Wednesday, April 17, 2013 // Issue 107, Volume 78
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Two arrested in drug-related residential robbery Joshua Mann Editor in chief
Police arrested two men, one of them a student, in connection with Saturday’s robbery at Cambridge Oaks Apartments. James Manns was arrested at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in Pearland and has been charged with aggravated robbery with a pending additional aggravated robbery charge, said UH police chief Ceaser Moore in a press conference. At 7:30 a.m., Samy Gharbaoui was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana, Moore said. Gharbaoui, a student living in Cambridge Oaks, had sold drugs to Manns earlier the day of the robbery, Moore said. Later on, Manns texted Gharbaoui asking for more, but Gharbaoui was not at his apartment. Manns and three others then
went to Gharbaoui’s apartment and proceeded to rob the other two residents at gunpoint and search for the drugs. “This crime was not a strangeron-stranger crime,” Moore said. “He was going back to get more drugs.” Moore said that because the crime was not random, students don’t need to take this as an indicator of personal danger. “Other students on campus are not at risk of being victimized by other people invading their residences,” Moore said. Through the course of the investigation, police uncovered a safe full of Adderall, ecstasy, LSD and marijuana. Manns was already on bail for possession of marijuana, and police are seeking to have that revoked in addition to the charge already CAMBRIDGE continues on page 3
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Senator running for city council
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Bonnie Dunbar
New UH faculty member Bonnie Dunbar will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, the center announced Tuesday. “I’m very honored,” Dunbar said. “This is an old tradition, starting with the Apollo astronauts. Quite frankly, there is probably nothing more special than being selected by your peers for some sort of acknowledgement.” Dunbar was recently invited by President Renu Khator to join the UH faculty as head of the new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math center that will specialize in research. Dunbar said one of her goals is to help undergraduate students become more math and science literate. “There’s not a day that goes by that doesn’t involve something being technologically or scientifically discussed,” Dunbar
said. “As an adult, it’s your responsibility to ask yourself if you’re prepared to make sound judgments on these discoveries so that you can understand the world around you.” Dunbar is working on developing a massive open online course to teach classes to a wider audience of students. She says one of her goals through this course is to help more young people understand the physics of the world so they go on to graduate as more well-rounded individuals. “We want to bring the best and brightest to UH,” Dunbar said. “If you are willing to apply yourself, you can help solve some of the world’s problems. Science is about discovering ‘what is,’ and engineering is about designing ‘what isn’t.’” Being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame is fulfilling her childhood dreams, as Dunbar said she wanted to be an astronaut since she was nine years old. “People always talk about finding their passion in life. I was very lucky because I found mine so early,” Dunbar said. “It was so exciting and interesting that I wanted to be a part of it.” Dunbar grew up on a cattle ranch and says her family instilled in her the values she thinks helped her become successful. “I learned a good work ethic, and I think that’s really important,” Dunbar said. “You have to be able to work on your own and push DUNBAR continues on page 3
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A UH student is going from books to ballots, hoping to gain a seat in the Pearland City Council in the upcoming election. Political science senior Mark Solano is running for council position 5 — a three-year term seat held by Greg Hill, who is seeking re-election. If elected, Solano will represent Pearland residents, aiming to satisfy their needs and work with the council Solano in handling city growth. “Overall, this is something that I’ve wanted to do for a while, I’ve always had a desire to serve and participate within governmental relations,” SOLANO continues on page 3
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FLASHBACK Basketball team dribbles between coaches When former men’s basketball head coach Clyde Drexler resigned in April 2000, next in line to tackle the position was Reid Gettys. Gettys had multiple meetings with former Athletics Director Chet Gladchuk, who was considering Gettys along with 40 additional Division I head coaches who expressed interest in the position. Family and friends of Gettys, in addition to the UH community and its alumni, were in full support of him being granted the position. “The support has been tremendous — unbelievably flattering,” Gettys said. “I have not called anyone to put on any kind of campaign, and I did not ask any player or any recruit for their endorsement. I think people just believe in the vision that I have for the program.” George Walker, who worked with Gettys while he was the assistant coach, was also considered for the head coaching position. After careful consideration from the Athletics department, Ray McCallum was sworn in. McCallum was the men’s basketball head coach at Ball State University from 1993 to 2000 and spent three years at the University as head coach. Channler K. Hill
Ray McCallum took the court in 2000 as the new head coach for the men’s basketball team, following Clyde Drexler. | The Houstonian, 2000
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yourself to meet your goals without someone else telling you to. And that’s something I hope I can pass on to young people.” Dunbar said her family believed in educating their children early in life. Her first set of books was an encyclopedia. “I was just amazed that if you knew the alphabet, you could go to this big set of books and find out about anything about the world,” Dunbar said. “It was my generation’s Wikipedia.” During her 27 years with NASA, Dunbar has been on five space flights and has spent more than 1,208 hours in space. “The general public thinks we are
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doing just physical things, but in fact, we spend most of our times in classrooms, learning about the systems, the shuttle simulators and then about the science,” Dunbar said. “Every mission, each of those 135 missions, was a science and engineering mission that built on the prior ones, and because of that, now we have an international space station in Earth’s orbit.” An avid explorer, Dunbar says it is crucial for nations to explore. “Exploration is sort of a metaphor for the spirit of a nation — it’s curiosity; it’s the acquisition of knowledge; it’s wanting to know what’s on the other side,” Dunbar said. “Also, it’s a significant driver for technology. If we had not gone to the moon, for example, you would not have computers or software. Bill Gates in fact has said he wouldn’t have a job if we didn’t go to the moon.”
