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Meeting aims to unite protesters An open forum was held on the Rice University campus to bring students and community members together to try to stop the sale of the school's radio station.

Rice Alumni John Bins is outraged by the news of the possible loss of the station.

“The university’s president has sold the students, faculty and community out for $9 million,” Bins said.

Joey Yang, KTRU’s station manager, is in dismay as he expresses his feelings about the situation.

“Rice university decided to sell a student-run station without any input from students, which really violated the trust between students and the administration," Yang said.

The sale of KTRU to UH is not yet finalized.

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Wilson ends run Recent chair looks back on UH accomplishments, advancements Sarah Raslan

THE DAILY COUGAR At the beginning of Welcome Wilson Sr.'s term as chair of the UH System Board of Regents, the position of system chancellor and UH president was vacant.

His first task was to find the person who would fill the position.

“My first objective was to hire a world-class president, which we got. It was an extremely important endeavor because I felt like we needed just the right person,” Wilson said.

“The search committee came in with three

people the first month that I was chairman. We interviewed them, and I was so lucky to have the opportunity to hire Dr. Renu Khator. She has just been absolutely outstanding and she has been a game changer for the University of Houston.”

In the last three years, Wilson has put most of his emphasis on clearing a pathway to Tier One status for UH. “I’ve always felt that (UH) was on the runway to greatness, but still needed to change its upward slope from a 15-degree angle to a 45-degree angle,” Wilson said.

Upon taking the position, the faculty senate WILSON continues on page 8

Tagore scholarship open to graduate students in arts, humanities and sciences The Tagore Scholar Passport Operating Scholarship initiated by the Department of English and the Tagore Society of Houston is not only offered to creative writing graduate students, as reported earlier this week.

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Full-time graduate students in the creative and performing arts, literary studies and the humanities, social sciences and sciences are encouraged to apply.

The $5,000 award aims to commemorate scholar Rabindranath Tagore by rewarding students whose research is influenced by the Nobel-prize winning writer.

Application deadline is on Oct. 15.

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tudents interested in taking their college experience across borders learned about the various programs offered by the University at an event hosted by the Office of International Studies and Programs Interested students unable to attend the event can stop by the office or visit www.uh.edu/studyabroad/.

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A website known for rating professors has spawned a new website geared towards the entire college experience, and many of its services are free to UH students.

MyEdu.com, from the same team that created pickaprof. com, still offers professor ratings, but also offers a new set of features designed to make class scheduling and degree planning more efficient.

Chris Chilek, one of the co-founders of the new project, has worked to expand the online services' network of colleges and universities.

“At its core, (the new site is) really about saving families and students money through the education process by achieving a higher efficiency in completing courses and completing their degree,” Chilek said.

The degree timeline app is a key feature of the website that allows students to map out degree plans.

Students can plan their coursework semesters ahead while reviewing the workload of each course specific to their university.

“By balancing that work load, we find that students are actually able to raise their GPA, drop fewer courses and graduate on time,” Chilek said.

A Facebook integration feature allows students to log onto the website and view their friends' class schedules.

The new website expands on the concept of professor ratings by adding official records from universities to graph grades, drop rates and GPA averages for each professor.

“As opposed to ratemyprofessors.com, MyEdu gives more descriptive reviews on both the professor and class material in general,” Hussein Aladin, public relations senior, said. “It has more navigation options and lets you choose specific courses for the professors; that way, you can have all the ratings for that course on one page rather than all scattered.”

Hussein credits the site for helping him choose one of his communication courses this semester.

A textbook price comparison feature lists required textbooks along with a list of vendors and prices so you can save money on buying textbooks.

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An offshore platform about 100 miles from the Louisiana coastline ignited Thursday morning. Luckily, the U.S. Coast Guard stated that there was no indication of any leaks. The 13 workers on the platform evacuated by diving into the water. They were airlifted to Terrebone General Medical Center in Houma, La., but none sustained any serious injuries. An investigation was underway shortly after the incident. However, the cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Gov. Bobby Jindal commented that the crew was performing maintenance when the fire broke out. Mariner Energy, which owns the platform, added that the wells did not actually explode, but burst into flames after a safety shutoff occurred. The last offshore platform accident took place on the Deepwater Horizon nearly five months ago when 11 crew members were killed and caused one of the largest environmental disasters in the U.S.

