Shumway Selected As HUMA Dean

OP-ED AAE P. 14 SPORTS P. 18 What's the point of it all, in efai And the Sammy goes to... Run the bases naked Brian Reinhart reflects on the emi ofgraduating Find out the winners and losers of college theater in full Casey Michel instructs the uninitiated on athletics musts for how those who are the mostii rdqefjo leave technicolor. student spectators. VOLUME XCVII, ISSUE NO. 28 STUDENT-RUN SINCE 1916 TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010 REMS Shumway MK> I modifies * iPMR 8 selected as transport HUMA dean BY HALLIE JORDAN protocol THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF As the search for a new dean of un- Information will be i dergraduates begins, the search for a new dean of humanities ends, a year after it began, with the selection of Nico- shared with masters las Shumway, who will become the new dean of humanities beginning July 1. BY JACLYN YOUNGBLOOD THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF Beginning in the fall, Rice Univer- sity Emergency Medical Services will follow a new protocol for students who are transported by ambulance to a hospital: The Rice University Police Department will provide the student's name and destination hospital, as well as the nature of the injury, to the student's college masters. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus gives the 2010 Commencement address in Tudor Currently, there is no official protocol Looking to Fieldhouse May 15. In the speech, Yunus encouraged students to be "job givers, not job seekers" in place for notifying anyone of a stu- the future dent's transport off campus, Dean of to effect positive change throughout the world. See story and graduation photos, p. 9. Undergraduates Robin Forman said. Nicolas Shumway However, masters often end up find- Shumway will be replacing former ing out if a student has been trans- dean of humanities Gary Wihl, who ported to a hospital through conver- resigned last year. Allen Matusow, a sations with other students. Rice no. 1 in material sciences history professor who served as Rice's RUPD Chief William Taylor said humanities dean for 14 years in the as it stands, when a student needs Times Higher Education recognizes a decade of Rice researc1980h s and early 90s, has worked as an ambulance, an RUPD officer will interim dean for the past school year. usher the Houston Fire Department BY JOSEPH CAPPARELLA rera, chair of the Department of Me- majors at Rice. The Materials Science Currently a professor of Spanish- responders to the student who is re- THRESHER STAFF chanical Engineering and Materials Department also offers its own un- American literature at the University ceiving care from the Rice EMT. Science, said. dergraduate and graduate degrees. of Texas at Austin, Shumway has also Because of patient care privacy and According to one publication, Rice had 381 papers and 11,949 However, there are currently only five served as the director of the Institute confidentiality laws, REMS cannot give Rice is made of the right stuff for citations. faculty members and approximately of Latin American studies at UT and out information about the student for materials science. Last month, the Materials science is the study of five to seven undergraduate materials been the chair of the Spanish and whom they are providing care, REMS Times Higher Education, a British how different types of materials func- science majors per year. In previous Portuguese departments. Director Lisa Basgall said. However, publication for professionals in edu- tion and how they can be used in dif- years, the program was not even in After working in the humanities because an RUPD officer is summoned cation and research, ranked Rice first ferent areas of science such as phys- the publication's top 20 institutions since he graduated from Brigham once an ambulance is called, that offi- among universities in the world for ics and chemistry. Materials science for materials science. Young University, Shumway said he cer would be able to communicate the materials science research. also endeavors to find ways to create This ranking is also important be- brings a broad commitment to the name, destination hospital and nature The award, based on the number new materials with novel properties cause of materials science's pervasive- field of humanities, as well as his of injury to the student's masters rela- of citations per paper between Janu- that can be used in different ways. ness across all fields of science and en- own definition of humanities. tively soon after the incident has oc- ary 1999 and October 2009, brings Because materials science deals gineering. Barrera said not only do many "I understand it to be the study curred, Taylor said. the Rice materials