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As elections approach, Texas works to get more voters Laura Gillespie Assistant news editor

Though the tumultuous roller coaster ride of presidential elections is finished until 2016, Nov. 5 marks the beginning of local and state elections. Tuesday was recognized as National Voter Registration Day, and Texas is working to find ways to recruit more voters.

In addition to the mayoral elections in El Paso, Arlington, Fort Worth and Houston, Texas will also cast votes on changes to its constitution and will hold a special election in House District 50 in Travis County.

Houston’s mayoral election will pit incumbent Annise Parker against former city attorney Ben Hall, Green Party organizer Don Cook, Republican Eric Dick and candidate Victoria Lane.

“I’m not keeping track of candidates … but I always vote, always. (It’s important that) I have a say in who leads me. I think that there’s always enough info; it’s a matter of people taking the time to look it up,” said biotechnology senior Walter Black.

Texas has long suffered from a low voter turnout. According to ABC13, 13 percent of registered voters went to local polls in 2011, and Texas has been often ranked among the worst states in the nation for voter turnout.

Those numbers are not improving.

“I know how to vote in presidential elections, but (not in mayoral elections),” said creative writing senior Rachel Tawse.

National Voter Registration Day is intended to change that.

In a press conference Tuesday, Texas Secretary of State John Steen and Public Safety Commission Chair Cynthia Leon announced a partnership between their offices to disperse numerous mobile registration stations across the state.

Adults without one of the six possible forms of photo identification can attain an Election Identification Certificate through any of the 25 mobile stations, one of which will be located at the Holman Baptist Church near campus.

“To see (the state) have the foresight to put together a program to go into a community to

National Voter Registration Day works to get more Americans registered to vote in not just national elections, but in their local voting opportunities as well. | File photo/The Daily Cougar

get them the documents they need is a sign that they are serious about getting people to vote,” said Mike Sullivan, the Harris County voter registrar. “I applaud the DPS and I applaud the secretary of state.”

The final day to register for the Nov. 5 election is Oct. 7.

Additional reporting by Mary Dahdouh. news@thedailycougar.com

BAUER

Wolff Center ranked best in nation again Ciara Rouege Contributing writer

Horticultural Society makes green off fall plant sale Some students passing through the Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall Breezeway for lunch Tuesday had their plans soiled when they decided to spring for a cactus or aloe vera plant from the Horticultural Society instead of the baked goods or hot dogs that usually occupy the tables.

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The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship earned the C.T. Bauer College of Business its seventh consecutive top ranking for the program’s innovative approach to teaching and promotion of entrepreneurship throughout the city.

Recently, The Princeton Review ranked the Wolff Center at No. 2 on its list of the Top 25 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Programs in the U.S. in Entrepreneur magazine.

The program received a No. 3 ranking in 2012 and ranked No. 1 in 2010 and 2011.

“The center’s continuing recognition, year after year, is a clear

indication of its fundamental excellence,” said President Renu Khator in a press release. “Our students are acquiring the practical skills and academic background that prepare them to succeed in a highly competitive arena — and play a vital role in maintaining Houston’s robust economy.”

The director of mentoring programs, Dave Cook, said the mentors are what distinguished the Wolff Center from other programs being offered in the country.

“We have wonderful adjunct professors who have owned their own business. We also have the best program because we’re so WOLFF continues on page 3

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FLASHBACK Past elections reflect today’s problems Tuesday was recognized as Voter Registration Day, and the days until the mayoral elections on Nov. 5 are flying past. Incumbent mayor Annise Parker will be running for what, if she wins, would be her final term.

Parker smashed nationwide records when she was first elected in 2009 as the second female mayor in Houston’s history and one of the first openly gay mayors of a major city in the United States.

The first female mayor of Houston was Kathy Whitmire, from 1982 to 1991.

She was reelected in 1985 amidst many of the same issues that plague Houston today: homophobia, economic uncertainty and a suffering oil industry.

