\/ ice Thresher Vol. XCIII, Issue No. 3 SINCE 1916 Friday, September 2, 2005 Students react to hurricane devastation Katrina displaces families, damages homes of Rice students from Louisiana, Mississippi

by Beko Binder big one," he said. "I've never been a part of a big one that had a direct FOR THE THRESHER impact on me like this one has." For the more than 30 Rice under- Barnes said he thinks the com- graduates from southern Louisiana ing weeks and months will be and Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina difficult. brought painful uncertainties about 'The aftermath ... is going to their families, homes and futures. take a lot of support from outside Katrina, a category four hurricane, hit Mississippi," he said. "It's going Mississippi and Louisiana Monday. to take people coming together, Wiess College freshman Caro- rebuilding communities and re- line Spedale, who is from Baton building lives. That's the only thing Rouge, La., said her family chose you have left to do." not to evacuate and is now fine. The future is bleaker in New "This is tragic," she said. "It's Orleans, which did not suffer as devastating, especially for New much hurricane damage but has Orleans. Property [damage] is ter- seen massive flooding. rible. People have to rebuild their Baker College junior Janine lives, but then you have so many Moreau said her family evacuated who actually lost their lives." New Orleans, eventually stopping Education graduate student Ray- in Memphis. Moraeu said many morris Barnes (Lovett '04), who is of her family's neighbors chose to from Biloxi, Miss., said he had not stay at home. been able to contact an aunt and an "You have a lot of die-hard people uncle as of Tuesday evening. who want to wait out the storm," Barnes said his father told him Moreau said. "I have a friend whose about the damage done to his parents stayed. All their windows hometown. were blown out, and there was lots "My high school... has been to- of damage to their home." tally destroyed," Barnes said. "City Moreau said watching the news Hall is flooded, the public library is Sunday night was extremely dif- flooded ... and casino barges were ficult. \ pushed back ... 75 yards." "I'm really lucky that I have

MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHER Barnes said he was a junior in such supportive friends," Moreau Three displaced hurricane victims seek refuge outside the Astrodome and Reliant Stadium Wednesday. They arrived a few high school when Category Two said. "Sunday night a bunch of my hours before the first of about 500 buses carrying people previously stranded in the Superdome in New Orleans. The Commu- Hurricane Georges hit Biloxi. friends offered to stay up all night nity Involvement Center is working with the Red Cross to arrange ways for Rice students to volunteer at the Astrodome. "All your life, you prepare for the See KATRINA. page 5

MORE KATRINA Tulane students to take classes at Rice COVERAGE by Risa Gordon enrollment, shown through an ID visiting students may not enroll], but semester. "UT has offered us housing on and Amber Obermeyer card, university correspondence there will be some course-by-course For more information about the or other identification. Students restrictions," Tenney said. campus, and that's a pretty big THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF hurricane and its aftermath, see will be admitted as long as they Hie Registrar's Office sent an deal." Agarwal said. pages 4-6. Tulane University students from are in good standing at Tulane. Any e-mail to Rice students Wednesday Wright said the Admission Office the Houston area will be able to transcript information provided will night instructing them to register has received calls and visits from fami- The Thresher's coverage in- register for Rice classes, Presi- be used for academic advising, not for the classes tbey are attending so lies interested in enrolling students cludes: dent David Leebron announced admission, Wright said. theofficecan accurately gauge which at Rice for the semester, as well as Wednesday in an all-departments "Tulane students are strong stu- classes have space available. from students interested in transfer- listserv e-mail. dents, and we do have overlap in ap- Wright said only Houston-area ring to Rice permanently. Visiting Rice's initial efforts to help Students from other evacuated plications," Wright said. "We want students who could commute to students are prohibited from applying victims at the Astrodome universities will be considered for to be as generous as we can." classes would be admitted because to transfer to Rice for at least one se- admission on a case-by-case basis, Assistant to the President Mark Rice cannot support the enrollment mester, Tenney said. Tenney said the Registrar's Office has also received a Vice President for Enrollment Ann Scheid (Baker '67) said Rice has of many additional students. Tulane Professors' analysis of high volume of phone calls. Wright said. The students would be not placed a limit on the number has about 8,0(X) undergraduates, and the events admitted as visiting students. of visiting students who can enroll. Wright said unconfirmed anecdotal Ian Healy, a freshman at Tulane, Applicants will have to fill out However, visiting students will not evidence suggests it has about 4(H) said he is considering enrolling at an abbreviated visiting student be allowed to register for classes students from the Houston area. Rice for the semester, although Experiences of Rice application that does not include that have reached their enrollment or On-campus housing will not Tulane has not informed students alumni in school at an essay or blank box by Sept. 8 classroom capacities. Instructors will be available to visiting students. whether its fall semester will be Tulane and will be notified of admission have to approve students' admission Parking and dining arrangements cancelled. decisions within 24 hours. Students to classes. Registrar David Tenney are still being made. "Everyone is anxious because they would begin the fourth week of (Sid '87) said no courses will be added Roshmi Agarwal, a Tulane don't want to lose credit," he said. "I'm Rice's preparations for a classes, Monday, Sept. 12. to accommodate visiting students. freshman from Katy, said the lack pre-med and I don't want to have to potential hurricane Tulane applicants will be re- "We're not making a blanket re- of on-campus housing may deter delay applying to medical school." quired to provide proof of Tulane striction [about the courses in which him from coming to Rice this See TULANE, page 4 Career Services to host job fair INSIDE Academic deadline OPINION Page 3 for nonprofit, public sectors Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline to add a course without a fee. Registration pin A&E Page 10 numbers also expire today, so you'll have to Martel College senior N'oorain Khan said Me nil exhibit impressive by Deepa Panchang seek out your academic adviser and track she has had to search for public service jobs SPORTS Page 13 FOR THE THRESHER down your college coordinator if you want on her own. Soccer defeats Auburn to change your schedule after today. Improving students' access to careers in "There are a lot of opportunities, and Rice public service — and improving the service students don't know about them," Khan, a of those entering other careers — will be political science and women and gender Happy Labor Day "The house I used to live in is no longer stand- targets of a Career Services Center initiative studies major, said. Don't go to class Monday, because your ing. It's just devastating — it's something you starting this year. The Public Service Initiative will begin professor and classmates won't be there. have no control over. We should do as much as Career Services Assistant Director Nancy with a speech by Chief Executive Officer and Celebrate Ixibor Day by taking a road-trip we can for the victims." Laidlaw said the Public Service Initiative President of World Learning Carol Bellamy to Austin, getting ahead on homework or — College Food Service Manager Angela Riggs will bring nongovernmental organizations, Sept. 27 in Fondren Library's Kyle Morrow on the effects of Hurricane Katrina. See story, whatever suits you. government agencies and socially-conscious Room. World Learning is an international page 1. companies to campus for a job fair this fall nongovernmental organization that runs and will also host speeches by public service the School for International Training — a Volleyball tournament Weekend Weather leaders to promote careers in these fields. popular study abroad organization — as well Friday The volleyball team hosts the Crowne Assistant I )ean for Student Affairs Cheryl as programs in sustainable development and Chance of thunderstorms, 75-94 degrees Plaza Rice Invitational at Autry Court this Matherly, also Director of Career Services, peace building. Bellamy also worked for Saturday weekend. The Owls play McNeese State said many students have asked for help UNICEF, served as director of the Peace Partly cloudy, 72 94 degrees today at 10:30 a.m. and Duke tonight at finding jobs in public service, but Career Corps and spent five years in the New York Sunday 7 p.m. Services has not been equipped to handle State Senate. Mostly sunny, 71 91 degrees those requests. See CAREERS, page 6 m • • • "" <

mmmtm pp—•^pp THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.2005 the Rice Thresher AMPHIBIANS FOR EVOLUTION

