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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2001
STUDENT ASSOCIATION
The Student Association met Monday. The following were discussed:
■ The senate approved Mind Over Madness: Tne Rice Atheist Club,
which aims to educate people about atheist beliefs. Anyone inter-
ested should contact Will Rice College freshman Nikolai Sinkov at
nik05@rice.edu.
m The SA will be sponsoring a face painting booth and a moon bounce
at tomorrow's Project Pumpkin, which will be held from 1 to 4 p.m.
in the Will Rice College Quad.
■ Director of Publications Suzy Cox said she is in the process of
designing the Homecoming T-shirts to make fun of the University of
Tulsa and their mascot, the Golden Hurricane. Anyone with sugges-
tions should contact Cox at smcox@rice.edu.
m SA Presidents Jamie Lisagor and Gavin Parks showed the senate the
way the constitutional changes will appear on the ballot for the
Homecoming Elections. Most of the changes the senate approved
were in the by-laws of the constitution and do not need to be
approved by the student body. The student body will vote on changes
in how many people can serve in positions on the executive council.
The proposed changes state that the presidency cannot be held by
more than two people and that each of the other executive positions
can only be held by one person.
■ The senate approved the KTRU constitution, which includes a phrase
about what should happen if the student-elected station manager
needs to be replaced.
■ Lisagor and Parks spoke to the senate about a report on the campus
bookstore that they and Graduate Student Association President
Miles Scotcher will be giving to President Malcolm Gillis. See Story,
Page 1.
The next meeting will be held Monday in Farnsworth Pavilion in the
Student Center at 10 p.m.
Professor wins BBC
music competition
by Kevin Grahmann
FOR THE THRKSHER
Shepherd School of Music Assis-
tant Professor Pierre Jalbert won
the Masterprize Competition for
composers in London Oct. 10, re-
ceiving about $43,000 along with in-
ternational exposure for his musical
composition.
Jalbert, 33, was pronounced the
winner of the Masterprize Competi-
tion by the Duchess of York in
London's Barbican Centre after the
London Symphony Orchestra per-
formed the pieces of the competi-
tion finalists.
"Frankly, I was shocked," Jalbert,
who teaches composition to under-
graduate students, said. "I was not
expecting my name to be called."
Jalbert received 30,000 pounds,
about $43,500, for the contest. He
said the money will be very useful to
him.
"1 have two small kids," Jalbert
said. "The prize is good for about a
year's worth of day care."
However. Jalbert said the money
was not the most important part of
winning the competition.
"For me the most important thing
about it was all the exposure," Jalbert
said. "Being in the finals, I got a per-
formance with the London symphony.
That doesn't happen everyday."
The Masterprize Competition,
sponsored by the British Broadcast-
ing Corporation, the recording com-
pany EMI and the London Symphony
Orchestra, is an international con-
test promoting musical composition
for symphony orchestra.
"The whole process took over a
year," Jalbert said. They had an
international call for scores and they
received over 1.150 scores from HO
countries. Somehow they went
through those scores and whittled
them down to 12 semifinalists."
According to Jalbert. the semifi-
nalists' pieces were broadcast on the
BBC. available on the BBC Web site
and recorded on a CI) distributed in
the September 2001 issue of BBC
Music Magazine. Public listeners and
a jury of musical experts selected five
composers as finalists. I he five final-
ists' pieces were recorded by various
European symphonies, then voted
on by BBC listeners and a different
jury of musical experts.
The compositions were then per-
formed by the London Symphony
Orchestra Oct. 10. After the perfor-
mance. members of the audience as
well as musicians in the London Sym-
Brown RAs announce resignation
by Kevin Grahmann
FOR THE THRESHER
Brown College Resident Associ-
ates Jen and Mike Wilson announced
on the Brown listserv Oct. 11 that they
will resign at the end of the academic
year, adding Brown to the growing list
of colleges in search of RAs.
The Wilsons will leave Brown af-
ter completing four years of the
maximum seven-year RA term.
"Personally it's the right time,"
said Jen Wilson (Will Rice '93), who
also serves as the Associate Direc-
tor of Admissions.
