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Going green for Earth Day

UH lost its first series of the season as it was swept by No.10 Louisville. SEE PAGE 7

The Office of Sustainability joins fight to promote recycling and preserving the planet. SEE PAGE 8 APRIL

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The great divide Libertarian author discusses growing disparity between upper crust and the American masses Laura Gillespie Assistant news editor

Despite the controversy that has followed him in Houston this past week, libertarian political scientist and author Charles Murray spoke at UH on Thursday evening to a full room and little fanfare. Murray, a W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke about marriage, ethics and the growing cultural gap between the upper and lower classes in the latest event with the Hobby Center for Public Policy and the Phronesis minor in The Honors College. Assistant political science professor Jeffrey Church, who introduced Murray and said he was a fan of his work, spearheaded the move to bring Murray to UH. The talk was funded in part by a grant from John A. Allison IV and the BB&T Bank, with which Allison formerly worked.

“It’s (a) great grant — it allows us to have the Phronesis Fellows, who are 15 to 20 of our best Phronesis minor students with The Honors College, and bring in the speakers,” said philosophy associate professor and co-director of the phronesis minor Tamler Sommers. “Not all of them do public lectures like this, but they also have private seminars with the fellows, who have read in advance something the speaker has done. ”The people who are in charge of the money would like to see a balance in ideas. They have not told us we have to invite anybody or anything like that, but there are people in the Phronesis program with ideological commitments more conservative than most academics.” Sommers called the grant “controversial,” due to Allison’s strong libertarian beliefs and vocal support

Libertarian author Charles Murray spoke Friday to a packed room at the Rockwell Pavilion on the vanishing morals of the white American lower class and an upper class that has become increasingly solitary. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar of libertarian writer Ayn Rand. “I think it’s worth it,” Sommers said. “I think it’s doing so much good, allowing us to bring

in amazing people from all sides. It really offers great opportunities for our students.” The lecture was originally

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EVENTS

Novelist sheds light on the Indian opium trade Trey Strange Staff writer

Balancing act Sophomore defensive end Tyus Bowser is a talented juggler. He’s a two-sport athlete who attended UH so he could contribute to the football and basketball teams. Read more on page 6. — Jimmy Moreland/The Daily Cougar

The India studies program brought prominent Indian fiction author Amitav Ghosh to the Asia Society Texas Center for the first time Thursday to lecture on the opium trade. Creative writing program professor Chitra Divakaruni, who doubles as an award-winning novelist, introduced Ghosh. “Ghosh was born in Kolkata, where I, too, was born,” Divakaruni said. “It is a city … that has produced worthy writers. Amitav Ghosh is worthy of that city.”

Divakaruni spoke of Ghosh’s nu m e rou s a c c o mp l i s h m e nt s, including the two books in his unfinished trilogy, “Sea of Poppies” and “River of Smoke,” which received nominations for the 2008 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, respectively. The audience applauded as Ghosh took over the microphone and began his lecture, “From Bombay to Canton: Traveling the Opium Route to the 19th Century.” He led the audience through Britain’s predicament, which was that they NOVEL continues on page 3

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CALENDAR Monday

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Lecture: Baylor College of Medicine chair of dermatology John E. Wolf will discuss the intersection of art and medicine in regard to the power of observation in “The Art of Observation: Sherlock Holmes, Art, and Clinical Diagnosis” from 11 a.m. to noon in the Cullen Performance Hall.

Lecture: An Ethics in Science lecture will discuss the life of David Vetter, also known as “Bubble Boy,” from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall, Room 232.

Music: A harp studio class recital will be given from 5 to 6 p.m. in Room 160 of the Choral Recital Hall in the Moores School of Music. Music: The Aura Contemporary Ensemble will perform “Range of Motion” featuring works by composers Daniel Roumain, Manuel Quiroga and others from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House.

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Art: School of Art graduate students will host a gallery talk to discuss their work that is on display from noon to 1 p.m. in the Blaffer Art Museum. Reading: A poetry and prose reading will be given from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Honors College Commons on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library.

Art: The School of Art annual student exhibition will host its reception of undergraduate work from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Blaffer Art Museum.

Networking: The vice president of human resources and administration of the Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts will discuss his experiences in the hospitality industry during a Q&A from 1 to 1:50 p.m. at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, Room S125.

Music: The Symphonic Band and Symphonic Winds ensemble will perform works by Gian Carlo Menotti, Frank Ticheli and others from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Moores Opera House.

Music: The Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Combos will perform with the DaCamera ensemble from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Discovery Green at 1500 McKinney Street.

