Natalie HarmsManaging editor

Students evacuated the Cal-houn Lofts Tuesday evening when flames and smoke were seen by residents coming from an apartment.

“Calhoun Lofts was evacuated after a fire started earlier (Tues-day) evening in a room on the third floor of the building,” said Richard Bonnin, interim associate vice president and vice chancellor of marketing and communication, shortly after the fire.

“Po l i c e a n d f i re f i g h t e r s responded. Flames are no lon-ger visible, the situation is now under control and there are no injuries.”

The Houston Fire Department extinguished the fire and an inves-tigation is underway.

“A cardboard box placed on

top of a stove is thought to be the source of the fire,” said Director of Media Relations Shawn Lindsey.

Residential Life Coordinator

Jamica Johnson said to residents in an email at 8:21 p.m. that they would be displaced from the fire until HFD gives the all clear

— something she said could take an hour and a half.

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Christopher SheltonSports editor

A glance to the left before passing Griggs Road on Interstate 45 now offers a 48-foot-wide visual of a UH marketing technique.

On July 2, following the Cougars official entrance into the American Athletic Confer-ence, two billboards went up, promoting the importance of the move from Conference USA. The two 14-by-48 foot structures stand as pillars of the Athletic Department’s plan to improve its brand locally, regionally and nationally.

UH began taking steps three years ago to achieve its goals, fi rst by switching licensors.

The Cougars moved from The Collegiate

Licensing Company to Licensing Resource Group with objectives to increase the program’s presence in retail, have more brand exposure and to create a new logo, which they unveiled on April 1.

For years, students, fans and alumni have noted that athletic apparel from other universi-ties across Texas was more widely available in Houston than UH gear — a reality LRG and UH looked to change with a hands-on approach.

“One of the things we did is becoming very active in reaching out to retail buyers — putting it in front of them and explaining the demand,”

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 // Issue 119, Volume 78 WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION

Local clinic meets abortion bill’s standardsNam-My LeStaff writer

On Friday, the Texas Legisla-ture passed a controversial bill that puts stricter regulations on abortion clinics and could force

most abortion clinics in the state to shut down.

House Bill 2 prohibits abortions at or after 20 weeks, unless the life of the mother is in danger, and requires that abortion facilities

meet the minimum standards for ambulatory surgical centers.

HB 2 also requires doctors to have the ability to admit a patient at a hospital no farther than 30 miles from the abortion clinic and

allows only doctors to administer abortion-inducing drugs.

Out of 42 clinics in Texas, the Planned Parenthood clinic near UH, known as Prevention Park, is one of the six that are currently

in compliant under the law and will continue performing abor-tions. The rest of the clinics have until September 2014 to upgrade

UH athletics takes steps to build its national brand

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The Daily Cougar counted seven fi re trucks, fi ve rescue vehicles and two ambulances at one point during the evacuation. Residents on the fi rst three fl oors were displaced for more than two hours. | Stefani Crowe/The Daily Cougar

STATE

MARKETING

Channler K. HillEditor in chief

A rehearing was filed at the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday in an attempt to reverse its initial decision of siding with UH on a Texas Whistleblower case.

The University of Houston v. Stephen Barth has been a decade-long court battle, which had its most recent decision delivered on June 14, when the Texas Supreme Court ruled that university policies are not equal to state laws when it comes to reported violations to be protected by the Texas Whistle-blower Act.

“ T h e Un i v e r s i t y s t ro n g l y believes the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss Stephen Barth’s lawsuit in its entirety was appro-priate and is consistent with the Texas Supreme Court’s previous

FACULTY

Rehearing filed in case against UH

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Today

Exhibition: The Andy Coolquitt exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum is free and will be running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Wednesday through Saturday until Aug. 24. The event marks Coolquitt’s fi rst solo museum exhibition.

Exhibition: A brown bag gallery tour will be held for Pamela Fraser’s exhibition, “The Fourth Dimension was Ha-Ha, in Other Words, That it is Laughter.” Guests are encouraged to bring a lunch to eat while the educa-tion curator leads the tour and gal-lery talk from noon to 1 p.m. at the Blaffer Art Museum.

