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Left to right: Bill Barnett, chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, President David Leebron, former Rice president Malcolm Gillis, and Trustee James Crownover, chairman of the Rice Presidential Search Committee.
 
1956
Who says Houston doesn’t have Snowy Owls? A sighting right here on the Rice campus sometime in the ’70s proves that stranger things have happened, like enough snow to actually build an owlman. (date is approx.)
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The Cornerstone

Summer 2005
Vol.10, No.2
 
In the year 1948
The Honor System, weakened during the war years and their disruptive effect on campus life in general, is reinstituted–proctoring is banned, alternate seats are used for exams, and students are allowed to leave the room solely for personal reasons. The Honor Code pledge and student signature are still required.
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