fol- grand finale. It begins slow, dreamy synthesizer effects, but they don't lowing OK Computer was simply and almost haunting, emphasizing really help the song as a whole. It's backwards. The vocals sound pain- outstanding. It'll be especially inter- 'amnesiac the loneliness of being outnum- sort of plain, as Radiohead goes. ful and at times have the rambling esting this time around to see how bered. The song demonstrates the "Knives Out" is Bends-like and style of recent Bob Dylan. It could the programmed songs of the two Radiohead way Radiohead can begin depress- full of spacey guitar sounds, remi- have potentially been a great song, most recent albums will be played Capitol Records ingly, yet end on a high note. It's one niscent of the Pixies. It's a little dis- but it just doesn't sound like all the for a live audience. Rating: *** 1/2 (out of five) of the most enjoyable tracks, but appointing because part of also one of the shortest — maybe Radiohead's greatness is that it never Rumor had it those people would there's a correlation. really sounded much like anyone mm ;;; t v & • - be pleased with Kid i4's follow-up, else. titled Amnesiac, since it was alleged Radiohead has always had just to sound more like the rock style on the right blend of sounds to avoid the band's second album, The Bends. being "too mainstream" or "too out- , ; , i , , But it was just not meant to be. there." "Knives" is a case where the M f The fact that Amnesiac's songs band ventures a little too far into were recorded at the same time as mainstream territory, and it's just Kid j4's should have been a sign that not as interesting as songs on past a title like Kid B would have been albums. applicable. Several of the songs feel In other cases the tracks sound a little underdeveloped and would less like songs than instrumental be more fitting on an EP. pieces waiting for a vocal track or a In fact, Radiohead has a long his- solo instrument. Like much of the tory of this kind of release: Soon album, the vocals are computer-al- after each of the first three albums tered on "Pulk/Pull Revolving came out (Pablo Honey, Bends. Com- Doors," and they sound a little grat- puter)i. the band distributed tons of For those desperately looking for ing. The song has a nice beat, but B-sides (either on singles or EPs). a return to The Bends. "I Might Be there's not much variation. Some of those songs were quite Wrong" should suffice. It has a (dare good, while others ... well, it was I say it?) pleasant twangy-guitar beat, obvious why they weren't on a regu- and the barely intelligible vocals are The final minute lar album. fitting. "Wrong" exemplifies the is filled with the Amnesiac's tracks are mellower great union of vocals and instru- and don't vary much — many of ments, those perfect little moments band's signature them just don't stand out. A lot of when the notes change just right, this music is something you could that the band is so familiar with. SADNESS and play in the background, whereas with Then there's the album's final paranoia — it will its previous work the band forced track, "Life in a Glasshouse," which, you to sit up and listen. Each of the like Kid A's "The National Anthem," without a DOUBT last three albums was so innovative shows some jazz influence with a and varied that you had no choice small horn section. Again, it begins get stuck in your but to be intrigued. small with a piano lead-in, and the head. That's not to say that Amnesiac is band interjects more as the song a waste of time and money. While a goes on. Strengthening the connection lot of it is unremarkable, the few The lyrics of "Glasshouse" are an between Kid A and Amnesiac is "The great songs are some of Radiohead's attack on the upper class, especially Morning Bell Amnesiac," a remix of best ever, and they save the album politicians: "Think of all the starving "Morning Bell" from the earlier CD. from sounding too experimental. millions/Don't talk politics and don't The bells sound like a Christmas The first of these is "Pyramid throw stones/Your royal high- carol, but it's not much of an im-

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In light ofthisfact, Lifestyles has pulled togetherthis small but useful guide to summer in hopes that in the few days off you'll have this summer (July 4th isn't that far off), you'll do How very Unamerican something fun. If you, like me, can't afford to run with the jet-set, try to soak in the simple pleasures of summer. I've found that laying out How to keep from making an ass of yourself abroad for an hour or two in the sun, though bad for the skin, does a American tourists have a repu- Don't assume that everyone won't have the hassle of having to lot to calm the nerves. Spend some quality time with your tation for being jerks when speaks English. Sure, depending on change money the minute your folks, try a new restaurant or take up a new sport — summer where you're traveling, it may al- plane or train arrives. they're abroad. We didn't think it is a time to enjoy the things we're too busy for during the most be the rule. Our parents some- Dress appropriately, espe- school year. was true until we went outside how traveled across Western Eu- cially if you're visiting a religious the country ourselves and met rope with a hopeful look and one building, which may have a dress the Tourist From Hell, who acted word: "Eengleesh?" code. Wearing shorts will broad- Whether you're dashing off to some exotic locale, loading up like she didn't want to be over- cast to the world that you're a the car for a good old American read trip or just trying to catch tourist. seas. a few rays at your neighbor's pool, we hope your summer is f m Experiment with food. memorable. If you see other Stumble around till you find an She demanded to know why interesting restaurant, or use a one German hotel clerk didn't Americans being less guidebook to find a good place. speak English, and when five Don't be afraid to try new things, Deutschmarks disappeared from than proper unlike the Tourist From Hell, who her room, she yelled at the man- ambassadors, keep put her meal into her water glass agement. (The housekeeping — pork chop, potatoes, salad and staff Issumed it was a tip because your sense of humor all — because she didn't like the she left it on the dresser. Il was food at the restaurant. (Come to equivalent to about $2.50.) and pretend that you're think of it, she didn't like the food If you're going abroad this at any restaurant.) summer, take heed of these warn- Canadian. Guidebooks will also help you ings—and if you've been abroad, find out how much to tip, if at all. maybe you'll recognize some of In some countries, you may be the stupid things tourists do. charged a (line-in fee for eating in In the airport, you're going We wouldn't recommend it, the restaurant. And when you're to encounter immigration and though. Learn a few key phrases finished with your meal, ask for c.usto;ns,These two agencies are, and how to pronounce them, at least the check (or you could be sitting * traditionally, the scourge of the approximately. Even if you mangle for a long while). , American traveler. the pronunciation, you're showing Let your water sparkle! When you approach immigra- that you care enough to try — unlike Most countries do not serve tap tion, have your passport ready the two girls we overheard looking water in restaurants, so you'll and make sure that your immi- for the train in Paris: "Ooh-way est la have to ask for (and pay for) spar- gration forms are filled out com- Tee Gee Vee?" kling or bottled water. Many of pletely and accurately. If there's Hotel rooms are different in the Americans I traveled with a line, wait behind the designated other countries. You might have a complained about the taste of area. Nothing makes an immi- communal bathroom or no tele- sparkling mineral water. Deal Car insurance from GEICfl. gration officer more peturbed phone in your room. The Tourist with it. It's not like you can drink than a traveler that can't stand From Hell complained because she the tap water in Houston anyway. Because it's neiier too early to begin behind the yellow line. didn't have a TV. Toilet protocol is different A friend of ours swears that Be careful with your passport abroad too. You may have to pay making sound financial decisions. passing through customs is an and your money. Keep them on you a nominal fee to use a public bath- art. She claims that an innocent at all times. A pocket or a bag may be room, even in a restaurant, and Whether you already details of an incident grin will get you through every safe enough in most areas, but bags commode quality varies. I've seen nave your own car And GE1CO offers a time — apparently, my innocent can be swiped and pockets can be it all. from an ancient squat toilet grin isn't innocent enough. Basi- slit. in a Bulgarian monastery to an insurance policy or you're variety of convoiient payment cally, you should try to do every- A money belt may be less com- Israeli toilet that washed itself. ready to stan one, our plans to meet your needs. thing in your power to make the fortable, but it's more secure. 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Finals are over and school's out for person. new and rockin' Experience Music Project. This museum summer. At long last you're fin- For a thriftier option, visit the 270-acre Rio Grande Nature Center, is dedicated to music of all ished, but what to do with your new-. where you can liike or learn about forms, and it features an im- found freedom during the weeks the unique Rio Grande ecosystem. pressive sound stage used to between your last final and the be- After getting some fresh air, head host concerts. ginning of your summer internship over to downtown for some shop- The EMP offers informa- tion on all genres and periods or job? If you're one of the lucky ping. of music, and it has several students who actually has a little interactive rooms where you time on your hands, consider tak- can play with instruments. Some ing a road trip. And don't forget your of the best DJs in Seattle host forums to educate the public on Even if you're only traveling camera: This is a trip the art of scratching and the ele- cross-country to get home or to your ments of hip-hop. Other areas summer employment, there are a you 11 want to offer fascinating rock artifacts couple places you might consider remember. from bands such as Nirvana, the stopping for Road Trip 2001. My Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam. advice: Go west this year. Seattle's scene and record labels So you're headed to the West receive special emphasis. Visitors Coast. There are several must-see can trace the origins of hip-hop, destinations in this half of the United Check out Wavy Brain, a store punk, funk and grunge or visit an States. Whether you're going north that rents and sells cult/under- entire room dedicated to Jimi or south, you can always include ground videos. Maybe you can find Hendrix. New Mexico as a possible road trip a rad rental for the night. Also visit In addition to visiting the destination. If so stop off in one of Mind Over Matter records, an awe- Experience Music Project, the coolest towns on this side of the some indie record shop where you make sure you get to Pike's Mississippi: Albuquerque! can buy, sell or trade your records Place Market. You can pick up Albuquerque is growing fast on and CDs. Mind Over Matter also a