Issue 43, Volume 78

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Undie run goes south; one arrested

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Amanda Hilow Managing editor

The collision of Texas Southern students, an unauthorized “underwear run” and a Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. event at Lynn B. Eusan Park on Tuesday night escalated into a post-election celebratory spectacle that many students described as a riot.

Amidst dancing to a live disc jockey, chants for President Barack Obama and students walking around half-dressed were disenchanted Republicans standing to the side and shouting into the throng of students and UH police officers who were not comfortable with the turn of events.

“Basically it turned into a huge party,” said creative writing senior Caleb Rogers.

“Everyone gathered in front of Cougar Village cheering for Obama and — this is the funny thing — at the same time, one of the sororities were planning a panty run so the two combined.”

As the TSU students decided to begin disrobing as well, UHDPS officers arrived at the scene — which was classified as a disturbance — at around 11:40 p.m., intending to disperse the crowd, which had reached 1,000 students and begun to edge toward the

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Go Coogs Day lifts spirit SPORTS Police tried to force the crowd to disperse by weaving through it with police cars. | Courtesy of Wade Tao surrounding residence halls.

Rogers said police cars were weaving through groups of students and activating their lights and sirens to make students leave the area.

UH Executive Director of Media Relations Richard Bonnin said the park was reserved by Phi Beta

Sigma for a celebration of 200 students in honor of the University’s first African-American Homecoming queen, Lynn Eusan. The underwear run in the same location was not approved.

“The University did not sanction such an event, and a request to do so was never submitted,”

Bonnin said in a statement.

When many participants declined to leave the area, Houston Police Department and TSU police were dispatched at 12:10 a.m. to assist in dispersing the disturbance, said HPD spokesperson RIOT continues on page 3

Students clean campus at festival Laura Gillespie Staff writer

Students turned out for everything from a coffee sampling at Cougar Woods Dining Hall to picking up trash around campus at the four-day UH Sustainability Fest that began Nov.1, hosted by the Office of Sustainability, Rotaract and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. “(The Fest) started on Thursday, we had different tables from different organizations throughout campus or beyond,” said Adam Nguyen, architecture graduate student and a marketing intern for the Office of Sustainability.

“We had Metro, we had the campus bookstore, different people

coming together to get students more involved.”

On Thursday night, the Office of Sustainability also hosted an open house at Moody Towers.

“We were trying to get students more inclined to recycle and give them more knowledge (about recycling),” Nguyen said.

Students walked to various areas on campus, including Butler Plaza, the University Center, and near the residence halls for TrashOff on Saturday to collect litter.

The Trash-Off was followed by a work session at the Community Garden Sunday evening. “(Rotaract is involved with) projects such as donating to polio (relief ), donating canned goods and clothes,” said Larissa Davis,

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the coordinator for Trash-Off Campus. “This is our very first year on UH campus and we decided to

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United in Anger: A History of ACT UP: From 1 to 3 p.m. in the Honors College Commons, Blaffer Art Museum will screen the documentary film “United in Anger” as a part of the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. The film is about the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in New York City in 1987.

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Architects look for new ways to manage disaster Demetrious Mahone Staff writer

Architects from three countries will meet to discus potential precautions against climate change and disasters, like Hurricanes Katrina or Sandy, through architecture and urban planning from 1 to 7:15 p.m. Today and 2 to 6 p.m.

Friday in the College of Architecture’s Theater Room.

“Dynamic Equilibrium at the Water’s Edge: Three Continents Symposium” was initiated by UH Dean of Architecture Patricia Oliver and will include guest lecturers from the University of Buenos

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Jodi Silva.

“The police asked the crowd to leave; many complied but several students were still hanging around and refused to leave,” said Silva.

“There was one female we asked to leave and she repeatedly said she didn’t have to.”

Silva said the female UH student shoved the officer when he asked for her identification and attempted to walk her to the patrol vehicle.

The officer detained her and was surrounded by a group of her

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they helped us out to do the TrashOff.” The Fest isn’t the only thing the Office of Sustainability does. It also processes grants and publishes newsletters discussing UH goals to become greener.

“The idea is that as students walk by, they can go up to any department that has an exhibit there, or student organization,

Aires in Argentina, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, and Tulane University.

Thomas Colbert, a UH associate professor of architecture, will be presenting his project called the “Lone Star Coastal National Recreation Area,” in a lecture called “Water Strategies for the Upper Texas Gulf Coast.”

“Following what happened to New York, recently, and New Orleans, in 2005, we need to make sure it doesn’t happen here,” said Colbert, who moved to Houston from Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. “We need to fine tune our thinking to keep people safe

friends. “ ( T h e s t u d e n t s ) w e r e n’t responding too positively to the aggression and they actually started surrounding him and there was a scuffle that broke out,” said Rogers, who said he witnessed the incident.

