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Women build monetary muscleAlfred MendezContributing writer

To improve financial literacy among women in the Houston area, the C.T. Bauer College of Business hosted the second annual “Financial Boot Camp for Women” on Saturday.

Sponsored by investment man-agement company Invesco, the event was held in Cemo Hall and featured various professionals, intended to educate attendees on topics such as investing, budgeting and insurance.

“We all need to make smarter financial decisions. Women live longer than men do, and what typically happens is that many women end up earning less than men do, so you have less money, but you got to stretch it further into retirement,” said coordinator Janice Cellier, Invesco divisional sales director.

Bauer Dean Latha Ramchand addressed the women briefly dur-ing commencement speech and urged them to be more financially responsible and highlighted edu-cation as the most valuable asset

one can have.“This whole issue of financial

education for women — I think this is so important, and I think so much needs to be done,” Ram-chand said. “The only thing that is going to last is knowledge, and knowledge in this sense is the only

source of power in this world.”The boot camp was orga-

nized into a series of breakout sessions where women decided which financial areas they would most like to concentrate on and included a working lunch.

“I really enjoyed the format

of the camp — being able to pick where I wanted to be. They had knowledgeable speakers, and I feel I can really walk away from here knowing I learned a lot,” said kinesiology senior Quyen Ho.

Participants and presenters listen for their numbers as gift items were raffled off during the event. | Rebekah Stearns /The Daily Cougar

MUSCLE continues on page 3

BAUER

Juliet ChildersStaff writer

UH is now offering the nation’s first subsea engineering master’s program.

The program is internationally fi fth, but Director Matthew Franchek places its value as first because of the interdisciplinary way adminis-trative, industrial and educational leaders come together to form the program.

According to Franchek, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the program in Sep-tember. The program branched out to include industry professionals like Randy Wester at FMC technologies who — as early as 2009 — pushed for a curriculum specifi cally designed for subsea engineering.

“There are billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas located in the Gulf of Mexico alone,” Franchek said. “With this

program, we can partner with the industry to educate the existing workforce and to create next-gener-ation subsea engineering technolo-gies that can safely and economically produce offshore oil and gas.”

After approval by the dean, mea-sures were taken to build the program to accommodate a curriculum.

Paul Jukes, president of MCS Kenny in Houston, wrote the first book about subsea engineering that is used in corresponding courses worldwide.

The amount of interdisciplinary cooperation and the readiness UH and the state embraced the new pro-gram with makes it one that extends beyond the University, Franchek said.

“What this means is that students are working directly with industry professionals and leaders in the fi eld on a daily basis. Not only are we educating a new workforce, stu-dents are making invaluable network

connections,” Franchek said.“This is a beyond Tier One effort.

(The program) graduated 13 students with certificates in advanced sub-sea education and now has over 70

students in the program while there are over 300 students involved in petroleum engineering programs.”

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The subsea deep sea well model students will be using is being housed in Building 14 in Energy Research Park. | Hannah Laamoumi/The Daily Cougar

ACADEMICS

The Center for Mexican American Studies40TH ANNIVERSARY Fall Speaker Series

For more information contact www.class.uh.edu/cmas

AUGUSTINA REYES, PH.D.Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University oof Houston

“Reflection of a Huelga(Strike) School Teacher”

Historically the right to education has been a political struggle for Mexican Americans, especially in Texas. Education for Mexican Americans in the state and the city was grounded in openly segregaionist policies for African Americans and defacto segregationist policies for affirmed that Mexican American were white for

purposes of integrating the African American into white schools. On September 16th of the same year Chicano parents were not celebrating Mexican Independence Day but were marching in front of the Houston Independent School District office and pulling their children out of district schools in protest. The purpose of this paper is to describe the community efforts to:

1. Organize and change policy 2. To develop huelga schools as alternative schools 3. To examine the role that parents played in the 1970 Houston

school boycott

“The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Chicano School Walkouts”

This talk describes the historical and contemporary significance of school walkouts and protest activity. It describes the origins of walking act as a tactic of resistance in the late 1960s, the spread of school protests in the following decades, and its continuation in the contemporary period. It also

assesses its importance for political and social mobilization and for promoting social and educational change in the U.S.