Tennis: The University will compete against Prairie View A&M from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the John E. Hoff Courts.

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Victoria campus finds new interim leadership The Daily Cougar News Services The interim president of UH-Victoria was announced by UH System Chancellor Renu Khator. Raymond Victor Morgan Jr. was selected last week, and he will take office on April 21. “The appointment of such a prominent and knowledgeable higher education executive reflects the great value we place on the University of Houston-Victoria and our

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the hall to the Rockwell Pavilion in anticipation of a large — and irate — crowd. Political science senior Crystal Sowemimo planned on bringing students from the UH NAACP and UH Mexican American Studies Student Organization to protest the talk, but the plans fell through. Still, the Rockwell Pavilion was full, and Sowemimo and other students carried signs with messages such as “Coogs do not welcome racism” in informal protest. Murray visited Rice University on April 7, and the protests by Rice students made headlines. Jim Granato, director for the Hobby Center for Public Policy, said he was “very proud” of UH students for their behavior. “I’ve been in academia for over 30 years, and I’ve seen talks that some disagreed with. People were totally disrespectful, nobody got to hear what the person had to say so they could decide for themselves. The fact that the people protesting let him talk — that’s such a credit to the University, to you guys,” Granato said. Murray’s speech was a summation of his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 19602010.” In the book, Murray says that

continuing commitment to UH-V’s development into a premier destination university,” Khator said in an email. Morgan is ser ving as the president emeritus and professor of mathematics at Morgan the Sul Ross State

University in Alpine, and he is the first faculty member to have been promoted to president at the University, according to a press release. He had been in that position for 19 years.

American moral values have declined since 1960 and America’s white upper class has “segregated” themselves. “Over the course of the last 50 years, we have seen the development of classes in this country that are different in kind from anything we have known before,” Murray said in his speech. “The United States has always had rich people and poor people from the very beginning — that’s not new. But one of the things that made the United States exceptional was the degree to which all the classes participated in the institutions of American civic life in very similar ways. That is no longer true. We have developed a new lower class and a new upper class that are different than the ones we have had before.” Murray cited falling marriage rates among lower-class, white Americans as a major cultural failing. He said that 48 percent of lower-class, white Americans are married, down from 84 percent in 1960. “You are very hard put to think of any other social norm that has changed so dramatically in so short a period of time as that. That community life of lower-class communities no longer consists of the same kind of (morals),” he said. “When you do not have marriage you slice in half — at the very least

— the amount of human resources that are available, because … (people) do not have time to engage in civic activities; they are doing double duty in raising children and working, in most cases.” The speech’s reception was mixed, with some saying that his avoidance of mentioning non-white Americans and his recent controversies are related. “I don’t think he hit on all the issues; I think he was pretty much covering his (expletive). I feel like he didn’t even … leave it open enough to have a real vigorous debate on the content of his book and a lot of the controversies surrounding his theories and politics,” said political science junior Allegra Conwell. Murray is mostly controversial for his 1994 book “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life,” which he co-authored with the late Harvard professor Richard J. Hernstein. In it, Murray argued that there is a correlation between race and intelligence. “I thought it was an interesting lecture. I thought it was interesting how he was researching the difference between upper-class and lowerclass whites,” Sowemimo said. “However, I feel like he’s completely removing the minority perspective on things. He says there

SGA appointments Student Government Association’s newly appointed speaker of the Senate filled vacancies with his appointments during the Senate

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Novelist Amitav Ghosh discusses the opium trade across centuries and regions in his new book. | Stewart Lyons/The Daily Cougar

needed Chinese goods but were unable to provide necessary goods in return through the East India Company. Ghosh explained that, to combat this problem, Britain sold China opium. Ghosh also commented on the necessity of the opium trade in relation to today’s society. “To this day, we all use opium all

meeting Wednesday. Speaker and Engineering Senator Shaun Smith nominated and the Senate confirmed Engineering Senator Clint Kirchhoff as chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee, At-Large Senator Sebastian Agudelo as chairman of the Student Life Committee, CLASS Senator James Lee as chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee and Bauer Senator Pooja Magadi as chairwoman

of the Administration and Finance Committee. Other nominations that were confirmed by the Senate include former Senator Sterling Dodd as sergeant at arms, former Sergeant at Arms Bruno Ugaz as Senate clerk. At-Large Senator Sebastian Agudelo was also approved as speaker pro tempore. news@thedailycougar.com