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brought against him. Moore said he has no specific plans to increase the security presence on campus in response to recent crimes. “This was a relationship issue, and an increased patrol will not change that,” Moore said. “That’s one of those things where people need to be vigilant, and if they see something, they should say something.” Police are still working to identify the other three suspects who accompanied Manns, Moore said.
Solano said. “I’ve held a lot of positions, most of them relate to governmental relations and public service, so in many ways I have been tailored for roles such as city councilman.” Solano has represented students in the Student Government Association as both College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences senator and director of external affairs. During his time in the senate, he co-authored the Graduate Transparency Bill. Additionally, he worked with President Cedric Bandoh, a supply chain junior, in starting the Rebuild Cullen Campaign. “I am confident that he will lead
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with a service-above-self mentality on behalf of the residents of Pearland, just like he did this year as my director of external affairs and for his fellow students,” Bandoh said. Bandoh said he is excited about a SGA member running for office on a city council and that it reflects well on the University. “How cool is it to have a Cougar running for office. It shows that the University of Houston has student leaders who deeply care for their community and are dedicated to service,” Bandoh said. The election will be May 11, but early voting starts on April 29 and will continue on May 4 and May 6. news@thedailycougar.com
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MEDIA ISSUES
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s the Senate moves toward introducing bipartisan immigration reform legislation this week, the nation turns its sights from the battle on marriage equality to illegal immigration. While attitudes clash over the best way Alex to approach Caballero reform, media outlets have already begun to change the way journalists write about it that is causing quite the controversy. On April 2, the Associated Press dropped the dreaded ‘i word’ or, to be more specific, the term ‘illegal immigrant’ from its stylebook, arguably the most widely used guide by journalists. However, instead of receiving full-on praise the organization deserves for removing a stigmatizing label, they received some mixed reviews. The news of the change broke post by AP blogger Paul Colford and explained by Kathleen Carroll, AP senior vice president and executive editor, that “illegal” labeled people and that labels are making their way out of the stylebook. “(W)e had in other areas been ridding the Stylebook of labels,” Carroll said. “The new section on mental health issues argues for using credibly sourced diagnoses instead of labels. Saying someone was ‘diagnosed with schizophrenia’ instead of schizophrenic, for example. That discussion about labeling people, instead of behavior, led us back to ‘illegal immigrant’ again. We concluded that to be consistent, we needed to change our guidance.” According to the new entry, “illegal” will only be used to refer to an action and not a person — “illegal immigration”
David Delgado/The Daily Cougar is OK, “living in” or “entering a country illegally” or “without legal permission” are accepted variations, but “illegal immigrant” is right out. Also, people can’t be described as violating immigration laws without attribution. It’s not exactly tight writing, but the heart is in the right place. Political science senior Jocelyn Bermudez agrees with AP’s decision as a positive step toward immigration reform. “I do agree with them changing the terminology because at least it’s showing that it’s such an important issue that it’s trying to be reformed,” Bermudez said. However, there is some backlash to be found. Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren questioned the move in her blog. “The law is specific — whether you like the or not — about being in this country legally or illegally,” Susteren said. “If you do not meet the terms of being here legally, you are here illegally, right? But apparently
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the AP has other ideas. Perhaps the AP would prefer describing someone as an immigrant (not illegal immigrant) who is illegally here or violating the law as a criminal? I think criminal sounds much worse.” Others, like English senior Molly Hicks, find the move ridiculous exercise in political correctness. “Making more words ‘politically incorrect’ is a very dumb thing to do, and it just makes people get offended over absolutely nothing. I think it’s stupid,” Hicks said. Van Susteren does have a valid point: just because there is a terminology change doesn’t mean that the action is changed, and it seems like the AP is splitting hairs over the label. French and interior architecture junior Babirye Nteza said the change in terminology does not change the issue at hand. “I don’t agree with it only because I don’t think it’s going to
make a difference, like what the actual policies are going to be like,” Nteza said. “I feel like it is like changing the cover in order not to deal with the real issue.” People like Van Susteren underestimate the full power of language. There are a few examples that we’ve seen in our recent history that either helped movements or aided the arguments they made. Recently, an evolution has occurred regarding the marriage equality debate. Only a few years ago, the movement to allow the marriage of two people of the same sex was referred to as the “gay marriage movement.” Later, the reference changed then same-sex marriage as the term “gay” refers primarily to men and was rechristened as the “same-sex marriage movement.” Still, that term seemed isolated, so it was recently rechristened the “marriage equality movement,” bringing
“traditional marriage” under the umbrella that all marriages between two people are equal. These small changes in our vernacular have deep impacts on society. The changes might seem minute and unimportant, but the reason they are is because they work. The words used affect how the issue is understood. When talking about immigration, it is easy to call someone “illegal” because in a sense, they did do something illegal; however, it is a civil violation, like speeding, and not a criminal violation. There are real human faces and emotions behind this controversial issue, and while changing the term might seem irrelevant, they force people to frame the conversation in a different, and ultimately, a more respectful light.
