Natalie HarmsNews editor

The English department’s teaching fellows have made their voices heard by the administration, requesting a re-consideration of a wages, and President Renu Khator has responded, saying she will take the necessary actions to make their requests a reality in a statement to the UH community.

Khator said she was away cel-ebrating the birth of her grand-daughter for the last ten days, but was immediately briefed on the goings-on in her absence. She said the budget restrictions make it difficult for any immediate sal-ary adjustment.

“While decisions related to TF and TA salaries are entirely under the domain of the colleges and departments based upon their pri-orities,” Khator said, “I understand that colleges’ decisions may be shaped by budgetary allocations from the University.”

While the president’s office does not directly control individual salaries, Khator said she will allo-cate funds to the deans, along with the provost, who will decide how

the money is distributed.“Funding will come from mon-

ies designated to support our broad commitment to student success,” Khator said. “This pool of money will provide assistance to TFs and TAs, whose salaries are most compressed and who teach undergraduate CORE classes.”

Secondarily, Khator said she will create a “university-wide task force on Graduate Assistant Success.”

The TFs sent an email to mem-bers of the press acknowledging Khator’s statement. They said they appreciate the promise to take action and now wait on College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dean John Roberts to find out more details.

“We are waiting on a concrete wage adjustment figure from Dean Roberts, who has been work-ing closely with us throughout this process,” the TFs said in the email.

While they wait to hear more details, the sit-ins have been sus-pended, according to the email.

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The Lean Six Sigma project team has been working on a pro-cess to reduce payroll-processing errors for the UH System payroll department.

Team members, who are enrolled in the Quality Improvement in Project Management course, have ironed out the wrinkles for a

smoother pro-cess and have helped prepare the UH Payroll Department for a rollout of a new electronic payroll process later this year.

“Lean Six Sigma concentrates on improving effi ciency and reducing

variability in all types of business processes,” said Jamison Kovach, an assistant professor in the Project Management Program. “This level of performance is a tremendous improvement over where most organizations currently operate.”

The department’s investigation, which began last year, was look-ing for ways to implement elec-tronic time reporting for biweekly

employees. However, members soon found that major process advances were needed before employing a new system.

While investigating, it was dis-covered that the payroll department was continually running payroll, sometimes as much as twice a week during off-cycles. After analyzing

A chalked statement outside of Ezekiel W. Cullen Building advertises the English teaching fellows’ campaign to attain a raise. | Nichole Taylor/The Daily Cougar

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ENGINEERING

Cougars’ concrete canoe cruises to thirdDarlene CamposStaff writer

In a Corpus Christi competition that required building a work-ing canoe using only concrete, UH engineering students took home third place against 24 other schools.

The American Society of Civil Engineers sponsored Texas/Mexico Regional Concrete Canoe Compe-tition also brought the UH canoe team, Cougar Construction, sec-ond place in a Texas Section ASCE Centennial, to host the University of Texas at a later date.

Jerry Rogers, associate profes-sor of civil engineering, said the first Texas ASCE concrete canoe race was on the San Antonio Riv-erwalk in 1975.

The competition is sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and is completely

student-run, said Reagan Herman, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Herman said the ASCE has more than 140,000 members worldwide and it is America’s oldest national

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Burglary of a Motor Vehicle: At 2:09 p.m. April 2 at Cullen Oaks Apartments, a UH visitor reported his unattended and secured vehi-cle was burglarized. The case is inactive.

Burglary of a Motor Vehicle: At 4:24 p.m. at Cullen Oaks Apartments, a student reported his unattended and secured vehicle was burglarized. The case is inactive.

Theft: At 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Cambridge Oaks Apartments, a stu-dent reported someone entered his room, went into his closet and stole a pair of his shoes, which contained money. The case is inactive.

Burglary of a Motor Vehicle: At 2:43 p.m. Wednesday at the Cullen Oaks Apartments garage, a student reported two secured and unat-tended motor vehicles were burglar-ized. The case is inactive.

Theft: At 10:12 p.m. Wednesday at Philip G. Hoffman Hall, a faculty member reported someone stole personal property from her offi ce. The case is inactive.

Public Intoxication: At 12:31 a.m. Thursday at Bayou Oaks Apartments, a student was observed by security offi cers to be highly intoxicated. The student was transported to hospital because of his level of intoxication. The case is cleared by referral.

