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Vol. LXXXIX, Issue No. 17
SINCE 1916
Friday, January 25, 2002
Ninth college opens Monday
Martel building ready after summer flooding postponed completion
by Lindsey Gilbert
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
Despite down-to-the-wire construc-
tion, the Martel College move-in will
proceed as planned, Housing and Din-
ing Director Mark Ditinan said
Wednesday. Barring any major com-
plications, Rice's ninth residential col-
lege will open its doors Monday.
Move-in will begin at 10 a.m. and
continue until all 171 residents are
situated.
In a Wednesday meeting with
H&D officials, Martel student lead-
ers solidified move-in logistics and
discussed issues such as security,
parking and timing.
Present at the meeting were
Martel Masters Joan and Arthur
Few, Project Manager David Rodd,
Rice Police Chief Bill Taylor and
Miner Dederick construction repre-
sentatives, among others.
With construction complete, the
City of Houston gave the go-ahead
for residency earlier this week, issu-
ing a temporary certificate of occu-
pancy. Landscaping and other minor
projects will continue for several days,
but the interior of the building is fully
furnished and livable, Ditman said.
The Fews said the finished build-
ing surpassed their expectations.
"It's gorgeous," Joan Few said.
All possible measures will be taken
to ensure a smooth move-in day, the
Fews said. Dollies will be provided
for curbside luggage drop-offs and
security personnel will be on hand to
direct traffic and prevent theft.
Since students will not be allowed
to park in the Abercrombie Lab Park-
ing Lot until after 5 p.m., shuttles
will be provided for drivers needing
a lift back from the stadium.
An e-mail detailing the relocation
procedures was sent to Martel stu-
dents Wednesday night.
Martel President Alice Hill said
students need to pick up their room
keys from the college's visiting fac-
ulty apartment sometime between
10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday. Stu-
dents can then access the rooms at
their leisure.
Commercial moving vans will be
provided only for on-campus fresh-
men, Hill said. The vans will make
four runs, two to Lovett College and
two to Baker College. Martelians at
the Warwick Hotel, Holly Hall or
other off-campus locations must find
their own transportation.
Belongings stored in Hicks
kitchen will be trucked to Martel
early Monday morning and stored
in common spaces for later pick-up,
according to the e-mail.
Some off-campus students are
frustrated by the lack of transporta-
tion.
Sophomore Megan Crumbaker
said she thought moving vans would
be provided and now has no way to
transport her belongings from Holly
Hall. "First of all they promised over
and over last year that we'd be in at
the beginning of the semester, then
they changed it to two weeks [later],"
Crumbaker said. "This is just an-
other promise they've retracted."
"The fact that [the move-in date]
See MARTEL, Page 6
ALEX SIGEDA THRESHER
Victory within reach
Lovett senior Kevin Killer dives for the disc during an ultimate tournament this past weekend in Baton Rouge,
La. Four coed teams from Rice participated in the tournament against other club teams.
Web system improves registration
by David Berry
THRESHER STAFF
Today is the last day to add
courses without a fee, and for the
first time, add/drop forms can be
found online on the Student Infor-
mation System Web site.
Many students said they feel the
new system, which most students
used to register for classes, has im-
proved the process.
"Ninety-nine percent of the feed-
back we have gotten has been over-
whelmingly positive," Registrar Jerry
Montag said.
While the Registrar's Officehas
been processing preregistration
forms electronically with bar codes,
add/drop forms are still processed
manually. Students can either com-
plete add/drop forms online and
then print them out or fill out the
old forms, which are available in
the Registrar's Office. Both prereg-
istration forms and add/drop forms
still need to be signed by an aca-
demic adviser.
Some students have encountered
problems with printing preregistra-
tion and add/drop forms.
"I have Acrobat installed, but I
tried to print my forms and just got
blank pages, and I'm not the only
one," Baker College freshman Gre-
gory Dachs said.
Adobe Acrobat Reader, a
freeware program, must be used to
view and print forms.
