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Graduate Design/Build Studio students are working through a rainy summer in an effort to reach their Aug. 11 completion date of an amphitheater at the T. H. Rogers School. The students were responsible for the design and building of the privately-funded project.
$2.4m to aid UH cancer researchCougar News Services
Cancer researchers at uh were awarded a $2.4 million grant to fund a program that focuses on a multi-disciplinary approach to fighting the disease.
The grant is the second awarded to uh by the Cancer Prevention and
research institute of Texas (CPriT), which manages the state’s new multi-billion dollar cancer research initiative approved by voters in 2007. it is the first grant awarded to uh in the combined fields of science and engineering.
The multi-disciplinary program focuses on combining cancer biology with computational disciplines such as computer science.
B. Montgomery Pettitt, director of the university’s CPriT training program and a hugh roy and lillie
Cranz Cullen Distinguished university Professor, said the emphasis on combining disciplines is revolutionary in scope.
“There’s a realization that all the problems of cancer won’t be solved by biology,” Pettitt said in a news release. “We need to bring the expertise in a wide variety of fields to bear on these problems, because the most revolutionary stuff comes from thinking at the interface of
disciplines.”one dozen postdoctoral
trainees will be chosen in September with 20 undergraduates having the opportunity to participate in summer research projects. The program aims to show cancer biology researchers
how tools in the engineering field can aid each other in the fight against cancer.
“By gaining proficiency in a second technical area, these
researchers will be equipped to tackle some of the most pressing problems in cancer research,” Pettitt said in a news release.
“For example, a scientist studying genes to understand biochemical pathways in cells may find existing technology inadequate to piece together the giant puzzle of data produced by genetic sequencers and must work with computer scientists to produce new computational
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Design grads try out architecture
By Ashley Evans The Daily Cougar
For most college students, summer is a time to relax and enjoy a break from studies, but for first-year master’s students of uh’s graduate Design/Build Studio (gDBS) program, this summer is all work.
The program, part of the gerald D. hines College of architecture, is in the depths of an intense build project.
11 graduates are working in conjunction with non-profit organizations to build an outdoor amphitheater for the T. h. rogers School, an alternative primary and secondary public school that serves gifted and talented students alongside deaf and other multiple-impaired students.
The amphitheater being built in the courtyard of the school will have bench seating, a canopy of tensile fabric, and will be wheelchair accessible. The finished product will serve as an outdoor meeting area for class and school assemblies.
“The space has a lot of eccentric, non-cohesive geometrical figures,” gDBS Director Patrick Peters said. “our goal was to give it a calming singularity and have one large partial curve in the courtyard that suggested a dominant circular space.”
The program has been participating in community enhancing building projects since 1990. Peters joined the team as director in 1994 and decided to take the projects from wooden structures to more complex and permanent steel structures for public schools. With the help of private donors and non-profit organizations, the design studio is in the midst of its 21 annual project.
“The most important contribution to learning is the opportunity to see ideas tested against the constraints of built reality,” Peters said.
The process allows the students to see architecture in a real world format, Peters said.
Beginning after spring break, the students worked together to form an idea based around the wants and needs of the client. The students then went through the permitting process before getting their hands dirty working around the clock constructing the design.
Project Manager Maggie Port says that the design project allows them to catch up to the other students in the master’s program, since all of the students in the gDBS program have bachelor’s degrees in backgrounds other than architecture.
“There has been no time for eating or sleeping, just architecture,” Port says of her past year — but she
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amphitheater with help of private funds
The following is a partial report of campus crime be-tween July 17 and July 26. All information is selected from the files of the UH po-lice department. The infor-mation in italics indicates when the event occurred and the event’s location. Information or questions regarding the cases below should be directed to UHPD at (713) 743-0600.
Public intoxication: Campus police observed a parked vehicle on Cullen facing northbound traffic in the southbound lanes. After inves-tigating, one student and a visitor were deemed highly intoxicated and a danger to themselves and others by police. The student was issued a Student Life Referral. The incident occurred between 2:50 a.m. and 2:53 a.m. July 17.
Smell of marijuana: A resident of Cougar Place apartments admitted to smoking marijuana in her room after being contacted by campus police. The resident was not in the room when police arrived after being notified of a smell of mari-juana coming from the room. The student was issued Student Life and Residential Life referrals. The incident occurred between 12:52 a.m. and 1:05 a.m. July 18.
Burglary of motor vehicle: A visitor reported her car, parked in Lot 20C, was burglarized. Campus police report there are no suspects or witnesses. The incident occurred from 4:00 p.m. to 7:35 p.m. July 19.
Aggravated robbery: A visitor reported being robbed at gunpoint on the first floor of the Cul-len Oaks Apartments parking garage. The suspect demanded the visitor’s cell phone and keys to the vehicle. After failing to start the vehicle, the suspect fled the scene. The suspect was identified the following day and robbery charges were filed with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. The suspect was incarcerated in the Harris County Jail on other charges by a separate law enforce-ment agency. The incident occurred at 2:43 a.m. July 15. The suspect was identified July 16.
