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An unidentified female was found dead at The Vue on MacGregor wearing nothing but socks and earrings. | PG. 2

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A body was found at the entrance of the The Vue on MacGregor around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning.

The woman, whose identity has not been released, was found near the entrance of the apartment on the 4600 block of South MacGregor, according to ABC13. The body was found on the first floor in an area that is still under construction where apartment’s gym and workout center is expected to be.

“It’s terrifying waking up to a dead body outside your window,” said finance junior Kim Kattapong.

Kattapong lives on the second floor of The Vue, in an apartment complex directly adjacent to the scene.

Calls to The Vue have not yet been returned.

“This incident is under investigation. Once we have information on what occurred, we will share it with our residents,” was posted on The Vue’s official Facebook page.

“It’s really unsettling to know

that security didn’t catch it before the construction crew,” said Alexa Barrett, 19, a student at UH and resident of The Vue. Students were cleared from the first floor by the Houston Police Department. HPD declined to comment.

ABC13 reported that the woman was found wearing only socks and earrings, with her purse nearby, and that there were no signs of foul play. news@thedailycougar.com

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The University of Houston Police Department will host a morning of coffee, donuts and conversation with UHPD Sgt. Dina Padovan and other UH law enforcement personnel between 9 and 10 a.m. in the UC Lobby.

Nutcracker Market 

The Synchronized Brain  in Emotional Processing University of Geneva's Jean Grandjean will talk about the electrical activity in the brain as it responds to vocal inflections, how it processes them and how the processes can better be understood at 11 a.m. in the Health and Biomedical Sciences Building Rm. 267.

Anxiety: Exploring the  What, Why and How This Counseling and Psychological Services's Food for Thought Workshop aims to help students understand anxiety and learn about the signs, symptoms and coping methods from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Student Service

Memphis at 7 p.m. in Memphis, Tenn.

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More than 325 national and international merchants will offer home decor, food, apparel, accessories, toys, garden decorations at the NRG Center from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets may be puchased at the door for $16. For more information, visit houstonballet.org/ nutcracker-market.

The Council of Ethnic Organizations will host a talent show in which student organizations have an opportunity to showcase their culture and promote student diversity from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Cullen Performance Hall.

The M. D. Anderson Memorial Library will host a free day of board, video and card games, with demos, prizes and refreshments from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in M. D. Anderson Library.

Volunteers are needed to assist with various on-campus service projects, including preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the homeless and making various holiday cards at 6 p.m. in Cougar Village Rm. 112.

Reality Bytes 

Analyzing Latin American  Politics

The Women's Resource Center will watch and discuss reality television programming from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the WRC. Free lunch and Cougar trading cards will be provided. This week's program will be "Jersey Shore."

The Unveiling: A Human  Trafficking Event The Graduate College of Social Work will host a live painting by artist lysa Campos, a monologue and a panel discussion, all aimed at raising human trafficking awareness, from 6:30 to

8:30 p.m. in the Graduate College of Social Work Rm. 102.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 16 Houston Cinema Arts  Festival 2014: Sons de L'ame

Sixteen professors from the U.S. and Latin America will talk on panels concerning gender and politics, law, electoral rules and outcomes, representation and ideology and political parties and legislative politics from 12:30 to 6 p.m. in the Classroom and Business Building Rm. 122. The conference will continue on Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the same place.

The documentary dance performance film will be presented by the Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2014 and Houston Ballet, featuring ballet set to pieces

by Frederic Chopin at 6:30 p.m. at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. Free tickets for covered seating are available while they last.

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When one walks into Marty McVey’s conference room, it’s hard not to notice the various picture frames scattered all over the walls.

On one shelf, there are photos of him with Mayor Annise Parker, as well as a picture with Vice President Joe Biden.

There are picture frames lining the wall containing two White House invitations, with the First Family posing with McVey and his wife in front of a chimney, smiles all wide. These are the perks of being the director of the United States Agency for International Development.

It’s safe to say that in McVey’s 30-something years, he’s had an interesting life. After the all adventures he's had, it makes one wonder what brought him to Houston.

“Well, first of all, I love Houston, and I believe in Houston,” McVey said. “This is a great city, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else in the world.”

He said he travels a lot “on behalf of the American people” and for both “private and business interests."

“All roads lead back to Houston,” McVey said.

As for McVey’s association with UH, he recently presented the lecture “Diplomacy and Development in Conflict Countries" in October, and will return to give another lecture in the spring semester, possibly in March.

“There are many ways to (give). It's through a kind gesture, it's through charities and nonprofits, helping out neighbors, and serving in public office.

All of those things are important.”

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He said, however, that he would actually be visiting the campus more often than usual, because he is considering running for mayor.

