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M OP-ED Going green to get green Christina Hughes challenges students to reduce their energy usage in order to save money in the Green Dorm Initiative.

A&E Super Bowl commerical favorites Anthony Lauriello reviews notable commercials and the half-time show from Sunday's Super Bowl telecast.

P. 9 SPORTS P. 12 Record-breaking run Senior Becky Wade breaks a Rice record in the 3,000 meter run during at the women's track meet at Notre Dame.

the Rice V O L U M E X C V I I I , I S S U E N O . 1 9 S T U D E N T - R U N S I N C E 1 9 1 6 F R I D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 1 0 , 2 0 1 2

Seniors celebrate last *100 Days' before graduation

Clockwise from above: l) Hanszen College senior Sam Hile shows his excitement for

the last 100 days before commencement. 2) Senior girls tire all smiles at the celebra-

tion on Feb. 2.3) Students dance at Red Door and Wonder Bar for the "100 Days" event.

B Y E L L E N L I U

THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF

Around 800 people poured into Red Door and Wonder Bar during 100 Days on Feb. 2 in celebration of the upcoming commencement.

One student, however, was in-jured before she even left campus.

During a shuttle pick-up around 10:45 p.m., the student, who de-clined to comment for this story and

asked to remain anonymous, was knocked down by the crowd while trying to get on an approaching bus and could not get up before the bus drove over her foot.

"Some people pushed [the injured student] too close, and her foot got hit," another student, who witnessed the incident and also asked to re-main anonymous, said. "Then, they stepped over her to continue board-ing the bus."

The witness said he attributed the accident to poorly organized trans-portation and student intoxication.

"They had buses for 50 people, but there were over 100 trying to get in because they didn't want to wait 15 minutes for another bus," he said. "To be honest, everybody was pretty drunk and acting irrationally."

According to the witness, the in-jured student's foot was very swollen immediately after the incident, but

none of her bones were broken. The injured student declined to comment.

The witness said he believed that the organizers should have asked more people to take the METRORail because it was a quick commute and only a four- to five-block walk. He said that more buses could have helped as well.

The committee is addressing the transportation concerns for next year by creating a more formalized process. Rice Annual Fund Assistant

Director Megan Peet, the staff liaison for 100 Days, said. This may include having RUPD at the loading zone or line-up areas for each bus.

According to Peet, the cost of trans-portation increased from last yer | be-cause the committee wanted as many people as possible to attend. Conse-quently, shuttle buses were hired to drive students back and forth from the event around every 15 minutes.

S3 see 100 DAYS, page 7

Rice to host conference with focus on US-China relations

Envision grants aid student initiatives B Y J E N N I F E R D I N G

THRESHER STAFF

The Global China Connection group is hosting its inaugural conference on U.S.-Chinese re-lations with a focus on energy, economics, and technology on Feb. 18 in the McMurtry Audito-rium in Duncan Hall.

According to GCC President Pin-Fang Wang, due to Rice Uni-versity's academic strengths in science and technology, the con-ference will focus on promoting sustainable collaboration be-tween the U.S. and China in these two fields.

According to GCC Chief Oper-ating Officer Eric Wang, the con-ference aims to establish connec-tions and examine solutions to bridge the gap between the Unit-ed States and China in the fields of science and business.However, the conference also targets those interested in international law and policy, Eric Wang said.

One of the keynote speakers, Houston patent lawyer Chyau Liang, will speak on his work counseling in the biotechnology, medical and nanotechnology in-dustries, as well as the challenges of creating a business in China.

The conference will feature three keynote speakers and two professional panels composed of professionals who have had work experience in the U.S. and China.

The two panels will focus on academics, specifically energy re-search, and business. The last seg-ment of the conference provides a chance to meet with the speakers. According to Eric Wang, this net-working opportunity is one of the main missions of GCC.

"The goal is to reach out to students and provide them with the knowledge about what it's like to work in China as well as job and research opportunities," Eric Wang said.

Pin-Fang Wang said that the conference would work to benefit other areas of the university.

"In harmony with Rice's Cen-tennial Celebration, the confer-ence will also serve to highlight Rice's contributions to innovation and research as well as its commit-ment to building bridges through international student collabora-tion," Pin-Fang Wang said.

GCC holds an event every month, featuring speaker panels and social events. For more in-formation on the conference visit sinousbifocals.wordpress.com.

BY F A R R A H M A D A N A Y

THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF

AND

B Y B E N H A W R I L U K

FOR THE THRESHER

Leadership Rice's Envision Grants award students the capital to effect change on campus. This year, five grants have been awarded, up from four last year, to help start up new projects: Karma Patrol, Rice University Women in Science and Engineering, celebrateART, Food for Thought and Acappellooza. The Envision Grant is a one-time allocation to students whose

projects have proved not only visionary but also self-sustaining. Envision Grant Mentor Michael Domeracki, said.

celebrateART Visual and dramatic arts major Me-

lissa Teng and art history major Raquel Perez are leading a campaign to return the balance between art, letters and science at Rice University. The pair said that they want to impress upon students that Rice, though known as a leading research university, is a hub of artistic creativity as well.

To bring direct exposure to the arts on campus, their Envision Grant will fund an all-day, campus-wide festival

on March 9 called celebrateART, which will showcase various genres of art.

"We're collaborating with many student organizations and business-es on campus to make this a huge, all-inclusive arts event for the whole Rice community," Teng, a Martel Col-lege junior, said.

The Envision Grant was originally written by Teng and fellow LEAD 311: Entrepreneurial Leadership class-mates Veronica Rae Saron, a Will Rice College sophomore; Tony Mulenga, a Lovett College senior; and Mingming Jiang, a Wiess College freshman.

S3 see ENVISION, page 5

LEADERSHIP RICE ENVISION GRANTS SUPPORT 5 PROJECTS

ART SHOWCASE

KARMA PATROL

ACAPELLA JFC GROUP SINGS RUWSE: WOMEN

IN SCIENCE

Soviet realism, narrated The Shepherd Society's Family Concert, featuring a performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, is tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Stude Hall. Head over and see if you can guess which instru ment represents which character before the narrator tells you.

The party Lovett needs

Put on your bat suit and extra deep voice for Lovett Casino Party 2012 Presents Gotham City tomorrow from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The party will feature casino games, pizza, DJ Michael Nguyen, a certain film playing in the quad and a shallow moral dilemma that drunken partiers will think is really deep.

The Decision Voting in the Student Association General Election closes Monday night at 11:59 p.m., so go to sa.rice.edu/electi0n2012 before then and cast your vote for your candidates of choice. We once again recommend writing in "William Randolph Hearst" for Editor and Chief of the Thresher.

INDEX

Opinion 2 News 4 Features 8 Arts & Entertainment 9 Sports 12 Calendar 15 Backpage 16

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EDITORIAL THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 ,2012 #

the Rice (Thresher Thresher endorses

Sanjula Jain for Student Association President

This year's Student Association presidential debate featured a great performance by all the candidates, proving the stereotype that Rice students are engineers lacking any charisma at least partially false. However, after viewing the competitive verbal sparring, in the eyes of the Thresher editorial staff, Sanjula Jain is the clear choice for our next SA president.

This is certainly not to say that the other candidates were without merits. Benjamin Chou articulated praiseworthy ideas but many of them, such as increased financial aid, are beyond the scope of the SA's power. The Thresher hates to criticize a student for dreaming too big, but acknowledgment of practical limitations is key to a leader's success. Ben Hawriluk also had some quality ideas and handled himself well, but as a freshman, Hawriluk simply lacks the experi-ence required for the job. It was a telling moment in the debate when he could not make a substantial comment on the sale of KTRU, as he was in high school at the time. Simply because we do not sup-port Hawriluk's bid for presidency does not mean he should end his budding political career. He has handled himself well these past weeks and has shown a willingness to put himself in highly public situations in his first year, and we hope to see him involved in future endeavors involving campus issues.

In contrast to Hawriluk and Chou, Jain has a wealth of experience with the SA and credible policies. As External Vice President, Jain worked on several successful projects including S.W.E.A.T. classes. Her current platform includes several common-sense ideas such as addressing waitlists and changing LPAP requirements. We hope that if Jain wins the election, she will hold to her promises and make the SA and this university a better place.

Vote yes on U-court amendment to ensure a sound judicial system

The SA election does not simply concern elected positions; there is also an important amendment that Rice students can vote on. One of these concerns the University Court requirements for office. As the rules currently stand, a U-Court judge can also sit on a college court. This inherently creates conflict of interests if U-Court heard a case from college court on its appellate jurisdiction, especially if the stu-dent holds a position of leadership on one of the two levels. It would be comparable to a United States Supreme Court judge sitting on a state's bench, something that would be completely unthinkable. This amendment alleviates these sorts of conflicts of interests. Rice is privileged to have a student-run court system but we must acknowl-edge that undergraduates are also capable of the same biases as any-one else. The Thresher heartily endorses this amendment to make our judicial system more fair.

Gender-neutral housing allows students mature choices

Until recently, the system for housing on campus had no uniform policy regarding co-ed living on campus (See story, pg. 6). Students had to appeal to their masters and parents for approval. Fortunately, the Committee of Masters and Presidents has approved a campus wide initiative to institute a uniform policy of gender-neutral hous-ing. This policy will put the power of choice with the student popula-tion, letting them choose with whom they will be more comfortable with. While the Thresher supports this new policy, we urge students to exercise this right judicially, as with any roommate. College re-lationships are in no way set in stone, and choosing to room with someone you are dating could lead to disastrous results.

Erratum Last week's article entitled, "New syllabus policy sets out stan-

dards" stated that Administrative Systems was having technical dif-ficulties with putting syllabi archives on Esther. However, according to Administrative Systems Technical Manager Robert Truscott, there are no technical difficulties with the project, but instead the beta ver-sion is developed and awaiting institutional approval to go into pro-duction. The Thresher regrets this error.

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Last Week's Online Poll Results: What do you think about O'Yeah Cafe in the RMC?

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| I wish the menu was in English Total number of responses: 54

NEWS Seth Brown Editor Ellen Liu Asst. Editor Molly Chiu /4ssf. Editor Nicole Zhao Asst. Editor

OP-ED Ryan Gupta Editor Theresa Masciale >4ssf. Editor Courtney Svatek Cartoonist

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Farrah Madanay Editor

SPORTS Dan Elledge Editor

CALENDAR Devin Glick Editor

COPY Johanna Ohm Editor Alissa Hart Editor

FEATURES Reed Thornburg Editor

Josh Rutenberg Editor in Chief

Hall ie Jordan Senior Editor

Zach Castle Design Director Rachel Marcus News Designer Alexandra Moharam Photo Editor Mathison Ingham Photo Editor

BACKPAGE Zach Casias Editor Anthony Lauriello Editor Alex Weinhe imer Editor

WEB Dennis Qian Web Editor Tyler Siegert Asst. Web Editor

BUSINESS Julian Yao Manager Sean Kim Distribution Manager Murtuza Martani Distribution Manager

ADVERTISING Rick S o n g Ads Manager Heaven Chen Classified Ads Manager

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Op-Ed Rice Internet services in need of a makeover

W h o k n e w Rice's In te rne t s t u d e n t

serv ices n e e d e d to b e improved? It

t u r n s o u t , mos t of u s a re p a i n f u l l y

a w a r e of th is fact every day. Faced

w i t h t h e neces sa ry t a sks of check-

ing emai l , regis ter ing for c l a s se s or

c h e c k i n g o n ou r h o m e w o r k , mos t

Rice s t u d e n t s access t he In t e rne t o n

a n hour ly bas i s . C o m p u t e r s a n d t h e

In te rne t have b e c o m e a f u n d a m e n t a l

pa r t of o u r da i ly lives a n d o u r aca -

d e m i c expe r i ence . From t h e C o m m o n

Appl ica t ion to app ly ing for g radu-

a t i on , o u r t ime a t Rice cons i s t s of a

s ign i f i can t o n l i n e c o m p o n e n t . Whi le

o u r univers i ty h a s m a d e s ign i f i can t

s t r ides in m a n y d o m a i n s over t h e pa s t

f ew years , t h r o u g h n e w bu i ld ings ,

in i t ia t ives a n d r e sea rch d iscover ies ,

it feels a s t h o u g h w e have se r ious ly

s t a g n a t e d in t e r m s of ou r I n f o r m a t i o n

Technology. Whi le w e may be a t t e n d -

ing Rice in t h e year 2012, core o n l i n e

e l e m e n t s of ou r e d u c a t i o n a l exper i -

e n c e r e m a i n b e h i n d t h e t imes .

