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Khator attends leaders lunch

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The University president and chancellor sipped tea at a reception held for student notables Cougar News Services UH President and Chancellor Renu Khator sipped tea as student leaders from the Student Government Association, the Multicultural Greek Council, The Daily Cougar and other organizations asked questions during a roundtable discussion Monday. Between questions and answers, Khator also shared her thoughts on football, the current state of UH and the next steps for the University.

“We are in Houston. It’s a shame, Dallas too — these major Texas cities don’t have public Tier One universities,” Khator said. “We became Tier One in Carnagie, but there’s so much more.” Khator said one of her next goals for the University will be to boost the graduation rate to at least the national average. Regarding alumni, Khator urged soon-to-be graduates to stay involved in UH. “Take interest. Participate,”

Khator said. “How can you help recruitment? Would you give a lecture? Would you come back and mentor five students?” When a student asked about problems with state funding, the president said that negative connotations associated with higher learning weren’t helpful in Texas. “Our responsibility is to explain to the state why we need funding,” Khator said. “We are still getting very little. I testified about the Tier One funding we’re receiving, but

it’s small potatoes. This current attitude towards higher education, this ‘Is college worth it?’ atmosphere, it does hurt.” Khator also said the number one issue on the minds of students, even beyond parking and financial aid, is slow on-campus wireless internet. Khator is set to speak at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival.

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MAN ON THE STREET

Q: How do you feel about Romney’s recently released

statement about Obama’s voter demographic?

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Students were shown this quote by Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and asked for responses: “There are 47 percent of people (in the United States) who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

I think this is pretty ironic because his company went bankrupt, but before that, he outsourced most of his jobs to China. And then I feel like, ‘This is America. We’re all Americans. What’s the issue with helping each other out?’ -Lucio Rubio, biomedical engineering sophomore.

I think that the government does have a lot of responsibility and that they owe their people. There are certain things that the government should give us and that we should depend on the government for but it’s not the government’s responsibility to maintain our way of life. The people who believe they are entitled to those things are taking the easy way out.

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-Shabelee Bowie, educational psychology sophomore

thedailycougar.com It sounds just like big government again, kind of like another Bush era where the top 1 percent are taking care of each other. That’s what it makes me think.

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-Salem Naser, mechanical engineering junior

I feel like if you want to be president, then you can’t only care about the 50 percent who are going to vote for you. You have to care about the whole country because that’s what the president does. It’s pretty mean.

-Asmaa Shahin, chemical engineering sophomore

Well, it looks like he doesn’t have hope. He sees them as ignorant or lazy. He should probably be trying to change their vote. That’s probably a reason why that group of people doesn’t like him, and they won’t vote for him. -Carolina Velasquez, public relations junior

I think he was talking about tactics. On the one hand, he’s making it somewhat clear that he considers a lot of Americans to be against his idea of how to run America because they’re, to him, entitled or dependent. He was saying that behind closed doors. I thought a lot of it was just him tactically speaking. But at the very least, it can be construed or will be constructed as a he-doesn’t-like-these-people sort of thing. -David Bianchi, undeclared sophomore

Quotes and photos compiled by Ellen Goodacre

Tuesday’s front-page headline read that a student was “held at gunpoint.” This should have said the student was “held up at gunpoint.”

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FLASHBACK September 1993: UH Faculty Senate voted to end intercollegiate athletics On Sept. 13, 1993, The Daily Cougar reported that the Faculty Senate would attempt to end participation in intercollegiate sports on Sept. 22, 1993. The reason cited was the large overhead produced by the department and a lack of return to the University. “If you poll the faculty, very few are for an athletic department that does not pay its own way,” said Faculty Senate President-Elect Ernst Leiss in the article. On Sept. 22, 1993, the Faculty Senate voted for the elimination of intercollegiate athletics, citing that the next step for UH would be to poll the students. While the senate voted against NCAA sporting, UH still participates in cross-college sporting events. —The Daily Cougar News Staff

The headline above ran on Sept. 23, 1993 in The Daily Cougar. Receiver Keith Jack (right) falls into the endzone during a 38-24 loss to Tulsa. | File Photo/The Daily Cougar

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EDITOR Allen Le

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Rap label dishes out G.O.O.D. album Bryan Dupont-Gray Assistant life & arts editor

