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**• "T~T «*! i, *W' .- ud ,,W,4,| 11 I ice Thresher Vol. LXXXIX, Issue No. 3 SINCE 1916 ,1 Martel considers housing options by Rachel Rustin sure we have hotel reservations for THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF what we need." Ditman said information about The storm ended months ago, how many students are interested in but some Martelians are still afraid each plan will ease making arrange- they'll get left out in the rain. ments for January. Constniction delays caused by Ditman said knowing how many June's Tropical Storm Allison have people will need housing in January 1 left Martel College students trying will have an impact on which of the to figure out what they will do when various solutions being debated will the spring semester starts on Jan. be possible. 15. "The idea was to just try to figure The current projected move-in out where everybody was and the date to the Martel building is Jan. 28. magnitude of the challenge," Ditman A meeting was held Sunday at said. Martel House during which Direc- More concrete plans will be made tor of Housing and Dining Mark once a more definite move-in date is Ditman presented various housing set after hurricane season is over on options. Martel President Alice Hill Nov. 30. said all but a very small number of While Hill said Martel morale is Martel students were satisfied with good, there is evidence that not all one of the options presented at Martelians are happy with the cur- Sunday's meeting. rent living arrangements. "I think we are going to accom- One Martel student, who spoke modate whatever student needs are," on the condition of anonymity, was KATIE STREIT/THRESHER Hill, a senior, said. "Now we are just upset with the fact that he was living going to try to work out the logistics in the third, converted bedroom of Hitting the books to make sure all of the options are an apartment at Twenty-one Eleven Jones College Junior Deania Fernandez concentrates on taking notes during her second day of linear algebra feasible and solidify the plans for Holly Hall. Wednesday afternoon. people so that we do arrange what To accommodate Martel stu- leases are being extended and make See MARTEL, Page 9 Registrar updates office in to the Registrar's Office. Students by Elizabeth Decker can also access their academic tran- THRESHER STAFF scripts, financial aid information and A pilot Web registration program billing information online. for freshmen and a redesign of the Paper registration forms were Registrar's Office have contributed virtually eliminated at Will Rice, to a relatively smooth start for classes while a few persisted at Baker, Ad- this fall, although long-term prob- ministrative Dean for Enrollment lems with room assignments and Barry McFarland said. scheduling persist. The main problems encountered One updated aspect of the office were computer malfunctions and for- was another test of Web registra- gotten passwords, McFarland said. tion. Freshmen at Baker College and This was the third test of Web Will Rice College were given user registration. The process was tested names and passwords during Orien- at Wiess College for spring 2001 pre- tation Week to access Web registra- registration, and at Will Rice for fall tion. O-Week coordinators and ad- 2001 pre-registration. j£_r visers were trained to assist the fresh- "(Wiess] was a good learning •.:» men, and College Computer Associ- experience for us," McFarland said. ates were on site at the colleges to "It was probably not positive for the solve technical problems. students, but it did tell us things that we needed to improve." Currently, students who have KATIE STREIT/THRESHER been given online accounts by the McFarland hopes to implement registrar can access their informa- Web registration for all students in tion from any computer on campus time for November pre-registration Ready ...Set... for the spring semester, also adding While three days of rain may have dampened the beginning of the academic year, it did not stop Wiess and complete their registration form, - which must then be printed, signed a feature to evaluate students' College Junior Robby Morgan from practicing with Wiess flag football team Wednesday. by an academic adviser, and turned See REGISTRAR, Page 6 Jones compensated for inconvenience INSIDE lowing off-campus representation OPINION Page 3 by Mark Berenson tors to discuss ways to compensate Pick your food the college. to live at Holly Hall was the most Wahi tramples death THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF Now that all eight colleges efficient way to take advantage of Housing and Dining Director have their own chefs, they have the space allotted to us," Wilbur A&E Page 13 In exchange for rent-free living, Mark Ditman said the apartment was their own menus too. said. 