the Rice Thresher
SINCE 1916
Vol. X C I I , Issue N o . 11
Friday, N o v e m b e r 5, 2 0 0 4
869 vote at Rice precinct
by J o h n Kehoe
T H R E S H E R EDITORIAL S T A F F
,
Nineteen h o u r s after t h e polls closed at Rice,
i President George W. Bush claimed victory in his
bid for a second t e r m in the White House.
Rice's precinct had 869 voters this election, up from 725 in the 2000 election. Rice
Vote Coalition President Priscilla Parrett said
s h e thinks t h e n u m b e r would have been even
h i g h e r if more students had not chosen to stay
* registered in their hometowns.
"About half of o u r student population voted
a b s e n t e e b e c a u s e they wanted their vote to b e
counted in their h o m e state," Parrett, a Martel
College s o p h o m o r e , said. "That m a d e a big
d i f f e r e n c e [in t h e n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s that
voted in Rice's precinctl."
T h e official results from t h e Rice precinct
i were not yet available as of Wednesday.
Rice College Republicans President Pat
Hastings credited the excitement of this election season with increasing interest in politics
a m o n g Rice students.
"Overall t h e c a m p u s leans left, I think, but
there's quite a bit of apathy a m o n g students,"
* Hastings said. "There's a lot of non-interest, and
I think this election helped turn that around to
s o m e degree."
T h e President's Office hosted an election
results viewing at Hanszen and Wiess College
C o m m o n s T u e s d a y night. Parrett estimated
m o r e than 200 s t u d e n t s attended the viewing.
Faculty m e m b e r s , President David Leebron
and four elected officials from t h e Houston
area, including Houston City Controller Annise
P a r k e r (Jones 7 8 ) , also attended.
T h e final election results, however, did not
b e c o m e clear until Wednesday.
Students met the results of T u e s d a y ' s election with mixed reactions.
"I've walked around today and seen a lot
of pretty sullen faces," Rice Young D e m o c r a t s
P r e s i d e n t Samir Patel said. "You can tell
that a lot of people are pretty disappointed.
... I haven't really talked to any Republicans, but
I'm s u r e they're pretty happy. T h e y feel vindicated, but we're very disappointed today."
Sen. J o h n Kerry, D.-Mass, conceded defeat
early Wednesday afternoon, although r u n n i n g
m a t e Sen. John Edwards, D.-NC, reportedly
u r g e d him to wait for the official results to be
certified. Patel, a J o n e s College senior, said h e
thinks K e r r y bowed out too early.
"Personally I think it would have been nice
to have counted the provisional ballots," Patel
said. "I don'!, think it could have h u r t just to
count everything and be on the safe side. It's
not b e c a u s e 1 have this fantasy that he would've
See ELECTION, page 5
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MARSHALL ROBINSON/T
Campaign signs adorn the lawn outside the Student Center Tuesday. Voting for Precinct 3 6 1 , the
Rice precinct, took place in the Grand Hall from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
Smoke causes South Camachos sweep homecoming
Servery evacuation
by Jen Evans
FOR T H E T H R E S H E R
by Jenny Rees
i
T H R E S H E R EDITORIAL S T A F F
Students w e r e evacuated from
the South College S e r v e r y and
f r o m t h e H a n s z e n and W i e s s
College C o m m o n s at lunchtime
T u e s d a y after a malfunctioning air
conditioning unit filled the Wiess
C o m m o n s with smoke.
At about 12:10 p.m., a r u b b e r
fan belt within t h e air conditioning
unit began smoking after a bearing
failed, Housing and Dining Director Mark Ditman said. However,
Ditman said no part of the unit,
which is located in t h e s e r v e r y ' s
basement, ever ignited.
T h e s m o k e from the AC unit
activated the building's fire alarm.
Electrical Engineering Professor
Bill Wilson, a W i e s s r e s i d e n t
associate, said w h e n s t u d e n t s
first heard t h e alarm, they w e r e
hesitant to evacuate.
"I saw s m o k e c o m e puffing
out of the ceiling — actually, out
of the AC vents," Wilson said.
"[Residential D i n i n g M a n a g e r
Angela Riggsl and I both said,
'Oops, smoke.' I stood up and
said. T h i s is not just a malfunction
— t h e r e ' s s m o k e . Everybody get
out.' Everybody looked at m e and
got up and left."
Hanszen s o p h o m o r e Dominic
I>ee said h e was getting food in
the s e r v e r y w h e n he noticed the
smoke.
"I thought it was a minor issue,
so I kept getting food," Lee said.
"Then I saw t h e r e was m o r e and
m o r e s m o k e , and people started
to notice it. I went to t h e Hanszen
side [of t h e s e r v e r y | to get s o m e
See EVACUATION, page 4
F o r m e r Vice President for Student Affairs Zenaido C a m a c h o and
his wife, Carol, will b e this year's
h o m e c o m i n g king and que e n.
T h e C a m a c h o s c o u l d not b e
reached for c o m m e n t .
T h e r u n n e r - u p in the q u e e n ' s race
was Mimi Mokarzel, t h e driver of the
night e s c o r t van.
Mokarzel said s h e wishes her new
van, which was a candidate in the
race for king, had fared better but is
pleased to be runner-up.
"It's pretty exciting, but I wanted
the van to m a k e king," Mokarzel
said. "It's really sweet, though. I appreciate it."
Mokarzel said s h e is glad t h e
C a m a c h o s w e r e elected.
' T h e y did so m u c h h e r e , and
I think it's really g r e a t that
you g u y s [elected t h e Camac h o s | , " Mokarzel said. ' T h a t was
hilarious."
In the king's race, the I>ate Night
Pie Club defeated Mimi's new van,
Library renovation project to
'begin as early as December
by Monica H u a n g
FOR T H E I l I R I S H E R
Fondren Library might b e unrecognizable
by fall 2006, at least from t h e inside. Plans for
a $14 million renovation have been progressing since the Board of T r u s t e e s approved t h e
layout of spaces and services in May.
Renovations to t h e second floor will begin
in late D e c e m b e r or early J a n u a r y and are
s c h e d u l e d for completion by August 2006,
Vice Provost and University Librarian Chuc k
H e n r y said. Major work on the first floor will
begin at the end of next semester, but the
library will remain open and functional during
the renovations. Henry said the only library
service that will be affected by the project is
See FONDREN, page 6
EMS calls at NOD decrease
by Michael Hardy
n i R K S H E R STAFF
Wiess College's 32nd annual NOD, held Saturday night with apolitical t h e m e capitalizing on
the presidential election held Tuesday, proved
as peaceful as t h e election was contentious.
T h e r e were Bush and Kerry signs, a balloon
drop, and plenty of pressing of the flesh, but
party-goers p u m p e d k e g s instead of fists and
instead of babies, s e e m e d mostly content to
kiss each other.
With h i g h e r a t t e n d a n c e than last year,
fewer E M S calls and no arrests, organizers
of t h e event said it was the most successful
Night of D e c a d e n c e in recent memory. About
1,400 students attended the party, up from 1,3(X)
last year. Party planners sold about WH> tickets
in advance and about 500 at the door.
As in past years, lights and music were
provided by Texas Entertainment.
T h e party had only one major incident,
w h e n an intoxicated student assaulted the
See N O D , pane 4
F a r n s w o r t h Pavilion and T r o g d o r
for runner-up.
O t h e r c a n d i d a t e s for q u e e n
were Powderpuff football and the
triple option.
Voting began Friday and
e n d e d W e d n e s d a y on t h e Student Association Web site. In the
king's election, 144 votes w e r e cast,
while 149 s t u d e n t s voted in t h e
queen's election.
T u r n o u t for the H o m e c o m i n g
E l e c t i o n s was slightly l e s s t h a n
usual, SA President Derrick Matthews said. About one-fourth of t h e
student body voted in last year's
H o m e c o m i n g Elections.
"I think llower t u r n o u t ] is to be
expected for many reasons," Matthews, a Will Rice College senior,
said. "One, t h e r e was a real election
that people w e r e w o r r i e d about.
Additionally, t h e r e w a s n o t h i n g
substantive on the ballot."
In some past years, referenda,
c h a n g e s to t h e SA c o n s t i t u t i o n
and unfilled l e a d e r s h i p positions
in blanket tax organizations have appeared on the h o m e c o m i n g ballot.
Get registered
T h e deadline to register for classes for
the spring s e m e s t e r is 5 p.m. today. Anyone
who is not registered before the deadline
will be charged a fee, so hop on ESTHER
and sign up for something.
Welcome home
H o m e c o m i n g is this weekend, so don't
be s u r p r i s e d if you s e e lots of p e o p l e
wandering around exclaiming about all the
new buildings Rice has added since they left.
F2veryone who graduated in a year ending
in a four or nine is having a class reunion
this year.
T h e homecoming g a m e against F r e s n o
State will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Rice
Stadium.
Esperanza
T h e annual fall formal, Esperanza, put on
by Rice P r o g r a m Council, will be held at the
Westin Galleria Hotel Saturday. T h e dance's
t h e m e is Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Shuttle b u s e s will run to and from t h e
event throughout the evening. T h e buses will
pick u p s t u d e n t s from the Student Center
beginning at 9:30 p.m.
In the king's race, Zenaido Cam a c h o received 65 percent of the
votes, while the I^ate Night Pie Club
received 14 percent. Carol C a m a c h o
received 45 p e r c e n t of t h e v o t e s
for queen, while Mokarzel received
26 percent.
An unusual h o m e c o m i n g court
is a tradition specific to Rice, Matthews said.
"I t h i n k it's a g o o d t r a d i t i o n
to keep," Matthews said. "We like
to do things a little bit differently at
Rice, and h o m e c o m i n g candidates
like a football play and a r o o m
in the Student Center could only
happen here."
In 2 0 0 3 , H e a d B a s e b a l l
Coach Wayne Graham and ESTHER,
the online registration system,
were elected h o m e c o m i n g king
and queen.
In 2002, t h e n e w l y - i n s t a l l e d
parking gates were elected
h o m e c o m i n g king. " D a r t h Neill,"
the evil persona of Associate Vice
President for Finance and Administration Neill Binford, was elected
h o m e c o m i n g queen.
OPINION
Don't blame Canada
Page 3
A&E
Page 8
Addicted to 'Desperate Housewives'
SPORTS
Soccer heads to WAC tournament
Page 1 1
Quote of the Week
"[Ray Charles] said. Well, the notes are right
underneath your fingers.' So from that point on.
in trying to get his character, I realized that while
he was blind, the music and all its harmony was
almost a sixth sense for him."
— Jamie Foxx, who stars as Ray Charles in Ray,
a film currently in theaters. See story, page 7.
Scoreboard
Football
Rice 22, Tulsa 39
Soccer
Fresno State 0, Rice 1
San Jose State 0, Rice 1
Volleyball
Rice 3, Louisiana Tech 0
Rice 3, SMU 0
Weekend Weather
Friday
Sunny, 47-71 degrees
Saturday
Sunny, 48-71 degrees
Sunday
Mostly sunny, 57-76 degrees
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 2004
THE RICE
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Fondren face-lift
worth doing right
With renovation of the first second and sixth floors of Fondren
library slated to begin soon — as early as December — we look
forward to seeing how far $14 million can go.
We support the proposed renovations, many of which directly
address the complaints of students. A new door on the west side of
the library wili make entrance more convenient. Instead of walking
around the building when coming from the Student Center, Autry
Court or Baker Hall, we can use the second door to enter from the
opposite side, eliminating long walks.
We also like the idea of more communal areas and study spaces
for undergraduates. The cafe and coffeehouse planned for the firs!
floor will give us an on-campus alternative to off-campus study spots
like Diedrich Coffee and Borders. Although we think the cafe will
make the library more inviting, we hope a smart design will keep
noise from reaching other areas of the first and second floors.
We welcome the addition of undergraduate and graduate study
spaces on the sixth floor, winch currendy houses offices and book
stacks. Only students with Rice IDs will have access, and we hope
these study lounges will be more spacious and more comfortable
than the library's current study accommodations.
Although most of the construction will occur over the summer,
we hope the construction that does begin in December or January
will not substantially disrupt students studying in the library. If
possible, w-ork involving loud noise should be put off until after the
spring semester ends.
At 55 years old. Fondren could use a face-lift. The last renovation
was completed in 1987, and since then, plans to raze the library and
completely rebuild it were scrapped due to the economic downturn in
2001 and concerns about possible flooding of proposed underground
levels. Although we'd rather see a new library, and we're not sure
how cost-effective this renovation will be. we understand that other
proposed new buildings are a priority, and we welcome any effort to
modernize old-fashioned Fondren. If we won't be gettinga brand-newlibrary anytime soon, at least we'll be getting a better one.
Where were you when
Bush was elected?
Whether you wTere elated or despondent after hearing the results
of Tuesday's presidential election, you have to admit it wras an exciting time to be in college, especially if you attended the election
party sponsored by President David Leebron in the Wiess College
and Hanszen College Commons.
We are glad Leebron invited students, faculty and staff to watch
the election coverage together. Sometimes the political atmosphere
on campus seems more apathetic than activist, but the party drew a
strong turnout from undergraduates and faculty.
Although there were many election parties elsewhere on
campus, Leebron did his part to encourage members of the
Rice community to look beyond the hedges. The event provided
good company, good food and an opportunity for attendees to discuss
the election in an informal yet intellectual setting. Partisan politics
aside, we'd like to see more events like this one acknowledging
important causes or occasions.
The election was all anybody could talk about this week, and Leebron's party provided an appropriate venue for Rice students to focus
on national issues. Now, if he could have just canceled all Wednesday
classes, he would have taken the electoral college by storm.
Shorter lines make for
better times at NOD
Night of Decadence is about having a good time without much
clothing, so we were pleased to see that NOD ran more smoothly
than in past years without much trouble.
NOD planners made sure the policy regarding Owl stickers for
of-age students was clarified ahead of time and moved ticket tables
from the Wiess College Commons entrance to the Hanszen College
patio to shorten lines after students had trouble entering the party
last year.
With these changes, students were able to enjoy the party in a
safer environment. There were fewer EMS calls and hospital referrals than last year despite a small increase in ticket sales. ITie safer
environment made for a better party, and we hope to see more of the
same in the future, both at NOD and at other major public parties.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GOP no friend of
minority groups
To the editor:
Regarding the opinion article
"GOP Record Shows Concern for
Minorities," (Oct. 8) I have to say that
Landon Roussel has failed to check
his facts. Fortunately, it won't take a
CIA report to show this.
First, the No Child Left Behind
Program has benefited blacks in exactly the same way as it has all other
students in the United States: not at
all. The Bush administration has so
far failed miserably in its implementation. despite receiving the requested
funds from Congress — no surprise
to anyone who has grown up in Texas
and seen the effect of Bush's "education reforms" in this state.
Roussel claims that Kerry
merely pays "lip service" to minorities. I suppose Kerry's proposed
tax cuts for the working class are
simply lip service. I suppose his
plans to stop outsourcing and bring
much-needed labor jobs back to the
United States are simply lip service.
Apparently. Kerry does not "attack
the central problem of uninsured
.Americans," even though he plans
to cut insurance premiums, extend
health care coverage to 95 percent
of American citizens and cut the
cost of prescription medicine,
which has increased dramatically
during Bush's presidency, thanks
to lobbying efforts of big insurance
companies.
