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MondaySeptember 20, 2010
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EVENTS
Author Amy Tan reading in Houston tonight
Amy Tan, author of the 1989 novel "The Joy Luck Club," comes to downtown Houston at 7:30 p.m. in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center.
Part of Inprint's 30th season of its "Brown Reading Series," the evening with Tan will consist of a read-ing, on-stage interview, and book sale and signing.
Tickets are on sale for $5 at www.inprinthouston.org. — Sara Nichols/The Daily Cougar
TRAFFIC
Lane closure on Cullen boulevardThe right-hand northbound lane of Cullen boule-
vard is scheduled to be closed between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. today for scheduled road work.
The closure will begin south of UH Entrance 11.
A minor pedestrian detour is also scheduled for the area.
TRAINING
HTML session scheduled todayA free class sponsored by Technology Support Ser-
vices for the UH community is being off ered from 1-3 p.m. in room 110-L of the Social Work Building.
Registration is required to reserve a seat in the class.
Course descriptions and online registration can be found at www.uh.edu/ittraining.
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KEENUM continues on page 3
Jose AguilarTHE DAILY COUGAR
The life of David Hickman — as an artist, professor, colleague, neighbor, father and hus-band — was memorialized in a ceremony on Sunday.
Over 125 people fi lled Dudley Recital Hall in the Fine Arts Building, many of them honoring Hickman by donning clothes and accessories in his favorite color — purple.
Sara Hickman, one of his two daughters, wore purple attire but also highlighted strips of her hair in her father’s favorite shade.
She shared with the audience “A letter to my dad who I believe is here,” a seven-page letter she wrote for her father.
“I knew you liked people, and I know people loved you. Your passing has created a whole new sense of community,” Hickman said.
Hickman also thanked her father for giving her the “hilarious gift” of laughter.
“I hope heaven is making you laugh, because I can still hear you laughing,” she said.
Roberta Harris, a former student who later became one of Hickman’s colleagues, also pic-tured him enjoying the afterlife.
“I would like to imagine that David is in a really fabulous place where he can have ongoing
Quarterback Case Keenum was carted off before half time, and has likely played his last game as a Cougar. | Courtesy of Maya Sugarman/The Daily Bruin
John BrannenTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Case Keenum era at UH came to an abrupt end after the quarterback tore his ACL while attempting to make a tackle after
throwing an interception. Backup quarterback Cotton Turner also suffered a season-ending shoulder injury, fracturing his clavicle.
Keenum will finish his career as the school leader in passing yards,
Second-string quarterback Cotton Turner also lost for remainder of season in 31-13 loss to UCLA
COMMUNITY
Author reading series beginsMichelle ReedTHE DAILY COUGAR
For 30 years the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, sponsored by Inprint, Houston’s only non-profi t lit-erary organization, has cultivated and inspired readers and writers by offering live on-stage readings from popular authors, and the series only has room to grow.
“It feels fantastic and humbling to know that the series is celebrating its 30th anniversary season,” said Inprint's marketing and outreach director Krupa Parikh.
“Inprint is very proud of this achievement and is committed to maintaining the Series’ quality and accessibility.”
The Margaret Root Brown reading series is presented in a downtown the-ater with on-stage interviews and book signings following the show. Tickets for a single reading are only $5.
Despite new technology like Ama-zon’s Kindle, which makes literature available through e-books, Parikh says that the series has remained popular because it continues to hold a mys-tique that literary audiences are not used to.
“Attending a reading is a social and intellectually stimulating experience. The act of reading, whether it be via an actual book or via an e-book is a
FOOTBALL
Art professor was truly loved
David Hickman | Coutesy of Brad Young
Season over for Keenum
Danielle UpshawTHE DAILY COUGAR
Cougar Line shuttles around campus require students to swipe their red Cougar Cards upon entry, causing many students to question its effectiveness and effi ciency.
