Re: Re: [Texascavers] BOG weekend

[tbsamsel]

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, cavera...@aol.com 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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