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FUNDING
Data Foundry CEOs donate$10 million for UH Stadium
Co-founders and co-CEOs Ron Yokubaitis and Carolyn Yokubaitis of the Austin-based tech company Data Foundry Inc. have donated $10 million for the construction of the new UH football stadium.
Ron Yokubaitis is a former UH football player who played for two seasons from 1962 to 1963.
The donation is the largest indi-vidual gift awarded to the stadium fund and brings total donations up to $60 million. An estimated $80 — $85 million in fundraising is required for the University to break ground on the new facility.
The stadium is expected to cost $120 million. It would provide seat-ing for 40,000 fans and could be expanded to seat more than 50,000.
RESEARCH
UH, Rice rank among top R&D spenders in the nation
Financial statistics from the National Science Foundation ranks Rice and the UH among the top 75 schools in the country for research and development spending.
UH spent $34.4 million in research to rank at No. 69 on the list, narrowly outspending Rice, which was ranked at No. 72 with $33.2 million in spending.
The spending numbers show US colleges and universities spent a total of $54.9 billion in research and development, an increase from the previous year’s $51.9 billion in R&D spending.
The report, compiled by the Wichita Business Journal, uses database fi gures from 2009.
CAMPUS
Cougar First Impressions to continue throughout today
Students can still receive a number of free perks and good-ies today as part of the back-to-school event Cougar First Impressions.
Sponsored by the Staff Coun-cil, the event stations UH staff members and volunteers at tents around the University to hand out campus maps and bottled water, as well as giving students direc-tions to classes.
The initiative aims to foster a sense of community among staff, faculty and students by helping new and returning Cougars get situated at school.
For more information about the event, visit http://www.uh.edu/sc.
Living on campus
Anew student wheels in his possessions and waits for an elevator at Cougar Village, the
freshman dormitory. Many students got their first taste of campus life during the move-in days last weekend. See if we caught you un-loading on page 6.
Ryan RockettTHE DAILY COUGAR
More than 300 students received extra motivation at the start the fall semester courtesy of former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
He encouraged individuality and the establishment of a “culture of excellence” among the youth in his speech Monday.
Kalam gave his “What I Can Give” address, named after his philanthropic mission he started
in May, to students and faculty at the UH Conrad Hilton Ballroom. In a speech that lasted nearly 30 minutes, the scientist, politician and humanitarian emphasized the importance of being compassion-ate and spreading goodwill as a method to instill peace within the world.
“A progressive society will be the result of a culture of excel-lence,” Kalam said. “The culture of excellence in society needs you to create it and strive to be the link.”
Graduate student Deepali Worlikar said she enjoyed the opportunity to see the man whose ideals she admires.
“Dr. Kalam is my idol,” Worlikar said. “His speech was very inspir-ing and it will help me in my future.”
Fellow grad student Swati Garg
also said the most striking aspect of the former president’s speech was his lighthearted personality.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam accepts the presidential medallion from Provost John Antel. The award is given to all heads of state who visit campus. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
Past president preaches peaceful agenda
CAMPUS
Former leader of India spreads message to UH
ADMINISTRATION
Former business school dean loses cancer battle
Brianna Leigh MorrisonTHE DAILY COUGAR
The C.T. Bauer College of Busi-ness is starting the school year remembering Arthur Warga, former dean and visionary of the Bauer Honors Program, who died Aug. 7 after fi ghting brain cancer for fi ve years. He was 58.
Warga worked as dean of Bauer from 2001 to March 2011, continuing to serve as dean throughout most of his fi ght with cancer.
Latha Ramchand, interim dean of Bauer, said Warga was someone who “drove the college towards excel-lence. “
Warga laid sturdy foundations for programs such as nationally rec-ognized research initiatives, ranked entrepreneurship and undergradu-ate programs and the Bauer Honors Program.
“Warga left many good works behind him, but I think his most important legacy is the Bauer Honors Program,” said Everette S. Gardner, Jr., whom Warga appointed as Direc-tor of the Bauer Honors Program. Warga tasked him with the respon-sibility of developing curriculum for the college.
Although students can get an honors degree in any major, most disciplines have few courses avail-able with honors sections. But with more than a dozen courses listed in the Honors course book for this fall, the Bauer Honors Program offers the most honors courses on campus and more business honors courses than any other program in the country.
“Warga told me that he wanted the best Honors Program, not just on this campus, but in the nation,” Everette said. “Our curriculum lets me make this promise to Honors recruits: you will never see a big auditorium-sized class in the Bauer College. This was one of Arthur’s specifi c goals when we launched the new program.”
From his tremendous presence and contributions, Warga’s death has caused a great sense of loss, especially since his medical leave was expected to be temporary.
In March, Provost John Antel informed the public that it was anticipated that Warga would return in the fall as a chaired full professor of fi nance.
When Warga stepped down from his role as dean, plans were to appoint the interim dean, wait a year and then consider searching for a replacement. Since his death, no change has been announced.