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Another round of talks began Thursday between Israeli and Palestinian leaders and joined by U.S. representatives. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas discussed temporary solutions, but agreed to meet two weeks later to further methods on more permanent solutions to ease tensions between the two nations. Both leaders expressed strong contempt of the ongo-

ing violence between Palestine and Israel. No breakthroughs happened during the meeting, but it is hoped a structured framework can be set out when the leaders reconvene on Sept.

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Stephen Hawking spills views on intelligent design British physicist Stephen Hawking gets to the point in his new book.

Hawking argues that God did not create the universe. This comes from the assertion that because of gravity, the universe can actually create itself from nothing. Critics pointed out that Hawking's views shifted from his previous ones about how God was not a necessary creator. His book, titled "The Grand Design," is set to go on sale next week.

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Ferrari's fiery new model actually combusts Italian sports car manufacture Ferrari is recalling its latest model, the quarter-million dollar 458 Italia.

Numerous documented reports of the car spontaneously bursting into flames have surfaced over the past several weeks. Ferrari is now investigating the cases, but maintains that they are extreme and occurrences are very unlikely. The 458 Italia is powered by a 560 horsepower V8 that propels it from 0 to 60 mph in a blinding 3.4 seconds. The exploding car feature, however, is not standard.

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The American (R) Following a botched assignment, Jack (George Clooney), an American hitman, flees to Italy. There he waits for information for his new mission, makes friends with a priest and enters into a relationship with the beautiful Ingrid (Irina Björklund), because that’s what hitmen do when they look like Clooney.

Going the Distance (R) Drew Barrymore and that guy from the Mac commercials (Justin Long) portray Garrett and Erin, who, after a summer love affair, decide to enter into a long-distance relationship. While the main characters and plot seem somewhat interesting, what’s more important is that Charlie Day, from the FX show “It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia” will be supporting Long's characters as a nosey roommate.

Machete (R) It’s always interesting when directors overshadow the cast, even when it includes Robert De Niro. "Machete" was originally a fake trailer in the 2007 double feature "Grindhouse." So, look for the same over-thetop violence that was featured in "Planet Terror," Robert Rodriguez's contribution to "Grindhouse."

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The Daily Cougar Tim Qualls and Richie Caldwell are tired of music scenes being segmented into genres and are determined to change the way artists collaborate with one another on a local level.

“It’s tough,” Qualls said about being a musician in Houston. He attributes a lot of the hardship to how spread out and segmented our city is. “You’ve got to start from the bottom and work your way up.”

At Fitzgerald’s, for example, if you hope to play upstairs and headline a show, musicians must first prove to the venue that they can pull a crowd, so most bands start out by playing downstairs, opening for another band.

“It rained for like 15-20 minutes… and we (were scheduled) to play in the middle of it all,” said Caldwell. And although it wasn’t the best situation to be in, Qualls and Caldwell didn’t let it sour their moods and focused on using the trip to Midland, Texas to network

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About nine months ago, Qualls released his first EP, “This Is Our Land,” which he started recording while finishing his degree at SHSU. Since then, on top of playing an array of shows, he won the 2010 Houston Press Music Award for Best New Act. “The live band that we’re going for is really like the Black Keys,” Qualls said.

Besides emulating them, Qualls and Richie can’t stop listening to the Black Keys’ new album, Brothers. “It’s got a dirty feel… a grown-up, almost southern charm to it.”

But the real question students want to know is whether the group will ever play a show at UH. “Hell yeah,” Qualls said. “We’d love to play there (at UH).”

In the meantime, the group has a show scheduled at the Continental Club on Friday, Sept. 10, and if you’re looking to take your lady out for a night on the town you can both enjoy, Qualls may very well be a godsend. arts@thedailycougar.com

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with other musicians and sell a few CDs. “Networking is the biggest tool,” Qualls said. “People start to love you, then they start to love your music.”

Qualls, who graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2009 with a music degree, sat at Agora yesterday afternoon with Richie Caldwell and discussed their tough journey as Houston musicians, the time they were the only band cut from a festival’s lineup (in Qualls’ hometown, no less), and their hopes to play on-campus at UH as soon as possible.

“In that kind of community, if one of you makes it, the chances of everyone else making it goes up a ton,” Caldwell said. “You cannot be a part of it without contributing to it.”

The business side of music is an integral part of the industry, and Qualls feels local artists oftentimes overlook it.

“In order to do what I love, I have to spend all my extra time and resources on my music,” Qualls said. “I work full-time, and if I’m not doing that, I’m rehearsing.”

Hipsters these days think that they can take anything and make it their own. It started with Ray-Bans — one of the most iconic images in American culture — and has slowly tried to infest every aspect of our culture, in an attempt to be more ironic (and therefore hipster-cool) than everyone else.

