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CLASS departments, programs to raise funds, provide information The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences is hosting the first ever Instant CLASSic event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The event will take place in the Cullen Family Plaza. CLASS departments will be promoting their schools, as well as raising funds for their programs by selling food or other items. — Jourdan Vian/The Daily Cougar
Cougar pride promoted at event The UH Marketing Department is helping all Cougars show their UH pride through its “t-shirt trade-up” event from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. tonight at the athletics pep rally outside the Cougar Village Residence Hall. Bring a used t-shirt representing another college or university, trade it for a UH t-shirt and wear it proudly to support UH. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
Student Video Network hosts outdoor screening tonight The new FX comedy series Terriers will be screened at 6 p.m. at Lynn Eusan Park next to Cougar Village. Actors Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James will be at the event to sign autographs and answer questions from students. For more information, go to www.uh.edu/svn. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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THE DAILY COUGAR Despite economic woes, UH surpassed the $100 million mark in donations for the first time in the University’s history. Private funds of over $102 million came in during fiscal year 2010 from over 25,000 donors, which include alumni and others in the Houston community who
are supporting the University’s efforts to achieve Tier One status. This milestone also boasts the largest amount of alumni support for the University. “We are deeply grateful for the overwhelming display of generosity of all of our donors and the Houston community, whose gifts are responsible for this record-breaking year,” President Renu Khator said in a news release. Funds will be directed towards institutional and college priorities, with decisions on how the funds will be used being made by the president, provosts, and the dean of each school. Destinations for the funds include Tier
One scholarships, student success and experience, hiring, and support in energy, health, and the arts. Donors give to one or more of the priorities of their choice. “Private support is given by donors to fund scholarships, libraries, research, faculty, academic programs, facilities, athletics and community outreach,” UH spokesperson Richard Bonnin said. Every donation makes a difference, Bonnin said, and may affect many facets of the university, including the number of fellowships awarded, the chance for a student to study abroad or the possibility of DONATIONS continues on page 3
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A five-week series of presentations designed for UH staff to better understand the internal structure of the University wraps up Friday. “Discover UH – the Vision, the Culture, the Pride” aims to educate new employees, administrators, managers and supervisors on the decision-making process and internal relationships within a large and complex institution like UH. “I think the mission of Discover UH is to help all of our community own the University,” Human Resources Director Sandy Coltharp said. “I think every single person on this campus plays a role, and if helping them understand the mission helps them own the University, then that is my goal.” Discover UH, which has 27 participant s this fall, stemmed from a session four years ago called the Management Institute. Over the past year, Coltharp and her team developed Discover UH before it made its debut Sept. 10. The series offers UH employees the chance to dive deeper into the workings of UH by exploring various aspects such as finances, transportation, and DISCOVER continues on page 3
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THE DAILY COUGAR Work to bring Science Research 1 up to current safety standards, including the installation of a fire sprinkler system, the replacement of the current fire alarm system and the modernization of the building’s elevators, began this month, much to the dismay of researchers and doctoral students who work in the building. “It was a surprise, because it was going to happen immediately,” physics professor Edward Hungerford said. “It really impacts the people who are doing research because everybody’s got to shut down their research program. That not only delays their research, but it also means that students don’t get their degrees. People
are trying to finish up doctoral dissertations, and now all those things are postponed.” While most in the building agree that the modifications both needed and vital to maintaining one of the largest research facilities on the UH campus, physics professor Roy Weinstein said that it was the lack of warning that had many upset and scrambling as the fall semester began. “The first I heard was Aug. 13,” Weinstein said. “(The plans) began almost a year before the renovation, and not a single member of the faculty was told.” According to Weinstein, talk of the renovations began in 2004, but the faculty was never given a definite start date. Hungerford concurred. “Most people had heard about the fact that there was going to be a building renovation, but it’s sort of like crying wolf,” Hungerford said. “We all knew that something was coming, but we never knew when it was.” Provost John Antel told the Houston RESEARCHERS continues on page 3
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the upkeep of the buildings and outdoor areas. Participants in Discover UH also learned about the history of the University and heard from different divisions within UH, like the Board of Regents, which helps with networking and staff involvement. “I didn’t graduate from UH, but I feel like this is my university,� Coltharp said. “I want everybody to think, ‘This is where I work, but this is also my University. I want to promote this University.’� The Tier 1 vision for the University was a driving force behind the Discover UH initiative, which will be offered at the start of every semester. Coltharp said it is important for every person at UH to ask what Tier 1 means for himself or herself and what role they play in the journey to Tier 1. Deputy Director of the Blaffer Art Museum James Rosengren has been participating in the prorgram.