Warga leaves behind renowned Bauer Honors Program and curriculum
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CITY
Houstonians attempt to break hula hoop record
Michelle CasasTHE DAILY COUGAR
Houstonians have a chance to help set a Guinness World Record as the Easter Seals of Greater Houston attempt to beat the world record of simultaneous hula hooping from 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday at Discovery Green Park.
The event, Hula Hoop for Hous-ton, will raise funds for and bring awareness to Easter Seals Greater Houston, which benefi ts individuals of all ages who are dealing with a dis-ability, impairment or special needs.
“Because we serve people with disabilities, Guinness has agreed that we can spin the hula hoop on any part of the body to qualify — every-one is welcome and can participate,” said Easter Seals Greater Houston CEO Elise Hough in the organiza-tion’s blog post about the event.
Participants will need to bring their own hoop.
Individuals and families are encouraged to bring picnic lunches to hang out after the hooping has concluded.
Attendees should also remember to bring plenty of water and anything else that may be needed to stay cool throughout the day to combat the
heat.Though one in six Houstonians
live with a disability, recent state budget cuts have jeopardized the free services offered by organizations like ESGH.
Formerly known as United Cere-bral Palsy of Greater Houston, the ESGH mission statement explains how they’ve worked for more than six decades to provide a “life without limits for people with all types of disabilities.”
All participants are encouraged to make a suggested $10 donation to help the organization reach their $250,000 goal. Although a donation is not required, the purpose of the event is to raise money to help main-tain the services offered by ESGH and will assist citizens with disabili-ties, their families and caregivers.
ESGH is taking donations online at www.give2gether.com/projects/easter-seals-of-greater-houston-1/, using a credit card or PayPal. Cash, checks or money order are also accepted.
On the website, the ‘Take the Challenge’ link allows users to regis-ter for the event and create a fund-raising page to notify their family and friends of their participation.
Because Chris can be a woman’s name, too.Though The Daily Cougar strives for accuracy and fairness in its reporting, mistakes happen. Please report any errors you see in the paper to the edi-torial staff. Corrections will run on Page 2 as needed to amend the record. To report a correction, e-mail [email protected] or call (713) 743-5362.
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A record number of students living on campus spent the majority of last weekend moving into their dorms, with groups of volunteers assisting with everything from check-ins to handing out water throughout the three-day process.
“This is the fi rst year we’ve had formal volunteers,”said Don Yackley, executive director of resident life and housing. “We call them Cougar Movers, and I think there’s been a great show of support for the check-in, with the University community coming together to make this day go smoothly for everyone involved, especially our fi rst-year students.
“We put the call for volunteers out later than we would like, but we recruited well over a hundred folks to help with the unpacking and the moving, to people helping with carts, and there was a lot of food being given out.”
The volunteers were helpful to new students who were unfamiliar with the campus and the overall
move-in process. “We got lost a couple of times
and every few minutes someone would come up to us and ask us if we needed help,” said chemistry freshman Tanya Reyes. “Everyone was really friendly and kept show-ing us which way to go, which was nice because sometimes we were completely on the other side of the campus.”
Teeba Rose, Marketing Director for Resident Life and Housing, set up the Cougar Movers and even brought out some sponsors for the move, including Vitamin Water, Cat’s Back and Shasta’s Cones who gave out free breakfast burritos and ice cream to everyone. Resident Life and Housing even hired professional movers to help throughout the three-day process.
Yackley, who has been executive director since late June, notes that the move-in seems to have gone a lot smoother than last fall, even with the combination of RLH going through an internal transformation over the summer and the record number of students living on campus. This was especially evident at Cougar Village, which faced large crowds, long lines and little help during check-in a year ago.
“This year we did staggered check-ins for the Moody Towers and Cougar Village,” said Yackley. “We sent out maps and directions and even had staging areas for cars to unload.”
Sophomore Cietta Johnson and moved into Cougar Village last fall, noticed the difference in check-in times and organization.
“Last year, it took me more than two hours to get into my room and get everything moved,” Johnson said.
“This year it only took me about twenty minutes.”
Sophomore Calvin Cochran also said he had a better impression of how the event fl owed.
“I think this year was better,” Cochran said. “It’s just that last year there were so many people that it didn’t make a difference how orga-nized you were because everyone got there at the same time and didn’t know what to do.”
As far as the dorms themselves, most students are pleased with what they were assigned, even though it may have not been their preferred choice.
“I wanted to get a single room, but I ended up in a suite and having
Baptist student ministry members help new students unload their car and move into Calhoun lofts. A record number of volun-teers helped facilitate this year’s move on to campus. | Elizabeth A. Baker/The Daily Cougar
Volunteers help make process more organized
RESIDENCE LIFE
Students make their move to dorms
MOVE IN continues on page 16
4 ■ Tuesday, August 23, 2011 The Daily Cougar
STAFF EDITORIAL
L ike death and taxes, a guarantee in life is a chaotic parking arrange-ment at UH. Many were aware the
situation would be hectic as always, but nothing could brace a driver for the madness of trying to fi nd a spot Monday.
To put in the words of one of our readers, “we have a Carmageddon this semester,” @htown747 said in a tweet.
