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American merchants lose as much as $190 billion per year from credit card fraud, much of it from online shopping, according to a Forbes report. Alumni William Gomez Jr. and Ripp Motion, along with UH student Oscar Gomez, have started a company, called Epic One, which aims to minimize credit card fraud. Epic One created a technology that will store and secure all credit card information on one card that can only be activated by a fingerprint in order to avoid, and possibly eliminate, credit card fraud. “The company has really evolved from an original idea that put your payment cards into the cloud and every user had one card that represented their cloud wallet,” said Epic One’s co-founder and CEO, William Gomez Jr. “When this concept was introduced to the
founders, it evolved into a credit card fraud solution. The inspiration really came from all the things being put into the cloud, and I asked, ‘Why not credit cards?’” Gomez graduated from UH with a degree in chemical engineering in 2009. At first, he didn’t see himself as an entrepreneur. “Personally, I had no desire to be an entrepreneur until my brother came up with a completely unrelated idea when we were at UH. At that point, I realized I wanted to contribute to society instead of just going to work every day,” Gomez said. His brother Oscar Gomez, who is currently attending UH, is no stranger to the world of entrepreneurship. “The story goes back to me getting into startups during my sophomore year (as) my brother was getting into his chemical engineering career at KBR,” said Oscar Gomez, a computer science BUSINESS continues on page 3
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care for the homeless. There are about 8,500 homeless individuals in the city. For those homeless who need to visit the emergency room or otherwise receive health care, high medical bills are a serious problem. “ We have to change that. Families are not able to take care of Emmett them because it is too expensive, so they end up in jail,” Emmett said. Emmett’s focus is to “get everyone preventive care and out of the emergency room and into medical homes.”
In an international collaboration between the University of Balochistan in Quetta, Pakistan, the University of Cincinnati and UH, the U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded a $451,000 grant to research the Chaman Fault in Pakistan, and improve earthquake prediction and mitigation. Associate geology professor Shuhab Khan is leading the U.S. division of the project, while Abdul Salam Khan of the University of Balochistan will lead the project from Pakistan. The project is in part of the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation Program, a 2012 initiative to encourage collaboration in science and technology between the two countries. “The U.S.-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Program is one of the highlights of the U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relationship. This opportunity will not only support joint U.S.-Pakistan research across a wide range of topics, but will also help bring the fruits of research into the hands of the private sector, increasing technology transfer opportunities and supporting broad-based economic growth in Pakistan,” said Pakistani Ambassador Richard Hoagland in a press release with the Pakistan Embassy. The Chaman Fault is a significant geological fault that runs more than 500 miles through Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is the largest fault in Central Asia, and several significant cities, such as
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UH alumni William Gomez Jr. and Ripp Motion, along with UH student Oscar Gomez, have brought their dream into reality through Epic One. | Fernando Castaldi/The Daily Cougar
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Coming out can be a cakewalk The National Coming Out Week Cake Walk on Monday in front of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library gathered support and raised awareness for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, letting them know they are not alone on campus. Aisha Bourderdaben/The Daily Cougar
The University Hilton was abuzz Friday with everything from obesity and mental health to Medicaid expansion and the recent Affordable Care Act at the Faculty Senate’s 15th Scholarship and Community Conference, “Greater Houston’s Health-Urban Healthcare in the 21st Century.” The conference featured a variety of speakers who shared their experiences and knowledge on Houston health. The focus was not just on what needs to be improved, but what the city and UH are currently doing to improve. Speakers included Mayor Annise Parker, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and President and Chancellor Renu Khator. Parker spoke about the importance of obtaining mental health
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CRIME REPORT The following is a partial report of campus crime between Sept. 21 and Friday. All information is selected from the files of the UH Department of Public Safety. Information or questions regarding the cases below should be directed to UHDPS at (713) 742-3333. Theft: Members of the volleyball team reported the theft of various items from the girls’ locker room in the Athletics/Alumni Center. The incident occurred between 1 p.m. Sept. 21 and 12:47 p.m. Oct. 1. The case is active.
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Fraud: A student reported she accepted a job from an unknown individual through emails, and the unknown individual sent the student a check to be deposited into her bank account. The checks were never deposited and determined to be fake. The incident occurred between 8 a.m. Sept. 26 and 4:11 p.m. Thursday. The case is active, pending new information. Theft: A faculty member reported the theft of a UH video camera and accessories from Charles F. McElhinney Hall. The incident occurred between 5:30 p.m. Sept. 30 and 10:22 a.m. Oct. 1. The case is active.
and 6:23 p.m. Wednesday. The case is inactive, pending new information. Indecent Exposure: An unknown individual was observed masturbating outside the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library. The individual was gone when police arrived and could not be located. The incident occurred between 10:30 and 11:05 p.m. Wednesday. The case is active. Traffic Offense: A staff member reported that someone struck and damaged her unattended vehicle in Lot 8A and failed to leave the information required by law. The incident occurred between 8:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday. The case is inactive, pending new information. Theft: A student reported her unattended and secured bicycle was stolen from the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center. The incident occurred between 4 and 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The case is active, pending new information.