Gulf Coast tragedy C mon, sign up! Some of you must have opposable requires best of Rice thumbs by now! The entire world is watching the waters in Louisiana and Mis- sissippi, and we are eerily close to the front lines. (See Story, Page 1.) It is surreal and frightening that only a few hundred miles from campus, Hurricane Katrina has leveled a major city and likely killed hundreds if not thousands of people. But it is also a chance for the Rice community to show its strength and compassion. Humans have been struggling against nature's wrath for their entire existence, and the best strategy has always been to shelve despair and start rebuilding—not just the physical structures leveled by forces beyond our control but also our social fabric. We expected Rice to lend its small but significant resources to that rebuilding, and those expectations have been well-fulfilled so far. We applaud President David Leebron and his administration for offering visiting student status to Tulane University students from the Houston area. And we hope that as individual professors are deciding whether or not to admit individual students to their classes, they will err on the side of accepting them. By the same token, as many Houston-resident students as possible should be accepted from other New Orleans colleges and universities as Self-proclaimed gadfly well. These students may not have lost their homes like so many of their peers who actually live in Louisiana and Mississippi, but they have lost a major fixture of their lives — their schools — for Profs should protect Rice's intelligent design the time being. Whatever we can do to reintroduce structure, In his Call to Conversation, Presi- The list contains the usual we have in Houston. All it takes is routine and purpose should be done. dent David Leebron made the case random Ph.D.s and visiting one creationist guest on a Sunday Rice students, meanwhile, should follow the lead of the Com- for increasing Rice's size. Students professors — and five distinguished morning talk show pointing to a Rice professors from a little Texas school professor for support to make us a munity Involvement Center, which is already organizing ways to are quick to attack any increase in size, because our small called Rice University. complete laughingstock. help the thousands of evacuees coming to Houston. They should size and tight-knit com- Leebron has called for Forget "Harvard of the South": donate time, money, blood and ideas to the American Red Cross munity make Rice great. Rice to take various steps Rice is now a few steps closer to and similar charities. Unfortunately, size is also to achieve national recog- "Bob Jones of the West." Rather than In addition, we ask Rice students to "roll with the punches" when one of our weaknesses, as nition. While most people being regarded alongside Stanford around the nation will prob- or the Ivy League, we are cozying students from Tulane and other universities arrive on campus. Try was made obvious to me over the summer when the ably not hear about our up to our elite neighbors to the to make friends quickly with the visiting students; beyond the fact Discovery Institute — a plans for a research tower north, Lubbock Christian University. that they are probably interesting people, they have had a horrible conservative organization or expanded enrollment for Go Chaparrals! week and could use some hospitality. leading the war against several years, the Discov- Finally, students should reach out not just to the evacuees in evolution, with no rela- Evan ery Institute now proudly donship to the television advertises some Rice pro- the Astrodome and the new faces on campus but to each other. Mintz These professors network — released a fessors as members of its The scale of this event is just starting to set in for many students; list of 400 scientists who anti-evolution troops. should have recognized others, with family or friends affected by the storm, are already question Darwinism. Regardless of their beliefs on evo- experiencing the tragedy full-on. Remember that Rice has student- The "Scientific Dissent from lution, the burden is on professors to that for the Discovery run and professional resources for anyone feeling overburdened, Darwinism" stated: "We are skeptical understand who they are endorsing. Institute, science is but remember also to take care of each other more informally. of claims for the ability of random 'ITiese professors should have recog- mutation and natural selection to nized that for the Discovery Institute, Recognize that students' stress levels are going to be high for only a handmaiden for account for the complexity of life. science is only a handmaiden for a while, for reasons totally unrelated to taking a few too many Careful examination of the evidence political aims and that their own political aims and that credit hours. for Darwinian theory should be opinions would be published in a way Houston may become a great deal more significant to the encouraged." Unfortunately, 300 embarrassing to the university. their own opinions nation in the coming weeks as evacuees pour in. The students, million amphibians were unable to While professors at M.I.T., Princ- sign a petition of their own. eton and most of the usual suspects would he published in faculty and staff of Houston's most prestigious university should also signed this dissent against set the pace for the way we want this city to be remembered when Darwin, Rice is in an especially vul- a way embarrassing to people think back to Hurricane Katrina. We can do that by apply- nerable position. Unlike Oxford or the university. ing our small population and limited resources to this immense CONTACTING THE the Ivy league schools, we are not humanitarian crisis in the most selfless, generous and creative THRESHER only small but also just branching out from regional powerhouse to If these professors really doubt ways we can muster. national leader. While other schools Darwinism, rather than sign point- have a large enough faculty and less lists, they should write and Letters extensive enough history to have publish peer-reviewed research • Letters to the editor should an unassailable position, Rice is still that actually supports their position. Public service initiative be sent to the Thresherby e-mail forming its national reputation. It Imagine the fame Rice would achieve to thre^',[email protected]. letters would be unfortunate if that reputa- if its professors graced the covers must be received by 5 p.m. on tion were one of a university that of Nature and Scientific American will aid image, students the Monday prior to a Friday was more Thomas Aquinas than for disproving the unifying tenet of publication date. Thomas Jefferson. modern biology. Maybe we could Universities are defined by their people, their research, their • All letters to the editor even celebrate those publications in conjunction with Rice winning the campuses and much more. But one of a university's most public must be signed and include Cotton Bowl again — but the odds faces is its placement of graduates into the workforce. And in college and year if the writer Forget "Harvard is a Rice student. of all this seems less likely than recent years, Rice's job placements have sent an inaccurate mes- • Letters should be no lon- of the South": Rice blowing up a junkyard and ending up with a 747. sage: that we are an energy trading, management consulting, ger than 250 words in length. is now a few steps investment banking school. Nothing is inherently wrong with The Thresher reserves the While the Discovery Institute any of these fields, but they alone do not represent what Rice is right to edit letters for both closer to "Boh Jones struggles to get the name of Rice content and length. University to fill the otherwise increasingly seeking to be: a school producing socially aware and of the West." Rather empty argument of intelligent engaged graduates. design with prestige and actual So Career Services' public service initiative is welcome and long than being regarded content, we need to cut off this overdue. (See Story, Page 1.) If the program works, not only will non- Subscribing name-dropping leech from Rice's • Annual subscriptions are alongside Stanford engineering majors have more post-graduate options, but students intellectual vein. leebron and the available for $50 domestic and faculty as a whole need to launch a in general will be better equipped to demand social responsibility $125 international via first or the Ivy League, public relations blitz to make sure from their companies — whether they are in the private, public or class mail. we are cozying up to Rice will be taken seriously as an non-profit sector. institution and not some Texan We are also pleased Career Services is moving to O'Connor our elite neighbors excuse for a university. House. The move will allow job interviews to take place in spaces Advertising Having new buildings is nice. m We accept display and to the north Lubbock A better library would be great. less reminiscent of closets, and it keeps the Office of Admissions, But a faculty that commands which was originally slated to move to O'Connor House, in I»vett classified advertisements. Ad- Christian University. vertisements must be received respect is what really makes a Hall. The Office of Admissions' current location, in the oldest and I by 5 p.m. on the Monday prior Go Chaparrals! university — especially one as arguably the coolest building on campus, makes an impression on to a Friday publication date. small as Rice — and that should be prospective students we would like to see maintained. Please contact our advertising the primary target of any plans for manager at (713)348-3967 or improving our university. Unsigned editorials represent the majority opinion of the Thresher thresher-adsfflricc. rdu for more We already have a strike against editorial staff. information. us for being in Texas, no matter Evan Mintz is a Hanszen College how many ballets and museums sophomore and opinion editor. THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Guest column Under par Media quantity can defeat media bias Oil's macro-problems do not Lefs play a little game. I'm far more concerned by how they Schmidt that the nominee made a going to give you three newspaper arrived at them. This brings me back "lawyer joke." headlines, all regarding the nomi- to the quote, taken from a memo The discrepancy in how the have easy micro-solutions naton of Judge John Roberts to the written by Roberts when he was a Washington Post and the New York U.S. Supreme Court, and legal adviser to President Times used this quote brings atten- I remember how cool 1 felt as of this one-day boycott, everyone I want you to pick the one Ronald Reagan. tion to the larger issue of the power a newly-arrived freshman three buysagallonandahalfof gasoline that does not fit. "Some might question of the media. Institutions such as the years ago. I had been on campus the day before the boycott and a First, we have this whether encouraging Washington Post can shape events for only a week or so, but I could gallon and a half the day after, from the Aug. 20 New homemakers to become not only by choosing what to cover, count on receiving five the oil companies will York Times: "As a Man of lawyers contributes to but also by choosing how to cover it. or so e-mails every not be hurt. Letters, Roberts Showed the common good, but By turning a lighthearted comment day, primarily from The e-mail correctly Practicality and Humor." I suppose that is for the into a lightning rod for criticism, the my college's and my notes that oil companies The Seattle Times ran a judges to decide," he Washington Post abused that power. soccer team's listservs. have "stockpiles" of story written by Washing- wrote. The New York This kind of abuse is rampant in Now, as my listserv crude, but they also have ton Post staff but added its Billy Times recognized Rob- the news media, and the only thing memberships have stockpiles of cash. Exx- own headline: "Files show Freeland ert's statement was a that can counter it is an informed, accumulated, I can tell onMobil, BP, Shell and Roberts' views on women's joke — misunderstood by intellectual public. you not just when and Chevron made about issues in '80s." And in the conservative and liberal As Rice students, we have the where the next Student $22 billion in combined Washington Post's own version of the groups alike (it is about lawyers, not capacity to question what we read Association meeting Amber profit in the last quarter same story, the headline was: "Rob- homemakers) — but the Wash- and what we see in the media. We can will be but also how to Obermeyer alone, so they would cer- erts Resisted Women's Rights." ington Post took it far more seri- put facts and well-founded knowledge get a low mortgage rate tainly be able to survive These headlines were published ously, going far as to reference ahead of glib headlines and knee-jerk and even what products one day with minimal within a day of each other. More it in the first paragraph of its reactions. Doing so does not require to use to get a bigger erection. cash flow (with that limited rev- importantly, these three newspapers front-page story. discrediting everything we see or But neither of those types of enue coming from the world's used three different headlines to read. But we should embrace the e-mail — nor the golf specials economists, who know better than summarize the same quote, which idea of relying on more than one or press releases — rankled me to try schemes like this). I will address shortly. We should embrace newspaper, more than one news like one I received from multiple If people actually did use less It is simply stunning to observe channel and more than one Web site listservs earlier this week. oil for a day, oil companies would how, for all these articles had in the idea of relying for our news. September 1 has been declared be affected —just not very much. common, they managed to generate In the last year, the left was "Stick It UpTheir Behind Day," the The Montgomery bus boycott completely different headlines. /J- on more than one outraged at the New York Times' e-mail proclaimed. In short, I was took longer than a day, and an oil though it can be argued that the New newspaper, more than coverage of the war in Iraq, while instructed not to buy gasoline on boycott would have to last probably York Times should not have described the right was infuriated by the lack Thursday because: "It has been a month or more in order to signifi- Judge Roberts in such favorable one news channel and of coverage regarding the United calculated that if everyone in the cantly alter oil companies' bottom terms, this misstep is nowhere near Nations' Oil for Food scandal. In United States did not purchase a lines. As the boycott lasted longer as egregious as the words chosen by more than one Web this media-bashing climate, if we drop of gasoline for one day and all and the demand curve shifted the Washington Post. "Robertsresisted become more engaged in the pro- at the same time, the oil companies downward, oil prices would even- women's rights" is a statement that site for our news. cess of finding our news — rather would choke on their stockpiles. At tually go down, which would — to belongs on the Washington Post's than having it handed to us in our the same time it would hit the entire introduce another microeconomic editorial page, not on the front page of mailbox or our inbox — then we can industry with a net loss of over $4.6 principle — make the incentive to a paper that is distributed to hundreds The Washington Post used the quote avoid losing faith in all types of news billion which affects the bottom deviate greater. That is, as oil prices of thousands of Americans each week. asevidence that Roberts "consistently media. It will be a challenge for our lines of the oil companies." decreased, some people would The Seattle Times used the Washing- opposed legal and legislative attempts generation, but also an opportunity I realize not everyone wants most likely abandon the screw- ton Post's article, yet accompanied it to strengthen women's rights." Bur- to become more intellectual and to become a professional or the-oil-companies ideal in favor of with a headline that was about as fair ied deep within the story — after (> independent individuals. academic economist as 1 do. But reaping the benefits of lower prices and sober as they come. paragraphs and over 350 words of I think a rudimentary understand- and returning to their previous Although I object to the Wash- criticism — is the suggestion by Billy Freeland is a Lovett College ing of supply and demand would gas-happy lifestyles. ington Post's choice of words, I was White House Spokesman Steve freshman. serve society — and my e-mail Even if we did fundamen- volume — well. tally change our demand for First, the basics: If universities gasoline — by carpooling, using Guest column paid students $100 f< >r every paper mass transportation or buying written, students would write hybrid cars — we would only de- more papers. If universities paid lay the inevitable. No matter how Freshman follies define Rice's first few weeks students $1,000 for every paper friendly we become with Saudi Ara- My first few weeks as a college rienced freshman I am, desperately I might consider setting goals for written, students would write even bia and other oil-rich nations, they student have not been defined by clutching a campus map and counting myself such as "remember more more papers. Krgo, supply and too will eventually run out of oil, my classes, my onerous homework off my paces at each building I pass, names," "make cute little outfits for price are positively correlated. probably within the next 40 years. load and my attempts to lit a few hoping against hope that I might be the squirrels so I can distinguish If nice cars cost $100 each, most Recent price increases have been hours of sleep between going in the right direc- each from the others and eventually families would own many. If nice driven by this diminishing supply, the latter and former. tion. I am forced to accost name them" or "laminate a map of cars cost $1 million each, hardly not by an increase in demand. Rather, the more mun- random people 1 meet along campus and keep it with me at all anyone would own one. Thus, Fundamental microeconomic dane, quirky experiences the way, petulantly plead- times to prevent the tragic recur- demand and price are negatively principles dictate that ifthe amount have become the most ing for help in identifying rence of the coke-bottle-spilling-on- correlated. So, if we were to graph of oil in the world decreases and indelible for me. a building and inquiring my-map incident." However, 1 realize supply and demand as functions of people keep driving to work Within a few hours of about whether it contains I am a diehard procrastinator and price, they would, at some point, alone, prices will continue to rise. setting foot on campus, any edible food within. 1 would never even get around to intersect. This intersection point If you want to spend less money I became fixated on the Upon entering a par- making such a list. Until then, if you is the economic equilibrium, and on gasoline, change your long- dozens of quasi-domesti- ticular building, 1 tend see a short girl with a disoriented, the location of this intersection term consumption habits. And in cated squirrels who con- Emilia to wander around with a lost or hungry expression on her determines how much of a good is the meantime, stop littering my fidently saunter around confused expression on face as you are walking around produced and its selling price. inbox with economics-ignorant campus lawns. At first, I Calvaresi my face until some nice, campus, please introduce yourself, But this demand curve is not nonsense about one-day boycotts. assumed these squirrels humanitarian individual but be advised I probably won't set on the basis of a single day's I've got Viagra ads to read. were quite cute, friendly asks me where I need to go. remember your name. consumption. Say, for instance, and possibly cuddly. Then I heard By this point, I have often realized I every person buys one gallon of Amber Obermeyer is a Baker otherwise — horror stories told by am in the wrong building altogether. Emilia Calvaresi is a Jones College gasoline per day. If, in anticipation College senior and editor in chief. upperclassmen in which a benevolent If by chance I have found the correct freshman. Rice student decides to feed a squirrel building, I am either on the incorrect and ends up with a welt on his finger floor or the opposite end of the cor- The Rice Thresher, the official student and the need for a rabies shot. rect floor from the classroom/office/ newspaper at Rice University since 1916, My own encounters with squir- bathroom I need. I have managed to is published each Friday during the school rels throughout the past few weeks locate Fondren Library three or four year, except during examination periods and have included entering a few star- times, and each time, 1 effortlessly the Rice Thresher holidays, by the students of Rice University. ing contests (which of course I succeed in getting lost. Usually I won), a few sightings of one particu- "meep" pitifully enough to annoy all Editorial and business offices are located on the second floor of the Ley Student Center, larly beady-eyed squirrel perched the graduate students sequestered Amber Obermeyer 6100 Main St., MS-524, Houston. TX 77005- in their cubbies, pretending to work, Editor in Chief possessively atop the garbage can 1892. Phone (713) 348-4801. Fax (713) 348- and one particularly irate student across the street from Herzstein N'athan Black 5238. E-mail: [email protected]. Web page: will escort me out. Hall and a near-showdown with Senior Editor www.ricethresher.org. one rather aggressive squirrel who Speaking of social relations, mistook my friendly duckings for I have a nagging feeling that my NEWS OPINION Annual subscription rate: $50 domestic, a battle challenge, or perhaps an attempts at socializing would work David Brown, Editor Evan Mintz, Editor $125 international. 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Editor heart of campus life. converted to a batting average. I'd Ryan Stickney Aw/. Editor CALENDAR Unfortunately, despite their ubiq- be the worst player in baseball his- Julia Bursten, Editor The Thresheris a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Society of Professional uitous appearances around campus, tory. Maybe that's why no one has PHOTOGRAPHY Marshall Robinson, Editor BACKPAGE Journalists. FVisjust an angry little boy. Who knew not a single squirrel knows an iota joined my White Sox fan group on Marcus Roman, Ass/. Editor Evan Mintz. Editor he was king of NewspaperTown? But seriously, about campus directions. This has http://www. facebook. com. keep threatening those freshman girls. left me no other resort than to walk As I continue plodding my way around campus, just like the inexpe- through my first semester at Rice, CO COPYRIGHT 2005. TULANE Faculty analyze Katrina's effects From page 1 Healy said he knew of students of Louisiana and Loyola University, Houston]," Bedient said. by Perry Factor tourism for about six months who were considering enrolling at New Orleans," Fuller said. "We've — I expect it'll take that long Sociology professor Stephen FOR THE THRESHER other schools, including the Univer- received a lot of phone calls, and Klineberg said that Katrina could to clean up and rebuild all the sity of Texas and Texas Christian we understand the students want be one in a potential series of The extent of the damage Hur- hotels, restaurants and bars," University. to get enrolled in school." severe storms if global warming ricane Katrina has inflicted on Soligo said. "From what I hear, it seems like UH only allows visiting students continues. New Orleans is still not known, Brito said oil rigs near the a lot of the students are planning to to take courses during the summer, "As the sea level rises, the but several Rice professors said Louisiana coast form a large part transferand seeing what kind of accom- effects could be tremendous, the effects of the storm will be of Houston's economy. modationsotherschoolsaremakingfor causing major challenges," he long-lasting. Shell reported Tuesday that Tulane students," Healey said. two of its oil rigs had drifted off said. 'Tulane students are The floodwaters covering 80 Without any way of gaining ac- course. Brito said he is unsure wheth- percent of the city could cause cess to Tulane's financial records, President George W. Bush er New Orleans should be rebuilt strong students, and diseases, such as cholera and Rice will assume that all students authorized the sale of some oil in its current location—between typhoid, as water becomes dirty who enroll as visiting students at we do have overlap in stockpiled in the Strategic Pe- the Mississippi River and Lake and stagnant. Rice this fall have paid their tuition troleum Reserve Wednesday to Pontchartrain — which is below Officials have electricity in full for the semester. applications. We want might not be restored for a month, minimize supply disruptions to sea level, or relocate, potentially "It's generous, but it's the right and the water system probably refiners in the Gulf area. north of Lake Pontchartrain. thing to do," Scheid said. to be as generous as we will not be decontaminated for "The oil supply reserves will "I wonder if we should rebuild Leebron said financial arrange- two months. have to offset the loss of produc- or not [since it is] a city so vulner- can/ ments between Rice and Tulane New Orleans Mayor Ray Na- tion from offshore oil," Brito able to hurricanes," Brito said. have not been finalized. — Ann Wright gin said Tuesday that residents said. "I don't know how long it "We have lots of land." "We're obviously not in this for Vice president for enrollment should not expect to return to will take to get [the offshore oil Klineberg said he thinks Ka- the tuition," Leebron said. "My their homes for 12-16 weeks, and production] back in line." trina may have the effect on New office spoke briefly with [Tulane state education officials advised With oil — which also powers Orleans that a 1900 hurricaine did President] Scott Cowen, but right so permitting visiting students for parents to register their children some electric plants — in short on Galveston, killing an estimated now he's focused on making sure the fall would be an exception, in out-of-town schools. supply and energy infrastructure 6,000 people. everybody on their campus is safely Fuller said. "The biggest issue will be the damaged, Soligo said New Or- "It destroyed Galveston for- evacuated. We couldn't wait to work Information will be posted on contamination and how long it will leans could be without electricity ever, but it opened the Houston out the details to offer this — if we the UH Web site once a decision take before it is safe to rebuild," for months. Ship Channel and ... gave Hous- were going to take students, it had i: made, Fuller said. UH offered Economics Professor Dagobert Civil and Environmental En- ton great momentum," he said. to happen fast." free football tickets to displaced Brito said. grineering Professor Philip Bedi- "We aren't as vulnerable, and University of Houston Assistant hurricane victims for Thursday's Economics Professor Ronald ent said some economic damage that's why Houston was able to Admissions Director Jeff Fuller game against the University of Soligo said he does not expect is less immediately apparent. grow." said UH did not have a plan in place Oregon. anyone to be able to visit New "Many of the researchers in Klineberg said he thinks the to accommodate displaced students Leebron said Rice may have Orleans in the near future, as the Texas Medical Center lost region will recover eventually. as of Wednesday. other future involvement with hur- the city is mostly submerged and their entire livelihood when all "Americans are remarkably re- "We're still in the planning ricane evacuees in Houston. the historical district is severly of their research equipment or silient, and disasters strengthen stages — not just for Tulane stu- "We'll be in touch with the damaged. samples were destroyed [dur- our resolve, so there's optimism dents but also for students from city, but the main thing we're in a "There's not going to be ing Tropical Storm Allison in for the long haul," he said. Dillard University, the University position to provide is education," of New Orleans, Xavier University Leebron said. Rice alumni evacuate New Orleans after storm by Amber Obermeyer Sunday morning said it took 27 Sunday and now is trying to help the American Bar Assocation, and and to see if they've made con- some friends from law school. they have requirements for a manda- tingency plans to interview here. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF hours to get to Houston." Corey Devine (Will Rice '03), "They've lost their houses and tory amount of class hours," Devine [Wednesday], 1 put in applications Chaos and uncertainty have a third-year law student at Tulane have been waiting in Jackson, Miss., said. "If for some reason, we miss to be a transient student at UT and been the norm this week for three Law School and former Thresher so I'm just trying to get them set up so much school that can't make up UH so I don't miss a semester." recent Rice graduates who began Lifestyles editor, said he left New in apartments here and get them those mandatory class hours, we're Devine said he is also concerned their fall semesters at Tulane Uni- Orleans at about 3 p.m. Saturday taken care of," Caufield said. not allowed to graduate. If we can't about how his job situation will be versity graduate schools earlier and arrived in his hometown of Schumer said she and two of her start for two months, there's no way resolved. this month, and who returned to Beaumont — normally a five-hour classmates are staying in Houston to catch up on all those hours." "I have job offers at two firms in Houston after evacuating New drive—at 1a.m. Sunday. Devine said with her grandparents. Houston," Devine said. "If I don't Orleans Saturday. he has been staying with friends in "Most people have either gone graduate on time, I don't think Jess Schumer (Hanszen '05), a Houston since Monday. on to Austin or are finding other 'Even in New Orleans, they'll take those job offers away, first-year medical student at Tulane "They're sending live news from places where they have relatives," but it compounds problems of start- University School of Medicine, said New Orleans to television stations Schumer said. "Houston was just a they don) know ing work on time." she left New Orleans at about 2:30 here in Houston, but even in New stopping point for them before they p.m. Saturday with two friends. Orleans, they don't know anything," decided to go home or travel or anything. The worst part Natural disaster "We left relatively early, and it still Devine said. "The worst part about whatever. Most people are assuming Caufield said he is still cop- took us two hours to go eight miles all this is there's been absolutely no they're not going back for at least about all of this is that ing with the ramifications of the in New Orleans and about seven information." few weeks." there's been absolutely disaster. or eight hours to get to Houston," Steven Caufield (Will Rice '03), a Originally, medical school stu- "It's just been a surreal experi- Schumer said. 'They opened up second-year law student and former dents were told classes would no information.' ence," Caufield said. "It's odd to 1-10 [eastbound lanes] to go west, Will Rice College president, said resume Sept. 7, but Schumer said think that most everything won't but one of our classmates who left he left New Orleans at about 2 a.m. those estimates were made only on — Corey Devine (Will Rice '03) be happening this semester — ev- the basis of hurricane damage and Tulane law student erything just ended. Instead, I'm that flooding has caused more prob- just focusing on, 'What do I need to lems than the hurricane itself. do today?' 1 still haven't figured out "We don't know anything," Caufield said no law school had anything back home — bills, lease, Schumer said. "Right now our con- said it will admit Tulane law stu- apartment or anything like that." tact is an emergency Web site and dents, as Rice did for Houston-area Schumer said she has tried to What is your vision for the Class of 2010? an emergency telephone number. Tulane undergraduates. maintain an everyday routine. Both of those are telling us that "We know very little," Caufield "I wake up, watch the news, see Tulane has its senior team figuring said. 'There's been a lot of specula- all the horrible images and think out when we can get back, but they tion about whether or not to apply to about it all," Schumer said. "We're can't start analyzing damage until study at other schools this semester. trying to keep busy by doing a little STUDENT water levels stop rising." I've heard there are conversations bit of studying, but it's hard." going on with other law schools and Devine said his situation is put Contingency plans that Tulane is considering video in perspective when he watches ADMISSION Devine said he hopesTulane will conferencing." the news. release more definite information Tulane law school students about the status of the fall semester are keeping in touch and sharing COUNCIL by today so he can make a decision information on a google.com group, ' Most people are about what he will do. Devine said. "I'm trying right now to look Schumer said she does not yet assuming they're not Recruitment Meeting into UT and UH to see about being have any definite plans if classes are Tuesday, September 6 at 9:30 p.m. able to go to school there, in case cancelled for the semester. going back for at least a Kelley Lounge in RMC Tulane cancels the semester, but the "I know some people were think- problem is Tulane hasn't released ing about trying to take classes at few weeks.' FREE FOOD! any information," Devine said. "And other medical schools or trying to — Jess Schumer (Hanszen '05) those schools can't promise me that work at cadaver labs," Schumer said. Tulane medical student Tulane will honor my coursework, 'There's no rush, though, because Sign up to volunteer: so even if I go to school there I might once you're into medical school, lose a semester." you're into medical school." "It's just been terrible," Devine http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ricesac/ Devine said he and other law said. "Sometimes I bemoan my situ- " — — — • students do not want to start the Job search ation, but it's obviously much more semester at another school if Tulane Caufield said he is unsure how terrible for people stuck there, in [email protected] can conduct classes — whether in the summer job-search process will poverty, who can't get out. I consider New ()rleans, at a remote campus or work for him. myself very lucky that I got myself electronically — this semester. "I was supposed to have a job and some of my stuff out." However, law schools face interview next week, but that obvi- Schumer said she hopes l ulane constraints that undergraduate ously isn't going to happen," Cau- medical school students will even- programs do not, Devine said. field said. "I've called employers to tually be able to help with New "I>aw schools are governed by let them know that I'm in Houston Orleans' rebuilding. * t r

THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Students, staff begin organizing relief efforts by David Brown noon today. Needed items include THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF bottled water; single-serving and non-perishible foods such as peanut Since 25,000 hurricane victims butter, Pop Tarts, cereal bars and began traveling to the Astrodome canned pasta and vegetables; and Wednesday, many staff members paper goods such as plates, cups, and students have been working to diapers and tissues. collect food and supplies and find ways to volunteer. Community Involvement Cen- ter Director Mac Griswold said 'As Rice students, Wednesday he was working with people who are seeking the American Red Cross to de- termine how Rice students could a college education, volunteer to help displaced victims arriving in Houston. we are in a relatively Griswold said the CIC will soon advise students on how they can entitled position. We help the crisis. have an obligation to The High Order of Owl Tailgat- ing Society — which holds social help people who are events for Facilities, Engineering and Planning and Housing and Din- essentially homeless and ing employees — organized a food drive in conjunction with the Houston lost everything and need t :f s r» Food Bank. H&I) Director Mark Ditman said a helping hand.' the organization's leadership was in — Stephen Rooke place and ready to implement the Hanszen College sophomore . food drive. College Food Service Manager Angela Riggs, who organized the Ditman said Executive Chef Ben effort with Residential Colleges Fonbuena, Jr. is considering having Facilities Supervisor Nelson Cor- H&I) staff volunteer to cook at the rea, said she was moved to start the Astrodome with the Texas Chefs drive because she and her family Association. were victims of Hurricane Camille Hanszen College sophomore mmm- «* * in Mississippi in 1969. Stephen Rooke also contacted "The house I used to live in is the Red Cross in hopes of getting no longer standing," Riggs said. Rice students to volunteer at the "It's just devastating — it's some- Astrodome. thing you have no control over. We "I'm trying to organize a Red should do as much as we can for Cross training session to get more NATHAN BLACK/THRESHER the victims. We're going to have a College Food Service Manager Angela Riggs (right) unloads boxes in the circle drive at the RMC in preparation for the High involved by Sept. 7," Rooke said. "I Order of Owl Tailgating Society's food drive, which began Thursday and ends today at noon, for displaced hurricane victims. lot of people who will need food and want to be able to make a difference clothing and school items. It's just from the get-go." Rooke said he spoke with Red colleges. less and lost everything and need important we get together and do Rooke said the Red Cross usu- Cross officials and hopes to arrange Rooke said students should vol- a helping hand." what we can." ally requires a two-day training ses- for a course to be given at Rice this unteer during the crisis. "As Rice Rooke said he will also coordinate HOOTS collection bins are lo- sion before volunteers are allowed weekend. students, people who are seeking carpools to the Houston Food Bank cated at Sammy's Cafe, the circle to work at Red Cross sites, but a Rooke set up a collection point a college education, we are in a this weekend. drive at the Student Center, the crash course has been scheduled for food and clothing in the Hanszen relatively entitled position," he Allen Center and the Rice Police Sta- for Wednesday for potential vol- commons and hopes to expand said. "We have an obligation to help Ian Everhart contributed to this tion, and they will be available until unteers. this initiative to all the residential people who are essentially home- report KATRINA From page I watching the news with me... | and 1 be able to return to New Orleans. tried to cheer me up." "When we realized it was probably Jones College sophomore Teddy going to be longer, she tried to get Bucher, who is from the New Orleans a flight home to Pittsburgh," Claire area, said his family evacuated to Hous- Shorall said. ton and Baton Rouge before the storm. Ali Shorall evacuated to Jackson, He said his family did not know if its Miss, with her roommate and her home had survived the hurricane. roommate's family—who live in N ew Orleans — but Jackson lost power Monday. She then spent a day and 'The aftermath ... is a half with about 10 other people at the Jackson airport before flying to going to take a lot of Pittsburgh Wednesday. Ali Shorall said she is now trying support from outside to find another university to attend :J this fall. Mississippi. It s going Tulane hasn't said that classes are officially cancelled," Ali Shorall to take people coming said. "But the airport's not going to together, rebuilding be open for two months—how would Early Career Opportunities we get there?" communities and Ofthe estimated 100,000evacuated Engineering (Chemical Petroleum, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil), Louisianans in Houston, several fami- Geosciences, Chemistry, Physics, MIS/IT, Sales & Marketing, rebuilding lives.' lies came to campus Wednesday. Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain — Raymorris Barnes Kay Fitzmorris, whose oldest daughter graduated from Rice last (Ijovett '03) Shell is at the heart of the energy and petrochemical business, and one of the world's most Spring, evacuated New Orleans successful organizations. However, we always recognize that Shell is also part of society Education graduate student with her 17-, 13- and 6-year-old Ijovett '03 children. With their home on Lake and that our success as an organization is intimately linked to that of society. So, at Shell, Pontchartrain destroyed and their we are totally committed to a business strategy that always balances profits with principles. New Orleans residence succumb- We are also committed to attracting, training, developing and rewarding world-class "I keep on trying to check and ing to floodwaters, Fitzmorris and people for this truly worlcklass business. We acknowledge and reward ideas and solutions, see what's happened," Bucher said. her children were using computers and recognize and nurture each person's abilities. How far and how fast you develop " [ We] probably won't really know the at Fondren Library to search for an within Shell depends on your individual contribution. To learn more or apply online, please full extent of the damage until we get apartment in Baton Rouge. visit our website. back there, but that might be weeks Fitzmorris said her husband or even months from now." chose to stay behind. She said he is Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer Sid Richardson College freshman OK and will soon join the family in Claire Shorall's twin sister Ali was Houston. www.shall.com/careers supposed to begin college at Tulane Fitzmorris, who is a doctor, said University this week. When the she is unsure what her family's future hurricane's path became clear, Claire in New Orleans would be. Shorall bought a futon for her room "I think well go back in December © because her sister planned to spend and have a small practice and slowly a few days in Houston while the hur- build again if people come back," ricane was near New Orleans. she said. But as the storm approached, Claire Shorall said they had no idea Amber Obermeyer and David Hrown how long it would be before Ali would contributed to this report THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Campus hurricane contingency in place

