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Back in the swing The Cougars expect to make the NCAA tournament with an experienced everyday lineup. The only uncertainty is in the pitching staff, which had to replace last season’s No. 1 starter.

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Sustaining the cycle Biology senior Casey Hall, top right, was out in the cold Tuesday afternoon promoting “Recycle Mania” on behalf of the Office of Sustainability. Students who took three pictures of the water bottle refill fountains, like economics senior Winston Savice, left, received a free water bottle.

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A celebration at UH’s Rio Grande Valley admissions office on Tuesday in McAllen underlined the new facility’s success in recruiting and enrolling prospective students, specifically Latinos, from southern Texas.

The new regional facility, which opened its doors in July 2013, aims to find potential students and connect them with the University by guiding them through all the necessary steps — including the financial aid process — in order for them to become a student. A ribboncutting ceremony was part of the celebration, followed by a reception at the Lone Star National Bank.

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Director of Student Recruitment Jeff Fuller said he is eager to unite RGV students to the UH campus in Houston and said that, as of July, UH-RGV has enrolled more than 100 students.

“We want to enroll, not just recruit, students from the Rio Grande Valley and see those numbers increase every year.

But we also want to make sure that students that are coming to University of Houston from that area are held at that same threshold of being college-ready,” Fuller said. “On a personal note, I myself am from Corpus Christi — so not too far away from the south Texas area — and I know what it’s like to leave home and go to the ADMISSION continues on page 3

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Laboratory helps ideas mature into businesses

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C. T. Bauer School of Business students are using RED Labs as an entrepreneurial space for innovative product and business start-up ideas to be grown and tested in a collaborative real-world trial environment.

Located inside Bauer, RED Labs turn ideas and raw passion into marketable products and its students into even more marketable people.

Computer science alumnus Robert Dale Smith is a model for what RED Labs is all about.

He started with an idea, known as “flinger.co,” at the first three-day startup conference — which RED Labs calls 3DS — in 2012. It went

and provide them with a workspace.

“I scout out who I believe are the best and most-qualified people in

Until recently, the UH veteran community voiced complaints that they had no real group or organization representing them on campus.

Political science major Robert Martinez, a United States Army veteran, worked with a small group of student veterans to change that by implementing the Student Veteran Association.

Martinez has taken the SVA under his wing and, as vice president, has big goals for the organization.

“There are over 2,000 veterans here, and there is almost no voice for us,” Martinez said. “My and the SVA’s mission

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The RED Labs space gives student entrepreneurs the chance to work together on their projects – all while making three credit hours. | Courtesy of the C.T. Bauer College of Business through a three-month process as part of RED Labs, and currently has more than 10,000 users.

Collaboration is a large part of what goes on in the RED Labs

workspace. RED Labs director Hesam Panahi, a management information systems professor, works with students to connect them to qualified mentors from outside the University

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FLASHBACK Cupid comes to campus Po’ boys might not be typical Valentine’s Day fare, but Gay Resource Services was serving up free kisses and $1.50 po’ boy sandwiches at a bake sale on Valentine’s Day in 1979.

Drama junior Paul Hager was decked out in a diaper, a wig and a “Free Kisses” heart on his chest as Cupid.

Gay student organizations had just begun to crop up in the late 1960s. The University’s current LGBT Resource Center opened in 2010 and focuses on people of all sexual orientations and genders.

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University of Houston.”

Representatives from both Texas senators’ offices attended and acknowledged the contributions that UH is doing in the Rio Grande Valley. Other attendees included UH President Renu Khator and UH Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Paula Myrick Short.

According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Latino population is projected to grow by at least 7.6 percent between 2012 and 2015; by 2019, Latinos will become the largest ethnic group in Texas. The University is designated as a Hispanicserving institution, which means that at least 20 percent of enrolled students are Hispanic or Latino. That number is expected to rise.

“We recognize and relish in the fact that we are the second-most ethnically diverse institution of higher education in the country and by far the most diverse institution of higher education in the South and in Texas,” Fuller said.

“Diversity is what sets the University of Houston apart. It’s what draws students to the campus, and it’s what makes students really connected to the campus right away.”

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the city that have experience in the area or a skill set that will be useful for the students, and I connect them,” Panahi said.

