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Student organizations and nonprofits visit volunteer fair Tuesday UH’s Metropolitan Volunteer Program is hosting the Revolution of Heroes Volunteer Fair from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday at the outdoor arbor in the University Center.

The fair provides an opportunity to meet non-profit and student organizations and learn about the various volunteer service initiatives available.

“MVP has the opportunity to reach out to the community to place our students in contact with community service agencies,” MVP director Daray Olaleye said in a press release.

For additional information, contact Daray Olaleye at 713-7435200 or email MVPDirector@uh.edu.

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Business students practice leadership skills with employers The C.T. Bauer College of Business is hosting the Leadership & Ethics Week until Thursdayto show students how to implement the practical skills learned in the classroom and apply them to the corporate world.

Gender roles challenged Visiting performer inspires discussion about traditional ideas of sexuality Taylor McGilvray

THE DAILY COUGAR Through poetry, comedy and music, a New Yorker performer used her story of discovering her male persona, Dred, as a way to educate her audience about sexuality and gender roles while also entertaining them.

Traditional ideas of gender and sexuality were discussed and challenged in “I Am the One I Always Wanted to Marry,” a one-woman show performed by Haitian American performer Mildred Gerestant Thursday in Dudley Recital Hall.

“When I first saw Mildred/Dred perform a couple of months ago, I absolutely loved the way in which she/he disrupts the binaries of sex and gender and questions the taken-for-granted ideals of masculinity and femininity through her performance,” said Sima Shakhsari, a

Inspired by performer Mildred Gerestant’s poetry, comedy and music, students discussed traditional ideas of gender and sexuality. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar postdoctoral fellow of women’s, gender and sexuality studies.

Gerestant recently moved to Houston from New York, and has been helping pave the way for drag performers since

“Leadership & Ethics Week has been around for more than ten years now, and it’s always a hit with students and employers,” said Jamie Belinne, Assistant Dean at Rockwell Career Center. “It’s a great way not only to develop leadership skills but also to network with employers and practice professionals skills students will need for success in business.”

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“I thought her performance would be a perfect way to make theories of gender MILDRED continues on page 3

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For more information please visit http://www.bauer.uh.edu/ leadership/Leadership-Ethics-Week.php.

Guest speaker pinpoints differences in countries, poverty and cancer

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Harding was formally inaugurated Friday night in the UC Houston Room. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar

For the first time, UH joined in the Health Equity Week of Action, which focuses on health disparities among minorities in the United States.

Thursday’s event at the Honors College Commons was sponsored by the American Medical Students Association, which holds the Health Equity Week of Action in Harvard and Stanford.

The event hosted guest speaker Lovell Jones, the director of the Center for Research on Minority Health in the Department of Health Disparities Research at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

“The mortality rate for an African-American woman with breast cancer is four times higher than a white woman’s,” Jones said. “People who have disposable income have more access to medical technology than those without disposable income.

“One-third of Houston residents do not have health care. One-fourth of Texans do not have health insurance.

That’s two and a half times the national average,” Jones said.

According to a handout given at the event put together by the makers of a documentary on health care disparities, “Unnatural Causes: Is Equality Making Us Sick,” Sweden has a child poverty rate of four percent, while the rate for the US is 22 percent.

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and sexuality tangible for students and the community at large and decided to take advantage of the fact that this wonderful artist lives in Houston,” Shakhasari said.

The show challenged the audience to think beyond socially constructed gender roles and question what it means to be male or female, regardless of how society labels people from their biological sex.

“Her performance is more than a drag show,” Shakhsari said. “As an educator, she makes her audience think about the meanings of manhood and womanhood and the racial connotations of these categories.

By creating the social norm of what makes a person male or female, society labels people who don’t fit into those norms as “unnatural” or “abnormal.” This is why it is important to have performers like Gerestant discuss these topics in their works, Shakhsari said.

Gerestant’s performance was brought to the University by the joint effort of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Women’s Resource Center, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the LGBT Resource Center. news@thedailycougar.com

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Americans spend around $2 trillion a year in doctor visits, an amount more than twice of the average developed country, according to the handout.

