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By Jose AguilarTHE DAILY COUGAR

Issues regarding safety, traffic flow, emergency vehicle access and even the playground of the UH Child Care Center were addressed during a packed meeting with Metro representatives on Thursday afternoon.

The meeting covered the Wheeler Street leg of Metro’s Southeast Corridor light rail expansion, and representatives from the City of Houston, Houston Rapid Transit and UH administration were in attendance to answer questions.

“We look forward to going forward with you in this,” Metro Solutions managing director David

Couch said. “We look forward to a good interactive dialogue to move forward in this process.”

Metro’s Southeast Program Manager Jose Enriquez presented a slide show of changes to Wheeler under the current plan. One of the main issues discussed was the effect the expansion would have on the child care center.

The tracks, which according to current plans are between 20 to 30 feet away, would not affect the buildings, but it would affect the playground area.

Audience members questioned the effects of possible noise pollution and whether this would be safe for the children.

“We do (think this is safe for the

children),” Enriquez said. “And the light rail is actually quite quiet, more than most vehicles out there, more than a bus.”

The current plan has the tracks on the campus side of Scott and Wheeler streets, in effect taking land from the University and affecting traffic flow and entrances along both streets. These particulars created another contentious dialogue and prompted UH System Regent Carroll Ray to address the audience.

“Metro made the request to have the tracks on campus,” Ray said. “We see it as a benefit. We’re trying to work together as partners.”

The plan takes into consideration a possible future expansion of

Wheeler into a city boulevard of four lanes by the City of Houston. Several audience members said that Wheeler was a secondary street at best and that there was no need for expansion.

Enriquez said there are current plans, not of Metro’s design, that will bring more traffic to the UH area and that all Metro plans for the expansion could not preclude either future plans by the city or the Texas Department of Transportation.

Provost John Antel told Metro officials that a lack of consideration on how the University moves people around and the possibility of people going across the tracks were concerning, along with the lack of communication between

the various entities involved in the project.

“We need to get all the stakeholders at the same table,” Antel said.

The presentation also introduced plans for a multi-modal center to be built in the parking lot behind the Welcome Center. The center would be adjacent to the future light rail stop at Wheeler and Calhoun and would connect with UH shuttle lines as well as Metro bus lines.

The University is currently in the process of hiring a project manager that will oversee the project for the University and whose sole job will be to deal with Metro.

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By Safiya RavatTHE DAILY COUGAR

As an increasing number of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks have been claimed under the banner of Islam, a Muslim scholar publicly condemned those acts by issuing a 600-page fatwa in March he hopes will sway extremists away from acts, he said, that would damn them to hell rather than grant them paradise.

The fatwa, or Islamic ruling, by Pakistani scholar Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri not only stated that terrorism and suicide bombings were forbidden by the religion, but that those who engaged in it would be considered “kafirs,” or disbelievers.

UH professor Ibrahim Sumer, who is a Muslim, said he was relieved that someone in the Muslim hierarchy had finally spoken out about terrorism in such

a public manner. Sumer, who has a doctorate

in comparative religions, said that “jihad” is a word often misunderstood by both Muslims and non-Muslims.

“The term ‘jihad’ has a much broader meaning than just war,” Sumer said. “The Prophet Muhammad — peace be upon him — said the biggest Jihad is fighting against our carnal desires.”

Jihad actually means “struggle,”

Sumer said. One can struggle in understanding the Quran, dealing with one’s own desires and on the battlefield, he said.

“There are more than 30 verses in the Quran about Jihad, but only four verses are directly related to fighting,” he said.

War is permitted in Islam, Sumer said, but many extremists take that out of context while remaining ignorant of the very precise and restricting rules of

Islamic warfare. Sumer said that the Prophet

Muhammad was not only a spiritual leader but also a head of state. With that position, he was responsible for the safety of his people, including defending them if an enemy attacked. This legitimate war, he said, was similar to the Christianity principle of “Just War.”

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Metro representatives met with several UH officials, including President Renu Khator and members of the UH System Board of Regents, on Thursday to address some of the concerns expressed by community members about the light rail coming to campus.