Professors, please do not assume that every student who was absent or late Monday dis-counted the significance of the first day. Part of Monday’s collective tardiness and truancy can be directly traced to how elusive parking spaces are.
Others can be linked to the long distances students had to walk after they found a spot.
Part of the dilemma stems from the construc-tion of a new parking garage at lot 15D. In order to create more parking spots, many had to be taken away on a temporary basis.
The new lot will give the campus an addition of more than 2,000 new spots, a move we highly approve of. But the construction of this lot could not have come at a more inconvenient time for students.
If you purchased a commuter, economy or student parking pass you are not necessarily guaranteed a spot.
Paying more than $100 to the University for parking should ensure something, but that is simply not the case.
Students have to prioritize parking. Instead of using their time to brush up on literature, math or science, students are spending far too long pursuing a reasonable place to park.
Many UH students get an education in park-ing lot stalking — following a person to their spot so you can take it as soon as they leave. Valuable time should be spent following other pursuits.
The campus is not prepared for the high volume of cars that come to campus every day. This is one of many issues that must be resolved to make UH a more appealing institution.
If the University can hardly accommodate students who bought parking permits, how will it handle a large influx of visitors?
New semester,same parking woes
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EDITOR Daniel RenfrowE-MAIL [email protected] thedailycougar.com/opinionOPINION
Solitary confi nement is unethical
Ron Paulahead, mediafocuseselsewhere
A s our understanding of crime prevention, punishment and reform has evolved, America’s prison sys-
tem has been slow to adapt. In many ways, prisons remain little more than holding
cells, a means to isolate criminals from the rest of society, while offering token measures for reha-bilitation and preparation for life outside of a cage.
The state of Texas, already infamous as the execution capital of the
country, lags even further behind other states in regards to having a prison system purposely built under a doctrine of severity
and harshness. It is a system that relies far too heavily on dehumanizing practices.
This results in a revolving door for some inmates who essentially never leave the criminal justice system. Most notably, pris-ons in Texas posses a custody level known as “administrative segregation.” This is, essentially, mandatory solitary confi nement irrespective of the criminal’s offense.
With conditions that many would fi nd unsuitable for an animal, administrative segregation is a form of punishment at one of the cruelest levels, one that renders a released inmate worse off than when they entered.
Imagine spending 23 hours of every day alone in a nine-by-seven-foot concrete
room. You are allowed one hour a day, again alone, in a recreational room that is basically just a bigger cell with a pull-up bar and few other pieces of exercise equipment. Keep in mind, though, that every time you exit your cell you are strip searched and handcuffed, and searched once again before reentering.
You have no access to television, but you do have a radio. Your meals are given to you through a slot in the door, and communica-tion with others is reduced to shouting across a cellblock. Now imagine living this way for 25 years.
The logical assumption is that such
I n the Republican presidential race there is one person who has thus far won more straw polls than any
other. This candidate handily won the Conservative Political Action Committee straw poll two years running, recently
took fi rst place in the Republican Southern Leadership Conference straw poll and took top honors in the Tea Party’s fi rst annual American Policy Summit online straw poll.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, is this person. But if he is doing so well, why haven’t we heard more about him? Paul is no newcomer to the political scene. He has far more experience than our current president, as well as most of the other Republican presidential contenders.
Paul came to politics from an unusual direction. He is an obstetrician by trade, and made a living delivering babies for many years before running for Congress. He got into politics not to gain power or promote social justice, but to protect the individual liberties of Americans from what he saw to be an over-reaching federal government that had overstepped its Constitutional bounds. He ran for president in 1988 on this platform. This was back when Gov. Rick Perry was Al Gore’s campaign manager in Texas and Bachmann was an attorney work-ing for the IRS.
Paul has made a strong showing this campaign season, yet the mainstream media insists upon pretending he does not exist. After fi nishing second place behind Bachmann in the recent Ames straw poll in Iowa by only 152 votes, media outlets went the extra mile to ensure Paul received no mention.
“Will it come down to Perry vs. Rom-ney?” a CNN International headline read.
“Fourth place fi nish in Iowa straw poll revitalizes Santorum’s campaign,” claimed the Kansas City Star.
Scores of other headlines highlighted Bachmann’s victory, still failing to mention in the bulk of the articles the fact that Bachmann and Paul were in a statistical tie,
separated by only a fraction of a percent-age point. With every major Republican candidate running to Paul’s platform, and all indicators showing Paul is both strong with his base as well as with independents, the media’s black hole surrounding him has started to look very fi shy indeed.
Many conservatives believe that the lib-eral media obsesses over and attacks people like Sarah Palin and Bachmann because they are afraid of them. This is not the case.
They focus on these people because they are crude caricatures of the political right that can be set up and knocked down for all to see. Who they are truly afraid of is a man like Paul, a military veteran who opposes policing the world and truly supports free markets. Paul is a Christian who has no
scandals to speak of, and doesn’t force his beliefs upon others. He is a principled member of Congress who can articulate a conservative position without putting his foot in his mouth. And he is a man who has been steadfast in his support for the Constitution and to individual liberties — including the liberty to do things that some deem offensive.