Though protests were planned, students were mostly amicable. Some held signs that accused Charles Murray of racism. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar needs to be a cultural awakening of the upper-class whites instead of government intervention on things, and I feel you can’t really do that when you’re completely ignoring the minorities who are clearly affected.” She said that despite his avoidance of minority issues, the speech displayed “subtle racism.” Murray’s visit was the latest of several lectures held by the Phronesis

program this semester, including lectures by Paul Cantor, a University of Virginia English professor who spoke on the “economics of the apocalypse,” and William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., who spoke in the “Conservatism and Progressivism in America” lecture series.

the time,” Ghosh said. “Opium has always been a very, very important medicinal substance.” After Ghosh finished highlighting the opium trade, Divakaruni once again took the stage to converse with Ghosh on being a writer and being Indian. “Being Indian really helps my writing. I live in a small village, surrounded by rice fields. It’s very tranquil,” Ghosh said. “It’s a very congenial atmosphere.” After a short passage from

Ghosh’s “Sea of Poppies,” the audience lined up for pictures and a book signing. At the end of the evening, the audience dispersed in anticipation of Ghosh’s final installment to the Ibis trilogy, “Flood of Fire,” which Ghosh hopes to publish by Spring 2015. The India studies program recently started the India Studies Initiative, which will feature its first study abroad this December.

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Students leave old parties, think independently Hayder Ali Opinion columnist

January Gallup poll indicated that a record number of Americans — 42 percent — now identify as independents when it comes to voting and political affiliation. College students are no exception. The last few years have seen the rise of movements, such as Occupy Wall Street, that explicitly refuse to align themselves with either of the two major parties. More young people are looking for alternatives that might finally put an end to the back-and-forth game that is played out in much the same way every four years between the Democrats and the Republicans. At the University, alternative groups such as Young Americans for Liberty and the International Socialist Organization are seeing a rise in activity. This trend is encouraging, and the reasons for it varied and complex. Political clubs and associations at UH are witnessing the rise of independent political thought. These groups are providing college students with alternative visions for the future. It has become fashionable to stress independence from mainstream politics as a selling point for political organizations. The perception is that the specific concerns of college students — student debt, jobs, opportunities, and savings — are not being addressed under the status quo. An increasing number of people are starting to believe that the two major parties are, at the end of the day, remarkably similar — both are out of touch and neither represents the interests of ordinary Americans. “There is a growing disenfranchised class of people in the United States whose needs are not being met under the status quo,” said creative writing freshman Lena Melinger. “These people are looking for alternative solutions.” This sentiment is shared by many college students. “Alternative solutions should be seriously considered,” said

David Delgado/ The Daily Cougar biochemistry senior Jorge Gabitto. “Our generation is willing to consider them.” Not all young people are optimistic about the viability of alternative politics, however. “I can see why people want to vote independent, but our current political system favors two-party politics,” said biochemistry sophomore Chloe Ng. “It’s going to be very difficult to achieve a breakthrough.” Other students see opportunities for serious change under the status quo. “We can try to work with what we have now and change the parties from the inside,” said engineering

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freshman Tom Nguyen. Dissatisfaction with the current system should not be surprising. Youth unemployment is on the rise, and where jobs are found, they are rarely satisfactory. In fact, most of the jobs being added to the economy are low-wage, part-time or both. Economic recovery remains elusive for the average American. The student loan crisis is widening. Immigration reform has seen no breakthrough despite years of debate in Washington, D.C. In addition, military adventures overseas continue despite overwhelming opposition here at home. It is not be unfair to suggest that President Barack Obama has disappointed the

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youth. Many young Americans are disillusioned with an administration that is hardly different from the administration before it. Serious problems demand serious solutions, and it is becoming clear to more young Americans that our current representatives offer none. Viable alternatives have been few and far between. The biggest contemporary examples of spontaneous political mobilization — Occupy and the Tea Party movement — ultimately fizzled out and provided no infrastructure sufficient to challenge the status quo. Hope should not be lost, however, as it is possible and probable

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that these and other movements will only grow in size and strength as our generation gets into its prime. Political clubs and associations at the University — like right-wing libertarian activist group the YAL and socialist group the ISO — are witnessing firsthand the rise of independent political thought. Two major factions seem to be competing for the hearts and minds of the youth — the more-rightthan-mainstream, embodied by the Libertarian Party and various thinktanks and organizations, and the more-left-than-mainstream, POLITICAL continues on page 5

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OPINION MAN ON THE STREET

What are your opinions on mainstream political thought? Generally, conservatives don’t necessessarily like change, but we need to change in order to get better.

