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Group hosts scholarship opportunity event
The UH chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars will host its Route 66 Tour from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 12 at the Rockwell Pavilion on the second fl oor of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library.
Route 66 Tour seeks to help and encourage students to become leaders on campus and in their communi-ties to better prepare them for the professional world following their college career.
Additionally, four $250 scholarships and one $1000 scholarship will be given away at Route 66 Tour for students who submit a 100-word essay and attend the event. The application deadline for the essay is Sept. 27.
The event is free and open to the public, but inter-ested students can receive their tickets by going to www.route66.cc/home.
— Karisha Lucero/The Daily Cougar
Local bookstore hosts reading from former UH professor
Former UH journalism professor Michael Berryhill will read from his new book of poetry at 4 p.m. on Oct. 3 at Brazos Books.
"Everything Changes," Berryhill’s new collection of sonnets, is published by Inleaf Press, with an illustration by Lynn Randolph. He will also be signing copies of the book after the reading.
Brazos Books is located at 2421 Bissonnet; the event is free and open to the public.
— Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
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Galifianakis shows softer side
Head coach is thinking forward
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By Charne GrahamTHE DAILY COUGAR
The majority of today’s college students are technology dependent, but some still fi nd their school’s daily print newspaper very resourceful.
With the abundant amount of homework, emails and Facebook notifi cations to check on a daily basis, picking up a copy of the paper just seems easier than going on the newspaper’s website.
According to an Alloy media and market-ing study, over 53 percent of students claim to read their school's print newspaper while on campus. The research also claims that the average student will spend a little over 13 minutes with each print issue of the paper, and only 18 percent of the student body will spend no more than 10 minutes reading the online version.
UH alumni preferred reading The Daily Cougar in print rather than online when they were students.
“Reading the newspaper in print was
always easier than checking my phone, when I couldn’t get any service in the school’s library,” marketing alumni Dionne Moore said.
Most students that don't usually read newspapers admit that they take advantage of the paper that’s distributed throughout campus because it's free. They also like it for local advertisements.
Some students feel that the online ver-sion of the newspaper is more convenient, though.
“Everyone that wants to stay current may not be on campus that day, so without the paper online they would miss out,” broadcast journalism senior Morgahn Miller said.
Alumni appreciate the online version of the paper because it's an easy way for them to keep up with UH.
Staying up-to-date with a daily newspaper may be diffi cult for a full-time student, but undoubtedly the accessibility of news being in both print and online is most convenient.
Students and the UH Police Department walked around campus at last year's Walk in the Dark event and checked if all the secu-rity poles were functioning properly. | The Daily Cougar archive
Students like fi nance sophomore Michael Nelson, shown at the UC Satellite, use their laptops so they can utilize the fastest way to get the latest news on campus. | Hiba Adi/The Daily Cougar
Joshua SiegelTHE DAILY COUGAR
The UH Department of Public Safety will be combining two of its annual programs next month in an effort to make the UH community feel safe and comfortable on
campus.The department will host
its National Night Out event as planned, but will make an even greater effort to make the program a success by combining it with another annual program, Walk in
UH Police combine two campus activities to encourage student participation, ensure safety
Memorial service held for deceased grad student
Sorority pays tribute to lost sister
By Michelle ReedTHE DAILY COUGAR
While most students were battling the back-to-school jitters, graduate student Princess Chinwendu Eke was going through three months of che-motherapy. A sufferer of sickle-cell disease, Eke had lived with the dis-ease her entire life while maintaining a positive attitude.
“She would always give us moti-vation. Whenever we would argue she would say, ‘Now, everyone try and calm down and enjoy life,’” said philosophy senior and Zeta Phi Beta Epsilon Chapter member Stepha-nie Velasquez. “She was very kind-hearted and easy to talk to. She was a humble person. She was not only my sister, but a really good friend.”
The three months of chemother-apy was said to have been intense for Eke, Zeta Phi Beta President Jordan Hill said.
