Residential colleges of Rice University
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At academic ceremonies, including matriculation and commencement, the colleges proceed first with the four original colleges in the order Baker, Will Rice, Hanszen, and Wiess, followed by the other colleges in order of founding: Jones, Brown, Lovett, Sid Richardson, Martel, McMurtry, and Duncan. For the original four colleges, which were founded simultaneously in 1957, the processional order reflects the order in which the original buildings were constructed. For McMurtry and Duncan, which were constructed and opened simultaneously in August 2009, the processional order reflects the order in which the founding gifts were made.
The colleges are often classified by geographical location: Jones, Brown, Martel, McMurtry, and Duncan are the North colleges; Baker, Will Rice, Hanszen, Wiess, Lovett, and Sid Richardson are the South colleges.
History of the college system
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The residential college system was instated in 1957 by converting East, South, West, and Wiess (originally and briefly North) Halls into the men's colleges of Baker, Will Rice, Hanszen, and Wiess, respectively.[9] Jones, the first residential college built on campus for that purpose, was constructed the same year and became the singular women's college. Brown, Lovett, and Sid Richardson colleges composed the initial expansion founded between 1965 and 1971. To cope with increasing enrollment,[10] Martel, McMurtry, and Duncan colleges were constructed in the period between 2001 and 2009.
Common characteristics
Architecture
Each college except Sid Richardson is built around a quadrangle, which serves as the central court of the college.
Each college building includes three principal structures:
- A residential building, where on-campus members of the college live. In addition to student rooms in various configurations, the building includes at least two apartments for resident associates. Resident associates are typically junior faculty members; their role is to serve as mentors and counselors to the students of the college.
- A house, usually immediately adjacent to the residential building, in which the college Magister or Magisters live. A Magister is typically a tenured or other senior faculty member who lives at the college with his or her spouse, providing leadership and guidance to the college as a whole and to individual students. (Historically the term Master was reserved for faculty members, while a non-faculty spouse held the title Co-Master. Today, both spouses are known as Magisters.)
- A commons, where college members (including on-campus and off-campus students, Magisters, resident associates, and non-resident associates from the faculty and the community) take their meals and conduct other activities of college life, including study groups, lectures, theatrical productions, and parties. In addition to a large multi-purpose dining hall, each commons typically includes an administrative office, a private dining room for small group meetings, and other specialized areas.
Each college has a unique architectural style, and as a result there are a great number of different room configurations, with varying levels of modernity and condition.
Each college is also connected to a dining hall, known as a servery. Martel, Jones, and Brown colleges are served by North Servery, while McMurtry and Duncan are served by West Servery. In the South, Hanszen and Wiess colleges are served by South Servery while Will Rice, Lovett and Sid Richardson Colleges are served by Seibel Servery. Baker College has its own servery, Baker Kitchen.
Magisters and Resident Associates
Each of the residential colleges at Rice has two College Magisters,[11] a faculty member and their spouse. The Magisters reside in a home adjacent to the college, and help cultivate a variety of cultural and intellectual interests among the students, as well as support an effective system of self-government. They administer the college and serve as liaisons between the students of the college and Rice.
Resident Associates (RAs) are Rice faculty or staff members who reside on campus with students. While each college has many associates, the RAs are selected to live on campus at the college to interact more extensively with the students. They live in apartment suites at the colleges, regularly attend meals with students, and are generally active members of student life. McMurtry College and Duncan College, due to their population size, also have Head Resident Fellows, who are meant to ease communication between RAs, the Magisters, and the students.