With such a diverse campus, there are bound to be diverse opinions deviating from mainstream political thought. We asked some students for their political thoughts. Here are their responses:

— George Stokes, pre-business sophomore

I do not identify with any political party. I haven’t looked into it that much.

I tend to be more liberal. As far as Texas goes, I dislike their senators, especially Ted Cruz. I also dislike Texas republicans.

— John Cerda, math sophomore

— Mitchell Crimi, management information systems senior

— Quotes and photos by Justin Tijerina

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which has seen a surge of support in recent years with the success of Occupy Wall Street and smaller anti-capitalist and socialist groups in local elections across the country — think socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. Both camps have seen a surge in activity over the last few years. In fact, according to a 2011 Pew Research Center poll, more young people have a positive view of the word “socialism” than ever before — 49 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 — while the word “capitalism” is seen in an increasingly negative light, with only 46 percent of young Americans reporting a positive view. In general, the massive inequality, aggressive foreign policy and oppressive social policies which characterized 20th-century politics are anathema to the millennial generation, which is now coming into its prime. It is important to note, however, that while many people agree that the back-and-forth game between the donkeys and the elephants needs to come to an end, they might not agree on anything else. The two emerging camps — right-libertarianism and 21st-century socialism — are incompatible and directly at odds. Polarization will probably increase in the coming years and decades. More and more people are becoming convinced, to a greater or lesser extent, that radical change, not piecemeal reform, is needed to fix the most pressing problems of our society. Opinion columnist Hayder Ali is a history and pre-med sophomore and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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Stars House, Thomas look to transfer The Daily Cougar news services Star players junior Danuel House and senior TaShawn Thomas each requested their release from the University in hopes of transferring before the hiring of head coach Kelvin Sampson. The transfer requests by Thomas and House were declined April 4, the day after Sampson was named coach. House, a former five-star recruit from Fort Bend Hightower, was second on the team in scoring with 13.6, and he told the Houston Chronicle he had his mind made up before the end of the season. “Honestly, I know I want to leave UH,” House said to the Chronicle. “But when I asked for mine, they denied my request. I felt that was unfair. Our university always speaks highly of integrity, but they didn’t show any integrity to me. It’s like a hostage situation.” Thomas, who led the Cougars in scoring (15.4) and rebounding (8.1) this season, said he met with Sampson before deciding to transfer. “I feel like they should respect that I’m trying to explore different options,” Thomas told Fox 26. “I’m kind of nervous about the whole new situation with the coach.” If granted their releases, House and Thomas would likely have to sit out a season unless they petition to the NCAA to play immediately. UH could also put restrictions on certain schools to which they may not transfer. UH shines at Texas Invitational The UH track and field program took home five individual wins and personal records at the Texas Invitational in Austin Saturday. Senior Errol Nolan led the Cougars to a second-place finish (124 points) behind Texas (184 points). At his first showing of the season, Nolan took first place in the men’s 400meter dash with a time of 46.55, the best time this season by any Cougar. He also scored points for the Cougars after finishing third in the 200-meter with a personal best time of 20.62. Nolan also anchored the men’s 4x100-meter relay team to a win with a time of 40.19, the second best time of the season. The women’s team finished third overall with 77.50 points, beating conference rivals SMU (67) and South Florida (65). They scored in 12 events for the day, including both relays. sports@thedailycougar.com

Sophomore defensive end Tyus Bowser looks to remain a force on the defensive line after four sacks and 26 tackles last year. | Jimmy Moreland/The Daily Cougar

VERSATILITY

Two-sport star impacts football, basketball squads Marcus Gutierrez Staff writer

Tyus Bowser has gone from the gridiron to the hardwood floor and back to the field for 15 spring practices, and he hasn’t even been at UH for a full year. Bowser, a two-sport athlete who made a big impact on the defensive line for the football team and as a reserve forward for the basketball squad, said his first season was a oncein-a-lifetime experience. Bowser became part of a defensive rotation that brought havoc to the opposing quarterbacks. He had his breakout game against Rice in the Bayou Bucket and finished with seven tackles, two sacks, one interception for a return of six yards and four quarterback hurries. Bowser ended the season with 26 total tackles, four and a half sacks and one interception. Bowser joined the basketball team late after the conference season began. He played in three games. “Overall I would say that I did good as a freshman,” Bowser said. “Coming out of high school and coming

to a Division One school and playing against great teams, I wasn’t expecting to come in like I did. I wanted to come out and contribute to the team to win games.” Bowser believes playing football is simple in that a player just has to be focused and disciplined every day. “You really just have to go out there and play,” Bowser said. “You have to remember your job on the field and what you have to do to help your team out. It’s all about having fun. Once you have fun out there, the plays will come.” Head coach Tony Levine said he isn’t surprised that Bowser was able to contribute during his freshman year. “Tyus is unique and intelligent. We were able to put him at the rush position, and he improved on a daily basis,” Levine said. “With his explosion and with the athleticism that we saw during two a day, it wasn’t a surprise to us that he played and had a significant role.” While Bowser was on the basketball team, he learned from the players and coaching staff what it’s going to take to play college basketball at the highest level.

