2. Early Voting in Harris County
3. Intramural Fields
4. Rice ESL Conversation Partner Program
5. Annual Rice Intramural Golf Tournament
6. Spring 2009 EMT-Basic
7. "The Grove" Opening Celebration
8. Lost iPhone - $100 reward
9. Jones College Theater
10. Loewenstern Fellowship Presentation
11. Taiwanese New Wave Cinema: Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien
12. NOD Security: superheroes, good stories and Netflix
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1a. LOLcat of the Day: Pee http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/funny-pictures-dog-asks-cat-why-he-got-kicked-out.jpg
2a. XKCD: Google
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/going_west.png
3a. Play with Yourself: Bugs, it’s better than you think
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bugs.htm
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1. 2008 Thanksgiving Shuttle to Hobby Airport
The Transportation and Parking Department will provide free shuttle service to the Hobby Airport only on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 as follows:
Departure from circular drive outside the Student Center (RMC).
9 am, 10:30 am, 12 pm, 1:30 pm, 3 pm, 4:30pm
On Sunday November 30, 2008, the shuttle will pick up students returning to Rice University.
Pickup time from Hobby Airport is as follows:
1 pm, 2:30 pm, 4 pm, 5:30 pm, 7 pm, 8:30 pm.
Let me know if you have any questions at 713-348-5223 or 5996.
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2. Early Voting in Harris County
Flyer Attached, for real
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3. Intramural Fields
All intramural fields except O’Connor will be open for recreational use. O’Connor will remain closed until further notice. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.
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4. Rice ESL Conversation Partner Program
Rice University’s Intensive English Program, offered through the Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, is recruiting Conversation Partners. We have approximately 195 students from over 30 different countries in our English as a Second Language Program, all of whom are looking to meet native English speakers.
Our Conversation Partner Program is not a tutoring program. The main goal is our students to be able to practice English in an informal setting. The time commitment required may be as little as an hour a week. We will match you up with one of our students. Where and when you meet will be decided by you and your partner. No second language is required, just the desire to meet a new friend and learn about other cultures.
Our next session dates: October 30 – December 18.
If you are interested, please respond to fl@rice.edu by October 24, 2008.
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5. Annual Rice Intramural Golf Tournament
Rice Intramural Sports will be hosting its 12th Annual Golf Tournament at Clear Creek Golf course on Oct. 25th. All faculty/staff and students are encouraged to participate! This event is a 4-man scramble with an 8 A.M. shotgun start. Intramural Sports will be covering most of the cost but there will be a small entry fee of $20.00 for faculty/staff and $15.00 for all students. This nominal fee covers green and cart fees, range balls, and all door and placement prizes. The top three teams will receive prizes as well as individual contest winners (longest drive, closest to the pin, longest putt). We will be accepting submissions until Thursday Oct. 23rd, so please visit http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ricerec/ims/ to register your team now! If you have any questions or need any other information please feel free to contact me at anytime.
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6. Spring 2009 EMT-Basic
Applications for the Spring 2009 EMT-Basic class are available in all of the colleges as well as on the REMS website, http://rems.rice.edu All applications must be received by 5pm on Monday, October 20 at the Police Station.
If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at pjr1@
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7. "The Grove" Opening Celebration
“The ‘John and Anne’ Grove”
This green space, the main axis of the south residential colleges, is where benefactors John ’63 and Anne d’Olier Mullen ’64 first met in fall 1960. More than 40 years later, the area has undergone a makeover.
Join us for an opening celebration followed by festivities among the oaks.
Friday, October 24 4–5:30 p.m. Casual dress
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8. Lost iPhone - $100 reward
This past weekend I recently lost my phone on campus, more specifically the area bounded by Baker, Sid Rich and Hanszen. I know someone found the phone as I combed through the grass for 4 hours within an hour of losing it off my belt. The phone is a White iPhone and it was in a black belt clip case that was leather and had a flap at the top with velcro (you can see it's white through small openings in the case). My ID card was also in the case. It's essential that I find this phone so I ask if anyone found it if they could return it for a generous reward of $100 dollars. The phone is passcode locked anyway. If found can you please call me at (917) 868-3127 or email me at mjb4@rice.edu
$100 dollar reward for the phone in working condition (it's useless to me if it's broke)
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9. Jones College Theater
Jones College Theater is looking for talented actors and tech crews for the spring production, the Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder! If you've ever wanted to be in a play, this is your chance!
The last day of AUDITIONS are going to be Thursday, October 16th at 7pm in South Jones Library. Come on out if you have any interest whatsoever in helping out with this production!
If you have any questions, email Hermione at heg1@rice.edu
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10. Loewenstern Fellowship Presentation
Over the summer 2008, ten Rice University undergraduate students completed 4- to 12-week service projects with community organizations throughout Latin America as part of the inaugural year of the Loewenstern Fellowships. The names of the Fellows and descriptions of their projects are available on the Community Involvement Center's web site at http://www.rice.edu/service/0809loewenstern.htm.
