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ERP recharged by completed renovations Laura Gillespie Staff writer
Building 1 in the Energy Research Park has received $7 million in renovations. Construction took 13 months to complete. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar
After about $7 million and 13 months of work, renovations on Building 1 at the Energy Research Park are completed. The original building was built in the 1950s when it was owned by Schlumberger Ltd, the world’s largest provider of oil and gas technology. With the renovations, the building has upgraded the roof, windows, mechanical systems, flooring, ceiling and electronics, and the outside has also been altered to display the UH colors. “Prior to the renovations, we really needed to update the mechanical systems. We had some old issues through the duct work, so all of that was replaced. The new finish brings it all up to a standard that we try to create here at the Energy Research Park,” said Sean York, UH Real Estate Services director.
“The reason why we try to keep the building without a lot of modifications really has to do with the historical significance of this building and the visibility off of I-45.” The building houses advancement, finance, purchasing and assorted accounting staff for the ERP. The funding for the project came through the UH Board of Regents. In the months to come, further renovations will be taking place throughout the ERP. “We are going to be doing a renovated lobby and exterior work to 14A, which is the Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center,” York said. “We are also going to move forward in the future with renovating the lower level of Building 19 for future office space. We’re also about ready to kick of Phase 2 Redevelopment plan, which would include renovations to Buildings 1A, 2 and 3.”
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Chem-E car team drives into fifth place Alfred Mendez Contributing writer
A UH team of chemical engineering students took fifth place in the 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Competition, for their “Zombie Cougalac,” a 29-pound pressure-powered car that was designed with only domestically produced supplies and parts. This year marks the most success the UH team has seen in the competition. “There is a regional conference competition around March every year, from where top teams are selected to go into the National Conference in Pittsburgh. This year top schools like Cornell University, John Hopkins, Rutgers, Purdue and many others participated. We not only beat top schools but also every other Texas school,” said team member Rishabh Mahajan. To win the competition, teams were tasked with constructing a sizelimited car that operated via a controlled chemical reaction. Each car would then be judged based on its ability to perform certain functions, said An Dinh, the team’s leader. “The competition involved two segments, the poster competition
and the performance competition,” Dinh said. “For the performance aspect, the car must travel a specified distance and carry a specified load. Each team has two runs, and the car that comes closest to the designated line wins.” Though the Zombie Cougalac presented some minor technical difficulties in its initial run, they were quickly resolved, and the car managed a second run that saw it stop just 0.41 meters short of the line, good enough for fifth place, Dinh said. The car ran off of a chemical reaction between manganese dioxide and hydrogen peroxide, Mahajan said. “We added Manganese dioxide pellets to a precalculated amount of hydrogen peroxide, resulting into production of oxygen and water. The pressure builds up and goes into a second tank. The oxygen then travels through a regulator and into an air motor. The air motor is connected to a drive train, which drives the car,” Mahajan said. The members said they hope to use the recent success to eventually turn the Chem-E car team into an organization so projects can continue between years. “This year, we essentially had an
all new team. Many of us were inexperienced, but our collective desire to do well was a major driving force in how hard we pushed to quickly set up our team to be competitive,” Dinh said. “A staggeringly large amount of work over the year goes into a car that competes for just a few minutes. Our main goal for UH Chem-E-Car is to produce a level of work that does us, the school and our sponsors and supporters proud, year after year.”
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Impulsivity invades shopping spree Demetrious Mahone Staff writer
As all serious shoppers know, the day after Thanksgiving, commonly known as Black Friday, marks the start of the holiday shopping season, and retailers focus on encouraging impulse buying among shoppers. Marketing professor Jacqueline Kacen has extensively studied impulse buyers and the factors associated with it. “Impulse buying is defined as an unplanned purchase that is characterized by relatively rapid decision-making,” Kacen said. “Highly impulsive buyers are likely to be unreflective in their thinking, to be emotionally attracted to the object and to desire immediate gratification.” Kacen published her research on impulse buying in the “Journal of Consumer Psychology.” Photography junior April BecerraVargas, former retail employee, knows all the tricks. “They try to encourage you to buy
without thinking,” Becerra-Vargas said. “Zero percent interest for six months, buy two and save 40 percent. They’ll do anything to get your money.” Retailers at traditional stores have a process to put their shoppers in an atmosphere where they will be prone to purchase things impulsively. “The sensory stimulation provided by the store environment is particularly acute during the holiday shopping season when holiday decorations, holiday music and holiday scents, such as cinnamon and gingerbread, activate our visual, aural and olfactory senses,” Kacen said. “Such festive environments put us in a good mood. People in more positive moods are more likely to make an impulse purchase and are willing to pay more for the item.” Media production senior Sacha Ryder still participates in Black Friday despite its craziness. “It’s a really hectic experience,” Ryder said. “Usually, I go to Black Friday sales without really knowing
