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My name is Lynn Nicole Stewart. I graduated in 1998 and I was at Jones College and one of my favorite Rice memories was being part of the chug team. In fact, for my last three years at Rice, I was the women's chug captain. My freshman a

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week advisor was one of the male chuggers and he went on, I think at that point, he may have even been the men's chug captain and he made all of us freshmen that were his freshmen come to chug practice. And once everybody had chugged, he basically

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said, thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. And then he was like, you have to come back. So being a hugger and then being the chug captain was a big part of my identity while I was at Rice. And uh it

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is a really fun thing to talk about. Um It's still on my resume and it shouldn't be, but it's the only thing I've ever been asked about at any interview I've ever done. So it remains on my resume and just because it seems important, I'm a

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physician now. So having to discuss being a chug um, at an interview that has nothing to do with being social on campus is, uh, pretty fun. Uh, it's been hard coming back as an alumni to beer bike because of all the changes. Um, most dishearteningly has

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been the reduction of the size of each individual team and the expansion of the track. Um, I don't think it's the number of members on each individual team being 10. That was the problem. I think it's the number of colleges just having too many people on

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the track. I don't think that the heats will end up being a way to accommodate for more colleges. I don't know how to fix that, but I can tell you having a practice tent deflated in the center and not having access to the track for the

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year and not having the track adequately cleaned or swept before the race. Those are big problems that the school could address but really hasn't chosen to, um, they really need to power wash the track. They need to get the gravel off the track. But I don't

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think the school particularly has an interest in doing that and I found that to be quite sad. Um I was also part of mob. I was part of the dance team, the basketball Owl dance team at the time. I did a whole lot of stuff while

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I was at Rice and it was a great time and I just hope that future students had the opportunity to participate in beer. Bike, had the opportunity to participate in mob. Um I think that students now have a lot of opportunities to join a lot of

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clubs. Uh I just wish that uh more people felt they had the time to participate in some of that other stuff. Uh That does require a pretty big commitment. Um I don't know how to encourage students to do these things other than to say, when your

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freshman a week advisor tells you to show up and try out for the chug team or something along those lines, do it. You might actually be surprised you might actually have a skill that you didn't know about. Thank you.