Criminal mischief: A male suspect was observed shattering the window of an unattended and secured vehicle parked in Lot 21A. Police report the investigation is inactive. The incident occurred at 1:20 a.m. July 19.
Aggravated robbery: A student reported being robbed at gunpoint by two suspects while walking from the Bayou Oaks Apartments to his residence at the Calhoun Lofts. A shotgun and small handgun were reportedly used in the attack. The suspects fled in a waiting vehicle after the student showed he had no money on him. The student was not injured in the attack. Police are looking for two suspects: One medium-build black male, ap-proximately 6 feet tall, between the ages of 18-25, seen wearing a black shirt, dark blue jean shorts, a black ball cap, with a red bandana cover-ing his face. Another medium-build black male, approximately 5 feet, 11 inches tall, between the ages of 18-25, seen wearing a black shirt, dark blue jean shorts, a black ball cap, with a blue bandana covering his face. The incident occurred at 1:50 a.m. Monday.
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Free IT Training Workshop: Room 107C in the Social Work building, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. This is a free IT training class provided by the UH IT Training to our employees, friends and students. For more information, contact Don Perry at [email protected].
Brown Bag Gallery Tour for Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air: Blaffer Art Museum, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Join Blaffer Art Museum for a guided tour of its current summer exhibition, Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air. Admission is free to the public, and a complimentary lunch will be pro-vided following the tour. In Lighter than Air, Tomás Saraceno draws on science, art and architecture to create art that allows the viewer to imagine creative answers to questions about how we share and live in this world. His unique environments let us inter-act with our surroundings in new and innovative ways. For more informa-tion, contact [email protected].
THURSDAY
Comedy Show Benefit for Kids at Bohemeo’s: Bohemeo’s located at 708 Telephone Road, 6:30 p.m. to 10
p.m. Comedy show to benefit Stand-Up For Kids. A DJ will be there from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The show starts promptly at 8:30 p.m. with a StandUp For Kids presentation and then some fresh, local Houstonian comics will entertain for the rest of the evening. Tickets are $5. For more information, contact [email protected].
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Free IT Training Workshop: Room 107C in the Social Work building, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Introduction to Microsoft Publisher 2007. This is a free IT training class provided by the UH IT Training to our employees, friends and students. For more infor-mation, contact Don Perry at [email protected].
Ladies Choice: Keith Sweat & Lyfe Jennings: Arena Theatre, 8 p.m. Harlem R&B singer Keith Sweat and Toledo, Ohio, singer-songwriter Lyfe Jennings will perform at the Arena Theatre. Sweat released his 10th stu-dio album Ridin’ Solo last month and Jennings will prepare to release his fourth and final studio album I Still Believe in August. Tickets start at $49. For tickets and more information, visit www.arenahouston.com.
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SPORTS COMING NEXT WEEK: The Daily Cougar checks in with catcher Chris Wallace, one of the newest additions to the astros farm league.
EDITORS John Brannen, Christopher Losee E-MAIL [email protected] ONLINE www.thedailycougar.com/sports
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Cougar earns gold medal in relayCougar Sports Services
errol Nolan came home from Canada adding more hardware to his collection of medals after the iaaF Junior World Championships Sunday. Nolan and his american teammates won the 4x400-meter relay clocking in at 3 minutes, 4.7 seconds.
Nolan ran the second leg after Joshua Mance from the university of Southern California. Nolan passed off to David Verburg of george Mason university. The anchor was Michael Berry from Washington high School. Nolan also placed third in the 400-meter finals.
Three Cougars prep for european Championships
one uh swimmer and two divers will head to Budapest, hungary, for the 30th european Championships august 4-15th.
anastasia Pozdniakova will be representing russia in the 1- and 3-meter events. She will also be featured in the 3-meter synchronized event with Svetlana Filpova.
Julia lonnegren will be diving for Sweden in the 10-meter platform competition. Swimmer reka Kovacs of hungary is set to participate in the 200-yard and 400-yard iM, plus the 200-yard breaststroke
Two Cougars excel in offseason play; team signs infielder
outfielder Caleb ramsey and pitcher Michael goodnight have made an impact for the yartmouth-Dennis red Sox in the Cape Cod league, an offseason league for collegiate players.
Michael goodnight has compiled a 3-1 record and 2.10 era. With a .317 batting average and 15 rBis, ramsey will play in the Cape Cod league all-Star game today. The game can be seen on CBS College Sports at 6 p.m. CST, or streamed online at http://www.capecodbaseball.org.
Shortstop Chase Jensen of Weatherford College signed a national letter of intent to play for uh.
More preseason football hypeFive Cougar football players
were selected to the all-Conference uSa Team. Senior quarterback Case Keenum and wide recievers Tyron Carrier and James Cleveland were chosen to represent uh in the Conference uSa offensive First Team. Senior Marcus Mcgraw and Jamal robinson took their respective positions in the Conference uSa Defensive First Team. These preseason honorees tie Tulsa with the most players on the Preseason Team roster.