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Rosengren stressed the importance Discover UH plays in networking within the University and developing relationships with people that normally do not interact with each other. “It helps us build a resource network,� Rosengren said. “Discover UH puts us in the same room with various University decision makers to take our understanding of strategies and operations to a level beyond a display of a simple organizational chart.� The interaction and community formed by every part and person of the University that has participated is what Coltharp envisioned when Discover UH was in the planning stages. “Discover UH delivers all of this information in a way that ties it together into the overarching goals of UH and does it with spirit,� IT Project Manager Mike Mantell, who is also participating in the program, said. “You actually come out of each session impressed with the content, proud to be a part of the team and jazzed about the University’s future.�
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round campus you may have seen these inconspicuous white signs with a minimalist white and blue scheme. These signs read The Statue of Four Lies and then at the bottom is the corresponding website, thestatueoffourlies. com. The bronze statues, which represent two former UH students known as the Art Guys — Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing — is the newest form of public art built on our campus. Most UH students have seen the signs all around campus, but many will miss the beauty of the artwork. The statues represent a chance for the public to personally interact with the statues and to make them their own. This is public art that is intended to be painted, altered or modied to further expression. Public art is a perfect venue to add life and character to otherwise mundane components of Houston. The question is, why then do we only allow public art in the form of statues on a campus, and not others like grafti on trains, sticker art on walls of buildings, or the aerosol tags and intricate stickers on electrical trafc boxes around Houston? If you were to go out anywhere in Houston and pop the top off of a spray paint, you can can be assured that legal consequences will ensue of you’re caught by the police. Despite the risk of law enforcement, success and hard work would only remain as art for a limited time. The Houston City Council passed an ordinance on Oct. 4 that will target and abate grafti of Houston’s Greater East End. The 5-year contract will abate the grafti at a rate of 80 dollars per hour. The president of the Greater East End management said that “grafti is like leaving your front door open to criminals,” Diane Schenke said. One person’s view of grafti is not the city’s. One council of old people does not — and should not — decide what the city nds to be crime or art. Just like “The Statue of Four Lies,” grafti serves many Houstonians with artistic stimulation. Unfortunately, expressing your artistic side on either “The Statue of Four Lies” or a bridge in Houston will cause you to be punished, not rewarded.
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Bullying is so straight, not gay O n the night of Sept. 22, Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River. His suicide was partially a response to harassment by his college roommate, who streamed video over the Internet of Clementi in a sexual encounter with another man. Clementi is sadly just one of many homosexual teens who Daniel killed himself in recent Renfrow months because of anti-gay bullying. However, before rushing to vilify Clementi’s roommate for his callous and idiotic actions, it is important to note the larger forces that contributed to Clementi’s suicide. The public school system is partially to blame for Clementi’s death. A recent survey by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educational Network (GLSEN) reveals that nine out of 10 gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender teens experience harassment at their schools because of their orientation. This harassment instills teens a sense of inferiority in many GLBT teens — that they are “less than” their heterosexual counterparts — a belief that tends to linger long after graduation. The silence of teachers and school administrators further ingrains this sense of inferiority and is part of the reason why the suicide rate is so much higher among GLBT teens. Many of these students have no one to turn to for support. The average GLBT student is probably not receiving adequate support of their orientation or gender identity from their families, so teachers and school administrators need to take on the responsibility of mentoring them and providing them with a safe learning environment. Religious groups like Focus on the Family, Exodus International and the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) are also partly to blame for Clementi’s suicide. These
groups encourage the discrimination of homosexuals beneath the guise of the old adage, “Love the sinner, hate the sin,” often citing questionable research by the official sounding, yet bogus American College of Pediatrics to support their hateful messages. CitizenLink, a Focus on the Family affiliate, recently launched a campaign against the Senate’s Safe Schools Improvement Act, a piece of legislation that would require public schools to adopt anti-bulling and harassment measures to protect students from discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. “It would lay the foundation for codifying sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes,” CitizenLink says on its website. How does one respond to such a bigoted statement? These are kids we are RENFROW continues on page 5
