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Celeb charity event to take place on UH campus Girl Power Weekend is happening at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 28 in the University Center Houston Room. The event is a celebration with singer Kelly Rowland to support her new charity, I Heart Girlfriends. Other celebrity attendees include Brandy Norwood, La La Vazquez, and LeToya Luckett. Tickets are $20 at the door. The IHMG website states that this organization began in 2009 after Rowland spent the day visiting a high school in Houston, Texas. After taking some very interesting questions, Kelly decided she wanted to share the love she has with her girlfriends to the world. The website also states that IHMG is more than a foundation; it’s an empowerment movement for young women.
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UH faculty member selected as one of five to receive elite accounting award By Jesus Acevedo
THE DAILY COUGAR The 2010 Ernst & Young Inclusive Excellence Award has been given to accounting professor George Gamble for his work in improving minority diversity around the country at the college level. Ernst & Young is one of the top four public accounting firms in the country and has
been giving out the Young Inclusive Award for the past two years. “People have to nominate you and based upon the nomination, you get selected,” Gamble said. “There were 100 nominees, and they selected five winners… The first year I was a finalist and this year I was one of the five winners.” Gamble’s work in diversity includes mentoring faculty members, current and former students and encouraging them to strive to be their best. “I tell students don’t use who you are for an excuse that you can’t do it, overcome that,” Gamble said.
U.S. slips to No. 12 in college graduation rates
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The U.S. falls behind countries such as Canada, which has a 55.8 percent college grad rate, and South Korea with 55.5 percent. It’s even lower than the national average in Texas, at 31 percent of the population having a higher education degree. According to the report, local colleges are aware of the situation and are attempting to fix the numbers for the better.
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KIAH-TV reported that the college graduation rate in the U.S. slipped to number 12 within the category of industrialized nations.
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He also said it is important for minority students to see minority faculty in front of them to give them an example of what can be achieved. Ten years ago Gamble was one of the founding members of KMPG’s minority program called the PhD Project, which helps minority graduates attain a doctorate by providing them with scholarships. Gamble has been teaching at the University since 1978 and holds a doctorate’s degree from Penn State University. Soon after graduating, he was recruited to UH by his Penn
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The C.T. Bauer College of Business launched its new official student-based website on Monday, Aug. 23. It was developed in order to encourage students to get involved and take pride in their school, as well as to provide practical and timely services to it’s students. “(MyBauerPride.com) was originally sparked by the University's 'You Are The Pride' campaign and a desire to Cougar pride within the college of business,” the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs Frank Kelley said. He helped develop the idea for the website and turned it into reality. The business school wanted a dynamic new website to encourage student participation and help keep students involved in their school. Staff and students worked together, referring to other school's websites to come up with a concept students greatly benefit from. Senior communications manager for the business school Jessica Navarro and the executive director of communications and marketing Chester Jacinto, work together with their communications team to develop content and update it in a timely manner. UH alumnus Joel Rivera helped design the site, shoot video and assisted with the promotional campaign. Some of the content includes videos and pictures BAUER continues on page 3
Alumni take part in new voting campaign By Gordon Furneaux
THE DAILY COUGAR A UH alumna is utilizing campus support to attract new voters for the upcoming election. Liana Lopez, the lead campus organizer for ReEnergize the Vote Campaign, is helping to secure their goal of 32,000 new voters
from students across the U.S. Lopez is confident that UH will produce the largest numbers of new student voters. “The campaign kicks off (with) UH, Houston Community College System, Rice University and Texas Southern University over these next few weeks,” Lopez said. “Two of the three Houston campaign organizers are UH alumni and they brag
that Cougars will come in with the highest numbers of all the colleges.” As an organizer, Lopez realizes and is aiming to make the most of the flooding numbers of new eligible voters. “In 2008, young people turned out to vote in record numbers. More than 22 million 18-to-29 year olds cast ballots VOTING continues on page 3
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Taliban threatens foreign aid Threats produced by the Taliban have made their way to the U.S. government, the State Department said Thursday. The threats are directed toward foreign aid workers assisting in the flood relief efforts in Pakistan. Government officials say they have intelligence and are investigating any leads. The Pakistani government is cooperating and acknowledges the level of concern. Some 17 million people in Pakistan have been affected by the monsoon floods over the past month, and the region is expecting more rain. The U.S. has pledged $200 million to aid in the relief efforts and more than 2 million pounds of supplies have already been delivered. Additionally, thirty countries have pledged more than $700 million. The United Nations described the Taliban threats as inhumane at targeting those who are striving to assist victims.