These aspects of RED Labs are concentrated into 3DS, which students describe as a “tech adrenaline rush.”

At the beginning of the conference, the 40 accepted students organize themselves into teams and are guided by mentors to create a product prototype to be pitched by the end of the weekend.

“I come from an engineering background, so I know how to build things, but when I was going into 3DS, I didn’t know anything about the business side of things,” said biomedical engineering senior Zakariyya Mughal.

Panahi reached out to other areas through the Computer Science Entrepreneurship Workshop and Startup Lab last fall.

Mughal said he would like to see students from other majors involved, especially those from engineering, computer science or other technology-based backgrounds.

Projects ranging from math games to syllabus generators to

According to UH’s Institutional Research, 26.9 percent of students who enrolled in Fall 2013 were Latino.

That’s an increase of 0.9 percent since 2012 and at least 2 percent since 2011.

Communications senior Erik Foster said he loves that UH is diverse, but he’s concerned that the University may be neglecting its advising duties back home.

“It’s good to have an admissions office in another part of the state to recruit other people to the University,” Foster said.

“But the University should first focus on taking care of the students here. They need to do more here.” news@thedailycougar.com

The new admissions office in the Rio Grande Valley hopes to bring new students from across Texas – especially Latino students – to the University. | Izmail Glosson/The Daily Cougar

wearable computers were part of the 2012 conference.

Management information systems alumnus Bryant Pham was a part of an education-oriented math game, similar to “Words With Friends,” called “Duel Academy.”

“Everything you need to make an idea come to life and create a prototype for a business is right at your fingertips,” Pham said.

Students like Pham and Mughal, who attended last year’s 3DS, say they have taken away many useful life skills.

“My 3DS experience became a very strong talking point in job interviews,” Pham said.

Mughai said he has a better understanding of how to give his products a competitive marketing advantage.

“This entire initiative is supported by the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship,” Panahi said.

RED Labs and 3DS are growing, thanks to the work of Panahi. “ Pa na h i’s w o rk i s h e l p i ng students become more businessminded and, most importantly, driving innovation,” Pham said.

“He is a huge enabler of the tech entrepreneurship scene at UH, and Houston is really showing students a new career avenue.”

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is to get more student veterans involved in the community and also to be aware of their benefits.”

Martinez and the SVA hope to implement a scholarship program specific to the veteran community with its own set of criteria.

They hope that this will prove to be a stepping stone in the nationwide improvement of how universities identify and reach out to the veterans that attend their campuses.

“An overall goal of the SVA is to have an actual scholarship program for the SVA. The advisory team will develop the criteria, and we hope that this will offer some assistance to veterans who need it,” Martinez said.

The advisory team is led by Lauren Bradberry, also an Army veteran and a former behavioral health specialist, who has the task of keeping the SVA within the mandates that student organizations must follow.

“One of my jobs is to make sure the SVA stays within the guidelines of student organizations as well as with the national guidelines of the SVA,” Bradberry said.

“I give guidance for the veteran student body as a whole and connect

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the SVA with resources within the community and nationwide.”

Also part of the SVA is a Veterans Affairs representative, Ralph Harrison.

A newly adopted member to the staff of UH’s Veterans Services office, he will help SVA connect with the VA. Harrison is an Air Force veteran who has an extensive background in helping veterans transition into civilian life and the pursuit of higher education.

“My former title is veterans’ success on campus counselor,” Harrison said.

“I, along with three other counselors in the region, have been adopted to add further help (to) educate the veteran community of the variety of benefits sets that the VA offers. I hope to eventually institute a pre-enrollment query of all student veterans on campus to be able to reach out to them as they come to UH.” The SVA is still in its early stages, and there is much to do in structuring and making the organization legitimate with the help of Bradberry and Harrison.

“We are in the structural phase,” Martinez said.

“We need to plan, and currently we are writing our constitution and bylaws, trying to get those correct and in line.”

The SVA holds meetings at 6:30 p.m.

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UH’s successes spell the end for Rice’s reign

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espect is hard to gain. The cliché of having to give respect to get it comes into play when talking about UH. Houston has been continually lacking in respect for years now.

Unfortunately, UH has consistently been ignored as a valued university — until now.

