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Cougars hire former Rockets coach Hofheinz Pavilion.

Sampson makes his collegiate return for the first time since 2008 UH has announced former Rockets assistant coach Kelvin Sampson will after impermissible and excessive telebecome the next men’s basketball phone calls and text messages led to a five-year show-cause penalty. A 2008 coach.

Sampson will be introduced at a 3 NCAA report that charged him with

BY THE NUMBERS: p.m. press conference Thursday inside five major violations led him to leave

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Indiana before the end of his second season. The violations extended from his tenure at Oklahoma.

Sampson, however, is a proven winner. He led Oklahoma to the NCAA tournament in 11 of his 12 seasons in Norman, including the Final Four in 2002 and Elite Eight in 2003, and he

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had 18 consecutive winning seasons.

“Coach Sampson is committed to leading a first-class program in all areas and is excited to return to the college game,” said athletics director Mack Rhoades. sports@thedailycougar.com

THE SAMPSON FILE History of success New UH head coach Kelvin Sampson’s teams competed at a high level during his last two collegiate stops.

Oklahoma: He led the Sooners to the NCAA tournament for 11 of his 12 seasons in Norman.

Indiana: While there, the Hoosiers had two 20-win season, but NCAA sanctions for excessive phone calls to recruits forced him to resign.

While UH has a reputation of being the second-most diverse campus in the nation, the University is struggling to make diversity in its faculty mirror that o Students MAIN CAMPUSAfrican American - 10.7% Asian American - 19.4% SGA Hawaiian/Pacific Islander - 0.2% Hispanic – 25.8% With a reputation of being the second-most diverse campus in International – 9.4% the nation, the University is striving to make diversity in its facMultiracial – 2.8% ulty mirror that of its students. Fall 2013 Institutional Research Native American – 0.2% data of UH students show no one race is a majority.

Unknown – 0.8% White - 30.7% Senate introduces *Information from UH Institutional Report Channler K. Hill International

Admins strive to diversify faculty Editor in chief

Whether UH will see a time when its faculty’s ethnicities will reflect those of the students is not the question; it’s when.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, which the University once heavily relied on to post available academia positions, is no longer a main resource in the recruitment of diverse faculty, but a tool that ­— in collaboration with Hispanic, AsianAmerican, African-American and Native American publications — ­ will help diversify professors.

“But it’s not targeted. (The Chronicle of Higher Education) doesn’t target specific kinds of people … but you can target your recruitment by frankly linking up to some publications that are very specific and that are read by different kinds of people, and that is what we’re doing more and more,” said Rick Olenchak, associate provost for faculty development and faculty affairs.

An available employment opportunity, executive director for faculty engagement and development, is one that Olenchak said is being posted in six publications.

A new position he created within his office, an assistant provost for faculty recruitment, retention, equity and diversity, was approved

by Provost Paula Short and President Renu Khator. It will also be posted in multiple locations.

“Do we have a foolproof plan?

No. But I’m going to tell you that I think we’re engaging in a really strategic kind of way that we never have on campus, at least not since I’ve been here,” Olenchak said.

According to the job description, some of the tasks for the assistant provost for faculty recruitment will be to design and implement a needs assessment and then a multi-year strategic plan for addressing campus issues related to recruitment, retention, equity and faculty diversity and contribute to planning and action

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A right to choose

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conducted by activist and playwright Eve Ensler. WRC director Beverly McPhail said the performance is important, as many women are still uncomfortable with their bodies and sexualities. “ This performance is ver y inspiring and starts an important conversation and shares a range

In the first meeting of the 51st administration of the Student Government Association, newly elected and appointed student leaders heard the introduction of the Josephine Tittsworth Act, which calls upon the University to expand the formal rights of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The Josephine Tittsworth Act asks the University to “fulfill its existing nondiscrimination policy (of the UH Student Handbook)” in regards to LGBT students.

The bill seeks to acknowledge that “gender expression is the external characteristics presented by an individual such as masculine or feminine features displayed in mannerisms, speech, social environments or attire,” and to formally acknowledge “the terms, gender identity and gender expression represented trans, transgender and gender-nonconforming students, faculty and staff” on all University documentation.

“Honestly, this is a freedom of speech issue. It allows people to choose which box to check. Over the past few weeks, people had unfortunately misinterpreted (the bill). This bill is about respect and tolerance on this campus,” said newly elected SGA President Charles Haston.

College of Liberal Arts and

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that will enable search committees to develop diverse pools of candidates for faculty positions.

