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Honors College to host screening of documentary The University of Houston will host a free screening of the film “An Encounter with Simone Weil,” directed and produced by Julia Haslett, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library’s Honors College Commons. Along with the screening, the event will feature a question and answer session with Haslett. The film follows the life of Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist and mystic who lived from 1909 to 1943. “Filmmaker Julia Haslett confronts profound questions of moral responsibility both within her own family and the larger world,” said a UH press release. “The film takes us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of what it means to be a compassionate human being.” — Cougar News Services
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Red Block Bash to provide free food, entertainment The Blaffer Student Association is putting on their Red Block Bash from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the School of Fine Arts’ courtyard. The event will feature free food and live entertainment, as well as activities, although the Blaffer Gallery is still closed for renovations. This event is free and open to all students. — Cougar News Services
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College dropped from rankings School misreported research expenditures, lost spot on top graduate universities in United States list Mohammed Haider
THE DAILY COUGAR U.S. News and World Report pulled the University of Houston’s College of Education from the magazine’s 2013 Best Graduate Schools because of the University’s overreporting of research expenditures in 2011. According to the magazine, the amount spent on research is a significant component when it comes to ranking a particular program in a college or university. Through this way, a school can offer a wide variety of
programs and services to the students. U.S. News and World Report measures financial resources by using the average spending per student on instruction, research, student services and related educational expenditures. Representatives of the college say the error was regretful and unintentional. The person filling out the report provided an accurate number for aggregate expenditures, but the magazine asked for annual expenditures. Both the aggregate and annual data were on the same page. “It’s simply a case of the person pulling
We feel bad about the mistake, but are confident the college did the right thing by reporting it.” Shawn Lindsey, on why the University reported the mistake the number from the wrong line. The correct figure should have been $3.5 million for RANKING continues on page 3
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Workshop outlines citing for academic writing Max Gardner
THE DAILY COUGAR A high demand from professors and students caused the librarians at M.D. Anderson Memorial Library to add a citation workshop, “Cite It Right for Academic Writing,” to the Spring 2012 Discovery Workshop series. Assistant Librarian Irene Ke instructed the workshop, which was held Friday in a basement classroom in the M.D. Anderson Library. “Our goal is to give students the skills so they can further develop themselves,” Ke said. “Whatever skills I have, I want to give that to students so they can carry on and be really successful in their careers.” The class began by incorporating clickers and a slide show of hypothetical situations to determine what students were specifically struggling with. Ke then moved on to exploring the differences between APA, MLA WORKSHOP continues on page 3
Students lined up on the College of Technology grounds, East Courtyard for free hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks during Grill Fest, which was put on by the College of Technology’s Student Body Council Thursday. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
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Grill Fest showcases students’ research College of Technology hosts event with free food, drinks, music John Loner
THE DAILY COUGAR Students braved the stormy weather Thursday for free food, drinks and music at the fourth annual Grill Fest on the College of Technology grounds, East Courtyard. The event gave students an
opportunity to display their current research, as well as capstone projects. The College of Technology’s Student Body Council — which is comprised of all the college’s student organizations chairs — hosted faculty, alumni, students and industry representatives. Dean William Fitzgibbon was on hand to kick-off the festivities and to also remind everyone about being safe. “This is a more informal way for the students to interact with the some of the companies that
have sponsored the event,” said Director of Development Lisa Burns. “We do run several workshops educating students on how to network and interact, but this is for students to primarily relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the College of Technology.” President of Supply-Chain Industry and Distribution Organization and logistics senior Christopher Lazok said the University provides each individual GRILL FEST continues on page 3
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students speaking up and now TDC speaking up. Let’s get it done. What are some of the ideas floating around out there? If we begin this discussion now, it’s very possible (in my mind) to have something in place by fall. Would love to hear from you all. Post on here or email jjgogets@uh.edu” — user “Jared Gogets” Re: Striking out breast cancer
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No end in sight for parking woes Students struggle to find parking spots while UH tries to create solutions
