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Coogs go meatless on Mondays

Gaming Society pits students against their “undead” classmates in the week-long event.

UH Dining is offering more meatless options on Mondays to encourage healthy eating.

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University wins grant to study tissues under the sea Tristan Rieckhoff Staff writer

hold fewer items for a longer time.

“These two types of memories are so different, and we wanted to better understand (the) transfer of information between them.

Our results also show these two stages, but we see evidence for an

Researchers across America are teaming up with associate professor Kirill Larin’s Biomedical Optics Laboratory, located in the Cullen College of Engineering, to peer deep into live organic tissues.

The insights gained from this work are being used to gain understanding of biological processes that will be used to fight disease and injury.

The Navy has given a $1.1 million grant to the collaboration between UH and the University of Wisconsin to develop procedures to help sailors avoid “the bends” (decompression sickness) when escaping from a submerged vessel. UH technology will be used to image bubbles of gas, in particular nitrogen, in blood vessels. This data will be used to create protocols, such as pausing ascent at a certain depth, to minimize harm from surfacing too quickly.

Larin is also working with the Baylor College of Medicine on two grants from the National Institutes of Health. One is a broad study on fetus development and congenital disease, while the other focuses specifically on early heart development.

“Dr. Kirill Larin’s group is contributing strong expertise in optical coherence tomography design and development for biomedical applications,” wrote Baylor’s assistant professor Irina Larina, “allowing us to visualize live development processes, which are not accessible with other methods ...we are excited to undertake these studies together with the UH team.”

Larin is heading a group that combines images created at the UH lab with molecular genetic analysis

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Football stadium milestone nears Kathleen Murrill Senior staff writer

Just 327 days remain before the doors open to the brand-new $100 million-plus stadium, UH fans will have something to celebrate before the first kickoff in August 2014.

The traditional topping-out ceremony, which commemorates the placement of the last two steel beams to complete the connector bridge in the southeast corner of the stadium, is scheduled for this month.

UH President Renu Khator sees the building of this stadium as a step into the future for UH. “Our stadium was good. It had a lot of history, but it was kind of tired,” Khator said. “We needed a new stadium that shows the future

of the University.”

With the new stadium resting 12 feet below Robertson Stadium’s original field, it will literally be built on the past. The digging for this new, STADIUM continues on page 5

ACADEMICS

Students’ thesis wins memorable award Rebecca Heliot Contributing writer

A UH psychology doctoral candidate was recently awarded “Article of the Year” by Psychonomic Bulletin & Review for her master’s thesis regarding short-term visual memory.

“I was s h o c k e d . At first I thought it was spam,” said Jane Jacob.

“I actually had Jacob to read the editor’s email five times to understand that our article

won the award. I could not believe it.

I’m so honored and thankful.”

The research looked at the process of short-term visual memory, which has shown to be complex.

The two stages include brief sensory memory, capable of storing many items for a short time, and the longer visual working memory, which can

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intermediate stage between stage 1 (sensory memory) and stage two (visual working memory),” Jacob said.

“Altogether our data shows evidence for three stages (visible sensory memory, an intermediate — information being transferred from sensory memory into the next robust stage, and robust visual working

memory).

The article was co-written

by Melissa Trevino, who assisted in Trevino designing a study to further investigate the intermediate visual memory process.

“I helped in making a clearer picture of visual processing when different stimuli are presented simultaneously,” Trevino said.

“This allowed us to explore

post-stimulus processing from the beginning of the first stage — visual persistence — of visual short term memories. It was an addition to the data that Jane had from her thesis.”

Although more studies need to be done to understand the intermediate visual memory process, Jacob’s research helps identify what happens between the first and third stages of memory.

“The impact or meaning the award has for our psychology department is twofold,” said professor and

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director of the Visual Cognition Lab Bruno G. Breitmeyer.

“For one, it lets the larger national and international community of cognitive scientists know that excellent work is being done in visual cognition in our department and at the University of Houston.

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to better understand organ development and identify when and where that development goes awry.

Larin said his teams of students are extremely talented and can customize equipment and software to meet the demands of these projects.

Their equipment uses non invasive optical techniques that penetrate into tissue to create high resolution data.

For example the group is able to

scan mouse embryos from multiple directions and put that information together to form 3D models and images. These models are used to understand human development because of the similarities in between our two species at the embryonic stage.

