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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,2001
Students encouraged to send e-mail to May
STADIUM, from Page 1
Both May and the students said
they are optimistic that a satisfac-
tory outcome will be reached.
"I just feel like we'll come to some
resolution before the next [home]
game that everybody will be happy
with," May said. "We're interested
in driving student attendance. We
want everybody to come to the
games and support the team and
that's our objective, and I think that
we'll achieve that."
The next home game is Oct. 6
against Boise State University.
May said he expected students
would eventually be allowed back in
the first seven rows.
"It's not a question of if, it's just a
question of when,"May said. "I think
the meetings I have had have been
very helpful, and everybody seems
to be very much interested in com-
ing to some amicable resolution of
the problem."
McSherry also said he thought
his meeting with May was helpful,
but May did not realize how many
students care about student section
seating.
"It seems to me that [May] does
acknowledge that the Rally and Sally
and people who do go to football
games want to be in the front rows,"
McSherry, a Lovett senior, said.
"What I would do is encourage people
to e-mail him. If he knows how many
people care about it, it just might
mean that he can't just ignore it."
D'Avignon said she al§o thought
many students care about the issue.
"I just want to point out that Rally
and Sally, on average, we only take up
about three rows, and even then, there
are non-Rally and Sally people who sit
in the front row," D'Avignon, a Jones
College junior, said. "It's not a deci-
sion that just affects one group or just
targets one group. I think it affects and
targets the entire student population
that actually goes to the games."
SA President Gavin Parks said
one reason for discussing the issue
at the SA meeting was to let May
know the student body as a whole
does care.
"I think part of that also, why we're
having a discussion here, is to show
that this is an issue for all students to
care about and that all students do
care about it, and it's not just a specific-
issue that just a few people are af-
fected by," Parks, a Martel College
senior, said.
At the SA meeting, several people
said they were troubled that May
decided to block off the rows without
previously consulting with students.
"I think it's also important that
this was a decision made by the
Athletics Department without con-
sulting students," Parks said. "They
told students afterward, after they'd
made the decision they hadn't dis-
cussed with us."
Other students expressed simi-
lar views.
"You know, it seems like we see
this over and over again ... with
KTRU and now the seating area
Sunny.
Cloudy.
Glorious.
Make the
weather.
rhreslier@rice.edu
here," Jones College sophomore
Alan Kolodny said. "I just don't un-
derstand why there couldn't have
been a discussion with Rally before-
hand «ind why there couldn't have
been a warning sent out."
Hanszen College President Erik
Vanderlip said he thought it was
unproductive to focus on why the
Athletics Department acted as it did.
Instead, he said students should
work on finding solutions.
"I think we should work at what
needs to be done and what we can do
about it, what our options are,"
Vanderlip, a senior, said. "The fact
that it's been done, we can't really
change that."
May said he had no specific rea-
son for not consulting students be-
fore making his decision. However,
May said he wanted to create a situ-
ation more like .he one existing at
basketball games. At basketball
games in Autry Court, the Rice stu-
dent section is separated from the
visiting team's bench by a section of
seats reserved for supporters of the
visiting team.
"We felt like we needed to do
something in order to deal with the
situation that had been not as it
should have been, and we chose to
just go ahead and create that buffer
zone similar to what we have in bas-
ketball, which works effectively
there," May said.
May said he thought students
would be allowed back into the first
seven rows once he felt confident
they would not exhibit inappropri-
ate behavior.
"We just need to feel that there is
an understanding of what the expec-
tation is as far as behavior there at
games," May said. "It's a public place
and we need to be sure we recognize
that and act accordingly."
POLICE BLOTTER
The following items were reported to the University Police for the period
Sept. 20-24. Three items were deleted for space.
Residential Colleges
Lovett College Sept. 21 Bike stolen.
Hanszen College
Jones College
Academic Buildings
Herring Hall
Duncan Hall
Other Buildings
Lovett House
Other Areas
Rice campus
.Sept. 21 Bike stolen.
Sept. 21 Two subjects in possession of burglary
tools arrested for criminal trespassing
and transported to Harris County Jail.
(See Story, Page 6.)
Sept. 23 Bike stolen.
Sept. 24 Two bikes stolen.
Sept. 22 Telephone harassment.
Sept. 21 Sexual assault.
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Liu, Leslie & Reichle, Robert. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 89, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 2001, newspaper, September 28, 2001; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443118/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.