THE DAILY COUGAR THE DAILY COUGAR ® ® the official student newspaper of the university of houston since 1934 the official student newspaper of the university of houston since 1934 Issue , Volume Tuesday September , news line Find more news items at newsline.thedailycougar.com Got an item for Newsline? Let us know! E-mail [email protected]EMERGENCY RESPONSE Stove burner causes smoke, sets o re alarms Monday morning A burner that was not properly cleaned in the kitchen of Barron’s restaurant in the UH Hilton Hotel set o a smoke detector and prompted the response of the Houston Fire Department. Several re trucks responded to the incident, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. Normally, the smoke would be absorbed by a vent hood, but there was too much. “It was not a false alarm,” Fire Marshal Bob Bowden said. “There was food that was not properly cleaned o of a burner, and that created the smoke. It wasn’t a false alarm; it worked just how it was supposed to." — Joshua Siegel/The Daily Cougar CAMPUS EVENT Conference to feature Mexican- American Studies scholars The UH Center for Mexican American Studies is hosting a two-day conference titled “War Along the Border: the Mexican Revolution and its Impact Upon Tejano Com- munities” from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 23-24 in the Rockwell Pavilion The conference coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and will feature a number of history professors from UH. Visit www.class.uh.edu/cmas for more information and an itinerary of scheduled lectures. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar » Breaking news, blogs, discussion and more: thedailycougar.com @thedailycougar facebook.com/thedailycougar Quantum physics comes to life Will the Cougars beat Rice or fall flat? life/arts sports Ashley Evans THE DAILY COUGAR When most people think of comics, they think of superheroes and caped crusaders, However, there is a new type of comic emerging. The graphic novel has seen a rise in popular- ity over the past few years, which prompted Mat Johnson, faculty member in UH’s Creative Writ- ing program, to teach a graphic novel workshop in the spring of 2010. Work created by the students will be on dis- play from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the Honors College. Special presentations by students Ted Clos- son, Chuck Ivy, Grant MacManus, Brandon White, Jonathan Niles Gill and James Roberts will be made. “The basic rules of sto- rytelling apply no matter which format you choose to write in,” Johnson said. “But with graphic novels, you let the pictures carry the weight of the story, as well as the words.” Graphic novels are a sophisticated, short story format of comics that usually pertain to more serious subject matter. Johnson says that comics or graphic novels are one of the easier ways for aspiring writers to be published because of the nature of the comic industry as a “boom industry.” Throughout the workshop, Johnson taught the students how to use narrative voice and visual elements to cross over from fiction into graphic novels. The students were given scripts Alice Cepeda | Katie Rowald/The Daily Cougar The opening frame of "Snow Angel," the product of one of the partnerships between UH students and professional artists, will be on display Wednesday evening. | Courtesy of Mat Johnson Katie Rowald THE DAILY COUGAR Assistant sociology professor Alice Cepeda will be recognized by a national network for her research on drug use on the Latino community. Cepeda will receive the National Award of Excellence in Research by a New Investigator at the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse’s annual conference Sept. 30 in New Orleans. Cepeda is currently studying the influence of social networks among aging Mexican- American heroin users. “Some of the work that I’m currently doing is looking at such things as the social environ- ment and social structural factors that puts a lot of these individuals at risk for engaging in illegal activities,” Cepeda said. She mentioned factors such as poverty, violence and crime in the neighborhoods and the lack of employment opportunities in the community. “The other thing is personal susceptibility factors, which are associated with issues of depression, childhood trauma and stress.” Cepeda has also found that the family is occasionally a protective factor, with some families actually encouraging the user — who in this study are Mexican-American men, all Cepeda studies social factors of middle-aged Latino men Fine art, creative writing students show works created during inaugural course COMMUNITY Program uses 'Iliad' to expand horizons Travis Masterson THE DAILY COUGAR A new program is hoping to show UH students there is more to life than what they know. Scholars in Schools, a UH Hon- ors College program, is giving 15 students from Pasadena's Sam Rayburn High School a college-like experience to show them they have options. “Many of them (Rayburn stu- dents) don’t seem to think beyond high school, their horizons don’t extend beyond the oil refineries that ring Pasadena,” French history and Honors College professor Robert Zaretsky said. Zaretsky is working on the pro- gram with Rayburn 10th-grade level English teacher Brian Johnston, his brother-in-law. Students will study “The Iliad” and attend seminars on the UH campus. Zaretsky believes this program will give these students a broader outlook on life. “Brian has been trying to make these students see the great works (and show how) they are relevant for these students, too.” Zaretsky credits Honors College Dean Bill Monroe and Rayburn prin- cipal Robert Stock with helping get the program off the ground. EXHIBITION Graphic collaborations revealed Johnson ! ! Professor nets research honor SCHOLARS continues on page 3 GRAPHICS continues on page 3 AWARD continues on page 3 ON CAMPUS IT Training on Desktop Publishing A free class for students and faculty over intermediate Adobe InDesign frames will be held in the Social Work Building in room 110-L. You must register at www. uh.edu/ittraining beforehand. The class will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. AROUND TOWN The Smashing Pumpkins with Bad City Ac- companying The Smashing Pumpkins’ new album “Teargarden by Kaleidyscope” comes their tour around the world. Grab a few tickets soon for the 9 p.m. show at Warehouse Live! Find more campus and local events or add your own at thedailycougar.com/calendar CORRECTIONS Report errors to [email protected]. ! ! Corrections will appear in this space as needed. Recycle this paper: Share it with a friend! HI 86 LO 74 today
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A burner that was not properly cleaned in the kitchen of Barron’s restaurant in the UH Hilton Hotel set o& a smoke detector and prompted the response of the Houston Fire Department.
