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THE DAILY COUGAR UH is joining the nationwide initiative towards greater accessibility through the beta launch of AccessUH. While students used to have to remember separate logins and passwords for interfacing with multiple university services — such as myUH, Blackboard, Parking and CougarCard — they can now go to accessuh.uh.edu to access all of these services with just their CougarNet username and password.
University Information Technology Executive Director David Johnson said the implementation of single sign-on capability has been in the works for several years. “It’s only just recently that we found this was going to be simple,” Johnson said. “(The program is) something that you could run on your computer without having to download any software, or where we wouldn’t have to do any special extensive programming.” He said SSO is not meant to replace current log in services, but ease students’ troubles in accessing them. “You have a lot of things that you have to consider during your college career,”
Johnson said. “AccessUH is like a wrapper that goes around those things. When you go in, you can log in to MyUH and a variety of other things, and it will provide you with several other services that you want to use. “Instead of replacing those services, it streamlines the way that you access those services.” Many other universities are also looking for ways to reduce the number of school-related login information that students have to remember, Johnson said. The University, is working towards having only a single username and password per student for the entire UH system, he
said. Accounts can be added as needed, Johnson said. “We’ve been speaking to the library about adding the library services, and we’ve been speaking to other departments about adding other types of services,” Johnson said. “We hope that eventually we can have one portal that will allow people to get into all the resources that they use on a regular basis.” There are security risks involved in homogenizing account access across ACCESSUH continues on page 3
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(From left) Joe McKinney, Scott Gilbert and Larry Kelley show off UH’s medals from the 50th American Advertising Federation Houston ADDY Awards. The group came home with seven gold and silver medals.| Courtesy of Larry Kelley
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THE DAILY COUGAR The 50th annual American Advertising Federation Houston ADDY Awards recognized Jack J. Valenti School of Communication students, taught by Larry Kelley and Rosario Laudacina at UH with a total of seven gold and silver medals. The school ranked eighth
overall, ahead of 52 others. Inspired by the show “Mad Men,” the Feb. 25 event was titled Madfest. The National Student Advertising Competition team at UH won two gold and two silver medals for their work for JC Penney, Kelley said. The gold medals were awarded to the overall mixed media campaign as well as the magazine category, and the silver medals went to the television and collateral categories. Keith Houk and his Television II class
collaborated on the television campaign. Senior advertising majors Isabelle Chabrier won a gold medal in the nontraditional advertising category while Joe McKinney won silver for the television category. Jaime Alvizar and Matt Whiteley were also awarded silver Addys for the magazine category, Kelley said. Gold and silver medalists will go onto the District AWARDS continues on page 3
The Student Government Association further discussed the alleged fraud in the elections during last night’s meeting at the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion. Chief Justice Taylor Kilroy said the Election Committee is watching tapes to identify who passed out petitions to a student in front of M.D. Anderson Memorial Library. “We were actually lucky enough to have some witnesses of people giving out petitions and flyers for a specific candidate,” Kilroy said. Civil engineering freshman Tanzeem Chowdhury said numerous emails sent to the Election Commission have not yet been answered. “I come from a third-world country where corruption is part of their nature,” said Chowdhury, who came from Bangladesh seven years ago. “If the same thing happens in country like this, how is democracy going to survive?” Chowdhury said he’d like the Senate elections to follow the same voting format used for the athletics fee referendum. “I realize it takes more money, but you guys can’t afford fraud year after year,” Chowdhury said. “I’d rather cut things around somewhere else to ensure a fair
election. I’d rather have the right people representing us.” SGA President Michael Harding said the election scandal is does not represent what the student government does for the school. “Each year, there is always a scandal reported about SGA,” Harding said. “Not to say that it’s okay, but no organization is perfect.” Harding said that Chief Election Commissioner Arsalan Razakazi is “doing the best he can with the cards that he is dealt.” Speaker for the Senate Reyes Ramirez agreed with Chowdhury about the senate needing to fix the problems that arose with this year’s election. “It’s unfortunate if we have a person who wants to adulterate the system, but we have to deal with it,” Ramirez said. “It doesn’t matter how many mistakes an organization makes, what does matter is what measures they take to rectify them.” Chicano Mural The senate also briefly discussed what to do with the mural in the University Center Cougar Den. Several members of the senate, including Ramirez and Honors Senator Maggie McCartney, advocate preserving the mural in SGA continues on page 3
