VOLUME 107, ISSUE NO. 3 | STUDENT-RUN SINCE 1916 | RICETHRESHER.ORG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Students discuss adjusting to new dining policies MORGAN GAGE
for students with underlying foodrelated issues. According to David McDonald, senior Editor’s note: A student interviewed was given the option of remaining anonymous director of H&D, the additional meal period in the interest of keeping their experiences is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday private. The anonymous student was given a through Friday. “The fourth meal period is designed false name, which has been marked with an to accommodate students that will have asterix on first mention. Starting this semester, Rice Housing difficulty eating during the scheduled lunch and Dining implemented significant hours due to class conflicts or otherwise changes to their dining policies, including would like to eat another meal or have snack items for later,” an additional meal McDonald wrote in period, additional a statement. 25 meal swipes for Bartos, a Lovett the full meal plan [As] someone who wrote College junior and and a required the resolution, [the current SA secretary, additional swipe for said that while she any entree plates changes to the meal applauds H&D for after the first entry, plan] made me really sad the work involved without any changes because I don’t want to in providing food to the price of the be the reason that some for campus, she meal plan beyond feels that the what was previously people can’t go back into requirement for budgeted for the the servery. For a while, I students to swipe 2022-2023 academic felt a lot of guilt about it. for more plates after year. These changes the first entry is were cited as being Sarah Bartos contrary to the goals in response to the LOVETT COLLEGE JUNIOR of the resolution. Student Association “Part of the way that they’re branding Resolution to Structurally Address Disordered Eating Patterns in the Rice [the new policy] is to say that it addresses Community. However, differing opinions [the SA resolution] when it really doesn’t,” exist about whether the changes address Bartos said. “I think that’s great [for H&D] to try to work with student leadership the concerns that prompted them. The SA Resolution to Structurally and say that they support the things that Address Disordered Eating was introduced we did, but I feel like it’s also important by Sarah Bartos, Skye Fredericks and to listen to the students and the reasons Morike Ayodeji, who were all behind making that.” When she received the announcement SA senators at the time. The resolution calls for H&D during the summer, Bartos said that she was to provide food outside initially excited to see that the meal plan was of servery hours altered, but that changed when she realized and to provide the details of the new plan. “[As] someone who wrote the resolution, more flexible had McCaffrey meal plan [the changes to the meal plan] made me wide open in the options really sad because I don’t want to be the flat for the first down, reason that some people can’t go back into but the ball bounced off the servery,” Bartos said. “For a while, I felt a of the quarterback-turnedlot of guilt about it.” receiver’s hands and into the hands of USC defensive back SEE MEAL PLAN Calen Bullock, who returned it 93 PAGE 4 yards for the score. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
KATHERINE HUI / THRESHER
Pick 66: Tipped passes, turnovers and tackling woes doom Owls in opener against No. 14 USC DANIEL SCHRAGER
SPORTS EDITOR
At least they might be the answer to a trivia question someday. The Rice football team lost their opener to No. 14 University of Southern California on Saturday by a score of 66-14. But if new Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley leads the fallen powerhouse back to its former heights as is widely expected, maybe some lucky fan ten years from now will win a round of shots for the table by remembering that his first opponent was the Owls. Despite the lopsided final score, 33-point underdog Rice kept the game close for the better part of the first half. However, an injury to redshirt junior quarterback Wiley Green, along with a slew of interceptions that USC returned for touchdowns, ensured that the Owls wouldn’t come close to spoiling Riley’s debut. After the game, head coach Mike Bloomgren said he was surprised at how quickly the game got out of hand. “That did not go the way we thought it would or the way we wanted it to,” Bloomgren said. “I thought we started the game off fighting them back and forth, making some good plays in there. Obviously they’re an explosive offense … I guess they’re going to do that to a lot of people.” Led by a potential Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Caleb Williams, a prized transfer whom Riley brought with him from the University of Oklahoma, the Trojans took the opening kickoff and marched 75 yards in seven plays, highlighted by a 43-yard third down completion, to score the game’s first touchdown. Rice responded, putting
the 60,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on notice with a 16play drive that nearly took up the entire rest of the first quarter. Twice facing third and long, Green found redshirt junior wide receiver Luke McCaffrey, playing his first game since switching positions from quarterback, to keep the drive alive. McCaffrey’s third catch of the drive set the Owls up with a first and goal at the USC seven yardline, but the Trojans held their ground, tackling McCaffrey inches shy of the goal line three plays later to force a fourth down. Bloomgren gambled on his offense, and redshirt junior running back Ari Broussard punched in the tying score from one yard out. The next drive, the Owl defense managed to force a third and long but Williams hit receiver Kyron Hudson on a crossing route for 29 yards to extend the drive, and running back Austin Jones found the endzone three plays later. Rice quickly found themselves facing a third down on their next possession, but a pass interference penalty on Green’s incompletion to redshirt senior wide receiver Bradley Rozner was overturned on review, forcing Rice’s first punt of the game. The Trojans capitalized and in just four plays they had doubled their lead. Redshirt senior running back Cameron Montgomery nearly cut the lead back to seven on the first play of the next drive, when he gashed the Trojan defense on a run up the middle for 55 yards. A sevenyard Montgomery run brought the Owls to the USC 13-yard line, but an incompletion and one-yard run forced a fourth-andtwo. Bloomgren again gambled, but this time it had a very different result. Green rolled left off of a play-fake and
SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10 COURTESY JADEN DHALIWAL, RICE ATHLETICS Running back Ari Broussard scores a touchdown against USC on Saturday. Despite Broussard’s two touchdowns, the Owls fell 66-14 to the Trojans.