Lecture: “InfoEd Training: Fund-ing Opportunities using SPIN” will teach attendees how to build a proposal using the SPIN database, a comprehensive listing of funding opportunities. The lecture will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in room 407 of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building.

FridayAcademic: End of late filing

period to apply online for graduation with a non-refundable $50 fee.

SaturdayExhibition: Feast, a dinner series

featuring artists The Art Guys and hosted by Jo and Jim Furr, will be held in cooperation with Blaffer Art Museum, Texas Monthly magazine, Uchi restaurant and Whole Foods

Market. The private dinner series is inspired by the upcoming exhibition, Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contem-porary Art, which opens Sept. 6 at the Blaffer Art Museum.

July 23Academic: Last day of class for

Summer Session 3.

Lecture: “Slow but steady: Tem-poral properties of ganglion cell pho-toreceptors“ will be given from noon to 1 p.m. in Health and Biomedical Sciences room 203.

July 24-25Academic: Final examination

period for Summer Session 3.

July 24Lecture: “InfoEd Training: Fund-

ing Opportunities using SPIN” will teach how to build a proposal using the SPIN database, a comprehensive listing of funding opportunities. The lecture will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in room 407 of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building.

July 25Academic: Official closing of

Summer Session 3.

July 30Academic: Last day to drop a

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Katherine MorrisStaff writer

Staff members are headed to the polls for the 25th annual university-wide Staff Council elections.

The Council is fi lling positions with 18 UH employees on the bal-lot. Seats include At Large, Division of Administration and Finance, Division of Research and Offi ce of the President.

The UH Staff Council is an advi-sory body to the President and the administration. The Council repre-sents staff and communicates their concerns to the administration, said Maria Saldana, a study abroad advisor and member of the Mem-bership and Elections Committee.

The Council was founded in 1986 by former Chancellor Rich-ard Van Horn to provide a voice for the staff members. Originally there were 19 members that were part of this council; today there are 40 positions with 37 representing specifi c divisions and three at-large members.

Only benefits-eligible staff members are able to vote in this

election and must know their employee ID.

Polling locations were open in the General Services Building conference room and Ezekiel W. Cullen Building in fi rst fl oor lobby

on Tuesday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Addi-tionally, staff members will vote until 5 p.m. Wednesday at www.election.uh.edu.

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their operations to meet the new standards.

Supporters of the bill, like electrical engineering sopho-more Dominic Mak, claim that the measures will make abortion procedures safer for women and protect the lives of the unborn.

“This bill is geared towards enforcing common medical stan-dards on surgical institutions for the sake of the women having the procedures, which I believe should be a concern of everyone regard-less of their stance on abortion itself,” Mak said.

However, abortion providers like Planned Parenthood claim that the bill is designed to make abortions inaccessible to women by imposing impossible-to-meet regulations that will force dozens of providers to shut down.

“The passage of this bi l l effectively ends access to a safe and legal medical procedure in this state, which is harmful for women’s health,” said Alejandra Diaz, a spokeswoman at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

Kinesiology junior Kiernan

Cobb opposes the bill and says that surgical center standards are not necessary.

“Abortion clinics are already set up to provide abortions,” Cobb said. “They don’t provide open heart surgery or invasive body cavity surgeries.”

Clinics that do not have the funds to meet the new regulations or have a hospital within 30 miles will be forced to shut down.

“The clinics that are going to be left are only located in major cities,” Cobb said. “That limits the entirety of west Texas and most of north Texas from having access to safe, legal abortion procedures, leading them to resort to different abortion methods that are com-pletely unsafe.”

Supporters of HB 2 argue that clinics should be held to high stan-dards regardless of where they are and should have a hospital nearby in case of complications that could arise.

“No medical facility should be allowed to operate below medical standards on the basis of conve-nience for nearby patients,” Mak said. “If a particular facility is criti-cal to a population, all the more reason to ensure that it is up to standards.”

Mak said he doesn’t believe the argument that women will resort to dangerous methods of termi-nating their pregnancies, such as using a coat hanger, if they don’t have access to a clinic.

