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In Thursday’s weekend calendar, The Daily Cougar listed “Stainability Fest 2012” as an event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., it should have read “Sustainability Fest 2012” from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In the SFAC article, The Daily Cougar listed “Gonzalo Bambio” as the presenter for the Frontier Fiesta Association, it should have read Gonzalo Lombard Benito.

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SPORTS

SFAC hears pleas for fees

Jessica PortilloContributing writer

Many organizations, both in the black and in the red last fi scal year, asked for fee augmentations from the third meeting for the

Student Fees Advisory Committee on Friday.

Metropolitan Volunteer Program requested a one-time allocation of $4,622 for its new “Plant the Pride” project. A smaller version of the project was held last year with a

good turn out, said Director of MVP Maureen Durojaiye.

After MVP returned $7,700 of unused funds, SFAC members asked MVP why it does not use that money to fund the project. Durojaiye said MVP expanded its programs this year but its budget hasn’t grown, so that money wasn’t in their budget anymore.

The New UC Representatives did not ask for any money.

University Career Services did not ask for any additional funds. Director David Small presented how the organization was helping students.

The marching band and Spirit Squad asked for a one-time allo-cation of $50,000 for cheer and dance and a base augmentation of $50,000.

Urban Experience Program did not ask for any increases or alloca-tions, but instead talked about its monetary breakdown.

UH Forensics Society asked for a base increase of $145,531. It said it did not have money to continue to

compete in national competitions, which led to a decrease in the num-ber of students in the program and a decrease in its national recogni-tion. It asked for the money to con-tinue to compete, and for $51,000 to support the assistant director of Forensics and $80,000 to support the director.

The SFAC members were concerned about the increase — because Forensics has gone over budget before — and felt the soci-ety needed to review the necessity of the assistant director position. Another issue was Forensics’ gener-ated income was not in the budget SFAC received. The committee asked Forensics to project its expenses to see if it would go over budget this year.

Scott Sawyer, Veterans Services Office interim director, didn’t ask for a base increase but instead requested $14,000 for assessments. Last year, the organization had a peer-to-peer program where paid

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1 p.m. — VPSA is requesting a base of $533,746 and a base augmentation of $330,195. For FY12, it had a balance of $0. For FY13, it predicts a balance of $0.

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10 a.m. — CSD is requesting a base of $431,306 and an augmenta-tion of $5,906. For Fiscal Year 2012, it had a surplus of $36,274. For FY13, it predicts a balance of $0.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 SFAC hearings will be held in the University Center Bluebonnet Room from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Public comments are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. every day of the hearings. All information below can be found at www.uh.edu/sfac/fy14_requests/index.html.

Kathleen MurillContributing writer

While students dressed as ghouls and goblins roamed the University, the Student Government Associa-tion voted and passed a bill to allow the Senate to bypass SGA President Cedric Bandoh.

The Legislation Classification Restructuring Bill was passed and the Senate will have the power to

pass University bills and Senate resolutions without going through the executive branch.

Chair of Internal Affairs Sean Tarver spoke in favor of the bill. The Senate needed its own voice, and Senate resolutions would provide that by allowing the Senate to go around the executive branch, Tarver said.

Bandoh said the senate resolu-tions would disrupt the balance of

power.“There should always be a balance

of power across all three branches in the government. Giving the senate this power — while I understand they want to be able to state their own opinion — could subvert the power of the executive branch,” Bandoh said.

After voting to end all discussion, the senate passed the bill with 17 affi rmative votes.

Next, a fi rst reading was given of SGA Resolution 49008 in support of the 2012 Transgender Day of Remem-brance. If passed, the resolution would recognize Nov. 17 as Transgen-der Day of Remembrance and bring awareness of the violence against transgendered people. The resolu-tion was assigned to the Student Life Committee to review and edit.

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Joel WhiteContributing writer

The UH chapter of Association of The act of terrorism is increas-ingly deeper than one would expect. Terrorists may come off as peculiar, but they’re far from it.

“Terrorists are highly educated, thinking and acting individuals,” said Christopher Harmon, author

of “Terrorism Today.”“I think it takes a great deal of

skill to fight on the open front,” Harmon said.

“Conversation: The Ideas Behind Terrorism” was the sec-ond of a two-part conversation by Harmon held Friday at the Honors College.

