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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,2002
lew Rice homepage coming Sept. 16
by William Penny
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The Rice Web site will assume a
new structure and interface Monday.
The new site, which has been
under construction for more than a
year, features 13 content-custom-
ized "gateways." The seldom-used
"Student Life" link on the current
home page will be replaced by an
undergraduate portal, Vice Presi-
dent for Public Affairs Terry
Shepard said.
"The gateway will serve as a
venue for undergraduate-related
news and things of most interest to
students," Shepard said. "It will be
livelier than the other pages."
Graduate students, prospective
students, faculty, alumni and other
groups will also have their own home
pages.
Web Managing Editor Suzanne
Stehr, the principal developer for
the new site, said the specialization
means increased relevancy for stu-
dent users.
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to have a different
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The student portal on the new Rice homepage will feature news customized
for students and links to the sites that students are visiting the most.
sion to do in the past," she said.
Students and student organizations
are encouraged to submit news, up-
dates and photographs relevant to
undergraduate students, Stehr said.
These will be posted on the page un-
der the "Happenings@Rice" section.
Baker College freshman Tom
Mowad said he likes the idea of au-
dience-specific gateways.
"I think it is a good idea to have a
different site for different audiences,
so students don't have to see all the
marketing hype for prospective stu-
dents," Mowad said.
Many of the links on the under-
graduate page will be determined
by student input and usage statis-
tics, Stehr said. Administrators in
the Public Affairs office met with a
focus group consisting of represen-
tatives from the Student Associa-
tion, the college presidents and the
Thresher last week to preview the
initial links.
The new site was developed us-
ing xCatalyst software, a Web-based
content management program that
will allow freer update access than
the current setup.
Stehr said the new software
should make the Web site more au-
dience-driven.
. "[xCatalyst] allows us to make
changes a lot faster, a lot more re-
sponsively and on the fly," she said.
Some returning students said
they will miss the old site.
"I was used to the old site, so it
worked well for me," Sid Richardson
College President Charlotte
Albrecht, a senior, said.
"However, the new site design
sounds good, and I think it will be
easier for new and prospective stu-
dents to use."
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Gating will be gradual
PARKING, from Page 1
patchers could not remotely acti-
vate the gates.
"We decided we better hold .
off on it until we got all of [the
equipment] installed, tested and
actually get the dispatchers
trained," Binford said.
Binford said he was very con-
fident the gates would be acti-
vated the week of Sept. 23, al-
though there could be problems.
"We will try to get everything
perfect, but there will obviously
be something that surprises us in
a system of this size," Binford
said. "But we hope to have every-
thing tested that we can think of."
The gate arms were installed
Monday but are currently bein^
kept open.
Binford said there have been
no problems with the gates, and
no reports of vandalism, and he
said any incidents of vandalism
would be dealt with strongly.
In the updated parking fine
schedule, "running a gate," which
Binford said he interprets to in-
clude any mischievous activity
that may damage property, is pun-
ishable by a fine of twice the cost
of the repair to the gate equip-
ment, surrounding concrete or
landscape.
"One of those gate arms cost
400 bucks, so if you've got more
dollars than sense, you can think
about messing with it, but we
really don't want them messed
with," Binford said.
Some students said the gates
caught their attention.
"They look like light sabers
off of Star Wars," Martel College
senior Vasco Bridges said.
'If you \e got more
dollars than sense,
you can think about
messing with [a gate
arm], but we really
don't want them
messed with.'
— Neill Binford
Associate vice president for
Finance and Administration
Binford said proximity cards
for all undergraduates who have
registered their vehicle should
be sent out by today. Students
can sign for their card and pick
them up from the college coordi-
nators. They should also receive
a current copy ofTraffic and Park-
ing Regulations with their prox-
imity cards.
Binford saijj students needed
to register their vehicle to get a
proximity card, and he added that
it was important that students
have their cards before any gates
are activated so they can access
the gated lots immediately.
Before the gates are activated,
reconstruction of part of the
south Founder's Court Visitor
Lot will take place to fix a design
flaw. The redesign will eliminate
a difficult turn into the lot from
the Inner Loop and will also get
rid of a dead-end section of the
lot. Contract-parking patrons in
the Central Campus Garage are
now parking in the lot, and paid
visitor parking will begin the
week of Sept. 23. However, to-
day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., dur-
ing the Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of Management
building's open house, faculty
and staff will be able to park in
the lot for free.
When the gates are activated,
visitors will start paying for close-
in parking. Visitor parking costs
are $1 for the first 40 minutes or
part thereof, and $1 for each addi-
tional 40 minutes or part thereof
for the North Lot, Founders Court
I>ot and Central Campus Garage.
When the West I>ot is gated next
semester, visitor parking will be
$1 for the first 80 minutes or part
thereof, and $1 for each additional
80 minutes or part thereof.
Free visitor parking is avail-
able behind the Rice University
Police Department station and in
the Greenbriar Lot.
Binford said the academic
schools will receive 520 park-
ing validations per year, except
the School of Music, the School
of Architecture, the Jones
School of Management and the
School of Continuing Studies,
which will receive 260. Each vice
president will receive 260 vali-
dations per year, and the James
A. Baker Institute for Public
Policy administrators will re-
ceive 156. All of these groups
are able to purchase additional
validation tickets if they use
their allotment.
Binford said he did not think
the current delay will impact the
timelinefor gating the West Ix>t. A
target gate-activation date is cur-
rently set for between mid-January
and mid-February. He said most of
the visible work of putting up the
gates and the barriers would be
done over winter break, when
fewer cars are in the lot.
Binford said the entire pro-
cess of gating parking lots had
been a new experience for ad-
ministrators.
"No one ever [anticipates all
the intricacies!," Binford said. "We
are in a new business, and it will be
a year of learning — there will be a
big learning curve for a lot of us."
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