Two of the longest-serving resident associates in Rice history are Dr. Gilbert Cuthbertson, professor of political science and resident associate at Will Rice College, and
Governance
Each college is in charge of an annual budget in excess of $50,000 and elects a government from its students to administer the college and the budget. The college governments can exert control over everything from event organization to upgrades to the college facilities. Governing documents for many of the colleges can be found online.[12][13][14][15][16][17] Singular student presidents and chief justices are university mandated features of each college's government. Additional members vary per college, but typically include Treasurer, Secretary, and a plurality of representatives from each class. The executive officers, such as the President, Treasurer, and Secretary, form the Executive council, and the representatives combine with the council to form the college government, known by names such as Cabinet or Parliament, depending on the college. These councils meet weekly to dispense with business related to the organizational and social functioning of the college. The meetings are akin to town hall meetings and typically include refreshments; they also serve as a forum for members of the various clubs, theater groups, and intramural sporting clubs to announce and advertise upcoming events. In addition, each college elects and sends one senator to represent the college at the Student Association.
Traditions
The traditional campus-wide
Baker College
Baker College | ||
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Location | 6320 Main St., Magisters Luis Duno-Gottberg and Angela Duno[19] | |
President | Marina Karki[20] | |
Chief justice | Austin Cox | |
Membership | 360 (approximate) | |
Mascot | Devil | |
Website | baker |
James Addison Baker College is named in honor of Captain James A. Baker, friend and attorney of William Marsh Rice, and first chair of the Rice Board of Governors. He served as the Rice Institute's first chairman on the Board of Trustees from June 24, 1891, until his death in 1941. He is known for having helped unravel the conspiracy surrounding the murder of the millionaire, who was chloroformed by his butler, Charles F. Jones, on September 23, 1900. The suspicious death of the Rice founder was concocted by Albert T. Patrick, a New York attorney, who forged a will naming himself the primary beneficiary to the large fortune, enlisting the Butler's help. Captain Baker, however, began an intensive investigation into the death of his employer, discovering the forgery, and returning the foundation to what would become Rice University.[21]
As part of the university's original on-campus housing for male students, a dormitory (South Hall, now part of Will Rice College) and a dining room, library and residential tower (now part of Baker College) were built in 1912 by Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson of Boston, Massachusetts, at the cost of $137,544.52. The now-Baker commons—with beautiful engraved oak beams and the high vaulted ceilings of Elizabethan design—served as the university's central dining hall for 43 years. East Hall, which contained dormitories and is now referred to as the "Old Wing" of Baker, was completed in summer 1915 (and West Hall (the "Old Wing" of Hanszen College) was completed in 1916).
Baker's colors are traditionally red, silver, and black, and the college associates itself with the devil and hell in its Beer Bike themes and college cheers, with the most popular cheer being "Baker, hell yeah!".[23] The crest was selected, by popular vote, in 1958. The main design is derived from the family crest of Captain Baker's mother, with the owls across the shield indicating the connection to Rice University, and is inscribed with a phrase from Epictetus, which says "[d]ifficulties are things that show what men are."[21] Every year, Baker throws the Baker 90's public party, held in the spring. Some of the biggest social traditions include Baker Christmas in September, the annual Christmas Tree brought home by the freshmen after their camping trip, the Baker Shakespearean play, and of course Baker 13.
In 2009, construction began on a new residential wing. A portion of the former New Section was renovated and turned over to Lovett College. Baker's new wing is located between the Old Section and the Inner Loop road, and brought with it renovations to Baker's kitchen and the college coordinator's office. It was officially opened back to Baker students in the fall semester of 2010, who returned after a year of co-living with students from Duncan College.
Will Rice College
Will Rice College | ||
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Magisters Kenton Whitmire[citation needed] | | |
President | Gazi Fuad[24] | |
Chief justice | Ndidi Nwosu[24] | |
Membership | 380 (approximate) | |
Mascot | Phoenix | |
Website | willrice.rice.edu |
William Marsh Rice Jr. College, commonly known as Will Rice, is named for William M. Rice Jr., the nephew of the university's founder William Marsh Rice.[25] It incorporates Rice's first dormitory, South Hall, which was built in 1912.[22] Will Rice College began as an all-male college when Rice created its residential college system in 1957 and became co-ed in 1978.