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day as recognized by the United Nations to raise awareness of women’s ongoing achievements and struggles around the world. “This International Women’s Day, I join women around the globe in solidarity for human rights, dignity and equality,” said Michelle Bachelet, UN Women Executive Director. Bachelet notes the importance of women’s involvement in every aspect of society. “Women’s full and equal participation in the political and economic arena is fundamental to democracy and justice, which people are demanding.” While women make up 50.8 percent of the total US population, according to the US Census Bureau’s statistics, only 16.6 percent the US Congress are women. Bachelet is aware of the gender gap in leadership. “Yet while tremendous progress has been made, no country can claim to be entirely free from gender-based discrimination. This inequality can be seen in persistent gender wage gaps and unequal opportunities, in low representation of women in leadership in public office and the private sector,” said Bachelet. The gender gap is also present in professional settings. “Women are half the population but only 15 percent of board members at big American firms, and 10 percent in Europe,” said the
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campus, but the rewards outweigh them. “The main risk of passwords is people giving them out, or people having to write them down and then end up leaving it somewhere, or people forgetting to log out of the computer,” he said. “If somebody steals your identity and gets your password they have access to more, but you’re trying to only protect one valuable commodity instead of trying to protect several valuable commodities.” Complete uniformity in log-ins should not be expected any time in the near future, Johnson said. “At this point, we’re going to keep working through it, try to add these services and get a better feel for how long it’s going to take to continue to build this site,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to achieve that goal of single sign-on, but we don’t have a firm deadline on that.” news@thedailycougar.com
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“I think it’s genius. I have to keep most of my passwords and my login names on my phone, and it’s pretty frustrating because every time I need to get into a certain website that deals with UH, I have to go and scroll through five or six different passwords, which is pretty annoying. I think this will be a lot less frustrating and more convenient for the students.”
“It’s confusing. On the website, the interface is not that friendly. It has no use for me. I’d rather go to my email, use my password for the regular website and go to that website. Just make it simpler because you have so many words and texts that are unnecessary. Let me put in my username and password and that’s it.” Doen Nguyen marketing and business sophomore
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“I think that’s a really good idea considering people have to juggle around all these different passwords, which often have expiration dates, so then it becomes even harder to keep track of them. I know that in the communications lab I have other access codes, so I wonder if it will be all-encompassing. Will it be just my general UH passwords? Because I still have other passwords I need to keep track of.”
“Everything is confusing. It’s my first semester here. I think it will make everything a lot easier. I think I have three different passwords and I have to reset my password all the time because I forget which one goes with what, so it will make everything easier.” Jessica Karroum psychology junior
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10 competition in Shreveport, Louisiana, to compete with 21 other schools from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. If UH wins at District 10, in June they will move on to the Nationals Competition in Austin. At the Nationals Competition last year, UH took home a silver medal, Kelley said. Kelley, advertising professor at the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, has participated in the competition for four years. Kelley is also the head of the advertising sequence. Advertising majors interested in participating in next year’s competition can submit their projects for $50. news@thedailycougar.com
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cared Republicans across the nation have been passing a steady stream of laws that lessen the reproductive rights of women. Republicans in Utah have taken things a step further.
The Utah Senate passed a law Tuesday that will prevent public school children from gaining knowledge about sexuality and how to use contraceptives in their schools. According to the text of the bill, “human sexuality instruction or instructional programs may not include instruction in, or the advocacy of…the intricacies of intercourse, sexual stimulation or erotic behavior; homosexuality; the use of contraceptive methods or devices; or sexual activity outside of marriage.” We should not be surprised that Republicans are taking their fight against women and reproductive health to public schools. Children are impressionable and easier to indoctrinate than adults. What is surprising about this piece of legislation, however, is the addition of homosexuality to the list of illegal discussion topics. According to the text of the bill: “At no time may instruction be provided, including responses to spontaneous questions raised by students, regarding any means or methods that facilitate or encourage the violation of any state or federal criminal law by a minor or an adult.” This means that if a Utah student asks a teacher a question about a prohibited topic — like homosexuality — it is illegal for the teacher to answer the question. Many gay teens are afraid to discuss their orientation with their parents because they are scared of losing their support. Gay students should be able to get advice and support from teachers and administrators at their schools. We cannot erase homosexuality by making it an illegal discussion topic. Gay students will continue to go to school in Utah. If the suicide rate of gay teens increases in Utah, we will know who is to blame.