Unequal income distribution is currently at its highest since the 1920s.

Life expectancy in the United States is 29th in the world, followed by infant mortality at 30th place. Middle class people are twice as likely to die a premature death compared to upper class people. Low-income citizens are four times as likely to die prematurely.

According to Jones, America has many health issues because health care is not a national priority.

“Your generation will have a shorter lifespan than your parents’ generation and it could continue to get shorter,” Jones said. “Infant mortality hasn’t changed in the past 100 years. In Texas, the number one risk group for premenopausal breast cancer is African American women. The second group is Hispanic women, who are getting breast cancer at younger ages.”

Jones gave his opinions on fixing the health issues in the US. “We have tended to look for other people to make a change,” Jones said.

“No one center or one institution or profession will solve the problems we face. Do one brave thing today, then run because someone’s going to be after you.” news@thedailycougar.com

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Budget amendment seeks fake equality

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he Texas Legislature is in full swing now, and the budget cuts are coming together.

Although lawmakers are forced to make tough choices, some of the decisions being made are unfair.

Last Friday House members passed an amendment to the budget offered by Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Nacogdoches, who is a prominent Conservative activist.

The amendment states that universities “shall use an amount of appropriated funds to support a family and traditional values center for students of the institution that is not less than any amount of appropriated funds used by the institution to support a gender and sexuality center.”

Basically, because UH has a GLBT center, it will now have to fund a center for “traditional family values” with the same amount of money provided to the GLBT center. And while that sounds all right in theory, it’s irresponsible of the Legislature to impel universities to spend money in a specific way — especially with the amount of cuts public schools in Texas are about to endure.

It’s a policy that’s fair in words only. The reason the GLBT center exists in the first place is to provide minority students with a voice on campus. The majority already has a voice, because it simply is the majority. Requiring equal funding for a majority voice center is somewhat ridiculous, because the University will most likely have to lower funding for both centers to appease lawmakers.

However, while some budget decisions aren’t being debated enough, some of the extreme measures proposed are being vetoed. The Windham School District, which provides higher education opportunities to prisoners, did not have its funding stripped. Instead, the district will only receive a $1.3 million cut in funds.

Two motions to introduce amendments, one which would have cut all of Windham’s funding and another that would have taken nearly half, were tabled.

The budget bill is now in the hands of the state Senate, as the House passed its draft of the bill 98-49 Sunday night. Let’s hope the Senators are a bit more realistic when it comes time to vote.

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eligious freedom is considered one of America’s greatest virtues, but there are times when we are forced to recognize that some rights protections go too far — to the point where they overstep public and logical acceptance and must be limited or prohibited.

The Followers of Christ Church in Oregon City, Ore., are the subject of a number of widely publicized cases where Marcus children died after their Smith parents and caretakers refused medical help for treatable illnesses in favor of prayers and a variety of other faith healing practices.

A bill being proposed in Oregon would disallow religious conviction as an excuse against homicide charges for these types of cases, though it doesn’t forbid them from relying solely on faith healing now and in the future.

This bill, along with those with similar

aims, should pass in Oregon and be given support on a national scale. Religion should get no more irrational free rides because they fly under the banner of religious freedom — that right, much like others with underlying complexities, is not absolute.

When discussing the legal responsibility of Followers of Christ Church, is murder too severe of a charge? If not, is there a better basis on which they could be held? The situation is a murky one.

A problem arises concerning how such cases will be handled, and it is difficult to know if courts can reach a fair ruling that will establish an acceptable precedence for similar cases that will be tried in the future.

The key is making sure that governments tackle the correct issues and avoid the dangers of a slippery-slope ruling.

Clearer boundaries and definitions need to be set defining what is unacceptable — a delicate balance must be struck so that parents still have the right to raise and

educate their children the best way they see fit, regardless of religious upbringing and influence.

Where can the line be drawn such that it aligns religious practices with reason, holds people responsible, and still leaves space for religious freedom?

In these modern times, what does it truly mean for religion to be free? Some would define it as holding to a doctrine you cannot act upon.

