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Antel picked for provost Committee chooses Dean of CLASS for insider experience Cougar News Staff University of Houston President and UH Systems Chancellor Renu Khator announced Tuesday that John J. Antel will serve as the new UH provost and senior vice president as well as the senior vice chancellor for academic affairs for the UH System. “I see the office of the g g Antel p rovo s t as critical to our future,” Antel said. “Big ideas are necessary, but we also need accountability and results. I look forward to building an effective administrative team, creating strong internal and external relationships and working hard to build world-class instructional and research programs at the University of Houston,” Antel said. Prior to his selection as chief academic officer, Antel served for seven years as dean of UH’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the University’s largest college with

8,000 undergraduates. “Dr. Antel is highly respected in the academic world as a researcher and as an administrator,” said Khator in a UH press release. “He has a proven track record of promoting academic excellence and student success. Throughout his tenure as dean, his leadership in strategic planning and budgeting, program review, external fundraising, and the design of administrative and governance structures has been outstanding.” Antel and candidates from across the country underwent a sixmonth review and interview process conducted by an 18-member committee, headed by David Francis, UH psychology department chair and Hugh, Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor. After the search committee reviewed each applicant’s résumés, top candidates flew to Houston and were interviewed at the airport. Based on those interviews, Francis’ committee recommended Antel and three others to Khator for final selection. “All (those recommended) were qualified and could do a good job,” Francis said. “The single biggest difference was Dean Antel’s intimate knowledge of the campus. see ANTEL ANTEL, page 14

UC event to honor King, Obama By James Rincon The Daily Cougar In celebration of Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in recognition of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, UH presents The Evolution of a Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students, faculty and staff are invited to meet at the University Center between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to watch the broadcast of Washington D.C.’s inaugural events as well as videotaped messages from UH faculty and community leaders. “The (inauguration) itself is demonstrative of what Dr. King’s vision was,” said Dorita Hatchett, the event’s development director and organizer. “(Obama) is a demonstration of a person who is in fact judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin.” Hatchett said that Martin Luther King Jr. Day is typically a time for reflection, this year Americans can reflect on the importance of their own roles in bringing about the historic inauguration of the country’s

first black president. “They can look back years from now and know that they were participants and they were together at a symbolic moment when there was once a time when we, as a people, could not do this,” Hatchett said. The inaugural events will include musical selections from The United States Marine Band, Aretha Franklin, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and others, as well as a poetry reading from Elizabeth Alexander and the inaugural address from President Obama. Students are encouraged to come and go from the event in coordination with their first day of classes. The Evolution of a Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will conclude with remarks on King’s legacy from Ira Colby, the Dean of the Graduate College of Social Work. “The life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives us hope of the possible and clearly demonstrates that truth and justice will prevail,” Colby said. news@thedailycougar.com

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Half-marathoners race across the finish line on Rusk Avenue by the George R. Brown Convention Center at the 37th Houston Marathon on Sunday.

Cougars race record wreckers Chevron Houston Marathon to fund charities, Hurricane Ike Relief By Kelsie Hahn The Daily Cougar An unprecedented 25,000 runners, hobbyists and worldrecord-holding olympians alike, pounded Houston’s pavement Saturday and Sunday. While most of the cameras and pageantry focused on the front-runners as the records for both the women’s and men’s marathons fell, the excitement, encouragement and achievement are for everyone, said UH chemical engineering junior Rhys Forgie. In his third year of participation in the event’s marathon or half-marathon, Forgie said the enthusiasm of the estimated 200,000 spectators is a big help as they urge runners on by name and offer high fives to weary athletes. “The best part about running was the spectators. There were so many people cheering us on. They had no idea who we were, they just read our name tags,” he said. “I think the encouragement from the crowds really helps to motivate me to keep me going all the way through.” Knowing that some of the world’s top runners lead the front of the pack setting course records — Teyba Erkesso’s 2:24:18 for the women and Deriba Merga’s 2:07:52 for the men in the full marathon — is an exhilarating experience, Forgie said. “We had, both the men’s and women’s divisions, new records for the full marathon, which is awesome. Men’s hasn’t been set since the ’80s,” Forgie said. “I’m definitely not doing it for the competition. I’m doing it just for the fun of the running, but it’s just kind of nice to know the athletes are there as well. It makes it feel

