Issue 116, Volume 78

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 // Issue 116, Volume 78

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Bauer Honors builds new commons Nam-My Le Staff Writer

Bauer Honors students will have a new place to call home this fall when construction crews complete a renovated commons area on the second floor of Melcher Hall.

The commons area, which will include two classrooms, offices for academic advisers, and study areas, is intended to bolster the academic and social community of the Bauer Honors program.

“Bauer Honors is all about community, so this provides an opportunity to enhance that, since it will create a common space where our business honors students will

constantly be utilizing,” said the program’s administrative director, Sarah Gnospelius.

Before this, Bauer Honors had been using space in the Honors College, located on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, as a place to host their events. However, the population of the Honors College has grown, and it has become more difficult to make reservations.

“We wanted a space that could be just for Bauer Honors. Somewhere to have the opportunity to expand our current events, have our alumni to come back to and hold recruiting BAUER continues on page 3

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Bauer Honors, which used to share its commons with the Honors College in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, will get its own space in the Bauer School of Business. | Kayla Stewart/The Daily Cougar

RESEARCH

Dancers move for new study

C Store cashier tells her story SPORTS

Laura Gillespie Assistant news editor

handles the scheduling and clients for his hotel “Most of our part-time technicians are students,” Adams said. “They’re attending universities in the Houston area so I’m used to working with students. I understand their schedules, and that they’re going to have class

Understanding the motions of the human body is not simply restrained to the science of muscles — every flick of a finger or twist of the head is controlled by the body’s central nervous system. It has been difficult for robotic and Conteras-Vidal artificial limbs to accurately recreate the subtleties in human movement.

Karen Bradley, the head of the University of Maryland’s MFA Dance Program, and UH’s Jose Conteras-Vidal, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering, seek to change that. Through research the two plan to connect the dots between the movement of dancers and brain activity.

“Dancers are consciously expressive and communicative. They are well-practiced in very particular aspects of clarifying expressive movement,” Bradley said.

“If a dancer wishes to express a

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METRORail progress chugs along The Southeast METRORail line along Wheeler and Scott Streets is looking closer to completion everyday. The rail, due to be completed by mid-2014, should provide a much-needed public transportation option for student commuters.

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UC searches for new manager Nam-My Le Staff Writer

The search for an Audio Visual Services manager for the new University Center began Tuesday with a public interview with Colin Adams in the UC Bayou City Room.

The first of four candidates, Adams was interviewed by students and faculty for a position that works

directly with supervising student and staff while coordinating all aspects of the A/V services in the UC, UC Satellite, A.D. Bruce Religion Center and all parts of campus that are used on a reservation basis.

Adams is the director of event technology at the Westchase Marriott Hotel for PSAV, an international provider of A/V contract services. Adams

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Theft: A UH staff member re p o r t e d t h e t h e f t o f t w o u n a t t e n d e d a n d u n s e c u re d UH-owned electronic tablets from the Fleming Building. The incident occurred between 4 p.m. on June 12 and 8 a.m. on June 13. The case is inactive.

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Theft: A UH student reported that someone stole his optometry equipment in the Armistead Optometry Building. The incident occurred between Noon and 1 p.m. on June 18. The case is inactive.

Evading Arrest: Two unaffiliated individuals in a stolen vehicle evaded UH police officers attempting a traffic stop on Old Spanish Trail at Martin Luther King Boulevard. The incident occurred at 3:10 a.m. on Wednesday. The case is active.

C r i m i n a l Tr e s p a s s : Tw o unaffiliated individuals were arrested for criminal trespassing, and another was arrested for outstanding warrants following suspicious activity. The incident occurred at 2 p.m. on Friday, and was cleared by arrest.

Theft: A UH custodian reported that a man was stealing copper cables from the Cougar Village 2 Construction Site. The incident occurred at 4:03 p.m. on Sunday.

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Disorderly Conduct: Two UH students were involved in a physical altercation in McElhinney Hall.

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Bradley and Conteras-Vidal met in a flamenco dance class and brought their specialties together to form their ideas for the research.

