Three precious baby owls were discovered on the Rice campus recently — and it wasn’t even freshman orientation!!! (Ha ha!!)
The Rufous Morphs owls are sometimes called Texas Orange owls, but obviously not at Rice. School photographer Tommy LaVergne captured these shots.
Here they are posing for their inie-band album cover. The short guy on the right is the Kafka-reading bassist.
A solo shot:
And already, one of them is bored with Rice, while the one on the right is dealing with a hangover:
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.