Regardless, the fact remains: It was not the children who died that were members of Followers of Christ Church, but their parents. This is an important distinction because the cases deal with the fact that an adult is making a religious decision for both themselves and their children.

In decisions concerning life and death, the law and the societal standards take precedence over individual beliefs.

Marcus Smith is an English freshman and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

Libya situation leaves budget worse off

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he United State’s recent action in Libya has sparked much controversy from all sides of the political spectrum, and not all of it has been uniform with party lines. Since our forces were deployed in late March, many debates Warren have erupted over Lauderdale whether or not the US should intervene at all.

In addition, President Barack Obama bypassed Congress in the decision to send in our military. Though the adminisration argues that we are not at war with Libya and these actions are Constitutional, many are angry that the President ordered our military in without consulting Congress and, by extension, the people.

Our country has a $14.2 trillion debt and a $1.5 trillion deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Pentagon has said that the Libyan action cost us $600 million in 6 days. This cost stems from 191

Tomahawk cruise missiles, 455 precision guided bombs and the downed F-15E fighter jet, in addition to other supplies.

We are coming up on two weeks of what the administration calls “kinetic military action,” and if the trend continues we will spend $1.2 billion intervening in another country’s civil war.

Can we afford to initiate ‘kinetic military action’ in countries that have problems?

Obama said in his March 28 speech that we must act when our interests and values are at stake. So what about Syria, and Yemen, and Iran? In the Iranian protests in 2009, there were reports of 72 deaths of peaceful protestors caused by the government.

Where was the US backing then?

What about Darfur? Genocide and brutal civil war has been going on there for years.

Why is the US not helping out there?

Obama promised that we would have no troops on the ground in Libya, yet the 22nd MEU from Camp Lejeune left US shores to

be deployed on the Libyan coast.

The administration has even hinted that we would give arms to these rebels. These rebels, according their commander, have Al-Qaeda ties, and some have even been found to have fought against the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama said that we have succeeded in pushing Qaddafi back on the military front, but in the hours after he made those remarks reports came out that stated that rebel forces were being pushed back — Qaddafi’s forces have taken one strategic oil town after another.

We have wasted over $1 billion in aid to a country in civil war with little tangible effect, and now, thanks to Obama’s rhetoric, we’re obligated to help other countries in similar trouble around the world? Mission Accomplished, Mr. president.

Warren Lauderdale is a journalism freshman and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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UH sweeps Marshall The Cougars continued their string of successes, sweeping Marshall in a weekend series that helped the Cougars extended their winning streak to six.

Pitching and a well-executed offense powered the Cougars (24-12, 8-4 Conference USA), as they allowed the Thundering Herd (13-20, 1-8 C-USA) to score only three times for the series.

The series opened Friday with a double-header. The Cougars eked out a 3-2 comeback victory.

Down 2-1, the Cougars tied the game up in the seventh inning on an Angela Splitter pinch-hit home run and picked up the victory with a walkoff shot by Jennifer Klinkert.

The Cougars won the second game of the double-header with greater ease, pulling out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning and finishing off the Herd 4-0 on the strength of a shutout by Donna Bourgeois.

Bourgeois only allowed three baserunners and struck out six.

The Cougars again jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the final game of the series Sunday. Amanda Crabtree went the distance for the Cougars, allowing one earned run and fanning a dozen to improve to 13-6 as UH won 4-1.

As a team, the Cougars are the league leaders in ERA for C-USA play at 0.82. Crabtree leads C-USA with 73 strikeouts in 38 innings. Bourgeois is second in C-USA play with an ERA of 0.32.

The Cougars opened conference play getting swept by UAB, but have since won eight of their last nine. They look to extend their success at 4 p.m. Tuesday against Houston Baptist.

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Cougars celebrate their Guy UH greats, fans rally for iconic coach’s inclusion into Basketball Hall of Fame John Brannen

THE DAILY COUGAR Forward thinking and Five Final Four appearances still hasn’t granted former head coach Guy Lewis access to the Naismith Hall of Fame.

