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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,2005
S A to host picnic Thursday
by David Brown
THRESHES EDfTOiOAL STJtfT
Sammy the Owl (the inflatable one)
will make a rare daytime appearance
at 6 p.m. Thursday in Founder's Court
to host a campus-wide party featuring
music, food and $5 T-shirts.
"Sammy's Picnic," organized by
Student Association President James
Lloyd, is one of several new SA initia-
tives beginning this fall. True Blue"
is a year-long spirit campaign to be
launched at the picnic, and "Hedge
hopper," already in place, is a rede
signed student discount program
replacing the Silver Saver card.
Lloyd said he worked to plan the
picnic because he thought there were
too few campus-wide events during
the fall semester and because he
wanted to build campus-wide spirit.
Lloyd said Founder's Court,
although rarely used for events, is
ideal for a picnic.
"It's nice because it's a quintes-
sential Rice location and has a good
deal of shade — and no hedges like
in the academic quad," he said.
Fall athletic teams will introduce
themselves at the picnic, and 500
True Blue T-shirts will be for sale
for $5 each.
Lloyd said he hopes the navy blue
T-shirts — which feature Athletics'
Rice Owl logo on the front and the
phrase "To Rice be true" on the back
— will boost Rice spirit.
"I felt there needed to be a little
more energy and concentrated focus
on a clear and concise message about
uniting the school," he said.
True Blue is cosponsored by the
Alumni Assocation. whose contribu-
tion is still being determined, and the
Athletic Department, which is help-
ing with logistics and paving part of
the cost of the T-shirts. Llovd said.
However. Lloyd said True Blue
will not be solely athletics-focused.
He said he hopes the campaign will
encourage people to take pride in
whatever they find most meaningful
about Rice.
True Blue is designed around the
last line of Rice's alma mater, To Rice
be true,'" he said. "I thought it could
strike a chord with everyone."
Lloyd said he hopes the SA can
soon order more T-shirts to sell to
students as well as alumni, commu-
nity members and Rice families by
offering them at events like football
games and Families Weekend. Shirts
will also be sold periodically at the
colleges by SA officers.
With the help of SA senators,
Lloyd said he plans to develop some
other True Blue events such as tail-
gate parties or events at Willy's Pub.
The profits from the T-shirts—about
a dollar per shirt — should help fund
the events, he said.
Another SA initiative revamped
the Silver Saver Card, an annual
discount program that is also a fund-
raiser for the SA.
Lloyd said the main difference
between the Silver Saver card and
Hedge-hopper program is that
students will now show a Rice ID
rather than a separate card. Currently
Hedgehopper features 29 shops and
restaurants, fewer than last year, but
Lloyd said that without requiring a
separate card, the SA can add dis-
counts throughout the year.
Information on the discounts
is being distributed along with the
Passport to Houston, now available
in college coordinators' offices. Dis-
counts added to the program will be
posted on the Passport Web site.
Lloyd said the fee for Hedgehop-
per merchants in the program is $75.
down from about $200 for participants
in the Silver Saver card program, in
order to attract more businesses.
Lloyd said revenue from the program
will go toward other SA programs.
Participants in Hedge-hopper
include Ben and Jerry's, Berry-
hill Tamales & Tacos, and Leapin'
Leotards.
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late orders from professors were still
coming in, Morton said.
4It seems like [the
store] is going to be
much more customer
service-oriented in
terms of its hours.'
— Boyd Beckwith
Director, Student and
Recreation Centers
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top 10 books on the national best-
seller list.
Rice decided to contract with
Barnes & Noble in anticipation of
the creation of a large bookstore
in the upcoming collaborative
research center with the Texas
Medical Center institutions, to be
constructed at the intersection
of University Blvd. and Main St..
Binford said.
"The challenge we have to [main-
tain] a large academic bookstore is
that Rice doesn't have, in its own right,
enough business to support a huge
academic bookstore, like Harvard
or Yale or Princeton ... but [in the
collaborative research center] that
store could [be built because it would
also serve the entire community],"
Binford said.
Discussions about changing the
bookstore have gone on since the
1990s because in itscurrent location,
the store has been too small and has
not offered enough academic titles,
Binford said.
In the estimated five years be-
fore the bookstore moves into the
research center, Barnes & Noble
will be able to become acquainted
with Rice and help Rice plan for
the new facility, Binford said. In
addition, the company will have to
deliver a high quality of customer
service in order to submit a com-
petitive bid to run the larger store.
Binford said.
Barnes& Noble hascontracted to
rent the space it is using from Rice
by paying a percentage of its gross
s?les. Binford said Rice's primary aim
is to not lose money.
Barnes & Noble paid to renovate
the bookstore, and will per form more
capital improvements later this year,
Binford said.
Barnes & Noble College Book-
sellers operates about 400 book-
stores at colleges and universities
across the country, including book-
stores at the University of Houston,
the University of Maryland-College
Park. Texas A&M University and
Yale University.
The privately held company
shares resources with its publicly-
traded Barnes & Noble Inc. affiliate.
Binford said.
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