Wednesday, June 5, 2013 // Issue 113, Volume 78
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ADMINISTRATION
Provost search ends with interim Short Natalie Harms, Katherine Morris Managing editor, staff writer
Paula Short has been appointed as provost after serving as interim provost this semester, President and Chancellor Renu
Short
Khator said in an email. The Board of Regents will have to approve the appointment in its meeting on June 17. The semester-long search process chose three candidates in May, and Short was not among them. Rather than rallying behind one of the candidates in the running for the position, the committee began gravitating
toward its interim, Short. Khator said the two other remaining candidates were not the right fit for the the University. “This week, I went back to presidents, vice presidents, deans, the UH Faculty Senate and the UH Student Government Association for another voice, and they are unanimously and strongly in favor of appointing Dr.
Short,” Khator said. In early May, Khator and Short announced an academic reorganization through the elimination and creation of positions. The new structure has strategically designed positions to address major areas in academic affairs. PROVOST continues on page 3
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OPINION
UH goes tobacco free LIFE+ARTS
NATION
Obama seeks to prevent student loan rate incrase Natalie Harms, Hadiya Iqbal Managing editor, staff writer
Fountain Residential Partners plans to complete The Vue, an all-inclusive housing complex for students, by Fall 2014. The apartments will include a 50-inch flat screen television and a queen-size bed. | Courtesy of Fountain Residential Partners
HOUSING
Company brings new Vue close to campus Mary Dahdouh News editor
As the campus welcomes Cougar Place and Cougar Village II in the coming year, students will have yet another housing option to consider in Fall 2014. Fountain Residential Partners, a Dallas-based company that has completed more than $1 billion in student housing construction across the country, is building The Vue on MacGregor, a five-story building with nearly 350 beds, that will be located at Calhoun Road and South MacGregor Way across from Bayou Oaks. It will be the first privately owned off-campus community at UH, and as such, it will differ from other housing options in that the University will own the land and lease it to a campus housing firm, the company told the Houston Chronicle. Although the University won’t have direct control of the apartment
property, the new complex will still help UH reach its Tier One potential of housing 25 percent of the students on campus. “I’m excited because I think that the new complex will give students an opportunity for affordable living near campus, as well as a different style of living,” said nutrition junior Breanna Larsen, the executive vice president of the Residence Hall Association. “Students can form networks and bonds from their school experiences but also feel like they are out in the real world, living on their own and doing something for themselves.” According to a Houston Chronicle blog post, Fountain Residential Partners has had its eye on the site for five or six years and believes the timing is right to expand in Houston. “It shows up on the national radar,” said Brent Little, president of
As students and lawmakers across the nation anxiously await July 1, when Congress will decide whether the student loan rate will double, UH students can be at ease knowing that their University was ranked No. 7 nationally among the colleges that have the least debt by U.S. News & World Report. A report issued earlier this month by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that 38 million student loan borrowers in the U.S. owe a debt load of more than $1.1 trillion. Yet, the possibility of the student loan rate of 3.4 percent doubling to 6.8 still looms overhead.
President Barack Obama is adamantly opposing the increase, saying Friday in the White House Rose Garden that it would cost the typical college student an extra $1,000 annually. The House of Representatives passed a bill already that would allow student loan rates to increase over time with a cap at 8.5 percent, but Obama said he didn’t agree with the bill. “(The bill) fails to lock in low rates for students next year,” Obama said. “That’s not smart. It eliminates safeguards for lower-income families. That’s not fair. It could actually cost a freshmen starting school this fall more over the next four years than if LOAN continues on page 3
SPORTS
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STUDENT DEBT COLLEGES THAT LEAD TO THE MOST AND LEAST STUDENT DEBT FOR 2011 GRADUATES SCHOOLS WITH LEAST DEBT AMONG GRADUATES Rank
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SCHOOLS WITH MOST DEBT AMONG GRADUATES Clark Atlanta University (GA)
$47,066
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Widener University (PA)
$44,430
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Nova Southeastern University (FL)
$43,201
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All data gathered from 2012 U.S. News & World Report, Graphic by Andres Garcia
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Students and faculty alike “should see a more responsive, supportive Office of Academic Affairs that is effective in helping faculty and students achieve success at UH,” said Richard Bonnin, interim associate vice president of UH Marketing and Communication and interim associate vice chancellor of the UH System. Included in the reorganization is filling the provost position, also under the title senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and senior vice president for Academic Affairs and provost. A large part of the job involves academic leadership to optimally coordinate the UH System.
