Announcements - 11/19/14
Lots of Pain
Yesterday, I accidentally bit my tongue real hard, and it hurts reaaaaal bad. I also accidentally punched myself in the face (dont ask how) and my upper lip has a cut on the inside. Then my left elbow feels all funky, and I have a headache. I have a problem.
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1. RSVP Blood Drive
My mom wont let me donate blood because she says Im too skinny. I dont know what shes talking about. I think Im swole as heck. pouts-
2. Rice Basketball Home Opener
Can we Rice to the challenge? #RiceRising
3. Master of Accounting
Id rather be a jack of all trades. Accounting stinks :(
4. Summer Group Service Trips
ASB 2.0: Alternative Summer Break
5. Vote for Habitat for Humanity
A vote for Habitat for Humanity is a vote for humans everywhere.
6. BISF Editorial Position
Your paper deserves more than just a silly grade! Even though thats all we really care about.
7. Inequality in Education
This is what my ASB is about :P. For the spring, that is.
8. Freedom of Religion Class
Yo Leebron is teaching this class. Thats pretty cool. Idk why it took him so long to advertise this though.
9. Choir Singing Opportunity
Kind of irrelevant, but heres a singing-related joke.
How many boy bands does it take to change a lightbulb?
.No idea. Lightbulbs last longer than boy bands. (What has Justin Beiber been up to recently, now that I think about it?)
10. Rice Conversations
I have these all the time.
11. Apply to be a mentor for Project Rousseau
If you apply, Im sure youll have the position down under Locke and Keynes. (This was so lame.)
12. Eulogy for Mexicos Missing Students
Would rather not joke about this..
13. Nominate seniors to be featured in Yearbook
When I graduated high school, I won Most Likely to be President. However, Ive never even voted for anything in my life. Lol random.
On Thursday, November 20th, in Farnsworth Pavilion of the RMC, Rice Student Volunteer Program (RSVP) partners with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center (GCBRC) to host a blood drive. There is no substitute for blood. Every 2 seconds there is someone in need of blood and each successful donation can save up to three lives. It's easy to sign up, so join us today!
Sign up here:
https://www.commitforlife.org/
The process of giving blood takes about 30-45 minutes. Appointments are encouraged and will be given priority, but walk-ins anytime between 10 am and 4 pm are always welcome. Be sure to eat, stay hydrated, and bring a picture ID to your appointment. Following a successful donation, participants will receive a FREE t-shirt and food.
If you have any questions or would like help registering, please contact Alan Vu () or David Vien ().
Hey Rice Students!
On behalf of the entire mens basketball team and staff, I just wanted to say thank you to those of you who attended our exhibition game on Saturday. Your energy was great and we need you to keep that energy coming! I want you all to take a break from the library and come see us in action again at Tudor Fieldhouse next Wednesday, November 19th at 7:00pm for our home opener. Come early for music and free food before the game and the first 350 students will receive a Rice Rising t-shirt.
We are committed to building a basketball program that all of our fellow Owls can be proud of and we need your support. So grab 5 of your friends, paint your faces blue and white and head over to Tudor Fieldhouse next Wednesday ready to cheer your Owls to victory.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks again,
Head Mens Basketball Coach
Mike Rhoades
#RiceRising
Are you interested in a career in business? Would you like to be a Certified Public Accountant?
The Jones Graduate School of Business is launching its Master of Accounting (MAcc) Program in Fall 2016.
· Specifically designed as 4+1 program for Rice undergraduates
· Open to all undergraduate majors
· Just 12 months to launch a career
· Segue into global professional services firms
· Paid internships for those who plan ahead
· Benefit from an accomplished and supportive Jones School alumni network
Q: How many of the Big 4 public accounting firms were listed in Fortune Magazines 2014 100 Best Companies to Work For?
A: All of them! Deloitte: #61, EY: #78, KPMG: #80, PwC #65
Q: How many public accounting firms were rated in Businessweeks 2009 Best Places to Launch a Career survey?
A: All of them! The Big 4 public accounting firms take the top 4 spots!
Applications are being accepted now. Visit business.rice.edu/macc
Consider spending your summer doing service outside the continental US?
The Center for Civic Leadership has three group service trips traveling during summer 2015 to Alaska, Bulgaria, and Guatemala.
Applications close November 24 at 5:00pm.
Financial Assistance Available
For more information visit the Center for Civic Leadership website at http://cic.rice.edu/GIS
Lauren Caldarera
Associate Director
Center for Civic Leadership -MS 200
Rice University
PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Phone: 713-348-6409
Fax: 713-348-5885
http://www.rice.edu/service
We are Rice Habitat for Humanity and we have currently entered in a video competition with 19 other universities for the opportunity to win $5000 towards our spring break Leadership Retreat!!!!
Help us out by voting for Rice University H4H Chapter here!
http://a.pgtb.me/hfNbgc
We really appreciate it!!!!
Thanks,
Rice Habitat for Humanity
Yichuan (Lily) Ma
B.S Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University 2017
Houston, TX 77005
713-851-0551
BISF: Editorial Position Opening, Accepting Policy Paper Submissions for Publication!
