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Vol. LXXXVIII, Issue No. 10
SINCE 1916
Friday, October 27, 2000
Martel's first 0-Week moved to 2002
by Tommy Belanger
THRESHKR STAFF
Martel College will not receive in-
coming students next fall, the college's
founding committee decided last week-
end.
"The idea of throwing the freshmen
of Martel College into all the other eight
colleges for the first semester next year
and then forcing them to go to Martel
second semester is not fair," Gavin
Parks, co-chair of Martel's Representa-
tive Subcommittee, said. Parks, a Han-
szen College junior, is the liaison be-
tween the newly founded Martel Found-
ing Committee and the Rice community
at large.
Martel's building will not open until
January 2002, and Martel Master Arthur
Few said a major problem in holding a
Martel Orientation Week in 2001 would
be its location.
"It's very difficult to have an O-Week
without a place to have it," Few said.
The founding committee considered
using rooms in the Student Center, but
Student Center Director Boyd Beckwith
said using the building would be imprac-
tical because other colleges also use it
during O-Week.
However, Martel will still participate
in O-Week by attempting to arrange an
all-college meeting sometime during the
week, presenting information about
Martel and sending out brochures ex-
plaining Martel to incoming freshmen
over the summer.
"We're kind of taking a low profile,
but we certainly want to have a presence
during O-Week so that the freshmen will
know that they have an opportunity to
transfer second semester," Few said.
Few, who is also the interim master of
Baker College, explained that although
freshmen will not be accepted into Martel
during the fall 2001 semester, applica-
tions for transferring to Martel will be
posted sometime after the fall break and
approximately 64 students from the in-
coming class of 2005 will be accepted as
transfers.
The Founding Committee also de-
cided against participating in Beer-Bike
this spring.
Few said the three main factors con-
tributing to the decision were the lack of
bicycles and the lack of funds to buy
bikes, the urgent need for more impor-
tant issues to be solved and discussed
and the desire to establish good relation-
ships with other colleges by having
Martel transfers participate in their origi-
nal colleges' Beer-Bike.
"Our first involvement in Beer-Bike
will be as a full college," Parks said.
Students transferring to Martel dur-
ing the 2000-'01 academic year will have
"dual citizenship" in both Martel and
their original college.
Students wishing to transfer to Martel
will be allowed to apply online starting
Nov. 6, after the college presidents and
masters meet to discuss the founding
committee's plans for admitting students
to Martel.
"The number of students that we take
from each college will be proportionate
to the number that are living off-cam-
pus," Few said, detailing the selection
process pertaining to individual colleges.
The overall selection process will be roll-
ing, in which applicants are reviewed
monthly until Martel quotas are filled.
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Protecting our resources
Brown College Junior Thorn Blaylock wears protective clothes at the
Rice Environmental Club's Smog Jog on Oct. 20. See Article, Page 13.
Setter dismissed from team
by Chris Larson
THRKSHF.R F.DITORIAI. STAFF
Senior setter Nil Kalagoglu was
dismissed from the volleyball team
by head coach Julio Morales last
week after she elected to skip prac-
tice to attend a job interview.
Kalagoglu said she met with
Morales to inform him that she would
need to miss practice to attend a
final-round interview in New York.
Morales told her to decide between
staying on the team or going to the
interview, Kalagoglu said, and she
chose the latter.
"(We] couldn't come to an agree-
ment [about] what should be my
priority," Kalagoglu said. "It came to
the point where I needed to go to job
interviews, and I'm not talking about
any job interview, I'm talking about
very, very good companies — the
top companies in the world.
"1 do understand how important
volleyball is and 1 feel very respon-
sible towards my teammates, and at
our meeting I also said I don't want
to quit.... I guess he didn't want me
on the team the way I had my priori-
ties."
Morales declined to comment,
saying only that she is not on the
See VOLLEYBALL, Page B3
ROB GADOI/THRESHER
Nil Kalagoglu
Low profits close Sammy's Late Night
by Liora Danan
THRKSHF.R F.DITORAI. STAFF
Sammy's Late Night ended yes-
terday due to insufficient sales. Food
and Housing Director Mark Ditman
made the decision to close l-ate Night
and to reopen Subway for late-night
service.
