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6 FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990 THE RICE THRESHER
New building construction on schedule; Entrance #7 reopened
by Elise Perachio
Despite rainy conditions, construction
on the Alice Pratt Brown
Hall for the Shepherd School of
Music and on the George R. Brown
Biosciences and Bioengineering
building is on schedule. Also, Entrance
7, which was closed for installation
of a new sewage line during
spring break and this week, should
be reopened today.
Rice Staff Engineer Jun Fuentcs
of Physical Plant said the City of
Houston's Public Works Department
installed an eight-inch sanitary
sewage line to run from Entrance 7 to
Rice Boulevard in front of the stadium.
This installment is not replacing
any current lines, but will serve to
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upgrade the current sewage system.
The status of the two new buildings
under construction will be described
in detail in a newsletter
which Physical Plant plans to release
by the beginning of next week. Information
will include the percentage of
completion of various parts of the
buildings as well as what upcoming
events are planned concerning the
buildings.
The newsletter will be mailed to
all departments and will be available
to students in public areas such as
the Rice Memorial Center.
The completion date for the
George R. Brown building is February
1991. Construction on the music
hall will be completed in two stages.
The east wing of the building, which
will house offices, will open in August
1990. The west wing, which
contains mainly practice rooms,
should open in August 1991.
All of these completion dates
were given in the original proposal,
so there have been no changes in the
schedule due to weather conditions.
One part of construction of the
Alice Pratt Brown Hall, the Utilities
West Extension Project, is taking
place in the parking lot by the Ley
Student Center. Rice Staff Engineer
Jill Blackwelder of Physical Plant
said, "Tnis project provides utilities,"
she said.
According to Blackwelder, no
final decisions have been made regarding
construction during the
Economic Summit this July.
"Our understanding these days is
that those job sites will not have
normal construction activity. A
skeleton crew will probably be present
to respond to any emergencies,"
she said.
Rice college bowl team
wins regional match
by Thresher staff
•-obstruct ion worker peers down surveying scope at one of the buildings being constructed on campus.
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team correctly answered a single 10point
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tion time to defeat Louisiana State
University 175-170 in the final match
of the ACU-I Region XII College
Bowl Tournament, held last weekend
here at Rice.
The Rice team, led by freshman
Raymund Eich, had lost the previous
match to LSU by 10 points, and had
managed to overcome a 90-point
deficit at halftime to pull within 5
when time ran out However, Eich
had buzzed in before time was called,
and thus secured the opportunity to
answer the question.
Although only a few words had
been uttered by the moderator, it
was enough for Eich to guess "Martin
Luther King, Jr." which fortunately
turned out to be the correct
answer.
The Regional Tournament,
which took place in the Rice Memorial
Center, featured 18 teams from
Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and
included not only such traditional
Southwest Conference athletic rivals
as the University of Texas and Texas
A&M University, but also smaller'
schools from the region like the
University of New Orleans and
Loyola.
Traditionally, the winning team
from the local tournament goes on to
participate in the regional tournament.
However, this year, only one
member of this season's winner
Tangerine Spleen, team captain
Eich, returned for the regional. The
other four, Doug Dawson, Brian
Moore, Tim Pulju, and John Skelton
came from other teams.
Of the five, Eich and Skelton are
freshmen, Dawson is a junior, and
Pulju and Moore are graduate students.
Rice's victory-marks the third
time in as many years that Rice has
won the Regional Tournament The
winner of each regional tournament
earns a berth in the National College
Bowl Tournament.
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