But now they’ve gone too far. We stood back and watched as they took instant Polaroid pictures from us; we did nothing when they decided they all wanted retro

bicycles.

They’re not taking the stand-alone mustache.

What was once considered the most masculine and excellent use of facial hair is now being worn by today’s equivalent of hippies.

Just imagine how Tom Selleck (owner of perhaps the best mustache in Hollywood) must feel when he sees a neon-clad idiots walking down the street with a Starbucks cup in one hand and a cheap cigarette in the other. I’m almost certain that he sheds a tear for America’s youth.

And forget what Burt Reynolds thinks

— he just runs them over and keeps going.

So to all of my fellow non-hipster facial hair brethren, we have a new mission. We must bring the stand-alone ’stache back to its once-great roots.

Remember: every time you wear a mustache in public, a hipster breaks a pair of Vans. With enough effort (and enough manly mustaches) we can reduce the hipsters to a sobbing, shoeless mass.

Of course, they might decide that homelessness is the new trend, and then we’re all screwed. arts@thedailycougar.com

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Celebrities not measured by society's standards

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indsay Lohan is now back out on the streets, and Paris Hilton was caught with cocaine this week. Every time someone with the smallest amount of fame gets into trouble, there always comes a flood of negative comments about how the same rules normal people abide by don’t apply to celebrities.

The truth of the matter is that people don’t want to see them fall that far from grace.

No matter how desperate a character is that graces the covers of gossip news, there is someone that looks up to them.

We cannot separate the character that Lohan played in "Mean Girls" from the one that has problems. It becomes even more difficult to explain why people like Hilton get away with illegal activites; it is most definitely not because of her roll in "The Wax No matter how Museum" desperate a or her infamous sex character is that tape. graces the covers of gossip One of news, there is someone that the only conclusions looks up to them. that can be drawn by Hilton's lack of talent in all things (besides not getting out of trouble) is the fact that people want to be like Hilton. Even without the problems that surround Hilton, there are people that want to walk in her shoes, even if that means they’re going to jail for a limited stay.

This is not a problem in the system; it is a problem with how we pick the people that we want to look up to.

But let us get to the point. Lindsay and Paris are not role models. It is important to understand that they are nothing but attention w-words. We, as hard-working and honest journalists, think that it would do society a hint of good if people would have them flung behind bars. Cocaine is bad stuff. Kids should not be exposed to such sinful attitudes carried by these celebrities.

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Bikes and boards present danger

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icycles on campus are dangerous and unnecessary. Not only do they add a much bulkier and faster moving obstacle to already crowded sidewalks, but many campus cyclists are completely inconsiderate of those around them. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to need to use a bicycle to move across campus. The amount of time saved Casey by cycling practically Goodwin negligible, and cycling a set distance is also a less effective exercise than walking it.

Using wheels to move about campus could cut down on travel time, but the University campus isn't really all that big. It only takes 15 minutes, at most, to stroll from one end of campus to the other. When walking quickly, travel time may be cut to less than 10. There is plenty of time between classes to get from one building to another without resorting to lazier means.

While most students are in class or not on campus, cycling is actually faster than walking; but during the heavy rush hours (or minutes) that take place right before classes start and right after they let out, cycling is definitely a slower way

to travel. When you add up the time it takes to walk to and unlock your bike when leaving one class, the time spent cycling, and the time it takes to lock up your bicycle and walk to the next class, time savings are actually in the negatives.

Heavy pedestrian traffic on sidewalks makes it difficult for those on wheels to go faster than walkers safely. Weaving around slower-moving students isn't a good idea when traveling at higher speeds — at the risk of sounding like my mother, it is just asking for someone to get hurt. I think it is fair to say that by the time students' first years at UH are up, most everyone is familiar with the fleeting moment of terror we all feel when a weaving biker swerves away from them at the last possible moment.

Beyond the risk of injuries, cycling through campus has an even more serious drawback — theft. It doesn't make any sense to spend hundreds of dollars on a device that only slightly increases your punctuality. Most of us can barely afford to pay for all our textbooks.

The bottom line is that the benefits of cycling through campus are heavily outweighed by the setbacks. The only situation where having a bike on campus makes any sense is if a student

lives on campus, has no car, and feels comfortable biking alone in the Third Ward to run off-campus errands. Few UH students fit into that category.

Another important thing for cyclists to keep in mind is that walking to class is simply healthier. Yes, biking quickly over long distances is a great form of exercise, but slowly pedaling behind pedestrians isn't. Cycling burns calories at high speeds and on long rides, but neither of these apply to riding to class.

