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Zachary BurtonStaff writer
Coming in October is Cougar Woods, the latest addition to the group of dining establishments on campus.
“Cougar Woods” was chosen by University of Houston students and thought up by Beth Owen Woods, a participant in the contest to name it.
She will be awarded a plaque
and bicycle for winning, according to the press release.
“The Real Food on Campus restaurant will be open on Mon-day, Oct. 1,“ said Amber Arguijo, marketing manager for UH Dining Services.
The new hall’s name was decided through a survey open from Aug. 27 to Aug. 31, during which time 300 members of the faculty, staff and student body participated. The sur-vey was held online via Facebook
and SurveyMonkey.“The survey was advertised
through a campus news release and posted on UHDS’ Facebook and Twitter,” Arguijo said.
“Advertisement was done on the offi cial Facebook page and Twitter pages of the University. It was also shared on various campus pages.”
Participants submitted numer-ous name ideas during the spring semester to a Facebook page devoted to taking ideas.
“We had approximately 300 name ideas submitted during that time. After the submissions were closed, a panel of University admin-istrators narrowed the list down,” Aruijo said.
After the submission period ended, the administrators short-ened the list to three: Cougar Woods, West End and The Roar. Cougar Woods was chosen with 49
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Faculty weigh in on presidential raceAmy CarlContributing writer
Faculty experts at UH said they expect this year’s presidential race to be tight down to the last minute.
As the race race nears its con-clusion in November, the result depends in a large part on the way in which the media portrays the candidates, said Lindita Camaj, assistant professor at Jack J. Valenti School of Communication.
“This is very close,” Camaj said. “Usually, it’s in the close elections that the media has the greatest impact.”
Brandon Rottinghaus, associ-ate professor in the Department of Political Science, said that although the Democrats came out on top after the national conven-tions, he expected things to level out again before the election.
“The energy from the Demo-cratic side was a bit more pro-nounced,” Rottinghaus said. “It will return to equilibrium. Both sides had success at getting their
volunteer organizations and bases rallied, so they both did what they needed to do.”
Rottinghaus also discussed the importance of influencing voters in swing states.
“In the end, it’s going to come down to what they believe,” Rot-tinghaus said.
“If they’re concerned about what Romney’s going to do, Obama can say, ‘Let me tell you
what they’re going to do,’ and fill in those details with less than flat-tering illustrations. Republicans can be a bit more vague, because they have the ability to say, ‘It’s not working.’”
Elizabeth Simas, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, said Texas Dem-ocrats — especially Houstonians — shouldn’t feel absolved of their obligation to vote just because Texas is traditionally a red state.
“As indicated by Mayor (Julian) Castro’s prominent presence at the DNC, Texas’ growing Hispanic population could have an impact on how competitive the Demo-crats are in Texas, which can lead to more campaigning efforts and money being put into Texas on both sides,” she said.
“This election is going to be close, and voter turnout can send the signal to Democrats that, although Texas is red now, it might not be forever. It’s still really important to vote.”
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President Barack Obama is leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney with 247 likely electoral college votes to Romney’s 191 in the 2012 election, according to realclearpolitics.com. | Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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As U.S. differs with Mexico over oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Mexico, the UH Law Center has stepped into the mix to help the countries compromise and imple-ment a cooperative treaty.
UH’s Center for U.S. and Mexi-can Law, in collaboration with the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, is participating in a binational research project to help analyze and recommend changes to domestic and inter-national laws governing shared oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
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“We try to identify issues that have not been studied in depth by independent research agencies, so that we can make a contribution to
the understanding of Mexican and U.S. laws that affect our nation. This Gulf of Mexico project is a perfect example of that.”
Maritime boundaries between the U.S. and Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico are not clearly defined, Zamora said.
“The United States has a Gulf of Mexico coastline; Mexico has a Gulf of Mexico coastline,” Zamora said in an interview with KUHF News.
“However, in the center of the Gulf of Mexico is an area referred to colloquially as the donut hole, which is an area which the United States and Mexico have not agreed exactly how the resources in that area should be divided.”
“For that reason, neither the U.S. nor Mexico has felt comfort-able exploiting the oil and gas resources in that area.”
