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Mohammed Haider, Jennifer Pearson, Nici Wright and Chelsea Whiting THE DAILY COUGAR
The introduction of tablets and iBooks has pushed some publish-ing companies, like McGraw-Hill and Pearson, to release their text-books in a digital format.
One major advantage tablets have over their paper counterparts is the consolidation of textbooks on one device rather than having multiple books.
“I would have to carry so much less, and I would also be able to get more functionality out of an iPad than a book itself,” said Eric Ventura, an Apple employee.
Lili Zamorano, a manager at the University of Houston Book Store, said despite the accessibility of e-books, sales in the bookstore have stayed consistent.
“The market is driven by the publishers, as is the price,” Zamorano said. “Until the demand for textbooks to go on the iPad becomes substantial, there won’t be a signifi cant difference in our
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Cougars dominate case competitionNici WrightTHE DAILY COUGAR
University of Houston stu-dents brought home the gold in the 2012 Rice MBA Marketing Case Competition.
The team competed with eight other teams from around the state including Rice Univer-sity and University of Texas.
Team members Raj Baskaran, Kim Phan, Trey Bhutta and Iryna
McKenzie had only 12 hours to prepare for the presentation.
“The group did know that Cameron was the sponsor and the case was most likely related to their operations,” Baskaran said. “So the extent of our research was to look at the company website, marketing and annual reports.”
The team’s goal was to do well and gain experience, but they were also hoping to finish in the top three.
“Heading into the competi-tion, I felt confident in my team as well as the qualifications that each member brought with them,” Phan said.
“With the marketing knowl-edge I attained through my MBA career as well as my undergrad, I felt that we were prepared competitively.”
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Team members Raj Baskaran, Kim Phan, Iryna Mckenzie and Trey Bhutta took ! rst place in the 2012 Rice MBA Marketing Case Competition. | Courtesy of Jessica Navarro
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Entrepreneur group to hold bake sale for children’s camp
The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization will host a bake sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall and the University Center and will donate a portion of their profi ts to Champi-ons Kids Camp.
Champions Kids Camp is a charity for “children who have survived a traumatic injury, illness, or personal loss, such as the loss of a parent or sibling,” said Jacob Hines, technology offi cer for the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization, in an email.
“We will be using a for-profi t function to help raise money for our favorite charity,” Hines said. “Our organization is very familiar with this charity and feel very strongly about promoting it.”
— Cougar News Services
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‘Food for Thought’ workshop to tackle dissertation stress
Counseling and Psychological Services will have its Food for Thought workshop, “Dissertation and Thesis Survival,” from noon to 1 p.m. in conference room 210D of the Student Service Center 1 Building.
Food for Thought workshops are free and don’t require registration.
For more information, contact CAPS at [email protected].
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Student government run-off elections held for candidates
Student Government Associa-tion run-off elections will end at 11:59 p.m. tonight.
The candidates for president are Michael McHugh and Cedric Bandoh.
The candidates for the first senator-at-large are Imran Ghandi and Christopher Holly.
The candidates for the second senator-at-large are Kirby White and Adnan Ratani.
Students can use their PeopleSoft ID number, name and birthday to vote online at www.election.uh.edu.
Chief Election Commissioner for SGA Arsalan Razakazi said students should protect them-selves and their voting rights by never giving out their PeopleSoft ID numbers, date of births or any other personal information to other students.
The final results of the elec-tion will be announced at noon on Thursday in the UC World Affairs Lounge.
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Traffic Offense: 5:27 p.m. Feb. 28, Lot 11A — A student reported that someone struck his unat-tended vehicle and failed to leave the information required by law. The incident occurred between 3:30 and 5:10 p.m. Feb. 27. The case is active.
Theft: 5:17 p.m. Feb. 28, M.D. Anderson Memorial Library — A student reported that someone stole her unsecured laptop. The incident occurred between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 29. The case is active.
Theft: 12:13 p.m. Feb. 29, Brazos Hall — A student reported that someone stole her unattended and unsecured purse while she attended a class in Brazos Hall at the UH Sugar Land campus. The incident occurred between 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. Feb. 29. The case is inactive.
