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Voter registration hits UH

Voter Registration Day in the United States is Sept.

25. Volunteers from various UH-affi liated and non-UH-af-fi liated organizations clam-ored onto campus Tuesday to help students register for the upcoming November elec-tion.

The last day to register to vote for the 2012 election is

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Channler HillStaff writer

A crew of archaeologists work-ing under a contract with the Texas Department of Transportation and under permit from the Texas Histori-cal Commission have discovered an additional burial site in the path of

the Grand Parkway in west Harris County, delaying a 15-mile, four-lane toll road.

After the trial judge ruled on Sept. 11 that TxDOT could remove the burials, the Harris County Historical Commission fi led a notice of appeal the following day. The pathway will be blocked off while the case is being

appealed.“I have attempted to describe

archaeological methods as they apply to contract or salvage archae-ology as it has been applied by TxDOT and THC in the case of this site,” said Kenneth Brown, a UH archaeology professor. “I testifi ed in court concerning the state law that

is being used by TxDOT and THC to remove the burials they have cur-rently identifi ed and any others that they might fi nd.”

With his archaeological back-grounds, Brown is deemed an expert witness.

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Latha Ramchand, dean of the C.T. Bauer College of Business, sees two major challenges to the energy industry.

In light of energy-shortage con-cerns, Ramchand and two experts from the natural gas industry discussed a long-term alternative fuel source in a panel Tuesday, held in the Stubblefi eld Auditorium of Michael J. Cemo Hall.

“The two big challenges the energy industry faces today are, how do we increase the supply to meet the demand that’s com-ing, that’s emanating from some of the developing countries; and two, even as we increase supply, how do we manage to keep emis-sions down? How do we do it in an environmentally friendly fashion?” Ramchand said.

The panel discussion focused on liquefi ed natural gas and fea-tured keynote speakers represent-ing several LNG importation and distribution companies.

According to shell.com, convert-ing natural gas into liquid shrinks the volume by 600, allowing the LNG to be stored at atmospheric pressure and take up less space. This process also removes the more hazardous by-products of burning the fuels.

“It’s domestic; it’s clean; it’s abundant and frankly, Houston is the hub of it so it’s great for us all here to be part of that market,” said Peter Tumminello, executive vice

president of Wholesale Services and president of Sequent Energy Management of AGL Resources.

Among the present UH faculty members and industry members, Bauer students comprised the majority of the audience.

“I got an email that this was an event about business leaders, and I thought it would be a good (opportunity) because I’m a fresh-man, and I want to major in busi-ness,” said pre-business freshman Anqi Wang. “But I don’t know for sure (if I will major in it), and I want to learn more about it — real life examples and their perspectives and just experience what it’s like.”

Students already declared as business majors attended because they wanted to gain insight into specifi cs of the industry.

“We always see the theories of the global marketplace, but it’s nice

to see some actual actions being taken and some actual examples of what’s going on out there,” said supply chain management junior Zachary Woeckener.

“It actually exceeded my expec-tations. It was a very interesting intake, and it defi nitely expanded my view of natural gas and what its impact on the marketplace is.”

This type of experience is one Ramchand hopes most students will have attending these events.

“Everything we do — this eve-ning’s panel discussion, all our energy speaker series — is an attempt to bring together aca-demia, industry, sometimes regu-lators, so we can all bring things to the table, get the truth out and make informed decisions,” Ram-chand said.

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Words of encouragement

Dear Alcoholics,

If you’re reading this, it means you’ve managed to stop weeping into your Harvard rejection letters long enough to check the news. Congrats.

With the Bayou Bucket around the corner, we Coogs just wanted to remind you how much we love your football team. The “just for fun” mentality you all play with is adorable.

It’s heartwarming to see a school like Rice jeopardize its reputation by allowing such a talentless team the opportunity to play with real college football players.

No matter how pitiful your team’s performance is to watch, you still humbly ignore the pressure to improve. As long as everybody gets an orange slice at half time, the Owls can go home happy.

However, some of your students still don’t seem to understand that your team is not meant to be serious.

We find it surprising that Rice stu-dents are even aware the football team exists. We just didn’t think you all had the time to notice, in between lighting piles of money on fire and collecting BMWs.

Nonetheless, a number of you believe that by some miracle Rice has a chance this Saturday. Aren’t you all supposed to be smart?

For Rice, the Bayou Bucket is an opportunity to prove your worth. For us, it’s two bye weeks in a row.

During the last 20 years, Rice has taken the game of football and turned it into its own mutilated creation. It’s like Frankenstein’s monster, except worse to look at and nobody would ever spend time reading about it.

Watching Rice play is like watching rice. The last time something exciting happened at Rice Stadium, John F. Kennedy was talking about going to the moon.

