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February 7, 2012 Issue 70, Volume 77
RESIDENTIAL LIFE
Town hall topics to include dining, on-campus housing A University of Houston town hall meeting will be held to discuss the upcoming campus renovations and add-ons from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Fresh Food Company dining hall inside Moody Towers. Executive Director of Auxiliary Services Esmeralda Valdez will be presenting future renovations on the UC, the new cafeteria, dubbed the West Dining Hall, and culinary additions to the first floor of the new parking garage. Don Yackley, executive director of the Residential Life and Housing department will be discussing the increase in meal plan prices. Also to be discussed at the meeting will be the five percent student-housing fee increase; the new roommate matching process; Cougar Village 2, which will be complete by June 2013 and have 1,144 beds; and the new sophomore housing where Cougar Place used to be. “The Town Hall meeting is a great way for students and faculty to be aware of the changes and improvements going on around them.” Billy Garner said. The topics of this meeting will be discussed again from 12 to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the E.E. Oberholtzer Residence Hall. — Kimberly O’Neal
WORKSHOP
Webinar to help students learn research, citation skills The Office of Undergraduate Discovery Programs will host a research skills workshop for science, engineering and computing from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. The class will be a “webinar” hosted by UH librarians and will teach students how to properly cite in papers, as well as show them several places to find proper sources. Students must RSVP 48 hours in advance and can register to watch online at uh.edu/ discovery/ediscovery. The webinar is a part of the Discover Workshop Series, which will put on weekly workshops covering different aspects of research and writing. — Cougar News Services
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Mohammed Haider started “Mo-Jo Sports Radio Show” with his co-host, Josue Garcia, in order to give students a sports radio news source that focuses primarily on UH athletics. Students can tune in at 9 to 11 a.m. every Friday at coogradio.com to listen to the show | Robert Z. Easley/The Daily Cougar
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Student duo host only campus sports radio show, bring attention to UH athletics through new niche We never had any DJs ... sports talk show,” Haider said. John Loner Haider said he overheard students that expressed any interest THE DAILY COUGAR conversing about Coog Radio, and later that in doing a sports show, day learned he shared a class with Sofia Since the beginning of the semester, Straus, Coog Radio’s operations director. a lot of people were just into music. students can tune in to Coog Radio’s “Mo-Jo Haider and Garcia decided to start their People don’t equate college radio with Sports Radio Show” for talk radio focused own Coog Radio, which they named “Mo-Jo on the Cougars. Sports Radio Show.” sports.” The show airs from 9 to 11 a.m. Fridays at coogradio.com and is hosted by broadcast journalism senior Mohammed Haider and media productions senior Josue Garcia. “With a university this big, I was surprised to find that no one had started a
“We never had any DJs ... that expressed any interest in doing a sports show, a lot of people were just into music,” Garcia said. “We need that; it’s going to bring another aspect to UH radio.” When people think college radio, they
Josue Garcia, on Mo-Jo’s start think obscure music, spoken word and poetry, Garcia said. RADIO continues on page 3
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
TFN comes to UH, works with LGBT group Annette Santos
THE DAILY COUGAR A new advocacy group for social awareness now resides on campus; the Texas Freedom Network is a progressive organization in pursuit of religious freedom, defending civil liberties and strengthening public schools. “There’s a big difference
between politics and issue-based advocacy,” said James Lee, president of the TFN chapter at UH. “We definitely feel the need to bring up different issues that our representatives in Congress or our Senators can’t because they are limited to different political agendas.” The organization has teamed up with the LGBT Advocates, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
organization on campus to educate students on a number of progressive issues, such as sex education and LGBT equality — two of their main concerns. Yesenia Chavez, new president of LGBT Advocates and active member of TFN, said UH is a great place for advocacy because of its diversity. “This is something we should be focusing on our campus because it is so diverse,” she said.
“A lot of people on campus aren’t really politically motivated; they’re just apathetic towards politics. (It is) a really sad fact that the youth are not involved in politics as they should be.” In an effort to bring more activism to UH, the two organizations will be co-hosting a Valentine’s Day event called “Kiss In.” Their goal is TFN continues on page 3