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Who knows?
Who knew your mockery of Rice's Public Relations slogan
could draw this kind of response?
A&E P. 10
Lite Opera
Trial by Jury light in nature, though not flimsy in quality
(unlike that healthy sandwich you just ate).
SPORTS 4, P. 13
You got served
The volleyball team takes 2 out of 3 matches, improving to
11 and 4 overall. Watch out this weekend!
VOLUME XCVIII, ISSUE NO. 8
SINCE 1916
STUDENT-RUN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008
Students voice discontent at finance forum
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Student Association Director of Elections Tim Faust faces off against Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman Monday at the SA forum. The forum
dealt with Rice's plans to move student organizations' funds from external bank accounts to accounts within the university. Many students voiced
concerns about this decision potentially limiting students' autonomy.
by Catherine Bratic
Thresher Editorial Staff
Vice President for Finance Kathy Col-
lins and Dean of Undergraduates Robin
Forman fielded questions at the Student
Association meeting Monday night to a full
house in an attempt to assuage students'
concerns about the financial transforma-
tion planned for colleges and clubs.
The changes will apply to over 150
clubs at Rice who currently have inde-
pendent bank accounts, as well as each
of the residential colleges, Forman said.
Forman began the meeting by re-
minding students that the plan was not
yet finalized and emphasizing that the
administration did not seek to limit stu-
dent autonomy.
"[There's a] value 1 see in offering you
all the independence that we do, both for
the educational value on campus and for
the value we all derive when we allow
you to exercise your creativity," Forman
said. "It's important to me that this plan
does nothing to diminish your ability to
exercise your creative instincts and inde-
pendent spirit with which you've led the
clubs in the past."
Collins followed Forman's introduc-
tion, thanking the students for their
responses and laying out the details of
the plan.
"What we're proposing is that we
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South College Ike causes $3 million in campus damage
plans finalized
by Catherine Bratic
thresher editorial staff
The first residents of Duncan and
McMurtry Colleges will not be a new
generation of freshmen. Rather, they
will be Baker College and Will Rice
College students relocated from their
own colleges during the south college
renovations, Facilities, Engineering
and Planning Project Manager Kathy
Jones said.
The renovations to the south col-
leges will begin next May and finish
in August 2010. Over this 14-month
period, the "new" wing of Will Rice
will be replaced, Baker's tower will be
removed, a new wing of Baker will be
constructed along the inner loop, the
seventh and eighth entrances of Baker
will be handed over to Lovett College,
and a new servery will be constructed
between Will Rice, Sid Wchardson and
Lovett colleges. A total of 82 beds will be
added to the south colleges in the proj-
ect, Jones said.
Hopkins Architects is designing
the buildings for the projects. Mat-
thew Taylor, Adviser to the Dean of
Undergraduates, said they are mak-
ing sure the new additions blend in
with their surroundings.
"One of the important parts of the
architects' vision for the buildings is
that they be of a scale that matches
the buildings that are already there,"
Taylor said.
This will include choosing a brick
color similar to the ones used in the
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by jocelyn wright
Thresher Editorial Staff
When it tore through campus in
mid-September, Hurricane Ike left $3
million in campus damages in its wake.
About two-thirds of the buildings and
one-third of the trees on campus were
affected, Facilities, Engineering and
Planning Manager of Communications
Susann Glenn said.
Glenn said the majority of the dam-
age was minimal. She said hurricane
damage typically involved wet carpet
and some broken windows, she said.
Rice is looking at replacing dam-
aged carpets, Renee Block, risk man-
ager for the Vice President for Invest-
ments, said.
Although damage was relatively
minimal, some buildings on campus
faced structural damage, Glenn said.
Several windows of the R Room at the
stadium were blown out. Part of the
brick facade at Brown College
was pulled off by the storm. Mr-
Nair Hall at the Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Manage-
ment lost some roofing tiles.
Glenn said Ike trampled
a third of the trees on cam-
pus. Many trees lost limbs and
needed to be pruned, while
others were uprooted. Several
leaning trees will also be replaced.
A few trees were hoisted up and put
back into place, however Rice may lose
more based on its survival rate. Glenn
said the full extent of the damage to
the trees would be most evident when
the trees went into shock. Overall,
Glenn said Rice lost about twenty-five
percent of its tree canopy.
Rice is still gathering information
about Ike-related damages and repair,
but the cost of damages is most likely
to be less than Rice's named windstorm
deductible (from insurance?), which
means Rice will have to cover the costs
related to Hurricane Ike, Block said.
Currently, the costs are covered by con-
tingency funds and a separate fund that
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5. Rice stadium
All the windows of
the R Room were
blown out
during Ike.
1. Engineering Quad
An exhaust hood on a
physics building fell off
during the storm. Ac-
cording to FE&P Manag-
er of Communications
Susann Glenn, building
damage was minimal,
though two-thirds of
the academic buildings
had some minor water
damage.
4. Rice Media Center
The aluminum siding of the
Rice Media Center succumbed
to Ike's gusts, leaving the
building partially naked.
2. Brown College
Hurricane Ike's winds reached
over 100 mph — strong enough
to knock off the top 25 feet of
bricks off of Brown's facade.
3. Hanzsen College
A total of 50 trees were lost, and one-third of trees on cam pus were harmed
in some way. As a result, 25 percent of the "tree canopy" is gone.
Valhalla Reopening
Valhalla will reopen today at 4 p.m. following
the completion of its renovations and after resolv-
ing issues with Student Judicial Affairs following
Hurricane Ike. There will be music and free food
to celebrate the event, starting at 5 p.m.
Opera, sans calories
Like light opera? Catch tonight's perfor-
mance of Trial by Jury at 8 p.m. in Hamman
Hall. Additional showings tomorrow at 2 p.m.
and 8 p.m. Closing night is Sunday at 8 p.m. Ad-
mission is $5 for Rice community members, $10
for general admission.
Fall Break
It's been a long haul of classes, homework and
tests the past few weeks: time for a break! Classes
are canceled Monday and Tuesday next week — a
well-deserved four-day weekend. Don't let this va-
cation go to waste!
Road trip?
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News 4
Arts & Entertainment 10
Sports 13
Calendar 19
Backpage 20
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