meal here. Try the fresh fish, the underground scene. It offers offers free concerts in their parking or buy mini-donuts from one of unique cultural experiences, a great lot, so stay for some late-night enter- the vendors. You can also pick music scene (it's sometimes called tainment. Otherwise, check out The up artsy knick-knacks, like the next Seattle) and a plethora of Launch Pad or The Dingo Bar, two rings and hemp bags. outdoor activities. local clubs that offer some great lo- For a more corporate experi- cal and national music. ence, visit the first Starbucks Albuquerque is not the only town and REI. At REI, take a climb on in New Mexico that deserves a visit. the gargantuan climbing wall in Wherever you go, make Santa Fe also offers a vast array of the middle of the store. It's free! cultural activities. If your road trip Touristy types might enjoy viewing sure you take road trip entails two stops in New Mexico, the city from above in the Space guarantee that you'll catch a wave in Head to the West Coast this make sure to check out a local con- Needle. Engineers can always head your first lesson. Try a longer board summer vacation and see what it essentials like sleeping cert in Santa Fe after visiting Albu- over to Microsoft for a tour and some at first for added stability. has to offer. And, don't limit your- bags and sunscreen. querque. technical fun. Be prepared to stay Don't stop at surfing, but try an- self to Seattle and San Jose, ei- If you're continuing north from for a while in Seattle — the city is other extreme water sport, like ther. Albuquerque, hit Seattle, the home always buzzing. skimboarding. This is more danger- Check out Northern Califor- of grunge music. Seattle is one of the If you are planning on going a ous than it looks, though, so take nia, Portland or the High Desert If you're planning on spending a greatest cities this nation has to of- little farther south, stop in San Jose. caution not to hit the dry sand. area, too. If you've got a lot of gas lot of time outdoors, be sure to check fer, and is a must for any Northwest- There's a reason California is the Skimboarding is cheap and gaining in your car. head up to Vancouver, out the hot air ballooning — Albu- destined road trip. It'll take about most densely populated state — popularity. You can purchase a board . British Columbia. It's far but wejl querque is known for its ballooning. three days of driving from Houston, check out those beaches. for around $50. EVe^ "if Voii can't' 'Worth' eVery jiiilr. Balloons can easily be rented for a but it'll be worth it when you iincl Why not learn how to surf while make it to California, try some of ' Wherever you go. mMcr Wre half-day or whole-day experience. yourself immersed in Seattle's in- in California? It's easier than it looks. these extreme ocean sports right you take road tri]^ essentials'like Unfortunately, this activity will put a tense underground and cultural With a lesson and a couple days of here in Galveston Bay. Sure it's a sleeping bags and sunscreen. And hole in your pocketbook: the cheap- scene. practice you'll be catching all sorts little brown, but what doesn't kill don't forget your camera: This is est balloon rides are about $150 per One must-see in Seattle is the of waves. Some instructors even you only makes you stronger. a trip you'll want to remember. IVIslcificj smoothies Is 6dsy He's wstchincj you rnariel tarn The following is taken from a public service announcement from So now you're addicted to Jamba puree the frozen berries. (Large fro- honey. However, you should note that sweetening your smoothies with the U.S. Department of State, reprinted verbatim for your traveling Juice smoothies but your summer zen strawberries are hardest to crush, so you might want to slice sherbert or honey will add calories safety. Remember Big Brother is watching, ana Brokeaown job isn't paying enough to feed your them first or zap them in the micro- and fat. Palace this ain't. habit. Why not whip up your own wave for 10 seconds.) If you don't care about how smoothies at home? It's easier than If the blender isn't too happy with healthy your "smoothie" is, use va- Going Abroad? pawning your textbooks to buy a $4 all the rock-hard ingredients, add a nilla ice cream. It'll really be a shake, juice drink, and your friends will little juice to lubricate things and but you can pretend it's good for Thinking about making some quick money? keep blending. you. If you're trying to drink appreciate your newfound skills. 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Page 25 THE RICE THRESHER Friday, May 25, 2001 -THRESHER SPORTS/commentary — Next year's WAC may Owls fall to Auburn in first round by Eric Raub and Chris Larson be the best we've seen THRESHER STAFF The men's tennis team's first trip to The latest edition of the Western Athletic Confer- the NCAA tournament in seven years was a short one. ence, its third incarnation since Rice joined the The Owls, ranked 35th in the nation tumultuous league, is officially no more. entering the tourney, fell to No. 21 Au- The passing hardly deserves a moment of silence. burn University 4-1 in the first round Pardon me for not shedding a May 13. tear for what seems like the 37th After finishing the regular season with different version of the WAC, but a 21-8 record, a mark that included seven at this point I've grown quite used wins over ranked opponents, Rice was to all the comings and goings. awarded an at-large bid to the tourna- Two years ago, the 16-team ment and given the third seed in the super-WAC lost eight teams to Durham regional, one of 16 four-team regional tournaments. the upstart Mountain West The winner of each regional advanced Conference, which hasn't exactly to Athens, Ga., for a 16-team tournament joined the ranks of the elite. A lose Luis to determine the national champion. year ago, the league welcomed Cubria the University of Nevada, a solid if unspectacular addition. And now, with the end of the 2000-'01 academic 'There was no year, it's once again time for change. Texas Christian complacency, but a little University has bolted for Conference USA a defection no Rice fan is losing any sleep over. Meanwhile Boise bit of hesitation. Maybe State University and Louisiana Tech University have joined the WAC fray. some tension that crept According to those in charge, the latest moves in.' should mark the end of the WAC's volatile history. I — Shaheen Ladhani hope they're right, if only for the sake of stability. Of course, if you believe all the rumors about a coming Assistant coach wave of nationwide conference realignment, this is only the beginning. But to paraphrase a certain Rice president, we only worry about things we can control. Host Duke University was named the region's top seed, and the Owls faced the And that means Rice's immediate future in the WAC. ERIC RAUB/THRESHER region's second seed, No. 21 Auburn First, a quick recap of the past year. Rice wasn't Junior Fabien Giraud hits a backhand in 35th-ranked Rice's 4-1 loss to No. 21 Auburn University, in the first round. quite as successful in 2000-'01 as it was the year University May 12. The defeat, which came in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Things looked promising for the 35th- ended the season for the Owis, who finished 21-9. before, when we won more conference championships ranked Owls as doubles play began. than any other WAC school. But it was still a good Freshmen Richard and William Barker their leads, however, and a 9-7 loss by But Rajevac took a 6-2, 6-4 win over year because Rice ended the year with three confer- led Auburn's George Matijasevic and Giraud and Rajevac clinched the doubles Auburn's Andre Boz at the No. 6 spot, ence championships. The total was second in the Tiago Ruffoni, the nation's ninth-ranked point for Auburn. closing Auburn's lead to 2-1. WAC, behind only TCU's impressive haul of eight team, 5-4, while junior Fabien Giraud In singles play, sophomore Cody Lightning and hard rain caused a 55- league titles. That's right, the school that always has and freshman Vuk Rajevac jumped out to Jackson's match was the first to end as minute delay, and the match was moved a 6-3 lead at No. 2 doubles. and always will suck at sports finished in the top two he dropped a 6-4, 6-2 decision at the No. indoors. After dropping the first set in See TENNIS, Page 29 in WAC championships for the second consecutive Both Rice teams soon surrendered 4 spot. year. Maybe we're not as bad as everyone says. But hold on, because next year stands to be even better. First, by getting rid of TCU and adding Boise State and Louisiana Tech, a number of sports will be Long-time track coach Davidson retires up for grabs. It's a good deal — we get rid of the Horny Toads and their eight titles and replace them Cross country coach Warren to take over men's track and field on June 30 with two schools that aren't quite sports powerhouses. Sure, they have their strengths. With apologies to by Chris I.arson Cristy McKinney and her Lady Owls, the Lady THRESHER KIIITORIAI STAFF Techsters will likely dominate WAC women's mhi basketball for the foreseeable future. But don't expect There will be a changing of the guard i Louisiana Tech to steal away championships in any in men's track and field this summer, when Jon Warren takes over head coach- ,v other sports. As for the Boise State Broncos, they may ing duties after Ray Davidson retires challenge for titles in football and women's tennis, but June 30. their real strengths are wrestling and gymnastics, two Warren, who ran for Rice from 1983 sports that the WAC does not currently sponsor. to 1987, has been an assistant coach In other words, the pickings will be ripe for Rice to under Davidson for the past six years. win at least a handful of WrAC championships next Each fall Warren lias directed the men's * J * "»t-> year. You can go ahead and pencil us in for four: cross country team, and in the spring he baseball, women's cross country' and women's indoor works with the distance contingent of and outdoor track and field. That's already more than the track team. any WAC school besides Rice or TCU has won in the Warren's coaching career at Rice has already seen several triumphs. The Owls last couple of years. won the 1999 Western Athletic Confer- But that's not it. All three men's track teams should ence cross country title and advanced to COURTESY SPORTS INiORNV COURTESY SPORTS INFORMATION be among the top three in the league, meaning that the NCAA Championships. His skillful Ray Davidson Jon Warren with some luck, first place will be within reach. The development of at liletes has been readily same goes for men's tennis and women's swimming. apparent — the most vivid example be- "It's something we discussed for a I haven't moved across the hallway The women's basketball team won't win the regular ing senior John Jura, who came to Rice while as possibly happening if he re- yet." season title, but the Lady Owls will be talented enough as a walk-on. tires," Warren said. "It's a weird feeling One of Warren's distinctive qualities that another magical run through the conference This year. Jura's senior season, Jura of excitement and a lot of feeling of un- is a meticulously crafted workout pro- tourney is conceivable. And with a favorable schedule was the top Rice finisher in each cross knowing. It's going to be a great experi- gram for each of his athletes. ence, a great change and a new