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2010 School of Art Masters Thesis Exhibition: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., The Art Museum of UH. Each year, Blaffer Gal-lery presents an exhibition showcas-ing works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students in the School of Art. This year, 11 students are featured in the exhibition. The MFA candidates are Debra Barrera, Nancy Douthey, Geoff Hippenstiel, Sura Khudairi, Robyn Lehmer, Grant C. MacManus, Richard Nix, Anne J. Regan, Keijiro Suzuki, Tala Vahabzadeh, and Vanessa VanAlstyne. Admission is free, and refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact the Blaffer Gallery at kveneman@uh.edu or the website blaffergallery.org

Census on campus: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., UC Satellite, University Center and the Center for Public Policy (Heyne Building, Room 104). Census on Campus/Census representatives and CHIP interns will provide assistance and resources about the 2010 Census at various information tables. For the Houston community (including UH)

to prosper, everyone should partici-pate. For more information, contact Mike Angel at 713-743-3976 or man-gel2@uh.edu

Conference on Gender, Health and Economic Development: 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Memorial Library. This conference features six economists who do research from both theoreti-cal and empirical perspectives in the area of gender, health and develop-ment. The speakers are Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago), Erica Field (Harvard), Nancy Qian (Yale), Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington), Emily Oster (University of Chicago) and Chinhui Juhn (UH). For more information, e-mail Professor Elaine Liu at emliu@mail.uh.edu

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Life in the communication business was simpler when I first arrived at The Daily Cougar in August 2005.

Facebook was a fledgling website known then as “Thefacebook.” Twitter hadn’t been heard of yet. The iPhone was still being put together in one of Apple’s laboratories. And while newspapers

were still being pushed out by the Internet, journalism students didn’t have to worry too much about finding jobs after graduation.

Fast forward nearly five years, and a lot more uncertainty has built up in the newspaper industry as publications struggle to remain relevant among the masses of readers who help bring in advertising revenue. Combine that with the damaging effects of a lingering recession, and it’s not easy to sell the newspaper business to aspiring students these days.

As editor in chief of The Daily Cougar, my main goal has been to help the paper remain a reliable source of news for members of the UH student body and make it a place where college students of all backgrounds could be developed into productive professionals. My editors and I did so against a backdrop of budget cuts, decreasing advertising revenue and students’ fading desire to work for our newspaper.

I had roughly one year to achieve my goals, and I end my tenure assured that The Daily Cougar is on its way to recovery after taking the same lumps and bruises as all other newspapers. But I also leave knowing that much more work remains to be done.

My successor, Matthew Keever, is more than capable of carrying The Daily Cougar even further. I believe that, in time, he will improve this paper in ways that I probably never could have imagined.

As I reflect on the last two semesters, I realize that, in some ways, The Daily Cougar is in a much better position now to become an innovator and leader

among college newspapers than it was back when I started out here. Five years ago, our newspaper lacked the resources needed to take a big step forward. We had highly talented writers, editors, photographers, cartoonists and salespeople, but we did not have a top-notch website, highly efficient ways to interact with our readers or up-to-date computers and other important pieces of technology.

Since then, we have added many of these things.

We launched a website in March that can be easily updated and looks better than those of many other college newspapers. We have a presence on both Twitter and Facebook. We’ve added blogs, video and podcasts to our website. Our paper’s design now grabs more people’s attention.

However, we still lack one particular resource.

Our newspaper needs more talented and hard-working students. We need not

Following the airing of South Park’s 200th episode, which poked fun at the show’s inability to depict Prophet Muhammad, a veiled threat was made

against creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker on a radical Muslim group’s website.

The group later backpedaled, saying its post that claimed Stone and Parker would end

up like Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch director assassinated for a film he made that was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was simply a prediction, not a threat.

Fearing violence, Comedy Central censored not only depictions of Muhammad in the following episode but also any mention of his name as well as an extended speech at the end of the show

that Stone and Parker later said did not even mention Muhammad.

