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Renovations cost UH $349.5 million Expenses to go to rebuild of SPECIAL REPORT UC, classrooms, Central Plant, fire alarm updates for buildings Construction Max Gardner

Every Tuesday, The Daily Cougar will discuss the University’s current and future construction plans and how they will affect the student body.

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April 3: Construction overview

More than $349.5 million will be used toward the construction and renovation of several academic and student facilities around campus, as well as for some offcampus sites. One of the more anticipated is the estimated $80 million University Center Transformation project, which includes the UC and the UC Underground renovations along with the construction of two additional attachments on the north and east ends. Student fees will cover 95 percent of the money for this project. “The result will be the complete transformation of this central facility which offers financial, functional and aesthetic benefits to a Tier-One university’s campus,” said project manager Katherine Miller. “It will be the focal point for students, faculty, staff and visitors alike, and we aim for it to be the venue of choice on campus

April 10: Parking and construction April 17: Residence and dining halls Today: Building renovations Track this series at thedailycougar.com/tags/construction for all significant events.” The east addition will be two stories and expand into parking lot 1E near Melcher Hall. The ground floor will include all food service operations, a bookstore support area and a new 400seat theater for classes, movies and other events. The second floor will be composed of several meeting spaces, including two large event spaces, Miller said. Also two stories, the north addition will be constructed over the UC Underground. The first floor will house most of the student organization spaces that currently reside in there. The second floor

The Classroom and Business Building will be completed in spring 2012 and will primarily be used for business classes. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar will include a new Student Government Association Senate chamber and other UC special components. An elevated walkway will connect the

north building to the UC, creating a multiuse plaza in between that will feature CONSTRUCTION continues on page 3

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Patient information compromised

Joshua Mann

THE DAILY COUGAR The UH College of Optometry posted a notice on their website Friday saying there had been a digital security breach at one of their affiliated neighborhood clinics off-campus. On February 22, an unknown attacker broke into La Nueva Casa de Amigos Eye Clinic’s database, which contained 7,000 patient records from as far back as Jan. 2006, from somewhere outside the US and deleted the records. “We have no proof that (the) information was copied,” said Chief Information Security Officer for UH and the UH System Mary Dickerson. The information contained within the records included names, personal and contact information, medical information and insurance information. Although Social Security and drivers license numbers were not among the personal information stolen, affected patients are still encouraged to take steps to

protect themselves from identity theft, said the notice. “Please know that if anyone from La Nueva Casa de Amigos Eye Clinic contacts you by telephone about this incident, you will not be asked to provide or confirm your social security number, credit card information or driver’s license number,” the announcement said. The reason there was nearly a month’s delay between the incident and the notification, Dickerson said, was that an investigation was undertaken first to ensure the accuracy of the information sent. Also, the notification process itself “took some time to address” because of how extensive it was, she said. In response to the break-in, UH has sent letters to notify those whose information was compromised and is working with the clinic to install additional network protections. “There were many protections in place,” Dickerson said. “Unfortunately, there are many different ways that information can be compromised.”

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For more information on the incident or to see the complete notification letter, go to www.opt.uh.edu/news/casa-english. cfm Source: College of Optometry website

While there were measures taken to protect the data beforehand, onsite UH databases tend have a much hardier security system. “Because this was a remote clinic, some of those protections were not in place,” Dickerson said. UH is working with law enforcement, including the FBI, to investigate the breach, Dickerson said. news@thedailycougar.com

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Lecture to discuss obesity, muscle disease, hormones

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics is kicking off it’s Friends of NSM Distinguished Lecture Series with “Obesity and Muscle Disease” from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the UH Hilton Waldorf Astoria Ballroom. The lecture, given by Stanley J. Korsmeyer, a professor from Harvard Medical School, will discuss Korsmeyer’s hormone research that identifies the benefits of exercise, according to a UH press release. The lecture series will host five speakers talking about “Science Impact Health and Society.” The event is free and open to the public. — Cougar News Services