The Subway counter inside the
convenience store will now stay open
until 2 a.m. Monday through Thurs-
day and until 11 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday.
This reverses the Sept. 25 reopen-
ing of Sammy's I .ate Night from 9
p.m. to midnight and the closing of
Subway at 9 p.m. Ditman said
Sammy's I,ate Night was operating
at a loss and could not be sustained
given the amount of business it re-
ceived.
Baker College junior Christina
Yin said she supports reopening
Subway at night.
"I'd prefer Subway to be open
because 1 think their food is bet-
ter," Yin said. "I'd probably be more
likely to eat at Subway instead of
Sammy's."
Other students said they pre-
ferred the variety at Sammy's.
"I don't think [the decision to end
l.ate Night] is a good idea because I
like the variety that Sammy's has as
opposed to Subway," Will Rice Col-
lege senior Kris Chikelue said.
"Sammy's has pizza, sandwiches,
fruits and salads, and Subway is just
Subway."
However, Ditman said he hopes
to include some of the Sammy's Late
Night food options at the conve-
nience store, and buying new equip-
ment to serve pizza or hamburgers
might be an option.
"What's particularly important to
me now is that we have the right
things in the convenience store."
Ditman said.
He said additional Subway items,
such as soups or other sandwich
options, may also be offered. The
See SAMMY'S, Page 9
2001 graduation speaker chosen
by I^eslie Liu
THRKSHF.R F.DITORIAI. STAFF
Southern Poverty I .aw Center co-founder
and civil rights lawyer Morris Dees will give
the keynote address at Rice's 88th Commence-
ment ceremony on May 12, 2001.
Dees also spoke at Rice on Jan. 26 as part of
the President's Lecture Series.
"I thought the students would resonate
nicely with such a man, particularly given his
accomplishments in the past year alone," Presi-
dent Malcolm Gillis said.
In September, Dees won a case against the
Aryan Nation in which a jury awarded $6.3
million to a woman and her son after a white
supremacist leader allowed guards from his
Aryan Nations compound to chase them down
and shoot at them in 1998. The verdict is
expected to bankrupt the organization.
"He's an outstanding civil rights lawyer
and has probably done as much as any single
person has in the last 20 years to put out of
business hate groups that have engaged in
physical violence," Sociology Department Pro-
fessor Chandler Davidson said. Davidson, who
introduced Dees last January, teaches a social
inequality class at Rice.
"He's an important figure in the ongoing
struggle for civil rights and for racial toler-
ance," Davidson said. "His Southern Poverty
I .aw Center spends a lot of money on pro
grams that are essentially adopted by schools
to teach tolerance."
Dees serves as chief trial counsel and chair
of the executive committee for the SIM ,C, which
specializes in lawsuits involving civil rights
violations and racially motivated crimes, and
the education project he is involved in is called
'Teaching Tolerance."
Since co-founding the center in 1971, Dees
pushed for the construction of a Civil Rights
Memorial dedicated in 1989 in Montgomery,
Ala., won lawsuits that bankrupted the Ku
Klux Klanand imprisoned perpetrators of hate
crimes.
Dees was portrayed by Wayne Rogers in
See COMMENCEMKNT, Page 10
INSIDE
SA Homecoming elections
begin noon today
Elections for SA treasurer and home-
coming king and queen begin today. Vot-
ing starts at noon and will continue until
Wednesday at 1 p.m.
laptops will be available at each col-
lege during meals for voting. Students
can vote online by following the link on
the main Rice Web site.
There's more of us to love
Because of the extraordinary length
of this week's paper and various other
factors, this issue will bt* distributed in
three sections.
Sections A and B will be distributed
normally. Section C, a news feature on
K TRU, will be distributed alongside the
rest of the paper.
Happy reading!
OPINION Page 2
KTRU must remain student-run
A&E Page 21
Better than a one-man band
FEATURES
Dancing about architecture
Page 23
SPORTS Page B1
Owls prepare for homecoming game
Scoreboard
Football
Hawaii 13, Rice 38
Weekend Weather
Friday
Partly cloudy, 68-86 degrees
Saturday
Mostly cloudy, 64 81 degrees
Sunday
Partly cloudy. 59 79 degrees
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