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Hi. Uh, my name is Karen Whitney LaVohn. I graduated in 1992 and I was at Wiess College. Um, I was in English and Behavioral Science major and, um, some of the cool things, uh, that I did some Rice traditions. I was in the MOB, I played

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violin. It was, uh, very different from what I played orchestra in high school, but I had a lot of fun in the band in the, in the MOB. And, um, one really cool thing that I really other remember about playing in the MOB besides just, you

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know, being part of a Scatter band was, um, when we used to come into Rice Stadium, we would, all of us would come through the tunnel, uh, in the pregame section and at the time, uh, that was in the late eighties, early nineties. Um, there were

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close to 200 members of the MOB and when we went through the tunnel, they would play Takata and Fugue just like the little intro and being inside the tunnel was such an amazing experience. Like you could feel the reverberations from the drums and especially the brass.

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Um, it was just an amazing feeling. I still remember it to this day. Just that feeling like hearing it the sound, um, and the vibrations from the noise. It was just a really cool experience to be in that tunnel. Uh, while we were playing that before

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we entered the stadium. Um, another tradition that I was part of was, um, uh, when we would have beer bike, I didn't actually, uh, participate in the Beer Bike part, but, uh, Weiss would always have, um, a barbecue and, um, we would like, stay at, take

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turns staying up all night. If you took the shift, that was overnight, you got an amazing breakfast. And I was also, I helped out with, um, being part of the war pig that flew. Um, and, you know, that was just really cool, like, um, helping to

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build it, uh, watching it fly in the parade. Um, it was just a really a great experience. Um, some other things we did, you know, at, at Wiess was, uh, we would do jacks and other colleges. We did pumpkin caroling. Uh, I remember being part of

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a jacket where we went to Hanson and, uh, we're stacking all of the tables and chairs on top of each other in the commons. Nothing, nothing damaging. But, um, you know, it was, it was still a lot of fun and harmless fun. Um, they, we also

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used to, there were plenty of gazilchers back then when students would launch water balloons. Launch yogurt a variety of things, um, across campus with the gazilchers. Um, we also had something at Old Wiess called Third floor Drop. And, um, because the, the, the middle section of

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the big E that, that we used to be made out of, uh, had a third floor and one year they sold old sodas and launched them off the third floor and one soda like launched completely over, uh, the third, it hit just right to go over

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the third floor. Uh, we also played a lot of Foosball Foursquare and a B, um, a lot of good memories from old Wiess. Um, and then as far as any advice I would want to share, I have two nieces who've graduated. Um, I think they've done

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an amazing job of finding themselves being successful. Um, and just like I tell everyone how most of my friends to this day, you know, over 30 years after I've graduated are still Rice friends. So, you know, making friends. Rice people are good people and these are

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lifelong friends. And, um, I just hope that this generation of Rice students has a wonderful memories like I had.