by Perry Factor as long as Rice had electricity, Scheid said. FOR THE THRESHER Scheid said Rice is a safe The devastation Hurricane place to stay in the event of a Katrina caused in Louisiana and hurricane. Mississippi is unlikely to occur "By and large, students are in Houston should a similar much safer on campus than they hurricane strike. Although all would be trying to get out on the Gulf Coast states are at risk of a freeways and driving however :v hurricane, Rice's inland location, many miles to wherever they're building engineering and emer- going to stay," Scheid said. gency preparation would probably Areas and streets surround- prevent extensive water or wind ing campus tend to have more damage, Emergency Response flooding than Rice does, Scheid Management Team Director said. Sometimes, during flash Mark Scheid (Baker '67) said. floods, nearby roads are not driv- Rice is well prepared to able while Rice is not flooded, remain operational if a natu- he said. ral disaster strikes Houston, Students would be advised Scheid, who is also Assistant to stay in their colleges because to the President, said. If Rice's these buildings are constructed power providers, Reliant Energy to last 100 years, Scheid said. But and CenterPoint Energy, fail, most campus buildings comply MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHER on-campus generators have the with flood codes and could endure capacity to provide power to half winds of up to 1(X) miles per hour, Meet the team the campus. Price said. Members of the Rice varsity soccer team (right) sign autographs for a local youth soccer team at the Rice Track/ The backup power could be "If there are any buildings that Soccer Stadium after their game against St. Louis University Sunday. diverted to residential buildings if are questionable, it would be our stud" at Rice. The campus so-called 'temporary buildings' aiso has about 25 smaller genera- that have been here since the tors to provide emergency power, late '60s, and those are the Media Assistant Vice President for Facili- Center and School for Continu- ties Russell Price said. ing Studies," Price said. "Rice CAREERS "We'd have to be selective University has survived a couple From page 1 in what we would keep, and we of difficult tropical storms in the have a plan for that," Price said. past, and if we have the time to and chemical engineering major The next event will be a day- ing how we view public service," "Once that generator starts, we'd prepare, we think we can keep Maria Jauregui said she thinks long series of presentations on Laidlaw said. get stairwell lighting, pumps, re- the campus [safe]." Oct. 5 by Idealist.org, which pro- the initiative will be most useful to Laidlaw said someone working a search buildings, and if students Rice is built about 50 feet above motes public service and helps humanities majors. 40-hour week at a private corpora- are on campus, we'd light the sea level, Price said. The 50-mile students find jobs and internships "When engineering students have tion can engage in public service colleges." distance from the closest beach at socially conscious organizations by volunteering, promoting ethical good job offers, it's hard to convince Housing and Dining also has — Galveston — and Houston's and companies. Representatives and socially conscious policies them to go for something that pays a a reserve of enough nonperish- elevation will prevent storm from Idealist.org will also meet within the company and getting lot less," Jauregui said. able food to feed everyone who surges from flooding Houston. individually with student service involved in community outreach However, I-aidlaw said the skills lives and works on campus for Scheid said. organizations to discuss pathways through the company. students learn in science and engi- three to four days, Scheid said. Scheid said flooding is a con- to jobs in public service. neering majors can be extremely Additionally, Rice has a freshwa- cern due to sheet flooding from Laidlaw said Career Services useful in public service. ter well on campus, and backup the nor th or the overflow of Bray's will hold an additional career fair "Even a nonprofit has to stay 'We have an obligation communication devices such as Bayou. FE&P staff clear sand in the fall — a volunteer or "Good above water," I>aidlaw said. "It is still satellite phones and walkie talkies, and silt from storm drains every Works" fair on Oct. 6 — for students a business if not-for-profit." to serve society.' Scheid said. summer to ease campus drainage, to meet with representatives from Baker College junior Jessie Gill — Jessie Gill Civil Engineering Professor Scheid said. public service companies and learn said she was happy to hear about the Philip Bedient said heavy flooding "Cars almost never flood on about potential jobs. Baker College junior Public Service Initiative. She said all can cause water contamination, campus because FE&P is very Laidlaw said Career Services will students, regardless of major, should but that Houston water is less vul- efficient at keeping the drainage also hold workshops for seniors to help consider devoting at least two years of nerable to contamination because system operating," Scheid said. them find jobs at government agencies Samantha Rushing, a gradu- their lives to helping others through it is provided by surface water. Cameras also measure the such as the State Department. ate student from the University programs like the Peace Corps. The Houston water system is outflow from the drainage area The government is having an of Houston, worked with Career "Since we are so privileged to protected by levees and treatment that runs through Rice and the attrition of individuals due to retire- Services to develop the Public Ser- attend Rice and are prepared to do systems, while groundwater is Texas Medical Center. ment," Laidlaw said. vice Initiative. She said the Public so much, we have an obligation to carried in pipes that are more When Tropical Storm Allison Laidlaw said Career Services is Service Initiative should provide serve society," Gill, an environmen- vulnerable to breaking, Bedient hit campus in June 2001, Bray's also trying to build relationships options for students of all majors. tal engineering and policy studies said. Bayou filled up, but entrances to with companies known for being Rushing said the program will en- major, said. Scheid said Houston would steam tunnels and other places environmntally friendly like Whole courage incorporating values into Matherly said she is excited probably not be evacuated. Al- water could circulate were sand- Foods, Ben & Jerry's, World Mar- all jobs, even those in the sciences about diversifying the careers of though county judges can issue bagged, so there was little water ket and Patagonia. and engineering. Rice graduates. such orders, Scheid said it would seepage. Laidlaw, who gathered ideas for Laidlaw said she does not want to "We want to be talking about take 20 hours to evacuate the Bedient said damage was the program by visiting the NYU label students who pursue careers your values and how they relate city, and the path of a hurricane prevented because water did not Wagner Institute of Public Service in areas like investment banking or to your work and life choices," she could not be determined so far in enter the utility tunnels under Careers, said the initiative goes petroleum engineering negatively said. "You [should be] able to make advance of landfall. campus. beyond well-known public service but instead wants to inform stu- a choice about a company because Nevertheless, Rice can moni- programs such as the Peace Corps dents about ways to serve the com- you feel comfortable about the After Tropical Storm Allison, tor a hurricane long before it hits and Teach for America. munity while in those careers. values of that company, while still an overland flow channel — the land. The President's Office, the road between Autry Court and "The initiative is about refrain- Sid Richardson College senior [utilizing] your interests." Rice University Police Depart- W iess College—was con str ucted ment and Price monitor Impact with Federal Emergency Manage- Weather, a service that gives ment Agency funds. The chan- advance notice about weather nel directs water to a retaining Want to make conditions. pond. If a storm were imminent, The channel, completed in Facilities, Engineering & Plan- 2003, has helped reduce flooding a difference in ning would activate the Inclem- on campus, as well as flooding ent Weather Plan and notify the to the Texas Medical Center, a child's life? college masters, resident as- which is downstream of Rice, sociates, college presidents and Scheid said. More drainage administrators. points, especially on the north A volunteer team of electri- side of campus, were also added, Interested in a mentoring or tutoring cians, facilities managers, ground- Bedient said. skeepers and custodians, among The south colleges and the others, would stay on campus and westernmost buildings, includ- program with kids? wait out the storm. ing many science laboratories, All duties have been pre-as- are more susceptible to flooding. signed, from clearing drains to If there were heavy rain, these Come and learn about different organizations on campus that investigating flood-prone parts areas would be monitored and of campus. sandbagged if necessary, Price volunteer by lending a hand to a child in need. Rice would also activate its said. Wednesday September 7th emergency Web page, which Scheid said most important would provide information to equipment is housed above flood 7:30pm students and parents. levels, although some colleges The Web page is mirrored at have servers in their basements. Miner Lounge Purdue University in Indiana so He said FE&P would try to seal Sponsored by the Community Involvement Center information could be updated those areas to prevent water if the campus network failed, damage. For more details: www.rice.edu/service -' - - • ' 'N " • > < < - S- si J • ' ' > > > I i ii t ' 4 i r t / ' • * ' * t > ' f ' : f * • 1 . * > ' ' f y J > t'( f " f J •'

THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Job market improves for 2005 grads POLICE BLOTTER The following items were reported to the Rice University Police Department for the period Aug. 24-Aug. 29. by Emma Howell year, which indicates the job market in Houston, and another 15 percent FOR THE THRESHED is improving, Matherly said. remained elsewhere in Texas. Academic Buildings Of the graduates who planned to "With such a small graduating Anderson Hall Aug. 24 Report of student being stalked. The job market for graduating enter the workforce, 57 percent had class, it's hard to get large companies seniors is improving — both in accepted a job offer by graduation, in the Northeast and elsewhere to Other Buildings Houston and nationally — Career the same figure as in 2004. About recruit at Rice when they have so Valhalla Aug. 26 Non-Rice subject arrested for minor Services Center Director Cheryl 80 percent of graduates who were many other opportunities closer by," consuming alcohol and failure to Matherly said. not going on to graduate school said Matherly said. identify. Subject remanded to Harris "It's a good time to graduate," they intended to go back to school in Career Services has agreements County Jail. she said. the future. with in- and out-of-state employers to Matherly said she and other Ca- "At some point, pretty much most recruit on campus through Novem- Cohen House Aug. 27 Subject urinated on tree and issued reer Services staff have anticipated everybody from Rice is going to go to ber, Matherly said. city citation. Second subject the upturn since last fall, but the graduate school," Matherly said. Matherly said she hopes under- had previously been issued a 2005post-graduate survey confirmed Matherly said many 2005 gradu- classmen will utilize the survey to criminal trespass warning and was their beliefs. ates had formulated plans that did become informed about jobs and arrested for public intoxication and In the annual survey of graduating not involve employment or gradu- salaries students in their major remanded to Harris County Jail. students, 48 percent of respondents ate school. have received. said they planned to enter the job "I was surprised this time at the Seniors should use the survey Parking Lots market, while 44 percent chose to number of students who said that to become informed about signing Main Street Lot Aug. 26 Rice student issued citation forminor continue to professional or graduate their plans for the next see months bonuses in order to better negotiate consuming alcohol and released to school. Matherly said these numbers or so were to travel," she said. with potential employers, Matherly caregiver. StudentreferredtoStudent are similar to previous years, but the Matherly said she and the Ca- said. Judicial Programs. Class of2005 showed more optimism reer Services staff are trying to The 2005 survey was not posted about the job market than other improve the variety of job locations by Wednesday but will be available Greenbriar Lot Aug. 29 Vehicle burglarized. recent classes. for graduates. Of the graduates who at http://careers, rice, edu/ustudents. Signing bonuses improved last took jobs in 2005,50 percent stayed cfm.

CAREER SERVICES RELOCATED WEST UNIVERSITY CIIURCII OF CHRIST 3407 Bissonnctt, Houston, Tx. "77005 / (713)666-3535 / [email protected] The Career Services Center with the exception of Rice's first and the Office of Alumni Affairs will president, Edgar Odell Lovett, and Sunday move into the O'Connor House in President David Leebron. The Of- June, pending the Board of Trust- fice of Admissions was originally 9:30 a.m. Bible Class ees' final approval. The interior supposed to move into the house, 10:30 a.m. Morning Scrvicc remodeling design of O'Connor but did not because of space con- 6:00 p.tn. Evening Service Away from home? Looking for a House must be finalized before the straints, Matherly said. friendly church home? You can't study board can approve the move. Matherly said the current space Wednesday all the time Worship with us close to on the second floor of the Rice Me- Assistant Dean for Student 7:00 p.m. Evening Service campus. We believe that Jesus is the Affairs Cheryl Matherly said hous- morial Center was never intended Tit • Christ, the son of the living God and we ing Career Services and Alumni to be used by Career Services. She Compaq »* welcome all who want to worship Him Affairs in the same building would said the office has been renovated encourage more interaction be- in order to accommodate growing Career Services staff. tween the offices. WttSi^atk §? " I know of no other university set Plans for the move were an- y *!> up this way," Matherly said. "It pres- nounced in the spring. Matherly said ents interesting opportunities." she is in the process of choosing O'Connor House has been the furniture for the new space. Bissonntft St • residence of all Rice's presidents — Emma Howell St %

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DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCES SEARCH COMMITTEE

The dean of social sciences search committee has begun the process of selecting a replacement for Political Science Professor Bob Stein, who will retire as dean at the end of the academic year. The committee had its first meeting Thursday.