Rice’s inability to recruit decent football players is not the fault of a coach with a 45-56 career record, a crumbling stadium or the school’s admissions standards. Good football players don’t go to Rice because when they visit campus they meet 3,000 scarf-wearing “artists” with fake British accents trying to read them poetry.

Don t be bitter that the Big East didn t want anything to do with you. Confer-ence USA needs you. Who else is going to make UAB and Marshall feel good about themselves?

All jokes aside, we really do look forward to seeing you this Saturday at Reliant. It’s been a while. You remember where it is, right? It seems like away games are the only time you snobby birds leave your golden-laced nests.

Let’s have a good game this weekend. We hope for a strong turnout but of course we don’t expect many Rice students to show up once they find out there’s no valet parking.

Go Coogs.

Editor's note: To prepare for Saturday’s game, The Daily Cougar and The Rice Thresher have exchanged a few words — all in good fun, of course. Both editorials will appear in the Cougar and Thresher.

From: The Daily Cougar From: The Rice ThresherWhile Rice University students have

grown accustomed to the Staff Editori-als displaying the full splendor of the English tongue, this week the University of Houston has challenged us to a match of verbal jousting to precede Saturday’s Bayou Bucket.

We fear that if we hurl insults at the University of Houston using our regular lexicon the message will be entirely lost on their not-entirely-refined intellects. Therefore, we apologize to our Rice read-ers for writing the rest of this editorial to the lowest common denominator so that the Cougars may understand.

U of H sucks. Imagine Nicki Minaj and Rebecca Black performing a song without autotune and at full volume. Now multiply that by 10. (Note to U of H freshmen: Multiplication is like adding again and again. Never mind. You’ll learn about it in your sophomore math classes.)

Rice does not suck. In fact, it is quite good at many things: like winning Nobel Prizes and getting its undergraduates jobs. No, we are not the prettiest people, but we marry the prettiest people because we earn lots of money. One thing at which we are not always great is football. That’s because we are a small school, and our football team goes to class with the rest of the students. Appar-ently that’s not a thing at other schools. Anyway, when Rice plays big state schools, we are always the underdogs. Oh, did we say big state schools? We meant big state schools that aren’t U of H.

You see, in the last three years, Rice has beat U of H for the Bayou Bucket twice. This means that U of H loses at the one thing at which they should win. When we see you guys yelling “Go Coogs” and throwing up your shocking hand symbol, two things come to mind

for a Rice fan. The first is that no one should do that with their hands in pub-lic. The second is pity.

You will say that we are wrong and that for a while U of H did well at football. The reason for that was Case Keenum, and that reason graduated. Now you are set to join the Big East, and some of you are very excited, but like Sarah Palin trying to be elected Vice President, it probably won’t work out quite like you think. (You may not get that joke, but that’s okay.)

Teasing aside, we are sure you will succeed in the Big East, just like you did in Conference USA. If your definition of success means having a losing record to us.

So when Chris Boswell kicks the extra point that cements Rice’s victory, know that while we cheer in joy, we shed a small tear for you guys. We don’t know how it feels to lose like that, but we can imagine it is quite unpleasant. (Note: Unpleasant means sad.)


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NEWS

Q: Do you feel safe on our campus?

I know there has been a lot of muggings recently, but I feel that was maybe a bit off campus. Not neces-sarily, you know, on the main campus. I mean I could be wrong. I think there were a couple of parking lots, if I’m not mistaken. I don’t know, I feel safe. But I understand why people are apprehensive, just

because of the surrounding area that we live in. But personally, I feel fi ne.

-Jorge Gabitto, biochemistry junior.

A:

Not really. I think there are some major safety issues that need to be taken care of. Especially in the student parking lots. I think inner campus is fi ne, because there are other students and other people like

that. But once you start to leave the campus, that’s where there are kind of some issues.

-Terrence Henderson, advertising junior.

:A

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. When there’s a lot of people around I do, but when I am alone walking in the parking lot or something. I get scared because of the robberies that I’ve heard about, but I just walk really

fast and that’s all I can do. I was in track, so I can run. But when there are a lot of people around I feel okay.

-Christa George, biology freshman.

:A

I feel a little bit safer since I saw more patrol cars. But most of the time it’s just whatever, since I’m not here that late. But if I were here until later time, or when there is no one on campus, I guess I would feel

not that safe.”

-Quy Vu, psychology freshman

A:

MAN ON THE STREET

I do, but only because there hasn’t been as much activity to happen to make me feel unsafe. But for a university that has its own precinct over by the football stadium, we don’t have as much patrol as we

should. So I might feel inclined to start carrying a weapon to protect myself in case of anything.

-Steven E. Mezquita, entrepreneurship sophomre.

