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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate talks hate speach, bylaws Audris Ponce

THE DAILY COUGAR The Student Government Association discussed hate speech on campus and an amendment to the constitution and bylaws at the senate meeting Wednesday at the Rockwell Pavilion in the M.D. Anderson Library. CLASS Senator Yessenia Chavez said she received a complaint from an LGBT advocate about hearing hate speech on campus from a member of the Bulldog Ministries. The ministry is known for their stance against the LGBT community, atheists and abortion. “Hate speech is very prevalent and when people listen to it they can become victims of it,” Chavez said. “When there is hate speech

being said on campus, it hurts me and it hurts my students too.” Chavez asked the senate if there was anything that could be done to prevent hate speech on campus without violating the freedom of speech. Sergeant at Arms Henry Velman said there is a difference between free speech and hate speech, but not much can be done unless the student breaks written rules. “As far as what you can do to stop it, counter protest is the best alternative,” Velman said. Social Work Senator Josephine Tittsworth said the senate could create a resolution to make a motion against hate speech. “The best you can do as a senator in the SGA is to draft a resolution saying the student body does not support hate words, hate speech, and then present it to the SGA as a

resolution,” Tittsworth said. “A resolution is simply a position of the senate.” Constitution and bylaws amendment SGA President Cedric Bandoh’s timeline to bring the constitution and bylaws amendments to the senate by next week was pushed back after a meeting with the task force. “We saw we needed to take a little more time to make sure we get it right the first time, because what we are doing here is going to totally change the organization,” Bandoh said. The constitution currently allows for members of the Court of Appeals to also be members of the hearing board, which Bandoh calls a “huge contradiction.” “You’re going to have the same people who just decided the case also deciding your

University board hearing decision,” Bandoh said. “That’s why we need to make a constitutional amendment to remove the court of appeals from that and to have independent students serve on the University hearing board.” Bandoh said he hopes to have the amendments to the bylaws and code completed and voted on by the end of the summer and implemented in the fall semester. Biker legislation Senator Tanzeem Chowdhury said a committee meeting will be called to discuss the University’s policy on motorcycle handicap parking. “That’s going to be done hopefully on Monday and brought to the senate floor on Wednesday,” Chowdhury said. news@thedailycougar.com

FACULTY

Professor awarded advertising honor Faculty member given ‘most outstanding’ title Jed Ocot

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tudents Aisha Bouderdaben, Sarah Wood and James Lee, along with Lutheran Campus Minister Brad Fuerst stand next to a member of Bull Dog Ministries Wednesday in front of M.D. Anderson Library. Fuerst’s sign reads, “I know a different Jesus,” and was in protest of the sign condemning homosexuals to hell. A crowd of students surrounded the man from Bull Dog Ministries later in the afternoon. | Photos courtesy of Mohammed Aijaz (top) and Diego Cervantes (left)

A UH professor was named the Most Outstanding Advertising Educator at the District 10 American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition on April 12. Larry Kelley, who teaches upper-level advertising courses in the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, has written seven books on the subject. In February, his students won seven gold and silver medals at the American Advertising Federation’s ADDY Awards. “To be named this for the entire district was a huge honor and a surprise,” Kelley said. “It’s even more surprising since I have only been teaching for five years.” The District 10 Conference was held in Shreveport, La. from April 11 to 13 and comprises colleges and universities in the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas

Larry Kelley is on the board of the Houston Advertising Federation and the American Association of Advertising Agencies. | Courtesy of Larry Kelley

Winning this award is quite an honor, but having students win national awards either through competitions or through scholarship is what I am truly proud of.” Larry Kelley, on his team’s performance in the competition. area. UH placed fifth out of 20 schools and were two points away from third place. Kelley said that he was more focused on the team’s efforts than anything else, including his own standing in the competition. “I felt the team had a good chance to win. As for myself, I ADVERTISING continues on page 3

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really had no idea that I was being nominated for this award.” Kelley said he believes someone may have nominated him and then sent his credentials to the District Governing body. UH may have not won at District 10, but Kelley’s award makes him one of 17 educators being considered for the National Advertising Educator of the Year Award. The senior members of AAF will determine the winner June 2 in Austin. “Winning this award is quite an honor,” Kelley said, “but having students win national awards either through competitions or through scholarship is what I am truly proud of.” Kelley said this is a great time to get into advertising for those that are interested. “With all the changes in communications, you really have an opportunity to re-write the rules,” he said. “Advertising is highly competitive. You have to make a commitment to strive to be the best. There is a fine line between good and great.” Kelley is also on the board of the Houston Advertising Federation and the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