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Muslim taxi driver stabbing creates uproar Fourty-three year old cab driver Ahmed Sharif was stabbed Tuesday in his taxi after being asked by his passenger if he was a Muslim. The suspect was 21-year old Michael Enright, a college student who also volunteered in the past in Afghanistan. Enright is now behind bars on charges of attempted murder and assault as hate crimes. Sharif appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Thursday, following the attack as the mayor tried to ease the tensions of New York City
residents. Almost immediately after the incident, suspicions were made of a connection to the stir created by the ground zero Islamic mosque debate. However, investigators have not made an official statement on any motives or if the attack was a product of the hostile responses toward the planned mosque.
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Google's Gmail call feature well received Google introduced a calling feature in Gmail Wednesday. In a tweet by the search engine giant, more than one million calls were made within the first 24 hours the feature went live. The new service allows Gmail users to place free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada, and international calls for a small fee. Reports state that similar features introduced by Google in the past, Google Wave and Google Buzz, have not seen the same kind of acclaim.
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State professor Arthur J. Francia. “From the very beginning he has had an active role in the National Association of Black Accountants,” Professor of Accounting and Taxation Arthur Francia said. “He has represented us in case competitions and has a national reputation for his work in diversity within the college of business, and has been doing this since 1978,”
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of UH students displaying Cougar pride and talking about life on campus. The Business school lends out Flip video recorders to students to encourage participation. Features on the website allow students to send direct links to their Facebook page on the homepage, so students can keep track of information and events. Other features include polls, calendars of upcoming events sponsored by the college, news stories, a current weather feed and a market watch. “We wanted it to be a place that was constantly changing,” Kelley said. Considering the website is fairly new, not many students are aware
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on Election Day 2008, proving to be a significant political force in our country,” Lopez said. “At 44 million strong, our generation represents one-fifth of the electorate both nationally and in Texas. We are poised to become the largest and most influential bloc in the country.” They have set their sight on working with UH, but first they will need to gain permission from school officials. They have a meeting with the dean of students this week on campus. “ReEnergize The Vote offers direct experience in the democratic process
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Francia said. Gamble has numerous faculty and teaching awards, but said there is no other award like this one. “An award dealing with diversity is the most precious award I can receive, because that’s what I’m all about,” Gamble said. “You haven’t made it when others have not made it, so when you are lifting and climbing and pulling them up with you, to me that is the most satisfying aspect of my job.” news@thedailycougar.com
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through internships, community service and volunteer opportunities to perform campaign duties that look good on resumes,” Lopez said. These initiatives will help the numbers, which they are counting on in order to produce more registered student voters than their counterparts at the University of Texas. “When we mentioned to our coalition partners both here and at UT that we were specifically targeting their campuses, some friendly rivalry and talks of a competition grew from the conversation,” Lopez said. “As far as internally, let’s just say there may be some mild banter and wagers between the Houston and Austin natives.” news@thedailycougar.com
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ost of you have probably read Casey Goodwin’s commentary to the right of this by now, and many of you are most likely downright pissed, and we, the members of The Daily Cougar editorial board, want you to know that we understand. We thought this would be a good time to make a few points, especially since it’s early in the semester, and we have a lot of freshmen and transfer students reading our paper. Firstly, views expressed in this section either represent the students or staff who write them or the members of the Daily Cougar editorial board, as is the case in the staff editorials. Although we respectfully disagree with Goodwin, we defend her right to express her thoughts via our publication, and we encourage you to do so as well if you feel so inclined. We take a lot of pride in our football team as well as our school, and we as a group feel the University is making great strides toward flagship status, but all opinions have the right to be voiced, and we respect that fact. We try to remind readers regularly of Frederick Douglass’ wise words: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation… want rain without thunder and lightning.” One UH paradigm that’s always bothered us has been the paradigm that the Cougar is either in the pocket of the University or a daily reminder of UH’s shortcomings; neither is accurate. What we do is here is report, analyze and assist the flow of information to students. Some students disagree with some of our staff’s opinions, which they have every right to, but we do not publish opinions that aren’t well prepared, constructed and conveyed. You may disagree, but before you get upset, remember that we try to represent all students fairly and equally, and we encourage feedback. But please, if you feel we aren’t fairly balancing our coverage, let us know, and we’ll do our best to make it a priority.
