Tuesday's Happy Funpage

1. KTRU Outdoor Show
2. ADVANCE Discussion on the Olympics and the Politics of Tibet
3. Leadership Rice announces fall 2008 classes.
4. Take Back the Night: Wednesday at 8 pm
5. Important: Lost Laptop
6. SA website links
7. US-Mexico Border Wall Teach-in
8. Economic advisers to Obama & McCain speak at Baker Institute
9. The China Issue in the 2008 Election
10. Police Officer Hiring Process
11. Deadline extended to 4/10 for Centrale Paris Summer School
12. EMPOWER: Summer Program in Brazil on Sustainable Energy
14. Fondren Library Study Break
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1a. LOLcat of the Day: Suffering
2a. You Tube: The Mysterious Ticking Noise
3a. XKCD: Your getting warmer. . .
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1. KTRU Outdoor Show
KTRU's 17th annual Outdoor Show is THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 13th!
Performances by: Rachel Buchman, Flying Balalaika Brothers, Miles Ahead, Social Insects, :::KAI/ROS:::, Balaclavas, Nosaprise, Dead PA, and Parts & Labor!
The show starts at noon on IM fields 2 and 3 (near Jones Business School)
IT'S FREE! There will be delicious food. There will also be delicious FREE BEER for those 21+.
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2. ADVANCE Discussion on the Olympics and the Politics of Tibet
Please join us for our weekly mad awesome discussion. This Friday the 11th @ noon in Miner Lounge (in the RMC) we will be discussing the current events surroundings the Olympics and the Politics of Tibet.
Here are some of the questions we will be discussing:
1. Is it an appropriate course of action to boycott the Olympics in Beijing in order to make a statement about China's treatment of Tibet?
2. Is there more effective method to criticize China's actions?
3. How do you think this boycott will affect the Chinese government's decisions? What about the process of the Olympics?
4. What message does the boycott send to the athletes competing in the Olympics from all countries?
5. Is boycotting a global event like the Olympics a valid means of pressuring national governments? Please come. There will be free ethnic food. See you there!
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3. Leadership Rice announces fall 2008 classes.
Leadership Rice classes prepare you for the challenges and opportunities leaders face today. Classes are open to students of all years and majors and may be taken independently of each other.
Secure your spot—register today.
LEAD 101: LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (TR 10:50-12:05, 3 credits)
For aspiring leaders, LEAD 101 is the place to start for understanding what leaders really do and how they do it. In this class, you will explore and assess various leadership theories and approaches, and also learn how leadership must change to fit different contexts. Armed with a theoretical framework, you will have opportunities to address contemporary leadership challenges. Take LEAD 101 and learn what types of leadership you are best suited to practice.
LEAD 101 instructor: Dr. John Kimball Kehoe received his Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He has served on Eli Lily’s management team and currently directs the Jones School’s Action Learning Program.
LEAD 313: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP (M 3:30-5:30, 2 credits)
It’s one thing to have a good idea, but quite another to turn that idea into a marketable product or service. Through meetings and conversations with entrepreneurial leaders in Houston, readings, discussions, and presentations, LEAD 313 will equip you to translate your ideas to action.
LEAD 313 instructor: Joel Ferguson is an entrepreneurial leader who has served as a managing partner in a worldwide management consulting firm and founded his own consulting firm in 2004. He is the former president of an award-winning restaurant chain (owners of Amazon Grill and Churrascos).
LEAD 321: LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION (MW: 11-12:30, 3 credits)
Powerful communication skills are essential for effective leadership, and LEAD 321 will equip you to articulate ideas with poise, confidence, and clarity. In this class, you will develop written, oral, interpersonal, and team skills while developing an understanding of leadership communication in different contexts, including specific fields of study. Take LEAD 321 and practice the types of communication that are required in the workplace and that will be crucial for your success.
LEAD 321 instructor: Dr. Deborah Barrett has taught and coached executives on communication for over 25 years. She has served as a senior managing director at Hill & Knowlton and as a communication consultant with McKinsey & Co.