Their project eventually gained the title of “Your Brain on Dance: The Neural Symphony of Expressive

Inspired by motion capture techniques used in films, EEG caps are placed on dancers, yoga instructors and other trained professionals who understand how the human body can move. | Courtesy of Karen Bradley

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meetings with employers that want to recruit our students,” Gnospelius said.

Matt Null, a senior finance major and former Bauer Honors Mentor, said that the commons is another example of the “customer service” that the Bauer Honors program offers to its students.

“It just provides more amenities to the Bauer Honors students,” Null said.

“That’s a major theme throughout Bauer Honors: providing us with all the tools we could possibly use to further our education and professional prospects.”

Colleen Davies, an academic advisor for Bauer Honors, will be moving with Gnospelius into the new commons when it opens.

“It’s a one stop shop for resources,” Davies said.

Davies said the commons will add to the recruitment of prospective students, which already includes a tour of the Honors College, a tour of Melcher Hall, and sitting in on an Honors class.

“This will be an additional way to say: ‘We have all these facilities for you.’” Davies said.

The commons is scheduled to open this September.

and can’t always be up here.”

The director of video operations for the UH Athletics Department, Grantscott Greene, will be interviewed Thursday. Greene has served in his present role since 2002, where he designs, purchases and installs audiovisual technology for the department.

He previously spent time as the assistant video coordinator at UH, and the video coordinator at Texas State.

Charles Grable, a former attorney, is scheduled to be interviewed on Monday. Grable has worked for the University of Texas, where he produced photography, graphic design and video projects for the faculty and staff. Grable also worked as the marketing communications manager with Panasonic Corporation of North America from 2000 to 2008.

The last candidate, Cory Welch, will be interviewed on Tuesday.

Welch started as an audio director from KAMR-TV before becoming the graphics director at KVII-TV. Currently, he works as an A/V technician for the University of Texas Health Sciences Center.

Each interview will take place from 10 to 11 a.m. in the UC Bayou City Room. Students, faculty and staff members that have interfaced with the UC are invited to attend.

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Mov e m e n t ,” a n d b e g a n i t s preliminary research in 2011 under the funding from the ADVANCE grant, an award given from the University of Maryland to its female researchers.

The project studies five certified movement analysists, all dancers and actors from the University of Maryland, as they work with Conteras-Vidal’s sensor-equipped EEG cap, a device that studies their brain activity as they move.

“They have been trained to observe and also produce a huge range of movement possibilities.

They’re performers, they are people who understand what happens when they walk out onto the stage and begin to move,” Bradley said.

Bradley and Conteras-Vidal expect results on their research later this summer. According to an article from the University of Maryland’s newspaper, The Diamondback, the research could expand into comparing the results of “Your Brain on Dance” to studies on Asperger’s syndrome or post-traumatic stress disorder. news@thedailycougar.com

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Tuition increases inevitable A hurricane of change has tumbled the financial world of UH and some undergrads feel like their voice has been swept from underneath their feet.

Students feel that Gov. Rick Perry’s line-item vetoes denied the UH System hundreds of thousands of dollars in special programs funding and the Board of Regents’ unanimous approval for a tuition increase in the coming academic year came without warning.

In the last 10 years, state funding has diminished to 25 percent from 39 percent of UH’s budget. In the last six years tuition has been raised by nearly $2,000.

The Board of Regents ruled that beginning in August, the cost of attending UH will be increased by $13 per undergraduate semester hour. Although that amount seems small on its own, it accumulates to nearly $200 more per semester for a student enrolled in 15 credit hours.

According to College For All Texans, with this new tuition rate, UH will now cost, on average, more than Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin – two public universities that receive more funding from Texas than we do.

As we see less financial support from the state, a rise in the cost of tuition is inevitable. Students feel it is an insult to approve an increase without first including them in greater dialogue, which makes the dip into their wallets all the worse.