Kelly Three years Schafler after being awarded with the title of Tier One research status in January 2011, we are beginning to gain some respect within the city of Houston.

Located in a city with multiple universities, UH sometimes gets overshadowed by others. The university that casts one of the largest shadows is Rice University.

Rice: the Goliath to our David, the Broncos to our Seahawks and the Bayou to our Bucket. Yes, I am making UH the victorious one in this analogy.

Rice often gains attention from outsiders by being considered a sort of Ivy League college of Texas, a proverbial Harvard of the South. However, UH should not be forgotten.

Despite the fact that Rice often stands in front of UH, preventing the world from seeing our potential, our university is beginning to make an entrance onto lists that highlight what we have to offer.

The most recent list that UH has graced is the Princeton Review’s list of the nation’s 150 “Best Value Colleges,” while Rice has dropped off the Top 10 list.

Though the space between UH and Rice is still notable, it’s interesting seeing Rice taken down a peg.

The Princeton Review reported that this list is compiled from surveying 2,000 universities in the 2012-2013 school year. These surveys take academics, cost and financial aid awards into account.

With great pride, UH sits in the top 150 of this prestigious list. Also, not only is UH joining the list for the fourth time, it is one of five schools to

be featured on this list from Texas.

Houston Culture Map said Rice’s qualifications for the Top 10 haven’t diminished, but they haven’t improved, either. This fact has caused other schools to gain traction instead of Rice.

The Houston Chronicle showed that UH has recently been added to another list.

In 2013, UH was added to the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of best colleges. It sits at No. 184 of 199. Once again, while this may seem on the lower end, UH holds this ranking above thousands of other universities.

These rankings prove that UH is not stagnant. It is striving toward greatness and is moving up the ladder to gain respect.

In addition, another article from U.S. News and World Report showed that UH is No. 48 of 100 on the list of Top 2013 Law School Rankings.

A small victory is that Rice is not even on that list.

UH is proud of its Tier One research status and is constantly doing things to better the college community, further proving why we are Tier One. Rice seems to be slowly creeping further down the lists, which makes one dream of a future when UH may pass Rice in rankings.

In regard to the cost of tuition, it is difficult to compare, mostly because Rice is a private university and UH is a public university, however, if one is purely judging on price, UH is considerably cheaper.

And while I often joke that attending UH costs an arm, leg and a kidney, it seems to cost an arm, leg, kidney and part of one’s liver at Rice.

When it comes down to it, I don’t go to Rice — I go to UH. I love my school and am proud to be a Cougar.

Though UH does not receive the same type of recognition as Rice, there is no doubt that UH is still a great school and should be respected as one.

Senior staff columnist Kelly Schafler is a print journalism junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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Cougars look to tie up their loose ends With a proven everyday lineup, starting rotation key to making NCAA bid Matt Bodiford Staff writer

The start of this year’s baseball season is days away, and the Cougars will take the field with a lot of expectations. The program is looking to make an NCAA tournament run for the first time since 2008.

Head coach Todd Whitting has almost every question answered: the lineup will be a commodity with several returners, but the pitching remains one of the final questions.

Last season UH dominated the mound when Austin Pruitt was penciled in as a starter. Now with Pruitt making his name in the MLB, it has left a huge void as to who will become the ace.

Whitting has his rotation set for opening weekend. Junior Aaron Garza will be the opening day starter.

Sophomore Jake Lemoine will throw Saturday, and sophomore Jared West will take the mound Sunday. However, Whitting said the rotation won’t be permanent for the entire season.

“We’re going to mix and match with Garza and Lemoine this season,” Whitting said. “Depending on what we see

With veteran catcher Caleb Barker, who appeared in 57 of the Cougars’ 58 games last season, the Cougars believe they have a steady senior to help manage a slightly unproven pitching staff learning to replace last year’s ace, Austin Pruitt, who is playing professionally now. | Caitlin Hilton/The Daily Cougar throughout the weeks, that combination could change.”

The bullpen has a familiar face with senior Chase Wellbrock, who recorded a team-high 11 saves last year and allowed only one run after the seventh inning last year. But uncertainty still remains as to who will be the bridge from the starting rotation to Wellbrock.

