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Parking matters remain a problem Students forced to find alternative methods of transportation

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By Amanda Trella The daily cougar As Metro carries forward its efforts to bring its light rail to UH, congested parking lots continue

to be an issue among students and has caused a campus-wide change towards an alternative parking solution to emerge.

“I used to drive to school every day, but it took me over 30 minutes or maybe more to find parking. The amount of time spent looking for a spot and then walking to class caused me to miss most of my lecture,” business

junior Rodrigo Recendez said.

“Now that I carpool, I finally get to class on time.”

With the rising cost of g g Cunningham tuition and gas, more students are using the Metro Q Card, which lets them ride the

bus or train and take advantage of the 50 percent discount offered to all students.

“You have to pay $50 for a parking spot. I can’t afford that plus gas,” computer science sophomore Shawn Cunningham said. “I have a (student) discount with the Metro card, so it’s like $5 a week.”

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Austin, meet student Redden will be the new voice for Texas undergraduates

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By Amanda Trella The Daily Cougar Political science and history sophomore Krystafer Redden was chosen to represent University students statewide on the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Undergraduate Advisory Committee.

Appointed by Gov. Rick Perry, Redden will start his two-year term in June. He will travel to Austin twice a semester to discuss concerns at UH, as well as for universities throughout the state.

“I am the sole student voice regarding undergraduate education policy for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which is the advisory body for the state legislature,” Redden said.

Among the concerns Redden wants to voice is keeping high quality students in state schools, increasing research funding and to improve college accessibility, readiness and affordability.

“I need to make sure I’m knowledgeable and aware of everything before I go to Austin, which will involve a lot of researching,” Redden said.

“I am apprehensive, because it’s a big constituency — every undergraduate at every public college or university in the state of Texas. That’s a large group of people, yet I’m excited.”

Redden became interested in students concerns as an Honors Ambassador, a position that put him in charge of advising students in a variety of majors. Rigid degree plans and students struggling to select their career choice inspired Reddens to want to help.

“I am really interested in

to find more efficient modes of transportation, including carpooling, public transportation and the use of smaller vehicles, such as bicycles or motorcycles.

“Motorcycles can find parking easily and almost everywhere,” communication junior Zuber Allibhoy said. “Plus, you don’t see METRO, page 12

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Monroe and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Elwyn Lee, Redden applied for the position last fall.

“It is gratifying to see a student willing to seek a position that

The grand opening for the yearlong $13 million renovation of the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management will take place April 22.

Juniors Richard Castello and Nikki Ray anticipate the opening of the new college and are grateful for the transformation. They both said they are looking forward to the convenience the renewal will bring.

“Before renovations, we really didn’t have a place to study in the college, but now we have a brand new library that is useful for all of us,” Ray said.

The HRM program is ranked as one of the top in the nation, and this renovation should allow the program to gain even more recognition.

Junior Sonya Kuni said she thinks that the college’s image needs to be equivalent to its success.

“It was time for renovation, because people talk about how good our program is and people who see it just see a rundown hotel and don’t realize everything that we actually do behind the scenes,” Kuni said. “The renovation gives us a new face and might make people more interested in our program.”

Students who have been dealing with the renewal expressed their opinions on how it was inconvenient for them to move around the college without having

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Political Science and History sophomore Krystafer Redden was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to be on the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Undergraduate Advisory Committee which will require him to make two trips to Austin a semester to voice student concerns. education as a project, education as a journey, not education as merely the acquisition of a degree or a set of technical skills,” he said.

According to its Web site, one of the biggest goals for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating

Board is its plan called the “Closing the Gaps by 2015,” where its hopes to close gaps in participation rates across Texas to add 500,000 more students.

After being encouraged by Honors College Dean William

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Endangered bats concern farmers Scientists at Austin conference blame White Nose Syndrome

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By Jared Luck The Daily Cougar Bats are dying by the hundreds of thousands in caves across the eastern part of the country.

But in spite of their unfavorable reputation, bats contribute to the human environment.

Bats keep down the numbers of night-flying insects like mosquitoes, which can transfer West Nile virus to humans. Farmers depend heavily on bats to eat insects that would otherwise destroy their crops.

Without bats protecting their fields, farmers would be forced to heavily spray their crops with pesticides, the costs of which would be passed on to the consumer.

The U.S. Agricultural Department has reported that bats save farmers $1 billion per year in crop damage and pesticide costs.

Regardless of their benefit to humans, UH biology professor Blaine Cole said asking ‘How do bats help me?’ is missing the point.

“You have to regard bats as a part of a natural world that is actually interesting and valuable to have around,” Cole said.

“Bats themselves are absolutely fascinating creatures. Their benefits are not so much in terms of the dollar value that we can place on them, as is the value of maintaining

their place in the ecosystem.”

Cole said he thinks that there is more to fear from raccoons carrying rabies or “scary dogs” than bats.

At a conference last summer in Austin, where the world’s largest urban bat colony is located, scientists released a statement noting that the million bats lost to White Nose Syndrome since 2006 could have eaten nearly 700,000 tons of insects in a single year.