Business marketing sophomore Tia Paige has issues with the process.
“I’ve had to wait for the bus for a certain amount of time, and I’m already concerned about being late to class, and then I have to fi nd my card. I think it’s causing a problem, and there has to be a better way to get an idea of how many students ride the shuttle,” Paige said.
“Maybe they could do a survey or something, because this is not working.”
The card readers were installed toward the
end of the Spring 2010 semester in an effort to collect data on the number of students using each shuttle.
“Requiring students to swipe their Cougar Cards is a way that we can measure bus rider-ship,” said assistant vice president for University Services Emily Messa.
“With good data we can improve the Cougar Line routes and number of buses that we need to support the growing campus,” Messa said.
Although collecting data is important for future improvements to the system, students are frus-trated by problems caused by the requirement.
“I dislike having to swipe my student ID to get on the campus shuttle,” biology senior Char-Lissa Foster said. “It is time consuming and such a hassle.”
Foster lives on campus and uses the shuttles daily to get to classes.
“One time, I was at the bus stop for 30
Students raise concerns over shuttle data collection, time
Process frustrates riders
SHUTTLES continues on page 3WRITERS continues on page 3
ON CAMPUSIT Training on Web Development A free class introducing students and faculty to HTML II will be held in the Social Work Building in room 110-L. You must register at www.uh.edu/ittraining before-hand. The class will be held from 1 to 3 p.m.
AROUND TOWNMike Posner, Far East Movement, Stephen Jer-zak, 2AM Club, Bad Rabbits House of Blues will host some of your favorite top hits artists tonight at 7 p.m. Make sure to get tickets before they sell out! Visit livenation.com for ticket info.
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CALIFORNIAMissing cult group found, leader questioned
The missing group of 13 El Salvadoran immigrants who have been described as "cult-like" were found Sunday afternoon at a park, as reported The Associated Press. The leader of the group was 32-year old Reyna Chicas, who was temporarily detained. Police ordered a hunt for the group Saturday when the members, many of them children, left behind belongings and notes that resembled suicide letters. The members were dis-covered unharmed at Jackie Robinson Park near Palmdale, CA. Reports state that Chicas used to belong to a Chris-tian congregation, but separated for no reason. She then formed her own religion and about 12 to 15 people would regularly meet at her home. No immediate threats were apparent, but police commented that they had to treat the matter seriously.
GULF OF MEXICOBP oil spill now plugged up for good
The ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico which caused the worst mari-time oil spill in history has now been permanently sealed up, per BP and U.S. offi cials. The entire ordeal lasted almost fi ve months, devastating the gulf region, residents, area economic conditions and the oil giant BP. Pres-sure tests were conducted Sunday to ensure the cement poured into the base of well was holding adequately. In total, it is estimated that 4.9 million barrels — or about 206 million gallons — of crude oil spilled out into the gulf.
The blast at the Deepwater Horizon off shore oil rig, which claimed 11 lives in April, triggered the spill and caused the drilling platform to sink. BP stated that the spill has caused $9.5 billion in damages as of Saturday. However, there is still plenty of work ahead as offi cials continue to clean the gulf and aid in the recovery process.
AFGHANISTANBodies of three kidnapped election workers found
Authorities in Afghanistan have recovered the bodies of three elec-tion workers who were kidnapped Saturday during parliamentary ballot-ing, reported The Washington Post. Provincial spokesman Munit Ahmar told the press that the three were am-bushed by the Taliban and then shot. The Taliban called the election a fraud and a product of the U.S. government. The Free and Fair Election Founda-tion of Afghanistan stated that it was seriously concerned about the quality of the election as voters had no regard for voting conduct.
ENTERTAINMENTJoaquin Phoenix just an actor
By now most have heard of actor Joaquin Phoenix's little publicity stunt. For those who have not, Phoe-nix pretended to be a depressed and troubled drug-addict, both on and off the screen for the past year or so. As it turned out, none of it was real. Then again, was it really so surpris-ing?