And let's not forget that blacks and
Hispanics aren't the only minorities in
the United States. What about women
and homosexuals? Bush stands
firmly in his party's core belief about
removing a woman's right to choose
in abortions. He has recommended
a constitutional amendment banning
same-sex marriage, relegating those
who follow that lifestyle to secondclass citizen status.
It is not only Bush's affiliation that
speaks for his position on minorities. His presidency has in no way
improved the status of any group but
the wealthy. His attempts at courting
the Hispanic and black votes with
half-hearted gestures will, with any
luck, fail once we realize that no
one has seen any practical benefit
from them.
gest party of the year So I've got
conservative slogans badly scrawled
in Sharpie all over my body; does
this mean you need to stop when
you see me and shake your head in A
disapproval?
NOD is about going out with
your friends and having a good time,
not heckling someone else because
they like Bush or Kerry, because
they are conservative or liberal, or
because they wanted to dress up ^
in a cow suit. For a student body
that is so open-minded toward just
about everything. Rice students can
be quite intolerant and judgmental
toward political beliefs that differ
from their own. 1 hope that everyone
eligible got out to vote, but 1 also
hope students remember that the f
box you checked on Tuesday doesn't
have to define who you are and the
friends you have.
Luke Stadel
Brown junior
Alex Solano
Brown freshman
NOD about decadence,
not partisan heckling
To the editor:
1, like most students in attendance. had a blast at Night of
Decadence. But 1 was surprised by
the amount of partisanship being
displayed at, of all places, the big-
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OPINION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,2004
Guest column
•Rice for Life hands out myth, not fact
M e m b e r s o f Rice for Life recently
placed fliers on t h e t a b l e s of several
c a m p u s dining halls that claim
w o m e n w h o h a v e h a d induced abort i o n s i n c r e a s e t h e i r risk of
developing breast cancer
b y at l e a s t 50 p e r c e n t .
If t r u e , t h i s s u r p r i s i n g
statistic would c e r t a i n l y
h a v e an impact on c u r r e n t
d e b a t e s r e g a r d i n g public
^ h e a l t h and a b o r t i o n in t h e
" U n i t e d States. But d o e s
Rice for Life h a v e t h e facts
straight?
T h e a s s o c i a t i o n between abortion and b r e a s t
cancer has been debated
for y e a r s and recently attracted t h e
^ a t t e n t i o n of t h e National Institutes
of H e a l t h . In late 2002, t h e National C a n c e r Institute updated its
"Abortion, M i s c a r r i a g e , and Breast
C a n c e r Risk" fact s h e e t to reflect
u n c e r t a i n t y raised by c o n c e r n s
over t h e c o n t r a d i c t o r y findings of
^ p r e v i o u s studies. To resolve t h e s e
" i n c o n s i s t e n c i e s , t h e NCI convened
a panel in F e b r u a r y 2003 of m o r e
than 100 leading world e x p e r t s on
pregnancy and breast c a n c e r risk for
t h e Early Reproductive E v e n t s and
Breast C a n c e r W o r k s h o p .
T w o m e t h o d o l o g i c a l t r e n d s in
Q t h e existing research emerged
d u r i n g t h e w o r k s h o p ' s review. T h e
earlier s t u d i e s that had found an
association b e t w e e n a b o r t i o n and
b r e a s t c a n c e r risk t e n d e d to rely
exclusively on s e l f - r e p o r t e d medical h i s t o r i e s or h a d c o n s i d e r e d only
^ s m a l l s a m p l e s of w o m e n .
™
In c o n t r a s t , r e c e n t s t u d i e s f r o m
t h e mid- and late 1990s had u s e d
more accurate medical records,
s o m e t i m e s d r a w n f r o m national
databases, and had c o n s i d e r e d
l a r g e r n u m b e r s of w o m e n in t h e i r
a n a l y s e s . T h e m e t h o d o l o g i c a l im-
p r o v e m e n t s of t h e s e later s t u d i e s
allow g r e a t e r c o n f i d e n c e in t h e i r
results. T h e s e studies consistently
found no relationship b e t w e e n
a b o r t i o n a n d b r e a s t canc e r risk.
Before d r a w i n g any
firm conclusions, t h e exp e r t s at t h e NCI w o r k s h o p
reviewed all of t h e existing
epidemiological, clinical
and animal r e s e a r c h on
p r e g n a n c y and b r e a s t
cancer. After c o n s i d e r i n g
t h e relative scientific merits a n d m e t h o d o l o g i c a l
flaws of t h e studies, e v e r y
e x p e r t but one agreed that
neither s p o n t a n e o u s m i s c a r r i a g e s
nor induced abortions elevated
w o m e n ' s b r e a s t c a n c e r risk. Moreover, t h e NCI Board of Scientific
Advisors and Board of Scientific
C o u n s e l o r s u n a n i m o u s l y approved
t h e conclusions of t h e w o r k s h o p ,
and t h e NCI fact s h e e t was u p d a t e d
to reflect its new findings.
... studies consistently
found no relationship
between abortion and
breast cancer risk.
In o t h e r w o r d s , t h e b e s t and
b r i g h t e s t e x p e r t s on t h e s u b j e c t
would agree: T h e statistic on t h e
Rice for Life fliers was wrong.
But how m u c h d o e s t h i s c h a n g e
t h e abortion debate? Did pro-choice
activists s c o r e a point a g a i n s t antia b o r t i o n i s t s ? T h e a n s w e r , importantly, is no. About o n e million
legal a b o r t i o n s w e r e p e r f o r m e d
in t h e United S t a t e s in 2000, and
t h e m a t e r n a l d e a t h r a t e f r o m related c o m p l i c a t i o n s w a s well u n d e r
1 w o m a n p e r 100,000 a b o r t i o n s .
On t h e o t h e r h a n d , t h e m a t e r n a l
death rate from pregnancy-related
c o m p l i c a t i o n s w a s 17 p e r 100,000
b i r t h s . C a r r y i n g a p r e g n a n c y to
term threatens a woman's health
significantly m o r e than having
an a b o r t i o n . However, a m o t h e r ' s
h e a l t h is not t h e only variable in
the moral equation.
Neither argument necessarily
d e p e n d s on the costs and benefits
to t h e m o t h e r ' s health. Even w h e n
taking the balance of health risks
into account for p r e g n a n c y v e r s u s
abortion, t h e r e are still rational and
viable anti-abortion a r g u m e n t s to be
made. If t h e choice to a b o r t a pregnancy is an extension of a woman's
fundamental right to control h e r own
b o d y as s o m e pro-choice activists
claim, then health c o n c e r n s cannot
justify taking away this right.
O n e may accept that abortion
does not h a r m a w o m a n ' s health, or
even that it is safer than childbirth,
without conceding that abortion is
morally acceptable. If induced abortion is tantamount to infanticide, as
some anti-abortion activists claim,
risks to a w o m a n ' s health have little
or no bearing on t h e moral status of
abortion.
Rice for Life should accept t h e
findings of the NCI workshop. Its
primary a r g u m e n t would not suffer, and it risks losing its credibility
if it continues disseminating false
statistics. Pro-choice activists should
take care, however, to avoid t h e assumption that the relative safety of
legal abortion is evidence in s u p p o r t
of their a r g u m e n t .
Lee Peifer
junior.
is a Hanszen
College
w
Rice Voices
In Cairo, C-bomb a safe alternative to A-bomb
— When
in doubt ... say you're
"Canadian.
S t u d y i n g a b r o a d in t h e Middle
East as an A m e r i c a n h a s given m e
some very interesting
p e r s p e c t i v e s on t h e way
t h e rest of t h e world views
us. While m a n y Rice stu£ d e n t s d o n ' t h e s i t a t e to
bash C a n a d a South-Parkstyle, t h e y m a y be surprised to d i s c o v e r what
C a n a d a h a s d o n e for m e
while a b r o a d .
O n o n e of my first
— nights in Cairo, Egypt this
" s e m e s t e r , my r o o m m a t e
and I stopped at an Italian
r e s t a u r a n t on t h e way h o m e . I use
t h e word "Italian" loosely, because
t h e m o s t Italian t h i n g about the
r e s t a u r a n t was its n a m e .
As it t u r n s out, it was. T h e scene
from the Italian restaurant played out
over and over again. People were more
warm, welcoming and excited to speak
to my roommate than they
were to any Americans in
h e r company — so it wasn't
just me. Several other Canadian students confirmed
that their Canadian identity
often helps dissipate tension
during introductions and
first meetings.
Americans always joke
about how Canada and the
United States are the same,
yet Canada has an entirely
different relationship with
the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Egyptians are weary of what they
perceive as U.S. hegemony and are
suspicious of the ulterior motives
behind U.S. actions. They do not see
Canada as a threat to world security
as they do the United States. Many
Egyptians view Canada as a sort of
paradise and wonder why t h e United
States cannot be more like it. "ITie
educated elite often send their children
to Canada to pursue higher education
instead of to the United States.
Response to my U.S. citizenship
h a s been mixed. Most Egyptians
are amazingly hospitable. Although
anti-Bush c o m m e n t s are intermittent,
Egyptians generally do a good job of
separating U.S. citizens from U.S.
government. Still, many instances
continue to m a k e m e feel as if my U.S.
citizenship is an unsafe status.
So a few w e e k s into this semester, I started telling people I was
Canadian.
Saying I'm s o m e t h i n g I'm not
was h a r d e r t h a n I t h o u g h t it would
l ) e — especially s i n c e b e i n g an
American is s u c h an i m p o r t a n t part
of who I am. But in s o m e p a r t s of
Cairo, it is a v e r y real safety issue.
With t h e r e c e n t k i d n a p p i n g s and
h a r a s s m e n t of A m e r i c a n s in t h e
Middle East, it's n o w o n d e r my
mind s o m e t i m e s plays worst c a s e
Noorain
Khan
O
Many Egyptians view
Canada as a sort of
paradise ...
After taking o u r order, the waiter
a s k e d w h e r e we w e r e f r o m . I a m
an A m e r i c a n , b u t my P a k i s t a n i
features sometimes help me pass
as an Egyptian. W h e n I a n s w e r e d
that I was an A m e r i c a n , t h e waiter
^ a b r u p t l y cut m e off and, e x p e c t i n g
t h e s a m e r e s p o n s e , t u r n e d to my
r o o m m a t e , w h o is Canadian and
looks Irish. W h e n s h e told him s h e
was C a n a d i a n , h e r e s p o n d e d as if
r e u n i t e d with a long-lost sibling.
" A h h h , C a n a d a , " h e said. "We like
Canada very much."
T h r o u g h o u t t h e r e m a i n d e r of
t h e meal, o u r w a i t e r o f f e r e d u s
special " p e r s o n a l " t o u r s of t h e city
and c o m p l i m e n t e d my r o o m m a t e
on h e r w o n d e r f u l c o u n t r y . I sat
b a c k and l i s t e n e d , w o n d e r i n g if
t h i s reaction was typical.
s c e n a r i o s . It h a s b e e n y e a r s since
Cairo h a s s e e n any of this, but
s o m e t h i n g in t h e ba c k of my mind
won't let m e r u l e out t h e worst.
Sure this is a compromise, but
m a y b e my g o v e r n m e n t n e e d s to
change its ways so I do not feel like
I have to deny who I am. My advice
to Americans abroad is this: Until the
United States fixes the public relations
disaster it has created in the Middle
East, consider dropping the C-bomb;
it could save your life — or at least a
lot of trouble.
Noorain Khan is a Martel College
ju n ior currently studyi ngatA merica n
University in Cairo, Egypt.
Guest column
Melting pot tastes better
with a side of red beans
" W h y d o they do that to themselves?" I overheard while eating
in my c o l l e g e c o m m o n s . T h e
c o m m e n t referred to t h e purposeful isolation of nine students, all of whom w e r e
either Chinese s t u d e n t s
or international students
from Hong Kong, at a
single table.
At first, I was defensive. As a Chinese American who was raised in
the United States, I do
not always feel completely integrated into
U.S. society. G r o w i n g
up, my non-Asian p e e r s
often asked questions about my
life indicating disapproval, if not
outright contempt. At the mercy
of their comment s, I s o m e t i m e s
did feel foreign and strange.
Although I occasionally feel
like an outsider to U.S. culture,
I would not have felt any m o r e
comfortable sitting at that lunch
table. Truthfully, I have always
been apprehensive about associating with other Asians, not b e c a u s e
I am ashamed of my ethnicity, but
because I feel like I am committing
a crime whenever I am not being
completely culturally diverse.
Who can blame me, though,
since I was taught in school that the
melting pot is the American ideal?
The pictures in my social studies
textbooks illustrated that groups of
U.S. kids should be rainbow-perfect.
Back then, I considered sharing
the same skin color to be no better
reason for friendship than having
matching astrological signs. I avoided friendships with other Asians. As
long as I was among mixed company,
I could remain free of guilt.
I continued to feel a s h a m e d
about befriending other Asians until I c a m e to Rice, w h e r e I b e c a m e
close friends with another Chinese
girl. Ironically, we bonded over our
tendency to shy away from other
Asians. W h e n we shared experiences of past alienation, it felt great
to finally talk to s o m e o n e who
understood my perspective.
Beyond t h e p e r s o n a l c o n n e c tions, it was a relief not to have
to explain e v e r y s e e m i n g l y novel
characteristic of my culture, such
as eating red b e a n s for d e s s e r t .
At last, as I experi enced firsthand
h o w c u l t u r e can c o n n e c t relative s t r a n g e r s t h r o u g h a web of
s h a r e d beliefs, u p b r i n g i n g s and
e x p e r i e n c e s , I u n d e r s t o o d its
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Yeh
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I do not think cultural awareness means having a perfect
u n d e r s t a n d i n g of e v e r y o t h e r culture; rather, it m e a n s being aware
of how our b a c k g r o u n d s color and
shape our everyday lives.
T h e m o r e I learn about others,
the m o r e I realize that all people,
r e g a r d l e s s of race or ethnicity,
struggle with their culture, but
something t r a n s c e n d s all t h e s e
differences: humanity. I may not
know what an e m p a n a d a or a pot
roast is, but I imagine that for
some people, eating these foods
may conjure the s a m e feelings of
comfort — or alienation — as my
sweet red b e a n s do for me.
Yvonne
junior.
Yeh is a Martel
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As m u c h as they may be "doing
it to themselves," I wonder how
much of that table's Asian students'
self-segregation has been "done
to them." After all, one of t h e
students from H o n g Kong confessed to m e that I was one of the
few people that could understand
him. Although his English was far
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NEWS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,2004
NOD
EVACUATION
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Rice emergency medical technicians
who were trying to take care of him.
NOD Security Coordinator Jack
Hardcastle, a Wiess junior, said the
student arrived at the ticket tables
too intoxicated to stand up.
"We called EMS and asked them
to evaluate him," Hardcastle said.
"They came and took charge of
him. He didn't want to be assisted,
so he started throwing punches at
the [EMTs]."
Rice University Police Chief Bill
Taylor said RUPD officers initially
planned to take the student to jail
after he got out of the hospital. Instead, they referred him to Assistant
Dean for Student Judicial Programs
Don Ostdiek.
"By the time [the student] came
back from the hospital, he was
pretty drained and had settled down
an awful lot," Taylor said. "And he
said the right stuff — he seemed
pretty apologetic. But at one point
in time his behavior was such that
he came pretty close to going to
jail. He basically assaulted the
EMS people."
