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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18,2008
PLANS
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or Duncan's new population simul-
taneously.
Kirby said the plans for renova-
tions to the older colleges were
motivated by the desire to close the
quality gap between the colleges with
facilities and accommodations. Rice is
also concerned with the relative sizes
of the colleges, Kirby said.
"We're trying to get a little
more equity in the size of colleges
bt cause it creates disparities when
colleges are competing in Beer-
Bike or Powderpuff," Kirby said.
Currently, colleges range in size
from 207 to 243 beds. Both Duncan
and McMurtry will be able to ac-
commodate about 80 more students.
How to manage this extra space is a
question Forman said he is still trying
to answer.
"There's no way to make the ex-
perience of living in a college that was
built in 1912 identical to living in one
builttoday,"Forman said. "Ourgoalis
to try to make the experiences equally
rewarding. That's why we're having
conversations with students across
campus and trying to get a sense of
how best to accomplish that"
Although he initially thought
that the percentage of students liv-
ing on campus should be roughly
the same across colleges Forman
said students convinced him that
there are other, more important
factors, and he is now trying to
determine if the size of the total
population of the college is some-
thing Rice should keep more
consistent.
"The question is to determine
what are the factors to keep con-
sistent and what are the factors
that have less of an impact [on
quality of life in the colleges],"
Forman said.
For graduate students, new
apartments are being built on
Shakespeare Street to accom-
modate the expected swell in the
graduate student population. The
apartments, which will be com-
pleted in December 2008, will have
230 beds. In the short term, Kirby
said the apartments will allow Rice
to house 25 percent of its gradu-
ate student population, more than
double the 12 percent it currently
houses. One-third of the graduate
students are international.
"[Housing] is particularly im-
portant for international students,"
Kirby said. "We want to control
their experience so that it is safe,
high-quality and affordable."
As with the current graduate
student apartments, Kirby said there
would be shuttle buses to and from
campus as well as a campus police
presence. The apartments will open
in January 2009.
Next on deck
Five other construction projects
are scheduled to finish this year,
starting with the Brochstein Pa-
vilion in April. Kirby said students
should anticipate a heavy dose of
events scheduled in the pavilion
immediately after its opening, from
study breaks to concerts.
In addition to the construction
of the pavilion, the entire quad
behind Fondren Library will be
re-landscaped to include more
trees and fountains. Although the
pavilion will feature a coffee shop,
Kirby said it is unlikely that it will
be open for 24 hours due to lack of
student demand. Additionally, there
are plans to have coffee bars in the
colleges that would open when
Coffeehouse and other on-campus
food options closed and would be
operated by students. The servery
in McMurtry and Duncan will have
a space for a coffee bar operated by
students, Kirby said.
The power plant by Wiess Col-
lege will be completed in July. The
Rice Children's Center — located
on Chaucer Drive and housing 84
children — will open in August. A
research centerfor undergraduates
at the former stie of Hicks Kitchen
will be finished by September.
Autry Court, which, among other
things, will feature a new score
board, will be done in October.
The Collaborative Research
Center, a 480,000 square foot
endeavor occupied by Rice and
partners from the Texas Medical
Center, will open in Apdl. 2009. A
new recreation center across from
the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School
for Management and the Biology
Labs — construction for which is
scheduled to start in March—will
finish in fall 2009.
The recreation center will con-
tain cardio and weight machines,
squash courts, racquetball courts,
a dance studio, a recreational pool
and an Olympic-sized competitive
pool. In addition, the Health and
Wellness Center will relocate its
offices there.
Classrooms
As new students from Duncan
and McMurtry move on campus,
Kirby said the utilization of class-
rooms will have to be re-evaluated.
Currently, Kirby said Rice over-
utilizes its classrooms from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Ideally, Kirby said they would be
at an 80 to 90 percent capacity to
have room to relocate a class in
case something happens, such as
a projector or an air conditioner
malfunctioning. Forman said Rice
was looking at ways to improve
the utilization of the classrooms
we already have before adding
additional classrooms.
"More classrooms means less
space for other things," Forman
said. "We want to do this thought-
fully so that we have as many
resources as possible to create
other types of space."
Kirby said that in addition to
looking at policy changes, such as
holding more 8 a.m. and afternoon
classes, as well as having lunchtime
classes, he is also looking at ways
to add new classrooms.
Kirby said there will be six
classrooms in the Collaborative
Research center. He also said there
were plans to build a new home for
the social sciences and a new phys-
ics building, both of which might
contain more classrooms.
ARIEL SHNITZER/THRESHER
Coal is uncool
Sierra Club Representative Emily Stone and Wiess College President Jon Harris Maurer discuss ways to minimize
coal usage while eating burritos Wednesday. Stone is in Houston this semester to begin the Sierra Club at Rice.
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