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BAUER COLLEGE

Donation opens doors to future Manuella Libardi Contributing writer

The C.T. Bauer College of Business celebrated a $1 million gift received to bolster recruiting scholarships through the Bauer Excellence Initiative, a campaign aimed at attracting highquality applicants to the college’s programs.

Friday’s event in Melcher Hall started with the unveiling of the donors’ names, Dawn and Richard Rawson, who now have Auditorium 160 named after them.

Richard Rawson, a UH alumnus, graduated in 1972 from the College of Business Administration, now known as Bauer. Rawson is the president of Insperity, a business advisor company, and helped fund the College of Education and the College of Business.

“(Rawsons’) commitment and involvement will touch the lives of students now and students to come because it’s an endowment,” said Dean of Bauer Latha Ramchand.

“Nobody can touch this money.”

Paula Short, interim senior vice president for Academic Affairs and provost, said statistical information from fall 2011 shows a high number of business students at the University of Arkansas are from Texas, and a high number of business students at the University of Texas San Antonio are from Harris County.

“What they’ve done is they’ve created robust scholarship programs,” Short said. “Our goal is to give back to the community.

One of the ways is through financial support through scholarship opportunities.”

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ADD and ADHD overmedicated LIFE+ARTS Dawn and Richard Rawson have set a goal to make the C.T. Bauer College of Business the best business school in the country. | Courtesy of Jessica Navarro Dawn Rawson said they got where they are today through faith, hard work and perseverance and that now they are concerned with

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helping others prosper.

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SGA

Award recipient shares Jobs’ philosophy Let the race begin

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Mary Dahdouh

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Steve Jobs had begun to see a connection between Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and himself, said biographer Walter Isaacson on Friday at the Farfel Distinguished Lecture.

“I got a phone call from (Jobs) — and I had written about Benjamin Franklin, was just about to come out with the biography of Albert Einstein — and Steve talked to me and asked, ‘Why not do me next?’”

Isaacson said.

“Of course my first reactions was ‘OK, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein (and) Steve Jobs?,’ and I told him ‘Your humility hasn’t fully deepened since we first met’ but after a while I realized, especially when he was sick and battling cancer, that he was a person who had transformed seven industries in America.”

Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute as well as former CEO of CNN and editor of

“Smart people are a dime a dozen. What really matters is being able to think imaginatively, to think creatively,” Walter Isaacson said. | Mary Dahdouh/The Daily Cougar

Time Magazine, was honored as the 2013 Farfel Distinguished Lecture speaker.

The Farfel Distinguished Lectureship is UH’s most prestigious award that honors the leadership of Aaron Farfel, who served on the UH System Board of Regents for 16 years.

“The process of selecting the speaker for the Farfel lecture is one that engages a number of people in the University. We really want it to be something that enlightens individuals and creates conversation about a topic that maybe people aren’t discussing as much as we would like,” said Karen Clarke, associate vice president of marketing and communication and associate vice chancellor of marketing and communication for the UH System. “(Isaacson) is a great story teller.

There are a lot of academics who have evocative ideas, but it’s difficult for them to engage a larger group in those concepts and ideas.

One thing that we liked best about Isaacson was that he is clearly able to tell a story and give analogies and things like that, which really draw you in so you learn a lesson and get the point in a way that’s JOBS continues on page 3

Katherine Morris Contributing writer

Student Government Association President Cedric Bandoh will be back on the ballot with SGA Senator Rani Ramchandani as his vice president in the SGA elections.

They are part of the Redvolution party with the campaign slogan, “Service above self!”

In opposition will be SGA Senator Eduardo Reyes for president and SGA Senator Maggie McCartney for president with the campaign slogan, “Back to the students and back to the basics.”

McCartney and Reyes have set up a Facebook page to promote their party. They are promising that they will be “a party that will listen to student concerns and act on them with feasible solutions to serious issues.”

The polls will be open Tuesday and Wendesday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Locations include the University Center, University Center Satellite, M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, the Moores School of Music and the Science and Engineering Research Center. news@thedailycougar.com

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Economic Crisis: From 5 to 7 p.m. in the KIVA Room of Farish Hall, there’s a lecture series called “Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies.� Admission to this event is free with an RSVP. Ensemble: From 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Moores Opera House, there will be a percussion ensemble featuring directors Blake Wilkins and Alec Warren with works by de May, Sekhon, Maroney and Elder (world premiere).

