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In memoriam: My teacher and inspiration, Jemimah Noonoo

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don’t admit to this often, but this was an exceedingly tough thing to write about.

As journalists, it’s sometimes shameful to admit when certain things affect you personally, profoundly, to the point where your objectivity is in danger of being compromised.

Jemimah Noonoo, an inadvertent visionary; a mother of one, Nathaniel; a sister, professor, mentor and unassuming light on the UH campus has died. And that’s a difficult thing to talk about without saying things Ms. Noonoo would feel are far too cheerless.

I took Ms. Noonoo's class a year ago during my first semester at UH. She’d say things like “ratchet” or “bonkers” or “cray;” ten minutes later, she’d be telling you about her experiences at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she earned her Master of Arts in Journalism, or her time at Newsweek, or the Houston Chronicle, or The New York Times.

You’d be blown away, only to realize she’d used the word “ratchet” ten minutes ago. And then you’d smile.

People like Ms. Noonoo — Jemimah, as she’d probably want me to drop the formality — don’t come around often. I know we say that about anybody that’s passed, but with her, it’s the God's honest truth. I’ve never encountered anybody like her, anybody that even came close to paralleling her effortless eloquence, her spirit, her unapologetic faith in God. That zeal, that natural sense of joy, her assumed sense of optimism — that can’t be faked.

“You feel that?” she’d ask the class after a rousing lecture on hunting down the story. “That’s the passion! That’s the hunger!”

I’d hang around after class sometimes. Initially, this wasn’t something I volunteered for. Sometimes Ms. Noonoo would ask me to help students after class with their writing for a few minutes or so. But before I knew it, it would be 8:30 p.m., 30 minutes after class had ended. Ms. Noonoo and I would be nerding out about something — talking about journalism, or her family, or faith, or an article in the Times we thought was out of this world. She’d talk about her mother (“God love her,” I remember her saying more often than not), or her son (“my little Chocolate prince!” she once described him by to the class, only to be met with sheets of laughter).

One Tuesday, she called me from the hospital.

She asked me to email the class to cancel that night's session. Her voice was noticeably less full-bodied, and pretty coarse, chapped.

Still, for twenty minutes, too sick to hardly move, she talked to me about a story I had been writing.

It was beyond a polite gesture; she just couldn't be stopped from caring.

“I’ve gotta run now, hon,” she said, after talking to me for twenty minutes from a hospital bed.

And that’s why this has been really hard to write

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*** On the last day of class, the last day I saw her, Ms. Noonoo had us do a “mock” twenty-year reunion.

“Come to class as who you want to be; who you WILL be,” she told us, that signature fire in her belly. We took advantage of the freedom — among others, Ms. Noonoo was in the presence of three Vogue editors, an environmental lawyer, an E! News anchor, a music journalist living in Austin and a sports writer living in New York City.

During the reunion, one by one, we got up and talked about our lives — the lives that Ms. Noonoo desperately wanted us to have, only by virtue of us desperately wanting them.

She beamed. With each student that spoke, Ms. Noonoo became more and more engaged in these new, hyperfictional personas.

“This reunion is really going to happen, guys!” she told us. “Believe in this. Chase this.”

She said she couldn’t wait to see us again. I still believe this to be true.

—Cara Smith, Editor-in-chief

Vivaciousness "If there's one thing I remember, it's that she made it a joy to be in a 7 p.m. class. I remember the whole class laughing with Ms. Noonoo... That's just how she was." -Derail Texada, journalism senior Relentless passion "There were days she would come to class after her doctor's appointment, with an IV in her arm, but she would still come teach us with the biggest smile." -Ximena Zendejas, communications junior A signature style "As a religion writer at the Chronicle, she covered a wide variety of topics and always told her stories with a deft touch and spirited style." -Charles Crixell, UH journalism professor

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She never told me she was sick — near the end of the semester, it got tougher and tougher to hide it. The class never had a name to associate to the cancelled sessions, the feeding tubes that Ms. Noonoo sometimes came in wearing, the dulled eyes, but never a dulled spirit. To this day, that information hasn't been released by Noonoo's family.

On Sept. 14, Jemimah Noonoo passed away. She was 34.

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Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for college students across the nation.

According to a survey from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), more students are in need of suicide prevention education and information than ever before.

That's where UH's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) center comes in .

CAPS services include daytime and afterhours crisis intervention, individual and couples counseling, group counseling and free weekly “Food for Thought” workshops.

“As mental health professionals, we strive to help students cope and work toward self-understanding and improvement of psychological, interpersonal and academic

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functioning,” CAPS said on its website.

CAPS offers suicide prevention training to counselors and doctors through the nationally recognized suicide prevention program, Question, Persuade, Refer, or QPR. According to CAPS, QPR explains how to tell if a person is considering suicide, how to persuade the person to contact appropriate assistance and how to refer options to students.

“Almost 40 percent of our students indicate having had thoughts of ending their lives during the two weeks prior to their first visit to CAPS,” CAPS Director Norma Ngo said.

Between Sept. 2013 and Aug. 2014, 1,276 students visited CAPS. “The number of students coming to CAPS has been steadily increasing for several years,” Ngo said. “Suicide prevention is one of our main initiatives.”

Last June, a UH student took her own life at the construction site of TDECU stadium after falling 60 feet to her death. 18 percent of undergraduate students and 15 percent of graduate students have considered attempting suicide in their lifetimes, according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center.

“An individual experiencing a crisis is encouraged to come to CAPS as soon as possible and ask for a same-day Initial Consultation appointment,” CAPS assistant director Dr. Cecilia Sun said.

According to the CAPS website, all currently enrolled students at the University of Houston are eligible for clinical services at CAPS. Most of the services are free of charge to students.

Accounting senior Brenda Madrigal said she was able to overcome her depression by

taking small steps and trying to stay positive.

“If getting out of bed and brushing your teeth is a big accomplishment, it should be celebrated,” Madrigal said.