Ostdiek will have the option of
remanding the student to University
Court or handling the case himself.
Martel College freshman Becca
Glisan said the only thing she did not
like about NOD was the high cost of
tickets, which were $8 in advance and
$10 at the door. Otherwise, she said,
she enjoyed herself.
' T h e r e were a lot of naked people,
and everyone was drunk, but I felt
safe," Glisan said.
Martel f r e s h m a n Don Kahn
said he enjoyed dancing and seeing
e v e r y o n e ' s c o s t u m e s . K a h n said
h e plans to attend the party again
next year.
This year, Rice Emergency Medical Services reported 13 calls, with
t h r e e resulting in hospitalizations,
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NOD party-goers dance in their electlon-themed attire. The annual party, held
at Wiess College Saturday, drew more than 1,300 students.
compared to 19 calls and eight
hospitalizations last year. All three
hospitalized students were released
by the following morning.
REMS Captain Nate Deal, a Jones
College senior, said he was impressed
by how much more smoothly the
party ran this year than last year.
"It looked like everyone was being a lot safer with their alcohol use
this year," Deal said.
Hardcastle attributed the lower
number of RUPD and EMS calls to
better planning, such as moving the
ticket tablesfromthe Wiess entrance
to the Hanszen College patio, and
to a greater familiarity with the new
Wiess Commons.
"It's t h e third year we've been in
this building, and we're still trying to
get the h a n g of w h e r e to put people
and w h e r e to put ticket tables, but
I think we've worked it out for the
most part," Hardcastle said. "So it
should b e s m o o t h going from h e r e
on out."
About25 students worked as caretakers, and more than 100 worked
as security guards, assisted by sue
RUPD officers. Intoxicated students
treated by EMS were released to caretakers from their own colleges.
Security volunteers worked in
teams of two to enforce the alcohol
policy, check wristbands at the
entrances and relay information
to the NOD security coordinators.
Hardcastle said he was overwhelmed
by the level of interest in working
security.
"We had people who were still
emailing us on Saturday night saying, 'Can I do security — can I sign
up?"' Hardcastle said. "We had to turn
people away."
Taylor said this year's NO D was an
example of a party that was both wellorganized and fun for students.
"I wish t h e other parties on campus would g o that well," Taylor said.
"I w o r r y m o r e about t h e other ones
now than I do [about NODJ."
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cookies ... but then a lady said,
'Get out, get out,' so everybody
started leaving."
The smoke was thick enough
to obscure vision, Lee said.
"It was pretty intense," he said.
"I could barely see the seats in the
Wiess Commons."
Riggs told students to leave
the servery and both Hanszen
and Wiess Commons. She said
they could go to any of the other
colleges for lunch.
The evacuation went smoothly,
Riggs said.
"Everybody evacuated very
nice and calmly, so I was really
happy about that," she said.
Riggs alerted the other college
kitchens of the situation and asked
them to allow students to eat there
even if they had already swiped
their cards for the meal.
Facilities and Engineering
technicians responded immediately and began working on the
AC unit, Ditman said.
By 1 p.m., students were allowed back into the servery. Riggs
said a few students ate at the servery between 1 and 1:30 p.m.
Ditman said F&E technicians
are still working on a permanent
fix for the AC unit. He said
because the building is relatively
new, the contractor that built
it may pay for the repairs. The
South College Servery opened in
fall 2001.
Ditman said the situation
was not as serious as it could
have been.
"The smoke detector worked,
people evacuated, nobody was
hurt — that's absolutely the most
important thing," he said.
POLICE BLOTTER
The following items were reported to the Rice University Police
Department for the period Oct. 27-Nov. 2.
Residential Colleges
Lovett College
Oct. 28
Lost wallet reported.
Wiess College
Oct. 3 1
Rice EMS began treating an
intoxicated student at Night
of Decadence. Subject began
fighting with emergency medical
technicians and was detained by
RUPD. Houston Fire Department
transported subject to Ben Taub
Hospital emergency room. Subject
later released back to RUPD and
referred to University Court for
assault and public intoxication.
Sid Richardson College Nov. 1
Bicycle stolen.
Brown College
Nov. 1
Bicycle stolen.
Baker College
Nov. 2
Wallet stolen from purse.
Academic Buildings
Dell Butcher Hall
Oct. 3 1
Officer observed graffiti on building
facing Alumni Dr. Facilities and
Engineering notified.
Other Buildings
Autry Court
Oct. 3 0
Report of shirtless, intoxicated
student causing a disturbance at
Autry Court. Subject found walking
away from the gym. Subject was
intoxicated and told RUPD officers
his "girlfriend lives at the gym."
Subject referred to U. Court for
public intoxication and released to
a caregiver.
Parking Lots
RUPD Lot
Nov. 2
Struggle between male and female
in front of RUPD. Male received
criminal t r e s p a s s warning and left
campus.
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In the article "Beer-Bike Coordinators Named" in the Oct. 22 issue, the
quote "The Martel jack ..." was misattributed. Campus-wide Beer-Bike
Coordinator Naaz Khumawala made the statement.
The Thresher regrets the error.
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" D e r r i c k h e l d an o p e n
f o r u m ... and a few people
showed up to that," Matuzek
said. "We've gotten a pretty good
response through the e-mail as
well. I think if people have opinions, they know where to go with
them, because I have also gotten
a cou pie of e-mails to my personal
Rice e-mail [account! about it."
Matuzek said she is optimistic
about the candidate pool.
by Emily Yeomans
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Wiess College senior Chas Barsamian watches as voting returns come in at the election results viewing party Tuesday.
The party, hostec' by President David Leebron, was held in the Hanszen College and Wiess College Commons.
'ELECTIONS
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won, or anything like that, it's just that
there's always a chance."
^
The majority of Republican candidates were successful nationwide,
including in the Houston area. Among
them was State Representative Martha Wong, who received the support
of volunteers from the Rice College
Republicans. Wong defeated Democratic challenger Jim Dougherty
• handily, Patel said.
Hastings said he thinks the party's
clear message led to its success.
"[The Republicans] really focused on terror and on traditional
values—talking about abortion, talking about same-sex marriage," Hasti n g s , a Martel College sophomore,
said. "I think that's what a majority of
people, though it's a small majority,
identify with."
Members of the Young Democrats
were also involved in local campaigns,
including those of Dougherty and
^ R i c h a r d Morrison, challenger to U.S.
' H o u s e Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
However, both candidates failed to
unseat their incumbent opponents.
'Texas Democrats in general just
were really destroyed by this election because, first of all, it's Texas,
and it's hard e n o u g h to get a
D e m o c r a t e l e c t e d , but s e c o n d ,
because of Tom DeLay's redisricting," Patel said. "It did what it was
designed to do."
Despite the number of Democrats
defeated nationwide, Patel said he is
hopeful about the future.
"When you look at the numbers,
sure, we've been losing, so there's
no question that we have declined,
but I don't think I the Democratic
Party) is going to decline any
more than it has," Patel said. "I'm
confident that we're at our low point
and that we can only get better
from here."
After what has been called the
most divisive presidential campaign
in history, only bipartisanism can
reunite the electorate, Patel said.
"I've heard s o m e people say
that pandering to his base is just
something | Bush I did so he could
get reelected, and he had to do that
in the first term," he said. "Now that
he's not in danger of any repercussions, he can start moving to
the middle and s t a r t doing
things because he doesn't have to
encounter the wrath of his socially
conservative base."
Also looking back to 2000, Parrett
said she is pleased with the quick
resolution of this election.
"I'm glad that it doesn't seem to
be like the huge controversy that
we had four years ago," Parrett said.
"Even granting the problems that we
had in Ohio, I'm just glad that we at
least have a decision the day after
and that they're not going to drag
this out for weeks."
In the 2000 election, Democratic
presidential candidate A1 Gore won
the Rice precinct with 47.3 percent of
the vote. Bush came in second with
28.1 percent of the vote, and Green
Party candidate Ralph Nader finished
a strong third, with 22.5 percent.
Directories arrive on campus
by Kamna Balhara
FOR T H E T H R E S H E R
The 2(X)4-'05 Campus Directory
arrived as scheduled this week and is
now available for students to pick up at
their college coordinators' offices.
Q
Distribution of the 8,000 copies
began Monday. Unlike last year, no
major errors have been discovered in
the directory, Student Media Adviser
Jen Cooper (Will Rice '90) said.
The directory, compiled by the
Office of Student Media, contains
contact information such as room
® i u m b e r s , phone numbers and addresses for students, faculty, staff,
departments and retirees.
Last year's c a m p u s directory
contained inaccurate contact information for most undergraduates. New
students'home phone numbers were
p r i n t e d in the directory, and returning students' room phone numbers
from 2002 *03 were printed. A supplement distributed in mid-February
corrected the errors.
This year's directory contained
a smaller error: phone extensions
for faculty and staff whose last
C ,iallies begin with "Al" were shifted
down one entry. An insert will be distributed with the correct listings.
The contact information for students is gathered by the Registrar's
Office. Human Resources provides
staff, faculty and retiree information;
. the ()ffice of Student Media collects
graduate student office extensions;
the President's Office handles administrators'contact information; and the
Telecommunications Department
gathers departmental information.
People can choose to designate that
their information not appear in the
directory
Director of Enrollment Administration Diane Havlinek, who was
acting registrar in August and September, said the Registrar's Office
used ESTHER to verify that the
students' telephone numbers and
addresses were correct.
The process of creating the directory takes almost three months. The
cover is ready for printing in early
August, and components of the directory are sent for printing as soon as
the Office of Student Media receives
the appropriate information. All the
information was sent by Oct. 14.
An independent printing firm
prints the directories at no charge,
and the Office of Student Media
receives a portion of the money
received from advertisement sales
in the directory.
Usually released in late October
or early November, the directory
was delivered on time this year.
However, some students said they
think the directories are neither
useful nor timely.
"Online directories are more
useful," Baker College junior Sanjay
Maniar said "The printed campus
directories aren't very useful because they come out at odd times
in the year."
Hanszen College junior Divya
Pande said the directories are useful
but distributed too late in the year.
"I really appreciate having it available as a resource, but I haven't had a
chance to use it yet," Pande said. "It
would be a lot more helpful, though,
if it came out earlier in the year."
Havlinek said although the directory could be produced more quickly,
the processing of information is a
lengthy operation. Students were not
required to designate whether they
wanted their contact information kept
confidential until the second week of
classes. The Registrar's Office sent a
preliminary draft of student information to the Office of Student Media
in September and a second draft in
early October.
Cooper also said she would also
like to have the directory available
sooner.
However, she said this year's
directory could not have been made
available any earlier because the
arrival of the new president and the
large-scale reorganization of offices
necessitated more c h a n g e s than
usual in the directory.
"1 would like to see the directory
get here before midterm break,"
Cooper said. "It's difficult, but not
impossible, assuming there are no
major upheavals."
Today is the final day faculty
members can apply for the new
dean of undergraduates position.
The search committee announced
it would extend the deadline for
applications and nominations
from Friday to today. The extension allowed the committee to
gather more input from interested
members of the Rice community,
History Professor Allen Matusow,
the committee chair, said.
"Some members of the committee felt that it would benefit everybody to give faculty members
a bit more time to think about the
position," Wiess College senior
Emily Matuzek, one of the two
undergraduate representatives to
the search committee, said.
Matusow declined to comment
on the number of applications the
committee has received but said
there are several candidates for
the position.
"We are having meetings and
hearing what concerned parties
think about the position and what
the opportunities and challenges
are," Matusow said. "That will
take longer than we thought, so
we saw no reason not to extend
the deadline for a week."
The extended deadline will
not affect the committee's timeline, Matusow said. The committee plans to submit its list to
the provost before the end of the
semester, he said.
Matuzek and Student Association President Derrick Matthews, the other undergraduate
representative on the committee,
set up a Google e-mail account to
collect student opinion and said
they have also been talking with
students in person.
' We saw no reason
not to extend the
deadline for a week.'
— Allen Matusow
History professor and search
committee chair
"We have several phenomenal
applicants right now, and we will
begin interviewing within the next
couple weeks," Matuzek said.
Those submitting applications
and nominations include a brief
statement of why they—or the person they are nominating — would
be interested in and qualified for
the position, Matusow said.
The committee will continue
to hear opinions from students
and faculty as it begins to narrow down the list of candidates,
Matusow said.
"That will last until mid-November, and then we will begin
the interviewing process, and we
will whittle down the list of names
for a list to give to the provost,"
he said.
Candidates for the position
must be tenured members of the
Rice faculty.
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the Woodson Research Center, which
holds archives and rare books and
manuscripts.
T h e r e may be an occasional
service relocation, but nothing will
be closed," Henry said.
The architectural firm Shepley
Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
designed the plans, which include
a new entrance on the west side of
the building, opposite the current
entrance. The rotunda in the center
of the first floor will be replaced by a
corridor that will connect the old east
entrance to the new one. The corridor,
which will open up to the second floor,
will include library services such as
circulation, check-out and reserves.
Bookshelves will be replaced by new
reading and study spaces.
"It'll be much easier to navigate,"
Henry said. "You'll come in, and you'll
be able to see much more quickly
where people are and where you
want to go."
The only major component of the
renovation for which designs have
not been completed is the first floor
pavilion, a planned cafe area near the
new west entrance. The pavilion will
protrude from the building into the
quad behind the library.
"It will be a social gathering space,
a place for very good coffee — and
I stress, very good coffee — maybe
sandwiches, pastries and cold food
like that, but we're just beginning
those conversations." Henry said.
Wiess College senior Kristin
Hartono, who works at Fondren's
circulation desk, said the cafe will be
a particularly welcome change.
"It's about time the library has
something that will bring more life
into it," Hartano said. "And a coffee
shop would do that. It would bring an
atmosphere more like a bookstore.
It becomes not just about books, but
a place to hang out with friends in
a low-key way. [Currently], I have
to go off campus to get that kind of
atmosphere."
Another component of the plan is
the creation of student lounges on the
sixth floor, where bookshelves and
offices will be replaced by reading
spaces, lockers, study carrels and
group study areas, allowing for a
360-degree view of the campus.
YThe cafe] will he a
social gathering space
for very good coffee
— and I stress, very
good coffee — maybe
sandwic'lies, pastries,
and cold food like that.'
— Chuck Henry
Vice provost and
university librarian
Henry said the removal of bookshelves from the library is possible
because books can be moved to the
off-campus Library Service Center at
11(520 Main St. He said only the leastused books are moved to storage, and
faculty review all lists of books before
they are sent off campus.
A Rice ID will be required to
get into the lounges, which were(
designed in consideration of student
requests for quieter study areas,
Henry said.
Hartono said she thinks limiting
the lounges to Rice students is a
good idea.
'It's about time that the
library has something
that will bring more
life into it. And a
coffee shop would
do it. It would bring
an atmosphere like a
bookstore.'
• !
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Wiess College senior
"The library has a lot of non-Rice
people, especially at night, and they
often monopolize tables," Hartono
said. "The library is not that big. and it
can't accommodate outsiders, too."
Toby Isaac, a Hanszen College
sophomore, said he is not sure
whether the renovations will affect
the amount of time he spends in the
library. Isaac said he seldom goes to _
the library, even though he has spend'»
more time there since he began living
off-campus.
"To t h e e x t e n t t h a t I use
[the library facilities], they're fine,"
Isaac said.