In short, Paul is a threat to the estab-lishment. A threat like Paul is better kept hidden from view than placed in the spot-light where others might fi nd out how much they agree with him.
Steven Christopher is a graduate fi nance student in the C.T. Bauer College of Business and may be reached at [email protected].
Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, is an enigmatic politician who has managed to maintain political relevance and momentum for decades, despite repeatedly losing out in Republican presidential primaries. | Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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conditions would only be imple-mented against the most vile and dangerous criminals, but administrative segregation is actually mandated for any convict belonging to a so-called “security threat group.” The list includes 12 gangs and racist affiliations whose members are deemed to pose an additional danger to other inmates.
As a result, over 5,000 inmates are permanently put in this form of confinement with another 4,000 or so placed there for part of their prison term.
Incredibly, the Texas Depart-ment of Criminal Justice considers administrative segrega-tion as preventative and not disciplinary. That is to say, the inmates are not being punished for being in a gang; it is just that any gang-related activity is being preempted.
In reality, this system adds a level of brutality to a standard prison term that can only be viewed as furthering punishment.
Like any form of solitary confinement, administrative segregation has the potential to cause severe and lasting psycho-logical trauma. Medical doctors report cases of detachment from reality, severe depression and paranoid delusions as a result of long-term isolation.
Tests reveal changes in the brain activity of people kept in solitary confinement that are sometimes indistinguishable from comatose patients.
In addition, there are essen-tially no opportunities for any meaningful rehabilitation, as inmates do not have access to instruction programs or group based therapy.
Given that those that are placed into administrative segre-gation cannot be paroled, there is no incentive for behavioral improvements and nothing to deter other acts of criminality.
Those who break the law must be penalized for their actions, and while their freedom may be revoked, their rights as a person should not be. Arguing in favor of administrative segregation is to advocate for abuse and the per-petuation of criminal behavior.
Prisons are rightfully intended to punish criminal behavior, but they have the potential to serve as an instrument of reform.
Instead of merely caging people, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice should promote programs that offer alternatives to the criminal lifestyle and chances to better the inmates’ conditions.
Otherwise, they continue to run dangerously close to turning a punishment into a crime itself.
Marc Anderson is a third-year cell biology Ph.D. student and may be reached at [email protected].
A s we break into the Fall semester and the begin-ning of our new school
year, we are continuing on our long-term investments in our
education, careers and futures.
Although a student’s time and effort is his or her most valuable contribution to a university, fi nan-cial obligations are
quite signifi cant as well — as those who pay bills undoubtedly know.
What is lost on, or more accu-rately, hidden from many, is that the fi nancial contributions made to an institution with the size and complexity of our University stretch beyond the services and facilities provided by the organization; students invest in an ever-evolving fi nancial institution.
The University has centralized wealth and resources, and has the power to use these resources in various ways. Some of this wealth and power is used to support UH’s direct interests, and some of it goes to our community and the rest of the world.
A university’s endowment is a collection of investments owned by a university and managed by an administrative committee. There are some things that really stand out in UH’s endowment.
UH has a major stake in some of the biggest tax evaders of the 2008 recession era, with more than a million dollars invested in Apple, who has paid just $8.2 billion in taxes while profi ting $48 billion since December 2009.
UH also has over $14.2 million invested in Altria, Phillip Morris,
Boeing, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Newscorp, Oracle, Pfi zer and Time Warner. These companies collectively made $96.7 billion in profi ts last year, but through the use of overseas tax shelters, lobbying for tax breaks, and other tactics these companies paid very little or no taxes in 2010.
The endowment also shows that the University owns $1.5 million in shares in American Electric,
Boeing, FedEx, Honeywell and Wells Fargo. These are all profi table companies, but they also all hold negative tax rates and have been getting tax refunds from the federal government since 2008.
UH has almost $1 million invested in GE, who recieved a $3.2 billion dollar tax refund last year after making a profi t of $14.2 billion.
And fi nally, the University has almost $11.4 million invested in 23 of the 26 banks who received federal bailout money in 2008. These are the banks who thought that high risk loan practices that subsequently buried poor and working class people under insur-mountable debt was a good idea.
UH questionably endowed
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These banks helped bring about the current recession that has made it so hard for college graduates to fi nd employment. Many of these banks, like JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and several others are also tax dodgers.
When our national defi cit is spurring austerity measures locally and around the country, it’s time for UH to stop investing in rich corporations who lobby and cheat the government out of billions every year.
While it’s important for UH to be solvent, if the University is making money off of the destruction of lives and communities by investing in companies who profi t at the expense of taxpayer and young people trying to fi nd jobs, the University is investing against the interests of its population.
Brendan Laws is a sociology senior and may be reached at [email protected].
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around the country, it’s time for UH to stop investing in rich corporations who lobby and cheat the government out of billions every year.”
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School starting means moving in, and that’s exactly what Cougars were doing this past weekend.
From the Calhoun Lofts to Cougar Village, parents, students and even some Resident Assistants were helping get people set up for a successful school year.
