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Counselors draw upon childhood dreams to help undecided students figure out job aspirations thedailycougar.com BUSINESS Hilton hosts launch of India studies program October 20, 2011 Coogs and Cribs workshop to offer home buying advice Melgar painted a picture of UH starting quarterback Case Keenum in 20 minutes on Wednesday in front of the M.D. Anderson Me- morial Library. | Emily Chambers/The Daily Cougar UH partners with Invesco for Women’s Finance Bootcamp Karishma Sakrouja Brian JensenTRANSCRIPT
Brian JensenTHE DAILY COUGAR
Green UH, as part of initiative to improve campus sustainability, kicked off its “Who Wants To Be An Eco-Millionaire?” quiz game show on Tuesday at Oberholtzer Hall.
Students competed for prizes by answering trivia from a pool of 300 environmentally-themed trivia questions. Prizes included a $1,000 grand prize for students who answered all 15 questions,
as well as many environmentally-conscious consolation prizes such as pens, notebooks and bags made from recycled materials.
Tickets for next semester’s Bauer Edition Eco-Millionaire were also up for grabs. Green UH will be partnering up with C.T. Bauer College of Business student organizations for this event, in which students will be quizzed on the business side of the movement
Michelle CasasTHE DAILY COUGAR
Mai Vu, a Counseling and Psychological Services practicum clinician, said many factors from one’s youth and past experiences play a role when exploring career possibilities.
She encouraged participants in the “Unde-cided! Career Exploration and Planning” work-shop on Wednesday to take a trip back and share their aspirations as children to exemplify how
they evolved into their current career paths.“Even in your childhood dreams there are
certain aspects of the people you admire that can potentially help serve you in fi nding your own career later on,” Vu said.
Some students may stick to the plans they concocted as children, but for others, making decisions about their careers can be unappeal-ing. Students may not know what they want to do or may not even know how to begin exploring options.
Vu said the thought of creating a plan may seem daunting, but choosing to leave your future up in the air may have consequences, especially with the current employment pressures that stem from the economic state of the US.
“Students without a career plan run the risk of not fi nding employment or being unsatisfi ed with the career they have,” Vu said.
The fi rst step for students in creating a plan is choosing a major; this can be diffi cult for undecided or indecisive students, although Vu said this type of behavior is completely normal and expected.
While many students do switch majors during their college years, Vu said that undecided stu-dents run the risk of spending time and money on courses that may not be necessary.
Although the current fi nancial situation many students face does not allow much leeway for
Karishma SakroujaTHE DAILY COUGAR
UH students Ryan Johnson and Mike Nguyen had a problem. They wanted to show pride for their col-lege, but with the large number of students and vast range of majors and minors, they said they had dif-fi culty doing so.
Motivated to take action against the increasing apathy among stu-dents, Johnson and Nguyen took it upon themselves to bring their idea
to life.Now in its second year, Instant
CLASSic is an event that showcases everything that the College of Lib-eral Arts and Social Sciences has to offer, from the theater department to psychology to economics.
“I was tired of crying about what should be fi xed and pulling on peoples’ shoulders expressing my dislike for the situation. I came to the realization that it doesn’t hurt
BUSINESS
UH partners with Invesco for Women’s Finance Bootcamp
UH is has linked up with Invesco to present the first Finan-cial Bootcamp for Women from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at Cemo Hall.
For a $25 registration fee participants can choose to attend three information sessions out of the 10 that will be offered.
A lunch will be provided and the proceeds will help fund a Bauer College of Business scholarship.
Sessions will focus on retire-ment, women in transition, starting your own business, elder care, Social Security and estate planning.
For more information contact [email protected].
— Erica Quiroz
CAMPUS
Coogs and Cribs workshop to off er home buying advice
The Home Sourze, a Houston based residential property and mortgage consulting company, will be hosting Coogs and Cribs from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Cal-houn Lofts.
Coogs and Cribs is designed to teach students the art of saving money for their first home and will offer a host of mortgage and home buying experts to answer any questions.
Live music, food and door prizes will be offered. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information email [email protected].
— Jennifer Postel
LECTURE
Hilton hosts launch of India studies program
Best-selling author and noted physician Abraham Verghese will give a lecture on health, family and human values to launch UH’s India studies program at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the UH Hilton Hotel, Grand Ballroom.
Beginning in Fall of 2012, UH will offer a minor in India studies focused on the history, politics, economics, languages, religion and culture of India.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
For more information, contact Anjali Kanojia at [email protected].
— Karishma Sakrouja
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SEMINAR
Workshop off ers career advice
Football as an art form
Students watched as business junior Brenda Melgar painted a picture of UH starting
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What are your plans for Homecoming?
“It’s Homecoming? I guess reading and studying. I don’t really have plans. I have enjoyed the Cougar cutouts on the drive in though.”