A:

On campus yes, I feel safe here. Once I start walking to my car late in the afternoon, especially like today when my class doesn’t end until seven, so, once I have to walk about a mile, I get a bit anxious walking to my

car, especially if I am walking by myself.

-Luis Garcia, physic senior

:A

No, I don’t feel safe on campus. I catch the bus later on in the day, and when I’m out at the bus stop it’s usually dark. So knowing that there’s all these strings of robberies on campus makes me feel a little

uneasy and perhaps vulnerable when I am waiting for the bus.

-– Ayala, mathematical biology junior.

:A

Yeah, I do. I feel safe when it’s bright, you know, like during the day. But like at night, after the robberies and stuff , I actually don’t want to stay late at school and study anymore.

-Sonia Acosta, nutrition sophomore.

A:

I feel safe during the day when there’s a lot of traffi c. But when it gets dark, not so much. I feel like there is a shortage of buses; it takes a while for the buses to go around. And, I guess a little bit more security from here to

the parking lots would be nice.

-Rubana Khan, nutrition senior

:A

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COUGARFLASHBACKUH COUGARS VS RICE OWLS THROUGH THE YEARS.

Since 1971, the cross-town rivalry between the UH Cougars and Rice Owls has provided its fair share of games for the ages. The squads have faced off at four different venues including Robertson Stadium, Rice Stadium, Reliant Stadium and the Astrodome. The Cougars hold the all-time series record 27-11. Here are a recap of the fi ve greatest UH victories over Rice in no particular order.

HOUSTON 28, RICE 3After a three-year absence in play fol-lowing the disbanding of the SWC, UH beat Rice in the fi rst matchup between the two at Robertson Stadium.

2000 Houstonian

1999

HOUSTON 24, RICE 22Trailing 22-7 in the third, David Klinger orchestrated two fourth quarter touch-downs and Roman Anderson kicked a 32-yard fi eld goal with 10 seconds left.

1991 Houstonian

1990

HOUSTON 23, RICE 21In front of 62,000 at Rice Stadium, UH won the inagural game against the Owls, a year before the Cougars joined the Southwest Conference.

1972 Houstonian

1971

HOUSTON 18, RICE 17In the fi nal game in Southwest Confer-ence history, the Cougars trailed 17-3 before scoring two TD’s and a two-point conversion in the fourth for the win.

1996 Houstonian

1995

HOUSTON 64, RICE 0Under the direction of Andre Ware, UH put up the most lopsided victory to date in the rivarly in part to Ware’s 400 passing yards and two touchdowns.

1990 Houstonian

1989

Andrew PateSports editor

For the UH football program, Saturday’s game against cross-town rival Rice University provides a multitude of opportunities. In addition to seeking the first win of the season, head coach Tony Levine recognizes the history of the rivalry.

“It’s definitely not just another game,” Levine said. “It’s unique that we’re right across town. It’s something that the team that comes out on top has that edge about them for the next 12 months.”

The Cougars and Owls have met 39 times since 1971, with UH holding a 27-11 all-time advan-tage. However, since 2008, the Bayou Bucket Classic has made a handful of trips across the city with the home team winning the last four.

Redshirt sophomore quarter-back David Piland will be facing the Owls for the second time. In his first matchup, Piland threw for three touchdowns, but the game is ultimately remembered for a fumble under center that may have cost the Cougars in the 34-31 loss.

“It’s always a thought in the back of your head,” Piland said. “It definitely stays with you, but it puts that much more on the excite-ment of this game and preparing for it.”

Last season, the Cougars got their redemption in the form of 656 total offensive yards and a 73-34 rout, although Levine suggests that past results in this matchup mean nothing now.

“It’s a completely new season, it’s a completely new team and coaching staff on our end,” Levine said. “What happened last year has no effect. The four seasons I’ve been here, they’ve won two and we’ve won two and what happened the year before made no difference the following season.”

This year, the Bayou Bucket will be played at Reliant Stadium for only the second time — the first came in 2004 when the Owls edged out the Cougars 10-7. For Levine and his coaching staff, the major stage draws ample anticipation.

“It’s always nice playing in a big stadium,” said senior linebacker Phillip Steward. “The pros play there so you feel like you’re a pro when you’re out there.”

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For the past three games, UH’s offense has not been where David Piland wants it to be.

Piland, the team’s starting quarter-back, said the the Cougars must build a new norm to attain their goals.

“If you’re day started at 9 a.m., now you need to be up at 5 a.m. and be up here by 6 a.m. In that three hours you can (be) doing stuff up here to get better for the game,” Piland said. “If you have time for lunch you should lunch up here and watch fi lm. If you have extra time after practice, where you would just go home and watch TV, do it up here. ”

This year UH’s offense has been up and down, filled with incon-sistent bursts. Against Louisiana Tech, the Cougars scored 49 points, with 22 in the fourth quarter. In two other games, UH scored 19 points combined.