Several ' re trucks responded to the incident, which occurred around 10:30 a.m. Normally, the smoke would be absorbed by a vent hood, but there was too much.
“It was not a false alarm,” Fire Marshal Bob Bowden said. “There was food that was not properly cleaned o& of a burner, and that created the smoke. It wasn’t a false alarm; it worked just how it was supposed to."
— Joshua Siegel/The Daily Cougar
CAMPUS EVENTConference to feature Mexican-American Studies scholars
The UH Center for Mexican American Studies is hosting a two-day conference titled “War Along the Border: the Mexican Revolution and its Impact Upon Tejano Com-munities” from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 23-24 in the Rockwell Pavilion
The conference coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and will feature a number of history professors from UH.
Visit www.class.uh.edu/cmas for more information and an itinerary of scheduled lectures.
— Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
» Breaking news, blogs, discussion and more: thedailycougar.com @thedailycougar facebook.com/thedailycougar
Quantum physics comes to life
Will the Cougars beat Rice or fall flat?
life/arts sports
Ashley EvansTHE DAILY COUGAR
When most people think of comics, they think of superheroes and caped crusaders,
However, there is a new type of comic emerging.
The graphic novel has seen a rise in popular-ity over the past few years, which prompted Mat Johnson, faculty member in UH’s Creative Writ-ing program, to teach a graphic novel workshop in the spring of 2010.
Work created by the students will be on dis-play from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the Honors College.
Special presentations by students Ted Clos-son, Chuck Ivy, Grant MacManus, Brandon White, Jonathan Niles Gill and James Roberts
will be made. “The basic rules of sto-
rytelling apply no matter which format you choose to write in,” Johnson said. “But with graphic novels, you let the pictures carry the weight of the story, as well as the words.”
Graphic novels are a sophisticated, short story format of comics that usually pertain to more serious subject matter.
Johnson says that comics or graphic novels are one of the easier ways for aspiring writers to be published because of the nature of the comic industry as a “boom industry.”
Throughout the workshop, Johnson taught the students how to use narrative voice and visual elements to cross over from fi ction into graphic novels. The students were given scripts
Alice Cepeda | Katie Rowald/The Daily Cougar
The opening frame of "Snow Angel," the product of one of the partnerships between UH students and professional artists, will be on display Wednesday evening. | Courtesy of Mat Johnson
Katie RowaldTHE DAILY COUGAR
Assistant sociology professor Alice Cepeda will be recognized by a national network for her research on drug use on the Latino community.
Cepeda will receive the National Award of Excellence in Research by a New Investigator at the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse’s annual conference Sept. 30 in New Orleans.
Cepeda is currently studying the influence of social networks among aging Mexican-American heroin users.
“Some of the work that I’m currently doing is looking at such things as the social environ-ment and social structural factors that puts a lot of these individuals at risk for engaging in illegal activities,” Cepeda said.
She mentioned factors such as poverty, violence and crime in the neighborhoods and the lack of employment opportunities in the community.
“The other thing is personal susceptibility factors, which are associated with issues of depression, childhood trauma and stress.”
Cepeda has also found that the family is occasionally a protective factor, with some families actually encouraging the user — who in this study are Mexican-American men, all
Cepeda studies social factors of middle-aged Latino men
Fine art, creative writing students show works created during inaugural course
COMMUNITY
Program uses 'Iliad' to expand horizons Travis MastersonTHE DAILY COUGAR
A new program is hoping to show UH students there is more to life than what they know.
Scholars in Schools, a UH Hon-ors College program, is giving 15 students from Pasadena's Sam Rayburn High School a college-like experience to show them they have options.
“Many of them (Rayburn stu-dents) don’t seem to think beyond high school, their horizons don’t extend beyond the oil refi neries that ring Pasadena,” French history and Honors College professor Robert Zaretsky said.
Zaretsky is working on the pro-gram with Rayburn 10th-grade level English teacher Brian Johnston, his brother-in-law.
Students will study “The Iliad” and attend seminars on the UH campus.
Zaretsky believes this program will give these students a broader outlook on life.
“Brian has been trying to make these students see the great works (and show how) they are relevant for these students, too.”