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UH sprinter Errol Nolan (left) celebrates with his teammates after winning the mile relay at the IAAF Junior World Championships. The U.S. team won with a 3 minute, 4 second finish. Nigeria placed second and Great Britain won the bronze.
Andrew Taylor: » There’s no problem here
all-star ballers like Dwyane Wade, leBron James and Chris Bosh have the power to demand their salaries and their desires as players. Money talks but so do trophies and rings.
The collaborations of these three guys to move according to a plan in which they all had a part in, showing that all three are on the same page; they want to win a title.
The NBa should not do
anything about it other than grin like little spoiled kids on
Christmas.The stacking
of these three will make for an interesting season, and it will also bring more excitement to the sport. When the three of these players are by themselves on separate teams they shine and make the highlight reels, but when they’re together
they capture and dominate sports news.
Proof for all-star like teams is all around; you had the ’91-93 Chicago Bulls, the ’94-95 houston rockets and the ’09-10 l.a. lakers.
Star-studded teams are positive for the sport. They make the other teams clear underdogs and contribute to championships that become sporting spectacles.
The NBa was doing a favor for these three guys colliding together. Besides, if they hadn’t someone else would have made the call for them.
John Brannen: » Puttin’ it down
No doubt Miami’s free agent heist has led to an increased amount of interest toward next season, and their new video game style team will surely get at least one championship. But andrew and Keith’s “it’s good for business” mantra could lead to an era of miniature all-star teams, hurting the league’s level of competition.
leBron’s departure means his MVP trophies earned since the Cleveland Cavaliers are likely to sink to the cellar of the NBa. it also means fans should get used to watching the heat late into the playoffs, which will assuredly grow to be monotonous. Small market teams like the Charlotte Bobcats or oklahoma City Thunder who have to claw their way into the playoffs, relying on one star player, are harmed.
i have to agree with Kevin
Durant of the Thunder saying, “let’s go
back to being competitive.”
greats like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson said teaming up with their contemporary all-stars was out of the question.
With the level of ability all-stars bring, an even dispersion of them would lead to more intriguing matchups and a chance to see different teams win championships. Now from the looks of it, we’re going to be stuck with Miami for a while.
Keith Cordero: » Things should heat up
The superstars have assembled in Miami as leBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh team up in South Beach and put their 17 combined all-star appearances on the court as the heat look to win another title.
it’s been rumored that lCD (leBron, Chris and Dwyane) have had the idea in the works going as far back as when they all came into the league back in 2003. as olympic teammates in 2008, they played together and produced quality statistics by spreading the ball around.
a coach can decide who fits well into his system, but if a star player wants to bring in a teammate that he can play with, i think it’s a great idea.
i’ve got to say, if players want to get together and
make a team, especially a winning team of players
they feel comfortable
playing with, why not? an owner has to value who his stars believe are good players and players they can mesh well with on the court.
i like what the heat has done this offseason, putting the three stars together then adding veteran role players all around to fill the roster. The NBa has nothing to fix; everyone will want to see the heat play. and this trend that’s starting worked just fine in Boston in 2008 when the “Boston Three Party” in Kevin garnett, Paul Pierce and ray allen got together and won a title.
Judge Chris: » Mixin’ it up
Keith and andrew should think outside of the box for once. There are always problems with a new system. you have to have time to work out the kinks and
personalities of all-star players. But
Keith showed more attention to detail, so hats off to
beating the one and only girl Talk
fan in the office. John took the road less taken.
Past all-star compilations only comprised of two stars like Shaq and Kobe or Jordan and Pippen. inserting a third member into the mix will not only cause confusion, but will slow the transitional process. The party in Boston did not get the job done, so do your homework. i am all for the entertainment, but do not think that “lCD” will be bringing home a championship home to South Beach.
VerdictJohn put it down, so he gets the win. Andrew and Keith’s argument were circling a greater point that John hit with a hammer. FacetimeSo when does football season start?
At issue: gg Should all-star players have the pull on making line-ups like the trio in Miami or is it a problem that the NBA should fix?
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OPINION COMING NEXT WEEK: Will racism ever vanish?
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Faced with a large deficit, Texas state leaders have proposed to eliminate $134 million this week from its mental health programs.
The Texas Department of State health Services (DShS) recently sent
out a proposal with budget cuts ordered by gov. Perry and other state leaders, cutting its current budget by 15 percent. While there may be financial hardships to come, the state’s leadership must consider the consequences of under funding the mental health programs. With fewer funds for these programs, many individuals will go untreated, causing disturbances in prisons as well as emergency rooms. law enforcement agents will spend more time responding to mental health crises. The budget cuts will leave the most vulnerable mental health patients with limited services.
a total of $80 million will be taken away from the funding for Texas’ community mental health centers. With less money to provide services, psychiatric facilities will give less treatment to the many uninsured
and poor patients. The mental health cuts proposed will leave more than 20,000 individuals without treatment. according to the Mental health Mental retardation authority of harris County (MhMra), more than 900 individuals are put onto a waiting list each day for mental health treatments for disorders like schizophrenia. if this proposal issued by the DShS is approved, numbers on the waiting list will increase substantially.
approximately 75 percent of children within the community in need of treatment do not receive services. This may be why nearly half of the children diagnosed with a mental illness are held in the harris County Juvenile Probation Department. Five of the state’s psychiatric hospitals will have a reduction in bed capacity during this time. These facilities are unable to accept many patients due to a lack of available beds. With an additional $44 million slash in budget cuts, it will become a challenge for many individuals to be admitted into these hospitals.