To improve the ratio of minority professors, Richard Baker, the

assistant vice chancellor and vice president of Equal Employment and Opportunity Services, said the DIVERSITY continues on page 11

EVENTS

Play to share real stories of women’s sexuality Maritza Rodriguez Staff writer

Hosted by the Women’s Resource Center, “The Vagina Monologues” will share real stories of women’s experiences with their bodies and sexuality on Thursday evening. | Courtesy of Beverly McPhail

The Women’s Resource Center will present “The Vagina Monologues” on Thursday at the UC Auditorium. This will be the fourth year the organization hosts the theatrical production.

The monologues are based on interviews with real women

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CALENDAR Today Reading: The Honors College will host readings from writers John Harvey and Peter Hyland as part of its First Thursday Readings series from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Honors College Commons.

Lecture: The Center for Environment, Energy & Natural Resources will host University of Calgary professor and graduate program director Nigel Bankes as part of its Spring 2014 EENR Speaker Series from noon to 1 p.m. in the UH Law Center, Room 209 BLB. Production: The Women’s Resource Center will present “The Vagina Monologues,” a production exploring real women’s ideas about intimacy, at 7 p.m. in the University Center Theater.

Friday Arts: The Center for Arts Leadership will host a Leadership in the Arts Summit to answer the question “What does it take to be a 21stcentury arts community?” The summit will be held from 12:30 to 6 p.m. at the Athletics/Alumni Center.

Arts: The School of Art will present its MFA candidates to the public in the 36th Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition from 6 to 9 p.m. in the School of Art. Production: “Cold Sassy Tree,” an opera that glimpses into the life of a small, Southern town in 1900, will

premiere from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera Center.

Saturday Clinic: The Mexican American Studies Student Association, the Youth Empowerment Alliance and the Graduate College of Social Work Hispanic Student Organization will host a clinic for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals for undocumented students from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Melcher Hall, Room 115.

Lecture: Christian Science Church Houston will host a spiritual journey titled “Love’s Divine Adventure,” featuring Christian Science practitioner Nate Frederick, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the University Center Theater.

Food: The Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management will host the 41st annual student-planned Gourmet Night to showcase HRM students’ hospitality skills from 6 to 11 p.m. at the UH Hilton.

Sunday Business: The Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship will host 3-Day Startup Final Pitches, during which participants will deliver prototypes and investor pitches for their 3DS projects from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Classroom and Business Building, Room 330.

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FACULTY

Students learn stress management strategies Trishna Buch, Sonia Zuniga Contributing writers

Busy students often find themselves comparing to each other how little sleep they’ve gotten, how busy their lives are with work and studies and how stressed they are. Cougars are getting their fuel from Starbucks or energy drinks, rather than a good night’s rest.

One in four students suffer intensely from stress and anxiety on a daily basis, according to the Associated Press. Counseling and Psychological Services hosted a 10 Ways to Cope with Stress and Anxiety workshop that dealt with helping students with this issue in Student Service Center 1. The talk was led by Angela Smith, a practicum student in CAPS and a doctoral in clinical psychology.

According to the presentation given in the workshop, stress is “an emotional and/or physical tension which results from challenging circumstances.”

“School definitely stresses me out,” said mathematical biology junior Laura Ramirez. “My grades and activities determine whether I get into medical school or not, and I feel like I’m under pressure to not let my family down.

They depend on my success, so disappointment isn’t a big option for me.”

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Social Sciences senator James Lee explained the real-world effects the bill would have on students who don’t identify with binary gender labels.

Often, a transgender student “who goes by the name of Robert will be ‘outed’ in class when his professor calls him Amy during roll call,” essentially announcing to the class that the student wasn’t born as the gender he or she identifies with.

The bill cited “high rates of harassment, physical violence and sexual assaults” as a result of failing to formally acknowledge non-binary and transgender identities.

“This bill will translate into people being open with their identity,” said Tanzeem Chowdhury, former undergraduate-at-large senator.

“I think it would create a safer campus. Currently, UH is the second-most diverse campus in the nation. We’re always making progress in acceptance, and this would be a strong move forward — it would create a safer campus not only for members of the LGBT community, but for the entire student body.”

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Others find everyday activities to be disturbing, like geologist sophomore Ashley Boyd, who came to the workshop with her husband, finance junior Brandon Boyd.

“I’m very easily distracted since I have ADHD, and regular things in life like traffic really sets me off,” Ashley Boyd said. “I’m avoiding driving around this campus itself. I make my husband drive instead; he always does it anyways.”

But not all stress is negative.

“Stress normally has a negative connotation,” Smith said. “But positive stress can be energizing and motivating.”

Stress can manifest itself physically and mentally, with symptoms including shortness of breath, sleeping and eating problems, headaches, anger, anxiety and depression. Luckily, Smith said, there is one rule to remember when caught in a stressful situation.