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Rick Perry should abort his 2016 ambitions

ov. Rick Perry gave some horrifying information Wednesday during an interview with CBSDFW following a speech to the Plano Chamber of Commerce. Perry told the station that he is considering making another run for president in 2016 — this is hard news to digest. Actually, we don’t want to even have to digest it. Perry gave us enough indigestion during his 2012 primary run. “I’m certainly going to give that the appropriate consideration,” said Perry, regarding his 2016 presidential ambitions. “My instincts are very positive towards it right now, but we’ll wait until after the legislative session to make that announcement.” What? How does Perry even view this as an option? He must realize how much he embarrassed our state during the 2012 primary. He became the walking, talking, embodiment of every known Texas stereotype. Not to mention, the president — really, any elected official — should have the mental capacity to memorize lists that contain more than three bullets. This is what we recommend to Perry. If he is seriously considering running for president in 2016, he should stop by our office first. Once he gets here we will instruct him to lie down on our couch where he will be given the option to listen to a montage of embarrassing sound bytes from the 2012 primary season. If he decides he wants to listen to it, we will play our montage for him. After that is finished, we will describe to him why he should not run for president in 2016. It will be a very detailed — almost medical — explanation. When that is finished, we will tell him to take 24 hours to carefully consider his decision. Our hope, of course, is that after going through this ordeal he will decide to abort his nascent campaign.

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ustin is a leading voice in the nation for the protection of sheltered animals. This year, Austin became a no-kill city Christopher and saved 91 percent Shelton of animals from being euthanized unnecessarily. According to austinpetsalive.org, “A no-kill community is one that doesn’t kill healthy or treatable pets. There are many different interpretations of what ‘healthy and treatable’ could mean, but the communities leading the way have found that at least 90 percent of pets entering the shelter fit into one of these two categories. Thus, communities that are considered no-kill save 90 percent or more of the pets that enter the shelters.” Austin’s success hinged on crucial legislative victories because of its being a community that values its furry counterparts, but it didn’t happen overnight. It was a three-year process, but hard work paid off. Austin residents can be proud of their animal treatment policies. In Nov. 2009, Austin’s City Council passed a resolution which directed their city’s staff to work with Austin’s Animal Advisory Commission. The two came together to develop an implementation plan that was released by March 2010. The Commission recommended changes that would get Austin to a save rate of 90 percent.

On March 11, 2010, a bill including the recommendations passed Austin’s City Council with bipartisan support. It was a clean-sweep (7-0) decision. Perhaps the most visible facet of the bill is a moratorium on killing animals if cages are available, which sounds like common sense to me. Austin Animal Center is Austin’s only facility that kills. They do not turn away any animals, similar to Houston’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC). Before March 2010, if a dog did not meet the qualifications for adoption he was placed on the euthanasia list and was killed the following morning. According to nokillhouston.org, five shelters in Houston practice the same procedure, including BARC, Harris County Animal Control, Houston SPCA, Houston Humane Society and the Citizens for Animal Protection. Austin Animal Center helped remedy the problem by no longer producing a euthanasia list. They now produce a “no holds” list. If cage space capacity is reached, the animals on the aforementioned list are euthanized first. Rescue centers work in accordance with Austin Animal Center to save many of the condemned pets. Countless animals have been saved in Austin. In Houston, however, we leave the death of defenseless animals to a business decision. We have not succumbed to our

better angels. As a city which prides itself as a pet-friendly place, we can do better. We should do better. Mayor Annise Parker promised to nudge the city in a direction similar to Austin, in terms of animal treatment. Parker was given a No Kill questionnaire from then congress person, Jolanda Jones while on the campaign trail. She was asked, “Would you commit to making ‘no kill’ — defined as killing less than 10 percent of pets sheltered at an open-admission shelter — the official policy of Houston and support any laws or policy changes necessary to achieve this goal?” She answered, “Yes.” Unfortunately, the reforms have been miniscule and as a consequence, the results are miniscule. Houston is not close to attaining no-kill status. From 2010 to 2011 the kill rate at BARC has only dropped three percent. For March 2012, the kill rate for BARC was 46 percent. In March alone, 1,009 dogs and cats were euthanized at BARC, according to results BARC releases each month. Parker’s tenure in office was supposed to close the gap between Houston and Austin’s animal policies, but it remains the same. Christopher Shelton is a journalism junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com.

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Presidential campaign still haunted by dog

hen Gov. Mitt Romney was running for the United States Senate in 1994, a local newspaper ran a story describing the way Romney loaded up his “beloved” dog, Seamus, in a crate on the roof of his car during a trip from Boston to Canada in the summer of 1983. Alex The dog suffered Caballero diarrhea at one point, and Romney stopped at a local gas station to hose him down and then proceeded to put the dog right back up on the roof. Little did he know that this incident would haunt him today. Ann Romney defended her husband, saying, “The dog loved it. He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us

on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.” Some dogs like the smell and taste of rat poison, but it’s up to the owner to make sure the canine doesn’t hurt himself. Seamus might have seemed like he liked it, but the ride was obviously making him sick. Anytime something like this happens it’s up to responsible dog owners to notice their animal’s behavior and change the situation. Media and dog owners everywhere weren’t going to let Romney forget what he had done. These actions have put a damper on his current presidential campaign. However, Romney and his supporters have found some refuge in that old saying “fight fire with fire” because of a little golden nugget hidden in President Barack Obama’s memoir, “Dreams of My

