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Cycling team returns
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DAVID ROSALES/THRESHER
Brown College sophomore Jasper Yan meets with other cyclists Wednesday at
Willy s Statue. Since the Beer-Bike track was closed, the cycling team uses
the Inner Loop or goes off campus to bike.
by Jocelyn Wright
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAR
It often seems like most biking
on campus is either in a rush to get
to class or is preceded by Beer. But
Rice's long-dormant CyclingTeam
is starting to put campus peddlers
back into competition.
The year-round club, started by
Baker College senior J.C. Zapata
and Brown College sophomore
Jasper Yan this semester, meets
several times a week to bike around
Houston.
Yan said the team was an ef-
fort to revive Rice's cycling team,
which was extremely active about
ten years ago and had road races
with the University of Texas, Texas
A&M and the University of Houston.
Although the team has existed since
then, it became less active over the
years until Yan and Zapata decided
to revive it this year.
"I got into cycling this summer
and cycled with my friend and was
thinking we should have a cycling
time, so I found J.C. online and we
were like, 'We both cycle, we both
have a passion for cycling, so why
not just form a club?"' Yan said.
The team competes in the
South Central Collegiate Cycling
Conference and is a member of
the National Collegiate Cycling
Association, a standing committee
of USA Cycling.
The team offers recreational
rides and training sessions for its
16 members. Since the Beer-Bike
track is closed until January, Zapata
said the club bikes recreationally
in the two-mile loop in Memorial
PIRATES
From page 1
clam chowder and crackers, bagels
and biscuits, coffee from Coffee-
house, smoothies from Smoothie
King, cookies, Goldfish, blue
Jell-0 with Gummyfish, and Cap'n
Crunch Cereal, along with bottled
water and a variety of sodas.
The total budget for the study
break is $10,000, with a total of
$6,350 being spent on enough food
to feed 750 people.
Park on weekdays and bikes at
Clear Lake with other cyclists on
weekends.
Zapata said the club expanded
students' opportunities to cycle
competitively, beyond the annual
Beer-Bike.
"The difference between Beer-
Bike and this is that Beer-Bike is
one day and everyone just prepares
for that one Beer-Bike race while
the cycling team is year-round,"
Zapata said.
Yan, who first became inter-
ested in cycling because of Beer-
Bike, said the CyclingTeam offers
more variety.
"Beer-Bike is basically a one-
mile sprint around the track," Yan
said. "Cycling can be a sprint but it
can also be a lot more than that. 1
found out that cycling around the
track was extremely boring and I
really wanted to get on the road
and explore the road. I found road
cycling much more dynamic than
Beer-Bike."
Yan and Zapata both said cy-
clists of all abilities should not be
discouraged from joining, since
the team is not as competitive as
it might sound.
"Basically the cycling team is
open to anybody who is interested
in cycling or has a passion for
cycling," Yan said.
The club hopes to participate in
road races next year, and has secured
sponsorship from Bike Barn, Polar,
Accelerate and Rice Web Searches.
Yan said students interested in
joining who do not have a bike can
acquire one at discounted prices
through the team.
Martel College sophomore
Rose Cahalan said she was amazed
by the amount of free things at the
President's Study Breaks.
"It always makes me think about
how Rice has so much disposable
income and just wants to make us
happy," Cahalan said. "I'll definitely
stop by to sample the free food and
pirate booty."
Students protest free-trade at Baker Institute
by Jocelyn Wright
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
The arrival of Commerce Secre-
tary Carlos Gutierrez came a wave
of political activism on Rice's campus
last Friday. Rice for Peace and Justice
gathered in front of the J ames A Baker
Institute for Public Policy to protest
Gutierrez's visit to speak about free
trade. The group opposed to U.S. free
trade agreements on the grounds that
they help corporations at the expense of
human and environmental rights.
"We feel that free trade agreements
as they stand benefit big business
and profit other people," Jones Col-
lege junior Gislaine Williams. "Large
transnational corporations violate inter-
national labor as well as environmental
standards, so we're here to say that free
trade agreements are not really promot-
ing freedom and are in fact exploiting
people and the environment."
Brown College senior Sarah
McDonald said was meant more to
raise awareness of the anti-free trade
movement than to force any immedi-
ate change.
"I don't think we're going to change
the secretary's mind, but we're going
to show that not everyone is willing
to accept free trade," McDonald said.