“In order to make the situation easier to handle, tell yourself, ‘There is nothing I can do to change the situation,’” Smith said. “Adopting a self-compassionate stance toward yourself will help you better deal with your struggle.”

There are a number of ways to

the Josephine Tittsworth Act will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the SGA Senate Chambers in the University Center North.

Also in the first meeting of his administration, Haston also made the first appointment of his administration when the SGA Senate and he unanimously appointed Leo Mata, who formerly worked on Haston’s REDvolution presidential campaign, to chief of staff in the SGA Cabinet.

“I’ve known Leo for a while, and if you were here on campus, you’ve seen Leo’s ability to handle chaos.

His leadership and his other experiences show what Leo can do,” Lee said.

Haston also announced he had hired former House of Red presidential candidate Andrea Segovia as deputy public relations officer.

She will deal primarily with bolstering SGA’s visibility and student outreach efforts.

“One of the things that we’re going to be doing is (setting up tables) at the PGH, really pushing ImproveUH for our student body and making sure that we have senators out there making this organization extremely visible at football games and around campus,” Haston said.

SGA also unanimously passed a resolution in support of human

cope with anxiety and stress, but one of the most useful tools is confronting the issue. According to the presentation given in the workshop, “the main response to anxiety is avoidance.” However, tackling the situation head-on and accepting what can’t be changed combats these feelings of stress.

Finding out what triggers their anxiety and keeping things in perspective will also benefit in helping people cope with their stress and anxiety. Good health, exercise and a regular sleep cycle can also alleviate stress.

While stress can be caused by a number of factors, anxiety is a trait that can be instilled in an individual from a young age. Anxiety is a normal reaction; everybody gets anxious about a topic from time to time, but this anxiety becomes problematic when it gets in the way of one’s daily functioning.

“It’s important to be organized,” said chemical engineering junior Lizzeth Jones. “It’s also important to make time for a hobby that you enjoy and that relaxes you.”

Creative writing senior Alexandra Zubrick said it helps to divide your workload.

“Breaking your work down into manageable bites really helps,” Zubrick

Time management can help to proactively deal with negative stress. But self acceptance can be a healthy reaction. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar said. “Focusing on a specific task also helps reduce panic. Keep it smallpicture, not ‘I have to do everything.’”

Smith had some final thoughts of her own.

“Rather than judging yourself, you have to recognize that we’re all human

and that we’re all in this together,” she said. “It’s important to try to expect and resolve the situation ahead of time, so when the event happens, you are not freaking out.” news@thedailycougar.com

Student Government Association President Charles Haston, center, convened his first Senate meeting since his inauguration this past Friday. The Senate brought forth a University bill that addressed gender identification and a resolution that supports the people of Ukraine and Venezuela. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar rights in Venezuela, Ukraine and “all affected students at the University of Houston.”

SGAR51001 addresses the “recent events in Venezuela and Ukraine, characterized by protests expressing deep social and economic discontent carried upon by civic and student population alike,” expressing that

such events have “drawn the concern of the worldwide community.”

Bauer Senator and Sigma Nu member Randall Williams was also unanimously appointed to director of finance in the SGA Cabinet.

Senator for the College of Engineering Shaun Smith was elected and sworn in as the speaker of the

Senate, beating 50th speaker of the Senate Sebastian Agudelo and CL ASS senator Clement AghoOtoghile for the position. Pooja Magadi, former C.T. Bauer College of Business Senator, was also appointed to her former Senate seat. news@thedailycougar.com

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SAFETY

Active Shooter Prevention expects the unexpected

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n a daily basis, worldwide crises are broadcast for everyone to see, creating a small sense of impending doom while somehow managing to keep a bubble of happiness surrounding us.

We empathize with people who suffer from the catastrophes of the world, but we hardly ever imagKelly ine the possibility Schafler of being in that position ourselves.

However, it makes sense that we are under this shelter of denial. We are told from a young age to be prepared for anything, but it’s not until we are older that we actually begin to understand what “anything” is.

In elementary school, we had to be prepared with crayons and glue sticks; in middle school, we had to be prepared with map pencils and rulers; in high school, we had to be prepared with pens and Scantrons.

Now that we are considered adults, we realize that there is more we need to be prepared for. We need to be prepared for all levels of the unknown by being ready for anything life throws our way — including the things we hope we would never have to be faced with.

One particular thing everyone hopes they will never have to face is a school shooting. While the likelihood of a school shooting taking place is minimal, it still does

The presentation uses the analogy of being struck by lightning to describe being involved in an active-shooter event, in that it is very unlikely but highly impactful when it does occur.”