Electrical engineering junior Dominic Mak lost a friend to suicide and struggled with his own depression for roughly six years. Mak said it’s important for students to communicate their feelings and learn more about mental illnesses to combat student suicides.

“Depression is hard, and the stigma and unwillingness to acknowledge it only make it more difficult,” Mak said.

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Khator: Respect university missions, don't block access from 'at-risk' students JENAE SITZES

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AUSTIN – UH’s priority is providing access to higher education for all students who want it, regardless of age, socio-economic status or educational background, said UH President and Chancellor Renu Khator at The 2014 Texas Tribune Festival, held over the weekend at the University of Texas at Austin.

Khator spoke on the second higher education panel, “The Completion Crisis,” on Saturday, Sept.

20, which focused on the issue of retention rates among Texas' higher education institutions.

The panel revolved around questions that arise from an inherent struggle in higher education between having a high graduation rate and allowing access to all students, regardless of how likely they are to graduate in four or six years.

Khator said that ensuring access to post-secondary education takes priority over raising a completion percentage, but that both are important and can be achieved.

“I think we as a public institution have a mission to provide education. If you have fire in your UH President and Chancellor Renu Khator spoke on the "The Completion Crisis" panel at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival held in Austin. | Cara belly, come to us, and as long as you are ready, Smith/The Cougar we will help you graduate,” Khator said. “We are serving a phenomenal student body… and no roadblock should stop them.”

The panelists discussed outcomes-based funding “Even after you take all the factors out, I think as a way of forcing universities to raise graduathere is still institutional inefficiency, (an) institution rates. Outcomes-based funding is a system of tional cultural paradigm,” Khator said. “My message allocating funds based on the performance of an to my faculty and staff has been, ‘We’re doing great, institution, rather than enrollment or other factors. but how is it possible that individually we can do Trends in retention rates across the nation look bleak for Conversations about outcomes-based funding great and collectively we can be mediocre?’ ” four-year universities. UH’s current four-year graduation began in Texas, and as of March, twenty-five states UH is taking action to ensure that students who rate is 16 percent. Here’s what the rest of the United States use the model at some level of higher education, may be “at-risk” receive the resources they need to looks like: according to the National Conference of State Legstay enrolled and complete their degree. islatures. The common complaint with this method This year, UH launched its UHin4 program, which is that it tempts universities to turn away “at-risk” allows freshmen to sign a contract guaranteeing students. a four-year fixed tuition if they graduate in four 25% Chancellor of the Texas State University System years. Khator said 60 percent of incoming freshmen Brian McCall said Texas could have “a near 100 signed up for program, which is also available to Freshmen from families in the bottom income quartile that percent graduation rate in six years” if universities transfer students. will earn a bachelor’s degree by age 24 did not accept students who are sick or who take UHin4 allows students who sign on to obtain a care of sick loved ones, transfer students or studegree plan that will help them plan their classes 39% dents who were not in the top ten percent of their for the next four years. This eliminates the problem class. However, this would mean blocking access to students sometimes have where a class they need First-generation college students who graduate in four education for a large number of people. for graduation becomes unavailable. years “From my perspective, let’s go for (out“The UHin4 students have a guaranteed seat in comes-based funding), but let’s keep the impact at class if that’s what they need to graduate,” Khator a manageable level so that we don’t penalize the said. “They have their graduation plan for the next 40% institutions that are most committed to access,” four years, which means the departments have to American students at four-year colleges that don’t earn a President of the University of Texas at El Paso show what classes they are offering over the next degree after six years Diana Natalicio said. four years so you can plan your degree.”

Khator agreed with Natalicio, saying that it is She said advising at UH is also undergoing important to keep in mind what a University is change, as advisors will now be held accountable 60% primarily trying to accomplish before withholding for not just how many students they see but how funds. many consistently return.

Students with parents that both graduated from college “An institution like UH-Downtown, whose Since arriving in 2008, Khator has worked to who graduate in four years mission is very different… they don’t have the change the culture of UH into one where students four-year graduation rate because they take more are passionate about being on campus, which she 90% at-risk students,” Khator said. “Think about taking said breeds academic success. money from them and giving it to the main campus “That’s the whole purpose of wearing red, of Freshmen from families in the top income quartile that will because they are already ahead in the race. I just having this great stadium, so that we can have earn a bachelor’s degree by age 24 don’t think it’s fair.” more pride and confidence,” Khator said. “I don’t Khator said that while factors such as income know of any schools or fields of life where you can Source nytimes.com and educational backgrounds contribute to be successful without having pride and passion in whether students stay in school or drop out, there that particular thing that you do.” is also a responsibility on the part of universities to Infographic by Jose Cruz news@thedailycougar.com do more.

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UH establishes international subsea engineering alliance

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The Cullen College of Engineering has been building more than pipe dreams across the global subsea engineering community.

Subsea Engineering Graduate Program Director Matthew Franchek is leading an international alliance between UH and other underwater technology programs that will allow students to work with experts across oceans and borders via an exclusive online course.

“This is a very serious need,” Franchek says in a press release.

“We’ve got to generate a new workforce.”

UH continues to be the only subsea engineering graduate program in the nation after Franchek, who also directs the International Subsea Engineering Research Institute, established the master’s degree program in 2013.

Franchek was unavailable for comment, but the school said his current goal is to share the curriculum with other universities and build alliance membership, as well as set expectations for subsea engineer employers. Franchek also plans for UH to become the go-to institution for research and testing in the industry.

The Global Subsea University Alliance includes Bergen University College in Norway, Curtin University in Australia, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National University of Singapore and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. UH students can already take classes offered at the University of Aberdeen.

Subsea engineers supervise the design, installation and maintenance of tools and equipment used in underwater drilling. The operations are automated or performed remotely, but engineers often face complications caused by extreme temperatures, corro-

sive saltwater environments and high pressures.

