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Rice Athletics announced the firing of baseball head coach Jose Cruz Jr. on Thursday, less than a month into the season. ✍️ Kathleen Ortiz ricethresher.org/article/2025/0…

Today, the Department of Education announced Title VI investigations into 45 universities - including Rice - for alleged use of race-based practices in graduate admissions. As always, story TK The Rice Thresher.

I'm never going to complete cold harbour😂

BREAKING: The The White House has reportedly frozen over $175 million in federal funding to Penn, citing its failure to bar transgender athletes from women's sports. Alex Dash and valeri g have the developing story in The Daily Pennsylvanian: thedp.com/article/2025/0…

.Stanford University’s head football coach was found to have engaged in “inappropriate, discriminatory” ways in TWO separate investigations into his “hostile and aggressive behavior.” He remains on the job. espn.com/college-footba…

Updated story from Kathleen Ortiz and riya misra on Rice's decision to replace baseball head coach Jose Cruz Jr. with David Pierce. ricethresher.org/article/2025/0…

At 9 p.m. last night we sent The Rice Thresher to the printer, and my two-year term as editor-in-chief ended. Too much to say in a post, so I wrote a letter instead. Endless love for student journalism, and the newsroom where it all started. ricethresher.org/article/2025/0…

Harvard College released its regular decision offers of admission to the Class of 2029 Thursday, but for the first time in almost seven decades, the school did not report its regular decision acceptance rate. Cassidy Cheng and @clairegrumbachr report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/3…

This story is one out of many that we strive to report: hard-hitting, close to home. I couldn’t have reported this without The Rice Thresher. Support student journalism during the 24-hour challenge!

Student journalists are anonymizing bylines, unpublishing stories, and resigning from newsrooms amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech under Trump. "These are not normal times," the Student Press Law Center has warned. My latest for The Guardian: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

BREAKING: Five international Rice students — three current, two recent graduates — have had their visas revoked by the federal government. Story TK

Out now - ricethresher.org/article/2025/0…

#BREAKING: The Trump administration paused $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts to Harvard, hours after the University rejected federal demands. Dhruv Patel and Grace Yoon report. thecrimson.com/thread/2025/4/…

BREAKING: Penn has confirmed five additional visa revocations, bringing the total up to eight. The revoked visas belong to current students and recent graduates, per a University spokesperson. Story developing in The Daily Pennsylvanian: thedp.com/article/2025/0…

Finished my last-ever undergrad class today, and printed my final Thresher issue (as staff, anyways) this week. Proud of all the work we did. So, here’s my favorite issues from this year — designed by our exceptional art team:

#BREAKING The United States government will no longer award grants to Harvard, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced in a letter to University President Alan M. Garber ’76 on Monday. Dhruv T. Patel reports. thecrimson.com/article/2025/5…

I graduated!

Also, I’m excited to attend my first-ever IRE this June! Thank you to Investigative Reporters & Editors for naming me one of their fellows. Reach out if you’ll be in New Orleans :-) ire.org/ire25-conferen…