“If I were to run for mayor, the reason is one word: it’s for you and every other citizen in Houston,” McVey said. “I think the city is at a great opportune time for further growth and advancement. I think that goes with a lot of challenges, and just as when you’re growing up, businesses have growth pains, and the city’s going through growth pains now."

McVey says he sees some drastic financial concerns coming up in 2015 and 2016 and adds that if he were to run, he would make sure the city is in a good place years from now “before it can be handed off to another mayor.”

He said one of the things his parents instilled in him and his siblings was to search for ways to give back to the community.

“There’s many ways to do that,” McVey said. “It’s through a kind gesture; it’s through charities and nonprofits, helping out neighbors, and serving in public office. All of those things are important; we’re

all Houstonians, and we’re all in this together.”

McVey originally planned to join the military, but an accident that occurred while he was a teenager prevented him from enlisting.

He decided instead to go into business.

“I like creating. I like the freedom to foster ideas, (to) create something that wasn’t there before, and it’s been the right choice for me,” McVey said.

“There’s great joy in giving back.”

He wears two hats: as president of McVey and Associates and as USAID director.

McVey said his work-life is like that of the reality show “Shark Tank.”

“I told someone recently I swim with sharks every day,” McVey said.

While talking with him, the phone rings, with a gentleman on the line needing McVey’s assistance.

“It’s a call of duty, I want to give back there, a city’s that been very good to me," McVey said. "And I have to give back to it.” news@thedailycougar.com

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Bill proposes $380 million to UH System THE COUGAR NEWS SERVICES In a bill filed in the Texas senate on Monday, the University of Houston System could receive more than $380 million to fund the construction of several health sciences building.

S.B. No. KEL SELIGER 150, filed by CHAIRMAN OF THE the chairTEXAS HIGHER man of the EDUCATION Texas higher COMMITTEE education committee and Amarillo Republican Kel Seliger, allocates $387,120,000 to the UH System for projects on all of its campuses. $90 million of that lump sum would go to UH’s main campus for “construction of a health and biomedical sciences center,” according to the bill’s text. UH-Clear Lake would receive $17,100,000 to build a health sciences and classroom building in Pearland, TX, and an

additional $76,050,000 would be designated for a new STEM and classroom building at UHCL. $27,405,000 would be allocated for the UH System to construct an unspecified building located in Cinco Ranch.

The nature of the funding is indicative of the shift UH has been making since President and Chancellor Renu Khator’s arrival in 2007. Nearly a billion dollars has been funneled to UH for construction over the past four years, according to the Houston Chronicle; in her latest State of the University Address, Khator mentioned the possibility of a medical school at UH, calling it a “primary care, community-based medical school” that could be operational by 2020.

A total of nearly $3 billion would be given to numerous public universities in Texas, and nearly all of the proposed initiatives are geared towards either improving or adding STEM facilities to the schools.

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Walking for MS awareness on campus For the fourth year in a row, the Multiple Sclerosis Society hosted a 5K or one-mile walkathon on November 9 to raise awareness for the disease. The event was held at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, where an estimated of 900 registered participants showed up. Participants also had the option to either walk the 5k or one-mile.

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Most don't know her. She stays under the radar, choosing to do her job as a security guard without concern for praise or recognition. But even though her work has defined her identity for nearly 50 years, most of her demons have been fought off the clock.

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By five in the morning, she’s up. Around 5:30 a.m., Gladys Korenek is pouring herself a bowl of Special K, adding in some slices of the fresh bananas that grow alongside her tomato plants, lemon trees and the 13 oak trees she planted nearly 50 years ago.

Before she heads out the door, she makes sure her seven rescue dogs — a Labrador retriever, a Dachshund mix, some mutts — have enough food and water to last the day. She checks on the white doves she raises, the cows, the chickens, and by 6:15 a.m., she’s sitting in her car at UH’s Energy Research Park.

You’ve probably seen her. Korenek, the only existing recipient of the UH Chief of Police’s commemorative coin, has been patrolling the same area for 46 years.

“5000 Gulf Freeway – my home,” she says, pointing to the sign that sits at the freeway entrance of the ERP. When Korenek arrives at the ERP entrance’s sign, she asks to have

her photo taken next to it.

She swings her arm over the edge of the sign, leaning comfortably, proudly against it. She lifts her chin up, holds her head high and beams.