“Without the possibility of clinical abortion, there are many support groups and non-violent alternatives, like adoption, for women who are struggling with their pregnancy,” Mak said.

Gov. Rick Perry is expected to sign the bill this week, but the bill could quickly wind up in court.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit after Alabama passed similar legislation in June.

“Our primary concern is for the women of Texas,” Diaz said. “Here at Prevention Park, we will con-tinue to do everything we can to help protect Texas women’s access to quality health services.”

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At LargeLawrence Daniel, University Center Rebecca Szwarc, Student Housing and Residential Life

Division of Academic AffairsMary Barrera, English - Language Culture Center Mark Bushman, Chemistry Chris Foster, Music Samantha McKinney, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling Elsie Myers, Chemistry - NSM Anne Nuss, C.T. Bauer College of Business Catherine Vancura, Admissions Kimberly Williams, English Jessica Zorola, Curriculum and Instruction

Division of Administration and FinanceWilliam Ashley, Technology Services and Support Kimberly Barras, Facilities Planning and Construction Deloris Biagas, Parking & Transportation Clausezette Davis, Human Resources Steven White, Elevator Shop

Offi ce of the PresidentKarl Hearne, Division of the Chancellor/President

Division of ResearchElyse Davis, Texas Center for Superconductivity

IN THE RUNNING FOR STAFF COUNCIL

Texas Whistleblower Act decisions, as well as other case laws in Texas,” said Richard Bonnin, interim vice president and vice chancellor for marketing and communication.

Barth, who is a tenured pro-fessor for the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management is using five issues to justify the grounds for a rehearing.

According to court documents Barth’s motion for rehearing intro-duction said the case should be reheard because the Court failed to adequately consider evidence in the record and its opinion relies on several erroneous conclusions

regarding the evidence at trial. Barth said that the faculty

and staff of the University should understand how the ruling would affect them.

“If this decision stands, it will have a severe chilling effect on faculty and staff coming forward, which is their obligation under the UH policies, so it puts them in a real catch 22 (situation),” Barth said.

“The real question is why would an organization want to dis-incentivize its constituents from reporting corruption and abuse in the organization?”

If the Texas Supreme Court grants Barth’s motion for a rehear-ing, the case will go back to trial..

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The Texas Senate finally gave in and passed one of the strictest anti-abortion

bills in the U.S. on Friday. The bill is said to ban abortions

after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and uphold abortion clinics to the same standards as an ambula-tory surgical

center.This would cause many clinics

to close their doors. The clinics that meet the strict requirements of the bill are only in major cities, although other clinics have the opportunity to continue per-forming abortions if they meet those standards.

“This is very much a class issue, for the moment at least,” said Elizabeth Gregory, the director of Women’s, Gender and

Sexuality Studies at UH.“People without the resources

to go to one of the five remain-ing clinics, or out-of-state, will largely be poor women — forced to either bear children they don’t want or can’t afford, or to attempt to abort them themselves.”

Wendy Davis, a vocal Texas Senator, is of the same opinion.

“Women will find unsafe ways when they’re confronted with a desperate situation,” she said to the El Paso Times.

According to The New York Times, Gov. Rick Perry applauded lawmakers for passing the bill.

“Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life,” Perry said.

Unfortunately, the means of lessening the number of places in which women can get abor-tions may not constitute the ends of protecting life.

Cutting off access to abortion clinics around the state will not change the fact that some women will still seek abortions. Women who cannot travel may be among those who rely on lesser-regulated abortion meth-ods, which may wreak havoc on a woman’s health.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that researches sexual and reproduc-tive health, 47,000 deaths each year can be attributed to unsafe abortion practices.

Women seeking abortions should have the option of going to a near-by clinic that can safely address their needs.

According to Gregory, the new regulations on clinics could make the amount of women seeking abortions after the 20-week mark rise significantly.

“Currently only 1.4 percent of abortions occur after week

20 – cutting the option to abort between 20 and 24 weeks largely affects people with problem pregnancies or people who didn’t know they were pregnant or were afraid to tell someone,” Gregory said.

The bill could negatively impact women just learning that they’re pregnant in their 20th week.