Zaretsky credits Honors College Dean Bill Monroe and Rayburn prin-cipal Robert Stock with helping get the program off the ground.
EXHIBITION
Graphic collaborations revealed
Johnson!!
Professor nets research honor
SCHOLARS continues on page 3GRAPHICS continues on page 3
AWARD continues on page 3
ON CAMPUSIT Training on Desktop Publishing A free class for students and faculty over intermediate Adobe InDesign frames will be held in the Social Work Building in room 110-L. You must register at www.uh.edu/ittraining beforehand. The class will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Minor in possession of alcohol/failure to identify – Sept. 10, 8:50 p.m. – Lot 15 F — An underage stu-dent was observed in possession of a alcoholic beverage in parking lot 15 F. The student gave false information to a UH DPS police offi cer and was arrested for Failure to Identify and received a Harris County citation for the alcohol violation. The student also received a Student Life Referral. The student was transported to Har-ris County Jail.
Reckless driving– Sept. 13, 1:24 p.m. – Entrance 19 — A witness observed a vehicle strike and dam-age a UH stop sign on Entrance 19. It appeared the striking vehicle was being chased by another vehicle.
Theft of service – Sept. 13, 6:47 p.m. – University Hilton Hotel — A suspect vehicle was observed exiting the underground garage of the Hilton Hotel without paying. An investiga-tion is ongoing.
Theft – Sept. 13, 7:03 p.m. – Cam-bridge Oaks Apartments — A student reported that someone stole her unattended and secured bicycle from Cambridge Oaks Apartments. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Tra! c o" ense – Sept. 14, 7:28 a.m. – Lot 1 A — A student reported that someone struck her vehicle while it was parked in lot 1 A. The strik-ing driver failed to leave the proper information as required by Texas law. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Burglary of a motor vehicle – Wednesday, 4:51 p.m. – Lot 15 D — A student reported that someone stole her parking permit from her unat-tended and unsecured motor vehicle. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Damage to property – Wednes-day, 11:14 p.m. – Lot 6 B — A student
reported that he accidentally broke the wooden gate arm in lot 6 B while riding his bicycle through the lot. The student agreed to pay the repair costs.
Theft – Thursday, 4:53 p.m. – Cul-len Oaks Apartments — A student reported that someone stole her unattended clothing from a laundry washer. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Consumption of alcohol by a minor/public intoxication – Friday, 12:13 a.m. – Bayou Oaks Apartments — A UH DPS security offi cer reported fi nding a highly intoxicated underage visitor at Bayou Oaks. The visitor was released to a responsible adult and received Harris County citation for consumption of alcohol by a minor.
Criminal mischief – Friday, 2:18 a.m. – Agnes Arnold Hall — A staff member reported that someone was throwing chairs and fl aming paper planes from the fourth fl oor of Agnes Arnold Hall. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Tra! c o" ense – Friday, 9:38 a.m. – Lot 4 A — A student reported that someone struck and damaged her vehicle while it was parked in lot 4 a. The driver of the striking vehicle failed to leave information required by law. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Burglary of a motor vehicle – Sat-urday, 1:29 p.m. – Lot 4 A — Several students reported that someone burglarized their unattended and secured vehicle while parked in lot 4 A and stole various items. There are no suspects or witnesses.
For the complete report and to view past reports, go to www.uh.edu/police/dcb.html
Have information on these or other incidents of crime on campus? Call 713-743-0600
The following is a partial report of campus crime between Sept. 10 and Saturday. All information is selected from the $ les of the UH Police Department. The information in italics indicates when the event was reported to UHPD and the event’s location. Information or questions regarding the cases below should be directed to UHPD at (713) 743-0600.
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Friday, October 1 - 3 Boulder Tour of Central Texas (Mandatory Meeting 9/28 @ 5pm) Conquer three of central Texas’s top bouldering destinations in one long weekend.
-- $90 Saturday, October 9 Farmer’s Market Bike Tour Explore Houston’s historic neighborhoods as we bike to several Farmer’s Markets, eat at a café, & relax at Discovery Green.
-- $10
Friday, October 22-24 Backpack the Hill Country (Mandatory Meeting 10/19 @ 5pm) Escape the big city and wander through cowboy country taking in grassy valleys, spring fed streams, and limestone bluffs.
-- $75
Saturday, October 30-31 Pedal the Pines (Mandatory Meeting 10/26 @ 5pm) Hop on a bike and ride through the Lost Pines and surrounding hills for two days of pedaling.
-- $60
Friday, November 5-7 Central Texas Climbing Tour (Mandatory Meeting 11/2 @ 5pm) Get a real introduction to Texas climbing at E-Rockand Reimers Ranch for a weekend of sends.
-- $90
Saturday, November 20 Farmer’s Market Bike Tour Don’t miss your last chance to get your local produce, handmade goodies, and ride around Houston with OA!