Under the Western Gap Bound-ary Treaty of 2000, U.S. and Mexico negotiated offshore boundaries to help ensure the equal division of
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Lecture starts India programChannler HillStaff writer
After a weekend event to bring attention to the UH’s India Studies program, future events are likely to follow.
The event was planned and executed by faculty from the Department of English in coor-dination with the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies.
The latter put on a three-day symposium of panels, workshops and screenings, which portrayed India as a hub for intellectual discourse.
“The primary purpose of the event was to promote intellectual exchange among faculty in the English department and schol-ars from other universities, all of whom focus on empire studies and postcolonial studies,” said associ-ate professor Lynn Voskuil.
“A related purpose was to alert the general public to the existence and goals of the India Studies Program at UH, which is housed within the Department of Com-parative Cultural Studies.”
Ania Loomba, the Catherine Bryson Chair of the English depart-ment at the University of Pennsyl-vania, was the keynote speaker of the Thursday lecture.
Sh e a d d re s s e d i s s u e s o f gender, sexuality and caste in
contemporary India.Loomba specializes in postco-
lonial studies, empire studies and Shakespearean studies.
“( These issues are relevant) to students because we live in a global world in which issues like this one are not limited to specific nations,” Voskuil said.
“In addition, UH is a highly diverse campus with a wide variety of international students. Because UH has such a global campus, these issues are particularly important for us.”
There was also a series of seminars on Friday and Satur-day which featured six scholars — Sukanya Banerjee of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Nandini Bhattacharya of Texas A&M University, Sucheta Choud-huri of UH-Downtown, Benjamin Conisbee Baer of Yale University, Simon Potter of Bristol University and S. Shankar of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The seminars were strictly for faculty and gradu-ate students.
In addition, the 2011 Bollywood film “The Dirty Picture” was shown Saturday in the Dudley Recital Hall of the Fine Arts Building.
The film also raised questions about issues of gender in contem-porary Indian society and was followed by a panel of Indian film experts.
The speakers were selected because of their expertise in the areas of empire and postcolonial studies.
The goal of the India Stud-ies program at UH is to promote teaching and scholarship focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India, according to a College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences news release.
Minors in India Studies and Comparative Cultural Studies are currently being offered at UH.
Students interested in the pro-gram should go to www.uh.edu/class/ccs/india-studies.
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Keynote speaker at the event and University of Pennslyvania professor Ania Loomba (right) is introduced by UH associate English professor Ann Christensen (left). | Image courtesy of Michael Brims
UH President Renu Khator (far right) sits with her colleagues at the lecture that kicks off the Indian Studies program. | Images courtesy of Michael Brims
percent of the votes, according to the press release.
Some students took to the name quickly.
“I think it’s a pretty cool name,” said music education junior Matt Singletary.
“It’s got a ring to it. ‘See you at the Woods!’”
Overall, the dining hall’s name has seen mixed reviews.
“(It) sounds a little weird, but it’s fi ne as long as they serve good food,” said music education junior Cassie Castro.
Though some are concerned with the name, others are more concerned with the aesthetics and vibe of the hall.
“I believe the name suits our new dining hall very well,” said computer science senior Sabah Akbani.
“I think it would definitely be pretty awesome if there was an enclosed fi replace in there for cold winter days.”
Cougar Woods will open at 7 a.m. Oct. 1. In addition to the hall, an accompanying Cougar Xpress Mini Market will open at 9 a.m. that same day.
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oil and gas resources and both countries limited the production around these boundaries.
Under the treaty in develop-ment, the countries have expanded their maritime boundaries in order to drill for more hydrocarbon resources.
Legal issues between the two nations extended beyond bound-ary lines. General ecosystem conservation practices of U.S. and Mexico prove to be widely divergent.
As recent as late February, the
two nations have decided to set up a collaborative relationship in hopes of developing strong envi-ronmental protection strategies in the Gulf of Mexico.
“The hope is that, if we imple-ment this treaty, the two nations will work more cooperatively together in both developing oil and gas but also in environmen-tal protection and other kinds of policies in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Richard McLaughlin, endowed chair for Marine Policy and Law at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
“What this treaty does is that it basically puts in place the frame-work so that Pemex (a Mexican oil
and gas company) can begin the process of at least negotiating with American companies or compa-nies that are doing business within the United States to share those resources.”