GUADALUPE SAN MIGUEL, PH.D.Professor of History, University of Houston

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 1–3PMGerald D. Hines Architecture Building, Room 143

Improving Prediction of Heart Attack Risk

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Free Lunch: From 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the atrium of the A.D. Bruce Religion Center.

Survivor-Centered Responses: From 5 to 7 p.m. in the Honors College Commons in the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library, the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Medicine and Society Program will host a lecture discussing how ethnographers can use their research to help victims cope after a natural disaster.

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Saving Face Documentary:

At 5 p.m. in room 279A in the University Center the Women’s Resource Center will show the Academy Award-winning fi lm, Saving Face, that follows the stories of women who have had acid thrown in their faces . They are screening the fi lm in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month.

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LGBTQIA Support Group: From 10:30 a.m. to noon, CAPS will help provide a supportive environment for those to discuss their sexual orientation and coming out.

Gender Talk: From 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Women’s Resource Center located in room 279A in the University Center. The event is a brown-bag lunch forum where participants can discuss current gender events.

CEO General Meeting: From 4 to 5 p.m. in the Bayou City Room of the University Center. Any UH student may attend the event.

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The camp was open to all women who wished to financially educate themselves and featured a number of women who were not students of the University.

“I’m not a student, but I received an e-mail through a nonprofit, and I registered online. I think this is important — espe-cially for women — because some might not be too involved in their finances because they might be preoccupied with marriage and family life,” said attendee Ebony Stowers.

Members from the Financial Planning Association were also on hand to offer free 15 minute

Q-and-A sessions.“The more we know about how

to invest our money, the better off we’re going to be. Women tend to make 85 percent of consumer deci-sions so they’re doing the buying all the time, and I think they need to be a part of the process. To rely on and abdicate the responsibility to someone else doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Cellier said.

“You need to understand what’s going on, and you need to know where your money is and how it’s working for you, and if it’s not working for you, you need to know why it’s not.”

All proceeds from the camp will be given to the University for scholarships.

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UH awarded grant for circuit research

Brenda ResendizStaff writer

Grant money recently awarded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation will be used to develop a new way to connect transistors in integrated circuits — the heart

of practically every electronic device.Stanko Brankovic, associate professor of

electrical and computer engineering, was awarded this $80,000 grant.

“The tiniest and essential part of every chip represents a transistor,” Brankovic said. “It

represents the basic part of any computational or computer based logic and calculation. The integrated circuit is the entire electronic package ensuring that chip is connected with solid state memory and other important parts of the circuitry, ensuring computing perfor-mance of the chip.”

The goal of the research is to advance these connections.

“The approach ensures that copper con-ductivity in these tiny lines is improved and overall device performance is improved,” Brankovic said.

“The way individual transistors are con-nected into a logical pattern performing some computational operation, typically addition, is through the interconnecting copper lines — which are in order of 20 to 40 nanometers in width. At this scale, performance of copper is compromised due to high resistivity related to a size dependent structure in copper inter-connects,” Brankovic said.

The grant money will allow at least one doctoral candidate and one undergraduate student to participate in the research. The

former will be supported with an experimen-tal apparatus built to test the new approach.

Awarded $3 million in the last six years, Brankovic said donations of this size were uncommon especially because of the poor economy.

The grant has earned Brankovic esteem with his colleagues, said Badrinath Roysam, department chair of the Department of Elec-trical and Computer Engineering.

“Brankovic is one of the star professors of the ECE department. He is highly regarded by his scientifi c peers, and his research on energy storage systems is of central importance to the University,” Roysam said.

If the proof of the concept of this research is achieved, Brankovic said the research could become more in-depth.