Flora Bailey Art history graduate student
“I’m in a sorority (Chi Omega) and we’re paired up with Kappa Alpha. We’ve been participating in all the events all week long. Tonight we’re going to Strut Your Stuff .”
Molly Marek Kinesiology junior
“Is that this weekend? I didn’t even know it was Homecom-ing, I actually have a show I’m in, so I’ll be doing my show — Our Lady of 121st Street. It’s the last weekend to catch the show, so that’s where I’ll be.”
Christly Guedry Theatre performance sophomore
“I am going to be studying for my intro to climate change test. I feel awful about it right now, so hope-fully this weekend I’ll feel good.”
Peighton Wagner Psychology sophomore
“I haven’t really thought of it. I really want to start attend-ing football games because I already missed the fi rst two or three, so I want to try to attend at least the ones coming up.”
Sheed Itaman Biochemistry senior
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taking extraneous courses, fi nding out what a student is passionate about is important.
Vu said college is a great place to experience different interests, and suggested students refer to the course guide or get involved in various student organizations on campus to explore possibilities.
Getting an internship, studying abroad and volunteering can help build resumes and serve as valuable assets for future prospects.
“Experience new things and take opportunities to expand your skills,” Vu said. “Volunteering and taking part in the community can be a great way to determine if a career path is viable for certain indi-viduals. It gets them to think about their future goals and aspirations.”
Pinpointing personal strengths through various career and person-ality assessments can help indeci-sive students determine the plan that best suits them, Vu said.
Self-assessments should focus on fi ve main aspects of personal life: interests, skills, personality, diversity, and values and culture.
Evaluating these areas can help students gain perspective on plan-ning by matching personal traits with corresponding degree and career plans.
Career and personality assess-ments are available through CAPS or the University Career Services.
Vu also worked to debunk common myths about the college exploration process — one of these being that humanities and liberal arts majors don’t have marketable skills. Alumni Career Services Assis-tant Director Casey Radle strongly advocates Vu’s stance.
“Liberal arts majors have excel-lent critical thinking skills and really strong communication skills — whether verbal, oral or written,” Radle said.
“They have excellent teamwork and leadership skills because they tend to do a lot of group projects and presentations, which serve them well in the work force.”
Radle, who used to work with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, said that these students have a greater ability to view issues from multiple perspectives, since the nature of their degree plans provides greater understanding of multicultural issues, a valuable skill in the global marketplace where business associates often come from a variety of backgrounds.
“The main thing about liberal arts students is that they’ve been learning to learn,” Radle said.
Students should not worry about a major being directly related to a specifi c future career goal, because employers aren’t necessarily looking for skills that can only be applied to their fi eld.
“You have a brain in your head and you are trainable, and that’s what an employer wants — some-one who can be trained to do the job at hand,” Radle said.
CAREERcontinued from page 1
toward eco-friendly products and solutions.
Leah Wolfthal, director of Green UH, said she hoped the event will “get students excited about careers in eco/social entrepreneurship.”
The game took cues from the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” in that students won the fi fth or tenth level prize if they answered a question incorrectly
above that level, but imposed a 60 second time limit to answer each question.
Contestants were also quizzed on what they do to reduce their negative impact on the environment.
Answers ranged from recycling to using a Kobashi compost system.
William Pham made it furthest in Tuesday night’s game, reach-ing the ninth question, “What does r-value indicate in terms of insulation?” before answering
incorrectly.Many questions involved UH
green initiatives, such as the Hertz Connect car sharing program, the UH Eco-Tour and UH’s Commu-nity Learning Agricultural Sustain-ability Program.
Other current Green UH efforts include the Sustainability Task Force, which is the “task force charged with advising the Uni-versity administration on green initiatives” and Recycle Mania, which runs from Jan. 31 to April 5 and includes an “Art of Recycling
Contest” and the “Recycle Mania Olympics.”
Green UH will also hold the fi rst Sustainability Roundtable on from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Oct. 21 in Cougar Village N115.
“The round table discussion is open to any faculty, staff or student research groups that are currently working on sustainability projects or research,” Wolfthal said.
She explained the round table is aimed at centralizing information, generating new ideas and bringing
together those working on sustain-ability issues. All the information presented at the meeting will be compiled into a newsletter to be sent across the campus.
Green UH also encourages students interested in helping the environment to go to http://www.uh.edu/pts/greenpledge.htm and take the Green Commuter Pledge, and any students who would like to be more involved can email [email protected].
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STAFF EDITORIAL
Case Keenum and the Cougars are now 6-0 and feeling rested coming off a bye week.
It’s the perfect time for a Homecoming game, and the fi rst time the Cougars get to play as a nationally-ranked team in the AP Poll and USA Today/Coaches Poll.
Some may think Homecoming is an outdated concept, and that it’s for teenagers in high school. In actuality, Homecoming celebrations are for alumni to come back to campus and reconnect with current students; it’s a celebration of a uni-versity’s past and its future.
And what a bright future it is for the University — at least for the Athletics Department.