Allen Matusow, chair History Robert Brochnan Board of Trustees James Dannemiller Psychology Michael Emerson Sociology Eugenia Georges Anthropology Holly Heard Sociology Mikki Hebl Psychology Vivian Ho Economics Christopher Kelty Anthropology Nancy Lin Hanszen College senior, Cognitive Sciences Elise Mc Carthy Graduate student, Anthropology Helena Michie English Cliff Morgan Political Science Elizabeth Powell Economics department coordinator Carol Quillen History Darrow Zeidenstein Associate vice president for development t 1 1 i I 1 i I k i k i . George Zodrow Economics TAYLOR JOHNSON/THRESHER

STUDENT ASSOCIATION

The Student Association met Monday. The following were dis- cussed.

SA President James Lloyd led a discussion on the outcome of the inaugural Sammy's Picnic, held Aug. 25.

Lloyd called for applicants to the Dean's Committee on Social Culture. (See Story, Page 9.) A student co-chair as well as student memoers are needed. The application for the co-chair position is due Sept. 9 and was sent out via the SA listserv.

Lloyd announced the SA will hold a Social Culture Forum Sept. 19 at 10 p.m.

"Senior chairs" were proposed; these officers would rep- resent the senior class for a one-year term and coordinate events such as "100 Days." Lloyd said this set-up would work better than class councils, which have generally fizzled n before the class' fourth year.

Lloyd announced a forum will be held with President David Leebron to discuss his Call to Conversation Sept. 12 at 8:30 p.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion. At the forum, Leebron will answer student questions about the document, available at http://cohesion.rice.edu/administration/presidentsof- fice/c2c/index2.cfm. TAYLOR JOHNSON/THRESHER

The "Rice Rumor Report" addressed recent insinuations that there is an ongoing "crackdown" on Alcohol Policy enforcement.

The next meeting will be Monday at 10 p.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion.

Baker Institute Intern Program

The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy is now 1 accepting applications for student interns for the fall 2005 semester. This is your chance to work directly with Insti- tute Fellows and Rice Faculty on exciting areas of research including Energy. Health Economics, U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy, Tax Reform, Science and Technology, Chinese Culture, and the Americas Projecct. Interns will work up to 10 hours/week - the work may involve re- search, writing, editing, and office work including copy- ing, filing, etc.

Applicants must provide the following: - Application letter stating areas of interest

- Resume TAYLOR JOHNSON/THRESHER - Official Sealed Transcript - One Letter of Recommendation Applications will be considered on a first come, first

served basis. Top: Wless College freshman Emilia Perfetti, Wiess freshman Adam Benaroya, Wiess freshman John Cross and Wless sophomore Joshua Langsfeld (left to light) look at an exhibit in the Wiess Energy Hall at the Museum of Natural Science. The President's Office hosted a Passport to Houston event that Included an IMAX showing at Completed applications should be addressed to: Baker the museum Tuesday. Institute Stdent Intern Program, Attention Jason Lyons, Se- Middle: Lovett College sophomores Nlki vonHedemann (left) and Matt Rooney look at a dinosaur exhibit at the nior Research Coordinator, Baker Institute MS-40. Ques- museum. Bottom: Wless sophomore Frank Havlak (left), Wiess sophomore Katerine Zubros (midddle) and Hanszen College tions may be sent [email protected] freshman Richard Romeo (right) examine dinosaur bones. .. . , < *1

THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005 Dean's Committee on Social Culture formed Student co-chair to be named by Sept. 19

by David Brown be concerned with the Alcohol Policy THRESHEH EDITORIAL STAFF or its enforcement. Lloyd said the SA will hold a social ITie role of alcohol on campus culture forum Sept. 19 with Sawyer and the general social environment and the chosen student co-chair to at Rice will be the focus of a com- discuss the committee's role and mittee being formed by Dean of its make-up. He said the rest of Undergraduates Robin Forman. the committee will likely consist of The Dean's Committee on Social six students and six faculty or staff Culture will be co-chaired by Earth members. Science Professor and former Will Rice College Master Dale Sawyer and a student to be selected by '[As Will Rice master], Student Association President James Lloyd. / spent evenings in Lloyd said he will select the student co-chair by reviewing ap- emergency rooms with plications, due next Friday, and conducting interviews. students who chose "We're looking for a student with a to consume too much background in a wide range of inter- ests at Rice and experience working [alcohol], and I ran wine with the Rice community," Lloyd, a Brown College senior, said. tastings for seniors.' Forman said his goal is for the — Dale Sawyer committee to help him create and Dean's Commitee on Social implement programs for students. "My office is doing a lot to try to Culture co-chair support activities around campus that Former Will Rice College master affect st u dent li fe in a variety of ways," *1 Forman said. "We'd like to make de- cisions that are as well informed as The deadline for applications for possible. The goal is to learn about positions on the committee is Sept. students' interests, attitudes, percep- 21, and the co-chairs will select the tions and behaviors." other members, Lloyd said. The committee will replace a tem- Forman said he chose Sawyer : porary one composed of students, fac- to co-chair the committee because *** - K*SBI8e*wE*i " €g| ulty and staff convened this summer of his range of experience at Rice. MARSHALL ROBINSON THRESHER and created the "Real Rice"campaign Sawyer, who was a master from 1997 to communicate that many students to 2002, said he saw alcohol used in on campus do not drink. The tempo- many settings at Rice. Join today rary committee also created the Big "I spent evenings in emergency Martel College freshman Mithun Mansinghani signs up to become a member of the Rice College Republicans at Owl Bash, an alcohol-free event held rooms with students who chose to the Activities Fair, held Friday from 12:30-4 p.m. in the Grand Hall at the Rice Memorial Center. the Saturday after Orientation Week consume too much, and 1 ran wine that featured free food, a hypnotist tastings for seniors," Sawyer said. and live bands. "I was involved in a wide variety Forman said the new committee's of activities where alcohol was first goal will be to investigate the role I used] in moderation and was part of alcohol at Rice. of the program without being the dominant effect." Sawyer said he hopes the com- mittee will use more than anecdotal ' The goal I of the evidence in evaluating alcohol use committee/ is to at Rice. "I'm interested in seeing some learn about students' solid information ... to have the group try to acquire really accurate interests, attitudes, data on how many students are choosing to binge drink, to drink perceptions and moderately and socially and not to The Professional Science Master's offers drink at all," Sawyer said. behaviors.' Forman said the committee will — Robin Forman gather information through discus- cutting-edge science education, Dean of undergraduates sion as well as campus surveys and forums. management skills, and work experience . . . "It's not the committee's job "It's the first topic because students to just come up with ideas on its are asking for more clarity," Forman own," he said. "Its job is also to hold said. "The committee will be largely forums to learn of the interests of ... in less than 2 years. focused on that area, but that's not the broader Rice community and the only subject of interest — it's a to give everyone a more realistic starting point." sense of what the Rice community Lloyd said the committee will not is really like." Choose from M.S. degrees in:

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(Y)\//MI'ORUi) (lARIiAGF THE THRESHER'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EVENTS AROUND Menil suggests modern art more than mere trash HOUSTON THROUGH SEPTEMBER 8, 2005. Trevor Murphy For instance, a glass-covered rose FOR THE THRESHER dangling a colorful train of dirty 1 So many modern visual arts hair-combs, old ribbon, and twine exhibits assault the viewer with bears the name Bouquet with Rose. impenetrable convolutions of color The central Jomo Board #2 is an and ignore the confused, vacant intricate and elaborate collection picks stares of the average museum-goer. of age-stained objects, accompa- Thankfully, the latest modern art nied by the tagline: "Assemblage: assorted artist-invested magical tomorrow exhibit at the Menil Collection, David McManaway and Friends — titled elements." for spotlighted artists David Mc- SILENT ALL Manaway Jim Ix)ve and Roy Fridge, Love uses THESE YEARS among others — invites the casual art enthusiast to enter each piece's these metals' unique world and often to share a Nobody can really match quaint, intimate joke. malleability to the angsty, bravura bal- form a captivating lads of Tori Amos. She is 'david mcmanaway in town, performing with and friends' WINEOW into the Los Angeles-based The Menil Collection the artist's mind- Rating: • ••• group The Ditty Bops. (out of five) on-the-go. Tomorrow at 8:00. Most of the works on display The Hobby Center for the take the form of large assemblages Each artist in this exhibition or installations, and the construc- draws on unconventional elements. Performaing Arts. tions arrest audiences with their Fridge, for instance, gathered a 800 Bagby. massive presences. It is impossible garbage-day-worthy plethora of to avoid Jomo (Portrait of Jim Love) collage material to create The Please call on the way in — how could viewers Hermit Shrine. His artist's tools (713) 629-3700 for hide their own smiles when they included wood, tennis shoes, more information. see a grinning sock monkey taking wire coat hangers, glass and center stage in an art museum? dowels with cloth-covered jour- Jomo, the first of McManaway's nals. This "shrine" stands as an this weekend many pieces, displays the artist's open triptych of yellowed diaries, ability to create fascinating works personal photos and the clothes 'HELLO, MY from apparent garbage. of an old hermit. The homage a contains — quite literally — every- NAME IS INIGO thing but the hermit himself, and MONTOYA. YOU This hometown its emotional pull enraptures view- KILLED MY take on the ers. The haphazard juxtaposition of found articles and decay proves FATHER. classic alligator- heart-wrenching and thought-pro- PREPARE TO skin purse is sure voking while retaining a tongue-in- DIE' cheek humorous edge. to attract GAWKS Immediately adjacent to the COURTESY THE MENIL COLLECTION shrine stands The Great Spin- Jomo Board #2 (1968) by David McManaway is part of David McManaway Everyone's favorite cult from the fashion- ning Arrow Consolating Console. and Friends, now showing at the Menil Collection. The piece is made from classic/fairy tale is this forward. Through a complicated series of "assorted artist-invested magical elements." levers and gears, this massive weekend's midnight The works' titles and taglines structure of hand-carved wood edge of motion and the temptation exhibit, viewers are still advised movie. often enhance the museum-goer's ostensibly links a hand crank to an to turn the arrow's crank is almost to maintain their distance from Tonight and tomorrow at experience, adding an unexpected enormous arrowhead. The tremen- overwhelming. However, despite the gallery pieces by omnipresent humor or insight to each piece. dous arrow appears poised on the the interactive, casual humor of this See MENIL, page 12 midnight. The River Oaks. SECRET GARDEN 2009 West Gray. Please call (713) 866-8881 for more Meirelles proves to have green thumb with 'Gardener' information.

Liz Mims this weekend THRESHER STAFF Many a director has attempted FOR THE to capture a novel of John LeCarre on film, but most have fallen short, KIDNAPPED trapping themselves by focusing HEIRESS IN US on moments of sheer suspense ALL... and ignoring plot details that make LeCarre's novels believable. In contrast, Oscar-nominated director The MFAH will be Fernando Meirelles manages to screening Guerilla: The translate The Constant Gardener into an appropriately subtle sum- mer thriller. Meirelles, famous for a documentary that directing the controversial City of God, utilizes his impressionistic, examines Hearst's days as trenchant style of filmmaking to en- a hostage. hance LeCarre's intricate fiction. Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 7 p.m. The

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Please call in theaters Rating: •••1/2 (out of five) information. The story revolves around the life of Justin Quayle {The English Patient's Ralph Fi- ennes), a stoic Brit- ish diplomat who

marries outspo- COURTESY FOCUS FEATURES ken activist Tessa Ralph Fiennes attempts to uncover the circumstances of his wife's death in director Fernando Meirelles' The (Runaway Jury's Constant Gardener. Rachel Weisz). In the first 10 min- death until he begins to unearth the uncovered a pharmaceutical indus- The film solidly combines the utes of the film, secrets of Tessa's pursuits before try conspiracy that claimed many romance and thriller genres us- Tessa dies in a her untimely death. Africans' lives. Justin realizes his ing clever cinematography. The suspicious car ac- Throughout their marriage, wife's accident was a murder, and as scenes are nonlinear and fast-paced cident in Africa. Tessa was researching a drug he tries to solve the mystery behind enough that the love and the action Justin shows little named Dipraxa, a pill made to it, his hunt leads him into many come alive through flashbacks. For emotion over her treat tetanus. In her efforts, she life-threatening situations. See GARDENER, page 1! » •, s11 i