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The event will feature live performances, refreshments, a film screening, games and a lecture. Today’s event will include performances and henna, and will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Philip Guthrie Hoffman breezeway. Wednesday will feature a showcase of Islamic art and architecture, an observation of Islamic prayer, games and prizes from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the PGH breezeway, followed by a screening of Jihad on Terror at 5:30 p.m. in the University Center Baltic Room. Thursday will feature a multipanel lecture titled “Before and After” on Islamic converts at 6 p.m. in the A.D. Bruce Religion Center, and Friday will be open congressional Muslim Friday prayer from 1:30 p.m. in the Religion Center. — Cougar News Services

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“The first intro to psych class with Dr. Miller. She was just so funny and so individual; she was just herself. That’s what I really like about a professor, someone who is honest and upfront about who they are. She was also really passionate about what she was teaching, and that’s a big deal. You don’t want to sit in a lecture hall for an hour and a half and listen to someone who doesn’t care about what they’re talking about. That really made the concepts really more engaging; just the fact that she was so engaged in them.” Juliet Childers

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seating, a performance stage and a gathering space. The main UC and UC Underground will be completely reworked to fix the current maintenance and code compliance issues and modernize the outdated mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, Miller said. The bookstore will be relocated to the east side where the food court currently resides and will also utilize additional basement space. It will not experience any downtime because of construction, Miller said. The now-open arbor space will be enclosed and transformed into a multi-faceted central space. Several lounge and retail spaces will be added throughout the building, and all current offices and meeting rooms will be updated, Miller said. The UC Transformation project will be worked on in two phases. The first phase will begin June 2012 and last through December 2013 – it will include the north and east additions as well as some renovations. The second phase will occur from December 2013 to December 2014 and include all the renovations for the existing UC. Next to this construction is the approximately $41 million Classroom and Business Building. Construction on the first two floors will be complete for the fall 2012 semester, while the upper levels will be finished in spring 2013. “It’s a multi-use facility. The first two floors will be used for

A rendering of what the new University Center will look like when it is finished in 2014. | Courtesy of Katherine Miller general classroom use for multiple programs,” Miller said. “Floors three, four and five will be for Bauer College of Business, primarily their executive MBA programs, and some student organizations.” Near the current Optometry Center, construction is already underway on the approximately $80.5 million Health and Biomedical Building, which will house the College of Optometry, student and faculty research labs and offices for the faculty and graduate students. It will be completed for the fall 2012 semester, said project manager John Posch. “The facility will serve as the home of an inter-disciplinary research program, which

includes BSL-2 level containment area, ambulatory surgical center, specialized research area, seminar spaces and classrooms and vivarium space,” Posch said. Approximately $38.7 million is being used for additions to the Central Plant, which is located at the center of campus near the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library and provides utility services to much of the campus. “The expansion will accommodate three new chillers and a new office suite for the plant on the ground floor,” Posch said. “The project also includes the purchase and installation of three new low NOx high-efficiency boilers, replacement of all four cooling towers and the addition

of one new cooling tower.” Construction on this project will begin pulling back and removing fencing in June 2012, but it will not be entirely complete until fall 2013. Renovations and expansion to the Blaffer Museum will be finished in summer 2012 and will cost approximately $2 million. These include a new north-facing entrance and several changes to the galleries, Miller said. “The expansion will be to the north and that will basically provide a more public entrance,” Miller said. “We’ve moved the stairs to the north side of the expansion and we are renovating all of the gallery space so that it functions

better and is basically up to twenty-first century museum standards.” Construction is also taking place in the Science and Engineering Research Center building, where approximately $13.9 million is being used to insert more lab space on the second and fourth floors. The fourth floor will be completed in summer 2012, and the second floor will be finished in spring 2013. “When they built it, a lot of it was what we call shell space, which is empty space,” Posch said. “We’ve done a series of remodels to fit it out with labs over the years. So, we are finishing up the last two sections of it now.” Also filling in space, an approximately $35.8 million build-out to the fourth floor of the Science Teaching Building will allow for additional research space and will be complete in Jan. 2013. Several buildings will be undergoing life and safety upgrades, primarily fire alarm and sprinkler updates. These include the Lamar Fleming Jr., Old Science, Science and Research 1 and Science Teaching Lab buildings. The overall cost will be $57.6 million, and the construction will occur at various times through the fall 2013 semester. Construction is also planned off-campus at the Energy Research Park as well as at other UH System locations, according to Director of Facilities Planning Mike Yancey. news@thedailycougar.com