This is the fi rst game the Cougars will play knowing the University has offi cially received an invitation to join a Bowl Championship Series-qualifying conference.
The Houston Chronicle reported that UH Chancellor and President Renu Khator and Direc-tor of Athletics Mack Rhodes met with Big East offi cials earlier this week. While nothing is offi cial yet, the Big East will have its eyes on the Univer-sity to see how its selection is panning out.
The invitation is worth celebrating, and the atmosphere of a Homecoming game should fuel a rowdy atmosphere. Less than 2,000 tickets remain for the 66th annual Homecoming.
Don’t expect to get in midway through the third quarter, either — Robertson Stadium is most likely going to be at capacity, meaning come early or run the chance of having to watch elsewhere.
And for those saying Homecoming isn’t worth it? The Cougars are wearing throwback uniforms from the late ’60s and early ’70s for a reason.
Years from now, current students will be proud to tell stories about the Keenum era of UH foot-ball. Don’t miss out on what is shaping up to be a historic season.
There’s no reason to stay at home; the only reason the football team is here is because tuition is paying for it. Have pride, wear red and cheer on the home team.
Homecoming celebrations start at 11 a.m. and the game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. at Robertson Stadium.
Homecoming a time for students, alumni to connect
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THE DAILY COUGARE D I T O R I A L B O A R DEDITOR IN CHIEF Jack WehmanMANAGING EDITOR John BrannenNEWS EDITORS Taylor McGilvray, Julian JimenezSPORTS EDITOR Joshua SiegelLIFE & ARTS EDITOR Mary BaakOPINION EDITOR Daniel RenfrowCHIEF COPY EDITOR Natasha Faircloth
W hen teens reach high school, they can expect to go through several rites of passage such as a
fi rst kiss, a fi rst date and a fi rst boyfriend or girlfriend. However, one Corpus Christi school turned a star-crossed couple’s kiss
into a nightmare. A 17-year-old male
cheerleader at Alice High School in Corpus Christi was caught kissing another boy. However, it wasn’t a passing teacher or school offi cial who caught him; he was
caught when school employees reviewed the school’s security cameras.
As soon as the school saw the footage, they did what can only be described as sexist and homophobic: they suspended the highschooler and kicked him off the cheerleading squad.
How many heterosexual students caught kissing at school receive disciplin-ary action? The answer is none; at most, they might get a scolding. To suspend a student for displaying affection to their other half, in a way that isn’t lewd or exhibitionist, is wrong.
A highschooler’s sexual orientation shouldn’t factor into his or her school’s disciplinary actions. Had this been a boy stealing a kiss from a girl, would the school have reacted this strongly? I think we all know the answer to that. They might have made calls to their parents and given them detention, but that would have been it. To suspend a student for something as innocent as a kiss is ridiculous, and it is only an issue because he is gay.
This is made more evident by the fact that a member of the boy’s squad became
pregnant and has yet to face any disciplin-ary action.
“If (they) were suspending everyone for that, half the school would be suspended,” the highschooler said in an article in TODAY News. “They should be paying more attention to drugs and alco-hol use than kicking a person off a team for kissing.”
He wasn’t being lewd or committing
any crimes. This young man’s hard work to join the varsity cheerleading team is now wasted.
He doesn’t have much to look forward to when he graduates high school, because the state of Texas doesn’t have any laws protecting the LGBT community from discrimination. Furthermore, the platform of the Texas GOP, which now controls the state Legislature, is to crimi-nalise sodomy.
Additionally, they “are opposed to any granting of special legal entitlements, refuse to recognize, or grant special privileges including, but not limited to:
marriage between persons of the same sex (regardless of state of origin), custody of children by homosexuals, and homo-sexual partners.”
“The issue here is whatever is in the school’s code of conduct, and whether it’s being enforced equally,” said Chuck Smith, deputy executive director of Equality Texas, to msnbc.com.
Unfortunately, the problem of LGBT discrimination in schools extends to other states. Some students in Con-necticut recently staged a walkout during their school’s production of “Zanna Don’t!” a play in which being gay is the norm, and heterosexuals are the outcasts.
They were protesting a gay kiss that occurs during the play. In an article in the Huffington Post, Dave Chambers, principal of the nursing academy at Hartford Public High School said, “Even though it’s kind of chaotic, kind of wild and crazy, I see it as very successful. Our kids never deal with this, they keep it inside, and that’s that nervous energy. That’s why they walked out.”
It is that nervous energy and avoid-ance that creates an environment in which someone can be suspended for a kiss. And it is that same nervous energy that makes going to school akin to walk-ing a gauntlet for many gay students. Some of them end up taking their lives because of the intolerance this nervous energy creates.
In the end, a kiss is just a kiss, and the school needs to quit being so bash-ful about it.
Alejandro Caballero is a creative writing junior and may be reached at [email protected].