-- $10
Tuesday, November 23-27 Big Bend National Park (Mandatory Meeting 11/16 @ 5pm) Spend Thanksgiving exploring one of the last remaining wild corners of the United States.
-- $175
All trips must be paid in full at time of enrollment. For more information contact Caleb Wells at (713) 743-0808 or stop by CRWC Room 1007.
Intramural SportTeam Sport Entry Deadline
Volleyball September 27
Flag Football Regional Play-in Tournament
October 18
Fall Classic Tournament November 1
Early Registration Spring Basketball
December 6
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Tennis September 20 Racquetball October 11 Badminton October 11
Bowling Doubles October 25
Alternative Sports Entry DeadlineFootball Pick ‘em September 7
X-Box Madden October 4 Punt/Pass/Kick November 12
Wii Sports Tourn. November 1 Golf Singles ($25) November 8 Poker Tournament November 29
All entries must be completed and turned in by 6 pm to the Intramural Sports office CRWC 1007.
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OWD $250/275AOWD $180/205
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will be provided where conditions require.Personal equipment to be furnished by the student includes:
mask, snorkel, fins and booties, weights and weight belt. This equipment can be rented for the class for $25 from Campus
Recreation (certain sizes of equipment may be available on a first-come, first-served basis).
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“The Honors (College) for far too long has looked beyond Houston for its recruiting base. It was in part the decision of Dean Monroe that we should be working with high schools in the Houston area,” Zaretsky said. “Especially high schools where stu-dents traditionally don’t go on to universities.”
The semester starts and ends with the students coming to UH for seminars.
Throughout the semester, Zaretsky will be attending the Ray-burn class every other Friday to teach alongside Johnston.
Guest lecturers with expertise on “The Iliad” will also be involved.
Casey Due-Hackney, professor
of modern and classical languages, and Richard Armstrong, associate professor of classical studies, will take part in giving these students a broader educational experience.
“The Iliad,” is already a staple of college literature and at many high schools.
Zaretsky said that the students at Rayburn will be able to relate to Achilles and his journey to defi ne himself and his life.
“The Iliad” deals with the very same themes the students are deal-ing with in their lives," Zaretsky said. "It deals with love, honor and shame."
“Ultimately what ‘The Iliad’ deals with is fi nding meaning in one’s life. I can’t see how this can’t speak to the lives of these kids.”
45 years or older, who have been using heroin for an extensive period of time — to engage in the drug use at home rather than in the community.
“Their families, in particular their mothers, have been very protective of them in the sense that the moms, who know that they’re engaging in this type of behavior, prefer that they’re in the house using the drugs rather than being out in the community being exposed to the possibility of being arrested and violent crime,” she said.
The study also includes a look at
the lives of men who, 13 years ago, were adolescent and self-identified gang members.
Cepeda is working to locate the men and re-interview them to find out more about what their lives have been like for the past decade, including the events that may have contributed to their continued drug use or cessation.
Cepeda, who is also the asso-ciate director of the Center for Drug and Social Policy Research at the Graduate College of Social Work, also received the 2010 Junior Scholar Award from the Drinking and Drugs Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems earlier this year.
to analyze how the action is broken down into sequential scenes, similar to how movie script storyboards are produced.
After weeks of analysis, the students were asked to craft their own graphic novels.
In today’s highly competitive tech-nical world, most comics are drawn digitally, which, Johnson said, makes correcting mistakes and sending fi les
much easier. He also points out that nowadays
most comics are a collaborative effort, with many artists who specialize in pencil, ink and color sketching from around the world.
Students were able to use the same digital sketchpad techniques to cre-ate their own scripts that were then entered into a contest.
Scripts were sent off to professional illustrators, including Dean Haspiel, Joe Infurnari, and Mike Cavallaro, and brought to life as graphic novels.
Because of the success of the course, Johnson says he will continue offering it through the Creative Writing program, either annually or bi-annu-ally. He recommends that any UH writ-ing student who is seriously interested in publication take the course.
Johnson has written the graphic novels Dark Rain, Hellblazer, and Incognegro for DC Comics’ Vertigo label. He has also written the novels Drop and Hunting in Harlem.
A frame from "Lorica," another of the graphic novels that will be on display. | Courtesy of Mat Johnson
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STAFF EDITORIAL
P oliticians are becoming more and more powerful by the day. With billions of dollars being shipped out to every corner of the U.S.
— and, indeed, the world at large — there are more reasons than ever to pick up a newspaper and try to understand just what the government is doing.
Yet at a time when political tensions are coming to a head (this is one of the most crucial mid-term elections seen in quite some time) more people than ever are feeling apathetic. But why?
With the Internet, there’s literally no end to how much information someone can read about any number of subjects. You can read a BBC analyst’s opinion on America’s stimulus, and then read every single American columnists’ take as well. Every speech and every bill is available to look at somewhere online.