Chen Wu, a doctoral candidate under Larin, says that collaborating with other schools “provides us with ideas. We are from an engineering background while Baylor has the knowledge of biology.”

Jiasong Li, also pursuing a PhD

under Larin, agrees with Wu. He said that collaborating with other teams helps the lab avoid mistakes, enables the team to learn more from their experiments and provides direction for their research.

“This is a really exciting life. These are all very friendly people,” Li said. ”Normally we are working on different projects, but it’s very common for one of us to face a difficulty. We then sit down together and work to fix the problem.” news@thedailycougar.com

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Health conscious Cougars go meatless Karin Olsson, Kenny Torrella Guest columnists

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ormer President Clinton, once known for his love of fast food, has been making headlines with his recent dietary change. He’s swapped the Big Macs, chicken nuggets and fried shrimp for veggie burgers, beans and fresh fruits and vegetables.

After years of battling heart problems and undergoing quadruple bypass surgery in 2004, Clinton took his doctor’s advice to reduce his meat consumption and increase his intake of plant-based foods.

Clinton isn’t the only one turning over a new leaf. From Oprah Winfrey to Ellen DeGeneres, people everywhere are eating less meat.

Mike Tyson, once known for biting off a human ear, is now limiting his ear consumption to those of the corn variety.

The movement toward more plant-based meals is also taking root on college campuses.

More than 200 universities, including UH, are leading the charge with “Meatless Monday” campaigns in their dining halls.

Last December, UH Dining Services launched Meatless Monday, adding delicious menu items like hearty black bean burgers, tortellini primavera and threebean nachos, as well as promoting the meat-free fare via social media and with free food samples.

Nationally acclaimed food writers, such as The New York Times’ Mark Bittman and The Washington Post’s Joe Yonan, are helping the nation discover meat-free dishes that will leave you impatient for the next meal.

There has never been a more exciting time to expand our dining horizons.

Skipping meat one day a week is not a sacrifice but an adventure, and this is reflected in the choices students are making.

According to a study conducted

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Students at the Moody Towers Fresh Food Company dining hall break for salads as an alternative to traditional meat entree selections. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar percent of college students are reducing their meat consumption, and for good reasons.

One such reason is concern for the nine billion chickens, pigs and other animals raised for food each year, most of whom suffer in factory farms.

For example, mother pigs in the pork industry are typically confined in tiny crates barely larger than their own bodies for virtually their entire lives.

Unable to even turn around, these sensitive, intelligent animals experience tremendous physical and psychological pain.

Most egg-laying hens suffer a similar fate. They’re crammed into tiny cages, each bird granted less

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space than the screen of an iPad on which to live for her entire life.

By choosing meat-free options just one day a week, we can all help prevent an enormous amount of cruelty to animals.

Humans, as well as the enviornment also benefit. A report issued by Environmental Working Group put it simply: “Producing all this meat and dairy requires large amounts of pesticides, chemical fertilizer, fuel, feed and water. It also generates greenhouse gases and large amounts of toxic manure and wastewater that pollute groundwater, rivers, streams and the ocean.”

Increasing numbers of family farmers are also voicing their

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support for Meatless Monday as a means to achieve a more sustainable, community-based agricultural system before it’s too late.

Our current rate of meat consumption is simply unsustainable.

By reducing the total number of animals raised for food, we place greater value on humane, sustainable agriculture in which animal welfare is a priority.

Thankfully, eating meatless doesn’t mean less at all. It means more, as in more choices. It means better as in betterliving — both for us and for animals.

From chain restaurants like Chipotle and Denny’s serving up hearty vegetarian fare to Indian,

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Thai, Chinese and Mexican cuisine, which regularly incorporate delicious meat-free items, the options are endless.

UH has a great variety of meat-free options daily, making it a cinch to get your week off to a healthy, more sustainable start.

Today would be a good day to begin.

Visit HumaneSociety.org/ MeatFree for easy and delicious meat-free recipes and meal tips.

Karin Olsson is the outreach manager for the Humane Society of the United States and can be reached at KOlsson@ HumaneSociety.org. Kenny Torrella is the food policy coordinator for The Humane society of the United States and can be reached at KTorrella@HumaneSociety.org.

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original field, it will literally be built on the past. The digging for this new, lower bowl started last week, ahead of schedule, and will continue through the end of the year, said Manhattan Construction stadium project manager Matt Doffing.