The female was taken into custody and escorted to Harris County Jail, charged with a misdemeanor for resisting arrest.

After the crowd dispersed, students reported damage to vehicles and to a door in Taub Residence Hall, but no injuries were reported. news@thedailycougar.com

and learn a little about what that department is doing in terms of sustainability, and also get feedback,” said Leah Wolfthal, program coordinator for the Office of Sustainability.

“The feedback is also the crucial part. It’s not just to raise awareness, but also engagement and saying what they want to happen, what they think should happen, and how they want to be involved,” Wolfthal said. news@thedailycougar.com

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David Waggonner, of Waggonner & Ball Architects in New Orleans will also be presenting a lecture titled “Dutch Dialogues and a Water Strategy for New Orleans.” Additional speakers will be Flavio Janches, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, will be presenting “Whose City Is It?” Jeffery A. Carney, associate professor and director of Louisiana State University’s Coastal Sustainability Studio, will be lecturing “Lift up.

Dig In. Get out? Design Thinking for the Future Gulf Coast.”

“A serious debate needs to occur on how to solve these

issues,” said Colbert. “People have superficial ideas that we want to put to the test and challenge. We are looking for practical and realistic solutions.”

Some architecture students have already considered the field’s responsibility to take environmental change into consideration when designing buildings.

“From the environmental perspective, a designer must understand how the site now functions, its location, flora and fauna that might be on site,” architecture s e n i o r A r m a n d o He r n a n d e z said. “For example, a building designed as an office building

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might function differently 25 years down the road, and the impact on the environment most likely will change.”

Other students believe that environmental change is everyone’s responsibility but that environmental consideration is crucial in architecture.

“I do not believe architects are the only people responsible for these environmental endeavors,” architecture junior Wintress Cloud said. “But if architects don’t consider the environment during construction, then who will?” news@thedailycougar.com

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OPINION

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

TUITION AND FEES

Problems raid financial aid University needs to address problems faced by students trying to receive scholarships, pay tuition Bryan Washington Staff columnist

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he Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid is a necessary component to a successful university and appears to give students some relief.

It could be the third word of its title — scholarship — that incites good vibes. Maybe it’s the concept of aid itself. Or, if nothing else, it could be the notion that there’s one building of several on this campus that makes its livelihood out of assisting its patrons indiscriminately, rich and broke alike.

But when you visit this building on business, you realize that you’ve been fooled. If someone graphed a pie chart out of our university’s ailments, from the man-holes on Wheeler Street to mood-dependent office hours, they’d be hard pressed to find room to fit in the issues that reside in the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid. Whatever choices you make during your tenure at this institution, none of them are conceivable until you’ve paid your tuition and fees — to accomplish this, you need to take a field trip to the little building by the parking garage. And even once you’ve arrived, there’s no

That’s what a university really is — a service — and keeping a customer waiting is no way to stay in business.”

assuring that it will be successful.

The office could benefit from brainstorming some solutions to the issues that seem to continue being ignored. Even before the obvious incongruities of online inaccessibility and the low likelihood of being waitlisted with a single digit, the office could be greatly improved by altering its information distribution methods. A study hasn’t been conducted, but it seems a fair amount of its visitors pass through because they simply have no idea what has happened to their funds.

Those that had the luxury of forewarning may have received an absurdly vague email. These look more like badly worded ransom notes than Tier One notifications.

The unlucky ones show up to the office because they’ve got nowhere else to go after discovering moments before class that they’ve been dropped. It isn’t until they find time to check their email hours later that they see they’d been warned of impending fines only minutes before their morning classes. They had all of half an hour to save their semester.

The office’s hours aren’t doing them any favors either. It’s as if maximum occupancy must be reached before its employees can take off for lunch.

That isn’t a slam on the building’s personnel, but with a clientele that ebbs and flows like a steady current, the hours of operation ought to reflect the populous.

This would mean that around noon a reasonable amount of personnel should be on hand to assist students.

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budget cuts, staff restructuring and marketing shifts take a toll on the way an operation is run.

We know it’s tough.

But, all concessions given, there are only so many excuses to make.

If the University really wanted

to give its students something to shout about, they could start with making it a little easier for them to stay here.

Bryan Washington is a creative writing and sociology senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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Ideally, it would resemble service based on the customer, because that’s what a university really is — a service — and keeping a customer waiting is no way to stay in business.