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THE DAILY COUGAR With the ever-increasing student body at the University of Houston, parking is one of the most glaring issues students face, and Parking and Transportation Services has begun construction on a parking garage near Robertson Stadium. Construction began in August, and the garage is supposed to be completed by May. The new garage will be able to accommodate 2,300 vehicles, making it the largest parking garage on campus. “I would pay a lot more for a parking spot if it’s guaranteed,” said computer science sophomore Kevin Moreira. UH sells three parking passes per parking spot, and many students are forced to wait for spots
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annual research expenditures. The $13.4 million figure is aggregate research expenditures over multiple years,” said Shawn Lindsey, assistant director of media relations. When the college representatives found out about the error, they immediately reported the mistake. In order for a University to reach the goal of Tier One status, it has to produce top-notch programs that are nationally ranked. The amount of money spent on research is what sets Tier One universities apart from other
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and Chicago citation styles. She emphasized the importance of being able to properly read all forms and distinguish between the different types of sources being cited by looking only at the citation itself. “Scholarship is built on clarity and consistency so that we can all understand each other,” Ke said. “You are only one scholar out of this entire field, so you need to communicate clearly.” Ke then covered the differences between direct quotes, paraphrases and summaries. She stressed the importance of limiting the amount of direct quotes in academic work and the benefits of paraphrasing when done correctly. To further illustrate her point, she used a soup and salad analogy, where the soup represented paraphrasing and the salad direct quoting. With a soup, you take different flavors and add them to the soup, but it cooks and is more of your creation, said Ke. Whereas with
to become available. “Parking is horrible,” said broadcast journalism junior Toran Nooshabadi. “The economy lot is always full and (in) the garage, I stalk people to find a spot.” UH does offer a limited number of parking spots to students who live on campus and buy a more expensive residential pass, and students can park in any student or economy lot after 5 p.m. Students are often late for class, and while some professors give students leeway, others are less understanding. “If I’m more than 10 minutes late for class, I’m marked as absent,” said psychology sophomore Clayton Kriewaldt. Some students opt for the more expensive garage parking passes, which offer students parking without the hassle of waiting for spots to become available. Students also have the option to park at Energy Research Park and ride the Eastwood/ERP Cougar Line shuttle. ERP has
institutions. U.S. News and World Report is a premier magazine for high school seniors to view when selecting colleges. The removal of the ranking can have an impact on future students and other institutions that are also ranked. “If the college was removed from the rankings due to the reporting error, I would hate for it to become a disincentive for other institutions to do the right thing and self-report similar errors. “We feel bad about the mistake, but are confident the college did the right thing by reporting it,” Lindsey said. The College of Education has
“Our goal is to give students the skills so they can further develop themselves... Whatever skills I have, I want to give that to students so they can carry on and be really successful in their careers.” Irene Ke, on why the workshop was developed a salad, anything you add in is exactly what it was — a carrot is a carrot and a tomato is a tomato. There were exercises that required the students’ participation throughout these different topics. Environmental engineering student Aparna Balasubramani found the information valuable. “I’m in grad school and there’s going to be a point where I start writing papers, so I need to know how to cite things properly,” Balasubramani said. “Specifically, now I know what to cite and what not to cite.” Psychology student Louis Berg also thought the class was beneficial. “I wanted to have a better
500 parking spots and does not require a parking permit. Construction of new parking spaces has resulted in a 35 percent increase in parking rates, and a 15 to 20 percent increase over the next four years if UH builds more than one garage at a time. To add new parking spaces, whether in the form of lots or garages, Parking and Transportation Services must take out bonds, which are paid back over 20 years. Parking at UH is considered an auxiliary service and, by state law, can only use money generated by fees and fines when it adds parking. Parking and Transportation Services plans on breaking ground on UH’s fourth parking garage, which will be located near Moody Towers, in 2015. UH broadcasts updates on parking throughout the day via Twitter at www.twitter.com/ UH_Traffic. news@thedailycougar.com
put controls in place to make sure that all self-reported data is double-checked for accuracy before submission. UH is not the only college that misreported its information, however. In the same magazine, University of St. Thomas law school in Minneapolis, Minn. was stripped of its ranking when the school misreported graduate employment data. Instead of recalculating the data, U.S. News and World Report moved the law school to an unranked category, just like it did with the UH College of Education. news@thedailycougar.com
Grill Fest was a collaborative effort between all technology student organizations to help them network and showcase their research. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