The lower bowl will house 20,000 of the 40,000 stadium seats, putting fans closer to the field and to the players, which is something sophomore running back Ryan Jackson is looking forward to.

“If we can have more fans for us next year, it’ll be exciting. It will really impact the game,” Jackson said. “It’s just more support behind you ... and a lot more people closer to you to cheer you on, so there’s a lot more motivation.”

The orientation of the stadium places UH fans on the south side of the structure and gives a view of the skyline out of the northwest corner.

An uninterrupted view of the field is also provided to 67 percent of the 360-degree concourse, according to the stadium’s website.

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enjoy the game from some of the premium seating offered in the new stadium. A 12,400-square-foot club area will overlook the field from the lower level concourse and will include HD televisions and private restrooms. Spanning from end zone to end zone on the south side, 325-square-foot suites will offer individual upscale services and amenities, according the stadium’s website. Thirty-four private boxes will also be located throughout the stadium and will each house four seats.

No matter where you are in the stadium, fans are sure to see the new scoreboard, complete with a high-definition, LED wide-screen video player. The former Robertson Stadium scoreboard is incomparable to the new, enlarged scoreboard, Doffing said.

Bathroom lines may also be left in the past. Fifty-six restrooms will be located within the stadium, including 18 primary restrooms in the main concourse, going beyond the minimum the building code dictates, Doffing said.

Also completed is the framing of the new 39,089-square-foot Bert F. Winston Band and Performance Center, which will house recital halls and classroom spaces for the

Spirit of Houston as well as the Athletics Ticket Office.

The main structure of the stadium is on schedule to be in place by mid-November, and the concrete structure of the student side, the premium side and the home locker rooms has already been completed,

Doffing said.

With everything on schedule, Khator is excited for the impact the stadium will have on the University, but she assures this will not be UH athletics’ peak.

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Zombies, humans get ready for attack Rebeca Heliot Contributing writer

The zombie apocalypse is reigning on campus as the Cougar Urban Gaming Society recruits members for its biggest game, Humans vs. Zombies. The battle begins today. “(Here’s how) the game works.

When you sign up, you can ask to be put in the original zombie pool,” said CUGS moderator and creative writing senior Michael Moser.

“On the fi rst day, one person is chosen and they run around, assumingly as a human, and then they can just walk up to you (and turn you into a zombie).”

Humans are provided Nerf guns to stun zombies before they can tag the humans to turn them into zombies. The zombies wear a neon green band around their forehead, while the humans wear them around their arms, which is the only way to know who is who.

“The game is never turned off unless you’re in a building,” said CUGS moderator and mechanical and chemical engineering junior Mitchell Lott.

The only time a human is protected is in class or at UH events, which is why zombies sometimes will team up against a human and

Although the Humans versus Zombies event started off without the sponsoring of any clubs it eventually it got the approval of the Deans of Students office and is now a scheduled semesterly event | Image courtesy of Cougar Urban Gaming Society wait for them after class or chase them down on campus.

Emails are sent through the website to assign missions to both

zombies and humans. Each team gets an email about a place to meet with their team and a moderator to explain the mission. Missions

can be anything from scavenger hunts to “protecting the VIP,” in which one person is chosen to be protected by the humans and

targeted by the zombie.

“One of the things about playing HVZ is that I think it’s a great college game, like a social experience,” said biology senior David Kronenberger. “The whole goal is to socially exclude yourself and not care with a bunch of other people and make great friendships.”

Kronenberger has been the president of CUGS for three years and has seen many people establish friendships through HVZ. When it fi rst came to UH, it was not sponsored under any club and soon began to receive complaints by security. After a year and a half, it was approved by the Dean of Students and is now scheduled to be a regular activity every semester.

“It took forever and a lot of work; I didn’t think I would see a full game back by the time I was here, but we got it approved, and we got the full campus, so I’m just really glad it’s back,” Kronenberger said.

CUGS also hosts board game nights and other events throughout the semester. Students interested in CUGS are encouraged to visit their Facebook page by searching for Cougar Urban gaming Society. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Parisian artist work shines light on lighthouses Diana Nguyen Contributing writer

Zineb Sedira, a worldly artist born in Paris who has won awards in London and Paris, held her first solo exhibition in the United States Friday night at the Blaffer Art Museum.