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f you speak before a congressional committee about the benefits of contraception, it’s possible that Rush Limbaugh thinks you’re a slut. Depending on his mood, you may be a prostitute too. If it’s sunny outside and the coffee’s still warm, it might cross his mind to call you these things on his radio show. He will repeat them Bryan if you’re short of hearWashington ing. It’s a program he’s paid at least $50 million a year to host for three hours a day, five days a week. Coming from a man who earns $17,000 a year, someone earning $128 a minute to provide self-coined “conservative talk” knows what he’s saying when he claims you’re wasting the government’s money. He is justified — even obligated — to speak slanderously of you on syndicated public radio, so he will. And after he does, he just might apologize. Keep in mind that a Rush Limbaugh
apology is no ordinary one — there’s a message within the message, but you’ll need a map and a compass to find it. When he tells you he chose “the wrong words” to describe you, he isn’t taking them back. He simply committed a technical error. There are so many sexual slurs that it’s only natural to pick the wrong one, but it won’t happen again. Next time, he’ll compare your reproductive habits to those of a rabbit on the prairie. It will be a liberal rabbit with a family of 1,400. He will call you these things, and this time he will not apologize. He will have chosen the right words. Regardless of the past being the past, he’ll post the transcript of his slip-up online in spite of it. He owes it to his listeners who may have missed that afternoon’s program. But amongst his 3,000,000 daily followers, one of them might be the president, who will take it upon himself to personally call you and apologize on Limbaugh’s behalf. Another might be a sponsor. They contribute to his annual
A Rush Limbaugh apology is no ordinary one. There’s a message within the message ... When he tells you he chose ‘the wrong words’ to describe you, he isn’t taking them back. He simply committed a technical error.” earnings. Pro-Flowers, Carbonite, Quicken Loans, and LegalZoom may not support these comments, even accidentally. They might pull their advertisements from his slot. Mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number may also pull out. They don’t believe that an individual should be persecuted for their sexual habits. But when Sarah Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown University, spoke before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee in February, she couldn’t have known these WASHINGTON continues on page 5
Time to crunch some numbers S tudents phobic to numbers won’t want to hear this, but knowing your way around statistics and data is more vital than ever. Everyone from retail corporations to media organizations want employees who know math and numbers. On David the bright side, mathHaydon ematics and economics majors can no longer claim a monopoly on the territory. “There is going to be an increase in the people needed who crunch data. There is just so much data,” political science professor Kent Tedin said. “What we need to do is what I presume the Economics (department) does
— handle and analyze data in a sophisticated fashion.” Tedin teaches public opinion, among other statistics courses, and has good news for students who nearly failed high school algebra: “It’s not that hard. You don’t have to be a math whiz to learn this sort of data analysis,” he said. The New York Times published Steve Lohr’s article “The Age Of Big Data” in February, stating that there is an increased demand for data analysis by employers and a lack of analytical employees. The data is available thanks to our morally dubious but popular friends Google, Facebook and Twitter. Even with the rise in demand, UH has yet to implement much math or statistics into the College of Liberal
Arts and Social Sciences, at least where the political science department is concerned. “The bottom line is, we don’t offer enough in undergraduate political science to compete in the market. It would have to be one of our graduates that focused on statistical math methods,” Tedin said. “Currently we have two (undergraduate) courses, Introduction to Research Design and Statistics. They’re electives, and not many students take them.” The solution is to increase the amount of data classes for undergraduates, but if there is one thing people fear more than math, it is change. “My proposal is that all of our
friends that have AT&T, they are not running to a newspaper and detailing that we should cancel our accounts. It is sad that some companies only support LGBT because that will give them an edge in sales by promoting that they support LGBT. The Bible, according to Christians, is against homosexuality but NOT against homosexuals or lesbians. Christians should love everyone because we are all human beings. We do not know if the owner of Chick-fil-A has gay friends, he probably has friends but is against homosexuality. I have gay friends, but I am against homosexuality. Should I stop talking to them? Absolutely not. They can do what they want with their lives, they have feelings, they bleed like I do, they feel like I do, they breathe the same air I do. I might not agree with what they do but
I have come to learn that Christianity accepts all people, with the love of Jesus Christ. I have never eaten at Chick-fil-A, even after learning years ago that it was owned by a conservative Christian. I was shocked that they were closed on Sundays. I thought “that is not a good sales strategy, they are losing money by closing on Sundays.” But, they are true to their beliefs. If we try to find a political agenda for everyone, we will find one. If I do not want to support an organization, that does not make me less of a person. If I do not want to support Chick-fil-A, it is not because I am a bad Christian. If I do not support LGBT it is not because I do not care about people or hate gays.
