A memorial service for two Houston Fire Department officers who lost their lives in the line of duty was held at Rice Stadium on February 11, 2000. The memorial service was in honor of firefighters Lewis Evans Mayo, III, 44, and Kimberly Ann Smith, 30, who died fighting a three-alarm fire in far southwest Houston.

This photograph originally was on the wall of the renovated Willy's Pub after the Rice Memorial Center fire on April 6, 1995. This photograph was glued to the wall along with other photographs and newspapers.

Powderpuff football began as an official intercollegiate sport at Rice in 1965, shortly after Brown College was created. It started as match play between the all-girls colleges of Jones and Brown, and grew as more residential colleges on campus became co-ed.

In the spring of 1970, with the help of College Master Charles W. Philpott, Charles Becker and Ed Dickinson began Baker College’s yearly tradition, Baker Shakespeare.

A five-day crisis arose on the campus of Rice University in February 1969 following the appointment of Dr. William H. Masterson by the Board of Trustees as the university's new President to succeed Kenneth Pitzer, who had resigned in August 1968.

The annual Beer Bike race started in 1957.

Beer Bike started in 1957.

Beer Bike started in 1957.