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Teenage dlrtbags
The economy's downward spiral — and Its effects on the
mall-frequenting, textlng teenage masses.
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Their name is Jonas
Why the lo-Bros are a talented — and sartorially skilled —
boy band, even for the older-than-14 set
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SPORTS
We won!
O, ye of little faith. Rice sent SMU home, crying. Juicy
details insidel
the Rice
VOLUME XCVI, ISSUE NO. 3
STUDENT-RUN
SINCE 1916
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Wiess, WRC
offer free
0/C lunch
by jocelyn wright
Thresher Staff
Living off campus can be a learn-
ing experience. Students venturing
beyond the accommodating dorm situ-
ation have to suddenly deal with bills,
buying groceries and preparing meals.
However, Will Rice College and Wiess
College are now offering to shoulder
the lunchtime burden by offering free
weekly meals. At Will Rice, where the
program is in its third year, off-campus
students are provided with free sand-
wiches and cookies each Friday. Wiess
is pioneering a similar program, and
will be offering free sandwiches to off-
campus students Tuesdays for the next
two weeks to gauge student interest.
Will Rice Master Paula Krisko said
she and her husband, Mike Wolf, start-
ed the program two years ago as part
of a series of efforts to get off-campus
students more involved in residential
college life.
"Pretty much one-fourth of our stu-
dents live off campus and we thought
this could help college cohesion,"
Krisko said. "We tried to make events
— and this is one of them — that might
encourage people to come back to the
college at different times, so people who
wouldn't normally come back would
have a day where they can come and
relax. We hoped this would encourage
that and generally encourage people to
remain part of the college and hopefully
come back during their senior year."
Krisko said Will Rice sees between
15 and 30 participants in any given
week. Students put their names on a
sign-up sheet and are provided with
bread, cheese and lunch meats. Krisko
said the college had to devise a cheaper
way to feed students because lunch can
cost over $6, which would deplete all
the funds available for that year in two
months. She said the cost of the sand-
wiches was a little under $2 per person.
Will Rice Coordinator Joyce Cour-
toise said she brings cookies for the off-
campus students each week.
"I figure they deserve a little des-
sert," Courtoise said.
Wiess master Mike Gustin said he
suggested the program to the Wiess
off-campus representatives because he
and Will Rice master Wolf frequently
share ideas, and he thought the off-
campus lunch program would benefit
Wiess students.
Wiess had its first experimental free
lunch in the spring. Gustin said it was
well received by students. Like the Will
Rice program, the Wiess program costs
about $2 per student. The lunch fare in-
cludes bread, sandwich meats, peanut
butter and jelly. Gustin said he is cur-
rently providing half the money for the
program and the Wiess Cabinet is pro-
viding the other half. Over the past two
weeks that the pilot program has been
in effect, approximately 30 students a
week have shown up, making the pro-
gram cost about $60 per week. Gustin
saidheisworkingwithWiessoff-campus
£3 see LUNCH, page 8
In-tents tailgating
Rice Webmail
upgraded
by Catherine Bratic
Thresher Staff
Rice's Webmail received an update
in May to make it faster and better
able to handle the large volumes of
e-mail sent to and from Rice accounts
every day.
Barry Ribbeck, Director for Infor-
mation Technology Systems, Archi-
tecture and Infrastructure, said the
update replaced old hardware and
software from the Webmail interface,
which could no longer accommodate
Rice's increasing volume of mail. The
Webmail page also got a makeover,
which Ribbeck hopes will make com-
monly used features such as spam
filters and vacation messages easier
to find. Ribbeck said the update was
made following student requests for
faster Webmail.
This is the first time that an up-
grade has been made to the interface
portion of the system, Ribbeck said.
Only Webmail servers and storage
have been updated in recent years. He
said the old Webmail system's hard-
ware was over five years old, and the
operating systems and the version of
the software had not been upgraded.
"This was old when I got here [in
Dec. 200SI," Ribbeck said. "It was time
for an upgrade... So in a sense, the entire
Webmail service needed an overhaul. IT
O see WFBMAIl., page 9
Drink in hand, Sid Richardson College sophomore Graham Johnson gets pumped up for Rice's football
game against SMU last Friday. More than 23,000 fans turned out to watch the Owls' first game of the year.
Farach-Carson named first Associate
Vice Provost for Research, begins 2009
By Matthew McKee
Thresher Staff
As part of a growing investment
in research, Rice University selected
Mary Farach-Carson as its first associ-
ate vice provost for research. Farach-
Carson, who currently teaches and
directs research at the University of
Delaware, will begin her work at Rice
next fall.
The creation of this position fol-
lows Rice's rapidly expanding inter-
est in research and collaboration
detailed in President David Leebron's
Vision for the Second Century. In pro-
moting research, Farach-Carson will
help encourage and create links with
the Texas Medical Center and will
also become a part-time faculty mem-
ber as a professor of biochemistry and
cell biology. She will work extensively
with the projects of the Collaborative
Research Center, which is scheduled
for completion in 2009.
Vice Provost for Research Jim
Coleman said his office works with
researchers from varying academic
fields across Rice, as will Farach-Car-
son, but because one of her specific
tasks is to forge collaborations be-
tween Rice faculty and faculty in the
Texas Medical Center, she is likely to
spend more time facilitating and de-
veloping projects. But Farach-Carson
will also help build collaborations
between humanities and social sci-
ence faculty with faculty in the TMC.
Farach-Carson said her position
was created to help foster interdisci-
plinary research. She hopes to assist
researchers from different fields come
together to work on projects address-
ing large issues.
Associate Vice Provost for
Research Mary Farach-Carson
"I would view myself as a catalyst
to help pursue more of those kind of
projects," Farach-Carson said. "Clean
water, renewable energy, global
health ... all of these problems are so
complicated that no one researcher
can tackle them anymore, and I firmly
believe that the only way to tackle
these is to bring an interdisciplinary
team together to work for common
solutions."
At the University of Delaware,
Farach-Carson is a professor of bio-
logical and material sciences, and
she is a founding director of the Cen-
ter for Translational Cancer Research.
She said she looks forward to work-
ing with researchers from multiple
disciplines and hopes to assist under-
graduate students projects as well as
projects from graduate students and
faculty. In her lab at the University
of Delaware, undergraduates work
together on biomedical projects.
Farach-Carson said her interest and
commitment to research bloomed
during her undergraduate years.
"We have an obligation to the next
generation of scientists to give them
research opportunities, and I just
love it," Farach-Carson said. "When
I come to Rice, I am sure that we will
look for places in interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary research ef-
forts that allow [for] undergraduates,
graduates, post docs and professors
to work together."
Coleman, who has worked at the
university for about 11 months, said
he will work with Farach-Carson
to provide infrastructure support
for assisting researchers with grant
O see PROVOST, page 9
Registrar deadlines
This is the last day you can add a course online
sans fee, without the instructor's permission, con-
vert a Pass/Fail from last spring to a letter grade,
become a part-time student and the last day to
withdraw with 100 percent refund of tuition. Get
busy!
Foreign film
The screening of let the Wind Blow, a film
about two friends caught between a nuclear war
ready India and Pakistan, begins at 8:00 p.m. in
the Rice Media Center.
Tickets are $9 for the general public and $6 for
students.
Jungle fever
So perhaps Martel beat Lovett in the "first
public party of the year" category, officially, but
Lovett's Getcheroxoff is an ancient Rice tradition
from the 1970s. The theme this year? Something
about jungle fun and techno. (But of course.)
Roar.
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Chun, Lily & Farmer, Dylan. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 96, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 2008, newspaper, September 5, 2008; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443112/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.