Romney might defend his actions, but they were cruel. Some owners make mistakes, and maybe he didn’t realize Seamus would get sick, but there’s no excuse for keeping him on the roof of the car for the remainder of the trip.” Father.” In the book, Obama describes an incident where he was served and tasted dog meat in Indonesia. He talks about his culinary experiences with his stepfather Lolo. “With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner CABALLERO continues on page 5

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No need for TSA on buses

Since the TSA is going all Big Brother on the METRO system, we might as well all start wearing trench coats with mirrored sunglasses, carry duffle bags and ride the METRO rail from UH-D to Hermann Park. At least then the counter-terrorism experts will have some probable cause to justify their invasion of privacy other than finding a joint in some unlucky kid’s pocket.”

ep. Sheila Jackson Lee held a press conference last week to discuss the details for Houston’s newest safety initiative, which will supposedly help the METRO transportation system. In a nutshell, the Transportation Security Administration is going to have some counter-terrorism experts conduct random searches David with passengers Haydon on METRO buses. Hopefully these experts won’t be the same touchy-feely, crotch-groping people the TSA hires at the airport. Houston is the guinea pig for this program known as “BusSafe.” It started in Houston last week but will eventually be implemented in other metropolitan cities. The TSA counter-terrorism experts will ride the buses citywide, randomly check bags, randomly question passengers, do K-9 sweeps and have plainclothes officers at all the bus stops and rail platforms to keep their eyes peeled for “criminal” behavior. How about no? My backpack is my backpack, my laptop is my laptop and my pockets are my pockets. Citizens may be in public but the content of their belongings are not. This program will do little to

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prevent terrorism, and do more to invade the privacy of innocents while apprehending an occasional marijuana smoker or graffiti artist. Since the TSA is going all Big Brother on the METRO system, we might as well start wearing black, bulky trench coats, throw on a pair of mirrored sunglasses, carry duffle bags and ride the METRO rail from UH-D to Hermann Park. At least then the counter-terrorism experts will have some probable cause to justify their invasion of privacy other than finding a joint in some kid’s pocket. The BusSafe press release contained a quote from METRO Police Chief Victor Rodriguez, which highlights the problem with their reasoning on safety and prevention of terrorism: “We have one of the safest transit systems in the world in Houston. One way we are able to keep it that way is through the use of deterrents

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such as uniformed and plainclothes officers patrolling our system and aggressively addressing suspicious and criminal activity.” So people might be safer with TSA agents eyeballing their belongings. Safety shouldn’t be a replacement for freedom. And deterrents are not synonymous with prevention. You don’t prevent the flu by locking up people in clean rooms during the winter. As low-level as it is to bring in a strawman, people are going to say things like, “Do you want another terrorist attack?” and “The cost of freedom,” blah blah blah. Let me answer these now: There has not been, nor will there likely be, a terrorist attack on a Houston METRO bus. Why would Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the infamous underwear bomber, want to light his pants on fire on some no-name bus route in the middle of Third Ward? How would that

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bring down the US capitalist dogs oppressing people of the world? It wouldn’t, but for some reason the TSA thinks it’s likely enough to happen that we need agents on the bus. This TSA BusSafe program is fascism. That’s an overused buzzword these days, but BusSafe meets the definition. And it’s not the fun kind of fascism like Batman assaulting criminals in alleyways or the Galactic Empire sending the imperial army to kill the rebel alliance. This is the kind of fascism that makes you want to vomit. METRO already has a tough time as it is selling bus passes and encouraging people not to drive alone in cars. They’re going to have a much tougher time doing so with the TSA breathing down everyone’s necks.

(plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” reads the passage. The conservative media has pounced on this, and the mudslinging has begun. Yet, at least for Obama, it’s not so blackand-white. He was nine and ate what was served. This says more about Obama’s culinary boldness than it does about condoning cruel acts against animals. A child eats what you serve them, and it’s sort of ridiculous to attack him for trying new things. Whole cultures eat dog, and that’s the norm for them. Are we going to attack them too? Many Americans have said that they have tried dog when abroad. Some might find the idea of eating dog atrocious, but then again, foreigners might find what we put in our mouths equally as nasty. Things like the so-called pink slime that most ground beef has in it, as well as the genetically modified food we consume, have recently come under fire. Romney might defend his actions, but they were cruel. Some owners make mistakes, and maybe he didn’t realize Seamus would get sick, but there’s no excuse for keeping him on the roof of the car for the remainder of the trip. This obviously shows how uncaring Romney is.