Then to top it off, Comedy Central pulled all reruns of the episode, refused to let South Park’s official website stream the episode and removed a 2001 episode that had depicted Muhammad (that somehow managed to not result in any violence) from streaming at Netflix as well as South Park’s site.

Hey Comedy Central, way to handle this in about the worst way possible. You have (rightly) allowed South Park to insult just about every group possible over the last 14 years. You have been deluged with hate mail from too many different aggrieved groups to count during the show’s run. And yet, you were never scared into submission by threats from any of them.

But the moment a college dropout who decided to rebel against his parents, grow a beard and join a cult gets upset, you cave

just because his cult is fundamentalist Islam?

The vast majority of Muslims in this country aren’t fundamentalist lunatics who are going to kill people over the tiniest perceived slight against their religion.

In fact, I bet most are perfectly capable of realizing that Stone and Parker weren’t even making fun of or disrespecting Muhammad; they were making fun of the type of idiots who think the proper response to a joke is murder.

Comedy Central should have recognized that the threat came from a tiny fringe element of the Muslim community in America and that mainstream Muslims would be mature enough to not respond to the episode by killing people.

Instead, they gave the fringe group just what it wanted by identifying Muslims as some sort of “others” who must be

TDC has come far, still needs help

Network wrong to cater to terrorists

EDITORIAL CARTOON

jason poland THE DAILY COUGAR

This is the last issue for a lot of the members of The Daily Cougar staff. To paraphrase the immortal Chuck Dickens, it can be a good thing, and it can be bad.

Working at the school newspaper can, at times, be one of the most frustrating activities of college life. For everyone, this is a learning experience, from learning how to write for an audience to trying to figure out what in the world Associated

Press style wants journalists to do with comma placement.

But through the mistakes, missed deadlines and late nights in the newsroom, it is very easy to get emotionally invested in all the reporters and editors who are always here.

Long days and endless hours later, one becomes bonded in ways they never considered possible. This is what makes the realization that this will be the last paper most

of the editors will work on together so tough.One of the most impressive attributes that

every one of these folks has is the ability to work hard when there is almost no immediate gain to be seen; they certainly can’t be doing it for the money.

The effort they have shown to balance their whole lives around a student publication is admirable, and the sacrifices they have made just to ensure there will be another paper today is a true a testament to their ability to see things through.

But what will never show up in the newspaper are the other contributions they make to the lives of the people who surround them. These people who put The Daily Cougar on the newsstands are the same people who help you with your Spanish homework, who tell you how to use your energy packs in Mafia Wars wisely or wake you up for class when you’ve fallen asleep once more due to a late night at the office.

It is hard to see these people leave when they have all become such close friends, but we will all do our part to fill the void their absences will leave at the paper.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Saying goodbye to friends not an easy thing to do

... it is very easy to get emotionally invested in all the reporters and editors who are always here.

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LetterS to the eDitor The Daily Cougar welcomes letters to the editor from any member of the UH community. Letters should be no more than 250 words and signed, including the author’s full name, phone number or e-mail address and affiliation with the University, including classification and major. Anonymous letters will not be published. Deliver letters to Room 7, University Center Satellite; e-mail them to letters@thedailycougar.com; send them via campus mail to STP 4015; or fax them to (713) 743-5384. Letters are subject to editing.

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Ronnie Turner, Editor in ChiefMatthew Keever, Managing editorPatricia Estrada, News editorHiba Adi, News editorPhillipe Craig, Sports editorRobert Higgs, Sports editorTravis Hensley, Life & Arts editorAlan Dennis, Opinion editorJarrod Klawinsky, Special projects editor

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By Tristan TippetTHE DAILY COUGAR

After enjoying a measure of revenge against Lamar by winning Wednesday’s rematch at Cougar Field in similar fashion to their game a week before, the Cougars hope to use the momentum gained from ending their five-game losing streak to finish out the season strong.

Caleb Ramsey, who sent the Cougars to an 8-7 victory by driving in the game-winning run in the 11th inning, said that the game could be a turning point for their season.

“It really helps us (since we’re) going on another road trip this weekend; a loss would have really hurt us — we would have stayed down,” Ramsey said. “It just takes one game to get out of a streak.”