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A KISS IS JUST A KISS by Callie Parrish
GUEST COMMMENNTAARY:
A highschooler’s sexual
orientation shouldn’t
factor into a school’s
disciplinary actions.
Had this been a boy stealing a kiss
from a girl, would the school have
reacted this strongly? I think we all
know the answer to that. They might
have made calls to their parents
and given them detention, but that
would have been it.”
A kiss goodbyeSchool should not have suspended gay student for kissing another boy
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T here is growing talk around the University about estab-lishing a smoke-free campus.
In other words: no more cigarettes.This isn’t the invisible hand of
some upper level politician with a nanny mindset, and it’s not the whim of the Board of Regents. Since late September, the Student Govern-ment Association has discussed a bill proposing a
campus-wide smoking ban.When the bill fi rst came to atten-
tion, a hand full of smoking (and non-smoking) students appeared at an SGA meeting to voice their oppo-sition. Since then, opinions have gone for and against the idea.
It’s true that SGA has the interest of smokers and non-smokers in mind and takes into consideration the thoughts of all students. But there must be more smokers on campus than the 30 smokers who showed up to the meeting.
A low turnout will do little to protect the rights of smokers.
Non-smokers with a real chip on their shoulder go a step further than the SGA. They criticize the on campus smokers with zero sympa-thy, zero comprehension and zero tolerance.
You may have seen a student walk
by a smoker and start coughing — dramatically — towards the direction of the smoker. Spend half an hour in front of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library to get an idea.
SGA senators are a little more down to earth, citing health con-cerns, fi nancial costs and littering issues.
Before the criticisms roll in that I’m a non-smoker who’s ignorantly playing devil’s advocate, note that I used to smoke. For nine months I had my fi ll of Marlboro full fl avor 100’s or the occasional Special Blend No. 27 (fi lters cut). Eventually my mother gave birth to me, and I went cold turkey.
Jokes aside, I’ve witnessed the true issues of cigarettes and smoke, but the simple truth is, there are more important things going on right now.
True, there are legitimate dangers from cigarettes. There are also legiti-mate dangers from high fructose corn syrup, which is more plentiful, affordable and socially accepted than cigarettes.
Some SGA senators want to create a smoke-free campus, much like the several already in the state and dozens already in the country. Sup-posedly it will make UH more green. It will cut health care costs. It will save money.
The truth is, there is a legacy to stomping out the smokers. It’s a prize
Smoke-free UH bill should go up in smoketo mount on the wall. Something to add to a transcript or portfolio: “Stomped out the smokers at UH.”
Eliminating alcohol on campus would have a similar effect, espe-cially considering not many other colleges have such easy access. There would be no more bottle caps peppering the parking lots, no more eyesore beer bottles dotting the campus, no more obnoxiously drunk students.
But no one seems to worry about this.
This is, therefore, another case of discrimination. Smokers make a personal choice, healthy or not. Pub-licly denouncing them is tolerable, but singling them out when there are worse things to care about is just disgraceful.
For those not in the smoking circles, it may be a wonder why
smokers congregate near each other. This shouldn’t be confusing, since it’s the same reason any persecuted group congregates. There is strength in numbers.
Yet non-smokers still get offended when they happen to come across one of these smoking circle pockets and inevitably get a whiff of nicotine-fi lled secondhand smoke.
Why these students don’t mind any of the other health concerns on campus is a mystery.
If the school became a smoke-free campus, the message would be that we aren’t allowed to make our own choices, our own mistakes.
It’s the same issue with manda-tory seat-belts and helmets. Car insurance protects other drivers in case of an accident, seatbelts only protect the wearer and do nothing to help a pedestrian or passenger in
another vehicle. So then, when the state mandates that a seatbelt be worn, the stance is that we are too dumb to take care of ourselves and are merely property of the state.
Freedom requires the ability to make wrong decisions.
If the campus becomes smoke-free, which campus will be next? What happens when all the campuses become smoke-free? Criminalization of tobacco?
What happened to the legaliza-tion movement for cannabis? What happened to progress?
Cigarettes may be seen as cancer sticks to many, but those critics simply haven’t been on the other side of the fence.
David Haydon is a political science senior and may be reached at [email protected].
DavidHaydon
LETTERSBurglary of friend’s car makes me feel unsafe
I recently wrote an email to the UHDPS regarding campus safety because I feel like there’s not enough safety on campus.
There have been added fees to our student fee bills this year, yet there are still as many car and apartment break-ins as ever.
Our security people are not doing enough, and I want my voice heard.
I refuse to keep quiet anymore because I am now personally affected as a victim, and our security officers are not doing all they can do. I’m completely disappointed.
On Friday night, my friend’s car was broken into; the passen-ger window was smashed.
He parked his car between the Csite and the UC, which is a safe place, being that there’s always security carts patrolling around, and there’s usually police SUVs camping out by the Hilton.
However, someone still man-aged to break into his car, and he has one of the newer Camry models with thicker glass that should make it difficult to smash with a rock.