“She did lose her hair, she did take medication, and she lost a lot of weight,” Hill said. “She didn’t look like the Princess that we know, because she had always been very athletic.”
As a student of the Health and Human Performance Department, Eke was studying sports manage-ment and kinesiology.
She was always seen walking
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ON CAMPUSCenter for Mexican American Studies A confer-ence commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mexican Revolution “War along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and its impact Upon Tejano Communities” will be held at the Rockwell Pavilion inside M.D. Anderson Library from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cougar Ally Training Cougar Ally Training will show faculty, staff and students how to increase their awareness of issues that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face. Visit room 341 inside the McElhinney Building from 1 to 4 p.m. The session is free.
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UNITED STATESCongress gives $42 billion bill go ahead
The U.S. House of Representa-tives voted in favor of a $42 billion bill Thursday, which seeks to create 500,000 new jobs in the country, reported CNNMoney. The bill was approved by the Senate about a week ago and awaits President Barack Obama's signature, Monday, before it materializes. The bill is called the Small Business Jobs Act and will aim to give the economy a boost by lend-ing smaller banks $30 billion, which in turn will be used to create loans for small businesses. Another $12 billion will go to business tax breaks, which would encourage investment, entrepreneurship and new hires. The passage of this bill marks another vic-tory for the Democrats as the majority of Republicans in both the Senate and House voted against it. The bill, however, did begin with bipartisan interest in an attempt to recover the skyrocketing unemployment rates.
NEW YORK CITYDiplomat found brutually murdered
A Nicaraguan diplomat was found dead by his driver Wednesday. Cesar Mercado, 34-years old, was found with his throat slashed in his apartment located in the Bronx, NY. Investigators stated that signs are pointing to a homicide. A knife was sitting on the fl oor next to the body. Police have not immediately identifi ed any suspects or possible motives. Mercado was to be picked up by his driver to attend the United Nations General Assem-bly's annual meeting.
NEW JERSEYFacebook founder will make it rain
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced he will donate $100 million to the public school district of Newark, N..J. Forbes magazine has Zuckerberg down as the 35th richest person in the nation and this charitable contribution would be his largest one yet. Zuckerberg is only 26-years old making him and his co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, the young-est billionares. Zuckerberg is expected to make the offi cial announcement on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today. alongside Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Governor Chris Chris-tie. Some have discounted the act as something of a publicity stunt seeing as how the forthcoming movie "The Social Network" depicts Zuckerberg in a less than ideal way.
ENTERTAINMENTKaty Perry deemed too racy for 'Sesame Street'
A video released to YouTube on Tuesday depicted pop singer Katy Perry's appearance on the children's television show, "Sesame Street." Perry's outfi t on the episode was seen as too provocative to some parents, which sparked controversy and was conse-quently canceled from being aired next season. In the video, Perry is seen performing her revised hit single "Hot N Cold" with the famed puppet Elmo. This much was apparent: Elmo didn't seem to mind and those of us who watched "Sesame Street" as children now have an incentive to watch again.
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GROUPS & DEPARTMENTS
Study abroad director encourages student participationBy Karisha LuceroTHE DAILY COUGAR
Studying abroad isn’t just a chance to travel. It’s an open opportunity for students, and it carries rewards after the college years end.
“There are things you learn in life only by observing another culture,” Director of the study abroad offi ce Parul Fernandes said at a general meeting. “Teachers give knowledge and make you intelligent, but how
do you become intellectuals and become critical thinkers?”
Fernandes explained to student attendees that while being abroad even for a short amount of time, they experience life in another culture. Students also develop invaluable interpersonal skills, cross cultural skills and possibly bi-lingual skills, which are impressive additions to their resume.
“It gives you a chance to grow and become a survivor,” he said.
Students wishing to study abroad
can choose from a nearly limitless list of countries to visit. There are several class options one can attend and the credits students earn while abroad are transferable.