Christoph Meyer

One of ou r first i n t r o d u c t i o n s to

life as a Rice s t u d e n t occu r s d u r i n g

t h e s u m m e r be fo re ma t r i cu l a t i on

a n d h a p p e n s to take p l ace on l ine . In

o rde r to c o m p l e t e s o m e of t he m o r e

m u n d a n e t a sks of a t t e n d i n g Rice,

w e a re sen t to t h e si te t h a t h a s n o w

b e c o m e famil iar to u s al l : Esther . I

r e m e m b e r t he first t ime I u s e d Es-

the r a n d h o w tho rough ly c o n f u s e d

a n d f ru s t r a t ed I was . I may no t b e a

C o m p u t e r Sc ience major , b u t I k n o w a

poo r webs i te w h e n I s ee o n e . In add i -

t ion to t he s u b - p a r u se r - f r i end l ines s ,

I immed ia t e ly felt a blast f rom the

p a s t , a s if I h a d s u d d e n l y g o n e b a c k

to u s ing my W i n d o w s 98 c o m p u t e r .

Four yea r s later, I o f t en still h ave

t h e s a m e reac t ion , w o n d e r i n g h o w

old th is s o f t w a r e is a n d w h y the re

haven ' t b e e n any i m p r o v e m e n t s .

The " sea rch" f u n c t i o n is p re t ty m u c h

use less , a s it will on ly rarely h e l p

you find w h a t you are look ing for.

The task of resolving ho lds , our fa-

vori te regis t ra t ion pre requis i te , c a n

b e n e b u l o u s a n d aggrava t ing if o n e

doesn ' t have a f r iendly pee r a c a d e m i c

adv i so r on h a n d for a s s i s t ance . How

a b o u t check ing g rades? Is t he re really

n o way tha t we cou ld receive emai l

no t i f i ca t ions tha t g r a d e s have b e e n

s u b m i t t e d ? With all the a d v a n c e s

tha t have occur red in on l ine t echnol -

ogy over t he pas t years , th is webs i t e

s e e m s abso lu te ly a rcha ic . Rice h a s

d e v e l o p e d a Facebook page , F o n d r e n

Library h a s c rea ted an a p p , a n d ou r

p res iden t h a s a Twitter, bu t we ' re still

u s ing th is 1990s webs i te for all of ou r

mos t i m p o r t a n t i n t e r ac t ions wi th the

universi ty . Inconce ivable .

As d i s a p p o i n t i n g a s Esther h a s

b e e n , it is only o n e c o m p o n e n t of a

larger set of poor o n l i n e f u n c t i o n s to

wh ich w e have access . Es ther may be

a n essen t i a l par t of ou r expe r i ence ,

b u t w e t e n d not to u s e it o n a da i ly ba-

s is a n d it cer ta in ly doesn ' t f e a t u r e a s

m a n y h o m e p a g e s . Email , o n t he o t h e r

h a n d , is a n ent i re ly d i f fe ren t story.

As mos t of u s a re subsc r ibed to list-

servs , OWL-Space m e s s a g e s or ema i l

c h a i n s , o u r inbox gets f looded con-

t inuous ly . Given tha t emai l is a rgu-

ab ly t h e s ingle mos t i m p o r t a n t tool in

o u r a c a d e m i c exper ience , Rice Web-

mai l u n d e r s e r v e s s t u d e n t s ' n e e d s in

th i s d o m a i n , only offer ing m a r g i n -

ally over a g igabyte of s p a c e a n d poor

func t iona l i ty . As repor ted last yea r

in Thresher, more t h a n 70 pe rcen t of

Rice s t u d e n t s fo rward their ema i l to

a n o t h e r provider . While s o m e m a y d o

so ou t of conven ience , mos t a re s im-

ply t ry ing to avoid dea l ing wi th Rice's

sy s t em. Rice Webmail s e e m s like a

c o n s t a n t r e m i n d e r of why Gmail h a s

c o m e to d o m i n a t e pas t p rov ide r s s u c h

a s Yahoo Mail or Hotmai l . Similar to

Esther , th i s emai l service s e e m s to-

tally o u t d a t e d . While Gmail w a s s u p -

p o s e d l y going to be l a u n c h e d at Rice

th i s year, it still r e m a i n s u n c l e a r w h y

it h a s t a k e n so long. Ins t i tu t ions s u c h

a s Nor thwes t e rn University, w h i c h I

vis i ted four years ago as a p rospec -

tive s t u d e n t , h a d a l r eady b e e n u s i n g

Gmai l for a whi le . It goes w i t h o u t say-

ing tha t t r ans i t ion ing to a n e w emai l

p rov ide r is a sensi t ive i ssue , a n d Rice

m u s t limit its vulnerabi l i ty . However ,

t he u s e of s u c h a n ou t -of -da te sys t em

is n o n e t h e l e s s d i s a p p o i n t i n g . For a

un ivers i ty tha t p r ides itself o n b e i n g

innova t ive a n d m o d e r n , o u r ema i l

service d o e s not fit t he bill.

Whi le Rice h a s d o n e a sol id job

in o t h e r a r e a s of In terne t p r e s e n c e

or t e chno logy in f r a s t ruc tu re , s u c h a s

u p d a t i n g the vers ions of Microsoft o n

t he c o m p u t e r s or the n e w F o n d r e n

webs i te , o the r key on l ine e l e m e n t s fall

shor t of s t u d e n t s ' des i res a n d n e e d s .

OWL-Space, for example , is a l so far

f rom per fec t . In add i t ion to hav ing

f r e q u e n t down-pe r iods , it d o e s little

to faci l i ta te in te rac t ion b e t w e e n s tu-

d e n t s a n d professors . Why a re p e o p l e

a b l e to see each o ther on l ine bu t not

c h a t wi th e a c h o ther? Why a re t he fo-

r u m s so un inv i t ing to users , l imi t ing

thei r po ten t ia l a s a power fu l tool for

co l l abora t ion? Why can ' t s t u d e n t s

pos t q u e s t i o n s to which p ro fes so r s

r e s p o n d wi th answers , for all to see?

The list goes on , bu t in c o m p a r i s o n to

t he o t h e r d e f u n c t technologies , OWL-

S p a c e genera l ly s e e m s s o m e w h a t

m o r e effect ive even if t h a t ' s not really

say ing m u c h .

The t ime h a s c o m e for Rice to

i m p l e m e n t sys t ems more c o n t e m -

po ra ry to this age. It c o m e s a s little

s u r p r i s e tha t s t u d e n t s were so im-

p r e s s e d wi th t he fairly bas ic (yet

u s e f u l ) s c h e d u l e p l a n n e r t h a t w a s

f inally i n t roduced this year, w h e n w e

have g rown a c c u s t o m e d to s u c h a n -

t i qua t ed sys tems . Rice n e e d s to s tar t

f ocus ing on u p d a t i n g these in t r ins ic

a n d vital on l ine sys tems . We may

love t h e m e s ce lebra t ing t he '90s , b u t

w h e n it c o m e s to technology, let u s

look fo rward ra the r t h a n r ema in in

t h e pa s t .

Christoph Meyer is a Hanszen College senior.

Hi, Cm Theresa Masciale, the new OPS Editor.

and I want to know what grinds your gears.

Write for the Thresher.

thresher-ops@rice.edu

Duncan Whiteout gets glowing reviews

PARTY PATROL: DUNCAN WHITEOUT

CATEGORIES

ATMOSPHERE THEME, COSTUME PARTICIPATION, DECOR

ATTENDANCE H o w MA pry PEOPLE

SHOWED U P ?

MUSIC/ DANCING PEOPLE GET FREAKY?

RYAN G. OPS

"Pretty sick setup in the

commons with great lighting."

B+ "There was a

beautiful sweaty heap of people at the public

party."

"Solid mixes by all the DJs."

THERESA M. NICOLE Z. OPS NEWS

INTANGIBLES PERCEIVED SECURITY, ALCOHOL SAFETY, OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT AFFECTED THE NIGHT

OVERALL GRADE

A "Best beer

pong table on campus."

"Great par ty

except for the

red p u n c h at a

whi teout party."

"The majority got dressed up.

The lighting and decor were

great."

B-"It wasn't

overcrowded. Just the right amount of people."

"Things were exciting the

closer you got to theDJ."

B-" T h e O N E k e g

got f loated early.

Other t h a n that ,

Sergeant Hudak

is awesome."

B+ A "Duncan ' s fairly "Music a n d

n e w Whiteout t h e m e m a d e

tradit ion is for a well above

doing great!" average par ty."

A "Easy theme to dress for and great decora-

tions. Love the glowsticks."

"Lots of people came but it

never got too hot or crowded."

A+ "Awesome mu-sic. Transitions were smooth. It was a good

time."

A-"Security was

solid."

REED T. FEATURES

A-"Excellent

poster. Very strong theme

idea."

B "Mostly well attended."

"Definitely the strongest quality

of the party."

B-"I did not

receive a bagel. Karma Patrol is

necessary."

A-"Duncan

executes on a n

a l ready solid

par ty premise ."

Green Dorm Initiative a step to saving green W h e t h e r f r e s h m a n or sen io r ,

M a r t e l i a n or Lovet teer , we all com-p l a i n a b o u t o n - c a m p u s l iving con-d i t i o n s a t o n e p o i n t or a n o t h e r . We 've all e x p e r i e n c e d p r o b l e m s wi th w a t e r p r e s s u r e a n d t e m p e r a -tu re , po l t e rge i s t AC u n i t s or l ight fixtures t h a t have m i n d s of the i r o w n . In pe r spec t ive , however , t h e s e m a l f u n c t i o n s p a l e in c o m p a r i s o n to o u r o w n m a l f u n c t i o n : We a ren ' t us -ing t h e s e s p a c e s proper ly . Our per-s o n a l l iving h a b i t s no t on ly dr ive u p t h e cos t of l iving for e v e r y o n e a t Rice, b u t t h e y a l so ea t u p resourc -e s a n d s p e e d u p w e a r a n d tear o n o u r fac i l i t ies .

Christina Hughes Ever h e a r d t h e say ing , "Be

t h e c h a n g e you w a n t to s ee in t he w o r l d ? " As a n EcoRep, I h e a r a lot of c o m p l a i n t s by s t u d e n t s a b o u t up -g r a d e s a n d e n e r g y or w a t e r - w a s t i n g fac i l i t i es o n c a m p u s t h a t n e e d to b e r e p l a c e d . Whi l e I a g r e e t h a t t h o s e in p o w e r s h o u l d de f in i t e ly b e w o r k i n g to m a k e t h e s e c h a n g e s , s h o u l d n ' t w e first a n d f o r e m o s t be d o i n g every-t h i n g w e . a s s t u d e n t s , c a n to i m p r o v e Rice 's e n v i r o n m e n t a l f o o t p r i n t ? W h y s h o u l d it o n l y b e H o u s i n g a n d Din-i n g ' s fau l t thar t h e y h a v e n ' t retrofi t -t ed y o u r b a t h r o o m w i t h h a n d d r y e r s w h e n you u s e u p w a r d s of t h r e e p a p e r t owe l s to d ry you r h a n d s e a c h t ime? Even D u n c a n College a n d McMurt ry Col lege, w i th al l t he i r LEED glory,

k n o w t h e y d o n ' t have t h e g reen- l igh t to forge t a b o u t thei r p e r s o n a l im-p a c t s a n d , s o m e w o u l d a r g u e , have even m o r e r e a s o n to live u p to the i r ce r t i f i ca t ions . W h a t it c o m e s d o w n to is t a k i n g c o n t r o l of ou r o w n life-s ty les . We h a v e to s ta r t sma l l , or in th i s c a s e s ta r t w i t h our se lves , b e f o r e bigger t h i n g s c a n h a p p e n .