Sedira’s “Lighthouse in the Sea of Time” consisted of photographs and six video installations originally commissioned for the 2011 Folkestone Triennial. The artist’s works document her journeys to two specific lighthouses in Algeria: Cap Caxine, near the capital, Algiers; and Cap Sigili, in the more remote region of Algeria called Kabylia. Sedira’s works capture aspects of her lighthouse experiences in a vast array of challenging angles.

“I found it to be very romantic.

I especially loved the video installations. The mood set a relaxed setting for what I’d imagine to be the perfect getaway date, full of

light breezes from the ocean and descending a flight of dramatic spiral staircases,” said creative writing junior Catherine Ha. “You wouldn’t imagine that from a lighthouse, I guess, and I’m sure the artist didn’t intend to make it romantic. But with the raindrops and soft lighting, the slow dissolving of the video clips and the close attention to details, I found it to be oddly cozy and romantic — yet that one scary Alfred Hitchcock movie also comes to mind,” Ha said.

While some viewers may have found light in the exhibition or even a romantic view, “Lighthouse in the Sea of Time” has a deep historical and arguably political background. The two lighthouses Sedira visited were both built and maintained by France when Algeria was a colonial outpost.

After the end of the Algerian War of Independence in 1962, they were then transferred to Algerian

control.

In two of her six video installations, Sedira portrays the story of a lighthouse keeper and his careful attention to visitor logbooks and technical equipment in the lighthouse archives.

One video, “The Life of a Lighthouse Keeper,” shows an interview with the lighthouse keeper, and the second, “A Museum of Traces,” consists of no sound but the noise of him typing visitors’ names into the logbook.

Photographs of pages of the logbooks, written in French and dating back to the 1960s, surround the walls, giving a deep look into the history of the lighthouses.

With “Lighthouse in the Sea of Time,” Sedira displays the subtle ways that monumental historical struggles may continue to echo today.

“I thought the artist’s usage of photography, video installation and lighthouse logging was

The lighthouses that are the center of Sediras work were constructed by the French and were given to Algeria upon independence. | IDiana Ngyugen/The Daily an innovative way to convey the story she was trying to tell,” said biology senior My Tran. “Each section of the exhibit was like a

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Volleyball earns first AAC loss The Daily Cougar News Services UH fell for the first time in American Athletic Conference play against Louisville in three sets (1925, 24-26, 16-25) Sunday afternoon at the Athletics/Alumni Center.

The Cougars (10-8, 3-1) led for the first half after set one, but Louisville (8-6, 4-0) tied the game six times, allowing them to take the lead at the end.

Freshman outside hitter Sarita Mikals led the way for the Cougars, recording her sixth double double of the season with 12 kills and 13 digs.

Louisville’s freshman outside hitter Maya McClendon had 15 kills and 16 digs against the Cougars.

Middle blocker Randi Ewing had 10 kills in 11 attempts against the Cougars, a .909 hitting percentage.

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he Cougars narrowly dropped a home conference matchup to the Cardinals 1-0. Although the UH defense didn’t allow a goal from Louisville’s potent offense for the first 45 minutes, their inability to score a goal of their own allowed the Cardinals to finally score the winning, and only, goal

of the game on Sunday at the the Carl Lewis Complex. — Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar

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Volunteer work The Cougars’ swimming team volunteered for the Special Olympics Texas at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on Sunday.

UH joined participants in mixedrelay teams. Following several races, the student athletes handed the spotlight back to the participants, serving as timers, coaches and escorts. “The event has grown to include so many more athletes and we’re so happy that the University, UH swimming and diving, the Campus Rec can offer our ability to help,� said head diving coach Jane Figueiredo.

Both Figueiredo and swimming coach Rich Murphy were honored by the Special Olympics Texas staff for their work before the meet got underway.

Two golfers finish in top 10 UH golfers James Ross, a redshirt senior, and Roman Robledo, a junior, each finished among the top 10 individual leaders to lead the Cougars on Sunday in the final round of the David Toms Intercollegiate.

Ross stroked a 1-under-par 71 Sunday to finish sixth at 216. Robledo fired a 72 to move into a tie for 10th at 218 on the 7,663-yard, par-72 course at the University Club.

As a team, the Cougars slipped to fifth with a two-day, 54-hole score of 882 — their first finish outside the top three this fall. Southeastern Louisiana won the team title with a score of 860 to finish 16 strokes in front of Iowa State. sports@thedailycougar.com