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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, AUGUST 29,2003
Health Services move to
old Brown on schedule
by Mark Berenson
THKKSHKK EDITORIAL STAFF
Construction of the new Student
Health Services and Health Educa-
tion and Wellness Office in the old
Brown College Commons is on track
for completion in early November.
Project Manager Ana Ramirez
said the exterior work on the site is
nearly complete, and interior work
is progressing, with city electrical,
plumbing and wall inspections com-
pleted last week.
Health Services will now have
four exam rooms and a triage area,
as well as offices for the staff, a work-
room and an expanded waiting area.
HEWO will have two offices for the
staff, two consultation rooms and a
large common area complete with
computer kiosks and seating.
Some students said they are
looking forward to having an ex-
panded facility.
"I think it's always good, espe-
cially when it comes to your health,
when there's a better facility,"
Hanszen College junior Schwannah
McCarthy said. "It's good that the
students' well-being comes first."
The completed facility will com-
bine Health Services, which is lo-
cated in Hanszen College, with the
HEWO office, which is located in
the Rice Memorial Center's clois-
ters off of Ray Courtyard.
Some students said they think
the combined facility will be more
convenient.
"It's better to have everything in
one place so you can go to one place
to take care of everythingyou need,"
Lovett College freshman Amber
Wiedemann said.
However other students noted
that the new location means a longer
walk for the majority of on-campus
students.
"If it's bigger and they have more
people, it might be more effective
than the little tiny place they have
right now," Lovett junior Jeff
Sweeney said. "But I think it is going
to be a hassle having to walk all the
way over to the other side."
RUPD hopes deposit will
decrease number of appeals
PARKING, from Page 1
Will Rice College junior C.W.
McCullagh, one of three under-
graduate representatives on the
parking committee, said he thinks
the plan is fair.
"We decided that frivolous ap-
peals were a waste of time and
money, so we designed a system
that will not penalize those with le-
gitimate claims but will hopefully
curb false ones," McCullagh said.
"If students actually have a legiti-
mate appeal, it will go through much
faster now."
Jonathan Hamrick, a Wiess Col-
lege senior, said he thinks students
should have the right to appeal tick-
ets without paying a deposit.
"It shouldn't cost extra to appeal,
particularly since there's always the
chance of losing an appeal when you
think it's legitimate," Hamrick said.
"You should have the right to appeal
in any event, and they shouldn't try
to deter you from doing that."
I>ovett College sophomore Jer-
emy Wan said he thinks the system
will be effective in discouraging
groundless appeals.
"Hopefully now there'll be more
serious appeals rather than people
who are just pissed off about a stupid
rule," Wan said.
BJS. may return next year
CEVE, from Page 1
department by forming a three- to
five-person student committee to
work with faculty in developing the
new curriculum.
At the meeting, Professor Philip
Bedient said he hopes to move
quickly in working with students to
develop a new curriculum plan.
"There's a massive urgency to
get this operation on the books in
the next 30 to 60 days," Bedient said.
The newcurriculum will be much
more contemporary than the old
curriculum, and will have more flex-
ibility and choice, he said. One new
option will be a specialization in ur-
ban transportation.
Two years ago, the civil engi-
neering department merged with
the environmental engineering de-
partment. The current difficulties
are not the result of that merger,
Ward said.
"One of the hopes for combining
the departments two years ago was
that there would be a closer scrutiny
of what kind of curriculum is right
for students at Rice," Ward said at
the meeting.
The department has already hired
a professor, who will begin work
next semester, to teach classes that
Hughes taught. They will also re-
cruit a new department chair and a
new assistant professor to address
the faculty shortage.
Rice's B.S. program in civil en-
gineering is scheduled for reac-
creditation in 2006, at which time
the Accreditation Board for Engi-
neering and Technology will re-
view the new curriculum and de-
termine if it is in lint- with their
standards.
Some students said they think
the sudden removal of the degree
could reflect poorly on Rice.
Hedrick said it is unusual for a
university like Rice not to offer a B.S.
in civil engineering.
"Civil engineering is one of the
most basic engineering disciplines a
university can have," he said.
Brown College senior Matt
Swinehart, a CEVE major, said he
does not think the current period of
uncertainty or the new curriculum
will affect him because he is a se-
nior, but said he is concerned about
the entering freshman class.
"I advised during O-Week, and I
advised two or three people who
wanted to do civil engineering, but
they were confused as to what was
going on," he said.
'There's a massive
urgency to get this
operation on the
books in the next 30
to 60 days.'
— Phillip Bedient
CEVE Professor
No freshmen attended
Wednesday's meeting.
Levy said he thinks the interim
period between the two curricula
will benefit students in the long run.
"The reason for (temporarily
eliminating the B.S.] is to rethink
the structure of the degree in a more
modern context that fits with where
Rice is going in other directions and
provides the best educational op-
portunity that we can for our stu-
dents," Ix-vy said.
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Berenson, Mark. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 91, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 2003, newspaper, August 29, 2003; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth398428/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.