Theft: At 5:09 p.m. Thursday at Moody Towers, a student reported the theft of her wallet from her

unsecured and unattended bag. The case is inactive.

Theft: At 6:01 p.m. Thursday at the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, a student reported an unknown suspect or suspects stole his laptop computer. The case is inactive.

Theft: At noon Friday at the E.E. Oberholtzer Residence Hall, a contract employee advised that an unknown person or persons stole liquor from a secured metal cage inside the hall’s kitchen area. The case is inactive.

Theft: At 2:42 p.m. Friday at the General Service Building, a staff member reported a golf cart miss-ing. The case is active.

Public Intoxication: At 2:55 a.m. Sunday at Calhoun Lofts, a UH visitor was found to be intoxicated in the lobby of Calhoun Lofts. The visitor received a criminal trespass warning and was released to a responsible party. The case is cleared by exception.

Theft: At 4:20 a.m. Sunday at Cougar Village, a student reported an unknown suspect or suspects stole his laptop computer from his dorm room. The case is inactive.

Theft: At 4:48 p.m. Sunday at the Athletic Alumni Building, a staff member reported an unattended and unsecured laptop computer was stolen from a secured offi cer. There are two possible suspects. The case is active.

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engineering society.“In the competition, the stu-

dents design, build and then race their concrete canoes. The compe-tition gives an opportunity for the students to see a complete project from concept to final product,” Herman said.

The concrete canoe made by Cougar Construction weighed 240 pounds and took several months to build. While a concrete canoe may sound too heavy to maneuver in water, it was designed to be light

in weight.The regular density for concrete

is 150 pounds per cubic foot, Her-man said, but the density of the concrete used to construct the canoe was around 60 pcf, allowing it to float. Building the canoe was a long task, but Cougar Construction was not alone.

“We received help from 30 undergrad students and came to rely especially on our junior cap-tains William Regner and Jared Williams, who will be taking over the project next year,” said team captain Scott Wallace.

Instead of testing the com-pleted canoe in Buffalo Bayou,

the competition’s location, Cougar Construction chose Lake Houston for it’s windy conditions, said co-captain Hayley Redweik.

While University of Texas-Tyler placed first and Texas A&M placed second, Cougar Construction is satisfied with third place.

“The prize is just the pride of being recognized for all our hard work,” Wallace said. “Our team is very happy about how we placed this year, especially since the level of competition at the regional meet has risen significantly in the last few years.”

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Team Cougar Construction rowed their way into third place in the Texas/Mexico Regional Concrete Canoe Competition, which is sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. | Courtesy of Scott Wallace

their fi ndings, the team members found more effi cient ways to address the need for major improvements that would allow preparations for a new electronic system to begin.

“Initially, it had been a great idea to run more payroll cycles and meet employees’ needs to get paid on time, but the growing over-dependence on going around our established process to serve our customers presented another set of problems,” said Joan Nelson, execu-tive director of human resources. “Our challenge was to fi gure out a way to reduce the number of off-cycle payrolls without causing pay-ment delays for employees.”

The Lean Six Sigma project team is based around a business phi-losophy that focuses on a specifi c methodology. Their success is based on a formula used for a business approach.

They defi ne the problem, mea-sure the process performance, analyze the cause of the problem,

improve the process and then con-trol the improved process and fix the problem permanently.

“Being able to implement these strategies in a real-life setting has proven to be a valuable learning experience for our students,” Kovach said. “There is no better way to learn these kinds of things.”

The team developed strate-gies to reduce the cause of errors, which include online orientation for students and implementing an employee acknowledgement form to alert new employees to the pay-roll process.

With the improvements put into place, payroll-processing errors decreased to 6.77 percent from 10.35 percent and the amount pay-roll processing cycles reduced by 50 percent.

“We learned an effi cient method to improve our process by partner-ing up with our students,” Nelson said. “We are very proud of our stu-dents and we know they will have great success in their transition to the real world.”

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“We are incredibly hopeful and experiencing a great deal of support from the administration,” the TFs said in the email. “We have contacted Dean Roberts in order to find out when he will be able to allocate the funds given to him by President Khator.”

At the end of her letter to the UH community, Khator said the pro-vost asked for an external review of the English Department—the last one was nine years ago.