If you have photos of your new place, send a tweet to @thedailycougar or post them on our Facebook wall.
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FOOTBALLRoster issues to clear up at close of training camp
The Cougars concluded training camp Saturday with their second scrimmage at the Carl Lewis Inter-national Complex.
Eleven days remain until the season opener against UCLA on Sept. 3 at Robertson Stadium.
With two weeks of preparation UH is focusing on bringing a well-balanced attack on both sides of the ball.
“For us to be the team we want to be, we’ve got to improve defensively,” head coach Kevin Sumlin said. “We understand the scheme a lot more, we’ve been able to bring in some new players and it will be a matter of how quick they can adapt and play within in the system.
“I like where we’re headed, I like where we are right now as far as where were at this time last year. I would look for us to be much improved.”
Juniors Chevy Bennett and D.J. Hayden were expected to be the starters at cornerback. The emer-gence of sophomore Zach McMillan has complicated the defensive back situation, but it gives the unit more options.
“We’ve got to get our secondary cleaned up, and fi gure out who our safeties are going to be,” Sumlin said. “Zach McMillan has really come on as a corner and given us the ability to move Chevy Bennett to safety.”
Sumlin has counted on contributions from true freshmen for several seasons, but this year’s squad will be the most experienced of his tenure.
“It looks to me like we’ll probably have the least amount of freshman play since we’ve been here for four years,” Sumlin said. “You like to think that’s because you’re growing a program.”
Sumlin said linebacker Derrick Mathews, defen-sive lineman Joey Mbu, wide receiver/running back Daniel Spencer and wide receiver Mark Roberts are the four true freshman who will travel to away games based off of their efforts in training camp.
There have been no setbacks in the rehabilitation of senior quarterback Case Keenum’s knee. However, the goal of the coaching staff has been to not over-work him.
“We’re under a year from the injury and the surgery,” Sumlin said. “During the last two weeks he missed only two practices, we held him out of a couple. If it were up to him he’d practice all the time. We’ve got to ice the knee, we have to make sure he’s not sore. If he starts favoring it you get other prob-lems with arms and shoulders.
“Our medical staff does a great job, he’s right where he needs to be. Everything has gone according to plan.”
— John Brannen/The Daily Cougar
AWARDSQuarterback added to fourth watch list
The eyes of college football’s elite will be on senior quarterback Case Keenum this season. He was one of 31 quarterbacks who was selected to the Manning Award Watch List.
The accolade was established by the AllState Sugar Bowl to commemorate the quarterback fam-ily of Archie, Eli and Peyton Manning.
Others C-USA signal callers on the list include East Carolina quarterback Dominique Davis Sr. and Southern Miss. quarterback Austin Davis.
— Cougar Sports Services
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EDITOR Joshua SiegelE-MAIL [email protected] thedailycougar.com/sports
John BrannenTHE DAILY COUGAR
Senior running back Bryce Beall already has the most rush-ing touchdowns in UH history. He earned several preseason awards, including a selection to the Preseason Conference USA All-Offensive team. He is also in striking distance to become the all-time leading rusher at UH.
But if the Cougars are not producing wins, none of that matters to him.
“If you’re successful on the fi eld and your team is suc-cessful, that’s when individual things come,” Beall said. “I don’t really think about that stuff. I just think about what we can do to go out there and get Ws every week. That’s the most important thing.
“If I don’t get the record and we win the conference champi-onship, I’d be more proud than to get the record and not win any championships.”
Beall is the longest-tenured running back on the roster. He contributed as soon as he arrived, becoming the fi rst player in UH history to rush for more than 1,000 yards as a true freshman in 2008.
Three seasons later as a senior, Beall has become one of the most outspoken players for the Cougars.
“He’s defi nitely matured,” running backs coach Clarence McKinney said. “He came in as a freshman and didn’t know
Senior running back Bryce Beall’s 10th touchdown run of 2010 put him ahead of former UH running back Jackie Battle for the most career scores on the ground in UH history. | File Photo/The Daily Cougar
Team goals take precedent for Beall as he nears UH records
FOOTBALL PROFILE
Ready to lead final run
CAREER YARDSPROFILERk Player Yards
1. Ketric Sanford 3,636
2. Chuck Weatherspoon 3,247
3. Robert Newhouse 2,961
4. Joff rey Reynolds 2,947
5. Bryce Beall 2,787
Bryce Beall • Running back • #25
Year Att. Yds TD Avg Lg2008 198 1247 13 6.3 782009 139 670 7 4.8 262010 163 870 12 5.3 43
1st in career rushing touchdowns (32) • 3rd in career rushing attempts (500) • 6th highest single season rushing yard total (1,247) • Tied for the 6th most rushing touchdowns scored in a single season (12)
SWIMMING Q&A
Busch prepares to make splash in fi rst yearJohn BrannenTHE DAILY COUGAR
Augie Busch’s last job as a swimming head coach was at his alma mater, Salpointe High School, in Tucson, Ariz.
He entered the college ranks as an assistant at Arkansas from 2001-2003 and continued with eight seasons at Arizona as an assistant.