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organization with money to use for specific events. “Each organization tends to use their money separately on single small events, we decided to group all of our money together for one single purpose,” Lazok said. Grill Fest allows for more interaction between students due to the sheer size of the event
and the number of student-run organizations. “People from all the different organizations, meeting with each other about what degree plans are available, discussing what classes they are taking, what professors they have — it’s just a big melting pot, so to speak,” he said. “This is basically how it works in the real world — you get people who can work together for an event.” news@thedailycougar.com
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understanding of how to incorporate citations,” Berg said. “There were some things she explained, such as the paraphrasing and summaries, that was very interesting and helpful.” The Discovery Workshop series is a part of the Learning Through Discovery initiative that began in 2008 as the University was applying to be re-accredited, said Veronique Tran, director of the Quality Enhancement Plan for undergraduate research. “We are trying to make research more accessible as well as show the practicality of it so that students will embrace it and understand it’s something they really need,” Tran said. “We are trying to bridge that research and education mission together.” There are three workshops left in the spring 2012 series. The next will be the “Developing Effective Power Point Presentations” workshop on April 10, an online webinar led by head of Information and Access Services Lee Hilyer. Students can register at www.uh.edu/discovery. news@thedailycougar.com
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he Daily Cougar was on the receiving end of frequent charges of journalistic bias last week in regard to its coverage of the SGA voter fraud scandal. Some of the individuals who made the charges claimed that the Cougar has a journalistic vendetta against one of the disqualified candidates. Others claimed that the Cougar published false information in an attempt to sway the decision of the SGA Court of Appeals.
However, we stand behind everything that we have published dealing with the SGA voter fraud scandal. We never published any false information about the scandal. We verified all of our information in regard to the scandal with the appropriate sources before any of that information was printed. Furthermore, no one at the Cougar has an agenda against any of the candidates who were disqualified due to the voter fraud. Even if any of them did, they would not allow that agenda to pervert the integrity of the Cougar. We applaud the justices of SGA’s Court of Appeals for exercising restraint and wisdom in the way they handled the voter fraud scandal. We also applaud James Lee for taking upon himself the difficult task of coming forward and admitting to participating in the voter fraud. He showed a lot of courage in his willingness to come forward. The Cougar would like to formally congratulate Cedric Bandoh and Turner Harris for their recent appointments. We look forward to seeing the work they will do at our university on behalf of the student body. We have published several staff editorials since the beginning of this semester calling for SGA to begin rebuilding the reputation of their organization. Last week’s hearings indicate that they are making an honest effort to do so. We hope that they continue on this trend under the new administration.
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Can’t afford not to care There is too much at stake in the struggle between law and health
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ven after the second anniversary of its passing, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a magnet for controversy. Much of the act has yet to go into effect, but as provisions become effective, they Emily enter the cross hairs Brooks of pundits and politicians across the nation. The Supreme Court is deliberating on the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the act — which requires individuals not covered by employer or public health insurance plans to purchase private health insurance policies. Before that, the 24-hour news cycle erupted over hormonal birth control being considered as preventative care and covered at 100 percent. In the mire of all of these debates, it’s easy to forget what we are already paying for. According to the Census Bureau, almost 50 million Americans were uninsured last year, including 19 percent of 18- through 24-year-olds. While some of these individuals might be able to afford general care like primary physician visits and, if they are lucky, possibly simple outpatient surgery, emergencies are a whole other story. An uninsured, seemingly healthy college student can be bankrupted in an instant by a single car accident or an unexpected cancer diagnosis. While those who oppose government regulation of any kind, including health care, might be able to say “let him die,” hospitals are fortunately, legally bound to provide care to those who need it. In 1986, Congress passed the