chal- "Jon's going to definitely bring a lot of and an overwhelming number of seniors, this might be country meet and had the team's best 5,000-meter time in outdoor track. That lenge, because I'll have to do a lot of positive things," sophomore decathlete the year the football team breaks through. kind of success made promoting War- things I've never had to do before. I hope Ryan Harlan said. "The way he works his And then there's women's soccer. It's not every ren, rather than hiring from outside, a I can continue what we've done here for schedules out with the long distance day that a school adds a new team to its program, and natural decision for I )irector of Athletics a long time." guys really excites me." the future of Rice women's soccer looks very bright. Bobby May. Warren will continue focusing on Warren will inherit a program that Sure, it'll take a couple of years before head coach "Jon has helped make the track pro- the distance runners, although he will has experienced a great deal of success Chris Huston can take the team to respectability. But gram what it is today," May said. "We have more contact than before with the under Davidson's guidance. once it happens, watch out. are extremely pleased that he will now sprinters, jumpers and throwers. H< Davidson, also a Rice graduate, has So what's a long-suffering Rice sports i n to do with lead the men's track team, and we ex- said the biggest immediate difference coached Rice's men's track athletes for 14 years, spending his first eight sea- so much to look forward to? Simple: sit back and enjoy. pect the program to flourish under his will come in terms of administrative guidance." responsibilities. sons as an assistant coach specializing in Our sixth year in the WAC is going to be lot of fun. Warren said he knew the possibility "If you're not the head coach, you sprinters, hurdlers and throwers before of moving into the head coach position don't control scholarships and you don't becoming head coach. Jose Luis Cubria is a Sid Richardson College senior existed, but he didn't expect I )avidson to control the budget," he said "That's As an assistant in 1993, Davidson retire this season. the biggest change I know of so far. but See TRACK, Page 29 THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 Setbacks send Owls to fifth-place finish at WAC meet moved around him too early. Elimi- by Chris Larson nated from contention, Davis fin- THKESHER EDITORIAL STAFF ished a distant eighth. R ' When you're competing against "There was nothing flagrant or some of the top track and field teams malicious about it," Warren said. in the nation, there's very little room "But at worst he would have gotten for error. second, and he probably would have The men's track team had plenty won, so that hurt us a lot." of outstanding performances during Several other Owls, however, the Western Athletic Conference stepped up with career performances Championships May 16-19in Fresno, that helped Rice amass its 82 points. Calif., but a couple of unforeseen Kicking off the competition was problems held Rice back. The Owls HH ».,< j sophomore Ryan Harlan, who finished fifth in the six-team confer- FBfSHO start A"*. f|:»S ' •ijj' earned 10 points by winning the de- IU.JUJL * FnlSSS STftll I | » cathlon. His score of 7,319 points set ence with 82 points. lit m M . -as m m- M 11, Second-ranked Texas Christian mmmmy m m mm a new school record and places him f Inn pm University won the meet with 162 r wm mmm mm WMm m 18th on the NCAA qualifying list. points. Harlan overwhelmed his compe- "We didn't do everything we tition, winning by more than 500 points, and the chance to qualify for thought we could do as a team," I m m I assistant coach Jon Warren, who will nationals helped spur him to a per- assume head coaching duties June sonal-best by about 20 seconds in s 30, said. "If things hadn't happened, the 1,500-meter run, the final event E

The Owls' difficulties began in COURTESY WAC PHOTO Harlan said. "I could have gone the first event, the 400-meter relay Senior Rashad Stafford, front, finished second in the 110-meter hurdles at the Western Athletic Conference higher in the high jump, and 1 final. Sophomore Jeff Jorgensen, Championships May 16-19. Rice finished fifth in the six-team conference with 82 points. scratched a javelin throw at 190 feet who led Rice's sprint squad through- by three inches. If I can put a few out the outdoor season, pulled a ham- compete in the 1,600-meter medley, think we could have run the 400- He easily qualified for the event's things together, I can go well over string during his leg of the relay. an event in which Rice finished third meter relay in under 40 seconds and final, and everything appeared set 7,600 points." Freshman Clifford Sparks had to with a time of 3:10.83. Fresno State made the national qualifying list." for a rematch between Davis, Ro- Rice's jumpers, who have been come to a complete stop to get the won the race in 3:10.10, less than a Next to suffer a stroke of hard man Oravec of Southern Methodist one of the team's biggest strengths baton from Jorgensen. and Rice second ahead of the Owls, leaving luck was freshman 800-meter sensa- University, whojust nosed out Davis all season, continued the trend al slipped from third to fifth. Rice re- plenty of room for speculation as to tion Adam Davis. Fresh off an NCAA at the WAC indoor meet, and TCU's the WAC meet. Sophomore Tommy mained at fifth at the finish line, what could have happened had provisional qualifying mark of Eliud Njubi. who has the country's Oleksy won the high jump and was crossing in 40.80 seconds, just .14 Jorgensen been fit to run. 1:47.69 in California the previous fifth-fastest 800-meter time. second in the longjump. Junior Reed seconds behind third-place Fresno "With Jeff I think we would have weekend that ranked him second in But it wasn't meant to be. Davis Ballis and Harlan were third and State University. won the 4x4," Warren said. "And if the conference, Davis seemed cer- was knocked down during the race fourth, respectively, in the high jump, Then, Jorgensen was unable to he hadn't pulled his hamstring, I tain to score points for the Owls. when two Fresno State athletes Moseley paces Owls to WAC title WAC, from Page 1 200-meter, came back to the high Assured of spots are Beckford in Brand were second and fourth in the jump and almost won." the 400 and 400-meter hurdles, 800-meter run, and Moseley added a Beckford had to do some quick Wright in the 800 and Falaiye in the second-place finish in the 100-meter recovering as well. The finals of the longjump. Teteris' mark of 2:06.02 hurdles. 400-meter dash and the 400-meter in the 800 moved her up to 16th By the end of the day, the Owls hurdles were just 4u minutes apart nationally and should ensure she were far enough ahead that they from each other. makes the cut — last year the NCAA didn't even need to field a team in First, she ran away from the field invited 19 athletes in the event. the 1,600-meter relay, an event in in the 400-meter dash, winning in a which the Owls have the fastest time personal-best 52.06 seconds, a mark in the conference. that places her fourth in the country "We knew we'd have the depth to and set a new WAC Championships '/ was so tired. ...I'll get ahead," Lopez said. "It was a lot of record. fun, and it was a good team effort. Then she managed to come back do just about every The girls competed with a lot of heart." and win the 400-meter hurdles in 58.59 Moseley led the way for the Owls seconds, more than two seconds off event so we can win.' with a performance that can't be her season-best but nearly a second — Keitha Moseley described as anything short of amaz- ahead of her nearest competitor. Junior track and field athlete ing. Over the four-day meet, Moseley Beckford, who did not compete in competed in a total of 11 events. She outdoor track last season and is clas- won the heptathlon Wednesday and sified as a freshman for this sport, Thursday and competed in four was named the meet's top freshman. Lopez said he expects the Owls' events Friday and Saturday. "In the 400 she didn't have any 12th-ranked 1,600-meter relay team In all, she amassed 29points indi- competition," Ix>pez said. "For the to qualify as well, but he said the vidually and helped the 400-meter final of the 400-meter hurdles she 13th-ranked 400-meter relay squad relay team place second. Her efforts was able to lift her legs and recover." could go either way. The NCAA is earned her the meet's high-point Also starring for the Owls were committed to having 388 athletes athlete award. sophomore Alice Falaiye and junior compete, and a selection committee "I was so tired," Moseley said. "It Jessica Sommerfeld, who defended determines how to spread out the was most hectic on the last day run- their conference titles in the long invitations. ning from the high jump to all my jump and the shot put, respectively. Beckford could possibly compete different events and going back to Falaiye won the longjump Friday in three events at nationals — the the high jump. But I'm used to trying with a leap of 21 feet, 2 1/2 inches, 400-meter run. the 400-meter hurdles to juggle stuff for the team. I'll do just and Sommerfeld's shot put of 48 feet, and the 1,600-meter relay. Lopez said

COURTESY WAC PHOTO about every event so we can win or at 3 1/2 inches was more than three she'll be ready. Junior Keitha Moseley competed in a total of 11 events to lead Rice to a least give it our best shot. I'm very feet further than the runner-up. "The schedule for her doubling is first-place finish at the Western Athletic Conference Championships May 16- happy it turned out the way it did." The Owls' margin of victory better than at conference because it's 19. She amassed 29 points to earn the meet's high-point athlete award. would likely have been even greater split around four days," he said, "We've if sophomore Tanya Wright had been already studied the situat ion, and she's healthy. Wright entered the meet a veiy strong athlete. She's ready." 'There's a little myth that with the WAC's second-best time in The Owls are currently ranked the 800-meter run and qualified for 12th in the nation and have a shot at Some more classifieds fun Rice is too small. too the finals in the 800 and the 1,500, posting their most successful finish academic.... But it's true but she fell ill with food poisoning, ever al the NCAA meet. Continued from Page 32. English grammar and business was unable to finish the 800 and Rice's best finish was a tie for communicaionsat the college level. One came in a distant last in the 1,500. 