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newsline Student reports sexual assault

Aid for students looks dire

A Moody Towers resident reported being assaulted Thursday morning while she slept.

Cuts continue to dominate campus conversations

According to a UH Department of Public Safety e-mail alert, the complainant told authorities that she was woken up around 4:55 a.m. when she was fondled by the suspect. The suspect then left the complainant’s room.

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The suspect is described as a dark male with a short beard, 5’10” to 6’0” tall, between the ages of 20 to 25 and approximately 180 to 201 pounds.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact UHDPS at (713) 743-3333.

The UHDPS website offers safety tips for protecting yourself at www.uh.edu/police/staying_safe.html.

THE DAILY COUGAR UH will lose state funding for multiple financial aid programs if bills proposed in the Texas House and Senate are passed, University administration said at a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday.

According to Vice President for Administration and Finance Carl Carlucci, the possible loss in state funding would mean students who currently benefit from these

financial aid programs will continue to receive support, but no new students will be eligible.

Essentially, programs would be eliminated after three years.

These include the TEXAS Grant, Top 10% scholarship, B-On-Time loan and Texas College Work-Study programs.

UH President Renu Khator said cutting financial aid programs prevents students from graduating and ultimately hurts the Texas economy.

The cuts proposed in House Bill 1 would cause the UH main campus to lose $65 million; the entire system would lose $100 million in state funds.

Khator called the state deficit, which is

estimated to be between $15 and $30 billion, “unprecedented.”

Vice Chancellor and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost John Antel said the budgets proposed by the Texas House and Senate would slow down the University on its course to become an internationally recognized research institute.

The University is not alone in its fight for funding, Antel said. UH has the support of Houston-area delegates and the UH Board of Regents, which understands the balance between student success and research.

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BREAKING NEWS

Jazz takes over the opera house

Aggravated abduction reported by student

The University of Houston will be hosting the Moores School Jazz Festival today and Saturday at the Moores Opera House.

The annual festival features a number of middle school and high school jazz ensembles from around the Houston area.

Bands will perform in front of a panel of judges both days, followed by a performance from renowned jazz musicians and bands at 7:30 p.m.

The event is open to the public. Tickets for tonight’s performance are $10, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets for the Saturday’s performance are $15, $10 for students and seniors.

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EVENTS Moores Jazz Festival The Moores School of Music is sponsoring the Moores Jazz Texas Music Festival Jazz Project.

The event will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $15, $10 for seniors and students.

Steve Miller Band The classic rock band will be playing at the House of Blues. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., with the show beginning at 8:30 p.m. General admission is $49.50, and balcony seating ranges from $95 to $125.

FOR MORE EVENTS, CHECK OUT thedailycougar.com/calendar

Green students get ‘ticketed’

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ougars across campus were getting caught green handed in the latest RecycleMania event Tuesday and Wednesday.

Green UH was handing out coupons to students they saw recycling on campus.

Students were then told to enter the coupon on the RecycleMania website for a chance to win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card.

“Recycling is a growing practice on our campus and we can continue seeing people participate in the green effort. Caught Green Handed allows us to recognize all those that have made recycling a part of their daily lives,” said Maria Honey, university services marketing manager.

Students can learn more about RecycleMania and find out about future events at www.uh.edu/recyclemania. — Taylor McGilvray/The Daily Cougar

The UH Department of Public Safety reported the abduction of a student at gunpoint at approximately 4:30 p.m.

Thursday afternoon.

According to the community alert released Thursday evening, the incident occurred on Cullen Boulevard between Holman Street and UH Entrance 14, near Science and Research Building 1, while the student was walking southbound.

The complainant stated that a vehicle pulled up next to her and the suspect pointed a black, semi-automatic pistol at her and ordered her into the vehicle.

The suspect drove around for about an hour before taking the complainant’s cash and dropping her off near Alabama Street and the Southwest Freeway. The complainant was not injured.

The suspect is described as a black male, between the ages of 25-26, approximately 130 to 140 pounds, wearing a white short sleeve shirt with crosses, black and gray pajama pants, black slippers and black socks and a black ball cap. He stands approximately 6-feet tall and has a slim build.