Funds for the improvements wert
raised during the Next Century Cam-^)
paign, which ended in May. Money
for the pavilion is still being raised,
but a cost estimate for its construction
has yet to be released.
The renovations will be overseen
by r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of Fondren.
Facilities and Engineering and Rio Q
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along with the architects involved.
The University Standing Committee
on the library, which includes an
undergraduate representative, also
has input on the project.
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March 2001 the Board approved
plans for a new $130 million library
to be built in Fondren's place. The
building would have been completed
as soon as 2005, but plans were
scrapped in July 2001, a month afterA
Tropical Storm Allison caused extensive flooding in Houston. After the
flood, Board members and potential
donors worried about the feasibility
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T h e tag line for t h e new film
Ray — "A man who fought h a r d e r
and went farther than anyone thought
possible"—applies both to t h e film's
subject, t h e l e g e n d a r y musical innovator Ray Charles, and to its star,
the not-quite-legendary but soon-tobe-very-famous Jamie Foxx.
Foxx did not have to o v e r c o m e
b l i n d n e s s or t h e p r e j u d i c e s of Jim
Crow America, but h e did e m e r g e
from t h e wasteland of stand-up comedy, cable television and Booty Call
to b e c o m e , in just two films, p e r h a p s
t h e m o s t p r o m i n e n t black actor of
his generation. T\\eNew York Times'
A.O. Scott even had t h e t e m e r i t y
to liken t h e two m e n , writing that
Ray is "a v e r y good movie about
g r e a t n e s s , in w h i c h c e l e b r a t i n g
the a c h i e v e m e n t of o n e m a j o r artist b e c o m e s t h e occasion for t h e
e m e r g e n c e of a n o t h e r . "
Foxx's p e r f o r m a n c e is one part
mimicry — h e specialized as a comedian in impersonations, including
one of C h a r l e s — and two p a r t s
method acting. Foxx digs d e e p and
delivers a joyful p e r f o r m a n c e of
real physical and emotional complexity. W ith four m o n t h s remaining b e f o r e t h e Academy Awards,
nearly e v e r y critic and a r m c h a i r
h a n d i c a p p e r h a s Foxx penciled in
for two nominations, one for his
role as T o m C r u i s e ' s taxi driver in
Collateral, which ope ne d in August,
and a n o t h e r for Ray. He is t h e early
favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar
for t h e latter.
W h e n h e b o u n d e d o n s t a g e to
a n s w e r q u e s t i o n s a f t e r an a d v a n c e
s c r e e n i n g of t h e film in S e p t e m b e r ,
Foxx a p p e a r e d e x h a u s t e d from
r o u n d - t h e - c l o c k j u n k e t i n g (he h a s
b e e n d o i n g publicity all s u m m e r ,
first for Collateral, now for Ray).
but s e e m e d to g a t h e r e n e r g y f r o m
t h e s t a n d i n g ovation t h e film received. W h e n h e first m e t C h a r l e s
in p r e p a r a t i o n for t h e film, Foxx
said, t h e y w e r e u s h e r e d to sideby-side p i a n o s . C h a r l e s b e g a n by
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Jamie Foxx stars as late musician Ray Charles in Ray. director Taylor Hackford's biographical film now in theaters.
t e a c h i n g him a piece by T h e l o n i o u s
Monk, whose compositions are
notoriously difficult. W h e n F o x x
m i s s e d a note, C h a r l e s t u r n e d to
him and s n a r l e d , "Now why t h e hell
would you do that?" T h e a u d i e n c e
c h u c k l e d at F o x x ' s d e a d - o n impers o n a t i o n , b u t h e said C h a r l e s w a s
genuinely upset.
"You laugh now, but at that time
he was very serious about it, and in
a sense he was testing me," Foxx
said. " I said I didn't understand, and
he said, 'Well, the notes are right underneath your fingers.' So f r o m that
point on, in trying to get his character,
1 realized that while h e was blind, the
music and all its h a r m o n y was almost
a sixth sense for him. So I used that as
a metaphor t h r o u g h the movie, that
for everyone in it the notes are right
u n d e r n e a t h their fingers."
A teenager who grew up in Terrell, Texas, outside of Dallas, Foxx
directed his c h u r c h choir b e f o r e
receiving a classical piano scholarship to the United States International
University in San Diego. Despite
his first misstep with Charles, Foxx
must have done s o m e t h i n g right in
the interview; by the end of their
session, Charles had anointed Foxx
as his cinematic double. That was
only the beginning of his work on
the film.
Foxx said h e lost 33 p o u n d s to
m a k e himself look m o r e like t h e
young, stringy Charles. During t h e
process of getting into character, h e
received some e n c o u r a g e m e n t from
another f o r m e r stand-up comedian.
"I was talking to Eddie Murphy,
and Eddie was like, 'I know you're
going to b e able to do it,"' F o x x said.
"I said, WTiy?' and h e said, 'Because
you've got that jaw. You've got that
Ray Charles jaw." It was t h e simplest
thing, but it was the thing I looked at
in trying to get into that character."
Next came the eye prosthetics,
which r e n d e r e d Foxx completely
blind for 12 to i4 h o u r s each day of
shooting. Although adjusting to the
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Famed West German
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Distinctive Latin flair sets new opera apart
C h r i s t i n a M. F r a n c o s
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
T h e world p r e m i e r e of Mexican-American c o m p o s e r Daniel
Catan's Salsipuedes at the Houston
Grand Opera delivers masterful
orchestrations, but fails to connect
its Cuban r h y t h m s with its operatic
story line.
Werner Fassbinder.
Sunday at 7 p.m.
The Caroline
'salsipuedes'
Wiess Law Building.
Houston Grand Opera
Rating: • • • 1 / 2 (out of five)
1001 Bissonnet
Through Nov. 14
Please call
Wortham Center's Brown Theater
(713) 639-7300
Tickets starting at $14
for more
information.
Salsipuedes p r e s e n t s t h e s t o r y
of two n e w l y - w e d d e d c o u p l e s during World War II. Ulises (Chad
S h e l t o n ) and C h u c h o (Scott Hend r i c k s ) a r e two m u s i c i a n s w h o
accidentally g o to s e a with t h e evil
C a p t a i n M a g a l l a n e s ( O r e n Gradus) and General Garcia Ooseph
E v a n s ) in t h e frigate El Invencible.
Not
realizing
their husbands
a r e c a u g h t in an
e l a b o r a t e plan to
deliver aphrodisiacal a n c h o v i e s and
Caribbean rum
to Nazi G e r m a n y ,
L u c e r a (Ana Maria M a r t i n e z ) and
Magali (Zheng
Cao) desperately
COURTESY HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
Lucera (Ana Maria Martinez, left) and Magali (Zheng Cao) show off their wedding rings for a photographer in Daniel Catan's Salsipuedes, now playing at the Houston Grand Opera.
s e a r c h port a f t e r port for the
f r i g a t e . T h e y e v e n t u a l l y find t h e i r
h u s b a n d s and d i s g u i s e t h e m s e l v e s
a b o a r d t h e ship.
T h e plot p r o g r e s s e s with ass a s s i n a t i o n s , b e t r a y a l s and p o w e r
usurpations. T h e opera's happy
e n d i n g is p a r t i a l l y u n e x p e c t e d
given t h e d a r k plot, t h o u g h compatible with t h e spirit of t h e m u s i c .
Catan's compositional style integ r a t e s C u b a n and Latin r h y t h m s
with m o r e traditional b r a s s and
woodwind s o u n d s . Although t h e
Latin m u s i c is s o m e w h a t disappointing, it p r o v i d e s spirited con-
text for t h e s t o r y line. T h e angelic
h a r p s o u n d s f u s e with t h e color
of t h e wind i n s t r u m e n t s , and t h e
o r c h e s t r a ' s v a r i o u s t i m b r e s and
t e x t u r e s m a k e for a s t r o n g overall
performance.
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WIVES
I'm hooked: My new
'Housewives' addiction
I don't know about you, but it
s e e m s that every time I turn on
t h e television, I find people eating
disgusting things. Bull
testicles, g r u b s and
pig intestines come to
mind. I've never found
dining on w o r m s and
similar delicacies very
appetizing, so lately I
have felt no desire to
pick up t h e remote.
N B C ' s Fear Factor
started this gross-out
reality trend, but every
network is guilty of
sacrificing thoughtful
original programming
for sensationalism.
Until now. After several flat,
dismal seasons, ABC h a s lifted
itself out of the dank stench of
reality TV and given v i e w e r s
Desperate Housewives, a ridiculously addictive new series. Set
on the fictional Wisteria Lane,
t h e show chronicles t h e darkly
h u m o r o u s m i s a d v e n t u r e s of
four middle-aged women.
There's Lynette (Sports
Night's Felicity H u f f m a n ) , a formerly a m b i t i o u s c a r e e r w o m a n
now s t a y i n g at h o m e to w r a n g l e
h e r r a m b u n c t i o u s twins; Susan
(Lois & Clark's T e r i H a t c h e r ) ,
a r e c e n t d iv o r ce e looking for
love; Gabrielle (The Young and
the Restless' Eva Longoria), a
spoiled wife two-timing h e r
h u s b a n d ; and B r e e (Melrose
Place's M a r c i a C r o s s ) , a M a r t h a
S t e w a r t clone r e c e n t l y d u m p e d
by h e r h u s b a n d . J u s t like t h e
w o m e n of Sex and the City,
t h e s e c h a r a c t e r s a r e slightly
e x a g g e r a t e d v e r s i o n s of real
people that a r e easy e n o u g h to
r e l a t e to, b u t just over-the-top
e n o u g h to draw u s out of o u r
e v e r y d a y lives.
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And t h e n t h e r e ' s t h e manhunting. T h e first episode
I w a t c h e d , w h i c h a i r e d two
w e e k s ago, f e a t u r e d
t h e m a n - e a t i n g Edie
B r i t t (Knots Landing's a g i n g s e x p o t
Nicollette S h e r i d a n )
flaunting herself
for new-guy-on-theb l o c k M i c h a e l Delfino (The Pretender's
J a m i e D e n t o n ) . As
Sheridan washes her
c a r in s k i m p y attire,
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Jonathan
Schumann
T h i s escapist quality is why
t h e show w o r k s so well. Sure, if
you g r e w u p in the s u b u r b s amid
soccer m o m culture, t h e r e a r e
m o m e n t s you can identify with,
but when Bree talks about h o w
s h e enjoys "practicing" r e c i p e s
b e f o r e special o c c a s i o n s and
t h e n dives into a " d r y r u n " of
holiday food favorites, t h e show
t e e t e r s on deliciously c a m p y
territory.
y e a r n s for M i c h a e l ' s
affections — groans,
"That's the fourth time she's
w a s h e d h e r car t h i s w e e k . "
At t h e s e c a t t y m o m e n t s ,
o n e f e e l s t h e p r e s e n c e of t h e
s h o w ' s c r e a t o r , f o r m e r Melrose
Place w r i t e r C h a r l e s P r a t t
Jr. Housewives
has definitely
continued the prime-time soap
o p e r a t r a d i t i o n t h a t Melrose
Place a n d Beverly Hills 90210
p e r f e c t e d in t h e m i d - 1 9 9 0 s ,
a n d w h i c h The O.C. r e c e n t l y
resurrected.
But unlike The O.C., which
I still love. Housewives'
tone
can be quite dark. T h e s h o w ' s
sarcastic posthumous narrator
M a r y Alice Young (Nip/Tuck's
B r e n d a Strong), w h o killed herself in t h e first episode, s u g g e s t s
that t h e s e w o m e n walk t h e line
b e t w e e n sanity and d e s p e r a t i o n
everyday. T h e r e a r e clear h i n t s
of American Beauty and Blue Velvet h e r e , as both films similarly
revealed t h e sordid underbelly
of s u b u r b a n America. But unlike
t h e s e films, which a r e explicit
and d i s t u r b i n g , Housewives is
c o n t e n t to hint at, r a t h e r than
graphically depict, t h e housewives' not-so-perfect lives.
And that's exactly what we
want. J u s t when television was
getting too real, h e r e c o m e s a
purely escapist show that invites
us into t h e wildly over-the-top,
sex-drenched lives of some seemingly ' d e s p e r a t e ' women. Now
that's refreshing.
Jonathan Schumann is a Baker
College junior and arts and entertainment editor.
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Annette Bening and Shaun Evans star as Julia Lambert and Tom Fennel in director Isvan Szabo's Being Julia, a farce
t h a t t a k e s place in London's theater world in the 1 9 3 0 s .
Ultimately shallow farce'Julia'
revels in dry, witty humor
Mike Matthews
THRESHER
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Hungarian filmmaker Istvan
S z a b o (Sunshine),
best known
for h i s c h a r a c t e r s t u d i e s s e r v i n g
as f o d d e r for sociopolitical argum e n t s , c h a n g e s g e a r s with Being
Julia, a f a r c e revolving a r o u n d t h e
love life of British s t a g e a c t r e s s
Julia L a m b e r t (American Beauty's
Annette Bening).
'being julia'
in theaters
Rating: • • •
(out of five)
As we h a v e c o m e to expect f r o m
S z a b o ' s p r e v i o u s work, t h e movie,
b a s e d on W. S o m e r s e t M a u g h a m ' s
s h o r t novel Theatre, is p o l i s h e d ,
well-cast and full of witty quips.
Szabo n o u r i s h e s a w r y t o n e that
could not be m o r e c o n d u c i v e to
this type of comedy. Unfortunately,
t h e m o v i e ' s bland s o u r c e m a t e r i a l
is u n w o r t h y of t h e s e e f f o r t s , and
Being Julia falls s o m e w h e r e s h o r t
of intellectual d e p t h .
J i m m y Langton (Gosford Park's
Michael Gambon), a dedicated
i n s t r u c t o r of t h e a t e r , o p e n s t h e
movie, by a d d r e s s i n g t h e viewer
with a mini-lecture in t h e vein of "all
the world's a stage." Langton, dead
15 years at t h e time of narration,
was Julia's m e n t o r and remains h e r
g r e a t e s t inspiration.
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with T o m leads to one too many
tear-shedding s c e n e s . As a result,
h e r emotions c e a s e to invoke our
sympathy. We can never b e s u r e
w h e t h e r h e r e m o t i o n s are e a r n e s t
or make-believe.
Szabo
fumbles when
he tries to
explore depth
within such
a simple,
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anecdote of love.
Being Julia d o e s succeed, how
ever, in creating a lighthearted tone.
T h e characters smile and laugh, with
their faces or their words, throughout most of t h e movie. T h i s creates
the idea that whatever happens to
Julia and the rest of the characters,
everything will b e cleanly resolved in
the end. Julia will eventually become
joyfully passive about the affair, as
she is about t h e passionate love she
had and may continue to have for
her husband.
Szabo f u m b l e s w h e n h e tries
to e x p l o r e d e p t h within s u c h a
s i m p l e , s a t u r n i n e a n e c d o t e of
love, b e c a u s e , a s t h e film p o r t r a y s
it, t h e r e is n o d e p t h to e x p l o r e .
T h e movie would h a v e b e e n m o r e
pleasing without this recurring
distraction.
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She has adopted Langton's
s t e r n belief that life is t h e a t e r , and
everything else, including what
o t h e r s call "reality," is s e c o n d a r y .