Sophomore forward Tyus Bowser has always loved basketball and football, and playing both was a reason he chose UH. | File photo/The Daily Cougar “You just have to work hard,” Bowser said. “Being dedicated every single day, and you have to work on your game as well as what the team wants to accomplish.” With Kelvin Sampson coming in as the new head basketball coach, Bowser will have to adjust to another system. However, he said he was impressed with Sampson. “He is a really good man,” Bowser said. “He wants to get to know us so that we can build chemistry with him and as a team.” While playing both sports, Bowser still treats both sports equally but favors playing football more. Bowser has his eye on a professional career in either sport with one goal in mind. “I would go professional in whichever sport is able to give me money. My mother has worked hard to help me with my life, and I want to make

sure that she doesn’t have to work hard anymore.” However, for Bowser, one of his biggest transitions was in the classroom. “Sometimes when you’re the guy in high school, you can get away with a couple of assignments off. Coming into college, I knew that I have to work hard,” Bowser said. “You have so many classes that you have to worry about. Whether you have a project or a paper due, you always have to stay on top of your studies. I have learned a lot and I plan to do better in the future.” Whether he’s on the football field, in the classroom or on the basketball court, Bowser has Levine’s support. “We encourage it. If that is something that they dream of and aspire to do, we will do in all of our power to help them succeed,” Levine said. sports@thedailycougar.com

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SPORTS BASEBALL

Louisville’s pitching keeps UH at bay during sweep Harrison Lee

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Hall of Fame pitcher James “Catfish” Hunter once mused that the sun doesn’t always shine on the same dog’s butt every afternoon. This rural wisdom applies to UH’s weekend series with Louisville, which saw the Cardinals hand UH its first sweep of the season. “We played a great Louisville team this weekend. It is a long season, and I have complete confidence that we will play deep into the postseason,” head coach Todd Whitting said. Louisville, which returns to Kentucky after a 12-hit, 10-run Sunday performance against UH (26-9, 4-5), stands out as the first team to hand UH a series loss for the season. “It means a lot for momentum because we haven’t been playing particularly well on the road, so just to come down here against a top-10 team and play like we did is great,” said Louisville junior Kyle McGrath, who pitched in relief and described himself as just another warm body. “It feels good. I’d say, from a pitching standpoint, the thing that changed the most is that we just came out and attacked the strike zone all week. I let guys put balls in play, and we made plays.” McGrath, along with fellow Louisville pitchers Kyle Funkhouser, Jared Ruxer and Anthony Kidston, held UH batters to a total of seven runs for the entire series and kept any late-inning, two-out rallies from materializing. The series, which went 4-2, 3-2 and 10-3, saw UH draw large crowds for the first two games of the series, including 3,349 for the Friday game.

SOFTBALL

UH remains perfect in American play The Daily Cougar news services

UH Softball earned two wins over Memphis on Saturday to give head coach Kyla Holas and the Cougars their 500th win in program history. The Cougars’ 11-0 mark is the best start to a conference slate in school history and also gave Holas and Houston the program’s 200th conference victory. Senior Haley Outon had her second multi-home run performance in the past week as she hit two solo shots to give the Cougars a 12-5 win in eleven innings of game one. Junior Tiffani McKnight went 3-for4, scored three runs and had two RBIs to lead the Cougars to a 9-0 game two win. sports@thedailycougar.com

The Cardinals’ pitchers held the Cougars to seven runs during the three-game weekend sweep. | Justin Tijerina/The Daily Cougar The leading two games of the series, which were dominated by hotly debated calls at home plate and a Todd Whitting ejection in game one, were UH’s closest efforts before finally succumbing to the sweep on Sunday. “It’s not something that we really think about,” Louisville head coach Dan McDonnell said. “We just came in trying to play good baseball, especially Friday. Game one, hostile environment and we were able to win a close game. Then Saturday we come in and were

able to win a close game again.” Saturday’s game saw the Cougars scratch and claw their way into loading the bases in the ninth before the game was over in a flash on a double play that left a suddenly raucous Cougar Field gawking in silence. The play started on a line drive from senior first baseman Casey Grayson to Louisville junior shortstop Sutton Whiting, who dove from his heels, glove fully extended, to snare the ball and start the game-ending double play.

