This Week's Front Page
With the coming of summer, the Thresher staff is taking a break. But while there will be no issues until next semester, make sure to check back for updates on the baseball team's run to Omaha, beginning with the May 29 NCAA Regional, held at Rice's Reckling Park. (1) comment
... and Goldenrod too! A color palette of academic regalia filled the Academic Quadrangle for Rice's 96th commencement ceremony May 9. Read the commencement speech by Women for Women International CEO Zainab Salbi and see pictures from the event. (1) comment
Don't stand so close to your professor! The Faculty Senate updated its Statement on Consensual, Amorous Relations with Students for the first time in over a decade last month. The new statement, which goes into effect in September, prohibits any romantic relationships between faculty and all undergraduate students, and between faculty and graduate students directly under their supervision or in their department. (0) comments
If all goes according to plan, the Hubble Space Telescope will not be the only one reaping the benefits of Mechanical Engineering professor Michael Massimino's second mission to space. "[I have] a Mech-E T-shirt signed by all the students and faculty of the department," Massimino said. (0) comments
Metro Police shot and killed a man carrying a knife last week just outside of the Rice campus. The police had been following the man after he became involved in an altercation at METRORail's Dryden/TMC station, south of campus. When he took off along the outer loop, Metro Police fatally wounded the man, Rice Director of News and Media Relations B. (0) comments
The South Colleges will have to say goodbye to some of their parking lot next year. Project Manager for the South Colleges Renovation Larry Vossler spoke with all the college presidents about the changes in a meeting on April 30. Vossler declined to comment further than what he discussed in the meeting. (0) comments
Beer Bike may have just ended, but plans for next year's event are already underway. The campus-wide Beer Bike Coordinators for next year will be Jones College junior Nazish Malik and senior Brian Henderson. Both Malik and Henderson have been involved in Beer Bike before: Henderson was security coordinator his sophomore year and parade coordinator last year, while Malik was Jones Beer Bike coordinator last year. (0) comments
First Rice, then Hollywood? The winners of the Rice University Student Video Contest "Lights, Camera, Action: Your Life at Rice" were announced April 22. The contest was sponsored and coordinated by the Center for Civic Engagement, the Community Involvement Center, the Digital Media Center, Fondren Library, Information Technology, the Office of Sustainability, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduates and the Wellness Center. (0) comments
Information Technology will be changing the way e-mail is sent starting Oct. 15 by requiring authentication for all e-mail being sent from computers on campus networks. IT already requires authentication for e-mail sent off campus, Information Security Officer Marc Scarborough said. (2) comments
Catching on to the dance fever, the Rice Chowl Bhangra team earned its place in fame by securing first place at Nasha 2009, a state-wide competition in traditional Punjabi dances held at the University of Houston on April 10. Chowl Bhangra, which means Rice Bhangra in Punjabi, competed against six other collegiate and dance academies in Texas, placing first overall. (3) comments
This interview continues the Thresher's monthly question-and-answer series with President David Leebron to ask him about current events, university issues and anything else of interest to the Rice student body. To submit a question for a future interview, email threshernews AT gmail. (0) comments
Will Rice College senior Josh Levin rescues Timothy Faust (Brown '09) while other members of Slow Burn, a student long-form improvisational comedy troupe, look on gleefully during a particularly breath-taking scene in the group's final performance of the year. (1) comment
"Don't have any pressure on you not to live your truth on a daily basis," Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International said during the 96th Commencement, held on Saturday. "Live your dream. It is not worth living life without that." Salbi founded Women for Women International, an organization that gives support to women in war-torn areas by providing basic necessities, education and microcredit loans for new businesses, at age 22. (0) comments
Seventy-three alumni were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society by the Rice University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Texas May 8. The society emphasizes learning for the sake of learning, Beta of Texas chapter Secretary Randal Hall (history graduate student '98) said. (0) comments