LEAD 325: APPLIED LEADERSHIP: POWER, INFLUENCE, AND PERSUASION (MW 2-3:30, 3 credits)
Today’s leaders need a broad skill-set in order to stand out from the crowd. LEAD 325 provides opportunities to practice advanced leadership skills such as negotiation, conflict management, delegation, change management, and group facilitation, with an emphasis on supervising, motivating, and persuading others. Take LEAD 325 and learn to lead from any point in an organizational hierarchy, whether interacting with supervisors, peers, or subordinates.
LEAD 325 instructor: Dr. Deborah Barrett (see above).
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4. Take Back the Night: Wednesday at 8 pm
Take Back the Night
Speak out against sexual violence!
We seek to raise awareness of sexual violence and assault in all forms, to take a stand against the violence, and to break the silence surrounding these events.
7:40 pm Meet at Willy's Statue for a candlelight procession to the RMC 8:00 pm Speak-out at Brown Gardens in the RMC
There will also be a quilting project sewing the names of victims of the Juarez Feminicide into a quilt to become part of a travelling exhibit. FREE CHIPOTLE provided!
Sponsored by the Rice Women's Resource Center and Amnesty International.
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5. Important: Lost Laptop
$200 Reward
No Questions Asked
LOST Black IBM ThinkPad laptop computer.
Last seen Lovett College Commons April 8 Early Tuesday Morning.
If found Please return to Lovett College Coordinator Room 103 or Lovett House
Student needs to have the information on this computer in order to graduate in a few weeks.
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6. SA Website Links
If you're organizing an event on campus, remember to post it on the RPC Calendar. Free publicity for your event. Also check it out to find out what's going on around campus.
http://sa.rice.edu/calendar
RUPD has added items to the new SA Lost and Found Database. If you're missing something, check it out.
http://sa.rice.edu/lost_and_found
The SA Textbook Marketplace has been cleared out in order to ensure a fresh selection of textbooks for the Fall semester. Students tend to get a lot more money for their textbooks selling them in the Marketplace than selling them back to the Bookstore. Add your textbooks now.
http://sa.rice.edu/marketplace
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7. US-Mexico Border Wall Teach-in
US-Mexico Border Wall: community, environmental, and legal implications
Friday, April 11 @ 12noon
Humanities 117
Free lunch from Madras Pavilion!
Please join us for a lunch discussion examining one of the most pressing issues facing our country today! Hear from:
Charles Irvine, environmental lawyer and University of Houston Law Center professor, will examine the environmental and constitutional implications and
Elizabeth Stephens, a Rice Alum and Brownsville U.S. History Teacher, will speak on the community impacts and current activism against the construction of Texas’ Border Wall.
Cosponsored by Rice for Peace & Justice, HACER and Rice Environmental Club
Questions? email activism@rice.edu
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8. Economic advisers to Obama & McCain speak at Baker Institute
The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Campaign 2008:
Economic Policies of the Candidates:
Beyond the Sound Bites
Thursday, April 24, 2008
5:45 pm (Refreshments served prior)
Doré Commons
Baker Hall
Rice University
Uncertainty regarding U.S. economic performance in the short term has greatly increased the importance of economic issues in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. As part of the Baker Institute's series on "Campaign 2008: The Issues Considered," the Tax and Expenditure Policy Program will host a discussion on the major economic issues that face the United States. The discussion will focus on several critical and contentious issues such as how to strengthen U.S. economic performance in an increasingly integrated global economy, how to reform the federal tax code in an efficient, fair and simple manner, how to effectively increase investment in education, and how to solve the long-term fiscal crisis associated with unfunded promises in the major entitlement programs.
Speakers include:
Austan Goolsbee, Ph. D.
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Senior Economic Adviser to Senator Barack Obama
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D.
Former Director, Congressional Budget Office, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Senior Policy Adviser to Senator John McCain
Please RSVP on the Web at www.bakerinstitute.org/events/soundbites
before Monday, April 21.
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9. The China Issue in the 2008 Election
CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
featuring a live webcast of
The China Issue in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional Elections
Thursday, April 17, 2008
**6:00 pm
Baker Hall
Rice University
The National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) announces its second annual CHINA Town Hall featuring Norman J. Ornstein, noted political commentator, in a live national webcast. Stephen A. Orlins, NCUSCR President, will moderate Ornstein's analysis and a real-time dialog with audiences in forty participating cities.