The lack of space in Texas’ psychiatric hospitals has contributed to the rise in
inmates at the harris County Jail houses. an estimated 80 inmates are being held in the harris County jail each day, waiting for a bed space. as a result, harris County jail became the largest provider of state mental health services. This overall reduction in mental health treatment services will burden Texans heavily. These services have helped keep people stabilized and given the poor and uninsured the ability to pay for treatment. if this safety net is removed, everyone will undergo more hardships to come.
The 2011 legislature will review the mental health cuts and give the final say. as psychiatric facilities and mental health centers are put on edge, mentally ill patients are likely to prepare for alternatives to these budget cuts. For the many individuals with mental illnesses, they have to find treatment elsewhere. With reduced funding, mental health services will decline, causing disastrous consequences for Texans in the short and long run.
Paulina Lam is a communication junior and can be reached at [email protected]
last Sunday, an enormous set of over 76,000 military reports from the war in afghanistan, a collection called the afghan
War Diary, became available to the public online via wikileaks.org. The reports detail u.S. military events,
both small and large, from the start of the war in 2004 to December 2009. Fifteen thousand more reports will join the online collection when their publication becomes less likely to cause harm.
The fact that a whistle-blowing website and not the u.S. government released the documents is disappointing. Freedom of information is vital to democratic society.
Wikileaks approached the release carefully, being sure to verify the documents’ accuracy first. Several weeks ago, Wikileaks provided the 92,000 mostly classified reports (both the ones made available on Sunday and the ones
temporarily held back) to the New york Times, the guardian, a British newspaper, and Spiegel, a german magazine.
alongside the facts already known to the public, they detail civilian casualties, botched missions and secret task forces. While there are sections of this data that the government may have been right to try to keep secret, every citizen of every country involved in the war should be familiar with the vast majority of it. Now they can be.
Too much of what the government does is lost in a sea of bureaucracy and paranoia. yes, we are a country at war, but that does not give the government the right to lie to american citizens or to conceal information in all but the most extreme cases. Most of the revelations the afghan War Diary provides, however, should not have been kept secret. Taliban leaders knew their men were using portable heat-seeking missiles to take down our aircraft; there was no reason to keep that information from americans.
There is a chance that somewhere in the volumes of information Wikileaks released on Sunday there is something that should not have been included — some fragment of data that the insurgents in afghanistan will be able to use against american troops. Such an event is even more reason why the government should have made each piece of this information available as soon as it lost its potential to cause americans or civilians harm and to try and maintain the public’s trust.
The u.S. government and military should have kept the american people properly informed, releasing as much information as it safely could. We are paying for this war; our friends and family are fighting in it. We have a right to know what is going on.
Casey Goodwin is a mechanical engineering sophomore and can be reached at [email protected]
Casey Goodwin
Perry orders mental health cuts
Wikileaks does the right thing
EDITORIAL CARTOON
JASon PolAnd The Daily Cougar
are you being spoon-fed music? even if you don’t only buy music you hear on the radio, your musical taste may be more influenced by the media than you realize. a recent article on arstechnica.com talks about payola, a process in which labels pay radio stations to promote certain songs. Nate anderson warns readers about being sold music they wouldn’t originally be drawn to.
“Payola is perfectly legal so long as it’s disclosed. But admitting that editorial judgment went out the window and that song choice is being made based on who brings the largest briefcase of cash to the station’s business office is not a recipe for listener loyalty, so the companies that engage in it try to keep payola secret,” anderson says in the article.
a lot of you are probably thinking, “Duh. of course the music industry forces music down our throats. Why else would Nickelback’s music still be circulating the airwaves?” But what’s most disturbing is that these same labels and corporations paying radio stations to play music want the radio stations to pay them for that same music.
you’re probably thinking, “What?” and that is our sentiment exactly.
“Sony was busted… back in 2005,” anderson said. “Sony’s promoters went so far as to tell radio stations that the ‘real people’ (they were planted) calling in to request songs had to be more convincing.”
So that means a lot of the times that you hear lynne calling into the station to request Ke$ha, it’s probably not a real person (in theory, at least).
Being that Warner Music paid $5 million in fines and universal paid $12 million, isn’t it somewhat apparent why the music industry is in trouble? “radio stations currently pay songwriters when they play a tune on the air, but they don’t pay the music labels and performers. The setup is certainly unfair; webcasters and satellite radio have to pay both groups, so there’s an obvious logic in reforming this arrangement,” anderson states.
The issue has hardly been settled, but it’s probably good for everyone to at least be aware that it’s happening. and now that you know, you can really ask yourself if you like lady gaga, Ke$ha or Nickelback as much as lynne supposedly does.