The early candidates in the bullpen

Russian roulette are names familiar and new. Tyler Ford will be seen a lot this season, because of his dependability and left-handedness. Newcomers like sophomore Bubba Maxwell and junior Taylor Cobb — both junior college transfers — could find themselves in the relief, mid-week role.

Whitting spoke highly of Cobb and Robinson.

“When you add guys like (them) to the mix, along with numerous others, it’ll help. This pitching staff has a lot more depth than it has in the past,” Whitting said. “We’ve had to string this pitching staff together in the past couple of years due to injuries and the MLB draft. I think we have a good weekend rotation, but we have options in the middle this year.”

For the Cougars to reach their goal of making the NCAA tournament, they will need everyone to step up.

UH is comfortable on offense, but the pitching staff must go out each night and perform at a high level. If it does, the team can expect to be in a NCAA regional in May. sports@thedailycougar.com

SOFTBALL

UH aims for College World Series Sean Alder Staff writer

On the heels of their third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance and with a solid core of returners, the Cougars believe they are bound for bigger accomplishments.

Head coach Kyla Holas said the Cougars have “taken it personal” that they haven’t reached the College World Series and, after 41 wins, look to make the leap to softball’s biggest stage.

“It isn’t just something we say every day, but it’s a mentality and something we’ve all committed to,” said redshirt junior Sydney Gerbracht.

With some essential returning talent and some key newcomers, the Cougars will look to get off to a good start. Their season begins Friday with the Houston Classic, where Holas anticipates a strong showing.

“We’ve increased their conditioning, and they’re way more balanced,

KEY COOGS Who: Senior catcher Haley Outon Why: The reigning Conference

USA player is primed for a strong senior year.

Who: Sophomore outfielder

Katie St. Pierre Why: In her first season St.

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had a 21-game hitting

streak, a UH record.

confident, and knowledgeable,” Holas said. “The girls have also focused on being leaders on and off the field by constantly helping each other out.”

The goal for the team in 2014 is to surpass its 41-win 2013 season, and with “bound” as their motto, the players are taking on the challenge.

Senior Deidre Outon, as well as Gerbracht, said the key to the team’s success this year is going to be working together.

“We have to give 100 percent every

day and do what we know how to do,” Outon said.

The biggest obstacle for the team this year, however, could be the switch from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference.

“We were so good at knowing our opponents in C-USA, and now we have a lot of different opponents that we don’t know much about,” Holas said.

“The biggest thing is going to be getting past it and just showing up and doing the best that we can do.”

Holas has been working the team hard during the offseason and preseason, and she expects that their work will pay off this year.

“The fans can expect to see a faster team on the field this year,” Holas said.

“This is the most athletic team we’ve ever had. You’re going to see some big plays, strong arms and home runs this year.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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Located in the Hilton UH, Barron’s Restaurant opened on Tuesday with a new spring menu. Hotel and restaurant management students create and run the restaurant entirely to understand the ins and outs of managing a restaurant. Barron’s is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Jenna Frenzel/The Daily Cougar

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Cooking up quality Students create delicious items for new spring menu at campus restaurant BoJanay Posey Staff writer

Barron’s Restaurant opened for the spring semester Tuesday at lunchtime.

Located between the Hilton UH, Moody Towers and neighboring Cougar Grounds, it’s one of the only two student-run cafes at UH. Everyone — service staff, cooks, managers — is a hotel and restaurant management student because Barron’s Restaurant is a combination of two courses, Foods 2 and Advanced Foods. All HRM students are required to take both, so every semester, the restaurant opens with slightly different faces.

Kristi Baker, the courses’ instructor since 2012, says the course gives HRM students hands-on experience in every aspect of the restaurant scene.

The Foods 2 students rotate weekly between being servers, cooks and hosts, while the advanced students rotate manager positions.

“By working in Barron’s, students get a real-life perspective of how a restaurant runs. They also get a better understanding of what

is expected by the guests as well as what is being done in the industry,” Baker said.

Along with the changing staff, the menu sees a few changes every semester.

This semester’s new additions are chicken tossed in buffalo sauce on Texas toast, an appetizer sampler and a few desserts, which — along with the soups — rotate every week.

Also, specials will be added to the menu after the first week.