Theft of Service: 12:01 p.m. Feb. 29, University Hilton Hotel — A UH Hilton employee reported that someone exited the Hilton Hotel parking garage without paying the parking fee. The incident occurred at 5:21 p.m. Feb. 28. The case is active.
Theft: 12:25 p.m. Feb. 29, University Hilton Hotel — A UH Hilton employee reported that a chair was stolen from a second-floor lobby of the hotel. The incident occurred between 5:00 p.m. Feb. 28 and 8:00 p.m. Feb. 29. The case is active.
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Theft: 3:51 p.m. Feb. 29, University Center — A visitor reported that someone stole an attended and unsecured class ring from a display table in the Barnes and Noble bookstore. The incident occurred between 3:30 and 3:50 p.m. Feb. 29. The case is active.
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Driving While Intoxicated: 1:05 a.m. Wednesday, 4300 Wheeler — A visitor was stopped for a traffic violation and it was discovered the visi-tor was intoxicated. The visitor was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated. The incident occurred between 1:04 and 1:33 a.m. Wednesday. The case is cleared by arrest.
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UH Law Center’s Houston Law Review ranked 42nd out of 1,683 journals nationally, according to Washington & Lee University School of Law.
Rankings are determined by the number of times a law school journal has been cited in legal scholarships and US case laws over the last eight years.
“It’s an honor to be ranked so highly,” said Editor in Chief Matt Hoffman, a law student.
“It’s recognition that the long hours and high-quality work that goes into this organization is warranted and recognized by our peers in the academic community.”
The Houston Law Review, founded in 1963, is a legal peri-odical that acts independently from law school administration; law students edit and publish the five annual issues of the journal.
The articles are written by students, professors and prac-titioners; they cover a variety of legal issues.
“We want to represent our law school and our organization on a national, state and local level in a way that is indicative of the high quality work that we do every day here,” Hoffman said.
“We understand that the work
we do is viewed by professors from around the country so we take it seriously.”
Membership on the law review is highly competitive.
“The Houston Law Review is a pure meritocracy in every sense of the word,” Hoffman said.
“You gain admission into this organization based on your performance in law school, and continued membership in this organization is based on performing at the high level that previous members have estab-lished through decades of hard work.”
Success in the journal trans-lates into real world opportuni-ties, Hoffman said; alumni of the law school and former members of the law review who have gone on to have successful careers in the Houston legal market sup-port the journal.
“We current members of Law Review have 50 years of past
members to rely on for guidance on how to be successful on law review and how to be successful once you start practicing as an attorney,” Hoffman said .
“Membership opens a lot of doors in the Houston legal
market. You have the oppor-tunity to see a lot of really interesting things, meet a lot of interesting people and have a great career.”
sales.”Adjunct professor and iPad
owner Carolyn Canville said she prefers textbooks and physical note taking.
“I think it’s so different when you actually write something; you can learn a lot more,” Canville said. “There is just something about taking notes.”
Students have mixed feelings about the possible shift from print to digital textbooks.
“I think there is always going to be a need for textbooks. More mobility? I’m an old-school guy. I’m traditional; I like to read textbooks,” said Naeem Abdullah, an organizational leadership and supervision junior.
“We’re so used to websites and looking at screens and I read that it can hurt your eyes. I think tra-ditional reading is better. I prefer
a regular book — something you can highlight.”
Tablets are also trying to make textbooks more affordable for students. Last year Amazon announced it would offer students an option to rent digital textbooks for a much cheaper price than hardback books. The option of extending the rental period would also be available.
“Initially, I was against using iPads and other tablets as learn-ing tools, but if schools will make
them more accessible for less for-tunate students who can’t afford the latest in technology, then I can see the benefi ts from using electronic books — no more heavy backpacks,” said Melissa Harris, an art senior.
According to Pearson Founda-tion, 48 percent of college students say that tablets will effectively replace textbooks as we now know them within the next fi ve years.
team could not finish by their original goal of 3:30 a.m. Some teammates took an hour-long nap, while others were forced to go home, freshen up and battle commuter traffic back to Rice in the morning.
“I brushed my teeth and slept at the same time, it felt like,” Phan said.