“He has held one talk on terror-ism to my American Foreign Policy

class in 2000,” said Terry Hallmark, event organizer and director of Political Risk and Policy Assess-ment for IHS Inc. in Houston.

“(Students) will get to see an expert in the field of terrorism and counter-terrorism discuss his craft.”

Harmon emphasized that fanat-ical is a good way to define terror-ism. While many of the terrorists

he studied were smart, all it takes is extreme, uncritical enthusiasm to wreak havoc, Harmon said.

“Many of them are true believ-ers,” Harmon said. “They don’t necessarily have to be smart or educated. Ideology is very real.”

Harmon said he doesn’t believe there is a specific personality to

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2012 STUDENT FEES

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 BLUEBONNET ROOM, UC

9:30 a.m. Committee Business

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10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Intercollegiate Athletics

11:30 a.m. Public Comment

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Today

Homecoming Kick Off/Pep Rally: From noon to 1 p.m. at Lynn Eusan Park.

Intersection New Music

Collective: From 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall, Moores School of Music will host a collaborative arts event featuring the music of composer Brian Herrington performed by Sam Houston State University’s new music ensemble, with fl ash fi ction from the SHSU Writing Program

Choral Invitational Concert

Chorale: At 7 p.m. in Moores Opera House, Moores School of Music will host a high shool invitational concert featuring Cypress Woods, Kerr, Klein Oak and Spring high schools.

Tuesday

Go Coogs Day: From 4 to 6 p.m. at Lynn Eusan Park. This event will include making posters for the Homecoming game, decorating crafts, and taking pictures with the Cougars in front of Ezekiel Cullen building.

Election Watch Party: From 7 to 10 p.m. in Rockwell Pavilion, the Political Science Department honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, will host an election watch party. The event will include big screen projector viewing, interactive key state maps and live blogging of the results of local elections from KUHF-FM, Channel 88.7.

SFAC Presentations: From

8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Bluebonnet Room of the University Center several student fee-funded organization will present to the Student Fees Advisory Committee. For a complete schedule of the presentations, visit www.uh.edu/sfac/fy14_requests/schedule.

Wednesday

Texas Freedom Network

Meeting: From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the LGBT Resource Center, the Texas Freedom Network will hold an informational meeting. The group is politically active and focuses on issues like LGBTQ equality, sex-ed reform, religious freedoms and separation of Church and State.

Strut Your Stuff: From 7 to 10 p.m. in the UC Houston room. This event will be a talent show featuring a variety skits, dancing, singing, step shows and video performances from our exceptional Cougar students as a part of Homecoming week. The Homecoming Court will present during this event.

Window into Houston: From 6 to 9 p.m. at the Dixon Building located at 110 Milam St. artist Debra Barrera will be shocasing her exhibit “Drive Me There and Back Again” as a part of a series of site-specifi c exhibitions commissioned by Blaffer Art Museum.

A weekend calendar will be available in Thursday’s issue of The Daily Cougar.

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NEWS EDITOR Julie Heffl er

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Q: What is the biggest challenge UH faces as a University?

I think the biggest problem that UH faces ... is how the culture as a university can adapt to fi t with the changing culture of the city and the growing population of the city and the fact that there’s an increasing number of students who are not living on campus that are having to travel

long distances to get to campus everyday and that makes university life diffi cult for a lot

of students, including myself.

-— Brandon Englert, petroleum engineering sophomore

A:

MAN ON THE STREET

I’ve had problems with the quality of some of my teachers. Just the lack of preparation and the lack of caring. The school makes it more diffi cult for me, since I’m a straight A student. Sometimes I have to work extremely hard because I don’t have the necessary tools or necessary teaching at all. So I’m teaching myself from the book. For a lot of the science and math classes, that’s not ideal, they are

pretty interactive fi elds.

-— Sama Elrahi, biochemistry senior

:A

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I would like UH to do something really good for the football team, big time. Other than that, it’s a pretty good university and most of the stuff is fi ne. But as for the sports team. ... We accepted something big and it’s not happening.

-— Shavei Dwa, psychology junior

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Getting its name out there? I guess competing with all the other big Texas schools. But, I think UH is doing pretty well.