The project, expected to last up to three years, is still in its first phase, and the Law Center is in the process of selecting about four law students to help with initial research.
“There’s going to have to be quite a bit of study done of what we need to do here in the United States to move this process for-ward,” McLaughlin said.
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Indian Studies started its year with a series of events, speeches by professors
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Bryan WashingtonStaff columnist
It’s one thing to say homeless-ness in Houston has decreased, and completely another to say it’s decreasing.
Whatever their visibility, the homeless who live on the streets of this city are in truth an invis-ible population.
They make the news on occa-sion, whenever their retention has dropped, or whenever a shelter’s been established, but when it comes time to count the numbers, they suddenly disappear.
It’s as if, because they aren’t paying rent, grocery tabs and car notes, they don’t exist at all, and for some people in this city, they really don’t.
On any given night in Hous-ton, up to 10,000 individuals are dreaming on the pavement with nowhere to go, according to the Beacon’s Houston statistics.
Those are heel-clicking numbers.
If nothing else, they put the city’s supposed improvement by 14 percent — according to the Coalition for the Homeless — into context.
A more practical perspective might decide that homeless people’s situation is self-inflicted, and the means to get them off the street lies in their own hands and on their own initiative, but practicality and accuracy don’t always coincide.
More than half of the home-less have mental illnesses that make re-acclimation unlikely at best.
Worse yet, the overwhelming majority of these sicknesses are comparatively untreatable.
Or they could be treated, given professional-grade
physicians, and space and time to allow for improvements in their situations.
But six-figure medical bills and homelessness rarely go together.
Many of the remaining homeless population is made up of drug addicts, and although the bodies occupying shelters have increased by just under a third, another third of this same number found themselves filling in the gaps on Richmond Avenue only days after they’d been vacated.
If there’s an easy solution to this problem, a cure-all to tuck everyone in a bed at night, you’ll be hard-pressed to find it with-out looking.
It won’t materialize in a class-room, through a power point or from the lips of some triple master’s graduate.
Your professors don’t know it, your parents have forgotten it and you won’t find it on the television.
Even more debatable is whether or not a solution for this city is to be found.
It’ll stay that way until we develop a common sense of empathy and some sort of standard to post improvements against.
Until the city agrees it has a problem, and that the problem is only going to get bigger if we ignore it, we won’t see any brilliant solutions sweeping our streets clean, and we’ll only have ourselves to blame.
Then again, maybe we won’t. It’s hard to feel sorry for someone who is invisible to you to begin with.
Bryan Washington is a sociology and creative writing sophomore and may be reached at [email protected]
As an alumnus and long time football season ticket holder, I have watched with great pride the amaz-ing growth of our student fan base over the past few seasons.
Students that consistently go to games will become future season ticket holders and the life blood of the UH athletic program. Your continued support is vital for the future of this program. It cannot survive without it.
Obviously, we have not begun the season as most had expected, but your football team needs your support now more than ever. These players are your fellow students, that work hard every day to
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Most people have no idea the amount of sacrifi ce and commit-ment required by these players and coaches. Rest assured, these coaches and players are working extremely hard to make this season a success.
A tier-one university supports its athletic programs win or lose. It is a critical time for our athletics pro-gram with the Big East move and stadium construction a few short months away. We cannot afford to take a step back in fan support at this critical time.
Our season “starts” on Sept.
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We’ve had some bumps in the road, but all of our conference goals are still within reach.
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Whether the Cougars want to admit it or not — which they will not — this is a make-or-break week for the football program in terms of con-fi dence surrounding the program. A loss against the rival Rice Owls on center stage at Reliant Stadium would put UH at 0-4 since its winless 2001 season.
“We’re looking at it right now as if it’s a nine game season,” said head coach Tony Levine.
“It’s our fi rst conference game so our goals in terms of within Confer-ence USA are all out there in front of us.”
For a student body accustomed to winning — especially within the city limits — a third loss in six years to the Owls would prompt mayhem (see: Allstate commercials) on Cullen Boulevard.