Will Rice shares architectural styles with Baker and Hanszen colleges; all three possess white-painted "old" buildings and more modern "new" wings. Will Rice's Old Dorm (former South Hall) features a unique fifth-floor tower which has recently become known as The Perch.[citation needed]
The symbol of Will Rice college is the Phoenix, depicted in rust and gold colors. Members of the college are known as Will Ricers. The college commonly refers to itself as the "college of Gods and Goddesses." The elected governing body of Will Rice, the Diet, administers a university-sponsored annual budget of approximately $50,000 which supports social, athletic, and entertainment programs for the college's nearly 400 resident and non-resident members.
Will Rice is traditionally a strong contender in the university's annual campus-wide Beer Bike competition among the residential colleges. Will Rice has held the longest winning streak on record in the alumni race (11 years from 1996 to 2006).[citation needed] Since the inclusion of an alumni race, Will Rice has been the only college to have won the men's, women's, and alumni races in a given year, called a "sweep," which it has done on five occasions—1983, 1986, 1999, 2009, and 2013.[26][27] Additionally, Will Rice holds the current track records for the men's, women's, and alumni races.[26]
In 2009, work began on a new residential building for Will Rice, located on the site of the former New Section, built in 1957; this building was completely demolished.[28] A new servery, Abe and Anne Seibel Servery, was also part of the construction project. The new facility serves both Will Rice and Lovett, replacing two dated cafeterias at each college.[29] During construction, the population of Will Rice lived in McMurtry College, which was founded that year.
Notable alumni include current
Hanszen College
Hanszen College | ||
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Location | 6350 Main St., Magisters Fabiola Lopez-Duran and Carlos Martinez-Rivera[19] | |
President | Alan Tapper[33] | |
Chief justice | Connor Taylor[34] | |
Membership | 460 | |
Mascot | The Guardian | |
Website | hanszen.rice.edu |
Harry Clay Hanszen College was named for a benefactor to the university and chairman of the Rice Board of Governors from 1946 to 1950.
KTRU Rice Radio, the university's student-run radio station, and Rice Coffeehouse both began at Hanszen College.[37][38] Hanszen was the first residential college at Rice to use its own crest. Shortly after the founding of the residential college system, the students created the blue, black, and yellow crest that in time became the symbol of the college, setting a precedent for the other colleges.[39]
Hanszen often hosts guest lecturers; recent visitors include College World Series champion Coach Wayne Graham, former Rice president and renowned economist S. Malcolm Gillis, Kinder Institute for Urban Research director Stephen Klineberg, Texas Monthly senior editor and Hanszen alumnus Paul Burka (class of 1963), former writer and executive producer of The Daily Show Adam Lowitt, and senior editor of The Atlantic Dr. James Hamblin.[citation needed] University courses recently offered by Hanszen College have included Analytics in Sports, Spirituality in Film, The Culture of Philanthropy, and Voice Acting.[40]
Hanszen College is governed by Cabinet, a body consisting of the Executive Board and class representatives elected by members of the college annually. Cabinet supervises an annual budget, regulates the use of public spaces within the college, and serves as an official liaison between the College membership and the university administration.[citation needed]
Hanszen's theme song is Hanson's "MMMBop", believed to have been chosen due to the band and the college being homophones.
In 2021 New Section was demolished, and work began on a replacement building that was completed in January 2023. The new New Section's primary structure is made of mass timber, a stronger, lighter, more sustainable option to concrete. Designed by American-German architectural firm Barkow Leibinger[41] it is the largest mass timber building in Texas. The building also incorporates the iconic framed crests and colored tiles from the exterior of the old New Section that once stood on the same land.[42]
Wiess College
Wiess College | ||
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Location | 6340 Main St., Magisters Flavio Cunha and Fabiana Alves dos Santos[19] | |
President | Blaine Samson[20] | |
Chief justice | Renzo Espinoza[43] | |
Membership | 305 (approximate) | |
Mascot | The War Pig | |
Website | teamwiess.com |
Harry Carothers Wiess College /ˈwaɪs/ was one of the original four colleges created when the residential college system was implemented in 1957. In 2002, Wiess became the only college at Rice to relocate from one building to another. Wiess is currently the southwesternmost residential college, located adjacent to Hanszen and the South Power Plant. Male and female members of Wiess College are known equally as Wiessmen.
