Volume 78, Issue 97

Katherine MorrisStaff writer

At the Student Government Asso-ciation’s inauguration banquet for the 50th administration on Friday, SGA President Cedric Bandoh was sworn into offi ce for a second time — some-thing that has happened only a hand-ful of times at UH.

Bandoh is also the youngest stu-dent body president to be elected at UH. More notable is not his fact sheet, but his undeniable dedication for the university he serves.

“I live, breathe and eat the Univer-sity of Houston,” Bandoh said. “I have a unique passion for the University, and it is a honor to serve my fellow students and be the chief advocate for the students.”

Bandoh has the unique opportu-nity to continue his administration, continuing his work on some of his efforts.

“I want to provide some continuity for SGA and see the full implementa-tion of some of our major ongoing initiatives. This administration saw some major changes within SGA, and another year would allow me to work with my colleagues to put us on a smooth course for the future,” Bandoh said.

In the ending 49th administration, Bandoh held his presidency with Former Vice President Turner Harris working alongside him.

The duo took offi ce in an unusual way. The president-elect and vice president-elect were disqualifi ed after a court hearing determined they were involved in election fraud. Rather than conducting a new election, the Election Commission allowed the party with the second-most amount of votes: the Bandoh-Harris ticket.

For the two students, there was no better time to come in and make a difference in UH’s chapter of SGA.

“Adversity often times yields better outcomes, and the election scandal forced the organization to clean house to better serve our fel-low students,” Bandoh said. “And as a result, we have a better system of governance today.”

“It was chaotic for us at the begin-ning. However, it truly re-energized us for the journey ahead. This caused no hesitation for me to run for re-elec-tion. If anything, it motivated me to continue to challenge the status quo and direct our efforts at developing innovative solutions for our chal-lenges and opportunities.”

Bandoh and Harris have spent the last year working to improve the cam-pus. The two have had a successful

run together, seeing resolutions on concealed handguns and immigra-tion reform pass, among many other things. Bandoh made it his personal goal to see that changes were made.

“It has been such a joy to watch Cedric grow and lead the Student Government Association,” said UH President Renu Khator. “Cedric is a strong and impactful leader because

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Fire at Cougar VillageThe freshman residence hall on campus experienced a small fi re at about 6:25 a.m. Sunday in the north kitchen of the seventh fl oor. Sprinklers were activated and the fi re was put out immediately, but several rooms and lounges on the north side of the fi fth, sixth and seventh fl oors suffered from water damage. Residents of the sixth and seventh fl oors were displaced while Houston Fire Department and UH Facilities extracted most of the water from sprinklers. The cause of the fi re is unknown, but offi cials are investigating. No injuries were reported.

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Quiet Meditation: From 8 to 10 a.m. at the A.D. Bruce Religion Cen-ter, students seeking time to pray, refl ect or meditate are welcome to attend.

Intramural Sports: Starting at noon at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center’s Field, intramural sports will host its four-on-four fl ag football league. It will also have its co-rec basketball league and 6-foot-under basketball league at the same time on Courts 1 and 2 in the Rec Center. Admission to these events is free.

Shell Seminar: From 4:15 to 5:10 p.m. in Room 110 in Building 4 at the UH Energy Research Park, Duane McVay, the Rob L. Adams ’40 Profes-sor in the department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M Univer-sity and Distinguished Member of SPE, will present a Shell petroleum engineering seminar series entitled The Value of Assessing Uncertainty in Petroleum Exploration and Production.

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Softball: From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Cougar Softball Field, the softball team will compete against Lamar. Admission is free to students with their UH ID.

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HONORS COLLEGE

Conversing for a cause

Mary DahdouhStaff writer

From whiskey and wine tasting to discussions about politics and apocalypse, The Honors College’s 21st award-winning fundraiser, The Great Conversation, welcomed a variety of conversations between professors, students and donors during its banquet

The Great Conversation began in 1993 through the collaboration of founding Dean Ted Estess and alumna Jane Cizik and has served as The Honors College’s most important fundraiser, raising more than $2 million in the past 20 years.