The wave of innovation doesn’t break at the coast of academia.

The Society for Underwater Technology is creating invaluable networks for its members, said the organization's founder and president, Nebolisa Egbunike.

“I realized there is nothing available for students to learn about subsea engineering in general… in the U.S. and around the globe,” Egbunike said.

The disconnect between incoming engineers and retiring industry veterans was also a concern for Egbunike when he started the group last year. He said he believes that the society can help professionals pass along knowledge.

The society collaborates with gas and oil industry titans Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips, B.P. P.L.C. and many other corporations to organize company tours, professional workshops, lecture series, luncheons, potential internships and full-time work opportunities for its members.

"It’s a diverse group," Egbunike said. "It has a combination of undergraduate and graduate students. Plus, the membership is open to those studying in other fields."

He welcomes other engineering, various technology, non-technical students and professionals to join.

The Society of Underwater Technology, which is a nearly 50 years-old professional organization based in the United Kingdom, and Subsea Engineering Society were originally separate organizations but joined forces in June.

The partnership will qualify Society of Engineering members for more scholarship opportunities, create deeper industry ties and help build corporate sponsorship, Egbunike said.

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High enrollment means increased chances for success GLISSETTE SANTANA

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UH broke records this semester with a total enrollment number of 40,959 students, a number that may very well represent what is a step in the initiative to become a fully Tier One university.

“We are continuing to broaden our overall excellence, which includes enhancing the undergraduate education experience and improving our college completion rate,” President Renu Khator said in a press release.

“Our record enrollment reflects the undeniable, palpable energy on display on our campus. It is an exciting time to be a Cougar.”

Incoming freshmen are also taking more classes than ever.

The number of classes freshmen are taking — an average of

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14.44 semester credit hours — is greater than the average undergraduate, who is enrolled in 12.06 credit hours.

Incoming freshmen were given an option to opt into the new UHin4 program, which offers four years of fixed tuition, valued at $4,750 a semester.

The program requires a minimum of fifteen credit hours to be completed each semester.

Approximately sixty percent of incoming freshmen signed up for UHin4.

“UHin4 is good for the students and for the University as more and more emphasis is being put on performance-based funding,” Provost Paula Myrick Short said.

“We will continue to evaluate innovative and impactful programs that increase student success, including graduation rates, and contribute to a positive student experience.”

Because UH is a public school, state funding may increase due to the higher number of enrolled students.

The increase in average credit hours will also have a positive impact on state funding. “(The) state formula funding represents about one-third of the University’s operating budget

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excluding auxiliary expenses and research,” Maureen G. Croft, interim associate provost for Strategic Enrollment Planning, said.

“In order to maintain balanced revenue and to maintain comparable access to a college education, UH often attempts to balance our enrollment with statewide growth in enrollment.”

This fall also marks an increase in students living on campus, as well as students that are returning either to finish their degrees or to continue their education, adding to the already diverse educational climate at UH. Specifically, more African Americans are enrolled than ever

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before along with more undergraduate transfer students.

“More efforts were placed on increasing our yield activity (admission to enrollment) for new African-American freshmen,” Director of Student Recruitment Jeff Fuller said.

"Transfer students were allowed to list up to three potential majors so we could holistically review them for the major most appropriate based on their educational history.”

“The University of Houston is reflective of the city itself,” Student Government Association President Charles Haston said.

“That’s something that students should take full advantage of.”

More students mean increased opportunities for being involved in student life.

Haston says that having a larger student body is indicative of our current economic climate, as jobs are harder to come by, and because we see an increase in older students who have come to continue their education.

“With that many students, it’s easy to become lost in the crowd, but that’s not happening here," Haston said. "Students are demonstrating that not only are they coming to UH to get a degree, they are also here to be involved.” news@thedailycougar.com

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Gender inequality shown in classrooms, boys left shortchanged

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or the last couple of decades, education has done its best to ensure that girls have received the same attention and opportunities to participate in the classroom. Unfortunately, after years of attempting to create equality, the gender gap in education still exists.

The difference is, now boys are the ones being left behind as girls JONATHAN BOLAN soar ahead.

COLUMNIST The culture of the classroom has changed to become more inclusive of girls and has, in the process, become a hostile environment for boys.

Boys are the subject of disciplinary action far more often than girls, make up a significantly larger portion of those in special education courses, are dispropor-

tionately diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and are less likely to graduate from high school. In the current educational climate, it’s not a good time to be a boy.

Men and women think differently — just ask John Gray, author of the iconic book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus."

This bestseller highlights the fact that difficulty in relationships often arises because men and women are constitutionally different, particularly in the ways in which information is processed and interpreted.

The classroom is the perfect example of just how differently male and female brains operate.

Each has specific needs, but when the focus of curriculum favors one gender over the other, half the students will inevitably be left out.

The different needs of boys and girls are apparent from the beginning of one’s education.

Kindergarten is the time in which children are introduced to reading

and writing, but studies suggest that while girls are ready to acquire language skills at age 5, boys are not yet cognitively prepared at this age.

According to the American Association of School Administrators, the area of the brain responsible for language acquisition develops in boys two years later than in girls.

Boys at this age are more interested in honing their naturally strong spatial reasoning and

"Culture, language and pedagogy are always and should always be in flux in order to remedy the latest inequalities.”

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become frustrated and unruly when not allowed to build, explore and design. The problem, said the AASA, is that these early frustrations with school create feelings of inadequacy that will be carried on throughout a boy’s academic career.

When boys are placed in an environment that isn’t suited to their learning strengths, they act out and are labeled as discipline problems.

This is a trend that begins early and will continue to plague boys throughout high school.

According to TIME, “boys are nearly five times more likely to be expelled from preschool than girls.

In grades K-12, boys account for nearly 70 percent of suspensions, often for minor acts of insubordination and defiance.”

The issue with the current state of the classroom is that it isn’t a friendly place for male students.