“You can take foreign language classes, as well as others such as business, biology, math, literature, history — whatever you want,” Fer-nandes said. “Jobs are looking for that kind of experience now.”
There are numerous programs in affi liation with UH and students have the option of paying out of pocket,
receiving financial aid, grants or scholarships for funding their study abroad experience. Students can also choose programs that offer week long trips, to year long trips.
“It’s an investment in yourself, your future, your job and who you are going to become,” Fernandes said. “Nothing is impossible with the skills you’ve got.”
The study abroad offi ce is com-mitted to each student’s process from start to fi nish. The staff handles student class registration, transfer of
credits, pre-departure orientation, re-entry interviews and assisting stu-dents in any additional information needed along the way.
For more information, visit the study abroad offi ce or www.uh.edu/studyabroad.
“Think of this offi ce as a place to get all the information you need to study abroad,” Fernandes said. “The world is bigger than jumping from just one continent to another.”
the Dark.“By combining both these pro-
grams on the same night we expect a much larger crowd,” Lt. Richard Brenner said.
“Within our eight residential communities, we house approxi-mately 6,400 students; for them this is their home away from home, so we invite them to join UHDPS and celebrate with their 6,000-plus neighbors,” Brenner said.
The national event is tradition-ally held in August, but due to the Texas heat and lack of students on campus at that time, the organiza-tion has allowed the state to hold its programs on the fi rst Tuesday of October instead.
“This change boded well for us,” Brenner said. “While we have sponsored the event for many years, the turnout wasn’t quite what we wanted.”
WITD will follow the NNO festivities and allow students to
walk through campus with DPS representatives and point out parts of campus that make them feel unsafe.
“Simply adding darkness to an environment in which a person normally feels safe has an amazing effect on a person’s perception,” Brenner said.
NNO is designed to inform the community in a number of areas, including crime awareness and local anti-crime programs. In addition, it aims to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships.
“(It also) sends a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fi ghting back,” Brenner said.
“These events are not simply to make the UH community aware that crime, unfortunately, is every-where, but they are meant more so to empower the community, letting them know that there are simple steps they can take as indi-viduals to effectively diminish the opportunity for crime to occur.”
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The Department of Public Safety, including Police Chief Malcolm Davis, roam the streets of the campus in last year's annual Walk in the Dark where students pointed out unsafe areas. | The Daily Cougar Archive
around campus with sweatpants on and a water bottle in hand, ready to begin her workouts each day.
She also taught cycling and rac-quetball classes at the Health and Wellness Center.
“She was very involved on campus as far as being healthy, being proac-tive,” Hill said. “The chemotherapy really did take her out, in a sense.”
In an attempt to save her life, her younger brother gave her his bone marrow for a transplant.
But the transplant was too tough on her body and she passed away Sept. 7.
“It was very, traumatic isn’t even a word I could use, I would have to say unbelievable,” Hill said.
Zeta Phi Beta is currently working on a foundation in Eke’s name to help bring awareness to the disease. They want her name to live on, and they hope that the foundation will help
others support Eke’s family during this diffi cult time.
On Sept. 10, Zeta Phi Beta had a memorial service for Eke on campus.
“We had balloons and people could buy a balloon and put a mes-sage on it,” Velasquez said. “At the end of the memorial we let them go. That was a great moment… We watched the balloons going up. It was almost like they were going to her.”
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STAFF EDITORIAL
T here is always a problem when politics enter the classroom. Today, the Texas Board of Education will be voting on a resolution for
publishers to view of Islam and picture of Christi-anity in history textbooks.
The issue is not that politicians are trying to socially engineer students to be of a like mind; it is that they are eliminating debate in the classroom. A court case that mirrors the school board’s involvement is Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
In this court case, 11 parents sued a school dis-trict in Pennsylvania, because they believed it was wrong for the board to agree to the promotion of Intelligent Design during a ninth-grade class that went over evolution.