According to the report, the suspect was driving a light grey four-door sedan, possibly a Cadillac, with paper license plates.

UHDPS is asking members of the UH community with any information about this incident to please call the department at (713) 743-3333. news@thedailycougar.com

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Four CEOs of energy companies from around the country addressed an audience on shale gas, a developing energy that is expected to have an increased production within the next 15 years. | Newton Liu/The Daily Cougar

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THE DAILY COUGAR A panel of distinguished leaders expounded on the latest energy discovery that could possibly replace or reduce the need for oil in the future.

The Distinguished Leaders Series, hosted by the C.T. Bauer College of Business, began Tuesday inside the new Stubblefield Auditorium in Cemo Hall.

The event had the participation of Davis Thames, president of Cheniere Marketing LLC; Richard Stoneburner, president and CEO of Petrohawk Energy Corp.; Bruce Northcutt, president and CEO of Copano Energy LLC; and Dat Tran, associate general counsel of Sequent Energy Management.

The participants held a panel discussion on the growth of gas shale discoveries.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US Energy Information Administration reported shale gas production at 10 percent in 2008. The EIA expects

production to increase to 26 percent by 2035.

This growth in production is already seen in the size of shale gas companies. Petrohawk, for example, started as a small company with only 20 employees in 2003; today it employs more than 600 people.

“We started with about $60 million in equity capital and right now our enterprise value is about $8.5 billion,” Stoneburner said. “It’s really a phenomenal growth story.”

Shale gas has been found in many parts of the country, including Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and the Rocky Mountains.

Copano Energy, which started in 1992, began with only 23 miles of pipes.

Today it has grown to 6,700 miles.

“The producers weren’t getting the best deal from the pipelines,” Northcutt said. “So from that, we had this attitude that the producers are our customers, and we are doing everything we can to get it right with them and get their gas to the market.”

According to Thames, shale gas was

discovered around 40 years ago, but there was no production because of the lack of technology.

“To me this is a story of a completely transformational technological change in the activity of drilling and producing wells,” Thames said.

When asked about vehicles in the US switching from consumer oil to natural gas, Northcutt said that a steady increase in oil prices will probably make the change — however, the whole industry would have to invest in that change.

“Our general infrastructure has been suited for gasoline and not natural gas,” Northcutt said. “I think it’s going to take the infrastructure’s investment in order to make the change, but the day is coming.”

The next Distinguished Leaders Series is scheduled for March 24 and will feature David McClanahan, president and CEO of CenterPoint Energy.

Joseph Pratt, professor of business and history moderated the event. news@thedailycougar.com

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THE DAILY COUGAR UH’s Forensic Society took first place in a debate competition against the US Air Force Academy.

In addition to winning the competition, the UHFS received 27 individual awards for placement in various events during the competition last week in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Senior captain Chris Hunter, a human development and family studies major, won first place in the poetry and program of oral interpretation categories.

Ellen Goodacre, a freshman journalism and creative writing major, took first place in the novice parliamentary debate category.

The UHFS has won 25 national championships since the organization was revived in 2002 after a fouryear absence.

“In my opinion,” Hunter said, “I think we have the best team in the

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University navigate through difficult budgetary times, Antel said.

“We need to continue our momentum beyond the Carnegie vision of Tier One. It’s a milestone, not the end of the journey,” Antel said.

Carlucci said the administration would not begin the tuition and fee discussion until April, when the Texas Legislature is expected to make a decision about how much funding higher education institutions will receive.

UH administrators are producing

country.”

Michael Fain, director of forensics, attributes the team’s success to not putting emphasis on winning awards, and also to his laid back style.

“I will absolutely care not more than they care,” Fain said. “If I care, and I push them, and the students are already pushing themselves and you’re not successful, then two people are upset,” Fain said. “I don’t get upset.”

Fain instead focuses on using the team’s acquired skills to reach out to the community.