B e c a u s e t h o s e of u s o n c a m p u s don ' t s ee o u r m o n t h l y u t i l i t i es bi l ls , it is e a s y to forget t h e i m p a c t of o u r 15 m i n u t e ho t s h o w e r s a n d t r ans -fo rmer - s i zed s t r ip of wa l l - cha rge r s . If you w a n t to look at it f rom a n e c o n o m i c s t a n d p o i n t , t h e n t h i n k of it t h i s way : The re h a s b e e n a lot of t a lk r ecen t ly over t he r i s ing cost of t u i t i on . Well, by t a k i n g r e s p o n -s ibi l i ty for o u r o w n e n e r g y a n d wa-ter u s a g e , w e c a n a t t e m p t to d e f e r s o m e of th is cos t . The g r e e n e r you live, t h e less w e all pay for h o u s i n g n e x t year .

The Green Dorm Ini t ia t ive, w h i c h b e g a n in 2009 a n d will kick off a g a i n nex t W e d n e s d a y , is a grea t c h a n c e for s t u d e n t s to p rove tha t w e u n d e r -s t a n d t he r e p e r c u s s i o n s of o u r da i ly h a b i t s a n d t h a t we c a n live a sus -t a i n a b l e l i fes tyle o n c a m p u s . With r e w a r d s r a n g i n g f rom gift c a r d s for local food v e n d o r s to r e u s a b l e w a t e r b o t t l e s a n d b a g s , t he s e v e n - d a y chal -l enge g r a d e s s t u d e n t s on t h e envi-r o n m e n t a l i m p a c t of thei r d o r m s a n d p r o v i d e s r e c o g n i t i o n to t he env i ron-m e n t a l l y c o n s c i e n t i o u s . A l t h o u g h th i s s h o u l d b e a m i n d s e t t h a t l a s t s longer t h a n just o n e week , pa r t i c ipa -t ion in GDI is a way to s h o w H&D a n d o u r a d m i n i s t r a t i o n t h a t a s s t u d e n t s , w e d o c a r e a b o u t t h e s e i s s u e s a n d w e a r e wi l l ing to d o w h a t w e c a n to r e d u c e o u r o w n e n v i r o n m e n t a l a n d e c o n o m i c i m p a c t s .

10 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP

1. Set your thermostat between 74-78 degrees when it's warm outside and between 68-72 degrees in colder weather.

2. Wash full loads of laundry and select the "cold wash" cycle.

3. Find out what you can re-cycle and recycle it!

4. Switch off your surge protec-tors and unplug your chargers when they're not in use.

5. Print double-sided or one-sided on the back of old papers.

6. Buy local and visit the Rice Farmer's Market in West Lot, Tuesdays 3:30-7 p.m. 7. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs, reuseable cloth bags for shopping, and plastic or metal water bottles.

8. Open your blinds. Make use of natural light during the day.

9. Purchase Energy Star or low-energy appliances.

10. Be proactive. Report wastful activities to energywaste(8)rice. edu. Get involved with your college's environmental com-mittee and talk to your EcoRep about ways you can improve sustainability on campus.

Christina Hughes is a Baker College junior.

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Teng then approached Perez, a Brown Col-lege junior, to be her co-head in organizing the celebrateART festival.

"We hope that the art festival will be a long-standing tradition but that it will serve to open up students' minds," Perez said.

Food for Thought Wiess College junior Heather Olson is an

agriculture enthusiast with a vision to catalyze a local food movement at Rice. With the help of an Envision Grant for her Food for Thought project, Olson, a philosophy major, hopes to ex-pand the visibility of Rice's community gardens and increase student awareness of sustainable, local food. Her two-part project includes a se-ries of three Saturday night farm-to-fork din-ners and improvements to the Hanszen College and Wiess community gardens.

"By brainstorming in class and recalling the farm-to-fork dinner event that Baker College put on last year, we were able to come up with the two-part plan," Olson said.

The project is the collective undertaking of the newly formed student group Real Food Revolution led by Olson and Sid Richardson College junior Hannah Walchack.

"I really appreciate all of Heather's hard work in securing the grant money because it means we can bring a lot of local food right to students without having to worry a lot about cost," Walchack said.

Olson said that she also hopes to purchase picnic tables, shade structures and weather-proof bulletin boards to encourage students and visitors to spend time in the gardens.

"Long-term, hopefully this project will in-spire larger scale improvements to Rice's food sustainability, such as a student-run farm or a three-credit course on food sustainability," Ol-son said.

Acappellooza Hanszen College junior Christine Jeon,

Martel College sophomore Mika Tabata and Lovett College sophomore Lisa Deneckere are using grant money to put on Acappellooza, a joint a capella concert by the Rice Philhar-monics, Low Keys and Nocturnal. The concert will take place on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in the RMC Grand Hall.

Admission to Acappellooza is free, but at-tendees are encouraged to donate $5 with pro-ceeds going to the Music Therapy Center of Houston, according to the Facebook event page.

"We really need people to donate, even though it is a free concert," Tabata said.

According to Tabata, the Phils, Low Keys and Nocturnal hope to make Acappellooza sus-tainable by setting aside some money for next year's event. Fostering collaboration among the a capella groups so that future generations can enjoy the event is critical, Tabata said. Rice stu-dents should expect this event in years to come, she noted.

Karma Patrol Will Rice senior Albert Wei, junior Leila Bell,

senior Alexandra Moharam and sophomore Angela Wu received an Envision Grant to fund Karma Patrol, Will Rice's new caregiving pro-gram designed in response to last year's alcohol probation.

Karma Patrol members sign up in pairs for short shifts to hand out free bagels and water. The logic behind this model is to give partygo-ers something starchy and absorbent so that al-cohol enters the bloodstream at a significantly reduced rate, keeping them safer than drinking on an empty stomach, Wei said. Members of the Karma Patrol squad also receive a free T-shirt, glow sticks and a walkie-talkie to be used for emergencies during their shift.

"Financial assistance was needed if we were ever going to give Karma Patrol the institution-al memory that we felt it deserved, so it was a blessing to have some of the funding worries lifted off of our shoulders," Wei said.

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Will Rice senior Elizabeth Van Itallie and biochemistry and cell biology graduate student Erin O'Brien earned a grant for their group, Rice University Women in Science and Engineering. RUWSE seeks to increase the visibility of female role models in STEM fields to female under-graduates.

"It is an interesting characteristic of hu-man behavior that most people need role models in their life," O'Brien said in her Envi-sion Grant blog.

She added that although there are a significant amount of female professors in the Biochemistry and Cell Biology Department at Rice, very few teach lower-level undergraduate classes.

To follow the progress of each Envision Grant project, visit envision.blogs.rice.edu.

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Students interested in landing financial service internships have a new opportunity to showcase their knowledge with Rice's first Bloomberg Assessment Test, which will be ad-ministered on campus twice next week.

The BAT is an aptitude test created by the Bloomberg Institute, the educational division of financial news corporation Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg Stu-dent Ambassador Kenneth Mis-ner described the exam as geared toward students looking to enter the financial sector and related fields, testing their skill levels in 11 areas - corporate valuation, economics, financial markets, financial statements analysis, investment banking, investment management, analytical reason-ing, math skills, modeling abili-ties, situational judgment and verbal competence.

The BAT is a three-hour, online test that will be proctored on iPads by Bloomberg em-ployees, Martel College freshman Misner said. It will be offered in Sewall Hall Room 100 from 3 to 6 p.m. next Wednesday and in Sewall Hall Room 309 from 8 to 11 p.m. next Thursday. If many Rice students take the exam, Misner said that Bloomberg might offer another session next fall.

Students who sign up for the BAT need to submit some basic demographic information to Bloomberg, including their name, univer-sity, major and year, Misner said. Employers use this information to compare students' per-formances to their majors, but scores will be anonymous unless students agree to release personal information to employers, according to Misner.

"The test is completely risk-free," Misner said. "There are no prerequisites and nothing to prepare for, so if you know it, you know it."

It's a standardized test for the private sector from the pri-vate sector.

Jonathan Stewart Duncan '12

The BAT costs nothing to take, and stu-dents can take it as many times as desired to improve their scores, providing greater incen-tive, Misner said.

According to Misner, Bloomberg keeps it free-of-charge, asking companies to pay a sub-scription fee to connect with students.

"Companies are really invested in us and are looking for the best students in the world," Mis-ner said.

Furthermore, stu-dents who perform well could be contact-ed by financial compa-nies - such as banks and consulting firms - for interviews and other opportunities, he said.

"Bloomberg has an extensive network of employers who want to recruit talent from universities like Rice," Misner said. "Other

universities across the world also take this test." Some of these other universities include MIT

and Harvard, which held the BAT on their cam-puses last month. Misner noted that students there and elsewhere have expressed interest in the exam, with around 50 students attending each test session.

"The BAT has been out for a little over a year," Misner said. "In that short time, [the number of students taking it] has grown to about half the size of the GMAT."

Duncan College senior Jonathan Stewart said he thinks Bloomberg's new test is an inter-esting idea.

"Lots of companies have tests and inter-views, but this is meant to branch outside of just one company," Stewart noted. "It's a stan-dardized test for the private sector from the pri-vate sector."

Students who want to take the BAT cin reg-ister online at www.takethebat.com.

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New housing policy establishes campus-wide sex-and gender-neutral rules for choosing roommates

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THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF

A campus-wide policy effective starting wirh this year's room draw will allow gender-neutral , or co-ed, housing at every residential college. The policy allows two or more s tudents to share a multiple-occupancy bedroom re-gardless of their sexes or gender identities.

Students who wish to use this housing op-tion will not be required to notify their parents or obtain approval from the college masters. The policy would not apply to new student rooming assignments.

Prior to the new policy, there was no official university regulation stating whom students could room with. In practice, a student who wished to room with another of the opposite sex had to request approval from their college masters.

The policy initiative came from Jones Col-lege seniors and Thresher editorial staff Hallie Jordan and Devin Glick.

Jordan and Glick requested to room together at Jones for the 2009-2010 academic year. Though Jones College refused their request, Jordan said Hanszen College masters told them they could live together if they transferred to Hanszen.

Jordan and Glick subsequently proposed the idea for an official university-wide rooming policy to former Dean of Undergraduates Robin Forman.

"We wanted Rice to choose either co-ed rooming or no co-ed rooming, not have some vague in-between," Jordan said. "It seemed re-ally unfair that Devin and I could live together in one college and not another since everyone is assigned randomly to a dormitory."

After John Hutchinson assumed the posi-tion of dean, he advised Jordan and Glick to write up a proposal for a written policy in con-sultation with Sid Richardson College master Elise Sawyer.

Sawyer said she believes she was selected in part because of her experience as former Will Rice College master and because her daughter,

a Sid Richardson a lumna, had roomed with a male student her senior year.

After Jordan and Glick presented the pro-posal to the Committee of Masters and Presi-dents, who unanimously recommended it, the proposal was presented to President David Le-ebron and the Board of Trustees.