what I’m going to get.” Americans spent $563 million during the holiday season last year, with only $90 million from online sales, according to the National Retailer Federation. Kacen’s research compares the satisfaction of shoppers who planned their purchases and those who made their choice impulsively. “Consumers spend more time and effort making a planned purchase decision, but are no more satisfied with their planned purchases than their impulse buys,” Kacen said. The research shows that shoppers making a planned purchase spend more time in the store, on average, 47.3 minutes, compared to the average time of an impulse buyer, which is 16.7 minutes. “So consumers spend more time and effort on the planned purchase, but aren’t more satisfied,” Kacen said. “So, perhaps impulse buying is not necessarily a bad thing.” news@thedailycougar.com
Stores across the country are having major sales for the Black Friday shopping spree. | Hannah Laamoumi/The Daily Cougar
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Why do we hate the wealthy? Sarah Backer Staff columnist
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hile campaigning in Toledo on Oct. 12, 2008, President Barack Obama told Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Two years later in Quincy, Ill., Obama said, “I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” These statements may not bother you. Some of you may say it’s only fair that the rich pay more or that wealth should be equally distributed. To be fair means to be free from bias. This is neither fair nor just. There are two sides to every story and two people in every conflict. Class warfare ideology is no new phenomenon. Conflict between social and economic
classes can be found throughout the history of human civilization: the French Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and the Marxist Soviet Union. Each can be described as bloody reigns of terror in which countries were ruled by violence, fear, mass executions and injustice. All of these conflicts were caused in part by desires for the redistribution of wealth and resulted in despotic bedlam. There was no universal equality, but rather, ubiquitous injustice. Socialistic redistribution of income is thievery made legal. By the Fourth Amendment, we are guaranteed protection from unreasonable searches and seizures of our property. Rightfully and legitimately earned wealth is property, or at least our founding fathers certainly seem to have thought so. “The utopian schemes of
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A 2004 Congressional Budget Office report says the top 40 percent paid 85 percent of income taxes whereas their counterparts, the bottom 40 percent, paid 6.1 percent. The 1 percent has become the moniker for greedy, capitalist pigs. But this discrimination, like all other forms, is false. In the 2009 Congressional Budget Office tax data, the top 1 percent earned about $1.2 million pre-tax income on average and paid $337,700 in federal taxes; they earned 13.4 percent of the nation’s income, but paid 22.3 percent of the federal income taxes. This group is responsible for 30 percent of philanthropic contributions made in 2009. Many of these men and women also bear personal, financial responsibility for their companies which generate the jobs necessary for
economic development. It is odd that we hate the rich. Logically, we should admire them for their ingenuity and business savvy. Going to college, getting a degree and earning a secure income from a successful and rewarding career are goals to which we should all aspire. There is no reason to begrudge others their success or resent their triumphant pursuit of the American dream. Rich folks are people too. As author Sister Mary Tricky said, “Rich people are just poor people with money.” The vast majority of wealthy Americans rightfully and legally earned their money, so maybe we should stop spurning the rich and start learning from them. Sarah Backer is a business sophomore and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com.
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leveling (redistribution of wealth), and a community of goods, are as visionary and impracticable as those that vest all property in the Crown,” Samuel Adams said. “(These ideas) are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional.” Former president James Madison had similar philosophies. “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents,” Madison said. For those who say the wealthy should pay their fair share: The top 1 percent takes home 16.9 percent of total income, but pays 36.7 percent of income taxes. The top 10 percent earns 43 percent of total income and pays 70 percent of income taxes.
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On Saturday, Robertson Stadium will host a football game for the final time, so The Daily Cougar decided to honor the stadium’s legacy with this photo spread. Top: Many fans of the team have purchased their tickets at this stand. Right: The pillars of the stadium hold up the winding staircase that guide fans to their seats. | Rebekah Stearns /The Daily Cougar
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Top: Robertson Stadium and John O’Quinn Field have been staples of UH since the Cougars began playing there full-time in 1998. Left: Above the signs honoring Andre Ware and Bill Yeoman is the scoreboard that has shown many replays — some positive, others negative — since it was built. | Rebekah Stearns /The Daily Cougar
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Fashion Houston, a week-long event presented by Audi that was started in 2010, was held from Nov. 12 to Thursday at the Wortham Theater Center this year. The event emulates the four major fashion weeks that happen in New York City, Paris, London and Milan. Thursday, Haitian brothers Patrick and Fabrice Tardieu presented their menswear Bogosse collection (left) and New York designer Zac Posen brought his spring line (middle left) to the south. Local designer Chloe Dao worked with oxwood colors for her Dao Chloe Dao line (middle), Max Azria showcased body conscious swimsuits in his Hervé Léger line (middle right) and Monique Lhuillier’s collection (right) featured a theme inspired by the sea. | Adrienne Raquel/The Daily Cougar
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Student model balances class, fashion industry Allen Le Life & arts editor
Broadcast journalism junior Nida Khurshid was signed as a model to Page Parkes Corporation in Houston after a brief stint on cycle 14 of “America’s Next Top Model.” Khurshid walked during three of the four nights at Fashion Houston and will play a minor role in Seth Rogen’s directorial film debut in the summer. The Daily Cougar: How were you discovered?
