[ '.J, «• •* k 'f'i if'1' > M I t H » 1 ! I H n I MJ r I I . I / ) f I > » i i , > t ) ) T > > v ) > i i i h i i > ) < ' • i / ) I V t , v I ( i » M M » I W t » ^|pjpr> WRw**i k%M er Vol. LXXXVIII, Issue No. 18 SINCE 1916 Friday, January 26, 2001 Beer-Bike parade changes approved by Mark Berenson dents one week before the parade to THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF the Beer-Bike co-chairs, Sid Rich- ardson College senior Daniel Large trucks are out and flatbed Attaway and Hanszen College junior trailers are in for this year's Beer- Merritt McAlister. Students who ride Bike parade. The Beer-Bike coordi- on the flatbed will not be allowed to nators unanimously approved drink alcohol on the morning of the changes to the Beer-Bike rules Sun- parade. Attaway said the primary day night. responsibility of these students will Each college will be limited to be to hand out water balloons to one flatbed trailer pulled by a tractor members of their college. and one decorative vehicle in the Attaway said the change to parade. Rules regarding water bal- flatbeds was made to increase safety. loons were not changed. One benefit of the tractor is that Ten students will be allowed on drivers will have much better visibil- each flatbed. Beer-Bike coordinators ity than they had with the trucks. must submit the names of these stu- Sec PARADE, Page 7 SARAH AHRENS/THRESHER Gym uniforms required Pulp-free Designer Karim Rashid's exhibition PleasurScape opened in the Rice Art Gallery in Sewall Hall yesterday. In Kinesiology department to be reorganized 1999, Rashid, who describes his work as "a metaphor for a continuous world," was recognized as one of the ten most creative furniture designers working today, through the George Nelson Design Award. The exhibition by Meghan Miller Humanities, to focus more on teach- wili be in the gallery until Feb. 25. THRESHER STAFF ing and research, said a statement issued by interim Dean of Humani- Many students were surprised to ties Gale Stokes and Vice President walk into Autry Court last week and for Student Affairs Zenaido Cama- see signs telling them that purple cho. and blue gym uniforms are still man- Discussion on changing the uni- New bagels introduced in colleges datory. form policy has been tabled in favor Last semester, the kinesiology of discussing more pressing issues. by Mark Berenson necessary. "We just had ongoing Every morning, New York Ba- department decided uniforms would "There are more important things THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF billing problems with Einstein's — gel Shop delivers about five dozen no longer be required for people going on in that restructuring than the accuracy and the correctness," fresh bagels to each of the residen- who are exercising or playing intra- getting our uniforms changed," SA They may still be round with a Bogar said. tial colleges. Rice buys plain, niuial sports in the gym. The deci- Senator Lindsay Cover said. "We're hole in the middle, but plenty has However. Bogar said she believes sesame seed, cinnamon raisin, ba- sion stemmed from an idea proposed going to try to get it done, but it's not changed with the new bagels that there has been no change in the nana nut, blueberry, whole wheat, by the Student Association Sports going be as soon as we had hoped." College Food Service is providing in quality of bagels. "We were really chocolate chip and oat bran ba- and Health committee. Cover, who heads the SA Sports the residential colleges. lucky to get New York bagels to gels. But the reorganization of the ki- and Health Committee, had previ- New York Bagel Shop, a local deliver to us again," Bogar said. Rebecca Scheiner, assistant di- nesiology department has pre- ously announced that the uniforms bakery, now produces the bagels New York Bagel Shop delivered rector of Food Operations, said the vented those changes from happen- would probably become optional by served in the colleges instead of bagels to Rice in the early 1990s and new bagels are a different type of ing. this semester at the Nov. 13 SAmeet- Einstein Bros. Bagels, a national stopped delivering for pragmatic bagel. "This bagel is a true Jewish The Office of Student Affairs will ing. The committee also reported at chain that has supplied the bagels reasons that have since been re- bagel, and the other one is a very take over the management of physi- the meeting that increased supervi- since the beginning of the 1998-'99 solved. Americanized-type bagel," Scheiner cal activities programs and facility sion at the gym will better ensure school year. However, several students have said. supervision duties, effective July 1. patrons' safety. Also, it reported that According to Resident Dining sent e-mail