The “feminization of the classroom,” which has helped bring girls up to speed with boys, is

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an oppressive environment for male students. Cops and robbers, dodgeball and heroic make-believe — some of the pastimes that most boys naturally prefer — are no longer allowed in many schools because they have been deemed “too aggressive.”

“The expectations as to what is acceptable behavior in the classroom is just one step in redefining the concept of what it means to be a boy,” said theatre studies graduate student Rachel Aker.

Aker raises an interesting point; what we currently define as acceptable masculine behavior in boys may be radically different 30 years from now as values and social institutions evolve. The problem is that the culture of the classroom may be changing faster than society is.

Boys are still encouraged societally to exhibit aggressive, dominant behaviors, especially in

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Saving the Internet: Net neutrality for all

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he Internet has changed our lives, but the Internet itself has also changed considerably in the last decade or so. It has grown from a small network used by a limited number of people to a global system easily accessible by anyone with an Internet service provider — at least, that is the principle.

Equal access to all of the EILEEN HOLLEY Internet's COLUMNIST resources, a concept known as a free and open Internet, is just out of reach. ISPs like Comcast and AT&T control all Internet traffic in the United States. This means that they also have the ability and — as a company that obviously wants to make a profit — the monetary incentives to engage in activity that could threaten a free and open Internet.

In February, according to The New York Times, Comcast and Netflix announced a deal that would have Netflix pay Comcast for priority broadband service, meaning that during periods of high traffic, Comcast subscriber’s

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would have faster and more reliable access to Netflix’s content than before.

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stated that it was instead caused by constraints of the intermediary system used by Netflix.

This agreement was unprecedented, and the paid prioritization of Internet traffic directly violates the idea of net neutrality, which is that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.

This incident only added fuel to the public debate over net neutrality that raged following a federal appeals court decision in January that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to enforce some of their pre-existing rules on net neutrality. Under the full rules of the Open Internet Order of 2010, the deal between Netflix and Comcast might not have been possible.

However, since this ruling, the FCC has been forced back to the drawing board to create enforceable rules. They seem to have abandoned defending the idea altogether, as FCC chairman Tom Wheeler introduced a new proposal that would allow for the prioritization of websites willing to make deals to pay ISPs for faster service, just as Netflix has done. FCC commissioners were divided on the issue and voted 3-2 to push the proposal through to public comment, after which they would go over all of the comments, revise the rules accordingly before voting again.

Thus, the FCC released a notice of proposed rulemaking and announced that it would be made open to comments from the public for four months starting May 15. A news release on the

FCC website states the various aspects of the issue on which comments were sought, beginning with the question: "What is the right public policy to ensure that the Internet remains open?"

In the ensuing four months, many net neutrality advocates spoke up with their suggestions, insisting that paid prioritization hurts potential startup websites, hurts consumers and destroys the essential ideals of freedom, openness and equality that are the basis of the Internet.

Chemistry junior Janna Rancifer said she thinks that a lack of net neutrality will also “hinder free speech on the Internet.”

“Especially if — to put your message out there or to have people see it — you have to pay a lot more,” Rancifer said. “I don’t think it’s in the best interests of the majority of people... if a bunch of companies are able to decide ‘We’re going to get the fast lane. Everyone else is going to have a slow lane.’ ” One proposed option that is repeatedly brought up by net neutrality advocates is a reclassification of the broadband Internet under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 from section 706 to a Title II industry. This would mean it could be regulated like phone service as a utility and ISPs would be considered common carriers subject to greater oversight by the FCC. In this new era of the Internet, the rules set up in 1996 are outdated. There are those who

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play. It should come as no surprise that boys are struggling to understand the contradictory dictums they receive. Society expects one thing of them, while school requires another.

Last year, a seven-year-old was suspended from school for pretending that his pencil was a gun.

The decision to suspend the child was made, ostensibly, in effort to prevent any violence from entering the classroom; however, studies show that actual juvenile violence at school is at a historic low.

The problem with these kinds of ludicrous, unwarranted punishments is that they deliver an offensive message to boys: You and your masculinity aren’t welcome here.

Statistically speaking, boys are receiving this message loud and clear.

According to the AASA, “boys account for 70 percent of the D’s and F’s in schools, two-thirds of disability diagnoses and represent 90 percent of discipline referrals” in grades K-12. Poor academic performance means that less boys than girls are graduating from high school and even fewer are attending college.

At campuses across the nation, women, making up about 60 percent of the student population, are earning 170,000 more bachelor degrees each year than men.

English graduate student Sami Atassi said that this statistic is not surprising to him.

“Honestly, I’m not surprised that women are excelling over men," Atassi said. "The generalization that girls mature faster than boys has been statistically proven, and boys are paying the price. Culture, language and pedagogy are always and should always be in flux in order to remedy the latest inequalities."

Unfortunately, despite worrisome trends in education, boys aren’t receiving the kind of public attention that girls have garnered.

When girls fall behind, it’s alarming; when it happens to boys, it’s ignored.

In effort to level the playing field for girls, the positions have merely been reversed. The fact that young women are dominating academically is a success for us all and one that should be celebrated, but we can’t have half of our population succeed at the expense of the other.

It’s time for classroom culture to change once more; boys deserve to feel welcome without their male sensibility being checked at the door.

fear greater regulation and insist the market will fix itself, but as it is now, the system is broken.

ISP's pose too great of a risk to an open and free Internet, and companies like Comcast have too much power and too little competition to be willing to change on their own.

That is what made these last four months so important and the results so remarkable. The FCC’s final decision will be a major moment in the history of the Internet.

The FCC asked for the public’s comments and suggestions, and the public without a doubt responded. According to NPR, by the time the deadline for comments came on Sept. 15, a total of 3.7 million comments had been sent in to the FCC. According to a study by Sunlight Foundation, less than 1 percent of the 800,000 comments sent to the FCC as of Aug. 5 were clearly opposed to net neutrality.