W h e t h e r d e a l i n g with m a r r i a g e ,
d e p r e s s i o n or c o m p e t i t o r s in h e r
profession, Julia treats every
situation as if it w e r e s c r i p t e d in
o n e of h e r plays. S h e even u s e s
lines f r o m h e r r o l e s in e v e r y d a y
c o n v e r s a t i o n . B e n i n g plays Julia's
o b s e s s i o n to an e x t r e m e and t u r n s
in an over-the-top c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n
that h i n d e r s t h e film.
A star of m a n y hits, Julia s e e k s
a m u c h - n e e d e d r e s p i t e . S h e ent r e a t s h e r h u s b a n d , Michael Gosselyn (Reversal of Fortune's J e r e m y
I r o n s ) , to c a n c e l h e r next play.
W h e n s h e m e e t s T o m F e n n e l (The
Boys from County Clare's S h a u n
Evans), an American groupie y o u n g
e n o u g h to be h e r son, s h e allows
an affair to bud b e t w e e n t h e m f r o m
a s p o n t a n e o u s stray kiss.
Julia eventually realizes that
F e n n e l ' s love h a s d r i f t e d to Avice C r i c h t o n (Ella Enchanted's
Lucy P u n c h ) , a y o u n g a s p i r i n g
a c t r e s s , and t h a t h i s p r i o r i t i e s
lie not with h e r c a r e e r , but with
A v i c e ' s . S u f f i c e it to say, J u l i a
p l o t s to t u r n t h e t a b l e s , r e s u l t i n g
in an i m p l a u s i b l e f i n a l e .
If Julia's behavior w e r e t h e foundation of t h e film and its s o u r c e of
humor, then the film would have
b e e n s u c c e s s f u l as high-concept
Hollywood fare. However, it relies
too heavily on awkward character
interactions for humor. For example,
Julia's h e a r t b r e a k over h e r affair
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Jamie Foxx is receiving rave reviews for his performance as late musician Ray Charles in director Taylor Hackford's Ray, a new biographical film.
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Madame Colette (James Maddalena) and Captain Magallanes (Oren Gradus) strike a deal in Daniel Cat£n's Salslpuedes.
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mark of Latin music, and the clarinet,
a more classical instrument, to mesh
the c h e e r f u l , syncopated sound
with the more melancholy operatic
sounds. Catan repeatedly draws
rhythmic and textural threads to
unite the production.
Catan repeatedly draws
RHYTHMIC and
textural threads
to unite the
production.
T h e vocalists' powerful voices
and acting abilities are impressive. M e z z o - s o p r a n o Cao s i n g s
with a rich and angelic tone w h e n
e n t r e a t i n g h e r sister Lucera to
r e m a i n positive in their o r d e a l .
Cao a d o p t s a nasal voice w h e n
d i s g u i s e d on the w a r s h i p and is
intentionally c o n s p i c u o u s . Martinez h a s t h e vocal ability to sing
with s t r i d e n c y and passion when
e x p r e s s i n g a n g e r at h e r d r u n k e n
and c h e a t i n g h u s b a n d , while still
k e e p i n g h e r sweet n a t u r e . Her
d u e t with Ulises almost s o u n d s
like a r o m a n t i c p e r i o d aria in
h o m a g e to love.
While Hendricks has a sensitive
and sexy baritone voice, G r a d u s '
rich a n d b o o m i n g b a s s s o u n d
is not as effective in the u p p e r
registers.
Surprisingly, t h e libretto, by
Eliseo A l b e r t o and F r a n c i s c o
H i n o j o s a , c a r r i e s m u c h of t h e
weight in this o p e r a . O f t e n witty,
it p r o v i d e s sexual j o k e s and mom e n t s of c o m i c relief and o f f e r s
s c e n e s of poetic beauty and nautical i m a g e r y , s u c h as Captain
M a g a l l a n e s ' p r o f e s s i o n s of love
for his d o o m e d vessel.
T h e s h o w ' s rich p r o d u c t i o n
design is a pure visual marvel.
Costume designer Constance
H o f f m a n ' s colorful creations fill
the stage with bright patterns and
deliciously vibrant colors; the mariachi band in the wedding scene
looks exactly the part. A gaudy
green c o s t u m e b e d e c k s the transvestite Colonel M a d a m e Colette,
and b a r i t o n e J a m e s M a d d a l e n a
i m p r e s s e s with his ability to dance
in four-inch heels.
Allen M o y e r ' s s c e n e r y varies
from e l a b o r a t e and colorful to
virtually nonexistent. T h e opening s c e n e f e a t u r e s the pink hotel
Ambos M u n d o s lit in neon lights,
and the m a r k e t p l a c e carnival comprises movable shop windows and a
b a n d s t a n d against an azure sky.
The angelic
harp sounds
FUSE with the
color of the wind
instruments, and
the orchestra's
various timbres
and textures make
for a strong overall
performance.
T h e ship El Invencible looks
remarkably like a WWII warship
with red-rusted sides. Yet the contrasting s t a r k n e s s of the stage is
more prominent during several of
the d u e t s between the two sisters
Lucera and Migali.
Despite a few lengthy scenes
that feel out of place, Salsipuedes
e n c o m p a s s e s all of the elements
of good opera — love, death and
conflict, along with distinctive and
colorful music.
loss of vision was difficult — Foxx
said the crew sometimes forgot about
him at lunch breaks — it helped him
understand what life must have been
like for Charles.
It also made his ears more sensitive. In the movie, Charles demonstrates how he 'sees' the world
through his ears by picking out the
sound of a hummingbird hovering
outside a window from across a
noisy restaurant. On the set, Foxx
said, he learned to hear someone
tapping a pencil on the other side
of a room.
Although critics have heaped
praise on Foxx, the actor m a d e
s u r e to share the credit for the film.
He mentioned the film's actresses,
including Sharon Warren, who in
her first acting role plays Charles'
tough, self-sacrificing mother,
and screen veteran Regina King
(Jerry Maguire), who plays Charles'
backup singer and extramarital love
interest. He also spoke admiringly
ofdirectorTaylor Hackford (Proofof
Life), who worked with Ray Charles
on the project for 15 years.
"He's a white director in Hollywood
who took a chance on a black film, and
they don't do that a lot," Foxx said.
"And then he listened, too. You know,
sometimes [black entertainers) have
to compromise how we are. But those
guys that you see on that film really
give you the essence of what it's about,
so we give props to Taylor Hackford
for taking that chance."
Ray Charles, who passed away in
June, did not live to attend the film
premiere, but Foxx said he did get
to 'see' a final version of the film "in
his own way."
Along with many members of the
cast and crew, Foxx was a Ray Charles
fan long before working on the movie.
He said his current favorite song is
"Mary Ann."
"When he says, 'Mary Ann, you
know you look so good,' basically at
that time he was risking his career, his
relationship with his wife, his kids. But
he said, you know, 'You look so good.'
Here's a man who can't see, but she
looks so fine and she went beyond that
darkness and touched him in a way
that made him say, Tin gonna take a
chance on this Mary Ann.'"
Similarly. Taylor Hackford took
his chance on Jamie Foxx — a
comedian-turned-actor with only a
few dramatic roles to his credit—and
established Foxx as the breakout
sensation of 2004.
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Page 10
Cross country captures
first WAC championship
by Matt McCabe
THRESHER STAFF
Led by junior Marcel Hewamudalige,
the first male Rice runner since the 1970s to
win an individual conference title, the men's
cross country team won its first Western
Athletic Conference championship since 2001
Saturday at Lincoln Parish Park in Ruston, La.
The young team, comprised of two seniors,
two juniors, four sophomores and one freshman, took six of the race's top 10 places, and
Hewamudalige edged Mircea Bogdan of the
University of Texas-El Paso by .86 seconds,
with a time of 24 minutes, 57.13 seconds on the
eight-kilometer course. Bogdan had defeated
Hewamudalige at the Chile Pepper Invitational
two weeks earlier in Arkansas.
"[Hewamudalige] ran a smart race — he
used the course to his advantage," head coach
Jon Warren Qones '88) said. "He wasn't
pressed — it was more of a tactical race."
Behind hewamudalige, 2003 WAC Freshman
of the Year Steve Magness finished fourth, junior
Scott Loftin crossed the line sixth, senior Adam
Davis took seventh and freshman Aaron Robson
finished ninth, constituting the Owls' five runners
whose finishes counted toward the team score.
"It was pretty close," Hewamudalige said.
"We all kicked pretty hard at the end and got
pretty lucky to get past all those guys—they're
all good runners."
Rice had four other runners finish in the
top 24 teams: Senior Seth Neumuller finished
16th; sophomore Pablo Solares took 23rd; and
sophomore Leor Pantilat crossed 24th. Because
they finished outside of Rice's top five, their
scores did not count, but their finishes showed
the Owls' depth — Pantilat's 24th-place finish
would have helped every team except secondplace University of Tulsa.
A year after amassing 83 points and finishing
fourth, Rice had 27 points, easily defeatingTulsa,
which had 79 points. UTEP finished third with
80 points, while Boise State was fourth with 96.
On the strength of the team's victory, Warren was
named the 2004 WAC Coach of the Year.
"We've never had success like this [during
my time here]," Warren said. "[But] this is
the third WAC cross country championship
for Rice since 1999."
Hewamudalige's win was his third in four races
this season, and as a result, he was named the
2004 WAC Cross Country Athlete of the Year.
"[Winning the individual and the team
titles] was definitely really, really sweet,"
Hewamudalige said.
Hewamudalige and his teammates are now
preparing for the NCAA South Central Regional
Competition in Waco Nov. 13. To advance to the
NCAA Championships, held in Terre Haute,
Ind., Nov. 22, the Owls must finish first or second
at regionals. With Arkansas, one of the nation's
best teams, all but certain to finish first, Rice
must defeat Texas A&M, Stephen F. Austin,
Texas and Sam Houston, all of whom finished
ahead of the Owls at lat year's regional.
"The biggest competition for us is Texas
— they are second in the Big 12," Warren said.
"But I think that this team can beat them."
Davis and Robson have both missed meets
and practices this season due to injuries, and
Warren said they have improved rapidly since
recovering, and next week's practices will be
crucial in their preparation.
"If they run like they can, we can make it
to nationals," Warren said. "We can be top two
at regionals."
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Junior Marcel Hewamudalige runs at the 2 0 0 2 Rice Invitational. Hewamudalige won the Western
Athletic Conference championship last weekend, his third victory in four races this fall, and was
named the WAC's Cross Country Athlete of the Year for his performance.
Gorry wins women's WAC race
by Melissa Dominguez
THRESHER STAFF
After finishing seventh and third
in her freshman and sophomore
seasons, respectively, junior Kate
Gorry captured the Western Athletic
Conference individual title at last
weekend's WAC Cross Country
Championships in Ruston, La. Rice
finished second to Southern Methodist University, which had five runners finish in the race's top 10.
"We raced about as well as we
could have raced," senior assistant
track and field coach in charge of
cross country Jim Bevan said. "SMU
was the clear favorite — they are
ranked 12th in the country, and we
knewwe needed agreat performance
at all positions to finish well."
The team improved on its thirdplace finish from 2003.
"We beat the defending champions — Nevada — and UTEP, who
finished second last year, both of
which did not lose much from last
year's team," Bevan said.
After losing three of the top six
runners on the 2003 team to graduation, two juniors, one sophomore
and two freshmen finished as Rice's
top five runners last weekend.
"We have no seniors on our team,
and it proves what great potential
the team has in the years to come,"
Bevan said. "The best performance
of the season was at the most important race of the year."
Although the women's team did
not regain the WAC team title it won
two seasons ago, Gor ry's individual
conference title was the first for a
women's cross country runner in
school history.
"I raced hard the entire time
and gave every bit of what I had,"
Gorry said. "I am happy I won, but
am happier with the effort I gave
the entire race. I made it a race and
I raced knowing that anyone who
was going to beat would deserve
to be ahead of me."
Gorry completed the five-kilometer race in 17 minutes, 1.59
seconds and led the field of about
70 runners from start to finish.
"She really put it together, and
it was a result of her day to day
habits and determination," Bevan
said. "The field she defeated was
the best field we've had in the WAC
in last six years. The most amazing
thing is that all of this is coming
from a former walk-on."
Freshman Marissa Daniels finished fifth overall in 17:38.51.
"I didn't really know what to ex-
pect since this was my first conference race," Daniels said. "Kate has
helped me a lot and given ine a lot
of great advice. I knew the competition would be tough, but I tried not
to think about it too much and just
concentrate on my race."
Daniels also earned All-WAC
honors, one of only two freshmen
in the conference to do so.
"Marissa ran a phenomenal race
and she seems to have an even better effort every race," Gorry said.
"I am excited for her to race at regionals because I want everybody
else to see how good she can be."
Freshman Iaura Kelley also
finished in the race's top 20, taking
17th in 18:42.49. Juniors Anna Reeve
and I^auren Murphy and sophomore
Megan Sandler finished within 10
seconds of each other in 32nd, 33rd
and 34th places, respectively.
"Megan and I ran together the
whole way, and that really helped,"
Murphy said. "There were times in
the middle of the race where not having Megan to push me would have
made it a lot more difficult."
The team now turns its focus to
the regional meet, where the top
two teams — among 16 — and the
top four other individuals qualify for
the NCAA Championships.
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Football looks to rebound
in homecoming game
out ready to play," senior fullback Fd
Bailey said. "They're going to give
THRESHER STAFF
us their best shot. I'm expecting the
After losing its last three games, Fresno from the beginning of the
all on the road, the football team season to come out."
hopes to keep its home record perfect
Tomorrow's contest will be the
tomorrow against Western Athletic sixth meeting between the two
Conference foe Fresno State Univer- schools, and Fresno State has won
sity in its annual homecoming game the first five. Many games in the
at 2 p.m. at Rice Stadium.
series have been close, however. The
Owls lost home games in 2000 and
2002 against the Bulldogs and last
year's matchup against the Bulldogs
'We've lost all our
by three points each. Head coach
Ken Hatfield said his seniors will be
road games, but we've
motivated to beat Fresno State before
leaving Rice.
one all the home ones.
"We've played some good games
We've got history going with them, but we have not defeated
Fresno," Hatfield said. "We play them
for us.'
good all the time here, and we played
— Raymorris Barnes them good last year at their place for
Senior cornerback the first time.... The biggest thing is
[the seniors'] leadership—being sure
everybody else is ready to play."
Rice (3-5,2-3 WAC) enters the game
Senior cornerback Raymorris
on a three-game losing streak, while Barnes said the Owls' perfect record
Fresno State (4-3,1-3) pounded SMU at home this season bodes well for
42-0 Saturday, returning to the form them against Fresno State and its
that allowed the Bulldogs to begin WAC-leading defense.
the season 3-0 before dropping three
"We've lost all our road games, but
consecutive games in WAC play.
we've won all the home ones," Barnes
"I'm sure Fresno is going to come
See FRESNO, page 14
by Adam Tabakin
THE W E E K I N S P O R T S
BY THE NUMBERS: FALL SPORTS
Sport
WAC Finish (current standing)
Saturday 1 1 / 6
2 p.m.
Football vs. Fresno State (Rice Stadium)
Saturday-Sunday 11/6-7
all day
Men's Tennis Rice Reunion Classic (Jake Hess Tennis Stadium)
Men's cross country
1st
Women's cross country
2nd
Sunday 1 1 / 7
3 p.m.