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LETTERS “Students do away with Chickfil-A” It is absurd and poor journalism to write such a biased article, even if it is an opinion. To state that one must stop eating at Chick-fil-A because it supports organizations that are anti-gay is ridiculous. Should all Christians stop buying from AT&T, Chevron, Best Buy, Target, Abercrombie & Fitch, Starbucks and the almost 200 companies that support LGBT? Absolutely not. These companies provide great products and/or services, although sometimes horrible. We buy Starbucks because we love coffee, we are excited about fraps, we are awakened by the aroma of great coffee. We are buying a product. If the people running the show want to be political, that is up to them. I have many Christian
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things. Or maybe she did. Maybe she was aware that an opinion, regardless of what it is, may be disagreed with, but should never serve as grounds for a personal attack. With these unwritten societal truths in mind, she spoke freely and with conviction about a matter that gravely concerned her. And because she chose to speak, she moved boundaries with her words, which, while inciting disagreement with some, may inspire bravery in others. Her words were honest, and an honest contention is worth more than commercial slander ever could be. Ask Rush Limbaugh. Bryan Washington is a sociology freshman and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.
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undergraduates take two-thirds of their work in political science courses and one-third of their work in statistical and quantitative courses,” Tedin said. “But if we were to require a third of the courses be quantitative, we’d probably lose (political science) majors.” Liberal arts seniors who threw away their electives on Mickey Mouse classes might assume it’s too late to learn. They’re almost in the workforce after all, and it would take a few semesters of statistics and calculus to catch up. “In the summer, go to a community college, and take (Microsoft) Excel,” Tedin said. “You’ve got to know college algebra, calculus probability and a little about integral calculus. Really not much.” Prepping for a data career after quick classes of Excel and Calculus might contradict with the fact that economics and math seniors are leagues ahead. Still, having something for an employer is better than nothing. “At some point they’re going to ask ‘What can you do?’ And you can say, ‘I can run Excel and I can do statistical data analysis of whatever data you have. I can get this stuff ready for you’,” Tedin said. Tedin challenged students in his public opinion course this semester to join the Survey Data Analysis program at UC Berkley, proving the relative ease of such data skills. “Political data analysis skills might require a fair amount of work, but it’s nothing that the students in my class can’t handle,” Tedin said. “They’re starting from scratch and they’re picking up on it fairly quickly.” As pointed out in the New York Times article, the methods to organize and analyze data existed well before social media reached into the internet and pulled all the data out. It’s like an old trick for a new dog. “I’m not developing anything new,” Tedin said. “I take the stuff that other people have developed any simply apply them to social problems.“ David Haydon is a political science senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.