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Senate candidates won’t worry about young vote

he 2012 Senate election for the US House of Representatives will be in November, and Texas candidates can’t wait for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson to retire. Hutchinson could have had a fourth term all the way through. She was the incumbent after all, she stood a good chance. No need to worry, there is a plethora of candidates running for the seat. And vice versa: because of the low turnout of voters under the age of 29, they won’t be worried about you. Just to name a few of the candidates: Ted Cruz, the former State Solicitor General. David Dewhurst, the current Lt. Governor. Tom Leppert, the former mayor of Dallas. Cruz and Leppert have already met with newspapers like the Houston Chronicle and made their case for why they should get the seat. Dewhurst and other candidates aren’t far behind. And they’re all the same old same old. Candidates like Leppert think Washington has “career politicians”, most of them lawyers. Incedentally, Leppert was the Chairman and CEO of the Turner Corporation, and once served on the board of directors for Washington Mutual. These aren’t accusations. It’s hard to say what a lawyers priority is if not the law, but there is no doubt that a businessleader’s priority is profit. It’s in their genetic makeup. Profit is why they’ll push for projects like the Keystone XL pipeline before choosing more eco-firendly alternatives like nuclear energy or natural gas. Profit is why so many businessleaders (generally speaking) are against Social Security and prefer unregulated free market capitalism. They’re not all alike, but few candidates will give two shakes of a dead dog’s tail about the young vote — it’s generally nonexistent. Young people have ideas, sure, but English majors who squawk about George Orwell and Ayn Rand, but don’t vote, shouldn’t be surprised when Washington doesn’t adopt their brilliant plans to fix the economy. With voter turnout skewed, the next senator is going to continue business as usual, with little care for the grievances and opinions of the young.

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Nugent’s ‘analogy’

Honor and rank of president deserves respect regardless of politics

here’s an expression among military circles that dictates action when faced with a superior you would rather not deal with. “Salute the rank, not the man.” The distinction is clear. An officer of the James United States military is an Wang honorable and respectable individual, distinguishing him or herself from the rest of the world because of their strict adherence to values. For instance, a strong sense of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage are all things soldiers must have. A soldier of the U.S. Army knows that his duty is to serve and protect the people and uphold the Constitution. So it should come as no surprise why the leaders of Fort Knox decided to cancel Ted Nugent’s concert after the right-wing, washed-up guitar hero and gun rights activist made remarks that some have construed to be a threat on the life of a president. The offensive remarks? Nugent declared at a recent National Rifle Association convention that if President Barack Obama was re-elected, then Nugent will “either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” The remark itself seems inoffensive at first up until the path of common sense leads to the realization that Nugent was alluding to the assassination of an American president, one that he himself might orchestrate. Nugent has since defended himself after the Secret Service decided to have a civil chat with the rocker, and while the Secret Service have expressed that they will be continuing an investigation into his affairs, Nugent’s fans and Twitter followers have been in an uproar against his concert’s cancellation as well as what some feel to be an encroachment on the First Amendment. Let’s make things perfectly clear — Nugent in no way represents the thoughts and feelings of all right-leaning Americans, nor does he represent

the thoughts and feelings of fellow gun enthusiasts, owners, and activists. Most of us are responsible and sane adults who don’t make a habit of threatening our politicians with violence such as chopping off their heads, as Nugent so eloquently suggested during the same convention that he made the offending remarks. That being said, Nugent also doesn’t represent what a true American citizen should do and instead represents everything that is wrong with these right-wing celebrity blowhards that think that they can relate to the Republican base. We’re not stupid. I don’t think a single responsible and intelligent Republican voter would so much as waste their breath on a statement insinuating a threat against an elected public official. Shooting a 10-point buck is worth more than shooting some unworthy Capitol Hill lobbyist sycophant. At least NEW HIT SINGLE by David Delgado

