OP-ED P. 3
Health care pros and cons
Martel College senior Rodrigo Flores weighs the Implications
of the recently passed health care bill.
AAE P. 12
Fly like an eagle
The Thresher interviews Office Party, winner of KTRU's Battle
of the Bands.
SPORTS P. 15
Decathlete conquers competition
Philip Adam has career-best performance to win the Shirley
Crowe Decathlon.
Master
plan
survey
results
revealed
by Jocelyn Wright
Thresher Editorial Staff
The Master Plan Working Group
presented the results of its survey on
Ihe Campus Master Plan, the univer¬
sity's 5" vear plan for development,
at the Student Association meeting
Monday. Ihe survey, which was open
l.muarv and lebruaty. attempted lo
gauge students’ reactions to ihe varl
ous Ideas presented in a rir.ifi nl Uni
veisity Architect David «odd s master
plan ol campus Nov. q.
The Master Plan Working Group
was chatted bv SA President Patrick
Mi Anauey and consisted of eleven
other undergraduates and graduate
Students ranging from college presi
dents to new student icpresonlntives.
McAnanev, a Brown College senior,
said getting student input about the
master plan was one uf his big cam
paign Issues last spring.
“Something I heard pretty con
smnfiy during my thiee years was
construction, construction, consttui
tlon." MiAnaney said. "A lot of it is
pretty overwhelming and students
felt they hadn’t really got to particl
[iale in the process of planning."
Since the master plan, which is
revised every five years, was up for
revisions this year. McAnaney said
he saw an opportunity to gel students
more involved.
“I thought, if we want to get input
on construction and be involved, this
is a great opportunity to try and do
it,” McAnanev said.
After he was elected last spring,
McAnaney met with President David
Leebron, Associate Vice President for
facilities Engineering and Planning
Barbara White Bryson and Rudd to
discuss the idea. Rodd presented the
current version nl the master plan
•It Ihe SA meeting mi that students
would have the bar kgrournl neces
sary to answer Ihe questions, which
Ihe working group then developed.
More lhan (u-,ci students respond
ed in the survey, which focused on
si* key issues: green space, campus
social dynamic, parking and Irans-
portation, undergraduate growth,
recreation and athletics and campus
aesthetics.
McAnaney said these catego
ties were chosen from FE&P’s list
of key issues.
"Those were the areas we identi
bed as most interesting and relevant
to students from out perspective,"
McAnaney said. “We added campus
aesthetics as an element we'd like to
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Jones wins again, at
least with silly string ...
(ones College sophomore Ellie Grebowski takes part In lones' jack last Thursday in which
Houston mayor Annise Parker's (lones '78) visit tn campus ended with lones students from the
crowd and nearby buildings spraying the other attendees with silly string. See story, page 8.
Despite rain, Will Rice dashes to victory
Beer Bike rescheduled for Sunday
by Seth Hrown
I'HRfSftKH EuITohiai Staii
Thanks to last Saturday's Inc leni¬
ent weather, most students parliri
paling in this year’s Beet Hike parade
were soaked even before balloons
started Hying. Although all ol the
student races were rescheduled for
Ibis Sunday (see adjacent Story), the
alumni participated in a beet run,
which Will Rice College won.
Will Rice finished just seconds ahead
of Brown College, whose penalties put
them behind 16 seconds.
Sid Richardson College was disc|ual
Hied because its chug team did not bring
1 hugging equipment and beverages, if
quuements for the race,
The parade proceeded as planned
despite the ram. though Emergency
Medical Services Diiei tor l.isa Bas
gall said the tain resulted in an in
creased number ol twisted ankles
and lacerations than she otherwise
would have expected.
IMS received jo calls, ol which
fiasgall said four to five resulted in
hospital trips. She said although
EMS Investigated a rumor of a worn
an giving birth in die lesse H. Jones
Graduate School ol Business parking
garage, F.MS was unable to locate the
individual in question,
Campus-wide Beer Bike Coor¬
dinator Brian Henderson said be
cause of Ihe rain, some Beer Bike
staff were unable to properly record
fines, and the fines assessed to each
c ollege during the parade were thus
uneven. Each college will instead
be assessed a $600 patade fee, 01
Si 50 for McMuitry College and Dun
can College because of their smaller
student population. The $600 fine
by Seth Brown
Thresher Editorial Staff
The biggest player at this year's
Beer Bike was not a college, rider,
or even one of the coordinators
- rather, nature dominated this
year's parade and races, Thanks
to the cold and wet last Saturday,
all of the races but the alumni
race have been rescheduled for
2 p.tn. Sunday.
