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Vol. XCIV, Issue No. 18
SINCE 1916
Friday, February 2, 2007
Clinton's speech
moved to Autry
by Grace Ng
THRESHERSTAFF
The Baker Institute for Public
Policy announced this week that
former President Bill Clinton
will speak Feb. 8 at Autry Court,
instead of at Stude Concert Hall
as originally planned. The new
venue will seat 4,250 guests, as
compared to the 781-seat capacity
of Stude Hall.
Managing Director for Pro-
grams and International Studies
Mark Scheid said about 2,000 seats
in the Upper East and Upper West
stands are reserved for students.
About 1,100 seats are for Rice fac-
ulty and staff. The lower bleachers
will be pushed back and about 650
chairs will be set up on the floor for
VIP guests.
Seats will be available on a
first-come, first-served basis, and
students must show Rice II) cards
to be admitted. Autry will open at
1:45 p.m., and all guests should be
seated by 2:30 p.m.
Scheid said the United States
Secret Service will work with the
Rice University Police Department to
provide security at Autry—students
are not allowed to bring personal
belongings to the speech, including
cell phones, purses and cameras.
Guests who bring prohibited
items will be asked not to enter or
to leave belongings outside at their
own risk. Students may bring books
to read in line but could be required
to leave them outside.
For a look at other presidents who have
spoken at Rice, see Page 4.
Chair of the Baker Institute
Student Forum Elena Charnetzki
said the speech was moved after
Clinton said he wanted to speak to
more than 2,000 students.
A record number of R.S.V.P.'s, an
editorial in the Thresher and a meet-
ing between BISF members and
Baker Institute Director Edward
Djerejian also led to the decision
to move the event, she said.
Clinton's speech — "Embrac-
ing Our Common Humanity:
Meeting the Challenges of Glob-
al Interdependence in the 21st
Century" — will be broadcast live on
RTV5, on the local Channel 13 and via
webcast from bakerinstitute.org.
TIANHE YANG/THRESHER
Questions for the archbishop
Galveston-Houston area Archbishop Daniel DiNardo speaks to students in the Martel College private dining room
Jan. 26. All students were invited to hear DiNardo speak and answer questions on Patristic fathers.
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Undergrads focus of scholar's visit
Bruno Latour known for study of science and technology
by Julia Bursten
rHRKSHKK Kl>tTOKIAl. STAFF
The Humanities Research Center
has been advertising a weeklong
lecture and discussion series with
internationally recognized French
sociologist, anthropologist and phi-
losopher of science Bruno latour.
Ixitour's status as an HRC Distin-
guished Visiting Scholar means he
will spend Feb. 5-9 giving lectures
and seminars on campus and spend
time seeing Houston and meeting
students.
A prestigious speaker coming to
Rice is not in itself novel: It is hard
to find a weekday when a visiting
scholar is not lecturing somewhere
on campus. The length of Iatour's
stay may pique some interest. But
many students do not go to lectures
INSIDE
Casino Party
Postponed
Lovett College's party Daniel
Craig's Venice for Casino (2)007
has been postponed. Rather than
tomorrow, the party will be held
Saturday, Feb. 10th at 10 p.m.
Registration
Deadlines
Today at 5 p.m. is the deadline
for undergraduates to complete
late registration, add classes,
drop courses without a fee, or
designate a credit couse as "audit"
or vice versa.
SA elections
All petitions for candidates
planning to run in the 2007 Stu-
dent Association general elections
are due at 1 p m. Feb. 9 in the SA
office in the Student Center.
OPINION
1m tour de force
Page 3
A&E Page 9
Video gamer's paradise
SPORTS Page 12
Women's basketball closes on first
Quote of the Week
"Don't focus so much on school that
you miss good relationships."
— Lovett College freshman Grace
Nosek, emphasizing the importance
of balancing academics with a social
life. See Story, Page 7.
Scoreboard
Men's Basketball
Rice 63, Houston 70
Women's Basketball
Rice 83, Tulsa 65
Rice 80, SMU 69
Weekend Weather
Friday
Partly cloudy, 40-66 degrees
Saturday
Partly cloudy, 36-51 degrees
Sunday
Sunny, 39-57 degrees
a closer look at
the Class of 2010
pages 6-7
in their free time.
However, a few things are special
and new about Latour's visit, HRC
Assistant I)irector Melissa Bailarsaid,
and she hopes students will take the
time to engage in his discussions.
Will Rice College junior Ashley
Allen, one of two undergraduate
fellows working closely with latour
and the HRC to coordinate next
week's series of events, said Iatour's
ability to unite discussions from dis-
ciplines as diverse as anthropology
and neuroendocrinology may foster
interdisciplinary contacts among
undergraduates.
Encouraging students to attend
the lectures by latour is a first step
in the HRC's initiative to reach out
to the undergraduate population,
Bailar said. And Iatour's week-
long stay will include museum
tours, discussions and lunches with
undergraduates as well as large audi-
ence lectures, Allen said, which she
hopes will engage students outside
a formal setting.
see LATOUR, Page 4
Faculty approves first
interdisciplinary minor
by Alex Dinur
THRESHER STAFF
The Faculty Senate approved
Rice's first interdisciplinary minor,
Financial Computation and Modeling,
Jan. 24. The minor requires courses
from the Statistics and Economics
departments and was proposed by
Statistics Department Chair Kathy
Ensor and other professors in the
two departments. The minor will be
offered beginning in the fall, and stu-
dents can use existing credits toward
obtaining the minor.
The FCAM minor will include
existing courses in the fields of
financial economics and compu-
tational finance. According to the
proposal approved by the Faculty
Senate, "Students completing the
FCAM minor will understand the
complexities of financial markets
and their role in and impact on
world economics."
The minor will not involve any new
courses — each one is currently a
requirement or elective for degrees in
economics, mathematical economics,
managerial studies and statistics.
Thisgrouping of classes is not new
either. In 2002. Rice began offering the
Undergraduate Certificate Program
in computational finance, which was
offered by the Center for Com-
putational Finance and Economic
Systems.
The CoFES certificate requires
roughly the same courses as the minor
in FCAM. When students finished the
curriculum for the certificate, however,
they would get only a letter of recogni-
tion from Ensor, also director of the
CoFES. Students will hear more about
the FCAM minor from the General
Announcements and will receive rec-
ognition on their transcripts.
Ensor said she hopes her proposal
will make a good foundation for more
interdepartmental minors to be
created. She said the FCAM minor
will help the many Rice students
who go on to work in financial and
see MINOR. Page 8
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