The possibly fewer clinics that offer abortions could lead to women being wait listed. As other clinics close, clientele will likely increase for those that remain open.

The question as to whether women who are wait listed past the 20-week mark will still be able to undergo the procedure hasn’t been answered.

Right across from UH is a Planned Parenthood facility, which also offers services such as pelvic exams and pregnancy

counseling.House Bill 2 may intend to

make stricter regulations on clinics that offer abortions, but it may have a wider impact. It has the capability of becoming a threat to women’s health. What the bill is doing is aborting abor-tion clinics and disregarding Roe vs. Wade.

Callie Parrish is an opinion columnist and is a mathematics and art senior. She can be reached at opinion@thedailycougar.com.

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HEALTH

House Bill 2 to close multiple abortion clinics

CallieParrish

The bottom line: HB-2 will cause many clinics to close their doors. Few clinics cur-rently comply with the strict stan-dards mandated by the bill. The lack of options could actually worsen the state of women’s health in Texas.

Community members gathered in protest of the opening of the Planned Parenthood on Gulf Fwy. in 2010. For more information on how House Bill 2 can effect the local Planned Parenthood see the top story on the front page of the Cougar. | File photo\ The Daily Cougar

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SPORTSEDITOR Christopher Shelton EMAIL sports@thedailycougar.com ONLINE thedailycougar.com/sports

During the last two years the number of major retailers carrying UH prod-ucts has increased by 75 percent. | Photos by Aisha Bouderdaban and Kayla Stewart/ The Daily Cougar

said Brad Coley, LRG’s University Brand manager. “What we’re trying to do is bring an awareness to those folks.”

LRG has been working with regional buyers and local manag-ers to communicate where fans and alumni live and shop to improve the success rate once the products are in the store, Coley said.

“Every retailer that has put UH products in their store has seen growth. It has given us a great story to tell as we approach new retailers,” Coley said.

The work that the LRG has done has paid off. During the past two years, UH increased the number of major retailers carrying UH products by about 75 percent, and more than 200 stores carry school apparel, according to Mack Rhoades, vice president for intercol-legiate athletics.

“LRG has done a really good job

of protecting our logo,” Rhoades said. “They’ve done a really good job of reaching outlets and convincing them to carry UH products.”

While the University’s brand has grown in the past three years, Rhoades is not satisfi ed with where its national profi le sits. Fortunately for Rhoades, progress is underway.

A new football stadium, which debuts in August 2014, the renova-tion of Hofheinz Pavilion, the move to the American and President Renu Khator’s push to shed UH’s com-muter school label should help improve the University’s athletic brand in the near future, said Rob Stewart, assistant athletic director for marketing, promotions and sales.

“All are building blocks to a large fan base,” Stewart said.

As the Cougars enter the Ameri-can, new television deals with ESPN and CBS will grant them more national exposure and high-profi le games than C-USA provided. In basketball, the Cougars will face the defending men’s and women’s national champions next season.

In football, winning a conference title means a trip to a Bowl Cham-pionship Series game for the 2013 season. The American will not be guaranteed a BCS bid after 2013 however.

But Stewart, Coley and Rhoades also realize that part of building a brand is in the hands of the coaches and players on-the-fi eld. When for-mer quarterback Case Keenum was setting NCAA records and leading the team to a 13-1 record, it was easier to sell people on the Univer-sity. Last season, the Cougars went 5-7 and missed a bowl game.

Winning also offers a lot of free publicity. As a member of the Associated Press top 25 in 2011, the Cougars were featured in every major sports publication across the country each Monday and ESPN’s College Gameday made a campus visit.

On the fi eld, a better brand infl u-ences recruits. And there is a clear correlation between better recruit-ing classes and higher win totals.

“Your brand really speaks to who you are. Our goal is to build a

brand that’s associated with win-ning and integrity,” Rhoades said. “Locally, it’s important to gage the Houston community. ... Regionally, it’s also important for recruiting

quality young men and women. ... Nationally, it brings credibility to our program overall.”