We here at the Daily Cougar certainly try to report on what the campus government is trying to do. The Chronicle (and all the state’s news organizations) try to bring to light how heated the governor’s race is. Yet voters still turn a blind eye, preferring to vote strictly along party lines (if they even vote at all.)
Yes, it does take some time to actually sit down and read what’s going on with Congress, and it’s not something the average American could change overnight. But when people are informed, they generally make informed decisions.
If this country truly wants the change that President Barack Obama promised, it has to try and at least meet him halfway. How can you expect anyone — even the president — to change the most powerful country in the world without giving him constructive criticism?
Maybe the problem lies with the media itself. Instead of commenting on the issues, the stories focus on whether or not politicians are serving their parties well. But, then again, readership declines when someone comments on the actual issues, because people generally don’t seem to care too much in the fi rst place.
Or maybe, just maybe, if people actually started caring, there would be change. First, in the news coverage, then in the voting booth.
And then, perhaps, we’d see some honest-to-goodness change start to happen.
Voters should concern themselves with issues
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E motional appeals from public fi gures with little — or in the case of Sharron Angle, no experience — in
atmospheric sciences, geography, geol-ogy, or any fi eld that might justify her statement, "I don’t, however, buy into the
whole … Man-caused global warming, man-caused climate change mantra of the left. I believe that there’s not
sound science to back that up." Angle, the Republican senate candidate from Nevada, essentially lays out the right’s ide-ology vis-à-vis their undue politicization of an inherently apolitical issue: global warming.
There was a time when Conservatives took the effort to lend credibility to their arguments even if the arguements were wrong and were consciously fabricated. For example, in 2009 Washington Post col-umnist George Will asserted the validity of a University of Illinois study of ice-shelf
levels that concluded that the amount of ice had not decreased therfore global warming was not a threat.
The University of Illinois was overjoyed at this fi nding, since Will had seemingly done their work for them; they had never conducted such a study, and when they did after his column ran, they found that “global sea ice levels are 1.34 million square kilometers (about 830,000 miles) less in February 2009 than in February 1979.”
And to believe this was only last year. Since then, discourse has devolved to the point where any Republican incumbent who believes tested theories, evidence, and factual information, must either be a democrat or a moderate Republican (who, as the Tea Party has politely informed us, are being purged).
Florida governor Charlie Crist, an Independent senate candidate, left the GOP after many aspects of his political career (none of which had to do with small
government or social conservatism) were called into question as proof of his growing liberalism; only his belief that godless automobiles do more harm than good.
As Roy Blunt, a sentate candidate from Missouri put it, the right’s opposition to this is rooted in the belief that, “There isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the Earth." As opposed to all of the proof to the contrary that the skeptics have?
Enter Climategate, a non-issue that the right uses to propagate the myth that so-called falsifi ed fi ndings were used in a study by liberal climatologists. However, despite the right’s war on science, the actual results feature a conclusion that yields pretty troubling results all on its own, because no scientifi c malpractice was deemed to have occurred.
A more mainstream approach, though still short of admitting science is not a
I n a democratic society, the people have only so many methods to affect their government. There is the violent
method (we all know the odds of an armed insurrection against the U.S. military), joining the government as a
politician (entering the sea of Republicans vs. Democrats), and there is voting. Students at large seem to choose none of the above.
The cynics ask, "Why vote?" The candidates
rarely represent the millions voting for them; politics involves a two party system comparable to street gangs, and writing in an independent candidate is almost always in vain.
You shouldn't vote, mainly because it will lull you into a false sense of accom-plishment; the illusion that there are trustworthy, competent men and women
wearing suits and ties, making sure everything is running smoothly because you pulled a lever on election day is ludi-crous. Taken in this perspective, voting is meaningless.
The only true reason voting is meaningless is that not everyone votes. Corporations make sure to vote (and give unlimited campaign contributions); people in their 50s and up make sure to vote, and those who have a vested interest make sure to vote. Everyone else basically sits at home on voting day and then spends the days until the next election complaining about how politics are broken. By "everyone else", I mean students.
Sure, plenty of students turned out for the 2008 presidential election. Plenty of those students only turned out for that, and probably straight ticket voted. Stu-dents don't typically vote for their mayor, the judges in their district or county, the
state governor, congressmen, or senators (students typically don't know who any of these people are). Yet when it came to the president of the United States, students had no trouble rising up to cast a popular vote that didn't matter since the presidential winner is decided by the electoral vote, cast by congressmen that students didn't vote for. What a full circle of irony.
So far this covers generalized state-ments about students voting for federal and state government. What about on campus? The Student Government Association repeatedly attempts to rally students to vote during on campus elec-tions, but its peak turnout last year was a pittance compared to the total amount of students on campus. Spring 2010 had 3,401 students vote for SGA president, with votes descending in number for the
Right skeptical on climate change
Student voters don't like showing up
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FOOTBALLSumlin plans to name starter
Head coach Kevin Sumlin is expected to reveal his starting quarterback today for Saturday's game against Tulane. After $ lling in for quarterbacks Case Keenum and Cotton Turner, Terrance Broadway appears to be the leading candidate to inherit the role. — Cougar Sports Services
CROSS COUNTRYTeam demonstrates improvement
The UH cross country teams showed signs of progress Friday at the Justin F. Cooper Memorial Rice Invitational.