“This is my place. I started here, I’ll die here.” *** Before UH purchased the plot of land that houses the ERP, Schlumberger owned it for decades. At 23, Korenek was hired onto the oil and gas giant’s assembly line. She would go on to become a senior test technician, a contracted member of the security team and, in 2009, a security officer for the ERP. “I’m the old woman around here,” Korenek says, adding that she’s “the one that people go to.” She says that there isn’t a path at 5000 Gulf Freeway that she hasn’t walked; as she makes her way around the ERP’s buildings, she addresses just about everybody by name. She gives a custodial worker, Alberto, a pat on the back; she fist-bumps Deloris Mortin, her “work best friend” and fellow security officer at the ERP. “She gets it,” Mortin says. “She’s not the kind of person that says ‘well,

this is how we did things back then.’ Sh “We’re a team,” Korenek says.

“She’s alert to what’s going on; she’s v tells me before she leaves is ‘take care o like a jewel – very rare.”

A part of history

When Chief of Police Caesar Moore J commemorative coin made in honor of who served from 1967 until 1970. The c of his face — to date, Chief Moore has o tive coin designed.

In February 2013, Korenek got a call: greys to work that Thursday.

“I had no idea what was happening, b thought, ‘Oh, boy, I’m in trouble.’”

The pinning ceremony was held at El which Korenek was terrified to attend. plays any recognition or praise she rece may be.

“I’m a country bumpkin,” she says, fo not fancy.”

“They put me on the front row, not a and then, all of the sudden, the doors o Her eyes glisten. “I see all of my frien the doorway, and I’m still at the front ro And when Police Chief Moore came in a to see all of my friends… they were my f Korenek may say that she hates atten she receives is more than merited. She’s ation,” he says, a woman who’s extreme surprisingly full of life.

“With 46 years of service, you wouldn high-energy, but she’s one of the highes ment. And that’s pretty amazing if you appreciative of her employment, and sh when she started.”

he doesn’t have tunnel vision.”

very responsible. The last thing she of the post.’” Mortin says. “She’s

Jr. came to UH in 2012, he had a f Sterling Baker, UHPD’s first chief coin was embossed with an image only had one other commemora-

: she was to wear her formal dress

but I wore them,” she says. “I

lizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, More often than not, she downeives, regardless of how spot-on it

or neither the first or last time. “I’m

soul around (there) that I knew… open up,” she says. nds from the ERP coming through ow wondering what’s happening. and presented me with this award, family.” ntion, but Moore says the praise ’s “a product of a different generely respectful, conscientious and

n’t think that she would be st-energy people in the departthink about it,” Moore says. “She’s he loves her job as much today as

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16 ft. portable home on two acres of land. She made enough money as an assembler by day and home power-washer by night to care for herself and her sisters. She raised chickens and cows; she grew tomato plants, lemon trees, satsumas, apples.

“Back then, it was very hard for a woman to own a home,” she says.

“There wasn’t a single person near me … the police came out every day to check on me. I had no electricity, nothing. It was a barnyard.”

For 33 years, she worked at Slumberger, managing to get a couple years at Alvin Junior College under her belt at the same time. She wasn’t looking for anything glamorous. Eventually, her sisters grew up and moved to different parts of Texas, one sister settling down in southern Alabama.

She worked. She took her classes, did her job, went to school, worked, slept. She lived a simple life. She was happy.

“When UH bought the property in 2009, part of the deal was that I come along with the building,” Korenek, says, laughing.

“I’d been there 33 years,” Korenek says. “When they came, they said ‘How long have you been here? 33 years? Yeah, you know everything around here. We need you.’”

Effortless humility

As she talks about the ceremony, she can't help but smile, looking down at the ground but seeing something that took place months ago, something that'll stay with her "for the rest of her life,” she says.

“This is my family,” Korenek says. “ERP is my family.”

A private journey At 23 years old, getting hired onto Schlumberger’s assembly line was a matter of “raising your hand when they asked who wanted a job” – likely a modest simplification of the persistence it took to become a female assembly worker. After all, she was the youngest woman working for the company when she got hired in the '60s.

For three years, Korenek worked as an assembler. It was exhausting work — “often, you wonder how long your back will last doing this kind of work,” she says, poring over photos of the hundreds of pounds of equipment that she handled alone, day in and day out.

Soon, though, employment for Korenek became a status she desperately needed to maintain. Her mother was a “bar dancer,” as Korenek called it; at 42, she killed herself.

“She wanted to die young, beautiful, and she did that,” says Korenek.

When her mother died, her parents were already divorced; soon after, her father would also pass away. At 26 years old, Korenek was left with the task of either finding – or becoming – the sole provider for her three younger sisters. At the time, her sister Sandra was 24. Debbie was 16; Sharon, 14.

A graduate of West Orange High School without a college degree, Korenek worked hard, scraping her knuckles, knowing the lives of her sisters depending on it.

“It was (a lot of) friction,” Korenek says somberly. “Everybody was messed up. I mean, we got along as we got older… (But) there were a lot of emotions. We were going through a lot.”

