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UH is working with the Cancer Preven-tion and Research Institute to change its smoking policies so that the University will meet the institute’s new guidelines to receive research funding, said Assistant Vice President for University Health Initia-tives Kathryn Peek.
The University has received between $6 million and $7 million in grants from CPRIT and will have the new guidelines in place by Aug. 31 to continue to receive support from the institute.
“The purpose of CPRIT is to bring the most talented scientists to work on cancer research prevention,” Peek said. “Texas is becoming the national place for cancer research; it is an extraordinary phenomena to see unfold.”
The new guidelines prohibit smoking and the use of tobacco products inside and outside of buildings where a CPRIT project is taking place, also banning smok-ing in the areas surrounding the project
location, such as sidewalks, parking lots and walkways, according to the new CPRIT guidelines.
The Student Government Association adopted a smoking bill this semester that will increase non-smoking areas on cam-pus from the current 15-foot requirement from the entrance of a building to 25 feet.
SGA Natural Sciences and Mathematics Senator Josie Ceasar, co-author of the bill, said the bill was created with students’ health in mind — not CPRIT guidelines.
According to Ceasar, SGA introduced the bill to ensure that “people do not have to be subject to second-hand smoke, because people have (the right to be) healthy and live and work and breath in a carcinogen-free environment.”
Biochemistry junior Keiran Chaan-drran, who was smoking near M.D. Ander-son Memorial Library, says he does not feel his rights are being violated.
“I think the right to smoke comes sec-ond to people who want the right to have a healthy life,” Chaandrran said. “It would be nice if they made (designated) smoking
areas.”Pre-pharmacy junior Zahal Aslami said
she thinks establishing the smoking ban further away from building entrances is
Student Government Association elections to continue through ThursdayWhere to vote:
www.election.uh.edu!!
When to vote: 7 a.m. to 11: 59 p.m. today through Thursday!!
Presidential (vice presidential) candidates on the ballot:
Cedric Bandoh (Turner Harris)!!
Femi Jekayinfa (Josue Alvarado)!!
Carl McGee (Tarek Haider)!!
Michael McHugh (Mohammed Aijaz)!!
Joy Ramirez (Amayrani Gomez)!!
Markley Rogers (Camden Mahbubani)!!
Je! Syptak (Jack Wehman)!!
David Williams (Ramon Montano)!!
Senatorial candidates on the ballot: Students can vote for senators to represent their !
college and for senators-at-large, who represent the entire student body For a complete list of students running, go to !
www.tinyurl.com/UHSGA2012Results announced:
Noon Friday in the University Center World A! airs !!
LoungeRun-o! election:
7 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Monday to March 7!
Run-o! results announced: Noon March 8 in the University Center World !!
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Student Government Association passed a bill this semester increasing non-smoking areas on campus to 25 feet from 15 feet from building en-trances. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
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UH faculty selection process in a nut shell
Audris PonceTHE DAILY COUGAR
Several steps are taken to hire new faculty members at the Uni-versity of Houston.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs John Antel says recruiting is a process that requires “hundreds of man-hours” by faculty who look for two essential characteristics in candidates.
“People we are looking for must be excellent teachers and research-ers,” Antel said.
There are 1,000 tenure-track faculty members that are replaced when they leave, Antel said.
“In that group we probably have 30 or 35 retirements every year, so we are constantly recruiting new people for those that have left us,” Antel said.
Departments have their own recruiting methods such as
advertising in academic journals, when a position opens.
“We will publish in an econom-ics journal for job openings and other areas for economists,” Antel said. “For international economics, we advertise the position in inter-national economics journals.”
