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On Thursday, The Daily Cougar re-ported that Dr. Brien Holden was a UH College of Optom-etry faculty member. He never worked for UHCO.
Days until Family Weekend.
Don’t worry freshmen, you’ll see Mommy soon.
COUNTDOWN
CORRECTION
Sims, Piland propel offense
Khator’s words, a benchmark
OPINION
Moores honors black composer
LIFE+ARTS
Levine not afraid of change
SPORTS
FOOTBALL
With 500 yards combined from quarterback and running back, UH cruises to victory
Andrew PateSports editor
For the first time this season, the Cougars’ offense took the opening drive down for a touch-down, and UH never looked back, defeating the University of North Texas 44-21 Saturday at Robert-son Stadium. Junior running back Charles Sims finished the drive with a five-yard touchdown while compiling a career best — 210 rushing yards against the Mean Green.
“What (Sims) is doing is no surprise to me,” said head coach Tony Levine. “We look to get him the ball at least 25 times, and we did that tonight.”
The Cougars scored 17 first quarter points — the most in an opening period — and under c e n t e r re d s h i r t s o p h o m o re
quarterback David Piland put together his finest game of the year, completing 31 of 41 passes for 321 yards and two touchdowns.
“I like his decision-making, and he’s taking great care of the football,” Levine said. “One of the things that makes him a competitor is that he is a perfectionist. He is managing our offense very well.”
The Cougars’ defense also assisted Piland in his first career victory at Robertson by forcing two momentum-swinging inter-ceptions and keeping UNT off the scoreboard until 6:44 was left in the first half.
“When the offense scores after we make a turnover, that’s that much more motivation for us to go out there and do it again,” said senior linebacker Phillip Steward. “If they score off our turnovers,
we try to make more options and opportunities for them to score again.”
Along with Steward, three other defensive players — Everett Dan-iels, Derrick Mathews and Colton Valencia — recorded at least 11 tackles against a talented Mean Green rushing attack.
“We knew they were going to try to come out and run the power,” Steward said. “If we take them out in running the power, then they’d have to try and pass.”
The UH offensive output drew ties to that of last season’s 73-17 rout of Tulane. The offense’s 31 points during the first 30 minutes tied for the most since last season’s match-up, and Sims’ 210 yards just out-edged his 207 in the same game.
“Charles doing his job opens
up the passing game,” Piland said. “There were a lot of things that we worked on during the week to eliminate wrinkles. Preparing that hard definitely paid off.”
Since dropping three straight games to open the season, UH has taken its last two matches while Levine and company credit the team’s effort to more than just what went right Saturday night.
“We won this game this past Monday through Friday in their preparation,” Levine said. “Every-thing we needed to do to win this game, we did this week.”
The Cougars begin preparation for UAB today and will be in search of moving to 2-0 in Conference USA when they take on the Blazers at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Charles Sims and his teammates join together in a comraderie-building event and celebrate Sims scoring an early touchdown. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar
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Green Party presidential can-didate, Jill Stein, visited UH on Thursday — the first stop in a long weekend tour through dif-ferent universities, radio stations and fundraisers in Houston and San Antonio.
“I go where the (Green) party is organized and growing in the country,” said Stein on why she came to Texas.
“What I hear from people out there on the streets is they’re not feeling so good on how things are (in the government).”
While Stein was originally sup-posed to host a meet-and-greet at the University Center Satellite at 11:30 a.m., her visit was delayed. The meet-and-greet was eventu-ally held briefly at about 12:45 p.m.
Stein proceeded to speak to classrooms, discussing Wednes-day’s presidential debates, and how she believed both President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney failed to discuss education and college tuition.
After speaking, she turned the classes over to questions. Stu-dents not only asked about her personal policies on the economy, the environment, and the War on Terror, but also the Green Party’s policies.
Some students, like economics sophomore John Burton, were not impressed with her answers.
“She has some good ideas generally, but she tends to not really get down some specifics as much as wind around the ques-tion — sometimes when it’s asked directly,” Burton said.