Nugent’s remarks were an absolute threat against the president and the only reason he wasn’t arrested by the Secret Service is because he weaseled himself out of it by calling his threat an analogy.” the deer can do something to put food on the table. Nugent’s remarks were an absolute threat against the president and the only reason that he wasn’t arrested by the Secret Service is because he weaseled out of it by calling his threat an analogy. Although provocative, his words weren’t entirely condemning since they were worded so broadly. However, given the context and his past suggestions for Obama to “suck on (his) machine gun,” he hasn’t exactly made a good case for himself. Nugent is an embarrassment to the American Right, to gun owners across the nation and to every service man and woman who he pretends to represent. In America, we do not threaten our elected officials. The US president should be the most respected and feared man on the face of the Earth because he is the leader of the Free World and Commander in Chief of the most effective, lethal and professional military force to ever exist in the history of human civilization. Obama as a person, and as a politician, might be contemptible — whose only hopes of re-election are the incompetent foul-ups of the GOP and its celebrity supporters — but Obama the president is just that, the President of the United States of America, and so long as he is president, he will be given the proper respect as the privilege of his rank demands. James Wang is a history freshman and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

Don’t blanket the other side of belief

here has been a link circulating around Facebook that has caused blood to sear in my veins. The link takes you to an article entitled “Argument for the Existence of God.” Julie The article begins Heffler with the “atheist professor” forcing one of this students to stand so that the professor may tell him all that is wrong with that student’s beliefs. The professor continues to act as not only a horrible teacher, impressing his own views onto students, but also a terrible person in general as he implies that this student is naïve or an idiot. Suddenly — not so suddenly, really — the tables turn as the cool, calm theist tears down his teacher. The student makes the professor’s so-called illogical

disbelief in a deity seem to be the idiotic point of view. This angers me tremendously. No, this is not because I am not a religious person. It is so tiring to see blatant, exaggerated and false characterizations of these two groups — the theists and the atheists. Just as when atheists make their own propaganda on how stupid they find theists to be, when theists place one horrid person as the representative of an entire group, only hatred breeds. Have you ever noticed how much death has been caused by trying to impress one’s beliefs onto others? The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Ottoman Empire’s jihad against Europe, the fallout from the Protestant Reformation, the Irish civil war, the current Middle East conflict, Pakistan and India,

the oppression of the religious in the USSR — the list goes on and on. From both sides of the never-ending conflict there is a desire to pick the worst of the group to generalize and characterize all the rest. Has no one ever heard of coexistence? Spreading around propaganda such as that link enrages me not because it comforts those religious after they have dealt with the equally revolting atheist attacks, but because it serves only to perpetuate a stereotype that is simply not true. Stop circling all the hateful propaganda, and just start accepting how others are — not like you. Julie Heffler is a biochemistry freshman and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com.

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Freshman Roman Robledo is tied for first with Central Florida’s Greg Eason at six-under after shooting scores of 70 and 68 in the first two rounds of the Conference USA Championship. | Courtesy of UH Athletics

Robledo tied for first GOLF

Joshua Siegel

THE DAILY COUGAR Freshman Roman Robledo is tied atop the leaderboard and has the Cougars sitting six shots back of the top three heading into today’s final round of the Conference USA Championship. Robledo opened with a 70 and followed by shooting a 68 in the second round at the par-72 course at Texarkana Country Club in Arkansas to stay even with Central Florida’s Greg Eason.

