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Friday, February25,2011
Willy Week Preview
Monday, March 7
■ Lovctt Natl Centennial Celebration: The Lovett Hall Centen-
nial Celebration will start at 7 p.m. There will be CUPCAKES &
FIREWORKS!! There wilt also be a video on a huge screen over the
Sallyport, as well a few influential speakers.
Tuesday, March 8
■ Beer Debates: Join us at Pub at 8 p.m. for some goofy and dra-
matic moments as Sid Richardson Master Elise Sawyer, Lovett RA
Molly Slattery, and Communications Professor Glenn Prince de-
bate deep, profound questions that perplex most of us,such as...
"Does size matter?"
Wednesday, March 9
■ Trivia: Come to Willy's Pub for trivia at 11 p.m.! The winning group
gets free "What Would Willy Brew?" T-shirts.
■ Rice Night at the Rodeo: Join us at Reliant Stadium at 6:45 p.m.
for roping, barrel racing, bull riding, mutton busting and a Mar-
tina McBride concert right afterward! What more could you
ask for in good ol' Texas? (for more info.: facebook.com/event.
php ?eid-197721263571719)
Thursday, March 10
■ international Beer Night: The Rice Annual Fund Student Ini-
tiative is sponsoring $1 international beers and snacks at Willy's
Pub at 10 p.m.! Free drink tickets will be given to donors to the
Class of 2011 Senior Gift Campaign (quantities are limited).
Saturday, March 12
■ BEER BIKE!!!
□ALCOHOL
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body, Hutchinson wrote that the pro-
bation will be in place until further
notice, which he said means until
effective education and enforcement
measures are put in place.
Hutchinson said that when he dis-
cussed the degree of the problem with
student leadership, they asked to take
on responsibility for it.
"The most effective responses
are those which are student-initiat-
ed and student-created," Hutchin-
son said. "That's why these solu-
tions are not in the letter —• they're
still being created."
Brown College President Joey
Spinella said he anticipates working
with the leadership of Brown to draft
a plan that that they can implement
together as a community.
"We have not yet determined the
specific logistics but it will have short-
term as well as long-term program-
ming," Spinella said. "The college
system is a defining characteristic of
Rice, so it is most effective for each
college to join together as a commu-
nity and determine the best way to
solve this issue."
Every college will hold a townhall-
style meeting at 10 p.m. on the Mon-
day night of Willy Week to spread
the immediate message. Spinella
said that in the longer term, the col-
leges are looking to establish more
on-going integration of healthy alco-
hol habits into life at the college and
make changes in how alcohol is ad-
dressed during 0-Week.
Spinella suggested that given the
existence of the current honor code
test, Rice could implement a simi-
lar alcohol test that so that students
would have to demonstrate a level of
knowledge about the policy before
registering.
According to Tran, for Martel, he
believes that putting the focus on
enforcement isn't the right way to go
about it.
"I think the preventative measures
are going to be enough," Tran said.
"For us, we believe that we do have
a really good community, good envi-
ronment - I don't think that there are
many issues at Martel specifically."
Wiess College President Charlie
Dai said there will be an emphasis on
assessing Rice's drinking culture. Dai
said that at this point, it is imperative
that students understand the urgency
of this issue.
"I think right now it is best to make
sure that everyone is on the same
page, to make sure that people are re-
ally considering the issues," Dai said.
"Perhaps the information wasn't dis-
seminated well before, but we need to
make sure students understand."
According to Dai, the best thing to
do from this point is to have positive
reinforcement and to let the students
decide what is the best kind of action.
"We're looking at peer reinforce-
ment in that students will look out
for one another - it's important to let
students make their own decision,"
Dai said. "We all have a vested inter-
est - we need to make smart decisions
that would be best for our entire com-
munity."
According to SA President Georgia
Lagoudas, the SA will promote and
support the newly-created Drink-
ing Culture Task Force, so that the
committee can quickly work to put
together a long-term education plan
and steps to take in order to promote
campus-wide awareness. She said
the DCTF can also work to help the
colleges develop structures within
each of their community that sup-
ports safe and responsible behavior.
"The DCTF will continue with
their plan to address the drinking cul-
ture at Rice, but this will now be done
with a sense of urgency in the light of
the situation," Lagoudas said. "1 hope
that they can serve as a central source
of information regarding alcohol
abuse and can work closely with ad-
ministration and college leadership."
Sid Richardson College freshman
Caitlin Devereaux said that consid-
ering the recent instances of hard
alcohol abuse, something needed
to be done. She said that while the
Rice alcohol policy has placed a lot
of trust in the hands of the students,
some students have violated that trust
through their irresponsibility.
"While many Rice students have
respected the alcohol policy, it is
important to recognize that we are a
community, and the full support of all
students is needed to find and imple-
ment solutions that promote drinking
safety for our campus as a whole,"
Devereaux said. "The administration
has trusted students for a long time,
members of our community violated
that trust, and now is our chance to
earn it back."
Brown College junior Philip Tar-
pley said that the alcohol policy is a
privilege, not a right, and students
need to show the administration that
they can act responsibly. The problem
currently is not the amount of alco-
hol, Tarpley said, but the culture sur-
rounding it.
"Drinking at Rice used to be fo-
cused more on social drinking," Tar-
pley said. "Now we see a lot more
binge drinking, which is much more
harmful."
Hutchinson said that while it was
unfortunate the announcement of the
probation came right before spring
break, it was important to protect the
safely of students.
"1 think that this action is intend-
ed to spark an ongoing conversation
about the uses and abuses of alcohol
and spring break is going to inter-
rupt that, but the timing is such that
I really think that action is needed,"
Hutchinson said. "That's why I initi-
ated action with the students and
that's why students asked for the re-
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