We understand that more funding is one of the steps needed to make and keep UH a competitive name against other universities in the state. Yet, administration needs to ensure that students are adequately warned and given a greater opportunity to speak out before plunging its hands deeper into students’ pockets. opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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Snowden revelation outweighs whereabouts

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f Edward Snowden is to be believed, he is no longer in his Hong Kong hotel room. He is no longer communicating with journalists over an encrypted internet connection. He’s no longer residing in China nor in Bryan Russia, where Washington he should be.

Neither is he in Ecuador, a nation which claims to have received his request for political asylum.

Snowden has supposedly made a hefty salary, worked for Dell and shared a home in Hawaii. Now he has become one of America’s most significant whistleblowers against one of the most secretive organizations, and less than a month after his actions, Hollywood opted for film rights to capture his story.

Snowden requested that The Guardian release his identity stating that he has no intention of hiding because he believes he has done nothing wrong.

America is pulling to find this invisible man. He chose Hong Kong for its “commitment to free speech and pride for political dissent.”

A couple weeks later, a seat was booked under Snowden’s name from Moscow to Havana, hopping from one crater of sociopolitical inscrutability to another. However, he didn’t board the flight.

The policies he’s exposed are what affect us. They’re what matters and it’s through their lens that the story should develop.”

Bryan Washington on Snowden Under the guide of PRISM, the National Security Agency collects phone records. Director of National Security James Clapper only revealed its existence to the public

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last week. Drawing on ambiguous constitutional interpretations, PRISM collects data flow “directly from the servers” of U.S. internet companies. At least nine major providers have been implicated.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft were quick to clarify that they sold no such records to the Agency.

Verizon Wireless and AT&T were politely silent. Shortly afterwards, President Barack Obama reminded the public that the National Security Agency’s secrets aren’t actually secrets at all, rather only in the sense of classified information.

If you haven’t formed your opinion on the “leak,” it’ll help to explain what a whistleblower actually is. Determining what you think was done might shed light on what you think the title means as it yields a clearer lens to watch the proceedings. Incidentally, that first step is the hardest part.

Congressional Representative Loretta Sanchez has deemed the PRISM leaks as a broad issue with a huge impact made on society.

Senator Jon Tester said he didn’t find any wrongdoing in Snowden’s actions.

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“Quite frankly, it helps people like me become aware of a situation that I wasn’t aware of before,” Tester said.

UH professor Matthew Tribbe harbors similar sentiments on PRISM. Americans might find the information disturbing, which makes the situation about this public issue a satisfying matter.

“Simply knowing the vast extent of the data collection would not seem to imperil any critical NSA operations or investigations,” Tribbe said.

“But it may perhaps, endanger the continuation of the programs themselves, which should be the decision of the American people.”

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov claims Snowden never crossed their border while President Vladmir Putin condemned American requests for an extradition.

“The Russian special services are not engaged with him and will not be engaged,” Putin said.

Snowden called his sole motive to “inform the public as to which has been done in their name and that which is done against them.”

He’s since told The Guardian that he didn’t want to reside in a society with those type of agenda’s in order.

So he left.

In the June 24 issue of Time Magazine, the publication all but equates whistleblowing to spying.

They’ve cited Snowden, Pfc. Bradley Manning and Aaron Schwarts, who committed suicide shortly after lifting documents from the JSTOR academic database as “The Informers”.

It might confuse anyone who caught their 2002 issue. They’d deemed “The Protestor” as their “Person of the Year”.

Meanwhile, Snowden is nowhere to be seen. For the time being, it seems he has disappeared from the grid he sought to expose.

In spite of everything, Edward Snowden is important, but he’s only an individual.

The policies he exposed are what affects us. They’re what matters and it’s through their lens that the story should develop.

Bryan Washington is an English sophomore and can be reached at opinion@ thedailycougar.com.

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Conference announces kickoff times The Daily Cougar news services The American Athletic Conference announced kickoff times for four UH games including its 2013 season opener against Southern, which will air on ESPN3.com at 7:30 p.m.

The Cougars will face Temple on the road the following week for their conference opener — the game will be aired on ESPN Regional at 11 a.m.