The everyday prices are low, and all items on the menu are less than $8. The six-sliced pizzas that are made in-house are only $7.50.

Michael Gullo, a graduate student who worked at Barron’s two years ago as a Foods 2 student, will be a manager this semester.

Gullo said Barron’s is like the campus’ five-star restaurant because of the service and the fact that most of the food — excluding items such as ice cream — is made in-house, all fresh and made-to-order.

“They try to treat this like a restaurant. They go above and beyond.

The waiters ask if you’ve been here

before and will follow up on stuff like that and make it like a real restaurant experience,” Gullo said. “It’s personalized service. You feel like you’re getting taken care of.”

Jesse Nagelberg, a sophomore Foods 2 student who started his own catering company in New Jersey, said he’s excited to see this side of food service.

“It’s one of the reasons I chose the Hilton College in the first place — because it’s really, really handson, and this is just another aspect of that,” Nagelberg said.

“We have these really incredible manuals that teach us everything we have to do, but it’s really just from experience. You can practice a hundred times in your head, but it’s nothing to interacting with the guests in real life.”

Barron’s is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays to Fridays until April 11. To get the scoop on all things Barron’s, find the restaurant on its Facebook, Twitter, Vine and Instagram pages, which are all run by the students. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Traditional African recipe exposes culture Diana Nguyen

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The Council of Ethnic Organizations hosted an African cuisine cooking class Tuesday in the University Center Ballroom to give students a taste of different cultures.

Participating students sliced up bananas that CEO members then sautéed and fried. Spices made from ginger, lime juice and cayenne pepper were available to add on.

Liberal arts freshman Jacob Roman said it brought him new ideas of mixing spices with certain foods.

“I heard about this event seeing a poster on my way going to class coming out of Cougar Village,” Roman said. “It’s kind of neat. I never thought of seasoning a plantain with cayenne pepper.”

Political science senior Celeste Herron liked the experience of interacting with her peers.

“The most interesting part of it was meeting new people from various majors,” Herron said. “I’m normally surrounded by poli-science people,

so it was interesting to learn about the different majors on campus. I came in very hungry, and I like spicy food, so this was perfect for it.”

The plantain-inspired dish started when CEO assistant director Jessica Luong, an accounting and management information systems senior, searched the Internet for “quick-tomake African foods.”

Most of the search results were desserts that required refrigeration overnight or meals that would take a long time. There were starches and meat dishes that Luong felt were too time-consuming. She hoped for something simpler.

The idea of using plantains was inspired by Luong’s trip to Belize.

She boarded a boat tour to a miniature remote island, where she had the lucky chance to enjoy a meal cooked by the island’s owner.

Biology freshman Eloho Egbi, who was born in Nigeria, learned about the cooking class through a flyer.

“It’s just like the one we had at home. The ones at home are a bit

The Council of Ethnic Organizations taught students explored African culture by learning how to make a traditional snack, plantain chips, on Tuesday afternoon in the UC Ballroom. | Diana Nguyen/The Daily Cougar more salty. We sprinkle it with salt before we fry it. I personally like the home version better. We don’t use spices like cayenne pepper. We eat plantains more as a side,” Egbi said.

“We actually call it dodo. There’s a drier kind that we often eat, which are basically plantain chips. I might join

CEO to learn about new cultures and hopefully try out more diverse dishes.

I like having events that remind me of home.”

Kinesiology freshman Jimmy Le liked the notion that dishes around the world shared common ingredients.

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“There’s a Vietnamese dessert dish of tapioca pudding which also uses bananas,” Le said. “It’s fun to see how different cultures have almost similar dishes.”

Hotel and restaurant management sophomore Phina Uzowulu, who was familiar with the dish, shared the differences between the Americanized version and her version at home.

“At home, we have a dip instead of seasoning. There’s a certain herb grown in Africa that we use, then we grind that up, grind up ham, and we season it and put oil together to make the dip.”

Uzowulu, who helped coordinate the event, said she feels food helps connect cultures.

“Food is the universal language,” Uzowulu said. “When you like a taste, you like a taste. Whether it’s from Korea or Africa, people are still going to enjoy that taste. I hope in the future we get more people to come to the cooking events.” arts@thedailycougar.com