Glick said that s tudents should choose who they can best live with.

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"That is not something that 's determined by sex or gender," Glick said. "It's determined by who you are friends with."

While presenting the policy to the masters and presidents, Jordan and Glick discussed how diversity in sexual orientation and gen-der identity call for the ability to freely select a roommate.

"The current situation assumes that if you're a girl, you'll get along best with a girl," Jordan said. "[However] it doesn't seem like a male-female situation would cause more prob-lems than other set-ups would."

Jordan and Glick cited the fact that the pol-icy would be in accordance with Rice's Equal Opportunity policy and that many of Rice's peer universities, such as Duke, Emory, Co-lumbia, Harvard and Princeton, have already implemented gender-neutral rooming policies.

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possibility. "The new policy really just codifies what

had become common practice amongst the colleges," Hutchinson said. "However, the stu-dents who raised this issue pointed out that the absence of a policy made the practice some-what unknown to students who might benefit from it."

Sawyer also praised the practice's standard-

ization across campus. "Different masters had different feelings

about the kinds of examples or kinds of things that could happen," Sawyer said. "It needed to be clear that this was something that the uni-versity embraced and supported."

According to Sawyer, the college masters were generally receptive about the policy.

"It was not a conversation of 'yay' or 'nay' among the masters," Sawyer said. "It was more of a question of writing it correctly [and] a question of 'How do we best do this?"'

Brown College master Steve Cox said he was glad the policy would be implemented.

"Our gender norms are much too rigid and can have a detrimental effect on the develop-ment of a young person and can impede our abil-ity to love and respect one another," Cox said.

Former Wiess College master Michael Gus-tin supported the policy, but expressed concern over s tudents in a pre-existing romantic rela-tionship, whether mixed-gender or not, decid-ing to room together.

While Gustin served as master at Wiess from 2006 to 2011, he allowed co-ed rooming on the conditions that parents were notified and the s tudents were not in a pre-existing romantic relationship.

"The problem for a master has to do with the fact that there 's a problem for everyone if they break up," Gustin said. "The masters don't necessarily have the flexibility to deal with that. Though it could still happen any-way, [the latter] pre-existing condition would reduce the probability of [a break-up conflict] happening."

Brown College President Joey Spinella said he thought a universi ty-wide policy was a good idea.

"This is something that has in the past been unclear for the different colleges and so it's helpful to have a clear s tandard , so no students feel they are in an uncomfor table situation," Spinella, a senior, said.

Other s tudents had mixed thoughts on the new policy, particularly regarding the possibil-ity of a romantic couple rooming together.

"I can see it being not a very good idea, like if you have a boyfriend, you decide to room to-gether and something goes wrong," Martel Col-lege sophomore Isabel Lopez-Garcia said. "Also I think people need some privacy, especially if they share a bathroom. That can get weird and awkward."

Sid Rich sophomore Shanay Kapadia said he believed there would be a higher risk for conflict with mixed-gender roommates than same-gender roommates.

"If the student wants to room with someone regardless of gender, I think they should be al-lowed to," Kapadia said. "The odds of having a some sort of complication or [romantic] rela-tionship between same sex roommates is a lot lower than the odds of having one between dif-ferent gender roommates, just because that's more prevalent."

Brown freshman Nicole Chun commended the freedom the policy gave s tudents .

"You can still do whatever you want, but it leaves room for girls who might get along better with guys and guys who might get along bet-ter with girls," Chun said. "Especially if you go into certain cases where maybe a guy who is bisexual or gay feels more closely attached to females. He shouldn' t be stopped from rooming with them, and vice versa with girls who may be lesbians."

Jordan and Glick said they were glad the ad-minstration was cooperative.

"It's really nice to see the administrat ion be-ing open to change and open to working with s tudents ," Jordan said.

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STUDENT ASSOCIATION MINUTES The following were noted at the most recent meeting of the Student Association on Feb. 6.

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• SA President Georgia Lagoudas announced a bill to be presented next week on the cre-ation of a student advisory board for the new freshmen writing communication seminars. Lagoudas also requested ideas on the development of the Center for Teaching Excellence.

• SA Secretary Yoonjin Min spoke on the Conference of Private Universities which was host-ed at Rice over the weekend. Min said that a proposal to use the conference to lobby the Texas legislature failed because the conference attendees did not feel that they could suf-ficiently represent their respective student bodies.

• Because of technical difficulties, SA Treasurer Ellen Liu put off her budget review until the coming Monday.

• SA Director of Elections Chance Marshall announced that voting in the SA General Election opened Monday at 11:59 p.m. and will close the coming Monday at 11:59 p.m. The ballot for the election is online atsa.rice.edu/election2012.

• SA Parliamentarian Jonathan Stewart read out the General Election ballot for approval, and the ballot was approved.

The SA will next meet on Monday, Feb. 13 at 9 p.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion.

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Overall, crowding was not a major con-cern, with the exception of the dance floor toward the middle of the night , Peet said. She said they expected that spac ing con-s t ra in t s would push more people into Won-der Bar, but that this did not actual ly end up being the case .

This year, 100 Days was organized by Se-nior Committee members Adr ianne Waddell , Melissa Jeng and Frank Alfaro III. Alumni Affairs Assistant Molly Goldstein and a few other senior commit tee members he lped in the process .

Peet said the commit tee s tar ted p lann ing the event af ter Senior Toast and chose Red Door and Wonder Bar as the venues over last year ' s Rich's Nightclub because these l inked c lubs were able to accommoda te the large in-crease in the s tudent popu la t ion . The search for a new venue presen ted a cha l lenge be-

cause they had to bui ld new re la t ionships with each venue owner and vendor, she said.

"My favorite part was the point at which we signed the contract for Red Door and Won-der Bar because I knew they were the two hottest a n d most un ique spots in Hous ton ," Alfaro, a McMurtry College senior, sa id .

The pa r ty ' s music was hand led by two volunteer s tuden t DJs, mechanica l engineer-ing and mater ia l sc iences g radua te s tudent Parker Eason and Will Rice College sopho-more Vivaswath Kumar. Tickets were $10 for seniors and $15 for everyone else. Peet said the commit tee was pleased to see a surge in ticket d e m a n d two days before the event .

At the beginning of the party, the committee decided to close Red Door and leave only Won-der Bar open until more people arrived at the event, according to Peet. Once Red Door was opened, more people went to that venue, leav-ing plenty of space in Wonder Bar, she said.

"The venue s tar ted to fill up, and I could tell people were gett ing excited for the night to come," Jeng, a Lovett College senior, said.

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Santorum, Romney face off

Ah poor Romney, every week people declare his victory And then in a few days such predict ions become history Now once again he is being upstaged this by hopeful Rick Santorum

Who won Missouri , Minnesota and Colorado making his naysayers look dumb? Romney won Nevada but he wi l l need more states If he wants to face Obama in the general debates One th ing is clear — the Re-publican primary is not done Which must surely not be Mr. Romney's idea of fun

Rick Santorum won Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado while front runner Mitt Romney only won Nevada, ensuring that the Republican primary is far from over.

Giants triumph over Patriots in Superbowl

The Patriots lost their perfect to the Giants in the 2007 Superbowl Which to every cit izen of Boston was a deep affront to their soul

This year they had a chance to reclaim their glory in a rematch But unfortunately for them Giants receiver Manningham had a great catch From a great throw from the younger Manning, Eli Al lowing the Giants to score and to make the Patriots' hopes die The announcers talked about a Patriot dynasty when their team led But with two superbowl wins in five years, they should be talk ing about the Giants instead

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Wiess 445 • 1,085 sq.ft. • 3 single rooms • 1 double room • 1 common room • 1 bathroom with luxury shower • 1 couch • 1 central table • 32-inch TV • 1 Xbox 360,1 Nintendo 64 • Lawn chairs for patio • 3 refrigerators

BY ALEX BISBERG

FOR THE THRESHER

The next stop on my journey to find the lustrous living spaces around Rice University took me to the famously social Wiess College. My Orientation Week advisor and friend Mark Plitt opened the door to his humble abode as I strolled in to find a lot of personality packed into this fourth-floor five-man suite.

Lining the walls are handmade wooden shelves filled with rows upon rows of exotic beer bottles of all shapes and sizes. To be exact, a whiteboard near the door counts, 165 different bottles adorn the walls of the common room. As if this sight wasn't impressive enough, a huge poster made from cardboard six-pack labels ranging from Dogfish Ale to Fat Tire hung from the wall as well.

In addition to the malt motif, the head of a stuffed dinosaur, a coveted poster of the Wiess masters and a classy 1950s style Coca-Cola mirror augment the majesty of this high-quality common room.

Plitt explained the origins of the dinosaur head.

"We opened our room for NOD [Night of Decadence] this year, and in the morning we found this child's dinosaur costume in the bathroom."

So upon the wall this pragmatic predator hangs as a tribute to gener-ations of partygoers who may have left more than expected—namely pride—at this infamous celebration.

Not only could the common room be used as a party space, but also a very relaxing hangout area. Next to a modestly sized TV outfitted with an Xbox 360 and the traditional

Guest Creation Breakfast on the Go

bagel. Make sure not to use more than directed, as that will overpow-er the rest of the dish. Finally, for those with a sweet tooth, pour the honey onto the dish. Now, take your plate containing your delicious breakfast and eat it on the run to your destination of choice.

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BY BHAGWAT KUMAR

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It's often said that "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Now, I don't actually know what this expression means, but I hear it quite a bit, so I assume that it's pretty important. Still, it probably doesn't really pertain to making delectable dishes from common servery ingre-dients. However, it's also often said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, an idiom that I think will prove to be more germane.

While breakfast is crucial, stu-dents here at Rice University often find themselves skipping it due to their late nights and hurried morn-ings. This decision, while ostensibly prudent, is damaging in the long term. Thus, I've come up with an-other potential breakfast that's easi-ly prepared and that can be eaten on the go. I can't think of a name for it, so I'm going to call it the Bhagwat, primarily because that sounds bet-ter than "toast with some almonds and honey."

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The Bhagwat

• 1 thin, whole grain bagel (Nature's Own)

• 2-3 cups of peanut butter • A handful of sliced almonds • Spoonful of honey • 1 plastic knife • 1 paper plate

Process: This creation, as mentioned ear-

lier, is relatively simple to produce. First, toast the two halves of the bagel to sufficient levels, and then place them on a paper plate. Next, skillfully spread the peanut butter across the two halves of the bagel. This step is crucial, and probably the most time-consuming, so en-sure that the peanut butter is spread evenly. Next, sprinkle the sliced al-monds across the two halves of the

While breakfast is cru-cial, students here at Rice University often find themselves skip-ping it due to their late nights and hurried mornings.

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The beer mosaic provides necessary context for the seemingly

countless bottles that run along the walls of this lofty Wiess crib.

N64. Classics like Super Smash Bros., 007: Goldeneye and Star Fox are still played, assured Jeff Lash, another one of the suitemates.

Redeeming features of this room extended beyond the common area. Kyle Valley, Wiess junior and suit-emate, led me into his room. A dou-ble bed sits in the corner surround-ed by posters of The Great Wave, New York in the '60s and the beau-tiful mountains of New Mexico. On the other hand, Lash's room houses old posters of the Beatles.

Finally, we arrived at Plitt's room. This room is an architectural feat in itself. Strange corners and edges surround a massive queen-sized bed. His desk isn't flush with the wall and barely leaves room for his shelving. Pictures of Buddha hang on his wall accompanied by a few other posters.

In all, this room exudes an em-

phasis on quality: quality drinks, quality posters and quality people. Exotic bottles guard the common room that could easily be trans-formed into a party space. Even with an exquisite common area, the most impressive aspects of this crib are the individual rooms.