Much of this support for net neutrality can be attributed to the vocal advocates including The Internet Association, of which web giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Ebay are a part.

There were also many viral campaigns online like Battle for the Net’s Internet Slowdown Day, during which a total of 40,000 websites showed a loading wheel on their homepage and linked visitors to comment on the FCC’s website that brought awareness to the issue.

Two charts on FCC website show spikes in comments coinciding with the release of Youtube videos posted by the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on June 1 and

by CollegeHumor, both of which encouraged viewers to send comments to the FCC. The biggest spike, however, came with the Internet Slowdown Day on Sept. 10, with almost 250,000 comments received in one day. All of this proved to an amazing degree the ability of users of the Internet to speak up about what matters to them most: the Internet.

Now the question is whether or not the public’s voices are stronger than cable industry lobbyists’ money.

It can only be hoped that the FFC board considers the public’s comments and modifies the proposal accordingly. Only then will we be able to talk about the summer of 2014 as the time we saved the Internet.

Opinion columnist Jonathan Bolan is an English graduate student and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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School spirit is not just for the winning team

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ll you could see on Aug. 29 was the sea of red — red shirts, red hair, red face paint. School spirit was rampant, and you could feel that this was going to be the start of something big for UH. At the gates of TDECU Stadium, 40,755 students, alumni and Cougar fans lined up for their chance to be a part of history — a part of something bigger than themselves. The game started, the crowd cheered, the band played. Everything was perfect.

By the start of the fourth quarter, more than of the 40,755 fans were gone — disappointed by the way the game played out. School spirit went out the window, and the sea of red turned into a creek.

The second football game against Grambling State lost about 10,000 fans in the stands.

This Saturday’s game against UNLV lost another 10,000, barely filling half of the 40,000-seat stadium.

This is where the problem lies.

UH has traditionally been known as a commuter school.

Located in a growing, fast-paced, limitless city, UH has gone through many ups and downs.

We enjoy Tier One Research status, and our next goal — for right now, at least — is to become a fully Tier One accredited university.

It will not happen without a change in student life, including school spirit, and attending athletic events is only a small part of it.

Though Cougars are tired of being constantly compared to University of Texas and Texas A&M University, it cannot be ignored that these universities have school spirit.

They are successful because they have the backing of the student body behind them, win or lose, every single day.

There are plenty of students who are proud to be a part of

this University, but there are still some who doubt how great UH can become.

With a more spirit-oriented student body, UH could differentiate itself from the other four universities in the Houston area.

Our official motto at the University is “In Tempore,” which means “In Time.” In time, we will become great. In time, we will become nationally and globally recognized. In time, every single person who walks on this campus will walk around with a kick in their step, radiating with pride.

But why wait until it is our time to shine? We, as a student body, should work together to make that time — our time — come now. Step one is maintaining that Cougar spirit every single day: win or lose, rain or shine.

In time, if students are proud of their school, there’s no telling what UH can do.

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Glass Mountain Reading 

First Day of Autumn 

TODAY Women's Studies Open  House The UH Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program will hold an open house for interested students, faculty and staff from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Agnes Arnold Hall Rm. 624.

City Hall Farmers Market  Houston will host a farmers market from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on both sides of City Hall's reflection pool. Vendors offer a variety of fresh and prepared food at the heart of the city.

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Glass Mountain will host its first Fall Reading Series at 7:30 at the Nook Cafe, with poetry and prose from Sims Hardin and Josh Urban Davis with special guest Kay Cosgrove.

Print Sale  The Senior Photo Students Organization will organize a print sale from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Nook Cafe. Students will sell art ranging from $5 to $20.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 UH Tennis 

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The Cougars will participate in the Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championships in Los Angeles, Calif., all day today, Saturday and Sunday.

Reality Bytes 

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The Women's Resource Center will watch and discuss reality television programming from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Free lunch and Cougar trading cards will be provided. This week's program will be "Real Housewives of Atlanta."

The Cougars will play against Cincinnati in the season's first American Athletic Conference game from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Athletics/Alumni Center. Students get in free with their Cougar Card.

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The Cougars will participate in the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islander Splash from 7 to 9 p.m. in Corpus Christi.

Five visually challenged artists and two other artists, highlighting the challenged artists' struggles and achievements and incorporating various forms of Indian dance, will perform at 5 p.m. at the UC Theater. Student tickets cost $10, and tickets for other guests are $15 and up. For more information, contact houston@aidindia.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27 SPB Presents: Game  Night The Student Program Board will host a game night from 8 to 12 p.m. at Lynn Eusan Park.

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Empower will host Texas state representative candidiate Amber Paaso, who will share her experiences as she runs for office from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Stephen Power Farish Hall in the KIVA Room.

Free food will be provided.

The Cougars will play against Memphis in their second AAC game from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Athletics/Alumni Center.

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Beta Alpha Psi's Gamma Delta Chapter will host Track Night at 6 p.m. in UC Ballroom 210. Panelists will discuss the various career tracks offered in public accounting.

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The first of the 2014-2015 Energy Symposium Series will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the UC Theater. After the debate, a reception will be held from 7 to 8 p.m.

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Houghton Hall was the home of the first Enlish prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, it now belongs to the marquesses of Cholmondeley. Under their direction, it has become a national landmark renowned for its art collection and unique furnishings. Located in Norfolk, northeast of London, it houses paintings, porcelain, sculpturesall meant to convey opulence and regality. | Photos by Pablo Milanese/ The Cougar

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Houston is the first city to host "Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House" outside England.

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For the first time, Houghton Hall left England. Its first stop was the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Originally the home of the first English prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, it now belongs to the marquesses of Cholmondeley.

Under their direction, it has become a national landmark renowned for its art collection and unique furnishings.

Located in Norfolk, northeast of London, Houghton Hall houses paintings, porcelain, sculptures, costume, metalwork and furniture all meant to convey opulence and regality.

"Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House" brought nearly 200 objects to Houston to recreate and evoke the image of the rooms at Houghton Hall.

The exhibit was not an immersive experience wherein stepping into each room transported the visitor to the 1800s, but it did serve as a reminder of a time when living in extravagant castles with detailed marbling, stone pillars and themed rooms was the norm, or at least the dream.

There was a touch screen available with 360-degree full color photographs of each room: the Great Staircase, the Stone Hall, the Common Parlour, the

Library, the Marble Parlour, the Cabinet Room, the Embroidered Bedchamber, the Green Velvet Bedchamber, the Carlo Maratta room and the Saloon.

Seeing each room, even through a small screen, was enough to whisk visitors away to a world that used to exist and is now on display for the current world to see.

The exhibit ran from June 22 to Sept.

21 at the MFAH’s Beck Building.

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Sprouting out of Chico, Calif., Hail the Sun is a progressive hard rock four piece that combines explosive high-energy instrumentation with melodic vocal intricacies to create their own brand of music.

The group came through Houston September 15, performing at Walter’s Downtown to support the release of their new album "Wake," hitting stores Sept. 23.

We sat down with Donovan Melero, lead singer of the group, to get the scoop on their newest release.

The Cougar: How has the tour been going?

Donovan Melero: The tour has been going great. We’ve been on the road now for eleven days. Anaheim was insane. San Antonio was insane.

TC: How did you pick the lineup of bands for tonight?

Hail The Sun has been on tour with Stolas . Their new album "Wake" will come out on Sep 23. | Courtesy of Hail The Sun

DM : Me and Sergio (of Stolas) had been talking about touring together since last March, and we decided now was the right time to do it, and Icarus the Owl are some great friends of

mine, and they fit the bill to do it.

out?

They’re a band that I book as well.

DM: The record is called "Wake." There are 12 tracks. We’ve been writing songs for the last year and a half; it’s the first new music that we put out

TC: Can you tell me about the new Hail The Sun record coming

since "Elephantitis" in July of 2012, so we’ve been writing this for more than two years. It’s nice to have a full new

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LIFE & ARTS Five facts to know about the Hilton A history of Par Excellence.

New members, called petites, undergo training in serving, bar-tending, wine service, carving meat and event planning. The petites plan and host a “grad function” where they receive their formal tuxedo jackets and become full-fledged “penguins” (named for the tuxedo jackets’ resemblance to penguins).

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Students run things. Cougar Grounds is the first student-run coffeehouse in the country that is part of the curriculum for a class. It is open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hall of Honor. Every October, the Hilton hosts the Hospi-

tality Hall of Honor where a notable industry figure is recognized for their contributions to the hospitality industry.

A student general manager alongside a student board of directors directs a reception, ceremony, dinner and a series of events called "Think Tanks."

Gourmet Night. Gourmet Night allows students to demonstrate skills in culinary arts, event planning, beverage management and service direction.

Food is motivation. The Hilton's student-run restaurant, Barron’s, is open Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Barron's is located on the first floor of the College's South Wing. The kitchen staff, wait staff and managers work at Barron’s as part of their core curriculum.

The menu is priced for college students, with entrees from $6.50 to $7.50.

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Going out for dinner can be a mundane task, even for those who live in city with diverse food options such as Houston, but two UH alumni are on a mission to change that.

Emily Paez and Jonathan Wong are co-founders of a new business called Local Neighborfood that promises to revolutionize the dining experience in the city while EMILY giving back to PAEZ CO-FOUNDER OF the commuNEIGHBORFOOD nity.

“This concept is definitely different for Houston,” Paez said.

“We take the restaurant out of the equation and unite foodies from all over town in a secret location to enjoy great food and great company.”

Events will be held at least four times a month and will showcase the culinary talent of local chefs.

Locations are kept secret until the day before the event, when they will then be announced via email or text message.

Prices will range between $40 and $70 per person, however, Local Neighborfood requires you to enroll in a $120 yearly membership and to be 21 or older.

The funds will go in part to charitable causes among them the Houston Food Bank.

Paez and Wong have come a long way since they graduated from UH in 2011.

Wong’s knowledge of business and marketing and Paez’s experience in hospitality have allowed them to make their dreams come true only three years after graduation.

“Owning my own business has always been a dream of mine," Paez said. "I can confidently say that Jonathan shares that notion. It’s pretty surreal that this is happening so fast, but there’s no better time than now.”

Local Neighborfood also plans to give back to the UH organization Par Excellence, where Paez held the general manager position that allowed her to learn and develop the skills needed to run a business.

“I love the concept of Par Ex.,” Paez said.

“It allows students to own and operate a hospitality staffing company and provides scholarships in return.”

Par Excellence members are also excited to be collaborating with Local Neighborfood and hope that their participation with the business will also help the organization become more

recognized in town.

“This will definitely bring much more knowledge of our organization to the greater Houston community,” said Shining Wang, Par Excellence’s current general manager. “We are a well passed around secret among some communities within Houston but, after this, we will have a more diverse and widespread group of Houstonians to serve.”

Wang stressed how important it is for graduates to give back and inspire the next generation.

“We are blessed to work with such an inspiring alumna of the Conrad N. Hilton College and of Par Excellence,” Wang said.

Local Neighborfood plans to help promote the organization by hiring them as qualified servers and bartenders for several of the events that it will host.

Although dates are still being discussed between the parties, it is certain that Par Excellence will be staffing their very first event.

“We will be working together at their launch on October 31,” said Wang.

“We plan for a long-term relationship between Local Neighborfood and Par Excellence.”

To learn more about Local Neighborfood and to sign up for events, visit www.localneighborfood.com. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Stolas is a quartet hailing from Las Vegas, Nev., founded in August of 2011. They performed at Walter’s Downtown Sept. 15, with Hail The Sun and Icarus the Owl, in support of their new album "Allomaternal," slated for an Oct. 15 release. The Cougar sat down with lead guitarist Sergio Medina to discuss the tour and the album during their time in Houston.