Disease experts are calling the WNS white fungus that grows on the noses and wings of infected bats was first discovered in a cave in Albany, N.Y. in 2006, and has since spread south and west into 11 states. The mysterious ailment causes hibernating bats to wake too early in winter when there are not enough insects to eat, their wings covered with lesions that inhibit their ability to hunt and the bats to starve in rates as high as 100 percent per cave.

While Texas is not currently one of the directly infected states, officials say there is no telling how far the fast-spreading disease will reach if left unchecked. Making $1.9 million available for research of WNS in February, the federal government classified Louisiana, Texas’ immediate neighbor to the east, as an area “determined susceptible to WNS.” In May 2009, Austin-based Bat Conservation International founder Merlin Tuttle told the Tulsa World that, “it’s not safe to say that any of our bats are safe at this point.”

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The Mexican free-tailed bats in Texas, shown above, share roosts with bats from Missouri and Arkansas that may carry the White Nose Syndrome disease that has been the cause of the death of thousands of bats.

Mylea Bayless is a conservation biologist at BCI. She said although scientists in Texas are optimistic that the state’s warmer climate and shorter winter will keep WNS from coming here.

However, there are still risks involved.

“We’re worried that fungal spores could get on the clothing and gear of people and that people could

transport them long distances and create new epicenters (of WNS) by taking the spores with them,” Bayless said.

She added that since the disease is moving so quickly, the bats themselves seem to be the primary means of conveyance for the fungus, transporting it during their migration. And although bats may not migrate directly to Texas from

an infected area, they could pass it to bats in Missouri or Arkansas that share roosts with bats that do migrate here.

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Church wrong to protect offenders Countless members of the Catholic Church have clearly never heard the saying that it is better to keep one’s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

David Brooks Numerous reports of child molestation by members of the clergy published in recent weeks have once again embroiled the church in a scandal many thought had passed.

These stories have demonstrated not only the pervasive nature of abuse throughout the Catholic Church going back decades, but have also illuminated systemic efforts by the church to cover up the problem and enable the rampant molestation.

Calling the church’s response stupid would be too charitable.

An unsigned editorial published in the March 26 edition of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano lashed out at The New York Times for having the gall to report on child molestation in the Catholic Church.

The editorial said, “The prevailing trend in the media is to ignore the facts, preferring instead to force interpretations in order to disseminate an image of the Catholic Church as almost solely responsible for sexual abuse.”

This echoed sentiments expressed in a blog post published March 23 written

by Timothy Dolan, archbishop of the New York Diocese, who wrote, “What causes us Catholics to bristle is not only the latest revelations of sickening sexual abuse by priests, and blindness on the part of some who wrongly reassigned them — such stories, unending though they appear to be, are fair enough — but also that the sexual abuse of minors is presented as a tragedy unique to the Church alone.”

One might expect the “all the other kids are doing it” defense to be used by a teenager caught drinking or smoking pot, but “we weren’t the only ones molesting children,” is a shocking defense to hear from anyone; that it came from a member of the Catholic

Church makes it that much more disgusting.

The church and its members must be out of touch if they’re trying to play the victim card under these circumstances.

It’s amazing that the Catholic Church, of all institutions, could look at all of the abuse committed by its clergy and at all the evidence that it’s been shielding pedophile priests for decades and enabling the molestation of children and say something along the lines of, “Yeah, that’s bad, but the real crime here is that the media is trying to make us look bad.”

The response from the church seemed like one of those really bad spur-of-the-moment ideas people get when they’re drunk that they realize was horrifically stupid when they sober up the next morning. Yet, instead of sobering up and realizing its mistake, the church decided to go on a bender.

It decided that simply playing the victim card wasn’t enough. Oh no, it needed some absurd hyperbole to really see BROOKS, page 5

People need to be cautious of STDs Imagine you woke up one day, turned on the news and realized doctors had just released a vaccination against lung cancer. Chances are you would do anything in your power to Callie make sure you got Thompson it. Unfortunately young women don’t look at the vaccination for human papillomavirus the same way When I was in high school, the first vaccination against HPV was released. At the time, I knew next to nothing about the virus, and I certainly wasn’t going to go to the doctor and get extra shots when I wasn’t sexually active.

The government considered making the vaccination a requirement for young women, and I remember thinking that doing so would be an unfair invasion of my own free will.

I became sexually active three months

before I turned 21. I had always thought that once I started having sex, I would always be smart and use protection; sadly, when I lost my virginity, I was not taking birth control or using a condom.

So it really shouldn’t have been a surprise when my doctor called me a little more than one year later to inform me that I had tested positive for HPV. HPV has become one of the more common sexually transmitted diseases.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are “approximately 40 types of genital HPV,” and “some types can cause cervical cancer in women and can also cause other kinds of cancer in both men and women.”

This meant that I had contracted HPV from one of my previous sexual partners.

I was horrified as I realized that I had to contact every man I had been involved with in any way to tell them that since I

had tested positive for HPV, they might have the virus as well. But I quickly realized that the bigger problem was that no one knew very much about the virus and how dangerous it can be.