“The event has been kept alive and is still very vivid and success-ful. It is a fundraiser, which is very important, but more than that, it helps raise the profile of the Uni-versity and The Honors College in the city,” said Cynthia Freeland, a professor at the college and chair of the Department of Philosophy, who has attended the event since it began.

“Every year, I look forward to meeting new people and seeing how the conversation goes,” Free-land said.

True to its name, The Great Conversation’s purpose is to pro-vide an atmosphere similar to the freshman Honors course, The Human Situation, where students are engaged in a year-long Socratic dialogue with professors and influ-ential literature.

Every table at the banquet has a different topic on which the pro-fessors, students and donors dis-cuss over a three-course dinner.

This year’s discussions brought guests to muse over art, literature, philosophy, science, politics and even wine through topics such as “Frenemies: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East” and “Apocalypse When? Post-Nuclear Dystopias in the Movies.”

“I’ve enjoyed Dr. (Lawrence) Currey’s take on the topic this year: ‘The 1960s in America: A Decade of Hope and Horror.’ I’m the only one at my table who didn’t live through the 1960s, so it’s been interesting listening to everyone’s stories,” said political science senior Mar-kley Rogers.

“They’re talking about what they were doing when Kennedy was shot, where they were when man walked on the moon for the first time. It’s just a great oppor-tunity to hear these first-hand accounts and to show the donors my appreciation,” Rogers said.

As all proceeds from the ban-quet go toward scholarships and funding for the University; it is a wonderful opportunity for stu-dents to meet and thank their benefactors.

“Last year, I received a scholar-ship called The Great Conversa-tion Scholarship,” said psychology freshman Katelyn Travers.

“I joined the committee to help with the event this year because this scholarship was really impor-tant to me. As an out-of-state student, I was able to get in-state tuition.”

Because of its importance to The Honors College and its stu-dents, many alumni and donors help tremendously with the event, and this year’s banquet was of record success.

More than 20 years ago, donors exceeded expectations by contrib-uting $25,000 at the first fundrais-ing event.

Yet, The Great Conversation raised an outstanding $314,000 for student scholarships this year, said Beth Borck, director of Develop-ment in The Honors College.

Although the banquet is a delight for professors and stu-dents alike, many alumni enjoy the opportunity to reconnect with their alma mater each year.

“This is my third year to attend, and I have thoroughly enjoyed every year of it,” said alumnus Chuck Gremillion.

“This year, especially, the thrill for me is that the conversationalist is Dr. Lawrence Curry, who taught me American History my only year at the University of Houston 40 years ago, and I made an A in his class both times.”

Of course, the heart of The Great Conversation rests in its alumni and benefactors, like Gre-million, who sponsored an entire table.

“I’m so impressed with the stu-dents,” Gremillion said.

“For me, meeting the students really energizes me. I walk away thinking, ‘Man, these kids are so sharp,’ and it makes me wonder if we were this sharp when we were in college.”

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CRIME

Double jeopardy for Knox

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Amanda Knox and Corrado Maria Daclon, the secretary-general of the Italy-USA Foundation leave the prison in Perugia, Italy on Oct. 3, 2011. Knox was rushed to the airport that night and fl own home to the U.S. She faces the pos-sibility of having to go back. | Wikimedia Commons

Letter to the Editor:Graduate students of the UH English Department who work

as teaching fellows reached out to President Renu Khator hoping to begin a dialogue about teaching fellows working conditions. Low wages are at the heart of matter for TFs, who make between $9,600 and $11,200 per year; rates have not changed since 1993. Without adjustments for infl ation, these rates of pay situate TFs beneath the bottom 10th percentile of Houston salaries and just below the poverty threshold as reported in the 2011 U.S. census.