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Recital: From 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Dudley Recital Hall, there will be a recital featuring Lynda McKnight on soprano, Caitrine-Ann Piccini on flute, Chester Rowell on clarinet, Dennis Whittaker on double bass and Brian Suits on piano. There will be Chamber works by Mozart, Spohr, Bottesini, Hagan and Roe. Tickets range from $7 to $12.

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Wednesday Career Fair: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center Houston Room, the College of Technology will host its annual career fair.

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Culture Talk: From 12:15 to 1 p.m. in Room 106 at Charles F. McElhinney Hall, a culture talk about philosophy will be led by student Shahzad Khan. Students should feel free to bring their lunch. For more information and a topic schedule, please email Bridget Fernandes at bridget.fernandes@gmail.com.

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HONORS COLLEGE

Talks trigger thought Mary Dahdouh Contributing writer

Technology, Entertainment and Design talks have been led by some of the brightest minds of this generation such as Steve Jobs and Stephen Hawking, and The Honors College has brought these intellectual and inspiring conversations home.

A group of more than 20 high school students, undergraduates, graduate students and professors gave TED talks Saturday in a lecture series called TEDxYouth@UH in which they spoke about topics varying from cultural understanding to intellectual understanding in learning styles.

“I’m a fan of TED talks. So when we had the opportunity to do our own, I thought this was a great opportunity to marry it with one of our motivations in The Honors College, which is to engage with the community around us,” said Christine LeVeaux-Haley, a political science professor and assistant dean for academic programs at The Honors College.

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Richard Rawson said his life is divided into two parts: before his degree and after his degree.

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memorable,” Clarke said.

Throughout the lecture, Isaacson continually told heartfelt stories about Jobs, as well as Franklin and Einstein, which truly brought together the minds of all three men to focus on intellectual creativity.

Some were perplexed by the connection Isaacson made between the three men, but many agreed.

“You absolutely can’t go anywhere in America without seeing an Apple product somewhere,” said chemistry junior Camden Kirkland.

“The man literally revolutionized how computing and technology are used in both America and the world.”

Jobs’ endless passion for pursuing perfection and his motivation for pushing past boundaries were as widespread as his products,

“I thought it would be nice to get area students to pick their brain and see what they think about the education they are receiving. We received all sorts of different proposals from high school students in the area with great ideas about how to change education,” LeVeaux-Haley said.

The lecture began with a short presentation from English literature seniorChris Powell on how the word “foreign” must be redefined to “unfamiliar” in order to learn more about the world and to achieve “bigworldedness,” a concept in which we pursue encounters with the unfamiliar.

“I enjoyed his presentation about being global in the sense of reminding yourself that foreign is not a word we should be using; it should be more along the lines of unfamiliar and actually looking in on yourself and finding those things that you’re not familiar with in the pursuit of knowing more,” said hotel and restaurant management junior Sarah Rennalls.

“I liked the idea of being global

in your learning and never ceasing to find a solution to something that you don’t know,” Rennalls said.

Although a few university students, such as Powell, presented their own TED talks, the majority of the lectures were given by high school students.

“I was amazed by the potential of young people. Most TED talks I see are from seasoned professionals or professors that hold doctorates, but a lot of the presentations today were amazing, and they were done by high school kids,” said sociology junior Michael Lenmark. “They really have the capacity and the proactivity and the motivation to do a TED talk, and that was simply amazing to me.”

Many of the short lectures from high school students portrayed that young minds are craving a revolution in the way materials are taught in schools, and each offered its own solutions to the issues that are crippling classrooms today.

A presentation given by Bellaire High School student Jennifer Li titled “That Awkward Moment

goes back to when I was here,” Rawson said. “It gave me the platform of knowledge I never had before, and it taught me how to think. What this school gives is the encouragement and other subtle skill sets so that you can be the best you can be.”

Rawson said any institution is only as good as its students, which

is why he believes and invests in BEI as a means of attracting quality students to the school.

“No business, no matter what it is, is successful without quality people,” Rawson said. “My goal is to make this business school number one in the country.”

Isaacson said. This passion of his was expressed in one of Jobs’ favorite sayings, “Don’t be afraid. You can do it.”

Jobs, alongside Franklin and Einstein, has revolutionized the world in some way through his ingenuity.