Easy tips for making one's own room better include the addition of posters, an extra refrigerator to house snack, and a few chairs for guests to sit in. Posters can be pur-chased online, refrigerators can be purchased used from upperclass-men and collapsible chairs are eas-ily $10 or less at Target.

Rice Cribs explores various dorm designs around campus. If you would like to suggest a room to be, email Alex Bisberg at ajb7@rice.edu

Dear Thresher,

My friend always asks me to be his wingman, but he always picks out girls that I know he will never get. Should I say something to him? From, Wingman

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To supplement this creation, add a banana to your paper plate, and once finished with the bagel, dis-card the plate, keeping only the ba-nana, and the knife. Use the knife to spread the peanut butter onto each bite of the banana, eating as you walk. This addition will incorpo-rate a serving of fruit into this dish, making it all the more wholesome while retaining the initial portabili-ty that made it so appealing. So take your breakfast with you and enjoy!

If you have any suggestions, comments or favorite servery recipes, please email Reed Thornburg atrst4@rice.edu.

In 1986, Tom Cruise starred in "Top Gun," a movie about naval aviators. In this movie, the high flying jet pilots provu' that in or-der to be successful, you need to trust those around you, especially your wingmen.

When Iceman tells Maver-ick, "You can be my wingman any time," it is not an idle but a profound statement of mutual respect. When you go out to meet people at parties, you may not be flying your F-1A into the "danger zone" riddled with enemy MiG planes, but you must trust your wingman nonetheless.

If your friend is driving his jet straight into anti-aircraft fire and constantly getting shot down, it is your duty to help him. When he asked you to be his wingman you entered a sacrosanct unofficial contract.

You have an obligation to tell him your opinion that he needs to set his sights a bit lower if he wants to achieve some success. That being said, if he has put his aim on one girl that he truly desires then you need to help him on his long-term campaign. As modern philosopher Kenny Log-gins once said, "You'll never know what you can do/ Until you get it up as high as you can go."

-Ares

As a friend, it is your job to support your friend in whatever con-quests he may choose. Part of being a "wingman" is bolstering your friend back up after rejection, even if you could have foreseen this particular disappointment.

That being said, you can also inform your friend that the girls he's going after may not be for him under the right circumstances. Waiting until right after your friend has just faced rejection is not the time to do this. However, casually dropping your thoughts into the conversation at a time when he is not out searching for a girl could be beneficial to both of you. You should not, though, phrase your comment like, "You're always trying to get girls that are far out of your league." This will only anger your friend. Instead suggest possible girls you know who you think your friend would get along with and who might enjoy getting to know your friend. The power of suggestion can be very pow-erful and has the potential to distract from the unattainable.

Of course, you always must keep in mind not to discourage your friend from going after the girls he wants completely, even if they seem out of his league. You never know who is go-ing to fall for whom. Your friend may end up finding true love in a place you never could have suspected.

-Athena

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'Self Portrait' confounds creation FARRAH MADANAY

THRESHER EDITORIAL STAFF

Japanese Surrealist poet Shuzo Takiguchi once said, "I feel more appropr ia te to call the writing pro-cess itself 'poetry ' ra ther than the written texts." Baker College senior Kieran Lyons seems to share Taki-guchi ' s phi losophy when it comes to the process of drawing. On Feb. 2, Lyons, a visual and dramat ic arts and cognitive sciences double ma-jor, engaged in a drawing perfor-mance, titled "Self Portrai t ," at the opening reception of his first Match-box Gallery exhibition, on view un-til Feb. 23.

Lyons did not perform "Self Por-trait" alone. His assis tant for the night , Taylor Britt, also a Baker se-nior, was the hand through which Lyons vicariously drew. Lyons stood in front of the canvas but never once engaged directly with the drawing. Instead, Lyons executed his own portrait by examining his reflection in a square handhe ld mirror and instructing Britt, an economics and history double major, on how and what to draw.

Bored with his own distinct style, Lyons decided to produce a drawing composit ion that would not trans-mit his usual gestural language, he said. Thus came the methodology of Lyons' performance work.

" 'Experiment ' is the right word because 1 was more interested in what I could learn from it than in the process or product ," Lyons said. Lyons particularly wanted to show-case the genre of drawing in "Self Portrait" because he believed per-formances of paint ings about paint-ings were already common practice.

Though Lyons had to do little in terms of setting up the canvas

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and providing the charcoal for the Matchbox space, mentally he grap-pled with how he could instruct Britt in a way that would make the per formance interesting for the au-dience.

"I worried about [the perfor-mance] a lot. Most of my time was spent trying to decide what kind of direction I was going to take," Lyons said. After considering experiment-ing with the ideas of ego, authori ty and persuasion, Lyons ultimately realized the addit ion of another per-son 's inherent subjectivity would guarantee unexpected results. Ly-ons liked the idea of building a gap between his mind and Britt's so that regardless of how closely Britt fol-lowed Lyons' instructions, the final product would be a portrait filtered through two sets of observations, thoughts , and tastes.

Lyons' work demarcated the usually intuitive and connected processes of thought and execu-tion, compelling audience mem-bers to quest ion whether Britt or Lyons was responsible for the portrai t ' s creation.

"It 's like he 's drawing through someone else's hand , " Heather Ol-son, a Wiess College junior, said. Olson was one of eight onlookers that sat on the floor of the small gallery space. A semicircle of about 20 other audience members looked on from outside in the Sewall Hall Courtyard.

Britt, who said he doesn't consid-er himself an artist, took on the role of a semi-automaton as he followed Lyons' instructions.

"The experience of the exhibit

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impressed upon me the way that workmanship and intuition have to funct ion together in a piece of ar t ," Britt said.

Throughout the performance, Lyons and Britt engaged in con-stant discourse to synchronize their thoughts .

"Are these features more or less in the right posit ions?" Britt asked.

Lyons put his hand on his hip and s tudied his reflection in the mirror.

"Once you know exactly where something is, draw it firmly and keep it there ," Lyons said.

Lyons expressed his appreciat ion not only for Britt's willing participa-tion, but also for teaching him about the process of drawing and creation dur ing the performance.

"It was artistically important that I took credit for this, but speak-ing personally he deserves more credit than I do," Lyons said.

Lyons also said he hoped his au-dience was able to develop critical thought about the role of the artist and the drawing process.

Though Lyons enjoyed a large a t tendance at his opening recep-tion, he said this was the exception, not the norm, mainly because his f r iends came out to support him.

"Student exhibit ions slip by mostly unnoticed by other Rice s tuden ts , " Lyons said, lament ing the lack of on-campus exposure. Though Lyons said the Rice Depart-ment of Visual and Dramatic Arts is not known for having a high profile on campus , he hopes the promised new visual arts building will prove a s tep in the right direction.

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This Sunday, mill ions of Ameri-cans saw Eli Manning and the New York Giants a s sume yet ano ther exciting victory over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, but the Super Bowl isn't just a football game - i t 's an en te r t a inment ex-t ravaganza, an unapologet ical ly ro-coco celebrat ion of America and its cul ture . I could easily spend hun-dreds of words descr ibing the cul-mina t ion of the NFL's 2011 season , but those who care a l ready know. Ins tead, I write about the other Su-per Bowl, the one that exists off the gridiron.

The Patr iots kicked off at 5:30 p.m., bu t the p regame show began six hours be forehand . The show lagged with Bob Cos-tas ' human- in te res t s tories and B-List celebri t ies ' footbal l predic-t ions. Mercifully, a round 5 p.m., the p regame show ended and the kickoff show began.

Normally, the nat ional an them would precede the start of the game, but to maximize the Ameri-can-ness , Blake Shelton and Miran-da Lambert sang "God Bless Ameri-ca" as a pre lude to Kelly Clarkson's rendi t ion of the nat ional an them. Unfortunately, the indoor s tadium precluded the obligatory fighter-jet flyby. Unlike last year, when Christ ina Aguilera butchered Fran-cis Scott Key's lyrics, this year ' s patr iot ic odes were func t iona l and unsurpr i s ing .

After the kickoff, the commercia ls began. This year fea tured a great many dogs. Perhaps advert isers fig-ure that in this election year we all need a cute, loyal f r iend. Whatever the reason, the two most prominent of these can ine marketers were Bud Light 's "Here We Go" ad and Skech-ers ' "Mr. Quigley." The former con-cerned a t ra ined dog named "We Go" who fetches Bud Light faster

HOLOCAUST In spite of the atrocities, the Ho-locaust has spurred a plethora of films by many Hollywood directors. On Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Rice Cinema will screen the intriguing and un-familiar story of the 60-year re-lationship between Hollywood and Nazi Germany. The film will feature newsreels and witness testimonies will raise questions of ethics. Admission is free.

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t han a f r e s h m a n pledge at a fra-ternity. The latter chronicles a pug that wins a dog race with Skechers runn ing shoes . The Skechers ad is un remarkab le , but the showboat-ing move that Mr. Quigley per forms seems to fo reshadow the Giants ' runn ing back Ahmad Bradshaw's butt-f irst t ouchdown that won the game for New York.

Other no t iceable commercia ls in-c luded Kia's ad about a h u s b a n d ' s dream involving buxom scant-ily clad women and, more incredu-lously, a Kia spor ts car. As always, the perennia l ads were there: the monkey coworkers for Monster, the polar bears for Coca-Cola, the talk-ing E-TRADE baby and the Go Dad-dy mode ls a lmost exposing them-selves. One h a s to wonder about a marke t ing s t ra tegy tha t bets on men visi t ing Go Daddy 's website to sat isfy their urge for naked women. One of the best adver t i sements this year came from Chevrolet, depict-ing Cb vy p ickup truck drivers sur-viving the apocalypse , in contras t with Ford owners .

Of course , the ads and na t ional a n t h e m weren ' t the only things of note . There was the ha l f t ime show fea tur ing Madonna , LMFAO, Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. Madonna , the ag-ing pop singer, dressed in a faux gladiator outf i t . In tow entered the s t ad ium with backup dancers in tail. In accordance to the post-wardrobe mal func t ion years, Ma-d o n n a went through her obviously digitally enhanced songs with noth ing really interest ing happen-ing save a toga-wearing slackline performer whose tricks were as cool as they were ra ther absurd .

Ultimately, the Super Bowl is a football game, but that is not why millions of people tune in every year. They do so because it is an event. Through commercials and half-time shows the Super Bowl t ranscends the average sporting competit ion and becomes an American holiday.

ESTELLE Calling all American boys (and girls): Your biggest U.K. fan, R&B artist Estelle. will be in town Wednesday for a con-cert promoting her anticipated sophomore album "All of Me." The West London sensation has collaborated with big names ranging from DavidGuetta to Kanye West. Catch Estelle at the Bronze Peacock for $25. The show starts at 9 p.m.

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'Out of Frequency' is out of touch BENJAMIN HUBER-RODRIGUEZ

FOR THE THRESHER

Most bands these days are very into their cryp-tically meaningless names. Then you have those band names that tell you exactly what you'll be listening to: Mumford & Sons, Dixie Chicks, Metal-lica, etc. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour falls into the latter category. Funky, space-themed electropop? Check. Out of Frequency, the pop duo's second full-length album, combines the funkadelic '60s with some modern electronic sampling while regaling you with tales of clubs, drugs, mischief and sexual endeavors. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour just wants to party with you, and to its credit, that's about all it does.

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is a Danish duo consist-ing of singer Mette Lindbeig and producer and song-writer Lars Iversen. Their first big break came in the form of an iPod touch com-mercial, in which their sin-gle "Around the Bend" was featured and received some airplay in Europe. Soon af-ter, Amy Winehouse asked them to open for her show at Copenhagen.