HPV is a sneaky virus in that a person can be carrying it and not know it. Unless a carrier develops some type of visible wart — only caused by a few of the 40 strains of HPV — there are no symptoms or signs that the virus is present. That is why it so important for men to be tested regularly for STDs and for women to see a gynecologist annually after becoming sexually active.

If I hadn’t done enough stupid things already, I waited for more than one year after becoming sexually active to see a gynecologist. According to the CDC, “it is important to get tested for cervical cancer because six out of 10 cervical see THOMPSON, page 5

s most of you know, the health care bill was passed and signed into law by President Barack Obama. While his administration, along with countless, ignorant yes-men around the country, have applauded this “big f’ing deal,” as Vice President Joe Biden referred to it, we at The Daily Cougar can’t shake the feeling that the whole country is being duped.

Two weeks ago, The Daily Cougar ran a staff editorial titled ‘Polls show legislation not solution people wanted.’ In the column, we cited a poll conducted by CBSNews.com. According to the poll, only 32 percent of Americans support the congressional Democrats’ actions concerning health care.

While we’re still not too happy about the bill being forced through thanks to the Democrats’ majority, we have moved on and realized that, at this point in time, we can’t to anything about it.

But then, we ran across an article entitled ‘Transparency, Obama Style” by John Fund in the Wall Street Journal. Last Friday, “a woman named Doris asked the president during a Q&A session whether it was a ‘wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care’ package. ‘We are overtaxed as it is,’ she concluded.”

To this, Obama had a 17-minute, 2,500-word response, which didn’t answer Doris’ legitimate question.

Yet, we didn’t find out about this until Monday.

Had this been George W. Bush (or any conservative, for that matter), the media would have been all over it immediately. Instead, for whatever reason, Obama wasn’t scrutinized. He hasn’t been scrutinized so far during his administration, really.

And while The Daily Cougar staff is composed of liberals, conservatives and people who fall somewhere in between, we’re all curious why more people don’t question our president’s decisions.

Some journalists have defended Obama’s actions and even approved of his avoidance of the press, saying they can’t blame him for not wanting to be a piñata.

But we think it’s kind of the president’s job to answer the questions of the American public. And if he’s not doing that, what is he doing, exactly?

Maybe we should all ask.

Dissent is patriotic, people. Speak your mind.

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get people to understand. Then, someone came up with the bright idea of comparing public outrage over its child abuse scandals to the Holocaust.

Daniel Wakin and Rachel Donadio of the New York Times reported that the pope’s personal preacher told the congregation during a Good Friday service at the Vatican that Jews “know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence, and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” before reading from a letter allegedly written by a Jewish friend lamenting current violence against the church.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that the public outrage has been pretty muted.

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cancers occur in women who have never received a pap test or have not been tested in the past five years.”

By the time I finally did see a doctor, my HPV had become moderate dysplasia.

For those who don’t know, “cervical dysplasia is a term used to describe the appearance of abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix,” according to HealthCommunities.com. “These changes in cervical tissue are classified as mild, moderate or severe. It is considered to be a precancerous condition and, left untreated, can progress to cervical cancer.”

So not only was I carrying a virus that I could inevitably spread to others, but I could also develop cancer.

At this point, I felt my life was coming to an end, and all I could keep thinking about was how much I wished I had taken the vaccine seriously in high school.

I was facing surgery that wasn’t

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Given the systemic nature of abuse that has existed within the Catholic Church for decades throughout the world and the church’s concerted efforts to hide it and shield pedophile priests, much greater outrage would be perfectly understandable. Any other group that made such efforts to cover for child molesters would be considered a criminal organization.

Yet the church enjoys complete freedom from legal responsibility for this mess. It will never be prosecuted for shielding child molesters instead of handing them over to police. And given its tax-exempt status, we’ve been effectively subsidizing its child molesters for decades.

People should be talking about revoking that tax-exempt status and whether the church should be brought up on racketeering charges for a criminal conspiracy,

guaranteed to stop precancerous cells from growing back and progressing further into full-blown cancer.

The CDC recommends that “girls and young women ages 13 through 26 should get all three doses of an HPV vaccine.” Three little shots are all I might have needed, but instead I ended up requiring surgery in June to burn away the lining of my cervix to remove all precancerous tissue.

According to HelpPreventCervicalCancer.com, “cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women in their 20s and 30s” in the U.S. The HPV vaccine should be a priority for all young women, regardless of whether they are sexually active.

Although I have already undergone surgery, there is no guarantee that precancerous cells will not grow back; I will forever carry the HPV virus. No STD should be taken lightly, especially one that could end your life.

Callie Thompson is a communication senior and may be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com

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yet the public response hasn’t progressed much past “shame on you for raping kids!”

That the church has responded the way it has to what has been pretty muted outrage given the nature of its crimes demonstrates either that it’s completely disconnected from reality or that it simply doesn’t care about priests molesting children.

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Pitching woes hurt UH

Injuries mount as World Cup nears

By Tristan Tippet The Daily Cougar The Cougars will attempt to snap this season’s longest losing streak of four games when they take on Sam Houston State at 6:30 p.m. today at Cougar Field.