“I realized that there was a common thread between Steve and my original two: Franklin and Einstein.

That common thread was imagination and creativity,” Isaacson said.

“Smart people are a dime a dozen; what really matters is being able to think imaginatively, to think creatively.”

With that common thread established, Isaacson concluded by explaining Jobs’ beliefs on simple beauty.

When Jobs looked at the first iPod, he questioned the necessity of an on and off switch, Isaacson said.

“And it dawned on me that they

don’t need it: If you stopped using your iPod for long enough, it powered down and when you started using it again, it powered itself up.

It was the beauty in simplicity that he saw,” Isaacson said.

Isaacson provided insight to the philosophical side of Jobs, one that was suitably demonstrated through a technological medium.

“I said to him, ‘Do you still believe in the spirit of life? Do you believe that something lives on?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I like to believe that, but then sometimes I’m just a little bit afraid that it’s just like an on and off switch — when you die, you just click off and you’re gone,’” Isaacson said.

“I was somewhat taken aback, then he gave me that little half smile he had, then he said ‘Maybe that’s why I didn’t like putting on/ off switches on Apple devices.’”

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“Why can’t we have games in classrooms that help us learn to make new energy systems (and) new political systems?” said Jennifer Li, who spoke at Tedx. | Mary Dahdouh/The Daily Cougar When Instead of Saving Princess Peach, You Save the World,” which was about the importance of progressing education with each generation, hit a resounding note with the audience.

“Her lecture was the beginning of an innovation. She gave what’s wrong and how we should fix it in a fun way. Also, it resonated a lot when she said things like ‘social obligation’ and ‘human education’ because that’s a thing that we don’t have,”

said psychology junior Alice Yang.

“If you think about the world and what it is right now, those are things that we so severely need and no institution teaches it. Why not teach the things we need the most?

The details and the math and the formulas and the critical thinking are processes of how we do things, but they don’t explain why we do things,” Yang said. news@thedailycougar.com

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DRUG ABUSE

Get rid of the ritalin Michael Retherford

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cross the nation, public schools are putting up drug-free zone signs.

Laws put in place to prevent alcohol, tobacco and drugs from being taken by or sold to children are harsh, and society has made the point clear: Children should not do drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in 2007 that 2.7 million children from 4 to 17 years old use a medication to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Methylphenidate is the active ingredient in Ritalin, while amphetamine is the active ingredient in Adderall, and both are addictive.

Such addictive substances are easily obtained prescriptions contributing to a $7 billion-a-year ADHD drug market says the American Psychiatric Association. It just doesn’t seem right to require children as young as 4 years old to take several doses of these drugs a day.

The drug free signs are there for a reason: We, as parents and guardians of the young, sense there is something about the growth and development of a child’s mind and brain that must be protected.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels Ritalin and Adderall as schedule-two drugs with a “high potential for abuse,” which puts them in the same category as cocaine and methadone. The level of contradiction between telling a child to “just say no” to drugs and then saying “yes” to drugs with a prescription is irresponsible.

One of the reasons that 5.2 million of children have ADHD and attention deficit disorder, as reported by the CDC and the APA, is the criteria the APA created to diagnose people with such disorders.

The criteria for diagnosing children more represent a collection of personality traits that are a nuisance to teachers in classrooms than symptoms of a psychological disorder.

These diagnoses lead to millions of kids being prescribed stimulants to effectively control a classroom and have children do better on tests when they should really be eating better and be given a more confident, attentive and knowledgeable approach to being schooled and raised.

Admittedly, not every child gets a misdiagnosis. In some cases, parents and teachers

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Guidelines for diagnosing ADHD led millions to Ritalin and Adderall In 2000, the American Psychiatic Association set forth the following for diagnosing ADHD:

Millions of children each year get prescribed Ritalin, a drug the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration rates in the same category as cocaine. | Wikimedia Commons

In a child 6 to 12 years old who presents with inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, academic underachievement or behavior problems, primary care clinicians should initiate an evaluation for ADHD. The diagnosis of ADHD requires that a child meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria.

The assessment of ADHD requires evidence directly obtained from parents or caregivers regarding the core symptoms of ADHD in various settings, the age of onset, duration of symptoms and degree of functional impairment.