The female athletes were slated to run a 4,100-meter course, 700 meters short of 3 miles. Leading the way for the Cougars was sophomore Kat Ducommun, $ nishing the race in 14 minutes, 49 seconds, earning her sixth place. Brandi Witte was the next Cougar to $ nish, coming in at 11th place with a 15 minute, 16 second perfor-mance.
Megan Munoz and Starla Garcia $ nished 12th and 14th, respectively. Munoz $ nished in 15:25, and Garcia's time was 10 seconds behind.
"I think we had a lot of improvements from the $ rst race to the second race," head coach Ryan Turner said in a release. "That's what I like about the girl's team. I thought they ran well in the $ rst race and then this week they come out and do even better. It shows that they're always improving."
The men had a 5,600-meter course to $ nish. The Cougars had two athletes to round up the top 10. Nate Pineda was the top UH $ nisher, with a 17-minute, 42-sec-ond split for $ fth place. David Smith placed 10th in 18:17. — Cougar Sports Services
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLUH recruit collapses, dies
Tragedy struck the Texas high school football circuit Friday during a game between Beaumont West Orange-Stark and Jasper.
After throwing his second touchdown of the game, West Orange-Stark quarterback Reggie Garrett collapsed on the sidelines while having a seizure. He was rushed o% the $ eld and unresponsive to paramedics. Garrett made it to the hospital around 8:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m.
Garrett was highly recruited by UH among other universities.
"This is a tragedy for his school and high school football," Sumlin said in the statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Garrett's mother said he su% ered a seizure about three years ago. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed
The game was played to its conclusion, and West Orange-Stark went on to win 27-6. — Cougar Sports Services
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VOLLEYBALL
SOCCER
Squad extends streak to 5
Cougars capture Roadrunners
Keith Cordero Jr.THE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars extended their season-long winning streak to five games after a 3-0 performance at the Nicholls State Challenge.
UH (6-6) is back to .500 after wins against Southeastern Louisiana, Nich-olls State and Louisiana Tech over the weekend. The Cougars will open their Conference USA season against Rice at 7 p.m. today at the Athletics/Alumni Center.
“We dropped the very first set of the entire tournament against Louisiana Tech," head coach Molley Alvey said. "They were able to regroup and move straightforward from there. From then on out we didn’t drop a set, so we went nine straight sets winning. I’m very pleased with that.”
Emergence of TryonAll-Tournament MVP Chandace
Tryon has burst on to the scene with five consecutive double-figure kill games, including a combined 42 kills in the Nicholls State Challenge.
“Chandace is just incredibly consis-tent," Alvey said. "For her numbers and consistency of play, Chandace is getting her job done."
In the tournament finale Saturday
afternoon, the Cougars smoked the Lions 3-0 (25-16, 25-13, 25-16). Led by Tryon’s 13 kills, as they held Southeast-ern Louisiana to a mere 19 kills. The Cougars' defense stepped up big, not giving up more than 16 points per set and holding the Lions to a .037 hitting percentage.
“We served tough and then in turn we were able to set up in our defensive system quickly and hold them to 19 kills,” Alvey said.
In Saturday’s game against host Nicholls State, the Cougars swept the Colonels 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 25-20). Tryon and Lucy Charuk combined for 27 kills.
UH jumped out to early leads in all
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The Cougars improved to 5-2-1 with a 3-1 victory over Texas-San Antonio on Sunday before beginning conference play this weekend.
“We played very good soccer today,” head coach Susan Bush said in a release. “We played very good soccer and were very successful in executing movement off the ball.”
The Cougars and Roadrunners both went scoreless for most of the first half.
Cougars hope to continue winning ways in conference opener against Rice
Mid! elder Kylie Cook (2) and her teammates want to reach the seven-win mark by next week. | Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar
Head coach Molly Alvey (not pictured) hopes to keep her team's momentum tonight against the Rice Owls.. | Pauline Alderete/The Daily Cougar
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Until freshman Maria Jose Rojas knocked the ball past goalkeeper Cami Koski on a breakaway to give the Roadrunners a 1-0 lead at the 43rd minute.
The Cougars came out strong in the second half, but received some help from UTSA. In the 51st minute, the Roadrunners erred on an own goal to tie the game 1-1.
The second goal to put the Cougars ahead was scored by senior Lauri Byrne on a header off of a corner kick in the 56th minute, giving the Cougars a 2-1 advantage. It was her third goal in the last two games and gives her the team lead with four on the season.
Junior Jessica Zavalza padded the Cougars lead with her first goal of the season to bring the score to 3-1.
The offense attacked often, firing 14 total shots and nine on goal.