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ougar football is a much bigger deal than it should be to UH students. While it is nice to have something about our school to make us proud, Case Keenum should not be the only thing about UH worth discussing. The University is still behind most of its competition academically, our fine arts programs are largely uninspiring, and the administration Casey rarely seems to do Goodwin anything productive. But it’s all getting better. Every little excuse brings us a step closer to actually having a real Tier One school, not just a University that brags about its largely futile efforts. Our football team has done extremely well in the past year, and is cut out to have an even better season this year. So Cougar fans might have a lot to cheer about. Maybe it is because I am neither
a guy nor a Texan, but it seems like a single sports team should be one of the last things UH students mention when they say what the best thing about their university is. In fact, to me, the entire thing is downright ridiculous. Yes, we have a few amazing players, but I am more proud of UH’s beautiful campus, the wonderful new cafeteria at Moody Towers, and the diversity of the university’s students. Those things actually have an impact on my day-today college life. The only time Cougar football affects me is when the cheering from the stadium is so loud I can hear it from my room. It is important for students to remember that, just because UH football is doing well does not mean that people can call themselves Cougar fans without supporting our other teams as well. The University also has women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, and crosscountry teams currently in season, and
they enjoy a tiny fraction of the support base that the football team will see Sept. 4. It is better to ignore Cougar sports completely then to be a fair-weather fan and only pretend to care about the one team that makes national headlines. Many of our other teams are also doing well, and are just as worthy of our support. The other Cougar athletes work hard for the University, and deserve just as much cheering and chest painting as the students who play for Cougar football. However, it is important to remember that just because we have above-average athletics does not mean UH is an aboveaverage school. While our football team certainly does not hurt UH in the eyes of prospective students, it doesn’t go nearly as far as having strong academics and high Goodwin continues on page 5
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s the 2010 gubernatorial campaign edges even closer, the political climate can now be described as more than heated, thanks to one simple source. Is it informative political discourse in order to help undecided David voters? No. Is it awardHaydon winning investigative journalism that managed to uncover unethical information about a candidate? No. It's an ad calling Governor Rick Perry a "coward" for not participating in a debate with Bill White (or talking to newspaper editorial boards). It’s almost worth jumping out of your seat: news about a newspaper ad. The ad ran in 24 separate newspapers on Aug. 24, and only the Houston Chronicle refused to run it. This is ironic considering how often the Chronicle is berated by many for being a left-leaning newspaper.
Since most people in the immediate Houston area were unlikely to see it, the one page bit had a snapshot of Perry on a black background, captioned with coward in large white letters, followed by a small paragraph explaining the justification at using such strong and obscene language, including the line "Tell Rick Perry to stop cowering and face Texans like a man." I suppose they intended to bring Perry’s masculinity into question with that, causing me to imagine similar verbal trades coming from middle school boys. If you want to get into the nitty gritty, Perry won't debate White because White hasn't published his tax records past 2004. White was Deputy U.S. Secretary in the 1990's, and apparently that's worth refusing to debate so much that your opponents (more accurately, an independent group who favors your opponents) will begin the name game.
This is mudslinging at its textbook definition. The makers of the ad could have avoided the ensuing backlash by making a positive ad about Bill White, or simply donating to his campaign instead of using the money to run lame ads in newspapers. Instead they put another drop of water in the already overflowing bucket of petty political strife. Can the Republicans and Democrats get any closer to the Hatfields and McCoys? If you’re not familiar with the analogy, it’s a story of two feuding families who over decades and decades forget the very reason they oppose one another and eventually fight for no other reason than the sake of doing so. And of course what is the media doing as a result? The conservative sources are pointing out this radical Haydon continues on page 5
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graduation rates—areas where the University still needs a lot of work. I have never been to a UH football game. I have no real desire to change that, either. The entire concept of mostly-grown men running across a field throwing a ball while crazed spectators scream and shout for no apparent reason is more irritating than appealing. It’s not that I’m one of those people who like to stay locked in my room all day, above the chaos of campus events. I happily go to school plays and participate in student organizations, but the entire purpose of sports is beyond my comprehension. Yes, I take pride in our football team. I like calling home and hearing my father brag about how well they are doing. I also like taunting my friends at Rice
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when the Cougars beat the Owls in whatever sports event just occurred. Nevertheless, the money and energy the UH administration puts into its football program would be much better spent if it was shared more equally with other campus organizations. College is about the whole package—having strong academics, a gorgeous campus, involved student organizations, delicious food, a good newspaper, diverse and intelligent students, reasonable graduation rates and winning sports teams. UH has a lot of those and huge potential to get more, but that will never happen if students spend so much of their time obsessing over football that they never even consider UH’s other impressive features. Casey Goodwin is a mechanical engineering sophomore and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com
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injustice made by the liberal media (because of course only liberals use name calling), and the liberal sources are explicitly pointing out many things that Perry has refused to disclose in response to attacks on White (because it’s okay to call someone a name if you can flip the argument). Sadly, this is what politics has been reduced to — ad hominem attacks. It shouldn't be so hard to wonder why so many people are apathetic to vote, let alone register to do so. Candidates spend too much time reducing themselves to using ad hominem attacks, or the popular alternative of demonizing the other on hot button issues such as gay rights or immigration.