Hip-hop has recently had its fair share of groups flexing their guns via compilation albums, but as the season comes to an end, Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music record label looked to save the best for last with the release of its new collaborative album. “Cruel Summer” has become a highly anticipated album this season among fans considering the huge names featured, including Common, Pusha T and Jay-Z. The 12-track album is filled with heavy-hitting beats and plenty of witty verses to go around, but some of the previously leaked tracks seem to get in the way of the total package. “To The Word” opens the album and fans will be happy to hear R. Kelly

return to the spotlight as he carries the track with West. Kelly sings about overcoming odds after the world turned against him as Kanye spits, “Pulled up in the Aventador / And the doors raise up like praise the Lord / Did the fashion show and a tour and a movie and a score.” Hit-Boy, Mike Dean and West made splendid use of their production expertise to make catchy, grimy and memorable beats that compliment the album well. Fans may be familiar with singles “Mercy” and “Clique,” as these two head nodders demonstrate the production quality well. 2 Chainz and Pusha T deliver massive lines as they flaunt the life of fame and money while Big Sean and Jay-Z back up their crew with a

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“Cruel Summer,” which is available for download on iTunes now, is the first compilation album from G.O.O.D. Music. | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons repetitive, yet catchy, hooks. The best tracks on “Cruel Summer” are arguably “New God Flow” and “The Morning,” which are successful largely because of the subject matter. Backed by an eerie piano

accompaniment and chilling drums throughout the instrumental, Pusha T takes subliminal shots to other rappers as he barks the line “Step on they necks ‘til they can’t breathe / claim they five stars but sell you dreams. They say death multiplies by threes / line them all up and let’s just see.” Kanye raps in “The Morning” that his success came in the form of working from the bottom to the top as he chimes in, “Aw money, you sold your soul? Nah man, mad people was fronting / God damn, we made something from nothing.” “Higher,” “Sin City” and “Creepers” unfortunately dissapoint in lyricism and quality. Kanye’s lack of oversight in the production of these tracks is a huge factor. “Bliss” takes a small and relieving break from 16-bar verses and throws

in John Legend and Teyana Taylor, who sing tremendously well in the love song. As “I Don’t Like” brings the album home with a trap instrumental, it starts to feel refreshing, but slightly underwhelming. Because some tracks were leaked, the album feels like opening a Christmas present while well aware of what’s inside, and it doesn’t help that no alterations were made in the final version. The album is, however, worth an extended listen. The smooth overall production quality and verses delivered from the G.O.O.D. Music affiliates made sure the album closed the summer with a bang. arts@thedailycougar.com

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OPINION

EDITOR Lucas Sepulveda EMAIL opinion@thedailycougar.com ONLINE thedailycougar.com/opinion

A smoke-free campus? Campus-wide ban sparks variety of feelings from University student body

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BRYAN WASHINGTON

ALEX CABALLERO

he air quality in and around the University of Houston is about to get better. The University’s new tobacco-free policy is already underway. University stores have already stopped selling tobacco products. Smokers have had to find their fix elsewhere, and their whining has already started. But incoming freshmen won’t have to deal with walking through thick clouds of secondhand smoke outside of their classroom buildings or the annoying blockage of pedestrian traffic as the smokers “congregate” together. No, freshmen will never experience those annoyances because, thanks in part to a Texas law requiring a tobacco ban to receive funding from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, UH will become a cleaner and healthier facility for non-smokers. The smokers on campus will have designated smoking areas, so it is not a complete ban, and having designated areas will make smoking more of a sociable vice for those who do. However, the point of this tobaccofree policy is simply a matter of safety. There are people who don’t want to inhale the smoke but are forced to merely because of their proximity to those who do. It has been proven countless times that inhaling secondhand smoke is just as bad as, if not worse than,

ur student government’s smoking ban would be a pleasant idea if it weren’t absolutely ridiculous. It’s simply devoid of sense. Even if we were to bypass the fact that only a handful of students are even aware that it exists, the timing of its creation more than accounts for the surplus unprofessionalism surrounding it. The idea of a non-smoking campus is a wonderful thing to imagine, but turning the image into a reality is neither logical nor possible. First of all, this policy, which affects the entire campus, was passed during the summer. That’s a deal breaker. If we were to observe the average student’s participation in student government’s affairs, it’d be hard enough to find a significant amount of activity during the fall and spring semesters. This is when said students are generally on University grounds, walking its sidewalks and breathing its air. And it’s at this time that they’d be most concerned with its well-being. So it isn’t right for a policy as big as the smoking ban to be legitimized during summer break, when the overwhelming majority of its target audience is off site. Worse yet is the lack of consistency pertaining to enforcement. One of the fundamental principles of any social contract is the presence of a standard, or at