Whitmire was a mayor of many firsts. She appointed the first African-American police chief, Lee P. Brown, and the first female police chief, Elizabeth Watson. She also appointed the first Hispanic presiding judge of Houston Municipal Court, Sylvia R. Garcia. A UH alumna, she debated her opponent, Louie Welch, on UH grounds.

Whitmire has publically supported Parker in the past, even holding a fundraiser for her initial campaign in 2009. The two have similarities, to be sure. But looking back on Whitmire’s election can be downright eerie as it becomes clear that Houston’s issues persist even now, nearly 30 years later.

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The Wolff Center takes pride in its program that is said to change and adapt as much as entrepreneurship. For this reason, it takes a top spot on The Princeton Review’s list of entrepreneurship programs for yet another year. | Courtesy of UH.edu

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closely aligned with the city of Houston,” Cook said.

Out of the thousands of prospects who apply each year for the major, only 40 are admitted.

“We are looking for students that are passionate about starting businesses and creating jobs, either now or in the future, “ Cook said.

This select group is supported by a dedicated team of professors, industry professionals and staff who operate as mentors in various areas of the students’ lives.

Mentors are categorized under nine titles with distinct responsibilities and levels of interaction.

Investor mentors donate more than $15,000 during their students’ time in the program, while personal mentors work directly with their students and advise them on

life decisions.

Program Coordinator Melissa Fritsche said last year’s graduating class received mentorship from 225 professionals. Nearly 25 percent of the mentors are alumni.

“It has changed every year. It’s never the same program ... we try to use cutting-edge tools and the latest teaching methods and processes to improve the curriculum,” Cook said.

“The nature of the program is similar to entrepreneurship itself.

Your business has to adapt and you are constantly adjusting your product.”

RED Labs were added to Bauer this year and are intended to provide advanced tools and guidance for students focused on designing informational technology, applications and software in a collaborative workspace.

“It’s split down the middle between time in the classroom … the other 50 percent is spent in the

The nature of the program is similar to entrepreneurship itself.

Your business has to adapt and you are constantly adjusting your product.”

Dave Cook, Wolff Center’s director of mentoring programs, said about the program’s changing curriculum 22 programs designed to complement lessons learned in the classroom and to simulate real world experience,” Cook said.

According to Bauer Dean Latha Ramchand, the Wolff Center being highlighted by Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review will give Bauer more prestige and national recognition. news@thedailycougar.com

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moking: it’s not something that generations before us would have predicted to last as long as it has.

It’s incredible, really — anything that’s been labeled as a “cancer stick” would probably be enough to stop most of us from trying it out.

Still, in 2013, Cara it’s an integral Smith part of almost 20 percent of adults’ day-to-day routine, according to the Center for Disease Control.

It’s also something that’s being phased out in universities across the nation — in particular, in many universities in Texas.

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas enacted a policy in 2012 that made grant money available to universities that ban smoking in buildings that house financed research and in public grounds around those buildings.

This is an agency that has billions of dollars available to put toward university grants, and its offer couldn’t have come at a better time for universities suffering from decreases in federal funding and drops in student enrollment.

With Texas on its way to becoming the national hub for cancer research, it only seems fitting that its institutions ban activities that cause the disease.

On Aug. 31, UH received between $6 and $7 million from CPRIT, because of its recent campus-wide smoking ban.

Unfortunately, for many campus smokers, this news isn’t anything to celebrate.

Sure, it could be argued that this policy will help struggling smokers finally kick the habit. However, that isn’t the University’s fight to fight, and at the end of the day, choosing to smoke is just that — a conscious choice made by those who are well aware of the health risks it brings.

Following the University’s ban

Placing designated smoking zones in high traffic areas, such as on the intersection of the sidewalks leading past Cougar Village I and toward Moody Towers, stigmatizes smokers as inconsiderate, but they have nowhere else to go. | Kayla Stewart/The Daily Cougar in 2013, UH added 20 designated smoking areas distributed around the 700-acre campus.

Still, the University made sure to note that these new areas will be available for only the next 12 months, and that UH reserves the right to remove any of these areas after Summer 2014.