When not competing, the organization holds contests for elementary schools, volunteers at homeless shelters and performs improvisational theater for children at local orphanages.

“We spread our skills out to the community rather than keep what we know to ourselves,” Hunter said. “The most precious thing you can give is your time.”

The competition events included informative speaking, extemporaneous speaking, a speech prepared on political issues and team and individual debates.

“The University of Houston team has established such a strong reputation around the country,” Fain said.

Political science sophomore Maria Alfaro, who won second place in the novice prose portion of the event, was proud to represent UH. “It was a huge blessing and an honor to have been able to attend such a prestigious tournament,” Alfaro said. “I was overwhelmed about the caliber of the schools that were present, and I felt privileged to represent UH.” The organization has a membership of 283, 40 of whom compete in speech and debate competitions.

Membership is open to anyone regardless of experience. news@thedailycougar.com

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a budget for which they will seek board approval of in August.

To date, UH has reduced its biennial budget by $15 million; the UH system has been cut by $21.4 million.

UH’s operating budget was 38 percent state funded in 2001; state funding for the University dropped to 26 percent for the current biennium.

Antel predicts the UH system will see its state funding drop below ten percent in the next decade.

“We need to redesign ourselves to be less of a state-supported institution,” Antel said. news@thedailycougar.com

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CONSTRUCTION AND STUDENTS CROSS PATHS by Albert Sosa

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Jack Wehman Newton Liu, Christopher Losee Jose Aguilar, Cristi Guerra John Brannen, Joshua Siegel Mary Baak Andrew Taylor

STAFF EDITORIAL

Space shuttle launch marks the end of an era

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S space shuttle Discovery made its final departure to the International Space Station on Thursday.

Onboard is Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe, Navy Capt. Stephen Bowen, Benjamin Drew Jr., Dr. Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott, all of whom are experienced space fliers.

According to the Associate Press, this is Discovery’s 39th launch and NASA’s 133rd mission overall. Upon its return, it will be retired and placed in a museum, making it only a memory for past and future generations.

After 30 years, the shuttles will be retired this summer, which marks the end of an era. It’s sad to see such an important part of American history come to an end.

NASA has provided America with a strong sense of nationalism since the first successful Apollo mission in 1969. Since then, the space programs have been an important part of American culture; regardless of the amount of social and economic discourse in the American public, the launch of a space shuttle has provided citizens with a sense of togetherness and pride in the United States.

For members of the younger generation, seeing a program come to an end — that which has always been something big, huge and exciting throughout our childhood — will always be upsetting.

Of course, NASA is an even bigger part of the lives of the Baby Boomers, because they’ve had the opportunity to watch the rise and fall of such a rich part of American history.

According to NASA, space shuttle Discovery has about 143 million miles to its name since her maiden voyage in 1984. Prior to Thursday’s launch, it has spent almost a year in orbit and has orbited Earth more than 5,600 times. There have been 38 previous flights and 12 International Space Station dockings, making it most launched spacecraft in history.

The shuttle is expected to be in space for a total of 11 days and is scheduled to return March 7.

E D I TO R I A L P O L I C I E S STAFF EDITORIAL The Staff Editorial reflects the opinions of The Daily Cougar Editorial Board (the members of which are listed above the editorial). All other opinions, commentaries and cartoons reflect only the opinion of the author. Opinions expressed in The Daily Cougar do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Houston or the students as a whole.

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Parenting styles teach lasting lesson

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ast month, the Wall Street Journal for not reaching the top of their class, parents for their children’s disciplined published an article promoting Asian parents teach their children that upbringing and a pointed emphasis on Amy Chua’s memoir, “Battle Hymn success is more than intelligence: it also their education. of the Tiger Mother.” takes much discipline and practice.

For these reasons, the differences Since then, the media, While the majority of readers of the between Eastern and Western parenting public intellectuals, original Wall Street article agree with styles are too dichotomous. There are countless bloggers and Chua, many of the comments verge helicopter parents in both traditions, even one of Chua’s on blatant racism against immigrant as well as parents who take a more daughters have voiced parenting styles and ethnocentrism. laidback approach.

