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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 15,2005
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Students try out the equipment In the new Electronic Resource Center. The ERC moved from Fondren Library to
Herring Hall earlier this month and will host a grand opening April 28 from 3:30-5 p.m. The ERC features
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ECONOMICS
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Colleges kick 214 students off campus
by Ruth Samuelson
THRESHER STAFF
With room jack complete at all
nine residential colleges, 214 stu-
dents have been forced to live off-
campus next year, although rooms
may become available to displaced
students during the summer. Last
year 120 students were forced off,
and 227 were bumped in 2003.
After not kicking off any students
last year, Martel College bumped
52 students — the most by any
college since 2003, when Wiess Col-
lege kicked off 56 students. Many
Martel students were surprised to
learn the college would not have
sufficient housing, Martel co-Vice
President Abby Smith said.
After the last of its founding
members graduate in May, Martel
will have four full-size classes. Mar-
tel has been underpopulated since
it opened for the 2001-'02 academic
year because its founding classes
were smaller than the classes
that have matriculated since. The
smaller classes allowed Martel
to meet demand for on-campus
housing until this year. Smith, a
sophomore, said.
"Assuming that most of my class
wants to move back, this trend of kick-
ingoff almost theentire [ rising! junior
class will continue," Smith said.
Four other colleges also forced
significant numbers of students off
campus. Baker College kicked off
40 students; Brown College, 32;
Hanszen College, 30, and Wiess,
30. In 2004, Baker only kicked off
five students, although it kicked
off 35 students in 2003. At Brown,
slightly more students were forced
off campus than in 2004, while
slightly fewer were forced off at
Wiess.
Hanszen Chief Justice Annalise
Gill, a sophomore, said the number
of students forced off campus at
Hanszen is somewhat misleading
because some students did not
bother to enter the room draw,
thinking they had little chance of
getting on-campus housing.
However, Brown Internal Vice
President Brandi Burns, a sopho-
more, said many rising juniors
participated in the bump draw
despite unfavorable odds.
Lovett College bumped 18
students, and Sid Richardson Col-
lege — which switched this year
to kicking off rising juniors rather
than rising sophomores — kicked
off seven students. Sid Room Draw
Coordinator Scott Hersey, a junior,
said the low number is due to the
large number of students who vol-
untarily moved off-campus.
Jones College forced off three
students, and Will Rice College
forced off two students — both
similar figures to last year's.
Hanszen freshman Philip Pau-
erstein said it is not surprising
that some colleges force off more
students than others.
"Different numbers of people
are going to decide that they want
to move off at each college," Pau-
erstein said. "That's not something
that you could predict."
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ROOM JACK
As of Wednesday, these are
the numbers of people each
college is kicking off campus.
Martel
52
Baker
40
Brown
32
Hanszen
30
Wiess
30
Lovett
18
Sid Richardson
7
Jones
3
Will Rice
2
major more demanding, which I'm
happy I don't have to [experience],"
Lane said. "But I think it's better for
the major because it was too easy
before."
Students matriculating in Fall
2005 must complete the major un-
der the new requirements. Current
students who have already taken
ECON 212 can still complete the
major under the old requirements,
while those who have not taken
ECON 212 can graduate under the
old requirements if they take ECON
212 through the School of Continu-
ing Studies this summer or transfer
credit for it from another institution
and then pass the departmental
qualifying examination.
Hartley said few students major-
ing in economics will be inconve-
nienced by the elimination of ECON
212 since most students take it as
freshmen or use Advanced Placement
credit to skip it.
The changes were made to give
students a better statistical back-
ground, Hartley said.
"Employers expect [students] to
knowabout economic data and howto
use statistical analysis to understand
it," Hartley said.
The changes reflect the im-
portance of statistics in economic
research, economics major Ryan
Jennings said.
"I think it's a good idea," Jen-
nings, a Jones College sophomore,
said. "Gathering of statistics plays an
important part in economics."
Three other social science ma-
jors — political science, psychology
and sociology — have statistics
requirements, although only PSYC
339: Statistical Methods-Psychol-
ogy, is cross-listed in the statistics
department.
The department decided to elimi-
nate ECON 212 rather than increase
the number of courses required for
the major because adding the econo-
metrics requirement by itself would
have limited students' flexibility in
completing the major, Hartley said.
Since ECON 446 is a hands-
on course with small weekly lab
sections, the department needed
graduate students available to lead
the sections. Had the department
not eliminated the lower-level
course, its resources would have
been strained, since graduate
students teach most sections of
ECON 212.
Many professors are reluctant
to teach ECON 212, Hartley said.
ECON 211: Principles of Econom-
ics teaches topics more central to
economics and draws many more
students, Hartley said.
The only change to the mathemati-
cal economic analysis degree require-
ments is that students must now
take four electives instead of three,
since ECON 212 was eliminated.
The mathematical economic analysis
degree already requires ECON 375,
ECON 400 and STAT310: Probability
and Statistics.
Brown, chair of the Economics
Department Undergraduate Com-
mittee, said although he did not
formally discuss the changes with
students before they were adopted,
he and other professors drew on
years of informal discussions.
The department had been consid-
ering these changes since a curricu
lum review four years ago, Hartley
said. The changes were first formally
discussed at the March 4 meeting
of the undergraduate committee.
Brown said. The committee proposed
the changes to the economics faculty
at its March 16 general meeting.
The faculty voted almost unani-
mously to approve the changes,
Hartley said.
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