Once candidates are narrowed
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UH to alter smoking policyUniversity must make changes to continue to receive grants from cancer prevention organization
University’s new hires require ‘hundreds of man-hours’
Cougar cupcake warriors
K athy Estrada and Evette Muro use ! uo-
rescent colors to decorate cupcakes in “Cupcake Wars” in the University Center World A" airs Lounge Tues-day. The competitors were challenged to create the best decorations for pre-made strawberry, chocolate or vanilla cupcakes with whatever toppings they desired for a grand prize for their sorority or fraternity. Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc. hosted the competition, and other members of the Greek com-munity participated. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
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We have worked to build a faculty that consists of
both traditional academicians and former executives and entrepreneurs, providing a learning environment that extends beyond the classroom and into industry.”
Latha Ramchand, on Bauer College of Business’ hiring policies
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Lesley SaenzTHE DAILY COUGAR
Students thanked donors for their investments in UH during Philanthropy Awareness Day which was held Tuesday in front of the University Center.
“This day is about awareness,” said Liz Castro from the Offi ce of Annual Giving.
“We let the students know now, and then later they ask about how to get involved and how to (donate).”
Students signed a banner to give thanks to the donors and spun a wheel to win prizes like a water bottle or T-shirt. Students could also write a thank you note and receive cookies and hot chocolate.
Volunteers from the Cougar Cents program told students what the event was about and why it is important to show appreciation.
“This event is an opportunity for the students to learn what philanthropy is,” said Michelle Bair, an offi cer with the Offi ce of Annual Giving.
There was also a luncheon in the Cougar Den for donors and “Houston pacesetters,” contribu-tors like Bair who have supported
the University for at least fi ve-consecutive years.
“I donate because I believe in higher education and the commitment that UH has to its students,” Bair said.
In the center of the event was a poster of a chart informing students where the University’s 2011 funds came from and what the percentages were for each section.
In 2011, 38 percent of UH’s
budget came from tuition, and only 26 percent came from state funds — which have been declin-ing every year, according to the UH website.
Tuition and state funding for this semester have run out, the website said. Contracts, grants, and donations help fi nish out the school year at 36 percent of the UH’s funds.
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Ethics of scienti! c practices to be discussed at lecture
The next entry in the Experi-ence Ethics lecture series will take place from 11 a.m. to noon Monday in room 252 of the Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall.
The lecture, titled “Regulating Ionizing Radiation: Flawed Stan-dards, Flawed Ethics,” will focus on ethically questionable sci-entific practices and regulatory standards in the field of ionizing regulations, said a UH release on the event.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, a professor at University of Notre Dame, will give the lecture. She is the author of “nearly 400 articles and 15 books,” the release said.
— Cougar News Services
LIBRARY
U.S.S. Houston survivors to visit University’s exhibition
Survivors and family members of the crew of the U.S.S. Houston — which was sunk by Japanese forces in World War II — will tour UH’s U.S.S. Houston Exhibition Friday in M.D. Anderson Library’s Rockwell Pavilion for the 70th anniversary of the ship’s sinking.
According to a UH press release, 368 members of the 1068-man crew survived the 1942 disaster.
Julie Grob, special collections coordinator of digital projects and instruction, will be giving attend-ees information on the items in the exhibition.
The visitors will also attend a reception and tour Special Col-lections, where the main Cruser Houston ollection is housed, said the release.
— Cougar News Services
DININGCougar can win a free bike by using UH Dining Services
Honest Tea is giving away a Citizen Collapsible bike Thurs-day at the Cougar Village Xpress Market.
Students who buy any Honest Tea beverage at the store until Thursday will receive an entry form.
For more information, go to www.tinyurl.com/teabike.
— Cougar News Services
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A student spins the prize wheel to win school supplies or refreshments at the Philan-thropy Awareness Day event Tuesday. | Chris Luong/The Daily Cougar
March 5 — March 7Run-Off Election
When? Feb 27 — March 1General Election
Who? SGA is a group of elected representatives who work hard for YOU to make change happen on campus. It’s time to vote for who you want to be YOUR voice!
How? IT’S FAST AND EASY! Head to election.uh.edu to cast your vote!
www.election.uh.edu
Be the change you want to see on campus!