STAFF EDITORIAL
as companies gripe, music industry destroys itself
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Newton Liu, Managing editor
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LIFE+ARTS COMING NEXT WEEK: Dinner For Schmucks has been getting a lot of advertising... is it worth it?
By Travis HensleyThe Daily Cougar
Summer is quickly coming to an end; in less than a month the fall semester will begin. Don’t let classes and internships take away the only remaining break that year round students get before Thanksgiving.
Since a lot of students don’t have the money to take a vacation or even go out to eat without going into the red, here are some things that with a modest amount of effort and a few bucks can escalate the summer. The group goes from the obscure things to actual events that are still on going.
First of all, try playing Frisbee golf. it’s a silly sport that only requires walking around and throwing a disk every now and then. What sets this apart from regular Frisbee is that it gives time to catch up with friends without having to sit somewhere. There are courses all around the
houston area, and most of them require no money. There will be enough sitting in class.
Take a trip to galveston. There is a lot to do on this sandbar of an island. Take the time to explore the Strand, play beach volleyball — or lying like a beached whale on the beach is always an option. houston is a big city, but there still needs to be an escape from it sometimes and this is about the cheapest place you can go.
The houston Zoo is always a great place to go, even if it doesn’t have penguins. This was a main stop for school field trips for students before college. it’s only $11 to see lions, tigers and bears, along with just about every other animal that can survive in the heat.
if being out in the hot Texas sun seems too much like a bad idea, the corpse flower, the smelly plant at the Museum of Natural Science, has bloomed. For $7 with a student iD, you can see one of the rarest flowers in the world. While in the museum district, you can go see The Big
Show at The lawndale art Center. The Big Show features 87 artists and adds up to 114 works of art. This is one of the biggest events in art in houston and is a great interdiction into the art scene in houston. you can also go see art at the Museum of Fine art for free on Thursdays.
There is another form of art in town, such as live music. Places like Walter’s on Washington, Mango’s and Fitzgerald’s feature some of the best local musicians. During the week, avantgarden is a great place to stop.
The bands are not always great, but the experience usually is.
The most important thing at the end of summer is fun, regardless of the money that has been put in the bank.
What students really need before the start of a new semester is a break. So take time to relax. Sometimes it is hard to get out to do something as pointless as Frisbee golf, even when the time is there.
JACK’S FACTS
Perfectly crafted, no ‘Salt’ neededJolie pulls out all the stops and puts out one of gg
the best performances of the summer movie season
after a lukewarm summer full of so-so movies, Salt looked like it would fall right in line with the likes of Predators and The Last Airbender.
it’s always nice to be surprised.
Salt starts just like it ends — with a jolt of adrenaline. The first time we are introduced to angelina Jolie, she’s in an internment camp in North Korea drinking gasoline cocktails and swearing she’s not a spy. Fast-forward two years and Salt is back to work, posing as an oil executive when she really works for the Cia.
From there it’s hard to continue talking about the story, because it throws more curveballs than a professional pitcher. and that’s why Salt succeeds so well. it throws caution to the wind and immediately starts trying to spin a conspiracy so big it is almost impossible to resist its pull. it is, without a doubt, one of the coolest spy thrillers to come out in the past few years — better than the Bourne series or the latest Bond movie.
What makes Salt a step above other spy movies is its coherent (yet twisting) plot, concisely filmed action scenes and russia once again taking the spotlight as the main villain. it doesn’t matter what movie it is; if the Commies are the main
bad guys, it’s already better. it also — and i didn’t think this was possible — makes angelina sexier than she already was (and the blonde hair didn’t hurt, either).
The action is plentiful and merciless; throughout the course of the movie, Salt pistol-whips, blows up, gasses, and karate kicks her way through a small army of generic bad guys. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing someone take the business end of a handgun to the face at a thousand miles an hour, especially when it’s Brad Pitt’s better half delivering the punishment.
as far as the conspiracy goes, it’s fairly standard; the uSSr planted double agents in the u.S., they’re all waiting to strike, it’s going to ruin america, so on and so forth. it’s a decently thought-out idea, and it’s put to good use, but it could have been wound a bit tighter; after seeing Inception weave such a complicated yet understandable narrative, it’s somewhat disappointing to see just an oK plot. however, whenever the movie starts to drag even the tiniest bit the blood starts flowing once again, making for a well balanced and carefully directed final product. Phillip Noyce (the director) is no stranger to spy films, having sharpened his skills on Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and
The Quiet American. he films each fight scene well, keeping the camera steady (something the Bourne series needs to learn) and showcasing just how much time angelina put in learning kung-fu. he does a good job with the chases too, making sure that the audience always knows where the good guy (or in this case, girl) is going and how close the bad guys are to catching her.
Salt is a perfectly executed genre movie. it doesn’t break out and do anything out of the ordinary, but that’s perfectly fine when the finished product is clean and fun to watch. By the end of the movie, you’ll know exactly just who evelyn Salt really is — and you’ll end up wanting to see more of her.