Women's BBall exhibition vs. EV1 Sports (Autry Court)
Volleyball
(2nd)
Tuesday 1 1 / 9
7 p.m.
Volleyball at UH (Hofhelnz Pavilion)
Soccer
(2nd)
Wednesday 1 1 / 1 0
7 p.m.
Men's BBall exhibition vs. Augustana (Autry Court)
Football
(6th),
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Twin killing: Bryans will
play Barkers on campus
by Amber Obermeyer
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAEF
Tennis stars Bob and Mike Bryan
have captured a grand slam title, had
a stint as the No. 1 doubles team in
the world and have won more than
four million dollars in combined prize
money. But if they want to keep calling
themselves the best doubles team of
twins in the world, they will have to
win a match this week at Jake Hess
Tennis Stadium. The Bryan brothers
will play an exhibition against Rice
alumni Richard (Baker '04) and William (Lovett '04) Barker Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m.
'The one thing the
Barkers have over [the
Bryans] is their court
craft — the Barkers are
a little more creative.'
— Shaheen Ladhani (Sid '97)
Coach of Richard (Baker '04)
and William Barker (Lovett '04)
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"They initiated contact with us last
spring," Richard Barker said. "Their
coach knew our coach, so when they
came in town for the Masters, they
asked if we wanted to practice with
them, which was an honor for us,
obviously. We practiced with them
then, we practiced with them when we
were in Hawaii [last January], and we
developed a friendship with tl iem—we
just thought [the exhibition] would be
a be cool thing to do."
William Barker said having the
match at Jake Hess gives the Barkers
a home court advantage.
"We've never lost on that court in
four years," William Barker said. "We
don't plan on losing there next week
— that's a fair expectation 1 think."
The Barkers' coach, former Rice
assistant tennis coach Shaheen
Ladhani (Sid '97), said the exhibition against the Bryans will give the
Barkers a chance to evaluate how
they compare to a more seasoned
tandem. The Bryans are currently
ranked second in the world, while
the Barkers are ranked 761st.
"The Bryans do the basics very
well — they're very fast; they're
very seasoned at doubles; they
serve well; they volley well; they
return well; they're very, very quick;
they're difficult to lob," Ladhani said.
"The one thing the Barkers have
over them is their court craft — the
Barkers are a little more creative,
but in terms of the basics, the Bryans
have the advantage."
William Barker said he and his
brother must rely on their return of
serve, as they did in college.
"[The Bryans] are solid at the net,
they have good serves — they're a
tough doubles pair, but serves are
breakable." William Barker said.
"We've broken them in the past
when we've played them, so the key
is going to be us holding serve. If we
can hold serve, we can get into their
heads a bit."
Richard Barker said both teams
are taking the exhibition match seriously, especially because the Barkers and the rest of their Rice team
defeated Stanford, the Bryans' alma
mater, in a dual match last spring in
Palo Alto. Calif.
"Sure, it's an exhibition, but it's
going to be competitive," Richard
Barker said. "We want to put one over
on the Stanford boys, which we did
last year as a team. We spoke to the
Bryans about that match—they were
gutted about us beating Stanford."
The Bryans turned professional in
1998 after three years at Stanford and
enjoyed middling success for three
years until deciding at the beginning
of the 2(X)1 season to focus almost
exclusively on doubles. They won four
doubles titles in 2001 and have won 16
tournaments in the three years since.
"The Bryans played a lot of
singles to start, and it wasn't until
later that they realized they needed
to focus on doubles, whereas the
Barkers came out of college with
their number one choice being to
play doubles—they know what their
niche is," Ladhani said. "The Bryans
have shown that it is certainly possible to be a doubles specialist and
not play any singles, and that's what
the Barkers want to do."
In their three months as professionals, the Barkers, who won the
ITA National Indoor Championship
as juniors in the fall of 2002 have
played in Futures, the entry-level
men's tennis tour, and Challenger,
the mid-level tour tournaments.
They won the F4 Futures event in
Great Britain, but they lost in the first
round of the LTA Bolton Challenger
two weekends ago in England.
"We've learned that there are so
many good players out there—that's
the bottom line," Richard Barker
said. "Professional doubles turns on
one or two points, and we've learned
that the hard way. We've played
good tennis, but we're finding out
the difference between us and No.
50 in the world is that one point at
6-all in the tiebreaker."
Richard Barker said he and
his brother's experience at Rice,
where the team narrowly lost close
matches in both the WAC and NCAA
tournaments during their first three
years with the Owls, will help them
professionally.
"It took us three years to beat a
top-15 team, and we had agonizing
losses," Richard Barker said. "It's
just practice — the more times
you put yourself in that position,
the better you're going to do, and
that's what happened our senior
year — we converted, and pretty
convincingly as well. You have to
put yourself in that position to give
yourself a shot, and that's what we're
trying to do professionally."
'We've never lost [at
Jake Hess] in four
years. We don V plan on
losing there next week.'
— William Barker (Lovett '04)
Former Rice tennis player
I>adhani said the Barkers can
learn from Wednesday's match both
physically and mentally.
"They can learn a lot of things
from playing the Bryans — on
the court they'll see their serve
needs to get better, they need to
get stronger and faster, and the
energy level needs to be sustained
no matter what to make the step
from college to the pros," Ladhani
said. "But they also need to make a
name for themselves — in college,
every time they stepped on the
court, they had the name and the
ranking, and that was often good
enough for a few points. Playing the
Bryans will be another reminder
that nobody knows who they are
in the pros."
In the upcoming weeks, the Barkers will play Challenger events in
Illinois and Mexico.
Tickets for the match cost $20
to the general public, but 200 tickets at a reduced rate of $5 will be
available for students with a Rice
ID card on afirst-come,first-served
basis. Both student and non-student
tickets can be purchased at the Rice
ticket office at Autry Court. About
400 tickets for the exhibition have
been sold so far.
Proceeds from the match will
benefit Kids on Court, a charity established by the Barkers benefiting
inner-city youth tennis programs in
Houston. In case of rain, the match
will be postponed until Thursday at
the same time and place.
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ERIC WILLIAMS/THRESHER
Senior forward Sarah Yoder cuts around Boise State's goalkeeper just before scoring the game-winning goal in Rice's 1-0
victory over the Broncos Sunday. With the win, the Owls clinched the second seed for the WAC Championships, and Rice
opens tournament play tonight at midnight against either Fresno State or UTEP.
Soccer two wins from NCAA bid
by Jonathan Yardley
THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF
A year after losing in the Western
Athletic Conference championship
game, the soccer team can earn its
first-ever NCAA tournament bid at
this year's WAC tournament, held
this weekend in Waipahu, Hawaii.
Rice, seeded second this year, has a
first-round bye and opens play tonight
at 9 p.m. against the winner of last
night's match between third-seeded
University of Texas-El Paso and
sixth-seeded Fresno State University.
UTEP and Fresno State tied 0-0 in the
regular season.
In Dallas last year, third-seeded
Rice won two games to advance to
the championship game against
host, top seed and two-time defending conference champion Southern
Methodist University. After playing to
a 1-1 deadlock deep into the second
half without sophomore midfielder
Vanessa Serrano, who sprained her
ankle in the Owls' 4-1 semifinal win
over the University of Hawaii, Mustang forward Olivia O'Rear dashed
Rice's NCAA tournament hopes
when she set up leading scorer Kim
Harvey for the game-winning goal
with 56 seconds remaining.
With a pair of 1-0 victories last
weekend, the Owls earned the
tournament's second seed—despite
a regular-season loss to fourth-place
Hawaii — and the accompanying
first-round bye with a 5-2-1 conference record.
"[The bye| is huge, more psychologically than anything, because they
remember how exhausted they were
at the end of that third game [last
year]," head coach Chris Huston
said. "Any time you can eliminate that
one day of competition, I think those
teams are at a significant advantage.
That's why we've been playing for it
all year, so we're ecstatic."
The tournament draw also favors
Rice, as the only two WAC teams to
defeat the Owls this year, SMU and
Hawaii, are on the opposite side of
the bracket.
Rice beat both of its possible semifinal opponents during the regular
season, but UTEP outshot the Owls
15-6 in a 1-0 Rice win Oct. 17.
"It's great that we were able to
win even when we didn't play well,
but statistically, they outplayed us,"
Huston said. "It will be an eye-opener
for us, if | UTEP | does end up beating
Fresno [State] in the first round, that
we very much need to come out and
play our game."
The team left Tuesday to ac
climate to the time change, and
watched last night's game between
UTEP and Fresno State to scout
Rice's next opponent.
"As long as we do our job in the first
game and have everyone ready for the
second game, we can win," senior forward Sarah Yoder said. "The biggest
adjustment for playing [in] Hawaii is
the time change. Since we're going to
have that extra day to adjust, I think
that's really going to help us."
The Owls have never beaten the
Mustangs in five chances, but Rice's
last three losses to SMU have been
by one-goal margins, including a 3-2
loss Oct. 15 at the Rice Track/Soccer Stadium.
The Owls have played Hawaii
more times — seven — than any
other opponent, including a WAC
tournament meeting in all three years
of the team's existence. In each of the
last three years, the team that won
the regular-season match lost in the
tournament. Hawaii beat Rice 1-0 in
Waipahu Oct. 1.
Sophomore midfielder Maria
Fadool said last year's tournament,
including the Owls' semifinal win
over Hawaii, improved the team's
outlook this year.
"I don't think many people expected us to be as close to SMU as
we [were last year|, but we know
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that we can compete," Fadool said.
"This year we have the confidence
that we know we can beat them in
a big game."
If fourth-seeded Hawaii defeats
fifth-seeded Tulsa, the semifinal
against SMU would feature the
WAC's top two offensive players:
Hawaii's two-time Player of the Year
Natasha Kai (12 goals) and SMU
standout O'Rear (12goals, lOassists).
Huston said Hawaii's home-field
advantage could be offset by SMU's
fresh legs because the Mustangs also
have a first-round bye.
"The difference in that game
could be Natasha Kai and for SMU,
Olivia O'Rear," Huston said. "Every
team's tough that made it, but I can't
say that we're disappointed that we
don't have to play SMU or Hawaii
until the final."
Rice earned the second seed
with a pair of 1-0 victories at home
last weekend against San Jose State
University Friday and Fresno State
Sunday. On Friday night, after the
referee disallowed an apparent goal
from freshman forward Clory Martin
for a Yoder foul, junior defender Erin
Droeger was an unlikely scorer in the
13th minute. Droeger teed up a shot
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SPORTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,2004
Volleyball nears postseason
by Scott Selinger
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Freshman Brittany Massengale swims the freestyle at the Hilton Plaza/TYR Invitational last weekend at the Rice
Pool. Rice won the meet, while Massengale set a new school record in the 1,000-yard freestyle and won the
500 freestyle. The Owls' next meet is the Houston Invitational Nov. 19-21 at the UH Recreation Center Natatorium.
Massengale breaks Rice 1,000 record
by DYon Peoples
THRESHER STAFE
Freshman Brittany Massengale
set a new school record in the
1,000-yard freestyle at the Hilton
Plaza/TYR Invitational at the Rice
Pool last weekend. Senior Urska
Ros also recorded multiple firstplace finishes over the two-day
meet to pace the Owls to a home
victory over the University of Nevada, Texas Christian University
and Colorado State University.
Rice led the meet from its onset,
as the team of senior Jane Keith,
Ros, senior Lauren Hill and junior
Laura Healey won the meet's first
event, the 400-yard medley relay,
in 3 minutes, 52.26 seconds. Senior
Jenny Voight soon followed suit,
capturing the 400-yard Individual
Medley title in4:34.66. Later Friday
night, Rice swimmers won three
consecutive individual events, as
Hill took the 200 breaststroke,
Ros won the 100 butterfly and
Massengale swam the 500 free in
14 fewer seconds than the race's
s e c o n d - p l a c e f i n i s h e r , Keilah
Walker of TCU. For the day, Rice
had at least one swimmer in the
top two of each race.
In Saturday's opening race,
Hill, Ros and Healey teamed with
freshman Amy Halsey to win another medley relay title, taking the
200-yard event in a season-best time.
Massengale then won her second
individual event of the meet, taking the 1,000 freestyle. Her time
of 9:59.04 broke the four-year-old
school record formerly held by
Katie Scholl (Will Rice '03) by more
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Carey Hain continued Rice's winning streak in the 200 free, and Ros
finished second in the event. Later
in the meet, Ros added a second
individual title of her own, winning
the 200 butterfly in 2:06.02.
The Owls concluded the meet
by winning their third relay, the
400 freestyle relay, in a season-best
3:30.70. TCU was the only other
school to win one of the meet's team
events, taking the 200 freestyle relay Friday. Rice concluded the twoday meet with 547 points, besting
WAC rival Nevada, which had 522,
TCU with 460 and Colorado State,
which amassed 424 points.
The Owls' next meet will be the
University of Houston Invitational
Nov. 19-21 at the UH Recreation
Center Natatorium.
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With a 10-1 record in Western Athletic Conference play, the volleyball
team (21-3 overall) enters the final
week of the regular season needing
just one win to clinch the second seed
in the conference tournament, which
will be held Nov. 19-20 in Reno, Nev.
A loss by the University of Nevada
(8-2, 15-6) would also give the Owls
the tournament's second seed.
"Nevada has been beating a lot of
teams," senior outside hitter Rebeca
Pazo said. "We need to keep playing
hard and winning our matches if we
want to come out on top."
After playing the University of
Texas-El Paso last night and honoring the departing seniors in their last
home game, Rice will take on the
University of HoustonTuesday before
its final WAC match at the University
of Tulsa next Saturday. Rice ended
an eight-match losing streak against
UH in 2002 and has won the last four
meetings between the two teams.
"This week isgoingto be extremely
important," head coach Genny Volpe
said. "We've got two matches on the
road againsttwo teams that really want
to beat us. I think this is a week we
can pull out in the end, but we're really
going to have to work for it."
Last week, the Owls concluded
their longest road trip of the season
with a pair of wins against WAC Eastern Division foes, beginning with an
Oct 28 match against defending Eastern Division champion Southern Methodist University. Just like the teams'
Oct. 9 meeting at Autry Court the
Owls defeated the Mustangs without
dropping a s e t 30-20,30-25,36-34.
"We knew it would be a tough
match," Pazo said. "We'd already
been on the road for so long, and we
just knew that we had to focus if we
wanted to beat them in three."
Rice's all-time kills leader led the
Owls offensively, as Pazo knocked
down 18kills, recorded her 20th double-double of the season and added
with 12 digs. Junior right side hitter
Olaya Pazo also recorded a doubledouble with 13 kills and 11 digs, and
senior outside hitter Lindsey Carter
had 14 kills, a service ace and Rice's
only solo block of the night. In the
backcourt, freshman libero Yvette
Kirk added 15 digs to her team-leading season total of 300.
"The team has just been going
out there and playing consistently,"
Volpe said. "We've got a few people
who have been picking up their game,
but nobody has been dipping in the
opposite direction."
The squad continued to dominate
Eastern Division teams Saturday,
defeating last-place Louisiana Tech
(1-10, 5-19) in the final match of its
four-game road trip. The Owls played
better than the Bulldogs in all facets of
the game, outhitting Louisiana Tech
.287-.075, out-digging the Bulldogs
70-51 and out-blocking them 9 4 .