TFs pursuing doctorates pay about 16 percent of their annual income back to UH through fees, which

were increased last year to more than $1,600

annually. For TFs pursuing MFAs, this amount is closer to 19 percent of their annual $9,600. Workplace law obligates students to work only for the University, making it illegal for TFs to work the extra jobs.

Chances are if you’ve taken an undergraduate writing course at UH, your instructor was a graduate student TF. First-year writing courses are large, capped at 27 students in 2012, but are still the smallest classes most fi rst-year students take. Graduate student TFs are often the only instructors students know intimately. In other departments, teaching assistants function as

partnerships between graduate students and senior professors. English TFs are entirely responsible for the instruction of fi rst-year writing courses, of which they teach two sections per semester. Graduate student TFs instruct an average of 54 students per semester — that’s 54 names to learn, 54 individual writing levels to accommodate, 162 papers to grade and 54 fi nal grades to assign — in addition to the TFs’ own course load of three graduate seminars per semester.

As if this weren’t enough to juggle, a recent survey revealed that 71 percent of English TFs work an average of 1.9 outside jobs to cover basic living expenses, receiving an average of 42 percent of their income from outside

sources.

The petition the TFs sent to Khator presented a series of statistics displaying the inability of TFs to uphold the University’s mission statement of “creating an environment in which student success can be ensured,” according to the University’s website. The petition culminated in several requests, the fi rst of which was a response from Khator and the initiation of an open, honest and respectful dialogue about student working conditions. Khator has not responded.

As members of the UH community, TFs are now appealing to our fellow UH students, both graduate and undergraduate, for support. Our aspirations are simple and pivotal not only to the collective

success of we, the TFs, as we pursue our academic and pedagogical goals, but to our undergraduate students as well. We hereby publically petition for the following:

— A fair and just salary of $19,213.00 (Houston’s living wage).

— Full remission of fees: $1,685.70 per year.

— All insurance expenses to be covered by the University: $766.71 per year.

This comes to an estimated raise in pay and benefi ts valuing $21,665.41 per student per year.

The Teaching Fellows of the UH English Department

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More than a year after Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend

Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of Meredith Kercher’s brutal

murder, they will have to go through the legal process, and subsequently the media circus, all over again.

The Italian Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of a retrial of Knox and Sol-lecito for the murder of Kercher. The hearing was expected to be a slam dunk in favor of upholding the acquittal; clearly, that was not the case.

Junior accounting major Caro-line Cowart reacted much like the rest of the U.S.

“It is unfair to try her a second time when she has already been acquitted,” Cowart says. “Hasn’t she suffered enough?”

The prosecution does not

appear to have new evidence, so there should be no grounds to overturn the verdict. Repeatedly trying someone for the same crime puts excessive fi nancial, mental and emotional pressure on the defendant and his or her family; it is also unlawful in the U.S.

In the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Fifth Amendment bans trying someone twice for the same crime, a principle known as “double jeopardy.” The extradition treaty between the U.S. and Italy has a provision that protects against this.

In Italy, the prosecution has the right to appeal annulled acquittals, and a retrial does not constitute a “second” trial.

Although Italy does not have a ban on double jeopardy, Knox, a University of Washington student, is an American living on American soil.

Italy may request that the U.S. extradite Knox in the event of a conviction, and it is plausible that the U.S. may deny the request.

Joey Jackson, a U.S. attorney, believes the U.S. would not uphold an extradition request from Italy.

“We have principles that are well-founded within our Constitution, one of which is double jeopardy,” Jackson said. “So as a result of that, I think it would be highly objectionable for the United States to surrender someone to another country for which justice has already been administered and meted out. So I don’t think or anticipate that that would happen.”

This does not solve the problem.