CourTeSy oF ColuMBiA PiCTureS
Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian double agent. ‘Salt’ comes in on a stagnant summer movie season and does a good job of keeping the audience entertained.
It’s the End of the World / R. E. M.A Favor House Atlantic / Coheed and CambriaOne Week / Barenaked LadiesThe Crossroads / Bone Thugs-N-HarmonyBlitzkrieg Bop / The RamonesThe Party Song / Blink 182Give It Away / Red Hot Chili PeppersFell In Love With a Girl / White StripesEverything Went Numb / Streetlight ManifestoInformer / Snow
SONGS WE DON’T KNOW THE WORDS TO
mix tape:
Sometimes we have no idea what the lead singer is saying. Nothing is more frustrating
than being the only one who doesn’t know the words to a song. So, here are some songs no one can call you out on. We would have added Johnny Cash’s “everywhere Man”, but after last week we might be done adding him to the play list for at least three or four more weeks.
drawing a blank...
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running out — be sure not to miss out on all of the fun and exciting things to do in town
“the Houston Zoo is always a great place to go, even if it doesn’t have penguins... it’s only $11 to see lions, tigers and bears.”
SaltRated: PG-13Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber Verdict: Jolie keeps the audience continually entertained with high-octane twists and turns. Worth the money.
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ZuhaiR Siddiqui The Daily Cougar
Alumna leaves legacy in artsBy Amenah Khalil
The Daily Cougar
Prominent alumna and
philanthropist Cynthia Woods
Mitchell, died Dec. 27 at age 87,
after almost a decade of living with
alzheimer’s disease.
Mitchell was a valued donor to
various projects and causes, most of
which involved her love for the arts.
“She was a visionary
philanthropist whose dedication
to the arts was apparent in the
founding of the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center,” Karen Farber,
director of uh’s Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the arts, said in
an e-mail.
Mitchell was an enthusiastic
supporter of the arts and believed
that everyone, not just the wealthy,
should be able to enjoy musical
performances. This desire became
a reality when the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Pavilion was created in The
Woodlands.
Mitchell’s philanthropy extends
throughout houston, galveston
and College Station.
For uh, the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the arts remains
her greatest legacy.
With a $20 million donation from
Mitchell, the center has been able
to cultivate collaborations between
performing, visual and literary arts.
“Just as she lived a productive
and creative life with extraordinary
commitment to our community,
she has left a legacy that will fuel
creativity for future generations in
our community and far beyond,”
uh President renu Khator said in a
release. The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for the arts went through
renovations in 2005 and 2006 and
was renamed in october 2006 to
honor Mitchell’s long-standing
support for the arts.
“Mrs. Mitchell’s and the
Mitchell family’s commitment to
create the Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for the arts — a center that
celebrates the arts and encourages
collaboration — has helped to
position uh arts as one of the
university’s key priorities,” Khator
said.Mitchell was also a generous
donor to uh’s Texas Music Festival
and the gerald D. hines College of
architecture. She also created uh’s
Distinguished authors Program.
“Mrs. Mitchell and her family’s
generosity has made dozens of
significant new artworks possible
and left a lasting legacy that will
continue to infuse the entire
university and City of houston with
creativity and innovation. on behalf
of the Mitchell Center board and
staff, i extend the deepest sympathy
and gratitude to the Mitchell
family,” Faber said in an e-mail.
By David Haydon
The Daily Cougar
uh students from different
colleges got the chance to compete
against each other and teach high
school students at PetroChallenge
2010, held Jan. 9-12.
The PetroChallenge is a team-
based competition concerning oil
and gas, created and conducted by
Simprentis, a company that trains
students and young professionals
with its oilsim software.
“To me, it’s a great way to get the
various colleges working together,”
director of Petroleum Technology
initiative Christiansen said.
During the competition, student
groups work with a computer-based
program that simulates situations
dealt with by oil workers.
“We’re giving them a real sense
of what it’s like to work in the oil
and gas industry,” Simprentis’
Business Development executive for
uSa graeme Slaven said. “They’re
handling data and making decisions
that replicate and simulate what it is
like to work in an oil company going
through an exploration campaign.
it mimics almost exactly the same
process that an oil company goes
through as it explores for oil.”
Slaven said each group starts
with a budget of $200 million. The
students take the budget and must
indicate the best prospects.
“The way they identify the best
prospects is by purchasing industry
standard data such as seismic data,”
he said. “They learn how to interpret
By Hiba AdiThe Daily Cougar
The uh chapter of the Phi Beta
Sigma fraternity is transforming its
monthly hump Day into a volunteer
effort to help raise money and
canned goods to send to haiti, which
is reeling in the aftermath of last
Tuesday’s magnitude-7.0 earthquake
that killed tens of thousands and left
multitudes of survivors without food
and water.
The hump Day will take place
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at
university Center-North Patio.
“We would like to raise over
$500 and 75 pounds in cans to
send to haiti. We know that it is a
small amount in the large spectrum
of things, but we also know that
everything helps,” fraternity member
Michael odwumi said.
all proceeds will be sent through
the american red Cross.
