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With his bat, glove and feet, sophomore outfielder Kyle Survance has retained his Freshman All American form in his second season.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Issue 95, Volume 81
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Students discuss deferred action
Relocated beehive 7 years strong Staff writer
A beehive relocated from the walls of a campus building almost seven years ago has been hard at work maintaining plant life on and near the University ever since, even in the face of declining honeybee populations across the country. In November 2007, there was a rise in students complaining of bees in the Cullen College of Engineering. Once some of them claimed to have found honey on the walls, an inspection confirmed that there was a fully functioning hive of 100,000 bees in a wall of the building. In order to allow classes to continue normally while still maintaining
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the hive, the University hired the services of beekeeper Mike Knuckey to safely remove the hive, maintain it until it was again functioning and then relocate it to a forested area on campus. Knuckey did just that, carefully cutting the honeycomb free, relocating it to an artificial hive box and feeding the colony sugar water until it was producing honey of its own again. “The bee box has since been relocated back to campus,” Knuckey said. “You can find it near the south end in a wooded area just off of Cullen Boulevard.” The hive is now out of the way of pedestrians but close enough that bees will still travel to most of campus,
Trey Strange Staff writer
AIESEC is a student-run organization at UH that specializes in global leadership. It connects interested students with internships and volunteer opportunities abroad and is the world’s largest studentrun organization and exists in 124 countries. The organization was founded after World War II when individuals
The Graduate College of Social Work Hispanic Student Association, the Mexican American Studies Student Organization and the Youth Empowerment Alliance will host a clinic about applying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Room 115 of Leroy & Lucille Melcher Hall. Deferred action is “a discretionary grant of relief ” for undocumented students allowed by the Department of Homeland Security, according to immigrationequality. org. Eligible students are those who are less than 31 years old; came to the U.S. before the age of 16; have resided in the nation since June 2007; are in school or have a diploma or a GED; and have not been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or three consecutive misdemeanors. When approved, the DACA application allows a student to work, study and apply for a driver’s license for a renewable two-year period. Members of HSA, MASSO and YEA have arranged for attorneys to come to the clinic to aid students and their parents in the DACA application process. “For the people who will be attending our clinic, our ultimate goal for them is to get free, quality legal assistance and the empowerment that comes with filling out a DACA application, filing it and, hopefully, eventually getting them approved,” said MASSO
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DACA continues on page 3
A natural beehive found on campus in 2007 was relocated and is still part of the UH area’s ecosystem. | Jenna Frenzel/The Daily Cougar pollinating plants. It just so happens, however, that the original relocation of the hive coincided with the rise of a problem that we are still facing — a sharp drop
in the honeybee population. Engineering professor John Lienhard wrote a blog post two years after BEEHIVE continues on page 3
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Creating world leaders UH chapter of global organization seeks to share opportunities, send students abroad Trishna Buch Contributing writer
Leading the way Though UH lost its two starting cornerbacks to graduation, the team has a deep crop of replacements who are looking to step into the position. With some inexperience in the defensive backfield, the Cougars’ two starting safeties juniors Trevon Stewart (left) and Adrian McDonald (right) have taken a bigger leadership role. — Jimmy Moreland/The Daily Cougar