TC: Do you have towns you go to anticipating a good night?

SM :Yeah, Houston is one of them.

Another one is Sacramento. Sacramento sold out, Chain Reaction in Anaheim in California, and tonight was definitely up there. In Sacramento a fight broke out in the first song (of Hail the Sun.) The kid was just looking for his glasses, and they were dragging him out (and he was) like “I just want my glasses!” Someone knocked his glasses over, and he just tried to fight back.

TC:So what does (the word allomaternal) mean?

SM:T(It) means being motherly towards something that is not biologically yours. But it pertains

The members of Stolas spent a year working on their new album "Allomaternal" which will be released on Oct 15. | Courtesy of Stolas

more to the animal kingdom, not to humans. You don’t say an allomaternal mom, you would say ‘my adopted mom.’ Like if a pig finds a pup.

TC: So what’s behind the name?

SM: IIt’s a concept album about four

girls, four orphan girls. When we release our CD it’ll have a pamphlet that gives a plot of everything.

TC: What did you do differently with this album?

SM:We did no guest vocals, which left it all up to us to be spot-on as possible vocally, and that kind of pushes Carlo and Jason, and Carlo sings a lot more on this album. So yeah, no more guest vocals. I’m really stoked on that.

TC: Is there anything you set out deliberately to do with this album?

SM: We wrote the songs over

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TC: Parts of the "Elephantitis EP" consisted of making statements about different parts of culture. Are there any themes like that present on this album?

DM: It’s a reoccurring dark theme, pretty much the whole album. You

the period of a year; we wrote ten tracks over one year. We spent a lot of time on each one of them. Some bands do a month of writing, or get together for a few days to write an entire album. We could do that, but we don’t like that.

Before we were a little bit rushed, and that was why we had nine actual songs and an interlude track; this time we had ten songs and we did them in a specific order.

And it’s a concept, (but) the concept is more in the music than

never know when anything will end; there is nothing you can be sure about but that one day you will come to an end.

TC: Did you do anything when recording this as opposed to when you recorded the "Elephantitis EP"?

DM: : We had everything pretty much written before we went to the studio. With "Elephantitis" we had a lot of last-minute studio magic. We

in the lyrics ... We know the story but we’re going to let (everyone else) figure it out. They might not even feel like it’s a concept album.

TC: Who wrote the concept?

SM: IRJ, wrote the concept. He did all of the song titles — he named the album. He sent us this PDF of the entire story before we started.

He wrote that, and I kind of present more of the structural riffs to the band, and everyone throws in their ideas.

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prepared a lot more for this album. It’s gotten way tighter.

TC: Is there anything you want to part on?

DM: I just want to say thanks to everyone, all of the fans. Me and Eric have been doing this for eight years and five years (as Hail the Sun.) It’s nice to see it grow some legs. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Cougars boast strong ground-and-pound attack ANDREW VALDERAS

OVERTIME EDITOR @THISISDREW2010

Some of quarterback John O’Korn’s teammates may have been a little upset with him after the team evened its record Saturday night.

O’Korn took a knee on the last play of the second quarter and headed into halftime with a 13-7 lead. The play resulted in a 1-yard loss to the team’s rushing total — and UH’s rushing attack finished the night a yard shy of 400, a school rushing record that was set nearly 30 years ago, in UH's 47-14 dominant win over UNLV. “We have a few offensive linemen a little disappointed in the locker room right now having only rushed 399 yards, and really again I place the blame on John,” head coach Tony Levine said jokingly of the sophomore.

Junior running back Kenneth Farrow, redshirt freshman Javin Webb, senior receiver Daniel Spencer and O’Korn each rushed for a touchdown in the team’s rushing

Junior running back Ryan Jackson was among the many Cougars to contribute to the team total of 399 rushing yards.

Jackson set a new career high, rushing for the biggest share of the team's yards with 147. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

attack that averaged better than 7.5 yards per carry.

Junior Ryan Jackson also rushed

for a career-high 147 yards to go along with a 26-yard receiving score in the third quarter that

started the rout.

UH rushed 31 times in the second half for more than 250

yards, compared to their zero attempts against BYU. It was an area that Farrow felt was important the offense needed to implement.

“When a running back gets more carries, then you get in a rhythm, and that’s not something we’ve had in the past couple of weeks,” said Farrow, who rushed for 113 yards.

“I think we have to establish that. When you get more carries and get in a rhythm, you see more holes open up which is someKENNETH FARROW thing me and RUNNING BACK Ryan (Jackson) were able to do tonight, and the offensive line did great.”

The offensive line simply wore out the UNLV defensive front. It

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inside that consisted of draws, handoffs out of shotgun formation and sweeps kept UNLV defenders guessing all night.

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“He responded very well. He didn’t rattle. He kept his composure, made some great throws and extended some plays with his feet." sports@thedailycougar.com

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Athletes to watch for solid AAC play SEAN ALDER

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We all know that football is the biggest sport during the fall. But as all athletes enter into American Athletic Conference play in the coming weeks, there are some important names we should all be familiar with that might not see the spotlight as often as football.

Volleyball: Redshirt junior Kadi Kullerkann is off to a great start this year with 228 total kills in 12 games before AAC play. Kullerkann now averages 19 kills a game and is only getting started.

Volleyball: Senior Natalie Keck has kept the Cougars ahead of their game by keeping the scores of their opponents low. Keck was named defensive player of the week to start September and, in just 12 games, has racked up 230 digs.

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Soccer: After transferring from Tennessee Tech, junior goalkeeper Jordan Brown is making a good impression here at UH by making it easy for the Cougar offense as she has logged 35 saves in just 7 games.