Regardless of the item that was used in the burglary, the sound of glass should have been loud enough to attract attention, or at least be heard by someone.
The overall damage must have taken at least 30 minutes. Several personal items were stolen, including my car, house and apartment keys — which I’m struggling to recover.
A police officer was found thereafter, and files were reported. But in the midst of it, two security carts managed to pass by during
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the hour-long procedure, so it puzzles me to know where they were when the crime was taking place.
For this sole reason, I feel unsafe.
There’s no reason why a stu-dent who parks their car near the library, right under a light post, should have their car broken into.
This is unacceptable on a Tier One campus, especially when most security officers are based in the area where my friend parked his car.
— Sally Enemchukwu, biology major
6 ■ Thursday, October 20, 2011 The Daily Cougar
Ricardo RiveraTHE DAILY COUGAR
The Cougars have enjoyed the confi nes of the Athletics/Alumni Center.
UH (14-5, 7-2 C-USA) has been perfect on its home court, but face their strongest test yet Friday against UAB (17-4, 7-2).
UH is currently tied with UAB for second place in C-USA.
“This is the only time we have a match-up with them,” head coach Molly Alvey said. “So they’ll be pumped up to go. This is the only opportunity they have to take us down.
“Just the status of conference, and the single match opportunity, it also makes this a very exciting weekend
for us.”Putting together one of its
strongest performances of the year in the back-to-back wins against UTEP and UCF last weekend, the Cougars offense showed its true potential in the wins — clean, effi cient hitting and minimal mental lapses.
Against UCF, the offensive output reached a season high. Middle blocker Lucy Charuk notched 23 kills, hitting over .500.
After a few rocky early season per-formances, senior Chandace Tryon broke out, racking 12 kills and 4 digs for her most complete performance of the year.
The player setting up all of the Cougars hitters hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Freshman setter Caitlin Ogletree notched 58 assists against UCF, and earned C-USA setter of the week honors for the third time this season.
Joshua SiegelTHE DAILY COUGAR
Head coach Kevin Sumlin offered a simple solution to stopping Marshall’s pass-rushing monster Vinny Curry.
Blocking.“Which everybody else had problems
doing,” Sumlin said. “We’ve faced some pretty good players before. This year, he’ll probably be as good a player as we’ve seen.”
Curry leads the nation in tackles for a loss with 17, and his 9.5 sacks rank sec-ond through seven games. Last season, he led all defensive linemen in tackles.
“He’s big; He’s a long guy; He gets off the ball quick,” freshman tackle Rowdy Harper said. “We haven’t seen anyone his size. UCLA had some big guys, but he gets off the ball really fast too.
“It’s going to be a great challenge and we’re excited to measure up and see how we do against it.”
Pace might be the trick for the Cou-gars to combat the Thundering Herd’s (3-4, 2-1 Conference USA) pass rush.
“Tempo allows for a lot of things,” senior quarterback Case Keenum said. “It keeps the defense from doing too much subbing. It’s harder for them to disguise things. It’s harder for them to get in calls when we’re snapping the ball really quickly.
“Chris (Thompson) does a great job of getting those guys pointed out. I’ve got
faith in those guys and I’m going to trust them. He’s a great player, but we’ve got great players too.”
The Herd trail only the Cougars in C-USA with a plus-fi ve turnover margin. Sumlin placed a premium on taking care of the ball against what he described as an “opportunistic defense.”
“We’ve got to be good on fi rst and sec-ond down, and stay out of long-yardage situations and again we’re going to have to continue where we left off against East Carolina, and continue to play well on defense and special teams,” Sumlin said.
Coming off of their most complete performance of the season, the Cougars’ defense will deal with a foe that has given them trouble in the past — a scrambling
SWIMMING & DIVINGCougars hope to storm Hurricanes, stay undefeated in home opener
The Cougars continue their fall schedule on Friday against Miami.
The Cougars opened their season with three wins last weekend against Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern.
For her efforts in last weekend’s competition, junior Julia Lonnegren earned Conference USA Diver of the Week.
Lonnegren won all four events that she com-peted in.
Against the Terriers, Lonnegren scored 309.60 in the 1-meter and 337.65 in the 3M. Against the Eagles and Huskies, Lonnegren scored 314.80 in the 1M and 309.60 in the 3M.
— Cougar Sports Services
TENNISUH readies for fi ve-day, in-state tournament
The Cougars look to have another strong performance this weekend at the ITA Regionals in Fort Worth.
Several Cougar tennis players are coming off wins from their most recent tournament, the Roberta Allison Classic. The most notable winner, Giorgia Pozzan, remains undefeated in tournament play this fall at 6-0 after claiming her second singles title of the fall.
In doubles play, Pozzan and Bryony Hunter earned a title in the consolation bracket, improv-ing to 14-7 in play together.
“They’re really starting to click, and any team that plays them will have their hands full,” head coach John Severance said.