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fter the recent shooting at the University of Texas, discourse on gun control rapidly spiked in news and public conversation. Normally the argument (of any school shooting) is that the shooting is a prime example of why students should not be allowed to carry weapons on campus. The obvious paradox is that if students had been armed, the school David shooter would not Haydon have been the only one shooting. People allow their emotions to get the best of them in these situations, making any logical or rational decision almost impossible. Logically and rationally, however, you can assume that school shootings will continue to occur, regardless of whether students can be armed. None of these shooters went to the
on-campus gun store to purchase their firearms; they went off campus and came right back, armed to the teeth. In this light, it is unreasonable not to legally allow competent, responsible students to arm themselves. Although UH has not had a school shooting, we are a real campus with real crime. We have had countless robberies, muggings, sexual assaults and other general criminal activity. Any college campus is prime rib for criminals because of all the fresh and naive students walking around, but there are a few specific reasons as to why UH is such a target. First, we are in the middle of Houston’s Third Ward, just blocks from downtown. Even though a lot of students like to pretend we’re part of some nice happy community, this is prime area for drugs, theft and people willing to act. Secondly, there are only so many police and security out patrolling, and the dubious security
cameras monitoring us 24/7 do nothing. Lastly, the vast majority of students walk around unarmed — no knife, pepper spray, stun gun or concealed firearm. Mix these together and you have a feeding ground for criminals. Real life crime requires real life defense, not “complying with the criminal,” hoping that you’ll walk away from someone pointing a gun at you. Texas is a concealed carry state, and yet the schools in Texas, of all places, are not. Another confusing aspect is that guns are legal, yet batons, brass knuckles and the like are illegal weapons. Would it lessen public safety if everyone walked around with telescopic batons in their pockets? How is that less safe? The logic requires the benefit of the doubt, since it’s against the law to carry these kinds of weapons and everyone knows criminals wouldn’t dare break the law. HAYDON continues on page 5
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talking about — kids who are at a greater statistical risk of committing suicide. As long as bully-groups like CitizenLink are around, GLBT teens will continue to mentally debilitate to dangerous states. Christian groups need to stop resurrecting Anita Bryant’s worm-riddled corpse every time there is a piece of gay-friendly legislation they don’t agree with. They should instead follow the example of Andrew Marin, the evangelical author of “Love is an Orientation� and start treating homosexuals in a compassionate manner worthy of their deity. Popular culture is also to blame for Clementi’s death. We live in culture in which most people do not think twice before uttering the phrase, “That’s so gay.� It is nearly impossible for a homosexual-identified individual to go through his or her day without hearing someone utter this acidic phrase. What if people started saying “that’s so straight� every time they thought something
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There are plenty of NRA supporters and concealed campus activists who love to make weak, easily refutable arguments as to why people should be armed, but talking about the Second Amendment or how a gun can prevent violence is miles from the point. The point is that criminals have guns, highly dangerous students can easily get guns, and although the police are armed, they can’t be everywhere at once. This isn’t about prevention — it’s about equivalency. In an ideal situation, no one would have guns — not criminals,
was stupid? Would straight people eventually start thinking that they were stupid and inferior? It stands to reason that they would. How many times do you think Clementi heard “that’s so gay� uttered in his tragically short life? We need to either banish this phrase from the popular lexicon or turn it into something positive. The next time you use this phrase let it be as a response to something you deem creative, interesting, cool or beautiful. Now is the time to take a stand against gay bullying. Too many GLBT teens have taken their lives because of our culture’s complacency. We need to provide GLBT-identified individuals with an environment in which they feel accepted, safe and normal; an environment in which they can make out with individuals of the same sex in their dorm rooms without the fear of discovery. Because after all, what would there be to discover? Daniel Renfrow is a Anthropology junior and may be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com.
police or citizens. This way everyone would have to fight face to face on equal ground, or take the more civilized route and discuss matters like adults. But this is not a perfect world; instead, it’s a world with firearms. The most practical solution is to arm as many mentally stable, competent and overall responsible people as possible, students included. UT was just about to debate the weapon laws on campus prior to the shooting; what will it take to have the same discussion at UH? David Haydon is a polticial science junior and may be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com.