Erica their opinions on this One reader states, “This is exactly the As a daughter of a Taiwanese mother Fletcher controversial article reason why Chinese parenting style will born in the year of the Dragon and the and the overwhelming response it has produce excellent...robots, not people, daughter of an American father born in received. who can think freely, dream freely, be Missouri, I feel that both worlds have The article “Why Chinese Mothers free-spirited and found Google, Faceblurred. are Superior,” a compilation of the most book, invent thousands of new things My mom taught me how to read as a titillating components of her book, and improve lives of others.” child and allowed me to explore a world painted Chua, a law professor at Yale, as At worst, Asian parents are viewed as of knowledge on my own. an overbearing micromanager of her Yes, I did children’s successful lives as students “Yes, I did engage in stereotypically Asian activities. I played the engage in and musicians. stereotypiviolin, practiced every day, and performed in the Houston Youth After a plethora of heated comcally Asian Symphony for several years.” ments and rejoinders, Chua later activities. I defended herself by stating that played the the Wall Street Journal only “strung mechanical producers of children who violin, practiced every day and pertogether” the most provocative compoare only taught unquestioning obediformed in the Houston Youth Symphony nents of her book to attract readers and ence and rote memorization. At best, for several years. I was not allowed to that she had no control over the title of Asian parents are seen as savvy providgo to sleepovers or date in high school. the article. ers, who understand the determination I had a high GPA. However, it was my Chua claims that her own memoir, it takes to become financially stable and father who was the disciplinarian, who “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” respected in a society. encouraged my musical development has much more of a narrative arc. She While wading through these arguand who set curfew times. discusses her experiences raising her ments, one point that struck me is Still, in college, my parents let me two girls in a traditional Eastern way, an increasing awe, even fear, of Asian choose my classes and pick my own fighting cultural battles in a Western dominance in the United States. In light major. I was not forced to become a society and eventually gaining a more of China’s economic growth, perhaps doctor or scientist, and my parents tempered perspective of both styles of the passionate Western defense of givhave never asked me about my grades motherhood after her thirteen-year-old ing children the freedom to make their or pushed me to study harder. For this daughter’s rebellion. However, this was own choices regarding academic and I am grateful. I am grateful that my not what caught the media’s attention. extracurricular activities is less about parents gave me the tools that I needed The debate centered on the juxtapofostering independence, and more to do well in school and in life, but did sition of more strict Eastern parenting about challenging Eastern increased not dictate a path to do so. styles with so-called lenient Western prevalence as an economic powerhouse.

This is ultimately the point Chua parenting styles.

In this vein, the undertone of tried to make. She recognized the While Western parents focus too immigrant suspicion and distrust has individuality of her daughters, and much on promoting their child’s been apparent in the debate. What has eventually learned to shape her self-esteem, Chua claims that Asian been forgotten in this debate is that the parenting style around their different parents value creating hardworking, United States has always been a meltpersonalities. achievement-oriented students. ing pot of immigrants, and that Irish By limiting their social time, drilling and German immigrants in the 1800s Erica Fletcher is an anthropology senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com. schoolwork and shaming their children were just as infamous as modern Asian

Friday, February 25, 2011

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UH headed north for four-game tournament The No. 23-ranked Cougars will make their way to Waco today for the QTI Powers Invitational hosted by Baylor.

UH (9-2) will face off against Central Arkansas at 3 p.m. today.

The Bears are 1-8 on the season.

At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, the Cougars will take the field against Louisiana-Monroe (7-4). The two teams will play again at 1 p.m.

Sunday.

To finish off the tournament, UH will battle the undefeated Baylor Bears (11-0).

— Cougar Sports Services

SWIMMING & DIVING

UH in fourth place at C-USA meet; two cougars capture medals A score of 344.25 was all senior Lacey Truelove needed to become the Conference USA champion in the 3-meter dive of Thursday’s portion of the C-USA Championship at CRWC Natatorium.

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The Cougars will look to extend their four-game winning streak this weekend as they welcome Ole Miss to Cougar Field for a three-game series.