“I saw it come off the bat, but it kind of tricked me a little,” Whiting said. “I thought he hit it harder than he did. I said a little prayer before the play and just jumped.” Despite the results not being what UH envisioned when the series started, McDonnell was quick to give effusive praise for his conference rival. “It’s like I told their coach (Saturday) night — this game, when you’re playing good teams, a few pitches, a few swings, a few plays can go their

way, and I would challenge the Houston fans and the people here — I wouldn’t give up on this team,” McDonnell said. “This is a regional team with three great starters, a really good lineup and we were fortunate that we played good baseball and came out on top. I would expect these guys to bounce back and continue to have a great season. They might be one the best clubs we’ve played all season.” sports@thedailycougar.com

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Educating community on sustainability Diana Nguyen Senior staff writer

Earth Day Houston, developed by Air Alliance Houston, was celebrated Saturday at Discovery Green Park as a day to celebrate the planet and focus on the merits of mindful, sustainable living. First celebrated in 2006, Earth Day Houston was created in the hopes of educating and encouraging Houstonians to preserve, conserve and enhance our city and the Earth by providing a community-centered, familyfriendly event open to the public and free for all to attend. The free one-day celebration, sponsored by Waste Management, included entertainment and environmental education highlighting land, air, water, sustainability, healthy living and wildlife and habitat. The festival featured 100 booths, 86 of which were represented by Texasbased nonprofits as well as UH organizations like the Office of Sustainability and various engineering students’ projects. “I love the idea of Earth Day Houston. I’m glad Houston is taking initiative to educate our community of how to care for our planet,” said consumer science and merchandising senior Tanya Martinez. “We really are one of the most polluted and obese cities. Little things like carpooling or biking

The Office of Sustainability joined Earth Day Houston for a weekend of educating the local community on going green, preserving the environment, recycling and more at Discovery Green Park. | Diana Nguyen/The Daily Cougar or even planting your own fruits and vegetables really help. Too many of us are too lazy and comfortable to make lifestyle-changing efforts. I have a lot of respect for those who are able to go through with it.” Among those who strive to live their lives bettering the environment is environmental design senior Sarah Kim. “I volunteered at the Green Building Resource Center sponsored by the city of Houston,” Kim said. “That’s

where we learn how to incorporate sustainable design into buildings. I got to learn about water and energy efficiency. A lot of the technology that’s out there today helps reduce the use of energy consumption.” Kim, who volunteers her summers to learn about sustainable design, represented the Office of Sustainability on Earth Day by handing out red pouches as an environmentally friendly alternative to the standard plastic water bottles. When asked what people can

do to live their lives more greenly, Kim suggests the initial step of education. “Read a lot about it,” Kim said. “Green marketing doesn’t necessarily mean sustainability. Just educating yourself to take small actions towards being sustainable is one of the more efficient ways. It’s the first step. I want to promote the educational part about it rather than just the quick and easy solution.” Supply chain alumnus Michael Perkins rides his bike not only to help

the environment, but also to park in the front and not have to worry about parking. He volunteered at a beehive booth educating kids on the bee’s role in the environment. Perkins added his two cents on the resourcefulness of weeds and why to avoid using pesticides in gardening. “Those are the types of plants that have an easy time surviving,” Perkins said. “They may not provide anything for us, but they do for the bees which in turns helps us. It’s one of those things where you live and let be. Keep the bees alive. Keep them going and support local honey.” Perkins also pointed out the rise of colony collapse, in which worker bees from a beehive abruptly disappear. “Colony collapse is happening,” Perkins said. “It’s an unknown thing. Bees are making their ways into homes, and instead of calling the pesticide people, I recommend contacting the Houston Beekeeping Association.” Reflecting upon Earth Day Houston, Perkins found the festival to be fulfilling. “Earth Day was amazing,” Perkins said. “It’s fulfilling for me to ignite children’s curiosity, and what better way than to volunteer for Earth Day, sharing insights into the bittersweet world of the honey bee.” arts@thedailycougar.com

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Historical plastic surgery becomes modern beauty Leslie Espinosa Contributing writer

A distinguished visual scholar visited the University and lectured on the development of reconstructive plastic surgery during World War I and its impact on public standards and perceptions of beauty in a classroom packed with students, colleagues, and faculty members. “The Great War was the first and last major conflict in which trench warfare played a defining role,” said Wake Forest University Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art David M. Lubin. While the trenches protected men’s bodies, their heads were left exposed. “A sniper’s bullet could shear off the jaw or tear away the nose of any man who had the misfortune to raise his head at the wrong moment,” Lubin said. “Advances in battlefield medicine and transport services were vital in saving the lives of people who, in previous wars, would have died immediately or within days.” I have seen survivors without faces, Lubin said, quoting a British WWI nurse.