The Cougars' defense was
able to hold the Roadrunners, an aggressive offensive team, to eight total shots, only two of which were on goal.
Next up for the Cougars is a bout with SMU (5-2-2) at 7 p.m. Friday at Robertson Stadium. SMU tied St. Mary's on Sunday afternoon 1-1. SMU's Logan May scored the only goal for the Mustangs.
Goalkeeper Courtney Webb made four saves that kept the game knotted till the end. Head coach Brent Erwin is in his fourth season coaching the Mustangs.
The Cougars are scheduled to face off against Tulsa (5-3) at 1 p.m. Sunday at Robertson Stadium.
Tulsa is returning from a 12-day break to play conference opponent Rice on Friday. In its last match, Tulsa lost 1-0 to Cen-tral Arkansas on Sept. 12.
Prior to Sunday's match, the Cougar Soccer Moms will be tailgating with free food and refreshments for fans.
three sets and held a 20-12 lead in the third set. The Colonels battled back and made it 23-18. The Cou-gars scored two of the final four points, as Tryon’s kill on match point gave the Cougars a sweep.
In Friday night’s game, the team bounced back after drop-ping the first set to Louisiana Tech to win the match 3-1 (23-25, 25-15, 25-12, 25-19). UH dominated the next three sets, recording 28 kills in the first two sets. Amber Brooks had a notable performance with 45 assists and 14 digs.
“We just talk about how we’re getting better," Alvey said. "The team can see how well (we do) when we as individuals get our job done, and when we play well as a team, the competition side becomes really fun."
Tryon was commended for her performance Monday. The sophomore was named C-USA Offensive Player of the Week. It's
the first time Tryon received the honor.
Looking ahead to RiceRice (5-7) has won back-to-
back games after coming off a win at the Rice Invitational. Ashleigh McCord leads the Owls with 139 kills on the season at an average of 4.34 kills per set.
Alvey said she hopes for a hos-tile atmosphere against Rice.
“I hope our stands are going to be filled with Cougar fans; it’s going to be loud, and the band’s going to be there,” Alvey said.
“I think both teams coming in have a lot of momentum on their side, and the rivalry will play into it.”
During the Cougars' five-game winning streak, Tryon has been a huge factor, racking up 64 kills during the streak. The Cougars are still led by the 130 kills and 42 blocks this season from Charuk. Brooks has 437 assists, and Amanda Carson has chipped in with 215 digs.
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Local artist and principal organizer Paula Hawkins of Houston's Winter Street Studios joined 100 other artists to create a “Door to the Future” by combining art and quantum physics at the Second Annual Parallel Universes exhibition.
Hawkins, who came up with last year and this year’s quantum physics theme for the exhibition, has a “Quantum realism” style of her own, where she uses both art and quantum physics in the artwork she showcased Saturday at Winter Street Studios in Houston.
“Quantum realism is about the depic-tion of energy,” Hawkins said. “It allows me to explore the many worlds that exist in the realms of the mind.”
For the public who attended the exhibit to understand the idea of quantum realism and quantum physics, Hawkins and other Winter Street Studio artists, including mixed-media artist Solomon Kane, did so with the “exquisite corpse.”
“The exquisite corpse is a mixture of art and imagination,” Kane said. “It represents our ideas of what we consider the other universes.”
The two large, side-by-side canvases each consisted of smaller paintings from different artists at the studio, along with others in the area. Together, they created a large, “crazy, yet cool depiction of the universe,” said Texas Women’s University biology student Dheepa Rao.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Rao said. “Some of the paintings
have faces while others are streamed with cascading colors, and it’s interesting how all of these artists’ ideas created two giant works.”
Becky Soria, who had two of her paint-ings in the exhibit, created one of the few paintings that actually resembled a universe.
“I usually paint abstract, primitive type of art,” Soria said.
Soria said she had to try a different method of painting to bring about the “parallel universe inspiration” for her to create this type of artwork.
Though the main event was to bring art and quantum physics together for the evening, support for charities such as Justice for Children and Change the World
Sarah WelchTHE DAILY COUGAR
Sarah Oppenheimer's D-17 exhibit opened Thursday evening at Rice Uni-versity's Rice Gallery.
The project was a massive undertaking that required a year and a half in plan-ning. Two pieces of glass had to be cut through with an intense installation process; it is certainly an exhibition worth exploring.
Oppenheimer gave a brief talk as the official opener to D-17, where she spoke on the critical importance of the subtle changes lighting creates as rays pass through the building and along the immense installation.
This piece needs to be seen, as there is no way to completely describe the experience of standing in front of it to witness the transitional effects of light. People should experience this and sup-
port the great art Houston has to offer.D-17 takes up the far left corner of
the Rice Gallery. It begins at a sharp tip on the floor and, from there, begins its dramatic upward slants toward the ceiling, rising through the gallery's glass walls and into the foyer.