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Joshua MannTHE DAILY COUGAR
This fall, students living in the Cullen Oaks and Cambridge Oaks apartment complexes may not be able to catch a ride on a campus bus from right outside their apart-ments anymore.
Student Government Chief of Staff Cedric Bandoh and College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Senator Lucia Ayala Guerra are working on a proposal that would
limit the bus routes to the parking lots and skip over the apartment complexes entirely.
“I know that option is not going to be popular with the student body because they’re going to have to walk across the street to get on the shuttle bus,” Bandoh said. “But given the fi nancial situ-ation that we’re in, that’s the best conclusion that we could come up with instead of getting rid of some of the routes.”
The proposal would do away with one bus route, the Campus Loop.
“We looked at the riding num-bers, and students aren’t really
riding (the Campus Loop),” he said. “It’s kind of pointless to be paying money to keep that route, so we got rid of it.”
The proposal should keep parking pass rates down; under the current system, the cost of passes could rise by as much as 20 percent a year.
“This was a tough decision, but we think it was the decision that was the best to keep at least most of the important routes online,” he said. “It may not be the solution that will make us all happy, but it’s the best one.”
benefi cial to people on campus.“It’s known that second-hand
smoking is harmful, and it would keep the smoke outside (of) some classrooms,” Aslami said. “We are now protecting those who don’t smoke.”
In March, the Provost will create a standing tobacco task force, composed of faculty, staff administrators and researchers, to ensure the campus is compli-ant with CPRIT rules. The task force will remain an organization on campus to oversee tobacco policies.
“I do not know what our tobacco policy will be like in August, but I do know that it will be CPRIT compliant,” Peek said.
down, national meetings with the department’s search committee take place by person, phone or even Skype.
Usually up to 10 or 12 people a day, for a couple of days, are interviewed for a certain position. The top three people are invited to campus.
“We want to see what kind of teacher they will be,” Antel said. “We basically let them meet the faculty and they are interviewed by the dean.”
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences John W. Roberts says that staff is conduct-ing 13 searches for new faculty this year.
“In a complex college like CLASS, the college does not hire faculty; departments do,” Roberts said. “Each looks for different characteristics based on their needs and each involves faculty differently.”
CLASS departments are cur-rently in the process of recruiting
for English, music, sociology and health and human performance.
There are more than 70 open-ings for faculty at the University, according to the faculty openings position listings on the school’s website.
Dean of the Bauer College of Business, Latha Ramchand said that quality of learning is essential for students, a principle she said guides her mission to have a strong faculty at the business school.
“At the Bauer College, we have worked to build a faculty that consists of both traditional aca-demicians and former executives and entrepreneurs, providing a learning environment that extends beyond the classroom and into industry,” Ramchand said.
The standards for new faculty have seen a continuous improve-ment in the past 20 years, Antel said.
“The departments are more selective over candidates,” Antel said. “We have recruited better faulty and we are more competitive.”
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Students can ride the buses into the center of campus from the outlying parking lots and residence halls. Due to budgetary constraints, some SGA members suggest cutting some routes and stops. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
Would cut Campus Loop route, apartment stops
SGA proposes change to UH bus linesBUS ROUTES
I think the right to smoke comes second to people
who want the right to have a healthy life. It would be nice if they made designated smoking areas.”
Keiran Chaandrran, his response to the changing smoking policies
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Before the ball gets rolling in Texas, it might help to address New York City’s new
teacher rankings for perspective.
Ignoring that the idea of such a system has been implemented in multiple science fictions films, that it has concurrently failed in said science fiction
films and that standard administra-tions attempt to cram some of the state’s most important workers into a cardboard box, you’ve got a tough situ-ation at hand.