With a bachelor’s degree in finance, Bhutta seeks an MBA in the same field. Baskaran received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and is studying finance for an MBA, while McKenzie is study-ing accounting. Phan is the only marketing MBA team member.
“UH’s MBA program has been so enriching for me,” Phan said. “My personal goal going into the competition was to display the knowledge and insight that I gained from my educational tenure at UH and apply it to the best of my knowledge to the competition.”
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Do you like the idea of textbooks on tablets?
“I prefer traditional note taking. I % nd whenever I write it down, I remember it better. It’s just becoming more common for people to own an iPad or a tablet. It will get cheaper eventually, probably.
Shiv Divanjipre-medicine sophomore
—Compiled by Mohammed Haider
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“The shift from textbooks to using an iPad or other tablet is one that is inevitable. It gives endless possibilities for interactive learning as well as making sure that the students are keeping up with assignments. This is the future of education.”
Elizabeth Cartereducation sophomore
“Well, you can get used to anything. We’ve been using books for so many years that you’ve kind of become accustomed to it.I’m sure it’s going in that direction. If you can carry all your book on one tablet, it’s a lot more convenient.”
Mark Brockpetroleum engineering junior
“I would probably use a tablet. You can save (your notes) on it. I think eventually a lot of people are going to switch over.”
Marc Vazquezhealth sophomore
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From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the automotive factories of Detroit, America has been built
by the sweat and blood of factory workers. Nothing has ever been as definitive and symbolic of industrial America as the assem-bly lines, or the iconic blue-collar man who
works nine-to-five shifts at the plant. And nothing has been stereotyped
as a worse job. The common image of factory work is that of back-breaking menial labor for very little pay. That proud factory worker quickly becomes a slave to his corporate masters who underpay him so he can make, piece-by-piece, $15,000 vehicles that no longer easily drive off the lots.
The idea of working in one of these legalized sweat shops horrifies some Americans. This same breed of Ameri-can also laments that tuition costs are too high. Checking into modern factory work might remedy both situations.
Welcome to the new era of modern American industry. While jobs in other industries are in scarce numbers, there are ample amounts of factory jobs open to the newest generation of Americans. Just as there are twice as many engineering positions as there are actual engineer students in America, the opportunity to work in America is still here.
It’s just that students coming straight out of high school are expected to make something out of their life by shelling out thousands of dollars for a four-year degree they don’t have a clue how they’ll use.
But still, the shame of working in manufacturing must be hard on these kids who have been told they can be anything they want to be. They apparently have yet to consider serious manufacturing work, such as becoming a machinist. For the first two years, they can work as an apprentice, essen-tially learning the tricks of the trade. After apprenticeship, their starting salary is $50,000.
Now, what is the starting salary of your average, fresh-out-of-college graduate? $46,000, even after doubling-down on student loans for that psychology degree you still need a master’s for if you want to even find a job.
Ten years later after high school, the machinist could be looking at a salary of at least $100,000 a year. The college
graduate six years later? If he or she hasn’t caught his or her lucky break and found a stable job at a company that’s not looking to downsize, chances are, with today’s political climate, he or she will be posting pictures of themselves holding signs describing how it’s unfair that they don’t have a well-paying job.
To be clear, this isn’t an anti-educa-tion rant. Higher education is one of the most important and life-building hallmarks of society. That being said, it is still a luxury.
The cost of tuition and the current economy should be forcing people to understand the purpose of college — to prepare you for a career for which you are well-suited.
College, as many people have now found out, is expensive and does not promise a job.
With so many open manufacturing jobs with such rewarding salaries, it boggles the mind as to why some people would lie to themselves for four years, saying everything will be okay once they finally leave campus for good.
While the benefits of college are still incredibly rewarding and trump
all other choices, manufacturing — the essential icon of the last great genera-tion of Americans — is what America was built on and what will advance America in the future.
We need our engineers to design and create new wonders. We need the next Bill Gates. We need the next Steve Jobs. We need thinkers and responsible citizens. We need aspiring entrepre-neurs and bold, yet moral, political leaders to lead our great nation and win this new “Cold War” against China — an economic powerhouse.