“I had no money, Sandra had no money. Nobody had no money,” Korenek says. “And, I don’t want it to sound like my sisters didn’t do anything, because can you imagine having your older sister boss you around?”

“But, really, I did everything.”

The youngest Koreneks were tossed between the eldests’ homes; after her mom died, Korenek moved back home and bought a cramped 8 by

To say that Korenek is a private person would be an understatement.

She says she isn’t keen on sharing these parts of her life, or any part of her life that isn’t related to her security position at the ERP. It’s not because she’s embarrassed, she says, or because she feels any kind of shame in having to bring up her family by her bootstraps.

“I’ve never thought of myself as an interesting person,” she says shyly after admitting she hasn’t missed a day of work in 47 years except for one, though, when one of her six cows got spooked during feeding, reared up and bit off her finger.

“What?” she says, holding up the clean chasm where her middle finger should climb. “It doesn’t bleed or anything.”

That’s just how Korenek operates. It doesn’t seem she’s looking for attention when she says this — her nonchalant delivery indicates as much. And she says she isn’t looking for praise when the conversation finds its way to the dogs, cats, white doves, chickens, skunks, raccoons, donkey and goats she’s adopted – it’s just “a part of who she’s always been.”

“You name the animal, I’ve had it,” she says. “My place is loaded with chickens — do you need chickens?”

Her land is littered with things she’s built, planted, adopted – “if it can’t walk, move or crawl, it’s painted,” she says. She gushes of the white dove cages she built, and the 30 white doves that now occupy them; of the 3 ft. high green beans stalks and tomato plants that replaced an entire acre of red roses she got rid of a couple years ago — “blame it on the thorns,” she says. She talks of the branches of her thirteen 40 ft. towering oaks that are lined with cherry red hummingbird feeders. (She didn’t want any photos taken of her home or property. “I’m a very shy person. I don’t talk about my personal life easily,” Korenek says.)

‘A success story’ The Korenek sisters talk every day in a group message they share on their cell phones. They’re much closer now, Korenek says, now that they’ve had a chance to move on from the catastrophe that swallowed up their childhood.

Debbie’s married now, living in Alabama; her other two sisters, both married, are living in the Greater Houston area. “(Gladys) does not know (her) story is amazing to others, I guess because she lived it,” Korenek’s sister, Debbie, says. “I think her story is one of great courage, tenacity, wit and very hard work… She did not complain or give up. She stayed the course of her dreams.”

“My sister is a success story.”

Korenek lives alone. She’s content; she’s got her animals, her job and her home, which she drew up the plans for on the same plot of land she bought 46 years ago. Her portable house still sits on the property. She says she’s never going to get rid of it.

It reminds her of how far she’s come.

This year, she just finished painting her home for the last time. She’s painted the 16 ft. high house all by herself, every two or three years since she moved into it 48 years ago. Korenek says she's too old to paint the home anymore.

It’s baby blue. It’ll likely stay that way.

"I really didn't think I'd make it 46 years working. (I'd say) when I turn 62, I'm outta here — at 65, I'm outta here. Well, next year, I'll be 70," Korenek says as she walks through the ERP, weaving in and out of the parked cars. "As long as you're happy and enjoy what you're doing, why change it?"

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Texas leads the nation in inappropriate teacher-student relationships, bringing attention to gender perceptions and expectations. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

EDUCATION

Hot for student: Males overlooked as victims

W

ith hormones raging, it might be seen as normal for teenage boys fantasize about a forbidden sexual relationship with their teacher. When this fantasy comes true, the consequences reveal a disturbing leniency society shows toward such actions.

A news EILEEN release from HOLLEY the Texas EduOPINION WRITER cation Agency reported that in the past three years, the number of cases of teachers — a female-dominated profession — having inappropriate sexual relationships with students has risen from 141 incidents in the 2009-2010 academic year to 179 incidents in the 2013-2014 academic year.

ABC13 reported that Texas has the highest number of these cases in the nation. The state’s three-year increase is more than the total number of reported cases in Pennsylvania this year, which has the second-highest number at 37.

The actions of these still relatively few teachers not only betray the trust of students and parents but also damage the reputation of all other teachers. It undermines the effort done by caring, hard-working teachers that are simply striving to create a comfortable learning atmosphere for

students.

After a recent case of a sexual teacher-student relationship surfaced at Pasadena High School, Pasadena ISD Associate Superintendent Renea Ivy told KHOU 11 News that it is for these reasons the charges should be taken seriously.

"When an educator violates the trust of a student, it makes it difficult for the majority of teachers who genuinely care for the safety and well-being of students,” Ivy said.

ABC13’s examination discovered that the prevalence of teacher-student sex cases in Texas might be due to the lenient punishment teachers often receive.