-— Sidel Raffu, public relations senior

A:

School pride. I don’t think everyone who commutes here commits as easily as those who already live on campus... I know some of my friends who are living on campus... are into the school activities. They’re already at school and living in the dorms. They’re already here committing and promoting school pride. But those who commute, it’s a lot harder for us to because we live 45

minutes to an hour and a half away.

— Julie Tran, supply chain and logistics technology junior

:A Getting everyone involved with all the activities that are going on around here. I know there are a lot of activities and I think students

should take part in more. That’d be more successful on that part.

—Ryan King, mechanical engineering sophomore

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student veterans counseled other student veterans. VSO wants formal training for the participants, Sawyer said.

“We provide a safe and positive place for veterans,” Sawyer said. “They fi nd community in the VSO that is really important. They can share their stories and have a sense of engagement, which they can’t fi nd any place else as veteran students.”

Next was Emily Church, director of development, representing the Blaffer Gallery. She asked for a base

augmentation of $2,500 for two new programs.

One program will help the University connect with fi rst- and second-year students so they can stay enrolled. The other is to pro-mote the gallery in the residence halls and organize tours with their fl oor-mates.

“We really see our position as being a gateway to Houston commu-nity, but also a resource for students to learn about art,” Church said.

The last SFAC meeting will start at 10 a.m. in the University Center Bluebonnet Room.

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terrorists either, saying many have been doctors and engineers. The big question raised is whether they are mentally unstable.

“Nidal Hasan was crude and probably sociopathic, but not crazy,” Harmon said. “You don’t get very far in trying to understand these guys as crazy.”

The goal of the talks was to increase exposure to the field of terrorism, Hallmark said.

“I haven’t given a lot of thought to the composition of terrorist

groups, so this is very informative,” said advertising junior Nathaniel Stich.

Harmon ended his talk by touching on the religious aspects of terrorism.

“Religion is a truly intriguing problem in terrorism,” Harmon said. “It’s worthwhile to try to understand this new movement.”

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BoJanay PoseyContributing writer

On request, UH Dining Services opened its first gluten-free sta-tion Wednesday at the Fresh Food Company Dining Hall in Moody Towers.

Gluten is a protein composite found in wheat, malt, rye and barley that people with celiac disease — an inherited digestive disorder — are inhibited from digesting without damage to their small intestines.

“University of Houston Dining

Services understands that more and more students are being affected by this autoimmune disease,” said Caroline Sullivan, dietitian for the dining service.

“We want diners with special dietary needs to be able to dine with their friends and colleagues in the same locations. We felt a way to improve this would be to increase the amount of gluten free offerings in our dining halls.”

With the station being surrounded by gluten-containing stations, there is risk of cross contamination. To

prevent this, the gluten-free station has a designated storage area and purple preparing, cooking and serv-ing ware, Sullivan said.

The station features foods like a chicken wraps with lettuce, chutney mango sauce, peanuts, angel hair pasta, green onions and spicy garlic sauce.

“I love peanuts in my food, and I like the angel hair because it’s fresh,” said painting senior Carlos Salinas. “I don’t feel super heavy after eating it.”

Advertising junior Nathaniel

Stich says he enjoys not having to make his own food.

“It looked fundamentally healthier. It looked visually appeal-ing,” Stich said. “I think it’s nice to see that the University is listening to a very select group of people with stringent dietary restrictions. As the second most diverse University in the country, we have to make sure we are taking care of all facets of our population.”

The Fresh Foods Company is now one of four places on campus where students can get gluten-free

foods. Einstein Bagels, Tandoori Nite and Bare Bowls Kitchen also serve gluten free foods.

The gluten-free station, located between the vegetarian station and the brick oven, is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday for lunch and from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday for dinner. The dining hall also offers additional glu-ten-free options including breads, eggs, yogurt, milk, cereal and other foods available on request.

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Patrick LaroseStaff columnist

Hurricane Sandy swept the east coast last week, burying extensive parts

of major cities — like New York City — several feet underwater. The purported “Frankenstorm” may have given cause to scoff for many Houstonians when it reached the eastern coast at a mere Category One. The hurricane caused catastrophic amounts of damage to a place not nearly prepared for that type of weather.