But in America, we have the choice. Some choose higher education, and if it’s truly your passion, then by all means, pursue it. But reality demands practicality.
When the costs of college aren’t worth the slim chances for the career that you want, it might be time to suck up your pride and change your mind about actively working for a living. And if that work can add up to $100,000 in just ten years, then it’s well worth the sacrifice.
James Wang is a history freshman and may be reached at [email protected].
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S ince campaigning for this year’s SGA elections began on Feb. 17, The Daily Cougar has been
contacted by numerous students from SGA for off-the-record interviews or with anonymous tips discussing the misconduct of other candidates.
Reports have ranged from candidates steal-ing students’ PeopleSoft numbers and dates of birth to a candidate’s offer to bribe students for information on the alleged misconduct of another candidate.
During Monday’s debate, both presidential candidates said it wasn’t their job to police the elections, even going as far as to say that it would be childish to do so.
However, people from the parties of both of the candidates are the ones who have been making the complaints. It is highly unlikely that either of the presidential candidates are unaware of this.
The situation tells us one of two things: Either the members of SGA who have been making the anonymous tips and giving us off-the-record interviews have no backbone and that’s why they don’t want to go on the record, or they know that the information they have been giving us is false and they want us to print it without verifying if it is correct.
More or less, they want us to ruin the reputa-tions of other candidates by feeding us factually incorrect information.
If the fi rst situation is the case and they have little integrity, how can they be trusted to make diffi cult decisions if they are elected to their posi-tions? SGA needs to be run by students who will fi rmly stand behind their words.
If the second situation is the case and the infor-mation is false, then how can students trust those members of SGA as leaders? If they are knowingly trying to get us to publish false information, then they are absolutely the last on the list of people who should be representing our University.
SGA tarnished its reputation enough during last year’s election. There is no reason to continue the trend.
Ruined reputations don’t solve problems
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Passive protest in America doesn’t work the way we think it should. The way it actually works is by alerting those unaware of the issues and/or showing people who care about the issues that there are other people who care and
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Doing work in the paintIn UH’s 81-76 overtime win over UTEP on Jan. 28, forwards TaShawn Thomas and Alandise Harris combined for 31 points, 24 rebounds and ! ve blocks .
Record: (15-14, 7-9)Last game:W, Rice 76-75
Record: (14-16, 7-9)Last game:L, SMU 57-48
StartersF - TaShawn Thomas 10.6 pts, 8.1 reb, 2.2 blkF - Alandise Harris 12.9 pts, 6.2 reb, 1.3 blkG - Jonathan Simmons 14.9 pts, 5.0 reb, 52% FGG - Darian Thibodeaux 6.0 pts, 1.2 3PM, 89% FTG - Joseph Young 11.4 pts, 1.9 3PM, 2.4 ast
StartersC - John Bohannon 11.2 pts, 7.3 reb, 0.9 blkF - Gabriel McCulley 11.2 pts, 5.4 reb, 1.1 stlF - Julian Washburn 11.5 pts, 3.3 reb, 1.0 stlG - Michael Perez 11.0 pts, 1.4 3PM, 2.5 rebG - Jacques Streeter 7.2 pts, 4.6 ast, 0.8 3PM
The Cougars hope to make some noise and surpise people in the Conference USA Tournament. UH has won its last three games and four of its last ! ve with their latest coming with a dramatic 76-75 win over Rice on Saturday at Tudor Field House. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
Getting a fresh start
Andrew PateTHE DAILY COUGAR
In her 12th year as UH head softball coach, Kyla Holas has meant more to the program than she will ever let you know. As the architect of a program that started from scratch in 2001, her importance cannot be understated.
“When I got here, it was so much more than I could have imagined,” Holas said. “I just saw the vision and I saw that you can sell this place
as long as you could get people to show the campus.”
Since coming over from the University of Florida where she served as pitching coach, Holas has led the Cougars to 10 consecutive winning seasons, including four NCAA Regional appearances and two Super Regional appearances, all the while adapting and fl ourishing as the game has changed.
“In the very beginning, softball was such a different dynamic,” Holas said. “We’ve been really able
to sell people that there’s an oppor-tunity and a place for you even if it’s not one of those you used to think of as being successful.”