It was found that in 60 percent of these cases, teachers were let off with deferred adjudication, a plea deal in which the teacher has to give up their teaching certification and be put on probation — but the teacher won't receive a prison sentence or be forced to register as a sex offender.

That even included teachers who had sex with students 16 and younger, considered sexual assault as opposed to the lesser charge of statutory rape for sex with minors older than 16.

Disproving the notion that female teachers get lighter sentences than their male counterparts, the results of ABC13’s investigation reported generally little difference in the sentencing of male and female teachers charged with having sex with

students. Rather, teachers across the board were offered plea deals in exchange for jail time.

Supply chain logistics junior Faizan Ahmed said he thinks there is an unfair difference in the public perceptions of men and women teachers charged with statutory rape of a student.

“It’s definitely a double standard when it comes to when it’s a male teacher and a female student than a female teacher and male student, and I don’t think they should be treated differently,” Ahmed said.

“If you change the genders and it was a male teacher and the female student was completely willing, no one would look at it the same way.”

This is exemplified by the public response to cases such as that of Megan Mahoney’s, a former Staten Island gym teacher. A picture of the 24-year-old in a bra and underwear accompanied some articles, and the online reaction focused on the teacher’s attractiveness and the 16-year-old boy’s assumed willingness.

Ahmed said that he thinks even in cases where the student appears willing; the teacher should still be held accountable.

“In that situation, there may have been no force. Every party was probably willing, but even so, as a teacher you have a responsibility to maintain a certain standard towards your students,” Ahmed said. “Yeah, he was probably bragging. He probably was completely for it … but as the teacher, she needs to have a code

of moral conduct.”

The comments on social media have often been of envy or congratulations for the student, ignoring the fact that males can be rape victims and trivializing the teacher’s criminal actions.

As a minor, he cannot legally consent, as most adolescents lack the emotional maturity to enter into a sexual relationship with an adult; sex between an adult and a minor is statutory rape, no matter the circumstances. Mahoney was in a position of authority and took advantage of her student, when she should have been the more mature and responsible one.

Biology junior Kim Gresak said she thinks that the parents of minors are the ones who should determine what is appropriate for their child.

“I think the parents step in, because they’re like ‘No. That’s not right. Your teacher shouldn’t be doing that,’" Gresak said. "So it could’ve been consensual, but (the students are) still under their parents’ guardianship, so it’s … their parents’ decision.”

The trivializing response condones her actions, and this, along with the lenient punishment of such behavior, shows exactly why incidences of teachers having inappropriate sexual relationships in students continue to occur.

Opinion columnist Eileen Holley is a English literature senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar. com.

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Horiticulture society keeps students grounded DANIEL PEREZ

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Horticulture Society at UH planted its roots six years ago and has been growing firmly ever since.

The members are as eclectic as the seeds they sow, and they’re as enthusiastic about plants as ever.

“It’s rewarding being in this society,” said education junior Kate Cross. “It’s truly magical; it’s like being in Hogwarts.”

Its members have many different interests and areas of study.

“You do not have to be a biology major or any science major to join; you could be business, history or anthropology. We’ve had engineers, so you can be anything you want to be and still join,” said biology junior Guadalupe Orozco.

The focus does not revolve solely around growing plants; the organization also gives back to the community and is regularly involved in outreach and beauti-

fication projects. On Nov. 15, they will head to the Harris County Juvenile and Probation Department to spend time with troubled youth and teach them about plant care.

“They had an empty green house in one of their facilities where they help juveniles who have gotten in trouble for various reasons,” said president and biochemistry senior Christopher Huynh. “They came to us and told us about their need for a garden. We came out fairly often at first to help them establish it. After that, we’ve gone back one weekend a month, and we help them do maintenance and plant new plants.”

Aside from the regular task of picking up trash on the sides of highways, the juveniles get probation hours for spending time with

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Bilingualism: The standard for future generations ARIANNE GODDARD

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Our new expanded list of approved electives gives students from around campus opportunities to learn broadly about two of the key issues of the 21st century: energy development and environmental stewardship.

In addition, this spring we are offering a cluster of excellent new courses for our minors and for other students in search of relevant topics. These include: ENRG 4320: Case Studies in Energy & Sustainability John Hofmeister / Monday 9-12 MORE INFO: joepratt@uh.edu ENRG 4397: (Special Topics-ENRG) Seminar in Energy Efficiency S(Radha) Radhakrishnan / Thursday 3-6 MORE INFO: sradha.uh@gmail.com GENB 7397/ENRG 4397: (Special Topics-ENRG) The Future of Natural Gas Ramanan Krishnamoorti & Joe Pratt / Monday 6-9 MORE INFO: ramanan@uh.edu / joepratt@uh.edu ENRG 4397H: (Special topics in ENRG) Political Risk Assessment (Global Oil) Terry Hallmark / MW 3-4:30 MORE INFO: thallma@central.uh.edu HON 3397: Sustainable Cities Andrew Hamilton / MW 4-5:30

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Although learning a foreign language may be considered to be a hassle, studies have shown that it is indeed beneficial.