As former player Otis Birdsong pointed out Lewis, 89, does not publicize his omission. But that doesn’t mean Director of Athletics Mack Rhoades and former players like Elvin Hayes and Clyde Drexler won’t.

“I have no idea why Coach Lewis isn’t in the Hall of Fame,” Drexler said. “There’s no plausible explanation for him not being there. None. I don’t want to take anything away from anyone who’s in there because they all deserve to be there, but I think as

much as any other coach in the history of college basketball, Guy Lewis deserves to be there.

“When you leave out a guy like Guy Lewis, what you’re saying is we don’t respect his accomplishments.”

Lewis was praised for his contributions to UH and college basketball in a ceremony Friday at the John O’Quinn Great Hall in the Athletics/Alumni Center.

Lewis was known as an innovator for basketball on and off the court. The coach recruited Hayes and Don Chaney, the first two African-American players at UH. He fought for the 1968 Game of the Century in the Astrodome to be nationally-televised.

In the 1980s his up-tempo philosophy took UH to three consecutive Final Fours.

Apart from that, though, his former players said that he was a father figure, and knew how to fire up his team.

“Before the games, he was the most inspirational speaker I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard some great coaches,” Drexler

said. “If you were not fired up to play after listening to him speak for about five minutes, you did not have a pulse.”

Hayes said the guidance of Lewis assisted him into becoming one of the greatest players in NBA history.

“When I met coach Guy Lewis, everything I worked on in my back yard, he polished and shined it into the most beautiful color,” Hayes said.

During the ceremony it was announced that next year the Greater Houston Basketball Committee will give out an award named for Lewis to the best player in the greater-Houston area.

“Coach Lewis set this level of greatness,” Rhoades said. “We’re going to fight like heck to get there again. One day, hopefully sooner than later, coach Lewis becomes a member of the Naismith Hall of Fame. But whether he does or doesn’t that will never diminish his greatness.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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Cougars perform steady at Shirley Crown Invitational The women’s team dominated the sprints and beat Prarie View by eight points to claim the title at the Humble ISD High School and College meet Saturday. They team had eight first-place performances.

Grecia Bolton won the 100-meter dash in 11.43 seconds; Tai’Shea Reese was the runner-up in 11.66 seconds. Kalyn Floyd won the gold in the 200-meter dash, clocking in at 24.04 seconds, and Brittany Wallace was second with a 24.68-second split. The quarter mile was claimed by Whitney Harris with a 54.80-second finish. Ciera Johnson was the runner-up in the 400, with a 55.14-second finish. Amber Sellers was third with a 56.94-second performance. Both 4x100-meter relay teams and 4x400-meter relay teams won their respective events.

The men’s team placed second behind Prarie View with 157 points. There were seven first-place performances, with dominance in the throws and jumps.

— Cougar Sports Services

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UH places low at Augusta The Cougars finished fifteenth in the Insperity Augusta State Invitational with a final score of 904.

The Cougars finished seven shots back of fourteenth place Washington in the 17-school field.

The Cougars did improve each round, shooting a 310 to open the tournament, whittling that down to 298 and closing with a 296.

Will Dusenbury placed highest for the Cougars, tying for forty-fifth. Dusenbury shot 223, seven-over.

— Cougar Sports Services

The Cougars used solid pitching and timely hitting to turn the tide and sweep the Tulane Green Wave on Sunday in New Orleans.

UH was assisted by three games of consistent pitching where all of the starters pitched a minimum of seven innings and career-long outings.

“We’ve been talking to the pitching staff about going late into games for us,” head coach Todd Whitting said. “When you throw strikes and manage counts, it gives you the ability to go deep into games.”

With the wins, the Cougars (15-14, 3-0 C-USA) put an end to their three-game skid and sit on top of the early conference standings.

The sweep marks the seventh straight year that the Cougars have won their conference series opener and their first conference road sweep since April 2009.

“To start league play 3-0 gives the team a lot of confidence going into this week,” Whitting said. “It’s a huge boost for our ball club. We have to learn from what we did good and bad this weekend.”

In the series finale Sunday the Cougars erupted offensively to beat Tulane 9-0.

