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Talk on the legacy of MLK Tuesday in Houston Room UH will host a discussion of the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday in the University Center Houston Room. A round-table discussion with students, faculty and staff will follow. People in attendance can bring their lunches to the free event. Punch and light refreshments will be provided. For more information about the event, contact Renia Butler at rslusby@uh.edu. — Cougar News Services
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Former UH president dies Cougar News Services
THE DAILY COUGAR UH System President Emeritus Charles Bishop died Jan. 14 in Durham, N.C. The 80-year-old served as president from February 1980 to September 1986, when he left to pursue a job teaching business and economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an event which The Daily Cougar reported on June 11, 1986. Upon his retirement in 1986,
The Daily Cougar reported his accomplishments as president, which include the following: The UH System became the third-largest research university in Texas, behind University of Texas and Texas A&M. The market value of the University’s endowment grew to $57 million from $21.6 million in 1979. M.D. Anderson Library was ranked as No. 50 in the top research libraries in the country, as opposed to being 81st in 1980 when he was hired.
The UH System’s financial management operations received the highest rating given to education institutions by the state auditor, for five years in a row. A World War II veteran, Bishop served on numerous commissions under former Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. He also served on commissions at the state level in North Carolina, said his newsobserver. com obituary. news@thedailycougar.com
Houston Mayor Annise Parker will speak to GLOBAL, UH’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender student organization, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Cemo Hall. Parker will talk about her experiences as an LGBT person running for office in the free event. For more information contact Lorraine Schroeder at lschroeder@ uh.edu or call (713) 743-5463. — Cougar News Services
Charles Bishop served as UH System president from February 1980 to September 1986. | File Photo/The Daily Cougar
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emolition of Cougar Place will continue until February. The construction of a new sophomore housing unit will start after the demolition and is expected to be ready for the Fall 2013 semester. It will be four-story building with an occupancy of 799 beds centered around two courtyards. | Taylor McGilvray/ The Daily Cougar
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Photography director to discuss her career today Kathy Ryan, director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, will give a lecture about her career and the selection of photos for her publication from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today on the second floor of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Beck Building. The event is hosted by UH’s sociology department and MFAH Photo Forum. Ryan will also be signing copies of her book “The New York Times Magazine Photographs” after the lecture. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. People interested in reserving a seat should send an email to ryanlecture@mfah. org. — Cougar News Services
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In the article entitled “UH to preserve artwork” in Thursday’s issue, the paragraph explaining the hiring and duties of the conservator was incorrectly attributed to Vice President for Student Affairs Richard Walker. It should have been attributed to Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Keith Kowalka.
Three UH print journalism majors spent the first two weeks of January in Arizona, learning from the staff of the New York Times in what they described as a “journalist’s boot camp.” Seniors Louis Casiano, Anna Gallegos and junior Audris Ponce, along with 21 other students, put
out a paper covering local news in Tucson every day of the twoweek program under the guidance and instruction of New York Times and Boston Globe editors and writers, Casiano said. “When I got there, I was kind of nervous,” Ponce, news editor of on-campus newspaper The Venture said. “But (the staff ) treated us with so much respect, and they were so approachable and down-to-earth.”
The students had to work 14 to 15-hour days in the newsroom set up at the University of Arizona. “I am so grateful for the experience, but I was tired all the time,” Casiano said. “You have to be prepared to really work. It’s not a vacation.” Fortunately, he found the experience to be “well worth it.” “I really felt like a journalist. It felt so right,” Casiano said,
describing a protest that he covered with a fellow student in which demonstrators had broken through a barricade in order to confront the police. Ponce said the New York Times Student Journalism Institute program was a great learning experience,. “I really grew, not just as a student, but as a journalist,” she TIMES continues on page 3