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Rice is planning to establish the Sallyport Fellows Program, an initiative supporting first generation and limited income students, announced earlier this year.
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The Rice Student Association Senate discussed an expansion to late-night study access, a proposed bike and scooter sharing program and upcoming public campus events on political dialogue and public health at its latest meeting. In addition, they approved a five-week Rice Coffeehouse voucher pilot and tabled the residential college snack pantry initiative.
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Many residential colleges have faced a budget reduction due to funds being allocated to the newest residential college, Chao College.
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On Oct. 8, about 50 students gathered in the Academic Quad to protest sexual violence and call for accountability from universities and the federal government. The Rice Women’s Resource Center hosted the event as part of a national day of action organized by Women’s March, Feminist Generation, me too. International and FEMINIST.
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A new federal rule plans to restrict student loan access for college programs whose graduates fail to earn more than workers with a high school education or less. The rule raises questions about how the government should measure the value of higher education.
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Construction on Rice University’s $120 million Gateway Project began in August with the Patricia Lipoma Kraft ’87 and Jonathan A. Kraft Football Pavilion, the first major construction milestone in a project that will renovate Rice Stadium and create a pedestrian connection between campus and Rice Village.
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Amid the warm, cherry-tinted ambient lighting, a surge of bittersweet emotion swept through the crowd when Daniel Kim, frontman and guitarist of wave to earth, announced that tonight’s show will be the band’s last tour for a couple of years.
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“Come From Away” is a Tony Award-winning musical set in Newfoundland, an island off the eastern coast of Canada, in the days after the 9/11 attacks. The story follows a small group of airline passengers whose flights were diverted following the attacks on the World Trade Center. 38 planes and 7,000 passengers landed in Gander, Newfoundland that day, nearly d
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“Resident Evil,” directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, is a brilliantly terrifying movie adaptation of the popular horror video game franchise by the same name.
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Luke Kennard’s 2026 novel “Black Bag” is terrifically funny, even if conspicuously aware of its own cleverness. Kennard congratulates himself on his wit and absurdist humor many times throughout the book. He deserves to.
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