Going to a judge for a new ruling could be a possible result of the actions of the Texas School Board (if a group of parents react like they did in Dover). This will present a major concern if it becomes a judge’s decision is.
The Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District ended with Judge John E. Johns III ruling that Intel-ligent Design was not science. While the defi nition of science can be pretty specifi c, the defi nition of history has more give and take to it.
This is because you’re dealing with people and their different perceptions. There has to be some sort of debate in the classroom of the variations that history gives. Whether it’s who shot fi rst or the motivation behind the Declaration of Indepen-dence, history is debatable. The only issue that is not debatable is rewriting the facts to fi t someone’s own agenda.The fact is that there's no side of any dominant religion is without black eyes. There will always be preserved bias against any group simply because someone was sitting on the other side of the fence.
There will never be a writing of the absolute truth when it comes to history. The best that we can hope for is that students are given the tool of critical thinking to decide what they believe is the most plausible. Then, they must be allowed the open discussion to defend their beliefs with respect to those who disagree, no matter what those beliefs are.
Debate needs to be at the forefront of classrooms
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EDITOR IN CHIEF Matthew KeeverMANAGING EDITOR Newton LiuNEWS EDITORS Hiba Adi, Jose AguilarSPORTS EDITORS John Brannen, Christopher LoseeLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Travis HensleyOPINION EDITOR Andrew Taylor
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opinion EDITOR Andrew TaylorE-MAIL [email protected] www.thedailycougar.com/opinion
G uess the dates when: the M.D. Anderson library closes early, the Fitness and Wellness center
is unavailable, the A.D. Bruce religion center can't be accessed, the UC/satel-lite are on lock down, the only source
of food on campus is from the overpriced vending machines, and not all buildings are inaccessible.
No, it‘s not just Christmas break; the campus closes down as
if it were a business not a university. The university goes comatose on
dates like Labor Day, Martin Luther King Jr. day, and others in-between. Don't forget weekends, which make living on campus more harsh and inconvenient. A few buildings here and there are indeed open (for a pitiful few hours), but “open” doesn’t include all of the services in those buildings. Imagine having a working car with no gas pedal.
Contrarily, students are still out and about. Case in point: there is a severe lack of 24-hour establishments on campus.
The library is a centerpiece of this issue. On a normal Friday, closing time is at 9:45 p.m. Saturday is worse, at 7:45 p.m. Yes, most students are off campus Friday and Saturday nights, partying, dining, doing anything but studying. However, plenty of us enjoy
using weekend evenings for studying in the quiet comfort of the M.D. Anderson library. There is an invigorating aura that cannot be found in a dorm room.
Fortunately the library has a short 24-hour operation window during fi nals, but that just yells "We could do this all the time, but choose not to".
It wouldn't necessarily be "simple" for UH to solve this problem, but it would be practical. There wouldn't even have to be any new areas built. Just make some of the facilities on campus open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Generally speaking, students don't have the budget to throw money away every night at the UC games room, or travel downtown for excitement. What most students who spend 99 percent of their time on campus need is as much access to the Library, Wellness Center, and Religious center as possible. This is a necessity for students because all three of these buildings provide essential services for students and at no real cost. Study areas, exercise facilities, and social atmosphere are the obvious examples that these buildings provide.
There is one 24-hour area on campus for any student at any time: The small, and easily crowded M.D. Anderson lounge. Yes, the cold, dead, metallic, purgatory-like doctor's offi ce of a student lounge that offers stiff seats, frozen processed meals, computers that break down periodically, and a general feeling
of ill ease. Also it’s a place where you can expect at some point after sundown to be asked to present your Student ID. Oh yes, students feel very welcome there.
My critics may point out that those staying at the Cougar Place have a com-mons room, as do those at the Quads, Lofts and the Towers, but that points out the real problem. Students at the cougar place only get to go to the cougar place, quads just get quads, lofts just get lofts, and Towers just get towers. When every-thing is locked, your Cougar Card isn't going to gain you access to the individual areas, and those areas aren't prime studying territory.