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This summer, Touchstone technological miscellany ("little Pictures destroyed a small part dongly things" in Adams' tongue- of my soul. The company released in-cheek essay) to the supposed an incomparably me- private life of Genghis diocre film entitled The Khan. He also reveals Hitchhiker's Guide to the the true account of Galaxy, based on the sci- his involvement in ence-fiction cult classic the Hitchhiker's movie by Douglas Adams. No, process — and rest I didn't expect it to be a assured, I am going blockbuster (it wasn't) to lay full blame for and I never thought it the film's failure on could compare to the Touchstone Pictures radio series or books from now on. v •' * * m. ' *' ** * ^ § of the same name (it Julia Perhaps the most 11 m. • didn't), but I was hoping f fV# ' *l\ J Bursten relevant portion of against hope the film The Salmon of Doubt * **• m_% K' * would be something is the story of the otherthan afeeble attempt to make same name. In its introduction, W16 VH'l > a little more money off one of the Adamfc explains that he wanted most ingenious authors of modern to end the Hitchhiker's series on sci-fi. My hopes were dashed, and a more upbeat note than in the % Adams deserved better. rather dark fifth book, Mostly I came home from the open- Harmless. The Salmon of Doubt ing-night show — which, by was supposed to be a full sixth the way, was nowhere near sold novel in the saga, but a fatal heart out — utterly dismayed. Marvin attack in 2001 prevented Adams the Paranoid Android had nothing from finishing his work. on me. In a feeble attempt to cheer I've reread portions of this myself up, I Googled the film to collection innumerable times,

COURTESY SONY PICTURE CLASSICS see whether Adams could have and I have found a favorite essay Tony Leung Chiu Wai (In the Mood for Love) stars as Chow Mo Wan in 2046, director Wong Kar Wai's visually actually been involved in such a among Adams' masses of wonder- stunning film about unrequited love. disgrace. fully random thoughts. 'ITie essay Things went from bad to dates to the late 1990s or early Margaret Tung liasons with Bai Ling (Crouching Wen to a newspaper office so she worse. Not only had Adams co- 2000s and describes Adams' first FOR THE THRESHER Tiger, Hidden Dragons Zhang Ziyi) can make a long-distance call to authored the movie script, he experience with a personal digital Booze, tobacco and one-night and Wang Jing Wen (Chungking her Japanese boyfriend in a cli- had been working to create a film assistant. He writes the essay, stands pepper the landscapes of Express's Faye Wong). Ziyi dazzles mactic scene illustrating the film's version of The Hitchhiker's Guide originally a column in the Brit- 2046, the new film from Hong Kong in her role as a sophisticated and themes of freedom and loneliness. for about 20 years. My head began ish newspaper The Independent, director Kar Wai Wong. While the seductive temptress who uses her As Chow peers into the glass win- swimming and I started to doubt only because he wants to prove movie has its share of unadulterated breathtaking beauty to manipulate dow, his characteristic cigarette in whether the meaning of life was he can write an entire column on passion, underneath the debauchery the opposite sex. Bai Ling has per- hand — with its snake-like smoke really 42. Then, in a miniscule a palm-sized computer. it portrays the conflict between the fected the art of playing games with ensnaring the frame — he clearly box on a for-more-information To me, such a stunt is quintes- freedom the protagonist's bachelor men so well that it only appears to sees someone he desires — a de- website, I found redemption. And sential Adams. It incorporates his status allows and the loneliness it be extended foreplay. sire made stronger because she is redemption came to me as The love of technology and his love of often creates. emotionally unavailable. Salmon of Doubt. irony into a meaningful commen- Wong Kar Wai This motif of unrequited love It would be hard to make a tary on modern culture. is also played out in a short story book called The Salmon of Doubt Adams' whimsical, irreverent brings a SEXILY Chow affectionately writes for Jing bad. But when the volume is filled fascination with science, which in- 2046' Wen, jokingly titled "2047." In this with anecdotes about Adams as spired the entire Hitchhiker's Guide stylized approach section of the film, Wong Kar Wai told by his friends and admirers, to the Galaxy series, has been boiled In theaters contrasts the dark and muted colors as well as unfinished, never- down to its essence in this piece. Rating: •••• to a classic love of the previous storyline with high- before-published short stories Every time I see how this spirit (out of five) story by shooting light-toned pinks and Tokyo-infused and collected essays by Adams was lost in the production of the fashions that denote the fantasy to himself, it is impossible not to fall Hitchhiker's Guide movie, I think The narrator, Chow Mo Wan intricate close-ups the audience. In this subplot, the in literary love. Adams might smile if he knew his (In the Mood for Ijjve's Tony Leung and toying hero falls for an android against the Salmon made its debut in fans have to turn from a high-tech Chiu Wai), is a carefree F. Scott wishes of the 2046 train conductor. May 2002, commemorating film to a low-tech book to find his Fitzgerald-esque writer whose with colorful Through the android, also played by the anniversary of Adams' un- most meaningful work. highly stylized life and torrid affairs Faye Wong, the universal theme of timely death. Inside, the mind provide the characters and plots cinematography. the human need for companionship of Douglas Adams spews forth Julia Bursten is a Ijivett College for his sensationalized, borderline- is shown — a need that has been satirical and bizarre commentary sophomore and assistant arts and steamy novels. He notes, "love is Wong's character is the daughter pre-wired, so to speak, into our on everything from tangles of entertainment editor. all about timing," and through this of the owner of the hotel where genetic coding. perspective the audience meets all Chow stays. She fell in love with Hie film's only fault is its often of the women with whom Wai be- a Japanese man her father did laborious pace. Otherwise, Wong Kar comes emotionally and physically not approve of and spent time at a Wai brings a sexily stylized approach involved. The film's title, 2046. is mental hospital to recover from the to a classic love story by shooting a reference to the hotel room in heartbreak. Then, Chow appears at intricate close-ups and toying with Planet which Chow once stayed with a the hotel to mend her broken heart colorful cinematography. He has former flame and is also the title through nights of avid writing, small created a captivating and flirtatious of his science-fiction novel. favors and much physical restraint project that will set the bar for any ^ Beach of his future work. of . In his book. Chow includes on Chow's part. Chow takes Jing tanning • spa GARDENER From page 10 inn Rll SflMSTfR FOR $99! instance, Meirelles shows audi- plicated. Fiennes attempts to por- brimming with striking scenery. ences one of Justin's memories tray Justin as an unemotional man From brilliant reds and arid oranges of Tessa early in their marriage who eventually grows a fervently in Kenya to the graying gardens of mVSTIC SPRflV TAD and then cuts to a shot of Justin beating heart. Justin's character Ivondon, the cinematography has the running from authorities months arc is difficult to show, though, be- ability to make the viewer feel, not later. The film's narration has no cause of the randomly interspersed just see, the desperation of the many BUY 1 SET 1 FREE! order, but each segment unveils flashbacks. With Justin's levels of African families and a single British more information behind the emotional growth shining unevenly, one. Yet in their lives of depression, RICt: UJESTHfllllfR: tragedies consuming Justin's life. any sympathy for him is dwarfed by the beauty — in countrysides, in 5182 Buffalo Speedway 8366 Ufestheimer. Suite D The viewer's mind processes two a sense of confusion. community, in danger — of finding 713-667-1826 713-266-8267 juxtaposed, hasty narratives until In addition, Weisz's portrayal of love after it has been lost prevails. {Rt UJestpark In the Kroger center) (Rt Dunudle across from DSU) shoes) they eventually collide, gelling into Tessa in the beginning scenes as Meirelles's juxtaposition of land- one serene ending. such an outspoken, fearless activ- scapes and fates captures this point ICHGUf CITY: SPRinG/CHRmPIOnS: ist, in contrast to the nearly lifeless stunningly. While this narrative structure is 1-45 6 646 louetta 6 Stubner Airline initially compelling, the flashbacks Fiennes, make their roles seem like The Constant Gardener s so well- 281-534-4899 281-370-3636 ultimately feel rough and uncon- cartoonishly polar opposites. The shot and so topically relevant that {Hf B Center) nected. ITie random jumps through film's time limit does not allow for it compensates for the storylines (Hf B Colony louin Center) time leave the viewer wanting a better the complex character development disjointedness. Audiences should sense of continuity. LeCarre's text calls for. not expect the same genius Mei- Meirelles' refusal to tell LeCar- Despite glitches in translation relles expressed with City of God, f All 215 SflMSTfR re's story from start to finish also from book to screen, The Constant but they can look forward to an Certain restrictions apply. makes character development com- Gardener is a breathtaking film, enjoyable political thriller. 12 THE RICE THRESHER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,2005

C I III K M nnini 'Junebug' portrays culture clash with slow-burning precision

Jonathan Schumann various carpentry projects. Their THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF son Johnny (77te O.C.'s Ben McK- The suburban North Carolina enzie), detached and brooding, bedrooms and hallways in direc- works at a factory during the day tor Phil Morrison's debut feature, and sulks around the house at night. Junebug, are filled with silence. His That leaves his garrulous and very characters, misfits of both rural and pregnant wife Ashley (Catch Me urban extraction, spend as much If You Can's Amy Adams) lonely, : t: time meaningfully conversing as they hungry for attention. do wandering silent and alone. The Morrison and screenwriter W result is a surprisingly ruminative Angus MacLachlan set up an and endearing, albeit slow-paced intriguing culture clash between and ultimately lethargic, dramedy big-city and small-town values, about family and the contemporary paying specific attention to the American sociopolitical divide. importance placed on family life versus business life. They explore the divide between urban and rural sensibilities with a great deal of 'junebug' humor, but never condescension. This touch separates them from in theaters other young filmmakers — most Rating: ••• 1/2 notably Alexander Payne and Jim (out of five) Taylor oiAbout Schmidt and Citizen Ruth fame — who have written Madeleine (Bridget Jones's satirical, funny films that skewer Diary's Embeth Davidtz) is a the Midwest. As hilarious and Chicago art gallery owner. She ultimately superior as those films features "outsider" art — works are, Morrison and MacLachlan's from individuals not schooled in affection for these small-town traditional, formal artistic methods. characters warrants praise. She meets George (iMurel Canyons In fact, if anyone emerges short- Alessandro Nivola) at an auction sighted, it is Madeleine, the zealous and immediately falls in love with career woman. She is driven and COURTESY SONY PICTURE CLASSICS him. The couple visits George's very much in love, and while she The O.C.'s Ben McKenzie stars as Johnny, a North Carolina factory worker, in Junebug, director Phil Morrison's new small North Carolina town to check tries to welcome George's family film about clashing cultures. out a new artist and borderline into her life, her expressions of schizophrenic who paints graphi- delight and accommodation eventu- While the rest of the cast life. While she displays an extraordi- viewer begins to see several missed cally violent and highly eroticized ally become contorted and strained. also fares well, especially nary comic ability—often delivering opportunities. What about showing Civil War panoramas. Here, in this Davidtz played a two-dimensional McKenzie — who all but sheds his lengthy speeches that range in topic us Madeleine and Ashley shopping at bubble of red-state values and unre- version of this character in Bridget teen idol status — Adams steals the from her impending delivery to the the local mini-mall? A trip to Fayless fined social conventions, Madeleine Jones, where her chirpy voice film. While audiences may remem- Muir cat — she also excels in the would surely provide great comedy meets George's extensive family. drove shards of ice into Bridget's ber Adams as Leonardo DiCaprio's film's dramatic scenes. and underscore the film's culture- Peg (Flirting with Disasters heart as Mr. Darcy's legal partner. most serious paramour in Catch Her relentlessly energetic pres- clash motif. Celia Weston), the matriarch, ex- She was captivating in that film, Me If You Can, this film will be ence infuses life into the film's Morrison and Macl Sicilian give cels at sewing and domestic arts but here she has more room to regarded as her breakthrough. She otherwise laconic and ultimately us such an intriguing premise and and crafts. Her husband Eugene humanize. She does great work creates Ashley as an eager young sluggish final act. In this scene, characters that wholly gain our (Pearl Harbors Scott Wilson), finding Madeleine's contradictions woman hungry to learn all about the film achieves a level of subtlety affection. In the end, all we're left passes his time whittling away at and flaws. Madeleine's sophisticated Chicago that borders on mundane, and the wanting is more. MENU > Th ,r 8Uf,8! From page 10 At,en,i„n His.oi'V " ' signs reading "Please Do NotTouch The Houston Basket behind the Works of Art." exhibit's massive glass case. The While the initial visual appeal of Houston Basket and The Bird, The McManaway lies in its large-scale Warrior demonstrate Love's talent installations, the exhibit also con- for bending old iron and steel to tains a bevy of smaller structures. new uses. I,ove uses these metals' McManaway offers the must-have, malleability to form a captivating not-for-the-faint-of-heart fashion window into the artist's mind-on- accessory of next season with 'Ihe the-go, a feat rarely accomplished Houston Basket, This hometown take so elegantly. on the classic alligator-skin purse McManaway and Friends runs is sure to attract gawks from the through Sept. IIS at the Menil Col- fashion-forward. lection, and provides a uniquely The Warrior, one of Love's enjoyable modern-art experience small-scale masteries, sits near for the masses.