“We are all privileged to be in
college and in this position in our
lives,” odwumi said “all college
students should step up and help the
community when there is need for
help.”other campus organizations such
as the Black Student union will help
in putting together relief drives.
BSu will put designated drop
boxes around campus from today
until Feb. 4 for the collection of basic
necessities such as clothes, food,
pillows and blankets.
“if we have it, we should be able to
give it to (haitians),” BSu president
Brittany osazuwa said.
Students get industry
experience
Fraternity to help
aid in Haiti relief
JuSTiN FLORES The Daily Cougar
Students who competed in PetroChallenge 2010 get a real perspective of what the oil indus-
try can offer them in the future.
see MITCHELL, page 3
see PETRO, page 3
a group of local and national pro-
life advocates gathered to protest
the opening of a new Planned
Parenthood facility. The 78,000-sq. ft. facility
will be the largest Planned Parenthood
building in the nation and will be located at
4600 gulf Freeway. Keith Fry, right, traveled
from abilene to be among the thousands of
participants in the demonstrations, which
occurred Sunday and Monday.
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revolutionize phone
industry LIFE & Arts »
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
thedailycougar.com
WEAtHEr »
Forecast, Page 2
UH rewards football coach Kevin Sumlin with new six-year contract
thedailycougar.com
Speaking up
ZuhaiR Siddiqui The Daily Cougar
Alumna leaves
legacy in artsBy Amenah Khalil
The Daily Cougar
Prominent alumna and
philanthropist Cynthia Woods
Mitchell, died Dec. 27 at age 87,
after almost a decade of living with
alzheimer’s disease.
Mitchell was a valued donor to
various projects and causes, most of
which involved her love for the arts.
“She was a visionary
philanthropist whose dedication
to the arts was apparent in the
founding of the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center,” Karen Farber,
director of uh’s Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the arts, said in
an e-mail.
Mitchell was an enthusiastic
supporter of the arts and believed
that everyone, not just the wealthy,
should be able to enjoy musical
performances. This desire became
a reality when the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Pavilion was created in The
Woodlands.
Mitchell’s philanthropy extends
throughout houston, galveston
and College Station.
For uh, the Cynthia Woods
Mitchell Center for the arts remains
her greatest legacy.
With a $20 million donation from
Mitchell, the center has been able
to cultivate collaborations between
performing, visual and literary arts.
“Just as she lived a productive
and creative life with extraordinary
commitment to our community,
she has left a legacy that will fuel
creativity for future generations in
our community and far beyond,”
uh President renu Khator said in a
release.
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for the arts went through
renovations in 2005 and 2006 and
was renamed in october 2006 to
honor Mitchell’s long-standing
support for the arts.
“Mrs. Mitchell’s and the
Mitchell family’s commitment to
create the Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Center for the arts — a center that
celebrates the arts and encourages
collaboration — has helped to
position uh arts as one of the
university’s key priorities,” Khator
said.Mitchell was also a generous
donor to uh’s Texas Music Festival
and the gerald D. hines College of
architecture. She also created uh’s
Distinguished authors Program.
“Mrs. Mitchell and her family’s
generosity has made dozens of
significant new artworks possible
and left a lasting legacy that will
continue to infuse the entire
university and City of houston with
creativity and innovation. on behalf
of the Mitchell Center board and
staff, i extend the deepest sympathy
and gratitude to the Mitchell
family,” Faber said in an e-mail.
By David Haydon
The Daily Cougar
uh students from different
colleges got the chance to compete
against each other and teach high
school students at PetroChallenge
2010, held Jan. 9-12.
The PetroChallenge is a team-
based competition concerning oil
and gas, created and conducted by
Simprentis, a company that trains
students and young professionals
with its oilsim software.
“To me, it’s a great way to get the
various colleges working together,”
director of Petroleum Technology
initiative Christiansen said.
During the competition, student
groups work with a computer-based
program that simulates situations
dealt with by oil workers.
“We’re giving them a real sense
of what it’s like to work in the oil
and gas industry,” Simprentis’
Business Development executive for
uSa graeme Slaven said. “They’re
handling data and making decisions
that replicate and simulate what it is
like to work in an oil company going
through an exploration campaign.
it mimics almost exactly the same
process that an oil company goes
through as it explores for oil.”
Slaven said each group starts
with a budget of $200 million. The
students take the budget and must
indicate the best prospects.
“The way they identify the best
prospects is by purchasing industry
standard data such as seismic data,”
he said. “They learn how to interpret
By Hiba Adi
The Daily Cougar
The uh chapter of the Phi Beta
Sigma fraternity is transforming its
monthly hump Day into a volunteer
effort to help raise money and
canned goods to send to haiti, which
is reeling in the aftermath of last
Tuesday’s magnitude-7.0 earthquake
that killed tens of thousands and left
multitudes of survivors without food
and water.
The hump Day will take place
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at
university Center-North Patio.
“We would like to raise over
$500 and 75 pounds in cans to
send to haiti. We know that it is a
small amount in the large spectrum
of things, but we also know that
everything helps,” fraternity member
Michael odwumi said.
all proceeds will be sent through
the american red Cross.