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“The provost serves as the chief academic officer for a university and is a very crucial position,” said Student Government Association President Cedric Bandoh, a member of the provost search committee. “All of the deans report to the provost, and this position oversees all academic programs and policies of the University. The provost also implements the chancellor and president’s vision as it pertains to student success.” Additionally, the provost’s office initiates and oversees a broad range of programs that benefit students, which includes undergraduate, graduate, continuing and distance education programs. The provost’s office also sponsors the progressive constructivist Charter School for grade school-aged children
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in the Houston community. Although many of the duties of the provost may seem to fall in to faculty grounds, this position also means positive changes for students. “Students should care because the provost can play an integral role in moving the University forward academically. Also, in terms of getting all of the colleges on the same page, such as with advising and career counseling, the provost can be the one that gets all the deans on board to move things forward in a timely and efficient manner.” “We work closely with the provost on all things academics,” Bandoh said.
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we did nothing at all and let the interest rates double on July 1st.” In U.S. News’ 2012 rankings, the debt at graduation for the UH class of 2011 stood at $15,613 with 49 percent of graduates borrowing money. As opposed to Washington D.C.’s American University, which ranked among one of the universities with students graduating with the most debt at more than $37,000, UH is working hard to keep its tuition affordable. “The net price of attendance at UH is the lowest among comparable universities. Considering that undergraduate tuition was not raised this year, we will continue to be one of the best values for Tier One education in the nation,” said UH President and Chancellor Renu Khator. Recently, Student Government Association President Cedric Bandoh, who employs student loans himself, stepped into the national spotlight on Yahoo’s The Daily Ticker to represent the student voice on the issue. “It’s very daunting having thousands and thousands of dollars in debt packed up on you, wondering
when you’re going to pay it back when there’s no jobs out there,” Bandoh said. Bandoh has been an advocate on the issue since it was introduced a year ago. “Last year on the National Campus Leadership Council, which is a national coalition of student leaders, like myself, lead a campaign to get students rallied up around this issue with the phrase ‘Don’t double my rate.’” The plan, Bandoh said, is to take the catchy phrase and tweet it to representatives and to make students’ voices heard. “In this day to double the rate from 3.4 to 6.8 is just not the right thing to do, and I urge all students to get the message around of ‘Don’t double my rate,’” Bandoh said. Likewise, Obama is continuing to speak out about his opposition toward the increase as the U.S. eagerly awaits Congress’ decision. The president concluded his remarks in the White House Rose Garden by calling the nation to action to prevent a college education from being ,“a luxury for a privileged few.”
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Fountain Residential Partners, in the post. “It’s a 41,000-student Tier One research institution. You look at the amount of new construction, the athletics, the education — all of it is hitting the national radar.” Although pricing has not been set, students will lease by the bedroom and share common spaces, similar to Cougar Place. Rent will include furnishings, high-speed internet, flat-screen televisions and queen-size mattresses. Many students are looking forward to this all-inclusive housing option that, while not directly tied to the University, benefits UH in many ways. “I love the idea. The expansion of housing means that we are moving away from being a commuter campus,” said economics sophomore Marcela Arevalo. “Our school is expanding and becoming bigger and better. Coogs are taking over, and we are turning Houston red.”