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Texas is now a hideous monstrosity. first goal in the 65th minute when fresh- MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHER Rice Stadium needs a makeover. It is an unsuitable man midfielder Ashley Lucas found the Freshman midfielder Ashley Lucas dribbles the bail in Sunday's 3-1 loss to Saint Louis. Lucas facility for a campus our size. I'm not saying we should ball in a goal-box scram to tie the game scored her first career goal in the 65th minute of Friday's game against Auburn. The Owls tear it down, since that would be far too costly and would at 1-1. The Owls had a chance to take the continue their five-game homestand Sunday against Texas State at 1 p.m. completely ignore the stadium's historical significance. lead on a penalty kick in the 78th minute, Nor do I think we should convert it into a tri-purpose when sophomore forward Clory Martin Owls a 2-1 advantage. The Rice defense call offDroeger, a three-year team captain. facility and make it a football, track and soccer stadium. was fouled in the box, but senior defender held on in the game's final seven minutes to take the kick. The small changes I propose would not cost as much Erin Droeger's penalty kick missed wide to preserve Rice's second consecutive "With penalty kicks, you try not to money as either of those options and would simply help left. An Auburn handball in the box in the season-opening victory. think too much," Robbins said. "You move the stadium into the 21st century. 83rd minute gave Rice another penalty Robbins, who was named Conference just go out there and you have to have First, Rice should tear down the upper seating levels kick, which Robbins converted to give the USA Player of the Week Monday, had to see SOCCER, page 16 that hardly anyone sits on. I understand those seats were a necessity in the earlier days of Rice Stadium, when it hosted several major rock concerts, Bluebon- net Bowls and Super Bowl VIII. But bowl games and Volleyball opens homestand at tournament concerts are now played in more fan-friendly facilities such this weekend for national recognition." as Reliant Stadium and the Toyota Center, so we need not by Matt McCabe We are happy with her performance, worry about that stuff. And it's not as if the twenty or so especially the fact that she's a dual player The Owls will open the tournament THRESHER EDITORIAL ST AFF people who actually do sit on the upper levels couldn't ... she can go from left to right to middle against McNeese State Friday at 10:30 find a place below to sit. Freshman outside hitter/middle whenever we need her to." a.m. before facing off with Duke at 7 Second, we need to get rid of those rotting wooden blocker Jessica Holderness recorded Vol|X' said she has also been impressed p.m. Duke was picked to win the Atlantic bleachers. Yes, they were go< >d for 1950, but in today's sport s Rice's opening-point kill and the match- with Morgan. Coast Conference by the league's 12 head world wooden bleachers are ridiculous.Those things are winning block, leading to an opening- "She definitely has the power [as an coaches. clearly past theirprimeafterenduringdeeadesofall sortsof match victory over the University of outside hitter],"Volpe said. "She probably "Duke is a team that is picked to win weather — blinding rains, blistering sun, oppressive Louisiana-Lafayette. Holderness said hits the ball harder than anyone in the the ACC," Volpe said. "Duke has a lot humidity, you name it. While I would prefer to replace head coach (Ienny Volpe moved her to of experience and depth, and I'm hop- them all with seats similar to those found at Reckling Park, middle blocker to fill a hole in the team. ing that we have a ton of support from I realize that option might be a bit too expensive. Even "I [am trying] to contribute in anyway 'There's not a separation the student body and the community to metal bleachers, like the ones that are already located in thatlcan [to| the team," Holderness said. come out and support not only two great various parts of the stadium, would at least be sturdy. "If (Ienny needs me to play middle, which of age on this team volleyball teams, but two great academic We must take out that Astroturf field and replace it with is not my first position, I'll do that." schools." natural grass. Astroturf is the stuff of torn knee ligaments Rice (1-0) swept Louisiana-Lafayette — everyone is very much Saturday at 7 p.m., Rice will take on and broken ankles. Plenty of improvements have been made (0-1) 30-17,30-22,30-22 to open its season together.' Sacramento State, a team that has been to the facility over the past ten years. A new weight-training with a win for the second consecutive year. to the NCA*\ tournament in seven of the complex was built and the locker rooms were expanded; a In the first game, freshman outside hitter — Kristina Denneniann last eight seasons. natural-grass field is the next logical step. Karyn Morgan and Holderness served Sophomore outside hitter "[Sacramento State] just played two The last thing I want to see happen involves the "R" Room. for 14 of Rice's points. ranked teams this weekend, [going] I've always thought the history of Rice athletics should be "I'm definitely pleased with the new- five games with Ixrng Beach State and made more available to die general student population. It comers," Volpe said. "I was really pleased conference." four games with San Diego," Volpe said. would be cool to take all of the trophies, plaques, and banners [that] our first four points came from the Rice now faces a crucial homestand, "They know how to win — it's tradition from the "R" Room and Autry Court and put them all in one freshmen ... it was kind of fun." playing three matches in two days against for them." building — a new Rice Sports Hall of Fame building, if you Volpe said she thinks Holderness' strong competition in the Crowne Plaza After appearing in just 19 matches last will — somewhere closer to the center of campus, perhaps flexibility will be very important to the Rice Invitational at Autry Court Friday year and making no starts, sophomore in a new recreation center. It should be free to the students team's success this year. and Saturday. outside hitter Kristina Denneniann and still be equipped for special ceremonies, like the "R" "Holderness is a huge part of the "It's definitely possible to win all three started last weekend and tallied 8 kills. Room is now. People might not flock to this new building, team," Volpe said. "She's an amazing of the games," Volpe said. "It's going to "I think it's important to open the season but it would provide a fascinating way to learn about a part athlete, very versatile, and a workhorse. take a lot of consistency and effort on our on a good note as well as every game," of our school's history that often gets ignored. We are a She's someone you want on the court. part. We've talked about the opportunity see VOLLEYBALL page 18 very proud athletic institution as well as a proud academic institution, and it's about time we show that off. 0WL00K - THE WEEK IN SPORTS These suggestions of mine are not too expensive. 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by Matt McCabe in enough loaded meets, and [the THRKSHEK EDITORIAL STAFF Griak and Pre-Nationals] will help them for regionals." The women's cross country team The team added two freshmen, opens its season today with a relay Ix-a Garcia and Claire Shorall. Senior race at Texas A&M with all of last Sarah Yoder, who exhausted her year's runners returning. soccer eligibility last fall, also joined "The potential that we have is the team after running outdoor track probably as high as we've had since the last two seasons. Callie Wells, a I've been here in 19 years," head sophomore, transferred from the coach Jim Bevan said. "We feel like University of Texas. we have a chance to be a legitimate The depth provides us a little top-20 team in the nation." bit of margin for error, but the other Rice's returnees include senior thing that depth does is it forces Kate Gorry, the only Rice female everybody to rise to a little higher cross country runner ever to win level because they know that there is an individual conference title, and someone else out there," Bevan said. sophomore Marissa Daniels, who "If they're going to earn a spot in the finished 53rd out of250runnersatthe top seven, there is somebody that is NCAA Championships a year ago. helping them and pushing them." "There'sa feeling within the group The seniors on the team are use- that they know what this is about," fully seasoned, Bevan said. Bevan said. There's a synergy that exists right now — you can feel it,... you can taste it. We've got a chance 'The potential that we to do great things this fall." MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHER The Owls will get their first taste have is probably as The women's cross country team loosens up with a jog around campus in practice Monday. The team will compete in a of competition Friday at Texas A&M high as we've had since relay meet at Texas A&M this weekend. The Owls will officially open their season when they host the Rice Invitational University before officially opening Sept. 17. The men's and women's races will conclude at the Rice Track/Soccer Stadium. their season when they host the Rice Invitational Sept. 17. I've been here.' Rice will travel to two major — Jim Bevan That's a pretty good description of national meets, the Roy Griak Invita- Head women's cross country Kate Gorry." tional in St. Paul, Minn. Sept. 24 and coach Senior Anna Reeve has been Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind. plagued with injuries throughout — site of the NCAA Championships her career at Rice, but is healthy — Oct. 15. "The fact that Kate and Marissa now. Reeve, who is entering her fifth "The Griak is the best meet in have been to nationals helps tremen- year at Rice, said her experiences the country that weekend," Bevan dously," Bevan said. "Sometimes could be instructive for younger said. "The significance of the Griak nothing can take the place of being team members. and the Pre-National meet is: If you in the act of competing." "There are some things that beat schools out of your region, at the Gorry said the team's unorthodox you can't learn from a high school i$ now hfernf! regional meet [later in the season], structure will make it successful. career, [including] dealing with an they go back to see who you beat in "It's unicjue that we don't have an injury, competing at a national level Senrars & Host Staff regular season meetings, and [that order on our team," Gorry said. "We [and] being involved in a sport that's Applicants must have pwous «*p«*ie»K*. dictates the] 13 at-large teams that have 7-10 people that will probably intense," Reeve said. "I hope the Wr offtr excellent health A denial 6er»«#*ts, get a berth into nationals." be different in the order. This year younger runners look up to some pci the best women's cross country of perseverance. S20 Meyer tand PUua 9tio SW Freeway ference championship is scheduled runners in Rice history. "She's fitter now than she's ever Houston. TX 77096 Houston. TX 7707A PH: (713) 665.2216 for Oct. 30 in New Orleans, La. "She, by sheer determination, been," Bevan said. "Reeve has over- Smiruoo "Mml7n^77 "We would like nothing more worked hard and willed herself to come a couple of chronic injuries 19720 sSSmS tawwwy than to win a Conference USA title this level," Bevan said. "She is our [and] she's stayed with it. I think Suf»r imd, TX 77479 in our first year," Bevan said. "No leader both physically and mentally. she'd like to make up for the fact PH: (2«l)t32-3}02 matter how well we do, [though], we This is a sport of sacrifice, and it that she hasn't been healthy in a have some people who haven't run rewards sacrifice and perseverance. couple of years."

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Freshman goalkeeper Adriene just rest on our laurels," Giese said. Giese, with a combined seven saves "We have to keep our intensity SOCCER in her first two starts, said one of the [throughout] the whole game and From page 13 team's problems against Saint Louis not just after we get a goal." I was becoming too relaxed after get- The Owls' primary undoing, confidence that you're going to put shot Auburn 6-2 in the second half, at St Louis, in which Rice secured a 1-0 ting the early lead. however, was an inability to take ad- it in the back of the net That's what giving the Owls a 9-5 advantage for victory that sent the Owls to the NCAA vantage of scoring opportunities and happened [against Auburn]. I was the game. The Tigers managed only Tournament instead of the Billikens. second-half fatigue. Rice had several ready to take that kick. I wanted to two shots on goal, though, compared Rice got off to a quick start when '[The] crowd... pulled chances to build a lead in the second score a goal, and I knew I could." to eight for the Owls. sophomore forward Clory Martin half but could not convert. Rice's defense played tough Riding high off the momentum and sophomore midfielder Samantha us through against "[The loss] just showed us that throughout the second half, leaving from the Auburn game, Rice had a Conn combined to assist Robbins we have to be fitter," Robbins said. Auburn few opportunities offensively. chance to have its best-ever seasonstart in the game's fourth minute, giving Auburn.' "We can't just go out and play on The Tigers had one chance early in Sunday against Saint Louis (1-1-0), the the Owls a 1-0 lead. Saint Louis tied — Caitlin Robbins a Friday and expect [the Sunday the second half when forward Kara 2004 regular-season Conference USA the game 1-1 in the 33rd minute and Redshirt freshman forward game] to go as we want.... We need Hasten made it through the Owl de- champion and current member of the added two goals within a four-minute to work harder, and it's good that fense for an open shot, but it sailed Atlantic 10 Conference. This game was period late in the second half to pro- we had that shown to us the first the ball over the crossbar. Rice out- a rematch of last year's defensive affair vide the final 3-1 margin. "After we get one goal, we can't weekend [of the season]."

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MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHER The men's cross country team takes a warm-up lap around the track during practice earlier this week. The team welcomes Ave newcomers to a squad that won the 2004 WAC Championship. The Owls open their season at the Texas A&M Cross Country Relays this weekend before hosting the Rice Invitational Sept. 17. Men's cross country seeks C-USA title, nationals berth

by Katy Miller ing so many returning runners after have an impact right away," Warren Robson, sophomore Colby Keithan conference." such a strong finish really keeps a lot said. "Pablo Solares is returning in and freshman Alex Solomon. FOR THE THRESHER Two weeks after the Texas A&M of momentum going this season." great shape." "[Although] an older team is al- relays, the team returns to Houston Coming off a Western Athletic Two of the best coss country Senior Marcel Hewamudalige is ways going to be more consistent, to host the Rice Invitational Sept. 17, Conference championship season teams from the WAC, Tulsa and the also expected to stand out after be- none of these guys are really fresh held on and around campus. In 2004, in which three athletes advanced to Texas-El Paso, will join Rice in C-USA, ing WAC cross country champion in men," Warren said. "If they train, Rice won both the men's and women's the NCAA Championship meet, the and defending C-IJSA champion UH 2004. Hewamudalige, who finished we're going to be in the hunt in this events. men's cross country team hopes to also awaits the Owls. If Rice wins 40th at the NCAA Championships, win another conference title in 2005. the conference and advances to spent the summer recovering from Rice begins its inaugural season in NCAA Regionals, it will most likely a foot injury. Conference USA Friday at the Texas compete with strong teams such as "The same thing happened last " MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY: 2005 SCHEDULE A&M Cross Country Relays in Col- the University of Texas. year where I didn't get to run at all lege Station, Tex. "Those are our two primary during the summer and I came back Sept. 2 Texas A&M Cross Country Relays 7:45 p.m. goals, and that's what we're gearing and kind of snuck by and trained pretty Sept. 17 Rice Invitational 8:30 a.m. everything toward: IJTEP first, and well for the year," Hewamudalige said. Sept. 30 Islander Opener Splash (Corpus Christi) TBA then Texas," head coach Jon Warren "Hopefully, the same thing will happen An older team is Oct. 1 Cowboy Jamboree (Stillwater, Okla.) TBA (Jones '88) said. "Everything we've this year, only better." always going to be got set up here is for winning the The team will also have to rely Oct. 15 Pre-Nationals (Terre Haute, Ind.) TBA conference." on some younger runners — due to Oct. 30 C-USA Championships (New Orleans, La.) 9 a.m. more consistent, none the departure of graduating seniors Nov. 12 NCAA South-Central Championships (Waco) TBA of these guys are really Adam Davis (Baker '05) and Seth Nov. 21 NCAA Championships (Terre Haute, Ind.) TBA 'Having some many Neumuller (Baker '05) — such as last freshmen.' year's fifth man, sophomore Aaron — Jon Warren returning runners after Head men's cross country coach such a strong finish really keeps a lot of The team returns four of the six momentum going this runners who placed in the lop 10 Hey, at (he 2004 WAC Championships. season.' Senior Scott Loftin, who finished second among the Owls advancing — David Axel to the NCAA championships last year Senior cross country runner — finishing 133rd of 242 — will step into the spot vacated by Steve Mag- Rice ness, who transferred. Rice narrowly Despite2003WAC Freshman ofthe missed an at-large bid to the national Year Magness' transfer and the move meet as a team last season. Hie team's to a new conference, Warren said he goal this year is to continue that suc- has high expectations for sophomore cess by again sending runners to the Charles 1 lampton, a transfer from the NCAA Championships. University of Texas, and junior Pablo Students! "I have a lot of confidence for this Solares. season," senior David Axel said. "Hav- "Charles Hampton is going to Do we have specials for you!