After the webcast, Frank Jones, Houston Forum Immediate Past Chairman, will moderate a local Town Hall discussion with Jacques deLisle, Stephan A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Steven W. Lewis, Director, Transnational China Project at the Baker Institute, and Associate Professor Hans J. Stockton at the Center for International Studies, will outline Houston and Texas interests and connections to China.
CHINA Town Hall is generously underwritten by the Starr Foundation. The Houston Town Hall is co-sponsored by the Houston Forum, the Baker Institute, and the Center for International Studies.
Speakers:
Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D - Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Stephen A. Orlins - President, National Committee on United States-China Relations
Jacques deLisle, J.D. - Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Frank Jones - Immediate Past Chairman, Houston Forum & Senior Partner, Fulbright Jaworski
Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D - Fellow in Asian Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Hans J. Stockton, Ph.D - Associate Professor, Center for International Studies, University of St. Thomas
Free and Open to the Public
Please RSVP on the Web at www.bakerinstitute.org/events/china_townhall
**Seating begins at 5:30 pm
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10. Police Officer Hiring Process
On April 18 and 19 the University Police Department will be holding an assessment center to choose three new Police Officers. We are asking your help to select the newest members of the department who will be serving our community. This is a chance to have a voice in the process! If you are interested and available for these two sessions please contact me or Officer Jared Goldman at jgoldma@rice.edu:
Friday, April 18th, 5p-630p, Assessor and Role Player Training
Saturday, April 19th, 8a-3p, Assessment Center
A light breakfast and lunch will be provided on Saturday. We look forward to your participation in this important process.
Dianna Marshall
Captain
Support Services Commander
Rice University Police Department
(713) 348-4593
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11. Deadline extended to 4/10 for Centrale Paris Summer School
I remind you that Centrale Paris Summer School 2008 will be held at Ecole Centrale Paris from May 24 to June 20.
We already have participants from Cornell University, Penn State University, York University, University of Alberta and Johns Hopkins University but Centrale Paris still has spaces available for engineering undergraduate students in its summer program.
We would be delighted to give your students the opportunity to: spend four weeks in Paris, experience life in a new and culturally reach environment and enhance their education through classes in engineering, management and French.
All courses are taught in English!
Your students can attend two or three specialized courses (3 US credit hours) and a compulsory Survival French course (1.5 credit hours). Each specialized course lasts 30hrs, French, 15 hours.
For further information, including costs, detailed program and more specific course information, students may go to: http://www.ecp.fr/summerchool
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12. EMPOWER: Summer Program in Brazil on Sustainable Energy
EMPOWER: Engineering for a Sustainable Future is a unique program which explores Brazil's approach to energy, including hydroelectric power and ethanol fuel.
The EMPOWER program is centered around a three-credit course from the University of Pittsburgh and includes nine days of site visits and plant tours in Sao Paulo and Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. The course can be completed online for students who are not in the Pittsburgh area.
The EMPOWER course will be offered during the summer term, with an international trip to Brazil from August 7-17, 2008. The $3800 program fee includes:
* Tuition for the three-credit online spring semester course offered by the University of Pittsburgh
* Roundtrip international airfare between Miami and Brazil as well as travel within Brazil
* Hotel accommodations, breakfasts, transportation and cultural activities while in Brazil
* Visa fee and visa processing fee
* Medical insurance during the international portion.
Engineering or science students who are interested in issues of sustainability and clean power will be ideally suited for the program. Applicants should be juniors or returning seniors (graduating seniors will be reviewed on an individual basis). U.S. citizenship is not required for the program.
Application Deadline: Limited spaces still available. Apply by April 14, 2008
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14. Fondren Library Study Break
Late-night study break at Fondren!
Come join us, Wednesday, April 9th, from 9 pm -11 pm in Lovett Lounge, on the third floor of Fondren Library.
Librarians will be there to answer questions, and we'll have pizza!
For more information, please contact Debra Kolah dkolah@rice.edu
In Mike and Casey We Trust
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1a. LOLcat of the Day: Suffering
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-cat-on-vomiting-person.jpg
2a. You Tube: The Mysterious Ticking Noise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4
3a. XKCD: Your getting warmer. . .
http://xkcd.com/407/