Lt. Richard Brenner, on the effect and aftermath of being involved in an active-shooter situation

happen.

According to the Crime Prevention Research Center website, there was an average decrease in nongang, non-suicide on-campus school firearm deaths since 1992.

Overall, the CPRC did report that shooting statistics have decreased, but the evident spike in the 2012-13 year causes some worry.

Here at UH, we have access to a program by UH Department of Public Safety called Active Shooter Prevention. Through this program, students, groups and teachers can learn how to react properly to school or workplace violence.

Lieutenant Richard Brenner, the training coordinator of Active Shooter Prevention, came to the department in 1995, bringing this program to the University with him.

On the UH Active Shooter Provention website, a video titled “Shots Fired” explains how to react if shots are fired in the workplace or on campus and also how to take the active-shooter training with Brenner.

“The purpose of the Shots Fired presentation and our active-shooter training in general is to provide guidance for surviving an active-shooter situation,” Brenner said. “The presentation uses the analogy of being struck by lightning to describe being involved in an active-shooter event, in that it is very unlikely but highly impactful when it does occur.”

The “Shots Fired” video, beginning with the startling sounds of multiple gunshots, goes into the survival mindset that students must have in order to act accordingly.

The concepts shown in the video are simple: get out, hide out or take out. Get out: Can you safely escape?

Hide out: Is there a good place to hide? Take out: Will you take out the shooter?

The video suggests to decide how to act as a group. If you are in a classroom and gunshots are heard, decide what action to take and remain alert.

During the presentation, participants are taught to have a survival mindset so they would be able to

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The thought that something tragic can happen quickly without warning is unsettling, and Brenner said that because these situations occur quickly, police often aren’t able to arrive before it ends.

In January, CNN reported that the number of active shooter events has increased from about five a year prior to 2009 to 15 in 2013, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center — affirming the report of the CPRC. After tragedies like those at Sandy Hook Elementary or Aurora, Colo., Active Shooter Prevention tries to highlight the information on the website so viewers will have easier access to information.

The reality is that a mass shooting can happen anywhere, so every second counts in order to act quickly and with purpose.

Furthermore, with the allowance

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of concealed handgun licenses on campuses being debated, people wonder how having licensed users available may affect a situation.

Some wonder whether having CHLs on campuses would provoke improperly used licenses or whether having members of the community with handguns would prevent disaster.

“Both armed and unarmed civilians have disrupted or ended active shooter situations in the past,” Brenner said. “Whatever the circumstance, prevention is the first step.

Many incidents can be avoided by recognizing pre-incident indicators, which are covered in the program.”

These indicators include watching for suspicious subjects and following instincts. If you see a suspicious person or get an uneasy feeling, it is better to be safe and let someone of authority know.

Ultimately, we never would wish to be confronted with a situation like

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this, but it can happen. The bottom line is that we have to be cautious and aware. Having a crippling fear is not healthy — to prevent this, awareness is necessary.

While thinking of the world as a bed of hot stones is not wise, we do not need to be naïve to the truth of the world.

Accepting the possibility of this happening is healthy; expecting this possibility 24/7 is unhealthy.

To watch the “Shots Fired” video or for more information on Active Shooter Prevention training, students can go to the UH Active Shooter Provention website or uh.edu/police for more information.

To request an in-person session, contact the UH DPS for more information or visit the Department of Homeland Security to learn more.

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

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College graduates struggle during job search

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n 1931, James Truslow Adams coined the term “The American Dream” in his study “The Epic of America.” The statement reminded North Americans of the justice, liberty, fairness and equality that they were once promised after division from Great Britain. It was a reminder that they would never be Derail oppressed again.

Texada The dream later changed to the “pursuit of happiness” and “freedom of speech” by Thomas Jefferson.

These two terms would give people the hope they needed to get through tough times, such as the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, but it causes people to wonder if this dream betrayed Americans of today. In a time when many individuals who did not attend college are now in their mid-40s to late 50s and have been laid off from their jobs, some may believe this dream has failed them.

The idea that hard work pays off is not always true, even more with the idea that if you attend college, you will be able to get a well-paying job once you graduate.

“I got lucky,” said finance senior Victoria Banjo. “Getting a job offer worth taking before I actually graduated is not common among many college graduates.”

According to a CBS News survey of 2,134 workers, only 47 percent of the surveyed reported to be working in their fields of study. This means fewer than half of the students surveyed were working anywhere close to what they attended college for. The survey also showed that 32 percent of college graduates reported never working in the field of their major.

Unlike Banjo, communication senior Aclesia Caraway said not only has she not been able to find a job in her career, but she has not been able to find a job that requires a college degree at all.

