Situated between the Jones School of Business in McNair Hall and the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Baker Hall is the Lee and Joe Jamail Plaza. The central feature of the plaza, a beautiful granite dome fountain, is accented by four bronze plaques set into the ground, corresponding to the four spheres of influence in which the Baker Institute hopes to have an impact: the Rice campus, the state of Texas, the United States of America and the world. These four areas of influence are also represented, from right to left, by the seals which appear in the circular wreaths above the doors on the plaza-facing facade of Baker Hall, but on the fountain plaza, the chosen iconography is birds. Oriented to the east, in the direction of the undergraduate residences on campus, is a bronze plaque depicting a Rice Owl. Opposite that plaque, on the west side of the fountain (and, appropriately, oriented toward Rice's Shepherd School of Music), is a plaque depicting a song bird, the Mockingbird, the state bird of Texas. To the north, in the direction of the sculptural bull and bear flanking the doors to the Jones School of Business, is a plaque depicting the American Bald Eagle. And to the south, closest to Baker Hall, are two doves of peace, a hopeful representation of our world.