RUPD: Stop stealing
· Since September, there has been an increase of thefts on campus, and we are glad to know that the Rice University Police Department is on the case. However, the current crime deterrence method of fake-stealing students' bicycles and property in the library is one measure too extreme (see story, page 1).
E-mail failure, solutions
· Last Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., about half of students and several faculty members lost their RiceMail e-mail accounts (see story, page 1). To adopt corporate-speak, e-mail is a mission-critical system. It is a main mode of communication, and when those lines collapsed, classes were postponed, schedules disrupted and students thrown into disarray.
Homecoming oligarchy
· Rice students have a proud tradition of voting for preposterous homecoming kings and queens. When Rice was in the Southwest Conference, other schools marched their best beauties to the 50-yard-line for all to see, while we would give the crowds a refrigerator. For years, the results of our Homecoming Elections represented a grassroots effort by students to mock the outdated practice and promote the Rice zeitgeist. But now those grassroots have been replaced by Astroturf (see story, page 11).
Letters to the editor
· #SA Environmental resolution necessary#