10th at the 1994 meet. L.pez said on one or group sessions are available that we could repeat MISCELLANEOUS "Tanya was very ill," Lopez said. Rice's success at the WAC meet beginning at $30 an hour. Please call over and over again ' "For two days she couldn't eat and strengthens a tradition of winning ADOPTION: Happily married couple Marilyn Felix at (713) 621-1108. — Victor I»pez got weak. She made the final in both that he believes will carry into the wishes to adopt newborn. Full-time but she was too weak." national championships. mother and successful father to love, NOTES AND NOTICES Women's track and field coach Lopez was named the WAC " The thing that happens now is care and nurture. Expenses paid. Call Coach of the Year for the second you get spoiled and think you have Terry & Bob (800) 652-6183. JONES 2001/FRIED GREEN straight year. Umpalumpas Rock the House! Con- to win everything," lie said. "It gives NEW POSTUREPEDIC MATTRESS gratulations to Krissy Boulanger, Molly Lopez said he was in awe watch- "It's an honor I share with my you the security that all the hard set, never used, in plastic, selling $22f>, Heinz. Vivek Mittal, Brian O'Malley, ing Moseley. other coaches and with the team," he work pays off. There's a little myth futon with mattress for $150, (713) Nate Richards and Sarah Williams for "It was unbelievable," he said. said. "I can't do it by myself. It's a that Rice is too small, too academic, 728-3294, can deliver. making it through four years of Rice! "She warmed up for the 4x 1, went to good recognition because the people that we might win once. But it's true Best wishes to each of you in your put a mark in the high jump, ran the who vote are you r peers, the coaches." that we could repeat over and over LOST: Black Minolta camera in teal bag, respective futures and don't forget the final for the 4x1, cleared a height in Up next for the Rice are the NCAA again. I hope we're setting a trend possibly in the Pub. Says "Ajeet" on the great times you had at Rice and most the high jump, reported without Championships May 30-June 2 in for all the other sports here. camera in silver ink. Please contact Jen importantly, Jones. From your O-Week warming up to the 100-meter Eugene, Ore. "The main thing is that the team Cooper, (713) 348-5828, if found. advisors: Neema, Jeff, and Gezelle. P.S. hurdles, lined up and finished, went As of press time, it was still un- was so strong mentally. They didn't Here's hoping that Rajul will soon fol- to report to the high jump at what- known which Owls would make the have any doubt in themselves, and ENGLISH TUTOR— 25 years teaching low your footsteps and not Packy's...;) ever height they were on, ran the field for nationals. they were ready to do anything." • ' W

THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 25. 2001 27 wis sweep TCU, claim sixth straight conference crown

by Jos£ Luis Cubria a run that began in 1997. w THRESHER STAFF But the Owls' string of confer- Nil** ence championships dates back to When junior reliever Nick Mar- the final year of the Southwest Con- t recorded the final out of Friday's ference, when they made an unlikely 7-3 win over Texas Christian Uni- run to the 1996 SWC tournament ^rsity, it became official: the Rice title, earning the distinction as "SWC )wls are once again Western Ath- Champions Forever." ;tic Conference champions. In other words, winning the con- But you wouldn't have known it ference has become old hat. by the way the Owls celebrated their At the same time, though, acham- kixth consecutive conference crown. pionship is still a championship, each In fact, they didn't really celebrate one special in its own way. ^^_at all, at least not in the traditional "It is a big deal," senior catcher ^jumping around, dog-piling sense of Phillip Ghutzman said. "We hit a run the word. of bad play that was contributed to Instead, they took it in stride, treat- by a lot of things, so it was very ing it as just another rung on the important. Nobody here wanted to [ladder they hope will take them all the be a part of the first Rice team that t ! * [way to the national championship. didn't win a WAC Championship." Rice didn't stop after Friday's title- clinching win. The Owls went on to defeat TCU the next two days by 13-3 'It's always expected, and 5-2 scores, closing the regular season on a four-game winning streak. Jevery year. Ifs just the It was exactly the way the Owls had hoped to enter the postseason, first step to Omaha.' especially since they were coming off — Hunter Brown a stretch in which they went 10-11. Junior third baseman "We hadn't been playing very well lately, so we wanted to get on a roll and leave no doubts about our abil- CHRISTINE LIANG/THRESHER Junior third baseman Hunter Brown (15), named to the all-Western Athletic Conference first team this week, will help ity," junior pitcher Philip Tribe said. lead the top-seeded Owls against the University of lexas at Arlington, seeded fourth, in today's opener. "Going into the year, we expected "We really put it on them and played to win the WAC," junior third really well. It's definitely the best with junior shortstop Eric Arnold pac- hit the ball like that. I really don't see Arnold, who went 5-for-47 from baseman Hunter Brown said. "It's I've seen us play all year. Everything ing a 17-hit attack with four of his own. how anybody can beat us if we keep mid-April to mid-May to drop his just the first step of what we want to seems like it's coming together now." Sunday's win wasn't quite as lop- hitting like that." average from .373 to .310, said he do this season. We felt like we had Hie story of the weekend was the sided, but Brown, Arnold and junior The best news of the weekend feels like he's coming around. the team to do it. Recently we haven't Rice offense. On Friday, the Owls right fielder Mike Lorsbach each may be that Arnold seems to have "I'm feeling really good," Arnold been playing as well as we wanted collected a season-high 20 hits — 16 had two hits as the Owls lineup con- finally emerged trom the worst said. "I think for a while I was trying to, so it was great to come out and of them singles — while scoring in tinued its renaissance. slump of his career. to do too much. I felt like it was my : show them who's the real champion. every inning except the first and fifth. By the time the weekend was Arnold, a preseason first-team all- responsibility to carry the offense, "But for a program like this, it's Junior center fielder A.J. Porfirio over. Rice had totaled 35 runs on 47 American, went 7-for-15 in the three which isn't true because we've got always expected, every year. It's just led the charge with four hits, three hits—both season highs for a three- games against TCU. He ripped two some great hitters up and down the the first step to Omaha." runs and three RBIs, and five other game series. doubles, drove in seven runs and lineup. Now I've taken it down a Rice has now won the WAC title Owls had at least two hits apiece. "Everyone was on." Porfirio said. smashed his first home run in nearly notch from the idea that it's my re- all five years it has been in the league, Saturday was more of the same, "I consider us unstoppable when we a month. sponsibility. I'm relaxing." BASEBALL NOTEBOOK UT-Arlington poses threat Jr., was in the midst of a stellar and our [power rating] were go- Baugh, five others freshman season when he was hit ing to be good enough to get it named all-conference by a pitch in a game at Texas Chris- done." to Owls in regional opener tian University. Six weeks ago, Rice was a lock Senior Kenny Baugh and fresh- At the time, he was hitting .270 for a national seed. But the Owls man Austin Davis led a group of with six home runs and led the likely lost it with their mediocre BASEBALL, from Page 1 six Rice players named all-West- team in walks (21), runs scored 10-11 record from April 4 to Mav "It's awesome," junior shortstop REGIONAL SCHEDULE ern Athletic Conference by the (31) and stolen bases (eight in 10 12. Eric Arnold said. "The playoffs are league's head coaches, the WAC attempts). "We definitely had some games coming to us. We built this stadium Friday, May 25 announced Monday. that should have been wins, but with that in mind, and now it's hap- Game 1: No. 1 Rice vs. No. 4 Baugh (12-2, 1.82 earned run we didn't get it done," Ghutzman pening. It's just a dream come true." UT-Arlington, 3 p.m. average) was named the league's Graham prefers early said. "And the eight teams that are The winner of the double-elimina- Game 2: No. 2 Baylor vs. No. 3 Pitcher of the Year for the second start time for opener up there seem like they were de- tion regional will advance to next Houston, 7 p.m. consecutive season, while Davis serving, so you can't really argue." weekend's Super Regionals and play (.344, six home runs, 64 runs The start time for today's 3p.m. against the winner of the regional Saturday, May 26 scored) was named the WAC game against the University of hosted by the University of Nebraska. Game 3: Game 1 loser vs. Freshman of the Year. Texas at Arlington has been a Baugh, Barzilla claim The Cornhuskers, the No. 8 na- Game 2 loser, 11 a.m. Along with Baugh and Davis, source of discontent among some Rice pitching records tional seed, play host to second- Game 4: Game 1 winner vs. three other Owls were named to Owls fans, who would have pre- seeded Rutgers University, No. 3 Game 2 winner, 3 p.m. the all-WAC first team: junior third ferred a 7 p.m. start, allowing in- Seniors Kenny Baugh and Brigham Young University and No. Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. baseman Hunter Brown (.352, six creased attendance. Philip Barzilla used last weekend's 4 University of Northern Iowa. Game 4 loser, 7 p.m. home runs, 41 RBIs), junior cen- By default, the NCAA assigns sweep of Texas Christian Univer- The eight Super Regionals are a ter fielder A.J. Porfirio (.332, nine the afternoon slot to the game fea- sity to etch their names into the best-of-three format, with each win- Sunday, May 27 home runs, 50 RBIs), and senior turing the top seed, though the Rice history books. ner advancing to the College World Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. pitcher Jon Skaggs (9-3, 2.51 host team has the option of chang- With Saturday's 13-3 win, Series in Omaha from June 8-16. Game 5 winner, 1 p.m. earned run average). ing the schedule. Baugh notched his 40th career It's a long road to the national Game 7: If necessary, one hour Senior closer Philip Barzilla (3- Head coach Wayne Graham win, second on Rice's all-time list championship. And for the Owls (43- following end of Game 6 2,1.96 ERA, 10 saves) was named said he prefers playing in the after- behind senior teammate Jeff 17, 26-10 Western Athletic Confer- to the second team. noon because it will give his team Nichols (42). ence) it starts with a solid UTA team. Fresno State University's Josh more time to rest for Saturday's Baugh also struck out six bat- The Mavericks (38-23, 15-11 think that would be a wise decision. Labandeira (.366, 14 home runs, action, when the Owls may have ters, giving him a school-record Southland Conference) are regarded "Kenny is going to pitch [today] 67 RBIs) was named the WAC to play two games. 