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private, individual experience. But attending a reading makes the act of reading public and collective,” Parikh said. “The live experience of hearing an author read from his or her own work puts a different light on the text.”
Founded in 1983, the program was originally named the Houston Reading series run by the UH creative writing program.
The organization still supports the University through fellowships offered to students, and arranges for some of the visiting writers to spend time with UH students.
Nearly thirty years ago, the orga-nization focused strictly on inspiring graduate students; now the series is known for offering readings with a variety of authors
“These are authors that people don’t have immediate access to, so it attracts people to the readings,” said executive director for Inprint Rich
Levy.“There was a great reading by
Anne Enright a few years ago when she read a short story from her collec-tion 'Yesterday’s Weather.' She was not a household name, but she gave the most captivating reading. There was a pin-drop silence in the audience.”
Over the years, the series has presented over 300 of the world’s greatest writers, including winners of fi ve Nobel Prizes, 49 Pulitzer Prizes, 45 National Book Awards and seven Booker Prizes, as well as 13 U.S. Poet
Laureates.“Houston has an enthusiastic book
reading audience and it is gratifying and exciting to cultivate it,” Levy said.
Readings from Carlos Fuentes, Sal-man Rushdie, Peter Carey, Major Jack-son and Alicia Ostriker, Chitra Diva-karuni and Gish Jen, and Kay Ryan will fi ll out the season, which lasts until April 2011. Carey, Jen, Jackson and Ryan will visit the UH campus.
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minutes,” Foster said. “I did not have my card, so I could not get on.”
Messa said that students who forget their cards should still be allowed to ride, but urges the importance of car-rying their cards.
“We defi nitely want our students to swipe their Cougar Cards so that their ride will count when we begin review-ing ridership data,” Messa said.
Collecting daily percentages of shuttle riders will also create other transportation opportunities for stu-dents, Messa said.
“One great enhancement that we are working on with Metro is a combined
Cougar Q Card so that students can have their student-discounted Q Card in a more timely, convenient manner,” Messa said.
Service providers collect data to evaluate their services, and University Services must do the same.
“Whether we use card readers or some other tools — like sales data in our restaurants or customer service
survey instruments — it’s important that we have and use tools to measure the performance of our services,” Messa said.
“We will always need some way to track shuttle ridership,” Messa said. “At this point, having card readers on our shuttle buses is the best way.”
SHUTTLEScontinued from page 1
chats about art with all the famous artists he loved,” Harris said.
Art student Drew Ireland said that Hickman helped him conquer his own self-doubts about being an artist.
“He gave the greatest sense of vali-dation to anyone who wanted to make
art, it was like water to a plant.”Hickman hopes to continue to
honor her father’s legacy and his memory. She has created a Facebook page titled “In Memoriam to David Hickman,” where those who knew
her father can go and share memories and stories and be a part of the new sense of community that has devel-oped from his passing.
HICKMANcontinued from page 1
touchdowns and attempts, along with having the fifth most passing yards in NCAA history.
Turner had shoulder surgery Sunday, and head coach Kevin Sum-lin said the swelling on Keenum's knee must subside before he goes under the knife.
Keenum was redshirted as a freshman, guaranteeing him five years of eligibility at UH. The NCAA states a player can only play 30 percent of a season to get con-sideration for a medical redshirt. Keenum is under the minimum, but since he received a voluntary redshirt it would take extenuating circumstances for him to receive a medical redshirt. It is unknown at this time if the team will apply for one, as the chief concern is his health.
"It's a blow to our team," Sum-lin said. "I'm really disappointed for them personally, particularly for Case. It's one of those things that you don't want to happen to anybody. It's an unfortunate situation.
"We've been through adversity of all kinds. I don't know if we've been through this type yet.”