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part of something bigger.” Forgie finished his halfmarathon in just under two hours and quickened his pace to about 9:20 a mile from 10-minute miles the previous two years. “This year I was able to run a lot more quickly and it was a lot less painful,” he said. Houston Mayor Bill White said at a press conference Friday that the marathon, a course that takes runners through many of Houston’s highlights, is for runners of all levels, not just the Olympians. “This is an event that celebrates the human achievement of people who are keeping in shape,” he said, noting the race tests the limits of the individual as well as the human race. “It has been transformational in their life and well-being.” The event is also about bringing Houston together as a community and supporting local charities, director Brant Kotch said. The El Paso Corporation and the Houston Marathon Foundation gave $250,000 and $30,000 to the Hurricane Ike Relief Fund, respectively Event organizers said the money raised by the marathon will also go to more than 40 charities, and they hope to raise more than $1 million. Each of the runners on the field represents months of training. Running is something of a family

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Age of Buster Martin, the oldest person to ever finish a marathon. Buster set the mark at the 2008 London marathon. Source: The Houston Marathon

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There’s lots of volunteers giving out drinks, providing music all throughout the course,” she continued from page 1 said. “Dallas, there weren’t many Forgie said. “Running is a good spectators, and they would only individual sport where you don’t cheer for the people they were have to organize a big group there for.” of people. You can go off your Different terrain can also make own schedule, so it was really for a faster run, she said. convenient.” “There’s usually records set Fitting in the training around because it’s so flat here. Other school, family and everything cities are more hilly. Dallas else can be a challenge, Guerrero was really windy, so it was a lot said. She starts prepping for a slower,” she said. marathon 18 weeks in advance, Overall, both runners said, the and both Forgie races may seem and Guerrero “The best part about running i n t i m i d a t i n g said classes at first, but the was the spectators. There force them hard work and to focus their were so many people long hours of training on the preparation cheering us on. They had weekends. make for a “ D u r i n g no idea who we were, they rewarding the week I do just read our name tags. I experience. shorter runs, “It’s more think the encouragement which would be painful than 12 to 14 miles, from the crowds really helps I expected it and I do some be, but still to motivate me to keep me to swimming and w o r t h w h i l e,” going all the way through.” Guerrero said. some weight lifting and some Forgie said — Rhys Forgie, engineering junior cycling here and persistence there,” Guerrero is the key to said. “I usually am only able to reaching running goals. get in one or two runs during the “Everybody starts off running a week because I’m so busy with few miles, just running a little bit, school, but ideally I’d like to run and just keep pushing farther and three or four times per week.” farther,” he said. Though Guerrero didn’t Forgie and Guerrero plan register for this year’s marathon, to continue running, and both she’s participated in the past and will participate in the Austin she ran the Dallas White Rock Marathon in February. Marathon in December. The “It’s really fulfilling and totally major difference between the two worth it,” Guerrero said. “I don’t cities was the energy of the crowd, know if it’s the endorphins you she said. get, but you’re so happy afterward “(Houston’s) very well — a runner’s high.” organized, and the spectators are amazing. They’re everywhere. news@thedailycougar.com

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Americans ready for Obama presidency The official inauguration of President Barack Obama is set. Schedules have been made, tours begun, and preinaugural speeches given. A strong sense of unity hangs in the air. What more could an incoming leader want or need? For starters, it would have been nice if he Alana could have walked MousaviDin into his new office without a pile of tasks towering over him on his desk. It is likely that after his first few days in office our newly-elected president will feel as if he has been hired as the nation’s official janitor — he will be cleaning up President Bush’s messes for years to come. For the rest of us, there is relief. Thankfully, gone are the days of unintelligible speeches and goofy facial expressions to distract our minds from the situation at hand, and with any luck, we will no longer be subjected to hearing “nucular” instead of “nuclear” in

official speeches. This weekend was one of whirlwind quick-stops and pertinent minispeeches as Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden boarded the train for the 137-mile, whistle-stop tour en route to Washington, D.C. In 2005, when President George W. Bush was sworn in for his second term, as well as his 2001 inauguration, the hype and enthusiasm wasn’t there as it is this year. Aside from being the center of a historic moment for the United States, Barack Obama is simply seen as more likeable. Not since President John F. Kennedy have we had someone as youthful and energetic as Obama, nor have we had someone with this much passion. I can easily remember watching former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Roanald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush give their speeches on television. I am sure my parents had me in the living room (where the TV was) when President Gerald Ford would give his speeches,