419 career strikeouts, one more as one of the better No. 4 seeds in he said. "I think UT-Arlington is as Player of the Year, and Bulldogs "It's the way the tournament is than former major leaguer Allan the tournament. good as Baylor or Houston. I don't head coach Bob Bennett was set up," Graham said. "We could Ramirez, who played at Rice from They finished the regular season think there's any doubt." named Coach of the Year. have changed it, but we decided to 1976-79. tied for third in the SLC but made an UTA is something of an unknown, Fresno State finished 22-14 in go with it. We feel like well play With the two marks, Baugh impressive 5-1 run through the con- but the rest of Rice's regional couldn't the WAC to place second, four just as well at 3, and you have a joined some elite company, be- ference tournament to claim the be more familiar. The Owls are a games behind Rice (26-10). longer rest before your next game." coming just the 11th pitcher in league's automatic bid. combined 5-2 against Baylor and NCAA history with at least 40 wins UTA also boasts a solid non-con- Houston, including 3-0 against the and 400 strikeouts. ference schedule that includes wins Bears and 3-2 against the Cougars. Cruz nears return National seed snub "It's a good feeling," Baugh said. over Arizona State University, the Both teams struggled down the from broken wrist disappoints Owls "Everybody's been talking about it University of Texas and Baylor. stretch. Baylor (35-22, 17-10 Big for the last couple of weeks. Now I "They've beaten a lot of good 12) spent part of the year in the top Should Rice advance to the Su- The Owls were disappointed can focus on the rest of the seas- n. teams," head coach Wayne Graham 10 in the nation, but the Bears went per Regionals, additional help Monday when the NCAA an- But it is a big accomplishment." said. "They're a strong No. 4, there's just 8-12 down the stretch, includ- could be on the way. nounced the tournament's eight On Sunday, it was Barzilla's no question. In fact, there's prob- ing a short 0-2 stay in the Big 12 Freshman infielder Jose national seeds and Rice was not turn. He pitched the ninth inning ably not a stronger No. 4 anywhere." Tournament. Enrique Cruz, out since March 30 one of them. of Rice's 5-2 win to record his 10th For proof the Owls are taking the Houston (29-28,20-7 Conference with a broken wrist, may be With an impressive sweep of save of the year, breaking the Mavericks seriously, look no fur- USA) went 1-5 in its last six, includ- healthy enough to rejoin the lineup Texas Christian University last school record of nine set by Tim ther than Graham's choice for ing a 3-2 loss at Rice May 9 and an 0- by next weekend's Super weekend, a strong non-conference Byrdak (1994) and tied by Matt today's starting pitcher: senior all- 2 mark in the C-USA Tournament. Regionals, head coach Wayne Gra- schedule and a 17-5 mark against Anderson (1997). Both Byrdak and American Kenny Baugh. "I'm happy with our regional," ham said. tournament teams, the Owls felt Anderson have played in the ma- Baugh ended the regular season senior catcher Phillip Ghutzman "It's looking better," he said. "I they deserved a national seed. jor leagues. 12-2 with a 1.82 earned run average. said. "We're getting teams we know, predict that if we get to the Super "We were a little bit disap- It was also the 14th save of There was speculation Rice would so there won't be any surprises. I Regional, he'll play. If." pointed," senior catcher Phillip Barzilla's career, equaling go with senior Jon Skaggs — who's think that'll make it fun. .And with our pitching, and with pitching be- Cruz, the younger brother of Ghutzman said. "I thought our Anderson's (1995-'97) mark at the no slouch at 9-3 and 2.51 — and save ing so important in regionals, I feel former Owl all-American Jose Cruz record against ranked opponents top of the career list. its ace for Saturday's game against Baylor or Houston. Graham didn't very confident." " f-y ' •?£

28 THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS ER1DAY, MAY 25, 2001 women's tennis season

problems of inexperience and re- should only have to move up one ing in front of people. I don't think by Eric Raub adjustment will not take the same spot. she'll be awed by the college ten- THRESHER STAFF A LOOK BACK: toll. "It's basically going to be the same nis scene. The women's tennis team has a WOMEN'S TENNIS 'The improvement can be quite squad next year," Chao said. "It will "Experience-wise, I'd put her as lot of work to do over the summer— tangible from one year to the next," be a lot better and won't be so trau- more of a junior, and she'll prob- and 19th-ranked Texas Christian Record: 10-11 head coach Paul Blankenship said. matic as last year when we lost our ably compete for one of those top University gave the Owls an early Highlights: The Owls were just "I have a very, very good feeling number one and number two." spots." start by beating them 4-0 in the first one match away from about the work ethic of this team. The other Owls are not likely to round of the Western Athletic Con- upsetting then-no. 40 SMU They are very eager to work. I think sit back and let the new kid do all the ference Championships April 27 in April 6. Freslvnan Karen Chao you'll see a tangible improvement in work. All through the year, the team Fresno, Calif. showed tons of promise in them for next year." 'No matter how has said its constant improvement The second-seeded Horned her debut season, posting the Helping the Owls over the sum- has been one of its greatest assets. Frogs captured the doubles point team's best singles record at mer will be tournaments, tourna- disappointing the record The addition of another top player easily and beat three Owls in straight 19-7. ments and more tournaments. The was, we know we have can only help the Owls further their sets in singles matches to clinch the main objective will be for the younger improvement. Lowlights: The Owls never beat victory. players to gather as much experi- "The thing that had impressed a ranked team and were shut the talent.... Ym not ence from Intercollegiate Tennis As- me the most was that we were im- TCU went on to win the tourna- out by 26th-ranked TCU in the sociation play over the summer as proving, always improving," ment and advanced to the NCAA first round of the Western bitter hut I would still possible. Blankenship said. "It didn't really tournament as the WAC's automatic Athletic Conference tournament. like to he playing.' show up in the win-loss column. qualifier with a 4-2 victory over host The 10-11 record marked the "I know a lot of our people over Even though we lost in the first Fresno State University in the cham- first season since 1987-'88 in the summer will be playing ITA tour- — Jeri Gonzales round, their level of eagerness was pionship match. which Rice finished with a losing naments," freshman Karen Chao Sophomore tennis player really high. I was really impressed The Owls, who entered the tour- record. said. 'That'll improve our college nament as the seventh seed, finished rankings, help keep us in shape, and with how eager and hungry the the season 10-11 and admit this year's Next year: Rice loses its top give us more playing time. girls were to play even at the end of results were not what they had hoped player, senior Erin Waters, but "We're still very inexperienced. I The Owls' ace in the hole next the year." for. The season was the first Rice all of the other Owls will return don't think our mental game is as year will be new recruit Erika The Owls hope their work ethic ended with a losing record since to the court next year. strong as the rest of the team, but Villalobos, who will come to Rice will be as strong a feature of the 1987-'88. just being out there and playing in from Costa Rica. Blankenship said team next year as it was for them "No matter how disappointing tournaments has really improved our she is talented and experienced this year. If it holds throughout the record was, we know we have at the top, forced to step up this mental game a lot." enough to compete for the top spot the summer, they stand to dra- the talent," sophomore Jeri season after Rice lost its top two Another difficulty the Owls in the lineup and eliminate the need matically improve their record Gonzales said. "It was really disap- players last year, often found them- should not have to deal with next for the other players to move up next year. sw pointing not to do postseason play. selves unable to adjust to their new year is major squad rearrangement. again. 'The thing the coaches say has I'm not bitter but I would still like roles. Senior Erin Waters will vacate "She's the No. 1 player in Cen- been impressive about the team this |4 to be playing." With next year's squad likely to the top spot, and if either junior tral America and Costa Rica in her year is the work ethic," Gonzales Inexperience plagued the Owls contain up a majority of underclass- Judith Hagedorn or junior Natalie age group," Blankenship said. said. "Everybody wants to work re- at the bottom of the lineup. Those men, however, the Owls say the Briaud replaces her, those below "She's got a lot of experience play- ally hard and get better." SPORTS NOTEBOOK 5' • «• experience, superior throws and height in the program's history despite having the from Austin's Westlake High School, has Owl Rewards incentive helped us win the game." NCAA minimum 11 swimmers, added three also shown the capability to put up a big program eliminated In the final. Texas A&M University more swimmers to its roster May 10 when block. Shi' was the 2000 team captain for the handed Rice its fu st defeat in nine games as head coach I)oug Boyd announced that each Chapparralsand led the squad in blocks with Owl Rewards, the program that rewarded A&M won 15-9 to claim the region's only bid signed a national letter of intent to compete 113 total, including 2^< solo. Kainz knocked fans for attending Rice sporting events with to nationals. Rice had defeated A&M the for Rice. down 180 kills during her senior campaign, prizes including free food, free souvenirs, previous week in winning the Texas Sectional Headlining the group is Adi Bichman hitting .317 for the year. She also plays on the free tickets to games and meals with Owl tournament in College Station, but A&M, from Kiriat-Ono, Israel, who competed in the nationally recognized Austin Juniors club coaching staff members, has been eliminated, ranked 19th, was able to turn the tables on 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia team. at least for the time being. 30thfranked Rice at the regional event. and finished fifth in ,,the 2000 European "Ri'beeca. eouit's from a seasoned and AIM Technologies, the parent company "A&M played a terrific game," Gavin said. Championships in the 800-meter freestyle. successful club program thai has produced a. of FanCard. which administrated the Owl "Their hucks consistently beat us long, and Joining Bichman will be Jenny Voight lot of I )ivision I players," Morales said. "Sin- Rewards program, went bankrupt in late once we got down 6-2, we were unable to and Corrie Kristick. Voight is a Junior is the first from the Austin Juniors club for January. The company had expected to meet come back. We did not play our best game, National finalist from Los Altos, Calif., who Rice. She has sound skills and is very diligent its budget requirements with proceeds from and they played their best game of the year. swims the individual medley and butterfly. about playing middle. Rebecca also has the advertising on coupons that came out of the That was the difference. I still feel that we Kristick is a Junior National qualifier from height advantage that will help us to continue machine each time a fan swiped his or her have a much better team then A&M, Iput Colorado Springs, Colo., who specializes in to be a good blocking team." card. When the advertising failed to meet the they won when it counted." distance freestyle and individual medley. Joining the middle blockers in the required budget figures. AIM went bankrupt, The women's team, ranked 55th, The addition of the three swimmers brings freshman class will be Lindsey Carter, a 5- and each of the schools with the system in advanced to the finals of the regional event the 2001 recruiting class total to five. Voight, foot-9 outside hitter from Bishop Moore High place was forced to pay for the administrative with a convincing 15-2 win over the University Kristick and Bichman join Lauren Hill of School in Orlando, Fla. Carter was a member services previously provided by AIM. of Kansas but fell short in an upset bid against Bellevue, Wash., and Kiana Taheri of San of the 1999 and 2000 all-central Florida teams Assistant Athletics Director for Marketing 26th-ranked Washington University in St. Jose, Calif., who both committed to Rice and knocked down 230 kills in her senior Mike Pede said Rice was one of over 100 Louis in a 15-11 loss. Washington will during the early signing period in the fall. season, leading the Hornets to a 33-2 record organizations involved in the program, represent the South Region at the national "Without discrediting last year's freshman and a class 3A state title. Carter earned MVP including other university athletic programs tournament, which will be held May 25-27 in class — because it was a great one — this honors in the state tournament. as well as minor and major league Boston, Mass. year's incoming class looks to be our best "Lindsey is a well-rounded athlete and professional teams. one yet," Boyd said. very competitive," Morales said. "She has "We weren't the only ones dropped in the the ability to adapt to our game quickly, and grease," Pede said. "The system was also Club sailing team finishes we hope she will fill in one of the open dropped for the San Antonio Spurs at Volleyball adds height with outside spots for us. She passes well, plays midseason and the Oakland A's, who had 7th in season finale solid defense and can block. We definitely over 30,000 cardholders." new recruiting class hope to see some good things from her." 