With Keenum and Turner out of the equation, it will lead to a quarterback competition between true freshmen Terrance Broad-way and David Piland, along with junior Austin Elrod. Broadway and Piland's redshirts have been lifted.
Elrod and Broadway came in after Turner's departure. Broadway completed five of eight passes for 84 yards and a touchdown. Broad-way, a native of Baton Rouge, La. was ranked a four-star recruit by rivals.com. The true freshman showed some elusiveness with two runs for 14 yards. Regardless of who next week's starter is, Sumlin said he doesn't sense that the offense will undergo any major changes.
"We're going to name a starter at the beginning of the week," Sumlin said. “We're going to also get David Piland involved. He was not on the trip but we're going to get him involved and practicing. I don't see us making a drastic departure from what we do offensively."
With little preparation, Broad-way was able to calmly lead the offense to two scores to get UH within 18 points. Sumlin said he was impressed with Broadway's ability to manage the game.
"He operated very well," Sum-lin said. "He was probably calmer than a lot of the coaches were at that point. I told him to smile. He looked at me said 'I don't think we have time for that, coach,' and off he ran. That's the kind of kid he is; our young guys are from programs that are used to winning in high school, they're competitors and I think that showed."
Despite losing the starting and backup quarterback, Sumlin said the team's goals remain the same: to win Conference USA. The Cou-gars will get back to conference play Saturday when Tulane comes to Robertson Stadium.
"We've got a long season ahead of us, all of our goals are still out in front of us," Sumlin said. "Every year our goals start with our con-ference, and right now we're 1-0 in our conference, and we play a conference game this week. We've got to turn our attention now to still reaching our goals."
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4 ■ Monday, September 20, 2010 The Daily Cougar
STAFF EDITORIAL
Case Keenum tore his ACL, and Cotton Turner broke his clavicle in Saturday’s 31-13 loss to UCLA on Saturday, which means Robertson
Stadium had better be just as packed next weekend as it was for the fi rst two games of the season.
Why? Because the Cougars have earned your respect and support by now, and if you duck out of going to the games this season, you’re the worst breed of fair-weather fan imaginable.
For all the praise Keenum receives for his stats, sometimes people forget one of his best traits: he’s a team player.
Over the years, he has earned the respect of his team, because he’s never come across as one to showboat; instead, he’s perceived as a humble young man who puts his team before himself (which is how he got injured), and we guarantee that he’ll be watching next week’s game. And you should be, too.
The University doesn’t have room for fair-weather fans right now, and if you truly are a fan of Keenum, you’ll support his teammates this week-end. Both Turner and Terrance Broadway’s ability to come into the game and play their respective hearts out impressed us.
“We’re going to have to depend on some leader-ship from within,” Sumlin said in an interview with ESPN. “As I told the team after the game, we’ve got some experienced players who are going to have to pick up the slack. We do have people around who will surround our quarterbacks, and they’ve got to raise their level of play. We’ve got a long season ahead of us. All our goals are still out in front of us."
Right now, the Cougars are 1-0 in Conference-USA, and with a conference game this week, the Cougars need (and deserve) the support of the UH student body.
“We’ve got to turn our attention now to still reaching our goals and our players know that. This is another challenge for this team and for this program,” Sumlin said.
It may seem like a terrible change in direction for the Cougars’ 2010 season, but now is the time for Houston fans to truly shine.
As always, we’ll be at Robertson Stadium for the Cougars’ next game, and we hope to see the stands overfl owing again.
More than ever, Cougars need your support
STAFF EDITORIAL The Staff Editorial refl ects the opinions of The Daily Cougar Editorial Board (the members of which are listed above the editorial). All other opinions, commentaries and cartoons refl ect only the opinion of the author. Opinions expressed in The Daily Cougar do not necessarily refl ect those of the University of Houston or the students as a whole.
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opinion EDITOR Andrew TaylorE-MAIL [email protected] www.thedailycougar.com/opinion
I don't really care, I am kind of apathetic to the whole thing.