So how would one go about determining what separates an “exemplary teacher” from his or her “halfway-decent-most-of-the-time” counterparts in a state with more than 600,000 of them? Here’s a hint: You can’t. Without a universal agreement as to what “good” is, there won’t be any “good” teachers. It’s another bullet on the list of things that will never come to fruition. The difference between your “good” and that of your neighbors’ could be insignificant in some ways but could also be monumental in others. The absence of a multi-lateral “thumbs up” is the reason that so many different religions, diets and marriage practices exist.
There simply aren’t any assurances that standards are the same. And that’s not to say you can’t try, but even the obvious indicators, from the fruit on the edge of their desk to whatever arithmetic is being thrown around in the elementary school, hold only so much weight in some circles, while they are completely disregarded in others.
But for the sake of the argument, let’s say that a standard could actually be agreed upon. Even if the circum-stances were in place to qualify a standard code of merit, how could it be done objectively? What would become of the teacher whose students pray for plague outbreaks, but consistently make high marks? Or the instructor who struggles to attain the results, but consistently concludes the year by instilling a love for learning in their students?
Anyone who’s been hostage to the public education system knows that it’s a two-way affair. No matter how much “pull” is provided on one end, the other has to pay its dues as well. There’s a goal established at the beginning of the year, along with an open promise from the instructor, that he or she will reach if the students do “their part,” as well.
This is a relationship that’s molded on a case-by-case basis, but one whose factors remain the same — none of
these can be measured.You can’t have a widespread ranking
system without a widespread acknowl-edgement. You can’t have a widespread acknowledgement without a wide-spread consensus. And if the New York City Department of Education believes that they can acquire even a semi-unanimous agreement on the plight of the Native Americans, the proper use of a semi-colon or the umpteenth variable of pi, hats off to them. Bravo.
But for the rest of the country, corre-lated teacher rankings will only remain an idea and a half-fl eshed one at best.
Bryan Washington is a sociology freshman and may be reached at [email protected].
Drunk driving is a problem our society has been forced to deal with for more than a century.
Over the years, standards and regula-tions have been added and improved upon to help lessen the frequency of accidents caused by
drunk drivers. Bars and restaurants are already held liable if they don’t stop highly-intoxicated customers from driving. Now, a new incident has some people proposing that valets should be held responsible as well.
A 23-year-old on a scooter was killed in Boston after being hit by a drunk driver. The driver claimed to be “blackout drunk” and couldn’t believe the valet handed him his keys. Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo agrees. “I was stunned. I said to myself, ‘Yeah, how could he have?’”
Now, Consalvo is pushing for new legislation that would utilize valets as a tool to keep drunk drivers off the road, requiring them to refuse drivers their keys if they appear too intoxicated.
As expected, stances on Consalvo’s plan vary. Some say the proposal is a no-brainer, and valet drivers should absolutely be required to refuse drunk drivers their keys. On the other hand, some argue the plan encourages irresponsibility, and valet drivers are meant to park cars, not babysit.
The idea sounds good on paper, but it would be crazy to expect the new proposal to go over without any repercussions. Certainly intoxicated adults are not going to enjoy having their car held from them against their
will, especially by a college-aged valet driver. As a result, valet companies will likely be forced to deal with many alter-cations and, in turn, many lawsuits.
It’s obvious that as far as drunk driving is concerned, our society can use all the preventative help it can get, and valets seem to be, what Consalvo calls, “our last line of defense.” However, punishing valets for failing to accurately recognize the severity of a person’s intoxication is crossing a line. Not everybody is a per-ceptible drunk, and if a valet doesn’t pick up on it, it would be wrong to put the blame on him or her. Adults need to act like adults; valets won’t always be there.
Valets should obviously not give keys to anyone who is evidently unfi t to drive, that much is certain; however, the ulti-mate responsibility belongs to the driver
and the driver’s passengers. It’s easy to expect a restaurant server or bartender to help prevent drunk driving because they are the ones serving the alcohol and can keep tabs on the amount consumed — whereas valets only have a person’s articulation and body language to judge drunkenness.