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UH’s guards shot 8-38 against the Miners in their 67-62 overtime loss to UTEP on Wednesday night at FedExForum in the opening round of the Conference USA Tournament. UH finishes the year with a 15-15 record. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
The Cougars’ season ended on Wednesday night in the opening round of the Conference USA Tournament thanks to a late push by UTEP. After seeing their eight-point second half lead vanish, the Cougars found themselves in overtime and they just couldn’t put the ball in the bucket. “We settled for too many jump shots and we missed too many free throws,” head coach James Dickey said. UH went 2-9 in the extra period and missed both of its free throw attempts. The Cougars’ guards had a woeful shooting night. UH guards Joseph Young, Darian Thibodeaux, Jonathan Simmons and J.J. Thompson combined to shoot 8-38 from the field. As a team, UH shot 38 percent from the field, making just four of its 23 three-point attempts and six of its 15 free throw shots. “When you analyze the whole game, there’s two things in my mind,” Dickey said. “One, we weren’t efficient enough offensively
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The Cougars lost two different types of games on Wednesday night at Cougar Softball Stadium. In the first part of their doubleheader, the Cougars were outslugged 12-7 by No. 11 Louisiana-Lafayette, and in the second match they lost a lowscoring affair 3-2. UH jumped out to a quick two-run lead in the first game with a Jamie Edwards home run, and doubled their lead in the fourth inning when Haley Outon hit a two-run shot. Outon and Edwards each recorded multi-hit games. The Cougars held the Ragin’
Cajuns scoreless until the fifth inning. UH surrendered three runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth to fall behind 7-4. A Sydney Gerbracht three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth forced extra innings. The Cougars and Ragin’ Cajuns battled three more innings, until LouisianaLafayette exploded for five runs in the top of the ninth to seal the 12-7 win. UH starter Ty’ara Law lost just one inning. In relief, Diedre Outon went three-and-twothirds innings, allowing three earned runs, and Summer SOFTBALL continues on page 7
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down the stretch, and two, you’re not going to win many games when your guards go 8-for-38.” Guard play had been an important part of UH’s late-season run, but UTEP contained UH by mixing up its defenses, switching between man-to-man and several different zone attacks. Forwards Alandise Harris and TaShawn Thomas each reached double-doubles. Harris carried the Cougars with a game-high 25 points on 11-16 shooting to go with 12 rebounds. Thomas scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Coming out of a timeout with 14 seconds remaining in regulation and the score tied 58-58, UH drew up a play to get Harris the ball. “We probably spent a little too much time in the backcourt,” Dickey said. “I think he got it with about four seconds. We should have gotten it to him a little bit earlier and certainly a little bit deeper towards the basket. “Our guys, they’re disappointed, I’m disappointed. We just have to go back and get a few different pieces and we’ve got to get better.”
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Reina Gaber came into Wednesday’s games hitting .431, but went 0-7 in UH’s two losses. | Hendrick Rosemond/The Daily Cougar
The Cougars will continue their road swing this weekend as they head to Mississippi to take on the No. 14 Ole Miss Rebels. The three-game series gets underway at 6:30 p.m. on Friday at Swayze Field. After stranding several runners in their first road loss of the season, the Cougars (6-6) need to correct a few things if they hope to avoid singing the Mississippi blues. “We just need to go out there and perform the way I know we can,” head coach Todd Whitting said. “In order for us to be successful, we need to get some production from the three-, four- and BASEBALL continues on page 7
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Groholski gave up nine earned in four-and-a-third. Outon started the second game and went three innings, allowing one earned run. The Ragin’ Cajuns scored one run in the second and fifth innings, and the Cougars
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What the stars hold for your spring break Sarah Nielsen
THE DAILY COUGAR Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): I recommend that you find yourself a source of water for the finest form of relaxation: Purification. Whether you discover a good friend’s apartment swimming pool or a clear creek in the hill country, get your webbed toes in action and breathe easy. Aries (March 21-April 19): If you can find them, get tickets and go out for SxSW. Your engaging nature in a public sphere of such vivacity and loquacious environs as a bar on East Fifth will prove the best forum for reviving your genius. Taurus (April 20-May 20): You’ve got the planets of love and luck in your sign right now. Get outside, plow the social scene, and find yourself the springtime companion of your dreams. I recommend the earthy and relaxed atmosphere offered by Petrol Station, a manly bar off of Ella Boulevard serving cool, locally-brewed craft-only beers with hearty burgers to boot. Gemini (May 21-June 20): My dear friends of Mercurial passions, feed your imaginations and take a trip away from our city. Driving gets all gears going with the same motion and a short vacation will invigorate your soul. Cancer (June 21-July 22): Go home for a couple of days over spring break. Cook a five-course meal at home with friends or your favorite family member. Reminisce, relax and rejuvenate. Perhaps consider a pedicure while you’re at it. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Brilliant lion, take the opportunity to tan while you can. Catch up on reading for your classes. Get a new pair of shades for the season. And please, use natural sunshine. This is Texas, and we’ve got sun to spare. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While it might be enticing to hide away in the library or your favorite obscure café while everyone else is sunbathing, I recommend putting down your work for at least one weekend over the break and consider asking that cute whomever out to see a kitschy flick. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make yourself an awesomely peppy mix-tape (or playlist, if you’re not one for nostalgia) of entirely new and upbeat tunes. Take it with you everywhere over Spring Break and see if it gets you out of the academic funk you’ve been feeling. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This one’s for my favorite Scorpio who’s leaving me for France: Grrrlfriend, gather ye rosebuds while ye may, and know you can make gold of hay. Go for the stars over the break, and out of this good life, great memories make. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dreaming centaur, I figure that you might see your life’s dreams on the horizon. If you get the sense that a situation isn’t working out, take the fall and cut it loose. Use the spring break to leave an unpromising situation behind, and take a fresh step in your heart’s desire’s direction. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Work and responsibilities might be leaving you a bit low, and they might try to keep you from letting yourself enjoy spring break. I recommend setting time aside for yourself over the coming week, and do what you, your body and your mind need most: Chill. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ve got all the balls rolling in one direction, all the hens in their basket and some time to look back on your accomplishments this year. Breathe, stretch, sit down for a moment and pat yourself on the back. Then go out for a good time and get your groove on. arts@thedailycougar.com
Experts shed light ‘down there’ Speakers attempt to bring clarity to the most misunderstood part of a woman’s body Camila Cossio
THE DAILY COUGAR In an educational event aimed at bringing awareness to that elusive female part of the body, a movie was screened: Two vulva puppets dueled, frank discussions were had and attendees took part in crafting vulvas out of paper. UH’s Women’s Resource Center
hosted “Viva La Vulva” in the Pacific Room of the University Center on Tuesday. The event included free food, crafts, and an insightful discussion after watching the film “Petals: Journey into Self-Discovery.” Director of UH’s Women’s Resource Center Beverly McPhail and Vice President of Education at Planned Parenthood Meryl Cohen opened the event with the dueling vulva puppets. During the duel, McPhail and Cohen emphasized how each vulva is different and Cohen gave the audience a “Vulva 101,” in which she pointed out its different parts and how contrary to popular belief, the vulva is not the vagina. As a pamphlet from Planned
Parenthood read, “The vulva is the whole female genital ‘package’ — labia, clitoris, vagina, and the opening to the urethra. This part of (a woman’s) anatomy gets called lots of funny names — coochie, woo-woo, ‘down there’ — and it’s sometimes confused with the vagina.” Cohen and McPhail talked about how a lot of women are often afraid that their vulvas are deformed or that they have been stretched out, which can make them embarrassed of their body. “Petals: Journey into Self-Discovery” opened with a monologue by Nick Karras, a photographer whose work — a collection of photographs of the vulva VULVA continues on page 9
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Ladies vie for title at annual gig Pageant aims to crown Miss Black and Gold, help raise money for scholarships Allen Le
THE DAILY COUGAR After more than 100 female students auditioned to be a part of the scholarship pageant, only eight of the strongest contenders stood on stage before the audience. The 29th annual Miss Black and Gold scholarship pageant sponsored by the gentlemen of the Eta Mu chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity took place at the UH Hilton Hotel on Sunday. The event was held in the Hilton ballroom, which set the tone for the night — the men of Eta Mu were dressed in tuxedos, guests arrived in respectable attire and the décor was fitting for the occasion. A panel of five judges was selected to oversee the night’s events, including
Pageant winner Keirsten Andrews performed a self-written spoken word piece titled “I Am Here” during the talent segment of the competition. | Courtesy of Atarhe Clarke/The Daily Cougar Mia Wright, motivational speaker and co-pastor of the Fountain of Praise Church. The ladies had to demonstrate why they should be crowned as the next Miss Black and Gold by participating in six different categories: An introduction of themselves, casual wear, swimwear, talent showcase, formal wear and an oral expression. Each girl channeled her inner model by flaunting her fashion sense on stage as a part of the casual wear segment of the pageant.