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Fall workouts begin; team auditions walk-ons, set to host camps Head coach Kyla Holas and her squad are ready to get back to work in the heat. Their first practice was Thursday as they prepare for the SK College Classic Oct. 2-3. "We expect you to be great teammates," Athletics Director Mack Rhoades said to the team. "You win together, you lose together." The team invited other softball players to try out for the team last Friday. Players had to pass a physical in the past year, and Holas and her coaching staff will gauge the talent. Players aged eight to 18 are invited to attend a fall camp at UH. The first camp will be Sept. 5 where pitching and catching will be the focus. On Sept. 12 Holas and her staff will advise hitters. September 19 and 26 will be for slap hitting and defense. To apply online it costs $85, for walk-ups the price is $100. — Cougar Sports Services
High school football
Season kicks off for preps A week before the UH football team takes the field against Texas State, games at the high school level begin. The first games were Thursday and will continue until Saturday. Today's big game will be the Katy Tigers taking on the North Shore Mustangs. The game will be played at the Galena Park ISD stadium. — Cougar Sports Services
Sky dive
UH student to participate in national contest Jumping out of a plane does not seem to be something for competitors, but think again. UH student Simon Palacios, a junior engineering major, will be one of about 500 athletes who will be at the United States Parachute Association's National Championship. Palacios will compete in the vertical formation event which is sometimes called — belly flying — with four other teammates. In the vertical formation event Palacios and his team will make different patterns in the air while free falling. Other events include vertical formation events ranging from eight to 16 teammates. The championships are in Chicago from Sept. 10-24 at the Skydive Chicago facility. — Cougar Sports Services
LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES
Texas marches on to U.S. title game The Pearland little league team defeated Washington 7-5 on Thursday night to move on to the final game of the U.S. series. Representing the state of Texas, the team was able to squeak by with a four-run rally in the sixth frame. Texas will go on to play Hawaii after they defeated Georgia 7-4 yesterday. — Cougar Sports Services
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Team set for Louisana trip Cougars are hoping to come away with a win on first road trip of season Joshua Siegel
The Daily Cougar Despite some first game jitters against Sam Houston State, the Cougars came away with a victory in their opener and are now looking to stay undefeated, heading into their weekend road trip to face the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns and McNeese State Cowgirls. “I think we we’re a little nervous for the Sam game because we wanted to go out and get the same result that we had against HBU, and there were a lot more people
there and we wanted to impress people,” freshman Kylie Cook said. “So I think we didn’t play our best game, but we got the victory. After this week of practice, we’re much more composed and ready to play these Louisiana teams.” The Cougars' strategy for their two upcoming opponents focuses more on them finding their game than trying to counter any sort of style that their opposition might throw at them. “We haven’t really talked about what their strengths and weaknesses are,” freshman Nicole Duarte said. “What we focused on most is what we need to work on, which is communication, possession, keeping the game at our feet and not so fast.” Cook and Duarte are just two of a very talented class of freshman that should make an impact for the Cougars this season. Cook
picked up her first assist of the season on the winning goal of the Cougars opening victory. Walk-on goalkeeper Chelsea Meyers shut out the Bearkats. Freshman Danielle Munoz also seems to be a fixture for the Cougars at center back, as she played all 90 minutes against the Bearkats. “I’m excited. I think we have a great freshman class that came in,” senior Melanie Adelman said. “We’re very skillful. Every single person on our team is talented in some kind of way; there’s not one bad person. I have high hopes and we are a new team from last year.” The Cougars should find the undefeated Ragin’ Cajuns to be a fair match on Friday night. The Cajuns finished last season 2-16-0, but have picked up victories in SOCCER continues on page 7
