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My name is Janice Flynn Hartgrove-Freile. I was Hartgrove only. I graduated in 1970 I was a uh part of Jones College. I lived in Jones College South for the entire four years. I was here during the raucous years of the Vietnam War. And, and I

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can remember SDS, I can remember the mysterious uh quote bombing of uh the area of the Rice Memorial Center, which we thought was John Birch Society. Um But a lot of us were really involved in the anti war movement and there were a lot of other

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things that went on. We had a very famous year book that year that was even featured in Life magazine because our um two of the most people, one male and one female uh posed in the nude. They were very tastefully done. And the male one, you

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could only see the nude shot by looking um at the keyhole in the door. Um I was also here during the time when we challenged the choice of a new president and uh the board backed down because we claimed that there was little representation when I

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first started at Rice. My first semester, women couldn't wear pants. We had to wear dresses or skirts that changed by my second semester. And, uh, we were the first school to do that at University of Houston. They were still required to wear skirts or dresses. Um,

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also the school was a lot smaller. There are a lot of colleges here now that were not here when I was here. Um, and we had names for people. I don't know if they're still around. I don't know if they still talk about TRGs and T

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RBs and we called the grounds people gnomes. Um, but, uh, let's see, what else? Well, if I was going to give advice, oh, and of course there was the, the Beer Bike race and the Tea Trike race and we, I don't know if they still have

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the choruses, but my senior year, uh, I was the director of the Jones Chorus and I was also, uh, the captain of the Jones track team when we had the track team track meet against Brown. And we won that year because we were tricky. We filled

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all the events even though we had people throwing a disco who had never thrown one before. But hey, if you're the only people competing, you're the ones who will win my advice to current owls and future owls. Enjoy your time here. Um, because this is your

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prelude to having all those responsibilities of adult life. You might feel like you have a lot of responsibilities here with all of the studying and everything. But this is the time to really explore. Don't be afraid to take a course that isn't directly in your program.

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I took, I, I was a behavioral science major, um, taking that was a major at the time that encompassed psychology, sociology and anthropology. And I did equal numbers of courses in psych and anthropology. And I ended up going to graduate school in Psychology at the University

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of Houston and then later another doctoral program at the University of Texas School of Public Health. And I'm currently a college professor at Lone Star College here in the Houston area. And so as I said, the advice I would give you take other courses if they

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interest you, you never know where that path will lead you. I took two art courses uh along with my roommate who was an architecture major. And when I was um a teaching fellow at University of Houston, I developed a course, Psychology of art, which I never

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could have done and gain the respect of their art department if I hadn't had the art background that I had here. Anyway. Enjoy your time. Have a great time while you're here. You will always remember these years.