though I don’t remember them. As a child, I wasn’t concerned with the happenings of the world around me, but watched the speeches because my parents did; it was a major family event. Of the presidents elected in my lifetime, only two seemed young at their swearing in: Clinton and now Obama. The rest were well-seasoned when taking on their presidential role. Each man had faults and had to go through many rounds of trial and error before finding what they felt was right. President Obama will surely do the same. As a parent and student, I have made every effort to include my children in this journey of the election of Obama. With a child in each level of school (elementary, junior and senior high schools), each is learning about the electoral process and the inauguration with different foci. Compared to the last presidential election, this one went much more smoothly. There was no see MOUSAVIDIN MOUSAVIDIN, page 5

Change of power begets change of attitude “Le roi est mort, vive le roi.” The idea of business as usual has never been more in question than in this turnover of power between the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations. The new administration is facing crises in the economy, on the diplomatic front in Shaista Gaza, Cuba, Israel, and Mohammed in northern Africa, as well as domestically on the energy front and in industry. Our last president provided answers, made decisions and gave us confident leadership — even when confidence was the least appropriate response. We all wonder whether the next president will be more than glib, more incisive than rhetorical and ask tough questions of his own administration. There is a Democratic majority in Congress, and although the Supreme Court

has a large proportion of right-leaning because of them, the fact that jokes have justices presiding, we will likely face a been made on broadcast television about balance of power that lists heavily on one killing the president-elect is unacceptable at side of the aisle, as we have for the past any level of political discussion. few years, albeit in a A critical factor in the different direction. The promotion of healthy The idea of business as danger of eroded checks dissent is the retaking of usual has never been more representation from the and balances within the government has demagogues of dogma in question than in this been a well-made point, who represent rightturnover of power ... inscribed mostly on the wing punditry. The idea financial future of the of informed, real dissent citizenry. The challenge we as the electorate was a cornerstone of the Obama platform. face is that of conducting our buyer’s review There are plenty of hard questions to ask the of government more assiduously and with a president, and it remains the most patriotic civilized level of dialogue. action of any American to intelligently The 2008 presidential election was hailed question the powers that be to better as historic, not because of the absolute examine and develop the social experiment flip in direction and perceived leadership for all of us. between the two leaders, incoming and exiting, but because of race. Given the Shaista Mohammed is an anthropology volatility of race issues in the U.S., and the freshman, and may be reached at opinion@ assassination of multiple heads of state thedailycougar.com.

he Daily Cougar would like to extend congratulations to new UH System provost John Antel, who will take office on February 1 and be confirmed by the UH Board of Regents in their meeting Feb. 6. He has filled many roles at the University in his 28 years as a staff member, such as chair of the Economics department and most recently as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. In his role as provost, Antel will focus on building academic excellence within the University. He was preceded by interim provost Dr. Jerald Strickland. The Honors College at UH also has a new leader. William Monroe, executive assistant Dean and English professor, has been appointed Dean of the college effective today. Also, the Blaffer Gallery has selected Claudia Schmuckli, formerly the interim director, as their new director. She has been a member of the UH team since 2004 and was the interim director for the gallery during the 9-month search for a replacement. There is, in all three of these major appointments, a common thread — all three officeholders have been members of the University for several years. In previous key office searches, bringing in outside talent as a way of increasing cultural diversity and assimilating new viewpoints into the campus was standard procedure; However, it appears the trend has changed. UH has a unique culture, a statement that can be made about any major university campus, however, the cosmopolitan nature of our culture and the city in which it nestles has significant effects on the development of that culture and towards the goal of Tier One status. Bringing long-term members of UH to greater leadership positions within the organization and as advocates of our institution to outside funding is a smart move. These key members are more familiar with our pitfalls and areas of excellence, and their experience and community membership are compelling tools in their cabinet of qualifications and skills. Given the theme of change in the country and in the University, we hope to rise to the challenge of making UH an integral part of that change on the technological and intellectual fronts.

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big recount, no name-calling — even the campaigning seemed more amicable than in previous years. It is important that youths understand that choosing an elected official can be done without fighting words. I asked a couple of children in my neighborhood what they thought of Obama. Their answers were sweet and simple. One child said he was nice because he is letting their grandma live with them so the girls will have cookies to eat, and the other child, (who is a little older), said Obama will be a good president because he is the first black president, which means he will have to work harder to make everyone believe in him. As powerful as the position of president may be, the president is still human. Mistakes will be made, including some that may follow him for the rest of his life.