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which allows individuals who have lost their jobs to maintain their health insurance coverage at a significantly higher price for a certain period of time. The bill also included the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which requires hospitals and emergency facilities to treat any patient experiencing an emergency, regardless of insurance or ability to pay. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that currently, up to 55 percent of US emergency care is entirely uncompensated. The EMTALA makes no mention of reimbursement for these services. So, how can hospitals afford to treat these patients? Property taxes. A percentage of state property tax revenue goes directly to the support of hospitals, schools and other local organizations. As American taxpayers, we are already paying for the health care of the nation’s uninsured, and we are doing it in the most financially inefficient manner possible. The scale of this financial inefficiency is easily illustrated by the fact that those without insurance are far more likely to procrastinate treatment. Without the money to see a doctor, a simple and treatable condition such as tonsillitis can become a lifethreatening emergency in the form of an airway-blocking abscess. Now instead of the patient’s care costing no more than an office visit and an antibiotic, the patient must turn to a hospital emergency room for surgery, which must be performed by a specialist. This is why the Affordable Care Act
not only mandates that non-covered individuals purchase their own insurance, but also covers preventative care at 100 percent to incent individuals to seek out care early, when it is less expensive and more effective. The mandate was originally a conservative idea designed by Bush advisors and conservative Mark Pauly when he was tasked to come up with a free market solution to the problems in our health care system. His solution was a conservative one, rooted in personal responsibility. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was, until recently, so proud of the effectiveness and success of the health care program he implemented in Massachusetts precisely because he felt the backbone of the system was a conservative solution — the individual mandate. Successful state health care programs — such as Romney’s in Massachusetts — laid the Affordable Care Act’s foundation. As a society, Americans have always taken care of one another. As a matter of policy, we do not deny needed health care to those that cannot afford it, and we are not about to start now. The Affordable Care Act, while flawed, at least makes it possible for more US citizens to have access to cost-effective health care and reduces the number of uninsured burdening the system with the costs of delayed care. No bill is perfect, and it may not be the exact program we wanted to see, but it’s a step in the right direction for patients and taxpayers alike. Emily Brooks is an economics senior and may be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com.
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Hall of Fame overlooks one of the game’s greats The opening sentence on the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s website about its history is, “Since Joshua 1959, the NaiSiegel smith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has honored and celebrated the game’s greatest moments and brightest stars.” The purpose of museums is to educate. The Basketball Hall of Fame is a museum. Its walls keep alive the game’s greatest stories and legacies of the best and most influential. But the story of the game that it attempts to tell its visitors about is incomplete. Former University of Houston basketball head coach Guy V. Lewis was passed over by the Hall’s voting committee again this year. And it’s ridiculous. Lewis became eligible for election in 1999. His eligibility expired in 2007. Since first becoming eligible, the Hall has enshrined WNBA coaches, coaches from Yugoslavia, Euroleague coaches and high school coaches. That’s a joke. It’s not wrong that those people were put in the Hall — they’re all worthy, but not more worthy than Lewis. Lewis, 90, is the owner of 593 career wins, coached five teams to the Final Four, developed three of the NBA’s Top 50 players, coached in and won arguably the sport’s most important game ever and he also broke down racial barriers in the 1960s that helped the game evolve into what it is today. Lewis was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007, but that’s not the point. The Naismith Hall of Fame is the big fish and Lewis deserves to be there. Lewis patrolled the sidelines at Hofheinz Pavilion with his trademark red and white checkered towel for 30 seasons. His coaching career began in 1956 and took off in 1964 when he recruited Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney and they helped lead the Cougars to two Final Four appearances. Lewis was one of the first major college coaches to recruit AfricanAmerican players and the Cougars success with Hayes and Chaney caused other coaches, especially in the south, to take notice and follow his lead. “There were no schools in the South, basically, recruiting black athletes,” Hayes said in an Associated Press article. “He paved the way in basketball. You watch LSU, Kentucky, Alabama now, they have all these great black athletes. These schools weren’t even looking at them back then.”
In addition to his historical and cultural contributions to the game, Guy Lewis also boasts a resume with impressive numbers: Lewis is the longesttenured head coach in UH history, manning the sidelines from the 1956-57 season until 1986-87.
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Lewis’ 592 career wins rank him as the winningest coach in UH history and 33rd all-time in Division I. Lewis coached the Cougars to three 30-win seasons and winning records in 27 straight seasons. The Cougars reached the NCAA Tournament 14 times under Lewis and made it to the Final Four five times.
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Lewis helped produce 29 NBA players in his 30 years. Ten of those players were taken in the first round. The standouts include: Elvin Hayes, Don Chaney, Dwight Jones, Otis Birdsong, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon and Michael Young.