The 2008 squad, arguably the most successful under Holas, would go on to become the fi rst sport in UH history to win more than 50 games, while racking up a 21-2 con-ference record that included seven Conference USA All-Americans.
“We had some upper-class kids who bought into the plan whole-heartedly,” Holas said. “They were a
very committed group, very selfl ess, great leadership and of course just a very tough mental person on the mound.”
Ironically, the 2008 Cougars would come up one win short of the College World Series against Holas alma mater, Louisiana-Lafayette — the school where Holas was a three-time All-American and that now serves as a frequent opponent of the Cougars.
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With midseason woes behind them, UH looks to extend late-season success
Joshua SiegelTHE DAILY COUGAR
After a roller coaster of a regular season that was capped off with a dramatic win over Rice on Saturday and a three-game winning streak, the Cougars are starting over.
“It’s like a new season right here,” freshman guard Joseph Young said.
The Cougars (15-14, 7-9 Con-ference USA) will open the C-USA Tournament tonight against UTEP. The Miners (14-16, 7-9) will see a very different Cougars squad than the one they faced earlier in the season.
The difference between the Cougars squad that endured a 2-8 stretch in January and February and the one that has won four of its last fi ve games has been improved effort in practices.
“I think that they’ve under-stood that you have to give a great effort and you’re going to play like you practice — you have to practice hard,” head coach James Dickey said.
Even with their recent success, Dickey has ramped up the inten-sity of practices.
“The thing that we didn’t do was we didn’t handle success very well,” Dickey said. “So I’ve been much more demanding on them after we win than I have after a loss, although we’ve been pretty consistent on the accountability factor. We just haven’t handled wins very well.”
The amped-up practices have made an impact on the players.
“Coach Dickey has not been soft on us,” Young said. “We got a couple of losses and he’s been on us since those losses.
“We have to come out and compete.”
Coach Brooks’ keys to success1. Defending ball screens“They use the ball screens so well, so if (Jacques) Streeter gets to the paint, then whoever is guarding (John) Bohannon has to come over and help, and then the ball is shot and he’s free to get o" ensive rebounds.”2. Attacking the Miners’ zone defense“O" ensively we have to play a little bit faster because they play triangle-and-two and box-and-one, and it can make you play slow if you get to thinking too much.”3. Stopping John Bohannon“The problem that they presented for us was that they’re really big on the frontline and size has really played a factor.”
Check out a recap of UH base-ball’s game against Louisiana-Lafayette and a preview of this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at thedailycougar.com
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The four boys of MTV’s inspirational reality televi-sion show “The Buried Life” are scheduled to visit UH in the Cullen Performance Center at 7 p.m. in an effort to promote their new book, “What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?”
The individuals known as Dave Lingwood, Ben Nemtin, and Duncan and Jonnie Penn are currently on a national college tour supporting the upcoming release of their literature debut scheduled to hit store shelves on March 27.
The Daily Cougar was able to have an exclusive conversation with one-fourth of the Buried life, Jon-nie Penn, about the new book, his advice for college students and what else 2012 has in store for the boys.
The Daily Cougar: What is the most valuable les-son that you have gained from your show “The Buried Life?”
Jonnie Penn: I would say the most valuable lesson that I learned was to go out and do the most diffi cult thing you can because sooner or later you’re going to accomplish whatever you’re trying to do, so make sure it’s diffi cult and even, maybe even a step above diffi cult like audacious. That’s kind of become my way of looking at life now is anything I want to do, I want to make sure it’s as hard as possible because eventu-ally it will come true.
TDC: Let’s talk about the new book. Can you elaborate on the whole process of the book becoming a reality?
JP: Well, “What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?” is the core of The Buried Life. The Buried Life is that question, that’s the question that the four of us asked each other six years ago when we were sophomores in college trying to decide what to do with our lives. We asked each other, “Well, what do you want to do before you die?” and that’s where that sort of list came from. The book itself is fi lled with people’s answers to that question. We’ve asked in the last six years millions of people around the world — millions and millions of people and it accu-mulated lots and lots of answers and these are our favorite answers to that question that we got turned into art by our favorite artists.