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puffing away at a cigarette. Secondhand smoke can cause cancer, and discarded cigarette butts can lead to fires and litter. Why should healthy non-smokers put their own lives at risk for those who enjoy it? Smoking is a self-induced health hazard, and UH shouldn’t promote it. Non-smokers who would otherwise not come in contact with smokers have to work their way through clouds of gray smoke to get to their classes. Having designated areas will decongest foot traffic and lungs alike. Also, every day the campus is littered with cigarette butts by those who are too cool to find a nearby trash can and just flick their butts to the ground. Those cigarette butts aren’t biodegradable and pollute the environment, not to mention they make the campus look dirty and unkempt. This ban will not only assure the University gets a cut of the funding from CPRIT, but it will save the campus money in the long run. Smoke from cigarettes has been proven to damage buildings. In the long run, tuition prices could go down, and we could all benefit from that. Smoking is a bad habit that causes cancer, bad breath and bad skin, and with this ban UH is doing right by smokers and non-smokers alike. Alex Caballero is an English and history junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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least a means of finding out when you’ve done something wrong. Our mystery policy has neither. While it does a fine job of stating the obvious — that a cigarette’s not as beneficial to your body as a glass of orange juice might be — it doesn’t explicitly define the image it seeks to convey. Does a smoke free campus entail absolutely no smoking at all or only outside of its educational hubs? Are parking lots fair game? Is there a fine associated with breaking the ban? If there is, how much would it cost? This is only a partial sampling of the grievances that arise in the stead of a tangible concept. We’re the University of Houston — as opposed to some crosstown liberal arts den — where a similar agenda could be enacted with comparatively less opposition, we don’t have the luxury of a single demographic. As one of the nation’s most diverse universities, we must cater to all types, which means smokers and non-smokers alike. And the biggest problem with the ban might be just that: a lack of respect for the scope of the University, its population, and what they both supposedly stand for.

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EDITOR Andrew Pate EMAIL sports@thedailycougar.com ONLINE thedailycougar.com/sports

BASEBALL

Can the Cougars contend? UH heads into fall practice hoping pitching legend and veteran squad will help return program to prominence

The 2012-2013 baseball program will lean on its strong pitching and five returning position players in order to help reach its first postseason play since 2008. | File photo/The Daily Cougar

Roman Petrowski Staff writer

The UH baseball team began its fall practice Sept. 12 in preparation for their spring campaign. They will hold four practices a week during the next six weeks to get ready for the 2013 season. The team will get a break from the practice routine when they suit up Oct. 7 against Rice University at Reckling Field. “Our staff is very anxious to get our squad out on the field. We have a tremendous core of players returning from last year,” said Head Coach Todd Whitting. The Cougars have five starters returning from 2011’s position players, including junior outfielder Landon Appling. Appling led the team in batting average (.324), home runs (3) and runs scored (32) last season while splitting time between centerfield and second base and primarily batting leadoff. “Last year’s team was really

young, and it showed on the field. This year we have a veteran ball club coming back,” Appling said. Additionally, there are 17 new faces to the Cougars. Houston will arguably bring in its most talented pitching class in years and some high quality junior college transfers will be competing for spots in the infield. “I’m really excited about the 17 new players. The tremendous incoming class that we have, along with the talented returners, should lead to a really good team,” Whitting said. Perhaps the top of the line for the new players will be junior transfer starting pitcher Daniel Ponce de Leon. Ponce de Leon comes in by way of Cypress College in Cypress, Calif. and brings with him a mid-90s fastball and quite a pitching repertoire. “(Ponce de Leon) has all the tools to come in and compete for a spot in our rotation right away. We are very excited to

Coach Anderson is well regarded in Division I baseball as one of the premier pitching coaches in the nation. I am very excited for our players to have the opportunity to work with him.” Todd Whitting, UH head coach discussing the hiring of baseball legened Frank Anderson who will serve as pitching coach add someone of his ability and experience to our club,” Whitting said. In 2012, Ponce de Leon compiled a 3-3 record with a 3.05 earned run average last season with the Chargers, while striking out 53 batters and walking just 32. He joins the staff ready to contribute to what should be an already deep rotation. But behind the confidence he brings from the West Coast, Ponce de

Leon knows there is plenty of room for improvement. “I don’t want to walk many people. I want to pound the strike zone. Getting the first pitch over is a big deal. I want to compete and work on my attitude. If anything goes wrong I just want to keep it the same level the whole time,” Ponce de Leon said. When it comes down to it, one of the most important signees for the Cougars will not ever take the field. The program added a collegiate baseball legend to their staff, announcing that Frank Anderson would be taking over as pitching coach. “Coach Anderson is well regarded in Division I baseball as one of the premier pitching coaches in the nation. This is a tremendous hire for our program and I am very excited for our players to have the opportunity to work with him,” Whitting said. sports@thedailycougar.com

A LOOK BACK YEAR

SEASON; C-USA RESULT

2012

18-35-1; 5-18-1 (8th)

2011

27-32; 12-12 (6th)

2010

25-31; 11-13 (T-5th)

2009

27-31; 13-11 (T-3rd)

2008

42-24; 14-10 (4th).