The Rebels come to town with a perfect 5-0 record and an offensive lineup and pitching staff that has been just as solid as the Cougars’ lineup with 34 runs and a 2.93 ERA. Ole Miss went 39-24 (16-14 SEC) last season.

“Things will amp up a little bit this weekend,” head coach Todd Whitting said.

“The competition level will definitely pick

up and it’s something the team is really excited about.”

The last time UH (4-0) faced Ole Miss was in 1993 when the Rebels beat the Cougars 6-2. Coincidentally, 1993 was the last time the baseball team started the season with four wins in a row.

As young as the season is, the team has reasons to be optimistic. The pitching staff boasts a 2.25 ERA, the offense has outscored their opponents by a margin of 40-12 and they have committed only three errors.

“Timely hitting has been outstanding,” Whitting said. “One through nine in our order is getting it done.

“The main thing that I’m really pleased with is the energy level. The effort, the energy, the attitude. If you have the

combination of those three things, you’re going to win a lot of games.”

Whitting credited Landon Appling for not only getting on base, but for the grit he has shown.

“It’s huge to have that kind of spark at the top of the lineup,” Whitting said.

“He’s been a lead-off hitter extraordinaire to this point. The thing that people don’t notice is that he’s had a couple of hustle plays too. He does things that don’t show up in the box score and in the stats, but it really gets the team energized and going.”

The series opener is at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Game two will be Saturday at 7 p.m. and the series finale is Sunday at 1 p.m. sports@thedailycougar.com

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Cougars stretch streak to 14 Win marks school record, Scott and Landry help UH silence Thundering Herd Cougar Sports Services

Truelove was the first Cougar to win an individual event.

“That’s a huge boost for her confidence, even though it was a little close for comfort,” head diving coach Jane Figueiredo said in a release.

The meet will resume today and wrap up Saturday. The Cougars are in fourth place with 192 total points. No. 23 SMU leads the field with 239 points. Rice is in second with 230.

ECU is in third with 196.5 points.

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Cougars place fourth at Rice tournament Out of 15 teams, the Cougars earned a fourth-place finish with a team score of 865 at the Rice Intercollegiate on Tuesday. After being in sixth after the first day of the tournament, the Cougars battled back on day two with assistance from sophomore Jordan Rumora, who tied for 11th place individually.

The Cougars losing a lead is a rarity, and if teams want any chance of winning they have to strike early.

Marshall led the game for 2 minutes and 47 seconds in the first half before UH proceeded to a 72-54 victory at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W. Va. The Cougars (23-4, 14-0 Conference USA) nursed a 10-point lead at halftime, but the closest Marshall would get again was within six at the 16:36 mark in the second half. UH answered with a 7-0 run to take a 47-34 lead, putting away the Herd for good.

Brittney Scott led all scorers with 24 points, shooting 6-of-10 from beyond

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away from having a perfect 16-0 record in C-USA. They will defend the streak against Rice at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tudor Fieldhouse. sports@thedailycougar.com

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His funeral service is today at 1 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Frisco.

the 3-point line.

Porsche Landry added 15 points and six assists to pace the Cougars. With 12 points and 10 rebounds, Courtney Taylor had her 18th double-double of the season and 58th of her career.

The Cougars are now just two games

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New Mexico State won the tournament with a score of 853. The Cougars next competition is March 7-8, the Louisiana Classics in Lafayette, La.

He was an All-Conference USA selection in 1996 and 1997. As a senior he was selected as a first-team All-American. He was drafted by the New York Giants, but played three seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.

Jasmine Johnson and the Cougars picked up the pace offensively in the second half and did not allow Marshall to make it close. UH was able to capitalize on Marshall’s mishaps by scoring 19 points off of turnovers. Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar

Alandise Harris and the Cougars will need an improved effort against UAB if they want to break their three-game losing streak. | Courtesy of Jeff Taylor/Minerillustrated.com

The path gets no easier for the Cougars this time of year.