Tennis: Freshman Angela Lorenzo not only earned her first collegiate win on Friday during the Solinco Houston Open, she ended up winning the singles tournament title.

In just her first year, Lorenzo has plenty of time to continue leading the Cougars to victory.

Tennis: Senior Charlotte Phillips made UH history this past weekend in the Solinco Houston Open as she became the first Cougar to ever win three matches in one day. Going into Sunday's play undefeated, Phillips help lead the Cougars to an overall tournament record of 14-5.

Men's Golf: Senior Kyle Pilgrim is making the most of his final year at UH as he led the Cougars in their third place finish at the Wolf Run Intercollegiate this past weekend. Pilgrim finished sixth individually for the tournament with a score of 219.

Women's Golf: Freshman Yuka Kajika finished out the Mary Fossum Invitational last week with a score of 223, landing her in third place for the tournament. As a team, the Cougars finished fourth overall.

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With the help of UH's strong defensive line and linebacker performance that included constant quarterback pressure, first-year starting cornerback William Jackson (3) held one of the nation's best receivers, Devante Davis (81), who recorded 1,290 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns last season, to one catch for zero yards in UH's 47-14 win over UNLV on Saturday night. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

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Jackson shuts out star receiver in UH win ANDREW VALDERAS

OVERTIME EDITOR @THISISDREW2010

The UH defense had trouble the last time it faced one of the nation’s elite receivers.

Jordan Matthews — who was selected as the 42nd pick by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2014 NFL Draft — burned the Cougars with five catches for 143 yards and two touchdowns in last season’s BBVA Compass Bowl when he played for Vanderbilt.

UH was defeated 41-24.

With the graduation of starting cornerbacks Zach McMillian and Thomas Bates, first-year starter William Jackson, a junior, was assigned the daunting task of matching up against UNLV star receiver Devante Davis on Saturday night.

Davis is coming off 1,290 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns last season, and was on pace for another stellar season (268 yards, two touchdowns in entering Saturday).

Jackson held his own — and then some — when primarily matched up against Davis. He limited Davis to just one catch for zero yards in UH’s 47-14 win over UNLV. “I’m really proud of William Jackson,” said head coach Tony Levine.

“I think (Davis) is one of the premier elite receivers in the United States.

I had a chance to visit with him after the game; just a tremendous young man.”

WILLIAM JACKSON Jackson CORNERBACK recorded four tackles in the win along with his coverage on Davis, which went hand-inhand with the defensive line that recorded a sack and provided constant quarterback pressure.

UNLV quarterback Blake Decker completed less than 50

percent of his passes (42.9) with two interceptions.

Decker threw for just 113 yards with a 62.47 quarterback rating, both season lows.

“The defensive line makes it happen,” Jackson said.

“They put pressure on the quarterback, so he has to put the ball up in the air and make plays

after that.”

McDonald, a turnover machine Junior safety Adrian McDonald has recorded a turnover in each game this season, and seven dating backing to last season.

He returned an interception 29 yards in the fourth quarter.

McDonald has a team-high two interceptions, a forced fumble and recovery this season.

“I give a lot to the defensive line,” McDonald said.

“They made the quarterback rush the ball so it was easy for me to cover.” sports@thedailycougar.com

STANDOUTS Here are two players who had an impact in the Cougars' 47-14 win over the Rebels Saturday night.

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Jackson accumulated 173 all-purpose yards (147 rushing, 26 receiving) in UH's win over UNLV

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The Cougars hosted the Solinco Houston Open this weekend, when the weather permitted, and brought the necessary strong start that makes UH stand out.

A day that may have been dreary and dark for other Houstonians will stick out for freshman Angela Lorenzo as she earned her first career collegiate win during day one of the Solinco Houston Open.

Lorenzo was lucky enough to complete her first singles match 6-3 and 6-1 without a shake-up, despite the threat of inclement weather. “I felt so good because it was my first win and it was a great feeling,” said Lorenzo.

Senior Charlotte Phillips and junior Rocio Martin got rained out of their first round singles matches Friday. All playing was pushed back to continue on

Saturday.

In doubles, Lorenzo and her partner Martin collected a win against St. Edwards University 8-3. On Saturday, their efforts were more consistent as they completed their doubles match 7-2.

However, not all thunderstorms bring bad news. The Cougars took the opportunity to use the saved energy for Saturday when it was needed the most.

Philllips had a long Saturday as she was now scheduled to play three games. But she also had the will to make it to the championship by winning all three of her singles matches, making her the first Cougar to win three matches in one day.

Not only did she set a UH record, but Phillips also earned her first victory over Rice University since a semi-final win in 2011. At one of her three

Freshman Angela Lorenzo had a strong first outing with the Cougars as she earned her first collegiate victory on Friday. | Quinton Huebner/The Cougar

matches Saturday, she walked off the court against Rice player Solo Kinko with an impressive 6-0 and 6-3. “Yesterday was a tough day but I was playing really well,” said Phillips. “To get a win over Rice is always nice.”

Solid play on Friday and Saturday took Martin to her toughest match of the open on Sunday against an opponent that took the game into a tiebreaker.

“I think this match was the

biggest and the best one of the tournament for me and I felt like I was getting better through the tournament,” said Martin.

“Even though it’s the last day and you’re tired, you have to do everything you can. I enjoyed it — it was tough, but I enjoyed it.”

To finish out the tournament strong, Lorenzo won the singles tournament title.

The Riviera/ITS Women’s All American Championships are coming up, and just before Halloween the team will be traveling to Los Angeles to take on the best of the AAC. The Cougars are looking forward to priming themselves for even greater achievements away from home.

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Cougars rebound against Rebels in high fashion UH dominates in all phases in its 47-14 win over UNLV, earning an even record as they head into a bye week before AAC play.

Junior strong safety Adrian McDonald lengthened his streak of consecutive games with a forced turnover to seven Saturday. | Photos by Justin Tijerina/ The Cougar