In all three losses, Piland orches-trated explosive scoring plays to dif-ferent weapons. In the opening game against Texas State, it was a 64-yard touchdown pass to receiver Larry McDuffey. Amid Piland’s four touch-down passes versus Louisiana Tech

Offense pushes tempo, seeks consistency

OFFENSE continues on page 10

-ANDRES GARCIA


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THEBIGBOARD // College football at a glance

COUGARFLASHBACK

1997 Houstonian

HOUSTON 45, MINNESOTA 43

UH edges OwlsThe Cougars and Gophers

combined for 11 touchdowns and 1,061 yards.

Running back Vaughn Innis rushed for 129 yards on 29 carries. Defensively, the Cougars came up with a late stop to force a fi eld goal ultimately securing the victory.

Jason McKinley was in his fi rst start with the Cougars and only threw the ball 26 times, com-pletely 17 balls for 310 yards and two touchdowns.

Freshman receiver Orlando Iglesias caught eight passes for 161 yards

The victory was the fi rst of the season for the Cougars who fell on the road to #16 Alabama and at the Dome against California.

— Andrew Pate

RK TEAM RECORD PTS

1 Alabama (59) 4-0 1499

2 Oregon 4-0 1414

3 LSU (1) 4-0 1346

4 Florida State 4-0 1340

5 Georgia 4-0 1245

6 South Carolina 4-0 1147

7 Kansas State 4-0 1067

8 Stanford 3-0 1055

9 West Virginia 3-0 1045

10 Notre Dame 4-0 1003

11 Florida 4-0 864

12 Texas 3-0 856

13 USC 3-1 801

14 Ohio State 4-0 633

15 TCU 3-0 616

16 Oklahoma 2-1 611

17 Clemson 3-1 588

18 Oregon State 2-0 451

19 Louisville 4-0 414

20 Michigan State 3-1 348

21 Mississippi State 4-0 24622 Nebraska 3-1 17923 Rutgers 4-0 128

24 Boise State 2-1 114

25 Baylor 3-0 92

Others receiving votes: Northwestern 89, UCLA 79, Michigan 44, Ohio 40, Virginia Tech 26, Arizona 17, Iowa State 16, Wisconsin 13, Oklahoma State 12, Texas A&M 11, Texas Tech 10, Cincinnati 10, Ten-nessee 10, Arizona State 8, Louisiana Tech 7, Purdue 5, Miami (FL) 1

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 NETWORK TIME (CT)Ball State at Kent State ESPN 3 11 a.m.

Baylor at West Virginia FX 11 a.m.

Indiana at Northwestern BTN 11 a.m.

Middle Tennessee at Georgia Tech FSN 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Iowa ESPN 2 11 a.m.

Missouri at UCF FSN 11 a.m.North Carolina State at Miami ESPN U 11 a.m.Penn State at Illinois ESPN 11 a.m.

Stony Brook at Army CBSSN 11 a.m.

Arkansas at Texas A&M SEC Network 11:21 a.m.

Duke at Wake Forest ESPN 3 11:30 a.m.

Cincinnati vs. Va. Tech (Landover, MD) ESPN U 2:30 p.m.

Clemson at Boston College ESPN 2 2:30 p.m.

Idaho at North Carolina FSN 2:30 p.m.

Marshall at Purdue BTN 2:30 p.m.

Ohio State at Michigan State ABC 2:30 p.m.

San Jose State at Navy CBSSN 2:30 p.m.

Tennessee at Georgia CBS 2:30 p.m.

Troy at South Alabama ESPN 3 2:30 p.m.

Arizona State at California FX 3 p.m.

Florida State at South Florida ESPN 5 p.m.

UCLA at Colorado Pac-12 Network 5 p.m.

Missouri State at South Dakota State ESPN U 6 p.m.

South Carolina at Kentucky ESPN 2 6 p.m.

TCU at SMU FSN 6 p.m.

Towson at LSU ESPNU 6 p.m.

Texas at Oklahoma State FOX 6:50 p.m.

Wisconsin at Nebraska ABC 7 p.m.

Oregon State at Arizona PAC-12 Network 9 p.m.

Oregon at Washington State ESPN 2 9:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH NETWORK TIME (CT)Pittsburgh at Syracuse ESPN 6 p.m.

Utah State at BYU ESPN 9:15 p.m.