“I was raised on the idea that if you go to college and do well, that you will be able to get a good-paying job in your career of choice shortly after graduation,” Caraway said. “I was told that if I was to get good grades, stay out of trouble and network between my professors and peers, that I would have businesses waiting in line to hire me.”

Caraway is finding this to be false.

She is graduating in May and has gone to several interviews, but she has not been able to find a job that pays enough to support her comfortably on top of paying her student loans.

“Unless I find a job soon, I will have to work in retail or maybe a restaurant

so I won’t default on my student loans agreement,” she said.

Many college students and graduates are beginning to question the college process and its reliability of securing a promising future.

Health junior Osonwa Achilefu said he is concerned about his future after college.

“I know that I am only a junior and I have time, but I know many of my friends who had a better GPA than my current 3.2 when they graduated and were not able to find a job at all,” Achilefu said. “Some of my friends had to settle for either going back to school to buy them more time or just work at a job that they could have gone right into without their college diploma.”

Like Achilefu, other students around campus had the same concerns. Several upperclassmen students have expressed that they have secondguessed their decision to come to college. Many students expressed that if they are going to be in debt after graduation and are not going to be able to find an ideal job, there may be no point.

Others are not so concerned with the amount of debt that they will be in after college, but they said their field of work does not require a college degree.

“The only reason I decided to come to college was because it was what my family had always drilled into me my whole life,” said broadcast journalism

graduate student Eunice Dadebo.

“Most individuals (who) host their own TV show did not go to school in order to obtain their careers.”

College is not always a waste of time, though I do believe it could be for some graduates. A high school algebra teacher once told me a story about when she had to have a plumber come out to her home for some maintenance. She said the plumber, who had never taken a college course, made almost twice as much than she did.I think people should stop encouraging the ideology that if you do not go to college, you will not be successful.

Many people in my parents’ generation are having trouble finding jobs because they did not attend college,

but my generation is having trouble getting jobs because the job market has been saturated with college graduates who have no idea what they want to do with their degree.

We encourage individuals to go to college and get any degree instead of going to a trade school because they know what they want to pursue in life, but everyone is not made for college. The American Dream says the people of America have the right to the pursuit of happiness, and we need to understand that not everyone’s dream is to attend college.

Opinion columnist Derail Texada is a broadcast journalism junior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com

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The Cougars’ pitching staff leads the nation in team ERA, but doesn’t have a starter that ranks individually in the top 35. For UH, the sum of its parts leads to winning. | Jenna Frenzel/The Daily Cougar

BASEBALL ANALYSIS

Diverse pitching staff leads to UH’s early success Harrison Lee Senior staff writer

The entire pitching staff has achieved such a statistical dominance that the names on the back of their jerseys are irrelevant.

Outside of the name on the front of the jersey, the only commonality is the 60 feet and six inches that separates the mound from home plate. The pitchers, including both tall and short and players with several personalities, form the No. 1 staff in the nation — even though they started the season as a question mark.

UH (23-5, 2-1) leads the nation in ERA and has a staff that has earned three American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week awards. Though their team ERA tops the country, the Cougars don’t have a starter who cracks the top 35, which symbolizes the quiet, workman-like approach of the men on the mound.

On one end is senior right-hander Aaron Garza, who has grown into the role of Friday starter after learning from last year’s leader Austin Pruitt and sophomore lefty Jared West, a pitcher who is new to starting but has been effective so far. Both are hulking

men who are hard to handle from the vantage point of the batter.

But besides taller moundsman like Garza and West, the Cougars can also go to the efficient senior closer Chase Wellbrock or junior pitcher Jared Robinson.

“Our whole staff is pretty solid.

With the starters, you have Garza, who’s really good; Jake Lemoine, who is really good; then me. I can definitely help,” West said.

Evolution of an ace Garza has risen from a 5-5 record last season to become the staff’s ace and is reflective of a blossoming program, said head coach Todd Whitting.

“I think that’s what you want to see in your program. One guy leaves and passes the torch off to the next guy,” Whitting said.

“That’s what (Garza) has been able to do. The expectation was for him to be able to step into the Friday role. We expected him to get in there and have a great year for us, and so far he has.”

Garza remains calm, despite the pressure of being a series starter, a role that sets the tone for the team at the start of a series.

“You always want to set the tone

when it comes to energy,” Garza said, who credits coach Frank Anderson with developing the mental toughness needed to become the prestige piece in the starting rotation.

“You want to go out and pick your teammates up. It’s our job (as starting pitchers) to go as deep as we can for as long as we can. I always want to pick up my team.”

Sophomore Jake Lemoine and West compose the normal SaturdaySunday contingent. Lemoine is a devotee of the UH way of pitching.