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impressed!” 14 Old school

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of Florida 16 Frequent

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23 Strings player

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62 Pleasing to Emily Post

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69 Coated with hoarfrost

70 “Captain Blood” star Flynn

71 Cheering section?

72 Entrap, as an animal

73 God or goddess

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18 Bottle at the perfume counter

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42 Much more than warm

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53 Kind of battery

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65 ___ Lanka 66 Wee kid 67 Cathedral

city of England

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Monica TsoLife and arts editor

The University Center Satel-lite Chick-fi l-A may attract a long line of hungry Cougars through-out the school year, but Cook Supervisor Don Perkins ensures a friendly environment with quality food for every customer.

Perkins worked at Chili’s Too Grill & Bar on campus before its manager moved the restaurants best workers to Chick-fi l-a. He has served students and supervised a team of hard-working cooks for eight years.

“The managers are wonderful, the other employees are wonder-ful and the students are wonder-ful,” Perkins said. “I love working here.”

The company swaps man-agers every two or three years, but Perkins has a positive, open mind when it comes to understand-ing changes on the job.

“I have managers who arrive on campus early to make breakfast for us,” he said. “They really try to make a fun environment, and it helps us want to come to work every day.”

One of the biggest challenges for Perkins is getting a raise, and he’s confi dent that his team is able to fi nd solutions to minor trouble.

“Besides that, we always find ways to solve the prob-lem without having to go to the big manager,” Perkins said.

“We all get along very well, and we make sure everyonehas fun to make time go by faster.”

When he’s not in the kitchen, Perkins is a mechanic at a car shop on the weekends, and he describes himself as a “busy-body.”

During the summer, he con-tinues to serve students who crave the chain’s popular waffle fries and chicken sandwiches, even after the Satellite closes at 2 p.m., to assure satisfaction.

“The students are wonder-ful,” Perkins said. “They always crack jokes, and they want to get to know us and become friends.

After all these years, I have absolutely no complaints about this job.”

Although he enjoys working at Chick-fi l-a, he has other plans.

“I’ve got many dream jobs, and I want to open my own business,” Perkins said. “I’m looking into a program here at UH for craning. Even if I com-p l e t e c r a n i n g s c h o o l , t h e employees and staff here are like my family, so I can’t just leave them. I would have to find a balance between the two jobs.”

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LIFE & ARTSEDITOR Monica Tso EMAIL arts@thedailycougar.com ONLINE thedailycougar.com/life-arts

DAY IN THE LIFE

Behind the cook

7/19: Friday

Movie: The horror movie, “The Conjuring,” about a family who encounters spirits living in their New England farmhouse, opens in theaters.

Film Workshop: A hands-on fi lmmaking workshop features Indie-U Film School and producer and director, Gary Chason from the University of Texas at Austin. Participants will learn skills by making four short fi lms under the supervision of the instructor. Directors, producers and cinematographers will learn specifi c techniques. The event runs for two weekends: July 20 to 21 and July 27 to 28. Registration fees are $295. Find more information at indieslate.com or call (832) 593-0405.

Music: Rock group The Maine is having a concert at 6 p.m. in Fitzgerald’s. Other bands including A Rocket to the Moon, this Century and Brighten will be opening. More information can be found at fi tzlivemusic.com.

7/20: Saturday

Art Workshop: The Blaffer Art Museum will be hosting a Summer Edition Saleri Studio for participants to engage in arts and crafts pertaining to Andy Coolquitt’s exhibition, “Attainable Excellence.” The event is from 1 to 4 p.m. and is also free and open to participants of all ages. Tours of the gallery will begin at 1 p.m. Reservations are requested. Contact Katherine Veneman at (713) 745-9526.

7/21: Sunday

Theater: Broadway at the Hobby Center presents the famous “Wicked.” The show will be at 2 p.m. in Sarofi m Hall. Tickets are $44 plus applicable fees.

Art Workshop: The Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a family zone and studio to explore French paintings from 1 to 4 p.m. Museum members have free admission. Student tickets are $6 with an ID and adult tickets are $13.