"I'm glad we won both matches in
the way we did," said Volpe. "It had
already been another long road trip,
and I knew it would be more mentally
than physically challenging for us.
I'm proud of the way the team pulled
it together in those matches."
Sophomore middle blocker Tessa
Kuykendall, who ranks 14th nationally in blocks with 1.63 per game, had
11 kills with just one error and added
a solo block and three block assists
to her team-leading totals of 25 and
102, respectively. Carter and Rebeca
Pazo combined offensively for 26 of
the Owls' 55 kills.
"What's most impressive to me
right now is how they keep challenging each other and staying really
focused on their goal of winning the
WAC championship,"Volpe said. "The
championship teams are the ones that
play the strongest at the end, and that's
the kind of team I want us to be."
With three matches remaining in
the regular season and at least one in
the conference tournament, the Owls
have won 20 games for the first time
since 1998and have received significant
votes in the USA Today/CSTV top 25
ix)ll since narrowly losing to then-topranked Minnesota Sept. 17.
"I knew we were going to have a
good season," Pazo said. "I never expected us to be able to come together
as a team and focus enough to do this
well and play at the level we've been
playing at."
Despite c h a n g i n g its starting
quarterback and placekicker, the
football team lost its fifth consecutive road game Saturday, 39-22 at the
University of Tulsa.
The loss for Rice (3-5,2-3 Western
Athletic Conference) was its third
straight after beating SMU 44-10
at Rice Stadium Oct. 9. Tulsa (2-6,
1-3) moved out of last place in the
WAC with the win, its first over a
Division I-A opponent this year.
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for 300 yards, but if
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you're not going to be
happy about it.'
— Ed Bailey
S e n i o r fullback
After falling behind 29-15 early
in the fourth quarter, a touchdown
from senior fullback Ed Bailey with
11 minutes, 31 seconds remaining in
the game brought the Owls within a
touchdown of the Golden Hurricane.
But Tulsa's Ashlan Davis returned
the subsequent kickoff 83 yards for
a touchdown, tying an NCAA record
with a kickoff return touchdown in
three consecutive games.
"On the road, we're our own worst
enemies," head coach Ken Hatfield
said. "Wc finally found a way to get
back in the game and win it. We
cut the score to 29-22 and had the
momentum with about 11 minutes
to go, and they run the kickoff back.
We had three people with a chance
to make the tackle, and if any one of
the three had gotten him, at least they
don't score on the play."
The Golden Hurricane struck first
on a 52-yard pass from quarterback
James Kilian to Davis. Rice was unable to answer on its next possession,
but senior cornerback Raymorris
Barnes intercepted Kilian on Tulsa's
ensuing possession to give the Owls
the ball at the Golden Hurricane
29-yard-line.
Freshman quarterback Joel Armstrong, starting in place of senior Greg
Henderson, could not lead Rice into
the end zone, but freshman kicker
lAike Juist kicked a 28-yard field goal
to narrow the Tulsa lead to 7-3.
B e f o r e h i s f i r s t - q u a r t e r try,
Juist's only field-goal attempt of
the year was a 49-yard m i s s against
Houston. Juist said h e did not know
he was going to replace junior kicker Brennan Landry, who missed a
potential game-tying extra point in
Rice's 14-13 loss to Navy Oct. 23,
until shortly before the game.
"It's always nerve-racking not
knowing whether you're going to
kick or not, and to get the chance to
do this my freshman year, I couldn't
ask for more," Juist said. "It helped
me out a lot, seeing as I missed my
first field goal in the UH game, so it
was a big confidence booster to come
back and make these."
Playing against Rice, now the
nation's top-ranked rushing offense,
Tulsa ran the ball on all five plays of
a 75-yard touchdown drive, and the
Golden Hurricane ended the first
quarter with a 14-3 lead.
With Tulsa trying to run out the
clock and enter the locker room with
a 14-6 halftime lead, junior defensive
'•nd John Syptak forced a fumble,
and sophomore defensive tackle
Dajuan Cooper recovered it on the
Tulsa 19 with one second left on the
clock. Juist kicked a 36-yard field
goal, his third of the half, to cut the
deficit to 14-9.
'On the road, we're our
own worst enemies....
We had three people
with a chance to make
the tackle [on the
kickoff return/.'
— Ken Hatfield
H e a d football c o a c h
"I,uke did not know until we went
into the locker room before the ballgame," Hatfield said. "I told him then,
'Luke, you're going to be the kicker.
You've got it first.' I was really pleased.
He stepped up and hit all three field
goals. That's a good way to start — I
think that was big."
AfterTulsa scored a touchdown
on its first possession of the second half, the Golden H u r r i c a n e
attempted a surprise onside kick.
T h e Owls recovered the kick, however, and after a 21-yard run from
s o p h o m o r e halfback Mike Falco,
Bailey ran 26 yards for his seventh
r u s h i n g touchdown of the season.
T h e Golden H u r r i c a n e blocked
Juist's extra-point attempt, but the
touchdown pulled t h e Owls within
six points, 21-15.
Tulsa then ran 4:58 off the clock
with a 10-play, 77-yard drive that culminated in a one-yard run by Kilian,
but Rice responded with another
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THE RICE THRESHER
SPORTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,2004
Sid shuts out Wiess, SOCCER
remains undefeated
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From page 11
by Stephen Whitfield
THRESHER STAFF
T h e Sid Richardson Powderpuff team increased its winning
streak to 18 g a m e s and pulled
within one g a m e of its second
consecutive perfect regular
season with a 19-0 win over rival
Wiess Sunday.
COLLEGE SPORTS
ROUNDUP
After each team punted on its
opening possession, Sid scored
first when sophomore quarterback Christi Disch capped an
efficient 69-yard drive with a
20-yard touchdown pass to freshman receiver Jessica Warren on
fourth down early in the second
quarter. Wiess halfback Natalie
Gwilliam ran for 28 yards on the
first play of Wiess' subsequent
possession, and two Sid penalties
helped Wiess drive inside the Sid
15-yard line, but the possession
then stalled and eventually failed
to convert on fourth down.
Sid capitalized on its next
possession with just under two
minutes remaining in the first
half. Disch converted a third-and11 play with a 25-yard run, and
junior wide r e c e i v e r / d e f e n s i v e
back Paula Steinhauser, who led
all receivers with five catches,
later made a leaping 24-yard catch
over a Wiess defender to give Sid
a first down on the Wiess 1 with
eight seconds left. Steinhauser's
subsequent touchdown catch
gave Sid a 13-0 halftime lead.
Despite driving into Sid territory on multiple occassions, Wiess
could not cut into Sid's lead. On
Wiess' opening possession of the
third quarter, an inadvertent whisUe
stopped what could have been a
34-yard touchdown run by Gwilliam. Two plays later, a touchdown
run by sophomore quarterback Ali
Smith was called back due to an illegal formation ix'nalty, and Wiess
eventually had to punt.
With just more than one minute left in the game, Steinhauser
added a defensive touchdown,
intercepting a pass and returning
it 40 yards for a score that gave
Sid its final 19-0 margin.
Sid converted just two of six
third-down plays and one of two
fourth-down plays, but compensated with five plays of at least 20
yards. Sid head coach and Resident Associate Dan M c M a s t e r s
said his offense's success was the
result of the team's g a m e plan.
"[Wiess] has some unbelievable athletes on their team, both
offensively and defensively, (but!
our team also has some great athletes," McMasters said. "We were
lucky that everything that we did
seemed to work tor us today.... I'm
really proud of the team because
... offensively and defensively
they've done the things that we've
asked them to do."
After running for almost 100
yards the previous week against
Lovett, Smith ran for zero yards
on three carries and completed
just 6 of 14 passes for 65 yards.
Sid held Wiess's tandem of successful freshman running backs,
Bianca Caram and Gwilliam, to a
combined 25 yards on 15 carries
in this game.
W i e s s coach Ryan Dunnavant, a senior, said his t e a m ' s
lackluster r u s h i n g statistics do
not c o n c e r n him a s his t e a m
p r e p a r e s for the playoffs.
"We c h a n g e d s o m e of our
blocking s c h e m e s to account
for blitzes against some of these
b e t t e r t e a m s that have m o r e
s c h e m e s on defense," Dunnavant
said. "They just got confused and
missed their blocks a couple of
times. Well b e all right."
Sid held d a n g e r o u s W i e s s
receiver Annie Goodrich, a senior,
to t h r e e receptions and 49 yards
with double and triple coverage,
and the Sid defense also recorded
four sacks and an interception.
"Wiess is our big rival — probably our biggest — and so we
pretty much came out with as
much intensity as we possibly
could," Steinhauser said. "We
wanted every ball, and you could
see it. We had a lot of sacks because our e n d s wanted that, and
our cornerbacks just wanted to get
the ball as much as they could."
Wiess dropped to 5-2 with the
loss and cannot finish first in the
regular season. Wiess plays Baker
Sunday, which was eliminated
from playoff contention with a
32-12 loss to Lovett (6-1) last
week. After starting the season
2-0, Baker has lost its last five
games, including three g a m e s by
seven points or fewer.
"Baker's got a lot of talent,"
Dunnavant said. "With what they
run on offense, we have to do some
things differently on defense than
we do against most teams, so we
can't afford to look past them.
We haven't done that all year, and
we're not about to start now."
One of next week's Powderpuff Games of the Week will be
between Sid and Lovett, with the
winner earning the No. 1 seed
for the playoffs. Last season, Sid
handled Lovett easily in their two
meetings, includinga 17-point victory in the championship game.
In another Powderpuff Game
of (he Week, Martel (4-3) will
play Hanszen (3-2) to determine
t h e final playoff spot. M a r t e l
positioned itself for its first-ever
playoff berth with its 7-6 victory
over Jones (2-4) last week. If Martel beats Hanszen, Martel will be
the fourth seed and will play the
winner of the Sid-Lovett game in
the semifinals. Hanszen can clinch
the final playoff spot with a win
but could finish third or fourth
depending on the results of other
g a m e s this weekend.
M e n ' s volleyball
T h e playoff match-ups have
been set in men's college volleyball after last week's action. Jones
(2-1) needed three games to defeat
Brown (1-2), and Martel (3-0)
maintained its perfect record with
a straight-set win over Hanszen
(0-3) Sunday. The GSAsecured first
place in the Ketchup League with
its 25-16, 25-12 win over Sid (1-3)
and will play Jones, which finished
second in the Catsup League in the
semifinals. Martel and Will Rice will
meet in the other semifinal.
Men's basketball
Martel (2-1) salvaged its playoff hopes with at 5 6 4 8 win over
Lovett and a win by forfeit against
Hanszen in last week's m e n ' s
college basketball action. Martel
must beat Baker (3-0) in a game
that was played last night to secure
t h e second playoff spot in the
Atlantic Division. Baker clinched
a berth in the semifinals with its
53-31 win over Jones (2-2).
The GSAfinished with a perfect
4-0 record in the Pacific Division
after defeating Will Rice 58-47 Oct.
28, and Wiess (3-1) will also represent the division in the playoffs after
its win over Sid (1-3) last week.
I Utimatc F r i s b e e
H i e GSA (2-0) remained perfect in open ultimate Frisbee last
week, defeating Lovett (1-1) 9-5,
while Hanszen (1-1) split a pair of
g a m e s ()ct. 28, beating Wiess (0-2)
but losing to Jones (1-1).
from 40 yards and caught San Jose
State goalkeeper Adrienne Herbst
off guard, sneaking the ball under
the crossbar for a 1-0 lead. Despite
dominating early, Rice struggled to
maintain its advantage against the
physical S p a r t a n s ' t h r e e - f o r w a r d
alignment. Senior sweeper Caitlin
Currie and senior midfielder Marisa
Galvan each cleared shots off the goal
line, and senior goalkeeper Lauren
Shockley made two more saves for the
shutout. Huston said Currie, Droeger,
senior stopper Betsy Huete and sophomore defender Brandy Bellow make
up one of the region's best defenses.
Shockley, Currie and Droeger were all
named first-team all-WAC Wednesday
by the league's coaches, and Shockley
earned the 2004 Player of the Year
award for the conference.
"I've had so many coaches call and
say, T o u r back line, your defense is
tough,'" Huston said. "The four of
them have a special bond together,
and they work together."
T h e Owls played better Sunday,
dominating Fresno State in another
1-0 victory, out-shooting the Bulldogs
20-5. Yoder said it was difficult to
overcome the pregame emotion, as
the team's 10 seniors, including nine
players who were part of Huston's
first recruiting class in 2001, were
honored before the game.
"I get up there, and I see all my
teammates lined up in front of me,
and it just struck — all four years,"
Yoder said. "I just started crying. I
knew as soon as that was done, I was
ready to play. I was like, 'We're not
going to lose this game. We're going
to win this one because we came in
and finished second our freshman
year. We're not going to leave doing
any worse than that.'"
Yoder, who has set the scoring
benchmark for the young program
with 23 goals and 15 assists in her
career, was the fitting goal-scorer four
minutes into the second half. From a
throw-in on the right side, Droeger
found Serrano with her back to the
goal, who lobbed the ball over her own
head and into the penalty area. Yoder
allowed her defender to misjudge the
bounce before cutting back toward the
middle of the field to elude charging
goalkeeper Jeannette Paine and slotting the ball h o m e with her left foot.
"I knew (my defender) was going
to miss it, because it was too high and
she was too short, so I waited for her
to miss it," Yoder said. "Then I was in
behind and all I had to do was cut it
once to beat the goalkeeper and get
it in. It was really exciting. That was
probably one of my favorite goals,
just because it's a sweet ending to
these four years. It's the last time
we're going to have a chance to play
o r this field."
Galvan and seniorforwardjanelle
Crowley hit the crossbar, and Yoder
and senior forward Becky MacAllister forced Paine to make impressive
saves, but Rice could not extend its
lead. T h e Owls win was their ninth by
a 1-0 margin among 13 total victories
this season. While the Owls led the
WAC with just four goals allowed
during the conference season, the
six goals they scored were better
than only a Nevada team that lost all
of its WAC matches.
"It doesn't worry me, because
what we saw in the last game is kind
of like the team we saw last year
in the tournament," Huston said.
"That's really encouraging to me and
exciting because now they're on, and
they're creating opportunities for
themselves."
Shockley did not have to make a
save in recording her 13th shutout
of the season, and Rice extended its
shutout streak to a school-record 482
minutes. T h e Owls are tied second
nationally with 14 shutouts, and their
goals-against average of 0.351 ranks
third. Rice's seven goals allowed and
0.37 GAAare both new WAC records,
while Shockley is the conference's
career GAA leader at 0.69.
"We're incredibly confident in
our defense," Fadool said. "When
I step on the field as a midfielder,
knowing they're behind m e gives m e
confidence in how I play. If something
happens, our defense is able to get to
it and get it back up the field."
Fadool assisted on D r o e g e r ' s
goal Friday and has moved to right
midfield since senior midfielder/forward Ashley Anderson broke h e r
foot Oct. 15.
"It's a lot different, a different perspective," Fadool said. "In the middle
you see both sides, and on the outside
you're cut down to o n e . . . . It makes
m e think and focus a lot m o r e being
out there rather than in the middle,
where I go on instinct."
