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UH wins award for creating Subsea Engineering Program Earlier this month, World Oil Magazine presented the Cullen College of Engineering, as well as FMC Technologies, with a 2011 World Oil Award. According to World Oil Magazine, the awards honor the industry’s leading innovators and innovations. This year’s award recognized the creation of the Subsea Engineering Program, which offers courses in deepwater oil and gas retrieval. The program opened in January 2011 and has admitted over 40 students. — Jennifer Postel
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Intelligence adviser to speak on future of war on terror In conjunction with the UH Law Center, the Houston Law Review’s 16th annual Frankel Lecture will feature Philip Zelikow, intelligence adviser for President Barack Obama and former head of the 9/11 commission. He will speak about the future of America’s war on terror at 8:30 a.m. on Friday at the downtown Doubletree Hotel. “The time is right to reflect on what has happened during the war on terrorism and where we go from here,” Zalikow said. Other speakers include law professors David Cole from Georgetown University, and Mark Danner from the University of California at Berkeley. UH international law professor Jordan Paust will moderate the event. Those who want to attend must register online at houstonlawreview. org. For more information, contact John Kling at 713-743-8298 orjtkling@central.uh.edu. — Zahra Ahmed
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Green UH celebrates campus sustainability milestones Wednesday, the University will be celebrating Green UH day in honor of campus green milestones and the campus’ distinction as the first university to have a solar array. The event is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Butler Plaza and will feature a “Flip the Switch” ceremony to showcase the partnership with Green Mountain Energy. The event will display UH community green products and feature a trivia session and a scavenger hunt. Prizes will be given out to the winners. For more information, visit www. uh.edu/green. — Bryan Dupont Gray
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Student fee meetings begin Zahra Ahmed
THE DAILY COUGAR The Student Fees Advisory Committee, which recommends the amount and funding distribution of the student services fee, will have its first hearing for fiscal year 2013 at 8:30 a.m. today in the University Center’s Bluebonnet Room. Additional hearings will follow on Wednesday, Friday and Monday. Through the series of hearings this fall, each student-funded organization and department will present their funding requests to the SFAC,
after which the committee will decide on which requests to approve. The committee will also determine whether to maintain or change the student services fee for Fall 2012. The current student services fee is $190, a price that was chosen because of cuts in state funds and improvements made toward Tier One status. The SFAC consists of seven voting student representatives, two voting faculty members and a non-voting adviser that meet every semester. Five of the student representatives come from the Student Government Association. Each hearing has time allotted for public
comment. Students can voice their opinions through their student government representative or directly speak to the SFAC at the public forums. After the Monday hearing, the SFAC will have closed-door deliberations and will then present a finalization of recommendations to the president and vice president of student affairs. In the spring, the president and vice president for student affairs will present the finalization to the UH Board of Regents. After the Board’s approval, each unit’s funding requests will go into SFAC continues on page 6
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Houston history conference held at UH Event lectures celebrate ‘milestones and arrivals’ Estíbaliz García
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Phi Delta Chi members pick up the trash on University grounds for their community service project. | Yulia Kutsenkova/The Daily Cougar
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Pharmacy fraternity cleans up campus litter Lindsey Falcon
THE DAILY COUGAR The College of Pharmacy gave back to the UH community Thursday when 56 of its Phi Delta Chi fraternity members set out to clean up the campus. Students met in front of the Science and Research Building 1, where they put on latex gloves, grabbed trash bags and spread out across campus to pick up trash in several organized groups from 4 to 5 p.m.
PDC members Marwan Ahmed and Trang Tran paused while determining their routes to discuss their motivations for helping. “We’re pledging for Phi Delta Chi,” said Ahmed. “PDC is all about service and giving back to the community, so cleaning up the campus is our method of helping out. “PDC is a pharmacy-based fraternity, and it’s a professional fraternity. One of our projects in the pledging process is to do a CLEAN UPcontinues on page 6
To commemorate Houston’s 175th anniversary, the Houston History Association hosted its first annual history conference, “Milestones and Arrivals,” Saturday at the Hilton University of Houston. The 7-hour conference was open to the public and featured former Houston Mayor Bill White as the keynote speaker during the event’s luncheon hour. White’s speech centered on the beginnings of the city and its founders, in particular the arrival of Jesse H Jones. During the event’s luncheon, White also presented the organization’s History Hero Award to Betty Trapp Chapman, a local historian, former teacher, and author of several books that document Houston’s history over the past 25 years. “My goal has always been to be an educator and to try to spread the spirit of Houston’s history everywhere we can,” Chapman said in her brief speech after recieving the award. The event also featured
Former Houston Mayor Bill White was the keynote speaker at the luncheon and presented writer Betty Trapp Chapman with the organization’s History Hero Award. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar lectures from some of Houston’s top researchers, educators and historians, including Rice University’s Stephen L. Klineberg, whose land survey research has tracked the city’s migratory and demographical changes for the past 29 years, UH professor of History and Business Joseph H. Pratt, and Bernadette Pruitt, a member of the History Department at Sam Houston State University and the first African-American woman to obtain a doctorate degree at UH. The HHA was created in 2005 as an effort to educate the public about the city’s past and diversity as well as to preserve its history through collaborations with local historical, archival and preservation organizations. William Kellar, who is on the HHA’s board of directors contributed in bringing the conference to the University of Houston. Kellar HISTORY continues on page 6