AJ AmentDigital media freshman
Personally, I think it’s a big joke, and if anything does happen, it’s not going to be like the movie.
Madeline Jalifi Undecided freshman
I believe it’s going to be the beginning of a new era but not necessarily the end of the world.
Keith RodriguezPhysics freshman
It’s preposterous! How can anyone know when the end of the world is going to be?
Francis GuerreroBusiness freshman
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Are you scared about what might happen in 2012 ?
It’s 2010. Actually, it’s the latter half of 2010. That means that we are about two years away — give or take a few
months — from the end of the world, as predicted by the Mayan Long Count calendar.
Or are we?Every generation has
had its crazy prophets shouting that the end of the world is near and
that we must repent, or something to that effect, at least. This time is absolutely no differ-ent. According to executive of the Florida-based Foun-dation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Sandra Noble, the end of the world theory about 2012 is a chance for people to cash in on other people’s fears. Obvi-ously — they made an entire movie about it.
People have always feared the end of the world. Before people started seri-ously thinking about 2012, the Jehovah’s Witnesses claimed that 1914 would mark the end of the world. Pretty much every major religious group has some idea about the end of the world, if not a specifi c date. It is a human fascination, borderlining on obsession or addiction.
From Revelations to Nostradamus, we’ve got a fi xation on the apocalypse — and rightly so. It will be the ending of life, the ending of humanity.
But we don’t have to worry about 2012. If the world does end then, it will be highly coincidental. The Mayan Cal-endar does not simply end on Dec. 21, 2012; it resets. Our calendar resets every Jan. 1, but no one freaks out about that. The Mayans possibly believed that the creation of the world happened at the
beginning of their calendar, and the next time we reach that date will be Dec. 21, 2012. This does not mean that the world will end though. It could simply mean the start of a new era, as some would like to believe.
Personally, the world changing at all on this date is not likely, at least not on the scale the various crackpots and pro-ponents of the 2012 theory would have us think. It’s ridiculous to believe the Mayans could accurately predict the end of the world when they couldn’t even save their own empire from collapsing.
Rather, it simply marks the beginning of a new cycle of the calendar, like Jan. 1 marks the beginning of a new cycle on our calendar.
We have a couple ways we can go from here. The fi rst way is to accept completely that the Mayans could pre-dict the end of the world or the start of a new life-altering era. The second way is to deny this and say that they simply cal-culated out their calendar and used it as they saw fi t, and that it would reset every
5,125 years, the next time being Dec. 21, 2012. And the third is that the Mayans simply got tired and fi gured that setting a
calendar many centuries ahead of them was enough; sadly, the empire fell before they could continue to work on it.
As comical as that last option is, the most logical — and likely — option is that the Mayans simply intended for the calendar to reset. And when we reach Dec. 21, 2012, I’m going to raise a toast for another 5,125 years of humanity inhabiting planet Earth.
Ian Everett is a creative writing freshman and may be reached at [email protected].
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Personally, the world changing at all on this date is not
likely, at least not on the scale the various crackpots and
proponents of the 2012 theory would have us think."
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Christopher LoseeTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars fell 31-13 in Saturday’s contest against Pacific-10 opponent UCLA in front of a crowd of over 54,000 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
“We’re disappointed in how we played," head coach Kevin Sumlin said. "We played in spurts, and that’s not good enough, particularly when you are on the road. I thought UCLA played very well. They are a talented football team. They were trying to find themselves. I hoped that it wouldn’t happen this week, and it did."
UCLA’s defense delivered crippling blows to the Cougar offense, including two interceptions that left quarterback Case Keenum injured for the remainder of the season with an ACL tear. Keenum sustained the injury when he attempted a tackle after throwing an interception intended for Michael Hayes. Keenum completed 10 of 18 attempts for 83 yards and two picks before leaving the game.
UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel said that the win was what his team needed after difficult losses to Kansas St. and Stanford.
