Student's project brings Science Olympiad to Rice

Student Association External Vice President Charles Klein is spearheading a campaign to bring ESPN basketball announcer Dick Vitale-to Rice to call the Feb",'24 game between Rice and the University of Utah. Vitale , who is commonly known as the voice of college basketball, is scheduled to call a game between the Universi ty of K e n t u c k y Wi ldca t s and t h e University of Tennessee Volunteers on Feb. 25. According to ESPN Coordinating Producer Dave Miller, Feb. 24 is set as a travel day for Vitale. l eade r s of the campaign. t it led "The Dick Vitale Campaign , Baby" after Vitale's own broad casting style, hopes that a flood of messages to both Vitale and Miller will convince them to alter Vitale's schedule to allow him to be at the game. "If they get enough mail, there is a possibility that. IHck Vitale will switch over and call our game," Klein said. Klein, a long with Sid Richardson College senior Josh Earnest, spoke to Head Coach Willis Wilson in November before the season started. They were c o n c e r n e d about a lack of student support for the basketball team. Wilson m a d e some suggestions, oneofwUjch was the campaign t'o bring Vitale to Rice. Wilson said that a campaign had been tried, unsuccessfully, a few years ago. The initial meeting led to a second meeting where Wilson, along with Assistant Athletic Director Steve Moniaci, met with several students to discuss the campaign. "The most logical time to get Vitale seemed to be the Utah SEE VITALS. PAGE 6