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September 8, 2011 Issue 11, Volume 77
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Dean appointed to head business college Provost John Antel named Latha Ramchand dean of C.T. Bauer College of Business on Wednesday. Ramchand has served as interim dean since March, when Dean Arthur Warga stepped down. “Ramchand is uniquely situated to lead Bauer to greater heights,” Antel said in a press release. “(Ramchand) is a respected scholar. She has significant administrative experience. And, she is already extending Bauer’s programs and building bridges for the business community.” —Cougar New Services
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METRO hosts annual Green Commuter Fair in UC Satellite In efforts to continue its promotion of a clean and green economy for Houston, METRO will be hosting its annual Green Commuter Fair today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the UC Satellite. Students will have the opportunity to sign up for a free Metro Q fare card as well as renew expired ones. To learn more about green commuting please visit www.uh.edu/pts/ greencommute.htm. — Jennifer Postel
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Former FBI art detective to speak about career, book Robert K. Wittman, founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team and now a best-selling author for the book Priceless, will speak for free at the Cullen Performance Hall today at 9 a.m. For tickets go to https:// blaffer.tix.com. — Travis Alford
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Book symposium on 17th century colonial New England The UH department of history will host a symposium featuring “Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England,” a book by professor Todd Romero, today at 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion at the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library. — Cougar News Services
CORRECTIONS In the Sept. 7 issue of The Daily Cougar, a headline read, “Study finds increase in rate of AIDS infections.” The headline should have read, “Study finds increase in rate of HIV infections.”
Conner Clifton, the station’s director; Josue Garcia, the music director; and Andrew O’Keefe, the muscle, are a just a few of Coog Radio’s eclectic staff. Coog Radio aims to play music that their listeners wouldn’t normally hear on the mainstream radio. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
Coog Radio debuts
Student-run station features underground local bands, unknown musical artists Lindsey Falcon
THE DAILY COUGAR Coog Radio emerged this semester as UH’s first and only student-run radio station, gaining over 2,000 listeners in the first week. Co-founder Connor Clifton, along with Markley Rogers and Matt Womack formed the station shortly after watching an inspiring film in 2009. “We had just finished watching the movie Pirate Radio. I was interning at KUHF at the time, so I was familiar with radio equipment. Then, we just decided we could do this. We could start a radio station,” Clifton said.
For the first year, the station lacked the organization it needed to proficiently broadcast live. But in March 2011, things began looking up when Gloria Cheng took position as public relations and marketing director and Sofia Strauss as director. “It took us about two years to create the station. Things really came to a point in March of this year. We have a lot of good UH administrators on our side as well as allies at KUHF who I made while interning there. They actually donated us all of our equipment,” Clifton said. As far as what kind of music is streamed, the answer is simple. “Our ground rule is if you can hear it on
the radio now, we don’t play it. There are stations that play music from the 90s, for example, and we don’t want to hear that either,” Cheng said. DJs at Coog Radio are encouraged to find the music that interests or intrigues them and delve into that for the most obscure set. That’s how the playlists are formed. DJs have the choice of playing music or hosting their own radio show. Coog Radio’s DJ Rashad Eaglin made the choice to play music. “We play a bunch of EDM (electronic dance music), UK Garage and UK-style dub stuff. Those are pretty much the big three COOG RADIO continues on page 2
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NPR’s Nightly Business Report comes to UH Brian Jensen
THE DAILY COUGAR The most popular daily business news show in America, Nightly Business Report, will soon have a Houston bureau located at UH’s PBS station. Houston PBS will be partnering with Houston Public Radio in order to provide content to Nightly Business Report by using their established knowledge of the Houston business community. “(The) bureau will provide a
greater opportunity to showcase Houston’s economic, technology and business news impact locally, nationally and around the world,” Houston PBS Executive Director of Content Patricia Torres-Burd said. Previous Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Rodney Ward said in a New York Times article that the show’s recent reformatting will provide viewers with more analysis, perspective and context. In the same article, news consultant Jim Russell said that the reformatting will not change the
show’s primary goal of educating its audience and empowering viewers to make better financial decisions. KUHF’s Jack Williams, the reporter and anchor for the radio show All Things Considered, said that the move is just the first step in an ongoing trend. “(It’s) probably the first of many similar projects as radio and TV become one organization over the next several months,” Willams said. Ten stories per year will be
delivered to the Nightly Business Report, featuring interviews with local leaders in the business community. Stories will likely include subjects such as the impact of the drought on local farming and ranching industries, as well as the lack of qualified engineers available to Houston’s oil industry. Other stories might focus on Houston’s Medical Center, which is the largest in the world. NBR continues on page 2