Learning a foreign language can increase brain growth, bring new cultural experiences and can also give a competitive edge to those applying for a job.

According to a study conducted

by Thomas Bak of the University of Edinburgh, learning another language may slow down brain aging.

In the study, a group of 262 individuals were first given an intelligence test at the age of 11 and another similar test when they were in their 70’s.

The study found that the individuals who spoke two or more languages had developed better cognitive abilities than they had at age 11.

Carlos Romero, a doctoral student and Spanish language instructor, said learning a foreign language opens a person’s eyes to better understand the world and other cultures.

“There are so many languages and cultures out there in the planet and learning about them can help us know the way different people view the world,” Romero said.

“When I refer to the world, I am talking about the differences in the way all human beings view time, space, money, love, hatred, religion, life, death, happiness, enjoyment, music, myths, work,

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Continued from previous page the UH Horticulture Society. This program helps them learn valuable lessons that contribute to their personal growth.

“They can learn from this every single time. We teach them lessons about different planting zones, how to take cuttings, about pesticides or fertilizers. We’ve seen them really enjoy this stuff. They get excited about growing something,” said Huynh.

Working with the Juvenile Center has been the organization’s longest ongoing outreach project, but they have also done beautification projects on campus.

Some joined for personal growth and self-fulfillment.

“I’ve always had a fondness for plants. If you look around, (you'll see them everywhere),” said biology

nature, family, friendship, professional and private life, material things and values.”

Computer science sophomore Mary Asfour is studying Arabic so she can better understand the culture and be able to converse with her family.

“It has helped me in my family and for me in general because my whole family speaks it and watches the news in Arabic,” said Asfour. “I can now join in the conversation and answer back.”

Learning grammar and vocabulary of another language can bring bring awareness to the grammar and vocabulary involved in the English language.

“It also can help people understand their first language better while learning another one, especially the grammar,” said instructional assistant professor of Chinese Jing Zhang.

Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, associate professor of classics and Italian studies, said she believes that classical and modern languages are not only tools to help improve English at any level, but she also believes that they help can give individuals a better knowledge of root words that are used throughout a variety of different languages.

“Languages help to give etymological knowledge of your own language,” said Behr. “For example, I remember that the word ‘phos’ in Greek means light, so I can immediately know photosynthesis is a process connected to light.” arts@thedailycougar.com

sophomore Farah Aziz. “It makes me realize how important (it is) to take care of your environment, and that we’re all part of one cycle.”

Business and pre-veterinarian sophomore Franklin Pho said the society emphasizes happiness and enjoying life.

“The people, energy and atmosphere really do it for me," Pho said.

At the last meeting of the semester on Nov. 21, the members will enjoy a visit from Jay Neal, an associate professor at Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. He will teach the students about hydroponics — growing plants completely in water.

“If you’re lost in the sky, come back down to Earth,” Pho said.

“Being in Horticulture Society is about being happy and helping others.” arts@thedailycougar.com

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Deserted run game leads to Homecoming heartbreak ANDREW VALDERAS

OVERTIME EDITOR @THISISDREW2010

UH matched its season-high 53.3 third-down conversion rate and The Third Ward Defense extended its streak of forcing a turnover to 32 games while scoring a defensive touchdown. Both were ingredients that shooda cooda wooda extended the Cougars’ win streak to four and claim the top spot in the American Athletic Conference.

But Tulane — which entered Saturday tied for the worst conference record at 1-3 — came to play, and it tidal waved all over UH’s Homecoming game parade.

UH didn’t stay committed to the running game. Combine that with the implosion of four turnovers, two missed second-half field goals and three sacks, which “put us on long-yard situations that were tough to get out of,” you’ll suffer a 31-24 defeat to Tulane, like the season-high 32,000 plus in attendance at TDECU Stadium witnessed.

The Cougars (5-4; 3-2) currently sit tied for fifth in the standings

and may have lost their best chance to win the conference after losing to a Green Wave team (3-6; 2-3) that had entered the game dropping four of their last five by an averaged 16-point scoring margin.

Credit Tulane, though. It scouted the heck out of Greg Ward, who was forced to throw an unnecessary 45 times. The speedy sophomore quarterback was often under duress. Tulane kept Ward in check and didn’t allow him to bust loose and dictate the Green Wave defense as much as he did in the Cougars' three straight wins prior.