On the brighter side of things, UH’s first three opponents are a combined 8-2, although Rice will be the first opponent the Cougars have faced with a losing record — something the Cougars do not seem to care much about.
“It doesn’t matter what each opponents record is because everybody’s going to play hard for
the Bucket,” said senior linebacker Phillip Steward.
“Since it’s my last time playing
against them, I’m trying to go out each game with a bang.”
The rivalry itself provides an
interesting platform in what has been an uncharacteristic season for the Cougars.
Although the game itself is the second all-time between the two at Reliant Stadium, it will be the fi rst matchup considered to be at a neu-tral location.
“It’s one of the nicest stadiums in the NFL,” Levine said. “I think everyone in our program is excited to go there this Saturday and to not only play at Reliant but against our rival.”
“I think it combines to add up to an exciting afternoon.”
A win over Rice would provide a level of enthusiasm and hope not seen since prior to the 30-13 opening season loss to Texas State.
However, if the Cougars lose, this could be the longest 11-game stretch since 2001.
The Cougars and Owls have split the last four matchups with the home team, winning each time. Redshirt junior running back Charles Sims will be competing in the rivalry for his third time. Last season, Sims combined for 123 total yards and two touchdown receptions in the 73-34 UH victory at Robertson Stadium. | File photo/The Daily Cougar
Cougars’ confi dence tested against Rice
GOLF
Andrew PateSports editor
The UH men’s golf team fi nished second out of 11 teams this week at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate in Birmingham, Ala.
After fi nding themselves in a tie for fi fth following a day one total score of 292, the Cougars put together the lowest round in tournament history with a -9, 279 to take a fi ve stroke lead heading into the fi nal round.
“In the second round, we were dis-ciplined and stuck to our game plan,” said assistant coach Chris Hill.
“We hit good spots and good things happened. As a coach, when you see a plan executed well, it brings a smile to your face.”
On the final day, however, the Cougars struggled with three golf-ers shooting their fi rst round of the
tournament pushing UH back to a fi nal round score of 869.
UH was led by junior Wesley McClain who returned to the lineup for the fi rst time since breaking him arm in mid-April.
McClain’s -3 was good enough to fi nish third individually while junior Jesse Droemer and sophomore Roman Robledo both tied for 11th at +1.
Junior Curtis Reed snuck into the top 20 individual standings with a tie for 19 at +6.
LSU fi nished the tournament at even par with a total score of 864 to win the tournament.
The Cougars next action will come in the form of a three day tournament beginning next Sunday at the Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic in South Bend, Ind.
Team secures secondUH posts lowest round in tourney history
It doesn’t matter what each
opponents’ record is because everybody’s going to play hard for the Bucket. ”
Phillip Steward, UH senior linebacker talking about the game
against the (1-3) Rice Owls
Program debuts upcoming scheduleBASEBALL
Andrew PateSports editor
The UH baseball program announced its 2013 schedule Tues-day, which includes 32 games at Cougar Field and a trio of games at the Houston College Classic.
Out of conference, the Cougars will host Houston Baptist, Penn State, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, New Orleans, Texas, Harvard, Sam Hous-ton State, Seton Hall, Texas Southern and Louisiana-Lafayette.
“Our non-conference schedule is set to provide us a balanced level of play and challenge our club as we prepare for Conference-USA action and the NCAA Tournament,”said head coach Todd Whitting.
Also notably, the Cougars will host the University of Texas on March 19 for the fi rst time at Cougar Field since 2000.
SCHEDULEDATE OPPONENT/EVENT2/15-2/17 vs. Northeastern 3/29-3/31 at Memphis
2/19 at Sam Houston State 4/2 vs. Sam Houston State
2/22-2/24 at Texas State 4/5-4/7 at Marshall
2/26 vs. Houston Baptist 4/12-4/14 vs. Seton Hall
3/1-3/3 at Houston College Classic 4/16 vs. Texas Southern
3/5-3/6 vs. Penn State 4/19-4/21 vs. Rice
3/8-3/10 vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi 4/23 at Texas
3/12 at Baylor 4/26-4/28 at UCF
3/15-3/17 vs. New Orleans 4/30 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
3/19 vs. Texas 5/3-5/5 at Tulane
3/20 vs. Harvard 5/7 at McNeese State
3/22-3/24 vs. East Carolina 5/10-5/12 vs. UAB
3/26 at Lamar 5/16-5/18 vs. Southern Miss
Season highlighted by College Classic, battles against Texas
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Bryan Dupont-GrayAssistant life & arts editor
Over the years, games have failed to rehash old formulas with new ele-ments, but the rekindled partnership between 2K Sports and Gearbox Stu-dios brings forth a fantastic sequel to a beloved space western-themed adventure.