After stumbling on a difficult road trip this past week, the Cougars come home to take on UAB at 5 p.m. Saturday at Hofheinz Pavilion.

The Cougars (12-14, 4-9 Conference USA) will have to handle a UAB team that is tied at the top of the conference with Memphis and Southern Miss.

Senior forward Maurice McNeil said the Cougars’ ability to hang in with Memphis could benefit them against the Blazers.

“You definitely learn from it,” McNeil said. “We know we can compete with the top teams in the conference. We just need to calm down and get this win at home.”

Zamal Nixon said despite the fact that the Cougars lost both games on the road trip, he

still sees promise.

“Even though we lost both games, I think we’re taking a lot of the proper steps towards the direction we need to go,” Nixon said.

“We’re playing decent but not well enough to win.”

UAB (19-7, 9-4 C-USA), has gone 7-3 in its last 10 C-USA games. The blazers are coming off a 63-58 victory against UCF. Saturday’s matchup against the Cougars will have added significance since the Blazers still have a chance to finish atop the standings.

“We’re not going to finish as high as we thought we could,” head coach James Dickey said. “That’s disappointing but there’s nothing we can do about that. What we can do is control how much better we can get in practice and how we prepare for the next game.

That’s the approach we’re going to take.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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or most students, mid-term exams are the source of stress and a significant amount of lost sleep. Of course, you’ve got to allow yourself brain breaks, or you’ll end up grumpy with a mind that’s only functioning at about 50 percent. As often as time allows, take a breather to keep your stress levels as low as they can be. Here are ten songs that will allow you to make it through endless nights of reading, highlighting, annotating and flashcard-making. — Mary Baak

With mid-terms coming up, students will need all the cramming skills and coffee they can get to make a good grade. One study tip: go to a public place, like a library or a computer lab, to get away from the distractions at home. | Courtesy photos.com

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A simple guide to the cramming life Mary Baak

THE DAILY COUGAR As mid-term exams are quickly approaching, it’s important to make sure that you’re prepared enough to make the A. Of course, mid-terms come after you can get your money back, so you don’t have much of a choice outside of working hard to earn good marks on a test that’s worth 40 percent of your grade.

For some students, this causes little reason to worry because they’ve been in class every day,

taking detailed notes and reading through all the required material on time, every time.

On the other end of that are the students who have fallen behind and let their schoolwork take the back seat. For these students, this means an all-night cramming session fueled by Red Bull, multiple cups of coffee and frantically searching through poorly-taken notes in an effort to learn about six weeks of information in 12 hours.

The first order of business lies in trying to decipher what little notes you may have. If you’re one

to doodle, your notebooks might look more like a sketchpad than a collection of notes. You might try hard to take good notes, but instead, you’re left with seven pages of drawings of Spider-Man — a superhero who has little to do with Intro to Nutrition, but does manage to swing from page to page.

Connect the dots Now it’s a night or two before the test — and you’ve got to decipher your notes somehow. The

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Survival guide: How to identify, avoid hipsters Daniel Renfrow

THE DAILY COUGAR Hipsters. They are part of a subculture that defies definition. They make up the clergy of the church of ironic self-expression — and they tend to congregate on college campuses. Here are a few tips on how to spot a hipster, and what to do if you offend one with your mainstream interests.

The most obvious indication of whether or not someone is a hipster is their choice of clothing.

The favorite accessory of a hipster is irony. Hipsters try to work irony into every outfit they wear. A hipster will display his or her sense of irony through an ironic tee, a ’20s style hat worn with a pair of leggings from the ’80s and a dress from the ’70s with a pair of moccasins, a bowler hat worn with a pair of thick rimmed glasses from the ’50s and a Metallica shirt under a cardigan.

Hipsters are the schizophrenics of fashion. It is as if hipsters throw their clothes all over the floor of

their closets every morning and then get dressed in the dark. Their choice of clothing indicates a lack of originality. Hipsters are fashions kleptos—they like to collect items from other decades and pass them off as their own. This is where the true irony lies.