David Haydon is a political science senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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The Cougars ended their regular season on a four-match win streak capped off by wins over Louisiana Tech and Grambling State and that success will help heading into today’s Conference USA Tournament. “We knew we needed to win out to secure good seeding and that’s exactly what we did,” head coach John Severance said. UH finished the regular season 13-7, its 10th straight winning season and eighth under Severance. The Cougars will meet up with Southern Miss today in Memphis, Tenn. The Cougars played a tougher schedule this season in a bid to claim a national ranking and it should pay dividends in the tournament. “Going into the conference tournament, I think we’re a more disciplined team, we don’t make the same mistakes we did earlier in the season and have cut down on the errors,” Severance said. “We’ve had a lot of close matches this season and sometimes the breaks didn’t go our way but we battled and that showed a lot about this team.”

UH has struggled on the road this season posting a record of 4-7 away from Cougar Softball Stadium. Tulsa is 11-2 at home. Not only would wins against Tulsa (30-9, 12-3) move UH up the conference ladder, the Cougars would also gain more notoriety nationally. Tulsa is ranked 34th in RPI while Houston are just behind at 46th. The series kicks off at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, with the game being televised on Fox Sports Net. Game two is set to play at 5:30 p.m. with the last game of the series coming Sunday at noon.

Kansas City Community College point guard Brandon Morris will join the Cougars as the fourth member of its 2012 recruiting class. “I had a great feel for the coaches and I wanted to be closer to home,” said Morris, who is from Alexandria, La. and attended Bolton High School. As a sophomore, Morris, 6-0, averaged 16.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, 4.9 assists and three steals per game in 31 games for the Blue Devils. In his two seasons at KCKCC, Morris led the Blue Devils to a 45-18 record. His play earned him a spot on All-Jayhawk Conference Second Team. “We are thrilled to have Brandon join our Cougar family. He is an explosive lead guard with great court vision,” head coach James Dickey said. “He can defend as well as score. Brandon will add experience to our backcourt.” Morris chose UH over Seton Hall, Mississippi State and Missouri State. The Cougars have one scholarship remaining that they will most likely use on another post player.

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THE DAILY COUGAR Head coach Todd Buchannan announced Tuesday that Elsik High School alumna and former Houston Baptist standout Destini Texada has decided to transfer to UH for her senior season. As a sophomore, Texada was an impact player for HBU, leading the team in scoring (12.3 ppg), rebounding (7.7 rpg) and shooting percentage (50.7). Texada was recruited by Buchannan at HBU while he was their head coach. As a freshman under Buchannan, she earned a spot on the Great West Conference All-Newcomer Team, averaging 8.6 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Texada will be eligible to play in Jan. 2013. sports@thedailycougar.com

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THE DAILY COUGAR The battle for first place in Conference USA continues as the Cougars play first-place Tulsa. UH (26-16, 11-4 C-USA) is tied with UAB for second place in C-USA and are just one game behind Tulsa in what has become a logjam at the top of the standings. The weekend series features the top two hitting teams in conference play and the only two teams with a combined average higher than .300. The teams are also on top for scoring. Tulsa averages 5.34 runs per game and UH averages 5.25.

The Cougars pitching staff will need to keep junior outfielder Caitlin Everett off of the base paths in order to stop the Hurricane’s attack. Everett bats .387 and has an on-base percentage of .431. Once on base, she wreaks havoc with her speed. Everett has stolen 30 bases in 34 tries, which is good for sixth best in the nation. She also has scored a team-high 42 runs. Anderson earns weekly honor For UH, infielder Holly Anderson has gotten hot at the right time. The Conference USA Hitter of the Week has a 10-game hitting streak and had three multiple-hit games, while scoring six runs and stealing five bases.

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EDITOR’S NOTE This 2012 edition of the Green Guide has little to do with cliches like recycling plastic bottles. That harldy helps the world anyhow. The articles in this guide address more practical topics like medicinal plants, gardening in the city, and energy that doesn’t come from a liquiied dinosaur. Whether you ride a bike or drive a gas guzzling pickup truck, the next few pages are for everyone. There is no pretentious command to buy an overpriced Prius, and no overzealos suggestion to legalize Marijuana. Even the name of the guide is a misnomer. Green used to be a color, now it’s a synthetic status symbol. Much like how the symbol for an idea used to be an incandescent bulb. Hopefully we won’t have to switch to CFL’s to relay our ideas.

NEW IDEA by David Delgado

Guerrilla Gardening Guerrilla Gardening emerged during Nixon’s tenure, begat by Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla Bryan Washington group. Launching their assault on a decrepit private lot in front of the Bowery Houston room in ‘73, they transformed an attractive slab of concrete into an even more attractive assortment of roots and gardenias. Their practices were adopted all over the globe. And regardless of the catalyst, every forage in the dirt leads to the beautification of the community it took place in, an upstart in environmental awareness, and something pretty to pass by on the way to work. The last justification is especially important for Houstonites. Everywhere is sprawl. Everywhere that isn’t sprawl is surrounded by sprawl. And this sprawl, from the neat plots of nothing, to the all-encompassing abysses, doesn’t