While Rice will count heavily on
the instinct of its experienced players this weekend, the Owls will also
need contributions from f r e s h m e n
starters Samantha Conn in midfield
and Clory Martin at forward. Martin,
with a team-high seven goals in her
first season, is Rice's best one-versusone attacker. She will partner Yoder,
who scored three times in the first
two g a m e s of last year's tournament,
while MacAllister, who also scored in
last year's tournament, will substitute
at forward.
Yoder said experience could be
the most important factor as the nine
remaining seniors from the Owls' first
recruiting class try to conclude their
careers with a conference tide.
"We haven't ever won in Hawaii,
so psychologically that could be
a factor," Yoder said. "But I think
everybody's going to be so pumped
to be there and trying to win the
championship in their last year that I
don't think it's really going to be that
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Shots on Goal
Saves
Comer Kicks
Fouls
Offsides
oct. 29-31
Service Aces
Digs
Blocks
20
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8
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1-0
SAN JOSE STATE
Droeger 13'
Oct. 29,2004 — Rice Track/Soccer Stadium
Rice (12-3-3, 4-2-1): Shockley; Bellow, Currie, Huette,
Droeger: Serrano, Fadool, Conn, Galvan; Yoder, Martin;
Substitutes: Rellas, Aaker, Waite, Seglem, MacAllister.
San Jose State (5-121, 2-4-1): Herbst; VanDixhorn,
Cruz, Hartz, Krale; V.Afonso, Leslie, Zabek, Dickinson;
Morrison, Irwin; Substitutes: Tanaka, Borja, A.Afonso,
Oranje, Ng-Pinkerton, Puljiz.
FOOTBALL
RICE 22 TULSA 39
6
42
6.0
3
53
6.0
Individual S t a t s
Attendance — 310
RICE
SPORTS FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5,2004
Rice — R.Pazo 14, Carter 14, O.Pazo 13
SMU — Karasek 22
Assist*
Rice — Hoban 53
SMU — Mihm 39
Digs
Rice — Kirk 15, R.Pazo 12, O.Pazo 1 1
SMU — Karasek 10, Mihm 9, Erazmus 9, Giubilato 8
Attendance — 212
CROSS COUNTRY
WAC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Oct. 3 0 , 2 0 0 4
Lincoln Parish Park, Ruston, La.
Oct. 30, 2004 — Skelly Stadium, Tulsa, Okla.
Rice
Tulsa
3
14
6
0
6
7
7
18
22
39
TU — Davis 52 pass from Kilian (DeVault kick)
RU — Juist 28 field goal
TU — Parrish 3 run (DeVault kick)
RU — Juist 29 field goal
RU — Juist 36 field goal
TU — Kilian 4 run (DeVault kick)
RU — Bailey 26 run (kick blocked)
TU — Kilian 1 run (Mills pass from Kilian)
RU — Bailey 6 run (Juist kick)
TU — Davis 83 kick return (DeVault kick)
TU — DeVault 49 field goal
Assists: San Jose State: none; Rice: Fadool.
Cautions: none.
Ejections: none.
Men's t e a m standings
1 . Rice
SJSU Rice
11
16
4
10
9
4
3
6
13
5
0
1
Shots
Shots on Goal
Saves
Corner Kicks
Fouls
Offsides
RU
19
220
139
359
116
2-39.0
28:21
TU
20
210
211
421
101
3-31.7
31:39
Individual S t a t s
Rushing
Rice — Bailey 20-117, Armstrong 20-73, Falco 2-22,
Moore 2-4, Smith 1-3, Lott 4-1.
Tulsa — Parrish 17-114, Diles 18-92, Kilian 9-13,
Davis 1-9.
Passing
Rice — Armstrong 9-18-0-139. Henderson 0-11-0.
Tulsa — Kilian 12-17-1-1.
Receiving
Rice — Battle 3-47. Lott 1-51, Simonak 1-17, Hall 1-9,
J.D. Wood 1-5, Moore 1-5, Bailey 1-5.
Tulsa — Davis 3-73, Culton 3-35, Mills 2-64, Landrum
2-14. Blankenship 1-19, Parrish 1-6.
Attendance — 12.218
SOCCER
RICE
1-0
FRESNO STATE
Oct. 30, 2004
Thomas Assembly Center, Ruston, La.
Assists: Fresno State: none; Rice: Serrano
Cautions: none.
Ejections: none.
1 0 2 (Avg. 2 7 : 1 1 . 3 7 )
6. San Jose State
1 5 3 (Avg. 2 9 : 4 8 . 8 1 )
30
23
30
17
Final Stats
Kills
Errors
Attempts
Attack Percentage
Assists
Service Aces
Digs
Blocks
24:57.99
3 . Forest Braden (BSU)
24:58.60
4 . Steve Magness ( R U )
25:04.22
5 . S t e p h e n Samoei (UTEP)
25:09.62
6. Scott Loftin ( R U )
25:13.10
7. Adam Davis ( R U )
25:35.15
8 . Stefan M a l l m q v i s t (LT)
25:38.13
9 . Aaron Robson ( R U )
25:45.12
1 0 . David Axel ( R U )
30
20
25:52.15
Women's t e a m standings
Rice
La. Tech
55
16
136
.287
54
5
70
9.0
33
23
134
.075
29
4
51
4.0
Individual S t a t s
Kills
Rice — R.Pazo 15, Carter 11, Kuykendall 11
La. Tech — Hayes 10, Shipp 9
Assists
Rice — Hoban 5 1
La. Tech — Enny 29
Digs
Rice — R.Pazo 17, Carter 16, Kirk 15
La. Tech — Anderson 28
1. SMU
30
2. Rice
88
3. UTEP
97
4. Nevada
121
5. Hawaii
122
6. Boise State
141
7. San Jose S t a t e
162
8 . Fresno State
172
9. Tulsa
173
Women's individual results ( 5 k m , field of 6 9 )
Oct. 31.2004 — Rice Track/Soccer Stadium
Fresno State 15S4,233): Paine: Davis, Jagdeo, Esparza,
Young, Gilbert: Lewis, Sugano, Anderson: Sobrero, Lugo:
Substitutes: M Tennant,Splettstoesser,A.Tennant,Alires,
Tngg, Reyes.
9 6 (Avg. 2 6 : 5 8 . 7 2 )
5. Louisiana Tech
2 . Mircea Bogdan (UTEP)
Attendance — 173
Rice (13-3-3, 5-21): Shockley; Bellow, Currie, Huette,
Droeger, Serrano, Fadool, Conn, Galvan; Yoder,
Martin: Substitutes: Rellas, Crowley. Aaker, Waite,
MacAllister.
8 0 (Avg. 2 6 : 5 2 . 3 5 )
1 . Marcel Hewamudalige ( R U ) 2 4 : 5 7 . 1 3
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Rice
La. Tech
7 9 (Avg. 2 6 : 3 8 . 4 5 )
3 . UTEP
Men's individual results ( 8 k m , Held of 4 3 )
VOLLEYBALL
Final S t a t s
First Downs
Rushing Yards (net)
Passing Yards (net)
Total Yards
Return Yards
Punts - Avg.
Time of Possession
2 7 (Avg. 2 5 : 1 8 . 9 5 )
2. Tulsa
4 . Boise State
Attendance — 383
1 . K a t e Gorry (RU)
17:01.59
2 . Karin van Rooyen (SMU)
17:06.80
3. Adriana Pirtea (UTEP)
17:23.83
4. Rachael Forish (SMU)
17:28.24
5. M a r i s s a Daniels (RU)
17:38.51
6 . Nicole Kelleher (SMU)
17:43.78
7. Natalie R a s m u s s e n (Tulsa)
17:48.75
8 . Rachel Collins (SMU)
17:53.13
9 . Sabrina Reeve (Hawaii)
17:56.27
1 0 . Jessica Jackson (SMU)
18:00.90
RICE 3 SMU 0
Oct. 28, 2004 — Moody Coliseum. Dallas
Rice
SMU
30
24
30
25
Final Stats
Rice
Kills
Errors
Attempts
Attack Percentage
Assists
62
17
127
.354
60
36
34
HILTON PLAZA/TYR
RICE INVITATIONAL
SMU
49
20
128
.227
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rushing touchdown of its own. A
51-yard pass f r o m A r m s t r o n g to
junior halfback T h o m a s Lott, who
was seeing his first significant playing
time of the season due to injury, set
up Bailey's second score of the g a m e
with 11:31 left.
Rice p o o c h - k i c k e d all of its
kickoffs in an attempt to neutralize
Davis' play-making ability, but h e
sprinted up from the goal line to field
his second kickoff of t h e g a m e and
return it for a touchdown to secure
the win for Tulsa.
"The one thing we were going
to try to do is not let (Davis] make
the big play, and we didn't succeed,"
Hatfield said. "It turned out to be the
difference in the game."
In addition to J u i s t ' s b r e a k through performance and the return
of Lott, last year's leading rusher,
Bailey ran 20 times for 117 yards,
including two t o u c h d o w n s , and
Armstrong passed for a season-high
139 yards and ran for 73 more.
"I was pleased that Joel played
well in his starting role," Hatfield
said. "He threw t h e ball a lot m o r e
effectively t h a n I have s e e n in
practice, and I was really encouraged with that. I t h o u g h t we had
as good a g a m e from Ed Bailey
as we've ever had. He had about
63 y a r d s after contact."
Bailey said he does not take solace
in his individual performance.
"[Winning] is really all that matters," Bailey said. "Anyone can go
out there and rush for 300 yards, but
if your team doesn't win, you're not
going to be happy about it. We know
we have some things that we need to
get better on and things we need to
work on. We've just got to take care
of business next week."
FRESNO
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said." We've got history going for us
t h e r e . . . . The record isn't where we
want it to be, but we play hard every
day out here."
Despite struggling against Tulsa
and Navy in the past two weeks, the
Owl rushing offense still leads the
nation, averaging 314.6 yards per
game. Bailey and freshman quarterback Joel Armstrong, who made
his first career start at quarterback
last weekend in place of senior Greg
Henderson, rank 27th and 34th in
the country with 98.4 and 95 rushing
yards per game, respectively. Bailey
needs 311 yards, an average of about
104 yards per game, to record the fifth
1,000 yard rushing season in Rice
history and the first since Michael
Perry's 1,034 in 1997.
Hatfield said his team hopes to reassert its rushing game against a defense
that allows the third fewest rushing
yards per game in the WAC.
"We're really looking forward to
it," Hatfield said. "Homecoming is a
special time for any school [and] we'd
like to be part of the celebration for all
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Rice Cinema presents Candy
Mountain tonight, tomorrow
and Sunday at 8 p.m. General
admission is $6, but students
and senior citizens with an II)
can purchase tickets for $5.
Battle of the Bands
KTRU presents "Rice Battle of
the Bands" at the Lovett College
Undergrounds at 9 p.m. Come
watch six bands compete for
prizes and a chance to open
up for next semester's KTRU
2005 Outdoor Show! The battle
is judged by a panel of Rice
"celebrities" and the audience.
Admission is free.
A grasshopper walks into a bar,
sits down and orders a drink.
The bartender says, "Hey, we've
got a drink named after you."
The grasshopper replies, "You
have a drink named Steve?"
Wiess College Salsa Night
dances from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in
the Wiess Commons. The fiesta
will feature Grupo Ka-Che. Lessons are also available at 9 p.m.
SATURDAY
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The Rice football team faces
Fresno State University at
2 p.m. in Rice Stadium. This is
the homecoming game, so show
your school spirit by attending!
A doctor calls John one day and
says, "John, listen, I have really,
really bad news for you, and
I have even worse news than
that. Which one do you want
to hear first" John says, "Well,
what's the really, really bad
news?" The doctor says, "You
only have 24 hours to live." John
says, "Holy shit! What could be
worse than that?" The doctor
replies, "We've been trying to
reach you since yesterday."
The Shepherd School of Music
hosts cellist Dennis Parker and
pianist Jennifer Hayghe of Louisiana State University at 3 p.m.
in the Duncan Recital Hall in
Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Admission is free. For more information, contact Tom Littman at
(713) 348-4933.
Rumor has it that there is an
underground Desperanza Party.
Lonely fellas, this could be for
you.
The famed fall formal Esperanza
starts at 9:30 p.m. tonight. Free
shuttles will be offered to the
dance location from the Student
Center. Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. You
can purchase tickets through
the Student Center or your College RPC Representative. Each
ticket purchase comes with a
free shot glass.
Yay!
SUNDAY
Insults 103: What sexual
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for Iraq, Ronald Schlicher, at
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We Are and Where We're Going." The presentation is in the
Dore Commons of Baker Hall,
and breakfast will be provided.
RSVP by sending an e-mail to
bisf@rice.edu by Monday, Nov. 8,
to guarantee breakfast.
The Shepherd School Chamber
Orchestra, conducted by Larry
Rachleff, performs at 8 p.m.
in Stude Concert Hall in Alice
Pratt Brown Hall. Admission
is free. For more information,
contact Tom Littman at (713)
348-4933.
MONDAY
During his act, a magician takes
a guy from the audience, hands
him a sledgehammer and says,
"I want you to hit me in the
temple as hard as you can." The
guy shrugs and says, "All right."
The magician puts his head on
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temple.
Ten years later, the magician awakens from his
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Students who failed to register
last week and are planning
to enroll for the Spring 2005
semester will be assessed a
"Failure to Register" fee. Go cry.
S.E.X.
A Sexual Education Expose
will be held in the Farnsworth
Pavilion of the Student Center
at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored
by the Rice Women's Resource
Center and will offer free food to
all attendees. For more information, contact womenrc@rice.edu.
A man goes into a bar with a
piece of tarmac on his shoulder. The man asks him what he
wants to drink. The man replies,
"I'll have a pint. And one for the
road."
The Shepherd School Opera
and members of the Shepherd
School Chamber Orchestra
present The Turn of the Screw at
7:30 p.m. in the Wortham Opera
Theatre in Alice Pratt Brown
Hall. Performances of the opera
will also occur on Nov. 11,13
and 14 at 7:30 p.m. General
admission is $10 and $8 for
students and senior citizens. For
tickets, call (713) 348-8000.
Three cowboys are camping in
the wilderness, and they decide
to tell stories about how tough
they are. The first cowboy says,
"I once tamed a bull that had
just killed four men!"
The second cowboy says,
"Thats nothing! I once had a
nine-foot-long rattlesnake try to
bite me in the face. I caught it,
bit its head off, sucked out the
venom and ate it raw."
The third cowboy sat silently
stirring the hot coals of the fire
with his penis.
Rice Cinema presents The Battle
of Algiers tonight, tomorrow
and Sunday at 8 p.m. General
admission is $6, but students
and senior citizens with an ID
can purchase tickets for $5.
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A hunchback comes home from
work one day to see a wok on
the table. He says to his wife,
"Are we having Chinese food
tonight?" She says. "No, I was
just ironing your shirts."
CALENDAR ITEMS
The Rice men's basketball team
will host Augustana College in
an exhibition game at Autry
Court. Tip-off is at 7:05 p.m., so
get your seat early.
TUESDAY
FRIDAY
Iraq Lecture
Why can't the Amish go waterskiing? Because their horses
might drown.
The Baker Institute Sudent
Forum hosts the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State
as the Rice women's basketball
team faces McNeese State
University at 7 p.m. The game is
at home in Autry Court, so get
your butt over to the jungle!
Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m.
prior to Friday publication.
Submission methods:
Fax: (713) 348-5238
E-mail: thresher@rice.edu
Campus Mail: Calendar
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