After this weekend, the Cougars will play their first tournament at home for the Cougar Fall Draw, Nov. 4-6 at the John E. Hoff Courts.
— Bethel Glumac/The Daily Cougar
FOOTBALLUnitas Award fi nalist list revealed, Keenum included
Senior quarterback Case Keenum was named one of 10 finalists for the 2011 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.
For the season, Keenum has completed 71.4 percent of his passes for 2,309 yards and 17 touchdowns.
The other nine finalists are Nick Foles, Ari-zona; Robert Griffin III, Baylor; Landry Jones, Oklahoma; Andrew Luck, Stanford; Kellen Moore, Boise State; Ryan Tannehill, Texas A & M, Bran-don Weeden, Oklahoma State; Russell Wilson, Wisconsin and Tyler Wilson, Arkansas.
Finalists are judged on character, citizenship, scholastic achievement, leadership qualities and athletic accomplishments.
The Award will be presented on Dec. 9 in Baltimore.
— Cougar Sports Services
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The Cougars’ off ensive line will be tasked with stopping Marshall defensive lineman Vinny Curry. The Cougars have allowed only eight sacks this year, the second fewest in Conference USA. Curry leads the NCAA in tackles for a loss and is second in sacks. | Brianna Leigh Morrison/The Daily Cougar
UH hopes to keep Marshall standout out of the backfi eld
FOOTBALL
Offensive line readies for Curry
Setter Caitlin Ogletree has helped set up the Cougars’ frontline for the second best hitting percentage in Conference USA (.250). Ogle-tree leads UH with 794 assists. | Yulia Kutsenkova/The Daily Cougar
UH takes on Blazers and Tigers in weekend split
VOLLEYBALL
Cougars battle to break second place tie
FOOTBALL continues on page 7
VOLLEYBALL continues on page 7
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Senior striker Jessica Zavalza’s ambitions extend beyond the soc-cer fi eld.
In addition to the completion of her collegiate soccer career, the completion of the academic school year will see Zavalza with a degree in one hand and an MCAT study guide in the other.
Zavalza starred as a two-sport star at St. Margaret’s High School in Santa Ana, Calif.
Besides her excellence on the soccer pitch, Zavalza also com-peted in track and fi eld, running the 100-meter, 200m and 4x100m.
Coming to UH was a diffi cult transition for the Southern Califor-nia native.
Having head coach Susan Bush, a Houston native, who played soccer collegiately at North Carolina, to lean on helped her acclimate.
“She knew how hard it was for me and we talked about it all the time,” Zavalza said. “She would show that she cared by showing concern and asking me if I needed anything.
“She has a very positive attitude. It keeps me motivated, especially this year, my last year.”
Being away from her family, her bond with Bush became even more important for Zavalza.
“My family can’t come and watch me play,” Zavalza said. “To have someone who is very close there is very special.”
Zavalza started playing soccer at the age of five, under the guid-ance of her dad.
Her dad is a fan of the Chivas Rayadas de Guadalajara, one of the most popular and successful clubs in Mexico. Chivas is a team recognized for their development of young players, a philosophy Zalvalza’s dad implemented in her youth.
“He was my first coach,” Zavalza said. “And growing up I was always active in the sport.
“When he would watch me — I knew I had to do my best, it drove me to be the player I am today and accomplish what I’ve accom-plished so far.”
Unlike her father, Zavalza’s favorite team is not Chivas; rather, she has developed an admiration for FC Barcelona, a club synony-mous with total football.
“The thing I like about Barce-lona is that there is no individual,” Zavalza said.
“There will be an individual who stands out, but everyone plays a big role in the success of the team. I look at the forwards, they create their own chances and that’s what I want to do. I want to take people on.”
Zavalza currently leads the Cougars in goals and attributes much of her success to her team-mates on the field.
“They set me up in good positions and they make my job easier,” Zavalza said.
“I feel that we are working really hard. We just pushed a nationally ranked team to a tough draw.”
Zavalza will get to work this Friday as UH visits Marshall at 6 p.m.
As for what she her plans to do after graduation, it’s not concrete yet but her aspirations are big, her drive even bigger and it’s an opportunity for her to do some-thing until now she only did every summer.
“I want to go to medical school,” Zavalza said. “After graduating I’ll be enrolling in a few MCAT prep classes.
“This is a good opportunity to go home. I’ll see where I go from there but for now that’s my goal.”
The Daily Cougar SPORTS Thursday, October 20, 2011 ■ 7
Senior forward Jessica Zavalza leads the Cougars with seven goals scored this season. Zavalza has 16 career goals scored. She also leads UH in shot percentage, connecting on 30 percent of her attempts on goal. | Aaron Cisneros/The Daily Cougar
Zavalza hopes to return home for med school
SOCCER
Senior plans to trade her cleats for scrubs
quarterback, freshman A.J. Graham.
