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Issue 15, Volume 77
SPECIAL SERIES: 10 YEARS SINCE SEPT. 11, 2001
Immigration situation worsens post 9/11 Security measures to prevent attacks bring barriers to those looking to become US citizens Monica Coleman
THE DAILY COUGAR America may still be known as the “melting pot” but stirring through its immigration policies has become more cumbersome for immigrants seeking to enter the country since 9/11. Ed Bailey, who leads immigrant legal
counseling services for YMCA International as a social responsibility director, said that he believes much of the immigration debate would be nonexistent had the then-arranged meeting between President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox actually happened. “The Mexican president was due in Washington DC to sign an agreement with President Bush regarding workers,” Bailey said. “And, had that happened, my guess is that much of the immigration debate that we have been involved in for the last 10 years would have been averted. “Things were moderate, and we were on
to a good track into the summer of 2001. And, then, we had the 9/11 event. Things regressed, and we went back to strict policy. We haven’t really recovered from that to this day.” Major changes in immigration law have had far reaching implications that have deeply impacted the psyche of America From changes in the process of granting asylum to the heightened security, the complexity of these issues makes it difficult to develop solutions in US immigration. UH Immigration Clinic Associate Professor Geoffrey Hoffman shared some of his insights on the legal decisions that have shaped
society since 9/11. “Following 9/11, Congress passed a series of laws which have had great impact on immigration. Most importantly, Congress replaced the former Immigration and Naturalization Services with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its various sub-agencies. This change was designed to separate out the enforcement functions from those agencies whose main task is the granting of benefits,” Hoffman said. The Patriot Act of 2001 provided greater authorization of law enforcement agencies IMMIGRATION continues on page 3
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Alumna awarded for articles on media’s portrayal of Islam
UH architecture lecture discusses art education
Anam Ghias, a spring 2011 UH graduate, won third place in the student division of the Religion Newswriters Association national competition for several articles about the perception of Muslims in the media, published in The Daily Cougar during the 20102011 academic year. The RNA is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve reporting on religion in the news media. Ghias will receive an allexpenses paid trip to the 2011 RNA Conference this weekend in Durham, NC where she will be given an award and $150 cash prize.
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Cullen College hosts career fair for engineering students The Cullen College of Engineering is holding a career fair from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today on the second floor of the UH Hilton Hotel. The fair is open exclusively to engineering students and participants must bring a current UH I.D. Professional business attire is requred to attend. Businesses attending the fair include Schlumberger, Cameron, Chevron, BP and Enterprise Products. For more information visit the Engineering Career Center at http://www.egr.uh.edu/career/. — Love Patel
UH speaks out
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on Cook, a member the Green Party, talks to students about fair labor as part of a speak out event Wednesday in the University Center Satellite Patio. Speak out events occur every second Wednesday this semester in the same location. For more information about this and future events, visit fairlaboruh.wordpress.com. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
UH alumnus and former Blaffer Art Museum Director Don Bacigalupi drew from his experiences of working at the Museum of American Art to describe how art can be used as a teaching tool at a lecture Tuesday. UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and the School of Art worked in collaboration to bring about the reception, which was hosted in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Theater. Bacigalupi is the new director of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark— an immensely complex designed by architect Moshe Safdie. Crystal Bridges, he said, was the dream of the primary benefactor, Alice Walton, the only daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Alice Walton had been collecting American art for a number of years. Through the Walton Family Foundation, the museum was granted 120 acres of land to use for construction. It includes nine pavilions that expand into the ravines. The visitor experience consists of indoor and outdoor exhibitions, with four miles of trails that include hiking, mountain biking, scenic nature sites, and a number of educational pavilions.
“It’s nature, art and architecture coexisting in form of one another in a welcoming and accessible environment,” Bacigalupi said. The museum’s permanent collection consists of five centuries of American art around the five buildings. The collection includes artists Martin Johnson Heade, Pat Musick, Charles Wilson Peale and Norman Rockwell. “We usually don’t value the collections monetarily, we know what they cost but we don’t typically think of those values,” Bacigalupi said. “We think of the educational value and the opportunity to teach from the collection.” Bacigalupi stated that though Alice Walton lives in Texas, she is fully involved in the development of the museum. She is the chair of the board and a large portion of her private collection has been put on display at the museum on loan. The choice of American art comes from a sense of pride in the American story and the American dream that the Walton family has lived. Alice has always been involved in art, even as she began to study it as a child. American art was a natural fit for her tastes. The location in Northwest Arkansas was based on a sense of teaching and educational possibilities. ARCHITECTURE continues on page 9