His ascension was 10 years in the making, but Busch is a head coach again at UH after signing on in May. He replaces the late Mark Taylor who died in March.
UH begins its season with the Red and White Meet on Oct. 5 at the CRWC Natatorium. The Daily Cougar spoke with Busch to get his thoughts on his new job and the 2011-2012 season.
Q: How was it to get your fi rst head coaching gig after being
a career assistant in the college ranks:
A: To use the cliché, you have worked your whole life for this. It’s your chance to make a stamp on something. This is an oppor-tunity for me to make a name for myself, and to do a lot better by this program.
Q: Will you have to alter your coaching style?
A: We have a pretty small team. At Arizona we had groups. I was quite honestly responsible for a group that was almost the size of this team. I’m glad I’m starting out my fi rst head coach-ing job with a single gender instead of women and men.
Q: With swimming being a two-semester sport, do you feel like you are trying to get your swim-mers to peak at the right time or do you feel they need to maintain a consistent eff ort throughout
those months?A: Effort always has to be
there, that’s a tough thing for swimmers because sometimes they get broken down. For me it’s all about achieving their best times at the end of the season at conference. With the big stage comes expectations and excitement that no other stage presents. You just want them to battle when they’re under tough training, and perform big when it counts.
Q: Who do you feel like are cornerstones of the roster among the swimmers?
A: Kim Eeson, she’s our best freestyler. When you’re the best freestyler it’s important. Beccy Hillis, Reka Kovac those are probably our top conference girls from last one.
Q: Seven of the swimming team’s 11 meets are at home at the
CRWC Natatorium, including the Conference USA championships. Is it a home-pool advantage or is it diffi cult to compete at the same place you practice?
A: It can be an advantage only if we see it that way. We have to make sure our details in knowing that facility are honed in more than any other place. The double-edged sword is that there’s something kind of fresh about going to a competition out of town. There’s something cool about knowing you’re in a differ-ent place. It kind of galvanizes the team when they’re together on a trip.
Q: Do you have any plans to simulate the traveling experience for the C-USA Championships?
A: This is this fi rst year that we’re going to stay at a hotel during conference. I’m not going
BEALL continues on page 11
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much, but he played really great for us. He kind of had an off year his sophomore season. He rededicated himself after that year to be a leader and to be whatever the team needed.”
Beall said he spent part of the offseason studying footage of former NFL running back Marshall Faulk. When he wasn’t watching Faulk’s moves, he was trying to get a leg up on his competition.
“You’ve got to really study fi lm and get an advantage as much as you can.” Beall said. “My goal is fi nishing the season. Not just starting out great, but fi nishing at the tail end. You do that by just focusing and more fi lm study. Little things like that because at the end of the season teams are going to know what you do and what you run.
Sophomore running back Charles Sims was ruled ineligible prior to the 2010 season. Beall was set to receive the bulk of the carries, but Michael Hayes joined the team less than a month before season opener against Texas State.
Beall may be listed at the top of the depth chart, but will be joined by Hayes, who is back for his senior season, and Sims who is returning from his one-year hiatus.
With a trio of running backs, depth is not a concern. It is just a matter of fi nding ways to get them all involved.
“I’d rather have those three guys than none of those guys,” McKinney said. “It’s been great competition. The guys all get along. We’re just going to put one on the fi eld and we’ll feel comfortable with whoever is out there.”
Last season Beall and Hayes split the workload, with Beall recording 163 rushing attempts and Hayes car-rying it 150 times. Adding Sims into the mix may decrease opportunities for Beall and Hayes, but there are no hard feelings.
Their varying personalities do not allow for any jealousy.
“Mike and I are more similar,” Beall said. “We’re more goofy and out loud. Charles, in the locker room, is a really quiet dude. He keeps to him-self. He doesn’t talk too much and people appreciate that about him.
“We have a great relationship with each other. We all want to see each other succeed, and that’s the best thing.”
BEALLcontinued from page 11
Jesus AcevedoTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars fell 3-0 to No. 39 Texas in front of a record crowd Monday at Robertson Stadium.
The 1,321 fans in attendance saw the Cougars (0-1) match the Longhorns (1-1) in physicality and aggressiveness to start the match, but a Longhorn score in the 25th minute would change that.
“We started off well, but our mentality just dropped when that fi rst goal hit,” senior forward Jessica Zavalza said.
Longhorn defender Nina Peder-sen crossed a free kick into the box, and defender Lucy Keith headed it past Cougar goalkeeper Sydney George for the fi rst score.
“Any team is dangerous on a set piece, especially Texas because they have a lot of big players and when it’s served right into the box it’s always dangerous,” head coach Susan Bush said. “It was kind of a cluster and sometimes you have the luck on your side.
“Texas had a little bit more luck than we did tonight.”
The Longhorns would add a second goal minutes later when midfi elder Lexi Harris curled a shot from the left wing, and another in the 89th minute.
The Longhorns played with more fl uidity than UH, linking passes together and making runs into the box. The Cougars came into the match having only played Texas Christian.
“We just didn’t quite have the
rhythm that we are looking for yet,” Bush said. “I suspect the more games we play, the more we’ll recognize each other’s patterns and habits.”