Pile on the fact that this means there’s one smoking section every 35 acres, and it’s clear why many students are feeling shafted by the school’s recent policy implementation.

Many of these smoking areas are in some of the campus’s most lively locations. While this may sound like a victory for UH’s smoking community, students cite the overwhelming negatives that come with placing smoking areas in bustling places.

“Last year, we had the perfect area set away from the sidewalks,” said pre-law sophomore Luke Runte.

“This fall, without notice, our smoking area had been moved to one of campus’s busiest spots, right where four sidewalks converge

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outside Cougar Village I. Now, we’re seen as a disturbance to nonsmoking students, and there have been a lot of complaints about students walking past us and getting smoke in their eyes.”

Runte expressed frustration about how UH’s smoking community is being perceived through the eyes of fellow students.

“It’s just unfortunate that we didn’t ask for any of this, and now we’re at the receiving end of complaints. It’s not like we can smoke anywhere else nearby, though,” Runte said.

The grounds of Cougar Village I’s smoking area, are covered in a thick, dense layer of disintegrating cigarette butts. Its ashtray is filled to the brim with empty soda bottles, beer cans and Copenhagen canisters.

Basically, it’s a dump — and construction management freshman Julian Provazek cites factors outside UH’s smoking community for the squalor.

“I’ll see students walk by on their way to class and throw their empty trash into our ashtray. They

either think that it’s a trash can, or they just don’t care,” Provazek said.

“It leaves the grass as the only place I can put out my cigarette, and it makes the area a pigsty.

“People naturally blame the smokers for keeping the area so dirty, but there’s no reason why I’d want to trash the very place I hang out at the most.”

However, from a different standpoint, these new measures might help to prevent non-smokers from ever picking up that first cigarette, since there won’t be as many environments conducive to the lifestyle.

After all, the Center for Disease Control reports that 69 percent of adult smokers wish they could quit.

Computer science freshman Saad Dayala was quick to shoot down that notion.

“Smoking areas develop into social areas — places where people naturally come together and hang out.” Dayala said. “I’ve had friends that have tried to quit smoking, and walking by 10 or 15 of your friends smoking every day makes it near impossible.”

By concentrating the areas where smokers gather, hubs of temptation have effectively been scattered around campus, making it difficult for quitters to pass by without stopping to take a puff with their friends.

The major reason many universities have been focusing more on eliminating smoking compared to other vices, such as drinking alcohol, is the effect smokers have on the surrounding population. After all, there’s no such thing as secondhand blood-alcohol content.

Clearly, those who smoke affect those who don’t smoke, sometimes in life-threatening ways. It’s obvious that certain measures need to be taken to protect those who have made the choice not to smoke.

It’s growing more and more doubtful that the University’s current policies are cutting it, though — not just for UH’s smoking population, but for its student population as a whole.

Senior staff columnist Cara Smith is a communications junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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redshir t freshman Cameron Malveaux, junior Jeremiah Farley and junior Eric Braswell has given the Cougars an 8-man rotation, head coach Tony Levine said.

“With the second team, I think that (defensive line) coach (Ricky) Logo has done a fantastic job of bringing them along and getting them experience,” Levine said on Sept. 17.

“That’s what we’ve talked about as a staff. We’ve got some young guys who have not played before, and as a staff, we’ve got to put them in the game and let them make mistakes and learn, but they’ll continue to improve over the course of the season.”

For Bowser, his teammates and coaching staff expect him to add more than depth once his body matures and he gains more experience.

“Tyus Bowser — he’s going to be something serious when he gets older and meaner. He’s a great athlete,” said senior defensive back Thomas Bates.

“He’s humble. He studies his playbook. I just like to see him in the backfield making plays.”

UH posted its lowest total for all three rounds Tuesday to capture the team and individual championship at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic.

Junior Kyle Pilgrim earned the first championship of his career in his season debut after recording a career-low 66 in the final round to finish at Pilgrim 5-under-par 208.