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The Daily Cougar The wait is finally over for the Houston Cougars volleyball team, as their 2010 campaign gets underway today in Austin. New Head Coach Molly Alvey and the Cougars open up the season at the Texas Invitational with a noon match against TCU, followed by a 4 p.m. match against McNeese State. Houston will finish up the tournament with a tough matchup tomorrow night against third-ranked Texas. “It’s always important for us to mesh well, and I think that’s been our main expectations and goal for this pre-season training camp — for us to focus on playing well as a unit,” Alvey said. The Cougars are led by junior middle-blocker and All-Conference USA Preseason Team selection Lucy Charuk. The team captain missed all of the
Head coach Molley Alvey hopes her team comes together this weekend as they compete against TCU and the Texas Longhorns. | File Photo/The Daily Cougar 2009 season due to a shoulder injury, which required shoulder surgery; she is excited to return to the court. “I have no jitters whatsoever, I’m really
excited; I’ve been waiting for this for way too long," Charuk said. VOLLEYBALL continues on page 7
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their first two matches for the first time in school history. The Cougars lead the all-time series between the teams 5-1. Sunday, the Cougars will travel to Cowgirl Field to face the winless Cowgirls, who lost 0-7 to Baylor in their last match. Even with so many new faces on the Cougars' roster, they have gelled quickly off the field, and are expecting that cohesion to start to manifesting itself more in their play. “It’s been really refreshing coming in here and feeling that,” Cook said. “I was scared that I was going to be disrespected just because I was a freshman. It’s not like that at all; the team chemistry is really close and everyone is really good friends. I think that will show on the field as the season goes on.” sports@thedailycougar.com
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Houston understands the toughness to the start of the season, facing opponents like TCU (27-7 last season) and 2009 national runner-up No. 3 Texas (29-2 last season). TCU is 5-3 in season openers under Head Coach Prentice Lewis and is 2-2 in season openers on the road. The Horned Frogs return 10 letterwinners and four starters to the 2010 squad. “It’s not so much about worrying about the tough competition; we’re just going to go out there and play,” Charuk said. Texas will be Houston’s final opponent in the tournament as the Longhorns return nine letterwinners and four starters to a volleyball program that’s been ranked in the Top 5 for 32 straight weeks. “There’s some worry (about playing No. 3 Texas), we don’t want to go home and get killed; that’s probably the only worry,” Charuk said. “We know that it’s going to be a tough match so we’re just preparing for that mentally, and we’re just going to play as hard as we can.” McNeese State (17-13 last season) won’t be a pushover, but the Cougars know that it's a match they must win facing the Texas two-step in the Horned Frogs and Longhorns respectively. McNeese State, like Houston, are in their first year under a new head coach in Terry Gamble. “Same way we will address Texas and the same way we will address TCU it doesn’t matter who’s on the other side of the net we got to come out and compete at a top level,” Alvey said on playing McNeese State. Houston will need production outside from Charuk, and junior and senior outside hitters Ingrida Zauere and Marluci Toazzi respectively will shoulder that load. Zauere and Toazzi combined for 291 kills in 2009. The Cougars return nine letterwinners and four starters this season from a 9-23 team in 2009 and add six newcomers to this year’s team. “We go out and we play hard, you pick up wins where you can get them, I don’t want to set a goal; our goal is to play as a unit,” Alvey said. sports@thedailycougar.com
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Movies that are coming out today This week we have some definite Oscar contenders coming out. First is “The Takers,” starring arguably the best actors of the decade — Tip “T.I” Harris, Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, and Rihanna-punching Chris Brown. Nothing gets better than a heist movie starring a bunch of people who couldn’t act their way out of a paper bag (other than T.I., and you know the cast is bad when a rapper is one of the best actors on the playbill.) Next up is “The Last Exorcism,” another PG-13 rated jump-filled horror movie. Seriously, any scary movie worth its chops — especially an exorcism movie — has to be a hard R to be any good. The only reason that movies like this exist? Trying to cash in on the pre-teen market when they run out of other suitable date movies. Try going to see “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” instead, or even renting the original “The Exorcist.” There is a small glimmer of hope for this movie, but it’s definitely a hail-mary pass; producer Eli Roth (the brilliant mind behind “Hostel” and “Hostel 2”) said this time he wanted to make a “purely psychological thriller.”