In their fifth game of the season, the Cougars will face Memphis at 11 a.m. on Oct. 12 and then take on USF on Oct. 31 at 6 p.m, which will be broadcasted on ESPN. Basketball recruiting The Cougars added a point guard and a forward to their 2013 recruiting class last week.

Ahmed Hamdy signed a financial aid agreement and will be a freshman in 2013-14 after competing at Trent Internationale in Sugar Land.

As a high school senior, Hamdy averaged 18.7 points and 13.6 rebounds per game.

Also joining the 2013 class is L.J. Rose, a Baylor transfer.

The University is working on a hardship waiver that would allow Rose to play immediately because his mother suffers from lupus.

Rose’s dad Lynden, played for the UH’s most-famous fraternity Phi Slama Jama from 1980-82.

Rose graduated from Westbury High School, where he was a fourstar recruit with offers from Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky and Georgetown. sports@thedailycougar.com

For the second consecutive year, head coach Patrick Sullivan picked up the top mid-major recruiting class in the nation. | Aisha Bouderdaben/ The Daily Cougar

TENNIS

Strong relationships foster recruiting success Jacob Aredondo Staff writer

Recruiting is a major factor in building a championship-caliber program, but for tennis head coach Patrick Sullivan, installing his philosophy is just as important.

“Really the first step last year was getting these (players) to buy into doing things a different way — and that’s the toughest step. It’s hard to bring great new players in when current players’ haven’t bought in, and they did,” Sullivan said.

In her senior year, Maja Kazimieruk ranked seventh in UH history in single-season winning percentage (.818). | Aisha Bouderdaben/ The Daily Cougar

Sullivan, who just finished his first season at the helm, said the relationships he built with the current players have helped him succeed as a recruiter.

“A lot of the success of the recruiting class was based on the foundation they set and the atmosphere that they bought into and provided.

When we had recruits on campus they saw it was a place where these girls wanted to be and a place where they should want to be in the future themselves,” Sullivan said.

The relationships that he has built have paid off.

UH has the No. 6 ranked recruiting class, which registered as the top mid-major program for spring 2013, according to tennis recruiting.net.

The Cougars’ No. 6 ranking is the highest for a mid-major program since 2006.

After adding Auburn transfer Maria Andrea Cardenas last week, the class also includes Greece product Despoina Vogasari and Rocio Martin Fernandez.

Players like Maja Kazimieruk,

who competed under Sullivan for only one season before graduating in May and sophomore Gabriella Jansson, who was part of his first UH recruiting class, have gained a lot from his knowledge.

“He walked me step-by-step through everything; the team definitely helped as well,” Jansson said. “(My teammates) are all very welcoming and you make a lot of friends quick.”

Kazimieruk posted arguably the best season of her career with a 34-9 record in dual match play, going 18-4 in singles action.

“He helped me a lot, I was really pumped to play for him,” Kazimieruk said.

Both are giving Sullivan a helping hand at his youth camp, which serves to guide younger tennis players in developing their skills among college-level coaches and players.

For Kazimieruk working at the youth camp offers an opportunity to follow in Sullivan’s footsteps.

“Since I’m done with tennis now, it’s an opportunity for me to teach

other kids. I’ve always wanted to coach, and I still want to stay on the court,” Kazimieruk said.

Even with Kazimieruk moving on from her playing career Sullivan expects his team to get better.

“We return a really strong core group and we are going to add some really good players to that,” Sullivan said. “I think we have enough talent to compete for the conference championship.” sports@thedailycougar.com

NEW RECRUITS Maria Andrea Cardenas — Auburn transfer who went 20-8 last season as a freshman Despoina Vogasari — earned a professional doubles title at the ITF Marathon Futures Tournament in Athens, Greece this summer Rocio Martin Fernandez — was ranked No. 44 in Spain’s open division and No. 1204 in WTA’s worldwide rankings

FOOTBALL

Vertical progress on Cougars’ football stadium expected this week Andrew Valderas Assistant sports editor

Manhattan Construction Group said it anticipates placing the first steel beam on UH’s new football stadium late this week. | Esteban Portillo/ The Daily Cougar

With more than a year remaining before the Cougars’ football stadium is to be complete, the construction company is making faster-thanexpected progress.