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Elvin Hayes (44) and Don Chaney (24) helped Guy Lewis lead UH to back-to-back Final Four appearances. | Courtesy of UH Athletics Lewis was also the driving force behind the “Game of the Century” that pitted the No. 2 Cougars against No. 1 UCLA and coaching legend John Wooden. The Cougars won 71-69 as Hayes battled Bruin’s phenom Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It was the first prime time nationally-televised regular season college game and filled the Astrodome with 52,693 spectators — an unprecedented mark at the time. Lewis’ success continued in the 1980s with UH’s Phi Slamma Jamma teams that reached three straight Final Fours with Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. Lewis retired after the 1986-87 season. Hayes, Olajuwon and Drexler are all Hall of Fame inductees and were
voted members of the NBA’s Top 50 Players in 1996-97. All three have campaigned for Lewis’ induction. Hayes was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990, but has boycotted it since in support of Lewis. The Naismith Hall of Fame is not like the halls that other sports have. Baseball and football both have halls that deal specifically with the pro leagues. Because the Basketball Hall of Fame encompasses all leagues and levels of basketball accomplishments, the standards for election have always been vague. In baseball, 300 wins, 500 home runs and 3,000 hits usually serve as benchmarks for induction of players. The basketball hall of fame is more subjective. Adrian Dantley is in the hall, but not Bernard
King. Van Chancellor is in, but Guy Lewis isn’t. Hortencia Morcari was inducted in 2005. Do you have any idea who that is? No. Nobody knows who that is. It’s ridiculous. Without honoring Guy V. Lewis, the Naismith Hall of Fame is leaving gaping holes in the story of the game. He was a fan of the dunk at a time when it was not popular. Without him, there is no Game of the Century, there is no Phi Slamma Jamma, maybe Elvin Hayes doesn’t become one of the ten greatest power forwards ever, maybe Hakeem doesn’t become one of the five greatest centers ever, surely African-American players would have populated rosters eventually, but Lewis made that a reality
Three of Lewis’ players — Hayes, Olajuwon and Drexler — were selected as members of the NBA’s Top 50 team. Hayes led the league in scoring as a rookie and retired with career averages of 21 points, 12.5 rebounds and two blocks per game. Drexler and Olajuwon teamed up to bring two championships to the Houston Rockets. sooner. It’s a crime for his legacy to not be celebrated and honored. Lewis is an important part of the history of the game of basketball and the Naismith Hall of Fame should reflect that by inducting him. Lewis did not get enough votes to stay on the Hall of Fame ballot in 2006-07, but will be eligible for election again in 2013. In an Associated Press article, Drexler put the Hall’s omission in simple terms. “Guy Lewis is the Dean Smith of the South, and if you don’t put him in, that’s a great disservice to anyone who’s ever picked up a basketball in the South.” sports@thedailycougar.com
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Upstart DJs drop beats in ‘screwed up’ battle Alex Pechacek
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Students from UH’s School of Theatre & Dance rehearse pieces choreographed by fellow students during rehearsals in March. The event “Opus” took place at the Barnevelder Theatre downtown. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
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Six students closed out a conference honoring the late DJ Screw in true hip-hop fashion — by battling on the disc jockey decks. Hosted by Rice University’s Houston Enriches Rice Education Project, the “2012 College DJ Battle: Honoring the Legacy of DJ Screw” on Wednesday night ended the two-day “Awready! Houston Hip Hop Conference.” The evening was hosted by Zin and featured DJ judges CAREFREEBX2TX, DJ Ebonix, DJ Supastar and Bobby Phats. The event began with a speech by Lil’ Randy, a member of the Screwed Up Click, who recalled one of Screw’s more glorious feats. “DJ Screw went to New York and battled them in the same type of battle that we are having here today, and he came out victorious in that battle. Why? Because he was the most creative and he had a sound that they had never heard before.” The battle inside Rice’s Grand Hall consisted of a total of six DJs representing five different colleges: DJ Burn and DJ
Bluetooth of Texas Southern University; DJ Elevated of Prairie View A&M University; DJ Wall Street of Sam Houston State University; DJ General Mealz of Grambling State University; and DJ Hustle City of Lone Star College. Each DJ was granted a three-minute set per round and were judged on four main factors — intro, creativity, audience interaction and outro. After some low first-round scores, the crowd groaned, but the judges were quick to defend their decisions. “I’ve been at battles since the early ’90s, ok?” CAREFREEBX2TX, co-host of The Groove on 90.1 KPFT, said. “If y’all would have brought any of this to any of the professional battles, y’all would have gotten booed.” Zin followed up simplifying where DJs fell short, saying, “If you’re whack, you’re whack. If you’re dope, you’re dope.” DJ Supastar, who was a contestant on BET’s “Master of the Mix,” voiced her sympathy for a DJ with technical difficulties. “My computer froze on TV, so I know how that feels.” DJ Wall Street came through strong in the third round after eliminations, kicking