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Team to hold walk-on tryouts, former assistant coach dies If you feel like you could play for UH on the hardwood, here is your chance. Head coach James Dickey announced on Wednesday that he is welcoming any students interested in walking on to the men’s basketball team. Students are required to meet certain criteria before tryouts can begin. Students have to be enrolled at the main campus and must be taking a 12-hour course load. Students who graduated high school before 2006 are ineligible to try out. A compliance review form is available at www.uhcougars.com. The top portion of the form is to be filled out and brought to the Sports Medicine Department located on the first floor of the Athletics/Alumni Center by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11, along with proof of primary medical insurance. Long-time assistant coach Harvey Pates died on Saturday at the age of 91. Pate served under former head coach Guy Lewis from 1956-1980 in which the Cougars posted a 453-226 (.667) record. As a coaching assistant to Lewis, Pate helped the Cougars make eight NCAA Tournament appearances and two Final Four appearances. Funeral services were held on Tuesday in Seneca, Mo. — Cougar Sports Services
SOCCER
Goalkeeper receives accolade Freshman goalkeeper Cami Koski was selected as Conference USA Co-Defensive Player of the Week after leaving Colorado and UTEP scoreless in the Cougars’ two victories over the weekend. This is Koski’s sixth shutout performance of the season. Koski tallied a season-high of six saves in Friday’s matchup and made five saves in Sunday’s contest. — Cougar Sports Services
TENNIS
Cougars prep for crosstown competition The UH tennis team will play at the 53rd Rice Fall Invite Friday through Sunday this weekend. The team’s last competition was the Islander Open in Corpus Christi on Sept. 23. Byrony Hunter and Giorga Pozzan won the doubles title. — Cougar Sports Services
SWIM AND DIVE
Team begins season with practice meet The Cougars swimming team began its season yesterday at CRWC Natatorium at the Red & White practice meet. The team will have its first official competition Oct. 10 at home for the UH/Rice Relay Carnival. — Cougar Sports Services
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Dogfight anticipated against Bulldogs John Brannen
THE DAILY COUGAR After the Cougars’ only bye week of the season, the team is set to begin the remainder of the 2010 campaign. The Cougars will put their 18-game home win streak at Robertson Stadium on the line when they host Mississippi State Saturday. The game gives the Cougars a chance to compete with a team from a BCS conference. Mississippi State (3-2) hails from the SEC, which is arguably the most competitive conference for football in the NCAA. “Every week you play, no matter who you play against, you’re going to have to prove something,” head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “Nobody is ever beyond proving anything. I can’t speak for anybody else, but I think in our situation, just like everybody else, you have to prove week-to-week where you are and
who you are.” The quarterback situation for UH is unresolved, as Sumlin will decide between true freshman Terrance Broadway or David Piland to be the starter Saturday. Both Sumlin and Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen come from illustrious coaching trees. Sumlin’s last coaching job was under Bob Stoops at Oklahoma for five years. Mullen coached under Urban Meyer at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. As an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Mullen won two NCAA championships at Florida in 2006 and 2008. Sumlin said he is expecting the Bulldogs’ defense to be disruptive with the personnel they have at linebacker. “You look at their linebacker core and they’re all seniors,” Sumlin said. “It’s probably the strength of their football team.” “Linebackers (Chris) White and (K.J.)
Wright are excellent college players, obviously pro prospects. They have big, strong and fast guys, 240-pound and 250pound guys that can do a lot of damage.” After beating Mississippi Sate 31-24 last year, Sumlin said he is expecting an improved offensive attack from the Bulldogs, but that it won’t differ too much from last season’s approach. “Ideally and conceptually I think they want to do the same thing,” Sumlin said. “They just weren’t able to execute it the way they wanted to. Chris gives them a one-two punch at quarterback now. He’s an excellent player and an excellent athlete. I bet he’s chomping at the bit to play this game after watching last years’ video. Schematically, they’re the same football team. He adds something that they didn’t have last year.” The game begins at 7 p.m. and will be televised on CBS College Sports. sports@thedailycougar.com
GOLF
Squad gives second place effort in Cabo Victor Araiza
THE DAILY COUGAR The Houston Cougars continue the 2010-11 season on a high note after standing alone in second place out of 12 teams in the Santa Clara Cabo Collegiate. The Cougars did not travel to this tourist attraction on vacation, and proved they were all business on the par-72, 7,070yard course at Querencia Los Cabos Golf Club, ranked the top course in Mexico by Golf Digest. Houston arrived in Cabo San Lucas and immediately took the top spot in
the standings after the first round of the tournament. Senior Matt Eschenburg’s 3-under-par 69 helped lift the golf team into the lead on Saturday and set himself at second place in the individual leader board. “The first day we really came out of the gate strong,” head coach Jonathan Dismuke said. “This was a very demanding golf course and our guys did a good job of navigating themselves around it.” Even though Eschenburg may have ended the tournament tied for 22nd place, he showed great improvement after finishing last on the team leaderboard in the previous tournament, responding to