“What happens when you suffer a demoralizing loss like we did to Stanford, you have to remember that you’re in a foxhole with a bunch of guys you can count on," Neuheisel said. "The only way to get out is for everybody to get a shovel and start digging. We would have the right to be free and play with everything instead of being nervous. You stack your days and know that you’ve got everything done to prepare, you’re much more able to go play.
“You have to tackle this team. They’ve got so much speed and space. You have to get there and you have to get guys down. Once we went down there and scored a touchdown, the crowd got into it. The defense fed off of that, and the game changed at that point. Now we have to learn how to keep it there and not let it fall off.”
The Cougar offense was held in check by UCLA. On 30 rushing attempts, UH averaged 3.6 yards. UCLA linebackers Akeen Ayers and Rahim Moore had two interceptions that took the air out of the Cougar's offensive drives.
“We were primarily in a nickel configuration, which put more speed on the field,” Neuheisel said. “While we were going to mix pressures and coverages, the one thing you saw was that we played
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SEPT. 4vs. Texas State
W 68-28
SEPT. 10vs. UTEP *
W 54-24
SEPT. 18at UCLA
L 13-31
SEPT. 25vs. Tulane *
2:30 p.m.
OCT. 9vs. Mississippi
State
7 p.m.
OCT. 16at Rice *
Rice Stadium
2:30 p.m.
OCT. 23at SMU *
Dallas
2:30 p.m.
OCT. 30at Memphis *
Memphis, Tenn.
6 p.m.
NOV. 5vs. UCF *
7 p.m.
NOV. 13vs. Tulsa *
7 p.m.
NOV. 20at So. Miss *
Hattiesburg,
Miss. 6 p.m.
NOV. 27at Texas Tech
Lubbock
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Johnathan Franklin (23) and the UCLA off ense proved to be too much for the Cougars. Franklin fi nished the game with 158 yards on 26 attempts and three touchdowns. | Courtesy of Maya Sugarman/The Daily Bruin
Scoring summaryFirst quarterHou — Hogan 29 yd fi eld goal, 2:56
UCLA — Franklin, Johnathan 11 yd run, (Forbath Kick), 1:50
Second quarterUCLA — Prince, Kevin 2 yd run, (Forbath kick), 5:55
UCLA — Franklin, Johnathan 12 yd run, (Forbath kick), 2:30
Third quarterUCLA — Forbath, Kai 42 yd fi eld goal, 4:49
UCLA — Franklin, Johnathan 12 yd run (Forbath kick), 0:06
Fourth quarterHou — Cleveland 10 yd pass from Broadway, (Hogan kick), 4:32
Hou — Hogan 31 yd fi eld goal, 2:35
Hou UCLAFirst downs 19 22Rushes-yards 30-108 51-266Passing yards 252 99Return yards 113 199Comp-att-int 19-31-2 26-49-1Punt return 2-4 3-34Punts 3 2Fumbles-lost 2-1 2-2Penalties-yards 7-55 6-75Time of possession 27:33 32:27
Team stats
1 2 3 4 FINALUCLA 7 14 10 0 31
Hou 3 0 0 10 13
UCLA declaws CougarsBruins coast to 18-point victory in Cougar's fi rst loss of season
Once we scored a
touchdown, the
crowd got into
it. The defense fed off of that, and the game
changed at that point.“ — UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel on his team's 31-13 victory over UH
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STAT ATTACK
360 yardsThe Bruins held the UH off ense to a season low for yards gained. The Cougars averaged 576 yards in their fi rst two games.
James ClevelandThe wide receiver made 6 receptions for 144 yards with one recep-tion for a touch-down, his fi rst in two games for the team. His longest reception of the night was 50 yards.
Marcus McGrawThe linebacker made six solo stops and forced a fumble in Saturday's loss against UCLA.