Oppenheimer's piece is ever present, something with which each viewer can
have a close, personal interaction. This is what makes the art come alive.
Light changes — and a close obser-vance of these changes — is a necessity if one is to begin to fully see and appre-
ciate the work that has been created.
Manipulation of sight and perception play a central role as some of the most interest-ing and thought-provoking parts of the piece, as one
attempts to understand D-17. If a viewer stands at a point on the
left side of the gallery and looks outward toward the foyer, the viewer would see sky and trees.
Oppenheimer's use of the reflectiv-ity of the glass, which acts as a mirror,
People look at 100 artists' works at the Second Annual Parallel Universes exhibition. | Lauren Mathis/The Daily Cougar
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This piece needs to be seen, as there is no way to completely describe the experience of standing in front of it to witness the transitional e! ects of light."
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through Art was another important cause.
Prices for most of the paintings ranged from the low to mid hun-dreds, while others went for as high as $5,000. With every painting that was sold at the exhibit, 20 percent of the proceeds went to the Justice for Children, 10 percent went to Change the World Through Art, and 70 percent went to the artist.
The proceeds for Justice for Children were, according to the organization, “to raise conscious-ness of our society about protecting children from child abuse.”
As for Change the World Through Art, the charity contrib-utes to the aid of artists, according to the organization, “by helping them sell their work and to help other non-profi t institutions.”
With the abundant sales of the paintings and the large turnout for the Second annual Parallel Universes at Winter Street Studios, Hawkins said that she wasn’t sur-prised to hear the “good response and feedback” that the exhibit received from the public.
“You can tell from the turnout that there are a lot of people that are interested in quantum physics,” she said.
Whether there is an exhibit or a charity that involves creating a work of art for a particular theme, Hawkins said she will always be working hard on her paintings.
permits the same view to be seen from an entirely different point in the foyer looking through the glass back into the main gallery space.
Speaking with Oppenheimer one-on-one brought the piece into closer perspective, as it was very evident her passion toward her methods of creation and installation fully emerge in the finished project and her discus-sion of it. A question posed to her was: "How do you define a suc-cessful work or exhibition?"
Her response centered around two points: self-confidence and the contagious belief of the audi-ence toward the artist and her potential for creation.
Within her opening remarks, she said she was grateful to Rice University and the gallery for their very willing cooperation since this project could be considered "an extremely eccentric proposal."
This comment ties in with her statements on self-confidence and the contagious effect it has on an audience, because without her vision and assurance, and of course well-established under-standing that she is capable of such a project, a gallery might not be so inclined to assist so willingly.
Her attitude toward the work was encouraging to see, because the fascination and excitement of the artist so clearly spills over into the atmosphere of the audience.
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Communist plot, includes accus-ing solar wind, sun spots (which never, and could not have, yielded such drastic increase during any global warming or cooling period in geologic history), and even more odd but less outlandish (rest assured, the presentation sure is), microwave ovens. Even such high-profi le fi gures like Jon Stewart (a comedian whose show often confronts more serious issues in interviews) commented on this apparent regression; “[Veteran
Senator] Russ Feingold…is losing to a challenger who believes global warming is being caused by micro-waves and sun spots,” Stewart said on his Sept. 9 show.
But what all of these competing theories have in common — besides an extreme disparity with reality — is that they’re all coming from people eager to somehow turn scientifi c rigor into elitism; you know, what they said our President has (the guy who paid off his student loans sometime in his late 40s.) This is an issue that could not, yet wrongly is, lumped in with being a liberal.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to
any historian that conservatives are eager to distance themselves from scientifi c rigor. The Enlightenment in Europe was a movement young America rejected, choosing to embrace the religions they carried from Europe, seeking freedom from persecution; but in recent years, when such scientifi c advances are impossible to refute, they’re fi nding a way, persecuting those who choose to accept a heightened understand-ing of how the world works.
Joseph Marhee is a history junior and may be reached at [email protected].
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remaining seats. The subsequent runoff elections had under 2,000 students. And keep in mind this is only for SGA voting on campus. Do you think that many students turned out to vote for the Houston mayor?
Try as it might, the SGA cannot get the students to the booths. They remind students of their civic duty, try to get them into the habit of voting and dispel the mistaken
notion that a student doesn't have an effect. They let them know who is on the ballot and give students informed decisions. They basically do everything real politicians are supposed to do (but don't). The SGA does all this, only to end up with a handful of votes worse in number than the proposed mon-etary fl ow of Reagan's trickle-down economics.
Today, voting is a sick joke with no punch line. The people who vote are the only people who make any difference, and they generally enjoy the fact that no one else even
wants to register. Why encourage other people to oppose you? It is really ironic that students, who are characterized as youthful and energetic, can have so much apathy to such a powerful ability. Don't try to contemplate why stu-dents won't vote; it will only lead to a headache. The only certainty is that it's not the fear of jury duty holding would-be voters back it’s something else.
David Haydon is a political science junior and may be reached at [email protected].
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