After starting conference play by taking two out of three against a solid Central Florida squad, the Cougars’ four-game losing streak began with a 6-5 loss to a mediocre Texas San Antonio team and ended with a disheartening sweep by in-town rival Rice.

The issue troubling the Cougars during the losing streak, and indeed most of the season, has been their pitching; they have a team ERA of 5.14. During the four-game losing streak, not one starter made it to the fourth inning.

The most brutal example came Saturday against Rice when starter Eric Brooks lasted only one inning.

Brooks couldn’t locate the strike zone and threw 26 balls for five walks, compared to 17 strikes.

“There are some guys that I thought would give us a chance,” head coach Rayner Noble said. “I mean, you can’t give your team

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The Cougars will look to Michael Goodnight to correct their recent pitching problems when he takes the mound against Sam Houston State at 6:30 p.m. today at Cougar Field. a chance if you go out there and don’t throw strikes, and, especially as a starting pitcher, you’ve got to be on your game, so it’ll be scrutinized tomorrow, and I’ll make a decision.”

Noble said he has yet to find a rotation he is comfortable with.

“I don’t think anybody has really pitched that well,” he said.

“Ty (Stuckey) was pretty good, but I’m just not real pleased with what we’ve gotten so far to this point.”

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At issue: What is the biggest offseason priority for the lottery-bound Rockets? gg

the defense

It has been another disappointing season for the Houston Rockets, but hope is on the horizon.

It is obvious that defense has been the Rockets’ glaring weakness since the McGrady trade in midFebruary. Although their offensive numbers have been good, the Rockets have given up 107.2 points per game since the trade and really need to tighten up defensively. Thus far, the added firepower of Kevin Martin has not translated into as many wins as I would like.

On paper, the Rockets look like a team with a strong chance of making a postseason run. The challenge now is to keep our players on the court. If the Rockets can keep Yao, Martin and Brooks healthy, the core of support players like Scola, Ariza and Battier will be able to fill in the gaps. I think next year might be the year that we return to the playoffs.

Team

W L GB W L Pct

Memphis Rice Tulane UAB UH Central Florida Marshall East Carolina Southern Miss

4 4 4 4 2 2 2 1 1

Our draft number will be fairly high this year, so the Rockets should draft someone with strong defensive capabilities. The Rockets do not need better players. They just need to find a way to put up the same offensive numbers while tightening up on the defensive side.

»»Jason Ovalle: Get, and keep, Yao healthy It all starts with Yao. In a recent article in the Houston Chronicle, a reporter asked Yao if he would opt out of his contract this offseason and he said he didn’t know.

Yao is the top priority for the Rockets. The organization needs to figure what they want to do with him, re-sign him to another contract or do what I think is best and let him play out the final year of his contract and see if he can stay healthy for most of the season, something he has been unable to do for the past four years. All other moves this summer will fall into place after the Rockets figure out

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2 2 2 2 4 4 4 2 2

0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1.5 1.5

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13 17 19 17 12 18 11 18 16

15 .464 12 .586 10 .655 9 .654 14 .462 12 .600 15 .423 11 .621 10 .615

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Standings accurate as of April 5

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Fighting Words »»Joachim Clarke: Tighten up

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what they are going to do with Yao. The good news is that the Rockets have a lottery pick and there will be several good players available if they do decide to keep it, players like Ekpe Udoh, Monroe and Xavier Henry.

Ultimately, I think the Rockets will trade the pick and package it with Scola, Brooks, or their other assets for a big time player like Bosh, Amare or Joe Johnson.

»»Maurice Bobb: Bosh or

bust

For me, the Houston Rockets have been scrapping and overachieving for far too long. It’s time for massive overhaul. They started things off on the right foot by shipping off Tracy McGrady; now they have to shuffle the rest of the deck.

I like Yao Ming a lot, but he can’t stay healthy. He’s not going to opt out this summer, so the Rockets can only hope he bounces back to All-Star form sometime next season. But the Rockets can get him some help down low in the form of coveted free agent forward Chris Bosh. Bosh is a force to be reckoned with in the post, and he would definitely take some of the pressure off of Yao. The Rockets may have to move quite a few pieces to free enough cap space to sign him, but it will be worth it. With Yao and Bosh in the post, the Rockets’ spot up shooters will flourish. And Bosh is quick

With the Champions League, the start of the MLS season and the World Cup right around the corner, it is a busy time for players around the globe.

Games are Gordon being played Furneaux constantly, and in this sport, injuries are unfortunately going to happen. Here’s a look at some notable injuries recently and how it will affect their teams in upcoming matches.

Brian Ching is worth mentioning. His presence for the Houston Dynamo has been stellar these past seasons, as he has led the team in scoring. He recently suffered a hamstring injury while playing against defending champion Real Salt Lake. The Dynamo were unable to get any offense going in this game and, aside from two penalty kicks, they managed very few shots on goal.

Hopefully, Luis Angel Landin can bring some of that Mexican finesse from Morelia and help the Dynamo in their upcoming match against the Los Angeles Galaxy. Thankfully, it is reported that Ching will miss only the next few weeks, which will not upset his World Cup minutes.