The assessment of ADHD requires evidence directly obtained from the classroom teacher (or other school professional) regarding the core symptoms of ADHD, duration of symptoms, degree of functional impairment and associated conditions.

Evaluation of the child with ADHD should include assessment for associated (coexisting) conditions.

Other diagnostic tests are not routinely indicated to establish the diagnosis of ADHD but may be used for the assessment of other coexisting conditions (e.g., learning disabilities and mental retardation).

do everything they can and still struggle with getting children to behave. Many parents say their child acts better and is more obedient in class when on the medication, but suppressing a child’s energetic and unfocused mind — as many bright kids have — with a chemical compound is hardly an effective approach to instilling positive discipline coupled and enhancing learning capabilities.

Sensitively speaking, this is how addicts are produced. The Foundation for a Drug Free World said that in 2007, 3.8 percent of 12th graders admitted to using Ritalin without a prescription at least once in a 12-month period. This is part of a growing number of a new type of addict that has surpassed the number of recreational drug abusers: the prescription drug abuser.

If you give someone several doses of nicotine a day, they will naturally grow dependent upon nicotine — same with alcohol, caffeine, codeine or cocaine. When small children are given these psychoactive stimulants several times a day for possibly months or years at a time, their minds are developing and adjusting to a bath of toxicity.

In 2001, the Brookhaven National

Laboratory released a report detailing Ritalin’s connection with dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. The study indicated Ritalin increases the level of dopamine in the body.

Over the long term, this excess dopamine causes psychoses like schizophrenia and hallucinations, as well as physical changes.

Our communities and leaders refer to children as our future, but an alarming percentage of our future is being drugged to help it focus, behave and test better at a very young age. An alternative has to be used within the school system to implement these outcomes in children labeled as ADHD. Smaller classes, more competitive teacher qualifications, more home schooling, more interesting and applicable classes earlier in school and more attentive and disciplined parenting are better than giving children their daily fix. Positive encouragement, high expectations, physical activities and healthier diets are all immediate potential responses to this problem.

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Amerson’s clutch play lifts Cougars Andrew Valderas Staff writer

team competitions in the future.

Dismuke’s anticipation for what’s to come includes his new recruits having the chance to get their feet wet.

“I’m looking forward to getting our players some experience,” Dismuke said. “(The upcoming season will) give them (a) year to experience college golf.”

Head coach Todd Buchanan pumped his fist as freshman forward Marche’ Amerson knocked down her second consecutive 3-pointer late in the second half.

Down 57-58 with four minutes remaining, Amerson was able to score seven of the last eight points, and UH knocked off Conference USA by leading SMU 65-58 at Hofheinz Pavilion on Sunday.

Despite going scoreless until the four-minute mark, Buchanan said the two-time Freshman Award of the Week recipient came up big for her team. Amerson got off to a slow start after foul trouble limited her to 11 minutes in the first half.

“That’s what great players do,” Buchanan said. “She was struggling for the most part today, but she really had the tenacity and the heart to come back and make the biggest shots that she made on the biggest stage.”

UH handed SMU its second conference loss of the season. Freshman guard Alecia Smith recorded a game-high 18 points, including four 3-pointers. Junior center Yasmeen Thompson was able to record her fifth double-double with 13 points and 13 rebounds.

Redshirt senior guard Porsche Landry was able to place herself in the record books by tallying 1,506 points for her career and moving into the eighth spot in school history.

The Cougars were able to keep Mustangs junior guard Keena Mays under control in the first half but was able to knock down three 3-pointers in the second half.

“We let her get hot, and once she got going, she knocked some shots down,” Amerson said. “We came together and said we need to lock her down and tighten up our defense as a whole.”

SMU has been on top of the conference since the season started, but the Cougars feel comfortable if they have to see them again.

“We match up well with them.

They’re not dominantly big or anything like that. We have a lot of athletes; they have a lot of athletes,” Buchanan said. “I think Mays and Landry really offset each other a lot of times, and I think (junior forward) Te’onna (Campbell) did a really, really good job defending her.”

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Sophomore Roman Robledo, who competed with the Cougars this weekend during the Bayou City Collegiate Championship at Redstone Golf Club, will have female counterparts on the golf team in 2013-2014. Robledo shot +4 and finished tied for 40th place. | Esteban Portillo/The Daily Cougar

GOLF

Boys and Girls Club Rollo, Gilbreth part of inaugural class of recruits for women’s golf Anthresia McWashington Contributing writer

UH adds women’s golf to its list of intercollegiate sports for the 20132014 season. It’s the first addition to the University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics in more than 10 years.