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Herbalism for the novice The art of using plants as medicine is not rocket science or brain surgery, but practice anyway Using plants as medicine is an ancient practice, and is still popular with many people as an alterDavid native to chemical Haydon drugs. After all, herbs — plants with medicinal compounds — are the base block of pharmecutical study. A quick note on safety. Herbs are not a replacement for a professional physician. Many herbs can be dangerous when used in

excess or mixed with prescription medication. When seeing a doctor, always mention what herbs you might be taking. When preparing herbs, keep your workplace and utensils sterile. While store-bought herbs can be used in preparations, fresh herbs are best. Stored herbs should be kept in a cool dark place. Another safety note: using herbs in medicinal preparations is not the same as using them for culinary purposes. Do not cross

reference herbs for medicine and cooking. Professional herbalism requires years of study and practice, but an amaeteur herbalist can start by purchasing a book on herbs and gathering simple tools: a mortar and pestle, mason jars, sterile gauze strips and wire strainer are the core components. Learning how to grow and dry herbs is also important. The first step is to study. For example, St. John’s Wort (Hypericum Perforatum) can take up pages worth of information in even the most simple herbology book: —The flowering tops are used in preparations. —The Active ingridients are Flavonoid glycosides, tannins and volitile oils. —It can be bought as a tablet, capsule, tincture and oil. —It acts as an anti-inflammatory, antisteptic, astringent and sedative. —It treats burns, bruses, inflammation and infections. —It can cause sensitivity to sunlight when overused, and has been known to thin the blood. This is a hasty and abridged explanation for just one of the hundreds of herbs in existence. Even studying as an amaeteur can take months if not years. Still, most people, whether they know it or not, use herbs in one form or another. Whether it is from flowers, leaves, seeds or roots, most if not all active ingredients in modern drugs are extracted from herbs. Camphor is derived from

coniferous trees. Menthol is extracted from mint plants. Caffeine comes from tea and coffee. The difference is that an herb preparation incorporates most compounds of the plant, and modern drugs are the extracted concentrated form, usually synthetically derived. As such, herbal preparations are a much more mild and balanced approach. Water based preparations are the simplest, and usually come in the form of an infusion, poultice or decoction. All three use heated water to extract the benificial compounds from the herb. An infusion is an herb cooked in scalding water and drank for the desired effects. A simple cup of tea or coffee is an infusion. The amount of time per infusion and the amount of plant matter depend on the herb. Quick infusions (tea or coffee) take no longer than a few minutes and require no more than five grams of the plant per eight ounces of water. Herbal drinks from dandelion and burdock roots require longer steeping. A poultice is a topically applied infusion soaked into cloth. Herbs are usually mashed or macerated, left to soak in scalding to boiling water, wrapped in sterile gauze and then placed over a wound. Common poultices include oats for chicken pox, Eucalyptus and Peppermint for aching muscles, and garlic for fungal infections. Aloe Vera can be used in poultices for sunburns and cuts, but is generally not boiled after maceration. Decoctions are made by boiling the herbs over a long period of time, usually the bark, roots or

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Chamomile (leaves) - antiduretic properties, purportedly good for anxiety Peppermint (leaves) - aroma of essential oils (menthol) purportedly enhances memory Spearmint (leaves) - used for sore throats, nausea and indigestion Rosemary (leaves) - antiinflammatory properties Dandelion (roots) - diuretic and anti-inflammatory properties Ginseng (roots) -adaptogenic and tonic Cinnamon (inner bark)- circulation stimulant, tonic White Willow (bark) - antrrheumatic properties Blackcurrant (leaves) - diruetic properties

stems. The water is usually left to sit overnight then separated from the plant matter. Uses range from soaking for skin irritations to broth for cooking. Rosemary decoctions are used for washing in hair. Most beers start as decoctions. With a little patience and a lot of practice, anyone can go from making tea to preparing an herbal remedy.