EVENTS

A weekend of summer fun

New Texas amusement park sparks buzz

Houston-area resi-dents are excited

for the newest 640-acre amusement park, the Grand Texas Theme Park. For more information on what Coogs think about it at, check out thedaily-cougar.com/life-arts/.

Courtesy of Grand Texas Theme Park

After being on the job for eight years Perkins still fi nds fulfi llment

Perkins has created a family with the employees and he hopes to continue to provide a great service for the students. | Monica Tso/The Daily Cougar

Week Topic Time #1 Time #2

7 Improve Your Memory Wed., 7/17 @ 3 p.m. Wed., 7/17 @ 3 p.m.

8 Understanding Motivation Mon., 7/22 @ 3 p.m. Thurs., 7/25 @ 11 a.m.

8 Improving Concentration Tues., 7/23 @ 4 p.m. Wed., 7/24 @ 11 a.m.

9 Time Management Thurs., 8/1 @ 6 p.m. Sat., 8/3 @ 11 a.m.

9 Coping with Finals Mon., 7/29 @ 11 a.m. Tues., 7/30 @ 10 a.m.

Workshops will be added when necessary throughout the semester. Please visit the “Workshops Signup” link on the LSS website www.las.uh.edu/LSS for the most up-to-date information.

LSS WORKSHOPS SUMMER 2013

Location: N112 Cougar Village (building 563)Length: 50 minutes. Please be on time.

No admittance after 5 minutes past the hour.Register: “Workshop Signup” at

www.las.uh.edu/lss

LEARNING SUPPORT SERVICES

Summer tutoring hoursMon–Thurs 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. | Fri 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Sat & Sun 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.Room 109 N Cougar Village (All students welcome)

www.las.uh.edu/LSS

FREE tutoring

The Daily Cougar Wednesday, July 17, 2013 // 8

SPORTS

— Photos by Aisha Bouderdaban/ The Daily Cougar

BRIEFS

Greenberry catches eye of award watch listThe Daily Cougar news services

Sophomore receiver Deontay Greenberry, one of the Cougars’ top targets last season, has been named to the watch list for the Fred Biletnikoff Award, which annually honors the nation’s top receiver.

Greenberry, who hauled in 47 catches for 569 yards, is the Cou-gars’ leading returning receiver.

Named to the Conference USA All-Freshman team, Greenberry led the league’s freshmen in receptions and yards.

Greenberry is the third Cougar to make a national award preseason watch list for the upcoming season, joining center Bryce Redman with the Rimington Trophy and punter Richie Leone with the Ray Guy Award.

Estelle joins basketball staff Johnny Estelle, the former

Navarro Junior College head coach, has joined the men’s basketball staff, head coach James Dickey announced Tuesday.

Estelle has connections with the program — three former or current Bulldogs play or have played at UH. That group includes redshirt senior guard Jimmie Jones, former guard Darian Thibodeaux and former forward Leon Gibson.

“Over the years, I have observed how Johnny has been able to get the most from his players,” Dickey said.

Signee succeeds against prosUH tennis signee Maria Andrea

Cardenas reached the quarterfi nal round in doubles play at the GDF Suez Biarritz Open in Biarritz, France.

“This was a draw that included several women I watched compete at the French Open just weeks ago, so for Maria to hold her own should give her a lot of confi dence heading into the upcoming season,” said head coach Patrick Sullivan.

Cardenas and her partner posted a straight-sets victory against a French duo to advance to the quarterfi nal round.

Cardenas played in singles, too. Unfortunately for her, she dropped a tight 6-4, 7-6 match to her opponent.

Cardenas will put on Cougar red this upcoming season after transferring from Auburn. She had a 20-8 record as a freshman.

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Frame fi tting

U H p a s s e d another construction milestone on Monday when the construction company began put-ting the steel frame-work in place. The fi rst steel symbolizes vertical progress on a stadium that will be completed in August 2014.

Now, the crews will incorporate more workers and cranes. They will be working with steel beams weighing at least 30,000 pounds.

“Putting up the fi rst steel means structural steel erection begins, or the main frame of the building starts,” Krystal Rob-inson, Manhattan Construction Group spokesperson, said in June.

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With fi rst steel going up, UH’s stadium structure is starting to show