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History

Jones College was built as the first women's dormitory at Rice University. The building was made possible because of a $1 million donation from Houston philanthropist Jesse H. Jones. The college was named in honor of his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones. Jones College, which consisted of two buildings - Jones North and Jones South - opened to the first female residents in September 1957.

In the early days, Jones College's culture was quite conservative since the college was all-female. The women were always expected to maintain "ladylike" manners. At meals, each table had a hostess, and dinner was served family style. Strict rules were enforced by house mothers when men from the south colleges visited the female students. The students even had to abide by a strict curfew - 11 p.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends.

In the 1970s, Jones began phasing out many of the strictest rules, but some women were still unsatisfied with the college. In 1972, some Jones women took the opportunity to transfer to Baker and Hanszen, the first two co-ed colleges. However, even before Jones went co-ed, there was a long tradition of co-habiting "uncles" - in fact in 1981 (the first year Jones went co-ed) 3rd South officially all-female was proclaimed the most co-ed floor with 24+ males. And the Jones lobbies offered inviting hospitality to "uncles" who were not overnight guests.

In the fall of 1980, Jones made a major change that would alter life at the college forever - it went co-ed! Male students from the south colleges were given the chance to apply for transfer to Jones. Since Lovett went co-ed the same year as Jones, many of the new Jonesians were former Loveteers. Jones women who disagreed with the decision to go co-ed were allowed to transfer to Brown College, which remained all-female until 1987.

In 2001, construction began on the new Jones Commons and Jones Central, which would connect North and South. The new Jones Commons opened for use in March 2002. Jones Central opened in August 2002. During the same time, Jones lost its parking lot to the so-called Martel College. The loss of the Jones lot was a significant blow to student representation at Rice. The university administration had slowly been reducing free parking to students since 1992 when the then vice-president of student affairs told students about a shuttle that would be "Free to students forever" in exchange for a nominal reduction in the availability of free parking adjacent to the residential colleges. Today, none of the parking is free to students and all students pay a shuttle fee regardless of whether they have a car or not.

Buildings

The Jones College 50th Anniversary Emblem

The college was built in 1957, consisting of two four-story buildings named "North" and "South." In 2002, a four-story building, "Central," was built in between North and South. The new building connects to both buildings at every level except the ground floor (a short walk separates South and Central). The wing was designed by noted post-modern architect Michael Graves [2]. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... -1...

Food is available from the North Servery, which also serves Brown and Martel. The Servery is accessible through Jones Commons, the dining and multi-use area on the ground floor of Jones Central.

The Isle, a volleyball pit and sun-deck named after Jones Master Walter Isle, was demolished along with the Jones soccer field and the Jones College parking lot when "Martel College" was built. However, as part of the 50th anniversary of Jones it was rebuilt in March 2007. This time as an outdoor sitting area built around a central firepit. Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ... Martel College is one of the nine residential colleges at Rice University. ...

Jones College was an all-female dormitory until 1980. However, even before going co-ed Jones had a number of live-in "uncles." In 1981, the all-female 3rd South was voted "most-coed" with 22 males as either full-time or part-time "residents." Jones 3rd South (all men) and 4th South (all women) are the only two remaining single-sex floors at Rice. They became co-ed in Fall 2006. Jones 3rd South has since incorporated a bar and grill located on the long end. However, due to lack of use, the bar was converted into a couch and now the floor features a lounge and grill. [3].

Stoll's, named after long-time Jones associate Dr. Richard Stoll[4], is the lounge in the basement of Jones South. The entrance to the steam tunnels is behind the green door in the Jones South laundry room.

Housing

Jones is a college with an indoor setup which has a kitchen and two lounges on every floor. Freshman rooms are fairly standard with all but 8 assigned to a double and the rest assigned to two double-bedroom suites. However, Jones is unique among the colleges due to the vast number of singles (36). This, in addition to 4 4-single suites and 2 6-single suites, means that most upperclassmen and essentially all seniors never have a roommate unless they want one. In the only other colleges this is true(Martel & Wiess) there exists an outdoor suite set-up.^{[citation needed]}

Masters and RAs

The current Jones College masters are Rudy and Nancy Guerra. Rudy is a Professor of Statistics and has been at Rice since 2000. [5]

Previous Masters:

• Robin Forman and Ann Owens (2002-05)
• Rick and Maribel Barerra (1997-2002)
• David and Caroline Minter (1992-1997)

The current Residential Associates are Chad Benedict (North) and Bridget Gorman (South). Benedict (Baker '01) is the Associate Director for Alumni Affairs and Gorman is an Associate Professor of Sociology.

The current College Coordinator is Lisa Bryan, former staff member from the Admissions Office and former Master of Hanszen College with Dennis Huston.