Another substantial injury this week was Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, after scoring in the

first minute of their Champions League quarterfinal match against Bayern Munich, had to be subbed off with an ankle injury suffered in the first half. This could not have come at a worse time for Manchester United, has relied on Rooney and his 26 league goals this season.

Not only is Manchester United making a run at another Champions League title, but it’s also neck and neck with Chelsea for the Premier League championship, with only a handful of games left. With Dimitar Berbatov’s inconsistent play, Manchester United will need to find a new way to put the ball in the back of the net.

Another Champions League star that will be missing for an important match is Barcelona’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is dealing with a calf tear. Ibrahimovic will miss the second leg quarterfinal against Arsenal and the allimportant ‘El Classico’ against Real Madrid next week. Although the Swede scored both goals against Arsenal in their first leg tie, Barcelona is in no shortage of goal scorers, something they proved in a 4-1 thrashing of Bilbao. This match gave replacement Bojan see GAME, page 10

It’s your turn. Write to us about what you think. enough to run with Aaron Brooks on the break.

Summer homework assignments for the Rockets? Sign Bosh, let Yao fully recover and pick up a marquee rookie in the draft. Simply put, for the Rockets, it’s Bosh or bust.

If the Rockets make these key moves, they’ll finally move from overachiever to contender.

»»Judge Higgs: End of an error

Being a massive Spurs fan at heart, I want to say something snide about how regardless of the offseason moves the Rockets make, they’ll always be trailing the Spurs. But with Tim Duncan’s career winding down, and the twilight of the Spurs golden age approaching, I feel I must be humble. Nothing lasts forever.

And I think the same must be said for Houston’s love affair with Yao. When I first came to Houston in 2004, the city was abuzz with expectations for their dynamic duo, Yao and Steve Francis. My first game at Toyota Arena was Game 4 of their first round series against the Lakers.

Even as LA pulled away at the end, there was an amazing energy in the building, as if things were only

beginning.

A few months later, the Rockets had moved onto a new guard to pair with Yao, and we all know how that turned out. Its time to move on again, this time with their big man. Yao’s untradeable, and there’s no way he walks away from the $17 million he’s owed next year. There’s also little chance the Rockets will be able to swing one of the big free agents of the much-vaunted 2010 offseason.

So the biggest off-season priority for the lottery-bound Rockets is to prepare for life without Yao by drafting a solid big man that can give them consistent play at the five. Ekpe Udoh from Baylor, who averaged an impressive 3.9 blocks per game, would be a good choice, as would Donatas Motiejunas, a true seven-footer from Lithuania.

Verdict Jason gets the face time, because he’s the only one who managed to include one with his argument!

Facetime Congrats to Coach K. First championship since 2001, when a young Shane Battier was pumping up all the Cameron Crazies with his outstanding play. Too bad we can’t go back in time.

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softball

BASEBALL

C-USA proving tough

continued from page 6

By Christopher Losee The Daily Cougar Coming off of three losses to Conference USA opponent UAB, the Cougars are seeking non-conference wins in a doubleheader that begins today against Prairie View A&M. The first game of the doubleheader will start at 4 p.m. at Cougar Softball Stadium.

This will kick off a five-game homestand for UH. Coached by Lana Williams, Prairie View posted an 8-32 record last season. The Cougars defeated the Lady Panthers last season 4-0 at the Houston Marriot Invitational.

UH head coach Kyla Holas does not think their opponent should be overlooked.

“At this point in the season, and with the way the team is performing, I’m not sure that we can make any assumptions,” Holas said.

The losses over the weekend dropped the Cougars to 5-7 in C-USA and 18-19 overall.

The problems over the last few weeks have been a lack of hitting, but Holas said that problems with the pitching staff caused the breakdown over the weekend.

“I think in all the games, we put enough runs on the board to win the ball games,” Holas said.

“What we have asked this team to do is put runs on the board, and

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The Cougars have struggled on the mound and will need a strong showing if they are to end their five game losing streak when they play Prairie View A&M at 4 p.m. today at Cougar Softball Stadium. they are doing that.”

The pitching staff has been haunted by the absence of its star pitcher, junior Amanda Crabtree.

She made her debut in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, but she was relieved in the first inning after allowing four runs. The schedule over the past week has given the softball team little time to practice.

“We are going to have to make sure that we take care of business and work really hard this week,”

Holas said.

The Lady Panthers have lost five consecutive games. In their last three matchups, they managed only three runs while allowing 35.

On the schedule after the doubleheader is a Conference USA contest against Memphis. If the Cougars want to make a run at the NCAA regionals, they’ll need to pick up some wins from this series.

C-USA Softball Standings

Team

W L GB W L Pct

East Carolina UAB UTEP Tulsa Central Florida Memphis UH Marshall Southern Miss

5 6 8 4 7 6 5 3 0

1 3 4 2 4 5 7 9 9

0 0.5 0 1 0.5 1.5 3 5 6.5

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UTSA was 32-25 last season and this season is 12-14. The Cougars will face another struggling baseball power in Sam Houston State, which is 12-16 this season after a 36-24 record last season.

