
riya misra
@riymisr
was editor-in-chief @thericethresher, summer fellow @irworkshop. find me on signal, riya.20. i like hummus.
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19-06-2023 00:54:44
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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. āļø Kathleen Ortiz ricethresher.org/article/2025/0ā¦

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.


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/2025/0ā¦

.Stanford Universityās head football coach was found to have engaged in āinappropriate, discriminatoryā ways in TWO separate investigations into his āhostile and aggressive behavior.ā He remains on the job. espn.com/college-footbaā¦

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/2025/0ā¦

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/2025/0ā¦

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/2025/3ā¦

This story is one out of many that we strive to report: hard-hitting, close to home. I couldnāt 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/aā¦



#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/ā¦





Also, Iām 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 youāll be in New Orleans :-) ire.org/ire25-conferenā¦