Unbalanced running game Ward was often forced to scramble from one sideline to the other, and if you exclude his 18-yard rush on one of those improvisations, his yards per rush would’ve been 2.4. He finished with 59 yards net rushing on a team-high 18 carries, five more than junior running backs Kenneth Farrow (8) and Ryan Jackson (5) combined.

You can’t win games like that They were lucky to be in position to tie it up in the closing seconds.

Stick to the formula that has rendered success. Did you know the Cougars have a 10-1 record (5-0 this season) when they rush the ball more than 35 times a game and just 4-12 when they don’t with Travis Bush as offensive coordinator? Albeit nine of those 20 the team was down an average of 25 points, which warranted more pass attempts. But in a game like this, UH should have kept committed to the run with its running backs.

It’s not like they were forced to throw as many times as they did; the game was close throughout.

In fact, the Cougars held a 17-14 halftime lead and were just down four points entering the fourth.

Although Ward's 68 completion percentage was nothing to sneeze at, his career-high passing attempts were way too many from

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UH abandoned rushing the ball with its running backs, and quarterback Greg Ward, in his fourth career start, was asked too much — 45 passing attempts and 18 carries — and resulted in a career-high three interceptions | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

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With critical eye, soccer coach looks to push Cougars SHARDANNA JONES

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“We knew it was going to be rough...”

Those were the sentiments of Chris Pfau, head coach of the UH soccer team. After three years of less than stellar performance with cringe-worthy records, the team has finally began the move towards becoming a Top 25 program, where Pfau and his hand-chosen team doesn't mind doing the dirty work.

After losing 18 players in one year, most teams would naturally experience some struggle and panic. For Pfau, however, that enabled this UH soccer team to head in the right direction.

“I think this was the first time that I have actually been frustrated as a coach,” Pfau said. “But I think that was a good thing because we were just that close.

In my first two years, we were pretty decent, but last year I don’t think we really cared or were close enough to turn that corner. I think this year we were just on the edge of things.”

This would be the first year that

Despite a lackluster 0-8-1 record against AAC opponents and an overall record of 1-11-5, the Cougars and head coach Chris Pfau are looking to do big things with returning and new talent | Courtesy of UH Athletics

Pfau would be playing kids that he actually recruited, as those in the program the last three years were brought in by former head coach Susan Bush.

With 60 percent of the players now gone, his team was smaller than ever and lacked depth. But there was still progression.

“Overall, I thought we competed,” Pfau said. “We had eight or nine conference games; we only lost two. We tied a lot, but that was a huge improvement from

last year. It showed to me that we are close and that we are competitive in every game. Conference is tough because we have seven out of the ten teams that are nationally ranked in the Top 100.”

While other teams have the ability to substitute eight to 10 players, Pfau’s team would only be able to sub one or two, resulting in the players’ breakdown due to having no one off the bench who could change the dynamic of the game, which in turn was due to

losing such a large class.

“This is one of the things you don’t really talk about, but this is the first time that our entire team actually got along and made a commitment to each other,” said Pfau. “It sounds funny, but we’ve never had that. This team has been very disjointed and very clique-ish. This is the first time our seniors felt like we care about each other and that they didn’t want to leave and they didn’t want the season to end.”

For three years Pfau coached players who were recruited while still in high school, and not by him. With a feeling of “it is what it is,” Pfau knew he had to make shifts and make due, and knew things were going to be difficult.

“We realized after my first year and as a staff that this was going to come,” Pfau said. "We knew the next couple of years were going to be interesting. Coaches let kids go, and of the kids that were coming here and we would just have to pick up the pieces because they are not going to come in with a coach that they don’t know.”

Now rid of a team who Pfau says didn’t really put 100 percent into the field, he takes pride in the players whom he has been able to bring in and attract thus far, players whom he said could have chosen teams like TCU, Texas or Baylor, because they are committed 100 percent to Houston and that is something that he has never had.

“We would lose 1-0, and you

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Junior corner Adrian McDonald (16) led the Cougars into their game against the Tulane Green Wave Saturday. | Justin Tijerina/The Cougar

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The Cougars finished with strong performances this past week despite a few disappointing outcomes. With talent spread across multiple sports, the Cougars have nothing to worry about when it comes to success.

Houston volleyball has successfully made its way back above the .500 mark with wins over both Tulane and East Carolina, largely in part of the defensive strength of senior libero Natalie Keck. Keck is now just 19 digs away from 2,000 career digs as she totaled 53 over the two games. Keck looks to break the 2,000 mark in the Cougars' matchup against the Memphis Tigers on Friday, Nov. 14.