The storm caused massive amounts of fl ooding, ruining subway lines in New York and New Jersey and — for many — ushering memories of Hurricane Katrina, which had left a further blemish on George W. Bush’s presidency.

The lines have been divided between whether the storm would affect the popular vote or not, with many taking the stand that the storm occurred too soon to the election or that the disaster and the candidates’ reactions to it would in no way accurately refl ect their policies and how they would handle the country.

The cynical could take this time to point out that this storm and the relief response give the greatest opportunity for the president and the Republican nominee to smile wide and get the greatest response possible. But that denotes the actual crisis at hand with a hurricane hitting a place where it usually doesn’t.

The actions of a president — in a time of immediate crisis — is a massively important event. After witnessing a Republican presidency handle a similar situation horribly in 2005, it was a relief to see President Barack Obama act effi ciently despite any campaign pressure.

The president reached across the partisan aisle, working closely

with the Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican. Hurricane-publicity aside, it became a clear demonstration of a successful reach across the party without the slightest struggle.

Meanwhile, Republican candidate Mitt Romney also took advantage of the hurricane to gain some election publicity. Campaign rallies were converted to storm relief events for the sake of a Romney photo-op. The

Romney campaign bought imper-ishable and canned goods and put them into boxes so Romney could stand around until he had to take them outside. These were, of course, canned goods going toward the Red Cross.

According to the Red Cross, however, monetary donations are preferred.

Romney also took this chance to dodge questions on his position on Federal Emergency Management Agency, an agency he had previously stated he

wanted to cut.Yet this storm prompts a big-

ger issue for the candidates that needs addressing regardless of party preference: global warm-ing. Hurricane Sandy was one of the largest storms to hit the east coast.

Hurricanes and natural disasters have been occurring more frequently than in any other time in human history, which are indications and symptoms of global warming.

While Romney has taken a

rather progressive approach than many of his fellow Republicans in acknowledging its existence, he has gone through great lengths during his campaign to indicate that he has zero interest in pursu-ing it, even going so far as to gawk at the president’s attempts to do so. Yet, whatever the Republican Party doesn’t believe exists is becoming an increasing problem.

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

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Joshua MannMANAGING EDITOR Amanda HilowASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Channler HillNEWS EDITOR Julie Heffl erSPORTS EDITOR Andrew PateLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Allen LeOPINION EDITOR Lucas Sepulveda

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Bryan Dupont-Gray, Ellen Goodacre,Christopher Shelton

Hurricane Sandy reveals ignored problem

David Delgado | The Daily Cougar


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. 27W 45-35

UTEP

OCT. 6W 44-21

North Texas

NOV. 17@

Marshall

SEPT. 15L 37-6

@ UCLA

NOV. 3L 48-28@ East Carolina

OCT. 13W 39-17

UAB

NOV. 24vs.

Tulane

GAMEDAY

Scoring summaryFirst quarterECU — Webster, 6 yd pass from Carden, (Harvey kick) 04:38ECU — Webster, 12 yd pass from Carden, (Harvey kick) 02:13Second quarterECU — Webster, 9 yd pass from Carden, (Harvey kick) 02:13ECU — Wiggins, 8 yd pass from Carden, (Harvey kick) 00:48UH — McDuffey, 10 yd pass from Piland, (Hogan kick) 00:05

1 2 3 4 FinalUH 0 7 7 14 28ECU 14 14 3 17 48

Game leadersPassingUH — Piland, 16-30, 174 yd, 2 TD UTEP — Lamaison, 8-18, 76 yd, 4 INT

SIDELINE REPORT

STAND OUTS

WEEKEND UPDATE

Trevon Stewart had a career tackling day on the road at East Carolina. Stewart led the team with 21 tackles as a free safety. He had a tackle for a loss and a pass broken up. Stewart is coming into his own in his freshman season. | Rebekah Stearns/The Daily Cougar

Isiah Sweeney led the Cougars in all-purpose yards with 93 yards. He was David Piland’s leading receiver in terms of yards. It was Sweeney’s fi rst game of the season and he proved himself a big-play threat. Sweeney caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from Piland.