The game plan against the Long-horns was to apply pressure high, but in the fi rst half it was non-existent. The Cougars did a better job of applying pressure in the second half and created more scoring opportuni-ties, but were unable to capitalize.
The Cougars’ best scoring oppor-tunity came in the 51st minute, when forward Sami Sackos got a hold of a low cross, but her shot went wide left of the far post.
With last season’s leading goal scorer Lauri Byrne gone, UH will have to fi nd ways to put the ball in the back of the net, but head coach Bush is confi dent in her new arrivals.
“We added a lot of freshman with attacking personalities and I think we just have to get them comfortable, calm and confi dent and the goals will come.”
UH will travel to North Carolina to take on Duke on Friday before battling the No. 3 North Carolina Tarheels on Sunday.
The efforts of freshman midfielder Sharis Lachappelle and the Cougars were not enough to stop an in sync Texas offense. The Longhorns scored on three of their five shots on goal. | Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar
Rusty Cougars miss out on chances to keep up with Longhorns
SOCCER
Getting hit by the Horns
to let the girls sleep at Cullen Oaks. I want to get that trip feeling where we’re eating every meal together.
Q: At Arizona your father Frank won several national championships and was the NCAA Coach of the Year six
times. He was recently named the USA Swimming National Team Director. How did he infl uence you?
A: Just watching him and the back-and-forths we would get to have, just talking shop. Watching him operate as a head coach has been his biggest infl uence on me.
He could be the best national team director in the world, but it won’t be in comparison to what he’s
done as a coach, and his talents as a motivator. Some of those traits are being put on display now, but noth-ing like being in a team setting.
Q: The diving team has had success in recent years. What does head diving coach Jane Figueiredo bring to the program?
A: My dad tried to hire Jane 15 years ago. That tells you all you need
to know about the respect I have for her. She’s one of the best coaches in the world. When you’re around that you know why that person is the best at what they do. The diver has com-plete and utter respect for her, yet they feel like she’s at their level with how they relate. That’s the combina-tion the best coaches have.
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whether she’s a bride, party-goer, or party thrower — and Houston is the perfect stepping stone to do so.”
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“People are naturally multi-dimensional,” BHLDN Director of Stores Elizabeth Cooksey said. “A wedding or event is a great opportunity to celebrate in a unique and personal way, which is why we place an im-portance upon building va-riety and fl exibility into our assortment.”
BHLDN has worked with James Coviello, Tracy Reese, Anna Sui and Catherine Deane to design a wedding collection that allows a bride to create an event that is all her own.
“The collection has the fl exibility to appeal not just to brides, but really to anyone who is celebrating in general – whether they are a throwing a party or attending a party,“ Cooksey said.
“Daryl McGregor, who is a very skilled set designer and has worked with us on many projects, crafted the window display,” Cooksey said.
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On a campus with more than 40,000 students, there is a wide variety of events and activities going on at all times. One of the major hubs for student activities is the Moores Opera House, which will be home to more than 30 concerts, recitals and other perfor-mances of the like in the coming year.
First on the docket is the 13th annual Collage concert, which is a preview of what the entire season holds in store for Moores School of Music.
“Collage features almost the whole school — students and faculty from the wind ensemble, marching band, choir, orchestra and jazz band will all be perform-ing,” said Director of Moores School of Music David Ashley White.
“What the opera performs is a snippet of what will be in the fi rst production, which will be a Verdi piece based on Shakespeare’s ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.’”
The UH opera also has several other performances set to hit the stage this season, in which students from both the opera program and the band will collaborate. The most notable piece will be Hugo von Hoffmansthal’s “Der Rosenkavalier” in the spring.
“‘Der Rosenkavalier’ would normally only be done in a profes-sional company like the Houston Grand Opera,” White said. “This piece was carefully selected and it’s a major opera that only two or three university operas in the country would even consider.”
Along with the 28th annual International Piano Festival, the Opera House will also be home to the Amadeus Project, which is the brainchild of faculty member Timothy Hester. He and a small orchestra will perform on a forte piano and other period instru-ments similar to those that Mozart would’ve used when composing his classic works.
Throughout the semester you can expect to see a number of concerts and recitals featuring our
professors, students and several ensembles from Moores; one of these is the AURA Contemporary Ensemble, whose performances appeal to a more modern audience.
“AURA Contemporary Ensemble typically plays music composed in the last ten years or so,” Dr. White said.
With a range of performances as diverse as the student body, there’s ample opportunity to explore at the Moores School of Music.
“We hope to inspire, educate and provide entertainment to the UH community within the realms of what we do,” he said. “Whether they like jazz, choral music, orches-tra, or the like, we have it here and we have it in abundance.”
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Moores School of Music will feature over 30 performances by students, faculty and staff in the Moores Opera House this year. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
Music school to host variety of performances
FINE ARTS
Moores anticipates fi ne-tuned season
Coogs play on campus
As a part of Welcome Week, Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship hosts an event each night to help new
Cougars get acquainted with each other. Monday night’s activity was a game of capture the fl ag at the A. D. Bruce Religion Center. | Nine Nguyen/The Daily Cougar
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“He has achieved so much in his life, he is the greatest scientist and an ex-president, but he was so down-to-earth and humble,” Garg said.