Government

Jones' student government is set up as a "Cabinet." Jones does not observe strict separation of powers, as one body exercises executive and legislative authority. This body, Cabinet, consists of the Executive Officers, elected representatives from each floor, and two elected off-campus representatives. The Jones Student Association Senator, the Historian, and the Parliamentarian serve as non-voting ex-officio members of Cabinet. The Cabinet generally meets every month during the school year, with a private "Pre-Cabinet" meeting of voting members on Tuesday and a public meeting on Wednesday. By tradition, Cabinet meetings are preceded by a study break. A students union, student government, student leadership, student council, or students association is a student organization present in many elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Separation of powers, a term faget from bob French political Enlightenment thinker Baron de Montesquieu[1][2], is a model for the governance of democratic states. ...

The current Executive Officers of Cabinet are:

• President, Teddy Bucher '08
• Executive Vice President, Alex Solomon '08
• Associates Vice President, Felipe Serrano '08
• Treasurer, Emily Coleman '08
• Secretaries, Bryant Chan '10 and Andrew McDermott '10
• Chief Justice, Anthony Moore '09
• Historian, Dave Brown '08
• SA Senator, Stephen Goggin '09
• Parliamentarian, Terri Cheng '08

Past Jones College Presidents:

• Kenneth Herz '93 (1992-93)- Kenny is now a partner in the Finance Section at the Houston law firm of Haynes & Boone.

• Audrey Chun '94 (1993-94) - Audrey is now an Assistant Professor in Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

• Damian Abreo '95 (1994-95) - Dee is now an attorney practicing bankruptcy law in Houston with the Heston Law Firm.

• Rick Lopez '96 (1995-96) - Rick is now a Senior Associate with the San Antonio office of the education law firm of Feldman & Rogers.

• "Sammy" Kalyan Lakshmanan '98 (1996-98) - Sammy is now a Principal Consultant with Environmental Resources Management in London, England.

• Michael Sorensen '99 (1998-99) - Mike received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Georgia Tech and is now President of Simatra Modeling Technologies in Asheville, North Carolina.

• Malcolm Wardlaw '00 (1999-2000) - Malcolm is now getting his Ph.D in Finance at the University of Texas.

• Avinash Pinto '01 (2000-01) -

• Steve Wilbur '04 (2001-02) - Steve is now the Editor and Founder of One Publications focusing on public policy in Austin, Texas.

• Reed Macy '04 (2002-04)- Reed is now an analyst at the Houston office of Goldman Sachs.

• Ellen Montz '05 (2004-05) -

• Breck Garrett '06 (2005-2006) - Breck is now attending law school at Indiana University.

• Patricia Mahoney '07 (2006-2007) -

The Judicial branch is led by the Chief Justice of the Jones College Court. Each floor elects an Associate Justice, who serves under the Chief Justice.

Activities and Traditions

Jones College spends more money on "study breaks" than any other college. This results in generous amounts of food before each cabinet meeting and a study break occurring every night of finals period. This money is also used to host a grandiose holiday party every December which attracts students, alumni and associates.

The generous Resident Associate budget also allows for them to subsidize tickets to the local Angelika theatre and the RAs host 3-4 Jones movie nights a semester.

Jones College tends to lead Rice in support of Rice athletics. The Student Owl club draws more of its members from Jones than any other college and the Student Owl Club interns have been from Jones a disproportionate number of times.^{[citation needed]}

Hard Men and Fast Women (Jones Beer Bike)

Relative to other colleges at Rice, Jones puts significant effort into organizing and training its Beer Bike team, including bikers, chuggers and pit crew.

1972 was the year of the first Women's Beer Bike Race. Jones Fast Women lost Beer Bike to Brown that year, but it went on to win in 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1990, and 2002.

The Jones Hard Men debuted in 1980 when the college went co-ed. They finished last that year, but progressively got better until they won their first Beer Bike victory in 1988, narrowly defeating Lovett by twenty-four hundredths of a second. The Jones Hard Men have maintained a tradition of excellence, winning in 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2005, and 2006. [6]

Although college cheers are a sensitive topic at Rice, Jones has a long history of developing and using cheers explicitly for the purpose of rooting at Beer Bike. Such notable cheers include:

• "Don't cross the track" (Hands above head with forearms crossed in an 'X')
• "Jaberwocky, Oligarchy, Necrophilia, Eat, Shit" (Left hand raised in a "J" shape)
• "Jones wins again" (resolution of "don't cross the track", hands uncrossed and then double tomahawk chops - used irrespective of outcome)
• "We ride because we must, we must because we ride, now Jones let's ride" (fists above head making a bicycle pedaling motion)
• "JIBA" (Hand signal has varied from year to year)
• "Don't fuck with Jones" (often used after "Jones wins again" and using the double tomahawk)