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. the Rice Thresher
Vol. XCII, Issue No. 26
SINCE 1916
Friday, April 22, 2005
. Basketball coach McKinney
resigns to take Clemson job
by Amber Obermeyer
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
After 12 years at Rice, Women's Basketball
Head Coach Cristy McKinney resigned Mon-
day to become the head coach at Clemson
University. McKinney has also served as the
senior women's administrator and an associate
athletic director at Rice since 1997.
This year McKinney led Rice to its second
Western Athletic Conference tournament
championship and school records of 24 overall
wins and a 12-game winning streak.
Senior Associate Athletic Director Steve
Moniaci will chair the search committee for a
new coach. He said the committee will probably
include at least one faculty member, alumnus
and former women's basketball player as well
as a senior who played on the team this year.
Athletic Director Bobby May (Will Rice '65)
said his main priority is finding a new coach
who is a good fit for the university.
"We'd like to get someone who can represent
Rice as well as Cristy McKinney did in every
respect, but whether that individual is internal
or external remains to be seen," May said. "I
think it's a big asset to have had experience
at Rice. It's not a prerequisite, obviously, but
certainly it's a good thing."
Moniaci said he has no specific timetable for
forming the committee or naming a new coach.
"We want to try to d t > it as quickly as possible,
but we're going to do it slowly enough to make
sure we have the right person," Moniaci said.
Going to Clemson
McKinney, who is from North Carolina
and played college basketball in the Atlantic
Coast Conference for North Carolina State
University, said she is excited to return to the
ACC with Clemson.
The ACC, the facilities and the prestige
of athletics were attractive to me," McKinney
said. "The fact that it's close to home and close
to my roots was also a factor."
Clemson plays its basketball games at
Iittlejohn Coliseum, which opened in 1968
but underwent a $35-million renovation in
2003, which included new practice and weight
Set* McKINNEY, page 6
ERIC WILLIAMS/THRESHER
Pointed research
Baker College junior Erica Flor explains her research at the fourth annual Rice Undergraduate
Research Symposium, held Friday in the Grand Hall of the Ley Student Center.
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MARSHA! L ROBINSON/ THRE SHER
A franchise cut
Freshman first baseman Joe Savery fouls off a pitch during Rice's 7-6
loss to the University of Texas Wednesday at Reckling Park. The Owls
will stay at home this weekend to play a three-game WAC series against
Louisiana Tech University, beginning today at 7 p.m.
Leebron-Forman spring study break
to include raffle, food, performances
by Katricia Lang
THRESHER STAFF
President David Leebron and
Dean of Undergraduates Robin For-
man will host a year-end study break,
the "Leebron-Forman Getaway
Study Break" May 1 from 9-11 p.m. at
the Student Center. The study break
will have a tropical theme and will
feature student performances, door
prizes, food and free massages.
last semester, Leebron hosted a
"(jetting Centered" study break that
was held on three days at three differ-
ent locations—the Recreation, Student
and Wellness Centers. Fewer students
attended those study breaks than pro
vious years' study breaks held at one
time in asingle location. Student Center
Director Boyd Beckwith said Student
Center Advisory Council members
suggested the low attendance may
have been the result of the multiple
dates and locations.
"We found that students wanted
one big event so they could hang out
with their friends," Beckwith said.
Residential colleges have been
asked not to schedule any college
events during the study break.
Beckwith said he expects about
800students to attend this semester's
study break. College serveries and
Student Center businesses will pro-
vide the food, which will include tropi-
cal wings, vegetable stir fry, fried tofu,
tropical ice cream sundaes, sherbet,
fruit, brownies, cookies and Starburst
candy. The Coffeehouse will offer
free coffee, and Smoothie King is
donating 750 12-ounce smoothies.
Student bands will perform in
Farnsworth Pavilion, which will also
be the location ofa hula-hoop contest
and a limbo contest. Spontaneous
Combustion. Rice's improvisational
comedy group; the Rice Philharmon-
ics, an a cappella group; and the
slam poetry team will perform in the
Grand Hall. Students will also be able
to pick uo the 2003-'04 Campanile,
and the Rice Student Volunteer Pro-
gram will collect money for charity.