Others, like mathematics fresh-man Paul O’Brien, also felt that she was not as direct as she could have been.
“I think as a person, at least as a candidate, she needs to examine each part of what she’s fighting for,” said O’Brien.
According to Stein, she would be in San Antonio on Saturday and return to Houston on Sunday to host a fundraising event and appear on a radio station — KPFT 90.1 FM.
[email protected] Party presidential candidate Jill Stein visited campus last week. | Julie Heffler/The Daily Cougar
The Green Party’s stance on common issues:
Climate change ¨ GP wants to reduce greenhouse
gases
Health Care ¨ Pro-universal, national and
single-payer health plan
Immigration Reconstruct immigration laws,
undocumented current residents should be granted legal status
Political reform Reduce and eliminate corporate
campaign donations in elections No gerrymandering
Foreign policy Supports global arms reduction Supports a global justice system
All information obtained at www.gp.org.
PARTY
Engineering grant to help graduate studentsACADEMICS
Jessica Crawford
Staff writer
To help graduate students with fi nancial need achieve the highest degree of education in their fi elds, the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need program, created by the U.S. Department of Education, awarded $498,232 to UH Cullen Col-lege Of Engineering.
The program is specifi cally aimed
at helping doctoral candidates work-ing on projects related to infrastruc-ture and clean water. The grant will serve as a fellowship, dispersed to fellowship students through a three-year period.
Keh-Han Wang, director of the graduate program at the UH Depart-ment of Civil Engineering, explained how candidates will be selected for the fellowship.
“We are going to recruit fi ve to
six Ph.D. students,” Wang said. “In order to be qualifi ed for the fellow-ship, (students) need to have U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status. They will receive a monthly stipend. The amount of the monthly stipend depends on their needs.”
Abdeldjelil Belarbi, chair of the UH Department of Civil Engineer-ing, said the broad nature of infra-structure and clean water will allow students to conduct diverse bodies
of research.“Infrastructure is a very wide
subject; anything that you can see around you — monitoring of struc-tures, earthquake resistant struc-tures and wind resistant structures,” Balarbi said.
To Wang, the grant serves as more than just assistance to current students.
“Its purpose is to educate U.S. students so that they can not only
get knowledge but teach as well,” Wang said.
Belarbi agreed with Wang on the value of the award for students.
“This grant will help us reach out to students, people who have the fi nancial need and people who have the desire to become professors or faculty at some point,” Balarbi said.
Internet connections bring free speech confl ictsLECTURE
Amanda Hilow
Managing editor
With more than half a billion active social networking and social media websites available to the public, it only takes a click of the mouse to publish extremist, biased
or prejudiced comments on the Internet.
Thursday in the Max Krost Hall, the UH Law Center and Anti-Defamation League presented a free seminar “Racists, Bigots and the Law on the Internet,” to discuss topics like free expression laws and limitations,
the results of cyber hate and how Internet providers have responded.
As an introduction, ADL National Commission member Marvin D. Nathan and UH Law Center Dean Raymond T. Nimmer defined hate speech as abuse of the freedom of speech to target, harass or victimize
a specifi c person or group because of their affi liation with a certain religion, ethnicity or orientation. He then asked the audience if these opinions are acceptable online.
“Free speech absolutists say that all expression, no matter despicable or offensive, should be allowed
online,” Nathan said. “Others sug-gest that Internet providers should be fl exible with the exercise of restraint under exceptional circumstances.”
“While the benefi cial effect of the Internet has expanded the amount of
INTERNET continues on page 8
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James WangOpinion coumnist
While the presidential hopefuls confronted each other in a
hilariously incompetent debate Wednesday, our fellow Cougars packed into the Moores Opera House to listen to a different kind of speech.
UH President Renu Khator gave her fourth annual fall address to students and faculty.
There was an inspirational quote from industrialist Henry Ford and acknowledge-ments to several
contributors, board members and other high-ranking officials that have helped make our climb to the top successful. And of course, they presented graphs, charts and statistics laying out the path to success in more tangible, calculable ways. Khator lauded our sports victories and academic accomplishments as a sign of things to come.