Knox’s family and she are unable to move on with their lives and have to worry about how their future will be affected by all of this. Knox is being continually targeted by Italy because she is an American and the popular opinion in Italy is that she is guilty; neither are reasons for continued prosecu-tion when the justice system has already done its work. Even so,

Knox is ready to fi ght back.“The prosecution responsible

for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele’s sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith’s family. ... No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have: confi dent in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity,” she

said.The retrial is expected to begin

early next year in an appellate court in Florence, Italy. It is expected that Knox will be tried in absentia. The U.S. should stand by Knox and uphold its laws by pro-tecting its citizens from unlawful foreign prosecution.

Sarah Backer is a business sophomore and may be reached at [email protected].

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Christopher SheltonSports editor

Head coach Tony Levine has known about Joey Mbu’s talent since he was a ninth grader.

The coaches at Foster High School in Richmond, Texas where Levine had a recruiting relationship, told him about the junior defensive lineman.

Levine said Mbu didn’t have the motor of other defen-sive linemen in his class because he was expend-ing energy on both sides of the football. Mbu received

only one Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offer, and that was from UH.

“He didn’t play hard on every play,” Levine said. “And it may have had something to do with why he wasn’t highly recruited, to be hon-est with you, because you don’t fi nd many 6-foot-3, 300-pound-plus men that have the feet and ability that he has.”

Mbu, the team’s only returning starter on the defensive line, has expectations the size of his frame

on and off the fi eld after coming on strong during the fi nal three games last season.

Starting over Defensive line coach Ricky Logo

said the defensive line started from scratch this offseason.

“Really, we had to take a step back and start over again,” Logo said. “For a guy like Joey Mbu that has to be patient because he knows that he can’t do it by himself ... It’s a different group this year, whereas last year, we had a lot of guys with playing experience.”

Mbu is also becoming a leader of the defensive line, a role he is start-ing to accept.

“I have to be a leader. I was kind of pushed into the position. We just had the seniors graduate last year and now it’s my turn,” Mbu said. “They told me it was going to hap-pen and now it’s here.”

Different styleMbu leads by keeping his team-

mates loose with humor. The entire defensive line has a nickname that changes often, he said. He chal-lenges offensive linemen with clever banter that brings emotion into the game. He said he plays better in emotional contests.

On the fi eld, Levine said he thinks Mbu will have a big year and add the ability to get a pass rush without blitzing, an element the defense has lacked the past few seasons. He had 27 tackles and one sack during his sophomore campaign.

Mbu still thinks he can get better.

“I need to work more on my hands and exploding more off the ball,” Mbu said. “My footwork — I still need improvement on that — but the main thing is my hands, and that’ll come with more experience.”

Pushing the pocketIf spring practice is any indica-

tion, the Cougars could be in good shape along the defensive line. Levine said the defensive line has improved more than any position this spring. He said the group has gotten quick pressure up the middle on the quarterback with four down linemen.

Logo said to become the unit they need to be, the Cougars need to focus on stopping the run during spring practice.

“I think for us, we’ve been con-stantly teaching our guys how to play the run. We get enough pass in team situations. When you play

against a spread offense like this, you have to get as much physical contact with your linemen as you can, and that’s what we’re trying to build. ... It’s good for them. It breaks them down and forces them to communicate.”

Levine said if Mbu and the squad fulfi ll their potential, the Cougars could have a good defensive line.

“He and I had a long talk in my offi ce a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed like he just got here, and he’s already a junior,” Levine said. “I think the sky’s the limit for his future.”

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of his convictions that give him his inner strength.”

“His stand on issues is always what’s in the best interest of the students and once he is convinced, he does not give up. To top it off, he does it with a charming smile. I have no doubt that Cedric will be a strong leader in his life’s journey as well,” Khator said.

Although Harris made the deci-sion to not seek re-election, he has announced that he plans to continue working with SGA under a new role until his graduation because he says he is eager to continue his work with Bandoh as well as the rest of the new administration.