“We are all privileged to be in
college and in this position in our
lives,” odwumi said “all college
students should step up and help the
community when there is need for
help.”other campus organizations such
as the Black Student union will help
in putting together relief drives.
BSu will put designated drop
boxes around campus from today
until Feb. 4 for the collection of basic
necessities such as clothes, food,
pillows and blankets.
“if we have it, we should be able to
give it to (haitians),” BSu president
Brittany osazuwa said.
Students
get industry
experience
Fraternity to help
aid in Haiti relief
JuSTiN FLORES The Daily Cougar
Students who competed in PetroChallenge 2010 get a real perspective of what the oil indus-
try can offer them in the future.
see MITCHELL, page 3
see PETRO, page 3
a group of local and national pro-
life advocates gathered to protest
the opening of a new Planned
Parenthood facility. The 78,000-sq. ft. facility
will be the largest Planned Parenthood
building in the nation and will be located at
4600 gulf Freeway. Keith Fry, right, traveled
from abilene to be among the thousands of
participants in the demonstrations, which
occurred Sunday and Monday.
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A.D.D. Circus by Chris Jacobs
Robbie and bobby by Jason Poland
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product 9 Uppity folks 14 Mars, to the
Greeks 15 Urn
homophone 16 Olympics prize 17 Dusting
powder 18 Pedro’s wine 19 Actress —
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Fog” 26 — Beta Kappa 27 Walk briskly 30 Occasional
obligation (2 wds.)
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soldier 39 Theft 42 Ms. Peeples of
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billing 62 Curved
moldings 63 The Emerald
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animals
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film 4 Cowl wearer 5 Harsh 6 Rainbow
maker 7 Ms. Jillian 8 Kitten’s plea 9 Anvil’s place 10 Sea nymphs 11 Frankfurt’s river 12 Nuisance 13 Toboggan, for
example 21 Matterhorn
echo 23 Chef’s attire 25 Bailed out 27 Get out fast 28 Fountain in
Rome 29 Worm seeker
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piece 40 Alkali
opposites 41 Jerks 44 Cloudy 47 Merry 49 Nice and warm 50 Father of Zeus 53 Sweet topping 54 Marshlands 55 — Khan 56 Many August
people 57 Confide in 59 Director — Ferrara 60 Hockey arena 61 Former JFK arrivals 64 New Deal org.
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ATTENTION: All University of Houston Staff
You are Invited to theStaff Council Town Hall/Forum
Tuesday, August 3, 20101:00 to 3:00 p.m.
In the Rockwell Pavilion,2nd Floor, M.D. Anderson Library
Opening Remarks:President Renu Khator
Following the President’s remarks, Staff Council will host a brainstorming and general discussion on the following topics:
1. Budget2. Compensation and Benefits3. Performance Evaluations4. Communication
Bring your thoughts and ideas on how we can improve in these areas. All input will be welcomed. This is your opportunity to
make suggestions and have your opinions heard.
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tools.”The Keck Center for
interdisciplinary Bioscience at rice university will help administer the program. The center has a faculty roster of over 450 professors from uh, Baylor College of Medicine, rice university, uT health Science Center, uT Medical Branch galveston and the M.D. anderson Cancer Center.
Two faculty mentors associated with the Keck Center’s six participating institutions, one each from the engineering and cancer biology fields, will be assigned to the student researchers.
uh’s growing role in biomedical research, along with the university’s existing ties to the Texas Medical Center (TMC) through the Keck center, may lead to more grants.
“There likely will be more such grants in the future as the university’s science and engineering expertise complements TMC’s clinical expertise,” Pettitt said. “The award puts uh with the leading research institutions in Texas receiving CPriT funding and also boosts uh by adding more postdoctoral researchers, an important indicator for Tier one status.”
CPriT first granted uh with $275,000 for a cervical cancer education initiative last year.
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is not complaining. along with her fellow gDBS students, she believes this experience will give them a leg up on the competition with the combination of field and office knowledge.
architecture professor and real-life architect Mark Dillon could not agree more.
“The design/build class goes beyond architecture,” Dillon says. “it also goes into construction and general contracting, which are usually separate disciplines altogether.”
an added difficulty to the project is the use of tensile fabric for the amphitheater’s canopy. The highly durable, weather resistant material has a complex design technology. The team enlisted the help of Murrell Tensile in New Jersey and with the help of the experts they are working through the technological difficulties involved in using tensile fabric.
Dillon says that the experience for the students is invaluable because they are all first-timers building a full-size, permanent structure.
Dillon, Peters, and the eleven students are all in a race to the finish line, with hopes of an august 11 completion date.
Contributions for the amphitheater come from client and donor support, which, according to a news release, include Morris architects, Murrell Tensile Works llC, united galvanizing inc., Tolunay-Wong engineers, CMC Construction Services, Bovis lend lease, asakura robinson Co., W.S. Bellows Construction group and ground hog Foundation Drilling
To find out more about the current or past gDBS projects, visit the website at http://www.uh.edu/gdbs.
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