“We’ve got to adjust and be able to stop a varied running attack,” Sumlin said.
“We have to be disciplined in our rush lanes. We have to play a lot more of a quarterback-read, option-type attack and then be able to defend play-action deep balls over the top. It’s a different football game than it was two weeks ago.”
The Herd rank last in C-USA in total offense, but Graham rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns and a 24-20 win over Rice in his fi rst career start, replacing Rakeem Cato.
“He gave them a bit of a spark as a runner,” Sumlin said. “He was able to scramble a little bit more and do some things and generate some offense.”
Back to full healthThe bye week could not have
come at a better time for the Cougars.
“I know a bunch of guys were feeling kind of sore and run down from all of the games, the big games,” Harper said. “It was great to get our legs back under us. The coaches were smart with it like they always are. Now we’re just ready to start playing again.”
Defensive backs Colton Valencia, Chevy Bennett and D.J. Hayden are expected to be back in the starting lineup for the Cougars.
Record in Case’s sightThis weekend, Keenum has a
chance to break another major NCAA record.
Keenum is 129 yards from passing Hawaii’s Timmy Chang for first all-time in total offense.
The game kicks off at 3:30 p.m. at Robertson Stadium. It will be televised on Comcast Sports Southwest (Ch. 129).
Her 11.18 assists per set rank third in C-USA.
UAB drops fi rst matchesAfter enjoying a ten-match win
streak through the month of Sep-tember, the Blazers dropped their fi rst contests in conference last weekend with back-to-back losses against Tulsa and SMU.
Junior Sam Serley currently leads C-USA in hitting percentage at .426 through nine conference
matches.“They’ve been on quite a run
themselves,” Ogletree said. “So we’ve got to come out prepared to play Friday — mentally, and as far as our game plan.
“We’re all paying attention to the standings, and we know how important this weekend is for this program.”
UH tips things off against the Blazers at 7 p.m. Friday at the Athletics/Alumni Center.
The Cougars will follow that with a matinee showdown against Mem-phis (15-7, 4-5) at 1 p.m. Sunday.
FOOTBALLcontinued from page 6
VOLLEYBALLcontinued from page 6
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ON CAMPUS
GOING GREEN
UC shows off its CLASSiest students
Electric cars don’t have the power
Terence YungTHE DAILY COUGAR
If you find yourself by the Uni-versity Center today, you’ll most likely be in the hustle and bustle of the second Instant CLASSic event.
The event is the brainchild of Ryan Johnson and Mike Nguyan, both students in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
After a visit with the admin-istration, the duo was conferred a small grant to spearhead their providential designs, which manifested in an inaugural event last October.
The idea came after a great deal of questioning. Johnson and Nguyan found themselves asking why there wasn’t a day devoted to integrating our college, show-ing off our best, nationally and internationally recognized faculty, students and organizations.
That led to the first Instant CLASSic.
“The (first) event took place last October and had a good turn out,” creative writing major Ryan Johnson said. “It wasn’t until this semester that we became a group (CLASS COOGS).”
Johnson said that this year’s event showcases 27 majors, minors and student organizations.
“The goals are to increase the presence of the college on cam-pus,” said Johnson. “(And) raise the pride about the college and start a tradition.”
Another issue was the general seclusion and isolation of the departments from one another.
“History students hang out with history students, psychol-ogy students hang out with
Aaron ManuelTHE DAILY COUGAR
While hanging out at the University Center on Monday, many curious on-lookers could not help but notice the shiny, silver Nissans lined up in the UC drop-off lane, ready for a test drive.
It was more like a test convoy, as the cars would pull out, make their drive around the campus one behind the other, and come back about 15 minutes later.
What some test-drivers might not have noticed offhand was the car model’s name: the Nissan Leaf. How many of those test-drivers knew that the Leaf is an electric car? Not a hybrid — all electric. This is not the Chevy Volt, which can run on gas or electrical power. This is a Nissan Leaf.
So, how much is change worth? Let’s use three points of comparison: price,
power and range.If you said, way too expensive for
me and my student loans, that’s up for debate, but the actual price is around $27,700.
What about the Daimler Smart Fortwo Electric Drive? What about the car that more or less resembles the “Urkelmobile,” or BMW 300 Isetta, but without the goofy front opening? According to caranddriver.com, the 250 available Fortwo Electric Drive units require a 48-month lease at $599 per month. That is a grand total of $28,752.
The DeLorean Motor Company of Humble — which created the car from “Back to the Future” — is back in busi-ness, and when the calendar reaches 2013, we are in for some serious shock. The DMC-12, slated to cost about $90,000
Annual event celebrates College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Cost, effi ciency doesn’t measure up to gas guzzlers on campus
The Nissan Leaf and other electric cars like it cost less in fuel, but pose a bigger problem in fi nancing — resulting more expensive than similar gas-powered vehicles. Additionally, electric cars require more frequent charging than gas-powered vehicles require fi lling up. | Rudolf Simon/Wikimedia Commons
POWER continues on page 9 CLASSIEST continues on page 9
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Ingredients
3 Avocados, sliced and seeded
1 lime, juiced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 onion, diced
1/2 can Rotel tomato
1-1/2 tbsp chopped cilantro
1 clove garlic, minced
Additional thoughts:
Add lime to taste — mixing more lime gives this guacamole a smoother texture.