science program with the properties of matter and the engineering students take materials sci- of what humans do and produce," Senior Associate General Counsel to the forefront in the field and will structure of materials, it is a neces- ence courses, but also that most physics, Shumway said. "When we look at Carlos Garcia noted in an e-mail that likely increase the visibility of the sary part of the curriculum for a ma- chemistry and bioscience professors are [our creations] we see a reflection of RUPD is not bound by the same confi- program in the future, Enrique Bar- jority of the science and engineering B see ONE, page 4 B see HUMA, page 6 dentiality obligations that would pro- hibit REMS from giving out the transported student's information. "If REMS and RUPD respond to Colonel reflects, compares Rice to West Point the same call for medical transport, these are two separation operations BY CINDY DINH students to observe how the school "They're almost fundamentally governed by different sets of proto- THRESHER STAFF runs. Since 1965, between 40-50 fel- entirely different, but there are a lot cols; REMS is limited in the situations lows in the program are selected from of parallels for undergraduates and in which it can provide patient iden- What does a public institution nominations to spend an academic faculty," Ragsdale said. "The issues tites, but RUPD and other university that trains military personnel have in year at a host institution, immerse are not exactly the same, but there's a officials are not limited in the same common with Rice? At their essence, themselves in the culture and work significant amount of overlap." way," Garcia said in the e-mail. both have leadership development directly with the institution's presi- Some of the same phenomena of Forman said all of Rice's peer and the ability to enhance social-cul dents and administrators as part of a a military unit occur in the residen- institutions have a practice simi- tural relationships as Colonel Daniel leadership development program in tial colleges, Ragsdale said. Since lar to what will be implemented in Ragsdale, a visiting administrator higher education. Next year, Rice's students are randomly assigned to a the fall. from West Point, noted from his year own Joel Thierstein, Executive Direc- residential college at Rice, they spend "There's a lot of evidence, even observing Rice. tor of Connexions and Associate Pro- the majority of their free time with if it's not from our campus, that this As part of the American Council vost for Innovative Scholarly Commu- students they live with. Similarly, at kind of system really does work to al on Education Fellowship, Ragsdale, nication, will be an ACE fellow for the West Point, cadets are assigned to dif- low the university to care for students vice dean for education at West 2010-2011 academic year. ferent divisions and develop a strong better," Forman said. Point Academy in West Point, New Ragsdale said he had observed bond with those who are assigned to Martel College Master Jerry Dick- York, has spent the past year at Rice many similarities over the past year the same unit, he said. The Rice resi- ens said at some of those institutions, meeting with faculty members, ad despite the differences between the dential college system has a strong in B see RF.MS, page 5 Daniel Ragsdale ministrators, program directors and two institutions. B see WEST, page 8 Staying in H-Town this summer? Hey. professors It's summer! INDEX Opinion 3 Make sure your AC is working. Also, if you're around May 19 is the last day for you to submit final grades Seriously, what are you reading this News 4 for Independence Day, check out the fireworks show for non-graduating students. Mess with your little paragraph for? Go swimming or Arts 81 Entertainment 13 at Hermann Park, accompanied by the Houston students and wait until the last minute. Also, fail something. Or do that crossword in the Sports 18 Symphony playing in Miller Outdoor Theatre. There those pesky premeds, then tell them you got mixed back. Take your time with the crossword, Calendar 23 will be cannons for the 1812 Overture. up. They'll think it's funny, we promise. though: The next Thresher won't be out Backpage 24 until the end of 0-Week. TUESDAY, MAY 18,2010 EDITORIAL THE RLCELHRESJER fljEAtrV To LEAvt -X-U Gb/Hb To the Rice (Ihresher Ml Si "THE /JEST 5r MVCX All the best to V the Class of 2010 Incredibly, another year has come and gone, and with it, another group of seniors moves on to life beyond the C-rown tff ^ hedges. We wish all the best to the Class of 2010. Though jobs are still a bit scarce, we are confident that all of your MM time and hard work at Rice will put you ahead of the rest.

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