Flu kits are now available to the graduate students and these are the points of distribution: RGA, RVA, OISS, and GPS. The cost is $1, and the kits include a very nice digital thermometer, 4 ounce hand sanitizer, packet of 2 Extra-Strength Tylenol, pocket-size Kleenex, and accurate information about how to avoid/treat the flu.

Interested in EMS? Applications for a possible Spring 2010 EMT-Basic Course are currently available. Email rems-education@rice.edu if interested. Typed applications are due 5 pm Friday, November 6th, and will be followed by a short interview.

Love family of Rice alums seeks student to assist with child care 17-20 hours per week in the afternoons M-F. We have three children (ages 8, 7 and 5), and we live three miles from campus. Reliable transportation is required, as the position involves picking the children up from school, driving them to activities, playing with them and overseeing homework.

Calling all lyricists, poets, singers, rappers, and performers: do you know a woman? Are you one? Then we need your voice for "SPEAK OUT!: A Woman's World," an Open Mic Night hosted by the Egyptian Queens, RPC and Rice Women's Resource Center at Willy's Pub at 9 pm, November 12th.

Theatre Under the Stars now has discount tickets available for “A Chorus Line”. To acquire, go to https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/go.htmI?l=EN&t=ccethou&o=55941948&g=304 and use ricetixs as the password.

International Education Week (IEW) is fast approaching (taking place November 16th thru the 20th) and to celebrate it, the Office of International Students and Scholars is organizing a wide variety of events to commemorate such a special week. I would like to invite you to be part of one of the most favorite events… the RICE MINI SOCCER WORLD CUP!

Mark your calendars! Jorge Cham will be speaking at Rice on Thursday, November 12th! Event will begin at 6pm in McMurtry Auditorium. Book signing and refreshments will follow.

You are invited to a small FieldFest event put on by the Linguistics Department to raise awareness of disappearing languages, cultures and the importance of language documentation.

WHAT: FieldFest @ UN FilmFest: 'The Linguists' + panel + reception
WHEN: 1-3:30pm, November 8, Sunday
WHERE: Rice Media Center
TICKETS: grads first come first served $0 (60 tickets), general admission $6

Spacious 3 bedroom 2.5 bath in a beautiful townhome located in a quiet courtyard. Huge master bedroom with a Jacuzzi tub in master bath. Peaceful landscaped patio with garden sprinkle and parking outside patio door. Updates: all recent travertine and wood laminate floors (no carpet), double pane patio windows, upstairs A/C 2005 energy efficient.