LETTER: Year-round jacks needed to liven up campus life

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Rice is becoming dull. This is a fact that we, a handful of Rice undergraduates, cannot ignore any longer.

First noticing this acoma in our own colleges, we feel that this phenomenon is campus-wide and can be described as a general loss of college spirit.

When was the last time you were douched from a Sid balcony, heard a Wiess/Hanszen yell war, swam in "Rupp's" pool outside of O-week or threw someone into the Fairy Fountain?

Rice is a great place to be, and a significant part of the Rice Experience is the craziness that is embodied by Baker 13, Beer-Bike, steam tunneling, parties from Thursday to Sunday, jacking, etc.

It was thoughts like these that motivated us to pull the "Registrar letter jack" along with a few others last week, and these were just the beginning.

This is merely an attempt to kick campus life in the butt and we all know that Rice students have enough steam to blow off, so get your nose out of that book and be random -- don't go to Blockbuster, be creative.

We would like to challenge all of the students here (yes, even those hard-to-spot Grads) to shake the rust off and go a little crazy.

Why limit fun to the boundaries of O-week (or Valhalla)? College spirit, inter-college rivalry and general lunacy are necessary things, to a certain extent, and once gone will be impossible to regenerate and very much missed.

DTC

(Name withheld)

This item appeared in the Opinion section of the March 18, 1994 issue.

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