Rice, race, athletics and statistics
· For the year 2005-'06, Rice had 200 black undergraduates, constituting 7 percent of the undergraduate student body. Of these, 99 were male full-time students. Subtracting the 47 who were scholarship athletes leaves 52 non-athlete black men (see story, page 4). Divide the number by four -- for the four years of college -- and then by nine -- for the nine residential colleges. By these numbers, Rice can be a very lonely place for non-athlete black men.
Fondren, food and the pavilion
· Fondren Library's fourth floor has begun featuring accoutrements besides the usual leather bound volumes and graduate students, with Wednesday's opening of a new coffee bar and lounge.
Thank you, Faculty Senate
· Faculty Senate, we would like to thank you for preserving student sanity. On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate finally passed the new academic calendar, expanding winter break by a week and keeping the two-day spring recess that students have come to rely on as a break before finals (see story, page 1). It has been a long, drawn-out process, but we are glad to see it come to a close that everyone can agree with, establishing a calendar that will hopefully be in place for many years to come. Now students and faculty can take time to relax, knowing they have the next few months to make beach plans for April.
Letters to the editor
· #'Light' piece ignores environmental issues#