Thankfully, gone are the days of unintelligible speeches and goofy facial expressions to distract our minds from the situation at hand, and with any luck, we will no longer be subjected to hearing “nucular” instead of “nuclear” in official speeches. Just as every leader before him has made mistakes, this one will also. President-elect Obama has an extremely daunting task ahead of him. Perhaps we, as a nation, can be a little less judgmental of our new president’s every move and allow him to work without ridicule.

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By Zach Moore The Daily Cougar College is an ideal time for expanding one’s horizons, and where better to enrich oneself in the arts than at the Moores School of Music? One of the country’s premier music schools, it offers a diverse schedule of concerts and recitals featuring students, faculty and guest performers throughout the semester. The Moores School will host a concert titled Mendelssohn, Korngold and Brahms – Oh My! at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Dudley Recital Hall. Featuring Kyung Sun Lee on violin and Brian Suits on piano, this faculty recital will highlight the works of Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Among the many classics on the program, Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing Suite has enjoyed modern success with its use in the ballet Robin Hood. Both accomplished musicians, Lee and Suites have recorded two albums together as a husband and wife team, Salut d’Amour and Spanish Heart. The two serve as associate professors at UH. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. The next performance will be the A. I. Lack Music Master Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Dudley Recital Hall. This program, an annual visitor to the University, presents distinguished classical performers and recognized pedagogues in a series of free events at the Moores School of

Music. Cellist Tilmann Wick and pianist Heasook Rhee will perform a selection of works by Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc and Schumann, and will also feature the world premiere of Reiko Fueting’s Art of Losing. In addition to the concert, Rhee will be teaching a master class on piano at 1 p.m Monday, also in the Dudley Recital Hall. Wick will be teaching a cello master class at noon on Jan. 28 in Room 147A, Moores School of Music Building. These classes seek to provide a wider educational context for students, but all events are free admission and open to the public. Starting Jan. 29 and playing through Feb. 1, the first opera to be performed this semester will be Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, sung in original Spanish. The first Spanish-language opera to be commissioned by major U.S. opera houses, Florencia was a joint effort of the Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera and Seattle Opera and made its debut in Houston in 1996. The two-act opera is inspired by the magical realism and characters of Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez. Doublecast and accompanied by a full orchestra, the performances will be aided by computerized subtitles for those who wish to follow the story in English. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 students, with reserved seating available at each performance. Luco Sillia, the second of

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Students rehearse for Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, an opera performed in Spanish, which will run at UH starting Jan. 29. UH’s four opera productions this season, will run Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 at Moores Opera House. One of the many operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luco Sillia tells the story of a Roman dictator who lusts after his enemy’s daughter, who herself is in love with an exiled senator - classic opera material to be sure. Sung in Italian, Luco continues Moores’ strong

opera tradition. Like Florencia, it will be double-cast and performed with orchestra and English subtitles as well. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, with reserved seating available. For a complete list of the semester’s events, visit http://www. music.uh.edu. arts@thdailycougar.com

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With the start of a new year, the inauguration of a new president into the White House and the appointment of a new University president, it is only appropriate that even the Blaffer Gallery would select a director for the on-campus museum who would propel it in an unexplored direction. Claudia Schmuckli was officially appointed the new director of the Blaffer on Jan. 14 after nine months of consideration of qualified candidates from across the nation. John Antel, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, cites both the leadership shown by Schmuckli during her term as acting chief curator and the variety of exhibitions she organized during her involvement at the Blaffer as primary indicators of her passion for the museum — factors that weighed heavily on the decision to choose her. In her first semester as director of the Blaffer Gallery, Schmuckli has already partnered with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership in order to recognize the research conducted by the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston. The culmination of this collaboration will be a series of exhibitions and public events that reveal the place of the city of Houston in the natural gas sphere, whether through the Port of Houston Shipping Channel as a point of transporting refined oil or through remnants of the machinery used in the refining process. The CLUI’s research on the Texas oil industry has resulted in Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry, the first major exhibition of its kind to be displayed in the state. On view from Jan. 17 through March 29, the exhibition will include a Brown Bag Gallery Tour in February and a weekend symposium, as well as an Artists Talk in March with the founder and director of CLUI, Matthew Coolidge. While Texas Oil is the primary product of the research of CLUI in Texas, additional programs have also been billed in order to place the oil industry of Houston in a contemporary vision. CLUI and Buffalo Bayou Partnership will also host “Downstream,” a boat-tour from Houston’s downtown to the San Jacinto Monument. Land tours are a unique component of the work of CLUI, and the boat tour see BLAFFER BLAFFER, page 10