The speech started with the University’s vision, but as the speech neared the end, Khator began to deviate from tradition in true UH fashion. She recognized something few other universities in the country would — a need for us to change, or rather, continue to change.
Change by itself is a frighten-ing concept for most universities, pretentious with their theories of tradition. Certain private universities pride themselves in their exclusivity or how steeped in culture their campus is. Oth-ers rally behind a historically powerful athletics program that steamroll the competition on Saturday nights.
These universities have every
right to fear change, because they are already established superpowers in our nation’s academic realm. When a college shows up on TV or in the movies, it’s never UH.
It’s always wide-eyed fresh-man trying to find their way around hundreds of acres of campus. It’s always some frater-nity party gone wild. It’s always the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, or Harvard and Yale.
UH has everything they have, but what those colleges don’t have is the capacity to change, which Khator sees in this campus and its student body, faculty and alumni. By recently breaking into the cen-ter stage, we have the advantage and disadvantage of changing the playbook. Emulation can only take us so far, and it will only bring us to what a keystone university should look like.
UH has jumped out of obscurity into being ranked 184 out of the top 200 best colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report within a year. Con-struction projects have started and finished in that same year. Change and innovation are our obvious fortes and Khator says it’s our time to seize the moment and lead again.
Our continued success and growth cannot be won by Khator alone. UH has the luxury of
not being ruled by a council of the same few families for generations.
It is the job of our fellow students to give our campus its culture. That means wearing red on Fridays, not because we’re
asked, but because we hail red and white.
That means students attend-ing UH sports games, not because they’re free, but because we want to see our teams lay it all out on the field and win. Do your
part as a Cougar and contribute to the great campus during its transition.
James Wang is a history sophomore and may be reached at [email protected].
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EDITOR IN CHIEF Joshua MannMANAGING EDITOR Amanda HilowASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Channler HillNEWS EDITOR Julie Heffl erSPORTS EDITOR Andrew PateLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Allen LeOPINION EDITOR Lucas Sepulveda
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Ellen Goodacre, Bryan Dupont-Gray,Christopher Shelton
Khator’s speech inspires improvementPresident’s fourth fall address emphasizes our ability to change UH for the better
Hendrick Rosemond/The Daily Cougar
For all of us, innovation is essential. Change is
inevitable. The bus is here. We can decide if we want to be on it or under it.”
President Renu Khator, 2012 Fall Address
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GAMEDAY
Scoring summaryFirst quarterUH — Sims 5 yd run (Hogan kick) 13:45UH — Peace, Dewayne 16 yd pass from Piland, David (Hogan kick) 7:48UH — Hogan, Matt 21 yd fi eld goal 01:13Second quarterUNT — Jimmerson 1 yd run (Olen kick) 06:44UH — Farrow 48 yd run (Hogan kick) 05:20
1 2 3 4 FinalUH 17 14 10 3 44UNT 0 14 7 0 21
Game leadersPassingUH — Piland, 31-41, 321 yd, 2 TD
SIDELINE REPORT
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Charles Sims was involved in every facet of UH’s off ense. He rushed for a career-high, 216 yards on 21 carries. Sims also caught fi ve passes for 55 yards and a receiving touchdowns. Sims found holes, slipped tackles and won one-on-one match-ups all night. He was the best player on the fi eld.|
Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar
David Piland again eclipsed 300 yards passing for the third time in fi ve games with 321. By design, the Cougars attacked the defense with short passes, head coach Tony Levine said. Piland executed the game plan and was in sync the entire game, hitting eight diff erent recievers.