Wiess College is named for Harry Carothers Wiess (1887–1948), one of the founders and one-time president of Humble Oil, now ExxonMobil. He was elected as a life member of the Board of Trustees of Rice University in 1944 and appointed vice-chairman in 1946. He left money for the construction of a new dorm after his death in 1948.[44][45]
Wiess Hall was completed in 1949, but carried the name "North Hall" until its dedication in March 1950.[45] It was laid out as a W-shaped building, with three north–south wings, joined on the north ends by a long east–west spine, forming two open quadrangles.[46] The building was two stories high except for the three-story center wing. The hall was designed to house about 200 students in 20 single and 90 double rooms. Each room at Wiess opened directly to an exterior walkway that wrapped around the entire building. This design incorporated two features that were innovative at the time: every room had a semi-private bathroom and every room (except room 228, which was reserved for freshmen) had windows on at least two sides—an important adaptation in the years before air conditioning.[47]
Wiess Hall became Wiess College in 1957. Converting the dormitory into a college included the creation of two Resident Associate suites, construction of Wiess House, the home of the Master and family, and construction of the Wiess Commons (designed by Wiess undergraduate architecture students Tim "Frog" Barry and Dan Canty for a class project[citation needed]), the eating hall and round-the-clock gathering space for college members.[48][original research?][44]
Because of Wiess's outward-facing architecture, life at Wiess centered on the outdoors. The two quadrangles developed distinct characters. The quad between the center and west wings became known as the "Acabowl" and was the center of the college's social and recreational activity.[citation needed] At various times students installed a trampoline ("Aca-tramp") or above-ground pool ("Aca-pool"). The other quadrangle, between the center and east wings, was known by analogy as the "Backabowl" and tended to be used for quieter activities, such as sunbathing.[49]
The original residential building suffered from rapid deterioration in the 1990s.[citation needed] In 2002, the university opened a new building for the college, located south of the original building. New Wiess encloses a single large quadrangle, which retains the "Acabowl" name. The new building also preserved what Wiessmen considered a salient feature of the old: the fact that all rooms at Wiess open directly onto exterior walkways or balconies.[50] A glass-walled commons forms the north side of the Acabowl, with three four-story residence wings forming the other sides. The portion of the Acabowl immediately adjacent to the commons is known as the Acaterrace. The original Wiess Hall and its adjoining commons were razed during the winter break between Fall 2002 and Spring 2003.
Wiess considers itself to have an intense community spirit,[49][50] signified by the slogan and cheer "Team Wiess", which has been used consistently since the 1970s.[51]
Aspects of Wiess life include Tabletop Theater, the Ubangee, pumpkin caroling, Hello, Hamlet!, the turning of the statue of university founder William Marsh Rice, the Pace Mannion fan club, and the War Pig.[50][52] The "Night of Decadence" party was first held in 1972 and quickly became a legendary event at Rice and in Houston, drawing young alumni and students from other universities in addition to Rice students. It was also named to the Top 10 College Parties in America by Playboy magazine.[53] In 2023, campus parties were suspended after that year's Night of Decadence party resulted in dozens of students needing medical treatment for intoxication, seven of whom had to be admitted to the hospital.[54]
One of the most influential persons in Wiess history was electrical engineering professor Bill Wilson, who served as resident associate from 1978 to 2006 and as interim Master in 1982–83, which was also the year in which Wiess became a co-ed college.[citation needed] Wilson, known to generations of students as Dr. Bill, was a fixture of Rice's college system and the keeper of many Wiess traditions. In addition to his many teaching awards, he is the only person to have won the Student Association's Mentor Recognition Award twice. After his unexpected death in January 2009, his memorial service was held at the Wiess commons.[55][56][57][58] In December 2009, the Rice board of Trustees, with the consent of Wiess College, decided that the new Masters' residence at Wiess will be named Wilson House, in honor of Dr. Bill.[59] Dedicated on March 11, 2011, Wilson House is the first building at Rice named after a college Master or Resident Associate, and the first Masters' residence to bear a name distinct from that of its associated college.