“The review will help the dean and provost evaluate competitive information, learn best practices, get advice from aspirational peers, show accountability to the public, and help rectify not just the wage issue, but all issues related to the learning and working environment of the teaching fellows and teach-ing assistants,” Khator said.

Additional reporting by Zachary Burton.

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LIFESTYLE

Early bird gets all the benefi ts

OPINIONEDITOR Aaron Manuel EMAIL opinion@thedailycougar.com ONLINE thedailycougar.com/opinion

Waking up at an early hour may not seem pleasant for many college students, but imagine all of the benefi ts it has.

You could fi nd an open parking spot in less than a minute; enjoy a stress-free workout at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, not having to

wait to use any equipment; or perhaps study a bit in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, absolutely silent from the lack of students. Afterward, you can grab a bite from Einstein Bros Bagels without waiting forever in line and then go on to class without feeling groggy.

This scenario is no pipe dream for kinesiology senior Nicholas Levine, who wakes up most morn-ings at 4:30 a.m.

“It’s better because you can

fi nish your classwork early on,” he said. “You can get a parking space early. It really frees up the rest of the day.”

It doesn’t take waking up as early as Levine to fi nd parking, as there still many parking spaces available around 8 a.m., but the earlier you arrive, the better your chances at a good space. Also, during that time, the gym is generally less crowded, allowing for a better chance of an uninterrupted workout. People haven’t started fi ling in en masse, making fi nding a good spot to study without too much noise simpler. Still, the longer you wait, the more crowds you have to deal with, as everything is pretty busy by 9 or 10 a.m.

It helps some students so much that not getting up early throws a wrench in the day’s works. Kinesiol-ogy senior Chelsea Fowler said that not getting up early has a negative impact on her day.

“If I wake up early, it forces me

to start up sooner,” she said.Yes, waking up early means

getting out of your comfortable bed with not as much sleep as you would like and starting the day slow and groggy for a while, but mechanical engineering sophomore Mery Arce said the early mornings are totally worth it.

“When I wake up, I don’t feel great, but as the day goes on, I get excited because I feel like I can accomplish more things during the day,” Arce said.

Getting an early start, though, is more than just taking advantage of having the campus to yourself or being healthier; it could also give you a good shot at boosting that GPA.

According to a 2008 study by the University of North Texas, early birds actually performed better academically than night owls — a whopping one grade point better, to be exact: 2.5 average GPA for late-risers as opposed to a 3.5 average

GPA for early birds. Morning people tend to be more proactive, tend to be able to anticipate problems, have higher optimism and get bet-ter, more restorative sleep, though it may not feel like it in the early morning.

If you are looking for a change, aren’t feeling as productive during

the day or could use some extra time to get things done, consider delaying that gratifi cation for a bit and set that alarm clock back a few hours. It could do wonders.

Jacob Patterson is a management information systems senior and may be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

Students who wake up and get to campus in the earlier hours of the morning have an easier time finding available parking spots. | Jacob Patterson/The Daily Cougar

Jacob Patterson

Wait-time for weight machines at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center is cut drastically before 9 a.m. | Jacob Patterson/The Daily Cougar

Students say night owls miss out on campus amenities by sleeping late

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Christopher SheltonSports editor

Nearly 20 years after Guy V. Lewis called his last play in 1986, he was still helping the Cougars win basketball games.

Lewis visited practice the day before a 2005 contest with Mem-phis, and the players responded with a win that then-head coach Tom Penders dedicated to him.

“You think of (Lewis) coaching and playing here, and he was involved in about 70 percent of the wins here, and that’s unbe-lievable. Hopefully, he’ll get some recognition for this, because he is the University of Houston,” Pend-ers said after the game.

On Monday, Lewis offi cially got the recognition that Penders sought eight years ago.

National broadcaster and UH alumnus Jim Nantz hosted Lewis’ offi cial enshrinement press conference into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Nantz said Lewis was instrumental in getting his broad-cast career going, so it was fi tting that he was allowed to announce

Lewis’ enshrinement.“He’s a teacher, a mentor and

a believer in people. It’s a great thrill to be able to say for the man who actually started my career as a student. He trusted me to be his host. A man I deeply admire,” Nantz said. “I know Houston is rejoicing right now at this very sentence. Welcome to the Hall Guy V. Lewis.”