“A new, more extensive funding will be received to do research on more compre-hensive and fundamental studies of copper conductivity in interconnecting lines,” Brank-ovic said.

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Research sssistant Milan Slavkovic shows the equipment used to conduct circuit research. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar

RESEARCH

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Patrick LaroseOpinion columnist

Last week marked the end of the fi rst cycle of presidential debates before the Novem-

ber election.The results were widely

broadcasted with the fi rst debate, creating a new and more energetic Republican candidate Mitt Rom-ney while President Barack Obama fell asleep; the second debate and a rowdy Vice President Joe Biden brought Paul Ryan’s fi nancial plans into question, ending the week’s string of interruptions between the president and his Republican challenger.

Regardless of the actual results, each news outlet was being skewed in its own ways. Demo-crats were quick to consolidate

the outcome of the fi rst debate, where even former presidential nominee Al Gore speculated it was the social climate that caused Obama’s poor performance, while conservative news corporation Fox News took to demonizing the vice president for performing in the same way they venerated Romney in the fi rst debate.

Regardless of what is said in the debate and the actual outcomes, Republicans are going to vote for Romney and Democrats are going to vote for Obama. The outliers will probably not vote or throw their ballots away on a third-party candidate.

These debates are superfl uous in the remains of an outdated system. Presidential debates have existed for as long as presidential elections; they were meant to

bring the candidates’ stances to the public and sway voters before going to the polls in November.

In an age with countless televised news stations and news-papers for every city and town, it’s ridiculous that people have to rely on the debates to sway undecided voters.

The elections begin in less than a month. And despite many people’s disillusionment with the Obama administration and prom-ises of change in the wake of our fi nancial catastrophe, if undecided voters are still not informed on the candidates’ policies, it would be in society’s self-interest for them to just not vote.

The presidential debates as they stand do not provide either a comprehensive policy or the entire truth. Just check politifact.com after

the debate, and the most a reader can hope for is to see a candidate say something deemed by trained journalists and analysts that a state-ment is mostly true.

These debates become memorization contests between the candidates where they avoid questions they’re uncomfortable with or not prepared for.

Politicians — especially presi-dents — are not solely made up of

their own policies and viewpoints. They consult with experts, have numerous fact-checkers for the maddening amount of stances they have to cover and these debates deliver only a fraction of it.

The way eligible voter polls swing following a debate is hor-rifying. These things should serve no greater purpose than seeing the nominees face off and the pride that comes with the crowd cheer-ing once a candidate gets called out for lying.

It is a system that should not be used for more than the spectacle it is and not generate an ill-informed electorate.

Patrick Larose is a creative writing sophomore and may be reached at [email protected].

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SEPT. 1L, 30-13 Texas State

OCT. 18L 72-42SMU

SEPT. 8L 56-49

Louisiana Tech

NOV. 10vs.

Tulsa

SEPT. 29W 35-14 @ Rice

OCT. 27vs.

UTEP

OCT. 6W 44-21

North Texas

NOV. 17@

Marshall

SEPT. 15L 37-6

@ UCLA

NOV. 3@

East Carolina

OCT. 13W 39-17

UAB

NOV. 24vs.

Tulane

GAMEDAY

Scoring summaryFirst quarterSMU — Johnson 8 yd pass from Gilbert,. (Hover kick), 11:54UH — Sims, 1 yd run, (Hogan kick) 08:22SMU — Line, 12 yd run, (Hover kick), 05:05Second quarterUH — Sims, 2 yd run, (Hogan kick) 14:56SMU — Johnson, 18 yd pass from Gilbert,. (Hover kick), 01:40SMU — Reed, 7 yd interception return 01:03Third quarterSMU — Pope, 20 yd 3rd fumble recovery (Hogan

1 2 3 4 FinalUH 7 7 14 14 42SMU 14 14 31 13 72

Game leadersPassingUH — Jones, 17-33, 252 yd, 3 TD 2 INT SMU — Gilbert, 22-38, 275 yd, 4 TD, 2 INT

SIDELINE REPORT

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REPORT CARD

Everett Daniels again garnered double-digit tackles with 10. Thurs-day’s match against SMU was Daniels’ third game with 10 or more tackles this season. Daniels made two and a half tackles for loss. He was a big part of the defense which surrendered 119 yards rushing. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar

D.J. Hayden jumped on a hitch route that SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert threw early in the fourth quarter, went 75 yards and fi st-pumped when he reached the end zone. His pick-6 gave the Cougars a sliver of life in a game they trailed throughout.