The 2008-09 class of Fellows will present to the Rice University community information on their experiences while abroad on the following dates:
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 7:00-8:00pm - Sewall Hall 305
Presenters: Alfredo Gutierrez and Mark Yurewicz
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 7:00-8:00pm - Sewall Hall 307
Presenters: Steven Ricondo, Jennifer Zhan, and Bhavika Kaul
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 7:00-8:00pm - Location TBA
Presenters: Julia Lukomnik and Anna Roberts
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 7:00-8:00pm - Location TBA
Presenters: Michael Puente and Tiffany Yeh
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11. Taiwanese New Wave Cinema: Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Announcing:
Taiwanese New Wave Cinema: Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Rice University
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
Rice Media Center, Film auditorium
October 24-26, 2008
About the event:
In partnership with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office – Houston, the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Film Program takes a look at Taiwanese New Wave Cinema through a selection of films by legendary director Hou Hsiao-hsien. This film series includes an opening night reception and panel discussion. All events are free and open to the public and will take place in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice Media Center building. For more information, see the schedule below.
About Hou Hsiao-hsien:
Hou Hsiao-hsien was born in Mei County, Guangdong Province, China in 1947. He and his family fled the Chinese Civil War to Taiwan the following year. Hou was educated at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts. Hou generally makes rigorously minimalist dramas dealing with the upheavals of Taiwanese (and occasionally larger Chinese) history of the past century by viewing its impacts on individuals or small groups of characters.
Schedule:
October 24, 2008
Opening Reception, 6:00 p.m.
Film Screening, 7:00 p.m.
CITY OF SADNESS, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien (1989, 157 minutes, In Taiwanese/Mandarin with English Subtitles)
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s magnificent 1989 film A City of Sadness brings to light the truth about the 1947 massacre known as “the 228 incident.” Winner of the Golden Lion Award at the 1989 Venice Film Festival, A City of Sadness treats one of the key issues of Taiwanese history, yet it is not a political film. It focuses, not on the bloodshed, but on the consequences for a particular family and how individual experience is impacted by the flow of time and history.
October 25, 2008
Film Screening, 7:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion follows the film. Panelists include Dr. Chao-Mei Shen from the Department of Languages, Dr. Charles Dove from the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Film at Rice University, and Ms. Alicia Liu, Journalist
DAUGHTER OF THE NILE, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien (1987, 91 minutes, In Taiwanese/Mandarin with English Subtitles)
This is a compelling Taiwanese drama about a wistful schoolgirl (Yang Lin) who is peripherally involved in a teenaged crime ring. She escapes from the harshness of her surrounding reality by reading her favorite comic books, “Daughter of the Nile.” Despite its inherent whimsical nature, the film is a straight-on look at urban decay in modern Taiwan. Daughter of the Nile was originally released as Nilouhe Nuer. Panel discussion follows the film.
October 26, 2008
Film Screening, 7:00 p.m.
THREE TIMES, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien (2005, 91 minutes, In Taiwanese/Mandarin with English Subtitles)
What is the best of time? It is a moment of euphoria that shall never return again. We do not yearn for it because it was the best time beyond comparison; on the contrary, it is yearned for because we have forever lost it. We could only reminisce about it in our memory, and thus it becomes the best of all times beyond comparison. Three different time periods, three stories, and the same three-time actor and actress play out the two lead roles, evoking a sentimental tale of a three-reincarnation of an unfinished love…
For More Information:
Please contact the Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts @ Rice University
713-348-4882
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12. NOD Security: superheroes, good stories and Netflix
Hey, Wiess needs your help!
Join the Security team for KryptoNOD! Here are a few reasons to consider working NOD Security:
* Curious about this Wiess tradition? Experience NOD, without actually participating!
* Could use a new t-shirt? Get a cool, FREE t-shirt when you work Security!
* Love movies? Sign up for the chance to win a semester's subscription to Netflix!
* Broke college student? Draw for awesome giftcards!
* Get the munchies late at night? Eat some great food the night of the party!
* Superheroes rock your world? Dress up as your favorite hero and protect Rice students on this crazy night
* Enjoy telling a good story? There's no better opportunity for good stories than NOD!
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you should sign up for NOD Security! NOD is the most notorious party at Rice, but also the safest. Please help us maintain this tradition by signing up on the lists posted in your Commons!
See you on October 25th (10pm-2am)!
KryptoNOD Security Coordinators
Roxy, Erin, Kelley and Tiff
PS. please email roxy.loza@rice.edu if you have any questions about NOD Security :)
In Mike and Casey We Trust
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