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Alternative Energy The world relies on fossil fuels to function. There is no current energy as cheap, plentiful and powerful as oil, natural gas and coal. However, Igor Tretyakov supplies are limited, however vast they may be. As such, the US and the world have a perlious relationship with the discovery, production, extraction and refinement of fossil fuels, and the quicker humanity switches to an alternative energy source, the better. The temporary and artifucial oil shortage of 1973 is the best example of this. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo om the west, and the price of oil shot up in the US from $3 a barrel to $12. Imagine if oil production were not artificially lowered but naturally peaked. Prices of everything made from petroleum, from gasoline to plastic, would rise exponentially. The geophysicist M. King Hubbert correctly realized that the discovery of oil peaked in the middle of the 20th century. When he correctly guessed the peak oil production for the US, other scientists began to take notice of the concept of Peak Oil. New oil fields are still being discovered (although at a lower rate), and new technology makes recovery even in ancient oil fields more possible. But make no mistake — oil production cannot last forever. Once the price of a barrel of oil becomes “commercially unacceptable” people will stop asking for an alternative energy souce. They will demand one. There are plenty of myths to give consumers a false sense of security. Most people believe there is enough oil in the ground to last the world for hundreds of years. Even geoscientists know this is false. Although estimates vary, most agree that there is enough revocerable oil in the ground to last for only 40 years. Most people think that when the production of oil is no longer cost effective, world governments will somehow magically switch to solar panels and wind energy. Not so. Without adequate preparation, most cars will simply rot where they last parked and consumers will have no alternative to energy but what remains of coal and natural gas. Consumers also think that conserving energy will push the peak of oil off indefinitely. This is mathematically impossible. The problem is, there is no incentive to switch from a fossil fuel economy of oil, natural gas and coal to an alternative energy economy of say, solar and nuclear energy. The moral arguments are there. There are even economic reasons to make the switch. But humans are creatures of habit. Rarely do we get up and do something before it becomes a problem. The post office can attest to this every April 15. As such, when the price of oil becomes too expensive, people will not react in an orderly manner. People will panic. There will not be a magic wand to bring in the next big source of energy. The sun is the perfect source for energy, as is the center of the Earth and nuclear fission. All three produce enough energy to meet the needs of the world

Most consumers think that when the production of oil is no longer cost effective, world governments will somehow magically switch to solar panels and nuclear reactors. Not so.” population several times over if the technology for them became commercially available as it is for fossil fuels, and only one of them —nuclear energy— prodces waste. More importantly, what fossil fuels that do remain in the Earth are better served as petrochemicals than spent as fuel. There is a finite supply of oil, and we have yet to find a suitable replacement for plastics and agrucultural chemicals. Wasting future oil for gasoline is simply irresponsible. As such, it is at best unwise and at worst, dangerous, for world governments to rely on fossil fuels until the very last second. The time to act is now.

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plants. Too much soil in Houston is polluted with car fluids like antifreeze and oil. Plants tend to absorb toxins from the air, soil and water, so on the bright side, guerrilla gardening might help reduce pollution. And it’d be quite a sight. An individual working towards their community’s purification is a wonder in itself, but a group of them, en masse, would be nothing short of magical. Guerrilla Gardening isn’t completely foreign to Houston, but even a slight increase in participations would be appreciated. Especially on campus.

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THE DAILY COUGAR After speaking out, equal rights activists will go silent Friday to bring attention to the bullying and discrimination that occurs in schools across the country. Friday marks the 16th annual Day of Silence, a national event of solidarity that aims to create a safer school environment without any regard to sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. “I feel that the Day of Silence is essential to promote awareness about those who are bullied for being LGBT,” openly gay UH creative writing student Jonathan Sanford said. “Ironically, by silencing our voices, we give a voice to those who still remain voiceless.” The first Day of Silence was held in 1996 at the University of Virginia. By 2008, more than 8,000 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities participated. Other countries including Russia and Singapore also joined in the Day of Silence. Since 2010 the UH LGBT Resource Center’s mission has been to establish

inclusion and acceptance for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, staff and faculty members. Information on the center’s website states that the “Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination that occurs in schools. Students observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face every day.” “On Friday, the LGBT Resource Center will be hosting zones around campus for those who participate in the Day of Silence,” Director of the UH LGBT Resource Center Lorraine Schroeder said. “Those who participate will be given a card explaining their silence for the day. The silence on campus will then break at the end of day and participants will share their experience with others.” At 11:30 a.m. today UH’s all-inclusive women’s social sorority Gamma Rho Lambda will hold a flash mob in front of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library in honor of Day of Silence. The sorority will also have a table at the University Center from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with giveaways coinciding with the daylong event.

“We will silently freeze while holding signs in support of the Day of Silence and equality,” reads the sorority’s website. “Our silence will represent the voices that are no longer heard because of harassment and bullying.” After the Day of Silence, “Breaking the Silence” will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the E.E. Oberholtzer Hall. “Breaking the Silence is meant to bring students from around Houston together to connect and share their experiences the evening of the day,” said Alex Barksdale, Houston Regional intern for the Texas Gay-Straight Alliance and representative for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. “What we have envisioned includes student and adult ally speakers, small music or theater performances and sharing of resources from different community organizations. We will reach out to students from around Houston and are expecting around 50-70 students.” For more information, visit www. dayofsilence.org.