“I knew he was humble, but to meet him face-to-face and see that was an altogether different experience.”
Kalam served as the 11th presi-dent of India from 2002-2007, and was known as the people’s president during his term.
He is also a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor, and is renowned for his work at the Indian Space Research Organization as an aerospace engineer.
Kalam’s motivational axioms echoed throughout the ballroom as he asked the audience to repeat sev-eral phrases with him, to remember them.
“Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the
character. When there is beauty in the character there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation there is peace in the world,” Kalam said.
The former president’s stop at UH was in response to a personal invita-tion that UH President Renu Khator extended to Kalam.
He has been in the city briefl y, but he is aware of what ails most natives.
“To be a unique person, you must sweat and sweat and sweat. And in Houston, you will sweat,” Kalam said.
The event, sponsored by the UH Indian Student Association and Graduate Indian Student Organization, was planned after Kalam accepted an invitation from President Renu Khator to visit the campus.
Following the speech, ISA president Shreya Sheth and GISO president Kiran Patil gave Kalam fl owers and a book containing
messages from students detailing how he has impacted their lives.
Kalam also made plans later in the day to visit individual labs on campus and have lunch with Khator, who awarded him with the President’s Medal.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Studies and Programs Jerald Strickland provided the introduction for the speech and said the faculty was “extremely pleased and honored” to have Kalam speak at UH.
GISO cultural secretary Ravi Teja Nallapu had attended a similar event in India for Kalam’s speech but could not see him because of the crowd.
After fi nally seeing him up close on Monday, Nallapu, who looks up to Kalam as a fellow aerospace engineer, was able to take in his message fully.
“It is excellent,” Nallapu said. “I can see no one less inspiring to me than him.”
INDIAcontinued from page 1
A. P. J. Kalam was considered one of the most popular and approachable Indian presidents for his humanitarian work. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
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CROSSWORDCOMICS
SUDOKUHow to play Each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9; each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9; and each set of 3-by-3 boxes must also contain the numbers 1 to 9.
That Monkey Tune by Michael A. Kandalaft
The Fishbowl by Thomas Hernandez
ACROSS 1 Cutthroat or
rainbow 6 Mgmt. 11 RR terminal 14 - luego! 15 Mover’s
challenge 16 Ben- - 17 PC chip maker 18 Quill possessor 20 Knight’s address 21 Drying oven 23 Assumed as fact 24 Good relations 26 Falls on the
border 28 Extra helping 30 Freebies 31 Binding 32 Complaints 33 Drill attachment 36 Ricelike pasta 37 Whim 38 Be a parent 39 Very little 40 Rich cake 41 Europe’s longest
river 42 Merits 43 Smack 44 Missions of
mercy 47 Bard’s teen 48 Sidestep 49 Metric prefi x 50 Say I do 53 Rectangular
gems 56 Zinc - ointment 58 NW state 59 Clean house 60 Burn slightly 61 PC key 62 Cronyn’s mate 63 Peak in a
Trevanian title
DOWN 1 Out of - world 2 Sari sporter 3 Blackball 4 Navaho foe 5 Having a chat 6 Spread on 7 “The Wanderer”
performer 8 Scratch or dent
9 Ltd. relative 10 Nutty
confections 11 Vishnu associate 12 Radio dial 13 Skybox locale 19 Greedy people 22 - take forever! 25 Part of MSG 26 Sister’s girl 27 Doubtful 28 Stash the bags 29 Fictional
governess 30 Well-bred chaps 32 Tractor garages 33 Crying out 34 “Othello” heavy 35 Ambush 37 Links cry 38 Kind of model 40 With least slack 41 Split 42 Pantyhose shade 43 Captured fi rst
place 44 Overzealous 45 Duck out from
under 46 Sculptor George
or actor George 47 Hoarse 49 Sine qua non 51 Razor feature 52 Big bucks? 54 Dundee duo 55 Kayo count 57 Cato’s dozen
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a roommate,” Johnson said. “But it’s better than not getting housing like some people.”
This year’s record enrollment also brought a large number of students wanting to live on-campus causing all housing areas to be up to capacity. According to Yackley, there are still more than 100 students on waiting lists staying in temporary housing
until they are able to be relocated to more permanent living situations.
“We tried to do everything we could envision to make the check-in process go as smooth and quick as possible. It’s especially hard to make it perfect, but we learned a lot from this go-around,” Yackley said.
“We’ll make some improvements for the next cycle and hopefully get even more people excited about helping next year.”
Former dean Arthur Warga was respected for the changes he enacted in the busi-ness school over the past ten years. | Courtesy of C.T. Bauer College of Business
“I’ve always said he was certainly a colleague, a dean, my boss, a men-tor, in the truest sense of the term,
but in many ways he was like an older sibling to me,” said Ramchand.
“I learned so much just working with him. He was just an amazing man.”
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