SATURDAY NETWORK TIME Missouri at UCF FSN 11 a.m. CT

Marshall at Purdue BTN 2 p.m. CT

Louisiana-Monroe at Tulane CST 2:30 p.m. CT

UTEP at East Carolina KVIA/WITN 6 p.m. CT

(14) TCU at SMU FSN 6 p.m. CT

(19) Louisville at Southern Miss CSBSN 7 p.m. CT

EAST W L W L

East Carolina 1 0 2 2

Marshall 1 0 2 2

UCF. 0 0 2 1

UAB 0 0 0 3

Memphis 0 0 0 4

Southern Miss 0 1 0 3

WEST W L W L

Tulsa 1 0 3 1

SMU 0 0 1 2

UTEP 0 0 1 3

Houston 0 0 0 3

Rice 0 1 1 3

Tulane 0 1 0 3

You had that opportunity

the second game I played. I really wanted to play well and go out and prove that; (I) fumbled the ball on the fourth down (and) it defi nitely stays with you.

— David Piland, redshirt sophomore quarterback talking about making his only start against Rice which

resulted in a 34-31 loss at Rice Stadium in 2010

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was a 74-yard completion to receiver Daniel Spencer. Piland scrambled 86 yards for UH’s lone score in its most recent tussle with UCLA.

UH has not been able to supple-ment big plays with an offense that consistently has rhythm and threat-ens a defense.

Perhaps injuries have kept the Cougars reaching the consistency level they want.

“It’s great to see Charles Sims back as well as Kevin Forsch, Ralph Oragwu and Kent Brooks,”

Freshman receiver Andrew Rodri-guez is also expected to play. Receiver Ronnie Williams is questionable, to Levine sad.

Levine said freshman receiver Deontay Greenberry, defensive backs Trevon Stewart and Colton Valencia will continue to start even with the roster restored to optimum health.

The running game could improve on 139-yards rushing against UCLA — 86 of which came on Piland’s touchdown run when the game was

decided — after returning their top two running backs and two starting offensive lineman.

Forsch said the offense will benefi t from the bye week.

“We got a lot better and got every-body healthy,” he said.

According to Piland, the open week allowed for greater self-awareness.

“We got the bye week, evaluated ourselves and said, ‘this isn’t cutting it,’” Piland said. “And great teams go above and beyond the call.

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THROUGH THREE GAMESQBs RBs WRs

YARDS: 1,040TDs: 5INTs: 6

PilandRU YARDS: 142TDs: 2REC: 12

Sims

RU YARDS: 146TDs: 3REC: 14

Hayes

YARDS: 257TDs: 1REC: 23

Peace

YARDS: 289TDs: 3REC: 13

EdwardsYARDS: 1,119TDs: 10INTs: 2

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Author discusses perks of directing

D’Arika GreenStaff writer

The Eta Mu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra-ternity Inc. hosted their 16th annual “Tribute to a Black Woman” event Tuesday evening in the Houston Room in the University Center.

The fraternity provided an evening of music, poetry and other gestures to pay homage to the lives of black women at UH and throughout history.

The event was featured a live band, spoken word, musical performances, catered meals and complimentary back massages by an on-site masseuse.

Each woman was given a gift bag with a rose before taking photographs with their escorts. Once inside, they were seated at a round table for eight.

The program’s host showed a brief video in

which the brothers shared their thoughts on who the most infl uential black woman in their life is and what the tribute meant to them.

Information on the fraternity’s annual Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant, which will be held in the spring semester, was given as well.

Spoken word performers included John Jack of Visionary Movements LLC, a local produc-tion company, fraternity brother Dre Green and author and keynote speaker Detrick Hughes, who gave a special tribute to his mother and daughter.

Hughes spoke about how his mother was always there to encourage him, and pushed him to get past his speech impairment during his youth and his fears of public speaking.

He also said he never knew he could love someone more than his mother until his daugh-ter was born.

The host honored Financial Coordinator Jac-queline Burkes and Assistant Dean of Students Myra Conley with plaques for their accomplish-ment and ongoing support.

The women in attendance were constantly encouraged and reminded of their beauty, importance, intelligence and infl uence in the world.

“Every woman in this room has the power and ability to do great things,” said Keirsten Harris-Andrews, the 2012 Miss Black and Gold.

The event concluded with YouTube sensa-tion Phill Wade, who performed serenades and a poem titled “My Baby’s Hair,” which was a light-hearted, humorous depiction of the effect that a woman’s hair has on a man and the man’s perception of it.

“My favorite part of the program was Dre’s

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Alexander PechacekStaff writer

Stephen Chbosky, author of the 1999 classic high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” was at the Four Seasons Hotel and Resort on Tuesday to discuss the novel’s adaptation to film, which premieres Friday in Houston

theaters.The film’s script, under the

same name as the novel, had the special quality of being organically written, produced and directed by Chbosky himself.