Notable Wiessmen include Walter Loewenstern (1958),[60] Harold Solomon, Ricky Pierce (1982), Maryana Iskander (2007),[61] and Anthony Rendon.[62]
Jones College
Jones College | ||
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Location | 23 Sunset Blvd., Magisters Zachary and Trisha Ball[19] | |
President | Taya Lasota[20] | |
Chief justice | Jacob Lowenstein | |
Membership | 325 (approximate) | |
Mascot | Jabberwocky, JIBACat (unofficial), Marley Mackenzie | |
Website | jones.rice.edu |
Mary Gibbs Jones College, built as the first women's dormitory at Rice University, is named after
The college was built in 1957, consisting of two four-story structures named "North" and "South." It was designed by architects Lloyd & Morgan. Not only was it the first housing for women on campus, it was also the first building designed specifically as a residential college and also the first building to be centrally air-conditioned. Lloyd & Morgan used pink marble in the construction of Jones College to indicate its status as housing for female students.[36] In 2002, an additional four-story building, "Central," was built in between North and South.[64] The new building connects to both original buildings at every level except the ground floor (a short walk separates South and Central). The wing was designed by noted post-modern architect Michael Graves.
In the early days, the culture of the all-female Jones College was quite conservative.[5] At meals, each table had a hostess, and dinner was served family style. Strict rules were enforced by house mothers when men from the south colleges visited the female students. The students even had to abide by a strict curfew - 11 p.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends.[63] In the 1970s, Jones began phasing out many of the strictest rules, and in the fall of 1980 Jones became co-ed. Male students from the south colleges were given the chance to apply for transfer to Jones. Lovett, another Rice residential college, went co-ed the same year, so many of the new Jones residents were former Lovett residents. Jones women who disagreed with the decision to go co-ed were allowed to transfer to Brown College, which remained all-female until 1987. In 2001, construction began on the new Jones Commons and Jones Central. The new Jones Commons opened for use in March 2002. Jones Central opened in August 2002. During the same time, Jones lost its parking lot to the newly constructed Martel College.[63]
Jones' student government is set up as a Cabinet comprising the Executive Officers, elected representatives from each floor, and one elected off-campus representative.[65] The Cabinet meets bi-weekly.
Jones is a college with an indoor setup which has two lounges on every floor. Jones is unique among the colleges due to its large number of singles. Jones also has four 4-single suites and two 6-single suites, along with regular doubles.
Previous Jones College Magisters include Dr. Franz Brotzen (former Rice University Dean of Engineering) and Dr. Robin Forman (former Rice University Dean of Undergraduates). The current Jones College Magister is Dr. Zachary Ball who is the Faculty Director for the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering.[66]
Notable alumni from Jones include
Brown College
Brown College | ||
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Location | 9 Sunset Blvd., Magisters B.J. and Shirley Fregly[19] | |
President | Daanish Sheikh[20] | |
Chief justice | Adam "Zawie" Zawierucha[70] | |
Membership | 353 | |
Website | brown.rice.edu |
Margarett Root Brown College is currently the third largest of the eleven residential colleges at Rice, nearby both McMurtry College and Duncan College. Founded in 1965 as an all-women's college, Brown became co-ed in 1987.
The history of Brown dates back to the early sixties, when Jones College was the only all women's college on campus.