2007

28-28; 12-12 (T-4th)

2006

39-22; 18-6 (2nd)

2005

29-30; 16-13 (5th)

2004

30-29; 19-11 (T-4th)

2003 2002

37-30; 18-12 (T-4th) 48-17; 22-7 (1st)

2001

29-30; 20-7 (2nd)

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Anti-smoking initiative lights up with 12-week program Kevin Cook Staff writer

The College of Pharmacy, is offering “Just Kick It!” a smoking cessation program headed by third year Pharmacy students Habeeba Nizamdin and Claire Hung, who held their first meeting September 18 in Agnes Arnold Hall 108. Dr. Mary Rae, Chief Physician at the UH Health Center, was in attendance and was the evening’s guest speaker. She suggests that the Just Kick It! initiative is a natural offspring of the impending tobacco ban. “We’ve been saying, ‘It’s okay; it’s okay,’ and suddenly it’s not okay anymore,” Rae said during her presentation to an audience of two. “We have to provide a service to help them smokers quit.” There were two in attendance for the cessation meeting Tuesday: Jean Palmquist — a UH employee in the registrar’s office — and physics sophomore Johnathan Hakin. Both enthusiatically supported the anti-smoking mission

of the presenters, and Palmquist especially was emphatic in her rhetoric. “I hate feeling guilty all the time,” Palmquist said in reference to her desire to quit smoking. Hakin, on the other hand, was more reserved about his ultimate plans but praised the presenters for their energy. “These people seem to be passionate,” he said, gesturing towards Nizamdin and Hung. Hung and Nizamdin have a long history of working with smoking cessation programs, as chairs of the Power to End Stroke program through the Student National Pharmaceutical Association. They implemented the “Beat the Pack” offered by Pfizer on campus last year, and this year the organization have implemented elements of that program along with their own experience and suggestions from former cessation students. “Beat the Pack is how we started, but we have incorporated all the things we learned last year,”

Hung said. For their part in the tobaccofree movement, there is not much money to follow. Hung and Nizamdin are largely funding their meetings out of their own pocket. “Our organization is not rich. We have to take funds out of our own budget,” Hung explained. Their passion is obvious. Both presenters were energetic and enthusiastic in their presentation, and were optimistic about expansion of the Just Kick It! program. “We’re hoping for as many as we can get,” Nizamdin said. “When people are smoking, we are just going to go up to them and ask (if they’d like to enroll),” Hung said, regarding future recruitment efforts. The next meeting will be 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in Agnes Arnold room 108, and all the presenters hope for a wider turnout. “We’re all in this together,” Rae said. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Cimation City of Houston Dept. of Public Works and Engineering ConocoPhillips Daniel Measurement & Control Dashiell Corporation Dockwise USA LLC DOW Drill-Quip, Inc. DuPont Elliot Group EMAS AMC Emerson Process Management Emerson Process Management Valve Automation Energy Solutions International Enterprise Products Epic Fenner-Fast Houston Flowserve Fluor Corp FMC Corporation

Freeport LNG GE Oil & Gas General Motors Halliburton HDR Hewlett-Packard Company Hitachi Consulting Huntsman INEOS Oleﬁns & Polymers USA INROADS Jones & Carter KBR Kiewit LJA Engineering, Inc. Lubrizol Corporation LyondellBasell Industries Marathon Oil McDermott MOGAS Industries Mustang Engineering National Oilwell Varco NCI Building Systems

Odebrecht Construction Occidental Chemical Corporation Oxea Corporation Packers Plus Energy Services Pariveda Solutions Phillips 66 Praxair, Inc. Precision Drilling PROS Revenue Management Real Time Power, Inc. Samsung Austin Semiconductor SandRidge Energy Schlumberger Shah Smith & Associates, Inc. Shell Oil Company Shrader Engineering, Inc. Siemens Energy, Inc. SKF USA, Inc. Solar Turbines Incorporated Spectra Energy SPX Transformer Solutions STP Nuclear Operating Company

Sponsored by National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Coordinated by the Cullen College of Engineering Career Center.

Styrolution America LLC Sulzer Sun Products Corporation Superior Energy Services Technip USA, Inc. Tessella The Reynolds and Reynolds Company TMK IPSCO Toshiba International Company TPC Group United States Marine Corps Ofﬁcer Selection United States Navy Vallourec and Mannesmann Valero Energy Waldemar S. Nelson & Co. Inc. Weatherford International, Ltd. WEST Engineering Services Williams Companies Worley Parsons Wyle Science, Technology and Engineering Group Yokogawa Corporation of America