Neither Montag nor Barry
McFarland, the dean for enrollment
administration, said they had heard
of such printing problems. The SIS
Web site suggests students use
Microsoft Internet Explorer instead
of Netscape Navigator. Students can
also get help from the Registrar's
Office by sending e-mail to
reg@rice.edu.
Dachs and others with printing
problems were able to print their
forms from the computers in the
Registrar's Office.
The SIS site, sisweb. rice, edu, con-
tains updated course offerings, times
and locations. Students can also find
DAN KOCEVSKI/THRESHER
Remembering a leader
Mayor Lee Brown speaks at the seventh annual Martin Luther King Jr.
Day Vigil h^ld Monday at Rice.
Solicitors hit campus
by Kevin Grahmann
THRESHER STAFF
Rice University Police caught two
groups of unauthorized solicitors
trying to sell magazines to students
at Lovett College Jan. 16 and 17.
Solicitors also knocked on doors at
Wiess College, but RUPD was not
contacted.
'Two different sets of solicitors
went around Lovett College, which
is a hot spot for solicitors who come
right off Main." RUPD Sgt. Steve
Reiter said.
Reiter said solicitors come by
Rice once or twice a month, often
putting fliers on cars parked around
campus.
Police Chief Bill Taylor said these
groups tend to focus on college cam-
puses, using young adults to solicit
students.
"They load up on the van and
travel from city to city and they'll
probably be there anywhere from
two weeks to months," Taylor said.
'They'll hit all the educational insti-
tutions in the areas."
The solicitors claimed they were
college students selling magazines
tohelppayfortheireducation. Lovett
senior Amit Prasad said.
"He said he was a student here
and was saying that I could help
him win some trip or scholarship."
Prasad said. "He proceeded to hit
the punch line of having to buy
magazines from him in order to
help him. I just said. 'No thank you,'
and closed the door."
Lovett freshman Brian
Armstrong said he had a similar ex-
perience with the solicitors.
"This guy handed me some 'lami-
nated sheets with some lists of
magazines mentioning something
about money for school,"
Armstrong said. "They had a pretty
good hustle going, they were talk-
ing about all kinds of stuff, trying to
See SOLICITORS, Page 6
out whether classes with size caps
are full. The Web site allows stu-
dents to access their grades, tran-
scripts and financial aid information,
as well as perform degree audits.
Students currently cannot access
the SIS site from non-Rice comput-
ers unless they dial in to the Rice
network. McFarland and Montag
both said that allowing Internet ac-
cess from non-Rice computers is a
priority and they hoped it would be
in place before pre-registration for
the fall semester.
McFarland also said that in the
near future, he expects that add/
drop forms will be processed elec-
tronically. professors will be able to
submit grades via the Web and class
rosters will be available online.
Montag has previously suggested
a preferential registration system,
where seniors register on Monday,
juniors on Tuesday, sophomores on
Wednesday, freshmen on Thursday
and Friday is open. However, he
said that such a system is unlikely to
See REGISTRATION, Page 5
INSIDE
Doors wide open
Brushing up on your lan-
guage skills during the week-
end is now a little easier.
Rayzor Hall will be open on
Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
and on Sundays from 5 to 9 p.m.
The building will be open at all
times with card access.
The building was closed last
weekend because of the holi-
day.
Dees, Cosby...
If you want Justin
Timberlake to be your gradua-
tion speaker, send a suggestion
to the 2003 Commencement
Speaker committee under-
graduate representatives Matt
Haynie at haynie@rice.edu
or Karla Sussman at
sussman@rice.edu.
Other nominations will also
be accepted.
OPINION Page 2
Megawatts make a difference
A&E Page 7
Interview with Tolkien professor
FEATURE Page 10-11
Baker, Will Rice then and now
SPORTS Page 16
Owls invited to NFL combine
Quote of the Week
"We're the greatest nation in the
world, and I promise you, it's
because we're not all white."
— Former skinhead Frank Meeink.
describing what he has come to
realize about race relations in this
country. See Story. Page 4.
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Friday
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Saturday
Sunny, 44-67 degrees
Sunday
Partly cloudy. 50-70 degrees
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