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by Tommy Belanger thresher staff Martel College will not receive incoming students next fall, the college's founding committee decided last weekend. "The idea of throwing the freshmen of Martel College into all the other eight colleges for the first semester next year and then forcing them to go to Martel second semester is not fair," Gavin Parks, co-chair of Martel's Representative Subcommittee, said. Parks, a Hanszen College junior, is the liaison between the newly founded Martel Founding Committee and the Rice community at large. Martel's building will not open until January 2002, and Martel Master Arthur Few said a major problem in holding a Martel Orientation Week in 2001 would be its location. "It's very difficult to have an O-Week without a place to have it," Few said. The founding committee considered using rooms in the Student Center, but Student Center Director Boyd Beckwith said using the building would be impractical because other colleges also use it during O-Week. However, Martel will still participate in O-Week by attempting to arrange an all-college meeting sometime during the week, presenting information about Martel and sending out brochures explaining Martel to incoming freshmen over the summer. "We're kind of taking a low profile, but we certainly want to have a presence during O-Week so that the freshmen will know that they have an opportunity to transfer second semester," Few said. Few, who is also the interim master of Baker College, explained that although freshmen will not be accepted into Martel during the fall 2001 semester, applications for transferring to Martel will be posted sometime after the fall break and approximately 64 students from the incoming class of 2005 will be accepted as transfers. The Founding Committee also decided against participating in Beer-Bike this spring. Few said the three main factors contributing to the decision were the lack of bicycles and the lack of funds to buy bikes, the urgent need for more important issues to be solved and discussed and the desire to establish good relationships with other colleges by having Martel transfers participate in their original colleges' Beer-Bike. "Our first involvement in Beer-Bike will be as a full college," Parks said. Students transferring to Martel during the 2000-'01 academic year will have "dual citizenship" in both Martel and their original college. Students wishing to transfer to Martel will be allowed to apply online starting Nov. 6, after the college presidents and masters meet to discuss the founding committee's plans for admitting students to Martel. "The number of students that we take from each college will be proportionate to the number that are living off-campus," Few said, detailing the selection process pertaining to individual colleges. The overall selection process will be rolling, in which applicants are reviewed monthly until Martel quotas are filled.
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