Offense: The Cougars scored 42 points but injuries, penalties and turnovers kept them from scoring as much as the team could have. David Piland was injured late in the fi rst half and his status for Saturday’s match against UTEP is uncertain. The offense proved it had versatility by getting Charles Sims involved in the passing game. | Grade: D

Defense: UH couldn’t stop Garrett Gilbert from throwing four touchdown passes. Before this game, Gilbert was a sub-50 percent passer. Zach Line rushed for 127 yards and put the game away with a fourth quarter touchdown. | Grade: D

Special teams: The Cougars used three different punt returners and three diffrent kick returners in this contest. Dewayne Peace fumbled the SMU’s fi rst punt of the evening. Ryan Jackson fumbled the opening second-half kick off. SMU capped both off with touchdowns. Richie Leone continued his ardent pace, averaging 65 yards per punt. | Grade: C

The UH team that showed up in Dallas to face SMU was all too familiar.

It’s the same team that opened the season — amid lofty expectations — with

an embarrassing loss to Texas State, the same Cougars that commit-ted 14 penalties against Louisiana Tech and turned the ball over six times against UCLA in a 37-6 blowout, all

wrapped together.UH head coach Tony Levine said

to the Houston Chronicle the loss was embarrassing.

“You can’t turn the ball over nine times in a game and expect to win. You can’t have selfi sh and foolish penalties and expect to win,” Levine said. “You can’t have dropped passes and expect to win.”

The Cougars took three steps forward by winning three consecutive games, eve-ning their record by beating Rice, North Texas and UAB. UH took an equal-sized step in the opposite direction in a 72-42 loss to SMU on Thursday.

That team did not seem to exist anymore.

In its three victories, UH was plus six in the turnover margin and won the turn-over battle in each of its wins. Redshirt sophomore quarterback David Piland and junior running back Charles Sims found rhythm. The duo combined for more than 500 yards of offense during the winning streak.

The defense was improving each week, surrendering 17.3 points in the past three games. UAB scored only 10 points while the UH starters were in the game, completing a touchdown with 4:38 remaining in the fourth quarter — its fi nal possession of the game.

SMU proved to be a different challenge though.

The Cougars contributed to the 30-point loss with several turnovers and penalties. The Mustangs scored more off the UH turnovers — 44 points — than their margin of victory. UH committed nine penalties for 73 yards.

The Cougars began turning the ball over early. After forcing an SMU three-and-out on its fi rst offensive possession, junior receiver Dewayne Peace fumbled the ensuing punt, giving SMU junior quarterback Garrett Gilbert a short fi eld.

He cashed in, hitting senior receiver Darius Johnson on an eight yard out.

Freshman running back Ryan Jackson fumbled the opening kickoff of the second half; junior linebacker Kevin Pope scooped the ball up and scampered 20 yards to the end zone.

The problems holding on to the ball extended past special teams. All three quarterbacks on the roster played in the game and each threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown.

A head injury to Piland inhibited what UH was able to do early in the second half, and SMU ran away with the game in the third period, where they outscored UH 31-14 and took a commanding 59-28 lead.

Piland’s status for Saturday’s match against UTEP is unknown.

With or without Piland, it is tough to know who the Cougars are. They could be the squad who lost their fi rst three games or the one who won the next three convincingly.

Time — and future conference match-ups — will tell.