That final paper youre working deserves to be more that just a grade. Consider submitting it to The Rice Cultivator Rice's undergraduate public policy research journal published through the Baker Institute Student Forum. The Cultivator is published in the Baker Institute Research Library and provides an easy way to repurpose the papers you already have to write! All submissions must be emailed to by January 16, 2015.
We accept papers on all topics as long as the paper has a policy recommendation or focus. Papers you have written any time while enrolled at Rice are eligible for submission. There are no length requirements. You may submit more than one paper.
The Cultivator is also looking to hire two copy editors as part of a new BISF committee. Copy editors will have editorial tasks in the spring semester. This opportunity is a great way to get more involved in BISF. We will hold an info session about the open positions this Thursday November 20. Find more info here: https://www.facebook.com/
The Rice American Civil Liberties Union is hosting a panel on inequality in education. We'll discuss educational disparities in Houston in terms of socio-economic background, race and neighborhoods. We'll also talk about the role of charter schools.
We're featuring two fabulous speakers--Dr. Turley who's the director of the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) and Rice alum, Raj Salhotra. Raj is currently working for Teach for America, so for those of you interested in working with TFA, this is a great opportunity to meet Raj. Below are the details:
When? Monday, November 24, 4:30-5:30pm
Where? HUMA 328
Noms? YES! SWEET AND SAVORY KOLACHES.
See the Facebook event here to RSVP: https://www.facebook.
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society"--Sonia Sotomayor (first Latina Supreme Court Justice)
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Baker Institute Student Forum
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Rice University MS-40
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Email:
Website: http://bakerinstitute.org/
Facebook: BISF Facebook Page
Twitter: @ricebisf
Hello singers!
Palmer Episcopal church, across from the Rice campus on Main Street, has an excellent choir community and Rice students are always welcome to join us. We sing everything from ancient plainchant, to Tudor polyphony and Edwardian Anglican choral repertoire, to serious contemporary sacred choral music. The choir rehearses on Wednesday evenings from 7-930pm and sings for the 9am and 11am services on Sunday. There is also dinner available Wednesday's before rehearsal. Please contact Dr. Brady Knapp, Director of music at for more information. www.palmerchurch.
Dennis Huston: How Does a Film Director Control His Audience's Responses?
Time: 11/21, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Farnsworth Pavilion
The format will be 30 min speech + 30 min conversation.
Yummy snacks(macarons, cupcakes, etc) and hot beverages will be provided!!!
We founded Rice Conversations in order to provide a platform for people who share interests in certain topics to meet each other. Every week we will focus on one topic(it could be in any field, our goal is to make the topics as comprehensive as possible) and you are welcome to any event you are interested in. If you have any topic or speaker you wanna recommend to us, feel free to email me!
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Xiaoting (Iris) Huang
Rice Conversations President
Economics, Art History | Business Minor | Rice University 2017 | Hanszen College
| (281)796-4360
Hello Rice!
As the chapter president of Project Rousseau I am excited to announce we are looking for new members for the coming Spring! My name is Anoosha Moturu, a sophomore at Sid Rich, and I wanted to share this opportunity with all of you.
Project Rousseau at Rice is a chapter of a national non-profit organization that opened this past fall, and that is currently in the process of recruiting our second round of mentors for the Spring semester. The program partners with Houston Heights High School, a high school with underserved students from the area, to match up mentors from Rice University with promising students from the high school by grade (sophomores to sophomores, juniors to juniors, etc.). Mentoring activities are one-on-one between the mentee and mentor, and foster strong bonds between both students. Activities range from academic advice to community service to extracurricular activities such as museum trips and sporting events. It's an organization with branches all over the country, some of the more prominent being Julliard, Columbia, etc. The program has been incredibly successful, changing the lives and perspectives of not only the mentees, but the mentors as well!
We are currently recruiting mentors (geared towards freshman and sophomores) that would feel passionately about creating those strong big brother/sister-like bonds with students. There is more information about the program, a message from the founder to Rice, and a very brief application that is due December 5 (the last day of classes) that can be found at this address: https://www.facebook.com/
Thank you so much, and we hope to hear from you!
~PR@Rice
Project Rousseau at Rice
Protests have spread across Mexico in the last several weeks, as shocked and outraged citizens take to the streets to express their anger with the tragic events that have rocked the southern town of Iguala. On September 26, 43 students training to be teachers traveled to Iguala to petition for more money for their rural school. The mayor of the city ordered the police to detain the students. They were then handed over to the Guerreros Unidos, a local cartel. The majority of the students have not been found, but the Attorney Generals office has declared them legally dead as of Nov. 10, 2014. When asked about the case, the Mexican Attorney General stopped the questions by stating Ive had enough.
To show your solidarity with the missing students and people of Mexico come to the Academic Quad for a short candlelight vigil and eulogy at 6:30 P.M. on Wednesday, Nov. 19th.
The Campanile is looking for seniors to feature in the Senior Section of this year's book, and we want your input! Do you know any outstanding or interesting seniors that we should feature? Nominate them here: http://ow.ly/Ersfe
*You CAN nominate yourself and you can nominate multiple people*
Anastasia Bolshakov, Campanile EIC
Travelling is my life
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