“You have to keep going out there and doing your job,” said the fastballand slider-favoring sophomore.

“It’s like Coach Whitting says, ‘Just do one night. Do the best you can at your position, and the rest of the team will take over.’”

Removing the question mark While the starting rotation will normally retain more of what passes for glamour in college baseball, the more notable storyline, reaching all the way back to UH baseball media day, was the fact that there was once a time when the bullpen, with its only certainty being Chase Wellbrock returning as the closer, was actually a

question mark.

Questionable assignment of punctuation aside, the bullpen has become an effective stopping mechanism.

“Everyone’s got their own opinion. But I think we just come out and prove that a little confidence goes a long way,” said junior reliever Jared Robinson.

“It’s just what we do. We rely on each other. If one person struggles a little bit, we have somebody else to pick them up. People doubting the bullpen is just to our advantage.”

Robinson is a transfer from Midland Junior College who calls his best pitch a “knuckle-split fingerchangeup thing,” which features an arched middle finger that resembles a dragon’s claw, and he has a straightahead, frontline infantry approach to his work.

“It definitely helps when we put up a lot of runs,” Robinson said of the UH offense, which often specializes in scoring during later innings. “But you gotta try and hold them to zero runs anyway, so nothing really changes.”

Closing the door Wellbrock, who features an intensity that manifests itself in a fairly

high leg-kick and a withering, often unblinking glare, is at the back of the bullpen, fulfilling the seasoned veteran trope. Wellbrock, the leader of those who wear windbreakers until needed, echoed Robinson’s sentiment about being an unproven commodity to start the season.

“Right now, we feel great,” Wellbrock said. “It really doesn’t matter what somebody’s opinion is. We know what we’re capable of, we know what we can do and we’ve proven it to this point.”

Wellbrock was quick to sing the praises of the confidence that comes from feeling trusted by the coaching staff as well as the starters, which helps bolster the feeling of trust-based confidence found in the bullpen.

“The coaches know each pitcher’s strengths. They know what they’re capable of and what they’re good at during certain counts,” he said.

“Honestly, they put the trust in the pitchers, and that gives the pitchers the confidence to go out there and throw whatever the coach calls and to throw it with purpose and full confidence.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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The School of Art will hold its 36th annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition Friday at the Blaffer Art Museum.

The exhibit will feature 18 candidates who will graduate from the school’s five departments: graphic communications, interdisciplinary practice and emerging forms, painting, photography/digital media and sculpture.

Art history master’s candidate Maria Granato Sharon is the organizer for the event and said the art thesis will be the final display of work. The works will be presented to the graduate committees.

“It’s awesome that it’s also open to the public as well, rather than just having a jury judging your final work,” Granato Sharon said. “To actually be able to display and also have the public see it and have that relationship with the community of Houston in general is really good as well.”

In addition to the traditional art forms such as drawing, painting and photography, the exhibit will also include conceptual videos, performances and installations. Granato Sharon said there is something for everyone at the exhibit, even for the first-time visitor.

Granato Sharon said the only difference between this year’s exhibition and the previous year’s is the growing number of candidates. Last year’s exhibition featured only 12 candidates.

“I like that it’s a bigger number,” Granato Sharon said. “It also proves that the School of Art is continuing to produce these artists, because you get more of a variety of works within the actual exhibition.”

Third-year MFA painting candidate Bradley Kerl said the process of selecting the committees included meeting with professors.

“We are required to have three professors from our respective disciplines and at least one from outside our disciplines,” Kerl said. “In my case, I have four painting faculty and one art critic/poet on my grad

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of women’s experiences with their bodies,” McPhail said.

The performance will be directed

by April Richard, who performed in the first production at UH and also

The 36th annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition will present works from 18 candidates from five departments of the School of Art. The pieces range from drawings and photos to videos and performances. | Courtesy of Jeremy Underwood committee. Ideally, you would choose a group of people you respect and who will also challenge you to become better at what you are doing.”

Kerl wants the UH community to know an incredible amount of great artwork is produced in the School of Art, from undergraduates and graduates alike.

“For first-time visitors, I would encourage an open mind. There is so much to appreciate about art, even if you have no knowledge of the history of or making of art,” Kerl said. “Start with the basics. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Then ask yourself why.

Try to push beyond your initial gut reaction.”

Much of the work is current, and each of the candidates were given designated spaces. Sometimes, the candidates don’t have what they’re going to display, what they’re working on or what they might possibly bring to the show at the museum,

according to Granato Sharon.

“It’s a matter of seeing how they work and their working style and determining from there kind of where their space means were,” Granato Sharon said.

At times, the spaces had to be shifted around because of larger art works.

