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Vol. XC, Issue No. 23
SINCE 1916
Friday, March 21, 2003
No. 1 Owls win 18th straight
Baseball's 21-1 start highlighted by third straight Silver Glove over UH
by Jonathan Yardley
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
The baseball team made history
Wednesday by becoming the first
Rice team ever to start a season with
a 21-1 record.
Rice beat the University of Hous-
ton 7-6 in 11 innings to clinch the
best-of-five series for the Silver
Glove, presented annually to the
winner of the intracity rivalry.
The Owls are ranked first in the
country by both Baseball America
and the National Collegiate Baseball
Writers Association and are in the
midst of a school record 18-game
win streak.
Rice hosts Liberty University
(Va.) for a three-game series this
weekend before a big Tuesday
matchup against Baylor, ranked 8th
by Baseball America. Head coach
Wayne Graham will be looking for
his 500th career Division I victory
tonight at 7 p.m.
The streak started Feb. 18 with a
3-0 win over UH, one of three victo-
ries over the Cougars during the
streak. Rice tied the school record of
17 consecutive wins, set in 1984, by
beating No. 15 University of Ne-
braska Tuesday by a 4-1 score.
Freshman designated hitter
Lance Pendleton was the unlikely
hero Wednesday, golfing a double
to deep center field to score sopho-
more shortstop Paul Janish from first
base with the winning run.
Junior closer David Aardsma
worked four-and-two-thirds innings,
his longest outing of the year, in
picking up his fourth win of the year.
"It went down every inning —
the amount of juice i had left — but
I was just trying to make my
pitches," Aardsma said. "We've got
unbelievable defense, so [I tried to]
get some ground balls and let them
do their thing."
The most important and most
dramatic game of the streak was a
March 11 win over the defending
national champion. No. 9 University
of Texas. The Owls scored a run in
the eighth off UT closer Huston
Street and got the winning run in the
10th to defeat their nemesis before a
sold-out crowd of 4,525.
The defense has been outstand-
ing from both the infield and outfield.
Junior leftfielder Chris Kolkhorst,
who had the game-winning hit against
UT, threw out a runner at second
base Wednesday, giving him a team-
high seven outfield assists for the
season. Junior rightfielder Austin
Davis earned an outfield assist of his
own when he threw out a runner at
home Wednesday.
It is the infield defense, however,
that makes the biggest difference on
an everyday basis. Junior third
baseman Craig Stansberry, Janish,
junior second baseman Enrique Cruz
and sophomore first baseman Vincent
Sinisi are as good a foursome as any
in college baseball, with just three
errors between them. Each made at
least one sparkling defensive play in
Wednesday's win, and Janish had a
season-high nine assists despite play-
ing on a bruised foot.
See BASEBALL. Page 20
SUSHI SUZUKI/THRESHER
Junior catcher Jeff Blackinton scores the game-winning run in the bottom of
the 10th inning March 11 against the University of Texas at Reckling Park.
Rice beat the defending national champion 2-1 in front of a sold-out stadium.
Rice hosts Liberty (Va.) tonight through Sunday.
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Campus responds to war
by Lindsey Gilbert
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
Members of the Rice Crisis Management
Team met with students this week as groups
on campus reacted to the onset of U.S. hostili-
ties in Iraq.
After news of the United States strike on
Baghdad reached campus Wednesday night,
various groups began to respond. Rice Univer-
sity Police Department Chief Bill Taylor said
he increased visibility of patrols at the Gradu-
ate Apartments that night to ensure safety.
Rice for Peace President Charlotte Albrecht
said she and other members advertised an
emergency Houston-wide anti-war rally held
yesterday in Hermann Park and encouraged
Rice students to attend.
Many Will Rice College students heard
about the bombing during the college's on-
campus housing eligibility jack and watched
the news unfold on a television in the com-
mons. Will Rice Master Joel Wolfe said.
"I know that several Will Rice people have
siblings in the military in the Middle East, and
they are particularly hopeful that this ends
quickly and with as little loss of life as pos-
sible," Wolfe, a history professor, said.