Fashion. It's a necessity in everyone's lives, and even though it may not be apparent to many but everyone has a style that is their own and that creates great changes in fashion. This weekly column captures these changes and the various aspects of the fashion world — it does not always revolve around current trends or affordable styles, it revolves around fashion as
an art. Fashion is an art that pertains to not only what we wear, but how we are seen by the rest of the world. A faux-fur jacket may mean nothing but a cozy winter accessory to some, but to others, you may come off as a savior of the animals. Just as one may forget the artsy side of fashion, some may forget that the designers behind fashion are artists, too. In the past, we have covered the work of great designers, such as Alexander McQueen, while also focusing on local artists who have used trendy articles (such as jewelry) to create pieces of art. Whether it be handbags, shoes or clothing designs, we have seen a huge turn in trends and it is designers, like Alexander McQueen or Coco Chanel, that have shown the ability to create such art. We are now in a time
when fashion enthusiasts look back at armadillo shoes created by Alexander McQueen as others look back at “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. Another common presumption about fashion is that it is something only a woman can enjoy, that men have no stake in it. Last Valentine’s Day, we gave style tips to men for various date settings. We have also covered the work of Omar Angel Perez when he created wooden shoes that were displayed at a local museum. Although it has been commonly known for women to be more extravagant when it comes to fashion, it is important to know that men can be just as much extravagant without coming FASHION continues on page 10
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Passing the summer in the pages of a book When school is out, forget the textbooks; you can read what you want to read By Sarah Neill
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I didn’t read as many books as usual this summer. This is partly because two of the books on my list, “The Bible”, and “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, are mammoth, but mostly because I’ve figured out how to play this game on my cell phone; it’s much easier to numb the brain than expand it. I’m also surprised by how heavy the subjects of most of these books are. No light summer reads for me.
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“Mafia 2” was released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC today, and based on the early reviews it falls right in the middle of the pack. The story focuses on a young immigrant who becomes a mobster in the early ’40s and ’50s. Yes, it is pretty much a rip-off of “The Godfather,” but hey, you still get to baseball bat people in the knees and blow a whole bunch of things up.
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"The Story of Edgar Sawtelle", by David Wrobleski. "When You are Engulfed In Flames", by David Sedaris "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality", by Donald Miller "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel", by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated from the Greek by Kimon Friar "Much Ado About Nothing", by William Shakespeare "The Confessions of St. Augustine", translated by Rex Warner "The Catcher in the Rye", by J. D. Salinger "The Bible" "Slaughterhouse-Five", by Kurt Vonnegut "Selected Poems", by Czeslaw Milosz "Without End: New and Selected Poems", by Adam Zagajewski "Eternal Enemies", by Adam Zagajewski
Despite having been selected for Oprah’s Book Club and consequently becoming a New York Times bestseller,
Now that school is back in session, we have to pick up our textbooks and settle in to the daily grind, but over the summer we can escape into the fantasies of novels and comic books. | Kendra Berglund/ The Daily Cougar my first selection, “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,” is a good book. I began reading it on a hellish flight to Maui (you feel no pity, but a kid screamed the whole five hours), and my self-control is so poor that I could not put it down upon arriving on the island. Having never done drugs, I found the experience of sitting in a tropical paradise reading a tragedy set in the Wisconsin winter to be quite trippy, but the book was just that good. Though based on Hamlet, with a dash of Macbeth and a few spoonfuls of The Jungle Book, among others, Wrobleski’s story is no cutesy mash-up with dogs thrown in for kicks. It is a shimmering, searing, staggering
accomplishment, obviously the work of many years. At the surface, the plot hews closely to that of Hamlet. A boy’s father dies mysteriously after his wayward uncle comes back into his family’s life. The uncle takes up with boy’s mother and chases boy off. Boy discovers his uncle murdered his father and seeks revenge. Everybody dies in one form or another, whether emotionally or physically. But, the details make all the difference in the world. The story is set on the Sawtelle family farm in Wisconsin in the '50s. The family breeds and raises a special breed of dog, BOOKS continues on page 10
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uncle, and Gar, Edgar’s father, don’t get along, but his father dies of an aneurysm after Claude moves out. Edgar has to use his intuition and guidance from his father’s ghost to find out the truth. The ghost is so wonderfully conjured – as a hesitation in the falling rain – that I am jealous I will never see such a phenomenon. Edgar’s mother’s reasons for taking up with her dead husband’s brother are understandable and justifiable. The descriptions of the scenery make me want to move to Wisconsin, and the scenes with the witch are jittery and funny at the same time. All in all, I highly recommend this book.
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