texascavers Digest 25 Oct 2011 18:47:03 -0000 Issue 1423

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:47:17 -0700 (PDT) 

texascavers Digest 25 Oct 2011 18:47:03 -0000 Issue 1423

Topics (messages 18959 through 18965):

Re: BOG weekend
        18959 by: Louise Power
        18960 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
        18961 by: caverarch
        18963 by: Louise Power
        18964 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
        18965 by: Edward Gelsone

Re: Cindy Warton-Heart Attack
        18962 by: Leslie Bell

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For those of you unfamiliar with Rice University, I refer you to the following 
Wikipedia article:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University
 
I worked there for almost 10 years and Mom (Ma Power, to those of you who 
remember) worked there longer. It's a wonderful place to work. It's been called 
the Harvard of the Southwest. It's one of the most prestigious schools in Texas 
and recruits more than it's fair share of valedictorians from Texas high 
schools.
 
Louise
 

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:40:33 -0500
> Subject: RE: [Texascavers] BOG weekend
> 
> Well said Bill, I had thought that Rice was a small agricultural community 
> college but was impressed by the campus (other than their mosquitoes were 
> even larger than Louise's). 
> 
> Nice campus and I hear and know good things about their graduates (Bev Shade).
> 
> Geary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mixon Bill [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:41 PM
> To: Cavers Texas
> Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend
> 
> I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and 
> associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and 
> Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us 
> who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the 
> Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very 
> nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough 
> land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of 
> green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though, 
> that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a 
> similar near-campus pub, does.
> 
> I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board, 
> but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in 
> terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas 
> cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame 
> them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of 
> his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15 
> opposed.
> --Mixon
> ----------------------------------------
> I believe there are
> 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
> 468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
> 631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.- 
> Sir Arthur Eddington
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Rice may yet still practice The Elephant Bladder Contest. It involves beer & bicycles. I saw it once in the 1960s when I was visiting a friend there.
 
T


Oct 24, 2011 04:25:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Bill, the place to buy beer around Rice is on the campus, at the entirely volunteer-operated Valhalla, the non-profit Graduate Student Association pub under the stairs to the old Chemistry Building.  Beer was $0.35 when I was in grad school there.  That was a long time ago, admittedly, but I think it has only risen to $0.75 per cup now.

Just look for the red lights by the stairs.  The cavern-like atmosphere alone is worth it.

Roger Moore


-----Original Message-----
From: Mixon Bill
To: Cavers Texas
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 9:41 am
Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and  
associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and  
Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us  
who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the  
Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very  
nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough  
land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of  
green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though,  
that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a  
similar near-campus pub, does.

I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board,  
but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in  
terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas  
cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame  
them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of  
his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15  
opposed.
--Mixon
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I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.— 
Sir Arthur Eddington
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Yes, but it is just called "Beer/Bike" in my memory.  And then there is "Club 
13," a very early example of a flash mob, perhaps, in which students of both 
sexes streak the campus on Friday the 13th (any month) covered (when they 
begin) with shaving cream.  This foamy coating is used to make body prints on 
campus walls and windows.


Roger



-----Original Message-----
From: tbsamsel <[email protected]>
To: caverarch <[email protected]>
Cc: texascavers <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:23 am
Subject: Re: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend


Rice may yet still practice The Elephant Bladder Contest. It involves beer & 
bicycles. I saw it once in the 1960s when I was visiting a friend there.
 
T


Oct 24, 2011 04:25:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Bill, the place to buy beer around Rice is on the campus, at the entirely 
volunteer-operated Valhalla, the non-profit Graduate Student Association pub 
under the stairs to the old Chemistry Building.  Beer was $0.35 when I was in 
grad school there.  That was a long time ago, admittedly, but I think it has 
only risen to $0.75 per cup now. 


Just look for the red lights by the stairs.  The cavern-like atmosphere alone 
is worth it.


Roger Moore



-----Original Message-----
From: Mixon Bill 
To: Cavers Texas 
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 9:41 am
Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend


I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and  
associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and  
Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us  
who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the  
Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very  
nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough  
land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of  
green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though,  
that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a  
similar near-campus pub, does.

