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Free Turkish classes now at UH Starting Sept. 27, the UH Turkish-American Student Association will offer free Turkish classes to UH students, faculty, staff and alumni. According to Wikipedia, Turkish is the world’s 15th most commonly spoken language, and is the official language of three countries. The U.S. Department of Education’s website lists Turkish as part of the National Security Language Initiative, which is focused on bringing awareness and understanding to critical foreign languages. TASA has three class times to choose from: Monday, 4-6 p.m.; Thursday, 4-6 p.m.; and Thursday, 5-7 p.m. Visit www.uh.edu/~tasa to register. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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THE DAILY COUGAR The Bauer College Of Business Alumni Association hosted their monthly networking breakfast at the Houston City Club, this time with a special guest — mayor Annise Parker. Alumni greeted guests at the entrance at the Sept. 16 event. As Alumnus Cory Baum said, the event is mostly for networking. “Bauer grads like to do business with each other,” he said.
These monthly networking breakfasts are "all about that expanding learning experience,” said Robert A. Casey, Jr., associate dean of the C.T Bauer College of Business. Many anxiously waited for Parker, who was on the top of the line up of guest speakers for the event. “(Parker is) one of the brightest minds in Houston,” said chair of the Board of Regents Carroll Ray. Ray introduced Parker and emphasized what an important BUSINESS continues on page 8
Mayor Annise Parker attended the Bauer College of Business monthly alumni breakfast to touch on her experiences in the professional world. | Courtesy of Chase Pedigo
Lights shine on festival
Blaffer Gallery’s fall show features international artists Visit the UH Blaffer Gallery’s fall exhibitions to see work from Mexico City-based Gabriel Kuri and Berlinbased Amy Patton. Kuri’s sculpture and collage show, Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab, is his first solo show in a U.S. museum. Patton’s exhibition, also her first U.S. museum showing, consists of three films and a series of photographs. Both exhibitions will run at the gallery until Nov. 13.
Annual archeology event focuses on historic art and performances Ashley Evans
The Blaffer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building. The gallery is free to visit.
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Check out www.class.uh.edu/blaffer for more information.
The city will come alive with art this weekend, from Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s East End Silos to the Heights Theater. For the third year in a row, The Mitchell Center for the Arts is collaborating with The Aurora Picture Show for the seventh annual Media Archeology Festival. “The Media Archeology Festival is meant to showcase artists who use innovative ways of interpreting media and cinema through live performance works,” said curator Mary Magsamen. Bree Edwards, special programs director at the Mitchell Center, served as curator for Media Archeology: Liquid Light to the Laptop in 2009 and worked alongside Magsamen planning this year’s festival. “While the festival has traditionally been thematically curated, we are very excited that curator Mary Magsamen chose to focus this year’s festival, Media Archeology: Texas Focus, on artists living and working in Texas,” Edwards said. The Graffiti Research Lab of Houston opens the festival Thursday, Sept. 16 with a live laser graffiti performance. The participatory event will allow audience members to draw with light on the wall of the Menil Collection using a mix of text tagging and laser graffiti, or interactive light. San Antonio’s Potter-Belmar Labs follows up Friday
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AROUND TOWN I Am Mesmer, Kelly Doyle, Hilary Sloan Bluegrass, roots and acoustic bands I Am Mesmer, Kelly Doyle and Hilary Sloan will be performing at Rudyard’s tonight. The pub is for 21 and over only. Visit www.rudyardspub.com for more info. The Dan Band Singer and comedian Dan Finnerty will be at The House of Blues tonight putting more twists on pop song covers. Be sure to catch this Los Angeles sensation while they’re in town. Get tickets now for the 9 p.m. show! Find more campus and local events or add your own at thedailycougar.com/calendar
Holiday spirit on campus
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he Muslim Student Association set up a booth in the Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall Eid on Monday at 11:00 a.m. in celebration of the three day Muslim holiday, Eid El-Fitr, that comes after the month-long fast. | Courtesy of the Muslim Student Association
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THE DAILY COUGAR Students may have curiously passed by the unexplained new red swing hanging on tree branches in between the Moores School of Music and the Fine Arts Building. The swing is actually part of a new project.
Back in 2007 in Austin, a new invention was formed — the Red Swing Project. The project was intentionally created to gain people’s curiosity by randomly hanging red swings in different places all over the world. Currently there are 95 red swings through out the world, including the U.S.,
India, Thailand, Brazil, South Korea, France, Spain and Portugal. Sociology freshman Amanda Sanchez said she thinks it’s an outstanding idea. “It is not every day you see a red swing on a college campus,” she said. RED SWING continues on page 8