This isn’t to say that the office doesn’t have its own problems:

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SPORTS

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

FOOTBALL

Next man up Cougars defense must replace Hayden’s leadership and talent after his injury Andrew Pate Sports editor

Without senior defensive bacl D.J. Hayden on the field, other players in the secondary will take on new responsibilities, defensive backs assistant coach Zac Spavital said.

After Bates colliding with another player, Hayden was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital by ambulance during Tuesday’s practice.

“Other guys are going to have to step up. We’re not going to play any different. We’re going to do what we do,” Spavital said.

Hayden injury update Junior defensive back Thomas Bates will start on the outside, but other players will rotate, Spavital said.

“Right now, I’d just like to have everyone keep D.J. in your thoughts and prayers,” head coach Tony Levine said to SportsTalk 790 AM. “It was a freak accident — we

That’s my responsibility to make sure the team is OK and the other 124 young men respond to it in the appropriate way.”

Tony Levine, UH head coach speaking about his team’s response to D.J. Hayden’s injury

were working defense against our scout offense and he and another player broke on a ball then collided.”

Team moving forward Levine also said injuries have become a part of the game and that it is important for the remaining player to maintaining the right mindset.

“A couple weeks ago I watched the South Carolina game live when their running back Marcus Lattimore went down with a serious leg injury and it’s hard (for the team) to get back up and compete,” Levine said. “That’s my responsibility to make sure the team is

okay and the other 124 young men respond to it in the appropriate way.”

“I was in touch with a number of players last night and again, it’s not easy,” Levine said. “Talking about young men who have known their teammates for a long time, are roommates with them.

That occurrence is never easy to deal with.”

Leadership hard to replace Spavital said on the field there is no substitute for Hayden’s talent.

Hayden was named Conference USA Defensive Newcomer of the Year a season ago with 11 passes broken up.

Through nine games played, Hayden is first on the team with four interceptions and third in solo tackles with 38.

“He’s a vocal leader and a leader by his actions,” Spavital said. “He’s made some big plays for us lately and we’re trying to manage that and keep everyone going.”

Additional reporting by Christopher Shelton

Senior defensive back D.J. Hayden returns an interception 97 yards in a 45-35 victory over UTEP this season. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar

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Gearing up for gameday ead coach James Dickey and the UH men’s basketball team finetuned their skills in a 108-55 victory over Concordia at Hofheinz Pavilion on Tuesday. The Cougars were led by their lone senior Leon Gibson’s 23 points.

After jumping out to a 27-12 lead in the first half, UH would hold a doubledigit lead the remainder of the game.

The team will take on Florida A&M at Hofheinz in its season opener Friday at noon.

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HOMECOMING

Cougar spirit jumpstarts Homecoming week

To celebrate the week’s festivities, the UH Homecoming Board provided students with giveaways, music and crafty activities. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar Molly Hill Contributing writer

Homecoming celebrations at UH continued as students and

faculty gathered Tuesday evening at Lynn Eusan Park for the “Go Coogs Day!� event to boost Cougar spirit with loud music, crafts and

speeches.

The UH Homecoming Board ran many activities promoting their “Keep Houston Red� theme f o r Ho m e c o m i n g w e e k a n d encouraged support for the football team for their upcoming game against Tulsa.

Tables were set up providing space for fans to make posters to cheer for the Cougars. Students enjoyed free t-shirts, sunglasses, and food. “We wanted to have this event to promote Cougar pride and to get students excited for Homecoming,� said Jacob Ortiz, the director of production for the UH Homecoming Board. “We planned events that we know would bring out fans and we are very happy with the turnout.�

The Hot 95.7 radio station created a soundtrack for the event

and led the audience in chants and cheers.

A few members of the Coog Crew displayed their cheering talents by inviting all students to show up loud and proud on gameday to support the team. “We need every student to grab everybody they know and come out and fill up the student section,� said Mike Brown, a senior at the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management and president of the Coog Crew. “Show up, have a good time, cheer loud, and go Coogs!�

Students were allowed the opportunity to gather together and create an aerial photo with their Shasta paws up in the air.

A parade of students also made their way to the Shasta statue outside of the Roy G. Cullen building to give it a quick rub for good luck and snap a picture with a new

pair of sunglasses provided by the Homecoming staff.

Mike Pede, the president and CEO of the UH Alumni Association spoke to the students about what being an alumni means to the university.

Homecoming allows UH alumni to return to campus to celebrate with students and spread the word about how being a Cougar does not have to end at graduation, Pede said. “ We are living during the golden age of UH, and by next fall we will have 8,200 students living on campus,� he said. “This is the time to grab friends and tell them about the traditions here that they can carry on with them into their alumni years. This is about turning active students into active alumni.� arts@thedailycougar.com

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