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The course schedule for the Spring 2011 semester is now available online for CLASS students in their myUH (Peoplesoft) accounts. Enrollment appointments for registration will begin in November. Students should check the area called “Enrollment Dates” in the myUH menu to find out when their specific time begins. Mandatory advising holds have been placed for CLASS seniors, as well as CLASS students with a cumulative UH GPA below a 2.0. The “Student Center” on myUH will inform students of any holds (financial or advising), and aid students in making an appointment with an advisor to ensure timely registration. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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Engineering professor Lawrence Schulze is sworn in by member of the US Navy at a ceremony on Oct. 14. Schulze is UH’s newest Naval Liasion Offi cer. | Courtesy of Cullen College of Engineering
Lawrence Schulze wanted to serve his country in order to honor those members of his family who served in two different world wars; he just went about it a different way. Schulze, a professor in the Cullen College of Engineering, was sworn in as UH’s Naval Liaison Officer by members of the US Navy. “A request was sent out to the UH community for anyone interested
in the Campus Liaison Officer post. I responded and made it through all of the hoops,” Schulze said. “Lt. Terry Turner, Nuclear Programs Officer, NRD Houston, guided me through the process.” His role as a lisason officer is to help the Navy recruit at UH and to help students who are interested in a naval career make an educated decision. “My duties are to bridge the academic environment and the Navy environment, and assist NAVAL continues on page 3
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Architect to deliver speech as part of Fall 2010 series Malcolm Holzman, a partner in Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, LLP, will speak at 3 p.m. today at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Holzman has completed commissions in 25 states, and completed more than 125 building projects over the course of his career. He has also won numerous awards for his body of work.
Students urged to get on bus, vote early
His firm, in its vision statement, aims to make the ordinary “extraordinary,” and to create “lively gathering spaces.”
Administration, SGA and group join forces to offer shuttle service to polls
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October Fest 2010 For those in the Halloween spirit, there will be plenty to do today! Come to the UC at 11:30 p.m. for free food, games and prizes. There will be a pumpkin toss for who would rather watch them fly than carve them. At 7 p.m. in the UC Houston Room, there will be a costume contest with an iPod Shuffle as the prize!
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Cleveland hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will be in town tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the House of Blues. Their new album “Uni5: The World’s Enemy” was released in May. Grab some tickets soon! Find more campus and local events or add your own at thedailycougar.com/calendar
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A coalition of organizations and UH administration will be providing shuttle services to and from an early voting location this week. ReEnergize the Vote has joined forces with the Student Government Association, UH’s Division of Student Affairs and the Center for Student Involvement to offer this free service to students. “We’ve done it the last several years, and it’s an effort to make sure students get the opportunity to exercise the right to vote,” Juanita Jackson, assistant to the vice president for student affairs, said. “This will be the fourth time that we have done it and it gets increasingly better each time.” Jackson also said that any student registered in Harris County can vote in any early voting location and encourages students to take advantage of the shuttle buses. Shuttles will be departing on a continuous loop between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m, starting today and ending Thursday, from the University Center. One bus will be in use SHUTTLES continues on page 3
Hector Garcia (right), who served as the attorney for Felix Longoria’s family, is seen with former President Lyndon B. Johnson in the early 1960s. | Courtesy of the Hector P. Garcia Archives at Texas A&M University
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Discrimination, then and now Documentary focuses on often overlooked event and results of civil rights struggle Diane Sanchez
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Decorated soldier Pvt. Felix Longoria Jr., fought and died during World War II against fascism overseas, only for his family to face segregation and white supremacy at home. UH and the Center for Mexican American Studies is presenting a preview screening of the documentary “The Longoria Affair” at 6 p.m. Wednesday in room 150 of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. The film is based on Longoria, a soldier who was killed in June 1945 and would eventually become the first Mexican American to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. After the war, while most people came together to welcome the soldiers home and
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mourn for the dead, Longoria was denied the right to lie in state in a small town in south Texas when his remains were returned in 1949. The preparation for his funeral is what caused him to become a national symbol of
discrimination. Longoria’s family was denied a wake at the only funeral parlor in his hometown of Three Rivers. The funeral parlor was a “whites only” establishment. “The whites wouldn’t like it,” is the reason Tom Kennedy, the owner of the funeral parlor, gave Longoria’s widow in denying her request to hold the wake in his parlor. “Its an incredible thing to believe that a fallen soldier’s family would be denied the use of this facility,” CMAS Assistant Director LONGORIA continues on page 3