Beginning at noon May 1, stu-
dents can sign up for 10-minute
massages at the study break.
Forman and leebron will be avail-
able for students to meet at the study
break, but they will not pose for pic-
tures, unlike former President Mal-
colm Gillis and former Vice President
for Student Affairs Zenaido Camacho.
Forman said he has not yet decided
whetherto wearacostume. Beckwith
said he is pleased Leebron is making
himself available to students.
Jones College sophomore Misha
Teplitskiy said seeing administrators
in costume was not the reason he
attended the study break in the past.
"The reason I went to the study
break was ... to get some food, ...
to get out of the room and ... to see
friends, not to see someone dressed u p
or meet Camacho," Teplitskiy said.
Forman said he hopes the study
break will give students a respite from
their finals-week work.
"The study break gives students a
chance to get together for a big social
event that they can all share," Forman
said. "It's a little fun and relaxation dur-
ing the finaHexam] period."
Students remember English
professor's passion, concern
by Jenny Rees
THRESHER STAFF
Fnglish Professor Elizabeth Diet/ died of
esophageal cancer early Wednesday. She was
40 years old.
Until two weeks ago, Dietz was teaching
ENGL 300: Practices of Literary Study and
ENGL420:16th Century British literary Stud-
ies. She came to Rice in Fall 2002.
Wiess College senior Nicole Joy. who is
taking ENGL 420, said Dietz was passionate
about teaching.
"She was very interested in making sure we
learned, even when she was sick this semester,"
Joy said. "The last time she was in class, she
was obviously sick, but she was still definitely
all there, wanting to talk about the material. She
was really into what she was teaching."
Joy, who took two other courses with Dietz,
said she appreciated her personable manner.
"I think it would be hard not to like her," Joy
said. "She was very friendly, very approachable
and always willing to help."
Dietz specialized in 16th- and 17th-century
English literature and poetry. She received a
doctorate in English from the University of Iowa
and earned a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from
the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Dietz came to Rice as an assistant professor
and taught courses in early modern literature
and Shakespeare, as well as survey courses.
English Professor Helena Michie said she
will remember Dietz as a talented critic and
poet as well a dedicated teacher.
"She had an amazing feeling for language."
Michie said. "She was a very caring teacher
who had a great concern — even through her
illness — for her students and their learning.
And she was an exceptionally kind and ethical
person."
M ichie and English Professor Sarah Ellenz-
weigtold the ENGL 420 class Tuesday about the
seriousness of Dietz's illness. Hanszen College
junior Joe Chang, who is taking the class, said
he was surprised by the news.
"Everybody was speechless," Chang said.
"We honestly did not expect her to be dying.
She still had energy — you could see it in her.
What amazed me was that when Dr. Dietz was
so near death, she still dragged herself to class,
still worked with us on our final papers. That
really touched me. She tried to put on a very
See DIETZ, page 4
Self-scheduled exams
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Schedule now or pay later.
OPINION
Women should pay
Page 3
A&E
Lovett play riveting
SPORTS
Baseball falls to UT
Page 11
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I) J \ T 4.. L „
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Rice students, faculty and staff will
construct the world's largest nanotube
model today from 5:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
in front of lx>vett Hall.
The (iuinness Book of World Records, will
certify the feat, and a section of the model
will be taken to the Houston Museum of
Natural Sciences for display.
The nanotube will be blue and 1,000
feet long, or as tall as Houston's tallest
downtown building.
"Health care is too critical for the welfare of
the people to be held hostage by the politically
motivated or the profit-minded." — Michael
DeBakey, former chancellor of Baylor College
of Medicine. See story, page 7.
Scoreboard
Baseball
UT 7. Rice 6
Men s Tennis
SMU 5. Rice 1
Women's Tennis
Texas A&M 4, Rice 0
Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest has been rescheduled from
last weekend and will take place tomorrow
night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on the South
Servery Terrace.
Weekend Weather
Friday
Partly Cloudy. 64-84 degrees
Saturday
Sunny, 54-76 degrees
Sunday
Partly Cloudy. 59-77 degrees
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