Robledo birdied four on the back nine, and six total in the second round. The Cougars were tied for fifth after one round of play after shooting 292 as a team, but slipped to sixth with a 296 score in the second round. “Overall, individually, we’ve done pretty well,” Robledo said. “We hit the ball well. “Hopefully we’ll do better tomorrow.” Helping Robledo carry the Cougars is sophomore Curtis Reed, who is tied for 12th. Reed opened with a 69, tied

for the second best first round score. He slipped in the second round though, shooting a 77, bogeying four of the final five holes in the second round. Junior James Ross has also had a solid showing for the Cougars, sitting at three-over after shooting scores of 74 and 75 in the opening rounds. The Cougars other two golfers competing, Bryn Flanagan and Jesse Droemer, sit in 43rd and 53rd place, respectively. ROBLEDO continues on page 7

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TRACK & FIELD

Cougars strong in relays Eduardo Venegas

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Errol Nolan was part of the men’s 4x100 team that placed first at the Mt. Sac Relays with the sixth fastest time in program history (40.16). | Courtesy of UH Athletics

The Cougars relay teams shined at the 54th annual Mt. Sac Relays at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut, Calif. as they set a new school record. “I think we did well, we had some athletes perform at their season’s best and we had a really solid relays, especially at the 4x400,” head coach Leroy Burrell said. The men’s 4x100 meter relay team grabbed first place with a time of 40.16, becoming the sixth fastest time

in program history for that event. The team consisted of Isaiah Sweeney, Errol Nolan, James Lang, and Mark’Quiz Frazier. “We had some struggles there with injuries and of course the absence of Isaiah Sweeney, who was with football. He is back and I think we will be really strong,” Burrell said. The men’s 4x400 meter relay team took first place with a time of 7:36.92. Sophmore Drevan Anderson-Kappa, and freshmen Anthony Coleman, Mark Fernando and Yonas Tesfai made up the young team. Burrell said that he and his staff

always felt the 4x400m team is an NCAA-caliber team. “We are finally healthy and improving week in and week out, so we feel that team is up and going real smooth now,” Burrell said. The women’s 4x100 meter shuttle hurdle team also snatched first place with a time of 54.49, as they participated for the first time in that event. The athletes on the team were SadeMariah Greenidge, Amber Sellers, Alicia Perkins, and DeMeeka Jones. Another first place finish was added TRACK continues on page 7

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“As a team, we all need to have a low round and show what we really have,” Robledo said. “We need to be more aggressive, smarter targets, get the ball closer to the hole. If we can get four good scores in it would definitely boost our confidence.” Weather has not been an issue thus far for the Cougars, despite some wind during play. “The wind definitely played a factor,” Robledo said. “But it’s nothing that we haven’t dealt

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by the women’s 4x400 meter relay team, setting a season’s best time of 3:38.70 in the invite elite division. The team consisted of Whitney Harris, Brittany Wallace, Ciera Johnson and Ngozi Onwumere. Burrell said that the 4x400 team has a little way to go, but they are definitely moving in the right direction. “We have some athletes who were injured and some who have not being able to perform at the levels we feel they should,” Burrell said. “Athletes like David Boyd, Doug Kelly, Grecia Bolton, we were able to get them out there healthy and they performed very well.” Cougars make a splash with recruiting class The Cougars signed nine student-athletes to National Letters of Intent on Thursday, including Pennsylvania’s top boys track athlete of the year. “We are very excited about Eric Futch. Obviously he heads our class,” Burrell said. “We have some work to do on the women’s side,

with before this season.” Flanagan opens the final round for the Cougars at 8 a.m., followed by Droemer at 8:10 a.m., Ross at 8:20 a.m., Reed at 8:30 a.m. and Robledo at 8:40 a.m. “We’re definitely going the right way,” Robledo said. “We’re driving well, hitting the ball well. It’s just putting shots together.” On May 7, UH will learn if the Cougars qualified for the NCAA Tournament. 81 teams and 45 individuals are invited to compete. sports@thedailycougar.com