Out of Frequency's open-ing tracks are like walking into a casino; there are big brass sections, electric organ and keyboard riffs, up-and-down electronics that sound like someone just hit triple sevens, and someone who sounds a bit like a lounge singer squealing and belt-ing out slangy pop tunes between exasperated cries and wails. The opening track is even called "Gold Rush Pt. I."

The lounge singer is Lindberg. Lindberg likes to sing about cross-country booty calls, earning the late-night dollar, getting entangled in organized crime and generally just living on top of the world. Her world is as bright and eccentric as America's playground itself, and her music rarely steers away from the topics of gold, guns and girls. Lindberg's biggest criticism, though, won't be found in the au-

Out of Frequency

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dacity of her lyrics. Sometimes bands like Radio-head deliver an album full of social commentary and foreboding, and sometimes they just want to rock you. It's no secret that Lindberg wants you to party your face off, so just let your qualms about lyrical content and meaning go and hit the town for 47 minutes or so.

Lindberg's criticism can be found in her sing-ing style. Her voice at times is catchy, quirky and refreshingly unpolished. At other times it's baby-ish, squealing, shrill and downright annoying. Still, that's the love-it-or-hate-it aspect of an inter-esting singer like Lindberg.

Writer and producer Lars Iversen, on the other hand, works pretty damn hard to configure the ap-propriate pop music to accompany Lindberg. His

music is heavily influenced by '60s psychedelic funk and '70s disco, evidenced by his undying love for electric or-gan on most tracks and the flashy big-band themes found in the album's first few songs. For the most part, though, he sticks to his bass and key-board backbone behind ba-sic drum beats, throwing in bizarre sample sounds like space lasers and pinball ma-chines.

The whammy bar-fueled guitar riffs and relentless or-gan bring the listener back to

a different era, when people partied to live music and gold chains meant you were cool and hip. He makes party music: There's no denying that, but at least it's the party music of the past, rather than yet another attempt at electro-house and other popular synth-based genres. The tunes do get a bit repetitive, though, as Iversen keeps the beats pumping high from track one to 14.

The review rundown: Out of Frequency isn't trying to fool anyone;

the bright lights and discotheque themes are only matched in straightforwardness by Lindberg's re-lentless attempt to convince you that life is just one big party.

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We tried the skillet lickers, which consist of three mini burgers topped with sweet onions and chipotle mayonnaise with a side of fries. The chi-potle sauce was flavorful, and there was neither too much nor too little sauce on the burgers. The fries were a bit disappointing; we would not recommend them. Overall, this meal was quite filling and definitely not the healthiest option, but great for a late-night crav-ing. The skillet lickers cost only $7.99.

We also tried one of the main entrees, the fi-esta chicken. This dish consists of fried chicken, melted cheese, jalapenos, onions and a choice of two sides. There is plenty of food in the entrees— too much for one person. Overall, the chicken is greasy and delicious, leav-ing you with an insanely full feeling. The sides we tried were the fried pickles and onion rings; the onion rings were very yummy, and the batter was great. The fried

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pickles were definitely an interesting choice, as we had never had them before, and there were plenty to share. The cost of this plate is $9.99. Other sides are available, such as coleslaw, rice, greens, mashed potatoes with gravy, broccoli, spinach, and mac and cheese.

Other dishes available are salads, burgers, sandwiches and a selection of breakfast dishes (though not served all day). We dined there on a Friday night; it was relatively busy and started livening up at around 7 p.m. Live music started playing as well, so it was awesome to enjoy our meals while listening to some great music. If you

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Indulge with Sweet Lola

ERIKA KWEE THRESHER STAFF

Sweet Lola Yogurt Bar exudes cuteness , from its screamingly hot pink overhang to its Barbie's tearoom-like interior. Deemed "Best in City" by the Houston Press, Sweet Lola on 304 Gray St. is certainly different and relative-ly healthy, but it doesn ' t quite add up to the best frozen yogurt I've ever ea ten .

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Sweet Lola is an indulgence - not the kind of place the average s tuden t could make into a regular habi t . I first visited Sweet Lola due to a LivingSocials deal 1 purchased on the Internet . Sweet Lola's yogurt is expensive, near ing 70 cents per ounce. The general rule of t h u m b is that a half-filled cup ( there 's only one size) will set you back about $5.

What are you shell ing out money for? Four daily yogurt flavors free of high-fructose corn syrup accompanied by a bar of distinctive, top-notch toppings. Each time I've visited, the chocolate and orange-spiked Creamsicle O'Nilla flavors have proved reliable s taples. Other flavors listed on Sweet Lola's menu have been Lola's white apple , sugar plum berry, dark & dreamy chocolate and Lola's c innamon creme.

Though Sweet Lola yogurt may lack all the fake ingredients hiding in the average cup of Yogurtland or Swirll, my main complaint was the watery consis tency of the yogurt . The Creamsicle O'Nilla yogurt flavor is refreshing with perfect highlights of ci trus yet so watery that it 's nearly dr inkable. The same goes for the chocolate yogurt, which has deliciously subt le under tones of chocolate but none of the rich thickness that one might expect from other yogurt places. The taste is superb in terms of f reshness and has a clean tang, yet the yogurt is simply not subs tant ia l enough to suppor t the array of toppings.

The consistency of the seasonal p ineapple flavor blew the two staples out of the wa-ter with its tongue-numbing sweetness and creamy body that withstood the suggested toppings of buttery pound-cake cubes and fresh p ineapple . The pear flavor was also spot-on, a genuine fruity exper ience that calls to mind an actual pear.

The one s tandout item that brings me back to Sweet Lola again and again, despi te the price gouging, is their homemade , sea-salted, peanut butter crouton topping. The croutons are dense squares of the best peanut -but te r cookie you've ever eaten, and they seem to go well with everything (as long as you like pea-nut butter). These croutons on their own are worth the splurge, but Sweet Lola's toppings bar also includes delicious novelties such as lemon cookie crumbles , happi-cappa-chino-rocks, guittard mint pearls and toasted sweet-ened coconut , along with fresh fruit and nuts .

Sweet Lola's in Midtown requires a bit of a trek for the casual Rice University frozen yo-gurt consumer, but it yields a nice change of pace. Grab a chair inside, under the crystal-adorned light fixture, amid the vases of flow-ers and candles perched on busy shelves or sit on the patio and observe the young corpo-rate popula t ion of Houston stroll by. Parking oppor tuni t ies may be sparse a long the street, but you can usually find spots in the free ga-rage a round the corner and across from CVS.

The review rundown: The line is usual ly non-exis tent at Sweet

Lola and the service is p leasan t , at t imes even exceptionally attentive and informative. Sweet Lola may be expensive and slightly watery, but it 's worth a splurge at least once, even if you get nothing more than a cupfu l of their sea-sal ted peanut -but ter croutons .

Auntie Chang's offers more than dumplings REEDTHORNBURG

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When walking into Auntie Chang's Dumpling House, we were immediately confronted with a challenging dilemma: How many orders of dump-lings are we going to need? The engineer in our group, Baker College sophomore Wyatt Doop, im-mediately turned to his computational pad and began analyzing the situation. We settled on five orders of the pan-fried pork dumplings, which left us with around 10 each. To supplement this mod-est order, we asked our server for his personal pref-erence between the sesame chicken and the sweet and sour pork. Without even a slight hesitation, he directed us to the sesame chicken. Finally, we con-cluded our marathon order with Auntie Chang's fried rice and the tea crispy duck.

With our order settled, we dragged our eyes up from the menu to take in the previously elu-sive ambiance. Unfortunately, Auntie Chang's decor conformed to many stereotypes of strip-mall Chinese-food restaurants. Most notably, the neon green dragon that illuminated the back wall of the restaurant suggested that Auntie Chang's food might also conform to the standard pitfalls of Americanized Chinese food. Auntie Chang's also employed a technique that most self-described "foodies" would scoff at: plastic models of des-serts. Judgments aside, it was that very tray that eventually led to one of the great successes of the night in the mango ice cream that we would later come to order.

Then, what appeared to be the entire staff of Auntie Chang's descended on our table to deliver the massive amounts of food ' we had just ordered. With a look of fear and excitement on each of our faces, the eating began.

Naturally, we began this feast with the pan-fried pork dumplings. The dumplings showed the markings of a proper sear-ing, and the plate was not weighed down by frivolous garnishes: just dumplings and a simple assortment of dipping sauces. While the dumplings were slightly inconsistent in the cooking temperatures, for the most part they were absolutely delicious. They had

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the crispy exterior that one would expect from the pan-sear, and the pork filling was delicious, if a little dense. Although the fried rice was defi-

nitely good, it was a little . overcooked and ran into ' the problem of having too

many flavors in one dish. Then we diverted our atten-tion to the sesame chicken and immediately realized that our server had directed us toward the right choice. The texture was a little gummy, but the overall fla-vors worked well. It was a satisfying dish.

As the dinner drew clos-er to its conclusion, we sam-pled the tea crispy duck, which was by far one of the highlights of the meal.

Auntie Chang's effectively used the natural fat of the duck to produce that wonderful fried taste that

properly cooked duck skin creates. Pleasantly sur-prised by the meal, our minds wandered back to the plastic confections in the entryway.

One dish in particular stood out due to its rather strange and intriguing presentation. Un-certain as to what the dish actually contained, we decided that we would roll the proverbial dice and give it a try. It turned out to be the best decision of the night. It was a refreshing mango ice cream presented within the rind of a mango. Unlike some mango desserts that have a cloying artificial taste, this dessert was simple, refreshing and delicious.

Overall, it was a thoroughly satisfying meal. The bill was a little steep, as it came out to around $16 a person, but the amount of food consumed was largely to blame for that transaction.

The review rundown: One of Auntie Chang's fortune cookies read,

"You will form an important relationship soon." Rarely, if ever, does a fortune cookie come true im-mediately; I am sure I will be returning to Auntie Chang's soon.

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Senior Keltie John competes in the 8oo-meter run at the Houston Indoor Invitational on Jan. 28.

Four Owls finished in the top 15 of the race, while three Owls were in the top 15 in the weight

throw. Rice travels to College Station to face regional rivals in the Texas A&M Challenge.

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Senior Becky Wade is apparently incapable of running in a track or cross-country meet without setting a personal or school record.

A week after setting a personal record in the 3,000-meter run, Wade journeyed to the Meyo Invitational in Notre Dame, Ind. and broke Pam Klassen's (Jones *88) 25-year old record by six seconds, crossing the finish line in 16:21.81, good enough for first place. Senior Allison Pye was third, 14 seconds be-hind, and also set a personal record. Head Coach Jim Bevan described the back and forth batt le between the two teammates.

"Becky led from the gun, controlling the first [kilometer] of the race, and then Allison Pye took over for the next iK; Becky took the next few laps, and then Allison until a mile to go. Becky took over and made a long drive home to the finish, moving away from All-American Holly Knight," Bevan said.

"Becky and Allison went out a little too fast for where we're at this time of year (5:06 for the mile), and I blame myself for getting them a little too jacked up. I wish we would have been just a bit more conservative. Nev-ertheless, it was a big personal best for Becky and a new school record, as well as Allison's best indoor time of her life. I was proud of both of these young ladies for their perfor-mances and their courage," Bevan said.

In the other distance event, the mile run, f reshman Allie Schaich ran in 33rd place, and her time of 5:07.44 was four seconds faster than her time last week. The 800-meter run saw seniors Sophie Peeters and Keltie John finish as the top two Owls in 21st and 40th places, respectively, and sophomore Kylie Cullinan was less than half a second behind John in 42nd place. Freshman Tyneisha Mc-Coy and junior Lilian Nwora had decent efforts in the 400-meter run, with McCoy running a time of 57.68 seconds in her first collegiate foray into the event.