off with Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and following with UGK’s “The Game Belongs To Me.” He moved on to the next and final round where he battled Elevated. “I’m about to show y’all something that no DJ here can do,” Elevated said before making a beat from scratching and backspin on a single turntable with a single recording. Elevated proved victorious as the judges named him winner of the DJ Screw Legend Award. “Screw was really my first introduction to a DJ,” architecture graduate student Elevated said. Elevated said he was glad to be acknowledged by Lil’ Randy and DJ Chill and was happy to network with different DJs. Elevated will perform at the Prairie View Choice Awards on April 23. arts@thedailycougar.com
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THE DAILY COUGAR Audience members squeezed into bleacherstyle seats and crouched on the floor of the crowded Barnevelder Theater to see “Opus,” an annual show put on by students of the University Dance Theatre. Most of the Wednesday-night event was available in preview at March Madness, but the small venue was still packed with eager students, dancers and society members alike. Every dance was choreographed and performed by students, so the pieces themselves had a very raw power in their honest artistic expression. A large ensemble dance entitled “Ready-made Systems,” choreographed by Teresa Chapman, premiered at Opus. It began with the dancers in two lines, with each dancer stepping out of the line and performing a short, unique segment of choreography. By the end of the performance, the individual movements had spread, leading to the entire group executing the same steps together, then slightly out-of-sync. Chapman’s piece had obvious messages about the spread of an individual’s actions and the way that unity can be formed out of disparity. Another piece called “Speaker Effect” was choreographed by dance major Katey Tidwell. In this dance, a male and female duet interacted with a prop speaker on stage. The effect of the speaker induced the female to dance while her male counterpart sat in a dreamlike state. Eventually, she placed his hand on the speaker, and they both danced in response to the music and its influence on them. “This piece is meant to show the power of music, as well as different ways to feel and communicate with one another,” Tidwell said. She wanted the piece to reflect her previous experiences teaching dance to blind or deaf students and the ways of interaction that are used in situations where visual example or speech accomplishes nothing. The School of Theatre and Dance will host its annual Kinesthetic Symphony, an ensemble dance concert, April 27 through 29 at the Wortham Theater on campus. To purchase tickets, call (713) 743-2929 or visit www.theatredance.uh.edu.
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SPECIAL TO THE DAILY COUGAR Alison Leland, special assistant to the Provost and political science professor embodies compassion and courage. On Wednesday, 23 years after the death of her husband, congressman Mickey Leland, she had the hot table in a ballroom full of erudite scholars. Her table was one of many held at this year’s Great Conversation, the annual fundraiser for The Honors College held at the Houston Country Club. Leland, 30 at the time of the tragedy, speaks frequently about her students, is quite proud of their ability to discern truth from posturing. She ratchets up the word smart to an intergalactic level. Leland hosted the Rick Perry “Texas on the National Stage” table. “The Honors College is a place of ideas and discussion, so rather than having a dinner with one speaker, it’s exciting to see dozens of conversations going on at tables around the room,” Leland said. Adjacent to Leland was Assistant Dean Christine LeVeaux’s “Hope and Change” table populated largely by Democrats, including Bill Kelly, who served as chief of staff for Ellen Cohen during her days in the Texas Legislature. Conversation at that table moved so briskly, LeVeaux left her spinach salad untouched and moved straight into the main course of Tuscan breast of chicken. “The Great Conversation got its start 20 years ago when Jane Cizik wanted to share her exciting experience as a student in the Honors College with her friends in the community,” recalls Honors College Dean William Monroe, who hosted the table, “Tree of Life: The Films of Terrence Malick.” The event represents safe ground where religion and politics may be