Junior punter Logan Piper has shown that he can not only perform on the field for Houston, but also in the classroom as he was named to the Capital One Academic All-District 7 Team per the announcement of the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of

America last Thursday. Piper has recorded a strong season so far as he averages 39.4 yards per punt and has three kicks over 50 yards.

Sophomore Despoina Vogasari traveled to New York this past Thursday to compete in the ITA/ USTA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships after being the first Cougar to win at the state level. Vogasari, No. 68 in the nation, blew past her first round opponent, No.15 Zoe Scandalis of USC, with a 6-1, 6-1 victory on Thursday. Vogasari then advanced to the round of 16 to take on No. 43 Maegan Manasse of Cal and, despite a hardfought battle, fell short 6-4 and 6-4.

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Continued from page 13 a quarterback in just his fourth start — a career-high three interceptions was the result. Since Ward took over as starter, UH was averaging more than 45 rush attempts a game entering Saturday’s contest. Ward had managed the games well and was turnover free in his last 10 quarters while averaging a steady 26 pass attempts a game and completed 76 percent of his passes.

Head coach Tony Levine said the running game against Tulane was “less effective than it had been." However, with a split amount of carries between Ward and his two backs, I believe a different result would TONY have transpired.

LEVINE Against MemHEAD COACH phis, Temple and South Florida combined, neither Ward, Farrow nor Jackson averaged more than four attempts over another. The running attack had averaged 184 yards a game. On Saturday, the Cougars rushed for just 90 with 2.8 yards per carry. But that wasn’t the only aspect to look at from the loss; the Green Wave defense was pretty damn good.

Head coach Chris Pfau now believes that he has a team of players who want to be on the field for every game and for the entire game. Now that the team is made up of student-athletes that Pfau has personally recruited, he believes that the Cougars will make a big change next season after continuing to fight through adversity. | Courtesy of UH Athletics

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want to put in the work.”

The players are coming, the core is strong, and Pfau expects the incoming class to be even better than the current freshman class. But he says it’s not just about building with talented kids, but also with the right kids.

They’ve found leaders to step up in place of the four graduating seniors.

“Courtney Dudley has probably been one of our most consistent players when she transferred in,”

Continued from page 13 never got the sense of ‘OK we're at this level,’ so we had a long talk with all of the players that to get to the next level, these are our expectations. You show up, you go to class, no excuses. By the middle of the spring all those kids started to weed themselves out. It was pretty obvious and an easy conversation (to have). They knew they didn’t

Pfau said. “She’s a quiet player, but she’s phenomenal and plays every minute of every game.

Halfway through our season she needed knee surgery, but she stuck it out and got cortisone shots so that we could get to the conference tournament. Also Meghan Brascia, who has stepped up, and Sydnie Green, who was named a Second Team All-Conference player this year.”

He gives credit to those who have stuck through the tough part

of the process and to the character they’ve shown.

“When you start losing the games that we do, it’s easy to say ‘OK I am done,' ” said Pfau. “They didn’t, and we have gotten better, and I can see it in the product on the field and the people who come to our games — and administration notices that. Our record hasn’t gotten better, but our team has gotten better.”

They need depth, players off the bench, bite and leadership. Now they have that. No one has left or transferred out, they all want to be around to see where the program is going to go. There is trust and understanding that a gap has been closed since last year; now they have to take that passion, change those ties to wins, and not disappear.

“I am very comfortable with where we are. I’m a pretty smart coach," Pfau said. "If the team was jumping ship and transferring I would take a second and ask if I’m the right coach, are we bringing in the right kids and are we going in the right direction. But I’ll be honest with you, we are close and we are happy with where we are going. We are headed in the right direction and in two years it’s going to be exciting times. We can’t wait to get back going.” sports@thedailycougar.com

Too many Cougar turnovers Tulane entered with 21 forced turnovers. It forced four UH ones — and it needed every one to earn just the team’s third win of the season.

Parry Nickerson picked off Ward at the goal line for the Tulane defensive back’s conference-leading sixth interception as time expired.

Shooting themselves in the foot UH committed six penalties for 51 yards, including a crucial defensive holding call on thirddown by safety junior safety Trevon Stewart. The Green Wave’s incomplete pass play would've forced a punt; instead, running back Dontrell Hilliard broke loose on a 63-yard pass play three snaps later for the 14-7 lead. Junior kicker Kyle Bullard missed two third-quarter field goals in the midst of Tulane's 17-unanswered points.

“We’re going to put this behind us and get our rest during the bye week,” said senior linebacker Efrem Oliphant, who recorded a game-high 13 total tackles.

Oliphant, whose team will next host Tulsa on Nov. 22, said the team must put the tough loss behind them, and that “all our goals are out ahead of us and we have to prepare." sports@thedailycougar.com

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