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n Saturday, the University joined 711 colleges and universities around the country when it banned all tobacco products and became a tobacco-free campus, except for 20 one-year designated smoking areas. A tobacco-free policy was first introduced in Monica 2001. Four revisions and Rojas approximately 10 years later, it was approved by a new condition from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, requiring any school receiving funds from the Institute to disallow tobacco products on its campus. According to a press release by University representative Laura Tolley, the initiative is part of UH’s commitment to providing a healthy and sustainable environment for everyone in the UH community. Some such as Jim, author of “University of Houston to Ban Tobacco” an article found on smokersutopia.com, rebuffs Tolley’s comment saying that the real reason behind the policy is the approximately $9.4 million that the CPRIT grants the University. Regardless of reason, the true problem is not that there is a policy, it is the University’s weak implementation of it. “This policy will be achieved primarily through education, awareness and cooperation,” according to Tolley’s press release. Once enacted, “UH community members are allowed to respectfully inform a person using a tobacco product about the ban and request that (they) comply,” unless in a smoking area.
Having students self-police others without actual repercussions is as useless as telling a child to behave without ensuring punishment. If there is no fine for violating the policy, there is little incentive to respect it.” Monica Rojas, on UH’s new policy Those who disrespect the policy can be reported to the UH Tobacco Task Force website. These individuals will then receive an email reminding them of the policy. The policy is so weak that it can be termed more of a suggestion than a rule. Having students self-police others without actual repercussions is as useless as telling a child to behave without ensuring punishment. If there is no fine for violating the policy, there is little incentive to respect it. Even faultier is the email report. Random strangers do not carry a name tag on their shirt. Hence, if a stranger is smoking in a non-smoking area, there is no way to report them unless you ask for their name, and they actually give it to you. This only gets faultier with non-students who would not receive an email even if they gave their name. The University of Texas, which has a similar policy to UH, is in its second year and removed the smoking areas this year. UT sophomore Muhammad Merli-Ahmad
David Delgado/The Daily Cougar said that although students employ their watch-dog role, smoking still happens on campus. “People still seem to be able to smoke at the old smoking areas,” Merli-Ahmad said. “(The policy) limited the area of smoking, but who knows, maybe one day if they see they aren’t getting punished or fined, they will smoke more freely on campus.” Prior to the tobacco-free policy, there was a 15-feet smoking ban from buildings
and yet smokers still crowded the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library steps daily. Compliance with this policy is doubtful and although the University policy fulfills the CPRIT’s requirements, it lacks the strengths to make a real change. Without a more severe punishment for its violators, preferably in the form of a monetary fine, there is little incentive to comply. Mónica Rojas is a print journalism sophomore and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.
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Leading WR reportedly academically ineligible The Daily Cougar sports services The Cougars may have lost another key component on offense. Senior receiver Dewayne Peace is academically ineligible and no longer with the team, according to the Houston Chronicle. Last season, Peace served a threegame suspension for violation of team rules. Nevertheless, he led the team with 54 catches for 602 yards and two touchdowns. Peace was not a projected starter, he practiced with the second team during the spring. Arizona added to ’17, 18 slate UH and Arizona have agreed to play in 2017 and 2018, the programs announced Tuesday. The Cougars will travel to Tucson, Ariz., in 2017. The following year the Wildcats will visit the Cougars. “Our department is committed to scheduling quality non-conference opponents and this type of match up is one that rewards both our team and our fans,” said Houston Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Mack Rhoades. Boise transfer added Lee Hightower, a defensive back who transferred from Boise State, joined the program Monday. Hightower started 11 of 15 games in his last two seasons at Boise. Hightower served suspension from his former team for violating team rules in 2012. He will have to sit out this season but will have two years of eligibility left. Staff changes Dallas Blacklock, who spent the last two seasons as a head football coach at Sharpstown High School, was announced as the football program’s director of high school relations. Tony Teykl was also named the associate director of operations, he was a part of UH’s athletics marketing department.. sports@thedailycougar.com
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Senior wide receiver Dewayne Peace was the Cougars’ leading pass catcher in 2012 with 54 catches for 602 yards. | File photo/ The Daily Cougar
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SUMMER TUTORING HOURS: Mon-Thu 10am-7pm Fri 10am-3pm Sat & Sun 1pm-5pm.