TDC: What was the process like?JP: We knew we wanted to make a book since day
one — it’s on the list. It’s number 19 — to write a best-selling book. It’s takes a lot of work to make a really good book and so we had these boxes that we would keep and fi ll with just things that we found in the road or little lessons or stories that people left us and the boxes kind of fi lled up and so after fi ve years we had just all this stuff and all these answers online from people.
It took eight months to go through it and to choose the best stuff to put it all together, but we fi nally fi nished and are excited for it to come out. There are three things — the fi rst is from asking all those people, “What do you want to do before you die?” We had thousands and thousands and thousands and thou-sands of answers and we went through them to chose our top 150 and then gave those to our favorite artists
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The sold-out show was nothing less than perfection as Radiohead rocked the audience at the Toyota Center Saturday.
With the masses of people fi lling the seats and fl oor, there was much anticipa-tion to see the band who visited the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in 2008.
Because we know Radiohead to be a less traditional rock band that plays in alternative venues that are not as main-stream, it was a shocking revelation to see them play in an actual arena.
This made fans a bit hesitant and anx-ious to see what Radiohead would offer.
The beats and drum machines kicked in as the lights dimmed and the band emerged from the darkness of the side stage.
Liquid crystal display screens came
down from the ceiling and held live feeds showing the band from different angles as they began to play “Bloom.”
The panels would change positions and height as the night went on, and later refl ected down on the band, which created a surreal background on the musicians while they played the tranquil song “Codex.”
The Toyota Center was highlighted with electric blue that shined on everybody as opposed to the building’s typical Houston Rockets’ red.
Clive Deamer was on stage as the heavy bass and drumbeat comprised nearly the entire show.
As the lights dimmed, the audience danced along with lead singer Thom Yorke during “The Gloaming” and “Lotus Flower” and impersonated his perfor-mance seen in the viral music video of the latter song.
The majority actually danced to the song, which was followed by another pulsating track, “There There.”
Though there were not many songs performed from “The Bends” or “OK
Computer,” the tracks that they did play were not so heavily infl uenced by the synthesizer and held the power that they normally would have.
During “Myxomatosis” everyone screamed the chorus back at each other to the extent that made the band become more enthralled in the track.
The last track played by the band was the famous “Paranoid Android,” which was extended in length due to the extended use of the loops the band had used on previous songs.
The band’s energy surged to the screaming audience as they moved to the pulsating rhythm of the anthem from “OK Computer.”
Fans ignited with excitement during this segment of the show and it was a thrilling sight to witness.
Much of the crowd felt disappointed due to the lack of mainstream tracks, but the majority of the true fans enjoyed the show and the spectacle that this UK band conjured.
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Students from the UH School of Theatre and Dance put on their annual “March Madness” recital in the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts on Monday.
The show had an informal setting and was performed in a small performance studio with an intimate and personal feel.
The first performance was choreographed by Jessica Capist-ran and called “From Within.”
It was a captivating piece that depicted the internal and exter-nal actions of the body, focusing on the heart.
Three dancers moving in a close cluster represented the vas-cular muscle, while one separate girl in a white dress was the body.
Her interaction with various members of the group was a stunning picture of the relation-ship between the human spirit and its physical manifestation, and the reliance each has on the other.
However, some choreog-raphers chose to tell a more political tale.
Senior dance major Danielle Koblinski’s “Americans in Wait-ing” piece was a performance art flavor and used bright green alien masks and other props to
Student dancer Katie Trevino performed a piece called “Captivity” at the annual “March Madness” dance concert at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar
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Radiohead rocked a soldout crowd at Toyota Center as part of their King of Limbs Tour, also playing two new songs . | Courtesy of Christopher Lopez/The Daily Cougar
Jonnie Penn (second to right), and fellow castmates of “The Buried Life” are scheduled to return back to the small screen with a new show in the future. | Courtesy of Rob Daly/Persona PRr
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in New York and the artists turned them into art basically — art that is not seen anywhere else, art that is just for this book.
TDC: Aside from becoming co-authors of a book being on the bucket list, why write a book now?