UH wants to be a Tier One university. UH has the research funding, the will-power and momentum, but one of the few things it still needs is the support of students — especially those who will graduate and become donating giving alumni. If students were encouraged to be on campus at any hour of any day they might start to think of the campus as a home worth giving back to, instead of a cold institution or dreaded workplace.
There is a plethora of students sharing the sentiment. This may fan the fl ames, but it will eventually end up in the archives. If you want to do something about the situation, speak up.
David Haydon is a political science junior and may be reached at [email protected].
R eaders of the Cougar were recently invited to attend the art exhibit at Winter Street studios
where the theme of "Parallel Universes" was portrayed in art works.
A portion of the pro-ceeds of sales were to go
to the Justice for Children organization ( JFC). JFC claims as its mission to be
saviours of abused children. Yet noth-ing could be farther from the truth. It rejects the existence of Parental Alien-ation, one of the most insidious forms of child and adult abuse.
Furthermore amazingly it is a sexist organization believing fathers are sexual predators and women are 'protective' mothers.
Please reference yourselves to an
article that appeared in the May 2, 2007 business section of the Houston Chron-icle where one of their attorney soldiers, Alene Ross Levy, was interviewed and you will see clearly to what I refer.
I know too because my daughter and I are victims of their intrusions. They fail children and should not be supported.
Robert Gartner is a UH alumnus.
UH campus needs better hours
Children's organization poisons youth
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overtime
VOLLEYBALLTeam headed for Crescent City
For the second weekend in a row head coach Molly Alvey and her team are Louisiana-bound.
The Cougars (5-6) will play their second and third conference game in The Big Easy this weekend, taking on Tulane at Fogelman Arena Saturday and Sunday. The team is coming off a loss to Rice, in which the Owls swept the match. It will be the conference opener for the Green Wave, who currently have a record of 3-9. At the All-State Sugar Bowl Classic, Tulane fell to Florida International 3-1 Sept. 18, and lost to Oregon three sets to zero the day before.
— Cougar Sports Services
SOCCERCougars hope to outlast SMU, Tulsa at home
This weekend marks the beginning of Conference USA play for the team, hosting SMU and Tulsa. The Cougars are riding a two-game win streak and will defend it against SMU (5-2-2) fi rst. The Mustang's most recent loss came on Sept. 10. Since then, head coach Brent Erwin has led his unit to two wins against New Mexico and North Texas, and a tie against St. Mary's.
Tulsa (5-3) is coming off consecutive losses to Arkansas State and Central Arkansas, losing both games 1-0. Head coach Kyle Cussen hopes a trip to Houston will get his team back on track. The Golden Hurricane will play Rice on Friday, followed by their duel with UH.
Friday's game kicks off at 7 p.m. and Sunday's game be-gins at 1 p.m. Both will be hosted at Robertson Stadium.
— Cougar Sports Services
FOOTBALLSMU, TCU kick open weekend, Rice, Baylor to meet
The fi rst football game of the weekend features SMU hosting inner-city foe No. 4 TCU at Gerald J. Ford Stadium. In their meeting last season the Horned Frogs rolled over the Mustangs 39-14.
SMU started the season with a loss to Texas Tech, but won two games since against UAB and Washington State 2-1. TCU is off to a 3-0 start, with wins over Oregon State, Tennessee Tech and Baylor respectively.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised on ESPN.
Saturday, Rice will take on Big 12 opponent Baylor at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco. Last year the Owls were blown out by the Bears 42-17.
Rice is 1-2 on the year after suff ering losses to Texas and Northwestern. Baylor, led by former UH head coach Art Briles, is 2-1 after losing to TCU last weekend.
The game will start at 7 p.m. and can be seen on CBS College Sports. — Cougar Sports Services
PAULINE ALDERETE THE DAILY COUGAR
SOCCER
Coach has team starting fast
Joshua SiegelTHE DAILY COUGAR
Most high school senior girls in their last semester are obsessing over prom dresses or displaying symptoms of senioritis. Susan Bush spent her last semester competing for a chance to play with soccer legends Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy on the 1999 FIFA World Cup team.