“Some of it has changed significantly from what they originally decided, which is amazing — I like it,” Granato Sharon said. “I like that they brought ultra-new works in some cases, and it wasn’t even what they proposed before. It’s really nice.”

One candidate was in a designated space but then decided to use the ledge to the staircase to use the museum’s windows to help display window transparencies.

Kerl will have five paintings on display at the exhibition. All of his paintings are oil-on-canvas, with the largest painting featuring a fish tank.

Other paintings include a brick wall in a landscape sunset and doorway paintings.

“All of the paintings are untitled at this point, but I’d like to title them someday,” Kerl said. “I’m inspired to paint the things I do by my immediate environment and things, ideas, situations that most people take for granted or don’t notice at all. I approach my painting practice with equal parts seriousness, goofiness and cynicism.”

Third-year MFA sculpture candidate Betsy Huete will have a book and three sculptures on display.

“For the book, I remix found language into poems and nonsensical essays,” Huete said. “The sculptures are material translations of the poems. It’s essentially writing but with objects instead of words.”

For Huete’s inspiration, she said she often thinks about hidden meaning in texts and books.

directed the first three. The interviews vary from sexual assault to gender-based violence, and students will perform these topics.

WRC program coordinator Malkia Hutchinson said the interviews are a great entry point to sensitive subjects that can be difficult to discuss because of their density.

“(Ensler) weaves the stories together really well even though they touch on a subject matter that’s serious,” Hutchinson said.

“I think the fact that productions of Vagina Monologues often select different monologues from year to year offers something refreshing for each production,”

Hutchinson said.

The performance will start at 7 p.m., and tickets go on sale before the showing.

Hutchinson hopes students attend the event with a sense of pride for their bodies and will not be ashamed of who they are.

“I hope this is a stepping

“I think that what we can make sense of in a novel, for instance, is only scratching the surface, and there’s a lot more that can be gleaned from mixing up and abstracting the language,” Huete said. “Really, I’m thinking about the same things whether I’m writing a book or building a sculpture.” arts@thedailycougar.com

PAINT THE WALLS The 26th annual Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition and reception will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday.

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stone for students who wish to explore various aspects of thems e l ve s, t h e i r s e x u a l i t y , w hat excites them sexually, healing from past sexual trauma and embracing all that their bodies are capable of,” Hutchinson said. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Planting tales of ‘Love’ ‘Cold Sassy Tree’ returns to UH, tells stories of small town

LISTEN IN The opera will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Moores Opera Center.

Courtney Gregory Staff writer

The nostalgic story of “Cold Sassy Tree” has returned home to Houston with its cast of lovable and relatable characters, who tell their tales of heartbreak and exploration and let go of old grudges.

Director of the Moores Opera Center Buck Ross describes “Cold Sassy Tree” as a warm, wise and nostalgic comedy about small-town life in Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.

“The opera was written in English by a former UH professor, Carlisle Floyd, who is considered the dean of American opera composers,” Ross said. “If you like going to the theater or to a movie, you’ll be drawn in by the story.”

Love Simpson, played by performance junior Emily Louise Robinson, presents herself as a high-class individual who places a lot of importance on her image.

Love has worked hard to create a positive image of herself after enduring a “difficult childhood of not just poverty but some pretty serious trauma.”

“I believe that Love’s materialistic appearance is a protective armor,” Robinson said.

“Beyond the walls that Love has put up to protect herself from the world, she is incredibly vulnerable and kind. She is just trying to let go of her past.”

First year master’s performance student Alex Scheuermann plays Will Tweedy. Will appears at both 15 and 25 years old in the opera.

“The 15-year-old Will is trying to understand love, religion and loss,” Scheuermann said.

“He is ignorant and innocent and learns about life from his freespirited grandpa and his experiences in exploring friendship and sexuality.”

Older Will Tweedy is the narrator of the opera as he looks back into his memories as a younger man.

“He fondly remembers the excitement of youth, where every day brought a new adventure,” Scheuermann said.

Having premiered in 2000 at the Houston Grand Opera, “Cold Sassy Tree” will return to UH on Friday at the Moores Opera Center to showcase its story of love and nostalgia. | Courtesy of Bruce Duffie It will be easy for UH students to relate to this piece, specifically to the character of Will Tweedy, because even young people feel nostalgia for their earlier years, Ross said.

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Walrath is the stage manager.

“The audience members can expect to see the set as imaginary, dream-like and stylized as memories,” Walrath said.

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University purchased a directory that includes the public information of all minority post-doctoral candidates in the U.S. to aid in its search, but he said he cannot speculate on why in 12 years the number of Asian-American faculty has nearly doubled to 174 from 91, while African-American and Mexican-American faculty has seen little to no change in that time frame.