'Hf Pede said he saw benefits to the program Rice's club sailing team ended its season and hopes something of its kind will emerge by placing 7th of 10 teams at the South- Blocking was one of the volleyball team's in the near future. Eastern Intercollegiate Sailing Association biggest strengths during the 2000 campaign, Men's basketball signs "We enjoyed the program very much, but Dinghy Championships April 28-29. Senior when the Owls finished second in the 9 at the cost level they were quoting us, it was skipper Laura St'llivan and her crew, sopho- Western Athletic Conference with 3.06 blocks Central Player of the Year not fiscally responsible," he said. "We are more Chris Douica, won their first two races per game. trying to come up with another system to to help Rice surge to within one point of Now, things should only get better in the There's a big difference between Hillsboro have in place for students in time for next second place in the team standings after the blocking department. Head coach Julio and Houston, but the statistics Michael Har- football season." first eight of the 40 total races. Morales announced the signing of national ris put up in high school seem to say he's After Rice slipped in the standings as the letters of intent by three high school seniors ready for Division I men's basketball. day wore on, freshmen John Gaebler and Peter May 7, and two of them are taller than any Harris signed a national letter of intent Huckfeldt got some valuable experience by athletes currently on the Rice volleyball April 25 to compete for Rice and head coach Men's, women's ultimate assuming the skipper positions Sunday. roster. Willis Wilson. Harris, a 6-foot-6, 220-pound fall in regional finals "Unfortunately, we were not able to stay Catherine DuPont is a 6-foot-4 middle forward, averaged 26.8 points, 18.7rebounds with the leaders and we slowly slipped back blocker from St. Petersburg Catholic High and 4.5 blocks per game his senior season. Just one game separated both the men's into our middle-of-the-pack finish," Gaebler School in St. Petersburg, Fla. As a senior, He shot 68 percent from the field, led and women's ultimate club teams from a trip said. "We were able to sail competitively and she appeared in 64 games in 26 matches. Hillsboro to the third round of the state to the national tournament. The men's team, get some great experience in a major re- During her junior year, the Barons compiled playoffs, and was named player of the year Cloud 9, and the women's team, Catch Her gatta. Everyone sailed well and got some a record of 23-10, the first time in 25 years the by the Central Texas Coaches Association. on the Fly, both advanced to the finals of the good finishes." school had amassed more than 20 wins, and "Michael Harris isa super athlete," Wilson South Regional tournament April 28-29 in The University of Texas and Texas A&M the team also made its first appearance in the said. "He's a kid that can make a difference in Dallas. University at Galveston took the top two state playoffs, reaching the regional the game, simply because he can make plays The men's team went undefeated in pool spots and advanced to the National Dinghy semifinals. In 1999, DuPont set school for you. He's a young man that can make bad play, includinga 15-12 win over the University Championships. records for kills (326) and blocks (153). Her passes into spectacular dunks. He's a guy of Kansas in which Rice overcame an early 6- .438 hitting percentage as a senior is also a that can block shots. He's a guy that can 1 deficit. Cloud 9 was unchallenged in 15-8 school record. DuPont was the team's most rebound. playoff victories over the University of valuable player in each of her four years, as "I don't think he's close to reaching his Arkansas and the University of Texas. Swim team signs Olympian, well as being selected as a senior all-star for full potential," Wilson added. "He's a little "We came together and played some great Junior National qualifiers 2000. raw skill-wise and his best days as a basketball ultimate, especially in the crossover pool "Catherine is quick for her height, and she player are ahead of him. He's a guy that can game against Kansas," senior Marcus Gavin One of the best things about having a is left handed, which will give her an advantage make a difference right now because of his said. "It was one of the best games all season. small team is having plenty of spots for on the right side," Morales said. "She has athleticism, but as he develops as a player he Texas always gets up for our matches, but as talented newcomers to fill. Rice's swim team, some unique qualities that will help us." will have a chance to be as good of a player as usual, we took care of business and our coming off one of the most successfu 1 seasons Rebecca Kainz, a 6-foot-3 middle blocker any in the Western Athletic Conference." I _.. ...'.ins :'•* • . t. v. -

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( THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2001 29 Despite NCAA loss, year a success Jumpers pace Owls Unbeaten start, Barker twins among highlights for men's tennis team by Eric Raub "If you look at it, we were only a ethic will help the Owls tap into a THKF.SHER STAFK few matches away from the top 20," sizeable amount of unused potential. at conference meet Giraud said. "We are so close to be- "Not every young team has po- The men's tennis team has come ing a powerhouse team, and so little tential," Ladhani said. "Some people MEN, from Page 26 two and up to five athletes to a long way. improvement needs to be made." play better as freshmen than seniors. and sophomore Vaughn Walwyn Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA The Owls started the year With eight of the nine Owls on However, I'm confident that with this was fourth in the long jump. Championships May 30-June 2. unranked and largely unproven, this year's roster returning for next team's work ethic, there will be im- Rice's hurdlers also camt up Davis will run the 800 and coming off an unconvincing 16-13 season—only senior Alexis Pourchet provement. It has been a good year big at the meet. Senior Rashad Oleksy will compete in the long campaign and fielding a team that departs — the Owls believe improve- relative to the past years, but every- Stafford finished second in the jump. relied on three freshmen and just ment is something to be not just hoped body on our team knows we're ca- 110-meter hurdles in 13.83, a ca- At press time, still waiting to one senior. for but also expected. pable of much more." reer-best mark that places him find out if their provisional marks But when Rice reeled off 14 In their NCAA regional loss to As if enough talent won't be re- 21st on the NCAA qualifying list. were good enough to qualify were straight wins — five over ranked Auburn University May 13, four of turning to the team already, three Freshman Ben Wiggins was third Stafford (110-meter hurdles), teams — to open the dual match Rice's six singles spots were filled newcomers — two freshmen and a in the 400-meter hurdles in 52.44 Harlan (decathlon) and Ballis season, the Owls knew they had by underclassmen, including three familiar face — will be looking for — his previous career-best was (high jump). something special. freshmen and a sophomore. one of the six dual match singles 53.90. A year ago, no Owl made the The competition grew tougher That includes the No. 1 singles spots next season. cut for the national meet. as the season progressed, but Rice, spot, which was occupied by fresh- The Owls signed incoming fresh- While competing in one of the for the most part, held strong, finish- man William Barker virtually the en- men Sydney Jim of Houston and toughest conferences in the na- ing ranked 36th with a 21-9 record. tire season. Barker finished the sea- William Yang of Torrance, Calif., and 'We didn't do tion makes winning conference Such a season would have son ranked 78th individually and was junior Prakash Venkataraman re- everything we championships more difficult, it counted as a good year for many of honored as the Western Athletic turns after spending the last year also helps the athletes when they the nation's experienced, upper-ech- Conference and the Region VI Fresh- studying in Paris. thought we could do compete at the national meet, be- elon teams. For a young team rela- man of the Year. During his sophomore season, cause they've already seen some tively unknown on the national scene Barker wasn't the only Owl to Venkataraman saw action at the top as a team. ...We of the best college track has to in the recent past, the results were receive postseason recognition. four singles spots, compiling a 10-7 offer. outstanding. Sophomore Matthias Mathaes, who dual match record. could have scored "I think a lot of people don't "Within a year's time we went from posted a 15-9 dual match mark, was He also teamed with former Owl truly understand how good this unranked to playing in the NCAA named to the all-WAC second team Robert Collins at the No. 1 doubles over 100 points.' conference is," Warren said. "I tournament," junior Fabien Giraud for the second consecutive year. spot, where the duo went 8-8. — Jon Warren believe we're the second-best con- said. "Not many teams can say that." Additionally, William Barker and The Owls have resolved not to let Assistant men's track and ference in the nation — we've got Still, the taste of success has left this season's trip to the NCAA tour- two teams in the top 10 and three his twin brother Richard were named field coach Rice ljungry for more. The Owls say to the all-WAC second team for nament be a one-hit wonder. Instead, in the top 15. they might easily move into the top doubles. The Barkers were 16-4 as a they plan on returning regularly — "I think people underestimate 10 or 20 in the rankings and become duo, including a perfect 9-0 record in and winning so they can stick around us as a track conference because a national contender next year. dual matches while playing at the a little longer. "Everyone still performed at it's the WAC. The [Southeastern Actually, they believe they were No. 1 doubles spot. "I have enjoyed every minute with orbetterthan [the level] I thought Conference] is the best, but out- capable of accomplishing all that this While it's not inevitable that the these guys," William Barker said. "We they would," Warren said. side of that we can compete with year but instead fell just short. Rice young players will improve, assistant have eight guys returning, and as 'Tommy was very impressive, and anybody — just look at how we went 0-8 against top-25 teams, but coach Shaheen Ladhani, who was long as we work hard we'll do even Ben ran a huge personal-br.st." score at nationals. The depth in two of the losses came by tight 4-3 named Region VT's Assistant Coach better. We'd love to win Fabien the The Owls will send at least this conference is incredible." margins. of the Year, believes a strong work NC AAchampionship in his last year." Owls bothered by Auburn's attitude