Pitcher Mo Wiley (2-1) had eight innings while shutting out Tulane (18-10, 1-5 C-USA) on nine hits.

The UH offense opened up the scoring in the third with four runs when Caleb Ramsey hit a two-RBI double with the bases loaded. Chase Jensen then followed suit and hit a two-RBI single to right field.

The Cougars added two runs in the fourth, one run in the fifth and two in the seventh to balloon the lead to 9-0.

Taylor Hammack pitched a scoreless ninth frame to preserve the UH victory.

Saturday’s game featured the second impressive UH pitching performance in as many days as the Cougars downed Tulane 5-2.

After losing five of six, pitcher Taylor Hammack and the Cougars opened up the conference portion of their schedule in convincing fashion with a weekend sweep against Tulane. The Cougars continue their road trip tomorrow against Texas A&M. | Newton Liu/The Daily Cougar Jordan Lewis (3-0) pitched seven-andone-third innings and allowed two runs on nine hits. Dakota Dill entered the game in relief of Lewis and pitched a scoreless final one-and-two-thirds of an inning to cement the win and earn his fourth save.

UH got on the scoreboard right away, scoring one run in the first inning. They added another run in the fourth and then two in the fifth after M.P. Cokinos hit an RBI double and John Cannon hit a sacrifice fly.

Tulane scored once in the sixth inning and once in the eighth, but the UH pitchers shut down any inklings of a rally.

Landon Appling led the way for the Cougars offensively, going three-for-four at

the plate and scoring two runs.

The series opener featured the first of the UH brilliant pitching performances as Matt Creel (4-3) and the Cougars shut out Tulane 2-0. Creel set the tone for the pitching staff when he went seven innings, allowing no runs and only three hits.

Jordan Mannisto relieved Creel, going the final two innings without giving up a hit and earning his second save of the season.

UH will need to continue its strong play as they travel to take on No. 5 Texas A&M at 5:05 Tuesday in College Station. sports@thedailycougar.com

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A helicopter pilot turned science experiment guinea pig, he finds himself to be part of a government funded project known only as Source Code, where science has found a way for a person to relive the last eight minutes of another person’s life over and over.

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Industrial design students featured in annual Design Fair Michelle Leigh Smith

SPECIAL TO THE DAILY COUGAR Looking for the leading edge in the art world? Art aficionados need look no further than the Lawndale Art Center, located at 4912 Main in the heart of the Museum District.

Sculptor James Surls started the collective in the late ’70s.

“I just found myself in a situation what I was not in control of, I just assumed control of,” Surls said in a 2009 interview with the Houston Chronicle’s Doug Britt.

“I just kind of took over. I started appointing people in positions.

Someone who liked photography, I would just say, ‘OK, you’re the curator of photography.’

“People loved it. They loved

doing it, and God almighty, they worked, they worked, they worked.”

From the beginning, the students were the backbone.

“We had a space, and we had a labor force and we had a community that was receptive,” Surls said. “You couldn’t ask for a better kind of scenario, and it just caught on fire. Lawndale started off a five- or six- or seven-year era, that was when Houston was ready; the times were right; everything was — you know, Houston was just on fire.”

UH juniors Ya-Han Chen and Meredith Tucker designed an easily manufactured interchangeable sofa/bed that can be sold for around $2800.

“The students had to project the retail costs and include the cost of all materials,” Adam Wells, Professor of Industrial Design in the UH School of Architecture, said.

UH has the only Industrial Design program in Texas. Another Lawndale entry, Viera, was designed by UH juniors Umbelina Cantu, Sergio Aleman, Thi Vu and Kellee Kimbra.

Viera examines the function of sitting among humans, and can be manufactured in many colors, including sky blue, charcoal, bright red or olive.

Michael Guidry serves as curator for Lawndale and curator for UH’s public art collection. arts@thedailycougar.com

UH juniors Thi Vu, Umbelina Cantu and Sergio Aleman designed Viera, a furniture piece that represents the informal casual function and requirements of human sitting behavior. Kellee Kimbro is also part of the Raw Collective team. | Photo by David Lidsky

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