the pressure to perform as the only nonfreshman on this team. “Matt is a good player,” Dismuke said. “Golf is a tough game and you don’t always play well every week. He played great and bailed us out in the first round.” The team score improved in the second round on Sunday, but it was not enough to hold on to the lead as Arkansas claimed the top spot and UH dropped to second place. The golf team finished the tournament in second place and never held a lower spot throughout the tournament. Once again, the great revelation GOLF continues on page 7
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Texans tailgating becomes a hassle A quick look at most people’s Facebook or Twitter feeds on any given fall Sunday will undoubtedly reveal some sort of football-related gameday updates. “Off to the tailgate. GO TEXANS!” Phillipe “Game time! Craig Yellow lot here I come!” “Cooler: check. Battle Red jersey: check. Blue lot pass: double check - let’s roll.” But add the Texans to the growing list of NFL teams that are now telling the cybersphere and everyone else to check their ticketless party at the stadium parking lot gates. In the wake of the unprecedented fan turnout for the Sept. 26 game against the Cowboys, the Texans announced last Thursday they would no longer allow fans without a game ticket onto Reliant Park premises on game days, unless they purchase one of 2,000 firstcome, first-serve $10 tailgate-only ticket, which must be purchased by season ticket holders. Among the several reasons cited by team officials, an estimated 20,000 ticketless fans reveling in the Reliant parking lots put such a strain on facilities and stadium personnel that they had to do something to protect the season ticket holders’ game-day experience. But before fans cry foul and start tossing their armchair-referee flags, they should examine the situation from the team’s perspective. That’s not to say fans’ feelings of rejection aren’t valid. After all, as a nonseason ticket holder that frequents the tailgate scene, I felt a bit of a slap to the face; however, if the compromise they’re after is to ever be achieved, both points of view must be explored. Basically, this boils down to liability — more specifically, that of the Texans and Reliant Park when it comes to rowdiness on their property. Then there’s the issue of money, or a lack thereof, going from ticketless tailgaters’ pockets and into McNair & Co.’s coffers. But as owners and players always say, “It’s not about the money.” Right. And in my last relationship, it really wasn’t her, it was me. As for the former reason, the Texans have done a great job of allowing tailgating since the team’s inception in 2002, all the while avoiding the consequences
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of the team was the freshmen. Jesse Droemer finished atop the team leaderboard for the second consecutive tournament. Dismuke attributes the development of the young freshmen to the leadership of the team’s experienced personnel at practice. “We have older guys who have been in this program through the years contributing at practice,” Dismuke said. “We also have a great core group of guys that are young, talented, and have a great work ethic.” Texas Bragging Rights After taking a short break, the Cougars will return to action on Oct. 17-18 when they compete in the Lone Star Invitational at Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio. UTSA will host the tournament, which is exclusive to Texas universities, in what will surely be a fight for bragging rights. “We want to finish on a high note,” Dismuke said. “This will be the first tournament we have in the state and we look forward to the good support from the parents and fans that will be able to attend. “Our guys work extremely hard, are very prepared, have a great chemistry, and are very supportive of each other.” The 54-hole event will be the last tournament of the fall season for the Cougars. Houston will look to continue their recent success of finishing in the top five as they look ahead to the spring.
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Rated: (PG-13) for bullying, martial arts action violence and some mild language Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama Director: Harald Zwart Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
Splice Rated: (R) for disturbing elements including strong sexuality, nudity, sci-fi violence and language. Genres: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller Director: Vincenzo Natali Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Simona Maicanescu
Nightmare on Elm Street Rated: (R) for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality
While at UH, students need to be careful about the different paths that they take. When it comes to skipping, a new website is here to put students on the right one. | Daily Cougar File photo
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Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min. Genres: Horror Director: Samuel Bayer Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara
The Human Centipede Rated: (NR) but features disturbing sadistic horror violence, nudity and language Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min. Genres: Horror Director: Tom Six Cast: Dieter Laser, Akihiro Kitamu
Holly Rollers Rated: (R) for drug content and language throughout, and brief sexual material.
