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THE RJCE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 26,2001
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KATIE STHFIT/THRCSHER
The sidewalk along the Inner Loop between Wiess College and Autry Court will be closed until about the middle
of next week as work on the sewer line for the new Wiess College and servery is completed. The work on the
sewer line began over break. The construction was expected to be completed before students returned, but
rain and bad weather slowed the construction of the line.
Students' reactions to new bagels varied
BAGELS, from Page 1
and operated by Fid Gavrila and his
brother-in-law Jay Kornhaber, third-
generation bagel bakers. New York
Bagel Shop is both a retail operation
and a wholesale business, and the
company delivers bagels to several
hospitals in the Texas Medical Cen-
ter and hotels throughout the city
every day. They bakery also sup-
plies bagels to most synagogues in
the Houston area.
Some students said that besides
just liking the new bagels, it is good
that Rice is supporting a local busi-
ness.
"1 think the new bagels are way
better, but the most important thing
is that Rice gave the bagel contract to
a local, family owned business, not a
national franchise," Will Wee college
junior Matt Boles said. "These ba-
gels are authentic New York Jewish
bagels, not fluffy cakes from Einstein.
If people want those bagels, they
might as well eat a doughnut."
7 think the new bagels
are better, but the most
important thing is that
Rice gave the bagel
contract to a local,
family owned business,
not a national
franchise.'
— Matt Boles
Will Rice junior
"I think the plain bagels are very
good," Baker College senior Hilary
Scott said.
Other students were unhappy
with the change. "I hate the new
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S A officers delay vote on
constitutional revisions
by Mark Berenson
THRKSHKR P.lJITOKIAI. STAPF
A revised version of the Student
Association constitution will be put
to the vote of undergraduates in this
spring's General Elections.
The vote was originally planned
for a special election during the first
few weeks of this semester so the
new constitution would be in effect
for the General Elections. SA Parlia-
mentarian Rudy Fink said he and
t he other officers decided they would
have a hard time getting the neces-
sary number of students to vote in
the special election.
"It is something that we hoped
would happen, but realized that it
was unrealistic," Fink said.
To approve the new constitution,
20 percent of the student body must
vote, and two-thirds of those must
approve it.
The changes to the constitution
will be discussed at Monday's SA
meeting, at 10 p.m. in Farnsworth
Pavilion.
Fink, a Hanszen College senior,
said one of the substantive changes
proposed includes requiring blan-
ket tax organizations to have their
own constitutions. Currently the or-
ganizing documents for KTRU, The
Rice Thresher, Rice Program Coun-
cil and the other blanket tax organi-
zations are contained in the SA
constitution's bylaws.
Another proposed change would
require blanket tax organizations to
have their leader elected by a gen-
eral vote of undergraduates.
Another possible proposal is to
have only one elected office per blan-
ket tax organization, a decision that
would affect the Rice Student Volun-
teer Program. However, according
to RSVP Internal Vice Chair Chad
Chasteen, the proposed constitution
will be changed to enable RSVP to
still have several elected positions.
Fink said that most of the up-
dates to the constitution reflect how
business is currently done. For ex-
ample, the old constitution bases its
election rules on a paper ballot, in-
stead of online elections.
"ITiechangesaren't broad sweep-
ing, they are corrective, because a
lot of stuff was really just out of
date," Fink said.
The current draft of the new con-
stitution was sent out to the SA list-
serv and will be available on the SA
Web site (http://sa.rice.edu) by
Monday.
The General Elections will be
held Feb. 23-28.
bagels," Sid Richardson college
sophomore Julia Buergler said. "The
outsides are hard and they all taste
like cardboard."
Will Rice junior Dan Fort agreed.
"If I wanted a New York style bagel,
I would have gone to Columbia, not
here," he said.
Several students have com-
plained that two of the most popular
flavors of bagels — cranberry and
cinnamon and sugar — were no
longer available. Bogar said New
York Bagel Shop does not make
those flavors.
Scheiner said she believes some
students are unhappy because they
have gotten used to one product. "I
think what the students are seeing is
a different bagel," Scheiner said.
'ITiis is not the first time students
have protested a change in bagels.
In January 2000, after College Food
Service switched to the Bagel Manu-
factory for a month, students de-
manded a switch back to Einstein.
Scheiner suggested offering fla-
vored cream cheese as a possible
solution. "Maybe lllavored cream
cheeses] would be a consideration
to help the people who really want a
more sweeter type of bagel,"
Scheiner said.
Gavrila said he wants to keep
students happy. "I am really happy
to have the university's business,
and I want to continue to have the
business, and I bend over backwards
to see to it that we take care of it and
handle it," Gavrila said.
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Stoler, Brian. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 88, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 2001, newspaper, January 26, 2001; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443183/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.