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Friday, December 5,2008
the Rice Thresher
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NEWS IN BRIEF
RUPD pursues
felon on campus
Rice University police started
their Thanksgiving break with a
chase when they received a call
that a wanted felon was on campus
at Brown College the evening of
Nov. 24. It was the same man RUPD
apprehended with the help of the
Houston Police Department's dogs
and helicopter Sept 28, Police Cap-
tain Phillip Hassell said.
Rice University Police Depart-
ment received a call the night
before that the man, Drake Young
had assaulted his girlfriend off-
campus, striking her several times
in the face, but he left before RUPD
arrived. At 10:44 p.m. the follow-
ing evening, Young returned. His
now ex-girlfriend stayed with the
Brown masters that evening be-
cause she was afraid to return to
her room in the college.
RUPD spotted Young on the
roof of Brown near the college
commons. He then jumped off
the roof, took off and ran to-
wards Hermann Park along the
light rail tracks. HPD joined the
chase with a canine unit and a
city helicopter unit. Although
police were unable to apprehend
Young, they did find and seize
his car, Hassell said.
Young was first spotted on
campus nearly two months ago
Drake Young Wanted Felon
Drake Young Wanted Felon
on Sep. 28. RUPD stopped him
for driving the wrong way on a
one-way street. After finding that
he had a felony warrant against
him, RUPD brought him into the
station, Hassell said. While they
were taking Young out of the pa-
trol car, he bolted and was even-
tually found under a porch by
search dogs.
Young was described as white,
6' i", around 160 pounds with
brown hair and brown eyes. While
his hair was braided into cornrows
when RUPD first apprehended him,
they believe that his hair is now un-
braided.
Young has been charged with
assault and felony escape. He is
still at large, but RUPD is working
to apprehend him, Hassell said.
"We weren't able to catch him,
but we have his car, and there's a
warrant out to arrest him as soon
as we can find him," Hassell said.
—Jocelyn Wright
MOB leads
Thanksgiving Day
parade
Rice's Marching Owl Band was
selected to march in Houston's
annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day
parade. The MOB's portion of the
parade was movie-themed and fea-
tured a saxaphone-playing Darth
Vader, Marilyn Monroe, and danc-
ing reels of movie film.
Though the MOB has marched
in parades before, including Mar-
di Gras in Dallas and New Orleans,
this was the band's first time to
lead one, according to MOB di-
rector Chuck Throckmorton. He
credited Public Affairs Director
Greg Marshall for landing them
the position.
Throckmorton said that he
would like to see the MOB partici-
pate in another Thanksgiving pa-
rade, but that he wouldn't make it
a regular MOB appearance.
"I don't like to take people away
from their families every year," he
said in an e-mail conversation.
— Thresher Staff
Foot fetishist
harrasses student
A man with a foot fetish ap-
proached a female student
while she was studying at the
Brochstein Pavilion around 3
p.m. Friday, Police Captain Phil-
lip Hassell said.
According to Hassell, the stu-
dent described the man as a 5-foot
5-inch Asian male in his late 20s to
early 30s with dark, short, spiked
hair, yellow teeth, possibly a grille
and bumpy skin from acne or acne
scars. At first, the man grabbed
the student's feet, which she
pulled away.
Next, he picked up his cell
phone and moved it around as
though he were trying to take pic-
tures of her feet. The student left
about 30 minutes after the inci-
dent. She sent a text message to
a friend so that she would have
an excuse to leave after her friend
texted her back, Hassell said.
This is not the first time a man
with a foot fetish has been on cam-
pus. Hassell said the men tend to
gravitate toward the library where
they can observe people's feet
while they study. Some will take
their cell phones and try to photo-
graph feet under the table.
Hassell advised students who
noticed someone looking at or try-
ing to take pictures of their feet to
call RUPD immediately. He said it
would have been better if the stu-
dent had texted or called RUPD
and asked somebody to come by
instead of staying there for half an
hour.
"I don't think there's any rea-
son to sit there for 30 minutes
when there's someone making
you feel uncomfortable," Hassell
said. "We would prefer people call
6000 immediately so we can get
him before he does something like
that again."
— Jocelyn Wright
Son of Libyan
leader visits Rice
Saif al-lslam al-Gaddafi, a spe-
cial envoy from Libya, visited Rice
on his own accord last Wednes-
day in pursuit of stronger Libyan-
American relations. Gaddafi is the
chairman of the Gaddafi Interna-
tional Charity and Development
Foundation. He is also the son of
the current de facto leader of Libya,
Muammar al-Gaddafi.
Gaddafi visited various sites
throughout Houston and the Unit-
ed Spates in the past month.
"He's trying to foster relation-
ships between Libya and the Unit-
ed States," said a member of his
security detail who asked to remain
anonymous due to the sensitivity
of his job.
Gaddafi toured the Rice cam-
pus before meeting with President
David Leebron. While his visit was
unannounced, a member of his se-
curity detail said that Gaddafi was
seeking increased study-abroad
exchanges as well as new diplo-
matic relations.
"We keep it hush-hush," he said.
— Catherine Bratic
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excited about the donation and its
implications for students, Keller-
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Whenever we have a
large gift like this, you
always have a lot of
conversation to try
to mold the gift into
what benefits Rice
University and what
also meets the pas-
sion of the donors.
Sallie KeUer-McNulty
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Brown School of
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"A gift like this allows us to
build some permanent infrastruc-
ture of people and programs to
help our faculty think as creative-
ly as they can and mount different
kinds of programs and activities
that will benefit our students in
developing the skill sets for lead-
ers and for entrepreneurs," Keller-
McNulty said.
The Doerrs were in talks to give
the donation for several years,
until the gift was finalized a few
weeks ago.
"Whenever we have a large gift
like this, you always have a lot of
conversation, to try to mold the
gift into what benefits Rice Uni-
versity and what also meets the
passion of the donors," Keller-
McNulty said.
Including this gift, the Doerrs
have contributed $22.5 million to
Rice's Centennial Campaign, which
aims to raise $1 billion by 2012.
They also provided $2.5 million in
seed funding for computational
research of cancer programs and
the financial means to endow two
chairs, currently held by Computer
Science Professors Krishna Palem
and Keith Cooper.
The Doerrs earned their un-
dergraduate and masters degrees
in electrical engineering at Rice.
John Doerr is a venture capitalist
and Ann Doerr is an environmen-
tal activist. The gift comes from the
Benificus Foundation, a private
charitable organization established
by the couple whose previous do-
nations have supported schools
and health-related initiatives.
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