Recruits Kelli Rollo and Emily Gilbreth, both high school seniors, will be the first women’s golf competitors. Rollo and Gilbreth were the right ones to build the foundation for the program, head coach Jonathan Dismuke said. “(It was) tough to get anyone signed up for something that isn’t that tangible,” Dismuke said. “We’re proud of the girls that we’ve selected.”

Rollo and Gilbreth each have a list of achievements to accompany them once they start at UH. Rollo, a senior at Barbers Hill High School, has led her team to numerous victories, including three tournament wins on the Junior Tour during the summer and a title at Redstone Golf Club, home of the Cougar Golf program. As the season approaches, Rollo looks forward to the doors college sports will open for her and the experiences she will gain from golf

and academics.

“I’m excited to play at the collegiate level,” Rollo said. “I’ll get to meet a lot of new people who are serious about the sport. I’ve been practicing every day. I meet with my golf instructor twice a week and go to weekly invitationals.”

Gilbreth, a senior at Bellaire High School, has her share of accomplishments to bring to UH. She won the Class 5A Region III Championship and the IJGT Dupage Classic.

Rollo feels good about the two being the front-runners of the program. “(Gilbreth) is great,” Rollo said.

“She’s really nice, and has been playing for a really long time.”

The addition of the women’s golf to the University’s roster of intercollegiate sports allows UH an opportunity for more competition in other sports.

The thought of having women join the golf program has been in place for a while now, Athletic Director Mack Rhoades said.

“When we built the big Willliams Academy, we had women’s golf in mind,” Rhoades said. “We really thought we needed to add a women’s sport, and golf was the best choice.”

The Dave Williams Golf Academy is located at Redstone Golf Club, making UH the only school in Texas that has a golf course that holds an annual PGA Tour event. As

The women’s team will compete at Redstone Golf Club at The Dave Williams Golf Academy like the men’s squad. | Esteban Portillo/The Daily Cougar the program expands, more coaches and athletes will be brought in. An associate coach will start June 1, and a minimum of five girls will be competing in the 2014-2015 season.

The kick-off year for the new program will allow everyone to see what these new recruits have to bring to the table. The level of competition these ladies will face will assist them in maturing their talents and get them ready individually and collectively for

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A little bit of jazz and pizzazz Monica Tso Staff writer

The clinic was held Friday at the Moores Opera House as part of the 15th annual Jazz Festival. Students got to learn and better their craft under the supervision of trumpet player Lew Soloff. | Mahnoor Samana/The Daily Cougar

It is always a surreal moment when a student gets to meet and work with someone who is a legend in his field. As members of the UH jazz ensemble got onto the stage of the Moores Opera House on Friday, many of them had that experience.

As part of the 15th annual Moores Jazz Festival, internationally renowned trumpet player Lew Soloff worked and performed with aspiring jazz musicians during a free clinic arranged by Noe Marmolejo, the director of jazz ensembles.

Also a jazz trumpet performer, Marmolejo was eager to welcome the famous trumpeter to the celebration.

“Lew was one of the reasons why I even moved in the jazz direction,” Marmolejo said. “He is one of the greatest musicians ever, and I hope that the students feel inspired as well. If we put our egos aside, then the truth about becoming a wellrounded, inspirational artist can come out.”

Marmolejo also emphasized the importance of the festival.

“Working with these musicians offers different perspectives for students, and our students deserve these kinds of gifts,” Marmolejo said. “We must put our egos aside, so the truth about music can come out.”

Soloff has worked with legendary bands like Blood, Sweat and Tears and Latin jazz musician Machito.

During his second visit to the jazz festival, Soloff provided advice to the aspiring musicians.

“You have to feel passionate toward the music, and you have to know what turns you on,” Soloff said. “It’s 95 percent hard work and five percent talent. The more you practice, the more fun you’ll have

in the performance to make a living out of what you love.”

Soloff focused on what excites him instead of technicalities. As he played, he conversed with the other players through his music.

He described ways to captivate the audience by using good tone and playing in good time.

“You have to take what you can’t do and perfect it,” Soloff said. “If you work hardest on the strongest points, you’ll be exceptional. You have to play what you do or don’t like because that’s how you know what you’re good at.”