“Our role is to basically make sure that departments are acting affirmatively. And I would tell you I think that we have done a job. I hope that with the moves that Olenchak and the provost are making, that we will be able to increase our numbers just by acting affirmatively,” Baker said.

But UH doesn’t have all the answers. Instead, it’s modeling after other colleges, such as the University of Michigan with its Strategies and Tactics to Improve Diversity program. The University is also trying to develop a system similar to one that the University of Alabama shares with the University of Georgia, through which each university cultivates future diverse faculty members for the other.

“We are trying really hard to make the faculty look like the students on campus, frankly. That’s the goal for me at least, and certainly Dr. Baker,” Olenchak said. “One of the things that I am working on is to try and find a partner to do that. I don’t know if it’s A&M, if it’s UT. It could be out-of-state like it was in that case. But I think it’s something that we need to think about doing.”

Students like public relations senior Isiah Gentry, president of the African American Student Honors Association, and marketing junior Karla Perez, president of the Mexican American Studies Student Organization, should challenge the administration by asking questions that hold the

University accountable, Baker said.

“It’s absolutely imperative that we do as much as we can as an institution to not only recruit, so you have to have an environment that is welcoming of diversity, and I think we do have an environment that is welcoming of diversity. I think we live in an international city, and I think that’s appealing to anyone that wants to live in an international city or work with minority populations,” he said.

“We definitely have diverse students here, and I think it’s a wonderful opportunity, and I think that Dr. Khator has put us in a good position to say we’re a Tier One institution.

We want to feel and look like a Tier One institution, and that includes diversity.”

As an African-American, Baker said it was important to him throughout his schooling to see someone who looked like him and understood his background and where he came from — someone he could talk to and trust.

But he would not choose someone solely based on color, whereas 69 percent of voters in a poll on thedailycougar.com said the University shouldn’t consider race at all and should hire faculty solely based on skill.

“I absolutely know that (the faculty will) be more diverse (in 10 years). But how diverse, I don’t know. It depends on what you study as students and if you have an interest in going into higher ed. … I hope that the underrepresented groups that we have today — Hispanic, African-American, Native American and women — continue to choose whatever their field of study is, choose a faculty position, and I hope they choose UH when they do,” Baker said.

“I think diversity, without a shadow of a doubt, is something that we have to have as a core value at this institution, and I believe that we do.

I definitely think that we’re taking steps.” news@thedailycougar.com

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Acclaimed NFL agent makes campus visit Harrison Lee Senior staff writer

Though the only natural light in the small conference room was slicing in from a tall, thin rectangular window behind his back, the energy of the speaker was enough to command the people inside it.

Leigh Steinberg has been a sports agent for more than 40 years, and he talked to UH students and others about the industry Tuesday at Susanna Garrison Gymnasium.

He parlays his work and life in his autobiography, “The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game.”

Steinberg, 65, said he wrote the book because, despite the popularity of working in the sports field, he feels there is plenty that the modern generation of agents could do better.

“The first thing that motivated me is that I think traditional agentry is not done constructively,” Steinberg said. “It focuses too narrowly on putting dollars into an athlete’s bankbook without thinking about a second career or preparing him as a role model.”

Stein received his education from California but has links to UH through his work. He has represented former UH quarterbacks Andre Ware and David Klingler.

His appearance at UH was less of

a standard book promotion and more a chance to share his life, work beliefs and goals with the attending students.

With 40 years of experience to work with during his two-hour talk, he didn’t have many slow spots.

His focus was more on what he has worked for: things he cares greatly about and works for endlessly. Steinberg called concussions a “ticking time bomb that are a threat to football.” He’s held numerous conferences to raise awareness of the side effects and danger, which include Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia.

Steinberg’s friends aren’t surprised that he has the energy for what has seemed like a dozen things at once since the ‘70s.

“He’s all energy,” said Scott Irwin, a close friend. “To see him come back in these past few years has just been really great.”

After a bit of laughter, Steinberg signed books from a line of students.

He had a bit of advice to students and the monetary challenges they often face.

“If I had my way, you wouldn’t have that anchor of debt. We would be subsidizing college education,” Steinberg said.

“But find a career that’s not work for you, but it’s your life’s passion.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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CRITERIA INCLUDE: • Demonstrated significant service and/or leadership; enthusiasm • Minimum 2.5 GPA; enrollment in at least 9 hours • Junior or Senior classification at the University of Houston Sports agent Leigh Steinberg discussed his life in the industry to UH students while promoting his autobiography, “The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game,” on Wednesday. | Esteban Portillo/The Daily Cougar

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