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Wiess Freshmen Register Online the Rice Thresher Vol. LXXXVIII, Issue No. 13 SINCE 1916 Friday, November 17, 2000 160 sign college cheers letter by Elizabeth Jardina and The letter said the "language and who thought we were making it into Rachel Rustin attitude" of the cheers can be found too big of an issue," Brand said. THRESHER STAFF elsewhere — for example, in Wiess She also said some students were College's Night of Decadence party, critical of the fact that they are ask- Students collected almost 200 sig- college cabinet minutes that have ing the administration to deal with natures on letters calling for univer- included "hook-up webs" that insinu- the issue rather than asking students sity action against sexually explicit ate sexual relationships between stu- to change. "Some people thought college cheers outside Fondren Li- dents, and T-shirts like last year's we were going about it the wrong brary Wednesday. "Pet My Willy" shirts for Willy Week. way," she said. The letter from students gave (See the full text of the letter, Page College masters and presidents examples of college cheers that the 10.) will be discussing the issue of col- letter's authors felt were in violation Jones College senior Michelle lege cheers at a special meeting Su n- of Rice's sexual harassment policy. Brand was one of four students who day. Discussions took place at each The letter, which is addressed to helped write the letter and organize college during forums and cabinet President Malcolm Gillis, Vice Presi- the signature-gathering. She said she meetings these past two weeks. dent for Student Affairs Zenaido and the other writers of the letter However, Baker College senior Camacho and the Rice community, have received some criticism for Alexis Wiesenthal said college cabi- also includes statements that the their position on the cheers, but nets aren't necessarily the best place "language of the cheers represents many people have also been sup- to bring up the issue of college a university sanctioned attitude that portive. " ['ITiere were] a lot of people cheers. needs fundamental change." who were for us and a lot of people See CHEERS, Page 10 Provost expands distribution All classes marked distribution since 1997 count for current students by Elizabeth Jardina offered for distribution credit since bution credit, although they had in THRESHER KI)IT(IRIAI. STAFF Fall 1997, when this year's senior the past. Now, any student currently class matriculated. attending Rice can receive Group 1 The list of courses offered for dis- The faculty decided to alter the credit for introductory language tribution credit to all current students curriculum in 1999, introducing the classes as long as she takes both the has been expanded to include any foreign language requirement and 101 and 102 classes. cou rses offered for d i stribution cred it eliminating the restricted distribu- Director of Academic Advising since the 1997-'9H academic year. The tion category. They also decided to John Hutchinson said there were JENNIFER JOE/THRESHER provost announced the change in a review and re-evaluate which classes two primary reasons for this tempo- memo to the academic deans and would satisfy distribution require- rary inclusion of these classes for Diwali Night department chairs Nov. 3. ments. When changes in curricu- distribution credit. Baker College senior Michelle Lin (left), Baker junior Anitha Mathew Students currently attending Rice lum were instituted this year, the "One is that the listing of courses and choreographer and Hanszen College sophomore Richa Dubey , will be able to satisfy their distribu- intention was that 100-level language in the General Announcements and perform at Diwali Night Nov. 10. tion requirements with any course courses would not count for distri- See DISTRIBUTION, Page 9 Wiess freshmen register online by Mark Berenson couraged it so that there would Director of Academic Advis- ing John Hutchinson said the THRESHKRSTAFF be a large enough sample to see whether the system works. "We adviser can then suggest a meet- While most students were col- encourage Team Wiess to take ing with the student to discuss lecting signatures from their aca- the leadership and help us make the schedule or the adviser can demic advisers, freshmen from this work well for Rice," approve the schedule immedi- Wiess College were registering McFarland wrote. ately. Hutchinson, who is also a for classes online Wednesday and 'Die Wiess freshmen began Wiess master and a chemistry Thursday. Registrar Jerry the process by visiting a Web site associate professor, said he does Montag said he hopes that by accessed from computers in not think the new system will pre-registration for spring 2002 Mudd Building. McFarland said reduce face time between stu- classes, all students will be able when the system is fully func- dents and advisers. to complete their registration tional, the site will be