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Cougars act like two teams

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kick) 14:56SMU — Chase, 50 yd fi eld goal 12:22SMU — Wright, 10 yd interception return 12:03UH — Sims, 7 yd pass from Jones, (Hogan kick) 05:26UH — Spencer, 24 yd pass from Jones, (Hogan kick) 05:04SMU — Holman, 43 yd pass from Gilbert,. (Hover kick), 02:52Johnson 24 yd pass from Gilbert,. (Hover kick), 01:43Fourth quarterUH — Sims, 49 yd pass from Jones, (Hogan kick) 14:14UH — Hayden, 75 yd interception return , (Hogan kick) 13:28SMU — Line, 4 yd run, (Hover kick), 04:36SMU — Sanders, 36 yd interception return (Long kick) 04:37

RushingUH — Sims, 17 att, 65yd, 2 TD SMU — Line, 22 att, 127 yd, 2 TD

ReceivingUH — Sims, 7 rec, 114 yd, 2 TDUH — Spencer, 7 rec, 101 yd, 1 TD UH —Greenberry, 6 rec, 94 ydSMU — Johnson, Darius 9 rec, 120 yd, SMU — Johnson, Jeremy 9 rec, 94 yd

Daniel Spencer stumbled after catching a pass from David Piland against UAB last week. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar

This week in college football by Christopher Shelton

Charles Sims made a bigger impact on the game by catching passes. He caught seven for 114 yards. Sims scored the Cougars’ fi rst three touchdowns, with two rushing and one receiving. He eventually fi nished with four total touchdowns.

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Art from across the disciplines came together Thursday afternoon as UH hosted its fourth annual Arts Open House in the Fine Arts Quadrangle.

“(The Open House) is held to bring some sort of exposure to the arts on campus and make sure that everyone is collaborating in a positive, energetic way,” said Jana Jackson, director for marketing and communications for UH Arts.

“Just spend a day having fun and hopefully get students who are not involved, necessarily in the arts, to come out and see what we have to offer.”

The fair offered complimentary food catered by Freebirds World Bur-rito, screen-printed t-shirts, literary readings and improvisation skits by student theater groups Glaundor and Phortasics. The Moores School of Music groups Jazz Sextet and Men of Moores provided the evening’s soundtrack.

“What we try to do is give every-one a snippet of what the arts are like at the University and also give all the departments a chance to showcase what’s coming up for them — kind of give out their season previews, talk about the upcoming programming

and make sure people know about it,” said Nicole Romano, commu-nications director of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

“Our biggest challenge is getting student involvement, so we want to make sure that students on the cam-pus — not just in the arts program, but from all over — can participate and be part of all the programming that’s happening and all these great

departments.”There were booths that promoted

art organizations and services at the University like the architecture program, art and music libraries, Moores Opera House and the under-graduate literary journal “Glass Mountain.”

Students participated in a craft station decorating masks and poets from the Inprint reading series,

an independent literary arts non-profit organization in association with the UH Creative Writing Pro-gram and Brazos Bookstore, wrote poetry based on prompts given by students.

“It really was informative, and I feel like I know about (the arts pro-grams) more now,” said chemistry sophomore Victoria Malkowski.

The Anthem — a Houston rock

band comprised largely of UH alumni — closed the night.

“This is probably our 10th time to play at the University of Hous-ton, and we absolutely love playing here — especially because I gradu-ated here — so I bleed red for the Cougars,” said Micaiah Walker, The Anthem’s vocalist.

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A picture is worth a thousand words; imagine how many words thousands of pictures make. In three years, the NOH8 Campaign has snapped more than 20,000 photos across the country.

There was immediate feedback when NOH8’s fi rst trip to Houston was announced. The Council of Ethnic Organizations hosted an open photo shoot on Thursday by NOH8 with celebrity photographer and co-founder Adam Bouska.

“When they (NOH8) posted on Facebook, they got around 500 people within the first couple of days,” said Adriann Hobbs, liberal studies senior and director of CEO.

NOH8 began as a protest in California shortly after the original passage of Proposition 8 in November 2008, which banned same-sex marriage.