In the beginning, Brown College was filled primarily with women who had volunteered to leave Jones in order to start a new college. Brown had a housemother who lived in the
Brown was the last single-sex female college after Jones went co-ed in 1980; male members were first accepted into Brown in 1987.[71] However, the community bathrooms on all floors remained coed [dubious – discuss] until 1994, when the bathrooms were remodeled and separate facilities for men and women were built on each floor. Brown's main tower consists of mainly of double rooms whose residents share community bathrooms. Each floor also has one single room without a bathroom, as well as a double room with a bathroom, referred to as a suite. The new 4-story wing at Brown opened in 2002.[64] The new wing houses 56 additional students, making Brown the largest residential college on campus (it was previously the smallest) until the opening of McMurtry and Duncan. The new wing is made up of four-person suite, and each suite has four small single rooms, a large common room, and a private bathroom.[71] Besides rooms, Brown offers other facilities. For instance, Brown's basement houses a communal laundry room and music practice rooms. Brown's first floor, referred to as "Vator Lobby" in reference to its use as an elevator lobby, contains a communal kitchen, a computer lab, couches, and amenities such as a projector and pool tables.
Lovett College
Lovett College | |
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Location | 6310 Main St., |
President | Mehek Jain[20] |
Chief justice | Connor Morris[73] |
Membership | 355 (approximate) |
Mascot | Stag |
Website | lovett.rice.edu |
Edgar Odell Lovett College is the seventh-founded residential college, named after the university's first president.[36][74] Lovett's first class mostly comprised volunteers from other colleges. Lovett sponsors numerous community and social events throughout the year, including theater production, the Lovett Undergraduate Research Symposium, and many gatherings on the College's seconds floor and sundeck. Lovett's college crest is based upon the Lovat family crest[75][original research?] although the Lovat family is not related to Edgar Odell Lovett.
The distinctive
In 2009, work began on renovating a portion of Baker College's former New Section, which was transferred over to become Lovett's New Section starting in the 2010 fall semester.[78] This building is affectionately referred to as "Stinky" by the students, though the name does not refer to the building's smell. A new servery, shared with Will Rice College, was built as part of the construction project and named Seibel Servery. As of the completion of Sid Richardson College's new building in Spring 2022, Seibel Servery connects Lovett to both Will Rice and Sid Richardson Colleges.
Notable alumni include
Sid Richardson College
Sid Richardson College | ||
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Location | 6360 Main Street,
Magister Melissa Marschall[19] | |
President | Keegan Leibrock[20] | |
Chief justice | Jared Duran[85] | |
Membership | 332 | |
Mascot | Tower | |
Website | sidrich.rice.edu |
Sid Richardson College (also referred to as Sid, SRC, or Sid Rich) opened in 1971 as a men's residential college. Like the other residential colleges on the Rice campus, Sid Richardson College provides undergraduate residential and dining facilities, social organizations and student government, as well as faculty, alumni, and community associates. A $2 million pledge from the Sid Richardson Foundation, which was established by Texas oilman, cattleman, and philanthropist Sid W. Richardson (1891–1959), funded the construction of the college. The college became co-ed in 1987. Members of Sid Richardson College are called "Sidizens."
Sid Richardson College is the tallest building on the Rice campus. It has seven floors, each of which is split into an upper and lower level, effectively giving the building fourteen stories. Unusual among Rice buildings, the 153 feet (47 m) high-rise was a response to a shortage of University land and was designed by the architectural firm Neuhaus and Taylor.
Although Sid Richardson College is not built around a quad, there is a similar outdoor feature of the college known as the "country club." The country club consists of a field, volleyball court, hammock, an adult-sized swing set, and many picnic tables.
In addition to providing basic residential and social services to its residents, Sid Richardson College is rich with traditions, which have included some notorious pranks. For example, Sidizens have made use of the six balconies towering above the main entrance of the college to "douche" unsuspecting visitors—including past Rice University president
Another prank that is quickly becoming a tradition is the Orc Raid. Orc Raids are held twice every year - once during the Orientation Week in August before the start of the Fall semester and a second time during Willy Week in the Spring semester. Sidizens dress up by smearing themselves with black paint, wearing black clothes and carrying around torches with doll heads. They then proceed to run around campus at night to terrorize the other colleges and crash events, often shouting out cheers that boost the morale of the Sidizens as well as anti-cheers meant to belittle the 'lesser' colleges.