Cyclists are not the only individuals whose crazy antics leave campus pedestrians feeling unsafe and annoyed. The University’s plethora of skateboarders, long boarders, and even scooter-users usually travel through large masses of people at ridiculous speeds as well, and are as dangerous — if not more so — than cyclists.

I'm not advocating that using bicycles, skateboards, and the like be banned at UH. However, it isn't something the University should be encouraging, and students should think twice before they decide to bring their bike to campus.

Casey Goodwin is a mechanical engineering sophomore and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

views How do you feel about UH students who ride bikes on campus?

I'm a commuter student who doesn't spend a lot of time on campus, but I have no problem with bikes, skateboards, or long boards as long as they can manage to not hurt the other students.

Priyanka Agarwal Public relations graduate student

I don't mind that people travel around campus on skateboards, long boards or scooters as long as they don't run into me or anyone else.

Scott Jackson

Skateboards, bicycles, long boards, why the hell not? The students who use wheels to get around campus have eyes so they should be able to see others and avoid them safely.

History sophomore

Hanan Elchehabi Biology freshman

Using a bike to get around campus is not a bad thing.

If I knew how to ride a bike really well I probably would too. I lived in Austin while attending UT and I don't see a problem with those who ride their bikes or boards.

Diane Tran General studies graduate student

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Squad preps for in-state foes The undefeated Cougars will take a road trip this weekend to battle the Baylor Bears and the TCU Horned Frogs. Coach Susan Bush has been impressed with the Cougars play and attributes it to the their fitness, which allows them to recover on turnovers, as well as having a strong back four.

“I think it’s a total team effort. We’re playing a formation that allows us to play high pressure, meaning that our defense starts with our forwards. As soon as we turn the ball over, we’re getting a lot of numbers behind the ball,” Bush said.

The Cougars prepared for their weekend games by having their players mimic the Bears and Frogs distinctive styles of play in practice.

“Baylor plays a different style of defense; they like to play man-to-man in the back. I think they’re the only school all year that we’ll see do that. And then TCU is strong and fast, and they’ll definitely be one of the more aggressive teams that we play,” Bush said.

The Cougars are 1-3-0 all-time against the Bears and have a 2-8-0 record against the Frogs, who they have not played since the 2007 season.

Freshman Cami Koski will likely start at goalie this weekend after earning two shutouts last weekend.

“I think that the competition is going to get tougher and tougher as the season goes on. I think that the whole team has been playing defense instead of just the back line, thus we’ve had shutouts,” Bush said.

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Tulsa, ECU open conference play; SMU, Texas Tech to face off While most Conference USA teams will play out-of conference opponents this weekend, ECU will host Tulsa Sunday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium at 1 p.m.

The game will be televised on ESPN2.

The game marks the head coaching debut for ECU's Ruffin McNeill. His last coaching job was defensive coordinator at Texas Tech.

SMU and Texas Tech also kick off their season Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock. Tommy Tuberville begins his campaign as Texas Tech head coach after leaving Auburn.

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UH great earns defensive accolade For the second straight year, former UH women's basketball standout Sancho Lyttle has received a spot on the WNBA All-Defensive Second team. Lyttle plays for the Atlanta Dream.

Lyttle was drafted fifth in 2005 by the now defunct Houston Comets. She played with them until 2008 before joining the Dream.

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The Daily Cougar In high school, cornerback Jamal Robinson did it all for his team at Clements High School. Besides playing corner, he was a receiver, a kick and punt returner and even threw a few passes as quarterback for the Buffaloes.

“I played everything,” Robinson said.

Now, Robinson is just a specialist in the secondary. Before coming to UH, Robinson said he always looked forward to the chance to be a defensive back when he made it to the collegiate level.

“I wanted to be a cornerback going into college. That’s what I wanted to play,” Robinson said. “UH gave me an opportunity to be a corner, and I embraced it.”

Robinson’s passion for his position has been a benefit to the team. Last season he had 13 deflected passes, 58 tackles and one forced fumble. He led the team in interceptions with five, including one he ran back for a touchdown, confirming the Cougar’s upset over Oklahoma State.

Like many athletes, Robinson is an adrenaline junkie who lives for the big

moment. He said the imminence that the ball will be thrown his way is what fuels his love for the game.

“I like the pressure, being a playmaker, being that person on the field where it’s like, ‘Hey man, the ball’s going to come this way and you have to make a play.’ I really like that,” Robinson said.