Theft/Credit or Debit Card Abuse: A student reported that someone stole her wallet and made unauthorized transactions on her debit card. The incident occurred between 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. Friday. The case is active, pending new information.
Assault: A student reported having a physical altercation with her boyfriend at Cullen Oaks Apartments. The boyfriend was arrested and transported to Harris County Jail. The incident occurred between 5:15 and 5:25 p.m. Thursday. The case is cleared by arrest.
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Theft: A student reported that someone stole his unattended and unsecured laptop computer from Moody Towers. The incident occurred between 1:30 and 3:45 p.m. Friday. The case is inactive, pending new information.
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senior. Oscar said things started to come together when they were ready to build a prototype from an idea his brother had, which led to a sample application that simulates credit card transactions. William and Oscar met Epic One’s CMO, Ripp Motion, at a UH CEO meeting of aspiring entrepreneurs as the company’s wheels began to turn. “When we introduced the idea to Ripp, he instantly saw the potential
the company had and wanted to join since that day,” William said. Motion graduated from UH’s Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship with a degree in entrepreneurship and a second BBA in marketing. “(I’m) passionate about implementing marketing and business development strategies for technology startups,” Motion said. “(I’ve) worked for several business accelerators, including the University of Houston’s RED Labs and Houston Technology Center’s Ignition Program.” This month, Epic One has been invited to attend the 2013 Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland
alongside Tony Hawk for the Tony Hawk Foundation, the CEO of Evernote, representatives from Google Ventures, Prezi, PayPal, Wall Street Journal and UH alumnus Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress, according to the Summit’s website. The Web Summit is Europe’s largest technology-industry conference and is centered on internet technology. As one of 10 U.S. companies chosen to attend the Summit from a pool of 3,000 U.S. applicants, according to a press release, Epic One will be competing to win 500,000 euros ($676,000). news@thedailycougar.com
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Faith Foreman, assistant director at the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, discussed the state of public health in Houston. The top concern was obesity, as 65 percent of Houston adults are overweight and 35 percent of children are obese. Houston will partner with UH to establish diabetes centers, which will help fight the rise of diabetes the city has seen since 2002. One of those centers, the Diabetes Awareness and Wellness Network Third Ward Multi-Service Center has UH interns already serving the under-served. Foreman addressed the issue of lack of grocery stores in certain parts of Houston, colloquially called “food deserts.” The Food Desert Task Force will incentivize grocers to set up in low-income areas. Parker also discussed how they are implementing produce wagons to set up in food desert areas, giving access to fresh food to those who may otherwise go without. With the Affordable Care Act in effect, many of the conference attendees wanted to know how to shop for the best health plan. There are four different levels of
coverage: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. For example, a 27-yearold with an income of $25,000 on the lowest level, bronze, with a tax credit will pay $81 as a premium. “Working out in the community, we see many people who fall in the ‘donut hole,’ and I’m really concerned about their access to healthcare,” said Lance Bean, community relations specialist at Texas Children’s Health Plan. The donut hole refers to those who cannot afford to buy a plan under the new marketplace, yet who do not qualify for Medicaid. The city has begun knocking on doors to get people insured and answer any questions on the new healthcare reform. “So far, there have only been a couple of hundred calls to our call center,” said Benjamin Hernandez, an executive in public health administration at City Hall. Hernandez said he believes this number will increase in approximately a month once many get access to the website and information. The conference allowed Houston and UH professionals, community members and others to find ways to unite in reducing the amount of uninsured citizens. news@thedailycougar.com
Balochistan and Kabul, Afghanistan, lie near or even on it. “If we know how this fault is moving (over time), how fast it is moving, where it is moving, where it is slow and where it is not moving, that will give us understanding Khan of this fault, the nature of the fault, and based on that, we can predict
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where there will be tectonic activity, where there will be earthquakes,” Khan said. But the research will have other benefits. “In 2005, there was a larger earthquake in Cashmere, and that (led to) 70,000 people losing their lives and over a million people being displaced from their homes,” said University of Cincinnati geology professor Lewis Owen. “So if we can train Pakistani scientists to understand earthquake geology and do a more regional, large-scale view of the earthquake geology in Pakistan, along with detailed studies on the active faults,