With a main feature of a calculator that determines if class is worth going to Travis Hensley
THE DAILY COUGAR Classes are long, monotonous, tedious and a whole list of other adjectives that imply “I don’t want to go.” For many of us, the commuting aspect that many UH students bring to the table only adds to the boredom. Follow that with the parking situation (which is fun if you like long walks.) But for some classes, it just seems like a giant waste of time — and time is very important to the University’s
history. The motto for UH is “In Tempore,” which is Latin for “In Time.” It’s almost as if the very foundation upon which the University stands is telling students, “Don’t worry, you’ll get to it in time.” However, it could also be telling students, “Get here on time, you signed up for the class.” So, what are students going to do? There is a new website that offers an answer to the students’ question that has plagued UH since its foundation in 1927 — should I skip class today? Now you can go to www.skipclassclaculator. com to find your answer. Users are presented with 10 simple questions. Depending on your answers, the website will tell you if your class is worth going to today. The questions are simple enough
that students have probably been asking them for years while lying in bed. But the genius in it is that it doesn’t have the debate that goes on in one’s head. It’s a simple yes or no, followed by an almost witty suggestion. This site was created by Jim Filibert during his Bowling Green State University days. According to the website, “The idea came to me (Filibert) one day in February 2010. I woke up one cold morning and debated whether or not I wanted to get out of bed to go to class.” He then went on a search to find something like his website. After not being able to find something similar, he ended up skipping class to start planning out what is now www. STUDENT LIFE continues on page 9
Genres: Drama Director: Kevin Asch Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor
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THE DAILY COUGAR Baseball — you know, America’s pastime before we invented the Superbowl — has three strikes before the batter’s out. And now it seems Hollywood has taken up the same idea when it comes to films. Movies used to be released and then (and this is a novel idea) not tampered with. Not many early directors thought, “Yeah, this is a good movie, but I’ll come back and make it even better when some cool new technology comes out.” Other than George Lucas, of course. Speaking of Lucas, why can’t he just leave the original “Star Wars” alone? He already did enough damage with his socalled special edition that came out in the ’90s, but it seems he didn’t ruin it quite enough for his liking. But what’s left that
Seriously, George, why did you think it was a good idea for this clown to be Darth Vader? Couldn’t you cast someone who can actually act? | Courtesy of Lucasfilms he could destroy, you ask? Simple: He could go back and redo everything — again — but this time he could do it in 3D. Yes, all six Star
Wars movies are going to be released in theaters in not one, not two, but all three JACK’S FACTS continues on page 9
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The Karate Kid
Rated: (PG-13) for bullying, martial arts action violence and some mild language Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama Director: Harald Zwart Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson
Splice Rated: (R) for disturbing elements including strong sexuality, nudity, sci-fi violence and language. Genres: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller Director: Vincenzo Natali Cast: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Simona Maicanescu
Nightmare on Elm Street Rated: (R) for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality
While at UH, students need to be careful about the different paths that they take. When it comes to skipping, a new website is here to put students on the right one. | Daily Cougar File photo
STUDENT LIFE
Website helps with old question
Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min. Genres: Horror Director: Samuel Bayer Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara
The Human Centipede Rated: (NR) but features disturbing sadistic horror violence, nudity and language Runtime: 1 hr. 30 min. Genres: Horror Director: Tom Six Cast: Dieter Laser, Akihiro Kitamu
Holly Rollers Rated: (R) for drug content and language throughout, and brief sexual material.
With a main feature of a calculator that determines if class is worth going to Travis Hensley
THE DAILY COUGAR Classes are long, monotonous, tedious and a whole list of other adjectives that imply “I don’t want to go.” For many of us, the commuting aspect that many UH students bring to the table only adds to the boredom. Follow that with the parking situation (which is fun if you like long walks.) But for some classes, it just seems like a giant waste of time — and time is very important to the University’s
history. The motto for UH is “In Tempore,” which is Latin for “In Time.” It’s almost as if the very foundation upon which the University stands is telling students, “Don’t worry, you’ll get to it in time.” However, it could also be telling students, “Get here on time, you signed up for the class.” So, what are students going to do? There is a new website that offers an answer to the students’ question that has plagued UH since its foundation in 1927 — should I skip class today? Now you can go to www.skipclassclaculator. com to find your answer. Users are presented with 10 simple questions. Depending on your answers, the website will tell you if your class is worth going to today. The questions are simple enough
that students have probably been asking them for years while lying in bed. But the genius in it is that it doesn’t have the debate that goes on in one’s head. It’s a simple yes or no, followed by an almost witty suggestion. This site was created by Jim Filibert during his Bowling Green State University days. According to the website, “The idea came to me (Filibert) one day in February 2010. I woke up one cold morning and debated whether or not I wanted to get out of bed to go to class.” He then went on a search to find something like his website. After not being able to find something similar, he ended up skipping class to start planning out what is now www. STUDENT LIFE continues on page 9
Genres: Drama Director: Kevin Asch Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor
NEW CDS
JACKS FACTS
Why do it right when we can remake it?