Now the Cougars (17-23, 4-8 Conference USA) hope to translate that magic into a furious conference run when they begin a three-game series against UAB at 6:30 p.m. today in Birmingham, Ala.

The Cougars will be playing an opponent with similar statistics. The Blazers have a .282 team batting average, close to UH’s .289, and UAB has a 5.65 ERA compared to UH’s 6.02. Like UH, the Blazers give up a lot of hits, allowing 392 in 344 1/3 innings.

Both teams have also struggled as of late.

UH has dropped six of its last eight contests. UAB has dropped seven of its last eight games, a stretch that included a six-game losing streak.

The difference between the two teams is that the Blazers are 21-18 overall and 5-7 in Conference USA. UAB is tied with Southern Miss for sixth place in C-USA, trailing both Tulane and East Carolina by half a game, with 12 conference games remaining.

UAB, however, had a much easier non-conference schedule than UH.

UAB played the likes of Ball State (19-21), Eastern Michigan (21-20), Troy (21-19) and Western Illinois (9-28).

The Cougars, on the other hand, are in last place in the nine-team C-USA with a 4-8 record, trailing Central Florida by half a game. The Cougars are in danger of not making the conference tournament, which they’ll host, because only the top six teams will advance.

Head coach Rayner Noble said the Cougars have their work cut out for them, no matter who the opponent is.

“I think we’ve got 12 conference games left, and I don’t think we’re going to be able to make the conference tournament

unless we win seven of 12,” Noble said. “We’ll need to battle all the way, and that may not even be enough,” Noble said.

But, by taking things a play at a time, Noble said his team has a chance to begin accumulating wins.

“The main thing is we need to focus one game at a time and do the little things right,” he said. “The little things hurt us last weekend; we couldn’t catch a ball at first base, which started the beginning of a rally, and we got caught off first base on a two-out drive.

“Good teams just don’t do those things. That’s what we’ve been doing, and it adds up to bad baseball.”

Noble said he’s looking for some starting pitchers to give his team a chance to win.

“We really need a couple of guys to step up on the mound and start pitching like they’re capable of pitching,” Noble said. “We haven’t seen (Michael) Goodnight really pitch like he’s capable on a consistent basis, and we need to have some consistency out of him.

“I’m going to shop one around a little bit this weekend and see if we can find somebody who will click.”

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Righthander Michael Goodnight began the season as the Cougars’ ace, but he has struggled as of late. After 11 starts, he is 4-6 with a 5.11 ERA.

uH looking to build on win

Houston rappers join forces againCallye PeyoviTHE DAILY COUGAR

Nearly seven years after Chamillionaire and Paul Wall last hit a stage together in Houston — because of differences in their joint careers — the late Pimp C’s (of UGK) vision of reconciliation has finally become a reality.

The two have teamed back up to further their visions of Houston’s hip-hop culture.

Fans have been anticipating this reunion. The two began their journey together and were each other’s counterparts as their careers took off during the early 2000s. They released their joint album Get Your Mind Correct in 2003.

But as disputes surfaced they each opted to pursue separate careers. Chamillionaire’s The Sound of Revenge and Paul Wall’s The People’s Champ both hit the mainstream market.

“Any beef or anything that’s going on, we’ve moved on and put it to the side (to) turn the music scene into a movement again,” Wall said.

Both have new albums set to drop this year, and each artist is featured on his former rival’s album. Chamillionaire is the first to begin shooting a music video for his new single “Main Event.”

“It feels real good to be back in the scene working with Chamillionare. That’s where it all started, me and Cham,” Wall said. “We’ve grown together, we came up in Swishahouse together, grindin’ together.”

Each has decided to overlook their differences in efforts to ignite new undeniable hits they bang out when their forces are joined — like the lyrically laced “In Love With My Money”.

“I’m real excited to just put it down for the home team,” Wall said. “We are leading by example and showing unity. We’re supporting each other, showing love to each other and putting all of our differences to the side.”

Chamillionaire is equally enthused to get their projects rolling and show the fans what they have in store for their reunion.