Jazz music sophomore Trent Miller played in the UH jazz band and said he felt privileged to perform with Soloff. He discussed his passion for music, having come from connections with people listening or playing with him.

“Being able to reach people through music is the greatest feeling, and Soloff inspired us to really feel the music,” Miller said. “He made it feel like we were playing with him and not just for him, which is a great feeling from someone of his status.”

Music composition junior Alex Winkler said he was humbled and excited to play piano alongside Soloff. Enthused by his sense of humor obvious in his music, Winkler recognized Soloff’s desire to reach the hearts of his audience.

“The richness of jazz harmonies, the freedom of improvisation and excitement of ensemble interaction is what drives me to progress as a jazz musician,” Winkler said. “Just when you think you’re getting good at your instrument, a master of the craft comes along and makes you realize how much more potential we all have left to explore as players.” arts@thedailycougar.com

MUSIC

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing Paulina Rojas Life & arts editor

An audience of bobbing heads and a stage of men dressed in black playing shiny instruments filled the Moores Opera House during its 15th annual Jazz festival Saturday.

This year’s guest, trumpeter Lew Soloff, was introduced by his friend Noe Marmolejo, the director of jazz ensembles at UH. “I was a kid growing up in south Texas. When I listened to Lew

Soloff’s music for the first time, I was so inspired and realized that there were a lot of things that I did not know about,” Marmolejo said.

The concert was not only a great opportunity for audiences, but also for the student members of the jazz ensemble who got to perform with a “legend.”

The night started off with “Portait of Louis Armstrong,” a piece composed by American composer Duke Ellington. The tune was upbeat and

provided the quintessential jazz feeling of a lively big band.

Soloff then talked about his grandson and how it was the first time the toddler witnessed his grandfather play.

The next piece played was “Beautiful Love.”

“This is a piece that the jazz ensemble and I have practiced, but I have never performed,” Soloff said.

“I would not be doing this if these guys weren’t so good.”

Marmolejo demonstrated his passion to not only direct but play the trumpet as well. Throughout the concert, he could be spotted bobbing his head and tapping his feet gently against the floor. He fluidly moved from his post directing in front of the stage to the back of stage where he played the trumpet.

The spotlight shone not only on Soloff but also on students like saxophonist Darrel Materum and graduate assistant and bass player

Gerald Massoud.

“Spinning Wheel” was the tune chosen for the encore. It ended the night on the right note and had the audience clapping and singing along.

“These guys are really great, and I want all of you to support them,” Soloff said. “They are one of the best student ensembles that I have played with.” arts@thedailycougar.com

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Coach puts stamp on recruiting Stacey Karr Contributing writer

For head coach Patrick Sullivan, the University recruits itself.

After picking up the sixth-ranked recruiting class in the nation, the chance to play on a nationallyranked tennis team is hard to pass up, Sullivan said.

“We have had a really great start to the season, getting our first national ranking since 2006, and things are really looking up for us,” he said. “It’s exciting to have a great foundation of high-character individuals that really do want to be great.”

Sullivan said he is looking at work ethic, attitude and talent. Sullivan focuses on the positive environment he can offer the players more than what the players have to offer UH. “Recruiting is about building relationships. I work hard to really get to know recruits and am very honest about what we have to offer and what we’re looking for,” Sullivan said.

“I try hard to meet and to get to know their families and try to relieve their fears about sending their 18-year-old daughters far away from home. I try to give our current players the best experience they can on and off the tennis court,” he said.

He also works to maintain these relationships, and coaches who aren’t looking to build lifelong relationships are doing a disservice to their players, and he believes maintaining these relationships is good for students because studentathletes will share their experiences with others on and off the court, he said.

“I try to remember the reason why we’re here: to give these kids a good platform in life and to make them the ones that go out into the world and do great things,” he said.

This is Sullivan’s fourth time to take over a tennis program. He has found a good group of girls with a great attitude and work ethic, he said.

Sullivan, who has a law degree, said coaching and recruiting is better than the alternative.

“I try to remember days like today: It’s an awesome day, and I’m wearing shorts and a t-shirt and this is my job. I could be stuck in a courtroom, in a suit, dealing with bad people; but I’m here with great people,” Sullivan said. sports@thedailycougar.com