JP: This book is like tangible — you can hold it in your hands, you can pass it to your friends or like put it on your coffee table and just scan through it at a party or what-ever. It’s kind of like our manifesto or something — it’s the collection of the most important stuff to us and I think it means a lot to the audience.
TDC: As someone who was once in college, what is your one piece of advice to a college student who may be fl oating around through life at this point and doesn’t really have a focus?
JP: Do something that scares the hell out of you because often the thing that scares you is the thing you should be doing. It’s the things that you really want to be doing, but you don’t do because you’re scared and that’s totally understandable. The beauty of being in college and being young is that you can try and fail at anything; you don’t have really that much to lose, if anything. You don’t have kids, you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t have real responsibilities so go and try — the
worst thing that will happen is that you will come out with an awe-some story.
That’s just for whatever someone wants to do — if it’s to get a Ph.D or direct a fi lm or start a fashion line.
TDC: Why should college students in particular go out and purchase “What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?”
JP: We’re really proud of this book and we’ve had a pretty unique experience in the last six years doing what we do as a job. We hope that (this) will inspire people to be like, “You know what? I’m going to try to do this and see if I can pull it off.”
TDC: The Buried Life success-fully ran for two seasons on MTV — will there be a season three of the show or are you guys working on something totally different that you hope another TV network will pick-up?
JP: We started a new deal with MTV and we’re working on a new project with them and a couple of other projects as well so pretty much in one way or another, we’ll be back on there soon. It’s a con-tinuation; it’s kind of like an update.
TDC: What is next for the boys of The Buried Life?
JP: We’re only getting more ambitious, we love our fans so much because they’re patient with us. I can’t say specifically yet, but we just want to go as big as we can possibly go and that’s what we’re working on.”
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relate the struggle of immigrants in the United States.
At regular intervals, the work was punctuated by the choreog-rapher’s recorded voice stating myths about the immigrant population as well as statistical refutations.
She also used Biblical quotes and a somewhat altered Pledge of Allegiance, with key words left unspoken.
It was certainly a keen reminder that in the land of the free, some among us are not.
While this was aimed at a certain issue, the work had a
broader message of acceptance and understanding towards all people.
Koblinski wanted the vibrant alien masks to be a centerpiece of the work.
“I just wanted to show how ridiculous the term ‘alien’ really is when it’s applied to immi-grants,” Koblinski said.
“There’s only a small geo-graphical distance separating citizens from non-citizens, and yet they’re perceived so differently.”
Senior dance major Erica Henderson was the only other dancer in the work and was very affected by helping to create such a relevant expression of feeling.
“I don’t want to be in
aimless pieces and doing aimless motions anymore,” Henderson said.
“Dancing to spread a mes-sage really made this work an experience.”
The message was certainly seen in both the emotive dancing and the performing arts aspects of “Americans in Waiting.”
“Opus,” a more formal dance exhibition put on by School of Theatre and Dance will feature some of these pieces and more at 7:30 p.m. on March 28 at the Barnevelder Theater.
For more information, please call (713) 409-2838 or visit www.uh.edu/class/theatre-and-dance/.
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opponent.“A lot of times we need to sched-
ule those out-of-conference games that are tougher,” Holas said. “They’re close for us and when we go there, it’s nice to have those ties. I know the area so it’s one of those things that just fi ts in all the right areas.”
For her success as a Ragin Cajun, Holas has been inducted into both the Louisiana-Lafayette Hall of Fame and Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in addition to hav-ing her number 11 retired by the university. Still, when asked of her achievements, her team remains fi rst.
“The one where our team went
to the College World Series was probably my biggest accomplish-ment,” Holas said. “As a player, that still matters to me more than anything else.”
Nearly a month into the season with a 10-9 record, the 2012 version of Houston softball has had its ups and downs, but key wins over No. 11 Oklahoma State and Texas A&M have kept Cougar fans optimistic.
“This year’s team, when we’re on, we’re one of the best (teams) we’ve ever had,” Holas said. “These kids work hard, they cheer hard and they want to win.”
Fittingly, the Cougars’ next opportunity to do so will come in the form of a double-header against Louisiana-Lafayette begin-ning at 4 p.m.
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