Alex Caballero is a creative writing senior and may be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com.
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The athletics department is working with the Student Government Association to decide which parking lots will house student tailgating at the new stadium.
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UH builds a foundation for the future UH is 499 days from opening its new stadium in August of 2014. The last remnants of John O’ Quinn Field are being dug up in preparation for a raised field.
The $105 million project will feature an east-west orientation that will give television viewers a backdrop of the Housston skyline. The future view of the stadium
is already apparent. The stadium does not have a corporate sponsor. Naming rights for the project are still being discussed.
UH will install synthetic turf that allows it to host events like high school football games, band practice and UH student intramural events when construction is completed. — Photos by Rebekah Stearns and Nichole Taylor
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What it takes to direct Julia Davila Staff writer
Sara Becker does the famous work of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It for her second production as a director at UH’s School of Theatre and Dance. She received Becker her B.A. from Fordham University in NYC, and an MFA from University of WisconsinMadison. Becker has performed in many theaters throughout the nation including The Public Theatre of Maine and brings a great deal of expertise to the stage. The Daily Cougar got a chance to sit down with Becker to discuss the play. The Daily Cougar: When did you start directing?
Sara Becker: I started specializing in voice when I was a grad student, and during the summer I worked as an assistant vocal coach. My big love is helping actors use language to tell stories. When I hear a voice that is telling the story of someone’s heart, I really light up. TDC: What do you like most about directing? SB: Most of my professional work is as a vocal coach. As a coach, my primary focus is on the language of the play, and how it is getting communicated out to an audience. I love working as a director because I get to carry that care for the story out into the visual life. I have a great time collaborating with designers on lights, sets, music and costumes. Directing is like hosting a party. TDC: Did you work on the script? SB: “As You Like It” is written by William Shakespeare, but about a year ago, I worked with the dramaturges from the MA program
to refine the script. We combed over many different editions of the play, creating our own script in the process. TDC: What is the play about? SB: This play is about how we try out new identities. You may have heard the famous speech, “all the world’s a stage,” the monologue talks about how in the course of our lives we play a lot of different roles. It can be easier to make changes when we are around people we don’t know, on a vacation or at a bar that we plan on never returning to. A lot of the characters in “As You Like It” are out of their comfort zone — they have decided to run away; they have gotten kicked out of their home; they are up for a road trip. What I love about this is play is that it’s about freedom and a big life-changing journey. TDC: How did you go about selecting your actors and DIRECTOR continues on page 8
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actresses? SB: We held auditions for the show back in November of last year. I asked people to come in with two monologues — one from Shakespeare, preferably — and to play some music. I teach Shakespeare and Voice in the theater department
for both the graduates and undergraduates, so some of the students I already knew from that. I found the exact right person for each role. You want to see that they have the chops to be able to handle the material and then the imagination and spirit to also fully embody the story. We have both. TDC: Does the whole cast and stage crews rehearse at the same time or are rehearsals split into
sections based on which characters are in what scenes? SB: The rehearsal process officially starts with everyone at the table: actors, designers and directors. You’re hearing all the exciting things you have read and imagined for however many months, you are seeing pictures of beautiful costumes, research images from designers, music playing, etc. After that, we start digging into
the small detail, and usually that is just the director and the actors. The designers and the directors will meet once a week to make sure we are on the same page, while stage managers coordinate all of the communication. At some point, we perform it just for the designers. Then we move into our theater space. We work from then on making sure the story carries into a larger space. Then we add design elements and then we
add that very important final component: the audience. Let me tell you, adding the audience is the best part. “As You Like It” will be performed Friday through April 28 at the Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre. The play opens at 8 p.m. on April 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27. The play will also open at 2 p.m. on April 21 and 28. arts@thedailycougar.com
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PUPPY LOVE Applications for the Fall 2013 semester of the Master's in Global Retailing program are now being accepted.
The Freshman Year Residential Experience Program and Housing and Residential Life invites students to come out today to relax before finals by playing with puppies.
Contact: asc@uh.edu or 713.743.4100 When and where: Grassy Area outside of Fresh food company and Cougar Village. From 2 to 4 p.m. The dogs will be provided by Citizens for Animal Protection.
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