Third quarterUH — Sweeney, 34 yd pass from Piland, (Hogan kick) 10:27ECU — Harvey, 28 yd fi eld goal 06:52Fourth quarterECU — Harvey, 31 yd fi eld goal 12:55UH — Roberts, 5 yd pass from Piland, (Hogan kick) 11:26ECU — Cooper, 22 yd run, (Harvey kick) 02:47ECU — Holmes, 28 yd interception, (Harvey kick) 02:01UH — Farrow, 20 yd pass from Piland, (Hogan kick) 00:05

UTEP — Sullivan, 6-10, 105 yd, 2 TD

RushingUH — Sims, 5 att, 33 yd UH — Farrow, 1 att, 1 ydUH — Piland, 4 att, 7 ydECU — Cooper, 33 att, 150 yd, 1TDECU — Bullock, 13 att, 71 yd

ReceivingUH — Roberts, 5 rec, 67 yd, 1 TDUH — Sweeney, 3 rec, 93 ydUH —Ros, 2 rec, 62 yd ECU — Webster, 6 rec,46 yd, 3 TD ECU — Hardy, 5 rec, 40 yd ECU —Cooper, 4 rec, 32 yd

Xavier Maxwell looks on as David Piland takes off and scrambles for yards against UTEP last week. | File photo/The Daily Cougar

This week in college football by Christopher Shelton

PASS DEFENSE

NEW STARTERS EMERGE

ECU’s sophomore quarterback Shane Carden’s fi rst half could be mistaken for a game for some quarterbacks. He had four touchdowns before the second quarter concluded. Carden fi nished with 305 yards on the evening.

Shane Ros caught a screen pass, evaded a defender, stiff-armed another and ran on a direct line toward the end zone early in the third quarter. He fumbled before scoring but it was the type of explosive play UH needed. Mark Roberts had fi ve receptions for 67 yards with a touchdown.

Carden carves up Cougars

Ros, Roberts become threats in passing game

Christopher SheltonAssistant sports editor

In UH’s three true road tests, falling behind in the fi rst half has become the new normal.

Against UCLA, ECU and SMU the Cougars were out-scored, by a combined 73-21 in the fi rst half.

On Saturday, ECU built a 28-7 lead en route to a 48-28 victory on sophomore quar-terback Shane Carden’s four first half touchdown passes. The Cougars’ offense did not match the production.

UH head coach Tony Levine said the team’s inability to get going early changed their strategy.

“We weren’t efficient on fi rst down. We got into a lot of second and longs because we weren’t running the ball well enough on fi rst down,” Levine

said. “We had some dropped passes and couldn’t get into a rhythm. Then we got behind and had to play catch up.”

Redshirt sophomore quar-terback David Piland fi nished with 356 yards and four touch-downs but the Cougars did not score until five seconds remained in the fi rst half. UH’s running game was nonexistent in the second half with a single rushing attempt.

Redshirt junior running back Charles Sims was injured late in the second quarter and his loss contributed to the Cou-gars low second half output on the ground. But Sims only had five carries before the injury, which is well off the 24-touch pace that Levine said he wants Sims to receive each game.

In addition to their own struggles on the ground, the Cougars had problems stopping

the run, which has been a road issue all season.

ECU junior running back Vintavious Cooper found run-ning lanes all game, fi nishing with 150 rushing yards.

The Cougars have given up 100-yard rushers in each road contest. In the Rose Bowl, UCLA redshirt senior run-ning back Jonathan Franklin rushed for 117 yards while his backup, redshirt junior Damien Thigpen, rushed for another 95 yards on only nine carries. SMU senior running back Zach Line scampered for 117 yards and two touchdowns.

UH hasn’t improved defend-ing the pass on the road either.

UCLA’s redshirt freshman quarterback Brett Hundley threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns. SMU junior quarterback Garrett Gilbert,

who was a sub-50 percent passer before the game, threw four touchdowns passes and played arguably his best game as a collegiate player.

The Cougars needed to win to continue to control their des-tiny in Conference USA. Piland said each game was crucial.

“Every game gets us that much closer to accomplishing the goals we want to accom-plish…We need to go play and perform at our highest level for these next couple games and defi nitely bring our ‘A’ game,” Piland said on Tuesday. “There are no excuses for turnovers or poor plays.”

Now their future is less certain.

The Cougars need to win two of their next three games to become bowl-eligible.