Although drunk driving is a problem our society has not yet effi ciently fi xed, it’s unfair to expect valet parking atten-dants, who are in contact with patrons for such a short amount of time, to be held liable for making the call whether a person is or isn’t in a safe condition to drive.
Lucas Sepulveda is a creative writing and media production junior and may be reached at [email protected].
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STAFF EDITORIAL
I t takes the earth 365 days and 6 hours to perform a complete revolu-tion around the sun. This means
that a surplus of 24 hours is accumu-lated every four years — a leap year.
Leap Day is one of a handful of rare days that doesn’t count. If it were an important day, we would celebrate it more often. Leap Day is a day when crazy things happen and anything is pos-sible. As declared by Liz Lemmon’s boyfriend Criss (yes, Criss) on last week’s episode of 30 Rock, “It’s Leap Day. Real Life is for March.”
The editorial board of The Daily Cougar plans to make the most of its Leap Day by trying to do things on campus that normally appear impossible:
Try to fi nd a parking space on campus at noon. We might have to act as chauffeurs to complete this one.
Try to fi nd a place to eat on campus after 8 p.m. We’ll bring food from home in case our mission fails.
Try to remember all of your UH logins. The Daily Cougar believes that less is more.
Try to fi nd a clean bathroom on campus. We’ll probably just end up making the trek from the UC Satellite to The Hilton for this one.
Try to enter the Roy G. Cullen building without running into a hipster — this one is probably impossible.
Try to get a phone signal in the library. Those of us who do not have AT&T have the best chance of completing this one.
Try to get wifi in Agnes Arnold. Remember, persistence is key. You might just get lucky on Leap Day.
Try to pass by the M.D. Anderson Library with-out being approached by someone from Green Peace. The best way to do this one is to look like a rational human being.
Try catching the elevator in Cougar Village. It would be faster to take the stairs, but who wants to exercise on Leap Day?
Post a comment telling us your crazy UH-Leap Day aspirations. Remember, nothing is impossible —we’re Tier One now.
Today is Leap Day, anything is possible
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THE DAILY COUGARE D I T O R I A L B O A R DEDITOR IN CHIEF Daniel RenfrowMANAGING EDITOR Mary BaakNEWS EDITORS Taylor McGilvray, Joshua MannSPORTS EDITOR Joshua SiegelLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Jose AguilarOPINION EDITOR David HaydonCOPY CHIEF Amanda Willow
EDITOR David HaydonE-MAIL [email protected] thedailycougar.com/opinionOPINION
There simply aren’t any assurances that standards are the
same. And that’s not to say you can’t try, but even the obvious indicators, from the fruit on the edge of their desk to whatever arithmetic is being thrown around in the elementary school, hold only so much weight in some circles while they completely disregarded in others.”
Teacher rankings are a bad policy
Bryan Washington
Blame the driver
David Haydon/The Daily Cougar
Scapegoating valets for auto collisions involving alcohol is a cop-out
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Gilbert RequenaTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars just can’t seem to beat the Owls.
UH fell to No. 5 Rice for the 16th straight time, dropping the fi rst of fi ve contests this season, 4-1.
Through four innings, it was a competitive game and the Cougars were up 1-0, but then things started to fall apart. The pitching started to fade and the Cougars made costly errors.
“We had a couple of things go wrong for us,” head coach Todd Whitting said. “We just made a couple of mistakes, which against a good team, they’ll get you when you do that.”
Starting pitcher Austin Pruitt brought his A-game and through four innings was awesome, but in the fi fth, he got tired and the Rice offense took advantage. Pruitt went six innings, allowing three runs, two earned with seven strikeouts and two walks.
“(My) arm was kind of hanging a little bit and I wasn’t really getting on top of the ball as well as I wanted to,” Pruitt said. “I threw it okay for a little bit, but I kind of got tired.
“A couple of things didn’t go our way, but we played hard.”
Rice’s pitching and timely hitting proved too much for the Cougars.