This season, the Bearkats have been anything but consistent.

They began the season with a seven-game losing streak, losing nine of their first 10 games, then went 11-4 in their next 15, with a seven-game winning streak. They have now lost three in a row.

Generally, a team that streaky has issues on the mound, and the Bearkats have their fair share with a team ERA of 6.31. The Bearkats have only two pitchers, Justin Jackson and Brandon Kimbrel, with an ERA below 5.00.

Still, the Bearkats have one of the most renowned coaches in collegiate baseball, Mark Johnson, who surpassed 1,000 career victories on March 28 against UTSA. Johnson is 15th on the nation’s career wins list.

The all-time series between UH and SHSU is tied at 73-73. SHSU evened the series last year by sweeping the Cougars with an 1816 win at Cougar Field and an 11-2 win in Huntsville.

“We’re going to start Michael Goodnight today and see if we can’t get him to understand to throw strikes. He’ll probably throw about 75 pitches, and (we’ll) get him ready for Sunday against TCU,” Noble said. “We’ve got to get that guy going. He’s got to be good for us, and hopefully today will be a productive day.”

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Popularity of 3D fails to fuel film industry As everyone knows, 3D movies are quickly becoming a standard at the box office. Hollywood says that 3D is becoming popular because it a more Jack Wehman gives immersive experience, and with movies such as Coraline and Avatar they’re correct.

However, these movies are great because the filmmakers chose to make their movie in 3D, using special equipment and taking the time — and money — to ensure a great 3D experience. Movies such as Alice in Wonderland and the upcoming Clash of the Titans, on the other hand, are turned into 3D in post-production, giving a flimsy 3D experience.

Because these movies are technically 3D, movie studios and theaters can charge a premium for the experience, giving a bigger profit and more box office revenue.

Obviously, anytime Hollywood can make extra money, they will — even if it means the movie suffers from a lackluster 3D experience.

And while this leads for a short-term profit, in the long run, it’s Hollywood who will suffer.

I’m already jaded to 3D movies, because I’ve paid that extra $2.50 too many times for something that was almost unwatchable.

I’m not the only one who has a problem with the growing trend for 3D. James Cameron and Michael Bay have voiced their concerns with the shift in filmmaking. Bay tried to shoot Transformers 3 in 3D, only to find that the cameras aren’t as high a quality as they should be; to correctly make a 3D transfer after the film is complete, it would cost somewhere between $100,000 and $150,000 a minute. Cameron said that Avatar was a successful 3D movie only because he planned for it from step one; movies that try to do a quick 3D ‘upgrade’ end up with a flawed product that no one wants to pay extra to see.

However, there is a silver lining to all of this 3D upgrade nonsense.

We have been treated to some truly great 3D performances so far, and although they’ve been few and far between, they are the way of the future; all of the major companies are coming out with 3D TV’s and 3D Blu-Ray players, and the new Nintendo DS is going to be in 3D. Camera companies are coming out with different ways to take 3D pictures as well, so it seems that whether we like it or not, 3D is here to stay for a while.

Hopefully, the studios get the picture and start making true 3D masterpieces and don’t just funnel out garbage like the current trend. arts@thedailycougar.com

Put back the kraken With modern technology, the remake of ‘Clash of the Titans’ gives new light to Perseus myth gg

By Aimee Buras The Daily Cougar

Warner brothers studios

Drawing from Greek myth and a remake of the original 1981 movie, the new version of Clash of The Titans has its problems but is still worth viewer’s time.

The passage of time is often cruel and this could not be truer in regards to 1981’s Clash of the Titans. The stop-motion animation effects were out-of-date almost 30 years ago, Harry Hamlin’s portrayal of Perseus was stiff, and seeing accomplished thespians such as Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smit clad in togas and trying to make do with the simplistic story, would make anyone wince that is over the age of 10.

Not surprisingly, Louis Leterrier’s version of Clash of the Titans has enough computergenerated effects that would make the Stygian Witches’ eye melt. In the original film, the Kraken looked like a combination of Godzilla and the Creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon. For Leterrier’s Clash, the new and improved Kraken is a giant behemoth that practically lays waste to the city of Argos by simply showing up.

In the 1981 version, the battle between Perseus and Medusa is slow and methodical, but for 2010, Medusa dispatches the group of heroes quickly in a scene that lasts only a few minutes. As exciting as the special-effects filled action sequences are, they occur so often that they seem anti-climatic because you know that another computer-generated image filled scene is just around the corner.

What sets this testosterone-fueled version apart from the original, is its attempt to bring more thematic depth and complexity in regards to the relationship between the gods and the men. The gods are angry with men for their irreverence, and men think that the gods have forsaken them. Hades (Ralph Fiennes) uses the conflict to exact his revenge on Zeus (Liam see TITANS, page 9

power up

Classic games back on new systems Many old video games are making comeback on new platforms for new generation gg

Nostalgia is something gamers are quite familiar with.

Even in an industry so obsessed with technological innovation, we often find ourselves Jeff Jost playing the same things we did when we first started playing.