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components 41 Tornado-

riding dog 42 ___ Arbor,

Mich. 43 Hardwood

tree 44 Unwanted

sound 46 Like a farm

smell 47 Permission

to search 50 Tit for ___ 51 Emotionally

distant 52 Lid colorer 58 Ballet outfi t 59 New

Zealand aborigine

60 “All ___!” (court phrase)

61 Plumber’s challenge

62 Bring forth 63 Hardly

height-challenged

64 Unlikely fable loser

65 ___ Cup (golf trophy)

66 Parking-meter feature

DOWN 1 Rugged

outcropping 2 A real doozy 3 Author

credited on many poems

4 Turn on the waterworks

5 Menacing look

6 Rips to pieces

7 Start a hand 8 Aries or

Scorpio, e.g.

9 Dip, as bread in gravy

10 Titanic, for example

11 Like some Greek columns

12 Offer a thought

13 Payments to a landlord

21 Open hearing, in law

22 James Clavell best seller “___-Pan”

25 Times for celebrating

26 Have stamina 27 Look ___

(explore) 28 Athletic

competition

29 LSU site 30 “Dressed

to Kill” star Michael

34 Song for two

35 Inscribe indelibly

36 Covered with soot, e.g.

38 Drought ender

39 Wavering 43 Something

to draw 45 Clumsy

person 46 Not as

complicated 47 Wrist

timepiece 48 Bebop

follower of the 1950s?

49 Apache topper

50 Third monastic hour

53 “___ better watch out ...”

54 They may be fi ne or performing

55 “___ M for Murder”

56 It was formerly Christiania

57 Whip mark 59 The sea, to

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The fourth annual OctoberFest, a two-day event on campus, hosted the Haunted Penthouse event at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on Wednesday evening. The Halloween festivity strived to break the attendance record of more than 700 students last year. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar

Maria RomeroContributing writer

The blood was pumping on Halloween at the Campus Rec-reation and Wellness Center as hundreds of students, dressed in costumes, waited in line to travel through the Haunted Penthouse and encouraged to give the gift of life and donate blood, afterward.

“This event gives the students something free they can come and do, especially on campus,” said Rachel O’Mara, program coordina-tor of the department of Campus Recreation.

The Penthouse was part of the fourth annual University Center OctoberFest week — organized by the University Centers and other departments around campus.

“Essentially what we (did) this year with the Haunted Penthouse — we kind of changed it up and had all the different program areas within Campus Rec have their stu-dents actually take a section of it and kind of create their section,” O’Mara said.

“It actually worked out great because we have had huge partici-pation in our staff who have been really, really involved which has been awesome.”

Students waited patiently — and some impatiently — for their

turn to take the elevator up to the third floor where the Penthouse was, enjoying candy and the opportunity to take a photograph before they entered. However, students with canned food items for donation were offered to cut the line.

“It’s been a huge turnout for everybody,” O’Mara said. “They’re coming in costumes where last year we didn’t have as many peo-ple in costumes. Last year we had

700 students and this year we were pushing for 1,000.”

Evil clowns, rabbits and spirits lurked around the area as attend-ees traveled through various sec-tions of the Penthouse.

The event, which consisted of an entire staff of students, had others screaming during the walk through.

As students walked back down the stairs following their spooky time, they were led to a stand that

had flyers of upcoming events and information of programs that the Wellness Center offers.

“I come to the rec all the time, but I had no idea there was a third floor,” said mechanical engineer-ing junior Waseem Riche.

“It’s also cool that I brought some friends today that have never been to the rec so that exposure must be good for the center.”

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OctoberFest hypes up fall ball season

Molly HillContributing writer

The OctoberFest Hardwood Tip-off event brought UH basketball fans on Thursday evening to the Athlet-ics/Alumni Center, to help celebrate the beginning of the season by dis-playing the talents of both the men and women’s teams in a friendly competition between the two.

The single basketball court, with bleachers surrounding the sidelines, was the stage for the evening as fans fi lled the seats with their free banners, posters, food and T-shirts — provided by the staff — in heightened anticipation of the teams showing off in front of their supporters.

The coaches proudly presented their teams and fi lled the audience with cougar pride leading multiple cheers of “Go Coogs!”