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THE DAILY COUGAR The Council of Ethnic Organization hosted a panel discussion called “What is Hip Hop, Anyway?” Tuesday night at the Cullen Performance Hall that featured rapper Bun B, graffiti artist Article, B-boy dance crew Havikoro and local radio station Hot 95.7 DJs The Kracker Nuttz. The panel was geared toward bringing three basic aspects of hip-hop culture to the forefront: B-boy dancing, graffiti and music. After an opening breakdance routine by Havikoro, moderator Adrian Edmonds took the stage to pose questions to participants that sought out

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today by participating in lectures, interviews and panels. Bun B has been able to offer insight and sturdy responses to questions about the history of the genre and questions that are riddled with today’s trending topics evoked by the Internet. He mentioned the accessibility of computer software and how things were different when he began as a musician. Bun B also acknowledged the fact that he was participating in a scholarly event on a college campus and underscored the difference between a packed concert venue and a seated auditorium panel focused on discussion. “People know that I’m not here to entertain, I’m here to inform.” The Kracker Nuttz expressed their take on hip-hop’s presence in the radio and promoted their message: Don’t let HIP-HOP continues on page 13

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Local hip-hop figures visit campus the artists’ history and how their craft has changed over time. Article recalled his appreciation of graffiti which began at 13 years old while he was at a friend’s house watching an Aerosol Warfare video. Around that time the artists he was hanging out with were listening to rapper Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic.” Music had an influence on graffiti, Article said. As an artistic youth who did not have resources like gallery space and supplies, he began doing graffiti to express himself. “We took it upon ourselves to go wild through the cities in the early 90s,” Article said. Bun B said that as a youth he was inspired by rapper Rakim’s song “Microphone Fiend” and spoke on the history of Houston’s northsidesouthside rivalry. He has established himself as one of the most reliable voices in hip-hop

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When my Life and Arts editor at The Daily Cougar asked if I’d be available to cover a series of stories on the Houston Roller Derby, I practically jumped out of my skin; I’d been looking for a distraction from the semester workload. Not only was I going to be among women from a local roller derby team, The Valkyries, but I would be learning how to skate like a real derby chick and possibly get a cool name like “Hot Rod Bettie” or “Wicked Sweet.” The Valkyries is one of four home teams — the others being the Bayou City Bosses, The Brawlers and the Psych Ward Siren — for the all-female HRD league that was organized in 2005. It was 7:20 p.m. Tuesday when I arrived at Houston Indoor Sports. I was given seven pieces of equipment that consisted of knee and elbow pads, protective gloves and a helmet. I was ready to put on my skates. Newcomers spend six weeks reviewing basics such as skating, learning how to stop, turn, prop on and off the floor, and fall. Yes, there is a proper way to fall. It’s called “falling small” and, when done right, it keeps your fingers from being crushed by rolling wheels and your butt from being sore. All these skills are evaluated on the last day of the 6-week training period and help determine if you proceed to the intermediate level and eventually tryout for one of the teams. Upper-level learning involves skating in a pack and learning how to block opponents. I had a hard time just trying to skate. “When you’re skating, you want to bend your knees and basically you want your shoulders over your hips, kind of like you’re squatting over a dirty toilet,” one of the experienced skaters said to the group of about 30 women. “It sounds funny, but the lower you are the better your center of gravity is and the sturdier you’ll feel.” With a lot of practice and a sore butt, I too, just might get an awesome roller derby name. I like Kit-Kat Killer. The Houston Roller Derby hosts its next team bout from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Bayou Music Center — formerly Verizon Wireless Theatre. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $25 for VIP entrance. For more information, visit www.houstonrollerderby.com. COMING UP: A review of Saturday’s bout and a story on HRD’s ties to UH.

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THE DAILY COUGAR The UH Women’s Resource Center and Girls Rock Camp Houston hosted author of “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution,” Sara Marcus, for a public reading Tuesday evening at Cemo Hall. The event was attended by not only UH students, but colleagues from other universities and schools as well. Marcus began her guest lecture with a PowerPoint presentation that displayed

slides of how the Riot Grrrl movement started and explained each slide in detail along the way. “Riot Grrrl was about teen female rebellion,” Marcus said. “They talked about what happened politically and also capitalism in our female world.” Marcus carefully walked the audience through her lecture by describing the female protests. She explained what the ladies stood for as well as what they wore — attire that has come to be associated with the punk rock music genre. Marcus prepared to write her book by

finding her sources through word of mouth. She eventually found numbers and connected with her subjects through phone calls. Marcus mentioned how the revolution helped male dominating societies come to appreciate and respect female bands. She explained how the Riot Girls stopped giving the media attention and got their audience’s attention by a series of magazines, or “zines” as they called them. The zines were all focused on women creating their own culture and maintaining their control and overproduction of the

movement. She described how Riot Grrrl represented women who were stereotyped because of their gender, patriarchy and race. Pictures of women in the movement camps depicted their independence and rebellious attitude; some of the photos consisted of them protesting with objectified messages written on their bodies. The presentation ended with Marcus reading a prologue from “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution.” arts@thedailycougar.com

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A brand new self-released EP and several tour dates are just a few things This Providence has been focused on since announcing their split from former label, Fueled By Ramen, in March. The band recorded at least 35 demos for their EP “Brier” with producer Matt Grabe who has worked with artists like The Maine and The Summer Set. The full EP will be available May 1 through the band’s new imprint, Magic Mike Records. Most of the demos were recorded in guitarist Gavin Phillips’ home in Brier, Wa. — the inspiration behind the EP’s title. “Being on Fueled By Ramen, there was always an expectation to please this crowd or the label this way — it was this unspoken expectation,” drummer Andrew Horst said. “I think ‘Brier’ is a little bit of a step away from our previous sound. We’ve really boiled stuff down to whatever is going to make the strongest sound and not worry about who it’s going to please. In a positive way I think we made a selfish record by recording something we love and enjoy.” The band was formed in 2003 when the four original members were in high school and they were signed to Fueled By Ramen in 2006. Since then, Horst and bassist David Blaise have joined Phillips and vocalist Daniel Young. The band has been on The

The following is an exclusive Daily Cougar interview with Sara Marcus, author of “Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution,” who visited UH for a guest lecture on Tuesday.