TENNIS, from Page 25 was keeping hold of leads," Ladhani versity of Georgia edged out the each of their matches, sophomore said. "There was no complacency, Blue Devils 4-3. Matthias Mathaes and freshman Wil- but a little bit of hesitation. Maybe The trip to the NCAA tournament Student? liam Barker battled to second-set some tension that crept in. There clearly wasn't what the ()wls had been tiebreakers at the No. 2 and No. 3 was a little lack of belief when it got hoping for, and they left Durham (not forever) spots, respectively. down to the wire." frustrated with both their play and Both fell 7-3 in the tiebreaker, the behavior of their opponents. however, allowing Auburn to take But they believe the experience the 4-1 team win. of playing a high-pressure team Assistant coach Shaheen Ladhani 'It was like being at match on the national stage will (Saflfy Total Fitness said the problem was not a lack of the zoo. ...We were prove invaluable in upcoming sea- Student Membership Discount. talent, but that the young Rice team, sons. : The semesters almost over, but which fielded freshmen at three of playing a bunch of "It was like being at the zoo," - " the six singles spots, at times ap- William Barker said. 'They were so don t wait to take advantage of peared unfocused and without con- wankers.' loud. They screamed at every point. incrediole savings on a Baliy fidence. Total Fitness student membership. — William Barker They were very obnoxious. We were An older, more experienced Au- playing a bunch of wankers. Join now and use any of our over burn team, toughened by playing in Freshman tennis player "The lack of experience has 385 locations tor 4 months by paying only $144 Pius, if you the Southeastern Conference, took shown this year in this environ- want to stay 3 member, you have advantage. The SEC has eight teams ment. It's a totally different envi- the option to renew tor just $24 ranked among the nation's top 25 Fifth-ranked Duke handed Au- ronment than the individual tour- a month. and is likely the top tennis confer- burn a 4-0 shutout in the second naments. If we were just playing ence in the country'. round and advanced to the national the other guy, 1 know we'd do Our clubs have everything you "The one thing that let us down quarterfinals, where top-ranked Uni- better." need tc get the results you want, including • Treadmills Davidson will leave legacy of success 4-MONTH • Cross trainers STUDENT • Elliptical trainers MEMBERSHIP • Stationary pikes H TRACK, from Page 25 Warren said Davidson set an im- "Because of him, we're never go- • Resistance equipment coached Bryan Bronson to a na- peccable standard of integrity in ing to take any handouts, and we'll • Group exercise classes tional title in the 400-meter hurdles. coaching that made Rice track stand never, ever bend the rules or even • Certified personal In 1995, he coached Kodili out from other programs. the spirit of the rules to get an advan- trainers Odimgbe, whose personal-record tage. I hope that because of him ALL CLUBS, • SPINNING" shot put won Rice its first men's that's the only way I know how to • Kwando" by Gorilla 1 conference team title in any sport in 'You don't win games, function. He has a level of integrity ALL DAYS, Sports' " 24 years at the Southwest Confer- unmatched in the NCAA in any ALL HOURS • Free weights ence indoor meet. you win kids. And that's sport." • Hammer Strength" I>ast season, he nearly led the Seeking to spend more time with Owls to an upset of national power what I've done at Rice his wife. Helen, who underwent a Join today, and with your student Texas Christian University at the kidney transplant in March, and his membership, get use ot any Bally Western Athletic Conference indoor and hope to do in the three children and three grandchil- Total Fitness club nationwide, alt meet. dren, Davidson will now serve as the days and all hours. You won; be Despite his athletes' feats on future.' head football and track and field a student forever, so take advan- tage of this special membership the track, however, what every- — Ray Davidson coach at Brenham Junior High I*** one connected with Davidson School. discount now Men's track and field coach rushes to mention first is his char- Davidson said he will miss Rice, Don t wait. Call today! acter and his unyielding commit- his athletes, his coaching colleagues For the dub nearest you, dial: ment to the development of each and all the memories Rice track has of his athletes. "Coach Davidson leaves a legacy given him, but now he'll have the "It's been great having Co&ch I) among these kids and to me," War- best of both worlds — time with his 1-800-FITNESS Musi be between ttie ages ot 18-23 and and all his experience," Harlan said. ren said. "It's something unique to family and time to instill values in 1^ have a valid student ID to quality tor stu- "He really did a great job of translat- Rice University and rarely found in young athletes. dent membership. Renewal dues subject BALIY the NCAA. "I'm looking forward to this new to increase Written nottca required to ing the athletic performance into T O cancel renewal option. Some restrictions your lifestyle and the way you live "His integrity, honesty and fair- opportunity," Davidson said. "I FITNESS apply. Additional charges lor some services life every day. ness are difficult to match. He al- coach to watch young coaches and An Equal Opportunity Club ©2001 Bally Total Fitness Corporation "He did a great job of keeping ways talked about education first kids develop. You don't win games, everybody's hopes and dreams be- when recruiting athletes because you win kids. And that's what I've yond track and field to the person that's what matters most. 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30 THE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 25,2001 si THRESHER SPORTS/2001 penguin awards Thresher writers and staff members nominated outstanding athletes for the Thresher Penguin Awards. ] Golf team places last Members of the Athletics Department and the administration voted to select the winners. The Rice at WAC Tournament Thresher by Rassul Zarinfar THRESHER STAFF A LOOK BACK: GOLF Freshman Ryan Morgan was the Highlights: Freshmen Scott golf team's one bright spot in a dis- Philips and Ryan Morgan each appointing finish to the season at the posted multiple top-five Western Athletic Conference Cham- individual finishes, and one of pionships April 30-May 2 in Broken the two was Rice's top finisher Arrow, Okla., where the Owls fin- in the Owls' final eight ished last at ninth place. tournaments. Morgan finished fourth in the field Lowllghts: The Owls sputtered of 45 with a three-round total of 223, through the final part of the seven strokes over par. Morgan be- season as they finished tied Football Men's Basketball Baseball came the first Owl to finish in the top for 11th of 15 teams at the Dan Dawson Mike Wilks Kenny Baugh five at a conference meet since 1992. Border Olympics and finished "He is one of our better ball strik- last at the Western Athletic Volleyball Men's tennis Outstanding freshman ers and that came into play under Conference Championships. Leigh Leman Richard Barker Richard Barker, the windy conditions," head coach men's tennis Clay Homan said. "I thought he Next year: Six of the eight Men's cross country Women's tennis played with a lot of character." Owls on this year's roster are John Jura Erin Waters Outstanding athlete But Morgan was the only one who freshmen or sophomores. If Kenny Baugh, baseball showed up ready to play in Okla- the experience they've gained Women's cross country Golf homa. The other four Owls filled four this year produces more Katie Waite Scott Philips Team of the year of the last nine spots in the standings, consistency and a talented Women's track and field pulling Rice down into last place, 40 incoming freshman class lives Swimming Men's track & field shots behind team champion Texas up to its billing, Rice should Jada Sanders Adam Davis, Tommy Oleksy Christian University. improve its standing in the Freshman Scott Philips finished conference. Women's basketball Women's track & field 37th overall with a three-round total Kenya Tuttle Allison Beckford of 237. After a spring semester fea- Chris Connolly, who has battled in- Outstanding performance turing three straight top-five indi- juries all season, finished a disap- pointing 39th. Sophomore Brandon Kenny Baugh faces the minimum 27 batters (a first in school history) in a 10-0 win over Hawaii April 20. vidual finishes and two WAC Player of the Week honors, this tourna- Jung finished last. ment was particularly dissatisfying The future may look bright, how- for Philips. ever, as six of the eight Owls are "It was frustrating for me to have either freshmen or sophomores. such high expectations, and to leave "Next year is going to be a lot of with those results was a disappoint- fun," Philips said. "Ryan and 1 both Follow the Owls all the way to ment," Philips said. have talked about how much we have The Owls entered the tournament improved this year, and next year it hoping to demonstrate they were an will be fun to come right out of the improved group from the team that gate and play to win." Omaha.. .and keep up with all the other finished 15th of 16 at the WAC meet The team will lose Connolly and in 1999 and tied for 7th of eight a senior Frederik Dejaeghere, but a happenings in the world of Rice sports by subscribing to year ago, but their results failed to recruiting class that includes a prove much of anything. United States Junior Nationals quali- "We all came into this one ex- fier and a high school district and the Thresher. cited and playing really well," fresh- regional champion should help the "I'V'ilH jliUN man Winn Smith said. "We just Owlsrbe consistently competitive. weren't prepared for the weather "I think the recruits coining in and our mental game was not up to are unbelievable," Smith said. "With f Annual subscription rate: par." the experience that this year's team $50 domestic A third-round 85 plummeted has gained combined with the new Smith to a 38th-place finish after he talent, I look for us to be a threat in $105 international tied for 21 st after two rounds. Senior the collegiate golf circuit."