Sid Richardson College has a wealth of traditions. Every Friday afternoon from 3:00-6:00pm, the college's main speakers, affectionately known as the "stacks," blast music in what is known as "Radio Free Sid" (the named derived from
Sid Richardson has also hosted the five Houston Conferences on Theoretical Neuroscience (2004-2009), thanks to a relationship between the GCC and former Sid Richardson Master Steve Cox.[91]
Notable alumni include
Martel College
Martel College | ||
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Location | 99 Sunset Blvd., Magisters Daniel Domingues and Livia Borges Domingues[19] | |
President | Katelynn Porras[94] | |
Chief justice | Nathaniel Ascher[94] | |
Membership | 350 (approximate) | |
Mascot | Beer Goat | |
Website | martel.rice.edu |
Marian and Speros P. Martel College is the ninth-founded residential college. It was established with a $15 million donation from the eponymous Marian and Speros Martel Foundation, a longtime benefactor of Rice University. The college's building was designed by noted architect
As the third-most-recently founded residential college, Martel's history is short, and commonly includes the story of Speros Martel, the Greek immigrant whose estate provided the funding necessary to build the college.[97] The official groundbreaking of the new Martel college took place on April 10, 2000. Among those attending were the newly instated Martel Magisters Joan and Arthur Few, who had previously been Masters at Baker College from 1994 to 1999.
The first new students accepted as members of Martel were required to live off campus during the fall 2001 semester until the completion of the College's construction, which was scheduled for early 2002. However, in June 2001, Tropical Storm Allison struck the Houston area and delayed this by two months.[citation needed] Applications for freshman transfers were made available in October 2002. Sixty-three freshmen were accepted, five each from Brown and Jones Colleges, and up to 12 from each of the other colleges. Martel members named physics instructor Gary Morris and intramural sports director Tina Villard as Martel's first resident associates.[98][original research?]
Martel's student government is named the Parliament, and meets weekly in the College commons.[99] Elected officials include President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Treasurer, Secretary, Chief Justice, and Class Representatives (4 per class).[94]
Alumni include Chris Boswell, Pittsburgh Steelers kicker, Jason Colwick, 2009 NCAA pole vault champion, Andrew Chifari, Starbucks most expensive drink record breaker,[101] Mithun Mansinghani, the Oklahoma Solicitor General,[102] and Morris Almond, a professional basketball player.[103][104][105]
McMurtry College
McMurtry College | ||
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Location | 1605 Rice Blvd., Magisters Jenifer Bratter and Noe Perez[19] | |
President | Hunter Brown[20] | |
Membership | 420 (approximate) | |
Mascot | Lion | |
Website | mcmurtry.rice.edu |
Burt and Deedee McMurtry College is the tenth college founded as part of Rice's residential college system.[106] McMurtry College was named after Burt and Deedee McMurtry, graduates of the Rice class of 1956.[107] Burt McMurtry was part of the student-faculty committee that evaluated the need for and eventually instituted the college system at Rice University, beginning in 1957 with the original five colleges. The college was conceived jointly with the adjacent Duncan College as part of Rice's vision for the 2nd century, which includes plans to increase the size of the student body by 30%.[108] The college opened on August 16, 2009.
Despite its status as a young college, McMurtry has already established its own unique culture. During the Spring 2009 Beer Bike, McMurtry was christened in the Thresher newspaper as the "Mongol College", as it had not been finished at the time yet it was involved in pranks during Willy Week, and it could not be pranked by any other college as McMurtry wasn't complete. This was due to O-Week coordinators and advisers and co-advisers of McMurtry (chosen a semester ahead) showing their spirit for the upcoming new college. McMurtry has been assuming much of this "Mongol" culture by referring to the round commons as "Yurt," a name that also references the fact that due to construction delays caused by Hurricane Ike, McMurtry was forced to use a tent as its commons for weeks until the actual commons was completed. McMurtry is also known as the banana college, and the fruit is used as a popular symbol by students, including in college cheers like "McMurtry is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S."