accessible "Students will still have to online. from any computer. have their adviser's approval in In addition, Montag said, he At the site, students will be order to register just like they hopes students will be able to able to check class listings by do now," Hutchinson said. "I check their financial record (in- department, read the General An- actually think that this system a cluding tickets and library late nouncements and sort classes by will increase the amount of per- fees), get grades and complete meeting times. Students will then sonal attention students will get the add/drop process online be able to select their classes. from an adviser than decrease within two years. When the student registers, it." Wiess freshmen received an an e-mail message is automati- He said the current system of e-mail from Dean for Enrollment cally sent to the student's ad- having divisional advisers sim- 4 'A - Administration Barry viser. ply eat lunch in the commons • ••••. I:,. > 0 Uf . • • • McFarland requesting their par- The system will eventually be and sign pre-registration forms ticipation in this trial. Although entirely Web-based, so that it isn't really working. "In the ma- they were not required to use won't require any e-mails to ex- jority of the cases, the students Web registration, McFarland en- ternal accounts. See REGISTRATION, Page 6 INSIDE Nader support strong in Rice precinct FEATURES Page 14 Green Party presidential A little bit of Deutschland candidate Ralph Nader received A&E Page 15 22.5 percent of The quality of theater 'spikes' the vote at the Ralph Nader Rice precinct, SPORTS Page 22 22.5% Men s basketball preview about eight Al Gore times higher 47.3% than Nader Weekend Weather CHRISTINA IRAN/THRESHER received of the overall George W Friday Facing hurdles popular vote Bush Showers. 49-60 degrees nationwide. 28.1% Saturday The first phase of constructing the new soccer field in the track stadium, Rain, 44 47 degrees replacing the infield to make room for the new field, will be completed May 1. Sunday The field will be the home for the new varsity women's soccer team, which See Story, Page 8. Scattered showers, 38-50 degrees begins competition next fall. See Article, Page 6. •' THE RICE THRESHER OPINION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2000 e»y t>avit> cmen the Rice Thresher TH3T RlSQue coLon Brian Stoler Jose Luis Cubria, Michael Nalepa Editor in Chief Mariel Tam Opinion Editor Managing Editors Cheers letter is too broad We at the Thresher think sexually degrading college cheers have no place at Rice University, as we stated in the staff editorials last week. We think the student body should work swiftly to remove the language of aggressive sexual dominance from college events. Yet, we are uncomfortable with the letter students were asked to sign outside Fondren Library on Wednesday for a number of reasons. Our most pressing issues with the letter are these: We feel the complaint exaggerates and distorts some of the issues, it lumps together disparate COLLEGE issues, and it provokes university action in an ambiguous, ill-timed manner. These problems make it impossible for us to support their letter, even MINUTES though we support its primary argument. (The letter is printed in its entirety on Page 10.) Conflating the past with the present At least one of the most offensive sample cheers printed in the letter was last taught during Hanszen Orientation Week when the current seniors n were freshman. Subsequent generations of Hanszen students and O-Week oTHeR coLLe&e «\inuTes aRe caLLet> in QueSTion... coordinators have had the sense not to perpetuate this cheer, which involves the phrase "suck our throbbing dicks." But the letter writers fail to make a note of this, implying that this cheer is still taught and widely used. Furthermore, we are distressed and confused about language like the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR following: "College floor parties make decorations of glow-in-the-dark penises and hard-core pornography." No member of the Thresher editorial staff who read this letter has ever seen a college floor party involving either Racist group's leader that the only way to accurately repre- there is a god either, but everybody luminescent genitalia or hard-core pornography, with one exception, so we sent the situation was to describe the should have just as much a right to believe they could not possibly be so common as the letter implies. We do graduated from Rice contents of the minutes in moderate express their views as Christians know of one party in which pornography was shown: Sid Richardson detail. Additionally, the Thresher does do. Before Christians complain College's Tower Party from last year. The theme of that party was "The To the editor: not print unverified rumors, and we about how they are getting picked Seven Deadly Sins," and the floor in question was themed "Lust." In your Nov.
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