Late this week the Manhattan Construction Group said they anticipate putting up the first steel on the stadium, which will signify the beginning of the vertical progress.

Natalie Pagano, a Manhattan spokesperson, said the firm is making good construction progress. “(The first steel) is going to start

the next process of the project and we’re ready to get things moving,” Pagano said.

The first steel beam is not only significant because it is the core of the stadium’s framework, but it also changes how the crews work. Now, the crews will incorporate more workers and cranes. They will be working with steel beams weighing at least 30,000 pounds.

“You are now moving past the initial dirt work phase and seeing not just the stadium but also the Bert F. Winston Band and Performance Center essentially come to life as they

begin their upward journeys,” said athletics director Mack Rhoades.

The Performance Center will serve as a home for the Spirit of Houston Band Recital Halls, classroom spaces, a multi-purpose area and UH Athletics Ticket Office.

The Manhattan crew has worked other parts of the stadium, now it’s time for them to begin with the framework of the project.

“The ability to see what is on the horizon is encouraging and exciting,” Rhoades said. sports@thedailycougar.com

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COMICS Cougar Academy by Nancy Tyan

ACROSS 1 Ebenezer’s exclamation 4 Greet the sultan 10 What a cowboy calls a lady 14 Controversial mentalist Geller 15 OK to ingest 16 “___ la Douce” (1963 film) 17 Chair support 18 Lady Macbeth, on occasion 20 Country in the Persian Gulf 22 Like some tree trunks 23 Windowframe part 24 Hybrid big cat 27 Wah-wah producer 28 Riddle 32 “If you build it, they will ___.”

33 Drunk 34 Half and half?

35 Part of a cheer 36 Pre-med course 37 Suffix with “lion” or

“host” 38 Recite lines 39 Really exist 40 Remnant or survivor 42 Keep the engine running in park 43 To the point 45 What a greedy person wants 46 “Tails” alternative 47 Something a person may take a spin in?

48 Aquatic mammal 51 Adapt music for the band 54 Term of endearment for Caine 58 Doze momentarily (with “off”) 59 Bed for some shrimp?

60 Archimedes’ shout 61 Omelet need 62 They give people big heads 63 Like tails 64 Caviar, before processing

DOWN 1 Future lily 2 Kind of rug 3 Olympic competitor 4 Seed on hamburger buns 5 Improvise lines 6 Banker’s protection 7 Vigoda of “Fish” 8 Yodeling peak 9 Plaintive cry 10 Noble address 11 Slowmoving, commodious crafts 12 ___ Brothers (“Rag Mop” singers) 13 Wells of Motown 19 Changes 21 Payroll datum 24 Costello or Gehrig 25 Crawling creature 26 Kind of room or star 27 Waterypatterned cloth 28 Put in the fridge 29 Cartoon

beeper 30 Remus or Sam 31 Apportion (with “out”) 32 Jolly good fellow 33 Italian province or its capital 36 Thorny bushes (var.)

41 Former Justice Dept. branch 42 Whit or wee bit 44 Grad school papers 45 SNL’s Bill 47 Tough trips 48 Barbarous one 49 Calc preceder, perhaps 50 Filled tortilla 51 “Great” swingers 52 “Faster!”

53 Beat by a point or two 55 “___ give you the shirt off his back!”

56 Sharing possessive 57 Prefix for “packaged”

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What is Meningitis?

a day in the life of

A UH c-store lead cashier

Staff member dedicates more than 14 years of service, positivity for students at underground convenience store Monica Tso Life and arts editor

When students mention that the UC Satellite c-store doesn’t offer certain supplies or when students crave new snacks, lead cashier Mary A. Cooper works hard to satisfy their needs.