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Dennemann said. "If you go in on the like to see as a coach," Volpe said. first play and get an amazing kill or "Her ball control is key for us. I an amazing play, automatically that think she realizes that her role has puts fear into the other team. The changed. We're relying on her quite win was great." a bit, [and] I think she has definitely embraced that." s ; f 2f •* Against Louisiana-Lafayette, 3 senior outside hitter Olaya Pazo '[Holderness] is a dual led the Owls, contributing a team- player.... She can go high 11 kills and 11 digs. Senior r " setter Kristina Hoban led the team from left to right to in digs with 12, and junior middle blocker Tessa Kuykendall also had middle whenever we 10 kills. Dennemann said she thinks the need her to.' team will be successful because of — Genny Volpe its chemistry. Head women's volleyball coach "There's not a separation of age on this team — everyone is very much together," Dennemann Volpe said Dennemann will have said. "We don't differentiate who an increased role this season. has been here for a while and who "You can see the confidence in her hasn't. If you're on the floor, you're building everyday, and that's what 1 all together."

Aug. 28,2005 — Rice Track/Soccer Stadium

BY THE Rice (1-1): Giese: Barber, B. Martin, Droeger; Serrano, Conn, Coraili, Fadool; Candee, Robbins, C. Martin; NUMBERS Substitutes: Bellow. Waite, Lucas, Fraser, Jaggers. aug. 26-28 Saint Louis (1-1): Martin; Olson, Gresco, Twellman; Fer guson, Hulcer, Fox, Green; Eastman. Winchell, Flughes; Substitutes: Sole, Crawford, Sweeney, Allgaier, Hemmig, Johnson.

Assists: Saint Louis: Sole, Hulcer. Fox; Rice: Corin, C. Martin. Cautions: none Ejections: none.

SLU RU rsw-- Shots 13 14 Shots on Goal 9 7 v Saves 6 6 Corner Kicks 2 1 VOLLEYBALL Fouls 4 7 Offsides 3 0 RICE 3 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 0 Aug. 26. 2005 — Earl K. Long Gym, Lafayette, La. Attendance — 457

Rice 30 30 30 RICE 2-1 AUBURN La.-Lafayette 17 22 22 Lucas 65' Brooks 24' Robbins 83' % A MARSHALL ROBINSON/THRESHEk. R Aug. 26, 2005 — Rice Track/Soccer Stadium Final Stats Rice U La.-La. Kills 46 26 Rice (lO): Giese; Barber, B. Martin, Droeger. Serrano, Errors 19 27 Conn, Coraili, Fadool; Candee, Robbins, C. Martin; Sub Attempts 98 110 /fa/nfa up stitutes: Bellow, Waite. Lucas. Attack Percentage .276 009 Assists 43 23 Sophomore middle blocker Mendi Hardy and outside hitter Karyn Morgan go up for a block as freshman middle Auburn(01,);Fiser; Eason.L. Stewart, Brooks; Blayney, Service Aces 7 2 blocker Jessica May spikes the ball. The volleyball team will take on McNeese State at 10:30 a.m. today in the Zarzour, J. Stewart. Johnson; Willis, Kasten, K. Stew Digs 54 33 art; Substitutes: Hoelscher, Allan. Garcia, Crandell, opening game of the Crowne Plaza Rice Invitational. Rice will play Duke tonight at 7 p.m. Blocks 11.0 6.0 Power, Whitworth.

Individual Stats Assists: Auburn: Crandell; Rice: Bellow. Kills Cautions: Auburn: J. Stewart 60'; Rice: Candee 23' Rice — Pazo 11, Kuykendall 11 Ejections: none. La. La. — Salomaki 8 Aub. Rice Assists Shots 5 9 Rice — Hoban 37 Shots on Goal 2 8 La. La. — Cote 22 Saves 6 1 Digs Corner Kicks 6 2 Rice — Hoban 12, Pazo 11, Kirk 11, Holderness 10 Fouls 12 9 La. La. — Tough 12 COLLEGE SURVIVAL TIP Offsides 0 1

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers at 6 p.m. in the Me- FRIDAY chanical Engineering Building, 9 HOW TO SUBMIT room 123. Boys will be playing with their balls all day long CALENDAR ITEMS CALENQAR I thought his address was Just 10 Sunset Blvd. Men's tennis hosts the Crowne Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. President David Leebron will Plaza Invitational all day at Jake prior to Friday publication. Rice soccer tears up Texas Hess Tennis Stadium. The Invi- address faculty and students at Submission methods: FRIDAY State at 1 p.m. at the Rice Soc- tational begins Friday and runs 4 p.m. in Duncan Hall's McMur- Fax: (713) 348-5238 cer/Track Stadium. through Sunday. 2 try Auditorium. The speech will E-mail: thresherQrice.edu Bump cover the state of the university, The girls will wait until evening Campus Mall: Calendar Women's volleyball wakes up MONDAY Leebron's Call To Conversation Editor, Thresher, MS-524 McNeese State at 10:30 a.m. at program and whether RUPD Women's soccer will kick off the Autry Court. Going to Friday will ever actually get Storm weekend with a game against The greatest excuse to start Trooper costumes and Segways. Stephen F. Austin State, starting Submissions are printed on a morning classes suddenly space available basis. seems far less important. drinking since actually having to Well, he might only have time at 7 p.m. at the Rice Track/Soc- go to class to cover two of the three... let's cer Stadium. Set Today is Labor Day, which just hope he makes at least one Lady Owls volleyball dukes it means there are no classes. Yes, lacrosse-saber reference. out against Duke University at you will be considered a tool In search of the big Lebowski 7 p.m. at Autry Court. Get it, if you show up for chemistry College Night! duke it out, Duke University? I lecture today. Houston Hillel will sponser a made a pun. bowling trip to Palace lanes in Bellaire. Cars will leave Rice Wednesdays, 3:00pm - close Sing like a canary ... or a parrot TUESDAY at 9 p.m. Contact Hilary at [email protected] for a Rice Cinema presents 7he Wild ride or more information. Parrots of Telegraph Hill at 8 Announcing next week's guest: Show your college ID and get: p.m. Sept. 2, 3 and 4. If you tell Henry David Thoreau Kiss me, Kimchee your friends at home you saw an esoteric film about birds this Rice College Libertarians will The Korean Student Association Regular Burrito weekend, they will think you are have its first meeting at 10 p.m. will hold its first study break in more enlightened, and they will in the Miner lounge at the the Kelley lounge of the RMC and a Fountain Drink probably be right. RMC. ITiey may not believe in at 10 p.m. Northern, Southern big government control, but and non-Koreans all welcome. they believe in free food. SATURDAY °$5! *• i ran out of catchy volleyball THURSDAY O words to put into headers See store for details. Wait, I mean, spike! Women's volleyball takes on Someone tell the freshmen the Iliis team is simply relentless. Texas Tech at 7 p.m. at Autry open house is at the Baker Insti- Women's volleyball sends Sacra- Court. Wow, that was a lot of tute, not Baker College mento Stale packing, starting at volleyball in a very short time. 7 p.m. at Autry Court. Hie Baker Institute for Public Policy will host a Student Forum WEDNESDAY open house for Rice students at SUNDAY 7 p.m. in the Dore Commons of Mission Burritos Baker Hall. Because mechanical engineers fresh fast food Sick of watching indoor sports are the ones who will have with nets and balls? trouble finding post-graduation Just trust me on this one www.missionburritos.com employment opportunities Women's soccer has all that Go buy a pirate costume with 1609 Duiham 2245 West Alabama and sunshine, too, as long as Lyondell Chemical Company some moment of your free time. Durham near 1-10 Next.to Littie Woodrow'< the hurricane avoids Houston. will visit the Rice division of the Come Saturday, you'll thank me. 713-426-6634 713-529-0535

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HOUSING BEAUTIFUL REMODELED one- BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED con- NEEDED: MO THER'S helper for chil- RICE MBA GRAD needs childcare/ bedroom apartment, refined, many do. 1-1 at Rice Village. 2515 Shake- dren, ages 9, 10 and 12, for transport tutoring for three children, ages 6, 8 MUSEUM DISTRICT. Grad students decorator extras, ice maker, central speare # 13. Real oak hardwood floors, to activities, childcare and homework and 11, at least two or three days per — don't live in the lab. One-bedroom air/heat, chandeliers, dishwasher, undercounter washer/dryer, great help four to five afternoons a week. week in the Meyerland area. Car and apartments at 1301 Ricyhmond. Hard- new appliances, hardwoods, disposal, location. Walk, bike, bus to Rice Inside the loop not far from Rice. references required. Pay negotiable. wood floors, tiled kitchen and bath, landscaped, optional oriental carpets, University/TMC. Reduced $99,500. You will need references and reliable Call Judy: (832) 754-8347. central air/heat and on-site laundry. many ceiling fans. Owner likes pets, Agent: (713) 524-2462. transportation.Contact I-auraat (713) $535-595 with lease and deposit. An- one week free. Three minute commute 524-3344 (daytime). NEED TRUSTWORTHY animal lover to dover: (713) 524-3344. to Rice. (713) 522-9294. HOUSE FOR RENT. Loop (510 at Stella sit for my dog Sunday night until Thurs- Link, 3 bed, 1.5 bath, 1-car attached WANTED: AFTER-SCHOOL sitter: day night until end of December. Need MUSEUM DISTRICT. One-bedroom 1-BLOCK FROM Rice. Spacious two- garage, all appliances, central air and Mature, responsible undergrad the sitter to walk Angus in the morning apartment in quiet building at 4001 bedroom, one-bath renovated duplex heat (gas), hardwood floors, fenced or grad student to pick up and and evenings. Galleria area. Contact Greeley. Hardwood floors, window unit apartment on Bolsover. All appliances, backyard, $950 per month. Call Brian, sit for a wonderful first grader at [email protected] or (713) 4804522. air, great closet space and on-site laun- hardwoods, ceiling fans, central A/C, owner, (252) 321-1099, (252) 971-2315 ROE. Mon-Fri., 3-6 p.m. Bellaire dry. Bike to Rice. $525 with lease and on-site laundry. $ 1275 per month.(713) (cell), [email protected]. residence. Reliable schedule and car SEEKING ENERGETIC, responsible, deposit. Andover: (713) 524-3344. 524-1564 [email protected]. necessary. References preferred. child-loving caregiver, Mon.-Fri., MED CENTER/CLOSE to Rice. Fur- Competitive rates. Opportunity for 5:30-8:30 p.m. (flexible). Five blocks nished one-bedroom, $625 or Studio, additional babysitting. Parents work from Rice, references and good driv- $525with W/D. Free cable and water (for in Medical Center. (713) 839-9286 or ing record required. (281) 250-8253. students). $199 move special until Sept. [email protected]. 30. Gated community, covered parking, BARTENDERS WANTED! $250 per located on bus lines. (832) 643-2888. TUTOR FROM YOUR room. Do day potential. No experience neces- homework; talk on the phone; watch sary. Training provided. Age 18+ OK. HELP WANTED TV until a student logs on and needs (800) 965-6520 x284. help. Easy online interface, PC re- MONTESSORI SCHOOL near Rice quired. Minimum six hours per week MISCELLANEOUS interviewing for full or part-time assis- required. Flexible hours 2 p.m.-12 WILLY'S PUS tants or subs. Ideal for students look- a.m. Sun.-Thurs. Starting at $6 per EGG DONORS needed to help infer- Est. 1975 ing for flexible schedules. Call Tara at hour. E-mail info@generalacademic. tile couples. Work with experienced (713) 520-0738 to discuss qualifications agency. $5,000 compensation/cycle. between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monitoring in Medical Center. 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