“It’s cool to come back around full circle and be working with Paul Wall. You also have Slim Thug and Dorrough out here too,” Chamillionaire said. “Me and Paul is just something special because of our history in the past.

“I’m just glad to be at this point, to be at peace with him and be cool with him and making music.”

The single is off of Chamillionaires’s new album Venom, which is due to drop this summer. He let up from his usual elaborate costumes and sets out to create an exposed visual of the city.

Where better to be shot than atop a downtown warehouse with a skyline view?

“A lot of people feel like they know Houston and have seen it in all. They’ve seen the cars and the candy paint, but we just trying to add a new fresh twist to it,” Chamillionaire said.

He also wants his album to reflect the newer, cooler version of

himself. “On this album I’m not trying to

go too far to the left, I’m not trying to go too far to the right, and I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel,” Chamillionaire said. “I’m going straight down the middle, and I’m going so hard. Nothing but dope songs and freshness, that’s what Venom is.”

Chamillionaire still runs into people who aren’t aware he has changed his look up, tossing the braids and removing the grill, he

said. His goal is to go viral with this single and refresh the public’s perspective.

As for Wall’s album, its title is exactly explanatory of the sound. A lot of artists these days give up too easily without putting up a struggle to stay afloat in the game, Wall said.

“Don’t be scared to work. I put in a lot of hard work, and I think you’ll be able to hear that reflected in my good music,” Wall said.

Bun B of UGK was present to show his support of the

collaboration, as well as speaking on behalf of Pimp C, who is featured on Venom. He is proud of the track “Naked Ladies”, which features and was produced by the late legend.

“I think it’s time to support each other; it’s no secret that Texas ain’t in the place it used to be,” Chamillionaire said. “We’re just trying to make the movement strong again, because it is.”

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The application deadline for the 2010-2011academic year is May 14, 2010

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“The wars that the Prophet Muhammad were involved in were defensive wars,” he said. “Either the Muslims were being attacked already, or there was word that the opposing army was coming.”

The most important thing that the terrorists and suicide bombers are missing, he said, are the Islamic rules of warfare. Among them is the prohibition of harming children, women, the elderly and non-combatants. The rules also specify that an individual or group cannot declare war, only a state or government.

Sumer said that the rules even limit the intentions of warfare.

“Islam does not permit war for motives such as conquest or plunder or revenge or for the sake of material advantage,” he said. “Also, a Muslim country cannot declare war in order to preach Islam. War is only permitted for defensive purposes.”

Besides the fact that many terrorists disobey the Islamic rules of warfare, Sumer said, there is one huge issue that takes away their legitimacy altogether: suicide.

“If you kill yourself by suicide, it is a very sinful act in Islam,” he said. “According to some prophetic sayings, whosoever kills (himself ) will never enter paradise.”

Suicide is also condemned in the Quran, Sumer said. The fourth chapter reads, “O you who believe! Do not kill yourselves, for truly God

has been to you Most Merciful. And whoever commits that in rancor and injustice, soon shall We cast him into the Fire.”

Suicide, killing innocent people and declaring war without a government are among the many rules that terrorists break while insisting that they are fighting for the sake of God, Sumer said.

If they were really devout Muslims, they would have known this, he said.

Like ul-Qadri and other Muslims who have studied the religion, Sumer said he hopes that this new fatwa will shed light on the true ideologies of Islam, putting those who defame it with illegitimate acts to rest.

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treated with kid gloves, lumping mainstream Muslims in with radical fundamentalists and feeding radical propaganda.

By trying to placate Muslims and keep them from feeling offended, Comedy Central did the most offensive thing it could have done by treating Muslims like a bunch of

children.Comedy Central’s desire to

ensure the safety of its employees is understandable, but giving in to terroristic threats is never the answer because it tells those who would make them that terrorism works.

All Americans, regardless of religious or political affiliation, should applaud Stone and Parker’s stand for free expression. For more than a decade, few people have

done a better job of standing up for one of our most important and cherished rights.

As for those who threaten to kill someone for exercising that right, it takes a special brand of coward who hides behind the First Amendment to threaten someone else for exercising the same right.

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