I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board,  
but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in  
terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas  
cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame  
them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of  
his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15  
opposed.
--Mixon
----------------------------------------
I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.— 
Sir Arthur Eddington
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The idea of the "Beer/Bike Race" was to chug a beer and bike around the course 
as fast as possible. Part of the winning strategy was being able to chug a beer 
faster than the other racers. Each college had a team and each team had a 
strategy for chugging. The most popular one involved sticking a large funnel 
into the mouth of the racer and then poking a hole in the bottom of the open 
beer can so that it all came out in one big gulp. Later, because of some really 
gory accidents, the teams had drinkers and riders. The riders couldn't leave 
the starting gate until the empty beer can had been discarded. The drinkers 
"practiced" all year long so that they could open up their throats and the beer 
would go right through without drowining them.
 



To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

Yes, but it is just called "Beer/Bike" in my memory.  And then there is "Club 
13," a very early example of a flash mob, perhaps, in which students of both 
sexes streak the campus on Friday the 13th (any month) covered (when they 
begin) with shaving cream.  This foamy coating is used to make body prints on 
campus walls and windows. 


Roger



-----Original Message-----
From: tbsamsel <[email protected]>
To: caverarch <[email protected]>
Cc: texascavers <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:23 am
Subject: Re: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend



Rice may yet still practice The Elephant Bladder Contest. It involves beer & 
bicycles. I saw it once in the 1960s when I was visiting a friend there.
 
T


Oct 24, 2011 04:25:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Bill, the place to buy beer around Rice is on the campus, at the entirely 
volunteer-operated Valhalla, the non-profit Graduate Student Association pub 
under the stairs to the old Chemistry Building.  Beer was $0.35 when I was in 
grad school there.  That was a long time ago, admittedly, but I think it has 
only risen to $0.75 per cup now. 


Just look for the red lights by the stairs.  The cavern-like atmosphere alone 
is worth it.


Roger Moore



-----Original Message-----
From: Mixon Bill 
To: Cavers Texas 
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 9:41 am
Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend


I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and  
associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and  
Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us  
who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the  
Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very  
nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough  
land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of  
green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though,  
that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a  
similar near-campus pub, does.

I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board,  
but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in  
terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas  
cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame  
them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of  
his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15  
opposed.
--Mixon
----------------------------------------
I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.— 
Sir Arthur Eddington
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One of my high school's National Merit Scholars was a math whiz and a HUGE guy. He was the passive "drinker" for his team and they won every year.
 
T


Oct 25, 2011 01:39:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
The idea of the "Beer/Bike Race" was to chug a beer and bike around the course as fast as possible. Part of the winning strategy was being able to chug a beer faster than the other racers. Each college had a team and each team had a strategy for chugging. The most popular one involved sticking a large funnel into the mouth of the racer and then poking a hole in the bottom of the open beer can so that it all came out in one big gulp. Later, because of some really gory accidents, the teams had drinkers and riders. The riders couldn't leave the starting gate until the empty beer can had been discarded. The drinkers "practiced" all year long so that they could open up their throats and the beer would go right through without drowining them.
 
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

Yes, but it is just called "Beer/Bike" in my memory.  And then there is "Club 13," a very early example of a flash mob, perhaps, in which students of both sexes streak the campus on Friday the 13th (any month) covered (when they begin) with shaving cream.  This foamy coating is used to make body prints on campus walls and windows.

Roger


-----Original Message-----
From: tbsamsel
To: caverarch
Cc: texascavers
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:23 am
Subject: Re: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

Rice may yet still practice The Elephant Bladder Contest. It involves beer & bicycles. I saw it once in the 1960s when I was visiting a friend there.
 
T


Oct 24, 2011 04:25:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Bill, the place to buy beer around Rice is on the campus, at the entirely volunteer-operated Valhalla, the non-profit Graduate Student Association pub under the stairs to the old Chemistry Building.  Beer was $0.35 when I was in grad school there.  That was a long time ago, admittedly, but I think it has only risen to $0.75 per cup now.

Just look for the red lights by the stairs.  The cavern-like atmosphere alone is worth it.

Roger Moore


-----Original Message-----
From: Mixon Bill
To: Cavers Texas
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 9:41 am
Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and  
associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and  
Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us  
who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the  
Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very  
nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough  
land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of  
green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though,  
that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a  
similar near-campus pub, does.

I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board,  
but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in  
terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas  
cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame  
them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of  
his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15  
opposed.
--Mixon
----------------------------------------
I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.— 
Sir Arthur Eddington
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This method of the static drinker is just another example of PC taking the fun 
out of the game.

 

The blood alcohol content of the riders directly affected the outcome of the 
race.

 

THAT WAS THE POINT.

 

Ed

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: RE: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

 

One of my high school's National Merit Scholars was a math whiz and a HUGE guy. 
He was the passive "drinker" for his team and they won every year.

