This Week's Front Page
As part of its latest round of budget cuts, the administration of Rice University has decided to cut one of the most important resources that a university campus can have: a subscription to a daily newspaper. At the same meeting where President David Leebron announced a 5 percent increase in tuition, a tripling over the past 20 years - even accounting for inflation - he informed students that their daily subscriptions to The New York Times and the Houston Chronicle would be terminated. (4) comments
The sun was at just the wrong angle for driving, glaring straight into my eyes until they felt dry as splintered wood. Just to keep awake, I forced my eyes open wide enough for them to fall out of their sockets; yet the world still passed me by in a blur, and it would be another half-hour ride to the church down the narrow, winding streets of Merida before breakfast; the only good news of the morning was that I was not driving. (0) comments
There was a moment during the recent Student Association elections when I experienced a feeling I don't think I ever expected to encounter at Rice - I felt ashamed. While reading the ballots for the Rice Student Volunteer Program candidates, I came across a write-in ballot that read, "some Asian girl. (0) comments
There are no Rice traditions that compare to Beer Bike. Not Rice baseball, not O-Week and most definitely not pumpkin grades. Thus, you will understand why we are more than a tad perturbed that the planners of this year's Beer Bike have changed the format of this year's parade, limiting all colleges to only one truck (see story, page 5). (1) comment
If you can read this staff editorial, then you will understand why we cannot help but laugh at the "red light" the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has given Rice for the university's free speech policy (see story, page 1). As an organization that deals solely in media, we at the Thresher believe we are in the perfect position to chide FIRE for giving Rice the worst possible rating. (2) comments
"Com(MAN)d" slogan misinterpreted To the Editor: I'd like to comment on last issue's opinion piece ("MRC's 'COM(MAN)D' T-shirt slogan incites sexist views," March 13). The view that exalting the trait "command" is sexist seems more based on heavy assumption than rational thought. (0) comments