“I think they’re the best team in the country, hands down,” Whitting said. “There’s nobody in the country
that’s pitching like that.“In the years that I’ve been
involved with the University of Houston, playing Rice University, we’ve never had at bats that good against them. We had great at bats all night.”
Despite the loss, Whitting believes his team is on the right track and just needs a few plays here and there to go the Cougars’ way.
“If we have this effort and we play this hard, we’ll start getting those hits,” Whitting said.
UH got the scoring started in the fourth inning on an aggressive base running play by Casey Grayson. Grayson led off the inning with a single to left-center, and after a Chase Jensen one-out walk, Zack Gibson sent a shallow fl y ball to cen-ter fi eld. Grayson left second base
taking a chance the ball wouldn’t be caught. He made the right decision and scored the Cougars’ only run of the game.
The lead did not last long though, as the Owls responded in the top of the next frame with two runs of their own. Shane Hoelscher hit an RBI single, driving in Michael Ratterree and the next batter, Ryan Lewis, doubled-in Hoelscher.
The Owls added additional runs in the sixth and seventh innings, pushing the score to its fi nal mark of 4-1.
Up next for the Cougars is a match up against the Tennessee Volunteers at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the College Baseball Classic at Minute Maid Park.
EDITOR Joshua SiegelE-MAIL [email protected] thedailycougar.com/sports
Austin Pruitt"! Mo Wiley"!
Blowing them awayDespite earning the loss, Austin Pruitt combined with Mo Wiley to strike out nine batters in 6 1/3 innings against Rice on Tuesday.
After scoring 32 runs in their first three games, the Cougars have managed to get just six men across home plate in their last five games. In their 4-1 loss to Rice on Tuesday, the Cougars managed just four hits and stranded six runners. | Catherine Lara/The Daily Cougar
The Cougars’ pitching has been solid despite their mediocre 4-4 record. UH is pitch-ing to a 2.25 ERA in 72 2/3 innings. | Catherine Lara/The Daily Cougar
Senior Darian Thibodeaux has averaged 6.9 points per game in his at UH and, as a junior, has led the team in minutes played. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
Cougars just can’t winBASEBALL
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Cougars fall to No. 5 Rice for 16th straight time, lose third straight overall
Rice 4, Houston 1SCORE BY INNING R H ERice 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 – 4 5 0Houston 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 – 1 4 1
TOP HITTERSRICE (9-0)PLAYER AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Hoelscher 4 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 0 Ratterree 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0
HOUSTON (4-4)PLAYER AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB White 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 5 2 Grayson 3 1 1 0 1 1 13 3 1
PITCHERSWINNING IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP Benak 5.0 3 1 1 4 4 17 22 88
LOSING IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP Pruitt 6.0 5 3 2 2 7 22 24 95
Save —Chargoisr (4)
E - Runte; Stewart 2. LOB - Rice 4; UH 6. 2B - Lewis. HBP - None. SH - Lewis; Hamilton; Cannon. SB - Runte.
Stadium: Cougar Field Attendance: 1,395 Time: 2:30
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UH preps for home fi naleThibodeaux to be honored on Senior Night
Eli DanielsTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars (13-14, 5-9 Conference USA) will honor the lone senior on their roster, Dar-ian Thibodeaux, in their regular season home finale against Tulane (15-13, 3-11) tonight for Senior Night.
“It’s been a good experience for me personally,” Thibodeaux said. “I have met a lot of new people.
“It has been great working with my teammates and coaches. They are a good group of guys, I have been truly blessed.”
“Tip,” as his teammates call him, has had an impressive and efficient career for UH since transferring from Navarro Junior College prior to last season.
“He was one of our first guys that we signed,” head coach James Dickey said. “We were extremely happy to have him; he has been a good defender and shooter.
“I wish the best for his senior night. Tip is one of those guys that has gone through the war with us.”