Borderlands 2 is a freshly innova-tive role-playing fi rst-person shooter that takes all of its specialties and enhances on what made the first game an immediate success among hardcore gamers.
Many players will be familiar with the attributes that made the fi rst Bor-derlands a deep and addictive gam-ing experience. However, new gamers will be happy to fi nd themselves right at home as they play as one of the four Vault Hunters.
Not much is new with the story, players still take on the role of a trea-sure hunter on the lawless planet of Pandora, but there’s more emphasis on stopping the villain than fi nding the treasure this time around.
In addition to the refined lev-eling system, maxing out three expansive skill trees fi lled with perks that enhance the Vault Hunters in
Paulina RojasStaff writer
As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz stepped up onto the Cullen Theater stage at the Wortham Center on Monday for the Inprint reading series, a crowd of about 1,000 fans welcomed him to Houston with an enormous round of applause.
Diaz, author of the short story collection “Drown” and “The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao,” was coined the first Dominican author to win a Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Diaz started off by reading a short excerpt from his new book, “This is How You Lose Her,” which hit bookstores on Sept. 11. The book received rave reviews and made the front page of Sunday’s New York Times review.
The award-winning author did not have any sense of ego or an unwillingness to talk to fans or about his personal life on stage.
Diaz talked to the audience about how much the immigrant experience and his heritage has affected his work.
Born in Santo Domingo de Guzmán in the Dominican Repub-lic and then raised in New Jersey, the trial of immigration was not a journey without struggle, consider-ing his family lived in government-sponsored Section 8 housing and received food stamps.
Following the reading, Diaz was interviewed by Alexander Parsons from the UH creative writing pro-gram and took questions from the audience of UH creative writing students.
As he answered, Diaz mostly
talked about his writing style. For example, Diaz said writing in second person is a weakness of his and he plans to make it a habit to write in first person in future works..
When an audience member asked if he had ever considered writing in Spanish, Diaz responded in the negative, saying he did not know how to read or write in Span-ish very well.
The author excitedly hugged readers, introduced himself and signed books for the fans who waited hours in line.
The Inprint reading series, which is sponsored by UH’s cre-ative writing program, is aimed towards Houston’s aspiring readers and writers.
LIFE+ARTS
Writer of “Drown” presents his life story during Inprint reading session
GAME REVIEW
Sci-fi sequel impresses
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combat adds an intriguing value to the gameplay.
Players will also constantly improve by exchanging coins for additional permanent character bonuses.
The real star here, as with the previous game, is the random-loot generation. Especially when dealing with weapons, the seemingly endless combination of visual elements and gun stats will keep gamers addicted to that Christmas morning-esque feeling when looting the chests scat-tered around Pandora.
The planet feels a lot livelier this time around with new and old char-acters that players will meet through-out the main quest.
The character dialogue, which features a crude sense of humor and superb voice acting, makes for some stand-out material in the landscape of the gaming industry.
The “drop in, drop out” co-op gives players a boost in challenge depending on the number of roam-ing Vault Hunters. Feral creatures and human psychopaths will be much harder for you to take down, but the weapons and shields dropped from enemies will increase in quality and rarity.
The game is a great way for play-ers to spend hours of their free time and the replay value in the “New Game Plus” mode will allow play-ers to experience it with other Vault Hunters.
Aside from the occasional graphi-cal glitch and the sometimes-diffi cult vehicle controls, this sandbox game offers so much content that it allows for its highs to overshadow the lows.
Overall, Borderlands 2 has suc-cessfully kept its form and made the franchise better than before.
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