Administrators visited each college during
dinner yesterday and spoke to students about
the attack. President Malcolm Gillis, Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs Zenaido Camacho and
Assistant to the President Mark Scheid gave
talks similar to those following the Sept. 11,2001
terrorist attacks.
Gillis said yesterday morning that he did
not feel there was a high need to visit the
colleges, but that it was still a good idea.
"It seems to me that right now there isn't a
See WAR, Page 8
GSA passes honor changes
by Rachel Rustin
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
Hanging around
KUAN* KNIGHT/THRESHER
Arborlst Juan Alejandro demonstrates how to use a tree harness to Facilities and Engineer-
ing groundskeeper Juan Bravo during Spring Fest, a gardening exposition sponsored by the
Staff Development Committee and Facilities ground staff Wednesday Inr Rey Courtyard.
The Graduate Student Association approved
proposed Honor Council changes, which must
be approved by the Office of Judicial Programs
before going to a student-body vote.
Honor Council graduate student repre-
sentative Chris Edwards (Will Rice '01), who
presented the changes to the GSA, said ques-
tions tended to revolve around concern with
potential gridlock.
"I essentially gave a brief presentation out-
lining the problems that we saw, and eviden-
tiary basis for the problems and the guiding
principles by which we feel the Honor Council
should exist." Edwards, a chemistry graduate
student, said. "The solutions we had for fixing
the problems and the rationale for the solu-
tions. Then I just fielded questions."
The proposed changes alter the appeals
structure for the Honor Council by instituting
a board — composed of two faculty members
and the assistant dean for Student Judicial
Programs — as the first level of appeals, limit-
See HONOR, Page 9
Revote begins in contested elections
by Mark Berenson
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
Students will try again to fill all
positions in the Student Association
General Election in the revote for
two races that nins from today at
noon to Wednesday at 1 p.m.
The revote was ordered by Uni-
versity Court March 2 because of
misleading instructions for multiple-
win ner races. IJ. Court ruled that the
voting instructions suggested votes
would be counted in a preferential
manner, while the votes were
counted in a non-preferential man-
ner.
The revote applies to contested
races, which were the U. Court
sophomore representatives and
Honor Council junior and senior rep-
resentatives.
However, the Honor Council se-
nior representative race became
uncontested when Martel College
junior Stephen Zak withdrew from
the race after winning the Martel
Honor Council representative race.
SA Director of Technology Skye
Schell said the ballot will have the
same format as the General Election
ballot but the instructions will be
different to reduce confusion.
Schell, a member of the Ihresher
editorial staff, said the instructions
would inform voters that the elec-
tion was not preferential and that
they can vote for up to as many
candidates as there are positions.
The ranking of candidates does not
effect the election.
SAco-President MichaelLeggett
said he was planning to take steps to
attempt to maximize turnout.
"I definitely think that turnout's
one of the problems," Ix?ggctt, a
Wiess College senior, said. "We want
to do something beyond e-mail to let
people know to vote."
Leggett said he and SA co-Presi-
dent Bryan Debbink would be dis-
cussing efforts to encourage voting
at a meeting today with the college
presidents and with the SA execu-
tive committee Sunday.
SA Elections Chair Alan Pham
said the candidates running for the
two offices were limited to those
who ran in the General Election, and
See ELECTIONS, Page 7
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Beer-Bike tomorrow
.All cars must be removed
OPINION Page 3
Dixie Chicks aren't that bad
from the parade route by
9:30 a.m. or else the vehicle will
be towed.
A&E
SA'SB' review
Page 14-15
Good luck to all teams and
remember to stay safe.
SPORTS
Rice to Reliant?
Page 16
Econ or biophysics
All sophomores must de-
clare their majors today. Decla-
ration of major forms must be
filed with the registrar after
obtaining signatures from the
department adviser.
Unfortunately, underwater
basket-weaving is not available
at Rice, however we suggest
bioengineering as a substitute.
Scoreboard
Baseball
Rice 7, Houston 6 (11)
Nebraska 1, Rice 4
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Friday
Partly sunny. 48-70 degrees
Saturday
Isolated showers, 49-72 degrees
Sunday
Partly cloudy, 52-74 degrees
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