but besides that we have made this one of the best classes that we have had.” The highlight of the 2012 signing class, Futch is the 2011 Gatorade Pennsylvania’s boys athlete of the year. The men’s team added six student-athletes: Pennsylvania’s Futch; Houston’s Ahmed Ali, who ranks number one nationally in the 200m; Isaac Williams of Willingboro, N.J., currently ranked number one in the high jump during New Jersey’s 2012 outdoor season; Rio Grande’s Alejandro Garza; Royse City’s Joseph Beck, and Kingwood’s Josh Spiehler. On the women’s side they added two distance runners in Meagan Shockley and Selena Sierra from Bridge City and Round Rock, respectively. Also sprinter Ashley Johnson from Silsbee. Burrell said that the expectations are high for this class and expects the new athletes to make an immediate impact. “We have a really good group and a lot of athletes returning as well, so we feel good where we are and the direction of the program,” Burrell said. sports@thedailycougar.com

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Rethinking the rubber

Camila Cossio

THE DAILY COUGAR The FC2 Female Condom is an elusive, semi-complicated device, that when used properly, has only a five percent failure rate. The condom looks a little freaky at first — it’s bigger than the male condom — and has to be inserted into the vagina with precise calculation. But once in, women are in control — something the male condom greatly lacks. Beverly McPhail, the director of the Women’s Resource Center at UH says that the condom is important because it provides women with more options. “If their partner refused to wear a male condom, women have the option of wearing the female condom,” says McPhail. “It provides more choices for women and a sense of empowerment that they can be in charge of their reproductive choices while safeguarding their health.”

An added contraception option Most traditional methods of birth control fail because they’re typically used incorrectly or inconsistently. According to the World Health Organization, “withdrawal” typically has a 22 percent failure rate, the male condom has an 18 percent failure rate and birth control The FC2 Female Condom, which is manufactured by the Female Health Company, is the second generation female condom. Originally produced in the 1980s, has a nine percent failure rate. the condom, right, seems much larger than condoms for men, left, but is actually the same length. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar McPhail says that women aren’t often aware that skipping pills or taking them at varying times greatly increases their female condoms currently in development problems that have been reported when McPhail. chances of becoming pregnant. are made of latex. using the condom during sex include the The female condom typically costs A combination method, for example, Information found on the Planned Parcomplete insertion of the condom into the around $6.95 for a box of three and is using a condom and birth control, is one enthood website states that this is actually vagina or the condom slipping completely available in many different locations, of the safest ways to be sexually active, a benefit for those who are allergic to latex. out; the slipping of the penis to the side of including CVS and Walgreens. McPhail says. And, thus, the female conThe female condom is wider than the condom; and condom breaks. For more information on the female condom open more doors for condoms for men, but doms, visit the Female Health Company’s Women need women. still around the same website at www.fc2femalecondom.com/. “Knowing about length — 6.5 inches. It The company also maintains an official to protect McPhail also stresses that it is importhe female condom has flexible rings at each Facebook page, which can be “liked” at themselves ... tant for parents to be open with their provides them with one end — one to hold the www.facebook.com/fc2femalecondom. children about being sexually active so more option. There is pouch in and the other For more information on the Women’s so they need to become that their kids know the reality of conseno perfect birth control to keep about an inch of Resource Center, visit www.uh.edu/wrc. knowledgeable about the quences before it’s too late. method — each one the condom out of the range of options available to vagina. “When we know young people are old arts@thedailycougar.com has its plusses and enough to drive, parents let them take minuses, and different Lena H. Sun writes them.” driver’s education courses or teach them failure rates,” McPhail in an article for The Beverly McPhail, director of UH’s Washington Post that themselves while discussing the risks and says. “Women need to THE FEMALE CONDOM Women’s Resource Center the female condom is responsibilities openly. 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Maintaining the Riot Grrrl movement It was a strange thing to see author and historiographer Sara Marcus, a Columbia grad and soonto-be Princeton doctoral candidate, cursing and stomping and caterwauling in front of a lecture hall, but the Sarah UH community was Nielsen treated to just that. Her biography of the Riot Grrrl movement, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, was the focus of her lecture on April 17, and she did feminism’s third wave awesome justice. The Riot Grrrl revolution, while 20 years in the making, is rarely a topic in the common conversation on feminism. The anti-corporation and capitalism movement by girls, for girls, and about girls, which continues to influence music, art, publishing, and fashion, to name only a few aspects of 20- and 30-something urban culture, is regularly misrepresented and misunderstood by corporate media and has been since its organic inception in Washington D.C. in the early 1990s. This issue of misrepresentation was a central focus of Marcus’ lecture, which also depicted some of the core principles of third wave feminist ideology: anti-sexism, anticorporatism, anti-violence against women, and anti-media manipulations and false representations of the feminine. These aspects of a movement encompassing so many ideas, concepts, rebellions, and rights were frequently misconstrued during the first Bush administration into a man-hating, lesbian culture based solely on inherently antiAmerican values, much as the fight for women’s rights and equality is today. These girls used their right to fight with and against words like slut, ugly and worse — the same words used to degrade women who stand outside the ever-narrowing social norm today. Marcus succinctly reinforced this idea by encouraging women in the audience and everywhere to “stick to (their) own guns,” while warning us in our time that “if (a movement) turns into nothing but a meme,” then “it can’t affect change.” Doing it for themselves The original Riot Grrrls fought over-simplification and corporatization of their purpose and ideas by calling for widespread media blackouts on their goings-on, from coverage of musical performances to grrrl interviews with journalists. Instead, the Riot Grrrls became their own media, publishing short magazines known as zines and openly mocking the mainstreamproposed and regularly accepted concepts of girlhood. A grrrl nation: hen and now The original Riot Grrrls gathered en masse, hosting a nationwide conference in August of ’92, just one year after the idea came into existence, in order to create a nationwide space where an all-grrrl community could teach one another skills and endeavor to create their own personality, body politic, and engage in a loud response to what they saw as a perversion of grrrlhood by the