Robinson’s toughest opponents are the receivers he faces off against in practice.

James Cleveland led the team in receiving yards last season; Patrick Edwards is an elusive runner, as is Tyron Carrier, a member of the track team.

He said it helps keep practices competitive, which assists him on the field.

“I love it,” he said. “Going against James, Pat and Tyron everyday. They’re some of the fastest people in the nation.

When the games come around it really slows the game down a lot going against other receivers.”

With the switch to a 3-4 defense, Robinson said he has not had to make any adjustments, and that it gives him and his teammates more chances to make big plays.

“I like the switch to the 3-4. It gives us a

lot more opportunities to make plays, just a great defense — period,” he said. “Coach Stewart is a great defensive coordinator.

He brings a lot to the defense, a lot of knowledge. We’re just getting it down and are ready to execute this Saturday.”

Along with football, Robinson was an all-city basketball player in high school and was awarded with most valuable player for both squads. He said he misses his time on the hardwood.

“I miss basketball everyday. I always tell everybody if I could do anything else right now it would be to play basketball,” he said.

Robinson is from Schertz, a small town about 20 miles away from San Antonio. He was also recruited by the University of Colorado and the University of Texas. When his playing days are over, he said that he hopes to use a degree in psychology to advise future generations of student-athletes.

“I want to be a sports psychologist. I want to help players, especially incoming freshman adapt to life at the college level.

It’s not such an easy thing,” he said. sports@thedailycougar.com

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The Daily CougaR The Cougars are back home for the Houston Invitational this weekend with games slated against No.13 Florida State tonight, and a doubleheader against Oklahoma and No.17 Tennessee on Saturday.

Houston (1-2) is coming off a 3-0 loss to No.3 Texas Aug. 28 and hopes to carry some experience over from the Austin Invitational to the home opener against the Seminoles.

“We improved a lot at the Austin Invitational, I think that level of competition was a good starting point to figure out where we need to be,” head coach Molly Alvey said.

The Cougars play game two of the tournament Saturday afternoon against Big 12 opponent Oklahoma.

Saturday night the road doesn’t get any easier for UH, when they finish up with a showdown against SEC foe No.17 Tennessee.

Outside hitter Nikki Fowler has been on a tear as of late, posting 18 consecutive

double-doubles to lead the Volunteers to a 3-0 start.

“Tennessee is a team that I’ve seen a lot over the past five years, I think Fowler’s been a nice player for them for three years,” Alvey said. “Good players get their kills and you just got to do what you can to best defend against them.”

Lucy Charuk leads the Cougars with 40 kills; Amanda Carson has 59 digs and Amber Brooks has 105 assists to pace Houston so far this season sports@thedailycougar.com.

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asked Wilson to state his three priorities as chairman of the board. His three priorities in early 2007 were “Tier One status for UH, Tier One tatus for UH, and Tier One status for UH,” he said.

Wilson spent the spring of 2009 in Austin with the state legislature, where he was instrumental in getting two major pieces of legislation passed.

The first billl matches research money spent by universities, and the second would transfer a dormant fund of $500,000 to a statewide Tier One fund.

“The fund would take its income and divide it among any of seven universities in Texas that were aspiring to Tier One status,” Wilson said. “Those seven universities are named in the constitutional amendment, and (UH) is head of the list. (UH) is first in that group in terms of being the farthest ahead for reaching the criteria for tapping into the fund," he said. University officials anticipate reaching tier one status within the next five to seven years.

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and salary profiles.

“I’m a fan of centralizing all of the online tasks students need to do,” public relations junior Destiny Torres said. “Having them all on one website not only makes it more convenient, but a total must-have if it’s free.”

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“When we started, they said it was going to take 20 years, so five to seven years is optimistic,” Wilson said.

The toughest standard for becoming a tier one university is having $150 million in research expenditures.

Wilson said that this year, although it has not been announced, UH is going to reach almost $100 million.

Three years ago, UH research expenditures totaled about $60 million.

In a UH news release, Wilson reflected on accomplishing his lifelong goal of serving as chair of the board.

"In 1947, I was a senior at UH. I met H.R. Cullen…He was a very impressive man. That night, I decided that was what I wanted to be later in life.

“I didn't want to be mayor. I didn't want to be governor. I didn't want to be president. I wanted to be chairman of the Board of Regents. 60 years later, I was honored by this board, and it's been a wonderful opportunity."

Wilson will serve as a regent for another year until his term expires on August 31, 2011. news@thedailycougar.com

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