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will include audience exposure to the industrial environment of the bayou. A drive-in film series, “Junkyard Drive-In,” is part of a public art initiative by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership that presents oil industry-related films in order to educate the public on the industry that placed Houston on the map. Both projects are components of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership initiative Confluence, which focuses on public art and involvement with the bayou as the setting. Finally, a new commission from CLUI and SIMPARCH presents a floating platform and functional space that combines aspects of the architecture and ecology of the bayou. All events presented are exhibited in collaboration with the Blaffer Gallery, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, with support from external organizations Baker Hughes Foundation and Marita and JB Fairbanks, as well as Alexander/Ryan Marine and Safety Company and PennWell MAPSearch. From this first set of gallery events, both the University and the city’s art community will be on the lookout for where director Schmuckli will take Blaffer. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Cougars earn C-USA victory By Matt Miller The Daily Cougar Someone forgot to tell the UH women’s basketball team that conference games are not easy. Sophomore guard Brittney Scott scored a career-high 25 points on 11-for-22 shooting to lift the Cougars (11-5, 3-1 Conference USA) to an 83-65 thrashing of Memphis (8-10, 1-4) C-USA on Sunday at Hofheinz Pavilion. “They were doubling on (sophomore forward) Courtney (Taylor), so all of the outside players had to be ready to hit open shots,” Scott said. “I just put myself in that position.” The Cougars dominated the game from the opening tip, when an energized UH squad jumped out to a 10-2 advantage. Tough defense throughout the game limited the Tigers, who made more free throws (23) than field goals (18), to 29 percent shooting. “We noticed (the differential),” UH head coach Joe Curl said. “I wish we wouldn’t have put them on the line so much, but (Memphis) earned every basket.” Freshman guard Roxana Button came out of her shooting slump, making four of eight field goal attempts and adding 14 points. The Cougars held a sizeable advantage throughout the game. In the second half, Memphis committed turnovers at

inopportune times and never came closer than 13 points. “Team-wise, we had one of the best defensive efforts that we’ve had all year,” Curl said. At one point in the game, the Cougars held a 30-0 advantage in points from turnovers. Taylor led the Cougars in rebounds with 12 and added 12 points, recording her 20th career double-double. She also blocked four shots in the first half, preventing the Tigers from penetrating the paint. “We came out strong in the first half,” Taylor said. “They were doubling (me), so I made sure that everybody got to the open spots.” The Cougars’ intensity on the defensive end kept Memphis from making a field goal until the 13:49 mark of the first half. However, there were some rough spots for the Cougars. They gave up 18 second-chance points and committed 21 fouls. Free throws were the only thing keeping Memphis within striking distance. “When mistakes happen, I try to give them a snap of the finger and let them go,” Curl said. Sunday’s win improves UH’s home record to 8-0 this season, a record the Cougars expected to have when they started the season. “We realize that this is conference play,” Taylor said. “We have to win see WOMEN’S, page 13

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Junior guard Aubrey Coleman scored 14 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in UHĂs loss to Southern Miss. on Saturday. Tulsa and Texas-El Paso. One game after shooting 48.3 percent from the field in a 94-86 win over UTEP, the Cougars hit rock bottom, shooting only 37.1 percent against Southern Miss. Lewis gave the Cougars a jolt by hitting seven 3-pointers, six in the second half, and senior guard DaShaun Williams dropped in 16 points off the bench. Coleman added 14 points and 10 rebounds, but hit only five of 18 shots. Southern Miss had four players score in double figures, led by Craft and Beasley (20 points, 13 rebounds). Junior guard Jeremy Wise and freshman guard R.L. Horton each scored 11 points. Sophomore center Gustavo Lino added 11 rebounds off the bench. The Cougars will try to rebound when they host East Carolina (9-7, 1-2 C-USA) at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Hofheinz Pavilion. sports@thedailycougar.com

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