I was totally new to the modeling industry — the only thing I had ever done was “Top Model,” After I attended the model camp, I got signed right away. TDC: How many shows were you cast in for Fashion Houston this year? NK: We did the casting a couple of months ago and then I got booked the Monday, Tuesday and Thursday shows. TDC: Who did you walk for?
Broadcast journalism junior Nida Khurshid was casted to be apart of the Monique Lhuillier runway show on Thursday evening. | Adrienne Raquel/The Daily Cougar
Nida Khurshid: I had initially tried out for “America’s Next Top Model,” and I made it on the first episode. When I was over in L.A. filming that first episode, one of the people who cast me for the show told me about Page Parkes and said I should audition for them when I go back to Houston, which I did. After the first episode, I got eliminated so I flew back to Houston, and I just went for a random open call at Page Parkes and attended the weekend model camp with them because
NK: Monday I walked for Georges Chakra. Tuesday it was David Peck and tonight ( Thursday) it was Monique Lhuillier, who was my favorite because I watch her on “Say Yes to the Dress” all the time, so that was pretty awesome. TDC: What was your favorite collection this year? NK: It has to be George Chakra because he’s from Europe — you
can’t go wrong with a European designer — and his clothes are just absolutely beautiful. TDC: What were you favorite looks from his collection? NK: I think one of them was one I wore — it was the first look. It was like a suit and then a skirt and then it was just all sequined. It was just beautiful and it makes you feel like such a woman and sophisticated at the same time. TDC: What is your favorite thing about modeling? NK: The best part is just getting to meet people who I really look up to in the fashion industry. One of my favorite moments was when I got to meet Naeem Khan — he designs for tons of celebrities at the Grammy’s and the Oscar’s. His gowns are worn by countless different celebrities, and I got to walk for him in a fashion show. That was just absolutely amazing because it was a dream come true, especially because he is from
the same part of the world as me. It’s definitely cool meeting other South Asians in the industry just like me; that’s one of my favorite parts. TDC: What other type of modeling work have you done this year? NK: I did mostly fashion shows. I got to walk for Alberta Ferretti, and she’s a European designer and it was the first time she brought her spring collection to the U.S. It her was debut fashion show, and I got to walk for her. It was absolutely amazing. I’m working pretty much three times a week doing different shows. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t remember specifically what I’ve done. I also recently worked on a movie. Seth Rogen with his directorial debut movie, called “End of the World” — we filmed in New Orleans this past summer and it’s coming out in June 2013. I got to work with James Franco, Seth Rogan and Emma Watson. It was absolutely amazing MODEL continues on page 8
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— probably the best time I’ve ever had in this industry. There was a group of like 15 celebrities including Rihanna — frickin’ Rihanna. I get so excited talking about this as you can probably tell. TDC: What character do you play in the film?
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NK: I was a featured guest at James Franco’s party so basically I was around Aziz Ansari the whole time because I’m brown and he’s brown and I guess they thought it would be cool to put us together. TDC: What are your favorite fashion trends this season? NK: I really love the whole seethrough dresses at the bottom, but then they have another layer underneath. And I love leather — I’m obsessed with leather. And the skirts that are higher in the front and longer in the back. And studs — I’m all about studs — kinds of like punkrock mixed with feminine and kind of flirty and fun. And I have to wear my boots. TDC: How do you balance school and modeling? NK: It’s hard, but I try to keep up with everything, and I limit myself to two classes per semester. I’m taking my time with school, but at the same time I want to make good grades because I feel like I have to take everything in bits and pieces. But it’s going good, I love broadcast journalism, but I love acting and modeling at the same time. I feel like they all kind of intertwine, and I can do something really big overall with my career with all three things. TDC: What are you looking forward to as far as modeling for the rest of the year and in 2013?
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NK: In January I am looking to go to New York and L.A. and my agency Page Parkes is going to set me up with an agency out there. I’m going to be attending lots of agency castings, and I’m hoping to travel a lot. I actually got an opportunity to possibly walk in Sri Lanka Fashion Week. Spring has lot of exciting jobs so far, and I think that’s what I’m most looking forward too. I think I’m also going to try dipping my feet in the Bollywood industry too because I have a contact over there, and I actually did a Bollywood music video. So far it’s unreleased. I definitely want to stay in Houston, but I also want to travel around the world and kind of do work like that. arts@thedailycougar.com