Off ense: Sophomore David Piland and junior running back Charles Sims
both had big days. The Cougars moved the ball methodically
through the air and on the ground. Piland and Sims combined for
more than 500 yards but others contributed too. Freshman running
back Kenneth Farrow’s 48-yard touchdown was a momentum
changer. Freshman receiver Deontay Greenberry and Dewayne
Peace found openings in the secondary. | Grade: A
Defense: The Cougars the Mean Green in check for most of the night, giving
up 21 points. Though the team gave up 483 total yards, they made
timely stops. The secondary held Brelan Chancellor — who was
averaging more than 20 yards per reception coming in — to 44
yards on four receptions. | Grade: B-
Special teams: Matt Hogan successfully connected on three fi eld goals, one a 50
yarder, to rebound from missing two last week in the Bayou Bucket.
Richie Leone was little used but booted two punts for 47 yards per
punt. | Grade: B-
I have the upmost confi dence in David ... He is not perfect yet, and he’ll tell you that before
I will ... His preparation is as good as any quarterback I’ve been around.” Tony Levine, UH head coach on trusting his sophomore quarterback David Piland after fi ve games this season.
Christopher SheltonAssistant sports editor
From day one, head football coach Tony Levine has been willing to make changes to all levels of the team to benefit the program.
Levine said he will do what he believes will lead the Cougars to winning.
“The one thing I have is a plan. I’ve heard over the years that coaches have agendas and favor certain people,” Levine said in the postgame press conference. “If I have an agenda, it is to win football games. If I feel like making a change to the coach-ing staff that will help us, then so be it.”
The changes may be paying off. After defeating Rice University 35-14 and the University of North Texas 44-21 on Satur-day, UH has two consecutive victories.
Before facing Rice, Levine suggested defensive backs coach Zac Spavital move to the fi eld from the coaching booth and that defensive line coach Carlton Hall move to the booth.
Levine said both moves have helped the team succeed.
The mentality of a football meritocracy is not new for Levine. When releasing his Spring 2012 depth chart, it was blank. Every
position was to be decided.Levine has kept the same mindset
throughout the young season.After a poor offensive performance in
the Cougars’ fi rst contest, offensive coor-dinator Mike Nesbitt resigned.
UH scored 13 points and failed to fi nd rhythm. Redshirt sophomore quarterback David Piland threw for 211 yards — his lowest total of the season so far — and completed 38.6 percent of his passes. Junior running back Charles Sims, who has rushed for 158 and 216 yards against Rice and UNT respectively, had 14 touches for 88 all-purpose yards and was not a factor against Texas State University.
Levine said he wanted to emphasize Piland’s rhythm and Sims’ touches early.
In four games, under new offensive coordinator Travis Bush, Piland has aver-aged 378 yards passing per game.
Sims has had a similar rise in produc-tion. In Sims’ three games played since Nes-bitt resigned, he has 594 all-purpose yards on 85 touches — an average of 28 touches and 198 all-purpose yards per contest.
The defensive depth chart is an example of the roster changes UH has implemented. The team’s two starting safeties are different
from when the season began. UH moved freshman defensive back Trevon Stewart to safety — a position he had not played before.
Stewart led the team in tackles against Rice with 11.
Levine said thinking outside of the box, in terms of the depth chart, is essential.
“I think you’ve got to be creative and project what will help the team best and where they’re best suited to play,” Levine said. “If you can take a young man and move him to a position where he’s best suited to play that helps the team, you’re going to have success and win football games.”
The results were positive. UH won the battle without committing a turnover.
Piland said the team’s turnaround comes down to preparation, a theme that Levine instills.
“It’s how we prepared for the game. We worked hard on not turning the ball over,” Piland said. “There were a lot of things that we worked on during the week to eliminate wrinkles. Preparing that hard definitely paid off.”
Tony Levine leads the Cougars out of the gate before defeating UNT 44-21 at Robertson Stadium on Saturday. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar
Phillip Steward had another big day. He secured double digit tackles for the fourth time in fi ve games. The defense fed off his energy and held North Texas to 21 points, helping the Cougars pick up their second win in a row.
This week in college football by Christopher Shelton
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MOORES
Aaron ManuelStaff writer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a man who defied societal conven-tions and rose to prominence at the turn of the 20th century.
After 100 years of his untimely passing at age 37, music faculty and students from the Moores Symphony Orchestra and Concert Chorale and Prairie View A&M University’s Concert Chorale on Friday and Saturday evening at the Moores Opera House to pay homage to his music.