Athletics director Mack Rhoades, who took the trip to Atlanta to watch the press conference, said it was a special moment to see Nantz announce Lewis.

“Knowing him as well as I do, I know how much this meant to him as well. He has great love for the University and coach Lewis,” Rhoades said. “With him being an alum, you couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

The others announced Mon-day at the Final Four ceremony were former UNLV head coach Jerry Tarkanian and Sylvia Hatch-ell of North Carolina, former NBA stars Bernard King and Gary Payton and former University of

Virginia star Dawn Staley.Lewis’ career as head coach

didn’t start the way that it fi nished.

He had three losing seasons in his fi rst three years as head coach fi nished his career with 27 consecutive winning seasons, winning 592 games from 1956-86. Lewis engineered 11 20-win sea-sons and two 30-win seasons.

Lewis also helped grow the college basketball into the sport it is today. He coaxed legendary UCLA head coach into participat-ing in the “Game of the Century,” which was the fi rst nationally-televised college basketball game ever. The Cougars defeated the Bruins 71-69, snapping their 47-game losing streak at the Astrodome in 1968 in front of more than 50,000 fans.

Elvin Hayes, perhaps the great-est player in UH history, couldn’t have played at UH if Lewis wasn’t the Cougars’ head coach — Lewis was the fi rst coach in Texas to recruit black players.

Hayes said he is happy that Lewis is fi nally getting into

the Hall of Fame, and that this moment was long overdue.

“To me, this is one of the greatest wrongs that has been made right. I am ecstatic. It is tremendous to hear that Guy V. Lewis is in the Basketball Hall of Fame... He was a hard worker, he was dedicated to the University, his players and his family, and he made sacrifi ces … to take on another family (his teams) each year. He is just a super, unique and caring person.”

Rhoades said induction is an offi cial validation to the entire athletics department and Lewis’ career.

“I think it’s just validates the great success the University has had in all of its sports programs, and certainly now the men B-ball program,” Rhoades said.

“It was a very well deserving honor. If you think about the great players he coached — an Elvin Hayes, a Clyde Drexler or Hakeem Olajuwon — it’s a great moment.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hall makes it offi cial

BASEBALL

UH drops weekend series at MarshallHarrison LeeStaff writer

Despite scoring 22 runs over the three games, the Cougars were victorious only in the fi nale of their three-game series against Mar-shall. The result of UH’s journey to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains was a 24-9 overall record and a 6-3 record in Conference USA play.

Though the Cougars dropped the first two games, there were bright moments.

The first game of the series, a 19-13 affair in favor of Marshall, saw redshirt sophomore shortstop Frankie Ratcliff drive in four RBIs, a career best for him, off of three hits, one being a homerun. Junior outfielder Landon Appling went

three for five with two RBIs and scored a run, while f r e s h m a n outfi elder Kyle Survance went two for four and scored two runs.

Despite the loss, all the freshmen in the lineup for UH were able to reach base via a hit and got an RBI. Infielders Josh Vidales and Justin Montemayor, along with outfi elder Ashford Fulmer, were the trio to do it.

Senior righthander Austin Pruitt lost for the second time this season in the second game of the series, despite surrendering only three earned runs over 7.1 innings. He now stands at 6-2 after the 4-0 loss.

The fi nal game of the series saw junior catcher Caleb Barker go three for six with three RBIs, while fresh-man infi elder Justin Montemayor knocked out a three-run home run. Freshman righthander Jake Lemoine got his fifth win of the season, while junior righthander Chase Wellbrock got his fi fth save of the year.

After two weekend road trips in two consecutive weeks, the Cougars will return home for eight straight games at Cougar Field, with a series against the Pirates of Seton Hall University starting Friday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m.

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While a player, legendary head coach Guy Lewis (37) was team captain of the University’s fi rst two teams in 1946 and 1947. | Courtesy of UH Athletics

Appling

After Lewis gave a lot of himself to University, one alumnus was able to return the favor

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thousands 69 Swiss

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9 Made a mathemati-cal calcula-tion

10 Eggs, to a biologist

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22 Deer hunter’s trophy

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LIFE+ARTS

Yasmine SaqerStaff writer

The Moores Opera Center proved they can take on anything with their first-time rendition of the classic Italian opera “Rigoletto.”

