Monthly Archives: January 2013

Air Conditioning the Economic Summit

The G7 Economic Summit that was held at Rice in 1990 has become the stuff of campus legend. Most of these legends have to do with either security preparations or borderline insane efforts at sprucing things up for the dignitaries. … Continue reading

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Looking Across Main Street

It was my first day back in the archives today and I’m trying to dig out. I have neither inspiration nor enough time to dredge any up, so apropos of nothing here is a photograph that I love but have … Continue reading

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Happy New Year, 1976

I meant to post this yesterday but I got distracted and forgot all about it. It’s hard to believe now but for decades the New Year’s Eve party at Cohen House was one of the highlights of campus social life. … Continue reading

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