“Wallflower” is a coming-of-age story based on Chbosky’s own teenage experiences.

As the author, Chbosky held

onto his story and vision until he felt right about its adaptation to film.

“When I first wrote the book, we had a big offer from the stu-dios that (offered) five times more money than (what) I had to my name at the time and so I was tempted for a second because I was broke, but I’m really glad I

held out,” Chbosky said.The film stars Logan Lerman,

Emma Watson and Ezra Miller — all of whom connected with Chbosky on set.

“The characters are indistin-guishable for me from the actors who play them,” Chbosky said.

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Characters tug hearts of readersPaulina RojasStaff writer

Five years after the release of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” author Junot Diaz is back with his second compilation of short sto-ries called, “This is How You Lose Her.”

The book exposes readers to Yunior, a Dominican playboy who was previously introduced by Diaz in his books “Wao” and “Drown.”

The passages journey through Yunior’s love life as he meets the women whose hearts he breaks shortly afterward.

Readers will have a hard time deciding whether they love or hate Yunior considering his street-wise, slightly nerdy character mixes with a jerk-like attitude.

One thing of which readers can be certain is Diaz’s vibrant Span-glish prose, which keeps readers aching to know what will happen next.

In the short story “Invierno,” the stories flash back to Yunior’s childhood as he emigrates with his family from sunny Santo Domingo to New Jersey in the dead of winter. Through this, Diaz shows the alien-ation and power that comes from leaving one’s home country.

A woman washes her married lover’s laundry at her janitorial job in a cold New Jersey hospital in “Otra Vida, Otra Vez.” Here, Diaz takes readers to a world where love reigns, regardless of environment or logic.

Diaz creates characters that are undoubtedly human — with their own set of imperfect perfections — allowing readers to connect and identify with them, regardless of their cultural background.

The stories in “This is How You Lose Her” are all intertwined through the fabric of imminent heartbreak despite the differences in their respective plot lines.

“The Cheaters Guide to Love” ends the collection of short stories with Yunior coming full circle as he desperately tries to shed his old ways and start anew after his fi an-cee discovers his many infi delities and ends their relationship.

Yunior’s depression and regret

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To stay faithful to the novel and balance the screenplay’s adapta-tion, Chbosky chose to return to his hometown, Pittsburgh, and film the scenes in places he fre-quented as he was growing up in high school and mentioned in the novel.

“I loved filming the Rocky Hor-ror scenes in the theater where I first saw the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’” Chbosky said. “I loved being able to go to my street growing up and film the luminaria scene with Aunt Helen and little Charlie because that’s my street growing up.”

Chbosky sees this as a way to let Pittsburgh be captured on film, showcasing its uniqueness.

“I’m really excited for Pitts-burgh,” he said. “I’ve seen so many movies set in Pittsburgh and none of them felt right to me. It drives me a little crazy, so this is kind of one for the hometown.”

Chbosky wrote the novel years after he left high school, but still felt connected to the experience and time in secondary education when he wrote the book.

“I was going through a tumul-tuous time. I was 26. It just seemed like narratively, freshman year of high school felt like I felt when I was 26.”

His control over the film is a triumph for the literary world and a testament to his true vision of the story.

“I think there are a lot of direc-tors that I admire greatly that could have taken my script and made a beautiful movie out of it, but it wouldn’t have been the movie,” Chbosky said.

“They wouldn’t have really, deeply cared that the family would be eating chicken paprikash for dinner. Not that it really matters to anybody else, but it does to me and it does to this story.”

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poem, he was really passionate,” said pre-pharmacy freshman Kei’Chara Fleeks.

The fraternity members were later introduced and given a round of applause for their efforts in orga-nizing the event.

Attendees were given the oppor-tunity to mingle afterwards and receive more information about the upcoming pageant and future events from the members of the fraternity.

“This event was strictly for the empowerment of ladies, and it’s giving us a free day to spoil them,” said Chapter President Elliot Wright. “The most important thing they could gain from this event is show-ing them that we care.”

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D’Arika GreenStaff writer

Houston-native Chr ist ian rapper Lecrae released his sixth album, “Gravity,” with his inde-pendently owned label, Reach Records.

The 15-track project was highly anticipated, and once released, had no difficulty grabbing the top two spots on the iTunes hip-hop and rap charts in early September.

“Gravity” is eye opening, cap-tivating and almost radical in a sense.

The entire album focuses on lifestyle and priority changes, being unashamed to profess faith and not being afraid to be different or unorthodox while representing

Jesus Christ.The title track, featuring singer

J.R., analyzes grim realities many people have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, but emphasizes they won’t last forever.

“Fall ing Down,” featuring Swoope and Trip Lee, points out that everything has to come to an end and raises the question of whether people are ready.