"A lot of students have walked by, so
we're just speaking out and letting
people know."
Not everyone supported the
protest. Brown junior Paul Tucker, a
Rice for Peace member, attended the
speech but did not join the protest be-
cause he said he felt like the situation
was misrepresented on the listserv
e-mail sent out to club members.
"They made it sound like corpo-
rations ;ire evil and that free trade
ultimately hurts host countries, which
MINOR
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which trains students to address
and solve global health issues. This
four-year grant expires in Sept.
2010, but is eligible for renewal.
Under the minor, students
would take six courses along one
of two different tracks specified
for differing academic interests:
one for science and engineering
students and another for humani-
ties, social science and policy study
students.
The two tracks start with the
same required course, BIOE 260:
Introduction to Global Health Is-
sues. The paths split into differing
requirements and electives before
joining again with senior year
capstone project, BIOE 461/462:
Global Hwealth Design Challenge.
The course would require a group
of students from differing back-
grounds to collaborate and design
a project to apply to a real-world
situation, such as develop educa-
tional materials, bioengineering
devices and tools for pharmacists
or patients to use in the develop-
ing world.
"[The classes] give the students
tools they can use to actually solve
problems, and not just learn about
them," Bioengineering Lecturer
Maria Oden said.
The other required courses
focus on building a strong back-
ground in biology while the elec-
tives are more diverse in focus,
ranging from issues in the develop-
ing world to biology courses.
The minor proposal states that
all core courses will be offered
every year, with the entry point of
BIOE 260 open to 25-30 students.
It also states that the required
courses of BIOS 361: Metablolic
Engineering for Global health
Environments, BIOS 362: bioengi-
neering for Global Health Environ-
ments and BIOS 122: Fundamental
Concepts in Biology will be devel-
oped and taught by graduate or
post-doctoral students. Courses in
the minor will be open to students
not along the minor path.
JOHN SANDERS/THRESHER
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez speaks at the James A. Baker Insti-
tute for Public Policy about free trade on Friday. Rice for Peace and Justice
protested against free trade outside the Baker Institute.
is just a false lie," Tucker said. "Third
world countries benefit. Globalization
is not a zero sum game. More people
get helped than hurt, so I think it's kind
of simplistic for [Rice for Peace and
Justice] to put this on the Department
of Commerce."
The protestors did not go unnoticed
by RUPD, who asked the protestors to
leave on one occasion and to relocate
on another. Sid Richardson College
senior Sarah Taylor, co-president of
Rice for Peace and Justice, said an
officer told the protestors they were
a security threat to the persons inside
and asked protestors to stand 20 to 30
feet away from the Baker Institute to
prevent loitering. Williams said one
officer told him no one was allowed
to protest on campus.
"When I first got here, the campus
police came up here threateningly
sayingthere were no public demonstra-
tions allowed on campus," Williams
said. "He came up 30 seconds after 1
had taken out my sign and said I had
to leave campus."
However, the Student Code of
Conduct does not explicitly ban student
protest as long as it does not obstruct
or interfere with university functions
or activities.
RUPD Captain Phil Hassell said
there was no written policy against
student protestors being on campus.
"We're certainly going to allow
[students] to express their opinions
on-campus," Hassell said. "We can't
tell them to leave campus. It's their
campus. They live here."
However, non-Rice protestors are
not allowed to protest on campus.
Hassell said in the case of Gutierrez's
visit, security was key.
" [ Protestors] are not allowed to dis-
rupt meetings, endangerpeople, throw
things or use inappropriate language at
people," Hassell said. "But if they want
to be there, hold up signs and protest,
that's certainly acceptable."
GLOBAL HEALTH CONCENTRATION
Non-science core courses
■ BIOS 122: Fundamental Concepts in Biology
■ BIOE 260: Introduction to Global Health Issues
■ BIOE 301: Bioengineering & World Health
■ BIOE 461/462: Global Health Design Challenge
Science core courses
■ BIOE 260: Introduction to Global Health Issues
■ BIOE 361: Metabolic Engineering for Global Health Environ-
ments
■ BIOE 362: Bioengineering for Global Health Environments
■ BIOE 461/462: Global Health Design Challenge
Two other elective courses are required for both cores. For a
list of choices, visit beyondtradltionalborders.rice.edu.
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