American mainstream. Marcus further tied the oft-misrepresented movement into contemporary events in the Houston music and culture scenes, particularly the development of Girls Rock Camp and its Houston branch, whose executive director is UH’s own Anna Garza. The Riot Grrrl movement, while having so much to do with a DIY ethos, political stances, and different bands and musicians, also advanced and relied heavily upon their own faculties as a grass-roots movement created to promote and support women everywhere. Similarly, while GRC was founded in Portland, Ore. by some original Riot Grrrls there, the movement has spread across the country in order to reach into new generations and bring girls up with a sense of pride and accomplishment in their own work. The camp allows pre-teen and teenaged girls to come together in the creative and empowering process of making music, much as the original Riot Grrrls did in their own gatherings. One of the key components of the Austin Girls Rock Camp was a young woman named Esme Barrera, who was brutally murdered on New Year’s day of this year. She was close companions with Garza. I was introduced to Girls Rock Camp in the summer of 2007 by Esme when I lived in Austin. The positive empowerment of young women that she helped make possible through her time with GRC made her senseless death all the more applicable today. Keeping the riot going It is clear that Marcus and Garza continue to promote the necessary ideals of the Riot Grrrl movement in a time when women’s rights and dignity continue to be threatened in the American body politic and public. This is especially true considering the lack of Republican reaffirmation of the International Violence Against Women Act — created smack in the center of the third wave and Riot Grrrl revolution — and the recall of aspects of Roe v. Wade. The third wave of feminism stands in ever-greater relief as a necessary component in the conversation about women’s rights today. Our continuance of what the Riot Grrrl revolution stands for is critical, so that sexual and physical endangerment of women will come to an end, in our world, our country, in Texas and on our campus. If you aren’t convinced, consider the female UH student who was bodily assaulted off-campus by three masked men just hours after Marcus ended her lecture. That student deserves to walk without fear in our world, and without traumatic memories of the assault that she may bear forever. She especially deserves to walk with high dignity because she successfully fought off three men and escaped. The Riot Grrrl movement exists to promote the end to such violence, and to support women in overcoming the gender bias that still prevails today. arts@thedailycougar.com

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