Thibodeaux and the Cougars take on a Tulane squad that is just 3-9 in away games, but a scorer like Ricky Tarrent makes the Green Wave dangerous.
“He is a terrific player; he is a guy that is capable of hitting you for a bunch and capable of con-trolling the game,” Dickey said.
Tarrent leads Tulane in both scoring (16.1) and assists (3.2). He led the Green Wave’s attack in their last outing against Tulsa, scoring 21 points in a 73-69 loss.
With a win, UH can even the regular season series with Tulane, who won their first meet-ing, 75-54.
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Weekend echoed with musical activities
UH student releases debut albumBen MuthsTHE DAILY COUGAR
On Tuesday, Market Junction released their debut album “Heroes Have Gravestones” under the label White Cat. bring-ing a new feel to the Americana genre, the album blends bluesy composition with country-style instrumentation.
“Kind of like country gold had
a love child with the blues and the kid was raised by folk music,” said co-songwriter and lead vocalist Matt Parrish.
Throughout the album, Parrish exposes his personal experiences and situations in a comfortable setting.
The lyrics allow the listener to relate without having to translate vague jargon that plagues most up-and-coming artists’ writing in their unfortunately flawed effort
to be unconventional.“‘No Use Stopping Me Now’
was co-written with (band mate) Justin and my new wife Sara. That song tells that story in a way, along with the song “‘Drive,’” said Parrish.
“We decided the order of the record based on feel, tempo and storytelling.”
Market Junction shows us
Channler HillTHE DAILY COUGAR
This past weekend, the Moores Opera House was buried in tunes as the Moores School of Music hosted their 14th annual Jazz Festival.
The Jazz Festival consisted of two days of events including, but not limited to: free clinics, middle
and high school bands perform-ing before judges, a performance by the Texas Music Festival Jazz Project, a performance by the Moores School of Music Jazz Orchestra and performances by guest artists like Seamus Blake.
The festival has an open door policy, meaning that ensembles are automatically accepted when they apply.
“We do not discriminate on experience,” said Director of Jazz Ensembles Noe Marmolejo, executive producer of the festival.
“Students get the opportunity
to perform and be adjudicated by myself and a panel of judges and hear artists play. There is an edu-cational as well as performance component of the festival.”
Each day of the festival awards are distributed to the students and schools.
There are 25 all-star awards given to individual students who are recognized in their ensemble, two soloist awards, one out-standing soloist of the entire festival, outstanding award for best middle and high school of the day, and outstanding middle
and high school of the entire festival.
“Every day is a whole new bag, every band is a whole new thing,” Marmolejo said.
“The bands that come here usually are consistent on a year-to-year basis and you see market improvements over the years and each day during the festival, which is what we want to see. We want to see improvement so I am very impressed so far. We’ve heard some pretty good stuff.”
Marmolejo was trusted to start the festival by former Moores
School of Music Department Chairman David Tomatz because of on Marmolejo’s expertise.
Like Marmolejo, the judges of the festival are educators and musicians who are rotated each year with different judges and selected on his behalf.
The Moores School of Music serves as one of the primary financial supporters of the festival.
In addition, the students in the college play a big part in the
Music college played host to two-day event and showcases talent
The Moores School of Music invited a wide range of student musicians and performers to participate in this year’s Jazz Festival. Judges critiqued middle and high school musical groups and awarded them for stand-out performances. The event also served as a preview as to what the college has to o! er for prospective UH students. | Hendrick Rosemond/The Daily Cougar
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Day of literacy opened books, enriched mindsAnnette SantosTHE DAILY COUGAR
The 10th annual Houston Hispanic Book Festival was a col-lage of Hispanic organizations, authors and emerging poets and writers.
Local writers, poets and publishers gathered for a book festival at Hotel Hilton Houston to promote literature among children on Sunday.
Author stations, poetry readings, cultural dances and merchants selling Central Ameri-can jewelry all occupied the
Hilton halls.Autographs were signed and
several books were also sold for less than $10.