Wake Forest University professor David Lubin discussed reconstructive surgery from World War I and today’s cosmetic surgery. | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons It was in the aftermath of this war that reconstructive plastic surgery truly began. Military surgeons often did operations in extreme conditions, and they developed this line of surgery as a result of those men without faces, Lubin said. Eventually, he said, the public started to see cosmetic surgery as acceptable as reconstructive plastic surgery. “Cosmetic surgery, loftily renamed aesthetic surgery, was a subset of plastic surgery,” Lubin said. “As cosmetic

surgery gained credibility, so too did the use of cosmetic makeup.” Previously, makeup was associated with dishonesty, and women who wore makeup were called “painted women,” Lubin said. “It was socially wrong for a woman to appear in public with makeup,” Lubin said. “After WWI, it was socially inappropriate for a woman to appear in public without makeup.” People’s new acceptance of cosmetics was associated with their acceptance of the mask aesthetic,

which permeated everyday life. When a woman applies mascara, she’s putting on a mask, Lubin said. “That’s the Italian word for mask,” Lubin said, referring to mascara. After WWI, the “mask aesthetic” was relevant to those disfigured men as well. The Red Cross set up a studio in Paris run by Anna Coleman Ladd, an American sculptor. She and her team made masks for disfigured soldiers; they sought to make their creations as lifelike as possible, to accomplish what surgery could not and restore their old faces. “Previously, when these brokenfaced men had gone on supervised forays into the city accompanied by their nurses, onlookers gawked at them and sometimes even fainted,” Lubin said. “The men called this the ‘Medusa effect.’ Supplied now with tin and copper masks, they could, in theory at least, walk down the Parisian boulevard without eliciting stares.” Ladd thought these masks would help them slip back into society and find happiness. “I can’t help but wonder if she was

overly optimistic about their chances for physical reintegration,” Lubin said. He mentioned Greta Garbo, an actress who was considered one of the most beautiful women in world. Her face, he said, was seen as unattainable perfection, a lovely mask. “Garbo’s exceptional beauty, it should be noted, was carefully constructed at the behest of her studio, MGM,” Lubin said. “Her appearance was manufactured; she secretly had numerous cosmetic surgeries. Garbo was brought into line with the existing ideal of beauty. In and of itself, the First World War was not the cause of the modern beauty revolution — that was already underway when it began — but the war accelerated the transformation.” At the conclusion of the event, Lubin was loudly applauded by his audience members. “It was really interesting,” English sophomore Kathryn Weems said. “It opened up a lot of new ideas about WWI for me.” arts@thedailycougar.com

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CounterCurrent, an festival held by the UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, engaged the local community in its five-day celebration with theater, dance and art. Public relations junior and Mitchell Center intern, Tatyana Parham was amazed by how much art affects the community. | Zoe Quezada/The Daily Cougar

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Festival integrates city with creativity Artists come together, showcase work during CounterCurrent 2014 Zoe Quezada Contributing writer

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts celebrated its inaugural art festival, CounterCurrent, last week, bringing together local, national and international artists to exhibit their work, consisting of a variety of inter-media art, in traditional and nontraditional venues across the city of Houston. During the span of five days, leaders of the contemporary art world showcased their visions and talents in numerous ways, performing sold-out shows, engaging in artist talks, constructing installations and collaborations within the community. The festival kicked off on Wednesday with the debut of art professor Abinadi Meza’s sound installation, “Vein of Sky,” which generated sounds from live nature elements, such as temperature, light and humidity. Located in Hermann Park, the installation was built within a structure, known as ReFramexFrame, created by a collaboration between architecture and graphic communications professors and students. Also debuting on Wednesday, UH professor and Mitchell Center Director of Academic Initiatives Lacy Johnson presented a collaboration with artist Josh Okun and Rob Ray to create the Invisible City project, an interactive experience that uses GPS