The swimwear portion of the night served as a preview of what is to come this bikini season as the contestants bore a little skin and brought out their summer’s best, some even completed their looks with straw hats and sunglasses. Perhaps the most entertaining part of the night was the talent category. One contestant seduced the audience with her voice and piano playing ability. Two contestants chose PAGEANT continues on page 9
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Daniel Packard managed to provide a very enthusiastic and upbeat energy by himself. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
The words “Where are all the good men? Text answer to 22333” were projected onto a screen on stage in the University Center Houston Room as students filled the seats for a special evening of “sex therapy.” Students were there for speaker Daniel Packard’s “Live Group Sex Therapy” show, presented by the Student Programming Board on Tuesday night. After a while, responses began to materialize on the screen: “In the front row;” “Hiding under rocks;” “With your best friend!” As people discovered their texts were appearing on the screen, the atmosphere quickly became more like a high school boys’
locker room than an event meant to help people grow in their relationships. For maybe the first time in their lives, students were actually encouraged to keep their cell phones on throughout the entire performance in order to anonymously share their innermost thoughts about love, sex and dating. Packard, a self-proclaimed “social acupuncturist,” seemed to revel in the raucous energy of the crowd. He encouraged people to shout “Amen!” whenever they agreed with a point he made about relationships. “I wanna do this thing Baptist church-style,” he said. As the two-hour performance progressed, Packard shared personal stories about failed SEX THERAPY continues on page 9
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— is featured in the film. Karras compared the vulva to a flower. “‘Petals is about the most powerful part of the female anatomy,” Karras said. His subjects also noted that they began to see a resemblance with their vulvas to a tulip or a lily, and that realization helped them feel more comfortable with themselves. Karras said he began his project after recognizing that many women are uncomfortable with their bodies and feel a sense of shame in regard to their vulva.
He said that he began his collection of photographs to show the beauty in the vulva that is often under-appreciated. “If there’s a negative selfimage about the vulva there’s usually a negative self-image somewhere else,” Karras said. The video also highlighted negative trends that have become common including labia surgery to tighten the vulva up, emotional problems that women have with their vulva and misinformation like douching being healthy, when in reality it makes things worse. “The vagina is cleaner than the mouth,” Cohen said. The main message of “Viva La
Vulva” was to show the diversity of the human body and for both women and men to embrace their enigmatic parts. “That’s one thing that’s so great about sex: You can’t be an expert, (you will) always be learning,” Cohen said. Cohen underlined the importance of never comparing your body to others and more specifically, to never assume that something is wrong with your vulva because of how it looks. “Everyone is different and everyone feels things differently,” she said. “No two women are the same.” arts@thedailycougar.com
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to highlight their vocal abilities by singing soft and sweet melodies. There were also self-choreographed dances and self-written monologues that were performed in front of the judges and audience members. The most difficult and nervewracking part of the night was the end, when all of the ladies were welcomed back onstage in
their formal wear to answer some challenging questions in the oral expression category. Questions about appearance and image in society, current events, politics, LGBT rights and religion were asked. Junior English major Keirsten Andrews was crowned as the next Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant queen. Andrews said that she hopes to keep it simple while holding the title. “Hopefully, just by staying on the same path that I’m on right
now,” Andrews said. “Continuing to work hard in school; continuing to do well at my job; continuing to try to give back to the community with the nonprofit organization that I work for and whatever else I can possibly think to do.” In addition to being the recipient of a scholarship worth $1,500, Andrews also walked away with two plane tickets to anywhere in the US and a flat screen TV.
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and successful relationships and brought students on stage to do instructive role-playing exercises. He also utilized the interactive texting to help discuss topics like “What does a man want more? Sex or appreciation?” and “Do things like wealth and attractiveness ensure more love?” The wild atmosphere slowly shifted into one of quiet contemplation, punctuated occasionally by a few amens. By the end of the performance, the crowd seemed earnestly absorbed in every insight Packard had to share. Junior Tyler Folensbee initially expressed a little discomfort before the show began. “Seems like there’s just gonna be a lot of desperate people here,” he said. But by the end, he was shouting, “Amen” and “That’s what I’m talking about!” louder than anyone in the room. arts@thedailycougar.com
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