Bush’s soccer career has taken her around the world as a member of the US National team; to the UNC trainer’s room with back-to-back ACL injuries that removed her from competition for two years. Eventually she returned to her hometown to become Cougars' head coach.
“I’ve been a starter and a player coming off the bench with an injury. A lot of the game is mental and a lot of it is related to confidence,” Bush said.
“I try to give the girls con-fidence and help them find a way to be more confident on the field. I definitely think it helps.”
As a top-rated player coming out of high school, Bush attended the Univer-sity of North Carolina, a powerhouse in men and women's collegiate soccer.
It is also the alma mater of soccer greats Hamm and Kristine Lilly. Bush won two NCAA Tournament champion-ships in her first two years as a Tar Heel.
“I had a lot of options, but for me it was choosing a school that I thought I could get better at. I wanted it to be competitive. I was also looking at loca-tion in the country; I didn’t want to go anywhere cold, so that was big for me.
I also wanted to go to a school where I felt I would enjoy the campus and the university if I couldn’t play soccer.”
Bush was a standout forward for the Tar Heels, earning offensive MVP of the 1999 NCAA Tournament, and was a finalist for the Herman Trophy as a freshman.
But, knee injuries impeded her col-legiate career.
“My injuries came my sophomore year and then my junior year, back-to-back,” she said.
“I was out of the game for two years and at the highest level that’s a long period of time, and a setback. I definitely felt like I never met my own expectations or fulfilled my potential, but that’s the game. Injuries are part of it. After college there aren’t a lot of opportunities if you’re not on the full national team.”
Bush would play in the WUSA for the San Diego Spirit before the league ceased operations, but would continue
to play internationally until 2003 earn-ing 10 caps; tallying three goals and six assists.
Bush and her teammates won a total of four gold medals from 1999-2000 at various tournaments.
As a player, Bush’s game was built on speed and as a coach, her teams play much like she did.
She would return to UNC in 2004 to finish a double major in history and political science.
“I was trying to create a different path away from soccer with those degrees. I tried that path and hated it. I wanted to stay in athletics and this
opportunity presented itself. “I also like to attack with my team
because I was an attacking player. I think you see that in our team this year. We’re throwing numbers forward, scor-ing lots of goals and going at teams,” Bush said.
The Cougars (6-2-1) are off to their best start since 2005 under Bush. They have outscored their opponents 21-5 this season.
“I think there are a lot of positive things about the University, particularly our athletic program,” she said. “I think we have an athletic director who’s push-ing everyone to get better.
"My staff and I have played at a very high level, and I think that’s relatable to the players. We’re encouraging players to come here and make a difference for us — because we haven’t had a winning record the past couple of years.”
The transition from playing on the field to coaching from the sidelines has been smooth for Bush.
“A coach teaches their team to see different scenarios and train for them in practice,” she said.
While Bush misses her time on the field, she hopes her com-
petitive history can guide her players. “Obviously, I would love to throw on
a jersey and get back out there, but I think my influence now is teaching the game in practice, and hoping that they see it and apply it in the games.”
Although she has developed a taste for traveling with the US National team, Bush is happy to be home.
“This is a perfect job for me,” she said. “I spend a lot of time with my family, I’m doing what I love to do and Houston has a lot of talent athletically. It’s a good combination.”