John Snyder, professor of music theory at the Moores School of Music and chair of this weekend’s festivities, summed up the legacy of the composer at a preview lec-ture Friday evening.
“A name not well-known in English music, he would surpass (Edward) Elgar — not an easy feat,” Snyder said.
“(Coleridge) was an icon in the African-American community because he made it big — he com-posed, he got things published, he taught and he conducted.”
Friday’s program consisted of Coleridge’s smaller works, begin-ning with three selections from his voice composition, “6 Sorrow Songs,” performed by Timothy Jones on bass-baritone and accompanied by Katherine Ciscon on piano.
The night ended with selec-tions from a piano composition, “24 Negro Melodies,” by pianist Nancy Weems.
Saturday’s performance by the Moores Symphony Orchestra con-sisted of Coleridge’s “Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33” and “Concerto in G Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 80.”
Members of the orchestra had nothing but praise for his music.
“This is the first time I’ve heard his music, and it’s a pleasant mix of classical composition styles,” said Leah Cables, percussionist and performance graduate student.
“A lot of it is up-tempo, really energetic and a lot of his melodies and harmonies are warm and pleasant.”
“Whether it’s major or minor, it’s beautiful music. It’s a nice blend of pretty, classical music with an exciting flare.”
Coleridge emerged during a transition in music at the end of the Romantic period that began during the 1810s and ended shortly after his death in 1912, just before Neoclassicism would emerge between the world wars.
“He had a lot of influence from (Czech composer Antonín) Dvorak, who at the time was trying to stray away from ( Johannes) Brahms, which is a bit esoteric for music terms,” said vocal performance
junior Alyssa Weathersby.“He was a different flavor of
English composer. He picked a very American topic with ‘Hia-watha,’ which debuted at the Royal Music Academy.”
Coleridge’s opus, “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, Op. 30, No. 1,” the event’s finale, is based on Canto XI of William Wordsworth Longfel-low’s poem, “Song of Hiawatha,” which was composed for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra.
Perhaps the reason his name faded from the annals of time had to do with the world war that exploded two years later or the sweeping changes in music that would see the rise of modernism compete with the rebirth of classi-cism between the world wars.
Regardless of the reason, he was not forgotten over the weekend in the Moores Opera House.
SVN welcomes local band to campusZachary BurtonStaff writer
The Student Video Network brought The Costigans, a Houston-based band, to campus Thursday evening to perform before the last night of the Outdoor Movie Festival.
“I saw it on ‘The Departed,’” said John Najm, the band’s vocalist and guitarist, in regard to the band’s name. “It sounded like a nice classic ‘60s band name.”
The band is your typical five-piece — two guitars, bass, drums and piano — supplemented by multiple singers with Najm, who
leads with vocals.“(We play) theatrical alternative,
theatrical pop,” Najm said.“Usually one of us will bring
something to the table and say ‘Hey, we wrote this’ and John takes care of all the vocals,” said Edgar Lopez, the band’s lead guitarist and sup-porting vocalist.
The band members have writ-ten more than 60 songs throughout their three years together and plan to write more as they go into the fourth, this month.
“(Now we’re) writing music, practicing, playing, working on our hair, putting Rogaine in places
where it needs to be to make sure we’re still rock stars,” Najm said.
They have been featured on Fox 26 and recorded their own music video for their song “Sound the Angels,” which can be found on YouTube.
As far as the actual performance, The Costigans put on a worthy show considering it was without its fi fth member — pianist David Kirkland.
To make up for his absence, the band played with some recordings that enabled it to emulate a more robust sound similar to a church band or a rock group that features
strings.Besides piano, the recording
contained other instrumentation, featured on its self-titled album.
“We’re always in the studio, we’re always writing music and record-ing,” said Najm.
Before wrapping up the set, The Costigans showcased creativ-ity with a cover of “Free Fallin’” by Tom Petty.
The band has played at UH before and hopes to return at some point in the future for another performance.