'Jay and Silent Bob' a letdown two Jones College students have provided to Jones as a quiet spot to Individual colleges' menus agreed to allow other Jones students get away from the construction. The representatives, sophomores are all linked to Housing and SPORTS Page 18 to use their apartment as an off-cam- "The intention was to have a place David Bloomfield and Eliot Flannery, Dining's Residential Dining Soccer enters brave new world pus commons. that if Jones students needed a place were chosen in a college-wide elec- Web site (http://food.rice.edu/ The arrangement was part of the to decompress, they could go there," tion last spring. index.html). Quote of the Week At Jones' cabinet meeting university's compensation for the Ditman said. Bon appetit! "Some Rice undergraduates have inconvenience members of Jones Jones President Steve Wilbur said Wednesday night, Flannery said his not assimilated the dual concepts experienced while being surrounded the decision to house the off-cam- apartment was open to fellow Jones of 'rule' and deadline."' by construction last year. The apart- pus representatives in the apartment students. Bloomfield and Flannery We're getting a — University Standing Committee ment at Holly Hall and an additional was made last semester by the could not be reached for further com- on Examinations and Standing $5,000 in ambiance money are two college's cabinet. ment. whole new lifestyle Chair Daniel Osherson, in an of several forms of compensation "The Jones Cabinet discussed "I'm sorry I got free housing, but Don't worry, the Threshers e mail explaining the enforcement of the committee's rules. See Jones is receiving. our options in using the apartment I'm here for you." Flannery said. lifestyles section won't be gone Story, Page 4. In February, a group of Jones and gathered the interests of the Wilbur said the college as a whole forever We are currently work- students requested from President college for three weeks last semes- benefits from the off-campus repre- ing on a lifestyles section in a Weekend Weather sentatives' use of the apartment in Malcolm Gillis that the residents of ter," Wilbur, a senior, said. magazine format that will be Friday the college be reimbursed for about Wilbur added that the reason the several ways. better than ever. lx>ok for it in Thunderstorms. 74-88 degrees half their room fees for as long as cabinet decided to allow the off-cam- First, he said, the representatives the Sept. 21 issue. Until then, Saturday construction continues. pus representatives to live in the are willing to open the apartment to enjoy the jam-packed news sec- Scattered showers. 73-91 degrees The request was denied in March. apartment was that it would be the other Jones students whenever there tion. Sunday Shortly afterward, students from best use of the space. is a need and it is reasonable for Scattered showers, 73-90 degrees (ones met with various administra- "It was then concluded that al- See .1 ONES, Page 7 nv v- THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, AUGUST 31,2001 RanonaLe... oavii> cHien the Rice Thresher Leslie Liu, Robert Reichle Editors in Chief Enforcing deadlines for students and faculty For many Rice students some deadlines are unofficially optional, whether the deadline is for registration, for an assign- ment ot for dropping a class. When two papers are due on the same day a major exam is given, such a flexibility is beneficial. But sometimes this expectation contributes to a lack of respect for the rules. Failing to respect add/drop deadlines places a serious HOUSTOn SHOWeRS bRine WaTeRLO<r<reD FLOWeRS. strain on professors, the university and the students them- selves. A greater respect for the existing rules would ease these troubles students and faculty encounter. Screaming from a soapbox We commend the Committee on Examinations and Stand- ing in its efforts to better enforce such existing rules. At the same time, the additional Ex&S request that all Refuse to choose a door and charge ahead anyway faculty grade an assignment prior to the drop deadline demon- I can't even begin to express the often see my classmates laboring high I got from getting through se- strates the committee's appreciation for the difficult situation annoyance I feel when people ask under the pressure not only of de- curity clearance without a hitch. The in which students can find themselves when they don't know me what I want to do with my ciding what they want to do after priceless experience will no doubt their standing in a course prior to the add/drop deadline. degree. college, but how they can get to inform my expectations of govern- Further, the committee's request that professors adhere to It's the perpetual question I can't their career faster.