 

T


Oct 25, 2011 01:39:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:

The idea of the "Beer/Bike Race" was to chug a beer and bike around the course 
as fast as possible. Part of the winning strategy was being able to chug a beer 
faster than the other racers. Each college had a team and each team had a 
strategy for chugging. The most popular one involved sticking a large funnel 
into the mouth of the racer and then poking a hole in the bottom of the open 
beer can so that it all came out in one big gulp. Later, because of some really 
gory accidents, the teams had drinkers and riders. The riders couldn't leave 
the starting gate until the empty beer can had been discarded. The drinkers 
"practiced" all year long so that they could open up their throats and the beer 
would go right through without drowining them.
 

  _____  

To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

Yes, but it is just called "Beer/Bike" in my memory.  And then there is "Club 
13," a very early example of a flash mob, perhaps, in which students of both 
sexes streak the campus on Friday the 13th (any month) covered (when they 
begin) with shaving cream.  This foamy coating is used to make body prints on 
campus walls and windows. 

 

Roger



-----Original Message-----
From: tbsamsel 
To: caverarch 
Cc: texascavers 
Sent: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 2:23 am
Subject: Re: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

Rice may yet still practice The Elephant Bladder Contest. It involves beer & 
bicycles. I saw it once in the 1960s when I was visiting a friend there.

 

T


Oct 24, 2011 04:25:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Bill, the place to buy beer around Rice is on the campus, at the entirely 
volunteer-operated Valhalla, the non-profit Graduate Student Association pub 
under the stairs to the old Chemistry Building.  Beer was $0.35 when I was in 
grad school there.  That was a long time ago, admittedly, but I think it has 
only risen to $0.75 per cup now. 

 

Just look for the red lights by the stairs.  The cavern-like atmosphere alone 
is worth it.

 

Roger Moore



-----Original Message-----
From: Mixon Bill 
To: Cavers Texas 
Sent: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 9:41 am
Subject: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

I'd like to agree that the arrangements for the NSS BOG meeting and  
associated parties were very good. Thanks especially for Louise and  
Paul for the party site and serving breakfast on Sunday to some of us  
who crashed at their house. Cavers (and the mosquitoes of the  
Houstopolis area) were well fed during the party. Rice campus very  
nice. I'd never been there. They evidently got started with enough  
land, and didn't get hemmed in like the UT Austin campus. Lots of  
green lawns, huge parking lots around the stadium, etc. Glad, though,  
that the Posse doesn't charge as much for beer as the Ginger Man, a  
similar near-campus pub, does.
 
I've attended very few BOG meetings since I was actually on the board,  
but I imagine this one was one of the most successful in years in  
terms of getting to meet local cavers. There were hardly any Texas  
cavers in the audience at the meeting itself. I don't especially blame  
them, but they missed Bill Liebman accidentally voting against one of  
his own motions. And another of his motions going down 1 for and 15  
opposed.
--Mixon
----------------------------------------
I believe there are
15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,
468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,
631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.— 
Sir Arthur Eddington
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Good afternoon all, we have an update on Cindy regarding the thread below. 
 
Friday afternoon, Cindy Warton, wife of Mike Warton, suffered a heart attack 
while driving.  This resulted in a minor accident observed by EMS personal.  
They were able to treat her at the scene and rushed her to the Round Rock 
Hospital.   
 
 Cindy is now awake and it looks like she will have a full recovery.  
 Mike Warton sends his thanks to all for your support.  
 
 
Mike Walsh
 
 


Leslie Bell 

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From: Leslie Bell <[email protected]>
Subject: [Texascavers] Cindy Warton-Heart Attack
To: "Texas Cavers" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011, 12:08 AM






I am posting this on behalf of Mike Walsh, 



Friday afternoon, Cindy Warton, wife of Mike Warton, suffered a heart attack 
while driving.  This resulted in a minor accident observed by EMS personal.  
They were able to treat her at the scene and rushed her to the Round Rock 
Hospital.  Cindy was then placed into a coma to prevent problems.  At this 
time, indications seem to be good toward her recovery.  Additional information 
will be posted when more is known.
 
     As you might imagine, things are a bit tight for Mike & Cindy.  If you 
would like
to make a donation, please send a check or money order to assist to:
  
Mike Warton
1800 West Park
Cedar Park, TX 78613
 
            The letters will be passed on to Mike Warton unopened.
  
Thanks, Mike Walsh
 


Leslie Bell

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