Residential colleges of Rice University
This is an accepted version of this page Rice University contains eleven residential colleges which function as the primary housing, dining, and social organizations for undergraduate students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[36] Hanszen's "Old Wing" was known as West Hall when it was built in 1916 as a part of the original campus construction plan by Boston architectural firm Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson.
[40] 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.
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 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.
[53] 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.
[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.
Notable Wiessmen include Walter Loewenstern (1958),[62] Harold Solomon, Ricky Pierce (1982), Maryana Iskander (2007),[63] and Anthony Rendon.
[68] Notable alumni from Jones include George P. Bush (1998),[69] former Mayor of Houston Annise Parker (1978),[70] and neuroscientist David Eagleman (1993).
[66] 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.
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.
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 George Rupp and his wife—with buckets of water as they climb the steps to the double doors.
Radio Free Sid begins and ends each roughly 3-hour-long set of music with AC/DC's "Back in Black," widely considered to be the college's theme song.
[94] Notable alumni include Steve Jackson, Philip Humber, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest,[95] and Mark Durcan,[96] CEO of Micron Technology.
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.
[103] Formed around a central quadrangle, Graves's design follows the style of the 1910 general plan of Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram for the Rice campus.
The wings terminate on the side closest to North Servery in a five-story rotunda, a spiral staircase enclosed within a stack of rounded floors, providing the college with its sundeck, where many events are held.
Martel is also the only college to feature a sally port in its construction; newly matriculated students traditionally walk through it passing a torch between themselves as the final step to becoming new Martelians.
Alumni include Chris Boswell, Pittsburgh Steelers kicker, Jason Colwick, 2009 NCAA pole vault champion, Andrew Chifari, Starbucks most expensive drink record breaker,[104] Mithun Mansinghani, the Oklahoma Solicitor General,[105] and Morris Almond, a professional basketball player.
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.
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.
Like nearby McMurtry College, the five-story building was designed by Hopkins Architects of London and offers 324 beds for student housing.