David Archuleta The Other Side Of Down
Guster Easy Wonderful
Toby Keith Bullets In The Gun
Alain Johannes Spark
New Collisions The Optimist
Jack Wehman
THE DAILY COUGAR Baseball — you know, America’s pastime before we invented the Superbowl — has three strikes before the batter’s out. And now it seems Hollywood has taken up the same idea when it comes to films. Movies used to be released and then (and this is a novel idea) not tampered with. Not many early directors thought, “Yeah, this is a good movie, but I’ll come back and make it even better when some cool new technology comes out.” Other than George Lucas, of course. Speaking of Lucas, why can’t he just leave the original “Star Wars” alone? He already did enough damage with his socalled special edition that came out in the ’90s, but it seems he didn’t ruin it quite enough for his liking. But what’s left that
Seriously, George, why did you think it was a good idea for this clown to be Darth Vader? Couldn’t you cast someone who can actually act? | Courtesy of Lucasfilms he could destroy, you ask? Simple: He could go back and redo everything — again — but this time he could do it in 3D. Yes, all six Star
Wars movies are going to be released in theaters in not one, not two, but all three JACK’S FACTS continues on page 9
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skipclassclaculator.com. While the website is a novel idea, it’s something that students may want to look harder at before basing their academic lives on it. There is an outlook to it that is similar to that of WebMD — a site that is taken seriously by people who should actually see a doctor before making their own diagnoses. The reality of the situation is that going to class is important,
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dimensions in a couple of years. The Mayans were right; 2012 is the year the world ends. But Star Wars isn’t the only movie franchise to which the three strikes rule applies. Apparently Sony Pictures thinks that SpiderMan wasn’t good enough on the first few tries — even though the first two are some of the best comic book movies ever (we won’t talk about the third one.) But no, now they’re rebooting the franchise with a brand-new cast and director, and guess what? They’re doing it in 3D too. The first “Spider-Man” came out in 2002; less than ten years later it’s getting remade. What’s next? Are we going to see Harry Potter with another cast next year? Not to be outdone, “King Kong” has been remade not once but twice — once in the ’70s and again in 2005. Peter Jackson may be good when he’s leading Hobbits around Middle Earth, but he definitely has another thing to learn when it comes to other movies. “King Kong” was too long and just overall not very good; maybe someone could do it again — but do it, you know, better. And Spider-Man isn’t the only series to get another fresh coat of paint. No one remembers the absolutely awful “Captain America” from 1990 — at least, I hope not — but he’s getting another movie that’ll be out next year. The Hulk was redone, too, and it took even less time than Spider-Man; Ang Lee completely messed it up the first time, so they got Edward Norton to make it right just five years later. These previous two movies were actually in need of another movie, if just to do the characters justice, but it shouldn’t take two (or three) tries to make a multi-million dollar idea come to fruition. More planning, more scripting, and more focused directing makes rebooting unnecessary. Case in point — anyone think Christopher Nolan wants to remake “Inception” or “The Dark Knight” any time soon? So when it comes to remakes, the jury’s verdict is clear. Don’t do it — and make sure the movie you’re currently making doesn’t completely suck.
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but there are situations that present themselves during the course
The motto for UH is “In Tempore” which is Latin for “In Time.” It’s almost as if the very foundation that the college stands on is telling students “don’t worry you’ll get to it in time.” of the semester that outweigh the need to go to class.
Part of going to college is learning how to prioritize. Figuring out what is important is a significant lesson to learn — one which is better left in the hands of the people that have to live with the decision. However, if students just want to have fun or get a second opinion, the website is a great place to go. Its questions are well thought out and the design of the website is enjoyable for students looking for time to kill before they have to make it to a class that they wish they could skip.