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•. tg /-sftiijf«V '. gT { ~ "T >• Nevada: George Moran, Craig Norris (5) and Chris' 2'. William Barker (RUi^vs. Trace Fielding (TCli). _ > j. E A- •fc s. tian Popoff. Rice: Kenny Baugh, Nick Martin ((I) and suspended Doubles Phillip Ghutzman, Matt Cunningham.- 3. Scot EOdins (TCU) d. Alexis Pourchet (RU>6-1, 6-2 1. Gaber/Karolina Roubickova (TCU) d. Hagedorn/ None. E — Rice: Arnold (13), Martin (1); FSU: Lopez MBERS Win — Baugh (10-2). Loss — Moran (.1-5). Save 4. Cody Jackson (RU) vs. Tow Gordon .(TCU). sus Waters (RUi 8-5 (11). 2B — Rice: Porfirio (16), Ghutzman (9); FSU: — None. E — Nevada: Maguire (10). Dickersoi^ pended , 2. Fisher/Gonzales (RU) vs. Aburto/Weirich (TCU), Lopez (16), Fritz (9). 3B — FSU: Lopez (2). LOB — april 26-may20, (7); Rice: Brown (11), Cunningham (3). 2B — 5. Fabien Giraud (RU) vs. Daniel Wajnberg (TCU), suspended Rice 9, FSU 10.<- .» L Rice: Roman (18), Jacobson 2 (5). 3B — Rice: suspended V 3. Perez/Pierce (TCU) d. Bnaud/Karen Chao (RU) Arnold (3). LOB — Nevadc. "• Rice 7. DP — Nevada 6) Jimmy Haney (TCU)tl. RamezQamer (F)U16<). 6 2 8-4 RICE 0 FRESNO STATE 1 ' 1, Rice 1. Doubles GOLF Score by Innings R H E NEVADA 7 RICE 5 1. Haney/Fieldmg (TCU) d."Mathaes/Pourehet (RU) Rice (39-16, 22 9) 000000000—0 3 0 8 - 5 ..! ^ 2)Jvk's'>n/VukRajevac(RU)vs.Carnl/Gagnon(TCU). FSU (36-21, 1912) OOOOlOOOX—1 4 1 Score by Innings R H E WAC CHAMPIONSHIPS suspended > -- 1 y Nevada (24 22, 13-15) 502000000 — 7 7 0 3) Koula/Eddins 'TCUkJ. BART

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TCU: Chris Bradshaw, Chris Frazier (4) and Jason 4 « * Price. Rice: Jon Skaggs, Nick Martin (9) and Phillip ' V ' I '*>. ¥>- *$ Ghutzman. w Win — Skaggs (9-3). Loss — Bradshaw (8-5). Save 111 — None. E — TCU: Ontlverso (4), Rivera 2(4); Rice: 18 w Davis (3), Porfirio (6). 2B — TCU: Macha (9); Rice: mi ' fm " Porfirio (17), Roman (19), Brown (24), Ghutzman :• y #1 '• (10), SB — Rice: Brown (4). Lorsbach (2). SF— Rice: J- Brown (4), Ghutzman (1). LOB — TCU 8, Rice 7, DP « -y.: r— Rice 1. '"*** RICE 8 FRESNO STATE 5 YOU GOT IT! Score by Innings R H E ,U1& * Ml *> tyce (40,17, UQ 014 400—8 14 2 : I • 2001 Chevy" Blazer" I ' FSU (3.7-22, 20-13) ' 000 100 046—5' 9 2 ?8D0f! Rice: Kenny Baugh, Philip Barzilla (8) and Phillip vr Ghutzman. FSU: Francisco Nieves, Zach-Minor (7) n fi and Brad Harper. IM $21,011 fj Win — Baugh (11-2). Loss — Nieves (7-3). Save — None. E — Rice: Brown (11), Arnold (14); FSU: Garcia mm - $2,500- (11), Gemoll (8). 2B — Rice: Davis (14), Lorsbach \\ Sr.* (13); FSU: Guzman (9). HR — Rice: Porfirio (9), Arnold GMfliad Cash-Off - $400" 1 (13). LOB — Rice 8, FSU 6. DP — Rice 1, FSU 3. RICE 5 FRESNO STATE 11 _ ? • - $18,111 Score by Innings R H E Rice (39-17. 22-10) 001011110—5 9 2 FSU (37-21, 20-12) 403 21100X—11 15 1

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I •, r The weather's getting toasty, the seniors are drunk, and President N.I.B. Gillis is figuring out new and excit- Get a look at all them perty Misclass 3 ing ways to "injure" his hand-shak- News In Brief abbreviated "Doesn't Baker have an '80s H ing arm before graduation. It can They may be offensive. They may "Everyone who knows how to use \it only mean one thing: summer is Senior finished, drunk 11 be confusing. They may not be funny. technology has the humor of a 12- theme?" here. Oh wait. Two things. It also But they do take up space, and no year-old." — Completely serious owl means that we, your devoted BPEs, i Tuition waived for ail new one can ever take that away from — Lovett senior female Just a suggestion, kid: Trust ihe have little or no energy to come up students us. Besides, if you don't like them, official-looking stuff more than we'll simply blame you all for not with new and exciting material. This "Coach K is going to get some your favorite magazine. But being funny enough. is because we, unlike a drunken i That time at that place with action tonight. Lute Olson's going not too much. roommate we know named Blake those people remembered to go and masturbate to videos of Barker (jerk), have finals coming "Size doesn't matter unless the 1997 season." "There I was in third place ... out our behinds. I Female holds doorformale, you're bisexual." — Lovett sophomore male, upon then damn, I was sodomized!" society's gender issues Now don't worry. This doesn't Dr. Eliot, KINE 120 watching the Duke Blue Devils — Anonymous assistant vice mean that we won't try to make you proclaimed solved beat the Arizona Wildcats in the president for student affairs, laugh. We'll just use other peoples' • NCAA men's basketball finals director of academic advising, I ideas to do it. We figure we won't get I Little Bunny Foo-Foo song "Need a pick-me-up? Try sex. master of Wiess College, and sued if we make it into a game. stuck in head through It's the freshmaker." "Quick! I need a meet-sheet!" associate professor of Try to guess from whom we pla- entire take-home final — Dr. Schmeller, HIST 118 giarized. It could be a newspaper, — Hanszen freshman male chemistry magazine, an online fake-news "What kind of sick bastard gets source or anything else you can "It's an Easter special, like I'm Going dogs drunk? That is a tragic- Send in more misclass to imagine. Good luck! to Nail You Up, Charlie Brown." waste of alcohol." [email protected]. By now you — Dr. Schmeller, HIST 118 — Dr. Scheid, assistant to the should realize that they don 'thave P.S. BPE Alex Fay did not actu- president. to be stellar. ally have any finals, Adam is bitter, We like this guy. and Blake is not really a jerk.

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