IT changes unnecessary
· Consider a Rice student's worst-case scenario: It is 4 a.m. during finals and she is finishing up a 20-page research paper. Suddenly, her computer locks up. What does she do? Normally, the answer is to call a College Computing Associate. They are helpful, in the same building and are often up at 4 a.m. as well.
Field notes on _Field Notes_
· This year's common reading program went much better than last year's, although there is certainly still room for improvement (see story, Page 6). We are glad to see that the worthwhile program was not abandoned after its dismal inaugural year, when no more than 20 students total showed up for the discussion sessions, and that the reading played a more prominent role in this year's Orientation Week than last year's.
MBA editorial clarification
· In our editorial on the Jesse H. Jones School of Management Ph.D. program, we stated that admissions standards for Jones MBA candidates were "markedly lower than the university's" ("Management Ph.D. must meet university standard," Aug. 24). We based this statement on the fact that, according the Princeton Review Web site's current university profiles, the average undergraduate GPA for a Jones School student was 3.24 while the average undergraduate GPA for a graduate student in the School of Social Sciences was 3.49.
Letters to the Editor
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