According to the campaign’s website, Bouska and his partner Jeff Parshley — who felt their voices were silenced — began the picture pro-test to strike back.

The subjects of the photos dress in white tops with duct tape covering their mouths to symbolize their voices being silenced by the passage and similar legislation.

Although CEO is not the fi rst organization someone thinks of when it comes to gay rights, it is known for dealing with issues related to culture diversity and Hobbs said it was time to

expand.“We are trying to broaden it out — to cover

the full spectrum of diversity within UH because UH is the second most diverse school in the nation,” Hobbs said. “We’re trying to focus on cultural diversity, but also LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) rights, age, gender and religion. Mainly anything that focuses on what makes UH what it is.”

According to Hobbs, the event attracted more than 800 participants.

Members of the Houston LGBT Community Center — like Mark King and his partner Charles Stevens — were also invited to strike a pose at the event.

“We’ve been together for about a year now,

and we wanted to come out and show our support — have our picture taken,” King said. “When we heard NOH8 was coming here — (for its) fi rst time in Houston — we had to come and see how many people would show up.”

Students came to show support and take a stand against the hate, like journalism freshman Jose Iraheta.

“I have friends and family who are gay, lesbian, bi(sexual) or transgender — including myself,” Iraheta said. “I realized I was gay last year and seeing all the hate I read on so many blogs — it’s just hurtful — but at the same time, programs like these give me hope.”

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Delta Zeta Sorority hosted its 26th annual Gong Show on Wednes-day evening, where students and staff filled the Houston Room enjoying acts that included 17 dif-ferent campus organizations.

Gong Show is the University’s largest philanthropy event and entertained its audience with

elaborate comedy, dance, step and skit performances.

Throughout the evening, the audience of more than 700 attend-ees bid in silent auctions offering UH memorabilia like signed foot-ball jerseys and helmets, tickets to upcoming football games and sideline passes.

In addition, there were raffl es that contributed to the more than

$6,000 in donations received from participating companies like Can-yon Creek, The Chocolate Bar, Starbucks and more.

“Delta Zetas at UH love and look forward to our annual philanthropy event,” said Marissa Moore, vice president of internal philanthropy of Delta Zeta. “We only have one a year, so we have to make it bigger and better, which was my goal for

this year.”Delta Zeta supports the Cen-

ter for Hearing and Speech and The Painted Turtle Camp — a California-based program for ter-minally ill children that operates throughout the year and provides children and their families a two-week vacation.

The Gong Show, along with other yearly charitable donations, raised money for these two orga-nizations and continues to be the chapter’s main focus.

“Each year, as a chapter, we will complete craft projects to send to the camp for the kids,” said Megan Kingsley, president of Delta Zeta. “We also love to go and volunteer at the Center for Hearing and Speech located in Houston and work with the kids in any way possible.”

The “American Idol”-like event was strung together by two witty student hosts and a panel of three judges: Rebecca Williamson and Tara Boyle from the Department of Admissions and Matt Jansen, a Houston Texans scout.

The international sensation, “Gangnam Style,” by South Korean rapper PSY had its share of appear-ances along with candy-inspired songs to go along with the “How Sweet It is to be a Delta Zee” theme.

According to audience mem-bers, the show brought out enter-tainment and talent that had not been witnessed in previous years.

“Gong Show has come a long way over the years,” said Kelsey Durall, a UH Delta Zeta alumna.

”I was blown away by the show tonight — great job to the partici-pants. It was a tough competition, but everybody helped raise a lot of money for a great cause.”

Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity brought home the fi rst place tro-phy from the event. Chi Omega and Gamma Beta Fraternity won second place in the sorority and fraternity categories. The Spirit Award was given to Sigma Epsilon Fraternity.

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The Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity won fi rst place at the 26th Annual Gong Show, which was hosted by the Delta Zeta Sorority on Thursday evening. The event is the largest student philanthropy event on campus. | Catherine Lara/The Daily Cougar

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