WILL'S LAST FUNPAGE

1. Rice University New Playwright's Festival!
2. AFRICAN BUFFET!
3. Dr. Byrd Book Signing and Reading
4. Bioengineering REU at Saint Louis University
5. Relay For Life
6. Rice Team- Race Against Violence
7. RICE STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
8. Spring Break Meal Service
9. Nanotechnology Event - Baker Institute - 3/9/2009
10. The Hu(man)ity Campaign
11. Rice ACLU Discussion on Racial Profiling Tues, Feb 24
12. National Recreational and Sports Fitness Day 2/20

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1a. LOLcat of the Day: Drunk Friends
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/funny-pictures-cat-suggests-your-drunk-friends-go-home.jpg
2a.Failblog: License Plate Fail
3a. Play with Yourself: Text Twist. It’s just that good
http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=texttwist
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1. Rice University New Playwright's Festival!
Rice New Playwright’s Festival seeking ONE ACT PLAY submissions for juried sit down readings April 6 + 7 at Hamman Hall on Rice University’s campus
E-mail your submissions, questions, comments to tab1@rice.edu or send them to
Teresa Bayer
Hanszen College
6350 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005
Deadline February 28, 2009
Interested in acting in the plays? please let us know!
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2. AFRICAN BUFFET!
Do you want to eat Amazing but cheap African Food before Rondelet?

Do you want to watch an awesome drum and dance performance by a Professional West African Group?

Do you want to win a $15 giftcard?*

Then come to the

AFRICAN BUFFET
FEBRUARY 21, 2009 6pm (performance ~ 6:45pm)
Hosted by the Rice African Student Association


Tickets: $3 for Rice Students, $5 otherwise.

Ticket sale ends on February 20. We can only sell a limited number of tickets so get yours early!


We will have a wide variety of foods, including vegetarian options.
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3. Dr. Byrd Book Signing and Reading
The Office of Multicultural Community Relations, Public Affairs
and the Association of Rice University Black Alumni

cordially invite you to
a reading and book signing by


Dr. Alexander X. Byrd '90
Associate Professor of History
Rice University

Captives & Voyagers:
Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century
British Atlantic World

Monday, February 23, 2009
Herring Hall 100
Rice University Campus

6:30 p.m. Reading
7:15 p.m. Discussion and Questions
7:45 p.m. Reception and Book Signing

Free Admission

For directions and maps visit
www.rice.edu/maps

Alexander X. Byrd is an associate professor of history at Rice University, where he received a bachelor of arts in 1990. Dr. Byrd earned a doctorate degree from Duke University in 2001. He graduated from Yates High School in 1986. Dr. Byrd is an expert in Afro America, especially black life in the Atlantic world and the Jim Crow South. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and a life member of the Southern Historical Association.

About the Book:
"Captives and Voyagers breaks away from the conventional image of transatlantic migration and illustrates how black men and women, enslaved and free, came to populate the edges of an Anglo-Atlantic world. By following the movement of this representative population, Captives and Voyagers provides a vitally important view of the British colonial world and its intersection with the African Diaspora."
--Courtesy of LSU Press

For more information about the book visit
www.lsu.edu/lsupress.

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4. Bioengineering REU at Saint Louis University
-See attached flyer
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5. Relay For Life
The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life is coming to Rice!
Come learn more:
Relay for Life Meeting
Wednesday, February 24 @ 8 PM
Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) Conference Room, RMC top floor

What is Relay? Relay for Life is a community gathering where everyone can participate in the fight against cancer by supporting the American Cancer Society. Teams of supporters will camp out at Rice University's track stadium and celebrate life throughout the night with food, music, and activities. Relay is not a race. Teams maintain constant vigil by continually having at least one team member on the track walking, jogging, or running at all times, because the final victory over cancer won't be a sprint or a marathon, it will be a Relay! Relay for Life will be taking place on Friday-Saturday, April 17-18 at the Rice University Track/Soccer Stadium. For more information, please visit www.relayforlife.org/houstonmedicalcentertx or contact relaytmc@gmail.com.
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6. Rice Team- Race Against Violence
If you are going to be around on the second Saturday of spring break,
March 7th, please join me and the Rice Team in the Race Against
Violence.

Through the following website you can register with the Rice team or
you can also sponsor me by typing in my name under "Sponsor a
Participant."
http://www.hawc.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=295425

March 7th
8:00am 5k Run & Family Walk
9:00am Kids' K
Did you know?