We all have a few games that we look back on with fond memories and wish to play again and again.

The gaming industry has picked up on this lately, repackaging old games into downloadable versions for consoles, such as with Nintendo’s Wii Virtual Console and Xbox360’s arcade games.

There have also been new games released to look and play more like their original versions in large franchises such as Mega Man, Mario and Sonic. But recently

Microsoft has taken this trend to the next level with Game Room.

Game Room is a free service released for Xbox360 and Microsoft Windows that allows players to take their avatars into a virtual arcade room filled with old school arcade games to play.

On paper the idea sounds great.

The players are provided with a showcase arcade where all of the games can be played, and they can even create their own personal arcade of games.

Arcades are made of four floors with four rooms on each that you can customize with arcade machines and 1980s inspired backgrounds and decorations.

Players can compete with friends, visit each other’s arcades and create challenges for each other to beat in games. They also get to

nintendo

The Wii virtual console brings back all of the old characters that use to be featured in video game consoles. see their avatar, that has mostly remained useless up till this point, interact in a full arcade room while playing games and doing 80s dances. It looks and sounds exciting.

The issue is twofold. One, you

have to pay to really enjoy the service in its entirety. Two, the games are really old. And when I say old, I mean old. Or at least, everything feels old. see POWER UP, page 9

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Xbox 360 is merging the world of online gaming with the feel of a 1980s arcade with its arcade games.

POWER UP continued from page 8

When we all think about good 80s arcade games we think of Galaga and Pacman, but not everything was that good. Sifting around the arcades in Game Room reveals that most games created in the early 1980’s were pretty bad quality. Most are barely recognizable from random lines and shapes and fail to have much more challenge than a game of tic tac toe. Some are barely recognizable as actual games.

Sure there are a few standouts; Centipede and Asteroids present some pretty good 80s fun.

This would all be acceptable if it didn’t all cost money. For each game in the arcade you get a 10-minute demo, but after that you have to pay (with real money) to play. There are some options. If people visit your personal arcade and play your games you receive coins that give you further game plays, but in order to do that, you actually have to buy arcade games for your personal arcade.

Ultimately, to get something significant out of Game Room, you have to throw down some cash.

If you do have some money

TITANS continued from page 8

Neeson) for condemning him to lordship of the underworld to be feared by mankind.

While most of the actors give mediocre performances overall, the sheer number of them make it difficult for the audience to connect with them on any emotional level.

In some cases, a few characters only become interesting just minutes before their impending doom.

Another problem with Clash of the Titans is the fact that Leterrier was well aware of the film’s target audience: mostly males who prefer tough, strong anti-heroes. As a result, many of the female characters seem less like actual characters compared to their male counterparts and more like plot devices to move the story along.

Overall, Clash of the Titans, was worth the ticket price of $7. Although the story falls short and there are too many characters to keep up with, the computer-generated effects more than make up for what is lacking in other areas. There are enough monsters and exciting fight scenes to make anyone’s heart rate increase. arts@thedailycougar.com

to burn, here’s how the prices run down. Single plays of games cost 40 Microsoft points (50 cents). To buy a game to play on one platform, it costs 240 points ($3). Buying a game that can be played on multiple platforms costs 400 points ($5). Overall, the arcade games cost less than half of most games on Xbox Live, but then again, the game play worth is significantly less. As a virtual arcade, it costs twice as much as a traditional arcade, with games that are far more than twice as old.

So, the value of Game Room really depends on how much money you have to waste and how much nostalgia you have for old 80s arcade games. This is an odd decision, considering most modern Internet savvy gamers aren’t old enough to really have nostalgia for games made in 1980, and the Internet is already full of free games that play better than the originals half the time.

There are so many other outlets for gamers seeking a nostalgia kick that are much less costly and contain much better old school games. But, ultimately, Game Room proves the true limits of old school gaming nostalgia. arts@thedailycougar.com

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“I think everyone likes playing at home, it’s familiar and comfortable.

We’ve been a singles team all year, but we need to be a complete team, not just a singles team,” Severance said.

the opportunity to stretch his goal scoring legs with two goals, and dependable Messi collected another.

Bojan will not be starting against Arsenal, however, as Pep Gaurdiola is giving Thierry Henry the lead role against his former club. Henry was given a warm welcome last match against the emirates, but Arsenal’s flailing back-line will have to stand firm against the Frenchman if they do not want to get behind in this match. Real Madrid will look to capitalize on the loss of Ibrahimovic and gain a little redemption after being forced out of another round of 16 Champions League as they vie for the top spot in Spain.

Arsenal is facing its own injury woes, with most of its starters forced to sit on the bench. Cesc Fabregas, the team’s playmaker and captain, has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after breaking his leg. He is joined by William Gallas, Robin van Persie and Andrei Arshavin, among many others. Manager Arsene Wenger must rely on those you don’t normally hear from, including Samir Nasri and Nicklas Bendtner. It looks pretty bleak for the Gunners, who not only have to worry about losing to Barcelona in the Champions League, but also about being caught by the likes of Tottenham and Manchester City in the Premier League.