Bush uses international playing experience to assist current players
In her fi fth year as tenure head soccer coach, Susan Bush has the Cougars off to their best start since 2004. | Courtesy of UH Athletics
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Keir Gilchrist (left) and Zach Galifi anakis (right) co-star in the dramatic comedy 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' alongside Emma Roberts. The fi lm was released today. | Focus Features
AT THE MOVIES
Funny man hopes to be taken more seriously Matthew KeeverTHE DAILY COUGAR
When audiences hear Zach Galifi anakis’ name, what most likely comes to mind is a raunchy, ridiculous kind of comedy that young movie-goers have come to adore over the last fi ve years, a la "The Hangover." But in Ryan Fleck’s fi lm adaptation of "It’s Kind of a Funny Story," based on the novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini, Galifi anakis takes on a much more serious, somber role. While the movie is categorized as a dramatic comedy, it’s still an escape from the normal type of laughs that audiences have come to know Galifi anakis by so far in his career.
“The fi rst question I ask is, ‘Is there any nudity?’ When I fi nd out there’s not, I’ll read the script anyway,” Galifi anakis said, talking about how he chooses a role. “But seriously, it’s kind of new to me to be able to choose things, so I don’t really have a pattern yet, but most of it is comedy. But some of it is a little bit more of a grounded comedy that has some realism to it. That’s how I got involved in this.
“I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge,” Galifi anakis said. “I feel like (the character of) Bobby was certainly one of those… and he also has the capacity to be angry, so it wasn’t
much of a departure from my real life.”
Bobby is one of the patients at the hospital where the fi lm's main character Craig (Keir Gilchrist) admits himself for a minimum of fi ve days in an attempt to deal with his depression, the origin of which he can’t pinpoint.
“I hope, honestly, fi rst and fore-most that people are entertained, because I think that’s the main purpose of fi lms,” Gilchrist said. “And then I hope people gather a message about hope [and] fi nding people — and how connections with other people can be healing.”
Gilchrist’s character admits himself to a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn and, upon meeting Gali-fi anakis’ character, is reminded of how many things in life can be rewarding.
While in the hospital, he also meets Noelle (Emma Roberts), a patient of the same age whom he begins to have romantic feelings for.
“One of the great things about this story, about Ned’s book and the character of Craig is how he learns to appreciate what he has, and I feel like I need to remind myself to count my blessings a lot of the time,” Roberts said. “I think we’d all be a lot happier if we did that more often.”
The movie may not be an
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atypical comedy, but in this day and age, director Ryan Fleck feels it’s an appropriate movie for col-lege students.
“I think that college students have a lot of the same pressures that the characters are going through in this movie, and I think it’s tough times for young people,” Fleck said. “Getting a job when you get out of college, that seems to me these days quite the impossibility almost, and I have a lot of sym-pathy for college students. [This movie] might make you feel better for a little while.”
While Fleck tried to stay faith-ful to the book, he admitted to making a few changes in the fi lm adaptation.
“There were a number of patients we had to trim down or take out, which would have been nice to keep in there,” Fleck said, “but we had to take them out, because we have a 90-minute movie, and we didn’t have time for it.”
Galifi anakis too feels it’s an appropriate movie for an age-group that is, in his view, put under far too much stress.
“I think the pressure put on college students is ridiculous; it’s crazy,” Galifi anakis said. “I think college puts too much pressure on people, and I think society is put-ting too much pressure on young people… It’s good for people who work on ulcers, but [laughs] chill out, young ones, and those who are chilling out too much, go clean your room and study some.”
Galifi anakis may be primarily a comedic actor, but he takes his roles seriously. For "It's Kind of a Funny Story," in order to better portray a close-to-the-edge mental patient, he did his homework.
“I went to a couple of mental facilities in New Mexico, and I observed, took some notes and asked some questions,” Galifi -anakis said. “I noticed a couple of people in the facilities who I think could function on the outside, and I kind of think [my character] could function on the outside, but he does have the wicked possibil-ity of snapping.”
Above all else, Galifi anakis feels that the setting in which the movie is shot makes for a great fi lm, and he hopes audiences feel the same.
“I liked the location of the story,” he said, commenting on why he was originally drawn to the script. “I think a mental hospital is a very specifi c place where good stories can evolve because of where a group of people are forced to be together.”
"It's Kind of a Funny Story" comes out in theaters today.
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