Trickery: Michigan St. and Notre Dame fought to a 28-28 dead-lock at the end of regulation on Saturday. Notre Dame received the ball after the coin toss and kicked a fi eld goal to go up 31-28. The Irish held the Spartans to fourth-and-13 from the Notre Dame 28-yard line. The Spartans appeared to be lining up for a fi eld goal to tie the game at 31 and send the game into double overtime. When punter and holder Aaron Bates received the snap, he got out of the holding position, dropped back and made a 29-yard touchdown completion to tight end Charlie Gantt.
MSU 34ND 31
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fast. Rahim (Moore) and Akeem (Ayers) made some big plays that changed things.”
Replacing Keenum, backup quarterback Cotton Turner threw for only 39 yards — before he too had a season-ending injury to his shoulder.
After losing the first two games of the season, the Bruins were not favored to win Saturday’s match-up, but their intensity was seen on both sides of the ball.
UCLA’s quarterback Kevin Prince threw for 99 yards, completing nine of 17. Running back Johnathan Franklin rushed for 266 yards and three touchdowns against the UH defense.
The Cougars are now 2-3 all-time against UCLA. Coming away empty-handed at the Rose Bowl is not what the Cougars had in mind, but turnovers and untimely penalties cost the Cougars.
“We kept shooting ourselves in the foot offensively," receiver James Cleveland said. "It’s very disheartening. That’s not what we came out here for.”
"We just have to overcome ourselves. You have to look at the bright side. We just have to look forward to next week. We have to leave this game in California. Any team can beat anybody."
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8 ■ Monday, September 20, 2010 LIFE & ARTS The Daily Cougar
MOVIES
Affl eck's 'The Town' just another crime drama Ryan Popham THE DAILY COUGAR
Ben Affl eck returns to the direc-tor’s chair for “The Town,” which opened last weekend to mixed reviews and a big profi t, making $8 million on its fi rst night alone.
The fi lm stars Affl eck as the leader of a group of bank robbers in Boston, “the bank robbery capital of America.” The opening bank heist leads to a getaway involving a captured-then-released hostage (played by Rebecca Hall) whom Affl eck's character checks up on after the robbery. What follows is a fairly predictable heist movie with a persevering F.B.I. agent played by Jon Hamm.
Having not read the book upon which the movie was based, Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, the movie came across as a decent crime thriller with intense action sequences. The adapted screenplay was written by Ben Affl eck, Aaron Stockard and Peter Craig and main-tains viewers' interest overall. The eventual relationship that ensues between Affl eck and Hall, the oblivious ex-hostage, leads to the inevitable concept of redemption in starting a new life.
Along with the adaption of Den-nis Lehane’s "Gone, Baby, Gone," Affl eck has proven himself a capable director. The overall themes of the movie, however, bring Good Will Hunting to mind with Affl eck as
the leading man wanting to leave Boston, guns, the fake occupation of breaking rocks and, of course, robbing banks. The only difference is that he does not differ from others in the group, as he is an ex-drug addict who chose to be more like his convicted father. In other words, it seems “The Town” could be consid-ered an extremely unoffi cial sequel to Good Will Hunting showing what might have happened with Affl eck after Matt Damon's character left.
The casting was fi tting and the actors' performances were well-executed. Jeremy Renner delivers an erratic performance as Affl eck’s best friend and fellow thief, Chris Cooper plays Affl eck’s dad who is in prison with family secrets, and Pete Postlethwaite plays the malevolent provider of jobs that the band of thieves carry out. Jon Hamm plays "the bad guy," when in all actuality, he is the good guy trying to bring down the gang of thieves.
Many heist movies have come to be iconic through both the caliber of the fi lm and the masks worn by theives, including the hockey masks in “Heat” and the rubber president masks in “Point Break”. This movie does have such iconic disguises — nun masks, along with dark skull masks — but “The Town” doesn’t quite own up to being memorable; it makes for a predictable crime thriller that is worth renting on DVD.