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By Keith Cordero Jr. The Daily Cougar In their second home match since a 10-game road trip spanning the better part of March, UH and St. Edward’s took to the courts for a noon match Monday.

Coming off a 7-0 win Saturday at home against Prairie View A&M, the game against the Hilltoppers comes in the second of a three game home stand.

After getting blanked by an identical score against Missouri in their last game, UH (10-6, 0-1) clinched the victory against St. Edwards by taking all six matches in the singles draw.

UH got its only doubles point with a 2-1 match win, which included wins by junior Laura Ring and Elena Kazakova, along with freshmen Maja Kazimieruk and junior Joanna Kacprzyk.

“I think it’s imperative that we do finish strong; we have a lot of work left,” head coach John Severance said. “Our last three matches are all going to be tough.”

In UH’s only doubles match loss, freshman Bryony Hunter and Alexandra Pickerill struggled, losing to a Hilltoppers tandem led by

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Laura Ring teamed with fellow junior Elena Kazakova to obtain one of the Cougars’ two doubles wins against St. Edwards on Monday. sophomore Mary Bain. “(With) doubles (we’re) still not where we need to be. I think that is going to be very, very crucial for our success to finish out the season and for Conference USA,” Severance said.

Hunter struggled in doubles play, but the freshman bounced back by routing her opponent 2-0 in the fastest singles match of the

afternoon.

“It was good to see that Byrony bounced back and just killed it at singles, setting the tone. It’s tough when you don’t start the point in doubles,” Severance said.

Senior Neila Starratt did not play Monday because to a stomach virus. Houston will have a few days off before hitting the court April 10

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A Friend Dies. Who Cares?

Toxic drinking is an epidemic on campuses all across America.

It means consuming so much alcohol the drinker passes out. But while “sleeping it off,” the victim may be quietly dying.

Working with experts, they fine-tuned a course in techniques to handle these alcohol emergencies. Red Watch Band members can act fast, when every second counts.They know the quick steps they can take to rescue a passed-out student from a drinking death, and can immediately summon professional help. Everyone completing the course is given the distinctive red watch for identification.

Since its inception at Stony Brook University in March 2009, approximately 40 schools across the country have signed on to implement this lifesaving program.

To prevent toxic drinking deaths, go to redwatchband.org

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When you come right down to it, students themselves are the best ones to tackle this problem. So, in growing numbers, Stony Brook students have joined together in the Red Watch Band movement.

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to make detours to get to class.

Most students, however, knew it was only temporary.

“The renovations will update our learning grounds because we will have different classes that will allow us to help with the hotel,” Ray said. “We are allowed to help give tours of the school and are more involved than ever before.”

Students are anxious to see what crowd will be drawn to the celebration. Ray said she has hopes of networking with very important people in the hotel industry.

“The reopening will bring a lot of opportunities to us as students, because we will get to mingle with people in the industry, and this could possibly help our careers,”

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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Elwyn Lee encouraged political science and history sophomore Krystafer Redden to apply for the Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Undergraduate Advisory Committee.

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need a huge spot for a small bike, so if everyone had a motorcycle, there wouldn’t be a problem finding parking.”

Parking and Transportation Services hope this developing trend will lead to UH becoming a green institution.

“Our goal is to have 10 percent of the campus population to use some sort of alternative transportation,” Director of Parking and Transportation Robert Browand said.

In addition to the alternative modes of transportation, UH is in the midst of negotiating a carshare program with Hertz, set to take effect before the upcoming

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fall semester, allowing students to rent a car if they need to.

“If students want to take mass transit, but are afraid of being stuck here and not being able to meet a doctor’s appointment or something else, they have that option to take Metro here or rent a car for the rest of that day or even for the hour,” Browand said.

Alternative modes of transportation are setting a precedent for many students, even those that don’t own their own means of transportation.

“I don’t have a car, so the bus has been my mode of transportation for three years,” anthropology junior Tiffany Randolph said. “But I would ride the bus even if I had car.” news@thedailycougar.com

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will influence how things are done,” Lee said. “In my 19 years of service at UH, there hasn’t been another UH student appointed to the committee. I am very happy for (Redden) and the University because his appointment acknowledges the quality of our students.”

With an appointment of this caliber, Redden said he hopes that this position will help him with his future aspirations of law school, academia or politics.

However, Redden said he isn’t focused on how this position will only affect him, but how it will affect Texas education in the long run.

“I would like to see whatever positive changes we get done to continue to happen,” Redden said.

“This isn’t just an appointment for me or for the University; this is an appointment for students, as well. It’s a chance for them to be represented in Austin in a legislative policy, making position and to have a voice.”

Ray said.

Before the grand opening, the students of the college of HRM will host “Gourmet Night,” a showcase of what the students actually learn in the program.

Richard Castello attended last year and said it was something to look forward to.

“I was a wine server last year, but I did other things, and in my opinion, it was really awesome; it’s something to see,” he said.

HRM Dean John Bowen said that the event would be a beneficial event for the students.

“Industry leaders that are stake holders in the college will have sessions with our students throughout the day, a dinner will follow after the sessions. I encourage all HRM students to come out,” Bowen said.

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