“We are really excited about this group of men and we are excited about how hard they have worked,” said UH men’s basketball head coach James Dickey. “We look forward to giving you a good season.”

Competitions between the men and women players got the crowd going with a slam dunk contest and a skills and three-point competition.

The men competed among them-selves in the slam dunk competition with high-fl ying tricks that landed redshirt freshman guard LeRon Barnes the fi rst place spot that was awarded by the loud cheers of the audience.

Freshman forward Marche’ Amerson on the women’s team won the skills competition for being the fastest to complete an agility course.

The players were focused in every minute with the three-point com-petition bringing spectators to their feet as women’s redshirt senior guard Porsche Landry held on to her lead of fi ve baskets against men’s redshirt sophomore guard Joseph Young.

“Tonight I was hoping to show-case our talent and to show what we have in store for the season,” said sophomore forward TaShawn

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Students took advantage of the Halloween bash at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center on Wednesda by collecting free candy and hanging out with friends. | Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar

Basketball program warms up to students, wants to see participation


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Thomas. “My lowest expectation is to make it to the NCAA tournament this year.”

Two audience members were given the opportunity to win $10,000 by scoring a half-court basket if their

ticket stub number was drawn. No one received any payment, but the crowd applauded the shots that fell short of the potential advances.

UH basketball memorabilia was also on sale to any fan who desired court side gear including hats, jer-seys and T-shirts.

The UH basketball teams have their fi rst home games this month,

with the men’s team playing Florida A&M on Nov. 9 and the women against Alabama on Nov. 13.

“We appreciate you, we love you and we need you,” said women’s basketball head coach Todd Buch-anan. “We will be taking names this season.”

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Spirit of givingAaron ManuelContributing writer

When the Spirit of Houston per-forms, they are either marching on the John O’Quinn Field at Robertson Stadium or roaring in the stands at Hofheinz Pavilion.

The band, however, descended on a different venue for a benefi t concert Friday evening at the Moores Opera House.

In addition to the band, the UH Cheer team, Cougar Dolls dance

team, UH Twirlers and UH Air Force ROTC Color Guard members show-cased their talents at the intimate venue.

The concert combined more than 350 students, who coordinated their performances together.

The band came out with energy and electrified the packed opera house as it burst into its set and wasted no time getting the audience worked up.

The Twirlers followed the band’s opening performance with a routine set to selections from the musical “Chicago,” which was then followed by the color guard performing flag rifl e routines.

The audience included members of the Cougar Band Alumni and stu-dents from the Spring Oaks Middle School band, who were able to get a taste of what a major university band can do.

They also found out how expen-sive it is to operate a large marching band.

“For our recent trip to Reliant (Sta-dium), it cost $10,000,” said Spirit of Houston Director Troy Bennefi eld.

“It’s quite expensive to move a band.”

Roy Monk, a 1951 alumnus, was honored by the band at the event as a Golden Cougar — an award bestowed upon individuals who are generous

donors.Monk has also established endow-

ments for the C.T. Bauer College of Business and the Moores School of Music.

The band also received funds from a silent auction that was held during the concert.

Members of the Cougar Marching Band Alumni Association collected items that included athletic memo-rabilia, such as steins from several Southwestern Conference champi-onship teams, programs from some of the football program’s memorable bowl games, a football signed by former UH football head coach Bill Yeoman and a football helmet signed by the 2012 football team roster.

A short intermission fol-lowed where the auction bidding concluded.

A tribute to Ann Ostrow — an accomplished musician, teacher and Moores school patron who passed away Oct. 25 — came after the intermission.

The Cougar Dolls took the stage to re-lift the crowds spirits followed by the cheer teams and a saxophone quartet in honor of Monk.

The band concluded the evening with a rousing performance and a playing of The Alma Mater.

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Supporters gather for marching band benefi t concert, place bids

Allen LeLife & arts editor

The Homecoming 5K Glow Run, which was supposed to be held from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Lynn Eusan Park, was canceled due to bad weather conditions. The philanthropic event is apart of the Spirit Cup Competition and 100 percent of the proceeds from

this year’s run will be donated to the American Diabetes Association. Glow paint for T-shirts will be provided for students to light up the night at the event. The run is rescheduled to take place Saturday, Nov. 10. The time is to be determined.n.”

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