on smartphones to take participants on an adventure through the city. “Invisible City” takes its users to places they might not normally visit and provides insight into the background of the city. “I wanted people to really explore parts of the city that people don’t understand or misunderstand,” Johnson said. “It’s not so much that it’s invisible; it’s just that we don’t see it, or we haven’t seen it, or we choose not to see it.” Rounding out Wednesday night, Los Angeles-based performer and multimedia artist Miwa Matreyek performed two pieces, “This World Made Itself” and “Myth and Infrastructure,” at Aurora Picture Show. The pieces combined visual animations and projections with music and live movement. On Thursday, the festival continued with a performance of ECLIPSE by choreographer Jonah Bokaer and visual artist Anthony McCall. The performance has both elements of dance and sound as the performers interacted with the visual light bulb installation. Audience members were given the unusual opportunity to walk around the stage’s perimeter during the show to observe multiple viewpoints of the performance. Additionally, media and performance students at Aurora Picture Show had the opportunity to showcase their skills in collaboration and experimentation. Students performed works that incorporated a wide variety of media including green screen paint, shadow

projections, poetry, live video feeds and more than 100 pounds of cement blocks. On Friday, professor and writer John Pleuker and Jen Hofer, collaborators from the current exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum, “Antena,” participated in a bilingual artist talk with visiting artists from the Mexico City-based theater company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol to discuss issues concerning language justice. The dialogue shifted between English and Spanish with live translators helping audience members keep up with the conversation over radio headsets. “Just by you being here and trying to make the effort to understand, you are helping create language justice,” Pleuker said. During the bilingual artist talk, Executive Director of the Mitchell Center Karen Farber said she hopes as the festival expands, the event can become multilingual to provide more inclusivity within the city. Throughout the weekend, Antena and Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol held bilingual events and workshops for the festival. At MECA, LagartijasTiradas al Sol presented a play featuring the history of guerilla groups in Mexico during the 1960s and ’70s. New York-based artist Suzanne Bocanegra presented “Rerememberer,” a multimedia orchestra consisting of 50 amateur Houston violinists, a DJ, conductor and weaver on an amplified loom. The performance was held at the historic FESTIVAL continues on page 12

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When you’re faced with the decision of taking a paying job over an unpaid internship in your field, it is worth considering whether the short–term paycheck will be more important than the long–term investment that interning can provide. While some internships are paid, many are not, which might lead a person into feeling as if the internship would be of no value because they would have nothing in their bank account to show for it. However, a college job is usually taken for just a short or fixed amount of time while an internship is more of a long term investment in your future which could lead to a permanent and exciting full–time career. However, a part-time job done well could certainly lead to a promotion, but internships hold certain advantages that you just won’t find in regular employment. Before deciding on taking a short–term job or promotion, consider these long–term advantages of internships and which would be in your best interest.

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El Dorado Ballroom in the Third Ward. Farber said the feedback from the participants was amazing. “A lot of people who were playing violin said that they were actually observers as much as they were performers because the of the installation performance taking place all around the stage,” Farber said. “(In this festival) we had a really fun time doing all kinds of projects that were outside traditional artistic contexts. This was just one of the ways in which the context really transformed the work.” On Saturday, the festival continued to expand, featuring multiple events throughout the day. Artists Lisa Harris, Autumn Knight and M’Kina Tapscott hosted the Flower Man Bike Parade. In the parade, people decorated their bikes with flowers and retraced the route of Cleveland Turner, or “The Flower Man,” a popular cyclist from the Third Ward who recently passed away. Other events in the Third Ward included dedications by Otabenga Jones & Associates. The collective featured public speakers, music, readings and the

unveiling of public monuments created by the collective. At DiverseWorks, filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang performed a special piece for the festival titled Moved by Motion. CounterCur rent organizers hosted a pop-up wrap party in downtown featuring music and sound to close out the weekend. Artists, organizers, students and festivalgoers had the chance to mix and mingle and discuss their experiences at the event. “Being around the art culture is really fulfilling, and it is amazing to see how much it affects the community,” said public relations junior Tatyana Parham. “The Mitchell Center really likes to reach out to people, and it’s nice to be around that. It’s nice to see how many people came out. I wasn’t expecting this turn out.” Several of the installations and projects presented at the event will continue after the event’s closing. Installations and projects such as Steve Rowell’s Uncanny Sensing (Texas Protype), Byron Au Yong and Susie J. Lee’s Piano Concerto, the Invisible City, Vein of Sky and Antena will all be available for various lengths of time following the event. arts@thedailycougar.com

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