Similarly, adding more cayenne gives the guacamole more kick.
RECIPE
Instructions:
Toss avacado and lime juice together in large bowl
Add salt, cayenne and mash using potato masher
Add onions, Rotel tomatoes, cilantro and garlic
Let sit for one hour and serve with chips
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other psychology students,” said Nguyen in a press release. “What most students do not realize is that at one point or another, they have been a part of CLASS.”
Johnson felt that the best way to bring together the 12,000 students that make up CLASS is to show everyone what they have in common.
“We are an asset to the
University and felt too quiet and unorganized on campus, we wanted to do something about it,” said Johnson.
The event offers the oppor-tunity for students to gather and meet other students in all of the different majors of CLASS.
Johnson notes that the event benefits UH by increasing the visibility of CLASS on campus by creating an event that helps the college define itself.
CLASSIESTcontinued from page 8
is shockingly awesome. Now compare these prices to
a 2012 gas model. The Chevrolet Sonic Hatchback 2LZ runs at $19,580. That is around $8,000 less than the Leaf, $10,000 less than the Smart electric drive and over $80,000 less than the DMC-12. Even when taking into account the $7,500 tax credit given to buyers of electric vehicles, the Sonic is still cheaper. The advantage goes to the Sonic 2LZ.
In addition to the price, horsepower is another point of contention in buying an electric car. Americans love their horse-power. One problem many have had for so long about electric cars is the lack of horses under the hood.
Nissan leaves this particular stat out on the Leaf’s website, but upon further research, it pulls only 107 horses.
Not too impressive, but defi nitely more powerful than the Fortwo Electric Drive, which put-ters out at 40 horsepower.
Both of these vehicles are out-matched by the cheaper Sonic 2LZ, which pulls 138 horsepower. Even the Sonic gets outclassed by the DMC-12, which has 260 horsepower.
Then there is a matter of range — how far a single charge or tank of gas can go. Nissan says the Leaf can go 100 miles between charges.
Better than the Fortwo Electric Drive’s 84-mile range, and even outclassing the DMC-12’s 70-mile range. This is where the Sonic 2LZ and other gas vehicles shine. The Sonic gets 25 mpg in the city, and 35 mpg on the highway for a maximum range of 427 miles. The advantage goes to the Sonic 2LZ, though we all know gas is not friendly to the environment, and at around $3.25 per gallon, not very friendly on the wallet either.
Gas-electric hybrids have been on the market for years now, and the prices of those cars are fi nally getting reasonable. It is hard to imagine how much General Motor’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, debuting in 2015, will cost.
In giving a demonstration to the environmentally-conscious college crowd, it’s important to note that it will be years before many on campus can truly afford these gas-free cars.
The power of these cars, with the exception of the DMC-12, is very weak.
The consumer can go a lot further on a tank of gas than they could on a single charge. One would have to power up several times just to get the same range as a tank of gas.
Electric cars are a viable option if one is traveling in the city with no traffi c, but for longer commutes and rush-hour traffi c, stick with gas — in the end, you’ll save your-self a few pennies, too.
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to stand up for once,” Johnson said. “The change begins with the student who speaks up and does something, and it was time for me to do something for my college.”
Nguyen and Johnson recruited
people who they said genuinely care about making UH more stu-dent involved.
“If we’re passionate, you have to be passionate; if we really want it, you have to really want it; if we’re proud to be liberal arts social sci-ence majors, you have to be proud, too,” Johnson said.
After the interested people
were found, the group had to be registered as an organization. They named their team CLASS COOGS, and since its creation, the organi-zation has grown. They are build-ing their website and developing opportunities for internships, scholarships and volunteering.
Johnson and Nguyen had to calculate a budget for the event
and give a presentation to the Activities Funding Board to earn its support.
Johnson said the group has come a long way from starting with just two students, and he hopes the progress will continue.
“I have no words. I am straight proud of this organization. It’s like my child; I’ve created it, raised it
and taken care of it and just feel nothing but a sense of pride when I see the outcome of this organiza-tion,” Johnson said.
CLASS COOGS are currently looking for intern positions to be fi lled in director, co-director, sec-retary and volunteer positions.
CLASSICcontinued from page 1
Cougars strut their stuff
A s part of Homecoming week, students participated in “Strut Your Stuff ” on Wednesday at the Univer-sity Center Houston Room. The winner of the event received spirit points which will be tallied at the
end of the week to determine who wins the UH Spirit Cup. | Robert Z. Easely/The Daily Cougar
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