Monday, April 22, 2013 // Issue 109, Volume 78
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OPINION
Police announce 3 arrests Thursday Natalie Harms News editor
Three arrests were announced to have been made in connection with two unrelated crimes Thursday. The Cambridge Oaks robbery, which occurred on the night of April 13, saw another arrest. Police said Wednesday that they had arrested Christopher David
Nettles, 18, and Joshua Layton Gammage, 18, in Pearland. Both were charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, UH Police Chief Ceaser Moore said. They were taken to Harris County Jail, and bail was set at $30,000 each. Gunman James Manns, arrested Tuesday, has been charged with aggravated robbery with a pending
additional aggravated robbery charge, Moore said Tuesday, but at the time of Manns’ arrest, police were still looking for three accomplices. Manns and three accomplices had robbed two roommates of Samy Gharbaoui, Police said. Gharbaoui, who was also arrested Tuesday, had sold Manns drugs earlier in the day,
police said, and Manns had later gone to Gharbaoui’s apartment in search of more. “This crime was not a strangeron-stranger crime,” Moore said. “He was going back to get more drugs. … Other students on campus are not at risk of being victimized ARRESTS continues on page 3
Celebs ignore Cuban ban LIFE+ARTS
CITY
Cougar claws at poverty cycle
Band marches on Green SPORTS
Jessica Crawford Staff writer
Unemployment and poverty is cyclical, but one UH student is attempting to pull individuals out of the cycle and into the University through his organization. Communications and political science senior Ali Younes is the founder of Achieving the Greatest Foundations. “Generation after generation, individuals in low income areas are trapped in the ongoing cycle of poverty and a route out will be through education, and that is what ATG Foundations offers to these students,” Younes said. The work Younes is doing hits close to home. “ATG Foundations began with me assisting members of my friends and family that dropped out of college to get back in school,” Younes said. However, this initial friendly help has transformed into a bigger organization, spreading out to the community. “We are a non-profit organization that assists students in the transition from high school to higher education.” U-Scholar sophomore and student coordinator for ATG Foundations David Rodriguez’s involvement began as one of the group’s benefactors. “I originally dropped out of college, and Ali helped me out with POVERTY continues on page 3
I spy eyes at UH-hosted expo The Houston Area Insight Expo took place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday with a series of workshops such as cooking in the dark, guide dogs, an introduction to iPhone accessibility and a basic self-defense class. The event was hosted by the University Eye Institute’s Center for Sight Enhancement. Genetic and environmental professor Stephen P. Daiger from UT’s School of Public Health served as the keynote speaker, addressing recent retinal disease treatments.
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thedailycougar.com BAUER COLLEGE
Business students invest in future Manuella Libardi Staff writer
UH undergraduate students received third place out of 35 teams Saturday in the first Oil and Gas Investment Banking Case Competition and Conference hosted by the Investment Banking Scholars Club of the C.T. Bauer College of Business. The ISBC is a highly selective club started last summer that requires applying students to go through an interviewing process and to have a minimum GPA of 3.5 to be considered, IBSC President
Robert Dozortsev said. Of about 400 students who applied in the last year, only 38 were accepted, and the average member GPA is 3.7. “UH is not a really strong investment banking school,” Dozortsev said. “The organization will allow for a level of networking and specialization that the University of Houston does not currently offer.” Nine final teams of undergraduate and graduate students representing UH, Texas A&M University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University and University of North Texas pitched to a group of judges at the
event. Jason Starnes, Chris Mersinger and Jissin Sanny from Rice and Marshall Robinson, Perry Reed and Durrel Hunter from TCU got first and second place respectively. Dozortsev’s idea was to start a collaborative effort with Rice since it is a strong school that attracts a lot of investment banking recruiters. “We were already doing a biweekly finance journal,” Dozortsev said. “My idea was, well, why don’t we get guys from Rice to write with us? So, we started the Bauer Jones BAUER continues on page 3
ONLINE POLL Where is your favorite place to crack open a book and study?
ONLINE XTRA Read a review on Saturday’s Crystal Castles concert.
COUNTDOWN
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Days until the last day of classes.
At the end of the day, you’re another day closer to the dreaded finals week.