The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
16 hours ago by Seth Brown
Students, alumni and members of KTRU's Houston community came to Sewall Hall 301 on Wednesday night to attend a forum on KTRU's sale. KTRU Station Manager Joey Yang said that he invited President David Leebron, Dean of Undergraduates John Hutchinson, Vice President for Administration Kevin Kirby and Vice President for Public Affairs Linda Thrane, but Thrane and Leebron told him that they would be unable to attend.
North Star News, North Harris College, Houston, TX
1 day ago by Jason Davila
I can't understand why I am hurting.
I can't understand why you are not.
I wish this feeling would just end.
I wish my care for you, just forgot.
You don't care and you don't need.
You won't hear and you won't feel.
I'm just another person. Another guy.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
1 day ago by Alex Buckey
This past Friday, I got a nasty shock when I read in the Thresher that The New York Times columnist and talking head David Brooks would be the class of 2011's commencement speaker. As a Times reader, political science major and longtime non-admirer of Brooks, I'm disappointed both by the choice of speaker and the embrace of indulgent intellectual mediocrity that it represents.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
1 hour ago by Margeux Clemmons
Molecule-sized cars complete with buckyball tires may bring new meaning to the term "compact car" thanks to chemistry professor James Tour, who has been awarded the 2008 Feynman Prize for his synthesis of the nanocar.
The honor, which recognizes researchers who make significant contributions to the beneficial use of nanotechnology, is distributed by the California think tank Foresight Institute.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
2 hours ago by Staff Editorial
It's 9 p.m. on Thursday night, and if you are like many Rice students, you have a problem set due tomorrow and are just about ready to sit down to take a look at it. As you walk toward the lonely confines of Fondren Library for the rest of the night, the overwhelming need for a cup of coffee hijacks your mind.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
3 hours ago by
To the Editor: The administration's comments on KTRU's failure to pass a blanket tax increase are misleadingly bleak and lacking in context ("President David Leebron responds to Thresher staff editorial, student and alumni concerns over KTRU sale," Aug. 27).
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
2 hours ago by Eric Harrison
As the reasons given for opposing the planned Cordoba House mosque in New York City have become increasingly incoherent and shrill, the one consistent appeal has been to the pain which the mosque's location will allegedly cause the relatives of those killed in the 9/11 attacks.
The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston , TX
3 hours ago by Ellen Liu
The members of the Student Association, decked out in "BRO-wear," gathered in the Farnsworth Pavilion Sept. 6 for smoothies, backslaps and something more serious: discussion of the Student-Administration Relations Resolution.
This resolution was introduced at the Aug.
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