Moving to the shorter distance events, soph-

TEXAS A&M CHALLENGE

WHEN

Tomorrow

WHERE

College Station

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At last year's Texas A&M Challenge, 20 Owls set sea-son-bests, including all run-ners in the 200-meter dash, 400-meter dash, 3,000-me-ter run and pole vault.

omore Simone Martin and freshman Precious Knighton both finished in the top-6o sprinters in the 200-meter dash. Martin also posted a personal best in the long jump at the Meyo Invitational with a jump of 5.03 meters that landed her in 16th place of the event.

In the 60-meter dash preliminaries, Mc-Coy led the way once again, showing that even as a f reshman she is Rice's preeminent sprinter, despite not making the finals of the event. Martin and Knighton finished 24th and 30th, respectively.

In the distance medley relay, Peeters, Knighton, John and Cullinan posted a time of 11:57.56, 12 seconds faster than last week, al-though they did not finish in first place like last week. The foursome instead took ninth place against top competition, giving the team confi-dence that this event will earn the Owls a large amount of points in the Conference USA Indoor Championship. To close out the meet, McCoy, Knighton, Peeters and Nwora ran the 4-X-400 meter relay in 3:55.91 to finish 17th, nearly two seconds faster than their time last week.

The Owls will head to College Station tomor-row to take part in the Texas A&M Challenge.

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As the thunderstorms rolled in Saturday morning, the 38th-ranked Owls were not happy at first to hear that they would have to go in-doors and play at the Galleria Tennis Athletic Center, but it happened to be a blessing in dis-guise as it boosted them past 37th-ranked Uni-versity of Miami and Tyler Junior College last weekend.

With a morning start time at 11 a.m. on Sun-day, the Owls showed they were more alert and awake than the Hurricanes as they jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, thanks to dominant dou-bles play from junior Harry Fowler and senior Christian Saravia, and freshman Leif Berger and senior Sam Garforth-Bles. The Owls survived the gusting winds of the Hurricane and contin-ued to roll over Miami as they swept them away in singles play. Fowler, junior Peter Frank, Gar-forth-Bles, junior Jonathan Chang and senior Michael Nuesslein all finished off their singles matches in two sets while sophomore Phillip Seifert rallied from a first set loss to win his match in three to sweep away the Hurricanes, 7-0. This win marked the first time in 11 matches that the Owls beat an opponent that was ranked higher than they were.

The Owls had to rest up quickly since they would play Tyler just a few hours after their

match with the Hurricanes. Rice showed that it did not have any fatigue, stepping right back onto the court without any issues. The Owls rested some of their stars in Fowler, Chang and Seifert and gave freshman Justin To and senior Andy Wang some playing time. They capital-ized on their chance as To and Wang won both of their matches in two sets along with Frank, Garforth-Bles, Nuesslein and Saravia, to lead the Owls to an easy 6-0 win to cap off a tremen-dous Sunday, even though the weather outside was frightful.

With the perfect weekend, the Owls are now 5-3 overall and are currently boasting a three-game winning streak. Assistant Coach Efe Ustundag knows that the team can keep up this winning streak if it continues working on its conditioning and stays healthy, which Us-tundag acknowledged is a big "if."

"If we stick to our plan and our condition-ing and stay healthy, all of these wins are going to pile up against quality opponents ," Ustundag said.

Nuesslein is hoping the confidence can con-tinue over the next few weeks before the Owls reach the brutal part of their schedule, which includes Texas A81M University, Oklahoma Uni-versity and Tulsa University, their archrival in Conference USA.

"Hopefully, we can compile the confidence we had in the next three to four weeks and carry

UTSA

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Tomorrow

WHERE

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University of Texas-San An-tonio is currently 0-4 this season, but it is not for lack of trying. The Roadrunners in their last match pushed Rice rival, Tulane University, to the limit in a 4-3 loss.

them into the big matches," Nuesslein said. "We want lo keep building on what we have started now to keep up the confidence when we play these quality opponents."

Before this weekend, doubles had been struggling in recent matches against major powers, but this weekend cured this malady as they took care of business against Miami. Us-tundag mentioned that he was impressed with

the doubles play and he feels like the team's success was based on both chemistry and prac-tice during the week.

"The new teams have better chemistry and have shown an increase in intensity," Ustundag said. "Both partners on each duo push each other, so I am hoping it was not just a one-time deal and we can build on this and have a legitimate shot at every doubles point moving forward."

This weekend, the Owls are hoping that the rain stays away as they have two matches this Saturday at Jake Hess Stadium against the Uni-versity of Texas-San Antonio and Abilene Chris-tian University. Ustundag sounded confident about the UTSA match, but at the same time he sounded cautious. He voiced his concerns that if Rice was not on its A-game, UTSA could come in and shock the feathers off of the Owls.

"UTSA is coming into this match thinking that if we play well and Rice doesn't, we can come here and win," Ustundag said.

Nuesslein agreed that UTSA should be taken seriously since Head Coach Ronnie Smarr and Ustundag have been telling the team to not look too far ahead and instead simply to focus on this week's opponents.

"We have always felt pretty good against UTSA, but I think they are better than years before," Nuesslein said. "Technically, UTSA is going to be a tougher match than we have expected in the past ."

OWLOOK This Week in Sports

Saturday, Feb. 11 Men's and Women's Track at Texas A&M Challenge All Day — College Station

Men's Tennis vs. UTSA, Abilene Christian

11 a.m., 3 p.m. — Jake Hess Tennis Stadium

Women's Tennis vs. Rorida International 12 p.m. — Lubbock, Texas

Men's Basketball vs. SMU 7 p.m. — Tudor Fieldhouse

Sunday, Feb. 12 Women's Tennis vs. Texas Tech/Santa Clara 11 a.m. — Lubbock, Texas

Women's Basketball vs. Tulsa 2 p.m. — Tudor Fieldhouse

Monday, Feb. 13 Men's Golf at UTSA Oak Hills Invitational (through Tuesday) All Day — San Antonio

Wednesday, Feb. 15 Women's Swimming at Conference USA Championships (through Saturday) All Day — San Antonio

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Fresher Staff A lot can be said about the personal strides

made by members of the Rice basketball team this season.

Junior forward Arsalan Kazemi ranks in the top 10 nationally in both rebounds and double-doubles, leading Conference USA in both cat-egories. In reaching the esteemed i,ooo-point club this season, junior guard Tamir Jackson and senior guard Connor Frizzelle have re-mained reliable backcourt veterans, scoring at or near their consistent career averages.

The freshmen have met and exceeded expec-tations, with the class accounting for 44 percent of the team's starts in conference play. Fresh-man guard Dylan Ennis has locked down the top point guard position, as he has started 18 of 25 games. Freshman forward Julian DeBose has a game-winning shot in conference play to his name, the second buzzer-beater for Ricethis sea-son. Sophomore center Omar Oraby has taken a huge step forwa; i in his development, proving to be one of Head Coach Ben Braun's top bodies off the bench, and is on track to set the single-season school record for blocks in a season.

With their individual successes, the Owls entered the week in the middle of a wide-open C-USA race at 4-4 in the conference and 13-10 overall. After a three-game losing streak, Rice was riding a wave of momentum, posting wins

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against Tulane University (15-8, 3-6 C-USA) and the University of Texas at El Paso (10-13, 3-6 C-USA), with East Carolina University (12-10, 3-6 C-USA) next on the schedule.

Facing the struggling Pirates on Saturday, the Owls were unable to keep their winning streak alive due to a second-half collapse, illus-trating the reality that has plagued the team all season long. Despite individual achievements and stretches of impressive play, key injuries and inconsistent production have prevented Rice from playing its best team ball for an ex-tended stretch.

The first half against ECU belonged to Jack-son, who has taken on a new role as the team's sixth man for most of conference play. In his best half of play this season, Jackson scored 15 points on 6-8 shooting to go along with five rebounds and three assists, keeping his team within a point of the halftime lead, with Kazemi limited due to foul trouble.

Rice took a 53-52 lead with 13:07 left on a bucket by Dylan Ennis, who finished with a team- and career-high 21 points. With their leading scorer and rebounder struggling with a knee injury, the Owls failed to produce second-chance points and went on another lengthy second-half field goal drought. Ennis' three with 7:33 remaining brought an end to a five-minute spell without a basket, but Rice had already fall-en behind 64-58 to the hosting Pirates. A pair of free throws from Jackson cut the deficit to 69-64

with 4:26 left, but ECU answered with the dag-ger two possessions later. Rice was unable to secure the defensive rebound after a three-point attempt from the Pirates rimmed out. The loose ball ended up in the hands of guard Paris Camp-bell, who drained an open three with 3:25 to go to make it a 73-54 game. The Owls, who were outscored 14-2 in second-chance points, faded in the final minutes and fell on the road 82-68.

The backcourt duo of Jackson and Ennis fin-ished with 38 of the team's 68 points, but Rice was unable to put forth a convincing team effort to extend its win streak to three games. The trou-bling key to the team's up-and-down play in the conference has been Kazemi's knee injury. Since the injury Jan. 14 against Tulane, Kazemi has missed a game and has averaged just 7.8 points and 7.6 rebounds in the contests he started. Rice is 3-4 over that stretch, as the Owls have sorely missed the paint presence of their best player.

Rice was without its best effort from Kazemi again on Wednesday night in a rivalry game at the University of Houston (11-12, 3-7 C-USA) but put forth a cohesive team effort en route to a 79-71 win in the season's first crosstown clash.

The Owls got off to a turbulent start, miss-ing their first eight shots and going down 13-0. Jackson, who replaced the suspended freshman forward Ahmad Ibrahim in the starting lineup, connected from deep nearly eight minutes into the game to put Rice on the scoreboard, start-ing a run in which the Owls hit eight of their

next 10 shots to cut the deficit to 20-18. A three-pointer from Jarelle Reischel with 3:27 in the half gave Rice its first lead of the game as the Owls recovered from their early shooting woes to take a 35-34 lead into the break.

After the teams exchanged the lead eight times in the second half, Rice went on a 9-0 run starting with a pair of free throws from Oraby to give the visitors a 65-64 lead. Oraby scored five of Rice's next seven points to give the Owls a 72-64 advantage with 2:35 to go. The Cougars would scored with a minute left to pull within six, but a Jackson steal led to a layup for Friz-zelle with under 20 seconds remaining, icing the game and clinching Rice's third straight win against its bitter rivals.

The balanced offensive output was led by Reischel, who finished the night with a game high 16 points. The veteran backcourt combo of Frizzelle and Jackson added 13 points each, and Ennis contributed with 10 points and six assists.

The win over Houston demonstrates the team's talent level and effectiveness when the contributions come on a more consistent basis. There is no doubt that Rice has the pieces to make a run in the regular season's final six games, but it will need to replicate Wednesday night's team effort more often to reach its potential.

At 14-11 overall and 5-5 in the C-USA, Rice hosts Southern Methodist University (10-13, 2-7 C-USA) tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

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The seven top-io finishes out of all athletes competing at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invita-tional in Lincoln, Neb. this past weekend dem-onstrated that the men's track team is more than ready to play against in the big boys. This victory is possibly a sign of things to come in College Sta-tion at the Texas A&M Challenge this weekend.

The headliner for the Owls this season was senior Dan Sloat, who cranked out a personal best in the 8oo-meter run with a time of 1:52.63. Sloat, who has been a top-io 800-meter runner in Conference USA in his years at Rice, appears posed to be the favorite to win the event at the C-USA Indoor Championship at the end of the month. Sophomore John Cavallo switched from the 3,000-meter run to the mile run this week-end, posting a personal best of 4:17.19 to grab 14th place. In the 3,000-meter run, freshman Will Firth and senior Michael Trejo picked up decent results for Rice, running in 10th and 11th place. Trejo, who set his personal record in the indoor 3,000-meter run at the Texas A&M Challenge last year, will look to that venue this weekend as a good opportunity to break his record again.