“When I fi rst joined SGA during the last administration, I naturally gravitated toward Cedric because I thought he was a senior,” Harris said. “He, at least in my opinion, was the most intelligent and level-headed person in SGA. I was honestly fl oored when I learned that he was a fresh-man at the time and didn’t believe the person who told me until I asked Cedric myself. I then learned about his track record and accomplish-ments in high school — it’s incred-ible how much large-scale leadership experience he’s had.”

While Harris isn’t Bandoh’s right-hand man for the next administra-tion, he said he will have a position in some capacity as well as always being his biggest supporter.

“In my opinion, leaders can gen-erally be broken into two groups: the visionary group that always has the best idea and the ‘clear sighted’ group, who can take any idea and break it down into realistic, action-able steps,” Harris said. “It’s uncom-mon to fi nd somebody who caries both of those traits and Cedric defi -nitely has both.”

The 50th administration will assemble today, and Bandoh and the newly elected SGA vice president, Rani Ramchandani, say they plan to make great strides with the new sen-ate for the campus they have a great deal of love for.

“Cougars are diverse, motivated, driven and entrepreneurial. Nothing has been given to us, and we excel if given the challenge — no matter our backgrounds. Many of us are the fi rst in our families to go college, many of us our non-traditional students and many come from humble begin-nings,” Bandoh said.

“As the student body president, it is a rare and rewarding opportu-nity to represent and serve as the chief student advocate for a uni-versity that embodies all of these characteristics.”

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FOOTBALL

Mbu pushes line to get better

Junior defensive lineman Joey Mbu hangs on to Rice quarterback Driphus Jackson’s leg for one of his 27 tackles last season. | File photo/The Daily Cougar

Positional analysisThe Daily Cougar will take a look at each position and break down its prospects.

Wednesday: The offensive line returns several starters and a vet-eran group. Find out which player is expected to take the next step.

April 8: The linebacking corp lost Phillip Steward. How will the team replace the leadership?

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ACROSS 1 Not doing

much of anything

5 “ ___ cost you!”

9 Bagful on the pitcher’s mound

14 Harvest 15 Chinese

dynasty during the time of Confucius

16 Alaskan shelter

17 Wood-dressing tool

18 Bowie knife handle, e.g.

19 Computer command

20 Direct order?

23 Type of tray or chest

24 Bother the heck out of

25 Onetime co-star of Teri, Felicity, and Marcia

26 Spinning toy

29 Narrow groove

31 Thread site 33 Feeling

of fury 34 Uneaten

morsel 36 Chewie’s

chum 37 Didn’t have

to fact-check

38 What very busy people seem to be?

42 Song from Placido

43 Island side dish

44 Enjoy an entree

45 Catcher behind the plate?

46 Wispy white clouds

48 Cheapskate 52 “___ on a

Grecian Urn”

53 Its root is itself

54 Baby’s fi rst word?

56 Yoko’s surname

57 Crude but effective

61 Mus-cleman’s quality

63 Arthurian lady

64 Two-dimensional calculation

65 Musical composi-tion

66 Poker buy-in

67 Flippered entertainer

68 “Teeny” follower

69 “Home on the Range” critter

70 Drops in the fi eld

DOWN 1 Some

Arab League members

2 Withhold 3 More

slothful 4 Fencer’s

weapon 5 Blood of

the gods, in Greek myth

6 They’re given in November

7 Artist’s studio site

8 Protestant denomina-tion

9 Carpen-ter’s cutter

10 Fairy-tale meany

11 One use for scis-sors

12 Electrically charged atom

13 Word that’s often contracted

21 Wonder Woman’s headdress

22 The Os-cars and Olympics, say

27 Snack-aisle fi xture

28 Bench facing the

altar 30 Daven-

port’s state 32 Church

singing group

35 Secre-tarial skill

37 Visored chapeau

38 Dry as dust

39 Free 40 Dis-

gruntled person

41 Funny-man’s forte

42 Blood system letters

46 Type of fair 47 Set fi re to 49 Eagle,

often 50 Win the

love of 51 Kings and

queens, e.g.