An absorbing and fast-moving opera, the story begins when the shameless Duke of Mantua fools around with the wrong girl, whose father then puts a curse on the Duke and his snide court jester, Rigoletto.

Rigoletto’s curse is realized when the Duke falls in love with his shel-tered daughter, Gilda. But when Rigoletto reveals the Duke for the deceitful womanizer he truly is, mur-derous plots spiral out of control.

Written by Giuseppe Verdi, and directed and produced by Moores Opera House director Buck Ross with music direction by conductor and assistant professor Brett Mitch-ell, the opera opened Friday night to a large attendance at the Moores Opera House.

Accompanied by an exceptional orchestra, graduate students James Rodriguez and Ashly Neumann carried the show with impeccable vocals and engaging character developments.

Rodriguez’s outstanding solos and impassioned commitment to his character transformed the con-niving entertainer to a concerned father. His versatility as an actor and stamina as a singer left the opera house in shock and awe.

An equally powerful counter-part, Neumann gave a mesmeriz-ing performance as the naïve and lovestruck Gilda.

From curious and in love to a woman betrayed, Neumann breaks our hearts and leaves us wanting more. Her voice a powerhouse in contrast to her sweet and helpless character, and the audience went wild after each of her solos.

Together, the two leads mani-fested a perfect father-daughter dynamic and the drama of a classic Italian opera.

In addition to the extraordinary performances, the production itself was put together with stunning visual effects and an elaborate set design.

The video effects gave the show fantastic veracity, projecting artwork found in the real Duke of Mantua’s Palazzo Te by Italian Renaissance artist Giulio Romano in Act II.

The production also prepared a two-story tavern set piece for Act III, further demonstrating a knack for showmanship.

With a music staff in high demand, this was also a farewell

performance for many long-time members, including conductor Ste-phen W. Jones, pianist Katherine Cis-con, and music director Mitchell.

An enjoyable and thoroughly impressive production, the Moores Opera Center ends the season on the right note.

Announcements for next season will be made in May.

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Graduate students James Rodriguez and Chris Trapani played the leading roles. | Courtesy of Moores school of music

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ART

Detail gets lost

Jessica PortilloAssistant life & arts editor

The chairman of the Depart-ment of Ophthalmology at Meth-odist Hospital presented a world where science and art collide to make something unique and pow-erful, and he explored how much of that art is science, and how much is experimentation.

Dr. Richard Fish presented the lecture as an optometrist and as a lover of art.

His lecture, The Eye: Ocular Diseases and Visual Artists, show-cased famous artists and how their works might have been influenced by ocular diseases.

“Many people think that impressionists suffered myopia (nearsightedness),” Fish said. “But when you look at some of their earlier work, you can see that it’s very clear and has plenty of detail, so it’s much more likely that they were just experimenting with technique.”

That wasn’t the case for some artists, though. Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt suffered from cataracts later in life that impaired their work.

Fish presented their work before cataracts and as the dis-ease progressed. As it did, the vibrant colors and rich detail were lost to muddy reds and simple sketching.

“Genius is genius, whether or not it’s been impaired by some loss,” Fish said.

“Beethoven wrote his last sym-phony when he was deaf and had to imagine what it would sound like. That’s an incredibly impres-sive accomplishment.”

Artists like Charles Meryon and Paul Henry were red and green color-deficient, but this didn’t prevent them from creating paintings.

Meryon did black and white sketches and Henry painted in blues, yellows and browns. Edvard Munch’s left eye hemorrhaged, but he simply drew things the way he saw them.

As a retinal surgeon, Fish said that he, and many of his colleagues, consider themselves artists.

They use color to help identify the area of the eye that needs the surgery.

Retinal surgeon’s primarily use white, blue and green, and Fish described how different artists used those colors and how those colors are used in his profession.

Fish encouraged the people in the audience to experience the art in person instead of looking at it through a monitor, which he said will help them gain a better appre-ciation of the work each artist put into their piece.

“Go see art. The internet can’t do justice to seeing the master-pieces in person. So much detail gets lost that you can’t experience them the way the artists painted them.”

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Dr. Richard Fish explored the relationship between art and science in The Eye and Visual Arts presentation Monday. | Jessica Portillo/The Daily Cougar

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