Pilgrim opened the third round with a birdie on the first hole before sinking four more birdies during the next 14 holes.

After his lone bogey on the 345-yard, par-4 16th hole, Pilgrim rebounded with his fifth and final birdie of the day on the par-5 17th hole and finished with a par.

Pilgrim became the 29th player in school history to shoot 66 or lower in a round. It was the lowest round by a Cougar since fellow junior Roman Robledo shot a 65 in the second round at the Conference USA Championships in April.

“Kyle had a tremendous round and made so many quality shots all day long,” said golf director Jonathan Dismuke.

“With a 66 in the final round, that’s going to be something he will remember for the rest of his life.”

The team posted scores of 282 and 283 in the first two rounds, then combined to shoot 4-underpar 280 in the third round and won their first outright team title at the event with a score of 847.

“It was a great effort by everyone both days,” Dismuke said.

Playing as an individual, sophomore Vincent Martino drained six birdies for a season-low 68 in the final round and finished fourth at 3-under-par 210.

T h e Co u g a r s e n t e re d t h e final round with a 10-stroke lead against Georgia Southern and continued to build on that advantage throughout the day.

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Freshman defensive end Tyus Bowser racked up nine tackles and one and one-half sacks against Rice in the Bayou Bucket. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar

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Bowser’s inside story Freshman defensive end uses speed, versatility to cause havoc, shell out punishment to opposing quarterbacks Christopher Shelton Sports editor

At John Tyler High School, freshman defensive end Tyus Bowser never left the field.

He played quarterback, r u n n i n g back, tight end, receiver, outside linebacker and defensive Bowser end. As a senior, Bowser accumulated 24 sacks, five forced fumbles, and one rushing, receiving and passing touchdown. He even

successfully boxed opponents out on the basketball court, earning a Division I scholarship offer to Oral Roberts.

His diverse skill set has already helped the Cougars.

Following an injury to sophomore defensive end Eric Eiland, Bowser cracked the team’s depth chart and made the most of increased opportunities during the Bayou Bucket. Against Rice, Bowser had one and one-half sacks, seven tackles and two and one-half tackles for loss. But Bowser proved he wasn’t a one-dimensional pass rusher — he dropped back into coverage and caught an interception.

Bowser’s performance wasn’t a surprise inside the locker room, said junior defensive end Trevor Harris, who had nine total tackles and two quarterback hurries. The two defensive ends push each other to get better during free time because they share an apartment.

“We feed off each other a whole lot and he comes to me and he gets feedback from me and I get feedback from him,” Harris said. “He asks me, ‘what move should I do or what should I expect,’ because I watch film all the time and I’m like his mentor.”

Bowser has become a valued member of the Cougars’ improved defense, which has surrendered 52 points in three games — the lowest total UH has given up since 1999.

The defensive line’s improvement against the run is a big part of the team’s undefeated start.

Last season, the Cougars gave up 740 rushing yards and allowed five running backs to gain at least 95 yards in three games. This season, the team has surrendered 378 rushing yards and hasn’t allowed a running back to gain more than 95 yards.

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Theatrical fun at “What’s Opera Duck” BUCK ROSS Director and founder of Moores Opera Center, Buck Ross presents the opening of “What’s Opera Duck” at a popular night club, Mucky Duck, Tuesday evening.

Q: What is “What’s Opera Duck” about?

A: It is simply an informal evening of favorite arias and musical theatre songs performed by our upperclass undergraduate and graduate students. It gives a chance to see our performers up close and to also meet new and upcoming stars of the program.

Q: What’s the story behind the opera?

A: One of our graduates, Abigail Levis, was a waitress Artists David Burns and Austin Young will be presenting their “Fallen Fruit” series on Thursday afternoon at the Blaffer Art Museum. The gallery exhibits urban space and neighborhoods. | Fernando Castaldi/The Daily Cougar

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Seeing inequality through fallen fruits Paulina Rojas Life & Arts editor

In major cities, economic inequality stands out more than in smaller towns. To investigate how this inequality shapes communities, artists are experimenting by making themselves part of the urban landscape.