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The burst of color from a model’s lipstick inspired UH alumnus Joseph Chargois and TSU alumnus Jermelle Pitts to create a new high-quality cosmetic brand. “Our most popular shade, Jet Setter, sold out before less than a month before debut,� Pitts said. “We’re looking into adding lip gloss for our fall collection.� | Courtesy of Body of Royalty Monica Tso Life & arts editor
In order to empower and encourage women to treat themselves as royalty, a recent UH graduate and his partner founded a new cosmetic line. Marketing and management alumnus Joseph Chargois is the CoCEO of Body of Royalty, a luxur y cosmetic brand that launched Chargois March 1. Body of Royalty has 12 different shades including a lip balm enhanced with vitamin E. Chargois participated in the UH Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship where his interest in fashion and marketing skills united. “Through Body of Royalty, we really want customers to treat themselves as royalty,� Chargois said. “We started with the impact of lipstick because it’s small, compact and adds the perfect pop to someone’s look.� Also a former UH cheerleader, Chargois plans to expand Body of
Royalty and to create products for women to use head-to-toe. “We keep our fingers on the pulse, so we know what’s hot and what’s not,� Chargois said. “But a trend is a trend. Time will pass, and trends fade. We want to make timeless high quality lipstick that will outlast 10 or more years.� Chargois also explained the idea of expanding the brand through retail stores. “It would be great to branch out with retail opportunities. If people aren’t receptive to the product, then it wouldn’t be the right fit for retail,� Chargois said. Chargois aspires to stay true to Body of Royalty’s individuality, and his hard work is reaffirmed by unbiased opinions of their customers. Texas Southern University social work alumnus Jermelle Pitts is the Co-CEO of Body of Royalty and shares an interest in beauty and fashion. “We’re the youngest founders in the cosmetic world,� Pitts said. “we have a good feel of what’s popular with our audience.� Pitts stressed the importance of focusing on the quality of their lipstick collection rather than relying on a celebrity endorser. “We’re considered a luxury
brand,� Pitts said. “Our $14.99 product competes with other brand names that sell lipstick for $40 or more. Plus, you get high quality makeup for a better deal.� Pitts credited social media in promoting this new brand. “Using hashtags on Twitter and Instagram and managing our Facebook page has been very helpful,� Pitts said. “We’ve also worked with magazine and blog publishers in New York and Miami.� The duo had searched for manufacturers to discuss colors, textures and more, and the process of building the brand lasted about two years before prod u c t i o n began. “By the end of 2013, we hope to have steady Pitts clientele and possibly work with retail,� Pitts said. “We also hope to become a part of fashion shows through Houston’s fashion week in October.� Body of Royalty’s extensive lipstick collection ships worldwide and is based in Houston. arts@thedailycougar.com
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During the peak hours of the summer heat, a line stretched across the sidewalk as a UH alumni couple hosted the grand opening of their frozen yogurt franchise Saturday morning in Clear Lake. Merchandising and industrial distribution alumnus Jack Page and hotel and restaurant management alumna Kelly Page opened the sixth Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt in Houston, which is also the 300th
Jack Page and Kelly Page are both alums from UH. | Courtesy of Kelly Page
location in the nation. Also active Cougar Pride donors, the couple considered the opportunity to open their own business while planning for their wedding. “After I visited my sister in Los Angeles and discovered Menchie’s, Jack and I discussed opening our own franchise together,” Kelly said. Houston has numerous frozen yogurt hotspots, but she emphasized the reasons why this particular franchise is different from others. “Menchie’s has their own private label frozen yogurt flavors, which makes them unique,” Kelly said. “They may have the same name, but they are custom-made flavors that can only be found here.” Kelly described several difficulties throughout their one and a half years of planning. “One of the hardest things was undergoing construction and obtaining appropriate permits,” Kelly said. “After that, it was smooth sailing.”
Houston’s sixth location of Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt opened on Saturday in Clear Lake. The couple is negotiating the opportunity to open another Menchie’s near the UH campus. | Monica Tso/The Daily Cougar The lack of locations in the surrounding area inspired Kelly, and she explained her proposal to develop another Menchie’s closer to campus.
“We’re in the process of negotiating a location closer to UH,” Kelly said. “It would be near Discovery Green, and whenever the Metro rail
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