Featuring Mali Music, “Tell the World” is a beautiful declaration of one’s dedication to spread the gospel and share their testimony.

“Fakin’” is a must-hear satirical anthem with Thi’sl that depicts the lyrics and subject matter of secular music with negative connotations and unrealistic representations of the artists who perform the

music.One of the more frank lines is,

“They say they riding Bugattis, man, put some babies through col-lege. / Quit tryna’ act like the trap is cool, ‘cause we tired of hearing that garbage.”

The track “Mayday,” featuring Big K.R.I.T. and Ashthon Jones, expresses the daily struggles that are faced and the necessity for one to swallow their pride and ask for assistance. “Help is just one prayer away” is its central theme.

Other artists featured on the album include Pro, Mathai, Novel, Rudy Currence, Sho Baraka and Reach Records’ artists Andy Mineo and Tedashii.

The album is untraditional even for gospel-rap because of its

hard-hitting, it’s-time-to-wake-up messages.

The production quality on this project is fantastic, and “Gravity” will have an impact on the lives of its listeners and is the album to hear regardless of musical taste.

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is felt through Diaz’s description of gloomy Boston winters, and this blue mood lingers over Yunior’s life.

Diaz successfully draws readers into a world that is not much dif-ferent from the modern one they’re used to.

“This is How You Lose Her” will

relentlessly tug at the heartstrings of readers page after page as Yunior’s many agonizing yet beau-tiful endeavors feel like a terrify-ing and exhilarating rollercoaster ride.

While Diaz’s compilation may seem to have an abrupt end, he successfully concludes his work by reminding readers that fi nding life’s beauty comes from the trials of pain.

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Midterms are back, which means students will fi nd themselves struggling to get together study groups as they rouse through about 100 pages of

textbooks and cram in ungodly amount of hours before that big test. All that’s left to complete this grocery list is a good suppressor to the pressure, and what better ingredient than music. Listed below are a compiled a list of songs for just about every occasion. Half of which are smooth, and relaxing for those needing a deep study session and the other consisting of hard-hitting tracks that make you jolt out of bed in the morning. — Bryan Dupont-Gray

Alone TonightAbove and BeyondTri-State

Beat the midterm one track at a time

In The DeepBird YorkWicked Little High

Put Your Records OnCorrine Bailey RaeCorrine Bailey Rae

Summer MadnessKool & The GangLight of Worlds

HYFRDrakeTake Care

MoveLudacrisWord of Mouf

Final CountdownEuropeFinal Countdown

StyloGorillazPlastic Beach

Don’t Cha Wanna RideJoss StoneMind, Body & Soul

Shove ItSantogoldSantogold


Nick BellStaff columnist

Ever since The Carnegie Foundation named UH a Tier One research institution, the school has been sent into a frenzy of refurbish-ment and revitalization. UH has been revamping its campus for years now and new buildings have been sprouting left and right.

For the most part, the school has made accommodations to cope with the infl ux of new students — as would be expected from a “Tier One” university — except in one area: parking and transportation.

Sure, there are plans in the works for new garages, but these plans have been lagging behind other buildings — which have been built over the course of a few months. In the meantime, students get citations and just plain ridicu-lous fi nes.

Parking tickets are nothing more than a form of racketeering at this school. The basic principle is you pay UH money for a parking sticker. The parking sticker allows you into lots that allegedly protect your vehicle from the surrounding area.

If you can’t fi nd a parking spot in the extremely insuffi cient parking lots, you can park in any spot and undoubtedly receive a fi ne.

After all, you don’t want to be late for class, right?

If a fi ne is not paid within 21 days, the fi ne doubles and UH automatically adds the cost to your bill, effectively giving you less time to collect money than a landlord does for rent.

Students can either fi ght the system and appeal the ticket, or pay the ticket in less than 48 hours, reducing the price of the fi ne.

The latter gives students incen-tive not to argue with the University and simply pay up. The fact that a parking ticket has to be appealed online proves they either don’t want to face students’ legitimate anger or that they don’t have a staff large enough to deal with their parking and transportation problems.

The process can only be laughed at in the most sardonic fashion because the underlying message is obvious: Screw your concerns and pay us our money.

Of course, anyone could take the METRO and avoid parking

altogether if they’re willing to constantly deal with untrustworthy buses and wait for up to an hour and a half, depending on geo-graphic location.

Students should castigate this

entire process when appealing their tickets and should take complete offense to this deplorable way of siphoning money.

Be blunt to an institution that is indifferent to your wallet. UH

parking is laughing at students all the way to the bank.

Nick Bell is a media production senior and may be reached at [email protected].