In an effort to promote Coca-Cola Zero in a nationwide tour, Coca-Cola Co. visited Butler Plaza on Thursday evening.
The venue’s concept aimed for a nightclub-oriented decor, which was a perfect reach for a college audience.
A black inflatable tent, shaped like a Coke Zero bottle with several disc jockey set-ups inside, was large enough to draw students’ attention.
Outside of the tent was another set with a bigger stage, a giant screen looping Coke Zero commercials and white, leather seats set to the side for the students to sit and socialize as the party went on.
Along with plenty of free Coke Zero cans, the party came along with one surprising asset that made it more memorable: peculiar headphones.
“Once students come in and put on the headphones, they’ll finally see what the commotion is all about because they’ll be jamming out to the music that the DJ’s are playing,” said Ted Ketterer, Coca-Cola senior brand manager.
DJ Wick-it the Instigator and Dal-las Mavericks’ DJ Ro Parrish — each within their own space either inside or outside the Coke bottle-shaped tent — sent club-worthy tracks to the wireless headphones and students immediately started dancing.
The lounge-like setting of the event gave it a relaxing atmosphere, despite the DJs’ emphasis to ener-gize the party as they tried to get students on the dance fl oor.
Models were also at the event as they danced non-stop on high plat-forms along the stage, while others among the crowd gave away iPhone cases and temporary tattoos and took photos with the students.
Coke Zero is the sister soda to the original Coca-Cola beverage product and as an alternative for those who wish to keep a low-calorie diet.
For Ketterer, the event was a successful stepping stone during its marketing campaign on the road.
“We’ve been through about three cities so far. We started in Miami, Los Angeles and now Houston,” Ketterer said.
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information available to users it is also perceptible to many unwanted and unforeseeable consequences.”
Nathan cited Facebook as a web-site with some of the strictest rules that prohibits content threatening or organizing violence. To speak about some of these policies, Facebook’s Global Policy Manager Judson Hoff-man took the stand.
“Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and con-nected,” Hoffman said. “We want what is now a billion people of all religions and nationalities and ages above 13 to use our platform to con-nect and express themselves freely, while still respecting the rights of others.”
“We will give everyone the power to share content as long as it doesn’t harm someone else.”
To monitor content, Facebook relies in a large part on users report-ing other users for inappropriate or hateful content. The website con-siders each case individually and determines consequences – like disabling users’ account or limiting their permission to upload pictures – based on the severity of the offense.
“The way that we develop those
rules basically goes back to the mission of the company,” Hoffman said.
Other members of the discussion panel were Chris Wolff — founder of ADL’s Internet Task Force and representative of the International Network Against Cyber Hate — and Central European University Center for Media and Communications Studies senior research fellow, Peter Molnar. Both emphasized the need for Internet providers to restrict harmful content.
“It’s impossible to come up with a more important topic,” Molnar said. “For me the most important lesson is to confi rm a truth that’s transform-ing our political discussion about free speech today.”
According to Molnar, there are opposing views of how far freedom of expression should extend. The U.S. policy denotes that speech can only be banned when it threatens imminent violence. The European standard says content can be banned when it demeans a social group based on religion or ethnicity.
Nathan provided a simple solution.
“The best antidotes to combat hateful, bigoted speech are good speech and education,” he said.
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LECTURE
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Managing editor
Students piled into the Hon-ors College Commons of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library at 5 p.m. Thursday for “What’s Fair: A Lecture on Phronesis,” hosted by the Honors College’s phronesis department.
Featured speaker professor Paul Woodruff of The University of Texas
Austin, recipient of a Darrell K. Royal Regents Professorship in Ethics and American Society, took the stand to discuss how he thought society should handle distributing awards and public recognition.
“Rewards mark the difference between winners and losers,” Wood-ruff said.
In the lecture, Woodruff drew examples from the history of the
Greek war with the city of Troy and the trials Gen. Agamemnon were put through.
To entertain the attendees of his lecture and legitimize his argument, Woodruff used several voices to read excerpts from his translation of “The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards.”