Competing in the short-distance events on Friday were senior Collin Shurbet and fresh-man Kyle Denny in the 400-meter run and junior Clayton Chaney, senior Lee Johnson and sophomore Ben Pressley in the 60-meter hurdles. All failed to reach the finals of their individual events, but Pressley also finished 14th in the long jump on Friday.

The field events were more stagnant, with ju-nior Tyler Wiest still looking to break the two-me-ter mark again, after finishing 10th with a jump of 1.94 meters. Freshman J.J. Walker jumped eight centimeters farther than last week in the triple jump, having a best jump of 14.04 meters. Senior Alex Zinchenko threw the shot put nearly half a meter farther than last week, with his top throw landing 17.20 meters beyond the throwing circle to give him seventh place.

The final Owls in the meet were heptath-letes junior Sam McGuffie and f reshman Chris Sanders, who ended u p with ninth- and 10th-place finishes, respectively. McGuffie's point tally of 4,970 points was a record for any Owl part icipating in his or her first heptathlon, and McGuffie's results early on gave him confi-dence he could win the event. In the first event, the 60-meter dash, McGuffie finished second by one-hundredth of a second, and then went on to finish second in the high jump, fourth in the long jump and eighth in the shot put. His Owl counterpart had a rough start with a i2th-place in finish in the 60-meter dash, but followed up with a fifth-place finish in the long jump, fourth place in the shot put and fifth in the high jump. Sanders was sixth after day one, while McGuffie was third.

Saturday started off strong for McGuffie as he posted a fourth-place finish in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.42 seconds, with Sanders in seventh. The pole vault sabotaged any hopes either of them had for finishing among the top five competitors, as McGuffie's and Sanders' in-experience with proper technique caused them to finish in 12th and 13th place respectively. The last event, the 1,000-meter dash, saw Sanders finish seven seconds ahead of McGuffie to cap-ture eighth and ninth places for Rice.

Head Coach Jon Warren (Jones '88) talked about the meaning of this meet for his team.

"The team that traveled this weekend, almost to a man, had either a personal best, a season best, a top C-USA mark or all three," Warren said. "Starting with the heptathlon, where both Sam McGuffie and Chris Sanders set great first time marks, to the 4-x-4oom relay, to the middle dis-tance and distance races, we competed well and earned some top places in the meet. Even the few guys that did not set that elusive personal best had positive days."

All Owls will be on hand in College Station to-morrow for the Texas A&M Challenge, Rice's last meet before the C-USA Indoor Championship in Birmingham, Ala on Feb. 25-26.

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by Teddy Grodek THRESHER STAFF

After three straight conference wins, things looked good for the Owls. They had some mo-mentum, won some road games and were in the top few spots in the conference. Then they traveled to West Virginia, where it felt like ev-erything came apart .

"We did get off to a sluggish start which is the worst formula you can have playing on the road against a team that had lost five straight and was hungry for a win," Head Coach Greg Williams said.

Marshall University (13-9, 4-5 C-USA), which got off to a 17-2 lead, never really lost control of the game. The Owls headed into the locker room down 36-25. With seven layups in the first half and a shooting percentage up around 50 percent, Mar-shall simply dominated the opening 20 minutes.

Marshall stormed out of the locker room in the second half, going on a 7-2 run. Things looked bleak at the time, but Rice dug out a little bit of gusto and tried to battle back.

A clutch three-pointer and a small Rice run left the score at 55-48 with only a few minutes left. The comeback stalled there, as Marshall hit its free throws down the stretch to win the game.

Junior guard Jessica Kuster recorded her 10th double-double in the loss, with senior guard D'Frantz Smart scoring 15 points.

The following Sunday, the Owls returned home, taking on the conference-leading University

of Texas at El Paso (20-2, 9-0 C-USA). UTEP, which is widely expected to win the regular season Con-ference USA crown, was looking to continue its undefeated streak inside the conference.

Rice started out strong at home, going up five in the first few minutes of the half. The team cooled down shooting, though, after that first hot streak, shooting only 20 percent by the end of the half.

Rice simply was getting out-bodied; as by the end of the game UTEP scored 16 more points than the Owls in the paint.

Despite the turmoil and the low shooting per-centage, Rice went into the locker room up one after an outstanding defensive half. The score was 21-20, with the 20 points being one of the lowest totals of the season for UTEP in a half.

The teams battled the entire first half of the second half, with UTEP going on a 6-0 run in the closing minutes. Rice tied the contest with five minutes left, but UTEP's Gloria Brown, one of the best players in C-USA, scored the next three baskets to go up six.

Sophomore forward Jessica Kuster sanka shot to cut the lead to four, but the Owls' scoring would stop - leaving the Owls four points short of one of the biggest upsets in the conference.

Kuster led the way with 11 points and eight re-bounds, second in the game only to Gloria Brown.

This weekend ,the Owls stay at home, taking on .500 University of Tulsa (10-11, 5-5 C-USA) on Sunday. Tulsa, who has had just as streaky of a season as the Owls, will be a key game for Rice.

Women's tennis wins five straight matches

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The women's tennis team's season could not have gotten off to a better start after three straight 7-0 victories, and its momentum continued with wins this week agaiast McNeese State University and its first ranked win of the season with an upset over Louisiana State University.

On Saturday, the thunderstorms in the area pushed the ladies indoors as they hosted McNeese State University at the Galleria Tennis Athletic Cen-ter. Not content with three straight sweeps, the Owls went for their fourth sweep to snatch 28 straight points in a row to get the year off right. With the doubles point, Rice easily took the 1-0 lead as the ladies won 24 games, compared to four by McNeese State. Even though the doubles teams were slightly adjusted from last week, it did not make a difference, as the duos of senior Ana Guzman and junior Katie Gater, freshman Natalie Beazant and sophomore Leah Fried, and sophomore Kimberly Anicete and freshman Stephanie Nguyen dominated play.

Singles play was no different, as the Owls barely faced any resistance against the Cowboys. Beazant, Guzman, Gater, Anicete and Fried each took care of business in two sets, while Nguyen came through clutch in the third set to notch another perfect after-noon for Rice as they rounded up the Cowboys and easily tied them up with a 7-0 sweep.

On Tuesday, the Owls faced their first tough road test of the season as they headed to Baton Rouge to take on LSU. Again, the Owls showed no fear as they clinched the doubles point thanks to the dynamic duos of sophomore Dom-

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inique Harmath and Beazant and Guzman and Gater, With a 1-0 lead, the Owls would never looked back and made sure the Tigers stayed in their cage. Beazant continued her perfect singles season with a two-set win at the nuin ber-one spot. Besides Beazant, the backend of the singles rotation helped carry the Owls' to the finish line. Gater, Anicete and Nguyen each recorded comfortable two-set wins to continue the Owls red-hot start with a convincing 5-2 win.

The Owls are still undefeated, 5-0, looking forward to this weekend as they head up north to Lubbock, Texas. Rice plays Florida International University tomorrow, with a potential matchup Sunday versus 42nd ranked Texas Tech University.

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FRIDAY

Inventors of the paper on which this very page is printed

Have you used a compass? That was invented in Chi-na as well. How about the decimal system or the num-ber zero? Thank India. You cannot afford to miss the Third Annual Rice Univer-sity Transnational Asia Graduate Student Confer-ence. Today from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and tomorrow from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. take your tuk-tuk or Tata to the Kyle Morrow Room on the third floor of the Fondren Library. There will be pan-els both days and a keynote speech by Nayan Shah at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. There will be a special perfor-mance of the Wonder Girls' "Nobody" by the Chao Cen-ter faculty during the pri-vate karaoke reception.

This house was built on love and buttery crusts

It's Bob the Builder meets Pillsbury Dough Boy. Rice Habitat for Humanity needs help with their Cen-tennial House Project. In return, there will be 340 cinnamon rolls on the lawn in front of Keck Hall from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. These fresh-baked rolls of cin-namon goodness are there to sustain you through the back-breaking labor.

Performers with hangovers before the cast party starts

The Rice Theater program presents their final per-formances of Adam Bock's play, The Drunken City. If you missed the intoxicating show last weekend, there will be two more perfor-mances today and tomor-row at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, $8 for faculty and staff and $10 for the general public.

Not your elementary school P.E. class

The Rice Program Council presents Battle Ball in the Central Quad from noon until 6 p.m. What is battle ball? Take your innocent childhood game of capture the flag, but give all of the children a Nerf-football-firing pressurized cannon and switch all of the chil-dren out with stressed out college students. There will be free food and music all afternoon, and EMS is al-ways on call.

Raging recitatives

If you were able to snatch a ticket to the Rice Night at the Opera, hop on the light rail to the Wortham Theater Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. to see the Houston Grand Opera's production of La Traviata. This Guiseppe Verdi opera literally means "the fallen woman," refer-ring to the main character, an upper-crust prostitute. This isn't just another stuffy opera. After the fat lady sings, there will be a private potato-tini recep-tion for Rice students.

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Lovett College commons will be transformed into Gotham City for this year 's Casino Party. Starting at 10 p.m. rev-up your batmo-bile to sample city of sin's casino games, a showing of The Dark Knight and dance floor. These games are all played with Jokers wild.

MONDAY

Keep looking, it isn't too vain

Love Your Body Month continues with Revitalize Week. Monday is Revitalize Day from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Wellness Center. Ex-pect to become two years younger in those two short hours. On Thursday, there will be a screening of Miss Representation at 7:30 p.m. in the Wellness Center. This documentary explores how women are misrepresented in media and in society. This one's a can't-M/ss!

The progeny of androgyny

Monday also marks the be-ginning of the Rice Wom-en's Resource Center's Gender Bending Week. It lasts five days, so you have plenty of time to change up your gender expression as much as you would like. The first event is a car re-pair workshop at 4 p.m. in the RMC circle drive. They will teach you how to change a tire and replace a headlight bulb and not how to seduce a brawny auto-mechanic.

The SA Bowl

So what if the Giants beat the Patriots, the Student Association will still meet on Monday at 9 p.m. in the Farnsworth Pavilion. This week there will be a student forum discussing athletics and academics. For instance, is a bowl-ing ball best thrown Tom Haverford-style? Find out (and eat free food) at the SA meeting.

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Ally training is not a WWII drill

The Wellness Center and Queers and Allies present Ally Training, a great way to learn about how homopho-bia and heterosexism harm our community and how to be a successful ally to all LGBT people. The program starts at 6 p.m. in the Min-er Lounge. Please RSVP to alIyprogram@rice.edu.

A messy dorm does not count as a sustainable compost

The Green Dorm Initiative, starting Wednesday, is a seven-day challenge for stu-dents to compete on the en-vironmental impact of their dorms. Students can regis-ter on Feb. 13 and 14 during lunch with their EcoReps or email them anytime to reg-ister. The college with the most participants will win a cookout paid for by Housing and Dining. The students with the least environmen-tally-friendly behavior will be smooshed by their own carbon footprint.

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The Rice Jazz Combo, under the direction of Larry Slezak, has a performance on Thursday at 8 p.m. in Willy's Pub. Admission is free and life is easy.

Clits, vulvas and G-spots

Do a few reps of your Keg-els in preparation for this year's production of The Vagina Monologues. This collection of stories will make you cry, make you laugh and make you queef. The three performances start at 8 p.m. on Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday in basement of Sid Richard-son College.

Shakespeare on tour

The Actors From The Lon-don Stage is an interna-tional touring theater troupe based in London and the University of Notre Dame, and from Feb. 16 to 18, they will be in residency here at Rice. They will per-form Shakespeare's Twelfth Night three times, on Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. each night in Hamman Hall. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $15 for Rice faculty, staff, alumni and students.

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