The building was designed by Hopkins Architects, a leading English firm specializing in sustainable architecture. It offers 324 beds for student housing. The college is constructed as a single, squared-off horseshoe-shaped wing surrounding a central quad, rising to a height of five stories. The college has double and single rooms that open directly out onto interior hallways, in contrast to the exterior hallways at Martel and Wiess, which were previously the two most recently renovated colleges. Common showers are located around the stairwells at each "elbow" in the building, and fully functional pod bathrooms are located in each double bedroom. The first floor contains study rooms, a game room, music room, other amenities, and the only circular commons on campus.
McMurtry College is across from Duncan Hall and the Inner Loop road. Duncan College is immediately north of it, connected to McMurtry by West Servery, which is parallel to Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory. It is also identical to Duncan College. The pair are commonly referred to as McDuncan.
Duncan College
Duncan College | |
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Location | 1601 Rice Blvd., Houston, Texas , United States |
Motto | Classis et Germanitas (Team and Family) |
Established | 2009 |
Namesake | Anne and Charles Duncan |
Colors | Forest Green
Ivory Gold |
Magisters | Eden King and Winston Liaw[19] |
President | Kathryn Gonzalez[20] |
Chief justice | Nick Thevenin[109] |
Membership | 470 (approximate) |
Mascot | Kangaroo |
Website | duncan.rice.edu |
Anne and Charles Duncan College is the eleventh college founded as part of Rice's residential college system.[106] Duncan College was named after Anne and Charles Duncan Jr., long-standing contributors to Rice University who donated money for the new college. The college was conceived jointly with the adjacent McMurtry College as part of Rice's Vision for the 2nd century, which includes plans to increase the size of the student body by 30%.[108] Duncan opened its doors on August 16, 2009, right in time for O-Week 2009, which saw the arrival of the first Duncan freshman class. Due to renovations in Baker College and in order to help the new college adapt to the university, Baker College students lived in Duncan with the first freshman class. This led to the joint name of "BaDunc" for sporting and other events. Duncan began to operate by itself beginning in fall 2010 with a new freshman class, a returning sophomore class, and upperclassmen consisting of students from other colleges who accepted invitations to transfer. The college's first Masters, Marnie Hylton and Luis Duno-Gottberg, remained with Duncan for several years, and the final constitution went through its final stages before approval. It has also chosen its colors as forest green, white, and gold. It chose government officials, RAs, and a College Coordinator in the spring of 2010, and the crest was revealed during the fall 2010 semester at the dedication ceremony.
Due to the request and contribution of Anne and Charles Duncan, Duncan College is one of the "greenest" buildings on Rice campus, as well as the entire city of Houston. Like nearby McMurtry College, the five-story building was designed by
Duncan College has also established a Monday night tradition, known as "Monday Night Lights." When a few students went down to play ping-pong one night, they noticed that the ping pong table they had played on actually belonged to Baker College, who took its table back. Instead of going to bed, they made a makeshift table in the quad out of extra tables and using toilet paper as the net. People noticed the table and came down to the quad join in, watch and even play acoustic instruments. Monday Night Lights is now a monthly event. Other traditions include "Duncing" people in the DuncTank outside the commons on their birthdays, temporarily borrowing prized artifacts from other colleges including Will Rice's flag and Jones' trampoline, and a once a semester Nerf Gun capture the flag game throughout the building called Donnybrook.
Architecturally, Duncan has the same features as McMurtry with minor differences emphasized in order to establish its uniqueness. For example, Duncan Commons is rectangular in shape, contrasting the round McMurtry Commons. Also, Duncan quad has different features from McMurtry, such as a fountain by the Commons, smaller trees, and walkways that go across the quad. The interior, however, is virtually the same, as both colleges contain mostly doubles in the hallways and single rooms in the corners, with doubles having a pod bathroom inside and singles sharing common bathrooms. Both also have green roofs and fifth floor doubles and suites that open to the outside. The interior hallways of both Duncan and McMurtry were designed as contrasts to the other two most recently built residential colleges, Martel and Wiess, which have exterior hallways. The pair of McMurtry and Duncan are commonly referred to as McDuncan.
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