Another way to spot a hipster is their taste in music. Hipsters enjoy music that is so obscure that sometimes they have never even heard of the band. The klepto aspect of hipster culture kicks in here too.

Hipster bands like incorporating multiple genres into their music.

Hipsters like bluegrass and blues, even though they grew up in the suburbs and their parents are orthodontists. This is perhaps one of the most perplexing and irritating aspects of hipster culture.

They are the Holden Caufields of music, decrying the musical tastes of others and calling them phonies — when they are the true phonies.

Hipsters can also be spotted through their attitude. Hipsters come across as having a holierthan-thou attitude. They try to

hide this through a false sense of modesty, but their true feelings are revealed as soon as someone mentions Linkin Park, Microsoft, Starbucks, or American Eagle and their lips start to curl.

If you see a hipster start to curl their lips at you, there are two things you can do to protect yourself. You can attempt fleeing from the hipster, but they will likely catch up to you on their fixed-gear bike or unicycle and force you to listen to their wiki-version of nihilism. Never run from a hipster.

Your best option is to start saying obscure things to the hipster.

This will distract the hipster and allow you to slip out quietly.

Obscure compound sentences are the best way to go.

These sentences don’t have to be truthful. Improvise. You could say something like, “I heard that Billie Holiday once patched a hole on a submarine with a bowler, but that was before she became an existentialist and started knitting tea cozies for impoverished poor children in her wigwam in the

pampas. Or, at least that’s what I heard from my Marxist drug dealer who grew up in the ’60s and now lives under a bridge with his mandolin and loom.”

Sentences like this will distract a hipster and they will immediately try to figure out how they can incorporate this new obscure information into the lyrics of a song, onto a shirt, or a neck tattoo.

You can now slowly slip out of the room.

You may be experiencing a panic attack as you are reading this.

If you are struggling with the idea that you may be a hipster, it stands to reason that you are not one. One of the pillars of hipsterism is the utter denial that one is a hipster.

You are safe. A true hipster would never admit, or even suspect, that he or she is a hipster.

Self-professed hipsters are actually part of an entirely different group. They are called try-hards — you definitely do not want to be one of those. arts@thedailycougar.com

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trick is to look for some resemblance between your doodles and lecture material. If you drew something closely related to lecture material — or better yet, if you stopped mid-doodle to write something down — that means the professor spent enough time on it during class time to catch your attention. In this instance, there’s a good chance it will be on the test, so it would be beneficial to read further about that subject.

For the students whose notebooks look more like flipbook animations, it would also be a good idea to find a classmate that’s willing to share their notes with those that are less focused.

The art of the flirt The need to borrow someone’s notes can be all about the art of the flirt; for some, this concept might be easier than others.

The trick is in establishing communication with the attractive classmate that sits next to you early in the semester so that when the test comes up, it won’t be so awkward to propose a study date or ask for the notes.

If you bat your eyelashes and smile enough, getting the notes and scheduling a time to study together won’t be difficult at all.

If you play your cards right, you have the potential to gain reliable notes and a companion for the rest of the semester.

Some might think doing this makes you a bad person. Even if it does, you’re just a bad person who knows what’s going to be on the midterm — it evens out.

How to spot the know-it-all As a general rule, the closer a person sits to the professor, the better his or her notes are. However, don’t be fooled by the person who sits directly next to the podium and asks 20 questions each time class meets.

More often than not, this person’s notes will be as confusing to you as the material is to him or her.

Another trick is to look for the student who has a book that’s been used. If you can see breaks in the spine or highlight marks and annotations, you’re likely able to trust this person’s notes. Look for laptops too, because a simple e-mail can solve your note-taking (or lack thereof) woes.

Now, once you’ve collected notes from another student (and hopefully made a study date in the process) it’s time to get busy. Making flashcards is a quick and easy way to learn material before the test. It’s also important to know the key terms — you can almost never go wrong if you know at least the key terms. Even if you’ve waited until the very last minute to study (as many of us so often do), you’ll thank yourself for staying up all night when you get your exam scores back with a grade that is better than expected. arts@thedailycougar.com

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