to Food and Housing to New York Bagel Shop, which has This will allow the kinesiology de- some students do not use the gym Manager Julie Bogar, billing prob- either complain or ask questions been in Houston since 1975, is owned partment, a division of the School of See UNIFORMS, Page 9 lems with Einstein made the change about the new bagels. See BAGELS, Page 8 Presidents organize forums about sexual harassment create new cheers in time for Beer- by Rachel Rustin Bike. THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF The SAplan includes discussions The Student Association Senate at SA meetings on Feb. 5 and Feb. 19 and college cabinets wiH hold dis- and at college cabinets between cussions about the campus climate those dates. The presidents will draft toward sexual harassment issues a statement, which should be final- during the next month, according to ized Feb. 26. a plan presented by Will Rice Col- "I helped make this plan in hopes lege President Eden King at that we could begin a discussion Monday's SA meeting. about the environment at Rice and In addition, a cheers contest will ways that it could be improved," King be held at each college in an effort to See DISCUSSION, Page 9 INSIDE Deadline for adding SPORTS Page 17 a course without fee Owls hope to recover at home The deadline to add a course A&E Page 23 for free is today. Adding a "Snatch" will grab you course will cost $10 Jan. 29- Feb. 9, after which it will cost LIFESTYLES Page 25 $30. The deadline to drop a Fox Diner finds a new home course without a fee is Feb. 9. ROB GADDI/THRESHER Quote of the Week Weekend Weather "A broken foot is much better Today than death." This way to Omaha Cloudy, 61-70 degrees Ail-American right hander Kenny Baugh, back for his senior year after flirting with professional baseball over the Saturday — University Beer-Bike Coordi- summer, leads the Rice baseball team Into the 2001 season. The Owls, ranked as high as No. 7 In the country, Showers, 56-60 degrees nator Daniel Attaway, on the kick off the season Thursday when they battle 16th-ranked Baylor University at the Astros College Classic at Sunday safety of the flatbed trailers in the Scattered showers, 62-67 degrees parade. See Story, Page 1. Enron Field, the downtown home of the Houston Astros. See Baseball Preview, Pages 13-16. J .v *Vr, . ,.• • >•' < '' 1 1, ', ' THE RICE THRESHER OPINION ERIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001 the Rice Thresher 'HeRe Brian Stoler Jos£ Luis Cubria, Michael Nalepa 1 Editor in Chief Mariel Tani Opinion Editor ' HRou<5- Managing Editors Behind the music We wholeheartedly support the proposal that undergraduate mem- bers of the KTRU Friendly Committee should be DJs at the radio station. They certainly shouldn't be required to have previous DJ experience, but they should show enough interest in the radio station to have a weekly shift. While any interested student should be reasonably qualified to be a member of the KFC, we think some firsthand experience with the day- to-day workings of KTRU couldn't hurt. How can a student who doesn't know anything about the music KTRU currently plays evaluate the direction KTRU should go? If the members of the KFC are charged with carrying on KTRU's educational mission, they should be willing to educate themselves at the same time. IT'S a consPiRacy: i-2fo Empty rewards We think everybody should go to athletics events, especially stu- dents. Rarely do we get to see our classmates and friends perform such LETTERS TO THE EDITOR amazing athletic feats and have a great time in the process. However, we're disappointed by the Athletics Department's recently Ashcroft for his electoral defeat, and elected to vote for. The apportion- unveiled Owl Rewards program simply because it seems to offer so few Ashcroft qualified for then makes the unprecedented argu- ment of electors mirrors represen- rewards to undergraduates. cabinet position ment that electoral defeat should dis- tation in the legislature, which was The program offers points that can be redeemed for prizes to people qualify a person from service in the set up as a compromise between who go to Rice athletic events. But aside from free food, the low-level To the editor: Cabinet. Ashcoft's defeat was hardly population and equal representation rewards are mainly things like tickets to games — something under- I was disappointed by Robert an overwhelming rejection of his for states. Doing away with the elec- graduates get already. Reichle's method of attack on Attor- views; he lost by less than two per- tors would have had no effect on this election as long as each state re- The program could help boost attendance by fans from the Houston ney General-designee John Ashcroft centage points.