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Students should stop supporting Rice SJP. By Colin Hill. To foster a truly inclusive campus culture, we must consider a paradox of intolerance: a society must be intolerant of intolerance to uphold its foundational values. Rice SJP not only silences opposing voices, but promotes exclusionary rhetoric that undermines principles of inclusion and ...
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Oct 11, 2024 · Student-Run since 1916. NEWS 10/8/24 11:36pm Chabad at Rice hosts vigil for Oct. 7 anniversary By James Cancelarich. Nearly 150 students, staff and faculty gathered at Farnsworth Pavilion for a vigil commemorating the one …
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OPINION 10/1/24 10:52pm Rice bends to Zionist propaganda By Matti Haacke and Erica Augenstein. In the last several weeks, Rice University held three events — both openly and behind closed doors — that, taken together, demonstrate its commitment to advancing a Zionist ideology on campus, which serves as the foundation for Israel’s increasingly psychotic …
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Oct 8, 2024 · By Thresher Editorial Board. Rice reached a $33.75 million settlement on Feb. 23 in the financial aid “cartel” lawsuit that alleged Rice, as well as 16 other peer institutions, unfairly limited aid for students at need-blind universities. Nine other universities have also settled in the case. OPINION 2/20/24 9:40pm.
Rice sees 44% yield for class of 2028 - The Rice Thresher
Sep 3, 2024 · 7.5%of applicants were accepted for the class of 2028, 7.7% for the class of 2027 and 8.6% for the class of 2026. Yvonne Romero da Silva, vice president for enrollment, previously told the Thresherthat historically high yield rates had, in part, prompted the admissions office to be more conservative with their admissions offers.
Letter from the opinion editor’s desk: Voicing your opinions is ...
Sep 10, 2024 · We want to hear what you have to say. There are many spaces on campus to connect, to share, to listen. These pages are one of them. In my first opinion article for the Thresher reflecting on the shooting at Michigan State University, I said that “to create … to mold what lies around us into that which we desire…is our charge, our debt.”. Those are words I still …
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NEWS 10/8/24 11:36pm Rice Students for Justice in Palestine remembers a ‘year of genocide’ By Belinda Zhu and Maria Morkas. Reflecting upon a “year of genocide,” Rice Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a vigil Oct. 7, honoring the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed since last year’s attacks on Israel.
Rice ranks No. 18 in U.S. News - The Rice Thresher
Sep 25, 2024 · By James Cancelarich and Riya Misra 9/25/24 12:24am. Rice ranks No. 18 in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2025 national university rankings, tied with Vanderbilt University and the University of Notre Dame. Rice has also placed No. 8, 9 and 29 in the Niche, Forbes and Wall Street Journal rankings, respectively.
Servin’ up serveries - The Rice Thresher
Oct 9, 2024 · A committee was formed to investigate introducing serveries with “ [four] faculty members, two staff members, and two undergraduates,” according to an August 1998 issue of the Thresher. The overall response: negative. In a public survey, an estimated 70 out of 120 students critiqued the plan. Then-Will Rice College magister Dale Sawyer said ...
Innovation is good, responsible innovation is great
Oct 1, 2024 · 13.5 percent of female college students and 3.6 percent of male college students had an eating disorder in 2007, and eating disorder risk among American college students has increased 13 percent from 2013 to 2020. College students are particularly at risk for developing an eating disorder.. Nobody is forced to download the app — but still, know your audience.