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the station insult you by telling you what you want to hear. Being DJs has been about playing music that the people want to hear, the DJS said. Havikoro, a Houston B-boy dance crew that began in 1999, mentioned their accomplishment overseas achieved through dedication. One member spoke on individuality and how YouTube has affected B-boy dancing with tutorial videos displaying moves that many can watch and attempt to adopt. “They get on YouTube and just mock it to the T”, he said. “One important key is to practice in person and develop a personal style,” said another member. By telling stories of their experience in their respective fields, the panel made an impression that promoted fresh ideas. Each participant was dedicated to their craft and promoted culture under the umbrella of hip-hop. One message instilled by Bun B was that to succeed in hip-hop, a new perspective is needed and artists have to carve their own lane. “Doors wouldn’t be opened unless someone knocked,” Bun B said. “All it takes is one person to turn this campus on its head tomorrow.” arts@thedailycougar.com

In promotion of their new EP scheduled to be released at the top of next month, This Providence plans on giving their fans access into their recording sessions with exclusive behind-the-scenes video footage. | Courtesy of A-Squared Management Lucky Street Tour with Go Radio and a few other artists for about a month. Their last tour, which was also their first headline gig, wrapped up in May 2010, and hitting the road for the first time in almost two years was a little overwhelming for them. “We found out we were going on this tour three weeks before we started,” Horst said. “At first, I think we were all dreading it. We were all a little reserved and scared, but as soon as we left our driveways we realized that, ‘Oh yeah, this is great.’ This is what we love to do.” While on tour, This Providence has been playing all four songs from the new EP and a few from their 2006 self-titled album as well as their 2009 album, “Who Are You Now?”

“We’ve had really positive response all around throughout this tour,” Horst said. “A lot of diehard fans come out because we’ve been off the road for two years.” Teasers from a mini-documentary of the recording process will be released within the next few weeks and will be out in conjunction with their new EP. “We wanted to be out there and show people we’re out — that we’re not a dead band,” Horst said. “This is us and it shows what we’re thinking in the moment — it just captures us in that time.” The new lead single “Trouble” went on sale last week and “Brier” can be pre-ordered now. This Providence will play at 7 p.m. Thursday at the House of Blues. arts@thedailycougar.com

Sarah Nielsen: How did you come into the idea for writing your book? Sara Marcus: The idea to write the book came about because I had been involved with Riot Grrrl when I was a teenager, and in the years since I had gone from writing my own zines to writing about music and politics for various publications. Through my work in community organizing, I started to think about how we had been involved in and creating a youth-led grass roots feminist movement, and I was seeing in my rock criticism activities that Riot Grrrl wasn’t being talked about in those terms at all, it wasn’t being seen as an entity that had had a real substantive political component in it. It was going down in history as a group of bands and as even a sound. Which it never was in the first place, because it was a totally diverse group of sounds encompassed by the bands that had some connection to the movement. SN: Why did you decide to write about the movement now? Why does it apply twenty years later? SM: Any sooner and it was still raw, and any later and people would forget too much. And

cultural nostalgia runs in twentyyear cycles. I think it would have gotten less attention if it had come out 15 or 25 years later. I didn’t plan it this way, but I was fortunate to hit the twenty-year mark. SN: I’m trying to see where the third wave and Riot Grrrl fit into the modern conversation on feminism. How was it reflected within your Ivy League experience at Columbia? SM: What’s kind of interesting about your question and what you couldn’t have known is that I’m about to start a Ph.D. at Princeton, which actually is very interesting because it’s (in) a very feminist department, and it’s totally run by women, and it’s run by feminists and queer theorists, and there’s a lot of performance study. It’s incredible because within this department — which is why I’m so excited to be going to it — you can see how knowledge are kind of melding and marbling together. SN: Where can I place the Riot Grrrl movement in the context of motherhood within feminism? Where do they fit in within the odd ends of the organic cotton diaper homesteading revival, and the baby food comes in a jar, disposable-diaper powersuit? SM: I think that that’s what the media turns feminism into — what you’re buying and how does that constitute your identity, via buying. Riot Grrrl has always been an explicitly anti-corporate movement, I say torch the whole thing. I mean, torch the whole thing! That’s a good ending, right? arts@thedailycougar.com

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