it has the potential to aid in (helping the Pakistani community).” The research will be conducted by all three professors, including analyzing the fault through satellite technology and collecting samples of sand and rock from the fault line. Several University of Balochistan students will come to the U.S. to learn field techniques while training at the San Andreas Fault in California. The research will continue for the next several years, with results coming out continually along the way. news@thedailycougar.com
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couple weeks ago, a friend and I were going to grab a lunch that had long been in the works. Hours before, she called me, wondering if it was OK if she brought a friend. “Trust me,” she added, “she’s Cara really cool. She’s Smith funny and super religious.” Oh no, I thought to myself. I imagined a person who I couldn’t joke around with “off the cuff,” with whom I could never engage in an objective discourse on abortion. I pictured somebody closed-minded, uptight and indiscriminately judgmental. I’m a religious person, and a pretty devout one at that. It’s somewhat shocking, then, to know that a person who describes themselves as religious saw religion as something overwhelmingly judgmental, if only for a moment. Maybe she’s just going through a struggle, you might think to yourself. You might also
If organized religion wants to see lasting reform in their methodologies, it might be time to put methodology on the back burner. Being proponents of unconditional love, tolerance and openmindedness seems to have been shut out in lieu of discrimination.” Cara Smith, regarding how churches can make themselves more appealing to the younger generation
think that I’m finally starting to come to my senses with this whole “organized religion” rubbish, depending on your own spiritual beliefs. Maybe the way that the media perceives modern-day religion has started to affect the way that everybody views religion, especially those with a personal stake in it. If those who are religious are starting to perceive spirituality as negative, there’s little hope for the nonreligious to ever see it as something that isn’t overly critical and condemnatory. In an article on CNN Religion, columnist Rachel Evans summed up the major setbacks that keep religious entities away from the hearts of those they wish to reach. “Young adults perceived evangelical Christianity to be too political, too exclusive, old-fashioned and unconcerned with social justice and hostile towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people,” Evans said. “We want a truce between science and faith. We want to be known for what we stand for, not what we are against.” Electrical engineering junior Erik Van Aller expressed some reforms the church could benefit from. “From a Christian perspective, I believe our religious leaders need to not be condemning but loving ... Stop trying to start an argument with non-believers. Just show them grace and love. Be a friend to everyone you meet.” Nowhere is there mention of the boundless love, selflessness, and forgiveness that christianity is founded upon. The universal sentiment “Love God, love all others” doesn’t hold a candle to the inflammatory comments of a few radical outliers. These religious outliers wind up defining organized religion as homosexual-hating, science-
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denying, pleasure-rejecting stoics. With the large amount of press that contraceptives and gay marriage have gotten in recent years, our country has slowly developed a national stake in these fundamental issues. Organized religion seems to have been portrayed as the only one opposed to these ideals. In the eyes of the media and those that are exposed to the media, religion isn’t featured in a flattering light. What’s truly debilitating about this is the lack of acknowledgement that religious entities give to these concerns. Public proponents of religion seem to be digging themselves deeper into a hole of social ignorance. We remember Rick Perry’s cringe-worthy campaign ad in which he cited God as his reason for not supporting gays’ right to join the military. Then there was Daniel Heimbach, senior professor Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, who commented on gay marriage saying: “If marriage is radically redefined as a way of just affirming loving feelings of attraction, then equality will require allowing people who love dogs to marry dogs.” For leaders who are supposedly called to evangelism, they could not be disrespecting the masses any more horrifically. UH Cru Ministry Leader Franklin Dowdy expressed his thoughts on the erosion of religion as a whole and how this is placing spirituality under something of a more enlightened light. “It seems it’s cool to be spiritual, but not religious. Spiritual people are free thinkers, religious people have checklists and are hypocrites,” Dowdy said. When asked about a potential solution, Dowdy described a different type of church for those seeking love, not judgment.
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David Delgado// The Daily Cougar “The heart of this church breaks for those facing injustice in all parts of the world. This type of church can fundamentally disagree with people and still love them unconditionally,” Dowdy said. “This church, in all honesty, is not very religious.” True reform isn’t about adding a coffee shop in the fellowship hall and touting your worship band’s edgy skinny jeans. It’s not about trendier camp T-shirts and hiring a young pastor who wears thick-rimmed glasses and Oxford button-ups.
