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KPFT brings world music concert to Houston KPFT Houston is sponsoring a world music concert from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. The concert will feature four brass bands: the Texas Brass Band, Mariachi Imperial, the Rice Brass Ensemble and the Free Radicals. Members of each group will come together for the grand finale. Admission to the concert is free and the Miller Theatre Advisory Board invites people to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets. Reserved covered seating is also available through www.kpft.org. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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Officials finalize KTRU sale Rice students take legal action against administrators’ decision Ashley Evans
THE DAILY COUGAR The Rice administration has finalized agreements to sell the frequency of KTRU, Rice’s student run radio station, to UH. As a result, KTRU’s student staff has retained the legal counsel of the Washington D.C.-based Paul Hastings Law Firm that handles a multitude of issues, some of which include mergers and acquisitions as well as telecommunication laws. “The lawyers at Paul Hastings have
taken on our case with a great deal of sympathy for our predicament,” KTRU station manager Joey Yang said. “I think that with their experience and knowledge they are well suited to handle the case.” The case will be brought to the Federal Communications Commission for review as soon as the administration petitions for a transfer of the license. When the petition is filed with the FCC, there will be a 30-day window for public input, then the FCC will decide whether a transfer of the license is in the best interest of the public and the community. Yang and 5,000 other petitioners support the decision to file a petition denying the transfer. Despite the outcome of the
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proceedings, KTRU will still be operational as an online radio station, but Yang said that the loss of their position on the FM dial will be a “huge blow,” and would take away some of the legitimacy of working at the radio station and hinder the station’s outreach opportunities within the community. Many community members are shocked that the UH and Rice administrations would go forward with the deal, considering the amount of opposition that has already been expressed throughout the Houston community. “Student broadcasting is non-commercial radio. It’s something that’s supposed KTRU continues on page 6
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Students from the UH Moores Opera Center will perform a 21st-century production of the 1866 Parisian opera “La Vie Parisienne” tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the UH Moores Opera House. Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “follows the exploits of tourists caught up in an elaborate hoax in the ‘city of love,’ regardless of any trickery, passions flow — as does wine — and everyone experiences a slice of Parisian life,” Moores Opera Center Director Buck Ross said in a news release.
Director warns students to be aware of online safety precautions
The show will run at UH through Monday. Tickets are $10 for students and seniors and $15 for everyone else.
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ON CAMPUS IT Training on UNIX A free class for students and faculty introducing UNIX will be held in the Social Work Building in room 110-L. You must register at www.uh.edu/ittraining beforehand. The class will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. La Vie Parisienne (The Parisian Life) The Moores School of Music will be presenting a stage performance by Jacques Offenbach at 7:30 p.m. at the Moores Opera Center. The opera will portray the contemporary Parisian life. Find more campus and local events or add your own at thedailycougar.com/calendar
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he Chi Omega sorority held a Make-a-Wish Foundation charity event. The foundation focuses on helping children with life-threatening conditions and allowing people or groups to help support their cause. For more information on the organization or how to donate visit http://www. wish.org/help. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
In honor of National Cyber Security Awareness month, UH and UIT are working on-campus and system wide to promote safe computing practices. UIT has launched several initiatives to educate faculty, staff and students about the many threats that are posed in the everyday use of the Internet. With a growing dependence on information technology, the threat to that information looms. Interim executive director for UIT Security and UH’s chief information security office Mary Dickerson said she feels the biggest risks students take are not properly securing computers and posting personal information online. “We need to make sure that our computer anti-virus software is up to date and that we are not posting a lot of information on public websites,” Dickerson said. “We just need to be more aware of the things we are doing to properly protect ourselves.” All month long, UIT representatives have been meeting with various groups on campus and carrying out presentations that stress the importance of cyber safety, including the Cyber Security Video Contest that will be launched later this month. “Students can create videos that they can enter into the local contest that we are having here on campus, and then the winner here will be entered into the national contest,” Dickerson said. UIT also sponsored a tech conference, which included several different sessions on social networking safety and Facebook settings, cyber safety at home and work and ways to download music safely. Many of these resources have been made available on the UIT Security website. Other programs being launched soon are the computer safety training for students and TECHNOLOGY continues on page 6