 In 2007 in Texas, 104 women were murdered by their intimate male
partners. Texas Department of Public Safety, 2007
 In Texas, there were 8,430 reported rapes in 2007. This is one rape
per hour. Texas Department of Public Safety, 2007
 In homes where partner abuse occurs, children are 1,500 times more
likely to be abused. American Bar Association Commission on Domestic
Violence, 2005
 70% of women with pets who reported domestic violence indicated that
their pets had been threatened, hurt or killed by their abusive
partners. The Humane Society, 2006
 During 2006 in Texas, there were 275,539 alleged victims of child
abuse and neglect. Of these 67,737 were confirmed. In Harris County,
there were 35,033 alleged and 6,883 confirmed victims. Texas Depart of
Family & Protective Services 2006 Data Book

Join us on Saturday, March 7th, 2009, when over 1500 survivors, family
members, and community supporters will take a step to stop domestic
and sexual violence in Houston. Your financial support of this
community event directly supports vital programming offered by the
Women's Center, including the only Rape Crisis Center and domestic and
sexual violence shelter in the City of Houston. Additionally, you are
lending support to day-to-day services, such as our two twenty-four
hour hotlines, counseling and court advocacy services for adult and
child survivors, shelter and housing support services. The magnitude
of how violence is affecting our neighborhoods is revealed in the
numbers; in 2007, the Women's Center answered 41,000 hotline calls and
offered free and confidential services to 7,000 adults and children in
our community.

If you have any questions please ask! My e-mail is
Nikka.t.landau@rice.edu and my number is 215-720-4648.
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7. RICE STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
EVER DREAM OF MEETING RICE VISITORS LIKE LANCE ARMSTRONG?

RICE STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO
* Shake hands with the heads of state, political officials, athletes and celebrities
* Encourage children to attend college
* Mingle with Houston’s Consular Corps
* Lead international visitors on a campus tour
* Learn all about Rice and its rich history
* Become the “Face of Rice” for visitors
ALL WITH A CLICK OF A BUTTON!
APPLY TODAY at www.rice.edu/amb for more information on the Student Ambassador Program. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 3 by 5:00 p.m.
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Adair, Welcome Center Manager at 713-348-6124 or adair@rice.edu.
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8. Spring Break Meal Service
MID TERM RECESS

MEAL SERVICE INFORMATION

ALL COLLEGES WILL CLOSE AFTER LUNCH ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH
MEAL SERVICE WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY, MARCH 8TH FOR DINNER ONLY AT THE NORTH & SOUTH SERVERIES
ALL OTHER COLLEGES WILL RE-OPEN ON MONDAY, MARCH 9TH
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9. Nanotechnology Event - Baker Institute - 3/9/2009
The British Consulate-General, Houston,
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy,
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP,
and the
International Council on Nanotechnology

present a public lecture and reception on


Novel Materials in the Environment:
The Case of Nanotechnology

with

Professor Michael Depledge
Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP)


Monday, March 9, 2009
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

James A. Baker III Hall
Rice University, Houston, Texas


Please RSVP by e-mail to bipprsvp@rice.edu, by fax to 713.348.2713, or on the
Web at www.bakerinstitute.org/events/depledge by Wednesday, February 25, 2009.

Space is limited; RSVP required.

About the Event

Professor Michael Depledge is a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP), will discuss the commission’s recent report “Novel Materials in the Environment: The Case of Nanotechnology” at the Baker Institute.

The November 2008 report examines issues related to innovation in the materials sector, and the challenges and benefits arising from introducing nanomaterials and other novel materials to the environment. The commission also makes recommendations on how to deal with ignorance and uncertainty in this area, which can be applied to other areas of rapid technological development.

Depledge holds the Chair of Environment and Human Health at the Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, in Devon, U.K. He is also currently the chairman of the Science Advisory Committee on the Environment and Climate Change of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research in Brussels and a board member of Natural England. Depledge has also been a visiting professor in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University since 2007 and at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering of Imperial College, London, since 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the chief scientific adviser of the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency.


For more information about the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, please visit www.rcep.org.uk
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10. The Hu(man)ity Campaign
HELP BREAK THE CYCLE OF POVERTY -- THE HU(MAN)ITY CAMPAIGN

GAP made shirts like this to help AIDS in Africa. http://www.tshirtwatch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/red-gap.jpg

Hanszen's Men's Resource Center is going to make shirts like this to help young at-risk boys in Houston. http://i40.tinypic.com/2ekqg55.jpg

Pick from WO(MAN), PERFOR(MAN)CE, (MAN)GO, E(MAN)CIPATE, COM(MAN)D, BRO(MAN)CE and also the color of the shirt. For $7.

Look for us at meals this week.

For more info, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6023938484 or email ath@rice.edu

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11. Rice ACLU Discussion on Racial Profiling Tues, Feb 24
Rice ACLU presents..

a closer look at
Racial Profiling
Tues, Feb 24th
8pm in Huma 119

Featuring Greg Gladden, local Houston attorney and former Board president of the Houston ACLU. Gladden was also featured along with Willie Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Rage Against the Machine, Al Gore, and other really famous people in the film Last Party 2000.

ALSO: If you're interested in becoming an ACLU officer for next year, start thinking about wich position you'd like to run for - we'll be taking nominations and making candidate lists at the next meeting.

questions? contact psr1@ or ben.carson@
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12. National Recreational and Sports Fitness Day 2/20
The Recreation Center would like to invite you to come celebrate National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day with us tomorrow (Friday Feb.20). The Recreation Center will have complementary snacks and drinks for all patrons throughout the day. In addition, the fitness program will be offering free classes Friday and Saturday. If you have any questions please visit the Recreation Center website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ricerec/ .



In Mike and Casey We Trust