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If organized religion wants to see lasting reform in their methodologies, it might be time to put methodology on the back burner. Being proponents of unconditional love, tolerance and open-mindedness seems to have been shut out in lieu of discrimination. Clearly, this hasn’t served the church well in recent years. It might be time to bring light back to what really matters. Senior staff columnist Cara Smith is a communications junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com
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Jackson said they need to focus on the game at hand and not take any opponent for granted. “We can’t look too far ahead in the schedule, and we need to have our focus on one opponent at a time,” Jackson said. “If you overlook your opponent you’re playing, then that makes you real vulnerable to get surprised come game time.” The Cougars are no strangers when it comes to being upset by a team they were heavily favored against — in last season’s 30-13 loss against Texas State, UH was the 37-point favorite, according to Las Vegas Sports Books. “What we have done makes no difference, and where we are going to be in the future makes no difference,” Levine said. “It’s about our next opponent and what we have done lately. We’re focused on getting better, and Memphis has our undivided attention.”
After an American Athletic Conference premiere weekend at home, UH stands at 3-1 in conference play. After sweeping Cincinnati and being swept by Louisville, UH finds itself tied for third. “We learned a lot about what we need to take care of,” Platt said after the Louisville loss. “Most of it is just working in the present and not giving up that last play before moving to the next.” The Friday match against Cincinnati saw UH put on one of its more dominant offensive displays of the season, with freshman outside hitter and right side Sarita Mikals racking up a .500 hitting percentage while junior right side Cortney Warren hit for .368 with 11 kills. “It’s great to be out here and contributing,” Mikals said. “Being here at home is an amazing feeling.” Defensively, Cincinnati was limited to fewer than 16 points in the final two sets of the match, falling 25-13 and 25-15. Mikals, who also hit for her sixth double double of the season against Louisville, is a visible symbol of the immediate effect the new, younger players are having on the team. “I saw that a lot of the new and younger players took care of their jobs,” said senior defensive specialist Meredith Ware. “They didn’t fold under the pressure and stayed composed and kept fighting.” The Sunday match against Louisville saw what Platt noted as episodes of strong defense and a struggling offense. Blocked constantly at the net, UH struggled offensively, committing 10 hitting errors in the final set. Though Louisville dispatched UH in three sets, Platt said the team will go back to the drawing board on offense, using the loss as an early learning experience. “We made some adjustment, which I like to see, but offensively we needed to be able to do more,” Platt said.
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Staying in the moment Though many expect a win against Memphis, UH is not taking Saturday’s opponent lightly Andrew Valderas Assistant sports editor
Before the season began, some expected the Cougars to be in this position: undefeated at 4-0 in advance of the tough back end of the schedule. On Oct. 19, the Cougars will play Brigham Young University in what many believe will be UH’s toughest match so far. But the Cougars said they know they can’t overlook their opponent beforehand — this Saturday’s contest against Memphis (1-3), a game in which UH is a 10-point favorite, according to teamrankings. com. “That is something that definitely falls on our staff that we are informing our student athletes,” said head coach Tony Levine. “We are focused on being 1-0 at the end of this week and not concern ourselves with whom we’re playing next week or in November.” The Cougars were favored in their last game at UTSA; however,
they found themselves in a dogfight for the first three quarters before finally blowing the game open in the final quarter. The Cougars are coming off a bye and will have had two full weeks to prepare for the Tigers. Levine said it’s important for his team to keep its poise against whomever they’re playing that week. “That has really been something we have stressed going into the season. We have to keep (our team) focused one game at a time, and we are 100 percent focused on Memphis,” Levine said. “Everybody assumed we were going to beat UTSA, but after the game, somebody told me we were underdogs. We’ve got a tremendous amount of respect for Memphis.” Senior cornerback Zachary McMillian said the team is focused and needs to look at each game as if they’re starting with zero wins and losses. “Ever since I got here, we’ve done a really good job of just focusing on
SHUTTLES Get to BBVA UH is providing free transportation to BBVA stadium for UH’s contest against Memphis on Saturday. Students must RSVP before midnight tonight at uhcougars.com or in person at the Athletics Ticket Office. the game at hand and not looking ahead,” McMillian said. “If you don’t take it game by game, you do have a tendency to look ahead of (teams). We don’t do that here. We have that focus of just starting off 0-0 each week, and we focus on going 1-0 at the end of the week.” Memphis redshirt freshman quarterback Paxton Lynch is 6-foot6, weighs 225 pounds and can run well in the open field. He will pose a “big challenge in the secondary” with his physique and the ability to through the deep ball, McMillian said. Sophomore running back Ryan
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“The Beaux’ Stratagem” is a Restoration-era comedy that focuses on two penniless men that con rich women into marrying them by feigning gentility. | Courtesy of Pin Lim of Forest Photography
THEATRE