Although the store opens at 7 a.m. throughout the school year, Cooper arrives at 6:30 a.m. everyday to ensure that a full inventory

of snacks, drinks and supplies are available for students. “I enjoy this job, and it’s a great place to work. I love being around the crowd of students,� Cooper said. “It’s my home away from home. Even after vacation, I’m always well-rested and eager to come back to school.�

With her relatives living in Third Ward, Cooper spends much of her time in the area.

Lead cashier of the UC Satellite c-store Mary Cooper has been working at UH since 1999. Throughout the summer, Cooper is the sole worker. “All these years, I haven’t encountered a true problem,� she said. “ I really cherish my job here.� | Monica Tso/The Daily Cougar

She attended Texas Southern University for several years and received a nursing license from Prairie View A&M University.

After her mother passed, she decided that nursing wasn’t her forte. “I started as a part-time cashier back in 1999. After my children went to college, I had an empty nest and I’ve been full time ever since.� Cooper said.

Cooper, who asks for autographs instead of signatures during checkout, said she stresses the importance of staying positive. “Everyone has bad days; it’s understandable. Here, it’s all about keeping customers happy,�

Cooper said. “Asking for autographs can brighten their day,� Cooper said. “If you come in here, you’re famous to me.�

Cooper insists that after 14 years, she doesn’t have complaints about the job. “I try my best to be a problemsolver, and so far, there hasn’t been a problem that doesn’t have a solution. In all the years I’ve worked here, there has been only one incident when a student cursed at me, but that’s it,� Cooper said.

She has both accumulated countless memories and revisited a few of her best moments while working at UH. “I remember the day BeyoncĂŠ and her mother visited back in October 2011. My daughter was so excited. I also remember when Obama visited Houston in 2012,â€?

Cooper said. “For me, everyday is a new, lasting memory.� arts@thedailycougar.com

Food

Sweeten summer break with strawberry salad Jasmine Tamez Staff writer

Health and wellness organizations urge the importance of including plenty of fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy diet plan.

According to the American Heart Association, eating a variety of fruits

and vegetables can help control weight and blood pressure.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that diets rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.

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Strawberry Spinach Salad

like vitamin B. This helps provide energy and helps with hair and nail growth,” Cramer said.

“The intake of greens as part of a healthy diet can significantly impact a person’s life and provide nothing but positive results.”

Based on a 2,000-calorie diet, individuals are urged to consume about four and a half cups of fruits and vegetables every day.

With this scrumptious strawberry spinach salad drizzled with savory sweet strawberry cilantro vinaigrette dressing, eating four and a half cups of fruits and vegetables is easier — and delicious

Makes 2 servings Calories per serving: about 270 calories

Ingredients: 4 cups loosely-packed spinach 1 cup strawberries, sliced or quartered 1 pear, thinly sliced and cut into strips 1 cup grapes, halved 1/3 cup walnuts, whole or chopped ¼ cup strawberry cilantro vinaigrette

Instructions: arts@thedailycougar.com

Try the Strawberry spinach summer salad topped with the strawberry cilantro vinaigrette. | Jasmine Tamez/The Daily Cougar

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Place spinach, strawberries, pears, grapes and walnuts into a large salad bowl.

Fold until ingredients are evenly distributed.

Serve two equal portions in a salad bowl or on a plate.

Drizzle 1/8 cup strawberry cilantro vinaigrette on each salad.

Strawberry Cilantro Vinaigrette Makes 8 servings Calories per serving: about 85 calories

Ingredients:

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½ cup fresh strawberries ¼ cup balsamic vinegar ¼ cup white vinegar 1 tablespoon honey

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¼ cup cilantro leaves, loosely packed

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¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

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1 ½ lemons, juiced

Place strawberry preserves, balsamic vinegar, white vinegar, honey, lemon juice, cilantro, black pepper and salt into a blender or food processor. Purée until smooth.

Place blender or food processor on lowest setting. While the motor is running, add olive oil slowly and steadily to the mixture.

Drizzle on your salad of choice.

— Jasmine Tamez, staff writer