Mike Wilson (Will Rice '93), who
works off campus for a wheelchair
company, agreed.
"We're just ready to have a
house," he said.
In addition, Jen Wilson said the
Brown Masters' term ends after the
2002-'03 academic year. She said she
and Mike thought it would be better
if they did not leave at the same time
as the masters.
Jen Wilson said the decision to
resign was difficult.
"It was a hard decision, even
down to the last minute," she said.
"I called Mike at work and said 'Are
you sure we want to do this?' and he
said, 'I don't know, I'll call you back
later.'"
Although the Wilsons are both
looking forward to starting a new
lifestyle, they said they will miss the
people at Brown.
"Probably the best thing for us
was how eager everyone was to ac-
cept us into the Brown community,"
Mike Wilson said.
In particular, Jen Wilson said she
will miss Brown's kitchen chef.
"We're going to miss having Chef
Roger around," Jen Wilson said. "I
don't think he is going to come with
us."
Members of the Brown commu-
nity said they regret the resignation.
"They've been great RAs," Brown
Master Albert Pope said. "We're sad
to see them go."
Brown junior Kathleen Milazzo
said she will miss spending time
with the RAs.
"Some of the best times with Mike
and Jen were hanging out in their
apartment watching Friends or carv-
ing pumpkins," Milazzo said.
Although they are resigning their
positions as RAs, Jen Wilson said
the Wilsons will be active at Brown
as college associates.
"We won't be living here, but we'll
be involved with Brown as much as
we can," Jen Wilson said.
Brown President Mike Chapman
said he and the college government
are working on plans for an RA
search committee.
"The process is in the prelimi-
nary stages," Chapman, a senior,
said. "Hopefully we'll fill the com-
mittee within the week. Our chairs
for the committees are going to be
Stan Chan and Fiona Burke, who are
our two vice presidents."
Chapman also said he is getting
advice from the Hanszen College RA
search committee and from Student
Association President Gavin Parks,
who is the head of the Martel RA
Search Committee, who put together
a pamphlet on searching for RAs.
Mike Wilson said the Wilsons
will be willing to help with the new
RA search as much they are asked.
Chapman said he is confident that
although Brown is losing an impor-
tant part of its community, it will not
suffer any major problems.
"It's going to be hard to see them
go, but everything will be alright,"
Chapman said.
phony Orchestra voted on their fa-
vorite piece. These votes were added
to the results of the public vote and
the jury's vote to determine the win-
ner.
The title of Jalbert's composition
is "In Aeternam," a Latin title which
means "into eternity."
"It's in three sections," Jalbert
said. "There's an opening section
that is slow and somber in nature.
Then it goes into a middle section,
which has much faster and aggres-
sive music. That goes on for quite a
while, until it comes to a sudden
halt, a silent halt.
'He's clearly one of the
best young composers
of the world today.'
— Michael Hammond
Dean of the Shepherd
School of Music
"It was basically v, ritten as a me-
morial to my niece who died at birth.
This happened almost 10 years ago.
It took a long time to actually be able
to sit down and write this piece."
Shepherd School Dean Michael
Hammond said he was confident
Jalbert would do well in the compe-
tition.
"I was not surprised," Hammond
said. "I knew that he would do very
well. He's clearly one of the bestyoung
composers of the world today."
Hammond said Jalbert's achieve-
ment reflects the high status of Rice's
music faculty.
"It's not a fluke that the winner of
the Masterprize Competition is on
the composition faculty here,"
Hammond said.
Jones College freshman David
Pencil, one of Jalbert's students, said
he was not surprised by Jalbert's
success.
"His music speaks for itself." Pen-
cil said. "Full of original and strik-
ingly beautiful gestures, his work
intrigues and excites the listener as
they are carried into entirely new
harmonic worlds."
Pencil said he feels privileged to
work with Jalbert.
"Rather than being intimidated, I
am comforted by his acclaim," he
said. "It shows that his understand-
ing of what is 'good' in composition
has been tested and approved."
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