Play delivers without dull moments Amanda Hilow Staff writer
To summarize the UH School of Theatre and Dance’s latest production, “The Beaux’ Stratagem,” in one word would be impossible. The play isn’t about money, marriage or villainy, nor is it about love, lust or greed. Though the play written by George Farquhar flaunts all of these themes generously for a regular audience, it inspires a sense of pride in the well-read who understand the deeper meaning: To find happiness is to be true to yourself. In this Restoration-era comedy, partners in crime Tom Aimwell and Jack Archer enter the country town of Lichfield with a deceptive game in mind: To fund their extravagant lifestyle and bandage their currently penniless condition, they’ll con rich women into marrying them by feigning gentility. In each town, one friend disguises himself as gentleman, and the other as his servant. However, robbing the country folks of their excess riches proves more difficult than expected when Lichfield citizens seem to have more wit than the bourgeois
community the two men would have hoped for. After setting their sights on a rich doctor’s two daughters, Dorinda Bountiful and Kate Sullen, the not-so-put-together façade crumbles around them when “true love” rears its head — as it always does in comedies. This adaptation by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig, directed by Adam Noble, exhibits many, if not all, of the common characteristics of its genre. As one of the last comedies of manners — a term for the Restoration comedy, written and performed between 1660 and 1710 — the humor is dark and sexually explicit, the plot is bustling, the themes are topical and the patriarchy is, well, astonishing to the modern viewer. Unlike most works of this genre, the 1707 play demonstrates a subtle use of early feminism through satire — at least in today’s theaters, where the audience can blissfully believe that all its prided performance pioneers ignored the misogyny of their eras. What could be mistaken as a chauvinistic cynicism regarding marriage could also be Farquhar conveying the need for social equality between sexes.
“The roots of feminism began around this time, so in this play, we meet strong female characters, including Dorinda and Kate,” Noble said in a press release about the production. “They’re on par with their male counterparts as opposed to being damsels in distress.” A l t h o u g h t h e t ra n s i t i o n s between scenes was rough in the first act as the stage crew stumbled with the furniture, the School of Theatre and Dance got creative with the scene changes in the latter half of the play, learning the art of distraction to keep the audience entertained. Dull moments were rare in this play, and humor was bountiful, as the audience was kept laughing for the majority of the play’s two hours. Patrons are no doubt eagerly awaiting the School’s next production, “Blood Wedding,” which opens Oct. 25. “The Beaux’ Stratagem” will be performed again at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for students. For more information, please visit theatredance.uh.edu. arts@thedailycougar.com
“The Beaux’ Stratagem” will be playing its last show on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. at the Wortham Theater. | Courtesy of Pin Lim of Forest Photography
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LIFE+ARTS EVENTS
October gets painted pretty in pink Education about breast cancer vital for prevention Nora Olabi Senior staff writer
October has begun, so dig out that pink blouse, polo or accessory, because it’s that time of year: Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In support of breast cancer awareness, the Women’s Resource Center is hosting The Breast Cancer Charities of America to help educate men and women on the topic. Besides having a raffle, they passed out materials and consulted students about preventative measures and services Monday at the University Center Satellite. WRC Program Coordinator Malkia Hutchinson said she believes being aware is vital for cancer prevention. “I think a lot of young women disregard the messages. It’s important that they know what they’re doing now can affect their long-term health. Breast cancer can influence if someone has heart disease or pre-diabetes,� Hutchinson said. “Things that we do in our 20s and 30s can influence our long-term health.� BCCA executive director Erica Tullis said reaching out to people about treatment options and educating people on prevention tips is important. “Being able to help women really understand that breast cancer is treatable, preventable and curable through non-invasive means is my goal. There’s hope and options beyond surgery,� Tullis said on the BCCA website. “At
This month the Women’s Resource center is teaming up with The Breast Cancer Charities of America to spread the word about the risks of breast cancer and will be putting on different events.| Aisha Bouderdaben/The Daily Cougar BCCA, we are leading the way to integrated health and wellness in finding the cure to breast cancer.� BCCA will help students understand the effects of lifestyle choices, self-treatment and examination and what students can do now to build healthier bodies and, in turn, breasts. “We bring together organizations representing all health and social service disciplines
in the commitment to establish new and unprecedented levels of effectiveness in research, education, advocacy and support,� according to BCCA’s mission statement. Hutchinson said students should arrive at breast cancer informational sessions with an open mind and a lot of questions. The WRC is housed on the second floor of the University Center in room 279A.
They host several events throughout the semester as well as several regular events: Tuesday’s Cougar Conversations, Wednesday’s Movie Madness and Thursday’s Parenting Students Support Group. More information can be found at uh.edu/ wrc. arts@thedailycougar.com
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