Campus-wide Beer Bike Coor¬
dinator Brian Henderson said the
decision lo postpone the student
races was made because of con¬
cerns about safety and the event's
enloyability.
“At Ihe first Beer Run, Emer¬
gency Medical Services treated
people for hypothermia, and it
wasn't fun for the teams or the
spectator," Henderson, a (ones
College senior, said. “We had no
real good reason lor trying to hold
the taces (Saturday).”
Although April to was the origi
nal contingency date for the taces,
is $30 fewer than was assessed to
the college with the least fines last
year, and Henderson said he has
not received any objections to this
plan from any college.
Assistant Dean of Students Boyd
Beckwith said several Incidents
taised concerns aboul the patade
that will necessitate changes fot
next yeai. These incidents included
the use of underfilled balloons, the
Henderson said that there were too
many conflicts on this date among
the various bike and chug teams.
This Sunday will feature reduced
team si2es, with four to five bik¬
ers and chuggers per team instead
of the usual io, again because of
team conflicts.
“Teams were having problems
fielding full teams, and every
weekend after this gets worse,"
Campus-wide Beer Bike Coordina¬
tor Nazish Malik said.
Sunday's races will still in¬
clude an exhibition tace between
Duncan and McMurtry. and the
races between the other colleges
may have to be divided into two
separate heats, depending on the
number of judges who volunteer.
The colleges in each heat are still
undecided, and the overall rank
ing will depend only on the final
times for each college, not on their
ranking within their heat.
Wiess College junior Hari Ath-
reya said although he thinks post¬
poning the race should make the
use of balloons on police and police
vehicles, an incidence of public uri¬
nation and the unauthorized use of
Shepherd School of Music and Bar¬
bara and David Gibbs Recreation
and Wellness Center facilities by
large numbers of students immedi¬
ately after the parade ended.
"We can’t continue with the cur
rent level of dangerous behavior."
Beckwith said. “Shepherd had little
event more enjoyable for specta¬
tors, he hopes that heats aren't
necessary.
“Heats would rake away from
some of the excitement of it." Ath-
reya said.
Henderson and Malik ask for
any faculty, staff or associates in¬
terested in Judging to contact them
at beerbikefrrice.edu.
Because of budget restrictions,
It is unlikely that there will be
food provided Sunday, though the
coordinators said they intend to
contact their sponsors. Saturday's
events cost $28,000, but Beer Bike
receives only $16,500 a year from
blanket taxes. The Beet Bike Com¬
mittee assessed $5,700 this year
in fines, down from $7.000 col¬
lected Last year, Colleges have untii
April 9 to pay these fines.
Assistant Dean of Students
Boyd Beckwith said expenses due
to Sunday's races, such as rent¬
ing an ambulance and having Rice
University Police Department of¬
ficers present, will mean that Beet
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see BEER, page 6
kids inside when a mass of wet.
combative students came through."
Hanszen College sophomore
Bruna Costa said despite the cold
she enjoyed the parade.
“I woke up and mv jaw was sore
because I was smiling." Costa said.
"1 was already soaking. I didn't need
to get hit by water balloons. I was
just voluntarily letting mysell get
sick, but it was totally worth it "
Fine Kleine Nachtmusik
Sorry, wrong language; the Shepherd School
Opera will be performing on Stephen Send
helm's A l ittle Night Mum , a musical about
romantic couples written In waltz time, today
and Monday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1
p.m. in the Wortham Opera Theater.
Inspired by Japan?
Sid Schoolgirls Is to p.m. to 2 a.m. tomorrow.
There will be stripper polos, as well as D|s Alex
Marks and Tristan dement, free alcohol
Гог
those of age and free food. Did we mention
stripper poles? Shipper pules!
No Thresher next week
Due to spring recess, it will be two weeks untU the
next issue. Please don't be excessively newsworthy
iri the next few weeks, or the first April edition will
havr to be really long. Please?
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