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WHERE DOES RICE ELECTION MONEY GO?
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how Rice faculty and staff cast their economic ballots
the Rice Thresher
Vol. XCIV, Issue No. 10
SINCE 1916
Friday, November 2, 2007
Beer-Bike
track closed
until January
Construction workers
to use track area for
additional parking
by Lily Chun
THRESHER EDITORIAl. STAI'K
Teams looking to prepare early for Beer-
Bike will find a "traek closed" sign when
they get to the Beer-Bike track.
Director of Administrative Services
flugen Radulescu ordered the track in the
Greenbriar Lot to be closed Friday so addi-
tional parking spaces inside the track could
be opened up to construction workers. The
track will re-open in January so students can
prepare for Beer-Bike and will close again
after Beer-Bike.
Police Chief Bill Taylor said the track
was closed because there is no way people
can park in the center of the track without
crossing the track itself.
"It makes no sense for people to ride
bicycles in the same place that people are
going to be driving and parking their cars,"
Taylor said.
Taylor said he was not surprised Radules-
cu made the decision to close the track.
"I was anticipating this [earlier] when I
knew we were going to have so much const ruc-
tion on campus from the amount of visitors,
community people with parking permits and
the number of construction people parking
[in Greenbriar Lot]," Taylor said.
Radulescu said he did not think many
colleges would be practicing for Beer-Bike
before January.
"It will be affecting a few people who are us-
ing the bike track right now," Radulescu said.
One college that is preparing for
Beer-Bike early is Brown College. Brown
Beer-Bike co-Captain Peter Steffensen
said although he feels having a track close
by is convenient, he understands why the
Greenbriar track was closed.
see TRACK, page 1
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MICHAEL ROG/THRESHER
Is this a trick or a treat?
Students from across campus joined in on the fun for the annual Halloween edition of Baker 13. The runners deck out in shaving cream to cover
their essentials and make a tour to all corners of campus. Here the runners gather at Will Rice College.
Student-athlete graduation rates remain high
bv Sarah Rutledge
THRFSHFR EDITORIAL STAFF
According to the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, Rice's student-athlete
graduation rate is among the highest in the
nation. In a statement posted on the NCAA's
Web site Tuesday, the university's gradu-
ation rate was listed at <S1 percent, which
is comparable to recent years.
The graduation rates are calculated by
taking students with athletic scholarships
in the 2000 entering class to see how many
have graduated by 2006 commencement.
This format allows for 6-year programs such
as architecture but discounts any transfer
students or midyear students, because it
focuses only on matriculants from the year
2000. The four-class average, which looks
at the 1997 to 2000 entering classes and
their graduation rates six years later, is 78
percent, the same as it was last year.
Assistant Athletic Director for Academic
Servicesjulie Griswold said these statistics
may also be misleading because, given 60
to 75 athletes per class, having just five
athletes fail to graduate could strongly
influence the numbers. Additionally, these
statistics only take into account athletes on
financial aid and thus do not account for
every athlete on campus.
Rice ranked seventh last year in four-
year average graduation rate among Divi-
sion I-A schools, and Griswold said she
expects this rate to rise again. She attributes
this fluctuation to an aberrant year.
The graduation success rate for student-
athletes, which takes into account transfer
students to Rice and midyear students, is
92 percent. The graduation success rate
for all Rice students is 91 percent.
This spring, the NCAA will post the
academic progress rate for each school.
In this system, each athlete can earn a
maximum of four demerit points each
school year—one for eligibility, one for
retention and one each semester. The
score for each player on a team is added up
and taken out of 1,000. Generally, a score
below 925 results in a scholarship penalty
by the NCAA. The NCAA penalizes each
low-APR team for each athlete who leaves
the school without good academic stand-
ing in the amount of scholarships they can
award the following year.
Griswold said no teams at Rice are close to
this penalty, and that coaches instead try to en-
sure their team gets among the top 10 percent
of APR scores in the country. Last year, 11 of
see GRADUATION, page 10
INSIDE
Players putting out
Take a break from your busy schedule and
check out some productions put on by college
theater groups across campus.
■ Cafe and Comedy:
Lovett College, today and Saturday
7:30-9 p.m.
■ You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown:
Hanszen C ollege, today 8-10p.m., Saturday
7-9 p.m., and Nov. 9-10,8-10 p.m.
■ Jesus Christ Superstar.
Brown College, Nov. 8-10 and 15-17,
8-10 p.m.
Message from the Registrar
Deadlines are approaching! Today at 5 p.m.
is the deadline for dropping courses with a fee
and designating a course status as "Pass/Fail."
The second RI)A PIN for Fall 2007 expires and
online registrationisdisabledfondl undergradu-
ates at 5 p.m. today.
Vote for real... and SA
Don't forget to vote in Tuesday's election.
And also, don't forget to voice your opinion about
the academic calendar in the Student Associa-
tion's online poll at sa.rice.edu from Nov. 5-9.
OPINION
Page 3
Scoreboard
A&E
Page 13
Stephen Colbert is America
SPORTS
Page 15
Women dominate C-USA title
Soccer
Rice 1. Tulsa 0
Football
Marshall 34, Rice 21
Volleyball
Marshall 3, Rice 1
East Carolina 3, Rice 2
"If they have to close it to accommodate for the
construction, that's fine if it gets construction done
faster."
— Brown College sophomore Peter Steffensen on
the temporary closure of the Beer-Bike track.
See story, page 1
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