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“I am an archaeologist who has conducted a number of contract projects in Texas and elsewhere, and I have some experience with the question of prehistoric burials and working with members of the First Nations in dealing with burials and their repatriation,” Brown said.

Despite the findings of animal bones, the court dispute is over

human burials, with each burial including a variety of body parts.

Brown said the site consists of two major components: one estimated to be around 2,000 years old and the second possibly more than 9,000. All of the current burials appear to have been placed between 5,000 and 1,000 years ago. Court testimony put the number of graves at two, but that number has grown.

“Both the THC and TxDOT archaeologists consider (these findings) both major components

to be critical for understanding Native American life in this portion of Texas,” Brown said. “The com-ponents are rare and have or will provide important, new information on Native Americans. The burials are important, but THC and TxDOT will not be permitting scientific tests beyond standard demographic ones.”

The lawsuit is being handled by Assistant County Attorney Clarissa Bauer, who is hoping to fi nd a bal-ance between TxDOT’s interests in

getting the toll way built quickly versus the advancement of human knowledge from a site rich in artifacts — human as well as non-human.

“My client, HCHC, intervened in the lawsuit. It believed that this archaeological site contained impor-tant data about the late archaic and early ceramic periods,” Bauer said.

“Basically, the site had the potential to expand our knowledge of early human occupation on this continent.”

The HCHC believes it’s in the

public’s interest to maximize the scientifi c and historical knowledge which could be derived from the site, according to Bauer.

The case is still on going as the appeal is being processed.

Any students wishing to learn more about archaeology can check out the course catalog for the UH Department of Anthropology at www.uh.edu/academics/catalog/colleges/las/courses/anth/.

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Nuclear Receptor Center lectures on hormonesDemetrious MahoneStaff writer

Nearly 200 students and faculty members attended the first in the Friends of Natural Science and Math-ematics distinguished-lecture series Tuesday. Jan-Åke Gustafsson, director of the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, presented the lecture entitled “Hormones in Health and Disease.”

In 1995, Gustafsson and his team discovered that there were two estrogen receptors, one for alpha

and one for the beta — ER and ER , respectively.

Estrogen is known as a hormone associated with the intricate workings of the human body in both sexes

It has recently been discovered to have several other effects, such as playing a large role in breast and prostate cancer.

“You can simplify it by saying that estrogen has a good side and a bad side,” Gustafsson said. “ER , usually, mediates the good effects and ER the bad effects.”

Since the discovery of ER ,

Gustafsson and his team have worked to learn as much as they can about the variations of the hormone.

Gustafsson has revealed a list of useful advantages of ER that they have found in the labs.

ER has been found to help reduce the symptoms of menopause, depres-sion, help regulate blood pressure, promote prostate health, prevent age-infl uenced hearing loss, reduce hypertension and its anti-infl amma-tory properties could potentially help with rheumatoid arthritis and degen-erative diseases that affect the central

nervous system, like multiple sclerosis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Gustafsson’s most extensive work has been with ER ’s preventative rela-tionship to cancer.

“In breast cancer, the ER is pres-ent,” Gustafsson said. “ER seems to disappear as the cancer progresses. It’s bad news that the protector against cancer disappears during cancer development.”

Gustafsson is now working to learn how to successfully induce ER in the cancer tissue.

He and his team have extensively

studied the effects of introducing ER into the body and found that the results are ultimately non-toxic.

Gustafsson is interested in using the University’s location to his advan-tage and working with some of the foremost cancer doctors here in Houston.

Despite his fi ndings, Gustafsson tells the audience, “Please expect opposition when you make a dis-covery. A discovery can actually negatively affect your funding.”

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Organization honors His-panic Heritage Month

The Council of Ethnic Organi-zations hosted “Food from

Mexico,” a free event that taught students how to cook a variety of Mexican cuisines Tuesday at the Spindletop room in the Univer-sity Center. The event attracted a diverse group of people that were eager to learn more about Mexi-can culture. — Gihae Khang/The Daily Cougar

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— @JewelScoop, Sept. 24

Mhhhhmmmm UH better beat the Rice Owls this weekend!!!! #GoCoogs

— @Nat_Nat_x3, Sept. 26

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Just got my UH tickets for this weekends game #GoCoogs

— @NxLevelFitness, Sept. 25

Watching #uhcoogs women tennis train gives me life, truly a team being an encouraging family; home away from home #gocoogs

— @keydrizzy, Sept. 24

It’s a maze getting to Bayou Oaks with this construction

— @_omaramin, Sept. 24

Can’t wait for some @UHCougarFB this weekend!! #GoCoogs #CoogNation

— @swanee281, Sept. 26

I got my letter! As of today I’m offi cially a student of University of Houston business program. :)

— @_Kaylub, Sept. 26

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