President Renu Khator, who hosted “A Table Tour of India,” strolled through the “Great Conversation” along with Honors College Dean William Monroe. | Courtesy of www.AlexandersPortraits.com raised rather than repressed. One of the interesting things about the event, Monroe said, is how much the faculty learn. “Twenty years and over 500 conversations have changed the way we think of ourselves as professors and, in some cases, the direction of our research. We hope that the Houston community has benefited as much as we have,” Monroe said, as he finished his key lime mousse torte. “UH faculty don’t come to the event already knowing the answers — it’s not a lecture and it’s not a debate. People are hungry for real conversation.” “I was very impressed by the diversity of the topics and the flavor of the conversations,” said Latha Ramchand, dean of the C.T. Bauer College of Business. “I was delighted to meet several Honors College alumni that were business majors and was inspired to hear their stories. I would have loved to float around and spend time at each table.” Ramchand’s “big take-away” was
that while technology is bringing the community together in many ways, there is no substitute for face-to-face conversation. “The Great Conversation connects the University to the broader Houston community in a positive and personal way,” said Richard Murray, who hosted his 19th table for the Honors College. “I have had the opportunity to meet and talk with over 200 individuals since the event began.” The annual fundraiser has attracted more than $2 million over the years for student scholarships. Chairs for this year’s event are Deborah Brochstein and Connie Simmons Taylor, an Honors College alumna. The event’s format mirrors a class from the Honors core curriculum called The Human Situation, a two-semester, mandatory class for all Honors College students based on the Socratic model of dialogue between professors and pupils. arts@thedailycougar.com
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If the season is a roller coaster ride of up and downs, then the Cougars are in another freefall. The Central Florida Knights (23-6, 5-1 Conference-USA) rode into Cougar Field and swept the Cougars in the three-game series. With the losses, UH fell to 10-16 overall and 1-4 in Conference USA. “It seems right now if it’s not one thing, it’s another,” head coach Todd Whitting said. “If we hit, we don’t pitch and if we pitch, we don’t hit. And our defense is pretty consistently bad. “Until we can start putting at least two of the three together at one time, this is going to continue to happen.” In the series, the Cougars stranded 37 runners and were outscored 20-5 “We went out there and played our hardest,” infielder/pitcher Codey Morehouse said. “The cards aren’t falling our way right now. We just got to keep going out there and play as hard as we can.” In Sunday’s series finale, the Cougars had a battle on hand, but the Knights outlasted the Cougars 3-1 in a 10-inning affair. After giving up a home run to UCF centerfielder Ronnie Richardson, starting pitcher Austin Pruitt kept settled down and kept the Cougars in game. He pitched 8 1/3 innings, tossing a career-high 125 pitches (80 for strikes), allowing one run on six hits with six strikeouts. “I thought Pruitt was outstanding. He’s given us a chance to win just about every time he’s pitched,” Whitting said. “He is far and away the most consistent guy in our pitching staff right now. The Cougars tied the game up in the fourth inning when Price Jacobs laid down a sacrifice bunt that scored Morehouse from third. The game stayed knotted up at one run apiece until the Knights
put a two-spot on the board in the 10th frame for the win. Saturday the Cougars jumped out to a 1-0 lead after Landon Appling’s fielder’s choice scored Jacobs, who reached base via a Knights’ error. Unfortunately, that was the only run the Cougars would push across on the night. UCF’s starting pitcher, Chris Matulis, went six innings allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts. The Cougars had five hits for the game and stranded a season-high 15 runners. Taylor White led the offense with a 2-for-3 performance and three other Cougars had one hit apiece. The Knights used a six-run fifth inning to break the game open and they never looked back. They added two more runs in the seventh and an additional run in the eighth to bring the score to its final mark of 9-1. In the series opener, the Cougars fell by the mark of 8-3. The Cougars surrendered a second inning run that put the Knights up 1-0. UH responded in the bottom half of the next frame by pushing two runs across for a 2-1 lead. The lead was short lived though, as the Knights came back and scored one run in the fourth, three in the fifth and two in the seventh, to balloon their lead to 7-2. The Cougars and Knights each scored one more run in the final frames. The good news for the Cougars is it is still early in the conference schedule, but the bad news is it doesn’t get any easier. After a midweek matchup with McNeese St., the Cougars head to Greenville, N.C. to take on East Carolina for their third C-USA matchup. “We know that there is still a lot of season left to turn it around. There’s going to be bumps along the way , but if we keep playing, we’re going to be fine. sports@thedailycougar.com