An area specifically for children entertained the young crowd with balloons animals, clowns and characters such as Hello Kitty.
“This festival is important because it promotes culture, the intellectuals, the writers, the poets,” said Jorge Ferragut, a Cuban writer in attendance.
“It’s good for the Hispanic community because the Hispanic culture is very rich and it is something very positive for the
city.”The children’s area also held
writing workshops given by volunteer teachers and poetry readings for kids like Jimmy Diaz, who aspires to be a doctor when he grows up.
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Market Junction comes from an academic musical background. Member Cody Gar-rett (right) is a current UH music student. | Courtesy of Cody Garrett/The Daily Cougar
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that originality comes from an ensemble as a whole.
The track “Elephant in the Room” features a theme in six-eight time signature — an uncommon beat pattern deployed almost exclusively by classically trained musicians.
Cody Garrett, on the keyboard, is currently studying music theory at UH’s Moores School of Music.
In the band’s songwriting pro-cess, Garrett is responsible for the finishing touches such as “adding color, texture and changes in the dynamic form,” Parrish said.
This attention to detail sets the group apart from bands that may not have the luxury of under-standing the subtleties of writing music.
“Understanding key sensitivity has helped me to develop a keen aural focus, which is incredibly helpful for transcribing music of different styles,” said Parrish.
“I think it’s also important to become involved with music you’re less comfortable or familiar with off-campus. You learn a lot about yourself as an artist when you are required to use your clas-sical tools to create new music.”
The musicianship of each individual is impressive to say the least.
It’s fair to assume that they
all have a strong musical back-ground, whether or not they decided to study music at the academic level.
“Heroes Have Gravestones” contains strong Christian under-tones, namely in the song “Heavy Words.”
All members of the band are involved in their respective church worship group, which clearly reveals itself in the lyrics.
The text explains the song-writer’s strive to fi nd words that will help his fellow man believe in the truth amidst a world of lies.
Whether or not you subscribe to the Christian faith, the lyrics should not be written off as assertive or evangelistic.
It feels as if Parrish is referring to the misleading nature of advertise-ments, political fi gures and social pressures — a subject to which we can all relate.
The band wears its heart on its sleeve in both written word and musical composition. The fi nal track, “When We Were Free,” is an uplift-ing anthem forecasting a future of societal detriment.
The album concludes with a sing-along style chorus, followed by an ad-lib bluesy conclusion.
After all is said — or sung, rather — and done, Market Junction leaves the listener in a state of hope for the future and a feeling of freedom in the present.
festival. They set up the ensembles,
serve as the stage crew and tell each ensemble where to go.
Many past attendees of the
festival have grown to become students of the music college, which suggests the festival is a great recruiting technique for the Moores School of Music.
“I want the students to gain the exposure by playing for other people,” Marmolejo said.
“Every day they hear things
from their band director, now they are going to hear it from other people. We hope that we will reinforce what the direc-tors are already doing and add on to the students’ learning experience.”
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His mother Alejandra Diaz, a fellow writer, says it is important to give children the opportunity for a better education.
Julia Mercedes Castilla, one of 40 authors in attendance agrees, but says it all starts with a little imagination.
“Kids don’t like to read because they rather go see something on television or do whatever on the computer,” she said.
“And that stops imagination because television gives you everything.”
Castilla says reading is a per-sonal experience, one that many children are missing.
“When you’re reading, that
protagonist is going to look differ-ent to each child because they are (individually) imagining how this person looks like,” she said.
“Imagination is something that is important to know, but it is not easy because (children) rather go sit down in front of the televi-sion than read a book.”
The festival attracted about 2,500 people last year according to the Millennium Press, and hopes to experience a greater increase in attendance in the future.
Ferragut says at least the crowds are consistent each year and that he will be among one of the returning writers.
“Those who come see a rich-ness here,” he said.
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