Los Angeles-based Fallen Fruit, which includes artists David Burns

and Austin Young, will take center stage Thursday afternoon as part of the Blaffer Art Museum’s Visiting Artist and Scholar series.

According to Blaffer’s website, Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a lens to investigate urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community.

“We are really excited that

Fallen Fruit is coming to Houston.

They will add to the exhibition of ‘Feast: (Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art),’” said Blaffer curational fellow Amy Powell.

In addition to performing their artist talk, Fallen Fruit will also be performing on Saturday a piece titled “Lemonade Stand,” in which

at Mucky Duck. The nightclub often sponsors fund-raising concerts for various groups around town. It turned out to be a perfect match and is an eagerly awaited event by many of our patrons.

Q: What should the audience look forward to?

A: Students will perform songs from “Hamlet,” “My Fair Lady,” “Wicked,” “Les Miserables,” “Beauty and the Beast” and more. You’ll have to come out and celebrate to find out what other productions students chose.

Q: How long has this production been running?

A: We have been doing this every year for four years.

Q: What has been your favorite part as director?

A: My favorite part has been getting to see unexpected talents of the performers.

Q: Is there anyone else co-directing this opera?

A: My teaching assistant, Grace Brooks, who is also a voice doctoral student has been helping me out a lot.

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Greek organizations rush into fundraising Paulina Rojas Life & Arts editor

For more than 56 years, the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has been making many students’ collegiate careers memorable and interactive.

The brotherhood is currently preparing for their first philanthropy week in partnership with other fraternities and sororities on campus.

“If we can get it to be a success, then hopefully we gain University support for it in the future and make it an even bigger event,” said psychology sophomore and TKE public relations chair Ryan Thompson.

For hotel and restaurant management senior and TKE president Joshua Chipley, philanthropy week presents a great opportunity.

“In the pursuit of providing a better future for the patients of St. Jude (Children’s Research Hospital), TKE week is geared toward fostering an opportunity for friendly competition and inter-organization relations for a philanthropy that we have passionately supported for decades,” Chipley said.

The festivities will begin Monday with penny wars at Lynn Eusan Park. Sororities will have jugs to fill with pennies, and the sorority with the most pennies will win.

The week will culminate on Oct. 3 with the Tiki Island benefit party at Pure Houston. All the proceeds raised will go to St. Jude. The goal is to VOLUNTEER continues on page 8

Tau Kappa Epsilon is working in conjunction with other fraternities and sororities to organize its first philanthropy week from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Proceeds from its events will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. | Courtesy of Tau Kappa Epsilon

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LIFE+ARTS

Flash mob dances on fountains Led by associate dance professor Teresa Chapman, the dancers from the Division of Dance performed a flash mob Tuesday afternoon in front of the Ezekiel Cullen Building next to the fountains. The dancers created choreography with signature movements and ideas.

Watch the dance on YouTube by searching “University of Houston Dance Mob.” Fernando Castaldi/The Daily Cougar

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patrons will make a portrait of themselves on a lemon and speak about the worst and best moments of their lives.

The group got its start by making public fruit maps in Los Angeles. The artist talk will begin at 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Building room 110.

Next week’s artist talk will feature a moderated conversation between Algerian-born and Parisbased photographer Zineb Sedira and Duke University Director of Women’s Studies Ranjana Khana. arts@thedailycougar.com

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raise between $5,000 and $10,000.

“It’s our national philanthropy that all TKEs across the nation participate in. There is even a St. Jude page set up just for us,” Thompson said.

Cougars can expect to see fliers across campus promoting the philanthropy week.

The fraternity also partnered with Student Video Network to create a commercial that they hope will create a large student turnout.

“We have four other fraternities and sororities signed up, but we hope to have six or seven more signed up by the end of the week,” Thompson said. “In my opinion, these events really benefit all Greek life organizations on campus.”. arts@thedailycougar.com