Because Chris can be a woman’s name, too. Though The Daily Cougar strives for accuracy and fairness in its reporting, mistakes happen. Please report any errors you see in the paper to the editorial staff. Corrections will run on Page 2 as needed to amend the record. To report a correction, e-mail editor@thedailycougar.com or call (713) 743-5362.
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Dynamics of Mexico City explored in art Danielle Upshaw
THE DAILY COUGAR Just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month and the celebration of Mexico’s recent bicentennial, a traveling exhibit by a Lebanese-Mexican artist opens today in the main gallery of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. The exhibit, Unreal Cities: Informal Architectural Zone by artist Emilio Said, is being sponsored by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, which asked the college to host the exhibit, as part of the bicentennial celebration of Mexican independence from Spain. Rafael Longoria, registered architect and professor, spoke about the importance of the exhibit for some students within the College of Architecture. “Interestingly, 53 percent of our students in the College of Architecture are Hispanic,� Longoria said.
Considering this fact, hosting an exhibit by an architect/artist from Mexico City “kind of works,� Longoria said. “It is always interesting to see the work that is being done in Mexico right now.� Said released a statement explaining the meanings behind his exhibit. “The diverse social dynamics that gather in the public field generate mechanic interactions to shape bonds between the city and those who transit in it,� Said said in his statement. “By this way, (the exhibit) is integrated in the urban as a point of common tendency of individual and collective acts, taking multiple readings that allow the audience to make estimative connections of their own experience in such context.� Said also elaborates on the immense detail in his artwork. “ T h e p i e c e s a re a f o r m a l
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that can come from a group of liquored-up revelers turning a good time into a disaster — as they’re known to do. Some of this may have to do with the fact that Houstonians were finally able to tailgate like the rest of the football world. Bud Adams, owner of the Tennessee Titans, the franchise formerly known as the Houston Oilers, strictly prohibited it during his tenure in the Lone Star State. Another reason may have to do with the team simply turning a blind eye in hopes of appeasing a football-starved public that was in a never-ending search of all things Texan. Either way, a good thing got too big and something had to be done. Texans’ Vice President for Ticketing and Event Services John Schriever told David Barron of the Chronicle that the team started monitoring parking lot activity during games last season and noticed the number of unticketed
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guests rise from 4,000-5,000 midway through last year to 8,000 by season’s end. The figures ballooned to 10,000 for the team’s preseason game against the Cowboys and the regular seasonopener against the Colts. Then came the Sept. 26 return engagement with the Cowboys, which saw an estimated 20,000 fans with no intentions of going into the stadium converge on Reliant Park. “We saw people walking onto the property with tents and coolers, and that hadn’t happened to such a degree,” Schriever told Barron. “We wanted to be responsible and take care of our season ticket holders and paying customers.” That they did, along with infuriating and alienating a different sub-group of their fan base. Now comes the tricky part — how do the Texans strike a balance and appease people from both sides? A start would be re-examining what at first glance appears to be an arbitrary limit of 2,000 nonticket-holding customers, all of whom have to pay $10 per person to enter the tailgating area — so long as they are lucky enough to know a season ticket holder and are early enough to scoop up a pass. Reliant Stadium holds 70,000-plus, so allowing in less than 3 percent of that figure for tailgating purposes only serves to pacify those season ticket holders who want to leave their tailgate setup intact and in trusted hands
while watching the game from the comforts of an air-conditioned stadium. It’s as if the Texans are saying, “We’ll let in your friends because you pay us so much year in and year out, but you better believe they have to pay, too.” That’s what the majority of fans opposed to this new policy want — a chance to pay to play. Increasing the limit to, say, 5,000 or even 10,000 would certainly make that many more people happy and, more importantly, feel included. Taking it a step further, increasing the cost to $15 per person would surely go a long way toward offsetting any costs incurred by having so many more fans just roaming the parking lots. That being said, I’m far from a math whiz and I’ve never seen the inside of the C.T. Bauer School of Business, so I’m not claiming to have a money-making cure-all for this issue. These are just starting points and they reflect what the people want — access and a sense of camaraderie. At the end of the day, those most affected by this change weren’t going down to Reliant on game days in hopes of sneaking into the stadium. They were going to be a part of something big, to cheer with their fellow fans in an outdoor setting that is unique to football. Now they feel like the players sometimes do — that NFL stands for “No Fun League.” sports@thedailycougar.com
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Sometimes what’s in your head isn’t as crazy as you think.
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