55 More eccentric

58 Apt name for a guy in debt?

59 Last Stuart of the monarchy

60 Relaxed condition

61 Upscale auto initials

62 Uncooked eggs

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MFA candidates work showcased

Yasmine SaqerStaff writer

Artists and art lovers came together Friday to celebrate the 12 graduating Master of Fine Arts candidates and their works at the 35th UH School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition.

The School of Art presents an exhibition each spring for their graduating students as a com-memorative send-off at the Blaffer Art Museum.

This year’s talented group of artists includes Megan Badger, Christopher Cascio, Erica Ciesiel-ski Chaikin, Fiona Cochran, Car-rie Cook, Stacey Farrell, El Franco Lee II, Elicia Garcia, Jessica Ninci, Stephan Paré, Jasleen Sarai and Katelin Washmon.

A diverse and refreshing show-case of art, the MFA Thesis Exhibi-tion represents works from the fi ve departments in the UH Master of Fine Arts Program: Graphic Com-munications, Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms, Painting, Photography/Digital Media and Sculpture.

The exhibit features a variety of

works, including personal photo-graphs by Stacey Farrell, captur-ing the changing role of women in families with her four daughters. In painting, El Franco Lee II experi-ments with historically and racially charged real-life crime incidents with actual security camera foot-age and fantasy scenes among ath-letes, rappers and other African-American fi gures. Megan Badger, who applies paint to photographs, uses both mediums to highlight evidence of magical realism that can be found every day.

Among the still life, Jasleen Sarai gave a captivating perfor-mance on opening night as she designed an architectural space on the fl oor of Blaffer using colorful tape. Sarai constructed fi ve dwell-ings — intended to represent terri-tory, security, privacy, comfort and luxury — on the grounds between Blaffer and the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.

Coming from an architectural background, Sarai’s inspiration came from a desire to improvise with building and demonstrate how you can create your own spaces.

“In reality, most of the archi-tecture that’s around the world is not necessarily considered archi-tecture, but more like living spaces — they’re very improvised, they’re

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The artists whose work was featured represented the fi ve departments of that make up the UH masters of fi ne arts pro-gram which include graphic communications, photography and painting. | Isabella Serimontrikul/The Daily Cougar

From personal to political opinions, 12 graduating MFA candidates put it all out on the line

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born out of different constraints, and so that’s why I decided to do this live performance,” Sarai said.

Another popular artist of the night, Elicia Garcia, challenged audiences to look at world issues through an American lens and engage their social memory with her cutout fabrics of front pages from various issues of The New York Times.

Garcia reveals values, patterns and unintentional photos within the cutouts by displaying only the images printed from the front pages.

“There’s repeating things of extreme happiness and sadness with war — this is the world, and this is what happens, and the pat-tern is really beautiful,” Garcia said.

Through her piece, Garcia hopes audiences will understand the connections between photos.

“To see what’s happening with-out somebody’s words telling you what it’s about, so you don’t have to hear somebody in your ear; you get to make your own story,” Garcia said.

Like Sarai and Garcia, many of

the MFA students projected com-prehensive studies of different life matters through their creations.

Artist Chris Cascio’s installation of objects, images and symbols of narcotics, entitled “Dead Soldiers,” resonated among viewers who hope to see more of his work.

“I think Chris Cascio needs to write up something really nice and try to get a grant to make those exact bags into actual bags,” said Nirvana Trey, a patron of the museum.

“We’re 20-somethings in Hous-ton, so we can relate to it. His work is so explicit and out there; it would make great novelty bags,” Trey said.

The artists also gave audiences the opportunity to experience the art for themselves with interactive pieces including a sewing can-vas and a station with individual headphones with different audio tracks.

The MFA graduate candidates demonstrate innovation, passion and vision that cannot be con-tained and their works are a testa-ment of the bright creative future that awaits them.

The MFA Thesis Exhibition will remain on display in the Blaffer Art Museum until April 13.

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